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Speaker 2: Sermons from different pastors and speakers all over the Philippines.
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Speaker 3: And now here's your message. You were listening to a
Speaker 3: message from Victory. We hope it inspires you to honor
Speaker 3: God and make disciples in your humanity.
Speaker 2: First four weeks we were talked about God's glory, God's goodness,
Speaker 2: God's generosity, and God's graciousness. This week, this week, yes,
Speaker 2: today we're gonna be talking about God's greatness. That he
Speaker 2: is a great God is found in the Psalm. Actually,
Speaker 2: this is the last Psalm that David wrote. This is
Speaker 2: the very last Psalm that he wrote personally, Okay, And
Speaker 2: and when when you look through it, when you read
Speaker 2: through it, Makitano is actually a summary of all of
Speaker 2: those in Verse five talked about the glory of God,
Speaker 2: Verse nine talks about God's goodness in uh verses ten
Speaker 2: to thirteen talks about God's generosity, and in verse eight
Speaker 2: talks about a gracious God. Now we're going to be
Speaker 2: talking about a great God, who is great, who is mighty,
Speaker 2: I remember growing up when when when when you told
Speaker 2: me about Puck great Bang great. There's four of us
Speaker 2: actually siblings in the in the family, and growing up,
Speaker 2: it's always who's the who's the favorite, who's the best? Okay,
Speaker 2: who's the best that can you know that can write?
Speaker 2: Or who's the best server for mom and dad? Okay?
Speaker 2: You plucking best? Okay, who's the least who's the most
Speaker 2: least favorite? At least favorite it most? You get that again,
Speaker 2: Papa Li Sahan, And that actually maybe that's the nature
Speaker 2: of our hearts. It's it's trying to outdo each other.
Speaker 2: And whenever you say about trying to do each other,
Speaker 2: I always remember, I don't know if you've did you've
Speaker 2: done this before. And Chinky, Chinky chinks remember that, especially
Speaker 2: in our staff meetings before when I will tell a story,
Speaker 2: Chinky would come up and say, Larry smuggling trying to compete,
Speaker 2: trying to committe who's the greatest, who is the greatest
Speaker 2: amongst example, n B A, who follows n B A?
Speaker 2: Come on, who follows n B A. Who's the greatest
Speaker 2: NBA player of all time? Jorge Dans Curry, Steph Curry,
Speaker 2: Alan Jerry West. Do you know who Jerry West is?
Speaker 2: Jerry West is absolutely the logo of NBA. Do you
Speaker 2: know that that's that? That's a trivia for If you
Speaker 2: ask me, I'm the Magic Johnson era. If you ask
Speaker 2: Pastor Dennis, he's the Larry Bird era. Pastor Dennis par
Speaker 2: Larry Bird in porma guyan Nilarry Bird. Okay, so so
Speaker 2: it's different local we talk about who's the best BBA
Speaker 2: team is it's Chrispasa, Chrispi, Chris chrispa Chris Pata do
Speaker 2: in nebra. Never say die, Never say die. They're already dead,
Speaker 2: but never say die. Who who's the greatest, what's the
Speaker 2: greatest era? What's the greatest genre for music? What? What?
Speaker 1: What?
Speaker 2: What? What's the greatest genre? Okay, who's better? Who's who's greater? Uh?
Speaker 2: Superman or Batman? Huh Batman? Very bad man. Okay, look,
Speaker 2: I love wearing this shirt. It's the only shirt that
Speaker 2: the belt can actually fits me. No pictures, Attorney Danny Patron,
Speaker 2: do not post the picture or we're in the miss universe.
Speaker 2: Uh fever right now? Okay, we we already had three
Speaker 2: Miss universe. Who's great? Who's the greatest? Is it uh
Speaker 2: Gloria Dias nineteen sixty nine. Is it Margin Muran nineteen
Speaker 2: seventy three, or or is it quein Pia the recent
Speaker 2: uh miss universe. I remember when my my siblings and
Speaker 2: I would try to outdo each other. We would exclaim
Speaker 2: from the top of our boys and with passion, and
Speaker 2: not only that my mad gesture, but my guest, no,
Speaker 2: you're you're, you're, you know, you're you're. I'm infinitely greater. Okay,
Speaker 2: I'm gazillion times we we invent words like gazillion times better. Okay, MA,
Speaker 2: let me I know I'm greater. Gonna buy your loser,
Speaker 2: I'm greater. But really, can anyone or anything compare? Compare, okay,
Speaker 2: compare to the greatness of who God is? Can anyone,
Speaker 2: no one, no nothing, love this picture? About this water? Well?
Speaker 2: We can actually put can Can we actually put an
Speaker 2: entire ocean in a bucket? Can you do that? A
Speaker 2: bucket can never contain the water of the ocean. It
Speaker 2: can It can only contain a part of it, a
Speaker 2: small point zero zero zero zero zero zero percent part
Speaker 2: of it, but not it's it's totality. In the same way,
Speaker 2: the greatest of God is too great for a band
Speaker 2: to comprehend. It's too great. It's something that unfathomable in
Speaker 2: the spelling. The other day I went to a mind museum,
Speaker 2: and whenever I go to mind visum this actually my
Speaker 2: third or fourth time. It's it's mind buggling. How God
Speaker 2: could create all of this? Remember all of this God created.
Speaker 2: If it's up to me to create a human being,
Speaker 2: that going call a stick people stick lang. The complexity
Speaker 2: of a human the d n A. It's each person comes,
Speaker 2: everything comes from from an atom. Okay, he de said,
Speaker 2: You're like, yeah, okay, atom yan atom, cell? How How?
Speaker 1: How?
Speaker 2: How? How God can be so intricate and no one
Speaker 2: is the same, no person is the same. Ryan. It's
Speaker 2: that's how great he is. His mind is so infinite
Speaker 2: that compared to ours where we're paral. Remember how David
Speaker 2: says it in verse three. Great is the Lord and
Speaker 2: greatly to be praised, and his greatness is unsearchable. It's unsearchable.
Speaker 2: Unsearchable means here it means. It doesn't mean you cannot
Speaker 2: find it. You cannot find God. But because of his greatness,
Speaker 2: because how how great he is, you can't even think
Speaker 2: they our finite mind cannot comepprehend how great he is.
Speaker 2: Unsearchable doesn't mean that that he's nowhere, but unsearchable because
Speaker 2: he's everywhere. He's every his omnipresent. Everywhere you go, he's there.
Speaker 2: Even though you try to hide, he can see you.
Speaker 2: He's there with you. Not only his omni omnipresent, his omnission.
Speaker 2: He knows everything. Whereas us we try to know God,
Speaker 2: we cannot comprehend. We try to know and and do
Speaker 2: something about certain situations. We we we cause problems, we
Speaker 2: can't even solve problems. But then if you look at him,
Speaker 2: the simplicity in his mind, and that only had to
Speaker 2: do is to trust him. Why because he's omniscient, he
Speaker 2: knows it, He has a peace, will is perfect and
Speaker 2: pleasing for you and I. All we have to do
Speaker 2: is just obey and passing that Glorian presence and just
Speaker 2: enjoy his very presence in our life. And one character
Speaker 2: is I love about our great God. His is his omnipotent.
Speaker 2: He's all powerful. That means I'm sorry. That means whatever
Speaker 2: situation is where you are right now, Yes you're weak,
Speaker 2: that's good. When you're weak. God is strong, He's therefore
Speaker 2: he will never leave you nor forsaken. Powerful that if
Speaker 2: you put our full faith in him, you will not
Speaker 2: be shaken. He is our strong power. He's our anchor
Speaker 2: if there's an earthquake, if there's a tsunami, anything that
Speaker 2: comes your way. Because we have a powerful God, powerful
Speaker 2: great God, you will not be shaken. Yo. That is
Speaker 2: why David wrote that we are to praise him every day,
Speaker 2: not only every day, but forever and ever. Forever and
Speaker 2: ever means every last thing. Forever and ever means until
Speaker 2: the day you die and you're with him. The Bible
Speaker 2: said that when we are in heaven, it's twenty four
Speaker 2: to seven praise, twenty four seven praising. Why because you're
Speaker 2: in his very presence. Verse one too said I will
Speaker 2: stall you, my God and King, and bless your name
Speaker 2: forever and ever. Every day I will bless you and
Speaker 2: praise your name forever and ever, through eternity, everlasting. On
Speaker 2: a highlight extoll ext all means here magnify. Pastor didn't comprehend.
Speaker 2: He's everywhere, He's so vast, he's so huge. Why do
Speaker 2: we need to magnify him? Magnify here is means is
Speaker 2: your life magnifying? How great God is totally different. Magnify
Speaker 2: here means magnify His greatness through your life, through our
Speaker 2: lives as a church, as we're living, as we're living
Speaker 2: as a church. Are we magnifying His greatness or we're
Speaker 2: magnifying just sometimes great? Sometimes not so great means that
Speaker 2: so not so great. Close community, Lord d continual praise
Speaker 2: and ending, everlasting, made to magnify our life. Sometimes you know,
Speaker 2: you know what happened, because sometimes we magnify our situation,
Speaker 2: whether it be problems, whether it be challenges, whether it
Speaker 2: be trials. Sometimes it can come in the form of sickness,
Speaker 2: sometimes when you feel like you're in lack, and then
Speaker 2: your focus is on you rather on God. What happens
Speaker 2: we fail to magnify God. What happens is that when
Speaker 2: we magnify our circumstances, God becomes smaller, smaller and lucky.
Speaker 2: And to magnify your situation that in choose to focus
Speaker 2: on God, not on our circumstances. Magnify the Lord in
Speaker 2: our lives every day, praise him every day that he
Speaker 2: is big, that he is great, and then our problems
Speaker 2: won't and should not come in that way, not in
Speaker 2: a way. Can we do that right now? I mean, who,
Speaker 2: what is is being magnified now in your life? I
Speaker 2: don't know what situation you're in, but is it the
Speaker 2: Lord being magnified? Not just not just your life inside
Speaker 2: the church, but the life that you're living twenty four
Speaker 2: seven when you're out there, if you're if you're in
Speaker 2: the business place, what what do you what do people
Speaker 2: see in you? Do you just do it? Do you
Speaker 2: have like a split personality? I'm good inside the church,
Speaker 2: but I'm outside. I can't even magnify. I can't even smile.
Speaker 2: I remember there was a story that the person that
Speaker 2: I used to meet before, every time he every Wednesday,
Speaker 2: he would come and meet me and he would say,
Speaker 2: you know, I need to be recharged. Why you know
Speaker 2: when when whenever it's like the middle of the week,
Speaker 2: I feel weak. There's so many things in the office,
Speaker 2: in the house, so I need to recharge. And I
Speaker 2: told him, you know what, I'm not a charger. I
Speaker 2: am not a charger. Victory Group is not a charger.
Speaker 2: When you come to me and pray, when you read
Speaker 2: your Bible, it's not a charger. You have to be charged.
Speaker 2: You're already complete, You're already charged by the Holy Spirit.
Speaker 2: Holy Spirit is already in you. You're already more than conquered.
Speaker 2: Whatever you face, you're ready to face it. There's no
Speaker 2: highs and lows. If the presence of God is thick
Speaker 2: in your life, He's there in your life. I remember David,
Speaker 2: how David wrote this, and we highlight David all his victories,
Speaker 2: how he's a great warriors, the wars that he won,
Speaker 2: the enemies that he defeated, and then the possession he's
Speaker 2: a king, he's a rich man, all the wealth. And
Speaker 2: then we love about him is his heart, his heart
Speaker 2: for God, because he's a man after God's own heart.
Speaker 2: But you know, we miss a big part of who
Speaker 2: David is. He faced trials in his life, okay, and
Speaker 2: I say trials is kind of exaggerated. Trials in his life, Okay.
Speaker 2: He was ignored by his father. David was actually bullied
Speaker 2: by his brothers, not known by the king who he served.
Speaker 2: He served the king, King Saul. Whenever King Saul has
Speaker 2: the monic oppression, he would call on David, and David
Speaker 2: had to go there with the heart and try to
Speaker 2: suit him down. But then Saul never recognized him. He
Speaker 2: was falsely accused. He was rebuked by his brother. When
Speaker 2: he wins war for Saul, Saul gets jealous. Can you
Speaker 2: imagine that you're a soldier going to war, winning wars
Speaker 2: for the king. When you go back the king would
Speaker 2: like to kill you. That's that's David. He had a
Speaker 2: father in law who wanted him dead. He got insulted,
Speaker 2: got oppressed. He was hunted half of his life. Most
Speaker 2: of the Psalm he actually wrote inside a cave because
Speaker 2: he was being hunted. He was followed by rejects, even
Speaker 2: the recher. The rejects wanted to stone him. Can you
Speaker 2: imagine that his best friend died, his son died, his
Speaker 2: daughter got raped by his son, his son kills another son. Yeah,
Speaker 2: his son led a rebellion against him. Did they want
Speaker 2: to go on? Ahbaba? That was actually the life that
Speaker 2: David lived. God is the life that he lived. And
Speaker 2: yet he said continually praise God, praise his name. Maybe
Speaker 2: there were times that were magnified, were attracted to the
Speaker 2: riches of David, the king who made it as a
Speaker 2: young k he faced all of those, and yet the
Speaker 2: lesson that we need to point out and learn from
Speaker 2: is David praise the Great God continually in all of
Speaker 2: this God still called him a man after God's own heart.
Speaker 2: Somehow he knew how to strengthen himself in the Lord.
Speaker 2: I do believe that that the secret lies in these
Speaker 2: four words that he wrote, my God and King. He
Speaker 2: knew his position, he knew I am sure God. Not
Speaker 2: only I am serving God, but this God and King
Speaker 2: I have a personal relationship with my dear is very important.
Speaker 2: You can actually call God God and King King. But
Speaker 2: if you don't know, if you don't call him my God, my.
Speaker 1: King, my abb a father, my Lord, my savior, my strength,
Speaker 1: my strong power, you have to draw near to God,
Speaker 1: drawn near to him.
Speaker 2: This God doesn't just sit high end mighty and just
Speaker 2: stay there. No, he invites us, in his very presence
Speaker 2: to a relationship. Let's just put an example. Maybe I
Speaker 2: don't know if you voted or you didn't vote for
Speaker 2: the thirty as our president, but he is our president, right.
Speaker 2: But does he know you? No, he knows you as
Speaker 2: a person count in the census. That's it. But this God,
Speaker 2: this God who came on earth as Jesus, who saved us,
Speaker 2: gave us away for us to be closer again to Heaven.
Speaker 2: Enjoy the riches here and gives us hope. It's very personal.
Speaker 2: He's very personal, and he you know why, he takes
Speaker 2: delight in it. And Jeremiah twenty three says, am I
Speaker 2: a God at hand, declares the Lord, and not a
Speaker 2: god far away. Can a man hide himself in secret
Speaker 2: places so that I cannot see him? Declares the Lord?
Speaker 2: Do I not feel heaven and earth? Declares the Lord.
Speaker 2: He's there with us, his present. That's why when we
Speaker 2: say his presence, that means he is here. He's always
Speaker 2: there for us. There are times that we may not
Speaker 2: feel God, or we feel like we're we're far from
Speaker 2: God sometimes, especially when temptations comes our way, When when
Speaker 2: sins come away, we say, Lord God, you're you're you're far. No, No,
Speaker 2: He is always there. It's us who tried to hide.
Speaker 2: It's us who when we have feared, doubt and worry.
Speaker 2: It's us who put lies in our heads and try
Speaker 2: to hide. We make our own caves and try to hide.
Speaker 2: It's as if that He doesn't seize us. But he
Speaker 2: knows what you're doing, and he cares for you. And
Speaker 2: I wants to draw here. You can't explain the greatness
Speaker 2: of God, but you can experience it because he is near. Amen. Amen,
Speaker 2: we might not be able to even you talk to
Speaker 2: the theologians of all theologians, read all the commentaries, the
Speaker 2: study Bible, go through all the classes. We might not
Speaker 2: reach even certain percent of his greatness, but then we
Speaker 2: can experience it. We can enjoy it. You know why,
Speaker 2: because he's personal. He's with you and I. My prayer
Speaker 2: is that that's how we're going to push you out.
Speaker 2: Because you know that He's greatness in us abounds, the
Speaker 2: grace abounds, his love for us, it abounds. That's why
Speaker 2: we want to reach out to as many as we like.
Speaker 2: How to praise God. One way to praise God is
Speaker 2: sharing that experience. It doesn't just stop with us. It
Speaker 2: has to be shared. When we experience is greatness, we
Speaker 2: are compelled to share His greatness. Endless praise even transcenced generation.
Speaker 2: We teach them and and David wrote this in in
Speaker 2: five different verses. In first and verse four it said
Speaker 2: one generation shall command your work to another, and shall
Speaker 2: declare your mighty acts. As this verse said, we are
Speaker 2: to share it to the next generation. This is important.
Speaker 2: How many here are your parents? Raise your hands? Parents,
Speaker 2: that's talk about grandparents. That's not how my my parents
Speaker 2: are there in the back. So grandparents, we want you
Speaker 2: to experience and share the greatness of God to the
Speaker 2: next generation. We don't just teach them, but we have
Speaker 2: to show them. And there are times that we have
Speaker 2: to take them alone. It's okay, it's okay. Sometimes it
Speaker 2: can be messy. But you know what I, as I
Speaker 2: said earlier, I praise God to be part of a
Speaker 2: movement that let the next generation lead with us. Dave
Speaker 2: is not under me or under Dennis. No, they're leading
Speaker 2: with us. Cat Napolitando when she was the one who
Speaker 2: did exportation a while ago. She's a peer, she's not.
Speaker 2: I'm not a superior. No, No, we're leading with them.
Speaker 2: His here is actually our campus missionaries. Uh, Dave, pastor Dave,
Speaker 2: the one who's leading our every nation campus Great Green
Speaker 2: Hills is on your left, and the one on the
Speaker 2: right is his lovely wife Get and their cute son Jedi.
Speaker 2: And this is the team Nikki, Cat, Gabby, Adrian and
Speaker 2: Chell do pray for them. They actually are not paid
Speaker 2: by the church. We support them, but they get their
Speaker 2: support from from from people on their own. Sometimes it's messy.
Speaker 2: Sometimes we have healthy discussion because of the different ages.
Speaker 2: Generation got okay, may I say, but then it's a
Speaker 2: joy serving with them. And David said, all your work
Speaker 2: shall give thanks to you, O Lord, and all your
Speaker 2: saints shall bless you. They shall speak of the glory
Speaker 2: of your kingdom, and tell of your power to make
Speaker 2: known to the children of men your mighty deeds, and
Speaker 2: the glorious splendor of your kingdom, your kingdom and everlasting kingdom,
Speaker 2: and your dominion endoors throughout all generations, all generations. It's
Speaker 2: messy sometimes when we lead these kids, you just want
Speaker 2: to give them the theology at all. It's a book,
Speaker 2: go through it, chapter one, chapter two, and then just
Speaker 2: do it. No, it's different how we do it. It's
Speaker 2: different that after identifying them, we make sure that we
Speaker 2: instruct them. Not only do we give instruction, but we
Speaker 2: impart on them on their lives. That's kind of messy.
Speaker 2: Like here, there times I have interns here in front Cannina,
Speaker 2: interns with Tatlau, my young people there are they get
Speaker 2: bored in the middle of my preaching and just go out.
Speaker 2: But it's okay. It's it's messy. Oay. Maxine right now
Speaker 2: is pretending that she's actually listening to me. If I
Speaker 2: ask her, Nator, she's gone. But it's okay, it's okay,
Speaker 2: on on on on my on my right side, I
Speaker 2: can see Destiny and Kayla uh smiling once in a while,
Speaker 2: especially with my wrong grammar. But it's okay. It's messy.
Speaker 2: But there's joy in in not just leaving the theology
Speaker 2: that theology to them, but actually showing them, showing them
Speaker 2: and serving with them. That is what David showing us here.
Speaker 2: Paul said, You, then, my child, be strengthened by the
Speaker 2: grace that is in Christ Jesus, and what you have
Speaker 2: heard from me, in the presence of many witnesses, and
Speaker 2: trust to faithful men who will be able to teach others.
Speaker 2: Also there's a joy in in in leading with them.
Speaker 2: I remember I have a story about my two sons.
Speaker 2: The one on your right is my seventeen year old
Speaker 2: turning seventheen this year's son, Jello, and the one in
Speaker 2: the middle beside me is my fourteen turning fifteen year
Speaker 2: old son Monthy. Both of them are serving in ministry
Speaker 2: right now. Jello is in the music team five o'clock
Speaker 2: or soon to be five thirty and seven pm. Here
Speaker 2: Anandaemon transitional five thirty to seven pm. Okay, he's serving
Speaker 2: the music team and Monty is in the tech. We
Speaker 2: never we never told them, you know what, we are
Speaker 2: leaders in our church and I want you as my son,
Speaker 2: as my kids to be part of ministry. Why don't
Speaker 2: you do this find the ministry. No, we were actually
Speaker 2: me and my wife, we were so surprised when Jello
Speaker 2: came three or four years ago when he said, you
Speaker 2: know that I auditioned in the music team. Yeah, good
Speaker 2: job in kids church. No, in the adult service. Adult service.
Speaker 2: I even had to personally okay, uh, this is I know,
Speaker 2: this is I'm confessing right now. I had to go
Speaker 2: to our musical director, Charles. I mean, wow, praise God.
Speaker 2: Up until now, we're still wondering. We were still wondering.
Speaker 2: We didn't know. And Monty serves in in in the
Speaker 2: tech and all we told them. All we taught them
Speaker 2: is to love God, love his people, and that's it.
Speaker 2: Honor God and make disciples. That that's all we taught them.
Speaker 2: But then there's a different manifestation. It It comes out
Speaker 2: when you when your love, when your love time is
Speaker 2: filled by God to the brim. All you have to
Speaker 2: do is to continually praise, and it can be different,
Speaker 2: different way of manifestation. Some can do it in service.
Speaker 2: And then we need to do that. Parents, grandparents, if
Speaker 2: you're educators in this in this room, we need to
Speaker 2: do that. We need to show it. David showed that
Speaker 2: David when he David was so excited to build God's temple. Okay,
Speaker 2: the moment he became king, it was already on top
Speaker 2: of his list. I'm gonna be I'm gonna build God
Speaker 2: a temple, but somewhere first Chronicles, middle of first Chronicles.
Speaker 2: And on eighteen nineteen or twenty, God said, you know what, No,
Speaker 2: you've done a lot, and he did so many mess
Speaker 2: I want Solomon to build my temple. He didn't write,
Speaker 2: He didn't say what I killed all of this. I
Speaker 2: put my neck on the line. I put my life
Speaker 2: on the line, and then you're gonna take this away
Speaker 2: from me. No, he didn't say anything. As soon as
Speaker 2: he got that marching order, he said, Okay, I'm gonna
Speaker 2: prepare the next generation. God told David this, for his
Speaker 2: name shall be Solomon and will give peace and quiet
Speaker 2: to Israel. In these days he shall build a house
Speaker 2: for my name. He shall be my son, and I
Speaker 2: will be his father, and I will establish his royal
Speaker 2: in Israel forever, for the for this generation, for our generation,
Speaker 2: it's important for us to ready the next generation. God's
Speaker 2: greatness is measurable, and he is worthy of our endless praise.
Speaker 2: He's worthy of our endless praise. Do not just look
Speaker 2: at your at your life and said, how can I
Speaker 2: praise God in my in this moment? He is a
Speaker 2: great God. There are times that when you approach us
Speaker 2: as pastors, you're you're want you wanted an answer, You're
Speaker 2: wanting an answer. But then there are times that we
Speaker 2: would just say God is in control. You know why
Speaker 2: he not only do we don't know what's going on,
Speaker 2: But then the truth is God is in control. He
Speaker 2: is always in control. When we say his sovereign, his
Speaker 2: sovereigning not just over the land, but even especially over
Speaker 2: your life, his sovereign moment right now, we might not
Speaker 2: see it, but he's weaving something great and all we
Speaker 2: have to enjoy is his presence and see and in
Speaker 2: marvel in his greatness. I want to and with this
Speaker 2: thought straight from David, straight from the Psalmist. Often our
Speaker 2: question is how do we praise God? Or our question
Speaker 2: is should I or should I praise God? I do
Speaker 2: believe that's not the right way to ask questions. I
Speaker 2: do believe that this is the question. The question is
Speaker 2: it's because God is so great? What are the ways?
Speaker 2: What are the characteristics? What are the part of God's
Speaker 2: greatness that I will praise that I will magnify. Doesn't
Speaker 2: talk about your situation, No talks about who God is. Lord.
Speaker 2: I am sick right now, I am feeling hurt right now,
Speaker 2: But Lord, I will magnify your name. Lord. I am
Speaker 2: in luck right now. But Lord, I believe that you
Speaker 2: give us the bless us our hands. You give us
Speaker 2: the ability to produce well. And I will magnify as
Speaker 2: I give, as I serve. That should be the question
Speaker 2: as we experience it in our very lives. David wrote
Speaker 2: this as his ending. The Lord is righteous in all
Speaker 2: his ways, and kind in all his works. The Lord
Speaker 2: is near to all who call on him, to all
Speaker 2: who call on him. In truth, he fulfills the desires
Speaker 2: of those who fear him. He also hears their cries
Speaker 2: and saves them. The Lord perseveres preserves all who love him.
Speaker 2: But all the wicked he will destroy. My mouth will
Speaker 2: speak the praise of the Lord, and let all flesh
Speaker 2: bless His Holy name forever and ever, forever and ever.
Speaker 2: So I told you earlier last week we're doing our
Speaker 2: volunteer weekend. What a great way to praise God with
Speaker 2: showing our love by being involved in the church that
Speaker 2: He has put you. My prayer is that you can't.
Speaker 2: You came today because on the top of your mind
Speaker 2: and you know the in your very heart, you want
Speaker 2: to praise it. You want people to see you have
Speaker 2: you want to take pride that you are. This is
Speaker 2: your home, this is this is this is where you're growing.
Speaker 2: And part of growing is being involved in what God
Speaker 2: is doing. Yes, we have a part of them. Yes
Speaker 2: we prayed with Stratman. But at the end of the day,
Speaker 2: apart from Jesus, apart from God, all of this is nothing.
Speaker 2: We can't grow. I remember in Matthew eighteen when it
Speaker 2: said at the time, do you feel like Canada, who's
Speaker 2: the greatest? I do believe. Okay, maybe there are theologians here,
Speaker 2: don't shoot me down first, but I do believe this
Speaker 2: is the This is where where we started. Okay, it
Speaker 2: started from the apostles. Okay, there was a time when
Speaker 2: when the apostles were not mindful of Jesus. But Jesus
Speaker 2: was around the area. But they but they started deliberating
Speaker 2: themselves in the best Jesus, it's me the best. And
Speaker 2: then they were arguing amongst themselves who's the greatest. At
Speaker 2: the time, the disciples came to Jesus saying, who's the
Speaker 2: greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven. But in de deitosamapan
Speaker 2: Kingdom of Heaven, in it's me, is it? But then
Speaker 2: they involved the Kingdom of Heaven and calling to him
Speaker 2: a child, he put him in the midst of them,
Speaker 2: and Jesus said, truly, I say to you, unless you
Speaker 2: turn and become like children, you will never enter the
Speaker 2: Kingdom of God, the Kingdom of Heaven. This is Jesus,
Speaker 2: Apostle pa enter the kingdom. Whoever humbles himself like this
Speaker 2: child is the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven. Whoever
Speaker 2: humbles himself, whoever serve selflessly, whoever does not exalt his
Speaker 2: own name, or push his own name, or push his
Speaker 2: own face, will actually inherit the Kingdom of Heaven. In
Speaker 2: twenty three, verse eleven to twelve. He said, the greatest
Speaker 2: among you must be a what one more time, must
Speaker 2: be a what, must be a servant. But those who
Speaker 2: exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves
Speaker 2: will be exalted. But if you want to follow service,
Speaker 2: if you don't know to be a selfless servant, it's Jesus. Jesus.
Speaker 2: He chose to come here on earth to obey God.
Speaker 2: He chose to come here on earth to serve us.
Speaker 2: Chose to come here on earth to save us. Chose
Speaker 2: to come here on earth. Now, let our lives be
Speaker 2: magnified through his work and what he is doing, and
Speaker 2: what he can do through us. The gospel of Jesus Christ,
Speaker 2: when he said he lived a life we should have lived,
Speaker 2: and died the death we should have died. He is
Speaker 2: our example of a servant. He is our greatest example
Speaker 2: of why we need to serve, why we're serving. Greatness
Speaker 2: is not attained by serving, Greatness is actually lived out
Speaker 2: through serving. We see that in Jesus, and my prayer
Speaker 2: is that we can see it in everyone.
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