Speaker 1: Welcome. Just hand Away Tagalog Sermon Podcast, your daily dose
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Speaker 1: It's really something that I really want to share it
Speaker 1: every Thursday, and this is the second Sat Thursday that
Speaker 1: we've done it. We've actually started our prayer and worship night.
Speaker 1: It was a powerful time to get equipped not only
Speaker 1: worship and pray together, but it was a powerful time
Speaker 1: to get equipped in how to pray. Last week, Pastor
Speaker 1: Edgar actually taught us how to discern the voice of
Speaker 1: God and it was a powerful time. And I hope
Speaker 1: you know that you are all invited and welcome to
Speaker 1: go on our Thursday's worship night. We actually made it
Speaker 1: into eight pm so that you could actually get here
Speaker 1: in time after dinner, more parking, so that we can
Speaker 1: worship together and pray together. So please join our prayer
Speaker 1: and worship night every Thursday. I'm done, Thank you Lord,
Speaker 1: all right, And so now we get into the world.
Speaker 1: We are still in our series called Amazing Grace, and
Speaker 1: we talk about the amazing grace. We know that the
Speaker 1: author of this grace is none other than our heavenly Father.
Speaker 1: It's from God. And so whenever we talk about amazing grace,
Speaker 1: and this is not a trick question. And I hope
Speaker 1: after two weeks talking about amazing grace, we know this
Speaker 1: by now that grace is something we don't deserve. It's
Speaker 1: something that we are not working for to get it.
Speaker 1: Why because the sinful nature of who we are, we
Speaker 1: will never deserve it. But God gives it to us
Speaker 1: freely anyway. He extends his love to us, his grace
Speaker 1: to save us. And so if I ask you today,
Speaker 1: when have you experienced the grace of God in your life?
Speaker 1: To you or all of you might say during the
Speaker 1: time that I first encounter Jesus. Why because it's the
Speaker 1: time that He has brought us from death to life.
Speaker 1: It's something that only the grace of God can do
Speaker 1: in our lives. But the grace of God does not
Speaker 1: end there five weeks we're gonna talk about this and
Speaker 1: we are on our third week. Why because the grace
Speaker 1: of God is beyond our salvation. It's something that when
Speaker 1: we talk about it, it's there's something more an you
Speaker 1: Biani as a TV deba. Wait, there's something better, or
Speaker 1: there's more to that, and there's more. Grace is a
Speaker 1: concept that we can assume that we understand, but the
Speaker 1: reality is it's so deep, it's so wide that it
Speaker 1: can actually affect our entire lives. Let me illustrate that
Speaker 1: to you. I realized this when I was preparing for
Speaker 1: this preaching. One of the things that I love doing
Speaker 1: is actually go out of town. I love going out
Speaker 1: of town. I love going to a place that is
Speaker 1: a little bit far from here, regardless if it's traffic,
Speaker 1: regardless of the driving. And so I realized that I
Speaker 1: love to drive, mail drive. I don't know why. I'm
Speaker 1: alma drive. I will drive no matter how far it is.
Speaker 1: And the reason why I love to drive now better
Speaker 1: is because of this feature in some of you familiar
Speaker 1: with this? What is this? It's so not all are
Speaker 1: familiar with it. Wife an end gas gauge in the
Speaker 1: end gas gauge, that's gasole gauge. No, it's different. It's
Speaker 1: a feature of some cars, and it's actually cruise control.
Speaker 1: What does it do? You actually set your car at
Speaker 1: a certain speed when you're driving one hundred kilometers per hour,
Speaker 1: which is that's the maximum. And as believers, we follow
Speaker 1: this right Christian tile I. So we set the car
Speaker 1: and not not all cars have this. You set the
Speaker 1: speed at a certain level when you're running, you turn
Speaker 1: it on. For some cars it's below the steering some
Speaker 1: it's in the steering wheel. You turn it on and
Speaker 1: you take out your feet. It drives at the speed
Speaker 1: of one hundred kilometers per hour. It will remain that
Speaker 1: way unless you step on the brake. It disengages. Now
Speaker 1: there are some features that you press it up, it
Speaker 1: speeds up a little. You press it down, it slows down.
Speaker 1: And so when you're driving in teeplex and in n
Speaker 1: legs and in sc texts, and you're driving at one
Speaker 1: hundred kilometers per hour, because that's the prescribed by law,
Speaker 1: and we do not over we're Christians, right, emphasis on Christians.
Speaker 1: And so what happens is when you drive with cruise control,
Speaker 1: if there's a car in front of you that's sneering,
Speaker 1: all you have to do is press a little of
Speaker 1: the brakes and it slows down, but it disengages you
Speaker 1: and now you can turn it back on. Pagan rega.
Speaker 1: What did I learn when I tried cruse control. It
Speaker 1: actually made me enjoy driving more. Nina as stress. I
Speaker 1: remember when I was younger. I want to get ahead,
Speaker 1: so overtake the Diana. You know, we have this mindset
Speaker 1: of conquering the world men, Pacina being puputambagio and in
Speaker 1: If not, then I will take bag you in three
Speaker 1: hours three hours and unpacked women and in easept we
Speaker 1: will buy pass along the way. Anyway, what am I?
Speaker 1: What am I? What's my point? I forgot? Okay, So
Speaker 1: cruise control it's something that it's nice to know. The
Speaker 1: purpose of it is to actually enjoy the drive. It's
Speaker 1: something that you'll enjoy the experience of driving and without it,
Speaker 1: after trying it out, you'll look for it. Why am
Speaker 1: I saying this? You know, the grace of God in
Speaker 1: our work with God is different. Unless we know all
Speaker 1: the features, all the aspects of grace, it will be
Speaker 1: useless in our lives if we don't know how to
Speaker 1: use it and how it applies in our lives, just
Speaker 1: like cruise control. And so today we're going to talk
Speaker 1: about a different aspect that it's beyond our salvation. It's
Speaker 1: beyond what we know about the grace of God and
Speaker 1: we're gonna look at Titus chapter two, verse eleven to fourteen.
Speaker 1: So if you have your Bible's vide you I won't
Speaker 1: flash the text so that we can read together. You
Speaker 1: can actually get it through your phones or your hard
Speaker 1: copy Bible. So please go to chapter two of Titus
Speaker 1: and we're gonna read verse eleven until fourteen. If you're there,
Speaker 1: please say, Amen, Lord, thank You that people do not
Speaker 1: lie verse eleven, for the grace of God has appeared,
Speaker 1: bringing salvation for all people, training us to renounce on
Speaker 1: godliness and worldly passions and to live self controlled, upright
Speaker 1: and godly lives in the present age verse thirteen, waiting
Speaker 1: for our blessed hope and the appearing of the glory
Speaker 1: of our God and savior Jesus Christ verse fourteen, who
Speaker 1: gave him sell for us to redeem us from all
Speaker 1: the lawlessness, and to purify for himself a people for
Speaker 1: his own possession who are zealous for good works. This
Speaker 1: is our word for today. Titus talks about how it
Speaker 1: is to live a life through the grace of God.
Speaker 1: I mean, Paul talks to Titus about it, and so
Speaker 1: when we go through it very carefully, we start with
Speaker 1: verse eleven, it says, for the grace of God has appeared,
Speaker 1: bringing salvation for all people. We've learned this for the
Speaker 1: past two weeks. We know that the grace of God
Speaker 1: leads to salvation. It's available for those who receive it. Right,
Speaker 1: But today we will focus on verse twelve to fourteen.
Speaker 1: It starts with this, for the grace of God has
Speaker 1: appeared for salvation. But it's more than that. The Bible
Speaker 1: says it trains us. Can you say that in me?
Speaker 1: The grace of God trains. The grace of God not
Speaker 1: only saves us, but it actually trains us. In other versions,
Speaker 1: the grace of God is in the amplified version, they
Speaker 1: use the word teach. It teaches us. The grace of God.
Speaker 1: What else. In the nalty version it actually says instructs.
Speaker 1: It's instructing, It teaches and it trains. How does the
Speaker 1: grace of God train us? How does the grace of
Speaker 1: God teach us? I think the obvious answer starts with
Speaker 1: this with the word of God. Right. You know, our
Speaker 1: relationship with God is beyond just praying. I've talked to
Speaker 1: a lot of people who are new in the church,
Speaker 1: and whenever it would ask him how do you know
Speaker 1: if God answers and their answer would be but Gloma
Speaker 1: make yes it no. And so the question is, if
Speaker 1: signs are the answer to your inquiries to God? How
Speaker 1: sure are you if the signs are accurate? Lot of
Speaker 1: us might find this funny, but the reality is all
Speaker 1: the answers to our prayers is already here. All the
Speaker 1: answers to our prayers is already written in this book.
Speaker 1: The promises of God, they're here, The warnings of God
Speaker 1: are all here. And so what do we realize when
Speaker 1: we say the grace of God trains us. Number one,
Speaker 1: God's grace allows us to have the Word of God.
Speaker 1: Everything that we need is in the Word of God.
Speaker 1: The problem is how we treat the Word of God.
Speaker 1: I've heard this quote before, Sabinnah. I have no issue
Speaker 1: with the truth that is written in this book. I
Speaker 1: believe everything in it. The big issue for me is
Speaker 1: when you ask me to apply it, is that hard?
Speaker 1: Is it really hard to apply what the Word of
Speaker 1: God says? I would say yes, it's very hard. Why
Speaker 1: because the Bible reminds us that the Word of God
Speaker 1: is like a mirror that when you look at it,
Speaker 1: it actually shows you what's wrong in your life that
Speaker 1: whenever you read scripture, and I believe that the Word
Speaker 1: of God is alive and active, whenever you read it,
Speaker 1: it will tell you why am I not like this?
Speaker 1: It will tell you I'm far from where God wants
Speaker 1: me to be. The Grace of God teaches us through
Speaker 1: his word. But there is a problem. It's more than
Speaker 1: knowing the word. I like the reminder of my good
Speaker 1: friend Flint. If you are a nineties kid, I does
Speaker 1: have any flint of Jjo. What did he say? Knowing
Speaker 1: is half the battle. It's knowing, but it's only half
Speaker 1: of it. What's the other half? If you know the truth,
Speaker 1: the Bible says, it will set you. What's the other half?
Speaker 1: We need to do the word. It's not just knowing
Speaker 1: the word, but the Bible tells us we need to
Speaker 1: do the word. The reality is we can actually read
Speaker 1: the Bible from cover to cover every single year. But
Speaker 1: unless we apply what it says, it will never change us.
Speaker 1: Unless we do what it says, it will never change us.
Speaker 1: I'm going to give you us an example in Titus too.
Speaker 1: This is what it says you know in the Instructions
Speaker 1: of Titus on how he will teach the church habinah.
Speaker 1: Older men are to be sober minded, dignified, self controlled,
Speaker 1: sound in faith, in love and its steadfastness. Older women likewise,
Speaker 1: has to be reverent in behavior, not slanders or slaves.
Speaker 1: It actually talks about the young people to be self
Speaker 1: controlled and pure, submissive to their own husbands. For the
Speaker 1: ones who are married, the Bible has instructions that are
Speaker 1: very difficult to apply and do. A lot of things
Speaker 1: needs to be worked on when we talk about the
Speaker 1: Word of God. I remember the last training that I
Speaker 1: attended care of my last company before I went into
Speaker 1: full time was the Seven Habits of Highly Effective People.
Speaker 1: You know that training, right, It's based on a book
Speaker 1: by Stephen Covey. It's a very expensive training. The company
Speaker 1: decided to hand pick a few people every year, and
Speaker 1: I was privileged enough to be part of that. They
Speaker 1: actually booked us in Antipolo, in the Lopez Something. Yeah. Anyway,
Speaker 1: we were there for a week or for four days.
Speaker 1: We actually learned about the Seven Habits of Highly Effective People.
Speaker 1: It was a great seminar. I learned a lot, but
Speaker 1: I realized I didn't actually apply what I learned. My
Speaker 1: spirits A Barna Jannan may attend seminar, but it was
Speaker 1: so good. You know it's gonna help your life, but
Speaker 1: you did not apply it. Have you experienced that? And
Speaker 1: so I was thinking about it. Why didn't I apply it?
Speaker 1: Even though I liked everything, even though I know it's
Speaker 1: gonna help me be effective in whatever I do. It
Speaker 1: applies in all areas of my life, even in my spirituality.
Speaker 1: But I didn't change anything. And it is what I realized.
Speaker 1: I didn't change anything because I didn't want to change.
Speaker 1: I didn't want to give up the way of life
Speaker 1: that I had. I liked it, it was comfortable. I
Speaker 1: know how to do my life. Yes, that's effective. But
Speaker 1: what I'm doing anyway is good. What I'm doing anyway
Speaker 1: is okay, it has results. You know. The reality is,
Speaker 1: sometimes the issue is not getting what we need, getting
Speaker 1: the instructions the right things to do. The issue is, really,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say it in behalf myself, I'm just stubborn.
Speaker 1: We just don't want to change, even though we know
Speaker 1: for a fact that everything that is written in this
Speaker 1: book will actually make my life better. I just don't
Speaker 1: want to change. I want to stick with what I know.
Speaker 1: You know, maybe I've said this, and I also hear
Speaker 1: this with some people. They say this, I've surrendered my
Speaker 1: life to God anyway, isn't that enough? If God saved me,
Speaker 1: isn't that enough? Why do I need to surrender everything?
Speaker 1: Okay Na, God intervened in my situation. He promises me
Speaker 1: a good future and to spend eternity with him. Can
Speaker 1: I just live my life on my own? Isn't that enough?
Speaker 1: Can I just embrace God for us my savior, but
Speaker 1: not as a lord. The problem with this is in
Speaker 1: Titus chapter one, it actually gives us a hint of
Speaker 1: people who just want God as a savior. We proclaim
Speaker 1: God as our savior in nothing more. The Bible says
Speaker 1: in Titus one. Such people claim they know God, but
Speaker 1: they deny him by the way they live. They're detestable
Speaker 1: and disobedient, worthless for doing anything good. We feel like
Speaker 1: being saved is enough, but we don't want to apply
Speaker 1: the word of God. Some say, if mahlamnacani Lord, why
Speaker 1: can't he accept me for who I am? Have you
Speaker 1: heard that statement? If God loves me, then he should
Speaker 1: accept me for who I am. That's part true, But
Speaker 1: you want to know what the half of it is
Speaker 1: atpuyon sobra maltainy Lord, that he accepted us for who
Speaker 1: we are. That's why the grace of God is God
Speaker 1: extending to us right, we don't deserve it. But at
Speaker 1: the same time, He loves us too much not to
Speaker 1: change us. He loves us too much not to change
Speaker 1: who we are. And we have to embrace God as
Speaker 1: our Lord and savior. It's both. James Chapter one says,
Speaker 1: can we read this together, but be doers of the
Speaker 1: word and not hearers only deceiving yourselves. James very strong
Speaker 1: with his statement in saying, if you read the word
Speaker 1: and not apply it, you are just fooling yourselves. In
Speaker 1: Tagalog and Nilo lo umulang am sarilimo, the Bible is
Speaker 1: there for us to know the truth and apply the truth.
Speaker 1: But there is good news. Doesn't mean that the Bible
Speaker 1: is just full of those and don'ts that our life
Speaker 1: of Christianity is about rules. There is good news to
Speaker 1: pay in good news. The word that is used as
Speaker 1: trainer or learner or instructor in the Bible is found
Speaker 1: is in the Greek word is by the greeksha. But
Speaker 1: p a d p a I d e u oh
Speaker 1: pay the greeksha and so what does it mean. It's
Speaker 1: more than an instructor. It refers to training that includes
Speaker 1: what educating, instructing, disciplining, rebuking, correcting a child under development
Speaker 1: through strict training. And there is a purpose that they
Speaker 1: do it. It's training a child too mature to realize
Speaker 1: it's full development. What am I saying? When God said
Speaker 1: God's grace, When the word said God's grace trains us,
Speaker 1: it actually walks us through Hindi pusha oh yeah, go
Speaker 1: in mulahat and then babaka exact. You know, the God's
Speaker 1: grace when it deals with us, it's like dealing with
Speaker 1: the kid dahan dahan insuba maturegat elevating you learning. But
Speaker 1: training is not just teaching. There is also rebuking. Have
Speaker 1: you remembered the nine volts battery? Yes, Marapa bangandon mehrampah. Anyway,
Speaker 1: nine votes battery is something that you should experience as
Speaker 1: a kid. Have you experienced nine voltes battery personally in
Speaker 1: your life? I've experienced it personally, young Hawak Modibata was
Speaker 1: the nine votes battery? You can't be complete without doing that.
Speaker 1: And so my dad would say no, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 1: What did you learn? Electricity is good? You know, the
Speaker 1: grace of God trains, it's patient, but there is a purpose.
Speaker 1: What is the purpose for us to grow about the
Speaker 1: mature tile? You know when we see a baby that
Speaker 1: is drooling and crying, acute and saying, oh, get cute,
Speaker 1: red piru and twenty. Let's question in your walk with God.
Speaker 1: Ever since the time I've experienced God, you consider yourself
Speaker 1: growing as a believer the experience being changed by God
Speaker 1: on a regular basis. Is He maturing you? Is He
Speaker 1: bringing you to that potential or where He wants you
Speaker 1: to be? Because the grace of God, when it trains us,
Speaker 1: actually changes us as you continue. It says Proverbs three,
Speaker 1: verse eleven to twelve, My child, don't reject the Lord's discipline,
Speaker 1: and don't be upset when he corrects you. For the
Speaker 1: Lord corrects those he loves, just as a father corrects
Speaker 1: a child with whom he delights. God corrects us, and
Speaker 1: God does something in us. He molds us. The Bible says,
Speaker 1: he prunes us. Why I hope you know, because He
Speaker 1: loves you, He wants the best for you. And the
Speaker 1: last response for us is to feel bad badganon the discipline,
Speaker 1: now on the Lord. You know, sometimes you just need
Speaker 1: to realize that God wants the best for us. And
Speaker 1: so maya town and nine votes battery quantine Alam. Are
Speaker 1: we maturing? Is God's grace training us? The purpose of
Speaker 1: God's grace dealing with us, training us, instructing us, is
Speaker 1: this God wants to transform us. Why does he need
Speaker 1: to transform us? You know, in life today we actually
Speaker 1: like transformations. Now, we like shows that actually show transformation.
Speaker 1: A house that's transformed, a fashion that is transformed. We
Speaker 1: like it, we enjoy it. But the reality is God
Speaker 1: does not call us to transform the way we look.
Speaker 1: The purpose of God in our lives is to transform
Speaker 1: what is inside the world. That is inside us needs
Speaker 1: to be transformed. You know, the world has so many
Speaker 1: books to help us transform the things that we are
Speaker 1: known to do. We can actually transform it. Change it.
Speaker 1: In the Internet how to stop smoking in three steps.
Speaker 1: I tried it. Some of you know this. I used
Speaker 1: to smoke. I've stopped last week. Then jog I used
Speaker 1: to smoke for years. I couldn't get out of it.
Speaker 1: I tried all the help self help tips in the internet.
Speaker 1: Ten ways to quit smoking. There's this study that says
Speaker 1: you just need to change the habit. So if you're smoking,
Speaker 1: change it with something else. So I did. I started coffee,
Speaker 1: and so I realized coffee is best with cigarettes. And
Speaker 1: so what happens addiction go. But you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: When God revealed one truth in my life, and this
Speaker 1: was the truth that I realized that my body is
Speaker 1: the temp of the Holy Spirit. Sov God, Lord, come
Speaker 1: det oh suck. I wanted to change. I tried everything.
Speaker 1: I tried, getting rid of the cigarettes, throwing it away,
Speaker 1: and then going back to it and just straightening it out.
Speaker 1: I've tried everything to quit because I know it's bad.
Speaker 1: But when I realized that God wants me to live
Speaker 1: a healthy life. He has given me this body to
Speaker 1: take care of, I realized one more thing. I couldn't
Speaker 1: do it on my own. And so when I surrender it,
Speaker 1: and when the Lord, when God revealed to me his word,
Speaker 1: I began to surrender it and say, Lord, I can't
Speaker 1: do it on my own. Take this vice away from me,
Speaker 1: Take it away. One of the best experiences of my
Speaker 1: life was this story, because the next day I prayed
Speaker 1: when I woke up coughing hard, very hard. I thought
Speaker 1: I was gonna die when I was I didn't when
Speaker 1: I woke up to the wolf. But after a day
Speaker 1: of coughing, I didn't know what to do. You know
Speaker 1: what happened the next day? I woke up as if
Speaker 1: I've never smoked, as if there was no craving. Well,
Speaker 1: I'm cold turkey, cold cheecken, cold cat. It was freedom
Speaker 1: from addiction. Why? Because I knew it was only through him.
Speaker 1: You know, when God transforms us, it's long lasting. But
Speaker 1: if it's when, if it's about our efforts, what happens
Speaker 1: we fail Kiaganuzi Lord in Gristnia is part of our lives.
Speaker 1: Why because on our own the reality is think about it.
Speaker 1: We can't actually do it. We can't only through the
Speaker 1: grace of God. Why does God to transform us? The
Speaker 1: word is sictification. Do you know have you heard of
Speaker 1: the word sanctification? Sanctification means this the state of proper function.
Speaker 1: What does that mean? God is actually bringing us back
Speaker 1: to the original design. When God transforms us to His
Speaker 1: image and likeness. When God changes us to His design,
Speaker 1: what does that mean? We're actually not learning something new?
Speaker 1: What it means is we were actually designed by God
Speaker 1: this way. The other definition of sanctification is this, to
Speaker 1: sanctify someone is to set that person apart for the
Speaker 1: use intended by its designer. And that's why a lot
Speaker 1: of people are trying to find their purpose in life,
Speaker 1: trying to find pursuits in money, in career. But at
Speaker 1: the end of it all, what happens, they say parent
Speaker 1: in Deeper in Italy. Why am I not happy? Why
Speaker 1: am I not fulfilled? Why? Because only the purpose us
Speaker 1: from our creator will give us life. And so sanctification
Speaker 1: actually allows us to go back to the design of
Speaker 1: God being abil title original. Another definition of sanctification is
Speaker 1: to sanctify means to make holy because God is holy.
Speaker 1: Turn to the person to your right, do they look holy? Yes? Why?
Speaker 1: Because God is doing his work in us. He's sanctifying us,
Speaker 1: He is changing us. Santiification means titles to As we
Speaker 1: continue our verse, it says renouncing ungodliness and worldly passions.
Speaker 1: Sanctification means whenever we read the Bible, we see what's
Speaker 1: wrong with us. It tells us what we should stop doing.
Speaker 1: I like that. Paul actually emphasized the second one, renounce ungodliness.
Speaker 1: We know this. We want to be good, right Latile.
Speaker 1: I think all of us in this room want to
Speaker 1: be good. But the reality is pero digma go it's
Speaker 1: so hard. In our efforts, we always go back to
Speaker 1: our sinful nature. But there's this sin that is different.
Speaker 1: He says, renownce and godless, or turn your back from it.
Speaker 1: But there's also that worldly passions, the things that we
Speaker 1: like to do that are unseen by everyone. We're not
Speaker 1: proud of it, worldly passions. And so to be sanctified
Speaker 1: is to know the truth. When we know the truth,
Speaker 1: what we do we repent. We turn our backs away
Speaker 1: from sin elen degrees and turn an three sixty parapabelic
Speaker 1: parents a sin no one. And so we walk our
Speaker 1: life of faith to the truth. We go back to God.
Speaker 1: Another thing that God has sanctified in my life. And
Speaker 1: I'm not boasting because I did it, because only God
Speaker 1: can do it. Man, I used to curse a lot,
Speaker 1: so brah as in every statement too, I stood it
Speaker 1: with and then ended too. Remember he said, the occasion alanto,
Speaker 1: every occasion I tapos hum cursingko nega evolved, fighting pang
Speaker 1: maasa depends. I've learned all of it but the ung
Speaker 1: ibang language from bag your curse to say what I
Speaker 1: as a believer when I got saved at the poy
Speaker 1: of mindset expression laga man ni doesn't mean anything. To
Speaker 1: say a curse is just an experience, just sounds nicer.
Speaker 1: That's what I said. I was convincing myself. But when
Speaker 1: somebody called it out and said, you know, I wish
Speaker 1: it was just a a expression. But the reality is
Speaker 1: the power of the world. There is power in our words,
Speaker 1: in our tongue that when we say a curse, it
Speaker 1: actually hurts people regardless something well and among mo get Lord,
Speaker 1: I hope nobody's cursing me now. And so I realized
Speaker 1: this that there is power in your tongue that when
Speaker 1: you speak life, something good happens, but when you speak death,
Speaker 1: it actually is a curse as curses. When I was
Speaker 1: growing up and it affected my life and I thought
Speaker 1: it was nothing, somebody told me bo bo bo, and
Speaker 1: it actually got stuck in my head. I know the
Speaker 1: power of words, so I have to renounce it. I
Speaker 1: have to cut it out from my life. Why because
Speaker 1: I am created in the image of God. You know,
Speaker 1: I hope you know that my cursing stop, not because
Speaker 1: I could, but it was just changed and changed by
Speaker 1: God and changed by God. I really don't know how
Speaker 1: I stopped. I don't even remember the experience of stopping.
Speaker 1: It just did. God changes us through his word. He
Speaker 1: transforms us to a new person. He transforms us into
Speaker 1: someone who is like him. Why because people will notice
Speaker 1: your change. For some believers, they're radically changed. People are
Speaker 1: actually weirded out. See next thing, Save God s nashah
Speaker 1: saat that God bless lam, No, God bless you didn't
Speaker 1: know a radical change or transformation. Sanctification only comes from God.
Speaker 1: And I like what it says. It says not only
Speaker 1: does the grace of God teach us not what to do,
Speaker 1: it actually teaches us what to do. It's complete nipushayong
Speaker 1: baowel yan bawa. Yet it actually tells us that we
Speaker 1: need to live our lives with self control, with being upright,
Speaker 1: with godly lives. And the most important part of it
Speaker 1: is this that it actually allows us to live it today.
Speaker 1: It's not just us being saved and then Kikita in
Speaker 1: ants the Lord in heaven in the future. It's our
Speaker 1: life today. We are being changed today. It's hard, but
Speaker 1: it is possible only through the Lord. Can you share
Speaker 1: your story about Ac Green? Ac Green was part of
Speaker 1: the Los Angeles Lakers during the era of the Show Time.
Speaker 1: They were one of the best teams, starting FI PUSHA
Speaker 1: with Byron Scott, James Worthy, Magic Johnson, Kareem Abdul Jabbar
Speaker 1: and him. He's actually known if you google him for
Speaker 1: two things. Number One, he's called the iron Man of
Speaker 1: the NBA only because he played one one hundred ninety
Speaker 1: two games straight in his career. Sabain weelaan patid and Philosophia.
Speaker 1: If my mom and dad actually went to work every day,
Speaker 1: I should be doing that every day. He was an
Speaker 1: excellent rebounder. He actually was a different person when he
Speaker 1: was on court. He played one thousand, two hundred seventy
Speaker 1: eight games of one thousand, two hundred eighty one, missing
Speaker 1: only three games in his career because he got injured.
Speaker 1: He's called the iron Man. One of the things that's
Speaker 1: important to know about Acy Green he was actually a believer.
Speaker 1: He was a Christian And I'm not telling his stories
Speaker 1: about breaking records. I'm going to tell you a different
Speaker 1: kind of story. And I found this article on the internet.
Speaker 1: They called him the Iron Virgin, the Iron Virgin. Why
Speaker 1: you know, excuse me, Ac Green when he was drafted
Speaker 1: by I think Jerry West, I'm not sure the team
Speaker 1: manager during that time. He knew it was going to
Speaker 1: be a problem. He was a believer and the Showtime
Speaker 1: team during that time, Magic Johnson was one of the
Speaker 1: most I don't know how to describe it, but they
Speaker 1: were really partying every night with half naked or if
Speaker 1: not naked women in front of them. It was If
Speaker 1: you research about it, you'll be surprised on how grabil
Speaker 1: and telegra of how immoral and what they did in
Speaker 1: house parties. And so Magic Johnson when he learned about
Speaker 1: his new teammate Ac Greens having ah, what, you're still
Speaker 1: a verb? He was so, he was, so, what's the
Speaker 1: word in the gala? Parent? It's impossible you're a basketball star? Now,
Speaker 1: that's impossible women would go to you. And so at
Speaker 1: the points in Abne Magic Johnson, once you start seeing
Speaker 1: these girls around NBA, you won't be thinking of that
Speaker 1: Christian and god stuff, savage, Magic john impossive, Lord wont
Speaker 1: so this is what he did. Will give you two
Speaker 1: months and I'm sure you will be done. So Sabina
Speaker 1: too much, slam be big. What did he say that's
Speaker 1: impossible that you don't give in basketball cups, Magic Johnson
Speaker 1: in the story Sabina, We're gonna bet players three hundred
Speaker 1: dollars la if you enjoy the two months, that three
Speaker 1: hundred dollars is yours. So saving eighty green. Oh, so
Speaker 1: one week has passed, she pre pagnasa road. I know
Speaker 1: it's They would send women to his room. So you
Speaker 1: know what he would do in a savage article, he
Speaker 1: would pray, loud, Lord, I thank you for you protect me,
Speaker 1: you protect my eyes and the namog so shame pretty
Speaker 1: young papa. He would do that every night. They would
Speaker 1: tell him manyloalo. They would go out and they would
Speaker 1: tell him, easy, let's go out, let's party. He would
Speaker 1: always say this, I won't join, but I will pray
Speaker 1: for you. They were he was so different. He lived
Speaker 1: a different life from his teammates. And so one day,
Speaker 1: almost at the two months, they send women in a
Speaker 1: moment that in but you know what a he did
Speaker 1: and what's his what's his? God? Thank you, Yes, Joseph,
Speaker 1: he fleed to macbuere. Lord, you know, you know for
Speaker 1: Magic Johnson it was an impossible Sinaris, haven't you It's impossible,
Speaker 1: nobody could do that. But you know what happened two
Speaker 1: months past. This was his rookie career, years past, actually
Speaker 1: decades past, a decade past. He actually retired in two
Speaker 1: thousand and one as the thirty eight year old virgin.
Speaker 1: He's never married. He stayed, you were in holy and
Speaker 1: when they would ask him, weren't you tempted? Sabina, of
Speaker 1: course I was. I was, but the grace of God
Speaker 1: allows me to get away from temptation. Quoted the Bible
Speaker 1: scripture that God will not give us any child that
Speaker 1: we cannot get out of. You know, after he retired,
Speaker 1: right after a few months, he got married, and he's
Speaker 1: no longer a virgin anymore, ac Green, But you know
Speaker 1: his life did not stop there. He actually continued at foundation,
Speaker 1: the ac Green Foundation, where they're there to help kids
Speaker 1: and the youth to abstain the life of abstinence, and
Speaker 1: he teaches leadership and program developments for the youth. It's impossible,
Speaker 1: a lot of players said, but you know, even in
Speaker 1: our situation, I think it is impossible when it's about
Speaker 1: our efforts, but when we know that God's grace is
Speaker 1: with us in everything that he's doing in our lives,
Speaker 1: the things that he is changing in our lives. It
Speaker 1: is possible with disgrace. So what do we learn from
Speaker 1: the story of ac Green. God's grace empowers us. Not
Speaker 1: only does he tell us what to do from his word,
Speaker 1: not only does he give us the strength to do it,
Speaker 1: he actually gives us the Holy Spirit to live it out.
Speaker 1: We have all that we need, we allow God's grace
Speaker 1: to move in our impossible situations. We start by declaring,
Speaker 1: and this is important. We can actually start to be
Speaker 1: empowered by the grace of God when we start not saying.
Speaker 1: It starts with the words that we declare. I've said
Speaker 1: that before, Iago, bagaham gand on a boygo. But I
Speaker 1: hope you know that's a lie, because the grace of
Speaker 1: God not only trains us, it empowers us to a
Speaker 1: godly life. Chapter two, verse thirteen, it says, waiting for
Speaker 1: our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory for our
Speaker 1: great God and Savior Jesus Christ. That the sanctification in
Speaker 1: the transformation of God in our lives has a purpose
Speaker 1: wife because we are waiting for that blessed hope. What
Speaker 1: is that, blessed hope. It's the time that we will
Speaker 1: face Jesus once again. And not only are we prepared.
Speaker 1: Imagine if you're meeting the most important person in a
Speaker 1: few months, will you prepare for it? We would. And
Speaker 1: so until that the time that we meet Jesus face
Speaker 1: to face, the Holy Spirit empowers us, transforms us, sanctifies us.
Speaker 1: It's actually preparing us. But there's good news. God designed
Speaker 1: us to be transformed and to live life here on
Speaker 1: earth with this in mind. The Bible says, your will
Speaker 1: be done on earth as it is in heaven. God's
Speaker 1: grace is upon us today. It transforms us so that
Speaker 1: we can live our lives as if we are in
Speaker 1: heaven already. That's the major difference of people who believe
Speaker 1: in God. So the question is do people in your
Speaker 1: life see that in you? Nika seen a sanctify tiny lord,
Speaker 1: Nik and Elena, we are being changed. The more important
Speaker 1: question is do you actually see that God is transforming you?
Speaker 1: Are you allowing him to transform you? Are you allowing
Speaker 1: him to change you to his design? Are you allowing
Speaker 1: the will of God to move in your life? Last verse,
Speaker 1: it says who gave himself for us to redeem us
Speaker 1: from all the lawlessness. The lawlessness is something that is detestable,
Speaker 1: that the things that we that we don't like, and
Speaker 1: to purify for himself a people of his own possession
Speaker 1: who are zealous for good works? What does that mean?
Speaker 1: This is the cost of our transformation and sanctification. That
Speaker 1: Jesus actually died for us so that we can be transformed.
Speaker 1: He paid a high price to change us, to mold us,
Speaker 1: to allow us to be changed and transformed. He purifies us.
Speaker 1: And it says for us to be zealous for good works.
Speaker 1: What is zelus meaning? It's mean it means we are
Speaker 1: passionate about doing good. I'm going to end with this story.
Speaker 1: There is this new church member, a lady who actually
Speaker 1: wanted to volunteer and I hope you guys do voluntari.
Speaker 1: So she wanted to volunteer in the new church that
Speaker 1: she belongs to. And so the leader that actually was
Speaker 1: interviewing her, a guy and a girl, asked her this question, Sabina,
Speaker 1: were you a sinner before you received the Lord Jesus
Speaker 1: into your life? Singer Raba receives Lord, and of course
Speaker 1: the answer is yes. Sabina yes, but there's a follow
Speaker 1: up question, Sabina. Noel posts Sabina, well, are you still
Speaker 1: a singer today? For those who would like to volunteer?
Speaker 1: Are you a sinner before you meet Christ? Yes? Does
Speaker 1: un follow up question do you still consider yourself as
Speaker 1: still a sinner today? Yeah? Alongsa good, very good, Haabila
Speaker 1: Yes and Soga bin Al. There's another follow up question, Sanya,
Speaker 1: then what real change have you experienced? That's a difficult
Speaker 1: question to answer, and what real change have you really experienced?
Speaker 1: So Montree question at all? And this is what she said. Well,
Speaker 1: I don't quite know how to explain it, she said,
Speaker 1: except I used to be a sinner. Let me say
Speaker 1: it again. I used to be a sinner running after sin,
Speaker 1: But now that I'm saved, I'm a sinner running away
Speaker 1: from sin. I hope you know that with God sanctifies us,
Speaker 1: it's a lifelong journey. It doesn't end. It's not a
Speaker 1: purple book that you go through, but it's alivee with
Speaker 1: the Lord that eventually we will still unearth things that
Speaker 1: we do not like about ourselves. We will unearth things
Speaker 1: that we are still sinning about. But God's sanctification in
Speaker 1: our lives allows us to change the direction before we
Speaker 1: used to like this sin, We embrace it, we do it.
Speaker 1: But now as we are saying, just like the lady said,
Speaker 1: what did she say? Now, I'm running away from sin
Speaker 1: a life that is transformed by God. Where are you today?
Speaker 1: Where's your heart today? Are you allowing God and his
Speaker 1: grace to move in your life to be transformed? Good news?
Speaker 1: Natan volunteer. So if I ask you later God, well,
Speaker 1: I used to annoy going to end with this statement.
Speaker 1: One statement. This is so profound. I didn't know how
Speaker 1: to say it. But the reality is this, and I
Speaker 1: hope you take ownership with this statement. God is not
Speaker 1: yet done with us. God is not yet done with me,
Speaker 1: and God is not yet done with you. Thank God.
Speaker 1: He's not giving up on us. Thank God, he wants
Speaker 1: to still transform us and sanctify us. Amen. Can you
Speaker 1: declare that, allow God to remind you that He's not
Speaker 1: done with you. Can you say that in a very
Speaker 1: personal way? Can you say it, God is not yet
Speaker 1: done with me? Thank you God that you are a
Speaker 1: God who hears our prayers and knows where we are.
Speaker 1: Can ask everyone to close their eyes as we take
Speaker 1: this time to wait on the Lord as he speaks
Speaker 1: to us. Lord, point areas in our life that you
Speaker 1: want to fix or thank you that you're a patient God.
Speaker 1: You don't just do all the work now, but you're
Speaker 1: willing to journey with us. Lord. If there's one thing
Speaker 1: that is that you want me to surrender today that
Speaker 1: you want to change to transform, Lord, speak to me,
Speaker 1: Holy spirits, speak to each and everyone in this room
Speaker 1: on what that is that one thing that you want
Speaker 1: to transform, That one thing that you're still sanctifying, you're purifying,
Speaker 1: that one thing that you want to take out and change,
Speaker 1: that one thing that you're bringing back to design. Speak
Speaker 1: to my brothers and sisters today about this one thing.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Lord, you're a faithful God. Be declared that
Speaker 1: you'll do your work in our lives. Today. I want
Speaker 1: to pray for a last group of people that it
Speaker 1: seems your heart is there. You want to change, and
Speaker 1: you want God to do your work, to do his
Speaker 1: work in your life. You want to be transformed. But
Speaker 1: the only thing that's stopping you is that you can't
Speaker 1: seem to pick up that Bible. For some reason, just
Speaker 1: reading one word will distract you and you want to
Speaker 1: go back to what you're doing. If that's you, I
Speaker 1: want to pray for grace to know God through reading
Speaker 1: the Word. Lord, you see my brothers and sisters who
Speaker 1: are raising their hands. Thank you Lord that the grace
Speaker 1: of getting to know You, of seeking You even comes
Speaker 1: from me. Thank you, Lord, God, that you will give
Speaker 1: us your spirit, that when we open the Word, Lord,
Speaker 1: it will be a personal letter to us, as if
Speaker 1: you are speaking to us. Thank you, Lord God, that
Speaker 1: it's something that only that we will enjoy, but it
Speaker 1: will change our lives. Lord God, or thank you that
Speaker 1: your spirit is upon my brothers and sisters today in Jesus.
Speaker 1: How many of you are excited about God doing his
Speaker 1: work in your life? Can we give God praise? Lord,
Speaker 1: Thank you that you are God who speaks Your God
Speaker 1: who gives us your word through the Bible. And Lord,
Speaker 1: thank you that your word is alive, that it changes,
Speaker 1: it transforms, It gives us that breakthrough that we've been
Speaker 1: waiting for. So Lord, thank you that you are faithful.
Speaker 1: God will move in our mins. Lord. We want to
Speaker 1: embrace that grace that you are allowing us to live in.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Lord, We praise you, Lord, bless your people
Speaker 1: this week allow them to experience you like never before.
Speaker 1: Allow them to be transformed by your word. In Jesus' name,
Speaker 1: and everybody with God's people say amen and Amen. See
Speaker 1: you next week. God bless you. Thank you for listening.
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