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Speaker 2: You're listening to a message from Victory. God's character, commandments
Speaker 2: and promised blessings do not change. Discover more about this
Speaker 2: truth in week three of our series remember this.
Speaker 3: Let's start this week with Malachai thri verse one and said, behold,
Speaker 3: I sent my messenger, and he will prepare the way
Speaker 3: before me, and the Lord whom you seek will suddenly
Speaker 3: come to this temple. The messenger there talk us about
Speaker 3: John the Baptists. It is very strategic. The prophet Malachi
Speaker 3: is saying, there will be a messenger in the person
Speaker 3: of John. He's reminded me people, okay, he's just a messenger,
Speaker 3: but then the Messiah would come. And then he's asking,
Speaker 3: are you seeking that Lord? Are you seeking that Lord?
Speaker 3: Is that you're looking for? Maybe you're so you're so
Speaker 3: focused right now on the what I don't have. I
Speaker 3: want this. I hope I have this office made a blessed,
Speaker 3: my promise, open a man Christian as kids. Nasana Nasana
Speaker 3: Malaki actually referred this to how they build the temple
Speaker 3: eighty years eight years after Zacharayah and Hagai promised the
Speaker 3: building of the temple because the Lord said, when you
Speaker 3: build a temple, his glory will be there. But then
Speaker 3: they're asking where is God's glory? Not even his glory
Speaker 3: is there. There's no manifestation of God's glory. Though God
Speaker 3: was certainly alive and well. It was a period where
Speaker 3: God's people was waiting, waiting, waiting Are you in this
Speaker 3: season right now? That is like a waiting game. It's
Speaker 3: like your your faith is being tested. Now you know
Speaker 3: that faith is not by sight really a waiting game.
Speaker 3: It's it is a waiting game. It is a waiting gay.
Speaker 3: Unlike the where the Golden State Warriors fan, Lakers fan
Speaker 3: Lakers fan, unlike any of those games. We know this endgame.
Speaker 3: We know the endgame of our relationship with God. Jesus
Speaker 3: is victorious. He was hanged on the cross, died peers
Speaker 3: by all our transgressions, but then after three days he
Speaker 3: lived and now seated at the right kind of God.
Speaker 3: This is a different game. Yes, we're waiting but we
Speaker 3: know the endgame? Right? Are we living a victorious life?
Speaker 3: Do people see victory in us? Or they only see
Speaker 3: victory in us? Because may stay r TiO, may post dio.
Speaker 3: I'm in victory. Green is now listening to the most
Speaker 3: handsome pastor in that church, young Victoria style. But in
Speaker 3: our lives it's not actually being seen. Hebrews eleven, verse
Speaker 3: one said faith is confidence in what we hope for
Speaker 3: and assurance about what we do not see, what we
Speaker 3: don't see. You have thirty six days Christmas is here,
Speaker 3: the years about to end. Lord doesign your promis? And yeah,
Speaker 3: h Lord, Lord, what do you do? Let me post
Speaker 3: this question? What do we do? All of us? What
Speaker 3: do we do? If your present situation is far from promising?
Speaker 3: It's far from promising. You know that you have a promise,
Speaker 3: that God has a promise for you, But what do
Speaker 3: you do? How are you doing? How are we doing?
Speaker 3: In Malachi three, verse six said here for I the Lord,
Speaker 3: do not change. Everybody say do not change for God
Speaker 3: does not change for eye the Lord. Do not change
Speaker 3: for eye the Lord for eye the Lord. That's very big,
Speaker 3: that's an awesome statement, pointing to a fact that I
Speaker 3: am your creator. God says, I hold everything together for you. Hey,
Speaker 3: I am the Alpha and the Omega. I know you,
Speaker 3: I know the count of your hair. I am God,
Speaker 3: and guess what you are. If he's God, we are not.
Speaker 3: That's a fact. That's a statement of a fact. There.
Speaker 3: That he is Lord means pa. See Lord did Babago
Speaker 3: tae you and Madeles Macbago. He does not change. That's
Speaker 3: his character. When we talk about character, we talk about
Speaker 3: he's unchanging his characters is immutability. Immutability means this. This
Speaker 3: actually is the hinge for all of his character because
Speaker 3: he is unchanging God. God is unchanging in his character,
Speaker 3: in his will and covenant promises. If we are we,
Speaker 3: if our faith is only by sight promise. I was
Speaker 3: talking to a a mom and and and this mom
Speaker 3: is going to something in the hospital and then men,
Speaker 3: so I was asking, I was asking her do you
Speaker 3: want do you want another kid? He has she has
Speaker 3: two sons, And I was asking, do you want another
Speaker 3: another kid? Do you want a daughter? Well? Helanda man
Speaker 3: can willia Lord ok ann. But it's different when you
Speaker 3: know that your sons and daughters and you claim those
Speaker 3: will that it's unchanging because he's not well. I'm going
Speaker 3: to this operation. And now, Lord, do you want to
Speaker 3: have a daughter, And she said, yes, I do, but
Speaker 3: depending on WILLI Lord? No, no, no, no, no no no.
Speaker 3: I kept on insisting, do you want to have a daughter, yes,
Speaker 3: Why don't you claim it? Why don't you pray for it?
Speaker 3: The willing Lord? Yes, Malam, you will the Lord. But
Speaker 3: it's different when we know who we talk about it.
Speaker 3: It's it talks about a relationship. It talks about a relationship.
Speaker 3: God sees what's inside our hearts. He said, for I
Speaker 3: the Lord, immutable, unchanging, Okay, immutable. What comes to mind
Speaker 3: is x men, x men and x men mutants. They
Speaker 3: can become a different Parcelona. Not only that, some can
Speaker 3: turn evil and then some can turn good. Not God,
Speaker 3: He's not changing, no matter what your situation, no matter
Speaker 3: what our situation is right now, He does not change.
Speaker 3: He does not change. He is not hinged on the
Speaker 3: situation that we are in our faith. Sometimes because we
Speaker 3: don't have a relationship we got, we don't have a
Speaker 3: deep relationship, we don't have a strong relationship with God.
Speaker 3: It hinges on situations. But God does not change. Tire
Speaker 3: you on tire. You ever changing, because see God unchanging,
Speaker 3: We as humans sometimes are ever changing depending on situations.
Speaker 3: In David says in Some one O two says, here
Speaker 3: of all you lay the foundation of the earth, and
Speaker 3: the heavens are the work of your hands.
Speaker 4: They will perish, but you will remain. They will they
Speaker 4: will all wear out like a garment. You will change
Speaker 4: them like a robe, and they will pass away. But
Speaker 4: you are the same, and your years has no end.
Speaker 4: Talks about God who created everything for us. Bisha mcbabago
Speaker 4: hindi magbago in Eypna.
Speaker 3: It's different. I'm a parent of three children, seventeen year old,
Speaker 3: a fifteen year old and a seven year old. My
Speaker 3: youngest daughter Lara, she would always change her mind. Okay,
Speaker 3: I'm Pina favorite timea bom b haya is her birthday
Speaker 3: bin Ladona name birthday Yahgan thirteen years old. Jah, Okay,
Speaker 3: this this birthday, I want here, this birthday, I want here.
Speaker 3: Just last night she was like, okay, Mom, I remember
Speaker 3: you had a picture that you rode an elephant. Where
Speaker 3: was that? That's in Thailand? Okay, can I have my
Speaker 3: eighth birthday there? Okay? Last the Opina eight birthday. Yes,
Speaker 3: a kid zunaj Ma lacking jump on from Kidsuna to Thailand.
Speaker 3: Like my eldest son. He's going to college now. He
Speaker 3: took already all the different entrance exams and then but
Speaker 3: whenever I ask him, different different course, different schooling. But
Speaker 3: the character of God, it's immutable. It does not change.
Speaker 3: God does not change. This is important to to pound
Speaker 3: on because if we believe that he can change, change
Speaker 3: can say it's a variable. When you say change, there's
Speaker 3: a beginning, right like bags and then end state there's
Speaker 3: another end and then another beginning. The Bible said God
Speaker 3: is the alpha in the omega, no beginning, no end.
Speaker 3: The song a while ago that we sang, he said,
Speaker 3: he's constant, no boundaries, He's internal, nothing, universe. The guy
Speaker 3: see that ty in our own finite mind. We tend
Speaker 3: to put him there, but the vastness of him knows
Speaker 3: no boundaries, no beginning, and no end. He's his character
Speaker 3: doesn't change through to the fact that from being good,
Speaker 3: he cannot be bad. He's not. He's eternally good. He's
Speaker 3: eternally perfect. His eternity, his character is a mission. He
Speaker 3: knows everything and everything he controls. That's important. If we
Speaker 3: know that God is immutable, that means that we can
Speaker 3: trust him. If we know we try to serve a God,
Speaker 3: but we know that he's changing, would you trust him?
Speaker 3: Would we trust him? But God is imputable, so we
Speaker 3: can trust him and trust him fully. It's continued with
Speaker 3: verse six said, so you descend us of Jacob, are
Speaker 3: not destroyed. That's you and me. That's a fact. That's
Speaker 3: a we are descendants of Jacob. That means if we
Speaker 3: feel like God is changing because we see our situation,
Speaker 3: because you you young, young, young line of sight, noting
Speaker 3: our situation only it's all about me, me, me, me me.
Speaker 3: When we feel like He is unchanging, that scary thought,
Speaker 3: that means maybe now he saved us, gave us mercy. Tomorrow. Yeah,
Speaker 3: now I save you, not tomorrow I will destroy you. No, No,
Speaker 3: I don't even I don't. I don't even entertain that thought.
Speaker 3: It's not about our situation. It's about who he is,
Speaker 3: his true character. Verse seven said another fact, He said,
Speaker 3: from the days of your father's you have turned aside
Speaker 3: from my statutes and have not kept them. This is God.
Speaker 3: This is like a discussion between stilighting God. It call
Speaker 3: you call but before we actually accuse God, we need
Speaker 3: to have a deep assessment of where we are. You know,
Speaker 3: it's easy, it's easy. Every time there's an accusing finger something,
Speaker 3: it's easy to just deflect and say that's not me.
Speaker 3: But let's not do that with God. Let's not play
Speaker 3: around with God with our relationship. If you play around
Speaker 3: the relationship, that's not a relationship. That's a religion. And
Speaker 3: what we're what we're praying for, is a relationship. Here
Speaker 3: are some implications because of God's immitability. Okay, first, it's
Speaker 3: because God does not change. We can return to God.
Speaker 3: Everybody say return. Because God does not change, we can
Speaker 3: actually receive all his blessings. Who wants blessings for blessings?
Speaker 3: Because God does not change, we can rejoice in him.
Speaker 3: These are implications of his character immitability. Now we can,
Speaker 3: He actually invites us to return to him. God knows, Yes,
Speaker 3: God knows the sin that you did on your way here.
Speaker 3: God knows if you're sinning right now because you're nodding
Speaker 3: to your pastors, but you're thinking about justice league later.
Speaker 3: God knows what you will sin on tomorrow and the
Speaker 3: next day, and the next day and the next day.
Speaker 3: But still he invites you and I and it doesn't
Speaker 3: change sometimes tilmayo Ti is a gravity see that in taio. Okay,
Speaker 3: this is not for God to know to Maybe God
Speaker 3: doesn't understand this, maybe maybe maybe not here in verse seven,
Speaker 3: he said return to me, and I will return to you,
Speaker 3: says the Lord of Hosts. There's no preconditions. It just said,
Speaker 3: just return to me. Period. My school loves me so much. Okay,
Speaker 3: my school loves me so much they give me an
Speaker 3: honorary degree because every year they will retain me because
Speaker 3: I'm really an honorable student. So in honor and lack
Speaker 3: of by retaining me every year, okay, and every time
Speaker 3: my mom has to go and then sign something probationary. Uh,
Speaker 3: something probationary A fifty percent of the school in the
Speaker 3: Probably I'm on probation for them to accept me. There
Speaker 3: are preconditions that I have to meet. Then after after
Speaker 3: one grading period, they would assess if I'll be allowed
Speaker 3: the rest of the year. Not God, He takes us
Speaker 3: in as we are dirty, messy, sinning, just since a
Speaker 3: while ago, sinning. Now we're sin tomorrow. Come to me,
Speaker 3: return to me, period the Lord. And then Lord the
Speaker 3: the maya Lord. Sometimes because of our pride, we even
Speaker 3: say that Lord, come to me, return to him. He's
Speaker 3: never changing. He doesn't change the way he looks at us.
Speaker 3: He loves us as we are, loves us as we are.
Speaker 3: You know how so so how how shall we? How
Speaker 3: shall we return? Because of this discussion, God was actually
Speaker 3: checking what's inside our hearts, especially when it said this
Speaker 3: and Malachi three Versaid said, will man rob God? Yet
Speaker 3: you are rubbing me? But you say, how have we
Speaker 3: robbed you? In your tights and contributions? Remember last week
Speaker 3: talked about this last week, bring the first fruits you
Speaker 3: about go worship, not the pinilpa okay, not this fresh too,
Speaker 3: one hundred percent quality standard app into we begin, not
Speaker 3: into ninety nine percent doing okay, ninety eight percent, begin
Speaker 3: a think, hey Lord, we keep some for ourselves. It's
Speaker 3: as if that Maubu's and Tayo we tend to think
Speaker 3: that way. Why if we think that we are slaves servants,
Speaker 3: that's the that's the slave mentality, servants mentality. But if
Speaker 3: we know that our relationship is our based on being
Speaker 3: sons and daughters, that's different, right, that's different. I know
Speaker 3: that from my children in the house, everything is theirs,
Speaker 3: even though I bought them. My prayer is that you
Speaker 3: won't be like me. This this is a confession years
Speaker 3: back before I became a disciple in peraira to put
Speaker 3: repairs happened. Bo. It's in the Bible. Hello, but in
Speaker 3: a long gina mucha tits and offering. You know, actually
Speaker 3: for me, if we don't talk about money, yes, do
Speaker 3: you know that in the Bible eight hundred times the
Speaker 3: Bible talked about money eight hundred times. That's a lot.
Speaker 3: Eight hundred times he talked about money. And if you
Speaker 3: go to a church that doesn't talk about money, how
Speaker 3: to handle money, what the money is for, and how
Speaker 3: God would continue to to to to bless us that
Speaker 3: he gave us the ability to produce wealth, then be
Speaker 3: scared because something's wrong with that church. Why did God
Speaker 3: talk about money? Because they know that God knows our heart,
Speaker 3: He knows us too well. He knows that that's usually
Speaker 3: our downfall when blessings come. We can't contain it. We
Speaker 3: thought that everything that we ask is ours, and we
Speaker 3: forgot what is due to our Lord eight hundred times.
Speaker 3: Even different referrals to how money can corrupt us you know,
Speaker 3: it's good that God talked about that because it's the
Speaker 3: most trivial, the most temporal. What what what what I mean? Temporal?
Speaker 3: You can bring it to heaven temporarybago I value it.
Speaker 3: I remember I wanted to go to Europe and then
Speaker 3: so I kept on saving on different moneys in Europe.
Speaker 3: You might go to com places like Germany, London and
Speaker 3: then uh London, France too. When they change to a
Speaker 3: batta euro well on value, well on value, temporal, temporary, trivial,
Speaker 3: it's tangible. You can even bring them to heaven. You can't.
Speaker 3: God talks about that, and God is asking, now, what's
Speaker 3: in our hearts? Matthew says, where your treasure is there,
Speaker 3: your heart will be also what's in our hearts? God
Speaker 3: is not just them. God is not after our tights.
Speaker 3: He's not He's after our hearts. He's after our hearts.
Speaker 3: If we think that we can rob God by not
Speaker 3: giving our tights, this is important. Hang on to this.
Speaker 3: If you actually think that you can rob God with
Speaker 3: tights and offering, you can rub him and cheat him
Speaker 3: of anything. That's scary, and that's true. Tiights is just
Speaker 3: between you and God. If you can rub him of that.
Speaker 3: You can rub him of your time, your quiet time,
Speaker 3: you're alone time with here, You're you can actually cheat
Speaker 3: on him. You can actually even cheat on different relationships
Speaker 3: if you can rub God. He's after our hearts. He's
Speaker 3: after our hearts more than our tights. Tights. It's not
Speaker 3: about the pestle, about the decimal, well, it's not. It's
Speaker 3: all entirely about the purity of our hearts. Talk us
Speaker 3: about lordship. Are we one hundred percent for God? Or
Speaker 3: are we just ninety nine ninety seven good enough? I
Speaker 3: have this story. I asked permission from my wife to
Speaker 3: tell you this story. We prayed about it also, and
Speaker 3: I have some of our leaders about this. This is
Speaker 3: the legacy wall. This legacy wall in Every Nation Building
Speaker 3: Phase two. I just want to prove a point that
Speaker 3: God doesn't actually need our money. Okay, are you seeing you?
Speaker 3: In context? Back, it's not been the pastore. God doesn't
Speaker 3: need our money. That doesn't unty, but he's after our hearts. Again,
Speaker 3: in context, when when we started the Every Nation Building
Speaker 3: Phase two three years ago, almost four years ago, and
Speaker 3: it was going to be built, we joined one of
Speaker 3: the fundraisings and in that fundraising fundraising. We my wife
Speaker 3: and I we prayed about it, and we prayed hard
Speaker 3: and said, okay, we're gonna give to this building. Why
Speaker 3: because we believe that this will advance God's kingdom. Not
Speaker 3: because I'm a staff, but because it is actually made
Speaker 3: duty as a Christian. So when we went there, prayed
Speaker 3: about it and then we we we pledged for a
Speaker 3: virtual wall in virtual all par iPad iPad and then
Speaker 3: it would the pledge would take around less than one
Speaker 3: hundred thousand. I said, okay, one hundred thousand, pray time, pray,
Speaker 3: come in. Then boom sealed lo and behold. Two years after,
Speaker 3: actually twenty three months after. Twenty three months after, somebody
Speaker 3: from the Ministry department called us and said, sir, by
Speaker 3: the way we are, you have been now considered to
Speaker 3: be part of the legacy Wall. And we were like, wow,
Speaker 3: parana kama Lisila legacy wall is around two and a
Speaker 3: half more than what we actually pledge. When I checked
Speaker 3: me with my wife and I said, okay, how did
Speaker 3: that happenasla amaanion pledge. But we still kept on giving
Speaker 3: because why because we ask the Lord? We ask the Lord,
Speaker 3: And this very verse struck to our mind, it is
Speaker 3: him who will build his church if you completely trust
Speaker 3: in the immitability of God. He asked you to be
Speaker 3: involved in this. Oh, my Lord, we build me in
Speaker 3: church to okay, I want to take part. He gives
Speaker 3: me now even that extra ability to give for his house.
Speaker 3: That's who That's the God that we serve. That's who
Speaker 3: he is. He's after our hearts, not our money. Never
Speaker 3: Verse nine, your curse with a curse for you robbing
Speaker 3: me the whole nation off you. The past three weeks
Speaker 3: I've been doing book study on the book of Leviticus,
Speaker 3: and every time there's a promise, and there's always a
Speaker 3: all the the reminders, all the offerings. You do this
Speaker 3: when you when you are bad, you do this reminders,
Speaker 3: offerings remind their offerings. And then different events after events,
Speaker 3: uh pass over, the harvest for the season, the feast
Speaker 3: for feast. But what scared scares me is every time,
Speaker 3: every time that you actually don't obey, there's a consequence.
Speaker 3: I'm not saying, I'm not implying in our situation right
Speaker 3: now if that is like a curse. But what I'm
Speaker 3: getting at is we be aware that if he is
Speaker 3: after our heart, we have to check the condition now
Speaker 3: of our hearts. What's the condition of our hearts? He
Speaker 3: wants us to return and to return to his fold fully.
Speaker 3: Second point, my second point is because God does not change,
Speaker 3: we can now receive all his blessings, all his blessings,
Speaker 3: not just partial blessings. Okay, are in our night mind
Speaker 3: you wired tie and Okay, if I do this, I
Speaker 3: get this in return. But God is different. Before we
Speaker 3: Roman said, before we actually friends of God, we were sinners.
Speaker 3: He already took us in his fall. How many of
Speaker 3: you here, you're citizens of the Philippines, Filipino citizens. You
Speaker 3: pay taxes, You pay taxes, raisans, raycians, Well, MBI RD,
Speaker 3: that's not why. How many of you hear you? You
Speaker 3: pay the right taxes. You even know we pay taxes,
Speaker 3: actually pay rightful tax We pay taxes because we acknowledge
Speaker 3: that we're under the government governance of this nation, right
Speaker 3: because we're citizens. But I haven't found a biblical scripture,
Speaker 3: so I'm treading on a very thin line here. But
Speaker 3: look at this pattern. Listen, if we consider ourselves to
Speaker 3: be under the kingship lordship of Jesus Christ, we call
Speaker 3: ourselves a sons and daughters. Are we not ought to
Speaker 3: give our tithes and offering because we want to be
Speaker 3: under his kingship. You know what's good about his kingship.
Speaker 3: Let's go back to the chosen week one. When he
Speaker 3: chose us. He protects us, and he even preserves us.
Speaker 3: If you're under his kingship, he protects you and preserves you.
Speaker 3: In Machi verse ten said bring the full tithe into
Speaker 3: the storehouse, then there may be food in my house.
Speaker 3: And thereby put me to the test, says the Lord
Speaker 3: of hosts. If I will not open the windows of
Speaker 3: heaven to you and our and pour down for you
Speaker 3: a blessing until there is no more need, he would
Speaker 3: open the windows of heaven and bore out all his
Speaker 3: blessing until sabrang about. I'm gonna be animal. God is
Speaker 3: testing our hearts with just the ten percent, just the
Speaker 3: ten percent. Chinky Randall, Jason Low and the pastors always
Speaker 3: teaches this way. Test is a ten percent how how
Speaker 3: how how he taught me before when now I was
Speaker 3: starting ten percent ts in offering, ten percent, ten ten
Speaker 3: percent tights, ten percent offering, ten percent savings, seventy percent.
Speaker 3: Sometimes cause even focus lang thirty percent, seventy percent. Actually,
Speaker 3: if you are really mad, leg he didn't just give
Speaker 3: you seventy percent. He gave you one hundred percent. As
Speaker 3: the Book of Genesis said, he gave you one hundred percent.
Speaker 3: And he's just asking rightfully, what is for him? Always
Speaker 3: go back to self satisfaction. Does this satisfying satisfy me?
Speaker 3: And it would talk about your contentment when you talk
Speaker 3: about your contentment now but pass entitlement? Lord entitled, entitled,
Speaker 3: So don't you value what is the value of our hearts?
Speaker 3: This cuts across employee employee employee employee te pup as well, though,
Speaker 3: And that was gonna be all across. Remember, he's not
Speaker 3: after the mounts, after our hearts. So what value are
Speaker 3: you bringing out? The value of titing is not in
Speaker 3: the amount, but in the obedient heart. It's about obedience
Speaker 3: of our heart. Do you you want to willingly obey?
Speaker 3: Or every time it's begrudging when you give? Are you
Speaker 3: a cheerful giver? Not only that is that are you
Speaker 3: satisfied with what you have? Are we content with what
Speaker 3: we have? Or we're always looking for what we don't have?
Speaker 3: And Lord and etonicy change and no, doesn't change, we change.
Speaker 3: Verse eleven said, I will rebuke the devour for you
Speaker 3: so that it will not destroy the fruits of your soil.
Speaker 3: And you're vine in the field shall not fail to bear,
Speaker 3: says the Lord of Hosts. He's not only he's not
Speaker 3: only after. He's not only looking and trying to protect
Speaker 3: and concerned about our tithing and our offering. He's even
Speaker 3: concerned with the ninety percent. As I said, he being
Speaker 3: part of his kingdom, he would protect us and he
Speaker 3: would preserve us. That means lahatina blessing. Then asatin ladam blessing, libghet,
Speaker 3: I know wisdom, how to make it grow, How how
Speaker 3: not to succumb the temptation, how how how not to
Speaker 3: be overly self centered in how we do it? He
Speaker 3: would preserve us. And preservation that's the hope, that's the joy.
Speaker 3: That's the joy that he wants to give us complete joy,
Speaker 3: joy in him. Because God does not change, we can
Speaker 3: rejoice in him. Everybody, say, rejoice, rejoice. In Verse twelve said,
Speaker 3: then all nations will call you blessed, for you will
Speaker 3: be a land of the light, says the Lord of Hosts.
Speaker 3: Blessed nations. We know bless because he needs. That's why
Speaker 3: he's being blessed. Blessed because Christian and it's good to
Speaker 3: hear those. But being blessed means that you have you
Speaker 3: know your rightful stepping with God, you know where you are,
Speaker 3: you know how you stand. Generous people, yes, are blessed
Speaker 3: people with God's favor, in his favor in David wrote
Speaker 3: this in some thirty seven version. I have been young
Speaker 3: and now old, yet I have not seen righteousness forsaken
Speaker 3: or his children begging for bread. This is this is
Speaker 3: my this is my season right now as a parent,
Speaker 3: that that I'm saving up. What I'm doing, Uh, I'm
Speaker 3: investing in everything, not just materially, but even investing in
Speaker 3: the lives of people. Why it's for my next generation.
Speaker 3: It's for the generation in the generations that were coming
Speaker 3: up from from from from our family. But there's a
Speaker 3: promise that if we are righteous, if we give, if
Speaker 3: we are obedient, not about the amount, but we obey
Speaker 3: him in everything, he will give us those blessings. What
Speaker 3: are what do you want? What do we want? How
Speaker 3: many parents here? Raise your hands? How many parents here?
Speaker 3: How many? I know all of us? We want to
Speaker 3: leave a legacy for our children more than the money.
Speaker 3: My prayer is that you're actually building his character or
Speaker 3: her character to be christ like. This is this is
Speaker 3: this is part of the legacy wall. And uh, those
Speaker 3: are my children right there in the bottom, jell Amonti
Speaker 3: and Lara Uui. We weren't gonna put our names already
Speaker 3: in the wall because we are humble and their ananymous
Speaker 3: anonymous giver in every anonymous, humble, anonymous. But then somebody
Speaker 3: approached us and told us, why why don't you put
Speaker 3: it under your kid's name? And I was wondering why
Speaker 3: for them to know, for them to understand that they
Speaker 3: can actually go back to this wall, go back to
Speaker 3: this building, go back to this church, and they would
Speaker 3: know that this is their roots, Like oh wow, but
Speaker 3: you know that's the legacy we ought to build, not
Speaker 3: the legacy of This is the kingdom of Jason Chua.
Speaker 3: This is the the kingdom of Adrian mcnoian. This is
Speaker 3: the kingdom of of of Rapha mcdoto some some minecraft kingdom.
Speaker 3: Now what we should be building even in our legacy,
Speaker 3: It is God's Kingdom. Are we building on that? We're
Speaker 3: building on that? Maybe in your that situation, right now
Speaker 3: that you're you're actually you're still struggling, and you're you're
Speaker 3: you're still looking for for for for justice every time
Speaker 3: and year in, year out, promises and promises, it's all
Speaker 3: about justice. And then and maybe some of you that
Speaker 3: the Lord Nasa, But in love, it's not about our situation.
Speaker 3: It's not. It's not. You know, justice and love actually
Speaker 3: met on the cross and what happened. It's mercy. It's mercy.
Speaker 3: If he is changing, if he is, if you want
Speaker 3: Jesus a God to just be just, we won't be
Speaker 3: here today. You won't if we through love, love love
Speaker 3: love love, love will happen with that detail he gave
Speaker 3: us mercy. Mercy means what is ours right now is
Speaker 3: not ours for the taking. We're not right. No, we're
Speaker 3: even unworthy of those blessings that he has for us.
Speaker 3: That's why it's free. It's free, but it's costly. Sometimes
Speaker 3: we neglect it. Why because it doesn't cost that anything,
Speaker 3: but it costs God everything. Aust God, his son, cost
Speaker 3: Jesus his life. So please do remember this that God
Speaker 3: does not change, He doesn't change. If can we do this,
Speaker 3: if we know that God is the giver of life,
Speaker 3: He's the giver of life. If we know God, God
Speaker 3: gives us hope, if God gives us peace, right, and
Speaker 3: if God gives us love. The question is now, why
Speaker 3: don't we respond? Why can't we respond? Maybe there's a
Speaker 3: sin issue in your life. I don't know, maybe in
Speaker 3: just neglect. Maybe it's because you don't have time alone
Speaker 3: with him. Different in every case. But my question is
Speaker 3: you know this, this this book of Malachi. When when
Speaker 3: the prophet Malachi kept on asking us to remember this,
Speaker 3: you would see that it talks about a relationship. Because
Speaker 3: if you know you have a relationship with God, you're
Speaker 3: reminded of this. Now there's a response. What is the
Speaker 3: response for us to recommit our lives to God? If
Speaker 3: we know that he's unchanging, are we willing to recommit
Speaker 3: our lives to him? That's a question I post with
Speaker 3: you today and I want to end with these stories versus.
Speaker 3: This is the ultrasound ultrasound of ethel Pades. She works
Speaker 3: for every nation and nine years they've been praying for
Speaker 3: for a kid. Nine years. That's long. She could actually say,
Speaker 3: you know, but the labor is a church gets nine years.
Speaker 3: Now I'm as I'm if if your a situation right
Speaker 3: now is like that because you have a servant slave mentality.
Speaker 3: They kept on believing. Yesterday all of us were crazily
Speaker 3: shouting bade. It's because they knew that God pulled through
Speaker 3: again nine years. Look at this beautiful in an apple
Speaker 3: of mine. This is daughter of our former staff Chaid
Speaker 3: fifteen years she waited, she did everything young end up
Speaker 3: saving alum Lord in as Moran relationship, I mean alum
Speaker 3: Lords his son alam Lord. Thank you as a strengthened
Speaker 3: young faith. Now we don't know what God is doing,
Speaker 3: but know this, his promises doesn't change. He might actually
Speaker 3: be waiting for us to change for the good, for
Speaker 3: his good, perfect will. This is Pastor a yell. This
Speaker 3: is kind of different. Pastor a yell eight years ago
Speaker 3: lost his and before Beya and Jerome. It was the
Speaker 3: time that I was entering the ministry where he lost
Speaker 3: his son. That was crushing all of us. He's my
Speaker 3: first pastor ever, and it crushed us. When all of us,
Speaker 3: me and my wife, we're very young in the faith.
Speaker 3: We were asking, packet you Lord, Amania, well Damania back
Speaker 3: the pastoriano seven thousand church member back at the noon.
Speaker 3: He he he, we have put us aside, and you say,
Speaker 3: you know, Larry, we don't know. I have bitterness inside
Speaker 3: that have me and me and Shirley. We have questions,
Speaker 3: But then how can you question God? He gave us Jerome.
Speaker 3: Those eight years are good years. So when he rightfully Jerome,
Speaker 3: it's okay. There's he has a plan. The two little
Speaker 3: girls beside, there is his plan. Now they have three children.
Speaker 3: I'm not saying go through that suffering now. Up until
Speaker 3: now when whenever it's Jerome's birthday or death anniversary, we
Speaker 3: would still talk and the heart will still be there.
Speaker 3: But do not let it linger. You understand, you have
Speaker 3: to rise up. Why you haven't any changing God? You
Speaker 3: know the endgame. Lakers might not win the championship next
Speaker 3: year or next year or next year, but Jesus has
Speaker 3: won the victory for you and I. We are more
Speaker 3: than conquerors. The victory is already in us. He doesn't change.
Speaker 3: This is my last story, Jason. I didn't know you're
Speaker 3: gonna be here. This is Jason's brother there on your right.
Speaker 3: That's victory. Tian A victors. His company became Dea in
Speaker 3: debt as in Young Human zero, Young Digits and calculator,
Speaker 3: so digits. He he almost lost his life because he
Speaker 3: was contemplating on ending his life. He lost his business.
Speaker 3: He he thought he would lose his mind. There were
Speaker 3: times that when when when I got to meet him,
Speaker 3: he it's as if he's losing his mind already. But
Speaker 3: praise be to God that he didn't lose his family.
Speaker 3: That his family God said, got to know Jesus Christ,
Speaker 3: and now they're serving the church. Yes they are still
Speaker 3: in debt, but they know that that debt that has
Speaker 3: to be paid has already been paid by Jesus Christ.
Speaker 3: Praise God and ask everybody to stand up. I don't
Speaker 3: know your situation right now, but you have to remember
Speaker 3: that victory is ours because of who God is inviautable.
Speaker 3: He has chosen us, he has loved us. He's our king.
Speaker 3: We're under his lordship, and he does not change. Maybe
Speaker 3: you are in that lemma right now. You're asking Lord,
Speaker 3: where are you do you change? Why have you changed?
Speaker 3: The Lord's saying I have not changed. I am constant,
Speaker 3: I am the Alpha and the Omega. I'm true the
Speaker 3: same yesterday, today and tomorrow, and I am the author
Speaker 3: and perfector of your faith. So Lord Father, I pray
Speaker 3: right now, each one of us, we would know this,
Speaker 3: we should take this too hard. Lord, even pray, Lord God, Lord,
Speaker 3: that you would shine your face upon us, knowing, Lord God,
Speaker 3: that our faith is in you and in you alone.
Speaker 3: Maybe there are some of you in this room right
Speaker 3: now that you're feeling aggrieve. You're feeling like like the Israelite,
Speaker 3: that there are pestilence everywhere, that everything you touch is
Speaker 3: trending to nod. The Lord's saying, I'm to you, my
Speaker 3: sons and my daughters. I am the way, I am
Speaker 3: the truth. I am your life, and I do not change. Father.
Speaker 3: I pray Lord that you would speak to us Lord,
Speaker 3: that we will deepen, Lord God, not not the sacrifices,
Speaker 3: not the not the Lord, not in our own way,
Speaker 3: but Lord, deepen our relationship with you, and no, Father,
Speaker 3: I pray right now for your perfect will, perfect purposes,
Speaker 3: Lord God, will be revealed in us. Lord, that the
Speaker 3: waiting game is joyful. Lord, that the waiting game, in
Speaker 3: this waiting game, we will be full of delight and
Speaker 3: we will bank on the one through God. Thank you, Lord.
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Speaker 2: truth in week three of our series Remember This.
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