WEBVTT NOTE Podcast: Acts 29 Vancouver Episode: Kingdom Metrics 3 Publishing Date: 2026-10-11T03:04:44-07:00 Podcast URL: https://acts29.ca Episode URL: https://acts29.ca/kingdom-metrics-3/ 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:18.440 We have a pair of booties for Ariel. So if you can come up. 00:00:18.440 --> 00:00:31.200 Joan made this, and so we just wanted to‒ Joan didn't make it, but Joan got it. But 00:00:31.200 --> 00:00:37.000 we just wanted to give it for Ariel, and it will keep her warm during winter. 00:00:37.000 --> 00:00:44.880 All righty, let's go. So we've been talking about kingdom metrics, and so we continue 00:00:45.080 --> 00:00:52.080 with that. So it's Kingdom Metrics 3, and we'll start by recapping what we did last week. 00:00:55.160 --> 00:01:00.280 Oh, by the way, it's Shiloh's birthday today. He's not here. But Shiloh, if you're watching, 00:01:00.280 --> 00:01:07.160 happy birthday. I think he's turning nine, I think. So this is the recap of what we did 00:01:07.160 --> 00:01:14.160 last week. We said that the in-breaking of kingdom is on one hand, and on the other hand, 00:01:14.960 --> 00:01:21.480 it's not covert. It's revolutionary, and it's disruptive. So these are some of the things 00:01:21.480 --> 00:01:27.960 we said last week. That the in-breaking of the kingdom is covert. You don't see it happening, 00:01:27.960 --> 00:01:34.960 but it still keeps happening. It's revolutionary, as in it changes things, but it changes things 00:01:35.480 --> 00:01:42.480 often by disrupting things. It's not how it has always been. So the kingdom of God, as 00:01:43.160 --> 00:01:49.000 in the reign of God, or the rule of God, or the life of God, continuously active. And 00:01:49.000 --> 00:01:55.400 it's initiated by God, and it's worked out by the Spirit. We participate in it. We open 00:01:55.400 --> 00:02:00.760 the door for it, because we went to Matthew 16, 18, 19. We said Christ builds a church, 00:02:00.760 --> 00:02:05.800 but he gives the keys to us to open the doors so that whatever is bound in heaven is bound 00:02:05.800 --> 00:02:09.800 on earth, whatever is loosed in heaven is loosed on earth. And so we have the ability 00:02:09.800 --> 00:02:14.600 to open doors through our lives, and through being distributed all across the earth, but 00:02:14.600 --> 00:02:20.440 it's worked out by the Spirit. It's initiated by God. The next thing we said was that there 00:02:20.440 --> 00:02:27.440 is really nowhere, nowhere, there is nowhere, no village, no town, that the Spirit of God 00:02:29.360 --> 00:02:34.840 isn't actively working in. Like, I'm not talking about passive working, as in hanging out there 00:02:34.840 --> 00:02:40.480 saying, well, if you want me, I'm there for you. Not that kind of thing. Actively working. 00:02:40.480 --> 00:02:46.200 Like surgical kind of working. Like a gardener ploughing up the garden kind of working. Continuously. 00:02:46.200 --> 00:02:51.600 In every home, every village, every town, across the earth. This is the enormity of 00:02:51.600 --> 00:02:58.600 the Spirit of God. It's just massive. And he's working towards what? Towards judgment? 00:02:58.600 --> 00:03:05.600 No, towards mercy. Someone who is judged so that we can be shown mercy. And so he's 00:03:07.240 --> 00:03:13.280 actively working towards that, eh? You know, it's odd. Someone who is judged so that we 00:03:13.280 --> 00:03:19.200 may be shown mercy, and then at the end of time, because we reject mercy, we get judged. 00:03:19.200 --> 00:03:26.200 Not because we, not because of any other reason. Next one. 00:03:28.600 --> 00:03:35.600 How, this, this ain't moving. Brandon, can you make it move? 00:03:47.600 --> 00:03:54.600 There we go. Next one. Is there any one life across the earth? Eight billion people on 00:03:54.600 --> 00:04:01.600 earth. Is there any one life that the Holy Spirit isn't hovering over? Just one life. 00:04:03.960 --> 00:04:10.160 Is there any life that he's not needing like one needs clay? Intervening, wooing, redeeming, 00:04:10.160 --> 00:04:15.320 disrupting, toppling, restoring, or working towards making new. Is there a life on the 00:04:15.320 --> 00:04:21.880 face of the earth that he isn't doing it right now? That's the crazy thing. Right now. He's 00:04:21.920 --> 00:04:27.360 working on every one of the eight billion lives that exist. And what's he doing? He's 00:04:27.360 --> 00:04:32.600 either hovering or needing or intervening or wooing or redeeming or disrupting or toppling 00:04:32.600 --> 00:04:37.320 or restoring or working towards making new. Because it's one of God's favorite things. 00:04:37.320 --> 00:04:42.400 Behold, I have made all things new. He's continuously working towards making things new. When we 00:04:42.400 --> 00:04:49.400 talk about is there one life, it also includes your life. It includes your life. Just because 00:04:50.400 --> 00:04:56.040 you and I have become citizens of the kingdom doesn't mean that it stops. If anything, we 00:04:56.040 --> 00:05:01.720 now accrue the benefits of the kingdom even more easily than the world outside. They don't 00:05:01.720 --> 00:05:07.360 know. We know. It's like knowing how much you have in the bank versus knowing that you've 00:05:07.360 --> 00:05:14.360 got an inheritance and you don't know how to access it. There's not one life right now. 00:05:14.440 --> 00:05:19.360 At this very moment, the strange thing is in every one of our lives, if we were able 00:05:19.360 --> 00:05:26.360 to for a moment recognize it, who are you looking for, Anthony? Oh, for your bag. Okay. 00:05:28.280 --> 00:05:35.280 I don't have it. So there's not a person in this room over whose life the spirit of God 00:05:37.200 --> 00:05:44.200 is not working right now. Not one person. So what do I have to do to engage? I have 00:05:45.000 --> 00:05:51.360 to just look to see. Just become aware that he's doing it. Just an awareness, a simple 00:05:51.360 --> 00:05:55.120 awareness of the spirit of God working in my life even while I'm teaching you right 00:05:55.120 --> 00:06:00.560 now. He's working in my life to make things new. That's crazy. Even as I'm teaching you 00:06:00.560 --> 00:06:06.360 right now, he is working in my life to make things new. To make me more like Christ right 00:06:06.360 --> 00:06:13.360 now. He's not giving me a break saying, oh, you're teaching. I'll leave you alone. Thank 00:06:13.600 --> 00:06:20.600 God, eh? Otherwise you'll get really bad stuff. That's how he is right now. And if we can 00:06:27.360 --> 00:06:32.920 become aware, you'll be surprised at the peace, the comfort, the correction, the conviction, 00:06:32.920 --> 00:06:38.520 the promise, the hope, the laughter, the expectation that begins to rise in your heart. Because 00:06:38.520 --> 00:06:43.640 we are not aware of him. We are left fighting it with our minds and with our sanctified 00:06:43.640 --> 00:06:50.520 flesh. Change happening. You look across and you see someone you were offended with last 00:06:50.520 --> 00:06:56.240 week and change begins to happen. I was reading a story. Just comes to mind suddenly. Guy 00:06:56.240 --> 00:07:02.280 called Bob and guy called Frank. And both of them have been at loggerheads for years. 00:07:02.280 --> 00:07:07.000 Their families don't talk to each other. Go to the same church. One sits on the left side, 00:07:07.000 --> 00:07:11.720 one on the right. They never talk. And then one day communion happens and the pastor 00:07:11.720 --> 00:07:15.320 calls up the two people who are supposed to be the ones who step up for communion. One 00:07:15.320 --> 00:07:20.680 is Bob and the other one was Gilda. Gilda or Hilda didn't turn up that day. So the pastor 00:07:20.680 --> 00:07:24.500 forgot and he said, well, Frank, why don't you come up? And now Bob and Frank are standing 00:07:24.500 --> 00:07:30.620 in front. And the spirit of God is working in their lives. They don't even look at each 00:07:30.620 --> 00:07:35.160 other. It's been 20 years since they spoke and they're standing there in front. And the 00:07:35.640 --> 00:07:39.640 words that are being spoken during communion are, we thank you for the bread that is broken, 00:07:39.640 --> 00:07:44.680 your body broken so that we may be put together, that we may be forgiven and that we may forgive 00:07:44.680 --> 00:07:51.680 each other. And these guys don't know what to do. That's a visible example of the invisible 00:07:53.080 --> 00:08:00.080 at work. But if we were conscious or aware, forget the word conscious, aware, you would 00:08:01.080 --> 00:08:08.080 go home with baskets full of hope and promise and peace. Every Sunday, every time you meet, 00:08:09.680 --> 00:08:16.680 you would go home that way. That's with regard to us, but he's doing this to people all around 00:08:21.760 --> 00:08:28.760 the world. Then we said that when our small, often hidden and weak churches, they are not 00:08:30.080 --> 00:08:36.640 ministries and efforts. When our small and often hidden and weak churches, ministries 00:08:36.640 --> 00:08:43.640 and efforts discern what God is already doing and join in that work where he directs, we 00:08:43.720 --> 00:08:50.720 become part of God's tsunami in Richmond. So it's a pathetic, clumsy, half-baked work 00:08:50.720 --> 00:08:57.720 that God takes because when I'm weak but passionate, he is strong. And when our small, 00:09:02.720 --> 00:09:07.200 often hidden and weak churches, ministries and efforts discern what God is already doing, 00:09:07.200 --> 00:09:11.480 I mean, it wouldn't be great if I, while I'm teaching, can discern what's happening in 00:09:11.480 --> 00:09:16.680 Aaron's life or in Mike's life or in Mira's life. And during the teaching, I begin to 00:09:16.720 --> 00:09:22.920 just say two or three words that completely changed Aaron's life or Mira's life. What 00:09:22.920 --> 00:09:28.640 if that could be something that, this is without being prophetic, just being aware of the work 00:09:28.640 --> 00:09:35.640 that at present God is doing in Aaron's life. Just being aware. It's not a prophetic word. 00:09:36.160 --> 00:09:43.160 And it slips in, saying, son, I'm not discouraged. I am not disappointed. I'm encouraged by 00:09:44.160 --> 00:09:50.480 you. So keep pressing on. Mistakes happen. Put them behind you. Get up. Start walking 00:09:50.480 --> 00:09:54.920 again because what I gave you when you came in is what you still have and I'm adding to 00:09:54.920 --> 00:10:01.360 you. Nothing has been subtracted. And that wasn't even an example. That was real. But 00:10:01.360 --> 00:10:07.680 what if I was aware? Then I get to join in the work he's doing where he directs and we 00:10:07.680 --> 00:10:14.680 become part of God's tsunami in his life and in Richmond. Then we said, like the parable 00:10:15.600 --> 00:10:20.920 of the mustard seed and the leaven, we are planted in the world. We're not planted in 00:10:20.920 --> 00:10:24.760 the church. We grow in the church. We're not planted in the church. This is like one of 00:10:24.760 --> 00:10:28.320 those nurseries where you begin to grow and then you're taken and put in someone else's 00:10:28.320 --> 00:10:34.600 garden. We are planted in the world like the parable of mustard, the mustard seed and leaven. 00:10:34.600 --> 00:10:39.160 We are planted to corrupt the corruption of the world. We are supposed to corrupt the 00:10:39.160 --> 00:10:46.160 corruption of the world. What a cool, like it's all spy stuff, man. You go in like they 00:10:46.800 --> 00:10:51.720 used to call them the fifth columnists. They would send them ahead of an army coming to 00:10:51.720 --> 00:10:58.720 just begin to infiltrate a town and begin to propagate a new way of thinking so that 00:10:59.040 --> 00:11:05.560 when the army comes in, the place would be ready. Can we corrupt the corruption of the 00:11:05.560 --> 00:11:12.560 world and become God's counter story? God's counter story. God's counter story. God's 00:11:12.760 --> 00:11:19.760 counter story. Okay, it stopped moving again, Brandon. Maybe if you get up, it'll start 00:11:21.680 --> 00:11:28.680 moving. No, not yet. Say something. Threaten it. You're not going to get up. You're not 00:11:28.720 --> 00:11:35.720 going to get up. Okay, cool. Remember what RJSE is, right? We seed RJSE. What is RJSE? 00:11:59.400 --> 00:12:06.400 Right Living Through Right Relationship. Justice, Shalom, Equity. Dilna, you seem to have forgotten. 00:12:12.440 --> 00:12:19.440 Okay, so remember these are the external kingdom metrics. What do we seed in the world? We 00:12:20.160 --> 00:12:26.960 seed right relationship and right living. We seed the world with what does it look like 00:12:27.000 --> 00:12:32.040 to have God's justice begin to flow through our lives? How does God's justice flow? Very 00:12:32.040 --> 00:12:37.600 simple. Love the Lord your God and love your neighbor as you love yourself. Third, Shalom. 00:12:37.600 --> 00:12:43.120 Wholeness to the city we are in. And then the last one, equity or fairness. How do we 00:12:43.120 --> 00:12:47.880 bring about fairness? Those are some of the things. And the last one is we should be the 00:12:47.880 --> 00:12:54.880 kindest people in our city. Seeing our no strings attached kindness will open doors 00:12:55.120 --> 00:13:01.440 to discovering how kind and loving God is. Seeing our no strings attached kindness will 00:13:01.440 --> 00:13:06.080 open doors to discovering how kind and loving he is. I heard this story yesterday from a 00:13:06.080 --> 00:13:11.920 church in Richmond. So this lady returns home. She's got two kids. She returns home and finds 00:13:11.920 --> 00:13:17.200 her husband in bed with some other woman and she has to leave. She leaves. She's a new 00:13:17.200 --> 00:13:24.200 immigrant not from a very well to do country. And now she's got two kids and the husband 00:13:24.360 --> 00:13:30.080 decides he's not going to do anything to help. So she goes to this particular church and 00:13:30.080 --> 00:13:37.080 in that particular church the daycare begins to take care of her children at a super reduced 00:13:37.520 --> 00:13:42.960 rate and then realize that she doesn't even have food to eat to feed her children and 00:13:42.960 --> 00:13:49.200 the husband has turned his back on them and isn't doing anything to help them. So they 00:13:49.200 --> 00:13:56.200 register her with a food bank. And so food hampers begin arriving to help them survive. 00:13:58.120 --> 00:14:00.880 Different churches, there are two or three different churches that begin to help. And 00:14:00.880 --> 00:14:06.600 food hampers arrive. They begin to help the kids survive and for her to eat. It's her 00:14:06.600 --> 00:14:13.600 birthday one day and she knows she's got nothing to celebrate the birthday with. So she knows 00:14:14.200 --> 00:14:18.280 it will be a birthday that she spends with her children with nothing to do and she goes 00:14:18.280 --> 00:14:22.680 gets a hamper for the week to cook meals and it just so happens that our local save 00:14:22.680 --> 00:14:29.480 on here in Richmond that day had a cake that was partly smashed because the cardboard box 00:14:29.480 --> 00:14:33.680 shook and the icing on the cake was smashed. So they decide they'll take the cake and put 00:14:33.680 --> 00:14:37.720 it in the hamper. So they put it in the hamper. She takes it home. She has no idea. She knows 00:14:37.720 --> 00:14:41.640 what's usually in the hamper for a week. She opens it. It's her birthday. She opens it 00:14:41.640 --> 00:14:45.440 and there's a cake in there. This is a true story happening here in Richmond. Not too 00:14:45.520 --> 00:14:51.320 long ago. She opens it and she can't believe it. Her kids are like thrilled saying this 00:14:51.320 --> 00:14:58.320 God because they're not Christians. They're from a country that is it's not India. It's 00:14:58.320 --> 00:15:05.320 another country where it's not it's not the Christian God. Two days later she turns up 00:15:05.600 --> 00:15:11.320 at the place that registered her for the food bank and she says could I know your God because 00:15:11.480 --> 00:15:16.400 there's no one else who could have known and done this for me than your God and the person 00:15:16.400 --> 00:15:23.400 there was able to lead her to the Lord and she and her two kids now serve the Lord. Such 00:15:23.840 --> 00:15:27.880 a simple story that I heard yesterday. I'm thinking to myself gosh man what does it take 00:15:27.880 --> 00:15:34.480 to be a little kind. Remember how we define kindness. Kindness is the expression of the 00:15:34.480 --> 00:15:39.200 goodness of God. We say the glory of God is the goodness of God. The goodness of God is 00:15:39.200 --> 00:15:46.080 expressed through kindness. Kindness is the expression of the goodness of God. The goodness 00:15:46.080 --> 00:15:53.080 of God is his glory. And so when I am kind it is surprising how I open the door for the 00:15:53.200 --> 00:16:00.200 glory of God to enter a situation. What does it take man. Remember Desmond Tutu story right. 00:16:01.800 --> 00:16:08.800 A smile changes a nation. That is just nuts man. Would you differentiate between the two 00:16:09.200 --> 00:16:16.200 words. From. Yeah. Would I differentiate kindness from niceness. Good question. The 00:16:16.680 --> 00:16:21.680 difference between kindness and niceness is niceness costs me nothing. Kindness costs 00:16:21.680 --> 00:16:27.680 me something. Because when I'm kind my heart is involved. When I'm kind as we will see 00:16:27.680 --> 00:16:34.680 today my feet are involved. My money is involved. My heart and mind. It's more niceness. Niceness 00:16:35.680 --> 00:16:42.680 Canadians are like Aston. Yeah. Niceness we are really good at it. Yeah. Kindness is when 00:16:45.200 --> 00:16:52.200 so much of me is involved. Yeah. So let's look at three parables today to figure out 00:16:57.160 --> 00:17:02.360 some more principles of the kingdom that we can apply and sow to the world around us. 00:17:02.360 --> 00:17:06.000 Remember everything about the kingdom now that you are citizens everything about the 00:17:06.000 --> 00:17:13.000 kingdom is how you get sown into the world. It is nothing else but you being scattered. 00:17:14.560 --> 00:17:21.560 Yeah. And remember scattering is not a strategic scattering is put your hand in the sack and 00:17:21.880 --> 00:17:28.880 go kshhh. I don't know whether that's a sound but it's something like that. Yeah. And so 00:17:28.960 --> 00:17:34.160 it goes all over the place. Where you fall know that God in his brilliance has the ability 00:17:34.160 --> 00:17:41.160 to locate you at the right place. But scattering is not something that I have to pray a lot 00:17:41.160 --> 00:17:45.800 over before I get scattered. Yeah. That's another mistake we make when it comes to things 00:17:45.800 --> 00:17:50.000 of the kingdom being sown into the world. My God we start praying because in praying 00:17:50.000 --> 00:17:57.000 we can take up another two months. Don't have to do anything. But we are good seed already. 00:17:57.320 --> 00:18:04.320 You can't pray the seed into anything better. At least that's what Jesus said. Okay so the 00:18:08.520 --> 00:18:15.520 first parable we look at is Luke 16 1-13. Luke 16 1-13. Luke 16 1-13. The parables were 00:18:15.520 --> 00:18:22.520 actually some of them were cryptic but most of them were supposed to be understood by 00:18:27.400 --> 00:18:34.400 simple people and so you are simple people. Luke 16 1-13 or 1-13 yeah. Here goes. Jesus 00:18:34.400 --> 00:18:41.400 told his disciples there was a rich man whose manager was accused of wasting his possessions. 00:18:51.360 --> 00:18:55.800 So he called him in and asked him what is this I hear about you. Give an account of 00:18:55.800 --> 00:19:01.440 your management because you cannot be my manager any longer. The manager said to himself what 00:19:01.440 --> 00:19:06.880 shall I do now my master is taking away my job. I'm not strong enough to dig and I'm 00:19:06.880 --> 00:19:12.320 ashamed to beg. I know what I'll do so that when I lose my job here people will welcome 00:19:12.320 --> 00:19:17.920 me into their houses. So he called in each one of his masters debtors. He asked the first 00:19:17.920 --> 00:19:23.560 how much do you owe my master. Eight hundred gallons of olive oil he said. The manager 00:19:23.560 --> 00:19:29.240 told him take your bill sit down quickly and make it four hundred. Then he asked the second 00:19:29.320 --> 00:19:35.000 how much do you owe. A thousand bushels of wheat he replied. He told him take your bill 00:19:35.000 --> 00:19:42.000 make it eight hundred. The next verse is quite something. The master commended the dishonest 00:19:42.320 --> 00:19:48.080 manager because he had acted shrewdly. For the people of this world are more shrewd in 00:19:48.080 --> 00:19:54.840 dealing with their own kind than other people of light. I tell you use worldly wealth to 00:19:54.880 --> 00:20:00.000 gain friends for yourself so that when it is gone you will be welcomed into eternal 00:20:00.000 --> 00:20:05.720 dwellings. Whoever can be trusted with very little can be trusted with much. Whoever is 00:20:05.720 --> 00:20:11.640 dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much. So if you have not been trustworthy 00:20:11.640 --> 00:20:16.600 in handling worldly wealth who will trust you with true riches. And if you have not 00:20:16.600 --> 00:20:22.240 been trustworthy with someone else's property who will give you property of your own. No 00:20:22.280 --> 00:20:28.000 servant can serve two masters either he will hate one and love the other or he will be 00:20:28.000 --> 00:20:35.000 devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money. So the goal 00:20:37.760 --> 00:20:44.760 here the goal here is kingdom oriented shrewdness. Kingdom oriented shrewdness. So the people 00:20:52.240 --> 00:20:59.240 of this world are more shrewd in dealing with their own kind than other people of light. 00:21:02.000 --> 00:21:09.000 And so what are we dealing with? We are dealing with unrighteous mammon or money or another 00:21:10.440 --> 00:21:17.440 way of saying the same thing is money of this unrighteous age. That's the meaning of the 00:21:22.240 --> 00:21:29.240 medium here. And what are we using it for? We are using it to create kingdom friendships. 00:21:39.200 --> 00:21:46.200 Question is how? Ok so the goal here is hey can I teach you how to be ones who can practice 00:21:47.200 --> 00:21:52.200 kingdom oriented shrewdness. You know Christians are some of the most gullible people on the 00:21:52.200 --> 00:22:00.200 face of the earth. We believe anything. Anything. One of the things that really blew my mind 00:22:00.200 --> 00:22:07.200 is when during the 2000 anniversary of David's reign the Israeli tourism board built a cement 00:22:07.200 --> 00:22:14.200 platform six inches under the Jordan river under the Sea of Galilee like off the shore 00:22:15.200 --> 00:22:20.200 so that Christians could have the experience of walking on water. And then they began charging 00:22:20.200 --> 00:22:25.200 for it and thousands of Christian tourists went to have that experience of walking on 00:22:25.200 --> 00:22:32.200 water and I'm thinking to myself how gullible do we get? And so I think that's the point 00:22:32.200 --> 00:22:39.200 I'm thinking to myself how gullible do we get? Or eight million pounds raised in India 00:22:41.560 --> 00:22:47.360 so that we can plant olive trees on Mount Olive so that when Jesus returns he will find 00:22:47.360 --> 00:22:54.360 it green and not barren. Eight million pounds you know how much that is in Indian rupees? 00:22:55.360 --> 00:23:02.360 It's very gullible and he wants us to be shrewd but kingdom oriented shrewdness where you 00:23:03.360 --> 00:23:09.120 use money of this unrighteous age or unrighteous money however you want to call it and you 00:23:09.120 --> 00:23:16.120 use it to create kingdom friendships. How? Luke 14, 13, and then the second chapter of 00:23:24.360 --> 00:23:30.240 the book says, but when you give a banquet invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the 00:23:30.240 --> 00:23:34.680 blind and you will be blessed. Although they cannot repay you, you will be repaid at the 00:23:34.680 --> 00:23:39.540 resurrection of the righteous. So one of the first things we do is we use the money, we 00:23:39.540 --> 00:23:46.540 use the money of this world to make kingdom friends by making friends with the poor. So 00:23:55.360 --> 00:24:02.360 we are inviting, giving to those that cannot reciprocate in this world but like the woman 00:24:13.360 --> 00:24:20.360 who got the cake can one day because of what you did. So we invite you to give a banquet 00:24:24.440 --> 00:24:31.440 be part of a new community in this world and the banquet in the next. So here's a challenge, 00:24:45.480 --> 00:24:51.000 I know it's a little late for some of us to do this but here's a challenge. Tomorrow 00:24:51.000 --> 00:24:58.000 at your Thanksgiving meal will there be someone like this or will it all be friends who are 00:24:58.280 --> 00:25:05.280 already part of the kingdom? I'm just praying that one of the guys I want to invite tomorrow 00:25:06.840 --> 00:25:13.840 for lunch because we are making this amazing turkey called Spatch Cook or Snapchat or Scotch 00:25:14.200 --> 00:25:20.480 Mac, I don't remember the name but it's a turkey like that and so we're making it and 00:25:20.480 --> 00:25:27.480 I'm hoping that I can go down and ask a guy that works at A&W to come and join us and 00:25:28.240 --> 00:25:35.240 it will be awkward. I'd rather have just my friends but it will be awkward. Do you realize 00:25:37.360 --> 00:25:43.800 how quiet we've suddenly gone? It's going to get worse eh? This is just the beginning. 00:25:43.800 --> 00:25:48.040 I realize for some of us it won't be possible to pull it off by tomorrow plus if you've 00:25:48.040 --> 00:25:54.400 got other family that need to be told then it would be impossible. What if some of us 00:25:54.400 --> 00:26:01.400 could attempt it? What if you're not doing lunch but you're doing lunch alone and you 00:26:01.760 --> 00:26:08.760 decide to do it differently? Small steps eh? Any questions? Gosh this is deadly still. 00:26:18.040 --> 00:26:25.040 Okay. I'll let you know how it goes. Second, the shrewd thing is to use it now for something 00:26:40.880 --> 00:26:47.880 lasting so when it's gone what you get in return is eternal. The shrewd thing is to 00:26:47.880 --> 00:26:54.880 use money right now for something lasting so that when it's gone what remains is eternal. 00:26:55.920 --> 00:27:01.640 When you look at Luke 16 and we read it just now and you read 10 to 12 you realize that 00:27:01.640 --> 00:27:08.640 how I treat money. How I treat money. I'm deliberately not using the word steward. I'm 00:27:11.640 --> 00:27:17.400 not using the word steward because stewardship is sometimes just careful unbelief disguised 00:27:17.400 --> 00:27:24.400 as good stewardship. I hate the word stewardship when it comes to Christian circles because 00:27:25.520 --> 00:27:30.920 it just means you know we got to save for our children and for our future. It is so 00:27:30.920 --> 00:27:36.600 blooming self-centered so why not just take that word away for now and just use the word 00:27:36.600 --> 00:27:43.600 treat. How I treat money. How I treat money. I have a desire to be a good steward. I have 00:27:47.400 --> 00:27:54.400 this present moment. How I treat money that I have at this present moment is indicative 00:28:01.280 --> 00:28:08.280 of what we will be trusted with tomorrow. Now nobody is exempt. You don't have to have 00:28:09.560 --> 00:28:16.560 much or little. Any questions? Okay. So I'm going to go ahead and ask you a question. 00:28:18.400 --> 00:28:25.400 Shoot, Brandon can you do your thing? Wow, this is like Daniel Daniel. Tekel tekel mene 00:28:30.200 --> 00:28:37.200 upar scene. You must have freaked the guy out as the finger begins to write on the wall. 00:28:37.200 --> 00:28:44.200 Okay. Well it's not done. Yeah. Any questions on this guys? How I treat money I have at 00:28:55.720 --> 00:29:01.480 this present moment is indicative of what we will be trusted with tomorrow. How do you 00:29:01.480 --> 00:29:06.600 treat money? Not how do you steward money. How do you treat money? What's your relationship 00:29:06.600 --> 00:29:13.600 with money? And there are different ways of defining it. I'm a tither. I'm a giver. 00:29:16.520 --> 00:29:21.680 I'm generous. I'm a saver. I steward. All these words may apply. I'm not asking you 00:29:21.680 --> 00:29:26.880 to say which one you are but we need to understand that how I treat money today is indicative 00:29:26.880 --> 00:29:33.880 of how I will be trusted with more tomorrow. Any questions? Okay. So I'm going to ask you 00:29:36.600 --> 00:29:43.600 questions. Trustworthiness, trustworthiness with unrighteous wealth, trustworthiness with 00:29:55.160 --> 00:30:02.160 unrighteous wealth has a direct correlation with being trusted with more tomorrow. 00:30:06.600 --> 00:30:13.600 Trustworthiness with true riches. So my trustworthiness with unrighteous wealth has a direct correlation 00:30:13.600 --> 00:30:20.600 with being trusted with true riches. What are the true riches that we can get in the 00:30:20.960 --> 00:30:27.960 process? Cities and the souls of men. This church has a ridiculous amount of money that 00:30:33.800 --> 00:30:40.800 we can get in the process. Cities and the souls of men. This church has a ridiculous 00:30:40.800 --> 00:30:47.800 relationship with money. We treat money as just an amoral thing that must be spent. And 00:30:52.160 --> 00:30:59.160 so in return this church will get cities, will get the souls of men. But what if my 00:31:00.440 --> 00:31:07.440 attitude is the same? What if I'm not going to get the souls of men? What if I'm not going 00:31:10.800 --> 00:31:17.800 to get the souls of men? If I'm not going to get the souls of men, then I get cities. 00:31:17.800 --> 00:31:24.800 I get the souls of men. These are true riches. Any questions? Do we have no questions because 00:31:24.800 --> 00:31:31.800 we totally get it or totally believe it? Go ahead. The correct way to view stewardship, 00:31:31.800 --> 00:31:38.800 if I tell you, it'll really make every accountant here highly uncomfortable. So let me go ahead 00:31:39.560 --> 00:31:46.560 and use Jesus' words. Look at the birds of the air. They're neither so nor really. They're 00:31:48.640 --> 00:31:55.640 so small. They're so small. They're so small. They're so small. They're so small. They're 00:31:55.640 --> 00:32:02.640 so small. Look at the flowers of the fields. They neither spin nor do any kind of work, 00:32:02.920 --> 00:32:08.920 yet they are decked out more beautifully than Solomon. Why is it that you worry about tomorrow? 00:32:08.920 --> 00:32:14.920 About what you wear, where you will stay, what you will eat? Your father in heaven knows 00:32:14.920 --> 00:32:19.920 how to take care of the sparrows. Won't he? Won't he? Won't he? Won't he? Won't he? Won't 00:32:19.920 --> 00:32:24.920 he? Won't he? Won't he? Won't he? Won't he? Won't he? Won't he? Won't he? Won't he? Won't 00:32:25.520 --> 00:32:32.520 he? Take much more care of you because your word's so much more than sparrows. I know. 00:32:37.640 --> 00:32:42.880 So the immediate response, I wasn't taking a shot at Dilna or Aaron. They're both decent 00:32:42.880 --> 00:32:48.200 accountants and godly men who have a kingdom perspective. Now that I've said that, they 00:32:48.200 --> 00:32:55.200 won't say a word. So how about proverbs where it says, the ant... Yeah, let me say your 00:33:03.200 --> 00:33:09.320 question and answer it. How about the ant? How about the ant? The ant is the favorite 00:33:09.320 --> 00:33:16.320 proverb of every accountant, yeah? Except Heidi. Heidi never went to accounting school, 00:33:17.120 --> 00:33:24.120 so she didn't get the memo. So look at the ant you sluggered. So what's the point there? 00:33:26.320 --> 00:33:32.060 Look at the ant you sluggered, you lazy fellow. You spend the whole summer with your feet 00:33:32.060 --> 00:33:39.060 up watching reruns of Seinfeld and then come winter, you want the Lord to take care of 00:33:39.060 --> 00:33:46.060 you and you don't know what to do. It's talking about the man who is lazy, the sluggard. But 00:33:49.420 --> 00:33:56.420 otherwise, Jesus' advice is very unsound. Because everything in us cries out, Oslo 00:33:59.460 --> 00:34:05.020 Chambers puts it this way, that your soul begins to cry out saying, surely Jesus, you 00:34:06.020 --> 00:34:10.220 can be more responsible than that and give us better advice than that because you're 00:34:10.220 --> 00:34:15.420 screaming saying that's not how the world works. And then Oslo Chambers says, what we 00:34:15.420 --> 00:34:22.420 live, the way we live with money is called careful unbelief. Careful unbelief. It's not 00:34:24.020 --> 00:34:30.580 careless nor is it belief. It's careful unbelief. This kind of living will get you cities and 00:34:30.580 --> 00:34:37.580 the souls of men. That's what they did. They took what they had. They were not lazy. They 00:34:38.940 --> 00:34:45.940 traded it. Five minutes became ten minutes. So it was not a lack of effort. It was trading. 00:34:46.500 --> 00:34:52.980 But what they got in return was much more. They were not afraid of money. They got much 00:34:52.980 --> 00:34:59.980 more back. They got cities. So what they did was they took what they had. They were not 00:35:00.580 --> 00:35:07.580 afraid of money. This is where we're going, guys. It starts with one city, then we'll 00:35:08.180 --> 00:35:15.180 get more. Or they, you will never hear anyone teach that cities are taken by giving money 00:35:19.660 --> 00:35:25.060 away. You'll hear spiritual warfare, but you'll never hear cities being taken because 00:35:25.060 --> 00:35:32.060 the people have suddenly gotten a different relationship with money. If you notice, what 00:35:35.220 --> 00:35:42.220 did the king of Sodom want? And what was he willing to give? Give me the souls of men. 00:35:42.220 --> 00:35:49.220 Take the money. It's exactly anti-kingdom. The kingdom wants the souls of men and doesn't 00:35:49.220 --> 00:35:56.220 care about money because it knows where everything comes from. But the king of Sodom offers to 00:35:56.220 --> 00:36:03.220 Abraham, give me the souls of men. You take the money. And Abraham says no. And instead, 00:36:07.220 --> 00:36:13.220 what does he do? He takes a tenth of whatever he has from the spoils of war and gives it 00:36:13.220 --> 00:36:20.220 to Melchizedek. And then what does God say? Brilliant. Abraham, I will be your exceeding 00:36:28.380 --> 00:36:35.380 great reward and shield. Timeless principles, eh? So here's the thing, guys. People are 00:36:35.380 --> 00:36:42.380 either, not people, you and I are either managers of money who serve the world or managers of 00:36:43.080 --> 00:36:49.380 money who serve the world. And the king of Sodom is the king of the 00:36:49.380 --> 00:36:56.380 world. And he's the king of the world. And he's the king of the world. And he's the 00:37:13.380 --> 00:37:20.380 king of the world. The world that God is bringing in. Hallelujah. You can't do both. 00:37:31.380 --> 00:37:37.420 Scylla, you and I are either managers of money who serve the world or we are managers of 00:37:37.420 --> 00:37:42.780 money who serve the world that God is bringing in. Meaning serve the kingdom that God is 00:37:42.780 --> 00:37:47.860 bringing in. You're manager of money one way or the other. All of us, eh? If you get pocket 00:37:47.860 --> 00:37:54.860 money, you're already there. So what are we to do with the money we have? Spend with abandoned 00:38:07.580 --> 00:38:14.580 to make kingdom friends. No regrets. You'll see them in eternity. Every invitation to 00:38:15.100 --> 00:38:22.100 your home, every time you went out of your way to get someone something that you knew 00:38:35.740 --> 00:38:41.620 they couldn't afford, every time you went out of your way to get someone something that 00:38:41.620 --> 00:38:48.620 you knew they couldn't afford, every time you will buy something for a person that doesn't 00:38:49.380 --> 00:38:56.380 have the ability to. I mean, every time you go on a trip, spending your money on some 00:38:57.220 --> 00:39:04.220 airline to go a long ways, not even seeing results but knowing that something will transpire 00:39:05.100 --> 00:39:11.420 and souls will come to the kingdom. Every time you go to pick up somebody and bring 00:39:11.420 --> 00:39:16.420 them to church and you don't even have enough money to pay for another tank of gas but you 00:39:16.420 --> 00:39:23.420 do. They matter and you will see the results. Please don't wait for a windfall because 00:39:23.420 --> 00:39:30.420 waiting for the windfall just makes you die hopeless. The windfall will come when it comes 00:39:31.820 --> 00:39:38.820 and the windfall will take care of everything that needs to be taken care of. And don't 00:39:44.820 --> 00:39:51.820 worry about the windfall. It's not a big deal. It's a big deal. It's a big deal. It's a big 00:39:53.420 --> 00:39:56.420 deal. Don't worry. You'll not miss out on an opportunity. Jesus said the poor will always 00:39:56.420 --> 00:40:01.420 be with us. He's taken care of that. So it's not like, Chuck, I wish I had an opportunity. 00:40:01.420 --> 00:40:08.420 It's not a problem there. Any questions? Sorry? Yeah, yeah. Spend with abandoned to make kingdom 00:40:08.420 --> 00:40:15.420 friends. Please pray that I meet the guy this afternoon when I go back and I'm going to 00:40:15.420 --> 00:40:22.420 invite him. It's going to be super awkward. All super good. Hey, Raj. Good to see you. 00:40:22.420 --> 00:40:29.420 Any questions? I can't hear you. I'm just asking the Lord, Father, who do you want? 00:40:29.420 --> 00:40:36.420 And then I have my second choice and my third choice so that if one fails, the other fails, 00:40:44.420 --> 00:40:51.420 the other fails. At least I'll get into the practice of doing this, right? Let's assume 00:40:51.420 --> 00:40:58.420 after doing all this, nobody turns up. That's fine. You don't need to wait for a Thanksgiving 00:41:05.420 --> 00:41:12.420 thing to invite people, right? It's just that you may not make the hopscotch turkey. The 00:41:12.420 --> 00:41:20.420 name keeps changing. Yeah, I know. What is it? Spatchcock turkey. Yeah. Next parable is Luke 10, 25 to 37. Luke 10, 25 to 37. Luke 10, 25 to 37. 00:41:43.420 --> 00:41:50.420 On one occasion, an expert in the law stood up to test Jesus. Peter, he asked, what must 00:41:51.060 --> 00:41:56.560 I do to inherit eternal life? What is written in the law? He replied, how do you read it? 00:41:56.560 --> 00:42:00.220 He answered, love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul and with all 00:42:00.220 --> 00:42:04.900 your strength and with all your mind. Love your neighbor as yourself. You have answered 00:42:04.900 --> 00:42:10.600 correctly, Jesus replied. Do this and you will live. But he wanted to justify himself, 00:42:10.600 --> 00:42:15.220 so he asked Jesus, and who is my neighbor? In reply, Jesus said, a man was going down 00:42:15.220 --> 00:42:20.000 from Jerusalem to Jericho when he fell into the hands of robbers. They stripped him of 00:42:20.000 --> 00:42:25.400 his clothes, beat him, and went away leaving him half dead. A priest happened to be going 00:42:25.400 --> 00:42:30.040 down the same road and when he saw the man, he passed by on the other side. So too a Levite 00:42:30.040 --> 00:42:35.460 when he came to the place and saw him passed by on the other side. But a Samaritan as he 00:42:35.460 --> 00:42:39.960 traveled came where the man was. And when he saw him, it took pity on him. He went to 00:42:40.000 --> 00:42:44.900 him and bandaged his wounds, pouring in oil and wine. Then he put the man on his own donkey, 00:42:44.900 --> 00:42:50.000 took him to an inn and took care of him. The next day he took out two silver coins and 00:42:50.000 --> 00:42:54.720 gave them to the innkeeper. Look after him, he said. When I return, I'll reimburse you 00:42:54.720 --> 00:42:59.840 for any extra expense you may have. Which of these three do you think was a neighbor 00:42:59.840 --> 00:43:04.600 to the man who fell into the hands of the robbers? The expert in the law replied, the 00:43:04.600 --> 00:43:10.240 man who had mercy on him. Jesus told him, go and do likewise. I know this is such a 00:43:10.240 --> 00:43:15.040 common story that we've heard right from when we were kids. But please let's look at the 00:43:15.040 --> 00:43:22.040 background. The background is Jesus is rejoicing because he sent out 72 and they came back. 00:43:24.680 --> 00:43:31.680 And Jesus is rejoicing that God has revealed things to children. And he started to say, 00:43:34.680 --> 00:43:41.680 we're talking about the 72. But has hidden it from the wise and the intelligent. That's 00:43:44.520 --> 00:43:50.480 a back story. So Jesus is rejoicing in this and while he's talking about it and rejoicing 00:43:50.480 --> 00:43:57.480 in it, that's when a lawyer who was trying to be wise, I mean when you look at the scriptures, 00:43:58.480 --> 00:44:05.480 he literally interrupts. He literally says there, Luke 10, right? Where is it? Yeah. 00:44:13.680 --> 00:44:20.240 The actual sense of the word is just then a lawyer begins to speak up and he says, wanting 00:44:20.240 --> 00:44:27.240 to test Jesus. So remember what's happening here. Jesus is rejoicing at the 72 and he 00:44:27.680 --> 00:44:33.000 who went out and cast out demons, he begins to say, oh God, you have revealed things to 00:44:33.000 --> 00:44:36.640 the children but you've hidden it from the wise and the intelligent. The lawyer then 00:44:36.640 --> 00:44:43.640 begins to test Jesus and his question is, who is my neighbor? Who is my neighbor is 00:44:45.600 --> 00:44:51.800 the polite way of saying, what are the limits? These are things we say guys. So let's just 00:44:51.800 --> 00:44:56.600 face up to it. When it comes to doing what we are suggesting the church should do, we 00:44:56.600 --> 00:45:00.680 should ask these questions too. Who is your neighbor is the same as saying, what are the 00:45:00.680 --> 00:45:07.680 limits? It is the same as saying, who is not deserving? It is the same as saying, can I 00:45:10.920 --> 00:45:17.920 rule out a neighbor till later? There may be reasons why these are valid questions but 00:45:17.920 --> 00:45:24.920 we need to face up to the fact that these are some of the questions we do ask. When 00:45:24.920 --> 00:45:31.920 it comes to hospitality, when it comes to doing things for the world, what are the limits? 00:45:33.560 --> 00:45:40.560 Who is not deserving? Can I rule out a neighbor till later? Till my heart is more prepared? 00:45:40.560 --> 00:45:47.560 And you might have valid reasons. This is a question that needs to be considered because 00:45:47.560 --> 00:45:54.560 that's exactly what this man is asking. He's asking who is my neighbor? And then Jesus 00:45:54.600 --> 00:46:01.600 begins his story. Now in most stories you would go from priest to Levite and the story 00:46:01.600 --> 00:46:07.400 would usually end saying and then an Israelite but Jesus doesn't go that way. He goes priest, 00:46:07.400 --> 00:46:14.400 Levite and instead of going Israelite he says Samaritan. Rabbis in those days used 00:46:16.800 --> 00:46:24.120 to say that there are three nations that I despise and they would name Mount Seir and 00:46:24.120 --> 00:46:28.520 the Philistines and then the third thing would be the nation of the Samaritans but they are 00:46:28.520 --> 00:46:33.880 not even a people. Breaking bread with a Samaritan is like eating pig. That's what rabbis used 00:46:33.880 --> 00:46:40.880 to say. And so Jesus deliberately sets up the story where you go priest, where you 00:46:40.920 --> 00:46:44.880 go Levite and they are so sure that the next thing he'll say is Israelite but instead of 00:46:44.880 --> 00:46:50.640 saying Israelite he says a Samaritan. He's doing everything possible to break these three 00:46:50.640 --> 00:46:57.640 questions we ask. We are talking about being planted in this city and the ones that we 00:46:58.640 --> 00:47:05.640 associate with, these parables that I've chosen are deliberate. Many of the things we are 00:47:09.080 --> 00:47:16.080 being asked to do is impossible. We are protective of our homes and we should be, of our wives 00:47:17.080 --> 00:47:24.080 and we should be, of our daughters and we should be, of our sons we should be, of being 00:47:24.080 --> 00:47:31.080 robbed we should be and yet we should not be because these limits have always stopped 00:47:38.160 --> 00:47:45.160 the church from going anywhere that has risk in it. Guys I don't want to teach this yeah. 00:47:54.560 --> 00:48:01.560 I prefer faith and stuff like that, walking on water. Just remember this, in your life 00:48:10.960 --> 00:48:17.960 tomorrow coincidences are opportunities but if I cross the line of faith and faith is 00:48:24.080 --> 00:48:31.080 over to the other side of the street the opportunity is lost. It will come again but 00:48:40.240 --> 00:48:47.240 an opportunity is lost. If you are not in faith and faith is lost, you are not in faith 00:48:54.080 --> 00:49:01.080 and it's impossible what we are being asked to do because there's this world that is dangerous, 00:49:07.400 --> 00:49:14.400 corrupt, exploitative, cruel, betrayal, false and then there is the world of the dead. And 00:49:24.200 --> 00:49:31.200 another world that's supposed to be full of mercy, willing to be taken advantage of, reviled 00:49:31.200 --> 00:49:38.200 while trusting God. Guys do you see the enormity of what Lot was doing? Lot was doing the same 00:50:01.200 --> 00:50:08.200 thing where Lot's house is surrounded and he's got the ones that had come to the square 00:50:08.400 --> 00:50:12.120 and he's taken them into their home, into his home. There's something that God does 00:50:12.120 --> 00:50:18.120 called protective hospitality. Protective hospitality is once someone comes into your 00:50:18.120 --> 00:50:25.120 home they are your, they are yours to be responsible for and it doesn't matter what happens even 00:50:25.760 --> 00:50:32.760 if you lose your life you will do everything in your power to keep them. Can you imagine 00:50:33.000 --> 00:50:40.000 if one or two of us had that attitude about Richmond what would happen? I don't. The ask 00:50:44.480 --> 00:50:50.600 is so ridiculous that it is God and only God can make this happen because it's another 00:50:50.640 --> 00:50:57.640 world that is bringing in Agape from another place into a place that does not have it. 00:51:05.440 --> 00:51:10.360 This is why kingdom is so much better if you can just keep it within the church. It's a 00:51:10.360 --> 00:51:16.880 pleasant place to live. But at no point did Jesus say that the kingdom was to stay within 00:51:16.880 --> 00:51:23.880 the church. The intent in every parable was the world is the field. You are seed. You 00:51:23.880 --> 00:51:30.880 are good seed. You are planted in the world and you are planted with tears, with bad fish, 00:51:34.080 --> 00:51:39.760 with things that are evil and you will not go destroying them because the time will come 00:51:39.760 --> 00:51:44.400 when the angels will be involved in the harvest and the separation of wheat and tears, sheep 00:51:44.400 --> 00:51:50.640 and goat, bad fish and good fish. But till then you will be planted in the midst of evil 00:51:50.640 --> 00:51:55.520 and yet where you are you begin to turn one life after the other, one life after the other 00:51:55.520 --> 00:52:01.200 which is how your life and my life was turned. I was a guy who would call believers, make 00:52:01.200 --> 00:52:07.640 them sit and question them about Christ drilling holes into their theology till they would 00:52:07.640 --> 00:52:14.640 cry because they would not be able to answer me. That was the evil generation that I was 00:52:14.760 --> 00:52:21.760 pretending to be but people would keep coming back, keep coming back, keep coming back. 00:52:26.360 --> 00:52:33.200 Remember this guy called Paul Daniel? I mean the stuff I've done to him but he'd keep following 00:52:33.200 --> 00:52:40.200 me. I mean at one point he started calling me the son of the devil but he did. He said, 00:52:41.720 --> 00:52:47.040 son of the devil, you won't even get the bread that falls off the table. Repent. So that 00:52:47.040 --> 00:52:52.000 didn't help much but I remember the first guy I went looking for once I gave my life 00:52:52.000 --> 00:52:59.000 to the Lord was him because my God he persisted for years. 00:53:03.200 --> 00:53:10.200 It is the arrival of you with a bit of agape that changes a person's life over the course 00:53:33.520 --> 00:53:40.520 two months, two days or two years because your mercy overcomes disparity, alienation, 00:53:55.440 --> 00:54:02.440 ancient barriers, demonic, evil, and evil. I remember the first guy I met was Paul Daniel 00:54:03.280 --> 00:54:10.280 who was the son of the devil. He had deep bondages, incongruency, all this ends. 00:54:15.080 --> 00:54:22.080 The person that I'm hoping to invite today is someone who is from a different religion, 00:54:22.200 --> 00:54:29.200 is perhaps gender fluid and comes from a very distraught background. 00:54:33.200 --> 00:54:38.360 And part of the reason I'm saying this to you is so that I have the boldness to go through 00:54:38.360 --> 00:54:41.640 with it. 00:54:41.640 --> 00:54:46.280 Because I would rather avoid it. 00:54:46.280 --> 00:54:56.920 But in doing so, I might get to a place where, full of mercy, I don't know where this came 00:54:56.920 --> 00:54:57.920 from. 00:54:57.920 --> 00:55:00.920 This is something else. 00:55:00.920 --> 00:55:15.280 The prodigal's father was moved with compassion, he runs to his son. 00:55:15.280 --> 00:55:18.520 Jesus was moved with compassion with the widow of Nain. 00:55:18.520 --> 00:55:22.440 He goes running to her, tells her not to weep, and begins to restore her. 00:55:22.440 --> 00:55:30.240 This idea of showing compassion, agape from another world, it will cause you to inhale 00:55:30.240 --> 00:55:36.120 risk and it will cause you to exhale time and resources, but in the process people's 00:55:36.120 --> 00:55:37.900 lives are changed. 00:55:37.900 --> 00:55:43.720 The in-breaking of agape from another world makes you inhale risk and exhale time and 00:55:43.720 --> 00:55:45.080 resources. 00:55:45.080 --> 00:55:52.720 The in-breaking of agape from another world makes you inhale risk and exhale time and 00:55:52.720 --> 00:55:57.000 resources. 00:55:57.000 --> 00:55:58.000 Someone wrote this, eh? 00:55:58.000 --> 00:56:07.560 The theme of look and act, the theme of look and act is to look and act. 00:56:07.560 --> 00:56:14.280 The theme of look and act is to look and act. 00:56:14.480 --> 00:56:17.480 We'll keep at this theme again and again and again. 00:56:17.480 --> 00:56:21.320 We'll just continuously keep pounding away. 00:56:21.320 --> 00:56:24.560 One of the things that we've learned in this church is you pound away at something for 00:56:24.560 --> 00:56:27.120 six months, we get it. 00:56:27.120 --> 00:56:30.720 Look and act, look and act, be aware, look and act, see where he's working, see that 00:56:30.720 --> 00:56:34.440 he's working every day in eight billion lives in every home, in every village, in every 00:56:34.440 --> 00:56:37.000 town, in every street in Richmond, he's already working. 00:56:37.000 --> 00:56:43.000 Discern it, enter into it, enter into it, look and act, look to see. 00:56:43.720 --> 00:57:07.400 The last parable is Matthew 24, Matthew 24, 45 onwards, Matthew 24, 45 onwards. 00:57:07.400 --> 00:57:12.160 Who then is the faithful and wise servant whom the master has put in charge of the servants 00:57:12.320 --> 00:57:15.320 in his household to give them their food at the proper time? 00:57:15.320 --> 00:57:19.320 It'll be good for the servant whose master finds him doing so when he returns. 00:57:19.320 --> 00:57:23.120 I tell you the truth, he will put him in charge of all his possessions. 00:57:23.120 --> 00:57:26.720 But suppose that servant is wicked and says to himself, my master is staying away a long 00:57:26.720 --> 00:57:31.760 time and he then begins to beat his fellow servants and to eat and drink with drunkards. 00:57:31.760 --> 00:57:35.440 The master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him. 00:57:35.440 --> 00:57:37.200 At an hour he's not aware. 00:57:37.200 --> 00:57:40.880 He will cut him to pieces and assign him a place with the hypocrites where they'll be 00:57:40.880 --> 00:57:43.240 weeping and gnashing of teeth. 00:57:43.240 --> 00:57:45.880 At that time the kingdom of heaven will be like this. 00:57:45.880 --> 00:57:49.400 Ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom. 00:57:49.400 --> 00:57:51.640 Five of them were foolish, five were wise. 00:57:51.640 --> 00:57:54.960 The foolish ones took their lamps but did not take any oil with them. 00:57:54.960 --> 00:57:58.360 The wise, however, took oil in jars along with their lamps. 00:57:58.360 --> 00:58:02.600 The bridegroom was a long time in coming and they all became drowsy and fell asleep. 00:58:02.600 --> 00:58:06.300 At midnight the cry rang out, here's the bridegroom, come out to meet him. 00:58:06.300 --> 00:58:08.720 Then all the virgins woke up and trimmed their lamps. 00:58:08.720 --> 00:58:11.560 The foolish ones said to the wise, give us some of your oil. 00:58:11.560 --> 00:58:12.840 Our lamps are going out. 00:58:12.840 --> 00:58:15.480 No, they replied, there may not be enough for both of us. 00:58:15.480 --> 00:58:19.160 Instead, go to those who sell oil and buy some for yourselves. 00:58:19.160 --> 00:58:22.320 But while they were on their way to buy the oil, the bridegroom arrived. 00:58:22.320 --> 00:58:26.360 The virgins who were ready went in with him to the wedding banquet and the door was shut. 00:58:26.360 --> 00:58:29.880 Later the others also came, sir, sir, they said, open the door for us. 00:58:29.880 --> 00:58:32.200 But he replied, I tell you the truth, I don't know you. 00:58:32.200 --> 00:58:36.320 Therefore keep watch because you do not know the day or the hour. 00:58:36.320 --> 00:58:42.440 Guys, it's easy for circumstances to push the urgency of the kingdom to the edges. 00:58:42.440 --> 00:58:47.760 Our circumstances and our sometimes resources, 00:58:47.760 --> 00:58:50.920 sometimes our lack of time pushes the kingdom to the edge. 00:58:52.400 --> 00:58:54.520 And you know it is true for you and me. 00:58:54.520 --> 00:59:00.160 Where our circumstances, our resources and our time begin to push the kingdom to the edge. 00:59:00.160 --> 00:59:04.240 The kingdom is an afterthought after everything is taken care of. 00:59:04.240 --> 00:59:05.760 I know that sounds reasonable. 00:59:05.760 --> 00:59:08.880 I know that we have valid reason for that. 00:59:08.880 --> 00:59:11.920 But I'm saying to you that it is not the kingdom view. 00:59:16.120 --> 00:59:16.680 That's one thing. 00:59:16.680 --> 00:59:20.680 The second thing we found the parable is you must have an expectation 00:59:20.680 --> 00:59:23.520 that the king is going to turn up and do what he said he will. 00:59:25.480 --> 00:59:28.920 When a church does not have active expectation, 00:59:28.920 --> 00:59:32.280 the church is just functioning like an atheist. 00:59:33.520 --> 00:59:35.000 You function without believing. 00:59:35.000 --> 00:59:38.520 So my question is this, and you can ask this of me and you will find 00:59:38.520 --> 00:59:41.400 that one of the things that you can be sure of in my life is that 00:59:41.400 --> 00:59:43.840 when I know that God has said something and he will do it, 00:59:43.840 --> 00:59:46.920 it doesn't matter how long it takes, he will do it. 00:59:46.920 --> 00:59:51.440 And I've seen it over the last 20 years and I'll see it over the next 12, 13 years too. 00:59:51.440 --> 00:59:56.440 And if he says he will do it, then it does not matter how long you have to stay and wait 00:59:56.440 --> 01:00:00.960 because Jesus' schedule will not match yours, will not match yours. 01:00:00.960 --> 01:00:02.720 It's not even, it may match yours. 01:00:03.680 --> 01:00:07.680 I can assure you that because of reasons that only his wisdom knows 01:00:07.680 --> 01:00:11.400 and that he doesn't share with you, even when he says I will do this, 01:00:11.400 --> 01:00:14.160 sometimes it takes longer and it is okay. 01:00:17.320 --> 01:00:19.520 You know what this parable is saying? 01:00:19.520 --> 01:00:22.680 That the bridegroom will come, but he got delayed. 01:00:22.680 --> 01:00:26.520 And when he got delayed, you suddenly had two groups of people, 01:00:26.520 --> 01:00:30.680 five that would not flag in their zeal 01:00:30.720 --> 01:00:33.360 and five that decided it was okay. 01:00:35.760 --> 01:00:37.240 But he will turn up, eh? 01:00:38.400 --> 01:00:39.920 He will give us Richmond. 01:00:41.240 --> 01:00:44.040 This city was given to us more than one and a half years ago. 01:00:44.040 --> 01:00:46.720 The work that has been put in here, the money that has been spent 01:00:46.720 --> 01:00:50.400 have been at his demand and he will give us a city. 01:00:51.240 --> 01:00:53.680 There will be young people across the earth. 01:00:53.680 --> 01:00:57.800 That will be ones that experience Hebrides 2.0, 01:00:57.840 --> 01:01:02.320 where city after city or nation after nation, something will be ignited. 01:01:02.320 --> 01:01:06.240 I remember standing here and Derek was explaining what it means. 01:01:06.240 --> 01:01:11.760 Announce God's intent, ignite the fire, proclaim what then happens. 01:01:11.760 --> 01:01:14.280 That we will see. 01:01:16.400 --> 01:01:18.120 But here's the question. 01:01:18.120 --> 01:01:22.240 Across this room, and you've heard both these statements made in this church 01:01:22.240 --> 01:01:24.080 for the last three and a half or four years. 01:01:24.080 --> 01:01:26.240 Across this room, my question is this. 01:01:26.280 --> 01:01:28.680 Are you among the five wise or the five foolish? 01:01:29.680 --> 01:01:31.000 Straight question, eh? 01:01:34.240 --> 01:01:37.520 Have you flagged in your zeal when you don't see results? 01:01:37.520 --> 01:01:42.160 Or do you still have your wicks trimmed ready because you know? 01:01:43.840 --> 01:01:45.280 Rich Mullins wrote a song, 01:01:45.280 --> 01:01:48.880 My Deliverer is Coming, My Deliverer is Standing By. 01:01:51.040 --> 01:01:53.720 When he makes a promise, he knows how to keep it. 01:01:54.920 --> 01:01:55.920 Where are you at? 01:01:56.800 --> 01:02:01.320 This is a confrontational question I'm asking you. 01:02:01.320 --> 01:02:07.960 My intent is to cause offense and create a front, AFF, R-O-N-T. 01:02:07.960 --> 01:02:10.600 Where are you at with the promises given to this church? 01:02:12.240 --> 01:02:12.840 Where are you at? 01:02:12.840 --> 01:02:15.960 Five foolish virgins or five foolish bridesmaids? 01:02:18.040 --> 01:02:20.480 Or five wise bridesmaids? 01:02:26.240 --> 01:02:40.880 When we no longer expect God to act, we cease to watch for the in-breaking of God. 01:02:40.880 --> 01:02:44.280 We cease to discern where he is at work. 01:02:44.280 --> 01:02:45.320 We get cautious. 01:02:45.320 --> 01:02:50.280 We end up in drowsy faithfulness or predictable maintenance. 01:02:50.280 --> 01:02:51.400 Let me read that again. 01:02:51.400 --> 01:02:54.120 When we no longer expect God to act, 01:02:54.120 --> 01:02:56.600 we cease to watch for the in-breaking of God. 01:02:57.880 --> 01:03:01.440 We cease discerning where he is working. 01:03:01.440 --> 01:03:06.840 We get cautious and we end up in drowsy faithfulness or predictable maintenance. 01:03:11.520 --> 01:03:12.520 That's what will happen. 01:03:14.240 --> 01:03:18.600 And the number of times I will go and visit the promises of God given to this church, 01:03:18.600 --> 01:03:23.920 given to some of you, given to me, is so constant because I cannot afford to flag 01:03:23.920 --> 01:03:27.600 in the zeal that God gives us because let me tell you something. 01:03:28.400 --> 01:03:32.000 The only thing that accomplishes what God wants is the zeal of the Lord. 01:03:32.600 --> 01:03:34.840 And he is willing to clothe you in it. 01:03:38.600 --> 01:03:40.800 You read it throughout, Isaiah 37, 32. 01:03:41.160 --> 01:03:42.920 The zeal of the Lord will accomplish it. 01:03:42.920 --> 01:03:44.160 Isaiah 9, 7. 01:03:44.360 --> 01:03:46.080 The zeal of the Lord will accomplish it. 01:03:47.440 --> 01:03:51.840 Anything you want to finish on earth can only be finished with the zeal of God. 01:03:52.160 --> 01:03:57.000 Anything this church has been given that must be finished can only be finished by the zeal of God. 01:03:59.360 --> 01:04:02.480 And the zeal and the passion of God is brought to a people by the Spirit 01:04:03.360 --> 01:04:06.080 who is super passionate and super zealous. 01:04:06.520 --> 01:04:09.600 And the question is, now do I allow him to cloak me? 01:04:11.080 --> 01:04:15.360 Can I wear the cloak that he flings around himself in Isaiah 57? 01:04:15.840 --> 01:04:20.400 And when you do that, then he gives you two other things that are necessary to finish things. 01:04:20.560 --> 01:04:21.680 You know what those two things are? 01:04:22.000 --> 01:04:24.240 Patience and faith, endurance and faith. 01:04:24.560 --> 01:04:26.240 Hebrews 10, 35 and 36. 01:04:26.400 --> 01:04:27.920 Do not cast away your confidence. 01:04:28.760 --> 01:04:37.200 For it is only a matter of time where with patience and with faith, you will both get the promised outcome and the reward. 01:04:39.480 --> 01:04:40.520 That's how this works. 01:04:42.160 --> 01:04:44.080 James chapter 5, look at Job. 01:04:44.520 --> 01:04:47.280 He was patient, but he did get his reward. 01:04:47.280 --> 01:04:51.440 But to get to patience and faith, you have to get to the zeal of the Lord will accomplish this. 01:04:51.960 --> 01:04:55.320 It's strange, but zeal comes with faith and patience. 01:04:56.640 --> 01:04:58.040 One is immediacy. 01:04:58.120 --> 01:04:59.680 The other one is eventuality. 01:04:59.920 --> 01:05:06.120 But they both plow together so that you have what you asked for, even as you wait to see it realized. 01:05:06.960 --> 01:05:08.680 Mark 11, 20 to 23. 01:05:11.680 --> 01:05:14.280 Doesn't matter what it is, it's not a matter of time. 01:05:15.280 --> 01:05:25.920 Doesn't matter what it is, whether it's finishing your healing, whether it's finishing your expectations with regard to a promise given, this must work together. 01:05:32.280 --> 01:05:37.520 Because very often a church can be divided into five wise and five foolish guys. 01:05:37.520 --> 01:05:39.120 Jesus doesn't arrive on schedule. 01:05:42.280 --> 01:05:45.600 Hebrews 6, 12, faith and patience must work together in tandem. 01:05:48.240 --> 01:05:49.560 Jesus doesn't arrive on schedule. 01:05:49.560 --> 01:05:53.200 The one job of the bridesmaids was to wait for the coming of the groom. 01:05:54.280 --> 01:06:02.720 And when he comes to meet him and to light the way to the wedding banquet, the foolish bridesmaids sit in the middle of the room. 01:06:02.720 --> 01:06:05.200 To meet him and to light the way to the wedding banquet. 01:06:05.800 --> 01:06:10.000 The foolish bridesmaids slacked off unprepared for the groom's delay. 01:06:10.480 --> 01:06:12.160 You know how many people have paid the price? 01:06:12.320 --> 01:06:29.760 You know, one guy who paid big time for this, for slacking off, Saul, first king chosen by God, handpicked, head and shoulders above the rest, did not have the ability to wait. 01:06:29.760 --> 01:06:30.760 He was slacked off. 01:06:32.760 --> 01:06:33.760 Got scared. 01:06:33.760 --> 01:06:37.760 When you slack off, the pressure from man becomes tremendous. 01:06:37.760 --> 01:06:41.760 You begin to slack off in terms of your zeal with God. 01:06:41.760 --> 01:06:44.760 You will come under the tyranny of man. 01:06:45.760 --> 01:06:47.760 The fear of man will begin to cripple you. 01:06:49.760 --> 01:06:54.760 Because when zeal is absent, other things can begin to crowd in. 01:06:54.760 --> 01:06:59.760 What is oil in this story? 01:06:59.760 --> 01:07:01.760 Oil is the works of righteousness. 01:07:04.760 --> 01:07:07.760 We are lamps filled with the oil of good works. 01:07:07.760 --> 01:07:08.760 Matthew 5 16. 01:07:08.760 --> 01:07:10.760 Let them see your good works. 01:07:10.760 --> 01:07:12.760 Let your light so shine before men. 01:07:12.760 --> 01:07:15.760 Let them see your good works and glorify the father. 01:07:15.760 --> 01:07:17.760 We are lamps filled with the oil of good works. 01:07:17.760 --> 01:07:20.760 Formed in faith, shining bright. 01:07:21.760 --> 01:07:23.760 In in season, out of season. 01:07:24.760 --> 01:07:26.760 Lighting up the pathway to the royal banquet. 01:07:26.760 --> 01:07:28.760 So let me end with this. 01:07:28.760 --> 01:07:31.760 Oh, by the way, the oil of good works cannot be shared. 01:07:31.760 --> 01:07:32.760 It can be poured out. 01:07:32.760 --> 01:07:33.760 It cannot be shared. 01:07:34.760 --> 01:07:37.760 I can do good works and you can receive it because I pour it out. 01:07:37.760 --> 01:07:40.760 But you cannot share it because the good works are good works that I did. 01:07:41.760 --> 01:07:42.760 They could not share it. 01:07:50.760 --> 01:07:52.760 Brandon, does that thing work? 01:07:52.760 --> 01:07:55.760 OK, so I'll say this slowly. 01:07:56.760 --> 01:07:59.760 Here's what we need to do in the weeks ahead. 01:07:59.760 --> 01:08:00.760 Look to see. 01:08:02.760 --> 01:08:03.760 Look to see. 01:08:03.760 --> 01:08:05.760 Yeah, look to see. 01:08:05.760 --> 01:08:06.760 Look around. 01:08:06.760 --> 01:08:07.760 Look to see. 01:08:09.760 --> 01:08:12.760 First, people look to see people. 01:08:14.760 --> 01:08:17.760 Second, see him at work. 01:08:18.760 --> 01:08:19.760 See him. 01:08:20.760 --> 01:08:21.760 Look to see. 01:08:23.760 --> 01:08:26.760 Next, see him at work. 01:08:27.760 --> 01:08:28.760 Know where he's working. 01:08:28.760 --> 01:08:29.760 Be aware. 01:08:29.760 --> 01:08:31.760 See him at work. 01:08:33.760 --> 01:08:37.760 It helps you save time, use time and not waste time. 01:08:37.760 --> 01:08:39.760 See him at work. 01:08:39.760 --> 01:08:40.760 Next one. 01:08:40.760 --> 01:08:43.760 Work with wealth to make neighbors. 01:08:44.760 --> 01:08:47.760 Work with wealth to make neighbors. 01:08:48.760 --> 01:08:49.760 Look to see. 01:08:49.760 --> 01:08:50.760 Look to see. 01:08:51.760 --> 01:08:53.760 See him at work. 01:08:54.760 --> 01:08:59.760 Work with the wealth you have to make neighbors. 01:09:01.760 --> 01:09:02.760 Next one. 01:09:02.760 --> 01:09:04.760 Neighbors need kindness. 01:09:06.760 --> 01:09:08.760 Neighbors need kindness. 01:09:15.760 --> 01:09:17.760 Neighbors need kindness. 01:09:19.760 --> 01:09:22.760 Kindness is relentless in good works. 01:09:23.760 --> 01:09:25.760 Kindness is relentless. 01:09:25.760 --> 01:09:27.760 It doesn't get rejected. 01:09:27.760 --> 01:09:30.760 It doesn't take offense. 01:09:31.760 --> 01:09:33.760 Kindness is relentless in good works. 01:09:33.760 --> 01:09:36.760 He lets the sun shine on the good and the evil. 01:09:36.760 --> 01:09:38.760 He's kind to everybody. 01:09:38.760 --> 01:09:40.760 He's kind to animals. 01:09:40.760 --> 01:09:41.760 He's kind to people. 01:09:41.760 --> 01:09:43.760 He's kind to those that reject him. 01:09:43.760 --> 01:09:45.760 Can you imagine how he treated Judas? 01:09:46.760 --> 01:09:49.760 Kindness is relentless in good works. 01:09:49.760 --> 01:09:54.760 Good works reveal the goodness of the father. 01:09:55.760 --> 01:09:59.760 Good works reveal the goodness of the father. 01:10:07.760 --> 01:10:09.760 Let's go through that again. 01:10:10.760 --> 01:10:11.760 First one. 01:10:11.760 --> 01:10:12.760 Look to see. 01:10:14.760 --> 01:10:15.760 Look to see. 01:10:15.760 --> 01:10:16.760 What are we looking for? 01:10:17.760 --> 01:10:18.760 People. 01:10:18.760 --> 01:10:19.760 The world around us. 01:10:19.760 --> 01:10:20.760 Look to see. 01:10:20.760 --> 01:10:24.760 Proverbs talks about even looking to see how you treat animals. 01:10:25.760 --> 01:10:26.760 Look to see. 01:10:26.760 --> 01:10:28.760 So don't focus on animals. 01:10:29.760 --> 01:10:31.760 They're nice but they're not... 01:10:32.760 --> 01:10:33.760 Yeah, let's not go there. 01:10:33.760 --> 01:10:35.760 Look to see. 01:10:35.760 --> 01:10:39.760 I'm scared because sometimes if we say animals, we may just focus on animals. 01:10:39.760 --> 01:10:41.760 And we don't want to do that. 01:10:41.760 --> 01:10:42.760 Yeah. 01:10:42.760 --> 01:10:44.760 So look to see. 01:10:45.760 --> 01:10:47.760 See him at work. 01:10:51.760 --> 01:10:56.760 Work with the wealth you have to make neighbors. 01:10:59.760 --> 01:11:02.760 Neighbors need kindness. 01:11:02.760 --> 01:11:07.760 Kindness must be relentless in good works. 01:11:09.760 --> 01:11:13.760 Good works reveal the goodness of the father. 01:11:16.760 --> 01:11:17.760 Come on, man. 01:11:17.760 --> 01:11:18.760 This is doable. 01:11:20.760 --> 01:11:21.760 Okay, one last time. 01:11:22.760 --> 01:11:23.760 Look to see. 01:11:25.760 --> 01:11:27.760 We're looking at people in the world around us. 01:11:27.760 --> 01:11:28.760 Look to see. 01:11:28.760 --> 01:11:30.760 See him at work. 01:11:30.760 --> 01:11:31.760 In those lives, eh? 01:11:32.760 --> 01:11:33.760 You'll see it, guys. 01:11:33.760 --> 01:11:34.760 You'll be walking and you'll see. 01:11:34.760 --> 01:11:38.760 And you'll realize that perhaps all that person needs is... 01:11:38.760 --> 01:11:40.760 I know this sounds so... 01:11:41.760 --> 01:11:43.760 Like all a person may need is a smile. 01:11:43.760 --> 01:11:45.760 At other times it might be money. 01:11:45.760 --> 01:11:48.760 At other times it might be, hey. 01:11:49.760 --> 01:11:50.760 It just changes. 01:11:50.760 --> 01:11:53.760 It's so much more than just a smile. 01:11:53.760 --> 01:11:55.760 It's so much more than just a smile. 01:11:56.760 --> 01:11:57.760 It just changes. 01:11:57.760 --> 01:12:00.760 It's so much fun to know what is happening. 01:12:01.760 --> 01:12:03.760 They even don't know it, but you know what is happening. 01:12:03.760 --> 01:12:07.760 And that in a matter of eight seconds you have to do something. 01:12:07.760 --> 01:12:09.760 And you'll get better at it. 01:12:12.760 --> 01:12:13.760 Look to see. 01:12:13.760 --> 01:12:14.760 See him work. 01:12:15.760 --> 01:12:20.760 Work with your wealth to make neighbors. 01:12:20.760 --> 01:12:22.760 Neighbors need kindness. 01:12:23.760 --> 01:12:27.760 Kindness has to be relentless in good works. 01:12:28.760 --> 01:12:30.760 Good works reveal the father. 01:12:30.760 --> 01:12:31.760 Because this time I'm not saying it. 01:12:31.760 --> 01:12:32.760 You can't look at your notes. 01:12:32.760 --> 01:12:33.760 Let's give it a go. 01:12:35.760 --> 01:12:36.760 Can't look at your notes. 01:12:37.760 --> 01:12:38.760 I can't hear you. 01:12:39.760 --> 01:12:40.760 Aha. 01:12:42.760 --> 01:12:43.760 Look to see after that. 01:12:45.760 --> 01:12:46.760 James, you got it wrong. 01:12:46.760 --> 01:12:47.760 You're mumbling something else. 01:12:49.760 --> 01:12:51.760 Oh, you're adding people. 01:12:51.760 --> 01:12:54.760 Okay, if I catch someone getting it wrong, we have to go all over again. 01:12:54.760 --> 01:12:56.760 So starting again on three. 01:12:56.760 --> 01:12:57.760 One, two, three. 01:12:57.760 --> 01:12:59.760 Look to see. 01:12:59.760 --> 01:13:01.760 See him work. 01:13:01.760 --> 01:13:03.760 Work with your wealth to make neighbors. 01:13:04.760 --> 01:13:05.760 Together, together. 01:13:05.760 --> 01:13:06.760 We've got to start again. 01:13:06.760 --> 01:13:07.760 Come on, guys. 01:13:07.760 --> 01:13:08.760 Okay, last time. 01:13:08.760 --> 01:13:10.760 One, two, three. 01:13:10.760 --> 01:13:12.760 Look to see. 01:13:12.760 --> 01:13:14.760 See him work. 01:13:14.760 --> 01:13:16.760 Kindness is relentless in good works. 01:13:23.760 --> 01:13:25.760 Okay, we are done. 01:13:26.760 --> 01:13:29.760 Tunny, do you have anything that has all these lines in your song? 01:13:33.760 --> 01:13:34.760 Okay. 01:13:34.760 --> 01:13:35.760 Okay. 01:13:35.760 --> 01:13:36.760 Okay. 01:13:36.760 --> 01:13:37.760 Okay. 01:13:37.760 --> 01:13:38.760 Okay. 01:13:38.760 --> 01:13:39.760 Okay. 01:13:39.760 --> 01:13:40.760 Okay. 01:13:40.760 --> 01:13:41.760 Okay. 01:13:41.760 --> 01:13:42.760 Okay. 01:13:42.760 --> 01:13:43.760 Okay. 01:13:43.760 --> 01:13:44.760 Okay. 01:13:44.760 --> 01:13:45.760 Okay. 01:13:45.760 --> 01:13:46.760 Okay. 01:13:46.760 --> 01:13:47.760 Okay. 01:13:47.760 --> 01:13:48.760 Okay. 01:13:48.760 --> 01:13:49.760 Okay. 01:13:49.760 --> 01:13:50.760 Okay. 01:13:50.760 --> 01:13:51.760 Okay. 01:13:51.760 --> 01:13:52.760 Okay. 01:13:52.760 --> 01:14:03.760 The only song that I can think of is Touched by a Fire, but are there any songs that talk 01:14:03.760 --> 01:14:09.760 about all these things? 01:14:09.760 --> 01:14:13.760 Holly Parton had a few songs about friends and stuff like that, but I can't think of anything.