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Speaker 3: When I was still lost and not yet a Christian,
Speaker 3: every time somebody would invite me to church, I would
Speaker 3: say no for three reasons. One, I have three mindsets
Speaker 3: that I have Mali church. One is that I thought
Speaker 3: church is boring, so I don't want to be bored,
Speaker 3: so I don't want to go to church. Second, I
Speaker 3: thought the church is just for older people. I'm not
Speaker 3: sure if young people have a place in church. And third,
Speaker 3: I thought church is for good people, but for people
Speaker 3: like me who is I know I'm not good, I'm
Speaker 3: not righteous, so I'm not ready for church. And praise God,
Speaker 3: God changed that mindset and I was eventually invited to church,
Speaker 3: and I discovered that church is completely the opposite of
Speaker 3: what I was thinking. I realized church is not boring. Well,
Speaker 3: I'm convinced no, church is not boring. I thought church
Speaker 3: is boring. Mindset compuna. Church is a gathering that I
Speaker 3: attend once a week. I realize eventually the church is
Speaker 3: beyond that. It's not just the meeting that I attend.
Speaker 3: There's more to church than just attending a service, because
Speaker 3: the church is the people.
Speaker 1: It's not a building. It's not this mall.
Speaker 3: It's not can third floor for floor Palata and then
Speaker 3: sab Bahamali Patai is a third floor Sa Toy Kingdola
Speaker 3: second Florians. But anyway, we're in the building. But the
Speaker 3: church is not the building, it's the people.
Speaker 1: And so uh.
Speaker 3: And also church is not just for older people, it's
Speaker 3: also for the younger generation. And that the church is
Speaker 3: really not for the good people.
Speaker 1: It's actually for the bad people.
Speaker 3: So if you're wondering why that person is here in
Speaker 3: church today.
Speaker 1: Now you know. But we all need Jesus.
Speaker 3: It's not just people who are far away from Christ,
Speaker 3: but even those who think they are close to Him.
Speaker 1: Now we are.
Speaker 3: I want to go straight to the word today to
Speaker 3: make sure that will end on time. But we are
Speaker 3: now in the last installment of our series and we're
Speaker 3: talking about the Holy Spirit. We said side six weeks
Speaker 3: talking about the Holy Spirit because we want to understand
Speaker 3: the person in the works of the Holy Spirit. I
Speaker 3: shared at the beginning of this series that I grew
Speaker 3: up knowing and not knowing, but hearing.
Speaker 1: About the Holy Spirit.
Speaker 3: I was taught to pray in the name of the Father,
Speaker 3: the Son, and the Holy Spirit. So I grew up
Speaker 3: reciting it without me really understanding what I'm saying. Then
Speaker 3: when I became a Christian, I understood the importance the
Speaker 3: person and the necessity of the Holy Spirit. That I
Speaker 3: cannot live as a Christian without the Holy Spirit, that
Speaker 3: it will be empty religion without the Holy Spirit.
Speaker 1: So today we are at the.
Speaker 3: Last installment and we're trusting that this series really is
Speaker 3: helping you in terms of your walk with God. Yesterday
Speaker 3: we had a shooting, a video shoot or one of
Speaker 3: our trainings here in church.
Speaker 1: And one thing I.
Speaker 3: You know, I realized because say in a train Ami mcvlog,
Speaker 3: you know, mug.
Speaker 1: Shooting, and here Helen you are saying you need may screing.
Speaker 3: You means some jolly person camera and also happen Baramo
Speaker 3: and becomas natural Paramascan and yesterday we struggled the first
Speaker 3: few minutes trying to make ourselves really comfortable in front
Speaker 3: of the camera. It's not really easy, but you know,
Speaker 3: we're doing this not because we need a sideline and
Speaker 3: extra kita, but because we want to be effective as
Speaker 3: a church.
Speaker 1: We need to evolve as a church.
Speaker 3: We kind of just keep doing the things that we're
Speaker 3: doing just because it worked in the past.
Speaker 1: It doesn't mean.
Speaker 3: That we can just keep doing it and hope that
Speaker 3: it will continue to be effective and reaching to the
Speaker 3: people that God is calling.
Speaker 1: Us to reach.
Speaker 3: And we all know our behavior today maramitaios now or
Speaker 3: us in ubusun atens a harabnan screen, whether that's Facebook,
Speaker 3: whether that's Instagram, that's where people are today. And if
Speaker 3: we are going to be the light and salt of
Speaker 3: this world, we need to be where the people are.
Speaker 3: And so we're trying to learn although it's not easy,
Speaker 3: although it's not convenient for us, we're trying to do
Speaker 3: it again because we don't want to become irrelevant as
Speaker 3: a church. Because God called us to be part of
Speaker 3: his mission. You know, there's a book that we are
Speaker 3: assigned to read today by pastor den is our boss.
Speaker 1: And the title of this book is Beyond Charity.
Speaker 3: By John Perkins, and I like to quote a portion
Speaker 3: of this book talking about what's happening to some churches today.
Speaker 3: He said, we have turned the church into an institution
Speaker 3: that serves us instead of God. In fact, the church
Speaker 3: that we are most committed to is the church that
Speaker 3: will meet most of our personal and family needs. This
Speaker 3: is known as consumer Christianity, wherein many Christians are becoming
Speaker 3: experience seekers rather than effective ministers of the gospel. We're
Speaker 3: jumping from one church to another depending on what church.
Speaker 1: Is meeting our needs better.
Speaker 3: Sanmas Magundu music, Sinemas Magandu preaching, sin Mus maganda young
Speaker 3: kids church.
Speaker 1: And there's nothing wrong with that.
Speaker 3: We want to be better in serving people, but that
Speaker 3: should not be the main consideration why we stay in church.
Speaker 3: We stay in church because God placed us in this
Speaker 3: church and there is a role, a function that God
Speaker 3: is expecting us to play. I like this calle from
Speaker 3: Henry Martin's a missionary to India. He said, the spirit
Speaker 3: of Christ is the spirit missions. The nearer we get
Speaker 3: to Him, the more intensely missionary we become. You know,
Speaker 3: one way we can know we are going deeper in
Speaker 3: our walk with God is when we find ourselves becoming
Speaker 3: active in bringing people to Jesus, because the nearer we
Speaker 3: get to him, the more we catch his heart for people.
Speaker 3: And there's no way we can continue to ignore the
Speaker 3: people around us, the people that were intimidated with or
Speaker 3: irritated with.
Speaker 1: Even if we.
Speaker 3: Don't like people, we cannot ignore them the closer we
Speaker 3: get to Jesus, because Jesus loves people and the reason
Speaker 3: Jesus came and died on the cross, the Bible says
Speaker 3: for God, who love the world. So the more we
Speaker 3: become close to him, the more we catch his heart
Speaker 3: for people. And our God is a missional God. That's
Speaker 3: one thing that we can know about him, and he
Speaker 3: wants the Church to be on mission. And that's what
Speaker 3: we want to talk about today, us the church, not
Speaker 3: just enjoying our relationship with God, but us as a
Speaker 3: church on mission with God. So if you have your
Speaker 3: Bible with you, we're going to read from Acts chapter one,
Speaker 3: beginning in verse eight. There's just one verse for all
Speaker 3: of us today.
Speaker 1: It says, but you will receive power. Everyone say power.
Speaker 3: When the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you
Speaker 3: will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, in all Judaea and Samaria,
Speaker 3: and to the end of the earth. Let's just pray
Speaker 3: right now, Lord, we thank you for your word today.
Speaker 3: We thank you that your word is active, it's alive,
Speaker 3: it's powerful. One verse can change us from the inside out.
Speaker 3: So Lord, I thank you, Lord the True have a
Speaker 3: word for us today, for the people who are here
Speaker 3: for the first time, and for the people who've been
Speaker 3: in church for many years.
Speaker 1: Lord, we thank you that you are going to just reinforce.
Speaker 3: A conviction. Lord, you will enlighten us and open. Lord God,
Speaker 3: just a revelation once again, in order for us to
Speaker 3: understand Lord and be on fire again.
Speaker 1: With the calling we received from you in Jesus. They
Speaker 1: may pray. Amen. I'm not going to spend.
Speaker 3: Minutes a long time explaining the context the verses before
Speaker 3: the scripture, because in the first few weeks we already
Speaker 3: talked about the context of this verse where Jesus rose
Speaker 3: from the dead and for forty days he appeared to
Speaker 3: his disciples to prove them that he's really alive. And
Speaker 3: in that forty days he talked about the kingdom, not
Speaker 3: just about salvation, but what God wants to do here
Speaker 3: on earth. And then he asked them a question concerning
Speaker 3: a question that is connected to their top concern that time.
Speaker 1: It's connected to their political.
Speaker 3: Concern, economic concern, concern about their ethnicity. And we can
Speaker 3: all relate to that today because we are all in
Speaker 3: church today with our different concerns. So many of you here,
Speaker 3: you have a concern today. Maybe for some of us,
Speaker 3: we are very concerned about politics in our nation, or
Speaker 3: maybe we are concerned about our finances as a family,
Speaker 3: or concern about the business or relationship. When they asked
Speaker 3: their question to Jesus, this is the answer that he
Speaker 3: gave them. Their concern was valid. But there is something
Speaker 3: bigger than just the need at hand. And sometimes there's
Speaker 3: a tendency for us to be so caught up with
Speaker 3: the concern of the moment that we miss out on
Speaker 3: what is bigger and what's more important in our lives.
Speaker 3: And here's what Jesus told them, But you will receive power.
Speaker 3: And I want to highlight three words for us today.
Speaker 3: Three words I want to highlight in order for us
Speaker 3: to get the message of Jesus.
Speaker 1: First one is the word you, he.
Speaker 3: Said, but you Okay, can you please turn to the
Speaker 3: person say the next you tell that person you Because
Speaker 3: Jesus was talking not just to the early disciples, this
Speaker 3: message is for you and me today. Maybe you're wondering, uh,
Speaker 3: sinebato manata is up Jesus and about profile and manata anata,
Speaker 3: you know the.
Speaker 1: People that is talking to.
Speaker 3: According to the critics, there's a verse in the Bible
Speaker 3: when they were describing the disciples of Jesus. They said,
Speaker 3: they are ordinary people who are unschooled, meaning they don't
Speaker 3: have formal training in scriptures, just like ninety nine percent
Speaker 3: of us here today. They are unimpressive and they have
Speaker 3: imperfect lives. If you read about the story of Peter,
Speaker 3: if you learn about the story of James, these people
Speaker 3: have issues. They are imperfect, and they are not trained
Speaker 3: in the scripture, just like you and me today. He
Speaker 3: was talking to them and he's giving this message so
Speaker 3: the same way with us. If you are sitting there,
Speaker 3: imagine Jesus talking to you, you who have imperfect life,
Speaker 3: You have issue you and then he talked about this verse.
Speaker 3: You know, I remember Matthew chapter nine, verse thirty six.
Speaker 3: One time when Jesus was talking to a crowd in
Speaker 3: a gathering like this. The Bible says in Matthew nine,
Speaker 3: verse thirty six, when he saw the crowds, he had
Speaker 3: compassion for them because they were harassed and helpless, like
Speaker 3: sheep without a shepherd.
Speaker 1: It was a mixed group of people.
Speaker 3: There are rich and poor, young and old, educated uneducated.
Speaker 1: God felt the same way. He felt compassion for him.
Speaker 1: They are just the same.
Speaker 3: They have the same issues, they have the same problem,
Speaker 3: they have the same spiritual condition.
Speaker 1: That's why Jesus felt the same way.
Speaker 3: You know, many people were stunned and left asking why
Speaker 3: when two famous people died, actually committed suicide this month,
Speaker 3: Anthony Bourdain and Kate Spade, and a lot of people
Speaker 3: are following them. Many articles were written about them. But
Speaker 3: there's this one article from Time magazine entitled Anthony Bourdain,
Speaker 3: Kate Spade and the Dangers of envying perfect lives. And
Speaker 3: I find this article insightful. There's an excerpt I want
Speaker 3: to read.
Speaker 1: He said.
Speaker 3: Bourdain's suicide, which followed shortly after that of facts and
Speaker 3: designer Cage Spade, was a one two punch to our
Speaker 3: belief that there are some people who are living the
Speaker 3: perfect life, that each of them chose to end an
Speaker 3: existence that to outsider seems so idyllic and and viable.
Speaker 3: Is a mystery to people, especially since these were not
Speaker 3: teenagers or lost twenty somethings, but two people who might
Speaker 3: reasonably be expected to have reached some sort of self knowledge.
Speaker 3: Some people are dreaming of their job and their life.
Speaker 3: I mean, for many women, they are saying, if I
Speaker 3: only have her business, can you imagine I'm business moll bags, shoes, clothing.
Speaker 3: You have family, you have successful career, you have a
Speaker 3: global brand. This you have everything that many people are
Speaker 3: dreaming of. Yet why And then Anthony Bourdain, A lot
Speaker 3: of people are dreaming to have this job of traveling
Speaker 3: around the world, tasting their food and receiving all the
Speaker 3: awards and wealth.
Speaker 1: And they both took their life.
Speaker 3: So now I like the last portion of the article
Speaker 3: because he said, of course there's a lot of details
Speaker 3: that we don't know about them, but what can we
Speaker 3: learn about stories like this? And first one at the
Speaker 3: tail end of that article, he said, first one is
Speaker 3: that it's wrong to envy other people, especially people who
Speaker 3: have seemingly perfect lives and Instagram. We can't envy other
Speaker 3: people because God has given us our own life, and
Speaker 3: we have to be grateful about it. You know, one
Speaker 3: of the things I'm trying to teach my daughter right now,
Speaker 3: eight years old is to always find something to be
Speaker 3: grateful about every day. You have to appreciate the life
Speaker 3: that you have rather than dreaming every day of living
Speaker 3: someone else's life. And another thing is said is lesson
Speaker 3: we can learn is that we need to have more
Speaker 3: compassion because sometimes when we look at other people, especially
Speaker 3: the rich, we think that they don't need anything. There's
Speaker 3: no reason for me to show compassion. But if we
Speaker 3: can just look beyond the looks and the clothes and
Speaker 3: the cars and the house and see inside, we will
Speaker 3: see a person who is in need of Christ. That's
Speaker 3: why Jesus, when they look at the crowds, he said,
Speaker 3: he felt compassion on them because all of us have
Speaker 3: the same need. All of us have the same spiritual condition.
Speaker 3: And Jesus said, apart.
Speaker 1: From me, you have nothing.
Speaker 3: Imperfect people, you he said, and then he said, and
Speaker 3: you will receive power.
Speaker 1: We see power.
Speaker 3: How many of you here you want to have power?
Speaker 3: Ilenus said, you need to put three as mahalipad. You
Speaker 3: want extraordinary power? But here's the good news. The Bible says,
Speaker 3: if you have the Holy Spirit, you have power. You know,
Speaker 3: the Christian life is not easy. It's not easy to
Speaker 3: be a Christian. How many of you can agree. I've
Speaker 3: been a Christian for many years, and I tell you
Speaker 3: it's not always easy to be a Christian. It's I
Speaker 3: love being a Christian, but it's not always easy to
Speaker 3: be a Christian. It's not always easy to wait for
Speaker 3: the answer to your prayer. I know some people who
Speaker 3: are praying for an answered prayer for ten years already.
Speaker 3: I tell you it's not easy. It's not always easy
Speaker 3: to say no to temptation. It's not always easy to
Speaker 3: stand for what is right. It's not always easy to
Speaker 3: do what is good, even when people are not appreciating you.
Speaker 1: It's not always easy.
Speaker 3: But the Christian life is not just hard, it's actually
Speaker 3: impossible to live without the help of God. Without divine empowerment,
Speaker 3: there is no way we can measure up to the
Speaker 3: life that God is calling.
Speaker 1: Us to live.
Speaker 3: We need power, and the goodness is with the Holy Spirit,
Speaker 3: we have power. That's why we can do what God
Speaker 3: is calling us to do. We can forgive, we can
Speaker 3: be generous. We can reach out to people. We can
Speaker 3: be selfless because God has given us the power. Power
Speaker 3: is the divine ability. That's what it means when we
Speaker 3: say the word power. It's divine ability.
Speaker 1: You know. It's a home.
Speaker 3: So and enjoying a time. I'm in you know, son
Speaker 3: call a three years old. You know, we enjoy so
Speaker 3: much swimming. That's what we do today. As much as
Speaker 3: we can. We would do our best to swim. I
Speaker 3: have a picture of my three year old son. His
Speaker 3: name is Jackson and water five feet six feet and.
Speaker 1: Floater big. That was because and it would do that repeatedly.
Speaker 1: I enjoy moments like that.
Speaker 3: But sometimes, you know, would put this floater and then
Speaker 3: I will just let him float in the water.
Speaker 1: And this floater.
Speaker 3: Don't only make sure that he will not drown, it
Speaker 3: enables him to move around. He can actually go from
Speaker 3: one place to another because of this floater. But in reality,
Speaker 3: on his own he can't do that as so, but
Speaker 3: with the floater, not only that is he don't end
Speaker 3: up getting drowned, he is able to move.
Speaker 1: What I'm saying is.
Speaker 3: That God did not only save us. He did not
Speaker 3: only give us salvation. He gave us the power so
Speaker 3: he can we can join him in his mission. That's why,
Speaker 3: as Christians, we are not supposed to just make sure
Speaker 3: we are safe and wait for heaven. We're supposed to
Speaker 3: be moving today. We should be part of his movement,
Speaker 3: and He has given us power.
Speaker 1: To do that.
Speaker 3: That's the experience of the apostle Paul in Second Christians,
Speaker 3: Chapter twelve, verse nine, he said, but he said to me,
Speaker 3: my grace is sufficient for you, for my power is
Speaker 3: made perfect in weakness. Therefore I will boast all the
Speaker 3: more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of
Speaker 3: Christ may rest upon me. We all have our own weakness. Hey, Elen,
Speaker 3: uid to make because you're feeling your weakness? Helen, who
Speaker 3: saying you detail and weakness new food? You know, in
Speaker 3: the world we try our best to hide our weakness.
Speaker 3: We don't want people to know our weakness. We make
Speaker 3: extra effort to show to the world that we're okay,
Speaker 3: that everything is okay. What I like about Christianity is
Speaker 3: that in Christ it's okay not to be okay. That
Speaker 3: that in Christ we don't have to be ashamed of
Speaker 3: our weakness. We can actually boast about our weakness. I
Speaker 3: can say that I'm not good in this area. I
Speaker 3: struggle with patience. You know why, because my weakness is
Speaker 3: an avenue for me to experience Christ's power. Our weakness
Speaker 3: should not hinder us from bringing people to Christ, because
Speaker 3: our weakness is our venue to experience God's power. That's
Speaker 3: why Paul said, I boast gladly about my weakness, because
Speaker 3: in my weakness that's where I experience God's power and
Speaker 3: a weakness. More maybe if some of us maybe were
Speaker 3: saying in the whole relational natae, or maybe in Diajo
Speaker 3: mcgilli magsalitai. But you know, there's a verse in the
Speaker 3: Bible before I forget First Corintians, chapter two, verse four
Speaker 3: to five. Paul testified to that that's also his experience.
Speaker 3: He said, in my message and my preaching were not
Speaker 3: in persuasive words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the
Speaker 3: spirit and power. Paul said, I'm not a gifted speaker.
Speaker 3: I was not a born communicator. So every time I speak,
Speaker 3: it's not a showcase of my great ability to speak.
Speaker 3: Every time I speak, it's a showcase of God's ability
Speaker 3: to empower people like me that even though I'm not
Speaker 3: good God can use me to speak this message in
Speaker 3: such a way that people can come to know Jesus.
Speaker 1: The Bible says, but when you receive the Holy Spirit,
Speaker 1: you will receive power. You know. I have this.
Speaker 3: Colleague, okay, say men Hong Kong work before it's a
Speaker 3: U built and panelampot as a savior.
Speaker 1: I have a picture of him.
Speaker 3: We were able to work together for ten years. He's
Speaker 3: used to be part of my staff of campus missionaries,
Speaker 3: and when I was there, this was one of the
Speaker 3: teaching moments I had with God, my leadership development with God.
Speaker 1: When we were working together.
Speaker 3: I know he was called to be a campus missionary,
Speaker 3: but in my mind, is not cut out to be
Speaker 3: a campus director. If you're a campus director, if you
Speaker 3: are in one local church, you know we have we're
Speaker 3: in eighteen locations right now.
Speaker 1: We have one in Alabama. We have at the fourth.
Speaker 3: If you're the campus director in one area, you're in
Speaker 3: charge and given the assignment to oversee our campus ministry
Speaker 3: work in the area, all the campuses.
Speaker 1: So I have this picture of.
Speaker 3: A campus director that if you're going to be a
Speaker 3: campus director.
Speaker 1: You have to be like this and like this and
Speaker 1: like this.
Speaker 3: So every time we're going to pray for a new
Speaker 3: campus director.
Speaker 1: I don't pray for him.
Speaker 3: This was a long time ago in a Ganie Lloyd.
Speaker 1: I learned my lesson.
Speaker 3: Because in my mind during that time, I was just
Speaker 3: trying to help people find their sweet spot. I'm just
Speaker 3: trying to put people where I feel like they are
Speaker 3: gifted by God to serve, not realize saying that in
Speaker 3: the I'm already boxing people. Actually, until there was a
Speaker 3: time when circumstances, situation happened that this is the only
Speaker 3: choice we have and we need to give him an opportunity.
Speaker 3: Fast forward, to my surprise, he became a very successful
Speaker 3: campus director. He's actually assigned in Santa Rosa today. And
Speaker 3: not only that, our ministry work grew in that area,
Speaker 3: it multiplied in three locations, and now not only that
Speaker 3: is in charge of Santa Ross is actually going around
Speaker 3: our different eighteen locations training our different campus directors how
Speaker 3: to be effective campus missionaries. What I learned about doing
Speaker 3: the work of God is that it's not about our ability,
Speaker 3: but it's our willingness to respond to God's.
Speaker 1: Ability that matters.
Speaker 3: It's not about us, It's about the power of the
Speaker 3: Holy space. It's not how good you are, but how
Speaker 3: willing you are to be used by God. How many
Speaker 3: of you here you're willing to be used by God.
Speaker 3: I have an encouragement for you today. What is your weakness?
Speaker 3: The Bible says, My grace is sufficient for you, and
Speaker 3: My power is.
Speaker 1: Made perfect for your witness.
Speaker 3: Last thing I wanted to talk about as we end
Speaker 3: is the word witness.
Speaker 1: He said you. It's talking to you.
Speaker 3: Whether you are in church for just a month, whether
Speaker 3: you're you have the title of a victory group leader
Speaker 3: or not, God is calling you. God is talking to you,
Speaker 3: and God is telling you you have power to witness.
Speaker 3: A witness in English is somebody who testify dynama, court
Speaker 3: room drama. There may man the testimony, mana and crimen.
Speaker 3: We have the opportunity to go to Taiwan.
Speaker 1: Last month.
Speaker 3: Last month about this month, it was ten years in
Speaker 3: the making.
Speaker 1: Sin the pastor Larry.
Speaker 3: They'd been talking Sabinella some pung Ta Na Tayahu plantinum
Speaker 3: church Sanam karanaim Chansna out of the country together with
Speaker 3: our wives after ten years.
Speaker 1: Than Yarishano. First time for me to go to Taiwan.
Speaker 1: I'd been to China. I'd been to Hong Kong, but
Speaker 1: personal bias.
Speaker 3: When they went to Taiwan, I enjoyed it so much,
Speaker 3: even though I stayed there for three days.
Speaker 1: Only.
Speaker 3: When I came back, people are asking me, how's Taiwan?
Speaker 3: And I told them about my experience, what I saw,
Speaker 3: the food I ate grabbing ma street food, seventy pezus
Speaker 3: fifty psa rap, so I was. I was convincing them,
Speaker 3: try it, try it magabankan piece of air, go go,
Speaker 3: because it's so bron you know what, I realize. We
Speaker 3: speak boldly of the things we believe deeply. If you're
Speaker 3: so convinced about something you talk about it, you can
Speaker 3: help yourself. That's why if you're a Christian, and if
Speaker 3: Jesus is everything to you, if Jesus is the love
Speaker 3: of your life, no one will be able to stop
Speaker 3: you from talking about him.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm a witness of this.
Speaker 3: But you know, in the Bible, the word witness and
Speaker 3: the original Greek word, it's not just about somebody who
Speaker 3: testify about what he saw.
Speaker 1: But in the Bible, the word.
Speaker 3: Witness is someone who carries a message on behalf of another,
Speaker 3: somebody who's willing to die for the message. I'm not
Speaker 3: willing to die for the message of Taiwan. The witness
Speaker 3: we're talking about here is somebody who's carrying a message
Speaker 3: from someone that is willing.
Speaker 1: To die for it. That's what happened to the disciples.
Speaker 3: If you study church history, you will learn that the
Speaker 3: disciples of Jesus, many of them suffered violent death for
Speaker 3: the refusal of stopping to preach the gospel to people.
Speaker 3: Peter was crucified upside down.
Speaker 1: John was given a hot oil treatment.
Speaker 3: Boiling water with oil. You have oil treatment, breach. They're
Speaker 3: willing to die for the message.
Speaker 1: Witness.
Speaker 3: Are you a witness for Christ? Are you bold in
Speaker 3: speaking about Jesus if we really have this relationship, if
Speaker 3: you really experience Christ? I mean, how can I not
Speaker 3: talk about Christ, the God who saved me, the God
Speaker 3: who took me out from the mud, from the dark,
Speaker 3: the God who helped me get out of my insecurity,
Speaker 3: of my addiction, of my hopelessness. How can I stop
Speaker 3: talking about Jesus, the God who died for me.
Speaker 2: I can't.
Speaker 1: I can't stop talking.
Speaker 3: If you really experience Jesus, you will talk about him
Speaker 3: with boldness greater than the boldness you have talking about
Speaker 3: your business, or your hobby, or your travels or your.
Speaker 1: Family witness for Christ.
Speaker 3: You know, I'm reading this book right now by Pastorized Brooks.
Speaker 3: The title of this book is The Human Right. And
Speaker 3: I like this book so much because there are so
Speaker 3: many people today who are passionate about different areas of justice,
Speaker 3: of injustice, actually gender, race, classes.
Speaker 1: Of people, the border issue in the US.
Speaker 3: A lot of people are so passionate about different areas
Speaker 3: of injustice today. They are pushing their agenda in Facebook.
Speaker 3: A lot of people are becoming ambassador of these things.
Speaker 3: But the question is what can really end in justice?
Speaker 1: What is the solution?
Speaker 3: What can be done to really stop the injustice that
Speaker 3: we see? And if you think about it, the ultimate
Speaker 3: solution is not a change in policy. The ultimate solution
Speaker 3: is not change in leadership. The ultimate solution is not
Speaker 3: change in our economy. The ultimate solution is change in
Speaker 3: the hearts of people. Because even if we change the
Speaker 3: environment and the external, if the hearts of people committing
Speaker 3: injustice is not going to change, it's just going to
Speaker 3: be cyclical. It's just going to repeat again and again.
Speaker 3: The only person who asked the cure is Jesus, and
Speaker 3: the ultimate solution for all the injustice we see is
Speaker 3: the Gospel of Jesus Christ, the good news that Jesus
Speaker 3: came died on the cross so that you and I
Speaker 3: not only to be forgiven of our sins, but to
Speaker 3: be set free from the power of sin. Only the
Speaker 3: Gospel as the power to solve injustice and to deal
Speaker 3: with it at its core.
Speaker 1: That's the message that you and I have more than
Speaker 1: anything we can do for this world. The greatest thing
Speaker 1: we can do is bring the Gospel to people. If
Speaker 1: you have the cure.
Speaker 3: For a terminal disease, if you have the cure for
Speaker 3: a disease that's killing people, would you keep it to yourself?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 3: I like what Pastor I said. The ultimate human right
Speaker 3: is for people to hear the Gospel. If we believe
Speaker 3: that this is the way, the.
Speaker 1: Truth and the life.
Speaker 3: In retrospect, the ultimate injustice we can do is not
Speaker 3: share the Gospel to the people around us. Can you
Speaker 3: imagine par Make is dying and I have the cure,
Speaker 3: but I did not share it.
Speaker 1: I kept it to myself. That's in justice.
Speaker 3: That's why he said the ultimate human right is the
Speaker 3: right of every person to hear the gospel. We have
Speaker 3: a message that can change not only the temporary situation
Speaker 3: of people, but their eternal destiny. That's the message we proclaim,
Speaker 3: you know, as I as we end, I'd like to
Speaker 3: read secon Timothy chapter one, verse seven, and this is
Speaker 3: Paul exhorting the belief. Verse he said, for God gave
Speaker 3: us a spirit, not a fear, but a power, love
Speaker 3: and self control. You know, there are three things that
Speaker 3: hinders Christians. Not all these are not the only things
Speaker 3: that hinder us, but the top three, in my opinion,
Speaker 3: that hinders Christians from preaching the Gospel to others. One
Speaker 3: is fear, what people will say to them, panapa if
Speaker 3: I feel fear. Second is shame, what if they know
Speaker 3: about my past? What if they know about my struggle?
Speaker 3: But we learned earlier that our struggle is actually a
Speaker 3: platform for us to testify about the power of Christ
Speaker 3: to use imperfect people like you and me. And third
Speaker 3: is the unwillingness to suffer. People are avoiding inconvenience. People
Speaker 3: today are doing everything they can to avoid pain. A
Speaker 3: Yomah hassel. Selfishness is hindering the gospel from moving forward.
Speaker 3: But I like what Paul said, we did not receive
Speaker 3: a spirit of fear. We're not supposed to be paralyzed
Speaker 3: by fear people's opinion. We are not supposed to be
Speaker 3: held hostage by fear, he said. But we receive power.
Speaker 1: Love.
Speaker 3: God loves you regardless of your past. God is so
Speaker 3: in love with you, and that's all that matters. And
Speaker 3: we're given the power to control, deny ourselves, die to
Speaker 3: ourselves every day so that we can sacrifice so that
Speaker 3: more people can know Jesus.
Speaker 1: Amen.
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