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So my message today is for the person that has been longingly awaited. For somebody who is more qualified to do things. The person who keeps on thinking that the church, the church as a whole, the pastor, the professionals will handle things. this person is actually fed and blessed and he's been taught for many years. And yet, as the time has passed, he's still awaiting upon somebody that will do things for him. But I want to tell you today Jesus never came to just do it for you. At some point, he sent us forth. But I want to do a quick recap on our message or our series. Today is the last part of the series that we have been preaching, the series of Jesus and the action, the year of action, because this is the year of action. Our theme for the year is the year of action. And we've been preaching on Jesus. And I want to give you the principles that we've been preaching, which is principle number one is to come close, even when you feel you are too far gone to be touched. This is the person that feel like Jesus is not with him, things is not going, yet you just have to come closer to God. And then the principle number two was to show up yourself and do not just pay the bills. This is the person that, as a father, you think that paying the bills is about it. And that's the person we're talking about in principle number two. Principle number three is release what was never yours to carry. Some of the things that we carry is our generational curses that has been put upon ourselves. And you have to shake off that just as an understanding of that principle as well Then principle number four was take the root to God not the symptoms Sometimes we pray for a job but most of the time a job for us is to get money So don pray for the job while you want the money. Don't pray for the money while you want the freedom. So you need to literally see as a whole, where is it that is actually the root cause of things that you need to do. Then principle number five, take the first real action before you feel ready. This is for the person who is never ready to do certain things. You just feel like I still need to have one, two, or three, and yet you have not getting yourself ready. That's the principle. Then principle number six, bless the little you have and start with it. Now, what that means is like when God gives you a voice. Just bless that voice so that you can go out there. And bless the little does mean that even if you have a tendrant, sow it into somebody so that that can multiply. So anything that you have as a little, that as a start, and then just go further. And then principle number seven is step out and own the thing that you are hiding and you will stand out. Step out and own the thing that you are hiding and you will stand out. Some of the things that we've been hiding, as for myself, I used to be a stutterer and thought I can't speak, and here I'm speaking fluently today, which is how I step out and now I own the platform itself. Not just this platform, but many platforms where I go and do some seminaries. Then principle number eight, pull away from the secret place and get refilled or refilled. What that means is that sometimes you have to go and refill yourself or refilled yourself, meaning that when Jesus got tired, he went up and had some rest or do something. So it's the same thing. And God actually put the whole universe together. After that, he said on the seventh day, he went to go and rest. So that's when you refill it or refuel yourself. Principle number nine, press through and reach for him in the crowd. So sometimes we just have to say regardless of whatever my smell the things I dirty with I just have to push forward to push through And that is principle number nine Please press through and reach out to him in the crowd. Then principle number 10 that we set is turn the feelings into action, not just the post. Sometimes we feel obligated to do certain things. We go on Facebook, share a post and say, oh, I feel so much. I just wanted to bless this guy who's standing next to the road begging for touring. Now, you felt like you could have taken him in into your house and just give him a good wash and started to give him training on certain things or teach him how to do things. And yet you have not done that. You've just posted about it, but you didn't do it. Then principle number 11, pick up a towel because the biggest people are the ones who serve. And that is when Jesus went down on his knees the day before he knew what's going to happen. I mean, the day before he knew what's going to happen, but the day before he knew what is going to happen the next, he went and literally go and wash the people's feet or the disciples' feet. The ones who thought they were lower than him, he went down and proved to them that they must also do the same. Let me say it that way. Principle number 12, confront the wrong thing that you keep tolerating. Some of us make ourselves dormits, people walking over us, and we never confronted them by saying, ah, no, enough is enough. And that is what principle number 12 was about. Principle number 13, take the step you have been dreading. And I'm going through this quickly just so that you can have a quick recap of what this whole series was about. And today is the finale of this whole series. So take the step you have been dreading. Principle number 13 is the things that you wanted to do. Then principle number 14. Take the step you have been dreading. dreading meaning to say that you so much wanted to do certain things, but you kept on saying, I don't have the energy for it. So that's the one principle number 14 is finish the thing that you keep wanting to quit. Finish the thing that you keep wanting to quit. You were just so close to getting your breakthrough and you stopped Finish what you started That might be something that will help you in the future Principle number 15, which was last week, we said get up and start again on the dead thing. Now, with all of these things that we've been talking about, everything led unto this one thing that we are talking about today. So my message is entitled, you are the plan. You are the plan. There's no one else coming for you. There's no one else coming instead. You are the plan. So I want you to understand that the problem that we sometimes have is we're waiting for somebody else to go and do certain things. The problem is someone we think is more ready, more gifted, more official, and so the people around us never get what we have. and we we also treat following Jesus as something you can almost say we received it's something that it's not what you sent for it's like you're supposed to just receive it but nothing gets help to send you. And the world says, leave it to the experts. Most of the time, most of the time you find yourself that, no, no, no, let the pastor minister. Sometimes it is even the experts of, no, I can't do certain things because somebody else is supposed to do it. They are more qualified. if I look at the apostles some of them were qualified if I make an example of a man who never even knew how to write but yet some of his work is written today and somebody else was transcribing it or wrote it for him at that time and if you're looking at it I had a a my ex-father, Umtoni. Now, Umtoni never had, what does he call it, school. He never went to school. He never had formal education. Yeah, let's call it that way. But whenever he was out there, he would speak like almost as if he is literally was schooled and he wasn't schooled. At his old age, when he started to start preaching now, he was struggling to read the Bible. But what he would do is he would get his grandchildren to come and read the Bible for him. And he would memorize all those scriptures. And he knows every scripture by memorizing that. So he never waited for an expert person to come and preach the gospel. He actually went out and did it. And I can tell you now, the last years of his life was literally all about preaching Jesus. Now, after Adam fell, God came looking and asked him, where are you? You know, you know, in Genesis 3, where God was asking Adam, where are you? And God has been looking for people who will go where the lost are. Instead, Adam was hiding himself. Adam was hiding himself. But let me give you the scripture. I'm going to read it for you. In Matthew 28. In Matthew 28 verse 16, and I'm reading from verse 16, the King James Version. Matthew 28 verse 16. is then the eleven disciples went away into Galilee, into a mountain where Jesus has appointed them. And when they saw him, they worshipped him. But some doubted. And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. Go ye therefore and teach all nations, but baptize them in the name of the Father, and the Son and of the Holy Ghost teaching them to observe all things Whosoever hath commanded you and lo I am with you always even unto the end of the world. Amen. Now, we read this as a great commission, as a famous, you can almost say, enclosing of a speech. what nice ending is that not the end is so nice but look what he said the 11 men that is all some of them were doubting while they spoke they were literally shaking when he spoke and because he shook he shook at that time the thing that I can tell you now these guys were not guys that were eloquent these guys were not guys that were well trained in ministry they were not but they were willing the part that you and I come in is the part that we just know how to put one foot in front of another. And not to worry about, Nehman, I don't know how, I don't know where, I don't know what to do. We just have to put one foot in front of the other. And this is what all these messages that we had, all these principles that we've given was preparing you for this moment. Because this is the moment that you now have to know He did not announce a backup plan. He did not even say, if you do not do it, I will send angels. Because he could have sent angels. Don't you think that Jesus could have sent angels? If he wanted his job to be done, he would have sent angels. But he sent the 11 men. 11 men. Are you one of those men that don't know much what to do, but are willing to take the step? This is the person I talking about today The person that just feel like no I just need one one step this is the thing that I kept on saying all the time Whenever we go into a certain, you can almost say it, in certain places, I sometimes find myself saying things that literally, literally, I didn't know what I was doing. it's like it's like somebody saying serious you mean whatever you have done up to thus far you have done out of your own you can almost say own knowledge you know what we call the Africans some guys just make jokes out of it they call it copper knowledge it means head knowledge bishop it's not head knowledge do you know what it is it's literally the Holy Spirit prompting us to do what we do when Jesus says lo and behold I'll be with you that's what he meant he meant don't stand on your own don't because the more you stand on your own, the more you flop because out of the own me, out of the own how I'm going to do it, out of the own thinking how things should be done. I want you to see this. When you go to the Greek word for go he, The Greek word is perotentos. Perotentos. It actually is as you are going. As you are going. Having gone, it's not make a special trip one day. It is in your everyday going. That is what he said. Go here. now some of us think that whenever you you want to preach the gospel or whenever you want to get people to know jesus it is for you to go to church and keep speaking to people do you know church church people is where church people are They are there wait let me say the thing Let me say it in English Church is for people who want to be in church. For you to go out there is to go and seek for the people who don't even think they need Jesus. Come to church and you find somebody already believe in Jesus. Because they believe that just by being in church, something is about to happen. But you find somebody on the robots thinking that, no, somebody will give me two rent. they will never think of Jesus can be the one that can sustain their lives and that is where you and I come in go he out this is where we come and he didn't send he didn't send the confident people He didn't send the people who speak eloquently. He sent those stutterers. He sent those doubting ones. He sent those ones that says, Are you sure, God? You're talking to me? Me, the one that can't even speak English. The one that every time when I want to open up my mouth, I don't get the words. he sent the ordinary people some of them doubted but he sent them anyway he did not wait for the perfect faith or the finished people the people that is polished that is why I get such a big problem when people say that the church is so perfect people but the church are the worst people of the worst people that is trying to get it right. They are literally the hypocrites that is trying to get it right. And those hypocrites that we are seeing as church people are the reason why other people come to church. But they are trying. They are the ones that do that little. I mean, somebody once came to a store and while they're in the store, all they did is they were just saying to a boy, Dwight Moody. Moody, I mean. Dwight Moody. He said to Dwight Moody, Jesus loves you. That's all he said. And this Moody guy became somebody that preached the gospel to an estimate of 100 million people. If you go and read this guy's biography, or do you call it the history of this guy, Moody, Dwight L. Moody. Dwight L. Moody was spoken to by a guy called Edward Kimball. Now, Edward Kimball didn't think at that time He was doing something wow. What he did, he just came to the boy, this moody guy, and he just touched him and said, Jesus love you. And that small wording, not eloquent wordings of when you come to Christ, the day when you come to Christ, Christ will change your life. Christ will do this and that and the other. No, no, no. He didn't use any wow words. He just said, Jesus love you. And when he said that, this guy came to Jesus and preached to almost 100 million people. And here we think that every time whenever we want to do outreach, we want to do mercenaries. mercenaries is those guys that get sent out as mercenaries in the church. Do you know how much money those mercenaries spent to travel the world while you and me gets in contact with at least one person a day that doesn know Christ And one is enough to preach to 100 million God using those doubting Thomases. The Bible says in Matthew 28 verse 17. Now, Matthew 28 verse 17 says the following. And when they saw him, they worshipped him. But some doubted. Some doubted. And Jesus came and speak unto them and saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. Now, if you have somebody in your corner that have all the power. Why would you think that your little small little eloquent English, your small little, you can almost call it a bodybuilder's body will make a difference. It's nothing to do with your stature. It's nothing to do with your speaking. is nothing even to do with your mind because the more you have less of you, the more he's able to do more of him. It's very important to understand something that when Kimball, Edward Kimball, goes to this Dwight L. Moody, he was even doubting that he's doing the right thing. but all he did was saying Jesus loved you Christ loved you and that's it so you don't need to go into places like far away lands you don't like people that goes to India go and preach there you don't need to go to America to go and preach there somebody is already there do where you are if you are in Pretoria North all you do is just walk in the street anybody that you see just share one thing you don't have to share a lot because the moment you start sharing whatever God is laying upon your heart at that moment that is what God is about to say to that person Amen Because that is what that person wanted to hear at that time You don have to go far You don't have to go to climb the mountains to speak from top, to get 5,000 people together to speak. No. He said, go here out there. And out there is never in a church. it has never been in that church if you go to Acts 1 verse 8 Acts 1 verse 8 says but you shall receive power after that the Holy Ghost has come upon you and you shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem and in all Judea and in Samaria and unto the uttermost part of the earth. He said unto the uttermost part of the earth. Now, I want to ask you, uttermost parts of the earth, except for China. No, no, no. Wait, wait, wait. Maybe, maybe we must accept. and leave it out and say, what the truth then? Except for what the truth then. Because people are already rich there. He said, literally, the uttermost parts of the earth. What part is the uttermost part? Is the part that you think that you don't want to go in there? Is the part that you think, just here in Pretoria, or not, no, I can't go to the mosque. The mosque is exactly the uttermost part. Don't go boast yourself there and say, it's because of my power, I can speak to somebody in the mosque. Just take Jesus with you. I'm asking you nicely. Just take Jesus with you. And that is the part that makes the most sense. You never go alone. No no no I not talking about the never walk alone team I saying you never go alone No not the never walk alone Soka tima'a. Just remember that he ends with the greatest promise. No, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. What is the end of the world to you? when that relationship finished. Ah, my world has ended. I can't live without this woman anymore. He is what you. He is what you. The uttermost end. I need you to understand something. Let's read Matthew. Matthew 28, 20. Matthew 28, 20 reads as following. Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you, and lo, I'm with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen. The fear of going into places where the most demons are ends with this sentence, lo, I'm with you always. that's when the fear of entering into demon possessed people stop that's the fear of going into a place where you think that you are the lowest of the low you are not confident even to speak to the great CEOs of that company that's the yet where it says lo, I'm with you always. That's the part where you keep on have to remind yourself, Jesus, am I having a conversation with myself here? Are you with me? You walk, and as you walk, you have a conversation and you say, God, tell me something. Why am I having fear in my heart? Why is my heart trembling? Why am I shaking? Am I shaking because you are not with me? Is that the reason why I am shaking at this moment? And if he answers... It's because you are thinking of your own. You are thinking that you are walking on your own. That's the reason why the knees are shaking. Walk boldly because I'm watching. These are the things that you should understand. Isaiah 6 verse 8 says the following. When Isaiah 6 verse 8 says, Also I heard the voice of the Lord saying, Whom shall I send? and who will go for us? Then said I, here am I, sent me. Huh? Here am I, sent me. For the whole series that we have watched from what God did now, he touched the dirty, he ran the lost, he carried the tired, he multiplied the little, he stayed on the cross. You remember I said to him, he could have walked off from the cross, but he stayed on the cross to save you. If he walked off that cross or he would have asked his disciples to take him off that, I mean his angels to take him off that, we wouldn't have been saved today. Through all those things even when the stone was rolled away and now he turns the you can almost say the things that look ordinary, he says to you, now you go. Now you go. You are not too unqualified. or you are not to have enough knowledge. Even that doubting Thomas of you, that's ordinary, is with you. I'm telling you. The 11 that was with him were all of that. they were not qualified they were doubting but yet he sent them now I want you to think of it this is the last season of the principle I mean series of the principle of Jesus and the one thing I need you to understand is all the principles that we were talking about was preparing you for this moment to go out there and make disciples of men regardless in whatever you do Just in one word, Christ love you is enough. It's enough. Now, next week, I want to touch on something that the ordinary South African are struggling with. And I'm going to touch on your finances. I want you to literally think of your finances, where it is at this moment. And we want to talk about your finances, because if you go to the unemployment rate of South Africa, you would fully understand why finances has been such a struggle in South Africa. if you're talking about the ordinary person that just lives to work but yet living under the breadline and this, the message of next week would be about your finances and I don't want you to miss this out because this might be the message that will change your whole financial situation But before we get there you need to understand something For you to be called a disciple of God, you need to go out there. And when you have gone out, know that Jesus will be with you. Regardless whether you have or you don't, he will be with you. Heavenly Father, I come to you in the mighty name of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior. And I pray, Father God, that we sometimes think that we don't know certain things. While you already said to us, it's a good thing that you leave, because when you left, you left us the Holy Spirit. And the Holy Spirit is there to teach us, to guide us. and Lord Jesus as he is about to teach us and guide us and move us into the right direction that you have chosen to us Father God I pray that each and every one that is under the sound of my voice today would take that to heart that nothing they can do will be without your Holy Spirit without you going with them in the mighty name of Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior we pray Amen and Amen you
