Work While It's Day - Toward the Finishing Line | Pr Jack Ling

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

will light up your day. We just had youth camp, right right,

those who were youth camp make some noise, Yeah, are right, still

excited? All right, that's good. I was there as well. I

didn't stay, but I was there, you know, a few days to

join the messages play. Actually we were there while they were playing games as

well. I didn't really play the games. But it was fun, funny

and fun. Okay uh, and thank you young people for being part of

that. It's history making because we've never really done a youth camp like that

before. It's always been separate, a teen's camp and then a campus students

camp. But this campus student and teens joining together. We call it the

youth all right, and so much power in there. Thank you for making

history by doing that, young people. Yeah. I was there and I

observed, and it was and I hear feedback, you know, and I

know that some of them said it was different. It's a different kind of

youth camp. Why because there was It was not focused on hype, right,

it was not focused on hype, you know, because typically stereo,

the stereotype is that young people are looking for like lights and sound and cool

stuff and music. But I think it wasn't. I think they really tried

that, but it didn't really, it didn't go that way. Uh.

And but the Holy Spirit led and it was like calls, you know,

calls to make decisions. And so there was I think the salvation call to

follow Jesus, and many responded, Praise God, hallelujah. Yeah, because

young people, you know, you know, giving their lives to Jesus is

a good first step. And then there was also the call for the baptism

of the Holy Spirit. Amen, all right and uh and I believe there

were many who responded as well. And then there was a final day.

I wasn't there at the time, by soft photos. It was a call

to serve God full time, and people also responded. So there's amazing Amen,

really good and it's it's a good start. Everyone say, good start,

good start. Why because there's a lot of work to do after that.

You know. The good start is you know, I said, I

want to buy a car. Good start, good start, and then you

put down the dumb payment. What that's a good good start? After that?

After that, what comes after that? You're like learning to drive the

car, you're driving, you're doing, you're using the car. Maintainance comes

in, right, there's money, there's pump patrol, there's all kinds of

things that comes after you bought the car. So first step follow Jesus,

yay. Second step Baptist, Holy Spirit, hallelujah. Then some say I

want to full time serve Jesus. Amazing. Then after that, after that

what comes? Okay, So we've got to be ready for that. And

I want to tell you, you know, everyone here, this is not

just for the young people, right, I'm just using the youth came as

a example. We we I'm not here to say, you know, it's

now a lot of work and you're on your own. You know, you're

on your own and you got to work. And it's not that we're here

together. We're doing this together. We're not maintaining the cow on on our

own. Everyone is doing it together. So we have people. Thank God

for the church, right, for the Body of Christ. We can come

together to do this and serve one another, you know, as we serve

God. So that is the amazing part about being part of the church,

the community, the family. Amen. Many people out there, they are

on their own they're on their own. They're doing on their own. They're

they're going through life and their own, their surviving on their own, and

it's it's lonely sometimes, you know, it's lonely, and there's no brothers

and sisters to come and uh support and help and pray together. So in

the church, we thank God for that Jesus has established that that we are

one body. Everyone say, one body, one body. So praise God

for this amazing thing that the Lord has done for us. And we want

to invite more to join and to be part of this, all right,

because they need they need uh that help, they need to support, all

right, uh, and and they need Jesus. So let's continue to focus

and remember this a man. So I was talking about the youth camp.

I want to tell you a little bit more about what I've been hearing,

right Why why I say there's work to do. It's work to do,

and we do it together. So give you example. I have the privilege

of, you know, I'm in Victory Academy right having opened there, right,

So I'm in Victory Academy. I teach there, and I have the

privilege of speaking with some of the students who actually went for the camp because

we invited some of the students from there, so they don't go to church.

Many of them don't go to church. Then some of them actually not

believer us, not Christians, but we invited them anyway because this school is

part of the church, right, is started by the church. So we

have the opportunity to do that. We invited them. Many of them joined

the teens, you know, and I think they had a great time.

They you know, they responded and things like that. So we see Jesus

baptism and the Holy Spirit, non believers getting baptized, deciding to be baptized

by the Holy Spirit. And so I asked some of these people there,

you know, I say like, hey, how was the camp? Right,

these are our secondary students, Okay, how's the camp? And uh

one of them said, Uh, it was great. I got baptized by

the Holy Spirit. Wow. Yeah. In my mind's like, okay,

before this, you were not believer. Suddenly you're baptized. Okay, Okay.

Interesting. So I just like, yeah, tell me more. And

then it says, but you know, I'm still off the other faith.

Okay. So it doesn't consider himself a Christian yet a believer yet, but

he said it was amazing to be baptized by the Holy Spirit. Well done,

Okay, I didn't go on too much, but I knew there's work

to be done. There's work to be done. How many of you here?

You know you consider yourself a Christian? Right, but you were saved?

Like ten times, ten times, twenty times you got saved? You

like, yes, I want Jesus, Yes, I want Jesus. How

many of you serious? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,

same me too. I raised my hands on Sunday School how many one hundred

times? I can't remember, because yeah, I just wasn't sure I was

saved. Right? Why because because we come from the old and there is

work to be done, and there's discipleship that's needed. Right. Why why

you know some of us had to raise a hands so many times because actually

maybe actually there was no discipleship really going on. No one really followed up

with you, No one really explained to you that, yes you are.

You can be confident that Jesus is in your life. Now, this is

what you need to do next, This is what you need to do next.

Because many of us stop at the after I received Jesus. That's it.

I stopped there, and I'm going to Heaven soon. And so I

go to church sometimes anytime, right, And that's just like I follow my

family stuff like that. But you know, following Jesus is a process of

disciple ship. Everyone saying discipleship, Okay, So I just wanted to share

with you that I want to also encourage you church. All right. We

do have what we call the teens Ministry. We have the campus ministry.

We have them all right, and is led by a few people, right,

Uh, Teen's ministry. We have very precious moms in there. Okay,

Kathy's there, Maria is there who is ality right? Uh? And

so they all and also doctor Jill you know it's part of that. Anyone

else did I miss? Yeah? They are the reps they call we call

them the teen reps who will connect with Pastor Daniel, who is our teen

pastor. Uh. And they they run that ministry okay, to do small

groups with the teens and and do some maybe some fun things, you know,

and different things like that. And then we have the campus ministry,

right, the campus ministry college students all right, but those who are part

of that okay, and the more women, uh, Priscilla teacher. Priscilla

she she's a teacher, you know. Uh, it's hitting that up.

I am there as well, all right. Uh. And we do have

some raps, you know, different different raps. There's a lot of names.

Okay, don't fully remember all but we have students as well. Who

are raps? I think Sarah is one of them? What else? Who

are he's student raps? Who are students campus ministry? Maybe you stand stand

say, I want to see who you are? Yeah you remember you remember

who you are? Not you yourself? Okay, Darren, Sarah live here

all right? You know? And Timu all right? Yeah, yeah,

okay, okay, there are some yeah, these are student raps. Praise

God for them. Okay. Uh, we we do have adult raps,

so okay, adult raps. You know who you are? Adult raps of

Campus Ministree stand just the I know okay, right? Heych and I think

Stephanie Stephanie right, okay, yeah, yeah, okay, all right,

please your seat, pa, say your seats right, thank you for doing

that? All right? Yeah. What I'm saying is we do need listen.

These are the reps appointed okay, and uh they in a way there's

a commitment right for them to be part of like a meeting if we call

for it, and then we run activities and we need the support you know.

So, But then church, I want to encourage you. I want

to challenge you as well that it's not only their job. It's not only

their job. We need everyone's support. Right, we'll want church, all

right, and we're gonna, we're gonna, we're gonna call on you.

We're gonna call on you. And the word is mobilize you, all right,

as long as you're part of our homes. Right, you're part of

our homes, you're part of you are a regular here. We want to

mobilize you right to join in and to help out with some of these things.

Because like I said, our young people especially are young people. They

need discipleship, they need there's work to be done, right, and we

want to lead them. We want to grow the church, not just for

the numbers. Right, I was praying just now and I say, God

Lord, bringing them multitudes. We want to see growth in ex cyber Jaya,

because this is what this is what your command is, all right,

go into all the nations and preach and make disciples of all nations, baptizing

them in the name of the Father, Son and Holy So that is God's

command to us, and we want to obey. Amen. Can I get

an amen? Amen? Right? We're here together, all right, We're

here to get it to serve Jesus. So and then the other thing I

wanted to say here is you know what there is. I'm sure you've heard

from your homes as well. You know we do this community outreach thing,

right, so you've seen it on the screen just now, your youth community,

right, So I think we need to do that as well. We

need to mobilize our youth, right. But on top of that, I

think homes go into the community. So you see that it says there's Cyberjaya

c CEC refugee. Looks really good on the screen, looks really good on

the screen, But in reality, how does it look? How does it

what is going on on the ground? Is the truth? The real deal?

Right? Because our names on the screen there, but are we are

we there? Do we actually go and do anything there? Right? So

that's the real challenge. So I know, and we don't want to see

the same people again and again, same faces every time you know you see

the photos the person there and the community outreach is the same person. No,

all right, No, I'm exaggerating a little bit, right. Of

course, it's not always the same person, but we do see the same

faces a few times, right, So I want to encourage us on a

challenge as church. We're here together. We're here to sell Jesus together,

right, And if everyone takes part together, then the same person doesn't have

to keep doing it, all right? And you think the same person really

has so much time to keep going again and again. I think, bless

them, Bless them they are you know they're able to to do that and

make that sacrifice and go you know the Lord, bless them. But I

think we can come around, right, Tell your neighbor that we can come

around. We can come around. Don't worry. I know some of you

are afraid, like what am I going to do there? What's it going

to be like? There? Is it dirty? Am I going to fall

sick? Right? I mean, honestly speaking, there are risks there there

all right, But you can also make sure you don't what's the word meaning?

You know the risks? You know the risks, then you know you'll

be careful. I'm not telling you to go jump in the thing and swim.

You know, I don't know whatever it is, all right, the

pool there or whatever. You know, you don't have to be foolish.

All right. We can go. We can talk to each other, we

can be accountable to one another and help each keep each other safe, all

right. And there are people who are experienced who have gone a hit,

and so they will tell you this is what you shouldn't do, this is

how you should do it, all right? Can we do that? Church?

All right? Teens, teens, any teens in the house, okay,

okay, yeah, camera, students, yeah, all right, this

is your chance, all right. This is the opportunity that you have.

You only have this time, you know here forever, isn't it, right?

Especially campus students. We're not sure whether you know, some of you

graduate, you go somewhere else, like more more, Where's more? So

here? He's done. Yeah, but he's you know, he's mixed out,

he's maxed out his time here. You know, he's gone to everything

possible he can go. All right, he's followed me to X three commandment.

You know, when when we first started X ray commandment and when there

for the first time to preach let's it first time I think he wearing me

right, and he didn't just go and sit there. I said, more

when you go, I want you do something. Then I said, I

want you share testimony. And I told you this before. He said,

yeah, I always have a testimony. He say, okay, okay,

let me do it. I don't ready. It was saying just say saying

it first, then only think, all right, which is what I do

now, say first, then only do think by faith? Amen? All

right? Anyway, okay, So I want to share this with you first

church before I go into the message, because it's connected today. All right.

So John chapter nine, Everyone doing, okay, children doing? Okay,

okay, all right. So my message is this work while it is

day, work while it's day. Towards the finishing line from John chapter nine,

Okay, work while it is day. Now, let's go into the

scripture. Then we can talk someone. All right. First verse here,

Okay, I care because today I know children around So kaa, you can

write the highlighted words, the words in red you can draw, okay,

and hope that helps us us. Okay, I'm going to read this.

As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth. Okay,

pass it first passed by Okay, what was the previous chapter? Okay,

if you have your Bibles, you flip to the one before you can kind

of see a bit of the story there. I think there was a story

about the woman caught in a doubtery, right, which was kind of a

bit strange because there's no man caught together with the woman. So it was

a setup. It was a setup by the people who wanted to trap Jesus.

And Jesus was calm. He was calm, all right, and he

was able to handle that situation. And then later on, I think there

was some other argument. They were like saying, Jesus, who you think

you are and why you're talking about yourself like you are God, all right?

And Jesus is standing his ground and say I can't lie. I am

God, you know, And that make them made them even more angry,

and they I think he really wanted to destroy him and stone him. But

you know, Jesus in the next chapter, you know what his word is,

and as he passed by, it's like no problem for him. He

can handle rowdy crowds and crowds who wanted to stone him and destroy him.

He does not retaliate in violence. Do you see this is our Lord Jesus.

Okay, so I'm learning from there as well. I'm learning to be

less and less violent in my life, right, you know why, because

I can be quite aggressive, all right, and so I don't know,

maybe my wife can can share a little bit more so about how I am

less aggressive, right right? I mean I noticed that, but myself that

I'm less aggressive because you know, I decided I cannot raise my voice so

much, all right anymore, and and it's just not right. It's just

not right. Right. So I'm learning from my Jesus how he just passed

by violent situations aggression. Okay, I see some wife's touching their husband,

like, calm down on something, okay, okay, good good, good

encouragement. Heay, so all do so okay, what does he do?

He passes the rowdy crowd, the violent crowd, the scary crowd. Sometimes

it's scary, right, and then you you're shaking and you don't know what

to do. You panic. Jesus don't need to panic. Calm down,

because he's the son of God. And he passes, and he goes onto

his next work, his next job because he's focused. Everyone say focused,

because Jesus is focused, he's not distracted by the rowdiness, the scariness of

things he passed by. And then he goes to, I gotta do something

else. This still don't waste my time. Okay. So it goes and

he goes to this blind man blind from birth. Okay. Now second verse

and his disciples ask him, Rabbi, who's sin this man or his parents

that he was born blind? So yeah, this is a very typical response

of people. Okay, when they see a problem, they see the guy

walking like this, like like I happened to this guy accident born like this?

Whathever right? Okay, got beaten up? So you're always try to

find out what is the problem, right, Blame someone who's sin, who

caused this? The parents or he himself was the problem. Trying to blame

someone trying to this is adamant even over again, isn't it right? He

was He's the one who made me eat it, you know kind of thing.

So uh so this this is the typical response, and uh you know,

I think we kind of can check that of ourselves. When we see

a problem. What's the first thing on our mind is it to figure out

what's going on? You know? And you know, I read a little

bit of like commentaries. They say, like, these people are trying to

be theologians. At a moment where you see a problem, they're like,

hmm, you know something about like sin, you know, did God cause

this? What's this say that? You know what? You know? Trying

to get into theology knowledge? Okay, so this is this shows what they

value. Now let's move on. Wow, yeah, okay, right now.

Verse three, Jesus answered, it was not that this sin or his

parents, but that the works of God might be displayed in him. Amen.

So you see Jesus' response again, right, He does not play blame

game with people. It is not this man's problem. It is not the

parents, all right, although although the truth is maybe there was an involvement

somewhere. Maybe the parents, you know, they were not so healthy.

Whatever. There's got so many, so many reasons, right, possible excuses

and reasons for why a child can be born a certain way, can right,

so many things right, special need or whatever, right, so many

things that could cause it, and we can study and that's you know why

we have psychologists, We have all kinds of people right coming to study what

causes this and try to say maybe we can you know, what we should

do to a prevent and all these kind of things. It's valid, right,

Uh, and uh maybe you know we can actually go into like yeah,

I had too much screen time, so yeah, then we can use

that to teach our children. You see, you know, if you have

too much stream time, this will happen. But anyway, okay, so

it's not it's not right. It's all those things and it's value and we

can actually find out reasons. But then Jesus doesn't go into that. He

says, no, it's not about the problem of this man. It's not

his parents. But every problem that we see is an opportunity two for the

works of God to be displayed. Every every problem that you see, all

right, whatever it is, okay, Uh. For example, this person

very disobedient, not listening. It's a problem. But now you want to

get into like why my father didn't teach you want to you want to say,

all right, you want to talk about all the things, or you

want to see it as so that God's work can be displayed. Here there's

something we can do. This is opportunity. This is opportunity to do something

so that God's glory can be displayed. Amen, halleuluah. This I mean,

there's so much more hope in that, Isn't it so much more hope

in that? Look at your neighbors, See what problem they have? See?

Right? Some of you already immediately look at their face. You know,

got problem? Why you want to look for? You want to blame

the person. You want to blame the parents, You wanna blame the uncle

auntie? What? Right? Why you want to blame the way they eat

the food? They didn't eat the food? What? There's so many things

to look for and to blame. But why don't we look at this person

again and say, this opportunity for God's work to be displayed in you.

Come on, tell that to your neighbor. This is opportunity for God's work

to be displayed. Hey, maen, halle lujah. Wow, there's so

much hope in that. You know, yeah, I got a problems,

all right, I got a problem my wife. But if my wife sees

it as opportunity for God to work to be displayed, yeah yeah, yeah,

yeah, then yeah, just not someone who's gonna do to your husband

and this opportunity, opportunity for God to work. Okay, Okay, we

move on, we move on now, Uh, this one here, so

he said, Jesus carries on to say, we must work the works of

him who sent me while it is day. Night is coming when no one

can work. Right, As long as I am in the world, I

am the light of the world. Praise the Lord. All right. So

just now I was praying with Justin and then I prayed for I say,

hey, we want to pray for And one of the things he said is

I hope that I can be the light in my workplace. Wow. Wow,

what a you know, not a coincidence? Okay, so good,

good request of a prayer and we prayed. But now let me focus on

this one. Work the works of him who sent me while it is day.

Now, let me let me tell you maybe a quick quick story here.

You know, you know that we had we have now if you've seen,

you know, on our prayer time and the early one we call it

the pre worship prayer. We pray for this church called ex Harboroni Harborony.

And then there's Pretoria. So there's Whatswana, right what Tswana? And then

in Africa? How did that come about that? How do we have a

church in Botswana? I don't think it's easy to just go and do that.

You know, let me tell you the quick story. Yeah yeah,

thanks for doing that on the ball man you okay, So yeah, you

see that Africa. Now, how did that start? When there were students

who came to ex cyber Jaya. It was students they went to limb Wing.

Any LIMP students here now oh okay, okay, okay, this is

an opportunity for God's work to be displayed, right because limb gock Wing used

to be the most students in exhiber Jaya. Now no, none for now,

none for now, Okay, more was the last guy? Yeah,

Kevin, Kevin is coming coming back. Okka still a chance? Okay,

right? Hey? So uh at that time LIMP got wing, you know,

they came and so there were some people from students from Botswana. Uh

and you know how they came here. You know, it's not simply they

chose to come to Malaysia, but it was their government who sent them.

The government of Botswana sent them and sponsored them, I believe, and you

know, many of them came. There were many horror stories of students from

Wotsuana. Why because they were very young and the government sponsored and the government

gave them allowance. And they had so much money at at a young age.

And you know what happens when you when a young person has too much

money and lots of freedom. We all know that now what happens. And

so truly what happened was many of them, because they had so much,

they don't know what to do with it, so they bought casts. They

can buy casts, all right, and the Malaysian students like looking okay anyway,

so wow, these guys got casts. Not only had they had cast,

they they they partied, you know what it means, right, partied

and there was alcohol involved and many of them even took their own lives because

of drunkenness and maybe too much freedom, no guidance and things like that.

So that these are the horror stories. But thank God for the bunch we

had from ex Botswana. They got saved here, they got you know,

revived here, they followed Jesus here, and you know, thank God for

the work that we did with them. All right, a lot of it.

You know, we'll point out Olivia because homes leader, homes leader,

and she know, she was kind to them, and you know it wasn't

just Olivia it was the church, the church coming together and building them h

and then they were so inspired they said, we got to have this in

Botswana. We got to have this in Botswana, you know, because they

know the situation Botswana, you know, you know, churches and things like

that, or maybe they couldn't find the church there, so I don't know

where to go if I go back to Botswana, so can we And so

I believe, you know, God already spoke to pass Kenneth about this,

and so when it all came together, it wasn't difficult. And so we

discussed and we prepared and finally as they went, then some of our team

as who went with them and we started Exportswana. All right, praise God.

Yeah, but I want to tell you something. You see, anyone

is anyone from Botswana here? None? Right? Why because of the issues

that was happening around here. I think the government stopped it. They stopped

sending. And I want to tell you that was the opportunity and it has

gone. It has gone. So that's why he says, yeah, while

it is day, because the time will come, it will stop. And

did we take the opportunity? Well, I thank God, I think we

did. I think we did. We reached out to them, we fly

it and they came and we managed to speak with them and disciple them and

let them and inspire them. And they were so on fire they just had

to go start the church in in Botswana. Not only that, there was

also ex Neli. They had this guy called Lazarus. You know, Lazarus

is alive. So Lazarus has been you know with us, this tall guy

you know from Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe, anyone way, anyone else from Zimbabwe,

right, you know, Tim, Yeah, this is the opportunity right now,

this is opportunity right now. Zimbabwe brothers and sisters more right, so

many there's so many ones from Zimbabwe now. So anyway they there was I

so Lazarus, Lazarus, Lazarus from from x Neli. He went to London.

He helped to plant he helped with the church in London. We planted

X London. You know it wasn't him, right, see, I think

he started one of it. Yeah, that's a responded that X London.

Right. And then now he's gone back to Africa as well, and he's

mainly based in South Africa. But he also supported Exportswana for a long time

and then now he is also leading expretoria experatoria, all right. So from

there they had Cavaroni and then they branched out to do mochudi, right,

and then there's pretoria. So with that, with that opportunity that we had

at that time here we maxed it enough, right to be able to do

the work and give glory to God. And then now they're able to bring

it back there. Imagine we didn't do anything. We didn't disciple them,

we didn't lead them, We just left them. You know, they come

to come anytime like whatever, just you know, and and we didn't we

didn't minister to them because at one point I think they were down. They

were I think just practically financially not able, and then the church came around

to support them and they were able to be back on their feet again,

and so that also inspired them. You know, if we didn't do anything,

we didn't love the way that Jesus wanted us to love, that opportunity

is gone, all right, but thank God for that. I'm just giving

you an example. I am the light of the world, and that's what

we need to do, all right. So just in good prayer, request

the light of the world to your workplace, and not just that, you

know, to the cyberjaya. I think it's not just justin right, it's

all of us here. You know. Jesus didn't say I am, it's

just him being the light of the world. He says, you are the

light of the world. Tell your neighbor that, then you are the light

of the world. Amen. So we all need to do the work of

God while it is day, all right, while there's still opportunity. Let's

do it. Amen. Hey, we move on right. Having said these

things, he's spit on the ground, anybody want to do a spit sound

effect? Don't spit for real? Okay, all right? Anyway, uh

and made mud with sliva. Oh that sounds gross, right, But apparently

it wasn't that grows at that timeline. Okay, at the time, I

think they didn't understand covid and sliver is all is not that disgusting at that

time, Okay, so don't worry. In fact, at that time it

is perceived more as like medicine, because Jesus is a rabbi. He's you

know, it's not just anyone. So the gurus a rabbi. If they

give you sliver that's precious okay, anyway, not not today la so but

sometimes you know there pitching here when the sliver, the sliver showers blessing.

Anyway, Now, then he anointed the man's eyes with the mud and said

to him, go wash in the pool of siloam, which means sense.

So he went and washed and came back seeing, Hey, I put the

picture there like a pretty swimming pool. But obviously it wasn't that loud.

Okay, I think according to the scholars it was murky water. Yeah,

it wasn't clean, so but yeah, it was. It's also interesting that

Jesus sent him to a place like that. Why because he cannot see what

cannot see? Just go in? And then literally realized, so anyway,

go wash in the pool. And you know how difficult was was it for

the blind man to find the pool of siloan. He's like, I'm going

to this pool, you know, the pool of siloam. And then everyone's

like, what do you want to do there? I want to go inside?

Are you sure that pool? So anyway, it was already a distance.

It was a challenge, it was an effort. It was work for

this blind man. It's extra effort because you can't see right, and his

extra effort to work his way to get into the pool. Now I want

to pause here. I want to talk about this. For a while.

I mentioned discipleship just now right and now young people were saying, you know,

when the camp now we need to do work. This is what it

means here. You know, Jesus he could have put the mud on his

eyes and like walla, done right, super fast. But why he has

to do this now you go to the pool of Siluan, do your work,

you know, work on this. Go and then first the guy has

to obey, right, obey, and then he has to go and do

his part. And then what what does that mean? It's faith's faith a

man. So same thing here I want to say, you know, I

mean you know we can uh say all right, as in the leaders,

all right, your home leaders, the people who lead you will do their

part, but you will have your part to play. And not only that,

you know, leaders, I want to encourage you, uh do discipleship

right, lead, give instructions. You know. For example, we were

saying about the drums okay or the music all right, Uh, it's easy

to just go like okay, play everyone, just play. But when we

when we see when we let's say, there's mistakes being done, the nice

thing is to leave it. It's okay, let it be all right,

but actually we should talk about it. Leaders will say, hey, just

now you play too fast. Maybe we need to keep the beat because saying

that it's discipleship. All right, this morning O will x TV. Guys.

They were very nice. They don't want it to be too silent.

They played music okay. But then I went to them and said, hey,

what do we play the mission song that we heard the admissions conference?

And then they're like, okay, okay, they search for it. They

played it all right. There's a lot of things that I would like to

say, all right, but uh, maybe not all I want to go.

But you know, uh, disciples ship is very important. You know.

For example, the young people that I spoke to, he said,

I'm baptized by the Holy Spirit, but I'm still following the other faith.

Eventually, I need to sit down this guy and say, guys, you

can't you can't be doing that all right, because yeah, let's let's let

let's look to the Bible, all right. So we need to speak,

we need to lead, and we need to share with them, you know,

and disciple do discipleship, amen, because if there is no discipleship,

then what are we doing? What are we doing? I was just sharing

with our leaders yesterday. You know, I'm part of this group in church.

We call it new song, new song, and and that's why I'm

passionate. Hey put up our own song. I you know, I know

it's not doesn't sound as great likes sometimes you know, as you know,

stuff that you listen to, but it's our own song. We're trying to

push that. We're trying to promote that. So anyway, when we are

part of new Song, you know, if you sat down for an interview

and go like, hey, what is new song, new song? What

we do is we write new songs, all right, We write new songs,

okay, and then we'll go with like the next question probably is what

are these songs for? Right? There are many ways you can answer that.

Maybe a possible answer is I want to sound as good as all these

other churches and nothing wrong with that. We should like we should sound at

least the quality should be there. Right. So, but is that my

aim is that our aim for new song? Definitely not? Right? We

I sat now with past Acada before and he spoke to us and because we

were just doing this right thing. So and we love it because it's so

cool, right, writing songs, so creative and you get to like play

your own stuff. And we did the recording when the studio and things that

were like living the like rock star life, you know, like it felt

like that, okay, And then Pass kind of sat down with us and

said the time Pasta Joel was around as well as say Pasta Joel wasn't Pasta

Joel then, so, Joel Jack, the reason why we're doing this for

uh, you know, recording the album, the only reason is for discipleship.

That I didn't think about that at all in my mind because I thought

that music, play music, record, fame, glamour, right, isn't

at all that part of music. But I've never heard write songs record because

it's discipleship. And so that that opened my mind a little bit. I

started think about that a bit more. I am only doing this because of

discipleship. What does that mean? When I write my song and I submitted

and the team is there and even our past us there, we look at

it and go like, Jack, what are you writing about? I know

this words sound cool to sing, but it's not according to what the Bible

says. And we go like okay, okay, okay, And maybe you're

trying twik it, try and twicky it, trying twike it. In the

end, the whole thing just doesn't work anymore. And uh uh, Joe

will always like to say this, just chuck it now, just put it

aside. And it's you know how painful that is anyone here? You You

write stuff, you draw stuff, your artists, and people say it's not

good enough, put it away. Yeah, you know how painful it is.

Right you see your creation? You love it so beautiful in your mind.

To you, it's so nice. But there's the truth. And people

say it's not gonna work. Because it's not gonna work for worship. People

are not going to sing it because they don't understand what you're writing about.

And maybe sometimes it's even the tune is too difficult to catch. People will

be staring at you, like, try to sing that song. So we

talk like that, and we've come to this place even like yeah, we're

ready, really does a work, we'll put it aside. Okay, doesn't

mean we try everything. We'll always try to make it work, but then

after that we'll put it aside. So that's what it means. Discip push

it. Okay. So I want to say, you know, in our

church here as well, Cyberjaya, everything we do homes a espresso x TV

sound worship. It's all for discip push it because we're gonna talk about it,

all right, And of course let's let's learn to speak nicely to one

another. It doesn't mean you have to be rude, right, doesn't mean

you have to insult anyone. But we tell the truth. Amen, okay,

So go wash in the pool of siloa, Jesus said, and what

did he do? This blind man obeyed and he went hallelujah. And that's

where he got his miracle. Next slide. So the neighbors and those who

had seen him before as a beggar was saying, is this not the man

who used to sit and beg Some said it is he. Others said no,

but he is like him. He kept saying, I am the man.

So you know, when your life has been transformed, it's it's unrecognizable,

right because you were an old, old person. But you are a

person. You know what I'm talking about. The old you were living in

the old and so now you are new. You were blind. Now you

see and people go like, is this the right person? Okay, And

they will see the testimony the glory and this is what exactly is Jesus Jesus

talking about. They will see God's glory displayed in him, right, and

they will find it hard to believe, but the story will will come out

by their testimony, by the example of their lives. Amen. Oh,

I want to I want to tell you something before and I think I missed

out. You know, Jesus, when he was presented with this problem,

what could he do? He say, Okay, there's a blind guy,

and because he is the son of God, the best thing he could do,

everyone say best. The best thing he could do was to heal the

guy. He can't do any less than that, right, Because in my

mind sometimes I go like, yell, of course, that you're Jesus,

that you can heal that. Right? Then I can't, right, I

mean I can't yet. I'm not confident to touch anyone put the mud on

the guy his eye and make sure he's healed. I can't. But Jesus

was very sure about that, and that was his best Everyone say best.

So on the courageous here, what is your best? What is your best?

Yeah, you can spit and put mud and heal someone's eye yet,

but there's the best. You have a best, he son of God,

and he can't give any less. Then heal the guy because if he did

anything less, he's not giving his best. Amen. Amen, So he

gave his best, his son of God. He does a healing. But

we we see a problem, right, remember again, right, you see

a problems your neighbor. Look at a neighbor again, see a problem?

Right? You see the opportunity, see the opportunity to for God's work to

be displayed. Now, what's your best? What's your best that you can

give? Okay, you're not son of God like Jesus right in a sense,

right, you are child God. Right, you're not confident to take

mud and spin and heal someone's eye yet, but you have a best.

So what is your best? Let's give the best? Right? When we

come up here and we're playing and we're doing that, what is the best?

Right we go to homes? Right? Can can be? Can can

it be? Going early? Is the best? Early to homes? Appearing

early being and saying can I support you? Christine. All right, see

why nine? Right? Can I support you? Elaine? Right? Can

I support you Olivia? Andrew? Can that be the best? Just being

early, to be there to be a support and not only that, maybe

night before so Texan. Anything I can do? Yeah? Can I bring

something I love? See why three? See why four? See why three?

So I'm sure it does the same thing. Everyone brings something, right,

they try, they try, they try. Even if you don't bring

it's okay, I'm not I'm not hinting here to say you're police brings something,

but I'm just telling about what I've seen. Right, everyone brings something,

even if a small thing, even a small thing, they try,

they try to bring something. It's amazing. And the food that a big

parties like, you know, it's like the five lows and two fish become

fift five thousand, you know, they're kind of feeling. And after that

people will bring back food, you know, to the house some more.

It's too much praise God. Yeah, So that's what I mean. What's

your best? Right? You can't do mud magic yet, but you have

a best. So don't give any less than that. Because you give any

lesson that, you're not being yourself you're not being who God wants you to

be a man. Hallelujah. All right. So so I think we're we're

kind of done here. The next one, so they said to him,

then how your eyes opened? He answered, the man called Jesus made mud

and anointed my eyes. Said to me go to Siluan and wash. Well.

This guy tells the full story, say, I went to Siloam as

well. Okay, so I went and washed and received my side. Hallelujah,

Praise God. All right, so he recognized less recognize the Jesus,

the man called Jesus, who will bring about transformation in all our lives.

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