WEBVTT 1 00:00:05.160 --> 00:00:09.000 Welcome. Just hand away tagalog Sermon podcast. Your daily does 2 00:00:09.039 --> 00:00:13.439 of inspiring, heartfelt taglog sermons from different pastors and speakers 3 00:00:13.480 --> 00:00:16.440 all over the Philippines. We hope that this podcast finds 4 00:00:16.480 --> 00:00:21.839 you in good shape. And now here's your message. 5 00:00:26.039 --> 00:00:28.839 You were listening to a message from Victory. We hope 6 00:00:28.839 --> 00:00:31.519 it inspires you to honor God and make disciples in 7 00:00:31.600 --> 00:00:32.280 your humanity. 8 00:00:38.159 --> 00:00:41.560 They were going to be talking about compassion, compassion. If 9 00:00:41.560 --> 00:00:49.320 we talk about compassion, it's more than I'm a big guy. Yes, yes, 10 00:00:49.399 --> 00:00:53.079 that's true. As Really the ruth word of compassion is 11 00:00:53.399 --> 00:00:57.479 suffer with or come is with, and then passion is suffer, 12 00:00:57.960 --> 00:01:01.759 suffer with, suffer with somebody. It's to show to show 13 00:01:01.920 --> 00:01:06.760 love when somebody is suffering, suffer with. That's actually selfless, 14 00:01:06.799 --> 00:01:10.400 that's actually being selfless. I love how Martin Luther King 15 00:01:10.519 --> 00:01:14.959 Junior said it plainly when it said an individual has 16 00:01:15.000 --> 00:01:18.879 not started living until he can rise above the narrow 17 00:01:18.959 --> 00:01:23.719 confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of 18 00:01:23.760 --> 00:01:34.640 all humanity. In plain terms, in plain words, Martin Luther 19 00:01:34.719 --> 00:01:37.840 King is saying we should move from just looking at 20 00:01:37.879 --> 00:01:41.719 ourselves but really on the concern of others. It's really 21 00:01:41.799 --> 00:01:44.680 not are not us anymore. We have to move out 22 00:01:44.719 --> 00:01:48.200 of that. Maybe it's not your comfort zone. I don't know. 23 00:01:48.280 --> 00:01:51.000 I'm just guessing. Maybe not all of us here are compassionate, 24 00:01:51.120 --> 00:01:53.560 or we're compassionate in in in a small way, in 25 00:01:53.560 --> 00:01:55.359 a little way, but all of us has to move 26 00:01:55.640 --> 00:01:59.200 from just looking at ourselves to the concern of others. 27 00:02:00.799 --> 00:02:05.120 We we in victory. We belong to that a network 28 00:02:05.159 --> 00:02:09.560 of churches that operates all around all around the world, 29 00:02:09.719 --> 00:02:12.680 and we're part of this movement called Every Nation Churches 30 00:02:12.840 --> 00:02:15.680 and in every nation. Our mission and vision says, our 31 00:02:15.680 --> 00:02:19.280 mission is to honor God by pride by planting Christ centered, 32 00:02:19.599 --> 00:02:25.039 spirit and powered and socially responsible churches and campus ministries 33 00:02:25.039 --> 00:02:29.759 in every nation. Marchim parton social responsibility that we have 34 00:02:29.800 --> 00:02:33.599 to be socially responsible. It is actually our mandate. But 35 00:02:33.680 --> 00:02:36.199 you know what, it just doesn't stop in just being 36 00:02:36.199 --> 00:02:38.759 our mandate because if you let if you look at 37 00:02:38.759 --> 00:02:41.080 the Bible, if you check the Bible and Ephesians two 38 00:02:41.360 --> 00:02:48.879 verse ten, it says, for we are His workmanship. That's us. Okay, 39 00:02:49.080 --> 00:02:54.319 brothers and sisters, all of us are God's workmanship. Okay, 40 00:02:54.360 --> 00:02:58.400 workmanship is we are his. He made us, He created us, 41 00:02:58.719 --> 00:03:01.439 He created us to do. But he created us in 42 00:03:01.520 --> 00:03:06.560 Christ Jesus for good works. Okay, this is different in 43 00:03:06.680 --> 00:03:11.919 good works. In good work means parasa good work. No, 44 00:03:12.360 --> 00:03:16.199 but for good works we were made. We were created 45 00:03:17.479 --> 00:03:20.319 to do good works. We will not earn our way 46 00:03:20.360 --> 00:03:23.000 to heaven because of good works. But we are created 47 00:03:23.120 --> 00:03:27.639 for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should 48 00:03:27.680 --> 00:03:32.719 walk in them. This is the handle for not just 49 00:03:32.759 --> 00:03:35.159 for the preaching today, but for the preaching of the 50 00:03:35.199 --> 00:03:39.319 Word in selfless the whole series. Let's pray. Let's pray. 51 00:03:39.400 --> 00:03:41.560 It's about our heads and pray. Father, Thank you, Lord, 52 00:03:42.680 --> 00:03:47.800 thank you again for rebinding us on what happened on 53 00:03:47.919 --> 00:03:51.960 the cross of Jesus Christ and why we can celebrate, 54 00:03:52.800 --> 00:03:57.360 why we can have love, enjoy love, and give love Father, 55 00:03:58.080 --> 00:04:01.039 because of what Jesus did and that cross. Let us 56 00:04:01.120 --> 00:04:06.759 now God's workmanship, be one united in mind and heart, 57 00:04:07.639 --> 00:04:10.360 knowing Lord that whatever we do, Lord God, will be 58 00:04:10.400 --> 00:04:14.680 out of reverence and would glorify you Jesus name. We pray, 59 00:04:14.719 --> 00:04:20.000 and everybody say amen. We're talking about compassion today, and 60 00:04:20.319 --> 00:04:24.399 when we talk about being compassionate, I do believe a 61 00:04:24.439 --> 00:04:28.600 lot of us, maybe before he became a Christian or 62 00:04:28.920 --> 00:04:31.600 now you're now you're a Christian, you can say that 63 00:04:31.639 --> 00:04:34.560 you are compassionate, okay, but there was There's actually one 64 00:04:34.600 --> 00:04:37.759 time that I questioned myself and if I'm really compassionate 65 00:04:37.800 --> 00:04:41.040 to Bacho, if if you're my friend, you would know 66 00:04:41.079 --> 00:04:44.279 that I'm I'm very generous, okay, that that I would 67 00:04:44.279 --> 00:04:46.800 love to give gifts and and really be generous. I 68 00:04:46.800 --> 00:04:50.959 remember one of my friends, Jason law and Jason law 69 00:04:50.959 --> 00:04:53.240 in In in one of our meetings. I was about 70 00:04:53.240 --> 00:04:57.639 to treat him. We were in a buffet, Jason and people. 71 00:04:58.160 --> 00:05:00.160 Jason indeeded that it was the main course that to 72 00:05:00.240 --> 00:05:02.519 this a dessert. So when when when when we were 73 00:05:02.560 --> 00:05:07.279 in the buffet, he really asked me. I was about 74 00:05:07.279 --> 00:05:09.959 to pay, and he asked me, why do you love 75 00:05:10.000 --> 00:05:13.959 giving gifts? Why do you love treating people? He I 76 00:05:14.040 --> 00:05:16.879 almost stopped there and did not pay for his meal, 77 00:05:17.480 --> 00:05:23.439 but only caution hardcore. But that's true. When we help 78 00:05:23.519 --> 00:05:27.800 people sometimes it tends to be again because of our 79 00:05:27.920 --> 00:05:33.240 selfish nature, my selfish intention t y ibato too long 80 00:05:34.079 --> 00:05:42.560 to too long something in return my papa to later 81 00:05:42.680 --> 00:05:49.199 on I can get something in the return okay, but 82 00:05:49.399 --> 00:05:56.160 and then connection your influence as an organization because see 83 00:05:56.879 --> 00:06:03.279 nation White Sila. So parapack next time. But make remember 84 00:06:03.319 --> 00:06:05.000 again a while ago when when we said that we 85 00:06:05.079 --> 00:06:08.759 planned churches for we are a church that plants churches 86 00:06:08.800 --> 00:06:12.920 for for social responsibility. Some people they would help not 87 00:06:13.040 --> 00:06:17.759 because of socially responsible rose social responsibility, but because of 88 00:06:17.759 --> 00:06:24.600 their mind age in social media, were not compassionate a 89 00:06:24.600 --> 00:06:29.360 social media. My prayer is that after this preaching we 90 00:06:29.399 --> 00:06:31.959 will have a change of heart again. It's a it's 91 00:06:32.040 --> 00:06:36.000 it's a reminder. Why do we do communion every once 92 00:06:36.079 --> 00:06:38.920 a month. It's to remind us why because we're short 93 00:06:38.920 --> 00:06:45.279 sighted people memory not in short my short term memory gottile. Okay, 94 00:06:45.439 --> 00:06:49.000 even if you're not as old as or as young 95 00:06:49.040 --> 00:06:52.199 as we have, we have short memory. We have short memory, 96 00:06:52.199 --> 00:06:55.560 and we have to be reminded. I love this this, 97 00:06:55.560 --> 00:06:59.040 this letter to the Church in by Paul when it 98 00:06:59.079 --> 00:07:02.959 started chapter two in reminding us, he reminded us, as 99 00:07:03.000 --> 00:07:06.000 for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sin. 100 00:07:06.600 --> 00:07:09.279 So this was our old status before first and foremost 101 00:07:09.319 --> 00:07:17.959 we were dead. Shang no, never, let's not go there. 102 00:07:18.759 --> 00:07:21.279 We were dead in our transpace. It's dead because of 103 00:07:21.319 --> 00:07:26.480 all our sins, and we are actually also disobedient in 104 00:07:26.519 --> 00:07:28.800 which you used to live. When we follow the ways 105 00:07:28.800 --> 00:07:30.720 of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom 106 00:07:30.720 --> 00:07:32.680 of the air and the spirit who is now at 107 00:07:32.800 --> 00:07:35.959 work in those who are disobedient, we were dead. We 108 00:07:35.959 --> 00:07:39.480 were disobedient, and what we deserve is actually the wrath 109 00:07:39.560 --> 00:07:44.000 of God. All of us lived among them at one time. 110 00:07:44.759 --> 00:07:47.920 This was when we were We were still with the enemy. 111 00:07:48.639 --> 00:07:52.199 We are not yet children of God. We gratify the 112 00:07:52.240 --> 00:07:56.360 creative cravings of our flesh. Itsabian tito, because of our 113 00:07:56.399 --> 00:07:59.600 old nature. But to mulung tayo, what's in it for me? 114 00:08:00.240 --> 00:08:06.199 But tom selfie they are remember what the Bible said, 115 00:08:06.240 --> 00:08:08.839 do not let your left know what you're right and 116 00:08:09.040 --> 00:08:12.160 is doing. That is that is Jesus reminding us when 117 00:08:12.199 --> 00:08:15.120 we give give it not out of compulsion, but with 118 00:08:15.199 --> 00:08:23.279 that cheerful heart, that potion I gave this amount. Well, 119 00:08:24.759 --> 00:08:28.720 sometimes in our hearts still we try to gratify the 120 00:08:28.759 --> 00:08:33.240 cravings of our flesh, and this once again creeps in 121 00:08:33.320 --> 00:08:36.720 and out every day of our lives, and following its 122 00:08:36.759 --> 00:08:40.279 desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature 123 00:08:41.000 --> 00:08:44.879 deserving of wrath. But we didn't do anything, We didn't 124 00:08:44.879 --> 00:08:47.360 have to do anything, but God gave us the solution. 125 00:08:48.519 --> 00:08:52.639 My prayer is that the union solution, because we know 126 00:08:52.759 --> 00:08:56.200 that that was actually the meaning of the cross. What 127 00:08:56.200 --> 00:08:59.000 what what Allan was actually exhorting a while ago. Is 128 00:08:59.039 --> 00:09:03.399 that apart from Christ, we can't do anything. That's why 129 00:09:03.720 --> 00:09:06.720 He had to come cleanse us of our sin and 130 00:09:06.759 --> 00:09:10.840 now assures us of hope. But God, being rich in mercy, 131 00:09:11.519 --> 00:09:14.360 because of the great love with which He loved us, 132 00:09:14.679 --> 00:09:18.000 even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us 133 00:09:18.000 --> 00:09:22.159 alive together with Christ. By grace, we have been saved. 134 00:09:22.879 --> 00:09:26.120 This is God's solution. No longer are we dead to 135 00:09:26.159 --> 00:09:30.039 our sin. No longer are we disobedient. No longer are 136 00:09:30.039 --> 00:09:33.639 we deserving of God's wrath. But because of his great mercy, 137 00:09:34.320 --> 00:09:39.840 now he has made us alive and raised us up 138 00:09:40.039 --> 00:09:43.000 with him and seated with us, with us with him 139 00:09:43.200 --> 00:09:45.879 in the heavenly places, in Christ Jesus, so that in 140 00:09:45.919 --> 00:09:49.240 the coming of ages he might show the measurable riches 141 00:09:49.279 --> 00:09:53.159 of his grace and kindness towards us. In Christ Jesus. 142 00:09:54.879 --> 00:09:59.519 The gift here is no longer judgment. What we actually 143 00:09:59.559 --> 00:10:03.679 deserve is death judgment. But he gave us mercy. He 144 00:10:03.720 --> 00:10:06.080 gave us mercy and said and that he did not 145 00:10:06.320 --> 00:10:10.200 just stop in mercy. He also gave us grace, grace 146 00:10:10.720 --> 00:10:13.519 that is what we don't deserve. But the thing is, 147 00:10:13.519 --> 00:10:16.519 sometimes when we still have that craving in our hearts, 148 00:10:17.200 --> 00:10:20.720 when when we are we help others in compassion to others, 149 00:10:20.879 --> 00:10:22.600 sometimes no my love as young nature or not, and 150 00:10:22.600 --> 00:10:26.759 that sometimes we boast. So Paul exhorted us and reminded 151 00:10:26.799 --> 00:10:30.879 us in verse eight when he said, for by grace 152 00:10:30.919 --> 00:10:36.240 you have been saved through faith. Well, I have saved 153 00:10:36.240 --> 00:10:39.279 you because you have done something right. I am saving 154 00:10:39.320 --> 00:10:42.039 you have given you hope. Why just keep on doing 155 00:10:43.320 --> 00:10:46.519 what you're doing in helping others. Know, he reminded us 156 00:10:46.559 --> 00:10:50.120 that we are saved by grace through faith, and this 157 00:10:50.279 --> 00:10:52.799 is not your own doing. It is the gift of God, 158 00:10:52.879 --> 00:10:56.080 not a result of work. So that no one may boast. 159 00:10:57.000 --> 00:10:59.799 No one may boast, But this gift that God gives 160 00:10:59.879 --> 00:11:04.440 us should not just stay with us. I remember I 161 00:11:04.519 --> 00:11:07.240 always teach this to my children, especially to my six 162 00:11:07.320 --> 00:11:10.720 year old Lara, because every time she gets a gift, 163 00:11:10.960 --> 00:11:14.840 she would acknowledge God and say thank you. Lord, Thank 164 00:11:14.879 --> 00:11:18.360 you Mom, thank you Dad, because thank you Grandpa, thank 165 00:11:18.399 --> 00:11:22.200 you grandma. But then when somebody would approach her and said, 166 00:11:22.240 --> 00:11:26.519 can I play with you? No, this is mine six 167 00:11:26.600 --> 00:11:31.519 years old, that Megia malapet lapet, you would see the 168 00:11:31.759 --> 00:11:36.360 horns in her and tale, la la basta la gay. 169 00:11:36.480 --> 00:11:40.519 Why this is mine? I deserve this. This is a 170 00:11:40.600 --> 00:11:44.159 gift for me. And how dare you touch it? It's mine? 171 00:11:46.000 --> 00:11:49.720 And Lara, what are they doing? You should share? Yeah, come, 172 00:11:49.840 --> 00:11:53.559 let's play. Don't touch it. It's true nature of our hearts. 173 00:11:54.720 --> 00:11:58.399 We have to remind ourselves that that gift that was 174 00:11:58.480 --> 00:12:04.360 given to us is that except for us, it's actually 175 00:12:04.399 --> 00:12:07.320 to share. It's activity to show the love of Jesus 176 00:12:07.399 --> 00:12:12.639 Christ to all. The ultimate intention for our salvation is 177 00:12:12.679 --> 00:12:17.240 for us to love and serve others. That's the selfless love. 178 00:12:17.279 --> 00:12:20.720 That's a selfless love, and that's a selfless plan of 179 00:12:20.840 --> 00:12:24.159 Jesus for us. My prayer is that we would always 180 00:12:24.200 --> 00:12:28.720 remember that our compassion is only possible because if Christ 181 00:12:28.840 --> 00:12:34.240 is mercy, love, grace and kindness, that we can give 182 00:12:34.320 --> 00:12:37.720 love now that we can be generus, that we can serve. 183 00:12:37.840 --> 00:12:39.960 I know some of you here, you even have your 184 00:12:40.000 --> 00:12:43.039 own foundation that you serve in. But all of this 185 00:12:43.080 --> 00:12:46.919 should go back again to Jesus Christ for his mercy, love, 186 00:12:47.000 --> 00:12:50.919 grace and kindness, because apart from it, all we do 187 00:12:51.440 --> 00:12:55.200 is nothing. All we do it goes back again to us. 188 00:12:55.399 --> 00:12:59.559 All we do again points us to we're the hero. 189 00:13:00.440 --> 00:13:04.080 We should be gratified and we forget Jesus Christ. I 190 00:13:04.080 --> 00:13:06.879 remember when we talk about mercy. I always remember about 191 00:13:06.879 --> 00:13:10.039 this story, this story that happened in a diner in 192 00:13:10.120 --> 00:13:14.080 the in the in Honolulu, in Hawaii. There was a pastor. 193 00:13:14.159 --> 00:13:19.279 His name is Tony Campolo, Pastor Toni. He's not from 194 00:13:19.279 --> 00:13:21.240 our church, but he's a pastor there and he has 195 00:13:21.279 --> 00:13:24.519 a he has a heart for the prostitutes in the 196 00:13:24.559 --> 00:13:28.200 Honolulu in Hawaii. This diner is right in the middle 197 00:13:28.240 --> 00:13:30.960 of of a slum area that there's there's a lot 198 00:13:30.960 --> 00:13:36.399 of prostitutes. And there was one morning, one one am 199 00:13:36.480 --> 00:13:40.159 in the morning when Pastor Toni was inside that he 200 00:13:40.279 --> 00:13:43.279 saw a group of a group of prostitutes came in, 201 00:13:43.399 --> 00:13:45.759 three of them and when he when they went in, 202 00:13:47.919 --> 00:13:50.840 he overheard one of the procetutes saying, you know what 203 00:13:50.919 --> 00:13:53.679 I'm gonna I'm gonna be turning thirty nine years old 204 00:13:53.720 --> 00:13:58.759 next year, and I've never received a birthday cake. I've 205 00:13:58.799 --> 00:14:04.360 never experienced blowing candles from a birthday cake. And then 206 00:14:04.399 --> 00:14:09.360 she quip, actually, I've never celebrated my birthday ever, the 207 00:14:09.399 --> 00:14:14.360 whole thirty nine years. And Pastor Toni was there to 208 00:14:14.399 --> 00:14:17.240 actually minister to them. But instead of ministering to them, 209 00:14:17.320 --> 00:14:19.080 you know, you know what he did. He went out 210 00:14:19.120 --> 00:14:22.200 of his way. He went out of his way, connived 211 00:14:22.559 --> 00:14:24.879 with the dinery owned you may add in the diner's 212 00:14:24.919 --> 00:14:27.039 and said, you know what, why don't we do this. 213 00:14:27.200 --> 00:14:29.879 I'm gonna pay for everything, I'm gonna decorate this place. 214 00:14:30.120 --> 00:14:34.600 Can we invite her Agnes's friends and surprise him. I 215 00:14:34.720 --> 00:14:37.960 surprised her for a birthday party that she'd never had. 216 00:14:38.600 --> 00:14:42.080 One week after they had they had the birthday party. 217 00:14:42.399 --> 00:14:48.039 The place was filled up with twenty prostitutes inside celebrating 218 00:14:48.080 --> 00:14:52.399 her birthday. First time she received a cake, first time 219 00:14:52.559 --> 00:14:56.919 she blew candles from her own birthday cake. Guess what 220 00:14:58.600 --> 00:15:02.080 he was, Passer TONI was really able to minister to 221 00:15:02.200 --> 00:15:08.399 her palang. The minister not only that didn't stop there. 222 00:15:08.840 --> 00:15:12.399 Even the diner. Even the owner of the diner now 223 00:15:12.440 --> 00:15:17.399 attends church y because he has seen. He has seen 224 00:15:17.720 --> 00:15:22.600 how this person loves this woman even though she was 225 00:15:22.600 --> 00:15:27.399 a prostitute. That's mercy and grace when you look at it. 226 00:15:28.240 --> 00:15:30.879 We can be like that prostitute. We don't sell our bodies. 227 00:15:31.200 --> 00:15:34.320 But there are times that arkadeving is on for ourselves. 228 00:15:34.759 --> 00:15:37.840 I remember in the book of Zakariah, when when when 229 00:15:37.879 --> 00:15:41.519 when the prophet Zakariah he was he was, he was 230 00:15:41.600 --> 00:15:45.120 ministering to the Israelite people. The Israelite got to know Jesus, 231 00:15:45.240 --> 00:15:49.679 Christ got to know God. We're converted, and now they 232 00:15:49.679 --> 00:15:53.200 were given a chance to redeem themselves. And the word 233 00:15:53.240 --> 00:15:56.320 from God, from the prophet Zakariah goes like this. He said, 234 00:15:56.360 --> 00:15:59.960 three to one another, justly, love your neighbors, be compared, 235 00:16:00.000 --> 00:16:04.639 passionate with each other. Don't take advantage of the widows, orphans, visitors, 236 00:16:04.679 --> 00:16:08.600 and the poor. Don't plot and scheme against one another. 237 00:16:08.759 --> 00:16:12.440 That's evil. Maybe most of us we're in this room. 238 00:16:13.039 --> 00:16:15.320 We're in this room. Now they're saying, Okay, I'm not 239 00:16:15.480 --> 00:16:19.320 like that. I'm a Christian, I love Jesus, I don't 240 00:16:20.039 --> 00:16:23.559 I'm compassionate. I don't take advantage of widows, orphan, visitors 241 00:16:23.559 --> 00:16:27.960 and the poor. I don't plot evil against them, but 242 00:16:28.080 --> 00:16:33.440 you know, if you don't do anything for them, it's 243 00:16:33.480 --> 00:16:37.000 as if it is the same thing. Let me repeat that. 244 00:16:38.000 --> 00:16:41.639 Maybe you're not plotting, maybe you're not taking advantage, but 245 00:16:41.759 --> 00:16:45.240 if you don't do anything about it, it's as if 246 00:16:45.320 --> 00:16:49.080 that we have taken advantage of the widow of the poor, 247 00:16:49.799 --> 00:16:54.000 of the orphan. We live in a society in this world, 248 00:16:54.960 --> 00:16:57.200 but my prayer is that we would see ourselves assault 249 00:16:57.279 --> 00:17:00.600 and light. As the Bible said, we should not conformed 250 00:17:00.639 --> 00:17:03.799 to the patterns of this world. But now take a stand. 251 00:17:04.000 --> 00:17:07.240 Sometimes it's going to be messy, but that's good. Why 252 00:17:07.400 --> 00:17:09.279 because when Jesus came here for you and I, it 253 00:17:09.359 --> 00:17:12.279 was actually messy. It was way better in heaven. But 254 00:17:12.519 --> 00:17:16.400 he still did so and chose. Here are some truth 255 00:17:16.440 --> 00:17:21.279 and lies about compassion. First is a lie that just 256 00:17:21.359 --> 00:17:25.200 a little bit more will be enough. But the truth 257 00:17:25.279 --> 00:17:28.920 is I have more than enough. I remember growing up, 258 00:17:29.480 --> 00:17:33.720 growing up the lie in my head it goes like this, 259 00:17:33.920 --> 00:17:39.319 if I become the next president of the Philippines, Yes, Hagad, 260 00:17:39.920 --> 00:17:44.640 never in my wildest dream that I would imagine to 261 00:17:44.680 --> 00:17:47.920 become a pastor. I would love to speak to throngs 262 00:17:47.920 --> 00:17:51.400 of people like this, but never, never, I imagine it 263 00:17:51.400 --> 00:17:53.519 will be inside the church. I thought I would become 264 00:17:53.559 --> 00:18:05.519 a politician. Why because gustrong my hear my ah. That 265 00:18:05.640 --> 00:18:09.200 was in my heart and I was praying, said, okay, Lord, 266 00:18:09.319 --> 00:18:12.160 make me rich. Why each child I'm gonna pull out 267 00:18:12.160 --> 00:18:16.720 of poverty, I'm gonna give them new life. Just make 268 00:18:16.759 --> 00:18:19.759 me rich because I need more, I need more, I 269 00:18:19.799 --> 00:18:24.279 need more. We have more. It's not about the money 270 00:18:24.359 --> 00:18:26.920 that we have in the bank. Sometimes it's not even 271 00:18:26.960 --> 00:18:30.960 about the money. Yes, part of compassion is giving, but 272 00:18:31.079 --> 00:18:34.319 a lot is actually praying. A lot is actually volunteering 273 00:18:34.359 --> 00:18:37.359 yourself for service. A lot is actually being just being 274 00:18:37.440 --> 00:18:41.839 there to listen to somebody. That's that's that's true compassion. 275 00:18:42.160 --> 00:18:47.000 When Jesus came here, he didn't have any centabo nothing. 276 00:18:47.519 --> 00:18:54.880 He even had to borrow money from a fish. Remember that. 277 00:18:57.559 --> 00:19:01.279 So he had to get money from a fish. But 278 00:19:01.400 --> 00:19:04.839 he gave himself, he gave his life, he gave his 279 00:19:05.039 --> 00:19:10.319 very heart. I'm not here to promote anything or to 280 00:19:10.400 --> 00:19:13.960 sell anything. My prayer is that you know your church 281 00:19:14.279 --> 00:19:18.119 and in victory we never sell anything. But what what 282 00:19:18.319 --> 00:19:21.599 we we want to accomplish now is that to show 283 00:19:21.640 --> 00:19:24.640 you what's in the heart of Jesus Christ, what's in 284 00:19:25.200 --> 00:19:29.400 what's in this heart? What makes his heart tick? I 285 00:19:29.440 --> 00:19:34.519 remember John D. Rockefeller, one of the industrialists who built America, 286 00:19:35.039 --> 00:19:39.519 when ask how much money is enough money? You know what? 287 00:19:39.680 --> 00:19:41.880 You know what he said, just a little bit more. 288 00:19:43.559 --> 00:19:48.440 The the sinful heart that we have is always wants more, more, more, 289 00:19:49.119 --> 00:19:51.480 and it goes out of the way. Also, okay, more, okay. 290 00:19:51.519 --> 00:19:53.559 If I help you, what do I get in return? 291 00:19:54.319 --> 00:19:56.319 And sometimes when what do I get in return, it's 292 00:19:56.400 --> 00:19:59.720 much more than we actually give. Sometimes in beginning I 293 00:19:59.720 --> 00:20:05.880 think and take that interest love. How Peter said in 294 00:20:06.400 --> 00:20:09.200 Second Corinintances eight verse nine, we said, for you know 295 00:20:09.319 --> 00:20:11.880 the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he 296 00:20:12.039 --> 00:20:15.920 was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so 297 00:20:16.000 --> 00:20:20.000 that by so that you, by his poverty, might become rich. 298 00:20:21.440 --> 00:20:25.359 We are rich. We have everything. We have the Gospel 299 00:20:25.400 --> 00:20:27.720 of Jesus Christ to spend. We have the love that 300 00:20:27.839 --> 00:20:31.039 is abundant in us to share. Not everything is about money. 301 00:20:31.839 --> 00:20:35.480 I remember my son Jello. They're in a private school. 302 00:20:35.720 --> 00:20:38.319 And what I love about their private school is a 303 00:20:38.400 --> 00:20:42.039 part of their value is compassion. And every year since 304 00:20:42.319 --> 00:20:45.319 since he was in grade four. They would actually have 305 00:20:45.440 --> 00:20:49.960 time with the poor. He has gone through Believed prison 306 00:20:50.160 --> 00:20:52.519 for the past three years in a row. He would 307 00:20:52.519 --> 00:20:55.599 go there. Yesterday, he just came from Paiatas. He spent 308 00:20:55.960 --> 00:21:00.119 a whole morning with the family and supervise. Okay, it 309 00:21:00.200 --> 00:21:03.519 was just one teacher and there's a group of them there. Okay, 310 00:21:03.640 --> 00:21:06.839 the parents, we were not there. And I love, I 311 00:21:06.920 --> 00:21:10.240 love about one time from his experience when he went 312 00:21:10.279 --> 00:21:14.400 to Fabelia Maternity Hospital. Fabelia Maternity Hospital, if you don't 313 00:21:14.440 --> 00:21:18.000 know Fabelia, it's one of the biggest hospital that houses 314 00:21:19.319 --> 00:21:24.400 I'm a big maternity hospital, nak Okay. It's so big 315 00:21:24.559 --> 00:21:28.839 that that when he was there, there was one bed 316 00:21:29.160 --> 00:21:34.920 for three mothers, Yes, one for three mothers, and and 317 00:21:34.920 --> 00:21:39.119 and and he came out, actually he came out literally crying. 318 00:21:39.640 --> 00:21:42.200 And when it was his brother's turn to go in, 319 00:21:42.720 --> 00:21:45.519 he told Monty, my second son, he said, you know, Monty, 320 00:21:45.640 --> 00:21:48.839 when you go and experience what I experienced inside that hospital, 321 00:21:49.079 --> 00:21:52.799 you will come out a different person. There has to 322 00:21:52.880 --> 00:21:58.480 be an awakening in our heart Church. Maybe our hearts 323 00:21:58.480 --> 00:22:02.599 are already so callous us every time we turn on the television. Actually, 324 00:22:02.599 --> 00:22:06.160 when you go in the street. There are peddlars everywhere. 325 00:22:06.480 --> 00:22:09.480 Somebody knocking on your on your window. You know. I 326 00:22:09.519 --> 00:22:13.720 want to also admonish the parents here. I I I 327 00:22:13.759 --> 00:22:16.720 grew up. I grew up in Benondo and we we 328 00:22:16.839 --> 00:22:19.960 live in a building. Sorry, we live in a building 329 00:22:20.000 --> 00:22:24.119 third floor, so we have we we will live there. 330 00:22:24.599 --> 00:22:27.599 But every time I open my window, the stair of 331 00:22:27.640 --> 00:22:31.319 Benondo is right there, I can see people living in 332 00:22:31.359 --> 00:22:35.920 a box. Ge Refrigerator. You never this, Jason ge Refrigerator, Union, 333 00:22:35.960 --> 00:22:44.079 Baha Union, see Arnila La but Malissa Mahamagula. They would 334 00:22:44.079 --> 00:22:49.599 just cover themselves if they want to relieve themselves, ge 335 00:22:50.240 --> 00:22:53.400 g Refrigerator. So you would know, right I was actually 336 00:22:54.400 --> 00:22:57.240 checking them out early on in our lives, we've seen 337 00:22:57.240 --> 00:22:59.440 that poverty is all around. But my prayer is that 338 00:22:59.599 --> 00:23:03.799 you will not let your heart be callous. You would 339 00:23:03.799 --> 00:23:06.920 do something about this. Parents, I want to admonish all 340 00:23:06.960 --> 00:23:11.559 of you as well. Open the eyes of our children, 341 00:23:12.519 --> 00:23:15.960 let them know and let them know that as Christians 342 00:23:16.480 --> 00:23:20.400 we have a responsibility. We have a responsibility. We have 343 00:23:20.480 --> 00:23:24.839 to go out of our way. Compassion is intentional, It's 344 00:23:24.920 --> 00:23:28.279 very intentional. I love in how Luke said it. The 345 00:23:28.319 --> 00:23:30.359 spirit of the Lord is upon me because he has 346 00:23:30.400 --> 00:23:34.160 anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He 347 00:23:34.279 --> 00:23:37.319 has sent me to proclaim and release the captives and 348 00:23:37.359 --> 00:23:41.039 the regaining of the sight of the blind, to set 349 00:23:41.079 --> 00:23:43.920 free those who are oppressed, and to proclaim the year 350 00:23:44.039 --> 00:23:47.279 of the Lord's favor. It's upon us. We have to 351 00:23:47.319 --> 00:23:52.559 be intentional. It's intentional. I love how Bishop Manny. I 352 00:23:52.640 --> 00:23:55.160 learned this from Bishop Manny when he said, before you 353 00:23:55.279 --> 00:23:58.640 can actually preach the gospel to the people, you have 354 00:23:58.759 --> 00:24:03.880 to know and you have to touch their felt needs first, 355 00:24:04.319 --> 00:24:08.839 and gospel while Ian magret Repellian story. In one of 356 00:24:08.839 --> 00:24:12.119 our kids' church, I remember one of our guards I 357 00:24:12.160 --> 00:24:15.480 could never forget his name, Noel, when he allowed a 358 00:24:15.519 --> 00:24:20.720 group of Muslim kids from the third floor. Na it's 359 00:24:20.720 --> 00:24:26.400 like a playground for for for kids and maham Matin 360 00:24:26.440 --> 00:24:30.000 dera Matin like the Beta here on the other side. 361 00:24:30.079 --> 00:24:34.000 And one time one of the kids was was intrigued 362 00:24:34.039 --> 00:24:36.319 and asked and as one of our guards Noel. Noel 363 00:24:36.400 --> 00:24:38.759 is no longer in our church and he's in different 364 00:24:38.799 --> 00:24:44.920 church now and when they ask him, can I go in? 365 00:24:45.640 --> 00:24:47.839 And actually he was not allowed to let him in 366 00:24:48.559 --> 00:24:54.079 but out of compassion. He said, yeah, just go. After 367 00:24:54.240 --> 00:24:57.680 fifteen minutes, the girl came back with five of her 368 00:24:57.720 --> 00:25:04.160 friends somewhereing veil mahaka Belloslim. She saw that there were 369 00:25:04.200 --> 00:25:08.640 that they were actually serving food inside cupcakes and they 370 00:25:08.640 --> 00:25:10.839 were able to go to church. And right now they're 371 00:25:11.400 --> 00:25:15.599 totaling around fourteen or fifteen. Give and take. Show compassion, 372 00:25:15.640 --> 00:25:19.200 show genuine compassion. You have to touch first their failed needs. 373 00:25:19.920 --> 00:25:22.799 There were times that I was actually preaching them. There 374 00:25:23.200 --> 00:25:25.039 Muslim kids in front of me, and they were laughing 375 00:25:25.039 --> 00:25:28.640 at me because they couldn't understand. But once they received 376 00:25:28.640 --> 00:25:35.240 the food, they started eating U biscuits, long biscuits, jolly yeah, 377 00:25:35.799 --> 00:25:39.839 the jolly biscuits. And I sat with them and I 378 00:25:39.960 --> 00:25:43.559 reinforced what I thought the taught them about Jesus Christ. 379 00:25:43.960 --> 00:25:48.279 They received the Lord. Touch their failt needs first. Before 380 00:25:48.279 --> 00:25:51.079 you can actually preach the gospel to them, God will 381 00:25:51.119 --> 00:25:55.240 make way. God would actually give you boldness and confidence 382 00:25:55.359 --> 00:26:00.640 and even words to say. Next. Truth and lies about compassion. 383 00:26:01.039 --> 00:26:03.680 The lie is that God helps those who help themselves. 384 00:26:04.119 --> 00:26:07.079 But the truth is God commands us the church to 385 00:26:07.240 --> 00:26:11.359 help those who can't help themselves. What we do is 386 00:26:11.359 --> 00:26:15.680 that okayda baha lay. But we have to do. What 387 00:26:16.200 --> 00:26:17.960 we need to do is to go out of our way. 388 00:26:18.839 --> 00:26:23.599 The lie here is that no, that's why they're helpless. 389 00:26:23.640 --> 00:26:27.160 We need to help them. Think about this. We were 390 00:26:27.200 --> 00:26:30.440 actually helpless. That's why God had to send his son 391 00:26:30.559 --> 00:26:34.480 for you and I because no amount of good, the works, 392 00:26:34.480 --> 00:26:37.920 no amount of anything on our end could earn our 393 00:26:37.960 --> 00:26:43.759 way to heaven. We were helpless. We were helpless. Now 394 00:26:43.799 --> 00:26:46.400 it takes us to move. Now we need to move. 395 00:26:46.799 --> 00:26:50.759 God helps the helpless. It would take you and I 396 00:26:50.920 --> 00:26:53.759 to be assault and light to be the bearer of 397 00:26:53.799 --> 00:26:58.039 good news. In Proverbs twenty one, verse thirteen said whoever 398 00:26:58.160 --> 00:27:00.880 shuts their ears to the Christ of the poor will 399 00:27:00.920 --> 00:27:05.400 also cry out and not be answered. Won't be answered 400 00:27:06.839 --> 00:27:10.759 when you see, there was a time when I stopped 401 00:27:10.799 --> 00:27:14.039