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God's Big Picture (Part 1) | Pr Jack Ling

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

  2. will light up your day. God's big picture is the title, and our

  3. theme is still Heaven rules. Amen, Heaven rules. And there is the

  4. line that goes towards the finishing line. So it's not just Heaven rules.

  5. It is for to go towards the finishing line. And do we understand what

  6. is the finishing line? By now? Okay? I think we've been talking

  7. about that in a few of our messages, but let me just make it

  8. clear again. The finishing line is just this, all right. We are

  9. waiting for the return of Jesus Christ. Amen. Okay, we see the

  10. signs right, those of you you know, you know you've been reading some

  11. of your Bible. You know that wars and rumors of wars, that's a

  12. sign. That's a sign of the return of Jesus Christ to come and to

  13. rule over this earth and to judge the earth. So that's one of the

  14. signs. And then sicknesses pastilence, right, right, do you remember the

  15. m CEO remember COVID Right, of course, it feels like it's gone now

  16. still around, right, And then there's so many other this I've been hearing

  17. HFMD. You know, our church will be covered you know, and not

  18. be attacked by these diseases HFMD, different flu and things like that. So

  19. these are signs of the return of Jesus Christ, right, Uh, and

  20. uh, we we are going towards that. And it does say, you

  21. know also in scripture that we will need to preach the gospel to prepare for

  22. the return of Christ. Amen and our church. We have this overarching vision

  23. that we look at, you know, and it comes from Habakok two fought

  24. in all right, that talks about uh, that the earth will be filled

  25. with the knowledge of the glory of God as the waters cover the seas.

  26. All right. So that is the finishing line that we want to go towards

  27. that the knowledge of the glory of God uh is known throughout all the earth

  28. as the waters cover the sea. And so that's why we say, you

  29. know, heaven rules, meaning it's gonna happen anyway. It's happening anyway,

  30. regardless whether you are trying you're you're trying to stop it or not. You

  31. know, I had a weird thought, you know, that time when we

  32. had a training, you know, Uh, the there's this leader's training.

  33. And then Pasicanna shad the scripture saying, you know that the end will come,

  34. which is you know Jesus will return when uh, the Gospel is preached

  35. throughout all all everyone say ah. And then so this hicky thought came into

  36. my mind and go like, oh, then can I stop it? Can

  37. I not preach so that it won't you know, the end won't come,

  38. so I can enjoy my earthly life a little bit more? Right, So,

  39. and then and then you know, I felt, you know, a

  40. rebuke saying you can't stop me. You can't stop me? What who think

  41. you are? Okay, okay, okay, I better be in the plan

  42. or you be left out right? So yeah, that convicted me. And

  43. so the preaching of the good News is going to happen anyway. If we

  44. don't do it, someone else is going to do it. And so are

  45. you going to be part of it or not? Or are you're going to

  46. be part of the other side? Right? So I want to be part

  47. of it. I want to be part of Team Jesus and preach the gospel.

  48. And so we need to speak the good News of Christ. So that's

  49. why we say Heaven rules because it's gonna happen any way. Amen, So

  50. we want to go and finish the race together. Amen. Amen. All

  51. right, So now let's go into some scripture here. I am focusing on

  52. John eleven today. Here we go. If you have your Bibles, you

  53. can open to it as well and check, you know, crosscheck with this

  54. version that I have. Now, a certain man was ill, Lazarus of

  55. Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. It was Mary who

  56. anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped his feet with her hair. Whose brother

  57. Lazarus was ill? Hold on there, all right? This part talking about

  58. Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment, It hasn't happened yet. Yeah,

  59. this part is just talking about Mary, who will be doing this I think

  60. in the next chapters. So anyway, what we see here is Lazarus from

  61. Bethany. Okay, it was sick, was ill? Okay, And then

  62. there was a sisters Mary and Matha. We move on. So here we

  63. go. So the sisters send to him saying, Lord, hear whom you

  64. love is ill. So Jesus was very close to this family, right because

  65. you know they were able to say, he whom you love is ill?

  66. But when Jesus heard it, he said, this illness does not lead to

  67. death. It is for the glory of God. Everyone say, glory of

  68. God, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it. Repulsitive

  69. for a while. Right, Look, this is like a prayer. This

  70. is like a prayer, right, Mary Matha the sisters send to him.

  71. You know, it's like we're praying to Jesus, Lord, he whom you

  72. care for here here, whom you love is sick, right Lord, My

  73. child is sick, Lord God, my parent is sick. Whoever? All

  74. right, and we need your healing because we know you can heal. Right.

  75. Obviously they're trying to call Jesus to come and do his miracle. Right.

  76. But you know this is this explains a little bit some of why our

  77. you know, how God answers our prayer. Look, when Jesus heard it,

  78. No, Jesus always hears, He always hears. Right, he heard

  79. it, And what does he do. He says, this illness does not

  80. lead to death. Right, he tells the truth. It is for the

  81. glory of God. Amen. So next time you pray, next time you

  82. pray, right, whatever it is. Looking for a job, you got

  83. trouble. You normally pray when you got trouble, right, normally that all

  84. right? You can also pray when you have no trouble. But it's fine,

  85. right, it's fine. I think God knows that we pray when we

  86. have trouble. We say something is wrong, something is sick, something is

  87. not working all right, and we pray. And you know what God's answer

  88. is, Yeah, if we look at this, it does not lead to

  89. death, it does not lead to destruction. It is for the glory of

  90. God. So when we have trouble, when we're going through stuff, it

  91. is for the glory of God. So if you can see that way,

  92. then we know. Okay, so so bad, what I'm going through is

  93. for God's glory. Amen. Now let's move on. Okay, so let's

  94. look at this. Now this gets more interesting. Okay. Now, Jesus

  95. loved Martha and her sister Mary, and Lazarus. He loved them all three.

  96. He didn't love just Wana, he loved all three, all of them.

  97. So when he heard that Leisures was ill, what did he do?

  98. He stayed two days longer in the place where he was. Now this also

  99. explains a little bit more how God responds to some of our prayers. He

  100. heard, right, that's good, Jesus always hears. But then what does

  101. he do? First he says he loved, right, and you know,

  102. because he loved, and because he loved, he stayed two days longer.

  103. This is not the thing we expect, uh, right, Like, come

  104. on, God, immediate, mediate healing, right now, that's what we

  105. need. But because he loved, he stayed two days longer. In other

  106. words, you can say, because he loved, he delayed. He delayed

  107. something, right, And then we go like, God, why I need

  108. this? Now? I'm sick. Now I need to be healed. Now

  109. you know someone's dying. I need resurrection now, you know whatever it is.

  110. I don't have a job. I need my job now, right,

  111. I mean, that's what we expect. But then because he loved, he

  112. stayed two days longer. I'm not saying God, it's always going to do

  113. that. I'm not saying it's up to him how he's doing it. But

  114. if you are experiencing delay, if you're experiencing two days longer or three maybe,

  115. then then remember this, he loves you. He loves you, maybe

  116. he loves you more. Now that's why there's more delay No, I'm just

  117. kidding. Okay, Okay, I don't want to top on behalf of God,

  118. but I'm just saying, looking at the scripture here, because he loved

  119. he stayed two days longer. Okay. I think it opens our It opens

  120. us to a bit of how God functions. He has a bigger picture for

  121. this case. Why he had to delay. I fast forward a little bit.

  122. Lesarus had to die, Lesrus had to die. There was a plan.

  123. Jesus had to do the resurrection miracle. So he waited and made sure

  124. Lesrus was really did, really really did. Yeah, okay, so you

  125. know what half did, he was full right, so that he can do

  126. the full miracle a man. So we see the big picture anyone here.

  127. You you're going through delay. Huh. Okay. God wants to wants you

  128. to go through the full experience. Then he can do the full miracle a

  129. man know, half big stuff. Amen, that's that's how God. Hallelujah.

  130. Okay, move on. Yeah. Then after this, he said to

  131. the disciples, let us go to Julia again. The disciples said to him,

  132. Rabbi, the Jews were just now seeking to stone you, and are

  133. you going there again? So the story is that previous chapter. You know,

  134. he was claiming to be gone, and so the authorities wanted to stone

  135. him, and so they actually escaped it because not time yet. It's not

  136. time yet. Hey, not because Jesus was afraid. It's not time yet.

  137. He has a plan, right, He didn't run because he was coward.

  138. He was he had a plan. Say, hey, it's not time,

  139. let me let's go. Let's not get stolen today. Wow, he's

  140. in control. He's in control. Okay, if they wanted a stony,

  141. they would have stolen him. Right, but he's in controls right, pause,

  142. let's go. It's not time yet. I won't let this happen,

  143. you know. So okay, it'd be a drama, okay, but anyway,

  144. So, but of course his friends, you know, his disciples,

  145. were afraid, Hey, why are you going back there? They want to

  146. kill you, you know, they want to stone you. But but okay,

  147. then what's jesus response next? Light First? All right, First,

  148. Jesus wants to go. He is not afraid. He lives by faith and

  149. not by fear, all right, like I said earlier, not by fear,

  150. by faith. I want us to all catch this. I want us

  151. to follow our Lord Jesus, follow our Lord jesus Us. Just now,

  152. Christine came up, gave us a list of requirements, told us you've got

  153. to dress up if you're going to sign up. So I was going,

  154. like, uh, have to buy I thought, I thought the church going

  155. to sponsor. I thought the church has a lot of money to buy uniforms

  156. for us. Hey know, man, we go buy everyone, let's contribute,

  157. let's pay the price together. There is money, but the money goes

  158. for other things, right that. You know the team will plan for all

  159. right, But it's not to buy uniforms for us. Okay. I think

  160. we can all save up, save up and get don't go and buy so

  161. expensive all right? Affordable one is okay? All right? So please sign

  162. up for host all right, okay, because it will change your life.

  163. Man, Why first you would dress up differently? All right? The church?

  164. Uh? And you will, you will get into h you know,

  165. the team's a little bit more. Uh, sign up for Extreme. I

  166. will tell you so extreme God dress code or so dress code and so okay.

  167. So that's why we dress up and we we play okay. Uh.

  168. We we want to give our best, we want to have and we call

  169. it Sunday best all right, and so uh, hey, you know what

  170. you will love. You will love dressing up. You'll be like, why

  171. did I dress up long ago? You know why did I serve long ago?

  172. Because now I can actually put on a suit. Right. Uh,

  173. you don't have to wait to serve money. Put on a suit, lin,

  174. Actually you can. You can put on a suit. Please do,

  175. please put on a suit and come to church anytime, any time. Okay.

  176. I heard this fashion tip before. Better to overdressed than underdress, Better

  177. to over dress and dress. Why because when you see Sunday, everybody's underdress.

  178. I take off my jacket. That's all right. When you're underdressed,

  179. you can't. You don't have a jacket to put on. Right, So

  180. fashion tip anyway, I shouldn't they better to overdress than under dress because you

  181. can actually remove the over in the middle somewhere okay, right, I won't

  182. tell you where I got it. Dip from its okay anyway? Where we

  183. know faith live by faith, not by fear. Don't be afraid, okay,

  184. to serve. Don't be afraid to go for missions. Don't be afraid.

  185. You know when someone asks you aid, can you help with this?

  186. Don't be afraid, all right, because Jesus was not afraid. And if

  187. we are following a lot, we do what he does, and then okay,

  188. we move on. So Jesus answered, are there not twelve hours in

  189. the day? If anyone walks in the day, he does not stumble,

  190. because he sees the light of this world. But if anyone walks in the

  191. night, he stumbles because the light is not in him. Now, I

  192. think we've heard this before in like a previous chapter. Jesus is talking about

  193. time. He's talking about time out, not twelve hours in the day,

  194. right, and he's talking about there is there. There's a time that God

  195. has created for us to work. Right. Many of you you do your

  196. you're talking about your earthly jobs, your jobs, you do it in the

  197. daytime? Right. Some of you have what do you call it? Not

  198. side hustle, I'm talking about ship chips, ships? Fine, all right,

  199. but you have a set time to work, right. Nobody who works

  200. twenty four hours a day, right except maybe doctors still no, okay,

  201. okay, the young doctors. They have to stay you know, twenty four

  202. forty eight hours something like that. Okay, But anyway, Jesus is saying

  203. there is a time to work that God has already created, and if you're

  204. talking about the spiritual aspect, there's also a limited time. And that's why

  205. we're doing heaving rules towards the finishing line because time is short. Time is

  206. short, time is limited, and we are here on earth because there's a

  207. time God has given us to do something. But what are we doing?

  208. Are we actually doing the stuff that God has given us to do? Or

  209. are we distracted and lost our focus and doing other things instead? You know,

  210. sometimes and it feels like, yeah, I think I'm doing something,

  211. but I think it's good to reflect, think about it and go like,

  212. what what does God want me to do? And am I doing it?

  213. Because my time is limited? Let me explain a little bit more. Do

  214. you know everything comes from God. Everything is a gift from God, including

  215. our time. Time is very precious. I understand that, sometimes more precious

  216. than money. Yeah, that's what my wife will tell me. Oh,

  217. doctor, she is not here because and my kids in ex Quota Communing.

  218. She was invited to preach there for two services, so she was there early

  219. and then the kids wanted to follow her as missionaries. So okay, fine,

  220. they go and yeah it's okila. So anyway, doctor Jill, my

  221. wife tells me this to her, time is more precious than money because she

  222. knows you have only twenty four hours a day. It's limited. You can't

  223. earn more. You can't earn more time. You can earn more money,

  224. right, but you can't earn more time. So I understand that as well.

  225. Although like for a long time, never registered to Mela. I always

  226. thought I had all the time in the world. Very chill, relax and

  227. do whatever I like. Huh okay, So yeah, I had never fully

  228. understood the concept of time is limited. I always wasted my time Okay,

  229. still do sometimes now. But Jesus is trying to help us to understand time

  230. is limit and God is the one who gave us our time. And so

  231. you know, if you think about it, sometimes you know our flesh tries

  232. to fight for our time. This is my time. WHOA all this time

  233. belongs to me? Okay, I'll give some to God, right right?

  234. Same thing we know, offering right, our offering out the money the job?

  235. Where did it come from? If you really think your qualifications and your

  236. skill is the one that got you the job alone, I tell you that's

  237. a mistake. That's a mistake. It's actually from God. Can we all

  238. acknowledge that God gave us our jobs. He gave us the opportunity to learn,

  239. to get the skills. He gave us the opportunity to do whatever to

  240. find a way to be able to obtain in this work, all right.

  241. And so I think it's really good to be able to acknowledge that and go,

  242. yes, God, thank you for the job that I have. You

  243. know, when you do that, you also don't hate your job so much

  244. because you know God gave you Although yes, nah, I know, I

  245. know, Okay, I know many jobs are very difficult and suffering and all

  246. this kind of stuff. But God allowed you to take up the job,

  247. all right. If you want to change the job, pray, lah,

  248. pray, pray God. This job doesn't feel very suitable, give you another

  249. one, right, But God gave you the abilities the time that you know,

  250. the job opportunities, and so you earn that money, and that money

  251. is actually his, All of it is actually his. But you know what,

  252. he's such a good and generous God. He doesn't ask us to give

  253. it all to him. You know, he's a good parent. He's like

  254. yeah, it's all mine. But you know I give it all to you.

  255. I give it all to you. And you know then then of course

  256. there's this thing, right, tides and offering, tides and offering, and

  257. so it said ten percent. I say, okay, God, ten percent

  258. belongs to you, right, it has minimum you can actually give to any

  259. You don't have to give ten percent. No, do you know Rick Warren

  260. gives ninety percent Rick Warren, I don't know, maybe more now, but

  261. anyway, but I don't know what the last I heard it I read,

  262. you know, I don't know where I read it from. So anyway,

  263. he shouldn't be like publicly known, right, But anyway, Okay, he

  264. didn't tell the amount now, but I just say, ninety percent is tson

  265. offering for Rick Warren. Okay, he has enough LA to be able to

  266. do ninety percent, right, But what I'm saying tis an offering doesn't have

  267. to be ten percent. It can be more. If you have more,

  268. give more, it's fine, okay, But anyway, go back to this

  269. ten percent. Just like you know, during the Old Testament, God required

  270. that you know, the offering be brought to the temple, right, and

  271. so you know, the Levites. The priests receive it, and what do

  272. they do with it? So some of it it gets burned right as an

  273. offering, as an aroma to God. But you know the rest of it.

  274. What happens. It's good meat, you know, good meat, good

  275. great, good oil. God gives it back to the Levites. The Levites

  276. get the wha, the good meat, the barbecue, all right, they

  277. get because God knows. These guys. They don't have an inheritance, meaning

  278. they don't get the land. They don't have a land, while the other

  279. tribes get property in a sense, the Levites don't. So God takes care

  280. of them. Amen. So you know what I'm saying here is God knows,

  281. and you know, although everything belongs to him, he gives it all

  282. back to us, just like how he gives it back to the Levites.

  283. He gives it back to them and you enjoy it because he doesn't need it.

  284. He doesn't need to eat the meat, right, but the Levites do,

  285. so He cares for them. So the same thing with all of us.

  286. Why he doesn't require more, you know ten percent, He doesn't say

  287. give me all ninety percent, you take ten. He doesn't do that because

  288. he knows you need it, it's okay, fine, you can have it,

  289. right, But it's about remembering that it belongs to him. And that's

  290. why we give a little ten percent or more to symbolize us that that we

  291. we know it belongs to you Lord. Thank you amen. So I want

  292. to go back now when we'll talk about we talk about money, but I'll

  293. talk about time now. Twenty four hours, right, twenty four hours God

  294. has given to us in a sense it kind of now we have control of

  295. it. You want to sleep? How long is so? Can? Right?

  296. You want to sleep less? You want to what you want to do

  297. a job with it? You want to browse social media with it? Is

  298. the time that you use? Right? You want to you know, you

  299. want to spend time with your family. You can plan it. But you

  300. know, actually, like if we think of time like tn O tides and

  301. offering right ten percent ten percent of twenty four hours to Jesus, what is

  302. that two point four hours? Tell you the truth? Passor Kenneth was the

  303. one who mentioned this to us as a huddle, you know, our discipleship

  304. groups early this year, and I remember that and he challenged, hey,

  305. what if you'll give two point four hours you know, ten percent as tithes

  306. and offering of time to the Lord. How much is that? Two point

  307. four hours? What's point four hours? And myn okay, just give three

  308. or two point five? Two point five? Ah, easier to calculate,

  309. right, which is thirty minutes? Two hours and thirty minutes? What if

  310. you gave that to God every day? Wow? You're like, oh man,

  311. read Bible, so don't don't read two hours? All right? Pray

  312. in the car, pray thirty seconds or one minute, two minutes? Okay,

  313. how do you even you know, do two point four hours a day?

  314. Okay, I'm not trying to be you know, I don't think we

  315. should be calculative and start count counting. I've done two point two you know,

  316. I've done two hours and thirty minutes today for Jesus. The rest of

  317. it, I'm gonna do my stuff. Okay, I'm not saying that,

  318. but just understand. Start praying now, just understanding that. Can you're in

  319. church, Ah, you're giving your time to God. Hallelujah. You already

  320. tie? All right? Okay, how about tomorrow, quota? How about

  321. tomorrow? What are you gonna do two point four hours to the Lord?

  322. Ah? So I'm just saying, I'm just challenging us here, right because

  323. Jesus say is there's time. There's time to work. But what are we

  324. doing with the time? Amen? So let's think about that? Right?

  325. Yeah, I'm giving you some thoughts here. I mean, it could be

  326. praying, it could be reading the Bible, it could be serving, it

  327. could be connecting with someone. It's homes it's reading the Bible, all right,

  328. it's it's it's serving, it's missions. You go for missions for two

  329. days, twenty four hours, forty eight hours done, just saying okay,

  330. no, don't okay, don't calculating gone, please, all right, but

  331. but no, the concept all right, wonder if I gave ten percent of

  332. my time to go? What would that look like? Right? Right?

  333. Amen? Anyone you're doing that ready? Two four hours? Don't? Okay?

  334. Right? Ok you you it's between you and the Lord. But I'm

  335. sharing this with you, all right. Uh, it's for myself as well.

  336. I'm speaking to myself. Reminder, okay that all the time actually belongs

  337. to God. But can you can we at least just give some to him?

  338. Give some to him, and you know what, he gives it all

  339. back anyway. He gives it all back. When I you know, when

  340. we went to the retreat, me and Jill, it was so fun.

  341. We enjoyed ourselves and feel like serving God. Right, it was enjoyable,

  342. Right, it was fun. And God is you know, telling us,

  343. Yeah, this is my reward for you all right for serving me. So

  344. praise God. He's always giving. Amen, So don't be afraid give to

  345. him. He will give it back to you more more than you thought.

  346. Amen. Hallelujah. Wow. Okay, I think we should wrap up soon.

  347. I I will, you know, I will close soon, and then

  348. I will do maybe like part two, Part two of this message. Okay,

  349. where are we now? Next time is a gift from God. Amen.

  350. Okay. Now, when Jesus came, he found that Lazarus had already

  351. been in the tomb for four days. Wow, there will be a mathematic

  352. stuff you're going on. Let me explain to you. Bethany was near Jerusalem,

  353. about two miles off, and many of the Jews had come to Martha

  354. and Mary to console them concerning their brother. Okay, I love this because

  355. you know, at the retreat, I was still preparing and then in the

  356. middle of the night I woke up and I got this this, this,

  357. this this part here, okay, let me share with you. So,

  358. so Jesus came. You see, he was not afraid, right, he's

  359. not afraid. He comes from the place he's not afraid getting stoned. He

  360. found Lazarus already dead for four days. How does this work? He waited

  361. two days, four days, so he waited two days, so I'm thinking

  362. the journey took about two days. So two days, two days, four

  363. days, right, right, So that's why he's surely gone. Lazarus is

  364. surely gone. And they says Bethany was near Jerusalem. This is very interesting,

  365. right about two miles off, two miles off, Okay, I calculated

  366. that. That's about forty five minutes walk. Forty five minutes walk, okay.

  367. Jesus took two days. How many minutes is that? Okay? Now

  368. mine forty eight hours? Okay around there, twenty four plus hours, all

  369. right, okay, two miles forty five minutes, yeah, okay. And

  370. many of the Jews that come to Martha and Mary to console them concerning their

  371. brother sounds like a very nice thing. Oh poor thing, your brother,

  372. poor thing, you know, or you must be hurting. Oh, by

  373. the way, where's Jesus? Where's this person? You know? So?

  374. I thought he can he loved I thought he can heal people? Where is

  375. he? Poor thing is? Okay, I'm here, I'm here for you.

  376. Wow wow wow. Be careful who you listen to. Be careful who

  377. you get consoled by. It sounds nice sometimes and you love it. Oh

  378. someone's you know? Oh poor thing? Come let me, I'm with you.

  379. I'm standing right here. Where's Jesus? How long you took to walk

  380. there? Forty five minutes? Why? Because so near? Man? Okay,

  381. So I comela since Sonia, I come. I you know, I

  382. care, I give some compassion, right, I show my face. Sounds

  383. like politicians? No no, no, not all and not all no no

  384. no no, Lord Lord, forgive me. Okay, not all politicians are

  385. bad, but you know, yeah, anyway, not just show face?

  386. Hey, okay, Jesus comes and he faces a death threat, and he's

  387. not afraid, and he comes and he walks the miles right, and he

  388. arrives two days later, some more waited two days come two days later,

  389. and then four days he comes and he he's not a convenient person. He

  390. doesn't go by convenience. Right, it's not near. There only a kamna

  391. or the hospital. So fine, want to go right now? Might let

  392. the nearer ones go prayer service, Sorry for me, prayer service. After

  393. travels from contact communing to excitement, jaya, can I nothing to boast?

  394. All right? Those people traveled to Nilai and oh my god, the day

  395. I went to preach at some money from my house to drive to so many

  396. is one hour one hour drive one way and back in the other way.

  397. Go like, man, this guy's every Sunday traveling there. Okay, anyway,

  398. right, so well we now, okay, so Bethany was near,

  399. that's why they came. I'm okay, I'm not trying to put them down.

  400. No, no, this is very human. This is a very very

  401. human. It's it's it's fleshly right, So okay, fine, and they

  402. come. But I want to contrast this with where Jesus was. I think

  403. according to research, I think it's not really mentioned the Bible, but he

  404. was in a place called beth Bath bath rab Bah, bath Rabbah something like

  405. that. So it is far away. So that's why it took you know

  406. that the extra two days. And so I want to tell you, you

  407. know, sometimes we we we we we rather take something convenient, and it

  408. sounds comforting to me, and so I I love it. But you know,

  409. Jesus actually will go the miles for us, the extra mile for us,

  410. and then what happens come next. Jesus is better than a quick and

  411. convenient comfort next one. Then we can wrap up soon already. So when

  412. Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went and met him, but Mary

  413. remained seated in the house. Martha said, to Jesus, Lord, if

  414. you had been here, my brother would not have died. Okay, this

  415. made me think of it. Firstly. Okay, at least Martha went right

  416. that Jesus was coming. But you know, Mary stayed on, trying to

  417. be like Jesus stayed on. Why she stayed on because friends were there,

  418. so there's distractions. They were they were, they were there, so she

  419. had to tend to them, like all my friends are here, you know,

  420. So she didn't go, so she was focused on being in the house

  421. there. And then you know, when Martha met Jesus, you know,

  422. the first thing that comes out of her mouth is what they've been talking about.

  423. It is what they've been talking about. What they've been discussing maybe what

  424. they've been hearing from the friends. Lord, if you've only been here last

  425. risk wouldn't have died. But that's not the truth, right, it's what's

  426. been brewing in their minds. And let's be careful again with that. What

  427. have we been talking about and thinking about and discussing about with some of this

  428. comfort comforting friends who try to console you, supposedly, but whether they tell

  429. the truth or not. And so the first time it comes out of your

  430. mouth, let's watch it, right, you can check what comes out of

  431. your mouth. God, if only you've been helping me, you know,

  432. if only this, if only that, right, so it's quite hopeless.

  433. And then we move on, Move on, right? Hey, God's delays

  434. better than our delay? Why? Because Mary's delay was caused by distractions.

  435. Jesus delay for the two days was caused by purpose. He had a purpose

  436. to stay on. He wasn't distracted, He wasn't distracted and then busy then

  437. delay. Oh sorry, that's the story caused you to diet. It wasn't

  438. an accident. He had a purpose. But Mary's I don't think it was

  439. as purposeful as Jesus are all right, So hey, check our own delays.

  440. Are you delaying? Are you delaying making God wait for us? Are

  441. you making God wait for us? Right? Speaking to myself as well?

  442. Everyone doing okay, right, okay, I'm not specifically talking about anyone,

  443. okay, So all right, let the Holy Spirit speak to us. Hallelujah.

  444. All right, So we move on. But even now, I know

  445. that whatever you ask from God, God will give you. Jesus said to

  446. her, your brother will rise again. Martha said to him, I know

  447. that he will rise again in the resurrection on the last day. All right,

  448. Jesus is trying to tell the truth, your brother will rise again.

  449. And you know Martha had an idea of what it meant, but you know

  450. she didn't understand what Jesus was saying. He meant, now, I'm gonna

  451. make him rise again, but she thought, oh, you mean you talking

  452. about the thing you're going to rise again in the future. Right, And

  453. so we move on, We move on. So God's theology is better than

  454. our theology, right, right, If we want to argue with God,

  455. he is God. And so you know what theology right, understanding of God

  456. theology means, the understanding of God. God understands God better than us.

  457. Understanding God. So let's look at him. Now. Let's look to him

  458. to understand God. And let's not make up our own conclusions of who God

  459. is. Let's look to him to show us who he is. Amen,

  460. and then let's see whether we're close with this. Right. Jesus said to

  461. her, I am the Resurrection and the Life. Everyone say resurrection. I

  462. am the Resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die,

  463. yet shall he live? And everyone who lives and believes in me shall

  464. never die. Do you believe this? Do you believe this? So this

  465. is the point you know that Jesus had to make. He purposely waited for

  466. Lezrus to die because he wanted to come and tell them this. I am

  467. the Resurrection, and I'm going to prove it to you. Do you believe

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