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Speaker 3: God and make disciples in your community.
Speaker 2: Our passage, our main texts will today will be on
Speaker 2: Psalm thirty four, verse eight.
Speaker 1: Can everybody uh say this verse with me? One two three,
Speaker 1: go old taste.
Speaker 2: Blessed is the man who trust in him.
Speaker 1: Blessed is the man who trust in him.
Speaker 2: In some version, like in ESV said, blessed is the
Speaker 2: man that takes refuge in him. So whether you're high
Speaker 2: or low, you're you're you're seeking comfort, you're seeking for clarity,
Speaker 2: have refuge in him, trust in him. Okay, don't taste
Speaker 2: and see yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you're hearing it right.
Speaker 2: I know I'm doing this right before fasting. Okay, but
Speaker 2: this is not an allegory. When when when David wrote this,
Speaker 2: it's not pertaining anything. No, it's pertaining to food. Okay,
Speaker 2: he said, oh, taste and see what he is saving.
Speaker 2: What he's saying here.
Speaker 1: Is his is engage all your senses, taste and see. Okay,
Speaker 1: when you see food. When you see food, to fully
Speaker 1: engage it, you have to actually swallow it and taste it.
Speaker 2: At first, when you see food, you just see and
Speaker 2: then you when you come closer, there's gonna You're gonna
Speaker 2: smell the aroma.
Speaker 1: Right of the food.
Speaker 2: But but that's not complete. You can't tell if the
Speaker 2: food is good or not by just seeing and smelling.
Speaker 2: Engaging your food seenses mean you have to put it
Speaker 2: inside your mouth, taste it, feel the texture, and actually
Speaker 2: taste how good it is, and swallow it. Maybe some
Speaker 2: of us you've been.
Speaker 1: In church last year was your bandary year wide?
Speaker 2: Because in twenty sixteen, I've perfected church. How did you
Speaker 2: perfect church, perfect attendance, not only that perfect victory group.
Speaker 2: My victory group leader got laid twice and I did not,
Speaker 2: So I perfected church. That's that's good, But that's that's
Speaker 2: not really good. Engaging full census means you have you have,
Speaker 2: you have embraced, you have embodied the fullness and the goodness.
Speaker 1: Of not church, but of Jesus, of the one that
Speaker 1: we serve.
Speaker 2: When you come to church just for attendance, when you
Speaker 2: come to to to church just just for a checklist,
Speaker 2: check things.
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe you've seen me after services.
Speaker 2: There are some kids who would ask me to sign
Speaker 2: their their Christian living for school, Christian living something for school,
Speaker 2: curriculum for school that I have to sign it.
Speaker 1: I hope it's not for mere attendance.
Speaker 2: You have to taste, you have to see, you have
Speaker 2: to engage the fullness in the goodness of what God
Speaker 2: offers in our church. Whenever tastes and see almost I'm
Speaker 2: always reminded of this picture.
Speaker 1: This is not this is a candid shot.
Speaker 2: It's Tammy did that post this Pastor Dennis, the one,
Speaker 2: the oblivious one on the other side, Mika when she
Speaker 2: was three years old and Tammy.
Speaker 1: It's a candid shot. That that's how she tastes and
Speaker 1: see food.
Speaker 2: She savors, the aroma, she savors, the time, she savors them,
Speaker 2: everything about eating. She's very passionate when it comes to food.
Speaker 2: I remember one time early on when when when we
Speaker 2: became friends and we went to a buffet. I saw
Speaker 2: Tammy in the line and then she approached me and
Speaker 2: asked me Larry Denis. I was kind of frantic because
Speaker 2: I see that tear is starting to roll from her
Speaker 2: from her eyes, and I was wondering, Okay, what's wrong.
Speaker 1: What happened?
Speaker 2: So I approached her and said, okay, what's going on.
Speaker 2: I don't wear Dennis's but what's wrong? And she was like, no,
Speaker 2: I just need somebody to share my happiness. I'm full
Speaker 2: of joy because I'm in this buffet. She's not overacting.
Speaker 2: That's really how she is. When you come to church,
Speaker 2: are you just merely tasting? Take a pic, I mean
Speaker 2: testing lung, take a bitem sat.
Speaker 1: I don't like it.
Speaker 2: I don't like the sound too loud, I don't like
Speaker 2: the video. Jared didn't do a good job. The lights,
Speaker 2: I mean destructs my trying to be spiritual. I can
Speaker 2: fear the Lord because of the all the lights.
Speaker 1: Are just merely trying to taste it? Or do you
Speaker 1: want to embrace the fullness of what this is?
Speaker 2: All of what church has to offer, what of the
Speaker 2: presence of God? We when we come to church, we
Speaker 2: have to realize that it's it's not just for for
Speaker 2: us to listen to take notesice good uh, to take
Speaker 2: a picture of the of the of the slides. But
Speaker 2: my prayer is there's always a response. Is your responsor
Speaker 2: really inching your way closer to the Lord or just
Speaker 2: testing trying smell? Is it feeling the cushion? You have
Speaker 2: to fully enjoy God's goodness. Indeed, you have to savor it.
Speaker 2: You have you have to take time, you have to
Speaker 2: grow into it. And uh and and and I've had
Speaker 2: I have hundreds of pictures of my wife just enjoying
Speaker 2: her time with God. This is this was taken when
Speaker 2: when we had our New Year celebration in Bagyo and
Speaker 2: conchant Hey and and she would deliberately wake up early
Speaker 2: year than any one of us.
Speaker 1: We have a six year old daughter.
Speaker 2: You know, once she's awake, it's all about Lara, Lara, Lara.
Speaker 1: But but my wife would wake.
Speaker 2: Up earlier than anyone just to enjoy her time, just
Speaker 2: to enjoy, just to savor her time time with God,
Speaker 2: time with the Lord. And we hear come taste and
Speaker 2: see it's all about God's goodness.
Speaker 1: And the Lord is good. He is good.
Speaker 2: He is good all the time and all the time,
Speaker 2: the Lord is good. But to be amable to fully
Speaker 2: appreciate this ur text, we have to go to its
Speaker 2: parallel verse in First Samuel twenty one, This is David
Speaker 2: talks about David. But David was actually David. Remember David, right, David,
Speaker 2: the one who killed Goliath. David, the future king of Israel.
Speaker 1: But he's in He's running away. He's scared for his life.
Speaker 1: Saw us after him, Saul and and and ten tens
Speaker 1: of thousands of his men was trying to kill him.
Speaker 2: He's being chased, the future king of Israel. And and
Speaker 2: out of desperation. Out of desperation, he went to God, the.
Speaker 1: City of God.
Speaker 2: Okay, what's what's so significant with the City of God,
Speaker 2: with King Akish there is that this is the city
Speaker 2: where Goliath comes from.
Speaker 1: Remember Goliath, Goliath, the giant that Joseph slain.
Speaker 2: Remember that we may not yes, David, I'm just testing
Speaker 2: you guys.
Speaker 1: The fast Mahagan.
Speaker 2: He went to the hometown of the giant that he's laying.
Speaker 2: What's going on in his mind? I don't know, I
Speaker 2: really don't know. But he was desperate. Maybe it's strategy.
Speaker 2: Maybe it's because I don't think Saul would would would
Speaker 2: ever go there and and and check me out or
Speaker 2: if I'm there, but out of desperation went.
Speaker 1: David heard these comments and was very.
Speaker 2: Afraid of what King Akish of God might do to him.
Speaker 2: So he pretended to be insane, scratching on doors and
Speaker 2: drooling down his beard. While he was there, somebody recognized him.
Speaker 2: Somebody recognized David and told on him out of desperation
Speaker 2: what he did. He acted insane, scratching his back on
Speaker 2: the door, drooling and drooling. Maybe you're in that desperate
Speaker 2: season now. Maybe you're not acting insane. You don't know
Speaker 2: if you're insane, but you're in that desperate moment, desperate
Speaker 2: moment that worries of life, debtors, consequences of sin that
Speaker 2: you've done before.
Speaker 1: Whether you're in that moment or that, what do you do?
Speaker 1: Who do you turn to?
Speaker 2: Do you just simply forget God, his goodness, what he
Speaker 2: has done to you, turn your back on him. So
Speaker 2: David left God and escape to the cave of Adam.
Speaker 2: Soon his brothers and all his other relatives joined him there.
Speaker 2: Then others began coming, men who were in trouble, or
Speaker 2: in debt, or who were just discontented, until David was
Speaker 2: a captain about four hundred men. The context of Psalm
Speaker 2: thirty four is He was writing it inside a cave.
Speaker 2: He got away from the City of God from King Akish,
Speaker 2: went to a cave in Adam and wrote this psalm.
Speaker 1: Wrote this psalm. It's a thanksgiving him.
Speaker 2: It's a thanksgiving song, he wrote inside a cave.
Speaker 1: Are you in that desperate moment?
Speaker 2: Are you right running, hiding or trying to veer away
Speaker 2: from anything?
Speaker 1: What do you do? Do you sing songs? Do you
Speaker 1: ready your arsenal? David just said, Praise God, Praise the
Speaker 1: Lord for you are good. Praise the Lord for your good.
Speaker 2: Verse one said, I will bless the Lord at all time.
Speaker 2: His praise shall continually be in my mouth. He had
Speaker 2: four hundred men in his troops. Instead of rallying them saying,
Speaker 2: come on, we can do this. We can go against Saul,
Speaker 2: we can go again against Akish, he said.
Speaker 1: No, no, stop the war. Worship God, Bless the Lord,
Speaker 1: Praise the Lord.
Speaker 2: Let's stop worship him, be thankful, praise his name, Praise
Speaker 2: the Lord. That's his answer. My soul makes its bows
Speaker 2: in the Lord. Let the humble hear and be glad.
Speaker 2: David said, I bows in the Lord.
Speaker 1: Why because of answered prayers?
Speaker 2: Okay, where's the answered prayers? He's inside the cave. He's
Speaker 2: running for ten thousand men, but saying.
Speaker 1: Lord, you are good always, you are still good. I
Speaker 1: am still alive.
Speaker 2: I was able to hide in the city of God
Speaker 2: when they recognize me, I was able to escape. Now
Speaker 2: in the I'm in the cave. Lord, You're still good.
Speaker 2: Praise be to God.
Speaker 1: When you're in that desperate moment, what do you do?
Speaker 1: Who do you run to? Who do you call? Who
Speaker 1: do you call for help? They call for God, they
Speaker 1: cry for God.
Speaker 2: Is it the only time that you go to your
Speaker 2: Bible and chich hang emergency, break the Bible?
Speaker 1: You open? You only open the case in case of emergency.
Speaker 1: You go to God.
Speaker 2: To know God more, to praise his name, to pray,
Speaker 2: to be able to praise the Lord.
Speaker 1: You need to know him more. You need to know
Speaker 1: his goodness.
Speaker 2: Talking about God's goodness today, talking about how how how
Speaker 2: our lives should should should should should be seen, that
Speaker 2: should be a testimony of his goodness. In Verse three said, oh,
Speaker 2: magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt his
Speaker 2: name together. Inside the cave, he's writing this magnify, He's
Speaker 2: calling out this troupe he's rallying his troop instead of
Speaker 2: telling them make arms.
Speaker 1: Magnify the Lord with me, and.
Speaker 2: Let us exalt his name together. How do you can
Speaker 2: you imagine this? I'm a kid church pastor, so I
Speaker 2: always have an object lession in mind.
Speaker 1: Okay, can you imagine you're inside the cave?
Speaker 2: If this is kid's church, I would ask everybody to
Speaker 2: close your eyes. But can you imagine you're inside a cave?
Speaker 1: Magnify? How do you magnify? It's dark? How do you magnify?
Speaker 1: You can even see anything? I mean, when you move
Speaker 1: to your level, to your right, it's another person's face.
Speaker 2: You don't even have to look there because you can
Speaker 2: smell them. You're inside the cave. Sometimes what we magnify
Speaker 2: in our situations is not God. Most of the time,
Speaker 2: what we magnify is our circumstances. Faster I thought break
Speaker 2: through years twenty sixteen. But still the Lord rejected. The
Speaker 2: Lord did not approve, the Lord with hell, the Lord.
Speaker 2: The Lord won't withhold. It's not for you yet, But
Speaker 2: the Lord wouldn't. The Lord is always good. He is
Speaker 2: always good. What we always magnifie in our situation focus
Speaker 2: is always on us, you know, when you look at
Speaker 2: the magnifying glass.
Speaker 1: There's two things to two sides here.
Speaker 2: When you hold the magnifying glass, when when when you
Speaker 2: hold it close enough, you'll make things bigger. But then
Speaker 2: when you close it's so close to you, you won't
Speaker 2: see anything in You only see your reflection. Maybe you're
Speaker 2: holding the magnifying glass and looking at circumstances. Is it
Speaker 2: it always reflects back on you.
Speaker 1: It's still you, it's still you, It's still us. Magnify
Speaker 1: the Lord, Praise the Lord.
Speaker 2: Magnify who he is, his goodness, his greatness, Magnify him.
Speaker 2: I always think about this, that there's a part of
Speaker 2: us because of how the fraility of us being human.
Speaker 2: It's our finite human wisdom can never fully comprehend God's
Speaker 2: infinite goodness, our finite human wisdom. My prayer is that
Speaker 2: you always seek wisdom for discernment to be upright, but
Speaker 2: it will always fall short of His goodness.
Speaker 1: Of how great a God he is.
Speaker 2: Remember, there's a study by Barner Group in the US.
Speaker 2: Barner Group is a think tank, and one of the
Speaker 2: main obstacles for people to become Christians.
Speaker 1: Is this.
Speaker 2: They always want to answer this, how can a good
Speaker 2: God allow all this evil in the world. This is
Speaker 2: always their question, How can a good.
Speaker 1: God allow all the evil in the world? The question is,
Speaker 1: how can you say that God is good when there's
Speaker 1: evil around you? Have you ever thought about, Yeah, why
Speaker 1: does he allow poverty? Why fast? Or why did he
Speaker 1: allow the breakup of my parents? Why did he Why
Speaker 1: did he allow wickedness or sickness? Why did he allow
Speaker 1: some people to have to live in lack? Why did
Speaker 1: he allow this? How? Why?
Speaker 2: How?
Speaker 1: Why?
Speaker 2: This is my simplest answer to all of you.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't but I'm certain of one thing that when
Speaker 2: he said that when he gives us promises.
Speaker 1: It will come to pass, it will come to pass.
Speaker 2: I know that who that is the God that I serve,
Speaker 2: that he is faithful and he is true. In some
Speaker 2: one verse five, he said, for the Lord is good,
Speaker 2: his tad fast love endures forever, and his faithfulness to
Speaker 2: all generations.
Speaker 1: He's faithful to old you.
Speaker 2: I claim this now in the lives of my children
Speaker 2: and my children's children.
Speaker 1: Yes there will be poverty, Yes there will be there
Speaker 1: is sickness.
Speaker 2: But then I name, I know that God has a
Speaker 2: great plan, that his purpose will prevail.
Speaker 1: That is true to his word. When he promises me
Speaker 1: that he will never leave me, nor forsake me. He
Speaker 1: will never leave me, the forsake me. When he promised me,
Speaker 1: blessing to generations and generations, blessing all the words of
Speaker 1: our hand.
Speaker 2: He will come, he will pull through. It will come
Speaker 2: to pass. Because that's his promise. That is only me
Speaker 2: because I can say that I seek God and I
Speaker 2: want to know God, and I'm knowing I'm living this
Speaker 2: relationship with him.
Speaker 1: Can can you say that? Okay?
Speaker 2: Can you say that? Or you would go back again
Speaker 2: and magnify what you're going through your circumstances. I know
Speaker 2: that I trust him so that he can turn around situation.
Speaker 1: For our own good that he.
Speaker 2: Needs and he wants the best for you and I.
Speaker 1: I remember, I remember what C. S. Lewis wrote.
Speaker 2: We said, God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks
Speaker 2: in our conscience, but shouts in our pain.
Speaker 1: The thing is, when we are so consumed with pain with.
Speaker 2: Me, me me, what what I'm feeling, What what I'm suffering?
Speaker 1: In? You hear your own Christ, You hear your own,
Speaker 1: your own misery, and it takes the place of God.
Speaker 1: Already whispering to you his comfort, his joy, his peace.
Speaker 2: My prayer is that in pain and suffering, we know
Speaker 2: that God is still in control, that we will not
Speaker 2: let go and just succumb to the pain. Not We're
Speaker 2: not just going to go back to our cave and
Speaker 2: hide there and have our own pity party. Romans eight,
Speaker 2: verse twenty eight says, and we know that in all
Speaker 2: things God works for the good of those who love Him,
Speaker 2: who have been called according to his purpose. Again, it
Speaker 2: is about his purpose when you come to church and
Speaker 2: and what you try to seek God. You come to
Speaker 2: church and it's all about you because I need this,
Speaker 2: I want this.
Speaker 1: Church is not for you. It's not a relationship that
Speaker 1: you want with God.
Speaker 2: You're asking like a like God is an atm. I
Speaker 2: do this, I do this for you, So give me back.
Speaker 1: No. Remember, God has given us everything.
Speaker 2: Everything after salvation is already a bonus. He gave his
Speaker 2: one and only son for you and I.
Speaker 1: It's enough.
Speaker 2: It should be enough that He is for you, he's
Speaker 2: not against you, that he's sovereign over your situation.
Speaker 1: He knows what is best for you and I. You
Speaker 1: know Joseph, You know Joseph.
Speaker 2: The dreamer, with with with the with the Rainbow code Joseph.
Speaker 2: He simply just waited when when when?
Speaker 1: When?
Speaker 2: When his brother sold him and sold him to become
Speaker 2: slave in Egypt. And in Egypt, he thought that he
Speaker 2: would he would, he would be okay because he's in
Speaker 2: the household of Potiphar. But then Partiphar's wife tried to
Speaker 2: do something to him that he was accused of of
Speaker 2: of lasting over Partifar's wife. He was put in prison,
Speaker 2: in prison, he was he he remembered the dreams of
Speaker 2: the the fairy.
Speaker 1: He was called. He was promised this.
Speaker 2: He never even had the one bitter word for God.
Speaker 2: But he just simply waited. He knew his time. He
Speaker 2: knew his time would come. So with David, he knew
Speaker 2: all along that I will be the next king of Israel.
Speaker 2: Why am I going through this? Why am i inside
Speaker 2: the cave? I can have a I cannot have a
Speaker 2: kingdom inside the cave. He was not after the promise
Speaker 2: because he has a relationship with the promised giver. He
Speaker 2: has a relationship. He knows God who promise him that
Speaker 2: you will be the king of Israel.
Speaker 1: So I never never did his his his faith.
Speaker 2: Waiver I remember a story from this book Hiding Place
Speaker 2: about Corey and the Betsy tan Boom. There they're they're
Speaker 2: Christians from Denmark, but during the time of holocausts uh,
Speaker 2: they were imprisoned inside the Nazi camp, Nazi concentration camp, and.
Speaker 1: They were assigned to one of the worst German barracks.
Speaker 2: Nazi barracks, full of fleas, no electricity, rarely water, no
Speaker 2: no no uh, no windows, no air inside.
Speaker 1: It's it's horrific.
Speaker 2: Every day Betsy would would Betsy and Corey would read
Speaker 2: the Bible and pray, and they would sing songs. They
Speaker 2: would worship God and pray for each other, pray for
Speaker 2: pray for people there, and sharing the Gospel.
Speaker 1: In one of their morning devotional they came.
Speaker 2: They came to first the Salonian five eighteen, where it
Speaker 2: said give thanks in all circumstances, for this is the
Speaker 2: will of God in Christ.
Speaker 1: Jesus for you. So Betsy told Cory, why don't we
Speaker 1: do this, Why don't we give God thanks for our circumstances,
Speaker 1: because this is the will of God for us.
Speaker 2: Corey couldn't do it. Corey told Betsy, I don't know,
Speaker 2: maybe you do it, but not me. I'm not gonna
Speaker 2: thank God.
Speaker 1: For this circumstances where we are.
Speaker 2: This situation, this this madness where we are. But after
Speaker 2: much prodding, Betsy actually prevailed and and and Corey started
Speaker 2: blessing the place.
Speaker 1: Said Lord, thank you Lord, that you've given.
Speaker 2: Us a roof over our heads, that we are in
Speaker 2: side this camp. Thank you Lord, that we are not inside,
Speaker 2: that we're inside and we're not outside freezing.
Speaker 1: Thank you Lord, even for the fleece.
Speaker 2: I know, Lord, there's a purpose why you've given us fleece,
Speaker 2: So thank you even for the fleece. Sounded crazy, But
Speaker 2: months later they found out why they are still they
Speaker 2: were still alive. Months later, they found out that the
Speaker 2: reason why the guards don't go to their barracks, it's
Speaker 2: because of the fleece. Their barracks was actually infested with fleece.
Speaker 2: That's why they can praise God freely. That's why the
Speaker 2: guards never knew that they had Bibles. That's why they
Speaker 2: can they can pray for each other.
Speaker 1: It's because of those fleas. Now, I hope when you
Speaker 1: look at fleas.
Speaker 2: You would thank God as well before you actually kill them.
Speaker 1: God is good, He's always good.
Speaker 2: It's not about your situation, But it's about him. We
Speaker 2: have to know who this God that we're having a
Speaker 2: relationship with. Verse four, I sought the Lord and he
Speaker 2: answered me and delivered me from all my fears. David
Speaker 2: is saying, I sought him. I seek the Lord and
Speaker 2: he answered me.
Speaker 1: That's why I can praise God. That can even though
Speaker 1: I'm inside the crave, I'm running for my life. It's
Speaker 1: okay because God is always good.
Speaker 2: Because I sought him and he answered me. Have you
Speaker 2: sought after God? Do you seek the Lord? When do
Speaker 2: you seek the Lord? When do we seek the Lord?
Speaker 2: Do you in play and fastening pastor? Because I'm a
Speaker 2: fasting and I want the fast thing to be faster, so.
Speaker 1: I seek the Lord? When do you actually seek the Lord?
Speaker 2: Inside the cave counsands after him Future King of saying,
Speaker 2: I'm certain that God would fulfill his promise.
Speaker 1: I seek him. When God is present in your life, fear, worry,
Speaker 1: doubt exits. It's out the door. It's out the door.
Speaker 2: It's never there's not even a room for doubt, fear
Speaker 2: worry inside.
Speaker 1: If God is present, if you're full of faith, full
Speaker 1: of faith means you don't see it yet, But you're certain.
Speaker 2: That it would come to pass. You know why, because
Speaker 2: I have a big guard and he is good. Because
Speaker 2: I know him, I have a relationship with him. So
Speaker 2: now fear, get out, sickness, worry.
Speaker 1: Get out. God is present. Remember this is almost eleven
Speaker 1: years ago.
Speaker 2: When my wife and I were were praying for God
Speaker 2: to restore our marriage. You know what, we we actually
Speaker 2: didn't undergo any marriage counselors. Okay, we not not a
Speaker 2: single we got separated. Not a single marriage counseling happened.
Speaker 1: None.
Speaker 2: When when when when we talk to our cousins, the
Speaker 2: people who share the Gospel with us, they immediately plugged
Speaker 2: us into a victory group.
Speaker 1: It was a small group back then.
Speaker 2: They immediately established us in word and prayer. And inside
Speaker 2: the church there wasn't There wasn't marriage counseling, one, marriage counseling, two,
Speaker 2: family therapy one, uh psychiatric reward one psychiatric ward.
Speaker 1: None.
Speaker 2: We simply sought the Lord. We continue to seek the
Speaker 2: Lord now. That is the only thing that restored our marriage.
Speaker 2: When we sought God. When we fully intentionally see God,
Speaker 2: seek the Lord, know him, praise his things.
Speaker 1: Those who look.
Speaker 2: To him are ragant, and their faces shall never be ashamed.
Speaker 1: The thing, the thing with us, the thing with.
Speaker 2: The how our mind comprehends stuff, is that we we
Speaker 2: always get easily embarrassed when we do sin. We don't
Speaker 2: get embarrassed, we just do it. But when being confronted
Speaker 2: and coming coming in the presence of God asking for forgiveness,
Speaker 2: suddenly we're ashamed. We turn to a to a small
Speaker 2: dog cowering there. No God is saying, you don't have
Speaker 2: to hide anything. I've known you, I've seen you at
Speaker 2: your worst. What are you ashamed of? I know who
Speaker 2: you are, I know you by name, I know the
Speaker 2: count of your hair, and I know whatever he did.
Speaker 2: And there's nothing we can do can actually make us
Speaker 2: inch closer to him. He knows the very worst in us.
Speaker 2: And when we were there, he took us plainly. He
Speaker 2: didn't wait for us to be clean, but as dirty
Speaker 2: as messy as we are, he took us in. So
Speaker 2: why are we now ashamed? In two thousand and eight,
Speaker 2: I remember it was the first time that me and
Speaker 2: my wife were given a chance to share our testimony
Speaker 2: and how God restored our marriage.
Speaker 1: I wasn't the pastor yet.
Speaker 2: It was in music museum, and we got so many calls,
Speaker 2: so many text messages from friends, families, and then from
Speaker 2: people around us. They were actually apprehensive on us going
Speaker 2: on stage and sharing how God restored our marriage. They
Speaker 2: were actually as embarrassed for us, or they.
Speaker 1: Were they fear or they're worried that something.
Speaker 2: Might happen, or people might not take it. But we
Speaker 2: had peace. We prayed about it, and we knew that
Speaker 2: it was the right moment, it was the right time,
Speaker 2: it was the right venue, it was the right place.
Speaker 1: So we shared the testimony and then and when we did.
Speaker 2: So, because we know that it is for God's glory.
Speaker 2: We know that people would eventually and would see and
Speaker 2: would magnify on His goodness, not on our imperfection. We
Speaker 2: knew all the while that if it's God's calling for
Speaker 2: us to share that testimony, they would.
Speaker 1: Know that we are imperfect.
Speaker 2: But then there's a big God who made us righteous,
Speaker 2: who clothed us, who.
Speaker 1: Gave us that road of righteousness.
Speaker 2: Remember that robe that they put on us to cover us,
Speaker 2: the robe of majesty. It's not ours. We didn't even
Speaker 2: earn it. He just freely gave it to us as.
Speaker 1: Heirs, as sons.
Speaker 2: And daughters, now we are clothed in majesty because of
Speaker 2: His righteousness. That's reminded when to talk about Joseph a
Speaker 2: while ago in Genesis fifty, verse twenty, he said, you
Speaker 2: meant evil against me, but God meant it for good.
Speaker 1: God can turn it around and put it.
Speaker 2: To good, for his purpose, according to his will, according
Speaker 2: to his purposes.
Speaker 1: Verse six.
Speaker 2: This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him and
Speaker 2: saved him.
Speaker 1: Out of all his troubles. Are you in trouble or
Speaker 1: in times of trouble? What do you do? In times
Speaker 1: of trouble? Who do you run to? Who do you
Speaker 1: run to?
Speaker 2: In times when I'm afraid? I seek the Lord and
Speaker 2: he delivers me. When I'm afraid, when I'm not certain,
Speaker 2: I just run to him.
Speaker 1: And that's small thing and big thing, like an assignment
Speaker 1: in church. How to raise up my children?
Speaker 2: We have issue in finances, I would go stay to
Speaker 2: him because I know that he will deliver me. In
Speaker 2: times of shame, yes, they're a shame if he did
Speaker 2: something wrong circumstances, What do you do?
Speaker 1: Who do you run to? How do you cover?
Speaker 2: Do you look for your own cave somewhere and hide there?
Speaker 2: What do you do I'm always reminded that when I'm
Speaker 2: a shame, he took my shame away. Jesus did that
Speaker 2: on that cross. Jesus did that on that cross. He
Speaker 2: took all the shame from all of us. In times
Speaker 2: of trouble, I just simply run to God. Why again?
Speaker 1: Because I know God, and I know that God is good.
Speaker 1: That is good.
Speaker 2: When we say fear and trust the Lord, it doesn't
Speaker 2: mean fear. Go hide in your cave and fear.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 2: Fear is the absence of evil. If you fear the Lord,
Speaker 2: evil is not there, because now I can fully trust.
Speaker 2: Fear is if faith is not there. Fear and trust him. Fear, trust,
Speaker 2: O pay praise him always because he is good.
Speaker 1: As we end. I want to share this story.
Speaker 2: In twenty fifteen, a lot of our staff, around eight
Speaker 2: of them, either staff or spouses of our staff, were
Speaker 2: praying to conceive twenty fifteen, and one after another they conceived.
Speaker 2: One after another, eight were praying, and around seven of
Speaker 2: them conceived. Can you imagine twenty sixteen for us and
Speaker 2: noahula three months, three months, three months. But we know
Speaker 2: that God is good. Some of them those pregnancies were
Speaker 2: actually hard. Some who got pregnant.
Speaker 1: The doctors would tell them you won't get pregnant, but
Speaker 1: still they conceive it. Now they have babies.
Speaker 2: We have actually seven or in new babies in our
Speaker 2: in our staff now.
Speaker 1: But Gay and Mike kept on hoping, and they prayed
Speaker 1: and fasted.
Speaker 2: One baby after another got born, and still they were
Speaker 2: waiting until twenty sixteen when they got pregnant, but then.
Speaker 1: They lost the baby.
Speaker 2: It was it was really hard for them. This story
Speaker 2: could have been good, right if it ended me announcing
Speaker 2: now that they're pregnant, But they're not. They're still waiting,
Speaker 2: they're still hoping, but their faith never wavered.
Speaker 1: Actually, Gilla said that her faith.
Speaker 2: Even got stronger and stronger because she knew that God
Speaker 2: is good and God is sovereign.
Speaker 1: And then and that God is God, she.
Speaker 2: Writes, answered prayer or not, God is still God, and
Speaker 2: God is good. His steadfast love for us is there,
Speaker 2: no matter what, no matter what.
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