Promotion Comes From The Lord | Pr Jack Ling

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

will light up your day. I'm going to a book of Psalms today,

Psalms chapter seventy five, Psalm chapter seventy five, all right, and it's

about promotion. It's about promotion, all right. Because I was just praying,

you know, and say, God, what do you want me to

speak, you know, this week? And I kept getting this word,

you know, promotion comes from the Lord. Promotion comes from the Lord?

Anyone heard this before? Yeah? So then I also thought like, is

this really from the Bible or is it one of those words that you know,

people make up, you know, like stuff like, for example,

God helps those who helps themselves. Anyone heard that? For God helps those

who help themself. It's not in the Bible. Theys not in a Bible,

all right? So so this was ok, yeah, who made this

up? Right? And then I started to search and study, and then

I realized that the exact words, you know, I mean in my Bible,

I mean, the version I have it doesn't say those words Promotion comes

from the Lord. Doesn't have those exact words. But in a way,

it is true. Promotion does come from God. All right, so let's

see how it's a said all right in Psalm seventy five. Now, so

I just sorted to talk about promotion for a while. Okay, promotion.

So when you talk about promotion, you kind of I mean, in these

days, if we understand it as like, you know, you're in a

job, you get promoted, you know, maybe a new position that comes

to an extra perks or you know benefit, something like that. Promotion one

now you're a manager or something, right or supervisor you become you know,

you get a new position. All right. So yeah, but I guess

promotion, how we can think of it is is like the next level,

the next level a form of success, right. Yeah. And so but

when I think about promotion from the Bible, we can think of a few

names, right, So I thought of Joseph, Right, Joseph he got

a dream, right, and he was going to be that he was going

to be this guy over the brothers, and the brothers didn't like him,

beat him up, threw him, sold him off. Then he read a

jail you know, long story short, you know, way to jail because

of some accusation. And so now like hey, like where's what happened to

my dream. But eventually he got promoted to be the leader of Egypt,

right, I mean just under Pharaoh. So that's promotion, and promotion comes

with a lot of work, doesn't it. So now, yeah, promoted,

but he has a long work to do, right, Okay, although

he didn't work his way, he didn't work his way to be promoted,

right, contrary to many of our own popular belief we've got to work our

way up to the you know, up the ladder to be promoted. But

then this guy didn't even right, he wasn't working in a sense to his

way up. It was supernatural, right, God put him in the position

because God prepared him. But yes, there was preparation, and so then

he was a leader. So there's one promotion I can think of. The

other promotion I can think of is king David, King David, right,

shepherd boy, right, it's just a kid. All of a sudden,

some prophet comes to him and says he's going to be king, just this

kid right now. Of course he you know, had some times, I

had some time before he became a king. So he also went through preparation.

But there's a promotion right from shepherd boy to king that's definitely promotion.

Uh. And of course one more person that I can think of is Daniel,

Daniel, and uh, you know, we will talking about Daniel because

it's from the book of Daniel that we get heaven rules. Amen. Uh.

And uh so in chapter two of Daniel, Uh, I think it

was the time when uh, you know, Shaderick Micheg and a bet Nigo

was also there and so Daniel I was just reading it basically he yeah,

it was the interpretation of the dream. So the king had a dream.

And the king called the wise man who was you know, all these big

time people, and said, tell tell me the dream, tell me it.

Interpret my dream. But he didn't tell the dream. He said,

interpret the dream. But I didn't tell the dream. And so the wise

guys were like, okay, okay, tell us the dream, then we

can interpret. And the king said like, no, you tell me what

dream I had and like, oh, it's scary. If not, you're

all dead. Wow. So he was really serious, you know about that,

And so they back and forth with him, and so still say no,

no, no, it's very difficult what you're asking. You know,

you you you, of course you have to tell us the dream. For

us, then we can give you interpretation, all right. And so in

the end, you know, Daniel was the one who was able to share

the dream because he said, you know, okay, give me some time,

let me pray, and then God revealed to him the dream, and

so he was able to tell the king what dream he had and also interpret

it. Let me tell you that it is supernatural, amen, that is

that's really heaven. Heaven rules, amen. So he was able to do

that, and so he also saved the people from being killed the wise men,

you know, and I want to say, you know, that's what

we all can do as well. Will save many lives as you allow Heaven

to rule in our lives, do the impossible, you know, be able

to tell people's stuff that you're not supposed to be able to say. But

it's not your strength. It's God, a man who will give you and

reveal to you. And then he interpreted. And you know what, at

the end of chapter two, it says that Daniel got a promotion and right

to take a higher office. And you know what, Daniel was not selfish.

He said, hey, don't just give me a promotion, give my

friends a promotion to shared Michig and a batany goo, and they all got

promotions. All right, So again, this promotion comes from God. I

want us all to remember that because you know, the world tells us many

different things about getting promotion. The world tells us any different things about getting

a pay raise, you know, about getting a better position. But let's

understand this, it comes from God. I'm not saying you can't self promote

in a way meaning people can do self promotion, but your self promotion I

don't think it will last. It may not last because then you have to

sustain your self promotion with your own strength, which is very tiring. All

right, let God do the promotion because he knows the time that you should

be promoted. If you're not promoted yet, be patient, maybe because God

still wants you to learn something that's something you have not learned yet. And

he's saying, wait, son, wait, daughter, I want you to

learn this thing. You gotta learn this. I'm teaching you something, so

don't rush it. But the time will come. I will give you the

promotion because I know that you're ready for it. Amen. Amen, Now

let's let's again into it. I'm going to hit a little bit ready,

but now Psalm seventy five. Let's look at how chapter seventy five talks about

promotion. So, okay, this is a song written by this guy called

Asaf. Asaf all right, he was the songwriter in that time, all

right. And you know, I'm learning a lot even from songwriters or the

Bible. They don't simply use words just to rhyme, just to sound cool

and trendy, just to have a beat, you know, a rhythm and

make it sound cool. And for the gen z, you know, for

the gen z. Right, it's not just to be relevant, you know.

But they're speaking the truth and the word of God as they write the

songs. They're not just trying to write stuff for fun and creativity. It

is to speak truth, all right. So let's see how they write songs.

And so songwriters in the house let's learn from this as well, any

songwriters in the house. Okay, man, me too, I try okay,

all right, all right, all right, here we go Verse one.

We give thanks to You or God, We give thanks for your name

is near. We recount your wondrous deeds. So we pause here for a

while. Let's look at some of the words highlighted here give thanks. So

he starts here with this af is saying. And you know it's interesting.

He writes it, we give thanks. He's writing for the congregation to sing

this song, and he wants everyone to remember that we need to start with

giving thanks, all right. And it's not just giving thanks, not just

being thankful because you're thankful to what, thankful to who? Right, it's

thankful to God, giving thanks to God for what see in our world.

We give thanks to people, we say thanks when they've done something for us,

all right, But this is not the case. It says, here,

give thanks for your name is near. I thank you Lord, just

because you are here with me. I thank you Lord because of your presence

in my life. How many of us here have been thankful for that before?

Thank you Lord that you are God with us. Thank you Lord that

you are with me. You know why, because many other under people who

understand God, they understand God as someone who is far away. He's somewhere

up there, his house is there, somewhere. He doesn't want to come

and touch us because you know, we're unworthy, and we've got to shout

and cry out really loud for God to hear us. That's the majority of

people who understand God that he's not near you. He's not watching you all

the time. He's just far somewhere up there. And that's why people fall

into sin easily, because they don't think God is there looking at what you're

doing, all right, just like what person were sharing last week, right,

God is just there whatever you're doing, whatever you're going through his days,

he actually sees it all all right. And we're thinking we can hide

from him, but no, God is near. And so instead of being

afraid that God is near, we should be thankful that God is near because

he's not here to catch everything you do. He knows really what you're doing

and what you're going to do. But and he loves you. He loves

us. That's the best thing about our God. He loves us. And

so even if he's near, even though he has all the power to destroy

and judge us, he's merciful and he loves us. So that's beautiful.

And man, I thank you Lord that you are merciful. So thank God

for his presence that is here with us. Amen. He's a God who's

near, not like other you know how other people understand God who's far away,

who's distant. He's not here with us. But our God is near,

and of course we remember his deeds. So we move on the next

light and the next light says here. So the first secret for promotion.

You want promotion? Who wants to be promoted? Who wants to be the

next level? Yeah? Be honest. Yeah, even business people can be

promoted, all right. Your business can be promoted, promoted to many people,

so they come, people will come and buy your stuff. Promoted to

the next level, all right, of your business, one shop to the

next shop to the right. You're doing business, all right? You want

promotion? First secret is to be thankful, and not just thankful, but

thankful to God. And not only just I mean not just thankful to Up,

but because thank God that he's near, not because of just the things

that he do, but because he's with you. His presence is here.

Amen, for who he is. And then of course we remember what he

has done, all right. When we remember what God has done, uh,

then we remember who he is. All right. He has provided,

He has healed us, He has saved us from our sin. He has

he has given us so much mercy, all right and grace. He's given

us his Holy spirit. Amen. He has died on the cross for us,

his son Jesus. So we're thankful to God. So the first secret

you want promotion, first thing, let's be thankful. Let's be thankful to

God. Okay, let me talk about thankfulness a little bit. So because

you know, a lot of things are are not right? Lie, all

right, there a lot of a lot of things that that we can complain

about. Right. You can complain about church, you can complain about work.

How many of you you have a lot of things to complain about your

work. I didn't say your complaining and you have a lot. You're like,

ah, there's so much things to complain about your work, about school,

about your college. I only hear your college. You have a lot

of things to complain h whoa so good? H Wow? Whoa holding back?

Uh? Yeah, obviously I know. So I go to your college

and I know what to complain. Right. How do you have a lot

of complain about our country? God? Ah, God, your country?

Huh? Those who are not from this country, you've got things to complain

about, Yes, for sure, came up pretty. There's a lot of

things right that is not right right and can go wrong. But you know

the cure, or rather the counter to complaints is being thankful. When you're

thankful, it's very hard to complain. Right, When you're thankful, it's

hard to complain. I thank you Lord that I can even study this course.

Not the best cost, but I'm studying a course. Other people,

the many people who want to study, they're not study, they're not able

to study. We are here. There's enough money to pay for that cost.

You know, it's very expensive to pay for university nowadays. Right.

I'm worried now in a way my kids growing up, how to send them,

you know, But you know, God is good. There's so many

things to complain, right, you know, the job that you're doing now,

Yes, a lot of things complain your colleagues. I wish I had

angels for my colleague, right, but obviously not right. But thank God

I have a job. Thank God I'm working. Thank God my boss is

paying me all right, So I mean, I mean, I'm sure there

are some things that are not you know, maybe your boss paying you late

or not paying you. I don't know, all right, No one,

you you you you can. I pray that you know God will lead you

and have wisdom. But being thankful will help you to control the complaints.

Amen, So secret number one is that. And you know, and when

you're thankful, when you're when you when you cut down your complaints, you're

happier, You're happier, go to work happier. You know. I mean,

as a person who is in leadership in a workplace, when I see

a person coming in and they're they're smiling a bit more, I want to

raise their pay, you know, I feel I want to give them more

more position, you know, I want I can trust them. But you

come in and then you're suspicious and I and I then when you're going side

with your colleague, like boss, you know, like I can I can

hear all these things. You know, I can see, I can read

you know, your boss can read you. They're reading you all the time.

Okay you thought they don't know? Okay, right, so huh your

promotion your boss? You all right, you're you're happy, you're not complaining.

When you're not complaining, you know, it's easier to talk to your

boss. When you're complaining about a person. It's hard to talk about to

that person. Ah, you say so much bout your boss really are when

you see the persona your face will be like yeah, what they say about

you, like boss, and your trust is gone. But when you when

your complain is controlled and you're thankful, you're happy, you come to your

boss clean, you know, like, hey, boss, how are you?

You know? You actually care? And a boss they are human as

well. Okay they will see right, Bosses in the house. Bosses in

the house, those who are yeah right, yeah right, all right,

they're human is all. They also got alive. They're also going through stuff.

Okay, all right, come, let's move on next. At the

sad time that I appoint, I will judge with equity. Right when the

earth totters and all the inhabitants, it is I who keeps steady. It's

pillars, right, a few words I highlighted there a point equity keep steady.

Now, it is God who set the time, like I said earlier.

He knows when you're ready. He knows when you're prepared, all right,

and he will give it to you. He appoints it, and then

it's fair equity. Right. He knows what you can handle, like I

said, if you're not there yet, maybe he allows it so that there's

something for you to be trained on, to be learned, to be learning

for now, because when the thing suddenly comes at you, you may not

be able to handle it and you might explode instead. All right, so

allow God. Trust God for his timing. Look at Joseph, he was

in jail, he was sold to slavery. Really looks like a nightmare.

You know, measure yourself being in that situation. You would have given up

all hope. I thought I had a dream I'm supposed to be this,

this, and that. Suddenly I'm in his slave, Suddenly I'm in prison.

It's hard. It's hard to hope. But let's think about that.

You see, God has planned it all from start to end and her points.

And then the time will come. Your promotion will come. Come.

Tell your neighbor that your promotion will come, will come. Trust God,

Trust God. Right, the promotion will come. Hey, the promotion may

not be in the form of what you expected it la Maybe it's not the

position you wanted. Lae, all right. Maybe God wants you to go

full time be a pastor. Then promotion, Lae, all right, I'm

talking about to also, like you know, something ministry or so we want

you know, we want this, we want that for ministry. But God

alsho knows that where your heart is and how he wants to promote you.

Amen, hallelujah. All right, and then keep steady. What does this

mean? So let's go to the slights. Okay. Secret number two got

the points at the right time his time. Amen. Amen. All right,

hey amen, is he's still good at in this church? Amen?

Yes, it's for you to speak to your spirit when you say amen,

say yes you know, spirit man. The flesh doesn't like what I'm hearing,

but the spirit man. Amen. All right, that's what we're doing

here. Hallelujah. Yeah, yeah, Okay. Through difficult changes, he

holds it together, meaning you know when you are appointed and when you when

you are appointed to the next level. Mengine Joseph getting Prime minister. You

think it was quite scary, scary suddenly you're this guy who has to manage

everything. You think about it right, all the work that you need to

do, it can get to you. But through the difficult changes, that's

what the verse is saying here, he holds it together. He will help

you get through it. Right. So if you are when you are promoted,

it may be a bigger thing. He will help you go through the

changes and hold it together. He keeps it steady. He is the one

who keeps it steady. Amen, So continue to trust him to help you

get through when the promotion comes. Amen. Okay, we move on right

now, we're gonna do it. Verse two the five right. But verse

four here I say to the boastful, do not boast, and to the

wicked, do not lift up your horn. Do not lift up your horn

on high or speak with haughty neck. Some of your version will say stiff

necked, stiff neck. You've heard that before, stiff neck people. Sometimes

is the Israelites I called the stiff necked people. But what does that mean?

The ixt thing of stiff neck I think of, you know, the

times you wake up wrongly, you lie on and a very painful That's like

I have a stiff muscle. But that's not really what it means. Okay.

I always thought it was that. I thought it was like a painful,

you know, pain in the neck. I thought God is saying you're

a in the neck. But then I learned it up a little bit.

Oh, okay, I understand this a bit more. It means, you

know, like an animal that's supposed to follow the farmer right, but it

doesn't want to follow so it pulls back with a stiff neck, you know,

pull back, and then the farmer has come, come, and it's

like, no, I want to go the other way. That's a stiff

neck. So stubbornness and not wanting to follow, that's what it means.

Okay, So anyway we move on, We move on. Okay, So

just a secret number one, secret number two. Then warning now is warning?

Okay, warning number one to the boastful? What is that? Okay?

What is boastful? When we are boastful, we boast about what we

have. We boast about what's great about ourselves. That is what the world

does, right from promotion. Boast about your achievements. This is what I

studied. WHOA. So should you still study? Yes, study, but

your study has a different purpose. It is not to do self promotion.

Okay, study because you need to learn. You're learning. But when you

try to achieve this and that for self promotion, that's another story. All

right. So the Bible wants us don't boast about how clever you are.

Don't boast about your skills. Right, We're not looking down on skills.

Please get all the skills you need, please do right. We need to

be skilled people to be able to serve God. You need to be skilled

to be able to help other people, all right, So please be skilled.

Be a good whatever, a lawyer, debate, whatever, all the

skill that you need. Be a good you know, good in your house

work, right, cooking your art, okay, be a good doctor,

be good whatever. Okay, be good skills. But it's not for you

to boast. Tell your neighbor, not for you to boast. Okay,

right. I remember I was speaking the last time, and I was talking

about the pharisees, that some of the Pharisees are pharisees because of their education,

because they learn the law of God, and so they use that and

go like, now I'm a qualified pharisee, so I can have I have

all my papers, I've studied the Bible and everything, and so therefore I

should be a pharisee. So this is the danger, I know, can

be a little bit of a what's the word controversial because many leaders and pastors,

right, and I also thought that we did one time, that we

should have our Bible study degree. Then I'm qualified to be a pastor,

qualified to be a pastor. Who qualifies that, who qualifies that does God,

ask for a Bible degree, paper, show me, show me then,

only then you can be pastor. It's not God, no, it

is man who looks for it. It's man who looks for papers and degrees

and achievements. I'm not saying don't go to the Bible school. Please study

your Bible. Right, you can study your Bible. Bibusch who helps you

study the Bible? All right? But that's the thing in the Pharisees were

scholars, supposedly, and they posted of their achievements to be a Pharisee,

right, Jesus had no. I don't think he did any formal education in

the sense of a you know, the law school, all right, So

then should he be then should he be then the leader? Right? So

achievements, skills, it's all there for you to learn. Please study,

please, you know, work hard, study well and get your a's.

Okay, But it's not for us to boast. Amen, it's not for

us to boast. And uh now next morning, first warning, don't boast

of your achievements. Move on oneing number two to the wicked, those who

are hostile to God. Wickedness means those who are against God. All right,

how are we against God? How are people against God? You know,

it's actually as simple as this. When we don't believe, when we

don't believe, that is the beginning of going against God. All right.

It doesn't have to be It doesn't have to look like a person pointing a

gun at God and shouting and you know, showing an angry face at God.

It starts with I don't believe. I don't believe in what is this?

You know, the Bible says, I don't believe in what God says.

So I'm gonna do my own thing, all right, and this includes

Christians is in it, all right. Where we don't trust, that we

don't believe, is the beginning of turning away. And that's hostility to God,

all right, because when we keep going that way, then we'll get

into anger. Then we'll get into you know, why, God, you

do this. I don't trust you, I don't believe, I doubt because

you have done this to me. Wow, Suddenly you're blaming God. Suddenly

you're saying it's God's fault. And so from one small little unbelief it can

turn into now now God, you have done this to me. Now it

goes into blame, right, It can turn to that. What I'm saying

is, watch it, all right, be careful. Hostility to God?

Is it begins from unbelief? Amen? So let's not be wicked, all

right, Let's not be wicked and go against God, against his word.

Let's obey his word instead. Amen. Okay, only number three those who

rebel against God. Okay. The raising of the horns, right, it

says that if you're still in your Bible, Chapter twenty five, verse what

is this? Is it? Verse four four? Verse four that says this,

all right? Raising of horns? What is that? The horn represents

strength? You know, the horns of the bull they use. Have you

seen those videos are the lion versus the bullwoe? Love? Those videos are

right, lion versus the bull. Wow, you're thinking that's it, Like

the lion always win. But you know the bull when he goes down like

that with his horns, the lion runs, you know, And I've seen

those, you know, some videos of the bull chasing the lion and actually

goring them. Okay, so the lines are actually really careful with bulls and

their horns is a very powerful weapon. And so the horn represents strength.

But this one raising their horn up high is saying it's against God, you

know, saying to God, we have strength, we don't need you.

We have strength, we can come against you. It's rebelling against God,

all right. So when we boast of our strength, when we you know,

rely on our own strength instead of God, we are saying God,

I don't need you. I can rely on myself. I can self promote

and I can get there myself. All right. Of course it can work,

it can. I'm not saying it can't work because a lot of people

who have gotten there by self self strength. You know, some people say

it's I'm a self made man. Right, I did it. There's a

song I did it my way sounds. I love that song, A nice

tune, nice tune. But every time I hear it go, we shouldn't

do it our way? Right, okay, Sartah, So you love that

song. It's a nice tune. There's a nice tune, nice voice,

Frank Sinatra. Ah. But anyway, doing it away saying I'm a seb

met man, I own success. That's that's showing God, you know,

God, I don't need you. Next, raising of hants, I see

right, Raising up the haunts is raising up the head you know, okay,

moving on morning number four, those who are arrogant towards God and people

what I uh mentioned earlier, stiff necked? All right, So especially we're

talking about arrogance towards God's stubbornness towards God. When God tells us something,

all right, When God instructs us, do we follow or does he have

to keep pulling us and goes like come and you're like, no, give

me, I want to go this way? The stiff neck right there?

There you go? All right? So are we stubborn? Are we arrogant

to what God is saying to us? All right? We hear the theme

Heaven rules towards the finishing line, all right? Twenty twenty four, So

that all may know that's the word. All right. The Lord wants us

to share the good news to many more people. Are we going to follow

his instructions to make disciples of all nations? It's not just a pretty word

in the Bible. It's actually God's instruction to us make disciples, make disciples,

all right. Don't worry. Some of us are like, actually,

I don't know what that means. Actually, how do we make disciples?

That's a good place you're you're asking ask the question, how do I make

disciples? How can I make disciples? How can I share the good news

some more to one more person today? Good to ask the question and think

about it, all right. Don't say that's not for me, that's for

someone else to do. It's for all of us who believe in Jesus,

who believe in the world of God, the Bible, everyone who believes.

Instead of unbelief, instead of going against, we actually need to obey.

We need to follow. Amen. So let's not pull back, all right,

and God, have you pull your neck, But let's go with our

shepherd. Let's go with our shepherd. He's a good chef. But tell

your neighbor he's good. He's good. God is good. He loves us

a man, and that's why it's worth following him. It's easy to follow

him actually, because he loves us, and we can always turn back to

that love, and we can always go cry out to God when we feel

difficult, cry out to him, call out to him. He will comfort

us. All right. Yesterday we heard it aldo quite interesting another pingle say

the Holy Spirit is our comforter. But when we follow him, it's not

comfortable. Yeah right, all for all of us here, all believe us

the Holy Spirit is a comforter. But when we follow him, it's not

comfortable, all right. He's not here to make us comfortable. But when

we go through hard times, he's our comforter. Amen, Harlee lujah.

All right, moving on, So four warnings there. Then we go back

to six and seven. For not from the east or from the west,

and not from the wilderness comes lifting up. Okay, there's another word.

Maybe some of your Bible say promotion, all right, lifting up. But

it is God who executes judgment, putting down one and lifting up another.

So that's where it comes from. Lifting up means promotion, all right.

God promotes this way, and then he also demotes putting down. He also

puts down those who are not well that he plans for, all right.

In his plan, he's the one who plans it. Who goes down,

who goes up, He is the judge. All right. So let's let's

break it down a little bit. What is this not from the east,

west, all wilderness, But it is God who executes putting down and lifting

up. Next slide here, So secret number three. Promotion does not come

from looking to people all right, what does that mean? East and west

is looking to the left and the right and the people at that time,

you know, the people of God at the time. They sometimes look to

the countries or the people who was in the east for help, and sometimes

they look to the people in the west for help. And that means they're

they're depending on human strength, right, instead of seeking God. When they're

in trouble, they sometimes said, can you help me, neighbor? Hey,

can you help me neighbor? All right, nothing wrong with getting help

from neighbor. But the problem is their neighbors don't follow God. Ah.

That's where it becomes problems. Their neighbors worshiped other gods, all right,

uh, and and there they don't they don't trust in God are God?

And so it became like, now I'm looking for help from this person and

that person. And so listen, your promotion will not come from you looking

to people. Right. If you think you can buy more lunch for your

boss to help you get promotion, don't depend on that. Please do buy

lunch for your boss. It's okay, nothing wrong with that, but don't

because you want promotion you buy lunch. Ah, that's bribe. It's called

bribes. Okay, So it's okay. You can always be kind to people,

all right, but don't use it for your promotion, all right.

So you have to be clear in your heart because when you do that,

it's very obvious when you're buying just because your promotion. Then you don't get

promotion, and you stop right that you're angry. You know the lunch I

bought? Now, why do you give me promotion? Okay? The boss

didn't even know that you were doing that. Okay, So so all right,

not by looking to people, not by getting human help that you get

promotion, all right. You don't get success from depending on human help.

Okay, It's okay. When you have problem, you can get help,

definitely. I'm not saying you can't get help, But don't depend on humans,

but depend on God for your success. Okay. Now moving on,

but number four, it's not surprising when promotion comes. All right. I'm

taking this from the word wilderness. Okay, it's not from the wilderness out

of nowhere, right, So you know what I mean by this is if

you are surprised that promotion came, then maybe you shouldn't take that promotion because

you're totally not ready for it. Okay, but it's not surprising when you

are given a promotion because you know you've been you've been you've been doing the

work. You know, you've been trusting God, and so when it comes

you're ready for it. I mean, maybe you're not fully ready, you're

like you're still going like, oh now there's more work, but I'll take

it up. There's faith, there's faith to be able to go forth and

take it on. So right, huh, think about that when when suddenly

a promotion comes to you are super shocked, bright, maybe you should maybe

maybe I shouldn't take it up because you're totally not ready for it. But

if you have the faith to be able to take it up, you know

God, you've been praying, and God gives it to you, then by

faith, do it, don't do it by fear. Amen. So moving

on. Number five, Promotion and emotion comes from God. So promotion comes

from God. That's what we've been talking about. Promotion comes from the Lord.

Don't trust anyone else to be able to give you promotion, but trust

God alone. He's the one who gives us success. Look to him and

he will help us. Amen. Now anymore? All right? For in

the head of the Lord. There is a cup with foaming wine, well

mixed, and he pours out from it, and all the wicked of the

earth shall drain it down to the dregs. Interesting verse this one, all

right, what does it mean? So I highlighted the words there foaming wine.

Okay, I'm not gonna agree your wines are so I don't know what

fully like, how how wine foams? Okay, but it's well mixed,

okay, and all the wicked of the earth shall drain it down to the

dregs. What is dregs? So I had to look at the dictionary.

Bit dregs means the bottom of the wine until the end of the wine,

the remainder, so that the will be drunk until the bottom finish the draw

and dried up okay, meaning the punishment the Lord has prepared for the wicked

ones. All right. So this is what goes back to vengeance belongs to

God. So you don't have to worry if you've been mistreated, all right,

you've been treated wickedly. Don't take your own revenge. God has prepared

this for the enemy, all right, for those who have been against him,

who have been wicked all right. He has given a lot of chances

and they don't turn. God has a well prepared foaming cup of wine to

be poured out, and he will make sure it is until the end of

it. He will they will drink it. Okay, right, right,

Okay, why speak like that because some of us are so angry with some

people who have offended you, attacked you. But please, you know,

let that go, forgive because it's not your job to take revenge. It's

not your job to punish and judge because your judgment is not good enough.

Your punishment is not good. God's punishment will be the ultimate one. So

let it. Let God do it. Amen? So why why? Because

for me when I when I read this, I can have peace. I

don't have to worry about the part of taking doing punishment on people because I

know God will do that. He is the one and he's the one who

can, who's able to uh, He's the one qualified in a sense to

do that. Amen. Now we move on. Now you see what is

the so final warning. God has prepared the ultimate judgment for the wicked,

so we don't have to worry about that. Okay, we can have peace

and they will be forced to drink it all down to the dregs. That's

what it means. And then final the final secret. All right, this

is the last part. Okay, everyone doing okay, is the last part

of chapter seventy five. But I will declare it forever. I will sing

praises to the God of Jacob. All the haunts of the wicked I will

cut off, but the haunts of the righteous shall be lifted up. Okay,

So the few words there declare forever, sing praises wicked I will cut

off and righteous shall be lifted up. What does that mean? So the

final secret is be faithful to God. Let's be faithful to God, it

says, declare forever. What does that mean when you declare God and his

goodness? Is it just for one day? It's not just one day,

It's not just Sunday. It is not just until I'm forty, but forever,

meaning this person is faithful. I always declare about God. I always

declare God's goodness when I was young, when I was in the middle,

and when I'm old, I continue to declare. Okay, can you imagine

pass Julian leading worship still at seventy five eighty here? Yeah, of course,

he himself can imagine that, yeah, one hundred maybe whoa still there?

Okay, maybe doing other things now, but you know, still worshiping

God, still declaring, you know, can you can you imagine yourself doing

that? How many of us declare forever? Until you reach heaven, you're

still declaring, right, because that's where we ultimately still continue to declare God's

goodness and who he is. Give glory to God, all right, Give

glory to God for all that, all the achievements, all the success that

you get, all the a's that you get. B us Okay, all

right, see you're so still okay, all right, give glory to God.

Thank you Lord. I gotta see all right, Thank you Lord.

I passed, Thank you Lord. I failed. It's okay. I will

learn from this. It's okay, all right, I will learn from this.

Right, don't be so depressed. Don't put yourself down because you fail

because you know, or pick yourself up line, you know, look to

God, let him pick you up and trust him and say, God,

I humble myself. Sorry, I failed. I need to learn something here,

all right, and give glory to him. Be faithful, Give glory

the wicked who exhalt themselves will be put to shame, right, the wicked

meaning those who have promoted themselves, those who are promoted themselves. You know,

many times when you promote yourself, there's a lot of things that are

also controversial, right when you promote yourself. It's kind of like like,

for example, you know when I when I write songs, I write write

songs that we want to record it. Then when it comes the time to

you know, where we have to choose the vocalist. Choose the vocalist.

That's like the main guy, isn't it the main vocalist? And many times

I wrote the song and I want to choose myself. I want to sing

this song. I want to be the singer of this song. And so

when it's recorded, everybody hears me and I get famous. That's the natural

thinking, you know, flashly thinking I know one of the songs I'm singing.

But okay, but that's natural. But that's the self promotion, all

right. But not to say that if I do it is I'm always self

promoting that okay, all right? At that time there was no one else

I saw. I sang it like you. But I always try to think

who can I put on as the vocalist, all right, to sing this

song, to carry the song, to bring them the meaning of the song.

Well, so we don't sim please choose anyone or so just okay,

just give a chance to someone to sing the song. No, no,

we try to put a person who you know, it's difficult to choose a

singer for a worship song because because we are thinking like will this person still

be around in like five years time or in ten just stuff like suddenly the

person backslide or or you know, like angry or whatever suddenly then you know,

and and scenes or falls in cine whatever, and then you're like and

the song is there in Spotify and you're hearing the voice like okay. So

there are some processors that go to our mind where we go like who is

going to carry the song? Right? It's not easy, it's not easy,

all right, So we pray we always get the right we always make

the right choice. But anyway, what I'm saying is this, whenever I

do that self promote, it feels a bit like, ah, should I

be doing this? All right? There's some kind of a conviction, you

know, telling you, hey, don't don't self promote, don't self promote.

It actually looks bad. It looks bad on you to self promote,

especially when you're a bustard. Right, you have the same feeling right when

you do self promotion, kind of like strange, right, But when you

promote someone else, when you talk and compliment, someone else feels better.

All right. So yeah, I think there's a reason for it because I

think we were made not to promote ourselves. We were made to allow God

to promote us, right, and we promote God. We promote God right

and allow him to promote us. So the same thing here. The wicked,

who exalt themselves will be put to shame, the righteous will be exalted.

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