WEBVTT NOTE Podcast: Acts 29 Vancouver Episode: Growing in the Father Publishing Date: 2016-05-22T06:00:44-07:00 Podcast URL: https://acts29.ca Episode URL: https://acts29.ca/growing-in-the-father/ 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:09.360 the next two or three weeks growing in the father good to go away growing in the 00:00:09.360 --> 00:00:21.060 father guys if you turn to Galatians 4 4 to 7 hey Prashanth can you sit here so 00:00:21.060 --> 00:00:26.680 that in case mr. Sidhu needs any questions he can ask you yeah 00:00:30.800 --> 00:00:40.200 so Galatians 4 verses 4 to 7 let's just turn to that Galatians 4 4 to 7 and 00:00:40.200 --> 00:00:47.520 here's what it says it says and because you are sons because you are sons God 00:00:47.520 --> 00:00:53.520 has sent forth the spirit of his son into your hearts crying out above father 00:00:53.520 --> 00:00:59.280 therefore you're no longer a slave but a son and if a son then an heir of God 00:00:59.280 --> 00:01:05.040 through Christ go over it again and because you are sons guys just imagine 00:01:05.040 --> 00:01:11.520 that here's why the father sent his spirit into you this is why God the 00:01:11.520 --> 00:01:17.560 father sent the spirit of his son Jesus Christ into you why he actually knows 00:01:17.560 --> 00:01:23.480 now that you are sons and if you are sons then he must send the spirit of his 00:01:23.480 --> 00:01:26.480 son into you 00:01:29.600 --> 00:01:37.840 how do you become his son it says Hebrews 2 Hebrews 2 00:01:40.600 --> 00:01:52.680 Hebrews 2 it says in Hebrews 2 verse 14 00:01:52.680 --> 00:02:00.840 since the children have flesh and blood he too shared their humanity so that by 00:02:00.840 --> 00:02:05.520 his death he might destroy him who holds the power of the death that is the devil 00:02:05.520 --> 00:02:10.680 and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by the fear of death for 00:02:10.680 --> 00:02:14.640 surely it's not angels he helps but Abraham's descendants for this reason he 00:02:14.640 --> 00:02:17.960 had to be made like his brothers in every way in order that he might become 00:02:17.960 --> 00:02:21.720 a merciful and faithful high priest and service to God alone that he might make 00:02:21.720 --> 00:02:25.840 atonement for the sins of the people because he himself suffered when he was 00:02:25.840 --> 00:02:29.160 tempted he's able to help those who are being tempted so one of the ways we 00:02:29.160 --> 00:02:35.960 become son is by the son taking part in our flesh now go to Colossians 2 00:02:35.960 --> 00:02:48.800 Colossians 2 in Colossians it says that Colossians 1 13 I think Colossians 1 00:02:48.800 --> 00:02:53.680 13 it says for he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us 00:02:53.680 --> 00:02:58.720 into the kingdom of the son he loves in whom we have redemption the forgiveness 00:02:58.720 --> 00:03:02.480 of sins and there's another scripture I don't remember where the thing is where 00:03:02.480 --> 00:03:07.800 it says that the son of God sent his son so that we may it's in Romans 8 good 00:03:07.800 --> 00:03:17.160 Romans 8 Romans chapter 8 and it says here 00:03:18.840 --> 00:03:25.560 it talks about being co-heirs yeah now and it's the same scripture that we saw 00:03:25.560 --> 00:03:32.120 in Galatians 4 it says here verse 15 for you Romans 8 15 for you did not receive 00:03:32.120 --> 00:03:36.840 a spirit that makes you a slave again to fear but you receive the spirit of 00:03:36.840 --> 00:03:42.440 sonship and by him we cry about father the spirit himself testifies with our 00:03:42.440 --> 00:03:47.040 spirit that we are God's children now if we are children then we are as as of God 00:03:47.040 --> 00:03:51.000 and co-heirs with Christ if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we 00:03:51.000 --> 00:03:54.600 may also share in his glory so here's the odd thing guys if you want to become 00:03:54.600 --> 00:04:00.440 sons you have to have the spirit but the spirit is sent because God thinks you 00:04:00.440 --> 00:04:05.720 are his son if you want to become sons you cannot become sons unless you 00:04:05.720 --> 00:04:18.000 receive unless you receive Christ you cannot yeah and so here's the thing if 00:04:18.000 --> 00:04:21.200 I need to become a son I cannot become a son without the Holy Spirit because 00:04:21.200 --> 00:04:24.920 unless you be born again you cannot enter the kingdom of heaven so there's 00:04:24.920 --> 00:04:28.160 no question of me becoming a son without the Holy Spirit because it very clearly 00:04:28.160 --> 00:04:32.400 says if you're not led by the spirit you're not a son of God if you're led 00:04:32.400 --> 00:04:35.600 by the spirit you are a child of God so without the spirit I can't become a 00:04:35.600 --> 00:04:40.560 son but understand why the why God sends his spirit to you he sends his 00:04:40.560 --> 00:04:45.160 spirit to you because he knows that sonship is impossible without the Holy 00:04:45.160 --> 00:04:52.120 Spirit sonship is impossible without the Holy Spirit sonship is impossible 00:04:52.120 --> 00:05:00.040 without the Holy Spirit so therefore guys every morning yearn for yearn by 00:05:00.040 --> 00:05:04.360 opening your lives up to the Holy Spirit hey start the day because he's the one 00:05:04.360 --> 00:05:11.680 who brings in this sense of sonship we don't do these things actively get up 00:05:11.680 --> 00:05:15.600 every morning and begin a call out saying father my sonship comes only 00:05:15.600 --> 00:05:21.120 because you have given me the spirit of your son so here I am once again not to 00:05:21.120 --> 00:05:25.640 receive your Holy Spirit but to completely yield myself to your spirit 00:05:25.640 --> 00:05:32.600 because my sonship comes through your spirit and nothing else every day begin 00:05:32.600 --> 00:05:38.080 the day like that guys these are not basics these are primary things in 00:05:38.080 --> 00:05:42.040 Christianity we're not doing one-on-one Christianity we're not talking about 00:05:42.040 --> 00:05:47.160 basics we are talking about the primary things of Christianity if you don't get 00:05:47.160 --> 00:05:52.200 this we get nothing this is not ABCD of Christianity this is what Christianity 00:05:52.200 --> 00:05:57.800 revolves around now I am in a position to walk in sonship and we're only going to 00:05:57.800 --> 00:06:01.680 talk about growing in the father for the next three weeks and so that is when I 00:06:01.680 --> 00:06:06.520 can do what is said here and because you're a son Jacob God your father has 00:06:06.520 --> 00:06:11.160 sent forth the spirit of his son into your heart Jacob so that when you wake 00:06:11.160 --> 00:06:14.840 up in the morning when you're walking through the day you will cry out Abba 00:06:14.840 --> 00:06:20.720 father and Jacob this will keep you from being a servant it'll keep you from 00:06:20.720 --> 00:06:24.600 being a slave or thinking like a servant or a slave looking for things to do for 00:06:24.600 --> 00:06:28.880 God you will begin to behave like a son and if you're a son know that you are an 00:06:28.880 --> 00:06:36.240 heir of God through Christ you know you should see dawn in Derek's house don't 00:06:36.240 --> 00:06:41.080 things that behaves as if everything in Derek's house belongs to him he actually 00:06:41.080 --> 00:06:48.480 thinks Derek's wallet belongs to him he does and watching it it's entertaining 00:06:48.480 --> 00:06:55.000 amusing and yet it also shows that here are two brothers who do quite well with 00:06:55.000 --> 00:07:00.560 each other where don actually thinks everything that is Derek's belongs to me 00:07:00.560 --> 00:07:05.720 when before dawn came Derek had a bed now he doesn't before dawn came Derek had 00:07:05.720 --> 00:07:11.000 a wallet that was full now he doesn't and dawn has absolutely no problems in 00:07:11.000 --> 00:07:16.080 exploiting Derek and Derek has absolutely no problems being exploited 00:07:17.320 --> 00:07:24.080 this is how it is man that is what is meant by co-airs where everything that 00:07:24.080 --> 00:07:30.720 is someone's is yours guys it is a secret to rest at the end of the day if 00:07:30.720 --> 00:07:33.800 we get what we're going to teach over the next three weeks right you will learn 00:07:33.800 --> 00:07:39.560 what it is to walk in contentment and rest that's why I'm calling it growing 00:07:39.560 --> 00:07:45.980 in the father growing in the father the message puts it this way doesn't the 00:07:45.980 --> 00:07:50.880 privilege of intimate conversation with God make it plain that you are not a 00:07:50.880 --> 00:07:57.680 slave but a child doesn't the privilege of intimate conversation with God make 00:07:57.680 --> 00:08:06.240 it plain that you are not a slave but a child so the question is do we have 00:08:06.240 --> 00:08:12.720 intimate conversations with God may I suggest to you that our prayer language 00:08:12.720 --> 00:08:19.620 will reflect our relationship with God if I hear you pray I will know where you 00:08:19.620 --> 00:08:33.780 are at with the father I was at Diana's dad's funeral some years ago and Diana 00:08:33.780 --> 00:08:40.580 had asked me to come and pray and I went up and prayed and when we gathered down 00:08:40.580 --> 00:08:46.540 in the fellowship hall of that church Mabel many all I did was pray I didn't 00:08:46.540 --> 00:08:50.220 do anything else just prayed and that's it when I finished praying and when I 00:08:50.220 --> 00:08:53.140 was down in the fellowship all and we were having refreshments you know the 00:08:53.140 --> 00:08:58.860 number of people who came up and said to me how do you pray like that because we 00:08:58.860 --> 00:09:02.740 don't relate to the father I'm talking about individuals I'm not different 00:09:02.740 --> 00:09:05.820 people from different churches they're kind so there's not a I'm not talking 00:09:05.820 --> 00:09:08.540 about which church I'm just talking about people coming up and saying how 00:09:08.540 --> 00:09:12.460 do you pray like that because I don't know how to pray like that to the father 00:09:12.460 --> 00:09:18.300 your intimacy is a reflection your intimacy in prayer will show where you 00:09:18.300 --> 00:09:22.500 are at with the father I'm just reading scripture from the 00:09:22.500 --> 00:09:26.220 message man doesn't that privilege of intimate conversation with God make it 00:09:26.220 --> 00:09:29.340 plain that you're not a slave but you're a child and if you're a child you're 00:09:29.340 --> 00:09:33.580 also an heir and I love the next line with complete access to the inheritance 00:09:33.580 --> 00:09:39.740 with complete access to the inheritance with complete access to the inheritance 00:09:39.740 --> 00:09:46.220 growing in the father which brings me to another question what is I inheritance 00:09:46.220 --> 00:09:49.860 guys what is our inheritance 00:09:55.220 --> 00:09:59.540 keep going you're on the right track thank God you didn't say other stuff 00:09:59.540 --> 00:10:04.300 wouldn't expect you to what is our inheritance guys may I suggest that 00:10:04.300 --> 00:10:09.100 another way of wording what you said is our inheritance is the father if you 00:10:09.100 --> 00:10:14.500 have the father you have everything man Psalm 16 verse 5 talks about it David in 00:10:14.500 --> 00:10:21.420 the Old Testament says God is my portion if the father is my inheritance then 00:10:21.420 --> 00:10:25.780 then what don't I have do you understand by growing in the father then it's so 00:10:25.780 --> 00:10:30.740 essential to accessing everything that God wants for my life you know what will 00:10:30.740 --> 00:10:35.660 happen when we begin to live like that is we will be set free to experience our 00:10:35.660 --> 00:10:42.300 heritage we will be set free to experience our heritage instead of being 00:10:42.300 --> 00:10:52.340 people who keep going after God to have their needs met God will stop being 00:10:52.340 --> 00:10:56.740 Jehovah Jireh Jehovah Rapha Jehovah Rohi Jehovah the protector Jehovah the 00:10:56.740 --> 00:11:01.140 provider Jehovah the provision God will stop being all that when he is father 00:11:01.140 --> 00:11:09.500 because in the father everything is it is it is oddly an immature form of 00:11:09.500 --> 00:11:15.300 Christianity that partitions God into different aspects and says okay I 00:11:15.300 --> 00:11:20.500 want to run after Jehovah Rapha I was great those are all his characteristics 00:11:20.500 --> 00:11:24.580 he gave himself those names to portray who he was but the one thing he 00:11:24.580 --> 00:11:30.660 essentially is is the father and if you have the father you have an inheritance 00:11:30.660 --> 00:11:36.660 and you don't have to then go running after needs to be met because you have 00:11:36.660 --> 00:11:40.060 your inheritance and in that inheritance you have everything the father becomes 00:11:40.060 --> 00:11:43.780 your inheritance that is your primary inheritance the father is your 00:11:43.780 --> 00:11:49.320 inheritance the Bible actually says it go to Psalm 16 verse 5 Psalm 16 verse 5 00:11:49.320 --> 00:11:58.180 and it says it it says Lord you have assigned me my portion and cup you have 00:11:58.180 --> 00:12:02.380 made my lot secure the boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places 00:12:02.380 --> 00:12:06.140 surely I have a delightful inheritance and some other scriptures the way he 00:12:06.140 --> 00:12:11.180 puts it is the father is my portion do you have the message version of it 00:12:11.180 --> 00:12:24.900 Psalm 16 verse 5 Psalm 16 verse 5 do you have it five 00:12:28.180 --> 00:12:35.420 first and only and now I'm your choice you set me up with the house and yard 00:12:35.420 --> 00:12:40.380 and then you made me your heir the wise counsel God gives when I'm awake is 00:12:40.380 --> 00:12:45.660 confirmed by my sleeping heart go back go back to the choice thing again just 00:12:45.660 --> 00:12:51.700 worth five yeah yeah keep going my choice is you God first and only and now I find 00:12:51.700 --> 00:12:57.100 that I'm your choice you set me up with the house and yard and then you made me 00:12:57.540 --> 00:13:00.540 read that again 00:13:10.620 --> 00:13:16.900 awesome God is my inheritance and my portion guys what is the my inheritance 00:13:16.900 --> 00:13:22.500 first the father my portion in him I have everything you know I want to be 00:13:23.340 --> 00:13:27.340 set free to experience my rightful heritage I want to be set free to 00:13:27.340 --> 00:13:32.180 experience my rightful heritage because if I can get to understand the father I 00:13:32.180 --> 00:13:39.540 will be at rest I will be completely at rest my life will be at rest I'll be 00:13:39.540 --> 00:13:47.940 contained and contented there will be no need to think of worry of bother about 00:13:47.940 --> 00:13:51.540 anything else because Jesus said it very plainly in Matthew 6 long ago when he 00:13:51.540 --> 00:13:57.860 said your father knows before you even ask our problem is we can't we haven't 00:13:57.860 --> 00:14:02.620 arrived there yet so we struggle I want to arrive there I'm running out of time 00:14:02.620 --> 00:14:07.860 want to arrive there surely I want to live this out for a few years they want 00:14:07.860 --> 00:14:14.700 to arrive there two minutes before I die and so we're gonna look at the father in 00:14:14.700 --> 00:14:22.180 three different ways guys we're gonna see ourselves in three three areas one 00:14:22.180 --> 00:14:28.500 today we only dealing with this the far I am the this is the first part this is 00:14:28.500 --> 00:14:33.940 this is step one and this is where we are at right now or maybe we've got a 00:14:33.940 --> 00:14:39.060 step to to the father's child that's what we are examining today next week 00:14:39.060 --> 00:14:42.740 we'll go over something that we did two years ago which we visit every now and 00:14:42.740 --> 00:14:46.380 then but I think we need to do a whole new revision of it which is the father's 00:14:46.380 --> 00:14:54.180 heart this is where we start every child starts here every person who should 00:14:54.180 --> 00:14:58.740 start here the father's child I am my father's child I am a much-loved child 00:14:58.740 --> 00:15:03.300 I am greatly loved by the father he is a good good father I am a much-loved 00:15:03.300 --> 00:15:07.380 child that's where we start and at least the church is beginning to discover that 00:15:07.380 --> 00:15:11.180 with the songs and with the grace message which may be perverted but which 00:15:11.180 --> 00:15:17.180 establishes this then we go to something called the father's heart 00:15:17.180 --> 00:15:21.860 because once you grow out of childhood you now have to understand your father's 00:15:21.860 --> 00:15:25.060 heart so that you understand it when things are not going well so that you 00:15:25.060 --> 00:15:28.420 understand it when he is disciplined so that you understand it when you haven't 00:15:28.420 --> 00:15:32.620 had breakfast so that you understand it when he isn't putting bandage on your 00:15:32.620 --> 00:15:37.140 owie so that you understand it when he isn't giving you the pocket allowance 00:15:37.140 --> 00:15:41.820 that you think you deserve that is when we have to understand the father's heart 00:15:41.820 --> 00:15:46.420 and we'll talk about that next week and the week after and perhaps it may take 00:15:46.420 --> 00:15:55.540 a couple of weeks is to understand what it is to be the father's son there's a 00:15:55.540 --> 00:16:01.540 difference between child and son unto us a child is what born but unto us a son 00:16:01.540 --> 00:16:06.380 is given there's a difference a child was born but it was a son who was given 00:16:06.380 --> 00:16:15.540 and so we have to learn these three and if we learn these three if God the 00:16:15.540 --> 00:16:20.900 father's I am God the father's child I and I want to understand God the father's 00:16:20.900 --> 00:16:26.700 heart and then I want to be God the father's son Jesus Christ was God the 00:16:26.700 --> 00:16:35.300 father's son and we haven't even scratched the surface on that one when 00:16:35.340 --> 00:16:38.580 you connect this to what we've been talking about regarding the Holy Spirit 00:16:38.580 --> 00:16:42.500 you'll find yourself in a place that is brilliant is my mic still on or is it 00:16:42.500 --> 00:16:49.940 dead still on great this is what we'll touch on today I just wanted to 00:16:49.940 --> 00:16:54.660 introduce the others and this is just a reiteration what we've learned already 00:16:54.660 --> 00:17:00.620 the father's child is to have the eyes and heart of a trusting child the eyes 00:17:00.620 --> 00:17:04.260 and the heart of a trusting child both are important a I need to have the eyes 00:17:04.260 --> 00:17:07.740 of a trusting child and the heart of the trusting child the eyes always 00:17:07.740 --> 00:17:14.380 locate the heart is what trusts the eye looks the heart believes the eye looks 00:17:14.380 --> 00:17:19.100 for the heart believes I mean you see that in little kids first thing when 00:17:19.100 --> 00:17:22.700 they are in trouble is they start looking and once they look they don't 00:17:22.700 --> 00:17:26.620 move away from the place of trouble they can stand there and trust till the 00:17:26.620 --> 00:17:32.220 parent comes in one big swoop picks them up and moves them strangely a child can 00:17:32.220 --> 00:17:39.100 be surrounded by things and he only has to look once he finds he stays because 00:17:39.100 --> 00:17:47.020 now he trusts and then the parent comes and delivers the child out of the 00:17:47.020 --> 00:17:55.800 trouble Psalm 23 is basically this David being like a child the Lord is my 00:17:55.800 --> 00:18:01.260 shepherd I have everything I need why how can he even say that if God was in 00:18:01.260 --> 00:18:12.820 this portion he leads me besides still waters he he restores my soul he lets 00:18:12.820 --> 00:18:20.620 me lie down in green pastures what's next he leads me besides still 00:18:20.620 --> 00:18:30.700 waters he refreshes my soul keep going he guides me along the right paths for 00:18:30.740 --> 00:18:38.980 his namesake even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death huh 00:18:38.980 --> 00:18:44.820 how do you do that man I will fear no evil this is not some great statement of 00:18:44.820 --> 00:18:51.580 faith this is the eyes and heart of a trusting child for he is with me his rod 00:18:51.580 --> 00:18:57.860 and his staff they comfort me he prepares a table for me in the presence 00:18:57.980 --> 00:19:07.340 of my enemies he anoints my head with oil my cup overflows surely goodness and 00:19:07.340 --> 00:19:11.900 mercy shall follow me all the days of my life this is the cry of a child whose 00:19:11.900 --> 00:19:18.220 heart is steadfast in his father and he was not from the new covenant it's just 00:19:18.220 --> 00:19:20.820 nuts man 00:19:20.820 --> 00:19:29.180 Psalm 26 3 from the message puts it this way I never lose sight of your love I 00:19:29.180 --> 00:19:33.180 keep in step with you never missing a beat reliant on your faithfulness I 00:19:33.180 --> 00:19:37.980 never lose sight of your love when do we panic guys when does life go wrong when 00:19:37.980 --> 00:19:40.980 you lose sight of his love 00:19:45.580 --> 00:19:50.620 what is the definition of a dull child a dull child is a child who has lost 00:19:50.620 --> 00:20:01.460 sight of the father's love that's when you go down that is why as we grow older 00:20:01.460 --> 00:20:07.180 this part becomes very important because circumstances change and one must go 00:20:07.180 --> 00:20:13.140 from childhood to sonship it's a process of maturity and that is why this is so 00:20:13.140 --> 00:20:23.260 important it's not it is vital to going from here to here eyes in the heart of a 00:20:23.260 --> 00:20:26.380 trusting child so I never lose sight of your love but keep in step with you 00:20:26.380 --> 00:20:30.140 never missing a beat reliant on your faithfulness even faith then becomes 00:20:30.140 --> 00:20:35.020 easy because faith works by love and a much loved child exerts faith without 00:20:35.220 --> 00:20:47.020 effort faith works by love as in I cannot show faith with ease a much loved 00:20:47.020 --> 00:20:54.500 child exert faith without effort put an orphan and a child in a situation and 00:20:54.500 --> 00:20:59.420 see who strives more and who strives less the one that is loved strives less 00:20:59.420 --> 00:21:04.540 why because the one that is loved knows what comes with that love one that does 00:21:04.540 --> 00:21:09.260 not recognize love knows that you have to now exert a lot of faith to get there 00:21:09.260 --> 00:21:14.060 once you know the goodness of the father again we come back to this once you know 00:21:14.060 --> 00:21:21.020 this faith is easy without knowing this faith is really exertion it still works 00:21:21.020 --> 00:21:29.220 but it's not easy I don't have to exert faith to know that the barbecue will 00:21:29.220 --> 00:21:35.060 work at the church barbecue I don't have to exert faith to make sure that the 00:21:35.060 --> 00:21:39.820 sausages will be cooked I don't have to exert faith to make sure that coffee 00:21:39.820 --> 00:21:42.820 will be ready these things I take for granted because I've come to know the 00:21:42.820 --> 00:21:47.660 characteristics of this church and I have to worry about it once you know 00:21:47.660 --> 00:21:55.020 then it's easy guys three things that are very important for someone who wants 00:21:55.020 --> 00:21:59.420 to be the father's child and I mean it continues throughout but here are three 00:21:59.420 --> 00:22:07.780 things that you need to make this step one it's Psalm 25 verse 9 if you want to 00:22:07.780 --> 00:22:14.260 grow in the father as a child Psalm 25 verse 9 says the father will it says God 00:22:14.260 --> 00:22:20.420 teaches the humble his ways and shows them what is right God teaches the 00:22:21.140 --> 00:22:27.620 his ways and shows them what is right the one of the requirements for growing 00:22:27.620 --> 00:22:34.100 in the growing as a father's child is humility and this kids have plenty of at 00:22:34.100 --> 00:22:39.460 least they start off that way humility some 25 verse 9 the father teaches the 00:22:39.460 --> 00:22:44.820 humble his ways I was so fascinated when I first saw this was that father so 00:22:44.820 --> 00:22:49.620 you're saying that if I am I approach you with a humble heart you will teach me 00:22:49.620 --> 00:22:56.540 your ways and show me what is right duh of course I will come that way then 00:22:56.540 --> 00:23:02.060 humble yourself man and what is humbling mean humbling means refusing to be 00:23:02.060 --> 00:23:10.460 stubborn refusing to be self-run that's what humbling means that's what humbling 00:23:10.460 --> 00:23:14.540 starts guys humbling yourself before God is nothing else but that it's not 00:23:14.540 --> 00:23:19.020 fasting that humbles you you can be someone who fasts four days a week but 00:23:19.020 --> 00:23:26.220 is super stubborn and self-run as in you're an authority unto yourself and 00:23:26.220 --> 00:23:33.060 you run your life then let me say the opposite of Psalm 25 verse 9 God will 00:23:33.060 --> 00:23:38.180 not show you his ways and will not tell you what is right and you will stumble 00:23:38.180 --> 00:23:42.860 around in a dark room and yet go to heaven 00:23:43.860 --> 00:23:48.860 where else does it say that in the New Testament the Holy Spirit who leads us 00:23:48.860 --> 00:23:54.500 this is what it says in James it says God resists those who are proud but 00:23:54.500 --> 00:24:01.740 gives grace to those that are humble resist is to take a warrior like stance 00:24:01.740 --> 00:24:07.780 opposing somebody so you will still go to heaven but on earth you will walk it 00:24:07.780 --> 00:24:16.900 out stumbling like a man in a dark room second thing child likeness child 00:24:16.900 --> 00:24:24.740 likeness child likeness if you want to grow as the father's child child likeness 00:24:24.740 --> 00:24:31.900 Matthew 11 25 really cool words Matthew 11 25 Jesus is praying and at one point 00:24:31.900 --> 00:24:35.860 Jesus says sorry I keep calling Jesus the son sometimes I need to call him 00:24:35.860 --> 00:24:41.900 Jesus though as we don't know who we are talking about Jesus the only God on 00:24:41.900 --> 00:24:48.540 the face of the earth there is no other Jesus Christ son of the living God so 00:24:48.540 --> 00:24:55.660 Jesus child likeness a child likeness Matthew 11 25 to do it is good to have 00:24:55.660 --> 00:25:03.940 you here much pain in back okay before you go can we pray for your back 00:25:03.940 --> 00:25:12.500 it's at 330 330 only today can we quickly pray for your back that the back 00:25:12.500 --> 00:25:18.660 becomes okay so church can we pray for his back you can't sit no but my 00:25:18.660 --> 00:25:24.820 jelly breaker they found okay Jesus Sidhu's back is paining Jesus Jesus 00:25:24.820 --> 00:25:29.700 could you please heal Sidhu's back could you heal Jesus Sidhu's back so he 00:25:29.700 --> 00:25:43.460 doesn't have pain in Jesus Christ's name amen thank you Sidhu yeah yeah you're 00:25:43.460 --> 00:25:56.460 welcome anytime yeah just walk him out and just say hi thanks 00:25:56.460 --> 00:26:04.020 Matthew 11 25 really cool words Jesus is praying to the father and here's what 00:26:04.020 --> 00:26:09.500 he says he says father you are so pleased to reveal things to little 00:26:09.500 --> 00:26:15.860 children guys there's no question of navigating life here on earth without 00:26:15.860 --> 00:26:20.580 the father revealing things and he said I only reveal things to ones who are 00:26:20.580 --> 00:26:24.620 little children or childlike you've hidden this from the wise and the 00:26:24.620 --> 00:26:28.020 complicated and the theologians and they nothing wrong with theologians I 00:26:28.020 --> 00:26:32.380 met theologians who are like little children I'm just saying the theologians 00:26:32.380 --> 00:26:40.180 who are not there are a few of them eh yeah everybody has to be childlike you 00:26:40.180 --> 00:26:44.420 can be whatever you want to be the Pope has to be childlike and if he's not 00:26:44.420 --> 00:26:49.100 there's no revelation for him and he has to believe in Jesus Christ only so 00:26:49.100 --> 00:26:54.900 child likeness Matthew 11 25 and if he believes in Jesus Christ that's fine 00:26:54.900 --> 00:26:59.180 coming back to what I was talking about I forget sometimes that this message is 00:26:59.180 --> 00:27:04.540 sometimes heard by others and not just this church because you guys know me 00:27:04.540 --> 00:27:13.780 others don't yeah so guys the father is pleased to reveal things to children you 00:27:13.820 --> 00:27:21.180 want things revealed child likeness is a must is a must what is child likeness 00:27:21.180 --> 00:27:28.380 the eyes and the heart of a trusting child the eyes in the heart of a 00:27:28.380 --> 00:27:32.980 trusting friend if you don't know what child likeness is go spend a weekend 00:27:32.980 --> 00:27:41.220 with Mark and Rhonda they need babysitters anyways you will see child 00:27:41.220 --> 00:27:46.700 likeness occasionally other times it will be difficult 00:27:48.820 --> 00:27:51.820 go ahead 00:27:58.500 --> 00:28:06.940 yeah yeah common sense also chamber says that common sense was given to the 00:28:06.940 --> 00:28:13.260 supernatural man it was not given to the spiritual man supernatural sense was 00:28:13.260 --> 00:28:17.140 given to the spiritual man so when you're living here on earth you 00:28:17.140 --> 00:28:21.140 supernatural sense unless you want to live like the natural man in which case 00:28:21.140 --> 00:28:25.420 stick with common sense but if you stick with common sense don't expect anything 00:28:25.420 --> 00:28:31.580 from God to actually happen in your life because God is super logical but he 00:28:31.780 --> 00:28:36.380 almost always does things that are no longer within the realm of common sense 00:28:36.380 --> 00:28:40.500 so if you want to live a natural life here on earth and go to heaven use 00:28:40.500 --> 00:28:43.820 common sense if you want to live a supernatural life here on earth and then 00:28:43.820 --> 00:28:50.100 go to heaven use supernatural sense very simple this church really believes in 00:28:50.100 --> 00:28:55.460 supernatural sense if we did anything using common sense we wouldn't be here 00:28:55.500 --> 00:28:59.940 we would have been at Pilgrim four years ago 00:29:06.100 --> 00:29:16.060 third one obedience obedience sometimes we think child likeness and knowing the 00:29:16.060 --> 00:29:22.140 father as a child has nothing to do with obedience Jesus put it this way hey just 00:29:22.540 --> 00:29:25.980 as I have kept my father's commandments and abiding his love why don't you keep 00:29:25.980 --> 00:29:39.120 my father's commandments and abide in his love John 15 19 John 15 19 John 15 00:29:39.820 --> 00:29:45.260 Just as I have kept my father's commandments and abide in his love so why don't you keep 00:29:45.260 --> 00:29:50.380 my father commands Jacob and abide in his love remain in his love we talk about 00:29:50.380 --> 00:29:54.140 being a much-loved child, it is impossible to be a much-loved child 00:29:54.140 --> 00:30:00.300 just believing that the father is good. This is where the song 00:30:00.300 --> 00:30:03.540 is limited. He's a good good father, yes he is. 00:30:03.540 --> 00:30:06.860 And I'm a much-loved child, 00:30:06.860 --> 00:30:11.340 that's who I am, this is true. But if you want to continue to walk as a much-loved child, 00:30:11.340 --> 00:30:15.460 you have to go take it to the next level which is 00:30:15.460 --> 00:30:19.660 I will learn how to remain in his love by walking in obedience. 00:30:20.460 --> 00:30:24.780 Otherwise you'll find that the father thinks you're a much-loved child but you don't feel it anymore 00:30:24.780 --> 00:30:25.780 unless you sing it. 00:30:25.780 --> 00:30:37.780 Jason, it's a little bit surprising about Matthew 11.25 because it says things are hidden from the wise and the true. 00:30:37.780 --> 00:30:41.780 God is wise and true, we're supposed to be like him. 00:30:41.780 --> 00:30:44.780 Yeah, and yet he says God's foolishness, 00:30:44.900 --> 00:30:51.900 Yeah, man's wisdom is God's, like God's foolishness is greater than man's wisdom. 00:30:51.900 --> 00:30:55.900 And so it's a whole different way of thinking and wising. 00:30:55.900 --> 00:30:58.900 Yeah, go ahead. 00:31:04.900 --> 00:31:08.900 John 15.19, maybe it's 15.9. 00:31:09.020 --> 00:31:12.020 John 15.9, 10. 00:31:12.020 --> 00:31:15.020 John 15.10. 00:31:15.020 --> 00:31:19.020 If you read it from the message, it says remain in my love 00:31:19.020 --> 00:31:24.020 by obeying my father's commands just as I remain in his love 00:31:24.020 --> 00:31:25.020 and so on. 00:31:25.020 --> 00:31:29.020 Guys, be at home in my father's love, that's what the message says. 00:31:29.020 --> 00:31:31.020 So be at home in my father's love. 00:31:31.020 --> 00:31:35.020 So the point being, guys, you can be a much-loved child 00:31:35.140 --> 00:31:39.140 only if you now realize that I'm a much-loved child, he's a good father, 00:31:39.140 --> 00:31:43.140 and now I will continue walking in much-loved childness by obeying him. 00:31:43.140 --> 00:31:46.140 Without obedience, it doesn't work, okay? 00:31:46.140 --> 00:31:49.140 It doesn't work. 00:31:52.140 --> 00:31:55.140 Yeah. 00:31:55.140 --> 00:31:56.140 Yeah. 00:31:56.140 --> 00:31:57.140 Any questions? 00:31:57.140 --> 00:31:58.140 I'm almost done. 00:31:58.140 --> 00:32:01.140 We'll do the rest next week. 00:32:01.260 --> 00:32:02.260 These are the three. 00:32:02.260 --> 00:32:05.260 Next week, we will go back and revise the things that we talked about 00:32:05.260 --> 00:32:06.260 the father's add-on. 00:32:06.260 --> 00:32:07.260 We'll add some more to it. 00:32:07.260 --> 00:32:10.260 But this part we should have gotten by now. 00:32:10.260 --> 00:32:11.260 Got the father. 00:32:11.260 --> 00:32:13.260 I am the father's child. 00:32:13.260 --> 00:32:14.260 I don't think I have... 00:32:14.260 --> 00:32:17.260 There's a morning in my life now for the last little while 00:32:17.260 --> 00:32:19.260 where I don't start the day like this. 00:32:19.260 --> 00:32:22.260 The first thing I do when I get up is I go to the bathroom 00:32:22.260 --> 00:32:24.260 and I'm like, I'm going to go to the bathroom. 00:32:24.260 --> 00:32:26.260 I'm like, I'm going to go to the bathroom. 00:32:26.260 --> 00:32:28.260 I'm like, I'm going to go to the bathroom. 00:32:28.260 --> 00:32:30.260 I'm like, I'm going to go to the bathroom. 00:32:30.380 --> 00:32:32.380 And I get up, it's, hey, father, 00:32:32.380 --> 00:32:34.380 I got to get only one thing right today. 00:32:34.380 --> 00:32:36.380 I'm a much-loved child. 00:32:36.380 --> 00:32:38.380 And to recognize that I'm a much-loved child, 00:32:38.380 --> 00:32:40.380 I need to recognize you as father. 00:32:40.380 --> 00:32:45.380 If I can get that right, everything else falls into place. 00:32:45.380 --> 00:32:48.380 It gives me the guts to go on trips like this 00:32:48.380 --> 00:32:50.380 because I'm a much-loved child. 00:32:50.380 --> 00:32:54.380 And if I am walking in humility, which I try to, 00:32:54.380 --> 00:32:56.380 and then boast about it, 00:32:56.500 --> 00:33:00.500 he will teach me his ways and show me what is right. 00:33:00.500 --> 00:33:01.500 Isn't that brilliant? 00:33:01.500 --> 00:33:03.500 Psalm 25, verse 9. 00:33:03.500 --> 00:33:06.500 To one who is humble, God will teach his ways 00:33:06.500 --> 00:33:08.500 and show what is right. 00:33:08.500 --> 00:33:11.500 Ah, he now begins to lead you during the day. 00:33:11.500 --> 00:33:13.500 Second thing, childlikeness. 00:33:13.500 --> 00:33:15.500 Father, you will reveal things to those that are childlike, 00:33:15.500 --> 00:33:17.500 not to the wise and the prudent. 00:33:17.500 --> 00:33:20.500 The wise and the prudent are the common sense people. 00:33:20.500 --> 00:33:24.500 Now he begins to reveal himself and reveal the truth. 00:33:24.500 --> 00:33:25.500 Isn't that brilliant? 00:33:25.620 --> 00:33:27.620 And the third thing is obedience. 00:33:27.620 --> 00:33:29.620 Now that you say it, I really want to remain in your love 00:33:29.620 --> 00:33:30.620 and walk in your favor. 00:33:30.620 --> 00:33:31.620 How do you do that? 00:33:31.620 --> 00:33:33.620 By continuing to now walk in obedience. 00:33:33.620 --> 00:33:35.620 Guys, we've got to do this, eh? 00:33:38.620 --> 00:33:39.620 We've got to do this. 00:33:39.620 --> 00:33:41.620 Do you want me in the picture or not in the picture? 00:33:41.620 --> 00:33:42.620 Yes. 00:33:42.620 --> 00:33:44.620 Okay, I get it. 00:33:44.620 --> 00:33:49.620 So that's what, start with this, guys. 00:33:49.620 --> 00:33:52.620 This you should have already begun practicing. 00:33:52.740 --> 00:33:54.740 And guys, if you practice, it's very hard to escape 00:33:54.740 --> 00:33:56.740 the Father's love, eh? 00:33:56.740 --> 00:33:57.740 Very hard not to have. 00:33:57.740 --> 00:33:59.740 Remember what I read earlier. 00:33:59.740 --> 00:34:01.740 Remember what I read earlier. 00:34:01.740 --> 00:34:03.740 Doesn't that privilege of intimate conversation 00:34:03.740 --> 00:34:06.740 with God make it plain that you're not a slave but a child? 00:34:06.740 --> 00:34:08.740 Whether you like it or not, whether you receive it or not, 00:34:08.740 --> 00:34:10.740 whether you believe it or not. 00:34:10.740 --> 00:34:12.740 Listen to this. 00:34:12.740 --> 00:34:14.740 If you have received Christ, you are a son. 00:34:14.740 --> 00:34:18.740 And therefore, God has sent his Holy Spirit into you. 00:34:18.740 --> 00:34:20.740 You may not feel it, but you can feel it. 00:34:20.860 --> 00:34:22.860 But it doesn't change the fact. 00:34:22.860 --> 00:34:25.860 Can you feel blood running through your temples right now? 00:34:25.860 --> 00:34:27.860 May I suggest to you that if it wasn't, 00:34:27.860 --> 00:34:29.860 you'd be brain dead by now. 00:34:36.860 --> 00:34:38.860 I look forward to this. 00:34:38.860 --> 00:34:40.860 But I really look forward to this. 00:34:43.860 --> 00:34:46.860 And so, we'll leave it at that. 00:34:46.980 --> 00:34:48.980 And so, we'll leave it at that. 00:34:50.980 --> 00:34:53.980 And go now and practice these three things. 00:34:53.980 --> 00:34:56.980 So by next week, you're surely doing this every day. 00:34:56.980 --> 00:35:00.980 If you ain't doing this, you'll only get notes on the other two. 00:35:00.980 --> 00:35:02.980 Because if we don't do the first, we don't get to the second. 00:35:02.980 --> 00:35:04.980 We don't get to the third. 00:35:04.980 --> 00:35:07.980 And I just want to let you know that we have two more guys 00:35:07.980 --> 00:35:10.980 who've decided to leave Vernon and join us. 00:35:10.980 --> 00:35:14.980 So, Alison and Alice. 00:35:16.860 --> 00:35:18.980 Eric doesn't know about it.