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00:00:01 uh good morning everybody how we going to you know why they put the poopy stand got no Bible because apparently I run around a lot so I I will tend to go here and then the camera cannot catch up with me so apparently they keep telling me Anor whenever you speak uh this is your guide you can go up to here you can go up to here so if I do r a bit back y please and then give me back here okay so yes anyway just tell you why all right so um the sermons are up there I'll be here for 2 weeks to share a bit
00:00:36 about um this topic which we talk about and then on September 25th we have a guest speaker brother William me which is Edward son we look forward to this so we have father and son so gamon the struggle of obedience and then our brother John Lee will take us to the Theology of vacation and work and this is an area he's very passionate about okay whoops ah okay uh I I need to make a correction someone told me last time I spoke right uh I said if a guy doesn't lead when you're dating is unlikely who
00:01:13 will lead when you're married and some people won't very happy so uh Brandon come and tell me you cannot make sweeping remarks like that doesn't mean when the person lead when he get married he don't change you know so I want to give my apologies uh seriously I think is an overstatement i and I think we need to get into this culture of being able to engage uh preachers are not unfailable uh we are open to rebuke I only hope that yall can talk to me directly you know uh and so if you're don't like to
00:01:46 talk to me directly there's another thing we have this anoymous uh email you can send to just don't send nasty things you know so some people have sent we thank you we may not be able to reply so fast but we do use that email okay uh this thing went viral in 2015 it literally crashed the internet and this is something that could not have been done if not for social media let me tell you the background of this okay so there was a wedding and the couple were talking about what the the the you know
00:02:20 the bride or groom and all of them were going to wear so the guy posted it to his wife and said look here's the dress and then they had an argument over the the color it got so heated he posted it on Twitter then Twitter exploded and suddenly the whole internet was buzzing about this some of you obviously remember this I want to recap because ever since then to now the science has picked this up so let me ask you a simple question how many of you here see blue and black yeah we have some blue and black
00:02:59 right is is blue and black yeah blue and black how many of you see this as white and gold w a lot of white and Golds all right so this is how this thing just broke the internet because it's when I saw it I see white and gold it mean badly photographed almost brown or gold or offwhite some people my wife see this at blue and black it went so viral Taylor Swift and a lot of all the Hollywood people went in because it's very scary because For the First Time what social media shows you is that hey this
00:03:38 one no need to argue you know is very clearly blue and black what's your problem for me a look at it is very clearly white and gold what's your problem for the first time we see people with absolute Clarity looking at the issue and we begin to realize what you see with utter conviction 100% no need to argue another person sees it differently it's a very profound truth let me take this to Beyond address all right but let me give you first the signs behind it the signs behind it shows you is God going to do with liting
00:04:19 because if you look at this carefully it's actually very badly it's actually underexposed and because of the lighting right your brain makes some connections you know in fact your brain makes the word and assumption the brain connects the dot and for a lot of us you notice here we see it as white and go now of course after this died off everybody said haha it's novelty you what the signs Laton picks up do you realize it is not random if you are a person who wakes up early in the morning who goes
00:04:54 outdoor a lot who's always out in the sun the tendency is you would see this as white and gold the signs is showing you that now there has a lot of implication it means the brain doesn't register this randomly now let's take this and apply it to something else let me show you something else which for you is black and white not not blue and black black that means certainty one no need to argue very clear this issueing not black and not black and blue but black and white guilty no need to talk what's your
00:05:35 problem across the road quite a sizable minority will tell you no white and gold now same thing in FBC because we got Dr Peter Everybody Must Be vaccinated black and blue you'll be surprised at the number of people in FBC who do not believe in vaccination they just don't talk to you because Peter is so Larger than Life so I spoke to some people why don't you tell me don't need AR don't AR but I don't believe in vacination then they send you a lot of stuff on you know they are not only this not only this okay
00:06:17 Protestants and Catholics why the church so divided calvinist Armenians charismatics evangelicals people will look at you with eyes and tell you why H know you need to be fill in the blank now uh you need to be speaking in tongues you need to be one to the one true church you need to whatever you call it and why are you Baptist so correct anyway what makes you so sure FV is correct and so let me tell you the words which I want to be very personal and we want talk about authenticity the worst is when a church
00:06:56 fights but first don't worry the elders are not going to fight the elders are quite United on H but let me tell you the origin of FBC FBC comes from a split and I remember that split the older members like Ying will remember that split and a lot of people say hey don't talk about it I think we should talk about it in a in a manner that's Godly that thing so affected me it traumatized me because I remember that very vividly because some of us held a certain position I'm going to be very careful what the other side held another
00:07:31 different position and it was regarding I better not go into the details and when you talk to the other person you cannot talk they look you in the eye it's like you are wrong M that King one you know and I tell you when Christians fight over a church matter they are worse than nonch Christians they worse so today let me ask you something we want to make this very practical what are the three of the hardest words to say especially you're very convicted of it very very very sure is this word and we're going to test this out
00:08:15 today and this is so real and so we're going to take this over two parts and we're going to ask ourselves over some of our convictions were you wrong let's go before the Lord in prayer Lord we we just come before you we are stubborn people we are sinful people we are proud people and we ask ourselves sometimes it's so hard to say that we are wrong and we ask at the end of the service your word will humble us humble me in Jesus name we say this uh how many of you know this series I mean they a K drama mood nowadays how
00:08:59 many you have you ever watched this Penthouse God got few ah got few see we got some of this before squid game there was the penthouse I don't watch on but I'm a good husband my wife watched so I follow her law I know so they say in can is accompany her W the series very theu one you know wow got husband tried to kill the wife the wife pretend to be the lover then deceive him of his business the daughter take the Father's Side the Father the Son take the father daughter take the Father's Side uh son take the
00:09:40 mother's side you know favoritism play business Bad Guy pretend to be someone else W murder very calan I say cannot happen in real life only happen in K drama then I read the Bible then I read the story of Isaac back then I read the story of Jacob go favoritism God want to murder God sell the brother of slavery God sleep with father-in-law God they kill people God killed the whole tribe go sleep around God and you know what is the thing in all these shows is about maneuvering and deception and when you look at the story
00:10:27 from Isaac all the way to J Joseph the one trait is how I play you out so penous is nothing compared to the patriarch stories of Isaac and Jacob and so today we take these two chapters now why I'm taking these two because they are a pair they both involve food there something we like to talk about food and food was the was the medium to the deception now when you look at this and we'll take the next chapter next week you get the trigger because where was food used before in the Book of Genesis as
00:11:12 deception Genesis 3 and you find there's an echo of this especially in Genesis 27 but Genesis 25 will lay the foundation of it now a lot of people have spoken about this in this church because I want to take this as a duplet so that we tie it together all right so let me take you two three deceptions today Isaac's self deception Jacob's deception of Esau in Esau self deception now we'll just read the story verse 19 this the account of the family line of Abraham's son Isaac Abraham became the father Isaac Isaac
00:11:51 was 40 years old when he married Rebecca daughter B the araman from PanAm Aram and sister Al laan the aramian and we we spoke of this last time about their love Love Story Isaac prayed to the Lord on behalf his wife because we childless where have you heard this before this is the motive of Abraham or Abraham and Sarai but the difference here is they prayed the Lord answered his prayers his wife Rebecca became pregnant here where it becomes interesting the babies Jed each other within her and she said why
00:12:21 is this happening to me and she went inquired the Lord the Lord said to her two nations in your womb two peoples from within you be separated one people is stronger than the other and the older will serve the younger now most people know this story but people tend to forget the opening line the real story is about two Nations and we'll pick this up as it go on now in case some of you don't know this biblical account what happens is that in chapter 25 Jacob conss Esau over his Birthright using a bowl of lentil and there lot of
00:13:00 lessons we can learn about that in chapter 27 the mother and the son Pat you know like Penthouse you know Pat you know to now deceive Esau again of the blessings so Esau like in the K drama I'm going to kill my brother and then the brother Chabot wow really K drama stuff man so we'll go through this and we see how chapter 25 leads gives you the base for the story now here's where's interesting when the time came for her to give birth they were twin boys in the womb the first to come out was R now this very strange especially
00:13:36 from a biological point of view but why is the biblical author picking this up his whole body was like a hairy garment so they name him Esau now why because the Hebrew word for R actually sounds like Isa all right then here's another strange detail after this his brother came out with his hand grasping Esau's Hill he's the hill Grabber Hill Grabber he was named Jacob Isaac was 60 years old almost the same as Abraham so the author is trying to tie you backwards you know when Rebecca gave birth to them
00:14:13 the boy grew boys grew up Isel became Macho skillful man he bench price 180 you know he could really do planking no musl man the man of Open Country he was part of the gone gun lobby NRA supporter Jacob was always playing computer games he played genin impact sit at home collect toys action figures War gaming so one was a geek the other guy was Macho Man and here is the the the detail Isaac where the taste for war game love isau but Rebecca love Jacob and these details are critical okay so let me just uh give you
00:14:56 the base story The Base story is this Jacob believed Esau was qualified to the Covenant Bearer because the Covenant is being passed from Abraham to Isaac to and in Jacob's mind he has to be Esau you find this especially in the blessing he gives to Esau is a very interesting blessing but he believes very very strongly we're talking about again black and blue dress gold and white that God has brought Esau up to be the Covenant beer and in next week we'll take this through it isn't so much even about a
00:15:34 blessing about money you know he really believes it but here's what the text is trying to tell you he doesn't deserve it why why are you so convicted first this chapter tells you he stld his Birthright meaning he a dandal he gave an oath you know dandal already all right two he despised his Birthright the the the the Hebrew rendering for the word despising means he disregarded it and more importantly we find this in Genesis 9 Canan is cursed we can go into the details later and we found out Abraham very clearly
00:16:09 made abzar swear do not find a wife for my son Isaac among the canite woman so when isau marries two Canaanite women immediately he's disqualified immediately this is black and blue dress and white the go is like what's wrong with you Jacob the evidence is so clear you cannot and yet what Jacob does uh what Isaac does is Isaac tries to circumvent the fact that because the birthright was already given to Jacob he's going to do a blessing and with the blessing he's going to take back what was given at the birthright back into
00:16:48 Esau that's how heavily he was into this all right so let let me give you a Nora about that culture and Deuteronomy picks up a bit of this the eldest son had a double inheritance why because the double inheritance allows you to take care of the family you have say another uh a DA s daughter sister not married you take care of the sister you have a brother brother goes to war the wife is a widow you take care of it the oldest son carried a heavy responsibility it's very much like Chinese families you know
00:17:23 I think Asian fames the oldest boy Carri that weight and the the way it was done was he was solemnized in the blessing now what he did was basically he tried to go around it or now since the he was given to to Jacob because you was there an oath we can't break an oath I'm just going to do a blessing it's actually very very cunning you know now what the text is trying to tell you is that God doesn't follow the culture of the time so for God to say you know what the younger is the one who get the blessing
00:17:56 to people that's crazy it doesn't make sense but this repeats itself you find later on with ifham and Manas Manas is the oldest boy no ifham is the one who gets blessed you get to the point of King David the sons of Jesse it is the weakest Shepherd boy who will take over the king and when it comes to Jesus it is a savior from Nazareth uh last few days everyone's talking about the passing off of Queen Elizabeth second all right and instead of her passing on I post you a photo of her birth when she
00:18:32 was born in the same way then she was died it was Royal and rigor not so with the King of Kings born in a manger died on the cross and so right now as the Covenant as the story of the seed of the woman unfolds scripture trying to tell you we God is not going to follow what Society thinks to when Jesus comes they look for a messiah a king they get a carpenter and they say he is not the Son of God so first Simple Thing our perception of Truth is often shaped by the community we identify with that thing truth is
00:19:21 tribal whatever tribe you align with if you are comfortable with that tribe if you're comfortable with First Baptist Church as a tribe you would buy into the line of FBC if you in DC you're comfortable with DMC you are buy to the line DMC I'm not saying DC is wrong you take it further down you're in Church of Christ you're in the Jehovah Witness you're in any church you're in the Catholic church and very happy you would buy into the narrative because truth is tribal now let's show you a very sensitive example very sensitive and
00:19:57 this is this case the B L case again to all of you this is black and blue dress nothing to talk one she is innocent if I talk to you out there your eyes will light up you get very angry but you and I know you talk to someone from another Community they will say it differently remember the OJ Simpson case decades ago same thing truth is defined very heavily by now why is that important because your young people going out there right now are in the culture where it is all about inclusivity that is the tribal
00:20:39 truth and if we do not wake up to this you are throwing your kids in the world where inclusivity lgbtq is the truth and we swim against the tide of that so that's one and of course we see how the crowd swings in the end with Jesus first they lay out the thing and say hosana and few days later give us Barabas because the crowd say so we call this group thing if I show you this photo you see ah yeah all these people are don't know where they thinking all them all the word very expletive one cannot use in church you
00:21:18 all swear and say about this people you know okay you look at this why even worse no wonder Nazi Germany went by they look at all of them Echo chamber who you how about this no seriously offensive right how dare you say that and it doesn't have to be raising hands it can be quiet it can be anything why do you worship the way you do because the church makes it normative why do you think some people fight over worship they say worship should be up in Hallelujah other person say sacred I tell you is tribal is
00:21:56 preferential you're connecting the dots second one and why the author give this two so one is an external influence on your perception another one in internal and it's about Mommy's boy and daddy's boy I want us to to really be honest and we always like to use my favorite word my wife told me never use this word again I'm sorry it's called safe space I want you to be authentic as parents parents here oh I'm not supposed to go more than this right okay can oh very good and raise your hands if you are
00:22:38 playing favoritism to your children raise your hands nobody one at the back Hallelujah got brave people here nobody okay let me reverse a question I bet you now you won't do it if I brought in all your kids here today and I ask your children the same question do you think I only get one hand up correct or not you won't oh I saw some five St I put a two heads up like that you won't because subconsciously if I tell you you are basically a person who basically play favoritism you will react with me wow
00:23:24 how dare you accuse me here's another one how many of you here are racist raise your hand come on racist racist racist one person only or two very good if I fill this group out here with Malaysia and say how many Chinese people are racist you know how many hands will go up or not all the hands will go up you see we cannot see these things I have never met a person say he's racist how many of you will admit to all these things is subconscious he cannot see it you see so here's the case you see this one
00:24:06 gu is your father going to go to jail will you say the same thing you won't before you judge her if your father was going to go to jail I tell you you will say exactly the same thing you think about it when you had a school fight and your son was caught in a fight and where the other guy are are you come back we other boys faw we have internal biasness we connect the dots all right and they call this confirmation bias we pick certain things we connect and then we say all Catholics are are like that all charismatics are
00:24:48 like that is true Anna what's wrong with you have you ever tried to be an elder sitting in a squabble I tell you sure cut have fire on because nobody they want you to take sites your buyers you know is very hard because we only see certain things and what the text is tell you there are two things filtering it one is external and another is internal so let me give you this what they did ever since this they did some signs you know over this you know how many of you see gray Crocs and green socks raise
00:25:21 your hands a few I see that how many of you see white Crocs white crocs and pink Crocs pink Crocs you see you know what they have done now the science is telling you this they blocked off the background and they shot it in a certain light and you know what the brain does this is where is really important the brain filters out certain truths like the way Isaac filters out the fact that Esau married Canaanite women he soul is birthright he despise it the brain filters this out and again the science tells you the same thinking with
00:26:06 this goes to how you see vaccination how you vote and your religious beliefs and they call this that you can get the site there all right you go through a certain trauma I give you example if you have a bad experience with doctors you know and you had say a missile jab that went very badly towards you and I come and tell you you need to be vaccinated what are the chances you reject me 90% but if you like me Dr Peter is my very good friend I don't think much he say JUMP I say how high he say vaccinate
00:26:41 I say vaccinate law you you follow us or not so we we don't think your convictions are necessarily correct that's what the text is saying all right so here's point one we often believe what we want to believe instead of what we should believe and second Timothy says it for time will come where people will not put up with sound Doctrine instead to suit their own desires they will gather around a great number of teachers to say what their eaching years want to here they will turn their ears away from the truth and turn away to me
00:27:19 and you challenge yourself this morning and me whether you're listening to myths and the best way to do this is in a fight when was the last time you back down in an argument and said this words I was wrong even you do it it was was grudgingly one you know so this is what somebody says a man with conviction is a hard man to change tell him you disagree he turns away showing facts he questions your sources appeal to logic he fails to see a point that's why don't ever debate don't bother don't sit down G Cafe and
00:27:49 have theological debate nobody will back down if you're not able to understand why we motivated to believe a certain Truth where are con come from it is unlikely you will change your mind and the text is telling you it is about biasness your attitudes and external influences think about it all right why then do some Christians jump ship uh at one point one of my friend from Calvary Church end up becoming the priest of the Orthodox Church I just read this this is Peter gilis he was campus Crusade for
00:28:22 Christ he gave up he became Orthodox you can read it you know why people jumpship why there are Catholics in our midst or why some Catholics become Protestants why some people become charismatics why charismatics become us I tell you why because they really unhappy something's missing so they jump but find someone who's deeply convicted they will not shift their minds that's what I want to pick us up today so let's go to the main point now Jacob decep is isau once when Jacob was choking some steel Esau came in from the
00:28:55 Open Country family he said to Jacob quick let me have some of that red Ste the red color again all right I'm famished and then that's the thing that's why he was also called Edom now again remember we talking about Nations H Jacob replied first tell me a Birthright look I'm about to die what good is that birth right to me that's a really stupid thing to say but when you're hungry you say stupid things correct then Jacob says swear to me first where smart that this guy give me contract sign sign first so he swall
00:29:26 once he SW is irrevocable s birth right then Jacob gave Esau some bread lle he at and drank he got out and left and here's where the textas and Esau despise his birth right so you look carefully there is a movement you know he canot okay H so quickly eat Mak already he justifies why he had to eat it I'm going to die Ma so what's the big deal and then it ends with him despising his Birthright where where do we see this flow this scale we see this in Romans first you don't you know God you don't glorify him and because you don't
00:30:05 glorify him you become futile became futile you're thinking you become an idolator when you become an idolator you leads to sexual immorality it's a cascading effect so let me tell you another thing that really affects our thinking really affects our thinking all right and is really this self-deception often begins with uncontrolled self self gratification that's what he's trying to say even simple things like a bow of lentil soap and I will tell you this one is very real nowadays do you know what
00:30:41 is the bowl of lter soap nowadays you know what it is I'll tell you what it is is this thing that's your truth you swipe swipe listen this is bombarding you because the algorithm picks up what you want to see what you want to hear what you want to do and then it pushes it to you because it's commercially driven after all you think you're right so be very careful of this so always look for hidden cause I listed up for you it's quite frightening how this motive goes through scripture you know so uh there's a story of Tim Keller
00:31:18 talking to some young adults and some young adults said you know what uh we don't quite believe in the Bible you know we're not so sure this why we're leaving the church you know what Tim Keller asked them who are you sleeping with with because you have you noticed that if you are doing something contrary to the Bible you only can do two things one your conscience is so affected you say I'm sinning or actually what I'm doing is quite correct the Bible is quite distorted guess which is the easiest
00:31:47 solution to go it's easier to do that that's why when people are caught in certain things they often have the first thing they'll say you know what now the church full of hypocrites because it's easier to push it than to say I have to deal with my sin now this one is so real let me give you a few example of this all right the if you cannot control your desires it will just shape your perception of Truth let me give you a very simple one I'm an architect you know what's the what's the easiest you know what's a bowl of L so
00:32:23 corruption so already last week I had one case you know the the the the authority Target hand break you know so go and see officer my consultant give 2005 put in the thing buggy first so that sign document bang sign document after that again $5,000 M do so I sat down him he said this is the Malaysia way then they use can got good got no good meaning uh we get things done faster that's lentil soup you know because your mind is telling you is okay why do you think Malaysia is so stuck in this recently a politician started to
00:33:03 say Chinese people very corrupted like to give bright all the Chinese people who get upset you know what I tell you he's correct you know he's correct in my line Chinese people love to FMA so let's take this down further I was in P you know what this was my job you know what did they tell me no need to do anymore this guy took over he took over in 20115 this company was everywhere in pin oh thank you thank you Anor we don't need your services anymore he was given talks at sa you land the airport you see his face
00:33:40 everything H and he was running a scheme where you can make a lot of money you know uh one month ago he went to jail and then you see all these mlion Chinese people complaining not fair not fair not fair like is how not fair he deceived me hey hello anyone who promises you dividends of 10% per month 30% month you don't think something is wrong you're believing it because you want to believe it and so this goes on and on so you have to ask yourself a question what's your bowl of Len Ste so here's a simple one I don't
00:34:21 believe in God you know what really the truth the truth is I don't want to live under God's rule I can come to church and say I'm a Christian and say Jesus died for me but I do not want to surrender my life to him so let me end with this Esau self deception because the chapter ends with like a tud you know so Esau despised his Birthright D end now what we want to do let me do this how do you saveguard yourself from deception you do it by valuing your spiritual birth right now what do we mean by that
00:34:58 now at the end this is what we say in the next chapter isn't he rightly named Jacob this is the second time he taken advantage of me he took my Birthright and now he's taken my blessings and next week we look at what we call bitterness now you you find is lot in church people when you talk to church people they tell you life's not fair and all my my my marriage went bad this this this we call this a victim mindset and churches are full of people like this is everyone's fault except mine so Esau doesn't see the fact that he
00:35:32 despised his Birthright he just sees the fact that he has taken advant he has been taken advantage of he cannot see past his pain to see the truth I want to throw that to you today so here's a big picture question to all of you are you so filled with your pain and your bitterness and your anger you cannot see that perhaps you have despised your spiritual Birthright what do I mean by that now we talk just about two nations in the womb later on chapter 27 Isaac says this in the blessing to Jacob when he realizes Jacob's supposed
00:36:11 to be blessed may God Almighty bless you make you fruitful increase your numbers become a community of people and the rest of it is the abrahamic Covenant you see to Esau he sees the blessings as money know the car the shares the thing he can get but Isaac knows what the blessing is the blessing is about a community of people who are the two Nations here the first nation is the and the because Esau is a father of the the second nation is the nation of Israel because Jacob is the father of the Israelites the Covenant blessing isn't
00:36:55 about shares is about creating a new people and so when Hebrew writer says this about Esau who for single mill so his inheritance right as an oldest son the same chapter they picked up the same thing but who is the firstborn now the first born is the church you and I are that blessing the blessing was to create a community a family family a family that doesn't fight a family that talks a family that prays that is how you value your Birthright so if you come to FBC and you're a stranger and you keep going
00:37:43 on or you go online you refuse to worship with us physically and your idea of church is just to come sit in the corner and go back can I say this to you in love you are despising your birth right that's not Christianity you think it's Christianity that's religious Duty or that's going to make me very unpopular because we are a growing Church you know and we getting a lot of people and a lot of people like to come sit listen b and can I tell you that is the worst form of self-deception so let me let me just
00:38:28 wrap up with two points how do you value our spiritual birth right number one I look at this is still white Ang go to me no matter what you tell me is white and gold I have to take it in faith is black and blue because the signs tells us actually that's black and blue it's actually Black and Blue by the way so it has to be revealed to me and so it is with spiritual truth God has to reveal it to you by prayer if you value your spiritual birth right you will always ask God God reveal to me let me
00:39:04 give you example in a fight they because I really want to narrow it down to fights in a fight now the question is very simple no is it even worth knowing who's right and who's wrong maybe what's important is just to forgive to have Grace I I'm not referring to anyone the particular maybe you're having a fight in your family because you know you sit down with your family member you say your side they say their side no one's going to back down one after while nobody talks about it so the question is not all truth are worth
00:39:38 fighting over so today you may have some convictions you know you you think of your hurts and your pains your family and they are wrong it's so clear Anna they are wrong us and them I'm Israel they are Edom they are wrong and the first thing scripture is telling you is is it worth fighting over and you got to pray over that here's the second one because what we don't realize about Edom Edom is blessed in Deuteronomy God gives Edom a place is because Edom Rebels against Israel that later on they are cursed in
00:40:24 obad meaning God's intention is to always bring about people together Edom and Israel Jew and Gentile the family of God why because when you're together you're able to discuss so going back to the quarrel again or the fight or the disagreement or anything in here which you feel very convicted about and you are stuck how then do you really get past your convictions here again the question I asked the question I want all of us to ask in all your convictions whether it's theological whether it's family whether
00:41:03 it's anything is this question we really goes to the heart of the sin we all have the sin of Pride the question is are you wrong are you wrong so we talk about food deception the will of God let me tell you what scripture tells us the blessing is if the blessing comes to the church if it prophesies to the church is not food deception and the will of God you know you know what's the answer is actually food truth and the will of God hear me out H have you realized a lot of things Jesus does is around
00:41:43 food the Last Supper where he gave the entire dialogue of it and John was around food when he appeared after resurrected Peter was fishing it was food when he came in Ministry he add with with with Sinners it was food he met the woman the well he asked for a drink it's food and drinks and a very famous scholar said that when Jesus himself wanted to explain to the disciples what his forthcoming death was about he didn't give them a theory he gave them a meal you know nowadays you know how you grow
00:42:15 a church you have a flashy speaker maybe like maybe fantastic worship band you know nice Aon Hall and they very Chang service we pack the hall but people who come do not do do not they do not appreciate the spiritual blessings you know how the early church grew and I put in a front smack midle Church you know how the church grew to be where it is today the church grew at the table I'd like to thank sister kaen who enlightened me to this who I heard got it from Sarah you the young adults very smart one only the women I don't know
00:42:48 about the men men never share me anything I don't know what's wrong with you guys but the church grew because they did something Malaysians are very good at doing they makan together but when in Mak they don't talk politics about naib you know they engage in difficult conversations let me give you example if you want to tell me I'm wrong you say Anna I want to talk to you you see me down you look at me like that look at you like that you're a hypocrite you think I would say oh yes brother I'm wrong Hallelujah I say cheese
00:43:21 him why you dare call me Elder what sh correct or not but if you see me down over coffee you know hey try Theon very nice moake talk talk talk I heard that day something happened ah yeah this Dr Peter's fault example you see yeah you know why they say let the baby eat messily and everywhere because uh the baby is like life you know because church is messy church is messy and until we can find a space where we can sit and eat and lower our temperature and talk you would be believing your own lies about
00:44:11 theology about church about politics vaccination anything why do you think certain topics are no go you have family dinner they talk about everything come to certain thing oh cannot talk because the other side Catholic or cannot talk oh they want antia cannot talk oh that one Trump supporter cannot talk but that's not how the church is meant to be so it is my favorite word again now safe space you see this woman rosaro Butterfield was a lesbian Advocate she taught quer Theory you know how she became a
00:44:52 Christian because she kept being invited getting invited over to a Christian home and the pastor never got into her and say you know you homosexuals are evil you didn't do that let's open the Bible and check the signs she he accepted her and they just add and they add and she came over and became friends and she saw the love of Christians next time you want to fight over something uh don't post it in the chat group don't go behind someone's back and say this honor really CH you know find a place to sit have coffee have
00:45:31 moon cake talk learn to understand the other person's point of view and when you come out and say he's wrong be very careful of your words because like she says and this for me good teachers make it possible for people to change their position without shame we are a people of Grace we are a people bought at a price a king in a Manger died on a cross no 42 gun salute so that you and I can be that Covenant Bearer as a worship team comes up I want you to just think of this thing are you wrong do you have the courage this
00:46:24 morning to say are you wrong or would you after long words say you know I might be wrong but actually I don't think so then ask yourself is that Pride so as we prepare ourselves and to sing this and I want us just to mediate it as I just maybe let can we get the keys going and I just want to challenge you to think back maybe of a conflict you're having can be with anybody let's do conflict yeah and it's very easy to say honor they are wrong them us Edom Israel Gentile Jew but God is here to put one people by grace and humility so
00:47:15 this morning I just want us to concentrate on conflict so Lord we just come before in prayer and ask and maybe these simple questions in our hurts our pain maybe we have family members uh work people have offended us and we can be like Isaac we're just so blinded because of the culture wein and our personal biasness or more so because of our sinful tendency maybe it's our temper maybe it's our lust because of this and we believe a lie and we are this morning we The Way Forward is that we we pursue intimacy
00:47:53 with you we pursue family and and and if if right now after saying this you just say Anna I still think I'm right so I'm going to challenge you something else talk to somebody I dare you to in Love no Anna I'm still right I'm still I'm correct find a place to have coffee talk to one of us and let us try to be empathetic people to heal your pain and not judge to be like Jesus when he at with the tax collectors and maybe together church is messy but maybe over food and drink the church at the table we would ReDiscover Grace we will
00:48:36 discover forgiveness and we will discover what it's like to really love our spiritual Birthright and we say this in Jesus name amen I'm going to pass the time over to chuch Chang now chur rise and respond in song to the message [Music] be thou my vision oh lord of my heart not be all else to me save the oh my bl by day oh by now waking and sleeping thy [Music] presence be thou my will wisdom and all my true word I ever withy endow with me Lord now my great father I I you son th in me dwelling and
00:50:29 [Music] the I King Of Heaven for victory one may I reach Heaven's Joy Bright Heaven sound out of my own heart whatever may fall still be my vision oh ruler of [Music] all Lord as we close we ask truly that we become family not just in words by Deeds that we are that community that Isaac prophesies we are that blessing that isau sought after we are that community of Abraham and I ask that today for some of you who are who have the habit of just rushing off would you consider sitting back and be intentional to find
00:52:12 Community for the rest of you who are on your usual clicks maybe look out for someone who needs to be talked over who needs a hand who needs to hear a voice church is messy but I'm sure that person will appreciate it and you may say I don't know how to talk H I'm not like you well offer him a cup of coffee offer him a moon cake by that you show him love and conversations will come out now may the Lord of truth of Grace of authenticity of transparency of forgiveness be with us today and the rest of the week as we go out and make
00:53:04 spaces where we can talk and not talk about politics and stupid things but meaningful conversations where we can analyze our own thinking and come to this conclusion I was wrong in Jesus name we say this amen God bless you all stay back talk to us have a cup of coffee eat with us
