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00:00:00 good morning church today's scripture reading is taken from 1 Corinthians chapter 3: 1 to 17 and I shall be reading from the NIV 2011 version verse one brothers and sisters I could not at you as people who live by by the spirit but as people who are still worldly mere infant in Christ I gave you milk not solid food for you were not yet ready for it indeed you are still not ready you are still worldly for since there is jealousy and quarreling among you are you not worldly are you not acting like
00:00:41 mere humans for when one says I follow Paul and another I follow Apollos are you not mere human beings what after all is Apollos and what is Paul only servants through whom you came to believe as the Lord has assigned to each his TS I planted the seed Apollos watered it but God has been making it grow so neither the one who plants nor the one who Waters is anything but only God who makes things grow the one who plants and the one who Waters have one purpose and they will each be rewarded according to their own labor for we are
00:01:23 co-workers in God's service you are God's field God's Building verse 10 but the grace God has given me I laid the foundation as a wise Builder and someone else is building on it but each one should build with care for no one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid which is Jesus Christ if anyone Builds on this Foundation using gold silver costly Stones wood hay or straw their work will be shown for what it is because the day will bring it to light it will be revealed be fire and the fire will test the quality of each
00:02:03 person's work if what has been built survives to Builder well reive for reward if it is burned up the Builder will suffer loss but yet will be saved even though only as one escaping the Flames don't you know that you yourselves are God's Temple and that God's spirit dwells in your midst if anyone destroys God's Temple God will destroy that person for God's Temple is sacred and you together are that Temple this is the word of God let's commment the time to the Lord in prayer father we thank you for today
00:02:49 Lord thank you for allowing us to learn about the church what the church is and Lord how do you build the church pray that you allow your word to go forth off and not return void I pray that you Empower me to be a to speak your word give me the strength energy to do so and Lord pray that you help everyone to listen to what you want to say and help us to change our lives to be more like you and glorify you in Jesus name we pray amen morning Brothers and Sisters in Christ morning uh better way of saying I
00:03:22 just thought is maybe I should say good morning family because we are all family as well now today um before we uh continue with the sermon uh these are the next three sermons that to be preached over here uh our Elder an will be preaching for God so love the world on part three uh next week after that Peter will be preaching on church discipline and uh how be preaching on church and law very interesting s people or not you find out on 5th of May 2024 now let's go to the uh sermon for today all right now um today the title
00:04:00 of the seron is building something that lasts building something that lasts and as we start the first thing I want to share with all of you is that we are all building something whether we know it or not we are all building something if you feel that no I'm not building anything I'm retired already I'm good ready the reason is because you think you have built something already you're living on a thing that you have and you feel that you're confident you're comfortable with what you built ready so today we're
00:04:25 talking about building something that lasts there are five points I want to go through first one is why the church Church devid number two how God builds number three what do we build number four why does God build and five what and why do you build let's look at the first one why the church devid as you read the passage of is continuation of of what Dr Peter has shared previously in previous weeks and also a condition also uh it's the Prelude to what brother William was preaching on arrogance as
00:04:56 well so why does the church divide if you see this uh verse over verse three it says you are still wory Paul says to the people you are still worly for since there's jealousy and corring among you are you not worly are you not acting like mere humans for when one says I follow Paul and another I follow Apollos are you not mere human beings why the church divide is busy because they are all still fleshly people they are still carnal which means that although they have become Christians they have follow
00:05:24 Jesus but their lives the way they behave the way they live is still just like how the world behaves and a lot of times for us as Christians is what we do when we become a follow Jesus Christ come to church we behave a certain way we go outside we behave a different way but sometimes when you come to church you bring in your knowledge and understanding from the outside world into the church as well if you become a leader in church or you actually serve in church you you you lead and serve the way that you've been taught from Young
00:05:53 how to serve uh in the corporate world how to serve in your family so what Paul says is this is not the right way in the world people can quarrel people can have jealousy people can fight and build their own kingdoms but if you're in God's kingdom there's only one family you can't split the family up can you imagine going home and say that you know I have a discri with my sister therefore I want to split a family it doesn't make sense right and so it starts with this God says that Paul says that the people
00:06:20 are worthy because they are choosing sides they choosing leaders they have preferences that causes division so there three main points I to talk about first one is they overemphasize leaders number two they have theil the in ability to appreciate diversity and matur they feel that they're self-sufficient they feel that I follow Paul so with me and my people who knows Paul we follow Paul we can lead the church we can grow a church already we do not need anyone else we don't even need God we can do everything
00:06:49 ourselves now let's look at one by one our emphasis on leaders all churches in the world have this to some degree to a certain extent we do this so be very careful when we look at it number one how do we overemphasize leaders this is how the world works if you build any organizations you have a organization chart do they all look like this always right there's always someone on top and there's a middle management or maybe there's a junior management and then there's all the wab bees at the bottom
00:07:17 the gener is how it works and so what happens all the people at the bottom work to serve the people on top the people on top actually makes the decisions to make sure the company goes a certain way and who gets the biggest check the one on top right generally this is how it works so none of you will tell your children when you grow up you should become a follower anyone will you will tell your children when you grow you must become follower you know no everyone tells your children you when you grow you should become a
00:07:46 leader why because in this Society we actually cherish leaders we put leaders in a place whereby they're too big they they we overemphasizing who they are look take a look over here I actually ask chat gbt I what the necessary five elements to build a successful company so you build organization how to build compy how to you build organization and this is what CH says one you have Clear Vision strategy talented team you know be customer focused you need to be adaptable and you have effective financial management and the answer is
00:08:14 everybody knows how to do it but you look at outside there are many companies many organizations that fail true or not many organizations fail many companies don't do well so even though you can be the media get billions of dollars you can't build something like open a you can't do it what is really necessary is you need someone like this you need the leader the amazing guy that actually can bring the resources you have the billions that given to him and turn into something so amazing he can ask a
00:08:43 question can answer you so leaders are actually very important it can do a lot of things even in the world so when we look at the text when we look at God's word and look at outside as well we shouldn't disregard the power of leaders leaders have their role to play they have their role to play but it's just that we overemphasize them a lot of times uh but uh this how the world over overemphasizes and see leaders will be so important uh last year there was a whole tussle in open AI uh whereby 700
00:09:13 employees decided to leave they threatened to quit the organization because this uh person Sam Elman was being fired so when he left open AI 700 of them all of them engineers said I want to leave together so the whole organization had no choice they say that you don't leave okay if the whole organization leave the organization no longer exists so they tell everyone don't leave they fired entire board of directors get this guy back in and then all the people stay so this is a power of leaders and the world idolizes
00:09:43 leaders if you see how much leaders being paid is actually tremendous they paid billions and it's why everyone of you tell your children to become leaders because you hope that they will get the glory uh you can tell people my son the CEO you know you can tell people my son is the executive is a CL you don't want to say that but the truth is leaders are affable why we shouldn't overemphasize leaders because leaders are humans leaders are followable they make errors they can do wrong things as well so
00:10:14 these people they paid so much and this is a composition in 2021 you look at how has a stock price been moving from 2021 until now right this is how the stock price have moved you pay them so much money Tesla has dropped 57% and another EV comp company has dropped 93% Apple is not bad apple is at 0% no growth for past few years uh Lucid dropped 95% which means that all the money I better to take back to fire this guy right uh this uh number five open uh this is an AI company drop 85% so the point that
00:10:47 I'm trying to make for all of you this leaders are important but we shouldn't overemphasize them because they're humans they can do wrong as well number two why is that division in the church there's division in church because we are unable to appreciate diversity when you put hundreds of people even you put five people together there are bound to be differences they are bound to be things whereby you behave a certain way and he beh behaves a certain way and you don't like it we have our own preferences when we make a maybe when we
00:11:15 do a project when we talk when we even just say that we want to go for a holiday together everybody has their own inclinations their own propensity propensity on doing certain things and so we it's un it's just normal that we rub each other the wrong way but being God's family starting with the word family we should be able to say that we should be able to love each other and see the diversity and appreciate the diversity instead of saying that oh he's not like us and therefore we don't want to friend him anymore we want they have
00:11:45 our own gang and so when you cannot appreciate diversity this happens you discount everything that they say and are we really so wise to say that everything we say is is correct not necessary this story I think all of us would know about it before there these blind people one day there was a elephant coming to town and these blind people said they want to go and find out what's the elephant so everyone go and touch a bit of part of the elephant some said oh elephant is like a fan because touching the ears some said that or the
00:12:18 elephant is like a tree because it's touching the legs but the truth is the diversity that we have in the church builds us up diversity builds us up but when you choose to divide the church when he intentionally said that because they are not like us and therefore we need divide you are actually reducing the value that every can bring they actually reducing what the church can really do and the third reason why people divide is because they feel that they self-sufficient they feel that they can do everything themselves so in first
00:12:48 Samuel the same thing has happened before when the Israelites say that give us a king to lead us this displeased Samuel so he prayed to the Lord and the Lord told him l listen to all the people are saying to you it's not you that they have rejected but they have rejected me as a king lot of times we prefer to see a person that we can relate to we can talk to and we want them as king we want them to lead us but we don't see that the real leader that we have is actually God some maybe because we feel that oh
00:13:19 you know he's the leader one day I'm going to become a leader man so therefore we we want to be like that we have S such affiliations but the truth is we only have one leader which is God and why is impossible to have divisions in the church because you see the history of mankind after the fall humans have been dividing you divide by race in fact you go to every single country you see race is such a big thing race divides all the time you go to the West you go to us it's still dividing you have this thing back lives matter last
00:13:47 time why because people already they said they not being treated well so division has been happening from the beginning of time but when Jesus Christ came what he did was he looks to unite everybody from the old Adam to the new Adam to reunite to reunite everybody into this new humanity and this new Humanity or you can call the body of Christ cannot be divided because it's actually founded in Jesus Christ so 1 Corinthians 13 it says here is Christ divided was Paul crucified for you were you bapt baptized in the name of Paul so
00:14:21 Christ is not divided and even though even Paul crfi for you because maybe you know somebody in the church or you have someone that's actually more Affiliated to but doesn't make us any special they all servants to us and Galatians it says there's neither Jew nor Gentile slave nor free or there male or female for you are all one in Christ Jesus it shows you that there's no more racial barrier there no more racial differences no no more difference in terms of whether you're slave or whether you're free or
00:14:49 not in terms of your social social positions there's not even male and female uh priority wise in those days are very different but in Christ Jesus you're all one so therefore this is why we say why the church divides the church divides because of leaders because of our propensity to see things in a certain way we are different prefences but we shouldn't because we are a family of God now how if you're looking to build the church how do you actually build a church how does God build a church let's
00:15:18 look at it together verse five what after all is Apollos and what is Paul only servants through whom you came to believe as the Lord has assigned to each his task I planted the seed Apollos watered it but God has been making it grow so neither the one who plants nor the one who Waters is anything but only God who makes things grow the one who plants and the one who Waters have one purpose and they will each be rewarded according to your own neighbor for we are co-workers in God's service we God's
00:15:48 field God's Building very long passage let me just look at one by one for you it says over here what after all is Apollo what are these leaders the leaders are only servants you dare to go and your company tomorrow and say who are you you're just a servant can go tell your boss you can't even tell your manager that tomorrow get fire already can do that right but in Christ Jesus in the church in the family of God we are all serving only leaders are just servants they're just there for functional
00:16:20 purposes okay but they have their role to play so Paul planted the church and he didn't hard it and said nobody can touch it it he allowed Apollos to come and watered it Apollos was a believer that actually just got to know Christ not too long he allowed apos to come over and Lead as well together with Priscilla Aquila and the rest but the main point is the reason why the church grows is because of God so you it's like when you want to grow something you can water all your want you can put the seed
00:16:53 there but whether the seed grows or not depends on God not on you there's nothing much can do right so not anyone is anything but only God who makes things grow and everyone will get their reward based on the effort you put in but ultimately we are all co-workers so there are four things I going to emphasize for you first one is leaders are servants number two God uses everyone everyone has a role all of you all of you have a role you know number three God is ass sign a task to everyone and growth is from god let's look at one
00:17:23 by one leaders are servants this is the organization chart or normal how hierarchy works and leaders are paid extremely well um there this Statistics has been done recently CEOs were paid 344 times more than the average worker which means that if you get paid one ring the C normally is paid 344 times more that's a lot compar to last time in 1965 it was only 21 times has the C become so much more effective where by they are so much more times better than the average worker I don't think so it's just that people who are
00:17:58 on top gener with hot things they try to gather power and use the power to do more things and get more benefits for themselves the church doesn't work this way this is not how the church works the church works this way God is a leader and all of us here are serving together all of us are serving together even the way the church works is very different take FPC for example you have the counil of Elders and how do they make decisions is that one person that say V power like un Nations is it like that is it like that
00:18:30 or not not like that right okay says no this is not how I do it how you do it in fact how many C are there how many Elders are there there are four Elders out there so how do you make decisions if let's say you know you do a voting four people then if two two then fight then how to settle something answer is consultative you talk and talk and talk until you can come to an agreement even if one person doesn't agree what you do you wipe him out yes or no no right you talk and talk and talk until you can get
00:19:00 agreement why because you appreciate the other person you appreciate say that the diversity we have over here helps us to become strong because we all make errors I there said the elders also make errors right but because of diversity you have safety in numbers and this is where the church comes from that leaders are servants and we are all here to serve for functional purposes only second one God uses everyone you see if God God really wants to preach the gospel and be effective the the thing is actually if you really look at
00:19:34 the Bible and look at God God the the priority God puts in in terms of efficiency is very very low God doesn't really care about speed and productivity and efficiency damage compared to what he's trying to achieve if he wants to be efficient he can just have a loud voice in the air and suddenly everyone knows who he is really but he chooses to useable people people who can make six to serve him to bring his word and carry it around it's actually very amazing why would God do something like that but God chooses to
00:20:09 use people and you look at the disciples who are they look at the Roman times there nobody fishermen Tax Collectors Honan you know people who are actually despised by by the Jews useless people Zealot a rebel that the Romans will actually catch and others are unknown not even stated because it's not even important but God uses all people no matter who you are God uses them so in church as well in FBC as well everyone has a place everyone is being used God has a calling in your life it's just the
00:20:45 question is whether you want to close it or not many of us choose to just close it and say that no uh I pay money and my job is to pay money after everyone does everything someone said oh I just come here to sit uh I come to service can idea I don't be so fervent don't be so active I just attend ATT 10 enough really sometimes we do that we just sub it out to people but the truth is God uses everyone and God has a calling in your life and some of us believe this way because we have this inferiority complex
00:21:15 with you that who am I I'm Miss nobody I can't do much but God says that he has chosen you he has chosen you for a purpose so in fact if you look at how the church behaves I want to show you something over here when a person becomes a Christian you don't suddenly all become the same you justly have the same height say the same thing when you preach you say the same thing you don't do that you don't NE do that because God actually allows you when he actually brings you into his family he retains
00:21:51 your uniqueness he retains the diversity inside the church and allows he redeems the differences and uses it for his glory and so all of you no matter what background you have whether it's colorful whether it's boring God actually uses it for his purpose and so the question is are you willing to be part of it only God has a sign task reant and this I think is something that I like to emphasize for you today many times in church we think that certain Ministries are more high class and so mystery low class right the way uh for
00:22:27 example I ask you do you know who was the in charge of parking last week can youone tell me but can remember who was ping at something wrong right right why why in fact you think that some of these Ministries not so important but let me ask you any of these ministri can remove one say Sunday's worship donate not important I just remove them like this not if remove the maintenance guy you remove the person handling the the airor over here what would happen none of you want to sit here you going to leave
00:22:59 ready if the parking person the parking Ministry is not doing their task people simply Park and then they cannot park you can't even come inside here correct if the PE is not working people at the back can't even hear me as well so all of us have a role to play everybody has a role to play and I'm here just to preach a word where God has given this opportunity for me to do so as well but when you go home you preach the word to your family this is not Outsourcing you know you go home you go preach your
00:23:29 family you do your Qui time together you make sure that your family is grounded in the word of God you go to a live group you help and minister to each other so there's no Ministry that say it's more important it's just a difference of functions only but sometimes people are jealous people have this thing by they they feel that unfortunately it does happen some people when they become Christian they said you know outsite I can't become somebody so I come to church I to become somebody correct happens right okay
00:23:59 sorry a bit more interesting to this woman right people do that as well but the truth is God has assigned taskone and every single task is important every single one of it one day God will ask you I ask you to serve in the ministry do you do it well or not every single Ministry is important whether it's Sunday school whe it's ushering they're all important I've Shar this before parking Ministry actually is very important why because the first one the first touch point of the church it's a parking Ministry in Usher and see
00:24:30 whether this church is friendly church or not so our new members our new visitors today I hope users have been nice to you they say why you so late you going to sit there hope they didn't do that right every single Ministry is important and so there's no point to be jealous and say that that one is better because God has assigned T everyone our job is to do it Faithfully ultimately as I shared earlier growth is from God in the old days you can't really get much water you plant the seed you pray to God for rain
00:25:00 and after that the plant will grow itself you can't do much to cause growth so ultimately God is the one making it grow and the emphasis is you are God's VI the church is God's VI the importance is the church is not the leaders the importance is this church is all of you the church is not the building you are the church and the growth that you are going through is an important thing the leaders are here to serve you number three what do do we build what do we build verse 10 by the grace God has given me I lay a foundation as a
00:25:34 wise Builder and someone else is building on it but each one should build with care for no one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid which is Jesus Christ if anyone Builds on this Foundation using gold silver costy Stones wood hay or straw their what will be shown for what it is because the day will bring to light be reveal with fire and the fire will test the quality of each person's work if what has been built survives the Builder will receive a reward if it's burned up the video will suffer loss but yet
00:26:01 will'll be safe even though only as one escaping through the Flames so Paul says that when he builds a church the first thing that he did is he laid a foundation what is this Foundation the church only has one Foundation you cannot change a foundation the foundation is Jesus Christ this foundation will never change you cannot take the gospel Christ crucified and remove with something else you cannot add to it you can say oh when you become a Christian you must also follow these rules you must also do all these things
00:26:32 it doesn't work way there's a foundation that cannot be changed but everyone when you build you should build with care you should be careful when you build you should put heart and effort into it when you build you can build using gold silver costy Stones who hay or straw But ultimately the day will come the day here means the day of the Lord the day of judgment the day where go Christ comes back and everything will be made known to everyone that day will come and every single thing you've done how
00:26:57 you've built the church how what effort you put in all of this will be made known and whether it survives or not at that time you know now what is this gold silver costy Stones wood hay and straw many times when people they can apply to say that how what whe whether what you're doing here is uh you putting something precious inside or not or something not precious or whether you're doing something that builds up the church or not or something that doesn't build up the church whether the MYRY is
00:27:22 helpful or not but one of the most important thing to look at is actually talking about when you are looking to build a church what the most important thing is actually what is this truth that you are using are you preaching or are you speaking the right word when you gather together as Brothers and Sisters in Christ do you just go makan or do you actually speak the word of God do you minister to each other do you take out the word of God front and center to build each other up so it's important
00:27:52 for for this to know everything must be built on Jesus Christ but when we say building using gold silver across these Stones it's not necessary that you must have very heavy theological topics to discuss but this is uh VBS uh 2013 I think 203 no no no no cannot be my son has been born yet 2015 I think 2015 or 2014 2015 2015 2015 uh VBS so you can see over here if you serve in uh VBS are you building using Gold Silver and costy stones I'm quite sure you are you are building something important in young children's
00:28:34 lives see over here Malcolm buil amazing submarine I'm not sure Mal you remember your submarine or not it was so beautiful and that time I just knew to church rain how do you my question this one must sure pay one somebody pay money to make one but whatever we do the answer is are we building something that actually serves Christ and allowing the word of God to be preached the truth of God to preach and whether you're dancing to speak out the word of God whether you're teaching in Sunday school these
00:29:05 are all goal silver and Cy Stones all these our brothers and sisters are serving over here this is all something amazing can you see how beautiful this it's very sad uh VBS I think it's U going through a break holiday now for a while I've not seen it for one year hopefully it comes back as well but this are things that actually is very precious as well you don't necessarily be speaking here but you can be just speaking in live groups and serving each other that can be building using Gold Silver and costy Stones what is uh this
00:29:34 other example wood hay and straw what is it it's not stated Paul has not clearly defined for you but it just gives you an idea to know that whatever you build one day will be tested will be tested and whether it can withstand whether it can actually last to Eternity depends on whether it's something that's important that's actually a foundational to God or not now the last uh the fourth point is why God builds why does God build why does God build verse 16 don't you know that you yourselves are God's Temple and a God's
00:30:09 spirit dwells in your midst why does God build what are we building here the analogy given to here has switched to saying that the church is God's Temple what is God's temple in the old days there's only one temple in Jerusalem the temple is where people go go to meet God they go there to commune with God so as we speaking over here God is in our midst if you are God's Temple which means that God resides in you resides in US collectively as well so you can see how important the body of Christ how important the church is to
00:30:47 God and how can you talk about divisions trying to split up the church the church the whole world has only one true church and we are part of the entire church so whether it's different denom ations different people as well for us as much as possible we try to work together with with them celebrate differences respect the differences but work together on the core matters that we can actually agree on that is something that we can do but why does God build because ultimately he wants to reach out to rest for us to be
00:31:17 able to reflect Christ for us to be a reflection of God for us to be an image of God so that people outside the truth is if you are looking outside for hope hope where can you go you go to Malaysia look at Malaysia politics got hope you go to China is that hope you go to us is that hope where do you find Hope where do you find alternative Society or a one place where you can find that there's hope there's a better way of living there's only one place the church because being God's Temple if we actually live our lives correctly
00:31:57 following his good we can be the alternative society when people see us they see that there's hope there's a different way of living and I want to be part of it so this is why God builds for the ability to reach out to people and to minister to those people inside here as well 1 Peter 2:9 it says but you are chosen people the royal priesthood a holy nation God's special possession that you may declare the praise of him who call you out Darkness into his wonderful light so all of us here are called to do
00:32:30 something to to serve we are prood to to introduce to to connect people to God to bring the gospel to others as well and this is why God builds the church is God's Temple it's something for us to remember finally what and why do you build what and why do you build it's a question that I think we should all ask ourselves what are we building every day when Monday comes why are we building when you go home and hold your phone and take photos and post it online why are you building actually why do you
00:33:07 build will it last or not it's something for us to think about so I like to invite our brother Wong to come on stage uh this is not rehears he has no clue why I'm asking to come on stage uh but uh God has uh uh prep had this whereby somehow today is actually uh uh being a worship leader as well so yesterday night at 10 p.m. I check with him hey are you in church or not and yes he's in church so I ask him to come come come so some questions to to U talk to you uh speak to you about he texted me last night at 1: a.m. just before I go
00:33:50 to went we bed I ask him what is it about he he refused to tell me yeah yeah bring my closer okay now um okay uh can you tell people a bit about yourself who who are you I give you I give you one minute only Okay one minute who are you I'm I'm a worship leader and I'm a father and uh last year I work as an architect tell me a bit about this what was all these things what is this this you took it from my portfolio right Public public information these are some of the works that we've done over the last
00:34:29 20 no less than 20 years 18 years okay all right so uh what I want to know is actually you know you receive some awards and I think you've been uh quite uh uh prominent and you do a lot of work and quite successful in uh your workplace as well but I just have one question to you actually why are you always serving in church why you and worship team and you know why because people who are I do with a lot of cosos and people who are um you know in know place and generally when you talk to them they tell you I go
00:35:00 for Holiday here I buy this sports car I buy this house but why are you always why you spend your time here why are you always serving in church uh no the I think our our lives are actually part of service to to our God whether is at work or in the church or or wherever we are so this is actually uh a blessing from God uh that I have the opportunity to work on projects like this you know but um the the company that we've actually set up the practice we' set up is essentially uh to serve so so we we
00:35:48 actually have a philosophy that we actually serving God in our work place so we actually use that as a place to share the gospel wow okay which means that the church has an Architecture Firm that goes out to serve in the way of architecture can I say so uh yes to bring people to church oh okay all right amazing um so your family serves as well you know Pauline sings and also Leong serves Legion serves as well um so yeah so that's why I'm just curious to know this but there's something that you did about three weeks
00:36:21 ago um that really uh caught my attention and I asked you about it come come closer make sure the people you you make sure you're on YouTube come come hey the YouTube need to see you okay okay say yeah okay right so my my question is this about three to four weeks ago uh somebody was actually worshiping and when the worship team came up on stage they actually knock over a cup of coffee over there do you remember oh okay do you remember that yeah yeah so when the cup of coffee was knocked over nobody knew he was just
00:36:53 sitting somewhere here he saw it and he went there to put it back up he went to the back and he took a some tissue and WIP it yourself he put he actually was there for about 5 to 10 minutes trying to soak up all the coffee why don't get a cleaner do it expensive C though but but but you see um have you seen uh CEOs and people to wash the toilet wipe the table in in the office good or not because it belongs to them right right right now seriously seriously even for mnc's do you see your CEO wiping the
00:37:34 table cleaning nicely or not it doesn't happen unless they own a company so my question is why you do this you own this place I think this is God's Building right so we have to keep it speak in Span so and and the worst thing about coffee is that soon as it soaks in the carpet you leav it for 10 minutes that's it so emergency I think and and gave me some tissue as well right yeah so the point is this you know when we build a church it's not just about preaching it's just about Sunday Ministry and all that but small little
00:38:11 things like this is actually part of serving as well nobody sees it but God sees it so yeah thank you again right all right so I want to share you that when you are building a church it doesn't necessarily mean that you may be um needing to be doing amazing remarkable things but even small little things that nobody sees if you're doing for God that's what really matters so friends what are you building what are you spending your time doing are you spending your time looking at Facebook or cleaning up coffee you decide you
00:38:52 want to be the next Sam Alman or you're looking to build your family up or perhaps for some of us we are actually looking to build ourselves up online whereby we make sure that we look nice we took a little photos we do a live streaming we building our own brand up or maybe we spend our time going holiday andjoy ourselves but what are we building is a question that need to ask because on the day when the L comes back everything we do comes back to this question will it still last it's not necessary you have to be
00:39:30 serving on stage to make matters to actually make it mean something can serving anywhere even when you serve at home when you serve your children can you see this as serving God or not can can see this as building the church or not whatever you building the main point I think is this the foundation must be Christ the foundation must be Christ even when you're serving at home even when you're taking care of your kids because everything out there technology can change Tik Tok be gone one day in fact when you post on Tik Tok within one
00:40:05 day nobody remember really but the foundation of all we do must be Christ and that you make sure that he lasts so I want to end by sharing this example that uh Chip Ingram mentioned this is a 20 year- old sermon um it's titled holy ambition and in his uh sermon he actually shared something um that's very meaningful and very insightful he said that in his line of work um he had he actually managed some radio station and he had to go around talking to a lot of uh wealthy people and telling them you
00:40:48 know about uh how to St their money well so a lot these rich people they got a lot of trouble because when got a lot of money one day God will call you to account to it all the money because when it comes to you can put two million here something can change you can put five million here something can change so Chip says that these people have a lot of stress they don't know their lives has uh a lot of things are at stake and he says these people life is not easy okay but he says that he prefers okay not to be like them
00:41:19 because it's very difficult to be a billionaire to be a multi multimillionaire and life is so difficult in that way there's so much stress and so much responsibility however he said that but compared to you guys whove been given the word of God all of you who have been given the word of God the responsibility the stewardship that you have in your hands that you have the spirit of God with you and you hold the word of God don't say you don't know it online you can find so much and you know Christ that's so much you can do with it
00:41:52 and the world can change because of the word of God the responsibility and the soci you have over here so much bigger than what the billionaires and multimillionaires have and so I want to end by sharing with you that our responsibility and what we do over here really is very important but for us to really have this High view of God to see how amazing this God is and how important the church is will change our lives and help us to really align Our Lives to know how to live it well so why do we build why can we
00:42:25 build why do we invest our time to decide to come and serve people that we don't know people in Philippines that we don't even know because not because of responsibility not because of stewardship but because Christ compels us because of God's love because he first gave himself for us because we have experienced his love that the King of Kings will call me his son that he loves me and chose me and regardless of what I've done he accepts me and he has planned everything for me and I have this Father in Heaven this daddy in
00:43:05 heaven I can call my daddy that is why he gives us the energy to serve not because of what people say but because we have him we have Jesus and he died for all that those who live should no long no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again and so because of this we can choose to build something that lasts we can choose to build the church the this automative society that is truly blessed in chapter three ends over here all things are yours whether Paul or Apollos or saas or
00:43:45 the world or life or death or the present or the future all are yours and you are of Christ and Christ is of god many times we Chase different things can you please put it back off first I'm not done right many times we Chase different things we say that we want to build our own kingdoms we want to have this house we have all these different things out there but if you see this text over here it says that the leaders are yours you don't belong to leaders Paul Apollos and the rest are yours but it continues The
00:44:19 World is Yours can can you understand how amazing it is this world belongs to you you know in the new heavens and new earth this world Belong To You life belongs to you and even death belongs to you death I don't want to give to you I don't want to let death but even death can be here to redeem you yeah just go ahead musicians yeah yeah so even death belongs to you and God can redeem it for his glory because death can only bring you closer to God and the present and the future maybe your life currently may be
00:45:03 difficult you may be trying to build your career your family your health or whatever that you built for years is starting to fade away you be starting to crumble because nothing lasts forever all Empires crumble everything that you see in this world will crumble our health when they will crumble our energy will crumble but one thing we know everything belongs to us because we are belonging to Christ and Christ is of god thank you John for your message shall We rise and acknowledge Christ Our Cornerstone
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00:51:42 up as we're waiting for the slide let's pray father we want to say that everybody is building something in this world from young we being called to build to build our results to build a career to build a family to build our business to build our Legacy to build our health but Lord I pray that today you help us to be reminded that Lord all this will fail all this will one day go to nothing nothing lasts the only thing that lasts is your word the only thing that last is you and Lord you've given us this
00:52:35 wonderful gift to say that everything belongs to us everything in this whole belongs to us all things are ours whether Paul whether Apollos or cus or the world or life or death or the present or future everything belongs to us because we belong to Christ and Christ belongs to God help us to remember this and help us to build your kingdom not our own tiny kingdoms but yours Lord because only your kingdom is a true and good Kingdom that there will be righteousness there'll be love there'll be Justice help us to see this and so that
00:53:27 our lives can be changed thank you Lord in Jesus name we pray amen now receive the benediction therefore my dear brothers and sisters stand firm let nothing move you always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain service is over after a moment of silence prayer you may proceed for Fellowship outside if any of your brothers and sisters over here anyone that needs uh uh prayer you need someone to speak with or a you that you want to serve and you
00:54:07 don't know where to serve more than help welcome to come in front our elders and people are here to minister with you and uh to guide you have a good Sunday
