Assignment, Alignment, Accountability | Eld wong Kien Yiak-Edited MTG

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You're listening to a message to go from Acts Church.
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We hope this message will light up your day.
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So I want to show you from Scripture really. We
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also have an assignment, alright? Luke 19 verse 11, okay?
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Now these things, Luke 19 verse 11, he spoke one
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to another parable. Jesus was near Jerusalem because they thought
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the kingdom of God would appear immediately. The kingdom of
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God will appear immediately. I'm not sure how many of
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us here expect God just to Do miraculous work immediately. God,
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change my workplace right now.
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Thank you, Lord, in Jesus' name, right? Change my spouse behavior.
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I didn't say change my spouse. Change my spouse behavior
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right now in Jesus' name, right? Change, you know, my
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husband who is so stubborn. So he has to be
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more flexible and stuff like that. And stuff like that,
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we are wired for immediate resolution. We are wired for
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immediate change. We are wired for, we just want things
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right now to happen. You turn on Waze and, you know,
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we expect Waze to show us a way out of
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traffic immediately, alright?
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Not knowing that we'd be liked to.
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Instead of bringing us away from traffic, it brings us
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into traffic and asks you to wait, right? I'm not
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sure how many of us here, when we spend time
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with the Lord and we be with the Lord, the
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word is, we develop patience, perseverance. Develop patience and perseverance.
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Because some things doesn't happen immediately. Some assignment in your
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life doesn't happen immediately. Some things you want clarity right now,
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doesn't happen. And the Lord wants to encourage you this
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morning whereby He doesn't, the Word is revealed fully your
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entire journey to you because if He does, I believe
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and I do know that we might be afraid to
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take that path. Could you imagine Daniel, in the book
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of Daniel, right? He fasted for 10 days. water and vegetables,
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fasted for 10 days. And in the 10 days, could
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you imagine God revealed His entire challenge.
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In front of him? You know, Daniel, after these 10 days,
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you get promoted, praise God, right?
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After the promotion, your friends will be thrown into the
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fiery furnace, right? Then you have a boss, a king,
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that will throw you into the pit of lions, right?
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If he does reveal this to you, for example, if
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you are Daniel, how many of us here could say, yes, Lord,
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count me in.
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Yes, Lord, I'm worthy.
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I just want to experience the truth, the excitement of
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what it feels like to be thrown into the den
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of lions. I think if God does reveal to us
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the entire plan, I think the majority of us here
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may not go fully with the Lord, saying that, God.
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I know maybe in the journey you'll change your mind.
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Maybe in the journey that you'll be, you're just testing
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me only.
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Sometimes God brings us through stages so that He can
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strengthen our faith.
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Sometimes God brings you through stages so that your faith.
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Can be on firm foundation. Your faith can be real.
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Because in life, things does happen.
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The good and bad.
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Faith doesn't mean that we are exempted for life challenges.
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It doesn't.
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Faith doesn't mean that you never had a heart attack.
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Faith doesn't mean that you'll never go through lack in
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your life. But faith allows us to go through it victoriously.
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Meaning to say, when you come out of it, you
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know that God is so real that He will come
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through for you. Verse 12 says, A certain noble man
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went into a far country, received for himself a kingdom
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and returned. Verse 13, He called ten of His servants,
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delivered to them ten minas and said to them, or
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ten talents, Do business till I come.
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Do business till I come.
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Friends, there is a part of our Christian faith whereby
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you and I, the word is, have to be busy
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with the things of God.
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Right?
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Now, verse 14 says, But the citizen hated him, sent
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a delegation after him, saying, We will not have this
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man reign over us. So, point number one is just
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this assignment. I want us to know that you and
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I have an assignment. He says, Do business till I come.
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He did not say the word is that you will
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not retire. The word is He has given each and
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every one of us here talents.
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He has.
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He has given you an amazing talent. The question of
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the day would be, whose business are you busy with lately? Really,
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all of us are busy.
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We are.
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We are busy in our own life and stuff like that.
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But I think it's good for us to just reflect
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and pause for a moment. Whose business are we busy with? Now,
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God did not say that, you know, come in full-time
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ministry and therefore your business is exempted.
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No.
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That sometimes in our life, we are busy with things
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that really doesn't bring value, doesn't add joy into our life.
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We are busy with things that, I think some things
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can be not as important. There are some things that
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are important, we are not doing it. For example, cleaning.
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We should be busy with cleaning at least part of
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our house, I think, I believe, I trust. I asked
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this at One Church Plan. I said, hey, the word assignment,
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and everyone understands the word assignment is basically you got
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things to do, correct or not? But what are we doing?
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Because we could have a very different lingo, different interpretation
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of what assignment is. So I asked a question to
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One Church Plan. how clean must your toilet be? How
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clean must your toilet be? So I asked one husband, brother,
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how do you clean your toilet? As long there is
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no stains.
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Praise God, it is clean enough. I said, great.
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I said, nothing wrong. So I went to ask the wife, wife,
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to this gentleman, is that acceptable? As long as there
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is no stains. On the toilet bowl, elder, there is
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a floor that you need to look at. Make sure
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there is no hair. There is a basin, right? To
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make sure that there is no yellow stains, right? There
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is something called the toothpaste residue. If you all did
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not know, that might be on the tap. She went
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through the list, you know. And finally, there is a
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shower area. If it's a glass, it has to be
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sparkling clean. As she was going through the list, I
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looked at the husband. Husband, did you misinterpret?
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No. To me, clean is no stain. You just improperly
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can already. Could you see how much, if.
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That's real for us in a real physical world, how
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much more in the spiritual world.
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The interpretation of do business till I come.
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Sometimes new business to come is just, really the word
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is just this, is that we just keep ourselves busy.
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We just, what we think we should be busy with,
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not expanding our faith. The next question for us is that,
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do you know that you have talents? The Bible says,
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God has given the disciples, each of them, talents five, two,
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and one.
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Most times in our life, we go like, I'm not talented.
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Says who?
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Who? The Bible says in Jeremiah chapter 1 verse 5,
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before you were formed, God already knew who you are.
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He already knew who you are before you were formed.
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He says that I've called you to be prophet among nations.
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Meaning to say that He already has known what you're
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capable of. Even before that you and I discover our
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name on our ID. God already fashioned you. He knows you. Therefore,
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He already, the word is, blessed you with talents. Do
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you know that you have talents in the first place? Friends,
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our talents is beyond the ability to finish all the
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leftover food on the table. Oh, this guy very talented,
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can finish all the food, right? It's beyond that. Oh,
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your talents is beyond just, oh, this guy can drive
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very fast.
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Right?
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It has to be more than that, friends. Your talent
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must add to the kingdom of God. Friends, you and
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I this morning must come to the place of realising
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that God has blessed us with amazing talents.
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Now, even you say that, Elder, I know I'm talented.
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Praise God.
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Do you know how to use them? Do you know
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how to use the talent that God has blessed you with?
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I was with the church in Ex-Bacassif about two weeks
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ago and you know, and we were just talking about
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manuals and training materials.
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And stuff like that.
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Pastor Fran said, yep, we have all the training materials
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and the whole SPO and the leadership of the church
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have the materials. Wow, we all said, wow, praise God,
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you're even quicker than some of our church plan in KL, right,
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in getting the materials out. So our next question is,
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because we know the church, do you know how to
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use them?
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Dead silence.
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You know, sometimes we hand out materials to individual, assignment check,
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everyone in X Ampang got the materials.
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Praise God, we achieved.
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Until we turn the pages of the book or the
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manual and stuff like that, we really don't know how
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to use them. Or we think we know how to
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use them. We have this assumption we think that this
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is supposed to be the way. Just like the people
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that receive the talents. Do business till I come. And
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you and I know that there was an individual that
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took one of the talents and just hid it in
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the ground. He thought he was doing business for the Master.
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Every day, God gives the opportunity for us to be ambassador, representative,
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to show and demonstrate His kingdom here on earth.
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He does.
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He gives you opportunity every day. The word is to
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show His talents that He has given you. But many
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times in our life, in our journey, we go like, oh,
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maybe not me, maybe I'm not worthy, I'm not good enough.
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And sometimes we.
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Resent, not resent, we miss the opportunity to do the assignment.
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In verse 14, it says, but his citizens hated him,
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sent a delegation after him, saying that we will not
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have this man reign over us. Until you get a
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relationship and perspective right with God, you'll miss the mark
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of doing what God wants. There is two types of people, friends,
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in the kingdom of God. One is just a citizen.
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You know, in every citizen, friends, you complain when there's pothole.
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Pothole, then you go, what do you do? You complain
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to your local council. Get the local council to come
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and fix it.
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Public servant, you are part of the public servant ministry,
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you fix the road. Selina is leaking here, you fix
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the roof. Selina, I don't want enough ex-kid teacher. Find
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ex-kid teacher. Very good example. Every problem with the church plan,
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you tell the person who is serving.
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But God has never asked us to remain citizen. Come on.
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God has never asked us to remain at the citizen level.
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He always asks us to come closer to Him. The
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greatest of all shall be servant. He has always asked
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you to come closer, to be more like Him. He
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did not come here to be served, but to serve,
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the Bible says. The citizen always complains. This is not right,
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that is not correct. Yo, today espresso food not good enough.
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Last week one better. And you begin to complain and compare.
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And you begin to say, I don't like this assignment.
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Maybe one day God asks us to shift into another place.
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Maybe for a season, maybe they have to do renovation
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in this place. Oh no, Selena, last time, Ji Tao
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was so good.
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It was so good. Free flow coffee, right? So nice.
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That OSK, okay lah, not too bad. Now this place....
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This place may not be as nice. And you begin
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to compare, complain. And you know what? We will miss
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out on the assignment.
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Come on. In life, it's the same.
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When you just begin to compare, complain, you will miss
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out on the assignment that God has given you. You'll
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miss out on the assignment God has given you. That's
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the reason why you and I need to get our
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relationship with the Lord correct.
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Because without getting correct, friends, you will miss the assignment.
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And no matter what it is, friends, because it is
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the Master, you don't have a relationship with Him, you
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won't like the assignment. I was about to say, Pastor
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Joel Lloyd, no. If Joel Lloyd gives you an assignment,
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you say, I'll run with it. But if I give
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you an assignment, you go like, maybe, because I don't
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have a closer relationship with you.
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Compared to, again, I was about to call you Pastor Joel. No, Joel.
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Because he has a really, he has a really, but
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if you become Pastor, I'll be more than happy, you know,
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and stuff like that, you know. Deacon Joel. Anyway, because
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Joel has a.
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Relationship with you.
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When he, when he, when he asks yourself something, you
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do it because there is a relationship. But if it's me,
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I don't see you as often as some of the
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leaders here. Some of you who knows me longer, you'll
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do it. But some of you knew, who is this guy,
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bald-headed guy and stuff like that. It's very normal. Could
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you imagine how much more the master and the servant
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and the citizen, the citizen said, I don't want this
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man to reign over us. So the few thoughts that
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you could have right now is that, how is your
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relationship with the Lord?
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How is your relationship with the Lord? It's not something
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for us to just do. My relationship with the Lord
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is good. But if it's good, then spend time with
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Him because the assignment does come, friends. It does.
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That's why it's beyond your normal vocation. Because if it's
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a retirement age, when it comes to the things of God,
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then God will just say, serve me until you reach 65, okay?
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Then the next balance of your years, that's it. You
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wait for me. I'll bring the bus. When the bus comes,
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just hop on the bus. I'll see you in heaven.
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It doesn't suit your assignment in life all the way
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until it calls you home. That's why there are full-time workers,
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you and I know, who serve the Lord until God
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calls them home.
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Until God calls them home. So there is an assignment, friends.
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Next word I want to ask is the word alignment.
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Alignment.
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Are you aligning your life with the assignment that He
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has given you? Are you aligning your life with the
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assignment that God has given you? That act of alignment
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shows whether we are close to the assignment or not.
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It does. Meaning to say that, friends, many times we don't,
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the words is.
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That evaluate where we are going with our life. Where
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we are going with the choices that we are making.
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With the values that we are adopting. With what is
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in front of us. Sometimes, trends will come into our
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life whereby we can be so taken up by it.
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In the early 2000 plus, the church and every one
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of them were trying to reach the unchurched, was trying
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to reach the unchurched. And therefore, there was a change
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and a shift in Malaysia in terms of the leaders
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they did away with the ties and the jacket. Did
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away with the ties and the jacket. If you have
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been in Malaysia long enough, you'll be attending church in
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the late 80s and stuff like that. Every church, this
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is the traditional wear. Shirt, tie, jacket and everything like that, right?
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There was a time whereby this went away because you
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want to reach the next generation. They did away with
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it and it become trendier and trendier. Pastors were the
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word is sometimes pressured.
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Not pressured. Yeah, you can see it's pressured. The word
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is pressured.
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The word is, you know, compared to have different color hairstyle.
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Yeah, so it's dye your hair. I can't.
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Dye your hair in a particular color so that you'll
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be more trendy, more youthful looking and stuff like that.
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Then came the youth pastors after that. whereby the older
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clothing was out, skinny jeans was in, tighter baby.
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Tee was in.
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Some of you are like, baby tee, I heard that
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word for wear. Tighter t-shirt was in, right? And everyone
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had a certain look. You must have that look and
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a nice coffee mug, right? Takeaway coffee cup. So you
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fit the image of what a trendy youth pastor is.
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So that was a wave at one point. And having
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big guns on your bicep is in.
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Ben, yeah. Bigger than yours, yes. Perfect candidate for youth pastor.
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Praise the Lord.
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So having that, and having that was in, and after
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a while, friends, that was a trend. That was a
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trend that people caught up with. Caught up with.
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Could you see sometimes, Trend can cause us to misalign.
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Come on.
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At one point in time, in the early 2000s, every
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church wanted their own building.
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Every church.
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The bigger the building facility, right, the better it is.
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And you know, there was one point in time and
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we were... And even us, we were caught up with
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wanting our own building as well. We wanted our own
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building as well. We wanted to grow big and just
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stuff like that with our own stage, our own lives,
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our good sound system, a great band. We have amazing
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bands here and stuff like that. We wanted that and
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God just put a pause in our direction. He said, hey,
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you're going on to a path I've never wanted you
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to go in the first place. You're going on to
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this journey whereby If you carry on this path, you might,
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the word is, miss all that I have for you.
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Miss all that I have for you. And sometimes it's
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hard to go against the natural. That's why in Luke
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chapter 22 verse 42 says that, if it's your will,
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take this cup away from me. Nevertheless, not my will
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but yours be done. Friends, it is hard to surrender.
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It is hard to say, God, I got to realign.
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It is hard for us to say that, God, that
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you are my master, my Lord. It is hard for
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us to say, may your will be done. But nevertheless,
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not mine but yours. I'm sharing all this with you
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only because that, friends, we can be so.
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Right in our mind yet so wrong.
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Let me draw an example for you from Prophet Samuel
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and Saul. The assignment from Prophet Samuel to Saul in
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1 Samuel 10 was this.
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You shall go down before me to Gilgal.
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Surely I will come down to you to offer burnt
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offerings and make sacrifices of peace offering. Seven days you
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shall wait till I come to you and show you
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what you should do. What was Samuel's assignment to Saul?
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Go down to Gilgal?
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And he will come to make the burnt offering, you
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have to wait for seven days. Saul's response to the
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assignment was this in 1 Samuel chapter 13.
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Verse 7 to 9. As for Saul, he was still
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at Gilgal. Checked.
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And all the people who followed him were trembling. Then
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he waited for seven days.
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Checked. He waited for seven days. Checked.
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According to the time set by Samuel. But Samuel did
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not come to Gilgal and the people were scattered from him.
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Verse 9. Saul said, bring a burnt offering and peace
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offering here. And he made and he offered the burnt offering. Friends,
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Saul thought that by offering up the offering, he thought
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that he's in alignment. If Saul knew that he was wrong,
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I don't think he would do it. But he thought
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that he could. Sometimes in your journey with the Lord, friends,
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in your journey with the Lord, we think that this
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is right, but we could be so wrong. That's why
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it's so important for us to get back our relationship
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right with the Lord in the first place. I was
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talking to one leader, and one leader just said, you know, Elder,
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so after Holmes, talking about Holmes, just the last Holmes, um,
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I think the last one point was community, right? So community,
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you know. See, all the community need is just love.
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All the community need is just love. I say, well,
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it's true. All the community need is just love. But
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in love, it's so wide. And your definition of love
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is so limited. Because we view love as what we
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experience in our personal life. But with God, Love has
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to do with sacrifice.
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Has to do with obedience. Has to do with alignment.
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Has to do with conviction. But a human love is
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just acceptance, you know, mistake. It's okay lah, don't mind.
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But God, in the sight of God, love is very different.
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Love is long-suffering. Love is patient.
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1 Corinthians chapter 13, every marriage all had that. But
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after two weeks, everybody forget. But friends, I want to
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encourage you. Church, I want to encourage you. There will
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always going to be distraction in our daily life that
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causes us to miss a line. There will always be
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distraction in our daily life that causes us to miss
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a line. Saul looked at the people on the ground
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and they were afraid because they were afraid. He decided
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he could do something about it. And you know, there's
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something to do about it, friends. It is so crazy.
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Because sometimes we think we can do it better than
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whoever God has appointed.
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We think we can do better. I'm running a church.
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So I heard from another, not our church, but I
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heard from another church. So in a normal church setting,
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there were partners that had disagreements with the senior pastor,
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had disagreements with the senior pastor, shared with a few
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other congregation members, decided to leave the church and start.
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Their own church.
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Decided to leave the church and start their own. We
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will start our own church because after all, how difficult
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could it be? Putting a few people who could sing
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and worship, that we have a worship team, preaching, we
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have the material, the Bible, we can preach. Then, as
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they were going through with that, so I was asking
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the pastor, how's the church doing right now?
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Oh, they're averaging about 50 people. Oh, okay, great. 80%
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from our church. Oh, okay.
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They changed pastor three times already. And right now, they
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don't have certain people. They're asking our people that's coming
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to our church to attend their church to help out
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the church. I'm sharing this to you not because to
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put any church down, but I'm sharing this to you
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because sometimes distraction will come in your life to distract
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you for the assignment that's given. It was never, never
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God's intention for you to be distracted. That you and
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I today, friends, you and I today need to know
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that God still has an assignment for you.
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Don't worry about the noise. This is nothing compared to
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what I went through in Indonesia. Seriously. Seriously. This is nothing.
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I'll share with you. So, I was at Serpong Camp,
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Serpong Camp, the first night, first night. First night.
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First night, was preaching, and it was in a hotel,
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in a hotel, and it was, just imagine the place
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is like a PD, Parkinson's, alright? But 10 times bigger.
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The whole stretch had resorts after resorts. And you know,
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so this place was huge, but run down. Typical church
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camp style. Huge by right now, okay? Anyway, I was
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preaching that day. Next thing I know, there was a
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function that was happening two doors away.
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Two doors away. So this sound was considered quite okay already.
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Quite okay.
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The function I had in Indonesia, they had K-pop music
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louder than this.
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It was as loud as a worship team just now.
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Right?
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It was two doors away.
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And we went there, could you hear, we're having church
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right now, could you lower down your music, lower down
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your volume, They did for 10 minutes, then they put
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it up again, right? So we thought, okay, I was
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preaching tonight, I want to do auto call, it was
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very hard because it's hard to respond to auto call
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when K-pop was happening, right? So I decided to end early.
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Maybe people are tired coming to the place, let's end
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it early. Then fellowship, like, you know, we like to
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do fellowship, right? Only to find out the moment we
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opened the hall out to the, it's a shed foyer,
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it was smoke everywhere, not because of haze, because people
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were smoking.
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In a hotel. So in Indonesia, you can smoke in
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a hotel one, I think. Right?
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They were smoking and it was huge smoke over there.
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We were like, okay guys, I tell you what, we
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fellowship to a more monarchy, everybody just go back to
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your room. So it was, it was difficult and, but, but, but,
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let you know friends, you could be, could be distracted
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really by the surroundings. So in, at the camp, it
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was tough because of some of these things, yet, it
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was so joyful.
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We witnessed three Iranians people got baptized.
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One of those joyful, there was a boy I met,
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he's 18 years old, but he was in Indonesia since 8,
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10 years already in Indonesia. Parents sent him off, grandparents
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sent him off because his parents, the moment you accept Christ,
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the moment they know, the government knows that you accept Christ,
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they will call.
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You in for coffee.
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Basically for integration and bullying and stuff like that. They'll
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call you in and chances are you won't come out.
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They will physically abuse you and stuff like that in
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the prison. So this boy was there, I met him
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and majority of them, majority of them, they were waiting
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to be resettled in another country. Some of them have
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been there for 10 years and all of them had
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great jobs back in Iran. Great jobs. Local council and
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stuff like that. They said, what to do? We are
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here right now. We have to escape. But I met
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three families over there, friends, in the midst of, you
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and I know friends, it's not the best of the
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best things, right? I met three of them there and
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they just said this, if ever a chance that, you know,
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the government does get changed, we want to go back
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to our home country, number one. But elder, if you
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do get back to our home country, would you do
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us a favour? Would you come and visit us? The
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country is so beautiful, we want you to experience, right? Secondly,
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it was just this that, next time you do come
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to Indonesia, could you stay longer?
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I said, why? because I want to cook for you.
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I got two families who say they want to cook
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because by the time I described what Middle Eastern food
508
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I ate, they said, this is not Iranian food. Then
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I went to share with them and they had this
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joy on their face because friends, they had this joy.
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On their face.
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There was a guy, okay, I don't know his full name,
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but we call him, we give him a nickname.
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His name is Champion. His name is Champion, okay? Seriously,
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I tell you why.
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In Iran, he used to be a, if I'm not wrong, a.
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Property guy, right? Just selling property, real estate guy, real
518
00:29:58.549 --> 00:30:02.069
estate guy. He has the widest smile that you could
519
00:30:02.150 --> 00:30:06.509
ever see, I believe. He can advertise with any toothpaste. Seriously.
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Big, bright, white smile and he is the life of
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the church. Meaning to say that you've been to church
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camp before. Comes, there's a part of the church camp
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agenda which is called games.
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All of us drag our feet to church camp games.
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We do. Because we rather sleep. Eat, fellowship, right?
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So I was there, it was 2.30 in the afternoon,
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I was like, must we play games?
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Must we go through this?
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You know, this is for the, now older, this is
530
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for the younger people and just stuff like that.
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And this guy say, no elder, we will win!
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He was going through, he doesn't understand a lot of
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English at all, all he could just understand, champion!
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Stuff like that. So I found out from Pastor Kaijin
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just recently, I said, how is this.
536
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Guy brother doing? He, had a heart situation. Basically, he
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had a heart situation. His heart was just beating really fast.
538
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And he was admitted to the hospital.
539
00:31:10.849 --> 00:31:15.309
Right? Admitted to the hospital. And this is what Pastor Khajin,
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how Pastor Khajin described him. Talking about alignment to what
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he believes.
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You know, in the hospital, you know, most, majority, when
543
00:31:21.730 --> 00:31:23.950
you go through the kind of heart scare, you'll be
544
00:31:23.990 --> 00:31:28.390
like down, you'll be... But this brother, so different. When
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I asked him, champion. He still could say that in
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his weak voice. About a week later, he got discharged
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back in church, having the same attitude, having the same
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zeal of life. I'm sharing this to you because sometimes
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distractions will happen, cause you to be misaligned. Hurt can
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take place. Disappointment can take place. It is very natural
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in the course of the church. If we are If
552
00:32:00.119 --> 00:32:03.289
we run the church so professionally, friends, then people just
553
00:32:03.309 --> 00:32:06.109
say this church is so cold. When we try to
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love people, that's the time when people do get stunned,
555
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get hurt.
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But we have to be.
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Mature and just get over some of these pains. Not
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if we wanted to. If we could avoid it, we'll try,
559
00:32:19.940 --> 00:32:24.039
but sometimes we couldn't. I'm sharing this because the misalignment
560
00:32:24.380 --> 00:32:28.880
is very real. Different things can happen in your life
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that cause you to say, I don't want to have
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anything to do with faith. I don't want to have
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anything to do with church. You can go through your
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life for the next 30, 40 years, yet miss the mark.
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I don't want anyone here to really, the word is
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to end their life missing the mark. The final word
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is the word accountability. You can just jump to the
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last slide there. I'm supposed to add my 12, right?
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Is that correct? I know. I know.
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I got one church plan, say, elder, you got five
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more minutes, but the person just show four fingers because
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she only got four fingers. Anyway, I said, so unfair,
573
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you give the other PC, you have five fingers, so
574
00:33:10.210 --> 00:33:12.670
you give five minutes, I'm one minute short. Alright, accountability
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is how I'm going to end.
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If you know that you're supposed to give an account,
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come on, if you're not supposed to give an account
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of your life, how will it change your life? Think
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about it.
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If one day, God calls you home, and the question is,
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How have you been living your life? How would it
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change you? How would it, the word is shape your
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00:33:33.990 --> 00:33:36.750
top personality. Yeah, I shouldn't be so petty about certain things.
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I shouldn't be, so the word is possessive about certain things.
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00:33:39.329 --> 00:33:39.730
I shouldn't be.
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If you know that one day you're supposed to give
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an account, how would it change you? You know, I've
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been to a lot of wake service, being a church leader,
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I've been to a lot of wake service, a lot
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00:33:52.730 --> 00:33:55.859
of funeral and stuff like that. At every funeral, friends,
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everybody has sort of an opportunity to share about the
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individual who has passed away. How good this individual is,
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how kind this individual is. Because in your, while they
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were alive, self, their deeds may not be known. But
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the moment they are no longer with us, and people
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start sharing, he's so kind, he always shares his food,
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he always calls me up.
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Because accountability is so important.
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Because the master asks the servant, What do you do
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with the talent I've given you? What do you do
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00:34:31.960 --> 00:34:34.039
with this life that I've given you? I've called you
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00:34:34.079 --> 00:34:37.440
to be prophets among the nation. What have you been
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doing with it? Now, I'm not asking you to go full-time.
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I'm not asking you to resign from your job, to say,
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00:34:42.980 --> 00:34:46.469
tell Selena, say, Selena, I want to serve the church full-time.
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Huh? Amen? Okay. Selena got more faith than me, alright?
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I'm not asking you to do that.
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I'm asking you to Even at our workplace, God, I
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know you have an assignment for me because you opened
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this door for me to work.
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So therefore, I want to play my part. I want
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to play my part.
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Even as I close right now, accountabilities, I'm not asking
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us to account your life. I'm asking us to think
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00:35:13.550 --> 00:35:18.570
about one day when the life here on earth ends, right?
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We need to give an account. How would it change
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your life?
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How would it change I knew, let me share a personal,
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I knew my mom was a very strict lady, tough.
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The moment God came to her life, things changed.
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When she went home, passed away, well, she passed away
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about three years ago.
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Have ladies in.
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Their 80s, 80-something, coming up to me and say, you're
625
00:35:50.420 --> 00:35:53.219
the son? I say, yes, I'm the son. I want
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to let you know your mom, your mom, was such
627
00:35:56.360 --> 00:35:57.059
an amazing lady.
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00:35:57.099 --> 00:35:57.579
I said, wow.
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All I said, all I know about my mum was
630
00:36:00.800 --> 00:36:06.380
the cane, the tight slap, the strictness, the one who
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00:36:06.420 --> 00:36:08.940
said they would send me to work if I don't
632
00:36:08.960 --> 00:36:11.420
pass my exam and stuff like that, to ask me
633
00:36:11.460 --> 00:36:17.539
to work in the construction yard, right? Sell cement, repair motorcycle.
634
00:36:18.340 --> 00:36:20.909
because that's all they think the son, this son, this
635
00:36:20.949 --> 00:36:24.349
second child could be good at, not very good at studies.
636
00:36:24.489 --> 00:36:28.010
So she mapped out everything already. So I thought, your
637
00:36:28.030 --> 00:36:29.130
mum was such an amazing person. I said, what did
638
00:36:29.150 --> 00:36:32.570
my mum do for you? She cooked for me, she says.
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Nothing much.
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She cooked and she called me up because she's 80-something, alone,
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abandoned by the kids.
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00:36:41.960 --> 00:36:44.340
She didn't want anything to do with them, the parents.
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00:36:45.139 --> 00:36:47.440
So they were attending a Methodist church somewhere in Puchong.
644
00:36:48.929 --> 00:36:51.309
But your mum cooked. Your mum cooked. Drove all the way,
645
00:36:51.469 --> 00:36:53.429
about half an hour, 45 minutes. Your mum and your
646
00:36:53.469 --> 00:36:56.510
dad came over, gave the dish, and started talking to me.
647
00:36:56.610 --> 00:37:00.860
Just have a chat. Another lady came, you know, widowed,
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00:37:00.920 --> 00:37:04.000
husband passed away, no children. Your mum would call me
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00:37:04.019 --> 00:37:06.039
up once in two weeks, talk on the phone for
650
00:37:06.059 --> 00:37:10.070
an hour. Talk on the phone for an hour. I said, wow,
651
00:37:10.409 --> 00:37:17.449
my mum never talked to me for an hour. Talk
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to me for an hour to encourage me to find
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00:37:18.889 --> 00:37:19.530
out how I'm doing and.
654
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This stuff like that. I got a few of them, okay,
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00:37:22.289 --> 00:37:23.369
the SMSs and this stuff.
656
00:37:23.630 --> 00:37:26.289
I'm sharing this to you not because it's to highlight someone,
657
00:37:26.510 --> 00:37:29.369
but I'm not asking us the word is to start
658
00:37:29.389 --> 00:37:33.030
the church. I'm asking us in our course of life,
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00:37:33.550 --> 00:37:35.469
the assignment, the talent that God has given you.
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00:37:35.889 --> 00:37:38.889
God has blessed you with, let's say for example, a
661
00:37:39.269 --> 00:37:39.909
place to stay.
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00:37:40.800 --> 00:37:43.719
But in your time with the place that you have,
663
00:37:43.739 --> 00:37:46.719
would you consider opening up your place for homes at least.
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Once a year? Let's start once a year. I understand, okay?
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00:37:50.929 --> 00:37:52.469
If you have opened up your homes before, but once
666
00:37:52.510 --> 00:37:54.250
a year. I say, God has blessed you with a
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00:37:54.309 --> 00:37:55.250
vehicle to come to church.
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00:37:55.590 --> 00:37:58.250
Would you at least once a year, start with once
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a year first? I'm giving low-hanging fruit.
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Once a year. Offer up, offer up. Say, hey, I'm
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00:38:03.730 --> 00:38:05.230
going to church. Do you need transport?
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00:38:06.949 --> 00:38:09.280
Nothing, but you don't need, you don't need a fancy
673
00:38:09.320 --> 00:38:12.480
car to do that, anything like that. I'm sharing this
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because sometimes you think that, oh, I want to do
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00:38:15.079 --> 00:38:16.340
this for the Lord but I need.
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00:38:16.260 --> 00:38:18.460
A lot of resources. No. God said, I have really
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given you talents. Right?
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00:38:23.500 --> 00:38:26.340
Make use of it because as you're making use of it,
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the miracle does happen. Your one becomes one more. Your
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00:38:31.400 --> 00:38:35.409
five becomes five more. But many times you go like, Lord,
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I wish I only have this. One phone call, friends,
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00:38:39.909 --> 00:38:44.099
is all it takes to encourage someone As I close
683
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right now, friends, there's always an assignment for you and me.
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Assignment for you and me. There's always.
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00:38:51.349 --> 00:38:54.690
The assignment is not full-time, but assignment could be, hey,
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00:38:55.909 --> 00:38:59.860
I think I can do about an hour helping out.
687
00:39:01.139 --> 00:39:04.599
Let me try. Community work, let me try. Let me
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00:39:04.619 --> 00:39:07.980
try doing missions. Let me try something. I think I
689
00:39:08.019 --> 00:39:11.909
can do something for the Lord. I think I can. Lord,
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00:39:11.929 --> 00:39:13.820
you have You have blessed me with a great job.
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00:39:13.889 --> 00:39:17.969
What is my mission here at this job? Is there
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00:39:17.989 --> 00:39:20.650
someone I need to encourage? Is there someone I need
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00:39:20.670 --> 00:39:24.250
to reach out to? A phone call for 10 minutes?
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I don't know why these friends, but there's always an assignment.
695
00:39:29.389 --> 00:39:30.670
There is always an assignment.
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00:39:32.030 --> 00:39:35.309
So at our SPO retreat, I was talking to the
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00:39:35.349 --> 00:39:37.869
director of sales of a place we ran. Talking, talking
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to her.
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00:39:38.289 --> 00:39:42.030
She's not a believer. She asked me this question, say, hey,
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where's your church? I said, well, I have multiple places.
701
00:39:46.260 --> 00:39:48.920
I said, why do you ask me about church? Then
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00:39:48.960 --> 00:39:53.409
she said, her journey. Not a believer until now. She's
703
00:39:53.449 --> 00:39:53.880
a Buddhist.
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When I was young, my parents, my mum, who's not
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00:39:57.260 --> 00:40:00.619
a believer also, put me and my sister in Sunday school.
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Sunday school. So, we go to Sunday school more often
707
00:40:06.179 --> 00:40:09.059
than sometimes the believers, okay? Because parents, okay?
708
00:40:09.380 --> 00:40:16.650
Also because free childcare services for a quarter of the day. Anyway,
709
00:40:17.210 --> 00:40:20.469
She said, you know, but one thing I found out
710
00:40:20.489 --> 00:40:25.690
about Sunday school, it's very peaceful, very joyful. Something that
711
00:40:25.730 --> 00:40:30.369
cannot be replicated somewhere else, not in the daycare, nothing
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00:40:30.389 --> 00:40:33.949
at all. It's something about the church and Sunday church.
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00:40:35.219 --> 00:40:37.199
I called, now she's a mum of one.
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Could I, could I, is there any way I could
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put my child, 11 months only, I'm like, wow. This
716
00:40:45.750 --> 00:40:47.889
is really like baby care or something like that. Hey,
717
00:40:48.309 --> 00:40:52.409
we should be charging you. Could we put my child there?
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00:40:53.909 --> 00:40:58.469
So my child could experience what I experienced. I said,
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you could.
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00:40:59.219 --> 00:41:02.019
Just talk to all my top leadership right here. Let
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00:41:02.039 --> 00:41:04.579
me introduce you to Pastor Sarah and stuff like that, right?
722
00:41:04.599 --> 00:41:06.900
Then you talk to her and see which is the
723
00:41:06.940 --> 00:41:07.960
best place you could go to.
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The assignment. I'm asking us and friends to hand out tracts.
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00:41:14.920 --> 00:41:19.519
By asking us that when the opportunity comes, when the
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opportunity comes, don't shrink back in shyness, don't shrink back
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in fear, but just share what God already has done
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in your life.
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This is my track.
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We have a suicide prevention, we have this organisation or
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that organisation that could help you.
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It's Christian-based.
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But they are more than happy to just be your
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listening ear for this moment of the time.
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Because many times, the assignment comes, friends, we don't like
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to lie. Huh? Share about my faith. Share about my faith.
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I remember having to sit with DBKL one day because
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of a concert.
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They were doing. They said, you know, I have the
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power to shut down your concert in the stadium. And
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because you didn't go through the proper channel, you just
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put your thing together.
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I said, well, we don't really need that. We come
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for praise and worship. But we got foreign people coming in.
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I said, well, yeah, I know. But what can you do?
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Then there was threats after threats after threats. But I
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ended the conversation this, that, you know. You know, today
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I'm not feeling well, but I still have to come
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and talk to you. So I just thought, let's just
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end with something, huh? I said, Sir, you're not well.
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I just want to let you know that I'll let
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my team know that we'll be praying for you. Majority faith.
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I just thought that since it's going to be a
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tremendous video to close up, I should just.
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Share.
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As I close, friends, I want to close. There are
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a lot of opportunities God has given you. Don't miss
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a line. Don't say that it's not me. It's someone else.
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Or Selena is so bold, like lying like that. She'll
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insist on every opportunity. I'm not like Selena. I'm very timid.
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If she's a liar, I'm a cat, right? And stuff
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like that. Don't do that because you'll miss a line.
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That forever you have this mindset only Selena can do everything, right?
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Then you, hold on for a second, let me call Selena, okay? See,
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this is my pastor.
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Pastor Selena. This is my pastor. And you talk to her, right?
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You don't talk to her, okay? She'll sort out your
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problem for you. No, friends, God has given you. Don't
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shrink back. And one day, one day, friends, one day,
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you have to give an account We do.
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We hope you've been blessed by this message. For more
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information on our church, please visit xchurch.org. We are also
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active on Facebook and Instagram. We're believing that this week
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is going to be a good week ahead for you.
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God bless.