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Podcast: Acts 29 Vancouver
Episode: Apostolic-Dimension-II
Publishing Date: 2022-05-01T06:00:44-07:00
Podcast URL: https://acts29.ca
Episode URL: https://acts29.ca/apostolic-dimension-ii/

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Almost four weeks ago, we were talking about apostolic dimension and then we stopped.

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This is the second part and some additions to it.

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So this is just recap. Are we good to go?

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Okay. So this is just recap.

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We said the idea of apostolic is the idea of sending.

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It's working? Cool.

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So it's basically sending.

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So it is this idea of a sending church.

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So the church becomes a sent one.

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A sending of the church by the sender, God, with a very specific mandate or a mission.

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That is the idea of being apostolic.

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A sending of the church, us, by the sender, God, with a clear mandate.

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And so let's not complicate it. It involves everybody.

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A sending of the church, and so the church becomes a sent one, by the sender, the sender is God, with a clear mandate.

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And we'll talk about that.

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And then we said sending is governmental.

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And so this is just a recap. Sending is governmental.

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And why is it governmental?

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Because whenever a people are sent, what are they sent for?

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They are sent into a world that is hostile to dispossess it off its previous owners

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because Christ has paid the price and ransomed the entire earth back.

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He's bought all the nations back with his blood.

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So sending is governmental because it dispossesses to possess, as in return it to the original owner.

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Then it restores culture. What culture?

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The same culture that was prevalent in Eden, the same culture that God wants to colonize the earth with, which is the culture of heaven.

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Then third, it reinforces maturity, as in this is not the idea of apostolic is always to bring people into maturity.

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To raise the babies is not the idea of the apostolic.

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It is to bring into maturity. It's a critical factor.

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The third one is it establishes beachheads, as in now that you have been brought into maturity,

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now that you have a culture that is very similar to that in Eden,

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and now that you have possessed what God gave you to possess,

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now establish a beachhead and from that beachhead,

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send forth people to take on other places that need to be possessed.

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So we talked about that.

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And besides that, we must remember that the very idea of Matthew 28, 18 is based on,

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I mean what did Jesus say? Go there forth.

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So every church is supposed to be apostolic and it's going forth because God has given you authority.

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When we're talking about sending being governmental, with government comes authority.

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There is a new government, whether you like it or not.

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It is the government of the kingdom and it is prosecuted by a king who is king over all kings.

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And he is saying that I was obedient unto death and therefore have authority over all the earth. Go.

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So there is this idea of churches understanding that we must be apostolic.

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We must be a sending church. We must be sent.

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The sender is God and we have a clear mandate.

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These three things must align.

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Any one of these things is missing, we've got a problem as a church.

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And every time we are obedient to any mandate that God gives us, authority is a natural outworking.

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So let's say I'm God and this is a church that I want to send.

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When I send you out anywhere, let's say I'm sending you out to Brisbane.

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If I send you out to Brisbane as God, then what happens is when you go to Brisbane you have authority

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because I am the sender and I'm sending you with a clear mandate. Go.

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You will have authority. Anytime you are obedient to anything that God says, you have authority.

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This is why we can't choose where we go.

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This is why you can't choose what you do.

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It's super important because we live in such highly individualized Christian societies

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that we think we can choose what we do for God.

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You can choose what you do for God, but it ain't the way it works in the blueprint.

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It is God who decides where we should go.

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That's critically important because otherwise you're not, we've talked about this before,

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but otherwise you do not have the authority to step into places.

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So these three have to align.

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But if I'm obeying the sent one, and who is the sent one?

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Here's the strange thing. Who is the sent one? The sent one is Christ and the body.

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I'm sorry, the sender. My bad.

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The sender is Christ and the body.

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The sender is Christ and the body.

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When I choose to obey where Christ is sending me, and when he says go,

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that is when I discover authority. That is when I discover the extent of authority.

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So that was one of the things.

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And the next thing was sending carries a fathering spirit.

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Sending carries a fathering spirit.

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This is just a recap. Why does sending carry a fathering spirit?

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Because who does one send? One sends one's sons and daughters.

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Why? Because only sons and daughters can represent you accurately.

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Employees cannot. Hirelings cannot.

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The only ones who can accurately represent you are the ones that you have raised.

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Any questions on that one?

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That is why sending has a fathering spirit in it.

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You have to raise sons and daughters. You can only send sons and daughters.

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What kinds of sons and daughters? Sons and daughters of God and sons and daughters in the house.

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It's not one or the other. It's both.

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You must first raise sons and daughters that belong to God and reflect the father's nature.

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And then you raise sons and daughters that belong to the house

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and reflect the traits of that house or tribe.

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One first, second after.

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But sending carries a fathering spirit and produces sons and daughters of God and in the house.

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And it is critical because you will not, should not send hirelings or employees.

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You send ones that can represent you accurately.

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And that is why it is critical that we have sons and daughters of God and then of the house.

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Otherwise, one should not send because the representation will not be accurate.

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This is why Jesus did not send an angel.

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Angels were brilliant messengers who could carry a message accurately, but angels could also rebel.

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But then he sent his son.

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So the apostolic dimension or the sending dimension carries a fathering spirit.

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And once we understand that, we realize that once you go down that route, you inherit a mantle.

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You inherit a mandate.

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And you inherit mankind.

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Once your sons and daughters of God and sons and daughters in a house that he is raising with certain traits,

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you realize that three things happen.

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One, you inherit a mantle.

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Two, you inherit a mandate.

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Three, you inherit mankind, as in people that are appointed to you.

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You inherit all three.

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Only sons and daughters have inheritances of God and then of the house.

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Any questions?

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This is all stuff we've already talked about.

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So the hope is that all of us become fathers.

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It's a gender-free term.

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And we are going to be the father of all of you.

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And we are going to be the father of all of you.

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And we are going to be the father of all of you.

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And we are going to be the father of all of you.

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So we are going to become fathers.

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It's a gender-free term.

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Fathers who can see God's purposes,

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who can see people's destinies and assignments,

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who can pour themselves out for others so that these may be developed,

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who can raise ones who will do the same for others.

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So this is the expectation of all of us.

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Because there's nobody who's exempt from this really.

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So the hope is that Sheldon will become this,

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and then one day Sheldon will see God's purposes first for some.

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He'll see God's overarching purpose.

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Then he'll see God's destiny for the person in the purpose.

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Then he'll pour himself out so that that person can be raised to function like that.

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And then he'll bring them to a place where they will do it for somebody else.

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So this continuous wave is established till the end of the earth.

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It's the thing that Jesus did.

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It's actually the Master's DNA where he said,

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Do what I do, do what I do, and do greater things.

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Do greater things when I'm gone.

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That's what Jesus did.

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At present, do what I do.

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But after I'm gone, do even greater things after I'm gone.

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That should be my intent.

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Do what I do.

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And I do this well, eh?

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I do this well.

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There's evidence for it.

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Do what I do, and when I'm gone, do even greater.

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And then your turn comes and the same thing happens.

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Every subsequent generation gets more potent.

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So things don't get weaker, they get stronger.

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Any questions?

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This is the recap.

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Now we'll go into what we wanted to talk about today.

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Any questions?

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Sorry, say that again.

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Yeah, a mantle is whatever you require to function in what you've been called to.

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So Elisha had to receive a mantle.

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Once he receives a mantle, now he's able to do what Elijah...

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He's able to do much more than what Elijah did.

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Elijah is setting up a pattern that Jesus set up later.

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Do what I do, and do even greater things.

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Elisha does twice as much as Elijah.

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So mantle is the commissioning, the power, the field that is given to you to now function freely in what you've been called to.

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So we can do...Jesus said do greater than me, but that's only with the Holy Spirit.

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Only with the Holy Spirit, yeah.

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Because after he says that, he talks about how I'm not leaving you as orphans, I'm leaving the Spirit of God behind.

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And he will take off what I have and show it to you.

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He'll bring you into all truth.

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So what Jesus starts, we now take further.

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He was only in one place all the time.

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The church is everywhere.

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He could never be in Brisbane and Vancouver.

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We can.

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Nope, you can change it for...the man, man, man was working, so I thought I'd put man.

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Yeah.

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But if you put miss, sure, it's more accommodating.

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Yeah.

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But I just went for man, man, man.

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Manoj, man.

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I could put Manoj there too.

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Yeah.

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But the question, the Holy Spirit was in the Old Testament.

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Like, when Jesus left, Jesus had to leave to give us the Holy Spirit.

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Yeah.

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And the question is?

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I just find that very interesting.

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Yeah.

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And the thing is in the Old Testament, the Spirit of God could never live in anybody.

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He could live upon people, but he could never live in people because sin hadn't been paid for.

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Because he is Holy Spirit, he had to find holy places to live in.

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And because of sin, he could never live in people, he could only live upon people.

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And he could only live upon prophets, priests, and kings.

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And so now with the death of Jesus, everybody becomes prophet, priest, king.

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And he now resides in a temple that is made holy by the blood of Christ.

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And that then separates the Old Testament from the New Testament.

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That's why we have such a distinct advantage over all the guys in the Old Testament.

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So that's the recap.

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Now let's start with what we want to talk about today.

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Guys, the overarching theme in every church and in every life.

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So this is the overarching theme in every church and every life.

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It applies to all of us.

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It applies to all of us.

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Is M, M, and M, which make the Father known.

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This is your purpose.

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There cannot be any purpose that does not serve this purpose.

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Make disciples.

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Multiply churches.

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If you don't know the purpose of your life, before you ask for purpose in your life, ask if this has been done.

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Someone went up to Denzel Washington.

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I saw this on Facebook yesterday.

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Someone went to Denzel Washington and shook his hand and said,

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I feel that I must learn under you and I need to learn from you.

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You must teach me.

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And Denzel Washington says, so are you in school?

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So the guy says, yes.

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He says, finish school and we'll talk.

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As in get the basics done.

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We need to know this as our primary purpose.

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Before you ask for any purpose, any prophetic word,

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the question is, have you made this your ultimate, absolute purpose?

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And if this isn't your ultimate, absolute living, breathing purpose,

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then everything else is just pointless.

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This must be the overarching theme.

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Everything is subservient to this.

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Everything serves this.

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The overarching theme over every church, over every life is this.

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So you already have purpose.

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There's nobody in this church without purpose.

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Everyone has a purpose.

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Everything else, be it destiny, be it plans, be it prophetic, be it vocation, be it marriage,

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be it wealth, be it your jobs, be it ministry, all of it is subservient.

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It's subservient to this.

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And that is a struggle in highly individualized Christian societies in which we are.

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Everyone wants a destiny.

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I need to know my destiny.

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I need to have a plan.

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I need the prophetic.

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I need to know how to take my vocation.

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What is it?

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Who do I need to marry?

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What kind of job?

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What ministry should I do?

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All that is good, but it is all subservient to the overarching theme for every church in every life,

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which is make the Father known.

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And that you can do without a job, without being married, without money, without ministry.

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The great thing about the first three things is you need nothing.

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You just need to breathe.

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If you're breathing, you can do the first three.

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It's super important that you understand this.

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If today you feel sleepy, pinch yourself or ask someone to pinch you.

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And if no one is there, just let me know.

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I will do it for you.

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These things are less important.

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This is why you don't see Timothy going up to Paul when he is asked to do something.

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He doesn't say to Paul, you know, I don't want to do this ministry.

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I just don't sense it's my calling.

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Let me pray about it.

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Why don't I do it this way?

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This is where I really want to put my tithes and money and energy.

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Nobody does stuff like that in the New Testament.

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It's a very new modern thing.

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This is not my ministry.

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I don't want to do this.

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Since when did you think you had that right?

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It sounds terrible, but since when did you think you had that right?

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You don't.

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You think I have a right?

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I don't.

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Neither Timothy, nor Titus, nor Luke, nor Paul, nobody.

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I mean Paul had a way out.

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Agabus comes, ties his hands, and says if you go to Jerusalem, here's what awaits you.

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A guy is saying, what choice do I have in these matters?

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I saw a vision that knocked me off my horse and said to me, wherever you go, this is going to happen.

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So you might as well get used to it.

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Always remember the thing I keep going back to.

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We are trying to create a prototype or a model that can be replicated.

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And to create that, if there are kinks in what you're creating, it will hybridize over generations and only get worse.

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That's how we got where we got to.

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Because in the first 100 or 200 years, things were being done correctly.

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Somewhere something got in.

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We're going back to the way of Christ and his apostles by looking at the book of Acts, by looking at the epistles, by looking at the Gospels,

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and saying, aha, this is the right way.

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Let's now walk in it.

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These are hard things, but what a wonderful God to follow.

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It's not that God hasn't given me passions and ministry desires and giftedness that is supposed to be so drawing for me.

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It is not that he hasn't done it, but it doesn't make me now become independent.

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Having a passion for worship, I must now teach.

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Having a passion for teaching, I must now go spend time with youth.

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Having a passion for youth, I might still have to hang out with these two-year-olds who don't understand anything you say.

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We are not here to serve our passions.

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We are here to serve a greater cause.

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And that the greater cause is what I'm trying to establish today so that you go over this again and again and again and never forget this.

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I love going over this with whoever I can because every time I go over it, I understand it better.

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Any questions?

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This sounds very dictatorial.

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Yeah, you serve a king.

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I ain't that.

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You serve a king.

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You ain't serving some president.

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He's not the president of the kingdom of God.

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He's a king.

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Yes, but he's a benevolent.

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You know the word Kyrios, Lord, is actually a title associated with tyrants.

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But the reason we call Jesus Kyrios or Lord is because he's a benevolent king who lays down his life for his citizens

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and now has a right to ask of those citizens what he desires so that others may be brought into the kingdom because he's paid a price for everybody.

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So one of the things that this sending dimension or the apostolic dimension does is it cultivates.

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These words may be a little heavy, but they're actually very simple.

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Cultivates breakthrough movements.

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So Jacob, why can't you simplify it?

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Because it's not fun when it's too simple.

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Because then they're not going to be able to do it.

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So they're going to be able to do it.

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So they're going to be able to do it.

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So they're going to be able to do it.

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So Jacob, why can't you simplify it?

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Because it's not fun when it's too simple.

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Because then the teaching gets shorter.

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Cultivates breakthrough movements that configure.

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Now I get the chance to explain this and it takes up some time.

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Configure kingdom advances in Kyrios.

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What a complicated sentence.

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So one of the things that sending or apostolic dimension does when you send,

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what God does is, okay, so you guys are interested in being sent.

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You're going wherever I tell you to.

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You're being obedient. Great.

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Now let me begin to cultivate some breakthrough movements, not moments, movements through you.

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You've gotten so adept at going, therefore go and you go.

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You've gotten so adept with going that let me cultivate through you,

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breakthrough movements around the earth where you will begin to shape how the kingdom advances.

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And you will begin to shape it exactly according to the times and seasons I have for the earth.

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Paul did that. Abraham did that.

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John on the island of Patmos did it for the future.

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Things happen on the mount of transfiguration that Peter talks about much later.

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Martin Luther did that. Azusa did that.

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There are these movements that happen in perfect time because God finds the people who seem to be adept at quickly adjusting to whatever he's doing.

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And so in 2016, in 2016, Chad and I knew something was afoot.

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I knew how to prophesy what was going to happen.

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Chad knew how to structure it.

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And we've kept it quiet till about two weeks ago when we began to tell what actually God has in mind.

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And it's something I want to share with us so that we know where we are heading and so that you have a choice to go this route or not go this route.

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And there's not some kind of an organization. It's got nothing to do with organization.

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It's what God is doing presently on earth.

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Jacob, but how can you stand here and make a boast? Who are you?

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Nobody.

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So I knew how to prophesy it, but I didn't know how to structure it.

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So I knew how to tell what was going to happen and he knew how to structure it.

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So for years we've been talking about something called One Global.

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And in 2019 was when we first started saying, OK, now let's talk about it.

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So what is One Global?

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One Global is a church based.

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Some of you have heard some of this before.

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A church based apostolic missions movement shaped by principles, shaped by principles in the Book of Acts, which gives us the greater picture.

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The overall zoom out picture in the letters that Paul writes, which gives us the internal working and in the gospels, which gives us the intent of God.

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And it's important that we understand this today.

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So I'm going to take time to go over this slowly and I pray that you bear with me because if I can get it in one recording, you can hear it again and again and again.

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Then breaking it.

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This is where we are going.

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And it is important that you hear it so you decide whether you want to go here or not, or you want to opt out.

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It doesn't exempt you from the church.

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It doesn't exclude you from the church.

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It just excludes you from what God is doing.

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I would choose the first, not the second.

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The question then is, Jacob, so why should we believe that this is God and why should we believe you?

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No good reason except my track record.

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No good reason except that I lead this church and you have to look at the last 16 years and decide if this is something that is a God thing or not.

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Yeah?

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Yeah.

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So it's a church base.

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So everything that happens is based out of the church.

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It's not some organization.

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It's not some denomination.

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It is not some thing that Jacob likes doing or that Derek likes doing or a board likes doing.

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It's not led by people.

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It's not something that people say, we want this and so we do this.

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Now, it is church based.

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It is apostolic as in there's always a sending out dimension, which is why I talked about sending out for the first, about three weeks ago.

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It is apostolic.

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It's outward.

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It is a missions movement.

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So it is a movement that will always have mission at its core.

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Always a mission at its core.

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You cannot remove that from the church.

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You remove that from the church, it becomes a monstrosity.

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And it's shaped by principles.

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What principles?

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What does the book of Acts say?

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That gives you a zoom out picture.

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Ah, so this is how the church is supposed to work.

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It's going back to see what the Holy Spirit did.

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And then we go to the letters that Paul writes.

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So read the New Testament like crazy again and again and follow this pattern.

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The book of Acts, the letters that Paul wrote in particular, the gospels.

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Follow that pattern.

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And you will find, ah, so this is the pattern that Paul wrote in particular, the gospels.

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You will find, ah, so this is how it can still happen.

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Because the water that flows from the throne gets higher and higher and higher.

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As we go further and further and further.

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We are not trying to recreate the book of Acts.

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We are trying to create Acts 29, a new chapter.

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Where the water gets higher.

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Places that even Paul and Peter haven't stepped into.

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Then we look at the letters which gives us, so this is how it works.

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These are the principles.

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Let me look at the gospels.

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This is what we carry.

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You can call it any name you want.

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You can call it no name at all.

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Don't get hung up with one global.

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It just, all it means is to be able to establish the church globally.

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And that it's not Acts 29 or Acts 30 or Acts 32 or Acts 28.

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It is just the church around the world.

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Call it anything you want.

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Call it Prashanth.

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Yeah.

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Pardon?

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Emmanuel might be slightly better.

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Yeah.

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Any questions guys?

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So how does this happen?

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How can this happen?

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You build teams.

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Teams of what?

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Teams of apostolic leaders.

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Okay.

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So let's just stick there.

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You build teams.

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Teams from where?

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From within the church because it's church based.

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It's from within the church.

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Teams of what?

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Of apostolic.

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What does that mean?

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People who are ready, flexible to lay down everything to go wherever God tells them to go.

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Therefore go.

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Does that mean that today you can send Emmanuel?

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No.

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We'll have to wait to figure out who Emmanuel is, what he's good at.

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Does he need training?

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Does he not need training?

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It is a process.

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But eventually the intent is a go people.

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I mean I love the fact that Matt is going to Dayton.

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The conversation we had is, hey Matt, for the next four months be available.

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And he said sure.

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As soon as he said sure it was like okay.

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It is molded.

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Should I, should I not, should I, should I not?

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Dilla and I had a conversation where I was telling Dilla, Dilla you need to be flexible and ready.

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He said yeah I have vacations in June and July.

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He said but the problem is I've got friends coming, relatives coming, parents coming.

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I said great.

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We absolutely intend to inconvenience you during that time.

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So inconvenience is not a fact.

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I mean finding a convenient time does not apply here.

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It has to be inconvenient.

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It has to be inconvenient.

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So first thing is team.

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Second thing is apostolic.

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A people that are sent out.

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A people that are willing to go.

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A people that are obedient.

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Why?

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Because all authority in heaven and earth has been given to me.

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Therefore Mark if the Lord says to the church,

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send, set apart for me Mark and Nick to send them to Budapest.

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Then Mark and Nick do not really, they have a choice but they really do not have a choice.

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And so now to have the flexibility to go.

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So the idea of being sent out.

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Leaders.

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Leaders are basically disciples who are trained.

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Leaders are disciples who are trained.

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So there's nobody who's exempt again.

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Leaders are disciples who are trained.

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Leaders are not disciples that are gifted.

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Leaders are not disciples that have a passion.

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Leaders are not disciples that have great desire.

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Leaders are not disciples that have a prophetic word upon them.

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Leaders are disciples that have all that.

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And then are trained.

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I love what God is building guys.

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Teams of apostolic leaders.

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You had a question?

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I guess the question is why does it have to be inconvenient?

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Like in problems, especially in science, it's not as if the plants are going to be the direct steps.

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So it's not that plans are evil.

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No, plans are not evil. By inconvenience, I mean all the conditions don't have to be right.

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We have gotten so used to having

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times and plans slotted that till they all align,

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we do not find ourselves free to go. So I'll give you some of the conditions that

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have to be right if I need to go. The money has to be right.

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The flights have to be right. The timings have to be right. The weather has to be right.

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I mean it's 39 degrees in the shade in Delhi right now. Who wants to go there?

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Hell is colder. And so you

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have these things that have to line up

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to be right and that is when it is inconvenient.

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So we don't have to deliberately make things inconvenient

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for people but we cannot wait for all the conditions to be right.

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Proverbs what? Ecclesiastes 10.

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One who watches for all the wind and the conditions to be right will never go?

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Out. Yeah.

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So both were Solomon so it's his fault.

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So teams of apostolic leaders

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teams of apostolic leaders who are on the move

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who are on the move

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with a clear

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unswerving mission.

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Yeah. Guys let me go back to what Jill is saying.

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It is not to make things inconvenient for people is not a

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God thing. But to go in inconveniences is a

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God thing. Yeah. I mean the

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guy is plowing with 12 yokes of oxen at least let him finish plowing.

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Let the guy bury his father before he comes. Let the property

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be divided. Now those are the things that Jesus doesn't have time to wait for.

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I mean you want to get married?

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Great go get married but after that join us immediately

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Manoj. And who else is getting married?

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Who might announce it next week?

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There's always a chance right?

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Okay so it's

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on the move as in

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ascending out is always a move. It is

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not location in one place. Guys there is no

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growth there is no growth without unfamiliarity. There is no growth

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without unfamiliarity. You begin to stagnate when things get familiar.

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We talked about this when we talked about thresholds. There is no growth without

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unfamiliarity. Unfamiliarity causes me to now depend

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on God like I have never depended before and that's what makes

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growth happen.

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And with a clear unswerving mission we'll talk about what that unswerving mission is.

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So what does this team comprise of? What does this team look like? What does an

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apostolic team look like? If you look at the book of Acts we'll find

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that it looks like there will be some apostle types.

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Apostle types are basically those that are architects and

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pioneers and who have a track record.

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There are messengers who

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carry messages to people.

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Phoebe was one of the messengers. Luke sometimes

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carried messages. Timothy carried messages. It was interchangeably.

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It was not that this was their only job. Then there are Timothy like

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guys who were sent to Ephesus to set

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things right. There were Titus like guys who were sent to reestablish order that

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was lost in Crete. There were Aquila, Priscilla types who

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were businessmen who would go from city to city starting businesses and

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establishing home churches in Ephesus, in Rome, in Corinth.

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They would go, they would start businesses. They would open their homes. They would have people come in.

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And then they would start a house church, hand it over to Apollos and then move on to another city.

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There were Luke types

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who would journey with Paul to different places.

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There were Phoebe's. Phoebe was quite a rich woman who was

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a benefactor but was also someone who took messages and carried it to Rome.

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You read about her in Rome in verse 16. There were

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ones who worked in Herod's palace.

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There were people who had regular vocations and jobs. There were

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people like Aristobulus and people like that who had

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who were wealthy and who had businesses.

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So this is a team that is willing to move

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and is made up of different people with different abilities

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and some of them are just called co-workers.

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That's all they were called, co-workers. So it's made up of

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apostle types who were architects and pioneers and then the rest.

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And it is interchangeable. One becomes the other.

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Any questions on that?

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So this is not some special type. Yes, at the beginning there will be

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the ones that are architects and pioneers that have the ability to go break open

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places and who have a track record for it.

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The last one is Aristobulus.

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So Jacob in this case

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would you be... Yeah, I would put Chad and me in here.

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And again, so Jacob, are you saying you are this?

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I'm saying that I function in it really well.

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I like being called Jacob. I really like that name. That's all that

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I need. It's a great title, Jacob. It's a nice ring to it.

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Do you want to say it together? No, I'm kidding.

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But it's what you function in. It's how you function in it that matters.

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One can have any title and not function in it.

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Or one can function in it and have a track record of it.

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Some of these teams will be

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locally focused, as in they'll be focused on Vancouver.

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But they'll be willing to move from Surrey to Wally.

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They'll be willing to move from Vancouver to Burnaby. They'll be living in

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Vancouver and they'll set up their piano business in Burnaby or New West.

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Hint, hint.

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So they are locally focused but they're globally engaged

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with all the guys who are going out. Some of these teams

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will be like that. And then there will be some teams that are globally focused.

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As in they're always looking at which country next.

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But they're locally engaged. As in they'll do

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everything to strengthen the church in Vancouver.

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One is not better than the other. One cannot exist without the other.

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One is not better than the other. One cannot exist without the other. And these are not types

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or categories that you're stuck in. It is just free flow.

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Philip was a guy who was happy with his daughters in Caesarea.

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And then he finds himself in an exodus. Talking to

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the financial minister of Queen Candice of Ethiopia.

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And changes an entire country.

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So, and the crazy thing

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is there's nobody here who's exempt from this. No age, no color, no education,

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no marriage, no single, no whatever. Nothing exempts you from this.

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Everybody is included in this grand plan that God has.

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Why do you think

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Jeremy has to leave?

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Jeremy has to go to Toronto. Whatever he needed to be

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trained for, he's trained for. God will send him.

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What do these teams do?

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Very simple.

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They plant churches.

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They establish churches.

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They multiply churches.

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They make the Father known. Go back to the Father.

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They make the Father known. Go back to the Father.

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They make the Father known. Go back to the 3Ms.

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Please remember this guys. You lose the 3Ms,

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you're all about yourself.

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Oh, I was called to lead worship. In leading worship

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make the Father known. In leading worship make disciples. In leading worship

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multiply churches. Otherwise all you are is a musician.

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Who happens to be singing in church.

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Interested in young people?

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Great. Your heart must go for them.

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I'm happy for your heart but please go back to the main thing.

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Make disciples. Multiply churches. Make the Father known.

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You don't need any skills for these three things if you're a Christian.

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I wish I knew this 15 years ago.

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We'd have been so far ahead of where we are.

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Guys, this is why

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now people that taught us are coming here to learn.

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This is what these teams do. They plant churches.

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They establish churches. They multiply churches across the earth. So how many such teams do we need?

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How about a thousand by 2050?

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At least a thousand by 2050. At least a thousand such teams.

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So live long.

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2050 is how many years away?

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Oh my lord, I'll be old.

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Yeah.

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By 2050, a thousand such teams. How old, Prashant?

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You won't be on my team for sure.

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Yeah. No, so how about a thousand teams?

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You know, one of the images... Do you know how many satellites are

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circulating around the earth right now? 8200 satellites.

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Fly any higher and you'll bump into them.

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Just look at that.

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That's what it looks like. 8261 satellites.

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Last year alone, 1800 satellites were sent up.

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This is what I mean. Thousands of apostolic teams right across the earth.

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What are they doing? They're doing a very simple thing.

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Establishing simple churches. This is why I said

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a breakthrough movement in the timing of God

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no longer through massive mammoth denominational

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institutional structures, but through simple people.

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Continuously around the earth.

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Not a nation spread. Nobody going in as a

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pastor or a bishop or a this or a that.

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You think

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this is not possible in 50 years? I'm telling you, a thousand teams is just

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such a conservative estimate. Because the Holy Spirit is much smarter,

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much bigger, much more powerful.

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That's what it looks like.

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That's what it looks like. There's another image that I had of

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just the same thing.

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You don't even know what these satellites are doing. Half the time they're listening to your conversation.

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But hundreds of them, 8200 of them going around the earth in different

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orbits continuously. You think people will escape this? It's impossible.

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What are they trying to escape the love of God? What will they

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not be able to escape the love of God? Who's going to do this?

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Teams like this made up of ordinary people like us. This is where

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this church is going guys. This does not exclude you from church

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if you don't want this. But it does exempt you from a beautiful thing that God is doing

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on the earth. And as I talk you will see that this is not an acts 29 thing.

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That's why we're calling it One Global. Spoke about it

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two weeks ago for the first time in Dubai. And thought okay acts 29 must

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hear this now. It's been in the making for years.

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What's a mission? We said unswerving mission.

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What's the unswerving mission? Unswerving mission.

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Why did I put unswerving? Because we cannot forget this. We forget this we'll have

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trouble. Unswerving mission to progress

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the good news. To progress

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the good news. What do you mean progress? As in let it advance. To advance the good news.

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To progress the good news. It must advance.

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To progress the good news. Good news of

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what? That Jesus has made peace between God and man.

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And God is no longer angry. He has paid the price and he wants you back.

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How? What is the unswerving mission? How do we go about it?

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Again goes back to the same thing again and again and again. Plant

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churches. We'll talk about what kind of churches.

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Establish them in the teaching. Establish them in the teaching. Why?

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Because that's the only way you bring people into maturity.

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Establish them in teaching. Then do what? Raise elders

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and entrust these churches to elders. And then do what?

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Then multiply and do it again somewhere else.

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This is the unswerving mission. It is the mission

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of Jesus. There's no tampering with this. You don't have the right to tamper

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with it because you haven't spilled blood for it.

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Plant churches. Who?

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Pastors? No. Us.

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How? Through the whole idea of the apostolic team thing that I was talking about.

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Plant churches establish people

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that you rally together in teachings. Why? Because it's the only way to bring people into maturity.

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You mature them by teaching them the things that Jesus taught. What

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do you then do? You don't hold on to it. You entrust it to elders. How

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old are elders? Sometimes 25. What is older

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about them? Nothing. You entrust it to

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elders. Why? So that you can move on.

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Why do you think Manoj's parents want to get him married?

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So they can move on. Why do you think Derek's parents want to get both the boys

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married and one is still stuck so that they can move on?

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I hope you have some announcement next week.

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No, but guys, guys, one week

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may be too short for him to get this together. Give me some more time.

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Well, I don't want to say anything. Mom's the word.

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Oh my God, now it's on.

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Sorry.

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So entrust to elders so that you can move on. And move on to do what?

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Multiply more. Multiply more. Who's keeping count?

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Nobody is, really. We shouldn't keep count.

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Multiply churches. So what kind of

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churches? What kind of churches? Simple churches.

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What do you mean simple churches?

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So here are some of the qualities of simple

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churches. It's a net.

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It's a net of simple

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churches. It's a net. It's not a network, it's a net.

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A net is, it's not like some organized network. It's a net.

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Two, a simple church is made up of two or three families.

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Two or three families.

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That's what you begin with.

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Can you imagine how beautiful this will be? Two or three

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families. Meeting where?

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Anywhere.

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This would be great. What's the composition?

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They're heterogeneous. They're neither

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Indian nor Chinese nor Caucasian. They're mixed.

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Rich, poor, old, young.

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Grandmothers, granddaughters.

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That's the net.

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Criss-crossing the earth. Everywhere you'll find them. Why?

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Because we are everywhere. Pastors are few. Church planters are few.

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Mission organizations are few. Money is little.

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Constantly begging for money to do missions. But when you do it

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anywhere in your house

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house church leaders need to think along these lines.

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You will have great pride in what you're trying to do.

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It's not an Acts 29 thing anymore.

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So

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it's two or three families.

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It's anywhere.

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It's a mix of people.

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It can meet anywhere. At its core

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DNA is that of mission.

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It multiplies.

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People that are there always leave.

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And it expands globally.

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So what number are we looking at by 2050?

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A very conservative number. How about 100,000?

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Simple churches. That's very little. You're only talking about

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half a million people. Like there's eight billion people around. Half a billion is

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so easy for the Holy Spirit to do. He used to do three thousand, five thousand a day.

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And when he used to do it, this was the construct.

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This was the framework in which it was established.

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If this building goes away in July

00:51:52.000 --> 00:51:56.000
praise the Lord, we may have to completely

00:51:56.000 --> 00:52:00.000
retool and we'll have a whole lot of money to spend.

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Am I desiring it? No, I like the building. But am I holding onto it? Absolutely not.

00:52:04.000 --> 00:52:08.000
Not calling the landlord to renegotiate. Not calling the

00:52:08.000 --> 00:52:12.000
landlord to see if we get this after July. Let the lines fall in pleasant

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places.

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So sit on these pews,

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enjoy them for another three months because we don't know how much longer we'll have this.

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This is what simple churches look like. Go ahead, Nick.

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A question that's been on my mind since you started.

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Yeah, I could see it written on your brow for the last twenty minutes.

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I thought when's he going to ask?

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I don't know if I have the time to answer

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because I'm waiting for you to answer.

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I don't understand number six. Why is it like

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you said multiply means people constantly leave. And then what's the

00:53:00.000 --> 00:53:04.000
expanding global leave?

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When you get to a place where you know now enough

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to raise another group of people, you need to leave and

00:53:12.000 --> 00:53:16.000
replicate what you have been taught. And when

00:53:16.000 --> 00:53:20.000
someone does it in Malaysia and someone does it in Indonesia and someone does it in South Africa,

00:53:20.000 --> 00:53:24.000
now it begins to spread all around the globe.

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Yeah, you do it here.

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Unless you're called to some other place. But others are doing it in other

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parts of the world. So it keeps expanding globally. And that is part of what I need

00:53:36.000 --> 00:53:40.000
to do. I need to go to Brisbane. I need to go to Sydney. I need to go to these Budapest

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so that when Ukraine opens, we can set something else up there. That is

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something that I specifically know I have to do. And then there are others now from the

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church who are joining me in doing it. So that, like the net, there'll

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be multiple places where this is established and begins to spread.

00:53:56.000 --> 00:54:00.000
The Holy Spirit's doing it. So it's not something you have to do, but it's that he's doing the whole thing

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Guys, I don't want to take away anything from the Holy Spirit. He's the one who actually does it.

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No man can convert any other. But he does it through people.

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So we've got to get involved with him. So when we say the Holy Spirit does it, it's good.

00:54:12.000 --> 00:54:16.000
But the Holy Spirit only, not only, the Holy Spirit primarily does it

00:54:16.000 --> 00:54:20.000
through the church. Primarily. He can do it without any help.

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But he chooses to do it through the church. So we are involved.

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I mean, he could do Wally all by himself. But unless Mohini takes someone home,

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that person will have to be covered by rain, wind, and sleet

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with the Holy Spirit.

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Ideally, if we had Anne and Kamal and

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Phoebe, Sheldon, and Jane,

00:54:58.000 --> 00:55:02.000
and Jill and Prashant,

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that would be fine. It has to be a mix. When we say two or three families,

00:55:06.000 --> 00:55:10.000
what we mean is let there be families, let there be young people, old people, let it be a mix.

00:55:10.000 --> 00:55:14.000
Let it not be just single people.

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There's that song, right? No, I won't go there.

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No, no.

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Any questions?

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Any questions?

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You can pursue...

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If we stop looking at demographics and started looking at

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people, it would be easier.

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There might be times when God says, go to the Gentiles, go to the Jews,

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but what if it is a city you are in, or a nation you're going to?

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So I'm not saying don't do it. I'm just saying try to mix it up.

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Let no one be excluded.

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But there will be times when God will specifically say, I want you to go to the Jews only.

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Okay, yeah, I was just wondering

00:56:24.000 --> 00:56:28.000
when we're going out ministering, should we

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kind of leave that notion of, okay, God's calling to this particular type of...

00:56:32.000 --> 00:56:36.000
No, seasons change, right?

00:56:36.000 --> 00:56:40.000
So there will be a time when it will be, let's help the people who are helpless.

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Then there will be a time, let's help everybody who

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is doing really well, but are completely bankrupt inside.

00:56:48.000 --> 00:56:52.000
So let things shift. God leaves no Pharisee out,

00:56:52.000 --> 00:56:56.000
no tax collector out.

00:56:56.000 --> 00:57:00.000
So times change. So right now you might be doing this, while tomorrow

00:57:00.000 --> 00:57:04.000
maybe Aaron will start working with accountants in Wall-E.

00:57:04.000 --> 00:57:08.000
Because accountants

00:57:08.000 --> 00:57:12.000
need him as much as others.

00:57:12.000 --> 00:57:16.000
Right? Accountants need God, right?

00:57:16.000 --> 00:57:20.000
Okay, just checking.

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Just checking.

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So even though it's simple,

00:57:28.000 --> 00:57:32.000
it's still pretty complex, eh? Why is it complex?

00:57:32.000 --> 00:57:36.000
Because there is no organization.

00:57:36.000 --> 00:57:40.000
There is no up-level marketing.

00:57:40.000 --> 00:57:44.000
There is no up-level tithing.

00:57:44.000 --> 00:57:48.000
Everything is relational.

00:57:52.000 --> 00:57:56.000
It's not centralized.

00:57:56.000 --> 00:58:00.000
Nobody owns it.

00:58:04.000 --> 00:58:08.000
It's not mine.

00:58:08.000 --> 00:58:12.000
Nothing is exclusive. So just as we are talking,

00:58:12.000 --> 00:58:16.000
I got a text message from the person who takes care of the church in

00:58:16.000 --> 00:58:20.000
Australia saying the times that they meet in Sydney.

00:58:20.000 --> 00:58:24.000
And the fact is, we don't own it, we don't command them what to do,

00:58:24.000 --> 00:58:28.000
we resource them. And yet they aren't separate, they are connected.

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And so this is why it gets very complex.

00:58:32.000 --> 00:58:36.000
If it was organized and structural and everything has its place,

00:58:36.000 --> 00:58:40.000
you can send dictates saying, do this, do that. This is not like that.

00:58:40.000 --> 00:58:44.000
Everything is relational. Things get really complicated when things are relational.

00:58:44.000 --> 00:58:48.000
That's why policy and structure really help be unrelational.

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And yet, despite all this,

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there are common resources that we share.

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There are common resources that we share. In terms of money,

00:59:00.000 --> 00:59:04.000
in terms of material. There's the emptying of our pockets and our

00:59:04.000 --> 00:59:08.000
lives. Hey, Sheldon decided

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at some point that, Jacob, I feel that every time you go to New York, I will be coming with you.

00:59:12.000 --> 00:59:16.000
I'm not paying him for it, huh? And he doesn't own Air Canada yet.

00:59:16.000 --> 00:59:20.000
So he's paying for it. And he's got a wife and kids.

00:59:20.000 --> 00:59:24.000
There is an emptying that comes with missions.

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There is an emptying that comes with missions.

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There is an emptying that comes with missions.

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This is why it's complex.

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Because people are going to different places. Heidi is going to Budapest.

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We're not paying her for it.

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But because she's a treasurer, you never know what's happening.

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But we are not paying for it.

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Sorry, Heidi. Just take that shot.

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There's an emptying that happens. And there's strategic expansion.

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It's not nilly-nilly, sorry, strategic expansion.

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It's not, ah, let's go to Budapest. I believe it's a good place for a holiday.

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No. It is strategic. And it is orderly.

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When order is broken, issues have to be dealt with.

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See, it is relational.

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It is complex. You have to bring it up and down.

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So, and then there will be times when there are issues.

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Issues will have to be dealt with.

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There's no policy. It's relational. Doctrine will have to be watched.

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And guarded. If doctrine goes wonky, we'll have to do something about it.

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There will be warfare with powers. Because if this is a new move of God,

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as I absolutely know it is, then you think it will be unopposed?

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Sometimes we'll have to meet like the Jerusalem Council met

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to discuss what needs to be done, given the issues that are at stake.

01:01:00.000 --> 01:01:04.000
Other times there will be discipline that will be required, where someone may have committed adultery

01:01:04.000 --> 01:01:08.000
and needs to be now disciplined. Other times there will be letters that have to be written,

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like Paul used to write letters because of issues. Other times people would have to go and visit.

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Why? Because the church is either doing really well or not doing really well.

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This is why it becomes complex. Even though we're establishing simple

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churches, my prayer is that one day everybody

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sitting in this room will be able to establish a simple church of two to three families.

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Because what do you need? We talked about this long ago.

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What do you need? You need only four things, right?

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Zeal for God, purity of life, ability to convey what you are taught accurately,

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and good homes. So that your life will not be

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disreputable. That's all you need. That's all that Paul asks.

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Who doesn't qualify?

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Can anyone fail to qualify? All these are absolutely attainable

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ways.

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What's so different about this thing is in Acts 13

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you find Antioch was a church.

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Antioch was a church that sent people out.

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We are not talking about Antioch. We are talking about

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not one church sending people out. We are talking about from everywhere

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that people were sent out.

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We are not talking about Antioch. We are talking about

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from everywhere

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to everywhere. As in every church

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that is established now sends out people.

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From everywhere to everywhere. It's not Acts 29 sending

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people out. It is every such simple church

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sending people out. This is how we get 100,000, 200,000, 300,000.

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Where Heidi's

01:03:04.000 --> 01:03:08.000
House Church now sends people out. Because it is within the

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overarching theme. It is still connected to the things we are doing but they sent.

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Then Derek's Wally sent. Then New York

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sent. Then Sheldon's group sent.

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It still is strategic but everybody sent. It's no longer centralized.

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It's not Antioch sending out a Paul and a Barnabas. It is from everywhere

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to everywhere. It's absolutely doable.

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So Antioch

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is the prototype church in the early 80s?

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Antioch was...this is how Antioch started. But some of the guys who did differently

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was Ephesus. Just put up that picture. Ephesus was

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different. From Ephesus there were all these churches that we read about.

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Both Paul and John paid so much attention to

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these churches. John wrote most of his letters to these churches. Paul established

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these churches and kept doing tours of these churches.

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All of them happened from Ephesus. But the beautiful thing is

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so an Acts 29 or a New Life Assemblies of God in Chennai can

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establish all these but Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia,

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Laodicea, Colossus, all of them start sending their own people.

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They don't come back to Acts 29 and say, you sent. No, no, no, no. Now each church

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begins to send from everywhere to everywhere. It begins to spread. This is

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how spontaneous expansion happens. This is no longer something that

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is centralizing only from Acts 29. No. There's

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still a strategy but it begins to spread. 100,000 is so easy.

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2050 is so far away.

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Now you see why two families in Atlanta are

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worth visiting.

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Now you see why two families in Saudi Arabia are worth

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visiting even if it's risky. Now you see why four families in New York

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are worth visiting again and again and again at cost without taking a dime

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from Acts 29. Now you see why it is important

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to go and connect with two people in Budapest because Ukraine is going to open

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and then that country will begin to see what needs to be seen.

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It is so worth it. Now you understand why one and a half

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families in Brisbane is worth visiting

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because God only knows how many will go out from Brisbane to Puffer, New Guinea

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and a few places around there.

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So be it three in London, seven in Australia, four in New York

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or two in Atlanta. It's so worth it.

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It's so worth it.

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And Acts 29 has been established enough now to run without a problem.

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Guys, please understand, I really don't think much of the Sunday

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service.

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This is not our main event. This is the main event.

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If we

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reduce this to two hours on a Sunday morning,

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that is terrible.

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We meet like this to talk about these things.

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That's all. And yeah, it's good to hear him

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play the sax and it's good to hear Miguel drum and

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Sheldon decide at some point at the third song that he's going to join in and stuff like that.

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Yeah.

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I told Jane when she was in Bahrain, hey Jane, I just wanted

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you to know that your days of leading worship are over.

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So she's not going to lead in worship anymore. She's got other things to do.

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We need to keep changing up. So Tony, you lead now. So is it possible

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that the quality of worship may drop a little? Might.

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So what? Just because it isn't

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as, some songs are not as good as the last person

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doesn't mean squat because tomorrow he'll probably outdo

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Jane outdo, Jason outdo me.

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And then just when he's reached his peak,

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Tony goes and Anilay takes over.

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Anilay just decided to go join the old church.

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Yeah. So it's this continuous wave of replacements

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because there are other things to do.

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I mean

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I know Derek teaches well, but really

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I'm slightly better. But it's okay.

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Oh, ha ha.

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There are a lot of ohs going on today.

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Jacob, you are so proud.

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Remember pride comes before a fall.

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So look at, look at, I'm just calling out

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some simple names. Look at how we are already processing things.

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There are churches in Vancouver, Vernon, New York, Los Angeles,

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Nashville, Dayton, Atlanta, Bristol, London, Bahrain,

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Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Chennai, Pune, Weizang, Mumbai,

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Manipal, Varanasi. Varanasi, that couple has planted 800 churches.

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How does one couple plant 800 churches?

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Very simple. They go to villages,

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they start praying for weeks on end. After they finish praying

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someone will come with a snake bite and they'll say, can your God heal the snake bite?

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And they pray and the snake bite gets healed and the family comes to the Lord and gets baptized.

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And now you have a village in which there is one family that has begun to open

01:09:02.000 --> 01:09:06.000
their home for a church. Over the last 12, 13 years

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they've established 800 churches. I'm, when I meet them,

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they ask me to pray for them and prophesy on them. I'm thinking about

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man, I should be sitting at your feet and learning how to do this instead of you telling me to prophesy on you.

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I met them a month ago.

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Varanasi,

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Shillong, Mongolia, Malaysia, Indonesia, Sydney, Brisbane,

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Soon, Ecolet, Antarctic, Budapest, Dublin, Paris, the US

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Eastern Seaboard, 13 cities, Goa, Mangalore, Surat, Hyderabad, other places.

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This is just reeling off a few names.

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You have to go to Brisbane?

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Yeah, yeah, you should go. This is a great day in the middle of the service.

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We have to go to Brisbane. Off you go.

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Oh, Brisbane by Richmond. Father, we bless them as they go. We pray your protection upon

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Kamal and Ann. I pray such amazing health for Kamal.

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Such amazing health. Not a step faltering. No

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complications. Enjoying the flight and Ann and everything else.

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We pray for Ann, Father. We pray that you reward her faith. We pray that they meet the guys

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in Brisbane. And if you permit, Father, that I would meet them too. So we bless them and we

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send them out now. In Jesus' name, Amen.

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Bye, guys.

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So guys, this is what you're a part of.

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This is what you're a part of. A greater cause than a Sunday service.

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A greater cause than Acts 29. A greater cause than your ministry.

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This is greater than Acts 29. Acts 29 should take a back seat to this.

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This is how house church leaders must think.

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This is why your lives must blaze. Once your lives blaze, God is able to use it

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better. This is why you must capture the vision. This is why you

01:10:58.000 --> 01:11:02.000
must be loyal to this vision. This is why you need to be flexible. This is why

01:11:02.000 --> 01:11:06.000
you need to wrap your work, your family, your money, your possessions

01:11:06.000 --> 01:11:10.000
around this one thing that Christ and the church are doing. This is why we need to do this.

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Let me conclude. And I really mean conclude. Guys, this is being

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fiercely resisted by powers, eh? But because of Christ

01:11:22.000 --> 01:11:26.000
and his joy, you don't know the spiritual and material costs that Chad

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and I have paid. Because of Christ and because of the joy

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he brings. But this is fiercely being resisted over the last couple of years.

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And when you step up, there will be fierce

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resistance.

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Till you step up, you won't know.

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Physically, materially.

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It's easy to sit in my armchair and think that if I

01:11:54.000 --> 01:11:58.000
say the name of Jesus Christ, everything will be still. Everything is still

01:11:58.000 --> 01:12:02.000
when you say the name of Jesus Christ after they oppose you. But you will not know

01:12:02.000 --> 01:12:06.000
their opposition till you step in. Armchair

01:12:06.000 --> 01:12:10.000
rebuking is super easy, man.

01:12:10.000 --> 01:12:14.000
It's like telling the Canucks how to play, sitting in my armchair

01:12:14.000 --> 01:12:18.000
watching TV.

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Vivek, you're also in the same boat as

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Aaron and Evan. Manchester

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United. I feel so bad for them.

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This is already being fiercely resisted by powers. But because of Christ

01:12:38.000 --> 01:12:42.000
and his joy, you will pay a spiritual and material cost. I have,

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I know Chad has. And if you don't understand this, guys, here's the other thing,

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if you don't understand this and embrace it deeply enough,

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you will not be able to participate in this.

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If you don't understand this and embrace it deeply enough,

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if you don't understand it beyond skin deep, and if you don't

01:13:02.000 --> 01:13:06.000
embrace it, not only will you not participate in it, you will resist it.

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To go over it again and again. To understand that this is what

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God is doing, not with us, with the church

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and the Bible, that this is what acts, the book of Acts was made up of.

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That this is what I rally around.

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This is not an Acts 29 thing. This is not a Jacob or Chad thing.

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Give it whatever name you want. Call it Prashanth or Emmanuel. But it is this commitment

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that, Father, this is what I will now embrace. Because if you do not

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embrace it, let me assure you, you will resist it.

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You will resist it not by necessarily speaking up. In some places

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people will begin to speak up saying, we don't want this. You will resist it

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sitting there. You will resist it with your attitude. Please don't do that.

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Please don't do that. Embrace it.

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Yeah, there is a spiritual cost.

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And a material cost. I mean, spiritual cost can sometimes

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be a task that you can't even figure out why

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your ear is swelling up like a cauliflower. Or your foot has suddenly gone lame.

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Or your body is breaking out into rashes. Or there's disruption

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in your finances, in your family.

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Or you find bullets in your car.

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Or you find demonic beings in your room

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when you are living a pure, wholesome life.

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Or attacks upon your family.

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And then because of Christ and because of the joy

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he brings in serving him, you take authority over it.

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And it ends.

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Every Old Testament and New Testament story gives us

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evidence that things are resisted but things are overcome.

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If you don't understand it

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beyond skin deep and embrace it, you will resist it.

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Here's the last three sentences, guys. When heaven releases something new.

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When heaven releases something... I think I'll write this down.

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When heaven releases something new.

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Thanks for waiting. I know I needed to wrap this up.

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So thanks for waiting. When heaven releases something new.

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If you don't grasp, if you don't grasp it

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and embrace it, or embrace it, if you don't grasp it

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and fight for it

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in the heavenlies, as in in prayer,

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in the heavenlies,

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it will translate

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into fault finding

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and blame game here on earth.

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You know, it would be easy

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for me to find fault with Manoj over the next one month.

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It would be easy that he doesn't turn up on a Sunday.

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It would be easy that he forgets things.

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But if I don't grasp the fact that he has a wedding in a month

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and there's a greater cause, there's a greater thing that is happening with him

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that may have him forget little things, I will start finding fault with him.

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I'll blame him.

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It's a very crass example to this. Once we see the greater cause

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we will be less offended.

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Once we see the greater cause, you offending me, I'll have to

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it may strike, but I'll have to.

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You're far more valuable than for me to be offended by the little thing you do.

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I have to keep hoping that this is okay. There's far too much in this person.

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I've got to get over this offense. Because there's a far greater cause.

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Far greater cause.

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So if we don't grasp, when heaven releases something new

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if you don't grasp it and fight for it in the heavenlies, it will translate into

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fault finding and the blame game here on earth.

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Because people will let you down. But there's a far greater cause, man.

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When something is happening in Jeevan's life

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I call him and he doesn't pick up the phone or I ask for something and he doesn't do it

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I know there's something happening in his life. I've got to give it a rest

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because there's a bigger thing than responding

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to Jacob's call.

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It's literally like that. There's a much greater cause here, guys.

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And so avoid

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any fiefdoms, cliques.

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I'm the Apollos type, I'm the Derek type, I'm the Jacob type.

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Avoid individualized offenses.

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These are little foxes that will destroy the greater cause.

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This is what you're signing up for, guys.

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Any questions?

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Please don't look at time and say

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I'll skip the questions if you have questions asked because you're doing this for the benefit of all those who will be listening to this.

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Yeah.

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No. No. I'm saying that

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every time you're doing this, you're not doing it for the benefit of all those who are listening to this.

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No. I'm saying that every church is supposed to be apostolic.

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Apostolic. Apostolic is completely different

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from apostles. Apostolic is this idea that every church

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goes back to this. The apostolic dimension is

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ascending of the church. The church becomes a sent one.

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By the sender, God, with a clear mandate.

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Every church is supposed to be like this.

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I'm not going back and saying this is the only thing we will be.

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We cannot afford to be anything else.

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Yeah. So all of us are not apostles.

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I was going to ask, how does that tie into

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Ephesians 4 and 5? Yeah. It doesn't.

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Because some are called to be prophets, some teachers, some evangelists.

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Those are maybe guys who, for the lack of a better word,

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are full-time ministers of the gospel. But most of us aren't.

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Most of us aren't. There's only one guy who's getting paid here for what he does.

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And he does half of what the other house church leaders does and gets paid big bucks.

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So most of us won't get paid or won't get any of that stuff.

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Bigger mansions in heaven maybe. But not here on earth.

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So the point

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being

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we are talking about apostolic, not about apostles.

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And everyone gets the privilege to be

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apostolic. Because that's the only thing

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Jesus came to do. He was sent by the Father.

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So in his case, he was sent. So he became the sent one.

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Which is what the word apostolos means.

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He became the sent one. Who was the sender? God the Father.

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What did he have? He had a very clear mandate.

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Now, he's doing the same. He said to me, as the Father has sent me,

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I send you. And now it becomes us, the entire

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church, going out the same way. And in the process, you may have an assignment.

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He may have an assignment. We may have an assignment.

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You may make up a team. You may make up another team. You may go to Budapest.

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They may go to Hungary. Or same place. Sorry. You may go to Budapest.

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You may go to Bulgaria. Different teams going different

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places. Meanwhile, some will make sure that things are established locally.

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That monies are coming in so that the monies can be

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taken and sent to Bulgaria and sent to Budapest. So that a

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granary is continuously being built. Every house

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church leader begins to think like this. Any house church leader that really gets this,

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will start cultivating people that can be sent from anywhere to everywhere.

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Suddenly, Mae is looking at her group and saying, oh my God, I was complaining

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about too many people in my group. This is great. I got people to send and I'll still have

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more than what Chelten has.

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Any other questions? Does that explain it?

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Any other questions, guys?

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No. No. It can keep interchanging.

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Because it's a team, right? So you're not trying to create like a Manchester

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United or a Manchester City. It's a team where players get traded.

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Yeah. So that's a beautiful thing about

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this. Today, Heidi might be going to Budapest and you guys might be going to...

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So you take a person who knows that part of Europe or speaks German because

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Budapestians speak... Budapestians doesn't sound right.

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Hungarian's speak German. No, they don't. They speak Hungarian. But the point is

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it begins to trade all over. It is seamless, guys. The one word I forgot to

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use is seamless movement across the board. Seamless.

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It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter whether you're white, brown, whatever.

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You go to any place in every place where God is

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asking us to be sent. And this is why it is good

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to lay down our individualized choices.

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I will only go here. This is my ministry.

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Perish it, man. It ain't your call.

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So take a visit of yours. No. It is God's. But

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as the one who leads this church, yep, I might have

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to convey it to you.

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And don't feel bad if you can't

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go out because someone has to

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take care of things locally. Someone has to take care of things globally.

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But nothing is categorical, I mean categorized. Everything is fluent.

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Any other question? Or any question to question the question?

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Go ahead, Nick. Matt, go ahead.

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Yeah.

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No. If everything goes on the plan, there will be new people coming in.

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Because the idea is

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we start here in Jerusalem and it continuously expands, right?

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What's Emmanuel doing here? What's Star doing here?

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Someone had to... It's not like that.

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Someone had to... It's not like there are new believers or anything, but people will

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keep coming in. Emmanuel loves this so much he's not going back. He's coming back again

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for the rest of his life. Yeah.

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If Star doesn't go to Nigeria, she'll be back here.

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Yeah, really, no, I'm just trapping Emmanuel.

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But... So there's a continuous inflow, just as

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much as there is an outflow.

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So what's the end game

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of the little churches that move? The simple two or three

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families? Is the end game to come eventually?

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Give me the names of three of your friends who are not believers. Just random.

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Nolan, Siddhar, and

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Michelle. Okay. There's no way

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any of us are going to get to them unless you get to them.

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So you now begin to bring them in, either into the place

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that you already go to, or you go and visit them. And now you've got two or three families

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of Nolan, that person and that person, who now begin to learn about

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your God. Or you bring them to the house

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which you attend, which is I think Evans, right? And so

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that's taken care of. And then Lorian

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does it with people at Lufthansa. Marcus does it with people at

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the place he works. Sean does it, and it begins to spread. So the end game is

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ordinary people being ordinary with an extraordinary

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God and drawing other ordinary people into his arms.

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And when this begins to happen all over the world, it gets crazy.

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Which part are you missing?

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I can see the question on your brow again.

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Does it end up with?

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Meaning?

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No, two or three families. I think the most anybody can do is about ten or twelve families.

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You can't do more than that.

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Oh, the end goal is not to become a pastor of the other church.

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The end goal is to raise someone else who can replicate it, and you move on and do something

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else.

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It's like you said, it's a network. People in churches don't ever meet each other.

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There's no hubs, they don't go down, whatever. It's just them being Christians doing this thing.

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There's more framework

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to that, but we can begin with this idea of simple churches.

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Two or three families that get together anywhere with the core

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DNA of mission, relational. Those points I mentioned.

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Begin there. Let's begin. Guys, the easiest

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way to do this is this.

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Start there.

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One of the ways we complicate things is by heading eight steps

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down, when all we need to do is take the

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first step. Can I get two or three families

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together, and already begin to deposit in them the things I've already

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learned? Can I ask you a question, and this is such a dumb question.

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Is there anybody here who cannot

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teach what you have already learned to someone else? There's nobody sitting

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here right now who can't do that. Everybody in this room is capable.

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Nobody here is not capable.

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The hard thing is to get two or three families. You don't know how hard it is to get two or

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three families. It is so hard.

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So difficult to get two or three families to commit to you. And commit

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not to some kind of meeting. Commit to learning.

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It is so difficult. So difficult.

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That's all. So Nick,

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don't even go down, skip point one.

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Just focus on point two, and we are fine.

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When we finish point two, then we can go down the list.

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The way to complicate everything is to think the whole thing through.

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I find it so difficult to get two or three families together on a consistent basis. Not for a meeting,

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but to learn and to grow. I find it so difficult.

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Prashanth finds it relatively easy.

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I don't know how.

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I find it very difficult.

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Any other questions?

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Okay.

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Let's have Matt come and conclude.

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Just close in prayer, Matt.

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Highly inconvenient. On the spot. But grab a mic

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so it can be recorded.

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I have no idea. However you want to conclude

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what you've heard, feel free.

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Just grab a mic though. Or you can stand there.

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Sheldon, just turn it on.

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Hi.

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So, Jacob.

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Jacob is saying

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don't just sit there. That's my summary.

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What he's saying.

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I'm going to get my version of what he's saying.

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Yep.

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Church is about going out and bringing people to God.

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The Sunday service is

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not about everyone sitting here every morning, every week,

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doing the same things over and over again.

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It's about getting up and going and doing.

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And

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so church isn't going away, but

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church is where nothing happens. That's what should go away.

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I think that's what Jacob was trying to say.

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Thanks, Matt. Bless you.

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Alrighty, guys.

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Feel free to get up whenever you want to.

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Thank you.

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for watching.