WEBVTT 1 00:00:05.160 --> 00:00:09.000 Welcome. Just hand Away Tagalog Sermon podcast your daily dos 2 00:00:09.039 --> 00:00:12.919 a inspiring from heartfelt tagalog sermons from different pastors and 3 00:00:13.000 --> 00:00:16.120 speakers all over the Philippines. We hope that this podcast 4 00:00:16.160 --> 00:00:19.320 finds you in good shape. And now here's your message 5 00:00:22.519 --> 00:00:25.559 in keeping everyone welcome to our five pm service. You 6 00:00:25.600 --> 00:00:29.600 know in history here in Victor Green Hills and across 7 00:00:29.640 --> 00:00:33.759 the metro, the services on the first Sunday of the 8 00:00:33.840 --> 00:00:38.719 year is always jump back, tap the person here, say 9 00:00:39.000 --> 00:00:45.759 I'm blessed that you're here today. Now I want you 10 00:00:45.840 --> 00:00:48.520 to tap the person to your left, but before you 11 00:00:48.600 --> 00:00:51.320 say anything, just give them a smile first. Give them 12 00:00:51.320 --> 00:00:54.159 a smile now, the best smile that you can give 13 00:00:54.200 --> 00:00:57.560 for the year beginning. A smile yeah, and then say this, 14 00:00:58.799 --> 00:01:08.280 I hope to see you every Sunday until December. I'm 15 00:01:08.319 --> 00:01:11.400 glad you're here today. Welcome and happy New Year everyone, 16 00:01:11.560 --> 00:01:14.799 Happy new decade. We're celebrating a new decade as we 17 00:01:15.000 --> 00:01:18.319 enter twenty twenty. Are you guys excited for the year? 18 00:01:19.400 --> 00:01:21.439 Are you guys excited for the Word of God tonight? 19 00:01:23.280 --> 00:01:26.359 You know what's nice about new Year is a reset 20 00:01:26.439 --> 00:01:28.359 for all of us. It's a time for us to 21 00:01:28.480 --> 00:01:31.040 start the year, right, it's a time for us to 22 00:01:31.159 --> 00:01:34.799 say goodbye to last year, the things we don't like, 23 00:01:34.879 --> 00:01:36.959 the things we don't want to do anymore, the things 24 00:01:37.319 --> 00:01:40.400 that we want to turn our backs from, the bad things, 25 00:01:41.000 --> 00:01:44.560 the horrible things, the things that we want new we 26 00:01:44.680 --> 00:01:48.799 can actually set aside and look at a good future. 27 00:01:49.120 --> 00:01:51.319 And I hope all of us are like this today. 28 00:01:51.599 --> 00:01:54.120 We're excited not only for the new year, but we're 29 00:01:54.120 --> 00:01:57.920 talking about the new decade of our lives. This is 30 00:01:57.959 --> 00:02:02.439 the good thing about new year. There is newness. And 31 00:02:02.959 --> 00:02:05.680 I am sure, and I'm pretty sure all of us 32 00:02:05.719 --> 00:02:10.000 here have plans with our lives, right. We all have plans. 33 00:02:10.520 --> 00:02:13.000 Some of you have a great plan to start the 34 00:02:13.080 --> 00:02:19.000 year by entering work with the biggest smile, excited Gamas. No, 35 00:02:19.120 --> 00:02:21.759 you're so excited to wake up early tomorrow in the 36 00:02:21.919 --> 00:02:24.360 in the name of Jesus, that when you go to office, 37 00:02:24.400 --> 00:02:26.680 when you see your boss, you will say, boss, I 38 00:02:26.879 --> 00:02:31.800 missed you getting to tie on christ chance. Right, We're 39 00:02:31.800 --> 00:02:35.120 not gonna drag ourselves to work, but we will enjoy work. 40 00:02:35.400 --> 00:02:38.280 Why because we have a plan to start the year right, 41 00:02:39.000 --> 00:02:41.960 not only in our work. We are excited about the 42 00:02:41.960 --> 00:02:45.199 plans that we have you're excited about the vacations You're 43 00:02:45.240 --> 00:02:52.680 you're gonna do this year? Right? Malay? No, No, I'm 44 00:02:52.719 --> 00:02:55.280 sure a lot of you have book tickets already for 45 00:02:55.439 --> 00:02:59.439 trips this coming year. We have plans and that's good. 46 00:03:00.400 --> 00:03:03.120 But at the same time, the question is have you 47 00:03:03.240 --> 00:03:08.919 planned out your life with the Lord as believers? As Christians? 48 00:03:09.439 --> 00:03:12.479 This is what I want to ask you. How do 49 00:03:12.560 --> 00:03:17.919 you start the new year with God? How do we start? 50 00:03:18.800 --> 00:03:20.960 We're going to go through the word of God today 51 00:03:21.000 --> 00:03:24.280 in Exodus to learn how we should start our new 52 00:03:24.360 --> 00:03:27.360 year as we entered the new decade, and we are 53 00:03:27.360 --> 00:03:30.560 going to go through the life of Moses. What do 54 00:03:30.599 --> 00:03:32.919 we know about Moses. He was the one who parted 55 00:03:32.960 --> 00:03:36.240 the red see. He was the one who brought the 56 00:03:36.360 --> 00:03:40.039 people of God who were slaves by the Egyptians out 57 00:03:40.439 --> 00:03:43.879 into the wilderness and prepare them to the promised Land. 58 00:03:44.159 --> 00:03:46.240 He was the one who spoke to God. He was 59 00:03:46.280 --> 00:03:50.759 the one who invented the first iPad, right, the first 60 00:03:50.800 --> 00:03:57.800 tablets you'll get there. Moses was a man of God. 61 00:03:58.080 --> 00:04:01.520 He had a very close relationship with God. But the 62 00:04:01.560 --> 00:04:04.199 thing that we will talk about Moses today is the 63 00:04:04.240 --> 00:04:08.719 Moses before God, who was Moses before God. He was 64 00:04:08.759 --> 00:04:13.039 actually a lost being. He was a person who didn't 65 00:04:13.080 --> 00:04:16.439 know who he was. Why he was actually born a Hebrew, 66 00:04:16.879 --> 00:04:19.519 but because of the degree of the Pharaoh that he 67 00:04:19.560 --> 00:04:23.680 would kill every child that is born. What did his 68 00:04:23.720 --> 00:04:26.759 mom do? He was so afraid that he puts Moses 69 00:04:26.800 --> 00:04:29.680 in something that would float and puts it in the 70 00:04:29.759 --> 00:04:35.279 Nile River. And for some divine reason, who gets Moses 71 00:04:35.959 --> 00:04:39.839 the daughter of the Pharaoh. So Moses was a Hebrew, 72 00:04:39.879 --> 00:04:42.920 but at the same time he was also an Egyptian. 73 00:04:43.319 --> 00:04:48.279 He didn't know who he really was. Confused. A lot 74 00:04:48.319 --> 00:04:51.920 of us in our lives are somewhat confused from time 75 00:04:51.959 --> 00:04:56.199 to time. What else do we know? He also made 76 00:04:56.759 --> 00:05:01.399 bad decisions. That this bad decision and actually made him 77 00:05:01.879 --> 00:05:05.560 kill someone. You know the story. He saw someone who 78 00:05:05.680 --> 00:05:09.399 was oppressing a Hebrew, not realizing I'm also a Hebrew 79 00:05:09.439 --> 00:05:14.240 ban and so now he defends this Hebrew, the Egyptian 80 00:05:14.319 --> 00:05:17.879 soldier who was whipping He actually fights him and he 81 00:05:18.120 --> 00:05:24.519 accidentally kills this person. What does he do? He leaves Egypt. 82 00:05:24.800 --> 00:05:26.920 He was so afraid that the pharaoh would kill him. 83 00:05:27.240 --> 00:05:30.240 He leaves Egypt and goes to a place called Midian, 84 00:05:30.399 --> 00:05:33.800 which is two hundred eighty eight miles. How far is 85 00:05:33.879 --> 00:05:38.120 that two hundred eighty eight miles, imagine is around four 86 00:05:38.240 --> 00:05:43.680 hundred twenty kilometers, which is from here to Bagio and 87 00:05:43.720 --> 00:05:48.720 going back. He walked that far, sipimno, not Glaga, to 88 00:05:48.879 --> 00:05:54.040 just get away from everything. Some of us, just like Moses, 89 00:05:54.079 --> 00:05:57.199 want to go away and get away from our past. 90 00:05:58.600 --> 00:06:03.000 But something happened the life of Moses that actually changed 91 00:06:03.680 --> 00:06:07.279 everything for him, and it was his meeting with the Lord. 92 00:06:08.079 --> 00:06:11.519 And so we start in our reading for today with 93 00:06:11.680 --> 00:06:14.000 Exodus chapter three, verse one. So if you have your 94 00:06:14.040 --> 00:06:17.199 bibles with you, we will go through some parts of 95 00:06:17.319 --> 00:06:21.879 chapter three Exodus, chapter three, verse one, and it starts 96 00:06:21.920 --> 00:06:24.639 with this. Now, Moses was keeping the flock of his 97 00:06:24.800 --> 00:06:33.079 father father in law, Jetro, the priest of Midia, and 98 00:06:33.160 --> 00:06:36.279 he led his flocks to the west side of the 99 00:06:36.319 --> 00:06:41.319 wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. We 100 00:06:41.360 --> 00:06:44.480 see here it was a fresh start for Moses. He 101 00:06:44.600 --> 00:06:47.279 was now a shepherd of the flock of his father 102 00:06:47.319 --> 00:06:49.639 in law. Does that mean you have to imagine he 103 00:06:49.959 --> 00:06:54.439 was the son of the pharaoh due to adoption and 104 00:06:54.480 --> 00:06:57.439 so growing up, what did he do? Kumahai in London 105 00:06:57.480 --> 00:07:03.000 Gripsian Bhai Pal. It was relaxed for him. Whatever he 106 00:07:03.120 --> 00:07:07.319 wanted he would probably get. And so now he needs 107 00:07:07.360 --> 00:07:10.360 to work. He runs away from everything and starts a 108 00:07:10.399 --> 00:07:13.920 new life, but on new year to Formoses. And so 109 00:07:14.120 --> 00:07:16.360 he starts the new year sabina, I'm going to be 110 00:07:16.439 --> 00:07:20.720 good at work. So he tends these flocks, his sheeps 111 00:07:20.800 --> 00:07:24.079 or whatever that he brings, he brings it to a fourplace, Abna, 112 00:07:24.160 --> 00:07:26.759 I can take care of them. And so he brings 113 00:07:26.839 --> 00:07:29.639 them to this place. And this is what happens in 114 00:07:29.759 --> 00:07:32.879 verse two, And the Angel of the Lord appeared to 115 00:07:32.959 --> 00:07:36.519 him in a flame of fire out of the bitch 116 00:07:36.519 --> 00:07:40.439 of the bush. He looked and behold, the bush was burning, 117 00:07:40.519 --> 00:07:46.639 yet it was not consumeed. This was God showing up 118 00:07:46.720 --> 00:07:51.920 to Moses. He looks and he sees something that was 119 00:07:52.079 --> 00:07:57.560 burning up, but it was not consumed. You know, God 120 00:07:58.000 --> 00:08:02.600 calls us is twenty twenty to a personal relationship with him. 121 00:08:02.639 --> 00:08:05.839 Do you agree with that? And so, if there's one 122 00:08:05.879 --> 00:08:09.360 thing I want to preach today, it's this that we 123 00:08:09.480 --> 00:08:15.680 need encounters with God this twenty twenty to start the 124 00:08:15.759 --> 00:08:19.480 year right, We need to encounter God, just like how 125 00:08:19.600 --> 00:08:24.120 Moses encounters God. And so how does Moses encounter God. 126 00:08:24.360 --> 00:08:27.480 Let's go back to the text. It says he looked 127 00:08:27.519 --> 00:08:30.560 and behold, the bush was not burning, yet it was 128 00:08:30.639 --> 00:08:34.799 not consumed. Imagine right now with me, there's a bush 129 00:08:35.000 --> 00:08:38.240 or a small plant when you look at it when 130 00:08:38.279 --> 00:08:42.399 you're walking, if you have I don't know, but I 131 00:08:42.519 --> 00:08:45.320 live in a place where I have a backyard. In 132 00:08:45.360 --> 00:08:50.799 backyard ten hectar s lam and so I would never 133 00:08:50.919 --> 00:08:55.279 have pomb in backyard. I'm condo polan backyard, but there's land. 134 00:08:57.279 --> 00:09:01.639 You know, when you see something burning, automatically you look 135 00:09:01.679 --> 00:09:04.480 at it and then that's it. I mean, it's just 136 00:09:04.519 --> 00:09:07.039 so no, and then you go your way. Why it's 137 00:09:07.120 --> 00:09:11.720 not something that you haven't seen before. But what is 138 00:09:11.840 --> 00:09:15.399 different about the text? It says it was burning, but 139 00:09:15.679 --> 00:09:18.639 it was not consu indina UBOs? What does that mean? 140 00:09:19.480 --> 00:09:21.159 I'm going to share with you an illustration that I 141 00:09:21.240 --> 00:09:25.759 experienced when me and my wife during the holidays would 142 00:09:25.759 --> 00:09:29.519 actually go up the mountains to spend our holidays. And 143 00:09:29.840 --> 00:09:34.039 this year I was running after one of our cutest 144 00:09:34.720 --> 00:09:39.200 paman kins Rko. He was running around, sayah, did the 145 00:09:39.279 --> 00:09:41.600 branch is catch me? So I would catch him and 146 00:09:41.639 --> 00:09:43.639 when we when I went out of the house, I 147 00:09:43.679 --> 00:09:51.279 saw something near the plant rock. It was a wood, 148 00:09:51.360 --> 00:09:55.440 so Savio and I told you, mah tangal banana tangal, 149 00:09:55.639 --> 00:09:58.159 what do you think? This is? Barghana tangle from the 150 00:09:59.279 --> 00:10:02.960 Baha parasha in wally stinking and a ballet or something. 151 00:10:03.000 --> 00:10:07.000 And so I saw it and I just said, oh, 152 00:10:07.039 --> 00:10:10.000 that's nothing. Why I was actually running after the kid. 153 00:10:10.720 --> 00:10:13.639 You know, in the afternoon, I saw videos and pictures 154 00:10:13.720 --> 00:10:16.039 in our family biber group, and this is a video 155 00:10:16.080 --> 00:10:20.960 that my mother in law showed. Yeah, neglada god nah, 156 00:10:22.399 --> 00:10:28.960 neglaila god nah. What's the difference when I saw it 157 00:10:29.000 --> 00:10:31.559 and when they saw it? You know, when I looked 158 00:10:31.559 --> 00:10:35.720 at it, I said, it's probably just wood. But when 159 00:10:35.720 --> 00:10:38.879 they looked at it, and they observed it, and they 160 00:10:38.960 --> 00:10:43.240 intently looked at it and gazed upon it, they realize 161 00:10:43.720 --> 00:10:47.480 it was not a stick. It was moving. You know, 162 00:10:47.600 --> 00:10:53.159 some of us in life we look at things and 163 00:10:53.279 --> 00:10:56.919 just glance and say that's nothing. But the reality is 164 00:10:56.960 --> 00:11:01.000 it might be something. I want to know a secret 165 00:11:01.399 --> 00:11:06.759 of how you're twenty nineteen has transpired. You know, some 166 00:11:06.799 --> 00:11:12.399 of us missed out on God when he was showing 167 00:11:12.519 --> 00:11:17.440 up we just look at it and say it's nothing. 168 00:11:19.080 --> 00:11:21.679 And so I research about this and it's called a 169 00:11:21.759 --> 00:11:27.360 stick insect. Literally, it's a fasmati day. It's scientific name. 170 00:11:27.960 --> 00:11:31.080 And my sister in law called it. I am grude. 171 00:11:33.559 --> 00:11:38.639 Now we say hi to it. No, it's a stick plant. 172 00:11:38.639 --> 00:11:44.279 I need to pusha Yeah. You know, we can encounter 173 00:11:44.360 --> 00:11:47.480 God in a very personal way. The question is are 174 00:11:47.480 --> 00:11:52.080 we intently looking at it? Verse three, and Moses said, 175 00:11:52.159 --> 00:11:55.919 I will turn aside to see this great side. Why 176 00:11:56.000 --> 00:12:02.120 the bush is not burnt. Moses turned aside, despite him 177 00:12:02.960 --> 00:12:09.320 ushering this sheep that he's tending. He looks aside, even 178 00:12:09.399 --> 00:12:11.519 though he knew that he needed to go home because 179 00:12:11.519 --> 00:12:14.159 it's a far place. He looked aside, even though he 180 00:12:14.240 --> 00:12:17.200 knew that he might lose one of the things that 181 00:12:17.240 --> 00:12:22.360 he is pasting. He looks aside and gives time to 182 00:12:22.440 --> 00:12:25.559 that burning bush. You know, the burning bush was there 183 00:12:25.600 --> 00:12:30.240 for a reason. It was there to show God that 184 00:12:30.320 --> 00:12:35.320 he wanted Moses attention. One of the things that you 185 00:12:35.360 --> 00:12:38.399 can do during vacation is to watch a lot of movies. 186 00:12:38.679 --> 00:12:48.360 Right how long tlairdo Babo Lord or Manette flick Namana? Yes, 187 00:12:49.440 --> 00:12:51.759 And I was able to watch this movie. It's entitled 188 00:12:51.759 --> 00:12:54.279 The Case for Christ. This is a true story about 189 00:12:54.879 --> 00:12:59.039 lee Hs struggle. If you have an opportunity to watch it, 190 00:12:59.080 --> 00:13:03.960 please do. This is a true story of Lee's trouble. 191 00:13:04.120 --> 00:13:09.200 Is a Chicago journalist during the nineteen eight seventies late seventies. 192 00:13:10.039 --> 00:13:14.240 And one thing about Lee's trouble was he was an atheist. 193 00:13:15.679 --> 00:13:18.159 He lived his life as an atheist with his wife. 194 00:13:19.200 --> 00:13:21.679 And so one day they had a date after a promotion. 195 00:13:21.840 --> 00:13:25.679 They were having dinner and their daughter wanted to buy 196 00:13:25.720 --> 00:13:30.159 a gum ball Alenia nine gumball. So buys a gumball, 197 00:13:30.480 --> 00:13:36.639 goes to the side and then put my leg good 198 00:13:39.879 --> 00:13:43.080 so nachoke. Unfortunately, the couple didn't know what to do. 199 00:13:44.159 --> 00:13:46.679 They were they were in panic, and now they shall 200 00:13:46.759 --> 00:13:49.840 help help. And so there's this nurse running to them 201 00:13:49.879 --> 00:13:52.159 and said, I'm a nurse. I can help. Thus the 202 00:13:52.159 --> 00:13:54.919 Heimlich maneuver for kids. For some reason, it was different 203 00:13:54.919 --> 00:13:58.679 from how I know the bag. So I to tapa selikod. 204 00:13:59.039 --> 00:14:02.639 Now she spits out the gunball and the parents were relieved. 205 00:14:02.679 --> 00:14:05.399 Of course, you know the first thing that the mom 206 00:14:05.480 --> 00:14:09.879 did was to say thank you to this nurse. She 207 00:14:09.960 --> 00:14:12.279 said thank you very much. You know, we're so lucky 208 00:14:12.879 --> 00:14:15.919 that you're here. What if you weren't here, we might 209 00:14:15.960 --> 00:14:20.200 have lost our daughter. You want to know what the 210 00:14:20.679 --> 00:14:25.200 nurse said. This is what she said. You know you're 211 00:14:25.200 --> 00:14:31.320 not lucky. It's Jesus. Because we were bound to go 212 00:14:31.360 --> 00:14:34.600 to a different restaurant, but for some reason, we end 213 00:14:34.759 --> 00:14:39.840 up eating here. She says, thank you very much, and 214 00:14:39.879 --> 00:14:43.279 that's it. They go home, But as soon as they 215 00:14:43.320 --> 00:14:48.639 got home, the mom was so bothered about that statement 216 00:14:48.679 --> 00:14:52.679 about Jesus, about Jesus saving their daughter, about Jesus bringing 217 00:14:52.720 --> 00:14:55.759 this couple to this area, about Jesus being the one 218 00:14:55.799 --> 00:14:59.600 to orchestrate that the daughter will be saved. She tells 219 00:14:59.799 --> 00:15:04.360 her husband about it, and the husband says, don't think 220 00:15:04.399 --> 00:15:09.840 about it. It doesn't mean anything. It's just luck. Luck, 221 00:15:10.559 --> 00:15:16.399 it's random. Let's just be thankful. You know, two people, 222 00:15:16.919 --> 00:15:23.320 same encounter, same burning bush, but one responded God's way, 223 00:15:24.120 --> 00:15:28.519 but the other turns their back. How do we respond 224 00:15:28.759 --> 00:15:33.120 in God moments in our lives? How do we respond 225 00:15:33.159 --> 00:15:36.240 in the things that God brings us in our lives. 226 00:15:36.919 --> 00:15:39.200 I'm sure that all of you have been blessed by 227 00:15:39.200 --> 00:15:45.320 God at least once in your life. Amen, you know, 228 00:15:45.360 --> 00:15:49.120 when we encounter the small blessings or the big how 229 00:15:49.159 --> 00:15:50.960 do we see it? Do we see it as a 230 00:15:50.960 --> 00:15:56.399 burning bush or just luck? Or is it about how 231 00:15:56.440 --> 00:16:04.000 you're good at things but can congratulate? Yeah, yeah, really, 232 00:16:04.120 --> 00:16:07.840 it's me all me. When was the last time you 233 00:16:07.919 --> 00:16:11.960 knew it was a God moment in your life? I 234 00:16:12.000 --> 00:16:13.759 want to share with you one of the reasons why 235 00:16:13.759 --> 00:16:17.159 I wanted to preach this today. I also had my 236 00:16:17.240 --> 00:16:21.080 burning bush during the break. I also had my God moment, 237 00:16:21.919 --> 00:16:26.559 the burning bush that couldn't be consumed. I was in 238 00:16:26.559 --> 00:16:34.919 my PJS at four o'clock, obviously the onelligo quiet alone, 239 00:16:35.679 --> 00:16:37.440 and I was praying to God, and I was saying, Lord, 240 00:16:37.480 --> 00:16:39.519 next year, these are the things that I really hope 241 00:16:39.519 --> 00:16:43.519 would happen in me and my wife's life. And I 242 00:16:43.559 --> 00:16:46.679 hope it happens this way. They have conversations with God 243 00:16:46.759 --> 00:16:50.600 like that. Lord. I pray that etany manyari samon by 244 00:16:50.600 --> 00:16:54.080 twenty twenty, and I hope it happens this way. Lord. 245 00:16:54.080 --> 00:16:57.039 I pray that in this area of our lives, ganito 246 00:16:57.080 --> 00:17:00.519 manyare Nah, go open your doorna ganito. Oh. And so 247 00:17:01.159 --> 00:17:04.680 I caught myself talking to God about the things that 248 00:17:04.720 --> 00:17:07.519 I'm believing for, but also how he would do it. 249 00:17:09.759 --> 00:17:15.440 And I paused for a while, and for some reason, 250 00:17:15.599 --> 00:17:23.880 this is the word that God reminded me. My way, 251 00:17:23.960 --> 00:17:32.920 my way, God said, Francis, my way, my way katabacum 252 00:17:33.039 --> 00:17:36.680 menga is a party and my way. I've been thinking 253 00:17:36.720 --> 00:17:40.799 about it. My way, my way. I was repeating it 254 00:17:41.000 --> 00:17:45.920 my way for some reason. After a few minutes, this 255 00:17:46.000 --> 00:17:47.960 is what I realized. God was reminding me of a 256 00:17:48.079 --> 00:17:52.119 verse that I've read not only once but several times. 257 00:17:52.119 --> 00:17:56.279 But it became very personal with me. I say fifty five, 258 00:17:57.200 --> 00:18:01.480 the Bible says, for my thoughts are not your thoughts, 259 00:18:01.680 --> 00:18:07.000 neither are your ways my ways. The word of God 260 00:18:07.039 --> 00:18:10.960 for me this year is it's gonna be through my way. 261 00:18:12.119 --> 00:18:14.920 It's not how you want me to do it, but 262 00:18:15.079 --> 00:18:19.880 it's gonna be my way. I wrote down a few things. 263 00:18:19.920 --> 00:18:23.039 I was asking my wife about it, and I believe 264 00:18:23.079 --> 00:18:25.160 this is the word of God for me this year. 265 00:18:26.680 --> 00:18:31.720 God says, watch me do it my way. You know. 266 00:18:31.839 --> 00:18:35.680 My personal burning bush for twenty twenty is something that 267 00:18:35.720 --> 00:18:38.759 I'm excited for. Why because I know God has spoken 268 00:18:38.839 --> 00:18:41.440 to me in a very personal way, and so now 269 00:18:41.480 --> 00:18:44.960 I don't need to be pressured to ask him for something. 270 00:18:45.039 --> 00:18:48.359 Even with the way my experience in Adebay, you ask God, Lord, 271 00:18:48.400 --> 00:18:55.599 I want this to happenomuga in. I believe God wants 272 00:18:55.640 --> 00:18:58.279 to speak to you in a very personal way and 273 00:18:58.319 --> 00:19:03.599 for me. He says, Francis, It's gonna be my way. 274 00:19:04.400 --> 00:19:06.839 But Lord, some meanistrico, how do I level up my 275 00:19:06.920 --> 00:19:10.640 preaching when the five pm congregation, the tutuluks in every 276 00:19:10.640 --> 00:19:14.720 week maron tatum tao every week. I'm gonna wake them 277 00:19:14.799 --> 00:19:21.480 up my way. Watch me in the Lord, and do 278 00:19:21.559 --> 00:19:25.920 I give them rest. I'm gonna wake him up my way. 279 00:19:28.400 --> 00:19:31.400 It's a very personal word to me. And I pray 280 00:19:31.480 --> 00:19:34.359 that you will also encounter a very personal God this 281 00:19:34.480 --> 00:19:39.079 year for you. So he continued exodustrievers four. When the 282 00:19:39.119 --> 00:19:41.680 Lord saw that, he turned aside, when he saw the 283 00:19:41.759 --> 00:19:45.960 attention that Moses gave. When he saw not tominas in Moses, 284 00:19:46.160 --> 00:19:48.839 and he observed he went near. What did Moses? What 285 00:19:48.880 --> 00:19:51.839 did God say to Moses? He called him by name? 286 00:19:51.920 --> 00:19:57.119 He said, Moses, Moses, why is it that significant? You know, 287 00:19:57.200 --> 00:19:59.480 when you're in trouble with your parents, they call you 288 00:19:59.680 --> 00:20:03.799 to I or your full name alemnion. Why because it's 289 00:20:03.920 --> 00:20:07.839 very important. And so now this burning bush first words 290 00:20:07.920 --> 00:20:11.119 that it speaks, because we know this is God. He 291 00:20:11.160 --> 00:20:17.000 says the name of Moses. He says, Moses, Moses, and 292 00:20:17.079 --> 00:20:19.160 I want you to get this. This is the response 293 00:20:19.279 --> 00:20:26.440 of Moses. What did he say? Here I am? What 294 00:20:26.519 --> 00:20:29.799 does here I am mean? Think about it in your 295 00:20:29.839 --> 00:20:33.319 context when somebody calls you and gets your attention when 296 00:20:33.319 --> 00:20:36.440 you say I'm here, here I am. What do you 297 00:20:36.519 --> 00:20:40.359 really mean when you say here I am again. One 298 00:20:40.400 --> 00:20:44.279 of the days that we were there vacation, my mom 299 00:20:44.359 --> 00:20:48.400 gave me and my wife this gadget lap twenty eighteen December. 300 00:20:48.839 --> 00:20:51.000 You know what this is. This is what they call 301 00:20:51.119 --> 00:20:55.720 a phone soap. It says it cleans the phones from bacteria. 302 00:20:55.799 --> 00:20:59.200 Sabin Eleo, don't Pina marooming gadget that we have phone 303 00:20:59.240 --> 00:21:01.680 soap and so so now we need to clean our phones. 304 00:21:02.000 --> 00:21:05.720 It's a UVI light that this infects the phone, and 305 00:21:05.759 --> 00:21:08.079 so every time you put your phone, you close it. 306 00:21:08.200 --> 00:21:10.960 The UV light cleans it. You have to wait for 307 00:21:11.039 --> 00:21:14.319 the light to turn off outside. When I read the mandal, 308 00:21:14.400 --> 00:21:18.799 it says it's ten minutes. So I closed it. Clay 309 00:21:18.880 --> 00:21:21.720 cleaned the phone when I was waiting for it to happen. 310 00:21:21.720 --> 00:21:29.640 Sabisa wife co Sirayata paranta gal para parak fifteen minutes now, 311 00:21:29.640 --> 00:21:32.720 param twenty minutes now. During that time that we were 312 00:21:32.720 --> 00:21:35.119 in the table, we were having a light conversation with 313 00:21:35.160 --> 00:21:38.079 the family and we were laughing. We were talking about 314 00:21:38.079 --> 00:21:42.759 a lot of things. But when I put my focus 315 00:21:42.920 --> 00:21:46.119 now on this phone. So for some reason, my phone 316 00:21:46.160 --> 00:21:49.079 is still there. It's been ten minutes and it's not 317 00:21:49.200 --> 00:21:52.599 yet done. I thought, bahm in a textnasareen bam a 318 00:21:52.720 --> 00:21:58.799 viberna bram, what's up now? Barmen news barame bagun Cheesemas 319 00:22:00.319 --> 00:22:02.599 they were talking to me and I was answering this way, 320 00:22:02.640 --> 00:22:08.400 Oh let me know, you just answer out of button. 321 00:22:08.480 --> 00:22:13.359 Go ah. I'm so focused on this why because I 322 00:22:13.440 --> 00:22:19.359 realized people are actually have actually man's mastered a talent 323 00:22:19.519 --> 00:22:23.279 in this day and age. What's that to be physically 324 00:22:23.359 --> 00:22:30.799 there but mentally absent. You can be physically here yet 325 00:22:30.920 --> 00:22:38.119 mentally far away. How many of you agree that your person, 326 00:22:38.680 --> 00:22:41.519 that the person besides you, is like this, not you 327 00:22:42.200 --> 00:22:46.480 ba tying a man. We can concentrate. I'm gonna I'm 328 00:22:46.519 --> 00:22:49.559 gonna make a confession because it's the year twenty twenty. 329 00:22:49.640 --> 00:22:58.599 As your pastor, I'm not a perfect husband, Savilla. I 330 00:22:58.720 --> 00:23:03.279 know we know sig No. In twenteen nineteen, I've heard 331 00:23:03.400 --> 00:23:06.599 my wife say this to me. Are you listening? Oh 332 00:23:06.640 --> 00:23:14.960 the man a listening? Ami go ah, I'm pray you know. 333 00:23:15.079 --> 00:23:19.240 We can actually physically be somewhere, but our mind is 334 00:23:19.319 --> 00:23:25.240 somewhere else. That's with people that we have in our lives. 335 00:23:25.319 --> 00:23:30.559 That's with Word, that's with even church. But what about 336 00:23:30.599 --> 00:23:35.200 your personal devotion with the Lord? When you read the Word? 337 00:23:35.279 --> 00:23:38.799 Are you physically there or are you just reading it 338 00:23:39.000 --> 00:23:42.160 and waiting for the four chapters or the two chapters 339 00:23:42.240 --> 00:23:45.960 to be done? Are you just waiting for that word 340 00:23:46.039 --> 00:23:48.799 that you like? I am blessed, Amen, Lord, thank you. 341 00:23:49.000 --> 00:23:56.119 I'm done with my day. Are we physically, emotionally, spiritually, 342 00:23:56.599 --> 00:24:01.480 mentally focused when we have our time with the Lord. 343 00:24:04.200 --> 00:24:06.640 One of the best books that I've read about the 344 00:24:06.720 --> 00:24:08.920 Word of God, about how to read the Word of 345 00:24:09.000 --> 00:24:12.119 God is the book entitled this book I think by 346 00:24:12.160 --> 00:24:16.440 Eugene Patterson, and he was talking about a concept where 347 00:24:16.519 --> 00:24:21.640 you actually gnarl, howlemn you bying? Gnarling? Gnarling is best 348 00:24:21.680 --> 00:24:29.480 described by the dog that eats a bone. Why don't 349 00:24:29.519 --> 00:24:39.599 he woke my head? Iron? Why it's so consumed about 350 00:24:39.680 --> 00:24:45.599 eating the bone? When we do our time with the Lord, 351 00:24:46.160 --> 00:24:50.319 are we consumed by it? Or are we consumed by 352 00:24:50.440 --> 00:24:59.839 other things like a game in your phone, like BuzzFeed 353 00:25:00.119 --> 00:25:04.960 or something what distracts us? You know, I realized this 354 00:25:05.119 --> 00:25:07.279 and I had to do a research about our attention. 355 00:25:08.680 --> 00:25:11.839 This is a twenty seventeen article and it says here 356 00:25:12.279 --> 00:25:17.119 the underlying reason you can't focus. The article starts with 357 00:25:17.200 --> 00:25:20.640 this aba, the first world has an attention problem. Twenty 358 00:25:20.720 --> 00:25:24.720 fifteen study of Microsoft Canava found that our average attention span, 359 00:25:25.160 --> 00:25:28.319 the amount of concentration time on a task without becoming distracted, 360 00:25:28.559 --> 00:25:33.599 was twelve seconds in two thousand and eight. Imagine twelve seconds. 361 00:25:34.079 --> 00:25:38.079 Yeah every week Alamnam prayer, Lord, I pray that they 362 00:25:38.240 --> 00:25:41.559 listen to your word? Really? Why? Because the attention is 363 00:25:41.720 --> 00:25:48.680 very quick? Take how manifoonia oh Indina, man kind of 364 00:25:48.720 --> 00:25:53.920 maniuma tex ninety nothing in it. But this is bad news, 365 00:25:54.319 --> 00:25:59.880 It says five years later it was only eight second second, 366 00:26:00.319 --> 00:26:06.079 one second less than the goldfish. Goldfish has nine seconds 367 00:26:06.119 --> 00:26:09.599 attention span. Do you know that the style down on 368 00:26:09.720 --> 00:26:14.240 In twenty seventeen. It is now only eight seconds. What 369 00:26:14.440 --> 00:26:21.559 does that make of us? You know what silverfish? Second place, 370 00:26:26.160 --> 00:26:28.160 the article goes to say, is our new wealth of 371 00:26:28.319 --> 00:26:35.319 information has created a poverty of attention. We have a 372 00:26:35.599 --> 00:26:40.240 poverty of attention. What does that mean? We are poor 373 00:26:41.480 --> 00:26:49.039 in paying attention? We can't focus. Sad Really, I read 374 00:26:49.119 --> 00:26:52.200 this poem Lemnium and Plenum may rest Caano, I read, 375 00:26:52.599 --> 00:26:58.000 I watch, I appreciate poems. I read this poem, and 376 00:27:00.319 --> 00:27:03.839 here's what it says. Holy One, There's something I wanted 377 00:27:03.880 --> 00:27:07.759 to tell you, But there have been errands to run, bills, 378 00:27:07.839 --> 00:27:12.920 to pay arrangements, to make meetings, to attend friends, to entertain, washing, 379 00:27:13.079 --> 00:27:17.440 to do, and I forget what it is I wanted 380 00:27:17.559 --> 00:27:20.160 to say to you, and mostly forget what I'm about 381 00:27:20.880 --> 00:27:25.920 or why, oh God, don't forget me, please, for the 382 00:27:26.039 --> 00:27:29.960 sake of Jesus Christ. You know, we're so concumed about 383 00:27:29.960 --> 00:27:34.279 the business of life. But the problem is we need 384 00:27:34.559 --> 00:27:39.000 to put premium time for a time with the Lord. 385 00:27:39.039 --> 00:27:42.880 This year, God wants to encounter you. That's a promise, 386 00:27:43.079 --> 00:27:46.640 and that is sure. The question is are we missing 387 00:27:46.839 --> 00:27:51.240 out on those encounters? Are we missing out on the 388 00:27:51.359 --> 00:27:54.279 most important time? That God wants to tell you his 389 00:27:54.640 --> 00:27:59.640 plans for you. Are we missing out just because we 390 00:27:59.720 --> 00:28:03.400 need to do something else? Are we missing out just 391 00:28:03.519 --> 00:28:06.319 because we need to do the next task, to watch 392 00:28:06.359 --> 00:28:11.920 the next episode? We might be missing out. You know 393 00:28:12.000 --> 00:28:17.279 what we need to do as people of God? This 394 00:28:18.160 --> 00:28:26.440 what's that vacation? Actually it's a picture of silence. It's 395 00:28:26.480 --> 00:28:29.079 a picture of peace. You know what we need to 396 00:28:29.119 --> 00:28:31.160 do as people of God to encounter Him in a 397 00:28:31.359 --> 00:28:35.240 very personal and powerful way this year. This is what 398 00:28:35.359 --> 00:28:40.880 we need. We need time of solitude. What solitude It's 399 00:28:40.960 --> 00:28:43.680 more than being silent. It's pulling away And I hope 400 00:28:43.680 --> 00:28:47.000 you write this down. Solitude means it's pulling away from 401 00:28:47.039 --> 00:28:50.960