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you were watching Christ's Commission fellowship changing lives for eternity praise God I'd like to remind all of us it's all about God it's His grace it is his work it is faithfulness we are privileged to be part of that but God gets all the glory now every time you celebrate anniversary there are certain dangers for example if we focus on our accomplishment we can become proud if we focus on the past we can become lazy complacent and worst of all we can forget why God raised us up why do we exist why are you here have you ever asked yourself why are you joining CCF as a movement let me remind all of us why we do what we do everybody we don't mind let's read the following verses together Matthew chapter 28 please read with me ready go therefore of all nations baptizing them in the name of the Father Son and Holy Spirit teaching them to observe all that I commanded you and lo I am with you always even to the end of the age now wherever I go I ask this question based on this verse there are many verbs or many verbs but you must rest your hand at least once where you must raise your hands if you don't raise your hands and ask you a question I'll tell the video camera man to video you okay all right what is the primary verb in verse 19 and 20 how many of you believe it is go raise your hand go okay how many of you believe it is baptizing them raise your hand how many of you believe it is teaching them raise your hand teaching okay you are improving you're improving how many of you believe it is make disciples okay the afternoon crowd have graduated and you now pass okay praise God praise God so the primary verb is make disciple that's the main verb and go it's called verbal participles in the Greek language it is supporting how do you make disciples you go how do you make disciples you baptize them how do you make disciples you teach them now in shishya we've discovered how to make disciples effectively for example we focus on the following number one we're intentional in forming small groups for discipleship we want you to be part of a small group that's why in CCF where thousands and thousands of small groups how many of you are part of a small group raise your hands you're a part of a small group praise God you are also improving we also believe in intentional discipleship of families we focus on families we believe with the father the mother is not helping their children we're going to be problem and we also focus on church planting that's why we plant churches all over the world why because Jesus invented the church jesus said I will build my church now many Christians are turned off with churches they don't love the church they don't understand that church is the Bride of Christ the body of Christ and the truth is there are many churches that are shall we say not following the Bible but the truth is there are many many wonderful churches all over the Philippines I praise God for many of them you must learn to love the church but lastly we focus on young people why ninety percent of all believers come to Christ on a worldwide statistical basis when they're still young less than eighteen years old they're still teenagers ninety percent of people come to Christ when they are still young and that's why we have our school we are intentionally developing schools and would you believe our own school here as of this month we have maxed out our capacity we are now over seven hundred plus students close to 800 so our present project listen to me now what God wants us to do is to eventually put up the CCF Training Center this is an expansion of our training center plus schools you will notice it's upcoming did you notice that all right so it's ongoing and then someday in the near future we will put up our CCF International University praise God this is probably one of the most unselfish project will undertake I'm telling our family I won't probably be here to enjoy this amazing University because I've graduated already and this is for the next generation and to share with us about this University in a short while I'm going to invite one of our members but before he comes I want to show you a short video of God's plan for CCF would you like to see it alright let's see this video [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] praise God you know sometimes people us why are we doing this it's cost a lot of money do you remember the rainbow picture when we started this Center years ago when we started CCF Center years ago I remember people were asking why are we doing this when God wants us to do something he will provide we don't run after people to provide money if you are our guest we only ask you to pray for us but if you are shishi a family members there is going to be a form here of you I want all of you to pray about this and see how you can participate by the grace of God with a member who will share with us how God has touched his life and how he got involved with this new project his name is Henry C jr. he couldn't come for every service but he will share with us what's his video it is indeed an honor to be here to speak in front of you in this anniversary my name is henry c jr normally i don't speak in public forums especially to a million viewers as today it's not because of anything but because i'm shy' and also i'm lazy and I always keep my opinion to myself unless when us but when God calls I have no choice but to drop everything and do it for it is written in 1st Samuel 1224 obey the Lord and serve Him faithfully we told your heart remember the great things he has done for you and he did God has done a lot of miracles for me and my family from a humble shoe store to a conglomerate and in a personal basis from an awful sinner to a Christ committed follower god is good all the time now going back to the year 203 my siblings and I had a reorganization in our business structure I was given the task of resuscitating a dormant company called SMD see this company has small assets and has practically nor corporate directions to grow further and I was thinking to myself on how on earth this company can survive more so to compete with giant real estate companies that were so much world entrenched however God provided a way together with SM Prime Holdings it is now the biggest real estate company in Southeast Asia in market cap and this was all done by him in a little bit more than 10 years he's got that amazing moving forward two years ago the prime 10 hectare property across CCF mean was up for bidding I threw in a ridiculous bid which was literally a shot in the dark but lo and behold we won the bid so I called up Bishop Peter if he wants to share one half because CCF is fast expanding into education the good bishop agreed because he can see with education CCF can plant the seeds too many especially at their formative years CCF as I understand will be putting up a Christian University and training academy with the vision of offering holistic educational world class programs with emphasis on Christian leadership and character not only in business science education but also in biblical theology the mission is to raise the next generation of Christ committed followers who will be professionals and leaders in business education government and other industries who in turn will also make other Christ followers and all for his glory we live in amazing time and I am privileged to be part of all this with all this happening we would should always be so humble to remember it is still God we should rely on solely so then neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything but God who causes the growth first Corinthian 3 verse 7 my name is big Boise serve an industry mental cut to him alone be the glory but before I go I'd like to note that I did not donate that one for hectare lands to CCF I merely pointed out the opportunity to Peter who is my friend and all these years have guided me and ceasing Lee and it all started when he showed me the verse of efficient to verse eight to nine eight to ten for it is by grace you have been saved through faith and this is not of yourself it is a gift of God and not not by works so that no one can boast for we are God's handiwork created in Christ Jesus to do good which God prepared in advance for us to do so thank you and happy Anniversary to all this afternoon I'm going to talk about the most important event that's going to happen very soon you don't know when but this is what's gonna happen the disciples asked Jesus in Matthew chapter 24 if you don't mind let's read that together the disciples came to him privately notice the word privately so from chapter 24 to 25 it's a private gathering of disciples they asked Jesus tell us when will these things happen what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age so they asked Jesus what is the end of the world what are you coming again Jesus gave them chapter 24 and 25 the importance of being prepared he gave them signs today I'm gonna discuss just a few signs to let you know we are living in end times for example the Bible says you'll be hearing of Wars rumors of wars see that you are not fighting for these things must take place but that is nuts at the end everybody please read nation against nation Kingdom against Kingdom in various places there will be famines and earthquakes you notice something we all want peace you have the United Nation but there's no peace at any given time today last week previous week in the last decade every day you have conflicts going on all over the world somewhere major summer Minor you have over 20 conflicts ongoing at the same time you know all of this from Syria Afghanistan valenzuela etc and then Jesus predicted there's going to be famine now these amazing with all the advancement of science and technology and agriculture people are dying of starvation that's what the Bible says there be famine with all the advanced in medicine science you still have plague diseases Ebola virus AIDS cancer etc more people are afflicted with cancer today than there ever was Jesus saying these are science especially earthquakes people don't realize we have thousands of earthquakes in this decade almost every month thousands of them but the major ones from Richter scale of 6 up you will notice the frequency in the 20th century in the 21st century you will notice this is junk the Philippines is expecting Metro Manila we're expecting the big one we don't know when San Francisco is expecting a big one they don't know when but you have heard of earthquakes recently Jesus is trying to wake us up he's trying to wake you up saying you know what be ready and my favorite biblical prophecy is Israel that's why we bring people to Israel Jerusalem every year because the Bible says in the end times Israel will become a nation again remember for 2,000 years you don't have a country called Israel Israel was dispersed but Jesus said before he comes again the people will be reunited in the homeland State of Israel and this what happened 1948 the United Nations decided to create a state for Israel again 1967 Israel took over the entire Jerusalem we have the 1973 war and then in 1980 Jerusalem is not mentioned as the capital of Israel but the most amazing thing happened 2018 when President Donald Trump transferred the Embassy of the United States from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem why Jesus is coming soon tell your neighbor he's coming soon Jesus is coming soon everybody be ready Ceyda will be be ready Matthew 24:42 be alert you do not know which day your Lord is coming if anybody will tell you Jesus is coming next month make sure don't believe that person because the Bible says no one knows but it is near and the Bible tells us be ready again be ready it's all over be ready be ready so turn to your neighbor tell your neighbor be lady please be ready you know why it's a command be ready it's not a suggestion it's a command be ready so in the context of the second coming he now tells you how to be ready it is found in Matthew chapter 25 so 24 is about the signs of the second coming 25 how yet how can you be ready so let's read everybody be on the alert then for you do not know that they nor the hour for it is like with for it is like a man about to go on a journey who called his own slaves and entrusted his possessions to them Jesus is not teaching his disciples how be ready so he gives them the story it's like a man he left on a long journey he entrusted his possessions let's read together to one he gave five talents to another two to another one each according to his own ability he went on this journey you may ask me what do you mean by talents the word talents is a weight in the time of Jesus it's around 32 kilogram 35 kilogram so it's a V it is to describe the amount of money a talent of gold is equivalent to today's money 70 million pesos two talents of gold hundred forty million five talents three hundred fifty million pesos is a big sum of money and the Bible tells us he gave five talents to another two and to another one what do you notice not the same some people are given more some people are given us so put in your mind we all have different giftedness we are all given different resources notice each one according to his own ability so god want you to know something you are not the owner everything you possess God is saying I'm Ryan Trust to you for some people they have more for some people they bless it does not matter God wants you to do something about it God is saying I'm entrusting this to you be faithful so the Bible tells us what happened next immediately the one who had received the five talents went and traded with them and gained five more talents in the same way the one who had received the two talents gained two more can you see the guy were hard-working he immediately went to work and the Bible tells us the one who received the one talent I don't know why he went away dug a hole in the ground and hid his master's money now why did he do that later on I'm gonna describe to you the one talent man and I noticed something many times people with one talent have this idea I'm not important I don't have to really contribute I don't have much let the rich people do it you will notice to be ready everybody must be involved now what are the things entrusted to us by God for many people they think it's money only it is not the talent here represents all of God's give abilities given to us for example let's read this together together little man regard us in this manner a servant of Christ and stewards managers you are the manager of God's possession of the mysteries of God which the words of the mysteries of God what is the mystery of God the Bible tells us it is the truth the mysteries of God is God's revelation about how to go to heaven who is Jesus so it is God's truth it's a gift it's a stewardship in this case everybody with moreover it is required of stewards that one be found that's worthy now tell me what is Steve word in Tagalog pastor bone Takapuna Sheva of our Lavasa Sabino manager now hasty words what is the word for faithfulness got a patent be faithful now what has God entrusted to you don't just think of money for example what has God given us time not everybody would have the same amount of time but the time does not belong to you it's a gift from God don't waste your time because it does not belong to you once you have this concept to be ready I am a Steve word manager shewa in other you must take what is the purpose of the master example Talent God has given all of you all of us talents what are you going to do with your talent don't use it for yourself worst of all don't burn it in the gum what about treasure you know when my wife was teaching a Bible study almost thirty years ago it's a group of women and one of the ladies talked about how she was using her money she was go to the casino she was Dumble and my wife said excuse me that's not right she got agitated she got angry it's my money pair of eyes oh it's my money I can do whatever I want with it it is my money I earn it it is my money is that answer correct or not wrong answer because the Bible says even your life is not your own everything we have comes from God so you are not free to use that statement it's my life it's my money you know some people say it's my marriage I want to do with my life the way I want to run my life it's me it's mine listen to me the Bible says even your life it's not yours it's given by God the Bible is very clear we have been redeemed we were purchased by Jesus the Bible says in first Corinthians six you are not your own you have been bought with a price Jesus Christ died on the cross you and I belong to God by creation and you belong to God by Redemption you twice belong to the Lord so you are not free to do what you want with your life so singles who are saying what is my body if I want to have sex it's okay what they want to do with my gender is mine listen to me I'm sorry you don't own your body either on your life you got to bring it use it for God's glory truth you know the truth don't hide it don't keep it influenced all of you have influence family listen to me how long hominins you are parents raise your hands parents okay no one day when you see God God's gonna ask you what did you do with your family I'm talking to husband's God will ask me what did you do with your family what did you do with your children what did you do with your wife under Stephen there was a time I taught my children and mine then God demanded me they are not yours many Asian family are very controlling you want to dictate your children but they all become let me tell you something they don't belong to you they belong to the Lord my job is to connect them to Jesus let them be all that God wants them to be should God want them all to become missionaries should God want them all to become pastor I cannot say no you know why they belong to the Lord and you are accountable parents if you don't live in such a way that you model Christ and your children are mess up i'ma tell you something you are responsible there are many men today many husbands absentee fathers they don't care about their family they are responsible before God because children are a gift from the Lord what about relationships opportunities if you are a manager what are you doing with your stuff if you're a business owner I ask you what are you doing with your employees someday God will ask me Peter what are you doing with all the shishi efforts are you teaching them properly you know why she she is not the pastor's we are only stewards we have to take care of the flock I am answerable to God how I teach you how we disciple you listen at the end of the day to be ready you must realize everything you had everything you do you must realize it close to home God have you thought about it everything you have belongs to God and someday you were given a phone you know recently I met my friends again this were my friends I met them and he invited me Lord Bob at Edmondson he owns this private jet he's one of the richest man I've ever met but he's one of those men that loves the Lord he understood I am not the owner I'm Stephen he grew up poor he became a chartered accountant a CPA and from hardship god bless him he said Peter I emptied my pocket twice in my life to support God's work as of today he has given over 300 million pounds not dollars 300 million pounds to God's work he became a member of the British Parliament and he would take a position against the popular will he will say this is not biblical we should not support this bill you know why he understood even my position is a gift from God I'm a Steve art of my position I'm a Steve word of my influence whatever you do I want to remind you something God has placed you where you are why because you've been mission from the master you are a Steve work everybody share with me Steve word so be ready tell you'll never be ready we met another person two weeks ago in the same trip by the name of a girl named Sofia we were in Vanuatu how many of you have heard of Vanuatu 1 2 you seen that many because honestly I did not know a country exists called Vanuatu it's near Australia from Brisbane you take a jet two and half hours away it's in most remote islands I was so excited because they invited me there and then they asked me to speak I was going to evangelize the native people but what shocked me was this it was a poor country no electricity no running water but the children were happy children playing in the sea in the beaches they're happy children no cell phone no internet but guess what they're happy why are they happy not much crime no crime no stealing I discovered why in every island their churches price has been planted years ago by faithful missionary by faithful native of Vanuatu friends you may be like Sophia Sophia decided to go back to this island to teach young children about Jesus so I do not know whether you're a five talent guy a to talent guy a one talent person it doesn't matter be faithful what's the message today be ready one more time be ready how can you be ready remember you are a steward not on their hasty word not honor you are accountable you are responsible to the boss and you need to be faithful look at how Jesus taught his disciples after a long time the master of those slaves came and said that accounts with them after a long time you see I do not know when Jesus will settle accounts with you I don't know when but you got to be ready Jesus can come today he can come next year but you can die today and she Jesus yes or no you don't know when got to be ready and when you see Jesus he settle accounts with you in the Bible tells us the one who had received the five talents came up and brought five more talents saying master you entrusted five talents to me she I gained five more Wow the master said the master said well done good and faithful slave you were faithful with a few things I will put you in charge of many things enter into the joy of your master in other words God wants us to be faithful but what will motivate you to be faithful can I remind all of us let's read this together together we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ that each one may be recompense for his deeds in the body according to what he has done whether good or bad notice the grammar we Paul is talking about Christians all of us must not optional or no exception appear one by one before the judgment seat of Christ my friend this is a certainty you just don't know when but look at me now all of you including myself will appear before Jesus one day and we will be judged and the Bible tells us so that each one notice each one not as a group not as a family each one may be recompense the word recompense means you'll be paid back salvation is a gif you cannot pay for it but what you do for Jesus is a reward you'll be paid you'll be recompense you see the difference let me repeat salvation is a free gift amen but your rewards your recompense your payment is different it depends on your faithfulness maybe recompense for his deeds in the body according to what he has done whether good or bad notice the next servant with two talents the master said well done good and faithful slave you were faithful with a few things I'll put you in charge of many things enter into the joy of your master notice the one with the five talents and Nevada two talents are given the same commendation it is not the amount is how faithful you are with what you have you see the tendencies to compare the tendencies become jealous and then the tendency is to give excuses no what ever talents you have big or small every resources gaara's given you be faithful and the reward the commendation is the same you know if you will pray for me I like you to pray for me you will pray that someday I will hear Jesus a everybody read together where the good and faithful slave I one God I want Jesus to say good and faithful thing you were faithful with a few things I will put you in charge of many things people don't realize when you go to heaven someday you have more work to do how much you don't like work or you like work how much you like work however if you don't like work raise your hands how many of you will never raise your hand you know what someday God will reward you your work has to do with becoming prince and princess I will put you in charge of many things you see the destiny of God's people is amazing but your future position depends on your faithfulness today make that very clear be ready don't waste your life make your life count make everything for Jesus please don't waste your life bar by bar by burying your talent in the ground now I want to focus on this last sentence enter into the joy of your master amazing the joy of the Lord not human joy not material joy you know human joy earthly joy is temporal no matter how great is your husband no matter how great is your wife no matter how beautiful is your house no matter how nice is your car no matter how expensive is your toy do you notice something sooner or later you'll lose the joy masipa no mercy regalo eventually you'll lose the joy yes or not but the joy of the Lord is different and ending and God say I will give you my joy you come enter into my joy Wow beautiful statement that is the heritage of God's people enter into the joy of your master now notice the joy of the master should be your expectation let's read this together Christ having been offered once to bear the sins of many will appear a second time for salvation without reference to sin to those who eagerly with him if you are ready you will eagerly await Jesus so the evidence of somebody who is ready if you are excited to see the master because you are ready the Bible described Christians Our Lady let's read our citizenship is in heaven from which we eagerly wait not just wait eagerly wait for a savior the Lord Jesus so how do you know you're a real Christian today how do you eat Gurley wait are you prepared if you are not prepared you ask yourself why not this is the sad reality the one who has received the one talent came up and said master I knew you to be a hard man reaping where you did not sow gathering where you scattered no seed I was afraid I went away hid your talent in the ground see here what is yours what's the problem with the third server he does not know his master notice how he described his boss you are a hard man you reap what you did not sow you not fear you are not a good boss I was afraid of you therefore I hid my talent he does not know the master and his master replied to him everybody read you wicked lazy slave you knew I reap for I did not sow gather were i scattered no seed notice Jesus is a master teacher he allows no excuses if you say I'm not fair alright you should have won then you do something with the money you should have put my money in the bank and on my arrival I would have received my money back with interest notice the pronoun put my money in the bank my arrival I would have received my money but in other words no excuses friends you don't own anything God owns everything what are you doing that affects the interests of God in your life notice the consequences therefore take away the talent from him give it to the one what's the ten talents no Dommy Dommy young Yamane so why are you giving this guy take it away from him and give it to the one with ten you see God's economy to the one who is faithful I'll give you more to the one who is not faithful take it away from him here's the principle to everyone who has more shall be given he will have an abundance but from the one who does not have even what he does help shall be taken away you must remember God the term means what is fair what is not fair he owns everything and God is saying I want you to be faithful I want you to be trustworthy can I rely upon you notice that third servant he is called wicked he is called worthless he did not steal the money he did not gamble he did not go to the casino he did not he did not squander it he did not buy crazy stuff for himself he did not give it away he did not give it to his mother-in-law he did not give it to his girlfriend or mistress but God called him wicked lazy why friends you won't you need to learn something today in the Bible to be called wicked it's not always mean you are a murderer you are a rapist no we Katniss if somebody who does not recognize the Lord who does not recognize the lordship you don't care about God's interest you are the boss of your own life you worship yourself and that my friend is called weaken in the Bible because you don't consider God you are considered worthless look at what the Bible says Jesus tells us everybody read throughout the worthless he's called worthless before he was called the weakened you see we can worthless same idea you're worthless for the kingdom of God you are contributing nothing do you know there are so many people today even in CCF as far as God is concerned you are completely worthless you are not contributing anything to the expansion of God's kingdom you know what you're doing just yourself you know the problem with Christianity Today's this they are not disciple they are not taught properly and I believe they really don't know the Lord because if you know the Lord you will not be lazy you'll be thinking how can I give the good news how can I bless others but people who are surface I don't think there is no the Lord you are always thinking about yourself does the third servant notice throw him in the outer darkness in that place there will be a bad read whipping and gnashing of teeth what is weeping and gnashing of teeth what is that let me show you how it is used it will be at the end of the age at the end of the world the Angels plural will come and take out the wicked same word wicked from among the righteous and they will throw them into the furnace of fire Wow the other place is called after darkness this is not the furnace of fire whatever it is notice in that place it's a real place in that place there will be other weeping and gnashing of teeth now what is weeping and gnashing of teeth which is one thing to be sad it's one thing to cry but it's another thing to be inconsolable my wife had a dream she was counseling SEC efforts and in that dream she dreamed that that girl went to hell so my wife visited it's a dream but she noticed something she said in hell you cannot console anybody because there's no future unlike in this world if you have a problem I can comfort you I can say you know what enough it will get better enough don't worry it will get better but when you're in hell you cannot comfort anybody and say you know not it'll get better it's uncontrollable weeping weeping gnashing of do you know what's gnashing of teeth you know you'll be thinking if only if only if only difference I'm telling you the truth because someday I don't want you going in the wrong place and please don't blame me for not warning you that there are two places to go the place of joy with the Lord or the place or there'll be weeping and gnashing of teeth now you can believe me you don't have to believe me and you should you are still my friend but I feel ask your shepherd and it'll teach you the truth you need to be ready some of you are not ready because all you think about is yourself you have never understood the Lord listen to me there are two outcomes be ready everybody serve me be ready be ready to meet the Lord be ready to meet Jesus element be ready to meet Jesus be faithful versus unfaithful if you are ready you will hear him say well done good and faithful servant versus wicked worthless slave I don't want Jesus to ever say to you or to me wicked worthless in Tagalog worthless walang cuenta no contribution to God's kingdom all you do is to receive receive receive you are not thinking of serving the Lord you're excited to see Jesus regrets there are be rewards do you know the rewards of God's people amazing read the Bible you will reign with Jesus enter into the joy of your master weeping and gnashing of teeth why did the third servant acted that way let me tell you why he does not know his master I giving you a simple principle what is real eternal life this is eternal life that they may know you the only true God and Jesus Christ whom you have sent which eternal life salvation is not joining a religion it is not attending CCF salvation is knowing the word know from the word Dinescu experiential intimate knowledge relationship with God the only true God and Jesus Christ let me ask you do you have a personal encounter with Jesus mr. Henry she junior had an encounter with Jesus the life was changed Gina espero an encounter with Jesus her life was changed Rob and the encounter with Jesus the life was changed Lord Bob Edmundston had an encounter with Jesus his life was changed nicolai from Ukraine had an encounter with God his life was change the girl Sofia had encounter with Jesus her life was changed I had an encounter with Jesus I live my life for Jesus to serve Jesus what about you you see you will not be faithful you will not want to serve Jesus if you don't know him and that's why it is important you get to know him in CCF we want you to know him and that is why we gave you in this booklet we gave you gospel trap and you can go to the Welcome Center how do you know the Lord all right it's we were giving you gospel tracts we want to help you know Jesus you know what you believe about your future will impact your life let me repeat what you believe about our future impacts our present actions I want imagina to employees and the boss I hire I hired two employees same age same background same education same culture they work in a company example only eight to five same office same air-conditioning system everything the same the job is very boring it's an assembly line I will tell them you put this piece of paper you tape it on the glass jar just keep taping it make it nice pass to the next one it's an assembly line the difference is this to one employee I will whisper at the end of one year I will pay you fifty thousand pesos to the other employee I will whisper at the end of the year I will pay you five hundred million pesos guess what will happen our tell us will happen after doing the assembly line after three four months the girl was expecting or the person expecting fifty thousand will begin to complain he not rebounded so hard I will go crazy I'm doing the same thing the other person will say no no it's a great work I'm singing when they work I am even whistling I'm so excited about the job what's the difference what's the difference expectation friends you cannot serve God faithfully if you don't know your future and God tells you you need to know him and that's why the Bible is very clear without faith it is impossible to please him he who comes to God must believe that he is he's a rewarder not if without faith you cannot please God you got to believe if you want to praise him if you want to please God you got to believe him he who comes to God must believe that he is and he says rewarder do you believe God's reward well I believe God's reward I'm excited to serve the are you excited to serve the Lord can I tell you a few years ago one of the doctors approached me Peter sit down I said why I look at your x-ray you need to sit down you know when the doctor asked you to sit down before he tells you what's wrong with you you better be careful the doctor said I think you have cancer you know when I heard that I got shocked and I told my wife and I began to cry but I look at my life what would I do differently I believe I've done what God has asked me to do so I read him had a dream that Jesus has come and I'm on my way to meet him I felt the entire room shaking I heard the sound it's maybe it's from Star Trek I don't know why I combined all imagination I was going up from my bed I was going up shaking and there in my mind this is it this is it I'm going to see Jesus everything I have hope for everything I have worked for this is it I'm seeing Jesus how do we honest with you I was nervous at first and then I got excited because in my mind this is it I'm going to meet my Savior the one who loved me friends you have to be faithful if you are not faithful you won't be ready you cannot be faithful if you don't know Jesus if you don't know Jesus you cannot love him if you don't know Jesus you cannot serve Him and some of you are religious I praise God you keep coming but perhaps you have religion you don't have Jesus I want you to help ease as' get to know him get to love him the Bible tells us he is coming soon I'm coming quickly my reward is with me Jesus Jesus is saying my reward is with him to render every man according to what he has done no wonder the Apostle Paul at the end of his life the last book written by Paul the last chapter written by Paul is this second Timothy let's read together in the future there is later for me the crown of righteousness which the Lord the righteous judge will award to me on that day the most important momentous event on that day and not only to me but to all who have loved his appearing are you ready you know what change Paul something happened to Paul which I will discuss next week you know the Bible tells us Paul was once upon a time he really does not know the Lord he asked the Lord one question who are you Lord and obstinate oh the Bible tells us jesus said I am Jesus Paul got the shock of his life who are you and then jesus said I am Jesus Paul us the next question the logical question what I do Lord friends be ready how can you be ready recognize the Lord he owns everything you don't own anything including your life next what do you want me to do faithfulness is not just maintaining God's gift you have to make it grow the only thing of giving how can you give money if you don't grow the money how can you serve God if you don't develop your talent so you need to be thinking Lord how can I serve you the most effective way how many of you want to be ready you want to be ready to meet Jesus raise your hands you want to be ready all right let's bow our heads and pray if God has been speaking to you but you are not ready you say today I want to be ready I'm only speaking with those who are not yet ready you want to be ready you don't know that all I need to know the Lord I want you to raise your hands and pray for you praise God anybody else you want to be ready you say I don't know the Lord yet really I want to be ready we do yeah praise God stand up stand up so I can pray for you stand up between you and the Lord you say you know what I'm not ready today I want to be ready I want to give God my all the Bible tells us Jesus died and gave his life for us all so that we will no longer live for ourselves but for him if Christ gave his all for you if he's asking too much for you to give you all back to him so if you want to uranium you want to serve Him stand up you want the recognize him as the owner of your life stand up between you and Jesus now remember he owns everything the only question is do you recognize him as the owner anybody else you say in a Peter I'm not even sure I'm going to go to heaven I'm not sure I want to be sure I want to know him well I stand up I want to pray for you praise God you're very honest I don't even know if I know Jesus I want to know him so I can love him stand up praise God you see God is speaking to you God is saying I want you to know me but you have to humble yourselves first anybody else stand up within you and Jesus now you pray this prayer if you really want to know Jesus as your Lord and your Savior and not only as your Savior ask your friend pray something like this Lord Jesus I don't want to go to that place or there is weeping and gnashing of teeth I don't like to be the third servant I want to hear you say well done good and faithful servant so Lord Jesus Here I am I ask you Jesus to change my heart I ask you Jesus to help me come to know you as the owner of my life as the Lord of my life I surrender to you today the ownership of my life my ambition my family my talents Lord whatever you've given me I give them back to you let me serve you faithfully Lord Jesus by faith I surrender to you and by faith I trust that you are righteous and then you're happening in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ we all pray amen and amen god bless you