Speaker 1: Welcome. Just hand away tagalog Sermon podcast. Your daily does
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Speaker 2: You were listening to a message from Victory. We hope
Speaker 2: it inspires you to honor God and make disciples in
Speaker 2: your humanity.
Speaker 1: They were going to be talking about compassion, compassion. If
Speaker 1: we talk about compassion, it's more than I'm a big guy. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: that's true. As Really the ruth word of compassion is
Speaker 1: suffer with or come is with, and then passion is suffer,
Speaker 1: suffer with, suffer with somebody. It's to show to show
Speaker 1: love when somebody is suffering, suffer with. That's actually selfless,
Speaker 1: that's actually being selfless. I love how Martin Luther King
Speaker 1: Junior said it plainly when it said an individual has
Speaker 1: not started living until he can rise above the narrow
Speaker 1: confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of
Speaker 1: all humanity. In plain terms, in plain words, Martin Luther
Speaker 1: King is saying we should move from just looking at
Speaker 1: ourselves but really on the concern of others. It's really
Speaker 1: not are not us anymore. We have to move out
Speaker 1: of that. Maybe it's not your comfort zone. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm just guessing. Maybe not all of us here are compassionate,
Speaker 1: or we're compassionate in in in a small way, in
Speaker 1: a little way, but all of us has to move
Speaker 1: from just looking at ourselves to the concern of others.
Speaker 1: We we in victory. We belong to that a network
Speaker 1: of churches that operates all around all around the world,
Speaker 1: and we're part of this movement called Every Nation Churches
Speaker 1: and in every nation. Our mission and vision says, our
Speaker 1: mission is to honor God by pride by planting Christ centered,
Speaker 1: spirit and powered and socially responsible churches and campus ministries
Speaker 1: in every nation. Marchim parton social responsibility that we have
Speaker 1: to be socially responsible. It is actually our mandate. But
Speaker 1: you know what, it just doesn't stop in just being
Speaker 1: our mandate because if you let if you look at
Speaker 1: the Bible, if you check the Bible and Ephesians two
Speaker 1: verse ten, it says, for we are His workmanship. That's us. Okay,
Speaker 1: brothers and sisters, all of us are God's workmanship. Okay,
Speaker 1: workmanship is we are his. He made us, He created us,
Speaker 1: He created us to do. But he created us in
Speaker 1: Christ Jesus for good works. Okay, this is different in
Speaker 1: good works. In good work means parasa good work. No,
Speaker 1: but for good works we were made. We were created
Speaker 1: to do good works. We will not earn our way
Speaker 1: to heaven because of good works. But we are created
Speaker 1: for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should
Speaker 1: walk in them. This is the handle for not just
Speaker 1: for the preaching today, but for the preaching of the
Speaker 1: Word in selfless the whole series. Let's pray. Let's pray.
Speaker 1: It's about our heads and pray. Father, Thank you, Lord,
Speaker 1: thank you again for rebinding us on what happened on
Speaker 1: the cross of Jesus Christ and why we can celebrate,
Speaker 1: why we can have love, enjoy love, and give love Father,
Speaker 1: because of what Jesus did and that cross. Let us
Speaker 1: now God's workmanship, be one united in mind and heart,
Speaker 1: knowing Lord that whatever we do, Lord God, will be
Speaker 1: out of reverence and would glorify you Jesus name. We pray,
Speaker 1: and everybody say amen. We're talking about compassion today, and
Speaker 1: when we talk about being compassionate, I do believe a
Speaker 1: lot of us, maybe before he became a Christian or
Speaker 1: now you're now you're a Christian, you can say that
Speaker 1: you are compassionate, okay, but there was There's actually one
Speaker 1: time that I questioned myself and if I'm really compassionate
Speaker 1: to Bacho, if if you're my friend, you would know
Speaker 1: that I'm I'm very generous, okay, that that I would
Speaker 1: love to give gifts and and really be generous. I
Speaker 1: remember one of my friends, Jason law and Jason law
Speaker 1: in In in one of our meetings. I was about
Speaker 1: to treat him. We were in a buffet, Jason and people.
Speaker 1: Jason indeeded that it was the main course that to
Speaker 1: this a dessert. So when when when when we were
Speaker 1: in the buffet, he really asked me. I was about
Speaker 1: to pay, and he asked me, why do you love
Speaker 1: giving gifts? Why do you love treating people? He I
Speaker 1: almost stopped there and did not pay for his meal,
Speaker 1: but only caution hardcore. But that's true. When we help
Speaker 1: people sometimes it tends to be again because of our
Speaker 1: selfish nature, my selfish intention t y ibato too long
Speaker 1: to too long something in return my papa to later
Speaker 1: on I can get something in the return okay, but
Speaker 1: and then connection your influence as an organization because see
Speaker 1: nation White Sila. So parapack next time. But make remember
Speaker 1: again a while ago when when we said that we
Speaker 1: planned churches for we are a church that plants churches
Speaker 1: for for social responsibility. Some people they would help not
Speaker 1: because of socially responsible rose social responsibility, but because of
Speaker 1: their mind age in social media, were not compassionate a
Speaker 1: social media. My prayer is that after this preaching we
Speaker 1: will have a change of heart again. It's a it's
Speaker 1: it's a reminder. Why do we do communion every once
Speaker 1: a month. It's to remind us why because we're short
Speaker 1: sighted people memory not in short my short term memory gottile. Okay,
Speaker 1: even if you're not as old as or as young
Speaker 1: as we have, we have short memory. We have short memory,
Speaker 1: and we have to be reminded. I love this this,
Speaker 1: this letter to the Church in by Paul when it
Speaker 1: started chapter two in reminding us, he reminded us, as
Speaker 1: for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sin.
Speaker 1: So this was our old status before first and foremost
Speaker 1: we were dead. Shang no, never, let's not go there.
Speaker 1: We were dead in our transpace. It's dead because of
Speaker 1: all our sins, and we are actually also disobedient in
Speaker 1: which you used to live. When we follow the ways
Speaker 1: of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom
Speaker 1: of the air and the spirit who is now at
Speaker 1: work in those who are disobedient, we were dead. We
Speaker 1: were disobedient, and what we deserve is actually the wrath
Speaker 1: of God. All of us lived among them at one time.
Speaker 1: This was when we were We were still with the enemy.
Speaker 1: We are not yet children of God. We gratify the
Speaker 1: creative cravings of our flesh. Itsabian tito, because of our
Speaker 1: old nature. But to mulung tayo, what's in it for me?
Speaker 1: But tom selfie they are remember what the Bible said,
Speaker 1: do not let your left know what you're right and
Speaker 1: is doing. That is that is Jesus reminding us when
Speaker 1: we give give it not out of compulsion, but with
Speaker 1: that cheerful heart, that potion I gave this amount. Well,
Speaker 1: sometimes in our hearts still we try to gratify the
Speaker 1: cravings of our flesh, and this once again creeps in
Speaker 1: and out every day of our lives, and following its
Speaker 1: desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature
Speaker 1: deserving of wrath. But we didn't do anything, We didn't
Speaker 1: have to do anything, but God gave us the solution.
Speaker 1: My prayer is that the union solution, because we know
Speaker 1: that that was actually the meaning of the cross. What
Speaker 1: what what Allan was actually exhorting a while ago. Is
Speaker 1: that apart from Christ, we can't do anything. That's why
Speaker 1: He had to come cleanse us of our sin and
Speaker 1: now assures us of hope. But God, being rich in mercy,
Speaker 1: because of the great love with which He loved us,
Speaker 1: even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us
Speaker 1: alive together with Christ. By grace, we have been saved.
Speaker 1: This is God's solution. No longer are we dead to
Speaker 1: our sin. No longer are we disobedient. No longer are
Speaker 1: we deserving of God's wrath. But because of his great mercy,
Speaker 1: now he has made us alive and raised us up
Speaker 1: with him and seated with us, with us with him
Speaker 1: in the heavenly places, in Christ Jesus, so that in
Speaker 1: the coming of ages he might show the measurable riches
Speaker 1: of his grace and kindness towards us. In Christ Jesus.
Speaker 1: The gift here is no longer judgment. What we actually
Speaker 1: deserve is death judgment. But he gave us mercy. He
Speaker 1: gave us mercy and said and that he did not
Speaker 1: just stop in mercy. He also gave us grace, grace
Speaker 1: that is what we don't deserve. But the thing is,
Speaker 1: sometimes when we still have that craving in our hearts,
Speaker 1: when when we are we help others in compassion to others,
Speaker 1: sometimes no my love as young nature or not, and
Speaker 1: that sometimes we boast. So Paul exhorted us and reminded
Speaker 1: us in verse eight when he said, for by grace
Speaker 1: you have been saved through faith. Well, I have saved
Speaker 1: you because you have done something right. I am saving
Speaker 1: you have given you hope. Why just keep on doing
Speaker 1: what you're doing in helping others. Know, he reminded us
Speaker 1: that we are saved by grace through faith, and this
Speaker 1: is not your own doing. It is the gift of God,
Speaker 1: not a result of work. So that no one may boast.
Speaker 1: No one may boast, But this gift that God gives
Speaker 1: us should not just stay with us. I remember I
Speaker 1: always teach this to my children, especially to my six
Speaker 1: year old Lara, because every time she gets a gift,
Speaker 1: she would acknowledge God and say thank you. Lord, Thank
Speaker 1: you Mom, thank you Dad, because thank you Grandpa, thank
Speaker 1: you grandma. But then when somebody would approach her and said,
Speaker 1: can I play with you? No, this is mine six
Speaker 1: years old, that Megia malapet lapet, you would see the
Speaker 1: horns in her and tale, la la basta la gay.
Speaker 1: Why this is mine? I deserve this. This is a
Speaker 1: gift for me. And how dare you touch it? It's mine?
Speaker 1: And Lara, what are they doing? You should share? Yeah, come,
Speaker 1: let's play. Don't touch it. It's true nature of our hearts.
Speaker 1: We have to remind ourselves that that gift that was
Speaker 1: given to us is that except for us, it's actually
Speaker 1: to share. It's activity to show the love of Jesus
Speaker 1: Christ to all. The ultimate intention for our salvation is
Speaker 1: for us to love and serve others. That's the selfless love.
Speaker 1: That's a selfless love, and that's a selfless plan of
Speaker 1: Jesus for us. My prayer is that we would always
Speaker 1: remember that our compassion is only possible because if Christ
Speaker 1: is mercy, love, grace and kindness, that we can give
Speaker 1: love now that we can be generus, that we can serve.
Speaker 1: I know some of you here, you even have your
Speaker 1: own foundation that you serve in. But all of this
Speaker 1: should go back again to Jesus Christ for his mercy, love,
Speaker 1: grace and kindness, because apart from it, all we do
Speaker 1: is nothing. All we do it goes back again to us.
Speaker 1: All we do again points us to we're the hero.
Speaker 1: We should be gratified and we forget Jesus Christ. I
Speaker 1: remember when we talk about mercy. I always remember about
Speaker 1: this story, this story that happened in a diner in
Speaker 1: the in the in Honolulu, in Hawaii. There was a pastor.
Speaker 1: His name is Tony Campolo, Pastor Toni. He's not from
Speaker 1: our church, but he's a pastor there and he has
Speaker 1: a he has a heart for the prostitutes in the
Speaker 1: Honolulu in Hawaii. This diner is right in the middle
Speaker 1: of of a slum area that there's there's a lot
Speaker 1: of prostitutes. And there was one morning, one one am
Speaker 1: in the morning when Pastor Toni was inside that he
Speaker 1: saw a group of a group of prostitutes came in,
Speaker 1: three of them and when he when they went in,
Speaker 1: he overheard one of the procetutes saying, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna be turning thirty nine years old
Speaker 1: next year, and I've never received a birthday cake. I've
Speaker 1: never experienced blowing candles from a birthday cake. And then
Speaker 1: she quip, actually, I've never celebrated my birthday ever, the
Speaker 1: whole thirty nine years. And Pastor Toni was there to
Speaker 1: actually minister to them. But instead of ministering to them,
Speaker 1: you know, you know what he did. He went out
Speaker 1: of his way. He went out of his way, connived
Speaker 1: with the dinery owned you may add in the diner's
Speaker 1: and said, you know what, why don't we do this.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna pay for everything, I'm gonna decorate this place.
Speaker 1: Can we invite her Agnes's friends and surprise him. I
Speaker 1: surprised her for a birthday party that she'd never had.
Speaker 1: One week after they had they had the birthday party.
Speaker 1: The place was filled up with twenty prostitutes inside celebrating
Speaker 1: her birthday. First time she received a cake, first time
Speaker 1: she blew candles from her own birthday cake. Guess what
Speaker 1: he was, Passer TONI was really able to minister to
Speaker 1: her palang. The minister not only that didn't stop there.
Speaker 1: Even the diner. Even the owner of the diner now
Speaker 1: attends church y because he has seen. He has seen
Speaker 1: how this person loves this woman even though she was
Speaker 1: a prostitute. That's mercy and grace when you look at it.
Speaker 1: We can be like that prostitute. We don't sell our bodies.
Speaker 1: But there are times that arkadeving is on for ourselves.
Speaker 1: I remember in the book of Zakariah, when when when
Speaker 1: when the prophet Zakariah he was he was, he was
Speaker 1: ministering to the Israelite people. The Israelite got to know Jesus,
Speaker 1: Christ got to know God. We're converted, and now they
Speaker 1: were given a chance to redeem themselves. And the word
Speaker 1: from God, from the prophet Zakariah goes like this. He said,
Speaker 1: three to one another, justly, love your neighbors, be compared,
Speaker 1: passionate with each other. Don't take advantage of the widows, orphans, visitors,
Speaker 1: and the poor. Don't plot and scheme against one another.
Speaker 1: That's evil. Maybe most of us we're in this room.
Speaker 1: We're in this room. Now they're saying, Okay, I'm not
Speaker 1: like that. I'm a Christian, I love Jesus, I don't
Speaker 1: I'm compassionate. I don't take advantage of widows, orphan, visitors
Speaker 1: and the poor. I don't plot evil against them, but
Speaker 1: you know, if you don't do anything for them, it's
Speaker 1: as if it is the same thing. Let me repeat that.
Speaker 1: Maybe you're not plotting, maybe you're not taking advantage, but
Speaker 1: if you don't do anything about it, it's as if
Speaker 1: that we have taken advantage of the widow of the poor,
Speaker 1: of the orphan. We live in a society in this world,
Speaker 1: but my prayer is that we would see ourselves assault
Speaker 1: and light. As the Bible said, we should not conformed
Speaker 1: to the patterns of this world. But now take a stand.
Speaker 1: Sometimes it's going to be messy, but that's good. Why
Speaker 1: because when Jesus came here for you and I, it
Speaker 1: was actually messy. It was way better in heaven. But
Speaker 1: he still did so and chose. Here are some truth
Speaker 1: and lies about compassion. First is a lie that just
Speaker 1: a little bit more will be enough. But the truth
Speaker 1: is I have more than enough. I remember growing up,
Speaker 1: growing up the lie in my head it goes like this,
Speaker 1: if I become the next president of the Philippines, Yes, Hagad,
Speaker 1: never in my wildest dream that I would imagine to
Speaker 1: become a pastor. I would love to speak to throngs
Speaker 1: of people like this, but never, never, I imagine it
Speaker 1: will be inside the church. I thought I would become
Speaker 1: a politician. Why because gustrong my hear my ah. That
Speaker 1: was in my heart and I was praying, said, okay, Lord,
Speaker 1: make me rich. Why each child I'm gonna pull out
Speaker 1: of poverty, I'm gonna give them new life. Just make
Speaker 1: me rich because I need more, I need more, I
Speaker 1: need more. We have more. It's not about the money
Speaker 1: that we have in the bank. Sometimes it's not even
Speaker 1: about the money. Yes, part of compassion is giving, but
Speaker 1: a lot is actually praying. A lot is actually volunteering
Speaker 1: yourself for service. A lot is actually being just being
Speaker 1: there to listen to somebody. That's that's that's true compassion.
Speaker 1: When Jesus came here, he didn't have any centabo nothing.
Speaker 1: He even had to borrow money from a fish. Remember that.
Speaker 1: So he had to get money from a fish. But
Speaker 1: he gave himself, he gave his life, he gave his
Speaker 1: very heart. I'm not here to promote anything or to
Speaker 1: sell anything. My prayer is that you know your church
Speaker 1: and in victory we never sell anything. But what what
Speaker 1: we we want to accomplish now is that to show
Speaker 1: you what's in the heart of Jesus Christ, what's in
Speaker 1: what's in this heart? What makes his heart tick? I
Speaker 1: remember John D. Rockefeller, one of the industrialists who built America,
Speaker 1: when ask how much money is enough money? You know what?
Speaker 1: You know what he said, just a little bit more.
Speaker 1: The the sinful heart that we have is always wants more, more, more,
Speaker 1: and it goes out of the way. Also, okay, more, okay.
Speaker 1: If I help you, what do I get in return?
Speaker 1: And sometimes when what do I get in return, it's
Speaker 1: much more than we actually give. Sometimes in beginning I
Speaker 1: think and take that interest love. How Peter said in
Speaker 1: Second Corinintances eight verse nine, we said, for you know
Speaker 1: the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he
Speaker 1: was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so
Speaker 1: that by so that you, by his poverty, might become rich.
Speaker 1: We are rich. We have everything. We have the Gospel
Speaker 1: of Jesus Christ to spend. We have the love that
Speaker 1: is abundant in us to share. Not everything is about money.
Speaker 1: I remember my son Jello. They're in a private school.
Speaker 1: And what I love about their private school is a
Speaker 1: part of their value is compassion. And every year since
Speaker 1: since he was in grade four. They would actually have
Speaker 1: time with the poor. He has gone through Believed prison
Speaker 1: for the past three years in a row. He would
Speaker 1: go there. Yesterday, he just came from Paiatas. He spent
Speaker 1: a whole morning with the family and supervise. Okay, it
Speaker 1: was just one teacher and there's a group of them there. Okay,
Speaker 1: the parents, we were not there. And I love, I
Speaker 1: love about one time from his experience when he went
Speaker 1: to Fabelia Maternity Hospital. Fabelia Maternity Hospital, if you don't
Speaker 1: know Fabelia, it's one of the biggest hospital that houses
Speaker 1: I'm a big maternity hospital, nak Okay. It's so big
Speaker 1: that that when he was there, there was one bed
Speaker 1: for three mothers, Yes, one for three mothers, and and
Speaker 1: and and he came out, actually he came out literally crying.
Speaker 1: And when it was his brother's turn to go in,
Speaker 1: he told Monty, my second son, he said, you know, Monty,
Speaker 1: when you go and experience what I experienced inside that hospital,
Speaker 1: you will come out a different person. There has to
Speaker 1: be an awakening in our heart Church. Maybe our hearts
Speaker 1: are already so callous us every time we turn on the television. Actually,
Speaker 1: when you go in the street. There are peddlars everywhere.
Speaker 1: Somebody knocking on your on your window. You know. I
Speaker 1: want to also admonish the parents here. I I I
Speaker 1: grew up. I grew up in Benondo and we we
Speaker 1: live in a building. Sorry, we live in a building
Speaker 1: third floor, so we have we we will live there.
Speaker 1: But every time I open my window, the stair of
Speaker 1: Benondo is right there, I can see people living in
Speaker 1: a box. Ge Refrigerator. You never this, Jason ge Refrigerator, Union,
Speaker 1: Baha Union, see Arnila La but Malissa Mahamagula. They would
Speaker 1: just cover themselves if they want to relieve themselves, ge
Speaker 1: g Refrigerator. So you would know, right I was actually
Speaker 1: checking them out early on in our lives, we've seen
Speaker 1: that poverty is all around. But my prayer is that
Speaker 1: you will not let your heart be callous. You would
Speaker 1: do something about this. Parents, I want to admonish all
Speaker 1: of you as well. Open the eyes of our children,
Speaker 1: let them know and let them know that as Christians
Speaker 1: we have a responsibility. We have a responsibility. We have
Speaker 1: to go out of our way. Compassion is intentional, It's
Speaker 1: very intentional. I love in how Luke said it. The
Speaker 1: spirit of the Lord is upon me because he has
Speaker 1: anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He
Speaker 1: has sent me to proclaim and release the captives and
Speaker 1: the regaining of the sight of the blind, to set
Speaker 1: free those who are oppressed, and to proclaim the year
Speaker 1: of the Lord's favor. It's upon us. We have to
Speaker 1: be intentional. It's intentional. I love how Bishop Manny. I
Speaker 1: learned this from Bishop Manny when he said, before you
Speaker 1: can actually preach the gospel to the people, you have
Speaker 1: to know and you have to touch their felt needs first,
Speaker 1: and gospel while Ian magret Repellian story. In one of
Speaker 1: our kids' church, I remember one of our guards I
Speaker 1: could never forget his name, Noel, when he allowed a
Speaker 1: group of Muslim kids from the third floor. Na it's
Speaker 1: like a playground for for for kids and maham Matin
Speaker 1: dera Matin like the Beta here on the other side.
Speaker 1: And one time one of the kids was was intrigued
Speaker 1: and asked and as one of our guards Noel. Noel
Speaker 1: is no longer in our church and he's in different
Speaker 1: church now and when they ask him, can I go in?
Speaker 1: And actually he was not allowed to let him in
Speaker 1: but out of compassion. He said, yeah, just go. After
Speaker 1: fifteen minutes, the girl came back with five of her
Speaker 1: friends somewhereing veil mahaka Belloslim. She saw that there were
Speaker 1: that they were actually serving food inside cupcakes and they
Speaker 1: were able to go to church. And right now they're
Speaker 1: totaling around fourteen or fifteen. Give and take. Show compassion,
Speaker 1: show genuine compassion. You have to touch first their failed needs.
Speaker 1: There were times that I was actually preaching them. There
Speaker 1: Muslim kids in front of me, and they were laughing
Speaker 1: at me because they couldn't understand. But once they received
Speaker 1: the food, they started eating U biscuits, long biscuits, jolly yeah,
Speaker 1: the jolly biscuits. And I sat with them and I
Speaker 1: reinforced what I thought the taught them about Jesus Christ.
Speaker 1: They received the Lord. Touch their failt needs first. Before
Speaker 1: you can actually preach the gospel to them, God will
Speaker 1: make way. God would actually give you boldness and confidence
Speaker 1: and even words to say. Next. Truth and lies about compassion.
Speaker 1: The lie is that God helps those who help themselves.
Speaker 1: But the truth is God commands us the church to
Speaker 1: help those who can't help themselves. What we do is
Speaker 1: that okayda baha lay. But we have to do. What
Speaker 1: we need to do is to go out of our way.
Speaker 1: The lie here is that no, that's why they're helpless.
Speaker 1: We need to help them. Think about this. We were
Speaker 1: actually helpless. That's why God had to send his son
Speaker 1: for you and I because no amount of good, the works,
Speaker 1: no amount of anything on our end could earn our
Speaker 1: way to heaven. We were helpless. We were helpless. Now
Speaker 1: it takes us to move. Now we need to move.
Speaker 1: God helps the helpless. It would take you and I
Speaker 1: to be assault and light to be the bearer of
Speaker 1: good news. In Proverbs twenty one, verse thirteen said whoever
Speaker 1: shuts their ears to the Christ of the poor will
Speaker 1: also cry out and not be answered. Won't be answered
Speaker 1: when you see, there was a time when I stopped
Speaker 1: giving alms to the poor on the street. There was
Speaker 1: somebody who told me region I and babalikan. But then
Speaker 1: again I remembered every time they knock and you see
Speaker 1: your face, sometimes I see a reflection of my children
Speaker 1: just looking out and us not doing anything. I'm not
Speaker 1: saying take them in one, all of them, but I'm praying,
Speaker 1: is that are we doing something? Here's my take on generosity.
Speaker 1: We are so generous when the Christmas season arrives. But
Speaker 1: Christmas season is only one month in a span of
Speaker 1: one year twelve where there's actually twelve months. Generosity has
Speaker 1: to be every day. It has to be intentional, and
Speaker 1: it has to be continuous. Being compassionate means every day.
Speaker 1: I remember C. S. Lewis in his code. I do
Speaker 1: not believe one can settle how much we ought to give.
Speaker 1: I'm afraid the only safe rule is to give more
Speaker 1: than we can spare, give until it hurts. Sometimes attendasawa
Speaker 1: when there are when when they are old things in
Speaker 1: the house, I would hear them say, I know, I know.
Speaker 1: My point is we can't use them anymore. Why do
Speaker 1: you have to give it to other poor people? Why
Speaker 1: throw them away? Yes, do a garage heal and then
Speaker 1: get the money and then help other people. Don't give
Speaker 1: them trash, don't give them things that for you are
Speaker 1: unusable anymore. Go back again to what God did. He
Speaker 1: gave his one and only son, He gave his very best.
Speaker 1: Jesus gave his own life. Last. Truth and lies about
Speaker 1: compassion is that compassion is his ministry for the select few.
Speaker 1: What do you call this? Uh? A chosen few. Like
Speaker 1: Fundraising Foundation, it's just for them. The truth is compassion
Speaker 1: should be a lifestyle for all Christians. Again, remember what
Speaker 1: efficients do. Verse then said that we are made for
Speaker 1: good works. That sometimes as we grieve for for our government,
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that they're perfect. They need help as well,
Speaker 1: they need our prayers. But then not everything is for
Speaker 1: our government to accomplish. As a church, we have to
Speaker 1: be in the forefront. Hind w No, we have to
Speaker 1: be in the forefront. Why wait for the government to
Speaker 1: move whereas we are as we as the church, we're
Speaker 1: called to be in the forefront. We need to leave
Speaker 1: this society. Awareness to the plight of the poor and
Speaker 1: those suffering. Social injustice does something to our heart, and
Speaker 1: my prayer is that it awakens our heart in fee.
Speaker 1: John three seventeen to eighteen says, if anyone has material
Speaker 1: possessions and sees a brother or sister in need, but
Speaker 1: has no pity on them, how can the love of
Speaker 1: God be in that person? Dear children, let us not
Speaker 1: love with words or speech, but with actions and in truth.
Speaker 1: It has to be seen. There has to be a fruit,
Speaker 1: It has to manifest what we say. There has to
Speaker 1: be an action what we pray for, we have to
Speaker 1: move as well. And again I want to exhort you
Speaker 1: and want to remind everybody that our compassion is possible
Speaker 1: because of christis mercy, love, grace and kindness. This mercy, love,
Speaker 1: grace and kindness, it's in us already because of what
Speaker 1: He has done and that cross. The challenge now is
Speaker 1: how to be, how to be a channel of blessing.
Speaker 1: You're ready blessed, We're beloved. We're no longer dead anymore,
Speaker 1: no longer disobedient. Now we are alive. Now, we are
Speaker 1: made alive. Now the love of Christ overflows in and
Speaker 1: through us. My also prayer is that if you're on
Speaker 1: the other end, Combos giantidito, it's nearing our the end
Speaker 1: of the end of another school year, do not lose hope.
Speaker 1: Elena Peis is not just one of those stories that
Speaker 1: we pick. There are hundreds, even probably thousands of stories
Speaker 1: out there that when they they learned about their salvation
Speaker 1: and their calling in Christ, they made it big. And
Speaker 1: again they made it big, not just for themselves, but
Speaker 1: to be a blessing to others. Let me close with
Speaker 1: this verse in fee John three sixty wh it said
Speaker 1: by this, we know love that he laid down his
Speaker 1: life for us, and we ought to lay down our
Speaker 1: lives for our brothers. Thank you Jesus, we counted as
Speaker 1: a blessing to be part of this church, to be
Speaker 1: part of this movement, Lord God, that that just honor
Speaker 1: you and make disciples, but rather go out of our way,
Speaker 1: Lord God Lord, to make sure that we are in
Speaker 1: the forefront. Father, I pray right now to those who give,
Speaker 1: to those who serve, to those who who who like
Speaker 1: teacher Lynn, Lord God, I pray Lord that you will
Speaker 1: draw them out Father, for them, Lor God, to be
Speaker 1: used more to advance your kingdom. Father, I pray Lord
Speaker 1: that we because because of your selfless love, Father, we
Speaker 1: can do all of these things. Lord, I pray right
Speaker 1: now for our nation to be transformed. Use each and
Speaker 1: every scholar. Lord. Even pray, Lord God for our church
Speaker 1: here in Victory Greenhills, Lord God, to produce scholars, to
Speaker 1: have scholars, Lord God, Lord, that you can use Lord.
Speaker 1: I pray Lord that all of us, Lor God, will
Speaker 1: be a beacon of life. Father, I pray Lord that
Speaker 1: we will be sought and light Lord in our own homes.
Speaker 1: You know, Church it doesn't. It doesn't take a lot
Speaker 1: of us, or it doesn't. Sometimes it doesn't take you
Speaker 1: to be in a be in a foundation or create
Speaker 1: a foundation. Actually it starts in your own home. So Father,
Speaker 1: I pray this, Lord God Lord, that we will go
Speaker 1: all out Lord yet in reaching people in our own homes. Father,
Speaker 1: I pray Lord even I'm behind them, and Lord God
Speaker 1: Lord malilam te mamahalangdios at the time mummulas Amen. Father
Speaker 1: even pray Lord God for our for our community, Lord God,
Speaker 1: where we are, for our for our school. Lord God, Lord,
Speaker 1: let be let us be the beacon of beacon of life.
Speaker 1: And Lord, I pray Lord that at the end of
Speaker 1: the day, Lord, all this Lord we do would give
Speaker 1: you and you glory. Father. So Lord use us. Father,
Speaker 1: Can I ask everybody to just raise up your hands. Father,
Speaker 1: thank you Lord, because we counted not more than the privilege,
Speaker 1: but rather, Lord God, let it be our life right now,
Speaker 1: LORGD for us to go out, for us to share
Speaker 1: who you are and to love God others completely. Father,
Speaker 1: So Lord use us.
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