WEBVTT 1 00:00:05.160 --> 00:00:09.160 Welcome Just hand Away Tagalog Sermon podcast, your daily doseph 2 00:00:09.199 --> 00:00:13.439 inspiring from heartfelt taglog sermons from different pastors and speakers 3 00:00:13.480 --> 00:00:16.480 all over the Philippines. We hope that this podcast finds 4 00:00:16.480 --> 00:00:24.480 you in good shape. And now here's your message. 5 00:00:26.039 --> 00:00:28.839 You were listening to a message from Victory. We hope 6 00:00:28.839 --> 00:00:32.039 it inspires you to honor God and make disciples. 7 00:00:31.480 --> 00:00:32.280 In your humanity. 8 00:00:37.960 --> 00:00:41.439 So today we're going to talk about the graciousness of God, 9 00:00:41.560 --> 00:00:43.399 or we're going to talk about the grace of God. 10 00:00:45.560 --> 00:00:47.640 And grace changes everything. 11 00:00:48.159 --> 00:00:50.560 And I believe God is a message for those of 12 00:00:50.640 --> 00:00:55.280 us here who'd been in church for many, many years, 13 00:00:55.359 --> 00:00:57.520 and for those of you who are here just for 14 00:00:57.560 --> 00:01:02.640 the very first time. So I'm trusting that God will 15 00:01:02.679 --> 00:01:05.280 be the one to apply the word in your heart, 16 00:01:05.920 --> 00:01:09.680 and God will help us have a better understanding of 17 00:01:09.719 --> 00:01:12.879 the grace of God. And it's not just an information 18 00:01:13.079 --> 00:01:15.480 that we're going to get, but I hope it's something 19 00:01:15.519 --> 00:01:18.840 that will become real in our life. So can I 20 00:01:18.920 --> 00:01:22.680 just pray a short prayer before we dive into the word. Tonight, Lord, 21 00:01:22.840 --> 00:01:26.000 we thank you once again for this evening. 22 00:01:27.040 --> 00:01:30.640 Lord. We thank you that Lord, tonight as we hear 23 00:01:30.719 --> 00:01:36.519 your word, Lord, you will apply your word in our heart. Lord. 24 00:01:36.519 --> 00:01:39.159 You said that faith comes from hearing the message, and 25 00:01:39.200 --> 00:01:40.319 the message is heard. 26 00:01:40.159 --> 00:01:41.079 Through the word of Christ. 27 00:01:41.920 --> 00:01:44.400 So I pray, Lord God, there will be a fresh 28 00:01:44.799 --> 00:01:48.599 impartation and deposit of faith in our heart. Lord, I 29 00:01:48.640 --> 00:01:51.000 pray that you will speak to each and every one 30 00:01:51.000 --> 00:01:56.760 of us in Jesus name me pray Amen. You know, 31 00:01:58.280 --> 00:02:01.840 one time I was feeling irritate with my with our 32 00:02:01.879 --> 00:02:04.640 two kids. We have a seven years old and we 33 00:02:04.719 --> 00:02:06.680 have a one and a half year old kid at home. 34 00:02:06.760 --> 00:02:14.520 So one time week so bram uh, it was really messy. 35 00:02:15.800 --> 00:02:18.080 So one thing about me is that I'm not able 36 00:02:18.120 --> 00:02:22.919 to relax yumbay. Sometimes after a long day at work 37 00:02:23.680 --> 00:02:28.560 that was ready, I can't help but but to clean 38 00:02:28.639 --> 00:02:34.199 it up, so I easily get stressed and feeling irritated. 39 00:02:34.520 --> 00:02:35.159 When I went home. 40 00:02:35.840 --> 00:02:38.520 This is what I saw, and I was feeling irritated 41 00:02:38.560 --> 00:02:49.199 at that moment, so as by young wife co and advance. No, 42 00:02:50.560 --> 00:02:53.680 I was all of a sudden, but I'm from a 43 00:02:53.719 --> 00:02:57.080 good day. Now it's starting to be a bad day. 44 00:02:57.840 --> 00:03:01.759 So while I'm at it, I felt like God spoke 45 00:03:01.840 --> 00:03:02.039 to me. 46 00:03:02.879 --> 00:03:06.520 That might sound weird for some of you here who 47 00:03:06.599 --> 00:03:11.000 was here for the very first time, Boss Nilloyd. But 48 00:03:11.240 --> 00:03:13.960 you know, God communicates to us in a variety of ways, 49 00:03:14.080 --> 00:03:17.280 primarily through his word, but not limited to his words. 50 00:03:17.360 --> 00:03:20.199 Sometimes he can speak to us through other people, through nature, 51 00:03:20.319 --> 00:03:24.000 through circumstance, common sense. And but for me, most of 52 00:03:24.039 --> 00:03:28.199 the time, I feel God talking to me by just 53 00:03:28.319 --> 00:03:35.639 that simple uh antahamdan impression in my heart. And you 54 00:03:35.639 --> 00:03:39.520 put megaga inka you're so unsure or alamo indito. 55 00:03:39.240 --> 00:03:40.960 Will nil lord umagan and yongpusumo. 56 00:03:42.520 --> 00:03:44.800 That's why we need to pay attention to the detention 57 00:03:45.000 --> 00:03:49.000 because sometimes that's how God speaks to us. There's attension 58 00:03:49.039 --> 00:03:51.439 in our hearts. Sometimes that's how God speaks to me. 59 00:03:51.759 --> 00:03:55.000 Or sometimes he will drop a thought that I know 60 00:03:55.759 --> 00:03:58.280 it's really from God. It's not random thought, it's not 61 00:03:58.400 --> 00:03:59.879 something I can just shake off. 62 00:04:00.240 --> 00:04:02.120 It's something that is so strong to me. 63 00:04:02.240 --> 00:04:05.039 So at that time, while I was feeling irritated, there's 64 00:04:05.080 --> 00:04:07.759 this thought that came to me, and I felt like 65 00:04:07.800 --> 00:04:10.719 God was saying to me. Instead of you being irritated, 66 00:04:10.919 --> 00:04:13.400 you ought to be thankful that you have two healthy 67 00:04:13.479 --> 00:04:22.079 kids at Homelloyd. You know some people would love to 68 00:04:22.120 --> 00:04:25.439 be in your place right now to have kids who 69 00:04:25.480 --> 00:04:27.959 will mess up their house every day. And so I 70 00:04:28.000 --> 00:04:32.759 was rebuken at that very moment. But instantly my perspective 71 00:04:32.800 --> 00:04:39.439 of the situation change, my mood change so retablica. Then 72 00:04:39.439 --> 00:04:40.800 I started just playing with. 73 00:04:40.759 --> 00:04:43.720 Them and clean it up again as usual. 74 00:04:44.079 --> 00:04:47.879 But you know, I thought about that because in someone three, 75 00:04:47.959 --> 00:04:52.079 our main text for tonight, David said in verse one, 76 00:04:52.639 --> 00:04:55.759 bless the Lord, oh my soul. He was commanding himself. 77 00:04:57.199 --> 00:05:01.519 You know, sometimes it's okay to talk to yourself to 78 00:05:01.720 --> 00:05:08.160 encourage yourself. Sometimes there's no one around to encourage you, 79 00:05:09.240 --> 00:05:14.759 and it's your responsibility to encourage you. Don't wait for 80 00:05:14.879 --> 00:05:18.319 other people to build your faith. It's your responsibility to 81 00:05:18.319 --> 00:05:23.079 build your faith. And so David said, bless the Lord, 82 00:05:23.120 --> 00:05:28.040 O my soul and all that is within me, bless 83 00:05:28.079 --> 00:05:28.959 his holy name. 84 00:05:29.120 --> 00:05:29.959 How can you do that? 85 00:05:30.040 --> 00:05:32.839 He said, Bless the Lord on my soul, and forget 86 00:05:33.040 --> 00:05:35.920 not all his benefits. How many of you know you're 87 00:05:36.000 --> 00:05:40.920 loaded with benefits in Christ? The Bible says Christ has 88 00:05:40.959 --> 00:05:46.519 blessed you with all spiritual blessings, everything that we need 89 00:05:46.560 --> 00:05:48.680 for life and godliness. 90 00:05:48.879 --> 00:05:51.720 What do you need to live for Christ? What do 91 00:05:51.800 --> 00:05:53.439 you need to follow Jesus. 92 00:05:53.439 --> 00:05:57.360 The Bible says God has already blessed you with every 93 00:05:57.480 --> 00:06:02.319 spiritual blessing in Christ. We just need to access that blessing. 94 00:06:03.040 --> 00:06:06.439 It's like you withdrawing money. One time we went to 95 00:06:06.519 --> 00:06:09.959 Japan for a ministry trip and one of the campus 96 00:06:09.959 --> 00:06:13.079 missionaries I brought with me, he ran out of cash. Pedal, 97 00:06:13.120 --> 00:06:16.360 good thing you ATM, you pot pay the international So 98 00:06:16.399 --> 00:06:19.639 he used the ATM in Japan to access his money 99 00:06:19.680 --> 00:06:22.439 here in the Philippines, you know, in the same way 100 00:06:22.480 --> 00:06:25.839 we are here on earth. But the Bible says we 101 00:06:26.160 --> 00:06:31.279 have the ability to access the blessing from the heavenly realm, 102 00:06:31.519 --> 00:06:34.079 and so it's not something we can only tap into 103 00:06:34.279 --> 00:06:35.319 and enjoy. 104 00:06:35.439 --> 00:06:38.839 The moment we die and join together with God. 105 00:06:38.920 --> 00:06:43.480 But even now, as Christians, we can access the blessing 106 00:06:43.519 --> 00:06:45.639 of God. How many you want to access the blessing 107 00:06:45.720 --> 00:06:49.000 of God? And so David says, bless the Lord O 108 00:06:49.160 --> 00:06:53.879 my soul, and forget not all these benefits, because sometimes 109 00:06:54.000 --> 00:06:57.639 just like me at that moment when I saw something 110 00:06:57.680 --> 00:07:02.160 I didn't like that became just the focus of my attention. 111 00:07:03.199 --> 00:07:08.240 All of a sudden, everything fade in the background. Yard 112 00:07:10.399 --> 00:07:16.160 Yama Doman quartunamen. Just because something is not working right 113 00:07:16.319 --> 00:07:20.720 doesn't mean that everything is not working right. So David said, 114 00:07:20.800 --> 00:07:25.240 don't forget his benefits. We have to learn how to 115 00:07:25.399 --> 00:07:31.079 praise God more than thinking and worrying about the things 116 00:07:31.160 --> 00:07:34.040 that we don't have. We need to learn to praise 117 00:07:34.120 --> 00:07:37.240 God for the things that we have and the things 118 00:07:37.279 --> 00:07:40.160 that are working right while waiting for God. 119 00:07:40.079 --> 00:07:44.160 To fix what is not working in our lives. 120 00:07:44.720 --> 00:07:47.920 So I'm sure mamana challenge just a life not in 121 00:07:48.040 --> 00:07:49.839 my mama struggles abouhy natin. 122 00:07:50.720 --> 00:07:53.160 But I believe God wants to change our perspective. 123 00:07:54.199 --> 00:07:57.120 If you are experiencing a struggle in your life right now, 124 00:07:57.319 --> 00:08:01.959 you have two choices or two options. Either you you 125 00:08:02.279 --> 00:08:05.279 beat yourself and be so down and discourage and say 126 00:08:05.439 --> 00:08:07.279 grab you two years now it's the church may struggle, 127 00:08:09.160 --> 00:08:13.079 or maybe you can see that that struggle as a 128 00:08:13.199 --> 00:08:16.120 sign that God is working in your life. That's why 129 00:08:16.199 --> 00:08:19.279 there is a fight. The Bible says we are dead 130 00:08:19.319 --> 00:08:21.519 to our sin. So the fact that there is a 131 00:08:21.600 --> 00:08:25.800 struggle meaning you are alive in Christ. And so we 132 00:08:25.959 --> 00:08:30.279 can either see that as Lord is alive or Lord, 133 00:08:30.399 --> 00:08:36.039 thank you, thank you aheko. Maybe it's not clicking. Maybe 134 00:08:36.120 --> 00:08:40.120 it's not being it's not getting fixed overnight. But I 135 00:08:40.320 --> 00:08:42.679 know if I continue walking with you by the grace 136 00:08:42.759 --> 00:08:45.840 of God, if I continue praising you for what is 137 00:08:46.000 --> 00:08:51.840 working right, then eventually what isn't working you will fix. 138 00:08:53.039 --> 00:08:55.559 So David said, bless the Lord, oh my soul, and 139 00:08:55.679 --> 00:08:59.320 forget not all his benefits. Then David mentioned some of 140 00:08:59.360 --> 00:09:02.879 the benefits we have in God. He mentioned about forgiveness. 141 00:09:03.080 --> 00:09:06.120 How many of you are grateful for God's forgiveness and 142 00:09:09.759 --> 00:09:17.000 so bran, I mean to pace, I'm here now can 143 00:09:17.080 --> 00:09:21.720 you imagine you offending God? And then the Bible says, 144 00:09:21.759 --> 00:09:24.039 if you confess your sins, is willing to forgive you 145 00:09:24.159 --> 00:09:24.879 of your sin? 146 00:09:25.759 --> 00:09:26.039 Wow? 147 00:09:28.080 --> 00:09:36.240 You know sometimes, but isn't a realist my peace knowing 148 00:09:36.320 --> 00:09:44.600 when i'm controversies my peace Lang, That's what the forgiveness 149 00:09:44.639 --> 00:09:48.919 of God brings into our life. Peace with God, the Bible. 150 00:09:49.120 --> 00:09:53.639 And David said, don't forget that benefit. And he talked 151 00:09:53.639 --> 00:09:56.919 about healing, and it's not just about physical healing. Many 152 00:09:56.960 --> 00:09:59.919 times in the Bible sickness is a picture of our sin, 153 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:02.960 and salvation is the picture of our healing. And so 154 00:10:03.039 --> 00:10:06.840 I talked about healing, and then he talked about redemption 155 00:10:07.080 --> 00:10:10.799 and then provision and then favor guidance, renewal. But in 156 00:10:11.039 --> 00:10:14.919 verses eight to twelve, David focused on the grace of 157 00:10:15.000 --> 00:10:19.480 God after enumerating all these blessings, and you can add 158 00:10:20.120 --> 00:10:24.759 into it. So go, yeah, at Munajanyum benefit Neilodian Trabajo, 159 00:10:25.559 --> 00:10:27.919 you benefit neilod young good health care. 160 00:10:28.879 --> 00:10:30.559 You can add to that list. 161 00:10:31.360 --> 00:10:36.000 But after David mentioned some of these benefits, he a 162 00:10:36.120 --> 00:10:41.639 loted five verses of course in Manapeologi nomata chapters and verses, 163 00:10:41.679 --> 00:10:45.639 but he he made an emphasis on the grace of God. 164 00:10:45.960 --> 00:10:49.200 You know why, because all these benefits, really what makes 165 00:10:49.320 --> 00:10:53.320 us qualify, qualified to receive is the grace of God. 166 00:10:54.759 --> 00:10:57.840 You know why we are enjoying these benefits, not because 167 00:10:57.879 --> 00:11:02.519 you deserve it, not because I deserve it. We are 168 00:11:02.799 --> 00:11:05.480 enjoying all of this because of the grace of God. 169 00:11:06.480 --> 00:11:10.879 That's why he focused and emphasized the grace of God. 170 00:11:10.919 --> 00:11:13.159 And that's what I want to talk about tonight. That's 171 00:11:13.200 --> 00:11:16.000 what I also want to focus on, the grace of God. 172 00:11:16.120 --> 00:11:18.799 Everyone say the grace of God. So in some one 173 00:11:19.080 --> 00:11:22.600 three verse eight to twelve, David continued and said, the 174 00:11:22.720 --> 00:11:28.039 Lord is merciful and gracious. Everyone say gracious, just making 175 00:11:28.039 --> 00:11:31.360 sure you're still awake is low to anger and abounding 176 00:11:31.399 --> 00:11:35.480 insteadfast love. He will not always chide, nor will he 177 00:11:35.720 --> 00:11:39.200 keep his anger forever. He does not deal with us 178 00:11:39.200 --> 00:11:43.200 according to our sins, nor repay us according to our iniquities. 179 00:11:43.960 --> 00:11:47.440 For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so. 180 00:11:47.639 --> 00:11:51.159 Great is his steadfast love towards those who fear him. 181 00:11:51.840 --> 00:11:54.080 As far as the east is from the west. 182 00:11:54.159 --> 00:11:57.320 How many of you can imagine that, as far as 183 00:11:57.360 --> 00:12:00.960 the east is from the west, so far remove our 184 00:12:01.080 --> 00:12:06.039 transgressions from us. The sin you've committed in grade one, 185 00:12:07.159 --> 00:12:12.159 in grade six, in high school, in college prior to 186 00:12:12.279 --> 00:12:16.480 your salvation, the Bible says, God separated that from you 187 00:12:16.600 --> 00:12:19.639 so that there will be no trace of your sin, 188 00:12:21.200 --> 00:12:24.879 so that you can have a brand new start. Some 189 00:12:25.039 --> 00:12:28.399 people need to relocate to a new place in order 190 00:12:28.519 --> 00:12:30.799 to be able to have a new life and have 191 00:12:30.919 --> 00:12:31.639 a fresh start. 192 00:12:32.039 --> 00:12:35.399 Some people need to change their face. The Bible says, no, 193 00:12:35.519 --> 00:12:37.919 you don't need to do that. If anyone is in Christ, 194 00:12:38.759 --> 00:12:42.480 he is a new creation and your sin will be 195 00:12:42.519 --> 00:12:43.399 separated from you. 196 00:12:43.480 --> 00:12:48.440 So I want to go through this passage of scripture, 197 00:12:48.519 --> 00:12:51.399 this part of someone oh three and just talk about 198 00:12:51.440 --> 00:12:55.519 the grace of God. And again this is this is 199 00:12:55.600 --> 00:12:58.200 for those of you who are here for the first 200 00:12:58.279 --> 00:13:01.480 time and thinking if there is a place for me. 201 00:13:03.240 --> 00:13:05.919 In the faith or in the family of God, and 202 00:13:06.039 --> 00:13:10.000 for those of us who are Christians already. So first 203 00:13:10.080 --> 00:13:10.639 one in. 204 00:13:10.799 --> 00:13:17.240 Verse eight, David said that God is gracious, slow to anger, 205 00:13:18.159 --> 00:13:21.279 in abounding, in steadfast love. I want to talk about 206 00:13:21.399 --> 00:13:25.879 his persistent grace, persistent grace, the. 207 00:13:26.080 --> 00:13:27.440 Nature of God's grace. 208 00:13:29.320 --> 00:13:33.559 One thing we need to do know and understand better 209 00:13:33.799 --> 00:13:39.519 is this persistence, the persistent grace of God. The reason 210 00:13:39.559 --> 00:13:43.360 you are here today is because God did not quit 211 00:13:43.759 --> 00:13:44.559 or give up on you. 212 00:13:45.759 --> 00:13:51.799 He was persistent. It's my eldest sister who got saved 213 00:13:52.360 --> 00:13:54.480 first in the family where a family of eight. I'm 214 00:13:54.519 --> 00:13:55.080 the youngest. 215 00:13:56.279 --> 00:13:59.240 When she got saved, I was a high school student, 216 00:13:59.240 --> 00:14:02.200 first year high school. Only when I was in my 217 00:14:02.360 --> 00:14:06.279 third year in college, seven long years before I surrendered 218 00:14:06.360 --> 00:14:10.200 my life to Jesus. So my family member Puio, it's taking, 219 00:14:10.639 --> 00:14:13.960 you know, really a bit long. You're praying, you're fasting, 220 00:14:14.039 --> 00:14:18.080 you're sharing the gospel to take effect. Believe me, the 221 00:14:18.240 --> 00:14:22.440 persistent grace of God is working in their life. That 222 00:14:22.559 --> 00:14:26.919 something's happening. And that's the nature of God. And not 223 00:14:27.120 --> 00:14:28.360 only for people who. 224 00:14:28.240 --> 00:14:30.039 Are far away from God, but even us. 225 00:14:30.960 --> 00:14:35.000 You know, I'm thankful because mes and guides Christian attaio 226 00:14:35.320 --> 00:14:37.320 I meany of you know, sometimes we still have the 227 00:14:37.759 --> 00:14:42.200 propensity or the tendency to sin against God. We have 228 00:14:42.360 --> 00:14:45.799 this tendency to persist in our own way and not 229 00:14:45.919 --> 00:14:46.519 obey God. 230 00:14:48.080 --> 00:14:53.519 The Lord is slow to angry. NDI a gagalitis patient. 231 00:14:55.360 --> 00:14:55.480 You know. 232 00:14:55.600 --> 00:15:00.159 I read the story of a donor from Jodson who 233 00:15:00.240 --> 00:15:05.480 was the first Protestant missionary to Burma from North America. 234 00:15:05.559 --> 00:15:07.679 The age of twenty five. He was sent to Burma 235 00:15:08.480 --> 00:15:12.000 and he served there for almost forty years. It took 236 00:15:12.120 --> 00:15:16.039 him seven years before he had his first convert So 237 00:15:16.200 --> 00:15:20.279 seven years like we preach Machi Sharian gospel nakipak building 238 00:15:20.279 --> 00:15:25.480 non relationship, seven years before one person surrendered his life 239 00:15:25.519 --> 00:15:30.039 to Jesus. So young Mershang local church in North America 240 00:15:30.080 --> 00:15:33.879 who was sending support and they're thinking fruitful by young 241 00:15:33.919 --> 00:15:34.960 work not in Saburma. 242 00:15:35.720 --> 00:15:36.759 Are we wasting fun? 243 00:15:36.960 --> 00:15:40.279 Should we transfer it to another missionary and another nation? 244 00:15:40.639 --> 00:15:45.399 And here's what Adnorum Jodson wrote back to the local church. 245 00:15:46.320 --> 00:15:48.679 His own church is that beg the church as to 246 00:15:48.759 --> 00:15:53.039 have patients tell the brethren. Success is as certain as 247 00:15:53.120 --> 00:15:58.399 the promise of a faithful God can make it Sourcia 248 00:15:59.080 --> 00:16:03.120 to hunting. Payam Mama, bros. We're going to see a 249 00:16:03.200 --> 00:16:04.720 great harvest in this place. 250 00:16:04.759 --> 00:16:05.200 And guess what. 251 00:16:05.600 --> 00:16:09.679 There's a lot of Christians in Burma today. And as 252 00:16:09.759 --> 00:16:12.399 I read that story, I think about God. That's a 253 00:16:12.519 --> 00:16:18.480 picture of God to us persistence. We did not find God. 254 00:16:18.600 --> 00:16:21.440 It's God who came to seek and to save the laws. 255 00:16:22.759 --> 00:16:30.960 In the Lord. He came here on earth, became a 256 00:16:31.080 --> 00:16:32.519 man just like us. 257 00:16:32.639 --> 00:16:36.120 He wore our clothes and ate our food and lived 258 00:16:36.159 --> 00:16:40.240 among us, so we can identify with him. 259 00:16:41.759 --> 00:16:43.320 He went to the cross for you and me. 260 00:16:43.440 --> 00:16:47.519 One time, Pastor Joey was telling us the story when 261 00:16:47.679 --> 00:16:53.000 he was walking around inside their village Kasamapuyan dog Nila. 262 00:16:54.320 --> 00:16:57.080 That was happened again. 263 00:16:58.000 --> 00:17:00.759 He felt like God was speaking to him at that time, 264 00:17:02.000 --> 00:17:14.000 thought that's me Ma question Lord in the Maman. 265 00:17:14.079 --> 00:17:26.400 Lord Joey was a doctor, an a man. 266 00:17:27.200 --> 00:17:36.839 The last question, Mambai to the point and whiling are. 267 00:17:34.720 --> 00:17:38.000 You willing to be to become a dog like your dog, 268 00:17:38.519 --> 00:17:41.440 so you can be more close. Are you willing to 269 00:17:41.480 --> 00:17:45.759 eat the food that your dog is eating? At that point, 270 00:17:45.839 --> 00:17:47.599 I have been the Lord Lloyd La. 271 00:17:49.799 --> 00:17:54.200 Even withsa wheeling Mahona, but not to the to that level. 272 00:17:55.480 --> 00:17:55.640 Man. 273 00:17:55.720 --> 00:17:59.559 It's amazing for me to think until today that a 274 00:17:59.680 --> 00:18:02.920 great God would come to our level, go to our level. 275 00:18:03.359 --> 00:18:06.279 The Bible says He's took down to make us great. 276 00:18:07.519 --> 00:18:11.519 He's persistent, and because of that, the grace of God 277 00:18:11.640 --> 00:18:15.599 made it possible for us to have a relationship with 278 00:18:15.720 --> 00:18:18.839 God and to enjoy all the benefits something of you 279 00:18:18.880 --> 00:18:24.559 are grateful for the persistent grace of God. Thank you Lord, 280 00:18:26.640 --> 00:18:31.680 until today the Lagan Lord boutin Alan. You know I 281 00:18:31.759 --> 00:18:35.359 still commit mistakes, bad decisions from time to time. 282 00:18:35.400 --> 00:18:39.799 I'm stubborn. But Lord, I thank you that you are patient. 283 00:18:40.680 --> 00:18:43.319 You know. In tewod Peter chapter three, verse nine, the 284 00:18:43.400 --> 00:18:45.640 Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise, as some 285 00:18:45.839 --> 00:18:49.400 count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that 286 00:18:49.519 --> 00:18:54.640 any should perish, but that all should reach repentance Verse two, 287 00:18:54.880 --> 00:18:56.839 romans to verse four. Or do you presume on the 288 00:18:56.960 --> 00:18:57.559 richness of his. 289 00:18:57.680 --> 00:19:01.640 Kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that God's kindness 290 00:19:01.799 --> 00:19:06.039 is meant to lead you to repentance. Some people think 291 00:19:06.160 --> 00:19:09.000 that they're getting away with their sin, or maybe God 292 00:19:09.119 --> 00:19:11.960 is tolerating their sin or approving of their wrongdoing. 293 00:19:12.039 --> 00:19:13.920 No, no, no, no. The Bible says God is not 294 00:19:14.079 --> 00:19:18.039 approving you're wrongdoing. God is not tolerating your sin. Maybe 295 00:19:18.079 --> 00:19:18.839 you're thinking. 296 00:19:21.480 --> 00:19:27.960 Healthbaman, finances. Not because God is tolerating. God is trying 297 00:19:28.039 --> 00:19:32.440 to stretch his patience, and the purpose of that patience 298 00:19:33.039 --> 00:19:36.519 is for us to realize that we are going the 299 00:19:36.599 --> 00:19:39.559 wrong way, so that we are going to make a 300 00:19:39.680 --> 00:19:41.559 youth turn and return to Him. 301 00:19:42.559 --> 00:19:44.880 And maybe for some of us here today that is 302 00:19:45.039 --> 00:19:48.839 God's word for you. He's trying his best to stretch 303 00:19:48.960 --> 00:19:54.440 the patience. You know. Sometimes the judgment of God is 304 00:19:54.599 --> 00:20:00.759 letting us have what we are fighting to have. 305 00:20:03.359 --> 00:20:07.799 Para daughter because one time, for guess you go five 306 00:20:07.799 --> 00:20:10.279 six years old, come hangam as a Japanese restaurant. 307 00:20:11.839 --> 00:20:18.920 Was Abbi, Can you become Upi and wife my wisdom 308 00:20:20.960 --> 00:20:21.200 on mo? 309 00:20:23.079 --> 00:20:29.759 But since then never touch was Abi. You know, sometimes 310 00:20:29.839 --> 00:20:33.640 the judgment of God is letting us have what we want. 311 00:20:35.519 --> 00:20:38.759 But God's is patient Okay, tell the person say the 312 00:20:38.799 --> 00:20:43.880 next to you, God is patient with YOUNILRD say you, 313 00:20:45.599 --> 00:20:50.839 God is so patient with you. Praise God number two 314 00:20:51.440 --> 00:20:54.599 or second. God's grace is extravagant. 315 00:20:55.440 --> 00:20:58.640 I like this. God's grace is extravagant. 316 00:21:00.400 --> 00:21:02.759 Now some people use the grace of God is a 317 00:21:02.880 --> 00:21:08.599 license to sin, and by it the Lord extravagant grace. 318 00:21:08.680 --> 00:21:13.559 When you say extravagant, it's unreasonable. It doesn't make sense. 319 00:21:15.519 --> 00:21:18.319 Sometimes you will look at a person and you just 320 00:21:18.440 --> 00:21:23.880 know this person is not living right with God. Yet 321 00:21:24.640 --> 00:21:29.240 God is continually blessing them. Unreasonable grace. 322 00:21:30.559 --> 00:21:35.240 Lavish in tagalog labbyist labbists, and grace the Lord. 323 00:21:38.759 --> 00:21:39.599 There are Sometimes. 324 00:21:42.720 --> 00:21:50.680 Grace is extravagant, it's over indulgent. Chemist, be a prospered 325 00:21:50.720 --> 00:21:54.720 parishion e Lord. You know, prosperity is never a good 326 00:21:54.839 --> 00:21:58.880 gauge whether somebody is in God's will or not. No, 327 00:22:00.119 --> 00:22:04.240 because God, the Bible says David said, he does not 328 00:22:04.599 --> 00:22:08.000 deal with us according to our sins. He do not 329 00:22:08.599 --> 00:22:10.640 nor repay us according to our iniquities. 330 00:22:12.799 --> 00:22:17.000 The dealings of God with us is never equal to 331 00:22:17.640 --> 00:22:19.279 our obedience to him. 332 00:22:20.519 --> 00:22:25.759 How many of you know or experience Now you had shortcomings, 333 00:22:27.039 --> 00:22:32.599 you sind yet God blessed you anyway. I have so 334 00:22:32.799 --> 00:22:37.079 many testimonies of that, the extravagant grace of God. You 335 00:22:37.200 --> 00:22:40.440 know the result of that, if we understand, it makes 336 00:22:40.519 --> 00:22:46.839 us humble, low Apa. It's never really about my accounting skill, 337 00:22:46.960 --> 00:22:49.400 my strategy, my ability to plan. 338 00:22:49.799 --> 00:22:52.799 It's not really my perfect execution. 339 00:22:53.200 --> 00:22:58.440 No, who you are today, what you have today, and 340 00:22:58.599 --> 00:23:01.400 where you are today, it's all by the grace of God. 341 00:23:03.079 --> 00:23:06.440 Because if God dealt with us according to our sins, 342 00:23:07.160 --> 00:23:10.720 we will not be here today. And it's always good. 343 00:23:10.759 --> 00:23:13.160 It makes us humble, but at the same time it 344 00:23:13.319 --> 00:23:19.359 makes us hopeful, especially when we fail. And how many 345 00:23:19.400 --> 00:23:25.000 of you would confess that sometimes you still fail. Cannot 346 00:23:25.000 --> 00:23:27.279 alag a grace longdon the Lord can say, well, among 347 00:23:27.319 --> 00:23:36.000 perfect hapening, perfect is fake. There's no such thing as perfect. Okay, 348 00:23:37.519 --> 00:23:53.000 always a because Latin issue. We all have issues. That's 349 00:23:53.039 --> 00:23:55.279 why we're all. We all need the grace of God. 350 00:23:56.400 --> 00:23:59.400 We're all dependent on the grace of God. That's why 351 00:23:59.480 --> 00:24:03.160 we cannot bose before God or other people. It makes 352 00:24:03.200 --> 00:24:05.880 us humble, but it makes us hopeful. I remember the 353 00:24:06.000 --> 00:24:10.319 story of the woman caught in adultery. She was dragged 354 00:24:10.359 --> 00:24:13.920 to the street. She was she was put to shame 355 00:24:15.279 --> 00:24:22.160 in in in broad daylight Bible early morning was no, no, no. 356 00:24:22.880 --> 00:24:25.960 Then she was brought before Jesus, who was doing a 357 00:24:26.039 --> 00:24:29.319 Bible study at the time. Ablalloyd, I don't gonna go 358 00:24:29.400 --> 00:24:33.039 in detos amosis. Anyone caught in adultery should be stoned 359 00:24:33.079 --> 00:24:38.799 to death. We caught this woman. Jesus did not say anything. Instead, 360 00:24:39.400 --> 00:24:43.319 he stooped down and wrote to the ground with his finger, 361 00:24:44.759 --> 00:24:55.119 slais does a girl, Jesus, and I'm saying this woman 362 00:24:55.279 --> 00:24:58.839 was caught in adultery. It said in our law anyone 363 00:24:58.920 --> 00:25:01.160 caught in adultery should be stone to death. And so 364 00:25:01.319 --> 00:25:05.839 the woman was there crying, I'm just guessing talagan hallo 365 00:25:05.960 --> 00:25:09.359 hallouna he ah paho. 366 00:25:09.680 --> 00:25:15.319 I mean all of that in one day. Her life 367 00:25:16.400 --> 00:25:20.960 was just in a complete mess. So here's what Jesus did. 368 00:25:21.880 --> 00:25:25.440 Stood up and then said, anyone who's not guilty of 369 00:25:25.559 --> 00:25:28.319 any sin, let him be the first one to throw 370 00:25:28.640 --> 00:25:32.640 a stone this woman. Then after that, the Bible says 371 00:25:32.680 --> 00:25:33.880 he's took down again. 372 00:25:33.920 --> 00:25:35.839 And wrote something on the ground with his finger. 373 00:25:35.960 --> 00:25:39.000 Now there are three theories what he wrote, because it's 374 00:25:39.039 --> 00:25:40.440 what was never mentioned in the Bible. 375 00:25:40.519 --> 00:25:43.759 First one is that Jesus do the second. 376 00:25:44.799 --> 00:25:50.039 Some were saying that he wrote Bible verses that relates 377 00:25:50.079 --> 00:25:51.000 to the situation. 378 00:25:51.799 --> 00:25:52.839 But I like the third one. 379 00:25:53.559 --> 00:25:56.880 The third one, And here's the theory that Jesus took 380 00:25:56.920 --> 00:25:59.400 down and then wrote with his finger on the ground 381 00:25:59.440 --> 00:26:01.880 and started writing, by one by one the names of 382 00:26:01.960 --> 00:26:06.680 the people there, and opposite the name is writing their sin. 383 00:26:08.160 --> 00:26:11.839 Joe Ash last Saturday. 384 00:26:13.920 --> 00:26:16.519 The Bible says, one by one, starting with the older ones, 385 00:26:16.960 --> 00:26:25.880 they went away, you see Mahamada, Robert last. 386 00:26:25.720 --> 00:26:31.799 Full thoughts with Michael's wife. Robert left, Michael followed so 387 00:26:31.920 --> 00:26:33.519 one by one, adam so much. 388 00:26:35.680 --> 00:26:38.480 Land, until it was Jesus and the woman who was left. 389 00:26:39.000 --> 00:26:43.559 And then Jesus said, where's your accuser? The woman said. 390 00:26:46.559 --> 00:26:49.000 Jesus said, woman, where are they? As no one condemned you? 391 00:26:49.119 --> 00:26:54.559 She said, no one, Lord. Maybe she's still shocked, don't 392 00:26:54.599 --> 00:26:58.440 know what to do, don't know what to say. And Jesus, 393 00:26:58.519 --> 00:27:03.240 who had the right to stone her to death, to 394 00:27:03.400 --> 00:27:09.000 condemn her, did not condemn her. Instead, Jesus said, neither 395 00:27:09.079 --> 00:27:14.039 do I condemn you. Go and from now on say 396 00:27:14.160 --> 00:27:22.039 no more. Instead of condemning her, God restored her. Jesus 397 00:27:22.559 --> 00:27:25.799 gave her the opportunity to start all over again. The 398 00:27:25.880 --> 00:27:28.319 Bible says Jesus did not come to condemn us, but 399 00:27:28.440 --> 00:27:31.680 to save us. So every time you hear that voice 400 00:27:31.720 --> 00:27:35.160 condemning you, samasamam or plastica. 401 00:27:38.440 --> 00:27:42.240