WEBVTT

1
00:00:05.160 --> 00:00:09.080
<v Speaker 1>Welcome Just Hindaway Tagalog Sermon podcast, your daily dose of

2
00:00:09.199 --> 00:00:13.439
<v Speaker 1>inspiring from heartfelt tagalog sermons from different factors and speakers

3
00:00:13.480 --> 00:00:14.560
<v Speaker 1>all over the Philippines.

4
00:00:14.800 --> 00:00:17.280
<v Speaker 2>We hope that this podcast finds you in good shame

5
00:00:17.640 --> 00:00:25.440
<v Speaker 2>and now here's your message. You're listening to a podcast

6
00:00:25.559 --> 00:00:29.920
<v Speaker 2>or from victory. Beware of false prophets who hinder people

7
00:00:30.000 --> 00:00:33.880
<v Speaker 2>from finding the narrow road that leads to heaven. Learn

8
00:00:33.920 --> 00:00:36.640
<v Speaker 2>more about entering the Kingdom of God. In Week fifteen

9
00:00:36.719 --> 00:00:38.640
<v Speaker 2>of our series Redefined.

10
00:00:42.840 --> 00:00:46.479
<v Speaker 1>You look at Matthew seven thirteen. He says, enter by

11
00:00:46.520 --> 00:00:50.759
<v Speaker 1>the narrow gate, for the gate is wide, and the

12
00:00:50.840 --> 00:00:56.240
<v Speaker 1>way is easy, that leads to destruction. Those who enter

13
00:00:56.359 --> 00:01:02.000
<v Speaker 1>by it are many geez to all the disciples. There's

14
00:01:02.039 --> 00:01:06.560
<v Speaker 1>two paths that you need to choose. One is the

15
00:01:06.680 --> 00:01:10.200
<v Speaker 1>narrow gate. Not many want to go to the narrow gate,

16
00:01:11.239 --> 00:01:15.200
<v Speaker 1>for the gate is wine, because there's another option. The

17
00:01:15.239 --> 00:01:19.480
<v Speaker 1>gate is wine and the way is easy, but then

18
00:01:19.519 --> 00:01:28.359
<v Speaker 1>it leads to destruction. Many picture millions walking that road

19
00:01:28.599 --> 00:01:32.920
<v Speaker 1>of the easy path to faith. The word that leads

20
00:01:32.920 --> 00:01:36.120
<v Speaker 1>to destruction if you look at the very root meaning

21
00:01:36.200 --> 00:01:38.519
<v Speaker 1>in the Greek word that it was used in Matthew

22
00:01:38.599 --> 00:01:47.000
<v Speaker 1>seven means this causing someone to be completely severed, cut

23
00:01:47.079 --> 00:01:52.799
<v Speaker 1>off entirely from what could or should have been. This

24
00:01:52.879 --> 00:01:56.560
<v Speaker 1>is the question you don't want to ask. This is

25
00:01:56.760 --> 00:01:59.439
<v Speaker 1>the haunting thing that happens to a lot of people

26
00:02:01.040 --> 00:02:05.680
<v Speaker 1>on their death bend, on their darkest moment, they asked

27
00:02:05.719 --> 00:02:11.479
<v Speaker 1>the question, Lord, if I just followed you before, what

28
00:02:11.800 --> 00:02:15.840
<v Speaker 1>could be or what should have been my life? Now

29
00:02:16.759 --> 00:02:21.599
<v Speaker 1>I've been completely cut off because I've chosen the easy road,

30
00:02:22.560 --> 00:02:26.280
<v Speaker 1>the wide road, the easy way to faith, a faith

31
00:02:26.360 --> 00:02:29.560
<v Speaker 1>that is so comfortable. I don't need any commitment, I

32
00:02:29.599 --> 00:02:32.080
<v Speaker 1>don't need sacrifice. All I need to do is show

33
00:02:32.120 --> 00:02:35.120
<v Speaker 1>up on church on a Sunday. That's it. A life

34
00:02:35.360 --> 00:02:38.159
<v Speaker 1>of what could be or what should have been if

35
00:02:38.319 --> 00:02:43.560
<v Speaker 1>I just followed Christ, if I became a disciple of Jesus,

36
00:02:43.960 --> 00:02:48.879
<v Speaker 1>not a crowd, not an attendee, part of the disciples

37
00:02:48.960 --> 00:02:52.280
<v Speaker 1>and dis sermon in the mount who made the decision

38
00:02:52.599 --> 00:02:56.319
<v Speaker 1>on not choosing the easy road to faith, going through

39
00:02:56.319 --> 00:02:59.960
<v Speaker 1>the narrow way that leads to life. You see the

40
00:03:00.039 --> 00:03:05.360
<v Speaker 1>temptation we have today is we see many, many by

41
00:03:05.400 --> 00:03:12.120
<v Speaker 1>the millions, embracing a kind of faith that requires no sacrifice,

42
00:03:13.240 --> 00:03:21.560
<v Speaker 1>requires zero commitment, a faith that is comfortable. A face

43
00:03:21.759 --> 00:03:26.840
<v Speaker 1>that is based on convenience, but it leads to what

44
00:03:26.960 --> 00:03:33.439
<v Speaker 1>the Bibles is destruction, not is not not not not,

45
00:03:33.599 --> 00:03:37.319
<v Speaker 1>It is only talking about hell, just talking about a

46
00:03:37.400 --> 00:03:40.960
<v Speaker 1>state of what could be or what should have been.

47
00:03:41.759 --> 00:03:43.960
<v Speaker 1>I want you to look upon your own life, and

48
00:03:44.000 --> 00:03:47.960
<v Speaker 1>I want you to check. Have I chosen the easy path?

49
00:03:49.599 --> 00:03:54.120
<v Speaker 1>Have I chosen the wide road that requires nothing of me?

50
00:03:54.879 --> 00:03:59.360
<v Speaker 1>And I can declare myself a Christian. Let's go to church.

51
00:03:59.639 --> 00:04:03.080
<v Speaker 1>That's it. I'm good. I'm waiting for Jesus to come.

52
00:04:03.800 --> 00:04:07.039
<v Speaker 1>I'll judge every person who's a sinner, and I'll just

53
00:04:07.080 --> 00:04:09.639
<v Speaker 1>show up on Sunday and not do anything about my faith.

54
00:04:10.719 --> 00:04:16.959
<v Speaker 1>Nothing revolutionary, about whatsoever in your life. A face that

55
00:04:17.040 --> 00:04:19.959
<v Speaker 1>is so consumed with self on what Christ can do

56
00:04:20.079 --> 00:04:27.240
<v Speaker 1>for me? The easy path, a faith what could be

57
00:04:27.319 --> 00:04:31.600
<v Speaker 1>or what should have been? So sad to hear so

58
00:04:31.720 --> 00:04:38.079
<v Speaker 1>many stories of people coming to us as I've heard

59
00:04:38.120 --> 00:04:42.600
<v Speaker 1>the message. I knew it before. I chose not to

60
00:04:42.639 --> 00:04:49.000
<v Speaker 1>follow because I saw many walking the easy road, and

61
00:04:49.079 --> 00:04:55.480
<v Speaker 1>I thought that was it? A life of what could

62
00:04:55.480 --> 00:05:01.560
<v Speaker 1>be or what should have been. Bible talks about another road,

63
00:05:02.600 --> 00:05:06.199
<v Speaker 1>for the gate is narrow and the way is hard

64
00:05:06.959 --> 00:05:14.240
<v Speaker 1>that leads to life, and those who find it are few. Sad.

65
00:05:14.279 --> 00:05:21.800
<v Speaker 1>Picture two roads, wide, easy, many walk through. It leads

66
00:05:21.800 --> 00:05:24.279
<v Speaker 1>to what could be or what should have been. But

67
00:05:24.319 --> 00:05:31.560
<v Speaker 1>there's this road, very narrow, dangerous, muddy. But at the

68
00:05:31.639 --> 00:05:36.480
<v Speaker 1>end of that road there's life. Life that was mentioned

69
00:05:37.120 --> 00:05:41.399
<v Speaker 1>in the Bible means this of the absolute fullness of

70
00:05:41.480 --> 00:05:47.800
<v Speaker 1>life boom. That was the Greek word that was used

71
00:05:47.800 --> 00:05:52.759
<v Speaker 1>in scripture. Sustained only by God. No people can sustain.

72
00:05:53.079 --> 00:05:57.160
<v Speaker 1>Nobody can sustain. No material possessions can sustain that life.

73
00:05:57.360 --> 00:06:01.199
<v Speaker 1>Only God can sustain that life. In Layman's term, it's

74
00:06:01.240 --> 00:06:08.279
<v Speaker 1>to be fully alive. By Bible says to choose the

75
00:06:08.360 --> 00:06:12.720
<v Speaker 1>narrow road. If there was one time we've ever tracked,

76
00:06:12.759 --> 00:06:15.800
<v Speaker 1>I don't know if it's even called a track, was

77
00:06:15.839 --> 00:06:18.600
<v Speaker 1>when we were in Baholland, and I think my eldest

78
00:06:18.600 --> 00:06:20.959
<v Speaker 1>at the time was four and the second one was

79
00:06:20.959 --> 00:06:26.480
<v Speaker 1>two years old. I don't know, I forget right. And

80
00:06:27.199 --> 00:06:30.040
<v Speaker 1>we went there and they said there are seven waterfalls

81
00:06:30.040 --> 00:06:34.079
<v Speaker 1>that you go through. I never thought it was hard.

82
00:06:34.959 --> 00:06:37.439
<v Speaker 1>I thought it was easy. I was in my shirt,

83
00:06:37.879 --> 00:06:40.279
<v Speaker 1>my shorts and my crops. I don't know if it's

84
00:06:40.319 --> 00:06:43.160
<v Speaker 1>even originally somebody gave it to me, right, or if

85
00:06:43.199 --> 00:06:48.879
<v Speaker 1>it's bought downstairs, right. I wasn't prepared for the track

86
00:06:49.000 --> 00:06:51.800
<v Speaker 1>if that, if you call that a track seven levels,

87
00:06:51.839 --> 00:06:54.160
<v Speaker 1>I think it would take you eight to ten hours

88
00:06:54.240 --> 00:06:57.839
<v Speaker 1>to go through the seven waterfalls. At first it was

89
00:06:58.000 --> 00:07:03.720
<v Speaker 1>kind of easy level one. But somewhere in level one

90
00:07:04.279 --> 00:07:07.680
<v Speaker 1>I was carrying my second and I think my eldest

91
00:07:07.879 --> 00:07:11.399
<v Speaker 1>Timmy was carrying. We weren't prepared for this. The tour

92
00:07:11.480 --> 00:07:15.720
<v Speaker 1>guide now it gets a little slippery now and with

93
00:07:15.800 --> 00:07:19.720
<v Speaker 1>your slippers that's no longer holding It was dangerous, right,

94
00:07:20.079 --> 00:07:22.079
<v Speaker 1>But I remember when we went to level two of

95
00:07:22.079 --> 00:07:26.360
<v Speaker 1>the waterfalls, all the dangers gone when we saw the view,

96
00:07:27.199 --> 00:07:36.240
<v Speaker 1>amazing view life, but the narrow road is dangerous. And

97
00:07:36.279 --> 00:07:39.000
<v Speaker 1>when the guy told us, sir, are you ready for

98
00:07:39.120 --> 00:07:49.839
<v Speaker 1>level three Undia, reality strikes back. I can't, even though

99
00:07:49.839 --> 00:07:54.519
<v Speaker 1>I can, but carrying someone and not prepared with my slippers,

100
00:07:55.319 --> 00:07:57.600
<v Speaker 1>I can't go to level three. We have to go back.

101
00:07:59.759 --> 00:08:00.279
<v Speaker 3>Some way.

102
00:08:00.480 --> 00:08:05.839
<v Speaker 1>That's a picture of Christians today, not prepared for the

103
00:08:06.000 --> 00:08:10.680
<v Speaker 1>road ahead, thinking it's all just about showing up on

104
00:08:10.759 --> 00:08:17.680
<v Speaker 1>a Sunday wearing the most comfortable slippers to be entertained

105
00:08:18.279 --> 00:08:21.560
<v Speaker 1>and inspired and be enlightened by the man of God

106
00:08:21.560 --> 00:08:26.959
<v Speaker 1>who will preach the word that Sunday. No sacrifice, no suffering,

107
00:08:27.040 --> 00:08:33.120
<v Speaker 1>no commitment. And if ever messages get hard, offended leaves

108
00:08:33.159 --> 00:08:37.840
<v Speaker 1>the church feels like there's no grace in the preaching.

109
00:08:39.919 --> 00:08:44.159
<v Speaker 1>But Jesus preached this message. The disciples knew what he

110
00:08:44.240 --> 00:08:48.559
<v Speaker 1>was saying when he said, you walk the easy path.

111
00:08:50.000 --> 00:08:51.639
<v Speaker 1>It's going to be a life of what could be

112
00:08:51.720 --> 00:08:54.799
<v Speaker 1>or should have been. It's going to be your destruction.

113
00:08:56.360 --> 00:09:00.879
<v Speaker 1>You're going to regret, You're going to cry when you're

114
00:09:01.039 --> 00:09:08.879
<v Speaker 1>old and say, Lord, if I just follow Lord, if

115
00:09:09.000 --> 00:09:16.840
<v Speaker 1>I just embrace teaching and the faith that comes with

116
00:09:16.919 --> 00:09:24.759
<v Speaker 1>the message of the Kingdom, life or death, two options.

117
00:09:25.639 --> 00:09:30.919
<v Speaker 1>We were giving the narrow gate that leads to the

118
00:09:30.919 --> 00:09:36.799
<v Speaker 1>fullness of life. Few find it, Few would want to go.

119
00:09:40.080 --> 00:09:45.360
<v Speaker 1>We've heard these messages. Here come. This leads to life,

120
00:09:45.759 --> 00:09:52.879
<v Speaker 1>require sacrifice, commitment. Come on, I seen season. Season. I

121
00:09:52.919 --> 00:09:56.120
<v Speaker 1>don't know what's up with season. I think only Christians

122
00:09:56.200 --> 00:10:01.000
<v Speaker 1>use that. I sees I know winter, four, spring, summer,

123
00:10:01.279 --> 00:10:05.759
<v Speaker 1>President diaopa umula Umulan, what season are you talking about?

124
00:10:06.519 --> 00:10:13.200
<v Speaker 1>Because the narrow road is hard, then it leads to life.

125
00:10:13.399 --> 00:10:18.399
<v Speaker 1>The elusive joy and life that the world is looking for.

126
00:10:20.600 --> 00:10:27.200
<v Speaker 1>So they shot every week looking for that life. They'll

127
00:10:27.240 --> 00:10:32.000
<v Speaker 1>try everything, they get lawyers to fix what's broken, and

128
00:10:32.080 --> 00:10:39.240
<v Speaker 1>it can't be fixed. The world can't fix it because

129
00:10:39.279 --> 00:10:43.039
<v Speaker 1>only Jesus can give that life. Are you willing to

130
00:10:43.200 --> 00:10:47.960
<v Speaker 1>track that narrow gate that leads to life? Not a

131
00:10:48.000 --> 00:10:52.759
<v Speaker 1>life of what could beer should have been? So many

132
00:10:52.799 --> 00:10:55.919
<v Speaker 1>stories we've heard through the years of what could be

133
00:10:56.080 --> 00:10:59.399
<v Speaker 1>or what should have been because we choose not to.

134
00:11:01.000 --> 00:11:04.120
<v Speaker 1>We choose the easy road, we choose the wide road.

135
00:11:05.360 --> 00:11:10.559
<v Speaker 1>We choose just going to church Sunday if it did

136
00:11:10.559 --> 00:11:17.440
<v Speaker 1>not rain, if there's easy parking. Who's preaching this Sunday? Oh,

137
00:11:17.759 --> 00:11:22.960
<v Speaker 1>I'm not attending a Christianity that's so self centered. I

138
00:11:22.960 --> 00:11:30.080
<v Speaker 1>think Jesus will cry. Two options. You choose today enters

139
00:11:30.120 --> 00:11:32.600
<v Speaker 1>through the narrow gate. For why this is the gate

140
00:11:34.000 --> 00:11:38.759
<v Speaker 1>and broad is the road that leads to destruction and

141
00:11:39.039 --> 00:11:47.600
<v Speaker 1>men enter through it small it's the game, narrow the

142
00:11:47.759 --> 00:11:52.320
<v Speaker 1>road that leads to life. Only a few find it.

143
00:11:54.039 --> 00:11:57.600
<v Speaker 1>Jesus knew the disciples would face such a choice when

144
00:11:57.639 --> 00:12:04.320
<v Speaker 1>they go down the mountain. They've been inspired, they've heard

145
00:12:04.320 --> 00:12:08.960
<v Speaker 1>from a great teaching from the Master's storyteller himself, Jesus.

146
00:12:10.720 --> 00:12:14.080
<v Speaker 1>Now Jesus gives it to them plain and simple too

147
00:12:14.200 --> 00:12:25.639
<v Speaker 1>options Why easy, narrow heard results are different. Then he says,

148
00:12:25.799 --> 00:12:30.200
<v Speaker 1>beware of false prophets who come to you in sheep's clothing,

149
00:12:30.440 --> 00:12:36.039
<v Speaker 1>but inwardly are ravenous wolves. Jesus knew what he was

150
00:12:36.039 --> 00:12:40.360
<v Speaker 1>talking about. Be left alone with the wolves, you die destruction.

151
00:12:42.039 --> 00:12:47.000
<v Speaker 1>Beware of such teachings. Beware of such teachers who will

152
00:12:47.039 --> 00:12:55.000
<v Speaker 1>tickle your ears and make you feel light and happy.

153
00:12:55.559 --> 00:12:58.399
<v Speaker 1>You're preaching a gospel with no power and no content.

154
00:13:00.080 --> 00:13:04.440
<v Speaker 1>We've said this, We're not after crowds. What if we

155
00:13:04.519 --> 00:13:08.720
<v Speaker 1>fill this place up? What if Green Hills has seven

156
00:13:08.840 --> 00:13:13.399
<v Speaker 1>eight thousand members? We couldn't fill up the place anymore.

157
00:13:13.399 --> 00:13:19.480
<v Speaker 1>We need a bigger space, yet zero impact in the city.

158
00:13:20.399 --> 00:13:24.440
<v Speaker 1>You know yourselves. I should go home. Has this faith

159
00:13:24.519 --> 00:13:29.600
<v Speaker 1>really translated into something? Or maybe I've embraced a Christianity

160
00:13:29.639 --> 00:13:36.000
<v Speaker 1>that has no power in it. You will recognize them

161
00:13:36.039 --> 00:13:39.919
<v Speaker 1>by their fruits, our graves gathered from thorn bushes or

162
00:13:40.000 --> 00:13:49.360
<v Speaker 1>figs from thistles. What was he saying? You're saying, be

163
00:13:49.399 --> 00:13:52.600
<v Speaker 1>careful with the Christianity that's so self centered that it

164
00:13:52.639 --> 00:13:57.639
<v Speaker 1>has no concern whatsoever with the Kingdom of God. Beware

165
00:13:57.639 --> 00:14:01.519
<v Speaker 1>of such teachings. Beware of such teachers that will give

166
00:14:01.600 --> 00:14:05.320
<v Speaker 1>you just moral teachings apart from the power of the

167
00:14:05.320 --> 00:14:20.000
<v Speaker 1>Holy Spirit pakabaka muramocio. All the moral teachings that anybody

168
00:14:20.000 --> 00:14:22.240
<v Speaker 1>who has no faith in Christ can actually teach you

169
00:14:25.120 --> 00:14:32.200
<v Speaker 1>makes you feel good Jesus had. Beware of such teachings,

170
00:14:33.960 --> 00:14:40.720
<v Speaker 1>teaching that's centered just on morality without Christ and a message.

171
00:14:40.960 --> 00:14:47.960
<v Speaker 1>It's very therapeutic. Jesus is your therapist. Look see Lord

172
00:14:49.519 --> 00:14:58.679
<v Speaker 1>maybudas Sauum. He's the munchkin. All therapy, all about me,

173
00:14:59.320 --> 00:15:04.519
<v Speaker 1>all about me, very self. My faith is so personal,

174
00:15:05.360 --> 00:15:11.080
<v Speaker 1>it's so personal personal. Nobody knows because I accepted it

175
00:15:11.200 --> 00:15:19.039
<v Speaker 1>as my personal Lord and personal Savior. He's my personal

176
00:15:19.080 --> 00:15:23.879
<v Speaker 1>imaginary friend that I speak to every night. Nobody knows

177
00:15:23.919 --> 00:15:29.159
<v Speaker 1>about this. Be very careful with such teachings. He was

178
00:15:29.240 --> 00:15:33.320
<v Speaker 1>pertaining to the Pharisees. You'll go down, you'll meet them.

179
00:15:34.080 --> 00:15:39.879
<v Speaker 1>All morality, all external, all changes the outside of the cup,

180
00:15:42.240 --> 00:15:47.080
<v Speaker 1>but not really dealing what's in the heart. Be very

181
00:15:47.120 --> 00:15:54.960
<v Speaker 1>careful with such teachings, very terruputing hulang a lung spa music,

182
00:15:55.000 --> 00:16:01.759
<v Speaker 1>mahat this makes you feel good. Something church makes me

183
00:16:01.799 --> 00:16:12.200
<v Speaker 1>feel good next week because it's not arapeutic. Jesus had

184
00:16:12.879 --> 00:16:16.240
<v Speaker 1>a mixture of both. But in light of the Kingdom

185
00:16:16.279 --> 00:16:21.600
<v Speaker 1>of God. So every healthy tree bears good fruit, but

186
00:16:21.679 --> 00:16:25.679
<v Speaker 1>the diseased tree bears bad fruit. A healthy tree cannot

187
00:16:25.720 --> 00:16:29.039
<v Speaker 1>bear bad fruit, nor can a diseased tree bear good fruit.

188
00:16:30.039 --> 00:16:34.039
<v Speaker 1>What was Jesus saying, how will you know if the

189
00:16:34.080 --> 00:16:38.480
<v Speaker 1>brand of faith or Christianity you have is right? Look

190
00:16:38.559 --> 00:16:43.480
<v Speaker 1>at the fruit. Now? Only you can answer this. Only

191
00:16:43.519 --> 00:16:45.960
<v Speaker 1>I can answer for my family. I cannot answer for

192
00:16:46.039 --> 00:16:52.200
<v Speaker 1>yours my effect. But a Laga young scripture. Sin has the.

193
00:16:52.240 --> 00:16:58.480
<v Speaker 4>Past fifteen weeks disturb us so much that it has

194
00:16:58.600 --> 00:17:02.440
<v Speaker 4>redefined our marriage, our life, our business?

195
00:17:04.640 --> 00:17:12.640
<v Speaker 1>Or is this like wow up a church, bangal Jesus

196
00:17:12.680 --> 00:17:16.799
<v Speaker 1>here my therapy. Or is it the same kind of

197
00:17:16.960 --> 00:17:22.400
<v Speaker 1>life and pattern of sin and dysfunctional behavior that is

198
00:17:22.480 --> 00:17:26.720
<v Speaker 1>still alive and living in the relationships that you have

199
00:17:27.079 --> 00:17:30.359
<v Speaker 1>Because the Gospel has no effect in your life because

200
00:17:30.440 --> 00:17:33.440
<v Speaker 1>it required no commitment and no sacrifice on your part.

201
00:17:34.839 --> 00:17:40.079
<v Speaker 1>We have to fight this kind of Christianity to get involved.

202
00:17:40.160 --> 00:17:46.799
<v Speaker 1>Just like don't translate that to your faith that's Facebook,

203
00:17:47.359 --> 00:17:53.720
<v Speaker 1>that's not your faith, that's not kingdom thinking. Every tree

204
00:17:54.279 --> 00:17:57.480
<v Speaker 1>that does not bear good fruit is what cut down

205
00:17:59.079 --> 00:18:05.720
<v Speaker 1>and thrown into the fire. Jesus was not scaring them.

206
00:18:06.240 --> 00:18:10.480
<v Speaker 1>Jesus was standing them a future reality. The prayer is

207
00:18:11.119 --> 00:18:15.880
<v Speaker 1>five years from now, it won't be a conversation like

208
00:18:15.920 --> 00:18:21.240
<v Speaker 1>this pastor in October. I am people, and I know

209
00:18:21.359 --> 00:18:24.200
<v Speaker 1>the road that I was going to choose. It should

210
00:18:24.200 --> 00:18:27.720
<v Speaker 1>have been the narrow road, but I chose the easy

211
00:18:27.799 --> 00:18:32.160
<v Speaker 1>path and said that message was offensive. I'm not yet ready.

212
00:18:32.440 --> 00:18:36.079
<v Speaker 1>I'm in a different season, and so I cannot now here.

213
00:18:36.119 --> 00:18:40.480
<v Speaker 1>I am pastor five years from now, lonely the press

214
00:18:42.119 --> 00:18:49.480
<v Speaker 1>dysfunctional because I've chosen the easy path of faith, the

215
00:18:49.599 --> 00:18:53.119
<v Speaker 1>white road. Why did you choose the white road? Pastor

216
00:18:55.680 --> 00:18:59.319
<v Speaker 1>chose the white road? And also somebody I know in

217
00:18:59.400 --> 00:19:01.960
<v Speaker 1>Grinnias the white and also this guy and also this

218
00:19:02.079 --> 00:19:10.839
<v Speaker 1>victory group leader. Many will choose the easy path. The

219
00:19:10.880 --> 00:19:14.640
<v Speaker 1>message version said, don't be impressed with charisma. Look for

220
00:19:14.680 --> 00:19:20.640
<v Speaker 1>a character in the preachings. Don't be impressed with eloquent

221
00:19:20.799 --> 00:19:31.359
<v Speaker 1>words kalaim kalam kadingiam present. Look for a character. Who

222
00:19:31.400 --> 00:19:36.720
<v Speaker 1>preachers are is the main thing, not what they say,

223
00:19:37.279 --> 00:19:39.839
<v Speaker 1>look at the fruit. Jesus is saying in the same

224
00:19:39.839 --> 00:19:44.799
<v Speaker 1>way a person can profess I'm a Christian and I'm

225
00:19:44.839 --> 00:19:47.440
<v Speaker 1>a citizen of the Kingdom. You can say what you

226
00:19:47.519 --> 00:19:50.279
<v Speaker 1>want to say, but I look at who you really are.

227
00:19:54.880 --> 00:20:00.480
<v Speaker 1>It does not translate a genuine leader who never exploit

228
00:20:00.519 --> 00:20:05.119
<v Speaker 1>your emotions or your pocketbook. This diseased trees with their

229
00:20:05.160 --> 00:20:07.640
<v Speaker 1>bad apples are going to be chopped down and burned.

230
00:20:09.319 --> 00:20:11.759
<v Speaker 1>Makes me remember how sacred it is to preach the word,

231
00:20:12.759 --> 00:20:16.400
<v Speaker 1>and how it's every responsibility of a Christian and a

232
00:20:16.440 --> 00:20:21.319
<v Speaker 1>pastor like myself to preach what Jesus preached, no matter

233
00:20:21.359 --> 00:20:26.400
<v Speaker 1>how hard, no matter how offensive, no matter how disturbing.

234
00:20:27.400 --> 00:20:31.200
<v Speaker 1>It has to be preached because we don't want you

235
00:20:32.079 --> 00:20:36.079
<v Speaker 1>going back saying it should be or could have been

236
00:20:36.160 --> 00:20:41.160
<v Speaker 1>if I just but rather five years from now you're saying, Lord,

237
00:20:41.240 --> 00:20:47.759
<v Speaker 1>I made that commitment. It was hard. Redefined us to

238
00:20:47.839 --> 00:20:51.119
<v Speaker 1>go back to the drawing board. Check our lifestyle, check

239
00:20:51.160 --> 00:20:55.960
<v Speaker 1>our values, check if we're making an impact in society.

240
00:20:56.839 --> 00:21:01.200
<v Speaker 1>Are we doing something about The Gospel made me cry,

241
00:21:01.319 --> 00:21:05.200
<v Speaker 1>made me wept of how shallow my faith is in Christ.

242
00:21:05.960 --> 00:21:10.720
<v Speaker 1>Five years ago that October, that preaching did something to me.

243
00:21:11.680 --> 00:21:17.680
<v Speaker 1>That scripture did something in my heart because I knew

244
00:21:18.400 --> 00:21:23.599
<v Speaker 1>that day, which is today. I've been walking the easy

245
00:21:23.640 --> 00:21:27.160
<v Speaker 1>path of faith, a road that would lead to what

246
00:21:27.200 --> 00:21:30.200
<v Speaker 1>could be or what should have been. I hope it's

247
00:21:30.240 --> 00:21:35.480
<v Speaker 1>not what if. But I did the power of God.

248
00:21:35.599 --> 00:21:42.240
<v Speaker 1>I did chose the narrow crowd j c Rasis. Repentance

249
00:21:42.240 --> 00:21:46.279
<v Speaker 1>and faith in Christ and holiness of life have never

250
00:21:46.359 --> 00:21:51.839
<v Speaker 1>been fashionable. It will never be fashionable. I'm telling you

251
00:21:51.920 --> 00:21:58.319
<v Speaker 1>it's not fashionable to be a Christian, to be part

252
00:21:58.480 --> 00:22:01.440
<v Speaker 1>of the citizen of the Kingdom of God has never

253
00:22:01.519 --> 00:22:04.160
<v Speaker 1>been fashionable. Try it, try it, go to the party,

254
00:22:04.400 --> 00:22:18.200
<v Speaker 1>say bro cool thin, sabi musambergada virgin. It's never been

255
00:22:18.599 --> 00:22:22.440
<v Speaker 1>fashionable in the language of today's world. It will never

256
00:22:22.519 --> 00:22:28.559
<v Speaker 1>be sexy. Never. That's why Dave cannot have a reality

257
00:22:28.559 --> 00:22:34.279
<v Speaker 1>TV show because his life in the world's eyes boring.

258
00:22:34.400 --> 00:22:38.680
<v Speaker 1>He sleeps by ten at nine pm, he reads a

259
00:22:38.680 --> 00:22:43.480
<v Speaker 1>Bible story to Sean to put him to sleep. He

260
00:22:43.559 --> 00:22:47.119
<v Speaker 1>dates his wife. They talk about God, they talk about

261
00:22:47.160 --> 00:22:52.480
<v Speaker 1>the things that that mature couples do. There's no affair,

262
00:22:53.200 --> 00:22:56.720
<v Speaker 1>there's no second wife, there's nothing like that. There's no

263
00:22:56.799 --> 00:23:01.759
<v Speaker 1>plates flying when they're fighting, nothing controversial to be shown

264
00:23:01.839 --> 00:23:07.240
<v Speaker 1>on live TV. But this is what it means to

265
00:23:07.240 --> 00:23:11.000
<v Speaker 1>be part of the Kingdom of God. Never fashionable, and

266
00:23:11.119 --> 00:23:16.640
<v Speaker 1>I don't have to because when you choose the narrow road,

267
00:23:16.880 --> 00:23:21.079
<v Speaker 1>it gives you life, life to the fullest. John ten

268
00:23:21.200 --> 00:23:25.200
<v Speaker 1>ten Jesus came that I might have life, and have

269
00:23:25.279 --> 00:23:31.640
<v Speaker 1>life to the full, to be fully alive, to come

270
00:23:31.680 --> 00:23:36.799
<v Speaker 1>to a point, Lord, what I have now. I'm fully alive.

271
00:23:38.720 --> 00:23:44.079
<v Speaker 1>I don't need anything else. I just want to serve

272
00:23:44.119 --> 00:23:52.240
<v Speaker 1>you because you are my life. The white game, the

273
00:23:52.319 --> 00:23:57.839
<v Speaker 1>easy one lead to could have been? Or what should do?

274
00:23:58.319 --> 00:24:07.000
<v Speaker 1>What should be? That regrets the questions? What if I

275
00:24:07.319 --> 00:24:17.480
<v Speaker 1>just obeyed God became a follower of Jesus, If I

276
00:24:17.799 --> 00:24:26.759
<v Speaker 1>just made that decision years ago, my marriage won't be

277
00:24:26.839 --> 00:24:34.240
<v Speaker 1>like this, my family won't be like this. What is

278
00:24:34.319 --> 00:24:45.279
<v Speaker 1>said is millions would choose the easy path, millions even

279
00:24:45.319 --> 00:24:53.160
<v Speaker 1>among Christians. Millions. I know because I'm a pastor. I

280
00:24:53.240 --> 00:25:03.720
<v Speaker 1>see even to a point of I can't even give

281
00:25:03.799 --> 00:25:08.440
<v Speaker 1>my ten percent. It's hard, so hard to die, so hard,

282
00:25:10.559 --> 00:25:16.519
<v Speaker 1>then choose the easy path. I don't want to look

283
00:25:16.519 --> 00:25:28.920
<v Speaker 1>for disciples, you know, I just show up in church Sunday. Okay,

284
00:25:30.039 --> 00:25:38.119
<v Speaker 1>some advice, counseling junkies, bounding, pounding, pounding, bounding, bounding, counseling,

285
00:25:38.200 --> 00:25:45.559
<v Speaker 1>don counseling in the Magann counseling, bounding, bounding disciple. You're

286
00:25:45.640 --> 00:25:52.799
<v Speaker 1>choosing the easy path. Why you cry? Somebody listens to you, relief.

287
00:25:53.519 --> 00:26:03.200
<v Speaker 1>This is Jesus here my therapy HM. And when given

288
00:26:03.240 --> 00:26:05.200
<v Speaker 1>a choice, will you now repent? Will you now do

289
00:26:05.279 --> 00:26:15.480
<v Speaker 1>something about it? They may the intentions, Wow, how about

290
00:26:15.519 --> 00:26:21.400
<v Speaker 1>God's kingdom? How about stop looking at my needs now

291
00:26:24.119 --> 00:26:29.000
<v Speaker 1>and start looking at this broken world? And have given

292
00:26:29.079 --> 00:26:33.720
<v Speaker 1>this message that is life transforming, so that I could

293
00:26:33.759 --> 00:26:37.920
<v Speaker 1>share it to others, tell them the story of your

294
00:26:38.039 --> 00:26:42.640
<v Speaker 1>walk and your journey in that narrow road that led

295
00:26:42.680 --> 00:26:50.200
<v Speaker 1>to life, and not follow the millions as we end.

296
00:26:52.440 --> 00:27:00.599
<v Speaker 1>We leave the room today in five minutes time. Two options,

297
00:27:00.640 --> 00:27:08.319
<v Speaker 1>nothing else TODs A road that's wide and easy, a

298
00:27:08.440 --> 00:27:18.839
<v Speaker 1>road millions embraced. A Sunday Christian, a Christian by paper religion,

299
00:27:18.920 --> 00:27:28.440
<v Speaker 1>Christian that requires no commitment or sacrifice, nothing that only

300
00:27:28.519 --> 00:27:32.319
<v Speaker 1>requires of Christ to look after my need, so that

301
00:27:32.359 --> 00:27:37.039
<v Speaker 1>he is my ultimate psychiatrist and my moral teacher, who

302
00:27:37.039 --> 00:27:40.920
<v Speaker 1>would guide me and give me good advice, but never

303
00:27:40.960 --> 00:27:45.680
<v Speaker 1>really doing something about the message of the Kingdom of God,

304
00:27:46.759 --> 00:27:50.680
<v Speaker 1>the easy road that three, five, ten years from now.

305
00:27:51.480 --> 00:27:57.240
<v Speaker 1>This is the conversation what if it should have been?

306
00:27:58.079 --> 00:28:01.519
<v Speaker 1>It could have been? Or too today October twenty seventeen.

307
00:28:02.400 --> 00:28:04.680
<v Speaker 1>To walk out this door and say, Lord, I'm choosing

308
00:28:04.720 --> 00:28:10.400
<v Speaker 1>the narrow road, dangerous, dirty muddy requires commitment, requires full

309
00:28:10.440 --> 00:28:17.559
<v Speaker 1>attention and focus, requires a lot of redefining, reviewing of life,

310
00:28:17.839 --> 00:28:23.240
<v Speaker 1>lifestyle values, vision, changing the culture of just trying to

311
00:28:23.279 --> 00:28:27.079
<v Speaker 1>go to church every Sunday. And that's it. Redefining that

312
00:28:30.480 --> 00:28:32.400
<v Speaker 1>and say, Lord, I choose to be a follower, a

313
00:28:32.440 --> 00:28:40.680
<v Speaker 1>disciple of Jesus. That would lead to life. That is

314
00:28:40.720 --> 00:28:45.839
<v Speaker 1>the message today. It's bolt on my hands to spray. Lord.

315
00:28:45.880 --> 00:28:51.000
<v Speaker 1>It is the prayer of my heart that everyone, not

316
00:28:51.359 --> 00:29:00.720
<v Speaker 1>one in this room, would choose the easy path. It

317
00:29:00.839 --> 00:29:08.519
<v Speaker 1>lures us no commitment, no sacrifice here. Why look at

318
00:29:08.519 --> 00:29:16.480
<v Speaker 1>all your friends they're here. Come open or spiritual eyes

319
00:29:16.519 --> 00:29:20.119
<v Speaker 1>to see that the invitation really sounds like, come to

320
00:29:20.200 --> 00:29:24.200
<v Speaker 1>this life. That would lead to a life of regret,

321
00:29:24.319 --> 00:29:27.119
<v Speaker 1>of questions of what could be or what should have been?

322
00:29:29.680 --> 00:29:30.640
<v Speaker 1>Or may we see that.

323
00:29:34.240 --> 00:29:38.240
<v Speaker 5>And may we choose the narrow game, the hard road,

324
00:29:39.039 --> 00:29:42.799
<v Speaker 5>the rocky road, the muddy road, the stony road, the

325
00:29:42.839 --> 00:29:48.920
<v Speaker 5>steep road, the road that's so dangerous.

326
00:29:50.160 --> 00:29:58.839
<v Speaker 1>That nobody wants because it would require full attention, focus, dedication, commitment.

327
00:30:01.519 --> 00:30:03.839
<v Speaker 1>But at the end of the road, it would lead

328
00:30:03.920 --> 00:30:11.400
<v Speaker 1>to life. Life, everlasting life, eternal life, full sustained by God,

329
00:30:12.039 --> 00:30:16.400
<v Speaker 1>a life that no money, no millionaire or billionaire could

330
00:30:16.400 --> 00:30:22.079
<v Speaker 1>ever buy.

331
00:30:20.200 --> 00:30:27.200
<v Speaker 3>A life that satisfies, a life that changes marriages, a

332
00:30:27.279 --> 00:30:32.960
<v Speaker 3>life the changes relationships, a life found in Christ, a

333
00:30:33.079 --> 00:30:38.039
<v Speaker 3>kind of peace that the world cannot give, a supernatural

334
00:30:38.119 --> 00:30:39.400
<v Speaker 3>kind of life.

335
00:30:39.799 --> 00:30:41.720
<v Speaker 1>I want you to pray to the Lord right now

336
00:30:43.920 --> 00:30:51.559
<v Speaker 1>today it is your decision. Do they choose nor do

337
00:30:51.640 --> 00:30:58.400
<v Speaker 1>they were given two options? Also today we know we're

338
00:30:58.440 --> 00:31:05.440
<v Speaker 1>walking in either one of the road. For those walking

339
00:31:05.799 --> 00:31:12.839
<v Speaker 1>in that easy road, the wide road, Jesus, we repent, Lord,

340
00:31:12.880 --> 00:31:17.680
<v Speaker 1>we turn back. We go back to that fork on

341
00:31:17.759 --> 00:31:24.880
<v Speaker 1>that road. We go back. We repent Lord, that we

342
00:31:24.960 --> 00:31:30.720
<v Speaker 1>choose to walk the narrow road. The life the world

343
00:31:30.799 --> 00:31:38.480
<v Speaker 1>is looking for, Lord is in that narrow road. Lord,

344
00:31:38.559 --> 00:31:40.599
<v Speaker 1>I pray that I will be fine, faith that I

345
00:31:40.599 --> 00:31:50.119
<v Speaker 1>will be fine, faithful as I walk that narrow, hard road, muddy,

346
00:31:50.400 --> 00:31:56.640
<v Speaker 1>stony steep told me, I understand what I've entered into.

347
00:31:58.519 --> 00:32:02.680
<v Speaker 1>It's not a Christianity that is so easy, that would

348
00:32:02.680 --> 00:32:08.000
<v Speaker 1>require nothing of me. But when I choose to follow Jesus,

349
00:32:09.640 --> 00:32:14.000
<v Speaker 1>it would affect every area of my life. But Lord,

350
00:32:14.000 --> 00:32:15.279
<v Speaker 1>I know, at the end of the day, would lead

351
00:32:15.279 --> 00:32:21.359
<v Speaker 1>to life. So I choose the narrow road. Holy Spirit,

352
00:32:21.519 --> 00:32:25.440
<v Speaker 1>empower me as I walk this road. Teach me to obey,

353
00:32:26.440 --> 00:32:30.319
<v Speaker 1>Teach me to walk in faith every single day of

354
00:32:30.599 --> 00:32:34.039
<v Speaker 1>my life.

355
00:32:35.400 --> 00:32:38.039
<v Speaker 6>Thank you for listening to this message. For more messages

356
00:32:38.079 --> 00:32:41.480
<v Speaker 6>like these from other Victory Centers, please visit Victory dot org,

357
00:32:41.559 --> 00:32:48.720
<v Speaker 6>dot pH, Slash resources, Slash Podcasts.

358
00:32:49.200 --> 00:32:50.400
<v Speaker 1>Thank you for listening.

359
00:32:51.480 --> 00:32:54.279
<v Speaker 6>We hope that you enjoyed today's episode.

360
00:32:54.559 --> 00:32:57.720
<v Speaker 3>Don't forget to share and subscribe to this podcast for more.

361
00:32:58.799 --> 00:32:59.920
<v Speaker 1>God bless you all.