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00:00:01 [Applause] [Music] good morning fbc and welcome to the last service of the year and before we start the sermon proper few things i thought you should do christmas just came and went and i thought you know it was a great service and in particular the christmas worship item was fantastic so we want to ask you to do a favor if you can that worships you know it's just been we're recording this right now on a saturday morning and as of today there's 666 views already so i'd like to ask everybody to sort of
00:00:46 blast that video to everyone you know i've sent it to some people i've sent it to people who are not christian they've come back they were touched i've sent it to christians who are struggling and they've come back and they've been touched so this is a way where we can take the good news out to everyone it's a fantastic music video i thought the team done did such a great job it's um it's just so well done on so many levels and it's from the heart and the words are great the song you know of by sovereign grace speaks to
00:01:17 the heart so take that video and just send it out let it go viral let people be touched not because you want to make fbc well known but because you want the lord's name to really just be declared all over the world here's the second thing to to pick up and with uh you know i'd like to talk about behind the scenes and this year has been a year where most of our summers if not all except for the beginning have gone on to recording and editing and sometimes people don't realize it takes a lot a lot a lot of work much more than you
00:01:51 realize for example i'm recording this right now on a saturday morning one day before the service and this is the second time we're recording at the back there's malcolm there's john they come very early and they just work and a lot of things to do you do a recalling you have to stitch it together sometimes things go wrong sometimes you know you have technical issues with the reshoot the sound goes wrong and then you have to do editing post editing so i think we sort of sometimes have a tendency to take things for granted so i
00:02:21 wanted to roll call out the people who have just done so much okay of course we have john and mel anchoring the team luke amanda michelle e misha muy and brother phong at the cameras right now so we'd like to thank them for all their work they have done and you know just just be grateful for the whole media team so today right now i don't say one more thing at this time last year at this moment last year at 201 you would have seen or experienced hopes like this so just think back and some people have
00:03:02 said you know it was a bad year and 2-2 we hoped for a better year things get better we were hopeful and then 202 came and hit us like a train hit us like unprecedented before and already time magazine is calling it the worst year ever not the worst year in a decade not the worst year in the worst year period you know sometimes they call this watershed moments they call this disruption or we just call this a milestone a bad milestone so we have to end the year by just reflecting on what the year
00:03:46 did to us as believers and how the lord wants us to go into 2021 and we're going to tie this service with the watch night service so if you are tuned in this morning do tune into the watch night service because they are going to go hand in hand and this year we spent a lot of time on the book of genesis uh in fact it's probably been the longest we've been doing it we did it before the lockdown began in march i remember february or maybe january we started it and we have literally taken the whole
00:04:18 year to do genesis why is that so because genesis the beginning has a lot of things to teach us about life and so we're going to end the year again by reflecting on genesis we're going to look a few key things that patrick fathers did to teach us about milestones in life and how it can apply to how we handled this year let's go before the lord in prayer lord jesus we are this morning that you speak not man i humble myself oh lord not the wisdom of man keep it real keep me uh we are failable broken jars
00:04:56 and i do not speak from a top-down position but for my brother to brother sister to sister we ask it be holy spirit inspired that everyone including myself am open for correction to truly ask for humility and teachability and for the anointing of the spirit we say this in jesus name amen so what we're going to do right now before we start on the sermon is we're just going to wrap up a little bit on genesis and we're done doing genesis chapter chapter and i also had the opportunity to look at some key
00:05:27 themes let me give you a few key themes the one thing i think for christians uh discovering your true identity is something i think we understand it is critical to moving on in life who you think you are versus who god thinks you are and that's really the first thing uh part of this three partner we did when we look at how jacob struggled with uh wrestled with god you are known by god more than you know him or yourself we always like to talk about knowing god experiencing god desiring god but the
00:06:01 starting point is really you are known by god and we should you know one day really do a sermon series on this this is one of the most profound understated truths god knows you better than yourself and god wants you to be a better self and that is the work of the holy spirit the second thing we did look at was that our identity is very much shaped by family relationship the call the bible is really about relationships and genesis is really a story about 10 uh generations and their relationships with
00:06:33 one another and how good god used them and there's a particular motive he picked up the last sermon on this there's the older brother younger brother motive and god why does god favor the younger brother because he's disadvantaged he doesn't get a double portion inheritance he's often a weaker person and that's very much the same as in life god has his heart for those who are disadvantaged god has his heart on those who are weaker god has his heart on those who um are basically uh abused and poorer that is the heart of the god
00:07:07 and god really is god who favors with grace the younger brother over the older brother and today we're going to look at something else we're going to look at memories and this year we've got a lot of bad memories right a lot of bad memories and we can we can take it take it in a way that that maybe shapes us not in the right way for 2021 so really i want to look at this here how we process 2o to oh and all the memories we had with it and we're going to just look at this in three ways number one
00:07:40 what we choose to remember shapes our identity we're on the topic of identity number two how you remember not just what but how you remember reinforces that identity and lastly why milestones in our life directs our identity what we choose how we remember and why what how why this is the three points that we're just going to look at and this let me explain a little bit about milestones right milestones uh are things the two ways to look at milestones and that's not really what the sermons gonna look and one of
00:08:18 it is that you know life you know you graduate there's one milestone some of us get married that's another milestone you retire there's another milestone you get a job that's a that's another mouse so another one is like the way you plan a job right i mean i'm a architect all of you are working under standards you you map out goals right their milestones arrive to your objective but sometimes something slams right across this and disrupts it that's what 2020 did in in technology they call it innovation
00:08:49 disruption where technology comes in a completely just throws everything off balance i'll give you a simple example wikipedia when wikipedia came in completely obliterated the encyclopedia market encyclopedia britannica older people know this the whole market just literally collapsed why nobody expected people would like to write free and upload it into wacky beta so nowadays you ask your kids you know uh you know you ask answer something they'll tell you let me wikipedia right is become part of the english language
00:09:23 so we're looking at disruptions milestones in life that disrupts it and 2020 really did it now how did our patreon fathers respond to things like this and genesis had a few major disruptive milestones uh and some of them were even bigger than what we're having in with the kovit 19. they built altars now there's something new isn't it they build altars we're going to look at tree altars noah's altars norse altar abraham's altar and jacob's author how did he do it let me just give you three texts
00:09:57 and they're three very significant events in genesis and in life genesis 8 18-20 let's read it so noah came out together with his sons and his wife and his son's wife where is this this is just as the flood begin to subside all the animals and the creatures that move along the ground and all the birds everything that moves on land came out the ark one kind after another so imagine you know like finally the vaccine works and you can get out you don't need to wear a mask you'll be saying hallelujah great
00:10:34 let's let's go to the movies man and noah cram in an ark 40 days 40 nights before they've been ridiculed seeing the whole world just submerged in water he comes out what do you do he sort of let's go jogging man let's let's take a stretch what does he do then noah built an altar to the lord and taking some of the clean animals and clean birds he sacrificed burnt offerings on it so that's the first altar here's the next one abraham all right famous story and this is how god took him from a land he's a man of
00:11:11 earth he has his gods it has his culture has his family there and what the genesis 12th tells us abraham traveled through the land as far aside the great tree of more exchange so let me give you a bit of recap god says go we'll make you a blessing to all the nations you know i'm going to meet your descendants so and so forth and then to add for good favor as you know genesis 11 12 11 says your wife's barren so he doesn't know you know i'm going how is this going to happen i know you know you're planning
00:11:42 you you have a you have a goal a milestone none of these rules applied to abram he just went and he went he wasn't even sure where he was going god didn't give him a clear goal no clear milestones on the way you know all you business people he just went and as he traveled the land he came to here he's mentioned that the great three of maureen where is this this is enemy territory the great tree of more is a place of idolatry we'll pick that up later at that time the canaanites win the land so moses makes a point to pick
00:12:10 it up he's right in bad territory and what happens the lord prayed to abraham says to your offspring i will give this land imagine you're on a journey you want to arrive at where a place of nice beach clean air good weather and ah right instead you arrive at the ghetto you arrive at a place with gang fights you apply a place of danger and then god says yeah well you have arrived you have arrived first pit stop what does he do does he shake his head does he say what you know this can't be it i left earth for this
00:12:46 what does he do so he build and alter that to the lord here that's a milestone right where it appeared to him genesis 12 6-7 and here's the last story we know this right this happens with jacob genesis 35 right after god had wrestled with him and it says in verse 3 then come let us go up to battle where i will build an altar to god who wanted me my day of distress and who has been with me wherever i have gone and how was this author uh looking like there's a description of it jacob set up a stone pillar the place
00:13:23 where god had talked with him he poured out a drink offering on it he also poured all on it jacob called a place where god had talked with him better and here again another milestone what's the milestone god changed his name god made him into form jacob to israel so let's recap a little bit into this milestone business that god made the patriarch to do but let's go first on the first point what you choose to remember shapes your identity what do you remember in 202 oh some people bad memories so some people say poor
00:13:58 memory is better than bad memories because you want to suppress them psychology teaches us that some of us have got really bad bitter memories from our childhood some people feel in 202 they were betrayed they have a lot of pain anger and these memories afterwards shape you so bad memories do that you get angry you get bitter you feel you were played out or you were cheated or you're hurt and you don't know how to deal with it we're going through a series on forgiveness you buried inside these bad memories shape you you you
00:14:33 take on what we call the victim persona what's your identity your identity is a victim everyone had it in for you god abandoned you and christians are hypocrites a lot of people have that a lot of people have the victim identity well then you say let's not do bad memories let's have good memories really good memories good memories have a problem because when those good memories are taken away from you you also get bitter simple things like you know the virus took away our chance to watch a movie worship in church
00:15:10 go to concerts just group and we get you know we long for that and when we started this whole you know stay at home thing in march who were respected at december we're still huddling in third fourth waves we are all at breaking point and we long back for these good memories they're not there they make us bitter some people have good memories with families their fathers mothers wives sons brother they love very deeply and sometimes you know bad things happen in life those good memories are taken away
00:15:43 we struggle with that so how do we process memories in a way that helps us let's look at what an altar does the altar does two things in terms of memories one it reminds us of the occasion of an encounter with god so the first thing what the memory is the memory has god in the picture that's important a lot of time when we process our memories there's no god's not in it i just think of all the bad things or think of all the good things where's god or thank god if it's a good thing or bad thing why god but the vocation has
00:16:19 an encounter with god that's one right all three of it have an encounter with god we'll pick them up in detail later and secondly later on it's important it also tells us of the place the place of that encounter let's uh just go and see what these memories do in the three patriarchs number one noah built an altar to what to remember when he came out of the ark this is a milestone what is this huge disruption the whole world got wiped out and rebooted in such a sense he came out he built an altar to remember that
00:16:58 abraham what happened god took him basically an idol worshiper in er with his family with his culture with a wife who was barren gave him a promise which any human being would say you know what that's hard to believe but he went in faith when he arrived at a place which of all things was the worst place to be in the dangerous place god tells you you have rife and what does he do he built an altar and of course the story of jacob we've all know that there's jacob the deceiver jacob the manipulator and on that
00:17:37 fateful day on that milestone day it all ended let me give you three milestones which i think are for me a very real in my walk i hope it's real for you and what i think genesis has spoken to me and i think we can apply this to 2020. and they sort of go global right from noah is big and then when it comes to jacob it's personal what is noah the whole world change right whole world change he comes out there's no one else and what is noah looking at laura is looking at a new beginning and in a few days time you and i will
00:18:18 step out into 2021 it's a new beginning and you can imagine no one looking out there you think wow fantastic i think fear uncertainty but one thing god's with him because noah is known as a man who walks with god and so he builds an altar to say god don't forsake me as i enter this new world new beginning new year walk with me as i walked with you and we looked into 2021 on one hand vaccines seem to be rolling out on the other hand the virus strain ten times worse trepidation it's very easy to take the
00:19:01 baggage or two to one and go into two two one who says you know it's gonna be a bad yeah not hopeful about it but there's noah walked with god i asked we entered 201 walking with god it's a new beginning but you're saying you know anna what do you mean my new beginning all cliche words and so abraham's altar is important as mentioned he went on a journey where he didn't really know where he was going completely goes against business teachings no clear milestones he had a clear objective but god showed him enough god guided him
00:19:41 everywhere it wasn't a random journey and with abraham it's a new direction he arrives at this land with danger with canaanized the descendants of the son of noah who really uh really hated god and god says you have right and so the lord is asking us next year what direction are we going to take in our life in our work in our walk in god in church in our family in personal issues and personal direction i think something we need to reflect on right either that we're just going to enter the new year doing the same thing
00:20:24 as we did in 2020 and expecting different results that's madness right madness is that you keep doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results and god is challenging us in this milestone of this unbelievably difficult year there has to be new directions we all have to take in our walk spiritually and in a corpus holistically every aspect of life and to do that what must we do jacob's alter is helpful to us to have a new direction in his new year which is a new beginning we need to remember yearly daily we are
00:21:01 always trying to be a new person we are always trying to struggle to move from being jacob the disciple to being israel ill god is with you you wrestled with god and the devil wants us to going back to all our old selves i struggle with that you struggle with that we enter the new year remembering this we struggle we wrestle we do it and as we do it god reveals new directions and gives us new beginnings uh one of the stories you get a lot this year is about airline pilots and attendants why because they were
00:21:40 probably the most hard hit and you you get a lot on the net and on tv on the media and here's the interesting this is happening all over many countries right because is he a stall vendor or is he a pilot i mean what this is real identity that's really what this series is about what is your real identity and what we need to remember is this god is shaping us our real identity is in christ we are trying to be a new person my identity isn't defined by my job my identity isn't defined by my past or the bad memories my identity isn't
00:22:23 defined but what people want me to be my identity is in christ i'm a new person i have a new direction and there's a new beginning for me in 2021 so what do you choose to remember this year they'll help you shape the next year let's go through again next point now secondly it's all easy to say let's remember but remember it takes time remembering takes effort so how do we remember to reinforce this identity an identity which is helpful and healthy for a spiritual walk and for example in you know watches
00:23:02 some people keep watches not just because they are very expensive peter showed a one million watch that day on christmas service this watch could only be a few ringer and the value of it isn't in that the watch you put and you can walk around and show everybody that wow this expensive watch is personal this is memorabilia one thing about human beings we like to keep memories why those memories help us to remember occasions remember help us remember people things that we treasure let me just give you an example um
00:23:36 this is a business card this card has been in my wallet for close to 30 years you can tell it because you look at the number of this phone here one two three four five six seven there was a time where there were only seven digits this was a name of a girl that i asked for a phone number at that time and she scribbled the number there i was very thankful after some time of pursuing she then became my wife from seven digit event to eight digit i kept this card with me as a memory you know of how i first met my
00:24:09 wife the occasion where i met my wife and i also can remember the place where i met my wife remember this it's not just the occasion and the place but this card this business card which is free if i left it outside on a desk you would think it's rubbish there's no value and so it is with alters when the altars are really just a pile of rocks any other visitor looking by traveller just kicked it over but to the patriarchs they were helping them remember understand that's a key word we need to help ourselves remember
00:24:47 they call these rhythms in life we need rituals we need objects we need things that's why we keep memories memorabilia they help us remember and that's a discipline they help us remember occasions which are important in our spiritual journey so let's just look at the story of abraham and abram at the time and see what did the story tell us so we were told here from there he went on towards the hills east of battle pitched his tent with battle on the west and i on the east now this is after he arrives at canaan right and then as
00:25:26 he moves on he moves on to battle and there he builds an altar to the lord and called on the name of the lord now the term calling on the name of the lord is found in genesis 4 basically it is meaning i know you in a relationship now after that there's a gap between chapter 12 and genesis 13 what happens he struggles like we all struggle in a new journey where does he go he decides to go to egypt because that's a famine he screws up there no lies about his wife does all sorts of things and gets kicked out in not so many words and
00:26:00 so he's lost as he travels back meandering not sure about his direction in life like a lot of us did this year some of us lost our jobs we had family issues we we don't know who we are anymore we get lost and look at what he says from the negev he went from place to place his loss until he came to battle this place to the place between battle and i this where his tent had been earlier and look at it and where he had built an altar what happened he remembered and very likely the pile of stones was
00:26:33 still there and then what does he do then abram called on the name of lord that's recalling back there he's saying ah god i strayed i thought i was very smart by going to egypt tried to maneuver like you know this jacob tennessee probably came for abram and caused so much trouble but now i come back i see this pile of rocks i remember your faithfulness i call on your name that's the first thing what the altar does number two when he recalls he responds in worship look at what jacob does jacob set up a
00:27:08 stone pillar at a place where god had talked with him he poured out a drink offering he also poured all on it no one did the same thing he stepped up he took the finest animals he put a burnt offering remembering is not enough is how you remember and hear the patriarchs remember with reverence with reverence worship ah lord god i call on your name i offer up a worship to you and what does that do it helps you to reinforce your identity especially when you're going through a bad phase again this year all the reports
00:27:46 are saying mental health is on issues on the rise because people get cooped up you lose your job you get pressured you struggle a lot of people struggle and and and after a while they feel worthless they say you know what i can't get a job i've been hurt i'm hopeless i'm useless now you can say my identity is this and that anna but you don't understand my pain so let me show you a story about a verse in the new testament a person who understands what you're going through and what he was he was a slave
00:28:20 you don't get worse than a slave and first corinthians 7 23 says this were you a slave when you were called don't let it trouble you although if you can gain your freedom do so paul is not unsympathetic yes but he said for the one who was a slave when called to faith he's a lost free person similarly the one who was free when caught is christ's life free or not free same identity but here's what's interesting you were bored at the price that's a slave language you know do not become slaves of human beings
00:28:53 you're border pride this is your identity this is not your identity you were bought a price you see a slave remembers the day they were bought at the market he's trying to pull them back to another memory what memory is that the memory of the cross this is your royal identity do not become slaves a lot of us are stuck in this so we not may not be building altars or stones but the new testament teaches us to build another kind of altar the altar in the heart an altar that gives us the discipline
00:29:29 of remembering who we really are so when jesus says do this in remembrance of me is to help us many ways to remind ourselves who we truly are that we are not slaves or others we are not who we are because what people say or because i lost my job or because i went through a lot of pain or other people seem to have more blessings than me or other people have relationships that work and mine don't i was bored at a price next sunday we will break bread and it will be significant you'll be the first breaking
00:30:08 of bread of the year so i just want to see what happens when you do it again in our series of forgiveness this year a lot of pain unforgiveness watching in now you probably you might have a lot of unforgiveness a lot of people a lot of bitterness does not mention names and you can say you know what i i can't forgive i can't forgive but when you break bread right when you take the altar come to the altar of the lord come to the altar in your heart you say this i remember the blood of christ poured out for me the body brews my sins
00:30:45 i can forgive all those very difficult it could be anything else i struggle with my sins i i mean i may be an elder at a church but i admit i struggle this year's anything we learn we learn vulnerability is important i have my own issues and i have to remind myself i'm a new person i'm hypocrite in many areas i struggle i do not dispute it but we are vulnerable we come to the altar with vulnerability we tell ourselves we need to be a new person and we say lord we struggle with this sins take us in a new direction this area
00:31:24 teach us to change remember the cross remember how jesus died for our sins he paid the price and there's a new beginning for me and there's a new direction for me because i'm a new person and by grace we'll fall and fall again and we'll come back to the altar we'll come back to the altar because we are broken people and we renew ourselves and that's why communion is so important let me just wrap up with this to say why milestones in our life direct our identity because identity in the end really is about purpose so
00:32:01 let me ask you what's your purpose in life in total some people felt you know my purpose was to build an airline industry to build hotels suddenly everything wipes out it challenges you again so who do you think you are that's really how we should close this series some people say that i'm called to do this i'm called to be an elder you dare say that i'm called to be senior pastor i'm called to build this business how do you really know and it's interesting right so let's go back to this and talk about purpose
00:32:34 really is about how you see your future self a lot of us have a certain view of our future self and here's interesting what the statistics show us it's really fascinating this is dr daniel gilbert um he's a harvard uh professor he's got a ted talk about your future self fascinating and this is why it says you and i right now if i ask you this question where do you see yourself 10 years you will be able to articulate it you will say i think in 10 years i'll be this you will you will do it some of you
00:33:03 see yourself very closely aligned some of you a bit more ambitious to see yourself not but you would be able to articulate your future self i hope to do this and then you set milestones to get to my future cell this i need to change these areas oh if i want to still be the same person i need to maintain this you all have a sense of your future self now what's interesting from daniel's gilbert statistics is that 10 years from now they've done the research if they ask you were you the person you thought you were
00:33:37 10 years ago 99 of the statistics will say what they say no isn't that interesting no google watch that watch the tactile really fascinating that means we are all trying to find purpose trying to direct it but 10 years from now you would say didn't quite work out here's one look at what toto did to everybody's purpose completely obliterated one year which just changed the course of history and so abraham is interesting because abraham life is one of a journey but here's another thing about milestones
00:34:16 you see because as we age right our our goals change fallen men if they're centered themselves keep changing their goals as they get older what is important to you 10 years before it's not the same now so the abraham story is an interesting story let's go through what he was doing number one the key thing you learn in hebrews he went out not knowing where he was going he just went did abraham plan in tenure this is my future self he didn't he did only one thing god said he was going to be a blessing
00:34:50 and he walked on in that that was a goal it wasn't random but he did not micromanage it and went on his own path that's where scripture is very clear so let me just break it down a little bit you see the altar has another place another thing of importance is not just the occasion it's the place why is that important what's so important about the place let's just give it a big rite of breakdown the first altar you see abraham built three three altars the first altar he built shacham again enemy territory right
00:35:28 right next to the great three of moray why does the author mention that we'll pick that up later then he moves on where does he go he goes to battle and later on where does he go he goes to hebron everywhere he goes he builds an altar why he's claiming that place as the kingdom of god where he is that's the kingdom of god where i and you are my work kingdom of god in fbc kingdom of god at home kingdom of god that's what he's saying he's proclaiming that place as kingdom one of the key great themes
00:36:09 of genesis that's how you look at milestones in life whenever your desires change or things change or virus hits you you say where i am lord this occasion i am this place i am it's trouble i am the kingdom of god is here if i realize i'm a new person new direction new beginning and that has power look at what the text says later on it says the tree is mentioned twice i just highlighted it again the great tree of more is mentioned again in genesis 35 and look at what he says after he says i'll build an altar so they gave jacob
00:36:49 all the foreign gods they had and the rings in their ears that's giving up idolatry giving up all the idols in your life that holds you from being the new person you're meant to be and jacob bury them where same tree you know what this tree is this is a tree where the canaanites worship he's not just declaring figuratively this place is the kingdom of god it comes with power he's saying this you know i'm entering 201 i'm in a place which is difficult but the kingdom of god is here and because of the gospel
00:37:24 because of the power of christ resurrected i will break all these idols that make me bitter angry defeated hurtful spiteful and shape my identity i will break this and i will say i will not be a slave to others i was bored at a price and i think if you really look at it deeply it's just so powerful you know next year if the vaccine works uh what anthony dr anthony fauci says normalcy will come in second half and then the world economic column forum calls this the great reset the world will never be the same online
00:38:05 sanitation business break to click the world will reset in sustainability reset in the way we do our business how about us what do milestones teach us what do the patriarchs teach us it's not so much the great reset that's important it is what does this practice of building a milestone building an altar to remember the place remember the occasion to tell us the kingdom of god is there it's not the great reset it's the great commission the great commission is everywhere you and i go whether it's to faraway lands or whether
00:38:48 it's your job or whether it's your home where you are if you bring your pain and your struggles and your bitterness to people around them that's not the great commission because the great commission is tied to what the abrahamic covenant you're supposed to be a blessing to the nations and everywhere abraham went he built an altar to remind himself he will be a blessing and he was a blessing as he went from morab to battle to hebron and when he was at the great tree of oak he broke that curse of the tree with his idolatry
00:39:25 and that's what we are supposed to do to break idols around to put our impact in this post-covet world so there's altering and altering right altering the practice of building alters remembering milestone but as we alter god is altering us quickly i won't go through it we know the story of sodom go gomorrah read it up land very nice abraham told lord you take it why because god had altered him take the good land it doesn't matter my altar is in my heart the lord is with me and so what happens the lord then promised abraham because
00:40:11 of faithfulness and so what he did he built an altar to the lord you know we're going to move to the new year it may be a difficult year for us let me just challenge you what is your role in fbc what is it role as a believer it's a new beginning it's a new direction for us will you and i be a new person for the lord let us pray lord last summer of the year heavy long i pray it's necessary to impress upon all of us our hearts that we move to this new year with fear and anger let us not bring all
00:40:53 the baggage of it what we choose to remember is that we have an altar in our heart with you we choose to remember that we remember our true identities in christ and when we come for communion we reinforce that memory and we step out to build your kingdom we remind ourselves it's a new beginning 2 2 1 teach us enlighten us on new directions and remind us that we are new person in you and we say this in jesus name amen
