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00:00:01 [Applause] [Music] today's scripture reading is from matthew chapter 11 verse 25 to 29. at that time jesus said i praise you father lord of heaven and earth because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned and reveal them to little children yes father for this is what you were pleased to do all things have been committed to me by my father no one knows the son except the father and no one knows the father except the son and those to whom the son chooses to reveal him come to me all you who are weary and
00:00:57 burdened and i will give you rest take my yoke upon you and learn from me for i am gentle and humble in heart and you will find rest for your souls this is the word of god hi fbc supposedly even the summing permit and after that you saw these two guys over there if you've been more senior you know who they are marty mcfly and dr emmett brown and great squad they're going time traveling they're going back in time and they say hey you wanna come or not you can come together and you can do whatever you want at the
00:01:34 time so if you're gonna do that right i'm gonna ask you if you get to go back in time what will you wanna do now in this story what happened is one of the bad villains actually went there and buy a lot of lotteries and actually became really rich that's what i did but how about you if you get to go back in time what would you do take and see okay now so this is something that is a very interesting for us to think about but i suspect that a lot of us are if i say that you really get to go back in
00:02:04 time what will you do you wouldn't be going to buy a lot of trees i'm quite sure of that you know what you do you actually hope to turn back time so like this song over here during the 90s if only i could turn back time if i only had set what i steal high right so this girl over here was actually having regrets he didn't do she didn't do certain things that she wanted to do and how about you do you have regrets there are things that you want to do but you didn't do and it's been nagging at you and
00:02:31 actually causing you pain from time to time when nobody's looking at night when you're sleeping there's certain things that come to you at night and actually it crushes you after a while so these things are quite normal all of us will have it this is roger mania i actually find online this guy said that when i listen to this song i think of my dad that i should have spent more time with him when he was alive you know so roger actually misses that and thinks that he didn't do enough uh this another one this this lady over
00:02:57 here raid shift desert says that if only i could turn back to that night and said to him what i wanted to say so happen is apparently she said good night to the the person that she loved close the door on him but after that what she did was actually peek through the hole and look at him and see what he's doing and the guy was looking there standing there for a long time learning what to do and after a while the guy left and that is history and you cannot turn back time friends do we have such issues in your
00:03:21 life regrets that you go through and friends i will say that we all have it in fact fear is temporary fear is scary but it's temporary regret is forever and all of us with something in life's actually crushing us and nagging us eating away at us and slowly slowly you find that even your character and your whole person can change if you're not careful with it now if i ask that you rick can go back in time what would you do the standard stuff that people talk about and before they die they will talk about these
00:03:47 things they wish that they had better relationships spend more time with kids be true to yourself and so so these are very standard stuff that all of us actually look into but how about you i want to make it more real today we're not here just to have a mental challenge ask yourself do you have regrets or not i can tell you i have i do have a lot of regrets um things that i think i shouldn't have done for example i wish i had better relationships with my friends last time so during teenage years i had some issues
00:04:13 and personal issues and because of that when they needed help i wasn't there for them i still remember one of my friends always told me that he was very stressed and he didn't like his grandmother in fact his grandmother is always always nagging him but he tells me this you know i tell him you know that girl i'm just thinking about a girl these are things but when i reverse i can't reverse time already and i've actually done something wrong and that is it that is the past and i can't do anything
00:04:39 with it and this never stops it continues going spend time with kids i don't spend time with kids i shared this uh last time before and my younger son jayden was two years old he couldn't really call me he couldn't say daddy you know so when i see him when i see him right i carry him he will call me the only thing he can say is buttons you see buttons because i'm always wearing worksheets because i booked from monday to saturday and so i always have this on me and so all he knew was i was button
00:05:08 thankfully you know uh time has actually redeemed a bit of this i actually i spent more time with him and now we're actually having fun together so these are things that we go through but we all have different regrets that we have now if there are any regrets maybe you have a very good family now you have all the things you want you're living the good life you want but i have also the same question for you deep down inside you have this question for yourself is this sustainable every day what we are doing
00:05:37 we are always trying to sustain or improve the life that we had perhaps you want to buy a bigger car a bigger house or maybe uh you want your looks to stay the same or maybe you think about your kids education or your health for those of us will be more senior we worry how about our health we want to sustain what we have now is if only we could sustain what it is what we are going through now so this nagging feeling we have right never goes away in fact if you go for all the holidays you want it will still
00:06:07 not go away actually for me the most scary thing that i go through right is actually not all these regrets the thing that i'm most uncomfortable with is actually emptiness it comes when you're happiest and suddenly it can just come and then you feel like what is it to life what's the reason to life in psychology they actually mentioned that it's like for example you feel that there's a very big jug and no matter how you feel water inside it will not go away this is emptiness and in pilgrims progresses is what we talk about it's
00:06:37 like this person over here having a very very big burden on his body and he cannot shake it away he's been crushed by regrets he's being crushed by all the pain all the suffering all the sin that he's going through the past keeps replaying on his mind and he's worried about the future as well he doesn't know where to run he runs to the left he runs the right the burden is still on him and that's something we go through that all of us would have this challenge what should i do now what can i do where can i run to
00:07:04 who can save me that's a challenge and this is universal all of us in life will have this challenge and we'll be thinking about it and so it comes to this to this passage in matthew it says come to me all you who are wary and burdened and i will give you rest take my yoke upon you and learn from me i'm gentle and humble in heart and you'll find rest for your souls for my yoke it's easy and my burden is light okay shall we just come to a time of prayer first and then we're going to continue father thank you for today lord the lord
00:07:38 you brought us here to to hear you all and lord all of us are very important we all have challenges and lord we leave our lives our own way and lord help us to really see that the only way is for us to come to you and ask for you to to save us lord and help us to really learn from you and speak to us today lord help us to really apply this to our lives and think about what we have done and what we can do and help us to take action after this thank you lord in jesus name pray amen the first point for today's sermon is
00:08:09 everyone is very and burdened do you agree if you don't feel very unburdened now i'm quite sure it will come to you sooner or later because nobody can live happily ever after and so why are we so heavy burdened why are we so wary the answer lies in genesis 3 verses 1 to 5. i just picked up what the main parts actually mentioned to you now over here the devil is actually talking to the the woman okay he said to the woman did god really say you must not eat from any tree in the garden and after that
00:08:43 the devil or the snake said you will not certainly die the serpent said to the woman for god knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be open and you will be like god knowing good and evil so what has really happened is this the reason why we're very important is because we are yoked to deception we actually don't know it but we actually are living a lie we are actually living in a way whereby we thought that we are actually achieving all the goals all the success all the things we want but actually it
00:09:13 is a lie given by the devil and we are living in it because we don't know it why because the devil actually gives us half truths it's not fully lies but half truths for example over here it says that these are all your needs physiological needs safety needs love and belonging esteem and self-actualization true or not true right however what uh maslow's character is saying that if you actually look to chase after all these things you will achieve happiness okay that is a key thing that we're looking over here we can find
00:09:49 true rest and happiness ourselves without any help we ourselves can find true rest and happiness and so the whole society is chasing after this no matter who you talk to whether it's a president or a little boy all of us are trying to do this physiological safety love and belonging esteem self-actualization it's just different ways of packaging it and so the whole society goes after this now let's look at how we actually live as a society what do we do now for example you said that you're hungry you want to eat food
00:10:19 right okay so we need food to actually be full so yes let me show you what we do to fulfill our tummies we do this in the old days in england sugar was in demand and so if you want sugar you need to have sugar plantation but the problem is they don't have enough workers so what do we do they find african slaves to actually take care of the sugar plantation so for sugar we actually create slaves we actually put people in a slavery just for sugar and this is something that's very normal in china again what's happening over
00:10:50 here the english actually wanted tea silk spices and porcelain they wanted all these things from china but the problem again is they don't have anything that the chinese like because you know why chinese very smart all the nice things in the world right so what do you do they actually provide opium to them they smuggling opium they find a way to make people addicted and after that they can sell all the opium they want to china so again all these things that you saw here it's just only for a cup of tea
00:11:18 sugar tea so and you try to achieve all these different muscles hierarchies needs that we have over here but at the same time we can be injuring people and injuring ourselves at the same time now let's talk about something closer to us over here so all of us are using phones right using android phone or iphones uh this is another one over here this is actually foxconn the factory in longhua this is in china in 2010 a lot of smb line workers began killing themselves so there were 18 reported suicides 14 people confirmed
00:11:48 deaths and a lot of people being talked down so many people want to die why were they trying to commit suicide because they felt actually a lot of stress they feel that the managers were harsh to them and the working conditions were just very terrible now friends you need to understand people don't simply commit suicide if they commit suicide it means that it's really very bad and therefore they actually will do it right and do you know what's the solution the social is this management says that we need to
00:12:10 produce more phones okay but people will commit suicide so what can we do what should we do the answer is we build nets we build nets to make sure that if they jump down they will not die very smart okay the next thing or to make sure they don't commit suicide the next thing we're going to do is to get counselors to come in and actually get all the workers to write and promise i promise i won't kill myself that is their solution to this situation it sounds good to you and this deception and this burden that
00:12:44 we have is actually everywhere everyone is going through burdens in life so for example ladies this is a person do you know who this is the younger ones may know her or maybe you cannot recognize her yet right she's kesha right she sings songs and actually she's quite popular as well and so she has a lot of freckles on on a face and recently i think on instagram she actually showed this photo and said then you're living a very carefree life a natural way to let people see who she she really is friends we are in a way
00:13:15 indirectly forcing people to wear masks because if you don't know good i'm not gonna listen to you that's what we're telling them and so ladies are asked to wear masks to make sure that they look good right the natural self is not good enough let me show you another one who is this okay she's adele again adele's voice is so amazing so beautiful right but if i said adele goes on stage and sing like this will you listen to her okay so it's a question for you to answer so it comes up to us we are all living in a
00:13:47 very burden life all the people whether you're poor or rich we are all wary and burdened it all the rich people have the same problem in fact i actually found this online i did a quick search and statistics over here these are the top 10 richest people in the whole world and what you see is they are not having a good time as well recently bill gates actually divorced melinda gates and you can see that out of all the 10 people how many of them are actually still married one two three seventy percent of them
00:14:16 actually have gone through divorce or open marriage so one perfect actually has been uh having an open marriage uh two wives uh um for a long long time so you can go online and check more but the answer is this everybody is very important perhaps the answer is because we didn't do what maslow says muscle says that the top level if you run really high happiness what should you do self-actualization you should become the best of your best and really you know look into people serve a particular purpose and this guy actually will show
00:14:45 you that he has done it this is amazing guy everybody respects him even in a christian circle if you say his name everybody said why yeah this guy is really good okay this is tony say from actually zappos so he's not a christian but when you go to us you go to silicon valley he's famous over there so this is what he says if you actually focus on how to make other people happy whether it is employees or friends it actually ends up making yourself happier and it's very successful it's done a lot of good
00:15:10 stuff and for example in 99 in 1996 he sold his company to microsoft for 265 million after that he continued he built zappos uh his last adventure 2009 and he sold to amazon for 1.2 billion okay and after that he actually uh went to rebuild downtown las vegas with another 350 million of his own money so this guy is loaded is rich but what is happening to him is his goal is he wants to deliver happiness so it's not like donald trump you know he's a good guy trying to be good and he has this thing
00:15:42 called holocracy which means that he builds his company's structure in a way that there's no hierarchy everybody's the same we help each other a happy it's a fun time work is fun in zappos but in the end what's happening to him is he just passed away last year about december okay he he passed away and he passed away uh the reason was because alcohol drugs extreme behavior there were a lot of issues in his life that he's not happy and he couldn't solve it and in the end there is a bit of uh um unknown about why he died but it's
00:16:11 revolving around these things alcohol drugs are actually uh committing suicide one of these items so friends every body is actually wary and burdened so what i'm trying to share with you is this thing over here where we say that we can find true rest and happiness ourselves is actually a lie it is a systemic rebellion that should be going through which means that our entire lives is built into rebellion already that's what we're doing so what is our solution what can we do the answer is if you want to solve this
00:16:42 there's only one way which is you return to god through jesus christ that's the only way because over in matthew 11 27 it says that all things have been committed to me by my father no one knows the son except the father and no one knows the father except the son and those to whom the son chooses to rebuild him it comes up to this if a laptop is spoiled you bring it back to the manufacturer even learn how to drive a car you need to look at the instruction manual understand how is it being used you cannot just drive it
00:17:15 however you want it to be everything is designed for a way and because we actually design you know we're created by god so if you don't want to resolve humanity's problem there's only one way you go back to the manufacturer that's what we want to do and so today the second point that we have is if you really want success you want happiness you want to remove this vary and burden for your life the only way not the way the only way that you have is you have to be yoked to jesus and learn from him
00:17:49 in order for us to come to jesus it requires us to have humility over here matthew 11 verses 25 it says at that time jesus said i praise you father lord of heaven and earth because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned and revealed them to little children the first ingredient the first requirement if you want to come to jesus you must be willing to say that i want to learn i know that i don't have all the answers in fact i don't have the answer i need to come and talk to jesus and really understand what should i do
00:18:21 that is the first thing because over here it says that you need to be like little children little children are like you know the kids say they don't think anything you tell them they just accept and they obey that's much easier come true sometimes for example um my son you know when you tell me anything he just doesn't want to listen he just doesn't want to uh understand it so these are the thing just for example for us as well we need to be able to say that sometimes when god tells us things we
00:18:43 need to say that yes we will listen that is an important requirement for it so we need to come and learn in verses 28 to 30 the invitation is come to me all you who are wary and burdened and i will give you rest take my yoke upon you and learn from me for i am gentle and humble in heart and you'll find rest for your souls for my yoke is easy and my burden is like the key thing that we look at over here number one no matter whether you're very abundant or not the question is will you come will you come to jesus and will you
00:19:17 willingly take jesus yoke and put on yourself this yoke that jesus is talking about is not a yoke whereby he puts on you you need to willfully actually take it and put it on to your body so this is how a yoke looks like it's for the two animals the two oxygens actually to wear in order for them to till the land so in this picture what is being said is jesus is the strong ox and you are the young and new orcs that comes over here and he will actually go together with you and bring you towards what he wants
00:19:47 to do as well so he won't go too fast you won't go too slow he'll actually be gentle and help you to go through this entire process so again this joke is not imposed it's your submission to god's authority saying that i don't know how to handle all this right and i want to learn from you i am willing to put my life in to really hear from you and say how to learn it so coming to this thing that we have over here as i said earlier this is a deception this thing over here these are actual natural desires that all of
00:20:16 us have is it wrong to feel hungry it's not is it wrong to actually one love and belonging it's not these are all things that are given by god okay god gives us all these things but what we need to do is to say that lord jesus i want to put all these things in front of you and you tell me what should i do with it so a better way of actually looking at this is a picture of this everything is submitted to jesus and jesus will know what to do with it so for today the second point we have is yoke to jesus and learn from him with
00:20:53 regards to what he teaches you there's so much and for this antimatter series we've gone through so much of it so i'm gonna go through it in more detail with you okay but the last point that we have today is jesus gives true rest now this is actually a paradox how can a yoke give rest it's something that i keep on figuring out why does a yoke give rest how how can it even happen so if you look at the passage over here again the highlighted words number one jesus says that when you come to him it's not that
00:21:21 i will give you more work he's not saying that i will give you success he's saying that i will give you rest and you find rest for your souls for my yoke is easy and my burden is light so how can a restrictive young give rest actually actually one thing that i realize is and you look at this passage right the reason why we can get rest is because there's no work to do actually there's nothing else accomplished salvation doesn't require you doesn't require me i don't even do anything to get salvation it's the devil
00:21:54 actually tells us that we need to do a lot of things to get happiness happiness is found in jesus himself when we actually go to him that is a key thing it's not that we need to earn so much we need to get so many airs we need to actually look a certain way that is not real happiness real happiness comes when we actually find jesus and we go to him and submit to him a different way to look at this rest why can a york gift rest is in this example now have you gone overseas to drive before or you driven in malaysia you know
00:22:23 especially maybe on the highway it's quite nice to drive right right but are there rules if the government put rules inside it will be not i supposed to be right so everybody's supposed to obey the rules and so it is rule there are rules behind it for example even a turn left or turn right there must be a signal right and you cannot go past a certain limit there are rules for you to follow and when you go to other countries for some of australia the rules are oh dear you need to really follow the speed limit is very
00:22:50 tight and go quite slow sometimes but let me ask you which do you think is a better experience than driving driving in malaysia or for example driving in india which i think is better okay so i don't need a place to go and catch them and tell them that hey you know your speed as a problem or whatever it is look at how they drive right that is an example for you or another one driving in vietnam with the bicycles and all this i still remember that my family was telling me that when they go to vietnam right the
00:23:20 way to cross the road is you close the eyes and just cross you're supposed to do that because you cannot look so tell me which one is a better experience which one gives you more rest and this is how god actually deals with us it gives us rules and laws to actually protect us when we go to jesus he actually does all this together with us he has accomplished all the laws and rules already and we actually take it by faith and we just listen to him right we no longer try to do things but the laws and the rules that god gives actually is
00:23:50 to protect us to help us to really have the life that he has designed for us a different way for kids to look at it is this it's like god owns the entire world and there is a cage inside the cage is the lion which is the devil or you can say the sin is inside the cage and god is saying don't go inside the cage everything else is available to you can do anything you want just don't go inside the cage why if you tell a little boy a little child the boy will be able to tell you because the lion will bite
00:24:23 is dangerous don't go in the cage but for us sometimes we don't see and there's a challenge but if you can really go to jesus to humbly submit yourself to god god will actually be able to give us this real rest this true rest that is given to us already nothing needs to be done it's already done users need to accept this risk given by god so i to give a bit examples of how it looks when actually you rest in god let me show you a few examples over here this is john wesley a person that's fully rested lives a
00:24:55 life that's very different at 80 years old this is what john wesley says laziness is slowly creeping in there is increasing tendency to stay in bed after 5 30 in the morning john messi doesn't look to sleep more and enjoy the pleasures of life but in a way he's living a life whereby he's happy he finds fulfillment in jesus christ alone and that is something that's amazing do you wish to be able to say that without eating good food without saying a nice place no matter what happens around you no matter what the environment is you
00:25:29 will still be happy do you think that there will be the best thing happens jesus promises this to us on another one is hudson taylor look at hudson taylor same thing this englishman decided to go all the way to china and dress like a chinese talk like chinese and why for jesus because he's able to see certain things that we cannot see over here as you remember there was a passage where he said that he went to talk to a missionary in china the mission was going to die already and so there's nothing they can do
00:26:03 but there's no sadness you know in fact this is what they actually say to each other arson taylor to him for the perishable must clothe itself with the imperfectible and the mortal with immortality when the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable and mortal with immortality then the saying that is written will come true death has been swallowed up in victory if someone comes to me and tells me that i am sick i actually uh i'm gonna die soon i think i will fight my life trying to find a way to find a cure yes or no i
00:26:35 think you will do that as well and there's nothing wrong with it but what we're saying is this when you can really give your entire life to jesus knowing that he is yoked together with you life is different your happiness your life is no longer defined by external variables it's all within it's all with jesus he holds all of them for you take this other person for example jim and elizabeth elliot so i think i will talk about this a few times already but for jim elliot he actually went to ecuador and to talk to
00:27:09 the people over there and try to preach the gospel and he actually spent a lot of time and his entire mission in life was actually to preach to those people over there the outcasts so what happened is he actually tried and he actually prepared a lot of stuff he actually took time to learn the language from english he learned spanish and of that he needed to learn the local language so he spent four years preparing all this and after that when he wanted to really go and do that just within a very short span of
00:27:34 time he passed away he was being killed by the people over there that's the case now friends when i look at this right you need to understand what happened then after that elizabeth elliot the wife actually didn't leave you know a lot of times if your husband gets killed by these people what you do you get angry with them and maybe you get a gun and shoot them and that's it right but elizabeth actually decided to move in and continue the legacy and really to serve those people just as jesus wanted
00:28:05 them to that is a very different approach to things and when actually jim elliot was being killed she actually had a choice to defend himself but all the missionaries had a promise they promised that they wouldn't kill an orca who did not know jesus to save himself from being killed he had a gun he chose not to use it because because these people do not know jesus and he wanted to make sure that he does not actually jeopardize the entire thing but look at this way if i come back to this entire uh maslow's hierarchy for you to see
00:28:42 right what i want to show you is that actually all these things over here even sometimes i will share with you for me even coming to church is it possible that sometimes we actually still hold on to all these things why do we come to church why do we serve is it possible sometimes we get very stressed serving because we're actually not looking to submit to jesus by looking for self-actualization we're actually looking to become the messiah is it possible we come to here because maybe we find a fulfillment people look
00:29:12 at you and say a certain word or you just want to be i don't know is it possible that this is what we do but if you look at these missionaries that's why i think at the end these are so much things to learn we look at jim elliot and the wife how would he feel did he really achieve anything do you see self-actualization happening here no there's no self-actualization why because he is fulfilled not through these things over here that the world is telling us the word tells us to buy bmw joy is bmw in fact i want to put
00:29:44 advertisement here by decided cancer earlier it says this is better to cry in a bmw than to cry in a bus something like that this is what the world tells us in short you need all this you need all this unique esteem you need all this for happiness it's better to have it than not to have it but jim elliot and elizabeth elliot tells you that no submission to jesus it's not self-actualization and it's a reminder to myself as well and all of us who are serving when we come here a lot of times when we do our when we try to serve we
00:30:14 may not really achieve certain things that we hope to we work hard we do things but the answer is all goals all results are something that we leave to god what we want to do is just to submit to jesus because it is god's kingdom is god's church for us we just serve vicious love and if you really yoke yourself to jesus you can have true happiness the cow doesn't care whether the whether the crops come or not they just need to walk and it's just they just go and do the whatever this uh the farmer asked the
00:30:41 cow to do only and that's it for us we just need to submit and with that true freedom can come now one thing for us to know is this god is not looking to take this away from us that's not what he is looking to do he's looking to actually give back even more for us to for us to really find true fulfillment true fulfillment in everything that we do whether now or in the future but one day we know this god will never shortchange us and he designers and the key thing is this a lot of things in life maybe we don't
00:31:11 understand you know maybe you're going through some difficult times now maybe your business is tough maybe your career affected maybe you got some increment uh removed or maybe you've got a pay cut but one thing we know is this god will never shortchange us because god is good and we may not know the future we may not know what happens but one thing we know is this what is more important maslow's hierarchy or submission to jesus which one is better it's worse to think about but is what jim elliott says
00:31:43 he is no fool or gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose what is important to us is not that extra nice meal is not a safe home it's not all these things but it's jesus christ because only in jesus christ we can really find our true self and god actually loves us the whole premise of christianity is god is love so this is the summary of our passage for today the yoke of jesus first one everyone is very and burdened all of us have challenges from young to old from poor to rich everybody will have challenges because
00:32:27 we're living in systemic rebellion against god what is our solution assurance is number one one and only way yoke to jesus and learn from him and when we say we look to jesus we don't just let's go there we need to learn from him learn from him how to live our lives how to deal with all the different things we're going through the challenges what does jesus say about what how i should deal with this colleague of mine how should what does jesus say about how i should live my life what does jesus say
00:32:56 how i should deal with my wife how i should love my wife all these are things that we need to learn and we need to change and i myself i need to do that as well and when you can do that jesus will give us true rest a rest that doesn't come because of your results or something in god in fact it's nothing to do with you nothing to the environment it's a restless insight given to you when you actually have jesus christ with you so friends the final thing is this would you come will you come to jesus
00:33:25 in pilgrim's progress when the christian this guy's name is christian when he actually went from the city of destruction and he walked toward the city where the cross was this is what happened when he reached the cross the burden on his back that was so heavy that he couldn't take any more just fell off when it came to the cross come to me all you who are weary and burdened and i will give you rest take my yoke upon you and learn from me for i am gentle and humble in heart and you'll find rest for your souls for my
00:34:00 yoke is easy and my burden is light will you come to jesus friends we're going through challenging times the economy is starting to open up and i think all of us would have a lot of worries we have a lot of things in our minds that worry about be your work be your family for me it's the kids i'm worried about kids health also because they're not vaccinated so i have this concerns because my youngest boy has some issues and so i'm very worried that you know what will happen to him if lester cory comes
00:34:38 so friends we all have our different burdens and different things that we have or perhaps you've gone through some challenges that i don't know about some sickness or or whatever disasters or something that actually went to you that only you know or you have something inside you a certain sin or certain regret that you know that you cannot get away with when everybody is sleeping it comes back and haunts you when you sleep when you dream are there dreams that keep on coming to you reminding you how you have sinned
00:35:11 how you done something wrong that regrets that keep on coming against you again and again friends there's only one way the way is you call upon the name of the lord you call for jesus only jesus can save us and help us to really remove all this because when you go to the cross and go to the cross the burdens on your body will be removed not by your strength not by your wisdom but only by jesus because no matter how smart you are no matter who you are one day death will come for us as well it comes back to us
00:35:50 when we make the decision to say that i want to come to jesus submit my life to him and just tell jesus lord i know i'm nobody i'm a failure i don't know a lot of things are wrong as well the lord i come to you and ask lord you just accept me who else who i am forgive my sins lord and help me to just change take away this burden on my back lord that's crushing me even though when i see people i smile at them they tell me you know how are you i would say i'm good i'm good actually inside i got so
00:36:23 much problems and when monday comes it starts again friends if this is you if you feel that you have a burden crushing your heart and crushing you and you just don't know what to do with it and sometimes maybe you're not daring to tell your friends as well i ask you to send pray send pray to fbc and let the elders let the church leaders to pray with you this is a private moment for them to actually talk to you and just help you to go through this because no christian can be alone i'm just talking to our brother john girl over
00:36:55 here christians are not meant to be alone you can't leave alone because if you are alone and you do something wrong nobody is there to help you you don't even know that you've actually seen you know they didn't even know that you've done something wrong but when two people or three people are together their strength god sends people to your life to help you so friends if you're lonely if you are going through challenges you don't want to do send pray to fpc let someone talk to you these are private matters nobody
00:37:22 else will know about it it's just somebody to walk along with you and help you through this thank you let's pray together father we thank you for today lord a lord you speak to us to let us know that we all have very we are all very and we are all burdened and all this is because of how we live which decide to go against you to have open rebellion against you a lot whether we know it or not i pray you forgive us and we come to you lord and ask the lord you just help us to remove this burden and help us to take you as our savior
00:37:57 take you as a lord and really just let you reign our lives not because you give me such self-actualization not because you give me safety not because you give give us wealth but only because we know that lord you are the truth the way and the life and we come to you and know that lord you love us and you have a hope and future for us and we ourselves are actually all in you our future is in your hands lord i will thank you for this law i pray for our brothers and sisters lord help us all to grow closer and closer to you in jesus
00:38:31 name pray amen
