The Three Test Of David | Elder Wong Kien Yiak

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will light up your day. I just want to share something to you from

the world of God. First Seme, chapter twenty nine. It's gonna solve

you a devotion. First Seme, chapter training nine, not the most famous

chapter in First Semuel. You you recognize first Semi chapter thirty only because the

state might always been used by a lot of preachers. You know they restricted

himself in the lot, right, you know that you know that the scripture

first several chapter twenty and I is just you know, uh part one before

part two, all right, but uh, the background the story is this

that you know worse one twenty nine, Verse one. Then the Philicines gathered

together with all the armies at are back and the Israel and Kim on the

fountain, which is a just reel. Friends, Israel and Philicines couldn't go

to war, right, so they wed being a Hebrew boy being an Israel

Like. All right, now for the very first time, he has to

fight his own brothers, people that he's he committed himself to defend to fight

for. Remember David and Goliath, right, So David was the one that

championed the army of Israel. He went after Golife you know the story.

He killed Goliath. He became a warrior, a much celebrated hero in the

camp of Israel. But because of King Saw, he ran away from his

kings Hor's present and head and dwell and served under the king Ashes. All

right, word to say, the law of the Philistids passed in review by

Hungers and by thousands by David and Xam, passed in review and the real

with Ashes. So basically what we're to saying that you know, because if

you ever watch any war movie, any war movie before a huge battalion of

soldiers were in front, but David being and abnormally being and what out is

at the back of the army of the Philicies. Now, if you know

that, if everybody is facing forward and you have someone which you have doubts

right at the back of you, you'll have doubts. You'll be worried whether

or not David will change allegiance or not, whether or not all sudden they

say at the battlefield, I decided to fight for issue of the Philicies.

Right, you'll be I mean, if you were the Prince of Phylicis,

You'll be worried, right you if you choose anybody on your team that you

have doubts, you'll be worried because you're not sure whether or not this individual

will deliver what he promised. All all of a sudden he decide one day,

wake up and they say, I refuse to do the work you ask

me to do, and you're in trouble. This is where the lot of

the Philistines are facing right now. Then worse treat The Princess of Phylicis said,

what are these Hebrews doing here? Have you ever asked a question before?

Not in your life? Like you select a team, what is this

individual in my team? It could be at homes? Why is this suppersonally

at homes? Right? It could be you know, why is this leader

here? Right? It could be like you know, out think and our

think that you that you have planned for some time already. Then someone just

ropeing some random person that you go like, what is he supposed to doing

here? It happens. At first, it happens, Come on, it

happens. Okay, it's not wrong, right, it happens. God does

allow you to work in our hearts. Friends, He does he does.

Okay, So therefore don't don't. The word is that, don't don't be

like the Prince of the Phylicisy or this guy not good enough, you know,

don't don't don't understand arth, don't don't language, please don't. Okay,

all right, But the Prince of philisays, what what what this he

was doing here? And as she said to the Prince of Phylicis, is

this not David, the servant of the King of Video. You can't hear

this? Right? The first statement that the King of as she said,

as a letter to the word, is to endorse David. Isn't he?

Isn't he walk that the servant of the sult King of David. Come on,

so some seven servant of Saul, the King of Israel, King of

Israel, fighting Israel. I'm not sure the first live of recommendation by King

Ashally is something which you go like you you you receive a great joy or

not. I'm fighting Israel and you're reminding me that David David is a servant

of King Saul, the King of Israel. Right, I'm not sure.

Read how much the word is that comfort you'll get like when your team don't

worry all right, I know he used to be from going after you have

doubts, come on you the words that it will compound to your worry,

it will compound to your like questioning of King Ash's leadership. And King actually

said this, who has been with me these days and these years and to

this day I found no for him since he defected to me. Here is

a king, different birdline, different tribe as David giving him endorsement. I

want to encourage us as believer, us friends, especially if you believe that

Jesus Christ is your Lord and savior. Lord and king, they are all

of us, no matter who we serve, who we work for, how

bad the environment is that will we get a letter of recommendation? Really a

letter recommendation? Or is it because the environment is so bad? Therefore,

the word is that we allow the environment to say that. The word is

that endorses us to give us a right to behave badly, not to carry

ourselves well. Many times in our lives we say we can see a lot

of things. You know they won't start on time. Therefore we don't have

to respect time. If you don't get a wedding wedding invitation card, he

say ceremony starts at nine a m. In the morning. What time must

you arrive? What time would you arrive NiFe ten, nine fifty some of

versai. It will start on time, h and stuff like that. It

does happen because we allow things in our life were we do allow. We

do allow things in our lives to dictate how we live. We do allow

things to uh in our lives to tell us this away the manner the standards

to live. But David, friends, you know, even though he serf

kick Ashes were not his favorite employer, now he's the word is that it's

not that he won two friends. You worst understand. It's not they.

We do not say, oh, I've been praying to serve under King Ashes.

For some of us, we pray this to be in a particular organization

for some time. Right we didn't get the organization be one then because of

a second organization that we that were working for and therefore wants us to behave

right where we are right now. Friends, The Bible here is is that

the king she did not find any fai. In other words, he behaved

himself really well. Friends. I think all of us can learn something from

David, even though not the perfect king, not the perfect employer, but

he gave his best. Now this is where it gets a bit more sticky.

Friends, David for the very first time, very very first time,

have to fight his own brothers, which she saw the word is that this

that to fight for? Because while I know, I think in first semel

tochapter eighteen, that says that you know that David said, who is this

person? There? Do de found the armies of the Living God? That's

how he sees his graduate in the armies of the Living God. Now he

has to fight his own bedroom. You know how difficult and challenging it is

enough for you to go and fight your own members. Some would say,

oh, there's not it's not difficult. I fight it all the time.

I fight your brother she is all the time because I don't agree with him,

right, I know of a person I know, I got to know

if a person that say, my life in the street is to bring ministers

down, I'm not sure whether there's a ministry or not, or there's a

burden because many times in our life we like to pick ford and pick things

on other people. And the Bible always asks us sicky for the Kingdom of

God? Really like if you think about it right, friends, you think

about it right. If if and there's a safay can hide from the Lord,

and the Lord knows how much more earth who don't even know our hearts

right? Who know our halts of the people. At the end of the

day, Friends, this is the kingdom of God, and God is the

king. He knows what's happening, He reveals, he brings to light.

I want to encourage your friends. Sometimes you could be in church right now.

We do not know your background. We don't know what you've done yesterday

or the day before, months before, years before. But the Lord knows.

Friends, once you come in contact with the light, there is nothing

to hide, and the Lord to conviction in the hearts of the people to

to come before the Lord. So here worst three says that I found no

fault in him. Friends, I pray, I pray right now, if

we look back our conduct, we look back the way we live, our

lives, the way we carry ourselves, that people will say that there's no

fault. We live without a higher calling. Right, there's fourth and was

for that the Princess of Phylicies were angry with him, while angry with King

Ashish and so the Prince of Philices said to him, make this fellow return.

They may go back to the place which have appointed for him. Don't

let him go down with us to better at least the better. He became

the adversary. And for whatever he could write, for what for what could

he reconcile himself to his master? If we're not he hates of this man.

Friends, This is David who done everything correct, everything right. According

to King Ashish, he did well. The Bible says that he care himself

well found him. But yeah, the very first test came. Now,

I would say the first test came in two parts number one. I don't

think that they don't want to fight his own fellow brothers. I truly believe

that, because even opportunately the king kills king or ready to take revenge or

kings saw friends. He cut a piece of cloth, he felt convicted,

a piece of cloth felt convicted. I'm not sure how many of us here

were actually felt convicted by cutting a piece of cloth, maybe to their context

at the workplace. At the workplace we hike ours, our our colliq stationary.

I don't know all right. The words that we make it difficult,

we send, we send the email at the very last minute, right,

so I have to make it difficult. You understand why I mean that,

right, We have done things to make our cliques life a bit more difficult

because they weren't very helpful to us, and therefore it's not a priority to

make it very helpful to him to her. Right, So I truly believe

that David is in a place right now that first of all, I do

want I do not want to fight. So imagine right now, if you're

a king David, if you're David, you're David right now, you do

not want to fight your fellow brothers, but right now you have no choice

here. You're really on the journey, on the journey about to fight,

right, the first test is whether God's in control or not? Right,

the very first that that David encounter was whether you feel that God's in control

or not. Because if you are marching along with the King of Philistines,

right and you're having to fight someone else, it's like you're doing something which

you do want to, asking God for a break through, asking God to

pray away out a solution. Now, in the midst of the journey to

fight Israel, God is already preparing something that we should we never see.

First I want to encourage you today is this is that God is really more

interested in our hearts rather than the break true our hearts. First of all,

the test of whether God's in control is really our hearts, Whether the

word the word is is that, Whether are we at peace? Are we

at rest? That God is our refuge? Whether God is our salvation or

not? Many times our journey. Friends, if you're like David, every

step is a very anxious step. Every step is a step whereby you doubt

every step. Sometimes you're worry because every day the countdown, because you know

the day will come you have to face the army of Israel. You know

the day you have to do something which you don't want to do. You

don't want to fight, but you have to. The first test is a

test whether God's in control in your life or not. Because if God is

not in control, friends, you not behave wisely. Think about it.

If God is not in control, friands, you will be the first one

to create heaven to so like doubt right, even King Ashes can't trust you.

Think about it. When God is only control of friends, you think

of ways whereby to get yourself dismissed to be sick. But the Bible here

says that David presented himself so well, God was in control. You and

I do that one and carriage your friends, is this is that whenever we're

faced with this, with doubt and stuff like that, learn from this story

that God is in control. Because have you been in a place whereby you've

done everything correct, yet still doubt they've had done everything correct? Friends,

I'm sure in David's heart of hearts do I need to fight? I prayer

I don't have to fight. Many times in our journey of our church,

friends, whenever a physical door is closed, we truly believe that God does

open a supernatural door for us. I truly believe it, friends, in

my years of twenty four years of doing church here in ex Church that you

know many times in our lives whereby we have nobody and God opened to the

door. Friends, I want to courage. If God can do that for

a church girl, can do it for you. When we have to move

out from a shop, love, where the first after the first three years

having to move into a hotel. Friends, it was not easy because back

then ninety nine percent was campus student. Only one percent looking it out and

looking at out awful time ministers. And remember, I just remember that it

was tough because by pastors say that once we reached fifty, we'll move out.

Fifty we'll move out, and we'll move our friends the hotel ready the

next jump already the hall Renter was about three thousand, two hundred per month.

Our one month collection back there was about one thousand ring git. It

was the kind of some and you know, it takes a step of faith.

You can't hear the the voice of the Lord. It's never easy.

It's never easy for you and for me to really the word is that to

know what's the next time, because God doesn't just reveal like in the textbook

like that. Hey, you just jump a few more pages, you see

the outcome. You turn the back of the book, you see the answer

there. Many times our journey is every day. It's a step of faith.

So believing whether God is control our friends, it does take faith.

And you and I today I pray that you have faith in the Lord.

So just let me try to break it down for you. So David's loyalty

to King Ashly's cause seem to be in the place he has to fight.

Sometimes when God calls you the place where you don't want to work, and

you'll be put to the test. The test is not to fail us.

Friends. Maybe in your life you think the test is to fail, you

make your life miserrib, to make your place. The word is to make

it harder. God always tests us to reveal what's in our hearts, never

to fail us friends, never to put you down, never to cause you

to the world. Is that oh so hard to reveal? Friends? Without

a test? We never know? Some of us here are do for dential

appointment. Come on, we ideal for a dental appointment just because you can

use whyever we have right now to eat? Right? I was like,

it's just solow no pinma. Every day. I'm doing the same routine,

right, I'm brushing my teeth every morning, every evening, maybe in between

meals, and you're flossing my flossing it every other opportunity you have. You

you you've followed instruction to the tea, doesn't mean it excludes you from going

to the dentist. Because you never know, friends, whether or not bacteria

is going somewhere in between the cracks. You never know very because all this

time I'm okay, we elder, I don't have to. Don't challenge me

because you'll ask me to go see the dent is because I can still use

it for the next five years, no problem. I think if you look

really into our hearts, it is not the enter appointment. Come on,

it's a sound that's hear when you're in a waiting e waiting area right now.

Some always though like hear the missionary sound. I wish I could download

the sound and play right now and see how many go like right, But

it is, isn't it true? Friends? It is not that. Come

on, it's not that that how hard it couldn't bring one phone call or

through the air right now? You just book your appointment, easy, busy,

right, But the moment you're waiting in the area that you when the

try to turn on the missione and that the drilling sound like have you seen

the series used or not? Then neither it's an extra long one, you

know, friends, it's not your normal show. It's an extra long one.

Friends, it's extra long. Neither. When the jets your gap,

you golare And the funny part I find about that this is this that after

they get your gams right, Is it painful? I'm sorry, I'm using

a verytic bible here. Is it painful? Is it? Is it painful?

And they go like they hit your gum, say is it painful?

God? Like, sometimes we just wish that the time. Let me just

try to bite you. Okay? Is it painful that this? But it

happens right in our journey? Is in our journey. Just because we think

that we are all right, just because the things we can function, doesn't

mean that God doesn't need to test our hearts. Is it true that test?

It reveals? Friends? Come on, whatever the dent this say,

Whether the dent they say, sometimes is as painful as it is. It's

not just because the painful towards the water of friends. It's not that but

the pain some of us say. You know, if we diver done root

canal before friends, literally you could cry life the flashes in front of you.

Root canal is one of the most painfulst things ever. Remove all the

stuff inside there, right, It's never easy, but reveals. It also

reveals all these years we think it was all right, but actually not.

We think we think it's okay. Come on, you think it's all right.

I've been the one who two rook canals before friends is never easy for

very people. You can cry one friends. But the problem here is that

just because I've been using my teeth for the longest time, we think we're

all right. There may reviews to you. Then you know what happens to

real we get very set. No, I wish I have taken care of

it. Come on, think about it. I wish I've attended to earlier.

We don't have to wait until the rook canal stage. Come on,

I'm not then it's okay, I'm not. If you don't have to wait

unted the stage, you real. So if only I peered, that's why

human being that if only I peered that you much earlier. If only I

was, I was more diligient back then, if only come on, friends,

You're not called to live in regrets. Believers, you're not calling livings.

So when God reviews to you, not to make you regret like if

only, but just revealw Come on? There is is? The word is

that there resists apportune to get your life correct. You may have lost two

more used to got two more right. So here's what THEAVI response is.

So you know the test right, now or whether God's control now you you

understand that that's the test. So the world of losses, they wn't behave

wisely. Come on, David, behave wisely, very important. Okay,

theyvid behave wisely. So whenever you're in a position where God's testing whether it's

control, you got to behave vicely. You got to behave everybody you know

that God's in control sicky for the king where everything else should be added unto

you. You can pray, you can regard to word in the midst of

everything, in the midst of viral physical challenges, it would be then you

that God ultimately still gets the glory at the end of the day. Just

a couple of weeks, just about last week, I think last week.

Yeah, last week, we got to know one of our or rather I

got we got to know one of our pastor's friends in India, the pass

away and and Pasara knows her because Sendra led her to Christ when she was

a teen. And uh, and she's everyone I was asking a passa you

know that she passed away them so oh no found out And she's just showing

me about her story. Right, She's just a pastor's wife serving from Malaysia.

She's from Malaysian married and nationality, serving in Chennai, and added this

line about her life. She wasn't well. I think she had cancer.

She wasn't well, so she went for a lot of chemo, a lot

of treatment to get herself better. But whenever she is well, whenever she

responded positive to the treatment, she will be together with the husband serving on

the field. Not totally delivered from cancer, not totally huge yeah, But

whenever after the treatment she feels better, she go and serve. She go

and serve at the you all to the very last moment, until her body

doesn't respond to the treatment anymore, she went home to be with the Lord.

It just strikes me, and really the word is that it just uh

costs me to think. Really at the end of the day, friends,

to know that God's control to behave yourself wisely, that you know, no

matter what, I'll still want to, no matter what, I'll still hold

on to, no matter what, I still serve the Lord, no matter

what. Right regardless how I feel on the outside, yes I may feel

lousy because of the effects of the treatment, I will still serve the Lord.

And maybe sometimes in our journey in our life just because something happened to

us, maybe like David, in this position, in this place whereby not

everything is right. Therefore, I have every reason not to. I want

us to rethink that because David didn't allow the prison of Phylicin or the king

of Phylicies really to determine how you should serve the law. Right, that's

one they will learn how to grow in wisdom. Look two fifty two,

Right, Jesus increases wisdom, stature and in favor of God and man.

Come on, Jesus increasing wisdom. If Jesus isaly increasing reasom or how much

you and me? I know, I understand that some friends, great wisdom

is not the most popular thing, not the most popularly because the only way

the growing visdom. The Bible says in Probabs that always have with the fear

of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. Right, great revism there for

is the most not probably reading our social media is more popular. I understand

that. Okay, I understand that it's not. I mean, it's today's

challenges. Okay, back then my time social media didn't exist. So we

have books on me and uh and parents. Back then. We live in

the first only by good books. These days you have everything on social media.

Understand that these challenges is really different from back then the challenges. But

but even though the challenges could be different, our hearts are the same.

We are still longing to be accepted, so longing to find purpose and meaning

in life. Right, it's still the same. Right, So therefore Jesus

increasing wisdom. Look, Chapter two fifty two says that Jesus increasing wisdom,

how much more you and I got to increase in our wisdom. We got

to learn how to be wise with the Lord and doing stature in favor with

God and in men. When the favor of God is something you and I

got to learn in our coming days. In all your dealings, you have

to find God's favor. You really have to find God's favor in everything that

you do. Once you find the favor of God is not in the hand

of the contract, whatever it is, you may want to reconsidered whatever you're

doing right now, because if God is not in the picture, if God

is not insight, then what's the point of being in I was talking to

one church planter just a couple of days ago. I was explained to him

in our journey. How do we rent the venues? How do you find

place to rent? I say, first of all, you have to you

have to know whether God is in it or not. For example, in

your dealings, do you see the hand of God or is it just business?

Pure business contract? You give me two months of deposit, I'll rent

the place to you. That's it, very business like, nothing wrong with

that. But that's not how believers and stuff like that operates. So I

explain to the person that you can't to see whether the hand of God's decided

now if the favor of God is in there or not. For you can't

to put it to the test because you're not dealing with any corporation. You're

dealing with the church, and the church belongs to God. So I say

it can't provide you with led screen can like right now you have a screen

by Canute because turning on this money right, nothing wrong? Okay, by

giving come on as a big major upgrade. I start to project this really

right, it's a major way no like strat charge. Right, you can't

see the hand of God in in in the agreement. So I say that

it can give you a ready screen, fantastic sound system, but if God

is not in that the discussion or the dealing, friends, no matter how

nice the place is, you'll find that a lot of other challenges they'll come

your way. So I pray that in your life that you'll be like Jesus,

increase in wisdom favor of God. In Men Post one verse sell it

the fear of the law is the beginning of knowledge, of wisdom. The

fear of the lawd's beginning of knowledge. All the foods despice, wisdom and

instruction. Very strong statement because I know when you hear this statement, you

don't really like it. Because somethimes our parents say this to us. Come

on, I'm telling you, don't do this, You're need a food.

But then you say your mom don't love you, thatad don't love you,

and stuff like that. What is the word of God? Friends? Come

on, this is the word of God. Mom? Trying to see here?

Is this that? Friends? In our life, God is going to

test our hearts whether we truly trust him or not. There's a first test

I don't have enough time to go to. There's three different tests in first

Semmer thirty. There's treat altogether three tests there the words I gleaned from from

the word. But if this is the test whether God's control, there's another

way I could look at it. Maybe I can just one point also the

test of our hearts. Whether can we hand the rejection? Think about it?

Whether can we hand the rejection? Not this is David serving King ashes

that everything correct, all right in your life. If done everything correct,

comes the Prince of Peelicy, rejecting you not accepted even though you've done everything

right before the King's eyes. I'm not sure what our response would be,

even though you've done everything correct. For example, you could be new to

church now church friends, I don't think it's Cybergia. Maybe another church plant

somewhere else, all right, I have to say this right, but I

don't think sire right. So you have church clicks. Before, you couldn't

penetrate into a group because a group existed long before you came. Right,

You kept the church early, you join the pre service, prayer, you

join the worship, you're joining homes, but you always feel excluded out from

the invitation and the activity of homes and the church. It's a feeling,

friends, all right, It's a feeling of not being accepted in it David

done everything correct. That's what the Bible says. Come on you ready,

right, King, I actually say that you've done everything correct. Now,

if you were a king David hearing, If you're a king David hearing what

the prince says, what is your response? Come on? Send return to

you? Right worse first first seven, Chapter twenty nine. Worse seven Okay,

I mess just seven first okay whatverse seven? This is king as she

is saying to David. Now therefore return and go in peace that you may

not find this please with the lot of the Philistines, I don't show how

many vers will receive this instruction well in our heart to not yeah, they

with rejection. Friends, you serve so well already you have done your best.

Okay, no fault in you? Come on, even the kings say

I found no fault in you. But because of this group return as the

individual come up. We'll get angry because you the words that you wasted my

time. I serve so long with it. You wasted my time. And

this is what David says. Right, what's it? David says, ashes,

But what if I've done and to this day that you have found your

servant as long as I've been with you, that may not go and fight

against the enemies of my lot and King. David. I'm sure if you

look at it just from this text, this chapter alone, David was maybe

perhaps frustrated. I'm not sure, but the Bible doesn't say if you just

look just read it like like this right now, David could be frustrated because

I'm serving the King with all my heart. Rejected by the fellow brothers that

tried to win over somethings of life. Isn't it the same? You've done

your best reading, but still we get rejected. Now, I'm not talking

about boyfriend good friend rejection. Okay, Please don't go to their part.

Please do not go part relationship rejection. If relationship rejections a different story all

together, different story, Okay, different story. Out done my best.

Why did the girl reject me? I don't know. I really don't know.

But this is not this is not the story. This is not the

part. Okay, friends, okay, don't know. If you have self

issue with you, why the girl reject you? See past the jack.

He asked you to dream first, Okay, he decided he dream about doctor

Gill. That's why to marry her good dreams. Okay, friends, good

dreams. All right, good dreams. Okay, you think I've been dreaming

of right, you need deluence more. But friends, I want to encourage

you. You've done everything correct. Still get rejected, Still get rejected.

This is what they did. Okay. First of all he beath visely.

But second of all, friends, he brought his frustration to the king he

was having converted. He did not try to straighten out. No, when

we are angry with someone else, we always want to go to the source.

One reason out with the Prince of Phylices. Hey, I've been serving

the king, so what's the problem with me? We like to take it

to men instead of taking to the king of kings. David doubt his frustration

of his or his concerns with the king. You and I need to learn

how to bring our frustration to the King of kings instead to the Prince of

Phylicines to men. Many time we try to The word is that before we

bring you to the king, we try to deal with the prince. That's

why there's no solutional answer, and that's why they was so wise. He

did not try to straighten out his argument. He did not try to straighten

out this rejection with the prison of Philistines. He just dealt all his issue

with the King and today you and I, whenever we fish, rejection is

not a rejection of our hearts or our lives. Friends, We need to

take this issue up with the King of kings and law of lords in our

life. God, why is it that you want me to know? What

is it that you want me to learn? What is it that you want

me to do? It need means of this circumstances situation because it's easy to

blame the prison phylicity because of them. That's why I can also because of

them. I cannot do anything because of these people. My child's like that.

Friends. I want to encourage you. Friends. God's tests is to

reveal what's in our hearts. God's tests is to reveal where we are with

our journey with him. God's test is to reveal for it's not to feel,

it's not to cause you to doubt, worry and stuff like. To

reveal so that we can strengthen our walk. The deliverance came when David took

the instruction of the King. The deliverance came when David took the instructions of

the king. David could have pretended to be angry so you don't have to

fight. He went home maybe with joy because finally there's a way out,

the way of escape. There's one. David also could rejoice because you know

why he whether all is frustrationed to the king already. I tell you what,

King, whatever you say, I will do whatever you say. You

ask me to forgive or forgive? Do you as see the lego of lego?

You asked me to serve outself no matter what. I don't know how

many of us get stuck in a place whereby the environment is dictating how we

should behave or not. I'm not sure how many of us allow other people

to dictate how we should live our Christian life. Many times Christian walk friends.

If you're not careful, we always limit what God could do in our

lives. You heard us Jack say, I do I do a lot of

things in church. It's not because I want to friends, because they're not

enough people serving. Seriously, there's not enough people serving friends. If the

things to do friends, it's just that if God have so one time I

was I was just share honestly with you, all right, Okay, take

a share. I have to think for to think for a way ready to

go out. But anyway, I was talking to them and so I know

I do help us save in some random in the church renovation and stuff that

because it's not my experts were contracted. I think it's because I'm so happy

I'm there, possibly if you need a volunteer. So we were. We

were doing legacy legacy project in uh by your site there. So I was

asked a question, why do you I was asked a question by by a

guy who knows construction. All right, why don't you move the pillar here

and there? The stuff like that? Why don't you ne go the price

much lower? And this stuff like that? Part of me friends this after

the project is done, part of me feeling so angry. And the person

was hearing the building project for the longest time, not even a sound,

not even like I want, can I help? Not? Do you know

how many professional Christian commentators we have not in church? About ninety percent of

the Christian in the whole Christianity. I like to commandment when I would like

to do. Now I'm not but that you like to do? What do

you like to command? And said you love to serve. You don't don't

tind to command that your friends. So anyway, this brother, this brother

came up to me say, oh you should you should be doing this,

you should be doing that. I tell you that that very moment. I

will try to hold it in if you know. Use for the longest time.

We don't have all the funds there for we tried to make do try

to be there. So I was at the site at two am in the

morning. I do four am the morning. At the six am the morning,

sleep for three hours and go to work. After that a food.

They then repeat a cycle for two months, just because because I know that

sometimes when you tell people doing any things, they don't do certain things.

After they do already, you get fastered. They're angry. I read it.

They try to get it right in the first place right. And Passer

wasn't around the time Passa was in Europe. I have to follow europe timing.

So by that I text Pasta, get in touch with Pasta. Just

Ama right here here. It's like early in the morning, there is this

afternoon. So I just told the brother and say, look this test God's

testing at heart. I don't how to be if I say so I wish

you actually say yes when we ask for help. I don't know. Package

you friends something okay, Package when I say please teach me, I just

have told about I wish you actually say yes, maybe asked for help,

because by telling me this of no use, because it's easy for you to

command and not lift a finger. I was just very honest and just very

respectful. Yet the same time, you know, I know you're a man

of wealth. You can keep your wealth if you don't like to give.

But please, this is this is the house of God. If you want

to serve yourself, if you want to help your health. But I don't

really appreciate descrip of commands. After all, the price not just me,

my whole team has paid to build a church. With the limited funds that

we have to build a blue room, a room or sensory room for specialist

children. Right now, they are a group of people going. There's more

recognition right now. It's easy to command, friends, It's easy to tell

David Deabi shuld have done this, Davy shall have done that. Friends,

I pray when God revealed things to you. You're not supposed to be spiritual

commendators. You're not supposed to be spiriture commendators. Come on, you're supposed

to help as I go to try save The've got time now, but maybe

I don't have time. But it's gonna just reveal one more point to your

The second test that they will have to do was this that the test of

losing everything. I'm not sure whether or not you have been in the place,

but you know first sewenty nine, David follow the King's destruction, he

went back to where his hometown home base, hometown home based rest, only

to find the place that you can fight. He could fight refuge, so

you could fight race, you could fight, and being at peace is on

fire. So that some of us here don't want to go back to our

rules because our place of rest, we don't have peace our place of rest.

Come on, that's what home is supposed to be, right. It's

a place for you to recharge friends. A house is not for you to

fight on your friends. Think about it. Go home. I want fight

my spouse. If you're married for how many years you're telling your coilling,

I'm going home right now. I'm going to fight my husband, and I'm

looking forward to you. Right. I got so much energy, I'm so

hyper right now I want to fight with my wife, or fight my husband,

fight my children. If if none of the fight with the Liza on

the wall. These friends of your home, your house, your something,

your room is a place of refuge. The lastly one go to is to

find a place where about your strife. You're worry, you're thinking. So

I kept us camp, some of us. We kept us camp. Right,

it was. They gave us a room to share. But I know

I got another sleeping partner, a lizard, huge, one huge lizard,

nice huge lisard. So my wife saw she panic, right, I told

the Lisa, Liser, you want to stay alfe sleep on my sight.

I'm okay with you, I said, I'm okay with all right, I'm

okay with you. Are just slip on my side, my wife side can

getverything, your safety. She couldn't really sleep because she saw the fat lizard.

She was trying to kill it, begging my house. No lizard with

her wife, really, And so I'll tell the lizard I saw Liza.

Sometimes when I'm awoke in the kitchen, I say, Lizer, right,

I catch you. I'm come chaing with you. Okay, just just go

and side, Okay, my wife's He say, where's a bygone, where's

the newspaper? Let's work it. I have to repent before the Lord.

Anyway, tess of losing everything. So he went back, went back to

z burned down friends, burned down. Come on somehow places, our our

rooms, our house, our place of refuse is on fire. Nowhere has

no peace. You can't even even though you paid twelve thousand ringing for the

metros, you got no sleep. I know, we knew you who bought

a sixteen thousand ringing mattress. Yeah, God, God, God's that's just

a sudden prices for some people. Sixteen came my trust. If that's you,

I pray you can go sleep our friends. Okay, if you got

extra and you saw it, maybe can do it. Okay, just kidding,

But anyway, he went by. No, only that only the you

got to wait for sevage of the thirty into these lanes. Okay. He

number one, wife taken away, Wife taken away? Come on for fulness

taken away friends. David, by the way, they say, my wife

taken away. Hallelujah, Praise the Lord. I can marry another one.

Are you? She's nagging me from day one? Thank you Jesus for the

deliverance. No, no, the true were taken away. Friends. So

thank you Jesus. Hallelujah. I finding that excerce freedom. There is freedom,

the presence of the Lord. No more thinking about my children what to

eat, no more dressing their mom no telling them what. Oh, thank

you Jesus for free my schedule. It's good to be singer again. Friends,

no friends. David did not say that, Come on, David,

say that, Oh I lost my wife, I lost he was said,

come on. He was sad. He lost everything normally, he just lost

physically his own thing. Friends. He lost his closest friends. Think about

it, he lost his closes, his ally. People that you know when

you when you when you go to life together as a group. Friends,

you live together as a group, my friends, you fight together as a

group. But the but when the very group that you do life with turned

against you, friends, you felt so alone. And David was in the

place of he lost everything, his family, his home, his closest friend.

This word the people that were with him and Kive Adulham whereby they were

disappointed, dis granted. Every other dealer you could find there, David.

The words that show the inspirational God turned them around to be mighty warriors.

Right, these are the very people that fought together with David and the trenches.

Be with David when he was pursued by King Sauw. Be with David

when David was alone at first set of thirty. The Bible says that the

man who David was so angry with David. David, we followed you.

You say you follow God, we follow you. We lost Everything's all your

fault, and therefore we want to kill you, David. Sometimes following God,

friends, God will bring us a place whereby the test of losing everything,

losing everything. Come on, have you been a place where by you

just felt you lost everything. I'm not talking about right now, that loss

of money and this stuff that, but it's just that that the whole moment,

you know, your journey of life, you just felt that everything you

touch. It's not that you follow God. Davis, what did he followed

the Lord? First seven to training nine? He went back on the instructions

of the King. Right, lost everything? Come on, The Bible says

David strengthened himself with the lot. I just wish God really would just expound

on the words, right, will give us steps? How many will appreciate

steps from the lot? How to strengthen himself with the lot? Right?

But just one lie only? That's it to go? God say you understand?

Think about it? God saying you, my people love you. Understand

what I'm trying to say. And David strengthened himself in the Lord, I

think to God says, it's not rocket size. You know, it's a

choice, the Bible says. Right now, he's trying to tell us that

it's a choice. Was the law? Would you allowed? Would you just

fight your people? Would you pray? Think about it? How did David

strengthen himself with law? I just I just want more point? Okay,

I'm so sorry to take a bit more longer time. I know normally you

finished by twelve, but but but, but but just give me a few

more minutes again. How did David strengthened himself with the lot? Friends break

too? But first of what happens David? At first he got to believe

that God is still in control. That's where the first test whether or not

you know that God is in control or not. Because if you can get

to the first test, wouldn't God be faithful? To you at the second

test. Think about it, doesn't mean God passed you or the first test

of God reviewed the first test or the second test to fail you. You

got it easier the first round. I shall make it. Every test I

truly believe is to know that whether we see have faith in God or not.

Think about every test. There's no test of like greater faith or lesser

faith. Today you believe God for lunch. Next day you could believe God

for a house. Both it still whether God will provide or not. Right,

So the first test is that David must have so big. Two must

happen first before it happens on the outside. When when David strengthened himself in

the lot, the wife and Chuan do not appear magically, you know,

think about it. I strindened myself in the lot, opened the room,

dot, my wife and chewing are there. Pray Hallelujah miracle all share test

to me next week on Sunday. No friends, no no no friends.

Problems for diverse twenty six problems for the fear of the Lord. In the

fear of the Lord, there is strong confidence. Come on, where does

David confidence come from? Friends? Even though everything is taken away, even

though everything is removed, even though not you don't have anything anymore, But

he still feel the Lord. That was his source, that was his strength.

Then where he came from, friend, Not in the external, not

in the surrounding, in the bank account, not the contact. You know,

our contacts will feel one day, friends, if you'll feel, What

do you do when contexts feel your friends? What you do when your bank

account is not enough? You have enough for today, but not shovel tomorrow.

In the field of Lord, there's strong confidence in the children will have

a place of refuge. The children were the place of refuge. Why do

I know that David feared the lot I said earlier on David, even by

cutting the cloth from king saw rope, he was disturbed. Some of us

here the worst thing the cutting off our enemies robes. We make life so

miserable for them, in legit, in legal ways, in permissible ways.

We make life. Come on, we have done it before. Thanks you

click looking for something. We just don't make it so easy for them to

fight. They have to do the extra work to find them. Because you

went treat the person, mus go treat ma am. I making sense to

that right? So DEBI how was trouble when he cuts off robe. Theyvid

even cautioned, a'm be shy not to destroy King Saul the k king Saw.

Here's here's a servant of David that's willing to do that did for David

theavi the leaf a finger. I'm be shy, I say, I'll kill

it on your behalf. I will kill on your behalf. Come on,

don't have to live a finger. Don't get your hands the thing. I

will do it for you. I would, I would take the knife.

I will kill King Saul. David saying no, we cannot touch the loss

of Could you imagine David, you got to imagine this of friends. David

live in the palace one point in time. Everything was given to him.

When the palace was removed, he had to live in the cave. Drinking

and eating in the palace is different from d k eating in the cave.

Just one word from David, he can switch from the cave back to the

palace to the friends. Think about it. One word from David. I'll

be sure. You just try to culle Saw on my behalf, please,

because I long for the food in the palace. One day you have a

fifteen thousand MENI mattress, next thing, you're sleeping on the floor. You

you have got to imagine this, This what David when true? One day

your dressed in a certain style. Next day you just dress insures they have

not washed for five days. The cave, friends, this is not lamping.

Okay, this is not the Batman's cave. It is not. It's

not a bad cave. It's not. It's not a cave that guys going

to high and just vegetate. All right, No, it's it's it's not

nice. Okay, one day you have proper toilets. Next thing you have

to do your business in the toilet. One word, one word from David.

One word from David can and everything and change it twenty four hours.

Temptation, not temptation, just one word. But David said, you do

not touch the lots on like it. The test of losing everything is when

whether or not we still hold on the God's commitment or not. Nobody looking.

There was no profit, Samuel, besides David. There was no profit

beside David. Come on, there's no passagect beside you. There's no doctor

Jude right there with a living wars telling you don't do it right. There's

no Olivia there checking on you, nothing at all. Friends, You're just

by yourself there at the very moment. We still hold the God's commitment and

not but I just want to word only and sometimes we allow the situation and

we kill King Saw and we share TESTI me next week. Too many Christians

are killing King Sauce in the Life Touteen, the lots anointed and sharing testimony.

And this is how I'm going to end. Friends. Joe in the

Book of Job has similar thing. Wife taken away, chilling taken away,

house taken away, lives at are taken away. He said, naked have

come, naked as go Blessed be the name of the Lord. Why is

this so important for you and me and friends at the end of the day

to recognize and know this the test of losing everything, the tests of not

having everything, the test of not having everything is a test where the not

God is still in control. See the same test. Think about it.

It is still the same test God. You're saying control. You've done everything.

Really, you've you follow the Lord. Friends, zig Leg got burned

down because you neglected your family. You just followed the Lord. We got

to believe. Friends, Come on, as I close right now, you

can't be like David. David strengthened himself in the Lord. David strengthened himself

the Lord. David saught the Lord. I just got it. Summarize my

last point. David sought the Lord. The final test for David is this

the test of success? Success? Why do we say success? He read?

Thirty six hungred men follow David to pursue the enemy. Two hungred men

said, I was too tired, therefore to kep the supplies. A four

hunger man pursued. Theyvid want everything won everything from everything the Bible said,

he recovered all. Come on, there was nothing that was lost of friends.

You will recover everything, my friends. You follow the Lord. In

due time, you will be your experiens all if you follow the Lord.

But once you have recovered everything, friends, David was at the test all

that recovered our friends. Whether or not would you share? You know what?

Do you know what? The worthless man with David told David the farmer

David, David, just give back the wife and turan, but all their

go and see what all mine? All their lifestyle is all ours. Because

they didn't pursue the wife tu had one. I want to go. I

wanted to see a livestock if you were David. Sometimes we apply our human

maya. They didn't work for it, they don't deserve it. Think about

it. Very is some temptation of friends. You thought the enemy? Come

on, who foted me? You thought the enemyma he went out there.

It's a test of success, friends, to think that we achieved all these

my own strength. Come on the test that says you think that all that

we have is to our own strength. And God is not in the picture

at all. But God was in the picture. You know why. Before

David went out to pursue, he thought the priest he sawt the priest tell

me should I go or not? And the priest say, yes, all

that we have before we have success? We pray, isn't it? We

ask God? Isn't it? God causes us a breakthrough? Will you cause

the experience your goodness? Will you cause us to explain your provision? And

when God provides and God speaks to you, the test is there. God

give me good result. God give you a good result. But after that,

no time can't serve the Lord can't share all. Time can't share resources

because although you don't understand, I paid the heavy price to be where I

am today. I pay a heavy price to be aware I am today.

But friends, if not for the Lord, we won't it will experience all

that we have. And then if they the test of success is a test

of purpose. God has given you success. What you're gonna do is the

success. God giving you the resources. What you're gonna do with the resources,

God giving you so much? What a you're gonna do with it?

Friends, don't be like David's worthless man. Let's say, don't share,

don't give. They don't deserve it. Church, don't deserve your time,

Church don't deserve you. David say that I cannot do this. All they

have is because of the Lord. All they have is because of the Lord.

Friends, you must think this this how they responded, He acknowledged it

is because of the Lord. He gives glory to God. He did not

allow all that he has, all that he has. How you should leave

you know he did not. He did not did not some obviously I know

God speaking to you right now. He is have you allowed things in your

life to dictate what's the commitment to the Lord, not to the Church.

Not to your leaders, to the Lord. Have you allowed sickness to determine

how you serve the Lord? Have you allowed age? Friends? Age is

a very real thing. Have you allowed age to determine I'm slightly older,

friends, doesn't matter. As long as we have breath, we shall still

serve the Lord. Have you allowed all this as a close right now?

David said no, I shall give glory to God because God has the one

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