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00:00:01 [Applause] [Music] today's scripture reading is taken from matthew chapter 13 verses 44 through 58 the kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field when a man found it he hid it again and then in his joy went and sold all he had and bought that field again the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant looking for fine pearls when he found one of great value he went away and sold everything he had and bought it once again the kingdom of heaven is like a net that was let down into the lake and caught all kinds of
00:00:51 fish when it was full the fishermen pulled it up on the shore then they sat down and collected the good fish and baskets but threw the bat away this is how it will be at the end of the age the angels will come and separate the wicked from the righteous and throw them into the blazing furnace where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth have you understood all these things jesus asked yes they replied he said to them therefore every teacher of the law who has become a disciple in the kingdom of heaven is like the owner
00:01:27 of a house who brings out his storeroom new treasures as well as old when jesus had finished these parables he moved on from there coming to his hometown he began teaching the people in their synagogue and they were amazed where did this man get this wisdom and these miraculous powers they asked isn't this the carpenter's son isn't his mother's name mary and aren't his brothers james joseph simon and judas aren't all his sisters with us where then did this man get all these things and they took offense at him
00:02:04 but jesus said to them a prophet is not without honor except in his own town and in his own home and he did not do many miracles there because of their lack of faith this is the word of god good morning of the kingdom and the passage is focused on matthew 13 verses 44 to 52 and the last bit of it will uh actually the last bit of the chapter 13 will be actually brought to the next sermon by dr beta so we'll be focusing on 44 to 52 now uh so before we begin let's just quickly uh pray together while we thank you for today lord thank
00:03:00 you for bringing us here to hear your word and lord day in day out you need a lot you'll never fail to to just love us and to be with us and lord we know that a lot today you have ordained us to be here lord lord pray that you open our hearts open our ears to speak to also to hear from your lord i pray that you help us to understand your word and lord may you speak and not man speak lord pray be with us and lord your word go forth and will not return void thank you lord be with us today in jesus name we pray amen
00:03:33 okay so the first parable we'll be looking at is actually the parables of the hidden treasure and the pearl so let's take a look at it together it's a matthew 13 versus 44 starting from there the kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field when a man found it he hit again and then in his joy went and saw all he had and bought that field again the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant looking for fine pearls when he found one of great value he went away and sold everything he had and bought it
00:04:06 now this parable that you see is actually very straightforward first thing is the man actually was actually in the field as he was actually maybe doing his work you know and digging and all that suddenly found treasure now he doesn't own the field but he really wants a treasure because to him the treasure is very very precious so what does he do he goes in his joy he's very happy he sold everything he had and he bought that field very simple right so it was a very the king of heaven is a very precious treasure and because of that
00:04:36 person so everything he had to actually get that treasure now the same goes for the pearl so when the merchant found the pearl he was searching for the pearl and once he found a pearl he actually saw a great value in it and he sold everything he had and he bought it now this is a very simple um simple variable that we can understand and the point of the passage is actually this the kingdom of heaven is the only real treasure the kingdom of heaven is the only real treasure now if i were to ask you
00:05:04 do you agree with that okay brothers and sisters do you think this is true the kingdom of heaven is the only root this only real treasure i think all of us in our minds will say yes it's true the kingdom of heaven is really the only treasure but let me ask you is it really so important is the kingdom of heaven really so important to us now i'm gonna do a quiz here and i need you to participate okay so i'm gonna i look at all of you on zoom and our friends uh here in uh the hall maybe i need to help
00:05:32 you switch the switch windows a bit to see what people choose now what we're gonna be doing is actually i'm going to be doing this thing which is basically a quiz like a quiz already yeah right a quiz it's very simple i just don't know whether you say yes or no right i just want you to do to do whether yes or no only now what happens is i don't need anything don't worry uh i just they just need to raise their hands and say only okay you just need to raise your hands and then this is it so the quiz is this
00:05:58 now what if becoming a christian okay getting the kingdom of heaven knowing jesus involves course now what cost am i talking about here the first one is following jesus means you need to go bankrupt okay following jesus means you must go bankrupt how many say okay raise your hands anyone no body raise your hands at least for the first window oh god jen ah jen says okay all right now so next one following jesus means you must get cancer anyone okay if you say so raise your hands following jesus must get cancer don't use church
00:06:36 just raise the hands only wow wow okay right next next one following jesus means you must get killed anyone if you follow gesture you die on and raise your hands wow anna say yes uh karen says yes now for me let me be honest with you this sermon has been very very tough you know why once i see this uh i'm stuck already because actually when i thought about it i struggle if you ask me this i i don't need to raise my hands you know you know like a lot of us i don't even raise my hands in fact let me tone it
00:07:11 down a bit tony lombia following jesus has a higher reasoning right not necessarily get bankrupt but higher risk than normal humans higher risk than other people so yes or no will you follow jesus if this is the case right now even this high risk of bankruptcy high risk of cancer high risk of getting killed even this it is a challenge for me as well and why is this a challenge for me because actually if you ask me i think i'm in love with the kingdom of this world more than the kingdom of heaven and this is a hard truth i'm more
00:07:42 in love in the kingdom of heaven than this were now why is this the case why is this the case it's because actually we have been actually educated from young or something different but being educated is actually from the moment we wake up or from the moment we're actually a child you've been educated that actually matter is all that matters right matter is all that matters so actually you can just put my slide there and don't touch it you'll be okay because i'll be a lot lost i keep on running slides now matter is all that
00:08:13 matters what i mean is that what you see what you feel is most important right don't talk about future don't know about anything else what is important is what i can see what can feel what i can drink that is what is important and there's only one kingdom in this world and a kingdom is the kingdom of this world there's only one kingdom only it's only here and now that's important to us and the kingdom of this world is all that matters that's what we're being taught do you think this is correct let's look at it this way if you were to
00:08:43 go on news you go on cnn you go and the star go everywhere what do you see you see everything about the kingdom of this world you see news about what's happening in the world so this uh the philippine president is actually the daughter is actually running for vice president now you see a lot of different things happening but it's all about the kingdom of this world and in this kingdom over here there are principles in this world the principles of this world you want to be successful in this world there are
00:09:07 principles that you must follow now what are the principles first one you want to be successful there are few ways actually no matter what you do i find it's always the same you want to be successful you're going to be really doing well number one you'll be famous so the young people now have gone to tick tock ig and doing all their stuff which i don't know what it is you know they're doing all their 10 second 20 second clip you know and you want to get famous why because when they get famous in weapons you can
00:09:33 get rich right and get famous can get rich and you can get rich you can get power either of this if you have fame you can get fortune or power if your fortune you can get power and fame these three comes together and this is these are the principles of this world and when you have all these three things what do you get what you get is you get pleasure you get protection you get security in life and these are the principles of this world for us to see over here now it is a very reasonable conclusion and
00:10:04 therefore if the only kingdom is the kingdom of this world it is very reasonable conclusion for us to say that we should do that we should chase after fame fortune power because if matter is all that matters if what we touch what we feel is all that is important to us then the case is actually you know actually why am i here talking to you you know there's no afterlife there's nothing at all you know we are just maybe born from the big bang and just evolution and we're just here if this is it then it's a very reasonable
00:10:34 conclusion to say that we should pursue fame fortune power and take care of family think about tribes think about people we like people we know not the whole voices do what we can but friends is this really true now what is really happening is we live in perceived reality we don't live in reality what i mean by that reality is basically what's really happening in the world but we only live in our perceived reality what we see to be true i'm going to give you examples for you to see number one actually the world is not able to
00:11:03 sustain us so this is actually called the earth overshoot day every year they actually do a count what it's saying is this currently it takes 1.7 earths to support humanity's demand on nature so the amount of resources we want the amount of oil and gas everything that we want actually is not enough we are actually lacking by a lot we need 1.7 earths to fulfill the demand that we need over here so but do we see it we don't we're only doing what we need and because we are living in our own perceived reality only now this is
00:11:34 another one we actually are very busy rushing here rushing there and there was this thing that happened in china and there was this little girl who actually ran out onto the streets now it was her fault she ran out of streets and what happened was a van passed by when the van passed by the van actually ran over her now if i ran if a van ran over the little girl what do you expect the driver to do what do i expect the driver to do i didn't answer you tell me is she'll get out and see what happened right but
00:12:04 because nobody was looking nobody was actually finding out what's happening to to the little girl right nobody was there what they decided to do was the van driver decided to just drive and pass over there how do you actually go over the little girl if it goes underneath the van the answer is you run over her a second time let me repeat one more time when you see this picture i have on the screen the little girl actually ran out on the street and then the van ran over the little girl because nobody was looking
00:12:40 and he didn't want to get caught he decided to run over the little girl again one more time and then the person escaped so the little girl passed away in fact the people passing by but nobody did anything a few passes by who saw a little girl on the floor like this and they didn't do anything this is the world we are living in we're all busy rushing here and there doing our different things we're busy with our fame fortune power really busy with taking care of family a stranger on the street no i don't think it's really ours
00:13:08 something we need to look at in fact you can see all these things always happen this is another time in china the lady actually was trying to cross the street near to the zebra crossing anyway she actually got knocked down by somebody but nobody anything everybody passed by but nobody anything so what happened a second car came and ran over again and she died friends this is the real world that we're living in a lot of times we don't see we don't know and we don't know that all these things happening
00:13:34 friends these are not the only things and it's not just in china it's everywhere this is in u.s so this guy called jonah delgado is actually sentenced to two years of house arrest why because he actually abused uh a man in olfo's home so this man was actually in a nursing home and he punched him and he slapped him because maybe the man was old and he couldn't really walk and actually he was very impatient with him and can you notice actually there's a cross in that nursing home there's a cross there and in front of course the
00:14:05 person can just do that as well right so this is reality but do we see we don't see all these things that's happening over there correct now in fact if you have parents in the nursing home let me share with you that apparently more than 10 of elders were subject to some kind of abuse or neglect over a 10-year period in new york state that's what's happening in the world currently why isn't it very sad you know what happened is fame fortune power we rush to buy things we rush to do so much work but when we grow old what happens to all
00:14:38 of us you get sent to nursing home and you get abused and you die in fact i have a friend who i just got to know recently um the grandparent passed away why because in nursing home that maybe too many people to feed and they actually fed this uh the grandparent was which was actually big reading so when you feed too fast the grandparents choked and died and these are things that's really happening everywhere friends and even malaysia that people are missing uh you know raymond core joshua humey
00:15:11 all these people they're all missing but do we talk about it do we talk about it in dinner do we do anything about it answers we don't we don't do anything at all and we just let it be right because why because we're living in the kingdom of this world and in this world is about fame fortune power you have all this and you can get pleasure these are our focus these are things that we look for now this is the final that i would like to share with you the world is actually in a very bad condition and this is a pretty surprised
00:15:43 photo that came out in about 1995 where there's a voucher and in front of the voucher you see there's actually african girl it's actually the african sudanese girl there's actually crouching over there because she's too tired she's trying to crawl and the voucher is waiting for the girl to die and wanting to eat the girl now when you see this photo what do you do what comes up well comes to your mind there's hunger everywhere the word of living in is not that good it's not that if you work hard then
00:16:17 everything will be fine in fact in the principles of this world it requires sacrifice the sacrifice are people who are weak the weak people will always be sacrificed in this world now when this photograph went to the new york times a weapon was when people saw it they all get a lot of mixed reactions people are viewers they say that what did the photographer do when they actually saw this little girl there and the answer is the photographer said i took the photo and i waited 20 minutes why because i
00:16:45 wanted to see whether vulture would actually raise its wings that was the answer because i'm taking a photo but because it didn't raise his wings after 20 minutes i chased away the vulture and then the little girl continued crawling to to where to united nations hoping to get food to it francis is the world that we're living in do you really think the kingdom of this world is really good and this is a person and because of so much backlash he actually had depression and he actually committed suicide
00:17:14 friends a lot of times when you see this person saying so bad this person now you know things are bad things happening in this world and yet you don't do anything you take photos and just stand there but are we not passes by like him at times when was the last time you have somebody in your life but someone when was the last time you saw somebody or maybe it was accident on the road and you actually helped them you know in fact we are all connected we all have these problems over there so the kingdom of this world as you see
00:17:37 over here is not sustainable the writing is on the wall what writing am i talking about just like in daniel 5 verses 25 to 28 the writing is on the wall and here it says many many take you pass in here is what these words mean and daniel actually translated for king belshazzar many god has numbered the days of your reign and brought it to an end takeo you have been weighed on the scales and found one thing perez your kingdom is divided and given to the mids and the persians god has made our world god has actually counted our days
00:18:17 and is bringing to an end the kingdom of this world is going to an end we've been weighed in the skills of eternity and we be found one thing we have failed to live up to the standards we are sinners friends the writing is on the wall and what shall we do the end is near for all of us the only solution we have is the kingdom of heaven we are sinners and friends as i told you just not from the start i can't raise my hands when you tell me if let's say i need to believe in jesus i need to go bankrupt and die i can't reach my hands
00:18:50 for that we are on a journey i'm on a journey to actually accept this but friends that's the case over here the kingdom of heaven has come jesus has come the kingdom has heaven has come and is for us for us to choose now what do we want do we want to continue staying in the kingdom of this world where we can be nice and fine and danny for a while or the king thinking of heaven which actually be last for a long time christ is our only hope now so the second point that we have today is the kingdom of heaven involves
00:19:18 judgment the kingdom of heaven involves judgment so let's look at this parable together the peril of the dragnet 13 verses 47 once again the kingdom heaven is like a net that was let down into the lake and caught all kinds of fish when it was full the fishermen pulled it up on the shore then they sat down and collected the good fish in baskets but threw the bed away this is how it will be at the end of the age the angels will come and separate the wicked from the righteous and throw them into the blazing furnace
00:19:49 where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth if you look at this story over here it's quite straightforward as well the kingdom of heaven is like a drag net so what is a dragnet a dragon is actually something like this right it's a very very big net it's actually about two kilometers wide so it's extremely big what happens is the fishermen will actually tie one end of the dragnet to the shawl the end of the drainer will be tied to a boat and the fisherman will actually sit on boat and so what you see is actually
00:20:18 a vertical wall why because the top of the net is actually floating there's sponges on it and at the bottom they have weights so it's a vertical wall which is very strong and the fish cannot pass through but surely what happens is the fisherman will slowly move in a circular direction and all the fish in the area will be captured and brought to shore just like that we are the fish in the sea judgment will come judgment is coming for all of us over here as a fisherman slowly move seemingly god is very patient he gives
00:20:55 us time to think to repent to decide what we might do but the net will move you'll continue move in a sea of time and slowly eventually it moves to the shore of eternity and all of us will be gathered for judgment all of us will be gathered for judgment and from there there'll be separation between the good and the bad so that will be judgment so just like matthew 25 verse 31 here it says when the son of man comes in his glory and all the angels with him he will sit on his glorious throne all the nations will
00:21:26 be gathered before him and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the ghost we put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left in fact this entire passage from the first parable to the second one here is also about judgment there will be judgment judgment is coming and we need to choose we have to choose jesus actually talks a lot about judgment he talks a lot about hell as well but sometimes in church we don't talk about it why because it's not nice it's
00:21:58 not nice to actually talk about hell and everybody is looking at you nobody's smiling you it's not nice to talk about hell because hell is something that's scary and you know it's like what's wrong this backward churches talking may help you talk about prosperity how can you help my business do better how can you help my life to do better i come here for something you know i come here for success i come in for fame i come into network i come in for different different things or just coming for friendship let's not talk about judgment
00:22:24 but friends if i do this it's actually a message of damnation we don't share the reality to people it doesn't work and we need to be truthful the scripture and share with you that there will be judgment one day for all of us and in matthew 13 verse 50 here it says that the people thrown into the blazing furnace after the separation the bad fish will be thrown in the blazing furnace where they'll be weeping and gnashing of teeth that is what is waiting for all those who do not put their faith in jesus why because god is
00:22:56 a just god god cannot tolerate this in fact can you tolerate this i don't think you can i can't i can't imagine a person would bang over run over a little girl a little boy and because nobody's looking run over again so they can run away god cannot tolerate this and therefore judgment is coming for us i really decide what we're going to do but as i said just now when we look at all this this parabola here let's not start pointing finger fingers and think oh the person in the live group you know the person i know or the
00:23:25 neighbor of mine that person is going to go to hell he's very bad he's done all this before this parable is firstly for us for us to examine ourselves are we good fish or bad fish are we good fish or bad fish when the day of separation comes where will we go because this parable is focused on judgment there will be judgment for all of us over here everybody gospel be preached to all in fact what it says is that many people will come to know christ but not everyone will follow him in fact in the church there will be
00:23:54 people who actually come to church in fact they may be serving maybe even me you know people actually serve and do all these things but actually their heart does not belong to christ at all that's a very scary thought but judgment is coming why do i go to church that's what that's what we're asking over here now i want to share with you this story of mine before we get before we get on the mayoral high horse let me share a bit of my own story this is my old watch i don't know many some of you may be old
00:24:20 enough to see such was very popular when i was actually in secondary school and when i was actually 15 years old i decided i wanted to buy this watch why because all my friends had it so they have their own different designs and i wanted to buy this one it's very nice actually look at it the one two three actually they're all alphabets this watch is called a crazy alphabet so i really like this watch that i have over here but what is happening is that my mother didn't want to buy it for me and i decided to say that
00:24:48 the sites are off yeah but nevermind i can call you talking my mother decided to say that this um this watch is too expensive it's 213 ringgit i still can't remember now 213 ringgit she didn't want to pay for it so what did i do i had to actually pay out of my own pocket and after that i purchased the watch so i actually use this watch from 15 years old until about 28 years old i use this watch from from actually 15 all the way to about 20 years old at first the reason why i kept on using this watch was very simple
00:25:30 i don't have money to do that so this is what happened but the next thing happened was when i started using for maybe five years seven years i started working i had the money to change it you know but i decided not to change it you know why watch means something different for me already the watch actually meant that i am someone good you see i'm so good you see i wore i'd wear this watch eight years already 10 years already 15 years i still don't change i'm a good christian you know i'm a person that
00:25:56 actually is very careful with money i'm a good person that was what it became my pride that actually this watch showed me that actually wow i'm a good person you know and sometimes brothers and sisters when you come to church when you serve when you do things in church is it because sometimes for us to feel good look you know people when they do offering you know they give 10 ringgit you don't only give 10 000 i'll give 100 000. you don't only inside their pride and we think that we can buy salvation we can buy righteousness
00:26:24 answers we can't friends whether you actually no matter what you do we fall short we are all sinners and i myself am a sinner as well next okay and then click it isn't working right so let's just give them a bit of time right so think about it for yourself what about you when you come to church why do you come to church do you come to church for friends or what's the reason what's the reason what god wants us to do is to be like the tax collector and not the pharisee the pharisee would say that
00:26:57 lord thank you that i'm not a drunkard i'm not an alcoholic i'm not a bad person i'm not a robber i'm not thief i'm not like this tax collector over there i'm a good person but what god really wants us to be is like the tax collector to actually not even dare to speak and just look down and say that lord forgive me because i'm a sinner that's what god wants us to do to just repent and come to him because he will accept us but no amount of righteousness we have actually can bring us to god judgment is coming friends judgment is
00:27:28 coming it is for us to really look and say what do we do the net is moving in the sea of time and one day before you know it eternity will come in during this coffee time many people pass away many people actually that i know actually are gone and so you never know when you come take action decide what you want to do because the kingdom of this world is fading away the end is near the kingdom of heaven is come it's come already it's already here we need to decide we need to choose size you cannot be in both you
00:28:06 can only have one it can only be in one the last message we have today is the king of heaven compels action let's take a look at it together the kingdom of heaven compels action matthew 13 51 have you understood all these things jesus asked yes they replied he said to them therefore every leader every teacher of the law who has become a disciple in the kingdom of heaven is like the owner of a house who brings out of his storeroom new treasures as well as all knowing jesus compels action in fact if
00:28:42 i just come back here just thought of this to share with you the answer is the king of heaven compels us to have action what is action the action is that we need to do something we need to do something now the passage that you see over here in this uh in this um parable of the scribes basically means this this is asking have you understood what i'm saying all these parables the sermon on the mount all these things do you understand it and they say yes they answered they understand now when you understand
00:29:11 what jesus is saying you have to act jesus wants you to act you are required to act so in the old days for them the jews only had the old testament but now because the disciples actually knew about jesus they understood how both things come together and so they are required to bring like the i describe to bring things out from the storehouse both treasures new and oh how the old testament and the new testament fits together and preach the good news to everyone to let them know that the law cannot save you
00:29:45 the law is just like an mri machine to show to you that you have cancer and you're gonna die that's all the law can do but the salvation comes from only one name jesus christ that is exactly what the disciples are supposed to do to mingle both together how everything fits how jesus was foretold thousands of years ago and he has come that is the job of the disciples and so even no more go through arnold's are summoned just about two weeks ago on uh for example about the tabernacle how different parts of tabernacle actually
00:30:19 foreshadow jesus as well so you can go through that but how about for us over here when we actually see this this story here about this uh parable of describe what are we supposed to do are we supposed to say that oh let's go and hide in a monastery total far far away and just stay there in fact last time and watch chinese movies that that's always in my mind you know because in the chinese movie you know all these things have you heard about this before all these stories are always on the the hero
00:30:47 and hero in above we live far far away in a beautiful land nobody said them yi sai mo sang what means no fight with the word you stay in your own little place and that's it is that what god asked us to do answer is no what god is asking us to do is we are not of this world but we are sent into this world we belong to the kingdom of heaven and we are sent into the kingdom of this world that is what we are called to do friends we are required to do that so you look at it this way it means that knowing
00:31:22 jesus should transform our hands our hearts and our minds knowing jesus doesn't mean they come to church and you see how much you can score how much can you score how much do you know in this sermon how good is are your notes written down well very good eye you know the notes are in fact can check background and know all these different backgrounds or john said this one wrong you know all is right but the fact is this knowing jesus requires us to change the heart needs to transform when your heart transforms your hands will change
00:31:49 your mind will change and we require to share our treasures both new and old to the people out there so how can we relate to this let me use the same example that i started with just now that's how i said that you know if you know jesus we go bankrupt so good job for all of you who actually raised your hands for the rest like me who didn't raise that at my hand what it means is this if we really know jesus if we say that we choose the kingdom of heaven we know judgment is coming how can we let others
00:32:19 go to hell and burn for eternity how can we do that it means that even if i need to go bankrupt i will follow jesus even if i'll get cancer i will follow jesus even if i will be killed i will follow jesus that is what we need to do it's easier said than done friends and therefore i have a great respect for all the pastors because they actually decided to pursue the kingdom of heaven they took the vocation just to serve so i have utmost respect to all the pastors out there and also all the leaders and all the people
00:32:57 serving here there's so many of you actually here serving together as well you decided that the kingdom of the world is second priority compared to the kingdom of heaven friends let me share with you how i can put this into perspective so when you say you go bankrupt let me show this example um i shared last year of burwell versus hobby lobby this is actually a lawsuit that happened in the u.s hobby lobby is a is a christian-owned company there's a many many employees it's actually doing quite well in the year 2011 they had
00:33:28 three billion dollars of revenue but during obamacare the new policy was all employees with 50 all companies with more than 50 employees are required to provide all these pills to actually prevent pregnancy both control pills but how are these birth control pills there are few of these birth contributes whereby they actually cause embryos okay the fertilized eggs okay when the egg is fertilized in our understanding it is a human really it's very tiny but it's a human already and they're saying that
00:34:02 because it's human i as a company cannot give this to my employees because i'll be killing people and because they believe that life starts at conception that is the key thing but the government said is if you're not gonna pay if you're not gonna give these pills to employees you'll be fined 1.3 million a day for one whole year with 500 million dollars you'll be wiped out but hobby lobby decided to go ahead they sued the us government and they said that basically whether i win or not i'd rather go bankrupt than to commit
00:34:35 something like that this is the christian faith we have are you willing to give up what you have for christ to be the light of the world to let people say that you are different the people who said that they are stupid people say that they're actually wrong that they shouldn't do that you know we have choice it's my body it's my choice right but how about the baby these are things but friends we need to make a stand one day god will cause to make a stand for different things the second one about getting cancer if you follow
00:35:02 jesus you get cancer the next one is look at father damian this was shared by pastor david um when she was here last time about three years ago father damian is actually a priest and what happened is he actually went to the kingdom of hawaii this many many years ago in hawaii and he became a servant to the lepers over there so lepers were all out at one place and they couldn't get healed there was no medication for it at that time but pastor this father damon decided to go there and serve these
00:35:29 people he actually served them eat with them you know actually dress their wounds and help them until the day that he also got leprosy and he died would you say you do something like that this is something that i can't do i'm not there but would we be able to say that instead of instead of eating a chocolate dial instead of you know sleeping more we spend a bit more time to do our quiet time we go to live group we surf we do something we talk to the neighbor next door that every time i see him say hi hi
00:36:00 but he said that shall i make the effort to pick a kick for him say hello to him go and meet him and build a relationship and then only after that you slowly and slowly let them know about jesus christ will we do that next one are you willing to be killed by cute because of jesus that was the question and if you look at the disciples of jesus all of them made the choice following jesus is not rosy it's not meant to be hallelujah every day it's not meant to be all nice in fact jesus said that those who are not
00:36:34 willing to pick up the cross and follow jesus is not worthy to be his disciple because if you love your life you lose it but if you give up your life for jesus you find it if you look at all the disciples of jesus all of them died a horrible death all of them died in a bad way so go online check and see i know the fonts are small but all of them died in a very bad way now because this is something that actually for me it was a very big toy so i'm going to move my slides to find that for you just hold on so i can read for
00:37:06 you because that one is quite small all right i'm there it is this one okay i can see it now matthieu impaled by spears in ethiopia james thrown off the wall and then he didn't die and stabbed to death jude crucified by a magi in persia john died in exile in patmos matthias stone and beheaded philip hung by iron hoax upside down peter crucified upside down by nero why because he felt that he wasn't very enough for it thomas stabbed with a spear in india james beheaded in palestine simon crucified in persia andrew
00:37:53 crucified on an x-shaped cross bartolomeu fled to death by whip in asia minor following jesus involves picking a cross it's not that you definitely die but you need to say that the kingdom of heaven jesus christ is so precious that one day if what happens in the media is what happens in iraq in afghanistan comes to malaysia are we ready to take a stand we pray that this doesn't happen i really don't want this to happen but when that day comes if that day comes we need to take a stand because this is what christianity is about
00:38:29 in first corinthians 15 58 it says 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 whatever that happened to these disciples what happened to father damien weapon to hobby lobby and in the end they won but even if let's say all these different things happen the mission is to know how many missionaries die in the boats without reaching their destination whatever you do
00:38:57 for the lord if you never go in vain it will never be wasted because god is a very good accountant and it keeps account of everything happen and one day when you reach heaven you will actually hear this word welcome you good and faithful servant friends the kingdom of this world is ending the writing is on this wall there's no escape we cannot save ourselves no matter how smart you are even if elon musk he can't even think of his own family he said that the reason why i need to divorce my newest wife crimes is
00:39:36 because i can't take it my work requires me to have full dedication so no matter whether no matter how smart you are you cannot manage this spur is going to burn to the ground and the kingdom of heaven has already come it's not coming it has already come and it's for us to take sides now what are we going to do where are we gonna go because one day jesus christ will return and judgment will come and we will actually have a merry time in heaven with him but till then now is work now it's time to put in our effort and
00:40:11 to put our hands to plow and do all we can for jesus i'd like to end by sharing this story with you there was this christian there's this christian who actually finished makkah in a restaurant and after finish having the dinner weapon was he was driving his wife and his two children in his car going home and was raining very heavily it's raining heavily nobody could really see the road he was so bad he just drove but to go home he needed to pass by a bridge and at that bridge there's actually a
00:40:53 sign the sign says do not pick up hitchhikers do not pick up hitchhikers why because at this bridge there nearby there's actually a asylum there's a mental asylum there are some people are criminally insane they're crazy people and they may kill you so the christian actually knew this and he drove but as i was driving suddenly there was a madman in front of him not wearing any shirts holding a jacket and waving like that the wife told the christian oh please don't stop try to avoid him but christian is not very good at
00:41:27 driving so happen is he actually drove and drove and he could not avoid the guy unless he wanted to kill him so he actually had to stop the car and when the car was stopped the crazy man was just keep on banging on the car keep on banging her car and the christian told the wife stay in the car and actually get out you lock the door so the christian went out and immediately went out he was all wet already he was reading very heavily but when he went out he could hear what the crazy man was shouting
00:42:02 the crazy man was shouting [Music] the bridge is out the bridge is out a bus load of kids just went down the bridge and all of them died the bridge is out do not continue after hearing this the christian felt so relieved that he stopped because he looked at his wife his children and he knew if not for this crazy man they would have all died so he spent the next half an hour standing in the ring with this crazy man taking on his shirt and waving telling run the bridge is out the bridge is out and friends
00:42:51 for those who do not know jesus christ the bridge is out they're going to a christless eternity for those who are of the kingdom of this world who have not gotten the time to know about jesus who because we like to go for holiday in different different places and don't spend the time to really talk to our neighbors or just next door to tell them about jesus christ the bridge is out where are the men and women who are willing to take a stand in a gap to bring people to jesus christ so that they will not end
00:43:30 in hell judgment is real today's passage is very simple for us to understand there's only one real treasure only one retraction is worth not your money not power not fortune it's only jesus christ and this treasure found that you were available and decided to die on the cross for you even with this entire world the 78 billion people were all gone and you were the only one left he will still die for you and that is our lord jesus will you give your life to him and say to him i'm willing to give up all i have for
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