WEBVTT 1 00:00:05.160 --> 00:00:09.759 Welcome Just Handaway Tagalog Sermon Podcast, your daily dose of inspiring, 2 00:00:10.039 --> 00:00:13.800 heartfelt tagalog sermons from different factors and speakers all over 3 00:00:13.839 --> 00:00:16.719 the Philippines. We hope that this podcast finds you in 4 00:00:16.800 --> 00:00:21.839 good shame and now here's your message. 5 00:00:23.600 --> 00:00:28.839 You're listening to a message from Victory. God's character, commandments 6 00:00:28.879 --> 00:00:33.039 and promised blessings do not change. Discover more about this 7 00:00:33.200 --> 00:00:36.280 truth in week three of our series remember this. 8 00:00:42.600 --> 00:00:46.000 Let's start this week with Malachai thri verse one and said, behold, 9 00:00:46.159 --> 00:00:49.039 I sent my messenger, and he will prepare the way 10 00:00:49.119 --> 00:00:52.880 before me, and the Lord whom you seek will suddenly 11 00:00:52.960 --> 00:00:56.799 come to this temple. The messenger there talk us about 12 00:00:57.880 --> 00:01:03.240 John the Baptists. It is very strategic. The prophet Malachi 13 00:01:03.240 --> 00:01:06.879 is saying, there will be a messenger in the person 14 00:01:06.879 --> 00:01:10.359 of John. He's reminded me people, okay, he's just a messenger, 15 00:01:10.519 --> 00:01:13.079 but then the Messiah would come. And then he's asking, 16 00:01:13.200 --> 00:01:16.799 are you seeking that Lord? Are you seeking that Lord? 17 00:01:17.200 --> 00:01:20.079 Is that you're looking for? Maybe you're so you're so 18 00:01:20.200 --> 00:01:22.680 focused right now on the what I don't have. I 19 00:01:22.719 --> 00:01:31.879 want this. I hope I have this office made a blessed, 20 00:01:33.159 --> 00:01:49.920 my promise, open a man Christian as kids. Nasana Nasana 21 00:01:50.400 --> 00:01:55.200 Malaki actually referred this to how they build the temple 22 00:01:55.719 --> 00:01:59.959 eighty years eight years after Zacharayah and Hagai promised the 23 00:02:00.040 --> 00:02:02.719 building of the temple because the Lord said, when you 24 00:02:02.760 --> 00:02:05.120 build a temple, his glory will be there. But then 25 00:02:05.159 --> 00:02:09.000 they're asking where is God's glory? Not even his glory 26 00:02:09.039 --> 00:02:12.639 is there. There's no manifestation of God's glory. Though God 27 00:02:12.759 --> 00:02:16.639 was certainly alive and well. It was a period where 28 00:02:16.879 --> 00:02:21.840 God's people was waiting, waiting, waiting Are you in this 29 00:02:22.000 --> 00:02:27.960 season right now? That is like a waiting game. It's 30 00:02:28.000 --> 00:02:31.159 like your your faith is being tested. Now you know 31 00:02:31.280 --> 00:02:35.719 that faith is not by sight really a waiting game. 32 00:02:35.759 --> 00:02:38.759 It's it is a waiting game. It is a waiting gay. 33 00:02:39.840 --> 00:02:43.599 Unlike the where the Golden State Warriors fan, Lakers fan 34 00:02:43.719 --> 00:02:51.280 Lakers fan, unlike any of those games. We know this endgame. 35 00:02:52.599 --> 00:02:57.560 We know the endgame of our relationship with God. Jesus 36 00:02:57.879 --> 00:03:04.159 is victorious. He was hanged on the cross, died peers 37 00:03:04.319 --> 00:03:09.560 by all our transgressions, but then after three days he 38 00:03:09.639 --> 00:03:11.919 lived and now seated at the right kind of God. 39 00:03:12.039 --> 00:03:14.759 This is a different game. Yes, we're waiting but we 40 00:03:14.840 --> 00:03:19.280 know the endgame? Right? Are we living a victorious life? 41 00:03:19.840 --> 00:03:25.639 Do people see victory in us? Or they only see 42 00:03:25.680 --> 00:03:29.400 victory in us? Because may stay r TiO, may post dio. 43 00:03:29.439 --> 00:03:33.080 I'm in victory. Green is now listening to the most 44 00:03:33.080 --> 00:03:39.360 handsome pastor in that church, young Victoria style. But in 45 00:03:39.520 --> 00:03:43.680 our lives it's not actually being seen. Hebrews eleven, verse 46 00:03:43.719 --> 00:03:46.400 one said faith is confidence in what we hope for 47 00:03:46.759 --> 00:03:50.439 and assurance about what we do not see, what we 48 00:03:50.479 --> 00:03:55.000 don't see. You have thirty six days Christmas is here, 49 00:03:55.360 --> 00:03:58.960 the years about to end. Lord doesign your promis? And yeah, 50 00:03:59.080 --> 00:04:05.360 h Lord, Lord, what do you do? Let me post 51 00:04:05.360 --> 00:04:07.879 this question? What do we do? All of us? What 52 00:04:08.240 --> 00:04:12.680 do we do? If your present situation is far from promising? 53 00:04:13.879 --> 00:04:17.800 It's far from promising. You know that you have a promise, 54 00:04:19.759 --> 00:04:21.759 that God has a promise for you, But what do 55 00:04:21.839 --> 00:04:29.000 you do? How are you doing? How are we doing? 56 00:04:29.519 --> 00:04:34.959 In Malachi three, verse six said here for I the Lord, 57 00:04:35.319 --> 00:04:40.439 do not change. Everybody say do not change for God 58 00:04:40.720 --> 00:04:43.480 does not change for eye the Lord. Do not change 59 00:04:45.879 --> 00:04:48.600 for eye the Lord for eye the Lord. That's very big, 60 00:04:48.839 --> 00:04:52.319 that's an awesome statement, pointing to a fact that I 61 00:04:52.360 --> 00:05:00.279 am your creator. God says, I hold everything together for you. Hey, 62 00:05:00.319 --> 00:05:04.600 I am the Alpha and the Omega. I know you, 63 00:05:05.240 --> 00:05:08.639 I know the count of your hair. I am God, 64 00:05:08.800 --> 00:05:11.560 and guess what you are. If he's God, we are not. 65 00:05:12.680 --> 00:05:15.720 That's a fact. That's a statement of a fact. There. 66 00:05:16.000 --> 00:05:25.839 That he is Lord means pa. See Lord did Babago 67 00:05:26.240 --> 00:05:29.959 tae you and Madeles Macbago. He does not change. That's 68 00:05:29.959 --> 00:05:32.720 his character. When we talk about character, we talk about 69 00:05:32.959 --> 00:05:39.000 he's unchanging his characters is immutability. Immutability means this. This 70 00:05:39.360 --> 00:05:43.639 actually is the hinge for all of his character because 71 00:05:43.680 --> 00:05:47.839 he is unchanging God. God is unchanging in his character, 72 00:05:48.279 --> 00:05:53.639 in his will and covenant promises. If we are we, 73 00:05:53.879 --> 00:05:59.319 if our faith is only by sight promise. I was 74 00:05:59.319 --> 00:06:02.040 talking to a a mom and and and this mom 75 00:06:02.120 --> 00:06:05.519 is going to something in the hospital and then men, 76 00:06:06.600 --> 00:06:08.639 so I was asking, I was asking her do you 77 00:06:08.680 --> 00:06:11.879 want do you want another kid? He has she has 78 00:06:11.920 --> 00:06:14.399 two sons, And I was asking, do you want another 79 00:06:14.839 --> 00:06:18.399 another kid? Do you want a daughter? Well? Helanda man 80 00:06:18.439 --> 00:06:24.519 can willia Lord ok ann. But it's different when you 81 00:06:24.560 --> 00:06:27.319 know that your sons and daughters and you claim those 82 00:06:27.399 --> 00:06:31.079 will that it's unchanging because he's not well. I'm going 83 00:06:31.079 --> 00:06:37.040 to this operation. And now, Lord, do you want to 84 00:06:37.120 --> 00:06:41.600 have a daughter, And she said, yes, I do, but 85 00:06:41.680 --> 00:06:44.160 depending on WILLI Lord? No, no, no, no, no no no. 86 00:06:44.639 --> 00:06:49.319 I kept on insisting, do you want to have a daughter, yes, 87 00:06:49.759 --> 00:06:51.639 Why don't you claim it? Why don't you pray for it? 88 00:06:52.519 --> 00:06:54.959 The willing Lord? Yes, Malam, you will the Lord. But 89 00:06:55.000 --> 00:06:57.399 it's different when we know who we talk about it. 90 00:06:57.399 --> 00:07:02.120 It's it talks about a relationship. It talks about a relationship. 91 00:07:02.199 --> 00:07:06.000 God sees what's inside our hearts. He said, for I 92 00:07:06.199 --> 00:07:12.839 the Lord, immutable, unchanging, Okay, immutable. What comes to mind 93 00:07:12.920 --> 00:07:18.000 is x men, x men and x men mutants. They 94 00:07:18.000 --> 00:07:20.839 can become a different Parcelona. Not only that, some can 95 00:07:21.240 --> 00:07:24.360 turn evil and then some can turn good. Not God, 96 00:07:25.000 --> 00:07:29.079 He's not changing, no matter what your situation, no matter 97 00:07:29.199 --> 00:07:32.639 what our situation is right now, He does not change. 98 00:07:33.120 --> 00:07:35.639 He does not change. He is not hinged on the 99 00:07:35.680 --> 00:07:39.600 situation that we are in our faith. Sometimes because we 100 00:07:39.600 --> 00:07:41.560 don't have a relationship we got, we don't have a 101 00:07:41.600 --> 00:07:44.319 deep relationship, we don't have a strong relationship with God. 102 00:07:44.439 --> 00:07:48.439 It hinges on situations. But God does not change. Tire 103 00:07:48.399 --> 00:07:52.160 you on tire. You ever changing, because see God unchanging, 104 00:07:52.399 --> 00:07:58.519 We as humans sometimes are ever changing depending on situations. 105 00:07:59.759 --> 00:08:03.160 In David says in Some one O two says, here 106 00:08:03.439 --> 00:08:05.920 of all you lay the foundation of the earth, and 107 00:08:06.000 --> 00:08:07.759 the heavens are the work of your hands. 108 00:08:07.959 --> 00:08:11.600 They will perish, but you will remain. They will they 109 00:08:11.639 --> 00:08:14.800 will all wear out like a garment. You will change 110 00:08:14.839 --> 00:08:17.120 them like a robe, and they will pass away. But 111 00:08:17.240 --> 00:08:20.240 you are the same, and your years has no end. 112 00:08:21.399 --> 00:08:25.600 Talks about God who created everything for us. Bisha mcbabago 113 00:08:25.959 --> 00:08:27.519 hindi magbago in Eypna. 114 00:08:28.600 --> 00:08:32.120 It's different. I'm a parent of three children, seventeen year old, 115 00:08:32.159 --> 00:08:35.600 a fifteen year old and a seven year old. My 116 00:08:35.759 --> 00:08:39.159 youngest daughter Lara, she would always change her mind. Okay, 117 00:08:39.399 --> 00:08:42.759 I'm Pina favorite timea bom b haya is her birthday 118 00:08:43.200 --> 00:08:46.840 bin Ladona name birthday Yahgan thirteen years old. Jah, Okay, 119 00:08:46.919 --> 00:08:49.519 this this birthday, I want here, this birthday, I want here. 120 00:08:49.759 --> 00:08:52.720 Just last night she was like, okay, Mom, I remember 121 00:08:52.720 --> 00:08:54.799 you had a picture that you rode an elephant. Where 122 00:08:54.919 --> 00:08:57.399 was that? That's in Thailand? Okay, can I have my 123 00:08:57.480 --> 00:09:01.759 eighth birthday there? Okay? Last the Opina eight birthday. Yes, 124 00:09:01.759 --> 00:09:06.799 a kid zunaj Ma lacking jump on from Kidsuna to Thailand. 125 00:09:08.000 --> 00:09:10.679 Like my eldest son. He's going to college now. He 126 00:09:10.720 --> 00:09:13.919 took already all the different entrance exams and then but 127 00:09:14.080 --> 00:09:20.240 whenever I ask him, different different course, different schooling. But 128 00:09:20.320 --> 00:09:23.600 the character of God, it's immutable. It does not change. 129 00:09:24.240 --> 00:09:28.399 God does not change. This is important to to pound 130 00:09:28.480 --> 00:09:32.840 on because if we believe that he can change, change 131 00:09:32.879 --> 00:09:35.960 can say it's a variable. When you say change, there's 132 00:09:36.000 --> 00:09:42.879 a beginning, right like bags and then end state there's 133 00:09:42.919 --> 00:09:46.720 another end and then another beginning. The Bible said God 134 00:09:46.840 --> 00:09:50.480 is the alpha in the omega, no beginning, no end. 135 00:09:50.919 --> 00:09:53.080 The song a while ago that we sang, he said, 136 00:09:53.200 --> 00:09:59.799 he's constant, no boundaries, He's internal, nothing, universe. The guy 137 00:10:00.120 --> 00:10:04.799 see that ty in our own finite mind. We tend 138 00:10:04.840 --> 00:10:10.240 to put him there, but the vastness of him knows 139 00:10:10.279 --> 00:10:14.559 no boundaries, no beginning, and no end. He's his character 140 00:10:14.639 --> 00:10:18.120 doesn't change through to the fact that from being good, 141 00:10:18.159 --> 00:10:22.559 he cannot be bad. He's not. He's eternally good. He's 142 00:10:22.639 --> 00:10:27.120 eternally perfect. His eternity, his character is a mission. He 143 00:10:27.240 --> 00:10:33.159 knows everything and everything he controls. That's important. If we 144 00:10:33.200 --> 00:10:37.279 know that God is immutable, that means that we can 145 00:10:37.360 --> 00:10:41.960 trust him. If we know we try to serve a God, 146 00:10:42.120 --> 00:10:45.440 but we know that he's changing, would you trust him? 147 00:10:45.679 --> 00:10:49.360 Would we trust him? But God is imputable, so we 148 00:10:49.399 --> 00:10:53.320 can trust him and trust him fully. It's continued with 149 00:10:53.399 --> 00:10:56.279 verse six said, so you descend us of Jacob, are 150 00:10:56.320 --> 00:10:59.799 not destroyed. That's you and me. That's a fact. That's 151 00:10:59.840 --> 00:11:03.600 a we are descendants of Jacob. That means if we 152 00:11:03.639 --> 00:11:06.519 feel like God is changing because we see our situation, 153 00:11:07.679 --> 00:11:11.360 because you you young, young, young line of sight, noting 154 00:11:11.480 --> 00:11:14.120 our situation only it's all about me, me, me, me me. 155 00:11:14.879 --> 00:11:17.519 When we feel like He is unchanging, that scary thought, 156 00:11:17.720 --> 00:11:23.399 that means maybe now he saved us, gave us mercy. Tomorrow. Yeah, 157 00:11:24.320 --> 00:11:32.320 now I save you, not tomorrow I will destroy you. No, No, 158 00:11:33.080 --> 00:11:44.519 I don't even I don't. I don't even entertain that thought. 159 00:11:45.559 --> 00:11:48.720 It's not about our situation. It's about who he is, 160 00:11:48.759 --> 00:11:52.679 his true character. Verse seven said another fact, He said, 161 00:11:52.720 --> 00:11:54.759 from the days of your father's you have turned aside 162 00:11:54.799 --> 00:11:58.080 from my statutes and have not kept them. This is God. 163 00:11:58.519 --> 00:12:02.639 This is like a discussion between stilighting God. It call 164 00:12:02.720 --> 00:12:09.440 you call but before we actually accuse God, we need 165 00:12:09.519 --> 00:12:15.120 to have a deep assessment of where we are. You know, 166 00:12:15.200 --> 00:12:20.000 it's easy, it's easy. Every time there's an accusing finger something, 167 00:12:20.240 --> 00:12:22.320 it's easy to just deflect and say that's not me. 168 00:12:24.639 --> 00:12:26.720 But let's not do that with God. Let's not play 169 00:12:26.799 --> 00:12:30.440 around with God with our relationship. If you play around 170 00:12:30.480 --> 00:12:34.080 the relationship, that's not a relationship. That's a religion. And 171 00:12:34.120 --> 00:12:40.200 what we're what we're praying for, is a relationship. Here 172 00:12:40.200 --> 00:12:45.200 are some implications because of God's immitability. Okay, first, it's 173 00:12:45.240 --> 00:12:48.120 because God does not change. We can return to God. 174 00:12:48.159 --> 00:12:53.639 Everybody say return. Because God does not change, we can 175 00:12:53.679 --> 00:12:59.720 actually receive all his blessings. Who wants blessings for blessings? 176 00:13:00.080 --> 00:13:05.399 Because God does not change, we can rejoice in him. 177 00:13:05.879 --> 00:13:10.799 These are implications of his character immitability. Now we can, 178 00:13:11.480 --> 00:13:15.399 He actually invites us to return to him. God knows, Yes, 179 00:13:15.919 --> 00:13:19.320 God knows the sin that you did on your way here. 180 00:13:21.279 --> 00:13:25.559 God knows if you're sinning right now because you're nodding 181 00:13:25.559 --> 00:13:28.799 to your pastors, but you're thinking about justice league later. 182 00:13:29.840 --> 00:13:34.960 God knows what you will sin on tomorrow and the 183 00:13:35.000 --> 00:13:36.720 next day, and the next day and the next day. 184 00:13:36.960 --> 00:13:42.200 But still he invites you and I and it doesn't 185 00:13:42.279 --> 00:13:48.279 change sometimes tilmayo Ti is a gravity see that in taio. Okay, 186 00:13:48.639 --> 00:13:51.519 this is not for God to know to Maybe God 187 00:13:51.519 --> 00:13:58.000 doesn't understand this, maybe maybe maybe not here in verse seven, 188 00:13:58.120 --> 00:14:01.240 he said return to me, and I will return to you, 189 00:14:02.399 --> 00:14:06.039 says the Lord of Hosts. There's no preconditions. It just said, 190 00:14:06.159 --> 00:14:11.399 just return to me. Period. My school loves me so much. Okay, 191 00:14:11.600 --> 00:14:13.360 my school loves me so much they give me an 192 00:14:13.360 --> 00:14:17.240 honorary degree because every year they will retain me because 193 00:14:17.279 --> 00:14:19.879 I'm really an honorable student. So in honor and lack 194 00:14:19.919 --> 00:14:22.600 of by retaining me every year, okay, and every time 195 00:14:23.919 --> 00:14:28.240 my mom has to go and then sign something probationary. Uh, 196 00:14:29.440 --> 00:14:32.759 something probationary A fifty percent of the school in the 197 00:14:32.840 --> 00:14:38.559 Probably I'm on probation for them to accept me. There 198 00:14:38.559 --> 00:14:43.519 are preconditions that I have to meet. Then after after 199 00:14:44.080 --> 00:14:46.919 one grading period, they would assess if I'll be allowed 200 00:14:46.919 --> 00:14:50.399 the rest of the year. Not God, He takes us 201 00:14:50.440 --> 00:14:57.240 in as we are dirty, messy, sinning, just since a 202 00:14:57.279 --> 00:15:00.480 while ago, sinning. Now we're sin tomorrow. Come to me, 203 00:15:01.320 --> 00:15:05.840 return to me, period the Lord. And then Lord the 204 00:15:05.840 --> 00:15:11.000 the maya Lord. Sometimes because of our pride, we even 205 00:15:11.039 --> 00:15:16.960 say that Lord, come to me, return to him. He's 206 00:15:17.039 --> 00:15:22.039 never changing. He doesn't change the way he looks at us. 207 00:15:22.399 --> 00:15:26.639 He loves us as we are, loves us as we are. 208 00:15:28.039 --> 00:15:31.039 You know how so so how how shall we? How 209 00:15:31.080 --> 00:15:41.519 shall we return? Because of this discussion, God was actually 210 00:15:41.600 --> 00:15:44.960 checking what's inside our hearts, especially when it said this 211 00:15:45.039 --> 00:15:49.080 and Malachi three Versaid said, will man rob God? Yet 212 00:15:49.159 --> 00:15:51.639 you are rubbing me? But you say, how have we 213 00:15:51.720 --> 00:15:55.720 robbed you? In your tights and contributions? Remember last week 214 00:15:56.080 --> 00:15:58.879 talked about this last week, bring the first fruits you 215 00:15:58.879 --> 00:16:03.879 about go worship, not the pinilpa okay, not this fresh too, 216 00:16:03.879 --> 00:16:06.600 one hundred percent quality standard app into we begin, not 217 00:16:06.679 --> 00:16:09.240 into ninety nine percent doing okay, ninety eight percent, begin 218 00:16:09.279 --> 00:16:12.200 a think, hey Lord, we keep some for ourselves. It's 219 00:16:12.279 --> 00:16:16.840 as if that Maubu's and Tayo we tend to think 220 00:16:16.919 --> 00:16:23.799 that way. Why if we think that we are slaves servants, 221 00:16:25.519 --> 00:16:31.840 that's the that's the slave mentality, servants mentality. But if 222 00:16:31.840 --> 00:16:36.639 we know that our relationship is our based on being 223 00:16:36.759 --> 00:16:41.120 sons and daughters, that's different, right, that's different. I know 224 00:16:41.200 --> 00:16:44.120 that from my children in the house, everything is theirs, 225 00:16:44.759 --> 00:16:48.639 even though I bought them. My prayer is that you 226 00:16:48.919 --> 00:16:51.799 won't be like me. This this is a confession years 227 00:16:51.799 --> 00:17:01.159 back before I became a disciple in peraira to put 228 00:17:01.200 --> 00:17:08.000 repairs happened. Bo. It's in the Bible. Hello, but in 229 00:17:08.079 --> 00:17:11.160 a long gina mucha tits and offering. You know, actually 230 00:17:12.200 --> 00:17:18.440 for me, if we don't talk about money, yes, do 231 00:17:18.519 --> 00:17:21.599 you know that in the Bible eight hundred times the 232 00:17:21.599 --> 00:17:26.039 Bible talked about money eight hundred times. That's a lot. 233 00:17:26.839 --> 00:17:29.319 Eight hundred times he talked about money. And if you 234 00:17:29.400 --> 00:17:32.519 go to a church that doesn't talk about money, how 235 00:17:32.519 --> 00:17:35.759 to handle money, what the money is for, and how 236 00:17:36.000 --> 00:17:39.079 God would continue to to to to bless us that 237 00:17:39.160 --> 00:17:42.799 he gave us the ability to produce wealth, then be 238 00:17:42.920 --> 00:17:46.839 scared because something's wrong with that church. Why did God 239 00:17:46.880 --> 00:17:50.559 talk about money? Because they know that God knows our heart, 240 00:17:51.240 --> 00:17:55.039 He knows us too well. He knows that that's usually 241 00:17:55.160 --> 00:18:00.680 our downfall when blessings come. We can't contain it. We 242 00:18:00.720 --> 00:18:03.599 thought that everything that we ask is ours, and we 243 00:18:03.759 --> 00:18:08.599 forgot what is due to our Lord eight hundred times. 244 00:18:08.839 --> 00:18:13.640 Even different referrals to how money can corrupt us you know, 245 00:18:14.400 --> 00:18:16.680 it's good that God talked about that because it's the 246 00:18:16.720 --> 00:18:21.920 most trivial, the most temporal. What what what what I mean? Temporal? 247 00:18:21.960 --> 00:18:25.640 You can bring it to heaven temporarybago I value it. 248 00:18:26.880 --> 00:18:30.720 I remember I wanted to go to Europe and then 249 00:18:31.759 --> 00:18:34.720 so I kept on saving on different moneys in Europe. 250 00:18:34.759 --> 00:18:37.799 You might go to com places like Germany, London and 251 00:18:37.839 --> 00:18:43.759 then uh London, France too. When they change to a 252 00:18:43.920 --> 00:18:55.359 batta euro well on value, well on value, temporal, temporary, trivial, 253 00:18:55.480 --> 00:18:59.440 it's tangible. You can even bring them to heaven. You can't. 254 00:18:59.720 --> 00:19:02.400 God talks about that, and God is asking, now, what's 255 00:19:02.440 --> 00:19:06.480 in our hearts? Matthew says, where your treasure is there, 256 00:19:06.559 --> 00:19:10.240 your heart will be also what's in our hearts? God 257 00:19:10.319 --> 00:19:14.160 is not just them. God is not after our tights. 258 00:19:14.200 --> 00:19:19.279 He's not He's after our hearts. He's after our hearts. 259 00:19:19.359 --> 00:19:21.440 If we think that we can rob God by not 260 00:19:21.519 --> 00:19:24.359 giving our tights, this is important. Hang on to this. 261 00:19:24.880 --> 00:19:27.039 If you actually think that you can rob God with 262 00:19:27.160 --> 00:19:29.839 tights and offering, you can rub him and cheat him 263 00:19:29.839 --> 00:19:35.880 of anything. That's scary, and that's true. Tiights is just 264 00:19:35.920 --> 00:19:40.960 between you and God. If you can rub him of that. 265 00:19:41.319 --> 00:19:44.200 You can rub him of your time, your quiet time, 266 00:19:44.640 --> 00:19:48.480 you're alone time with here, You're you can actually cheat 267 00:19:49.000 --> 00:19:53.839 on him. You can actually even cheat on different relationships 268 00:19:53.920 --> 00:19:58.400 if you can rub God. He's after our hearts. He's 269 00:19:58.440 --> 00:20:02.440 after our hearts more than our tights. Tights. It's not 270 00:20:02.799 --> 00:20:07.279 about the pestle, about the decimal, well, it's not. It's 271 00:20:07.319 --> 00:20:11.519 all entirely about the purity of our hearts. Talk us 272 00:20:11.519 --> 00:20:16.559 about lordship. Are we one hundred percent for God? Or 273 00:20:16.559 --> 00:20:22.240 are we just ninety nine ninety seven good enough? I 274 00:20:22.240 --> 00:20:24.599 have this story. I asked permission from my wife to 275 00:20:24.599 --> 00:20:26.759 tell you this story. We prayed about it also, and 276 00:20:26.799 --> 00:20:30.039 I have some of our leaders about this. This is 277 00:20:30.039 --> 00:20:32.759 the legacy wall. This legacy wall in Every Nation Building 278 00:20:32.759 --> 00:20:35.279 Phase two. I just want to prove a point that 279 00:20:35.319 --> 00:20:38.759 God doesn't actually need our money. Okay, are you seeing you? 280 00:20:38.759 --> 00:20:42.160 In context? Back, it's not been the pastore. God doesn't 281 00:20:42.160 --> 00:20:45.960 need our money. That doesn't unty, but he's after our hearts. Again, 282 00:20:46.400 --> 00:20:50.480 in context, when when we started the Every Nation Building 283 00:20:50.480 --> 00:20:52.839 Phase two three years ago, almost four years ago, and 284 00:20:52.880 --> 00:20:54.599 it was going to be built, we joined one of 285 00:20:54.640 --> 00:20:58.920 the fundraisings and in that fundraising fundraising. We my wife 286 00:20:58.920 --> 00:21:01.559 and I we prayed about it, and we prayed hard 287 00:21:01.599 --> 00:21:03.720 and said, okay, we're gonna give to this building. Why 288 00:21:03.799 --> 00:21:06.640 because we believe that this will advance God's kingdom. Not 289 00:21:06.799 --> 00:21:09.440 because I'm a staff, but because it is actually made 290 00:21:09.480 --> 00:21:12.079 duty as a Christian. So when we went there, prayed 291 00:21:12.119 --> 00:21:15.720 about it and then we we we pledged for a 292 00:21:15.799 --> 00:21:20.200 virtual wall in virtual all par iPad iPad and then 293 00:21:20.599 --> 00:21:23.400 it would the pledge would take around less than one 294 00:21:23.440 --> 00:21:28.359 hundred thousand. I said, okay, one hundred thousand, pray time, pray, 295 00:21:28.359 --> 00:21:31.680 come in. Then boom sealed lo and behold. Two years after, 296 00:21:31.720 --> 00:21:35.440 actually twenty three months after. Twenty three months after, somebody 297 00:21:35.480 --> 00:21:38.319 from the Ministry department called us and said, sir, by 298 00:21:38.359 --> 00:21:41.359 the way we are, you have been now considered to 299 00:21:41.359 --> 00:21:44.759 be part of the legacy Wall. And we were like, wow, 300 00:21:45.039 --> 00:21:47.799 parana kama Lisila legacy wall is around two and a 301 00:21:47.839 --> 00:21:52.519 half more than what we actually pledge. When I checked 302 00:21:52.519 --> 00:21:54.480 me with my wife and I said, okay, how did 303 00:21:54.519 --> 00:21:59.400 that happenasla amaanion pledge. But we still kept on giving 304 00:22:00.759 --> 00:22:03.880 because why because we ask the Lord? We ask the Lord, 305 00:22:04.680 --> 00:22:09.960 And this very verse struck to our mind, it is 306 00:22:10.119 --> 00:22:15.519 him who will build his church if you completely trust 307 00:22:15.640 --> 00:22:18.400 in the immitability of God. He asked you to be 308 00:22:18.480 --> 00:22:20.519 involved in this. Oh, my Lord, we build me in 309 00:22:20.599 --> 00:22:23.720 church to okay, I want to take part. He gives 310 00:22:23.799 --> 00:22:28.079 me now even that extra ability to give for his house. 311 00:22:30.279 --> 00:22:33.839 That's who That's the God that we serve. That's who 312 00:22:33.839 --> 00:22:39.839 he is. He's after our hearts, not our money. Never 313 00:22:40.880 --> 00:22:44.119 Verse nine, your curse with a curse for you robbing 314 00:22:44.160 --> 00:22:50.000 me the whole nation off you. The past three weeks 315 00:22:50.039 --> 00:22:52.359 I've been doing book study on the book of Leviticus, 316 00:22:52.480 --> 00:22:56.640 and every time there's a promise, and there's always a 317 00:22:56.640 --> 00:23:01.119 all the the reminders, all the offerings. You do this 318 00:23:01.279 --> 00:23:04.599 when you when you are bad, you do this reminders, 319 00:23:04.640 --> 00:23:08.000 offerings remind their offerings. And then different events after events, 320 00:23:08.319 --> 00:23:12.359 uh pass over, the harvest for the season, the feast 321 00:23:12.359 --> 00:23:17.799 for feast. But what scared scares me is every time, 322 00:23:19.839 --> 00:23:22.920 every time that you actually don't obey, there's a consequence. 323 00:23:23.799 --> 00:23:27.039 I'm not saying, I'm not implying in our situation right 324 00:23:27.079 --> 00:23:30.079 now if that is like a curse. But what I'm 325 00:23:30.240 --> 00:23:34.599 getting at is we be aware that if he is 326 00:23:34.680 --> 00:23:37.519 after our heart, we have to check the condition now 327 00:23:37.720 --> 00:23:46.119 of our hearts. What's the condition of our hearts? He 328 00:23:46.240 --> 00:23:49.559 wants us to return and to return to his fold fully. 329 00:23:50.240 --> 00:23:52.880 Second point, my second point is because God does not change, 330 00:23:53.119 --> 00:23:56.920 we can now receive all his blessings, all his blessings, 331 00:23:57.039 --> 00:24:00.720 not just partial blessings. Okay, are in our night mind 332 00:24:01.039 --> 00:24:04.799 you wired tie and Okay, if I do this, I 333 00:24:04.799 --> 00:24:08.839 get this in return. But God is different. Before we 334 00:24:09.680 --> 00:24:13.240 Roman said, before we actually friends of God, we were sinners. 335 00:24:13.359 --> 00:24:16.359 He already took us in his fall. How many of 336 00:24:16.400 --> 00:24:20.960 you here, you're citizens of the Philippines, Filipino citizens. You 337 00:24:21.039 --> 00:24:25.079 pay taxes, You pay taxes, raisans, raycians, Well, MBI RD, 338 00:24:25.359 --> 00:24:29.000 that's not why. How many of you hear you? You 339 00:24:29.039 --> 00:24:39.400 pay the right taxes. You even know we pay taxes, 340 00:24:39.920 --> 00:24:44.920 actually pay rightful tax We pay taxes because we acknowledge 341 00:24:44.960 --> 00:24:48.279 that we're under the government governance of this nation, right 342 00:24:48.720 --> 00:24:54.880 because we're citizens. But I haven't found a biblical scripture, 343 00:24:55.000 --> 00:24:58.799 so I'm treading on a very thin line here. But 344 00:25:00.240 --> 00:25:03.680 look at this pattern. Listen, if we consider ourselves to 345 00:25:03.720 --> 00:25:08.519 be under the kingship lordship of Jesus Christ, we call 346 00:25:08.559 --> 00:25:14.000 ourselves a sons and daughters. Are we not ought to 347 00:25:14.039 --> 00:25:18.480 give our tithes and offering because we want to be 348 00:25:18.640 --> 00:25:21.920 under his kingship. You know what's good about his kingship. 349 00:25:22.000 --> 00:25:24.680 Let's go back to the chosen week one. When he 350 00:25:24.799 --> 00:25:28.720 chose us. He protects us, and he even preserves us. 351 00:25:30.119 --> 00:25:34.160 If you're under his kingship, he protects you and preserves you. 352 00:25:35.640 --> 00:25:38.440 In Machi verse ten said bring the full tithe into 353 00:25:38.440 --> 00:25:41.640 the storehouse, then there may be food in my house. 354 00:25:42.400 --> 00:25:45.000 And thereby put me to the test, says the Lord 355 00:25:45.000 --> 00:25:49.000 of hosts. If I will not open the windows of 356 00:25:49.079 --> 00:25:52.319 heaven to you and our and pour down for you 357 00:25:52.400 --> 00:25:56.160 a blessing until there is no more need, he would 358 00:25:56.240 --> 00:26:01.000 open the windows of heaven and bore out all his 359 00:26:01.200 --> 00:26:14.400 blessing until sabrang about. I'm gonna be animal. God is 360 00:26:14.440 --> 00:26:17.960 testing our hearts with just the ten percent, just the 361 00:26:18.039 --> 00:26:22.119 ten percent. Chinky Randall, Jason Low and the pastors always 362 00:26:22.160 --> 00:26:26.200 teaches this way. Test is a ten percent how how 363 00:26:26.240 --> 00:26:28.039 how how he taught me before when now I was 364 00:26:28.039 --> 00:26:31.000 starting ten percent ts in offering, ten percent, ten ten 365 00:26:31.039 --> 00:26:38.839 percent tights, ten percent offering, ten percent savings, seventy percent. 366 00:26:39.079 --> 00:26:46.480 Sometimes cause even focus lang thirty percent, seventy percent. Actually, 367 00:26:46.559 --> 00:26:56.960 if you are really mad, leg he didn't just give 368 00:26:57.000 --> 00:27:00.119 you seventy percent. He gave you one hundred percent. As 369 00:27:00.160 --> 00:27:04.359 the Book of Genesis said, he gave you one hundred percent. 370 00:27:06.079 --> 00:27:10.640 And he's just asking rightfully, what is for him? Always 371 00:27:10.880 --> 00:27:14.920 go back to self satisfaction. Does this satisfying satisfy me? 372 00:27:15.200 --> 00:27:18.039 And it would talk about your contentment when you talk 373 00:27:18.079 --> 00:27:24.920 about your contentment now but pass entitlement? Lord entitled, entitled, 374 00:27:25.599 --> 00:27:30.119 So don't you value what is the value of our hearts? 375 00:27:31.000 --> 00:27:41.559 This cuts across employee employee employee employee te pup as well, though, 376 00:27:41.559 --> 00:27:46.200 And that was gonna be all across. Remember, he's not 377 00:27:46.319 --> 00:27:51.240 after the mounts, after our hearts. So what value are 378 00:27:51.279 --> 00:27:53.880 you bringing out? The value of titing is not in 379 00:27:53.920 --> 00:27:58.480 the amount, but in the obedient heart. It's about obedience 380 00:27:58.519 --> 00:28:01.400 of our heart. Do you you want to willingly obey? 381 00:28:02.279 --> 00:28:05.279 Or every time it's begrudging when you give? Are you 382 00:28:05.319 --> 00:28:09.079 a cheerful giver? Not only that is that are you 383 00:28:09.200 --> 00:28:12.720 satisfied with what you have? Are we content with what 384 00:28:12.799 --> 00:28:17.000 we have? Or we're always looking for what we don't have? 385 00:28:17.279 --> 00:28:23.519 And Lord and etonicy change and no, doesn't change, we change. 386 00:28:23.759 --> 00:28:27.359 Verse eleven said, I will rebuke the devour for you 387 00:28:27.640 --> 00:28:30.119 so that it will not destroy the fruits of your soil. 388 00:28:30.400 --> 00:28:33.279 And you're vine in the field shall not fail to bear, 389 00:28:33.440 --> 00:28:38.200 says the Lord of Hosts. He's not only he's not 390 00:28:38.319 --> 00:28:42.039 only after. He's not only looking and trying to protect 391 00:28:42.519 --> 00:28:46.519 and concerned about our tithing and our offering. He's even 392 00:28:46.599 --> 00:28:50.599 concerned with the ninety percent. As I said, he being 393 00:28:50.680 --> 00:28:53.799 part of his kingdom, he would protect us and he 394 00:28:53.839 --> 00:28:59.920 would preserve us. That means lahatina blessing. Then asatin ladam blessing, libghet, 395 00:29:00.039 --> 00:29:02.839 I know wisdom, how to make it grow, How how 396 00:29:02.920 --> 00:29:05.920 not to succumb the temptation, how how how not to 397 00:29:06.000 --> 00:29:09.480 be overly self centered in how we do it? He 398 00:29:09.559 --> 00:29:15.480 would preserve us. And preservation that's the hope, that's the joy. 399 00:29:15.960 --> 00:29:18.839 That's the joy that he wants to give us complete joy, 400 00:29:19.519 --> 00:29:23.960 joy in him. Because God does not change, we can 401 00:29:24.119 --> 00:29:27.960