Obey - That All May Know | Dr Jill Ling

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

will light up your day. How many of you, as ex Church partners,

know, what is the theme of ex Church this year? Shout it

out to me that all may know. That's right. So every year in

ex Church, God gives us a specific theme for the year. And that

theme doesn't just guide our church, you know, as a whole, but

it also guides our personal lives as well. And so this year, the

theme that God has given ex Church is that all may know, that all

may know Christ is the Savior. Amen, all right? And so today

I'm going to be sharing God's word in line with the theme of our church.

And the title of God's message today is obey that God, that God,

Sorry, We're right, obey that all may know. And so I

was very encouraged when I heard Isaiah's testimony because his testimony speaks about obedience.

He may have started with a desire to further his masters, but he had

many obstacles along the way, and he had a choice whether to obey God

or not. But when he obeyed God, God opened crazy doors of favor

for him. He didn't just receive a scholarship, but his company offered to

pay for his masters. I'm like, wow, that's a double blessing.

It's normally either or none. I rarely hear of people getting a scholarship and

their company to top it, you know, up somemore. So when we

obey, God opens doors of crazy favor and blessing for us. And can

I hear an amen? Amen? Okay? So this is the title of

God's message for us today, obey that all may know. Okay. Now

today we are having our children join us for our worship service. We normally

do this twice a month, so like last week we had our ex kids

worship service, but this week we're having our children sit in with us.

So for our new friends, I hope that you can listen to me even

through you know, the joyful sounds that they come from our children from time

to time. Okay, But I believe we can do this, and it's

great to have a family worshiping together. I believe in the olden days.

In the olden days, there was no such thing as children ministry or teen's

ministry or campus ministry, but everyone worshiped a lot together in the Temple of

God. Young and old. So what we're doing now is what the children

of God used to do in the days of old, and the people will

listen to the sounds that would come, you know, from our children and

listen to the word of God. So I believe if they can do it

back, then we can do it today. To amen. Amen. Okay,

So today I will try to speak simpler and slower to have our children

understand as well. And my slides are going to be a little bit more,

you know, kit friendly. So adults bear with me. But for

all who have a kid in you, God bless you. Okay, all

right, let's go now. Today's message is going to be inspired by a

true story that happened in my life over the past twenty years but has culminated

over the past one week. All right, So I'm gonna start sharing this

true story, and for those of you who want to listen, be attention,

and towards the end of my story, I will share with us for

learning points. Okay, now here we go, So, children, what

picture is this school? Who goes to school? Yes? All right,

okay, I see teacher Maria raise her hands as well. Yes, okay,

I was talking to the children. But well done. Teacher. Maria.

Maria's a teacher in elc here, okay, who loves school children.

Okay, let's enthusiastic, but still okay, all right, So I too

went to school many years ago. Wow, hallelujah. I never remember how

many years ago I started high school. But basically, I too went to

school, Okay. And during my high school I had a good friend by

the name of Chinchin. Yeah, everyone say Chinchin. Yeah, okay,

Chinching, Yes, that's the name of my good friend in high school.

And why were we good friends? Next, It's because we were part of

the same softball team in school. How many of you here you know what

softball is as a sport and as a game. Okay? How many of

you here have played softball before? Wow? Awesome? Okay, okay,

So for those of you who don't know, softball is actually a sport,

it's a professional sport and game. And contrary to the name softball, which

sounds soft, it's not soft. Okay, It's like baseball. How many

of you know baseball? Yeah? I think more of you know baseball.

So softball is like baseball. The ball is hard, and the stick or

the bat to hit the ball it's also hard, so it's a misnormal.

It's not a soft It's not soft at all. So my school was famous

for a top softball team in those days. Yes, we were reigning champions

for many years. And so when I joined my high school, I joined

my school softball team, and ching Jin also joined my school softball team.

And from from one to from five we played for our school in our softball

team, to the point that in from five she was the captain and I

was the vice captain. She was the pitcher, I was the catcher.

Yeah, we were close, okay. Not only that we were in the

same sports house, yellow house. Anybody from yellow house here? Oh awesome,

awesome, Well I love it. Our new friends, we've got connections.

Yeah, softball, yellow house, Yes, okay. So I was

from the yellow house of my school, very proud of it. Yes,

And she was also from our yellow house. She was I think the house

captain. I was the treasurer or something like that. Yeah, sell,

same house. Not only that we were in the same class for five years.

Yes, we grew up in the same class, and so we basically

grew up together and we played together, right, We laughed together, we

cried together, we got muddy together. Yeah, those days when we play

softball, right, I remember just one training exercise was in the rain and

all of us had to run in the rain and slide in the mud.

That itself was a training for us because we had to practice how to slide

in the mud, because sliding to the nearest base gets us to the nearest

base faster than running to it. Yeah, so so we got muddy together.

Yes, we want together, lost together. We did live together.

And you know, she was she was. She was misspopular in school.

She was a sportswoman of the school. She was head of the interet club.

Uh, you know, she was just popular and I did well.

On the other end of studies, I was taught student. I was hate

prefect. And so if you put us together, we would make I guess

that perfect student one room, that he was good in everything, study,

sports, you know, social discipline, everything. So we were like,

wow, you know, the power duo in that sense. But the I

guess one key difference was she was not a believer and I was. And

I had the privilege to know Christ at a younger age compared to her.

But you know, God's timing is really perfect and beautiful and you will understand

why as I share this story with you. Okay, So, now,

after we we ended high school next picture, we actually went our separate ways.

Okay. Anybody can guess the country shown in this man? Children children,

children were children, can guess what country is shown in this man.

Malaysia, that's right, that's right. Okay, this is half of Malaysia.

Okay, Malaysia has two parts, So this is where's Malaysia. And

so I forgot to mention that our school was in the tip of Malaysia called

Joho Barru. It's just above Singapore. Everyone knows Singapore, not everyone knows

Joho Barru, although it's just two kilometers away from each other. So were

our school was in Joho barh Room. And after we finished high school,

guess what, My family moved to Malacca and I came to KL to study.

I did my college here, I did my university here, I started

work here, I found my life partner here and got married and the rest

is history. So I've been in KL for many many years now, and

Ching Ching moved to Singapore instead. Yeah, and she's remained in Singapore since

her college days. She also studied in university, found her life partner there,

got married, you know, continue all with life in Singapore. So

you can imagine after high school we really parted ways. Yeah, and yeah,

we kind of lost touch actually for many years after that, and even

as we were, I guess, going on with our own lives. I

remember a mutual friend of ours once told me that Changing's mom actually passed away

in a tragic car accident in Singapore. So Chinching's mom was visiting Changing in

her UNI days and as she was crossing the road, a careless driver actually

hit and ran her, and she passed away on the spot. And Chinchin

was devastated because her mom came to visit her and her mom lost her life.

So when I heard that news, my heart was crushed as well,

and I wanted to reach out to her to comfort her, but a part

of me was like, but Jill, you haven't been in touch with her

for so long, you know. Yeah, So I felt a bit awkward

to reap connect with her all though such a tragic thing that happened in her

life, and so I pulled back. I pulled back because of fear,

because I was I felt bad or guilty, like we weren't in touch for

a long time, and here I am suddenly reaching out to her, and

so I left it that this is definitely one regret that I have. So

if I could rewind my life to that point, I would now take that

step of faith to reach out to her and not, you know, pull

back because I felt fearful and I don't know who I'm speaking to here today,

but maybe you know for some of us here, God is, God

is calling us to do something in our lives, and it requires us to

step out of our comfort zones. Don't be afraid, because when we're afraid,

we will pull back. But have faith in God and reach forth for

what you're supposed to pursue because it could really change things and make things very

different. Okay, you know in meths, I'm not a meths specialist.

I know what is modern medicine. I know what is additional meths. I

know what is modern maths. I know it's additional maths. I have no

idea what is financial maths. Okay, I say, I say it,

But you know in meths, have you all studied degrees? Degrees? You

have studied degrees? Right, Okay, So it's all the angle. The

angle between two lines is basically called degrees, right, and one degree can

look very small, but when you extrapolate the two lines far out, you

know, it actually increases a lot. So it's the same right now,

taking that one step or not taking that one step could seem very small,

but you ever know the ripple effect of it in years to come. So,

friends, I don't know who I'm speaking to, but if God is

calling you to do something out of faith, please do it. Don't pull

back like me out of fear and have regrets later on. Okay, all

right, but I want to say that although we may fail the first time

and we can have regrets, God is a god of second chances. Amen,

But let's let's try and do it right the first time. But even

if we don't, Okay, God is merciful. We try to see second

chances for us, but we don't know whether it will always happen, right,

Okay, So let's move on to the next part. Okay, in

the next slight Okay, this so this this was this was when changing laws

her mom. Yeah, so changing definitely felt devastated. I felt really really

sad for as well. Yeah, Okay, next we move on. Okay,

two years ago that will be twenty twenty two. I had a dream

about Chinching, So this is close to like twenty years of not seeing her

and being in touch with her. God gave me a dream about Chinching and

that dream was about us reconnecting, and she was actually somewhere in KL And

in that dream, I dreamt that I had asked her to visit X church

with me. Yeah, so that was the summary of the dream. Chinchin

and I were reconnected in KL and I even asked her to hey, would

you like to visit EX church with me? And then the dream ended.

And I believe that dream was significant, and I felt that God wanted me

to reconnect with Chinchin in twenty twenty two. But again I was like,

hmm, God, I have not been in touch with her for so long.

I think it'll be a bit weird and awkward to sally reconnect, and

so I put it off again. Can you believe it? Yeah? So

God is a god of not just second chances, but third chances and beyond.

So I put it off again. Okay, in twenty twenty two.

At that point when I had the first dream about Chinching. But again,

God is so merciful. No matter how many times we put something off and

we fail to respond in the way He wants us to, he continues to

give us chances after chances of the chances. A few months later, I

had another dream about Chinching, and in his dream, God showed me a

little bit more so. In this dream, I dreamt that I was actually

in with her. Yes, so now I was down south, and I

dreamt that we were I was bringing her to church at night. So we

were driving in my car and I remember asking her, Hey, how are

you Chinching. You know, it's been so long since we reconnected, and

so we were chatting, and in the dream I felt led to ask her

about her marriage. So I asked her, Chinching, how are you and

he day doing? So that's the name of her husband and uh and he

actually is a childhood friend as well. We all went to the same fusion

class together, and so I was asking, hey, so, how how

are you doing with him? You know? And in the dream, I

remember she turned and looked at me and she told me that actually was struggling.

My marriage is struggling, And that was very clear. And then the

dream ended, I woke up and I knew without a shadow of a doubt.

Okay, God, I've got to reconnect me ching ching, Now you're

spoken loud and clear. There's no way I can have the same dream about

the same person, so clearly. Once maybe coincidence, although I knew it

wasn't. But second time, Oh, it's loud and clear. So any

of you, if you've been having recurrent dreams, please ask God what he's

trying to say to you. Dreams are a way that God speaks to us.

Yeah, and so ask the Lord for his revelation. And not only

that, ask the Lord God, how should I respond to what you're telling

me? True my dreams? Because every revelation is meant to invoke a response.

So whenever we come to church and we receive a revelation of God,

or in a quiet time, or as we live life, please don't just

stop at receiving revelations, but do something about the revelations that you receive.

Revelations are meant to invoke responses. Okay, God is a god of response.

He's not just a god of theory. He's a practical God as well.

Okay, let's close the learning loop, right, and so I was

like, okay, God, I want to reconnect your changing. I know

I have to. The dream was very significant. How do I do it

was the next question. Because I don't have a handful number. We really

lost touch. We got busy with life and all. And then suddenly the

Holy Spirit say, hey, why don't you search her up on Facebook because

I we do follow each other, and you know, so I'm like,

oh, yeah, a Facebook. Okay. So I used messenger on Facebook

to actually message Changing, and I told her, hey, Changing, you

know, I know it's been so long, but I had a dream about

you recently, or two dreams, and I felt that we should reconnect,

and so and she was surprised. She was surprised, and she agreed.

She said, yes, okay, let's reconnect. And so we exchange our

WhatsApp numbers and we continue our conversation on WhatsApp. And she told me that

she was surprised at the timing that I messaged her because she was going through

a tough time in her life. And just a few weeks ago, she

was traveling in Italy and she had gone to a cathedral in Italy and she

had prayed and asked God, God I don't know what to do. Could

you please send me some help. This was a few weeks ago before we

reconnected, and so she was wondering, hmm, could this be like an

answered prayer? And so we chatted further and caught up, and then I

shared about the dreams and she told me that, Wow, Jill, I

cannot believe that you had those dreams because that's what I am going through exactly.

She told me that I'm in the midst of getting a divorce with my

husband. Things have not been good at all, and she broke down.

She broke down as we continue to converse on the phone, and my heart

broke as well for her because I knew that they were childhood sweethearts and they

had a little girl, very cute girl, and so my heart just broke

for her and her girl to have to go through this. But anyway,

I tried my best as the Holy Spirit led to encourage her to pray with

her. They still went on with the divorce, Yeah, but she found

some comfort in you know, our conversation and the prayers and the reconnection,

and so after that she tried to just you know, rebuild her life after

the divorce, and that was end of twenty twenty two, and twenty twenty

three came and we both got busy with life, so we went in so

close touch. And then twenty twenty four came, which is this year.

And last Saturday we had our Salt which is our Saturday X Leadership training,

which yeah, and so once a month our leaders in X church will come

together for a time of training so that we can actually serve our church better.

And so last Saturday, during Salt our training, we had a warmer

activity and leaders, can you remember what was the warmer activity? Message a

friend on our phone book? So all the leaders had to firstly pray and

then after that look at our phone book and see who God leads us to

message on the spot. So all of us took out our phones and then

we message someone on the spot saying that, hey, you know I just

talked about you. How are you? Is there anything I could pray for

you? And as I was asking God, okay, God, who do

you want me to message on my phone book? Straight away Ching Ching's name

came up. But then again I had my own reasonings, like God,

we are supposed to have deeper conversations. Over the next one month, how

on earth am I going to have deep conversations with her when she's in Singapore.

I'm here. Online is not the best. Face to face is better.

So why don't I message someone closer to me? Maybe my neighbor,

you know, maybe my family member goes around town. But I had the

idea that I have to meet the person face to face to have a deeper

conversation that will lead to salvation. I was thinking, I got Singapore still

a bit fartherer God, so again, I'm still a human growing in the

lot amen. But then God brought her name back and over again. I

couldn't brush it off. I'm like, okay, God, I will do

it. I will obey. So I messaged her at the start of our

training. There was about maybe one thirty pm last Saturday, and before we

ended our training at three o'clock, she messaged me back and she told me,

Jill, I cannot believe that you are messaging me at such a timing

again. And so we continued the conversation after that, and she told me

that actually now she's going through a really tough time at work, really really

tough time, to the point that she might leave her current job and to

me, it's big because here is a single mom as trying to take care

of her daughter and to not have that sense of stability or peace at work.

It's a big thing. And so I tried to encourage her and pray

for her as the spirit led. And the very next day in the afternoon,

I got a text from Chinching and she told me that in summary,

she had actually gone to church that Sunday morning, which was last Sunday morning.

So our training was last Saturday afternoon, last Sunday morning. Ching Ching

went to church in Singapore. Now she went, and she told me she

went to church. She I was like, wow, that's great. Yeah,

because she has been going to church on and off for the past one

year, but just on and off once in a while. And each time

she goes to church, the minister would actually ask at the end of the

worship service who would like to accept Jesus into their hearts? And she would

always have a struggle internally on accepting Jesus because she questioned God saying, why

did you take someone so precious away from me my mom? Remember Ching Ching's

mom passed away in a tragic car accident many years ago when she was in

Uni, and that was something she could not let go off. So she

wrestled with God, like, if you're really God, and you know you

love me and your great why did you allow this to happen. Couldn't you

have saved her? Couldn't you have prevented this from happening? Right? And

this is very real for her. I mean, she she lost her mom

in the early days, and she's you know, divorced from my husband,

and she's not on the brink of, you know, not having a job.

But then something happened that Sunday morning. Let me get my phone out

and I'm going to read you the exact message that she sent to me.

So this is what changing texted me. Yes, I always hesitated at the

end of the service when I was asked to receive Christ into my life.

But He has shown me how He has been there for me during the difficult

times in my life, especially directly through you. I'm truly blessed and loved

by him. I want to open myl and receive him wholeheartedly. Thank you

Jill for connecting me to him. So, my friend Chin Chin has accepted

Jesus into her heart and I am still trying to digest. All that has

happened is happened so fast over many years. But yeah, I'm still trying

to digest. But this is the God that we serve. And the past

one week, I've been texting her almost on a daily basis to help her

to grow in her faith because she was asking me where do I go from

here now? So she was asking me how do I pray? So I've

been trying to help her to learn how to pray to God. She asked

me, is it like talking to my father? I say yes, but

I say, don't just talk, listen to him as well. Yeah,

and she asked how do I read the Word of God? So I guide

her to download the app. And I'm in the midst of looking for a

physical Bible to give to her personally. And so even yesterday I asked,

Jiji, are you going to change tomorrow? And she say yea, yeah,

yah, I'm gonna go. And I told her, Hey, you

got to speak to a leader in church and let them know that you have

just accepted Christ so that they can help you get connected and also grow in

your faith. So I'm in the in the midst of helping her to grow

as a new babe in Christ. And the amazing thing is next month I'm

supposed to I've been invited to go down to Singapore to do a training with

our church. They're XK Singapore, so they invited Linettes, which is the

suicide prevention organization that I coordinate. So I'm going to go down to do

a mental health workshop for our leaders in x Singapore. And that's when I'm

going to squeeze in time to meet Ching Chin and finally reconnect in person.

But you know, God can't wait for me to reconnect in person to save

her. He does it in his way and timing. So don't ever let

this suns or timing determine the salvation of your love. Ones. Nothing is

impossible for God, really true, nothing is impossible for God. And I

give God all the glory. And I'm still digesting, like I said,

really changing, you know, salvation journey, and I know that she's going

to be a powerful vessel for God. You know, she's someone that is

charismatic, she's someone who is influential. I believe that God has a great

purpose and destiny for her, and I'm really proud to be part of that

journey. Yeah, and I give got all the glory for her salvation.

Amen. Amen. Okay, Now, even as we are going to draw

to a close in a while, I just want to share with us for

learning points from this story. And they all start with the letter oh yeah,

everyone say, oh yeah, okay, all right, so the first

Oh, it's origin. Everyone say Origin. That's right, Okay, what

does this mean? Now? Many times, right when we think of the

salvation of our love ones, we think that we have to be the ones

to start that salvation journey for them. Sometimes we feel we are fully responsible

for the salvation journey of our love ones, that if we don't start thinking

about it, if we don't start praying about it, if we don't start

doing something about it, their salvation is not going to kickstart. But I'm

here to say that the salvation journey of our love ones do not start with

us. It origins with God. God is the starter and the finisher of

every soul. We are just his vessel part of the journey. So I

hope those of you who feel maybe like quite burdened and pressured, like,

oh, it's got to be me that has got to kickstart this salvation journey.

Please, it's not our responsibility. It's God's responsibility. Okay, let's

look at Genesis chapter twelve, verse one to three. Okay, so here

we go. I'm going to read a scripture out for us. Now,

the Lord has said to Abraham, get out of your country, from your

family, and from your father's house, to a land that I will show

you. I will make you a great nation. I will bless you and

make your name great, and you shall be a blessing. I will bless

those who bless you, and I will curse him who curse you. And

in you, all the families of the earth shall be blessed. Amen.

And so this is what we commonly know as the Abrahamic call, and this

is the very origin of the nation of Israel. And I want to just

point out here these two words families of family and the word blessed. Now,

God says right in Abraham, all the families of the earth shall be

blessed. Okay. Do you know that the word families here also mean nations,

nations, nations, And so God already unveiled the end that he wants

to see all the nations of the earth be blessed. But do you know

what is the meaning of blessed. It's not just receiving something great and feeling

all good about it. One of the meanings of blessed is this, can

you still see me? What am I doing now? I am kneeling.

This is what blessed means in when we talk about humanly, when we are

blessed, it means that we have received so much from God that we can't

help but to kneel before him and give him thanks and praise. That's a

human perspective or blessing, but do you know that it applies to God as

well. A God's perspective of being blessed or blessing humans is that he would

come down to our level. Imagine, I represent God. Okay, just

in this drama and skit and Adi is human? Hiadi? How are you

doing? Is there anything I can help you with? Okay, you guys

get the big You're right. That is our God. When he says he

blesses us, he comes down to our level because there's no way we can

reach him, and he asks us, how are you doing, my child?

How can I help you? Today? So when God says in you

Abraham, all the families of the earth shall be blessed paraphrasing, he's saying,

and in you, all the nations of the earth shall come to know

me, because when God comes down to us, we will know him.

Amen. And so God is showing here that it is his idea for salvation

to take place for every life on earth. It is his idea. So

never ever think that it's our idea that someone in our lives get saved.

It's God's idea. We are his instruments. Amen. So always remember salvation

journey starts origins with God. Amen. Okay, next point, Oh wait,

I have a Okay, So for every point I have a heart check

for you. Remember, our God is not just a god of theory,

He's a god of practical Today you may be receiving different revelations, but I

don't want you to just go home with revelations. I want you to go

home with responses because it's responses that bring about change, not revelation alone.

Friends, So here's one way to respond. Ask yourself this question. This

is a every time you see a heart picture, here is a heart check

for each of us, myself included. Who has got placed in your life?

Who needs to know him? And if I can encourage you from my

story. Put all barriers aside. Don't let distance be a factor. Don't

let the length of time that you have not been in touch with this person

be a barrier. Remember my story. We are far apart, we have

not been in touch for a long time. But God shows his strength to

the foolish and the weak. The weaker I am, the more foolish I

am, the greater my God shows up. So I'm blown away by this.

You know story myself, And Okay, God, you can do it

for changing, You can do it for anyone in my life. Amen.

So heard check question which only you will have the answer to this? And

God, okay, but you don't have to tell me now, just brew

on it and act on it. Okay. Next point the other Oh is

obstacles. Okay, everyone saying obstacles. Obstacles right? There will always be

obstacles in obeying God. I guarantee you, as sure as the sun rises

every day and rain comes upon the earth, as sure as you have to

eat and go toilet every day and you have to sleep, obstacles will be

there in obeying God. Let's look at Genesis chapter twelve, verse ten to

thirteen. So today I'm going to be focusing on Abraham, the life of

Abraham in short, to illustrate some learning points. Okay, Genesis chapter twelve,

verse ten to thirteen. Now there was a famine in the land,

and Abraham went down to Egypt to dwell there, for the famine was severe

in the land. Next and it came to pass when he was close to

entering Egypt, that he said to SARAHI his wife. Indeed, I know

that you are a woman of beautiful countenance. Therefore it will happen when the

Egyptians see you, that they will say this is his wife, and they

will kill me, but they will let you live. Please say you are

my sister, that it may be well with me for your sake, that

I may live because of you. Wow. Wives, can you imagine any

of our husbands asking us to tell people that we are their sisters and not

their wives. I cannot imagine this, Okay. I don't want to imagine

it, okay, because I don't know what kind of response they were invoke

from me towards my husband. Okay, So yes, but you can see

here. First God called Abraham out of his comfort zone, and now suddenly

Abraham is scared. He's scared that people would kill him for the beauty of

his wife. So he was at a high point, a point of faith,

and he suddenly tumbled down to a point of fear. And this us

human beings. One moment we are up, one moment we are down.

One moment we are full of faith. The next moment we are fearful.

And so for me, right, God showed me dream number one and I

was supposed to go like Abraham and connect with ching ching, but I the

next moment became fearful. Are yo, what was she think of me?

You know we have not been closed for so many years. Many times the

obstacles in obeying God is going to start here. Our minds, all the

logic and reasoning can't help but to generate fear many times. Okay, so

we have to choose how would we face the obstacle when it comes to us.

So a heart check at this point in time, what obstacles are ahead

of you to help that person know God? Remember that someone that you put

in your notebook. Okay, I think God has put this person in my

life to know him. There's going to be obstacles, for sure. What

are some obstacles that you are already going through or you foresee that may actually

stop you from helping that person know God. Question okay, next point point

number three is obey. Everyone saying obey, obey, and that seems to

be the word of the day because Isaiah's testimony also talks about obey and the

children are agreeing with me. Yes, they're agree with me. Okay,

let's look at Okay, So I, like I said, there will always

be obstacles, but you know what, we just have to obey God.

We just have to obey God. Right, Sometimes children make different sounds,

but we just have to focus. Okay, all right, come all right.

So I thank God that even after the first few times that he prompted

me to connect with Chin Chin and I failed, finally he gave me the

strength to obey. So my next heart check question for you is what do

you need to do this week to obey God. I'm not talking about one

year down the road. I'm not talking about your future in the distance.

I'm talking about this week. What do you and I need to do to

obey God. I believe all of us will have an answer because God is

always calling us to obey him. Question is whether we choose to listen to

him and actually do it is another thing. Okay. Now the final point

and extreme you can come up, because I'm about the close already. Okay.

The final point is open doors. Everyone say open doors. That's right.

Obedience is a door opener in the Kingdom of God. Obedience is a

very very powerful key in the Kingdom of God. When we obey, we

unlock doors that nothing else can unlock. You look at Isaiah's story. He

wanted to study masters, and to study masters might take him out of Cybergia,

but he knew that God had called him to be in Cybergia for this

time and season, and so he chose to obey God to remain in Cybergia.

And not only that, God also challenged him to give a big amount

for the anniversary giving. But he could have saved it up to pursue his

masters, but again he chose to obey God. And Isaiah, I don't

know what other you know. Thanks, God will ask you to obey him

in but may you continue to obey him because obedience unlocks doors in the Kingdom

of God, and we see doors being unlocked for Isaiah's masters. He got

the scholarship. That's already a big door open. How many of your us

here our scholarship, you know, winners, right? Not everyone? Not

only that his obedience unlocked the doors of his company to support him. Again,

how many of us have companies that are willing to pay for our further

education. So with a single key obedience, Isaiah has unlocked at least two

doors for now. And I believe more are going to come your way.

Brother, more is going to come your way. Our God is the god

of abundance. Abundance means you can't count the number of doors that can be

opened for you. So obedience is always a door opener in the Kingdom of

God. Let's look at Matthew chapter one, verse seventeen, and this will

be the final verse for today, still relating to Abraham. So it writes,

so all the generations from Abraham to David, King David are fourteen generations.

From David until the captivity in Babylon are fourteen generations. And from the

captivity in Babylon until the Christ are fourteen generations. I just want to point

out something here amidst all the words and numbers, this verse starts with Abraham

and it ends with Christ. Abraham, long time, long journey Christ.

And this shows us that because Abraham was obedient to God to get out of

his homeland and later on to sacrifice his one and only son, Isaac,

were almost sacrificed because of Abraham's crazy obedience, it unlocked a door for Abraham

to be a part of the lineage of Jesus Christ. So forever it is

written on in earth and in Heaven that the lineage of Jesus Christ on earth

begin with Abraham. Forever. That's etched in eternity. And that's the honor

that God has given to Abraham. I wonder whether for me, somewhere there

jail ching ching ah, maybe for you, what could it be? Balaji?

Not what your achievements are, but who God has used you to save,

Doctor Sheila, who that God has used you to save? Right Joel,

who God has used you to impact. Amen. So obedience unlocks doors

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