WEBVTT NOTE Podcast: Acts 29 Vancouver Episode: Consecration Publishing Date: 2024-02-18T05:00:44-08:00 Podcast URL: https://acts29.ca Episode URL: https://acts29.ca/consecration/ 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.540 Working day test units, thank you. 00:00:20.840 --> 00:00:26.140 Everyone 00:00:26.140 --> 00:00:33.140 Sadiq, can you let Brandon know I want to start? 00:00:47.860 --> 00:00:54.860 I think we should give for when we go for a break, we should give people a tag and then 00:00:55.220 --> 00:01:02.220 it buzzes, yeah. And it doesn't stop buzzing till you come in. 00:01:10.140 --> 00:01:14.540 All right, you remember you change places only because you need to be aware that it 00:01:14.540 --> 00:01:21.460 is easy in a church as it grows bigger to have groups that settle and don't connect 00:01:21.460 --> 00:01:27.740 at any level other than a very superficial level, eh? So, you might try a few things 00:01:27.740 --> 00:01:34.740 every week till we get the hang of it, yeah? Okay, so today we switch from what the series 00:01:36.620 --> 00:01:43.620 we were doing called Take Your Rightful Place to Consecration. Derek, you want to come up? 00:01:44.620 --> 00:01:51.620 I just asked Derek to pray for me because this might be a message that might change 00:01:54.220 --> 00:02:01.220 some of our lives and I don't have the ability to do it. 00:02:01.220 --> 00:02:08.220 Guys, as a church can we stretch our hands towards Jacob and pray together? Before we 00:02:16.580 --> 00:02:23.580 pray we want to thank you for Jacob's life, for the rich teaching that we receive week 00:02:24.580 --> 00:02:31.580 in and week after. Our lives show the word that has become flesh in us and we are so 00:02:34.500 --> 00:02:40.460 much better in you because of that. So we thank you and we recognize that first. 00:02:40.460 --> 00:02:47.460 But now we pray that even as Jacob begins to teach today that as Paul said that there 00:02:48.460 --> 00:02:54.900 will be a demonstration of your power through his words. And often times when we read that 00:02:54.900 --> 00:03:00.740 words we are expecting things to happen right in front of our eyes. But sometimes there 00:03:00.740 --> 00:03:06.460 are things, even big strongholds that get broken inside of our lives. And I pray that 00:03:06.460 --> 00:03:12.660 as Jacob teaches tonight, as this church agrees, as we are yielded to hear from you and to 00:03:12.660 --> 00:03:18.260 learn from you through your word about, as we agree and as we stand in unity in that, 00:03:18.260 --> 00:03:24.540 may these words that Jacob speaks about that come out of his mouth, may those words change 00:03:24.540 --> 00:03:29.900 our hearts, change our being so that we are united in purpose for what you have for us. 00:03:29.900 --> 00:03:31.980 We bless him in Jesus' name. Amen. 00:03:31.980 --> 00:03:38.980 Thanks man. So in 1873 there was this guy called D.L. Moody and some of you have heard 00:03:38.980 --> 00:03:45.980 this phrase before. And he said, he was talking to a guy called Varley, V-A-R-L-Y. And he 00:03:46.620 --> 00:03:52.260 had spoken to the guy in 1872. The guy had said something to him. He goes back to him 00:03:52.260 --> 00:03:59.260 in 1873 and then he says these words, eh? And he says, the world, the world has yet 00:03:59.900 --> 00:04:06.900 to see, the world has yet to see what God can do. And he says, the world has yet to 00:04:09.420 --> 00:04:16.420 see what God will do, not can do, will do, what God will do with a man fully consecrated 00:04:30.260 --> 00:04:37.260 to him. Crazy, eh? So this man had spoken to D.L. Moody and he said, he was talking 00:04:38.980 --> 00:04:45.980 to D.L. Moody in 1872. Moody goes on a trip to Chicago and a few other, to the UK and 00:04:46.740 --> 00:04:50.660 back and forth from Chicago and he comes back and he speaks to Varley and he says, you said 00:04:50.660 --> 00:04:56.660 these words to me and they really troubled me over the last year, really troubled me. 00:04:56.660 --> 00:05:03.660 That the world is yet to see what God will do with a man fully consecrated to him. And 00:05:04.660 --> 00:05:11.660 then he goes on to say to Varley that I aim to be that man. That's what he said. I aim 00:05:17.740 --> 00:05:24.740 to be that man. And from there on begins his journey. The D.L. Moody goes on and he begins 00:05:24.740 --> 00:05:31.740 to, he begins to do things across the US and Europe that shakes it to its very core, eh? 00:05:33.860 --> 00:05:40.860 But this quote is something else and it applies to every man and woman here. And this is why 00:05:41.180 --> 00:05:46.860 I asked Derek to pray because I won't be able to do this for you but the Spirit of God can 00:05:46.860 --> 00:05:53.300 do something in our hearts, man. There's nobody here that cannot be just turned upside down 00:05:53.300 --> 00:06:00.300 by this word. It's not the richness of teaching, it's not the gifts of the Spirit, it's not 00:06:00.300 --> 00:06:07.300 anything. At the end of the day it boils down to this simple fact. The world has yet 00:06:09.860 --> 00:06:15.460 to see what God will do with a man fully consecrated to him. And then he goes and says, I aim to 00:06:15.460 --> 00:06:22.460 be that man. By God's help, by God's help, he puts that in, I'm sorry I left that out. 00:06:23.060 --> 00:06:30.060 By God's help I aim to be that man. And so if you take the word consecrate, you can take 00:06:30.300 --> 00:06:37.060 it. Without going into Greek or Hebrew or anything of that sort, it simply means to 00:06:37.060 --> 00:06:44.060 separate, to separate yourself holy to the Lord. To separate yourself holy to the Lord, 00:06:52.860 --> 00:06:56.940 that's what it means. To separate yourself holy to the Lord. That's, at the end of the 00:06:56.940 --> 00:07:03.820 day, that's the essence of what consecrate means. To separate yourself holy to the Lord. 00:07:03.820 --> 00:07:09.780 There were a group of guys in the Old Testament that were known for this. You find it in Numbers 00:07:09.780 --> 00:07:15.940 6. Strangely enough, the only thing we remember out of Numbers 6 is, the Lord bless you and 00:07:15.940 --> 00:07:19.780 keep you, the Lord make his face to shine upon you. The Lord give you his peace, cause 00:07:19.780 --> 00:07:23.700 his face to, countenance to be lifted upon you. That's what we remember. But if you read 00:07:23.700 --> 00:07:30.660 the preceding verses from Numbers 6.1 to 21, you find that there is a group of guys 00:07:30.660 --> 00:07:37.660 that would go into this place of consecration. And they were called the Nazarites. Now, Samson 00:07:39.140 --> 00:07:43.700 was a Nazarite and there were very few full time Nazarites. It wasn't a clan, it wasn't 00:07:43.700 --> 00:07:50.700 a tribe. But people would go in and out of a Nazarite oath or a vow because it was prescribed 00:07:51.700 --> 00:07:58.700 in the Old Testament. And so if you go to Numbers 6, verse 1 to 8 for instance, Numbers 00:08:00.700 --> 00:08:07.700 6 verse 1 to 8, it says, and the Lord spoke to Moses, speak to the people of Israel and 00:08:09.700 --> 00:08:15.700 say to them, and I love this, it's not very often that you find man or woman in the Old 00:08:15.900 --> 00:08:20.800 Testament. But here it says in verse 2, speak to the people of Israel and say to them, when 00:08:20.800 --> 00:08:27.300 either a man or a woman makes a special vow, the vow of a Nazarite to separate himself 00:08:27.300 --> 00:08:34.300 to the Lord, he shall separate himself from wine and strong drink. He shall drink no vinegar 00:08:34.660 --> 00:08:40.620 made from wine or strong drink and shall not drink any juice of grapes or eat grapes fresh 00:08:40.620 --> 00:08:45.820 or dried. All the days of his separation he shall eat nothing that is produced by the 00:08:45.820 --> 00:08:51.740 grape wine, not even the seeds of the skins, seeds of the, or the skins. All the days of 00:08:51.740 --> 00:08:57.740 his vow of separation no razor shall touch his head until the time is completed for which 00:08:57.740 --> 00:09:03.060 he separates himself to the Lord. So it was for a time that they would do it. And they 00:09:03.060 --> 00:09:08.740 would decide the time ahead of time so that they would say, during this time I will live 00:09:08.740 --> 00:09:15.740 as a Nazarite and I will subscribe to the Nazarite vow. And so verse 5, all the days 00:09:19.020 --> 00:09:24.400 of his vow of separation no razor shall touch his head until the time is completed for which 00:09:24.400 --> 00:09:28.840 he separates himself to the Lord. He shall be holy. He shall let the locks of the hair 00:09:28.840 --> 00:09:34.360 of his head grow long. All the days that he separates himself to the Lord he shall not 00:09:34.600 --> 00:09:40.040 go near a dead body. Not even for his father or for his mother or brother or sister if 00:09:40.040 --> 00:09:46.760 they die shall he make himself unclean because his separation to God is on his head. All 00:09:46.760 --> 00:09:53.760 the days of separation he is holy to the Lord. And then if you go to verse 13, and it says, 00:09:55.400 --> 00:09:59.840 and this is the law for the Nazarite when the time of his separation has been completed. 00:09:59.840 --> 00:10:06.840 He shall be brought to the entrance of the tent of meeting. And then he had to offer 00:10:09.560 --> 00:10:14.800 offerings but look at what the offerings were. He shall bring his gift to the Lord. One main 00:10:14.800 --> 00:10:20.880 lamb a year old without blemish for a burnt offering. One yew lamb a year old without 00:10:20.880 --> 00:10:26.600 blemish as a sin offering. One ram without blemish as a peace offering. A basket of unleavened 00:10:26.600 --> 00:10:33.440 bread. Loaves of fine flour mixed with oil. Unleavened wafers smeared with oil and the 00:10:33.440 --> 00:10:37.720 grain offerings and the drink offerings. And the priest shall bring them before the Lord. 00:10:37.720 --> 00:10:43.680 The final thing that he would do is in verse 18, 6, 18, and it says there, and the Nazarite 00:10:43.680 --> 00:10:48.400 shall shave his consecrated head at the entrance of the tent of meeting and shall take the 00:10:48.400 --> 00:10:53.480 hair from his consecrated head and put it on the fire that is under the sacrifice of 00:10:53.480 --> 00:10:59.760 the peace offering. It seems such an odd passage to go to talk about consecration but this 00:10:59.760 --> 00:11:06.760 was a normal part of Old Testament life where people would decide that they were going to 00:11:06.880 --> 00:11:13.440 separate themselves wholly to the Lord. So what was the point of taking a note that you 00:11:13.440 --> 00:11:18.480 wouldn't drink wine, that you would grow your hair, that you wouldn't touch dead bodies 00:11:18.560 --> 00:11:25.280 and that you would give in offerings? Because guys remember wine was like bubbly or coke. 00:11:25.280 --> 00:11:30.320 People would drink it every day. To say that for the next three years or the next eight 00:11:30.320 --> 00:11:35.040 months I was not going to touch anything that was alcoholic or that had wine in it or that 00:11:35.040 --> 00:11:42.040 had grape in it was to say that in separating myself it will have lifestyle or social implications. 00:11:48.480 --> 00:11:52.120 You know what this would mean, right? That you would go to a wedding and when you go 00:11:52.120 --> 00:11:57.760 to the wedding you would not be able to participate even if Jesus turned it into wine. It didn't 00:11:57.760 --> 00:12:02.520 matter who turned the water into wine, you wouldn't drink it. You go for a regular meal, 00:12:02.520 --> 00:12:07.680 you couldn't drink wine. You go for a Passover meal, you couldn't drink wine. It would be 00:12:07.680 --> 00:12:14.680 out of question. There were social or lifestyle implications to separating yourself. We need 00:12:14.680 --> 00:12:20.080 to hear that because we are not called to be Nazrites right now though this premise 00:12:20.080 --> 00:12:26.080 did exist in the New Testament too. But the point is if I decide that I am going to consecrate 00:12:26.080 --> 00:12:33.080 myself know that there will be social and lifestyle implications. The next one. The 00:12:34.960 --> 00:12:39.960 next one was that you had to grow your hair and you could not cut your hair. What was 00:12:39.960 --> 00:12:46.960 the intent? That there would be physical implications that would make visible what 00:12:58.600 --> 00:13:05.600 you were doing. It was physical implication. I remember speaking to someone from the Sikh 00:13:05.600 --> 00:13:12.600 faith, a Punjabi, a very religious Punjabi and he said your Jesus was like us. So I 00:13:13.600 --> 00:13:20.600 said why do you say that? He said because he would grow his hair and he would wear an 00:13:20.600 --> 00:13:25.200 outfit that would make it obvious that he was holy and so he would not be able to enter 00:13:25.200 --> 00:13:31.200 a place of disrepute without people noticing. And then he said that's why we wear this orange 00:13:31.200 --> 00:13:37.200 turban and we dress like this because once we put this on we can't go around into places 00:13:37.200 --> 00:13:42.200 of ill repute because the moment we do people will recognize that here is a hypocrite who 00:13:42.200 --> 00:13:49.200 is going into a place he shouldn't go to. This is from a guy from the Punjabi faith. 00:13:49.200 --> 00:13:55.200 The point being the moment I consecrate myself this is a difficult thing that God is inviting 00:13:55.200 --> 00:14:02.200 us into. This cannot be legislated. But there is nobody here who God is not inviting into 00:14:02.200 --> 00:14:09.200 something like this. But there has to be something that is physically visible that makes evident 00:14:10.200 --> 00:14:17.200 to the world around you that you have separated yourself to something or someone. That this 00:14:18.200 --> 00:14:25.200 is one of those things where it's not like Jesus saying if you fast don't let people 00:14:26.200 --> 00:14:33.200 know that you're fasting. This is if you are setting yourself apart let people know. The 00:14:36.200 --> 00:14:43.200 third thing was dead bodies. Do not touch dead bodies. Today doesn't seem like a big 00:14:44.200 --> 00:14:49.200 deal because none of us would have a problem with touching dead bodies but in those days 00:14:49.200 --> 00:14:56.200 a person could die of a cold next to you. Death was very normal. There would be plagues. 00:14:56.200 --> 00:15:00.200 People would die of different things. It could be a father, mother, brother, sister. They 00:15:00.200 --> 00:15:05.200 would have multiple sisters and brothers. And so the intent of the Nazarite vow in this 00:15:05.200 --> 00:15:12.200 case was to let us know that if we went down this route there were relational, physical 00:15:14.200 --> 00:15:20.200 implications where our relationships would be affected by it. We would not be able to 00:15:20.200 --> 00:15:27.200 take part in relational things that are culturally sometimes a way of showing respect that we 00:15:27.200 --> 00:15:34.200 would have to withdraw from. And then finally look at the offerings that had to be presented. 00:15:34.200 --> 00:15:41.200 There was no other situation where one man had to present a lamb, a ewe lamb and a ram, 00:15:44.200 --> 00:15:51.200 a basket of flour, leavened bread, wafers smeared with oil. No other sacrifice ever demanded 00:15:53.200 --> 00:15:58.200 so much of a person because it was impossible for an ordinary man to then fulfill this vow 00:15:59.200 --> 00:16:04.200 because you could not. I mean even by today's standards one whole lamb is going to cost 00:16:04.200 --> 00:16:09.200 you a lot. In those days when people were poor to get a lamb, to get a ewe lamb and 00:16:09.200 --> 00:16:14.200 to get a ram and then to get a basket of flour and then to get wafers that are smeared with 00:16:14.200 --> 00:16:20.200 oil and bring that all as an offering before God would be so expensive that it was prohibitive 00:16:20.200 --> 00:16:25.200 which would then mean that the only way that you could do it is if some of us gathered 00:16:26.200 --> 00:16:33.200 around you because we knew what you were doing and helped you get there. So consecration 00:16:33.200 --> 00:16:40.200 could not even be completed in isolation because you would not be able to complete this offering. 00:16:40.200 --> 00:16:47.200 You would need others to help you with it. So there were four different types of offerings 00:16:55.200 --> 00:17:02.200 that were financial implications. And so what are we trying to say? We are trying to say 00:17:08.200 --> 00:17:14.200 that if you want to go down this route of D.L. Moody where he says the world has to 00:17:14.200 --> 00:17:20.200 see what God will do. The world has yet to see what God will do with a man fully consecrated 00:17:20.200 --> 00:17:27.200 to him. You know what encourages me about that is that it is so open to anybody. There 00:17:31.200 --> 00:17:38.200 is no one here who this is not open to. But this is where 1st Chronicles 16.9 just comes 00:17:39.200 --> 00:17:46.200 into being. The eyes of the Lord roam to and fro across the earth looking for someone on 00:17:46.700 --> 00:17:53.700 whose behalf he can show himself strong because they show themselves loyal. But consecration 00:17:54.700 --> 00:18:01.700 is not a day thing. You cannot grow your hair in a day. Right Tony? It takes longer than 00:18:04.840 --> 00:18:11.840 that. So it takes a while. So it would not be something that you commit to for a day. 00:18:12.840 --> 00:18:19.840 It required time. And that is where in our busy world it becomes so impossible to consecrate 00:18:21.840 --> 00:18:25.840 ourselves. The best we can do is bring our talents and our gifts, our two loaves and 00:18:25.840 --> 00:18:32.840 our five fish and say, Oh God multiply it. And he still does. Both for our sake and for 00:18:33.840 --> 00:18:40.840 the sake of others. But it is not what he is looking for. He is looking for the people 00:18:41.840 --> 00:18:47.840 who are not like him. And so throughout history there have been Nazrites like this. And they 00:18:47.840 --> 00:18:53.840 usually come out when there is an overwhelming stench of the world around you. That is when 00:18:53.840 --> 00:19:00.840 these men pop up. So you see Samson popping up. Samuel was another one. In 1 Samuel 1.11. 00:19:01.840 --> 00:19:06.840 In his case he was perhaps the only other Nazrite that was perhaps a full time Nazrite. 00:19:06.840 --> 00:19:13.840 And his mother brings him to Eli and she says, Here is my son. I dedicate him to the Lord 00:19:13.840 --> 00:19:20.840 and all the days of his life a razor shall not touch his head. And so you have Samuel. 00:19:25.840 --> 00:19:31.840 David was not a Nazrite but there were times when he would go into long periods of not 00:19:31.840 --> 00:19:36.840 touching a certain item of food or not doing this. There were times when he would do things 00:19:36.840 --> 00:19:41.840 like that. Paul was another one. Paul probably did it once or twice in the New Testament. 00:19:41.840 --> 00:19:46.840 That is a strange thing. This is not an Old Testament premise. You see this in the New 00:19:46.840 --> 00:19:51.840 Testament too. In Acts chapter 19 before Ephesus is completely turned around as a city that 00:19:51.840 --> 00:19:57.840 belonged to Artemis now belonging to the living God, you will find in Acts 18.18 Paul fulfilling 00:19:57.840 --> 00:20:03.840 a vow that he took where he goes into the temple and he shaves his head. Shaving the head 00:20:03.840 --> 00:20:12.840 was never a Christian or a Mosaic or a Judaic prescription because the pagan nations used to 00:20:12.840 --> 00:20:17.840 shave their heads when people would die so that it would look like they were mourning and they 00:20:17.840 --> 00:20:24.840 would be mourning to their gods. And so God had forbade people from shaving their heads. So 00:20:24.840 --> 00:20:29.840 every time you read that someone went and shaved their head in the Old Testament or the New 00:20:29.840 --> 00:20:35.840 Testament it is because they were fulfilling a vow. Paul does it in Acts 18.18. He fulfills a 00:20:35.840 --> 00:20:47.840 vow. Don't know how long he maintained it. And every time you get to a place where the world has 00:20:47.840 --> 00:20:53.840 this overwhelming stench you will see Samson's and Samuel's and David's and Elijah's and the 00:20:53.840 --> 00:21:01.840 other one was John the Baptist. He was a man who would not touch the dainties from the king's table 00:21:01.840 --> 00:21:17.840 who lived a certain way. What is this then? It's a prophetic sign guys. It's a prophetic sign. It's a 00:21:17.840 --> 00:21:32.840 It's a prophetic sign or a symbol. It's a prophetic sign or a symbol of God's covenant faithfulness 00:21:32.840 --> 00:21:39.840 as in I will not let the earth go without raising someone or the other who can do what I want to on the 00:21:39.840 --> 00:21:46.840 earth so that more may know me. It's a prophetic sign of God's covenant faithfulness and holiness 00:21:46.840 --> 00:22:02.840 to awaken first the church and then through the church the world. What is a prophetic sign? Ones who 00:22:02.840 --> 00:22:16.840 consecrate themselves. What's a model in the Bible? The Nazarites. Please understand they were not a 00:22:16.840 --> 00:22:24.840 clan. They were not a tribe. There was no drafting into Nazarite kind of a ritual. Nobody was compelled. 00:22:24.840 --> 00:22:34.840 You didn't have to do it. It wasn't a rite of passage. It was voluntary. This is what he's inviting 00:22:34.840 --> 00:22:44.840 Jordan to, Aaron into, Prashanth into, Mark into, James into. Please give me one man. Give me one man. 00:22:44.840 --> 00:22:52.840 The world has yet to see what God will do with a man fully consecrated to him. In every generation God is looking 00:22:52.840 --> 00:22:58.840 for men like this across the continent and it really shifts everything. No amount of gifts, no large church, 00:22:58.840 --> 00:23:08.840 no Holy Spirit revival. Nothing else does this as powerfully as a man set up. G. K. Chesterton said these words, 00:23:08.840 --> 00:23:24.840 Each generation, each generation, each generation is converted by the saint, each generation is converted by the saint 00:23:24.840 --> 00:23:34.840 who contradicts it the most. Combine these two guys and I pray God that the Holy Spirit begins to create a hunger in some 00:23:34.840 --> 00:23:44.840 of our hearts. Man or woman, that it begins to create a hunger in your heart. This must become your cry. Oh God, 00:23:44.840 --> 00:23:54.840 I have heard of your deeds. I stand in awe of your deeds. Renew them. I want to renew them Jacob, but I'm looking for a man 00:23:54.840 --> 00:24:02.840 or a woman whose life is consecrated to me because the world has not yet seen what God can do with a man fully consecrated to him. 00:24:02.840 --> 00:24:10.840 Each generation is converted by the saint who contradicts it. Everything in this world is instant, instant, instant. Everything in this 00:24:10.840 --> 00:24:17.840 world is get, set your, create a platform. Doesn't matter whether it's a church or the world, create a platform. Do this, do that. 00:24:17.840 --> 00:24:24.840 You need more influence. You can do this. Let your gifts be known. Put it on media. Put it on this, put it on that. 00:24:24.840 --> 00:24:34.840 And Jesus never did this, but he was consecrated to the Father. 00:24:41.840 --> 00:24:44.840 Any questions? 00:24:44.840 --> 00:24:56.840 Exactly this. Separate to God, holy for him. The meaning of consecration. 00:24:56.840 --> 00:25:04.840 To separate yourself holy to the Lord. That's the meaning of the word consecrate. It is to separate yourself as it says in number six. 00:25:04.840 --> 00:25:18.840 I am right now a part of this large group and then I'm saying I'm separating myself and standing alone even if I contradict, even if it has relational 00:25:18.840 --> 00:25:29.840 implications, even if it has lifestyle implications, even if it means physical implications will make me look awkward and odd, even if it means that I'll have 00:25:29.840 --> 00:25:42.840 financial implications which may cause me financial loss. Yet all this is as nothing for the sake of him to whom I set myself apart. 00:25:47.840 --> 00:25:50.840 And it's an invitation to everybody. Go ahead, Marco. 00:25:50.840 --> 00:25:59.840 Any other questions? 00:25:59.840 --> 00:26:09.840 Yeah, consecration is something that doesn't need permission. Consecration is to say I'm separating myself to be holy unto God. 00:26:09.840 --> 00:26:15.840 How you go about it differs and we'll talk about that, different ways of doing it. Because it changes for different people, eh? 00:26:15.840 --> 00:26:25.840 Each of us has a different way of doing it. So it's not like you're going to be a Christian, you're going to be a Christian, you're going to be a Christian. 00:26:25.840 --> 00:26:34.840 Because it changes for different people, eh? Each of us has different things we are struggling with. I'll ask you a set of questions that will make it a little more obvious. 00:26:40.840 --> 00:26:53.840 It's not a proving of our love, eh? We don't set ourselves apart because we want to prove our love. It's not a proving of our love but a separating cause we love. 00:26:54.840 --> 00:27:01.840 Cause we love, not because we want to prove him, prove to him that we love him. It's a separating cause we love him. 00:27:04.840 --> 00:27:09.840 In the New Testament you'll find it in Acts chapter 21, Acts chapter 21, 00:27:09.840 --> 00:27:21.840 verse 24, Acts 21, 24. 00:27:24.840 --> 00:27:29.840 And so this was them talking to Paul and saying to him in verse 23, 00:27:29.840 --> 00:27:47.840 Go to Acts 18, 18. 00:27:47.840 --> 00:27:53.840 Acts 18, 18 it says, 00:27:53.840 --> 00:27:59.840 After this Paul stayed many days longer and took leave with the brothers and set sail for Syria. 00:27:59.840 --> 00:28:05.840 And with him Priscilla and Aquila at Sankria he had cut his hair for he was under a vow. 00:28:05.840 --> 00:28:09.840 These were voluntary things people would do. And what was the intent? 00:28:09.840 --> 00:28:14.840 Can I do something that will help me set myself apart for holy use? 00:28:17.840 --> 00:28:23.840 Can I do something physical? Sometimes you need to do something like this to break out of the rut that we are in. 00:28:29.840 --> 00:28:36.840 So now to answer, try and answer Marcos' question and Anna's question. 00:28:38.840 --> 00:28:44.840 What does this imply? It implies giving up. It is giving up. 00:28:47.840 --> 00:29:02.840 It is giving up smaller desires that have a hold on me or in my life, 00:29:02.840 --> 00:29:12.840 hold in my life for the sake of a greater desire. That's one. 00:29:12.840 --> 00:29:17.840 Let me write down a few more and then we can talk about it. 00:29:17.840 --> 00:29:22.840 Two. These things aren't sin. 00:29:26.840 --> 00:29:30.840 These things aren't sin but are hindering me. 00:29:32.840 --> 00:29:41.840 It's going to get uncomfortable now, eh? But are hindering me from the person I need to be. 00:29:43.840 --> 00:29:48.840 Are hindering me from the person I need to be. 00:29:48.840 --> 00:30:06.840 It could be anything from Facebook to social media to a little bit of wine or alcohol that you may or may not be using in moderation. 00:30:06.840 --> 00:30:19.840 The way you dress, the events you attend, the TV you watch, the way you spend, the way you spend time, 00:30:23.840 --> 00:30:31.840 the way you use your phone. None of these are sinful. 00:30:31.840 --> 00:30:38.840 These things aren't sin but are hindering me from the person I need to be. 00:30:43.840 --> 00:30:56.840 So if you were honest, if you were honest, where do the lines blur and you begin to compromise? 00:30:57.840 --> 00:31:00.840 And I begin to compromise. 00:31:05.840 --> 00:31:22.840 If you were honest, what distracts you or hinders you, what distracts you or hinders you from being the person that you know you should be? 00:31:27.840 --> 00:31:37.840 You know you should be. You know God's spoken to you, He's shown you, He's told you, there's no dirt of prophetic words. 00:31:37.840 --> 00:31:43.840 You know the entire scene. You can write a book about your future. I can. I can write a book about my future. 00:31:43.840 --> 00:31:49.840 So many have come right from 35 years ago, 33 years ago and they've told me, Jacob, Jacob, Jacob. 00:31:49.840 --> 00:31:57.840 But why is it that the book isn't completed? Why haven't I gotten to the last page? 00:31:57.840 --> 00:32:02.840 And so when I say what hinders you, don't think of something big. 00:32:02.840 --> 00:32:11.840 An example I heard was, so you may say, oh I need to spend quality time with my wife and so the hindrance is I should create time to spend with my wife. 00:32:11.840 --> 00:32:19.840 That's a big thing. The small thing is people spend an hour with their wife with their phones next to them and do not pay attention to their spouse. 00:32:19.840 --> 00:32:22.840 That is a small thing that needs to be taken care of. 00:32:22.840 --> 00:32:28.840 Our Christian life is being ruined by the small things that are adding up, not by the big things. 00:32:28.840 --> 00:32:35.840 We have the ability to take the big things and deal with them. But it is the small things. 00:32:36.840 --> 00:32:43.840 The constant looking at the phone while you're sitting with the one you love, not being present. 00:32:43.840 --> 00:32:48.840 It's the small things. It's not the big things. 00:32:53.840 --> 00:32:59.840 It's the small things that ruin us guys. It's the little foxes that are spoiling the wine. 00:33:00.840 --> 00:33:04.840 And each of us has this in our lives and for each of us it's different. 00:33:04.840 --> 00:33:12.840 For some of you, perhaps Facebook is not a big deal. For some of us, it's consuming. 00:33:13.840 --> 00:33:35.840 The third question is what good thing, what good thing is bringing spiritual decay into your life? 00:33:35.840 --> 00:33:40.840 What good thing is giving up your life? 00:33:40.840 --> 00:33:44.840 And can I give it up? And can I sacrifice it? 00:33:50.840 --> 00:33:56.840 Okay, let's talk about it now. It's giving up the smaller desires that have a hold on my life. 00:33:56.840 --> 00:34:05.840 I pray God that as I say this, that it just pops up to your mind, smaller desires that have a hold in your life. 00:34:05.840 --> 00:34:15.840 If I asked you to give it up for a day or two, you would. If I asked you to give it up for a month or two, you would come up with reasons why it's not a good idea. 00:34:17.840 --> 00:34:20.840 You would come up with reasons saying this is legalism. 00:34:20.840 --> 00:34:25.840 You would come up with reasons saying God knows my heart. Of course he does. 00:34:34.840 --> 00:34:45.840 So if I ask someone here who consumes Facebook to give up Facebook for the next seven months, the thought itself grips your heart and squeezes it. 00:34:46.840 --> 00:34:55.840 If I ask you to give up the wine you have or the alcohol you have for the next eight months, you can't even think of doing without it. 00:34:55.840 --> 00:35:08.840 If I ask yourself not to sit in front of the TV mindlessly flipping channels, it might be difficult because it's the way we fall off to sleep. 00:35:08.840 --> 00:35:17.840 These are the small things, but day by day by day they are eating away at time and a moral fiber and at our focus. 00:35:22.840 --> 00:35:29.840 The second thing was things that aren't sin but are hindering me from the person I need to be. 00:35:29.840 --> 00:35:34.840 Things that aren't sin. These are not sinful things. 00:35:34.840 --> 00:35:39.840 The strange thing about consecration is that we are not talking about sinful things. 00:35:41.840 --> 00:35:44.840 We are talking about good things that are hindering. 00:35:49.840 --> 00:35:55.840 As I'm preparing this, I'm thinking to myself, my God, the amount of time I waste, you've been robbed by me. 00:35:55.840 --> 00:36:05.840 One of the reasons I want to preach this is so that I can say, for your sake, O God, for his sake and for your sake, is there a chance, Jacob, that you would consecrate yourself? 00:36:09.840 --> 00:36:19.840 Mothers do that when they get pregnant, don't they? Mothers who drink wine, mothers who smoke, mothers who have been smoking for a while and mothers who drink wine stop. 00:36:19.840 --> 00:36:20.840 What are they doing for? 00:36:20.840 --> 00:36:25.840 Mothers who have been smoking for a while and mothers who drink wine stop. What are they doing for? 00:36:25.840 --> 00:36:29.840 They consecrate themselves for the sake of the one they're giving birth to. 00:36:37.840 --> 00:36:47.840 Can May do this? Can Dawn do this? Can Jillian do this? Can Derek do this? Can Sue do this? Can Jane and Sheldon do this? 00:36:47.840 --> 00:36:55.840 Can Hannah and George do this? Can Diana do this? Can Emily do this? Can Tooney do this? For your sake and for his sake? 00:36:55.840 --> 00:37:18.840 The third thing was, what good thing is bringing spiritual decay? What good thing is bringing spiritual decay? What good thing is bringing spiritual decay? 00:37:18.840 --> 00:37:37.840 In Acts chapter 6, verse 2, it was all day, the disciples, the apostles say, choose for us seven men full of the Holy Spirit so that we can ask them to take care of the needy widows, which is a super good thing, 00:37:37.840 --> 00:37:44.840 because those that take care of widows and orphans are actually practicing perfect religion according to Jesus. 00:37:44.840 --> 00:37:54.840 And even though it was a good thing, the apostles say, we need to devote ourselves to prayer and the ministry of the word. 00:37:54.840 --> 00:38:02.840 Therefore, choose for us seven men full of the Holy Spirit so that they can take care of it. Why? 00:38:02.840 --> 00:38:08.840 Because if the apostles continue doing it, what would happen as a result would be spiritual decay of the church. 00:38:13.840 --> 00:38:19.840 And so they appoint seven and they devote themselves to prayer and the ministry of the word, 00:38:19.840 --> 00:38:25.840 consecrate themselves to prayer and the ministry of the word, because if prayer and the ministry of the word begins to decline, 00:38:25.840 --> 00:38:32.840 or is there a certain stagnant level in the church, especially in terms of the pastor and the leadership, 00:38:32.840 --> 00:38:39.840 then know this for certain that faith will decline, holiness will decline, fruitfulness will decline, and the ministry of the word will decline. 00:38:39.840 --> 00:38:48.840 Sometimes what is happening to you is the responsibility of the ones who lead you, 00:38:48.840 --> 00:38:53.840 because they are not putting in the time to prevent certain things from happening to you, 00:38:53.840 --> 00:38:57.840 just as you would say that about your children. 00:38:57.840 --> 00:39:02.840 But some things happen to your children because you did not put in place what was required, 00:39:02.840 --> 00:39:06.840 the work that was required to keep them safe. 00:39:06.840 --> 00:39:11.840 And like Paul says, I'm the chief among those sinners. 00:39:11.840 --> 00:39:14.840 I'm not quoting Paul, I'm talking about myself. 00:39:17.840 --> 00:39:24.840 Because this hasn't happened in my life for a very, very, very, very, very long time. 00:39:24.840 --> 00:39:28.840 What if it happens for all of us? 00:39:29.840 --> 00:39:33.840 Any questions before we go on? 00:39:33.840 --> 00:39:36.840 Any questions, guys? 00:39:37.840 --> 00:39:40.840 Any questions before we go on? 00:39:40.840 --> 00:39:43.840 Any questions, guys? 00:40:06.840 --> 00:40:31.840 Yeah. 00:40:31.840 --> 00:40:36.840 I think when it comes to finances, start with single simple principles. 00:40:36.840 --> 00:40:44.840 And the first principle that perhaps all of us can start with is, am I afraid of money? 00:40:44.840 --> 00:40:46.840 Start with that. 00:40:46.840 --> 00:40:53.840 If I have the fear of money, then it will control, it will drive, it will lead, it will affect everything I do. 00:40:53.840 --> 00:40:56.840 Just start with that simple principle. 00:40:56.840 --> 00:41:00.840 Am I afraid of money? When I have less, am I afraid? 00:41:00.840 --> 00:41:04.840 When I have less, lack, scare me, am I afraid? 00:41:04.840 --> 00:41:07.840 The fear of money is where we start. 00:41:07.840 --> 00:41:11.840 If you can deal with the fear of money and get less and less afraid of money, 00:41:11.840 --> 00:41:16.840 money is a great servant and a tyrannical master. 00:41:16.840 --> 00:41:18.840 So it's a great servant, it will serve you well. 00:41:18.840 --> 00:41:21.840 It's amoral. 00:41:21.840 --> 00:41:24.840 It will serve you well, but it's a tyrannical master. 00:41:24.840 --> 00:41:32.840 The first thing I ask myself every two or three months is, hey, has the fear returned? 00:41:32.840 --> 00:41:36.840 Start there. 00:41:36.840 --> 00:41:39.840 And you can build from there. 00:41:39.840 --> 00:41:46.840 Any other questions with regard to what I was talking about? 00:41:46.840 --> 00:41:47.840 Okay. 00:41:47.840 --> 00:41:50.840 Consecration always leads to the visitation of God. 00:41:50.840 --> 00:41:54.840 Consecration always leads to the visitation of God. 00:41:54.840 --> 00:41:57.840 You go from merely being proximal to Him. 00:41:57.840 --> 00:42:02.840 You go from proximity to, you go from mere proximity to sheer presence. 00:42:02.840 --> 00:42:07.840 Mere proximity to sheer presence. 00:42:07.840 --> 00:42:12.840 Whenever someone consecrates themselves to God, God shows up. 00:42:12.840 --> 00:42:16.840 Every time an individual or a few people consecrate themselves to God, God visits. 00:42:16.840 --> 00:42:20.840 Doesn't matter whether we were talking, we were talking about the Hebrides 2.0 revival. 00:42:20.840 --> 00:42:23.840 I mean, that was the story of Stornoway. 00:42:23.840 --> 00:42:33.840 Two old ladies and a priest called Campel, and a guy called Campel. 00:42:33.840 --> 00:42:41.840 They consecrated themselves and an entire island was set on fire with the tangible presence of God. 00:42:41.840 --> 00:42:44.840 You see, every time consecration happens, 00:42:44.840 --> 00:42:46.840 I mean, sometimes when people consecrate themselves, 00:42:46.840 --> 00:42:52.840 God doesn't even allow them to finish the consecration because He turns up with His presence and completely disrupts it. 00:42:52.840 --> 00:43:00.840 Case in point, 1 Kings 8, where they're consecrating Solomon's temple. 00:43:00.840 --> 00:43:07.840 And they're in the process of slaughtering lambs and sheep to offer to God. 00:43:07.840 --> 00:43:14.840 And in the middle of that, just when the priests are going to play the final crescendo notes to the consecration, 00:43:14.840 --> 00:43:16.840 before it's complete, God turns up. 00:43:16.840 --> 00:43:20.840 And it says, and 1 Kings 8, 18 or thereabouts, it says, 11, 18, it says, 00:43:20.840 --> 00:43:26.840 the priests could not even stand because the glory of God entered the temple. 00:43:26.840 --> 00:43:31.840 He disrupts it. He loves it. He loves it. He loves someone. 00:43:31.840 --> 00:43:35.840 You know why He loves it? Because He is holy. 00:43:35.840 --> 00:43:42.840 Kadoosh, the very word Kadoosh, which stands, is a Hebrew word for holy, simply means set apart. 00:43:42.840 --> 00:43:45.840 That's the meaning of the word. 00:43:45.840 --> 00:43:51.840 We say Kadoosh, holy. The actual sense of Kadoosh is set apart. 00:43:51.840 --> 00:43:56.840 And so when anybody begins to consecrate themselves to the Lord, set apart to the Lord, 00:43:56.840 --> 00:44:02.840 there's so much, it's like strings playing the same note. 00:44:11.840 --> 00:44:14.840 Consecration always ends up with the visitation of God. 00:44:14.840 --> 00:44:21.840 Every revival we have heard of in the past is usually because a small group of people, 00:44:21.840 --> 00:44:25.840 it doesn't matter whether it's the Moravians who changed the world many years ago, 00:44:25.840 --> 00:44:29.840 or whether it's a Campbell here or a Wesley there, 00:44:29.840 --> 00:44:36.840 at some point they decided, by God's help, I want to be that man. 00:44:43.840 --> 00:44:46.840 Or I want to be that woman. 00:44:46.840 --> 00:44:49.840 Sometimes the best way to break out of a rut, 00:44:49.840 --> 00:44:55.840 a moral rut, a spiritual rut in your life, is to fast from the things that always set you off. 00:44:55.840 --> 00:45:00.840 Fasting is a dying art in churches like this. 00:45:00.840 --> 00:45:05.840 Because we are freelancers who know the Father. 00:45:05.840 --> 00:45:11.840 And sometimes it's good to go back to those simple practices. 00:45:11.840 --> 00:45:14.840 Not fasting from food. I'm not talking about that right now. 00:45:14.840 --> 00:45:18.840 I'm talking about fasting from the things that are trapping you. 00:45:18.840 --> 00:45:25.840 Where you make a decision saying, from this day on, for the next so many months, I will not. 00:45:25.840 --> 00:45:29.840 And you struggle through it for the first few days, and then it becomes normal. 00:45:29.840 --> 00:45:32.840 And you find that the triggers are breaking. 00:45:32.840 --> 00:45:35.840 You find that the patterns are absent. 00:45:35.840 --> 00:45:39.840 You find that the snare is not springing. 00:45:39.840 --> 00:45:43.840 And as you begin to walk in that new freedom, 00:45:43.840 --> 00:45:49.840 you begin to know the holiness of God at a level that you haven't yet experienced it. 00:45:49.840 --> 00:45:55.840 And it begins to affect you so much that to live without it becomes intolerable. 00:45:55.840 --> 00:46:04.840 And as it becomes intolerable, the presence of the living God begins to settle on the one who has consecrated himself to God. 00:46:04.840 --> 00:46:09.840 And he says, now I have found a man who contradicts the age. 00:46:09.840 --> 00:46:15.840 And so with this man, this woman, I can change things. 00:46:15.840 --> 00:46:24.840 By God's help, I want to be that man. For his sake and for your sake. 00:46:24.840 --> 00:46:28.840 And I know that's a cry of your heart. 00:46:28.840 --> 00:46:31.840 But come tomorrow morning, will I be able to do this? 00:46:31.840 --> 00:46:35.840 Come tomorrow morning. If I'm not able to do this, will there be people to help me? 00:46:41.840 --> 00:46:45.840 Come on, Jacob. So what? You messed up. Get up again. Start. 00:46:49.840 --> 00:46:52.840 When our children need to excel in something, what do we do? 00:46:52.840 --> 00:47:00.840 We gather around. We create room for them. We make sure there are no disturbances. 00:47:00.840 --> 00:47:09.840 We do everything in our power to help our children get that A+, or conquer that mountain, or run that race. 00:47:09.840 --> 00:47:15.840 We do everything. Why? Because it's our desire to help them do that. We make everything conducive. 00:47:15.840 --> 00:47:30.840 So let me ramp it up a little more, and then we'll end. 00:47:30.840 --> 00:47:44.840 What if a place that some of us need to start with, some of us, or at least the ones that are leading others, 00:47:44.840 --> 00:47:49.840 we should at least start there. But really, it should start with all of us. 00:47:49.840 --> 00:47:56.840 I don't want to make that demarcation, but I certainly hope that you'll pray that, at least since he's the pastor of the church. 00:47:56.840 --> 00:47:58.840 I hope it happens to him. 00:47:58.840 --> 00:48:02.840 Ramp it up. How? Amos chapter 2, verse 11 says, 00:48:02.840 --> 00:48:10.840 Hey, can you, oh God, can you once again let the prophets and the Nazarites rise up and speak? 00:48:10.840 --> 00:48:13.840 Or something to that effect. Amos chapter 2, verse 11. 00:48:13.840 --> 00:48:28.840 And so, can we get to a place where, like it says in Acts 6, 4, all of us, or at least the ones who lead, 00:48:28.840 --> 00:48:45.840 can we decide that we will choose to have devoted, consecrated, extended, all three words are important, times of prayer. 00:48:45.840 --> 00:48:51.840 For ourselves, we don't even know how to do this. 00:48:51.840 --> 00:49:11.840 If that doesn't happen, then at some point in this church, faith, holiness, the ministry of the word, and fruitfulness will wither. 00:49:11.840 --> 00:49:28.840 It's a set-apart activity. This kind of prayer is a set-apart activity. 00:49:28.840 --> 00:49:35.840 It's not a, as I wash my dishes, let me pray activity. 00:49:35.840 --> 00:49:53.840 I'm not saying you can't do that, but it's a set-apart activity that can't be set aside for good things or needs. 00:49:53.840 --> 00:50:01.840 Now, I was just thinking of the dirks when, and I mentioned this last week too, when Matt had to finish his doctorate, 00:50:01.840 --> 00:50:10.840 I'm sure Rachel stepped up with three kids to help him when Anilay had to finish her doctorate, I'm sure. 00:50:10.840 --> 00:50:19.840 Tony stepped up and the food was terrible, but he still did it. 00:50:19.840 --> 00:50:30.840 So the point being that someone else may have to step up so that you can do it. 00:50:30.840 --> 00:50:39.840 And you see this in the Bible, if you turn to Mark chapter 135, it's such a cool scripture, Mark 135. 00:50:39.840 --> 00:50:44.840 If he needed it, why can't I understand I needed to? 00:50:44.840 --> 00:50:58.840 Mark 135, and rising very early in the morning, while it was still dark, he departed and went out to a desolate place, and there he prayed. 00:50:58.840 --> 00:51:08.840 Luke 516, Luke 516. 00:51:08.840 --> 00:51:13.840 But he would withdraw to desolate places and pray, but he would withdraw. 00:51:13.840 --> 00:51:23.840 Jesus often withdrew from the place where he was born, and he would withdraw from the place where he was born. 00:51:23.840 --> 00:51:27.840 He would go to desolate places and pray, but he would withdraw. 00:51:27.840 --> 00:51:31.840 Jesus often withdrew to lonely places and prayed. 00:51:31.840 --> 00:51:44.840 There is a thing to going to lonely desolate places to pray, because there's nothing else that can disturb you, and you don't take your phone with you. 00:51:44.840 --> 00:51:48.840 You're not as lonely as long as you have Apple. 00:51:48.840 --> 00:51:56.840 That should be the new slogan, man. 00:51:56.840 --> 00:52:02.840 Don't take your phone with you. 00:52:02.840 --> 00:52:08.840 Luke 612. 00:52:08.840 --> 00:52:13.840 One of those days, Jesus went out to a mountainside to pray, and he spent the night praying to God. 00:52:13.840 --> 00:52:26.840 Why? Because the next day he had to make a momentous decision that would require that 12 people be chosen, out of which one would betray him anew, but 11 would change the world. 00:52:26.840 --> 00:52:29.840 So he spends an entire night praying. 00:52:29.840 --> 00:52:35.840 That's not how we work. We just sense the Lord. 00:52:35.840 --> 00:52:43.840 You may sense the Lord, but you may never know who Judas is and who John is in the end. 00:52:43.840 --> 00:52:49.840 So this requires something that is consecrated, devoted, dedicated. 00:52:49.840 --> 00:53:01.840 And then to that, when you add the sensing of the Lord, now you have the ability to go get a fish that has a coin in its mouth. 00:53:01.840 --> 00:53:06.840 You also have the ability to pick 11 people who can change the world. 00:53:06.840 --> 00:53:17.840 The last scripture is Luke 918. 00:53:17.840 --> 00:53:28.840 No, it's not 918. I wrote it down wrong. 00:53:28.840 --> 00:53:37.840 This is when he goes up to pray, and he goes off to pray. 00:53:37.840 --> 00:53:40.840 He sends him off and he goes off to pray. I can't find it. 00:53:40.840 --> 00:53:45.840 But to devote myself to prayer, I must do these three things. 00:53:45.840 --> 00:53:49.840 Preserve time. 00:53:49.840 --> 00:53:57.840 I must persist. 00:53:57.840 --> 00:54:02.840 I must remain with what I'm doing. 00:54:02.840 --> 00:54:06.840 So preserve time as in there is a set time. 00:54:06.840 --> 00:54:09.840 Preserve it. Do not let it be disturbed. 00:54:09.840 --> 00:54:14.840 I must persist with what I'm doing, and I must remain or abide. 00:54:14.840 --> 00:54:25.840 This requires effort. This requires rest. This requires diligence. 00:54:25.840 --> 00:54:30.840 You know, other faiths practice this. 00:54:30.840 --> 00:54:38.840 There's a certain leader who runs a relatively large country with a lot of responsibilities. 00:54:38.840 --> 00:54:47.840 And recently he had to inaugurate a certain religious institution in a certain nation. 00:54:47.840 --> 00:54:49.840 And so guess what he does? 00:54:49.840 --> 00:54:53.840 Three months before it, he starts preparing himself spiritually. 00:54:53.840 --> 00:54:58.840 And then 11 days before the actual event, he starts fasting. 00:54:58.840 --> 00:55:01.840 He goes through rites, goes through rituals. Why? 00:55:01.840 --> 00:55:10.840 Because this is a leader of a nation, like a president or a prime minister, and he prepares himself. 00:55:10.840 --> 00:55:15.840 Why? Because he believes that in this institution that he's going to inaugurate, 00:55:15.840 --> 00:55:20.840 the powers will come and begin to live there. 00:55:20.840 --> 00:55:30.840 And I'm thinking to myself, so some of us spent two hours praying that this does not happen, while he started in October. 00:55:30.840 --> 00:55:36.840 And you think to yourself, he starts in October and he then goes through 11-day fasts 00:55:36.840 --> 00:55:45.840 so that the powers of his gods can be invited into this physical structure. 00:55:45.840 --> 00:55:52.840 That kind of discipline, that kind of commitment, other faiths have it. 00:55:52.840 --> 00:55:57.840 We mock them, we laugh at what they do, but they do. 00:55:57.840 --> 00:56:04.840 And then you begin to wonder why power doesn't flow even though power is present. 00:56:04.840 --> 00:56:14.840 It's not the lack of the spirit, it's the flow of the spirit. 00:56:14.840 --> 00:56:26.840 The world has yet to see what God can do with a man who consecrates himself or a woman who consecrates himself to him. 00:56:26.840 --> 00:56:37.840 By God's help, may you be that man or woman. 00:56:37.840 --> 00:56:42.840 Only then will I triumph over the powers of darkness that resist. 00:56:42.840 --> 00:56:50.840 Only then do I have spiritual strength to witness to the works of God and to lay my life down for the works of God. 00:56:50.840 --> 00:56:55.840 Only then do I transmit the power that I've already received from the spirit. 00:56:55.840 --> 00:57:05.840 Only then will I see Hebrides 2.0 sweep the earth, starting from here to Judea, Samaria, and the ends of the earth, as we've been saying in the past. 00:57:05.840 --> 00:57:08.840 And so you and I are being invited. 00:57:08.840 --> 00:57:11.840 So today, how do we end? We'll have communion. 00:57:11.840 --> 00:57:24.840 But you and I are being, some of us are being invited, some of us are being stirred, 00:57:24.840 --> 00:57:53.840 some of us are persuaded to consecrate ourselves relationally, physically, in terms of a lifestyle, to Him. 00:57:53.840 --> 00:57:56.840 I want us to go back to those three questions. 00:57:56.840 --> 00:58:02.840 And after we answer that, we can break bread. 00:58:02.840 --> 00:58:22.840 What good thing is bringing decay, spiritual decay into your life? 00:58:22.840 --> 00:58:30.840 Sometimes it can even be a way of thinking or a desire that is so overwhelming that it now no longer is under your control. 00:58:30.840 --> 00:58:32.840 It controls you. 00:58:32.840 --> 00:58:42.840 Every time you go down a certain road, that desire or the absence of something that you've been hungering for so long is now front and center 00:58:42.840 --> 00:58:45.840 and prevents you from thinking any other way. 00:58:45.840 --> 00:58:48.840 And it's a good desire. It's not an evil desire. 00:58:48.840 --> 00:58:50.840 It's a good desire. 00:58:50.840 --> 00:58:54.840 That's the first question. 00:58:54.840 --> 00:59:02.840 Spiritual decay, another way to say it is spiritual death. 00:59:02.840 --> 00:59:05.840 What is causing death in your life spiritually? 00:59:05.840 --> 00:59:07.840 How do you define spiritual death? 00:59:07.840 --> 00:59:09.840 In other words, you use the stagnancy. 00:59:09.840 --> 00:59:11.840 Nothing has changed. 00:59:11.840 --> 00:59:15.840 Nothing has changed. 00:59:15.840 --> 00:59:23.840 Nothing has changed. 00:59:23.840 --> 00:59:28.840 Nothing has changed to the extent where now you're breaking out and have entered a new orbit. 00:59:28.840 --> 00:59:36.840 It's the same orbit with a few variations, like from jazz to R&B to pop. 00:59:36.840 --> 00:59:43.840 That's all. The words are still the same. 00:59:43.840 --> 00:59:49.840 The second question was, what distracts or hinders you? 00:59:49.840 --> 01:00:03.840 What distracts or hinders you from the person? 01:00:03.840 --> 01:00:13.840 You want to be. You want to be and know you should be. 01:00:13.840 --> 01:00:31.840 Third, what small things, small desires, 01:00:31.840 --> 01:00:41.840 small desires have a hold in your life? 01:00:41.840 --> 01:00:52.840 And often they lead you to compromise. 01:00:52.840 --> 01:00:59.840 What may begin as one small glass of wine ends up on some nights becoming three glasses of wine 01:00:59.840 --> 01:01:01.840 or three glasses of brandy or whiskey. 01:01:01.840 --> 01:01:07.840 Suddenly it goes from, I'm a moderate drinker to I have lost my moderation. 01:01:07.840 --> 01:01:13.840 And yet, please understand, God is not attacking sin here. 01:01:13.840 --> 01:01:15.840 That's for another teaching. 01:01:15.840 --> 01:01:19.840 Right now he's talking about things in our lives that are good. 01:01:19.840 --> 01:01:24.840 Please don't now say that Jacob is endorsing drinking. I'm not. 01:01:24.840 --> 01:01:28.840 I'm just saying these are the things that we need to look at. 01:01:28.840 --> 01:01:33.840 So I'll read these three things and just for a second ponder on what you can do about it. 01:01:33.840 --> 01:01:38.840 And then I'll read out John 17 and we'll break bread. 01:01:38.840 --> 01:01:49.840 Yeah? What is it? 01:01:49.840 --> 01:01:55.840 And if you think that you have arrived at answers to any of these questions 01:01:55.840 --> 01:02:01.840 and you want to stand up and say, 01:02:01.840 --> 01:02:07.840 I decide that from this day on for the next, whatever period of time, 01:02:07.840 --> 01:02:11.840 the kind of time that's required for hair to grow, 01:02:11.840 --> 01:02:16.840 for whatever period of time, I will not go down this route. 01:02:16.840 --> 01:02:21.840 For God's to be holy, to be set apart is so much more important to me. 01:02:21.840 --> 01:02:25.840 If you want to stand up and say that, 01:02:25.840 --> 01:02:29.840 and say by God's grace, by God's help, this is what I want to attempt, 01:02:29.840 --> 01:02:34.840 feel free to do that too. 01:02:59.840 --> 01:03:26.840 Okay? 01:03:26.840 --> 01:03:33.840 You won't be on live stream if you stand up and speak 01:03:33.840 --> 01:03:38.840 and you likely won't be heard, so feel free. 01:03:57.840 --> 01:04:02.840 Yeah. Marco, you'll have to, I'm just helping each of us, it's not correcting you. 01:04:02.840 --> 01:04:06.840 You'll have to find a concrete way of doing it. 01:04:06.840 --> 01:04:09.840 Because otherwise tomorrow you won't know where to begin. 01:04:09.840 --> 01:04:12.840 So you'll have to find a concrete way of doing it. 01:04:12.840 --> 01:04:17.840 Okay, so think about that one. 01:04:42.840 --> 01:04:46.840 If you can't speak it out, that's fine, just write it down, eh? 01:05:12.840 --> 01:05:37.840 Anyone? 01:05:38.840 --> 01:05:43.840 Sorry, can you say that again, Brandon? 01:05:43.840 --> 01:05:46.840 Doing nothing, yeah. 01:05:46.840 --> 01:05:51.840 Aaron, just give us a couple of minutes till people finish and then you can speak, okay? 01:05:51.840 --> 01:05:55.840 Thanks. 01:05:55.840 --> 01:06:00.840 Anyone else? 01:06:12.840 --> 01:06:20.840 Unless it's an actual phone call, I will not pick up my phone between 7.30 and 9.30 in the morning 01:06:20.840 --> 01:06:24.840 to look at my mail or WhatsApp till 9.30. 01:06:24.840 --> 01:06:35.840 I also will not, or I go completely off Facebook, Twitter, and what's that other thing? 01:06:35.840 --> 01:06:39.840 Instagram for the next seven months. 01:06:39.840 --> 01:06:44.840 For the next seven months I will not pick up my phone between 7.30 and 9.30 01:06:44.840 --> 01:06:46.840 unless it's a phone call. 01:06:46.840 --> 01:06:55.840 And I will not any longer check on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram for the next seven months 01:06:55.840 --> 01:06:59.840 and I will not watch news after 11pm. 01:06:59.840 --> 01:07:01.840 Will not. 01:07:01.840 --> 01:07:04.840 I do that for two simple reasons. 01:07:04.840 --> 01:07:08.840 One, because I'm going to consecrate myself in these areas to the Lord 01:07:08.840 --> 01:07:12.840 by doing something practical in smaller things, smaller desires. 01:07:12.840 --> 01:07:16.840 Not harmful, but time consuming. 01:07:16.840 --> 01:07:21.840 Refuse to go down that road, both for his sake and for your sake. 01:07:31.840 --> 01:07:35.840 Anyone else? 01:07:42.840 --> 01:07:46.840 Beautiful. 01:08:00.840 --> 01:08:04.840 Anyone else? 01:08:04.840 --> 01:08:08.840 Amen. 01:08:11.840 --> 01:08:15.840 Simple, small things. 01:08:22.840 --> 01:08:25.840 Father, I used to fast. 01:08:25.840 --> 01:08:30.840 It's been ages since I've taken up a deliberate fast because I just eat one meal a day anyways. 01:08:30.840 --> 01:08:32.840 And so I've used that as an excuse. 01:08:32.840 --> 01:08:37.840 So I return to fasting one day a week. 01:08:37.840 --> 01:08:41.840 Looking forward to it, Father. 01:08:41.840 --> 01:08:45.840 Return to fasting one day a week. 01:08:45.840 --> 01:08:49.840 Nobody will know which day. 01:08:49.840 --> 01:08:53.840 Because that's how you want fast. 01:09:00.840 --> 01:09:04.840 Doordash is going to lose money, Father. 01:09:06.840 --> 01:09:10.840 Anyone else? 01:09:21.840 --> 01:09:24.840 Yeah. 01:09:24.840 --> 01:09:28.840 The amount of time we waste, eh? 01:09:30.840 --> 01:09:34.840 Yeah. 01:09:42.840 --> 01:09:48.840 Father, we want to replace the time we redeem with you. 01:09:48.840 --> 01:09:52.840 And with what you direct us to do. 01:09:52.840 --> 01:09:56.840 This is not to get more brownie points. 01:09:56.840 --> 01:10:00.840 It doesn't make us more righteous. 01:10:00.840 --> 01:10:04.840 But it sets us apart for you. 01:10:04.840 --> 01:10:08.840 Doesn't make you love us more, doesn't make us more righteous. 01:10:11.840 --> 01:10:15.840 Anyone else? Let's just wait for two more minutes. 01:10:15.840 --> 01:10:19.840 Just two more minutes. 01:10:26.840 --> 01:10:30.840 Good, Betty. 01:10:30.840 --> 01:10:34.840 Good, Betty. 01:10:53.840 --> 01:10:57.840 Thanks, Anna. 01:11:00.840 --> 01:11:04.840 Thanks, Father. 01:11:04.840 --> 01:11:08.840 I'll use my hand right here. 01:11:24.840 --> 01:11:28.840 So they commit to a time, eh? 01:11:28.840 --> 01:11:32.840 Set yourself a time, guys. I'm not saying repeat your prayers. 01:11:32.840 --> 01:11:36.840 Set yourself a time. Time breaks habits. Time creates habits. 01:11:40.840 --> 01:11:44.840 Just one more minute. 6.35 we stop. 01:11:54.840 --> 01:11:58.840 You're not saying it doesn't mean your heart doesn't desire it, eh? 01:11:58.840 --> 01:12:02.840 You're saying it just perhaps emboldens others. That's all. 01:12:02.840 --> 01:12:06.840 You're saying it just perhaps emboldens others. That's all. 01:12:06.840 --> 01:12:10.840 I'm not knowing this. I had already started these things. 01:12:10.840 --> 01:12:14.840 I'm not the person that gave you. 01:12:14.840 --> 01:12:18.840 There's no condemnation in this message. There's no legalism in this message, guys. 01:12:18.840 --> 01:12:22.840 There's an invitation that's stirring up. 01:12:22.840 --> 01:12:26.840 Any takers? Last two? 01:12:26.840 --> 01:12:30.840 Last two? 01:12:34.840 --> 01:12:38.840 As we break bread, 01:12:38.840 --> 01:12:42.840 let me read a passage from John 17. 01:12:46.840 --> 01:12:50.840 From the message. 01:12:50.840 --> 01:12:54.840 It says there, and Jesus is saying these words, 01:12:54.840 --> 01:12:58.840 I gave them your word. The godless world hates them 01:12:58.840 --> 01:13:02.840 because of it. Because they don't join the world's ways 01:13:02.840 --> 01:13:06.840 just as I didn't join the world's ways. 01:13:06.840 --> 01:13:10.840 I'm not asking that you take them out of the world, but that you 01:13:10.840 --> 01:13:14.840 guard them from the evil one. They are no more defined by the 01:13:14.840 --> 01:13:18.840 world than I am defined by the world. Make them holy, 01:13:18.840 --> 01:13:22.840 consecrated with the truth. Your word is consecrating truth. 01:13:22.840 --> 01:13:26.840 In the same way that you gave me a mission in the world, I give them a mission 01:13:26.840 --> 01:13:30.840 in the world. I'm consecrating myself for their sake 01:13:30.840 --> 01:13:34.840 so that they'll be truth-consecrated in their mission. 01:13:34.840 --> 01:13:38.840 I gave them your word. The godless world hates them 01:13:38.840 --> 01:13:42.840 because of it. Because they didn't join the world's ways 01:13:42.840 --> 01:13:46.840 just as I didn't join the world's ways. I'm not asking that you take them out of 01:13:46.840 --> 01:13:50.840 the world, but that you guard them from the evil one. 01:13:50.840 --> 01:13:54.840 The godless world hates them because of it. Because they don't join the world's ways 01:13:54.840 --> 01:13:58.840 just as I didn't join the world's ways. I gave them your word. 01:13:58.840 --> 01:14:02.840 I gave them your word. I gave them your word. 01:14:02.840 --> 01:14:06.840 I gave them your word. I gave them your word. 01:14:06.840 --> 01:14:10.840 I gave them your word. I gave them your word. 01:14:10.840 --> 01:14:14.840 I gave them your word. I gave them your word. 01:14:14.840 --> 01:14:18.840 I gave them your word. I gave them your word. 01:14:18.840 --> 01:14:22.840 I gave them your word. I gave them your word. I gave them your word. 01:14:22.840 --> 01:14:26.840 I gave them your word. I gave them your word. 01:14:26.840 --> 01:14:30.840 I gave them your word. I gave them your word. 01:14:30.840 --> 01:14:34.840 I gave them your word. I gave them your word. 01:14:34.840 --> 01:14:38.840 I gave them your word. I gave them your word. 01:14:38.840 --> 01:14:42.840 I gave them your word. I gave them your word. 01:14:42.840 --> 01:14:46.840 I gave them your word. I gave them your word. 01:14:46.840 --> 01:14:50.840 I recognize this is the family that you have put us in and we belong here 01:14:50.840 --> 01:14:54.840 despite the family being highly defective. 01:14:54.840 --> 01:14:58.840 But you still have put us here. 01:14:58.840 --> 01:15:02.840 We approach this table with faith, O God. With faith we approach it. 01:15:02.840 --> 01:15:06.840 Church, as we drink this, we are not remembering. We are remembering 01:15:06.840 --> 01:15:10.840 with faith. Yeah? We don't commemorate 01:15:10.840 --> 01:15:14.840 something to just remember. This is not nostalgia. 01:15:14.840 --> 01:15:18.840 This is with faith. 01:15:18.840 --> 01:15:22.840 So once you get the elements, 01:15:22.840 --> 01:15:26.840 we'll eat and drink together. 01:15:38.840 --> 01:15:42.840 Yaya, can I have one? 01:15:42.840 --> 01:15:46.840 Mia? Okay, thanks. Thank you. 01:15:46.840 --> 01:15:50.840 You are 01:15:50.840 --> 01:15:54.840 here 01:15:54.840 --> 01:15:58.840 Standing in our 01:15:58.840 --> 01:16:02.840 midst 01:16:02.840 --> 01:16:06.840 You are here 01:16:06.840 --> 01:16:10.840 Standing in our midst 01:16:10.840 --> 01:16:14.840 You are here 01:16:14.840 --> 01:16:18.840 Standing in our midst 01:16:18.840 --> 01:16:22.840 We worship you 01:16:22.840 --> 01:16:26.840 We worship you 01:16:26.840 --> 01:16:30.840 You are here 01:16:30.840 --> 01:16:34.840 Turning lives around 01:16:34.840 --> 01:16:38.840 We worship you 01:16:38.840 --> 01:16:42.840 We worship you 01:16:42.840 --> 01:16:46.840 We worship you 01:16:46.840 --> 01:16:50.840 Moving in our midst 01:16:50.840 --> 01:16:54.840 We worship you 01:16:54.840 --> 01:16:58.840 We worship you 01:16:58.840 --> 01:17:02.840 You are here 01:17:02.840 --> 01:17:06.840 Turning lives around 01:17:06.840 --> 01:17:10.840 We worship you 01:17:10.840 --> 01:17:14.840 Thanks, man. 01:17:14.840 --> 01:17:18.840 On the night that he was betrayed, 01:17:18.840 --> 01:17:22.840 everyone got bread and juice? 01:17:22.840 --> 01:17:26.840 Okay. 01:17:26.840 --> 01:17:30.840 Nick, you got yours? Okay. 01:17:40.840 --> 01:17:44.840 What's that song that goes, 01:17:44.840 --> 01:17:48.840 consecrated Lord to thee 01:17:48.840 --> 01:17:52.840 Take my... 01:17:52.840 --> 01:17:56.840 Oh my God, such a hymn-illiterate church this is. 01:17:56.840 --> 01:18:00.840 Okay. On the night 01:18:00.840 --> 01:18:04.840 he was betrayed, Jesus took bread, he broke it, 01:18:04.840 --> 01:18:08.840 he gave thanks, then he broke it, and he said, 01:18:08.840 --> 01:18:12.840 I have set myself apart 01:18:12.840 --> 01:18:16.840 for you 01:18:16.840 --> 01:18:20.840 even unto death. 01:18:20.840 --> 01:18:24.840 Eat this bread, 01:18:24.840 --> 01:18:28.840 eat my flesh and drink my blood, he said in John chapter 6. 01:18:28.840 --> 01:18:32.840 I have set myself apart for just 01:18:32.840 --> 01:18:36.840 one task, to die for you, to live in you. 01:18:36.840 --> 01:18:40.840 And through you to continue 01:18:40.840 --> 01:18:44.840 do, through you continue do what I always 01:18:44.840 --> 01:18:48.840 want to finish doing. I've set myself apart for this. I consecrated 01:18:48.840 --> 01:18:52.840 myself apart. 01:18:56.840 --> 01:19:00.840 He took bread, he gave thanks, and he said, this is my body which 01:19:00.840 --> 01:19:04.840 is broken for you. 01:19:04.840 --> 01:19:08.840 So that you may accrue to yourselves the benefits of 01:19:08.840 --> 01:19:12.840 my death, that you may know my father, that you may know your sins 01:19:12.840 --> 01:19:16.840 are always forgiven, you may know you will never be left alone. 01:19:16.840 --> 01:19:20.840 We remember that with faith as we eat this now, in Jesus' 01:19:20.840 --> 01:19:24.840 name, amen. 01:19:34.840 --> 01:19:38.840 In the same manner after 01:19:38.840 --> 01:19:42.840 supper, he took the cup, he gave thanks, and he said, 01:19:42.840 --> 01:19:46.840 this is my blood with which I write a new agreement with you. 01:19:46.840 --> 01:19:50.840 This is my blood with which, um, um, 01:19:50.840 --> 01:19:54.840 what's your name? Iris, keep her in, let her cry, 01:19:54.840 --> 01:19:58.840 we're okay. 01:19:58.840 --> 01:20:02.840 So, he took the cup, he gave thanks, and he said, 01:20:02.840 --> 01:20:06.840 keep her in, let her cry, we're okay. 01:20:06.840 --> 01:20:10.840 I want you to be part of this. 01:20:10.840 --> 01:20:14.840 He gave thanks and he said, this is my 01:20:14.840 --> 01:20:18.840 blood with which I write a new agreement with you. 01:20:18.840 --> 01:20:22.840 So we raise our glasses to you Jesus. 01:20:22.840 --> 01:20:26.840 We thank you for this new agreement that has made our lives completely different 01:20:26.840 --> 01:20:30.840 and rich. We honor you, we declare you magnificent, 01:20:30.840 --> 01:20:34.840 marvelous, splendid majesty. How we come to 01:20:34.840 --> 01:20:38.840 freshly give you our lives that have been 01:20:38.840 --> 01:20:42.840 purchased with your blood, in Jesus' name, amen. 01:20:54.840 --> 01:20:58.840 There will be an AGM, which I 01:20:58.840 --> 01:21:02.840 forgot to announce earlier, on 17th of March. 01:21:02.840 --> 01:21:06.840 Can Evan and Betty come up? 01:21:10.840 --> 01:21:14.840 These guys are heading off to Belfast on Wednesday 01:21:14.840 --> 01:21:18.840 or Tuesday? Wednesday. So, 01:21:18.840 --> 01:21:22.840 Caleb from Belfast, 01:21:22.840 --> 01:21:26.840 will be hosting them and they're meeting with four or five others and 01:21:26.840 --> 01:21:30.840 my hope is that one day we'll be able to 01:21:30.840 --> 01:21:34.840 plant something fresh in Belfast. But this is our first foray into Belfast 01:21:34.840 --> 01:21:38.840 where we're sending out people two by two to see what can be done there. 01:21:38.840 --> 01:21:42.840 And so we got four or five uni students that 01:21:42.840 --> 01:21:46.840 they'll be meeting with and kind of 01:21:46.840 --> 01:21:50.840 try and fathom what needs to be done in Belfast next. So, they're leaving Wednesday, 01:21:50.840 --> 01:21:54.840 they'll be back Monday or Tuesday. Yeah? So let's just pray for them. 01:21:54.840 --> 01:21:58.840 So Father, in Jesus' name we thank you for this 01:21:58.840 --> 01:22:02.840 simple precedent that you established where before you went somewhere you would send out 01:22:02.840 --> 01:22:06.840 your disciples two by two to go prepare. 01:22:06.840 --> 01:22:10.840 To go prepare the way of the Lord. To go prepare the way of the Lord. 01:22:10.840 --> 01:22:14.840 So we send them, not in the name of Betty and Evan, 01:22:14.840 --> 01:22:18.840 we send them in the name of Jesus Christ, the sender. 01:22:18.840 --> 01:22:22.840 And in doing so we ask Father that your authority, 01:22:22.840 --> 01:22:26.840 your immunity, your protection be upon them 01:22:26.840 --> 01:22:30.840 as they go. That you will give them wise, gentle words. 01:22:30.840 --> 01:22:34.840 That'll be like rain and spring as they 01:22:34.840 --> 01:22:38.840 draw out what they need to draw out 01:22:38.840 --> 01:22:42.840 in Belfast. That they'll plough the ground so that 01:22:42.840 --> 01:22:46.840 when the seeding will happen a few months from now, once again 01:22:46.840 --> 01:22:50.840 crops will come up. That, just like you did with us sixteen, seventeen years ago, 01:22:50.840 --> 01:22:54.840 you will do in Belfast again with us Father. So we bless them as they go. 01:22:54.840 --> 01:22:58.840 It's a big deal about we going first time into this 01:22:58.840 --> 01:23:02.840 particular nation. We've been to Dublin before but this particular city. 01:23:02.840 --> 01:23:06.840 So we bless them as they go. We send them forth in the name of Jesus Christ. 01:23:06.840 --> 01:23:10.840 Amen. 01:23:10.840 --> 01:23:14.840 What's the song? 01:23:14.840 --> 01:23:18.840 Blessed is sure in Jesus' 01:23:18.840 --> 01:23:22.840 name, blessed is mine. 01:23:22.840 --> 01:23:24.840 Oh what a 01:23:24.840 --> 01:23:28.840 foretaste of glory 01:23:28.840 --> 01:23:32.840 divine. I'm an heir of salvation 01:23:32.840 --> 01:23:36.840 and purchase of 01:23:36.840 --> 01:23:40.840 God. Born of his 01:23:40.840 --> 01:23:44.840 spirit, washed in his 01:23:44.840 --> 01:23:48.840 spirit. One more time. 01:23:48.840 --> 01:23:52.840 Blessed assurance 01:23:52.840 --> 01:23:56.840 Jesus is mine. 01:23:56.840 --> 01:24:00.840 Oh what a foretaste 01:24:00.840 --> 01:24:04.840 of glory divine. 01:24:04.840 --> 01:24:08.840 Heir of salvation, I'm a 01:24:08.840 --> 01:24:12.840 purchase of God. 01:24:12.840 --> 01:24:16.840 Born of his spirit, washed in his 01:24:16.840 --> 01:24:20.840 blood. This is my 01:24:20.840 --> 01:24:24.840 story, this is my 01:24:24.840 --> 01:24:28.840 song. Praising my 01:24:28.840 --> 01:24:32.840 Savior all the day long. 01:24:32.840 --> 01:24:36.840 This is my 01:24:36.840 --> 01:24:40.840 story, this is my song. 01:24:40.840 --> 01:24:44.840 Praising my Savior 01:24:44.840 --> 01:24:48.840 all the day long. 01:24:48.840 --> 01:24:52.840 There will be people here to pray for you. So feel free to come up 01:24:52.840 --> 01:24:56.840 if you need prayer and then we can end with 01:24:56.840 --> 01:25:00.840 I have decided to follow 01:25:00.840 --> 01:25:04.840 Jesus. I have decided 01:25:04.840 --> 01:25:08.840 to follow Jesus. 01:25:08.840 --> 01:25:12.840 I have decided 01:25:12.840 --> 01:25:16.840 to follow Jesus. 01:25:16.840 --> 01:25:20.840 No turning back, no turning 01:25:20.840 --> 01:25:24.840 back. Though none go with 01:25:24.840 --> 01:25:28.840 me, still I will follow. 01:25:28.840 --> 01:25:32.840 Though none go with me, 01:25:32.840 --> 01:25:36.840 still I will follow. 01:25:36.840 --> 01:25:40.840 No turning back, 01:25:40.840 --> 01:25:44.840 no turning back. The cross, the cross 01:25:44.840 --> 01:25:48.840 before me, the world behind 01:25:48.840 --> 01:25:52.840 me, the cross before me, 01:25:52.840 --> 01:25:56.840 the world behind me, 01:25:56.840 --> 01:26:00.840 the cross before me, 01:26:00.840 --> 01:26:04.840 the world behind me, 01:26:04.840 --> 01:26:08.840 the world behind me, 01:26:08.840 --> 01:26:12.840 no turning back, no turning 01:26:12.840 --> 01:26:16.840 back. I have decided 01:26:16.840 --> 01:26:20.840 to follow Jesus. 01:26:20.840 --> 01:26:24.840 I have decided 01:26:24.840 --> 01:26:28.840 to follow Jesus. I have 01:26:28.840 --> 01:26:32.840 decided to follow Jesus. 01:26:32.840 --> 01:26:36.840 No turning back, 01:26:36.840 --> 01:26:40.840 no turning back. 01:26:40.840 --> 01:26:44.840 No turning back, 01:26:44.840 --> 01:26:48.840 no turning back. 01:26:48.840 --> 01:26:52.840 No turning. 01:26:56.840 --> 01:27:00.840 Make sure you say hi and bye 01:27:00.840 --> 01:27:04.840 to Mary, Steve 01:27:04.840 --> 01:27:08.840 and Jeff. They're all sitting in the wrong places now. 01:27:08.840 --> 01:27:12.840 And if you need prayer 01:27:12.840 --> 01:27:16.840 feel free to come up and someone will pray with you. 01:27:16.840 --> 01:27:20.840 Bless you guys.