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00:00:01 [Applause] [Music] today's scripture reading is from matthew chapter 9 verse 18 to 34. while he was saying this a synagogue leader came and knelt before him and said my daughter has just died but come and put your hand on her and she will leave jesus got up and went with him and so did his disciples just then a woman who had been subject to bleeding for 12 years came up behind him and touched the edge of his cloak she said to herself if i only touch his cloak i would be healed jesus turned and saw her
00:00:50 take heart daughter he said your faith has healed you and the woman was healed at that moment when jesus entered the synagogue leader's house and saw the noisy crowd and the people playing pipes he said go away this girl is not dead but asleep but they laugh at him after the crowd had been put outside he went in and took the girl by the hand and she got up news of this spread through all that region jesus went on from there two blind men followed him calling out have mercy on us son of david when he had gone indoors
00:01:33 the blind man came to him and he asked them do you believe that i am able to do this yes lord they replied then he touched their eyes and said according to your faith let it be done to you and your sight was restored jesus warned them sternly see that no one knows about this but they ran out and spread the news about him all over that region while they were going out a man who was demon possessed could not talk was brought to jesus and when the demon was driven out the man who had been mute spoke
00:02:15 the crowd was amazed and said nothing like this has ever been seen in israel but the pharisees said it is by the prince of demons that he drives out demons this is god's word hi fbc it's an honor and a privilege to be here to be able to preach to you and to share this passage of matthew 9 verses 18 to 34 with you today's sermon is titled the unexpected jesus now can i just quickly ask you do you think you are predictable now do you think you're a predictable person or for your wife you know uh when do you
00:02:58 know how your wife behaves do you know all this or not right for me i think i'm quite predictable when i go home my wife knows what i say again generally the answer is i'm so tired that's answer i always give right so how are you do you think you're predictable now there's a study they've been done in moscow last time what happened was they asked all these students to just sit in an exam hall and ask them to write a series of ones and zero one zero one zero and they tell them try to make it as unpredictable as possible and after that
00:03:28 they ask somebody to try to come up with an algorithm a model to detect who is the person who actually wrote this and after this research was being done they found that actually 70 of the graduate students were predictable which means that no matter how you try to hide and change the zeros and ones people could tell that actually this one is written by john or this one written by somebody else they could tell that so this is the case you know humans are predictable and using systems using models we find that this is a true case
00:03:55 now for example this guy i'm going to show you here is it predictable now i think the answer is yes right it's quite predictable the things it says you go online it's always the same tone for him for example he is always good he's always amazing he's always a great he's always the best right so this is uh humans you know we are very predictable if you don't really believe me try to go to your youtube go to your youtube and when you look at youtube do you find that a lot of these videos on your youtube are things that you're
00:04:24 interested in yes or no this is mine so i look at it immediately i feel hey yeah i want to take a look i need to click listen and take a look because i'm interested in it so the same goes for this because they use machine learning they use big data it comes to this humans are very predictable and so therefore when we deal with people we always have a notion of how they are and we we understand people a certain way and we actually expect them to be a certain way how are this guy over here if you look at his face
00:04:52 do you think what was your impression of him what do you think of him for those of you who came for some i think few weeks ago i think this is by dr peter earlier this person is actually jesus right so if i don't tell you this maybe he said that oh this person looks like a hard labor of foreign labor not educated but if i tell you this is the best uh best doctor in the world the smartest person in the world you wouldn't think so right because we have a certain notion of people and the same thing is
00:05:20 this we have a certain notion and certain expectation of who jesus is there's a certain notion and we believe that jesus is a certain way for example jesus looks like this this is how jesus will normally look right jesus must be actually holding a sheep and is very nice and he must look like not look like not jesus for example if i ask you look at this face and they say that you know he's actually kind he loves the world he's a king of the world you find it's a bit hard for you to actually understand
00:05:50 and actually to comprehend this right because we have already taken the fact that jesus supposed to look at this which means that we have actually taken jesus and put him in a box we've taken jesus and put him in a box so today the sermon that we have is is helping you to remove jesus from the box and let you understand jesus for who he is today's uh sermon has three different points here number one the unexpected jesus point number one the next and then ex sorry the unexpected authority of jesus the
00:06:20 unexpected trustworthiness of jesus and the unexpected mercy of jesus three different points and so let's uh commit the time to the lord in prayer and we'll continue fallout we thank you for today lord thank you for letting us come and to hear your word and lord we believe that scripture is called brief and lord i pray that a lot you will speak to everyone including myself and let us see you in a different light let us be able to see who you are really and lord let us know that lord you are king
00:06:54 of kings and lord lords help us to really believe in you and expect great things from you as you expect us to follow you as well thank you lord in jesus name we pray amen now point number one and the unexpected jesus will be a tongue twister right the unexpected authority of jesus now let's okay together in order for us to actually process this first point what is this unexpected authority of jesus let's look at the story when you read the story in matthew 9 verses 18 to 34 understand a bit more and then after
00:07:24 that we will actually find out what we mean by this now the story has a chronology over here there are a few main characters in the story so you have jairus the synagogue leader now you don't see this name inside matthew because this same story is actually being written in mark as well so i'll be using both matthew and mark to actually explain the entire chronology of the story for you so gyrus the suffering woman gyrus friends the mourners the blind man the demon-possessed man and the pharisees now when i go through this
00:07:54 story right i'm looking at what happened to them i want you to think about this question what were their expectations of jesus authority when they look at jesus when they see jesus what were they expecting so these are the two passages for those who are interested these are where the bible verses are coming out from now let's look at the first person jairus the synagogue leader now so in mark you can see that what happened is there was a synagogue leader his name was jairus came and when he saw jesus he fell at
00:08:22 his feet he pleaded earnestly with him my little daughter is dying please come and put your hands on her so that she'll be healed and leave so jesus went with him so this is the first scene now so in jairus eyes of injurious mind what did he expect from jesus he expected that jesus needed to come and touch his daughter and then she would be healed jesus had to come and touch his daughter only then she will be healed second sin while jesus was walking to jairus house a suffering woman a woman actually came and what happened here is
00:08:56 that just then a woman who had been subject to bleeding for 12 years came up behind him and touched the age of his cloak she said to herself if i only touch his cloak i will be healed jesus turned her and saw her take her daughter he said your faith has healed you and the woman was healed at that moment now you look at this what is the expectation of the woman of jesus the expectation is if i touch jesus cloak i will be healed i don't talk to jesus but if only i can just touch his cloak even that jesus is so magical
00:09:30 magical i just need to touch his cloak i will be healed that one while they walking and after all this commotion right so when jesus healed the woman already jairus's friends arrived and so here it says that while jesus was still speaking some people came from the house of jairus the synagogue leader your daughter is dead they said why bother teacher anymore okay so the expectation is it's too late really jesus cannot heal dead people which is true right if the person is dead how do you heal them jesus is a
00:10:02 healer a healer cannot perform anything else it's like a doctor you don't go and call the doctor to go to a person that's date and say hey do something about it you can't do that right so they expect that hey don't catch out the teacher anymore it's too late already all right but jesus said don't be afraid just believe next one so they continued walking and when jesus arrived at the place the mourners were there so in the old days if someone dies definitely to hire some mourners who come actually cry to let
00:10:31 people understand the suffering and pain that the families are going through when jesus entered the synagogue leader's house and saw the noisy crowd and people playing pipes he said go away the girl is not dead but asleep but they laugh at him now these are professional mourners they do this for living they cry for living and what are they thinking they're thinking that i know more than jesus jesus what do you know i see dead people all the time i see that woman i know that she's dead the little girl is dead jesus you're
00:10:58 ridiculous okay you don't understand things i know more than you this my profession you know not that's the case next one and then jairus and the wife so jesus took the child's father and mother and the disciples were with him and went in where the child was he took her by the hand and said to her talitha which means little girl i said to you get up immediately the girl stood up and began to walk around she was 12 years old at this they were completely astonished now if you look at this what was expectation what were the
00:11:27 expectations of jairus and the wife nothing could be done really they don't know why jesus is coming anyway but when jesus actually resurrected their daughter they think it was i didn't think jesus could raise the dead okay they're completely astonished they don't know what is happening hey how come this can happen one i don't know this is something that is beyond our comprehension how can this happen i don't know let's answer and after that the blind man right as jesus went on from there two blind men follow him so
00:11:57 these two blind people who couldn't see jesus keep on shouting have mercy on us old son of david when he had gone indoors the blind man came to him which means that they didn't just follow you know so jesus didn't lie in them they didn't even entertain them and he just continued walking walking and they keep on shouting and shouting until they finally oh jesus went to this place let's go inside what's that to lose we are blind anyway i got no shame okay so they went there they knocked the door and they just went inside and jesus
00:12:23 asked do you believe that i am able to do this yes lord the reply then he touched your eyes and said according to your faith let it be done to you and the sight was restored now so what was the blind man's expectation of jesus expression he could jesus could save and could heal them just like that okay it didn't say like you must touch you must say a word nothing just if you want to heal me you can heal me so jesus is the messiah and he can heal me why do we put the word messiah over here because of this term old son of david
00:12:55 this is a terminology used actually declared i actually know that the messiah would be from the lineage of david so the blind actually knew something that all of them didn't know that jesus is the messiah and in this case you can see that he didn't say that you must say the word you must put mud from the ground he didn't say anything just said if you want to heal me i know you can heal me and they just keep on coming and coming they know that jesus is a messiah and he can do this next one the demon possessed man and a
00:13:20 crowd and after this man left after the blind man left this is a very busy man you know at just as the blind man left the demon possessed man and the crowd came together more people come while they were going out a man who was demon possessed and could not talk was brought to jesus and when the demon was driven out the man who had been mute spoke the crowd was amazed and said nothing like this has ever been seen in israel they didn't expect that this could be done now i'll be a background story for
00:13:44 you actually in those days there was this belief if you want to actually chase a with a demon and you know to actually do this exorcism right what you need to do is you need to know the name of the demon but this guy was hopeless you know why because this guy was actually mute says there's no way for you to actually say that hey tell me your name there's no way to coax him and get that name so you can chase away this is all superstition it's also positioned but in their minds they're saying that
00:14:09 nothing like this has ever been seen in israel even the milk demon possesses milk what jesus also can get it done so what were the expectation the expectation was that i don't know what's happening this is a miracle and so what is really happening is jesus is fulfilling the isaiah 35 messiah prophecy when the lame will walk the blind will see and so so forth so you can go over there and see more and final one the pharisees what the pharisees sees over here the pharisee said it is by the prince of
00:14:39 demons that he drives up demons after seeing all this you can come at different conclusions and for the pharisees his congregation was oh you know why jesus can do this because even though he doesn't know neymar ah maybe he is actually doing this by the prince of demons that's why he good friends with the demon prince of demon that's why he can do it you don't know name but he knows ma right so that's the case jesus is the prince of demons maybe all his good friends with prince of demons that's the case but after the
00:15:05 entire story looking at it right what is your expectation of jesus who is jesus if you're looking at this right maybe the answer is wait jesus uh very good doctor actually did also can he why you know very good doctor that is the expectation of jesus but is that all jesus is that all jesus is now a lot of people still couldn't see that jesus was a messiah why because in their minds the messiah is a certain kind one right for example in elijah over here elijah could rain fire if you read the bible there was a passage that whereby
00:15:39 the disciples actually asked jesus lord why don't you rain fire down to the gentiles and you killed them because they did something wrong i can't remember you check the bible and see so the expectation is the messiah is very powerful one he can come and rain fire he can just chase out the romans one person yet god that is the expectation of jesus but jesus doesn't do that you know he goes here and there heals people you know talks to people here and there everyday sermon sermon talk you know where is the power where's the authority
00:16:08 you know where is this jesus said where is this messiah he doesn't look like a messiah that's why people cannot see it people cannot people couldn't see that jesus was a messiah in fact even john the baptist had a bit of challenge with this right when john the baptist was actually uh in jail he sent his disciples to ask jesus are you the messiah or should we expect another one why because he could understand hey jesus when are you going to fulfill the prophecy and jesus replied to him go back and report to john what you hear
00:16:36 and see the blind received sight the lame walk those who have leprosy are cleansed the death here the dates are raised and the good news is proclaimed to the poor now so even john the baptist could also have challenges to really reconcile sometimes you know jesus doesn't always follow your way he knew that he's actually behold the lamb of god he said that who comes to actually fight away our sins he knew that you know but even john the baptist also find an issue because why because jesus cannot be placed in a box
00:17:07 right but look at as well what jesus is saying you see we are looking for power mike it's always the same occasion when you talk to people business people or even some people they want to show that they are powerful you know what they do they always name drop oh you know and they met the dhatto for lunch oh i know this guy lists a company director this is how people name drop because power might this is what we look at when people have power and might or reach or they drive a bmw or drive a mercedes something like that right and
00:17:36 therefore we see that hey this is somebody no vip that is the case but for jesus different look at what jesus said over here go back and report to john what you hear and see now look at it uh first one what the report the blind received side second one the lame walk third one those who have leprosy are cleansed the death here the dates are raised and good news is proclaimed the poor what is happening is you can see that if you look at it right the date was raised is that almost impossible you said blind
00:18:05 received side or maybe still can the date are raised but what's bigger than the data is being raised a bigger thing than the date race is the good news is proclaim to the poor in god's economy it is not about showing miracles just for the sake of it it's because it's trying to show to us that he is the messiah and he's here to end all the wars he's here to actually solve our problems he is our south he's our savior yeah so the most important role of the messiah is to proclaim the good news to the poor and that is what jesus is doing
00:18:42 teaching the right way and for us because raising the date is tough but even tougher than that is changing the hearts of people and only jesus christ can do that now so the unexpected authority of jesus what do we see over here what is the unexpected arteries uses number one he has unlimited authority to solve any human sickness or condition by looking at oils i hope you can see this which means that whether you have a blood disease law or maybe you are for example you are sick like you're dying a
00:19:11 blind demon for this he can solve all your problems everything okay and the way he does it is unlimited he has unlimited unlimited means he can do it however he wants he can do it by touching you he can touch he can actually solve your problem by saying it he can use mud he can be near he can be far he can be indoor outdoor can do any way he wants to and final one he is unlimited by a response to him whether you believe in jesus or not whether you know whether you announce him or not it doesn't
00:19:41 change who he is it doesn't change his mind and his power it's not like the greek gods you know they believe that they need people to worship them so they get the power no jesus does not need us at all he doesn't need us at all and why does he actually want to be here we'll find that out later right but looking at this so you can see the unexpected order of jesus is he has unlimited authority he can do it in unlimited ways that you can actually he wants to do and he is not limited by your response and your
00:20:09 imagination but it comes up to this what can jesus do actually if i ask you now in your mind what can jesus do do you think a lot of times maybe we say that oh jesus uh jesus maybe can help us in church law if i don't know how to sing the guitar you don't want to play the guitar i can pray and god will help me i don't know how to do sermon i can pray god will help me i sick you know god can hear me we have certain expectations of jesus but a key thing to know is we cannot put jesus in a box we cannot put jesus in a box yeah
00:20:44 now so i want to show you a a scene here this is george washington cover i'm going to show you that god can use anything to reveal himself and to accomplish his purposes george washington cover is actually a slave in the old days right and actually he was an orphan as well but what happened is he actually studied nature and when he studied nature he convinced he was convinced that god exists god used nature to reveal himself to george washington cover now what did he do she actually revolutionized the
00:21:20 cultivation of soy enriching crops such as peanuts and soybeans what it means in the old days when people were very poor before all this great petrol and everything came about right people planted crops and the biggest thing they plant plant on the old days is actually cotton they plant cotton wine because cotton can make clothes can sell can earn money and the black people all plant the cotton but the problem with planting cotton is that the soy will become malnourished there's no more nutrients in the soil so even
00:21:47 planting the same crops what weapon the soil becomes useless and you cannot produce crops anymore and you actually become poor you land in the property again because the soil is no longer useful so what can you do and so you actually learn and realize that if you plant peanuts and soybeans it actually helps to increase back the nutrients into those crops in your biology last time before the nitrogen from the sky actually comes into it and then the soil actually becomes better again then you can plant use it for
00:22:16 planting cotton again so peanuts and soybeans help to make the ground better now so he actually teach everybody to do it and after a while people started to plant peanuts as well besides cotton so the next thing happened was he had problems his problem was now we got too much peanuts what do we do and people are still poor what do we do we've got so many peanuts and god can even use peanuts to solve poverty what do i mean george washington cover actually prayed to god okay he said that i asked the
00:22:47 great creator when the universe what the universe was made for okay george washington cover asked god why do you make the universe and god replied ask for something more keeping in to your little mind of yours ask for something more in keeping with that little mind of your wishes and ask for something that you can understand why i created the world is too big for you don't ask for that as for something smaller then he asked what was man made for and so god replied oh little man you still want to know too much cut down the
00:23:17 extent of your request and improve the intent okay asking too much you cannot understand even why i meet man so finally cover ask god god can you teach me what can i do with peanuts people are so poor here what can i do with peanuts and god actually said ah this one this one okay this is still too big but you can actually absorb and actually understand some so with one thing peanut george washington cover came up with more than 300 uses of the peanut last time penis was actually used as animal feed to let the pig sit on it but
00:23:50 with that he created all these different things antiseptic soap body massage cream facial lotion and so so forth why because god can use anything and god cares about everyone he can use anything even a small little peanut to solve poverty and why do you talk about poverty this church because we are not just here for your spiritual self right it's actually for your whole body for the whole man so all these things are important in god because god cares about us not just in the future but even now as well
00:24:20 now god can even use a chemist to preach the gospel i wanted to let you see what george washington clever said over here he said that my purpose alone must be god's purpose to increase the welfare and happiness of his people okay human need is really a great spiritual vacuum we just got six of you and he's saying this listen carefully with one hand in the hand of a fellow man in need and the other hand in the hand of christ he could get across a vacuum and i become an agent this is what he's saying that he will become the
00:24:51 agent to help god to be known to others then the passage i can do all things through christ which strengthened me came to have real meaning when asked by the u.s u.s house ways and means committee so there's a big uh committee where they ask you know ask about him what he has done before they give him ten minutes to speak but when he started speaking and he's actually speak about god and all that people are so amazed how did this manner manage to find so many secrets about the peanuts the answer is the secret of my success
00:25:21 is very simple it's found in the bible right and they ask hey does the bible actually talk about peanuts said no sir dr carver replied but he tells about the god who made the peanut i asked him to show me what to do with the peanut and he did god can even solve your word problems and night when he couldn't solve a certain problem right he would go to sleep and he wakes up in the morning something like hey i know the answer do you ever think that god can solve your problems maybe if you are going for
00:25:52 spm or your old levels or your air levels or your university degree are trying to close the deal and you don't want to close it do you think that god can solve your problems the answer is yes god can solve all problems whether we allow him to is a different question if you put jesus in a box leaving in church every day say bye-bye i'll see you next sunday i'll put on youtube i'll see you all next time zuma next week zoom again then he cannot do all this for you right god's unlimited possibilities right so
00:26:18 this is what is being said by george washington cover why then should we who believe in christ be so surprised at what god can do with a willing man in a laboratory or how about a willing man or woman in a classroom the boardroom the horse of state or any other sphere where god is leading us to make a difference do not limit god she can do anything in your life and he can use it however you want that he wants as well so this is the case in fact if you look at this man you know it's actually he's he really helped the
00:26:47 black community a lot and actually they benefited a lot from him but how did he became the man that he was how the answer is god can you use anyone there's a white little boy that actually met up with him when i was young and she told him oh i'm going to suddenly school he didn't get to go at the time they didn't allow him so i did he actually got to know oh how do you pray he learned how to pray and he actually just got down on his knees and just prayed god can use even a little boy to introduce
00:27:13 him to others no god can't even do that now at the same time why is this george washington cover so interested in plants and in and has such a strong faith is because of this woman over here called mariah watkins right she's actually childless and so mariah and the husband andrew actually got together and fostered a lot of children taking a lot of children god can even use a midwife to nurture men so this is something that mariah said before when i said george you must learn all you can then be like libby right a person that
00:27:50 actually knew how to read books because the rest of them don't read books so i said george go out in the world and give your learning back to our people okay after you learn all this already go and give it back to people because they are starving for a little learning so god can use anyone he pleases but where is god when it hurts you know a lot of times when we listen to stories like this we see people are being so powerful you know i wish i was like that and we wish god you know use us in certain way but what if god uses
00:28:21 bad or seemingly bad things in our lives for example george washington cover became who is also because of the experience he had number one he was a slave he was kidnapped when he was very young right and he was offering mine because his mom was actually killed as well and never came back he couldn't get it back so this white man called this uh this person called mr carver actually i tried to chase and then get him back and traded him for a horse and because he was left in the in the night for too long right he actually
00:28:52 developed a cold and he got a whooping cough and because he was always sick right because he's always sick he couldn't go out to help to actually till the land and do much all this uh plantation work and that is how she got the time to really learn more about nature right and so all these different things discrimination poverty george washington cover will not be who is without all these things god can use anything in our lives for example over here how about people who die their missionaries would die for
00:29:21 jesus as well a lot of times when looking and say hey god you know what if this person didn't die can do so much for for you why do you want him to die and when it hurts when things are bad we always ask god you are not right you are not good but god is not in a box god can decide to do what he wants to do and in story and atmosphere earlier uh there's this person what happened is this this is actually a cannibal tribe so uh these people over here they are very very violent people and the missionaries who entered the
00:29:52 total five of them they all got killed they all got speared and they all died and after many many years this is the person who actually killed the missionaries this is the son called steve saint after many many years in kayani asked steve saying come come to river let me show you something and when actually got together he told steve i actually killed your father he dig the ground and he found the spear and tell steve that see this is this is a spirit i used to kill your father he put it to his own
00:30:27 body and said now you kill me i don't understand why your your father will will actually allow me to kill my neighbor you can kill me why because his father had a gun also but he allowed nintendo to kill him why but because of the death of these missionaries the whole tribe came to know jesus as well god can use our life however he pleases it is his decision on what he wants to do but how do we actually reconcile all this only through one thing knowing that will not the judge of all the earth do
00:30:59 what is right god is the judge of all the earth at times we don't understand but he will always do the right thing so i hope you can understand number one our point for today is you cannot put jesus in a box jesus has unlimited authority to do anything he wants no matter how he wants for the world second point the unexpected trustworthiness of jesus we understand that god has full authority he can do anything he wants but is god trustworthy or not how trustworthy is jesus now if you look at superheroes like for
00:31:39 example superman over here in the old days 30 years ago he is always good he'll never do anything bad one but nowadays even superman gets angry and he when he gets angry you better don't minim for example there's one time when a man actually go and bully a girl in a pub he got angry and he just destroyed his truck jesus will never do that to us no matter how terrible you are he'll never come and actually hurt you okay he never do that just to get back at you he won't do that and there are superheroes like this you know whereby
00:32:15 this guy called deadpool he's a terrible guy he's very powerful but you better be careful with him he can do a lot of nasty things to you and he swears all the time he's powerful but he's not good this is deadpool right jesus is not like them at all jesus is unexpectedly trustworthy more trustworthy than you can expect no matter how bad you are no matter what you do he will still be there he is always there for you why because as the bible says in romans 10 verses 11 as scripture says anyone who
00:32:48 believes in him will never be put to shame for there's no difference between jew and gentile the same lord is lord of all and richly blesses all who call on him verse 13 for everyone who calls on the name of the lord will be saved very simple for everyone okay not somebody not just chinese not just indian anyone okay who calls on the name of the lord will be saved the only question is do you call on the name of the lord do you look to him for salvation or not you look at the story that we had just
00:33:20 now from the bible you can see that these people have all different levels of faith also for jairus over here he actually expected that jesus must touch to heal the suffering woman had superstition not correct favor so touch cloak the cloak something jesus became miracles so the seat he said maybe after his seat are you keeping slimmer no no superstition right the blind man okay he knew that jesus was the messiah and demon possessed man was milk and unsummon and just basically student didn't even know
00:33:50 what happened and yet jesus is trustworthy enough to heal all of them regardless of the level of your faith no matter what level of your faith no matter how much you know the bible it doesn't matter and most important is this do you have faith in jesus or not do we have faith in jesus that's most important question over here now so there's a very good story i can share with you to let you understand how this world this story is by d.a carson and what it says actually they're doing the exodus there was a mr smith and mr jones
00:34:19 so these two people were actually in egypt at the time and jesus and sorry and god was just saying that i'm gonna send the destroying angel to kill all the first born of the family and mr smith and mr jones were talking they said hey i'm risky no tonight yeah the destroying angel's gonna call me i'm scared about my family like all of them die because you see all the makers happen so far right no god is true one and this i don't know whether we actually get killed or not so that was mrs smith i was very scared mr jones
00:34:47 said no i believe in god he said this definitely can be done and they discuss and the only question they ask is do you put the blood of the lamb on the doorpost or not do you do it or not mr smith did it and mr jones did it one was very confident and very very happy in knowing that one day they can actually leave uh egypt very soon diana was very scared tonight i don't know whether i die or not do not die or not but the question is did they put the blood of lamb on the doppels or not and the answer is
00:35:17 they did so my question to you is this the next day did anyone die which map which family got saved answer is both families got saved nobody in the israel camp actually died nobody died why because not because of this faith because of the blood of the passover lamb so that's the second point for us jesus is unexpectedly trustworthy it doesn't matter how much faith you have as long as you look to him as long as you call upon him he can save you third point the unexpected mercy of jesus jesus is also unexpectedly merciful
00:36:01 he's more merciful than we can actually imagine now let me look at this and actually explain to you how do we treat jesus if you read over here the two items i'd like to show you when a synagogue leader came to meet jesus what did he do he fell at his feet right he actually felt his feet other places he said he says that he worshipped him in 927 matthew over here the two blind man followed him calling out have mercy on us son of david the word here is mercy okay what is mercy muslim is that you
00:36:33 don't deserve this this is not something you should get i'm terrible but please just out of mercy help me i don't deserve you jesus but but please help me that is mercy and i always ask us including myself how do we actually treat jesus how do we look at jesus do we treat jesus sometimes like an atm do we sometimes treat jesus like a genie you know for example we have this thing in your mind you know jesus like the genie and says that you know i'll just be here chilling in heaven until you need something okay then just say the
00:37:07 magic words in jesus name and kazam your wish is my command you never had a friend like me did we do we actually expect jesus out there you know is it how we actually treat him we have a whole list of stuff when we get tired of sleep we just like a magic spell like oh jesus please make me healthy you know protect me from the virus help my business you know get me and give me a promotion my career i help me with this good i'm dating man is that how we do it right or maybe we treat salvation and god's mercy as just an extra it's
00:37:41 expected over here it says that jesus wants to remind you that if you don't sin he died for nothing this is why people are drawing out there right do we actually really repent when we tell jesus jesus forgive my sins do we do that or we just say like a magical you know jesus forgive my sins forgive my sins and tomorrow we continue doing again do we do that you know it's something for us to really think do we take jesus for granted we need to also know that you know jesus gets tired jesus is also you know when jesus was um
00:38:13 on earth he actually got tired and even now jesus can get disappointed as well on the things that we do when we do something that we we keep on doing the wrong things again again we keep on saying he gets disappointed this is a very interesting show that i'm watching it's called the chosen it's a series about jesus and in this there's a scene that i never thought about where jesus actually healed people from the morning to night what's the first thing is that mine oh a lot of people getting healed
00:38:36 are very good right that's all you're thinking but actually there's something that i didn't even think about if you're human right you work from morning to 7 00 pm you tell about a enough no more ot he can walk until night can keep on working working he can get tired you know and jesus actually keeps on going and he has feelings too but how do we treat jesus sometimes just treat him like a cosmic force do we do that and this is something we need to think about and yet you know we don't deserve him so much and yet this
00:39:10 is the unexpected jesus that we have we don't deserve him we don't deserve him maybe i should change the sermon title to the undeserved jesus but this is how he is he is unexpected he has full authority he's fully able and yet he's fully willing and we don't deserve it at all and yet he's fully loving he loves us no matter what he knows how terrible we are and yet he still loves us that is a jesus we have and looking at this situation even though jesus loves us this is what we do every day we burn the world this
00:39:48 is a map of the whole world and this is what we do we try to destroy each other countries against each other now there's this thing with afghanistan there's a war happening our u.s is leaving there's always war if there's no war don't worry you know between the country there's always fighting between political parties and between people being families between friends we're always fighting and killing each other we are on a scheduled and structured way of self-destruction it will kill each other
00:40:16 and destroy each other how can jesus save us the answer is jesus decided to willingly put himself into our box this box record our world to be human to come and die for us and also to teach us how to live the way that he wants us to and this is the jesus we won and after all this he provided the unexpected sacrifice and in romans here it says very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person though for a good person someone might possibly dare to die but god and only god demonstrates his own love for us in this
00:41:00 while we were still sinners christ died for us we don't deserve this jesus and yet he is so amazing you know this unexpected jesus that we have he has full authority he can do anything he wants without getting your consent whether you understand it or not doesn't matter not necessarily the way you want he can do it how he wants why he wants it no when he wants it it's all within his authority to decide how we're gonna do it and yet he is fully trustworthy if you call upon him he will be there for you
00:41:36 you just need to cop on him you don't need to be a very good bible student and yet he will come to you as long as you call upon him and we don't deserve this mercy from him and yet she will always be there for us so friends when i look at all this i i want to ask all of you and including myself to really respond and really to think about this do we actually have maybe a mountain in our lives a challenge a good life in our lives something that we want to solve but we don't have to solve it and you want to ask god
00:42:13 god please come and help me solve this or maybe you have always been leaving jesus in zoom on sunday and connect with your life from monday to saturday you know do you want to now ask jesus to say that jesus maybe monday to saturday can you also be in my life every day no matter where i go i will even in my exams help me with it now even in my relationships with people help me to walk right with you do you want to take jesus out of the box you know and let him follow you or rather you follow him every single day
00:42:44 do you want to do that and for the rest of us do we actually really trust jesus do we actually know jesus as this trustworthy god of ours if you don't know jesus yet jesus has died for us and he's risen and he will come again and the only thing he's asking you is do you want to put your faith in me let me help you in your life let me be your let me guide you in your whole life and give your life to me if this is what you want to do i want you to respond as well to send pray in the chat box and zoom so that one of the
00:43:23 pastors or senior leaders or elders in the in the church can you preview this is a private moment nobody will see it so if this is what you want to do as well i want you to respond and finally for the rest of us i want us to ask ourselves do we take jesus mercy for granted do we sometimes look at jesus as you know it's just an atm machine or genie or a special magical verse we say in jesus name as long as we say in jesus name he's supposed to do it already do we take jesus for granted so if you want to come and repent and
00:43:58 you want to say sorry to god for you know for taking him for granted all this wow i mean the response well just send pray into the chat message and have someone to actually pray with you why because god has actually given us to each other to help each other to go through this life and to serve each other just as you know he has intended so for all of us just if you can send pray to fbc e right just send pray in the chat and somebody will be here to pray with you once again for those of you who feel that you want
00:44:34 some time to respond yourself a sending chat now you want to actually leave a message and somebody to call you back you can scan this qr code if you are looking to follow jesus or you hear this jesus you can do so many things even penis also something you can use you don't know about this jesus is it real or not come come and find out whether it's real or not you can actually come at an alpha and know more about this jesus or for the rest of you say that you know i got so many monsters in my closet so many
00:45:00 problems in my life i want to go really have somebody to walk live with come and attend a live group you know join a live group by scanning this qr code and get to know more people and you know help each other to grow and walk in this life or if any other play requests that will not cover you have some issues and you want to solve it or use this one more jesus in your life and you don't put jesus in the box you can actually just scan the square quote and put in any of your prayer requests as well let's close in prayer
00:45:31 father we thank you for today lord and we prayed a lot you help us to really know and remember that lord you're so amazing you're so awesome that you are somebody that we cannot put in a box we cannot fathom who you are and yet lord you have decided to actually reveal yourself to us for us to know who you are and your purposes in our lives and your purposes are always good we may not know it but lord at the one day we know that one day we see everything you have planned and how beautiful this entire masterpiece of
00:46:04 yours will be i pray that a lot you speak to all of us and help us to remember this lord i pray that a lot you work with us in our lives daily and also help us to treat you with the respect and the dignity that you deserve help us to have a high view of you to release you as king as lord as savior and not just as a good body out there you thank you for this lord in jesus name pray amen
