A Sense of Urgency of Time | Olivia Leong

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

will light up your dam. The title of the message today is Urgency of

Time. Right, and the theme of this message or the theme of the

church that we have this year is Heaven Rules. Amen. All right,

and we are going towards the finishing line. Hey, Jesus is coming back.

Let's get excited, Agency of Time. Yes. Getting excited is one

thing, but hey, let's finish the work together. Yes, and remembering

that Heaven rules, yeah, despite of what is happening all around us.

Okay, right, Urgency of Time. Okay. So the main scripture reference

today that we're gonna read is from the Book of Luke, chapter fourteen,

verse sixteen to twenty four. Okay, you can open your bibles. Okay,

then we just stay on this side until I finished reading the scripture.

All right. If you have your Bibles, you can open to it digital

or physical Bible also can or you can just listen to my voice as I

also read it for us. Okay. From the Book of Luke, chapter

fourteen, verse sixteen to twenty four. Then Jesus said to him, who

is one of the Pharisees, There a certain man gave a great supper and

invited many, and sent his servant at supper time to say to those who

were invited, come, for all things are now ready verse eighteen. But

they, always one accord, began to make excuses. The first said to

him, I have bought a piece of ground, and I must go and

see it. I ask you to have me excused verse nineteen. And another

said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I am going to

test them. I ask you to have me excused verse twenty. Still another

said I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come. So that

servant came and reported these things to his master. Then the master of the

house, being angry, said to his servant, go out quickly into the

streets and lanes of the city, and bring in here the poor and the

lame, and the lame and the blind verse twenty two. And the servant

said, Master, it is done as you commanded, and still there is

room very tree. Then the master said to the servant, go out into

the highways and hedges and compel them to come in that my house may be

filled verse twenty four. For I say to you that none of those men

who were invited, shall taste my supper. God blessed the reading of His

word today. Let's even go deeper on this scripture, right, Let's let's

see what God has to say to us. Okay, we can go to

the next light. So in verse sixteen, when it all started, Okay,

yes, before I mentioned further, the background of how I got into

hearing God leading us to receive this message today is from the forty Days Prayer

and Fast, the NCF Prayer and Fast devotional that we had on the first

week. This was the scripture and it was through the couple of days that

we had a time of just going deeper. And I really felt that this

verse really strike me, and I really felt that this verse is something that

God wants us to hear today. Right, So that was the background of

how this message came about. Yeah, So Luke, chapter fourteen, Verse

sixteen, here says yes. Then he said to them, So it was

a time where Jesus, he was mackening. He was having a hangout time

with some pharisees, the teachers of the the how do you say the church

then or the community, the Christian community then, right, Jesus was hanging

out with them, and then he was sharing this story. That's why it

says here he in big letter, h is Jesus said to him, a

certain man gave a great supper. Wow, Malaysians also supper, right,

okay, not just supper. Mama, we call mama, all right,

Mama is just we're probably a small version of great supper. Okay, this

is great supper. Can tell me about it, great supper. Have you

have anyone been to a great supper? Probably a long time. I have

a snippet of the picture here, Okay, for a glimpse of a great

supper, imagine this hundred times. Smoke. I yeah, the the screen

is only's so limited, but can you imagine like this hundred times, like

all spread out here and even more. You know, I really believe this

great supper is great because the man, the man gave this supper and invited

many. Okay, so I can imagine like my wedding or some weddings that

are like oh so big or really great supper. Okay, a great supper.

Right as I was reading this first line, a man gave this man

to be super generous, he must be really rich, okay to give a

great supper, right, and this Great Supper, this story where Jesus was

telling. Right, this Great Supper talks about every time we have supper,

we talk about like fellowshipping. Right, Yo, you don't Macan like,

okay, you know you're Macca and ain't go see one corner by yourself,

know, right, everybody Macca and man you say hey, come, Macan

means like hey, if you'll get to fellowship, you get to talk and

you get to check out, hey, how how are you doing? And

things like that. It is every time Maccan time is like talking time also

right, getting to know. So it's a fellowship. It's a time where

this man actually wants we have a great supper to fellowship with the people that

he has invited. Right, So it talks about this great supper. Is

it talks about a joyful fellowship with God. Right, and it's a it's

a time of great blessing. You know. The man a certain man,

this certain man, a rich certain man. Okay, give you know,

he's generous, he gave, he wants to be He wants to bless his

guest. Okay, and he has he is generous, he has great provision.

And it is he wants to nourish and refresh his guests that he has

invited. So you can imagine God, this settle man is like God.

Right, he is so generous towards everyone he's inviting to this great Supper.

Okay, And and this supper you can expect great blessing, eternal life,

generous provision for nourishment and refreshment for the spirit man, the grace of the

gospel. It is so great. You must count. You know, you

get invited, you really want to come, right, You'll be jealous if

you're not invited. But there's certain man invited many, so probably everyone was

included. I think, I think, okay, but but maybe not everyone

was invited. Then now okay, so you just now read a bit about

it. Right, So this this joyful fellowship, it is actually the original

plan of God when he created men, he really want to He created man

because he wanted to enjoy this fellowship with men. You know, let's let's

do things, let's partner together, let's do something great together. You want

to fellowship, hey know, each other. That's how God created the Garden

of Eden, you know, to fellowship and to you know, just be

with men. Right, So that was his original plan. Unfortunately, sin

came into the picture, and you know, there was a separation. You

know, we call it like divorce or something, you know, I mean

there was a separation. The relationship was broken because of sin. And and

thank God that God provided away. God God came into restore back the relationship

true, ascending his one and only son, Jesus Christ to reconcile us back

to him again. That's amazing and isn't it right? And and it's so

important, and you know, this is the gospel message. Gospel stands for,

Okay, g o spl. Some people call it God's only Son provides

eternal life. Right. Aw, when I heard that was like so cool.

God's God's only Son provides eternal life. G o spl. God's only

Son provides eternal life. Indeed, So anyway, this Great Supper also talks

about that in the future there will be a great Supper like this, right,

it will be fully realized in the coming age. So do look forward

for all this great Supper and I hope to see you there at the Great

Supper. Yeah right, it is okay, okay. Another thing I found

out about this Great Supper. Do you know why it's called a supper?

And it's not like morning tea, afternoon tea, breakfast, brunch. Have

you thought about it, like a white supper, right, So I did

a little bit of study. It is called a supper because in those countries,

supper time was the chief fisting time when the business of the day was

over, its end of business. You know someone's working in the office,

right. You know when people say EO B, it's end of business,

right, Supper time is EO B time, you know, EO B.

Yeah, Like people will say, what office, our happy our time?

Right, So yeah, so supper time it was the chief fisting time.

So this also I mean to tie back to today's world. Right, the

evening of the world's day is the manifestation of gods of the gospel grace to

the world, and the fruction of the fullness of the grace in heaven is

real, is reserved for the evening of our day. So just know that

at the end of it all, there is this great supper when everything is

done, when everything is well, everything is done, completed at the finishing

line, towards the finish line, at the end of the finish line,

that is a great supper. Let's let's look forward to it. Come on,

and we hope that everyone will be there, all right. So okay,

next line, and this Great Supper is is how they say the invitation

is for all? Right, invitation is too many and to all people.

There is provision and enough for all who come. It is a fist for

all people. How many people? You ask me? Huh? The last

e Google was eight point one billion people on the face of the earth.

Right now, I believe I believe the the Great Supper can or colbnate nine

billion or maybe ten billion or even more. I'm sure because it's such a

great supper, right and everyone everyone is invited, no one, there's no

there's no how to say, yeah, it includes everybody. Okay. So

and you know something about this. I really love this study because you know,

in when the men gave the invitation out. You know, usually now

how you have weddings, right, invitation usually like you know, you have

a card that tells you the date and the time. Right in those days

they don't have clock yet, they don't have a clock, so you can

imagine how to invite people for an event. Right, So last time what

they did was that was two two invitations for one event. So the first

invitation will tell you the date. At least they have a date. They

don't have a time yet, right, So they have a date, so

they'll tell you, Okay, this Friday, that's Mission's conference. Please come

on Mission's conference. No clock yet, right, I didn't tell you the

time. Yeah, so we will tell you the time when it's ready.

So on Friday, you have to be like expecting whenever the next invitation comes

on Friday, Yeah, then you'll be like like going there already. So

actually on that day itself, the second invitation will be sent out when the

time is ready. Right. So for example, like in today's term,

the invitation has gone out, this invitation as in like, come to Jesus.

He is he is God, and he is Lord. He has this

great supper waiting for you. This is that first invitation telling all of us

here and everyone who still do not know Jesus yet that hey, the great

supper is coming. You know, there is going to be a great supper

at the end of the finishing line. But then on that day, that

day when the trump but blow that it's the day when everyone should be ready

to go in for the supper. However, of course we will that's probably

another study where we will read about some people may not make it and all

things like that. But yeah, I'll just let you know that there's an

invitation. Two times of invitation. Invitation one is everyone is invited. People

know like, okay, what date the event is. But on the time

when it's ready, that's another invitation will come out. Okay, So that

one we must get ready, okay, to respond when the time is there.

Okay, right, So okay, next ight, And then that's this

verse in verse seventeen says and yes, and sent his servant at supper time

to say to those who were invited, come, for all things are now

ready. So this is the second invitation on that day itself, like eight

pm or maybe seventhyia I think, so seventhiesa, come, come, come,

the supper is ready, the food is laid out, it's ready.

Come. So that is the time when everybody, okay, okay, come

come, come like that, Okay, come for all things are now ready.

Now all things are ready, the full discovery of the gospel mystery is

now made available. Hey, just to let you know the gospel wasn't ready

true out the time yet then right now, now we're living in the year

twenty twenty three. The Gospel is available for us. It's ready. Jesus

died on the cross, he rose again on the third day. He is

a life. He sit there at the right hand of God the Father,

and the Holy Spirit is with us. God gave the Holy Spirit with us.

Already, the Gospel is ready. Everything is ready for us to come

and respond to him right and even the ordinances of the Gospel are now instituted.

The Society of Christians is now in operated. We have churches, we

have cell groups. We are already we are here, you know, you

know, we're all so blessed. You know today last time, how I

don't know how they gather. I'm sure they gather, but not as convenient

as right now. I mean, it's just too convenient. If in heaven,

if you meet them and we tell them how we have churched our gatherings

together and said, you guys, you don't know how you have suffered through

bringing the cows and everything. You know, we are like, you know,

it's still convenient right now. And yet and yet you know, we

really hope that everyone could come and hear the gospel together, and you know,

one day together have that great supper. Right, So in adults,

now everything is ready, right, and this is the call now given to

us. All things are ready. Now is the accepted time. It is

now. It is a season of grace that will soon be over. Let

me repeat myself. It is a season of grace that will soon be over.

And therefore come now, do not delay except the invitation. All are

welcome to it and feast. Yes, now it's the time because it is

a season of grace. Now, it's a season of grace that will soon

be over. Don't miss the boat people. Yes, okay, So that's

why the story says, come for all things are now ready. Okay.

So in Hebrews chapter three, verse fifteen also says, today, if you

hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as in the day of rebellion.

Second Corinthians six, verse two days. Today is the day of salvation.

Today is today today? Right? Very important? Come for all things

are now ready. So yeah, So coming back to this story, in

the chapter fourteen, verse eighteen says, but okay, so the invitation has

gone out, musters, tell the servant go and call the all those people

invite to count the food the supper is not ready. The Great Supper is

not ready. But verse eighteen says, but they all with one accord began

to make excuses. The first said to him, I have bought a piece

of ground and I must go and see. I ask you to have me

excuse right. So here in verse eighteen, you know, the excuse us

here are actually different, as we have read previously. Just now, the

excuse here are different, but really all the same. They're all with one

a cad became to make excuses. It's the same excuse. No, it's

different, but it's excuse right, It's just an excuse, right, So

so you know, the first one says he had purchased a land. You

know, those who have their hearts full of the world and feeling complacent,

you know, and will have their ears death towards this Gospel of invitation,

because the cast of the world is now louder. Right. In verse the

next verse nineteen says, and an others said, I have bought five yoke

of oxen and I'm going to test them. I ask you to have me

excused. So this person, this second person bought a yok Okay in those

days, a yok's like a piece of wood that connects two cows together.

Okay, I think today also they do, right. Yeah, so you

have a yolk, right, so you buy a New York. He bought

a New York and he wanted to test it out on that day when the

Great Supper was ready. Okay, so yeah, so it's like, huh,

why can't he actually test it before he bought it? Right? I

mean in today's world, you won't buy something that you don't test it,

right, you will probably for example, the light the lamb. Right,

you won't buy something you you will go before you buy you will go to

the electric place where they would test it out that the bulb works correct before

you buy it, unless you accedentally buy it and then you fix it in

your house and it doesn't work, and then you'll go back, you know,

very inconvenient. Right, So you will always test something like okay,

drive, you buy a car, you buy a car, you also do

a test drive. Right, you would test it first before you buy it.

But then these people I don't know how they buy something, then they

don't need us like hmm, okay, I don't know about warranty. Yeah,

and test at night? Yes? Good, good point. Why are

they testing and very interesting. So yeah, some sometimes things of the world

became so becomes louder, right, and and it's treated and the invitation is

treated like little things compared to the cast and the concerns of the world around

us. Just just a warning like that, many times we will tend to

be easily distracted by the things around us because the things around us is the

voices seems louder. So that's why we all need together as a church.

We need to raise that voice louder about the things of God. Like like

how we have missions conference. We are like, hey people, you know,

yeah, we are actually literally fighting against the voices of the world.

But of course we need us all together. If you're a believer of Christ,

missions is something that you are like like this, you know, because

God, God takes missions really close to his heart as well. So yeah,

let's let's do it together as a church. Right. We are called

the church for a reason. And yeah, so that's the second second person

that gave to ax you. So the third one says uh verse twenty.

Still another said I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.

Wow dialect dialect, Sorry, I cannot come. I got a wife.

So I don't know how to say. Okay, so our affection, our

affection and relations often proves a hindrance to us in our duty to God.

He might have gone and had taken his wife along with him and they would

have both been well welcome. I'm sure, I'm sure. Yeah, he

should have just bring his wife. Come, come, let's mark come together,

let's go together. Why why I don't know why he didn't thought ask

permission? I am as as pervission. Oh yeah, so yeah, yeah,

correct, So you know, yeah, you know all these things I

mean, like for example, the land, the yoke, his wife,

right, all these things are actually blessings from God's lawful blessings, God's blessing

for us. However, they have taken God's blessing a birth God himself.

It is very scary. I mean that that it's it's that's a tendency of

men falling into this. So this is just a good reminder, a warning

for all of us that the blessing of God, our families is God's blessing,

our children our God's blessing. Let's not let this be a hindrance towards

what God has called us to do. A man Yeah, it's very very

important, and remember to put God at his rightful place. Yeah, so

when God calls, let's answer immediately. Right. So, next, like,

excuse us our fashion for convenience and not for conviction. Right, we

don't live by convenience, but we leave conviction. Okay, it's very important

reminder for us today. You can take picture, you can take technes.

Okay, very important. Excuses are fashion for convenience. Always remember, I

mean, we're not we're not guilt tripping anybody. If you feel something within

your heart, I believe it's the Holy Spirit speaking to us. But really,

you know, let's let's check our hearts even this morning. Reasons.

Yeah, there's there's reason, there's valid reasons, yes, but there are

also excuses. Do do do? Let's check our hearts about this. Excuses

are fashion for convenience and not conviction. We don't live by convenience, but

by conviction. What do you really believe in? Brothers and sisters, what

do we really believe in? Yeah? What is our conviction when God says

something about missions? What is our conviction when God speaks about the lost?

Right? Okay, next line, hope doesn't begin until excuses and agreeing on.

Yeah, so when I never we still have excuse probably no hope blah.

So that's this guy called Charles Hidden Spurgan. Okay, he's a prominent

English Baptist preacher, he's an author, he's an influential figure in the Christian

community in the nineteenth century. So this is why he says, excuses our

curses are your Your excuse us are curses, and when you have no excuse

us left, there will be your hope for you. Wow, excellent,

right, Like, yeah, you know that's why today's in this year our

theme havn't rules, right, having rules towards the finishing line. And there's

also say, excuse proof means we don't want to have excuses, excuse proof,

but exploits pact. Let's be exploits pact church together, right, Yes,

if you know something, if Christianity is so true and it's so good,

like what we saw the Great Supper, like how I describe just now?

I hope it's great, but it's okay, never mind, but yes,

of course what God offers us when God gave his all, it's so

amazing. If Christianity is so good, so true, why don't more embrace

it. Have you thought about it? Why don't more accept the invitation when

it's so good? I mean the shopping malls everybody even they have seal like

why everybody are you see all the all the sale of people lining up like

crazy? You know. But but similarly, like you know, the Christian

faith so good, so so amazing, you know, so wonderful. Why

is there isn't more people accepting it or in accepting this invitation? It is

because of the excuses that begin to explain why such wonderful invitation was rejected.

Yeah, because of the cares of the world, because something else seems louder

somehow. But yeah, so that's why we need the church to rise up.

Church, Rise up x Cyberjaya, Rise up, Cyberjaya needs to hear

who Jesus is and this great Supper that's coming. It's amazing. God provides

eternal life, true Christ. Jesus, he died, he laid down his

life for us. He loves us. He's amazing. You know. Hey,

we can all we can do it. Okay. So that's why we're

here. We are here in church being reminded again who we are and what

we needed to do. Okay. So yes, let's stop the excuses and

let's be exploits for God. Okay, so let's come back to the story

Luke, Chapter fourteen, verse twenty one. So, yes, so that

servant came and reported these things to his master. Okay we pause that Something

about this sentence right really triggers me, like, Hey, this servant,

he's such a good servant, he got a bad report. He's so good

that he will bring it back to his master. Okay, I know or

some people who receive bad report and don't tell the boss and let's keep it

quietly, or maybe it makes some story. Actually, Boss, but he

doesn't do that. This is a good servant. He brings this report.

He came to the master and tell the master about this. This talks about

all of us here as Christians. Right, we are here to focus on

the work. Okay, on the work, meaning to to to invite people.

Right, the Master says, go out and invite the people come for

this great supper. Right, we are we are his servants. We are

all his servants. We are we are we are to do to tell,

to speak of who Jesus is right and to and of course there are some

who reject us heartbroken. Then we keep it to ourselves. You don't tell

God. Nah, God, it's okay, La. You know, I'm

like no, no, no, But it's God servant came and reported these

things back to God. So whenever you get rejected, don't be so pitiful

by yourself. Bring it to God. Okay, bring it to God.

God. These people rejected me, I tried my vest. It's okay,

God, I give it back to you. Of course, of course you

will feel rejected by what. Just bring your feelings all to God because this

is God's instruction for us, right it is. It is not how they

say. It's not we shouldn't better rejected things on our own. It is

because this is truction is from God. We need to bring it back to

God. Very important. Okay, So so yes we ask God's servant must

give an account next. Like you will see, accountability is very important as

we as God's servants, must give account of the outcome of our ministry.

We focus on obedience, bring the outcome to God. Focus on following the

next step. Okay, So the person reject me, we bring it to

God. God. What should I do next? Okay? Don't pity pity

there or God I get rejected, I would want to do this anymola,

I'd want to follow instruction. Okay, I just go no, no,

no, don't do that, God says, you know, in this verse,

it says, bring it to God and ask see what God's instruction is

next? Yeah, what is the next step? Okay, don't get discourage.

So I just want to I feel like there's us an encouragement that's coming

over here, even in through this us. You know, probably you have

been trying to, you know, share God's love with somebody, but that

person just doesn't want to respond or reject you, or haven't responded, doesn't

have a good indicator. You know. You just bring it to God and

you'll ask God, God, what should I do next? Right? Because

God is God, He is the Master. He is the one who gave

that instruction to invite, right, and you are just being obedient towards his

instruction. All right, So focus on the goal and bring the outcome to

God. Okay, that is the point, right, and continue on the

next sentence. Then the Master of the house being angry, of course,

yeah, angry, right, God, God is angry because al rather,

the Master is angry, right because the invitation has been turned down. And

in this it shows that how how those people have been invited. I've showed

how little they value the Master. Right, the ingratitude of those that insult

the gospel offers and the contempt they put upon God of Heaven are a very

great provocation to him. Right. Of course, God will get angry.

Mercy that is taken for granted will turn into a great wrath. Right,

that will become a time, okay, for God to execute his judgment.

It is, this is the truth. I want to say it plainly here.

There will be a time of judgment. Okay. However, now it's

a time of grace. Right. So now it's the time where we need

to respond and continue to invite. Okay, that's this grace, the grace

period. The invitation is still open. We are all still here, we'll

still gathered as a church. Right, there's still grace, right, Okay,

So next sentence say, is so the master of the house, being

angry, said to his servant, go out quickly into the streets and lanes

of the city, and bring in here the poor and the maname, and

the lame and the blind. Right, you know, the Master really cared

about this great Supper, preparing furnishing the Great Supper with plenty of food.

Okay, in actual terms, probably good things to nourish our spiritual man.

God has provided everything sufficient for us. Right. And also he really had

invited everybody. Right. And here in verse twenty one, it says,

you go out quickly, lose no time, because all things are now ready.

Call them to come today while it is called today, and come.

Tell them to come in by approaching them kindly and drawing them with the cords

of men and bands of love. See here in verse in this verse twenty

one. Right, do you see a similarity when the Master calls his servant,

go out, go out, go out right next light verse Matthew,

chapter twenty eight, verse nineteen to twenty. Similarly, Jesus gave us this

last commandment. It is our first priority. Go therefore and make disciples of

all nations right, baptizing them in the name of the Father, the Son,

and 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. Right. And also in Romans chapter one,

verse sixteen says, for I I'm not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ,

for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes. So

this invitation is to everyone who believes, for the jew first, who was

invited first, of course, and also the Greeks, which is now open

to everyone else. Now right now, right, okay, let's continue the

story in verse twenty one, verse twenty two. And the servants said,

Master, it is done as you have commanded, and still there is room.

Wow. Hey, this this servant is very hard working. He already

did above and beyond what the Master asked him to do. He invited those

invited. He also invited those whom the Master didn't invite. So he told

your master, already done, boss, already done, right, you know,

and still there are room. So this is a good oblem. Now

is there's still room Master, So though many have been brought into partake of

the benefits of the gospel, yet still there is room for more. For

the riches of Christ are unsearchable and inexhaustible. Wow, this word, the

riches of Christ is inexhaustible and other vocabulary that we can put Wow, amazing.

Let me repeat that again. It's so good. The riches of Christ

are inexhaustible. There is in him enough for all and enough for each.

And the Gospel excludes none that do not exclude themselves, meaning to say,

it's for everyone who wants to come, okay, is for everyone who wants

to come for this great supper? Okay, right everyone, very good,

right, very good. Verse twenty three. Then the masters said to the

servant, go out into the highways, and he compel them to come in

that my house may be filled. While compel. Now the keyword compel,

compel, compel this water compel. Compel can also mean to encourage, but

in a more how do you say vigorous compel compel Okay, be earnest with

them, for in this case it will be necessary to convince them that the

invitation is sincere. It's not a scam, it's not fake, all right,

it's real. They will be shy. People will be shy and modest,

like really, you know, inviting me, I don't feel worthy.

They will be shy and will hardly believe that they will they shall be welcome.

However, for our task we need to be persistent. That's what compel

means, persistent, especially to the point of annoyance. So it's Okay,

it's okay. If someone say it's up annoying me, it's okay. You're

doing the right thing. If the person doesn't say, hey, you're annoying,

so something is you need to push up the next gala to compel okay,

to be persistent, Be persistent, especially to the point of annoyance.

Keward until the points of annoyance with them, and do not leave them till

you have prevealed with them. Wow, people, we have something to do

this week and for the rest of our lives. Yes, until Jesus comes

back. Be persistent, especially to the point of annoyance, until we become

so annoying to them, with them, and do not leave them until you

have prevealed with them. Because there is still room. Ah here, you

can see literally physically with our eyes. There's still a chain next to you.

Right, you can see an empty seat. Right, that's still wrong.

Hey, that's still room. Okay, So let's invite our friends,

right, okay. In almost chapter thirteen, verse eight to eleven, next

slide says, oh, no one anything except to love one another, for

he who loves another has fulfilled the law. Verse eleven says, and do

this, do this means to love someone, to all, no one except

to love another. That's why Verse eleven says, and do this knowing the

time that now it is high time to awake out of sleep. Another version

says, to wake up, wake up right, to awake out our sleep.

For now our salvation is nearer than when we first believe, meaning to

say, the supper time is almost coming. All right, the time is

almost ending, right, and let's continue to do to love, to love

those who have who have yet to accept this invitation, and also to love

each other. Oh, no one anything except to love one another, for

he who loves another fulfill the law. Right. Okay, let's continue back

in our last verse, Luke, Chapter fourteen, verse twenty four. For

I say to you that none of those men who were invited shall taste my

supper. Here is a warning from the Master telling the servant that those people

whom I'm invited, who has rejected my invitation, those men who are invited,

shall not taste my supper. Hiyo, come on, people, don't

be this this group of people, okay, Because grace despised is grace forefitted.

I repeat again, grace despised is grace forefitted, meaning to say.

For example, For example, you remember the story of Isau. You know

his buff Remember he rejected his birth right? Are you you? And he

didn't get his birth right at all? Right? This is one example.

Another example is the five foolish Virgin and the five wise Virgin. Remember the

story where the five foolish Virgin wasn't wise enough to prepare oil. They took

it lightly and the door was closed. When the door is closed, the

door is closed. Don't regret after that, okay, So of course they

were regretting. But yes, don't don't be don't be that lah. Okay,

So don't despise God's invitation. God's the grace. Despise is grace forefeitted.

However, now is the time of grace. Let's let's let's extend this

grace to the rest of the world or the people that's around us. All

right, so important because the time is drawing near to an end. Yes,

okay, So let me share a story about urgency. My story.

Huh hio, urgent urgent story. Urgent story. Okay, there was a

okay, so when I was sixteen years old, many years ago or recently,

there was a fire that broke out in my house. Okay, I

was living in Penang when I was sixteen with my parents. Right, there

was a fire that broke out. So how did it all come about?

My young So remember I had like three other siblings, right, remember l

O. V. E the story. Yeah, So my youngest brother,

edmund E, he used to have a pain in his calf muscle at the

calf muscle, okay, during rainy and cold season, so he would so

he would shine a heater red lamp on his lake to warm up the lake,

right, so he would feel better. So but but the instruction to

use the lamb is only for ten minutes for health reasons also okay, So

this one night at night he was he accidentally used the lamb and he slept

with the lamb shining on his scuff muscle and also on a mattress for ten

minutes, maybe about half an hour or almost an hour so hot, I

don't know, okay. And my elder brother, my elder brother Lincoln,

he smelled some rubber fumes. And that time, my youngest brother he was

slipping and the door was closed in his room. But from outside, my

eldest brother smelled rubber fumes. So he was walking around and thinking where is

it coming from? So finally he went into my youngest brother's reward the rubber

fumes is all over the room and alerted my dad. My dad quickly turned

off the red lamb and took out the mattress outside. It was at night

already, so it took out the mattress at night, and you know it

was because a rainy season and colo season because it was raining. So my

father brought the mattress under the porch you know porch of the and leaned the

mattress on the car to let the rubber field. You know, just aired

the mattress. Are okay, that's probably logical to do, right, And

yeah, so that night we thought, okay, everything's fine. We just

aired the room. The rubber fulms out and we could rest. So we

all rested. So after going to bed that night, there was a cry

by one neighbor from outside the house that our house was on fire. HU

for households the fire. My mom was the first to hear the cry.

Everyone was dead and sleep already and my mom was the only one who could

hear the cry from outside and got us, got everyone up from our sleep

and brought us all out of the house safely. The mattress caught fire from

the fumes within the mattress and the breeze because that day was also like very

breezy, so the breeze actually encouraged the fumes inside and the mattress actually got

fired. I remembered it wasn't easy for me to wake up because I was

sleeping. It was like late night, ready, like two three am in

the morning that night, and it was a weekday night. The next day

I have to go to school, so everyone was like sleeping already that night.

But due to the urgency of the banging of the door and shouting,

right we all woke up. I remember that my dad was trying to put

off the fire before the fireman and the truck came. But really, thank

God that everyone was safe. Thank God the fire didn't get into the fuel

tank of the car because the mattress was leaning on the car that is very

near the fuel tank. Right, It was like, WHOA, I can't

imagine if that happened, well, we'll have fireworks everywhere, explosion, while

I don't know what will happen with us. While really thank God that God

saved us. It was really an urgent cry for my mom that woke us

all up. And if we did not respond to the cry in time,

we wouldn't be alive today. Hah. I tell you this is just a

story, okay, yes, or your story of course, yes, And

it talks about urgency of time. Imagine if you don't wake up, or

if you don't respond immediately, we would have suffered. So in closing,

this is just a very quick summary. I hope you have caught something,

but if you did not, this is something that you can take home.

Right from Luke, chapter fourteen, verse sixteen to twenty four. Next night,

ready, the Great Supper is ready. All are invited, right,

everyone, yourself included. If you have not responded to this invitation today,

the invitation has gone out to you right now, and you can respond shortly

later when we have our invitation later. Right, So all our invited,

including our family and friends, who have not yet heard about who is this

God? Who is this Jesus? Maybe they heard about it, but they

don't know deeply enough about it. So that's why it's good to equip ourselves

with the word of God and to come to tuition hear more about who this

Jesus? Is right and next point quickly, quickly. The Master has instructed

us to next light too, bring all and do it in love and quickly,

because the supper is ready. Next lighte and to fill his house.

Very simple message today. I hope that you have caught something from the Book

of Luke chapter fourteen right, and it's so important in our day and time.

Right now we are in this time where grace is. Grace is ready

for us. It is here and now because this grace will soon be over.

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