WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.240 --> 00:00:04.559 You're listening to a message to go from as church. We hope this message 2 00:00:04.559 --> 00:00:11.839 will light up your dam white stoping. Please don't send me to quote and 3 00:00:12.039 --> 00:00:17.679 quote say niniveh niniveh, all right, say no what NINNI? Okay, 4 00:00:17.719 --> 00:00:22.839 no niniveh? All right, everyone say please don't send me to Okay, 5 00:00:23.000 --> 00:00:26.800 I put that quote unquote. What's your Nineveh? All right? What's your 6 00:00:26.879 --> 00:00:31.359 Nineveh? Okay? Way the world is Nineveh. So we're gonna be looking 7 00:00:32.200 --> 00:00:38.159 at the book of Jonah today and Jonah. Anybody here is like a Jonah. 8 00:00:39.560 --> 00:00:46.799 Do you know what Jonah did? Wow? Jonah ran away opposite direction 9 00:00:47.119 --> 00:00:52.000 from what God was calling him for. So let's look at Jonah chapter one. 10 00:00:52.479 --> 00:00:57.479 And we're going to read now Jonah chapter one. And I'll just read 11 00:00:58.039 --> 00:01:02.759 chapter one. I will read from verse one or the way to verse seventeen. 12 00:01:02.799 --> 00:01:06.519 He said, okay, the Riga's word verse one, and the word 13 00:01:06.599 --> 00:01:11.280 of the Lord came to Jonah, the son of Amitai, saying, arise, 14 00:01:11.560 --> 00:01:17.120 go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry out against it, 15 00:01:17.560 --> 00:01:23.599 for their wickedness has come up before me. That's what God spoke to Jonah 16 00:01:23.079 --> 00:01:30.280 verse three. But Jonah arose to flee to Tashish from the presence of the 17 00:01:30.400 --> 00:01:34.840 Lord. And he went to Joppa and he found a ship going to Tashish. 18 00:01:34.120 --> 00:01:40.359 So he paid the fair. He went down into it to go with 19 00:01:40.560 --> 00:01:44.799 them to Tashish from the presence of the Lord. Verse foll. But the 20 00:01:45.000 --> 00:01:49.040 Lord sent out a great wind on the sea, and there was a mighty 21 00:01:49.239 --> 00:01:53.040 tempest. It was wow, terrible storm on the sea, so that the 22 00:01:53.159 --> 00:01:57.959 ship was about to be broken up. Then the mariners were afraid, and 23 00:01:59.159 --> 00:02:02.480 every man right out to their God all right, and through the cargo that 24 00:02:02.680 --> 00:02:08.240 was in the ship into the sea to lighten the load. But Jonah had 25 00:02:08.360 --> 00:02:15.319 gone down into the lowest part. Everybody say low us, oh, come 26 00:02:15.360 --> 00:02:21.039 on loud to low us parts of the sea, and lay down and was 27 00:02:21.280 --> 00:02:27.319 fast asleep. Wow, he was sleeping so peacefully in the storm. I 28 00:02:27.479 --> 00:02:31.719 wonder why all right verse six. So the captain came to him and said 29 00:02:31.759 --> 00:02:36.639 to him, day, what do you mean, you sleeper? Arise, 30 00:02:37.120 --> 00:02:40.919 Call on your God. Perhaps your God will consider so that we may not 31 00:02:42.159 --> 00:02:46.400 perish. And they said to one another, come, let us cast lots 32 00:02:46.520 --> 00:02:51.599 that we may know, that we that we may know for whose cause this 33 00:02:51.840 --> 00:02:54.520 trouble has come upon us. So they cast lots, and the Lord fell 34 00:02:54.599 --> 00:03:00.080 on Jonah jag jag jag all right, and they said to him, please 35 00:03:00.199 --> 00:03:05.439 tell us what did you do? What is this all right? What is 36 00:03:05.479 --> 00:03:07.800 your occupation? All right? Where do you come from? What is your 37 00:03:07.840 --> 00:03:14.719 country? And what people are you? Coolly and calmly, Jonah answers without 38 00:03:14.759 --> 00:03:20.120 a fledge. He says, I am a Hebrew jay, and I feel 39 00:03:20.159 --> 00:03:25.240 the Lord and the God of heaven who made the sea and the dry land. 40 00:03:27.240 --> 00:03:30.080 So the men were exceedingly afraid because they've heard of the news about the 41 00:03:30.280 --> 00:03:36.680 Jewish people from the story of Exodus all those years until now they remember, 42 00:03:36.759 --> 00:03:40.520 and they said, are you why have you done this? For the men 43 00:03:40.680 --> 00:03:45.439 knew that he fled from the presence of the Lord because he told them what 44 00:03:45.680 --> 00:03:50.039 this boya tell the Jarthausa. Then they said to him, what shall we 45 00:03:50.240 --> 00:03:53.159 do to you that the sea may be come for us? For the sea 46 00:03:53.400 --> 00:03:58.599 was growing very tempestuous. And he said to them, picked me up and 47 00:03:58.759 --> 00:04:01.360 throw me into the sea, then you and then the sea will become calm 48 00:04:01.479 --> 00:04:04.840 for you. Just throw me in the sea. Also still very calmer. 49 00:04:05.039 --> 00:04:09.719 He wasn't panicking, all right, So I know that the great tempest is 50 00:04:09.800 --> 00:04:14.800 because of me. Nevertheless, the men wrote hard to return to the land, 51 00:04:14.879 --> 00:04:18.279 but they could not, for the sea continue to grow more tempestuous against 52 00:04:18.360 --> 00:04:24.279 them. Therefore, he cried and out to the Lord and say Therefore, 53 00:04:24.319 --> 00:04:26.839 they cried out to the Lord and said, we pray, O, Lord, 54 00:04:27.120 --> 00:04:30.839 please do not let us perish for this man's life, and do not 55 00:04:30.079 --> 00:04:34.120 charge us with innocent blood. For you, our Lord, have done as 56 00:04:34.240 --> 00:04:38.360 it please you. So they picked up Jonah one, two three, threw 57 00:04:38.439 --> 00:04:45.079 him into the sea, all right, and then the sea seas from it's 58 00:04:45.240 --> 00:04:49.199 raging Verse sixteen. The men feared the Lord exceedingly, and they often a 59 00:04:49.279 --> 00:04:54.600 sacrifice to the Lord, and they took vows. They began to pray. 60 00:04:54.920 --> 00:04:59.560 Okay, Now the Lord had prepared a great fish, by the way, 61 00:05:00.120 --> 00:05:03.360 not a whill, because they always say edem in the fruit they say is 62 00:05:03.399 --> 00:05:06.759 apple, maybe durian, okay, but no, a great fish. Don't 63 00:05:06.800 --> 00:05:12.240 know whether it was a will to swallow Jonah up. And Jonah was in 64 00:05:12.319 --> 00:05:17.879 the belly of the fish for three days and three nights. Amen to the 65 00:05:18.000 --> 00:05:23.800 reigning of God's word. Amen, okay, please don't have me to ninive 66 00:05:24.040 --> 00:05:30.680 Why number one, God's heart was for the people of Nineveh. Who are 67 00:05:30.800 --> 00:05:36.120 these people? Well, Nineveh is a city in the kingdom of Assyrians. 68 00:05:36.160 --> 00:05:44.480 The Assyrians. Maybe today they might be somewhere Iran, Iraq, that area 69 00:05:44.600 --> 00:05:48.800 they were, you know, the enemies of Israel. So God said, 70 00:05:48.839 --> 00:05:55.240 please go and tell Ninive one of these cities, uh, that I am 71 00:05:55.399 --> 00:05:59.920 going to destroy them unless they repent. So go tell them. Then Jonah 72 00:06:00.480 --> 00:06:02.519 forget it, he said, don't send me to Ninive. He refused. 73 00:06:02.519 --> 00:06:08.120 So Jonah refused. What did he do? He he went from where he 74 00:06:08.480 --> 00:06:13.439 was all the way to the west. He went to Spain. Tashi, 75 00:06:13.560 --> 00:06:16.199 she was in Spain, and he went to have some peanut colada and the 76 00:06:16.439 --> 00:06:21.560 okay, he ran away. See he was from Israel. Gath Heifer is 77 00:06:21.560 --> 00:06:26.199 where he came from. Gath Heffer casey, Dad, and God said, 78 00:06:26.279 --> 00:06:29.959 just go over to Nineveh, which is northeast, very near right. Guess 79 00:06:30.000 --> 00:06:32.959 how far he ran dot dot dot dot dot dot on the way to spin 80 00:06:33.600 --> 00:06:38.480 Olah. Okay, so he's I'm gonna have peanut golada. I'm gonna be 81 00:06:38.600 --> 00:06:42.480 at the beach. You know, it's summer times, summer time, and 82 00:06:42.959 --> 00:06:47.040 I'm gonna not do what God told me. To do. And so in 83 00:06:47.160 --> 00:06:53.920 the story, as we read this guy, Jonah decided, no, have 84 00:06:54.120 --> 00:06:58.000 you ever asked why Jonah ran away? Anybody? Have you read it? 85 00:06:58.160 --> 00:07:02.519 Have you considered why? Okay? Why anybody? Why did Jonah run away? 86 00:07:04.519 --> 00:07:10.959 Yeah? Aisha, anyone else? Okay? If you read the whole 87 00:07:11.000 --> 00:07:13.959 book at the end, you will see that Jonah is very angry with God 88 00:07:14.040 --> 00:07:17.160 at the end. All right, So why because Assyria is the enemy of 89 00:07:17.279 --> 00:07:21.519 Israel and they were going to some difficulties. God saw that. You see, 90 00:07:21.879 --> 00:07:27.079 we're talking about omissions. God's heart for the world, for the nations. 91 00:07:27.720 --> 00:07:32.720 Even though Assyria was very evil and very wicked. Yet God wanted them 92 00:07:32.839 --> 00:07:39.279 to know that He is the Lord, and if they would repent, he 93 00:07:39.360 --> 00:07:44.680 would forgive, he would save them. So that's why he sent Jonah. 94 00:07:44.879 --> 00:07:46.959 He said, Jonah, you go and tell them they are very evil and 95 00:07:47.040 --> 00:07:50.759 wicked and wickednesses come up to me. I cannot run ready, but tell 96 00:07:50.839 --> 00:07:56.319 them if they don't repent, I'm gonna destroy them like Sodom and Gomorrah. 97 00:07:57.199 --> 00:08:01.480 Yeah, why did Jonah run away? Because he said, like, why 98 00:08:01.560 --> 00:08:05.600 should I even tell them? These guys will come into our land and kill 99 00:08:05.720 --> 00:08:09.519 us and take us. I will not share with them. They're not worthy. 100 00:08:09.639 --> 00:08:15.600 They're not worthy for us to tell them that God loves them. Ask 101 00:08:15.720 --> 00:08:20.000 us a question, have we felt like that sometimes that maybe a particular nation, 102 00:08:20.120 --> 00:08:26.000 a particular group, an ethical ethnic group or culture is not worthy for 103 00:08:26.160 --> 00:08:31.959 us to go to. They don't deserve to hear the gospel. The church 104 00:08:31.559 --> 00:08:37.240 sometimes can be like that, a bit you know, indifferent. No, 105 00:08:37.600 --> 00:08:39.879 No, they're they're no. They shouldn't even get a chance to know Jesus. 106 00:08:41.360 --> 00:08:43.840 See, no matter how evil we are, God shows us. No 107 00:08:43.919 --> 00:08:48.440 matter how evil that nation was, God wanted them to have a chance to 108 00:08:48.639 --> 00:08:52.440 hear the good news that He wants them. But they need to repent. 109 00:08:54.159 --> 00:08:56.879 And h and Jonah is someone who walked with God. He was a prophet 110 00:08:56.919 --> 00:09:03.440 of God. He served during the time of King Jeroboam the Second in Israel. 111 00:09:03.559 --> 00:09:07.799 You read that in the Book of Kings Second Kings, and he said 112 00:09:07.840 --> 00:09:11.919 I just know God do well. You will read that at the end in 113 00:09:11.000 --> 00:09:16.039 chapter four where he says, I know you, la God, you always 114 00:09:16.120 --> 00:09:18.240 like that one. You love people so much, you will forgive them. 115 00:09:18.320 --> 00:09:22.840 I know you will do that. And then if you forgive them, then 116 00:09:22.919 --> 00:09:26.279 they will come, and and and and and and and charge our land and 117 00:09:26.399 --> 00:09:28.120 take us away. I don't want them to win. I don't want them 118 00:09:28.159 --> 00:09:33.279 to repent. They're not worthy. And that's why he ran away, not 119 00:09:33.480 --> 00:09:37.399 because he was afraid, but because he was. He was just like they 120 00:09:37.480 --> 00:09:43.879 don't deserve to hear the gospel. Church. Sometimes we may have that the 121 00:09:45.039 --> 00:09:48.039 church, the church not not not saying us here particularly, but Church at 122 00:09:48.120 --> 00:09:54.480 large, sometimes believe us we can be indifferent to a particular people group. 123 00:09:54.200 --> 00:10:01.759 Perhaps that people group may have persecuted us, but perhaps certain a culture group. 124 00:10:01.080 --> 00:10:03.440 You know, it's not kind to us. And there we say, 125 00:10:05.000 --> 00:10:07.960 why should they even hear the gospel? Why should God even forgive them? 126 00:10:09.360 --> 00:10:13.480 But is it for us to judge? No, if the Lord tells us 127 00:10:13.519 --> 00:10:18.679 to go, we need to make some moves. Right. So you look 128 00:10:18.720 --> 00:10:20.840 at this boy he ran away and this man he ran away left? How 129 00:10:20.919 --> 00:10:26.080 far You see how near Ninive is. Sometimes we can run away from God, 130 00:10:26.480 --> 00:10:30.919 very very far. Actually the January shot need to nine. But he 131 00:10:31.080 --> 00:10:33.759 said, no way, Jose, I'm going to all myself there in Spain. 132 00:10:35.120 --> 00:10:39.879 So he was out there. He paid the price, even though it 133 00:10:39.000 --> 00:10:41.840 was maybe very expensive to go on the ship. He took the boy or 134 00:10:41.879 --> 00:10:46.200 even took the ship anyway, and then then then the adventure started. So 135 00:10:46.320 --> 00:10:50.240 we look at the next thing that happened. He goes to jo Per so 136 00:10:50.559 --> 00:10:56.120 you see, uh, gaff Heffer is above jo Can you see the map? 137 00:10:56.240 --> 00:10:58.279 Right? Okay? So go to my next light. What does he 138 00:10:58.360 --> 00:11:01.960 do? He goes from he goes down from gath haffer to to the ship. 139 00:11:03.080 --> 00:11:07.480 All right, so I didn't put jo there, but Joa from gath 140 00:11:07.559 --> 00:11:11.799 Haeffer. He went down to Joper. Chopa is A is by the sea, 141 00:11:13.360 --> 00:11:18.080 all right, Joper. He goes down to from gath Haeffer. Then 142 00:11:18.159 --> 00:11:20.480 he goes down to the ship. So he goes gets into the ship. 143 00:11:22.120 --> 00:11:24.679 Not only does he getting the ship, he goes even lower to down someone 144 00:11:26.120 --> 00:11:31.480 down to the lowest part of the ship. And God brings the wind and 145 00:11:31.720 --> 00:11:35.639 tries to show him and he knows that's why he was sleeping so calmly in 146 00:11:35.720 --> 00:11:39.720 the ship because he knows. I know, God, you're trying to get 147 00:11:39.759 --> 00:11:43.720 my attention forget it running away from you, and you will not. I 148 00:11:43.799 --> 00:11:46.919 won't die because I'm in the ship. Nobody's gonna die but the but the 149 00:11:48.039 --> 00:11:52.039 sea is gonna rage. He went down Can you see a journey of going 150 00:11:52.080 --> 00:11:54.080 down, down, down, down down. When you say no to God, 151 00:11:54.679 --> 00:11:58.159 be careful. So he goes down to the lowest part. And then 152 00:11:58.279 --> 00:12:01.840 later he says, just throw me. I'm really the reason, right, 153 00:12:01.960 --> 00:12:03.679 just throw me. Like he still no, Then God ain't gonna let him 154 00:12:03.679 --> 00:12:07.759 go. So I drow him into the sea, and from the into the 155 00:12:07.840 --> 00:12:11.440 sea, God spoke to a big fish, and the fish swallowed him, 156 00:12:11.759 --> 00:12:15.080 and he was preserved in the stomach of on the belly of the fish for 157 00:12:15.159 --> 00:12:20.679 three days and three nights. Down again. Whoa, whoa, Oh man, 158 00:12:20.159 --> 00:12:24.080 this is tough, right when you go down down, when you're trying 159 00:12:24.120 --> 00:12:28.320 to run away from your calling. You see, God is a very merciful 160 00:12:28.360 --> 00:12:31.360 god. You and I are scared. Sometimes we've all rather we feel like 161 00:12:31.440 --> 00:12:37.120 we are not worthy of whatever God's forgiveness because we're so bad or whatever. 162 00:12:37.559 --> 00:12:41.720 But as you see him going down, down, down, and then later 163 00:12:41.440 --> 00:12:45.559 in my next light, and I'm moving on the next light, you see 164 00:12:45.639 --> 00:12:50.399 that in chapter three, I can move on. In chapter two, Jonah 165 00:12:50.480 --> 00:12:54.600 prays in the fish's belly, so you can match it. Jonah, I 166 00:12:54.639 --> 00:12:58.000 can go to the next light. He's inside this belly is smelling like terrible 167 00:12:58.000 --> 00:13:01.279 because I don't know, bad breath or whatever the fish would have eaten the 168 00:13:01.320 --> 00:13:05.120 days here I'm there. And he prayed and he said and basically his prayers 169 00:13:05.159 --> 00:13:07.440 like I praise you, Lord, I thank you. I hope you can 170 00:13:07.519 --> 00:13:11.440 save me. Lord, forgive me. You know, he's praying all his 171 00:13:11.559 --> 00:13:13.679 prayer and then out of the belly of the fish, the Lord. Here's 172 00:13:13.720 --> 00:13:18.440 his prayer. The Lord has mercy on him. And what does the fish 173 00:13:18.519 --> 00:13:22.360 do at your awns? Out? What's his name? Jonah? Out from 174 00:13:22.440 --> 00:13:26.960 the belly at you, and he goes into the dry land. He's there 175 00:13:28.159 --> 00:13:31.799 filled with seaweed, and with the seaweed on his head. He went to 176 00:13:31.919 --> 00:13:35.720 Ninivay and he started telling them, please repent, repent, for the Kingdom 177 00:13:35.759 --> 00:13:39.639 of God is near. And you know he went so you see from up 178 00:13:39.679 --> 00:13:43.000 he goes when he repent and say, Lord, forgive me, Come and 179 00:13:43.080 --> 00:13:46.759 save me. The Lord is mercyfuller out of the three days. So sometimes 180 00:13:46.000 --> 00:13:48.720 three days one day really long enough, and you mention him when you have 181 00:13:48.759 --> 00:13:52.440 a pain in your finger and your tooth, Well, one day you really 182 00:13:52.480 --> 00:13:54.919 want to give up two days, luggy, what's happening? God? You're 183 00:13:54.919 --> 00:13:58.360 not answering my prayer. Third day, what's happening? And after three days 184 00:13:58.639 --> 00:14:01.759 he's out from the belly of the fish. He was he was spelled out, 185 00:14:01.879 --> 00:14:05.080 okay at you and went on to the dry land, and with all 186 00:14:05.120 --> 00:14:09.200 the seaweed on his head, he walked to Nineve. It is all to 187 00:14:09.320 --> 00:14:13.320 say, a picture of God, and I want us to look at how 188 00:14:13.399 --> 00:14:18.360 merciful God is. God was merciful even to Nineve. God wants to reach 189 00:14:18.559 --> 00:14:24.320 every person, every tribe, every group of people, even if we felt 190 00:14:24.360 --> 00:14:28.200 they were not worthy, they were wicked, they were they really don't deserve 191 00:14:28.240 --> 00:14:33.200 it. God wants them. But our friend Jonah, you know what is 192 00:14:33.240 --> 00:14:37.080 his background on He knows God. He is so close to God. He 193 00:14:37.240 --> 00:14:41.559 walked with God. He knows God's hard. That's why he can sleep in 194 00:14:41.639 --> 00:14:45.519 the storm. He can just say it's my problem, Just throw mina, 195 00:14:45.720 --> 00:14:48.679 just throw me. It's okay when I can, don't worry. And they're 196 00:14:48.679 --> 00:14:50.559 all like panicky, No, we cannot, we cannot after we kill you 197 00:14:50.720 --> 00:14:54.240 how and so they had to pray to the Lord and whoever they know about 198 00:14:54.240 --> 00:14:58.879 this God, yahweh, Please don't don't lead on us. It's not out. 199 00:14:58.919 --> 00:15:01.000 Don't put his blood on our on us are just forgive us how we 200 00:15:01.080 --> 00:15:09.279 were throwing him? Now poom. All of this shows us a few things. 201 00:15:09.440 --> 00:15:15.480 Number One, even the wind can obey the Lord right or nord the 202 00:15:15.600 --> 00:15:20.279 loss say wind blow, the wind blow? Then the law said, you 203 00:15:20.399 --> 00:15:26.519 know. Then the Jonah said, gets tromla, and the sailors obey. 204 00:15:26.559 --> 00:15:31.679 And thirdly, even the fish can obey. The fish also can obey. 205 00:15:31.759 --> 00:15:37.159 Open your mouth now and swallow Jonah in friends, These are all things that 206 00:15:37.759 --> 00:15:41.000 maybe you know, God created, and they can obey. But the man's 207 00:15:41.039 --> 00:15:46.440 spirit, my spirit, your spirit, my heart can we obey? I 208 00:15:46.600 --> 00:15:50.879 like to bring a point across a hard word. Sometimes we are the most 209 00:15:50.960 --> 00:15:56.799 difficult to obey. Hi yo, runaway some more. But if all of 210 00:15:56.919 --> 00:16:00.759 this can obey, isn't an amazing that they all can obey? How about 211 00:16:00.960 --> 00:16:04.720 us? Sometimes a small thing also be funny hard to obey, meaning to 212 00:16:04.799 --> 00:16:10.279 even trust God that God knows what he's saying and doing. But thank God, 213 00:16:10.720 --> 00:16:14.240 while all of this obeyed, and that man disobeyed, yet God was 214 00:16:14.320 --> 00:16:18.360 merciful. Amen, can I he? Amen? You better speak because some 215 00:16:18.399 --> 00:16:22.080 people falling asleep ready, so you need to you gotta speak up. My 216 00:16:22.159 --> 00:16:25.200 preaching also good today so falling asleep, not making you laugh. Okay, 217 00:16:25.279 --> 00:16:33.320 God is merciful, all right. He is merciful because he saved Jonah swallowed 218 00:16:33.360 --> 00:16:37.759 up in a belly. Amen. God is merciful to ninivate. And he 219 00:16:37.919 --> 00:16:42.679 said, please go and preach, all right. So when Jonah decided, 220 00:16:42.799 --> 00:16:45.360 okay, laugh, I have no choice, right, it was a no 221 00:16:45.600 --> 00:16:49.639 choice situation, no walking with all the seaweed and grumbling in his side. 222 00:16:49.639 --> 00:16:52.559 I know. And God is very merciful. I know, and I know 223 00:16:52.639 --> 00:16:55.639 one so you see, you know? From there the next light, says 224 00:16:55.720 --> 00:17:02.919 Jonah reluctantly shares with the Ninevites. He actually goes in chapter three, after 225 00:17:03.039 --> 00:17:07.880 God has spewed him out, after the fish spewed him out, he went 226 00:17:07.440 --> 00:17:14.960 to tell the people in Nineveh that they must repent. So he did it. 227 00:17:15.240 --> 00:17:18.759 He did it. He walked, he entered the city, and for 228 00:17:18.920 --> 00:17:22.480 forty days, you know he I mean, he told him he had in 229 00:17:22.559 --> 00:17:26.599 forty days. Chapter Jonah, Chapter three, Verse three, Jonah arose and 230 00:17:26.720 --> 00:17:30.680 went to Nineveh according to the word of the Lord. Now Nineveh was an 231 00:17:30.680 --> 00:17:37.440 exceedingly great city, a three day journey in extent. Wow, I don't 232 00:17:37.480 --> 00:17:40.599 know, it's bigger in singaporea cause Singapore in a few hours, you can 233 00:17:40.680 --> 00:17:44.680 one round ready, So it was bigger in Singapore in three days journey. 234 00:17:44.960 --> 00:17:48.160 He began to enter the city on the first day's walk. And then he 235 00:17:48.279 --> 00:17:52.279 cried out and said, yet forty days and nineveh shall be overthrown, and 236 00:17:52.359 --> 00:17:56.359 that you read it in chapter three. And he goes on and that the 237 00:17:56.400 --> 00:18:00.599 people heard it, and then they began to repent. Even the king of 238 00:18:00.720 --> 00:18:06.920 nineve went down and put sech cloth and das and sat and not just saying, 239 00:18:06.960 --> 00:18:11.000 and began to repent. He even made the animals repent. They no 240 00:18:11.200 --> 00:18:14.119 feeding the cows, no feeding the sheep, how loud of poor sheep. 241 00:18:14.160 --> 00:18:17.200 No water to drink for one day tree, I don't know. They repented. 242 00:18:17.279 --> 00:18:19.599 They repented, all right. They put on sackcloth, they put ashes, 243 00:18:21.000 --> 00:18:23.759 and they declare. They declared in Jonah chapter three, verse seven, 244 00:18:25.880 --> 00:18:27.960 he proclaimed and published rotten in a way by the degree of the king and 245 00:18:29.079 --> 00:18:32.839 his nobles, saying, let neither man nor bees hurt, nor flock taste 246 00:18:32.880 --> 00:18:37.160 anything. Do not let them eat or drink water, But let men and 247 00:18:37.279 --> 00:18:41.359 bees be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily to God. Yes, let 248 00:18:41.480 --> 00:18:44.920 everyone turn from his evil way, from the violence that is in his hands. 249 00:18:45.000 --> 00:18:48.119 Who can tell? If God? Who can tell? If God would 250 00:18:48.160 --> 00:18:52.200 turn and relent and turn away from his fierce anger so that we may not 251 00:18:52.839 --> 00:18:56.920 perish. Verse ten. Then God saw their works, that they turned from 252 00:18:56.960 --> 00:19:00.000 their evil way, and God relented from the disaster that he had said he 253 00:19:00.039 --> 00:19:03.920 would bring upon them, and he did not do it. Amen. Wow, 254 00:19:04.440 --> 00:19:08.200 This is a very very evil, evil city, a very evil kingdom. 255 00:19:08.440 --> 00:19:12.680 And yet when they repented, God had mercy. It speaks about the 256 00:19:12.799 --> 00:19:18.240 generous heart of God, the merciful God of heart of God. Wow, 257 00:19:18.839 --> 00:19:23.440 and how he wants every group, people group, every person, not one 258 00:19:23.519 --> 00:19:26.799 person to perish. Amen, we are so thankful, right, if we 259 00:19:26.880 --> 00:19:33.400 are following Christ. He forgave you, He forgave me for my sin, 260 00:19:33.920 --> 00:19:37.079 and he takes me and accept me as his child. And he wanted to 261 00:19:37.119 --> 00:19:42.160 do that for nineway for the time that they repented, the Lord forgave all. 262 00:19:42.240 --> 00:19:47.680 Right. But if you study in history after they well they had a 263 00:19:47.799 --> 00:19:51.559 chance to repent. But later they turned against the Lord anyways. But God 264 00:19:51.640 --> 00:19:55.880 had least given them a chance to hear. More importantly, did they get 265 00:19:55.960 --> 00:20:00.279 to hear the word of God? Did they hear how much God wants them. 266 00:20:00.680 --> 00:20:03.759 They did and so that happened. So I want to encourage us the 267 00:20:04.079 --> 00:20:10.279 story of Jonah, just to remind us let us not run away opposite direction. 268 00:20:10.720 --> 00:20:15.000 When God is speaking to us church, God is not speaking only to 269 00:20:15.200 --> 00:20:21.240 me. Because I really grew up wanting to be a missionary from a young 270 00:20:21.440 --> 00:20:25.559 From as a young person, I was waiting for God to call me to 271 00:20:25.680 --> 00:20:30.000 the mission field. I did go, but I did the lot then divel 272 00:20:30.119 --> 00:20:32.839 you know, just change the plans. I mean, that's what I wanted. 273 00:20:32.880 --> 00:20:34.599 What did God won? I have now discovered I'm here with you, 274 00:20:36.279 --> 00:20:40.680 planting churches more than I would have ever done. Even when we got married 275 00:20:41.079 --> 00:20:45.200 many years ago, our church was going to send us to India, and 276 00:20:45.319 --> 00:20:48.480 because we were ready to go, but the Lord said, no, you 277 00:20:48.559 --> 00:20:52.160 will do something else first. And that's what we've done, was to start 278 00:20:52.200 --> 00:20:55.680 a youth organization. We've reached out to many young people. We've since planted 279 00:20:55.759 --> 00:20:59.400 churches over the last twenty three years, but the ministry it's half twenty eight 280 00:20:59.519 --> 00:21:04.240 years. So it really my heart at heart, I really just wanted to 281 00:21:04.319 --> 00:21:07.759 missions, right, But this is not an option. It's not just for 282 00:21:07.880 --> 00:21:11.920 the one who wants to do it. It's for all of us. Evangelism 283 00:21:12.400 --> 00:21:18.599 is to witness Christ to one another, to our Jerusalem. But friends don't 284 00:21:18.680 --> 00:21:22.440 run away from our nnyvays. Okay, you might have an uncle who's not 285 00:21:22.559 --> 00:21:25.880 nice to you. You might have an auntie who really makes your life miserable. 286 00:21:26.200 --> 00:21:32.400 They too deserve to hear about Jesus. A man is that you know? 287 00:21:32.519 --> 00:21:34.319 The single ladies in the house are your Chinese new Yellow. I don't 288 00:21:34.319 --> 00:21:38.480 want to go back along the same auntie go boyfriend now when you're getting married 289 00:21:38.559 --> 00:21:41.599 now and they tell me, you know, I don't go back. I 290 00:21:41.640 --> 00:21:47.200 really don't go. The auntie's evil. No, all right, but and 291 00:21:47.279 --> 00:21:49.880 they don't not Christ yet, say Jesus, don't she don't deserve it. 292 00:21:52.039 --> 00:21:55.440 Okay, so it doesn't. It doesn't matter. Head of a person is 293 00:21:55.519 --> 00:21:59.559 evil, but God still wants that person as long as that person has not 294 00:22:00.720 --> 00:22:03.880 the name of Jesus and the salvation plan, the redemption plan that He has 295 00:22:03.960 --> 00:22:10.680 for them within our own culture and even beyond them, bringing over Samuel, 296 00:22:10.720 --> 00:22:14.319 Pass of Samuel and Pass of France. Friends, you got to hear what's 297 00:22:14.359 --> 00:22:17.559 going on with their lives? Why do they still do what they do, 298 00:22:18.119 --> 00:22:21.039 especially me and mar You know it's gone to junta. Now it's gone to 299 00:22:21.119 --> 00:22:25.119 the military. Who's the government no longer? You know, our young succhi 300 00:22:25.240 --> 00:22:27.599 or whatever. It's all turned around. I tell you, for the first 301 00:22:29.799 --> 00:22:33.799 during the pandemic. You know, these men who could have died of COVID, 302 00:22:33.559 --> 00:22:37.720 but if it was not for the grace of God, he remained alive. 303 00:22:37.279 --> 00:22:41.279 I tell you, our hearts just didn't know what we could do. 304 00:22:41.119 --> 00:22:44.799 He had no money. They had no money. There was the early days, 305 00:22:44.799 --> 00:22:47.440 who knew how to heal, no way, there's nothing to heal go 306 00:22:47.559 --> 00:22:48.839 villa, you know, there was nothing like I think. There was just 307 00:22:48.960 --> 00:22:52.759 nothing. And he was actually he called and he couldn't breathe. He was 308 00:22:53.039 --> 00:22:56.839 telling us as the please pray for me. I don't know. I don't 309 00:22:56.880 --> 00:23:00.319 know how long I have to live. I can't breathe. And then the 310 00:23:00.400 --> 00:23:04.119 whole family kna COVID because one person came to church at COVID and a whole 311 00:23:04.200 --> 00:23:08.039 church COVID. But their family Gonnard, the Mosla, father, mother, 312 00:23:08.160 --> 00:23:14.000 everybody got it and they'd know what they needed was oxygen. They needed different 313 00:23:14.039 --> 00:23:17.599 and there was no funds. We couldn't send money because all the banks were 314 00:23:17.640 --> 00:23:22.559 closed. But if it again, can you see God's head? He's alive, 315 00:23:22.599 --> 00:23:25.799 he looks very well. Someone got two baby, now a second baby? 316 00:23:27.119 --> 00:23:33.599 All right, you've got God is not alive? Then, how how 317 00:23:33.720 --> 00:23:37.759 can we continue doing church? The pengo just went over there. But four 318 00:23:37.799 --> 00:23:44.119 weeks ago, hallelujah, they are still serving. Passes were being shot left, 319 00:23:44.200 --> 00:23:48.160 right and center. Churches being burnt. In fact, one of our 320 00:23:48.240 --> 00:23:51.759 churches in Shupita, I think was burned down. They need a new building. 321 00:23:52.640 --> 00:23:56.039 He continued. We pray, he continued, we pray. He continued. 322 00:23:56.519 --> 00:24:02.119 Every week, new young people coming to Jesus. Hallelujah. Amen. 323 00:24:02.759 --> 00:24:04.880 Amen, Oh you gotta come and here. I mean, I pray he 324 00:24:04.920 --> 00:24:08.200 would come and share and tell you what they have been to. You know, 325 00:24:08.440 --> 00:24:11.759 so do we? Does he? Then they say I'm not going to 326 00:24:11.839 --> 00:24:15.200 share with the army mility or terrible. No. If God says go and 327 00:24:15.279 --> 00:24:18.319 share with that military, you will have to. He cannot be a Jonah 328 00:24:18.319 --> 00:24:19.920 and run away by bye. They don't deserve it. No, amen, 329 00:24:21.640 --> 00:24:26.039 So friends, it's a good reminder. Are we running away from an innovative? 330 00:24:26.359 --> 00:24:27.400 Okay? God, as you go there, say no, thank you. 331 00:24:29.079 --> 00:24:30.599 Some people saying one song. No, those days, those all an 332 00:24:30.680 --> 00:24:36.799 argument to play. Lord. Please don't send me to Africa. Not to 333 00:24:36.839 --> 00:24:41.559 say there's tigers and lions the Actually it's a big deal now right Safari. 334 00:24:41.720 --> 00:24:45.240 We all want to go, oh for Safari, we want to go Holi 335 00:24:45.319 --> 00:24:48.720 day. But to share the gospel. No, I'm not asking you share 336 00:24:48.759 --> 00:24:52.839 gospel to lion and tigers and giraffe as you share gospel to the people there, 337 00:24:52.559 --> 00:24:56.640 hallelujah. So don't send me to Africa. Why do you think it's 338 00:24:56.680 --> 00:25:00.240 that bad? Oh, it can be. I've been there, Okay, 339 00:25:00.279 --> 00:25:02.359 no electricity. Sit in the dove, I said the dove for very a 340 00:25:02.400 --> 00:25:07.920 long time, waited and wait, no electricity. You what up? I 341 00:25:07.960 --> 00:25:11.640 don't know how to do it. Cannot play games because cannot see each other, 342 00:25:11.839 --> 00:25:17.720 all right? And I don't send me to Africa. Don't send me 343 00:25:17.799 --> 00:25:21.119 to India. You don't send me. You don't what's your n inner way? 344 00:25:21.599 --> 00:25:23.000 If God would call you to go, why you because all of us 345 00:25:23.039 --> 00:25:26.039 want to go to where. Oh, we want to go to Spain, 346 00:25:26.720 --> 00:25:30.720 UK. You know my first in UK. I don't want to come home 347 00:25:30.799 --> 00:25:33.160 ready, you know, oh, my missionaries and you get too good. 348 00:25:33.200 --> 00:25:36.200 First world country when it's third world? Can you please take me home now? 349 00:25:36.279 --> 00:25:40.359 Please? Please? When can I come back? Right? Ah'm a 350 00:25:40.480 --> 00:25:45.440 radam come back. So though, because our call is to reach city, 351 00:25:45.880 --> 00:25:52.200 the urban and a lot of people are coming out of the compounds to come 352 00:25:52.279 --> 00:25:56.200 into the city right now. That's why we're focusing the young people there. 353 00:25:56.480 --> 00:26:00.000 So I don't know, you know, guys, we I just pray that 354 00:26:00.279 --> 00:26:03.920 if you haven't been aware, it's good to be to awaken the awareness. 355 00:26:03.960 --> 00:26:11.519 Again, that is more than just you living in the company in Malaysia. 356 00:26:11.000 --> 00:26:19.519 That's more to life than just my needs. Jonah was being completely a prick. 357 00:26:21.720 --> 00:26:25.759 He just didn't want to have anything to do with that group of people. 358 00:26:26.400 --> 00:26:30.400 Sometimes we are indifferent that girl. People I don't share. This nation 359 00:26:30.519 --> 00:26:37.559 is sixty five percent mainly sixty five percent to seventy percent actually of a differentation 360 00:26:37.599 --> 00:26:40.519 from all of us. But we are Malaysians. Do we then say no, 361 00:26:40.599 --> 00:26:42.960 I'm not going to share, but we cannot share it? Yeah, 362 00:26:44.039 --> 00:26:45.799 I didn't ask you going hello today? You know you're going to hell. 363 00:26:45.839 --> 00:26:51.359 You need Jesus. I don't ask you. Do that? Make friends law, 364 00:26:52.799 --> 00:26:59.759 anyone You've got some nice sixty five percent friends? Don't make them like 365 00:27:00.440 --> 00:27:03.640 someone different color from you, so you don't make friends. I have the 366 00:27:03.720 --> 00:27:08.920 right to say this because I'm mixed blood jan jan jang. I have both 367 00:27:10.680 --> 00:27:15.440 kinds of all kinds of blood. It's not good. But I don't know 368 00:27:15.480 --> 00:27:19.119 where I am. But God is speaking to us. Amen. Genesis chapter 369 00:27:19.240 --> 00:27:22.799 twelve. Genesis chapter twelve, verse one to three. This is the care 370 00:27:23.599 --> 00:27:30.559 of where it all started. God called Abraham Abram out from order of the 371 00:27:30.680 --> 00:27:34.960 Chaldeans, which is actually today Iran. He wrapped that area, called him 372 00:27:36.000 --> 00:27:41.640 out in Genesis chapter twelve and verse one to three. If can we helped, 373 00:27:41.640 --> 00:27:45.119 you can show the verse no, I would turn it. God called 374 00:27:45.519 --> 00:27:49.680 Abraham and said, come out of your country. There was a leaving of 375 00:27:51.240 --> 00:27:55.759 his hometown, and God said, you come out, and I am gonna 376 00:27:55.799 --> 00:27:57.920 do this for you, he says. The Lord said to Abraham, get 377 00:27:59.000 --> 00:28:02.759 out of your country, from your family, from your father's house, to 378 00:28:02.880 --> 00:28:04.759 a land that I will show you. I will make you a great nation. 379 00:28:06.079 --> 00:28:08.839 I will bless you, make you a great name. You shall be 380 00:28:08.920 --> 00:28:12.119 a blessing. I will bless those who bless you. I will curse him 381 00:28:12.160 --> 00:28:17.519 who curses you, and in you all the families of the earth shall be 382 00:28:18.200 --> 00:28:21.960 blessed in you now when you think, but that's Abraham, nothing doing me. 383 00:28:22.000 --> 00:28:26.279 I'm ganish. I don't know. Same color Abraham, not never mine. 384 00:28:26.519 --> 00:28:29.759 Okay, I'm swooping. I don't know. Alla, You and I 385 00:28:29.960 --> 00:28:34.480 are children of Abraham. You and I are Abraham. Why because when God 386 00:28:34.519 --> 00:28:40.480 spoke to Abraham, Abraham didn't have a child. He was nineteen nine years 387 00:28:40.480 --> 00:28:44.559 old. The wife, Auntie Sarah, was eighteen nine years old, dried 388 00:28:44.680 --> 00:28:49.039 up already, the eggs not cooking anymore. And so God said, Abraham, 389 00:28:49.559 --> 00:28:57.680 I'm gonna give you descendants. Abraham like the man Allah got song alright, 390 00:28:57.759 --> 00:29:00.720 shooting blanks all the time. I am i yo, howla God. 391 00:29:00.759 --> 00:29:06.319 I'm ninety nine years old, and my wife. Look at her, she's 392 00:29:06.400 --> 00:29:11.480 beautiful as ever. But the eggs are fried. Okay eighty nine menopause. 393 00:29:11.599 --> 00:29:15.960 Okay, Then God says, do you believe? Look out in the sky 394 00:29:17.920 --> 00:29:22.759 Genesis chapter fifteen. Can you count? The stars? Can count long? 395 00:29:22.839 --> 00:29:26.480 One? You're so many? Love God, I can account exactly. That's 396 00:29:26.519 --> 00:29:30.200 gonna be your descendants. I'm gonna change your name from Abram to Abraham, 397 00:29:32.759 --> 00:29:38.759 Jim black love Abraham, Abraham, the father of many nations, and he 398 00:29:40.039 --> 00:29:44.960 was not yet circumcised, meaning he ain't no Jew. But God wanted a 399 00:29:45.079 --> 00:29:48.880 new generation. So before you were circumcised, God already said you're gonna have 400 00:29:49.319 --> 00:29:53.599 descendants. You will have a child from your own body. And he say, 401 00:29:53.599 --> 00:29:56.680 you can use my my home, my air, my air, my 402 00:29:56.759 --> 00:29:57.880 servant, the one born in my house. No, God say no, 403 00:29:59.039 --> 00:30:03.599 from your own body, right. And then Abraham said, okay, Lord, 404 00:30:03.039 --> 00:30:08.920 I believe you because I'm Abraham now right. So he believed him by 405 00:30:10.039 --> 00:30:14.680 faith, and that's why it was like, wow, you believe you trust 406 00:30:14.720 --> 00:30:18.559 me, So I'm going to account to you. That means I am going 407 00:30:18.680 --> 00:30:21.440 to I can't see, I'm going to give to you, and made you 408 00:30:21.640 --> 00:30:25.200 righteous because of your faith. You are righteous. And therefore, because he 409 00:30:25.319 --> 00:30:30.799 was accounted to Abraham accounted like credited to him, reckoned to him as righteousness. 410 00:30:30.119 --> 00:30:33.200 He said, you are the father of many nations. A new nation 411 00:30:33.359 --> 00:30:37.880 began and many others were born later, the descendants, and you and I 412 00:30:40.440 --> 00:30:45.039 are descendants of Abraham, which makes you brother and sisters of the Jewish people. 413 00:30:45.640 --> 00:30:48.680 They were not one deler because they are God's people, right. But 414 00:30:48.839 --> 00:30:55.759 now God allowed us to be part of that because of Abraham. So we 415 00:30:56.000 --> 00:31:00.519 have inherited the righteousness of God through Abraham. Of course we have Jesus. 416 00:31:00.599 --> 00:31:04.079 Now, yeah, but how how can I'm a genta, I'm a non 417 00:31:04.240 --> 00:31:07.559 you. But God says, because of you, and you shall be father 418 00:31:07.720 --> 00:31:12.640 many nations. And then it says, so that promise in verse three in 419 00:31:12.839 --> 00:31:18.440 you, all the families of the earth shall be blessed. So I want 420 00:31:18.440 --> 00:31:21.200 to say to us in the short it says, you are blessed to be 421 00:31:21.279 --> 00:31:25.640 a blessing. You are blessed to be a blessing the earth. The word 422 00:31:25.759 --> 00:31:29.559 earth in the Greek or in the earlier Hebrew. And then the Greek means 423 00:31:29.720 --> 00:31:33.720 f nos which is ethnic, which is many, many types of culture and 424 00:31:33.880 --> 00:31:38.400 people. All right, you are blessed to be a blessing. So read 425 00:31:38.480 --> 00:31:41.599 your Genesis chapter. You have believe us and beloved of the Lord. You 426 00:31:41.720 --> 00:31:45.279 need to go back to the word of God to know where is the call 427 00:31:45.599 --> 00:31:53.279 for missions. Abraham left his country comfortable there and moved into don't even know 428 00:31:53.400 --> 00:31:56.960 where. God said, I will lead you to the Promised land, which 429 00:31:56.039 --> 00:32:00.440 is Canaan land. Not the bookstore, please, okay, in the land, 430 00:32:00.480 --> 00:32:04.119 not the bookstore, not one in PJ theok, not the bookstore, 431 00:32:04.240 --> 00:32:07.720 but the land. It's called Canaan, which is today Israel. That was 432 00:32:07.799 --> 00:32:10.160 a promise many years ago. Today they alas squabbles about the land. I'm 433 00:32:10.200 --> 00:32:14.640 not going there, just saying that was a promise. It was for them. 434 00:32:15.079 --> 00:32:17.160 Amen, as time is flying, you are blessed. We are a 435 00:32:17.200 --> 00:32:20.559 blessing. Please look to your neighbor and say you are blessed to be a 436 00:32:20.599 --> 00:32:22.960 blessing. Tell your neighbor you are blessed to be a blessing. Come on, 437 00:32:23.519 --> 00:32:28.759 yeah, Amen, you are blessed to be a blessing. So every 438 00:32:28.880 --> 00:32:31.559 blessing is for you as a child of God. You are a child of 439 00:32:31.680 --> 00:32:37.279 God, as when you come to Christ, you inherited righteousness from Christ all 440 00:32:37.319 --> 00:32:40.680 the way back to Abraham. You already blessed, can you? I'm seriously, 441 00:32:40.720 --> 00:32:44.880 As children of God, we are very blessed already. We are forgiven, 442 00:32:45.279 --> 00:32:47.640 we have second childs. We know God has given us all things. 443 00:32:47.720 --> 00:32:52.960 We are blessed already. It's a given. So now that you're blessed God's 444 00:32:52.039 --> 00:32:55.759 it, go and be a blessing. What are you and I able to 445 00:32:55.920 --> 00:33:00.920 do to be a blessing? Amen to someone else? Not so much because 446 00:33:00.920 --> 00:33:05.240 we're talking about all our wealth. I'm not rich enough, so I cannot 447 00:33:05.240 --> 00:33:07.160 share. No, it's not about that. You are well, you have 448 00:33:07.400 --> 00:33:13.440 joy, you have eternal life. Can we share the good news that God 449 00:33:13.559 --> 00:33:17.279 loves people and he wants them to know Him, to worship him, to 450 00:33:17.480 --> 00:33:22.160 serve him, and that they would turn from their ways, the ways that 451 00:33:22.240 --> 00:33:25.559 they did not know. So why do we do missions? It's just a 452 00:33:25.640 --> 00:33:30.759 commandment of God. Matthew twenty eight, verse eighteen to twenty says, go 453 00:33:31.480 --> 00:33:37.039 ye into all the world and make disciples of all nations, all right, 454 00:33:37.319 --> 00:33:42.519 and you know, baptize them in the name of Father, Son and Holy 455 00:33:42.599 --> 00:33:45.240 Spirit, and teach them to observe all that I would teach you. That's 456 00:33:45.279 --> 00:33:51.559 Matthew, God's last commandment. Our you can say this with me, God's 457 00:33:51.640 --> 00:33:58.200 last commandment. What's your first priority? It's not making more babies? Okay, 458 00:34:00.160 --> 00:34:08.920 enough, okay, all right, God's last command our first priority. 459 00:34:09.000 --> 00:34:14.159 But he did ass to Multiplilah some of you all very good, super fruitful 460 00:34:14.519 --> 00:34:19.760 am all right? So our God's last combine our first priority. What's our 461 00:34:19.800 --> 00:34:22.480 first priority? Yes, yes, yes, to do all that God has 462 00:34:22.519 --> 00:34:27.360 blessed us. Do that. You are already blessed the next one? What's 463 00:34:27.400 --> 00:34:30.559 that next thing? God says, go and make disciples. Making disciples doesn't 464 00:34:30.599 --> 00:34:35.280 mean you have to transform everybody. You not the transformation agent God is. 465 00:34:35.559 --> 00:34:37.360 You just have to let that. Did you know that? And you begin 466 00:34:37.400 --> 00:34:39.719 to share that who is what God did for me? You begin to share 467 00:34:39.800 --> 00:34:45.119 that testimony to your friend's Amen, hallelujah. So firstly, just a reminder, 468 00:34:45.159 --> 00:34:49.519 friends, is an act of obedience. You know, Jonah could have 469 00:34:49.719 --> 00:34:52.760 been obedient, but he ran away, but later he was a false, 470 00:34:52.880 --> 00:34:57.480 reluctant obedience that he said, Okay, I'll just do it, Banna happy 471 00:34:57.559 --> 00:35:00.800 doing it? Obedience to what the all is and the call is already given. 472 00:35:01.480 --> 00:35:05.480 Nobody here. Okay, but I'm not called to be missionary. No 473 00:35:05.559 --> 00:35:07.480 one's asking you to be a missionary, just asking you to be a child 474 00:35:07.519 --> 00:35:14.440 of God, a messenger. Go and make disciples, God say, already, 475 00:35:14.519 --> 00:35:16.719 Well, lah, there's not in my destiny. No, it's already 476 00:35:16.800 --> 00:35:23.440 given wherever, wherever you are, God has called you to make disciples of 477 00:35:24.360 --> 00:35:30.559 you know, people within your rich and those outside. God has X chapter 478 00:35:30.679 --> 00:35:32.079 one, verse eight. I think you learned that in Holmes X Chapter one, 479 00:35:32.199 --> 00:35:37.280 verse eight. Right, I'll give you power from on high so that 480 00:35:37.440 --> 00:35:42.760 you can be my You can be my all right and be aware witness for 481 00:35:42.840 --> 00:35:51.000 who where to Jerusalem and Judaia Samaria and to the ends of the yearth if 482 00:35:51.039 --> 00:35:58.119 you read the original, it should be both both in Jerusalem, Judea Samaria 483 00:35:58.320 --> 00:36:00.960 and to the ends of the earths. Can do it together. Amen, 484 00:36:00.480 --> 00:36:05.760 obedience. Friends. I think God's don't asking for your obedience. He hasn't 485 00:36:05.800 --> 00:36:09.079 said more, but just ask for our obedience. Amen, number two. 486 00:36:09.440 --> 00:36:14.079 Partner with God. We're in a partnership with the Lord. You are not 487 00:36:14.239 --> 00:36:17.159 alone. We are the whole Church. We are partnering together. That's how 488 00:36:17.519 --> 00:36:22.280 because of our partnering together as ex we're able to plant churches in ten nations, 489 00:36:22.719 --> 00:36:29.400 including Malaysia. Ten nations, hallelujah. And so many cities were in 490 00:36:30.159 --> 00:36:32.840 uh not by might, not by power, but willing hearts. Our own 491 00:36:32.920 --> 00:36:37.840 team has gone out. Others have gone on to plan as well. Hallelujah. 492 00:36:38.199 --> 00:36:42.159 Praise God. People are catching the heart. Students are the ones that 493 00:36:42.239 --> 00:36:45.639 have gone out to plan. Partner with God and let God guide us and 494 00:36:45.800 --> 00:36:51.440 lead us. Amen, you have partnerships in your business. You are trusting 495 00:36:51.480 --> 00:36:55.840 another man who will let you down. Now asking us to partner with God 496 00:36:57.440 --> 00:37:00.599 man. He's not a man, He's a God who will not let you 497 00:37:00.760 --> 00:37:04.679 down. When you make God your business partner, he will not let you 498 00:37:04.800 --> 00:37:07.719 down. You can partner God in your work. You can partner God in 499 00:37:07.840 --> 00:37:15.639 his work which is to reach the loss. Amen. And firtly you get 500 00:37:15.719 --> 00:37:22.000 to see transformation, transformation, Amen, hallelujah, part and parcel of the 501 00:37:22.079 --> 00:37:24.440 whole. You know, calling us to be a blessing is so that other 502 00:37:24.559 --> 00:37:29.760 lives can be transformed. I don't know if you never step out of your 503 00:37:29.840 --> 00:37:34.239 own you know your little circle. You don't step out, you don't see 504 00:37:34.320 --> 00:37:38.280 the miracles, you won't see more. Church. We have all the mission 505 00:37:38.320 --> 00:37:44.599 trips organized already, all the outreach to Ara Asley, with all the community 506 00:37:44.719 --> 00:37:50.880 outreach. We're asking you come partner with God to be a blessing. Some 507 00:37:51.079 --> 00:37:52.599 of you, if you don't know much about the oh A work, joined 508 00:37:52.599 --> 00:37:57.719 the workshop because because someone who works with them. Listen to the stories. 509 00:37:57.760 --> 00:38:00.679 What is the situation of the Ora Asley work in Malaysia? They are the 510 00:38:01.039 --> 00:38:06.000 original people here and yet they are the least provided for. And if they 511 00:38:06.039 --> 00:38:07.679 are if they are a Christian, if they choose to follow Christ or not 512 00:38:07.800 --> 00:38:12.000 yet follow Christs, not yet follow any other faith. They are left out. 513 00:38:12.599 --> 00:38:15.159 The children that we are reaching out the other day where we went to 514 00:38:15.360 --> 00:38:22.159 they cannot go to school because the bus will not pick them up. Maybe 515 00:38:22.880 --> 00:38:29.599 if they change and convert, they might get a bus. So we are 516 00:38:29.679 --> 00:38:36.639 there two or three times a month to teach English, very very simple English. 517 00:38:37.559 --> 00:38:43.119 Chan our brother brother Chan who leads three kamanga and he goes there every 518 00:38:43.199 --> 00:38:46.039 Wednesday to teach mets and English. One person. He's full time with us 519 00:38:46.119 --> 00:38:52.360 now, but one person with so many children because they won't take them to 520 00:38:52.440 --> 00:38:57.159 school. This is why it's so difficult. There's this is this is our 521 00:38:57.760 --> 00:39:00.400 country, is our people. They should be allowed to go to school, 522 00:39:00.679 --> 00:39:04.119 but school is too far and the bus won't come and pick them. So 523 00:39:04.280 --> 00:39:07.320 the churches in Malaysia have been doing their part to help as much as we 524 00:39:07.440 --> 00:39:12.800 can. So if we can just even let our hearts be softened as we 525 00:39:12.960 --> 00:39:15.719 go, as we be part of it, God will speak to us. 526 00:39:15.480 --> 00:39:20.440 How how can we do more? Or where can we go? Amen? 527 00:39:20.760 --> 00:39:23.440 How can transformation happen? Let's look at Jonah and just one position, so 528 00:39:23.599 --> 00:39:27.320 much richness in the Book of Jonah. But I just want to read this. 529 00:39:27.719 --> 00:39:30.719 Look at the comparison Jonah and the sailors of the mariners in that ship. 530 00:39:31.519 --> 00:39:36.880 Look at the comparison. This man Jonah, very cute. Prophet's a 531 00:39:36.960 --> 00:39:40.760 Hebrew who knows of God's faithfulness. He really knows. You'd have to read 532 00:39:40.840 --> 00:39:45.159 it with some imagination. That why he said just throw me, like, 533 00:39:45.719 --> 00:39:49.840 please, don't throw me? Said throw me, I don't care. Because 534 00:39:49.880 --> 00:39:53.400 he knew God is faithful, so he knew the God of faithfulness. The 535 00:39:53.559 --> 00:39:59.559 gentiles who were the sailors were gentiles who didn't know God at all. They 536 00:39:59.679 --> 00:40:00.639 don't know God. Are you all? Who's this? But we heard that 537 00:40:00.719 --> 00:40:05.119 he's a mighty God. We are scared, but we don't know him. 538 00:40:05.639 --> 00:40:10.159 He worshiped one true God. Who did they worship many false gods? Okay, 539 00:40:10.440 --> 00:40:16.159 all kinds of idols. Spiritually he was insensitive and hated in the opposite 540 00:40:16.239 --> 00:40:22.400 direction. He ran away. But what about these guys sailors who worship idols, 541 00:40:22.599 --> 00:40:28.280 worship false gods? They were spiritually sensitive? Why because they prayed like 542 00:40:28.559 --> 00:40:31.360 like, hey, pray Lord to your God. We are praying here to 543 00:40:31.440 --> 00:40:37.519 our God to stop the stop the tempers. How come you sleeping, Wake 544 00:40:37.639 --> 00:40:43.239 up boy, dude. Right later, they also sacrifice and took vows like, 545 00:40:43.559 --> 00:40:45.400 Lord, please forgive us. We're throwing Jonah away. Please forgive us. 546 00:40:45.440 --> 00:40:49.039 I know you're mighty, God, Please forgive us. Don't hold his 547 00:40:49.119 --> 00:40:53.840 blood on our heads. You know they were sensitive spiritually, amen, many 548 00:40:53.960 --> 00:40:57.400 of us. I was not a Christian forever. I was a Buddhist. 549 00:40:57.760 --> 00:41:01.280 But we were made sensitive to God. But I'm worshiping something else every day. 550 00:41:01.280 --> 00:41:05.800 I pipe. No, I think I pipe more than sometimes when we 551 00:41:05.840 --> 00:41:08.440 become Christian because God is so cool and easier, cannot see anything like wake 552 00:41:08.480 --> 00:41:14.559 come on, he on peace God. Wherever you pipe, bye, what 553 00:41:14.679 --> 00:41:16.559 you take? The stiller, you clean, the altarler? Now are the 554 00:41:16.639 --> 00:41:22.599 altars wall? Rightever? You are your heart? When actually, when we 555 00:41:22.639 --> 00:41:25.000 are not Christian, we I was not a Christian forever, we were very 556 00:41:25.039 --> 00:41:30.400 sensitive. Now we become Christiana. God is so cool and easy. I 557 00:41:30.480 --> 00:41:34.280 don't need to dress, uh, don't need to change under way. I 558 00:41:34.480 --> 00:41:37.639 just got on and talk to Jesus in the morning, right right, don't 559 00:41:37.639 --> 00:41:43.639 go children or no mind. He forgives me and praise the Lord. Yes, 560 00:41:43.800 --> 00:41:49.199 they were veritely sensitive. He just insensitive. I don't want to do 561 00:41:49.280 --> 00:41:54.599 what you're telling me. He was indifferent towards God's will despite knowing him. 562 00:41:55.079 --> 00:41:59.519 He knows, he knows that God will forgive. He knows that God wants 563 00:41:59.760 --> 00:42:01.880 the loss to be saved, but he was just indifferent. I just don't 564 00:42:02.079 --> 00:42:06.039 like that people. I don't like it. And they don't speak my language. 565 00:42:06.039 --> 00:42:08.039 A different color, they different size, they're different everything. They don't 566 00:42:08.039 --> 00:42:14.679 eat you know, curry puff like me. Whatever. On the other side, 567 00:42:14.880 --> 00:42:19.079 these were concerned before God in the spite, in spite of little or 568 00:42:19.159 --> 00:42:22.480 no knowledge of him. They didn't know him yet they say a pray load 569 00:42:22.559 --> 00:42:24.119 your God, prayler. After that they're gonna throw him. Also they say 570 00:42:24.280 --> 00:42:29.679 sorry, God, Sorry, there's a certain inc they were being sensitive. 571 00:42:30.760 --> 00:42:34.960 Next point, he was very He showed no compassion to what in any way, 572 00:42:35.559 --> 00:42:38.840 no way. Look at the sailors. They were compassionate to him. 573 00:42:39.159 --> 00:42:43.559 LA don't row, let's roll, let's roll, and until they couldn't row, 574 00:42:43.840 --> 00:42:45.440 all right, they showed great compassion. Can see that again in John 575 00:42:45.519 --> 00:42:51.119 Jonah chapter one. He was rebellious and he needed to be disciplined, though 576 00:42:51.199 --> 00:42:55.480 he was not destroyed. What happened to the sailors they acknowledge God when when 577 00:42:55.519 --> 00:43:01.559 the tempers stopped and they worshiped him the transformation. People just need and encounter 578 00:43:01.679 --> 00:43:06.800 with God and they will worship him. I don't know how long they will 579 00:43:06.800 --> 00:43:09.639 shiping or serving. That's there that they're gonna have to tell God later. 580 00:43:09.880 --> 00:43:14.599 But God wanted to show up right and even in a difficult situation, God 581 00:43:14.719 --> 00:43:21.719 showed up, and these prebelievers saw the power of God. And immediately we're 582 00:43:21.800 --> 00:43:25.880 able to acknowledge that there is a God. And so sometimes the church can 583 00:43:25.920 --> 00:43:30.159 be like that. We can be so indifferent, we could be sleeping, 584 00:43:30.559 --> 00:43:36.480 buried and bothered about our own needs. Within No, there is many many 585 00:43:36.559 --> 00:43:39.039 more tribes that have yet to be rich in this world. There are many 586 00:43:39.119 --> 00:43:42.960 many more tribes. Some of us have grown up with knowledge, some of 587 00:43:43.079 --> 00:43:46.000 us never. So I'm telling you now are there are a few blocks are 588 00:43:46.079 --> 00:43:50.800 unreached. They are called unreached people's group. And I don't have time to 589 00:43:50.840 --> 00:43:53.360 tell that. And this group of people are within the ten forty window. 590 00:43:53.639 --> 00:44:00.199 The ten forty window is called the Sagittarius line, and the when you look 591 00:44:00.239 --> 00:44:05.800 at the map right, there's a divide. So anyone starting from Europe all 592 00:44:05.880 --> 00:44:09.599 the way to eat east to Asia, West Asia, East Asia. All 593 00:44:09.679 --> 00:44:14.239 these are people who don't get that means, including us. But Malaysia is 594 00:44:14.280 --> 00:44:17.599 a rich nation. We can now reach our own and now we can send 595 00:44:17.639 --> 00:44:23.599 out missionaries. And we actually Malaysians make the best missionaries because we can speak 596 00:44:23.639 --> 00:44:28.880 any language. Very good to learn language. Come back from Australia two weeks 597 00:44:28.920 --> 00:44:31.599 a home? What does it? Oh? What? What? What? 598 00:44:31.679 --> 00:44:35.280 Would they always say? No? I know that's not my name? Nine? 599 00:44:37.920 --> 00:44:42.800 All right, well we can say how long you're how long you're living 600 00:44:42.880 --> 00:44:45.599 in Australia. Oh, just you know? Four years? Four years? 601 00:44:46.000 --> 00:44:54.679 Whoo? Malaysians learn language very well. We can pick up Mandrein. We 602 00:44:54.760 --> 00:44:59.760 can pick up Demo. We can, we can. We're better than Singapore. 603 00:45:01.360 --> 00:45:06.360 Wait, we can't. We eat any guy our stomach like rubble upper 604 00:45:06.440 --> 00:45:09.920 you mark a mole, stay inside there and rah one like are you Jerry 605 00:45:09.960 --> 00:45:15.840 Bery? After one time? You you who? They? All the bacteria 606 00:45:15.880 --> 00:45:19.920 is good? Just one time, I tell you, one time you go 607 00:45:20.000 --> 00:45:22.639 to India. You all of us gon now one time at least one time 608 00:45:22.960 --> 00:45:28.320 after that, all very strong, and then I can go back to India 609 00:45:28.360 --> 00:45:35.400 several times. No problem with Jerry Berry already no more really because got the 610 00:45:35.480 --> 00:45:38.599 bacteria there inside. Huh, you just get to eat. We go on 611 00:45:38.719 --> 00:45:44.159 an asley, I'll go one time. You you just mark on the wild 612 00:45:44.199 --> 00:45:49.679 bow one time. Oh you can after that bully. Yeah yeah, So 613 00:45:50.000 --> 00:45:53.320 so many trips I've made. I used to quiet quite right, go on, 614 00:45:53.519 --> 00:46:00.440 it can't pussu eat. Look the qually right, it's now. I 615 00:46:00.559 --> 00:46:05.000 saw the dog lecking from there. Then after they they served me the wild 616 00:46:05.039 --> 00:46:15.719 boar, and I'm it pusserves the best wild bore swallow. Don't even choose 617 00:46:15.840 --> 00:46:20.239 swallow, but you have to, all right, because it's so big, 618 00:46:20.320 --> 00:46:22.840 hatter, and they served me like that. I have do swallow quickly, 619 00:46:22.960 --> 00:46:28.440 and thank you, I tell you. I mean, there's the amazing part 620 00:46:28.480 --> 00:46:31.480 about us going to a different land, a different language, a different group. 621 00:46:32.039 --> 00:46:35.480 It's so scared, you know, it's the scaredest thing for met For 622 00:46:35.599 --> 00:46:40.960 most of us. Toilet toilet is the worst thing. Wow, no toilet. 623 00:46:42.119 --> 00:46:45.480 How I used to be so afraid. You know I've overcome that as 624 00:46:45.519 --> 00:46:49.559 a single young person. My parents are so clean. You cannot know, 625 00:46:49.679 --> 00:46:53.199 like this cannot. Okay, So you'll raise your kids very good, like 626 00:46:53.280 --> 00:46:58.320 anything's okay. Step in the sands, okay, okay, right in the 627 00:46:58.360 --> 00:47:00.800 sand. Ever, I'm like, okay, right, we are grown up, 628 00:47:00.840 --> 00:47:02.320 like, don't touch it. Don't then we grow up, cannot go 629 00:47:02.440 --> 00:47:09.199 missions? Why toilet? But I tell you go what time to Sarawakaki went 630 00:47:09.280 --> 00:47:21.079 inside the lupang? No are you go so dark? Cannot see the slowly 631 00:47:21.199 --> 00:47:25.119 Washler? The next time, bring touch those there's no end phone we touch 632 00:47:25.199 --> 00:47:30.400 like must bring touch light ladella ladla, eat whatever they give you, just 633 00:47:30.800 --> 00:47:34.599 just to change the mment after deta can really anyway, I can just just 634 00:47:34.760 --> 00:47:39.559 find us. You hold a sarund for us, get it. I tell 635 00:47:39.639 --> 00:47:45.440 you. The first thing is the adaptation of the the environment. That's why 636 00:47:45.519 --> 00:47:51.280 we're so scared. We don't dare so the nearest, I Suggestler, before 637 00:47:51.320 --> 00:47:54.199 we go to India together, let's go to orang Us together. Yeah. 638 00:47:54.440 --> 00:47:59.159 Yeah, so we bathe in the stream. Whatever's up there just don't look 639 00:47:59.159 --> 00:48:07.840 like just pay for nila floating items and identified objects. Yeah, so they 640 00:48:07.920 --> 00:48:14.400 say you don't go up there and popa come down here. So those are 641 00:48:14.480 --> 00:48:20.199 things that are culturally different, but that shouldn't stop us from saying, let's 642 00:48:20.239 --> 00:48:24.840 go. It's much better now, already much better now, much better. 643 00:48:24.920 --> 00:48:30.599 Went back then twenty years where we used to go much better. Already it's 644 00:48:30.639 --> 00:48:35.320 just a fear, the indifference for hire. Let someone else do it. 645 00:48:35.760 --> 00:48:40.400 Let the missionary. No. No, I see people sign up that sign 646 00:48:40.440 --> 00:48:44.840 up for Change, My sign up love for becas sign up for Sumatra. 647 00:48:45.880 --> 00:48:52.159 I hope you're sign out. You know, we go right. I don't 648 00:48:52.159 --> 00:48:54.440 know what other doors are going to open for us as you want to go. 649 00:48:54.599 --> 00:48:57.679 You want the first of all, I think I'm going to England with 650 00:48:57.800 --> 00:49:04.800 Mila. Cannot afford the etiquette. Now the etiquette problem go they do what 651 00:49:05.039 --> 00:49:07.679 was then it's like, yeah, go ahead and serve the people. They're 652 00:49:07.760 --> 00:49:12.199 going, yeah, yeah, cook for them. I cook for the students. 653 00:49:12.239 --> 00:49:13.960 That's what I do. I go to cook for the student and I 654 00:49:14.000 --> 00:49:15.559 can't cook, but I have to cook there. My husband was saying, 655 00:49:15.639 --> 00:49:21.320 whoa full stun you cool? Well, you never cook chicking car before any 656 00:49:21.360 --> 00:49:27.679 packet, your packet. When we do so much, God changes your heart. 657 00:49:28.519 --> 00:49:30.880 God changes your heart. I told the church last year, if you 658 00:49:31.000 --> 00:49:36.519 remember this year, who wants to go to Nepal? I'm getting I'm being 659 00:49:36.599 --> 00:49:37.800 invited to go this yell. I don't know if I can because of the 660 00:49:37.880 --> 00:49:42.920 clashing time. But the stories that they tell us about. If you remember 661 00:49:42.960 --> 00:49:50.280 the story I told you that the children at the children's camp Palen and sister 662 00:49:50.360 --> 00:49:54.199 story I went to. The children have no food, so the funds that 663 00:49:54.280 --> 00:50:00.280 we sent was able to feed them. And and when we eat egg like, 664 00:50:00.360 --> 00:50:06.079 we eat egg like nothing to them. They look at the egger so 665 00:50:06.320 --> 00:50:08.280 precious. You'll eat half, keep half for the other younger brother, sister, 666 00:50:08.719 --> 00:50:14.800 do you need one good meal a day? Your funds helped to feed 667 00:50:14.880 --> 00:50:17.599 them. But whatever, we collect it and we are supporting the work. 668 00:50:17.679 --> 00:50:24.400 They're true. Our missionary connection with PASSI balance to especially since sure it's amazing 669 00:50:24.480 --> 00:50:30.239 our hearts would change. It's a lot of money to go, but you 670 00:50:30.360 --> 00:50:32.079 can't buy the experience. You can't buy what God wants to speak to you. 671 00:50:34.199 --> 00:50:37.079 That's why we must allow. I spoke a few weeks ago. Make 672 00:50:37.239 --> 00:50:42.719 room for God, give room to God and let him move in our hearts. 673 00:50:43.760 --> 00:50:47.039 It's not just for another person. It's not somebody else's job. It's 674 00:50:47.159 --> 00:50:52.559 ours together. Maybe we cannot all go together one shot, but we can 675 00:50:52.679 --> 00:50:59.039 pray, we can give, and we can plan to go in time because 676 00:50:59.079 --> 00:51:02.559 we need time. Amen, let's not let's not be a Jonah and run 677 00:51:02.679 --> 00:51:07.559 away there. Let someone else do There's no someone else to do, There's 678 00:51:07.599 --> 00:51:10.960 only us to do it. Amen. And again I'm saying, I'm not 679 00:51:12.079 --> 00:51:16.159 asking us to all hang up. We go and be missionaries. We are 680 00:51:16.239 --> 00:51:22.920 all missionaries. We're all called to have a mission and do the missions right 681 00:51:22.960 --> 00:51:28.559 at our doorstep, Amen, right at our doorstep. Have this week's Holmes 682 00:51:28.599 --> 00:51:31.400 notes. We'll be able to discuss further on this. But yeah, guys, 683 00:51:31.719 --> 00:51:37.920 we just need the obedience. We need to partner we've got and allow 684 00:51:37.039 --> 00:51:42.000 yourself as your partner we've got. You will see transformation. You will see 685 00:51:42.039 --> 00:51:45.159 transformation. It excites us. And and you know how I got got the 686 00:51:45.239 --> 00:51:49.440 heart of this by just going for one trip you know where we're not even 687 00:51:49.559 --> 00:51:58.320 or Aslee, No bentm Bentm Durian placed Bentong where just to go to a 688 00:51:58.440 --> 00:52:05.920 smaller church and have people then and to minister to them. I don't know. 689 00:52:06.119 --> 00:52:09.000 That's who I just caught the heart. They're just to Bento. Before 690 00:52:09.039 --> 00:52:12.719 I went to other places, I tried to go Indonesia. I'm telling you 691 00:52:13.519 --> 00:52:15.599 they departed me. You know, they took my back and sent me home 692 00:52:15.840 --> 00:52:22.800 because pastport job. I check my FastPort. So any years ago, good, 693 00:52:22.800 --> 00:52:27.079 I got deported, a big job, deported to Malu. But you 694 00:52:27.159 --> 00:52:30.480 know I want to be there. God take me, send me back. 695 00:52:30.519 --> 00:52:36.960 Then Indonesia was very difficul very difficult as well. We're challenging, but we 696 00:52:37.119 --> 00:52:42.519 got to just make ourselves available, obedient partner with God, and you will 697 00:52:42.559 --> 00:52:45.039 see the transformation bit by bit, slowly, slowly, little by little. 698 00:52:45.119 --> 00:52:49.719 Amen. And that's why we always say, don't be a Jonah, but 699 00:52:49.800 --> 00:52:52.119 we then go out for Jonah for his examples, so that we are reminded 700 00:52:53.000 --> 00:52:57.239 that we don't have to run the other way. We can go with the 701 00:52:57.360 --> 00:53:01.280 vision that God has called us to. Amen. We hope you've been blessed 702 00:53:01.320 --> 00:53:07.159 by this message. For more information on our church, please visit x church 703 00:53:07.239 --> 00:53:12.920 dot org. We are also active on Facebook and Instagram. We're believing that 704 00:53:13.079 --> 00:53:15.840 this week is going to be a good week ahead for you. God bless