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Living on Purpose, Disrupted or Distracted? | Andy Yeoh · Generations Church

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Hey there, you're listening to the Generation's Church podcast. We pray that the
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word of God today will challenge, change and channel you into your God given
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destiny. Now let's get started. Many of you would know this is this
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crazy thing happened. We have positimity low here, my mentor who preached the
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word. And of course by now you know the message he preached. What
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a timely message before he passed on, What a way to go right,
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doing what he loved and serving another church. And that is so so pasiti
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tim. I know some most feel almost like guilty, like what did he
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die in our church? He should die in his own church. His family
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should be the last ones to see him. And now we can process all
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that, all that guilt. I felt that guilty, like why else shouldn't
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have been us? Should have been his family in his church. But yet
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God chose to write the script this way that there will be that will be
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his testimony that he died doing what he loved. He preached the word,
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and he did it in another church, a small, little growing church.
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That's his testimony even and of course the message was about the main thing.
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Uh, you know, he asked me several times before Saturday about what to
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preach on Saturday, like he should do, right, You asked the lead
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pastor of the church, you know, what's just going through right now?
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What series are you're on? What should I preach? You know? He
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did that, but I somehow did not feel right to tell him what to
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say. Uh. I said, you know, just share what's on your
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heart now. Actually, when he ass the third time, I really felt
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like, you know what, I'll just tell you. But somehow I just
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said, you know what, past just preach or whatever got puts on your
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heart. And he came and brought that word. It's a great word.
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So I like to if you don't mind, like to pick up from that.
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Okay, let's pick up from that. Not trying to take advantage of
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the situation. You know, people have very weird ideas about what's going on.
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That's not what I'm trying to do, but to be faithful. But
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the team reminded us to keep the main thing the main thing. Right.
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That means to not be distracted, to not be be pulled away from what
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the main thing is. Keep the main thing the main thing. And it's
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from Matthew twenty eight, verse eighteen to twenty which is the great commission.
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That's the main thing. Go you, therefore, and make disciples of all
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nations. Don't forget that church. A church that forgets that mission or that
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commission is not a church. A church that doesn't saved, the loss is
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lost in itself. Remember that Matthew twenty eight eighteen to twenty Great Commission.
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Making disciples is the main thing. Now we can sit and debate and argue
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and dissect what making disciples means, because different churches has different definitions. But
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I like to keep it simple. Making disciples is just helping someone know Jesus.
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It's the process of helping somebody become more like Jesus. That's the process.
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Discipleship is a process. It's not an event. It's not a project.
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It's not a program. It's not numbers, it's not statistics. It's
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a process, a journey of becoming more like Jesus. Amen. He also
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reminded us to leave the nineteen nine and to pursue the one. Sometimes we
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just got to do that. Sometimes we have to say, you guys,
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are all right. I gotta go for the one that's lost, And that's
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in Matthew eighteen twelve. Plast the team said that that's how he lived his
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life. He would often leave the nineteen nine to pursue the one that's lost.
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Amen. So it's been two weeks now, can I ask us very
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so such a question, have we kept the main thing the main thing?
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Having been reminded that there is such a thing as the main thing? Have
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we kept the main thing the main thing? In fact, it should be
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a question we ask ourselves every day, a few times a day, many
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times a day. Have we kept the main thing the main thing? If
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the main thing is to make disciples? Have we made disciples in the last
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two weeks? Have we been somewhere along that process? I'm not talking about
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converting somebody in the last two weeks. That could happen, not saying someone
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says I want to be a pastor in the last two weeks, you know,
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don't have to be big dramatic changes. But in the last two weeks
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have we been a part of that process? What is discipleship? We define
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it this way in this church, facilitating one's process of becoming more like Jesus.
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I say facilitating because none of us can make someone else become like Jesus.
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It's not our jobs but we facilated our organized classes. I'll preach the
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word. I will pair you up with somebody or put you in the right
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group, whatever I need to do to help you in your process or becoming
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more like Jesus. Or another way to say is to journeying with someone.
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I would journey with you. I'll work with you. I don't have all
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the answer, but I will do this with you so that you and I
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we can both become more like Jesus. That's discipleship. Let's go e therefore
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into all the world with everybody, and let's help each other become more like
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Jesus. If that's reading the Bible a little bit more fine, if that's
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sending you a devotional plan grade, if that's sending your worship song, whatever
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it means. But it's this journey. Have we done that in the last
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two weeks. I got a text yesterday and I'll show you this text from
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Pasta Shan. But with Pasta Sean is now the senior pastor of Every Nation
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Church Malaysia. He's taken over past the team's role and it's something they've planned
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for a long time, and he said it is today. The guy who's
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this yesterday today, the guy who shrinks Past the team's badminton record accepted Christ
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via a meeting with Pastor Joseph, the Chinese Church Pastor. He cried so
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much, and pass the team passed, and Passit Team has been reaching out
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to him. The mission continues. And I hope this joke or what I'm
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about to say is not sensitive, not insensitive. I was just talking to
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a friend and my friend said, wow, Past the team is still saving
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lives while he's dad. But that's what happens when your planner seed you see,
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you don't have to be there all the time. He planned the seat
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someone else waters the guy who shrinks his record someone the Passit teave meets constantly,
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maybe so word a sentence to a invitation to an event here and there.
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And although Pasit Team himself did not get to see him come to Christ
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with his old eyes, he's winniessing from heaven. But all the seats he's
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sown throughout this whole time has borne fruit. Just yesterday, give the big
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cleb. Come on, Allow me to say this is always insensitive. Past
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the team is still saving life. Date, how are we doing? We
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keep the main thing, the main thing the last just two weeks now,
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some of you mights goast. I've heard this podcast over and over again.
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It's just a pasta team thing, Like I can't live like him, Like
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what wake up five am in the morning, start my appointment at seven and
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at twelve every single day? That's not me? I agree. Not everybody
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can be past the team. Not everybody should. Amen. I wanted to
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be just like him until God spoke to me that at CAM I told you
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guys, right, we all have our own calling. I can learn from
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him, gather from him, be a bit like him. But I'm me
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and he's him, and I know not but but but please be careful not
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to not to discount the entire thing just because Ah, I'm not like I
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don't play badminton. For one, I'm not a badminton kaky, So no
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one's gonna ever shrink my record and get safe. Sure, but if you
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think this is a passiti tive thing, think again. The method may be
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a positive thing. He's crazy, fight seven after twelve am every single day,
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back to bad two hours beydminton every day. Yeah, that's that's a
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pass the team thing. The method may be him, but the man date
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is all of us, and the message is the same, the one message.
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We are sinners. We need a savior. There's only one savior.
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He lives in you. You got to share it. That's the message.
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I don't care if you play badminton or golf. That's the message. The
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Mandate is for all believers, not just someone named him. Okay, if
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your name is hard to pronounce, it's for you too. The message is
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the same a man date is for all of us, every single believer.
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Amen. So it's not just a passit team thing. The mandate the message
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where I get this from First Genesis, chapter one, verse twenty seven,
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twenty eight. When God created human beings, the first thing he said to
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them was be fruitful and multiply. A whole other teaching on this one of
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these days, I'll do it. But the first thing God said to human
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being noticed. God created male and female. He didn't mention any And so
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anyone thinks, oh, food multiplied, that's so adam. And if specifically
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know, it's when God made men and women male and female human beings.
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Before you say, oh, isn't this like a populate the earth and make
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babies thing? Because I only hear this in weddings at the third thse mm
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hmm yeah. Third those we you, I'm saying, we got we wanted
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to make babies. No, no, no no. Then then then they
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were suggesting you can only fulfil God's plan if you're married. No children can
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feelfill God's plan. And if you study those words, be fruofull. Multiply
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it means to be poufuo means to produce. To multiply means to make something
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greater. It means a baby become an a doubt. That's multiplying. When
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a small group becomes more many many small groups, that's multiplying. Everybody,
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anybody is called to do this be to be productive without life and to multiply
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disciples. Somebody say, a man, So for all of us, not
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just past the team, and not just every nation, church, generation,
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church, and all the other churches in the world. That's why we're here.
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And secondly, May two twenty eight was eighteen to twenty. You know
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this, Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, all of us,
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all of us. John chapter four was one to forty five familiar story.
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So three things I want to say, Jesus'll he literally leaves the ninety nine
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to reach the one that's this is Jesus. And I think it makes total
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sense to learn from this guy, son of God, what kind of life
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you should live. And so I purposely did don't give you the title of
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today's message at the beginning and giving it to you now. And it's called
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living on purpose. Sentence is not done. So number one, we got
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three points. I want to encourage you, urge you, push you,
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spur you, and inspire you. All of us got to live on purpose,
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or another way to say is live on mission. Live like you're on
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a mission every single day of your life. And I'm not talking about your
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mission to make the next billion bucks, and I'm not even saying that that's
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wrong. I'm just saying that all other missions, making a million bucks,
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having a million followers, whatever, you know, next business plan, right,
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the next book, all other mission must subject and submit to this main
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mission or making disciples. That's it. And so when I say live on
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purpose, live on mission, so that your life is all about getting someone
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else one step closer to Jesus every day, the Badminton record guy, once
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upon a time was a million steps away from Jesus and then past the team
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shows up and say can you do my record? And after I don't know
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how many months or years, and that guy was much closer. And yes
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past the team went home to be do with a lord. But yesterday someone
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found this guy at just one step away and say would you like to receive
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Jesus? And he says yes, great with all the process. And I
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want us to realize that we are on mission, because if you don't realize
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this, you will not live intentionally. You'll miss certain opportunities. So next,
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next slight, please, I want to ask us to think about this.
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What is the purpose or mission of your life? Do you know if
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you struggle or don't know the answer this question, it just simply means you
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know you mean you may not be living a bad life. It just means
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that you're not living intentionally. You may not recognize certain opportunity to come your
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way. You don't know why it's there. You don't know why you're handsome
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that that has a purpose. You don't know why you have this talent that
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has a purpose. But can I encourage you to live on purpose? Question?
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Have you written your purpose statement? See? If that's my mission,
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then every single day, whether I'm in a grab car driving the car.
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I'm in a footsalt field'm playing badminton, or I'm sleeping or whatever it is
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I'm doing buying fruits. That will be my mission. It changes your life.
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Jesus lived on purpose, and it's very clear what his purpose is.
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Look nineteen ten says he came to seek and save the loss. That's it.
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Came to earth to see and save the loss. You know he did
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this while he was a carpenter. He wasn't a full time worker. No
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no, no, he didn't work for the church. It's not a pastor,
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not just a preacher. He was a carpenter. He was a teacher.
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They call him rabbi. He attends weddings, hit the water to wine,
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He goes fishing, He eats a lot, all that while on mission.
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Every meal, every fishing trip, every table is making. He gets
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what I'm saying, Pastor, you I think us to be pastors are No,
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we can't pay that many, not yet at least no, no,
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no, no, no. Hey. By the way, that also means
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numerically, it is not possible for this sapple making to be a full time
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job like a like a full time staff job like we will never higher enough
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pastors to do all your follow up for you and to do all your discipling
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making for you. You get that right, because we need you guys to
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be business man, doctors, lawyers. It could just be there and the
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discapple making cannot just be done by the full time. We all have to
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do this, amen. And that's that's why I think Jesus purposely became a
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campetal, just so that one day I can prec and say he was a
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carpenter. He went fishing. So yes, sure, don't feel givetvem and
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go fishing. Hopefully it's not a Saturday, but you know, but if
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you can help it, if you really canna help it, sure go fishing.
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But be on mission. That sentence wies it. If you have to
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go, do like I do know, then your six tailor Swift concert this
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year alone on a Saturday, somehow it must be four o'clock. Okay,
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sure, but do it on mission. I don't know, find a way
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to the backstation, sweets. I don't know what love, You know what
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I'm saying, because it would be wrong if I'm preaching a message just to
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get you to come to you, because that's not the point. No,
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it's pretty important. It's very very important. But live on mission, because
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Jesus did that while he's eating, while he's at a wedding, while he's
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making tables. So whatever it is to do, live on mission, live
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on purpose, and I mean the purpose of God, and I mean make
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disciples, share the gospel, be a witness all of that. If you're
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gonna do business, save lives while doing it. If you're gonna play badminton,
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save lives while doing it. If you're gonna go to Taylor Swift concert
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like you're six to one this year again, safe lives or you're at it.
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That's the point. Look at Jesus. The Bible says he had to
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pass through Samaria. He had to he was going to Galilee. So you
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look at the map Judea, Samaria, Galilee. So he had to pass
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through. His direction where he's going is dictated by his purpose. He's not
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dictated by entertainment. What's fun, I need a break? Whatever, Okay,
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everything is. I need to go here because that's where my father sent
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me. The direction of your life is it dictated by purpose or something else?
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Because for Jesus, it's all where he passed by his schedule, his
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map, his ways is whatever. It's all dictated by purpose. First four
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vers ten, Dude, the girl was talking to him about like actual hate
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too. Oh you know understand the woman is talking to him about histe two.
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Oh, but Jesus somehow turns every conversation. You go, what I'm
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saying. You can talk to me about foodsalt and if I'm switched on,
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if I'm living on purpose, and we can become a purposeful conversation if you're
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switched on. Otherwise you will just talk about water too and satay, and
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then life will carry on and nothing has happened. Oh you know Sadi?
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Oh you like Sadi? What a sa da do you like? Oh?
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Chicken? Wow? Great? You know we all have our preferences. But
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you know it's all about the right ingredients. If you don't have the right
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ingredience, it's just it may be sati by his fake Have you try to
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fix something before? Yes? I have? Oh yeah, me too.
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But there's a real good one. I'm bummed. It's really good and there's
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only one place you can find it, and there's only one truth. There's
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only one way. Have you tasted my Jesus Jesus conversation all centered around his
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purpose. He's like, oh, you're talking about water. Ah, I'm
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the water. Remember he was talking about bread. I am the bread.
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What happens if our conversations is centered around purpose and not wasted? You know,
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the Bible says God would judge every idol word. What do you think
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is the Bible? Because God knows. God knows we will speak many idle,
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useless words. God wants us to be intentional. The woman answered him,
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I have a whole husband. Blah blah blah. You're right and saying
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your husband Jesus prophesies, he uses gifts for purpose. Jesus obviously had to
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give up prophecy. He didn't use it to make himself famous. He didn't
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use it to build a bigger platform. He didn't use it to gain another
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femal followers. No, some of us use our gifts for us, and
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Jesus uses gifts to reach someone. You have gifts, you have gives.
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You all have gifts. I texted someone this week and I say, how
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can I pray for you? He said, Pastor, can I pray for
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me busy season? Pray for me for the power to get wealth? Bro
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all me. We're thinking, what cannot praise that you should be praygnant your
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Holy Spirit touch you or something. Pray for the power to get wealth.
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But hey, I realize what's wrong. That's his calling. So I said,
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I'll pray for you to have I'll pray for you. Brother, I
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pray you gain profits. But with purpose. I pretty God make you very
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rich. But you you will be fill with purpose. You know what to
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do with it. We all have gifts. Come on, some of your
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gifts are dormanty. You're not you're not using it. Some of your gifts
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are not meant for in the church. So you see where it's meant to
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be used. Amen. But Jesus gives. He's here is the give of
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prophecy, word of knowledge. He used it. His focus is sharpened by
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his purpose. Jesus, eat my food is to do the will of God.
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He's not saying I'm not hungry, I don't have to eat throw this
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food away. He's not really saying that he will eat my Jesus has shown
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me in the Bible that he eats a lot. He loves food. A
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lot of ministries around food. So yeah, he eats, he eats,
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Okay, but he's he's taking opportunity of the situation to say, you know
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what my real food. You know what feeds me, what grows me,
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what nourishes me, what makes me come alive. It's not Saturday, it's
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not fish. Is to do God will. That's my purpose. That's what
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he's saying. Focus, Focus, focus, fast team. I believe he's
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able to live that kind of schedule because he's focused. He does one thing,
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make disciples. So all my schedule is that his family is in his
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schedule too, So don't he's not just like out there. Spoken to his
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son Jayden. Jaden's time with his father is every Thursday morning, and they
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all know. Focus number two is lift, lift, focused. But I
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want to introduce something to you call disrupted, not distracted. Leave focus,
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but be willing to be distructed, not distracted. It's not the same thing.
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Jesus was not faced. He was focused. He knew exactly what he
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was doing. We read this just now. They came to say, hey,
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time to eat. He said, what eat? I I am.
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My real food is to do God's will. Jesus knew his why, and
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because he knew his why, it informs his what, how, Where,
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and when I know why I'm here, So why I'm here decides what I
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do, what I don't do, how I do it, where I do
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it, when I do it. See, God never forgets our why,
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but we do. God never forgets, but we do because we do.
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He sometimes interrupts, or even sometimes often disrupts. What if God changes your
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What if God changes your plans entirely? You want this job like it gives
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you the other one. You want to go here, he stops you.
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What if God changes your plan? Are you willing to be interrupted or disrupted
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by God? Disruption is not distraction is two different things. To live.
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Focused is to not be distracted. We know that right. To be focused
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mean I don't get distracted by I'm supposed to study, so I'm not distracted
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by enemy kay pop k drama mobile legends, none of that, because I'm
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focused. To live, focus is to not be distracted, but to be
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disrupted disrupted. It's not the same thing. To be disruptive while your focus.
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It's a good thing. To be distracted while your focus is not a
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good thing. Distraction is internal disturbances within ourselves. You're supposed to finish this
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job, but then you start feeling lazy or sleepy, or you you're you're
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revising, and then maybe you're at work trying to finish up your thing,
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and then you overhear a gossip. WHOA, why you know she was sleeping
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with this guy? I don't want to They're like, I just don't know
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him. LA. That's distraction, and then you no longer are doing your
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job. Interruption or disruption is external disturbances. It's without ourselves. COVID was
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a disruption. It's both interruption but also disruption. We realized this disruption later
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on the first two weeks when the government said just two weeks, we thought
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it's just an interruption. Let me define this further. Interruption is when something
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is stopped and then restarted without damage. Now you know why COVID is a
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disruption, no interruption, because the words never the same. The first two
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weeks, we hope it was interruption. Just turken down. You're watching extra
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doesn't work for live football, but you're watching your favorite show rain interruption,
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and then when it comes on, you continue where you stop and then you
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carry on. That's interruption. Disruption is when something is interfered with or otherwise
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broken or pull apart. And will not be the same as before. COVID
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was a disruption. Our world is no longer the same. Now you work
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from home, Now you work remotely. Now you do zoo meetings. Now
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you the world has changed. Interruption creates tagnancy. You feel frustrated when you're
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interrupted because you want to get back to the way things were. Sometimes that's
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why sometimes interruption is not going. It's not good enough for good to just
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interrupt your life. He wants to disrupt your life so that there is movement.
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You change direction. Okay, So for example, after church, we'll
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suppos go for dinner, we go to charge hunting. I'm on my way
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there and someone comes comes to talk to me, you know, Kandesh come
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and talk to me, and he interrupts me, and he says, hey,
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I'm on my way there. When it comes to talk to me about
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something. And then after I'm done talking, oh yeah, yeah, sure
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you can do this or whatever, and I carry on my way to touch
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and thing. Kanesh interrupted me. Disruption will be like this, I'm on
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my way to judge a thing and it's definitely can say past it and ring
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need to talk to you, and you want to talk to you okay,
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great, what is it about? And whatever they tell me, we say,
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you know what, we need to continue this. Let's go to Chittamo
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and continue there because we don't want other people to hear, so we go
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there. That's a disruption, change of direction. So sometimes God utterly disrupts
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our plans to move us in a different direction. But if we don't recognize
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it, we may say, we may become stagnant. So, friends,
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are you okay? If God disrupts you, you've got changes your plan because
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we already have this plan. We plan our breaks, we plan where we're
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active, We plan what ministries you want to get involved in. We plan
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who we want to talk to. We have all these plans. Many are
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the plans in the man's heart, Bible says, but the Lord's purposes prevails.
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Jesus was going to Galilee, and then suddenly some area happened. The
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woman at the well happened. It happens to Jesus all the time. He's
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on the way to Gyros's daughter to heal her. And then the woman touched
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his hand. He was going somewhere else, and then Zaccius was on the
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tree. Friends, do you have room in your life for that to happen,
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or is your plan so water tight even God cannot change it. Thursday,
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I woke at five forty five in the morning, had a plan in
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my head as I was driving to the school. My schedule only starts at
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one pm that day, my first appointment. I said to myself, I
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will preach there, I will finish at eight thirty and then I will eat
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that nasty going by if for her, and I'm gonna leave the place.
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I'm gonna drive back home by nineteen nine forty five and sleep. I'll sleep
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to you twelve thirty, wake up and go for my appointment at one pm.
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While I'm driving, I said something. I see the text someone reach
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out to me, and the faster we need to meet, we need to
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meet. I'm not doing well. I'm like, oh, I want to
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sleep, lah, and this guy can say I went slept. You should
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understand what it is to not sleep. But I held the whole thing,
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say go see him. So I texted him and said, okay, bro
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uh, let me see so I see a night of dealer. Sure after
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I said yes to him ninety ty he said okay, and he said I'm
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going to go to a nap now later you call me okay. I'm like,
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okay, okay, okay, nice, you can take a nap,
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and then again another text, Hey, how's your day? Looking like I
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want to meet up. I'm like, ah, I can read me after
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p D. He's like, oh, then I cannot mean you because my
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days like that like that, but I really really want you to meet this
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person. This person doesn't come to come to k L all the time,
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and he's from another country. But I really want to mean. Okay,
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where will you be. I'll be in PJ. Okay, cool. I'm
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so happy meeting the guy the ninety one in PJ. So I say,
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I'll see you in PJ. So I'm there. I can meet this guy
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at ninetyty talk to him. He tells me he's suicidal. He's always all
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this plan how he's gonna do it. And I said, bro, please
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don't tell you, but if you're gonna do please call me first. He
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said, I can't promise you that, okay, but we've been in touch
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this morning. He told me, I'm much better. I've written some some
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message to the person that I'm having a problem with, and I feel lighter
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now. I feel better now, I'm just like, okay, God,
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I'm glad I was there. And then my other appointment. He guess who
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I met talking to this pastor and I realized his past the team's mentor.
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I didn't even notice he was Positivity's mentor. He was there when Postivity was
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still a student deciding where to plan his church that I were not. Every
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nation was called Eagle Point, Pasative was gonna plan in PJ and this person
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said, no, you got to put chung. I was able to meet
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this man and he was full of wisdom, and I'm so glad to be
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connected with him now. Sometimes God disrupts your plan. He disrupts your plan.
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I've got a few people in my contact list that I wonder how hard
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I tried, they won't come to judge. You have all sorts of reasons
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why you want to be there, but just God just wouldn't let me let
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them go. Some of these people, I've known them since they were teenagers.
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Today they are in their thirties. We're still in touch. Will you
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reason anything? I don't know. I don't know because I don't go even
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the agenda. Do I want them to come to of course, But at
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that time, as I'm sitting there having the banana leave or coffee. Do
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I have an agenda that he must end you must come to church? Not
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necessary, because then that messes everything up. Because when Jesus was there with
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his woman at the well, he didn't ask him to come to the Synegague
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man. He didn't even ask her to change her life. He's just saying,
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you're water. I know this water very go on. That encounter changed
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her life. She went and told everybody I met this person. Come see
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this man. He knows everything I want to court. You think future,
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live present. Think future means hey, what what am I leaving behind?
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But as you do that, live in the now. I'm with you.
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Now you're not ready to come to church, that's okay, I'll be your
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friend because because church is not just this right we can have judge, but
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it's a restaurant. So I think Jesus will do that because full examples he
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just doing this in the Bible. Well La beach lah desert, la by
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the lake, law in the boat ler in a strong live focused, but
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allow God to disrupt your plans. See now that I say this, and
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now that you have to you have to think about it. Maybe the next
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time someone texts you you think more right now, because you should. You
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should, You could save a life you give to the future. You live
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in the now. Give means you you're sewing. You're sewing to the future.
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Your actions, your choices, your investments are so into the future.
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But you live in the now. God is speaking now, Jesus says,
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in my two sakes, don't worry tomorrow. Worry about yourself right just today,
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be goes on trouble. So I paraphrases summarize. Basically, he's saying
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that living now thing future, but live now, living in our global provide.
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Amen. So so the third point is live and live a legacy.
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That's how we should live. We should live thinking. Okay, the person
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that comes after me, what is the path that has prepared for him?
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What example, what testimony have I left him? Look at it verse here.
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So the woman left her water jar and went away into the town and
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said to the people, come see a man who told me all that ever
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they can, this be the Christ. They went out of the town and
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were coming to him, and then they themselves came a paraphrasia you can read
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this on your own, and they say, now we believe because we've experienced
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God for ourselves. So basically this is live a let's see whatever Jesus did.
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He deposited in the woman. The woman carried that into the city and
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told everybody and in the city now comes and they experience God himself, and
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then the whole nation changes, and then the world. Because today we're telling
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this story in Malaysia to this audience who's listening and being inspired by the lesson
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from this woman at the world. So I think we need to imagine our
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life having this impact. So what am I carrying? And how can I
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deposit into the grab driver or the padmenting record maker or he came saying,
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So ask yourself this question, what will your future look like if you're continue
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living the way you live right now? If you don't change anything, you
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don't let God disrupt any of your plans or interrupt any of your plans.
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You just live the way you live right now. Oh, your future look
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like something you think about. So build today for tomorrow, make disciples.
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Makes His suppose does not have to be complicated. You do have to have
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to have the message. This week I texted like fifty people past the team
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does fifty a day but he has a thousand member chess lah I didn't have.
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I mean some of you receive my text. So you know what I
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said, nothing nothing magical. By mean what I said, I said,
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how can I serve you this week? How can I pray for you this
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week? So one of the one of one of them was a student and
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said struggling with his studies. And I was able to connect and say,
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wow, great timing. We're having studied group is SAT today. Would you
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come? He came, and we have just the right people to help him
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with this the subject is struggling with. He started with, how can I
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pray for you this week? Hey? You need byle school to do this?
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A you can do here. If we are all the day, we
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all keep the mainting mainting. We all live on purpose, we all live
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on mission. We really can change the world and save the world together.
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Amen. We don't to you know, at least in these church we don't
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make this uppiship like some complicated nineteen point five different steps and some I don't
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know. You have to take nineteen courses and then you graduate and then then
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you you know, then you start your journey in ah. I mean,
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of course we have to learn something, and there's some skills and all stuff
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like that, but just look look at the life of Jesus and say,
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well, how did he do it? Aymen, thank you for listening to
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