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00:00:00 today's scripture reading is taken from The Book of Matthew chapter 6 verse 5-1 15 verse five and when you pray do not be like the Hypocrites for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others truly I tell you they have received a reward in full but when you pray go into your room close the door and pray to your father who is unseen then your father who sees what is done in secret will reward you and when you pray do not keep on babbling like pagans for they
00:00:41 think they will be heard because of the many words do not be like them for your father knows what you need before you ask him this then is how you should pray Our Father in heaven Hallowed Be Your Name Your Kingdom Come your will be done on Earth as it is in heaven give us today our daily bread and forgive us our debts as we also have forgiven our debors and lead us not into temptation but Deliver Us from the evil one for if you forgive other people when they sin against you your heavenly father will
00:01:20 also forgive you but if you do not forgive others their sins your father will not forgive your sins this is the word of God good morning FBC okay nice to see you over here let's uh commit the time to the Lord in prayer father we thank you for today Lord thank you for letting us come to meditate and think about this prayer that you given to us Lord this template this this prayer that you want us to use as we come to you to pray and to ask for the things that we have in our hearts Lord help us to align our hearts to you
00:02:09 help us to understand what you mean by all this speak to us Lord in Jesus name we pray amen okay now can I just quickly check uh can the YouTube guys see me or not still cannot okay no worries right so good morning all of you now uh today we'll be continuing on the Lord's Prayer part three so like a Trilogy like that and so this is the last part of it and so we're using the passages that you read just now okay this is where while while they manage to get the slides working okay uh let me get it on
00:02:53 here okay so this is a lot spray that you have seen earlier already Our Father in Heaven hello be your name your kingdom come your will be done on Earth as it is in heaven this part we actually learned last week and now today we'll be focusing on give us today our daily breid forgive us our debts as we also forgive our debors and lead us not into temptation but Deliver Us from the evil one when you look at this actually the Lord's breay can be split into quite a nice structure for you see first one is
00:03:24 we come to God because he's our father in Heaven this is a found Foundation of prayer you're coming to him because he's our daddy and this is what Dr Peter was preaching earlier and after that there are three petitions that we make which is actually concerning God concerning God his kingdom his name we want to lift his name up we want to make his name holy which means make his name special make his name sacred that people will rever respect him we want his kingdom to come on Earth and we his will to be done
00:03:55 in our lives and in the lives of everyone around and in the world as well and after that the next three petitions are concerning us and so yes it's finally time we can ask for things that we like already okay so we can ask our daily breid can ask for forgiveness and lead not into temptation but what do all these things really mean now before we go on to this I want to give you a bit of context of U why uh why Jesus actually shared this is it really like this you see Matthew 633 it says but seek first the
00:04:25 kingdom of God and his righteousness and all these things shall be added to you does it mean that when you pray the Lord's Prayer it's like okay you must handle you must settle all the things God wants after that then you get all the things that you want is it like that you scratch my back I scratch yours you do the things that God wants first then you get what you want is that how it is answer is no it's not how this is not how you look at it now a bit of context in the beginning before the fall Heaven
00:04:51 and Earth were together heaven and our world was connected together God walked on Earth that was how it was during Adam and Eve's time but all of us know when sin came we were separated from God and a lot of times in our minds we think that this is how it looks our world and Heaven is separated but how can you kick the Creator out how can you kick God out of the earth there's no way for you to kick God out of our world right and also at the same time God does not want to leave world the world as well and all this
00:05:22 while what he has been trying to do is he's been trying to connect to us he's he raises people from time to time he raises a so that people will be able to drawn back to him okay he actually gotten the Israelites ask them to follow the laws give them 10 commments but people couldn't do it and in the New Testament this is where Jesus comes into sin Jesus comes in sin and why does he come he says over here from the time Jesus began to preach and to say repent for the kingdom of God for the Kingdom of Heaven
00:05:53 is at hand which mean that Jesus is preaching that the kingdom is coming what it means is Kingdom of Heaven already Heaven itself is actually invading Earth God is invading our world and trying to write the wrongs and change us to become who we are supposed to be God is trying to rescue the people on Earth so and as you actually become Christians as you follow Jesus you also become like Jesus and you also spread the word to others and you live the way that he wants you to live and so if you see again our father in
00:06:27 Heaven these are things that we supposed to be concerned about his kingdom his glory and as we do that as well these are things that God is concerned about as well things that Rel to us our needs our forgiveness and also to lead us and to give us our protection so this is what um William shared last week and if you see it when people ask Jesus what are the great what's the greatest commandment and he says over here love your God with all your heart soul and mind and the second one is like it love your neighbor
00:07:01 as yourself and you can see that the Lord's Prayer fits very nicely into this as well to these two Commandments the first one is you love God through the first three petitions and after that the other three petitions you love your neighbor as yourself through those three as well so it actually shows you that this is a heartbeat of God this is what really God cares about and so today we're looking at three main things God's provision God's pardon and God's protection three different things over here the first one God God's provision
00:07:31 now give us today our daily bread we're going to look at this word by word first one GI what does GI mean GI basically means that everything that you have comes from God everything sometimes it takes us time to really think about is it true everything we have comes from God do we live like that when we say everything comes from God and it's all given by God it means that the food that you ate this morning for breakfast it came from God when it was in the field the reason why they could actually be crops for example if
00:08:06 you ate oats for example is because in the morning the sun god provided the sunlight for the crops to grow after that there was rain there Harvest actually came next God provided the people to harvest it and actually produce it next God provided Logistics so that these items no matter how good they are maybe in a different country maybe in Ukraine or different places these things were actually transported to you and God provided you with the money that's necessary so that you could buy the food is it good enough really
00:08:41 now the food has reached you what happens next well the ability to eat is also given by God the ability to earn money is also given by God the ability to store money is also given by God if you can earn money but your money is like ring it inflation a thousand times right if if you are from Zimbabwe all the money they earn goes to zero directly because you cannot even store money anymore so that's a case over here for us in understand that everything we have comes from God and even when you have gotten the money and you want to
00:09:12 eat whether you have the health to eat is also given by God so this is for us to recognize and remember everything we have comes from God and sometimes we don't really see how much God is involved in our lives the second one is today the word today today now today means that we can have gratitude to God that today we can pray to God for this we can pray to God today for the Daily Bread the reason why you have today is because you have yesterday because God provided to you yesterday and the days
00:09:44 before as well so we can be always thankful to know that when we pray to God for the daily bre of today he has provided daily bre for to us for many many days before this for years and years he's provided Sunshine provided jobs provided rain provided health for us for years and years and therefore today we can still be here to pray today whereby we say that we have gratitude and we say give us today our daily bread the third word we have is braad what does braid mean braid means that we can pray for the Necessities in our lives
00:10:17 and you can notice over here is not asking you to pray for your Omak it's asking you pray for Necessities things that you need in your life okay bread now does it mean that you only pray for bread does it mean that you can't pray for other things no necessity means what you need in order for you to live your life for example shelter your clothing and perhaps if you're a young boy and looking to study University and if you believe this is something you need you can pray to God God I pray for funds so that I can study in
00:10:47 University I pray for a good University for me to study in so I can glorify your name so these are all Necessities you can pray for as well so it's not just bread and food but you're praying for all the things you need in your life perhaps you pray for anything else anything you can think of things that you think is needed in your life but again take note it's not luxury but what you need and so it's also good for us to think what do we really need in our lives I'll come back to that later as well now so when you look at this okay
00:11:16 we depend on God we know that God is good he's been faithful to us and we can pray for his needs and this for us is okay still not bad it's quite good give us today our day break okay we can pray for this now I just introduce a few more things for you the next word we learn is the word us you you can see over here when you ask to pray you're not praying give me today my daily bread you're praying give us today our daily bread and this us is not your family this us is everybody pray for everybody's Daily Bread which
00:11:52 means that you asked to think about the people around you the people who maybe don't have a job who maybe are sick who cannot eat who maybe are in war torn countries who do not have the necessary items for them to survive you ask to pray for them and as you pray for them you understand that some of you may have a lot of Daily Bread some of you have a lot of money and you wonder what am I supposed to do this this money I spoken to a lot of business uh owners as well and yes what's your plan next next year
00:12:22 oh earn more money grow my company otherwise what am I supposed to do I'm supposed to grow my company right maybe yes maybe true you're supposed to do that but at the same time have you ever taught why God gave you that promotion why God gave you that bonus is it so they can spend the money to buy a Rolex for you to decide not for me to decide but the answer is if you see the lot spray over here it is specifically telling us that we are supposed to think about others we supposed to think about others just like during the days of the
00:12:55 Israelites in the wilderness when the Israelites were in the wilderness in uh when they were walking going towards Canaan they didn't have food to eat what did God give them Mana right so when Mana came what happened is it started falling from the sky and when you get it some people have bigger hands some people have smaller hands some maybe were sick and couldn't go out to collect so if you're very big hands or you're very smart you think of maybe using a cloth to collect and you collected a lot of Mana what what are
00:13:25 you supposed to do start an Enterprise and Trade It Mana Enterprise you go around the world Mana you can you can get this you got zero you don't pay any money zero cost you get this for free and what you do you give it to everyone you sell it the answer is if you remember the Mana doesn't last for tomorrow it's SPO so what you do is so much Mana you collected you give it to your friends you give it to your relatives you give it to your neighbors to eat and this is something that is in the old days in my parents generation it
00:14:02 was common if you have a tree in your garden and there's fruits what do you do you share right you share your neighbors do you pluck it out and sell hey buy my buy my fruits you do that you don't right this this is something that last time people have but nowadays we become individualized and I can share with you before the invention of the refrigerator this could happen a lot more but now we can say we can store things really we can store value we can store things in the freezer and so people don't think so much of that and
00:14:32 they say that oh I can store it for tomorrow but God says that we need to have compassion and think about others the next word we learn is Daily Now what does daily mean it means that when you pray for God's provision we pray for Daily Bread you're not praying for the provision for next year you're praying for the provision of today what you need for today what is needed for your next day so praying for what is coming up next so it means that you're not supposed to pray that Lord give me a million bucks in the bank you're
00:15:07 supposed to pray for what you really need now okay what you really need now for to leave your day for today and it requires you to follow to have humble submission and Faith to trust in God that he will provide every single day so I put it together it means that we're supposed to fully dependent on God and when we actually ask for God's Daily Bread we asking for the entire Community people around us we we have gratitude that God is supplying us all this while and he's supplying all the needs we need
00:15:36 all the needs that we have and he's given enough for us today tomorrow God will give us what we need again when I look at it this totally goes against the Chinese New Year festival and culture okay agree or not we see sh what do you say well uh non-christians will say okay right I'm going to translate for you means hope you get rich okay N means that every year you got a lot of fish no every year you got a lot of extras that's what it means by that okay every got a lot extras that's what you're supposed to pray they
00:16:20 supposed to wish each other but if you look at the Lord's Prayer you know what it's supposed to say can you translate L's prayer into greeting when you see people during CH year today you have rice to eat okay so he rich people that today you got rice to eat tomorrow no no don't talk about tomorrow don't talk about tomorrow you got Stars don't talk about you have a lot in the bank no today got rice hey hey today got rice you're supposed to Rich like that does it make sense to you but God asks us to pray like that to ask
00:16:56 for him for today's needs and when you look at it we think this is quite funny and I think it fun is funny as well and you look at it this culture that we have continues and it will continue to grow because when you ever whenever you put something to replace God when you ever try to replace God you see that that thing never satisfies you you can see this decoration quite old these actually are maybe 20 30 years ago now this when they meet each other has improved really it's an upgraded version you know what they actually wish
00:17:28 each other okay I explain to means that one night within one night you become extremely rich powerful actually means violently Rich okay within one night you become violently Rich okay it's exploding like that they're supposed to happen to you so F high is like ear a bit extra maybe you go and buy 40 you earn you get 10,000 ring like that okay but powerful means that sun you become so rich that everybody knows about you within one night not by working 30 years okay within one night the SE next one which
00:18:09 means that your family becomes very fat and very prosperous your house is very big and nice as well okay but that it doesn't end you know what is next thing I think this is from China uh so I don't hear a lot of people maybe I'm just outdated but I don't hear a lot of people wishing this but what I see online when we bought some decorations online this is what they actually give you nowadays they ask you to hang it in your house I'm going to explain to you what it means ring means that you have very
00:18:41 rich you got a money Runing means that you can do anything you want you can be spot you can be stubborn You Can Be You Can Be You don't need to have self-control rich without self-control which you have Rich and you don't need self-control the next one which that you are known in the world as a rich woman that's what you're supposed to you're supposed to reach each other if you look at it do you see a progression from something very simple every year got some extra suddenly you want to one night become
00:19:13 violently Rich the next one is you will be known to be the rich woman in the whole world like rosar okay that's what you're supposed to wish for now do you know why we have such wishes there's a reason because we are orphans like this Coran orphans here we are orphans when we live like this when we wish like this the right reason is because we are orphans we live like we have no daddy mommy we live like we know Daddy Mommy now what do I mean by that uh after the World War II Korea was in a very bad
00:19:54 state if all of you have traveled to Korea before 30 40 years ago you know it's actually very bad situation they were very they were like a third world country there's not enough food to eat and there have a lot of Orphans in Korea after the war and these people have no place to say these children have but typically left restituted and nobody take carees of them so the Angels Came and they took care of them they gave them shelter they give them food they give them warm bit they give them clothing and everything was nice and
00:20:21 given to them but they had one problem the problem they had is these children couldn't sleep at night no matter what you do for them they will not sleep and this je people and this volunteers are wondering why couldn't they sleep they just couldn't sleep do you know why they couldn't sleep they actually one person actually thought about this why don't I come up one way let's try this they give every single children a piece of bread every single person to have a piece of bread and they held on to the breid and they
00:20:55 sleep they h on the breid and they sleep and only then they could all fall asleep the reason why they couldn't sleep was because in their hearts they worry about tomorrow will I have food for tomorrow or not I have no more daddy mommy will this volunteers still be around to take care of me will there be shelter for me will there be people coming to kidnap us or sell us away but that piece of bread gave them the assurance that at least I have that piece of bread in my hands and so I can sleep and Friends brothers and sisters a
00:21:41 lot of times perhaps this is what we're doing we want a very big bank account why because from Young a lot of you maybe you were grown you brought up like me from Young we told that nobody's going to help you you are on your your own if you do not work hard you're going to die you will have no food to eat you become a rubbish collector and because of all this in our hearts we have stoed this understanding that we are on our own what can save us these hands these hands I have these are what will save
00:22:23 me and so this is where we come from we come from a place whereby we don't want Daily Bread we want to have abundance because why because nobody is here to help us the government is not here the skin color is not right they come from Rich family who will help us and so this is why a lot of times people ask why uh not trying to be racist but people ask why Chinese always want money why Chinese work so hard and I think a lot of times it comes from this culture to say that you depend on your own strength and
00:23:04 make sure that you can survive so this is where we all come from but this poisons us and makes us become idolizing something but we know we shouldn't live like this because why because we have a daddy we have a father in Heaven who cares for us who make sure that we have everything we need every day now our Heavenly daddy knows what we need a lot of times when you don't know Christ we cannot plan the future and we use data we use numbers we use the talents to to do what we need but you see over here when we know God this is
00:23:44 what Jesus says so do not worry saying what shall we eat or what shall we drink or what shall we wear for the pagans run after all these things and your heavenly father knows that you need them your daddy knows what you need my children don't need to tell me too tomorrow Daddy will you buy food or not will you make sure I have food for tomorrow they never care they don't need to ask anything they know that tomorrow there'll be food somehow don't know why the fridge always got food they know that this happened and
00:24:12 it's nothing to do with me my wife is buying all the food actually right but they don't even need to ask and this is the same as our father in Heaven as our daddy in heaven he cares enough for us whereby you don't even need to ask he prepares everything you need everything you need we even get the Necessities that we don't know how to ask for and so I think Dr Peter or William shared this earlier when you pray God will give you all the things that you need even though you didn't ask for it if you knew about it you will ask for
00:24:45 it but because you don't know about it he gives you anyway so we get all the necessity we don't not that we do not know we should ask for as well now I give you scenario let's talk about Israelites again so they were slaves in Israel as slaves in Israel what will you pray and ask God for oh pray that there's not enough there won't be so much work to do tomorrow pray there's some onions and cucumbers to eat this what they like pray that there'll be a bit more onions tomorrow it' be a wonderful day but what
00:25:15 did God give them God called a Shepherd Called Moses and talk to him through a burning bush and tell him I've heard the miseries and cries of my people in in Egypt and now I'm asking you to go and free them the Israelites will not even know what to ask for second one after that what if you you know oh yeah Moses is coming what should you do ask Moses God pray that Moses can negotiate we'll be able to negotiate with Pharaoh but no God gives a 10 ples extreme show of power so that Pharaoh will relent and
00:25:56 let the Israelites leave so what's the next thing you should pray for don't know H maybe don't know so God can control the the the frogs and the Locust what should I pray for now I left ready don't know what happened the next was God gives you in the wildness before you even think about it he gives you a pillar of cloud and fire in the morning when it's hot scorching hot you will die over there God gives you a cloud to protect you to make sure that you can survive and at night when it's super cold in the desert he gives you fire to
00:26:28 warm you up you won't even know how to ask for it and the Red Sea parted nobody even said when the when isra when the um Egyptians were chasing after them they said what should we do do you ask us to come out here to die nobody even thought about what can God provide but God told told Moses go and part the r sea put your stuff there part the r sea and you walk on dry ground will you even know how to ask for a dry ground can you imagine the sea the ground is totally muddy you can't even walk but they were
00:26:59 given dry ground to walk next fous Army drown do you even how ask you never know water from a rock when you are thirsty food caught Mana falling from the sky they didn't even know what it is that's why they call mana mana actually translate to what is it Chinese this actually Mana that's what Mana means something you don't even know what it is and you eat it you don't even ask how to ask for it and God gives it to you and this man very special Monday to Friday cannot store one Saturday and sorry sorry Sabbath so Sunday to help me
00:27:42 Sunday to Thursday Sunday to Thursday cannot St Friday can St two days know why on Sabbath sunay you can St for one extra day next one during the battle somehow you raise your hands that you can win the war okay and the and 10 one Jericho when they actually went to Canaan the war fell and the armies die you don't even know how to ask for this but God gives you everything you need so when you pray for your daily bread understand that you don't even know what you should pray for but God has given you all that you
00:28:19 need and at the same time do we pafy just realiz on God if you hear this wow okay don't you worry Prosperity gosp just do everything we need is given by God no not necessary you see the Mana stopped the day they ate food from Canaan when they actually arrived Canan when they eat the first produce what happened was there was no longer any Mana given to them the Mana stopped on the day which means that God asked them to work for their food ready so when you pray give the word give itself it's not just ask passively it means
00:28:56 that you put your hands to work you join God to work to serve to produce things to invent things to create Beauty and this what it's supposed to do and so when you do all this you are joining together with God to give to the people they deliberate their Necessities at the same time we also have obligation to others as we shared earlier that we're supposed to take care of others so when you have a lot with you always remember Justice Means that you share with others this is not charity this is called Justice just like what job say
00:29:33 over there now moving on when you actually really pray this give us today our Del and you practice it there be no needy persons among the the church already so in Acts over here you see that it says that God's grace was so powerfully ever in them all that there were no needy persons among them for from time to time why why there was no need people not because God Reign manner but because those who own land or houses sold them brought the money from the sales and put it at the apostles feet and it was distributed so people
00:30:06 when you actually practi this properly the whole society benefits that's the first point we learned today God's provision there two be a bit shorter the second one is God's pardon now what do you mean by God's pardon over here it says forgive us our depths as we also have forgiven our debtors first one us forgive us understand that all of us have sinned you're not here because you're SM you're not here because you're smart you're not here because you made the right choice because I heard that sermon and then I
00:30:41 thought that you sound reasonable you know so I actually decided to become a Christian it's not because you're smart you became a Christian it's because God found you God chased you okay The Hound of heaven was following you all his well and give you the opportunity to hear and make you respond at the same time so all have sinned in fact when we pray this forgive us our deaths and all we also forgive our deaths if you look at over here the whole Faith the Christ followers are centered in this there is
00:31:15 only we are only called Christians or Christ followers why because Jesus died for us our whole faith is centered on God pardon my sins because of Christ and this real understand that we should always forgive other people and this forgiveness helps to change the world as well next one forgive when we actually pray forgive does it mean that God doesn't forgive you don't pray no when you pray forgive what it really means is that it's a restoration of relationships it means that God has forgiven you but
00:31:50 what you want is it's not that sorry don't don't sumon me is not that forgive what this forgive actually means is I want want to be connected again to you I want to be in a good relationship again with you because when you have sin between you and God you you can't have a good relationship with God and so when you pray at this you're actually asking God to forgive and I want to be in good relationship with you again the next one debts we all have debts to God we have all debts to people we have sins of
00:32:21 omission sin of commission which means that things that we do wrong that we know is wrong we say something wrong we were fear we were we didn't do something okay that's a sin of omission so commission Omission both are there so we have obligations to God with obligations to people as well and it's something for us to understand next one we also have forgiven our datus when he said we also have forgiven datus what it means is as God has forgiven us we are supposed to extend this grace to others we know how
00:32:54 much we have sinen and if you meditate every day you know how much in fact sometime you don't even know you SE in there's so much that we have done wrong but we are asked to be graceful to others have have mercy on others as well and finally thing over here forgiven we're supposed to pray and empathize with others so when we pray for forgive and also have and as we also have forgiven adors what it means is Father forgive me just have I also forgiven them please forgive them also because they don't know what they are doing
00:33:25 that's what we supposed to pay pray and the final one which is very important for all of us to understand especially if you serve especially if you're in church we will all have dors we people who ow us things we have people who wrong us and there are people who wrong us and they will never repent your job is not to make them repent your job is to forgive whe they repent or not is between them and God your job is just to forgive so it means that when you serve in church it's possible that you the
00:33:54 user people are nasty to you so if you cannot forgive want to do radi I don't want to serve R you know that day I was standing there I hand I extend my hand don't want to know don't want to shake my hands you know uh so if that's the case then how uh so kick him out of church discipline him church discipline uh so then cannot so you hop from church to church to church to church why because we cannot forgive but remember we owe God so much and Christ has forgiven us and therefore we can also forgive
00:34:28 others so who should we forgive our families because as you live people one thing you understand is we are humans and we do wrong and therefore what we need to know is we will make some mistakes and as you can make mistakes your family members will make mistakes so we need learn to forgive our family members forgive our co-workers our colleagues our bosses who give certain deadlines or maybe maybe you didn't do good job whatever it is forgive each other forgive FBC forgive the members here sometimes we have people who we
00:35:09 rupt each other wrongly and all of us come with baggages of sin and our sin will cause us to react certain way perhaps you say a certain word to you is nothing but to me it's very sensitive and I will react because my baggages cause me to Rea but forgive forgive FC forgive the brothers and sisters here because God has forgiven us as well understand that we are all working together and perhaps for some of us forgive him recently he has been uh given some reduction of his uh sentence can you forgive him or not canot forgive him 50
00:35:50 million and he doesn't pay that 50 million he just needs to stay one extra year in in jail okay okay cannot wow okay so we are online here okay so forgive him so if you cannot forgive him how can you expect God to forgive you what you owe to God is way more than what he owes to you he owes it but two to 3,000 ring only actually you calculate by the millions of population he only took two to 3,000 ring from you why you so angry right just I took from many many people right so forgive because what we
00:36:27 actually oh to God is way more and God has forgiven us and most important word they know not what they do they don't know that they're wrong they don't know so that's the second part God's pardon and the third one we have today is God's protection lead us not into temptation but Deliver Us from the evil one first one US lead us not in tation this is a negative request it's like telling your wife please don't ever leave me if it doesn't mean that your wife will leave you but it just means that I really want
00:37:02 you to be with me so leader Inception is saying that please help me I don't want to be tempted God please help me and next one over here temptation to understand that we are weak whether you are leaders in church whether you are Christian for 20 30 40 50 years understand that you may fall you look at Z Ravi Zacharias you see so many church leaders it doesn't matter how many bibles you read a day it doesn't matter but you understand that we all can fall we all are weak next one you see over here it says
00:37:37 that when tempted no one should say God is tempting me for God cannot be tempted by evil nor does he tempt anyone but each person is tempted when they are dragged Away by their own evil desire and enti so God doesn't tempt us but is our evil desires actually cause us to actually be dragged away and but most important over here is this and after that desire is conceived it's like a baby like that when you have the desire and you continue allowing to faster and grow it gives birth to sin and what is
00:38:05 Sin Sin when it's fully grown it causes death so understand that if you are a Believer even even if you're not believer there is a lion that's constantly prowling and trying to devour you every single minute even when you're sitting here the devil is always trying to attack you we are always under constant attack and we need the deliverance and protection of God and we also can be assured to know that God's mercy and protection is there so we can come to God and say that we want to follow you and I want you to help me
00:38:42 to be not tempted and to follow your ways because we don't want to waste our lives away temptation is everywhere and nowadays is even gotten very crazy now this is a actual Facebook post I got and this person said hi I would like like to ask something for my friend normally starts like that and he says is it normal to drink do drugs and sleep with a client to close their business deal after doing all that the client really let me do business you know sometimes I feel sad last time I only seen movies
00:39:13 but now it's happening to me and this person that's asking this question this friend is asking for is actually not a girl know it's a man which means a man is being requested to you want to business me right okay young man you want to this is me come on tonight let's go to the hotel the world is very different now right but this is what happens but if you look at the question the the comments that come it's even more interesting look at the comments comments say okay is it worth it or not if you do this deal can retire
00:39:45 or not okay if can you retire you must get deposit you know get paid up front only can do you know or second one over here well it depends on what time business you're doing and how how lucrative are if you don't few thousand R don't want to do which means that if it's a more than okay is it so temptation is everywhere because we believe that again remember what I'm telling you today we are orphans when you leave Way by you need a very big bank account only can sleep we are living like orphans and for for you maybe you're not
00:40:19 tempted with money you say I'm a Christian you know you tempted with food to destroy your body so that you cannot be even awake when youen listen to sermons eat a lot already you can't even have energy to do anything else or maybe for you you got a lot of time you retired already what do I do now it's time to enjoy life you watch Netflix you go out everywhere and you just waste your life away perhaps or for some of us we have other Temptations we look at Instagram and we Envy others oh just uh my friend just told me recently that saw
00:40:57 somebody owning a 7 million ring house I also want to have 7 million Ring House someone the body so nice or I so want to be strong like that every look at Instagram and you're feeding yourself with that and even though you don't search you go on Instagram directly it will show you a suggest things for you and maybe for some of us gossip okay talking about church members talking about people talking about colleagues gossip are we tempted with all this all these things destroy our lives destroys the church destroys our
00:41:27 comp destroys the community so for us how do you want to live and sin leads to death this is a main point why should we pray lead us not into temptation temptation is something we say w nice or you know what that got opportunity for a nice deal don't do never mind think about it w got nice girl messaging me yeah just talk to her that's why a lot of people do SES are ladies right okay but this temptation is something for you understand in James it says here after desire is conceived it gives of sin and
00:41:58 sin when is fully grown gives birth to death so to understand over here you see this cycle it is a spiraling down cycle that when you go in you're trapped and you cannot come out anymore and God is saying that you are precious I don't want to waste your life a like this don't be trapped by sin don't be under the Yoke of sin so these are three things we learned today now but if you put all together you see our foundation remember we have a daddy in heaven that really cares about us and we pray for his name to be
00:42:34 glorified his kingdom to come and his will to be done and as we do that he cares about all the needs we have even those that we don't know we ask for him to forgive our sins because we do wrong things we humans but we also should try to improve and we ask God not to lead us into temptation so this is God's plan for us God wants to extend his kingdom once more people to know him and so over here you have a choice to make in John 10:10 it says the thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy I've come that they
00:43:07 may have life and have it to the full so you have a choice to watch Netflix for the rest of your life to eat all you like or do even live a lifeby is amazing life that every day you look forward to waking up the one that it is possible to have such a life through Christ Jesus now I want to just ask you some some questions as you learn all this R day as you apply it I was trying to struggle through this as well what is our daate is this my daate can this be my daily braate it's for you to decide again I'm
00:43:46 not giving you answer okay or can this be my delate or not is this necessity at least give me this one or perhaps this is your necessity what is a necessity it's something I want to think about but I want to share with you this how are this can this be a delibery or not can it be whereby God says that the Necessities in your life is that you must be able to live in a situation whereby they are fleas biting you is that okay or not is it okay does it mean that when you become a Christian you must live in
00:44:20 a place where by is totally nice with Acorn uh cannot live in this third world situation where there are fleas this is Cory tbom and many of us know about her already and so Cory and the family actually hit a lot of Jews uh in the house and saved them from the na so she's from she's a Dutch and so after she did all these good things after she saved people and she served to serve the Lord right what happened to her she was sent into a concentration camp to stay there whereby the baits were so low that you can't even open up you
00:45:02 can't even get up and so Betsy and Cory both of them were sent to the concentration camp and they were supposed to die over there and over there this is what happened the situation was really terrible the the hay the stws over there just bad very bad condition and there were a lot of bait bucks biting them so one one day Quarry woke up and shouted to bety say B wake up there are things biting me and Che see here oh God here here w w look there's blood there's flee biting me how can we stay here and then Cory heard
00:45:38 Betsy saying show us show us how show us how she looked at Betsy and saw that Bessie was praying praying to God show us how to live and so Bessie said I remember now we just read 1 Thessalonians 5 this morning it says here and we urge you brothers and sisters warn those who are Idol and disruptive encourage the disart help the weak be patient with everyone make sure that nobody pays back wrong for wrong but always try to do what is good for each other and for everyone else Rejoice always and this is the most important
00:46:13 part pray continually give thanks in all circumstances for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus so basically say this is it you see God told you even before he asked God told you the way to overcome this is to pray to give thanks so let's start giving thanks and Cory said what do you want me give thanks for in this concentration camp Bic say well we can give thanks that we are in the same place staying together say okay give thanks to God that I have bet SE with me next one what is can give thanks for you give thanks
00:46:46 that there are other people together with here that we can actually talk to them okay next one can give thanks to give thanks I have a Bible somehow their Bible was not confiscated give thanks for the Bible yes I can give thanks to the Bible and give thanks to the p is smelly and it's very crowded okay I can't cre for that it's this is not what I I'm I'm not used to this so no pray for this because now when you have all this it means that you have a situation whereby there's a lot of people can hear
00:47:14 the gospel and they always pray with them and talk to them and final thing B says that okay and final thing let's give thanks for the fleece and Cory said no God will not be able to make me give thanks for the fleece fleece cannot be anything good for us it can't be good for us but over here in the Bible says give thanks in all circumstances in all circumstances so Cory say okay fine God thank you for the thank you for the fleas thank you for the flee and this is her situation and after a while the said
00:47:57 why they could have quiet time where they could read the Bible and do everything is because God gave them the fleece because there's so much fleas the soldiers didn't even want to come in so the fleas saved them and allow them to minister to others it was the fleas that helped them and over here it says we sometimes think that being grateful is what we do after our problems are solved but how terbly shortsighted is how much of Life do we miss and it's true you miss a lot if you wait until get all you want we
00:48:28 should be able to give thanks for the rain before the rainbow before the rainbow comes and so the final thing I'll share with you is perhaps forgiveness okay the another point to share with you the whole faith that we have is based on forgiveness this bani tribe were very violent people and Jim Elliott and a few friends went to minister to them and try to reach out to them in the end they were speared to death and as they were spe to death if you take note over there in the story online can find as well they actually
00:49:05 had guns to defend themselves as a minister if I'm a pastor if the person going to kill me what you do if a gun you defend yourself right so God will not blame me man I can shoot him other I'm going to die then who going to preach the gospel to other people I'm the pastor you know but over here what this guy did was he actually shot the gun to the sky in z to give a warning shot and he dies and you say what good can come of this what good can come of this many many years later mink actually told his
00:49:39 son I'm the person who killed your father and he told his son kill me now because I don't know why your father is amazing and I should have died I shouldn't have killed him and in the wani tribe it was very common to say that if somebody has wronged you you have the right to kill them you right to spear them to death and this culture was so big whereby in the end of the day they were many people who couldn't live until the old age the Anthropologist look at it and said that because of this culture of killing each other when
00:50:12 you're angry they were actually get getting extinct because when you're angry I kill you angry I kill me every day you kill each other it was actually their right to do that but because of Jim Elliott his family and everyone else they changed they came to know Christ and this is what J says he is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose and because of that this is M and the son Jim and son they have reconsult and the whole tribe many people came to know Christ so forgiveness is something for us to
00:50:52 remember as well to know that ultimately we have been forgiven and therefore we can forgive others the final thing I share with you as we end is this if you see over here the entire petition is us there's lot us it's never about you and so I'm the strong andc of you if you are Christian and you're living alone you come to church you go home and leaving alone I want to invite you to join us because life is not meant to be journeyed alone you meant to journey together with other people and so join a live group get to
00:51:26 know people and because why because your daily breid maybe come from from other people or maybe you have enough that give to others as well and you can help each other as you journey through life so you are not alone and this is what we did yesterday went for Bak with uh our life group members uh CIA so there are lot other members that if you have young families you have children and you journey together you can contact Johnson and then uh we can also journey together and like would be much better and you actually learn a lot
00:51:59 and you have much richer life so can I just invite the worship team up if you look at this what we have shared with you ultimately we not asking you to live a life whereby suddenly you become a like Cory tum and go and do a lot of things that unimaginable but what we saying is this the entire prayer The Lord's Prayer starts with the foundation the foundation is the foundation is what our father in Heaven is because Christ died for us what we need is not another bank account is not more money in the bank but what
00:52:38 we need is Christ we need God in our lives we need to stop being orphans and have our father and acknowledge Him [Music] amen shall we all rise and as we sing this song Let's confess that indeed we need him in our [Music] [Music] lives Lord I come and I confess [Music] bowing here I find my rest without you I fall apart you're the one that guides My [Music] Heart Lord I need you oh oh I need [Music] you every hour I need you my one defense my rightousness oh God how I need [Music] you where sin runs deep where sin runs
00:54:26 deep Your Grace is where Grace is found is where you are get where you are Lord I am free Hol is Christ in sing where you are oh Where You Are Lord I am free Holiness is Christ in me Lord I need you oh I need you every every are I need you my one UND defense my rightousness oh God how I need you sing that again Lord I need you Lord I need you oh I need you every every hour I need you my one defense my rightousness oh God how [Music] I you come the time of the Lord's supper if all of you can just take out
00:56:25 your elements the passage is taken from 1 Corinthians 11: 23 for I receive from the Lord what I also pass on to you the Lord Jesus on the night he was betrayed took bread and when he given thanks he broke it and said this is my body which is for you do this in remembrance of [Music] me friends as we come to the Lord's table let us remember that we are here not because we're smart and we can be call we can call God the Father our daddy is because Christ died for sins on the cross he took all our sins and all the things that we have
00:57:16 done wrong and he has actually forgiven us and because of this we can have a new life and so as we spend the next 30 seconds just just to think about it I just want you to ask yourself there are two roads in front of you two roads one leave with your own strength with your own hands you do all what you need to survive to drive but you know the money the things that you learn from there the things you earn will never satisfy you the other one is you call God your dad and know that he will supply you even
00:57:58 the things that you don't even know how to ask for depend on him and the most important thing you got from him is forgiveness reconciliation with him let's spend the next 20 seconds to think about this [Music] father we want to give thanks to you that Lord you didn't save anything and you gave the most precious to us give us your son Jesus Christ to die on a cross for our sins for our pardon so that we may be no longer bounded by sin that we may live lives that pleasing to you lives that have meaning and not be just going
00:59:05 through a vicious cycle and living without hope Lord we don't need to have bread in our hands anymore Lord because we have you we have a daddy that will supply for us tomorrow and Lord thank you for everything you've done for us thank you for Jesus Christ let's take a break together [Music] ver 25 in the same way after supper he took the cup saying this cup is a New Covenant in my blood do this whenever you drink it in remembrance of me friends as we look at ahead 1 month of 2024 is gone already how do you feel generally to
01:00:04 be is it just running across so fast that you can't even keep track but God wants to tell you stop thinking about the bread for tomorrow he will supply your needs forgive the people around you because God has forgiven you empathize with them because they know not what they [Music] do and help us to always remember do not run towards Temptation flee from Temptation from adultery from sin from covetousness from all this gossip and anything that is not from the Lord as Christ has died for us let us have a
01:00:53 different appetite to ask for his King Kingdom his name to be glorified and his will to be done in our lives let's take this cup [Music] together father we thank you for this communion for us to always remember that Lord you have given us all that we need help us to be appreciative of you and know that all that we do of strength itself also comes from you and Lord most importantly Lord you've given us your word you given us Jesus Christ and because of that we rejoice in our lives to know that we are known by
01:01:39 you we thank you for this in Jesus name I pray amen [Music] sing this after me church so teach my song to rise to [Music] you when Temptation comes my way when I cannot stand I'll all on you Jesus you're my hope and sing again teach my song and teach my song to rise to you when Temptation comes my way when I cannot stand I'll fall on you Jesus You're My Hope and say Lord I need you Lord I need you oh I need you every hour I need you my one defense my rightousness oh God how I need you Lord I need you yes Lord I need
01:03:34 you oh I need you every hour I need you my one defense my rightousness oh God how [Music] now receive the benediction the Lord bless you and keep you the Lord make his face shine on you and be gracious to you and the Lord turn his face toward you and give you peace service is over after moments of Silence meditation um you can have a fellowship outside thank you for those of you who need prayer please uh come to the front uh uh pastors elders and leaders are here to minister and to walk with you
