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00:00:01 [Music] um good morning church today's passage is taken from 1 Corinthians chap 10: 1-22 reading from the NIV 2011 for I do not want you to be ignorant of the fact brothers and sisters that our ancestors were all under the cloud and that they all passed through the sea they were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea they all ate the same spiritual food and drank the same spiritual drink for they drank from the spiritual rock that accompanied them and that rock was Christ nevertheless God was not pleased
00:00:35 with most of them their bodies were scattered in the wilderness now these things occurred as examples to keep us from setting our hearts on evil things as they did do not be idolators as some of them were as it is written the people sat down to eat and drink and go up to indulge in rry we should not commit sexual immorality as some of them did and in one day 23,000 of them died we should not test Christ as some of them did and were killed by snakes and do not Grumble as some of them did and were
00:01:11 killed by the destroying Angel this thing happened to them as examples and were return down as warnings for us on whom the culmination of the ages has come so if you think you are standing firm be careful that you don't fall no temptation has overtaken you except what is is common to Mankind and God is faithful he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear but when you are tempted he will also provide a way out so that you can endure it therefore my dear friends flee from idolatry I speak to sensible people judge for
00:01:48 yourself what I say is not the cup of Thanksgiving for which we give thanks a participation in blood of Christ and is not the bre that we break a participation in body of Christ because there is one love we who are many are one body for we all share the one love consider the people of Israel do not those who eat the sacrifice participate in the altar do I mean then the food sacrifice to an idol is anything or that an idol is anything no but the sacrifice of pagans are offered to Demons not to God and I do not want
00:02:28 you to participant with demon you cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons too you cannot have a part in both the Lord's table and the table of demons are we trying to arouse the Lord's jealousy are we stronger than he this is the word of the Lord let's pray father we thank you for Gathering us here today to learn your word Lord I pray that you speak to us and let your word go forth and not return void open our hearts and help us to understand what is Temptation and how can we flee
00:03:13 from Temptation and help us to flee to you as well thank you Lord I pray that you speak and not me in Jesus name pray amen good morning Brothers and Sisters in Christ nice to see you all of you here today I'm wearing a very nice shirt over here uh this is actually our live life group uh uh t-shirt okay we had a camp recently and uh this is what we War it since our life group CIA is not uh CIA in us it's actually Christians in action and it's actually from this uh passage from the Bible First John see 1 John
00:03:50 3 uh over there it says verse 16 this is how we know what love is Jesus Christ laid down his life for us and we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters if anyone has material possessions and sees a brother sister in need but has no pity on them how can the love of God be in that person and so the most important is the verse 18 dear children let's not love with words only or speech but with actions and in truth so um bit of difference today and later on for respon song our live group say
00:04:19 will be coming on stage to lead us with a respon song level now today what we covering is actually Temptations now if you see the passage Paul talks about food offered to Idol from chapter 8 to chapter 9 and chapter 10 is still talking about it for three full chapters why is he talking so long but it's something that's actually relevant to all of us and today going to learn about it it's about how do you live in an idolatrous culture if the world they living in you know they not everybody is Christian how they live in
00:04:51 such a situation so chapter 10 is about how can we deal with Temptations in this world that we live in in chapter n when Paul ended he said that do you not know that in Aras all the runners run but only one gets the price run in such a way as to get the price he wants to make sure that everybody will get the price Okay who wants to have a who wants to finish lousy you want to have lousy life anyone no right everybody wants to have a good life everyone wants to do well and Paul wants you to do well as well
00:05:22 but what is required for you to do well and the answer is you need to be able to flee from Temptation you need to say that don't eat suo no no no no no no no don't not don't don't your what happened actually is in Corinthians time the Corinthians uh who became Christians say that yeah I want to be successful I want to live a good life I want to love God but actually uh you know I still need to go to the temple because the temple is the center of the community at the time if you want business you go to the temple there's
00:05:52 where deals are people talk over there the guils are there the government is there people people are rich people people of influence are all there if I don't go there Network how can I you know how can I serve God and someh I'm strong one you know I I know God I baptize really so no problem one so it's not about the food it's about going to the temple why they all want to go to Temple because they feel that they need to and said you know it's okay M I'm the light of the world you know we need to
00:06:16 be light of the world you need to go there but Paul is saying okay so since you think you're so strong right let me show you what happened to the Israelites okay what beened to Israelites and so verse one over here as our sister Florence had read just now thank you so much uh what he was saying is basically it's giving an example of Israel what did Israel go through now Israel has a very special experience that none of us had okay and I think most of us hope for something like that for example in the
00:06:43 morning when they wake up where to go the cloud will bring you in at night very very cold right if it's very cold in let's say winter count is very cold the fire is there to protect you also and gives you light also none of has something that right so our ancestors were all under the cloud okay they all actually were Guided by God and they all passed through the sea when problems come and Pharaoh was chasing after them God parted the Red Sea for them they all ate the same spiritual food they all had manner to eat don't
00:07:12 need to okay every got food to eat and they drank the same spiritual drink got water to drink as well okay not need pay for water bill so so they did all this and and yet verse 5 nevertheless God was not pleased with most of them their bodies were scar scattered in the wilderness what happened have you thought of this before you know if I can just see God I can just see some miracles from God W my life is going to change I have faith and I will just obey God every day because I know it's real but Israelites have
00:07:44 actually seen everything experienc so much things and yet they still can fall and what did they do so over here in verse seven it says the people sat down to eat and drink and got up to indulge in Ry so the first one is saying is said actually during when Moses went up to Mount Si and he didn't come down for a while you know so they said hey don't know what happened to him maybe he's dead really because they very afraid of God you know every time I God speaks they actually afraid and they said that
00:08:12 you don't speak to us just speak to Moses so maybe it's de so why so we need to come up with a golden Cal we worship the C and when they started worshiping in the golden Cal they had makan and after that they started to have sexual immorality over there as well and verse 8 before they entered Canaan they actually committed sexual morality with the m women next one when there was no food to eat then they thirsty when there no food to eat they actually tested Christ okay and some of them were killed by snakes
00:08:43 and final one they Grumble against God because they were afraid to enter Canaan when they reached Canaan they saw that Canaanites there were a lot of giants over there it's a very good place but there's so many Giants they were afraid to enter Canaan and after that they Grumble and because of that God was not pleased with them and all of them actually couldn't enter the promised land a journey that supposed to only take 2 years they took 40 years to sorry two weeks you only two weeks the journey
00:09:12 is supposed to be only two weeks but actually took 40 years to finish it because they were actually idolators okay they had idolatry in their hearts and all these things that are written in the Bible are examples to keep us from setting our hearts on evil things what it's saying is all these is not written down for fundament it's written so that there are examples for you for you to remember for you know that if the Israelites actually went through the Red Sea can fall can fall in Temptation can
00:09:41 sin you also can go through it you also need to be careful so therefore these things happen to them as examples and write it down for warning for us so similar to us many of us we've been if you ask if I ask you are you Christian most of us would say yeah yeah no problem definitely going to heaven Rion why oh I'm from FBC sure Heaven one after that I got baptized ready I take communion I'm in a cell group I'm in a life group surely going to heaven but God is telling you that you need to really ask yourself are you actually
00:10:13 walking right do you really believe in God are you really putting your faith in him or not so the first point that we have is everyone is vulnerable to Temptation no matter what experiences you've gone through no matter what heritage even if you're pastor's kid even Pastor even more dangerous okay U my kids are also not enough time to take care of them but these are all challenges we have but everyone is vulnerable to Temptation everyone is vulnerable Temptation that's the first thing for us to know now the second
00:10:41 thing for us to go through is actually this if you look at verse 14 it says therefore my dear friends flee from idolatry I speak to sensitive people judge for yourselves what I say I'm going I'm going to explain the entire passage to you it's not the cup of Thanksgiving for which we give thanks a participation in the blood of Christ he's saying that when you actually take the cup Thanksgiving right and when you actually take communion isn't that participation in the blood of Christ aren't you having fellowship with Christ
00:11:08 when all of us gather together and have communion aren't you having fellowship with Christ and it's not the break we break a participation in the body of Christ so the word that keeps on com is participation so when you gather together and you Mar together you have Comming together you are participating you are in fellowship with Christ because as one love we who are many are one body for we share one loaf and so after that after talking about the Corinthians he talks about the Israelites consider the People Israel
00:11:38 they were very amazing right but you see what happened to them when they eat the sacrifices do not those who eat the sacrifices participate in the altar you're talking about the golden Cal incident when you actually Mar over there aren't you actually participating in the altar also do I mean that food sacrifice to an either is anything no the seal is okay it can eat it okay is an either anything no but the sacrifices of pagans are offered to Demons which means that when you are sitting there and you're eating there's actually a
00:12:07 spiritual realm that you are participating in you are not offering that to God and I do not want you to be participants with demons the word participants is like Fellowship I don't want you to have fellowship with demons you cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons which means that when you become a Christian you are supposed to leave and go to Christ you cannot stay where you are that is the context of the entire passage you cannot stay in both situations you cannot say that I want
00:12:35 God and I want to be in the world and I want idolatry as well you can't do that you are in the world but you cannot have idolatry together so then is it worth to pass to have participation is demons most of us say no but we are so serious man just Mar a bit you know people ask me go invite be friendly go to Temple why cannot and somewh nowadays we don't go to Temple how is this even relevant to us okay many of us may not even have step food in the temple so it's not relevant to us is it now this is
00:13:06 actually just something for see that this is something that actually can cause you to compromise going to Temple is something can cause you compromise now let me explain to you why is this so important this is what we call the beach hit strategy now in World War II when you look at how the Allies defeated uh Germany what happened is in order for them to defeat Germany what they needed to do is they need to conquer the country right so they actually invaded France but you don't just parachute people into France what
00:13:38 you need to do is you need to actually take land and the way you take land is you have a beach hit strategy they send a lot of troops and they try to attack a certain place a certain Beach and they try to get the position they fortify themselves over there and once they get the beach hit they can have a lot of reinfor lot reinforcements coming in which means number one if you want to attack a market even for business you don't try to attack everything you get a niche that you're good in and after that
00:14:03 you continue advancing from there so after you have the initiality your second wave will come your third wave can come and reinforcements can come from the back and the same thing is in sin the same thing happens to Temptation the same thing happens when you actually having fellowship with demons you think nothing's happening but you're giving the hit to people you're giving the beach hit to Demons you giv this beach you're opening exposing yourself to others and letting others to attack you now temptation is always a
00:14:36 beach headit look at it what um is stated over in 32:6 how did the Israelites actually started having sexual imity how did they actually started having rry the answer is it didn't start by something oh today wake up I want to do it it starts with something first they woke up okay they sacrificed burn offerings to the idol right and after that they eat drink and only then they got up to indulg in Ry sin has a progression once you open a small crack on the door you will barge in you will keep on barging in and that
00:15:08 is why Paul says that you shouldn't do it you should never open yourself and expose yourself to demonic influences or even let yourself be in a situation in a situation whereby you may be compromised so sexual sins result of fellowship with golden CLE this why I mentioned to you now a good example is King David right all of us have heard of story of King David you know the man after God's heart the amazing guy and all of you know some some of us maybe we say name a children David as well but look at what happened to King
00:15:40 David King David was amazing he actually God was with him and in verse six in 2 Samuel it says that the lord gave David Victory wherever he went no matter wherever he went God was there with him okay he had a successful life he was a man of God but the next thing that happened was verse chapter 11 verse1 in the spring at the time when kings go off to war David send joab and David remain in Jerusalem normally he goes to war and in springtime when he's supposed to go to war he decides I don't want to go
00:16:19 already I send joet and he stay in Jerusalem okay so first thing is he didn't discharge his duty he somehow decided to send someone else instead of him going when the Kings go to war he decided to relax I want more holidays I want to chill ready my life is good already I got good helper already can ready and when he was resting and having a holiday what happened he decided to sleep late you know he sleep until all time evening you know you check the Bible properly he didn't wake up in the morning he sleep until very late and he
00:16:55 went out and he saw a woman bathing okay he went out he saw a woman bathing and after seeing a woman bathing what what happens next he was curious oh very beautiful continue looking so beautiful ah very nice then what did he do he inquires about her he ask somebody go and check check for me who is this person so I was curious to find out right he didn't look away he Contin looking he inquir about her next thing is he sent Messengers to get her when David got biva over he slept with her next thing is after sleeping with her he
00:17:35 thought okay done really I don't know what his plan is but B actually got pregnant so after he got pregnant he said cannot settle this already how do I do this what do I do now he send the husband home from Battle got Uriah to come home to try to say that oh you were there so the child is yours so send y home to C so that nobody knows this happened but y was a very good man he came home he doesn't want to sleep he doesn't want to go back to his wife you know so they didn't even meet he forced you he keep asking go home but y doesn't
00:18:07 want to go home so he got y drunk and hopefully you drunk ready you do something but y decided not to do it he didn't even go home he slep with his somebody else right he SLA with some other man okay right he SL with some other man right okay continuing from there next thing happened is so you didn't go home right and he said Oh cannot already when the baby comes out who's the who's the who's the husband who's the father so how he decides to send Uriah into battle so that he dies okay and when he sends him to the
00:18:44 fiercest battle withraw aort so that nobody can know that actually it's because of of him and after that he kills you to battle and he takes his wife as well if you look very carefully sin doesn't come immediately all this will not happen if David went and do what he supposed to do in the spring when kings go off to war you go so for all of you wives if your husband don't wake up you read to him in the spring at the time when kings go off to war which is very true sin is Sleepy soap Temptation comes slowly and slowly
00:19:25 and so you need to be careful on how you are dealing with every single part of your life because the devil won't say oh I just attack you here here I don't attack you the devil will attack you in all Beach shes every single place if you give him a space he will come in in the Christian circle is called Foo hole you leave a footh hole for the devil so we need to look at this and see this sin is no joke when you go to the temple you think nothing's happening but you're exposing yourself to a lot of different
00:19:50 things what people say what people do the things that people talk about is all happening over there and so for us we have our own potential B hates as well so I just give you a few scenarios this is not all covering and some for you maybe it's nothing but I just give you a scenario for you to think the whole idea is for you to go home and think meet up your live groups and think about it and talk about it okay because there's no way to a sermon that you just change important for you to go home and think
00:20:16 about it so for example is it okay to go and drink with friends who like to party hard your friends Afters hey come now come let's go for a drink is it okay to go for a drinks or not drinks okay right but these guys every time they drink on the bottom some N Sub bottom up okay so okay not so some of you is for you to ask yourself about it but when you do that you need to ask yourself why would you put yourself in this position you know you cannot drink for example I drink two times I drink two glasses I cannot R okay so why would
00:20:47 you put yourself into this position whereby if you actually go there you may get drunk then you cannot drive then you get an accident all why when you put this position because if you look at the back of it the idolatry although drinking is nothing it's okay but the idolatry is maybe I really crave the friends approval the root cause is I want my friends to say that I'm cool that I can drink I can go and Maan I can party with them that may be the main scenario so it's for us to think about it and when you do that perhaps it leads
00:21:19 you in the drunkenness and more and more so you open the door more and more remember first wave second wave when you have the beach H ready the second wave can come in and reinforcements come so you be very careful what you open yourself to every day how about watching movies while skipping new scenes nowadays you watch movies online you go to Netflix you go to HBO GO it's everywhere is it okay or not okay not you said it's just artistic stuff you know I I skip one you know when I reach I skip okay is it okay and guys do you
00:21:51 always skip do you always skip seriously right is a question for you to ask I Ser yeah but I need to know the story you know suddenly why would you want to open yourself to to such thing so perhaps when we think really deeply a bit perhaps we really like entertainment we just want to watch something and you know be in the no people watch this we watch Oro so we want entertainment and we like to watch it but the point is when you do that perhaps you start opening yourself up to pornography when you go to certain
00:22:23 websites you see advertisement you just curious don't know what is it you click it maybe it's a advertisement for for some ponography and from there it opens up more and more and more so you need to ask yourself are you opening up yourself to a lot more danger and temptations than you actually should as well working until 10: p.m. every day working hard is good but every day under 10 p.m. why do we do that you know ask yourself he for to ask yourself why do we work hard maybe you want approve others you want
00:22:52 ask other people said that you know I'm successful I got a job I got a promotion ready or I manag to get a better pay but when you do that maybe because you don't take care of your kids things actually go already there or maybe you do you say that I want to earn more money so you trade Bitcoin shares and all this is it really because when you see all these things it's these are all neutral things it's okay going to trade right it's okay to buy shares but what are you exposing yourself to for example day trade day
00:23:20 trade means nonstop every day you buy sell Buy sell you know why do you do that maybe because you want material Comfort I mean do that you're just opening yourself up to to being more and wanting more and more so it's a question we ask ourselves do we want to open ourselves to all this or not is it something that we really want to do is it really worth to open ourself to all this for example working very hard and then your family doesn't know you your children doesn't get raised well is it really worth it and this just remember
00:23:51 these are all bades now in fact if you see verse 13 it says no temptation has overtaken you except what is common to mankind this word temptation is the word parmos is the word test which if you see in the passage when this say temptation is not just saying that oh you know greed drunkenness pornography that's not what he's talking about he's talking about anything that can lure you away from God in fact anything in life can lure you away from God you you see the Israelite scenario you actually be very um surprised it's
00:24:27 not that they always uh disobey God when they want the sex you know why dis disobey God look very carefully no water to drink no bread to eat okay going to battle with Canon afraid to die now how many of you are not afraid to die how many of you need water all of us need water we need bread and so what it means over here is every single facet of your life every single thing you're going through can be a test it can be a temptation to you and for you need to really be careful with it okay you careful with it every single day every
00:25:02 decision is basically you just like in the Garden of Eden you choose do you obey God or do you listen to devil and so there's always two doors for you to enter follow God or follow myself every single decision that you go through is this so every trial everything you go through is actually something you need to be careful of but the Bible says Paul says that no temptation has overtaken you accept what is common to mankind which means that all the things they've gone through are common are people that
00:25:34 think people gone through we sometimes think that you know nobody knows my problem nobody knows my pain I'm special only I am going through such a tough time but God is telling you no all the things you're going through in life somebody has gone through before somebody's gone through it before so if you stay alone and don't tell people and you stay inside there you can't get help but if you brothers and sisters you talk to people perhaps you can get help and also know that somebody has passed through it before you can actually ask
00:26:04 for help also so we all have failed now if you enlarge this enough you can see this is not just about sex or drunkenness or pornography it even involves with sickness people getting sick this all can be parisal can be tests people getting sick you lose the loved ones the question is when all this happen do we actually believe that God is good do we believe that God is good and good can come out of this and we trust in God instead saying that God is bad to me I want to leave the faith I will not trust him anymore because he
00:26:37 did this to me and remember Jesus was tempted as well so in the Garden of Gethsemane you can see that it's not that he just came to Earth and said okay let's go to the Cross no it's not he went through Temptation himself he went through all the sufferings that we go through so he said that my father if it's not possible for this cup to be taken away unless I drink it may your will be done he wrestles with it as well so we are glad and we can be hopeful to know that Jesus knows all the pains and struggles that
00:27:10 we go through so our great high priest knows all that we've gone through so if any Temptation anything going through perhaps maybe your family doesn't know about it but God knows about it God is able to help you to go through this so the second point we have is Temptation is a beach hit for idolatry remember that everything you go through if you open the door and let other influences coming in from there you actually needing to be very careful and the third point today is we need to flee from idolatry we need to flee from Idol Tre
00:27:45 and we need to flee to God okay need to flee from Idol Tre and flee to God so you see over here verse 13 it says no temptation has overtaken you except what is common to Mankind and God is faithful he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear but when you're tempted he will also Pride a way out so that you can endure it therefore my dear friends flee from idolatry so first thing to know is as I said just now everything go through someone has gone through before but whatever you go through God is faithful
00:28:20 God will be there to help you he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can be bear whatever you go through has been allowed by God God is sign of say okay let it happen it's fine he will always provide a way out for you okay he will not let you go through something that you cannot he always give you a way out okay so the word the word the way out actually is the word easin it's like in a battle you're in a place where it's very dangerous so suddenly there's a opening where you can actually Escape
00:28:47 but when you see it says that there's a way out but so that you can endure it which means that although you're going through suffering it is possible that God tells you that yes I sanction I allow this but what I give you the way out is for you to endure it I give you strength to go through this to go through this pain to go through this challenge to go suffering you're going through and at the same time in verse 14 it says it's two things to know God is opening and providing a way out but at the same time verse 14 tells you you
00:29:15 need to flee it's always two things together your free will is involved you need to take action you can say that you know uh I've gotten this before actually um sometimes you get messages from women and saying hello okay they want to talk to you I think your Facebook it always comes as well I got one from a customer last time don't know why after a while suddenly started to message me and say I thought he wanted I thought she wanted to was interested in the product that we had so I asking are you interested this
00:29:46 product is this how can we help you and then she said let's meet up I said no problem yeah sure we can meet up then after that I asked which product which is the thing you interested so I know how can actually help you and she said actually don't need to talk about anything man just come up for drinks so also can one like okay that's interesting right and the photo the profile is uh a bit different as Al so like so mind better not right I'm not saying you cannot do it I'm just saying for me I'm weak I so I don't do it okay
00:30:13 right so it's for you if you're okay you talk to your wife about it for me I don't open myself to anything so it's for you to decide but the answer is what is a way of Escape right how do we escape when there's idry how do we flee from idolatry the the best example is Joseph the fastest runner in the world is not usin Bor is Joseph okay Joseph is the fastest runner in the world so for those of you who don't know the story Joseph was actually um so as a slave to Egypt and in the end he actually went to work for this guy
00:30:49 called potifa and potifa trusted him because he was very capable he did everything he took care of the entire household but Joseph was very handsome and strong not like me okay handsome and strong and the wife saw said H very nice you know my wife my husband every day work outside they want to come home very busy but Joseph so handsome at home and so Joseph so p uh this pora's wife every day asks Joseph come to beit with me come come to beit with me nonstop okay so what will you do if your man right right so it's for you to what
00:31:26 do you do and you see how the did Joseph flee first thing he recounts all the good things happen he said no one is greater in this house than I am my master has weal nothing from me except you because you are his wife and because of that how can I do such a wicked thing to potifa no how can I do such a wicked thing to who to God he sees that everything comes from God he remembers God's blessing he remembers how God has been good to him and though every day ptif First's wife said come to B with me come to me he
00:32:03 refus to go to bit with her or even be with her man you learn this don't even go near to the woman if at work you have a problem you know you do not close the door one-on-one withner with another opposite sex as well you don't know where to draw your boundaries even last time my pastor tell us never give lies to women that one I let you decide okay but for me is you need to know where your boundary line is where is it whereby you may be compromised for example should you meet up with your ex-girlfriend someone nothing my friend
00:32:35 okay if you you know you're still dating on that you think about all these things so everything is something for you to think about but you see what happened when poas keep on chasing after Joseph what he did was he ran out of the house he didn't take out scripture and said you know God says this to me okay he actually ran away because his tempation is too big maybe 4 wife is beautiful I don't know but he ran so the first thing to know is when you talk about fleeing from Temptation you really flee you
00:33:05 really run You Don't Go Near it don't say oh there's a hole over there I may fall down so I just walk a bit careful you don't do that you go the other way okay if pornography is a problem for you you do not use your phone in a bedroom for example you do something you think about all these things you avoid it totally okay you avoid all this totally so remember God and flee to him and so some of us you know if you watch all these shows out there you know that every single show there's something and
00:33:37 maybe you watch a horror movie and you get scared and causes you to not be able to sleep not to work at night don't don't go anywhere why would you succumb why would you put yourself in such issues why because actually you can go to something else flee from Idol Tre instead of watching all this watch something else okay you can watch the rings of power totally okay no no no nothing I think it's quite quite okay right you can watch Inola homes also okay or those of you B more holy you can watch The Chosen which is very nice okay
00:34:09 very nice show talking about Jesus uh and you get to know the Bible a bit more so I benefited from it so why not it's all free and chosen free and go online watch it okay so choose what you actually use as entertainment example like this okay and we flee to him most importantly is you flee to him you flee to God because remember I've been crucified with Christ and I no longer live but Christ lives in me so if you remember that the life I now live I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave
00:34:42 himself for me I think the most important part about this entire verse is this God loves you you know God wants you to have a good life to live a successful life whereby you will not go into sins and Temptation and after go through challenges God loves you and so because of that he wants to give you the best and so a lot of times in life you may go through challenges you feel that why is this happening to me but remember God loves you God loves you even if you lost a loved one you're going through sickness
00:35:16 you got fir from a job or anything you go through remember God loves you so can stand strong you can get up and try again get up pick yourself up and continue walking because he loves you and how do you know he loves you you go to the Cross you go to the Cross every single time if you ever doubt whether he loves you you go to the cross and you see the cross you know that God loves you and with that that strength allows you know that you don't flee from Temptation and go to another Temptation you flee from Temptation and you flee to
00:35:53 him that is the secret of fleeing from dation that is secret to how he can have a good successful life so always do that go back to Christ but I also say Do not stop at the cross a lot of times as Christians we stop at the cross say you know God died for me that's it but you know that God Jesus was resurrected and because he's resurrected it means that death has no power over him and because that death has no power over us as well sin has no power over us and so we can be Overcomers just like him you can't do
00:36:25 it yourself but through him we can can through him we can do things that we don't dare to do we can be courageous we can work hard we can try to do things that we never thought of before we flee to him so at the same time we flee to his word so when Jesus was tempted he always knows God's word he answered the devil through all the things over here that's actually from the Bible so it's a man shall not leave on bre alone but on everywhere that comes from the mouth of God these are all from the Old Testament passages so
00:36:57 you need to know your Bible don't just take out during Sunday you need to spend your time ground yourself in the word of God so flee to his word flee to him and final one is flee to his body flee to the body of Christ I share with you that a lot of times when you become a Christian right if you are living alone one person as a Christian you are missing out you are missing out because you're not designed to live alone you can't really have a Victorious life living alone you need help from others so for example this is
00:37:33 our CIA life group okay we had a uh Retreat recently and so you can flee to the brothers and sisters and have a good time together and encourage each other talk to each other so when go through challenges you can help each other and so at the same time you have good time so you see Johnson is teaching kids how to play Nintendo so those of you who have kids and you're looking for a library can talk to him or talk to anyone wearing this blue shirt or the yellow later right we're more than happy to
00:38:00 connect with you guys so he flee to his body because the body of Christ is actually made so that you can help each other to go through this remember the word easin when you want to escape right I will share with you that this is definitely one way you can escape instead of watching Netflix at home why don't you connect with your life group go and play foot do something together so recently we actually had this thing is called chaos ball where all the kids from as it young as four years old until
00:38:30 ask about adults you're playing together having a good time so what I'm sharing with you is you can choose what you do every day it's not that oh no choice Ma just Netflix only can watch Netflix or and when I work this is only the only job I can do no it's not true there's always choices there's always things you can do that doesn't cause you to compromise you can always choose so it's for you to choose and for you to know that when you connect to the body magical things just happen now so if I can just invite our brother
00:39:00 Elvis to come on stage and I need a mic as well you can give me a mic where's the mic so uh so as we talk about fleeing from Temptation I just want to ask uh come on stage come brother come come if there's a m can someone help me with that um just give me one minute right so I wanted to ask to come on stage and share a little bit um with all of us um about his story who he is and um why he's in C live group as well try and see doesn't work give us a minute can someone help give that a minute but at the same
00:39:59 time um just to share with you guys there's a new a team as well so actually it's very good you see although you hear a bit of issues with the audio but people are starting to serve more and more people are trying to serve together and do something for God and I think this is such an amazing thing so we be a bit a issue is totally okay yeah so but people online sorry you know okay so let's see is working can you try and see hello hello yeah to or if you can give me an mind as well any other try this
00:40:47 one hello hello okay great come thank you okay this is worth the wait okay good things seem to wait for you okay come all right so uh Elvis can you please introduce yourself yes hi hi everyone good morning so my name is Elvis fetes I was born in Cameroon then I studied in the UK and in Sweden so I've been here in Malaysia for over 12 years I'm working as a marketing officer with the colleges so I request students to come and study in Malaysia 12 years already yes all right so how long have you been
00:41:21 in CIA I mean so basically I joined CIA in 2019 so I've been there for the last last 5 years or so five years okay so how do you get to know about CIA how do you get to know about this live group that we in I think basically my wife who came here actually after me so she came to church and she met I think Rachel and John's and then actually introduced her to CIA so when she came home because me I was not very very active I used to come to church just once in a while when I come I go home and then she came and
00:41:50 she oh there's something very Lively in the church here and so basically she told me to join the CIA so she actually introduced me to CIA and then we went to johnon house and then I realized that wow it's very interesting it's very Lively so that's how I joined CIA oh okay just bring in my SP so let me just repeat so uh Alvis was not very active in church last time you just come here and day only but uh catch was actually always attending and you said there something special happening in church so
00:42:16 i as you to try that and come visit it yes correct okay okay all right great now um so do you remember what made you decide to attend C why why do you decide to attend so basically I mean once I attended the CIA live group I realized that wow the people there also are very busy adult they also have work to do they also managers they are CEOs they are directors some are even entrepreneurs but yet they still create time to come and worship and fellowship with God so there's no excuse what we do say I have
00:42:48 work I have kids I cannot Tada Tada no there's notada so I like wow this is really really interesting then when I attended the CIA I realiz that is I mean the way the fellowship is very very interactive you see as you can see they have a lot of things to do they can share they can communicate it's not just preaching and praying they actually uh preach the word of God they analyze it they go through a lot of I mean we actually learn we share and we have more activities more fun and the kids also
00:43:17 they are very very interactive and playful so basically it was not just a live group it was something to go and learn entertain and have fun while same time still fellowship with God so it was something very unique and very special thank so can you give me a instance of how people in CIA have impacted you I mean so basically I realized that I mean I was was just coming and going home I didn't for me I just worship God and then I stopped from there but I W now is the time also to give back to the
00:43:49 society and to God so they me to understand that it's all about sharing it's all about also whatever you have inside whatever troubles you are going through whatever goodness you are having you can also share it with some other people and celebrate and they can pray for you so also I learn how to pray I learn how to talk to God I learn how to I mean how to join my family to pray together and I also when my wife gave birth to our second and third child the CIA live group not only them the church
00:44:20 every day they will bring my can every day they bring my every day so and that time it was during covid-19 still they come drop food and go like wow this is not just a church let me just right so me covid-19 time and so your your wife gave birth and then the life group actually bring food to you every day every day of the covid-19 I mean basically for one month so it's like that period where you give birth and go home for one month which is also in our culture in our culture once you give birth you just stay don't rest they take
00:44:54 care of you so the CIA actually reminded us like wow the same is going on over there in Cameron same thing over here for that one month irrespec of the covid-19 all the lockdown CS were dropping every morning come take food come take food I like this is not just church this is a family this is same like back home so that is a great impact that wow that's what made me to that this is something very special amen praise God praise God yeah so looks like you never know even food can be so tful yes correct yeah yeah so glad to be
00:45:31 of service with you guys I want to ask you something else recently uh um and this not scripted recently uh Rin was learning to drive right sister Rin who's in a li was learning to drive correct correct so what happened were you involved in that uh so basically yeah she was I think because actually my wife traveled to the US so I was with the kids and rally and I rally because actually they call Auntie Rin and Uncle Matas just like they call just like we have many aunties and uncles so she told me like wow I want to learn driving and
00:46:05 I'm bit nervous see because I don't want to hit mata's car since he very big and comp car so let me just she doesn't want to knock the husband's car oh Mak sense Mak sense continue continue so I told her that no I told her that do you no do you know what don't worry my own car is a very old car is g to and you can hit you can repair easily so come we can learn how to drive I can I can I can just take you around so basically we ask Matas can we she says yes so after church on Sunday we spend some one or
00:46:33 two hours just going around and around and I told her no don't worry so I was just like a co-pilot I see so in fact the the words ring told me is uh this is what Alby said sister we are a family of course I will help you you can bump the car to the gutter just not to the Mercedes right yeah thank you so much AB thank you for sharing thank you thank you thank you and friends what I going to share you is you cannot flee from Temptation if you got nothing to flee to you cannot flee from Temptation if
00:47:10 you got nothing to flee to so what I'm asking you to do is you flee to God flee to his word flee to him flee to his body of Christ and you may not know it but what is happening is actually this is called good infection Aris was a man's man John tell me that he's the man's man he's a macho guy you know but after a while coming to life group he decided to say that oh you know he start to get more and more involved and he appreciated he felt God's love and now he's actually sharing God's love can you see that and so this
00:47:44 is what C say he Jesus came to this world and became a man in order to spread to other men the kind of life he has by what I call good infection every Christian is to become a little Christ the whole purpose of becoming a Christian is simply nothing else and we all of us are supposed to become little Christ and the reason I asked Alvis to come on stage is not because he just did something that I think is good because I learned something the other day I actually L my car to um Maas and when he brought back the car he told me that oh
00:48:17 John I actually knock your car so when he said that what it I said oh is it let's go and take a look so I look at it there's nothing wrong with the car at all but he told me that the car is not but in my heart I was thinking oh really what happened but if you compare with Elvis he's like oh no it's okay you can KN my car no problem at all can you see the difference the difference in my heart the car is still more important in a way to you know relationships and all that so it's something for me to learn
00:48:45 and so what I'm sharing you is this is about third or four different good infections happening can you see that so it shows you that that is why you need to flee to something and you always flee to God and his body so now when you look at all this then why would still want to go to the temple why would still want to participate in eating Cal and you go to the temple or watch American Pie and all these different things why we not do that why would you do that because God's committee is so much better and
00:49:15 therefore I strongly encourage all of you find a life group but more than that you have to find God because people may still disappoint you not all our groups are good I disappoint people all the time but you always understand and you go to God you always go back to God because he is the source of everything go back to him and so uh as we as we finish today we have this response song called I speak Jesus in this song it says I just want to speak the name of Jesus over every heart and every mind because I know there's peace
00:49:52 within your presence I speak Jesus friends what do you have to offer to your brothers and sisters your smarts tell them about AI tell them about EV cars I met my friends Rec this is what we talk about parenting tips there's nothing that you can have that there's nothing you can give that's better than giving them Jesus there's nothing better than to Speak Life to them and encourage each other to walk with God and it says over here I just want to speak the name Jesus till every dark edition starts to break
00:50:25 declaring There's Hope and there's freedom I speak Jesus friends many of us may be going through things in the secret in the doubt that nobody knows about I myself have gone through that before but what I share you is this if you stay alone you are actually allowing to allowing the Devil to hold on to you and not let you be released I'm asking you to get out there come to the elders talk to people find somebody to Journey with you I'm not talking accountability where you go and say you know I did something wrong I'm
00:51:01 saying journey together walk together with people not just when you do something wrong but also to learn things and also to help each other the main thing is relationship I'm not talking I'm going you to do a task I'm going you have relationship have relationship to God have a relationship to the body of Christ itself because God's name is power in Jesus name itself doesn't have anything but is who is behind it the king of King a lot of lots his name is Jesus and through him we have healing we have life and every stronghold can be
00:51:32 broken and our life can change with that I'll pass the time over to the CIA live group for this Resturant song good morning this is a new song so as soon as you're able to learn it the tune is quite catchy do sing along shall We All Shall We All Rise [Music] I just want to speak the name of Jesus over every heart and every mind cuz I know there is peace within your presence I speak Jesus [Music] I just want to speak the name of Jesus till every dark addiction starts to break declaring there is hope and there
00:52:47 is freedom I speak [Music] Jesus you're name is power your name is healing your name is life break every strong shine through the Shadows burn like of sing it together just want to speak the name of Jesus over fear and all anxiety to Every Soul I'm captive by [Music] depression I speak Jesus your name is power your name is healing your name is life break every stronghold shine to the sh burn like a fire your name is power your name is your name is power your name is healing your name is life break every
00:54:38 stronghold shine through the Shadows burn like [Music] a shout Jesus from the mountains Jesus in the street Jesus in the darkness over every enemy Jesus for my family I speak the Holy Name jesuses shout Jesus from the mountains Jesus in the streets Jesus in the darkness over every enemy Jesus my I speak the Holy Name Jesus your name is power your name is power your name is healing your name is Love [Music] break every stronghold shine through the Shadows burn like a fire your name is your name is
00:56:16 power your name is healing your name is [Music] break every stronghold shine through the Shadows burn like [Music] a I just want to speak the name of Jesus over every heart and every mind cuz I know there is peace within your presence I speak Jesus dear brother and sisters life is hard some of us may be going through all kinds of Trials and temptations it could be Financial related marriage parenting issues sicknesses illnesses or sins that so as the Bible say easily entangles and we sometimes feel there is
00:57:40 no way out but as preached by John in today's sermon we are to flee from Temptation and flee to Jesus because life with Jesus is the most meaningful and F faing we need to encourage each other every day supporting one another in this journey of Life the Bible says the thief comes only to steal to kill and to destroy but Jesus has come that we may have life and have it to the to the full so let us in one voice call on the name of [Music] Jesus shout Jesus the m Mountain Jesus in the trees Jesus in the darkness over every
00:58:37 en Jesus family I the ho name [Music] Jesus shout Jesus from the mountain Jesus in the stre Jesus is the darkness over every eny Jesus for my family I speak the Holy Name Jesus for his name is power your name is power your name is healing your name is break every stronghold break every stronghold sh to the [Music] Shadows like a let's sing it one more time your power your name is power your name is healing yes it is your name [Music] is break every stronghold break every stronghold shine through the
01:00:04 Shadows like a break every stronghold shine through the [Music] Shadows burn amen praise the Lord praise the [Music] Lord friends I'm going to be giving the Ben addiction now but as I do that if any of you are caught in a bad situation and you don't know the way out you're going through troubles that you don't know how to deal with it after Ben do come to front for prayer the elders the pastors here and brothers and sister are more than happy to Journey with you it's not about accountability it's about
01:01:10 journeying together in life because we are actually given by God to you to serve you to be with you as you go through in the Journey of life so after if you have anything that you need please do come and we can all pray together and just just have somebody to listen to you and talk to you a bit about it as well now receive the benediction benediction is from Galatians 2: 20 I've been crucified with Christ and I no longer live but Christ lives in me the life I now live in the body I live by faith in the Son of God
01:01:46 who loved me and gave himself for me as you go forth may love Grace and peace surround you and shine through you in all you do as you live for him [Music] Amen brother and sister so anyone need prayer please uh come you'll be here have a day
