WEBVTT 1 00:00:05.160 --> 00:00:09.000 Welcome Just hand Away Tagalog Sermon Podcast, your daily dose 2 00:00:09.039 --> 00:00:12.919 of inspiring from heartfelt tagalog sermons from different pastors and 3 00:00:13.000 --> 00:00:16.120 speakers all over the Philippines. We hope that this podcast 4 00:00:16.160 --> 00:00:17.320 finds you in good shape. 5 00:00:17.640 --> 00:00:22.600 And now here's your message. 6 00:00:23.839 --> 00:00:27.239 Good afternoon everyone, Welcome to our three PM service. Pastor 7 00:00:27.359 --> 00:00:33.000 Francis here, we're starting a new series entitled Perspective. What 8 00:00:33.159 --> 00:00:37.200 is perspective? Perspective is our attitude towards something. It's our 9 00:00:37.240 --> 00:00:40.399 point of view that we can actually receive the same 10 00:00:40.520 --> 00:00:43.079 information but look at it in a. 11 00:00:43.039 --> 00:00:44.960 Different lens perspective. 12 00:00:46.079 --> 00:00:50.159 As we enter this extended quarantine as now the government 13 00:00:50.159 --> 00:00:55.280 has imposed a May fifteen new deadline or a new date, 14 00:00:56.159 --> 00:00:59.520 my question is what is your perspective? How do you 15 00:00:59.560 --> 00:01:03.079 see it? Maybe your answer would be based on your 16 00:01:03.079 --> 00:01:07.719 economical status, demographics, or where you live the condition of 17 00:01:07.760 --> 00:01:11.760 your family and health. We all have different perspectives. But 18 00:01:11.879 --> 00:01:16.959 I believe today as we start the series on perspective, 19 00:01:17.359 --> 00:01:19.959 my prayer is that we will see a different kind 20 00:01:19.959 --> 00:01:24.760 of perspective. That this is the perspective based on who 21 00:01:24.799 --> 00:01:28.920 God is, the perspective of our faith. You know, we 22 00:01:28.920 --> 00:01:32.879 can actually respond two ways in every situation, and that 23 00:01:33.079 --> 00:01:34.280 is through. 24 00:01:34.359 --> 00:01:37.760 Fear or faith? What do we choose. 25 00:01:37.680 --> 00:01:41.599 Whenever we get information, regardless if it's a good information 26 00:01:41.799 --> 00:01:45.239 or a bad information, do we respond in fear or 27 00:01:45.239 --> 00:01:50.439 do we respond in faith? Perspective? As people of God, 28 00:01:50.519 --> 00:01:53.400 we are called to know who He is more and 29 00:01:53.480 --> 00:01:57.319 more so that we can live the right perspective. I 30 00:01:57.439 --> 00:02:00.760 found this quote in the Internet, and it's not all 31 00:02:00.799 --> 00:02:04.719 storms come to disrupt your life. Some come to clear 32 00:02:05.200 --> 00:02:07.920 your path. And so it's the way we look at things. 33 00:02:07.920 --> 00:02:12.039 What is our attitude as we face the life of 34 00:02:12.159 --> 00:02:15.599 crisis or in times of crisis? And this is my 35 00:02:15.719 --> 00:02:18.400 question that I want to answer today as we get 36 00:02:18.439 --> 00:02:22.439 into the Word. How do you see God today? How 37 00:02:22.439 --> 00:02:25.599 do you see God in this situation of our lives? 38 00:02:25.639 --> 00:02:28.199 How do you see God in terms of your provision, 39 00:02:28.520 --> 00:02:31.599 in terms of your health and your protection. We're going 40 00:02:31.639 --> 00:02:34.039 to go through one song for the next three weeks 41 00:02:34.400 --> 00:02:37.319 and this is one of my favorite sound Psalms twenty three. 42 00:02:37.919 --> 00:02:41.000 It's a song written by David And as you prepare 43 00:02:41.039 --> 00:02:43.719 for the Word, please get your Bibles with you. If 44 00:02:43.759 --> 00:02:47.400 you have a mobile Bible, that's good. We're reading from 45 00:02:47.439 --> 00:02:51.280 the ESV version and so this is what we'll do today. 46 00:02:51.319 --> 00:02:54.560 This might be different from how we do our online services. 47 00:02:54.919 --> 00:02:57.800 I want you, guys, to declare it and to read 48 00:02:57.840 --> 00:03:01.360 it aloud as I read song twenty three, because there 49 00:03:01.520 --> 00:03:04.439 is power in declaration. So if you're ready, if you 50 00:03:04.439 --> 00:03:06.599 have your Bibles with you now, if this is your 51 00:03:06.599 --> 00:03:09.039 first time to encounter the song, you can read with 52 00:03:09.199 --> 00:03:14.719 us as we show the Psalm right now, Psalm twenty 53 00:03:14.719 --> 00:03:19.800 three some of David. It says, the Lord is my shepherd. 54 00:03:20.240 --> 00:03:23.639 I shall not want. He makes me lie down in 55 00:03:23.719 --> 00:03:28.919 green pastures. He leads me besides still waters. He restores 56 00:03:28.960 --> 00:03:33.120 my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for 57 00:03:33.159 --> 00:03:37.120 his name's sake. Even though I walk through the valley 58 00:03:37.120 --> 00:03:40.960 of the shadow of death, I fear no evil, for 59 00:03:41.199 --> 00:03:45.560 you are with me. Your rod and your staff they 60 00:03:45.599 --> 00:03:48.919 comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the 61 00:03:48.960 --> 00:03:52.520 presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil. 62 00:03:52.960 --> 00:03:58.000 My cup overflows. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me 63 00:03:58.560 --> 00:04:01.560 all the days of my life, and I shall dwell 64 00:04:01.840 --> 00:04:06.000 in the house of the Lord forever. Lord, thank you 65 00:04:06.879 --> 00:04:10.520 that you allow us to declare your word today. Lord, 66 00:04:10.560 --> 00:04:12.800 allow your word to speak to us in a very 67 00:04:12.840 --> 00:04:17.399 personal way. Lord, give us that right perspective, that godly perspective, 68 00:04:17.480 --> 00:04:22.000 that biblical perspective on how we should face the situation 69 00:04:22.199 --> 00:04:24.560 that we are in. Lord, you are the God who 70 00:04:24.639 --> 00:04:27.439 can speak to us in a very personal way. Lord, 71 00:04:27.480 --> 00:04:31.079 I may be preaching at one text, but it can 72 00:04:31.319 --> 00:04:36.920 minister to every situation that my brothers and sisters are 73 00:04:36.920 --> 00:04:40.120 going through today. And so Lord, do your work in 74 00:04:40.199 --> 00:04:43.439 and to us. Thank you God, that you will anoint 75 00:04:43.480 --> 00:04:47.720 your word today in Jesus name, Amen and Amen. 76 00:04:48.399 --> 00:04:49.920 We are only. 77 00:04:49.879 --> 00:04:53.600 Going through one passage of scripture today, which is Punds 78 00:04:53.639 --> 00:04:57.519 twenty three, Verse one, very rich sound, very rich text 79 00:04:57.959 --> 00:05:02.199 that we can actually have three weeks on Psalm twenty three, 80 00:05:02.240 --> 00:05:05.120 and so we are focusing on the first verse and 81 00:05:05.160 --> 00:05:09.560 it says the Lord is my shepherd, the Lord. It 82 00:05:09.600 --> 00:05:13.879 begins with that statement, The Lord. We know who David 83 00:05:14.000 --> 00:05:16.639 was talking about. It is the God that we serve. 84 00:05:17.040 --> 00:05:19.560 The God that he is declaring during the time, is 85 00:05:19.600 --> 00:05:21.759 the God that we cry out to and pray to 86 00:05:22.439 --> 00:05:23.639 even until today. 87 00:05:23.839 --> 00:05:24.519 The Lord. 88 00:05:24.959 --> 00:05:29.519 When we go through the name of God in the Bible, 89 00:05:29.959 --> 00:05:34.720 especially when we study this text, we will understand the 90 00:05:34.759 --> 00:05:38.000 Lord that is used here from the Hebrew word comes 91 00:05:38.000 --> 00:05:44.199 from the word yeah y hh. Now we spell it 92 00:05:44.240 --> 00:05:46.839 as this way as how I show it in the screen. 93 00:05:47.199 --> 00:05:48.000 Yahweh. 94 00:05:48.040 --> 00:05:51.879 Who is, who was, and who is to come. This 95 00:05:52.040 --> 00:05:56.120 is the God of the past, the present, and the future, 96 00:05:56.160 --> 00:05:59.240 the all powerful God, the King of Kings and the 97 00:05:59.279 --> 00:06:01.959 Lord of Lords, the creator of heaven and earth, the 98 00:06:02.120 --> 00:06:05.399 sovereign God. And this is the God that David was 99 00:06:05.439 --> 00:06:08.759 talking about. When we hear this word yahweh, we can 100 00:06:08.839 --> 00:06:12.560 actually say it, and we can worship the Lord. But 101 00:06:12.720 --> 00:06:16.639 I actually experience this word in a very personal way. 102 00:06:16.720 --> 00:06:18.959 How There's a time that I was preaching in our 103 00:06:19.000 --> 00:06:22.319 five and seven in Victory Greenhills, and I didn't know 104 00:06:22.800 --> 00:06:26.319 that there was one who attended first time to attend 105 00:06:26.439 --> 00:06:29.680 a Christian church and first time to hear the word. 106 00:06:30.000 --> 00:06:33.279 He was actually a Jew. And so after the service 107 00:06:33.319 --> 00:06:36.279 he approached me. He was a foreigner, and he spoke 108 00:06:36.360 --> 00:06:39.399 to me and encouraged me that he got ministered. 109 00:06:38.959 --> 00:06:39.480 By the word. 110 00:06:39.920 --> 00:06:42.639 And then all of a sudden he said, but Pastor, 111 00:06:42.639 --> 00:06:47.680 can I just share something because you actually pronounce this 112 00:06:47.759 --> 00:06:52.839 word wrongly. The right pronunciation is I need to I 113 00:06:52.920 --> 00:06:54.920 need paper and pen to type it so that you 114 00:06:54.959 --> 00:06:55.600 can read it. 115 00:06:55.680 --> 00:06:57.439 So I couldn't get. 116 00:06:58.720 --> 00:07:01.399 What he was saying at first, parago, if you're going 117 00:07:01.439 --> 00:07:04.680 to explain this, abimun Langueba, So I asked him, what 118 00:07:04.720 --> 00:07:08.759 do you mean, Sabina? You showed a name of God 119 00:07:08.800 --> 00:07:12.720 a while ago and you pronounced it wrongly, So how 120 00:07:12.759 --> 00:07:14.600 do I pronounce it? And that was my question? So 121 00:07:14.639 --> 00:07:16.759 I said, can you just borrow your phone so that 122 00:07:17.399 --> 00:07:21.000 I will write how it's properly pronounced? 123 00:07:21.040 --> 00:07:22.240 So I oblige. 124 00:07:22.279 --> 00:07:25.839 I gave him my phone and as soon as he 125 00:07:25.920 --> 00:07:28.319 typed it, he said, this is how you pronounced it now, 126 00:07:31.120 --> 00:07:34.120 and so I go it says yeah, no, no, it's 127 00:07:34.120 --> 00:07:37.000 not that way, and he said, I said, how do 128 00:07:37.079 --> 00:07:40.839 you say it, Sabina. We're not allowed to speak of 129 00:07:40.920 --> 00:07:43.120 this thing. We're not allowed to utter it. We're not 130 00:07:43.160 --> 00:07:45.439 allowed to utter it in public. We can just read it. 131 00:07:46.079 --> 00:07:50.480 And so I realized the Jewish culture until today, in 132 00:07:50.600 --> 00:07:54.319 reverence to this name, they choose not to say it. 133 00:07:54.759 --> 00:07:57.560 That's their perspective of this kind of God, that this 134 00:07:57.800 --> 00:07:58.959 name can. 135 00:07:58.959 --> 00:08:01.839 Be read out to or can't. You can't just say 136 00:08:01.879 --> 00:08:04.560 it or utter anyway you want. 137 00:08:06.040 --> 00:08:09.240 How do we see God today in our lives? Is 138 00:08:09.279 --> 00:08:12.720 it just like that person who is it that he's 139 00:08:12.759 --> 00:08:15.480 so holy, so up there that you can run to him. 140 00:08:15.879 --> 00:08:19.319 We can actually have a perspective of God today that yes, 141 00:08:19.360 --> 00:08:21.920 he's all powerful in that, but at the same time 142 00:08:21.959 --> 00:08:24.959 we see him as an angry God in this situation 143 00:08:25.040 --> 00:08:27.879 of our lives. He is angry and is bringing judgment. 144 00:08:28.519 --> 00:08:30.879 We can see him as a God who is disappointed. 145 00:08:31.120 --> 00:08:34.000 And that's why we hear comments like this from friends 146 00:08:34.000 --> 00:08:37.000 and until today a guy can invite me, oh, I 147 00:08:37.120 --> 00:08:41.600 know a man watch service or join the service, attend 148 00:08:41.600 --> 00:08:48.480 the service, and comments like hey, bahamas preaching Bahama nawaho. 149 00:08:49.240 --> 00:08:52.039 Because this is their perspective of who God is. A 150 00:08:52.080 --> 00:08:55.639 God who is so powerful and that's true, but someone 151 00:08:55.679 --> 00:08:58.559 that they can approach and they can go to in 152 00:08:58.639 --> 00:09:02.039 times of trouble. Some would say, maybe I deserve this 153 00:09:02.279 --> 00:09:04.320 because I've been doing this kind of life and that's 154 00:09:04.320 --> 00:09:07.240 why I'm having a hard time during this crisis. This 155 00:09:07.320 --> 00:09:11.039 is the perspective of how they see God, how they 156 00:09:11.039 --> 00:09:15.919 see Yahweh. But David as the author of this song, 157 00:09:16.639 --> 00:09:20.559 actually gives us a different perspective, a different picture of. 158 00:09:20.480 --> 00:09:22.600 Who God is, of who Yahweh is. 159 00:09:23.320 --> 00:09:26.639 And it says here in our main verse it says, 160 00:09:26.840 --> 00:09:31.240 the Lord is my shepherd, you know, as a king 161 00:09:31.360 --> 00:09:35.960 when he wrote this. This is the most probable time 162 00:09:36.039 --> 00:09:38.000 that he wrote it that he was already a king 163 00:09:38.440 --> 00:09:40.639 because of the description of the song that he was 164 00:09:40.679 --> 00:09:42.960 talking about enemies, he was talking about the value of 165 00:09:43.000 --> 00:09:45.159 the shadow of death. And so we know that he 166 00:09:45.240 --> 00:09:47.759 was already a king when he wrote this. And so 167 00:09:47.799 --> 00:09:49.840 I was thinking, why did he say the Lord is 168 00:09:49.879 --> 00:09:52.759 my king? The Lord is my lord. The Lord is 169 00:09:52.799 --> 00:09:57.399 the one who calls the shots. He chooses to describe Yahweh, 170 00:09:57.480 --> 00:10:02.000 the all powerful God as shepherd number one. We know 171 00:10:02.639 --> 00:10:05.919 that David used to be a shepherd before he defeated Goliath. 172 00:10:05.960 --> 00:10:09.080 He was actually tending the sheep. He knew what a 173 00:10:09.159 --> 00:10:14.759 shepherd really is a shepherd, Why did David call him 174 00:10:14.759 --> 00:10:18.039 a shepherd? Why is he saying that the Lord is 175 00:10:18.200 --> 00:10:21.279 a shepherd? You know, a shepherd's main job is to 176 00:10:21.279 --> 00:10:24.840 feed the sheep. When we say that the shepherd would 177 00:10:24.840 --> 00:10:27.679 tend the sheep, not only does he make sure that 178 00:10:27.679 --> 00:10:31.399 that they are protected, that they are safe Sanila, he 179 00:10:31.519 --> 00:10:34.279 also make sure that they are well fed and that 180 00:10:34.320 --> 00:10:37.360 they are healthy. And so what do shepherds do during 181 00:10:37.399 --> 00:10:44.320 those times with less technology and less properties of studying grass. 182 00:10:44.759 --> 00:10:47.759 What they would do is that they would travel in 183 00:10:47.799 --> 00:10:50.639 a far far place to check the best type of 184 00:10:50.759 --> 00:10:54.639 grass and make sure that they are near a water source. 185 00:10:54.720 --> 00:10:55.320 For the sheep. 186 00:10:55.600 --> 00:10:58.360 He would actually go and make sure that they would 187 00:10:58.360 --> 00:10:59.759 be fed on the right time. 188 00:11:00.200 --> 00:11:01.919 I've heard this study. 189 00:11:01.600 --> 00:11:05.519 That when you put sheep and don't give them space, 190 00:11:05.679 --> 00:11:09.840 they would actually eat from the allocation of the others AI. 191 00:11:10.919 --> 00:11:13.559 And so what do the shepherds do. They actually make 192 00:11:13.559 --> 00:11:15.960 sure that they are they have their own space, they 193 00:11:15.960 --> 00:11:18.360 have their own section of gas, and make sure that 194 00:11:18.519 --> 00:11:21.639 they bring them from place to place to be fed 195 00:11:21.720 --> 00:11:22.600 and to be healthy. 196 00:11:23.240 --> 00:11:23.759 What else. 197 00:11:24.720 --> 00:11:26.759 Not only that this is the things that we know 198 00:11:26.919 --> 00:11:29.919 that the shepherd do, but when you study really what 199 00:11:30.000 --> 00:11:35.440 the shepherd's way is, you'd be amazed that every sheep 200 00:11:35.639 --> 00:11:39.399 or the lamb, the baby ones, they would actually name 201 00:11:39.480 --> 00:11:41.480 them Pina, Pangalan and Palana shepherd. 202 00:11:41.639 --> 00:11:47.039 And every day every night baby they would talk to him. 203 00:11:47.159 --> 00:11:57.919 They would declare Alamo sheep, They declared, you will be 204 00:11:58.039 --> 00:12:06.960 named Matthew, Yeah, tiktokuse Alvi Jason and Korea Jason Dido 205 00:12:07.159 --> 00:12:11.480 Pinapala sheep. It the shepherd would actually talk with it 206 00:12:12.879 --> 00:12:16.080 and The reason why he does this is not only 207 00:12:16.120 --> 00:12:18.639 because he cares for the sheep, is that for the 208 00:12:18.720 --> 00:12:23.720 sheep to know the shepherd's voice. I've seen some virtube 209 00:12:23.799 --> 00:12:27.759 videos where people would try to mimic the voice of 210 00:12:27.840 --> 00:12:31.600 the shepherd. When he would actually call everyone home, he 211 00:12:31.639 --> 00:12:35.440 would say a word and they would actually look and respond, 212 00:12:36.039 --> 00:12:39.200 And so the people would try to mimic the voice. No, 213 00:12:39.480 --> 00:12:42.200 they would modulate, they would try to make sure it's 214 00:12:42.200 --> 00:12:43.919 the same voice, but. 215 00:12:43.799 --> 00:12:45.039 In the end they would not respond. 216 00:12:45.120 --> 00:12:48.080 But as soon as the shepherd says something, they would 217 00:12:48.120 --> 00:12:49.679 actually look and follow. 218 00:12:50.639 --> 00:12:54.320 You know, the shepherd. The way of the shepherd is 219 00:12:54.600 --> 00:12:55.399 living with them. 220 00:12:55.679 --> 00:12:59.799 He would actually be remotely staying with them, walking with them, 221 00:13:00.360 --> 00:13:01.679 and speaking to them in a. 222 00:13:01.720 --> 00:13:03.320 Very personal way. You know. 223 00:13:03.440 --> 00:13:06.080 The first thing that I learned from this song that 224 00:13:06.120 --> 00:13:08.919 I want to share with you is this that David 225 00:13:09.039 --> 00:13:12.440 was saying, The Lord is my Shepherd, was a picture 226 00:13:12.960 --> 00:13:14.360 that the Lord that we have. 227 00:13:15.080 --> 00:13:16.360 Is a very personal god. 228 00:13:16.960 --> 00:13:20.039 He is a god who knows the things that are 229 00:13:20.039 --> 00:13:22.519 going to He's a god who is very personal. That's 230 00:13:22.559 --> 00:13:28.159 why David said, my shepherd. Imagine this today, all of 231 00:13:28.240 --> 00:13:32.200 us know President, all of us know Trump, all of 232 00:13:32.279 --> 00:13:36.279 us know very popular people, but very seldom really know 233 00:13:36.440 --> 00:13:39.919 who they are in a personal level. Very seldom that 234 00:13:40.000 --> 00:13:44.799 people know what makes them happy, or how they move 235 00:13:44.960 --> 00:13:48.120 or how they operate. And what is the difference of 236 00:13:48.159 --> 00:13:50.840 people who know these people and us who know them 237 00:13:50.840 --> 00:13:56.159 from a farm. It's that personal encounter with them. And 238 00:13:56.200 --> 00:13:59.240 the Lord, the all powerful God that we have, is 239 00:13:59.240 --> 00:14:04.840 a very personal god. He knows everything about us. You know. 240 00:14:04.879 --> 00:14:08.000 The Philippines knows what we need today, and that's why 241 00:14:08.000 --> 00:14:11.240 they're trying to make sure that the health facility is ready, 242 00:14:11.480 --> 00:14:14.840 trying to make sure that we have allocation for food. 243 00:14:15.600 --> 00:14:17.879 But in the end, those are the things that they 244 00:14:17.919 --> 00:14:21.600 know for general. But only the God that we have 245 00:14:21.759 --> 00:14:25.919 knows what we truly need. That it's more than a 246 00:14:26.120 --> 00:14:29.480 food for physical health, but it's food for our mental 247 00:14:29.519 --> 00:14:33.519 and spiritual health. He knows every cry of our hearts. 248 00:14:33.759 --> 00:14:37.919 He actually knows the things that whenever we grow, we 249 00:14:38.000 --> 00:14:42.720 hear that Lord alimno Alimanu, the God that we have, 250 00:14:42.960 --> 00:14:47.440 knows us by name. He actually knows everything that is 251 00:14:47.480 --> 00:14:51.879 going through us today. He even knows the things that 252 00:14:51.919 --> 00:14:55.000 we don't know. This is the God that we have, 253 00:14:55.200 --> 00:15:02.960 a very personal god, you know. Jesus also defined himself 254 00:15:03.039 --> 00:15:06.159 as a shepherd because this is who he really is. 255 00:15:06.799 --> 00:15:09.360 In one of the i ams in the Book of John, 256 00:15:09.440 --> 00:15:11.720 he says that he is the good shepherd. 257 00:15:12.279 --> 00:15:13.000 Let me read that. 258 00:15:13.080 --> 00:15:16.320 It says in John chapter ten, verse fourteen, I am 259 00:15:16.600 --> 00:15:21.120 the good Shepherd. I know my own and my own known. 260 00:15:21.759 --> 00:15:26.600 He knows his sheep, and his sheep know him. Jesus 261 00:15:26.600 --> 00:15:30.320 knows everything that is going through you today, the things 262 00:15:30.360 --> 00:15:33.240 that you might need, the things that is going on 263 00:15:33.320 --> 00:15:38.039 in your life, that heartache, that mourning for people who 264 00:15:38.440 --> 00:15:43.639 close to you have passed. He knows every tear, every sadness, 265 00:15:43.759 --> 00:15:46.799 every joy. He is a God who is with us, 266 00:15:46.960 --> 00:15:49.639 and he's a God who is very personal to us. 267 00:15:50.480 --> 00:15:52.320 The question is do we know the voice of God? 268 00:15:53.120 --> 00:15:56.879 Do we consider us a sheep who follow the shepherd? 269 00:15:57.919 --> 00:15:58.080 You know? 270 00:15:58.200 --> 00:16:02.440 David says, the Lord is my shepherd, that he's willing 271 00:16:02.480 --> 00:16:06.799 to follow him because he knows the voice of God. 272 00:16:07.399 --> 00:16:09.759 You know, God wants to speak to us today. He's 273 00:16:09.799 --> 00:16:13.120 been speaking to us. The question is do we hear 274 00:16:13.480 --> 00:16:16.840 his voice as we continue? It says, the Lord is 275 00:16:16.840 --> 00:16:17.440 my shepherd. 276 00:16:17.679 --> 00:16:23.679 I shall not want. What do I want in my life? Today? 277 00:16:24.240 --> 00:16:26.480 When I was studying these text I realize I want 278 00:16:27.279 --> 00:16:30.799 that security that I will have enough food until May fifteen, 279 00:16:31.080 --> 00:16:34.440 even though I don't go out that piece, that I 280 00:16:34.480 --> 00:16:38.320 will not get infected, my wife, my family will not 281 00:16:38.360 --> 00:16:41.240 get infected by this virus, including me, that I'll be healthy. 282 00:16:41.919 --> 00:16:44.120 This is the crime of my heart. Heay, Lord, I go, Lord, 283 00:16:44.879 --> 00:16:45.840 the things that I want. 284 00:16:46.039 --> 00:16:48.840 You know, this quarantine time makes all of us realize 285 00:16:49.120 --> 00:16:51.639 that the things that we want today is different from 286 00:16:51.639 --> 00:16:55.799 the things that we want two months ago, because of COVID, 287 00:16:56.080 --> 00:16:59.639 because of this quarantine, because of this global crisis. I 288 00:16:59.720 --> 00:17:01.919 believe that all of us have changed the things that 289 00:17:01.960 --> 00:17:04.519 we want now. Iba, we know what is important. We 290 00:17:04.599 --> 00:17:08.880 know now what we need, We know what we have 291 00:17:09.000 --> 00:17:10.640 to value, what we need treasure. 292 00:17:11.759 --> 00:17:11.960 You know. 293 00:17:12.000 --> 00:17:15.960 The things that we might want in life change depending 294 00:17:16.000 --> 00:17:19.720 on your situation, depending on the time, the season. But 295 00:17:19.799 --> 00:17:23.440 there's one thing that remains. The provider is the same. 296 00:17:24.440 --> 00:17:29.680 Whatever we want today, the Bible says we can have 297 00:17:29.880 --> 00:17:33.400 everything that we want through Jesus, through. 298 00:17:33.160 --> 00:17:36.759 The God that we worship. He is the Lord and 299 00:17:36.880 --> 00:17:37.599 our shepherd. 300 00:17:39.839 --> 00:17:44.880 I actually went through this research on the different kinds 301 00:17:44.920 --> 00:17:49.000 of versions Bible versions in Psalms twenty ty verse one, 302 00:17:49.039 --> 00:17:51.720 and I want to share with you a picture of 303 00:17:52.200 --> 00:17:55.200 how God is very personal and how God thinks about 304 00:17:55.240 --> 00:18:01.119 our provision. In the NIV version, it says, the Lord 305 00:18:01.200 --> 00:18:05.720 is my shepherd. I shall not lack or I will 306 00:18:05.759 --> 00:18:10.599 not lack nothing. The Message version says I don't need 307 00:18:10.680 --> 00:18:15.039 a thing. The NLT version says I have all that 308 00:18:15.119 --> 00:18:18.279 I need. And I like the last version that I'm 309 00:18:18.279 --> 00:18:21.000 going to share. It's from the easy to read version. 310 00:18:21.599 --> 00:18:25.759 It says I will always have everything I need. That 311 00:18:25.799 --> 00:18:28.160 the God that we have is not only the God 312 00:18:28.200 --> 00:18:34.319 of today. Yahweh is a God of yesterday, today, and tomorrow. 313 00:18:34.720 --> 00:18:37.960 Whatever we needed in the past, he was there to 314 00:18:38.039 --> 00:18:41.319 give it to us. Whatever we need today, I declare 315 00:18:41.960 --> 00:18:44.559 that he will supply all your needs today and that 316 00:18:44.640 --> 00:18:47.720 whatever we need tomorrow he will be there to. 317 00:18:47.720 --> 00:18:51.599 Provide for all of us. The God that we have 318 00:18:52.000 --> 00:18:53.480 is a God who provides. 319 00:18:54.160 --> 00:18:57.880 My question for each and everyone today is this Who 320 00:18:58.039 --> 00:19:01.279 is this person who is provided for you today? If 321 00:19:01.319 --> 00:19:06.799 it's not God, how do you answer this blank that 322 00:19:06.920 --> 00:19:08.920 we're showing to you today? 323 00:19:09.160 --> 00:19:12.359 Blank is my shepherd? I shall not want you know. 324 00:19:12.440 --> 00:19:15.920 Sometimes we fill in that blank with a bank account. 325 00:19:16.400 --> 00:19:20.079 The bank account is my shepherd. It leads me, and 326 00:19:20.119 --> 00:19:23.440 I shall not want for aslam as male a man. Fortunately, 327 00:19:23.519 --> 00:19:26.319 even today we can even access some of the accounts, 328 00:19:26.720 --> 00:19:30.400 or sometimes or some of us are actually depleting the account. 329 00:19:31.640 --> 00:19:36.279 What else It might be our career, this is my shepherd, 330 00:19:36.319 --> 00:19:39.880 this is the way, is the one leading me to 331 00:19:40.119 --> 00:19:45.440 renier pastures. But there's that fear of not knowing who 332 00:19:45.480 --> 00:19:45.960 I still. 333 00:19:45.799 --> 00:19:46.519 Have work tomorrow? 334 00:19:48.759 --> 00:19:51.759 Will my condition change, where my perspective change on the 335 00:19:51.799 --> 00:19:55.680 things I want? Is it still there tomorrow? It might 336 00:19:55.720 --> 00:19:58.559 be our parents who are actually helping us in providing 337 00:19:58.559 --> 00:19:58.799 for us. 338 00:19:59.279 --> 00:20:00.160 How on a bala? 339 00:20:01.519 --> 00:20:04.359 It's good that we get help, But are they are 340 00:20:04.440 --> 00:20:07.599 real provided? Are they the ones shepherding us? Are they 341 00:20:07.680 --> 00:20:10.400 the ones who are making us declare that oil and taio? 342 00:20:10.519 --> 00:20:13.279 For as long as they are there? Is it ourselves? 343 00:20:13.920 --> 00:20:17.279 Do we put our name there as our shepherds? And 344 00:20:17.319 --> 00:20:20.200 the one who leads us to make us not want? 345 00:20:21.000 --> 00:20:24.119 You know the examples I've given you to you today. 346 00:20:25.000 --> 00:20:27.599 That may be our career, or family or bank, how 347 00:20:28.200 --> 00:20:29.759 our even ourselves. 348 00:20:29.799 --> 00:20:30.279 We know this. 349 00:20:30.759 --> 00:20:36.079 It's all fleeting, can actually disappear, can actually run out. 350 00:20:36.640 --> 00:20:39.960 But the God that we have is a god who 351 00:20:39.960 --> 00:20:45.039 will stay until the end, and that the promise is 352 00:20:45.519 --> 00:20:47.599 he will provide for everything that we need. 353 00:20:49.119 --> 00:20:51.359 The Lord is our provider. 354 00:20:51.960 --> 00:20:57.480 Let me repeat that our God is our provider yahweh 355 00:20:57.519 --> 00:21:00.480 Jairah means the Lord will see it through, He will 356 00:21:00.519 --> 00:21:02.079 make sure, he will make a way. 357 00:21:02.440 --> 00:21:04.200 The Lord is my provider. 358 00:21:04.279 --> 00:21:08.240 Declared that right now, brothers and sisters, and to palin On, 359 00:21:08.440 --> 00:21:11.319 we know worship Matt and he is a provider. I'm 360 00:21:11.319 --> 00:21:12.720 going to share with your story of one of our 361 00:21:12.799 --> 00:21:17.359 Victory Group leaders who went through this crisis in a 362 00:21:17.480 --> 00:21:23.279 very personal way because her mom actually got infected by 363 00:21:23.319 --> 00:21:28.480 this COVID nineteen. It was very early, even before the quarantine, 364 00:21:29.200 --> 00:21:32.079 and so a lot of people didn't know how to 365 00:21:32.160 --> 00:21:32.680 handle this. 366 00:21:33.359 --> 00:21:34.599 And so as a daughter. 367 00:21:36.200 --> 00:21:38.799 Who also has her own family, she has also kids 368 00:21:38.839 --> 00:21:43.519 in a husband, she was so consumed about emotionally physically 369 00:21:44.119 --> 00:21:47.960 about how to go about the situation in the hospital. 370 00:21:48.599 --> 00:21:51.559 Boue leman Sean m stayed there. He can't stay. She's 371 00:21:51.559 --> 00:21:54.240 doing it remotely. She doesn't know if the mom being 372 00:21:54.279 --> 00:21:57.519 taken care of. We don't know the success rates yet 373 00:21:57.519 --> 00:22:01.359 in the Philippines. She was so worried and she was 374 00:22:01.960 --> 00:22:05.759 saying this to us because she wanted to share how 375 00:22:05.839 --> 00:22:09.200 God has provided for her because because of too much worries, 376 00:22:09.240 --> 00:22:14.119 because of too much being consumed by the mom in 377 00:22:14.160 --> 00:22:18.319 this situation, I'm sure tied to tile, we will also 378 00:22:18.480 --> 00:22:20.960 forget the other things that we need to take care of. 379 00:22:21.599 --> 00:22:24.680 And so because of that, because they are direct, they 380 00:22:24.680 --> 00:22:27.799 had a direct contact with her mom, they also had 381 00:22:27.839 --> 00:22:31.599 to be quarantine. They also had to be monitored, and 382 00:22:31.640 --> 00:22:34.000 so they were not allowed to leave the house. 383 00:22:34.440 --> 00:22:35.680 But before being. 384 00:22:35.559 --> 00:22:39.400 Locked in, you have to understand she was consumed by 385 00:22:39.759 --> 00:22:42.599 the concerns in the hospital and so when she got 386 00:22:42.640 --> 00:22:44.480 locked in, this is what she realized. 387 00:22:44.559 --> 00:22:49.119 She did not prepare for the quarantine. But because God 388 00:22:49.319 --> 00:22:51.960 is our provider, the cry. 389 00:22:51.799 --> 00:22:54.880 Of her heart was, Lord, heal my mom. You know what, 390 00:22:54.960 --> 00:22:59.720 this is her testimony that food just came in from 391 00:22:59.759 --> 00:23:03.559 friends began to bless them. I remember the husband was 392 00:23:03.599 --> 00:23:06.640 telling me it's the first time they actually received one 393 00:23:06.799 --> 00:23:09.960 sack of rice case they only buy a few. 394 00:23:11.920 --> 00:23:13.480 And provisions just came in. 395 00:23:14.279 --> 00:23:17.200 People wanted to continue to bless them, to support them 396 00:23:17.240 --> 00:23:17.680 with food. 397 00:23:17.759 --> 00:23:18.000 People. 398 00:23:18.079 --> 00:23:21.920 They haven't talked that much people, And this is how 399 00:23:22.319 --> 00:23:25.759 God provides for us to his people. You know, when 400 00:23:25.799 --> 00:23:29.279 God says he is our provider. It's for the things 401 00:23:29.680 --> 00:23:32.640