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00:00:00 today's scripture reading is taken from 1 Peter 2: 9-1 17 but you are a chosen people a royal priesthood a holy nation God's special possession that you may declare the Praises of him who called you out of Darkness into his wonderful light once you were not a people but now you are the people of God once you had not received Mercy but now you have received Mercy dear friends I urge you as foreigners and Exiles to abstain from sinful desires which wage war against your soul live such good lives among the pagans that though they
00:00:53 accuse you of doing wrong they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day he visits us submit yourselves for the Lord's sake to every human authority whether to the Emperor as the supreme authority or to the governors who are sent by him to punish those who do wrong and to command those who do right for it is God's will that by doing good you should silence the ignorant talk of foolish people live as free people but do not use your freedom as a cover up for evil live as God's slaves show
00:01:38 proper respect everyone love the family of Believers fear God honor the emperor this is the word of God good morning everyone morning nice to see all of you here again I think the hall is starting to be a bit more pack as well um as we start Let's uh get a slid up and then we can do so now um I think we have uh gotten a new prime minister uh thank you for everyone who has voted I don't know whether you're happy with a new prime minister but one thing we can be thankful of is to have a stable government hopefully for next uh
00:02:24 few weeks and months and years there won't be a change of government until the next term right regard whoever is in power for us most important is actually having a stable government so just give it a round and then we be starting ready okay I think we have a slides already if I can just right I can see here right great all right today we're talking about living in Two Worlds Christians okay for Christians in our midst here brothers and sisters are you living in one world or two worlds feel like one right living in
00:02:58 earth right today we we talking about living in two world what do we mean by that it's on First Peter versus 11 sorry it's from earlier versus and 17 asly is red so what you see over here okay if someone can help me click the next slide so I think the system has be at Jam today let's give them a few minutes to get it out nope okay stop okay okay great I think it's working yeah thanks so much today we're talking about living in Two Worlds and I'm going to have this example for you this is a person called Jim wolf he's a United
00:04:14 States veteran Army veteran so he was a soldier last time but after that he was homeless so a lot of armies a lot of soldiers when they come back um somehow their lives are get screwed up and um they become homeless part of reason is because there's a lot of stress when go for war it sounds very easy he hold a gun and shoot but the stress and Trauma that happens after that is something sometime cannot forget as well what happened was he actually got to know about this ministry called the gaug ministry and this uh Ministry actually
00:04:43 helped him to do this so he has been struggling for poverty he's homeless and he's actually alcoholic as well and they went for this uh program where they started to clean him up so you can see the progress remember how he look at the start he started to do lot of uh uh making him handsome uh as you can see over here I hope someone can do that for me as well right uh changed his shirt and gave him a tie as you can see his face is still very the same right after that he finally Smiles uh he got very
00:05:17 grateful when he saw himself being so handsome really and he gave the the person in charge a hug as well so now he scheduled to have his own housing and he's attending Alcoholic Anonymous meetings for the first time ever now what Jim went through in a way is a bit of what we as Christians uh go go through as well if you read uh 1 Peter 2: 9 over here Jim's identity has changed but you are chosen people a royal priesthood a holy nation God's special possession that you may declare the prence of him who call you
00:05:52 out Darkness into his wonderful light once you were not a people but now you are the people of God once you had not received Mercy but now you have received Mercy at first Jim was a nobody if you pass by him on streets you wouldn't even look at him Jim was Zero he was nobody but now he's somebody so it's like what you see over here God has picked us up from the streets and given us a hope in the future amen right now so this is what you see over here Jim's identity has changed from the person on your left is changed
00:06:29 to the person on your right uh if you see him maybe you can't recognize him as well and James uh what he knows has changed as well now he knows two ways of life last time he could only live on the streets but now what happens is he can actually be going to his housing he's going to get his own house and at the same time his circumstances has changed no longer does he need to stay on the streets is it the same for us not really you know our identity has changed yes or no you're now a child God you're no longer you're not nobody
00:07:02 anymore but we have not become handsome we still look the same do you get a tie when you become Christian do you get a shirt no right do you get a million bucks no you're still the same person that most you became the middle person only true or not and that is what you are and currently what is happening is we know there are two worlds we believe and we know that there is a spiritual world and that that is our true home we get a glimpse of it right we get a glimpse of it in church but our circumstances remain we are still where
00:07:38 we are we still need to go to work on Mondays we still need have a lot of kids to deal with at home we may have sickness and all these are still there you may still be alcohol many different things your challenges has not changed so the question is we are still homeless now we're still here how do we live in Two Worlds knowing that there's a path there a destination for us and yet we're still here how do we live in two words let's pray father we thank you for today Lord that Lord you have called us out
00:08:07 from darkness and lot once we were nobody but now we've become somebody because of your grace it's not because of what we do it's not because of our abilities are fully just because of your grace I pray that you speak to us through this sermon Lord let your word go forth and not return void in Jesus name pray amen the first point today is as we are called to live in two words the first thing we called to be is different we are called to be different if you see verses 11 over here dear friends I urge you as foreigners and
00:08:39 Exiles to abstain from sinful desires which wage war against your soul the first thing you see is number one we are foreigners and Exiles we are no longer the same once you become a Christian your identity has shifted that's the first thing you will find that you are staying in the same place but what you see has changed you experience the same thing but you overview may have changed when somebody is actually nasty to you realize that this is not all the all of it you get fired from a job this is not
00:09:07 the end of it if you get sick you say oh maybe I'll go to see the Lord next time so we are called firstly to know that we are foreigners and exil the next thing you see here is it says that we are supposed to abstain from sinful desires we supposed to say no to sinful desires this what sinful desires is epia what it means is actually a better translation is it's a strong desire or an over desire what it means it means that you want something too much you need to abstain abstain from wanting something
00:09:38 too much that's what the text is saying this desire is so strong it which Wars against your soul and it actually destroys you so for us all of here we can understand we can relate if I ask you what are what are strong desires that are bad over desires which are bad what are the epia that are bad you can see for example playing computer games okay your children maybe you'll be struggling with them or they playing with tablets if they're young enough right they're playing with your phones that's the first one next one perhaps
00:10:07 um when they grow a bit more become teenagers they start to uh L after girls they after go after girls and uh maybe they they enjoy sex and all that and as they grow older what you see is perhaps they like money how many of you like money no are very holy on here okay so but this is Simpson this called Mr Burns Mr Burns is famous if you see him you know that he's he's a type of person right he likes money and so he's a very strong desire and money consumes him and the next one or some of them when they
00:10:41 grow old enough they want to become Prime sorry not prime they become president again be careful I say ear right so I become president again and all of us sometimes there's something that is actually inside our hearts that actually we over desire we keep on Desiring again and again when you look at all this we say that yes we agree yeah true shouldn't be like that but this over desire that you see over here is something that is more Sinister recently I attended a training uh uh organized by um Dr Peter and I think
00:11:09 masimore in the church over here and he says that this over desire can be even for good things when good things when they over desire good things it becomes a bad thing for example now this going to be a bit confrontational right first one you study very hard because you want good grades and the reason why you want good grades is because your grades have become your identity your success has become your identity you cannot get 99 marks you must get 100 marks okay number one number two you want to get married
00:11:44 you have to get married if you don't get married your life is of no meaning yeah happens oh next one Career Success and power becomes very important to you like elas over here um he goes around and he throws his weight around and when somebody last time remember the Thai rescue the Tha keave rescue when somebody was actually having arguments with him disagreeing with him he called a guy a pedophile next one over here and it can even be something as harmless and as loving as is your family you love your
00:12:24 family so much it becomes an over desire it becomes a sin when you overd desire now again all these things I show you are actually good things that God has given these are all good things that God has given and yet and yet when you over desire them they become something bad right and so in this training attendant it says that for us what should we do what's the solution the solution is our heart is like this octobus here and every single day even when sitting here it's finding different things in the
00:12:55 ocean is searching for things trying to get hold of things to suck to suck on to latch on to draw energy from so you draw energy from maybe your studies your wedding your your your C your your spouse your family you draw Joy from it and but the thing is all these things cannot give you the ultimate Joy the only way is this you need to suck Joy you know to draw all the joy you want from Jesus from Christ that is the only way because all this cannot give you the truth satisfaction so instead of over
00:13:31 Desiring for all this and you need abstain from it and only search for God and focus on God when you do this when you live on this world you will be misunderstood as you see over on verse 12 live such good lives among the pagans that though they accuse you of wrongdoing they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day he visits us when when uh during the time of uh Apostle Peter uh it was something that very common the Christians were being uh malign they were being misunderstood and what you
00:14:05 see over here is these are Gladiators the Gladiators are the ones you know they fight in the stadium but Christians do not go for it so if your neighbor say hey let's go and watch a gladiator show Christian said they don't want to because people are killing themselves over there so you actually when you separate yourself from this blood thirsty spot people said that hey why you like that you don't want to be friends with me is it or at that time uh this is a equipment that's very commonly used is called embroid what happens is
00:14:33 if you don't want your baby you use this to actually extract the baby out um the ver is is being used to cut off the limbs and the head of The Unborn uh so for you for your your neighbors are all doing this but for you you say this cannot be done and when they do it you say this is wrong so people will misunderstood that this is my body you know my rights why are you complaining about it it's nothing to do with you as well or maybe some of them say that you know Emperor wory at a time was something that everybody does just a
00:15:05 pinch of incense just put a pinch of incense on the AL fire and everything be okay the EMP the emperor the the nation knows that you actually are loyal to them but Christian will say no we cannot do that even a pinch of incense I cannot do it and this causes trouble because when you don't want to worship Emperor it means that maybe you're not loyal maybe you're a person that wants to Rebel so people may misunderstood you but we are called to be different and it says here in verse 12 live such good
00:15:35 lives among the pagans though they accuse you of doing wrong they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day he visits us we are called to be different at the time the Christians live differently if you see acts 4: 32 almost here they share everything they had Christians share everything they had they love their neighbors and University for there were no needy persons among them for from time to time those who own land or houses sold them brought the money from the sales and put it at the Apostle's
00:16:12 feet and it was distributed to anyone who had need the ministry of Mercy over there was so strong that nobody had need people really cared for each other and so over here Julian the emperor actually said this we don't like the Christians but there's one thing we can for them nothing has contributed to the progress of the Superstition of the Christians Christians to him is a Superstition nothing has contributed to the progress of the Superstition of the Christians as their charity to strangers they are people who are they
00:16:46 don't choose they don't have they don't have a status they don't have class one you know what they do they take care of the Christians they take care of our people as well the Empire gallons provide not only for their own poor they provide for ours as well and this is a problem and this caused them actually become a a faith that actually keeps on growing and growing and so what I want to share with you is this as you look at it we can preach all we want you can come to church all you want but people
00:17:14 do not change people do not change until they see the Fifth Gospel there are five gospels as you state over here Matthew Mark Luke and John and a Christian you are a gospel the way you live outside is more important than what you do in side here although what we do over here is as important as well but what you do outside is what people see and people will not consider becoming a Christian until they see how you live how you're different so live radically different the next point that we have over here is
00:17:45 we're called to submit to Authority we're called to submit to Authority verse 13 submit yourselves for the Lord's sake to every human authority whether to the Emperor as a supreme authority or to to Governors who are sent by him to punish those who do wrong and to command those who do right first thing you see is it says that you're supposed to submit to every human authority whether it's your parent whether it is your boss whether it is your prime minister whether is your king you're supposed to submit to every
00:18:22 single Authority but for us it's difficult to do that because in this modern world we are being taught that we are captain of our own ship we are master of our own faith um every single time nowadays youngsters are talking about disruption it's not submission it's disruption we should find how to do things differently we should disrupt we should describe what is actually happening here and do things differently we need to chart our own path and that is what we being taught so how can we submit in this case and sometimes you
00:18:51 see that maybe you feel that the leader is not of quality or if you that these people who are actually leading you are not as good as you how do you submit how do you submit in such a Circumstance the first thing to ask you is can you submit to these parties or not so now we have barison we have harapan and barison National being the government we don't really know exactly what's happening yet right so far in the news these two parties are there any other changes daily changes not sure yet so so
00:19:21 far is these two parties who actually are going to be the government can you submit to them the answer given by God is yes all authority comes from God because they represent God which means that their Authority actually comes from God even if for example perata National becomes the government we can submit to them as well no matter whether you like the party or not even during the times of the Christians during the Roman times the Roman Empire the Emperors were not as not as nice as our prime minister at
00:19:54 our as our leaders now and yet they have been called to submit we to submit no matter who it is in power because the power The Authority comes from God and this is what Jesus said in John 19: 11 Jesus answered you would have to you have no power over me if it were not given to you from above all authority all power ultimately comes from God and God is Sovereign and God allows it to happen sometimes we say that government no good do you prefer have government or no government do you prefer to have a
00:20:24 garment or staying in a w torn country where there's just fighting and there's Uprising and there's Anarchy key so governance is important governance is good so for the youngsters out there as you want to rebel the reason why there are parents the reason why God gave you parents is to make sure that there's order there's a way of things being done and sometimes maybe you don't like how things are being done but what your parents are doing are the best that they can do as well ultimately even if you don't like
00:20:52 what is being done God is a judge okay in verse 12 it says here leave such good lies among the pagans that though they accuse you of doing wrong they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day he visits us there will come a day where God comes and there will be judgment so judgment is just not on for us it's for everybody so don't worry when when a person actually does something wrong to you don't worry when they do not do their work properly for you you do your part that's most important and the other thing to know is
00:21:21 when I talk about Authority Christians sometimes you heard of people talking about the Seven Kingdoms it's very very common in the circles I I am in they talk about Seven Kingdoms basically it says that we need to dominate these Seven Kingdoms we need to become number one in religion we need to dominate that family sphere the education sphere we need to dominate it when people talk about education that the Christians are the best B the Christians are the best the Christians are the one in charge the
00:21:49 Christians are the one in power uh this is not just something in Malaysia is actually across the whole world people believe that but is that biblical the answer is no Christians do not desire to take power Christians do not desire to take over what we desire is over here in the next verse 1 Timothy 2 verse1 I urge then first of all that petitions prayers intercessions and Thanksgiving be made for all people for kings and all those in Authority so number one you are not asked us to Rebel we asked to submit and
00:22:24 next thing so that why that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and Holiness Christians know that their home their ultimate home is not here and for what we do over here we're supposed to engage and actually be involved in the community and the society but what we do over here we supposed to live peaceful and quiet lives not you will not find a bible verse asking you to Rebel to overthrow the government it will never be there okay there's no such thing out there and ultimately why can we live this way when
00:22:57 somebody is in charge of you your boss is a person that uh you don't like but why can you live happily and just be able to submit the reason is God is ultimately on the throne in a spiritual realm God is on the throne in Psalm 2 verse1 it says why do the Nations conspire and the peoples plot in vain the kings of the earth rise up and the rulers band together against the Lord and against his anointed saying let's break their chains and throw off their shackles it means over here if you see the Nations the peoples right
00:23:29 everybody all of us we are sinners and we are always rebelling against Christ we always plotting we are meditating how to go against God but the one the one and thron verse four the one and thron in heaven laughs the Lord scoffs at them he rebukes them in his anger and terrifies them in his wrath saying I've installed my king on Zion my Holy Mountain God has always been reigning Jesus Christ is Lord Jesus Christ is King in the past in the Roman times if you say this you would die you need to say Caesar is Lord so it's a good
00:24:04 question for us as well um who is our Lord do we know that God is on the throne when things are going difficult in your life do you realize that God is on Throne so how do we relate to the government how do we relate to the society what we are asked to do is to become model citizens in verse 15 over here it says for it is God's will that by doing good you should silence the ignorant talk of foolish people you're required to be model citizens and over here I have some examples to show you um what can we do first thing to do is be
00:24:40 loyal and serve the nation if you look at Daniel Daniel serve four Emperors there was not one single time when he said that I want to overthrow the emperor and you need to understand Daniel is a unuk he was being brought over from uh Israel right and so he's actually a captive and so when bad things happened to the emperor he was actually having thoughts that terfy him and if you read over here verse 27 he gives advice how to avoid this okay oh your majesty be pleased to accept my advice renounce your sins by doing what
00:25:16 is right and wickedness by being kind to the oppressed it may be that then your Prosperity will continue so if you want you can find out more information but in short Daniel is loyal to the king and for us we all loyal to the country the one of the most easiest way for all of you to answer is pay your taxes when you need pay SST pay it the day that GST comes back we don't know whether you come back those of you who are in the corporate world you understand how things work if it comes back you pay it
00:25:45 why because this money is used for the running of the country so become good citizens and over here please don't do this we are all in Malaysia uh this uh short little comment here says I'm sure glad the hole isn't in our end a lot of times we stay in the same country but when bad things happen last year there's a flood what do you do yeah luckily I stay in this area there this area no flooding one make sure we don't move there okay or do we engage and do we help that's a question and maybe for you
00:26:17 you don't do this but I can assure you many Christians do this many of us do this you know what I do a lot of times when we stay in Malaysia we now see Malaysia as a Launchpad when your kids are old enough you ask them to go overseas to study but do you ask them to come back as well that's a question but when you look at it we are asked to love Malaysia this is a land given by God to us if God wanted you to be in Australia he would actually ask you to be there if God has called you visibly to go there please go
00:26:56 there but the question is you you should be living at the date Center of Christ calling that is where you should be not to look for Prosperity not to look for Comfort because I can assure you I've gone to different countries before when you're there things are not as you believe when you go over there A lot of times they call other countries a spiritual desert perhaps you have more food perhaps your have social security perhaps you can collect D but when you are there you realize that your spiritual life is no longer the same
00:27:30 choose to be at the date Center of where Christ has CAU you to God has a purpose for your life so when you look at Malaysia we know that uh if you look at happiness index in Malaysia things have not been going very well Malaysia has actually dropped a bit as well compared to our neighboring countries the question is do we do something do we try to build on Malaysia when we work when they opportunity to work with the government do we try to do our best or just try to get fees from perhaps a good example a you to share
00:28:02 with you this is uh Mr harrisan he's actually the father of my friend Vanessa tan so harrisan is actually a Titan in the IT industry um and when he was running his business actually Consulting he did things differently we are called to be good citizens and do things differently when he's running his business you have competitors and what do you do with your competitors you pray for them right you pray that they will collapse yes or no you pay that pray that they shouldn't come recently I talked to a very close person of mine he
00:28:34 said that yeah I know I'm a Christian but I don't like I don't like them they want to compete with me who want to compete with me I don't like them so perhaps lot times what we think right but for him Mr Harris time what he did was he started a it Christian Fellowship so if you're in it if you're Christian you're welcome to come together for this Christian Fellowship together Believers together to encourage each other and help each other change the spere change the way things are done in your domain
00:29:01 in the places that you are and Mr harrisan actually has this disease called MSA multi-stem atrophy and it's been quite a few years and currently he actually is IM mobile he can't really move in fact all his movements are uh require assistance from his family but on the day of election he went for election as well when you can't really move when moving itself may be a discomfort for you do you choose to stay at home when going to work is hard do you choose to say no want to go to work just apply MC
00:29:37 Monday already public holiday Friday just take MC so I can go for Holiday four days you know you know but for him he dutiful even in sickness he actually goes to do his voting fulfilling his right and his responsibility as a citizen of Malaysia and I would say that he has raised a very good uh family as well uh his daughter is doing the same thing raising good children so uh when Vanessa wanted to give away some toys she doesn't just give away the toys she teaches the Next Generation to help out
00:30:15 so she went to this uh place in D to give out toys as well give toys to to this Center over there toys that she doesn't want really but the children were actually asked to stay back on in that place to help to sort out the toys and arrange everything so when we teach our children do we teach them just to become smart get a lot a or we teach them to be Godly to be good citizens that's a question we can ask ourselves and this question is not to you only it's to me as well I have the same problem you face
00:30:44 yeah or perhaps being a good C citizen means that we need to serve the nation now we said that we don't want Power Christians as a whole we do not want power but if God has called you to be a politician God has called you to serve the nation through politics please go ahead and this is what Hanah y says I'm just one of the frontliners with a face voice and name in this pursuit of a better Malaysia along alongside me are many other Malaysians of different ages and backgrounds willing to walk the
00:31:11 distance and bear a flag too if that is what is required of them this is old lady uh in her consitency uh going to campaign and actually uh working together so whether you are H or whether whether you're this old lady you're still serving the nation the key thing is we we do something we don't just sit there and look we do something for the nation as well the last point we called to freedom in service we called to freedom in service verse 16 we asked to live as free people but do not use a freedom as a coverup for evil live as
00:31:46 God slaves show proper respect to everyone love the family of Believers fear God and honor the emperor you're called to live as free people what does free mean free is a word that we need to really Define properly in this day and age why because Freedom normally means that we can do whatever we want nobody controls me I'm the master of my ship that's what it means normally when it comes to free free means you have a lot of money and you can just relax but this is not the freedom that God is talking
00:32:16 about is not asking you to be a zealot to Rebel to overthrow the government Freedom does not mean that you become stoic where you just say that I have the inner power to do what I want and I have less emotions I I have have Detachment this is not what it's saying so there's a there's a quote always say if it's endurable then endure it stop complaining stoics are people who are very a who are able to control their emotions and so when you can control emotions can control your minds and thoughts you can be successful but this
00:32:47 is not the freedom that God is talking about and God is not asking you to build a doomsday bunker the rich have nothing else to do nowadays long long time ago during the times of maybe in the 1800s when the rich are are very rich what they do before they die they they build libraries they will actually build museums they build art centers but nowadays the rich people built Doomsday Bunkers why they say that you know the world is going to go into pieces with we have a bunker and stay inside so this
00:33:13 what you see is actually a bunker with a swimming pool underneath the ground I don't know how much it cost but this is what people are doing nowadays this is not Freedom not freedom from the world and certainly not freedom to do whatever you want in hyper Grace we're not saying that we have license to sin this is not what Freedom it is freedom is ultimately what we see in Romans 6 over here for when you were slaves of sin you free in regard to righteousness but what fruit were you getting at the time from the
00:33:40 things of which you are now ashamed for the end of those things is death but now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God the fruit you get leads to sanctification and its end eternal life the truth is this you are never really free you can't be really free because we need to give allegiance to something always if you're free to work but work is the only thing you are actually chained to your work if you are looking at this free what you see is that if you're free to sin you are actually controlled by
00:34:18 sin so the truth is you need to choose who do you freely give your life to the answer is you give your life to God and become slaves of God you serve him he's a good god he's a good master and he call you friends as well so he will actually be good to you and that's the whole thing what were you made for you made for God and also to share with you that we are actually living in Two Worlds I was um thinking about what should I put living Between Two Worlds or living in Two Worlds but I would like to say with
00:34:50 you that we are living in Two Worlds one world is what you can see and feel but what you do here impacts the SE the other world as well do you think so I think it does what you do now impacts the other world as well in verse n but you are chosen people a royal priesthood a royal priesthood means that you are here to intercede intercede between God and others that's what you're called to do and when you intercede things can change people can change their hearts can change their lives can change we
00:35:24 holy nation we set apart for God we're God's special Poss that we may declare the prence of him who call us out of Darkness into this wonderful light our impact our actions impact eternity we are asked to use our freedom not to enjoy life not to build a Dooms say bunker for those of you who are too rich we are asked to live to serve and perhaps I can share with you this guy called George westing house uh he's my hero and there too many points I just thought of putting it in about 5 minutes before the sermon so I wanted to
00:35:56 share with you George wring house was um born at the time of the Robert Barons so if you look at the history of America there were all these people like um Daniel keni Jep Morgan uh and Josh Bing house these are people are at the same time but he's special why they say so the first thing is at that time people were really human resource people had very low pay and working conditions in factories were very very bad people could easily die right but he actually changed a lot of culture and his company
00:36:28 is totally different the first thing everybody works seven days there's no off day perhaps sometimes they have U six days but for him he instituted the extra leave so a lot of times they say that the reason why a five day work weeker is because of him it's because him he started to say that instead of seven days 5 days is enough number two he was very good to his employees let me just get my um this message of the show to just make sure I don't lose any points right he wasn't working for profit a lot of
00:37:01 people at the time they work they built more and more Enterprises larger larger companies but for him his goal his Focus was Building Products inventing products and things that are beneficial to the society compared to Thomas Edison Thomas Edison did things which for entertainment for things that are maybe that is very shiny and nice but for him he did lot of things that were helpful for people for example the first thing invented was actually one of the first things was actually on the train on the
00:37:28 the trains he did he created this thing called air break so long long time ago if you want the train to break do you know how to make the train break you get humans to jump on the train and they pull a liever until the wheels stop and because of this can you imagine you going to do that work and it was accepted at a time that when you're working as this guy to pull The Brak you may fall off and die and many of them die but it was accepted but George wrestling house challenged the status quo inventing something that can help
00:37:58 the world so that less people need to die when they do their work aside from that for example he had many patterns he had I think 300 plus patterns but the difference between him and Edison Edison had even more but the difference is this when andison asked people to do work working for his company he says that all the work you have all the patterns belong to me that's why he has so many patterns but westling house believe in everybody growing together and so many of the employees grow on to build their
00:38:26 own patterns having more and more of that so that's a different totally different way of working not just wor saying that money is my call is a Cornerstone of my life but it's about what is important to you knowing this that if you believe in God if you hold on to Christ that's all you need and you can live radically different from everyone else the next thing I share with you is he even built a town called wiing so he had employee uh lodging nice places for people to stay at the time was was unheard of unheard of go online
00:39:00 and check more about this person he's a person that you hardly hear about and he was so good that on the when he was alive there were no union strikes at all as long as he was alive there was not a single union strike because all the employees saw him as a really fatherly figure a person that was very good compared to all the other Robert Barons all the other Rich tycoons over there there were always strikes they always all this and on a day that he died his funeral many employees thousands and
00:39:24 thousands attended it why because he was different and Friends brothers and sisters do we live differently enough and people see us they say that we are different the next I share with you is we are also being given the freedom to sacrifice when you become a Christian actually you are called to sacrifice it's not stated when you do your tre6 prayer it's not stated when you do your confession but you're called to sacrifice and this is um his name is k Nicholas Von zenor is a Moravian and moravians
00:40:07 were actually during the time of Martin Luther or even a bit earlier than that and these people were totally radical their life is life of sacrifice they sent missionaries to every single continent and the missionaries were so radical whereby they would sell themselves to become slaves in order to preach the gospel so in s Thomas 29 maies actually went there to preach and all of it which I'm not if I remember correctly 22 died just like that and when there was 12 died of fever they can just say hey 12 died we
00:40:40 need more the rest will just come can you imagine a life like this you know that go there it's going to be suffering but they would just say go and there was one time um there was they were requiring one missionary and they just ask Miss this ask person so there's very strict requirements who can actually go when they don't get to go they are sad one you know when they don't get to go to sacrifice their lives on the sad one you know some what happen is when this person ask hey we need we have an
00:41:05 opening now can you go now his answer was very simple can you please buy me a pair of boots if you can buy buy me a pair of boots because mine is actually SPO just buy me a pair of boots and I can go already can you imagine the type of life you're living the life of sacrificial life why because for them they are octopus is not sucking on money is not sucking on marriage they are totally for Christ they take care of lepers in the world and the morans if you read about John Wesley the reason of his conversion and
00:41:34 his change of his life was also because of the moravians on his boat when uh there was actually a strong uh storm they saw that why the moravians can still sing and be happy because in their life what they actually anchored life upon is different this is what K Nicola Von Zin say I think maybe U uh this is a correct pronunciation preach the go gopel die and be forgotten we can preach all we want we can say all we want but ultimately the ministry of Mercy the way we live our lives is what we see we need to live
00:42:14 such good lives that people will give glory to God and I'll just share again over here this is what the emperor himself says Julian the Roman Emperor nothing has contributed to the progress of the Superstition of the Christians as a charity to strangers the Empire scallion provide not only for their own poor but for ours as well as we live as Christians do we just care about our family do we just care about maybe some people that that we like or are we like this Christian here we do not select we
00:42:48 do not choose we do not discriminate we care for all now frany is not something easy to do but this is something we are caught to and why can we do this what's the reason that we can be called to be different why are we called to be different why are we called to submit to Authority why are we called to freedom in service even freedom to sacrifice why the reason is because over here once you were not a people but now you are the people of God once you had not received Mercy but now you have received
00:43:25 Mercy Jesus Christ didn't just sign a document and allow you to become a child of God he paid the price he sacrificed he gave you Mercy when we had nothing when we were nobody he made us somebody when the sacrifice was required he actually came everybody was born for life but only Jesus Christ was born to die and Tim K this very good um quote he said Esther had a very famous quote when I perish and yet he came anyway while we were still Sinners while we still nobody's or we still don't even know what life is about we're still
00:44:16 living to our own enjoyment and we still don't really sure what it is God says that come and this is not a guil trip you don't understand this is not guil trip and it's not that you need to follow the five steps or the four steps to become holy it's not that Christianity and following Jesus is not following a set of rules this is not a set of rules this is a result the result of you having Christ in your life and because of Christ he finishes everything and for us this is a result of you having Christ of
00:44:50 you obeying him that is all it is so once we were not a people but now we are the people of God once you had not received Mercy but now you have received Mercy I'd like to invite the worship team to come up as we pray father we thank you that Lord as we approach Christmas as at the start of Advent Lord that you remind us Lord that you are in control the Lord you are the king in heaven the Lord you have full authority over this world and Lord you've called us to submit to all authority all human authority Lord you
00:45:33 call us to be different to live our lives differently for people not for ourselves not just to look for the next tasty food whatever it is that you like the Lord you have given us enough to see that Lord you sacrifice for us even though we are never worthy even now but Lord you give us all because why because you want to be with us you want us to come back to you Lord we thank you for this and Lord we hold you as a Cornerstone in our lives that Lord instead of basing our life on our family having successful children having
00:46:11 children that love you love us or basing our life on our careers wanting to become the director wanting to grow and basing our whole identity for it Lord we want to say that Lord we want you to be our call Cornerstone that no matter what happens in life we will be able to hold fast be able to live to serve we be to live to sacrifice for you because you have given all for us and it's a joy and privilege to just to love you and to live like you in Jesus name pray amen it is in Christ alone where we have
00:46:54 our hope he is our light our strength in our song Church in Christ alone my hope is found he is my life my strength my soul this Cornerstone this Solid Ground F through the FES Dr stor what Heights of love what TKS of peace with Fe are still when striving SE my [Music] comforter My All In All here in the love of Christ I Stand in Christ alone who took on flesh fullness of God in [Music] heless this gift of love and righteousness scor by the ones he came to till on the cross as Jesus died the RO of God was
00:48:23 satisfied for every s on him was laid here in the death of Christ I [Music] live there in the ground his body lay Light of the World by Darkness L then bursting forth in Glorious Day up from the grave he rose again and as he stands in victory since has lost G on me for I am his and he is mine B with a precious blood of Christ no guilt in life no fear in death this is the power of Christ in me from life was cry to final bread Jesus command my [Music] destiny no power of hell no scheme of man can
00:50:08 ever me from his hand to he returns oh calls me home here in the power of Christ I'll Stand hear in the power of Christ stand here in the power of Christ I'll [Music] Stand I'll be giving the benediction now and after service you require any prayers if if in your life you say that perhaps your Cornerstone has not been God and you wonder how can this moravians how can these people live so radically that when one missionary dies the next one said I want to go and perhaps for you you are going through
00:51:13 challenges and maybe you're a new Christian and just starting to say that I don't really know what this is can you help me or some of you maybe you want to know why would someone actually why would Jesus die for you come come prayer come and speak to the elders and the pastors over here to be more than happy to assist you now receive the benediction but you are chosen people a royal priesthood a holy nation God's special possession that you may declare the Praises of him who call you out of Darkness into his wonderful
00:51:49 light once you were not people but now you are the people of God once you have not received Mercy but now now you have received Mercy let us go forth into the world in peace and dedicated to Christ service let's hold fast to that which is good render to no person evil for evil strengthen the fhe hearted support the weak help the needy and Afflicted and honor all people amen service is over after a moment of silence prayer you may be dismissed
