WEBVTT NOTE Podcast: Acts 29 Vancouver Episode: Appointed Time Publishing Date: 2025-11-16T02:04:44-08:00 Podcast URL: https://acts29.ca Episode URL: https://acts29.ca/appointed-time/ 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:28.000 Thank you, Jesus. Thank you for your real presence in this room. There is nothing we can do without you, Jesus. And tonight or this evening, we want to fully experience everything you have for us. Help us. Help us. Amen. 00:00:28.000 --> 00:00:51.000 The title of my message today is Appointed. Appointed. You can write it down and I'll later on say to what? Appointed for what? We'll get there. But if you look at the scripture, there is this idea that you keep seeing, which is that on one hand you have the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit at the beginning of the creation narrative. What happens? 00:00:51.000 --> 00:01:15.000 God says in the beginning, as He says that, as He creates everything He creates, what He does is He ushers in time as we know it. He exists outside of time. But when the verse says in the beginning, our understanding of time begins at that very point, even though He is outside of that time. 00:01:15.000 --> 00:01:35.000 And then what God does is He looks at this canvas of time that He exists outside of, that we are inside of. He looks at the stretch of time that He has created and then He begins to look at day and night. He begins to divide them. 00:01:35.000 --> 00:01:59.000 Weeks and months, seasons and years, decades, centuries, millennia, He begins to divide it all in His wisdom. And we end up in, for me, 1988 through. For some of you before after. But He saw everything before it, existing outside of time. 00:01:59.000 --> 00:02:21.000 And you see this, what God then does is across this canvas of time that He creates, He puts markers one after the other. He puts markers. What He then does is He says, Derek, this is the time that I have for you and inside your lifetime I'm going to give you a point at times. 00:02:21.000 --> 00:02:36.000 Times for you to be doing things with me. Times for me to accomplish things inside you. And so for all of us, it's the case. We have appointed times that God has said even before we were born. 00:02:36.000 --> 00:02:56.000 He does that with individuals. He also does that with families. He does that with churches. He then does that with nations, villages, towns, the world. About five years ago we started in this church, started talking about this idea that God is going to birth a revival amongst young people. 00:02:56.000 --> 00:03:08.000 What is that? It is an appointed time that God sets, looking at the canvas of time and He says this, I'm going to accomplish these things at this time. You see this in Jesus's life. 00:03:08.000 --> 00:03:30.000 Jesus is born. We read of Him when He is 12 years old and then we read of Him when He is around 30 years old. And at that time in His life, God says this is the time that was appointed for Jesus to enter into public ministry as we read it through the four Gospels. 00:03:30.000 --> 00:03:49.000 It had to happen at a particular time. It couldn't have happened before. It couldn't have happened, have happened after. So think with me. So for our lives, this is of significance then, eh? That when I was created, God said, Derek, here are the things that I want with you, for you, in you, through you. 00:03:49.000 --> 00:04:02.000 And here is the life that I have for you. And inside of this lifetime that I have for you, I am kind of dividing it, marking it into different appointed times. 00:04:02.000 --> 00:04:31.000 You see this throughout the scripture. If you go to Habakkuk chapter 2, verse 2 and 3, you see this again, God is speaking to Habakkuk and God says, write down this vision. Make it plain on the tablet. Write it down. I'm giving you a vision. I want you to write it down. Why? Why, God? Why do you want me to write it down? Make it plain so that anyone who reads it will run with it. 00:04:31.000 --> 00:04:46.000 You begin to see this. So God has a vision. He has an idea that he wants to happen on earth at that time. So he asks Habakkuk, write it down. Why? I want them to read it. And anyone who reads it, I want him to run with it. 00:04:46.000 --> 00:05:06.000 Now you begin to see appointed time is not just something that he sets up for us, for us to enter into. There is something that we need to partner with him. The very next verse in Habakkuk chapter 2, verse 3, it then says the vision is awaiting an appointed time. 00:05:06.000 --> 00:05:19.000 So God speaks it. God atters it. He then says this thing that I have just spoken to you, this thing that I am wanting of you to write down on tablets, there is an appointed time for it. 00:05:19.000 --> 00:05:30.000 And then he adds, the time will not be delayed. It is working towards that time. So as you press in, as you stay the course, everything that I appointed for you will come to you. 00:05:30.000 --> 00:05:44.000 I want us to see this grand plan that God has. We are not just going through life and just coming out of it and then going to heaven. He has plans. 00:05:44.000 --> 00:06:08.000 He has plans. Appointed times. And may I say, when a person, a man or a woman or a family or a church, a town, a village, a city, a nation, and even the church globally begins to recognize what God wants to do at any period in time, now you are aligned with him. 00:06:08.000 --> 00:06:27.000 One, you need to know what it is that God has appointed this time for. So if you go to 1 Chronicles chapter 12, verse 32, you see sons of Issachar. 00:06:27.000 --> 00:06:37.000 So we only talk about sons of Issachar in one way. What do we say typically when we say these guys knew the times in which they were living in. 00:06:37.000 --> 00:06:53.000 But we often forget to quote the other part, the next part of the scripture. What is it? Not only did they know the times in which they were living in, they also did know what the Israelites had to do at that time. 00:06:53.000 --> 00:07:06.000 Aha. So on one hand, there is appointed time that we are to understand. And two, the men of Issachar, that tribe, they knew what had to be done at the time that God revealed to them. 00:07:06.000 --> 00:07:28.000 So then, if God has an appointed time for me, if God has an appointed time for you, if God has an appointed time for Acts 29, then there are certain things we are to understand from him about what we are to do, how we are to stand, how we are to move, how we are to pray, how we are to be, how we are to talk. 00:07:28.000 --> 00:07:42.000 Because every season has certain things that are important. So we want, once we understand what it is, we then have to partner with God. So what is appointed time then? Let's define it this way. Appointed time is the time ordained by God. 00:07:42.000 --> 00:07:58.000 So God ordains it. Thankfully, that's great. We don't have to ordain it. He ordains time, and he's impartial. So any man he creates, any woman he creates, any church he builds on earth, he has appointed times. 00:07:58.000 --> 00:08:15.000 So appointed time is a time that is ordained by God, where he intends to, wants to partner with you and me to do things in me, through me, for me, different stuff. 00:08:15.000 --> 00:08:38.000 And one of the things I want to tell you is this. If you've been waiting for things and you feel like time is passing by, God says, son, daughter, I have an appointed time, a time I have appointed for certain things. 00:08:38.000 --> 00:08:58.000 Stick the course with me. Don't pull back. Stay aligned with how I want you to be. You'll come to see it. You'll experience it. I exist outside of time, God says. Is anything too hard for me? You tell me, is there anything God says that's hard for me? 00:08:58.000 --> 00:09:14.000 I planned you. Bible says Psalm 139 says it this way. What does it say? It says, David understood it somehow, and he says, every day of my life were formed for me before I was born. 00:09:14.000 --> 00:09:29.000 And there is a book in which all the days that were formed for me have already been written. And it says this is the best part. Vast. How precious are your thoughts? 00:09:29.000 --> 00:09:45.000 So this book that has is there for Jane and Sheldon. It's got many pages on it. What is filled in it? Bible says, according to Psalm 139, in it are the vast, precious thoughts of God for Jane and Sheldon. 00:09:45.000 --> 00:10:03.000 Oh man, if we can understand this and we go through life, not just at this point in this church's life, but individually in our lives, having a desire to say, I want to be like sons of Issachar. 00:10:03.000 --> 00:10:15.000 I want to understand where I'm at in life and what it is that you want me to do. What is important for me? What are the things that you're trying to tell me? I'm not going to miss it. 00:10:15.000 --> 00:10:30.000 And when you show that desire, God then begins to birth what he wants to do with us inside us. I want you to see it. No one is excluded. 00:10:30.000 --> 00:10:38.000 Every single one of us. And so for Acts 29, I was, Jacob had told me 00:10:38.000 --> 00:11:01.000 about a week and a half ago that last Sunday he told me he was not going to be here last Sunday. So I had this teaching all kind of written out. 00:11:01.000 --> 00:11:14.000 And then Saturday, last Saturday, he told me, no, I'm in town. And then I was here and Jacob taught on everything he taught on. And this is a continuation. Therefore, what happened last week? 00:11:14.000 --> 00:11:25.000 And it had to be said after what Jacob said, because this church right now, according to what Jacob said, there is a time that God has allotted for us in this land. 00:11:25.000 --> 00:11:36.000 And he said, this is a time of supernatural harvest for acts 29. This is a time of supernatural harvest. 00:11:36.000 --> 00:11:46.000 I always like us not all also seeing what God does in the landscape of the world. Otherwise we get too caught up in a little thing. 00:11:46.000 --> 00:11:56.000 Begin to see the earth. Begin to see what God is doing. Don't be small minded. This God that I serve and you serve. 00:11:56.000 --> 00:12:08.000 He takes care of entire nations, the entire earth. He has plans. And then God says, I'm going to bring this people that I both into this place called Richmond and enrichment. 00:12:08.000 --> 00:12:19.000 I'm going to have you do certain things. And so Jacob heard that he shared that along with that. There are a few things he said. He said one church. 00:12:19.000 --> 00:12:30.000 This is a time when you gather together and you do what? Fasting. Number two, praying. 00:12:30.000 --> 00:12:48.000 Number three, take the sickle, go out and harvest because the harvest is here already. Yeah. So this is the appointed time for acts 29 to step into what God has said. 00:12:48.000 --> 00:13:02.000 Now having an awareness of this is what God wants to do is one thing, but then doing it is another thing. And you know, when you when you're a dad and you look at your daughter or your or your son, 00:13:02.000 --> 00:13:13.000 they may be little, but still you want them to do that thing. You know, if they get that right, it's amazing. And there is a part of you that's just anticipating and waiting for them to connect the two dots. 00:13:14.000 --> 00:13:27.000 That's how he is with us. He shares it. He reminds us. He has us think about it. And then he's just waiting, waiting to see if I'll connect the dots and step into it. 00:13:27.000 --> 00:13:40.000 And may I say there is nothing more important for you and I than this. This isn't just church stuff, guys. This isn't just telling Jacob, yeah, we'll go to Richmond. 00:13:41.000 --> 00:13:55.000 This isn't saying yes, because a few other people at X said yes. You need to understand how integral this is to what God has for you. 00:13:55.000 --> 00:14:09.000 I often say this in sidetrack, but see when we are in a community with the people as you are here, it is important to understand why what is being is said. 00:14:09.000 --> 00:14:24.000 And then if you are part of the community, jump in. If you struggle, ask. Never say stay somewhere without knowing what to do. 00:14:24.000 --> 00:14:37.000 Never say stay somewhere without knowing what to do. Because sometimes we can be like this. We can circle around the pond and get a feel of it. You understand what it is, but still you're hesitant. 00:14:38.000 --> 00:14:49.000 Just felt like I should share that. So important to know what it is that God wants for you. And then if you have questions, if there are things you don't understand, ask. Such a good thing. 00:14:49.000 --> 00:15:02.000 Why go through another three months not understanding and not doing anything about it? That's a wastage of time. It is wisdom to ask. It's wisdom to then try to understand. Yeah. 00:15:02.000 --> 00:15:21.000 So that's what Jacob said with regards to acts 29. It is a time of supernatural harvest. This is the appointed time that God has given us at acts to be involved in this. 00:15:21.000 --> 00:15:35.000 And then he said fast and pray and go out and do the work. All I want to do today is talk about one aspect of what we need to do as a church. 00:15:35.000 --> 00:15:48.000 So even though on YouTube you won't see appointed time dash anything, what I want to talk about is consecration. Being set apart for the things God has for you and I. 00:15:48.000 --> 00:16:08.000 This is where I begin to partner with him. This is where you need to partner with him. So my with the time we have today, what I want to do is talk about a few principles derived from the word that we can look at and say, what's this framework that I need to take on for my life at this time? 00:16:08.000 --> 00:16:21.000 And frankly, even if this is 10 years later, the same thing will apply. But more so right now, given where the church is at. So the first thing I want you to go to Genesis chapter 18. 00:16:21.000 --> 00:16:33.000 Genesis chapter 18. 00:16:33.000 --> 00:16:42.000 We'll get to how much we can get to and that would be it. So Genesis chapter 18. 00:16:42.000 --> 00:16:48.000 Brandon, I don't know if you can bring it up. That'd be great if you can, because I want to go through a couple of verses. 00:16:48.000 --> 00:16:55.000 It says, and the Lord appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre and he sat at the door of his tent. 00:16:55.000 --> 00:17:03.000 So this is Abraham. Yeah, this is Abraham Genesis 18 and the Lord appeared to Abraham by the oaks of Mamre. 00:17:03.000 --> 00:17:15.000 And as he sat at the door of his tent in the heat of the day, he lifted up his eyes and looked and behold, three men were standing in front of him. 00:17:15.000 --> 00:17:28.000 When he saw them, he ran from the tent door to meet them and bowed himself to the earth and said, Oh Lord, if I have found favor in your sight, do not pass by your servant. 00:17:28.000 --> 00:17:37.000 Okay. And then if you versus down, you'll see he really wants to entertain the three men who have shown up to his place. 00:17:37.000 --> 00:17:45.000 So he entertains them. He gives them curd, milk, baked cake, lamb or a calf. So he feeds them. 00:17:45.000 --> 00:17:55.000 And then it says at the end of verse eight, and he stood, Abraham stood by them under the tree while they ate. Yeah. 00:17:55.000 --> 00:18:00.000 Verse nine, they said to him, where is Sarah, your wife? And he said, she's in the tent. 00:18:00.000 --> 00:18:06.000 The Lord said, I will surely return to you about this time next year. Wow. 00:18:06.000 --> 00:18:14.000 Now we begin to see for Abraham and Sarah. God is beginning to show them this whole idea of appointed times. 00:18:14.000 --> 00:18:19.000 So he tells them, on one hand, I am here in front of you and I'm talking to you. 00:18:19.000 --> 00:18:24.000 And on the other hand, in about a year's time, I'm going to come back to you. What does it say? 00:18:27.000 --> 00:18:34.000 I will surely return to you about this time next year. And Sarah, your wife shall have a son. 00:18:34.000 --> 00:18:37.000 And Sarah was listening at the 10 door behind him. 00:18:37.000 --> 00:18:47.000 And God says in verse 14, because he understands that Sarah was laughing to herself. 00:18:47.000 --> 00:18:55.000 God says, why did Sarah laugh? Shall I and saying, shall I indeed bear a child now that I am old? 00:18:55.000 --> 00:18:59.000 Is anything too hard for the Lord at the appointed time? 00:18:59.000 --> 00:19:03.000 God says it again, at the appointed time, I will return to you. 00:19:03.000 --> 00:19:09.000 There is a couple of things in terms of principles that I want to draw out from this passage. 00:19:09.000 --> 00:19:17.000 Number one, see, when scripture elaborates on certain things in stories that we read, 00:19:17.000 --> 00:19:21.000 there are things that God wants us to understand and then apply. 00:19:21.000 --> 00:19:29.000 This is the most wise God who ever existed. He is God Almighty. 00:19:30.000 --> 00:19:38.000 And when he decides that he's going to put certain, he's going to articulate what happened in certain ways, 00:19:38.000 --> 00:19:43.000 there are always things we need to see and understand. So where is Abraham sitting? 00:19:45.000 --> 00:19:55.000 He's sitting at his door. So Abraham, if he was sitting inside his tent, will he have seen the three visitors? 00:19:55.000 --> 00:20:06.000 No. Where is Sarah sitting? Sarah is inside the tent. Did Sarah see the Lord? No, she heard a conversation. 00:20:06.000 --> 00:20:16.000 So number one, at times like this, and if you want to be sons of Issachar, like them to not just know, but to do. 00:20:16.000 --> 00:20:20.000 First principle, stay at the door of your tent. 00:20:20.000 --> 00:20:25.000 Stay at the door of your tent. What does that mean? 00:20:25.000 --> 00:20:32.000 Derrick is made of body, mind, or soul and spirit. 00:20:34.000 --> 00:20:40.000 And so as I, so today I've seen William is here. My eyes saw him. 00:20:41.000 --> 00:20:46.000 I heard that William is here. I saw him talking to Sheldon. 00:20:46.000 --> 00:20:54.000 So I'm relating to everything around me through my body, my soul, and I have a spirit that surreal me. 00:20:54.000 --> 00:21:04.000 I can live two ways on earth. One is having my mind, my soul realm, and my flesh, my flesh. 00:21:04.000 --> 00:21:15.000 Take in, take out anything that's out there or to guard these two things because your spirit, if you're a believer, has already been born again. 00:21:15.000 --> 00:21:23.000 You are 100% like Christ because his spirit now dwells inside you. 00:21:23.000 --> 00:21:30.000 However, you've got to now hold the responsibility for the gates of your life. 00:21:30.000 --> 00:21:45.000 What is it? At this tent door that Abraham sat at, which is for me the gates, the doors to my soul realm, the way I think, what I consume, my eyes, my ears, my mouth. 00:21:45.000 --> 00:21:51.000 All of these things are important because when we are in the midst of this, 00:21:51.000 --> 00:21:58.000 they are important because when we do not guard our doors, we get too occupied with other things. 00:21:58.000 --> 00:22:13.000 And so if I'm here right now and if all I am doing is try to finish my notes, if all I am doing is to think about what's next, if all I'm doing is whatever, 00:22:13.000 --> 00:22:20.000 and if I'm not guarding my, so let's say five of you yawn at the same time. Let's just assume. 00:22:20.000 --> 00:22:32.000 If five of you yawn at the same time, I got to be at the door of my tent because five people yawning at the same time cannot take me away from what I have to do. 00:22:32.000 --> 00:22:36.000 You understand me? 00:22:36.000 --> 00:22:43.000 We are tuned sometimes to react to what we see around us. 00:22:43.000 --> 00:22:54.000 And God needs men and women who will stand at the tent door and watch what goes in and watch what goes out. 00:22:54.000 --> 00:23:02.000 If you are the head of the family, it's your responsibility to watch what goes in and watch what goes out. 00:23:02.000 --> 00:23:11.000 If you're a leader and you're shepherding people, it's your responsibility to watch what goes in and watch what goes out. 00:23:11.000 --> 00:23:18.000 For your own life, it's your responsibility to know what's going in and what's going out. 00:23:18.000 --> 00:23:24.000 Abraham did that. And what happened? He was right there at the right time and he couldn't miss it. 00:23:24.000 --> 00:23:31.000 I want us to have this desire to say, Lord, in my life, I don't want to miss what you want to do. 00:23:31.000 --> 00:23:37.000 I do not want to miss what you want to do. 00:23:37.000 --> 00:23:44.000 What is the point of being called a Christian, thinking you're a Christian, walking like you're a Christian, 00:23:44.000 --> 00:23:51.000 but not getting what he wants to do with you at a particular time? What is the point? 00:23:51.000 --> 00:23:59.000 But to then say, Aba, I want to know what you want to do with me. I want to know what this time is about. 00:23:59.000 --> 00:24:09.000 I cannot miss it. And having a desperation inside you and say, first show me please, then somehow I'll partner with you to do it. 00:24:09.000 --> 00:24:16.000 Don't worry about doing it. But first have a mindset that says, I want to understand this. 00:24:16.000 --> 00:24:22.000 I want to know where I am supposed to be. I want to know what I am supposed to do. 00:24:22.000 --> 00:24:30.000 The doing part gets easier once you know what's happening. So what happened in the case of Abraham? 00:24:30.000 --> 00:24:38.000 God says, I'm going to come back in about a year's time. And at that time, Abraham, you're going to have a son. 00:24:38.000 --> 00:24:50.000 So the first point before we get into that, in terms of principles we are drawing out from the story is, as I said, sitting at the tent door. 00:24:50.000 --> 00:25:03.000 Sit at the door of your tent to know the appointed times of God for your life. 00:25:03.000 --> 00:25:12.000 One more thing I want to highlight from there. He's sitting, Abraham is sitting at this tent door at the heat of the day. 00:25:12.000 --> 00:25:25.000 And so when we are in church and we hear a message like this, and when things are going well, it's easy to be at the tent door to watch what goes in and what goes out. 00:25:25.000 --> 00:25:36.000 But again, God is looking for a people who even in the heat of the day, even in the heat of what's happening around you, even in the pressure that you face, 00:25:36.000 --> 00:25:46.000 even when you feel like you're being surrounded, even when you feel like people are talking, even when you feel this, that, the other, God wants you to stand at the tent door. 00:25:46.000 --> 00:25:57.000 Because it is more important for you to understand times like that because the devil crafts certain things for you to be completely ignoring what God wants to do. 00:25:57.000 --> 00:26:12.000 So it is your responsibility and my responsibility to say, Abba, doesn't matter if it's in the cool of the evening where I feel like I need to walk with my father, or if it's the heat of the day, I want to be at the tent door. 00:26:12.000 --> 00:26:15.000 Yeah. Yeah. Okay. 00:26:15.000 --> 00:26:27.000 Second point. Appointed times demand your obedience and partnership with God. Appointed times demand your obedience and partnership with God. 00:26:27.000 --> 00:26:38.000 So in the story, you see Abraham and Sarah, God said, Sarah, you're going to have a son, Abraham, you're going to have a son. 00:26:38.000 --> 00:26:43.000 Yeah, they can't say, well, I'm too old now. We can't try. 00:26:43.000 --> 00:26:47.000 You got to try because I'm going to send you a baby. 00:26:47.000 --> 00:26:59.000 Similarly, when God says, Acts 29, this is the time to do things, understand what it is that we need to do and begin to obey and partner with God. 00:26:59.000 --> 00:27:12.000 And, let's say, God tells me, Derek, for what I need you to do, for what I am to you at this time in your life, I need to make your heart soft because you're walking around with a heart that is not soft. 00:27:12.000 --> 00:27:16.000 Because you're walking around with a heart that is not soft. 00:27:16.000 --> 00:27:22.000 And as long as you keep walking around with a heart that's not soft, you can't be who I am to the people that I sent to you. 00:27:22.000 --> 00:27:25.000 And if God tells me that, hearing it is one thing. 00:27:25.000 --> 00:27:34.000 The other thing is understanding something like Jeremiah chapter three or four, where it says, break up the fallow ground. 00:27:34.000 --> 00:27:40.000 Break up the fallow ground. Derek, it's one thing that I want you to do these things, but there is a prerequisite. 00:27:40.000 --> 00:27:43.000 There is a level of obedience that you need to show. 00:27:43.000 --> 00:27:47.000 There is a level of partnership that I expect from you. 00:27:47.000 --> 00:27:51.000 What is it, Abba? I'm going to draw your side to this passage. 00:27:51.000 --> 00:27:56.000 And I need you to look at this passage and understand what it is that you need to do. 00:27:56.000 --> 00:27:59.000 What is it, Father? Well, break up the fallow grounds, Derek. 00:27:59.000 --> 00:28:09.000 What does it mean, Father? Well, this is a land that has been un-agriculturized, unused for a year, two years. 00:28:09.000 --> 00:28:20.000 So fallow ground effectively means land that has not been used for a year or two years because the farmer decides they need to bring the best out of the land again. 00:28:20.000 --> 00:28:24.000 And so they leave it having done nothing with it. 00:28:24.000 --> 00:28:32.000 But the problem is you can't just go and sow seeds on it right away because the soil is hard even though the stuff underneath is good. 00:28:32.000 --> 00:28:36.000 And so what does God expect you to do, me to do then? 00:28:36.000 --> 00:28:39.000 Well, break up the fallow ground. 00:28:39.000 --> 00:28:42.000 And then I have to go through that process. 00:28:42.000 --> 00:28:45.000 Simple example. 00:28:45.000 --> 00:28:49.000 What is it for you that God is saying now? 00:28:49.000 --> 00:29:02.000 Are you at a place in life, a time in life where you're expecting something to happen, but it hasn't happened yet, but it seems like pressure is coming in from all sides. 00:29:02.000 --> 00:29:04.000 What does God want you to do? 00:29:04.000 --> 00:29:08.000 Ask him. He'll tell you exactly what he wants you to do. 00:29:08.000 --> 00:29:12.000 And then you stand on it. When we hear that word, man, everything changes. 00:29:12.000 --> 00:29:19.000 You can live for 15 years, 20 years, 50 years with one word he says. 00:29:19.000 --> 00:29:21.000 It's the truth. 00:29:21.000 --> 00:29:27.000 If you listen to him and you know he's the one talking, you can stand on it for the rest of your life. 00:29:27.000 --> 00:29:41.000 Even though things may not look as nice on the outside, even though you may doubt at some points in time, but he will give you a word. 00:29:41.000 --> 00:29:48.000 He will give you something on which you can hold on to these guys that we read off in the Bible. 00:29:48.000 --> 00:29:51.000 All of them had to do it without seeing it. 00:29:51.000 --> 00:29:55.000 They had to they had to hold on to certain things without seeing it. 00:29:55.000 --> 00:29:59.000 They had to hold on to certain things. 00:29:59.000 --> 00:30:01.000 So what is it? 00:30:01.000 --> 00:30:07.000 Think about it. What is it that God wants you to do at this time in your life? 00:30:07.000 --> 00:30:11.000 Are you searching and trying to figure out what this is? 00:30:11.000 --> 00:30:16.000 Then, for instance, I would highly encourage. 00:30:17.000 --> 00:30:25.000 Be part of a community because you won't be able to find out what this is without doing it. 00:30:25.000 --> 00:30:29.000 Do you feel like you know enough but don't know what to do next? 00:30:29.000 --> 00:30:39.000 Then be like certain people in the Bible who throughout their life, they kept asking God, David inquired of God. 00:30:39.000 --> 00:30:43.000 What is it that? How do I go for battle? 00:30:43.000 --> 00:30:45.000 What is it? 00:30:45.000 --> 00:30:47.000 Find out even now. 00:30:47.000 --> 00:30:56.000 I pray that your heart, as you hear what appointed time is and how it relates to you and how it relates to the church. 00:30:56.000 --> 00:31:03.000 I desire and I pray that you begin to ask God and anyone who asks my father says he will receive. 00:31:03.000 --> 00:31:06.000 If you ask, you will receive. 00:31:06.000 --> 00:31:11.000 If you ask, there is no way he'll walk past you. 00:31:13.000 --> 00:31:22.000 And once you're aware, as I said, appointed times demand your obedience. 00:31:22.000 --> 00:31:24.000 Number three. 00:31:24.000 --> 00:31:30.000 Brandon, can you go to Numbers, Chapter 6 and bring it up? 00:31:30.000 --> 00:31:33.000 Go to Numbers, Chapter 6. 00:31:39.000 --> 00:31:41.000 We'll finish on time. 00:31:41.000 --> 00:31:44.000 Numbers, Chapter 6. 00:31:49.000 --> 00:31:52.000 And while Brandon brings it up, let me tell you this. 00:31:52.000 --> 00:31:55.000 So again, back to what Jacob said. 00:31:55.000 --> 00:32:04.000 Jacob is saying to us, as God reveals it for Acts 29, this is a time of supernatural harvest. 00:32:04.000 --> 00:32:06.000 So we've understood it. We've heard it. 00:32:06.000 --> 00:32:08.000 That's step one. 00:32:08.000 --> 00:32:09.000 But step two is what? 00:32:09.000 --> 00:32:15.000 Now being able to partner with God, now being able to walk with him, obeying it. 00:32:15.000 --> 00:32:18.000 What's the best way to start this process? 00:32:18.000 --> 00:32:20.000 Do exactly what Jacob said. 00:32:20.000 --> 00:32:21.000 Number one. 00:32:21.000 --> 00:32:23.000 Pray fast. 00:32:23.000 --> 00:32:25.000 Pray. 00:32:25.000 --> 00:32:27.000 Take out the sickle. 00:32:27.000 --> 00:32:30.000 Go out and begin the work. 00:32:30.000 --> 00:32:33.000 So there is. 00:32:33.000 --> 00:32:35.000 It's been said already. 00:32:35.000 --> 00:32:38.000 All we've got to do is take the next step. 00:32:38.000 --> 00:32:41.000 Numbers, Chapter 6. 00:32:41.000 --> 00:32:44.000 I want to look at this passage. 00:32:44.000 --> 00:32:47.000 I don't know if you can zoom in a little bit, Brandon. 00:32:51.000 --> 00:33:00.000 You begin to see as you read through Numbers, Chapter 1 through 5, God is doing things with the people of Israel. 00:33:00.000 --> 00:33:03.000 Yeah. 00:33:03.000 --> 00:33:06.000 Hearing aid is important, guys. 00:33:06.000 --> 00:33:08.000 Spiritually, spiritually. 00:33:08.000 --> 00:33:10.000 That's the Holy Spirit. 00:33:10.000 --> 00:33:11.000 Okay. 00:33:11.000 --> 00:33:18.000 So you see in Numbers, Chapter 1 through 5, God is talking to the people of Israel through Moses, through the leader. 00:33:18.000 --> 00:33:20.000 And God says, here is what I need you to do. 00:33:20.000 --> 00:33:23.000 Different tribes, different responsibilities, different duties. 00:33:23.000 --> 00:33:29.000 In Numbers, Chapter 4 or there about, God says, Levites, here is what you need to do. 00:33:29.000 --> 00:33:33.000 Because Levites are different from all the other tribes. 00:33:33.000 --> 00:33:35.000 Levites, you are a minister. 00:33:35.000 --> 00:33:39.000 And that's the responsibility and the charge that I place on you. 00:33:39.000 --> 00:33:42.000 So all of those things are communicated through Moses. 00:33:42.000 --> 00:33:45.000 And then I love this passage. 00:33:45.000 --> 00:33:49.000 In Numbers, Chapter 6, God begins to reveal how he thinks through this passage. 00:33:49.000 --> 00:33:54.000 The Lord said to Moses, speak to the Israelites. 00:33:54.000 --> 00:33:57.000 So all of the tribes and the different instructions and the duties. 00:33:57.000 --> 00:33:59.000 It's all been assigned. 00:33:59.000 --> 00:34:00.000 It's been communicated. 00:34:00.000 --> 00:34:01.000 They understand it. 00:34:01.000 --> 00:34:23.000 And then the Lord says to Moses, speak to the Israelites and say to them, if a man or woman wants to make a special vow, a vow of dedication to the Lord as a Nazarite, they must abstain from wine and other fermented drink and must not drink vinegar made from wine or other fermented drinks. 00:34:23.000 --> 00:34:24.000 Stay with me, please. 00:34:24.000 --> 00:34:29.000 They must not drink grape juice or eat grapes or raisins. 00:34:29.000 --> 00:34:40.000 As long as they remain under their Nazarite vow, they must not eat anything that comes from the grape wine, not even the seeds or the skins. 00:34:40.000 --> 00:34:42.000 Here's what I love about it. 00:34:42.000 --> 00:34:45.000 Before anything else, number one. 00:34:45.000 --> 00:34:47.000 Levites, as I said, are precious. 00:34:47.000 --> 00:34:53.000 And for you to be a priest at that time as a Levite, you had to be a particular rage and you had to be a guy. 00:34:53.000 --> 00:34:57.000 And obviously you had to come from the priest of Levi. 00:34:57.000 --> 00:34:58.000 Oh, sorry. 00:34:58.000 --> 00:34:59.000 The tribe of Levi. 00:34:59.000 --> 00:35:01.000 What about all of the other guys? 00:35:02.000 --> 00:35:03.000 What about the women? 00:35:03.000 --> 00:35:06.000 See, our God is not a God who is partial. 00:35:07.000 --> 00:35:10.000 He has responsibilities that he assigns to all of us. 00:35:10.000 --> 00:35:22.000 But when it comes to being with him, when it comes to being alone with him, when it comes to the purposes and plans that God has for the earth that needs to be accomplished through a process of being with him. 00:35:22.000 --> 00:35:29.000 When it comes to being accomplished through a people, there is no differences. 00:35:29.000 --> 00:35:35.000 He gives, in this case, Numbers Chapter 6, a new invitation. 00:35:35.000 --> 00:35:37.000 And he says, it doesn't matter if you're a man. 00:35:37.000 --> 00:35:39.000 It doesn't matter if you're a woman. 00:35:39.000 --> 00:35:42.000 It doesn't matter if you are from the Levi tribe. 00:35:42.000 --> 00:35:45.000 It doesn't matter which tribe you come from, which family you come from. 00:35:45.000 --> 00:35:51.000 It doesn't matter how long you've been a believer, just one week versus 55 years. 00:35:51.000 --> 00:35:54.000 It doesn't matter what happened when you were a child. 00:35:54.000 --> 00:35:56.000 It doesn't matter what your interests are. 00:35:56.000 --> 00:35:58.000 It doesn't matter what your disinterest are. 00:35:58.000 --> 00:36:00.000 It doesn't matter where you've been. 00:36:00.000 --> 00:36:02.000 It doesn't matter what you plan to do. 00:36:02.000 --> 00:36:18.000 It doesn't matter if you want to make a special vow with me to be with me to consecrate yourself beyond what has been said Numbers Chapter 1 through 5. 00:36:18.000 --> 00:36:22.000 Here is the invitation. Be a Nazarite. 00:36:31.000 --> 00:36:33.000 Be a Nazarite. 00:36:34.000 --> 00:36:45.000 And the question that God asks of us is, do you want to make a special vow? 00:36:45.000 --> 00:36:47.000 Something you haven't done before in your life. 00:36:48.000 --> 00:36:50.000 Something you have not done in your life. 00:36:50.000 --> 00:36:52.000 What is it? 00:36:52.000 --> 00:36:54.000 Well, you decide what it is. 00:36:54.000 --> 00:37:00.000 We'll go through a couple of these verses as I go to the second part of my message here. 00:37:00.000 --> 00:37:04.000 And I'll explain some of these things in terms of what it could look like for us. 00:37:04.000 --> 00:37:06.000 But I'm asking you a question. 00:37:06.000 --> 00:37:14.000 This God you love, this God you want to serve, this God you want to walk with, this God you're expecting things from. 00:37:14.000 --> 00:37:17.000 This God you have known for a week or 50 years. 00:37:17.000 --> 00:37:20.000 What is it that you want to do next? 00:37:20.000 --> 00:37:23.000 What is that special thing you want to give him? 00:37:23.000 --> 00:37:27.000 Because like I said, he's a father as well. 00:37:27.000 --> 00:37:30.000 And he's also looking to see how you would respond. 00:37:30.000 --> 00:37:41.000 So when something like this is shared in a group of amongst a group of people, let me guarantee you the father also watches in from the corner right there. 00:37:41.000 --> 00:37:48.000 And he says, I want to see how he or she understands it, receives it and does something with it. 00:37:48.000 --> 00:37:53.000 This is like it or not, the nature of our father. 00:37:53.000 --> 00:37:59.000 He gives us open invitations like this, like what happened last Sunday. 00:37:59.000 --> 00:38:04.000 And it is for you and for me to decide to what level we want to go. 00:38:08.000 --> 00:38:10.000 And all through your life, I don't want to rush through this. 00:38:10.000 --> 00:38:12.000 See, you know this. 00:38:12.000 --> 00:38:21.000 You've in fact about some time ago when we were praying, Iris and I, I asked Iris to pray for me. 00:38:21.000 --> 00:38:27.000 And as Iris was praying, she said, I said this at that car boat. 00:38:27.000 --> 00:38:29.000 So it would be a repetition for a couple of you guys. 00:38:29.000 --> 00:38:38.000 But Iris is praying and I'm listening and Iris says, God is saying, God is showing me three, you know, wind turbines. 00:38:38.000 --> 00:38:41.000 The stuff that, yeah, wind turbines. 00:38:41.000 --> 00:38:47.000 So she is seeing three wind turbines and the wind turbines are standing in water. 00:38:47.000 --> 00:38:49.000 And then there is the turbine. 00:38:49.000 --> 00:38:50.000 Yeah, the wheel. 00:38:50.000 --> 00:38:54.000 And so God is saying one is slow. 00:38:54.000 --> 00:38:58.000 The second one is a little faster than the first one. 00:38:58.000 --> 00:39:00.000 And the third one is very fast. 00:39:00.000 --> 00:39:01.000 Derek, choose what you want. 00:39:01.000 --> 00:39:03.000 Wow. 00:39:03.000 --> 00:39:06.000 Wow. 00:39:06.000 --> 00:39:08.000 Derek, choose what you want. 00:39:08.000 --> 00:39:09.000 You choose what you want. 00:39:09.000 --> 00:39:10.000 I'll give it to you. 00:39:10.000 --> 00:39:11.000 You want slow? 00:39:11.000 --> 00:39:12.000 I'm with you. 00:39:12.000 --> 00:39:13.000 I'll give it to you. 00:39:13.000 --> 00:39:14.000 You want a little bit faster than the slow? 00:39:14.000 --> 00:39:15.000 I'll give it to you. 00:39:15.000 --> 00:39:17.000 You want the really fast one? 00:39:17.000 --> 00:39:18.000 I'll give it to you. 00:39:18.000 --> 00:39:20.000 And so we we asked, what is it? 00:39:20.000 --> 00:39:21.000 Well, where is the turbine standing? 00:39:21.000 --> 00:39:22.000 It's standing in water. 00:39:22.000 --> 00:39:23.000 What is it? 00:39:23.000 --> 00:39:24.000 Word. 00:39:24.000 --> 00:39:25.000 What is the turbine moving by? 00:39:25.000 --> 00:39:26.000 It's the wind. 00:39:26.000 --> 00:39:27.000 What is it? 00:39:27.000 --> 00:39:28.000 The spirit. 00:39:28.000 --> 00:39:29.000 How fast do you want to progress in the word? 00:39:29.000 --> 00:39:30.000 How fast do you want to progress in the spirit? 00:39:30.000 --> 00:39:31.000 You tell me, Derek. 00:39:31.000 --> 00:39:32.000 You tell me. 00:39:32.000 --> 00:39:35.000 Whatever you say, I'll do it. 00:39:35.000 --> 00:39:39.000 And the truth is, guys, I've been a believer now 30 plus years. 00:39:39.000 --> 00:39:43.000 At no point in my life was I rushed by God. 00:39:43.000 --> 00:39:50.000 All these years, he has allowed me to choose what I want. 00:39:50.000 --> 00:39:52.000 Yeah. 00:39:52.000 --> 00:39:55.000 He has allowed you to choose what you want. 00:39:55.000 --> 00:40:02.000 So point number three, at this time in our lives, make a special vow. 00:40:02.000 --> 00:40:07.000 Make. 00:40:07.000 --> 00:40:08.000 Is special. 00:40:08.000 --> 00:40:13.000 I want you to underline if you're writing that word, it must be special, man, because you are special. 00:40:13.000 --> 00:40:15.000 How you are a special. 00:40:15.000 --> 00:40:19.000 We're going to do this. 00:40:19.000 --> 00:40:24.000 So Jacob talked about one meal a week, praying 30 minutes a day. 00:40:24.000 --> 00:40:25.000 Don't forget it. 00:40:25.000 --> 00:40:27.000 Step into it. 00:40:27.000 --> 00:40:35.000 And then whatever it is that's that's special that you want to offer him, begin to offer it to him. 00:40:35.000 --> 00:40:39.000 Number four. 00:40:39.000 --> 00:40:41.000 Can you bring it back? 00:40:41.000 --> 00:40:42.000 Please, Brandon. 00:40:42.000 --> 00:40:49.000 Where's three? 00:40:49.000 --> 00:40:52.000 So it talks about the wine and fermented drink. 00:40:52.000 --> 00:40:53.000 And then it's interesting. 00:40:53.000 --> 00:40:56.000 It doesn't just talk about the wine and the fermented drink. 00:40:56.000 --> 00:40:59.000 It's even goes to goes to even the seed or the skin of the grape. 00:40:59.000 --> 00:41:00.000 You can't even have that. 00:41:00.000 --> 00:41:02.000 Here's the interesting part. 00:41:02.000 --> 00:41:10.000 As for the priests, when they were serving, they couldn't drink, but otherwise they could. 00:41:10.000 --> 00:41:13.000 So the priest could drink it when they were not serving. 00:41:13.000 --> 00:41:18.000 But if you were a natural, right, you couldn't drink wine or fermented drink at all. 00:41:18.000 --> 00:41:22.000 Can you begin to see if this is a costly affair? 00:41:22.000 --> 00:41:25.000 This is and the second point will come there. 00:41:25.000 --> 00:41:27.000 It said, don't cut your hair. 00:41:27.000 --> 00:41:28.000 So why? 00:41:28.000 --> 00:41:30.000 Because it has to grow long. 00:41:30.000 --> 00:41:33.000 As you can see, the hair doesn't grow as fast. 00:41:33.000 --> 00:41:35.000 It takes time. 00:41:35.000 --> 00:41:40.000 I'm glad we will have a different understanding of that in the New Testament age. 00:41:40.000 --> 00:41:41.000 We'll get there. 00:41:41.000 --> 00:41:43.000 But it's amazing. 00:41:43.000 --> 00:41:45.000 So what is it for you? 00:41:45.000 --> 00:41:47.000 I'll tell you this. 00:41:47.000 --> 00:41:50.000 Do not drink of the cup. 00:41:50.000 --> 00:41:56.000 Tony, please. 00:41:56.000 --> 00:41:58.000 Thank you for this side of the New Testament. 00:41:58.000 --> 00:42:08.000 Yes, we would be seen and found out. 00:42:08.000 --> 00:42:10.000 What does it mean for us here? 00:42:10.000 --> 00:42:16.000 Do not drink of the cup of comfort and entertainment. 00:42:16.000 --> 00:42:18.000 Do not drink of the cup. 00:42:18.000 --> 00:42:21.000 I wouldn't even say sin. 00:42:21.000 --> 00:42:24.000 God is expecting a next level from us. 00:42:24.000 --> 00:42:30.000 Sin and standing against him and someone can hide the ad. 00:42:30.000 --> 00:42:31.000 Everyone is looking at the ad. 00:42:31.000 --> 00:42:39.000 This is why I said you got to stand at the 10 door. 00:42:39.000 --> 00:42:49.000 We have to be sure that we do not drink of the cup of comfort and entertainment. 00:42:49.000 --> 00:42:57.000 So much so that you have no capacity to drink anything else. 00:42:57.000 --> 00:43:08.000 My cup, if I fill my cup, my days, my time, my mind with comfort and entertainment 00:43:08.000 --> 00:43:21.000 to a point where I don't have any more capacity, then what will God fill me with? 00:43:21.000 --> 00:43:24.000 He wants to fill me with water and oil. 00:43:24.000 --> 00:43:25.000 Yes. 00:43:25.000 --> 00:43:29.000 But if I'm not doing that, what happens? 00:43:29.000 --> 00:43:34.000 So can you can you begin to think, guys, in your life, in my life, 00:43:34.000 --> 00:43:39.000 what are the things that we fill our cups with our days with some of it? 00:43:39.000 --> 00:43:43.000 Like I said, this passage should not be looked at as that sin. 00:43:43.000 --> 00:43:45.000 And I need to abstain from sin. 00:43:45.000 --> 00:43:47.000 That's given. 00:43:47.000 --> 00:43:48.000 That's given. 00:43:48.000 --> 00:43:53.000 This passage should be looked at as what are the things that are permissible? 00:43:53.000 --> 00:43:58.000 What are the things that are good that I must now abstain from? 00:43:58.000 --> 00:44:00.000 Is it too many meetings? 00:44:00.000 --> 00:44:02.000 Is it too many gatherings? 00:44:02.000 --> 00:44:06.000 Is it chit chat? 00:44:06.000 --> 00:44:08.000 Is it tick tock? 00:44:08.000 --> 00:44:10.000 It just rhymed correctly. 00:44:10.000 --> 00:44:12.000 Is it whatever else? 00:44:12.000 --> 00:44:17.000 Whatever that is, I must make sure that I don't drink of it to a point where I can. 00:44:17.000 --> 00:44:21.000 I do not have the capacity anymore because you only have like it or not. 00:44:21.000 --> 00:44:24.000 God established it 24 hours a day. 00:44:24.000 --> 00:44:26.000 You're not getting 75. 00:44:26.000 --> 00:44:27.000 It's 24 hours. 00:44:27.000 --> 00:44:30.000 So in 24 hours, it depends on how you fill your cup. 00:44:30.000 --> 00:44:37.000 So if your capacity for 24 hours has already been consumed by other things, you got to now push into the second day. 00:44:37.000 --> 00:44:39.000 Next one. 00:44:39.000 --> 00:44:45.000 If we can scroll down during the entire period of the natural right? 00:44:45.000 --> 00:44:49.000 Well, no razor may be used on their head. 00:44:49.000 --> 00:44:54.000 They must be holy until the period of the dedication to the Lord is over. 00:44:54.000 --> 00:44:56.000 They must let their hair grow long. 00:44:56.000 --> 00:44:59.000 Think about it. 00:44:59.000 --> 00:45:00.000 What is happening? 00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:06.000 So on one hand, God says, don't do this with grape and grape wine and the seed of the skin. 00:45:06.000 --> 00:45:14.000 And then God immediately switches from that to say, this is how I want you to do with respect to your hair. 00:45:14.000 --> 00:45:19.000 What's happening here is and you read Samsung story story in Judges. 00:45:19.000 --> 00:45:21.000 You see, Samsung, he's a natural right. 00:45:21.000 --> 00:45:23.000 And so he grows it long. 00:45:23.000 --> 00:45:25.000 And what does it say when Delilah comes? 00:45:25.000 --> 00:45:32.000 Samsung says, you know what? 00:45:32.000 --> 00:45:34.000 This is where the power is. 00:45:34.000 --> 00:45:37.000 What is it that we need to see here? 00:45:37.000 --> 00:45:46.000 Your hair, sorry, receiver of the signal from God. 00:45:46.000 --> 00:45:50.000 So what it means with respect to the hair is simply this. 00:45:50.000 --> 00:45:59.000 Whatever level of consecration is happening inside of you, God also wants a public display of that consecration. 00:45:59.000 --> 00:46:06.000 So the fact that you're not drinking wine, unless you're someone comes along and smells you, no one will know. 00:46:06.000 --> 00:46:10.000 In our case, no one will know. 00:46:10.000 --> 00:46:20.000 But God also wants a public and outward representation of your inward condition. 00:46:20.000 --> 00:46:32.000 It's important because when one of the things that I always think about is my eyes, whenever I'm anywhere, keeps looking for certain things. 00:46:32.000 --> 00:46:36.000 And I don't know why I why I'm doing this now. 00:46:36.000 --> 00:46:38.000 Maybe there's a reason I'll find out. 00:46:38.000 --> 00:46:46.000 But I always think so if I'm in a room where whatever setting it is, I ask myself how many people here believers? 00:46:46.000 --> 00:46:56.000 Because I want to see if there is something about a believer that I can see and understand without them saying they're a believer. 00:46:56.000 --> 00:47:04.000 So if you think about it, guys, so let's say this whole section, we didn't know each other and we're in a room with 50 other people. 00:47:04.000 --> 00:47:11.000 Surely, I should be able to look at Daniel and say, ah, he's another one. 00:47:11.000 --> 00:47:14.000 I should be able to look at Anil and say, she's another one. 00:47:14.000 --> 00:47:20.000 And I must be one someone else can look and say he's another one. 00:47:20.000 --> 00:47:33.000 We go through life and it's actually sometimes painful for God, I'm sure that he sometimes puts us all even in the same room without and we can't even understand what's happening. 00:47:33.000 --> 00:47:36.000 Because our beliefs are so inward. 00:47:36.000 --> 00:47:39.000 It has not come outward. 00:47:39.000 --> 00:47:52.000 And so with something like this, God is saying, what is the public, the outward representation of your inward convictions and your inward consecration? 00:47:52.000 --> 00:47:55.000 What is it? 00:47:55.000 --> 00:48:11.000 The place we moved to that we bought in Aldergrove, there were a couple of there was a tenant there before we bought it. 00:48:11.000 --> 00:48:13.000 So we were asked the question, would you like to keep them? 00:48:13.000 --> 00:48:18.000 And we said yes. And so we've had tenants there now for the last three, four months. 00:48:18.000 --> 00:48:21.000 We all go out for shopping one day and we come back. 00:48:21.000 --> 00:48:36.000 And as we as we drive back in, this is early October, I couldn't believe what I was seeing because the basement area is full of decor Halloween decor and pretty gore like weird once. 00:48:36.000 --> 00:48:40.000 And I looked at Iris and I was so frustrated. 00:48:40.000 --> 00:48:42.000 All I wanted to do was go knock on the door. 00:48:42.000 --> 00:48:45.000 So I just said this is where you should get mad at. 00:48:45.000 --> 00:48:46.000 I said, hold on. 00:48:46.000 --> 00:48:47.000 Hold on. 00:48:47.000 --> 00:48:48.000 Hold on. 00:48:48.000 --> 00:48:52.000 Let's go inside and pray and then do things. 00:48:52.000 --> 00:48:56.000 So we quickly pray about it. 00:48:56.000 --> 00:48:57.000 We talk about it. 00:48:57.000 --> 00:49:00.000 And that night I do certain things that I felt I needed to do. 00:49:00.000 --> 00:49:05.000 But as we were praying, God said, do not shrink back. 00:49:05.000 --> 00:49:10.000 The Derek don't go and open knock on the door and say, please take this out because that's not how I want you to be. 00:49:10.000 --> 00:49:16.000 That's your religious attitude because you're so religious that you just want to take it down. 00:49:16.000 --> 00:49:22.000 But who I am is I want to come into places like this and I want to have people see things differently. 00:49:22.000 --> 00:49:27.000 And so God said, spoke through the word and said, do not shrink back. 00:49:27.000 --> 00:49:30.000 Share the whole council of God. 00:49:30.000 --> 00:49:33.000 And so we take them out for dinner. 00:49:33.000 --> 00:49:35.000 We hadn't talked much. 00:49:35.000 --> 00:49:41.000 And so we talk about who I am, who Iris is, our story, where we come from, what we do, stuff like that. 00:49:41.000 --> 00:49:47.000 And in the process, we share the good news of Christ Jesus, who we believe in. 00:49:47.000 --> 00:49:58.000 And you cannot share the good news of Christ Jesus unless you also talk about what happened in Eden and who Satan is, who the devil is, what the devil tries to do and how Christ is victorious and how Christ helps us. 00:49:58.000 --> 00:50:00.000 You can't share about the good news without that. 00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:04.000 So because God said, share the whole council of God. 00:50:04.000 --> 00:50:10.000 So we shared the whole council of God over dinner. 00:50:10.000 --> 00:50:15.000 And at the end, I asked the question, would you be okay taking off those things? 00:50:15.000 --> 00:50:18.000 And the person said, absolutely, absolutely. 00:50:18.000 --> 00:50:22.000 The next day, so it was taken out that night itself. 00:50:22.000 --> 00:50:31.000 And next day, I'm throwing something into the garbage and I see all of the stuff there because they had paid for this and bought it with their money. 00:50:31.000 --> 00:50:37.000 Not only did they take it out, they had now disposed. 00:50:37.000 --> 00:50:42.000 And then a few days later, and John and Prosper know them a few days later, they want to talk more. 00:50:42.000 --> 00:50:46.000 We talked more and now they want to get baptized. 00:50:46.000 --> 00:50:58.000 See, your your inward conviction and your inward consecration must be displayed outside. 00:50:58.000 --> 00:51:00.000 And God says, do not shrink back. 00:51:00.000 --> 00:51:01.000 That's right. 00:51:01.000 --> 00:51:06.000 If you are in that's right for me, I want you to not just not consume this. 00:51:06.000 --> 00:51:08.000 I want you to be one person. 00:51:08.000 --> 00:51:15.000 I want you to be one who walks around on earth, who goes into your university, your school, your office, wherever I set you. 00:51:15.000 --> 00:51:21.000 And I want you to grow your long hair. 00:51:21.000 --> 00:51:30.000 I want you to have an outward expression of your inward conviction and your inward consecration. 00:51:30.000 --> 00:51:31.000 Yeah. 00:51:31.000 --> 00:51:33.000 Can we begin to be like this? 00:51:33.000 --> 00:51:36.000 I'll guarantee you the world is waiting. 00:51:36.000 --> 00:51:38.000 We'll finish finish at six. 00:51:38.000 --> 00:51:41.000 Someone was looking at their watch distribution. 00:51:41.000 --> 00:51:48.000 We'll finish at six. 00:51:48.000 --> 00:51:51.000 Think, guys, where can we do it more? 00:51:51.000 --> 00:52:00.000 Not in a pressured way, but in a natural way, in an organic way. 00:52:00.000 --> 00:52:07.000 Not to get brownie points, but because this is who you are. 00:52:07.000 --> 00:52:10.000 Because the world around us needs to see. 00:52:10.000 --> 00:52:14.000 And like I always say, the truth is this. 00:52:14.000 --> 00:52:26.000 See, we sometimes have a skewed understanding of the Bible because one of the things that Christians often like to talk about is how the world gets offended by the cross. 00:52:26.000 --> 00:52:29.000 It is true. 00:52:29.000 --> 00:52:33.000 It is true. 00:52:33.000 --> 00:52:48.000 But Jesus wouldn't say, go have don't wait for four months, go harvest quickly if certain fruits were already ready for harvest. 00:52:48.000 --> 00:52:50.000 We forget that. 00:52:50.000 --> 00:52:53.000 But we like to just sit back and say, you know what? 00:52:53.000 --> 00:52:54.000 I'm a Christian. 00:52:54.000 --> 00:52:56.000 When I go there, people just persecute me. 00:52:56.000 --> 00:52:58.000 People just look at me as a weird guy. 00:52:58.000 --> 00:53:03.000 People just do, no, no, no, no, no. 00:53:03.000 --> 00:53:08.000 There are so many lives, so many people waiting for you to just speak. 00:53:08.000 --> 00:53:09.000 That is the truth, guys. 00:53:09.000 --> 00:53:13.000 The other thing that we have somehow thought about is false. 00:53:13.000 --> 00:53:15.000 It's not true. 00:53:15.000 --> 00:53:23.000 There are so many people around us who are waiting for the sons of God to speak. 00:53:23.000 --> 00:53:26.000 For the daughters of God to speak. 00:53:26.000 --> 00:53:32.000 And then the last thing, if you can go back without the ad to the next verse, or I'll just read it. 00:53:32.000 --> 00:53:35.000 Today is an ad day. 00:53:35.000 --> 00:53:36.000 I mean, Advent. 00:53:36.000 --> 00:53:37.000 Sorry. 00:53:37.000 --> 00:53:38.000 Okay. 00:53:38.000 --> 00:53:44.000 Verse, oh, no, Numbers, Chapter six. 00:53:44.000 --> 00:53:45.000 Okay. 00:53:45.000 --> 00:53:55.000 Throughout the, this is the last one, throughout the period of their dedication to the Lord, the Nazarite must not go near a dead body. 00:53:55.000 --> 00:54:11.000 Even if their own father or mother or brother or sister dies, they must not make themselves ceremonially unclean on account of them. 00:54:11.000 --> 00:54:13.000 Is there, yeah, account of them. 00:54:13.000 --> 00:54:17.000 Because the symbol of their dedication to God is on their head. 00:54:17.000 --> 00:54:25.000 Throughout the period of the dedication, they are consecrated to God. 00:54:25.000 --> 00:54:26.000 What does it mean? 00:54:26.000 --> 00:54:36.000 And I talked with God for a few days, really, for him to tell me what I should have understood from this or what I should understand from this passage. 00:54:36.000 --> 00:54:39.000 God has nothing against dead bodies. 00:54:40.000 --> 00:54:48.000 Because the Levites who went before this, obviously they were in, they did not have this restriction. 00:54:48.000 --> 00:54:50.000 This restriction was only to the Nazarites. 00:54:50.000 --> 00:54:54.000 And how does it apply to us today? 00:54:54.000 --> 00:54:57.000 Here's how you need to see this. 00:54:57.000 --> 00:55:14.000 Dead situations and dead things around you are conspired by the devil for you to touch it with your flesh. 00:55:14.000 --> 00:55:30.000 And if you touch a dead thing, i.e. an evil thing, i.e. a thing that has its root in the demonic, i.e. a thing that has its root with how the devil thinks and his principles. 00:55:30.000 --> 00:55:36.000 If you touch those things with your flesh, it has the capacity to make you unclean. 00:55:37.000 --> 00:55:44.000 But if you were to touch it with your spirit, you have the capacity through the Spirit of God to give life. 00:55:44.000 --> 00:55:46.000 I'll explain it. 00:55:46.000 --> 00:55:55.000 So as I go through life, let's just say, hip and Daniel and William get together and they begin to talk about me. 00:55:55.000 --> 00:56:00.000 And, you know, let's just say I have a problem with whenever people talk about me, I react a certain way. 00:56:00.000 --> 00:56:01.000 What does the devil do? 00:56:01.000 --> 00:56:07.000 The devil can work with these three guys to keep saying something which is a dead thing. 00:56:07.000 --> 00:56:08.000 It's a dead situation. 00:56:08.000 --> 00:56:10.000 Its root is evil. 00:56:10.000 --> 00:56:13.000 It is designed for me to react a certain way. 00:56:13.000 --> 00:56:14.000 Correct? 00:56:14.000 --> 00:56:19.000 Because I always react without Christ with my flesh. 00:56:19.000 --> 00:56:20.000 How would I react? 00:56:20.000 --> 00:56:21.000 Hey, you shouldn't be doing this. 00:56:21.000 --> 00:56:23.000 You know, why are you keep on doing this stuff to me? 00:56:23.000 --> 00:56:27.000 Yeah, I had a yada or I'll go home and cry or I'll go home and there is some trigger. 00:56:27.000 --> 00:56:28.000 Whatever. 00:56:28.000 --> 00:56:29.000 You understand me? 00:56:29.000 --> 00:56:36.000 But that is me touching that situation with my flesh because I've heard it with my ears. 00:56:36.000 --> 00:56:38.000 I've thought about it with my mind. 00:56:38.000 --> 00:56:42.000 I have understood it with my psyche, whatever. 00:56:42.000 --> 00:56:46.000 And now I need to I have the rush to go back and touch this. 00:56:46.000 --> 00:56:57.000 It could be a form of temptation, but beyond a temptation, beyond the temptation, because one of the things that God does is like William said, 00:56:57.000 --> 00:57:00.000 Temptation is part and parcel of life. 00:57:00.000 --> 00:57:02.000 Temptations will come. 00:57:02.000 --> 00:57:06.000 But there are things that are beyond it, which is it's not that you were drawn to it. 00:57:06.000 --> 00:57:10.000 It is that it was placed right in front of you for you to touch it. 00:57:10.000 --> 00:57:11.000 You see the difference? 00:57:11.000 --> 00:57:13.000 It wasn't that you desired it. 00:57:13.000 --> 00:57:15.000 There is nothing that decided. 00:57:15.000 --> 00:57:19.000 You did not want anything to do with you are supposed to walk somewhere else and do something else. 00:57:19.000 --> 00:57:23.000 But it was put and placed in your path. 00:57:23.000 --> 00:57:29.000 That's how. 00:57:29.000 --> 00:57:36.000 So the way to think about it is the devil does that to distract you to have you touch on things that you shouldn't touch. 00:57:36.000 --> 00:57:40.000 OK, what is God's solution? 00:57:40.000 --> 00:57:49.000 God says, Derek, with instead of you touching it with your flesh, with your mind, with your understanding, I want you to touch it with your spirit. 00:57:49.000 --> 00:57:51.000 What happens when I do that? 00:57:51.000 --> 00:57:52.000 Same situation. 00:57:52.000 --> 00:57:54.000 I'll be able to address it differently. 00:57:54.000 --> 00:57:56.000 Here is what the word says. 00:57:56.000 --> 00:57:59.000 The word says overcome evil with. 00:57:59.000 --> 00:58:02.000 Ah, overcome evil with good. 00:58:02.000 --> 00:58:06.000 You don't count evil with your flesh. 00:58:06.000 --> 00:58:09.000 You don't count evil with your understanding. 00:58:09.000 --> 00:58:17.000 You overcome, overcome, overcome with your spirit. 00:58:17.000 --> 00:58:29.000 So I have the ability when I walk in spirit to look at certain things and say, I mean, I ain't going to touch it with my flesh, with my emotions, because that has the ability to cut up me. 00:58:29.000 --> 00:58:32.000 And then I'll always come out of it because I'll walk with God. 00:58:32.000 --> 00:58:34.000 But why waste 24 hours? 00:58:34.000 --> 00:58:36.000 Why waste 36 hours? 00:58:36.000 --> 00:58:37.000 Why waste a week? 00:58:37.000 --> 00:59:04.000 Why waste three months when all you've got to do is touch it by your spirit? 00:59:04.000 --> 00:59:09.000 Guys, there is something that the Lord gives us, which is wisdom and understanding. 00:59:09.000 --> 00:59:21.000 And when we practice this, there are certain things that the devil may have conspired for five years that loses power in a second. 00:59:21.000 --> 00:59:24.000 It does not have any impact. 00:59:24.000 --> 00:59:31.000 It won't have you trip because you have learned you've become a man, you've become a woman who walks in the spirit. 00:59:31.000 --> 00:59:40.000 This is why Ezekiel 37 is amazing because you begin to read it and it says as the water flows from the temple, who is the temple? 00:59:40.000 --> 00:59:41.000 You. 00:59:41.000 --> 00:59:47.000 As the water flows from you, rivers of living waters flow from you. 00:59:47.000 --> 00:59:48.000 What happens? 00:59:48.000 --> 00:59:52.000 Anything that it touches must become a life. 00:59:52.000 --> 00:59:56.000 Any dead thing will become alive. 00:59:56.000 --> 00:59:58.000 Do you believe it? 00:59:58.000 --> 01:00:02.000 Anything you and I touch in the spirit will become alive. 01:00:02.000 --> 01:00:04.000 It is the truth. 01:00:04.000 --> 01:00:07.000 It is the truth. 01:00:07.000 --> 01:00:23.000 So last thing. 01:00:23.000 --> 01:00:30.000 See, one of the things that God wants to do with us is for the work that is at hand. 01:00:30.000 --> 01:00:35.000 He also wants us to be equipped. 01:00:35.000 --> 01:00:47.000 And when Jacob said the things he said last week, fasting and praying, give yourself to it, which way you can. 01:00:47.000 --> 01:00:51.000 If you're part of this church, jump in. 01:00:51.000 --> 01:00:56.000 Don't stay on the sidelines. 01:00:56.000 --> 01:01:00.000 One of the things you should ask God for is. 01:01:00.000 --> 01:01:09.000 And this has been something that's been in my spirit for the last few days is I have a desire about to touch you. 01:01:09.000 --> 01:01:10.000 To touch you. 01:01:10.000 --> 01:01:13.000 I have a desire, Jesus, to touch you. 01:01:13.000 --> 01:01:16.000 I have a desire, Holy Spirit, to touch you. 01:01:16.000 --> 01:01:21.000 See that woman with the issue of blood touched Jesus. 01:01:21.000 --> 01:01:24.000 Mary Magdalene. 01:01:24.000 --> 01:01:31.000 She touched Jesus or tried to touch Jesus, tried to cling on to Jesus after Jesus had resurrected. 01:01:31.000 --> 01:01:32.000 What did Jesus say? 01:01:32.000 --> 01:01:36.000 Don't cling on to me because I've got to go to my father. 01:01:36.000 --> 01:01:44.000 In other words, what Jesus is saying, Mary, you can cling on to me when I am with my father. 01:01:44.000 --> 01:01:45.000 You can touch him. 01:01:45.000 --> 01:01:48.000 You can touch him. 01:01:48.000 --> 01:02:01.000 And I almost have this thing in my mind where it's almost like I want to touch the father and then I want to touch on the other side because that's the any dead thing. 01:02:01.000 --> 01:02:09.000 Anything that has to be touched in Richmond, any people situations in here outside where God wants to touch. 01:02:09.000 --> 01:02:11.000 What's the best way to deal with it? 01:02:11.000 --> 01:02:14.000 Guys, you touch the father, the son and the Holy Spirit. 01:02:14.000 --> 01:02:15.000 You touch him. 01:02:15.000 --> 01:02:16.000 You have life. 01:02:16.000 --> 01:02:19.000 You have power because the disciples in Acts chapter one eight. 01:02:19.000 --> 01:02:20.000 What did they do? 01:02:20.000 --> 01:02:22.000 What was the spirit supposed to do? 01:02:22.000 --> 01:02:23.000 Give them power. 01:02:23.000 --> 01:02:25.000 What happened when they received the Holy Spirit? 01:02:25.000 --> 01:02:26.000 They got power. 01:02:26.000 --> 01:02:27.000 Touch him. 01:02:27.000 --> 01:02:29.000 That's where the power is. 01:02:29.000 --> 01:02:36.000 So you have you touch him with one hand and then you can touch anything that God brings to you. 01:02:36.000 --> 01:02:44.000 And those things will come alive in the name of Christ Jesus, who is supreme Lord King over all. 01:02:44.000 --> 01:02:46.000 Yeah. 01:02:46.000 --> 01:02:52.000 Can we sing these are the days. 01:02:52.000 --> 01:02:56.000 So as you sing this song. 01:02:56.000 --> 01:03:02.000 See, normally we finish at six fifteen or six twenty. 01:03:02.000 --> 01:03:04.000 So we're finishing early today. 01:03:05.000 --> 01:03:08.000 I had to say it. 01:03:08.000 --> 01:03:19.000 So as as Tony sings. 01:03:19.000 --> 01:03:22.000 As Tony sings. 01:03:22.000 --> 01:03:33.000 Can you sing it from a place of this is what's supposed to happen with your life, with our lives, that these are indeed the days of Elijah, that these are indeed the days of David. 01:03:33.000 --> 01:03:40.000 These are indeed the days of Prosper, the days of Remy, the days of Tony, the days of hip. 01:03:40.000 --> 01:03:42.000 These are the days. 01:03:42.000 --> 01:03:51.000 The appointed times set apart by God for purposes on earth in you through you for you for others. 01:03:51.000 --> 01:03:53.000 These are the days. 01:03:53.000 --> 01:04:00.000 Can you make a special, a special vow, a special thing between you and him? 01:04:01.000 --> 01:04:06.000 Beyond what is asked, because you need him so much, because you desire him so much. 01:04:06.000 --> 01:04:08.000 Can you do that? 01:04:08.000 --> 01:04:16.000 Like I said, what's the point of living Christian life if we don't give and access everything that we have? 01:04:16.000 --> 01:04:19.000 And I say we have more we can touch. 01:04:19.000 --> 01:04:21.000 I say there is more we can receive. 01:04:21.000 --> 01:04:28.000 I say there is more we dare ask him because he is the all sufficient one who rules over the earth. 01:04:28.000 --> 01:04:31.000 And there is nothing he cannot do. 01:04:31.000 --> 01:04:34.000 Nothing he cannot do. 01:04:34.000 --> 01:04:38.000 Our father, there is no one like him. 01:04:38.000 --> 01:04:42.000 We should not allow the world to define and tell us what happens and what cannot. 01:04:42.000 --> 01:04:49.000 But because when a people stand up in agreement and a people say, Jesus, I want all of what you have for me. 01:04:49.000 --> 01:04:51.000 Something happens, man. 01:04:51.000 --> 01:04:53.000 This God responds to the cry of your hearts. 01:04:53.000 --> 01:04:56.000 This God hears every word you speak. 01:04:56.000 --> 01:04:58.000 This God gives when you ask. 01:04:58.000 --> 01:05:00.000 Then do it. Let's do it together.