Speaker 1: Before we sit, I'm just going to read from the book of Matthew, chapter 18, from verse 1 to 5.
Speaker 1: Matthew, chapter 18, from verse 1 to 5.
Speaker 1: The Bible says at that time, the disciples came to Jesus and asked who, then, is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?
Speaker 1: He called a little child to him and placed the hand among them and he said Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.
Speaker 1: Therefore, whoever takes the lowly position of this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven, and whoever welcomes one such child in my name welcomes me.
Speaker 1: That's the word of God, and God's people said Amen, you may have your seat.
Speaker 1: Before I start, I just want to welcome any visitor, any visitor visiting us for the first time, any visitor.
Speaker 1: If you are coming to Parkland Baptist Church for the first time, you can raise your hand up.
Speaker 1: I see one Welcome.
Speaker 1: Let's appreciate him.
Speaker 1: Anyone upstairs?
Speaker 1: All right, we have one visitor, amen.
Speaker 1: So, visitor, welcome again and again.
Speaker 1: And today you are special.
Speaker 1: So when you are taking a cup of tea, you will be served.
Speaker 1: Make sure you serve the visitor, especially the one who is next to you Amen, to just show her that she is welcoming the house of the Lord.
Speaker 1: Who doesn't want to be great?
Speaker 1: By the way, I'm also a Sunday school teacher and when the teacher asks a question, the student should do what Should answer.
Speaker 1: Who does not want to be great?
Speaker 1: Nobody, are you saying for yourself or are you saying for them?
Speaker 1: Who wants to be great?
Speaker 1: Me, I hear the means.
Speaker 1: Who do you want to be when you grow up?
Speaker 1: Maybe you cannot answer loudly, but Ebu asked the one who is next to you who do you want to be when you grow up?
Speaker 1: Someone said I'm already grown up.
Speaker 1: What do you mean?
Speaker 1: I'm a grown up.
Speaker 1: What kind of life do you want to live?
Speaker 1: You teach me how to speak.
Speaker 1: But the last one is the answer.
Speaker 1: What kind of life do you want to live?
Speaker 1: You can tell your neighbor.
Speaker 1: What have they said.
Speaker 1: It's your secret.
Speaker 1: What are you pursuing in life?
Speaker 1: What are you pursuing, by the way, molize?
Speaker 1: Molize is a question.
Speaker 1: Nannafa and Ajib, I hope no one is ignoring those questions.
Speaker 1: I have one more question, actually two.
Speaker 1: Who inspires us to our goals in life?
Speaker 1: Those are the questions when you find a child Hi, how are you?
Speaker 1: What do you want to be when you grow up?
Speaker 1: Who inspires us to our goals in life Assuming that we have goals, ebu, ask your neighbor if they have goals in life.
Speaker 1: Maybe they don't have.
Speaker 1: Who inspires you to reach your goal?
Speaker 1: One last question what does greatness or success look like in your mind?
Speaker 1: Now, this one you don't need to ask anyone, just in your mind.
Speaker 1: Just think about it.
Speaker 1: What does greatness or success look like in your mind?
Speaker 1: In the book of Matthew, chapter 18, verse 1, the disciples.
Speaker 1: They were with Jesus.
Speaker 1: They wanted to be great also.
Speaker 1: They were with Jesus right there.
Speaker 1: It was a wonderful opportunity to ask him hey, lord, who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven, this kingdom that you are talking about, this kingdom that you have brought us?
Speaker 1: Who is the greatest?
Speaker 1: The disciples had that question and they asked the right man.
Speaker 1: We are all seeking greatness and success, isn't it?
Speaker 1: You said me I want to be great.
Speaker 1: We are from work, we are from our careers, building the nation and so on.
Speaker 1: We want to be great someday when we grow up.
Speaker 1: Somehow, we never grow up, we are always pursuing.
Speaker 1: Can you reach a place where I say that I have reached.
Speaker 1: What's your guide to greatness?
Speaker 1: Do you have any guide that you use in order to reach your goal?
Speaker 1: If you have a child, or if you are leading a child, well, you need to have a guide to lead this child to be great, isn't it?
Speaker 1: If you are a teacher in school, you need to have a guide.
Speaker 1: Your goal is to these students that you have, these pupils that you have.
Speaker 1: They need to be successful through your class.
Speaker 1: I believe no teacher goes to teach just for the sake, isn't it?
Speaker 1: I have titled today's message as Kingdom Blueprint Values to Greatness.
Speaker 1: Kingdom Blueprint, values to Greatness.
Speaker 1: Our pastor always says that we are marching to our miracle, isn't it?
Speaker 1: Remind your neighbor.
Speaker 1: I am marching to my miracle and God has a word for us today, because, from the verse, the disciples were asking who who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven, and then Jesus does something he calls a child.
Speaker 1: If you're a disciple, you're wondering what.
Speaker 1: We ask a question and you are calling a child.
Speaker 1: We are grown-ups, men.
Speaker 1: We need something tangible.
Speaker 1: The king of kings, the Lord of lords, called a child and placed a child among them.
Speaker 1: This service is not money.
Speaker 1: They are no children.
Speaker 1: If they want to be children.
Speaker 1: You want to bring a child here, and then we place the child here and then you look at this child and say that, hey, you know what?
Speaker 1: Truly, I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.
Speaker 1: My first point is that to be great, we need a renewed mindset.
Speaker 1: I need a renewed mindset Again.
Speaker 1: Pastor Ambrose always talks about this mindset until one day it caught me and I had to study what's this about mindset?
Speaker 1: Has it caught you to find out?
Speaker 1: What is it about mindset?
Speaker 1: The mind is amazing.
Speaker 1: God created us in his own image and then he put this mind, this CPU we are computer-age students, children this CPU that he has placed in us so that he can place something there.
Speaker 1: In the book of Romans, chapter 12, verse 1 to 2, first of all, there is something that the Lord Jesus needs to renew our mind.
Speaker 1: From Romans, chapter 12, from verse 1, it says I therefore urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable or pleasing to God.
Speaker 1: This is your true and proper worship.
Speaker 1: Do not conform to the pattern of this world.
Speaker 1: Again, there is a pattern of this world that the Lord Jesus wants us to renew our mind from.
Speaker 1: Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.
Speaker 1: Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is his good, pleasing and perfect will.
Speaker 1: The will of God is good, the will of God is pleasing, the will of God is perfect.
Speaker 1: And God is telling us we need to renew our mindset because there are patterns of this world.
Speaker 1: Some of the patterns of this world, we know them.
Speaker 1: We have family background.
Speaker 1: Sometimes we cry we are not from families which are successful.
Speaker 1: God wants us to renew our mind from that.
Speaker 1: Sometimes.
Speaker 1: You know, get connected.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you feel that you are not connected to great people.
Speaker 1: Great, since you want to be great.
Speaker 1: But where are great people for me to connect with, even if you have?
Speaker 1: God is telling you that renew that mindset.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's worth.
Speaker 1: We encourage children sometimes to you know, I've taken you to great school.
Speaker 1: I needed to be rich one day so that you can help me when I get old.
Speaker 1: Look at your neighbor if they are smiling, but they are very serious.
Speaker 1: Is it worth?
Speaker 1: And possessions?
Speaker 1: Patterns of this world.
Speaker 1: Is it education and accomplishments?
Speaker 1: Now, these things are good.
Speaker 1: Tell your neighbor, these are very good things.
Speaker 1: So what is it that God wants us to transform our mind or to renew our mind from?
Speaker 1: Because sometimes you may have all this.
Speaker 1: Personally, I know people.
Speaker 1: You also may know people who have all these things, but still they are still pursuing.
Speaker 1: That's the human heart.
Speaker 1: We will never get satisfied.
Speaker 1: I will get what I want, but still I will still pursue.
Speaker 1: I still wake up very early in the morning to go and continue pursuing.
Speaker 1: So what is this?
Speaker 1: But God is telling us renew your mind first, because there is a kingdom of heaven to enter there.
Speaker 1: Jesus said you shall not enter the kingdom of heaven if you don't be like this.
Speaker 1: So what is this kingdom of heaven that you need to enter first?
Speaker 1: And when you enter that kingdom, you need a renewed mindset, because you don't enter that kingdom with the same mindset that you used to have.
Speaker 1: It will mess you up, you will be disappointed, you will be confused, you will not put God where he needs to be, because you will think that God is there to just provide for me, for me to be wealthy, for me to connect to wonderful people, for me to be more educated, be disappointed.
Speaker 1: So you need a renewed mindset.
Speaker 1: God is telling us it is vital to follow the God-given blueprint to greatness In the book of Isaiah 55, verse 7, all the way to verse 12, but I will read verse 12.
Speaker 1: Isaiah 55, verse 7.
Speaker 1: Jump to the store, please.
Speaker 1: Oh, don't jump.
Speaker 1: Let's start.
Speaker 1: Let them turn, or let the wicked forsake their ways and unrighteous their thoughts.
Speaker 1: Let them turn to the Lord, and he will have mercy on them, and to our God, for he will freely pardon, for my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways.
Speaker 1: My ways, declares the Lord.
Speaker 1: As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.
Speaker 1: As the rain and the snow come down from heaven and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it bad and flourish, so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater, so is my word that goes out from my mouth.
Speaker 1: It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.
Speaker 1: You will go out in joy, amen.
Speaker 1: You will go out in joy.
Speaker 1: We all need joy and be led forth in peace.
Speaker 1: We all need peace.
Speaker 1: The mountains and the hills will burst into song before you.
Speaker 1: You'll not see mountains and all the trees of the field will clap their hands.
Speaker 1: God declares that my thoughts are not your thoughts.
Speaker 1: Neither are my ways your ways.
Speaker 1: Children of God, we need to listen to God, our Father, because His thoughts are not our thoughts.
Speaker 1: Who are you there when God created Adam?
Speaker 1: How many were there?
Speaker 1: Were you there when God was telling Noah to build an ark?
Speaker 1: Were you there?
Speaker 1: I was in there.
Speaker 1: Sometimes children ask us where was God standing when he was creating us?
Speaker 1: Ask your neighbor that question, because where was God standing when he was creating us?
Speaker 1: Our G, that means G, but there is an excuse.
Speaker 1: You tell them that.
Speaker 1: I mean, if it's not there in the Word of God, it's not important.
Speaker 1: Tell them.
Speaker 1: By the way, I searched.
Speaker 1: When the child asked me that question, I went and searched.
Speaker 1: I learned to be truthful to children.
Speaker 1: I told that child I don't know, but I will go and find out.
Speaker 1: See, all the answers are in the Word of God.
Speaker 1: And I searched, not Google, I searched the Bible, because even Google maybe go and Google and find out where God was standing.
Speaker 1: God has been there and he says my thoughts are not our thoughts.
Speaker 1: God must be very old, isn't it?
Speaker 1: You're told to be like children, so just think about it.
Speaker 1: God is very old.
Speaker 1: But still, these old people, they are very intelligent, isn't it?
Speaker 1: They have experience.
Speaker 1: There is no old thing in heaven.
Speaker 1: Tell your neighbor there is no old thing in heaven.
Speaker 1: I don't know if olding is an English word, but we'll find out afterwards.
Speaker 1: This is not growing old.
Speaker 1: Olding happened from the time Adam sinned and God told me we surely die because we ate that tree.
Speaker 1: Only here on earth.
Speaker 1: That's where the earth is rotating.
Speaker 1: But in the heavens is the earth rotating?
Speaker 1: Is heaven on earth?
Speaker 1: God's thoughts are not our thoughts.
Speaker 1: We should come to that position and understand that God has been there from the time I was born, before even I was born.
Speaker 1: Actually, he says that before you were born I knew you.
Speaker 1: That alone should help us to just stop.
Speaker 1: In Matthew, chapter 9, verse 36, we learn that we are helpless without God.
Speaker 1: Matthew 9.36,.
Speaker 1: It says that when he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd, without God.
Speaker 1: The moment you forget about God, you become in that position, harassed, helpless.
Speaker 1: But in the kingdom God wants us to understand that truth, that we are just like a child, we are helpless.
Speaker 1: Jesus came for me.
Speaker 1: Until you come to that point in your life and say that you know, jesus came for me Not to ask Christians.
Speaker 1: Even if I was alone from Adam, I was a child of Adam.
Speaker 1: Still, god had sacrificed that lamb.
Speaker 1: I need Jesus, I need God, I cannot live without Him.
Speaker 1: Until I get to that position where I say I need God.
Speaker 1: We align ourselves to the ways of the Lord and the thoughts of the Lord.
Speaker 1: By the way, I was looking at that word blueprint, and I found out that it's similar to an architect's design.
Speaker 1: If you want to build a house, you go to an architect and you tell the architect I want a sitting room, I want five bedrooms, I want a bathroom in each bedroom I want.
Speaker 1: You give him all those information and then the architect architect your house.
Speaker 1: He makes your house for you.
Speaker 1: You see what I mean?
Speaker 1: Attackers of it.
Speaker 1: You can design the house.
Speaker 1: Yes, so that design showcases the detailed plan of a building or a house.
Speaker 1: God has our life blueprint.
Speaker 1: He's the one who created us.
Speaker 1: We did not create ourselves.
Speaker 1: Anyone who sent a letter to God and tell him that, lord, I want to be born on 5th of April 1981.
Speaker 1: Anyone who sent a letter.
Speaker 1: Or you sent a letter to your mom.
Speaker 1: So you just appeared, so I appeared, to do what?
Speaker 1: And then one wonderful book says that God created the heavens and the earth.
Speaker 1: One wonderful book says that I knew you.
Speaker 1: Even the hairs of your head I know, and that will catch your attention.
Speaker 1: Hey, there's someone who knows me by the way.
Speaker 1: He knew me even before.
Speaker 1: Someone who knows me by the way.
Speaker 1: He knew me even before I was born, even before I wrote a letter to come on earth.
Speaker 1: He knew me.
Speaker 1: God has your blueprint of life.
Speaker 1: Let's listen to him.
Speaker 1: Let's renew our mind.
Speaker 1: There is a reason he says that you see, this little child, unless you become like a child, you shall not enter the kingdom of heaven.
Speaker 1: You cannot argue with God.
Speaker 1: There is a reason he said it, isn't it?
Speaker 1: Just imagine a child who is arguing with you.
Speaker 1: Mom, I'm not doing it.
Speaker 1: Utatanganese discipline roster, isn't it?
Speaker 1: Why is this child talking to me, talking back to me?
Speaker 1: Now, we cannot talk back to God.
Speaker 1: We do talk back to God sometimes, isn't it.
Speaker 1: John 16, verse 7 to 13.
Speaker 1: Wonderful verse there.
Speaker 1: John, chapter 16, verse 7 to 13.
Speaker 1: The Bible says but very truly, I tell you, it is for your good that I am going away.
Speaker 1: Unless I go away, the Advocate will not come to you, but if I go I will send him to you.
Speaker 1: When he comes, he will prove the world to be in the wrong About sin and righteousness and judgment.
Speaker 1: About sin because people do not believe in me.
Speaker 1: About righteousness, because I am going to the Father, where you can see me no longer.
Speaker 1: And about judgment because the Prince of this world now stands condemned.
Speaker 1: I have much more to say to you, more than you can now bear.
Speaker 1: But when he, the spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all the truth.
Speaker 1: You want the truth.
Speaker 1: We have the spirit who will guide us into all the truth.
Speaker 1: He will not speak on his own.
Speaker 1: He will speak only what he hears and he will tell you what is here to come.
Speaker 1: Before Jesus left, he told them that, by the way, I need to go.
Speaker 1: Then the disciples told them that you are going.
Speaker 1: You need to show yourself to those people who crucified you.
Speaker 1: Then they might believe.
Speaker 1: By the way, why did Jesus not go to appear to those people who crucified him?
Speaker 1: If I was to be Jesus, I was to go and show them.
Speaker 1: You thought you killed me, but that's not what Jesus did.
Speaker 1: But he told the disciples something.
Speaker 1: It's good for me to go.
Speaker 1: Then there are so many things I can tell you, even where God, my father, was standing when he was creating earth.
Speaker 1: There are so many things that I can tell you why the earth is round and how it's hanging on the space there, why you are not falling when you are this side and the other side, the other side, upside down.
Speaker 1: There are many things I can tell you.
Speaker 1: There are many things I can tell you why I did not kill the devil, by the way.
Speaker 1: Why did Jesus tell us?
Speaker 1: Why did God not kill the devil and just finish this mess?
Speaker 1: It's not there in the Bible.
Speaker 1: Tell your neighbor, it's not important, but what is important is that you better be there in the kingdom of God.
Speaker 1: Then Jesus himself will tell you.
Speaker 1: There are some things that all don't need to know.
Speaker 1: There are some things.
Speaker 1: You cannot sit a child down and start explaining to your child.
Speaker 1: The child will just look at you like what have we said, because he's a child.
Speaker 1: We are children of God and God knows us.
Speaker 1: There are things which are important for us to know, and those things they are very clear in the Word of God, because the spirit of truth is here with us.
Speaker 1: Amen.
Speaker 1: If you want to know anything about God, there is a spirit of truth which is here with us.
Speaker 1: Just imagine a child who listened to every person.
Speaker 1: But you Just imagine a child who is eating from the neighbors.
Speaker 1: Will you say, oh, that's wonderful, you'll be eating everywhere, that's good.
Speaker 1: How many will tell them that Now we need to eat from the plate of God.
Speaker 1: There is a plate that God has given us.
Speaker 1: You don't need to eat from everywhere.
Speaker 1: You will be sick, you'll have a stomach upset, your body will be confused.
Speaker 1: If your child listens to everyone, we are not going to say ha.
Speaker 1: We are not going to say, ah, math, we are engineers.
Speaker 1: Ah, math, drop, math, math and you will be confused.
Speaker 1: Children repeat what they see, not what parents tell them to do.
Speaker 1: That's interesting.
Speaker 1: If a parent has an out of control behavior or disrespect other people, the child will see this and will repeat these behaviors, no matter how much the parent tries to correct it.
Speaker 1: Is it true, parents?
Speaker 1: Hallelujah, your child will repeat what he's seeing.
Speaker 1: You do, not what you are telling them.
Speaker 1: Especially our children.
Speaker 1: We call them the children of nowadays.
Speaker 1: They don't listen to their parents.
Speaker 1: Yes, they don't listen to their parents, but they will listen to what you are doing, because if they don't learn from you, they will still learn from somewhere else, isn't it?
Speaker 1: Even if you don't want to listen to God, does it mean that you won't learn?
Speaker 1: You will learn some things.
Speaker 1: Our pastor last Wednesday said that.
Speaker 1: I mean even if you are not worshiping God, even those people who are not worshiping God, but they are still worshiping something, because you are created to worship, isn't it?
Speaker 1: You are created to learn to grow.
Speaker 1: Everything grows.
Speaker 1: The trees grow, from seedling to big tree.
Speaker 1: Everything the animals grow, they are born, they grow.
Speaker 1: Everything that is living grows.
Speaker 1: That's the law of nature.
Speaker 1: So if you are not growing in God, we'll grow somewhere else, which is not.
Speaker 1: But Jesus wants us to come to renew our minds so that we can grow in Him.
Speaker 1: The book of John, chapter 14, verse 20 to 23,.
Speaker 1: God makes His home in us.
Speaker 1: John 14, verse 22, 23,.
Speaker 1: Then Judas, not his cariot, said but Lord, why do you intend to show yourself to us and not to the world?
Speaker 1: Jesus replied anyone who loves me will obey my teaching.
Speaker 1: My Father will love them and we will come and make a home with them.
Speaker 1: Don't you want God to make a home in you?
Speaker 1: God, the Father, god, the Son, god, the Holy Spirit there he says that if you love me and keep my commands, I will come.
Speaker 1: My Father will come.
Speaker 1: He mentions the Father and he mentions Himself.
Speaker 1: Where is the Spirit Jesus promised?
Speaker 1: The Advocate, in other words, whole God comes and dwells in us.
Speaker 1: It's great when a child does things to us out of love.
Speaker 1: When a child loves you, that child can do anything, isn't it?
Speaker 1: When a child loves you, that child can do anything.
Speaker 1: The child needs to walk, the child needs to eat.
Speaker 1: When a child is born, that child needs to learn how to walk.
Speaker 1: That child needs to grow, needs to eat and grow.
Speaker 1: We know these things and when you were born again, god is there, our Father, to ensure that we are working, to ensure that we are eating, to ensure that we are developing.
Speaker 1: Now we need to renew our mind and know this truth.
Speaker 1: Second point a transforming or childlike faith, kingdom blueprint values to greatness, if you want to be great, renew your mindset and then have a transforming faith, have a childlike faith.
Speaker 1: A transforming faith is a faith that demonstrates the very presence of God.
Speaker 1: Hebrews, chapter 4, verse 12.
Speaker 1: What does it say?
Speaker 1: The Bible says, for the Word of God is alive and active.
Speaker 1: The Word of God is alive and active.
Speaker 1: Alive and active.
Speaker 1: Alive and active After the service.
Speaker 1: When I tell you there is a cup of tea, by the way, you can go and take tea.
Speaker 1: You will go and take tea, isn't it?
Speaker 1: This Word has become alive in you.
Speaker 1: You have actioned that Word.
Speaker 1: I know there are those who will not action the Word.
Speaker 1: They will go home without taking that tea, isn't it?
Speaker 1: But they had, isn't it?
Speaker 1: They had that there is tea.
Speaker 1: So after they go, they won't know the sweetness of that tea.
Speaker 1: They won't know the sweetness of that mandazi or maize or whatever is there.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 1: They won't taste.
Speaker 1: By the way, it's okay.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you don't need to take if you're in a hurry.
Speaker 1: But my point is how many times God invites us to something?
Speaker 1: But you know what?
Speaker 1: We are busy, we go, we go away, we walk our way, not actioning, walking, but walking in our mind Umehenda, umehenda.
Speaker 1: And then in church you're singing pass me no to gentl saviour the Lord amepita, a child like faith.
Speaker 1: In verse four of the book of math you say that, therefore, whoever takes the lowly position of this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.
Speaker 1: Yeah, trusting like a child, putting our will aside like a child.
Speaker 1: The child does not have a will.
Speaker 1: Their will is what you will tell them.
Speaker 1: Their will is what you and I'm talking about, an unide child.
Speaker 1: See, umehenda, you're about well, I want to joke in your own mind A child, because God called a little child.
Speaker 1: But there is this nature that Jesus is teaching us.
Speaker 1: They have no choice.
Speaker 1: Does your child have a choice in your house?
Speaker 1: Akujewakati anataka, oh, you're going out, okay, wonderful.
Speaker 1: What time are you coming?
Speaker 1: 10 pm, okay, make sure you come at that time.
Speaker 1: Kesho akujye 11.
Speaker 1: Kesho kutwa alaleu koinje.
Speaker 1: Where were you?
Speaker 1: Does a child have a choice?
Speaker 1: A child growing without a choice will not grow a disciplined life, isn't it?
Speaker 1: So that means it's very important for us to be at the right place, because what you will teach them is what they will become Even before starting schooling.
Speaker 1: Children learn to trust their parents.
Speaker 1: They learn to trust that.
Speaker 1: My parents, my dad, my mom.
Speaker 1: They will feed me, they will clothe me, I will go back home and sleep.
Speaker 1: What about what our Heavenly Father, when our Heavenly Father says in March, matthew, chapter 6, verse 34, do not worry about tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Tomorrow will take care of itself.
Speaker 1: Child of God, do you have a choice?
Speaker 1: In Matthew, chapter 7, verse 7 to 11, he says ask, seek, knock.
Speaker 1: Do you have a choice?
Speaker 1: His Heavenly Father who is talking, him whose ways are far above ours, him whose thoughts are far above ours, he's the one who is telling you don't worry about tomorrow.
Speaker 1: That trust of a child.
Speaker 1: How many have a child?
Speaker 1: And then the child comes and says that mom, I'm hungry, okay, we'll make something.
Speaker 1: And then the child sits there and will mom really have something to make the children worry that you are not able to take care of them?
Speaker 1: If your child worries, you'll be very sad, isn't it?
Speaker 1: You'll be a sad parent.
Speaker 1: If your child was, I don't trust my dad.
Speaker 1: I don't think he can buy for me.
Speaker 1: But a child, remember, we're talking about children, children, children who have no will, children who have no choice, children who are following you as their parent, children of God.
Speaker 1: We have a father who is telling us some things, even if we were not blessed to have such kind of parents.
Speaker 1: But God remains our father, we are still on his earth.
Speaker 1: I'm almost finishing, hallelujah.
Speaker 1: Humility like a child, being humble like a child, not just good attitude.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you can bear with me, like children are not always sweet and kind and humble.
Speaker 1: Some children actually in Sunday school have slapped their parents in front of the teachers.
Speaker 1: So Jesus is not talking about personal qualities, he's not talking about children.
Speaker 1: They are humble.
Speaker 1: Oh, come to Sunday school on Sunday, we will know that some of them are not humble.
Speaker 1: Some of them we know their parents and we have said that the children will do what their parents do.
Speaker 1: So you can imagine what we are thinking Not personal qualities, but the status of a child God is telling us about.
Speaker 1: God is teaching about the status of a child.
Speaker 1: A child have nothing of their own.
Speaker 1: A child he's not yet achieved anything.
Speaker 1: A child has no power or wealth.
Speaker 1: A child have no, they are not rulers, but they are learners.
Speaker 1: They have nothing.
Speaker 1: One time we had a child he's telling us oh, my dad has a Mercedes Benz.
Speaker 1: And then the other child was like no, father does not have one in our car and then he brought those children and then he told them that, ah, you are very right, your dad has a Mercedes.
Speaker 1: You are your dad.
Speaker 1: Your dad has a Mercedes.
Speaker 1: Which car do you have?
Speaker 1: That's dad's car, it's not your car.
Speaker 1: So you cannot laugh at the other child because you are just like that child.
Speaker 1: You don't have anything.
Speaker 1: You don't have a car.
Speaker 1: What do you have?
Speaker 1: You may have power, you may have wealth, but you know what being humble like a child is to live as if you have not, because actually I have not.
Speaker 1: The Bible says that it's God who gives us the ability to make wealth.
Speaker 1: It's God who gives us.
Speaker 1: If God just allows a virus to come to our brain like a computer, you know when a virus goes to that computer, it does not matter how expensive that computer, but virus is GΘ.
Speaker 1: Tell your neighbor you have, but you don't have.
Speaker 1: What you have belongs to God, amen.
Speaker 1: Are you humble to say those words?
Speaker 1: Are you feeling some constraint?
Speaker 1: What do you mean that is?
Speaker 1: He is a God, but God is giving you oxygen.
Speaker 1: If he brings you the cost of the oxygen that you are breathing, my child forgives me because he longs for that sweet fellowship and love.
Speaker 1: I never call my.
Speaker 1: There are some things that I never call my child.
Speaker 1: You are stupid, you look like a goat.
Speaker 1: Everything is your kitchen, an image.
Speaker 1: Do you tell your child those things?
Speaker 1: Because when a child goes out and someone tells that child this way, the child will have the comfort and the confidence to come back home and say that at least my dad honors me, at least my dad loves me, at least my mom loves me.
Speaker 1: My mom has never called me that I'm stupid.
Speaker 1: Even if a teacher calls them that you are stupid, you will never make it in life.
Speaker 1: And then the child comes to you and says that you are wonderfully and beautifully made.
Speaker 1: Even if a child goes out and says that, where are you?
Speaker 1: You see our talk and you, you are just the same.
Speaker 1: When a child comes back and you tell this child that you are special because God created you.
Speaker 1: God created our talk, our talk.
Speaker 1: God created a cow a cow.
Speaker 1: God created a goat a goat.
Speaker 1: But God created you in his own image, that child will have confidence to come back home.
Speaker 1: What does God, our Father, call us?
Speaker 1: You are beautifully and wonderfully made.
Speaker 1: You are head, you are not tail.
Speaker 1: I grew up not loving my dad.
Speaker 1: It's my last story that I'm going to share with you.
Speaker 1: I grew up not loving my dad because my dad used to be very violent.
Speaker 1: I used to hate him.
Speaker 1: I used to hate my dad.
Speaker 1: I grew up hating my dad until I finished from four, I hated my dad.
Speaker 1: My dad used to tell me that you need to be a man Then.
Speaker 1: So I was wondering I think I'm a boy, it's cool, boy is this side.
Speaker 1: You go to the boy side, girls this side.
Speaker 1: But my dad says that you need to be a man.
Speaker 1: So who am I?
Speaker 1: So I hated him, I hated, I hated, I hated him.
Speaker 1: And because he wanted me to be a man, I said that when I grow up and be great, I will come back and show him that I've been a man all along.
Speaker 1: That's how I grew up.
Speaker 1: It's very important to parents how you treat your children, because your child, even if they cannot talk back to you, but they are seeing what you are doing to them.
Speaker 1: So when I went to campus and then I met this angel in disguise, a man, who told me that I mean, oh, tell me long story short.
Speaker 1: He told me that you know what.
Speaker 1: It's not about you and your dad.
Speaker 1: It's about you and God.
Speaker 1: You don't know.
Speaker 1: My dad was to kill me, but you are not killed.
Speaker 1: I was a fast born.
Speaker 1: I was being punished, even the sins of my brother, but you did not die.
Speaker 1: It's not about you and your dad.
Speaker 1: It's about you and God.
Speaker 1: Tell your neighbor.
Speaker 1: It's not about you and whoever that you have your enemy.
Speaker 1: It's not about you or your enemy.
Speaker 1: We need to forgive, like children do that lesson of forgiveness from that day.
Speaker 1: It taught me forgive and we shall be forgiven.
Speaker 1: That grudge that I had for my dad went away because I learned to forgive.
Speaker 1: It's not about me and my dad, my dad and God, but me and God, the Bible.
Speaker 1: What does the Bible say?
Speaker 1: It's about me and God.
Speaker 1: Honor your father and mother.
Speaker 1: It's about you and God.
Speaker 1: Obey your father and mother.
Speaker 1: It's about you and God.
Speaker 1: It's not about you and the person that you don't want to forgive, because you can choose not to forgive, but it will only hurt you.
Speaker 1: It's you.
Speaker 1: It will hurt.
Speaker 1: Look, we have a very wonderful example here.
Speaker 1: You know Jesus.
Speaker 1: When he was on the cross, other people were telling him come down, if you are the son of God, come down.
Speaker 1: If I was to be Jesus, I was to jump down from the cross and deal with them.
Speaker 1: I go back to the cross.
Speaker 1: Have you seen?
Speaker 1: I'm a son of God.
Speaker 1: I can do the way Jesus himself said.
Speaker 1: I can call the angels from heaven.
Speaker 1: They fight for me, but Jesus had a blueprint for you and me to be saved today.
Speaker 1: If Jesus was to jump from the cross, why are you to be here?
Speaker 1: Oh God, god, I don't want this.
Speaker 1: These are the people that I'm dying for.
Speaker 1: I know we want not to be alive because God was.
Speaker 1: Maybe he was to be angry.
Speaker 1: He kills all mankind, but that's not what Jesus did.
Speaker 1: He still prayed.
Speaker 1: Father, forgive them.
Speaker 1: How many times have God forgiven you?
Speaker 1: By the way, from the time you were born again, how many times has God forgiven you Some of us?
Speaker 1: God has been very patient.
Speaker 1: If you are a wonderful parent, you'll be very patient to your child, isn't it Because you have a blueprint for this child?
Speaker 1: That's exactly what God is doing to us.
Speaker 1: Our last verse, proverbs 22, verse 6, says train up a child in the way it should go.
Speaker 1: Are you trained up?
Speaker 1: Ask your neighbor, are you trained up.
Speaker 1: Our scripture verse says that Jesus calls us to come up here and I will show you when I grow up how many, when they grow up, they want to be like Jesus.
Speaker 1: Don't raise your hand when I grow up.
Speaker 1: Train up a child in the way it should go.
Speaker 1: If you train a child when we are trained of God when we grow up, we shall not depart from it.
Speaker 1: When we are trained, god gives us our desires, because the book of Psalms, that 7, verse 4, says when our ways please God, even our desires, god provides.
Speaker 1: Those are the kingdom blueprint values to greatness.
Speaker 1: Have a renewed mindset, have a childlike faith because you are designed for greatness.
Speaker 1: Tell your neighbor you are designed for greatness.
Speaker 1: I am designed for greatness.
Speaker 1: We can say all of us.
Speaker 1: I am designed for greatness.
Speaker 1: Inside declaration do you believe that you are designed for greatness?
Speaker 1: There is no weapon that's fashion against you shall prosper.
Speaker 1: In Jesus mighty name, you are more than a conqueror.
Speaker 1: In Jesus mighty name, god is good.
Speaker 1: Let's pray.
Speaker 1: Dear heavenly Father, we thank you for your wide.
Speaker 1: We thank you, lord, that you are our Father.
Speaker 1: Dear Lord, receive our honor, receive our glory.
Speaker 1: King of kings, thank you for your word that you tell us to be like children.
Speaker 1: You tell us, lord, to have a mind of a child, a trusting mind, because you are the only one that we have.
Speaker 1: Dear Lord, may you help us.
Speaker 1: King of kings, sometimes we do forget, but, lord, thank you for your love that you are always there.
Speaker 1: Your arms are always open to receive us back.
Speaker 1: Dear Lord, may you receive us in Jesus, mighty name.
Speaker 1: And God's people said we can stand less years.
Speaker 1: Let's give God a wonderful clap as we stand.
Speaker 1: There's a cup of tea, by the way, I had mentioned, isn't it?
Speaker 1: I can see it.
Speaker 1: Can you see it?
Speaker 1: Do you believe there is a cup of tea?
Speaker 1: Do you believe it's yours?
Speaker 1: So there is a cup of tea.
Speaker 1: And before we go for tea number six, verse 24, is your portion.
Speaker 1: Number six, 24, is your portion.
Speaker 1: The Bible says that the Lord bless you and keep you.
Speaker 1: The Lord make his face shine on you and be gracious to you.
Speaker 1: The Lord turn his face towards you and give you peace.
Speaker 1: Declare that I have the peace of God because he is my God, he is my Father, he calls me friend.
Speaker 1: Aren't you glad that God calls you friend?
Speaker 1: You are no longer a servant, you are no longer slaves to God.
Speaker 1: We are children of God because if you've believed in Jesus, he gives you power to become a child of God.
Speaker 1: If you have not invited Jesus to be your personal savior, we are here.
Speaker 1: We'll be here, we'll come and lead you.
Speaker 1: Amen, because the blueprint starts there.
Speaker 1: You need to come to the master so that he can show you the way to go, but if you believe in Jesus, you are a child of God.
Speaker 1: Tell your neighbor, surely goodness and mercy shall follow us all the days of our lives.
Speaker 1: They shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever.
Speaker 1: Amen, and may the grace, the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with us now and forevermore.
Speaker 1: Amen.