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00:00:01 [Applause] [Music] today's scripture reading is taken from matthew chapter 7 verses 7-13 ask and it will be given to you seek and you will find knock and the door will be open to you for everyone who asks receives the one who seeks finds and to the one who knocks the door will be opened which of you if your son asks for bread will give him a stone or if he asks for a fish we'll give him a snake if you then though you are evil know how to give a good gift to your children how much more will your father in heaven
00:01:00 give good gifts to those who ask him so in everything do to others what you would have them do to you for this sums up the law and the prophets enter through the narrow gate for wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction and many enter through it this is the word of god hi fbc glad to see all of you again for this morning here for our sunday service today for the summer we have is called the golden promise our golden promise so as we begin this summer i wanted to really share with you that i understand
00:01:43 that many of us are going through a lot of challenges and i want to chat with you does anyone here feel like this guy over here this is only demon and he's been at sea for three days and his boat actually somehow were destroyed and he actually is surviving on an ice box do you feel like this sometimes currently recovery do you feel stuck sometimes you just don't know what to do you hope that the the mco will stop you hope that this coffee will away you hope your business your work or will go back
00:02:18 to normal if you're going through this now i want to let you know that we're all in this together and as a body of christ we're going to help each other to really go through this and god wants you to know that you are not alone so when it comes to kobe i think all of us know that things have not been doing well already businesses are all shuttering i have a own experience as well my customers have challenges paying me why because their customers are not paying them and therefore they cannot pay me i'm quite
00:02:48 sure a lot of you may be experiencing some payroll uh adjustments uh pay cut and all that so life is really not easy and at the same time domestic violence has increased a lot when i did this sermon i actually found a lot of interesting stuff that was shocking for me do you know that in terms of women right about one hour of treatment were actually killed by their partners globally so it's not it's not robbers it's not this is actually people okay their spouses their partners is just killing them and domestic violence is actually
00:03:19 increasing even more now due to covey at the same time there's more and more disruption schools are closed the kids are home and they're not learning so this type of child is also an issue i don't really know how to help my my son actually know how to get along with other people and let him be able to socialize and learn and actually gain friendship but whole world is changing at the same time people continue dying people continue dying but at the same time god wants us to know that you are not alone and help is on the way
00:03:49 help is on the way and god will be here to help us to go through these challenges over here let's pray father we thank you for today lord the lord your word says that if we ask we seek we knock lord you are there to always hear us and by not by no uncertain terms you always hear our prayers i pray that you help us to really know that lord you're just one prayer away just one prayer away and father i pray that you help us to to really take your word put in our hearts and put in practice thank you lord i pray the lord today
00:04:23 you'll be speaking and not me let your glory be known and let everyone come to you lot in disney pray amen all right so today we're talking about the golden promise is based on matthew chapter 7 verses 7 to 12 over here there are three main points one is our golden promise number two our golden relationship number three our golden rule now so let's go through them one by one and see what we're talking about so first one our golden promise let's look at the passage together in matthew 7 verses 7 to 12 it starts like this ask
00:05:00 and it will be given to you seek and you will find knock and the door will be open to you was it for everyone who asked receives the one who seeks finds and to the one who knocks the door will be open so if you look at it number one god is asking us to ask to seek to knock which means that if we want something we need to have this intensity to not just to ask and a way can i find the latest uh iphone where is the best way to actually do this thing and we just let it be it's about us asking seeking and knocking and the intensity
00:05:33 increases increases as you can see over here on the passage here it's being emphasized again if you miss the first verse the second one shows you again for everyone who asks receives the one who seeks finds and the one who knocks the door will be open so again by no uncertain terms if you ask if you seek you knock you actually will definitely be hurt by god itself so what we're saying is every prayer will be heard i'm going to give you an example that they understand something that's more localized and you can understand uh this
00:06:04 is an analogy if you wanna eat durians right so you go home and you can smell you and you need durian so you can tell your wife you ask your wife where's the durian okay where are the durians your wife tells you oh go to the kitchen is there so you ask your wife and after that you sick you go to the kitchen and look for it as you're looking for it the smell is there it smells so good with this musang king and all this nice durian you want to eat it you sick and search but you cannot find it but the smell is so strong so what do
00:06:35 you do right you actually go around the house and you knock on the door and ask your kids do you take all the durians or not where are the durians i can smell it but i want it if the door is closed you knock until it's being opened because you want to do rest make sure your kids doesn't finish it right so that is what we need to do we need to ask seek and knock now why does god ask us to do this why and in fact in chapter 6 he has really talked about prayer why are we talking about prayer again the answer is
00:07:03 very simple because we don't ask enough we don't seek enough we don't knock enough a lot of times when it comes to god we just we have this idea whereby maybe god doesn't care you know maybe god won't answer but god wants to give you this assurance if you need help you ask you seek you knock god will be there too always answering and also to let you know that this entire passage is knocking it's not talking about asking one time it's not talking about seeking one time or knocking one time is keep on
00:07:31 asking keep on seeking keep on knocking and the question comes to this does god really answer prayers does god really answer prayers so i'm gonna have a few examples to share with you on on for us to actually explore does god really answer prayers first one is dial modi so dear mother is a preacher uh from the states and in 1871 there was a great chicago fire it's a very famous thing that happened basically a lot of places were being burned out including his church so in the year 1872 he actually went to london
00:08:02 for a holiday for rest and also to to learn and actually go for training now he had no intention to preach he just wanted to go there and have some rest and also attend some training but there was this preacher i told him that hey can you please come to my church come to my small little church and preach for us so there murray said okay let's go so he went there in the morning he preached and as he preached weapon was people were not attentive people didn't really want to hear him as well didn't people didn't even listen so it
00:08:28 just ended and nothing much happened right and in the evening he's supposed to preach again so at first he didn't really want to do it but after thinking about it then he thought let's just do it but in the evening when he started preaching the whole atmosphere changed suddenly everyone became very attentive people listened and people really wanted to hear the word of god that's wondering what's happening and so he gave an auto call as well he asked him if you want to believe in jesus and you want to
00:08:52 actually join the church please raise your hands or please stand up and a lot of people stood up he was shocked he was thinking did i say something wrong did i not mention it clear enough so what he did was he actually preached more about repentance people must change after preaching for a while he asked again if you want this then you stand up and again even more people stood up just wondering this cannot be right i i don't understand these these are these are crowds so many people are looking to to
00:09:19 actually you know respond to autocall it's uh something that i don't understand so you ask all them you sit down right if you really want to hear the word of god if you really want to join the church and repent and actually uh get to know jesus you come to this other room later and then over there we're gonna we're gonna tell you more about jesus and the same thing happened and again right in the other room a lot of people went there and the whole place was filled and he still felt that i don't
00:09:43 know why there's so many people so he actually left he told the crowd if you really want to get to know jesus you come back tomorrow and tomorrow even more people came as well so when this happened the pastor would invite him tonight you better come back come back to london something is happening over here he came back and realized that something is happening god was moving so after that diamond did some detective detective he did some search and find out how did this happen how come there's so many people coming the morning nobody
00:10:14 really cared but evening suddenly so many people came as well what happened and they found that there's actually this lady called marianne adler mary ella is actually big ridden right she's actually disabled she couldn't go to church she was not feeling well and she's always on the bed now before dear moody came she has been praying for years and years for modi to come she heard about moody before and she has prayed again and again asking for diamond to come so on that faithful morning when the sister
00:10:45 got to know that dear moody was coming she actually ran back to tell marian dear moody is here and what did marian say mary said oh i know what that means god has heard my prayers god has heard my prayers why because she has been praying for years please take note for years for murray to come it's not one time it's not two times it's for years for them will you come and at noon when it got to know that dale bundy was here they fasted and prayed together all afternoon for god to use the amudi and after the evening you saw that the
00:11:17 whole embassy have changed everything changed and people got to know christ as well so if you look at it what we can see is this god listened to this big ridden girl's prayer and accomplished amazing work it wasn't just their modi but it was this girl praying for years for dion moody to come so prayer is something that is really amazing and actually works wonders on marion island this is what dear moody says all right in fact friends i have no photo for you for marion i couldn't find it it's just
00:11:47 a nobody just a name i can't even find a photo but in god's economy nobody is a nobody everybody is important and everybody if you need to give your life to jesus jesus can do amazing things because it's not about you it's about christ on marion ella this is what diamond said these are the laborers of force in the fields of god it is a heroes and heroines who are out of sight and who labor in prayer who make it possible for those who are inside to do their work and win in god's economy in god's work it's not
00:12:20 about one person there's no one-man army in god's kingdom it's always about people working together for his kingdom so marian ellen is one of those laborers in foster you don't see her i don't even photo for her but god hears her prayer and through her accomplish great works another one over here there's this story called the great minnesota grasshopper miracle and if you go online and search for it it's something that really happened so in the year 1877 there were actually a lot of grasshoppers or
00:12:49 locusts actually invading minnesota so at that time people were very poor and there was not really any industries and everybody actually agreed was very important to the town over there it was already a small town people were poor and for years and years the grasshoppers came and ate all the grains and stuff they have so in the year 1877 the entomologist said that this year is going to be very big this is going to be very big we need to do something about it they try to burn the grasshoppers they tried to kill
00:13:20 away all the eggs and all that but nothing worked nothing worked so what happened was the government at the time pillsbury proclaimed that on april 26 1877 it'd be a day of fasting it'd be a day of fasting of humiliation and prayer and he asks everybody from young to old everybody to pray to god to ask god to lift and remove the scourge remove the grasshoppers because man cannot do it we need god a lot of times isn't that how it is for us in life when things are something that we cannot solve it then
00:13:55 we ask or otherwise we will ask god but god hears our prayers god does hear our prayers and he will act he will act so on april 26 it was just like normally but it was very quiet nobody was all the shops are closed only the churches opened people were praying and the whole time was very quiet just at mco now so what happened was it was actually springtime but it's very hot it was very hot now when it's very hot what it means is that grasshoppers eggs were starting to hatch so as you pray grasshoppers eggs are starting to hatch
00:14:29 so people started to wonder what is happening we are praying and it gets worse and worse so it got very hot but at night weapon was there was an unusual thing that happened a cold rain began to fall a cold rain began to fall and the wind shifted from south to north and the rain changed to freezing rain and it went to sleet and then it became snow so the snow and freezing temperatures continued for two full days two full days and on the third day of sunday a full-fledged blizzard swept down out of canada and hit the state
00:15:01 so happened was all the little grasshoppers were starting to hatch but when the snow came all of them were killed after snowstorm they checked and say there were no live grasshoppers anymore every single grasshopper were killed and after that there was no invasion of grasshoppers for a long long time in this place so we go to minnesota now there's actually a chapel that's being erected for to remember this as well god hears prayers another one over here this is george muller and in george muller's story if
00:15:33 you read more and more you see that this is really amazing person and he's famous for actually opening orphanages and always the entire orphanage is built through prayer built through god this is what it says this home will only be established if god provides the means and suitable staff to run it i don't look to bristol nor even to england but the living god whose is the goal and the silver not asking for rich people to come in not asking for talent people but wanting only god that's all we need just god
00:16:03 there'll be no charge for admission girls will be brought up for service i'm very interested in this part that he mentioned girls will be brought up for service boys for trade right means that they're bringing up people not just just to put them in church but making them useful people because it's the whole of man they're looking at not just the spiritual side but the whole of man the chief and special end what is the main goal of this orphanage is to seek god's blessing and to bring dear children to
00:16:28 the knowledge of jesus christ by instructing them in the scriptures so if you read it there's so many miracles happen many times there's no food no food but he prays and asks all the kids sit at the table let's pray for food okay it was breakfast and after that food comes there's one time where there was milk and bread being supplied as well similar to the one i told you just now there's not enough food so but they prayed anyway and sat at the dining table and just when they finished praying after a while
00:16:58 they heard a knock they opened the door and the baker came the bagel came and said that i couldn't sleep at night i felt that god asked me to bring the braid to you after that not only did the break the breaker came the milkman also came what happened was the milkman's card actually broke down in front of the orphanage so the women cannot send it for for sale so what he did he said i'm going to give it all to the to the four kids over here for the for the orphanages so what george miller says not only did god
00:17:28 give you bread god give you hot bread and give you fresh meat at the same time god is good and god is dependable now why does god want us to pray why pray why what does god want us to pray if let's say he is so good i can just provide exactly what we need because the answer is it's not just about the item that you receive but it's about the dignity of causality which i mentioned the last round god similar to how god gave us work for the dignity of causality which means the fact that you can eat and you can feel full it's god
00:17:59 giving you the opportunity to to work and let you get involved in the entire world itself so as you eat you get full so the same thing is as you pray things can happen because god wants to do something special here it's not just about just the result they're looking for but for you to change for the person for the christian to change what is it over here says risk positive very simply for he seems to do nothing of himself which he can possibly delegate to his creatures when god does things if he can
00:18:28 let his creatures do it he will actually delegate to his creatures he commands us to do slowly and blunderingly what he could do perfectly and in the twinkling of an eye don't you think a lot of times we are not capable we cannot do a lot of things i honestly tell you i don't think i can preach i honestly think that i'm not made for this i'm an introvert i don't do such things but god gives us this chance this opportunity to come and actually to serve him and this is what he says here this is how no light matter
00:18:55 for god makes something indeed he makes gods out of nothing to make us to conform to his will to become into his image this is the one of the goals of prayer for us to know him more to draw us towards god just as you look at the lord's prayer here the entire passage you see when you pray you're praying for god's name to be glorified for his kingdom for his will to be done on earth as is in heaven you pray for your daily bread your petitions and all these other things but as you pray you change you
00:19:28 struggle with god and you change you become a different person that is why prayer is also needed for us to draw towards god and god wants to hear us pray and god will act when we pray now does god answer all prayers the answer is yes god will always answer all prayers but does god grant all prayers no god doesn't grant our prayers he listens to everything you pray but he doesn't grant all prayers why why doesn't he grant all prayers the answer is because we have a golden reaction with him and we are too precious for it for him to
00:20:00 simply just give us anything we want as parents we understand way more than than others right when you go through it you understand that we can't just say yes to everything your children prays for because as a good father number one if you really specialize over here you see that god cares so much for us that he cannot just give us everything that we want verse nine here which of you if your son asks for a bread you give him a stone or if he asks for a fish you give him a snake if you then know your evil know how to
00:20:28 give good gifts to your children how much more will your father in heaven give good gifts to those who are sin as parents even though we are evil means that we are sinners right we are all sinners here even though we are sinners we know that we love our children and we do our best for them right how about for our father when he's totally omniscient he has he knows everything in the world he knows what is right for you not only now but for the future he knows which couple is which boyfriend is suitable for you he knows
00:20:57 which job is to do for you he knows which career which house everything you do he knows and he's actually installed everything for you already and because of that he will choose to intervene to stop you from getting things that you want as well that is the father we have because it loves us so much and a lot of times we don't see until on the very far end only you can see really all these things that we're talking about over here so but the key thing that you look at is basically this our father in heaven give
00:21:21 good gifts to those who ask him so ask away if you ask him for good gifts he will give it to you but if you ask him for something that will damage you they will hurt you he won't answer it because why because he loves you just like how if my son asks for a knife i won't give him a knife simply for no reason so there are things i need to think about now but so do we know how to differentiate good and bad sometimes we think that actually no la i really like this girl you know can you please give this girl to me i've prayed that before
00:21:48 do you know that in my college days i pray that in you know uni days i prayed all this before right but we don't know what is good and what is bad we think we know but actually at times we don't know let me give example is mickey mouse good for me yes or no is mickey mouse good for me now what i teach myself is this well what does mickey mouse want from you mickey mouse wants you to be happy right true he makes you laugh you watch him and then you're happy but does mickey mouse care whether you
00:22:21 get hungry does mickey mouse care whether in the future you become uh somebody that's useful whether you know god whether you sleep does mickey mouse care and says no mickey mouse doesn't care mickey mouse only cares that you're happy now and so is mickey mouse ultimately good for me a little bit of mickey mouse is okay but not too much let's let me to this i actually got disney one of the reason i got it is for myself but i also told myself yeah i can let my kids watch disney you know disney plus so the same
00:22:47 plus came and there's loki i just watched loki uh recently and so loki currently looking at disney plus is confirmed to be bisexual i knew that disney was actually uh champions a lot but now in the entire canon or entire story that they have loki has been conquered to be bisexual in his correspondence in his talks he actually mentioned it and all you cat heron the director said this it's very important to me and my goal to acknowledge loki was bisexual it's part of who he is and who i am too now i'm
00:23:18 here i'm not here to talk about lgbt and all that but the fact is this do we know what is good for us sometimes even when i actually get disney i didn't know what i'm gonna get how about this a lot of us i'm quite sure i've talked about this what i've heard if i just win the jackpot if i just win the jackpot everything will be good you know life will be easy and this jackpot is not hundred thousand ringgit these are 300 million trillion million dollars of jackpot you want it not 300 million you know you say you know
00:23:45 how many how much good i can do with 100 million i can i can actually buy the whole building for a church can do so many things but it's a jackpot really good thing and if you check online a lot of people when they win the jackpot they their lives actually turned upside down and they actually go through very bad times this person is jack retaker he won a jackpot of 315 million 350 million before he won the jackpot he was actually a rich guy was it a millionaire but he won the tick he won the jackpot and what he said was i wish
00:24:14 that we had torn the ticket up why because after he won the jackpot he lost a daughter and a granddaughter to drugs okay he lost a daughter and grand granddaughter to drug overdoses aside from it he got constantly robbed why he got too much money he carried around cash suitcases of cash and people asking what does he do he said because i can right his house got burned down and he actually went for divorce recently he just passed away now when i share this week i'm not asking to laugh at him but
00:24:42 i'm just trying to share with you that friends a lot of times we don't know what is good just like in the garden of eden we don't necessarily know what is good what is bad when god has defined for us it's actually much better for us to obey the god and say that god i listen to you if you say no and you close the door i will listen i won't try to keep on ramming it but at the same time i will knock but i trust you whether you open or not i trust you that is a key thing yeah and then over here this guy abraham
00:25:11 shakespeare same thing happened he won the lottery and the money was finished in four years time so he said i thought these were my friends but they just wanted money everyone came to him and wanted to become his friends so actually went through a lot of challenges and yet he got shot and buried in the backyard by this lady over here okay you can see her over here looking very friendly here but she killed abraham shakespeare so is the lottery really good thing for us not necessary correct at the same time friends we talk about
00:25:40 good gifts from god sometimes when we look at it it is obviously it looks so bad for us but we just don't understand bad things happen to good people as well so this is joseph scriven and he's actually a very nice chap over there but what happened was in the year 1843 his fiancee drowned just the night before marriage right he's a very nice person he serves the poor he actually helps people as well but bad things happen to him and after that he went to canada for a while and he actually met another person
00:26:12 and he fell in love and the same thing happened again in 1860 his second fiancee suddenly fell ill of pneumonia and died due to a water baptism the water was too cold and she actually died and they couldn't get married so after that he stayed single and he actually continued to devote his entire life to tutoring preaching and helping others at the other day he actually got depression and drowned in 1886 at the age 66. does it sound like good sorry story to you where's the where's the beauty of god
00:26:47 where's how god acquits god saves you where is it where is it a lot of times in life we just can't see it we can't see it but we just need to hold on to this our father is good and we can trust him that is the only thing at home many times in life you have nothing else you can want to because there's no logical explanation to all this why good people go through bad things in fact being in business for a while i've seen a lot of bad people doing very successful being very happy and they live long life and
00:27:16 they cannot die run but poor but good people a lot of times die young they go through law challenges but we don't answer but one day one day we know bad things happen to good people but it's okay because god is in control he has his plan and joseph scream wrote a poem to his mother and this is what we have been singing all this while what a friend we have in jesus our sins our griefs to bear what privilege it is was to carry everything to god in prayer if you need anything you can go to god in prayer if you look at it this way
00:27:49 sometimes maybe you feel that this is all joseph's contribution there is to us but is it true we don't know okay we can't really quantify people we cannot judge people this way but god knows god has a plan for everything your role is just to walk on this narrow road enter the narrow gate which alex is going to preach next week and i'm going to share with you this on my personal family to share with you this is megan this is my sister and she is actually wheelchair bound she has this uh um condition called spinal
00:28:19 muscular atrophy sma so from young from birth she actually can't really walk properly and so currently she's actually wheelchair bound she can't really walk as well and you can't imagine it but when you have a sister that's actually disabled i can tell you that life is different i'm very sure to share with you that for megan she has a lot of dreams and nothing she wants as well but her life is different from others yeah this is her in wheelchair for her convocation a lot of things that you want to do you
00:28:52 go hiking you can't go hiking you want to dance she can't do it but one thing i share with you is this i can't tell you why it is happening but i spoke to my mom before last time and she has mentioned this to me many many years ago i don't think she remembers i didn't get a permission for this one because she's fine with it she told us before that do you know that actually for our family right if not for megan we wouldn't become christians you wouldn't know jesus enough for mangan why because my mom is a very strong taoist okay he's
00:29:20 a very strong tower he's an entire generation the father is actually into some some some towie stuff some necromancer stuff that i don't know how to explain to you right in chinese it's called tilton so because of that we very steep into this and there's no chance of us to know jesus but because megan was disabled to search for god the friend a primary school friend they were still in primary school got to know about jesus and she went to church and that's how we actually get to know christ and in fact the reason why
00:29:50 i'm standing here today to preach to you is also because of megan because she bought these cassettes you know radio cassettes she bought this radio cassette and played in a room which there was a pastor preaching a sermon and i heard it and i was just like maybe seven years maybe nine years old i heard it and i said that uh i want to become a christian they asked do if you feel that you're wrong and you want to say sorry to jesus and you're becoming a person in his hands i rose my hand like that
00:30:16 because i was shy i rose my hand like that she saw my hand she prayed with me and that is how i actually became a christian so is disability a blessing i don't dare to really tell you that but disability because of megan megan is a blessing to a family if you still doubt god's blessing whether god is good if you doubt that before i've doubted i have been searching for this a lot of times if you really wonder if god is really good look over here you know because good people die and this is the best
00:30:48 person in the world and he died for us so from that you can be sure to know that god loves you and always in ephesians he said i pray that you being rooted and established in love may have power together with all the lord's holy people to grasp how why and long and high and deep is the love of christ a lot of times we don't realize how much our parents love us and i can tell you god loves us even more the fact that he's willing to die for us it means that he relives us and is a plan and purpose for us
00:31:21 although you're going through your corvette situations and maybe your life currently looks like this it's a whole mess you don't know what it is this is what you see now but one day one day when we actually meet in heaven christ will show this to you it was a beautiful item that he was trying to make and so here in first corinthians it says that for now we see only a reflection as in the mirror last time mirrors were made of copper is not the mirrors right now you can't really see your face on but
00:31:50 then we shall see face to face next time you see facebook we will know why we're going through this we'll know why things are happening to us why bad things happen now i know in fact then i shall know fully even as i am fully known so even though you feel like this now friends notice don't give up something is happening over here that you don't see the final point our golden rule what is this golden we're talking about the golden rule is something is very famous we've actually heard of it before it's
00:32:20 actually in matthews 7 12. so in everything do to others what you would have them do to you for this sums up the law and the prophets so god is telling us do to others what you want what you would have them do to you for this sums up the law and the prophets from young my mom has been telling me this in chinese which means that if you don't like something don't give it to people you don't like to hurt people you don't let people hurt you you don't hurt them but is this the same as what jesus is saying
00:32:53 you read the passage read the commentary everybody will tell you the same thing number one every single religion out there would have version of something like this but every single religion out there would put it in a negative which means that they tell you don't hurt people don't hurt people okay you don't like being hurt you don't have people but jesus is the only person over here that puts it in positive what i mean by that so if you read it in a positive way what it means is this it this is not an absence of harm it's
00:33:20 not an absence of meaning that it's not that you don't harm people but it's a presence of good it's about us loving people it's about serving people and if you see here it says for this sums up the law and the prophets and when people ask what is your greatest commandment and what's the second one and this is what jesus replied lived or lord your god with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind this is the first and greatest commandment and the second is like it love your neighbor as yourself all the
00:33:46 law and the prophets hang on these two commandments so what god is asking us to do is to love people to love people now friends take note one note over here can you see this if you read in new king james version it's more clear so in everything over there is actually stated as therefore in everything so what does it mean if you read the entire passage together it means this it means this we can obey the golden rule not because it's a good moral law and we can follow but because because of god we can obey the moral law
00:34:19 because of god because of this relationship because of this good father that we have that will always love us and give us the best because he will always be there for us if we hear our prayer as we pray he will always answer us and give us the good gifts because of that because of that we are able to follow this golden rule and love others as ourselves so you see here these are the three variants we have but if i can show you in an illustration way what it means is this the reason why we can actually
00:34:53 pray and the reason why we can actually follow the golden rule is because of this because of the relationship we have with christ with god the father is because of christ it's all because of god that we can do all this it's not something based on my own effort i can do it's all because of god now diamori has said this before the world has yet to see what god will do with a man fully consecrated to him by god's help i aim to be that man so i have a question for all of you here if i take this whole thing i can
00:35:26 translate into equation i love maths 1 plus infinity what is 1 plus infinity can you tell me 1 plus infinity is infinity right so similarly i can share with you one plus god equals to god shown in the illustration if this is you you plus god equals to god if you are a girl you know and a lot of times you wonder what can i achieve i'm just a little girl i'm just a small little girl i'm only 10 years old i'm only 15. i'm just a young adult i'm only 20 years old what can i do but remember you are not alone if you are willing to
00:36:13 as what dear moody said give your life to jesus the world has yet to see what god will do with a person like you and the question is this would you say by god's help i aim to be that man by god's help i aim to be that girl your background doesn't matter it doesn't matter who you are question is i will put your face over here are you willing to say that i give everything i have to god and accomplish all they can because he is infinity he is god he can do everything he's not about me anymore and maybe some of you think that i'm
00:36:49 already i'm not even one i'm half or maybe i'm 10 i think i'm very already how much can i do god what else can i do it's time to retire and just rest i don't know technology i don't know all this zoom stuff what can i do you know i'm just my kids are all away you know i don't really know what's happening sometimes i can't keep up as well as i'm old sometimes i get tired as well what can i do but god tells you the same thing one plus infinity equals infinity you plus god equals god and all person plus god equals god again
00:37:27 it's not about you it's about whether you're going to put your life and give it to christ and we do amazing things and same thing as well over here fbc plus god equals to god it's not about how many talented people we have in church it's not about how big the church is it's only about are willing to give the entire church everything we have every single person to god and he will use it to his liking he will use it for his own glory are we willing to love others as we love ourselves are we willing to step up to
00:37:58 say that our comfort zone not just watching disney plus like me and do something about it do you want to do something about it so over here i have a friend that i'll share with you this is my friend this is bing her name is sweet bing and this is the husband man kyung and so they are actually running this soup kitchen called the assembly soup kitchen so why am i sharing this because i got to know about this they started last year and sg has grown a lot now let me share with you a bit why i'm talking about this
00:38:27 this is their family bing has a three lovely children over here and if you look at this here what i'm trying to share with you is bing loves jesus with all her heart with all her soul with all her mind and she loves neighbor as a self same goes for mankind as well why because a lot of times when we serve even i i will say that i give some of my extra time to god i give maybe some money to god i do a little bit of stuff for god i pray a little bit but for her she really puts everything she has into serving not only with time
00:39:05 but with her heart mind and soul i'm going to show you what i mean so she runs this soup kitchen over here helping the poor and also feeding the homeless uh and a lot of people around the entire climate region yeah so in one week alone for one day every saturday every saturday yesterday they actually go out and give the food to the poor if i'm not mistaken it's about 1 500 1 500 meals a day on saturday so this is being done and can you imagine one thousand five meals how much food is needed correct but the way she does it is very
00:39:40 very special she uses the capacity and the talent she has to make this become a social enterprise that actually is not profit-oriented and is totally self-sustainable no support from the church and it just runs so how does he run it number one if she wants vegetables she prays for vegetables thursday morning she pray for vegetables and by evening vegetables arrive right so amazing right and after that she wanted biscuits on saturday she prayed for biscuits and business came without calling people no just by
00:40:17 praying and food and all this just keep on coming and coming to her and she can use it to serve others and do you know where her staff are so these are staff so my family was involved in this as well and so with mco what would you do if you are helping helping out doing mco helping you in church you say oh you're like mco too bad let's wait for walla okay should they have a central kitchen in glamery and normally they cook over there and normally many people just say let's give up la but what she did was
00:40:48 the operations continued during mco even more important than mcly because people get hungry during mcu as well and a lot of people lost their jobs in mco especially for those people hourly paid you can't but i don't pay you so a lot of people don't have jobs so what she did was she actually distribute all the raw ingredients you got for free from all the rest from all the manufacturers and producers as you pass it to families to create so over here you see a person these two little girls here making some
00:41:16 nice looking rice and mushrooms over here this uh little boy is making noodles over here they're making something with eggs and beef over here it's all good quality food so the way she does ant operation is basically it's all supported and fun and actually given by other people these are food that's near expiry but it's still edible and it's good yeah so these are the things she's doing not just giving a heart not just say oh let's go and get funding but she puts in all her effort to do it in a way that actually
00:41:44 is totally self-sustainable and this thing can continue grow and so these little kids together parents are cooking and cooking for who when you see the photos i i can see the photos without the the blurred out uh visions and when you look at it sometimes you feel that you're on this you know there are a lot of people out there who really need help can you please imagine if your son is like this if your son needs help they don't have food to eat what will you do and these are people that she's helping
00:42:10 so on sun on father's day they have a present for the for the fathers as well and all the kids have food and all the necessary items so this is example for sure to let you see this when we love christ we pray okay we pray and we work we don't do only one we pray and we work and god gives us this mind for a reason it's not for us to work for corporate and earn a lot of money this mind given by christ can be used for amazing things because it's all for christ if you consecrate your whole body from top to bottom
00:42:46 god will use it for his own glory so these are just some photos we have and finally i'm going to share with you a bit on our own side in fpc as well now if all of you know just a few weeks ago we had this covered 19 survivor guide it was a webinar that we ran for the public so what happened was uh dr peter and a few of us actually uh came together and came up with this because oh maybe there's something good to do so let's just create a webinar so we did that we had a seminar whereby we invited other
00:43:16 people to to come and i think you were involved correct i know you're involved why because number one the working team will involve to prepare all items you know getting all the slice everything ready the panelists were involved to provide their expert opinions to doctors and and the corporate survivors corey and vincent were all involved in this you know aside from that there was a church right invitation by you yes or no did you send a whatsapp out to your friends you were involved in it as well
00:43:40 and we pray and we do all that we can so it was actually just we thought oh maybe when we do it maybe there'll be 40 people joining 50 people joining right of course we just want to do something and this is like we just thought something we tried out and see but what happened was on at 2 pm when we opened up the zoom for aaron to join sunny realized that the entire zoom waiting room was full we're expecting maybe 30 or 40 people when we open up the zoo meeting room there were 500 people inside it was totally full until that nobody
00:44:12 could join even the panelists couldn't come in we didn't realize that so many people wanted to actually join this the response was amazing now i assure you that when you work when you serve god does amazing things as well now i can't tell you why john go and fred did this but in the morning normally they do they not they won't do this at all but in the morning they actually went and do something special you know what they did they actually tried to stream the entire zoom service to youtube so i asked him earlier i asked him why
00:44:44 do you do that john i said that because i want to prepare so that one day we can actually stream these videos and uh sermons and things that we have to the public this is what john said and so in the morning without any prompting he tried out how to put this entire thing on youtube right so this is what he did now but because the zoom was totally full right what happened was because john prepared we could just click a button and youtube was also available for everyone as well so this is something that's amazing we did and i
00:45:17 am i firmly believe that john god was prompted by the holy spirit to do something about it and at the end of the day there was an overwhelming response and there's alpha registration that people actually came to know about alpha and didn't have register for alpha so friends when you serve god when you do something about it there are many many times when god will take action and god will intervene as well so friends as we come to a close for a sermon i have a question for you are you willing to say that
00:45:48 you're willing to give your life to christ and let him do whatever he wants with it are you willing to pray pray unceasingly us seek not and ask god to intervene in your life whatever circumstances you're going through whatever challenges whatever pain you're going through i may not know it the church may not know it if there's any domestic violence if there are things happening that you cannot tell people about it god will take action i really need to pray ask god for help i willing to sin to know that no wonder
00:46:22 whatever it is you can hold strong to this that god loves us and so whatever happens we have this faith to know that it is well with my soul that on the long run one day we know why all this happened and finally because we can pray and god will act and because god loves us we are able to obey and follow the golden rule to love our neighbors as ourselves are you willing to do this because when you look at our lives our lives are just like this toilet paper or this book over here our lives are just like the cover of the
00:46:55 book the entire 80 years 90 years that we have 100 years that we have is just the cover of the book there is still going to be many many pages more in the future in our afterlife when we meet jesus face to face that is what we hold on to and similar to this toilet paper role as well if you look at this toilet paper roll our life is just like the first piece of it and there's still a lot more to come in 2nd corinthians 4 17 18 it says that for this light momentary affliction is preparing us for an eternal weight of glory beyond
00:47:31 all comparison beyond everything we can imagine as we look not to the things that are seen but the things that are unseen for the things that are seen are transient but the things that are unseen are eternal as we come to time of closing i want to ask all of you to respond as you hear god speaking to you you feel that in life you're going through a lot of challenges maybe in your work in your business you don't know how to pay the bills maybe your pay cut is causing an issue for you or you even worry about food for
00:48:10 the family or maybe your kids education is not affected you don't have money for it or you have someone that actually got sick because of kovit or you're just having a very bad time and you don't know what to do next or you don't have a future you don't know what to do next in the future i ask you to respond by sending pray to fpc zoom together with your phone number so you can send pray with a phone number and our leaders will speak to you and to pray together with you because friends we don't want you to
00:48:39 be alone you're not alone in an ice box in the ocean god is here and god is telling you take action connect with the body of christ many times god speaks through his people god speaks through the church i myself have benefited a lot through the brothers and sisters i have in the entire network of christians around climate i know so friends you can as well do that do not suffer alone take action and connect back with the body of christ and let people help you the second group of people that i want
00:49:17 to invite you to respond are people who say that lord i don't have much maybe i feel that i'm a senior i find that the world is going so fast a lot of times i don't know what i can do i'm gonna serve but how much do i have what do i know or maybe you are family your parent and you're having challenges but you hear god asking you from time to time nudging you and asking you telling you the church needs help and you want to say that lord here i am send me i want to obey you i know i'm busy the lord i know that you're the master of
00:50:00 time i'll give my life to you and i will serve you if that's you and ask you to respond by sending pray as well and asking god to help you to take action and also serve him in all the different ways that he can all the different ways that he can allow you to be in church be in your work or whatever it is god has a plan for you and asks you to put in your effort and don't just sit there because we don't want you to be as isolated take action for the rest of us if this is the first time you hear about
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