Speaker 1: Welcome Just hand Away Tagalog Sermon podcast, your daily dose
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Speaker 3: You in good shame and now here's your message. You're
Speaker 3: listening to a podcast from Victory. God's mission from the
Speaker 3: beginning has been to go into all the world, but
Speaker 3: man's tendency is to settle. Learn more about this truth
Speaker 3: in week one of our series All Access.
Speaker 1: Right now, we're going to take a serious break every year.
Speaker 1: We normally take two Sundays in order for us to
Speaker 1: be able to talk about something that is very important
Speaker 1: to us as a church and as a whole movement,
Speaker 1: which is World Missions. And I like the title all
Speaker 1: Access because it's a faith declaration. It's us saying that
Speaker 1: there is no nation that we cannot reach by the
Speaker 1: Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Speaker 2: And one of the verses in.
Speaker 1: The Bible that I really like, which became a scripture
Speaker 1: that I really hold on to, especially when I'm facing
Speaker 1: a difficult situation, is John chapter six, verse six. And
Speaker 1: the setting was when Jesus preached to five thousand people
Speaker 1: and it was getting dark and they need to send
Speaker 1: people away because there's no food for them and it's
Speaker 1: getting dark. And Jesus told these disciples to give them food,
Speaker 1: and they said, there's no way we can do that.
Speaker 1: There's no seven eleven here, there's no catering service. Five
Speaker 1: thousand people. You're talking about five thousand people. And John six,
Speaker 1: verse six said that he only asked them to test
Speaker 1: Philip because you already have in mind what he's going
Speaker 1: to do.
Speaker 2: He already had a solution.
Speaker 1: So it's not that God was caught by price and
Speaker 1: doesn't know what to do, but it's just putting these
Speaker 1: disciples in a situation where they can learn how to
Speaker 1: live by faith, not by sight. And so all access
Speaker 1: were saying, there's no nation, no city, no campus that
Speaker 1: we cannot reach by the Gospel of Christ. And this
Speaker 1: is still very much in line with our series Redefined
Speaker 1: jesus Sermon on the Mount, where Jesus taught his disciples
Speaker 1: what kingdom living is all about, and he thought about
Speaker 1: kingdom values, and that's what this series is about. Also,
Speaker 1: you know, there's this funny story that my friend told
Speaker 1: me at the time when he was getting a lot
Speaker 1: of promotions in his company so as a way to celebrate,
Speaker 1: he asked some of his relatives to join him in Softel,
Speaker 1: Okay to have a dinner buffet. So in few relatives,
Speaker 1: some of them it was their first time to really
Speaker 1: be in a setting like that, so it was really
Speaker 1: awkward in a hotel buffet. They're not used to that
Speaker 1: kind of setting. So when when they were there already,
Speaker 1: he said, go enjoy. So was one by one they
Speaker 1: came back and then uh, when one of her, one
Speaker 1: of his relatives came back. Actually in Titan is a plate,
Speaker 1: No Titan, I have a picture Loreate Choking Laureate, Savina
Speaker 1: Tita Sabind. So although it was a five star hotel
Speaker 1: international buffet, there's a lot of options.
Speaker 2: To choose from.
Speaker 1: She went back to what she's used to, what she's
Speaker 1: familiar with, Sabi.
Speaker 2: Jian.
Speaker 1: So she just went back and my friend was telling
Speaker 1: me this, and Sabia sang been a go. I paid
Speaker 1: thousands of US. If I only knew, then we just
Speaker 1: went to Chow King instead.
Speaker 2: If I only knew.
Speaker 1: Now, that's a funny story. But if you think about
Speaker 1: it as Christians, that's also our proclivity, that's our tendency
Speaker 1: in order for us to go back to our old
Speaker 1: ways and sometimes go back to our old pattern of thinking.
Speaker 1: Even though we're already part of the Kingdom of God
Speaker 1: under the rule of Christ and the Bible is now
Speaker 1: the standard of how we live and what we believe,
Speaker 1: there is still this pool, and there's tendency for us
Speaker 1: to go back to the old pattern of thinking and
Speaker 1: way of life that we became accustomed to prior to
Speaker 1: encountering Christ.
Speaker 2: Soda.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure if that will work, but this one,
Speaker 1: I've tried it for so long, and so that's why
Speaker 1: there's a need for us to constantly for our mind
Speaker 1: to be renewed by the word of God and for
Speaker 1: God to transform us from the inside out. The Bible says,
Speaker 1: but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, and
Speaker 1: you will know and test the good, pleasing and perfect
Speaker 1: will of God. So the Bible says, do not conform
Speaker 1: any longer to the pattern of this world.
Speaker 2: Whether you're aware of.
Speaker 1: It or not, you're using a pattern when it comes
Speaker 1: to your marriage, when it comes to your life, when
Speaker 1: it comes to your finances, when it comes to your identity.
Speaker 1: There is a pattern that you're using that serve us
Speaker 1: the peg.
Speaker 2: Picture Cole.
Speaker 1: But God said, stop using the pattern of this world.
Speaker 1: If you want to walk in the destiny that God
Speaker 1: is for you. If we want to experience God, God
Speaker 1: pleasing and perfect will, we have to embrace the pattern
Speaker 1: of His word. And we need to align our hearts
Speaker 1: and our lives to His word every single day. And
Speaker 1: one of the things that need to change in our
Speaker 1: mindset is this idea that we are not just local Christians,
Speaker 1: we are global Christians. That you are not just a believer,
Speaker 1: you are called to be a world changer. That's why
Speaker 1: in the early days nineteen eighty four, one of the
Speaker 1: sayings that we have in order to reinforce this value
Speaker 1: is the saying of a Bible and a passport. Okay,
Speaker 1: and our leaders would tell us and one of our.
Speaker 2: Leaders originals Sabinian year.
Speaker 1: But during the early years, and you belt when we
Speaker 1: only have hundreds of students, no money, provincial students, no
Speaker 1: excellent facility, or just a new church of one hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty students. Yet in spite of that, at that
Speaker 1: time they would tell the new believers students, if you
Speaker 1: are serious about following Christ, you need two things. You
Speaker 1: need a passport, and a Bible. You need the Bible
Speaker 1: to know God, and you need the passport to obey God.
Speaker 1: Because you are not just called to be a local Christian.
Speaker 1: You are called to be a global Christian. When I
Speaker 1: became part of Victory, when I was in college, I
Speaker 1: think I was seventeen or eighteen years old, almost twenty
Speaker 1: years ago, I was told the same way. I've never
Speaker 1: been out of the country. I was a provincial student,
Speaker 1: and our leaders would tell us, you get a Bible
Speaker 1: and a passport because you are going to nations, you're
Speaker 1: going to preach the gospel.
Speaker 2: So come in a man ahme and we come on,
Speaker 2: let's go.
Speaker 1: Okayamasa clueless command and we just received it by faith,
Speaker 1: not really fully.
Speaker 2: Understanding how it's going to happen.
Speaker 1: But that just because we have no idea of how
Speaker 1: it's going to happen now, it doesn't mean it can't
Speaker 1: happen to us. Okay, If that's God's word, we have
Speaker 1: to receive it, we have to declare it, we have
Speaker 1: to believe it until we see it happen.
Speaker 2: And so that's what we're going to talk about today.
Speaker 1: If you have your Bible with you are going to
Speaker 1: read the story and Genesis eleven beginning verse one to nine. Okay,
Speaker 1: early days they said, we need a Bible in a passport.
Speaker 1: And I'm sure many of us, if not all of us,
Speaker 1: we already have one of the two requirements. We already
Speaker 1: have the passport Bible. We're trying to work work on
Speaker 1: that that we will not just hold our Bible, but
Speaker 1: the Bible will get into our heart. So Genesi is eleven.
Speaker 1: We're going to start in verse one. It says, now
Speaker 1: the whole earth had one language and the same words.
Speaker 1: And as people migrated from the east, they found a
Speaker 1: plain in the land of Sheennar and settled there. And
Speaker 1: they said to one another, come, let us make bricks
Speaker 1: and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone,
Speaker 1: and bite themIn for mortar. Then they said, come, let
Speaker 1: us build ourselves a city and a tower with its
Speaker 1: stop in the heavens, and let us make a name
Speaker 1: for ourselves, lest we be dispersed over the face of
Speaker 1: the whole earth. And the Lord came down to see
Speaker 1: the city and the tower which the children of man
Speaker 1: had built. And the Lord said, behold, they are one people,
Speaker 1: and they have all one language, and this is only
Speaker 1: the beginning of what they will do, and nothing that
Speaker 1: they proposed to do will now be impossible for them.
Speaker 2: Come let us go down.
Speaker 1: And they're confused their language so that they may not
Speaker 1: understand one another's speech. So the Lord dispersed them from
Speaker 1: there over the face of all the earth, and they
Speaker 1: left up building the city. Therefore its name was called Babel,
Speaker 1: because they're the lord confused the language of all the earth.
Speaker 1: And from there the Lord dispersed them over the face
Speaker 1: of the earth. This is a famous story in the Bible,
Speaker 1: in Genesis eleven. And they said, during that time, there's
Speaker 1: only one language, and people are using the same word. Now,
Speaker 1: it's just I just really enjoyed imagining how that looked
Speaker 1: like during their time. Can you imagine you have Chinese, Germans,
Speaker 1: you have Indians, you have all kinds of people, but
Speaker 1: they are speaking the same language and speaking the same word.
Speaker 1: No need for trans translators and no need for sign language.
Speaker 1: You can just and verse with anyone you like. I
Speaker 1: remember this story, funny story. The mom of one of
Speaker 1: our pastors at that time was working in the United Nations,
Speaker 1: so she's the one who told the story Sabina one
Speaker 1: time as an elevator sla. So you can just imagine
Speaker 1: all kinds of people working in that building. And when
Speaker 1: they were writing the elevator, may Pino can see you again,
Speaker 1: taps and the mom known pastor not Caucasian, came on
Speaker 1: the closure elevator and say, so they were doing that
Speaker 1: the whole time until at a certain floor, and then
Speaker 1: open your elevator. Then somebody came in also PINOI you
Speaker 1: never recognized new Caucasian looking Abare Camusta, ca, Bang nationality,
Speaker 1: Bang languagees Pilano. Now in Genesis eleven, verse one, at
Speaker 1: that time the whole earth had one language and same words.
Speaker 1: And as people migrated from the east, they found a
Speaker 1: plane in the land of Shinar, and they settled. Now,
Speaker 1: settling down was really is really a positive thing. Sometimes
Speaker 1: it can mean a person who's planning to get married
Speaker 1: para settled down or planning to buy a house, or
Speaker 1: maybe it means somebody who finally found stability in this
Speaker 1: place of work or where they are living. So it's
Speaker 1: not a negative thing. But the word used here meant
Speaker 1: to stay, to dwell, and to remain. So when the
Speaker 1: Bible said that when they saw that the plane of Shinar,
Speaker 1: they saw it was a good land. They imagined all
Speaker 1: kinds of possibilities and opportunities. They said among themselves, sabinila wegnataiomalistito,
Speaker 1: let's settle here. Now that was a negative word because
Speaker 1: the original mandate of God for them was not to settle,
Speaker 1: but to scatter. So they're saying, let's not continue on
Speaker 1: with the mandate of God. Instead, let's just focus here.
Speaker 1: Let's just build our houses, our businesses, and let's.
Speaker 2: Just take care of ourselves.
Speaker 1: So it was contradicting God's will right from the beginning.
Speaker 1: In Genesis chapter one, verse twenty eight, we can see
Speaker 1: it says, and God blessed them talking about Adam and Eve,
Speaker 1: and he said, be fruitful and multiply and feel the earth.
Speaker 1: Genesis nine, verse one, Noah and his descendants, he said,
Speaker 1: And God bless Noah and his sons and said to them,
Speaker 1: be fruitful and multiply and feel the earth. When God
Speaker 1: created Adam and Eve, God created them with the mission,
Speaker 1: and everything that God gave them, the resources, the intelligence,
Speaker 1: the talent, the gifting, the ability, all of it that
Speaker 1: God has given to them was supposed to be used
Speaker 1: to accomplish this mission of filling the earth with God's glory,
Speaker 1: you know, in the same way with us. Maybe your
Speaker 1: good in science and math, maybe you're an entrepreneur, a businessman,
Speaker 1: whatever talent, whatever resources God is given to you. The
Speaker 1: purpose of that is for God to be honored and
Speaker 1: for us to be a blessing to the ends of
Speaker 1: the earth. We're supposed to use that to point people
Speaker 1: to Christ, not to us. And so that was the
Speaker 1: original mandate, even during the time of Jesus. Fast forward
Speaker 1: when Jesus came. The mandate never change. It's still the
Speaker 1: same before Jesus went back to heaven. Here's jesus last
Speaker 1: word to his disciples in Matthew chapter twenty eight, verse nineteen.
Speaker 1: He said, go therefore, everyone say go, go therefore and
Speaker 1: make disciples of all nations. It's never to stay or settle.
Speaker 1: Jesus never said settle down where you are.
Speaker 2: No, he said.
Speaker 1: Go, go and make disciples. And that's not only God's word,
Speaker 1: Jesus word to his disciples.
Speaker 2: It's still the same word for you and me today.
Speaker 2: Go don't settle.
Speaker 1: You know, somebody said that there are three kinds of
Speaker 1: people in church, the quitters, the campers, and the climbers, quitters,
Speaker 1: people don't stick with with.
Speaker 2: With their walk with God weeks.
Speaker 1: Lang Man's Lanta was they started out on fire, but
Speaker 1: then along the way when they encountered inconvenience, offense and challenges,
Speaker 1: they immediately quit.
Speaker 2: Then the campers they settled, Sunday Church.
Speaker 1: Beginning, Adamites campers they settled. But there's another group of people,
Speaker 1: the climbers, and that speaks of people who are pressing
Speaker 1: on people who refuse to settle. Yes we are blessed,
Speaker 1: Yes we are. God has been good to us, but
Speaker 1: we know that it's not just for us to.
Speaker 2: Be blessed, it's for us to be a blessing. You know.
Speaker 2: I'm so blessed. I just don't have a picture here.
Speaker 1: One of our leaders in the seven o'clock service, who
Speaker 1: are in their sixties, and when I was having coffee
Speaker 1: with them, I think two three weeks ago, I'm just
Speaker 1: blown away how God is using them running multiple victory groups.
Speaker 1: I mean, and in one of the companies that they
Speaker 1: are ministering to, at least fifty people already went through
Speaker 1: victory weekend. I'm just amazed, And I said, I want
Speaker 1: to be like that. When I reached that age. I
Speaker 1: don't want to settle. I want to keep pressing on.
Speaker 1: I want to keep going. I don't want just to
Speaker 1: talk about what God did in me and through me
Speaker 1: ten twenty years ago. I want to have fresh stories.
Speaker 1: I want to have fresh testimonies of God. Question is
Speaker 1: are you a camper or are you a climber? Are
Speaker 1: you still going?
Speaker 2: Are you still pressing on?
Speaker 1: Genesis eleven, verse three, And they said to one another, come,
Speaker 1: let us make bricks and burn them thoroughly, and then
Speaker 1: let us build ourselves a city and a tower with
Speaker 1: its stopped in the heavens. Let us make a name
Speaker 1: for ourselves. Three times the word let us was mentioned.
Speaker 1: And in the Bible, if a word is repeated twice,
Speaker 1: especially three times, God was sending a message.
Speaker 2: There is a point that he wanted to make.
Speaker 1: So this was a huge undertaking, a big project. They
Speaker 1: are trying to build a tower that will reach the
Speaker 1: heaven Today, the tallest building in the world is in.
Speaker 2: Dubai, Okay Borge Khalifa.
Speaker 1: According to our very credible source Google, it costs one
Speaker 1: point five billion US dollars or approximately seventy six billion
Speaker 1: pesos to construct this building and it took twenty two
Speaker 1: million man hours or six years in order to finish
Speaker 1: this project. And that's with all the advanced technology and
Speaker 1: equipment that we have today. And that's not even reaching
Speaker 1: the heavens. It's just two seven hundred plus five two
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty one floors. But it took them six
Speaker 1: years in order to finish this project. Can you imagine
Speaker 1: how difficult this project was, trying to erect a building
Speaker 1: that will reach the heaven without the advanced technology and equipment,
Speaker 1: manual labor. What's amazing is what God said about this
Speaker 1: building project. Three times he said it said, let us
Speaker 1: we're going to make bricks.
Speaker 2: There's no enough stone. We're going to make bricks. We're
Speaker 2: going to do it.
Speaker 1: Yet, God said, even though they have the wrong motive,
Speaker 1: but because they are united, one people, one language, nothing
Speaker 1: that they proposed to do will be.
Speaker 2: Impossible for them.
Speaker 1: This was a negative example, but God used this to
Speaker 1: give us a powerful lesson on the power of unity.
Speaker 1: This is God's way of saying that there's endless possibilities
Speaker 1: for people who are in unity. Endless possibilities are available
Speaker 1: for people who are in unity. That's why it's important
Speaker 1: that we fight for unity. No wonder in the New Testament,
Speaker 1: Jesus prayed for unity. He said, Lord, I pray this
Speaker 1: not only for the disciples you gave me today, but
Speaker 1: for the disciples, the people who will believe you in
Speaker 1: the future. That's talking about us. And he said, Lord,
Speaker 1: I pray that you will make them one, just as
Speaker 1: we are one. Jesus prayed that we will have unity.
Speaker 1: Apostle Paul in Ephicients chapter three, I believe he said,
Speaker 1: make every effort to protect that unity and the bond
Speaker 1: of peace among the believers. How many of you know
Speaker 1: it takes a lot of effort to stay united. And
Speaker 1: that's true for married people. That's true for teams, that's
Speaker 1: true for churches, that's true for companies. It requires so
Speaker 1: much effort for people to be together and have one
Speaker 1: mind and one heart and one spirit. And Paul said,
Speaker 1: make every effort, and by the grace of God, you know,
Speaker 1: and we say this with all humility, by the grace
Speaker 1: of God, the past thirty three years, in spite of
Speaker 1: us having lots of strong, highly opinionated leaders, we never
Speaker 1: had a single church split.
Speaker 2: By the grace of God, we stayed united.
Speaker 1: You know why, because our leaders made a commitment that
Speaker 1: we will fight for this relationship.
Speaker 2: We will fight for unity, and God just show us
Speaker 2: the power of unity.
Speaker 1: That's why it's important as married people that we fight
Speaker 1: for the unity of that marriage. The Bible says a
Speaker 1: house or kingdom divided against itself will not stand. But
Speaker 1: if you are united, there's end less possibility for you.
Speaker 1: Whatever God called you to do, if you are together.
Speaker 2: Everything is possible. So we fight for that. Unity is important.
Speaker 1: And just for world missions, I'm not sure friends, if
Speaker 1: we have a picture, it's amazing. We set out and
Speaker 1: we show this every time we have missions caravan. But
Speaker 1: these are the nations that we prayed for in the
Speaker 1: past and that we are praying for.
Speaker 2: For until twenty twenty.
Speaker 1: In Southeast Asia, po we planted the church already in
Speaker 1: every single nation.
Speaker 2: Amazing.
Speaker 1: Let's give a lot a big hand for that. Nineteen
Speaker 1: eighty four, one hundred and fifty students. They're just praying
Speaker 1: for the nations, not knowing where the funds will be
Speaker 1: coming or how it's going to happen.
Speaker 2: We only have one church and.
Speaker 1: New built thirty three years after we planted churches and
Speaker 1: every nation in Southeast Asia we're moving in other nations.
Speaker 1: Jesus said, go and make disciples of all nations twenty thirteen,
Speaker 1: twenty fourteen, twenty fifteen up to twenty eighteen. All of
Speaker 1: these nations we've already sent missionaries, and we already have
Speaker 1: ongoing church planting effort.
Speaker 2: Amazing. It's possible by the grace of God.
Speaker 1: But it's amazing what God can accomplish when people come
Speaker 1: together in unity. That's why you on phrase Paul Young
Speaker 1: saying nothing. We are better together. It's not just a
Speaker 1: cute hashtag for us. It's a ministry philosophy based on
Speaker 1: our understanding of the Word of God.
Speaker 2: We are better together.
Speaker 1: It's worth fighting for our relationship. We don't fight against
Speaker 1: each other. We fight for each other. We overlook offenses.
Speaker 1: We're saying, I'm committed to you.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: What made this wrong because God confuse their language. They
Speaker 1: joined together, they set out to settle, create the city
Speaker 1: and this stower. What made it wrong was that they
Speaker 1: started doing something for themselves rather than for God. Twice
Speaker 1: the word ourselves was mentioned there. They said, let's let
Speaker 1: us make for ourselves. The focus shift from God to them.
Speaker 1: We're going to have all kinds of problem. The moment
Speaker 1: life becomes about us, not about God. When it's about
Speaker 1: my privileges, when it becomes my rights, when it becomes
Speaker 1: my comfort, when it becomes my ambition, when it becomes
Speaker 1: my goal, we will find all kinds of trouble when
Speaker 1: it becomes about us rather than about God. Instead of
Speaker 1: building the kingdom of God, they said, let us build
Speaker 1: our own kingdom. Rather than making God famous, they said,
Speaker 1: let's make our name famous. And rather than going to
Speaker 1: different parts of the world to scatter, they said, no,
Speaker 1: that's not a good idea.
Speaker 2: Instead, let's gather.
Speaker 1: So this tower was what was really the symbol of
Speaker 1: the rebellion against God. You know, our sinful tendency is
Speaker 1: to always deviate from the will of God, to do
Speaker 1: our own thing.
Speaker 2: That's our sinful nature.
Speaker 1: Ala nat you will the Lord perro trika Bajan Lloyd
Speaker 1: tam Aablloyd Alam Ala young bess. And you know the
Speaker 1: struggle for us is to choose our own will rather
Speaker 1: than choosing God's will, and our sinful tendency is to
Speaker 1: always step out of.
Speaker 2: The will of God.
Speaker 1: But here's what's amazing. In Genesis chapter twelve, they failed.
Speaker 1: But you know, the good thing about God is he
Speaker 1: never quit, He never gave up.
Speaker 2: When he dispersed.
Speaker 1: God used that in order to steal fulfill his purpose.
Speaker 1: And then chapter twelve were introduced to a man named
Speaker 1: Abraham and his family, and God restarting again his plan
Speaker 1: of sending out people to be a blessing to the
Speaker 1: rest of the world.
Speaker 2: He called about Abraham.
Speaker 1: And you know why this is exciting as we read
Speaker 1: verse one to three, because this was originally given to Abraham.
Speaker 1: But you know what's exciting, This promise is given to
Speaker 1: you as well. So in Genesis twelve, verse one to three,
Speaker 1: it says, now the Lord said to Abram, and you
Speaker 1: can put your name there. The Lord said to Ryan.
Speaker 1: The Lord said to Jason. The Lord said to Francis,
Speaker 1: go from your country and your kindred and your father's
Speaker 1: house to the land that I will show you, and
Speaker 1: I will make of you a great nation. And I
Speaker 1: will bless you and make your name great, so that
Speaker 1: you will be a blessing. I will bless those who
Speaker 1: bless you, and him with his honors. You I will curse,
Speaker 1: and in you all the families of the earth shall
Speaker 1: be blessed. This is your purpose, this is your destiny.
Speaker 2: In Christ.
Speaker 1: God confused their language, not because it's wrong to be great.
Speaker 1: It's wrong to be great if you're trying to be
Speaker 1: great for yourself. They said, come on, let's make a
Speaker 1: name for Let's make a name for ourselves, Pedro. In
Speaker 1: chapter twelve, God said, I will make your name great.
Speaker 1: They said, let's build a city. It speaks up their security,
Speaker 1: Sabin the Lord.
Speaker 2: I will bless you.
Speaker 1: I will show you a land that will become your inheritance,
Speaker 1: and I will bless you. And they said, let's stay here,
Speaker 1: let's gather, and God said, I will make you a
Speaker 1: blessing to the families of the earth. Tell me, if
Speaker 1: you want these promises from God.
Speaker 2: I want that.
Speaker 1: And what they desired. In chapter eleven, God promised to Abraham.
Speaker 1: In chapter twelve, a good thing about God is you
Speaker 1: don't have to sin against God.
Speaker 2: In order for you to fulfill your purpose or to
Speaker 2: be happy.
Speaker 1: It's in following Christ that we find her purpose and
Speaker 1: then lasting in verse seven, it says, calm, let us
Speaker 1: go down and confuse their language. And it's not literal
Speaker 1: that God needed to come down. I think it's the
Speaker 1: way of the author to really mock in a way
Speaker 1: what they are trying to build that God needed to
Speaker 1: go down in order to see it because it's too small.
Speaker 1: What they thought was big. God said, it's too small.
Speaker 1: I needed to come down to see it. You think
Speaker 1: what your building is big, Guess what God is for
Speaker 1: you is bigger than what you can imagine when you
Speaker 1: can think of or imagine.
Speaker 2: And they so that. So the Lord dispersed them.
Speaker 1: So God took away what they have, which is the
Speaker 1: common language, the unity that they enjoyed. Sadly, they used
Speaker 1: the blessing of God for evil intent, so God had
Speaker 1: to take it back.
Speaker 2: You know, sometimes God allows us to.
Speaker 1: Lose something in order for us to be found. Sometimes
Speaker 1: God had to take away something in order for us
Speaker 1: to realign again to God's heart and God's will because
Speaker 1: it reason destructive. God's provision is not meant to be
Speaker 1: a distraction for us. It's supposed to help us accomplish
Speaker 1: the mission. Last Monday, I was driving and Alex with
Speaker 1: my family going to So Big.
Speaker 2: We're enjoying so much our conversation in our time.
Speaker 1: That enjoying the enjoy that I lose track of the
Speaker 1: road and missed our turn we're supposed to exit, going
Speaker 1: to se texts, so young wife.
Speaker 2: Signage. So we ended up in our wrong destination. We
Speaker 2: missed our turn.
Speaker 1: Sometimes we have the tendency we enjoyed so much the
Speaker 1: blessing that we missed the will and we missed the
Speaker 1: purposes of God.
Speaker 2: It's okay to enjoy the.
Speaker 1: Blessing of God as long as we don't hold tightly
Speaker 1: to it and remain focused on God and these purposes. Lord,
Speaker 1: I'm enjoying this, But if you want to take this away,
Speaker 1: I'm okay.
Speaker 2: I'm okay.
Speaker 1: Dispersed. That's why you and I are here today. That's
Speaker 1: why you are where you are today. You're calling your
Speaker 1: station in life. God placed you there because God wants
Speaker 1: to scatter us the family that you're a part of,
Speaker 1: the community, the campus, the company, wherever God placed you.
Speaker 1: World mission is not just about us crossing the sea.
Speaker 1: Sometimes it's just crossing the street. But all of us
Speaker 1: are called for mission. World mission. We can all give,
Speaker 1: we can all pray, but not all of us are
Speaker 1: going to go overseas. But it doesn't mean we're just
Speaker 1: going to give and pray. Because right where you are,
Speaker 1: that is your mission field, and God called us to
Speaker 1: be a blessing You have a promise from God. I
Speaker 1: will make your name great. I will bless you, but
Speaker 1: not just to make your life comfortable and convenient.
Speaker 2: There's a purpose for the blessing. It's for you to
Speaker 2: be a blessing.
Speaker 1: You know last story, and I'm going to pray. When
Speaker 1: I was a New Belt I told this to some
Speaker 1: people already. But we we served in New Belt for
Speaker 1: ten years, pastoring college and high school students. In the
Speaker 1: first year of our marriage, no wife going nine years
Speaker 1: who coming married? Now first year of marriage, I mean
Speaker 1: I was so on fire for campus ministry. In my mind,
Speaker 1: I can do this in my forties and fifties. We
Speaker 1: have no plan of going out of u Belt. We
Speaker 1: just want to pastor young people. But at that time
Speaker 1: we're given a prophetic word. And a prophetic word is
Speaker 1: somebody believing God for a word to give you that
Speaker 1: they feel like God is saying to you. So at
Speaker 1: that time, there's a prophetic people there that was they
Speaker 1: gave us a word.
Speaker 2: In our first year of marriage.
Speaker 1: My wife was not working at that time because I
Speaker 1: was encouraging her to be a full time mom. Just
Speaker 1: like the people I look up to the ministry. Lantayo
Speaker 1: you know, I know my heart cut I'm again dentist,
Speaker 1: but let's try it out. And I'm just blessed to
Speaker 1: have a wife who is godly. And she set aside
Speaker 1: that dream for a year, she did not work and
Speaker 1: we just tried to do ministry together. I just want
Speaker 1: her to be a stay home mom. So anyway, when
Speaker 1: first year of marriage, Imen we were prophesied. They said,
Speaker 1: when it was my wife's turn, Sabina by Zanya, you
Speaker 1: know you're going to minister to business people, to Chinese people.
Speaker 1: God will give you a platform to speak in the marketplace.
Speaker 1: It's coming Delo. It's not making any sense. We're pastoring
Speaker 1: students a majority of Filipinos. We don't have a business,
Speaker 1: so it's not.
Speaker 2: Making any sense. Fast forward. You know, we've been here
Speaker 2: in Green.
Speaker 1: Hills for two years already, nine years after now we're
Speaker 1: looking back and we're saying crab is the lord because
Speaker 1: my wife owns a business. Right now, majority of the
Speaker 1: people in our victory group are Filipino Chinese, and majority
Speaker 1: of the people we minister to our business people. And
Speaker 1: my wife and I are just talking every time we
Speaker 1: pray about the business. We just said, you know, lat
Speaker 1: Alganabini begins in the Lord. It's simply a tool to
Speaker 1: advance the Kingdom of God. We don't have a business
Speaker 1: just for the sake of having a business. This is
Speaker 1: simply a platform for us. So we can bring the
Speaker 1: gospel two different people. And I want to tell you,
Speaker 1: whatever you have today and wherever God placed you, it's
Speaker 1: a platform that God has given to you. God is
Speaker 1: scattering all of us because there is a good news
Speaker 1: we need to bring to all people. You know in
Speaker 1: Galatians chapter three, verse nine, So all who put their
Speaker 1: faith in Christ share the same blessing Abraham received because
Speaker 1: of his faith that was given to Abraham. But the
Speaker 1: Bible says, if you put your faith in Christ. How
Speaker 1: many of you here you're a follower of Christ. You
Speaker 1: put your faith in Christ, the Bible says, you inherit
Speaker 1: the promise. You share in the same blessing, you receive
Speaker 1: the same mandate. So let's go and bear fruit. Let's
Speaker 1: multiply and fill the earth and bring the gospel to
Speaker 1: the ends of the earth. Don't keep the gospel to yourself,
Speaker 1: share it to others. The gospel is not just about
Speaker 1: our salvation. It's about God's plan of redemption. Many people
Speaker 1: stop with salvation and they became happy campers, waiting for
Speaker 1: their transition in this.
Speaker 2: Life to heaven.
Speaker 1: But God did not call you and me to be
Speaker 1: campor God called us to.
Speaker 2: Be pictures of the Gospel.
Speaker 1: So use whatever platform you have as a housewife, as
Speaker 1: a teacher, as a student, whatever station in life you're in.
Speaker 2: God has been good to us.
Speaker 1: Jesus died for us, but not just for us, but
Speaker 1: for all people on earth.
Speaker 2: Amen, let me just pray. Father God, we thank you.
Speaker 2: We thank you for your word.
Speaker 1: Thank you for not only saving us, but for using
Speaker 1: us as well. Thank you for giving us the opportunity
Speaker 1: to be part of something expansive, something unstoppable, which is
Speaker 1: your Church.
Speaker 2: Lord.
Speaker 1: We thank you for realigning us. Thank you, Lord for
Speaker 1: reminding us of who we are, reminding us of our
Speaker 1: calling as a people. Lord, God, we thank you for
Speaker 1: blessing us so we can be a blessing. So Lord,
Speaker 1: use us in a greater way. We thank you for
Speaker 1: how you've used us in the past. But Lord, we
Speaker 1: pray you will use us in a greater and mighty way.
Speaker 2: Father God, we thank you Lord.
Speaker 1: Even now, Lord for instilling that sense of calling to
Speaker 1: each and every one of us. Father, we thank you
Speaker 1: for every blessing we receive, every blessing.
Speaker 2: That we enjoy.
Speaker 1: I pray Lord, you will use us so that the
Speaker 1: people around us would be blessed, that they will come
Speaker 1: to know Jesus, that they will receive the Gospel, and
Speaker 1: that they will be saved as well.
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