The Greatest Achievement In Life Approved By God | Armond Valdez

I want to share something very simple, but I want you to

contemplate about this. The title is the greatest

achievement in life or the greatest achievement we can

achieve in life? This must be our greatest goal

in life, which is commanded, which is approved by God

Himself. God has placed his seal of

approval with this goal of ours. This goal is not based on our on

our thinking, on our own desires, feelings.

It's not our planning. This goal is has something to do

with God himself. Because one day we will die,

correct? No mortal man or no flesh can

live forever. No flesh is eternal.

Do you agree with me? Mere man will die.

OK. And then when we die after we

pass from this life, All right, What happens next?

What happens after we die? Will we be excited to meet God

while we are still here? Right now we should prepare.

What do we do knowing that one day we are going to die and live

this planet, live this, this blanket, this, what we call

this, this the the shirt. You know our body is like a

shirt. When we leave this flesh, are we

ready? I give you a tip.

You prepare a pasalubum. Now I know there is no word in

English for that. Pasalubum means something to

bring home or a souvenir. OK, so before you meet God, you

prepare your pasa lubong, your bring home here.

So when you, you know, get to heaven, when you stand before

God, you have a pasa lubong. That pasa lubong is something

that he is expecting that he wants.

Who among you here? When you have a friend who will

travel abroad, you say, hey, don't forget my bring home.

Don't forget my pasa lubong, and then you will pick what pasalubo

you want, OK? You will require, oh, I want

this, I want that, OK, Now that is the Lord.

He specified what pasalubo He wanted from us, what pasalubo He

expects from us, Amen. So we need to know what He

requires, what expects of us, The criteria, which is the

criteria for success, Amen. And this success is a time task.

Everybody say time task that. That's why you see the picture.

You have the heart right there. Your heart is beating.

If that beating stops, only God can do that.

That's the end. It can stop at any time.

That's why you are, you are breathing light right now while

you're alive. That is grace and mercy.

There is nothing to be proud of ourselves.

We cannot be, we should not be prideful of anything.

There is nothing in us that we can boast about.

And then God is, you know, impressed.

God is not impressed with anything we can do.

No, he's not. There's nothing that we have

that does not come from him. There's nothing good that we

have that does not originated from Him.

Amen. Now listen up.

You see the clock in the heart. It is time and you will have to

finish your task, the task that is expected of you and me,

before your time is up. This is the truth.

Only God knows the time of our death.

When you go to the cemetery, what you see, some are big, some

are small. People die in all ages.

Not everybody dies at their old age.

No, some die very young. So here's my point.

How do you know when your time comes?

You don't, you will not know. But people who work in hospital,

right? Doctor praise those who work in

hospital. I mean, to see people dying

every day is normal. But all of us will, will face

the same faith because everything on this earth with

the sinful world, it's all bound to fail, to deteriorate, to

decay, subject to decay. Are you listening?

Job 14-5 says you have decided how long people should live.

You control the number of months that each person will live.

Nobody can live any longer than that.

Wow. But sometimes we think, Lord,

why? But listen up.

The sovereign God who is the source of life, does he have the

right to choose how long each should live?

Yeah, because he made you and me.

If he says your time is up today, it's up today.

If God says you have one month to live, you have one month to

live. But the problem is this.

We don't know when our time is up.

That's why we ought to live as though it is the last month of

our lives. Don't leave us though.

Oh, I have so many plans. I'm going to do this.

I'm going to build that. Yeah, that's good.

Long term vision is good. But remember, try to do things,

work on things. Glorify God with your life as

though it's your last week or last month wisdom.

That's why David said teach us how to numbers are how to

numbers and number our days are right.

Hello. Set the right priorities.

If it is not your priority, don't do it.

Man. I hope other friends will not be

offended, but man, I don't want to mention that anymore.

OK, so that is why I have to pick what meetings I should

attend to because you might be wasting time on other things or

it's better for you to sit down in front of your computer and

try start evangelizing, preaching the gospel.

Hello now guys, I'm giving you wisdom right now because I want

on graduation day on the Bhima judgment, I want to clap the

loudest to applaud my brethren receiving awards from the

creator because you have done your job well done, good and

faithful servant. Amen.

So what do we do? This is this is the goal.

Our goal is a time task. Our focus must be focus on the

most important task, which is to go and make disciples for

Christ, for Christ of Christ. Don't you ever think make

disciples my disciples, ha, ha, ha, and expect rewards from God.

Oh come on, those are your disciples.

Remember those disciples of yours, those people you are

discipling? They are not really yours.

Don't claim it. Give God the glory.

It's in Matthew 2819 to 20. That's the reason why they are

not our disciples. Make disciples of Christ, or for

Christ it says Matthew 2819 Therefore go and make disciples

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

of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, 2020 and teaching them

to obey. What?

Everything I have commanded you, and I am surely with you always

to the very end of the age. My point here, friends, is

simple. The things that you will teach

the people you are discipling are not your teachings.

They are not your principles. The lifestyle that you're trying

to impart to the people you're discipling are His.

It's from the Lord Jesus Christ. What is the Lord trying to

produce? He is trying to produce a Christ

like character, a true follower of Christ, a godly person, not

like us, but like him, but will not be us, him.

Now remember, that's a different story, OK, Amen.

Amen. To be Christ like doesn't mean

you can replace Christ or you are equal with Christ.

That's another story. Remember the creator, the word

that made everything, the word that became flesh, the Lord

Jesus Christ. Remember the Creator will always

be the Creator. The created beings will not

replace nor level up to become equal to its creator.

Make sure you understand that you do not promote yourself.

Do not promote yourself to be like gods because that is not

the context. When Jesus said did I didn't I

tell you you were gods? No, no, no, no, no.

You go back to the book of Psalms because Jesus was telling

them you because gods were the that is how the judges in the

Old Testament were called. Here we have the whole of

justice before in the old, in ancient Israel, they call it the

gods. OK, so he was not really talking

about us becoming gods or equal with the God.

He was really actually talking about those judges of long ago,

those the people that they call gods.

Actually they were judges that can be bribed.

Do you understand that is from the book of Psalms.

Now I'm not here to talk about that.

My point friends, is this, that we wanted to make disciples for

Christ Jesus, not our disciples. So we disciple because Jesus

called us to disciple. Jesus wanted us to relay the his

teachings. Amen, Amen, Amen.

And so ladies and gentlemen, the motive of the heart is very

important. We will stand before God.

You may be, you may have done a great ministry, you may have so

many people following you, you may have so many people liking

your preaching online. You may have so you may be so

successful in ministry, but yet yet God is not glorified because

everything goes back to you because God can read the mind

and the heart, He understand and he knows if you have taken his

glory or not. Now the Bible says I am Adonai,

I will not share my glory to any other.

You see that is the Lord our God.

So once God is using US, the more important reminder, OK, I'm

now at the end of my presentation.

I'm just OK. Everything flows.

The important reminder when God is using you, greatly expanding

your territory spiritually blessing the work of your hands

and ministry with great success, and when people speak highly of

you and you feel needed and essential.

Remember to stay low, stay humble, and not to fall into the

temptation of wanting to feel important.

Be careful because the enemy is right there behind your success,

friends, the enemy standing right there.

And you know what? Encouraging you to boast about

it, to be proud of who you are, to be proud of what you've done.

Listen to friends. Don't fall into the temptation

to feel that you are important, John said.

May he increase and I decrease. This is how we measure maturity

in Christ. When a person becomes so proud

in his words, that is an immature Christian or not a

Christian at all, maybe a politician who makes promises

and not do it. Because people change.

When money comes, they quickly change and they start to betray

everyone and they don't care. You know why they can do that?

Why they can steal our taxes with ghost projects.

Because they don't have the fear of the Lord.

They don't feel accountable that one day they're going to stand

before God. And there is no ombudsman, no

Senate, no Congress, no president can save them.

All of them will stand before God.

And they don't fear God at all. And I don't want you to be like

them. Who does not fear the Lord?

Because if somebody fears the Lord, they will be like

Zacchaeus. You remember Zacchaeus?

He said I'm going to return from people those I have, you know,

Hangi Kapit Yehangi, he stole he.

Yeah, from, you know, he's a tax collector.

But he said I'm going to return it.

Wow. Restitution.

That's repentance. Will that happen in the

Philippines? I don't think so.

I have no hope for this, Philippines, I'm telling you,

the Bible says we will experience righteousness, godly

governance when Jesus comes and to reign and establish his

millennial Kingdom. Oh, God, I wish it could happen,

could start tomorrow. Listen, if someone appreciates

the outcome of your ministry, simply say thank you.

But the Lord was the musician, and I was only the musical

instrument. It was really the Lord's mercy

and favor working in us. Without Him we can do nothing.

So He deserves all the glory. May He increase and I decrease.

Do you understand when somebody says to you, Oh, I'm so blessed

with your ministry, say thank you.

But we give God the glory. So who deserves the glory?

It's God, not us. Anything you have is not yours.

Nothing. What you know, what you

understand, your wisdom, your skill, they are all entrustments

and God is expecting profit from your entrustments.

How many people are blessed with those entrustments?

That's why Kuya Pati said last Sunday, hello, respond to God's

call, Amen. Serve the Lord while you can.

And today it is a continuation. I'm challenging you again.

Allow God to use you. So friends, our focus, our goal,

our highest achievement will be that of a disciple, maker,

person, make disciples. You see those scriptures?

I'm not going to read the content.

You take a picture, read it at home, get things done #2 ASAP.

Why? Why ASAP?

Why not waste time? Because it is a time task,

meaning to say you don't know when your time is up.

You better finish the job. How many of you, you, you know,

while you were when you were a student, you have an assignment

and you don't do your assignment until it's and then you do

cramming because you're going to pass your assignment tomorrow.

Oh, very good job. Don't do that in the Kingdom of

God. While you have more time, you go

home and start working on your project.

Amen. I understand.

I was a student too. I'm still a student today.

Due today. Due today.

That's not a good principle. Yeah, but thank you for that.

Now I learned something. Do today, do today, man, Lord,

one more day. Don't Take Me Home now.

I will serve you one more day. What can you do in one day?

Can you make disciples in one day?

Takes a long time to make disciples for Christ.

Amen. Amen.

So what do we do? Do it now.

And the Bible says see to it that you complete the ministry

assignment you receive from the Lord.

See those scriptures right here, 123 read it.

It's all there. I'm not making this up.

I may not be reading the content of the Scriptures, but I'm

telling you the point, the context of the scriptures.

OK, let me I want to finish as soon as possible.

Learn from those who have gone ahead of us.

Is that wisdom? OK, let's learn from Jesus

himself. Is that, is he a good model?

OK, this is the Lord Jesus Christ before the crucifixion,

which is the final mission on earth to save man.

He was, he came first. He came as the sin offering.

He died in our place. He paid the price.

We owe the debt. We owe the debt.

We are the sinners, but he paid our sins for our sins.

So that's the greatest thing. So, but before that crucifixion,

before he was hung on the cross, he prayed to the Father.

But according to Doctor James Lee, to clear James, he said the

Lord presented his ministry report through prayer.

It was actually a ministry report.

Now this is using exegesis. Let's read John 17 one, it says

after Jesus said this, he looked towards heaven, towards heaven

and prayed. Did he pray?

Yes, Father, the hour has come. Glorify your son, that your son

may glorify you. Honor your Son, affirm your son

with your presence, the presence that I had with you from the

beginning. Do you understand?

So it's like, you know, the kind of relationship between the

Father, Son and Holy Spirit becoming one as God.

But Jesus had to become man. He left his throne, his being,

his deity, He's being, he's being a God.

His godhood came to earth as a man to represent man on the

cross. But he said, Lord, it's like

glorify your son because you know, mission accomplished.

Verse 4, Everybody read verse 4, ready go.

I have brought you glory on earth by finishing the work you

work you gave me to do. Do you understand that when we

do, when we obey God, when we do what God tells us to do, we give

glory to God? Not just singing.

You can sing all day long and not live right.

It's called hypocrisy. You can attend Maranatha and

sing the whole day and you have a beautiful voice and you can

shed many tears, 1010 liters of tears crying to God.

But if you live like demons and you become so haughty and proud

like Satan, I don't think so. God is glorified.

I don't think God will be glorified with that because you

know what? God is glorified with the fruit

of your life. Give glory to God.

That's why it says whatever you do, whether you know, you think

or whatever, make sure you give glory to God.

Verse 6 everybody, please, I have revealed you to those whom

you gave me out of this world. What is that thing again that

Jesus is talking about? I have revealed you to to those

whom you gave me meaning to say the Lord God gave Jesus the

people, the PO PS or what is POP again, person of peace.

They were yours. Jesus said you gave them to me

and they have obeyed your word. Are you listening?

Discipleship are people who will learn how to obey the word of

God. Those who attend your deepest,

those who attend your Bible studies, some will not continue.

They will not obey. They will not continue because

they cannot obey the word of God.

Do you understand? Amen.

But disciples will remain. No matter what happens, they

will remain in Christ. They may be transferring from

one church because they may be moving to another place, but

what's important is that they remain in Christ.

Listen up. Listen verse 7.

Now they know that everything you have given me comes from

you, for I have, for I gave them the words you gave me, and they

accepted them. So another mark or trademark of

a disciple is that they will accept the Word of God, Amen.

When you share the Word of God, they receive it.

They knew, it says they knew with certainty that I came from

you and they believe that you sent me.

I pray for them. I am not praying for the world,

but for those you have given me, for they are yours.

Listen up. It's like Jesus giving his

report, saying, Father, this is my ministry report.

The people you gave me, I lost none of them except one who is

doomed to destruction. But he said besides him, the

people you sent me, they belong to you.

I gave them your word and they accepted it.

Hello. Is this agenda between the

Father and the Son important? It is.

It may not be that important to us, but in the Kingdom of God

the most important agenda are disciples.

Hello, are you listening? So the summary is this.

The prayer in John 17 was about the honor that God that the Lord

Jesus had done to glorify His Father.

He glorified the Father by completing the earthly ministry

given to Him. And that ministry is the

ministry of discipling those whom God sends.

He will send you. That's why we told you right DPS

facilitators, do you remember we told you pray that God will send

you PO PS Keep on praying there will be more.

OK, Disciple making is fundamentally an act of

obedience to Jesus Great Commission which is the core

mission of a Christian of the Christian Church.

This ministry involves the process of teaching, modeling,

releasing believers to become obedient followers of Christ who

can in turn what disciple others make, disciples who will

disciple others. I was encouraged with the

testimony of Goya James Lee. By the way, James Lee is the one

who we invited twice already to conduct seminars on Rapture, but

he is not really promoting poster or what.

He is promoting hermeneutics because if you apply

hermeneutics in studying the end times, you will end up

understanding the pre tribe is not biblical.

OK, And you will understand the right position or the viewpoint

or what Jesus, what the apostle Paul, what John the beloved,

what the rest of the writers, authors of the books in the in

the Bible, what they really teach about the end times.

OK, I understand that's why exigesis and hermeneutics is so

important. Friends, don't just take any

doctrine because somebody said this is the this is the right

doctrine. No study it yourself.

That's why I always ask, you know, when I when I read online

and I see all of this false hope teachers, I always say when it

where in the Bible does it say that rapture will take place

before the seven years tribulation?

No one can answer because even I cannot answer.

You know why? Because the Lord Jesus Christ

never supported that, never mentioned by Paul.

It's just a wishy wishy wishful thinking.

I am telling you this. Read it.

OK now this is the final product he sent.

Listen up. The final product of our

ministry must be disciples. Well, James, he said, I came to

realize that the final product of our ministry must be

disciples. That's how Jesus presented his

final project report in John 17. Four.

It was not about organizations. Are you listening?

It was not about organizations. Look at me.

Look at me. Look at me.

I have joined, I have created, I made so many organizations and

Jesus and etcetera, etcetera. But I don't expect to receive an

award or be recognized with that because we have done so many

events and programs. Do you know Metro Front?

How many of you are Metro Front? Also fun.

Oh, evangelism, was that good? Yes, did we Did we gave people

the opportunity to respond to the gospel of Christ?

Yes or no? Yes, but how many stayed?

How many continued after them receiving Jesus as Lord and

Savior? Do you understand the gold

right? There are not the number of

people that attended our programs and meeting the real

treasure. There are disciples.

The greatest model on earth, listen up, is the Lord Jesus

Christ Himself. Do you agree?

He did not have 1000 disciples in his lifetime.

How many did he have? It's 12 -, 1 + 1.

We're not better than our maker. Amen.

So friends, listen up. Focus on disciple making, join

DBS, join a Home group, start your your your start

facilitating at DBS. I'm telling you that is the work

that is expected of us and it's time frame.

It's a time task because we don't know when our time is up.

Hello. So it's not about organizations.

This is from Gwia James Lee. Not about numbers, not about

buildings or how big is your church, you know, or is it air

conditioned like this one or, or It's not about records of

miracles and achievements. It's not about your medal

certificate. It's not about recognition from

the government or other people. It's not about those things.

Those are nothing but papers only on planet earth.

What will matter the most? Disciples.

So my challenge friends, is this time is running up.

Do you have people following you now?

If you're just walking alone with your journey in Christ,

you're just taking a walk. You're not making disciples

because no one is following you. If you're a disciple maker, if

you're a mentor, you have a mentory Reese.

People will be following you. That is your goal.

That is our goal. How many people are submitting

to Christ through our leadership, through our life or

are you disciple someone and you are not decide you are not being

discipled yourself. That's another problem right

there. In fact that is that is that

invites more trouble if you're trying to disciple other people

and you're not submitted. You want people to submit to

you, but you don't want to submit to any authorities.

That's a big problem. You know why?

Because you are going to produce stubborn people like you.

And there was silence. That is a big trouble right

there. It begins with us.

Amen. We all need someone to mentor

us, to check us, to have authority to correct us.

If we hate correction, Whoa. Don't expect people to receive

correction because a day is coming they will not accept

correction. So it's not about all of these

records of miracles and achievements, but men who knew

God, how did they came to know the Lord?

It is through the work of the Holy Spirit.

The Holy Spirit will regenerate their spirit and they will, once

the Spirit is alive, they will understand that they need a

Savior, they need to repent. They will respond, and they will

submit to authorities. Amen.

And one day soon, listen, there's going to be a Bhima

awarding ceremony at the judgment seat of Christ.

And like the song, I can only imagine.

What would be like when that day comes.

I can only imagine it's like Lord, the Lord will reward you,

but you say God, I, I don't deserve this.

I'm just the instrument. You deserve all the glory, God,

you deserve all the honor. So always remember, only God

takes the glory, Amen. So, friends, let's make

disciples.