First of all, Pastor Sy shared about his personal revelation of God:
- Everyone has needs in their lives, human are not perfect.
And God doesn’t take away your needs
He fills it. - Who whole world may classify you as “failure” (just like in the case of Pastor Sy because he was a gay)
But God doesn’t see you as a failure! He didn’t create you to fail!
Sermon
Starting, Pastor Sy teaches us about sin and what could cause human to sin.
Sin: To “fall short” or miss the mark or standard of God’s intent.
E.g.
- God didn’t make human to take someone else’s things (steal).
- God created hormones, man and female, but God didn’t intend for pre-marital sex as it will lead to unnecessary problems.
- God created the mind, but didn’t intend for it to think badly, have lustful thoughts, bad intentions towards one another, but of love and a sound mind!
The good thing is that God forgives, but the world doesn't forgive.
It's like a person who commit suicide from jumping off from the top of a building.
Right before he touches the ground, he might felt enlightened and ask God to forgive him of his wrongdoing, and God forgives. Guess what, the law of gravity doesn't forgive. He/she will still crash and die.
Considering another example, someone who is contracted with AIDS. He/she might regret, and go towards God for forgiveness knowing that is a wrongdoing, and not according to God's wills of human being. But guess what, AIDS will still kill.
So in generally, people sin because they are either
- misled by the society, family, peers, culture
- weak - doesn't know how to fight off the bad things, human are weak!
- resisting God - knowing what is right, but doesn't trust God so you resist Him.
Well, all these are just from the bible which says "The spirit is willing but the flesh is not".
Now everyone may feel that human are such a failure creation, born to sin...
But well God also wants to tell us that we are born to grow to be strong.
Ask yourself, if a baby learns to walk, there are bound to have falls and injuries, right?
But then does the parents scold the baby and say "you evil baby, don't you know it is God's will that human should use their limbs and walk!"
If not, then how come if people sin, there are some people who despice them and mocked them.
The baby carries on training until 1 day he/she can walk, and slowly moves on to run, jump, and eventually drive?
So it should be the same with our spiritual walk. (there you see, spiritual WALK).
The key is: do not give up, no matter what.
Compare your 10 years of training, to eternity in Heaven with our Father God!
It can take 10 years for you to overcome your disbelief in GOd, but it will earn you an ETERNITY, know what it means - forever!
Sometimes we feel that God already know we are weak. (He does)
But we always ask God, if so, then how come you still want to create us.
Well, God is a good parent, and He wants us as His children no matter how dirty and/or dumb we are. God is love!
