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00:00:02 today's passage is taken from the book of Galatians 1: 6 to10 reading from the NIV 2011 version I'm astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you to live in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel which is really no gospel at all evidently some people are throwing you into confusion and are trying to pervert the gospel of Christ but even if we or an angel from heaven should preach the gospel other than the one we preach to you let them be under God's curse as we have already
00:00:40 said so now I say again if anybody is preaching to you a gospel other than what you accepted let them be under God's curse am I now trying to win the approval of human beings or of God or am I trying to please people if I were still trying to please people I will not be a servant of Christ this is the word of God morning every see nice to see all of you [Music] today so as we begin uh first thing we do is we just have a quick word of prayer I just want to get a rostrom here then we can do that thanks
00:01:28 go let's pray father God we we want to thank you for today Lord that Lord you have called us from death you have called us from sin and darkness to come to know you to be in this church to belong to you and Lord you have a plan for us and Lord you've given everything to us for free thank you Lord for all that you've done for us and Lord we pray that you help us to internalize this so of this unshakeable Faith l so that as we live our lives whether it's to raise children whether it's to share the gospel whether it's to work to play
00:02:08 sports or anything at all Lord let's do it with the full Assurance to know that Lord we have everything we need and we have you and Lord we can be happy and glad every day L pray that you speak to us today as uh uh I start with this sermon pray that you anoint my lips help me to say the right things help me to uh speak the truth in love as well Lord thank you Lord I pray that your word go forth and not return void in Jesus name pray amen okay FC so today we are before we start these are the upcoming topics
00:02:42 Fellowship of The Gospel by Dr Peter uh on 23rd we have uh uh visiting speaker edber to share on representing Jesus and his kingdom and on 30th March I'll be back on why they glorify God which is continuation from here today so today we're talking about gospel 2.0 people have been asking what is Gospel 2.0 is it like a new iPhone uh what is it saying 2.0 later will there be 3.0 or so so what's gospel 2.0 now before I talk about gospel 2.0 I think the first thing we want to know is what is the gospel what is the gospel the
00:03:17 gospel as Dr Peter shared last week can be very plainly presented to say that you know just Jesus loves me this I know if I were to share with you the verse that all when you share the gospel this verse will always come out John 36 for God so loved the world that he gave his only son that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life if you see this verse you can see a few different things that uh you can get from it the first one is it is Grace you don't get what you deserve this is what
00:03:46 Dr was sharing last week you don't get what you deserve we all deserve death we all deserve condemnation but God save us and is totally Grace second one it is costly is not cheap it's not God to say okay done he died on the cross for us so it is actually costly Jesus Paid with his life the third one it is love when you are Sav to when you receive salvation what you actually get is not just going to heaven lot people why they want to go Heaven is because they don't want to be under the fire being burned Ah that's why they
00:04:22 don't become a Christian but the main point is why are you becoming Christian what is the point of it is that you are safe into relationship with God and his family which means and his church you're not saved on a oneon-one relationship only you're saved into a corporate situation where by there's all these brothers and sisters that live together with you number four it is free you just need to accept it accept it in faith that's all you need to do all right so now um let me see whether you have
00:04:51 gotten my right slides H okay if not mind as well okay so portraits of Grace so you see over here this is what Dr Bill is sharing uh last week already and you do not get what you deserve okay you do not get what you deserve so you save into FC over here and is a good place yes yes is a good place or not yes ah right now so now you know what is a gospel already place called FBC you know uh if you go to other churches also you're safe uh as well right but over here you have FBC now what we want to say is but we need
00:05:26 to be very careful of gospel 2.0 what is Gospel 2.0 now so the gospel 2.0 is actually over here all right let me share with you it's a perverted gospel it means that the gospel is no longer the same okay I want to share with you these are the five points just now that I think there so this SL I miss so it is true Faith you just need to repent and accept it by faith okay isn't repent accept by faith and finally it is Victory Jesus rose again defeating sin and death okay these are five points I remember this I'm going to come to this
00:05:57 again and again and again today so so if you want to understand what is Gospel 2.0 let me ask you what are these ah yeah Malaysian very fast right you see stra you know n yes or no okay what are these what what are these n can this be Nas or not what is Nas what is Nama you must have Nasi and you must have Lama so the first one is a sushi no Lama inside right but looks quite nice actually second one is a burger with no rice on it the third one is ice cream the fourth one on the bottom is actually a sandwich and the fifth one is
00:06:44 a pizza are they N L for Malaysians no so you have actually perverted Nas L you have destroyed nasil Lama you want proper nasil Lama you come to Malaysia don't try to create f nasil lak at most you call it you can call it nasil lak tasting food right okay it is not nasil lak and so the same it is for the gospel the gospel a lot of times when we come to church when we get to know Christ we we actually know what the gospel is and if we go back to Five Points obviously yeah yeah yeah agree I agree
00:07:19 you that is a gospel but maybe you have heard of Prosperity Gospel whereby the pastors uh actually own a private jet so if you are preacher you can get a private jet so where's my private jet actually I also want one so is this the gospel or not and why is it not the gospel now you see here it is not gospel at all why because you look at these five points I wrote over here it is Grace now the point about perversion of the Gospel or gospel 12.0 is is not telling you totally different things you know they put a tiny bit of things they
00:07:50 add a little bit they subtract a bit and suddenly it's totally different really the gospel cannot be added and it cannot be subtracted gospel cannot be added and it can never be attracted so look at what over here blessing comes from Faith yes and giving okay you need to give or God says you to give right you want blessing you must give it is costly Jesus died why so that you don't have to suffer anymore sounds quite true you know but what is suffering you know so there's this thing Jesus died so you don't have to suffer
00:08:24 you don't need to be condemned to death forever but you can actually live a Victorious Life it is love you can live your best life now okay best life now basically it means that you can own maybe a Tesla live in a big house you know uh don't need to have a boss anymore it is true Faith you accept in faith but you know so a financial seat to activate these blessings it's victory Jesus rose again and defeating sin and death why to make you rich and influential so you see gospel 2.0 is basically take the original you Tamba a
00:08:59 bit you remove a bit and then you get something totally different something that's totally not the gospel anymore another one hyper Grace what is hyper Grace so uh Joseph Prince over here says that uh some of the words which Jesus spoke in the four gospels are part of the old Covenant they were spoken before the cross as he had not yet died the New Covenant only begins after the cross when the Holy Spirit was given on the day of Pentecost so a lot of things you do not need to follow okay uh so seron
00:09:30 bound no listen really why because it's before when he rose again only then we listen so all the suffering no so if you see it it's not gospel why if you look at it again it is Grace God's grace covers everything so don't worry about Sin it is costly Jesus died for your past present and future sin yes or no yes but because of that you don't need to repent anymore no need he died for everything really number three is love God loves you just the way you are exactly as how you are just like Bruno Mar sing correct I'm not sure correct
00:10:09 person fourth one it is true Faith trust in Christ but Faith doesn't require repentance and his victory Jesus rose again so when he said Jesus rose again you yes then suddenly he tell you is Grace you don't need worry about Sin anymore then he said yeah correct God grace cover everything don't even worry about Sin so I can sin but basically what he has has done is also he has removed the cost Jesus died for you but it's actually not costly anymore it's okay just sin now it's fine so you know for us what you see is this gospel 2.0
00:10:42 is when the gospel is added to your life it's added into your current life for example you go and you go shopping you have a shopping cart you buy a few things and you see gospel not bad this one I buy put you to shopping cart that's gospel 2.0 is added into your baskets of material possessions or things that you have but that's not a gospel gospel is actually a transformation in your life you totally change you throw away everything you have and you totally change everything you own gets transformed by the gospel
00:11:12 but you know for us in FBC surely we will not be you know swayed by all this hyper Grace Prosperity Gospel we are FBC you know we are smart people come to church we listen to sermon correct or not right how can we Prosper the gospel can smell mouth hello right some more look at our Google rating 4.6 okay right no so we don't have all this problem one okay but Jokes Aside friends I want to share you that the devil is like a roaring lion he's always looking for someone to devour us individually or even us
00:11:54 corporately devil is the roaring lion looking to devour his prey and and wants to destroy our lives so it does it many ways but one way is to pervert the gospel so now we will not fall into temptation about Prosperity Gospel and all that but I can share with you that this gospel 2.0 is very prevalent and is something that we need to be very careful about I can share you that even I myself have fallen trapped to some of these things here now let's go through a few examples for you to understand why it's so important to
00:12:29 the gospel and remember it so in Galatians 1:8 it says but even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preach to you let them be under God's curse as we have already said so now I say again if anyone is preaching to you a gospel other than what you accepted let them be under God's curse no matter who tells you the gospel it is different from what the Bible actually says it is actually wrong it doesn't matter whether it's a preacher here whether you listen online whether
00:13:02 it's a friend you need to understand what the gospel is now let me share with you how the gospel can be change the first one is for example this achievement in life this achievement in life by the gospel a lot of times for us we believe in God we come Toc but when we see the gospel we see that actually the gospel is like one of the trophies among all the things in life I have a checklist to say that yes I want to become Christian but at the same time I want to be successful I need to be able to get promotions I need to have five
00:13:34 kids I need to be able to retire and go holiday every day so the achievements we want in life other than just what the gospel really said Jesus is not enough sometimes when you look at it the achievement life also when we look at the gospel we see it as a self-help book go Jesus is actually here to help me to help me to solve my problems if I got problem I go to Jesus is like a assistant you know Jesus is not God Jesus is an assistant to help me when I need help so in the achievement gospel if you see actually you see this Throne
00:14:09 this chair right actually not bad you know you see it uh it was generated on AI and you see got AC cross very beautiful man right and very comfortable to sit in well looks Rich you know all nice and suddenly got scar at the bottom a scar quite good to sit on already but is this a gospel what is the gospel actually you see so you see right if you are having this achievement gospel what you may happen is number one church is actually a part of your checklist you have many things you want in life coming to church is part of it
00:14:41 life is bad if you don't get a the most important thing for you is you must get a in life if your son don't get a or your life is tough your problem really now or your difficult what should I do it's the end of the world or you don't get a promotion or don't get the girl you want Oh life is bad ready you want to achieve things in life you want to become a leader you become Elder otherwise no good really achievement gospel I didn't achieve why because I'm a successful person everywhere I need successful in church as so you chase
00:15:09 after the same things as everyone achievement gospel is a case where by actually you look at it right you can't really tell the difference between a Christian and a non-Christian you actually go after the same thing that other people go after people have kids who go to div all the time you also have kids go at time it's exactly the same if I ask you the only difference is oh I just have one more checklist which is to come to church and God is a means to an end so that is the achievement gospel is
00:15:36 over here you are in church but for you it's actually you're looking for something else Jesus is not enough for you you want more in life the second one is the churchan gospel now churchan is a term that is not um meant uh normally widely uh discussed what's a churchan so you know there are Christians right they are also churchians who's a churchan a churchan is a person okay I'm saying this in love don't mean all of you all of you not churchan maybe Church Down the Road God the churchan is a religion
00:16:11 religious person whose Faith revolves around ading to rules traditions of Christianity you know check boxes I need to do this do this and after that I get safe right rather than the original religion the original faith that actually God teaches so this is Church's gospel if you see what the churchan does is for example over here I can be saved because of what I have done Jesus Loves Me Jesus died for my sins but I need to be worthy of him you know you be worthy of him so I need to really work hard for
00:16:41 this so for example for us maybe how do you know we churchan okay number one for you must be Baptist you know that charismatic church are that one are not correct one they are not Christians you look down on other people number one okay you said that must be Baptist number two or not in enough to just have a Bible Bible commentary Al okay if you don't read Bible commentary you are lousy I'm better than you you start measuring yourself against each other um basically is really comparing to see that who is better do you know the five
00:17:13 solars or not uh are you cavist or alism premid post tribulation what are all these things and after that okay you know your Bible the next thing they ask you is do you serve or not okay do you serve monthly or not do you serve weekly or not are you in AOL oh you're not in AOL you're not a leader I'm better you know that's why I actually deserve to become a a Christian can go to heaven some need to preach Al right if I Don't Preach not correct so I need to become somebody also so these things come about so but
00:17:46 you see what happen is a lot of times we say that we actually we can only be safe if we actually do the right things now py is good but self Sal salvation is really little is it the this is something that is not that you have all of them or really none of them but it's a such a subtle Temptation in life is it okay to have Christian friends okay right but when you find that a non-Christian because they don't know God you don't want to mix with them something is wrong because you realize that you are exactly the same as them
00:18:21 just that God saved you and you got to know God only so if you really love God and love your neighbors you want to have more and more Christian friend non-Christian friends talk to them invite them to church right but because you're so Pious people ask you hey can I go out on Friday let's go and have drinks you said no Friday live group Sunday Sunday let's go out together you know hey you're such a nice Sunday Sunday I go to church right Thursday Thursday prayer meeting every day also is something to do in church you cannot
00:18:51 have mome your friends why why can I I need to have one fellowship with my brothers you know so other Christians are one you know God is Not walking on your door hello there's a non-Christian here I want you talk to hello I said no no I need to serve at BC you know okay that's what I need to do over here you're outly Pious okay you have a big cross uh you but mean thing is because you done so many things right you feel you're worthy of heaven and only people like people who come to only they can be
00:19:21 safe and you look down on others and actually don't love them you don't have time for people you only have time to do the things that you like so that is actually one of the things that is common as well sometimes that when we become Christians you become so used to certain things we find that hey actually gospel yes we need to love God and so we need to serve and do everything but we forget that the reason why we can become followers of Jesus because of what God has done not because of what we
00:19:51 do another one over here the comfortable gospel today sermon very challenging to share you know because uh is really uh a bit needing to be speaking the truth in love and need to share things so if this actually uh has anything do with you are please don't worry I'm also part of it okay but all of us want Comfort yes or no you want a nice family right a lot of us don't want achievement we we say that we don't need to become high flyer I don't need to become Elon Musk I also don't need to come to church I don't
00:20:22 need to be Pious I don't be leader so you know I don't need to be leader I don't be rich and famous I just want an easy comp life okay an average Malaysian middle class life that's good enough for me man I'm okay you know I come to church so what happen just be a good person all you know read the Bible but don't go extreme okay read the Bible okay my children when I grow up say my M can I become when I grow up can I become Pastor no no no no no no no Pastor Doctor uh doctor okay pastor not okay
00:20:56 okay lawyer or AI programming engineer okay pastor cannot missionary no way no way okay I will disown you okay if you become missionary right so don't go extreme but you do everything you know you pay your ties okay but why so you pay your ti so you feel that I've done my duty check this done man but the pastor will do everything that's necessary the elders you know people who are retired got time they do I I'm busy Ma you know right you know I got children busy so this happens but main thing is take everything in moderation
00:21:29 there is a line in your life that you actually tell Jesus Jesus you cannot cross this line when you know Jes just can cross this line This is Where I stop I've done my duty I may even serve I serve once a week in church I do all this but there's a line suffering don't come to me I do not suffer anything that will cause me to have less time less money right I I give you one time you want 10% I give you money you want 10% I give you but that's a contract you understand not Jesus 10% I give to you you don't come to ask
00:22:02 for more don't ask me to suffer when people ask say certain things you know I can actually just keep quiet because I need to protect my family you know Safety First on on you know I have be safe take care of myself first okay need to need to take care of yourself so Jesus please don't deserve my life this is it the gospel does the gospel say that you will live comfortably forever and ever does gospel say that the gospel asks us to take up our cross and follow Jesus how many times have you heard
00:22:41 people telling you that and say Amen tomorrow I'm going to child kid I'm going to go and serve there I'm going to sell my big Bungalow house after that I'm going to give it all to the poor anyone do that yeah take the cross and follow Jesus lot times we have this in our lives whereby the cross Jesus salvation is really not enough for us it's not enough it's always Jesus plus something it's always Jesus plus Comfort Jesus plus a beautiful wife Jesus plus a good career Jesus plus friendship Jesus is
00:23:21 not enough Jesus is always not enough so if you see this this is actually very serious in Revelations when if you read it uh God they say that you know this is like a lukewarm Christian is neither not neither hot or neither Co and God says I'm about to spit you out of my mouth so when you see it being a Christian is not about any of this it comes back to what is Gospel and we really need to know what is the gospel the gospel is actually something that transform us as which I'll share with you more but is it wrong to want
00:23:57 achievements is it wrong to want a in life is it wrong to say that I want to be successful is it wrong that I want my business not to go bankrupt or not it's not wrong right correct it's not wrong is it wrong to say I want to serve okay this guy okay or not okay is okay to serve or not so is it wrong for this or is it wrong to one Comfort to say that I want I don't want to Everyday uh get chased away become Refugee is it wrong answer is all of these are not wrong they are not wrong but are these your
00:24:31 foundation in life what's your foundation in life what's the center of your life is the center of Life your children is the center of your life your business or is the center of life this photo and I find that a lot of us will have such a photo at home yes photo of your family all sitting nicely together happy family and we want that and I wonder that also I also have such photos at home you know and we want all this but the question is is this our foundation when you become Christian actually what are we getting into do we
00:25:05 know or not what is our foundation the gospel is good news is not good advice Jesus come to you to tell you that if you want to be successful follow these rules the gospel actually means good news how see something good has happened so if you see number one you don't get what you deserve we all deserve death but God Saves Us number two it is costly Jesus Paid the price he died on a cross for us number three it is love he did all this because you are love and you are made new you transformed you know
00:25:44 Salvation is not just going Heaven salvation is you're are going through a transformation like from a caterpillar to a butterfly even that is not good enough you know that transformation is from aive thing from a thing that's aive to a thing aive what's happening in transformation of gospel is actually something that's dead suddenly become alive so like a dead caterpillar becoming a live butterfly it's something like that you know so you're made new and you safe in relationship with God and his family it is through faith you
00:26:12 need to repent and accept it in faith that's all accept it in faith and repent right it is a Salvation doesn't come just like oh I accept it I believe Jesus but I don't need to change that is not the gospel the gospel has this thing inside which is metano it say that you will repent you have a change of mind you go from going this direction you change and say no no I don't change I don't go it doesn't mean it's 100% change in a day but there is a change of your hearts and it is Victory it is not
00:26:41 that after Jesus died then suddenly yeah I need to be suffering until I go to heaven he rose again and sin is defeated and death is defeated and victory starts now actually so you understand what gospel 2.0 is really now look at what is the power of gospel perhaps changes to the what is the transformation of the Gospel now you see right over here in Galatians 2:20 the gospel transform your life it says I've been crucified with Christ it's no longer I who live but Christ who lives in me and the life I now live in the
00:27:18 flesh I live by faith in the Son of God who L me and gave himself for me the gospel is not something that you just take and then that's it you see over here is no longer who live you no longer live you know Christ lives in me Christ lives through you and why you do it because God loves you and he gave himself up for you and you see Romans here it says for I'm not ashamed of the gospel because it is go power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes first to the Jew then to the Gentile you see over here right the
00:27:51 gospel is actually the power of God you see the word power in Romans the word power is actually the word dynamis in its original language and this is where we get the term Dynamite the gospel is like dynamite if you see the gospel is just a lifl a nice thing shopping thing you put in your shopping cart no the gospel is a dynamite you put inside your whole shopping cart will explode it will totally change you it's not destruction but it's Total Transformation of who you are you touch a gospel you horn a gospel
00:28:22 your whole person change everything about you will change that is the gospel we're talking about the the whole person everything you go through will change everything you have will be redeemed can be redeemed your career you are relationships your decisions your past failures everything can be Redeemed by God that is a gospel is like dynamite it's something that's so powerful it's not a normal human Force there's no humans doing this you know it's all God is through the power of God that all these things actually are done so if you
00:28:56 see the power of gospel actually shows in many different ways it's not necessary that today you know the gospel tomorrow suddenly you part the Red Sea no but the gospel will do something in you and these are very strong things for example over here it says but the fruit of the spirit is love joy peace forbearance kindness goodness faithfulness gentleness and self-control so the power of gospel is that when you have the spirit of God with you your whole life changes you will start to change and live differently you know
00:29:27 removing a mountain is actually quite easy can be done but to change a person's heart very hard you see politicians do they change before election they tell you a lot of things oh y you know I'm going to do this for you you know I'm do all this for you but after election he they go back to their original Self or no whichever country you go for these are things happen but the power of the Gospel is that you can change something that the hardest which is the person inside the core Foundation the person is
00:29:59 changed and therefore you live differently so I want to share with you a bit of um maybe something we can share look at you see when I talk about gospel 2.0 right I find that for non-charismatic churches you know like our churches are me not our church are the church down the road okay so one of the biggest problems is we see serving in a very different way from others we see serving as is really human effort manmade we need people you need good talented keyboardist guitarists good speakers you need all these things
00:30:36 that's how the gospel is preached yes yes or no oh you need all this right but actually is that how is that really the power of gospel is that really what the gospel is you see right for example I got this review uh on Google and over he says of a church okay that's not this church okay but the leaders of ministry h on to leadership positions for power they're not willing to share their power and they choose who they like to become leaders very selfish leaders you know they claim they're anointed and chosen
00:31:09 by God I don't know how people claim that but they say that while they may be voted in only by church members you there's all these things but you see the key points I think you see the word power we find that you know when we become Christian remember achievement gospel I need to be serving you know we want Power it's about power it's about me being there there to lead and doing stuff we want to do all these things we want to serve we want to actually do all this but we need to understand that the
00:31:36 gospel is dynamite you know the gospel is a power of God and the gospel is not because oh I told this person about Jesus I go through you know the breach thing you know Jesus died for his sins and all that suddenly he became Christian and it's my effort is not that you know it's not because I play a very nice song or I play the viol and then become people accept Christ it's me no it's actually a power of God it's a power of gospel it's actually the Holy Spirit doing it you see over here right we are all whether you are serving
00:32:10 whether you Asher whether you are uh serving in Sunday school whether you are in youth ministry whether you are preaching uh whether you are pray uh in The Prayer Ministry all these things where which where are we can you tell me let me see I can get a laser for you see you see over here right so if you are preaching on where do people stand who who's this guy here okay we at the church right we work together yes or no so we serve together but who is this guy standing here can you tell me the preacher the
00:32:45 Elder Pastor must be pastor Pastor guide all of us yes no yes no answer is no it's Holy Spirit you know you go through the text properly it is a power power of God that does everything all transformation happens because of the power of God it's nothing to do with a human you can be the most gifted speaker and stand on stage here but the point is if the spirit is not working through you nothing will happen Hearts will not change people will not change it is always about the spirit and all of us are actually serving together
00:33:21 but you know if see how non-charismatic are this is what we see we bring our talents I get I can do this I got a and this or I good in this you all sit down all sit down and we serve together yes answer is no Alo no if you see carefully right salvation starts on remember salvation God Saves you right but doesn't save you for heaven only your life transformation Starts Now the dynamite Starts Now the holy spirit is in all of us you know and when you actually sit together and you serve together is not you serving alone it's
00:33:56 Christ serving through you it's a very I think next time I ask ELD to share more about it but you see God uh Jesus is not just God you know Jesus is God and Jesus man together and God wants to participate and wants to collaborate with humans all the time from start Genesis until the end he wants to do it and his plan has never stopped his plan has never stopped so when you become a Christian you're not doing it alone and sing God review kpi did you do this did you fail or not that's not the gospel
00:34:26 the gospel is God dwells in you wherever you go whatever you do whether you are taking care of your kids whether you are talking to your neighbor whether you're working in church whether you're working in your office whether you're cleaning the toilet the holy spirit is with you you understand or not it's not about you and your power and your strength and your network and all that it's a holy spirit it's always a holy spirit here and so I think this is one a very important thing for us to understand maybe for all of us
00:34:59 okay we we don't want to achieve much in life we don't have this achievement problem we are not Pious you know we Pi is good not nothing wrong but we are not you know legalist and we don't want Comfort but we want to serve we want to serve but when we serve H we serve like this no fire the spirit of God put it aside and I have this problem I have this problem because when you're good at something you think you can do yourself agree why I God I can but that is not how things work and you may do something but if you want to
00:35:35 achieve whatever God wants to do is always through the spirit there is a spirit in you that actually guides you and go through everything with you so maybe for FBC health check right since we don't talk about the church down the road we talk about FBC now when we want to understand whether we have the right perspective of Ministries and all right let's say for preaching now so after today's sermon what's a response if we ask ourself we talk you know after this week we talk oh the sermon not bad today
00:36:05 you said evalate how was a sermon what do you think about a sermon okay maybe you do that the second one we thought hey preacher okay now preacher to they walk too much you know uh the Shir no good the third thing is said not bad actually F not bad not bad we talk about you know FC quite good also and after that because you know all this I feel that am I not great I'm so amazing know I know everything but you see the point when you serve when you really know God and you live a life that follows Christ
00:36:33 is none of this serving God our end goal is this isn't God great you want to serve right if you want to don't have gospel 2.0 and you say that you want to serve God as well your end go is always isn't God great you become just the backdrop just sitting at a backdrop and people only see God that's all that people see that is the goal of serving not letting people say oh you know I'm so good in talking I'm so good in doing all these things it's not that but it's really to emphasize isn't God great and so as all
00:37:14 of us you know we love and all of us so we love Christ but as we serve right try to do it in a way whereby it's not about the ministry if my Ministry need to give up this room for someone else to do something for the greater good of you know of god let's do it if I need to inconvenience myself a bit let's do it it's not about the leaders it's about all serving together remember everybody sitting down you know the only person standing is Holy Spirit only everybody you follow you just follow it's not about FBC it's not about myself
00:37:47 it's not about our competencies it's always about isn't God great isn't God great so gospel 2.0 in a way back it doesn't just affect your life outside but even how even the your best intentions to serve God in everything you do the main point is isn't God great is to reflect back who God is and this point you see over here the holy spirit moves everywhere from the Bible from the start until the end you see all happening it's always about the power of the holy spirit it's not about the strength of man so I think for I come
00:38:20 from Gospel Hall as well and we have the same problem over there it's always a people people people when you talk about acts 18 I don't talk about that don't talk about don't talk about Holy Spirit you know that very dangerous when talk Holy Spirit you talk about actually it's not like that we don't talk about the right things we look the correct people it's not about speaking in tongues it's about actually oh you know that don't have R and the whole mirac thing don't have read sometimes happen but gener no
00:38:44 but we don't understand the holy spirit is with you every single day hello is with you all the time from Genesis creation of the world this word spirit is actually it's actually the life force energy that goes around everything you see happening is because of the spirit Creation Of The World God was there and the spirit gives power to people to do many different things Joseph Joseph is not Joseph because of himself it's because the spirit gave him wisdom to interpret dreams bzel to actually craft the T
00:39:16 Tabernacle it's not because tabac it's not because Basel it's because the spirit that that actually dwells in him David is a spirit that goes into him before that he was a Shepherd boy but it's a spirit that goes into him and you see when they preach was this Peter committed 3,000 people to repentance think right when Peter actually preached and 3,000 people repented was it Peter it's not Peter you know in the spirit it says they cut to the hearts it's a spirit that's doing everything exit evangelizing to European Union they
00:39:50 don't know that they should spre the gospel to Outsiders only the Jews at first it's a spirit that actually tells pH to do it and the spirit you see over here X4 that is the real Mark of a church that actually loves God that actually fill with the spirit they become selfless they become generous they share the positions among the needy until there's no there's nobody that needs anything that is a power of the spirit and so today you know as we share about gospel 2.0 as I said you know uh I want to make full use of time you
00:40:22 talking about Prosperity Gospel which you know about hyper Grace which you know about today we talk about something really can help us to really understand what the gospel is and know that when you believe in Christ you're not leave alone when you go to work Christ is with you when you have difficult conversations the spirit is with you the Spirit guides you and helps you and that itself will change your whole life you know that I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me it's always about the power of the
00:40:52 Holy Spirit you cannot decide to say that I want to become a key B this Holy Spirit Empower me and become Kies it doesn't work that way the spirit blows where it blows God empowers you for all situations where necessary so actually I play the guitar also you know but you never see me playing guitar you know why because I suck at it I'm totally terrible at it so in life group when there's no guitarist I will take out a guitar but once you have Johnson you have Daniel if Alex who you hey I sit back like come on you play I don't need
00:41:28 to do it right I I do some games for you make happy very nice I do that okay but don't touch because I got sced by people before and cannot right but you see the thing is the power of spirit we serve where we can but ultimately we need to understand that the spirit is not to say that there's one Ministry better than the rest there's no such thing as well no such thing are you telling me that the ushering ministry God cannot use if not for the ushering Ministry I won't be sending you today do you know that I
00:42:00 when I came today when I came last time many many years ago uh my son was sitting here and being noisy and we don't that it was a Sunday school the user told us there's a Sunday school I wouldn't be sitting here as well if there's I wouldn't be sitting here as well if there's no Sunday school because my wife actually said we must find a church with Sunday school so send the kids to Sunday school on the same time that worship is happening what Happ you just have it and you have a very nice case whereby I think two three years
00:42:22 last time you can start sending to Sunday school already so we actually enjoy all this and God used all our in fact a lot of the my understanding of Christ is because of the Sunday school if you want your children to be faithful until they grow up is the Sunday school and the youth ministry there nothing to do with your main hall ping all that so God can use anything God can even use a convict amen God can you just come amen I share with you over here this guy is called anel David so so he's actually
00:43:00 lousy guy know you see him he's unfaithful to marriage he had multiple Affairs and by the age of 27 he went to prison really what can you do with a person like this what future will you have daughter grew up without a father and he went to prison three times you know the last time he went to prison was actually when he was 52 mean second the dates and all that maybe a off but yes he went to prison and so he he went to prison so many times that and people are so upset with him that his family don't
00:43:27 visit me anymore only his wife did with a person like this what can God do what can God do cannot speak you know cannot play the guitar cannot cook like Corin you know so what can you do but you see over here right what happened to anel is in prison he got to know Christ and when he was released from prison his wife said somehow this guy Chang he was unfaithful the the wife State because there this stigma by in the Indian Community cing around if you it's it's just not nice where you divorce people right so when
00:44:04 when the when he actually left when he got released from prison the last time his wife noticed that this person changed really some is nicer he cares more about the children and what happened and so it all happened went by he got to know Christ and his life totally changed his life toally changed he was working as a call center uh Personnel in prison but he came out I said I want to start a call center so he started Agape call center which is in Singapore uh since 2012 and if you see even a start a call center you a CEO get
00:44:41 person is competent capable right you won't get EXC convict yes or no but anel is actually a person that is amazing why because of the spirit that dwells in him is a spirit and when he actually got to know Christ his life changed he worked together with his wife and started this call center with 150 staff which are all prisoners ex offenders and single parents which means that they don't get people from outside to become call center people they actually get prisoners to do calls for them because
00:45:13 prisoner you know they they got they time right some of them got talent in fact lot smart people inside so they help them to actually do all this and they actually have more than 600 employees actually gone through what they do and this guy is smart um so this guy called Dr Kim Tan which if I share with you he actually invested into anal and build this together and they were very strategic through the Holy Spirit giving them wisdom right they create a business model that's amazing what they do is they say that why do I want the
00:45:48 hire ex-convicts or why hire prisoners there's a reason behind it number one do you know that when you go to prisoner your family hates you and if you're the great winner then how your family in trouble right so what happen is when you hire a person from prison they actually can work they earn money and what do they do for the first time in their life they can send money back home their wife gets money to use the children gets fat so instead of you going to do charity I help you and take photo hey instead of
00:46:18 that you hire people to help them and through that the the relationships get mened you know husband and wife become better and after after that they change but do you know that there's this thing called recidivism which means that people who go to prison when they come out they do something wrong again and go back in prison within 5 years 40% of them in Singapore will go back to prison but to what they do over here is reduced to less than 10% so it's not about the money it's not about giving jobs but the whole life
00:46:51 changes and this is nothing to do with preaching hello this is nothing to do with you here singing songs this is all work from outside and all of you many of you are people with a talent to do many things but what we do is we separate our lives to say that Monday to Friday is mine say Sunday it's God's but God has no separation and the spirit does not separate he follows you to work every day as well the spirit follows you to work as well and therefore to share with you God can use everything we have if we just willing to
00:47:31 say that Christ is enough for me I just need Christ I'm so happy that I don't need anything else because this is a power gospel I know that I don't get what I deserve is costly Jesus died for me and I'm Sav and made new I'm transformed for relationship with God is through faith and also is Victory as I invite the worship team seem to come up as we end today maybe for us to ask ourselves do we have this gospel 2.0 situation in our lives do have this situation in lives whereby we want achievements Christ is not enough
00:48:11 for me or do have cases whereby we see that we need to earn our Salvation what God has done is not enough or we say that we don't want transformation we just want our lives to be exactly the same as today I just want to be a to go Heaven next time so this is something for us to to look at to say that do we have any gospel 2.0 in our lives and friends the devil prows around to destroy to devour us and it's not up to you to say that you don't want it cuz when you finish this sermon and you go out you take out
00:48:54 your phone and start swiping your IG your Tik Tok the the world will tell you a million things you need this in life you need that you need a better boyfriend your boyfriend's lousy a million things will come to you but it comes back to you do you understand what is your foundation in life nothing is wrong achievement is not wrong serving is definitely not wrong please serve one thing comfort in life is not wrong I W Comfort soul but what's our foundation what's the foundation when when you really have accepted the gospel
00:49:29 when you really known Christ already what will happen is that you are able to say that I can really Li on the ground just be happy I'm so happy I'm so thankful that I know Christ I don't need anything else my life is full but at the same time when there's a need you can get them and say that all these people I'll do for you the toilet I will wash for you I will do it whenever I'm needed I will do it it's not about my recognition I find the best person do it is a better key bodies go ahead again I
00:50:06 cannot play you Al I suck at it but you see it comes back to it's always not about us it's that you receive so much you are billionaire and you don't even know it you are so rich in Christ you have so much and so if you just come back to the gospel if you feel that you're poor you don't have enough in life return the gospel to know that Christ di for us we have everything we need already this few years that you have this decades you have in in in the world here just a few decades if God asked you to go to Africa
00:50:42 say I will go if God asked me to suffer a bit talk to my neighbor who talks a lot you will do it know with church leaders have be harder to do it I will do it why because God because Jesus gave his life for me first and so I out of response of this love of this wonderful love I receive I will go and do it I have no problem because I have everything I need I'll pass the time over to our worship team shall we pray father we just want to say thanks so much for all that you've done for us Lord and Lord if we look at a cross and realize
00:51:28 that the King of Kings the creator of Heaven and Earth love us so much to actually came and die for us what else do we need what recognition what why do we need a pleas man anymore why do we need to achieve things to say that I'm somebody anymore Lord we are we do not get what we deserve and you don't get what you deserve but Lord it is all because of you because of your love for us we thank you Lord for this word Lord it is a hard sermon but Lord I pray that you will help us to understand the gospel is
00:52:16 dynamite gospel is transformation is not to have a status qu and our whole life will change and we're willing to change it because of what you've done for us for cross and no matter what we accomplish what we don't accomplish how we feel we can come home and see Daddy I'm home hi Dy so happy to have you we thank you Lord pray that you speak to us as we continue Lord to Fellowship after this thank you Lord in Jesus name we pray amen now reive benediction May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ the love of God and The
00:52:58 Fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all may his grace may his grace remind you that you are safe not by works but by his UNM merited favor may his love anchor you in the truth that you're fully known and fully Love by the father May the spirit Empower you to walk in boldness Truth and Love Never settling for false go gospel by living in the fullness of Christ go now not alone but with his presence as lights in the world transformed by the true gospel amen
