WEBVTT NOTE Podcast: Acts 29 Vancouver Episode: Blazing Torches Publishing Date: 2023-07-30T06:00:44-07:00 Podcast URL: https://acts29.ca Episode URL: https://acts29.ca/blazing-torches/ 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:12.120 Okay, so this is the last part of the word that was given to us beginning of the year 00:00:12.120 --> 00:00:17.600 in Stornoway off the coast of Scotland where the first revival called the Hebrides revival 00:00:17.600 --> 00:00:25.440 had started and then felt the Lord saying, can I use you guys to reignite Hebrides 2.0 00:00:25.440 --> 00:00:31.400 across the earth where you guys will be able to announce and ignite different places and 00:00:31.400 --> 00:00:38.560 do what I did in the 1940s and the 1950s once again across the earth. I know it sounds impossible 00:00:38.560 --> 00:00:42.440 but haven't I done some really impossible things with you? So here's the word I have 00:00:42.440 --> 00:00:47.880 for you. Then he gave this word and we wrote it down and we've been teaching on this for 00:00:47.880 --> 00:00:54.320 the last eight weeks or so and he says, I'll send a purifying fire from heaven that burns 00:00:54.320 --> 00:01:00.920 up all religious and historical junk and I will march as the divine warrior marches. I will deliver 00:01:00.920 --> 00:01:07.080 young men and women from nations and I'll deliver them from nations into the kingdom. I'm calling 00:01:07.080 --> 00:01:13.160 sons and daughters. I'm calling them into a circle of dancing in abundance and joy and they'll dance 00:01:13.160 --> 00:01:21.160 before the lion and the lamb. And then it goes on to say that out of this will come a torch-bearing 00:01:21.400 --> 00:01:27.160 generation that goes forth and will not return empty. So we're going to talk about that today, 00:01:27.160 --> 00:01:32.080 a torch-bearing generation. What does that look like? So that's what we'll be talking about today. 00:01:32.080 --> 00:01:40.120 And just so we know, whenever I've been teaching this topic, anybody who's over 55 things, it 00:01:40.120 --> 00:01:47.280 doesn't apply to us because we're aiming at the 20s, the 30s and the 40s and so suddenly most of 00:01:47.440 --> 00:01:52.640 us who are over 50 think, oh that doesn't include me. So I want to clear that up once and for all so 00:01:52.640 --> 00:02:11.880 you see what's happening. God is saying to the 10s, 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s, 00:02:12.000 --> 00:02:21.720 does anyone over 90 meet me after the service? Okay, God is saying to any group that is between 00:02:21.720 --> 00:02:34.160 10 and 90 that listen, I want you to focus on the 20s, 30s and 40s. Is there anything there that you 00:02:34.160 --> 00:02:41.200 don't understand? Because we've got to clear this up because otherwise there is this tendency to 00:02:41.280 --> 00:02:49.600 think, but then what shall I do? I'm over 50. Voila! God is saying, hey 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s, 00:02:49.600 --> 00:02:55.840 80s, 90s, here's what I'm saying to you. I want you to focus on the thing that I'm emphasizing. 00:02:55.840 --> 00:03:01.040 What am I emphasizing? Over the next little while, could you please look at the teens, 00:03:01.040 --> 00:03:09.560 the 20s, the 30s and the 40s? So there's no way we can't be involved in this. It doesn't matter 00:03:09.560 --> 00:03:14.800 how old you are. You can be 10 and you're still being asked to be involved in this. He has shifted 00:03:14.800 --> 00:03:24.920 his focus to the teens, 20s, 30s and 40s. Why? Take it up with him. And when I make statements 00:03:24.920 --> 00:03:29.520 like God says, yeah, those are frightening statements, well then if it's hard for you to 00:03:29.520 --> 00:03:37.640 believe that, then I don't know where to go with that. Examine my track record or examine, not my 00:03:38.160 --> 00:03:47.560 track record, examine Acts 29's track record. And then after that, if you're able to receive it, 00:03:47.560 --> 00:03:54.600 run with it. If you're not able to receive it, then why are you wasting your time here? Go some 00:03:54.600 --> 00:04:02.680 place where the word is actually preached. Any questions on that introduction? 00:04:02.680 --> 00:04:14.920 This is specifically going to be ignited through this church. Yeah. We find it so hard to believe 00:04:14.920 --> 00:04:21.360 that God would do something so massive and so global through us. And that's understandable, 00:04:21.360 --> 00:04:26.020 because Gideon didn't think he was that kind of guy. Moses didn't think he was that kind of guy. 00:04:26.020 --> 00:04:32.320 David didn't even turn up in the lineup. Paul didn't think he was that kind of guy. Peter didn't 00:04:32.320 --> 00:04:37.160 think he was that kind of guy. He said, stay away from me, for I'm a sinner. There's not a single 00:04:37.160 --> 00:04:41.840 person who's been called whose response was, right on Jesus, you picked the right person. 00:04:41.840 --> 00:04:54.720 Nobody in the Bible said that. Everybody thought maybe he made a mistake. But how else do you think 00:04:55.720 --> 00:05:06.240 things across the earth? Through angels? Almost never. It's always through people who really 00:05:06.240 --> 00:05:20.760 don't have what it takes. Any questions? Yeah. So is this being ignited through this specific 00:05:20.760 --> 00:05:26.920 group of people? Yep. It's not even, oh, I'm involving you in something. I'm starting around 00:05:26.920 --> 00:05:34.880 the world. It is, I'm starting it with you. Others will be involved. Guys, if you can't receive it, 00:05:34.880 --> 00:05:44.200 then do one of two things. Rattle with it. Come and argue with me. Rattle with me on this. But 00:05:44.200 --> 00:05:52.640 if you still can't receive it, then this is the wrong church. Because it's speaking falsehoods. 00:05:52.640 --> 00:06:14.040 Any questions? Why specifically the 20s, 30s and 40s? I think the answer is so that the next 70 00:06:14.040 --> 00:06:23.120 years can be affected. If I get Sam, you're like my age, right? Actually older. So there's no point 00:06:23.120 --> 00:06:28.720 beginning a new work with you. But if, sorry, you ask the question, now you hear the answer. But if 00:06:28.720 --> 00:06:36.640 I picked your son Sam, he's 18. He's got 60 more years to run with it. And his mind is flexible. 00:06:36.640 --> 00:06:45.080 It's not settled. It's not, do you want me to go on? You know what I mean, right? Yeah. So that's why 00:06:45.080 --> 00:06:52.160 pick the 20s, 30s and 40s. You know how old Daniel and Shadrach and Meshach and Abednego were when 00:06:52.160 --> 00:06:57.600 they went to Israel, when they went to Babylon? About 19. Do you know how old David was when he 00:06:57.600 --> 00:07:07.680 was crowned king? 17. Do you know how young Mary was when she gave birth? 15 or 16. Do you know how 00:07:07.680 --> 00:07:15.840 young John was when he followed Jesus? Maybe 13 or 14. That's why he gets to write the Book of 00:07:15.840 --> 00:07:20.280 Revelation on the island of Patmos. Guys living forever. All the other guys died. They were older. 00:07:20.280 --> 00:07:29.440 There is sense to 20s, 30s and 40s being impacted because they run for a long time. And there are 00:07:29.440 --> 00:07:35.880 more 20s, 30s and 40s now on earth than there are 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s in any country except 00:07:35.880 --> 00:08:03.960 Prince John. Any questions? About Prince John, I won't be able to answer. Okay. No, no, no. 00:08:03.960 --> 00:08:20.200 Receive it if you can't wrestle with it. Are you able to believe it? To receive it is to believe 00:08:20.200 --> 00:08:25.000 something. You cannot receive something without believing it. But one should not believe anything 00:08:25.000 --> 00:08:31.480 anybody says, including me. One should not believe it. Look at what we are saying. We are saying that 00:08:31.480 --> 00:08:37.360 not me. Look at what I'm saying. I'm saying that God is saying this. That's a big thing to say, 00:08:37.360 --> 00:08:48.040 man. Either it's true or it's false. And if it's false, for the last eight weeks you've been 00:08:48.040 --> 00:08:54.120 listening to a whole lot of falsehood. No, the scriptures were right, but the principle would 00:08:54.120 --> 00:09:14.200 be false. That should be good enough reason to say the same, the right place. No, I'm saying this is 00:09:14.200 --> 00:09:19.280 what God wants to do with us. We are concluding this. We are in a very disorganized space today, 00:09:19.280 --> 00:09:32.040 so I'm okay going down this route. Guys, one of the things I really want to do is we must not 00:09:32.040 --> 00:09:38.240 escape these things. Either there must be God and they must pin us down because he jockeys for 00:09:38.240 --> 00:09:44.560 position and now he has you on the mat and you're crying uncle and saying, okay, I agree. Or we must 00:09:44.560 --> 00:09:51.880 rise up and say, this is not. And if it is not, then you have a reason to say, no, I don't want 00:09:51.880 --> 00:09:59.920 to sit under this. But you can't have both. It's not right because you slow down everybody. Any 00:09:59.920 --> 00:10:19.800 questions? Because let's for a second assume that I am right. Then what? Then at some point we will 00:10:19.800 --> 00:10:29.760 be responsible for igniting something across the earth. When history books are written, 00:10:29.760 --> 00:10:35.120 everything seems to happen in two years. The truth is it takes 10, 15 years for something to happen. 00:10:35.120 --> 00:10:48.500 Any questions? Any comments? Marcus, any questions? Yeah. Okay. Evan, any questions? 00:10:48.500 --> 00:11:07.140 Go ahead. Sorry. It is, but we can't force mass belief. So each individual has to decide where 00:11:07.140 --> 00:11:15.340 one is at. We can't force the church to believe something together. But I must force the church 00:11:15.340 --> 00:11:22.340 to face up to something or challenge something or wrestle with something. That is one thing Paul 00:11:22.340 --> 00:11:31.260 would continuously do in his letters. Okay. Because we are concluding this. So if you have 00:11:31.260 --> 00:11:38.500 any questions, now is the time to ask. So the emphasis is on the 20s, 30s and 40s. And one of 00:11:38.500 --> 00:11:47.300 the things that will happen if you begin to focus on this is that you will be... What's Psalm 103? 00:11:47.300 --> 00:11:54.340 He rescues my soul from hell. He surrounds me with loving kindness. He fills my years with good days 00:11:54.340 --> 00:12:07.900 so that my youth is renewed like the eagle. This is something that happens. Every time you partake 00:12:07.900 --> 00:12:14.300 in something that God is doing, either in a church or on earth or in a small community or with those 00:12:14.300 --> 00:12:26.780 that are in your charge, every time you do that, your life will be renewed. Always. Why? Because 00:12:26.780 --> 00:12:32.900 he needs you and you are obedient to him. And he says, okay, he is a willing candidate. Let me just 00:12:32.900 --> 00:12:38.260 pour into him. It doesn't have to be this. It can be anything you're doing in the house church or 00:12:38.260 --> 00:12:42.300 hub. Forget the house church or hub that you're doing yourself because God has asked you to do it. 00:12:42.300 --> 00:12:53.220 But the reason God is asking us to do this is because he finds his body faithful and able and 00:12:53.220 --> 00:12:58.740 willing. He wouldn't give it to us if he didn't think we were able. And he's definitely not giving 00:12:58.740 --> 00:13:05.340 to any one person. He's giving to an entire group of people saying, but you're able. This is why I'm 00:13:05.340 --> 00:13:20.900 giving it to you. And then will I step up? Will you step up? Today we're talking about blazing 00:13:20.900 --> 00:13:25.500 torches based on that scripture behind. And so one of the things, I was wondering how to go about it, 00:13:25.500 --> 00:13:29.260 I felt a lot saying, why don't you go look at blazing torches in the scriptures and build on 00:13:29.260 --> 00:13:37.740 that? So that's what I've done and that's how I'll be teaching this. And till we mold ourselves to 00:13:37.740 --> 00:13:49.900 become, we can't mold others. That's basically been the crux of what we've been doing over the 00:13:50.380 --> 00:13:59.500 last eight weeks. These things, unless we become it, unless we understand a purifying fire from 00:13:59.500 --> 00:14:06.060 heaven, unless we burn up religious and historical junk in our lives, unless we follow the divine 00:14:06.060 --> 00:14:12.220 warrior, unless we deliver young men and women into the kingdom, unless we behave like sons and 00:14:12.220 --> 00:14:17.660 daughters, unless we enter the circle of dancing and abundance and joy, unless we understand how 00:14:17.660 --> 00:14:22.460 to walk before the lion and the lamb, unless we become torch bearing, how do we mold it for others? 00:14:22.460 --> 00:14:26.540 It's not possible. And that's what these last eight weeks have been about. Can you become this 00:14:26.540 --> 00:14:40.220 so that you can mold it, mold others? So let's start with the first blazing torch. It was in 00:14:40.220 --> 00:14:51.820 Genesis 15 verses 5 to 7. It says that Abraham, 5 to 17, Genesis 15, 5 to 17, it says Abraham 00:14:52.540 --> 00:14:59.100 took a sacrifice, he cut it in two, and he left it there. And when he left it there, there was a 00:14:59.100 --> 00:15:04.300 torch that began to pass right through the center of it and it consumed the sacrifice eventually. 00:15:04.300 --> 00:15:09.820 And so one of the things we need to become, if you want to show 00:15:11.980 --> 00:15:15.740 the generation that is coming up, what is this to be torch bearing, 00:15:18.860 --> 00:15:24.220 one of the first things is separation in terms of 00:15:24.540 --> 00:15:35.980 purity, because that always results in the Bible in multiplication. Every time God separates 00:15:35.980 --> 00:15:43.020 something unto himself, it multiplies. Every time you separate your child to God and dedicate the 00:15:43.020 --> 00:15:48.700 child, the child begins to exponentially increase. Every time a church separates itself to a cause. 00:15:48.700 --> 00:15:52.940 Here's the other thing, guys. Just think for an instance that we separate ourselves to this. 00:15:53.740 --> 00:15:58.060 Part of the reason we said God will add is because we have been faithful to his call. 00:15:59.180 --> 00:16:04.700 We've been faithful to what he's called us to. Every time you separate yourself to anything that 00:16:04.700 --> 00:16:11.580 God demands of you, there is an increase. And every time you don't, you'll find that it doesn't matter 00:16:11.580 --> 00:16:15.740 how hard you try, you're being scooped up from inside. It's not God who does the scooping. 00:16:15.740 --> 00:16:22.460 There's an active enemy. The sad thing is people believe, people think that if they don't believe 00:16:22.460 --> 00:16:27.580 in Satan, that he disappears. That's such a cool deception that the enemy has. 00:16:29.980 --> 00:16:37.260 So every time I believe in God and I separate myself unto him, I'll always increase or multiply. 00:16:37.260 --> 00:16:41.180 The book of Genesis, Genesis chapter one is full of separation and multiplication, 00:16:41.180 --> 00:16:46.940 separation and multiplication. Anything he separates multiplies. Abraham separates these 00:16:46.940 --> 00:16:50.780 two pieces and he leaves them there and he leaves them there. And you know what it is in response 00:16:50.780 --> 00:16:54.540 to God says, listen, I want to make a covenant with you. He separates the pieces and leaves them 00:16:54.540 --> 00:16:59.900 there. A blazing torch comes, goes right between it. And then God says to Abraham, listen, from this 00:16:59.900 --> 00:17:05.660 day on, I'll multiply your descendants as I multiply the sands on the seashore, all the stars in the 00:17:05.660 --> 00:17:13.980 sky. So will your descendants be. It doesn't matter whether it's your marriage, whether it's your job, 00:17:13.980 --> 00:17:18.860 whether it's your money, whether it's your life, whether it's your spirituality starting Monday, 00:17:19.260 --> 00:17:25.980 whether it's dawn deciding on July 31st that I will walk with my shoulders back starting tomorrow, 00:17:25.980 --> 00:17:31.260 whatever you separate and dedicate to God will always multiply. This is the whole principle of 00:17:31.260 --> 00:17:38.460 dedication. Dedication is a separation unto God for multiplication. Yeah, sit right down. 00:17:42.860 --> 00:17:44.140 Any questions on that one? 00:17:44.140 --> 00:17:45.020 Any questions on that one? 00:17:47.420 --> 00:17:50.380 And this multiplication thing is real. I want to call Jane up. 00:17:50.380 --> 00:17:52.860 She got, God showed us something that I want her to share. 00:18:06.540 --> 00:18:07.820 Hey, can you turn that mic on? 00:18:14.140 --> 00:18:39.980 Hello. Good. So it actually started yesterday morning in the song, The Blessing. And there 00:18:39.980 --> 00:18:45.180 are two songs that just kept buzzing in my ear. It was The Blessing. And then, 00:18:45.180 --> 00:18:48.860 and that's the one where it talks about like, me and your children and your children and their 00:18:48.860 --> 00:18:55.420 children. That's fun. And then the second one was God with us. And I was just asking God, why, 00:18:55.980 --> 00:19:00.860 why are you putting these in my ear? And this morning again, I woke up with it. And then 00:19:00.860 --> 00:19:08.700 I just sat and just listened to this song, The Blessing. And it was like 2 30 this afternoon, 00:19:08.700 --> 00:19:13.740 2pm. And I was just sitting with Phoebe and Sheldon. We just had lunch. We're just sitting 00:19:13.740 --> 00:19:20.380 around the table. And we're listening to this song. And this is the words I hear. 00:19:21.580 --> 00:19:26.380 The Lord bless you and keep you. Turn his face towards you and be gracious to you. 00:19:26.940 --> 00:19:32.380 May his favor be upon you for a thousand generations and your children and their children 00:19:32.460 --> 00:19:40.060 and their children. He is for you. He is with you. And they repeat that like crazy. He is for you. 00:19:40.060 --> 00:19:44.860 He is for you. And sometimes that gets annoying. But this time, it was like God was like hammering 00:19:44.860 --> 00:19:51.580 that in is like, can you really get it? He is for you. He is with you. And as I was listening to the 00:19:51.580 --> 00:19:57.980 song, I had a vision. And the vision was Acts 29. It's not just it wasn't just a few individuals. 00:19:58.460 --> 00:20:04.460 Like I'm confident it was all of us. It wasn't for a few opening big doors. 00:20:05.660 --> 00:20:12.780 And today, as in this very day, we are opening as a church, big doors, and a multitude of people, 00:20:14.700 --> 00:20:21.340 a multitude of people are waiting to enter. Hundreds, maybe even thousands. 00:20:21.340 --> 00:20:28.540 And you know, their faces are turned toward us. They're waiting. And the thing that got me the 00:20:28.540 --> 00:20:36.620 most is that it was not about, hey, look to Jesus. They saw our faces. And they saw Jesus. 00:20:38.620 --> 00:20:44.780 None of us were excluded. They saw our faces. And they saw Jesus. 00:20:45.500 --> 00:20:53.900 And their lives were forever changed. And it'll go on generation after generation after generation. 00:20:54.620 --> 00:21:04.940 This thing is unstoppable. You need it you need to see with me the doors opening and the multitude 00:21:04.940 --> 00:21:17.580 of people. It was bursting at the seams. It was bursting at the seams. Can you see it with me, 00:21:17.580 --> 00:21:27.660 church? There's people after people after people waiting to see Jesus to see Jesus in your face. 00:21:28.140 --> 00:21:33.340 His favor on you and you'll shine that favor on them. 00:21:36.300 --> 00:21:42.620 These people are waiting. They're ready. And they're coming. It's ready. It's today. 00:21:46.380 --> 00:21:52.300 And as we march into this new territory for us, 00:21:52.300 --> 00:22:02.140 He wants our cry to be, God with us, God for us. Nothing can come against. No one can stand between us. 00:22:04.940 --> 00:22:14.940 Where there is death, He brings life. Where there is fear, He brings courage. And when we're afraid, 00:22:15.500 --> 00:22:23.580 He will be with us. And He will lift us up. He'll lift us up. 00:22:24.540 --> 00:22:26.220 He'll lift us up. 00:22:40.940 --> 00:22:44.460 Father, we just say amen. Amen. 00:22:45.420 --> 00:22:53.740 We hear your words and we say amen. We are stepping forward not knowing where we're going, 00:22:53.740 --> 00:23:03.100 but it is it is a step of obedience and we say to you we will continue to take it step by step as you lead. 00:23:04.060 --> 00:23:14.060 We follow. We want your will to be done in this on this earth and we want to be there in the middle of it. 00:23:14.060 --> 00:23:21.020 We don't want to miss anything. Thank you, Father. Thank you. Thank you that you are calling us. 00:23:22.780 --> 00:23:27.980 And we say yes. We say yes, Father. Amen. 00:23:33.580 --> 00:23:47.020 Father, we just thank you for your word and we say yes as Karen said. Yes. We long, Father, to see those come into the kingdom so that the next generation is not lost. 00:23:47.020 --> 00:23:57.980 Father, this is your desire so we know that you will bring it to pass and we know that we can do nothing without you. 00:23:58.060 --> 00:24:07.420 We can do nothing without you. So we just thank you that it is all you and we just say yes in Jesus name. Amen. 00:24:07.820 --> 00:24:25.820 I'll just read it again. I had a vision of Acts 29 opening big doors today to a multitude of people waiting to enter, hundreds, maybe even thousands. 00:24:25.900 --> 00:24:33.900 Their faces turned towards us. They will see us and see Jesus. Their lives and the lives of generations will be forever changed. 00:24:33.900 --> 00:24:43.900 And then Jane writes, I wept and wept. How can it be, Father? It's too amazing. I can't take it in. 00:24:43.980 --> 00:24:49.980 I mean, it's so not interested in numbers, guys. But the time has come for this to happen, eh? 00:24:49.980 --> 00:24:55.980 We've reached a critical mass and now it'll burst forth. And thank you for sticking around. 00:24:55.980 --> 00:24:59.980 Thank you for sticking around. You move us forward. 00:24:59.980 --> 00:25:03.980 Thank you for your words. Thank you for your words. 00:25:04.060 --> 00:25:06.060 Thank you for sticking around. 00:25:06.060 --> 00:25:08.060 Thank you for sticking around. 00:25:08.060 --> 00:25:10.060 Thank you for sticking around. 00:25:10.060 --> 00:25:12.060 Thank you for sticking around. 00:25:12.060 --> 00:25:14.060 Thank you for sticking around. 00:25:14.060 --> 00:25:18.060 You must see the fruit of your labor. 00:25:18.060 --> 00:25:22.060 You must see the fruit of your labor. 00:25:22.060 --> 00:25:26.060 Doesn't matter whether you came yesterday or 17 years ago. 00:25:26.060 --> 00:25:28.060 Thank you for sticking around. 00:25:34.060 --> 00:25:36.060 Thank you for sticking around. 00:25:38.060 --> 00:25:40.060 Set ourselves apart, eh? 00:25:40.060 --> 00:25:44.060 Even if it's a two-month in Burnaby and then don't know where we'll be going next. 00:25:44.060 --> 00:25:46.060 Set ourselves apart. 00:25:46.060 --> 00:25:52.060 Because every time we set ourselves apart and dedicate ourselves to something God wants to do, 00:25:52.060 --> 00:25:54.060 there's always increase in multiplication. 00:25:54.060 --> 00:25:58.060 In your own lives and in the lives of others. 00:25:58.060 --> 00:26:02.060 When you get a chance this week, talk to the Lord about it saying, 00:26:02.140 --> 00:26:04.140 Ready? 00:26:16.140 --> 00:26:24.140 The second mention of blazing torches is in Judges 720. 00:26:24.220 --> 00:26:32.220 And it's the story of Gideon, who has blazing torches hidden in jars of clay. 00:26:36.220 --> 00:26:42.220 These are things we first need to become so that we can teach it to the generation that is coming. 00:26:42.220 --> 00:26:52.220 One of the things God really wants us to do is, hey, can I make you a company of battle-ready people? 00:26:52.300 --> 00:26:54.300 Make you a company of battle-ready people. 00:27:00.300 --> 00:27:02.300 Battle-ready people. 00:27:02.300 --> 00:27:12.300 With trumpets, pitchers, and torches, like in the story of Gideon. 00:27:14.300 --> 00:27:16.300 It's odd how the story works out. 00:27:16.300 --> 00:27:21.300 Gideon says, listen, take this blazing torch, put it in the pitcher, 00:27:21.380 --> 00:27:23.380 but keep your eyes on me. 00:27:23.380 --> 00:27:25.380 I'll tell you when to break the pitcher. 00:27:25.380 --> 00:27:28.380 And in the middle of the battle, don't look anywhere else. 00:27:28.380 --> 00:27:30.380 Don't react to the enemy. 00:27:30.380 --> 00:27:35.380 Don't be gung-ho and take a step before I tell you, keep your eyes on me. 00:27:35.380 --> 00:27:38.380 And as you keep your eyes on me, I'll tell you when to break the pitcher. 00:27:38.380 --> 00:27:41.380 And you will see these blazing torches, the enemy will see these blazing torches. 00:27:41.380 --> 00:27:43.380 And when they see it, they'll panic. 00:27:43.380 --> 00:27:45.380 But keep your eyes on me, I'll tell you when. 00:27:45.380 --> 00:27:50.380 And then when they do that, there's this huge shout from 300 men divided into three companies 00:27:50.460 --> 00:27:52.460 overlooking the enemy camp. 00:27:52.460 --> 00:27:54.460 And they all shout for the Lord and for Gideon. 00:27:54.460 --> 00:27:59.460 And the entire Amalekite, or I think it's the Amalekite army, just panics. 00:27:59.460 --> 00:28:06.460 Can you be raised into a company of battle-ready people? 00:28:06.460 --> 00:28:13.460 In Judges chapter 3, it actually says, God left enemy nations in the land 00:28:13.460 --> 00:28:17.460 so that Israel would learn how to fight. 00:28:17.540 --> 00:28:22.540 That he actually left opposition in the land so that Israel would learn how to fight. 00:28:22.540 --> 00:28:27.540 Because when he looked at the people of Israel, the older generation that had fought had passed away 00:28:27.540 --> 00:28:30.540 and who remained were ones that had never fought a battle. 00:28:30.540 --> 00:28:35.540 And so he didn't want the people to be wimpy sissy. 00:28:35.540 --> 00:28:37.540 He wanted them to be strong. 00:28:37.540 --> 00:28:41.540 And so he says, I'll leave opposition so that you can muscle up. 00:28:41.540 --> 00:28:44.540 And that's what he's looking for now. 00:28:44.540 --> 00:28:46.540 Can you be battle-ready? 00:28:46.620 --> 00:28:48.620 What does it take to be battle-ready? 00:28:48.620 --> 00:29:02.620 To be battle-ready, the only real thing it takes is can you work with what you have been given? 00:29:02.700 --> 00:29:25.700 Be it a trumpet, a pitcher, a torch, be it a jar of oil, five stones, or a sling. 00:29:25.700 --> 00:29:29.700 Whatever is given, whatever you have in your hand, 00:29:29.780 --> 00:29:33.780 instead of looking for the next big thing, can you take what you presently have? 00:29:33.780 --> 00:29:36.780 Can you, Moses, work with a staff? 00:29:40.780 --> 00:29:43.780 Can you, Samson, work with the jawbone of an ass? 00:29:48.780 --> 00:29:50.780 Begin with whatever you have in your hand. 00:29:50.780 --> 00:29:51.780 That's the first thing. 00:29:51.780 --> 00:29:58.780 And the second thing is, can you follow others? 00:29:58.860 --> 00:30:00.860 Two simple things to be battle-ready. 00:30:00.860 --> 00:30:01.860 That's it. 00:30:01.860 --> 00:30:03.860 Nothing else. 00:30:03.860 --> 00:30:05.860 We do this at work. 00:30:05.860 --> 00:30:07.860 We do this everywhere. 00:30:07.860 --> 00:30:08.860 Why not do it here, too? 00:30:08.860 --> 00:30:10.860 By here, I don't mean church. 00:30:11.860 --> 00:30:15.860 I mean when you're sent out, when you're deployed, when you're dispatched to do something. 00:30:15.860 --> 00:30:17.860 These are the only two things required. 00:30:17.860 --> 00:30:21.860 Everything else is a matter of getting more skillful at it. 00:30:22.860 --> 00:30:27.860 And the one who makes you more skillful is the Holy Spirit and equippers who the Holy Spirit sends your way. 00:30:27.940 --> 00:30:28.940 That's how we learned. 00:30:28.940 --> 00:30:33.940 Everybody here who has any skill at anything learned it, not because they were born with it, 00:30:33.940 --> 00:30:37.940 but because God sent the right people into your lives at the right time to teach you that skill. 00:30:37.940 --> 00:30:41.940 It's the only two requirements, but it's the hardest requirements. 00:30:41.940 --> 00:30:42.940 Why? 00:30:42.940 --> 00:30:45.940 Because what is this replaced by? 00:30:45.940 --> 00:30:49.940 This is replaced by, give me a position, give me a role, give me something to do. 00:30:49.940 --> 00:30:52.940 That's not how this works. 00:30:52.940 --> 00:30:54.940 It doesn't matter what's given in your hand. 00:30:55.020 --> 00:30:58.020 And the second one is, can you follow orders? 00:31:00.020 --> 00:31:03.020 It's the only thing required for battle readiness, nothing else. 00:31:09.020 --> 00:31:14.020 It's the guys who know how to do this when they are told to drink water from a lake, 00:31:14.020 --> 00:31:18.020 they're the ones who will go and lap up the water like a dog. 00:31:20.020 --> 00:31:22.020 Like Gideon's 300. 00:31:22.100 --> 00:31:25.100 The movie 300 is different, eh? 00:31:34.100 --> 00:31:37.100 One of the things God loves doing is training us for war. 00:31:42.100 --> 00:31:47.100 Like I've said before, if there is kingdom and there is, 00:31:47.180 --> 00:31:50.180 then there is war. 00:31:53.180 --> 00:31:58.180 They are so together that you cannot have one without the other. 00:31:58.180 --> 00:32:01.180 If there is kingdom, there is war. 00:32:03.180 --> 00:32:07.180 The moment God said, I am establishing a kingdom, 00:32:07.180 --> 00:32:11.180 the very moment God said, know that there will be conflict. 00:32:11.260 --> 00:32:16.260 And be the plagues in Egypt, which was basically a conflict between Yahweh 00:32:16.260 --> 00:32:19.260 and the different gods that were being defeated in every plague. 00:32:22.260 --> 00:32:25.260 Or whether it be Paul in Ephesus, 00:32:28.260 --> 00:32:31.260 whenever there is kingdom, there is war, and there is a kingdom, therefore there is war. 00:32:31.260 --> 00:32:34.260 And one of the things God wants to desperately do is, 00:32:34.260 --> 00:32:37.260 he can't let the kingdom be defeated by the other. 00:32:37.340 --> 00:32:40.340 But training for a war requires these two things. 00:32:40.340 --> 00:32:43.340 This is where he runs into trouble. 00:32:43.340 --> 00:32:46.340 Any questions? 00:32:50.340 --> 00:32:53.340 Yeah, because the sword of the spirit is the word of God. 00:32:53.340 --> 00:32:56.340 So the moment we say train for war, 00:32:56.340 --> 00:32:59.340 and they are training us for war, 00:32:59.340 --> 00:33:02.340 then we are training them for war. 00:33:02.340 --> 00:33:05.340 So the moment we say train for war, 00:33:05.420 --> 00:33:10.420 and David says in the Psalms, train my hands for war and my fingers for battle, 00:33:10.420 --> 00:33:13.420 what he basically means is that, listen, 00:33:13.420 --> 00:33:18.420 the only thing you have that is offensive in your armory is the word of God. 00:33:18.420 --> 00:33:20.420 But it is not the knowledge of the word of God, 00:33:20.420 --> 00:33:23.420 it is the wielding of the word of God. 00:33:23.420 --> 00:33:27.420 People can be highly skilled with tons of knowledge in Hebrew and Greek about the word, 00:33:27.420 --> 00:33:29.420 but if you don't know how to wield it, 00:33:29.420 --> 00:33:32.420 I mean, give me a tennis racket and a ball and see what happens. 00:33:32.420 --> 00:33:34.420 You'll have your head knocked off. 00:33:34.500 --> 00:33:37.500 By the racket, not the ball. 00:33:37.500 --> 00:33:42.500 So just because you have something in your hand does not mean that you know how to use it. 00:33:42.500 --> 00:33:45.500 The wielding of it is the effective part of it. 00:33:47.500 --> 00:33:50.500 Hamari was so impressed with the answer, she got up and left. 00:33:56.500 --> 00:34:03.500 The next torch we see is in Judges 15-4. 00:34:03.580 --> 00:34:16.580 Where Samson catches the foxes that spoil the wine, 00:34:16.580 --> 00:34:25.580 that are spoiling the wine, and he ties their tails together. 00:34:25.660 --> 00:34:32.660 Can you imagine him doing it now? 00:34:32.660 --> 00:34:34.660 The environmentalists would be so upset. 00:34:34.660 --> 00:34:41.660 He ties their tails together and puts a torch, 00:34:41.660 --> 00:34:46.660 ties a torch to their tail, a blazing torch to their tail, 00:34:46.660 --> 00:34:54.660 and sends the foxes back into the enemy's fields. 00:34:55.660 --> 00:34:58.660 What is the point? 00:34:58.660 --> 00:35:01.660 That hey, if you come and spoil my vineyard, 00:35:01.660 --> 00:35:04.660 I'm going to catch you, I'm going to tie your tails together, 00:35:04.660 --> 00:35:08.660 set your tails on fire, and send you back right into the enemy's standing grain 00:35:08.660 --> 00:35:12.660 so that the enemy suffers defeat and you are spared. 00:35:12.660 --> 00:35:17.660 It's one of the things God wants to do with us so that we can teach the younger generation. 00:35:17.660 --> 00:35:21.660 Man, when we went to Prince George and we saw the young people there raring to go away, 00:35:21.660 --> 00:35:22.660 they don't know what to do. 00:35:22.740 --> 00:35:26.740 This is the pastor telling us, Jacob, I don't know what to do next. 00:35:26.740 --> 00:35:31.740 Sometimes they're there and some of them are leading worship, 00:35:31.740 --> 00:35:34.740 some of them have their hands raised, and then they don't know what to do next. 00:35:34.740 --> 00:35:38.740 After three songs are over, they don't know what to do, 00:35:38.740 --> 00:35:41.740 but they know there's something more. 00:35:45.740 --> 00:35:48.740 Guys, you heard what she saw. 00:35:48.740 --> 00:35:51.740 They didn't look at Jesus, they looked at you. 00:35:51.820 --> 00:36:06.820 We must learn how to plunder Satan. 00:36:06.820 --> 00:36:09.820 Where's that from? 00:36:09.820 --> 00:36:13.820 Matthew 12, 28, 29. 00:36:13.820 --> 00:36:14.820 What does it say? 00:36:14.820 --> 00:36:17.820 Hey, if you want to go rescue people, 00:36:17.900 --> 00:36:24.900 and let's say I want to rescue Dilna, 00:36:24.900 --> 00:36:31.900 but Superman Sheldon is outside Dilna's house 00:36:31.900 --> 00:36:34.900 and it's impossible to get to Dilna to rescue. 00:36:34.900 --> 00:36:37.900 So what I have to do is I have to tie him up first. 00:36:37.900 --> 00:36:43.900 I have to tie him up first so that now that he's tied up, 00:36:43.980 --> 00:36:50.980 I can go and plunder the house in which he's captive and get him out. 00:36:50.980 --> 00:36:53.980 Matthew 12, 28, and 29 actually talks about this, 00:36:53.980 --> 00:36:57.980 that Satan actually takes people captive. 00:36:57.980 --> 00:37:02.980 Will you go and bind up the strong man so that after you have bound him up, 00:37:02.980 --> 00:37:07.980 you can enter his house and plunder his goods and rescue people? 00:37:08.060 --> 00:37:21.060 The point being, if this church cannot rescue others, 00:37:21.140 --> 00:37:32.140 a whole generation continues in captivity 00:37:32.140 --> 00:37:40.140 and the generation after them. 00:37:42.140 --> 00:37:44.140 So will God allow this to happen? 00:37:44.140 --> 00:37:50.140 No, he won't, but he'll move on to someone else who's ready to learn. 00:37:50.220 --> 00:37:53.220 And I don't want that. 00:37:53.220 --> 00:38:00.220 Hey, when God decides something, he'll get his way. 00:38:00.220 --> 00:38:05.220 He'll get it through either a hundred people or he'll get it through one person. 00:38:05.220 --> 00:38:08.220 But a hundred people he wanted to start with will miss out. 00:38:08.220 --> 00:38:11.220 Don't want that to happen. 00:38:11.220 --> 00:38:15.220 One of the things he wants to do is, 00:38:15.300 --> 00:38:22.300 Hey, Jill, hey, Don, hey, Jagan, can I teach you how to plunder the devil? 00:38:22.300 --> 00:38:23.300 Plunder him. 00:38:23.300 --> 00:38:26.300 He has robbed, he has taken away lives, 00:38:26.300 --> 00:38:31.300 he has put them away in his shelf as his trophies, his captives. 00:38:31.300 --> 00:38:33.300 Can I use you? Can I teach you? 00:38:33.300 --> 00:38:36.300 Can I train you to go and bind up the strong man, 00:38:36.300 --> 00:38:39.300 go into houses that are impossible to go to and rescue people? 00:38:39.300 --> 00:38:41.300 Not out of false religion alone. 00:38:41.300 --> 00:38:43.300 Rescue people out of captivity. 00:38:43.380 --> 00:38:47.380 Take them out from the mindsets, the stubbornness, the pride, 00:38:47.380 --> 00:38:52.380 the lust, the sickness, the depravity that people are caught up in. 00:38:52.380 --> 00:38:54.380 Can I help you? Can I ask you to rescue? 00:38:54.380 --> 00:38:57.380 Can you do it like my son Jesus did it? 00:38:57.380 --> 00:38:59.380 That's what he's asking. 00:38:59.380 --> 00:39:02.380 All this goes back to the first one. 00:39:02.380 --> 00:39:04.380 Can you separate yourself from this? 00:39:04.380 --> 00:39:08.380 One of the greatest ways to increase in authority is purity. 00:39:08.380 --> 00:39:12.380 There is no shortcut to authority except purity. 00:39:12.460 --> 00:39:17.460 Why? Because purity allows you to be next to the one who is absolutely pure. 00:39:17.460 --> 00:39:22.460 Authority is simply you being close to the one who has all authority. 00:39:22.460 --> 00:39:24.460 And that can only come through purity. 00:39:24.460 --> 00:39:27.460 Otherwise, it doesn't matter how learned you are, 00:39:27.460 --> 00:39:32.460 there is no way you'll have authority unless there is purity. 00:39:32.460 --> 00:39:37.460 Our lifelong quest then is increase in purity, not for your own sake, 00:39:37.460 --> 00:39:41.460 not even to be a pure Christian, but so that you can set others free, man. 00:39:41.540 --> 00:39:44.880 Purity is proof of your intimacy with God, 00:39:44.880 --> 00:39:47.880 and your intimacy with God intimidates the enemy. 00:39:47.880 --> 00:39:50.900 Purity is proof of your intimacy with God. 00:39:50.900 --> 00:39:53.900 And your intimacy with God intimidates the enemy. 00:39:57.900 --> 00:40:00.900 Purity is proof of your intimacy with God, 00:40:00.900 --> 00:40:03.900 and your intimacy with God intimidates the enemy. 00:40:05.900 --> 00:40:07.900 Nothing else intimidates them. 00:40:07.900 --> 00:40:17.500 nothing else intimidates him. You think the name of Jesus works without intimacy? 00:40:17.500 --> 00:40:26.260 Absolutely not. You saw what happened to the seven sons of Skiwa. Oh my God isn't 00:40:26.260 --> 00:40:32.700 there enough room for all of us to increase in purity? Definitely in my life. 00:40:32.700 --> 00:40:41.140 Blazing torches, blazing purity. So one of the things he wants to do is, hey can 00:40:41.140 --> 00:40:47.820 I have you plunder Satan so that you can visit judgment upon the enemy? Visit 00:40:47.820 --> 00:40:55.740 judgment. Visit judgment. Is it a New Testament thing? Want to see visiting 00:40:55.740 --> 00:41:00.500 judgment in the New Testament? Ananase and Sapphira. Thank God it doesn't happen. 00:41:00.500 --> 00:41:07.660 Half the church including the pastor would be dead by now. Ananase and Sapphira. 00:41:07.660 --> 00:41:13.580 Herod, at least that's in, I mean they were lying against the Holy Spirit, 00:41:13.580 --> 00:41:17.340 conspiring against him, trying to destroy the fledgling church. But now let's go to 00:41:17.340 --> 00:41:22.100 Herod. He's standing there, he's sitting there on his throne beginning to talk 00:41:22.100 --> 00:41:25.820 great about himself and compare himself with God. It says Maggots ate up his 00:41:25.820 --> 00:41:31.300 inside and he died on the spot. We want a good God who is so loving that 00:41:31.300 --> 00:41:34.860 everything is come come come it's okay it's okay. 00:41:34.860 --> 00:41:39.420 Occasionally this God, and we talked about it last week, we said the Holy 00:41:39.420 --> 00:41:47.100 Spirit can be a spirit of wrath. Don't talk about this it's not right. We want a 00:41:47.100 --> 00:41:53.580 loving God. Well too bad. He said this about himself. He's super loving man. 00:41:53.620 --> 00:41:58.300 That's the first thing is. But he also puts in this line in Galatians 6 which 00:41:58.300 --> 00:42:02.500 says, do not be deceived, God is not mocked. 00:42:08.140 --> 00:42:17.540 Visit judgment on the enemy. We don't know how to do this as a church. Some of 00:42:17.540 --> 00:42:22.500 us may know how to do it. We don't know how to do this as a church. 00:42:22.700 --> 00:42:26.980 Do you remember the times when he had 50 days of prayer? The reason we stopped at 00:42:26.980 --> 00:42:30.540 day 27 is because they realized that if we go further we don't know how to do 00:42:30.540 --> 00:42:36.220 this. We had 50 days of prayer. We got to day 27 and then we shut down because 00:42:36.220 --> 00:42:40.580 everything else after that that had to be done would require this and you can't 00:42:40.580 --> 00:42:48.200 fake it. You want to see visit judgment in the Old Testament? They bring in the 00:42:48.200 --> 00:42:52.920 archer covenant into the temple of Dagon in 1st Samuel 5. They put the arch in the 00:42:52.920 --> 00:42:57.400 temple and guess what happens? Dagon this fish god falls flat on his face. So what 00:42:57.400 --> 00:43:02.600 did they do? They put super glue and put him up again and they try that and he 00:43:02.600 --> 00:43:07.320 falls again. Then they put gorilla glue and they put him up again and he falls 00:43:07.320 --> 00:43:10.840 again and he falls and he's broken into so many pieces that they can't put Humpty 00:43:10.840 --> 00:43:13.640 Dumpty together again. 00:43:13.640 --> 00:43:21.760 Where does this come from? The purer I walk the greater the authority and the 00:43:21.760 --> 00:43:27.560 glory of God that is upon me. And if you don't see it there's two reasons you 00:43:27.560 --> 00:43:33.480 don't see it. One, I don't have it. Two, we can be blind. So let's go with one I don't 00:43:33.480 --> 00:43:42.440 have it for now. But tomorrow we can increase in it. I must see the same 00:43:42.440 --> 00:43:52.040 thing in you. Either you don't have it or my eyes are blind. There's so much room 00:43:52.040 --> 00:43:57.140 for us guys. Be encouraged by this. This is not a dissing down. This is my God 00:43:57.140 --> 00:44:03.200 there's so much room for us to grow. So much room. We can all increase in this. 00:44:03.200 --> 00:44:08.800 Can you imagine you walking into this church and people highly aware of the 00:44:08.800 --> 00:44:19.520 presence of God on you man? Even though we are familiar with each other. Did you 00:44:19.520 --> 00:44:24.960 notice while Dilna was singing how different he was from the Dilna we know? 00:44:24.960 --> 00:44:30.320 What happens to a man suddenly? There are these moments which he glimpsed it. We 00:44:30.320 --> 00:44:33.640 see it on everybody. I've seen it sometimes when Mike is playing his sax, 00:44:33.800 --> 00:44:40.360 when Jonah Sue start praying, when Dilna came up here. You see it on people. You 00:44:40.360 --> 00:44:45.080 see suddenly that God is upon them. Even though we are familiar with all of them 00:44:45.080 --> 00:44:51.040 and we know them like the back of our hand. Yet we see it on them. What if all 00:44:51.040 --> 00:44:54.400 of us began increasing this and God will do it if our people are faithful 00:44:54.400 --> 00:45:00.340 because we have been faithful guys. Count yourself as one of the faithful in this 00:45:00.340 --> 00:45:06.300 church if you're sitting here right now. Really God will do this but as you walk 00:45:06.300 --> 00:45:10.860 in now it'll become commonplace to look at Evan, to look at Don, to look at Sophia 00:45:10.860 --> 00:45:23.700 and say, our shucks man. These guys walk in and you know they carry him. It's so 00:45:23.700 --> 00:45:26.460 possible guys. 00:45:30.340 --> 00:45:34.340 Going into this will be fun. 00:45:34.340 --> 00:45:58.300 What is purity? Purity is not perfection. Purity is the relentless 00:45:58.300 --> 00:46:09.940 pursuit of God with an increasing appetite for holiness that becomes 00:46:09.940 --> 00:46:15.980 natural. A relentless pursuit of God with an increasing appetite for holiness 00:46:15.980 --> 00:46:22.740 that becomes natural. It isn't because you're a Christian. It isn't because you 00:46:22.740 --> 00:46:26.860 want to go to heaven or you want more authority. It is the same thing that 00:46:26.860 --> 00:46:31.500 happens when you're so deeply in love with someone. Have you relentlessly 00:46:31.500 --> 00:46:38.940 pursue that person with an appetite for everything they are and it becomes 00:46:38.940 --> 00:46:45.340 natural till you become like them and it is your desire. It's not even something 00:46:45.340 --> 00:46:55.780 you have to force yourself to. It is just so natural for you. Yeah a childlike 00:46:55.820 --> 00:47:07.740 in your pursuit. I want to be like my dad. That's how this happens and then you 00:47:07.740 --> 00:47:11.260 don't even care about perfection. You don't even care about falling and 00:47:11.260 --> 00:47:21.660 falling down. You just get up. That's what this looks like and it's natural. 00:47:21.700 --> 00:47:45.180 It's not Christian. Let's do one more and stop. In Isaiah 62 verse 1 talks 00:47:45.180 --> 00:47:59.300 about the blazing torch of salvation. The blazing torch of salvation. Strangely 00:47:59.300 --> 00:48:02.860 enough when you actually read the verse it's not saying oh I want you to carry 00:48:02.860 --> 00:48:07.340 a blazing torch and go evangelize. It says hey if you are saved can I let my 00:48:07.340 --> 00:48:12.340 justice and righteousness reside upon you and be seen through you. It's exactly 00:48:12.420 --> 00:48:19.340 what what's her name was talking about. Can I let people see that you are 00:48:19.340 --> 00:48:24.020 rescued, that you are forgiven, that you are special, that you're different. Can I 00:48:24.020 --> 00:48:30.740 can you show it to them to a point where they desire it. Where they desire it. 00:48:30.740 --> 00:48:36.500 Unused words too. We were flying back from Prince George and Derek and I had 00:48:36.500 --> 00:48:41.660 seats together and then they gave Derek 19 C which was right in the back. I was 00:48:41.660 --> 00:48:44.100 grateful because I thought at least now I don't have to talk to him and I can 00:48:44.100 --> 00:48:50.900 prepare my notes. And so he's now sitting in 19 C and before he left here the 00:48:50.900 --> 00:48:55.340 Lord had told him to take a pen with him. And so he takes a pen and there's this 00:48:55.340 --> 00:48:59.660 girl from LA who comes and sits next to him and he takes this pen and he starts 00:48:59.660 --> 00:49:03.660 writing a letter to her. Finishes the letter and at the end of the 00:49:03.660 --> 00:49:08.060 flight he takes the letter and gives it to her saying I just wanted to give you 00:49:08.060 --> 00:49:12.860 this letter there's something I'm writing to you and he's written about 00:49:12.860 --> 00:49:17.140 her life how difficult it is the things that have happened what God wants to do 00:49:17.140 --> 00:49:25.780 for her. And so at times we use words. In Isaiah 62 one God is saying can I use 00:49:25.780 --> 00:49:37.580 the blazing torch of salvation to shine through your life. And then use words too. 00:49:38.340 --> 00:49:52.060 Let's just stop there. If I'm able to do this if you are able to do this for three 00:49:52.060 --> 00:50:04.780 young men or three young women that's all we do. What if one of those young men 00:50:04.820 --> 00:50:09.100 becomes someone who has tremendous influence in some part of the world 00:50:09.100 --> 00:50:15.380 someday. What if one of those young men turns out to be someone like you or 00:50:15.380 --> 00:50:21.060 someone like me that has lesser influence but still has influence. 00:50:26.940 --> 00:50:31.700 Anyone who thinks they are not able of doing this should perish that thought 00:50:31.700 --> 00:50:40.580 today. One of the things God said to this church in 2005 before this church 00:50:40.580 --> 00:50:50.300 was registered. This church was registered Feb 2006. In Feb 2005 there's a man called 00:50:50.300 --> 00:50:58.860 Wyn Goss. He was Scottish. I'm in the city in the UK and this guy comes up. He 00:50:58.860 --> 00:51:06.220 died some years ago. He comes up and he doesn't even know that a church was 00:51:06.220 --> 00:51:11.180 going to be formed. But this is what he said. I want you to be reminded of it at 00:51:11.180 --> 00:51:17.100 this state as we go forward. He said 00:51:17.100 --> 00:51:39.300 Here are his words. That this church that will be formed out of this church will go gifts, 00:51:39.500 --> 00:51:46.180 ministries and anointings. Out of this church that didn't exist will spring forth 00:51:46.180 --> 00:51:54.420 people, young men, young women, bishops, strong apostolic ministries, strong 00:51:54.420 --> 00:51:59.060 teachers who will go out from your company and they will reproduce this 00:51:59.060 --> 00:52:08.620 anointing across the earth. This was before the church was formed. I'll read 00:52:08.620 --> 00:52:12.820 this one more time. Gifts, ministries, anointings are about to spring forth in 00:52:12.820 --> 00:52:19.620 this church and in these people. Young men, young women, bishops, strong apostolic 00:52:19.620 --> 00:52:24.500 ministries, strong teachers will be going out from your company and they will 00:52:24.500 --> 00:52:30.020 reproduce this anointing. This is the first of many that will come out of Acts 00:52:30.020 --> 00:52:36.500 29. This is what was said. This was 18 years ago before the church was formed 00:52:36.500 --> 00:52:40.380 and God will be faithful. It's already happened multiple times and it'll keep 00:52:40.380 --> 00:52:45.140 happening. So as we step, as we leave this place and step into the next place, just 00:52:45.140 --> 00:52:52.620 remember that. Just remember that. Be part of it. One of the things that Derek and 00:52:52.620 --> 00:53:00.860 I are shaping and forming is this ministry called Square One and Square One 00:53:00.860 --> 00:53:09.380 is the vision that God gave them was, okay, can we do this? Can we go to 00:53:09.380 --> 00:53:14.980 different cities in Canada to begin with and begin to affect young people? Begin 00:53:14.980 --> 00:53:18.460 to affect young people. Prince George was one of the areas he wanted to explore. 00:53:18.460 --> 00:53:24.740 Other cities too. And so what if you came up with something like this? What if you 00:53:24.740 --> 00:53:30.580 desire the ministry that is not something that will operate as a maverick, 00:53:30.580 --> 00:53:34.180 operate as something on its own? But what if it ties in with everything that 00:53:34.180 --> 00:53:38.940 God wants to do? What if it ties in with everything that God wants to do? Is it 00:53:38.940 --> 00:53:43.820 that you want to train people to march as divine warriors? Is it that you want to 00:53:43.820 --> 00:53:47.140 help people become sons and daughters? Is it that you want to teach them how to 00:53:47.140 --> 00:53:51.180 enter the circle of dancing joy and abundance? What do you want to do 00:53:51.180 --> 00:53:59.220 in this line of work? And once you begin to come up with it, then isn't it 00:53:59.380 --> 00:54:04.420 incumbent upon this church to begin to help you fulfill this word that out of 00:54:04.420 --> 00:54:08.260 this church will go ministries, will go apostolic callings, will go bishops, will 00:54:08.260 --> 00:54:14.820 go strong teaching ministries across the earth. The time has come. It doesn't mean 00:54:14.820 --> 00:54:19.060 you turn up and say, all right, this is what I've decided to do. No. The moment 00:54:19.060 --> 00:54:22.140 you say that, then begins the whole process of how do you do it and how do 00:54:22.140 --> 00:54:28.380 you train to be effective. But it's worth giving it a shot. When Derek and 00:54:28.380 --> 00:54:32.420 Marius approached me there, the thing was, hey, Jacob, can you help us? Can you send us? 00:54:32.420 --> 00:54:37.100 Can you train us? And can you help make this a reality? What about you and what 00:54:37.100 --> 00:54:41.300 you want to do? It's no longer the church that does it. It's individuals that 00:54:41.300 --> 00:54:46.340 begin to now express what God has put in their womb for years, but the time has 00:54:46.340 --> 00:54:56.100 come. Think about it and hold me not to my word, but hold me to the word that God 00:54:56.100 --> 00:55:05.420 spoke about this church in 2005 before the church was formed. Don't get put off 00:55:05.420 --> 00:55:09.340 if I say, great, so let's start training and can you do this, this, and this. No, no, no, I 00:55:09.340 --> 00:55:19.140 just want to go straight into ministry. It won't happen. I told my dad I wanted to 00:55:19.140 --> 00:55:26.300 drive at six. He said no. Needs a little bit of training, son. Your foot has to 00:55:26.300 --> 00:55:31.340 reach the brake because at some point you have to brake.