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Speaker 3: You were listening to a message from Victory. We hope
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Speaker 3: your community.
Speaker 2: They were going through in Luke than the parable of
Speaker 2: the Good Samaritan. How many of you have heard about
Speaker 2: the Good Samaritan? Good many of us have heard about
Speaker 2: the Good Samaritan. Actually, just looking through the internet, just
Speaker 2: researching it, there are actually hundreds or maybe thousands of
Speaker 2: hospital that are named good smatter time. Not only that,
Speaker 2: social socio civic organizations NGOs, different Anginos across the world
Speaker 2: are actually named Good Samaritan. When a personal help or notther,
Speaker 2: we easily brand him or her as a good Samaritan.
Speaker 2: One of our pastors, Pastor Jonas Bernals of our church
Speaker 2: in a Victory Pioneer, I think it was just a
Speaker 2: month or two ago when he preacher, he was actually
Speaker 2: a recipient of that of of that good nature of
Speaker 2: a good Samaritan. When the Louis Mansano saw him somewhere
Speaker 2: along Risal when he was bicycling. Cancl been saying iahoma
Speaker 2: bicycle iaoma exercise backet naha injorgeva so Klama exercise save Kappa.
Speaker 2: He was bicycling, Okay, he was cycling and then he
Speaker 2: got he he got into an accident and uh Louis
Speaker 2: Mansana was there to help him. Good Samaritan. How many
Speaker 2: of us we wish that we are good Samaritans. I'm
Speaker 2: twenty forty three. In a few weeks, and in the
Speaker 2: course of going through my life every November, I started
Speaker 2: by asking myself, how have I contributed to the society.
Speaker 2: I would do an annual assessment, an annual assessment in
Speaker 2: buhakpa lang that you were born, you go to school,
Speaker 2: you get you get married, have a family, continue to work,
Speaker 2: and then suddenly you died and then nothing else. I
Speaker 2: want to make sure that I have made an impact
Speaker 2: in this world, that even though I'm gone, I have
Speaker 2: done something for our for the human, for the human,
Speaker 2: for the human kind, for people. I have done something
Speaker 2: a legacy. They might actually forget about me or mal
Speaker 2: But then again, my prayer is that what I did
Speaker 2: would actually be a contribution or made an impact. If
Speaker 2: you look at this, is this all there is to life?
Speaker 2: This is all there is to life? If this is it,
Speaker 2: it's kind of boring, right, it's kind of dull.
Speaker 1: We are you know what?
Speaker 2: God made us superior to all anything that God created.
Speaker 1: Why he gave us intellect, He gave us.
Speaker 2: Discernment, He gave us wisdom, He gave us skills upon
Speaker 2: skills and gifts of on gifts. Not just to do this,
Speaker 2: not just to live a life like this that is
Speaker 2: like a routine. When you go through Looke ten, you
Speaker 2: would see three core activities of a Christian life. First
Speaker 2: about mission. Everybody, we need to know our mission is
Speaker 2: maybe you are not a missionary. Mission is not. It's
Speaker 2: not about just being a missionary. Mission is about your
Speaker 2: calling in life. What's your life purpose? What is God
Speaker 2: calling you to do? Why did He give me those gifts,
Speaker 2: those blessing, those resources, those skills.
Speaker 1: You have to ask God for that mission. Next, it
Speaker 1: talked about compassion.
Speaker 2: As Christian we are to be in the forefront as
Speaker 2: we give compassion. That's why God gave us a beating
Speaker 2: heart for compassion. And lastly about worship that was the
Speaker 2: story about Mary and Martha in Look ten, Let's look
Speaker 2: at it as the context of our church. Our Church
Speaker 2: Victory Philippines is part of a bigger organization every nation
Speaker 2: and in every nation. This is just to give you
Speaker 2: a context. This is where we're coming from. This is
Speaker 2: our mission statement. Our mission statement is to honor God
Speaker 2: by establishing Christ centered, spirit empowered, socially responsible churches and
Speaker 2: campus ministries in every nation.
Speaker 1: We are a part of this. We are part of
Speaker 1: every nation.
Speaker 2: And that's our calling, that's our mandate. And look right there,
Speaker 2: right smack in the middle. Is socially responsible. Okay, it's
Speaker 2: not just a sideline ministry.
Speaker 1: It's not. It's in the very heart of our church.
Speaker 2: And guess what it should be, in the very heart
Speaker 2: of every Christian, of every individual, of every living being.
Speaker 1: Socially responsible We.
Speaker 2: Our church and us should have been, should have should
Speaker 2: be in the forefront in compassion ministry and sharing to
Speaker 2: the laws. We don't only do this if there is
Speaker 2: a typhoon or an earthquake or Christmas is actually near.
Speaker 2: We don't just do that because there's Christmas. You know,
Speaker 2: I know of an nng O that they would stop
Speaker 2: accepting gifts every November and December. They would always say,
Speaker 2: you know what, instead of giving us November December, can
Speaker 2: you support us January, fear in March, April, May, June, July, September, October. Instead,
Speaker 2: there's something about November December. We we we we we
Speaker 2: we would be more generous, We would be you know,
Speaker 2: freely give. Maybe it's because of thirteen months and the
Speaker 2: bodos every day of our life. We should have that
Speaker 2: heart of generosity. We should be socially responsible. We have
Speaker 2: to be created a creative, deliberate and intentional as well.
Speaker 2: Last week I mentioned about Seapag.
Speaker 1: Remember Seapag.
Speaker 2: Seapag is an NGO that we are supporting now together
Speaker 2: with CCF, where we absolve six hundred of the drug
Speaker 2: dependent surrenderies of someone. We got six hundred here in
Speaker 2: San Juan and we're ministering to them. Hey, we're not
Speaker 2: just feeding them, We're not just giving them food, money
Speaker 2: or shelter. No, what we're actually doing is making sure
Speaker 2: that we're there talking to them, encouraging them, asking them
Speaker 2: how they are in their life. You know what, just
Speaker 2: thinking about it, I was I was talking to a
Speaker 2: pastor Alan a while ago it's more, it's like a
Speaker 2: victory group that our victory group leaders now taking their
Speaker 2: time off.
Speaker 1: This happened. This happens on a weekday, not a night.
Speaker 1: In the morning, okay, early in the morning.
Speaker 2: They would go and minister, why because we as a church,
Speaker 2: we have to take a stand. We need to take
Speaker 2: action rather than complaining that on dominique, the dominicue, the
Speaker 2: drugs and dominica. Mammat I said, drugs, dominic surrender and
Speaker 2: dumbing and damning drugs.
Speaker 1: You take action because why Because we're the church.
Speaker 2: Because we're the church, because God, God's love should compel
Speaker 2: us to help. Remember the Bible said, faith without action
Speaker 2: is it's dead.
Speaker 1: Faith without action is dead.
Speaker 2: That's why we have to be in front, in the
Speaker 2: front line, take charge. That's my introduction for this parable
Speaker 2: of the Good Samaritan. What compelled him to go out
Speaker 2: of his way and help somebody who is not even
Speaker 2: part of his culture, part of his group. Look ten
Speaker 2: verse twenty five, and behold a lawyer stood up to
Speaker 2: put him to the test, saying, teacher, I'm talking to
Speaker 2: Jesus here, teacher.
Speaker 1: What shall I do to inherit eternal life?
Speaker 2: He said him Jesus said, what is written in the laws,
Speaker 2: how do you read it? The lawyer in some translation
Speaker 2: of the Bibles, is that experts of the law.
Speaker 1: He knew all along what the law requires. But he
Speaker 1: was testing Jesus. He wanted Jesus to say something.
Speaker 2: To be to be to be accountable to what he says.
Speaker 2: He's testing Jesus. But Jesus said, what is written in
Speaker 2: the law. You know what is written is the law simple?
Speaker 2: But then again, what is written in the law is
Speaker 2: hard to fulfill, and even the expert of the law
Speaker 2: he knows that.
Speaker 1: So he was testing Jesus.
Speaker 2: And he answered, you shall love the Lord your God
Speaker 2: with all your heart, with all your soul, with all
Speaker 2: your strength, and with all your mind, and your.
Speaker 1: Neighbor as yourself. So he knew it. He was testing Jesus.
Speaker 1: He knew it by heart.
Speaker 2: But he also knew he knows that it's hard for him,
Speaker 2: and he can never fulfill it. You can only fulfill
Speaker 2: it when you are in Christ. Apart from Christ, we
Speaker 2: cannot do it. It's impossible Verse twenty eight. And he said
Speaker 2: to him, you have answered correctly. Do this and you
Speaker 2: will live. That was Jesus. He said correct do it.
Speaker 2: But then he fought back. He answered back and said,
Speaker 2: but he, desiring to justify himself, said to Jesus, and
Speaker 2: who is my neighbor?
Speaker 1: Rather than saying, Okay.
Speaker 2: Now I know it, I'll do it, because he knew
Speaker 2: he cannot do it. He knows the law, he knows
Speaker 2: it correctly.
Speaker 1: But it's it's different.
Speaker 2: It's different knowing it correctly, being able to answer and
Speaker 2: verbalizing it than living it out. Okay, that's two different facts.
Speaker 2: You might know it, but you're not living it. You
Speaker 2: have to know it and live it. So he knew
Speaker 2: that he has fallen short, and he fought back with
Speaker 2: another question, So who's my neighbor?
Speaker 1: Who is my neighbor?
Speaker 2: Sometimes when we read the Word of God, we see
Speaker 2: it as a magical thing, a mystical thing. We search
Speaker 2: for clues, we search for answers by prayer. Is that
Speaker 2: we would also look at differently. As in the Book
Speaker 2: of James, word it said anyone who listens to the word,
Speaker 2: to the word, but does not do what it says.
Speaker 2: It's like someone who looks at his face in the mirror,
Speaker 2: and after looking at himself, goes away immediately forgets what
Speaker 2: he looks like James was referring to the Bible as
Speaker 2: like a mirror when you look at God's word, when
Speaker 2: you look when you read God's word, when you look
Speaker 2: at Isaia fifty six fifty seven, what do you see?
Speaker 2: Do you see yourself? Or it just deflects when you
Speaker 2: look at it and read it and know it like
Speaker 2: as a mirror, you should see Christ in you. There
Speaker 2: has to be on a heart check. Do you see
Speaker 2: it or do you still see the old view? Or
Speaker 2: do you see you.
Speaker 1: Actually can't see anything because it's blurry.
Speaker 2: You have to see Christ. You have to see Christ
Speaker 2: and reflect Christ, not deflect him.
Speaker 1: Verse thirty. Jesus replied, a man was going down. This
Speaker 1: is the start of the story. This is the start
Speaker 1: of the parable. When Jesus was being.
Speaker 2: Tested and Jesus was being asked and challenge, he said, okay,
Speaker 2: this is the time I'll tell a story. Also, in
Speaker 2: this context, he wasn't just talking to the expert of
Speaker 2: the law.
Speaker 1: He was actually talking to a group of people who
Speaker 1: was listening. That's how smart Jesus is.
Speaker 2: He saw the moment, capture the moment, said okay, time
Speaker 2: for another parable. Jesus replied, a man was going down
Speaker 2: from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell among robbers who
Speaker 2: stripped him and beat him and departed, leaving him half dead.
Speaker 2: This is the road from Jericho to Jerusalem. The road
Speaker 2: is still actually visible today, the robe where there are
Speaker 2: actually rubbers because of the terrain, because of the the what's.
Speaker 1: Going on in my screen anyway, on that.
Speaker 2: Side, because of the terrain, it's actually a good place
Speaker 2: for robbers to hide. That's why he got mugged there
Speaker 2: Verse thirty thirty one. Now, by chance a priest was
Speaker 2: going down that road and when he saw him, he
Speaker 2: passed by on.
Speaker 1: The other side.
Speaker 2: A priest, a priest in those days are descendants of Aaron,
Speaker 2: remember airon the first priest direct descendants before being a priest.
Speaker 2: It's something that's handed down, Kate. It's like inherited. So
Speaker 2: a priest was there, a priest who actually worked inside
Speaker 2: the temple.
Speaker 1: Can you imagine this. You're going down.
Speaker 2: Down the Edga, the priest is there, saw somebody got hurt.
Speaker 1: What did he do? Went to the other side.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you can do that in Edza
Speaker 2: with the traffic right, but it improved, I must admit.
Speaker 1: But because of those yellow orange barriers.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you can shift, but he shifted
Speaker 2: the priest why because he was maybe he's busy. His
Speaker 2: attitude was, I'm busy doing God's work. I'm busy doing
Speaker 2: holy work for the church. I'm a priest who He
Speaker 2: just looked at him and said, okay, no, okay, that's
Speaker 2: not for me, so go ahead, priest, priest who's supposed
Speaker 2: to be serving God. His attitude was, I have more
Speaker 2: important things to do.
Speaker 1: So likewise, Alivite.
Speaker 2: When he came to the place and saw him pass
Speaker 2: by on the other side, aleivit just to explain to you,
Speaker 2: is not a descendant of Aaron.
Speaker 1: That's why they cannot be priest.
Speaker 2: But then they are also full time and working inside
Speaker 2: the temple as assistant to the priest. I don't know
Speaker 2: what their training is, but it's the same. When he
Speaker 2: saw that person, he did was move on to another side,
Speaker 2: shift gear and move on, because why, he has more
Speaker 2: important things to do.
Speaker 1: I'm a man of God.
Speaker 2: And he said, okay, I better avoid rather than be involved.
Speaker 2: It might actually be messy, so never mind, I'll move,
Speaker 2: I'll look another the other way.
Speaker 1: And just go on.
Speaker 2: That may be true, when we try and when we
Speaker 2: try to help out in ministries in compassion, especially in
Speaker 2: compassion ministries, it might actually be messy. I have first
Speaker 2: hand experience being a part of an NGO here insant One,
Speaker 2: and it tends to be miss messy. This NGO right
Speaker 2: start was actually not formed by the church. No no,
Speaker 2: no church members who are the heart for children four
Speaker 2: to fourteen years old.
Speaker 1: That's why they set up this NGO.
Speaker 2: And when I was a part of it, you wouldn't
Speaker 2: understand the messiness of what's going on inside four to fourteen.
Speaker 1: Who would have known at four to fourteen years old.
Speaker 2: People will be already addicted to sex. There's immorality already
Speaker 2: below ten years old. A girl would have already had
Speaker 2: multiple sexual partners.
Speaker 1: Lessan ten years old.
Speaker 2: Children who haven't been molested time and time again at
Speaker 2: thirteen years old.
Speaker 1: And when you ask him, when.
Speaker 2: You try her, when you try to talk to her
Speaker 2: and try her to recounter the stuff, he wouldn't even
Speaker 2: remember who it was, Tito Goo, Yeah, cousin.
Speaker 1: He would, She wouldn't know.
Speaker 2: Just listening to all those sad stories would make me cry,
Speaker 2: would make me so angry, And I know it's messy,
Speaker 2: but church that is the real church out there, that
Speaker 2: is precisely the people we have to reach.
Speaker 1: Are you angry, I'm angry. I'm appalled we have to
Speaker 1: be as a church, move and do something. Or would
Speaker 1: you just say this is not for me. I'll go
Speaker 1: and pass the other side.
Speaker 2: I'm busy and on my way to my victory group
Speaker 2: and on my way to a worship night. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: go to my one o'clock and or three o'clock service
Speaker 2: where the pastor is awesome. So you simply just pass
Speaker 2: pass him or pass her by. Remember Jesus, he did
Speaker 2: not leave us to die on that road when we
Speaker 2: were almost dead to our sin, when nobody understood us,
Speaker 2: nobody wanted to care encourage us. There was already like
Speaker 2: hopelessness in our lives. Jesus was there for you and I.
Speaker 2: He did not leave us to die on that road
Speaker 2: for thirty three But as Amaritan, as he journeyed, he
Speaker 2: came to where he was, and when he saw him.
Speaker 1: He had compassion.
Speaker 2: This is something unheard of that when he saw him
Speaker 2: he had compassion.
Speaker 1: Why did he have compassion? Why? Why unheard of? Samaritan Jew?
Speaker 1: They don't blend Okay, they're like water and oil. They cannot.
Speaker 2: Their hatred for each other goes so deep.
Speaker 1: That they would kill each other, let alone be in
Speaker 1: one place like this. But he helped him.
Speaker 2: He went out of his way, instead of being like
Speaker 2: the priest and the levite going the other way.
Speaker 1: No, he went to him. He had compassion.
Speaker 2: He went to him and bound out his wounds, pouring.
Speaker 1: On oil and wine.
Speaker 2: Then he set him on his own animal and brought
Speaker 2: him to the inn.
Speaker 1: And took care of him.
Speaker 2: The guy couldn't move already, That's why he had to
Speaker 2: carry him and put him on his animal. He might
Speaker 2: be going from the other side when he saw him.
Speaker 2: He had compassion. He intentionally went to that person, saw him,
Speaker 2: check him, check his vitals, put banda on his wound,
Speaker 2: and carried him intentional. I just thought of this in
Speaker 2: the earlier service, that what he did was actually very dangerous.
Speaker 2: What if other people saw him. He could actually be
Speaker 2: accused of doing harm on the jew and he could
Speaker 2: have been stoned to death. But he took the risk
Speaker 2: genuine compassion, genuine love. And the next day he took
Speaker 2: out to Denari and gave them to the innkeeper, saying
Speaker 2: take care of him, and whatever more you spend it,
Speaker 2: I will repay when.
Speaker 1: I come back to Denari.
Speaker 2: It's more than two peszels Todinari is more than two
Speaker 2: hundred peszels to Dinari is actually two days of wage.
Speaker 1: Why would he do that?
Speaker 2: Why would he get from his own money and spend
Speaker 2: for somebody that he doesn't like, let alone he wants
Speaker 2: to be dead, let alone his any me Jesus here
Speaker 2: is pointing another another big point to tell us. Even
Speaker 2: though they're your enemy, you have all the more the
Speaker 2: reason to love them, or the more the reason to.
Speaker 1: Care for them.
Speaker 2: Showing compassion and caring for others is costly, but being
Speaker 2: selfish and being indifferent is free.
Speaker 1: It's costly, it's not just messy, it's costly. It will
Speaker 1: cost us. You know.
Speaker 2: The way we live our life now, or how the
Speaker 2: world would like us to live, is to get as
Speaker 2: much as we can. Let's be realistic, realistic here, as
Speaker 2: much money as we can, as much as we can,
Speaker 2: as fast as we can, not not not later, no, no, no.
Speaker 1: Now, that's why so many.
Speaker 2: People get get into trap, those quick rich scheme. Now,
Speaker 2: I want it now, fast, get it as fast as
Speaker 2: I can and hold on to it as long as
Speaker 2: I can, as much money as fast.
Speaker 1: And hold it as long as I can. It's for
Speaker 1: me tight, It's okay ten percent? Okay ten exactly ten.
Speaker 2: There's more than one pass no, no, look, can at me
Speaker 2: change the check ten percent?
Speaker 1: Others give him a few change.
Speaker 2: When God said in his word that he gives us
Speaker 2: the ability to produce wealth, and he said that he
Speaker 2: establishes the work of our hand, we have to check also,
Speaker 2: is it just for us? He keeps them blessing us.
Speaker 2: But we have to make sure that we are goods towards.
Speaker 2: Remember we're just towards. That means when you dye, you
Speaker 2: can't bring your money to heaven, right you cannot. I
Speaker 2: have many friends, have many friends who have tried it.
Speaker 2: Some have died and are with Christ. And some have
Speaker 2: died and I'm not sure if they're in Christ. But
Speaker 2: all of them the same. When they died, they left
Speaker 2: all their money here. They weren't able to bring it
Speaker 2: to heaven. It doesn't work. Showing compassion and caring for
Speaker 2: others is costly, But being selfish and being indifferent it's free.
Speaker 2: We're about to end. It's a short story. It's a
Speaker 2: short sermon. It's a short preaching. Verse thirty six, which
Speaker 2: of these three do you think prove to be a
Speaker 2: neighbor to.
Speaker 1: The man who fell among the robbers?
Speaker 2: It was a question post talking about again who is
Speaker 2: the neighbor? Seeing now you neighbor? See no, but again
Speaker 2: cap it behind a nd. Remember it started as a test.
Speaker 2: It started as the expert of the law testing Jesus.
Speaker 2: But now it becomes as testing for the expert of
Speaker 2: the law and the people around Jesus who was hearing
Speaker 2: the story. You know what, The question is not who
Speaker 2: is my neighbor? Okay, they're trying to avoid the responsibility.
Speaker 2: The lawyer asked this question. But the question is not.
Speaker 2: It's not who is my neighbor? The question is also
Speaker 2: not who should I help? Sometimes, after hearing this story,
Speaker 2: after hearing about the good Samaritan, we would say, okay,
Speaker 2: who should I help?
Speaker 1: Now? Who should I help? Now?
Speaker 2: It is easy to talk about abstract ideas and fail
Speaker 2: to help solve concrete problems. Sometimes we get so stuck
Speaker 2: in making ideas, planning, planning, planning, that nothing happens.
Speaker 1: There's no execution.
Speaker 2: We can discuss poverty and opportunities, but without execution, it's
Speaker 2: all talk.
Speaker 1: It's all talk. Faith without action is dead.
Speaker 2: Action without you going through and moving is also dead.
Speaker 2: Verse thirty seven. He said, this is Jesus's answer, plain
Speaker 2: and simple. He said, the one who showed him mercy,
Speaker 2: and Jesus said to him, you go and do likewise.
Speaker 2: You go and do likewise. It doesn't take another strap planning.
Speaker 2: You just go looking at ours society right now, everywhere.
Speaker 1: You go there's person.
Speaker 2: There's one person, at least one person who is needy.
Speaker 2: Maybe inside your home for those who have cassambahi drivers,
Speaker 2: maybe it's in our home, Maybe it's in our villages.
Speaker 1: Are there are.
Speaker 2: Needy people in our under our employment, maybe the guard,
Speaker 2: the barangaitano. There's always as an opportunity to give, There's
Speaker 2: always an opportunity to show compassion. There's always an opportunittunity
Speaker 2: to show.
Speaker 1: The mercy and love of Christ. Now we have to
Speaker 1: move from juty to love, move from juty. Yes, it's
Speaker 1: a calling for us as Christ followers, as a church,
Speaker 1: we're called.
Speaker 2: But then if it's just plain juty, somewhere along the
Speaker 2: way you'll forget about forget about it. You get so overburdened,
Speaker 2: you get so tired. But if you are actually compelled
Speaker 2: by love, the more you give, the more you serve,
Speaker 2: the more you're going to be energized, the more you
Speaker 2: will be refreshed.
Speaker 1: From debating, from planning.
Speaker 2: We have to start doing it.
Speaker 1: It needs action.
Speaker 2: The question should be how can I be a good neighbor?
Speaker 2: How can I be a good neighbor? I know that
Speaker 2: I have been neighbors and I am a neighbor. How
Speaker 2: can I be that good neighbor? Question is how can
Speaker 2: I help?
Speaker 1: Lord? Who's that person I need to help? Lord?
Speaker 2: Why am I in this area right now? Why am
Speaker 2: I still in school? Why am I in this community?
Speaker 2: How can I help? Looking at this story, hearing this story,
Speaker 2: it has inspired so many people to move into action.
Speaker 2: Different compassion ministries were actually born when a person has
Speaker 2: a change of mindset and saw the real meaning of
Speaker 2: this story, not just who is my neighbor?
Speaker 1: But I a good neighbor?
Speaker 2: Put into action in Victory, we have real life foundation.
Speaker 1: Victory has always.
Speaker 2: Put a premium in social responsibility. As I told you,
Speaker 2: it's not a sideline ministry. It's our main thing. Maybe
Speaker 2: it's not noisy, but then again, the Bible said, you
Speaker 2: do not help to tell the left hand what the
Speaker 2: right hand is doing.
Speaker 1: But we do it.
Speaker 2: We have just sent two army truckloads of goods to
Speaker 2: Kagayan through our victory forth for the love in pH
Speaker 2: a Sou.
Speaker 1: You can search your internet.
Speaker 2: That's that glove with pH. Pastor Paolo was there. They
Speaker 2: sent what we call this a chainsaw. They send medicine,
Speaker 2: they send people, doctors going there. It's not publicized, but
Speaker 2: still it is.
Speaker 1: In our hearts.
Speaker 2: We just do it because we're compelled by the love
Speaker 2: of Christ. The way we do this is through the
Speaker 2: Real Life Foundation. Ever since it's in corporation two thousand
Speaker 2: and seven, In Life has produced three hundred and forty
Speaker 2: one university and vocational graduates. But with the three hundred
Speaker 2: forty one university and vocational graduates, you might think three
Speaker 2: hundred and forty one. On Pastor Larry since two thousand
Speaker 2: and seven, three hundred and forty one represents the student
Speaker 2: that went to school, but the family that they have
Speaker 2: touched thousands by the thousands. Our vision, the burden, the
Speaker 2: burden in our hearts that God gave us was to
Speaker 2: make sure that people would get through school. Finish school,
Speaker 2: be discipled and get jobs. Why because that represents hope.
Speaker 1: It's not a doll out.
Speaker 2: We don't build houses, we don't build schools. We don't
Speaker 2: give medical mission, we don't do that. Our calling is
Speaker 2: for the students who are in the school.
Speaker 1: Make sure that they finished.
Speaker 2: School, Disciple them, and that represents hope already for them.
Speaker 1: Their lives will never be the same. Church.
Speaker 2: I need a shift in our mindset right now. Don't
Speaker 2: say that it's insignificant. It's just me one person, No
Speaker 2: one person can change the whole village. One person, especially
Speaker 2: each one of us who are united as one. We
Speaker 2: can change this generation, and this generation.
Speaker 1: Is for the Lord.
Speaker 2: That's why we need to take a hold of it.
Speaker 2: You're not insignificant. Who would have thought that insignificant person,
Speaker 2: insignificant baby that was born on a manger will take
Speaker 2: away all our sin.
Speaker 1: Die for us on that cross and give us hope.
Speaker 1: Who would have thought.
Speaker 2: An insignificant baby born on a manger could do that.
Speaker 2: I remember the story of Lennon, one of our staff
Speaker 2: here who's heading our Seapugan chapter. He was so happy
Speaker 2: one day when he said, you know, one person in
Speaker 2: my victory group accepted Jesus Christ, and.
Speaker 1: He was so juggling that he was so happy.
Speaker 2: A day or two after, came to us and said,
Speaker 2: you know what passionary that person who gave himself.
Speaker 1: Up to Jesus just died. He was shot point blank,
Speaker 1: two shots in the chest. He died. But Lennon wasn't
Speaker 1: actually sad about it.
Speaker 2: He was happy, not because he's dead, but he's happy
Speaker 2: because he knew that there was a purpose, that it
Speaker 2: was timing that he was there and he accepted Jesus Christ.
Speaker 1: What would have happened.
Speaker 2: Have happened if the Gospel wasn't shared to that person,
Speaker 2: he would have died and his life would be in vain.
Speaker 1: But he died, and now he is with Jesus Christ.
Speaker 1: That's what church is all about. That's what church we
Speaker 1: should be doing. Let me end with this poem by Edward.
Speaker 2: As we'd said, I'd rather see a sermon than hear
Speaker 2: one any day. I'd rather one what should walk with
Speaker 2: me than merely tell the way. The eyes a better
Speaker 2: pupil and more willing than the ear find counsel is confusing,
Speaker 2: but examples always clear. And the best of all preachers
Speaker 2: are the men who live their creeds for to see good.
Speaker 1: Put in action is what everybody needs. Let's pray Lord,
Speaker 1: thank you.
Speaker 2: That it is not our circumstances, it's not our bank accounts,
Speaker 2: it's not our status in life that would compel us
Speaker 2: to help others. But Lord, it is because of you
Speaker 2: what you have done on that cross more than two thousand.
Speaker 1: Years ago, when you took.
Speaker 2: All our sins and gave us our life back and given.
Speaker 1: Us our eternal hope.
Speaker 2: Lord, I pray Lord that because of your generosity, of
Speaker 2: you showing us how to love others, now we are
Speaker 2: compelled to love our neighbors and be that loving neighbor
Speaker 2: that we are. Father, I pray Lord that you will
Speaker 2: speak to each one of us and you will make
Speaker 2: us realize that we are not insignificant.
Speaker 1: Rather, we are in a position to change lives.
Speaker 2: We are in a position to change the nation. We
Speaker 2: are in a position to now reclaim the generation for you.
Speaker 1: In the name of Jesus.
Speaker 2: So Father, speak to us, Lord God, and Lord, I
Speaker 2: pray Lord that you will guide our feet to walk
Speaker 2: in love to you will guide our feet to take action.
Speaker 2: And Lord, I pray Lord for genuine as Lord God,
Speaker 2: that in leading. It is your love that compels us. So, Father,
Speaker 2: speak to us now, and Lord, may your blessing be
Speaker 2: upon each in it in need for every five meaning
Speaker 2: Lord God, who are in this space today.
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