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Speaker 3: And today we are actually at our third week and
Speaker 3: we'll be talking about Joseph. But last week, if you
Speaker 3: were here, we talked about Mary, Mary the chosen one
Speaker 3: who would carry Jesus in her wound. She was the
Speaker 3: virgin birth de Vachel and the prophecy came to pass
Speaker 3: through her life. And Pastor Ryan was very He was
Speaker 3: emphasizing that what you need to know about Mary's life
Speaker 3: is we may have plans, but don't let your plans
Speaker 3: intervene with God's purpose and poncin Avenue. Pastor Ryan last
Speaker 3: week and today, before we get into the life of Joseph,
Speaker 3: I want to share with you, of course, my family, Yean,
Speaker 3: her husband and wife.
Speaker 4: My wife is here, her name is Pam. We've been married. Taba.
Speaker 4: Did I say her name is Pam in this spam.
Speaker 3: Sorry, her name is Pam. Yeah, sorry imagining Mama Dela.
Speaker 3: I've been married for seven years already. We've lived in
Speaker 3: Cebu for quite some time and we went back here
Speaker 3: in Manila twenty thirteen, if I'm not mistaken. And this
Speaker 3: was a picture of my graduation, of our graduation in
Speaker 3: Pastor Joash. I remember this was November twenty two and
Speaker 3: I was looking at the milestones while preparing for this preaching.
Speaker 4: And the first day.
Speaker 3: Of my joining full time ministry was in August thirty one.
Speaker 4: That was a Monday. I'll never forget that day.
Speaker 3: But before I came into school, of course, there was
Speaker 3: a decision point where I said, Lord, use me, I
Speaker 3: will go into full time ministry. And that was around
Speaker 3: last year. It was last year. Was also the time
Speaker 3: around October I got promoted. I got into a different
Speaker 3: department from marketing.
Speaker 4: Now they brought me to sales.
Speaker 3: I was with the number one selling cement. Yeah, and
Speaker 3: I was working for selling a a cement company back then.
Speaker 4: I was with them for three years.
Speaker 3: And when people would tell me, you know, I think
Speaker 3: you should consider you should pray about getting into full
Speaker 3: time ministry, before probably three years ago, I was just no,
Speaker 3: probably it's not me. Maybe you're just looking at a
Speaker 3: different perspective of me, because I couldn't imagine myself getting
Speaker 3: into full time ministry. I think you face go is
Speaker 3: really more for showbi business, not for end.
Speaker 4: And to call me depo.
Speaker 3: So really I really didn't picture it. And of course
Speaker 3: style I'm sure you guys agree when God asked me
Speaker 3: to do something like you know when he asked me
Speaker 3: with when he gave a word that you're being called
Speaker 3: to ministry Alamnia onion lord baa Pinnagen promote bagritt what
Speaker 3: I'll just leave?
Speaker 4: What is this for now? You now you blessed me.
Speaker 4: I know it's from you.
Speaker 3: I know that you have given me the talent to
Speaker 3: prosper and to to be excellent here in my corporate life.
Speaker 3: Why now would you ask me to leave that? So
Speaker 3: this was the battle that I had for a year
Speaker 3: and a half. It was not really a debate, but
Speaker 3: it was. It was really a time of waiting for
Speaker 3: me and my wife. One of the things that we
Speaker 3: believe in is we need to be united in everything
Speaker 3: that we do in major decisions in our life. So
Speaker 3: if you guys are married. I know, we're just married
Speaker 3: for seven years and we don't have kids yet. But
Speaker 3: really the heart of God is about the unity of
Speaker 3: the family, and if your husband and wife, it's very
Speaker 3: important that you are united. And in this season our
Speaker 3: unity was not.
Speaker 4: At the same time, it was either me first, Lord, yes,
Speaker 4: go and then Palm also had some hesitations.
Speaker 3: We experienced it so many times, even when we went
Speaker 3: back from Sebu to Madela, and I think this was
Speaker 3: the time that we went through a crossroad. It was
Speaker 3: either give up everything that we knew, what was secure
Speaker 3: in life.
Speaker 4: Lord, I can build a career here.
Speaker 3: I can volunteer ament pot on Saturday and Sunday. But
Speaker 3: in Amana after Friday, I'll make sure I give more
Speaker 3: time to you, or maybe I can start.
Speaker 4: A small group in the office.
Speaker 3: This is the battle in my mind because for me,
Speaker 3: I had to give up what I knew then was
Speaker 3: security for something that I wasn't sure of, thing that
Speaker 3: I didn't see, something actually that didn't make sense to.
Speaker 4: Me that time.
Speaker 3: And this was the crossroad that I was going through
Speaker 3: and tied about. When we get to a crossroad, either
Speaker 3: we run to friends or someone older than us we
Speaker 3: run to Anno Joash going resign.
Speaker 4: A battle or should I stay? Should I?
Speaker 3: I was thinking on the logical side of it getting
Speaker 3: to Pauma, except it's a company, and ahman, I need
Speaker 3: to stay at least five years so that if I resigned,
Speaker 3: I get something. Yeah, for a multinational company. I'm sure
Speaker 3: you know this that when you resign, but if you
Speaker 3: reach a certain number of years, you'll get something more
Speaker 3: than your back pay.
Speaker 4: And I was waiting for that five years because you
Speaker 4: get I'll wait for five years.
Speaker 3: But there was a battle within Missaben that God impressed
Speaker 3: to me that it was about time for me to go,
Speaker 3: and there was so many uncertainties. You know, yesterday I
Speaker 3: was talking to one of our youth Sorry, last Friday,
Speaker 3: I was talking to one of our youth ministries, our youth.
Speaker 4: How do you call it?
Speaker 3: Campus missionary? Sorry, I was talking to one of our
Speaker 3: campus missionaries. And you know, developed Christmas, it's full of reunions.
Speaker 3: And the reunions that we go to are not only
Speaker 3: the family, not only the office, but really with the
Speaker 3: high school and college friends. Almoda Ibana last year and
Speaker 3: discussion my friends go was about uh, where to go?
Speaker 4: A new faith, go go, I will go to Boraki,
Speaker 4: I will go to Europe, I will go to the US.
Speaker 3: This year Atapanam and this was a girl who's twenty
Speaker 3: five years old, Sagaya. But the pressure was there, so
Speaker 3: Psycho a new discussion. Should I open an account in Tinder?
Speaker 3: It's I gonna be in Tinder, Marian. Tinder was similar
Speaker 3: to Facebook or Instagram or multiply because in sign multiply
Speaker 3: per any So if you want to follow me, men
Speaker 3: to follow parent all right, So I didn't know that
Speaker 3: Tinder Pala was a dating app. It was like, okay,
Speaker 3: so what's the dilemma. But don't feeling Nela. I said,
Speaker 3: there's no one, uh, no one available to talk to,
Speaker 3: so feeling Nola, they will.
Speaker 4: Do something now. So for them, it may be.
Speaker 3: As simple as opening a Tinder account or just waiting.
Speaker 3: Maybe it was just that though, but for some of
Speaker 3: us it gets actually it gets more complicated for people
Speaker 3: who are in relationships. If you're not get married, you're
Speaker 3: in a relationship that probably gets very this dysfunctional and distracting,
Speaker 3: and you know it's not good for you, And sometimes
Speaker 3: it comes to a point, Lord, should I stay in
Speaker 3: this relationship? And God is probably telling you, I think
Speaker 3: you should break it off, but you would say, the Lord,
Speaker 3: untangle elation, but give up Sag. I will just show
Speaker 3: her a miserable life. And then my gi give up Sag.
Speaker 3: And maybe it's that maybe if you're married right now,
Speaker 3: and probably the crossroad that you have right now, even
Speaker 3: in this season of the year, even in Christmas, you
Speaker 3: don't know what to do. It's either you, guys want
Speaker 3: to buy something next year, or you probably you want
Speaker 3: to my grade.
Speaker 4: These are the topics that I've been hearing Almo.
Speaker 3: I'm just waiting for January, and January I will decide
Speaker 3: to migrade to the US or probably now Canada if
Speaker 3: they don't like the president there.
Speaker 4: These are the crossroads that they go through.
Speaker 3: It's easy to decide, but really doing it is another thing.
Speaker 3: And whenever we go through these crossroads, we pray to
Speaker 3: God and Lord give us direction. Sometimes God gives us
Speaker 3: an answer which is not part of the left and
Speaker 3: the right that we know. God gives us an alternative
Speaker 3: that doesn't make sense to us. And I want to
Speaker 3: talk about that today. I want to talk about obedience.
Speaker 3: And this we can see through the life of Joseph,
Speaker 3: the husband of Mary or the one engaged to marry
Speaker 3: during that time.
Speaker 4: All right, so are you guys ready for the story?
Speaker 3: Before we go to the verse, Joseph was between thirteen
Speaker 3: to twenty years old.
Speaker 4: They got married early. He was a carpenter.
Speaker 3: Out of the five professions during that time in the
Speaker 3: Jewish culture, out of the five professions that they highly regard,
Speaker 3: one would be a carpenter. Being a carpenter doesn't mean
Speaker 3: you're rich, but being a carpenter they take care of
Speaker 3: you in the community.
Speaker 4: Okay, Next we learn that Joseph is also engaged.
Speaker 3: What does that mean? Be throned in those terms? Being
Speaker 3: engaged before what was not just between.
Speaker 4: The male and the female or the guy and the girl.
Speaker 3: Being engaged actually was a different thing in their culture.
Speaker 3: Being engaged was similar to Let's say pastor Joash was
Speaker 3: engaged to her now wife Ethel, and they know that.
Speaker 4: Okay, the community would decide.
Speaker 3: The elders would say, oh, Joash has three siblings, so
Speaker 3: three parents, five probably his relatives would be around thirty.
Speaker 4: Who's close to him. Ethel now has three four the
Speaker 4: four in the family four siblings plus mom and dad,
Speaker 4: and now they have an extended family of fifty so
Speaker 4: eighty plus friends, one hundred the elders.
Speaker 3: This is what they would do, Oh, guys and wedding
Speaker 3: ethel and he passed. Joash would probably be around one
Speaker 3: hundred guests. How much does he need to make that
Speaker 3: wedding happen? Computing lampablek And then now they go to
Speaker 3: Joash the carpenter and they would say, Joe Ash the
Speaker 3: carpenter and Slash pastor, these are the projects that you
Speaker 3: need for you to be able to raise the money
Speaker 3: for your wedding. Start up again engaged during that time, No,
Speaker 3: because if they were involved me and I said, when you're.
Speaker 4: Engaged, you're engaged. I'm gotta go in more.
Speaker 3: Save the date, save up for the gift. Yeah, I
Speaker 3: don't save the date. So yeah, Samon. In their culture,
Speaker 3: being engaged was actually a community.
Speaker 4: And this is where we start the story.
Speaker 3: Okay, in Matthew, we start the story in Matthew eighteen
Speaker 3: Matthew one, verse eighteen, it says here, now the birth
Speaker 3: of Jesus took place.
Speaker 4: This way.
Speaker 3: When his mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph before
Speaker 3: they came together, she was found to be with the
Speaker 3: child from the Holy Spirit. She was found to be
Speaker 3: with the child from the Holy Spirit.
Speaker 4: What does that mean?
Speaker 3: Joseph Joseph Joseph the Indego Ama, What would you feel?
Speaker 3: I mean, if you're a guy here now that you're
Speaker 3: married in all or even if you're single, try to
Speaker 3: picture it. What if your fian say that time would
Speaker 3: go to you and say, by the way, I'm pregnant.
Speaker 4: What would you feel?
Speaker 3: I remember this story about the elephant and the rabbit.
Speaker 3: So the elephant was a guy and then the rabbit
Speaker 3: was a girl. They were friends and Kitaila halfway tom
Speaker 3: rabbit and elephants. So maybe the Lusha elephant. I know,
Speaker 3: I'm being a long rabbit. Yeah, so it's something that
Speaker 3: is crazy Chinky Tan Ryan Tan is it?
Speaker 4: Dan? And you know and Bean jokes did all way?
Speaker 3: So me know what goes to your mind now when
Speaker 3: your fiance tells you that she's pregnant and you're not
Speaker 3: the father.
Speaker 4: What would you feel? Probably lost?
Speaker 3: Angry, bitter, violent, Probably would fits of rage, you would
Speaker 3: feel betrayed, You'd.
Speaker 4: Feel something that would really bring out a green monster
Speaker 4: in you. And you know, I wanted to share this part.
Speaker 4: This took place this way. What does that mean?
Speaker 3: The first Christmas was actually a stressful one. The first
Speaker 3: Christmas took place this way. It was about being betrayed.
Speaker 3: It was about a season of you know, tension ins
Speaker 3: azar and this was the first Christmas.
Speaker 4: Maybe you know what I'm talking about. Maybe some of
Speaker 4: you you feel on Christmas and Enny it's about gifts,
Speaker 4: it's about giving Nino Nina, being a blessing. But here
Speaker 4: you are.
Speaker 3: You drag yourself to church on a Sunday because you're
Speaker 3: going through something and it's the worst time to.
Speaker 4: Go through it, because it's Christmas. This was what Joseph
Speaker 4: was going through.
Speaker 3: Something on Joseph his new status of course complicated, Yeah,
Speaker 3: and loved, hurt and prayed and again bahal nasatandas o,
Speaker 3: hey hey Joe younger young crowd or caninas a five
Speaker 3: grave well went to maw wa.
Speaker 4: Okay, as we.
Speaker 3: Continue the story of Joseph in verse let's see how
Speaker 3: he reacted. It says here and her husband, Joseph, being
Speaker 3: a just man and unwilling to put her to shame,
Speaker 3: resolved to her, resolved to divorce her quietly. Being a
Speaker 3: just man during those days was being the man of
Speaker 3: a man of law, meaning Hindi papai again and Hindi
Speaker 3: tama right, wrong, punishment.
Speaker 4: If you're wrong, reward if it's right.
Speaker 3: And during that time, if you are a just man,
Speaker 3: the right thing to do was drag Mary to the court,
Speaker 3: tell them what she did. Try her and she will
Speaker 3: be punished and nothing Indian punishment of what Mary did?
Speaker 3: Is it lifetime imprisonment? Is it two days in? Is
Speaker 3: it being bashed in the internet. The punishment during those.
Speaker 4: Times was actually being stoned, stoned to death. And that
Speaker 4: is a picture of adjust man in the Jewish culture.
Speaker 3: But again you will see Joseph was unwilling to put
Speaker 3: her to shame. He was also compassionate. He didn't think
Speaker 3: about what he but he wasn't thinking about only of himself.
Speaker 3: He wasn't thinking about the rage or the anger or
Speaker 3: the frustration that he was going through, but he was
Speaker 3: actually thinking about Mary and what she was going through.
Speaker 3: This was the type of man Joseph was. And if
Speaker 3: you're single right here, especially for the women, look for
Speaker 3: a guy like Joseph. Look for a guy like Joseph
Speaker 3: that will not just be angry for what you've done,
Speaker 3: or you know, look for a guy who would.
Speaker 4: Actually think of what you're going through. Look for a
Speaker 4: guy like that. And if you're married.
Speaker 3: There's tension in our marriages, that's for sure. But always
Speaker 3: have that compassion. Never forget what your wife is feeling.
Speaker 3: As he continue in verse twenty, here's what happens next.
Speaker 3: But as he considered these things, as he considered these things,
Speaker 3: as as he considered these things, Joseph was actually thinking.
Speaker 4: I'm not sure if you notice this, but.
Speaker 3: Whenever you read the Bible, even check who's speaking, is
Speaker 3: it being narrated. I'm not sure if you got this.
Speaker 3: But since the start of the story in verse eighteen
Speaker 3: until now, Joseph never said anything.
Speaker 4: He was quiet. He didn't say anything. What does that mean?
Speaker 4: He had to process the issue first. He was thinking.
Speaker 3: He wasn't He didn't decide because he felt the rage.
Speaker 3: He was actually thinking.
Speaker 4: About what to do. That's the type of man Joseph was.
Speaker 3: All right, he was silent, and now behold, an angel
Speaker 3: of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, Joseph,
Speaker 3: son of David, do not fear take Mary as your wife,
Speaker 3: for that which is conceived in her is from the
Speaker 3: Holy Spirit.
Speaker 4: She will bear a son, and you shall call his
Speaker 4: name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.
Speaker 3: Whenever the word behold comes out in the Bible, it
Speaker 3: means there's something that's gonna happen. It means that God
Speaker 3: is intervening. It means that something great is about to happen.
Speaker 4: And it happened here in verse twenty. As you continue
Speaker 4: the verse verse twenty.
Speaker 3: Two, all this took place to fulfill what the Lord
Speaker 3: has spoken by the prophet. Behold, the Virgin shall conceive
Speaker 3: and bear.
Speaker 4: A son, and they shall call him call his name Emmanuel,
Speaker 4: which means God with us. Again and again.
Speaker 3: For the past three weeks, we've been talking about this
Speaker 3: and like to once again emphasize that we need to realize.
Speaker 4: Our life is part of a bigger story.
Speaker 3: Your actions, no matter how small it is, no matter
Speaker 3: how big it is, whatever that is, your actions is
Speaker 3: part of a bigger story.
Speaker 4: It's not only about us.
Speaker 3: It affects our siblings, It affects our family, It affects
Speaker 3: our future children, it affects generations to come. If you
Speaker 3: think about it, how Joseph reacted and even Mary reacted
Speaker 3: is still affected. It has affected every one of us.
Speaker 3: Our decisions in our actions are not only for us,
Speaker 3: but it actually get gets to different generations and what
Speaker 3: happens to the story. It says here in verse twenty four,
Speaker 3: when Joseph woke from sleep, Joseph he did as the
Speaker 3: Angel of the Lord commanded him. He took his wife,
Speaker 3: but knew her not, meaning there was no intimacy. Yet
Speaker 3: knew her not she had given birth, until she had
Speaker 3: given birth to a son.
Speaker 4: And he called his name Jesus. And what do we
Speaker 4: learn here?
Speaker 3: Joseph's obedience was immediate and complete. Joseph's obedience was yes,
Speaker 3: go after the dream when he woke up, go I
Speaker 3: will do that, because you said, Lord, you said, and
Speaker 3: I will do that. Why do you think it was immediate?
Speaker 3: And why do you think it was complete? Was the
Speaker 3: message of the angel clear? Was the message of the angel?
Speaker 3: Did it make sense? Honestly, if you asked me, if
Speaker 3: an angel talked to me and he said that word
Speaker 3: that that son will be the savior, it still wouldn't
Speaker 3: make sense in my mind, because probably if it was me,
Speaker 3: I would still think about the issue.
Speaker 4: That I have with Mary. But why do you think,
Speaker 4: and this is my question, why do you think Joseph
Speaker 4: was able to obey immediately and completely. You know why,
Speaker 4: because Joseph's obedience he was trusting not the instruction.
Speaker 3: He wasn't trusting the instruction, but he trusted the one
Speaker 3: who gave the instruction. Joseph's obedience was because.
Speaker 4: Of the person who gave the command.
Speaker 3: It was being sure that the person who gave the
Speaker 3: command I can trust. In Proverbs three, verse five, it
Speaker 3: says here, trust in the Lord with all your heart,
Speaker 3: and do not lean on your own understanding in all
Speaker 3: your ways. Acknowledge him, and he will make your path straight.
Speaker 3: You know what, most of the time, when we need
Speaker 3: to make a decision, we always use which is not bad.
Speaker 3: We always use what what is logical common sense, use
Speaker 3: our experiences, we use our connections, We use what works
Speaker 3: for us. We always use the things that will make
Speaker 3: sure that the future is protected.
Speaker 4: We know what will happen. We're not creatures of not
Speaker 4: seeing the future.
Speaker 3: We have a hard time grasping things that we're not
Speaker 3: sure of. That's why whenever we decide, we always tend
Speaker 3: to use our logic. We always tend to use what
Speaker 3: we've tried and tested. But here in this perspective, what
Speaker 3: God is saying is there are things that you will
Speaker 3: never understand. There are things that only God can understand
Speaker 3: because He is the Alpha and the omega. We're just
Speaker 3: in between. He knows what will happen tomorrow. He knows
Speaker 3: what's best for you. Sometimes we think that this is
Speaker 3: the thing that's best for us, but really God knows
Speaker 3: what's best for you. And now we can never understand.
Speaker 3: But there's one thing that we can be sure of
Speaker 3: that we can trust in God's wisdom. As I end
Speaker 3: my testimony, I just want to continue the story that
Speaker 3: I started the day that we decided and said, Lord
Speaker 3: use us.
Speaker 4: I resigned from work. Took us some time. I resigned
Speaker 4: from work even though I wasn't sure of what would
Speaker 4: happen to us, And.
Speaker 3: Honestly, I just want to share with you. Probably the
Speaker 3: major concern would be finances. It was somewhat a pay
Speaker 3: cut for me and my wife, and to be honest,
Speaker 3: it wasn't easy. But I just got reminded we were
Speaker 3: talking about this past Josh and I were talking about this.
Speaker 3: I got reminded that we are people of God and
Speaker 3: we do not walk by side, but we walk by faith.
Speaker 4: We just do it. Because we trust in Him.
Speaker 3: Three weeks ago, right after the graduation, probably two weeks ago,
Speaker 3: I got a call from the office and saying, you know,
Speaker 3: you can get your last paycheck. And when I got
Speaker 3: my last paycheck, since I've told you a while ago,
Speaker 3: I've been with them for only three years, it was
Speaker 3: I was actually expecting just my back pay of the
Speaker 3: last month that David held And for some reason, when
Speaker 3: I got the check and when they asked me to
Speaker 3: receive it, it was an amount that I never honestly,
Speaker 3: I never really expected that. And I knew at that
Speaker 3: moment God was assuring me that he would take care
Speaker 3: of me and my wife, he would take care of
Speaker 3: the future. That that act of obedience and saying, Lord,
Speaker 3: use me, he will take care of the rest.
Speaker 4: He answered the one.
Speaker 3: Thing that we hesitated on, and that promotion that I
Speaker 3: was talking about, the promotion that transferred me from one
Speaker 3: department to another, had given me a different perspective of
Speaker 3: the company. And now where I am now, that's the
Speaker 3: training that I needed to where I am here in
Speaker 3: Victor Greenhills. Our obedience to God. It happens when we
Speaker 3: learn to trust in God and in his wisdom. I
Speaker 3: want to say it again. Our obedience to God happens
Speaker 3: when we.
Speaker 4: Learn to trust God and his wisdom.
Speaker 3: Just like a doctor, you have a massive headache and
Speaker 3: he gives you a tablet, doesn't say anything, He'll just
Speaker 3: tell you drink it.
Speaker 4: You'll feel better instantly. You'll drink it.
Speaker 3: You won't ask him what's this? Where is it made?
Speaker 3: From what it's contents? Is it expired? You'll instantly take it.
Speaker 3: You know why, because you trust the doctor. You'll drink
Speaker 3: it because you trust the doctor. The question is, when
Speaker 3: God asks you to do so something, do you trust
Speaker 3: him enough that that decision of obedience will be better
Speaker 3: for you, that that act of obedience is better for you.
Speaker 3: As I close, just a few practical tips, how do
Speaker 3: we obey God?
Speaker 4: You know, this is the perfect time that we talk
Speaker 4: about it.
Speaker 3: It's almost a Christmas rush. You guys are busy, but
Speaker 3: next week I'm sure it's all family time.
Speaker 4: You guys are probably going to the provinces or abroad,
Speaker 4: and it's the perfect time, I tell you, the perfect
Speaker 4: time to re establish your relationship with God.
Speaker 3: First, read your Bible, learn who God is. You know,
Speaker 3: this is what I learned in my walk with God
Speaker 3: for more than a decade. Friends, Church, this is what
Speaker 3: I realized. That it's easier to trust someone you know.
Speaker 3: If you don't know God, it's hard to trust him.
Speaker 3: But once you learn that God is sovereign. When she
Speaker 3: learned that God is your provider. Once you learned that
Speaker 3: what you're feeling right now, if you're sick, God is
Speaker 3: your healer. Once you learned that God is not only
Speaker 3: a God, but he is also a father who.
Speaker 4: Calls you son and daughter. Once you learn your position
Speaker 4: in Christ, you can now run to him and ask
Speaker 4: for anything. This is the God that we serve. So
Speaker 4: read your Bible. Learn who God is.
Speaker 3: Second, ask seek the hardest questions. Ask him, Lord, why
Speaker 3: am I here? What's my purpose in life?
Speaker 4: Lord?
Speaker 3: Back then of a prosper in business? Go Lord, why
Speaker 3: is my practice like this? My studies are like this,
Speaker 3: I've been putting ours?
Speaker 4: Lord? Why?
Speaker 3: Ask him the hardest questions and you will learn that
Speaker 3: God will walk you through it. Ask him why indianapoademic,
Speaker 3: unlimited the globe or so smart.
Speaker 4: Over God? Ask him anything?
Speaker 3: Ask him anything, because that's a relationship between you and God.
Speaker 3: It's as if you're talking to someone in the flesh. Third,
Speaker 3: believe he will answer.
Speaker 4: Claim it. Lord, I know that you will answer my prayers.
Speaker 3: I know God that you will speak to me in
Speaker 3: where I am right now, in my studies, in my relationship,
Speaker 3: in anywhere you are, God will speak to you.
Speaker 4: The question is are you hearing him? Sometimes we're hearing
Speaker 4: a lot of things.
Speaker 3: We're preoccupied with so many messages.
Speaker 4: Sometimes we just need to be quiet and try to
Speaker 4: hear the voice of God.
Speaker 3: Lastly, when we trust when he answers, trust him when
Speaker 3: he answers, no matter how.
Speaker 4: Illogical it is for you know that it's.
Speaker 3: God's wisdom and you can trust him as soon as
Speaker 3: he answers, and you trust him obey.
Speaker 4: This is where Robber meets the road.
Speaker 3: That's why last story before I we close, Uh, I
Speaker 3: suffered a it's called the mallet finger. You have doctors here.
Speaker 3: It's called the mallet finger. So half of my time
Speaker 3: in a school of church leadership with Pastor Joash I
Speaker 3: was with the splint. So it's hard, hard to function,
Speaker 3: Saba splint ligu plastic.
Speaker 4: This was my life for two and a half months,
Speaker 4: not splin. You know how I got it?
Speaker 3: So I was dunking the ball and there was this
Speaker 3: classmate of R. S Body Cruz sixty one and an
Speaker 3: tears of Ruse. I was dunking the ball and then
Speaker 3: another guy, so I had to go under. And when
Speaker 3: I went around, Sumabitu the.
Speaker 4: Lead ego, but the whole Christian as being seen into
Speaker 4: to so I had to put young reason. I was
Speaker 4: tucking my shirt in so pa total bend. It was straight.
Speaker 3: So they call it a mallet finger usually though it
Speaker 3: happens in extreme sports in basketball, but it happened in
Speaker 3: my taking the shirt in. So I know it's not
Speaker 3: something that I'm proud of, but it happened, okay, And
Speaker 3: thank God for friends.
Speaker 4: From Victory Green Niels.
Speaker 3: One of our doctors, Doc Ryan, who's a or orto
Speaker 3: Peddy and see Doc Ryan.
Speaker 4: So I go, Doc, I'm not sure if my finger broke,
Speaker 4: but I don't feel anything. It's numb.
Speaker 3: But they can't put it straight, so weirdn't actually straight,
Speaker 3: save bro. I'll take an X ray just to be sure.
Speaker 3: So go to medical city. Sack time here, sack time here,
Speaker 3: so and take ulo.
Speaker 4: She didn't do my injection, isn't he she didn't do? Am? I?
Speaker 4: So pam.
Speaker 3: When we got to the hospital. There was a girl
Speaker 3: I still remember from.
Speaker 4: An exclusive from a well known school in Katipunan, and
Speaker 4: I think she was a what do.
Speaker 1: You call that?
Speaker 4: Cheerleader? Sam?
Speaker 3: I know she was a cheerleader and I never got
Speaker 3: her name or anything. But she went in alone.
Speaker 4: She's most always, so I'm going to I mean she
Speaker 4: went in alone, drove herself.
Speaker 3: She had a huge uh book call in her forehead.
Speaker 3: I don't know what boot call in the English is.
Speaker 4: Yeah bomb here she had a huge bump and bruise
Speaker 4: on her as in huge paras.
Speaker 3: Turns out when she when they threw her as in
Speaker 3: pang as in Okay to guy, So okay. I was
Speaker 3: with Pam and for some reasons, and I have to
Speaker 3: confess this. I didn't tell this Canina. The only spirit
Speaker 3: was telling me to pray for her. I'm not sure
Speaker 3: if God allowed my tendon to be broken Indiana, Man,
Speaker 3: I'm sure in that it was because of my club siniess.
Speaker 4: But God was telling me to pray for her. Pray
Speaker 4: for her, Pray for her, Hey, Lord, indeed, don't I pray.
Speaker 3: I was battling with God and going back to Joseph,
Speaker 3: you never said anything, Lord, but no, no, and I
Speaker 3: was battling with God but with a small thing.
Speaker 4: It really didn't matter. I was just gonna, can I
Speaker 4: pray for you selfishness and it was a really ago
Speaker 4: Lord blipu and.
Speaker 3: A wonga pay pray, go Lord, you'll be diko shpidek
Speaker 3: pray and up to now I really feel bad about it.
Speaker 3: Really And this morning, I know you guys are familiar
Speaker 3: with the Blessed the City project. We distributed several bags.
Speaker 4: To our mole security.
Speaker 3: This morning, I was with Baal and Mitch. Pastor Alan
Speaker 3: Alan was sharing the word. He was sharing about God's
Speaker 3: goodness Sarama and so Pastor Alan was sharing the good news,
Speaker 3: was praying for them, and for some reason again God
Speaker 3: told me to pray for the guards even though in
Speaker 3: py praying as Pastor Alan, and you know, in as
Speaker 3: a prayer go and I.
Speaker 4: Knew God wanted me to do it, and I allowed
Speaker 4: it and I obeyed in prayer. Go.
Speaker 3: I'm not sure if you remember, I go Lord salamat
Speaker 3: Sama guards Alamco doing some more goers that he knew,
Speaker 3: so Mitanzilla oh Bro doing some more goers nega galet
Speaker 3: but checking lame.
Speaker 4: But yeah, this was the prayer that I gave. I
Speaker 4: don't know what what's the effect to them? But I obeyed. Anyway.
Speaker 3: It's a small thing. It's a good practice. When God
Speaker 3: asks you to do something, just do it doesn't matter.
Speaker 3: You don't need to know an effect.
Speaker 4: Yesterday the second batchabin Passer Alan bro I think prayer. Yeah.
Speaker 4: I was like, oh, I know, that's where he realized
Speaker 4: knight chief.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So anyway, all I'm saying is obedience happens when we
Speaker 3: trust the one who's giving the command.
Speaker 4: Amen, before we end and before I pray. If you
Speaker 4: want a simpler.
Speaker 3: Reminder of God's obedience, if you don't have time to
Speaker 3: write this down and do it step by step, I
Speaker 3: want to share with you a perfect picture of obedience.
Speaker 3: This is the perfect picture of obedience. It was actually
Speaker 3: the son obeying the father to do the will. It
Speaker 3: was actually fulfilling the mission. It was the perfect and
Speaker 3: most relevant act of obedience a son could do, not
Speaker 3: only for his father, actually for you. It was the
Speaker 3: ultimate act of obedience, dying on the cross.
Speaker 4: For us.
Speaker 3: So if you're going through something right now and it's
Speaker 3: hard to obey, God has done it for you.
Speaker 4: Jesus has done it for us.
Speaker 3: And really, every time I have a hard time deciding
Speaker 3: and saying, Lord, use me, all I have to do
Speaker 3: is go back to the cross and remind myself, Lord,
Speaker 3: You've done it for me.
Speaker 4: Whatever I'll do for you is nothing compared to this
Speaker 4: dying for me for the sins that I have done,
Speaker 4: is nothing compared to the act of obedience I will do.
Speaker 3: You know what, Church, God's great love and act of
Speaker 3: obedience has impacted your life, It has impacted mine, and
Speaker 3: the things that we do on a daily basis will
Speaker 3: impact the lives of the people around you.
Speaker 4: So the question is are you part of that story
Speaker 4: that glorifies God or the their side of it. Let's pray,
Speaker 4: Heavenly Father, thank you God, that.
Speaker 3: Not only that you give us a picture of perfect obedience.
Speaker 3: Lord Lord, just like what we prayed a while ago,
Speaker 3: you're speaking in and through each and every one of
Speaker 3: your church this evening that the perfect act of obedience
Speaker 3: they can share this this Christmas season.
Speaker 4: Lord.
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 3: For a fact that some of the people here in
Speaker 3: this room, You've been talking to them. Clearly, you've been
Speaker 3: asking them to obey. But sometimes as humans we are,
Speaker 3: we shut our ears, try to run away, try to
Speaker 3: try to neglect what you're saying. But right now, I declare,
Speaker 3: and I challenge them, right now in the name of Jesus,
Speaker 3: give them the courage to obey. Father, Thank you that
Speaker 3: we can go back to the Bible as a reference
Speaker 3: of our obedience. Thank you, Lord, God that as you
Speaker 3: speak your word, it's gonna pierce them. Right now, it's
Speaker 3: gonna move them, Lord, to obey your commands.
Speaker 4: Lord, Thank you that what you are asking for them.
Speaker 4: In Romans twelve, chapter.
Speaker 3: Two says your will is always good, pleasing, and perfect.
Speaker 3: Thank you, Father for this opportunity to stand in faith, Lord, God,
Speaker 3: that we can live not by sight. Lord, Thank you
Speaker 3: Father that we can have an obedient heart tonight.
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