WEBVTT NOTE Podcast: Acts 29 Vancouver Episode: Circle of AbunDance Publishing Date: 2023-07-16T06:00:44-07:00 Podcast URL: https://acts29.ca Episode URL: https://acts29.ca/circle-of-abundance/ 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.000 Hi guys, so we continue with our series on Hebrides 2.0. 00:00:07.200 --> 00:00:11.000 And last week we dealt with calling sons and daughters. 00:00:11.000 --> 00:00:14.360 And so again, every week I'll just have to recap 00:00:14.360 --> 00:00:17.800 for those who weren't here last week or the week before. 00:00:17.800 --> 00:00:20.720 This was a word given to us at the beginning of the year 00:00:20.720 --> 00:00:23.480 when we went to Stornoway off the coast of Scotland, 00:00:23.480 --> 00:00:26.080 where in the 1950s there was a revival 00:00:26.080 --> 00:00:28.040 called the Hebrides revival. 00:00:28.080 --> 00:00:31.600 Felt God saying that this is what I want to do again on Earth. 00:00:31.600 --> 00:00:33.840 I want to ignite it through you guys. 00:00:33.840 --> 00:00:38.480 And here is a promise I give you for the young in particular, 00:00:38.480 --> 00:00:41.720 between the ages of maybe 14 and 40. 00:00:41.720 --> 00:00:44.280 And this is what I'm planning to do amongst them. 00:00:44.280 --> 00:00:47.280 And so this was a promise given. 00:00:47.280 --> 00:00:49.960 And that's why it's called Hebrides 2.0, 00:00:49.960 --> 00:00:51.880 because it happened on the island of Hebrides 00:00:51.880 --> 00:00:54.120 off the coast of Scotland 50 years ago, 00:00:54.120 --> 00:00:56.060 and God will do it again. 00:00:56.980 --> 00:00:59.180 And so here was the promise given. 00:00:59.180 --> 00:01:02.140 I am going to send a purifying fire. 00:01:02.140 --> 00:01:05.420 I'm sending a purifying fire from heaven 00:01:05.420 --> 00:01:09.340 that will burn up all religious and historical junk. 00:01:09.340 --> 00:01:11.820 I will come into this revival 00:01:11.820 --> 00:01:14.140 upon the Earth as the divine warrior. 00:01:14.140 --> 00:01:15.980 And as the divine warrior marches, 00:01:15.980 --> 00:01:18.700 I will deliver young men and women 00:01:18.700 --> 00:01:20.980 from nations into the kingdom. 00:01:20.980 --> 00:01:25.020 And I'll call them to myself as sons and daughters 00:01:25.020 --> 00:01:27.340 and invite them into the circle of dancing, 00:01:27.340 --> 00:01:30.940 abundance and joy before the lion and the lamb. 00:01:30.940 --> 00:01:33.500 And they will become a torch bearing generation 00:01:33.500 --> 00:01:37.060 that goes forth and will not return home empty. 00:01:37.060 --> 00:01:38.460 That is a promise given. 00:01:38.460 --> 00:01:42.220 And so we've been working our way down from purifying fire. 00:01:42.220 --> 00:01:45.660 And today, last week we did calling sons and daughters. 00:01:45.660 --> 00:01:48.300 And today we are doing into that circle 00:01:48.300 --> 00:01:51.180 of dancing, abundance and joy. 00:01:51.180 --> 00:01:54.380 Into that circle of dancing, abundance and joy. 00:01:54.380 --> 00:01:59.380 So if you want a title, it'll be circle of abundance. 00:02:04.860 --> 00:02:06.420 That's where we're going today. 00:02:10.540 --> 00:02:11.780 Such odd words, eh? 00:02:11.780 --> 00:02:13.900 That I'm calling sons and daughters 00:02:13.900 --> 00:02:18.900 into a circle of dancing, abundance and joy. 00:02:19.940 --> 00:02:23.820 And so the reason we need to study this 00:02:24.060 --> 00:02:27.020 is so that we know what he is planning to do 00:02:27.020 --> 00:02:29.460 and what he would like us to become. 00:02:29.460 --> 00:02:31.420 One of the things when it comes to dancing, 00:02:31.420 --> 00:02:34.100 abundance and joy is you can't call people 00:02:34.100 --> 00:02:37.660 to come and see what you don't have. 00:02:37.660 --> 00:02:41.260 You can't call people to come and see what you don't have. 00:02:41.260 --> 00:02:46.260 Jesus would, in John chapter one, verse 39, 00:02:47.780 --> 00:02:50.740 some disciples keep following Jesus quietly 00:02:50.740 --> 00:02:53.780 and then Jesus spots them and he says, what do you want? 00:02:54.740 --> 00:02:56.220 And they say, we want to see where you live. 00:02:56.220 --> 00:03:00.060 And he says, come, come with me and see where I live. 00:03:02.140 --> 00:03:05.220 Because he wanted them to see how he actually is. 00:03:05.220 --> 00:03:10.220 In John 1, 46, he again uses the word come and see. 00:03:10.920 --> 00:03:13.100 In Matthew 11, verse four and five, 00:03:13.100 --> 00:03:16.660 John's disciples, John the Baptist's disciples come to him 00:03:16.660 --> 00:03:18.140 and they say, are you the real deal? 00:03:18.140 --> 00:03:22.900 And Jesus says, listen, go tell John what you see and hear. 00:03:22.900 --> 00:03:24.700 Tell him that the dead are being raised, 00:03:24.700 --> 00:03:25.700 that the lepers are being healed, 00:03:25.700 --> 00:03:27.020 that demons are being cast out, 00:03:27.020 --> 00:03:29.380 the blind can see, the sick are healed. 00:03:29.380 --> 00:03:30.420 Go tell him that. 00:03:32.140 --> 00:03:35.780 And for God, it is important that the young 00:03:35.780 --> 00:03:36.700 that are coming in 00:03:42.380 --> 00:03:43.420 will step, 00:03:46.100 --> 00:03:49.780 will have a circle 00:03:50.460 --> 00:03:54.180 of dancing, 00:03:55.780 --> 00:03:56.860 abundance, 00:03:58.820 --> 00:03:59.660 and joy 00:04:01.820 --> 00:04:02.820 to step into. 00:04:08.500 --> 00:04:10.420 Why do you think it's important to him? 00:04:12.460 --> 00:04:13.300 Hi there. 00:04:14.340 --> 00:04:16.180 Why do you think it's important to him? 00:04:16.700 --> 00:04:18.500 Why can't he just leave this bit alone? 00:04:22.300 --> 00:04:23.780 What is the opposite of this? 00:04:25.860 --> 00:04:27.100 Standing still, 00:04:30.900 --> 00:04:34.380 lack of insufficiency. 00:04:35.380 --> 00:04:37.900 I mean, you're not talking about money, please. 00:04:37.900 --> 00:04:38.740 And 00:04:41.420 --> 00:04:43.740 neither joy nor happiness, nor sadness. 00:04:47.180 --> 00:04:48.580 That would be the opposite. 00:04:52.500 --> 00:04:53.940 We don't think this is important 00:04:53.940 --> 00:04:55.580 because we come from different cultures, 00:04:55.580 --> 00:04:58.140 different backgrounds, different setups. 00:04:58.140 --> 00:04:59.580 We come with two left feet 00:04:59.580 --> 00:05:00.980 and we're not focusing on dancing. 00:05:00.980 --> 00:05:03.700 Please don't think the sermon is about dancing. 00:05:03.700 --> 00:05:06.100 But God wants to create on earth 00:05:06.100 --> 00:05:08.380 for what he's about to do with the young. 00:05:08.380 --> 00:05:09.860 He wants to create on earth 00:05:10.820 --> 00:05:12.780 an atmosphere or a circle 00:05:12.780 --> 00:05:14.500 into which to dance. 00:05:14.740 --> 00:05:18.620 Or a circle into which he can invite the young. 00:05:18.620 --> 00:05:21.780 But it must be a circle of dancing of abundance and joy. 00:05:21.780 --> 00:05:23.540 And you must ask the question, why? 00:05:24.980 --> 00:05:25.860 Why? 00:05:25.860 --> 00:05:28.220 Because if you can answer why, 00:05:28.220 --> 00:05:30.180 it doesn't leave you much of a choice. 00:05:31.420 --> 00:05:32.580 Why does he want this? 00:05:36.660 --> 00:05:37.860 It's not a rhetorical question. 00:05:37.860 --> 00:05:39.380 Feel free to respond. 00:05:39.380 --> 00:05:40.540 Why does he want this? 00:05:45.500 --> 00:05:49.180 I think part of that is to be dancing, you're free. 00:05:49.180 --> 00:05:52.580 And when you have abundance, you don't have any lack. 00:05:52.580 --> 00:05:54.340 It's free, you don't have to worry about those things. 00:05:54.340 --> 00:05:56.300 That's what Jesus provides. 00:05:56.300 --> 00:05:57.620 What else? 00:05:57.620 --> 00:05:59.100 Why is this important to him? 00:06:01.100 --> 00:06:04.340 I think it shows the cross frankly towards people. 00:06:04.340 --> 00:06:06.540 It says I rejoice over you, I dance over you, 00:06:06.540 --> 00:06:08.540 I show you abundance, I show you joy. 00:06:08.540 --> 00:06:09.740 Yep. 00:06:09.740 --> 00:06:11.500 Those are actual scriptures. 00:06:11.500 --> 00:06:12.340 What else? 00:06:14.500 --> 00:06:15.340 Why? 00:06:17.340 --> 00:06:18.180 Why? 00:06:20.740 --> 00:06:24.100 Yeah man, he is a blooming happy God. 00:06:25.340 --> 00:06:28.980 And by blooming, I'm adding that because it really blooms. 00:06:28.980 --> 00:06:31.580 He is a happy God. 00:06:31.580 --> 00:06:34.300 He is a joyful God. 00:06:34.300 --> 00:06:37.580 It is the essence of his nature. 00:06:40.460 --> 00:06:41.500 This is who he is. 00:06:41.500 --> 00:06:44.220 He's inviting people into his nature. 00:06:45.380 --> 00:06:48.380 This does not, please don't equate, 00:06:48.380 --> 00:06:49.500 oh so if I don't dance, 00:06:49.500 --> 00:06:50.940 then I don't display the nature of God. 00:06:50.940 --> 00:06:53.980 No, that is not what is being said here. 00:06:54.980 --> 00:06:57.220 Jumping doesn't display the nature of God. 00:06:57.220 --> 00:06:59.780 I can be highly irritated with you while jumping. 00:06:59.780 --> 00:07:01.740 My God, I don't like Mike at all. 00:07:01.740 --> 00:07:02.580 See? 00:07:04.420 --> 00:07:07.340 So jumping doesn't convey anything. 00:07:07.340 --> 00:07:10.340 It's not jumping, but we're talking about 00:07:10.340 --> 00:07:11.740 something called expression. 00:07:12.540 --> 00:07:15.460 We're talking about something called expression. 00:07:15.460 --> 00:07:17.340 That we'll touch soon. 00:07:17.340 --> 00:07:20.020 But you need to understand why God insists 00:07:20.020 --> 00:07:24.380 that what he's building is a circle of abundance, 00:07:24.380 --> 00:07:26.820 dancing, and joy because it is his nature. 00:07:29.420 --> 00:07:31.060 Therefore you don't have a choice. 00:07:32.180 --> 00:07:34.460 Therefore I don't have a choice. 00:07:34.460 --> 00:07:37.300 We have a choice, but we don't have a right. 00:07:37.300 --> 00:07:38.340 We always have a choice, 00:07:38.340 --> 00:07:40.740 but we don't have the right to resist it. 00:07:42.740 --> 00:07:45.020 What do you do when you don't have the right to resist it? 00:07:45.020 --> 00:07:48.180 You keep moving into what God wants. 00:07:48.180 --> 00:07:49.620 It does not happen overnight. 00:07:51.140 --> 00:07:53.340 But you keep moving into what God wants. 00:07:53.340 --> 00:07:56.340 What does resistance look like when you decide 00:07:56.340 --> 00:07:59.100 that you will not move into what God wants, 00:07:59.100 --> 00:08:01.420 or you will decide when you will move into it? 00:08:01.420 --> 00:08:03.060 That is resistance. 00:08:04.420 --> 00:08:07.780 Resistance is not, I haven't gotten there yet. 00:08:07.780 --> 00:08:10.260 Resistance is not, I'm slow in getting there. 00:08:10.260 --> 00:08:12.940 Resistance is when you decide you will not, 00:08:12.940 --> 00:08:15.460 or decide that you will choose when to. 00:08:17.500 --> 00:08:18.780 That is resistance. 00:08:23.740 --> 00:08:25.860 This is what he is planning to do. 00:08:28.860 --> 00:08:30.740 For us to revive the earth, 00:08:30.740 --> 00:08:33.900 the joy of the Lord must infect and then go viral. 00:08:33.900 --> 00:08:35.780 For us to revive the earth, 00:08:35.780 --> 00:08:39.620 the joy of the Lord must infect and then go viral. 00:08:40.380 --> 00:08:42.060 It's not that you will not have sorrows. 00:08:42.060 --> 00:08:44.220 It is not that you will not have trials 00:08:44.220 --> 00:08:46.140 and difficult situations. 00:08:46.140 --> 00:08:49.220 It is that this is essential to us 00:08:49.220 --> 00:08:51.260 because this is the essence of who he is. 00:08:57.220 --> 00:08:58.900 The ultimate, John Piper said this, 00:08:58.900 --> 00:09:03.900 the ultimate intent of God in all his creation is joy. 00:09:04.780 --> 00:09:09.780 The ultimate intent of God in all his creation is joy. 00:09:12.140 --> 00:09:13.500 That's why he created. 00:09:14.660 --> 00:09:17.900 That's why every evening he'd put his feet up 00:09:18.780 --> 00:09:20.740 on a chair in heaven and he'd say, 00:09:22.740 --> 00:09:23.580 it is good. 00:09:25.220 --> 00:09:28.180 And then when seven days was finished and he made man, 00:09:28.180 --> 00:09:29.980 he said, this is really good. 00:09:30.220 --> 00:09:31.220 This is really good. 00:09:33.380 --> 00:09:36.020 The ultimate intent of God in all his works is joy. 00:09:37.260 --> 00:09:39.020 And if that doesn't become my essence, 00:09:39.020 --> 00:09:42.660 if lamenting, if war, is complaining, bitterness, 00:09:42.660 --> 00:09:45.860 gossip, slander, finding things about people 00:09:45.860 --> 00:09:48.980 that can fuel my bitterness, 00:09:48.980 --> 00:09:50.540 if that is where I'm living, 00:09:51.700 --> 00:09:54.700 then you are a weak Christian because the joy is, 00:09:54.700 --> 00:09:57.820 whenever joy is absent, weakness is absolute. 00:09:58.500 --> 00:10:00.660 Let me say that again. 00:10:00.660 --> 00:10:05.060 Whenever joy is absent, weakness is absolute. 00:10:12.420 --> 00:10:13.660 Any questions? 00:10:13.660 --> 00:10:14.500 Any comments? 00:10:14.500 --> 00:10:15.340 Any? 00:10:22.620 --> 00:10:23.460 Anyone? 00:10:23.980 --> 00:10:26.900 Have you ever had a time when you were here? 00:10:26.900 --> 00:10:27.740 Yeah. 00:10:30.580 --> 00:10:35.420 Mourning is not the absence of the joy that you have 00:10:35.420 --> 00:10:37.700 in the one who gives you hope. 00:10:39.340 --> 00:10:44.220 So I can stand over my dad who is dead and is cold 00:10:44.220 --> 00:10:47.780 and look at him and weep and then know, 00:10:47.780 --> 00:10:49.940 because he made the choice, 00:10:49.940 --> 00:10:52.460 I will see him again, he will see me again. 00:10:53.500 --> 00:10:55.940 In every situation on earth, 00:10:55.940 --> 00:10:59.580 whether it's mourning or sorrow or pain or tears, 00:10:59.580 --> 00:11:03.740 because of Christ, there is always joy breaking through. 00:11:03.740 --> 00:11:05.300 We don't know how to find it. 00:11:06.460 --> 00:11:09.260 And we are surrounded by people who fuel the mourning. 00:11:13.340 --> 00:11:15.340 But what if we were surrounded by people 00:11:15.340 --> 00:11:18.740 that are able to bring in glimmers of joy 00:11:18.740 --> 00:11:21.460 in every sad situation? 00:11:21.460 --> 00:11:23.020 What do you think the prophetic does? 00:11:23.060 --> 00:11:27.220 The prophetic allows us to grasp joy that is at the end. 00:11:27.220 --> 00:11:29.020 What is the book of Revelation about? 00:11:29.020 --> 00:11:31.540 That in this darkness, there is a time coming. 00:11:32.420 --> 00:11:34.460 What is Jesus's intent on earth? 00:11:34.460 --> 00:11:38.340 Guys, I am making all things new. 00:11:39.700 --> 00:11:42.460 So in every darkness, in every sorrow, 00:11:45.100 --> 00:11:47.660 especially for believers, there is joy. 00:11:47.660 --> 00:11:49.820 And for unbelievers, there is us. 00:11:50.820 --> 00:11:52.940 Bringers of joy, carriers of joy. 00:11:54.820 --> 00:11:57.180 Those stories that Bob was talking about, 00:11:57.180 --> 00:11:58.140 they all bring joy. 00:12:00.060 --> 00:12:02.860 We are distributors, delivery mechanisms of heaven. 00:12:03.820 --> 00:12:05.900 We are delivery boys and girls for heaven, 00:12:05.900 --> 00:12:07.340 distributing what heaven has. 00:12:07.340 --> 00:12:10.380 One of the things you will never find in heaven 00:12:10.380 --> 00:12:11.540 is the opposite of joy. 00:12:13.300 --> 00:12:14.620 It is known for that. 00:12:14.620 --> 00:12:15.940 And it is missing in the church. 00:12:17.700 --> 00:12:19.460 And we don't have the right. 00:12:20.980 --> 00:12:22.020 We don't have the right. 00:12:22.020 --> 00:12:23.820 We have the choice, but we don't have the right. 00:12:33.340 --> 00:12:38.340 All enjoyment must, I mean, you know this from just life. 00:12:38.500 --> 00:12:43.500 All enjoyment, all enjoyment spontaneously overflows. 00:13:00.980 --> 00:13:02.580 Who's joining Sunday school today? 00:13:04.460 --> 00:13:05.300 And? 00:13:06.940 --> 00:13:08.180 Wow. 00:13:09.020 --> 00:13:10.260 They seem quite joyful there. 00:13:10.260 --> 00:13:15.100 All enjoyment spontaneously overflows into expression. 00:13:19.540 --> 00:13:23.140 All enjoyment spontaneously overflows into expression. 00:13:25.540 --> 00:13:27.260 Lovers express their love. 00:13:27.260 --> 00:13:31.140 Readers express delight when they read a story 00:13:31.140 --> 00:13:32.220 or read a poem. 00:13:33.100 --> 00:13:35.300 Players express delight over a goal. 00:13:35.300 --> 00:13:39.980 Fans express over their club. 00:13:43.540 --> 00:13:46.300 And it's almost rarely, rarely is it, 00:13:49.260 --> 00:13:54.260 rarely is joy a planned, well-thought-out emotion. 00:14:01.060 --> 00:14:04.700 It's almost always got spontaneity at its roots. 00:14:06.300 --> 00:14:09.220 How it is expressed may differ, 00:14:11.300 --> 00:14:15.140 but it is always from a place which just erupts. 00:14:19.220 --> 00:14:21.820 That's something we need to realize. 00:14:21.820 --> 00:14:24.140 And if expression is something 00:14:24.140 --> 00:14:25.900 that we have been taught to hide, 00:14:25.900 --> 00:14:28.420 then we will have to learn how to grow in it. 00:14:28.420 --> 00:14:30.620 But how you express it differs. 00:14:30.620 --> 00:14:33.020 My expression of joy cannot become the standard. 00:14:34.020 --> 00:14:37.580 And when a person's expression of joy becomes a standard, 00:14:37.580 --> 00:14:40.460 then everybody else has to now use that 00:14:40.460 --> 00:14:42.860 as a measure of expression. 00:14:42.860 --> 00:14:43.700 And that is wrong. 00:14:43.700 --> 00:14:46.020 That is when you now force something on, 00:14:46.020 --> 00:14:48.540 saying if you don't jump, you're not joyful. 00:14:48.540 --> 00:14:50.500 If you don't dance, you're not joyful. 00:14:50.500 --> 00:14:52.820 If you don't go ha ha ha, you're not joyful. 00:14:52.820 --> 00:14:54.780 I went to a church where they did that. 00:14:56.020 --> 00:14:57.820 The guy who said we need to be joyful. 00:14:59.220 --> 00:15:00.820 And I'm sitting in the front row, so, 00:15:00.820 --> 00:15:02.100 and they have cameras. 00:15:03.260 --> 00:15:04.100 Not like this. 00:15:04.100 --> 00:15:05.540 This, we have only one camera. 00:15:05.540 --> 00:15:06.820 There, they have cameras everywhere. 00:15:06.820 --> 00:15:10.100 And so the guy says, we have to be joyful now. 00:15:10.100 --> 00:15:11.260 And the whole church cheers. 00:15:11.260 --> 00:15:12.260 And I thought it would stop there. 00:15:12.260 --> 00:15:14.340 Then he says, say after me. 00:15:14.340 --> 00:15:16.100 And then he says, ha ha ha. 00:15:16.100 --> 00:15:18.500 And everyone goes, ha ha ha. 00:15:18.500 --> 00:15:20.020 Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. 00:15:21.620 --> 00:15:22.620 Lizzie's laughing. 00:15:23.860 --> 00:15:27.020 And so that was their way of joy. 00:15:27.020 --> 00:15:28.340 So it became a standard. 00:15:28.340 --> 00:15:31.580 And I'm thinking, because the camera was on my face, 00:15:31.580 --> 00:15:33.060 I also had to go ha ha ha. 00:15:35.380 --> 00:15:36.940 Because I was one of the speakers, right? 00:15:36.940 --> 00:15:38.340 So you have to be joyful. 00:15:38.340 --> 00:15:42.980 But you can't enforce a measure of joyfulness. 00:15:42.980 --> 00:15:46.500 That is when your standard becomes everybody's standard. 00:15:46.500 --> 00:15:48.140 But expression must be there. 00:15:48.140 --> 00:15:49.780 And if expression is not there, 00:15:49.780 --> 00:15:51.940 then you need to begin to ask God 00:15:51.940 --> 00:15:53.780 to bring wholeness into your life. 00:15:56.420 --> 00:15:58.740 You need to begin to ask God 00:15:58.740 --> 00:16:01.460 to bring wholeness into your life. 00:16:02.340 --> 00:16:03.860 Because I need healing. 00:16:03.860 --> 00:16:05.260 And God begins the process. 00:16:06.380 --> 00:16:08.100 Sometimes an expression is a sigh. 00:16:08.100 --> 00:16:09.700 Sometimes it's laughter. 00:16:09.700 --> 00:16:11.940 Sometimes it's your feet tapping. 00:16:11.940 --> 00:16:13.540 Sometimes it's dancing. 00:16:14.460 --> 00:16:16.540 But joy is expressed. 00:16:16.540 --> 00:16:19.060 God is saying, I want to create a circle. 00:16:20.580 --> 00:16:22.340 I mean, look at your children. 00:16:22.340 --> 00:16:24.820 You know when they're joyful, don't you? 00:16:24.820 --> 00:16:26.100 We know it every Sunday. 00:16:26.100 --> 00:16:28.860 Those kids just don't know how to be sad for a while. 00:16:32.460 --> 00:16:33.980 Any questions? 00:16:33.980 --> 00:16:36.460 Push back if you think this is not true, 00:16:36.460 --> 00:16:38.420 or not biblical, or not godly, 00:16:38.420 --> 00:16:39.660 or out of the nature of God, 00:16:39.660 --> 00:16:41.460 because we are made in the image of God. 00:16:44.260 --> 00:16:48.380 Our cultures, the nations we come from, our upbringing, 00:16:49.260 --> 00:16:51.100 some of the trauma we've been through, 00:16:51.100 --> 00:16:53.700 it does affect the expression of joy. 00:16:53.700 --> 00:16:54.860 But we have a healer. 00:16:55.860 --> 00:16:59.860 What we cannot do is hide behind those things saying, 00:16:59.860 --> 00:17:01.660 but this is who I have become. 00:17:01.660 --> 00:17:02.500 Change. 00:17:06.140 --> 00:17:06.980 Why? 00:17:06.980 --> 00:17:08.900 Because there is a God who's saying, 00:17:08.900 --> 00:17:12.260 I want to create a circle of abundance, dancing, and joy, 00:17:12.260 --> 00:17:14.980 so that I can invite others into the circle 00:17:14.980 --> 00:17:17.940 so that they don't have to go through what you went through. 00:17:19.140 --> 00:17:22.780 Let them see me, in essence, as a God who is joyful, 00:17:22.780 --> 00:17:26.340 in essence, as a God who is joyful, right off the bat. 00:17:30.180 --> 00:17:32.900 Questions, comments, push back, disagreements? 00:17:38.540 --> 00:17:41.460 If people want to change and they don't know how, 00:17:41.460 --> 00:17:44.500 I think everything starts with an admission 00:17:44.500 --> 00:17:45.500 that I have a problem. 00:17:46.700 --> 00:17:48.220 Everything starts with an admission 00:17:48.220 --> 00:17:51.140 that I do have a problem in this area. 00:17:51.140 --> 00:17:55.260 And if that is not there, then there is no moving forward. 00:17:55.260 --> 00:17:56.660 So that would be the first step. 00:17:56.660 --> 00:17:58.180 Father, I got a problem. 00:17:58.180 --> 00:18:00.940 And then it's even better when you have the ability 00:18:00.940 --> 00:18:02.580 to go to someone else and say, 00:18:02.580 --> 00:18:05.540 I did talk to the father about this, 00:18:05.540 --> 00:18:07.700 and I just want you to also know that I have a problem. 00:18:07.700 --> 00:18:08.620 Now it's out in the open. 00:18:08.620 --> 00:18:09.940 It's no longer hidden. 00:18:09.940 --> 00:18:12.260 As long as it's hidden, nobody needs to know, 00:18:12.260 --> 00:18:13.860 and nobody measures your progress. 00:18:16.940 --> 00:18:18.340 Once you bring it out in the light, 00:18:18.340 --> 00:18:19.940 now someone else knows. 00:18:21.140 --> 00:18:26.140 As long as no one knows, no one needs to measure. 00:18:27.580 --> 00:18:28.740 You don't need to measure either, 00:18:28.740 --> 00:18:31.180 but once someone says it, now there's a problem. 00:18:36.940 --> 00:18:38.620 The second thing then is, oh God, 00:18:38.620 --> 00:18:40.380 can you begin the process of healing? 00:18:41.540 --> 00:18:42.740 Heal me. 00:18:42.740 --> 00:18:44.740 How, when you ask God to heal you, 00:18:44.740 --> 00:18:47.100 he will send situations, peoples. 00:18:47.100 --> 00:18:52.100 Scriptures, dreams, miracles in your heart to change you. 00:18:56.060 --> 00:18:58.020 He'll use any of these methods. 00:18:58.020 --> 00:19:02.300 He'll use just his Holy Spirit to cause, to rise in you. 00:19:02.300 --> 00:19:05.540 I've seen guys who've jumped on pianos and started dancing. 00:19:09.020 --> 00:19:10.300 Thank God they were light. 00:19:12.020 --> 00:19:15.020 I've seen people who have been in the light for a long time, 00:19:15.020 --> 00:19:15.860 they were light. 00:19:17.660 --> 00:19:19.660 Can you imagine doing that in the studio at, 00:19:21.740 --> 00:19:23.020 at Sheldon's studio? 00:19:24.020 --> 00:19:25.780 That would be one expensive dance. 00:19:27.940 --> 00:19:29.780 What happened, oh Steinbeck, what happened? 00:19:29.780 --> 00:19:31.620 Guy got affected by the Holy Spirit. 00:19:33.220 --> 00:19:35.940 And so, not Steinbeck, Steinway, sorry. 00:19:37.300 --> 00:19:40.140 So God, he will either do a miracle, 00:19:40.140 --> 00:19:42.620 or he'll give you a key that is, 00:19:42.620 --> 00:19:44.500 or he'll give you a scripture that is a key, 00:19:44.540 --> 00:19:46.780 or he'll send someone. 00:19:46.780 --> 00:19:49.180 That's why we have parents. 00:19:49.180 --> 00:19:51.740 What do you think parents do with their kids? 00:19:51.740 --> 00:19:54.460 Bring them from mourning to laughter. 00:19:54.460 --> 00:19:57.780 Take away their owie, or whatever you call it now. 00:19:59.980 --> 00:20:02.820 And then make it go away, and the kid is back to normal. 00:20:05.180 --> 00:20:07.700 He'll do different things, but he will bring you back. 00:20:07.700 --> 00:20:09.260 But the first thing is an admission. 00:20:09.260 --> 00:20:11.940 If I do not admit, I do not have a starting point. 00:20:12.780 --> 00:20:14.340 God is able to do this, man. 00:20:15.780 --> 00:20:19.580 Psalm 31, verse 20 or 21. 00:20:19.580 --> 00:20:24.580 Oh God, you are the one who turns my wailing into dancing, 00:20:25.740 --> 00:20:27.780 my mourning into dancing. 00:20:27.780 --> 00:20:30.620 And then you give me songs. 00:20:30.620 --> 00:20:35.140 Oh God, you are the one who saw me in the miry pit, 00:20:35.140 --> 00:20:39.140 but you put a song on my lips. 00:20:39.140 --> 00:20:43.140 God does this, and he uses all these methods to do it. 00:20:45.940 --> 00:20:48.660 And whatever is not working in my life 00:20:48.660 --> 00:20:50.780 is what I need to focus on. 00:20:50.780 --> 00:20:52.380 One of the problems with Christians is 00:20:52.380 --> 00:20:54.420 we hone in on our strengths. 00:20:55.700 --> 00:20:57.300 What's the point of developing an arm 00:20:57.300 --> 00:20:59.100 that is already bicep? 00:21:04.100 --> 00:21:06.300 Hone in on something that is not working. 00:21:07.300 --> 00:21:09.260 Hone in on something else. 00:21:09.260 --> 00:21:10.980 No, I'm not looking at you, Jordan. 00:21:22.900 --> 00:21:24.460 The greater your satisfaction, 00:21:28.460 --> 00:21:31.660 these statements will prevent us from hiding. 00:21:31.660 --> 00:21:33.500 The greater your satisfaction. 00:21:36.340 --> 00:21:40.060 The greater your joy with something, 00:21:40.060 --> 00:21:41.180 the greater your joy. 00:21:46.220 --> 00:21:47.620 The greater your expression. 00:21:55.700 --> 00:21:57.700 The greater your satisfaction, 00:21:57.700 --> 00:21:59.500 the greater your joy, 00:21:59.500 --> 00:22:00.860 the greater your expression. 00:22:07.300 --> 00:22:10.980 In anything, I'm not talking about God now, in anything, 00:22:10.980 --> 00:22:13.180 the greater my satisfaction with something, 00:22:13.180 --> 00:22:16.020 mmm, that is so good. 00:22:16.020 --> 00:22:19.180 Greater your joy, greater your expression. 00:22:19.180 --> 00:22:21.540 Oh my God, that tasted so good. 00:22:22.420 --> 00:22:25.260 I'm just imagining things and responding, yeah? 00:22:25.260 --> 00:22:27.540 In case you were wondering what it was, yeah. 00:22:29.580 --> 00:22:32.580 I mean, I'll be sitting alone and there'll be this amazing goal 00:22:32.580 --> 00:22:34.660 that someone who's not even a Canucks gozer, 00:22:35.340 --> 00:22:37.820 I'll go, whoa, how does that happen? 00:22:37.820 --> 00:22:39.540 Where does that come from? 00:22:39.540 --> 00:22:41.300 What does whoa even mean? 00:22:43.540 --> 00:22:46.580 Expression can take any form. 00:22:46.580 --> 00:22:49.420 In fact, it is so odd that in Romans 8, it says, 00:22:49.420 --> 00:22:51.660 God even knows your groanings and your sighs. 00:22:53.060 --> 00:22:56.300 Sometimes without words, God is already understanding it. 00:23:04.900 --> 00:23:07.820 I am so glad for the demand that God puts on us. 00:23:10.820 --> 00:23:13.580 So when it comes to scriptures and God, 00:23:13.580 --> 00:23:16.420 some of the ways that expressions are talked about 00:23:16.420 --> 00:23:18.300 in scriptures is laughter, 00:23:20.500 --> 00:23:23.260 song, dance. 00:23:25.180 --> 00:23:26.580 In fact, dancing and singing 00:23:26.580 --> 00:23:31.060 were some of the foremost ways of joy. 00:23:32.100 --> 00:23:34.380 You can look at Psalm 30, verse 11 and 12, 00:23:35.220 --> 00:23:38.260 which I just read, Jeremiah 31, verse four, 00:23:38.260 --> 00:23:42.860 verse 11 and 12, or 11 to 13, Jeremiah 31. 00:23:42.860 --> 00:23:46.620 And then in Lamentations 5.5, it actually is a reverse. 00:23:46.620 --> 00:23:49.140 It says, and then my dancing and my singing 00:23:49.140 --> 00:23:51.780 was taken away when I was sorrowful. 00:23:53.140 --> 00:23:56.420 And so it is this idea of when it comes to expression, 00:23:56.420 --> 00:23:59.620 some of the ways a congregation expresses joy 00:23:59.620 --> 00:24:00.980 is through these methods. 00:24:01.060 --> 00:24:02.140 We cannot avoid it. 00:24:04.900 --> 00:24:06.180 We have to create this for others 00:24:06.180 --> 00:24:08.180 to come and find it normative. 00:24:11.260 --> 00:24:14.340 It's not my thing, true, but it is God's thing. 00:24:16.100 --> 00:24:18.500 This doesn't mean all of us have to become uniform 00:24:18.500 --> 00:24:20.060 and do the same thing. 00:24:20.060 --> 00:24:22.940 It just means that this is something we do not resist. 00:24:23.780 --> 00:24:25.420 David tried two different times 00:24:25.420 --> 00:24:28.420 to bring the Ark into Jerusalem. 00:24:28.420 --> 00:24:33.420 First it was 1 Samuel 6, sorry, 2 Samuel 6. 00:24:33.420 --> 00:24:36.020 He tries to bring the Ark into Jerusalem, 00:24:36.020 --> 00:24:37.180 but that was the second time. 00:24:37.180 --> 00:24:39.540 The first time he tries it in 1 Chronicles 15. 00:24:39.540 --> 00:24:42.220 Both times he tries it in 1 Chronicles 15. 00:24:42.220 --> 00:24:45.180 So it's not a good thing to do it in 1 Chronicles 15. 00:24:45.180 --> 00:24:47.860 It's not a good thing to do it in 1 Chronicles 15. 00:24:47.860 --> 00:24:50.660 It's not a good thing to do it in 1 Chronicles 15. 00:24:50.700 --> 00:24:52.740 The second time he tries it in 1 Chronicles 15. 00:24:52.740 --> 00:24:54.860 Both times he came with dancing, 00:24:54.860 --> 00:24:56.860 but in the first time it brought death, 00:24:56.860 --> 00:24:58.740 the second time it brought life. 00:24:58.740 --> 00:25:02.100 So just because there's laughter and dancing and song 00:25:02.100 --> 00:25:06.460 doesn't necessarily mean it aligns with the intents of God. 00:25:06.460 --> 00:25:07.980 The first time he came with dancing, 00:25:07.980 --> 00:25:12.980 you know what happened, Uzzah and Ahiyo were frizzled. 00:25:13.420 --> 00:25:16.140 The second time he comes with dancing, 00:25:16.140 --> 00:25:19.900 there's protocol to even the expression 00:25:19.900 --> 00:25:21.540 that we have as a congregation. 00:25:23.980 --> 00:25:25.500 And then here's the other thing. 00:25:26.460 --> 00:25:28.380 When David danced or when Miriam danced, 00:25:28.380 --> 00:25:33.580 you'll find in David's dance in 2 Samuel 6, 00:25:33.580 --> 00:25:35.980 you'll find that he's leading a procession 00:25:35.980 --> 00:25:39.340 of about 30,000 men and he's an extension 00:25:39.340 --> 00:25:41.820 of the entire congregation. 00:25:41.820 --> 00:25:44.140 We don't do these things alone. 00:25:44.140 --> 00:25:46.100 When we come together as a congregation, 00:25:46.100 --> 00:25:46.980 we do this together. 00:25:47.020 --> 00:25:48.540 When you stand and you're not doing 00:25:48.540 --> 00:25:50.380 your own thing before God, 00:25:50.380 --> 00:25:53.020 you are an extension for the entire church. 00:25:55.940 --> 00:25:59.220 So when Eli and I stand there or when Jordan stands here 00:25:59.220 --> 00:26:01.060 or when Bishop stands here and sings, 00:26:01.060 --> 00:26:04.220 you must see yourself as I am an extension 00:26:04.220 --> 00:26:06.580 of this entire congregation. 00:26:06.580 --> 00:26:09.700 To think that you are part of a music team is an anathema. 00:26:12.940 --> 00:26:16.380 When he drums, if he thinks he's a drummer on a music team, 00:26:16.380 --> 00:26:18.660 it is not the way this functions. 00:26:18.660 --> 00:26:21.860 When Miriam begins to sing, she's leading all of Israel 00:26:21.860 --> 00:26:24.500 in the song of Moses and the song of Israel 00:26:24.500 --> 00:26:26.980 given by God for an entire congregation. 00:26:27.940 --> 00:26:30.580 When we sing, I know he rescued my soul 00:26:30.580 --> 00:26:32.020 and I start jumping here. 00:26:32.020 --> 00:26:33.700 I'm not jumping for my own. 00:26:33.700 --> 00:26:36.780 I'm jumping so that I can be someone who on one hand 00:26:36.780 --> 00:26:40.140 leads the congregation in action like Miriam did 00:26:40.140 --> 00:26:41.540 or like David did. 00:26:41.540 --> 00:26:44.940 And I'm doing it not for my sake because it's clumsy. 00:26:44.980 --> 00:26:46.340 I don't jump high. 00:26:46.340 --> 00:26:47.700 I carry a lot of weight. 00:26:47.700 --> 00:26:49.980 I run out of breath, but I will still do it 00:26:49.980 --> 00:26:51.540 for one reason alone, 00:26:51.540 --> 00:26:53.780 because one, I must lead the congregation 00:26:53.780 --> 00:26:55.820 and two, I must be an extension 00:26:55.820 --> 00:26:57.740 of all your thinking and doing. 00:26:57.740 --> 00:27:00.500 Even if you don't do it, well then I'll represent you. 00:27:01.540 --> 00:27:02.380 Do you know what happens 00:27:02.380 --> 00:27:04.860 when people begin to think like that? 00:27:04.860 --> 00:27:06.420 That it might be difficult right now 00:27:06.420 --> 00:27:07.780 for you to raise your elbows. 00:27:07.780 --> 00:27:10.380 It might be difficult for you right now to move your feet. 00:27:10.380 --> 00:27:13.180 It might be difficult for you right now to look foolish, 00:27:13.220 --> 00:27:14.660 but let me do it for you. 00:27:20.700 --> 00:27:22.740 And then two people do it and four people do it. 00:27:22.740 --> 00:27:24.500 Six people do it, 10 people do it. 00:27:24.500 --> 00:27:25.380 We have a circle. 00:27:27.940 --> 00:27:29.700 We never do this for ourselves. 00:27:31.220 --> 00:27:34.860 Any instrument that plays here, that plays for itself, 00:27:34.860 --> 00:27:37.580 any singer that is up here that thinks of themselves, 00:27:37.580 --> 00:27:38.980 it's not to be there. 00:27:39.780 --> 00:27:42.300 Not in the sense of the congregation. 00:27:42.300 --> 00:27:44.300 If you're singing alone to the lot, sing away. 00:27:53.620 --> 00:27:54.940 And there is protocol. 00:27:56.700 --> 00:27:59.260 How we'll get it wrong, how we'll mess up, so what? 00:27:59.260 --> 00:28:00.860 We'll get it right the next time. 00:28:01.780 --> 00:28:04.180 He doesn't send bolts of lightning anyways nowadays. 00:28:05.060 --> 00:28:06.620 Not the kind that'll frizzle you. 00:28:09.780 --> 00:28:12.060 That's a wrap on him. 00:28:12.060 --> 00:28:13.820 That's not what he was trying to do there. 00:28:19.100 --> 00:28:21.380 What is the difference between David bringing in the Ark 00:28:21.380 --> 00:28:23.900 the first time with dancing and two people dying 00:28:23.900 --> 00:28:26.660 and David bringing in the Ark the second time with dancing 00:28:26.660 --> 00:28:28.700 and everyone full of life? 00:28:28.700 --> 00:28:32.700 The difference was one was enthusiastic and uninformed, 00:28:32.700 --> 00:28:34.500 ignorant of the Holy. 00:28:34.500 --> 00:28:36.060 One was enthusiastic. 00:28:36.060 --> 00:28:37.380 One was enthusiastic. 00:28:40.420 --> 00:28:43.340 One was enthusiastic but uninformed. 00:28:45.180 --> 00:28:46.700 And was ignorant 00:28:50.420 --> 00:28:53.140 of the Holy. 00:28:53.140 --> 00:28:54.460 I'm just going to call it the Holy, 00:28:54.460 --> 00:28:55.980 it's just the holiness of God. 00:28:56.820 --> 00:29:00.700 The second one was scripturally informed, 00:29:00.700 --> 00:29:03.900 as in you do not bring the Ark on a cut. 00:29:03.900 --> 00:29:06.340 You do not take on the ways of the Philistines. 00:29:06.340 --> 00:29:08.300 You carry it on your shoulders. 00:29:09.180 --> 00:29:11.700 There is protocol to what God wants to do. 00:29:11.700 --> 00:29:12.620 He is Holy. 00:29:13.980 --> 00:29:17.940 And so the second one was scripturally or biblically informed 00:29:19.740 --> 00:29:24.100 and it had the correct approach to Holy. 00:29:24.100 --> 00:29:27.420 In all our expressions, even though they are spontaneous, 00:29:27.420 --> 00:29:29.900 we because we follow a God of order who lives in us, 00:29:29.900 --> 00:29:32.300 a God who is Holy, we know this. 00:29:32.300 --> 00:29:35.380 And if we get it wrong, we can fix it tomorrow. 00:29:35.380 --> 00:29:37.940 My God, we have to create this circle. 00:29:37.940 --> 00:29:40.740 When you begin to walk in this, walk on behalf of others. 00:29:45.700 --> 00:29:47.180 Any questions on any of this? 00:29:54.860 --> 00:29:55.700 Yep. 00:29:55.700 --> 00:29:57.540 First half, you were talking about just being a joint 00:29:57.540 --> 00:29:58.380 of people. 00:29:58.380 --> 00:29:59.220 Yeah. 00:29:59.220 --> 00:30:00.060 Who God is. 00:30:00.060 --> 00:30:02.460 First half, you're always saying that when we come together, 00:30:02.460 --> 00:30:05.860 it's kind of worship and think of change, 00:30:05.860 --> 00:30:08.140 have an identity shift where we're thinking 00:30:08.140 --> 00:30:10.700 that we are actually not individuals. 00:30:10.700 --> 00:30:11.540 We're a part of that. 00:30:11.540 --> 00:30:13.140 Yeah, yeah. 00:30:13.140 --> 00:30:13.980 I give you my word. 00:30:13.980 --> 00:30:15.300 Every time I change a song 00:30:16.420 --> 00:30:18.340 or every time she has a set of songs 00:30:18.340 --> 00:30:20.060 and she changes a song, 00:30:20.060 --> 00:30:21.780 when I do it, I'll tell you why I do it. 00:30:21.780 --> 00:30:24.660 Because I know that the Holy Spirit wants to take 00:30:24.660 --> 00:30:27.020 the congregation somewhere else 00:30:27.020 --> 00:30:28.860 or somewhere that I did not know. 00:30:29.860 --> 00:30:34.180 It is never because, huh, this feels like the right song 00:30:34.180 --> 00:30:36.060 or let's do one of my favorites. 00:30:36.060 --> 00:30:38.180 Never, never. 00:30:42.940 --> 00:30:46.580 Because that'd be so self-serving, so my God and me. 00:30:48.540 --> 00:30:50.860 He teaches you a prayer and he doesn't say, 00:30:50.860 --> 00:30:52.700 my Father who art in heaven. 00:30:52.700 --> 00:30:54.900 He says, our Father who art in heaven. 00:30:59.860 --> 00:31:01.300 Any other questions? 00:31:10.540 --> 00:31:12.260 It's not a duty, huh? 00:31:12.260 --> 00:31:13.340 It's not some worship ritual. 00:31:13.340 --> 00:31:16.940 I mean, Don and Kezia just celebrated 00:31:16.940 --> 00:31:18.260 their wedding anniversary. 00:31:18.260 --> 00:31:20.380 What if Kezia in the middle of dinner said, 00:31:20.380 --> 00:31:21.300 why are you doing this, Don? 00:31:21.300 --> 00:31:22.700 And Don says, it's my duty. 00:31:25.020 --> 00:31:26.420 That's it. 00:31:26.420 --> 00:31:27.620 That's the end of that night. 00:31:27.700 --> 00:31:31.660 You might as well go talk to your cat, yeah. 00:31:36.860 --> 00:31:39.700 But his response is, this is my delight, 00:31:39.700 --> 00:31:41.540 this is my joy, this is my honor. 00:31:41.540 --> 00:31:44.260 I couldn't think of anything better to do. 00:31:44.260 --> 00:31:47.300 This expression of joy is like that. 00:31:47.300 --> 00:31:51.380 It is something, it is enjoyment 00:31:51.380 --> 00:31:53.900 that then begins to express itself. 00:31:53.900 --> 00:31:57.220 And it is odd that we sometimes lack it 00:31:57.820 --> 00:31:58.660 and we don't step into it 00:31:58.660 --> 00:32:01.380 because we are not accustomed to it. 00:32:02.620 --> 00:32:04.380 And you can express it any which way you want. 00:32:04.380 --> 00:32:06.180 It could just be song, please don't think, 00:32:06.180 --> 00:32:08.860 like I said, please don't equate this to, 00:32:08.860 --> 00:32:11.460 oh, so are you saying we all have to dance and jump? 00:32:11.460 --> 00:32:12.300 No. 00:32:13.500 --> 00:32:18.500 I'm just saying that expressionless is wrong, is wrong. 00:32:20.140 --> 00:32:21.580 You were not made like that. 00:32:28.060 --> 00:32:29.700 Because we come from different cultures, 00:32:29.700 --> 00:32:31.700 there'll be different styles, eh? 00:32:31.700 --> 00:32:34.860 Sometimes it'll be spontaneous, sometimes it won't. 00:32:34.860 --> 00:32:35.700 That's okay. 00:32:37.060 --> 00:32:40.460 I'm taking away any excuse we have of resisting this. 00:32:42.060 --> 00:32:44.300 How shall we honor God in worship? 00:32:44.300 --> 00:32:46.220 And I'm not even saying in a service. 00:32:46.220 --> 00:32:49.180 How do you honor God, whether you're with two people 00:32:49.180 --> 00:32:51.380 or yourself or you're in a congregation, 00:32:51.380 --> 00:32:52.940 how do you honor God in worship? 00:32:52.940 --> 00:32:53.780 By enjoying him. 00:32:53.820 --> 00:32:55.420 By enjoying him, by enjoying him. 00:32:56.860 --> 00:33:00.020 You must come with this attitude every time 00:33:00.020 --> 00:33:04.020 you are about to worship and worship is not just songs, 00:33:04.020 --> 00:33:07.900 worship is not music, but let's take anybody. 00:33:07.900 --> 00:33:10.100 You know what worship means, word, script, 00:33:10.100 --> 00:33:15.100 as in here is someone, the picture of worship, 00:33:15.100 --> 00:33:18.620 the actual picture of the word worship is a dog 00:33:18.620 --> 00:33:21.940 that sees the world and the world is a dog. 00:33:22.020 --> 00:33:26.060 Is a dog that sees its master return home 00:33:26.060 --> 00:33:28.900 and begins to just jump and run around 00:33:28.900 --> 00:33:30.460 and go around in circles 00:33:30.460 --> 00:33:32.940 because he can smell his master at a distance 00:33:32.940 --> 00:33:35.260 and do you notice cats don't do that? 00:33:35.260 --> 00:33:36.460 But that's a side point. 00:33:36.460 --> 00:33:39.860 And the dog begins to run around and jump up and down 00:33:39.860 --> 00:33:42.300 because he can smell the master at a distance 00:33:42.300 --> 00:33:43.860 and he smells the master at a distance 00:33:43.860 --> 00:33:46.820 and that is the very expression of worship. 00:33:48.020 --> 00:33:51.260 And so it requires that be you with a person 00:33:51.300 --> 00:33:53.220 or be you with God. 00:33:53.220 --> 00:33:55.940 One of the reasons God gave us relationships on earth 00:33:55.940 --> 00:33:58.380 is so that we can understand how to approach him. 00:34:01.940 --> 00:34:04.540 But he did not find a companion that was suitable for Adam 00:34:04.540 --> 00:34:08.340 so he created one, specially made. 00:34:10.780 --> 00:34:12.980 So that intimacy and companionship 00:34:12.980 --> 00:34:15.220 may be something real on earth 00:34:15.220 --> 00:34:17.460 so that we can transfer it into the spiritual 00:34:17.460 --> 00:34:21.180 so that he can rewrite Ephesians 5, 25 to 30 later 00:34:22.100 --> 00:34:23.900 and say as a bride groom is with his bride 00:34:26.060 --> 00:34:26.900 so that he can write song of songs 00:34:26.900 --> 00:34:29.860 and describe what it is to be in a relationship. 00:34:32.140 --> 00:34:35.620 And so the intent is in any such place 00:34:35.620 --> 00:34:40.260 where there is worship, there must be an enjoying of him. 00:34:40.260 --> 00:34:44.580 So the question is, is that how we enter any time of worship? 00:34:44.580 --> 00:34:45.980 Do you come with the intent? 00:34:45.980 --> 00:34:48.580 Aha, I'm gathering together with people 00:34:48.620 --> 00:34:52.860 and my intent is to enjoy him with others today. 00:34:58.940 --> 00:35:01.180 That's a church that looks forward, 00:35:03.060 --> 00:35:04.900 that doesn't need a music team. 00:35:11.020 --> 00:35:15.580 If music brings me joy, then bring your AirPods with you. 00:35:19.420 --> 00:35:20.620 Because it'll be better 00:35:20.620 --> 00:35:23.340 than most of the stuff we do here on our best day. 00:35:29.020 --> 00:35:33.380 But then first we enjoy him by enjoying him, 00:35:33.380 --> 00:35:34.620 that's the first thing. 00:35:34.620 --> 00:35:36.100 And then what do we do? 00:35:36.100 --> 00:35:41.100 We try, try because all of us are in this place of trying. 00:35:41.340 --> 00:35:46.340 We try and let our delight overflow. 00:35:47.180 --> 00:35:50.180 Do you notice how sometimes my handwriting 00:35:50.180 --> 00:35:51.180 gets really clean? 00:35:53.420 --> 00:35:58.420 And then suddenly something happens by enjoying him. 00:35:58.420 --> 00:36:01.180 Second, try and let our delight overflow. 00:36:06.060 --> 00:36:11.060 Third, spontaneous expression. 00:36:11.060 --> 00:36:13.780 When it overflows, that's when spontaneous expression 00:36:13.900 --> 00:36:15.300 happens, when it overflows, 00:36:15.300 --> 00:36:17.540 that's when spontaneous expression happens. 00:36:20.140 --> 00:36:21.940 Spontaneous expression happens. 00:36:25.500 --> 00:36:30.500 To an extent, delight is incomplete if not expressed. 00:36:37.620 --> 00:36:39.300 It's not that you don't delight, 00:36:39.300 --> 00:36:41.540 but the expression of delight completes it. 00:36:42.500 --> 00:36:44.500 The expression of delight completes it. 00:36:45.500 --> 00:36:47.340 The expression of delight completes it. 00:36:47.340 --> 00:36:49.580 Do not measure yourself by someone else's standard, 00:36:49.580 --> 00:36:53.900 please, please don't, please don't. 00:36:55.420 --> 00:36:57.620 Sometimes when I go to Kenya 00:36:57.620 --> 00:37:00.140 and I see them praising and worshiping, 00:37:00.140 --> 00:37:01.780 I try for about three minutes, 00:37:01.780 --> 00:37:03.180 then I'm out of breath, man. 00:37:06.500 --> 00:37:09.860 I try and they go on for 25, 30, 35 minutes. 00:37:10.860 --> 00:37:11.700 And I sit down. 00:37:13.700 --> 00:37:17.740 Even to do the, oh, I try, but it doesn't hit the high note. 00:37:19.060 --> 00:37:20.260 At some point it goes, ah. 00:37:23.100 --> 00:37:28.100 Just not, so all to say, we are not supposed to try 00:37:29.260 --> 00:37:31.580 and meet a measure, but we have to keep pushing, 00:37:31.580 --> 00:37:33.980 keep pushing, keep pushing so that others can follow. 00:37:33.980 --> 00:37:37.100 Come on, man, we're supposed to open the way for others. 00:37:37.100 --> 00:37:39.540 Get out of your invalid excuses. 00:37:40.220 --> 00:37:41.060 Stop it. 00:37:47.220 --> 00:37:49.900 But what, Jacob, what if I'm not feeling like it today? 00:37:49.900 --> 00:37:51.740 Well, next Sunday you better feel it. 00:37:57.260 --> 00:37:58.100 Yes. 00:38:01.500 --> 00:38:02.340 Yes. 00:38:05.580 --> 00:38:07.060 Yeah, yeah. 00:38:07.100 --> 00:38:09.980 So you're very right, Jill, 00:38:09.980 --> 00:38:11.860 and I'm not trying to disagree with you 00:38:11.860 --> 00:38:16.380 so that you feel good, but here's the thing. 00:38:19.500 --> 00:38:22.820 This is you or me, and there is something in us 00:38:22.820 --> 00:38:27.820 called Christ, the hope of splendor, 00:38:27.820 --> 00:38:32.820 of power, laughter, presence, weight, 00:38:40.460 --> 00:38:43.940 magnificence, majesty. 00:38:45.620 --> 00:38:49.460 So we have that, and then there are times 00:38:51.020 --> 00:38:56.020 when in our heart we feel bad, sad, hurt, 00:38:57.820 --> 00:39:02.820 offended, depressed, funked. 00:39:07.540 --> 00:39:08.940 Funked is an old word. 00:39:12.860 --> 00:39:14.900 It's hard, funk is like a dull thing, 00:39:14.900 --> 00:39:16.940 but funky is groovy. 00:39:18.780 --> 00:39:21.780 Like I was in New York, and they started playing that song. 00:39:23.980 --> 00:39:25.260 Won't you take me too? 00:39:26.140 --> 00:39:26.980 Funky time. 00:39:28.100 --> 00:39:30.340 Come on, Mike, I thought you'd groove to that. 00:39:30.340 --> 00:39:31.780 I was doing it just for you. 00:39:31.780 --> 00:39:32.620 Thank you. 00:39:36.180 --> 00:39:39.220 Okay, so this is what happens. 00:39:39.220 --> 00:39:41.620 All these things are real in our lives. 00:39:41.620 --> 00:39:45.420 They do affect our heart, but somewhere inside is this. 00:39:48.420 --> 00:39:50.900 The reason the sacrifice of praise 00:39:50.940 --> 00:39:55.940 becomes a joyful fountain is because the sacrifice 00:39:57.780 --> 00:39:59.900 of praise must tap into this. 00:39:59.900 --> 00:40:01.580 What happened with the Pentecostal 00:40:01.580 --> 00:40:04.700 or Charismatic Movement and praise is they said, 00:40:04.700 --> 00:40:07.100 just keep praising, keep praising, keep praising 00:40:07.100 --> 00:40:09.420 if you're not feeling good, and then eventually 00:40:09.420 --> 00:40:11.660 if you keep praising, you'll feel good. 00:40:11.660 --> 00:40:14.620 No, the intent was, can you begin to praise 00:40:14.620 --> 00:40:17.260 and give the sacrifice of praise and reach deep down 00:40:17.300 --> 00:40:20.860 into where Christ dwells so that his magnificence, 00:40:20.860 --> 00:40:24.580 power, laughter, weight, splendor, majesty 00:40:24.580 --> 00:40:26.580 begins to rise up in you. 00:40:26.580 --> 00:40:28.940 The sacrifice of praise should quickly change 00:40:28.940 --> 00:40:32.300 into a willing sacrifice, a joyous sacrifice. 00:40:32.300 --> 00:40:36.260 And when it doesn't, we are stuck in a way of praise. 00:40:39.140 --> 00:40:40.140 That's the difference. 00:40:40.140 --> 00:40:42.780 The praise was supposed to break through the sadness, 00:40:42.780 --> 00:40:45.820 the badness, the hurt that I'm feeling, 00:40:45.820 --> 00:40:48.980 which is very real, which grabs my, 00:40:48.980 --> 00:40:51.980 my heart is supposed to be a little closer to my sternum. 00:40:51.980 --> 00:40:53.460 This is not where my heart is. 00:40:53.460 --> 00:40:54.620 This is where my lungs are. 00:40:54.620 --> 00:40:58.460 And so my heart begins to feel that tightness 00:40:58.460 --> 00:40:59.980 of sadness and all this stuff, 00:40:59.980 --> 00:41:01.940 and then there is Christ who lives here. 00:41:04.820 --> 00:41:09.740 And then in my sacrifice, it is he who begins to arise, 00:41:09.740 --> 00:41:12.940 and my heart begins to now feel free 00:41:12.980 --> 00:41:16.260 from the grip of the hurt and the sadness. 00:41:16.260 --> 00:41:18.940 And now I go from the sacrifice of praise to, 00:41:18.940 --> 00:41:20.940 oh my God, I'll do cartwheels of joy 00:41:20.940 --> 00:41:24.580 because I am right there in Malachi chapter four, 00:41:24.580 --> 00:41:28.100 Malachi chapter, Habakkuk chapter three, verse 17 to 19. 00:41:29.700 --> 00:41:31.260 Now it's no longer a sacrifice. 00:41:31.260 --> 00:41:32.460 Though the victory shall not blossom, 00:41:32.460 --> 00:41:35.420 though there be no olives on the thing, 00:41:35.420 --> 00:41:37.220 I will do cartwheels of joy. 00:41:37.220 --> 00:41:38.620 Now it's no longer sacrifice. 00:41:38.620 --> 00:41:40.700 You never sacrifice cartwheels of joy. 00:41:43.140 --> 00:41:44.500 So that's how it works. 00:41:49.180 --> 00:41:51.860 108, we won't finish it, so I'll kind of stop. 00:41:52.900 --> 00:41:54.620 I wanted to talk about abundance, 00:41:54.620 --> 00:41:55.980 or we'll talk about that next week. 00:41:55.980 --> 00:41:59.220 Abundance is not having a lot of money. 00:41:59.220 --> 00:42:00.660 Abundance is the abundance of love. 00:42:00.660 --> 00:42:02.620 Abundance is the abundance of expectation. 00:42:02.620 --> 00:42:04.620 Abundance is the abundance of hope and peace. 00:42:04.620 --> 00:42:06.620 Abundance is great generosity. 00:42:07.580 --> 00:42:09.580 Abundance is so many other things. 00:42:09.580 --> 00:42:11.700 And only a small amount of love 00:42:11.700 --> 00:42:14.700 is having no lack, but we'll talk about that next time. 00:42:14.700 --> 00:42:18.700 Let me just conclude with the joy of the dance. 00:42:26.860 --> 00:42:29.860 In a revival, joy is not a mere option. 00:42:29.860 --> 00:42:33.660 In a revival, joy is not a mere option. 00:42:33.660 --> 00:42:37.660 It is a gift from God, and it is an essential component 00:42:38.140 --> 00:42:39.140 of revivals. 00:42:39.140 --> 00:42:42.140 In a revival, joy is not a mere option. 00:42:42.140 --> 00:42:44.140 It's not like, it'll be good if you're joyful. 00:42:44.140 --> 00:42:48.140 No, the nearness of God, that's what revivals are. 00:42:48.140 --> 00:42:50.140 In the nearness of His presence, 00:42:50.140 --> 00:42:52.700 if there is no fullness of joy, 00:42:53.900 --> 00:42:55.260 then there is something wrong. 00:42:55.260 --> 00:42:57.300 Psalm 16, 11 says, in your presence 00:42:57.300 --> 00:42:59.820 is fullness of joy and pleasures forevermore. 00:42:59.820 --> 00:43:01.100 What words, eh? 00:43:01.100 --> 00:43:02.940 Which God uses words like that? 00:43:02.940 --> 00:43:05.940 In my presence, there is no fullness of joy. 00:43:06.020 --> 00:43:06.940 I'll say that. 00:43:06.940 --> 00:43:09.460 In my presence, it's fullness of joy, 00:43:09.460 --> 00:43:11.900 as in no limit, overflowing. 00:43:11.900 --> 00:43:15.060 Fullness is not getting to the top of the cup. 00:43:15.060 --> 00:43:16.860 It's not getting to here. 00:43:16.860 --> 00:43:19.500 Fullness is always overflowing. 00:43:19.500 --> 00:43:22.100 And he says, in my presence, 00:43:22.100 --> 00:43:25.260 in my presence, Jacob, is fullness of joy. 00:43:25.260 --> 00:43:28.840 And then he adds, add pleasures forevermore. 00:43:30.780 --> 00:43:34.620 Pleasures are things you really, really enjoy. 00:43:36.100 --> 00:43:37.340 So what's missing? 00:43:46.900 --> 00:43:48.260 Do you enjoy your wife? 00:43:48.260 --> 00:43:49.100 Yes. 00:43:51.900 --> 00:43:56.420 In her presence, are you full with gladness and joy? 00:43:57.540 --> 00:43:58.380 Most of the time. 00:43:58.380 --> 00:43:59.220 Yes. 00:43:59.220 --> 00:44:00.060 Okay? 00:44:00.060 --> 00:44:01.900 No, really, most of the time you are. 00:44:01.900 --> 00:44:03.220 I've watched you both. 00:44:03.220 --> 00:44:04.060 I've watched you both. 00:44:04.060 --> 00:44:04.900 I've watched you both. 00:44:05.060 --> 00:44:06.300 I've watched you both. 00:44:09.060 --> 00:44:11.340 Is she someone who delights your heart 00:44:11.340 --> 00:44:12.740 and brings you pleasure? 00:44:13.740 --> 00:44:15.780 Does your heart sing when she's with you? 00:44:17.500 --> 00:44:19.580 We were given physical relationships 00:44:19.580 --> 00:44:21.820 so that we may understand the depth of this. 00:44:23.060 --> 00:44:25.420 And then we are supposed to take that and say, 00:44:25.420 --> 00:44:28.100 oh God, can you make this real between you and I, 00:44:28.100 --> 00:44:29.900 because you are more real 00:44:29.900 --> 00:44:31.740 than the physical person next to me? 00:44:32.620 --> 00:44:34.820 And we haven't plumbed that. 00:44:34.820 --> 00:44:36.420 And we're not aware of that. 00:44:40.700 --> 00:44:41.540 What is missing? 00:44:44.460 --> 00:44:46.580 Can I put on your tombstone, 00:44:47.980 --> 00:44:49.460 here lies a joyful person? 00:44:51.180 --> 00:44:52.220 Or will I be lying? 00:44:58.540 --> 00:45:00.060 Because joy is expressed. 00:45:01.740 --> 00:45:02.580 Joy is expressed. 00:45:08.580 --> 00:45:10.980 Can I put that on your grave? 00:45:18.260 --> 00:45:20.100 Or I'll have to put, here lies a joyful person, 00:45:20.100 --> 00:45:22.060 but I never knew it kind of a thing. 00:45:22.060 --> 00:45:24.100 Oh, didn't see it. 00:45:24.100 --> 00:45:24.940 Okay. 00:45:29.220 --> 00:45:30.060 Okay. 00:45:31.540 --> 00:45:34.220 God is not, here's another thing. 00:45:34.220 --> 00:45:35.540 This is so important, eh? 00:45:35.540 --> 00:45:36.860 God is, this is not my line, 00:45:36.860 --> 00:45:38.900 it's some famous person's line. 00:45:38.900 --> 00:45:43.260 God is not worshiped where he is not treasured. 00:45:47.340 --> 00:45:48.900 It's either Tozer or Piper. 00:45:50.660 --> 00:45:52.980 He's not treasured. 00:45:53.020 --> 00:45:55.460 God is not worshiped where he is not treasured. 00:45:58.180 --> 00:45:59.020 And enjoyed. 00:46:00.180 --> 00:46:04.460 God is not worshiped where he is not treasured and enjoyed. 00:46:06.380 --> 00:46:09.620 This is not Tozer or Piper, it's Jacober. 00:46:12.020 --> 00:46:14.060 Others must see 00:46:17.100 --> 00:46:17.940 the pleasure. 00:46:20.540 --> 00:46:22.140 Others must see in you 00:46:23.540 --> 00:46:25.620 the pleasure to be had 00:46:27.980 --> 00:46:29.660 in him, beautifully. 00:46:32.540 --> 00:46:35.380 Others must see in you the pleasure to be had in him. 00:46:39.300 --> 00:46:41.940 So sometimes when I'm unable to worship, 00:46:41.940 --> 00:46:43.300 I must question this. 00:46:45.820 --> 00:46:49.540 Because there might be days when Don might be really sad 00:46:49.540 --> 00:46:52.180 and things didn't go well at work, 00:46:53.220 --> 00:46:57.180 or he met a bear when he was walking in Vernon. 00:46:59.180 --> 00:47:02.700 He is super hungry, super sleepy. 00:47:02.700 --> 00:47:05.660 And then just when he's feeling all that stuff, 00:47:05.660 --> 00:47:07.460 along comes Kezia. 00:47:07.460 --> 00:47:09.780 And suddenly he seems okay. 00:47:11.980 --> 00:47:15.500 God is not worshiped where he is not treasured and enjoyed. 00:47:16.860 --> 00:47:18.900 Sometimes when we struggle with worship, 00:47:20.220 --> 00:47:21.500 it is not the music, 00:47:21.540 --> 00:47:23.460 it's not that you've had a bad day, 00:47:23.460 --> 00:47:25.420 you're not able to locate the treasure 00:47:26.460 --> 00:47:29.220 and you have not learned how to enjoy it. 00:47:29.220 --> 00:47:30.700 And it happens to all of us. 00:47:34.100 --> 00:47:37.820 And where he's treasured and where he's enjoyed, 00:47:37.820 --> 00:47:39.740 even if the expression is a sigh 00:47:41.540 --> 00:47:42.940 or an imaginary hug, 00:47:44.300 --> 00:47:45.340 it'll begin to grow. 00:47:51.620 --> 00:47:52.460 Two more points. 00:47:58.100 --> 00:47:59.860 Psalm 63 verse five to seven. 00:48:05.540 --> 00:48:07.140 It's such a cool scripture. 00:48:08.260 --> 00:48:10.980 Psalm 63, you know, CS Lewis used to say 00:48:10.980 --> 00:48:13.180 that he used to read the Psalms 00:48:13.180 --> 00:48:15.420 so that he can begin to have the same delight 00:48:15.420 --> 00:48:16.540 that made David dance. 00:48:17.420 --> 00:48:18.900 What a reason to read Psalms. 00:48:21.860 --> 00:48:23.860 Psalm 63 verse five to seven. 00:48:23.860 --> 00:48:25.060 But before I say that, 00:48:25.060 --> 00:48:27.300 I mean, when you read the verses, it's so beautiful. 00:48:27.300 --> 00:48:30.100 It talks about the depth to which you can enjoy God, 00:48:30.100 --> 00:48:31.700 but the way David describes it. 00:48:31.700 --> 00:48:34.300 But here again, what CS Lewis said, 00:48:34.300 --> 00:48:36.780 I read the Psalms so that I might discover the delight 00:48:36.780 --> 00:48:37.820 that made David dance. 00:48:43.580 --> 00:48:45.780 And then you see why he can say that 00:48:45.780 --> 00:48:48.060 because in Psalm 63 verse five to seven, it says, 00:48:48.060 --> 00:48:52.020 my soul is feasted with marrow and fat. 00:48:53.900 --> 00:48:56.940 And my mouth praises you with joyful lips 00:48:56.940 --> 00:48:58.820 when I think of you upon my bed 00:48:58.820 --> 00:49:01.220 and meditate on you in the watches of the night. 00:49:02.100 --> 00:49:03.340 What kind of love is this? 00:49:05.780 --> 00:49:10.300 My soul is feasted on the marrow and the fat, O God, of you. 00:49:11.380 --> 00:49:13.940 And as I lie on my bed and I meditate, 00:49:13.940 --> 00:49:14.940 I begin to praise. 00:49:15.780 --> 00:49:19.780 We were made like this, guys. 00:49:20.860 --> 00:49:25.860 Shred, shrug off your denominational upbringing, 00:49:25.980 --> 00:49:30.980 your national upbringing, your traditional upbringing, 00:49:31.020 --> 00:49:32.500 your church upbringing, 00:49:34.940 --> 00:49:38.660 your parental upbringing, your home upbringing. 00:49:38.660 --> 00:49:40.460 Shrug it off, shred it off, 00:49:40.460 --> 00:49:43.820 because primarily you were made differently. 00:49:44.940 --> 00:49:49.940 And then there are times when someone can be so depressed 00:49:53.580 --> 00:49:56.300 because of great sadness, great trauma, great trouble, 00:49:56.300 --> 00:49:58.140 that it seems impossible. 00:49:58.140 --> 00:50:00.100 At that time, let someone pick you up 00:50:01.700 --> 00:50:03.380 because there are times, please, 00:50:03.380 --> 00:50:06.060 let's not pretend that it doesn't exist. 00:50:06.060 --> 00:50:08.580 There can be times where even the best of people, 00:50:08.580 --> 00:50:13.580 like Elijah, go into such deep places 00:50:14.340 --> 00:50:17.820 of feeling sad and depressed and forlorn 00:50:17.820 --> 00:50:22.460 that it is impossible for them to even whisper a word. 00:50:22.460 --> 00:50:24.300 I beg you when times like that happen, 00:50:24.300 --> 00:50:26.100 as soon as you see it happening, 00:50:26.100 --> 00:50:28.420 call someone who you trust 00:50:30.900 --> 00:50:34.380 and say, I'm going down this deep hole, please help me. 00:50:37.820 --> 00:50:40.020 Because there are times when nothing will come out of it. 00:50:40.020 --> 00:50:42.060 It's such a dark hole. 00:50:42.100 --> 00:50:43.380 David probably experienced that. 00:50:43.380 --> 00:50:45.180 He talks about it in Psalm 139. 00:50:47.940 --> 00:50:51.100 Or in Psalm 42 and 43, listen to his cry. 00:50:51.100 --> 00:50:53.060 Why are you so sad, my soul? 00:50:53.060 --> 00:50:54.940 Why so depressed within me? 00:50:54.940 --> 00:50:57.340 Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise you. 00:51:00.780 --> 00:51:03.580 And times like that, call someone you trust. 00:51:03.580 --> 00:51:06.380 Don't call the best guy in the church 00:51:06.380 --> 00:51:08.380 or the best girl in the church 00:51:08.380 --> 00:51:09.980 because they may not be able to help you. 00:51:09.980 --> 00:51:11.900 Call someone you trust. 00:51:12.740 --> 00:51:15.620 Call someone who knows how to walk like this. 00:51:15.620 --> 00:51:16.940 Don't call your best friend 00:51:16.940 --> 00:51:19.140 because your best friend probably might be as bad as you. 00:51:21.100 --> 00:51:23.860 Call someone who is not the best at it 00:51:23.860 --> 00:51:26.700 but walks like this, whom you can trust. 00:51:26.700 --> 00:51:29.820 And when you call them, you can now lean on them 00:51:29.820 --> 00:51:31.300 and let them sing for you. 00:51:33.660 --> 00:51:35.700 Let them sing for you 00:51:35.700 --> 00:51:37.740 and it'll begin to release things in your heart. 00:51:42.900 --> 00:51:44.540 Saul's advisors knew this. 00:51:45.820 --> 00:51:47.940 Saul is being tormented. 00:51:47.940 --> 00:51:51.100 Saul is feeling like everything is lost and done. 00:51:51.100 --> 00:51:53.380 And his advisors say, but there's a small boy, 00:51:53.380 --> 00:51:56.460 there's a young boy, not small boy, young boy, 00:51:56.460 --> 00:52:01.460 ruddy, complexioned, plays the harp, ask him to come. 00:52:02.060 --> 00:52:03.300 And he begins to play. 00:52:12.420 --> 00:52:17.420 Feast, man, on the marrow and the fat, eh? 00:52:17.500 --> 00:52:20.780 Because what is worship if it is not banqueting 00:52:23.260 --> 00:52:24.340 on God's glory? 00:52:27.540 --> 00:52:32.540 Father, we as a church come and we so want this. 00:52:33.340 --> 00:52:35.820 As I look around this church while I was teaching, 00:52:35.820 --> 00:52:39.260 I know that at present the spirit of God 00:52:39.260 --> 00:52:41.780 in this church is stirring us up. 00:52:42.500 --> 00:52:44.700 Everybody here wants this. 00:52:44.700 --> 00:52:45.980 We don't know how to get there. 00:52:45.980 --> 00:52:48.580 We are scared of what we'll have to let go of. 00:52:48.580 --> 00:52:51.300 Just the thought of freedom frightens us. 00:52:52.260 --> 00:52:53.220 It's very odd. 00:52:54.180 --> 00:52:57.420 We like freedom, but sometimes being invited 00:52:57.420 --> 00:52:59.540 into your kind of freedom is frightening 00:53:00.580 --> 00:53:03.220 because it's a loss of everything I can hide behind, 00:53:03.220 --> 00:53:04.900 every security blanket, 00:53:04.900 --> 00:53:06.780 everything I can protect myself with, 00:53:06.780 --> 00:53:09.540 everything that'll keep me from being transparent, 00:53:09.540 --> 00:53:11.140 it'll go away. 00:53:11.140 --> 00:53:13.100 It frightens us, oh God. 00:53:13.100 --> 00:53:15.420 But if you, oh God, want this circle 00:53:15.420 --> 00:53:17.740 of abundance, dancing, and joy, 00:53:17.740 --> 00:53:21.020 then you will have to help us because we long for it, 00:53:21.020 --> 00:53:22.500 but we are so scared of it. 00:53:24.540 --> 00:53:26.780 We don't want it to be hysterical, dramatic, 00:53:26.780 --> 00:53:29.700 emotional only because we saw what happened to David. 00:53:31.300 --> 00:53:33.220 But I want to represent someone else. 00:53:33.220 --> 00:53:35.500 They want to represent me and someone else 00:53:35.500 --> 00:53:37.300 till this church becomes a circle 00:53:37.300 --> 00:53:39.820 of abundance, dancing, and joy, oh God. 00:53:39.860 --> 00:53:42.740 Granted, Father, Granted, oh God, 00:53:42.740 --> 00:53:44.220 only you can do this work. 00:53:44.220 --> 00:53:45.820 Bob Crone stood here and said 00:53:45.820 --> 00:53:47.460 that he was there at the beginning of the church 00:53:47.460 --> 00:53:49.260 and he sees how far it's come. 00:53:49.260 --> 00:53:52.340 Once more, once more, Lord, once more do it again. 00:53:52.340 --> 00:53:55.180 Bring us to a place where we become a circle 00:53:55.180 --> 00:53:57.260 of abundance, joy, and dancing 00:53:57.260 --> 00:53:58.700 so that others can come in, 00:53:58.700 --> 00:54:00.420 sons and daughters that you're calling 00:54:00.420 --> 00:54:02.060 from the nations into the kingdom, 00:54:02.060 --> 00:54:04.780 can come and say, ah, found a place for freedom. 00:54:07.020 --> 00:54:09.140 Please, Jesus, it's a cry of our heart. 00:54:09.140 --> 00:54:10.420 It's not a cry of my heart. 00:54:10.420 --> 00:54:12.380 I know that the Spirit of God is here 00:54:12.380 --> 00:54:13.740 stirring up every heart here. 00:54:13.740 --> 00:54:15.980 It doesn't matter whether it's new or old. 00:54:15.980 --> 00:54:17.180 It is happening in this room. 00:54:17.180 --> 00:54:18.780 We long for it, Jesus. 00:54:20.860 --> 00:54:22.500 So we come begging you for it. 00:54:22.500 --> 00:54:24.300 A little bit of jumping won't do this. 00:54:24.300 --> 00:54:26.300 It's something that happens in our heart. 00:54:27.340 --> 00:54:28.580 Do this, Lord, we pray. 00:54:30.220 --> 00:54:32.780 In the mighty name of Jesus, amen. 00:54:34.220 --> 00:54:35.820 Bless you guys. 00:54:35.820 --> 00:54:37.220 Sue had sent me a list of guys 00:54:37.220 --> 00:54:38.660 who will be up here for prayer. 00:54:38.660 --> 00:54:41.860 Sue had to go to a funeral, so she's not here. 00:54:44.860 --> 00:54:48.260 It is Heidi, Joan, Brandon, James. 00:54:49.500 --> 00:54:50.700 Feel free to come up and pray. 00:54:50.700 --> 00:54:53.140 Feel free to come up and they'll pray for you. 00:54:53.140 --> 00:54:56.540 Otherwise, yeah, have a joyful week, eh? 00:54:59.460 --> 00:55:00.300 What? 00:55:00.300 --> 00:55:01.380 Just to make the joy greater, 00:55:01.380 --> 00:55:03.540 since we talked about joy, 00:55:03.540 --> 00:55:05.260 we know it's Jacob's birthday tomorrow. 00:55:05.260 --> 00:55:06.100 What? 00:55:07.100 --> 00:55:08.860 You know how small I am on birthdays. 00:55:08.860 --> 00:55:10.860 Please, please, don't, don't, please. 00:55:12.540 --> 00:55:14.540 And it's not a round number. 00:55:14.540 --> 00:55:17.180 It's like a three-quarter kind of a number. 00:55:17.180 --> 00:55:18.780 I don't even know why we mention it, 00:55:18.780 --> 00:55:23.780 but anyways, we have a cake downstairs. 00:55:23.780 --> 00:55:25.060 No, you didn't. 00:55:25.060 --> 00:55:26.260 How could you guys? 00:55:26.260 --> 00:55:29.900 Actually, the cake was meant for Bob. 00:55:29.900 --> 00:55:30.740 Oh, really? 00:55:33.220 --> 00:55:34.620 Just kidding, the cake. 00:55:36.420 --> 00:55:39.140 The cake was meant for Bob and Jacob. 00:55:39.140 --> 00:55:39.980 Thank God he left. 00:55:39.980 --> 00:55:40.820 That's Bob left. 00:55:41.940 --> 00:55:43.500 So you can get his piece too. 00:55:45.220 --> 00:55:49.140 So we'll have a cake downstairs, 00:55:49.140 --> 00:55:52.100 so you can all join and... 00:55:52.100 --> 00:55:53.220 Oh, you shouldn't have. 00:55:53.220 --> 00:55:56.140 Oh, there's a little video thing 00:55:56.140 --> 00:55:58.700 for your birthday from people who want to... 00:55:58.700 --> 00:55:59.540 Oh, shucks. 00:56:00.900 --> 00:56:02.300 Oh, shucks, that's actually a surprise. 00:56:02.300 --> 00:56:03.140 Say something. 00:56:03.140 --> 00:56:04.940 The rest of it, I kinda expected, eh?