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00:00:07 good morning church today's passage is taken from James 4: 11-17 brothers and sisters do not Slender one another anyone who speaks against a brother or sister or judges them speaks against the law and judges it when you judge the law you are not keeping it but sitting in judgment on it there is only one lawgiver and judge the one who is able to save and Destroy but you who are you to judge your neighbor now listen you who say today or tomorrow we will go to this C or that City spend a year there carry on
00:00:54 business and make money why you do not even know what will happen tomorrow what is your life you are a Mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes instead you ought to say if it is the Lord's will we will live and do this or that as it is you boast in your arrogant schemes all such boasting is evil if anyone then knows the good they ought to do and doesn't do it it is sin for them this is the word of God good morning brothers and sisters uh nice to see of you today and uh I think many of you went for election
00:01:49 voting yesterday so for those of you who did your voting uh in slango and for the states that actually had election I want to say good job okay thank you for exercising your rights and also your responsibility as a citizen of Malaysia now uh as we before we start sermon for today uh this is uh the upcoming um passages that we'll be looking at for next three weeks love and practical Graces by our brother William Nel the next week Arna will be covering redeeming time from Ephesians that he actually continued from the previous one
00:02:21 and Dr Peter will be covering speech and spirituality on James 5 James 3 after this as well now today what we talking about is the culture of God's community so if you meet a person who is a Christian how are they different how do they live how do they speak how do they plan how do they actually work that's what we talking about today and before we start let's just have a committed time to the Lord in prayer father we thank you for bringing us here today to hear your word father I pray that you teach us let us have a
00:02:55 humble spirit and Lord pray you Empower me to speak your word exactly as you want help us to receive this and also help our lives to change help us to have the vi to change when we learn about your word in Jesus name we pray amen right now does the gospel matter in your daily life how does it impact your life that's the question that you want to explore today because if you really become a Christian and you know Jesus your life should change there should be something about you that is different and the Book of James is
00:03:34 basically covering this when you actually get to know the Lord how does your life change how does your behavior change and there must be something that happens over there so today there are three points to talk about first one speak humbly the second one is plan humbly and the third one is leave humbly let's look it together first one speak humbly verse 11 brothers and sisters do not slander one another anyone who speaks against a brother sister or judges them speaks against the law and judges it when judge the law you are not
00:04:05 keeping it but sitting in judgment on it there's only one lawgiver and judge the one who is able to save and Destroy but you who are you to judge your neighbor the first thing that we look at is do not slander what do we mean by slander lot of times when you see the word slander we think that it's like defamation it's like defaming people and this is the most recent hot case I think um some of you may have actually watched it online as well as well Johnny Depp and Amber her they were suing each other
00:04:34 um Johnny Depp said that Amber Her defame him and caus him to lose jobs and cannot get Pirates of Caribbean uh sequels and after that um so there is a whole tussle over there and so there defamation whereby defamation means that you say something that's not true about me you say something that's not true about me and therefore you are wrong that's defamation but slander is totally different slander goes Way Beyond defamation slander actually is about this the word slander comes from this uh root
00:05:02 word which is catalo it means to speak badly about someone now the thing that you speak can actually be true okay what you're saying is exactly true and yet you're not supposed to say it sometimes when you slend the person again what you're saying may be totally true but you're just highlighting needless fault meaning a need picking the person walks a certain way speaks a certain way and you need pick on such such things and a lot of times when we people we always choose a moral High Ground we choose a place where when
00:05:33 we're standing we say that we don't do that only they do it and therefore we do it and therefore we speak like that I'm going to give you an example if you're in office I think these are things happened before supposedly uh you have a new colleague that just joined a company and after 6 months this person got promoted and you've been working there for 5 years and you've been ey this position and you wondering why I don't get promoted then after you see you see this person always late you know always
00:05:58 comes late to work second one he's not this person this lady is not friendly at all the last time I asked her to go for Mak she said don't want and I realize she cannot eat mixed rice on you know okay cannot one must go to Starbucks on every time this person very at and we shouldn't mix with them and some I wonder why she always actually get promoted you know she always have dinner with the boss don't know what happened over there and somehow you see her hair so curly one you know these are things you do when a
00:06:32 person is a person that you don't like you find fault with them you nitpick with them you find things and to talk about and make the person uh feel small and you just and what you're doing is actually you just don't like the person and you're trying to speak e about them so the thing is do not speak badly about someone this is what the Lord is saying do not speak badly about someone now what's the purpose when you actually slander someone why do you do so the reason you do so is actually a few number one you're looking to make them
00:07:00 lose respect you don't want others to respect them you're trying to drain them on the social capital which means that you don't want them to have friends you want to bring other people to your s and say that it's actually us against them you choose one okay so over here you know this person Starbucks one we mix rise one you come over here okay we talk like that or the other one with indirectly directly when we want to elevate yourself sometime you don't intentionally want to do it but because you don't like the person when you say
00:07:25 it you feel better also why we like to slander people is because when we say we say this person h are you Christian but still smoking you know when we say such things we actually feel that see because I don't smoke man so I I feel better and this is not the right thing to do and what ultimately it does is this slandering has a main goal and the main goal is to destroy the relationship you're not looking to save or help the person you're not looking to build the person up you're looking to destroy the
00:07:52 person and this is slandering even from primary school kindergarten you start to see this happening so this uh story Mean Girls I think it's about college girls um and this is just so common it doesn't matter whether you're rich or poor everybody is involved in goip is is involved in talking about people in a bad way at times I me to watch what we say and James 411 here says what you mean by that what it means is this when you are criticizing a person let's say the person is really always late which
00:08:24 is wrong right correct okay the person is lit and is wrong but when you judging the person and you're saying it why do you say so right but more importantly when you're judging person the Bible says You must love your neighbor you must be kind to the person but when you start to judge a person and speak this way you are not being kind to the person which means that you are no longer keeping the law but you're judging saying that actually loving the neighbor there are conditions on if the person is
00:08:51 lovable we love them if the person is not nice we don't need to love them that's what we are doing we are actually sitting in Judgment of the law next one why we should shouldn't slender because there's only one lawgiver and judge the one who is able to save and Destroy but you who are you to judge your neighbor the key point is God created the person in his or In His Image so who are you to judge this person that is created in God's image are we capable to save people or destroy are we really the Creator are we
00:09:26 so powerful to know every single thing that is a question we have to ask over here so for example this boy over here when he was young his teachers didn't like him at all his teacher said that this person will not amount to anything and the teacher said that your mere presence uh makes my class terrible you will not amount to anything so maybe the child was very naughty uh he doesn't listen and they children like that if your teachers you understand right they children who cannot actually conform to
00:10:00 the education system that we have when they learn they need to walk walk walk around run around they learn by doing things instead of sitting down and some of you maybe when you're young you're dead as well and you K before already okay people don't like you because you behave a certain way you're just different perhaps when an introvert meets an extrovert people say why so quiet one when extrovert meets introvert is so talkative everything also there something to to complain about right but when we slander a person we are judging
00:10:28 them and the key thing is we don't understand their capability we don't understand why God created them but we are actually immediately putting a note saying that this person is definitely like this he's not good anyone knows who this child is anyone this is Einstein's teachers are saying you never amount to anything your mere presence spoils the respect of the class for me can you imagine if let's say Einstein did listen to his teacher and said that yeah I won't amount to anything it's true my dad says it's
00:11:04 about me my brother says it's about me my sister says this about me even my teacher says that I will not amount to anything I guess I'm really nobody if that's the case then you have lost something great for the word as well and so the key thing to understand is this who are you who am I to judge my neighbor and it's very hard to do do you judge people I do as well and it's not easy but it's something for us to really think through when we do it when we say something are we looking to build out the person or
00:11:38 tear him down and so another person over here this uh young man was abandoned by his father when they were young he came from a very poor family um he started restaurant but didn't really do well so so until the the partner passed away as well which is a brother right and because of that he had to always work hard work really long shifts if you see him at a time you're wondering this one you should become engineer why you open restaurant okay should become scientist or doctor Chinese want become doctor
00:12:14 right right Asians like to become doctor or lawyers why we open restaurant and we see people and we always judge them we slander them in our hearts or slander we talk to people at this one are not successful and I can't do much we look at people at this way so why shouldn't we slander there are four points over here I just want to summarize for you the first one is slander destroys instead of build when we slander a person we're not looking to build them up we have all the ability to know the truth and use it to build people up to
00:12:48 help people to lift people up that's what we are called to do but we never have ability to destroy person meaning that when we actually know the Bible we can use it to help people but we never know enough to really judge a person because we are not God we don't know enough of the entire situation a person is late maybe because they're poor and somehow they have issues every day they fetch people we don't know and the thing God is asking us to do is reserve judgment let judge let God judge and we just love people second one
00:13:20 standard assumes people cannot grow you assume that when you say that the person will never amount to anything you are assuming that they can never change already and they cannot grow a lot of times people talk like that they say you always like that one you never change okay you're always lazy when we use such words that are so definite we are saying that this person will never change but again who are you to judge who are you to say that this person can never change because if God wants him to change he
00:13:51 will change and the person and the thing is we need to have hope and to support the person instead of slandering them and it's very important to know that this person is made in the image of God just like you and me and because they made in the image of God Anything is Possible the third Point slander divides people and this one I I think is very important for us to know when we start off even this nation a lot of times we like to divide people it's either your like this or like that whether you're in party a or
00:14:27 party B whether you're for us or against us and we create clicks and say this is a click that like to uh maybe you like to do bird watching this is a click that likes to sing and you say that you know we are the people who sing they they don't sing when we we actually want to divide people but does God ask us to divide people even in church does God want us to divide or not all right God wants us to come together as a body of Christ so you cannot say that oh this hand I don't want to remove it because
00:14:57 it's all part of the body of Christ and as much as possible we try to work with people and see how to achieve the best we can together and final one is what I've been mentioning limited beings we are limited beings and we are incapable of judging because we don't know the full story we can't see the future so that's the first point speak humbly the second point we have is to plan humbly we need to plan humbly let's look at the by versus verse 13 now listen you who say today or tomorrow tomorrow we
00:15:34 will go to this or that City spend a year there carry on business and make money why you do not even know what will happen tomorrow what is your life you are miss that appears for a little while and then vanishes instead you ought to say if it's Lord's will we live and do this or that as it is your boast in your arrogance schemes all such boasting is evil now all of us plan every year you asked to plan to start the year right but many of us after that don't want to plan any year is it true I met many
00:16:09 people and ask what's your New Year resolution they say don't have really when you're young you always do there right we plan and so for example you may have such a plan your parents have such a plan for you first thing is when you're young they tell you to study hard after that they tell you must go University cannot go cannot go cannot come out and work directly must go University so after going to University said that okay now you study idea find boyfriend okay you must find boyfriend then you
00:16:36 start work and this sequence is very important you know if you start only find boyfriend now very difficult to find boyfriend so you must find boyfriend University correct or not all the parents are thinking you have sequence in mind thinking you must follow and do all these things after findri you start work then after that you must buy house become manager only then can get married correct I've heard of many K 3 whereby if you try to propose to your um girlfriend and meet your future mother-in-law the first question is so
00:17:08 where will you be staying H right so you have a plan in mind we plan things and after that you have this whole list of things that you want to do after get married it doesn't stop you must have kids no kids people keep asking you where are your kids why no kids when right and so we plan and because of that the society forces us to move a certain way then you upgrade a house after you must become and before you die must buy a Bangalore buy a luxury car okay after that have more kids bangal house can buy more kids
00:17:35 already Okay can have more kids sorry and after that you retire have grandkids then I'll come back and serve in church okay A lot of people do that so I was just talking to my wife and said you know lot people between their 30s and 50s they go missing one right when they're young they're here once they have kids oh go Miss sing with don't come to church they come back on 50 plus they come back by time they I'm a director already in this company I'm okay now I can serve ready I can serve in church so and after that
00:18:04 finally I mean serve in church and when you're already already stay healthy enjoy yourself otherwise if not if you're sick I go to heaven okay we think like this right this is how we plan our lives and God is saying that is this really the right thing to do is this really what we're supposed to do is James against planning or not okay is James against planning now it's very important for you to plan and Future even in Luke 14:28 it says over here suppose one of you wants to build a tower once you first sit down and
00:18:36 estimate the cost to see if you have enough money to complete it and this is by Jesus Jesus asks you that before you build something before something you must plan so what is James against what is James against over here James is against boasting to think that your plans will definitely work out to think that whatever you have in mind that you set out to do you can accomplish because this is what being told from Young in school it tell them that you can do anything you can okay you can do anything you dream of as long as you put
00:19:02 your mind to it but James is saying that is not true this is not how life works and for those of us who have been working been living life or what realize that never true you can plan all you want but things can happen and so what really happens is James 4:16 here says as it is you boast in your arrogant schemes all such boasting is EV word the keyword is not that you plan the thing that's wrong is you boast in your arrogance schemes the fact that you think that you can do all this and you definitely achieve this way that
00:19:31 boasting is evil now boasting is something we we do a lot but let me show you over here what what the versus says so first thing today or tomorrow what the person is reing that I will set my own schedule we'll go to this or that City so I choose the location which one I want to go to I spend a year there so I determine how long I do that I carry on business so the operations will will actually function exactly as I dictate and I will make money which means that the outcome is what I will want and the old days the machins do
00:20:04 that in the old days you don't have DHL you don't FedEx online so what they do is they actually move from City to City they buy things from this city they move to the other city and they sell their items there once they finish selling they buy new goods and they move the next one and they go from City to city but James is saying that when you live your life like this which is actually very normal this is what we do right you know Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday you know what
00:20:31 you're going to do if I ask you what you're going to do next Saturday you know the answer to it planning is fine but the fact that if we live our life without God and just with our own plans inside that is boasting to say that we don't need God our plans are good enough and that is evil so what do we boast in this important question to ask ourselves because when you find what you boast in you know what is your anchor you know where your confidence really lies in so what do you Bo in normally if you think
00:21:00 that something is going to happen to you the world is going to end what are things that you say that oh because I have this it would be okay one so some of us we say that oh um because I have money therefore I'll be okay or because I have a job I've really worked so long uh yesterday met a friend you know are very successful working in a very large MNC and so for him it's like it's okay an event if I resign no problem I can just go and enjoy myself and after 3 four years I come back the person the
00:21:27 company will hire me because I have so such a good relationship with them really so we actually believe that we have such strengths and it's true when you know it's true that these things are the case but the thing is do we put our hope and our faith in such items is this where our identity and our strength comes from some of us put our strength and our hope in our children in our husbands in our wives a lot of us will say that oh I I can't do much okay I maybe in my career I feel that I'm just
00:21:58 here but it's okay my children are very successful I send them to private school I give them good education and then so when you meet them the first thing you say oh my have you met my son my son stud studies in Cambridge or my daughter studies in Oxford and we we put our hope in certain things because we need hope everybody in life needs hope but the question is just where do you put your Hope on in what do you boast about do you boast about your children or do you boast about God do you boast about your
00:22:26 career or do you boast about the fact that Jesus knows you and you know Jesus and you belong to him some of us we boast on our Network and the older you go uh the more you realize oh this is getting very important and so you try to accumulate more and more people uh net friends so that you can call on them when you need help so we do such items and maybe some of us we boast on our beauty or we boast on our health because I'm so healthy okay one anything also can do you think that you can work 12
00:22:57 hours when you are in your 20s When You Reach 50s you still think you can work 12 hours a day okay we believe in certain things and what God is really saying is your plans and the things that you actually put your faith in can they really last or not should you really put them as your anchor and over here in Deuteronomy 610 it actually asks or it mentions quite a few things this is when the Israelites actually uh entered the promised land so Moses says when the Lord your God brings you into the land he saw to your fathers
00:23:32 to Abraham Isaac and Jacob to give you a land with large flourishing cities you did not build houses filled with all kinds of good things you did not provide Wells you did not dat and viners and Olive Groves you did not plan then when you eat and are satisfied be careful that you do not forget the Lord who brought you out of Egypt of the land of slavery the point is this when God comes to you he gives you many many things and these are things that you did not deserve you did not work on it and yet
00:24:03 you get it so what do we really boast about what what is it really our effort some of us believe that we have achieved a certain item in life we are successful we open maybe we we marry the right person maybe we have good children uh different things we believe in different things but the key thing is what can you really attribute to yourself your intelligence is it really by you you were born with it right is just like the color of your hair this is what CS say if you want to boast about intelligence
00:24:32 might as well boast about the color of your hair because it's the same thing you didn't you didn't contribute to your intelligence you see you want to boast about your network do you know this thing called chance if you're not at the right place at the right time meeting the right person all these things will not happen and who ordains all this who ordains to say you can meet this person and this person is in the right mode to meet you because God ordains all this and so as you plan as we live our lives
00:24:57 the important thing to know is this we are just a tiny Speck of dust in the entire universe and when we live our lives we need to know that and another the thing that we can actually dictate and control and plan everything everything work exactly as how we have how we want and the future is very uncertain I think all of us understand this in James 14 it says why you do not even know what will happen tomorrow can anyone tell me what will happen tomorrow holiday ah very good H tomorrow holiday right if I were to ask you
00:25:29 yesterday will you be able to tell me that who will win the election last night you can right people do their stats they do their analysis they say I spend so much money on Tik Tok on Facebook to advertise to actually influence people already so therefore people should vote for me but they can't tell for sure otherwise there most there's no such thing as upset in politics there's upset in football there's always upset quite not right if there's a if life is just uncertain and we we are Miss we have a Mist that for a
00:26:02 little while appears and then vanishes that's how it is right the way to look at it is if you really want to know your place in the entire universe we like Miss in the morning over here Malaysia don't have much M you g thing may you got M when you start speaking you see vapor you see M coming out how long does it last a minute 10 seconds don't think so even less than that right just a few seconds then you're gone ready and so it's important to know our place if you think that the future is uh very certain then do you
00:26:38 remember covid anyone knew Co will happen and when you're are in business for Co time you are really in a mess how do I plan for the future nobody knows how to plan because at first you're in lock down so what should I do when I lock down the norm tells you if you talk to any business coach or CEOs they tell you wow we need to preserve Capital we need to save our company so what should you do what should you do fire everyone cor now fire your staff because you preserve Capital especially in FMB what do you do you're supposed to
00:27:14 fire everybody to make sure that since you cannot open one you got no you got food but nobody can come and buy anyway you fire all them why you want to keep them so that it can last long right but after that you come to your p when I come to your pkp you come to this thing whereby people start to open up ready or I also forget all this name emcu know what all these different names right then people start to come out and then when this new Norm comes everybody wants to go to restaurant to eat it's like Revenge eating like that
00:27:45 then realize that because I fire everybody because people say plan I fire everybody now I got no stuff I got no stuff so what do I do now cor not so you can plan all you want but when you plan does it really work out and the truth is a lot of times if you really take a hard look at our lives you realize that many things are not within our control we can do so much but a lot of times the success that we say cannot be attributed to ourselves a lot of times it's chance he say so happened you meet this person at the right time okay
00:28:18 it's just like that I just thought something do you know how I met my wife I met her at a job interview okay and so I asked for a phone number and she gave me a pH phone number but I tried to call and then the number didn't work but so happened I don't know why that they asked her what's your last name and she told me oh her last name is tall so very unique right like toall you know the the lightning the lightning guy right so Sonia to like oh okay interesting so I couldn't call her you know so I did I went online at that time
00:28:50 no Facebook we used friend still so I searched Sonia oh I found her that's how I actually got to know but if I didn't ask for her name how many of you ask for people's last name you don't right but ask for last name because of that now we're happily married and living happily ever after you see a lot of things you don't know but God ordains God moves things around yeah so our confidence should be in God the fact that I can be with my wife is because of God not because I'm smart is he yeah so this is what
00:29:20 Jeremiah says over here this is what the Lord says let not the wise boast of their wisdom or the strong boast of their strength or the rich boast of their riches but let the one who boast boast about this that they have the understanding to know me that I'm the Lord who exercises kindness Justice and righteousness on Earth for in this I Delight declares the Lord so even a boast you boast that you have a good God you have this Jesus that really loves you and that chose you before the word began and says that I want you to be in
00:29:49 my family you don't to boast you boast about that that thing is for sure and you can be gladly boasting about it because that thing is certain and why does James talk about this whole boasting and planning what what's wrong the key thing that's wrong is this we need to know what is a Merchants motivating factor when you plan to go to this place and buy things and sell things and work there why do you do so the reason this person does it is because he's looking to make money and so if your life is all just
00:30:22 about making money having Pleasures maybe staying healthy even staying healthy if your whole life is just about staying healthy that is also wrong what are you really trying to do what is your life about in Matthew here it says a good man brings good things out of the good St up in him and evil man brings evil things out of the evil St up in him whether it be slandering whether it be how you talk or how you live is the same thing your call affects your action so this is what Simon experience for start with why it's
00:30:54 saying that a lot of times we try to control Behavior which is what we the product what you see outside but what really is important is what drives you what is the motivation you do something you need to know why you're doing it if you change the why the how and the what will change together so what's your motivating factor and this is a question we ask ourselves why do you wake up every morning are we living out of fear we actually wake up because we are afraid we are afraid that things will not go right are we living like that or
00:31:24 we are living by we wake up because we want to do good now we want to serve God today for every single person I meet I want to be able to tell him about Jesus indirectly or directly I going to be a good testimony or is it just I just get by I just want this week to be over and satday somay to come again and so we need to plan with God in mind and 4:15 here says instead you ought to say it is the Lord's will we will live and do this or that so God wants us to plan with him in mind so it's actually our Muslim
00:31:55 friends always say that inshallah okay you will say that inshallah you you you say that God willing if God willing we do this but what how it means is this when you are saying that okay what James is saying is not just to say the words but to live in a way that you have got in your mind and I don't have enough time so I just very quickly just show it over here you can go on and find out more in Acts 15 it shows you how uh the apostles were actually planning and thinking about things how they debate
00:32:24 when something is not sure when you're not sure A and B A lot of times as Christians what we do is we actually let me just close this lot of times what we do is we say hey I just want to know what's God's will in my life what we are thinking is we want to know God's will whereby we actually got we hear a voice or see a sign go to this place at 5:00 we want to see signs we want directive answers from God but a lot of times God doesn't work this way and so when you plan this is what we need to do number
00:32:51 one always plan with God's desire God's wishes in mind number two the reason reason why your brothers and sisters in Christ is because God put them here for you and we are supposed to discuss with them so find people who you you are close with that you can trust discuss things with them you say I want to do I want to work on this project I want to go to this place I want to marry this person is it right or not discuss with this person and they can actually share more with you and tell you more items
00:33:19 number three pray okay pray and prayer really makes wonders it really does Miracles so a lot of times I also connect explain to you but after I pray things happen so pray okay number four know his preceptive will Through the Bible instead of knowing his decretive view which means that exactly God tells you in a voice what we should do is to know his preceptive view which means that the Bible tells you what you should do really love your neighbor do not steal do not covered and so on so forth so if you read the Bible it's not just
00:33:50 for fun it's actually for your life how should I live my life how should my life change after I know God's will number five be sensitive to the prompting of holy SP cre which means that when you whatever you plan ready it's very important to leave margin for God to say that although I plan A B CDE E I still have room to say that let things happen if let's say I see that things don't really go out exactly how it is and I feel that the holy spirit is prompting in certain way I should change I should
00:34:16 actually set cost for something else but number six I want to point out to you is is also that when we plan I have this problem so I tell you now what I do is I pack my day my week weeks and months until there's no more room at all so when you do that when you have no margin at all it's very dangerous when something falls out line everything else gets affected so I'm always late Al right so for all of you as well you need to think when you are planning your life whatever you want to do do you leave room for things or not don't try
00:34:47 to pack to say I don't optimize everything maybe God wants you to meet a certain person on this day have a bit of room for for other things right plan that in mind to say that when you live your life always have certain margin inside so that you're not so packed and you have margin for things to change because you know that you're not God and things are uncertain and finally is this we need to always remember this we are miss this is eternity before we were created eternity was already there we are here but for a
00:35:19 very short moment in time and after that eternity comes again so our life is actually very short in the entire span of uh the universe that's what we are yeah so as we remember this I'm going to come back to this slide afterwards so two plans sorry two points here speak humbly plan humbly and the last one is leave humbly now what do you mean by leave humbly in James 4:17 it says this if anyone then knows the good they ought to do and doesn't do it it is sin for them he saying that we should know what is
00:35:51 good what are the things that God wants us to do and we need to act upon it we need to work on it so it also actually means it this we are supposed to live humbly why do you say so because if you know the good there and you're supposed to do it it means that you know that you are not made for yourself you're made for God you're made for Community you're not made to live alone so God Made You for purpose so if you see there's a good out there that you should be working on so you get involved instead of thinking
00:36:20 that oh all I need to do is the plan show show you study get married and so so forth that all those things we doing for ourselves but what do we do for people what do we do for God what does God want us to do and so some more as you look at this Bible verse it's very difficult if anyone knows the good they ought to do and doesn't do it is sin for them and I can tell you all of us every day we know certain things we should do but we don't do it right because it's very difficult it's very tiring for
00:36:46 example you know that colleague of yours who became a manager he she really don't want to eat mixed rice if I a mark with her I asked her before she said no mix rice I only can go Starbucks which means I need to spend extra money just to be friends with her know then how cor it's difficult or that child is so difficult deal with how I know how how many Einstein are there in this world maybe only one but the rest won't become Einstein one so don't need to be so nice to people right I don't have enough time
00:37:13 because my boss hires me to do this one item on year to teach the kids if the kids don't conform I fire them I get them out or friends since I've I've I'm in such a good location and my status in life in the community is so good why do I need to go and actually mingle with people who do not add to my social capital who do not add to my standing or when you see the poor people out there who are trying to struggle to start a business or maybe to to work and they don't know how to do it why do you
00:37:38 need to help them God asked me to help my family man why I need to help them why because the anwers we are a body and whether they are whether they are Christians or not they are all made by God and God wants us to reach out to them as well even if just to love them just to show them God's love God wants us to do this and there's no way for you to change there's no way for you to become this typ person unless your call changes there's no way for you to say that I will spend time doing worship once every month unless your call R
00:38:16 changes yeah so how can your call change the only way your call can change is not to ass set of rules but to looking at this person that's actually on the cross when I see Christ on the cross for us then we remember that he was slandered because of us and he kept quiet he was defamed he was spit on he was actually brutally murdered for us aside from that he let go of all his plans he let go of his right to do anything he wants set his CA but what he did he actually decided to put his hands together and let people bring him to the
00:38:57 cross and the to be crucified because of our God decided to give away his freedom sacrifice his own his own self and choose to be quiet we can also do the same when people slander us we don't need to hit back we can find a way to love and talk to people and try to bring them back instead of planning our lives just looking at this is all that is under the sun I just plan and take care of my family we can now say that because Christ has died for us my future is totally certain now I can leave for him I can really do everything
00:39:30 in a way to glorify him and this is the only way that your life will change you can come to Sunday service as much as you want but if the inside doesn't change it doesn't work and how it really works is really look at Christ how beautiful he is how good he is and you think about yourself and how you have been leaving and yet he says that you have hope you are not a person that will not matter you matter and your future is something that I am concerned about and I want to help you and that is the Jesus that we
00:40:07 have so this person I show just now is um his name is TR Katy and he actually owns this company called chickf which I think I mentioned a few times uh just about one week ago uh so they are actually a chain store fast food restaurant from us and they've closed about 3,000 Outlets in us alone so if you actually saw him when he was a young man and only got one store and not doing well he sleeps in the store you know because he works very hard and not doing well he sleeps in the store and so if you see at this point in time this
00:40:45 person I don't want to help him I see him he's not having the right business plan you know he's not having the right business framework to know what to do so I think I better spend time with other people if you did that then you will not see what they have done what he's actually achiev over here for you now he has built about 3,000 outlets and I think I sh this few times also you will know for Chick fil they close on Sunday and they lose a billion just because of that every year they lose a billion
00:41:14 dollars because they close on Sundays but why they do that because what TR K is trying to do is they are not in the business of making money they're in the business to serve making money is something that happens at at the same time but they're in business to serve so to serve they said that on Sunday you should spend time with your family it doesn't matter whether you're Christian or not doesn't matter we just want you to have time to spend with others because when he was working so hard he felt the pain of working already and he
00:41:42 said that oh in the fast food business not easy in the restaurant business not easy so therefore he wants all his employees to be able to have time to rest as well but there are many many things that he has done as well for example do you know in chick Philly um they came over so the CSR program actually allowed them to come to Malaysia and share about their business over here now if you look at it in business sense why would I come to Malaysia we have no presence no business at all why would I come and talk to
00:42:08 people for free why do that why would I do that because the business fundamental is I'm here to serve so even though they have no business here I don't think they open here anytime soon they decide to come here and actually share to benefit the community of Christians over here and to share how their business actually works and in chick the way things work is totally different you go to McDonald's and you have a lot of kids in your van and you buy food for them what must you do you must leave the
00:42:38 van go and line up while you Jugger five or six of them and making sure that you order correctly while they shout right they scream Mommy I want this I want and you still need to do your ordering properly and then after that you get your food you stand there with for a number and sit down for chick Phil when they see this what they can do is they can send people to your van and take the order for you you don't need to even come down and they will know you by your name they make a point to actually
00:43:07 remember every customer's name and what do you like to eat can have you heard never heard of fast food they can do that but they can because the fundamental of what they're doing is different and therefore what I'm sharing with you is this when you live humbly in Christ it means that you don't live with status quo you don't just follow what is a business practice out there you follow as a right practice which is follow what the Bible says and with that your whole business will change as well everything
00:43:33 you do even your work your career change so this applies to all we do now supposedly perhaps maybe we cannot be true KY but it's okay we just need to be ourselves because God will actually hold us accountable to what is given to us only not what you not receive I share with you when I was uh 16 years old I was going to Sunday school and when I came out I was very excited to play basketball my friend my friend threw the basketball at me and I was trying to catch it I couldn't and I kick the ball
00:44:03 instead the ball flew and they hit an old car like this so actually at time this car doesn't work much already but uh the person that was actually um owning this car uh was a uncle that was very poor I know that he's very poor when he saw the license plate actually broke the ball broke the license plate when he saw it he actually oh no because he needs that there's a lot more money to spend and he doesn't have the money and I was panicking cuz I was a child what I do and I was I was looking to cry
00:44:33 already I don't know what to do he t for about 30 seconds okay never mind never mind never mind and he just let me go and this happened about 30 I don't know about 20 plus years ago and I still remember until now and your kindness may have people to remember may not have people remember but God remembers all of it you don't need to be TR KY you don't need open chickf it's just about the kindness that you show to people the time you spend to love people that God has plac in front of you maybe in his plan he was
00:45:08 supposed to drive the car and go home but now he wants to do that then suddenly the boy going and cause the ball to fly and then damage his car it's not inside his plan but when your plan moves do you have God in mind do you have reverence for God you said when this happens in my life how do I react and your call will come out because if your call says that oh I need to make sure that I get paid for everything right so I would say that I need to get fair treatment so I ask tell me who's your daddy pay out that may
00:45:40 happen but if your call is right you will change so for many of us I really believe in this there this many of our congregation are people who are very senior maybe some of you are already retired and you have so much knowledge and experience and I really believe that you shouldn't just leave it and go and do other things if you can spend the time to teach people and train people because knowledge and experience is very hard to come by so perhaps Mentor somebody help somebody when you can be in business so you can help others
00:46:14 instead of being in business just to earn money many people don't want to grow their business why because they say that very fine you grow business you need to work hard also but maybe be in business just so that your employees actually can get a better pay you grow a buiness business so that they can grow together but if your business doesn't grow they cannot grow that's why smmes Always cannot go anywhere they have to resign and they go other place why because your business never grows man so
00:46:36 they said can I become manager no I'm the manager how can I become manager so can right so the whole way you think must be totally changing and or maybe perhaps for you FBC needs you factor into your plan for your week and your month to serve others factor in to say that you serve other people come to church and serve IC always needs members to serve in many different capacities as of now um the church is trying to work on digital marketing sorry that's not a correct word what is it digital ministry right so social media Ministry
00:47:13 all right so therefore if all of you who have digital marketing experience come to the digital Ministry over here and help out so that we can actually tell people for example if you search on FBC what time does the church start going to make it easy for people to know what does E stand for you make it easy so if any of you have this experience you can talk to brother Yul can talk to me right and we'll bring you the right people to actually get involved because the world is changing and we want to leverage on
00:47:40 technology to let people know about Christ as best as we can as well and final thing over here is something that um I want to share with you a lot of times if I ask you uh if you go overseas and people see you okay sorry for our friends I just use Chinese example they see you and say that hey oh you're Chinese is it how do you answer someone from a different country sees he your Chinese is it what the answer no okay then I'm from Malaysia then oh your Malay is it I said no why why are you I'm Malaysian Chinese you
00:48:17 know what it means your identity is I'm Chinese vers Malaysian is adjective for the Chinese I'm a Chinese as who happens to be a Malaysian that is actually what it means right I'm Chinese so that's why you came saying that we are Chinese but you talk to Indonesians I talk to Henry he he would not tell you that you tell I'm Indonesian correct but we are inside our identical problem you know so the same thing goes for this over here so if you are a engineer are you a Christian engineer or are you a
00:48:49 engineering Christian it makes a whole lot of difference a a Christian engineer is a engineer that so happens is a Christian okay an engineering Christian is a Christian that so happens is an engineer and because an engineer you actually do what you can with a talents to serve as an engineer or if you are a accountant so it's a bit hard to explain in this I'm not so good in this English thing but you see the thing is which is adjective which is a noun so are you a account first or are you Christian first
00:49:23 and what powers you underneath you're a power because you are a CO is it are you co vers or are you Christian verse makes a very very big difference as well so why we do all this and I want share with you that if you really can live your life like this we are still very significant correct before eternity before we were born there was eternity and after there's eternity as well and our life is really very insignificant and yet God has given us this opportunity to say that what we do in this short later 80 90 years of life
00:49:57 will actually impact eternity whatever you do in this 8090 years actually has Ripple effects repercussion is so big that actually impacts eternity so perhaps because of what this uh brother did for me he didn't charge me for the license plate that I destroyed and I tell you about it and some of you change some you decide to say that I'll live differently I don't need to open restaurant I can just be nice with people and so you never know he doesn't even know I'm talking about him now I didn't even tell you his name
00:50:32 but your life can actually matter because you are made in the image of God so when you're made in image of God you actually represent him in everywhere you go you're the light in the darkness no matter where God sends you don't say that the place is bad don't say there Bri here if you are there things will change if you really put in effort to do so and this is what Jesus says I have other sheep they are not of this ship pan I must bring them also they too will listen to my voice and there shall be
00:51:05 one flock and one Shepherd as you plan your life remember your lord Jesus Christ has other sheep in mind they want to bring over so as you drink your Starbucks as you drink your coffee and eat your whatever nice food that you have and go for your om think also that life is not just about this and God has Shi out there waiting for you you to actually reach out and he may have all these people in your life that he wants you to encounter so put in effort to know this but one thing you know is this whatever you
00:51:36 invest now every single minute I'm not talking about money only I'm talking about your time actually I'm talking your entire life God wants everything that you have every single thing that you have if you're willing to say that show hand I give everything to God God will actually take it and he will use it to do whatever he wants and he and in the future you see how impacts eternity because the future is set and this is the future in Revelation 7:9 it says this after this I looked and there before me was a great multitude that no
00:52:07 one could count from every nation not just Chinese Indians malays okay every nation tribe people and language standing Before the Throne and before the lamb the wearing white ropes and were holding palm branches in their hands and they CED in a loud voice salvation belongs of God who sits on the throne and to the lamb the future is certain whereby in the future you see millions and millions of people billions of people all worshiping Christ and what can you bring to Heaven your talents I can tell
00:52:47 you before you pass away you'll be gone ready as I actually grow older I find that I'm not so good in many things ready my hands also not so good ready my back also not so good ready so many things will go away things fade very fast you think your money you can bring to Heaven they don't use that currency over there so what can you bring the only thing you can really bring is people that's the only thing that matters on the long run and so God doesn't say that you must actually become a millionaire only can help
00:53:20 people I spoke to my staff recently and everybody I think you talk anyone has this idea I'm going to be rich I'm going to help people but doesn't require that God says you be faithful in small little things and whether it grows or not you leave it to God your job is just to be faithful all the time and on future what you see is this if you put in your effort to say that my life God here is you take it do whatever you want with it one day when you meet the Lamb of God when you meet Christ in heaven you see all these
00:53:52 people around here you say hey that person actually is here because I told him about Jesus before or maybe you don't even know some somebody will tell you about that as well so you decide how you want but I just summarize again so today what is the culture of God's Community is that you speak humbly because you're looking to build people number two you plan humbly because you know that you're not fully in control and Christ is in control and you always leave margins for him in fact you will build your factor in serving
00:54:24 him into your life number three you leave humbly your whole life you give it to him and let him do what he wants do it thank you brother John for the message Church May invite all of you to rise as we respond with this [Music] song Let us sing Hallelujah to the lamb for he purchased us from death with his love and let us all together from every whatever triy and whatever tongue mother tongue that we are used to let us all worship him together in one one [Music] voice Lord I stand in the midst of a
00:55:19 multitude of those from every tribe and town we are your people people Redeemed by your blood purchased from Death by love there are no words good enough to thank you there are no words to express my praise but I will lift up my voice and sing from my heart with all of my strength Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah to the land Hallelujah Hallelujah by the blood of Christ We Stand every Tong every tribe every people every land giving Glory giving honor giving praise unto the Lamb of God [Music] oh we stand by grace in your
00:56:37 presence cleansed by the blood of the Lamb we are your children called by your name humbly we bow and we pray release your power to work in us and through us till we are changed to be more like you and all the nations will see your glory re and Worship [Music] You Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah to the L Hal Hallelujah Hallelujah by the blood of Christ We Stand everyong every triy every people everywhere giving Glory giving honor giving praise unto the Lamb of [Music] God every shall bow every Tong confess that you are L of
00:58:01 all Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah to the L Hallelujah Hallelujah by the blood of Christ We Stand every Tong every tribe every people every land giving Glory giving honor giving praise unto the Lamb of God Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah to the L Hallelujah Hallelujah by the blood of Christ we SP every Tong every tribe every people every land giving Glory giving honor giving praise unto the Lamb of God giving praise unto the Lamb of God giving praise unto the Lamb of God Jesus Christ Lamb of
00:59:20 God can I have the next slide [Music] please I don't have a quick prayer with all of you father we thank you for always being with us and Lord you have decided to let go of your rights you came and died on the cross for us so that we might live so that may we may have a second chance so we may have a future that certain that is already set for us that we will be in glory with you in the future Lord thank you for all these amazing blessings you've given us and help us to see how amazing and how how good you are
00:59:58 and help us to love small things a little bit and love large things a l more help us to love money a little bit that love you extremely a lot help us lot to really put you first in our lives help us to internalize and say Lord this is my life take it and use it however you please whether it's going to be long or short whe it's going to be great in the eyes of people or not it doesn't really matter whatever I have I just give to you thank you Lord for this in Jesus name we pray amen now receive the
01:00:48 benediction okay for Christ's love compels us because we are convinced that one died for for all and therefore all died and he died for all that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again Open Up Our Eyes Lord to see your beauty and Glory open our hearts Lord to act accordance with your will open our hands Lord to generously share and give what we have been given the the Lord bless you and keep you the Lord make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you the Lord lift
01:01:34 up his countenance upon you and give you peace amen service is over for those of you who require prayer uh you may come over our pastors and Elders will be here to to minister together with you for any new friends over here uh do uh have a bit of time to fellowship with the rest over here we love to know you more have a good Sunday
