WEBVTT NOTE Podcast: Acts 29 Vancouver Episode: Disruptive Glory - Permission Publishing Date: 2021-11-21T05:00:44-08:00 Podcast URL: https://acts29.ca Episode URL: https://acts29.ca/disruptive-glory-permission/ 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:17.400 some time on. So we return to that now. Check, check, check. Yeah. So we return to that now 00:00:17.400 --> 00:00:22.360 and why return to it now? Why did we stay away from it this long? I don't know. I think 00:00:22.360 --> 00:00:30.560 it's a matter of timing. So that's the only reasonable answer I have. And so we had started 00:00:30.560 --> 00:00:45.560 in January talking about disruptive glory. Disruptive glory. And that's where we begin. 00:00:45.560 --> 00:00:52.560 So if you want a title for this teaching or this series, it's disruptive glory. And this 00:00:52.560 --> 00:00:58.760 one is called permission. This particular topic is called permission. Disruptive glory. 00:00:58.760 --> 00:01:06.760 And so disruptive glory has been around for thousands of years. It's something God specializes 00:01:06.760 --> 00:01:13.760 in. And so you see that in the beginning when he said, let there be light, it was disruptive 00:01:13.960 --> 00:01:18.960 glory. His glory broke through chaos, broke through darkness and created something brilliant. 00:01:18.960 --> 00:01:27.960 You see it in Exodus 40, verse 34 or thereabouts, where the tabernacle has been built and the 00:01:27.960 --> 00:01:32.960 priests are ready to worship and Moses and the priests could not even enter because God's 00:01:32.960 --> 00:01:39.960 glory came in and disrupted everything the way God... The thing with God's disruptiveness 00:01:39.960 --> 00:01:46.960 is that God's disruptiveness is towards life. All other disruptiveness is towards destruction. 00:01:46.960 --> 00:01:52.960 God's disruptiveness is towards life and towards the devastation of the enemy. And he does 00:01:52.960 --> 00:01:57.960 it with his kabod or the weight of his splendor, the weight of his magnificence, the weight 00:01:57.960 --> 00:02:01.960 of his character, the weight of his power, the weight of his goodness, the weight of 00:02:01.960 --> 00:02:08.960 his laughter. Sometimes all he does is laugh and it frightens the enemy. If you can... 00:02:10.460 --> 00:02:17.460 If you can hear the laughter of God in the middle of a battle, you have already won. 00:02:19.080 --> 00:02:23.560 I pray that all of us have that experience at some point where you hear the laughter 00:02:23.560 --> 00:02:30.560 of God and you know, oh shucks. Yeah. So then we see disruptive glory so brilliantly portrayed 00:02:30.560 --> 00:02:37.560 in... I think it's Numbers 14 or thereabouts where a pillar of fire moves from the front 00:02:37.560 --> 00:02:42.560 of the Israelites to the back and it's the glory of God, the Shekinah cloud of God standing 00:02:42.560 --> 00:02:47.560 between the Egyptians and the Israelites. And it's so disruptive because to one side 00:02:47.560 --> 00:02:53.560 it is life and light. To the other side it is darkness, confusion and dullness. This 00:02:53.560 --> 00:02:58.560 is the difference between the two. It's the difference between the two. It's the difference 00:02:58.560 --> 00:03:03.560 between confusion and dullness. This is the nature of his glory and this is what he wants 00:03:03.560 --> 00:03:10.560 to bring on us and through us to the earth at this present time. There is the sun standing 00:03:12.560 --> 00:03:18.620 still. That is the glory of God. The earth and the fullness there of displays its glory, 00:03:18.620 --> 00:03:23.220 it says, and then the same God who said, let there be light, before there was a sun, now 00:03:23.220 --> 00:03:29.900 now makes the sun stand still and throws the entire universe out of whack by making, at 00:03:29.900 --> 00:03:34.520 least our galaxy out of whack by making the sun stand still. 00:03:34.520 --> 00:03:39.900 Disruptive glory that devastates the enemy and gives life to his people. 00:03:39.900 --> 00:03:44.020 You see disruptive glory when Saul is out to get David. 00:03:44.020 --> 00:03:50.000 He hears that David is in Nayoth in Rama and he sends soldiers and then eventually the 00:03:50.000 --> 00:03:54.740 soldiers go up and as they're going up they meet a group of prophets and they start prophesying 00:03:54.740 --> 00:03:56.000 and they're helpless. 00:03:56.000 --> 00:03:58.680 They went to arrest David, they end up prophesying. 00:03:58.680 --> 00:04:02.280 Saul went up, the same thing had happened to him before. 00:04:02.280 --> 00:04:07.240 Disruptive glory can turn your enemy into your friend. 00:04:07.240 --> 00:04:09.680 You see that in the fist-sized cloud. 00:04:09.680 --> 00:04:14.760 No rain for two and a half or three years and then suddenly the glory of God changes 00:04:14.760 --> 00:04:17.580 the cloud the size of a fist into the sound of rain. 00:04:17.580 --> 00:04:22.820 You see the disruptive glory of God in Nineveh, a city given to wickedness, a city that was 00:04:22.820 --> 00:04:28.340 destined for destruction and there comes the glory of God through a reluctant prophet, 00:04:28.340 --> 00:04:29.960 through a reluctant prophet. 00:04:29.960 --> 00:04:34.880 The glory of God as in the splendor, the character, the magnificence, the kindness, the goodness 00:04:34.880 --> 00:04:35.880 of God. 00:04:35.880 --> 00:04:38.140 Nineveh was converted by the goodness of God. 00:04:38.140 --> 00:04:43.680 Nineveh was not converted by anything but the goodness of God. 00:04:43.680 --> 00:04:48.920 He sent a message saying this is what could happen but repent and the goodness of God 00:04:48.920 --> 00:04:51.320 brought about an entire city with thousands. 00:04:51.320 --> 00:04:53.960 That's what God says to Jonah in the end. 00:04:53.960 --> 00:04:57.680 You are concerned about this plant shriveling up and you not having shade. 00:04:57.680 --> 00:05:03.440 Well, I want to say to you there are thousands here that I have to be kind to. 00:05:03.440 --> 00:05:07.160 When you read these stories you realize that the disruptive glory of God is really at the 00:05:07.160 --> 00:05:12.820 end of the day God's magnificent power, splendor, goodness, laughter, character wrapped into 00:05:12.820 --> 00:05:17.700 one and it just comes and breaks into a place, breaks into a city, breaks into a life and 00:05:17.700 --> 00:05:21.980 it changes everything. 00:05:21.980 --> 00:05:26.140 You see this in Kena where shame is undone. 00:05:26.140 --> 00:05:30.540 I love that line in that song, shame is undone. 00:05:30.540 --> 00:05:33.360 Always try to undo your shame because shame will be put on you. 00:05:33.360 --> 00:05:35.340 Shame will be put on you by the world around you. 00:05:35.340 --> 00:05:37.020 Shame will be put on you by me sometimes. 00:05:37.020 --> 00:05:39.700 Shame will be put on you by the things you've done. 00:05:39.700 --> 00:05:42.100 Shame will be put on you by the accuser. 00:05:42.100 --> 00:05:44.460 When shame is put on you, undo it. 00:05:44.460 --> 00:05:45.460 Undo it. 00:05:45.460 --> 00:05:49.260 One of the ways we undo shame is by letting the goodness, the character, the power, the 00:05:49.260 --> 00:05:56.420 laughter and the weight, the weight of God, the weight of God settle on you. 00:05:56.420 --> 00:06:02.220 When the weight of a good God settles on you, it unwraps your shame. 00:06:02.220 --> 00:06:04.860 It unwraps your shame. 00:06:04.860 --> 00:06:11.260 It happened in Kena where the glory of God and it specifically says so in John chapter 00:06:11.740 --> 00:06:16.060 This was the first revelation of the glory of Jesus Christ when he changed water into 00:06:16.060 --> 00:06:19.900 wine. 00:06:19.900 --> 00:06:23.740 You see this in the leper who approached Jesus. 00:06:23.740 --> 00:06:30.660 He knew that if Jesus touched him, Jesus would become unclean. 00:06:30.660 --> 00:06:33.660 And so his words are, if you are willing. 00:06:33.660 --> 00:06:37.260 If you are willing, we have always thought if it is the will of God. 00:06:37.260 --> 00:06:38.260 No, no, no, no. 00:06:38.260 --> 00:06:42.420 That may be part of it, but the second part of it is listen, I realize that if you touch 00:06:42.420 --> 00:06:45.300 me you're going to go unclean. 00:06:45.300 --> 00:06:46.300 Because that was the law. 00:06:46.300 --> 00:06:48.300 Touch a leper, you're unclean. 00:06:48.300 --> 00:06:54.260 And he's saying if you are willing and the glory of God says, I mean to begin with, Jesus 00:06:54.260 --> 00:06:57.580 is the glory of God. 00:06:57.580 --> 00:07:02.980 He is the glory of God and he is present here. 00:07:02.980 --> 00:07:07.580 He's the radiance and the brilliance of the glory of God, of the invisible God. 00:07:07.660 --> 00:07:11.820 And they ask him, if you are willing and he says, I am willing. 00:07:11.820 --> 00:07:16.940 And he who is clean touches the unclean and instead of it being the other way around, 00:07:16.940 --> 00:07:18.620 the one who is unclean is touched. 00:07:18.620 --> 00:07:22.380 Check if my battery is okay on this. 00:07:22.380 --> 00:07:24.580 You see that with the leper. 00:07:24.580 --> 00:07:31.100 You see that a transfiguration where for a second Jesus actually displays his glory. 00:07:31.100 --> 00:07:32.940 Jesus actually displays his glory. 00:07:33.900 --> 00:07:39.180 These are the things that we should expect in the year ahead, or the two years ahead. 00:07:39.180 --> 00:07:45.380 Where you catch, like Jane was saying, oh God maybe view things, maybe catch glimpses 00:07:45.380 --> 00:07:47.420 of you today. 00:07:47.420 --> 00:07:51.820 Where you catch a glimpse and these glimpses will change you forever. 00:07:51.820 --> 00:07:56.380 Where Peter later on in Peter chapter 1, guys I'm flip-flopping. 00:07:56.380 --> 00:07:59.900 Sorry. 00:07:59.900 --> 00:08:02.740 Yeah. 00:08:02.740 --> 00:08:04.940 Cool. 00:08:04.940 --> 00:08:11.140 My jet pack. 00:08:11.140 --> 00:08:23.900 Check, check, check, check, check, check, check. 00:08:24.060 --> 00:08:25.060 Okay. 00:08:25.060 --> 00:08:26.980 Check, check, check, check, check. 00:08:26.980 --> 00:08:27.980 Yeah. 00:08:27.980 --> 00:08:28.980 Yeah. 00:08:28.980 --> 00:08:30.580 You see this in, I need a little more volume. 00:08:30.580 --> 00:08:32.820 Otherwise I'll start shouting. 00:08:32.820 --> 00:08:33.820 Yeah. 00:08:33.820 --> 00:08:39.140 And so for a moment he reveals his glory and the three of them see then you must expect 00:08:39.140 --> 00:08:41.020 these glimpses because they change you forever. 00:08:41.020 --> 00:08:47.180 In second Peter chapter 1, Peter is talking about this incident on the Mount of Transfiguration 00:08:47.180 --> 00:08:48.180 that happened. 00:08:48.180 --> 00:08:50.580 And he said, we didn't believe any fables or lies. 00:08:50.580 --> 00:08:56.260 We actually saw him and we heard the voice from the majestic glory. 00:08:56.260 --> 00:08:57.500 That's the way he phrases it. 00:08:57.500 --> 00:08:58.620 He doesn't say heaven. 00:08:58.620 --> 00:09:03.480 He says from the majestic glory we heard his voice. 00:09:03.480 --> 00:09:10.580 You see this when Peter participates in the glory of the creator God. 00:09:10.580 --> 00:09:11.580 How? 00:09:11.580 --> 00:09:14.700 When Jesus has come, he actually walks on water. 00:09:14.700 --> 00:09:20.220 Part of this idea of disruptive glory is you get to be part of the disruptive glory. 00:09:20.220 --> 00:09:22.900 It is not just that the disruptive glory affects you. 00:09:22.900 --> 00:09:29.340 You step into God's disruptive glory so that it can bring life to one side and it can devastate 00:09:29.340 --> 00:09:30.340 the enemy. 00:09:30.340 --> 00:09:35.240 You become part of it. 00:09:35.240 --> 00:09:40.740 These are real things that happen to real people in the New Testament who did not have 00:09:40.740 --> 00:09:42.340 the Holy Spirit like we had. 00:09:42.340 --> 00:09:46.660 None of the guys I've spoken about thus far had the Holy Spirit in them. 00:09:46.660 --> 00:09:49.180 None of them. 00:09:49.180 --> 00:09:54.980 Not postponed this to the future nor should you put it into realm of possibility for certain 00:09:54.980 --> 00:09:55.980 people. 00:09:55.980 --> 00:10:04.580 This is the realm of possibility for a people amongst whom the glory of God dwells. 00:10:04.580 --> 00:10:08.300 I'm just running through the Old Testament and the New Testament so you understand that 00:10:08.300 --> 00:10:13.380 this is very normal for God. 00:10:13.380 --> 00:10:14.380 Not walking? 00:10:14.380 --> 00:10:18.100 Oh, I'm running? 00:10:18.100 --> 00:10:19.100 Okay. 00:10:19.100 --> 00:10:20.100 All right. 00:10:20.100 --> 00:10:25.940 You mean in my speed of speaking? 00:10:25.940 --> 00:10:29.980 I'm wondering why she was calling that running. 00:10:29.980 --> 00:10:37.140 I was a little impressed with myself for a second. 00:10:37.140 --> 00:10:39.220 You see the display of its glory. 00:10:39.220 --> 00:10:42.100 This really not touched me. 00:10:42.100 --> 00:10:47.620 It kind of made me touch my heart. 00:10:48.340 --> 00:10:51.460 Whenever we think of the display of God's glory, we think of brilliance. 00:10:51.460 --> 00:10:57.060 Then there was this moment at 3 p.m. on the cross when the display of his glory was the 00:10:57.060 --> 00:11:03.680 darkening of the skies. 00:11:03.680 --> 00:11:08.180 Everything went dark. 00:11:08.180 --> 00:11:13.380 The display of his glory was in that horrible cry, Father, Father, why have you forsaken 00:11:13.380 --> 00:11:15.680 me? 00:11:15.680 --> 00:11:18.000 That was an absolute display of his glory. 00:11:18.000 --> 00:11:20.960 It allows us to participate in his glory now. 00:11:20.960 --> 00:11:26.960 Then there was a display of his glory that morning when the women went to wrap his body 00:11:26.960 --> 00:11:35.840 up and they find that the stone has been rolled away and that he has risen. 00:11:35.840 --> 00:11:38.480 There's a display of God's glory in that. 00:11:38.480 --> 00:11:43.620 Every promise that has been given to you by God must come to pass simply because he is 00:11:43.700 --> 00:11:48.660 faithful and you hold out in faith. 00:11:48.660 --> 00:11:50.980 Every promise comes to pass. 00:11:50.980 --> 00:11:56.500 This is a God who breaks out of any boundary that is put around you. 00:11:56.500 --> 00:11:57.920 He breaks out of it. 00:11:57.920 --> 00:12:01.820 When he breaks out of it, he takes you with him. 00:12:01.820 --> 00:12:05.380 You see the same thing in Acts chapter 2, another brilliant display of glory. 00:12:05.380 --> 00:12:07.460 Hey, once that thing is fixed, let me know. 00:12:07.460 --> 00:12:09.660 I'll put it on because this thing goes... 00:12:13.620 --> 00:12:43.540 Yes, this is true, Diana, with you. 00:12:43.540 --> 00:12:44.820 Sorry, I just couldn't avoid that. 00:12:44.820 --> 00:12:48.580 I said I wouldn't do these things in the future. 00:12:48.580 --> 00:12:55.540 That was like an open door invitation. 00:12:55.540 --> 00:12:58.740 Thank you. 00:12:58.740 --> 00:13:05.660 Another brilliant scene of display of glory was in Acts chapter 2 where they all gathered 00:13:05.660 --> 00:13:11.620 in the upper room and the Holy Spirit comes and that is what we are still part of. 00:13:11.700 --> 00:13:18.700 We've gotten so used to the name Acts 29 that we don't think anymore. 00:13:18.700 --> 00:13:22.980 But Acts 29 is a continuation of Acts chapter 2 to 28. 00:13:22.980 --> 00:13:29.400 It is a continuation of the display of glory and it must not stay at ankle, knee, waist. 00:13:29.400 --> 00:13:31.740 It should be drowning us. 00:13:31.740 --> 00:13:34.220 That is what God is planning to do. 00:13:34.820 --> 00:13:44.540 The longer we are from the throne, the further we are from Acts chapter 2, the more the water. 00:13:44.540 --> 00:13:53.420 And you are here for a time such as this with all your warts and pimples. 00:13:53.420 --> 00:13:59.260 He was very aware of who would be here at this moment. 00:13:59.300 --> 00:14:05.660 With all our difficulties, with all our idiosyncrasies, character flaws, he knew and he said these 00:14:05.660 --> 00:14:10.340 are the people that I want to use. 00:14:10.340 --> 00:14:17.340 Because my glory is best displayed through ordinary vessels. 00:14:17.420 --> 00:14:34.420 Through Jagan, through Nick, through Jason, through Mike, through May, through me. 00:14:38.420 --> 00:14:44.420 You see that in Damascus, on the road to Damascus, there is a man who is full of zeal wanting 00:14:44.500 --> 00:14:51.500 to kill every Christian that lives and he is struck down by the glory of God. 00:14:53.780 --> 00:15:00.780 You see this in Ephesus where it was a city given to magic and sorcery and in the seven 00:15:01.380 --> 00:15:07.540 sons of Sceva, being beaten up by the demonic, the glory of God enters the city. 00:15:07.540 --> 00:15:09.580 I mean this is a brilliant God. 00:15:09.580 --> 00:15:12.420 He uses Satan to destroy Satan. 00:15:12.420 --> 00:15:13.420 It's not possible. 00:15:13.420 --> 00:15:19.980 Jesus himself said a house that is divided cannot last and yet he uses Satan's ploy to 00:15:19.980 --> 00:15:24.740 undo Satan's reign in a city so that the glory of God can come in. 00:15:24.740 --> 00:15:27.140 That's what he does say in Ephesus. 00:15:27.140 --> 00:15:32.780 You see this in Patmos, the island of Patmos where John is walking and today when Mike 00:15:32.780 --> 00:15:34.940 played exceptionally well today. 00:15:34.940 --> 00:15:37.060 He was actually worshipping with the trumpet. 00:15:37.060 --> 00:15:39.700 Usually I hear him playing the trumpet. 00:15:39.700 --> 00:15:42.220 Today he was worshipping with the trumpet. 00:15:42.260 --> 00:15:44.820 There were times when he was playing and I was thinking of these notes and thinking, 00:15:44.820 --> 00:15:45.820 I'm running again. 00:15:45.820 --> 00:15:51.500 I was thinking that man this is what John heard where there was this distinct trumpet 00:15:51.500 --> 00:15:56.660 sound and he knew and he turned around and he saw one who was like the son of man towering 00:15:56.660 --> 00:16:01.820 into the sky, eyes blazing fire, feet burning brass, disruptive glory. 00:16:01.820 --> 00:16:04.380 It changed the earth. 00:16:04.380 --> 00:16:05.380 What was shown then? 00:16:05.380 --> 00:16:10.420 It is the same thing that happens later on in Revelation where John has said, where God 00:16:10.460 --> 00:16:11.940 says to John, come up higher. 00:16:11.940 --> 00:16:13.820 Let me show you more. 00:16:13.820 --> 00:16:16.820 These are the times we are entering into. 00:16:16.820 --> 00:16:23.580 I find it so easy to believe. 00:16:23.580 --> 00:16:33.260 I pray God that we find it easy to believe. 00:16:33.260 --> 00:16:36.420 What does this give us? 00:16:36.420 --> 00:16:37.420 This gives us permission. 00:16:38.420 --> 00:16:44.900 One of the things God does when he says, hey listen, I'm going to bring my glory to pass 00:16:44.900 --> 00:16:45.900 for you. 00:16:45.900 --> 00:16:50.980 One of the things that happens is he gives us permission. 00:16:50.980 --> 00:16:53.180 He gives us permission. 00:16:53.180 --> 00:16:54.180 Permission to do what? 00:16:54.180 --> 00:17:00.380 The first thing that happens is he gives us permission to see what he's doing. 00:17:00.380 --> 00:17:04.940 One of the ways God allows us to see what he's doing is through teaching what he's going 00:17:04.940 --> 00:17:05.940 to do. 00:17:05.940 --> 00:17:10.540 Let me say that again. 00:17:10.540 --> 00:17:16.940 If I was Steve Jobs and still alive and I was bringing out iPhone 16 tomorrow, skipping 00:17:16.940 --> 00:17:25.220 three generations because I invented something so far ahead of time, it's iPhone 16. 00:17:25.220 --> 00:17:28.540 How would I now show you what the iPhone 16 is? 00:17:28.540 --> 00:17:33.220 It's so far ahead of your time that I'd have to call you here and I'd have to teach you 00:17:33.300 --> 00:17:40.300 what the iPhone 16 does so that I can show you what awaits you and that we've skipped 00:17:40.300 --> 00:17:42.500 three generations of phones to get here. 00:17:42.500 --> 00:17:43.660 It's the same thing. 00:17:43.660 --> 00:17:48.020 What I'm teaching now is not actually a teaching. 00:17:48.020 --> 00:17:51.140 It is showing you what you have permission for. 00:17:51.140 --> 00:18:00.660 When I say you, I actually mean us and anybody else who at present is listening or will listen. 00:18:00.660 --> 00:18:03.860 But Jacob, isn't this what God is doing around the world? 00:18:03.860 --> 00:18:08.980 Perhaps he is, but what I know is he's doing it with us and that this, like I had said 00:18:08.980 --> 00:18:13.620 in January, would start with us and spread. 00:18:13.620 --> 00:18:15.460 Spread how far? 00:18:15.460 --> 00:18:18.820 From Judea to Samaria to the ends of the earth. 00:18:18.820 --> 00:18:22.780 This is what is going to be hard for us to believe. 00:18:22.780 --> 00:18:29.300 That with us, there is a movement that will spread across the globe. 00:18:29.300 --> 00:18:37.140 That may be hard to believe, but the Holy Spirit will have to do that because we can't 00:18:37.140 --> 00:18:39.140 convince each other. 00:18:39.140 --> 00:18:40.140 Permission. 00:18:40.140 --> 00:18:41.900 Permission to do what? 00:18:41.900 --> 00:18:42.900 To see. 00:18:42.900 --> 00:18:51.220 First, what you do is whenever God says, okay, I want to turn up with my glory and be disruptive, 00:18:51.220 --> 00:18:55.540 bringing life and devastating the enemy, the first thing we need to do is see. 00:18:55.980 --> 00:19:00.940 After that, the next step is usually to name what we are seeing, to put it into words. 00:19:00.940 --> 00:19:06.100 After that, you agree with what God is showing. 00:19:06.100 --> 00:19:12.700 After that, you build an altar or a symbol that symbolizes what God is doing. 00:19:12.700 --> 00:19:18.260 These are the ways people would respond to the glory of God throughout the Bible. 00:19:18.260 --> 00:19:21.020 These were the processes. 00:19:21.020 --> 00:19:25.460 You would see, then you would name, then you would agree, then you would build an altar. 00:19:26.380 --> 00:19:29.340 After that, you would identify with it. 00:19:29.340 --> 00:19:35.180 You would, if necessary, change your name or you would let people know that this is 00:19:35.180 --> 00:19:36.220 what is happening. 00:19:36.220 --> 00:19:40.980 By identifying with it, what would happen is you would begin to speak about it or declare 00:19:40.980 --> 00:19:43.340 it because now it was no longer a secret. 00:19:46.660 --> 00:19:49.340 After that, you would become expectant. 00:19:49.340 --> 00:19:52.780 You would expect things to happen. 00:19:52.780 --> 00:19:57.220 You would also realize that there is resistance to what you are doing, but you would become 00:19:57.220 --> 00:19:58.820 resistant to resistance. 00:20:04.820 --> 00:20:08.020 After that, you would step out into action. 00:20:08.020 --> 00:20:12.060 You would take the risk of stepping out into action because you actually believe that what 00:20:12.060 --> 00:20:16.540 God is saying, you so firmly believe now, you expect it to happen. 00:20:16.540 --> 00:20:20.700 Once you step out into action, you enter into the main frame of things where God says, all 00:20:20.700 --> 00:20:21.700 right. 00:20:22.620 --> 00:20:27.180 Once you have taken actual action, let me help you figure out what it is to enter the 00:20:27.180 --> 00:20:30.340 main frame of things, as in the real thing. 00:20:30.340 --> 00:20:33.180 Once you enter that, God says, let's begin exploring. 00:20:33.180 --> 00:20:34.180 What are you exploring? 00:20:34.180 --> 00:20:35.180 You're not exploring a thing. 00:20:35.180 --> 00:20:36.780 You're not exploring a project. 00:20:36.780 --> 00:20:39.860 You're not exploring a conference or a meeting or a movement. 00:20:39.860 --> 00:20:44.140 You're exploring the heart and mind of God. 00:20:44.140 --> 00:20:48.140 In the heart and mind of God lie his character, his power, whatever he wants to do. 00:20:48.140 --> 00:20:49.860 You begin to explore God. 00:20:50.020 --> 00:20:55.220 Whenever the focus shifts from exploring God to exploring the event, eventually the event 00:20:55.220 --> 00:20:56.220 gets distorted. 00:20:56.220 --> 00:21:01.740 You begin to explore. 00:21:01.740 --> 00:21:05.980 Once you begin to explore, then God says, let me take you right back into Genesis 1 00:21:05.980 --> 00:21:08.840 28, where you begin to subdue the enemy. 00:21:08.840 --> 00:21:11.480 You begin to multiply what God is doing. 00:21:11.480 --> 00:21:18.740 You replenish the earth with what God wants to do. 00:21:18.740 --> 00:21:25.300 Once that's done, you birth a generation that can take what God is doing and spread 00:21:25.300 --> 00:21:26.300 it around. 00:21:26.300 --> 00:21:31.940 You complete your given assignment and then you repeat the whole process by waiting for 00:21:31.940 --> 00:21:34.300 the next move of God. 00:21:34.300 --> 00:21:36.420 Any questions on this? 00:21:36.420 --> 00:21:41.700 You complete whatever the assignment is that God has given you and then it goes into repeat, 00:21:41.700 --> 00:21:43.620 as in, all right, Father, so this is done. 00:21:43.620 --> 00:21:44.620 What's next? 00:21:49.620 --> 00:21:53.900 This is such a pattern throughout the Bible, continuously, again and again and again and 00:21:53.900 --> 00:21:54.900 again. 00:21:56.900 --> 00:21:57.900 Any questions? 00:22:10.900 --> 00:22:16.500 We could have done this six months ago, but when timing is wrong, things are not, things 00:22:16.500 --> 00:22:17.860 don't mature correctly. 00:22:17.980 --> 00:22:20.980 So I don't know why it's time to start on this again. 00:22:20.980 --> 00:22:25.980 We even paused praying after 23 days or something. 00:22:25.980 --> 00:22:31.060 But now it's time to restart. 00:22:31.060 --> 00:22:32.060 Any questions? 00:22:32.060 --> 00:22:41.380 Yeah, today's, yeah. 00:22:41.380 --> 00:22:46.900 So building an altar may look like a symbol that a church erects saying, this is the phase 00:22:46.940 --> 00:22:48.940 that God has brought us into. 00:22:48.940 --> 00:22:52.060 It's like putting a ring on your spouse's finger. 00:22:52.060 --> 00:22:58.260 It's like buying a picture that you know represents what God is doing. 00:22:58.260 --> 00:23:03.820 It is some kind of outward projection of what God has told you. 00:23:03.820 --> 00:23:07.180 And if anyone asks you, you can tell your children and your children's children, this 00:23:07.180 --> 00:23:08.180 is what God did. 00:23:08.180 --> 00:23:13.380 It is like taking 12 stones out of the Jordan and putting them up. 00:23:13.380 --> 00:23:14.380 That's what it means. 00:23:14.860 --> 00:23:18.860 When you do that, God reveals something about himself that you can then tell generations. 00:23:18.860 --> 00:23:19.860 Yeah. 00:23:19.860 --> 00:23:30.860 No, but this is kind of the chronology of things, but it's not written in stone. 00:23:38.860 --> 00:23:39.860 So this kind of, go ahead. 00:23:40.340 --> 00:23:47.340 I have a question about, is this permission for us and others or just for others? 00:23:47.340 --> 00:23:53.340 Sorry, the permission is for us from God for the sake of others. 00:23:53.340 --> 00:23:55.220 Yeah. 00:23:55.220 --> 00:23:59.940 Everything God does through his people is for the sake of others, but his people benefit 00:23:59.940 --> 00:24:08.940 in the bargain. 00:24:09.020 --> 00:24:16.020 So disruptive glory consumes and lays waste to satanic landscapes. 00:24:16.020 --> 00:24:23.020 Disruptive glory consumes and lays waste. 00:24:23.020 --> 00:24:28.020 It's like what you see in the aftermath of an atomic explosion. 00:24:28.020 --> 00:24:33.020 The land is laid waste when the glory of God hits a place. 00:24:33.100 --> 00:24:39.100 I mean, when you read Exodus 14, 19 to 28, where the pillar of fire moves in, I mean, 00:24:39.100 --> 00:24:45.100 here was one of the most powerful armies in the world, the greatest empire in the world, 00:24:45.100 --> 00:24:49.100 the Egyptian empire at that time, chasing a rag-tag bunch of slaves who had been slaves 00:24:49.100 --> 00:24:52.100 for 400 years. 00:24:52.100 --> 00:25:01.100 Chariots, horses, and they come and the pillar of the Shekinah, I like, I mean, the reason 00:25:01.580 --> 00:25:05.100 I want to call it that is when we say pillar of fire, we think, okay, so pillar of fire. 00:25:05.100 --> 00:25:08.780 This is a glory of God in a cloud that begins to move. 00:25:08.780 --> 00:25:14.260 Oh my God, you should have probably been there to see the tremor that goes over the old and 00:25:14.260 --> 00:25:17.940 the excitement that goes over the young, because that thing is beginning to move and it's moving 00:25:17.940 --> 00:25:19.660 from the front to the back. 00:25:19.660 --> 00:25:24.500 And they know something is going to happen, yet they can hear the sound of the wheels 00:25:24.500 --> 00:25:27.420 and they know what these armies can do. 00:25:27.420 --> 00:25:29.420 And as it begins to move, a strange thing happens. 00:25:29.420 --> 00:25:32.620 It becomes bright light to Israel. 00:25:32.620 --> 00:25:39.020 And in that light is a strange kind of strength, comfort, courage, the very character of God 00:25:39.020 --> 00:25:41.100 is being conveyed through that light. 00:25:41.100 --> 00:25:45.580 It is as pure and zealous and passionate and strong as it can be. 00:25:45.580 --> 00:25:50.020 And suddenly on the other side, this mighty army of one of the mightiest empires that 00:25:50.020 --> 00:25:55.460 lived is now beginning to feel a dread and they don't even understand the dread. 00:25:55.500 --> 00:25:59.660 There's confusion, there's dullness, there's darkness, there's dread as they come towards 00:25:59.660 --> 00:26:04.420 this cloud and it begins to just spread and as it begins to spread, wheels begin to come 00:26:04.420 --> 00:26:08.100 off their chariots, wheels that were oiled, wheels that were set in place begins to come 00:26:08.100 --> 00:26:09.100 off the chariot. 00:26:09.100 --> 00:26:12.020 One by one chariots all over the place. 00:26:12.020 --> 00:26:15.780 They can also hear the sound of wind while the water is parted and they're trying to 00:26:15.780 --> 00:26:20.320 get there before the Israelites can get and then they hear the wind stop and they begin 00:26:20.320 --> 00:26:22.860 to hear the sound of water as it begins to come down. 00:26:22.860 --> 00:26:30.020 And when it was done, that landscape was strewn with chariots, Egyptian soldiers, spears, 00:26:30.020 --> 00:26:34.780 javelins, everything meant to destroy Israel now laid destroyed. 00:26:34.780 --> 00:26:39.060 This is what the disruptive glory of God can do and if you think that's confined to the 00:26:39.060 --> 00:26:43.820 Old Testament, I'm saying to you that is so not true. 00:26:43.820 --> 00:26:49.300 And we need a people to display to the earth that it still happens and it happens often, 00:26:49.300 --> 00:26:55.220 sometimes publicly, sometimes privately, but it happens and it must be known. 00:26:55.220 --> 00:27:00.380 God always needs a people to display his glory guys, he can do it himself but what is the 00:27:00.380 --> 00:27:06.620 point of putting a rainbow in the sky if that rainbow cannot be explained? 00:27:06.620 --> 00:27:11.420 Then that rainbow gets claimed by anybody who wants to make a symbol out of it. 00:27:11.420 --> 00:27:16.420 But what if we could have a people explain, what if Noah could rise up and say this is 00:27:16.500 --> 00:27:19.460 what the rainbow means? 00:27:19.460 --> 00:27:23.660 What if a Paul could rise up and say this is that? 00:27:23.660 --> 00:27:27.300 What if a Peter can rise up and say this is what Joel prophesied? 00:27:27.300 --> 00:27:33.340 This is why God needs a people to display his glory otherwise his glory is hijacked 00:27:33.340 --> 00:27:34.380 sometimes. 00:27:34.380 --> 00:27:39.180 It's not that he needs us, he can write it on the sky. 00:27:39.180 --> 00:27:43.860 But he's a New Testament God who lives amongst the people, not an Old Testament God who is 00:27:43.940 --> 00:27:49.220 away from his people. 00:27:49.220 --> 00:27:54.200 This is what his glory can do man and this is what we're being invited into. 00:27:54.200 --> 00:28:00.700 Global movements guys demands a clarity of sight on our part, this is a global movement. 00:28:00.700 --> 00:28:07.700 It is starting with such a small group of people that it must be God. 00:28:08.700 --> 00:28:15.700 Such a small group of not particularly highly talented people. 00:28:20.260 --> 00:28:25.260 And this is why I think it's God. 00:28:25.260 --> 00:28:30.300 This is why I think it's God. 00:28:30.300 --> 00:28:34.220 This is why I know it's God, let me know. 00:28:34.220 --> 00:28:41.220 Global movements demand clear sight and uncomplicated obedience, clear sight and uncomplicated obedience. 00:28:42.980 --> 00:28:47.700 Global movements demand clear sight and uncomplicated obedience. 00:28:47.700 --> 00:28:54.460 And one of the things we have to figure out is hee hee hee. 00:28:54.460 --> 00:28:58.660 Someone's written don't know what is in the coffee but can you please slow down. 00:28:59.500 --> 00:29:06.500 Aaron, what's in the coffee man? 00:29:17.220 --> 00:29:22.980 One of the things we have to ask is who is God in this revival that he is bringing about 00:29:22.980 --> 00:29:23.980 with his glory? 00:29:23.980 --> 00:29:28.540 Who is God striding as in this revival? 00:29:28.580 --> 00:29:33.020 Because if you know who God is striding as in a revival, you will also know the dominant 00:29:33.020 --> 00:29:36.420 fruit that will be produced by the revival. 00:29:36.420 --> 00:29:43.420 If you know who God is striding or walking as in this revival that he will send across 00:29:44.060 --> 00:29:50.860 the earth, you will also know the dominant fruit of the revival because who he is in 00:29:50.860 --> 00:29:54.540 the revival is what will come out of the revival. 00:29:54.540 --> 00:29:55.820 Will it produce worship? 00:29:55.820 --> 00:29:56.980 Will it produce war? 00:29:57.020 --> 00:30:00.540 Will it produce signs in those that are revived? 00:30:00.540 --> 00:30:01.540 And we talked about this. 00:30:01.540 --> 00:30:03.980 This is summing up what we did 11 months ago. 00:30:03.980 --> 00:30:07.540 I can't believe we did this in January and we are almost in December. 00:30:07.540 --> 00:30:11.500 Next week we'll have to start singing Christmas songs. 00:30:11.500 --> 00:30:13.620 We don't have to but we will. 00:30:13.620 --> 00:30:14.620 Yeah. 00:30:14.620 --> 00:30:19.020 I mean, Jane already started with Okum Lettuce Adoram today. 00:30:19.020 --> 00:30:20.020 Yeah. 00:30:20.020 --> 00:30:21.020 Yeah, yeah. 00:30:21.020 --> 00:30:22.740 I'm happy about it. 00:30:22.740 --> 00:30:23.740 Yeah. 00:30:24.560 --> 00:30:28.920 So opportunities – so God is riding this revival as purifier. 00:30:28.920 --> 00:30:33.020 God is riding this revival as purifier. 00:30:33.020 --> 00:30:37.500 God is riding this revival as purifier. 00:30:37.500 --> 00:30:44.280 So有一 of those revival will rise a generation of teens, 20s, and 30s or going through this 00:30:44.280 --> 00:30:58.120 revival will rise a generation of teens, 20s and 30s who will be God seers because they 00:30:58.120 --> 00:31:05.400 are pure. God seers because they are pure. Have you noticed my handwriting is better 00:31:05.400 --> 00:31:12.960 today? Okay, you didn't notice. The teens, 20s and 30s who will be God seers because 00:31:12.960 --> 00:31:22.080 blessed are the pure for they shall see God and ancient gate openers. Both require purity. 00:31:22.080 --> 00:31:27.480 And so this is not a revival that will last a generation. It will be a revival that will 00:31:27.480 --> 00:31:32.720 raise a generation that will last a few generations. Just listen to those words because they are 00:31:32.720 --> 00:31:38.560 not mine. This is a revival that will raise a generation that will last a few generations. 00:31:38.560 --> 00:31:47.040 Why? Because when God comes into a revival as a purifier, then he will raise teens, 20s and 30s 00:31:47.040 --> 00:31:53.800 who will have such a passion for purity that they will see God easily because blessed are the pure 00:31:53.800 --> 00:32:00.040 for they shall see God and they will be ancient gate openers because in Psalm 24 it says, 00:32:00.040 --> 00:32:06.720 who shall ascend the hill? Who shall stand before God? Those that are pure in heart. And then it 00:32:06.720 --> 00:32:11.160 goes on to say, open up the gates. Let the king of glory come in. So this will be a generation 00:32:11.160 --> 00:32:16.840 that will be raised to walk in purity and they in turn will end up being ones that can cause this 00:32:16.840 --> 00:32:23.440 to last because they will be gate openers around the earth. And city by city, yesterday, over the 00:32:23.440 --> 00:32:29.360 last two days I've been waking up with strange Greek words that I don't know the meaning of. So 00:32:29.360 --> 00:32:39.080 as soon as I wake up I Google these words. Lambda was the first one. In Malayalam it would be eat 00:32:39.080 --> 00:32:51.560 some lambda but that wasn't it. So it wasn't that. It was lambda as in the Greek word for it. So I 00:32:51.560 --> 00:33:03.920 knew it was in Malayalam. And so, da is like yo. So if I say hey Diana eat some lambda it means yo 00:33:03.920 --> 00:33:10.320 eat some lamb. So that wasn't what the Lord was saying. So I've been looking at these Greek words 00:33:10.320 --> 00:33:16.840 and I felt the Lord saying that listen I want you to send someone to Athens. I want you to start 00:33:16.840 --> 00:33:20.880 something there. And I'm thinking to myself Athens? That's crazy father. I have no desire to go there. 00:33:20.880 --> 00:33:28.800 So thank God. Call a guy in Bahrain and say go to Athens and he agreed. So Elvin if you're listening. 00:33:28.800 --> 00:33:40.680 So this will spread. It'll go to different cities. We just have to follow up. Yeah we'll get there. 00:33:40.680 --> 00:33:53.960 What it'll do is it'll arrest historical desolation. It'll arrest historical desolation. 00:33:53.960 --> 00:34:07.080 It will arrest historical desolation and it will it will launch. So this will be arrested where 00:34:07.080 --> 00:34:13.960 cities and nations that have seen desolation for some years now. Historical desolation will 00:34:13.960 --> 00:34:27.440 be arrested and it will launch generational restoration. It will launch generational restoration. 00:34:27.440 --> 00:34:42.080 Our role is to dive into this, display it, announce it, take the seeds we have, 00:34:42.080 --> 00:34:50.720 plant it in someone so they can run with it. That's our role. We are seed distributors of 00:34:50.720 --> 00:34:57.840 a certain crop that God is planting across the earth. But to distribute those seeds we have to 00:34:57.840 --> 00:35:07.840 bear the fruit. So God is planting a new tree across the earth. This tree hasn't been planted 00:35:07.840 --> 00:35:16.120 on the earth yet. So he's chosen this ground and I'll explain why he's chosen this ground to plant 00:35:16.120 --> 00:35:22.440 this tree. But this ground has to bear the fruit of this tree because if you don't bear the fruit 00:35:22.440 --> 00:35:30.200 of it you don't have seeds. God gave seed only once and that was in the beginning. After that 00:35:30.200 --> 00:35:38.440 it's been produce fruit that will produce seed. So once we bear this fruit we have the seed. Once 00:35:38.440 --> 00:35:42.200 we have the seed we are supposed to let people know hey there's a new fruit in town, there's a 00:35:42.200 --> 00:35:47.600 new tree in town, come come take seed. Ho you who are thirsty and you who want to plant, come and 00:35:47.600 --> 00:35:53.120 take without payment. And then we give them the seed. They take the seed and they plant it in 00:35:53.120 --> 00:36:08.840 different corners of the earth. This is very easy for God. So every revival whenever it starts with 00:36:08.840 --> 00:36:17.320 a certain group of people is an invitation to us the church and to the world. I love this to know 00:36:17.320 --> 00:36:25.720 the greatness and the nearness of a holy God. Is there anything else you want to live for? Every 00:36:25.720 --> 00:36:31.560 revival is an invitation to the people through whom the revival starts and to whom the revival 00:36:31.560 --> 00:36:40.760 spreads. Every revival is an invitation to enter into the greatness and the nearness of a holy God. 00:36:46.840 --> 00:36:50.760 Then we can die happily ever after. I mean die and live happily ever after. 00:37:01.560 --> 00:37:05.720 Any questions before I tell you why us? 00:37:05.720 --> 00:37:27.040 No, no, no it's the teens, 20s and 30s that will be affected in a big way but there's no age, 00:37:27.080 --> 00:37:34.080 gender limit on this. But the teens, 20s and 30s and why the teens, 20s and 30s? So that as they 00:37:34.080 --> 00:37:41.440 grow they now have what it takes to deposit it in the ones coming after. So even with us we'll be 00:37:41.440 --> 00:37:54.000 starting a separate almost not a house tour but kind of a thing for teens in about 20 or 30 days 00:37:54.000 --> 00:38:01.360 because we have to align things with what God is doing right? Yeah. 00:38:01.360 --> 00:38:10.440 Plus I always think I'm 19 and I always feel like I'm 19 not think. 00:38:24.000 --> 00:38:43.080 If you don't have the? I mean this answer will almost sound sacrilegious but it is the right answer. 00:38:43.080 --> 00:38:44.480 Immaculate conception. 00:38:45.480 --> 00:39:05.520 Let me repeat the question. So Diana's question was if you are to provide seed to others and you have 00:39:05.520 --> 00:39:13.360 to bear fruit and you don't have the seed but you have to bear fruit how could that be? And that's a 00:39:13.360 --> 00:39:20.080 very merry Diana question and the answer to that is immaculate conception as in the Holy Spirit will 00:39:20.080 --> 00:39:27.360 have to do that to produce seed which is why we have to be so thoroughly wonderfully dependent on 00:39:27.360 --> 00:39:38.200 the work of the Holy Spirit and what he conceives in us. Yeah. Because every new move has to have 00:39:38.200 --> 00:39:53.400 the Holy Spirit conceive things. So why us? Why us? God's answer to why us because this was a 00:39:53.400 --> 00:40:00.440 question I asked him why us and I've talked about it before I'm just not recapping just putting light 00:40:00.440 --> 00:40:06.920 on something that we talked about. Why us? Because for the last 16 years God says through thick and 00:40:07.080 --> 00:40:15.320 thin you've kept digging the wells that the Philistines shut and you keep renaming them. 00:40:15.320 --> 00:40:31.920 Go to Genesis 26 18. Genesis 26 18. Why choose us? Why not choose someone that have a louder voice 00:40:32.320 --> 00:40:37.440 can do this in shorter time. Genesis 26 18. 00:40:43.680 --> 00:40:50.080 Isaac reopened the wells that had been dug in the time of his father Abraham which the Philistines 00:40:50.080 --> 00:40:56.480 had stopped up after Abraham had died and he gave them the same names his father had given them. 00:40:56.560 --> 00:41:07.360 One of the things God really thinks about us as a church is that guys you keep going back and digging 00:41:07.360 --> 00:41:16.960 up the wells that I had planted when I started churches 2000 years ago. You keep going back to 00:41:16.960 --> 00:41:23.280 the blueprint. You keep going back to the book of Acts. You keep going back to the forefathers and 00:41:23.280 --> 00:41:31.120 you dig up the wells that systems have stopped that churchianity has stopped that modernity has 00:41:31.120 --> 00:41:36.160 stopped. You keep going back and you keep digging up those wells and you name them what I asked your 00:41:36.160 --> 00:41:42.400 forefathers to name them and he says because you keep coming back to the blueprint renaming things 00:41:42.400 --> 00:41:49.600 as I named them digging up the ancient paths of the spirit never saying this is who we are or this 00:41:49.600 --> 00:41:56.480 is it but keeping on keeping on with me therefore I think you're the right people 00:41:57.680 --> 00:42:04.000 to conceive this fruit in. That's one of the reasons. The second reason is your young people 00:42:04.000 --> 00:42:08.560 are free and they have learned to run after the things of the kingdom because they trust my 00:42:08.560 --> 00:42:15.760 goodness to take care of the things of life. Your young people are free. Your young people are free 00:42:16.320 --> 00:42:21.920 because they trust in my goodness to take care of the things of life. You will never run in the 00:42:21.920 --> 00:42:28.640 way and have learned to run after the things of the kingdom because they trust my goodness 00:42:28.640 --> 00:42:35.600 to take care of the things of life your young people are free anyone under 50 your young people 00:42:35.600 --> 00:42:44.960 are free because they have learned to run after the things of the kingdom because they trust in 00:42:44.960 --> 00:42:50.000 happily ever after life after 50. No, no, no, no. They run after the kingdom because 00:42:50.000 --> 00:42:53.720 they have such an idea of my goodness that they know I'll take care of 00:42:53.720 --> 00:43:01.320 everything else. This now allows God good soil and the freedom to conceive this 00:43:01.320 --> 00:43:05.760 amazing thing of the Holy Spirit in us. 00:43:07.640 --> 00:43:13.640 What a suffering work of God, man. I wouldn't touch it. I wouldn't touch it. I wouldn't 00:43:13.640 --> 00:43:29.440 claim any credit for it. I love what God is doing. I'm happy I'm part of this 00:43:29.440 --> 00:43:45.760 church. Yeah, man. What will it look like? Here are some patterns we can expect. 00:43:45.760 --> 00:43:49.480 These are just patterns we can expect. We're not holding on to them. We're not 00:43:49.480 --> 00:43:54.080 making banners out of them. What can, what will this look like? What are some 00:43:54.120 --> 00:44:03.520 of the patterns we can expect as we begin? One, have a cook three two. Lord, I 00:44:03.520 --> 00:44:17.880 have heard of your fame. I stand in awe of your deeds. Oh Lord, renew them, renew 00:44:18.440 --> 00:44:25.400 them in our days, in our time. Make them known. That's one of the things that will 00:44:25.400 --> 00:44:33.440 happen where the fame of God will once again be expressed. I have heard of your 00:44:33.440 --> 00:44:48.800 fame. Two, awash in a spirit of prayer. In a very different kind of prayer, not 00:44:48.800 --> 00:44:55.160 prayer meetings as such, but awash in a spirit of prayer. I wouldn't claim I know 00:44:55.160 --> 00:44:59.320 the length and the breadth of it. All I know is that's one of the things. Awash in a 00:44:59.320 --> 00:45:07.480 spirit of prayer. In groups of twos and threes and walks and Isaiah 62, verse 6 00:45:07.480 --> 00:45:18.200 and 7. I love that scripture. Isaiah 62, verse 6 and 7. I have posted watchmen on 00:45:18.200 --> 00:45:21.560 your walls of Jerusalem. They will never be silent day or night. You who call on 00:45:21.560 --> 00:45:25.720 the Lord, give yourselves no rest and give God no rest till he establishes 00:45:25.720 --> 00:45:30.000 Jerusalem and makes her the praise of the earth. I love that where he says, hey, I 00:45:30.000 --> 00:45:34.240 don't want you to rest. I don't want you to give me rest to harass me so that 00:45:34.240 --> 00:45:40.680 what I want will come to pass. So that's awash in a spirit of prayer. There's a 00:45:40.680 --> 00:45:52.400 second one. It'll, yeah. Next one. Are these hands clean? Is this heart pure? Are 00:45:52.440 --> 00:46:00.000 these hands clean? There'll be such an awe for purity and holiness. Are these 00:46:00.000 --> 00:46:13.920 hands clean? Are these hearts pure? Are these hands clean? Is this heart pure? Is 00:46:14.040 --> 00:46:22.240 this heart pure? That'll be another pattern that we'll see. Are these hands 00:46:22.240 --> 00:46:35.400 clean? Is this heart pure? Psalm 24. These are the things we're being given 00:46:35.400 --> 00:46:39.480 permission to walk in. These are the things we're being given permission to 00:46:39.480 --> 00:46:45.040 walk in. It's not even an invitation or a command and it is both. God asks us to 00:46:45.040 --> 00:46:49.560 be holy. It's an invitation. God says be holy. It's a command. But now God is 00:46:49.560 --> 00:46:53.360 saying it's not even an invitation or a command. I'm giving you permission 00:46:53.360 --> 00:46:58.560 to walk in. As in this will be easy. Holiness will be easy for you. Holiness 00:46:58.560 --> 00:47:11.200 will be easy for you. If Jeevan moves into your house, tech stuff is easy for 00:47:11.200 --> 00:47:24.280 you. If I move into your house, fast food is easy for you. So when God moves into 00:47:24.760 --> 00:47:29.880 this idea of purifier, holiness becomes easy for you. He's giving you permission. 00:47:29.880 --> 00:47:36.400 He's giving me permission. And then the last one for now is this combination of 00:47:36.400 --> 00:47:43.840 fishers of men. This will be a very odd song if someone writes it. Fishers of men 00:47:43.840 --> 00:47:54.080 plus fire in your heart. Fishers of men plus fire in your heart plus sword in 00:47:54.080 --> 00:48:01.760 your mouth. Now let's see how the worship team comes up with a song about 00:48:01.760 --> 00:48:11.240 that. That'll be some chorus. Yeah all yours Emily. Fishers of men, fire in your 00:48:11.240 --> 00:48:32.120 heart sword in your mouth. That's kind of the pattern we can expect. Any questions 00:48:32.120 --> 00:48:51.640 before we begin to conclude? Introduction and middle portion is over. Communion, yes. 00:48:51.640 --> 00:49:07.720 Yes. Warn your sister that the service is long. A revival can't be produced guys. 00:49:07.720 --> 00:49:16.520 Can't be produced. It's such a relief. A revival can't be produced. We can quench it. 00:49:16.520 --> 00:49:27.720 We can opt out of it but we can't produce it. That's such a relief. Since God's disruptive 00:49:27.720 --> 00:49:49.320 glory is the sole author of revival, since God's disruptive glory is the sole author 00:49:49.320 --> 00:49:55.320 of revival. What I'm going to say next may sound controversial and if it's wrong I'll 00:49:55.320 --> 00:50:06.200 correct it later but right now I don't think it's wrong. Repentance is not a prerequisite. 00:50:06.200 --> 00:50:19.640 Repentance is not a prerequisite but the result of revival because a lot of people use second 00:50:20.360 --> 00:50:28.720 chronicles when we talk about revival. If my people turn and humble themselves and repent 00:50:28.720 --> 00:50:37.960 and then God will... I'm saying no. God is the sole author of revival. He's looking for 00:50:37.960 --> 00:50:44.120 ground that he can conceive things in by his spirit and then we can use the seed to spread 00:50:44.680 --> 00:50:50.280 it. But since he is the sole author of revival, repentance is not a prerequisite. It is the result. 00:50:52.280 --> 00:50:59.480 The awareness of a holy God undoes anybody, be it Isaiah, be it you. You will be undone by it. 00:51:00.600 --> 00:51:03.880 So repentance is not a prerequisite. It is the result of revival. 00:51:05.880 --> 00:51:10.680 The awareness of his nearness and his greatness will bring whatever repentance needs to be brought 00:51:10.680 --> 00:51:24.280 about. So cultivate an awareness and an internal appetite for presence. Cultivate an awareness 00:51:25.480 --> 00:51:32.760 and an internal appetite. So what's being asked of us is very little. Hey Jacob, hey church, 00:51:32.760 --> 00:51:41.400 can you cultivate an awareness and an internal appetite for presence? 00:51:49.320 --> 00:51:50.760 Internal appetite for presence. 00:51:54.200 --> 00:51:58.040 How does that happen? Presence requires intimacy. 00:51:58.040 --> 00:52:03.640 Intimacy requires time. 00:52:07.720 --> 00:52:16.440 Missed intimacy will birth things of the flesh. Missed intimacy will birth things of the flesh. 00:52:17.000 --> 00:52:24.040 Will birth things of the flesh and irrelevancy as in unnecessary things that we spend too much time in. 00:52:30.360 --> 00:52:37.080 So that's really the only thing that God is asking. Hey guys, I've already started you off on this path. 00:52:37.080 --> 00:52:44.600 I listen to you guys worshiping and I thank you for your time. I thank you for your time. 00:52:46.520 --> 00:52:51.480 I think of that says God. But now that I've started you off on this path, be caught up in that. 00:52:51.480 --> 00:52:57.000 Everything else is my doing. I just find your soil really conducive to what I want to do. 00:52:58.840 --> 00:53:05.240 I find your young people carriers of seeds. They can run further than Jacob can. 00:53:06.280 --> 00:53:09.800 Take it further, run faster just because they're young. They don't 00:53:10.520 --> 00:53:12.840 think too much of life because I'm taking care of their lives. 00:53:17.400 --> 00:53:18.120 Any questions? 00:53:20.840 --> 00:53:24.840 Okay, let's conclude. Any questions? 00:53:29.720 --> 00:53:38.920 Satan tries to thwart revivals or movements like this. Satan tries to thwart it. He tries to prevent 00:53:39.000 --> 00:53:46.680 revival. When he realizes he cannot thwart the advance, he seeks to discredit it or distort it. 00:53:50.680 --> 00:53:57.880 When he tries to thwart, he tries to prevent. When he cannot thwart, 00:53:59.080 --> 00:54:05.080 when he cannot thwart it, he tries to discredit it or distort it. So pray for the leaders, 00:54:05.080 --> 00:54:09.160 pray for me so that I don't do anything that discredits what God is doing 00:54:10.520 --> 00:54:19.240 and nor does it distort things that God is doing. Discredit or distort. That's something he uses 00:54:19.240 --> 00:54:24.680 very successfully all across the earth and he'll try it with us too. The other thing we've got to 00:54:24.680 --> 00:54:31.320 be careful of is that when God begins to do things, not to denounce others who are not doing or not 00:54:31.320 --> 00:54:37.160 agreeing, not to denounce others who are not doing the same thing or not agreeing with what 00:54:37.160 --> 00:54:44.280 you're doing because sometimes passion can get so exclusive and zeal can get so misguided 00:54:44.280 --> 00:54:47.240 that you start denouncing anybody who does not agree. 00:54:47.240 --> 00:55:05.160 Third, there will be counterfeit magicians, counterfeit signs, false spirits, false experiences. 00:55:05.160 --> 00:55:09.160 So the revival does not exempt the church from testing the spirits. 00:55:10.040 --> 00:55:19.320 So these are three things that we have to be aware of. Direct attacks in the form of persecution, 00:55:20.120 --> 00:55:32.120 you have to just be smart about. So for instance, given how political 00:55:32.600 --> 00:55:41.240 correct one must be, there have been times when I've asked that certain things that have been 00:55:41.240 --> 00:55:51.240 live streamed not be broadcast because I've been asked to do so. So I've been asked to do so. 00:55:51.240 --> 00:55:58.360 So I've been asked to do so. So I've been asked to do so. So I've been asked to do so. 00:55:59.000 --> 00:56:01.400 Not be broadcast because 00:56:03.960 --> 00:56:10.120 you have to be wise. You pick your battles when it's necessary to pay the cost, not when it's 00:56:10.120 --> 00:56:18.040 not necessary to pay the cost. So why is this important, guys? Because as I go through this, 00:56:18.680 --> 00:56:23.000 part of me was feeling, oh, you're just putting down points. Just leave it, conclude right now. 00:56:23.000 --> 00:56:26.680 The reason I'm going through this is because this is typical of every revival 00:56:26.680 --> 00:56:33.800 since the beginning of time. Therefore, we need to be aware of it. There is not a revival on earth 00:56:33.800 --> 00:56:40.040 that has not, the devil is not creative. The tricks are the same. Every movement of God, 00:56:40.040 --> 00:56:44.840 where God was trying to revive something was met with these three things. If you cannot prevent it, 00:56:45.800 --> 00:56:53.240 then you have to try and discredit it or distort it. If that doesn't work, then let pride come in 00:56:53.240 --> 00:56:57.000 where you denounce others that don't agree with you, where you become exclusive and your 00:56:57.000 --> 00:57:02.600 zeal is misguided. You saw that with the disciples. Jesus, look at John's disciples. 00:57:02.600 --> 00:57:06.280 They're baptizing people. Tell them to stop because they're not part of us. 00:57:10.040 --> 00:57:17.880 Third, it doesn't cause us to be exempt from testing the spirits. Case in point, Samaria, 00:57:17.880 --> 00:57:23.400 Acts chapter eight. Philip goes there. Bar Jesus gives his life to the Lord, magician. 00:57:25.000 --> 00:57:31.960 Even though he believed, he wanted to pay Peter and John money to buy the gifts. Peter turns to him 00:57:31.960 --> 00:57:37.720 and says, you're bound in bitterness, iniquity, and if you don't repent, things will not be good 00:57:37.720 --> 00:57:46.280 for you. There's that, and then there's direct attack where there's persecution. Persecution is 00:57:46.360 --> 00:57:52.600 something that God gives permission for, but you don't go seeking. So we've got to be wise there. 00:57:57.560 --> 00:58:09.240 Cool. Let's read Revelation 4.1 and then we'll break bread after reading one more scripture. 00:58:09.240 --> 00:58:14.360 So here's kind of what God is saying to us. He's telling us, hey, I'm giving you permission. Go 00:58:14.360 --> 00:58:29.000 to Revelation 4.1. After this, I looked, and there before me was a door standing open in heaven, 00:58:30.280 --> 00:58:35.640 and the voice I had heard first speaking to me like a trumpet said, come up here, 00:58:36.360 --> 00:58:40.360 and I will show you what must take place after this. One more time. After this, I looked, 00:58:40.360 --> 00:58:47.080 and there before me was a door standing open in heaven, and the voice I had first heard speaking 00:58:47.080 --> 00:58:52.520 to me like a trumpet said, come up here, and I will show you what must take place after this. 00:58:52.520 --> 00:58:58.120 At once, I was in the spirit, and there before me was a throne in heaven with someone sitting on it. 00:58:58.120 --> 00:59:08.680 And you can go on to Revelation 5.9. I'm praying God will give us glimpses into what he's already 00:59:11.160 --> 00:59:16.440 accomplished and therefore giving us permission to do. And it says, and they sang a new song, 00:59:16.440 --> 00:59:21.240 you are worthy to take the scroll to open its seals because you were slain and with your blood 00:59:21.240 --> 00:59:26.040 you purchased men for God from every tribe and language and people and nation. You have made them 00:59:26.040 --> 00:59:32.200 to be a kingdom and priests to serve our God, and they will reign on earth. Then I looked and I heard 00:59:32.200 --> 00:59:37.160 the voice of many angels numbering thousands upon thousands upon ten thousands. They encircled the throne. 00:59:40.360 --> 00:59:44.520 And the living creatures and the elders in a loud voice sang, worthy is the lamb who was slain 00:59:45.160 --> 00:59:53.160 to receive power and wealth, wisdom and strength, and honor and glory and praise. 00:59:53.160 --> 00:59:56.680 I want us to understand something about that song that the angels sing. 00:59:58.600 --> 01:00:05.960 We are not saying, on one hand we are saying to you belongs worship and honor and power and everything. 01:00:05.960 --> 01:00:12.040 We are saying that. On the other hand, we are also saying that, oh God, we are going to go 01:00:12.040 --> 01:00:18.760 and do what you've asked us to so that thousands upon thousands across the earth will stand and say, 01:00:18.760 --> 01:00:27.400 to you, to you belongs honor and praise and worship. So it's, this is not just a song meant 01:00:27.400 --> 01:00:33.320 for the church to sing as we know that it belongs to you. It is us saying that we are going to do 01:00:33.320 --> 01:00:40.760 something that will cause others, thousands upon thousands to recognize and to sing and say that to you 01:00:44.040 --> 01:00:46.920 belongs power and wealth and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and praise. 01:00:47.480 --> 01:00:51.320 We'll break bread now. Here's what I want us to do while we break bread. Go to Malachi chapter 3, 01:00:52.200 --> 01:00:59.960 verse 16 to 18. Malachi is the last book in the Old Testament. Malachi chapter 3, verse 16 to 18. 01:01:03.320 --> 01:01:17.240 Then those who feared the Lord talked with each other and the Lord listened and heard. 01:01:19.080 --> 01:01:25.080 A scroll of remembrance was written in his presence. It kind of answers Jill's question, 01:01:25.080 --> 01:01:30.120 eh? What does, what does it look like to build an altar? Strange thing is even God does stuff like 01:01:30.120 --> 01:01:36.440 this. He pulls out a book of remembrance. Okay, let me start again at verse 16. Then those who 01:01:36.440 --> 01:01:44.680 feared the Lord talked with each other and the Lord listened and heard. A scroll of remembrance 01:01:44.680 --> 01:01:51.560 was written in his presence concerning those who feared the Lord and honored his name. They will be 01:01:51.560 --> 01:01:58.120 mine says the Lord Almighty in the day when I make up my treasured possession. I will spare them just 01:01:58.120 --> 01:02:03.800 as in compassion a man spares his son who serves him and you will again see the distinction between 01:02:03.800 --> 01:02:11.080 the righteous and the wicked between those who serve God and those who do not. So what I want 01:02:11.080 --> 01:02:18.600 us to do is take bread, take juice, walk around talking to each other and in your talking you can 01:02:18.600 --> 01:02:23.800 converse about anything else but make sure that in your conversation you make a statement on what 01:02:23.800 --> 01:02:29.560 you think of what we have heard. Let the Lord open a book of remembrance today in heaven 01:02:30.200 --> 01:02:34.440 and write down what he hears from his people with regard to what he has revealed. 01:02:36.200 --> 01:02:41.560 I'm not even asking you to weigh this because you know me too well by now to for me to say guys go 01:02:41.560 --> 01:02:48.040 think about this, weigh this. We're well past that. There's nobody new here kind of. So, 01:02:48.440 --> 01:02:56.600 so we're not even going to weigh this. We're going to say okay God we recognize what you're saying. 01:02:56.600 --> 01:03:02.040 You said this in January. We recognize what you're saying and as we go with bread and juice around 01:03:02.760 --> 01:03:08.680 feel free to converse about anything about your children, about your job but in the middle of it 01:03:08.680 --> 01:03:15.160 make a statement about what God has revealed so that he hears it and today there's a book of 01:03:15.960 --> 01:03:20.360 remembrance that'll be open and he'll write down the words that you spoke because what we're doing 01:03:20.360 --> 01:03:27.560 is the early stages of permission. Seeing it, agreeing it, naming it. That's what we're doing. 01:03:30.280 --> 01:03:34.440 Yeah any questions on that? You can ask questions about what I just said now. 01:03:34.440 --> 01:03:46.200 Okay so this is God. Can you come up? 01:03:52.120 --> 01:03:55.080 So you look like the character from Batman but we won't go there. 01:03:55.720 --> 01:04:05.720 So this is God. Sheldon and Aaron and Shiloh and I just heard what God said that there's going to 01:04:05.720 --> 01:04:15.480 be a revival. Shiloh you can go. And so as we take the bread and juice and walk around talking about 01:04:15.480 --> 01:04:20.680 different things we also tell each other hey I really think this thing is going to work Sheldon 01:04:21.640 --> 01:04:23.560 and then Sheldon says more than yes back. 01:04:25.880 --> 01:04:33.640 Okay so this is what we do and meanwhile God opens a book of remembrance and open it 01:04:35.560 --> 01:04:41.560 and he begins to write on it what Sheldon said, what I said saying these guys actually believe 01:04:41.560 --> 01:04:49.080 what I'm going to do and he writes it and he names it. Yeah Sheldon you can go and take care 01:04:49.240 --> 01:04:59.000 of the kids. So that's how this works. Yeah thanks. All righty let's do the bread and grape juice. 01:05:01.160 --> 01:05:08.280 Then I'd like to sing a worthy to receive one of those songs that has that part, that song. 01:05:10.360 --> 01:05:13.960 So feel free to rise up. We're walking around talking and declaring. 01:05:14.680 --> 01:05:17.320 We're not sitting and doing it like normal. 01:05:20.120 --> 01:05:24.840 Guys you can put the camera. What's your name? Vivek? Heidi?