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Yes, God Series - Part 3: What Happens When You Say Yes To God | Andy Yeoh · Generations Church

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Hello, and welcome to the Generation's Church Podcast. We're so excited to have
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you here today. It is our prayer that God's word will inspire and help
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you grow in your faith. Now, let's get right into it, all
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right, cool. So we've been on a series and a series is called
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Yes God, Yes God. Yes, Sir, Yes God. Amen.
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I put it to us, and I will continue on the theme. Well,
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I'm really really trying to say here. I'm trying to say one thing,
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say yes to God, Say yes to God. Please. I'm not
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saying say yes to meet the church, the ministry. There's all something else.
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I know. Sometimes pastors, preachers, churches have put it as the
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same thing. It's not the same thing. I'm not telling you to do
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the same thing. Are there times where you express your yes to God by
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serving the church? Yes? He said the only way. No, So
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what am I saying here? I'm cautioning us, encouraging us, reminding us
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basically, this is your life, is not your own. It is not
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for a moment thing. You are living for yourself, not for a moment
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thing. You are storing up treasures and riches for yourself to live a more
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comfortable life. That's not the goal of this life. Can I tell the
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truth? It is not. This is another concept that the world teaches us.
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They're sitting to the church. That's all about comfort, It's all about
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a better quality of life, better courity of life according to who? Who
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defines better? Who defines good? I just came for a whole week of
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classes in Bible school. Hear me flexing again talking about does God permit evil
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in the world because there's so much evil in the world, right, and
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how can a good God allow evil to happen? And then usually these kind
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of arguments, the person who argues you was usually say if I am God,
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I'll do it better. Well, what is better? What good?
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According to who? We must not forget who is God? In this picture?
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We are not God. God is God. Amen. And so while
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many people in this world is trying to go for a better quality of life,
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please nothing wrong with that. Just make sure that your definition is biblical,
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because if you measure it based on Warren Buffet or Elorn mask or whatever
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it is, or trying to define it, we are messed up. Because
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the Bible is the only authority, the final authority, the the ultimate authority
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for us to define what's good, what's bad, what's wise, what's not,
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what's right, what's wrong? Amen? So I'm not against going for
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the next nice car of I love that too, you know, all those
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things are good. Don't don't get me wrong. I'm saying be a be
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a pauper, you know, be a bag. No, but don't make
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that the goal of your life. God, that's not life, okay.
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Our life is now our owner. Your car yours, your bank account is
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not your, Your business is not yours, Your children are not yours.
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Your breath that you're taking right now, that's not yours. This is but
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the mercies of God, the grace of God. We live for him,
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and so the the real we don't really have an option. We can make
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our choices, but we don't really have an option. The only option we
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have is to say yes to Him. Yes. So many human beings say
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otherwise, and it's dangerous and it's mad a man say yes to God.
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Can I remind you by showing you a video, because I'm going to go
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into the next part of this message now, which is what happens when you
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say yes to God. Why wouldn't you want to say yes to God if
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you're saying yes to God is the way we're wired. Yes God, and
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you go and you're on this journey and you're like, oh my god,
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what did I just say? I just agree to something? And then you're
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like, you're stuck. Now, I'm in it. I can't get out.
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It's scary. It's all kinds of emotions. Right. Have you've been
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on a because before you've been to a theme park? Yeah, and you're
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like, oh, I gotta do this. And then while you're up there,
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you're like, what what did I do this? And then you get
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down and you're like, let's do it again, saying yes to God.
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Okay. So Mark to the twelve, Chapter six or twelve says they preach
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with joyful urgency that life can be radically different. This gospel that we commit
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ourselves to cause us to live a radically different life, or life that's different
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than everybody, or it's like getting on a roller coaster with God. There
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are days you feel like you're just anticipating their days. You're just whoa deep
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dife. Amen. I want to say to all of us, God is
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inviting every single person here. He's inviting us to live a radically different life.
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Not the same as the world, but a different life, a life
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that is radically amazingly and abundantly good and blessed. But you've got to define
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blessed. Okay, not prosperity, but blessed in God's definition. And you
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can only get that by saying yes God, Say yes to Him and all
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the has for you, all of the time. Amen. So what happens
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when we say yes to God next? Like what happens when you say yes
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to God? Number one? Our days become an adventure. God is basically
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inviting every single person here to an adventure. It's not a boring life.
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It's not a down life. He's not a man gen z not a man
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life. It's a It's an adventure. There'll be dragons and Godzillas, and
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there's ups and downs. There's mountains and valleys. It's like an iron man.
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And you swim, you ride, you run. It's an adventure.
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First quintiance, one mine, says God, who got you started in this
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spiritual adventure, shares with us the life of his son and our master,
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Jesus Bruce eleven was it, says buying act of faith. Abraham said yes
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to God's call to travel to an unknown place that will become his home.
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When he left, he had no idea where he was going. How do
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you people believe that we are all created and built for adventure? Maybe some
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of us have grown too old for that. Maybe some of us have experienced
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too much of life because they've been disappointed too much. It's like too many
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downward spirals in this roller coaster, and ah, it's too scary. But
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we're all originally wired for adventure. Every baby, that's your clue. Every
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baby explores. Very few babies, if they are normal, sits in the
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corner and does nothing. I just have my tea here. Yeah, sure,
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every baby explore everything, Want to touch everything, want to touch?
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Right, those who have been parents before or have been parented before, how
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many times your mom or your dad, or your any or your grandpa grandma
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to say don't touch it, don't touch it, don't touch that. Because
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we are built for adventure, yes or no, we want to explore,
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We are curious. We are built for adventures. So if you're built that
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way, why would we want to right live a life that keeps saying no
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to God? Because saying yes to God makes your life an adventure. Amen,
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nobody here is amazed at mediocrity. Nobody here is amazed with normalcy,
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like, wah, so normal? I mean, you will not be impressed
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if I told you you know what I put this morning? Wow, I
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hiker, I hike, I hag uble heel make some date people. Hey,
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what's so impressive? If I told you, hey, this morning,
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huh I hang a mount Everest, I climb out evers with my bends,
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then you'll be like really, you probably won't believe or so because it's so
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out of this world. But it's the one we're impressed with. Why Because
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we are built for adventure. I know over here No, no, I'm
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a low risticker. You can say all that somewhere deep inside us we are
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built for that would be amazed with amazing things. I mean, if Daniel
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proposed to Pam a long time ago and gave her an onion ring, it's
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a ring, Darling, it's a ring, diamon ring. I can only
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afford one a ring. I can for one who books who's impressed. We
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will be like you crazy? Are you you proposed with what anion rings?
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No? Every girl one a diamond ring? Yes there, someone asks me,
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pasta you got married before? Can you give me some advice how to
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buy engage ma ring, how how to answer you gotta know your girl are
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right? I mean, if I told you I went to the moon,
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hey done before? Impressive? Man? If I told it I went to
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the sun, ah, then you'll be like, how do you do it?
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I went at night? I mean, if I told you I called
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a cat with my bad hands, what's so impressive? If people do it
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every day? If I call a tiger with my bad hands, see,
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I mean, it's just some things to get it going to. We have
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people adventure and we but you can only live that life that we are wired
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to live if we say yes to God, and God is inviting us every
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single day, every single day, take up your be a living sacrifice.
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Then in another scripture, he says, take up across daily. He wants
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you to be a living sacrifice every single day. Every single day, God
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is inviting you to an adventure. And the more we say no, the
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further we are from the adventure. We need to say yes to God.
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This is important, you know why, because human beings are what we are
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wife of adventure. The problem is, and this is mostly Asian parenting being
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a personal we hear more nose than yes. Don't do that, don't do
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that, don't leave flights on your plate, don't go to that room,
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don't go near that, don't run. Now, no, we say,
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we hear a lot no. So maybe that's why we are conditioned. We
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are conditioned to say no first. But there are people with different style of
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parenting. Instead of saying don't, don't eat rises, instead of saying don't
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eat rice, say hey, it is potato. It's more positive, right
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this potato. He's still saying, don't work cartoon. Hey, read this
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book. It's the same thing. But maybe we've been conditioned to be on
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the defensive. So everything is like nothing wrong with that. You know what,
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even if you did nothing, psychology can tell you this, right,
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we are already hard wired to survive. We already know how to defend ourselves.
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That's what we always think of the worst case scenario, because we are
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trying our bodies, our whole psychology, everything is trying to defend us,
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kip us alive. So already it's that that's the default. So if we
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don't learn how to say yes to God, I don't care how much money
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you have, what car you have in this world. You might look like
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I got it all together, but it's the most boring life. Then they
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say yes to God. Then they say yes to God. You know,
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I grew up as a kid. I don't know those days, no phone,
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no phone. So we find our own adventure. Agna knows this.
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We will round the bicycle and we will go harding cats. Today's animal abuse.
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You get caught for it. Those days you're like, we'll make last
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week. You know I should the cat and then uh, people are still
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not fun anymore. We use the stapler. We buy the big stapler,
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we fold it into some rock cat and then we shood the cat. Okay,
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don't catch me in that. There's many years ago. I repented,
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and no more. We were still don Bhutan from a friend's house. Friend's
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house. We still don butan because more fun to steal. Well, I
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got ting tong can sure they have no fun to steal. Used to do
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rock climbing. Now they go bordering in some shopping mall right with all the
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gear. Those days I climb real hills with no tools. Nearly die and
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I call it training informations. We all tie frocks to fireworks. Remember not
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type with the moon traveler. You know the fire cracker and should the send
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frog into space few pa and then one one one lake will fall from the
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sky. Hello, am here, that's our version of fun. Okay,
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you know the fire works. That is that one day you should fire a
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ball. We should ad our friends the run right next Eventuala, I don't
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know. As I grew older and became a teenager, I was taught to
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say yes to God. So someone says, hey, there's a mission trip
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to this place. Want to go yes God again. Don't get me wrong,
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I'm not asking you to just say yes to projects and events and chest.
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That's not it. That's not it. But there are things where the
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times where that's how we express oh yes to God. I went on this
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mission trip and my first ever summon was my pastor at twelve midnight. The
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next day is Sunday, midnight. Before we I was, before I lie
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down to sleep on my sleeping back, he says, Andy, tomorrow morning
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you picture. Ha. Why did you tell me earlier? This is like
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this is like last mining to the call. He didn't prepare me. I'm
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supposed to speak in Indonesia. Pontiana is the name of the place I'm supposed
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to preaching Indonesia. I've never preached before. Two hundred people was gonna be
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there. Oh no, I couldn't sleep. I stood up there and I
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whatever bahasa I knew came out, and I knew some of the words were
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not good words, because the teachers came running and said, don't say that.
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Don't say that because you know some words in Malay. Our Malay is
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like innocent words, but India version is a bad word. I was talking
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about mustache, but apparently the word I use meant hair somewhere else for them,
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and I was switching to two hundred children. The teacher really literally ran
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from the back to the front from done. I'm like we're doing, went
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on preaching, and then I gave him all the call and say, how
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if you want to receive Jesus in your life? Two hundred hens went up
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and said say, I'm oh, yes, Sus. What Maybe you don't
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know, but I know that's not me. It's God's grace because I knew
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I messed up. I knew I didn't prepare. I knew I was talking
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nonsense. But God's grace saved them all. But it's because I say yes,
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Yes, God, yes, God, Yes, God, Amen.
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Mission trips, after mission ships, after that my life as a teenager bro
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I had to deliver babies. Yeah. We went to some village, walk
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three hours out. Our bus came late. Our bus was not there,
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stuck suddenly or some women is creaming. Some villages came out and said,
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ah, Marie. I'm like, I don't know, like this is friendly
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as someone to pray, Marie, marry Marie. What happened? This lady
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has been in labor for many, many hours since morning until now. The
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baby cannot come on. Can you pray? I'm fifteen years old. No,
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I've never seen a woman scream of that, So I'm like, prayer,
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okay, God, you please deliver the baby. Then the buss came.
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Thank God, we need to see the baby come out. Get on.
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The bus went back to the village. The origin was a base.
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Later we get a letter from them saying the moment we left the bus,
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the baby came out. Whoa I was, I'm fifteen years old, deliver
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baby. Prayed for rain. There was a drought in the village we were
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in. Prayed for rain. The rain came down. Prayed for the paddy
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field. Had to walk hours to get to the petty field pray and then
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walk back. But that year the paddy was three times more than usual.
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I mean, we saw all these miracles. Why because I'm so great,
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because I'm so powerful. Now we simply sit yes, God, Okay God.
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It's embarrassing to me, but I'll say yes, Okay God. I'm
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not comfortable, but I'll say yes, Okay, God. I've never been
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here before. I've never done this before. But I was saying, yes,
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God. It cost me something, but I'll say yes. I don't
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know this is the old one say, but I want to speak to teenagers.
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You know when I was a teenager, you know what I did every
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Friday night. I don't know, you're thinking maybe party, maybe some kind
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of life. No, man, every Friday night I was in the prayer
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meeting, prayer meeting, bro speaking in tanks one half hours. My past
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to say, Okay, are you face the wall? Okay, face the
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wall? Okay. I want you to ask the whole spirit, what is
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your fre wedding? I don't even know that's proper to little training or not,
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but it happened now and it's how we learn to see fishers PROPOSI and
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so I went to a camp and there was this boy there from Epoh and
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never made before. And I said, brother, I was praying for you.
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Do you have stomach problems? How you know? I don't know.
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God knows. God on me. Yeah, of course also a problem.
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Yes, sir, let me pray for you. He gets healed. Say
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yes to God. Amen. That's my simple message today. Our lives become
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an adventure when we say yes to good. Imagine every single day you're saying
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yes to God's invitation because the alternative is this obedience. I don't even know.
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Last week I said that. Last week I said you you you should
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thank God you're not Abraham and God asked you to sacrifice your son. Can
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you imagine? You don't who got the instruction today? It gos just like,
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come on, pray for mom. It's canela, God diet loud,
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the moral presentation. Hey, can you help the church with some pecking?
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Can? I'm sure the wo can help, right, I am very busy.
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I don't know today's dead. Imagine you woke up one day say God,
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God tells you to sacrifice your son, or like go and burn your
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car, or like can you go and you know, destroy your house something
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like that, and Abraham brought his son on the way to maul Moriah.
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Someone asked him, hey, bro, where are you going? Well,
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bro, what you're doing is early in the morning. What did he say?
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Did he gives some wake kind of like, oh, Noah, I'm
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having some father and son time, or what do you mean what I'm doing?
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I'm going hiking louder? Can't you see he think he's he? He
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he called it what it is? What do you think he's it? I'm
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gonna go kill my son? No, no, no, he didn't say
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that either. He said I'm going to worship, knowing he's going up there
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to slaughter the sun. He calls that worship because child slaughtering is worship,
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is it? Oh that sounds some religion, I know. No, No,
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it's not. It's not the act. It's the fact that God asked
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him to do a and he is going to do a and the obedience that's
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worship. If God said Abraham, I want you to go up to the
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mountain and dance open Gandam style, and he went up there, that's worship.
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Do because it's a dance. No, because God said do a dance,
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and he did a dance. Worship is obedience. And by the way,
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he's not a controversy. You know, the whole whole thing about leaving
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sacrifices. We think it's radical, and it's actually only reasonable. So we
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look at Abraham and what radical radical faith? Do you know? It's quite
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normal those days, No, literally, quite primitive time. They quite literally
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a lot of them actually sacrifice their own children. So maybe we Heren go,
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oh so barbaric to them. He was like, oh, sacrifice son,
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now, okay, La, I'm not minimizing. I'm just saying,
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don't don't minimize or turn over fantast eyes or speculate or make it more than
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it is or less than it is. God's asking us to live as a
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living sacrifice, live a life of obedience. And so if can't ever ask
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you to give up your job, if he ever, if he ever's that's
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that, what's the right answer? Yes God, It's tough, but yes
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God. And then your life become an adventure because you don't know what's next.
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He said, the roller coaster you're going up? Okay, I say,
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yes, I give her the job. Brendan, whoa, what's next?
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You don't know? God knows, So you're continuously having to trust and
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depend on God. Amen, I'm asking us to say yes to God.
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Secondly, our lives become a miracle because after yes, it's miracle because you're
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saying yes by faith. Everything else after is not up to humor. So
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you choose that. We have to choose what kind of life you wanna live.
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We want to live the life where I plan everything, I worked out
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it all. This is I'm successful because I've done it. Sure live that
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life. Oh, you say yes to God and like wow, everything after
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that is like God, you better come true. Amen, our lives become
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a miracle. Eph'esis Stree twenty says, by his money power at work within
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us, God is able to accomplish infinitely more than we could ever die.
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Dare to ask or hope meant to nine to eight two thirty says Jesus ask
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do you believe I can make you see? And he says what yes,
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Rod, They told him we do we believe. Then he touches eye tear
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eyes and said, because of your faith, it will happen, And suddenly
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they could see we can. I don't live a life where we are in
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charge, we are responsible. We have to plan it. We have to
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make it work. And some people are comfortable because at least I know.
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At least I know because I made these choices and make these investments. God
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is saying, say yes to me, and you have no no. You
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know what happens after that, it's a miracle. Everything that happens after that
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is America. I'm leaving a miracle. Now sometimes doesn't make sense. And
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know here he knows this, he can verify when we were a band.
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You're making it as a band. You you you you do gieks so you
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can sell your albums. You most events are were weekends, right, I
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know. We made a decision. We said, you know what, this
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is how we're gonna honor God because we all everybody needs that tree, that
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tree in the garden, something you just don't touch that reminds you who's God.
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And so we say, as a band, you know what, We're
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all from different churches, so it's quite hard to sink conest or schedule.
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Got this church, got something on that, you got something. But we
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said, as long as one of us have something on in our church,
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we are saying no to the gig. Hey, how to make it?
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Now? All the big events on weekends. How to make it so we
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have to say, no, we can't do this gig, we can't do
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that concert, we can't do that. Why because somebody one case and has
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something in this church, someone in that church. We have to say no,
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are you? And I am I'm usually the one who gets invitation.
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I'm not who replied the email. I'm so painful. Sorry, Yeah,
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we cannot make it. Some we can say we got church. Someone we
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say we got church to be like you Ka. One time I was working
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on missa can can. We're not legalistics of course can miss but we chose
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not to, just choose not to because we needed something in our life that
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reminds us who is God? And I think we just made it too easy
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for ourselves Christians. We've made it too easy for ourselves. Oh nobody says
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Sunday is a saba. Yeah, sure, but you got to have a
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Sabbath the Lord's Day. Really And so although we turned down so many geeks
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say not to so many weekend events, we're the ones that they call to
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open for a big American band called Switch Food. How because if you honor
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God, he will honor you. You honor God, he will honor you.
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How does a song that says Jesus Christ is a lot of all five
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times in the song get on Malaysian radio? How doesn't make sense? And
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the radio station, upon realizing that, oh my gosh, the station manager
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who is from a another religion, made a big mess. They said,
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at band, our band from the radio station, never again will we play
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this band's song our dreams crush. Only for a few months later the same
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radio station who has a TV show invites us onto the TV show and on
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the TV show and remember not they requested for the song because it's the special.
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Hey, you got that song? Can you sing the song two times
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in the show at the beginning and the end? Can you sing it again?
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All? Lord? Oh God, I didn't keep it. Jesus Christ
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is Lord? How does it happen? A bunch of guys just decided,
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you know what, God is number one, and we say yes to him.
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You decide the third point and how close to this is our heart will
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become at peace. There will be peace because you know you've obeyed God and
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you're not wondering like, oh so hmmm, I hope God won't judge me.
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I hope No. Peace is not the absence of fear, doubt or
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rask. Okay us, peace is the presence of God. When you say
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yes to God, your heart will be at peace. You know that you're
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walking in the path that God has set for you. And there's no word
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is, no doubts, no fear. John sixteen thirty three. I've told
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you all day so that in trusting me, if you trust me, by
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saying yes to me, you will be unshakeable and assured deeply at peace.
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Say yes to God and you will live a life of peace. No worries
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were good. So okay, I'm trying. I'm trying to challenge us here,
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inspire us, and encourage us here to live a life that says yes
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to God. I don't know what that means, because for someone o us
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here, it's going to come at a big price. A high price.
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Could cost you a job, could cost you an hour with your girlfriend,
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could cause you I don't know, your favorite TV show or something something.
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But I pray when that moment comes to remember, gonna say yes. Gonna
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say yes, because I'm a revengure with God, and I know by saying
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yes right after this, this after this woman is a miracle because God's gonna
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have to show up because I've obeyed, and you know you will be at
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peace even though sometimes you don't know what's next. Abraham was at peace although
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he didn't know where he was going, because he knew he was going where
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God wants him to go. Amen. Thank you for joining us on the
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