WEBVTT NOTE Podcast: Acts 29 Vancouver Episode: A Toolkit of Acronyms Publishing Date: 2025-08-24T06:04:44-07:00 Podcast URL: https://acts29.ca Episode URL: https://acts29.ca/a-toolkit-of-acronyms/ 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:16.920 If you say you want to walk with the Divine Warrior, He is a picture. You can't walk with 00:00:16.920 --> 00:00:24.360 someone unless you are dressed like them. One of the things about the Divine Warrior is you 00:00:25.360 --> 00:00:34.360 can't walk with Him, you can't keep in stride with Him unless we wear this. If you had a 00:00:34.360 --> 00:00:40.920 choice, which one would you pick? If there was a weak spot, which one would you pick? 00:00:40.920 --> 00:00:47.320 Just think about it for a second. In Isaiah 59 verse 17 it says, He wraps Himself in a 00:00:47.320 --> 00:00:53.840 cloak of passion or zeal. He has vengeance against the enemy. He wears a breastplate 00:00:53.840 --> 00:00:58.720 of righteousness and a helmet of salvation. It is from that that Ephesians 6 borrows its 00:00:58.720 --> 00:01:05.720 picture. In Zephaniah 3 verse 17 it says, The Lord is like a mighty warrior in your 00:01:06.000 --> 00:01:13.000 midst and He sings over you loudly. He is not singing songs of love. Mighty warrior 00:01:13.000 --> 00:01:18.360 in your midst. That's the actual translation. Zephaniah 3 verse 17, I am like a mighty warrior 00:01:18.360 --> 00:01:23.440 in your midst and I sing over you. You can imagine what those songs are. They are not 00:01:23.440 --> 00:01:30.440 come my beloved. No. So when you look at this, it is impossible to keep in stride with the 00:01:33.600 --> 00:01:40.440 Divine Warrior unless you dress correct. And so the question I have for you, and we won't 00:01:40.440 --> 00:01:46.440 take it further than this today, the question I have for you is out of that from Ephesians 00:01:46.440 --> 00:01:53.440 6, what is something that you wear often and out of that what is it that you don't have? 00:02:01.240 --> 00:02:06.960 We can worship all we want but if we want to keep in stride with the warrior, king, 00:02:06.960 --> 00:02:12.560 who is here on earth right now saying, do not pray anymore, come with me, it will be 00:02:12.560 --> 00:02:17.960 impossible for this shirt, for Jacob, for you to keep in stride with him if this is 00:02:17.960 --> 00:02:24.400 not how I travel. Strangely enough, this isn't traveling light but you put this on, you suddenly 00:02:24.400 --> 00:02:31.400 walk faster. So I'll ask the question again and then we'll go on to the teaching. What 00:02:32.160 --> 00:02:37.920 is it that you are familiar with because you wear it often and what is it that you are 00:02:37.920 --> 00:02:44.920 not familiar with at all because it's not something you think of? What it means then 00:02:44.920 --> 00:02:51.920 is that we take off our top hats, our tuxedos, Hawaii shorts and shirts and then we go on 00:03:14.920 --> 00:03:19.680 and we wear this and it will make your stride faster and you'll be surprised. We'll talk 00:03:19.680 --> 00:03:25.360 about it next time. One last announcement before we move. There are guys who need a 00:03:25.360 --> 00:03:32.360 break from Acts 29 who sometimes text me or text one of the leaders and says, I would 00:03:32.360 --> 00:03:39.140 like a break from Acts 29 and they have it for different reasons. Some because they don't 00:03:39.140 --> 00:03:46.140 like you. Some because they want to learn something else somewhere else. Some because 00:03:46.980 --> 00:03:52.560 they're finding it difficult to continue for reasons that might be personal. When someone 00:03:52.560 --> 00:03:58.440 says they want a break, please let them have a break. Don't go after them and bring them 00:03:58.440 --> 00:04:05.440 back. Yeah? When they're ready, our arms will be open wide but if someone wants a break 00:04:06.440 --> 00:04:13.440 from now on, give them a break. Yeah? Jesus said bring back the strides but he didn't 00:04:17.800 --> 00:04:22.600 mean bring back the strides who are reluctant and tie a noose on their neck and drag them 00:04:22.600 --> 00:04:27.800 home. Yeah? They choke on the way and they blame you. So from now on, if someone wants 00:04:27.800 --> 00:04:32.660 a break and leaves, let them take a break. When they want to come back, they will come 00:04:32.660 --> 00:04:38.600 back and arms will be open wide. Yeah? Just remember that. So do not pray. Do not say 00:04:38.600 --> 00:04:44.640 please come back. We love you. All that is already known. That's standard procedure going 00:04:44.640 --> 00:04:48.700 forward. There will always be exceptions but I want you to know that. And when I speak 00:04:48.700 --> 00:04:53.920 like this, if you feel it's not Christ-like and you're offended, come and talk to me because 00:04:53.920 --> 00:04:58.920 you don't know context. Yeah? Whenever stuff like this, when the pastor says and I speak 00:04:58.920 --> 00:05:03.840 openly and you feel, ah, that's not Christ-like, come and say to me, Jacob, that was not Christ-like 00:05:03.840 --> 00:05:08.420 and I'll give you context and you'll say, Jacob, what can I buy you as a gift? You're 00:05:08.420 --> 00:05:15.420 so wonderful. Yeah? I could have avoided the last bit. I'm sorry I added that. 00:05:28.920 --> 00:05:35.920 Okay. Today's topic strangely is... Sorry. Oh, I've got to do that thing. 00:05:58.920 --> 00:06:05.920 Today's topic strangely is a toolkit of acronyms. A toolkit of acronyms. And so we look at three 00:06:14.260 --> 00:06:21.260 different acronyms and see which one am I clicking on. Yeah. A toolkit of acronyms. 00:06:29.920 --> 00:06:36.920 A toolkit of acronyms. The first acronym is SPROLL. The first acronym is SPROLL, the 00:06:36.920 --> 00:06:43.920 second one is SPEAK, the third one is SPREAD. SPROLL is for your individual life, SPEAK 00:06:45.320 --> 00:06:52.320 is for the church, SPREAD is for what? What is the meaning of the word? What is the meaning 00:06:52.640 --> 00:06:59.640 of the word? What is the meaning of the word? What is the meaning of the word? What is the 00:06:59.640 --> 00:07:04.440 meaning of the word? SPROLL is for your individual life, SPEAK is for the church, SPREAD is 00:07:04.440 --> 00:07:11.440 for what is happening now in our midst and how to understand it. SPEAK is for the church 00:07:16.680 --> 00:07:23.680 at all times and SPROLL is for your personal maturity. And SPROLL is for your personal 00:07:29.640 --> 00:07:36.640 maturity. Yeah. So we'll start with SPROLL. Some of it you already know. If you want to 00:07:40.600 --> 00:07:47.600 really every day begin to live at a level that you'll be just so blessed by, start with 00:07:49.720 --> 00:07:56.720 this idea every morning that I am a son and then a daughter. And then you'll be blessed 00:07:59.720 --> 00:08:05.680 by a servant. I know we've heard this a million times, but have you realized or do you notice 00:08:05.680 --> 00:08:11.080 that that's not how we start our day? I'm a son or a daughter, that I'm a son and then 00:08:11.080 --> 00:08:18.080 a servant. Psalm 80, verse 15 says, you are the son I'm raising for myself. You are the 00:08:18.080 --> 00:08:25.080 root that I have planted. You are the root that I have planted. And you are the son I'm 00:08:25.080 --> 00:08:32.080 raising up for myself. Psalm 80, verse 15. Every day it's so critical that I get this 00:08:33.440 --> 00:08:40.440 part. If I do, I immediately see him as father and I immediately come to the conclusion that 00:08:41.080 --> 00:08:47.080 he is here. He has not gone anywhere. He is here. He is here. He is here. He is here. 00:08:47.080 --> 00:08:54.080 He has not gone anywhere. He is not planning to. This is where we start. I do this every 00:08:54.720 --> 00:09:01.720 day and it helps. That I'm a son and then a servant. I am not a servant first. It's 00:09:03.800 --> 00:09:09.840 a really bad idea to be a servant first. It's a really bad idea to be a servant leader first. 00:09:09.840 --> 00:09:16.560 You have to be a son. Anyone who gets it wrong, just think of your own kids. What if your 00:09:16.560 --> 00:09:21.560 kid Gabe or your kid Liam or your kid Judah decided that they were servants in the house 00:09:21.560 --> 00:09:28.560 first? That's the first one. Once you get to the son stage, you have to decide whether 00:09:33.160 --> 00:09:39.680 you want to stay at being a much loved child, which is a great place to start, but do you 00:09:39.680 --> 00:09:46.680 want to go further to knowing the father's heart and then do you want to go further 00:09:51.000 --> 00:09:58.000 to becoming a mature son? These are three stages that are important to travel through. 00:10:03.000 --> 00:10:07.960 We talk about being a much loved child and it's important, but a much loved child should 00:10:07.960 --> 00:10:12.880 be what you go back to when you mess up, when you fall, when you're unsure of God. 00:10:12.880 --> 00:10:18.000 Go back to much loved child. There is a progression. We don't want our children to stay babies. 00:10:18.000 --> 00:10:23.880 We go from much loved child to knowing the father's heart. A much loved child needs to 00:10:23.880 --> 00:10:28.760 be reassured and we'll find reassurance in the arms of the father. You go from a much 00:10:28.760 --> 00:10:34.280 loved child to a place where you now begin to know the father's heart and it's okay if 00:10:34.520 --> 00:10:41.520 he doesn't say anything. It's okay if he doesn't ruffle your hair. Then you go to a place called 00:10:41.720 --> 00:10:48.720 mature son where now you're taking care of your younger brothers and sisters. Very often 00:10:50.240 --> 00:10:56.600 what happens is we get stuck at much loved child and then it's this constant flurry of 00:10:56.600 --> 00:11:03.600 reassurance that's both from God and man. Any questions on that? 00:11:05.280 --> 00:11:12.280 Okay, next one. Pray in the mountains. Pray in the mountains. P, pray in the mountains. 00:11:16.080 --> 00:11:23.080 Jesus used to do this. Turn to John 6.15. Pray in the mountains. John 6.15. John 6.15. 00:11:34.280 --> 00:11:41.280 Then Jesus, because he knew they were coming to, coming, they were going to come and seize 00:11:41.800 --> 00:11:48.000 him by force to make him king, withdrew again. It's not the first time. Withdrew again up 00:11:48.000 --> 00:11:52.080 the mountainside alone and that's where he begins to pray and then he comes walking to 00:11:52.080 --> 00:11:56.520 them on the water come evening. He spends an entire day up the mountain because he knows 00:11:56.520 --> 00:12:03.520 what he's facing. So this idea of praying in the mountains is super important and find 00:12:04.160 --> 00:12:07.640 your time. If you can't do it in the morning, find it in the afternoon. If you can't do 00:12:07.640 --> 00:12:13.480 it in the afternoon, find it in the evening. If you don't find it, you will unravel. You 00:12:13.480 --> 00:12:20.480 will unravel. That's not a negative confession. That's the truth. You will unravel. Find that 00:12:20.800 --> 00:12:27.800 time where you withdraw. Pray in the mountains. He would do it. If he did it, surely you need 00:12:27.800 --> 00:12:34.800 it. Find time. And if you miss a day, you don't have to go two hours the next day. 00:12:37.520 --> 00:12:44.520 Just go back, which leads us to the next one, which is R. R is for retrieve immediately. 00:12:44.520 --> 00:12:51.520 R is for retrieve immediately. Retrieve immediately. In 2 Kings 6, there's a story of some disciples 00:13:00.200 --> 00:13:07.200 of Elisha who took his permission before they went to build a school and they were chopping 00:13:08.200 --> 00:13:14.600 down trees to build a school and the prophet had blessed the endeavor. And in those days 00:13:14.600 --> 00:13:19.440 it was like God blessing the endeavor. And while they were chopping wood, they had borrowed 00:13:19.440 --> 00:13:25.960 an axe because Israel did not have metal tools. They had borrowed an axe from the Philistines 00:13:25.960 --> 00:13:31.680 or whoever. While they were chopping, the axe that flies out goes into the water, sinks. 00:13:31.680 --> 00:13:36.960 And Elisha says, where did the axe hit fall? And then he throws a piece of wood and the 00:13:36.960 --> 00:13:42.800 axe that floats up and he says, go and take it. This idea of retrieving immediately is 00:13:42.800 --> 00:13:48.040 a Christian talent that surprisingly gets lost because of the guilt and the condemnation 00:13:48.040 --> 00:13:54.440 and times that we live in. Whenever you mess up, retrieve immediately. Whenever you make 00:13:54.440 --> 00:14:00.940 a mistake, retrieve immediately. Whenever you lose sight of him, retrieve immediately. 00:14:00.940 --> 00:14:04.980 Don't wait for Monday. Don't wait for the first of the month. Only the rent gets paid 00:14:04.980 --> 00:14:10.500 that day. It's not rent immediately. It's retrieve immediately. Go get it back immediately. 00:14:10.500 --> 00:14:16.020 Do not waste time. Do not let guilt or condemnation keep you away from God. Sin must drive one 00:14:16.020 --> 00:14:21.540 to God, not keep one away from God because it is sin that drove Jesus to you. Sin must 00:14:21.540 --> 00:14:28.540 drive one to God, not keep one away from God because it is sin that drove Jesus to you. 00:14:29.140 --> 00:14:37.140 When you mess up, retrieve immediately. Go find the place that you last were connected 00:14:37.140 --> 00:14:41.660 with God. Throw the piece of wood there. Let it float up because I guarantee you of that 00:14:41.660 --> 00:14:46.700 miracle. I guarantee you that miracle. Every time you throw the wood where the axe had 00:14:46.700 --> 00:14:53.260 fell, you will retrieve it. God is like that. The days that are lost between falling and 00:14:53.260 --> 00:15:00.260 rising up actually is a measure of your maturity. The days and the hours spent between failing 00:15:03.420 --> 00:15:08.660 or falling and coming back to normal, be it with God or be it with people, is actually 00:15:08.660 --> 00:15:15.300 a sign of your maturity. Your response and retrieval time, recovery time, will show me 00:15:15.300 --> 00:15:19.540 whether you are mature or whether you are not. The longer you take, the more immature 00:15:19.740 --> 00:15:26.740 you are. Any questions on that? Any questions on that? You heard what I said, right? Because 00:15:26.740 --> 00:15:33.740 in Isaiah 30, I think it's verse 15, I might be wrong, it says, in returning and rest is 00:15:36.300 --> 00:15:43.300 your strength. You are the strength of the world. You are the strength of the world. 00:15:45.140 --> 00:15:52.140 You are the strength of the world. You are the strength of the world. You are the strength 00:15:52.620 --> 00:15:59.620 is your strength. Go back quickly, eh? Next one, eh? Eh is aware in Christ, not aware, 00:16:07.900 --> 00:16:14.900 not just aware of, aware in Christ, aware in Christ. At 1728, there's this pretty amazing 00:16:15.900 --> 00:16:22.820 verse, we used to sing it when we were kids, in Him we live and move and have our being. 00:16:22.820 --> 00:16:27.840 In Him we live and move and have our being. It's to be aware in Christ. It's the same 00:16:27.840 --> 00:16:34.700 thing that at present happens to any baby in a mother's womb. Every awareness that baby 00:16:34.700 --> 00:16:41.700 has comes through the mother's womb. Sounds, prayers, movements, worship, it's all felt 00:16:41.700 --> 00:16:48.700 through someone. When you are aware in Christ, you begin to see what Christ is showing you 00:16:49.420 --> 00:16:54.420 that you would not otherwise notice. When someone is really in love, you notice what 00:16:54.420 --> 00:17:01.420 they see when you take them shopping but won't buy. When you're not really in love, you breathe 00:17:01.420 --> 00:17:06.420 a sigh of relief that you walked past Gucci without her looking at it. You are not really 00:17:06.420 --> 00:17:10.460 in love, you breathe a sigh of relief that you walked past Gucci without her looking 00:17:10.460 --> 00:17:17.460 at it. But when you're in love, every time she looks at something longingly, you're writing 00:17:19.240 --> 00:17:24.220 it on the palm of your hand, which you will wash and you will forget anyways. But the 00:17:24.220 --> 00:17:30.220 point is, you still notice, you notice what she likes through her eyes. Everything becomes 00:17:30.380 --> 00:17:37.380 through her eyes. Or if you're a female, through his eyes. But then guys hardly look at anything 00:17:41.900 --> 00:17:48.900 except George. To be aware in Christ is different from being aware of Christ. Practice it, it's 00:17:51.580 --> 00:17:58.580 a wonderful skill. Colossians 3.3, Colossians 3.3, it says that, let me read it from the 00:18:00.220 --> 00:18:07.220 beginning. Colossians 3.3, verse 2, don't shuffle along, eyes to the ground, absorb 00:18:13.580 --> 00:18:18.260 with things right in front of you. Look up and be alert to what is going on around Christ. 00:18:18.260 --> 00:18:22.820 That's where the action is. See things from his perspective. Your old life is dead. Your 00:18:22.820 --> 00:18:28.340 new life, which is your real life, even though invisible to spectators, is with Christ in 00:18:28.340 --> 00:18:35.220 God. He is your life. So you're wound in Christ who is wound in God. And you begin 00:18:35.220 --> 00:18:42.220 to see things from his perspective. You'll notice people who need a ten dollar tip even 00:18:42.220 --> 00:18:47.340 though you bought food worth five dollars. You will notice those that are outsiders who 00:18:47.340 --> 00:18:51.540 need a helping hand. You will notice blind Bartimaeus. You'll begin to see things that 00:18:51.540 --> 00:18:56.580 way. Awareness of Christ is a good place to start, but that is sometimes self-serving, 00:18:56.700 --> 00:19:00.740 because you want an intense relationship. Awareness in Christ is completely different. 00:19:00.740 --> 00:19:07.740 You should try it. As a pastor or someone who leads a thing, it's a great gift if I 00:19:11.620 --> 00:19:16.420 can cultivate it, because if I'm aware in Christ, I'm aware of what he's aware of, not 00:19:16.420 --> 00:19:23.420 aware of God and how the worship service should go. W. You should try it. You should try it. 00:19:26.660 --> 00:19:33.660 Walk in your season. Walk in your season. Walk in your season. 1 Chronicles 12-32. There 00:19:40.660 --> 00:19:47.660 was a tribe called the tribe of Issachar who knew their times and seasons. That's the name 00:19:48.300 --> 00:19:55.300 of the tribe and that was a blessing that was theirs from God. They knew their times 00:19:57.860 --> 00:20:04.860 and seasons. Isaiah 28, 23 onwards. Different seeds are sown at different times and are 00:20:17.660 --> 00:20:24.660 harvested differently and are threshed differently and the master teaches us all this. How do 00:20:37.980 --> 00:20:44.980 you discover your seasons with the Spirit and with counselors? You know, I often think 00:20:47.660 --> 00:20:51.940 that I often hear students in school saying, I went and spoke to my counselor. What are 00:20:51.940 --> 00:20:57.900 they speaking to their counselor about? About what course to take in the future. Why? Because 00:20:57.900 --> 00:21:03.580 that may determine the job you get, the career you choose and the college you go to. It's 00:21:03.580 --> 00:21:08.820 the same method. If you know how to walk in your season with regard to your job and your 00:21:08.820 --> 00:21:13.580 education, wouldn't it be a great idea to walk in your season by finding out from the 00:21:13.580 --> 00:21:19.700 Spirit what is it? It is not an easy peasy prophetic word. It is more laborious than 00:21:19.700 --> 00:21:26.440 that but it is so worth it. The only other way to walk in that is if you're walking in 00:21:26.440 --> 00:21:32.500 such righteousness that God will direct your steps. But you may still not know where you're 00:21:32.500 --> 00:21:39.500 at. There's an intentionality about this method. And the last one. Yep. Sorry. Yep. 00:21:44.580 --> 00:21:51.580 Isaiah 28 verse 23 onwards. Different seeds are sown at different times and are harvested 00:21:56.260 --> 00:22:01.900 at different times, threshed differently, and the Master teaches us all this. That's 00:22:01.900 --> 00:22:08.900 what Isaiah 28, 23 says. And the last one is love with the Spirit. Love with the Spirit. 00:22:13.780 --> 00:22:20.780 Discernment or judgment. Sorry. Love with hope after discernment and judgment. Love 00:22:29.540 --> 00:22:35.980 with hope after discernment and judgment. You must judge what is happening. To love 00:22:35.980 --> 00:22:42.660 without discernment and judgment is a really bad idea. One must love with discernment, 00:22:42.660 --> 00:22:49.260 with judgment, as in judge things correctly. And then even if things are broken, love 00:22:49.260 --> 00:22:56.260 with hope. So let's assume that Tooney is a difficult person. Is Anil here? Yeah. Okay. 00:22:59.500 --> 00:23:06.500 So let's assume Tooney is a difficult person. Like it is so hard to work with him. But just 00:23:06.860 --> 00:23:11.660 because he sings out there we shouldn't think he's sugar coated. And it will require that 00:23:11.660 --> 00:23:17.020 Tooney be judged for some of the things he does wrong. That we discern where he goes 00:23:17.020 --> 00:23:22.900 awry. We understand that these are areas that Tooney should change in. And it could well 00:23:22.900 --> 00:23:29.900 be that after you help him, talk to him, that he still refuses. I should love him with hope, 00:23:30.820 --> 00:23:34.500 expecting that tomorrow Tooney can change. Day after tomorrow Tooney can change. A year 00:23:34.500 --> 00:23:40.940 from now Tooney can change. But I should not pretend that Tooney exists without problems. 00:23:40.940 --> 00:23:47.940 That's not love. That's ostrich. One of the things that happens in a church sometimes 00:23:50.580 --> 00:23:55.700 is you become so loving that it's absolutely no good to the person that you love. Imagine 00:23:55.700 --> 00:24:02.700 if you loved your children that way. That's not the way to do it. Any questions? Sprawl 00:24:04.660 --> 00:24:09.180 is important. As we go further and as people are put under our care, it is important to 00:24:09.220 --> 00:24:16.220 love with hope after discernment and judgment, not without discernment and judgment. I can't 00:24:20.700 --> 00:24:27.700 hear you, Dana. The fan's allowed so you'll have to speak louder. I can't hear you. Can 00:24:39.180 --> 00:24:46.180 you hear me? Retrieve because sometimes I drop what God is doing in my life and walk 00:24:49.540 --> 00:24:54.900 away and I need to actually retrieve it. It's not even reconnect. I'm so removed from it. 00:24:54.900 --> 00:24:59.820 It seems so impossible to get it back. Many of us here, when we look back at some of the 00:24:59.820 --> 00:25:03.500 things that have happened to us and the dreams that have died, you begin to think, how in 00:25:03.500 --> 00:25:08.940 the world am I going to ever get this back? You retrieve it. Once you retrieve it, it 00:25:08.940 --> 00:25:14.500 can be attached or you can leave it alone. I love what Elijah says. Show me where it 00:25:14.500 --> 00:25:21.500 dropped. And then he causes it to come up and then he says, now go pick it up. It doesn't 00:25:21.700 --> 00:25:28.700 mean because it floats that everything is done. Okay. Any other questions before we 00:25:29.700 --> 00:25:36.700 move on to the next one? Okay. Next one is for the church. Let's come to that last. Let's 00:25:40.940 --> 00:25:47.940 go to spread. That kind of explains what's happening with us right now. S is for signs 00:25:51.420 --> 00:25:58.420 of his presence. Signs of his presence. S is for signs of his presence. S is for signs 00:25:58.700 --> 00:26:05.700 of his presence. Signs of his presence. Let me write them all down and then we'll go to 00:26:09.060 --> 00:26:16.060 purifying fire. Then I can pick what I want. Revival. Hebrides 2.0. This one will be hard 00:26:16.060 --> 00:26:23.060 to understand. I'll have to explain it. Eight princes and seven shepherds. Abundance. Abundance. 00:26:31.500 --> 00:26:38.500 Abundance. Abundance. Abundance. Abundance. Abundance. Abundance. Abundance. Abundance. 00:26:46.620 --> 00:26:53.620 Divine warrior. So let me start with our, as I was saying last Sunday maybe or last week, 00:27:01.660 --> 00:27:06.780 almost four years, eight months ago. And this is something that nobody can convince you 00:27:06.780 --> 00:27:11.980 whether it's true or not. You'll have to check with the spirit. If the spirit helps you see 00:27:11.980 --> 00:27:18.540 it, so be it. If not, try again or I don't know what else to say because I can't deny 00:27:18.540 --> 00:27:24.260 it nor can I convince you. It will have to be a work of the spirit. So more than four 00:27:24.260 --> 00:27:30.300 years ago, four years and some months, when the Lord first said that, listen, in 1949 00:27:30.300 --> 00:27:35.620 there was this thing called Hebrides 1.0. I want to start 2.0. Affecting young men and 00:27:35.620 --> 00:27:40.980 women, 20s and 30s across the earth, we said yes to it and we had a week called Shekinah 00:27:40.980 --> 00:27:47.180 where every week we met and we wanted to say to God that we receive what we have. Then 00:27:47.180 --> 00:27:53.700 we went to the place where Hebrides happened, the revival happened. And then last two Fridays 00:27:53.700 --> 00:27:58.100 ago, not this Friday, the Friday before that, some of us were sitting and worshipping and 00:27:58.100 --> 00:28:03.100 while we were worshipping, we were praying, oh God, when is this going to come? When is 00:28:03.100 --> 00:28:07.340 this going to come? And I was playing the guitar and leading and worship and at some 00:28:07.380 --> 00:28:12.740 point I had to stop because I could hear the distinct loud cry of a baby and there are 00:28:12.740 --> 00:28:18.860 no babies in my house. And then I'm thinking to myself, how is this sound even coming? 00:28:18.860 --> 00:28:25.860 Now this is anecdotal. Should you build theology on it? No. But why am I sharing it? How else 00:28:25.860 --> 00:28:31.820 do I explain this? And so you hear the sound of this baby and you begin to think, okay, 00:28:31.820 --> 00:28:36.940 so I'm hearing the sound, maybe there's a baby in the other apartments. Nothing like 00:28:36.940 --> 00:28:41.340 that. Finally, I opened my eyes and I look around to see why the sound is coming. And 00:28:41.340 --> 00:28:45.380 as I'm looking around, I hear God saying, and I already said this three times this week, 00:28:45.380 --> 00:28:51.420 I hear God saying, listen, you've been praying that this thing called Hebrides 2.0 be birthed. 00:28:51.420 --> 00:28:58.420 I want to say to you that it is here, so stop praying for it. And that was what began Monday 00:28:59.340 --> 00:29:03.540 night and Tuesday night and Thursday night. And those that were there to taste it, to 00:29:03.580 --> 00:29:08.500 experience it, know that we've begun to taste and experience something that is distinctly 00:29:08.500 --> 00:29:15.500 different from anything and everything Acts 29 has experienced to this day. Distinctly 00:29:15.620 --> 00:29:22.620 different. And so since then, two things have been made evident. When you look at what Hebrides 00:29:23.020 --> 00:29:30.020 2.0 is about, here's what it used to say. I am sending a purifying fire that will burn 00:29:30.340 --> 00:29:37.340 up historical and religious junk. That's in Hebrews 12. I will enter as divine warrior, 00:29:38.260 --> 00:29:45.260 Isaiah 59, 17. And I will set free young men and women from nations into the kingdom. And 00:29:47.300 --> 00:29:54.300 I will call them sons and daughters. And I will invite them into a circle of abundance, 00:29:54.620 --> 00:30:01.620 of dancing and of joy before the lion and the lamb. And I will raise for myself a torch-bearing 00:30:03.700 --> 00:30:08.940 generation that will go out and will not return empty. That's a statement. The statement has 00:30:08.940 --> 00:30:15.940 to change now. There is a purifying fire that is already on earth. You, Acts 29, have experienced 00:30:16.940 --> 00:30:23.940 it over the last three times you've met and you will continue to experience it. It will 00:30:23.940 --> 00:30:29.780 burn up everything that is not Christ so that the only thing that is left is Christ. And 00:30:29.780 --> 00:30:36.780 as people stand before Sheldon, they will stand before the presence of God. We have 00:30:37.820 --> 00:30:44.340 to change the second line too. Not, I will enter as divine warrior. I stride the earth 00:30:44.340 --> 00:30:50.300 as divine warrior. Those are the two important parts to this entire equation. Those are the 00:30:50.300 --> 00:30:54.260 two parts that make the other things form. I will set the young men and women free. I 00:30:54.260 --> 00:30:58.060 will invite them into a circle of dancing, abundance and joy before the lion and the 00:30:58.060 --> 00:31:02.660 lamb. I will take them from nations into a kingdom. I will raise a torch-bearing generation. 00:31:02.660 --> 00:31:06.980 All that happens because of two things. One, I will come as a purifying fire and he is 00:31:06.980 --> 00:31:13.980 here and I will be a divine warrior and he is that. Learn it. Ask anybody who is a purifier. 00:31:14.540 --> 00:31:18.100 Anybody who works in any position where you have people under you and you have a project 00:31:18.100 --> 00:31:23.180 to do. You learn, learn the fundamentals of the project. You can never go and explain 00:31:23.180 --> 00:31:30.180 it to somebody. Learn it. If you don't believe it, don't learn it. You can taste it. But 00:31:33.780 --> 00:31:40.780 if you believe it, learn it. Any questions on that one? Okay. So, I will end this lecture 00:31:44.340 --> 00:31:51.340 here. So, that's R. S is signs of his presence. If God is going to do what he is going to 00:31:54.340 --> 00:32:00.020 do, then we need to understand that we need to, as people have been praying here and I 00:32:00.020 --> 00:32:07.020 think Derek prayed today, you have to have signs of his presence. I think Don prayed 00:32:08.020 --> 00:32:15.020 wells of healing, wells of provision. Where are the signs of his presence? If revival 00:32:16.020 --> 00:32:23.020 is the proximity and the nearness of a terrifyingly holy God who is consuming fire and father 00:32:37.660 --> 00:32:43.980 is in the house, then what about burning up sickness? What about burning up lack? What 00:32:43.980 --> 00:32:50.020 about burning up oftenhood? What about burning up situations that are averse? What about 00:32:50.020 --> 00:32:57.020 burning up the enemy's traps? What about those burnings? Signs of his presence. That's what 00:32:57.020 --> 00:33:04.020 we are talking about. How do we go about not backing off on signs of his presence? 00:33:13.780 --> 00:33:18.500 Arm yourself with the truth of the word. What does he say about this particular thing? If 00:33:18.500 --> 00:33:25.500 that is true, then I will trust the word, trust the spirit, trust the spirit. That's 00:33:26.500 --> 00:33:33.500 the second one. Try the promise. You cannot try it if you don't choose to be foolish. 00:33:34.340 --> 00:33:41.340 No promise is proven without foolishness. Hey, hear me again. No promise is proven without 00:33:41.340 --> 00:33:47.780 foolishness. If you have a promise in your life, if you want to see God work in your 00:33:47.780 --> 00:33:54.780 life, I assure you there is no promise that will be proven without foolishness. I assure 00:33:55.500 --> 00:34:02.500 you. That's how promises work. Psalm 105, the word of the Lord tested him. His hands 00:34:02.500 --> 00:34:07.180 were put in shackles. His feet were put in chains. And the word of the Lord tested him. 00:34:07.180 --> 00:34:11.700 And when the word came to pass, Joseph went from being a prisoner to the Prime Minister 00:34:11.700 --> 00:34:18.700 of Egypt. What does foolishness invite? The scorn of men. 00:34:26.460 --> 00:34:33.460 That's why we shy away from it. Try the promise. Four, test the soul. Five, tell the story. 00:34:40.260 --> 00:34:45.580 Hopefully next week we'll have someone talk about this. How they received the truth of 00:34:45.580 --> 00:34:51.300 the word. That God in his nature is a healer. How they then began to trust the work of the 00:34:51.300 --> 00:34:54.820 spirit. That they would trust the work of the spirit. You know what trust the work of 00:34:54.820 --> 00:35:01.820 the spirit looks like. Oh God, I am not going to do any hard sell. What has to happen here 00:35:01.820 --> 00:35:07.260 has to be sheerly you. I can't even look at faces and figure out whether Janelle believes 00:35:07.260 --> 00:35:12.540 it, whether Iris believes it, or whether Anna believes it. Because their faces may either 00:35:12.540 --> 00:35:19.540 be ehh, doesn't sound real. Or aha, wonderful truth. You can't go by faces. Ezekiel 1 says 00:35:20.540 --> 00:35:25.980 something. God says to Ezekiel, do not be dismayed by the look on their faces. Oh it's 00:35:25.980 --> 00:35:32.980 one of my favorite scriptures when I come to Acts 29. It'll be yours too if you come 00:35:36.580 --> 00:35:43.580 here. Because trust the spirit. That the work of the spirit is enough to change. Third one, 00:35:43.580 --> 00:35:50.580 try the promise. Try the promise even though you failed 43 times before. That's as many 00:35:51.940 --> 00:35:57.940 years as the Canucks have tried to make it to the Stanley Cup. Doesn't matter how many 00:35:57.940 --> 00:36:03.460 times you failed, try it again. Because this year Vancouver is the home of the Stanley 00:36:03.460 --> 00:36:10.460 Cup champions. Yeah? So you keep trying the promise. The leaves of the promise are the 00:36:10.460 --> 00:36:17.460 same. So you keep trying the promise. The leaves have been saying it for 65 years. Yeah? 00:36:17.540 --> 00:36:24.540 Don't smile. Wipe that smile off your face. So try the promise. Sheldon, you want to talk 00:36:25.300 --> 00:36:32.300 about hockey or this? This, okay. Sorry? Yeah. It's just helplessness. It's just helplessness 00:36:40.460 --> 00:36:47.460 helplessly falling backwards on his faithfulness. Helplessly falling backwards on his faithfulness. 00:36:49.460 --> 00:36:56.460 Nothing less than that. What God is inviting this church into, it's just such a foolish 00:36:58.020 --> 00:37:05.020 thing. Fourth one, test the soul. Your emotions will go up and down. Let God test your soul 00:37:06.020 --> 00:37:13.020 and let him find you trustworthy. Let him test your soul. Let him test your soul. Let 00:37:14.260 --> 00:37:21.260 you be able to show him that your soul is stable. May you write psalms when you're down 00:37:23.460 --> 00:37:29.300 and psalms when you're up like David because he knew how to always bring his soul back 00:37:29.340 --> 00:37:36.340 to a place where it was stable. On one hand he'll say, why should I go mourning oppressed 00:37:42.700 --> 00:37:46.900 by your enemies? Look, they mock at me. And then as he comes to the end of the psalm, 00:37:46.900 --> 00:37:51.700 he'll say, send forth your light, send forth your truth and let them guide me well. Let 00:37:51.700 --> 00:37:56.140 them lead me to your mountain, the place where you dwell. There I will go to the altar of 00:37:56.180 --> 00:38:03.180 God, my joy and my delight and I will bless you and praise you. Oh God, you are my God. 00:38:03.260 --> 00:38:09.140 Why are you so sad, my soul? Why so disturbed with me? Put your trust in God for I will 00:38:09.140 --> 00:38:16.140 yet praise him. This is what we do in every circumstance, guys. Next week we'll hear a 00:38:16.140 --> 00:38:23.140 story like this and then the last one is tell the story. Do not tell the story when 00:38:23.140 --> 00:38:28.140 you get to the end. Tell the story while it's happening. Tell the story while it's happening. 00:38:28.140 --> 00:38:33.140 Tell the story while it's happening so that they can come and say at the end of it, how 00:38:33.140 --> 00:38:40.140 does your God work because mine doesn't? I'm going to tell you a story. I'm going to tell 00:38:46.140 --> 00:38:53.140 you a story. Purifying fire. Purifying fire. We've talked about it already. It's a consuming 00:39:02.620 --> 00:39:07.940 fire from the Father that burns up everything until only Christ is left. It's a consuming 00:39:07.940 --> 00:39:14.500 fire. You know one of the areas that God's been working on my life in, in terms of purifying 00:39:14.500 --> 00:39:21.500 fire, pride. Every time pride rises up in my life over the last one week, he takes his 00:39:22.020 --> 00:39:29.020 finger and pokes it saying, dare. The great thing is every time that is happening, I have 00:39:30.420 --> 00:39:37.420 an opportunity to repent and retrieve immediately without guilt or shame or condemnation because 00:39:38.420 --> 00:39:44.420 I know what he's working on. I keep telling myself, you're not the meekest man on earth 00:39:44.420 --> 00:39:51.420 yet. That was Moses and your middle name is not Moses, Jacob. Keep working at it. That's 00:39:52.220 --> 00:39:59.220 one area. Yesterday someone cut us off in traffic. Goat came up. What is yours? It's 00:39:59.220 --> 00:40:06.220 so unfortunate that we can't pass a mic around asking what area God is pointing your finger 00:40:09.540 --> 00:40:16.540 at. I would do it for you happily but I'm not God. Oh, that's the wrong screen. Consuming 00:40:16.540 --> 00:40:23.540 fire. Guys, invite it. This is such a cool fire. It's from the Father. It consumes. 00:40:31.220 --> 00:40:38.220 What if I stick with this? Not only will I benefit, you will benefit and people will 00:40:38.860 --> 00:40:45.260 see God more clearly because pride has nothing to do with Christ. Everything about him is 00:40:45.260 --> 00:40:50.380 diametrically opposed to pride. It's the reason why people get offended. People get 00:40:50.380 --> 00:40:57.140 angry. People make bad decisions. People feel like they're being treated badly all because 00:40:57.140 --> 00:41:04.140 of it. What is wrong, Jacob, with being humiliated? What is wrong with humiliation? Oh, but you 00:41:05.300 --> 00:41:10.780 shouldn't be a doormat. When have you been a doormat, Jacob? We always go to this thing 00:41:10.780 --> 00:41:14.460 of we shouldn't be doormats. I've got no problems with that because I've never been a doormat 00:41:14.460 --> 00:41:19.880 in my life. I'm not trying to beat myself up here. I'm trying to say that what a wonderful 00:41:19.880 --> 00:41:26.880 thing when meekness begins to affect my life. And it's not through outer signs, eh? Me saying 00:41:31.540 --> 00:41:37.340 dearly beloved brothers and sisters doesn't make me humble or lowering my voice. It's 00:41:37.340 --> 00:41:44.340 not there. It's something inside. I'm not trying to beat myself up here. I'm trying 00:41:44.460 --> 00:41:51.460 to be a doormat. Next one. Eight princes and seven shepherds. That's from Micah 5, verse 00:42:01.980 --> 00:42:08.700 4 and 5. It's actually verse 5, I think, where God says, listen, when the adversary comes 00:42:08.700 --> 00:42:14.900 into Jerusalem or Judah, I will raise up for you eight princes and seven shepherds. 00:42:14.900 --> 00:42:19.980 It actually says seven shepherds and eight princes. And they will stand at the gate and 00:42:19.980 --> 00:42:25.180 prevent the adversary from entering it. Not only that, not only will they prevent and 00:42:25.180 --> 00:42:30.260 defend Jerusalem and Judah, they'll go into a Syrian territory and they'll take territory 00:42:30.260 --> 00:42:35.940 from the enemy. One of the things that will happen during this time that God is taking 00:42:36.140 --> 00:42:41.900 Acts 29 through is people will rise up from this congregation and stand up like they've 00:42:41.900 --> 00:42:47.860 never stood up because the Holy Spirit will descend upon you like it did upon Samson, 00:42:47.860 --> 00:42:52.340 like it did upon Saul, like it did upon people in the Bible, where suddenly something will 00:42:52.340 --> 00:42:59.340 happen inside you. I've seen it, man. I've seen it. I remember the first time, 1990, 00:43:00.340 --> 00:43:07.340 1990, this guy called Mike from Tulsa, Oklahoma, is preaching in a U.S. Navy chapel. And he 00:43:12.780 --> 00:43:18.700 asks, are there people here who really want God to touch them and change them so that 00:43:18.700 --> 00:43:23.100 they'll never be able to escape the hand of God? I've been a believer for four months 00:43:23.100 --> 00:43:29.300 and I go up and he looks at me, he lays hands on me and he prophesies and says, son, you 00:43:29.300 --> 00:43:34.340 have got the gift of faith and he prays over me and something hits me, man. And I've never 00:43:34.340 --> 00:43:40.820 been the same since then. Never. It changed me from inside. I suddenly had what it takes 00:43:40.820 --> 00:43:45.980 to believe things that are impossible. And the reason I'm saying it is because it's a 00:43:45.980 --> 00:43:52.980 gift. It's not even my own. I can't claim to have grown. It is a gift. That's what the 00:43:53.980 --> 00:44:00.340 Spirit of God can do. Where a Prosper sitting there or a Nelly sitting here or a Chermy 00:44:00.340 --> 00:44:06.820 suddenly has the Spirit of God watch upon them. The same God will do it again. You know 00:44:06.820 --> 00:44:11.380 why? Because he has a vested interest in what he's doing on the earth. And he has found 00:44:11.380 --> 00:44:15.740 the people, which is why he's saying, I'm not waiting for you to call out to me again. 00:44:15.740 --> 00:44:22.740 The purifying fire is here and I stride the earth as the divine warrior. And he says, 00:44:22.980 --> 00:44:29.980 if that doesn't wake the dead, nothing will. Did I tell you about those emergency guys 00:44:35.860 --> 00:44:42.860 that came in once they went into a church because someone had died and they couldn't 00:44:43.620 --> 00:44:50.620 find the dead person? Because everybody was dead. And I was like, I'm not going to die 00:44:53.180 --> 00:45:00.180 because everybody looked the same. My God, when you have to explain a joke, it's difficult. 00:45:04.100 --> 00:45:11.100 But this is not our case. They found what they needed to find immediately. You know 00:45:13.300 --> 00:45:18.360 what God is looking for and what I am desperate for? God is not desperate for it. God is looking 00:45:18.360 --> 00:45:23.320 for it. He knows and he'll find. He'll find a Remy. He'll find a Prosper. He'll find 00:45:23.320 --> 00:45:28.720 a Terme. He knows ahead of time. He knows your tomorrow. The more you resist, the more 00:45:28.720 --> 00:45:32.360 you fall off your donkey and your eyes go blind till an anus have to come around. That's 00:45:32.360 --> 00:45:39.360 the only difference. Listen to me. I said to someone last week, either leave this church 00:45:42.080 --> 00:45:47.320 because you are not allowed to coast in this church. You are not allowed to coast in this 00:45:47.320 --> 00:45:54.320 church. You can't come and sit, leave this church or rise up because that is the kind 00:45:56.540 --> 00:46:03.540 of God that is present in this church right now. And when you face that kind of God, then 00:46:04.480 --> 00:46:11.480 one of two things happen. Either people step up or God knocks them off their horse. They 00:46:12.480 --> 00:46:18.320 go blind for a while and then an anus has to come. They don't eat for three, four days. 00:46:18.320 --> 00:46:22.760 You lose weight. You lose sight and you still come back to your senses. There's a better 00:46:22.760 --> 00:46:29.760 way to do it. So quickly go to God and say, Father, here, can you consume this and can 00:46:32.960 --> 00:46:39.440 you consume this and can you consume this and can you consume this? Hey, you may not 00:46:39.440 --> 00:46:43.760 like this package, but you have to decide whether what this package is saying is the 00:46:43.760 --> 00:46:50.760 truth or not. Do not judge the truth by the package. Judge him morally, but do not judge 00:46:53.200 --> 00:46:57.400 the truth by the package. Because I shout or because I come out straight doesn't mean 00:46:57.400 --> 00:47:03.760 that you judge the truth through the package. This is not the way it's done. It is important 00:47:03.760 --> 00:47:10.760 for you to know it because we are in a time where you can't sit on the fence guys and 00:47:10.880 --> 00:47:17.880 you can't sit with your wounds either. God needs you. God needs you, not me. I'm just 00:47:18.680 --> 00:47:25.680 desperate. What's he looking for? Inheritance carriers. Inheritance carriers. You know what 00:47:28.120 --> 00:47:32.440 inheritance carriers are? They're the ones who carry the inheritance forward for someone 00:47:32.440 --> 00:47:39.440 else's children and grandchildren. Portal openers. Can I find some here who are so convinced 00:47:44.000 --> 00:47:48.480 of what I'm doing and of the truth that you can go somewhere and you can stand and as 00:47:48.480 --> 00:47:53.240 you stand just because you believe in me as God and believe me in the truth I'm speaking, 00:47:53.240 --> 00:47:58.960 that I will begin to flow to you and touch anything that moves. These are the eight shepherds 00:47:58.960 --> 00:48:05.960 and the seven princes. For us God will make a concession. He'll say I don't mind your 00:48:09.200 --> 00:48:16.200 faces as long as I know your hearts. In most southern churches or in any church in Africa 00:48:20.360 --> 00:48:27.360 this kind of preaching would be so full of hallelujahs and amens and praise the Lord. 00:48:29.960 --> 00:48:36.960 Here one has to trust the Lord for more strength. What's wrong with you, Bishop? Guys, what 00:48:49.920 --> 00:48:56.920 you steward is what you multiply, is what you have to do. You have to do what you have 00:48:59.320 --> 00:49:06.320 authority over. It goes back to Genesis 1.27 and 1.28, the Adamic mandate. What you steward 00:49:13.320 --> 00:49:20.080 is what you multiply and what you have authority over. Any time God gives something to a people 00:49:20.080 --> 00:49:24.760 and says to him, hey John, can you steward this well? And John steps up under the power 00:49:24.760 --> 00:49:31.160 of the Spirit of God and he says, all I have for this cause I will steward it, oh God, 00:49:31.160 --> 00:49:38.160 pour your Spirit upon me. What he stewards will immediately begin to multiply because 00:49:38.440 --> 00:49:44.600 he's stewarding it under the power of the Spirit. And whatever you multiply you have 00:49:44.600 --> 00:49:51.600 authority over. As in it's radial authority, it keeps increasing. We steward by the power 00:49:51.600 --> 00:49:58.600 of the Spirit. We steward by the power of the Spirit. When God said to Adam, go forth, 00:49:59.600 --> 00:50:05.120 multiply, replenish, subdue, it was not by Adam's strength, he was just one man. It was 00:50:05.120 --> 00:50:12.120 by the strength of the Spirit. One of the things this church is blessed with is that 00:50:14.640 --> 00:50:21.320 it has Abraham's who stewarded the promises, Isaac's who dug wells and renamed them, Jacob's 00:50:21.440 --> 00:50:27.240 who wrestled still to bring it to pass and Joseph's who will go out there in Egypt and 00:50:27.240 --> 00:50:34.240 show that God is a purifier and God is a divine warrior. Who are you? Who are you? Ask this 00:50:35.340 --> 00:50:42.120 question of yourself. Who are you? Are you the Abraham kind who's stewarding a promise? 00:50:42.120 --> 00:50:49.120 Well then define the promise. Let me hear it. I'm challenging you. Who are you? Abraham 00:50:51.480 --> 00:50:57.000 stewarded the promise. Isaac's go and dig up the wells that have been covered and they 00:50:57.000 --> 00:51:01.960 rename them saying, oh God, I remember this well. You said there's a well of healing here. 00:51:01.960 --> 00:51:08.960 Well, I'll go dig it up. Jacob's will wrestle through thick and thin, through circumstances 00:51:09.080 --> 00:51:15.960 that are negative, through lack. They'll still wrestle. I will not go till you bless me. 00:51:15.960 --> 00:51:22.960 That's what our prayers are right now. Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, today. Oh God, I'll wrestle 00:51:23.080 --> 00:51:29.480 with you. Change our name but we will not let you go till you bless us. That's what 00:51:29.480 --> 00:51:36.480 his name is praying when he started shouting from there. What's your name? Dennis Caleb. 00:51:36.720 --> 00:51:41.240 And then you've got Joseph's. Joseph's are the one that now go out in the strength of 00:51:41.240 --> 00:51:45.120 Abraham's, Isaac's and Jacob's and they go out there and they begin to function with 00:51:45.120 --> 00:51:52.120 such ease. Who are you? You have to be one of them. Pardon? You can be more than one. 00:52:02.640 --> 00:52:09.640 Yes. A. Abundance. Can you go read these two scriptures this week at a time when you're 00:52:11.240 --> 00:52:18.240 at home? One is Zechariah 8 and the other one is Isaiah 60. These are kind of inheritance 00:52:20.520 --> 00:52:27.520 passages for us at this time from God. Zechariah 8. I remember being at the first meeting that 00:52:31.240 --> 00:52:38.240 we had at Josh and Charlene's home in Burnaby. That's when God gave us this promise saying, 00:52:38.240 --> 00:52:45.240 the day is coming when Acts 29, you will see Zechariah 8 in the city that you are in. 00:52:45.240 --> 00:52:52.240 You should go read it. At one point in Zechariah 8 verse 12 or 13, it talks about how God will 00:52:53.280 --> 00:53:00.280 change our fasts to feasts. Once again the young will walk around with joy, the old will 00:53:00.840 --> 00:53:07.840 be strengthened. And then read Isaiah 60. Instead of bronze, I'll give you the golden 00:53:08.760 --> 00:53:15.760 instead of wood, I'll give you bronze. It's a time where there will be increase that goes 00:53:21.600 --> 00:53:28.600 from where you are stuck to a place you didn't imagine. And then you will see the change 00:53:38.760 --> 00:53:45.760 will be an exchange for you, for your business, for your marriage, for your children. It is 00:53:53.040 --> 00:54:00.040 so hot here, I could preach a sermon on salvation and get people saved. Treasures of darkness 00:54:00.040 --> 00:54:07.040 we will get. Treasures of darkness are the souls of men and what they bring to the temple 00:54:13.440 --> 00:54:18.080 of the church. We'll talk about that later, but this is the idea. Can you go read Isaiah 00:54:18.080 --> 00:54:24.080 60 and Zechariah 8? And as you read it, can you pray that other people at Acts 29 receive 00:54:24.120 --> 00:54:31.120 the benefit of these two verses? And finally, it's the Divine Warrior. S-P-R-E-A-D. Divine 00:54:33.280 --> 00:54:38.840 Warrior, and let me, we'll end with that, we won't do the other thing today. Divine Warrior. 00:54:38.840 --> 00:54:43.640 Who is the Divine Warrior? What does he do? What's he doing in our midst? Besides the 00:54:43.640 --> 00:54:50.640 parts of the armor that I showed you, what's he doing in our midst? One, he is Sheldon, 00:54:51.640 --> 00:54:58.640 Sheldon, you are the new associate pastor. Don't you love going and doing this? You guys 00:55:06.880 --> 00:55:13.880 don't do that? Still so much fun. He is preparing disciple soldiers. He is preparing disciples 00:55:20.880 --> 00:55:27.880 for the battle. He will lead into battle with his presence. All these will be elaborated 00:55:35.160 --> 00:55:42.160 later and he will set creation and children free from bondage. He will set the bondage 00:55:50.840 --> 00:55:57.840 and children free from bondage. What's the Divine Warrior doing? This is one of the things 00:55:58.680 --> 00:56:05.680 he will continue to do. Can I prepare you as disciple soldiers? The crazy thing is there 00:56:06.920 --> 00:56:12.400 are amazing soldiers who don't want to be disciple, so they don't get called. They will 00:56:12.400 --> 00:56:19.400 have to be mavericks. Another word for mavericks when you go to war is mercenaries. I'm sure 00:56:21.320 --> 00:56:28.320 mercenaries are going to be mercenaries. Guns for hire. So that's one. Second, he will lead 00:56:29.600 --> 00:56:36.600 into battle with his presence. What does it look like to heal, deliver, raise, cleanse, 00:56:43.640 --> 00:56:48.640 save? And then the last thing is he will free from bondage. He will set the bondage and 00:56:50.640 --> 00:56:57.640 he will set the bondage. Spiritual, social, decay, demonic, disease, damage, death. 00:57:20.640 --> 00:57:27.640 Modest statement of faith. I will see this with you. I will not see this separately, 00:57:41.840 --> 00:57:48.840 but I will see this with you. This is important. Every word I'm saying is important. I will 00:57:49.200 --> 00:57:55.200 not see this separately. I will not be allowed to see this separately. I will see this with 00:57:55.200 --> 00:58:02.200 you. It's almost factual. It's not even faithful. Any questions, guys? Any questions? 00:58:18.840 --> 00:58:25.840 Because Romans 8.15 says that, that a day is coming when creation will be set free from 00:58:32.840 --> 00:58:39.840 its bondage and corruption and the children of God will be set free too. And both creation 00:58:41.500 --> 00:58:47.280 and the children of God will begin to enjoy the glorious freedom that belongs to the sons 00:58:47.280 --> 00:58:54.280 of God. Both. God is after everything he's made. Can I restore it all? Can you help me 00:58:59.080 --> 00:59:06.080 in it? I know you know this word. Even though you don't know its meaning, for that you have 00:59:07.200 --> 00:59:14.200 to spend $24,000 at Regen. But I can do it for two. Yeah? We are, we are the children 00:59:17.800 --> 00:59:24.800 of God. An eschatological community of Christ giving people a taste. Not a complete taste, 00:59:40.160 --> 00:59:47.160 but a pretty good taste. And I know that you know this word. I know that you know this 00:59:47.280 --> 00:59:54.280 word. Of the end before it comes. As in, we are an end time, while everyone's waiting 01:00:05.000 --> 01:00:12.000 for end times, end times, end times, we are an end time community that have the ability 01:00:12.760 --> 01:00:18.920 to give people a pretty good taste of what it will be like in the end. And we can give 01:00:18.920 --> 01:00:25.920 that taste to them right now. What does that look like? The joyful dancing and prancing 01:00:28.160 --> 01:00:35.160 of undignified childlike joy. That's, that's an end time phenomena. And I know that you 01:00:42.000 --> 01:00:47.160 know that we get a taste now. Our people get a taste. The reason people get repulsed 01:00:47.160 --> 01:00:51.640 by it or find it hard to jump into it, because of our traditions and our cultures. Do you 01:00:51.640 --> 01:00:56.960 realize that it doesn't matter which kid from which culture, they all behave the same? You 01:00:56.960 --> 01:01:03.960 can take someone from India, China, New Zealand and Surrey. I don't know how that got in there. 01:01:04.960 --> 01:01:11.960 But you can, and yet they all behave the same. It's later that they get dignified. Healing, 01:01:17.960 --> 01:01:24.960 provision and end time community. Come on man. Isn't that such a magnificent opportunity, 01:01:25.720 --> 01:01:32.720 responsibility, joy? I visited Don's house when he first moved into that house. And there 01:01:36.880 --> 01:01:43.880 were just boxes all over the place. It just looked pretty ugly. But I kept saying, oh 01:01:43.960 --> 01:01:50.960 wonderful house, wonderful house. And then recently I visited it again. And you should 01:01:51.420 --> 01:01:58.420 have seen how Don was taking us, showing in different rooms. And everything looked so 01:01:59.160 --> 01:02:03.800 good. And you could see that he was happy with what he was showing. It wasn't pride, 01:02:03.800 --> 01:02:07.680 it wasn't boastful. But he was saying, hey look at this and look at this. And everything 01:02:07.680 --> 01:02:13.060 was done well. He even had three little electric candles that he turned on so we can view them. 01:02:13.060 --> 01:02:20.060 But the point being this, there was a joy in showing something done well. It's our privilege 01:02:20.520 --> 01:02:27.520 guys. It's my privilege. You know, every time I see some of us, all of us coming and doing 01:02:31.140 --> 01:02:37.820 what we do here and it actually is from a genuine place of joy, my heart thrills. Oh 01:02:37.820 --> 01:02:44.820 God, you're creating a community that doesn't care. Every time you do worship without instruments, 01:02:45.020 --> 01:02:51.020 my heart thrills. Every time Eden comes up and Mia comes up or we had Phoebe sing a 01:02:51.020 --> 01:02:58.020 song at North Vancouver. Every time they sing I think to myself, this is so cool. 01:03:05.520 --> 01:03:09.960 Next week when we hear healing testimonies, what if there are two new people and they 01:03:09.960 --> 01:03:16.960 hear that our God heals? Next week when Mark comes by and he says, you know, I know what 01:03:17.360 --> 01:03:23.000 happened and it was, I felt a little embarrassed and I believe I left in a Rolls Royce. We'll 01:03:23.000 --> 01:03:27.280 have to tell him it wasn't a Rolls Royce. But at the end of the day, he'll come back 01:03:27.280 --> 01:03:32.600 here and instead of going downwards, he'll start going upwards and you'll rejoice in 01:03:32.600 --> 01:03:39.600 your heart. For there is nothing that seems to be able to bring a good man down. This 01:03:39.760 --> 01:03:46.760 is what we're talking about. An end time community present right now are people tasting it. People 01:03:47.320 --> 01:03:52.200 that were offended, no longer carrying offense. People that were proud, getting meeker by 01:03:52.200 --> 01:03:59.200 the day. But if someone cuts me off in traffic, I'll honk and say, the day is coming guys. 01:03:59.200 --> 01:04:06.200 The day is coming guys. The day is coming.