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The Main Thing | In Memory of Pastor Timothy Loh · 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. Hi there, I'm Andyo, the pastor
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of Generations Church. Thank you for listening to our podcast. We don't usually
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do this on a podcast, but then this is no usual episode. The
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speaker of today's message is Pastor Timo Tillo, who was the senior pastor of
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Every Nation Church Malaysia. He was one of my mentors and spiritual father and
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was someone who made a great impact in my life. Him and his wife,
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Pasta Teresa, personally spend time with my wife and me to guide and
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coach us in both life and ministry. And we are not even members of
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his church, so we are tremendously blessed and grateful for the love and care.
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You know, Pastor Team taught us many things. He was generous with
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his knowledge, wisdom and experience. He didn't hold back any secrets of his
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success. No questions were out of bounds. He was wise, successful,
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and larger than life, yet always had a posture to listen and to learn.
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We often go to him to ask questions to learn from him, but
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many times he would turn back and ask us questions to learn from us.
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What a humble man he was, vulnerable, real and authentic with us.
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He was a real and true inspiration to me. But why dare essay was
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Well, it's because on April sixth, twenty twenty four, the day this
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message was recorded live in our church, he came to our church as a
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guest speaker, something we had been planning for many months, so we were
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very excited that he could finally come to speak to the church. But after
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he delivered his sermon, and about an hour after the service was over,
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as he had finished his dinner and was about to dress our leadership team,
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he collapsed suddenly. We now know that he had a massive heart attack and
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he was called home to be with the Lord. He's now safe and securely
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home with Jesus. I personally believe that pastor team when to be with Jesus,
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having lived each day to the full, literally for the Lord, for
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his family and the people he has been called to love and self. I
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said literally because he often shared what a typical day would look like for him.
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He wakes up at five am and starts his first appointment with people at
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seven am. He then exercises from two to four pm, playing his favorite
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sport, badminton, and he was very good at it. And then he
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continues with more appointments, meeting people from five am to twelve am. He
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truly lived each day to the full. It always amazes me how he always
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manages to find and make time for people, yet never neglecting his time with
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the Lord and his family. And still he had an enormous capacity to love
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and serve others. He's always thinking about others. He's always thinking, how
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can I love one more person to Jesus Christ, how can I help one
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more person. It is no wonder that his very last sermon delivered the one
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you're about to listen to. It's about loving and serving people, sharing with
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them and showing them the love of Jesus, and inspiring and leading them into
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a relationship with the Savior. He called this the main Thing. He exhorts
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us to keep the main thing, the main thing, which means not to
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be distracted by anything else that is not really that important, not to be
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bogged down by church programs or politics or processors, but to always remember the
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main thing. For Jesus for saving lives and be our main thing too.
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When I think about it, it is quite poety that the last time he
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preached and the last time he ministered and served was in someone else's church and
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not his own. It was not even a big church. It's a Neil
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young and small church, just a little over a year old. He wasn't
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looking for a big platform or a big publicity or anything like that. He
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just wanted to serve the Lord and to help others. So my church and
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I are incredibly humble and honored to have been given this special privilege to receive,
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and we will always remember this legacy forever. As you listen to this
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message, I pray that you two will be encouraged, inspired and challenged to
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live your life to the full and to live for the one who created you
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and to live for his greater purpose in your life. Maybe we all learn,
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like past the team, to keep the main thing the main thing.
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Today I want to kind of hopefully help every one of us who walk away
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knowing what's the main thing. And I know that Generations Church just kind of
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sovereignly got kind of pieced that together. And and D and Jay was telling
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me the story how to call of God, and I think it's very important
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every time and we do church. What's the main thing? Okay, so
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all of us are familiar with the concept of the main thing, especially in
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a corporate world. Stephn Covid was the one that made that little statement,
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which you be together, the main thing is to keep the main thing the
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main thing, all right, all of us know that. But in his
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book, Steven Covid was also trying to tell us that if you focus on
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the second thing or other things, you run the potential to actually lose your
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main thing. And I think that's really scary. You know, when I
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think about what's the main thing for church? What does really God call us
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to do? When Matthew sixteen the Bible says Jesus said I'll build my church,
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she can't describe it's kind of church that the gates of hell will not
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prevail. Right, And then three and a half years lay that asks too,
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you sing happy baby to the church. And the church kind of had
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its own formation two thousand plus ustree to today. So there are really many
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many expressions of church. I still remember that when I went to the States,
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the first place that we visited when we touched now was a friend of
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mine say hey, you know, we're on the way to the Bible College,
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and then he says, I'll bring you through the downtown because there's a
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church called Elvis Presley Church where Jesus Christ, picture and Elvis are together.
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So you can see that when it comes to this concept of church, you
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have so many different expression and variation as well, which really really content with
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today's social media world. How much is online church, how much is on
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site church, all of that, okay, But in the smack of all
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this, I think there were so many things that compete with the concept of
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church on the main thing. Today's world. Your world have groups of believers,
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but actually they are very much into end times, Okay. Their whole
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life is to look at an event, try to find a passai in the
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Bible and say this fulfilled this verse with the reason upheaval in the Middle East.
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So many people just admittate zoom into that. When COVID happens, so
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many people thought it's going to be end of the world. So you've got
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the end time version of people who chase after that. But is that the
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main thing? So I find that we live in the world today, where
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it is very important for us always to come back to the main thing.
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Okay, now, so this is the way I have always been one thing,
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to keep the main thing the main thing. So by til twenty eighth
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verse eighteen to twenty Each is a very common verse because everywhere you go,
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every church wants to be disciples, but everybody does it very differently. Okay,
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now, so would you be together? Jesus came to them and said,
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all authority and han and on earth has been given to me. Go
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therefore make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father
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of the Son of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I've
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commanded you. Behold, I am with you always to the end of age.
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Okay, let us pray God. We come humbly before you. God.
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We want to invite your presence. God. I pray for the next
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thirty minutes or so, God, you will give us. O God,
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Lord, just a clarity, just a clear trumpet call why we exist as
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a church, and that Lord, we are able to walk away one thing
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to make disciples. And that simply means we will make disciples starting from people
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who actually do not know you, So I thank you. I pray for
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the favor of God. Thank you prayer this in Jesus name. Amen.
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All right, now all of us are very familiar with this verse, okay,
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And how you you have not seen this verse? Okay, I'm sure
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all of you have. Okay. Now, there are many lenses to look
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at this this verse no matter how you look at it, and kind of
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kind of walk you through a little bit. First of all, you can
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look at it from a relational lens. Jesus had tryed to have your very
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interesting relationship with a disciples, so much so that the Bible tells us that
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that Jesus wanted to leave. It was the disciple. Jesus told the disciple.
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It says, why, you know, why do you feel sad like
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like you're losing me? You're often as such, right, So it tells
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you that it was very close needed kind of a community. So you can
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look at it from a relational lens. Jesus gave his last words. Our
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last words are all important. I know of a lot of men and women
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of God who will who will honor the last word of a particular person.
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Just about last year Christmas, which was quite a very funny story. It
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wasn't funny, okay, but it was quite It was quite a story.
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So last year we did a little production and then we wanted to go by
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twenty three gate perth ticket okay, And the goal is we do not we
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we are not looking for the money, but we're looking for people to pay
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so that they can confirm the seats. Okay. So our goal was to
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have three thousand to four thousand people that will come by for that production.
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That was that was our heart's desire. So we will pretty much go by.
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We will receive about sixty thousand, you know, so right, And
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so we make the announcement to the church the next day to the three of
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our church people, text mes, uh, you know the production falls on
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Sunday. It feels strange that people have to buy ticket to come to service.
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I thought for a while, I said, you know what, scrap
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it. So I went back to her whole church the next day, I
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said, you know what, We're not going to charge anything. But you
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helped to invite your friend that will book the set because we are not looking
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at the amount of money. Will turned out to be quite a fair good
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production. Somewhere along the journey. Uh, the one that did the production
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came to me fast. If we would have truged ticket Pasa, we would
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have gotten, you know, fifty sixty thousand ingate. I kind of smile
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and say, you know that that's not important. And you know what,
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just about two days later, I received a call from one of our church
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members who passed away, and the sister actually caught me and then she said
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this, she said, pass the team, my sister. You know,
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in her will, her last words, she actually wanted to give a love
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give to the church, and she gave the exact amount that would have actually
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translated to if you were to sell the tickets. Okay, but you know
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how many of you we will always honor the last word, right that the
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person that say that last. If you look at it from a story plot
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point of view, however, you would understand that the last segment of the
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story or the narray pief actually makes sense of the entire story. Right.
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However, you watch end Game Pat one and decided not to watch part two
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anyone? None of us am I correct? Of course, all the you
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know, all the Transformers don't need to watch one means really okay, but
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the endgame means a lot because back one, if you watch it, Spider
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Man dies, so many of them dies. Right, it's only part two
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or the end of the story that makes sense of the rest of the So
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what I'm trying to say is so Matthew twenty eight is what makes sense of
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Mattel one to twenty seven. So if you can actually re read metthew one
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to twenty seven with Matthew twenty eight the last word, it gives you a
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very different lens. For example, Matthew twenty eight, Jesus told them,
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let's gather at Galilee again. Now, if you study the Bible carefully,
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you'll find out Matthew seven eight nineten somewhere where Jesus gave them the commandment to
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go to the house of Israel and to preach the gospel, he gave it
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a gallery, and Jesus has to almost re gave them a fresh commandment.
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So Matthew twenty eight story plot point of view is always the last story,
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the last portion that makes sense of the rest if you look at it from
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an instruction lens, which means that, for example, if I were to
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go away for a trip and then I'll go to all my kids. Right.
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I'll go to my elder son. Joe said, Joel, you know
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your math is very good. Please make sure you teach your sister math because
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it was myth to my daughter. It was math to my son. Okay.
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And I'll go to my second son. I said, Josh, you
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know, please please sleep early. And then you know I have to do
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the house show. And I go to my third son. I said,
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Jada, you know I want you to be able to be a good brother.
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I want you to take care of your younger sister. Make sure you
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send her to school. Right. And I go to my daughter and say,
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Joanna, could you finish all your meth and whatever? Right? Okay?
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And then after about two weeks when I came back, what do you
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think I would do at some point after giving them all the gift that I
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brought back. Sometime I'm going to ask Joel, did you teach Joanna meth
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am? I correct? And sometime I'm going to say, Joe, Ash,
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will you will you a good sun where you'll be responsible? Okay?
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Right, all of us will do that. Now the dam will come.
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The Bible says when we meet Jesus and I think Jesus is going to ask
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us did we make disciples? And I think that will be one question that
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were being asked. And sometimes I feel one of the things that we have
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done as the church is we we write songs about the great Commission, we
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do a drama about great commission, we do panton, we do you know
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what I said, We did everything, but but potentially not great commission.
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So it's just like I came back home and all my son and my daughters
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say that, you know what, we put on a skid for you,
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and the skid my son will saying I'm supposed to teach her. And they
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did everything. They write a song, they do a ski they do a
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big poster drama, Well come back there, you know. But what they
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didn't do was exactly did what I've asked them to do. All right?
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So, and then from the last anger is from a theological point of view,
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I'm not sure whether you're aware, but Jesus the Bible tells us that
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he rose from the Dad and he was with the disciples for about forty days.
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If you study the Bible carefully, you'll find that Jesus did only three
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things. Number one, he comforted all the disciples, He says, I
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am Jesus and the one that was with you. And then number two at
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the Bible, teusers that what do you do? He explained the Bible.
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So he took out the scriptures all the way from law, the prophets,
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sums. He helps them to see that it all speaks about him. And
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the third thing that he did for the forty days a different platform in the
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mountain, in the room, he told them about the Great Commission. So
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it was very clear there was one big, single focus all right now.
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And I realized, my I think about the Great Commission. The tipping point
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for Great Commission is really ownership. It really boils down to how much do
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we really own it? Does it express in the way you sing, you
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live your life, and how much we really really made to be part of
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who we are? All right now? I'm just going to go very quickly.
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So in the early days with the disciples, when Jesus asked them to
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go make disciples, and literally that's where they went. They went to all
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over And this is just a potential suggestion, and where did all the disciples
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go from Africa, Europe all the way to India and all of that and
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that's what the disciples actually did. Now I'm saying all of that to bring
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everybody to one single simple point. You know. So I've been a pastor
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for a long time, and throughout the journey I've I've obviously led many people
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to Christ along the journey. It was Paul who translated what does ownership towards
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the Gospel means? Okay? And I love the way Paul says this.
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You know, this afternoon, I'm not sure if we were to go to
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different one of you and say, hey, when it comes to great commission,
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what would be the phrase that we were attached to it. Maybe some
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of you would say that I try. Some of you would say that I'm
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too busy. Some of you will say that actually I don't know how to
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do it. Some of you will say that Passau just not my thing.
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I don't know what we say when you are as Paul, what would you
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say about ownership towards the Gospel? Robins one fourteen, He says, I'm
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actually obligated. I don't know whether any one of you ever felt you away
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to someone and I and I think when it comes to the gospel, you
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need to have a realization everything that has happened in your life. There is
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a gospel sense to it. I don't know how to explain this, but
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you know, when I was young, I come from my father is a
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My father is a Chinese school teacher, and then he's a disciplinarian. And
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when you when you have a Chinese traditional father and a disciplinarian at school,
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that's a very little combo when it comes to discipline. So when we were
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young, we were king almost every day every week. Sure I got some
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form of punishment money. Uh. And you know all our reports can't when
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we give our report, c we need to take the report ca entertain to
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my father. That's that's the way we grew up. I saw when we
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were young, my father forced all of us to learn Chinese. So I
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learned Chinese all the way to you know, from five you know Chinese ra
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van yinvern you know you fame and young home, you know all of that.
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Okay, So if you know Chinese, lie, So I've learned all
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of that. But you know what, I hated learning Chinese because it's difficult.
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But it makes sense to me. Many years ago, maybe about twelve
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years ago, when I was I made a trip to China, and then
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I was preaching the Gospel in China, and I will never forget when I
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was able to understand and after and able to preach in Chinese, I came
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back home. I called my father and with tears, I tell my dad,
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say, Dad, thank you so much for forcing me to learn my
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dream. And now I know what I land memory. This whole entire obligation
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of something that God has put in your life that you always maybe to a
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particular group of people, you owe it to your family, whatever, but
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obligated both to Greece and nong be both to the US. And then he
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says, this is why I'm so eager to preach the gospel. I'm not
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too sure whether we are as eago as Paul about. Paul was so eager
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to preach the gospel that you know the story Paul when he was in prison.
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He was so eager. He was so excited that the Bible tells us
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that the entire palace God actually get to hear the gospel. That was how
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eager he was. And finally he says, I'm not ashamed of the gospel
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because it is the power. You know, Paul, have this tree,
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little icll it the gold standard. There means any time you think about the
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Gospel, think of Paul, because the because Paul was the one that really
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took the Great Commission to the furthest ever in his lifetime. Okay, now,
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so I want to tell you a little bit of my story. Okay,
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So this is actually twenty seventeen. Twenty seventeen was the year where I
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had the biggest breakthrough when it comes to the Great Commission. So prior before
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twenty seventeen, I'm am very faithful pastor. I worked for a company called
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Datacraft for ten years and then I owned my restaurant for about fourteen years.
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And so I was happily doing both, and I was rather I did well
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okay, both church and also in the backup place. All right, I
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did pretty okay, But I had this holy dissatisfaction, which means that God,
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if the good news is so good, why is it so difficult sometimes
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for people to get it. Maybe it's the message. Our message wasn't very
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clear. Maybe we were too fast to label people as singer you need to
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repent. Maybe repentance wasn't their language at all. Maybe it would have just
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gone another round. Maybe a mental health route might be better in today's world.
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You know, So I kind of wrestled or maybe is a messenger that
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did not live out because the good news is pretty incredible. God actually died
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for your sin. No other belief system anyone would have died for your sin.
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Am I correct? You know, So when I kind of wrestled that
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through. So twenty seventeen, what I did was I when to I went
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around trying to connect with as many as many people who actually do not know
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God. In our language, we call it unchurch. So I can tell
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you some of them. For example, this is actually Louis. She was
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I went back to ground zero. She was the first guest that come to
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church, and I decided to contact the guests. So by then the church
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was about maybe five hundred, you know, five five, six hundred,
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and normally for that kind of a size, the pastor won't connect. You
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were always outsode to another leader. Uh you know, obviously now we have
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we we again. I don't like, I don't like to say numbers,
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but even today I'm still connected with the guests. So I decided to go
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ground zero and I went So this is the first person that actually connected her
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name was Louis, which led her to Christ and then led the boyfriend or
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husband to be to Christ, did their wedding and they migrated to Australia.
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When I was in Melbourne, they hosted me for two weeks and uh,
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and it was so honoring because he literally bought a spot car just to bring
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me around. Uh. And he says, is only for you one okay,
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and and you know, so I was just so honored. And all
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of them, so all of them was just friends. This is actually our
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architect. Uh. And the architect was so fearful to come for a session.
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And this is a session we call discovering God. After God, she
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actually brought this person which she actually accept Christ, not him. So I
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started just to meet as many people that I do not know, including the
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counselor for my son's education. I just meet as many and I started this
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thing called a discovering God, which is one thing to talk about how to
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connect the dog who God is. Okay, So twenty seventeen I gathered them.
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By twenty eighteen middle the group grew bigger and they then invited their friends
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and a whole bunch of people and at the end of the day, we
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have all these people who are the one that accept the Christ, Okay,
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all kinds of different backgrounds. So today, for example, this guy is
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Zeth. I don't know whether Zeth and Kelmin owns Verdin, which is the
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fastest growing solar panel for household right now. They just broke the Malaysian record,
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so they got saved with twenty eighteenth to date are life group leaders,
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okay, and some of them and they were only three years old. For
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example, Zeth and kell mean a very important leader of ours right now.
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He's our preacher for Chinese Church and he's only three years old Christian. He
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leads about thirty to forty people. He runs all our PMC pre marital and
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I can go one by one, and for example it's one of our leaders.
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She has a run about to three life groups and they were all very
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very young Christians. So it was really a joy to see and and through
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that entire incident of just going back to ground zero, relearning what it means
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to make as many and friends as possible, and literally from then to date,
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just as a personal just being personal, I think I've seen over two
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hundred and fifty people accept the Christ for the first time. You're not even
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talking about people who backslided. Ah. And just last week yourself and another
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three people who accept the Christ. So just this whole thing about Greek commission
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became something that is very very personal to my heart. And I always want
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the church to know that's the main thing, you know, as I come
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to Generations Church today, and I know and this hut, I know,
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making disciples is big in this place. And when we talk about making disciples,
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oftentimes we think about one thing, to take a Christian and make them
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a better Christians, which is nothing wrong with that. And sometimes in the
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Christian babble world, we will have so many things that we can excavate and
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learn no end, which is why in the Book of Vacs it tells us
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when Jesus told the disciples, is go therefore and make the disciples x one
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eight, But nobody went until x eight one because of dispersion, because of
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persecution. Then everybody went and took the gospel right. And can you imagine
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if you were in the early Church, you have so much to excavate.
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Just the teaching itself, there's no end. Mother Mary, teach about how
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to raise your son as God, the best parenting class. Everybody should sign
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for it. Peter will come and teach you how to walk on water.
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Don't need to swim anymore, right, I mean every one of them,
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they will have enough. So something about I think as we exist as a
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church, the more we exist as a church, the more we need to
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think about people who actually do not know God. So my whole church knows
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that I will leave the ninety nine for one. And that doesn't mean I
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don't bother about ninety nine. I spent a lot of time, but I
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make the greatest and highest priority just to be able to reach people who actually
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do not know God. Now I want to I want to tell you a
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little bit of this. Jenna, right, Jenna was the girl that you
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saw earlier as Jenna. And this is Shalle involved them except the christ uh
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and the story was this okay. Now, this is how both Jenna and
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Shalyn come to our church one day. Actually they were they were in us.
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This picture was taken us. This is this is Shlen's son. His
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name is Samuel. Samuel. One day he went into Coma in States and
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for about a week class he was in Coma. When he woke up from
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Coma, he told the mom, he says, Mom, he says,
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he says, just before I went to Coma, the last thing I did
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was I visited a French church, a Baptist church in US and then and
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then he says, maybe maybe we should think about going to church and explore
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if there is a god. So so the mom they were in US.
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Now that Samuel is well, so the mom flew back to Malaysia. When
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the mom flew back to Malaysia, she wanted to fulfill the son's requests of
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going to check out church. So she went around asking and then they say,
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oh, there is this every Nation church in Pucho. So she came.
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And when she came for her age, she needs a driver, a
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chauffeur. So which is which is Jena the daughter? So when they first
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came, the daughter actually dropped the mother and then she's going to do facial
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and then she's going to do other things. But because our service is about
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one hour one and a half hours max, not enough time for facial.
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So after a while I saw Jena and the mom sits together. So this
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is about one month a class. The mom, Jena Chalin came to me
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one day she said, I passed you know, I've got a lot of
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questions. He says, I really want to meet up with you to talk.
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Okay. I said sure, I said, no problems in so I
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kind of opened up my schedule. I said, hey, you know what,
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why don't you come over to my house for lunch two sundays from now?
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Okay? So the two sundays from now, we had lunch in my
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house and we had chicken rice. I'll never forget because it was the longest
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chicken rice conversation ever. She sat in my house almost two and a half
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to three hours. So she came, we had chicken rice, and she
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asked me non stop question about God. Just keep on asking me, what
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about this? What this? You know Buddhism saidn't. So I was just
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finding my time and throughout all this while Jena was sitting down there looking at
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a handful. So after the conversation, I turned to Jena. I said,
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Jenna, any any thought about God? And then she said, you
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need thing I know about gods? Oh my god. There was an exact
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word. She said, you need to know about goys? Oh my god.
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And I went, oh my god, I'm just kidding, okay,
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uh and and and then and then she said. I said, okay,
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I said, Jenna, is there one thing I can pray for you?
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She thought about it. She said, hey, you know what, Pasa,
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I will be moving to you as at some point after one or two
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years. And she's a physiotherapist. She said, I got a problem.
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All that I've learned and graduated as a physiotherapist the American will recognize. So
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I have to redo everything against it. Would you ask God to help me?
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Say sure, so just pray a very simple prayer God, you help
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her certificate. You know, all of that gives favor of God. And
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then we ended the chicken rice. Okay, we we we ended. We
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finished. The mother hasn't said yes to God because the mother has a lot
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of questions. And that About two weeks later, I received a call from
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Jenna. Jenna called me. She says, passa, passa. You wouldn't
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believe this six paper that I that I that I had for my physio and
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as what you asked me, I appeal, he sayss fur was approved.
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He says the other two more if I finish it with a certain degree with
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the you know, because the external paper, if I finished with certain marks
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it will be. He says, this is what a turn around. And
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then she looked at me and says, well, Passa, thank you for
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praying. So I said great. Then obviously I invited Jenna by then to
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come for a discovering God. About two weeks later, the day we start
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out discovering God, she caught me. She says, I'm gonna bit confused.
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Said what's the confusion? She said. I went around and told my
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friend, actually, uh, I gotten this appeal, you know all of
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that. And my friend told me, he said, you not God.
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It's actually the law of attraction. Have you how maver? You know heard
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of the law of attraction? Now? I don't know as the law of
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attraction. All I know is I'm attracted to my wife. My wife is
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attracted to me. Okay, So I said, I said, what is
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the law of attraction? Then she said, Passa, you never heard a
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law of attraction? I said, I do know. Say a lot of
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attrection. Mess you like something and then you're getting and that's a lot of
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attraction, she said. Then she told me I'm confused. People tell me
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it's not God. It's a lot of attraction. I said, okay,
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I said, would you come half an hour earlier before our session of discovery.
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God, why don't we talk about it? And I still remember Jenna
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comes, she sat am I living room. I said, Jenna, what
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do you think is a lot of attraction? I said, Jenna, let
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me reheurst the entire story for you, and I look at Jenna, Jenna.
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It all started with your brother Samon was in coma. You went the
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woke up from coma. He told your mom needs to go to visit the
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church. And then your mom came to came back to Kao looking for a
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church. She found out to remember you send your mom and then you could
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not have time. You go for facial and you came here again. And
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then one day your mom bum me to me and then she said you're going
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to have chicken rice and be a chicken? How many you wa wash?
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And then right remember the guy that talked like that. I was just going
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around and it was just I was rehustying the whole thing. And then you
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know, you came to my house for the chicken rice and say, oh
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my god, oh my god, oh my God. And then I prayed
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to oh my God, oh my God, answer you a question? You
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know and then all this, and then I said, I said, Jenna,
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come on, you and a degree person. You tell me, is
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it the law of attraction? Or God was at work in your life?
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Jenna heard everything she's passle. She said, has to be God has to
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be gone, you know. She then gave her life to Jesus. And
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then she actually became the first life group leader out of the whole badge of
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people. And I tell you she's ran out in us and I will never
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forget. So when we first started the life group where she became a life
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group leader, so as all these people got said, what I did was
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I just I just fend them out to many groups. So along the journey,
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they came back to me says, past, could you could you lead
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a life group because we know you. We're not comfortable. I said,
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ok, I said, we do a live group. So we did our
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first live group. Okay, our first life group. Refunny because after dinner
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we got smoking break because three of them are chain smoker. So after the
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after our dinner, before group start, can we go smoking first as they
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can? Okay, So all of them will go out there, they'll smoke.
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I'll also be there, of course, I don't smoke, so I
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will be there and and then miraculous six months later, one day they said,
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you know what, I don't think God is happy without smoking. I
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didn't. We need to stop uh And they went for a victory. We
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get all three of them immediately quit smoking. Okay, But our first slide
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book was led by Jenna. She is such a young Christian and I still
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remember it was nine months down the road. She was leading the group.
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And then they celebrated me and my wife birthday November. When we were in
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the group. She sat down there she said, you know what, pass
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the team. You are November, your wife is November. You both are
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scorpio or no, explain why you guys are so. I was like,
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no, no, no, no, we don't believe in that. Okay,
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Ah I did have said no no Jenna. We said, oh you
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mean we cannot believe in that? Okay, you know we we were so
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messy, but you know what, there's so much joy. There are so
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much tears. There was so much thing that God did with a whole bunch
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of people who actually know God so little, but love so much. And
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and we piece together the group. But we piece together the group. I
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told I told everybody in the group, I said, this life group will
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only exist for one year. Then we will no longer be in existence.
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They said, hal, that's a why I said, no, no,
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no, we exist in a different way by then. And every one of
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you leader life group last year. About five years later, Jena four or
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five years later she came back from us. The first question she asked when
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she met up with me, Se says, Pastor, did everybody lead a
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new life group? You know what, the whole idea of great commissions vers
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simple just being faithful to show the love of God to every one that comes
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across the path. And as you are faithfully doing that, you see God
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and work. You see God and work. You see God work. Want
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to encourage generations. You know, church exists not just for Christian just really
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exists for a lot of people that only heard of Oh My God. So
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that we are able to help them piece together some substance about who this oh
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my God is, that this God will be the God that will help them
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to navigate through every season of the I can't good, Amen. I want
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to encourage you as you go about. I love I love the name of
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this church. I love the gift things that God has given to this church,
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and we are here to cheer you. We are here to work with
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you, We're here to bless you. We are here to do everything we
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can to encourage all of you so that together we can make many, many,
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