The Call To Discipleship | Olivia Leong

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

will light up your day. Today's message, God's message for us today here

in this light that we can see. Yes, it's the call to discipleship.

This is part two of the message that I shared last month. All

right. So I'll just do a very quick recap on the Book of Matthew

chapter twenty Eight's that was what we were studying when I was sharing the Word

of God last month, all right. So we shared next next light next.

The thing that we have shared was from verse one to the stand from

Matthew chapter twenty eight. Right. So we were saying about the proofs the

evidences of who is this Jesus Christ. Yeah, we are here the church,

the church, okay, the Church of Jesus Christ here, yeah,

and we preach Jesus all right. Just in case you're wondering what church is

this? What church? Exch ex church? Okay, so ex church.

We preach Jesus, all right, we preach Jesus Christ. And this is

the evidence that we are preaching, right, the evidence of Jesus' resurrection.

We celebrate. We come to Sunday service, we celebrate Jesus this is the

reason why, right, the testimony of the angels. So this is one

evidence, okay, and the next side, sorry, the next one.

The next point is his appearance himself. Jesus Christ appeared to the woman.

Right. Last month we were we were studying that, okay, and today

for part two we will be studying on verse eleven to twenty. All right,

more evidences of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. Right where we

can see even the gods and Jesus adversaries were confessing, okay, of his

resurrection and they try to deny it. Ah, right, And yeah,

later we will study that and we will read more about that. And the

next point is also or Christ's appearances to his disciples in Galilee and the commission

he gave to them. All these evidences, people ask, hey, is

Jesus Christ real? Yes, this is the point you need to take picture,

you know, go for the study. Yes, all right, so

this is the one. Who is this Jesus Christ. Is he still real?

You know? He is real, so real as he is two thousand

years ago and today. All right, that's why we're so excited. You're

passionate. The Church of God is moving in this direction of preaching the word

of God and saying that Jesus is alive, and he is not just alife,

he's powerful and he's very real. As you have heard Christine shaid,

his her testimony is so real. Okay, real you can and if Jesus

can be so real to her, like to Christine and all of us as

well, he can be so real to you, okay, to me personally

as well. All right, very cool, And just a summary next night,

just summary of the part one last month resurrected Christ. So we were

saying that Jesus Christ is resurrected. He is not dead, he is alive.

That's why we sing songs. You know, we're excited to come to

church. We dress our best, we give God our best because he is

resurrected. And point number one, remember we say that he is the dayspring,

he is the bright and morning star. He is the desire of all

nations. And that's why we come to church on a Sunday morning right to

worship God, because Jesus rose at dawn. If you remember the picture I

showed about dawn and sunrise, right, he rose at dawn. We worship

God on Sunday morning. All right, first day of the week. Remember

that the first day of the week. Right. The second point is he

is victorious. Yay, he is victorious overseen Satan and death and heaven rolls

yay who right, we are victorious. Always be reminded every time you're going

through a very tough season of life, whether it's in your studies, family,

or work, anything at all, even political situation in the world.

You know, every tough time, always remember that Jesus he is victorious,

over seeing Satan and death. He is alive all right. And third point

and he and Jesus he also has compassion for his people, and he meets

his disciples where they are at. Remember we were saying that Jesus rose in

Jerusalem. He rose again back in Jerusalem, right, and he traveled all

the way to Galley to meet with his other disciples. He didn't just abandon

them. Even though the disciples abandoned him, he never abandoned them. This

amazing God. Right, you know, he never leaves to you. He

will stick to you. You know, even though you don't want him,

he wants you. He's after you, right, he wants you, He

loves you. Right. So this is just such a great encouragement and a

reminder of us even part one last month. Okay, so if you want,

you can get the recording on Yes, Spotify, Yes, Spotify,

Yes, Okay, next slide right, Yes, So today we're going to

be studying about part two. You can open your bibles to Matthew chapter twenty

eight, verse eleven to twenty. We will continue on this chapter study right,

and today's yes, and today's focus will be mainly on the call to

discipleship. All right. Also on the same note of our church ex church,

we are here having the church theme for this year Heaven rules towards the

finishing line. We have a mission church. We are not here every Sunday

come. Yes, no, we have a mission. We have a mission,

and we are here all together doing this together as a church. Okay.

So that's why we are doing. We are having this theme and studying

the word of God towards this right and to see how we can live our

lives according to what God has called us as a church. Right. Let's

go verse eleven. Right, So this is a time where yeah, Jesus

has risen from the day he has appeared to his disciples already. Now's verse

eleven, where the soldiers. Okay, the title of my if you see

your bible, right, if you see your bible above verse eleven, that's

a title on NKJV. My bible says the soldiers are bribe. Okay,

so you may have another title there. But yeah, so this is verse

eleven. Okay. Verse eleven. Now, while they were going day here

refers to the disciples. So they were going towards dani Lee. All right,

Behold, some of the guard came into the city in Jerusal and reported

to the chief priest all the things that had happened. So all the things

that had happened was Jesus rose from the dead, and then they saw angels.

I remember remember last month. I don't know how many of us as

I remember the situation where where the rock was sitted by the angel here right

here. Okay, remember, yeah, that was a very significant analogy I

wanted to have for us because it's very significant, all right, and yeah,

all these things that happened, and then there's the angel, and then

there was people coming you know, the earthquake. Remember, so all these

things, right, some gods actually went to report this to the chief priest,

all the things that had happened verse twelve. When they had exampled this

talking about the priest, when they had exampled with the elders and consulted together,

they gave a large sum of money to the soldiers who reported all that

had happened, saying, tell them his disciples came at night and stole him

away while we slept. Huh, okay, okay, verse fourteen. And

if this comes to the governor's ears, he will appease him and make make

you secure. Okay, we will appease him and make you secure verse fifteen.

So they took the money and did as they were instructed. And this

saying is commonly reported among the Jews until today. Right, So that was

a how do you say? It's an evidence that cannot be how I cannot

be hidden. It's so obvious even the chief priests themselves. This is so

people say that, huh right, the chief priest and the gods actually believed.

I think they really do, but they just don't want this truth to

be out to others. So that's why they have to make a lie,

bribe the gods, and you know, say things that is not really makes

sense. Right. So if you say in verse thirteen. If the disciples

had actually stole Jesus's body away, well, all they slept, how can

they know? How can they know what happened when they slept? Right?

I mean this lie doesn't make sense. Okay, so it really doesn't make

sense. But anyway, just to let you know that there is actually evidence,

there is evidence of even his adversary confessing it here in this short scripture

from verse eleven to verse fifteen. Right, okay, let's carry on.

Verse sixteen. Then the eleven disciples went away into Galilee. This was what

Jesus Christ told his disciples together to together in Galilee. This was an instruction

from the Lord Jesus himself. So they went to Galilee, to the mountain

which Jesus had appointed for them, right verse seventeen. When they saw him,

when he saw Jesus, Wow, he actually resurrected from the guy.

We saw him kneel on the cross, suffered Bruce, you know, died

on the cross. He is alive. They saw him, They saw him

with their eyes, and these are not just like one person. It's actually

recorded also that it's probably a few hundred people actually saw him visibly with their

eyes. They worshiped him, but some doubted, right they really not really

Jesus not, Yeah, they doubted. Okay. So there's a map here

next light. Yeah, so I shed this map as well last last month.

Right to see the distance between Jerusalem. Jerusalem is at the bottom square.

That's where Jesus was crucified, buried, and risen again. That's Jerusalem,

right, And Jesus called his disciples to meet in Galilee. That's way

out there. The distance is between from here to Malacca, which is about

two hours drive if you walk, we will be probably one day plus,

okay. So they had to journey to Galilee to meet Jesus on a mountain

there, right, because Jesus said, yes, let's gather all together.

And there are people Insalem in Galilee, sorry, people in Galilee there where

most of Jesus' ministry work was done around the area of Galilee, all right.

So that's why Jesus wanted to go there to meet with his disciples who

are all heartbroken, and you know, yeah, he wants to encourage his

people there, right, So he went all the way there, appeared to

them, encouraged them, and this was what it says in verse eighteen you

can change through the next light. And Jesus came and spoke to them,

saying, all authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth.

Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of

the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to

observe all things that I have commanded you. And lo I am with you

always, even to the end of the age. Amen, yes, Amen,

all right, okay, cool? Next, all right, okay,

so sorry this very small, but not is this table I purposely put it?

Really I didn't. I didn't Google search this out of my own study

of a comparison of two spiritual kingdoms, as we can see from this scripture

from verse eleven to verse twenty right. So for the benefit of the audio

recording, I shall read the read the thing, okay, and also for

those who can't really see. Okay, So our method, the you know,

the method of the Kingdom of Heaven and Kingdom of Darkness totally different.

Okay. You can see even in the scripture we have read just now,

the method of you know, seeing the same thing. All of them saw

the same thing. The people of the Kingdom of darkness, and also the

kingdom of those people who are Jesus' enemies, and also Jesus' disciples of friends.

Right, all of them saw the same thing. The resurrected Christ was

the common thing that everyone saw. So the method of sharing this out,

you know, you know, they don't want they want to keep it.

They don't want this message to get our or more people to know, right,

so they try to secretly do something to hide it. Right, it's

secret, you know. Most of the time, I don't know, but

I think most of evil deeds are usually done in secret. Okay, how

do you know? Yeah, sometimes you are wondering, how do I know

certain things? Is uh evil or not? Yeah? So these are some

of the signs you can you can see right from the Bible. So thus

you know these things are done usually evil, and these evil things are usually

done in secret, and usually is of the wisdom of men. So right,

and then for uh, the kingdom of life usually is publicly known.

Right, it's always an we are confident that it can stand public reading,

very important, right, transparency right being real? Right, and it's it's

a wisdom of God. Right, And and you can see later later we'll

study further on the Kingdom of Light. Stuff all right, So the objective

is also very clear of the Kingdom of darkness. All they want to do

is to still kill and destroy, right, And the Kingdom of Light,

the objective is to bring life and more abundantly, okay. And the foundation

of the Kingdom of Darkness is all lies, all right, as you can

see in from verse eleven to verse fifteen. Right, it's very like they

just have to use lies to cover the truth. Right. However, the

Kingdom of Light is of truth, okay. And then the strategy of the

Kingdom of Darkness is usually using the easy way out. They don't want to

do work so hard, easy, easy to make fake news right now,

hear love fake news right, very easy, this type on Facebook, social

media. Everything's so easy now communication to the public, ease of fake news

with bright money. You got money just bribing the you know, easy,

cover everything up, No, nothing done. Whereas the strategy of the Kingdom

of Life is hard work. Okay, it's hard work of discipling and teaching

with God's presence and authority. Right. Sometimes you say hard work, I

don't know what is it of God? Now I'm revealing to us. The

Bible is revealing to us that discipling is hard work and it's a good thing.

It's not bad, it's not bad, it's a good thing. The

hard work of discipling and teaching with God's presence right and authority. Litter will

further study on that. And also the spirit of the Kingdom of Darkness is

death, the event. You know, you can really even read from verse

eleven to fifteen. It's all about one thing Jesus did, you know,

like wanting this truth to not be real and assume that he's still did so.

That's the spirit of the Kingdom of darkness, death and revenge. Whereas

the Kingdom of Light is love, where Jesus even show himself and tell them

that Jesus even displayed love. It wasn't written literally in this scripture, of

this portion of scripture, but you can really see that Jesus loves his disciples.

He went all the way the galley. He loves his people right,

and you can see the spirit of love behind that. And the authority use

two Okay, the Kingdom of darkness use their authority. They have authority,

but they use it to blame. Ay, it's the disciples for lot.

That's why they're gonna steal the body. Right, So that's the authority to

condemn or blame. Right. So every time and we do something, you

know, in our work, sometimes we hear things like that. You know,

try try to discern of that. Okay, if it's of Kingdom of

Darkness, try not to associate with it, okay. But let's try to

promote the Kingdom of Light. Okay, where here the King of Light.

Here authority is used to commission. So in the same time, you know,

Jesus didn't blame anyone of what has happened, but he used that to

encourage and commission his people and trusted his people to bring forth the message of

his resurrection. Is really amazing. He would trust even weak people like us,

amazing. But yet he assure us of his presence that he is with

us. Right next the Kingdom of Darkness. The leadership, the leadership style

of the Kingdom of Darkness is like Lisa, you can see in verse eleven,

verse eleven says in your Bible. In our Bible says here, okay,

some of the God came into the city and reprobably go back to the

yes. So verse eleven. Here you can say, some of the God

came into the city and reported the chief priests. So the god came to

the leaders. This is the style of the Kingdom of Darkness, whereas the

style of the leadership style of the Kingdom of Jesus came the It's a how

do you say, it's an exercise or it's a display of leadership servant whood

or seven leadership. Okay, Jesus is a severn king. He came to

serve right, and all of us here we are encouraged to serve the people.

That's around us, right. He calls us his child. We are

kings and princess queens, prins and kings. You know, we are of

royalty, right, and we are here to serve the people. That's how

Jesus did. He came. He didn't ask the people all the people in

Galilee come, come, come and Jerusalem, come worship me here. And

he didn't say that he went. He came. He came and spoke to

them. Amazing. Jesus is amazing. So I just want to draw some

attention to this. Comparison is very good, right, So I hope you

get encouraged even today. Verse eleven to verse twenty All right, let's continue

to focus on the scripture from verse eighteen to twenty, where the main Jesus

of this message is from all right, So in verse eighteen, it says,

and Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, all authority has been

given to me in heaven and on all authority. All authority means all all

everything has been given to Jesus Christ. You know, all authority. God

the Father has given this authority everything, all authority given to Jesus. Jesus

didn't demanded the son of God didn't demanded from the Father. Hey, I

want this authority. No, it was given to Jesus Christ. That's why

the name of the Lord Jesus Christ is very powerful. That's why the world

is very jealous of this name, and they use it otherwise. Right,

So, as believers of the Lord Jesus Christ, let's remember the power of

this name. This name that can raise the dead, that can heal the

blind, can turn water into why we sang earlier this morning, it can

heal the sick. You know, the name of the Lord Jesus Christ is

powerful, and all of us are you know, all of us who believe

in his name will be able to call on his name. And the Word

of God also says whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.

And this is for all and each one of us. Right, all

authority has been given to me. So let's remember not to you misuse his

name in vain. Very very important. Okay, this truth. I pray

that this truth will really stick with us throughout this week, months and years

ahead. Right, always remember all authority has been given to Jesus Christ in

heaven and on earth. In heaven means spiritual things, right, angels,

you know all authority. Jesus can command the army of angels. Jesus can

even command even the spiritual darkness, even to hold He has the power.

That's why when we speak and we say the name of Jesus, we pray

in the name of Jesus, there is that authority. He has authority in

heaven and on earth also, not just in spiritual world, but also on

earth. On earth, what doesn't mean like the weather to their our life,

our bodies, animals, our creation, anything of creation. Right on

earth, he has the power. He has the authority. So whenever we

pray, we hear a lot of that simone is of pray people, praying

for whether even for myself, praying God, hold the rain, hold the

rain, God, I need to do something. Yes, God will hear

us. This is this is where we get our This is where the scripture

is relevant to us today. Jesus Christ has the power and authority in heaven

and on earth, all right, and we pray for the sick. Whenever

any of our loved ones are sick or going through something, we can pray

in the name of Jesus because he has the authority over heaven and in heaven

and on earth right. Very important, Okay, So this is something that

I want to share with us. Also many times even for cap Packs as

well. Came back testimony. I tell you, ha, Corpack testimony,

I tell you israelly is real. Okay, It's real. I can testify

many times, can say many times when we pray that I always lead my

children to pray in the name of Jesus. Lord, Please help me to

find Corpack in. I see him all so many cars, and sure enough

it will be a perfect spot right in front of the entrance. Man,

God, you can ask my husband every time my driver, I should have

got come power, should go come on, really, power Jesus. Jesus

is great man. He knows our every need. Okay, even to the

smallest of it. Yeah, God is so good. Yeah. Okay.

Next, like verse nineteen, go therefore and make disciples, So Jesus is

speaking to his disciples here up on the mountain of Galilee. Go and make

disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of

the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Okay, go, you see this

word. Go Jesus don't just live his life for himself. Jesus lives his

life for all of us to see to and to follow. So and then

Jesus says, go, he don't expect us to have the world coming to

us. We go, We go as he has went. Right. That's

why we are talking about missions. Go, you know, go for missions,

because this is the command of the Lord. Go, go out go.

Yeah. When we go, we have to go out of our comfort

zone. That's why here Jesus reminds us, go and make disciples. Okay,

go therefore and make disciples of all nations. This is the version of

NKG, the New King James version. I was comparing it with the King

James version because it's probably it's closest to the original script. Right. So

in the King James version you can also check right, go it says in

verse nineteen in the King James version, go ye therefore and teach all nations.

There's no disciples there, right. So I'm like, hey, how

come I why like that? Okay? So I went to study the word

teach, right, and it says in the uh in the in in Greek,

where teach means methi, theos, methi theo, which means I think.

Next like yes, where it means to be a disciple of one,

one that will be receiving the teaching to follow his percepts or instructions. And

the second one is to make disciples, meaning to say one must be taught

and that same person will also teach. That it's called teach. Will you

always not teaching? Only teach? In this case it's not right. This

word is so rich, right, is one to be taught and and the

same person to teach? Ah? So God in and out input, God

output. Okay. So that's why in the new King James version says that

go and make disciples of all nations, right, and so yes, yes,

oh yes, I want to share with us. Also, I was

reading a few versions, a few versions of the Bible here, so that's

not what's King James version, right. I was also reading the amplified version

of this specific yeah sentence all right, this verse right, and it says

there to help the people to learn of me, believe in me, and

obey my words. So this is what it means to make disciples, to

help people, to help the people to learn of me, believe in me,

and obey my words. That's why here in ex Church we have this

mission to help people believe. Y y, that makes sense right now everything

I see the jigsaw puzzle now, yes, okay, the Word of God

says in verse here, in verse nineteen, go and make disciples of all

nations. Why because we are here to be receiving or to be disciples,

and at the same time we help people believe. Right in the amplified version

says here again, help people to learn of me, which is Jesus,

and believe in Jesus and obey his words. Right. So this is what

we are called to do as what ex Church mission is as well, helping

people believe right, Yes, discipleship is also about follow me as I follow

Christ right, so important? Okay, all right, and let's continue.

Yes, and before one before one person can teach, that person must first

receive. We can't teach something we don't know. A very good example is

my husband, Andrew, the Chafferson for today. He loves to bake,

right, and one of the good things that he loves to bait is the

sour dough bread. Okay, So if y'all know baker sour dough bread,

I tell you it's a process that I think he learned it like quite quite

some time. He even googled it. He bought books so expensive, the

book, and he had to practice it. There were many times that he

failed, Yes, many times failure, but he try again, try again,

try another method. Some some failures are meant to teach us that that

is not the way to do it. So it's a good thing, right,

and we try another methods. So that's what Andrew di it. And

he came out with. Oh when he was successful, he was so happy.

He was sharing it with several of us, and I'm sure some of

us had the benefit of just tasting a tower door bread. Wow. So

and not only that he learned it while he was so happy he learned it

already. He actually shared it in my mother in law and he also she

also tried to beaate with it as well. So it's it's just an amazing

journey. I'm sure in every one of our lives as well, we have

we have probably learned something and we were so happy about it, and we

shared it with others as well. Right. So similarly, similarly, when

we study about who Jesus Christ is and when we experience it in our life,

it works, yes, and we share it, we disciple it with

others, we share it, we pass it on, and we you know,

continue to see that multiply. They're experiencing Jesus Christ and it works for

them and they continue to share. So this is what Jesus is trying to

teach us to go and make disciples. Okay, verse twenty, let's continue

on next light, verse twenty, teaching them to observe all things that I

have commanded you, and lo I am with you always even to the end

of the age. By the way, the word low, therefore, young

people, law is not as cerning for anyone, right, not low?

Okay. I was also studying a bit about lowest low English are very okay,

so dictionaritish me. That law means to pay attention, okay, to

the next what it's going to say? Right, bring your attention to what

is next? Right? So very good this one okay, So before that,

teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you observe let's uh

I uh, yes, observe the Greek? Okay, before that, next

light? What's the next? Yes, next light? Observe, right,

observe, observe in uh. This word is calledterial material. It talks about

all things that I have commanded. Okay, material observe observe means to apply

observing his word in our everyday lives. Right. That means to really take

the word of God and apply it and observe it, keep it, and

to watch it. Make sure that we live our everyday lives according to his

word. For example, we here in extrach we really literally take this word

observe very seriously. For example, was sharing the other day, right that

songwriting and even recording of songs is also part of discipleship. We want to

do everything as far as a form of discipleship. So even songwriting, recording,

right, even in serving serving as dream teams. All these forms of

discipleship, we will get to be discipled by those who have been given the

authority to even share and you know, be the best that we can give

God our best right right, and also for example, campus community outreach,

we have to come out of our comfort zone. It's not easy for Christine,

I'm sure, to say no to or to make time to, to

really make time to go for a community. That's discipleship, right, doing

all things to observe God's teaching in our everyday lives. Right, we have

campus revel, recess, revel, revel at work. We talk about this

about bringing the love of Christ to the community around us, keep praying,

listening and obeying what God wants us to do in our in our lives right,

whether is it at home, in our campuses, in our workplaces,

right, campus revel. Even raising up our kids, that's also discipleship.

We have we do this. We disciple our kids right before we disciple our

kids. We are first disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ. Here in the

church, we we we are disciples even having been in the huddle relationship,

being discipled by our leaders. Right. For example, even for myself.

Doctor Jill is my disciple, right, we are in a huddle relationship.

She speaks God's word over me and I also receive it, and I learned

to disciple. Of course my kids as well, not just the girls under

my cat, also my kids. Right. Even as doctor Jill follow Christ,

right, I follow her right. Even as I follow Christ, my

kids follow me or the girls my homies follow me. Right. So this

is how we do it. Okay, next night, Okay, So just

sharing some quotes from our founding senior Pastor Pasta Kenneth Chin, Reverend can Chine.

Okay, I'm gonna quote some of his amazing quotes on discipleship because discipleship

is very, very important, and it's also very close to Pastor Kenneth's heart

and also to act Church. So when we do, it's not just another

program, it's not just another event for just a moment, but a lifestyle.

Literally. I've been with doctor Jill since I first came to a church

in ex church like many when I was first year in my UNI until today.

I have kids already, and you know, she has journying with me.

It's not just two weeks, it's not just one month. It's my

entire life. Right. Discipling is a progress, it's a process, it's

a lifestyle. Right. So just quoting some of the quotes from Reverence,

Chemistry, our foundings in your pasta. It's possible to be a leader without

being a disciple, but it's not possible to be a disciple without being a

leader. Okay. It took me a while to really grasp this chode.

Okay, but you can take a picture and you know, think about it.

It's very true. When I think about it, it's true. You're

right. We can be a leader, a leader, just a normal leader.

It's possible to be not to be a disciple of the Lord Jesus Christ.

We can see that in the world around us, right, But it's

not possible to be a disciple without being a leader. Meaning to say,

yes, when we become a disciple of the Lord Jesus Christ, we we

are thought. We are taught, right, we are taught. Okay,

we're taught the word of God. At the same time, we are meant

to teach others. So when we teach others or disciple others, the person

that we are teaching follow us after us. So that makes us a leader.

It's like not, how do you say? It's not like, yes,

you must be a leader. No, but it's it's it's what it

is right. Because Jesus has called us to go. When we call to

go to make disciples, there is this thing called like a leadership spirit that

is within us that we want to teach, right, teach and the others

follow after. Right? So yes, okay, so think about it,

right, Okay, next night. The success of disciple ship is not just

in what is taught, but what is caught. So so true, very

true. All right. So this is also another of Reverend Kennon's chain,

pasta Kenna chain, we call him. Right, there's this picture of amazing

series. Okay, you guys just gotta catch it on YouTube. You can

have it on his uh you can subscribe to his yes to his uh social

media. Yeah, okay, a lot of good stuff there. Okay.

So yes, whatever that is taught is very important, but whatever is caught

is even more important. That is the success of discipleship. Okay, next

night. Right, And he says this as well. Too many one to

study, too few want to follow. True discipleship is not about knowing more,

It's about doing more. With what you know. Many believers think they

know the basics, too few actually live them. Hah. Okay, this

one says it all way. Everything is everything he said already, right,

so, and even you can see a passa Cana's life. You know,

he is also living it out, not just telling all of us to be

disciples of all nations, but he is literally doing it. And he has

this vision of the decade of legacy that he wants to live his life.

So he's been doing a lot to disciple the next generation, right, amazing.

I am very inspired by Pasacana's life, and I'm sure that this will

inspire you as well. Okay, next, all right, So that's Extrich

doing the first two lines, right, teaching them to observe all things that

I've commanded you, right, and Lo I am with you always. That's

why I mentioned just now right Low, it's not a surname. It's an

English term to draw your attention to the next phrase, that is after Low.

Okay, lo I am with you always, even to the end of

the age. Okay, who is this you? I am with you?

Who is this Jesus Christ? This is the Jesus Christ who has all the

authority in heaven and on earth. Okay, he was given to him.

So we are reminded that this person is with us even as we disciple others,

and we are not alone. Right, A very good analogy. I

like this analogy. Next like, it's like this policeman. Okay, a

bit dark, but I can I really say, yeah, you can see

this policeman. He may be as small as Anderson. Okay, if he

is a policeman. He is a policeman. Authority is given to the policeman

to stop the largest truck ever, or largest vehicle you can ever imagine,

even transformer, you can even stop anyway, a vehicle, okay, vehicle,

and even the most luxurious car. Also, policeman can stop. Correct,

everybody had to stop, and policeman says stop means stop, go means

go. He has the authority. Similarly, all of us are given the

authority as well as Jesus has commissioned all of us go. Right, he

has said go. He is with us. His authority in heaven and on

earth has also been commissioned to us to do what he has called us to

do. Always remember this picture, this policeman with the big truck. Okay,

every time you feel afraid to pray for somebody, remember this picture Policeman

and the big truck. He is with us. He is with us.

Every time when somebody comes against you about the Christian religion, always remember the

policeman and the big drug. Okay. Yes, every time you're facing something

that you know deep in your heart the Holy Spirit is prompting you to do,

whether is it to start a prayer group or to pray for your manager,

to pray for somebody that you feel challenged to pray, but you know

in your heart you need to do it. Remember policeman and the big drug.

Jesus is with you, okay, right, the resurrector Christ is with

you. Very good, Okay. Today's message very short only okay. Next

life you're ending already, Okay, take a one point there. You can

take pictures of this like this is taken on point, meditating on it over

the week. Right. This is the call to discipleship, exchange. This

is the call to discipleship because the time of famine is coming soon. Time

of famine means a time of the lack of the Word of God is coming

soon. The famine is coming soon, and this is the time of plenty,

and we are really one thing, all of us to glean to to

really store every good thing that you hear every Sunday today at homes, even

in your quiet time story within your heart because the time of famine is coming

soon. And also a call to a deeper learning, you know, discipleship.

Discipleship is not just about teaching, but it's also about learning. Right.

Remember he said the person needs to learn fir us before it can teach,

right, And this learning is probably not going to be in a classroom,

is probably going to be one that is deeper in a way where we

observe the living, observed living, like how doctor J and I have been

doing this discipleship, right, I observe it's a learning process, a it's

a lifestyle. It's no longer in a classroom anymore. Right, it's a

call to a deeper learning discipleship so that we can be storehouses in times of

famine. Don't wait until famine come. Oh no, my storehouse is empty.

What am I gonna do? I want to go to other storehouse to

grab Oh maybe they all don't may not have enough for themselves. Oh what

about my storehouse? Yes, so now is the time I've been hearing a

lot of these warnings that has been called, has been prophesied over the church

over Malaysia, that famine is coming soon. Church, so please take it

seriously. Really, let's get into a discipleship relationship. So the way is

to be in a serious discipleship relationship in the church, especially here in ex

Church, where we really take discipleship very seriously and we literally live it out.

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