1 00:00:03,720 --> 00:00:05,880 Who is this? A Wisdom Bible church? 2 00:00:06,520 --> 00:00:08,840 The Church of a distant Christian narration. 3 00:00:09,320 --> 00:00:14,480 We thank God for His great grace that has brought us to this 4 00:00:14,720 --> 00:00:18,640 dining table again. I pray that the Lord will 5 00:00:18,640 --> 00:00:24,800 satisfy our anger. It will satisfy our tests in the 6 00:00:24,800 --> 00:00:31,520 name of Jesus. Now, how to generate passion was 7 00:00:31,520 --> 00:00:42,520 the last subtopic we studied and we're still going to continue in 8 00:00:42,520 --> 00:00:48,520 the same light. However, it's important that we 9 00:00:48,520 --> 00:00:55,320 refresh our mind or readdress our mind to the key issues that 10 00:00:55,320 --> 00:00:59,840 were highlighted when we had the last session. 11 00:01:00,640 --> 00:01:08,760 So in that last session, we listed discovery of purpose as 12 00:01:08,760 --> 00:01:11,960 the first step to generate passion. 13 00:01:13,840 --> 00:01:20,520 Discovery of purpose and I do the correlation between vision 14 00:01:20,520 --> 00:01:25,360 and purpose that they could be used interchangeably. 15 00:01:26,440 --> 00:01:30,400 When your purpose is tangible, then it becomes your vision. 16 00:01:31,280 --> 00:01:41,240 Press the name of the book and then we pick on the patriarch 17 00:01:42,280 --> 00:01:54,480 Father Jacob for a key study. We study the transition of Jacob 18 00:01:55,560 --> 00:02:01,080 from a man who was responding to provocation to a man who 19 00:02:01,080 --> 00:02:04,800 eventually pursued purpose in life. 20 00:02:06,440 --> 00:02:16,520 We examine his transition from a man who was an apron around the 21 00:02:16,520 --> 00:02:21,240 waist of his mother but who eventually discovered purpose 22 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:27,200 and by that he was able to gain the needed strength to stand on 23 00:02:27,200 --> 00:02:32,280 his own feet when he was in the family house together with his 24 00:02:32,280 --> 00:02:34,560 brother. You will discover that 25 00:02:35,000 --> 00:02:39,280 everything about him and whatever he does, whenever his 26 00:02:39,280 --> 00:02:44,840 own ideas, they were always the ideas suggested to him by the 27 00:02:44,840 --> 00:02:48,880 mother. And because he has not attained 28 00:02:48,880 --> 00:02:57,120 the maturity level to be able to separates the SAT from the 29 00:02:57,120 --> 00:03:02,800 wheat, even the lung cancer of the murder, he followed it. 30 00:03:03,480 --> 00:03:11,520 And so when he left home, he left without a personal road 31 00:03:11,520 --> 00:03:21,080 map, he left without a personal map, he left home unprepared. 32 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:27,480 But thank God that along the line when he slept over in the 33 00:03:27,480 --> 00:03:34,000 wilderness, he had an encounter, and that encounter change the 34 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:38,520 course of his destiny. I pray that as you listen to me 35 00:03:38,520 --> 00:03:43,720 this morning, you will encounter God in a special way. 36 00:03:44,280 --> 00:03:48,760 You will encounter God in a manner that will provoke the 37 00:03:48,960 --> 00:03:56,200 pursuit of purpose, purpose that has eternal value, purpose that 38 00:03:56,240 --> 00:04:00,120 bless destinies in the name of Jesus. 39 00:04:00,800 --> 00:04:10,080 So we therefore navigated between Genesis chapter 27 and 40 00:04:10,280 --> 00:04:16,959 Genesis chapter 29. From there, we study His 41 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:23,520 progress from where He left home by the instruction of his mother 42 00:04:24,040 --> 00:04:33,240 in Genesis 27 to relocate to his uncle's place to escape the 43 00:04:33,360 --> 00:04:38,320 anger of his brother that is jilted. 44 00:04:39,080 --> 00:04:46,800 Then in chapter 28, we analyzed his encounter in the wilderness. 45 00:04:47,480 --> 00:04:54,520 We are he caught the personal vision of angels descending and 46 00:04:54,520 --> 00:04:59,760 ascending on a ladder. That is in chapter 28. 47 00:05:00,240 --> 00:05:07,040 Then we come to chapter 29. We are after the encounter in 48 00:05:07,040 --> 00:05:10,800 the wilderness. It demonstrated on common 49 00:05:10,800 --> 00:05:15,520 passion. OK, In chapter 29 we found a 50 00:05:15,560 --> 00:05:22,480 place where he met some shepherds when it was still ID. 51 00:05:23,400 --> 00:05:33,080 No, with their cattle. No stay I do around the world 52 00:05:33,080 --> 00:05:38,120 side waiting for men who will roll the stone before they could 53 00:05:38,120 --> 00:05:43,360 water their animal. But when it got there, it 54 00:05:43,360 --> 00:05:47,280 challenged them to their face that this is not the best of 55 00:05:47,280 --> 00:05:50,360 time to rest. It is ideal. 56 00:05:50,600 --> 00:05:54,120 The animals should be on the feet, still being fed. 57 00:05:54,680 --> 00:06:00,360 So by reason of the vision he called OK, he can no longer 58 00:06:00,920 --> 00:06:07,960 meddle with the company of Lizzie at art, Lizzie at an 59 00:06:08,320 --> 00:06:12,280 fellow. So by himself a loom is 60 00:06:12,280 --> 00:06:17,880 sequentially rolled the stone to assist a Rachel the water 61 00:06:17,880 --> 00:06:21,920 animal. All of these were what we 62 00:06:21,920 --> 00:06:28,080 employed to drive the teaching that when you have vision, when 63 00:06:28,080 --> 00:06:34,120 you have purpose, that vision will help you to generate 64 00:06:34,520 --> 00:06:39,800 passion. OK until he had that encounter. 65 00:06:40,240 --> 00:06:44,960 He has to be pushed before you can do anything. 66 00:06:45,440 --> 00:06:51,840 Press the name of the law now by reason of vision is now self 67 00:06:51,840 --> 00:06:57,280 motivated to undertake destiny in the right direction. 68 00:06:57,680 --> 00:07:02,240 I pray in the name of Jesus you will catch that right vision 69 00:07:02,720 --> 00:07:07,720 that will make you to pursue destiny in the right direction 70 00:07:08,240 --> 00:07:12,920 in the name of Jesus. Then in the course of that 71 00:07:12,920 --> 00:07:21,680 study, we went on to identify 5 basic stimulants of purpose. 72 00:07:22,520 --> 00:07:28,480 One information, 2 observation. Can you recollect? 73 00:07:29,320 --> 00:07:35,960 Inspiration was the third one, then meditation, and then we 74 00:07:36,600 --> 00:07:43,080 threw the cutting on irritation. Now observation, I mean 75 00:07:43,120 --> 00:07:50,560 information. I mentioned that the natural 76 00:07:50,560 --> 00:08:08,860 route to information is education and why the spiritual 77 00:08:08,860 --> 00:08:13,340 route to it is revelation. Praise the name of the law. 78 00:08:13,860 --> 00:08:18,200 Now to gain the information that can help you in destiny, the 79 00:08:18,200 --> 00:08:25,520 natural part or routes you take is the part of education because 80 00:08:25,520 --> 00:08:33,159 that lies in the natural realm. Why the spiritual route to it is 81 00:08:33,159 --> 00:08:39,559 revelation then observation. I mentioned that observation 82 00:08:39,840 --> 00:08:42,400 provide the cheapest access to education. 83 00:08:44,240 --> 00:08:50,160 Observation provide the cheapest access to education because if 84 00:08:50,160 --> 00:08:54,040 you practice observation responsibly, you will gain 85 00:08:54,040 --> 00:08:57,760 wisdom. And I define wisdom as a form of 86 00:08:57,760 --> 00:09:00,680 education. You don't pay school fees to 87 00:09:00,680 --> 00:09:09,240 assess, especially if you know how to put your observation to a 88 00:09:09,280 --> 00:09:16,880 good use. Inspiration it as the means by 89 00:09:16,960 --> 00:09:24,240 which you get information that is not available in the natural 90 00:09:24,240 --> 00:09:30,520 realm. To get information that is not 91 00:09:30,520 --> 00:09:38,680 available in the natural realm, you engage inspiration and then 92 00:09:38,760 --> 00:09:45,280 meditation is employed or used to process information. 93 00:09:47,880 --> 00:09:56,240 Use it to process it inspiration and evil revelation into success 94 00:09:56,240 --> 00:10:01,920 tools. That's why Moses admonished 95 00:10:02,000 --> 00:10:05,040 Joshua. Don't let this book of the law 96 00:10:05,240 --> 00:10:12,120 depart from you. Study it, then meditate on it, 97 00:10:12,880 --> 00:10:18,760 and the end result when you follow that due process, OK, is 98 00:10:18,760 --> 00:10:25,920 that you will have good success. OK, so it is by meditation that 99 00:10:25,920 --> 00:10:32,320 you are able to process information, inspiration and 100 00:10:32,320 --> 00:10:42,360 revelation into success too. Then irritation, I did mention 101 00:10:42,360 --> 00:10:49,120 that when you employ irritation very well and positively, you 102 00:10:49,120 --> 00:10:54,760 can turn your garbage to manure for brewing your cabbage. 103 00:10:56,000 --> 00:11:00,640 Hope your mind is not well addressed to what we did in the 104 00:11:00,640 --> 00:11:04,520 last session. Can we now proceed from there? 105 00:11:04,960 --> 00:11:11,240 OK, so today by the grace of God, we will proceed to study 106 00:11:11,240 --> 00:11:18,960 other steps or other experiences that was this a man to generate 107 00:11:18,960 --> 00:11:22,480 passion. If we have spoken so much about 108 00:11:22,520 --> 00:11:25,120 passion, how do you gain passion? 109 00:11:25,200 --> 00:11:30,840 That's been the focus and the last study was dedicated to 110 00:11:31,200 --> 00:11:36,080 discovery of purpose. When you discover purpose, you 111 00:11:36,080 --> 00:11:43,120 are energized. It will create passion in you to 112 00:11:43,320 --> 00:11:50,160 pursue your vision. So the number two thing is that 113 00:11:50,160 --> 00:11:54,960 you must possess high taste for excellence. 114 00:11:57,320 --> 00:12:03,480 You must possess a very high taste for excellence. 115 00:12:04,160 --> 00:12:10,440 So that is next to purpose. Next to purpose, if you will 116 00:12:10,440 --> 00:12:18,400 generate passion to pursue your destiny and make a good meaning 117 00:12:19,400 --> 00:12:25,680 and make a positive impact in your one lifetime is to have 118 00:12:25,920 --> 00:12:31,200 ideas for excellence. How do I mean by that? 119 00:12:32,120 --> 00:12:41,680 I am talking about the ability to be total, the ability to be 120 00:12:41,680 --> 00:12:48,520 thorough, the ability to handle assignment without leaving no 121 00:12:48,520 --> 00:12:54,400 stone on tone. So ability to be thorough, the 122 00:12:54,400 --> 00:13:00,160 ability to have your eyes on the best outcome in everything that 123 00:13:00,160 --> 00:13:02,840 you do. That's excellence. 124 00:13:04,160 --> 00:13:08,920 The ability in you, the driving you, the self motivation in you 125 00:13:09,560 --> 00:13:14,280 to have your eyes on the best outcome. 126 00:13:15,040 --> 00:13:19,320 When you talk about excellence you are talking about 0 127 00:13:19,320 --> 00:13:26,880 Tolerance for failure. 0. Tolerance for failure in your 128 00:13:26,880 --> 00:13:31,200 agenda. OK, if failure happen is an 129 00:13:31,200 --> 00:13:36,840 accident, it's not part of what you program for. 130 00:13:37,040 --> 00:13:42,720 It's not part of what your action or conduct deserves. 131 00:13:43,440 --> 00:13:47,600 So conducting yourself in a way that you don't deserve failure, 132 00:13:47,600 --> 00:13:53,840 that is excellence. Or if you are the lazy type, if 133 00:13:53,840 --> 00:13:59,360 you are the carefree type, if you are the type that doesn't 134 00:13:59,360 --> 00:14:03,760 give attention to details, if you are the type that is not 135 00:14:03,760 --> 00:14:09,800 irritated by what is not good, what is not best, and then 136 00:14:09,800 --> 00:14:11,880 certainly you have prepared for failure. 137 00:14:12,120 --> 00:14:19,000 Am I talking to somebody? So excellence is about 138 00:14:19,440 --> 00:14:22,640 dissatisfaction with average performance. 139 00:14:25,880 --> 00:14:27,600 And that's what will make you thorough. 140 00:14:28,200 --> 00:14:31,960 That's what will make you to have your eye on the best 141 00:14:32,520 --> 00:14:34,360 outcome. Why? 142 00:14:34,800 --> 00:14:41,840 Because you are dissatisfied with average performance. 143 00:14:42,960 --> 00:14:45,720 OK. What you love to have is to 144 00:14:45,720 --> 00:14:52,960 always be a top notch person in your career. 145 00:14:52,960 --> 00:14:55,200 You want to be at the cutting edge. 146 00:14:56,040 --> 00:14:58,720 Press the name of the law in your study. 147 00:14:58,720 --> 00:15:04,880 You want to be at the cutting edge so you have 0 tolerance for 148 00:15:04,880 --> 00:15:10,920 failure and then you are dissatisfied with average 149 00:15:11,040 --> 00:15:15,520 performance. Your eye is always on the best 150 00:15:16,400 --> 00:15:21,360 outcome and of course it is where you love the best that you 151 00:15:21,360 --> 00:15:25,440 will mobilize your potential to push for the best outcome. 152 00:15:27,240 --> 00:15:31,720 If you don't have the spirit of excellence, your potential will 153 00:15:31,720 --> 00:15:36,480 life follow on tapped on use press the name of the law. 154 00:15:37,040 --> 00:15:43,280 But where you have the spirit of excellence, OK, you will be 155 00:15:43,280 --> 00:15:49,960 motivated to mobilize your potential to push for the best 156 00:15:50,560 --> 00:15:56,320 outcome. So having a mindset of pursuing 157 00:15:56,360 --> 00:16:03,440 excellence in life is very key to having passion to pursue 158 00:16:03,560 --> 00:16:12,960 purpose #3 is selfless spirit of love for the well-being of 159 00:16:13,080 --> 00:16:18,920 others. Is selfless spirit of love for 160 00:16:18,920 --> 00:16:23,960 the well-being of others? If you are the type that is 161 00:16:24,000 --> 00:16:29,560 concerned about only you, you may not be able to achieve much 162 00:16:29,560 --> 00:16:34,320 in life. Hello, If you are a 163 00:16:34,320 --> 00:16:39,320 self-centered person, OK, Passion will not be there for 164 00:16:39,320 --> 00:16:49,320 you to be a blessing to others. And of course, when you check 165 00:16:49,640 --> 00:16:54,160 the pyramid of sources, you know what a pyramid is. 166 00:16:56,120 --> 00:16:59,320 Hello Church. You know what a pyramid is At 167 00:16:59,320 --> 00:17:03,960 the base of a pyramid, OK, you can accommodate so many people, 168 00:17:04,440 --> 00:17:09,680 but as you travel up the pyramid, the space is getting 169 00:17:10,520 --> 00:17:14,400 narrower. So in the pyramid of success, 170 00:17:15,319 --> 00:17:18,480 you will find those that want everything done for them at the 171 00:17:18,480 --> 00:17:21,680 base. Hello. 172 00:17:23,400 --> 00:17:29,840 So on the scale of success in the gradient of success, those 173 00:17:29,840 --> 00:17:36,240 that want everything to be done for them by others will always 174 00:17:36,240 --> 00:17:42,200 be at the base, then those that are doing their best for 175 00:17:42,200 --> 00:17:52,000 themselves at the middle. So if you draw a triangle OK and 176 00:17:52,000 --> 00:18:02,040 you divide it into 3 portion, you will discover that the base 177 00:18:02,920 --> 00:18:06,120 is large. It can accommodate. 178 00:18:06,600 --> 00:18:10,040 If you are putting a content into it into the space, it's 179 00:18:10,040 --> 00:18:13,800 going to accommodate more than. As you grow up, you discover 180 00:18:13,800 --> 00:18:21,200 that the second segment, OK, is smaller than the first segment 181 00:18:21,200 --> 00:18:24,840 at the base. Then as you travel up the 182 00:18:24,840 --> 00:18:27,480 gradient, it become very narrower. 183 00:18:27,720 --> 00:18:33,120 That may be even difficult for just one person to stand at the 184 00:18:33,120 --> 00:18:37,320 top. Praise the name of the Lord, OK. 185 00:18:37,320 --> 00:18:39,800 It's very difficult for even just one person to stop at the 186 00:18:39,800 --> 00:18:46,560 top and be articularly wrong. Now I am now saying that when 187 00:18:46,560 --> 00:18:54,480 you relate that to how people are classified on the scale or 188 00:18:54,480 --> 00:18:59,960 gradient of sources, the people you will find at the base will 189 00:18:59,960 --> 00:19:04,960 be so many. And the characteristics that 190 00:19:04,960 --> 00:19:10,160 they will have in common is that they are sets of people that 191 00:19:10,160 --> 00:19:16,840 enjoy people doing things for them to enjoy, their parents 192 00:19:16,840 --> 00:19:19,840 doing things for them to enjoy, their uncle doing things for 193 00:19:19,840 --> 00:19:23,040 them to enjoy, their friends doing things for them to enjoy, 194 00:19:23,280 --> 00:19:26,760 their government doing everything for them to enjoy. 195 00:19:27,040 --> 00:19:32,080 They are never a contributing factor to collective progress. 196 00:19:33,960 --> 00:19:35,960 So those are the people you find at the base. 197 00:19:36,200 --> 00:19:40,520 Then when you get to the second segment in the pyramid, on the 198 00:19:40,520 --> 00:19:44,960 pyramid you find those that are doing their best for them say 199 00:19:45,320 --> 00:19:47,120 they will occupy the middle class. 200 00:19:49,640 --> 00:19:56,720 My career, my family, my study, my children. 201 00:19:56,880 --> 00:19:59,280 You know they will occupy the middle class. 202 00:19:59,880 --> 00:20:03,320 They are doing their best, but the best they are doing is about 203 00:20:03,320 --> 00:20:05,880 them. But if you are going to have 204 00:20:06,120 --> 00:20:10,520 passion, OK. For collective good for 205 00:20:10,520 --> 00:20:16,320 community, good for impact in your generation, you must move 206 00:20:16,320 --> 00:20:20,240 beyond that level. And what will enable you to move 207 00:20:20,240 --> 00:20:25,360 beyond that level is what I call the selfless spirit of love for 208 00:20:25,360 --> 00:20:31,800 the well-being of others. So those that are searching 209 00:20:31,800 --> 00:20:36,440 themselves for the good of others are those will find at 210 00:20:36,440 --> 00:20:38,720 the top. Tell yourself my place is at the 211 00:20:38,720 --> 00:20:42,040 top. I can't hear you say it louder. 212 00:20:44,120 --> 00:20:48,520 So the people you will find at the top are those that are 213 00:20:48,520 --> 00:20:52,040 searching themselves for the good of others. 214 00:20:52,600 --> 00:20:58,360 And what is common with them is that they possess the selfless 215 00:20:58,360 --> 00:21:02,360 spirit of love for the well-being of others. 216 00:21:03,280 --> 00:21:12,240 And then the last that we agree to look at, which will also take 217 00:21:12,320 --> 00:21:18,320 us to the Scripture, the key scripture for today is 218 00:21:18,360 --> 00:21:27,640 patriotism, is closely related to the one I just discussed, 219 00:21:28,240 --> 00:21:33,160 patriotism. Possessing the patriotic spirit 220 00:21:33,160 --> 00:21:38,120 will help you to attain the senior most level of selfless 221 00:21:38,120 --> 00:21:41,800 living. The senior most level of 222 00:21:41,800 --> 00:21:44,720 selfless living. When you have the patriotic 223 00:21:44,720 --> 00:21:49,160 spirit. What actually is patriotism? 224 00:21:49,160 --> 00:21:54,520 In our contest, it is about extending your service beyond 225 00:21:54,520 --> 00:21:58,400 your immediate family and other familial circle. 226 00:22:03,280 --> 00:22:08,440 You know, I did mention that when you have this selfless 227 00:22:09,120 --> 00:22:16,080 spirits, you want to do things for others, but it could still 228 00:22:16,080 --> 00:22:20,600 be in a limited way if it does not enter the patriotic 229 00:22:20,600 --> 00:22:25,760 dimension. By the time your selflessness 230 00:22:25,880 --> 00:22:30,720 enter the patriotic dimension, you will be useful beyond your 231 00:22:30,720 --> 00:22:33,200 family. In fact, you are going to be 232 00:22:33,200 --> 00:22:38,040 useful beyond your local church. You are going to be useful even 233 00:22:38,040 --> 00:22:41,800 beyond the circle of the body of Christ. 234 00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:47,560 Am I talking to somebody? So patriotism is about extending 235 00:22:47,680 --> 00:22:53,000 your service, extending your goodness, extending your 236 00:22:53,000 --> 00:22:58,080 generosity, applying your potential for the good of others 237 00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:06,040 beyond your immediate family and other familiar circles, such as 238 00:23:06,040 --> 00:23:13,920 my friend, my colleague at work. No, patriotism goes beyond that. 239 00:23:14,560 --> 00:23:19,760 Patriotism is about touching lives beyond bloodline and 240 00:23:19,840 --> 00:23:24,920 clannish interests. Some of you can be very 241 00:23:24,920 --> 00:23:28,160 wonderful attending to the extended family. 242 00:23:30,160 --> 00:23:33,600 So people can be very wonderful when it comes to their 243 00:23:34,280 --> 00:23:42,760 community, OK, the cultural setting of their hometown, the 244 00:23:42,760 --> 00:23:46,240 cultural setting of their state of origin. 245 00:23:46,240 --> 00:23:50,960 But when we're talking about patriotism, you are touching 246 00:23:50,960 --> 00:23:56,360 lives beyond bloodline and clannies interests. 247 00:23:57,320 --> 00:24:04,200 I put 2 examples to you the sectarian that we have in new 248 00:24:04,200 --> 00:24:09,920 Chapter 7. It was celebrated by the elders 249 00:24:10,600 --> 00:24:15,360 among the Jewish people for building a temple for the Jews 250 00:24:15,760 --> 00:24:23,600 when himself was not a Jew. Hello, that and that's why I 251 00:24:23,600 --> 00:24:30,600 described patriotism as an extension of selflessness that 252 00:24:30,600 --> 00:24:37,880 goes beyond your immediate environment, beyond bloodline 253 00:24:38,080 --> 00:24:43,360 and Clannis interests. The second example is the Good 254 00:24:43,360 --> 00:24:50,320 Samaritan. He was on a journey. 255 00:24:51,320 --> 00:24:54,280 He met a man that was attacked by bandits. 256 00:24:54,880 --> 00:25:00,080 He was left for dead. He will have pleaded to death. 257 00:25:00,880 --> 00:25:07,600 OK, in summary time then he met a Jew that was wounded by 258 00:25:07,640 --> 00:25:14,760 bandits and he crossed the border of tribal segregation to 259 00:25:15,240 --> 00:25:22,640 attend to the wounded person, whereas a priest at Halya met 260 00:25:22,640 --> 00:25:30,080 him and did nothing. Somebody who is a priest also 261 00:25:30,160 --> 00:25:34,640 possessed some level of passion for doing good, but his own kind 262 00:25:34,640 --> 00:25:38,520 of good is limited to his religious circle. 263 00:25:40,480 --> 00:25:49,240 So he's been good as not enter the patriotic dimension that is 264 00:25:49,280 --> 00:25:53,200 beyond bloodline and clannish interests. 265 00:25:56,160 --> 00:26:01,960 Then a Levites also came and every Levite is a potential 266 00:26:01,960 --> 00:26:06,960 priest. Do you know that he also came by 267 00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:11,400 past the man, maybe even pray God bless you. 268 00:26:11,400 --> 00:26:15,480 Go India take over when it was when I was to do something. 269 00:26:17,920 --> 00:26:22,240 Are you with me? But it's a maritime came and 270 00:26:22,280 --> 00:26:28,360 picked him up paid for his medical medical bill. 271 00:26:28,880 --> 00:26:33,640 In fact he gave them extra and he said even when you need more 272 00:26:33,880 --> 00:26:37,040 write it OK. If it were in the mother time, 273 00:26:37,360 --> 00:26:43,960 his own personal family medical is it card or they call it OK, 274 00:26:44,160 --> 00:26:48,160 He said use it and credit it to me. 275 00:26:49,920 --> 00:26:56,760 So that's Good Samaritan was not a religious leader, but it was 276 00:26:56,760 --> 00:27:02,920 compassionate. It was what compassionate to me. 277 00:27:05,800 --> 00:27:13,040 What loyalty is to a person or to a leadership figure is what 278 00:27:13,040 --> 00:27:22,920 patriotism is to a system or to an institution, even to a 279 00:27:22,920 --> 00:27:31,600 nation. You know, in other words, you 280 00:27:31,840 --> 00:27:38,920 deploy loyalty for the service of an individual, but patriotism 281 00:27:38,920 --> 00:27:45,640 is for the service of a system, of an institution, and it could 282 00:27:45,640 --> 00:27:51,440 even be a nation. And so you're seeking the code 283 00:27:52,280 --> 00:27:54,880 of the system. It's not about whether you like 284 00:27:54,880 --> 00:27:56,400 the leader or you don't like the leader. 285 00:27:57,840 --> 00:28:02,400 Am I talking to somebody? So when you give up on your 286 00:28:02,400 --> 00:28:04,760 country and you don't play a game for your country and you 287 00:28:04,760 --> 00:28:08,080 don't wish your country very well, the problem you have is 288 00:28:08,080 --> 00:28:10,520 the problem of patriotism. It's not the problem of the bad 289 00:28:10,520 --> 00:28:14,160 leaders. Am I talking to somebody? 290 00:28:17,760 --> 00:28:24,320 Because loyalty is to a person. But patriotism, OK, transcend 291 00:28:25,600 --> 00:28:30,960 the person. Patriotism is about love, it's 292 00:28:30,960 --> 00:28:35,400 about interest, it's about sacrifice, it's about seeking 293 00:28:35,400 --> 00:28:39,520 the well-being of a system, institution and even your 294 00:28:39,520 --> 00:28:42,520 nation. And that's why I'm saying if 295 00:28:42,520 --> 00:28:46,680 because you are bad leaders in your country is the reason you 296 00:28:46,680 --> 00:28:50,080 give up on your country, the party, that's not the problem. 297 00:28:50,080 --> 00:28:53,720 Your own problem is the problem of absence of the spirit of 298 00:28:53,960 --> 00:28:58,120 patriotism. Because by reason of patriotism, 299 00:28:59,960 --> 00:29:04,440 you will love the system, you will work for the good of an 300 00:29:04,440 --> 00:29:09,800 institution including your nation, irrespective of which 301 00:29:09,800 --> 00:29:15,880 party is ruling the country. Hello. 302 00:29:18,280 --> 00:29:22,040 Do you know that there are people who wish any government 303 00:29:22,040 --> 00:29:25,400 to fail once it is not their own party that formed the 304 00:29:25,400 --> 00:29:29,800 government? AM I talking to somebody? 305 00:29:30,520 --> 00:29:33,960 There's no way you can have a good country with a kind of 306 00:29:34,080 --> 00:29:38,480 attitude. So what? 307 00:29:38,480 --> 00:29:42,280 Loyalty is to a person, So you give loyalty to a person. 308 00:29:42,760 --> 00:29:45,800 What you give to your country, what you give to your church, 309 00:29:46,280 --> 00:29:52,120 what you give to your family as an institution is patriotism and 310 00:29:52,120 --> 00:29:56,480 once it is there, you will seek the code of that system. 311 00:29:57,880 --> 00:30:03,600 Luke Chapter 7. I read the first 5 verses as we 312 00:30:03,600 --> 00:30:08,840 wind down on this topic. Now when he had ended all he's 313 00:30:08,840 --> 00:30:13,400 saying in the ordinance of the people, he entered into Capano, 314 00:30:14,520 --> 00:30:19,520 and a certain ceturial servant who was there unto him was sick 315 00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:25,880 and ready to die. Now in certain ceturium, his 316 00:30:25,880 --> 00:30:34,120 servant was sick and ready to die and this man decided to 317 00:30:34,120 --> 00:30:41,600 attend to him the way we attend to his own biological child. 318 00:30:43,400 --> 00:30:48,320 That is selflessness at a level. Are we together? 319 00:30:49,720 --> 00:30:53,480 He doesn't have the attitude that my people call Amario Baku. 320 00:30:55,760 --> 00:31:04,160 So he went all out to seek for the best medical solution, which 321 00:31:04,160 --> 00:31:10,560 was a spiritual one in that era that wherever this miracle walk 322 00:31:10,560 --> 00:31:15,000 in, Jesus was, OK, I will carry my servant there because my 323 00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:21,400 servant is very dear to me. He didn't say after all, I hire 324 00:31:21,400 --> 00:31:23,440 him, I can always hire any other one. 325 00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:28,440 And don't forget it was a sartorial, a military officer. 326 00:31:28,840 --> 00:31:32,200 So you can easily discard any servant and have another one. 327 00:31:35,560 --> 00:31:38,360 Are you with me? But I said, this one is so dear 328 00:31:38,360 --> 00:31:44,680 to me, so selfless spirit. When you have it, there will be 329 00:31:44,800 --> 00:31:48,920 passion to do good. The absence of passion to do 330 00:31:48,920 --> 00:31:53,680 good is because you are selfish. If you are selfless, the passion 331 00:31:53,680 --> 00:32:01,480 will be there to do good. And when the heart of Jesus, he 332 00:32:01,480 --> 00:32:08,160 sent unto him the elders of the Jews decision that Jesus will 333 00:32:08,160 --> 00:32:15,480 come and heal his servants. Then from verse 4 when I 334 00:32:15,480 --> 00:32:21,480 discover another aspect of him that it was not only selfless 335 00:32:22,280 --> 00:32:29,040 towards people, He was also patriotic to the nation and that 336 00:32:29,040 --> 00:32:33,080 nation was not his own place of origin. 337 00:32:35,720 --> 00:32:42,440 Being a sectarian means it was a Roman soldier living in 338 00:32:42,440 --> 00:32:48,160 Jerusalem and he was seeking the good of Jerusalem. 339 00:32:48,960 --> 00:32:53,680 Let's read what he did and why the headers of the Jews decided 340 00:32:53,680 --> 00:33:00,040 to say or compel Jesus to favor him, and I tend to his request. 341 00:33:00,560 --> 00:33:05,240 Verse 4 And when they came to Jesus, they besought him 342 00:33:05,240 --> 00:33:08,280 instantly, saying that it was worthy. 343 00:33:08,280 --> 00:33:13,800 For whom is to do this? The elders of the Jews were not 344 00:33:13,800 --> 00:33:18,720 advocating for him before Jesus. That this man the request is 345 00:33:18,720 --> 00:33:23,000 putting before you is a request that must be attended to. 346 00:33:23,160 --> 00:33:26,400 It was worthy that this should be done for him. 347 00:33:26,600 --> 00:33:34,040 Oh yeah, nearly Tia Bashi, if now when you talk to people for 348 00:33:34,040 --> 00:33:37,040 help, do they consider you worthy of the help? 349 00:33:38,840 --> 00:33:43,000 Your past three, your past Condor the way you are related 350 00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:46,040 with the people you are approaching all all that's 351 00:33:46,040 --> 00:33:49,320 before. Does it make you deserving of 352 00:33:49,320 --> 00:33:56,080 the kind of help you also need? You want no joker by time I told 353 00:33:56,080 --> 00:34:02,120 you you're kind of lunar lower. Am I talking to somebody? 354 00:34:04,440 --> 00:34:09,520 So it was not this man, OK, that was throwing himself around and 355 00:34:09,520 --> 00:34:13,080 telling story that I am good. It was the elders of you that 356 00:34:13,080 --> 00:34:19,719 said this man is what is good. Can people testify that you are 357 00:34:19,719 --> 00:34:27,560 good? Now what made them to reach that 358 00:34:27,560 --> 00:34:33,960 conclusion about him? Verse 5 for he loveth our nation 359 00:34:37,480 --> 00:34:44,239 selflessness that transcend bloodline and clannies 360 00:34:44,600 --> 00:34:47,719 interests. He loveth our nation. 361 00:34:47,800 --> 00:34:50,040 I put the question to you, do you love your nation? 362 00:34:56,400 --> 00:35:09,680 Do you love your nation and he build us a synagogue patriotism. 363 00:35:11,320 --> 00:35:21,280 Then the second example, Luke chapter 10, 8 verses is what 364 00:35:21,280 --> 00:35:30,320 we're going to examine there from verse 30 through 37 and 365 00:35:30,440 --> 00:35:34,680 Jesus answering saying his settlement went down from 366 00:35:34,680 --> 00:35:40,160 Jerusalem to Jericho and fell among thieves which stripped him 367 00:35:40,160 --> 00:35:46,200 of his women and wounded him and departed, leaving him half day. 368 00:35:47,160 --> 00:35:54,400 And by chance when by chance you come across a man that needs 369 00:35:54,440 --> 00:36:01,560 help, what do you do? And by chance, because people 370 00:36:01,560 --> 00:36:06,200 who will make a demand or you for help, OK, will not 371 00:36:06,200 --> 00:36:12,240 ordinarily fall into your plan. Hello. 372 00:36:12,520 --> 00:36:16,160 They will not ordinarily fall into your budget. 373 00:36:17,960 --> 00:36:23,160 People who seek help, OK, They come in as disruption to your 374 00:36:23,160 --> 00:36:28,200 budget. So I'm a principal person. 375 00:36:28,200 --> 00:36:31,920 No, I can't alter my budget. Then you are not a good person. 376 00:36:34,560 --> 00:36:39,040 I know that there are people who by their carelessness, OK, they 377 00:36:39,040 --> 00:36:41,360 want you to be responsible for their carelessness. 378 00:36:41,360 --> 00:36:42,520 I'm not talking about those people. 379 00:36:42,720 --> 00:36:47,000 But generally speaking, OK, the rendering app is always about 380 00:36:47,000 --> 00:36:49,120 all. You have to alter your own 381 00:36:49,120 --> 00:36:52,880 personal plan. You have to sacrifice your own 382 00:36:52,880 --> 00:36:57,560 comforts. Am I talking to somebody? 383 00:36:57,760 --> 00:37:01,000 So it was by chance, not the way they plan it. 384 00:37:05,520 --> 00:37:11,280 So the priest had a schedule meeting, OK, And already waiting 385 00:37:11,760 --> 00:37:15,280 for him and he must not miss it. Maybe it was even a council 386 00:37:15,280 --> 00:37:19,520 meeting. Maybe it was to even perform a 387 00:37:19,520 --> 00:37:23,760 religious ceremony. But by chance there came down a 388 00:37:23,760 --> 00:37:28,720 certain priest that way, and when he saw him, he passed by on 389 00:37:28,720 --> 00:37:36,240 the other side. He passed by on the other side. 390 00:37:37,160 --> 00:37:42,640 And likewise in Levites, when he was at a place, came and looked 391 00:37:42,640 --> 00:37:46,480 on him and also passed by on the other side. 392 00:37:47,320 --> 00:37:53,240 But he's setting Samaritan, He's setting Samaritan. 393 00:37:53,760 --> 00:37:58,320 Don't let it be safe that unbelievers are better than you 394 00:37:58,560 --> 00:38:05,320 are doing good. Don't let it be said in your 395 00:38:05,320 --> 00:38:07,040 community. Don't let it be said in your 396 00:38:07,040 --> 00:38:12,880 neighborhood that your own believers, OK, that you share 397 00:38:13,720 --> 00:38:19,240 your neighborhood with, OK, have a record of being better than 398 00:38:19,240 --> 00:38:22,840 you are doing good. Because that is the scenario 399 00:38:22,840 --> 00:38:27,440 here. The priest use a contemporary 400 00:38:27,440 --> 00:38:30,880 church language. The pastor maybe the general of 401 00:38:30,880 --> 00:38:33,920 a share. He has the capacity and control 402 00:38:33,920 --> 00:38:37,640 of resources to render and he deny the head. 403 00:38:38,320 --> 00:38:42,640 Then the Levites, the Dickens and the child they follow after 404 00:38:42,840 --> 00:38:46,960 the lifestyle of the general of a share also deny people head. 405 00:38:47,560 --> 00:38:53,920 Then he stuck unbeliever that could consider on save he had 406 00:38:53,920 --> 00:38:58,680 compassion. A Samaritan is setting one as a 407 00:38:58,680 --> 00:39:04,040 journey came where the world and when he saw him he had 408 00:39:04,480 --> 00:39:11,120 compassion on him. I will close this discussion by 409 00:39:11,640 --> 00:39:15,840 giving you a special definition for compassion as it's related 410 00:39:15,840 --> 00:39:19,400 to passion. They started for and he went to 411 00:39:19,400 --> 00:39:22,880 him. The other one passed by the 412 00:39:22,920 --> 00:39:26,120 other side. In fact they were on the side 413 00:39:26,120 --> 00:39:31,400 before, but the moment they spotted him, they defeated but 414 00:39:31,400 --> 00:39:38,040 this one went to him. You know that somebody has a 415 00:39:38,040 --> 00:39:40,520 need. I say I didn't do it because he 416 00:39:40,520 --> 00:39:44,800 didn't ask. So don't let it be that it is 417 00:39:44,800 --> 00:39:47,920 only the help that were asked for that you give. 418 00:39:48,960 --> 00:39:51,760 Also respond to the help that you discover. 419 00:39:54,520 --> 00:40:00,840 I can never forget what I should go there Amola in my life, my 420 00:40:00,840 --> 00:40:08,360 years in the university, one particular time I had nothing 421 00:40:08,360 --> 00:40:14,640 again on me. Nothing again on me for going 422 00:40:14,640 --> 00:40:18,240 for like 24 hours without fasting. 423 00:40:18,760 --> 00:40:22,280 OK, all I had with me, I think it was 1 error. 424 00:40:22,720 --> 00:40:25,360 You know, our course is now so bastardized that you may not be 425 00:40:25,360 --> 00:40:27,200 able to fix it properly now. OK. 426 00:40:27,360 --> 00:40:33,400 But that amount I had on me was sufficient to buy just a wrap of 427 00:40:33,400 --> 00:40:36,520 sweets. OK. 428 00:40:36,640 --> 00:40:40,200 And I went, I bought that wrap of sweets and I leak it so that 429 00:40:40,200 --> 00:40:42,360 at least there'll be some glucose semi system. 430 00:40:46,360 --> 00:40:52,640 Then by the time the day will break, after I finished praying, 431 00:40:53,720 --> 00:41:01,840 I had a knock on my door. And I hope yes, Gary and some 432 00:41:01,840 --> 00:41:06,440 other thing. And I said, Prashek, what's the 433 00:41:06,520 --> 00:41:09,000 situation? He said he went to Zion. 434 00:41:09,920 --> 00:41:14,000 It's like every academic environment has a Zion. 435 00:41:14,760 --> 00:41:20,760 He said he went to Zion to pray and as he started praying the 436 00:41:20,760 --> 00:41:24,680 Holy Ghost said to him this is not the time to be praying. 437 00:41:25,080 --> 00:41:30,720 OK, my son OK, but I would like to come to the university. 438 00:41:31,080 --> 00:41:38,280 OK needed help and he went back to his room and took from all 439 00:41:38,280 --> 00:41:45,200 sorts of stuff from his own food store and brought to me and he 440 00:41:45,320 --> 00:41:52,560 met my It was not a help that I went to ask for for the Holy 441 00:41:52,560 --> 00:41:54,880 Spirit minister to him. Go ahead. 442 00:42:01,700 --> 00:42:06,460 And he went to him and bound up his wound, pouring in oil and 443 00:42:06,460 --> 00:42:09,660 wine and set him on his own beast. 444 00:42:10,580 --> 00:42:16,320 Now the oil and the wine, when he set out OK, he didn't meant 445 00:42:16,320 --> 00:42:19,880 to use it to attend to a wounded person. 446 00:42:19,920 --> 00:42:25,000 Maybe it's for a complete different, different purpose. 447 00:42:27,160 --> 00:42:34,880 And set him on his own beast, and brought him to an inn and 448 00:42:35,000 --> 00:42:40,840 took care of him, and on the model when he departed. 449 00:42:41,520 --> 00:42:44,680 So when he brought him to an end, he discontinued his own 450 00:42:44,680 --> 00:42:52,440 journey to stay with him. He took out two pens and gave 451 00:42:52,440 --> 00:42:55,760 them to the horse, and said unto him, Take care of him. 452 00:42:56,440 --> 00:42:58,520 And whatsoever does spend, there's more. 453 00:42:58,520 --> 00:43:02,600 When I come again I will repeat the week. 454 00:43:02,600 --> 00:43:06,400 Now of these three thinkers. That was neighbor unto him that 455 00:43:06,400 --> 00:43:10,800 fell among the thieves. And he said, he does sweat mercy 456 00:43:10,800 --> 00:43:14,960 on him. Then he said, then set Jesus 457 00:43:14,960 --> 00:43:19,920 unto him, go and do thou likewise. 458 00:43:21,320 --> 00:43:23,000 And so let's wrap it up this way. 459 00:43:25,160 --> 00:43:32,160 What motivated this man to do what he did was the spirit of 460 00:43:32,160 --> 00:43:35,560 compassion. And perhaps you don't know 461 00:43:35,920 --> 00:43:40,160 compassion means compound or community passion. 462 00:43:43,720 --> 00:43:46,560 Compound or words. Community passion. 463 00:43:47,360 --> 00:43:54,360 The one that is motivated or generated by patriotism, where 464 00:43:54,360 --> 00:44:00,720 you seek the good of others beyond bloodline, religious or 465 00:44:00,720 --> 00:44:05,520 clannish interests. It is the form of passion that 466 00:44:05,520 --> 00:44:10,520 is deployed for the generality of the people, starting with 467 00:44:10,520 --> 00:44:15,920 your neighbors, that needs your head and not just for the 468 00:44:16,000 --> 00:44:20,800 pursuit of personal ambition. And so this is the conclusion of 469 00:44:20,800 --> 00:44:23,400 the matter on passion for impact. 470 00:44:23,840 --> 00:44:28,320 It should not just be about passion to pursue only your 471 00:44:28,720 --> 00:44:33,960 personal ambition. Factor in compassion which I 472 00:44:33,960 --> 00:44:40,440 describe as compound or community passion that will make 473 00:44:40,440 --> 00:44:46,880 you seek the good of others. God bless you and grant you 474 00:44:46,880 --> 00:44:52,920 grace to put this message to a good use for the good of people 475 00:44:53,400 --> 00:44:58,000 and to the glory of Gods of God in Jesus name. 476 00:44:58,880 --> 00:45:02,240 Hallelujah. Don't be left in the dark. 477 00:45:02,600 --> 00:45:05,480 Get proper understanding of life through the Word of God. 478 00:45:05,680 --> 00:45:08,120 My people perish for lack of knowledge. 479 00:45:08,280 --> 00:45:11,080 The Word of God is an illumination which gives 480 00:45:11,080 --> 00:45:13,960 direction. Remain placed as reverend as far 481 00:45:13,960 --> 00:45:17,440 and illuminates your mind with the Word of God with all 482 00:45:17,440 --> 00:45:19,320 simplicity and clarity.