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Podcast: Acts 29 Vancouver
Episode: Kingdom Metrics 5 - Many are Called
Publishing Date: 2026-11-01T03:04:44-07:00
Podcast URL: https://acts29.ca
Episode URL: https://acts29.ca/kingdom-metrics-5-many-are-called/

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We will talk about some of the parables that illustrate the kingdom because that is kind

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of what we have been spending time on. Most of the parables that Jesus related were parables

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that were meant to show us what the kingdom looks like or compare the story He is telling

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to what the kingdom looks like. That was the intent. So today we turn to Matthew 22, 1

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to 14. Jesus spoke to them again in parables saying,

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The kingdom of heaven is like a king who prepared a wedding banquet for his son. He sent his

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servants to those who had been invited to the banquet to tell them to come, but they

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refused to come. Then he sent some servants and said, Tell those who have been invited

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that I have prepared my dinner, my oxen and fattened cattle have been butchered, and everything

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is ready. Come to the wedding banquet. But they paid no attention and went off, one to his

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field, another to his business. The rest seized his servants, mistreated them and killed them.

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The king was enraged. He sent his army and destroyed those murderers and burned their city.

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Then he said to his servants, The wedding banquet is ready, but those I invited did not deserve

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to come or were not worthy. So go to the street corners and invite to the banquet anyone you find.

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So the servants went out into the street and gathered all the people that they could find,

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the bad as well as the good. And the wedding hall was filled with guests. But when the king

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came in to see the guests, he noticed a man there who was not wearing wedding clothes. He asked,

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How did you get in here without wedding clothes, friend? The man was speechless. Then the king

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told the attendants, Tie him hand and foot, throw him outside into the darkness, where there will

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be weeping and gnashing of teeth. Many invited, but few are chosen. Let's read it from the message

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so we get a sense of it again from a different version. Matthew 22, 1 to 14. Jesus responded

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by telling still more stories. God's kingdom, he said, is like a king who threw a wedding banquet

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for his son. He sent out his servants to call in all the invited guests and they wouldn't come.

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He sent out another round of servants instructing them to tell the guests, Look, everything is on

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the table. The prime rib is ready for carving. Come to the feast. They only shrug their shoulders

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and went off, one to weed his garden, another to work in his shop. The rest with nothing better

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to do. Beat up the messengers and then kill them. The king was outraged and sent his soldiers to

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destroy those thugs and level their city. Then he told his servants, We have a wedding banquet all

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prepared but no guests. The ones I invited weren't up to it. Go out into the busiest intersections

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in town and invite anyone you find to the banquet. The servants went out on the streets and rounded

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up everyone they laid eyes on, good and bad, regardless. And so the banquet was on, every place

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filled. When the king entered and looked over the scene, he spotted a man who wasn't properly dressed.

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He said to him, Friend, how dare you come in here looking like that? The man was speechless. Then the

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king told his servants, Get him out of here fast. Tie him up and ship him to hell and make sure he

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doesn't get back in. That's what I mean when I say many get invited, only few make it. So this is a

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parable that reveals a kingdom. But the strange thing is it reveals a kingdom in five fast changing

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scenes, five fast changing scenes. And as we look at these scenes, it applies to us and where we are

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at and what we are trying to do. It applies to us, yeah? And so some of the things that we can establish

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early is that God is a king. The son is Jesus. And the wedding banquet is a table that is supplied.

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It's a table supplied with heaven's best, with the best of heaven, with the best of heaven. And it is

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God's desire that everyone be at this table. He wants everyone to be there. So these things we have to

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understand as where it all starts. That God is king, that Jesus is the son that he's throwing the banquet

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in celebration of. That the banquet is basically a table where the best of heaven is supplied and he has

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a desire to see everyone at the table. It's not special invitees only, it's not VIPs, it's everyone at the table.

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So that's where we start. And then he talks about his servants and we are the servants. We are the servants.

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The servants are us. Hey, I need some more volume. The servants are us. We are the sent ones that the king

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sends with the invitations. We are the sent ones and we are scattered strategically. I know these two words

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don't go together but only God can do this. Where scattering is always strategic, the seed lands in the right place.

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It'll land at the right place at your workplace. It'll land at the right place where you live, where you travel.

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He'll scatter us strategically. And what's our job? It's to tell those invited as we meet them. And God already knows

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as Derek was praying, as we meet them, to tell those invited as we meet them that everything is ready.

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You know there's a well-known Catholic, Canadian, called Newhouse. I think it's Richard Newhouse, I may not know his first name

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and he had gone through surgery. He's lying in a hospital bed and they don't know whether he'll recover out of the surgery or not.

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And while he's in his room not knowing whether he'll come out of it because they had asked priests to come and minister last rites to him and stuff like that,

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as he's lying there, he sees either in a vision or in real, these two forms appear in his room and he knows they're angels instantly

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and they're discussing and their words are, everything is ready. Everything is ready.

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And he remembers at that moment deciding that if he comes out of this, that he would dedicate the rest of his life

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to letting people know who this God is and what awaits.

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One of the things that gets lost sometimes in charismatic churches and churches like Acts 29 is that we rarely speak about

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the world to come and how close it is. We don't talk about the end of the world because it's been over-popularized to the point of

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almost milking it for money. But the fact remains that everything is ready. Everything is ready.

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And that it is much sooner than you and I would like to think or anticipate.

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While I would love to see things finish here on earth, everything is ready.

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And so I'm not going to belabor the point today, but that is something that perhaps needs to be paid attention to more in this church

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than has been in the past because everything is ready.

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We don't know if Jonathan will get to my age.

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Not because he'll die early, but because everything is ready.

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Because he'll be my age in 2066.

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That's like so far away.

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So that's what Jesus says here. This is Jesus saying it 2000 years ago. Everything is ready.

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And so come.

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So even as we, hey guys I need a little more volume because I can't hear myself and then I'll start shouting.

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So for now just fix it.

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Yeah. And then at some point the shouting gets really loud and then it's really loud.

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So everything is ready so come.

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So guys even as we practice this idea of external kingdom metrics where we show the kindness of God,

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always remember what we've been saying almost every week.

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Discern what the spirit of God is doing.

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One of the things that can happen to churches that begin to practice external kingdom metrics.

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What are external kingdom metrics? Righteousness, as in right living through right relationship.

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Two, justice, as in love your neighbor as you love yourself.

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That's the fundamental reason for justice.

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Third, fairness, as in desiring for others what you desire for yourself to be fair.

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The equitable distribution of resources of justice and so on.

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And finally, shalom or wholeness or peace for people just as you long for it.

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As we practice this, one of the dangers or pitfalls for a church that practices kindness

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is kindness then replaces the proclamation of the gospel.

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Where we become social workers and the eruption of the kingdom through proclamation begins to die.

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And we can't have that, which is why every week I keep repeating this one thing.

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That there is not a person in Richmond or in any part of the world

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and there is not a home in the world where the spirit of God is not actively at work

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wooing, needing, toppling, disrupting, yearning, working ferociously

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to make things new in every human being's life on earth.

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Eight billion of them, he's working on them.

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Your job is to discern what the spirit of God is doing at any given moment

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in the life that crosses you while you're walking down the street

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or the life that walks past you as you open the door to a restaurant or to a bank

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or the life that is hanging out with you at the water cooler

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to discern what God or what the spirit of God is doing in their life.

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Then you're not limited to an act of kindness.

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Kindness begins to create a pathway into people's lives

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but words must follow.

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It's never either or in the kingdom.

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Never.

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So this idea of everything is ready so come is important

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otherwise if the invitation is not proclaimed, you can have a banquet and no one will come.

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Any questions on that?

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Hey, these parables are rich eh, don't let your minds wander.

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Yeah, go ahead, we missed you last week.

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The children had you.

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We were celebrating that they had so many questions for you

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that they were driving you crazy, interrupting every time you spoke.

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Yeah, go ahead now.

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What have I put here?

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Did I say many are chosen? That's what I wrote?

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That's terrible.

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Oops.

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Thank you.

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So that's the first piece of this parable.

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There are five pieces, that's the first piece.

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The second piece is the servants are not well received.

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There's a tendency nowadays to think that if you are kind

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that you should be shown some respect or that you should receive,

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you should have a great reception.

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Not so.

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The servants are not well received.

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The kindness that you show does not have to be reciprocated

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in a way that honours you, that recognises you,

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that sees you as someone who's great.

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No, the servants are not well received.

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Here are the things that happen to the servant.

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First, they are ignored.

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Two, people prefer their routine, their routines, their business.

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And you are an interruption sometimes.

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And they turn away.

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As we go about doing what we are doing in Richmond,

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be ready for this.

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This has been the condition of anybody who is sent out by the king.

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This has been how it has been throughout the history of the world.

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And yet in the process, people receive the gospel.

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Some were actually humiliated,

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others were beaten,

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and some were killed.

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Hopefully, we'll all get you back in one piece

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and that you will be here for the New Year's service,

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that this will not happen to you.

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I'm talking about the killed part.

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But this is how you'll be treated.

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You never find this out till you go.

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As long as we are within here, it's okay.

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You only find out being ignored,

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people turning their back on you,

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being humiliated or sometimes abused,

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only happens when you go out,

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and that's the privilege that you take part in.

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Here's another struggle that I'm having.

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I have a feeling that even what I'm teaching right now

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will be ignored by some of us.

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And you will not take part in this.

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That even though we can come and talk about it every week,

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there will be people here

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who will not lift a finger in this effort.

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That's just a statement I have to make.

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Yeah.

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Not because you don't have the time,

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but because you love it.

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Not because you don't have the time,

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but because you don't have the...

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you don't have what needs to happen inside.

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Part of these teachings are so that we see what the kingdom is like

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and something begins to happen inside.

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It won't be because you don't have the time.

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It'll be because

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it's called spiritual arteriosclerosis,

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where the arteries thicken so much that it doesn't do nothing.

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Just be aware of it, eh?

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There is surgery for it.

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If you need help, let us know.

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We have two doctors, three doctors.

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Prashant is here.

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He's somewhere here.

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Tuni is here and Anilay is here.

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Between these three,

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we can fix any organ.

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Yeah.

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Something happened here.

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Okay.

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Despite the fact that the servants will be ignored,

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servants will be beaten up, servants will be humiliated,

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Jesus doesn't have a problem sending them out.

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Sending us out.

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If you read Matthew 23, 34,

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you'll see that these things don't bother him.

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Matthew 23, 34.

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It says that...

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I'll read from the NIV.

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Therefore I'm sending you prophets and sages and teachers.

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Some of them you will kill and crucify.

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Others you will flog in your synagogues

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and pursue from town to town.

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And so the idea is,

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he's known this for ages and he told his disciples,

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listen, as you go out with the gospel of the kingdom,

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expect this to happen.

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And I'm praying that we

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have a good time.

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And I'm praying that we have a good time.

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I want this to happen.

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And I'm praying that we

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begin to experience some of this

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for the sake of king and kingdom.

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That's an odd prayer to pray.

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But I'm saying,

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it's a wonderful time to be the church that we are.

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Any questions?

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Any comments?

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Anything you want to add?

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It'll make us

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share in who Christ is.

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Okay.

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The next piece.

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The next piece is a

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piece I did not see even though I've

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known this parable for

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I think quite a few years.

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And that's

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Matthew 22,

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Matthew 22, verse 7,

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verse 7.

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I didn't know there was this piece in here.

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It says,

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the king was enraged.

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He sent his army and destroyed

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those murderers and burned

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their city.

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I never knew that happened in between.

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Now God is saying that's what the kingdom is like.

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So the rejection

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and the violence

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shown

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by those

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who were invited

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triggers judgment

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from the king.

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So the rejection

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triggers judgment

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from the king.

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If we begin to do this,

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you must realize that

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suddenly Richmond

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now can either

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receive and repent like

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Nineveh did or receive

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and reject and it triggers

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judgment.

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So if you read 2 Corinthians

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2,

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2 Corinthians 2,

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verse 14

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to 17, 2 Corinthians 2,

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14 to 17,

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2 Corinthians 2,

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14 to 17,

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NIV,

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But thanks be to God, who always

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leads us in triumphal procession

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in Christ and through us,

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spreads everywhere the fragrance

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of the knowledge of him.

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For we are to God the aroma

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of Christ among those who are

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being saved and to those

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who are perishing.

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To one we are the smell of death,

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to the other the fragrance

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of life. And who

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is equal to such a task?

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Unlike so many, we do not

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peddle the word of God for profit.

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On the contrary, in Christ

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we speak before God with sincerity

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like men sent

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from God.

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So suddenly, people that reject

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and are violent towards the message

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begin, it begins

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to trigger judgment.

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When this message starts going out,

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when justice and racial equality

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and equity

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begins to go out and then, especially

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when rulers resist it, you will find

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rulers toppling. When churches

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resist the move of God in the city,

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you will find the leaders of churches toppling.

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This has been going on for

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hundreds of years, only we don't notice

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it because we normally

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don't go down this route.

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There is judgment on evil

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when a people are

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persistent in their defiance

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of the kindness of God. There

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is judgment,

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there is judgment of evil

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when a people

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are persistent

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in their defiance

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of God.

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Defiance of the kindness

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of God.

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When it happens, how it happens,

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how he will judge, that's not

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your problem or my problem.

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It is that it does trigger it.

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And what happens is

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both spiritual

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and physical

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rulers,

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as Paul would often say,

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both spiritual and physical rulers

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who are

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defiant

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begin to

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topple

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in a day.

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So it doesn't

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matter whether it is a city

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or whether it's a nation.

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It doesn't matter whether it's not Korea

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or whether it's the US.

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It applies

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all over.

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When a city or a nation keeps saying

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no and repeatedly

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refuses the call to

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peace, to

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racial justice,

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to caring,

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to fairness,

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God will not allow evil against

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his redemptive purpose to stand.

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It doesn't matter how powerful and entrenched

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systems are, they are destroyed.

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In the Old Testament, this would happen often.

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In the Old Testament, this would happen

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often. One of the words that God would

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use before he would do this

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was to say that the stent has

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reached my nostrils.

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Once he would say the stent has reached my nostrils,

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it meant that a toppling of systems

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and rulers would come.

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The historian Josephus

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who wrote about

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the fall of Jerusalem,

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he talks about

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how the Pharisees

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and the scribes and the Sadducees

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would not repent. They were defiant.

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Christ came

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and announced they would not repent.

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There was another man

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called Jesus of Ananas.

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He was just an ordinary man.

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A guy called Jesus of Ananas, A-N-A-N-U-S.

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What this guy would do

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seven years before AD 70,

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every year he would go out, especially

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during the time of festival.

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He would go out and he would begin to

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cry out saying, judgment is

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coming. Be careful.

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Turn from your wicked ways. Judgment is coming.

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Every time he would go, they would

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flog him.

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In AD 69,

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they handed him over

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to the Roman

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procurator

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and the guy whipped him till

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his bones were bare.

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But he would not stop crying out

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saying, you

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need to understand Jerusalem. The judgment

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is coming. And when judgment came,

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there was blood

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enough in Jerusalem to

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put out the fires that the Romans had lit.

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This is in the New Testament. AD 70,

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now we are in the New Testament.

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There's not a God to be trifled with.

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This is a side

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I don't want to touch because I would prefer

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a God who does not

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where I don't have to preach about

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anything that has to do with judgment.

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But he judges

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evil. He judges

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evil.

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Another scripture you want to look at that

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kind of has a similar vein in terms of

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judgment is Luke

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chapter 10

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verse

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10,

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verse

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8 to 12.

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Luke 10, 8 to 12. These are Jesus's

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words. Luke 10, 8 to 12.

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Luke 10, 8 to 12.

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Hey guys, I'm sorry you've got to keep

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shifting the sound. Let's just leave it as

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is and we can manage because you guys have to

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listen to the teaching too. Luke 10, 8 to 12.

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When

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you enter a town and are welcomed, eat

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what is said before you. Heal

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the sick who are there and tell them the kingdom

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of God is near you. Well, when you enter

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a town and are not welcomed, go into

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its streets and say, even the dust

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of your town that sticks to our feet, we

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wipe off against you. Yet be sure of

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this, the kingdom of God is near.

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I tell you, it will be more bearable on

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that day for Sodom than for that town.

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Those are Jesus's words.

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If you read Revelation 18,

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you see what happens to Babylon.

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Any questions before we go on to the next piece?

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As we go about doing what we do,

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you will find that the very message of

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the kindness of God and that everything

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is ready and the proclaiming of Isaiah 61,

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which we talked about last week,

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for the sake of king and kingdom

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and for the sake of the people of Richmond,

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once that message begins to go on,

00:27:45.320 --> 00:27:47.320
you will find the toppling of both

00:27:47.320 --> 00:27:49.320
spiritual and physical rulers

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in the city. Or any

00:27:51.320 --> 00:27:53.320
phariseeical or

00:27:53.320 --> 00:27:55.320
religious power that tries to come against

00:27:55.320 --> 00:27:57.320
this will topple.

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If that be within Acts 29,

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if that be me, he will topple

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whatever is necessary.

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Because he does not allow

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evil to prevent

00:28:07.320 --> 00:28:09.320
his redemptive purposes

00:28:09.320 --> 00:28:11.320
for a city like Richmond.

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He will not allow evil to triumph.

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He will not allow evil to triumph.

00:28:15.320 --> 00:28:17.320
He will not allow evil to triumph.

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And it doesn't matter how deeply entrenched

00:28:19.320 --> 00:28:21.320
the system is, he has the ability

00:28:21.320 --> 00:28:23.320
to pull it out, he has done it

00:28:23.320 --> 00:28:25.320
thousands of times and he will do it again on earth.

00:28:31.320 --> 00:28:33.320
Any questions?

00:28:39.320 --> 00:28:41.320
Why does it take several generations?

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Why does it take several generations?

00:28:47.320 --> 00:28:49.320
Yeah.

00:28:49.320 --> 00:28:51.320
Yeah.

00:28:51.320 --> 00:28:53.320
At least in Israel,

00:28:53.320 --> 00:28:55.320
they knew that it would take 400

00:28:55.320 --> 00:28:57.320
years. He told them ahead of time.

00:28:57.320 --> 00:28:59.320
So there was always

00:28:59.320 --> 00:29:01.320
the hope that would be

00:29:01.320 --> 00:29:03.320
alive every time they walked past

00:29:03.320 --> 00:29:05.320
Joseph's bones, that we will

00:29:05.320 --> 00:29:07.320
leave Egypt. Joseph's bones will not be buried

00:29:07.320 --> 00:29:09.320
here. But in our case,

00:29:09.320 --> 00:29:11.320
the Bible says

00:29:11.320 --> 00:29:13.320
the reason God does not,

00:29:13.320 --> 00:29:15.320
God seems to be lax

00:29:15.320 --> 00:29:17.320
on acting is because

00:29:17.320 --> 00:29:19.320
he just wants to give

00:29:19.320 --> 00:29:21.320
Dilna's children's

00:29:21.320 --> 00:29:23.320
children's children another

00:29:23.320 --> 00:29:25.320
opportunity to turn to him

00:29:25.320 --> 00:29:27.320
and he does not want to act

00:29:27.320 --> 00:29:29.320
immediately. Because what if

00:29:29.320 --> 00:29:31.320
one more son, one more daughter, one more

00:29:31.320 --> 00:29:33.320
grandson can be taken in? And that's

00:29:33.320 --> 00:29:35.320
just the patience of God. And only

00:29:35.320 --> 00:29:37.320
a father can show that, eh?

00:29:39.320 --> 00:29:41.320
It's fascinating how patient fathers

00:29:41.320 --> 00:29:43.320
can be.

00:29:47.320 --> 00:29:49.320
With Israel,

00:29:51.320 --> 00:29:53.320
it's fascinating how patient

00:29:53.320 --> 00:29:55.320
fathers should be, can be.

00:29:55.320 --> 00:29:57.320
Yeah.

00:29:57.320 --> 00:29:59.320
I'll leave it at that. Yeah.

00:30:01.320 --> 00:30:03.320
Any questions?

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Okay.

00:30:07.320 --> 00:30:09.320
We move to the fourth

00:30:09.320 --> 00:30:11.320
piece now.

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The fourth

00:30:13.320 --> 00:30:15.320
piece is the wedding banquet

00:30:15.320 --> 00:30:17.320
is going to go ahead regardless.

00:30:17.320 --> 00:30:19.320
Because now

00:30:19.320 --> 00:30:21.320
Jesus is, God is on a mission

00:30:21.320 --> 00:30:23.320
and he says, listen, the wedding banquet

00:30:23.320 --> 00:30:25.320
will go ahead regardless of the fact

00:30:25.320 --> 00:30:27.320
that those invited were deemed

00:30:27.320 --> 00:30:29.320
not worthy.

00:30:29.320 --> 00:30:31.320
It's crazy some of the things Jesus says, eh?

00:30:31.320 --> 00:30:33.320
We don't hear this nowadays because everything is

00:30:33.320 --> 00:30:35.320
you're worthy, you're wonderful, you're precious,

00:30:35.320 --> 00:30:37.320
you are number one even though

00:30:37.320 --> 00:30:39.320
you came last in the race.

00:30:39.320 --> 00:30:41.320
And so here Jesus is saying,

00:30:41.320 --> 00:30:43.320
the ones that I invited,

00:30:43.320 --> 00:30:45.320
they did not come. And now

00:30:45.320 --> 00:30:47.320
he renders them not

00:30:47.320 --> 00:30:49.320
worthy.

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I'm not saying you have to go and

00:30:51.320 --> 00:30:53.320
tell people who refuse Christ that you're

00:30:53.320 --> 00:30:55.320
not worthy. But this is

00:30:55.320 --> 00:30:57.320
a mindset we cannot fully

00:30:57.320 --> 00:30:59.320
throw away.

00:30:59.320 --> 00:31:01.320
Some that

00:31:01.320 --> 00:31:03.320
reject, keep rejecting,

00:31:03.320 --> 00:31:05.320
are not worthy.

00:31:05.320 --> 00:31:07.320
They keep rejecting.

00:31:07.320 --> 00:31:09.320
And Jesus can call them that, you can't.

00:31:09.320 --> 00:31:11.320
So let's leave that one alone

00:31:11.320 --> 00:31:13.320
but know that some do not

00:31:13.320 --> 00:31:15.320
deserve to be invited.

00:31:15.320 --> 00:31:17.320
The king

00:31:17.320 --> 00:31:19.320
issues a new command, go

00:31:19.320 --> 00:31:21.320
into

00:31:21.320 --> 00:31:23.320
the streets, the main street

00:31:23.320 --> 00:31:25.320
and

00:31:25.320 --> 00:31:27.320
invite

00:31:27.320 --> 00:31:29.320
everyone

00:31:31.320 --> 00:31:33.320
you find, everyone

00:31:33.320 --> 00:31:35.320
you find.

00:31:35.320 --> 00:31:37.320
That's in verse 9.

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And this is where

00:31:39.320 --> 00:31:41.320
we find ourselves in Richmond, eh?

00:31:41.320 --> 00:31:43.320
Where as we go through streets

00:31:43.320 --> 00:31:45.320
and not just Richmond, you're building your

00:31:45.320 --> 00:31:47.320
city that you live in, Surrey,

00:31:47.320 --> 00:31:49.320
Coquitlam, this is where we find ourselves

00:31:49.320 --> 00:31:51.320
discerning the spirit at work

00:31:51.320 --> 00:31:53.320
in our streets, in our spheres of influence,

00:31:53.320 --> 00:31:55.320
in our circles

00:31:55.320 --> 00:31:57.320
and we just step up in obedience

00:31:57.320 --> 00:31:59.320
with little hands. One of the statements

00:31:59.320 --> 00:32:01.320
I made last week was

00:32:01.320 --> 00:32:03.320
the kingdom of God

00:32:03.320 --> 00:32:05.320
is at hand,

00:32:05.320 --> 00:32:07.320
we are on hand,

00:32:07.320 --> 00:32:09.320
ready to do anything, and we are aware

00:32:09.320 --> 00:32:11.320
that we got little hands

00:32:11.320 --> 00:32:13.320
that can hardly do anything

00:32:13.320 --> 00:32:15.320
but it is by the power of the spirit of God.

00:32:15.320 --> 00:32:17.320
We are on hand

00:32:17.320 --> 00:32:19.320
for the kingdom that is at hand

00:32:19.320 --> 00:32:21.320
and we do it with our little

00:32:21.320 --> 00:32:23.320
hands because really we don't have

00:32:23.320 --> 00:32:25.320
much power but every little thing

00:32:25.320 --> 00:32:27.320
multiplies like crazy.

00:32:27.320 --> 00:32:29.320
The very understanding

00:32:29.320 --> 00:32:31.320
of the kingdom is completely

00:32:31.320 --> 00:32:33.320
dismantled if I think that

00:32:33.320 --> 00:32:35.320
it can happen through anything but a seed

00:32:35.320 --> 00:32:37.320
of mustard seed or a bit of

00:32:37.320 --> 00:32:39.320
leaven. That's the nature of the kingdom.

00:32:39.320 --> 00:32:41.320
Small things end up in huge

00:32:41.320 --> 00:32:43.320
results.

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Remember the story of

00:32:45.320 --> 00:32:47.320
what's his name?

00:32:47.320 --> 00:32:49.320
That bishop that I talked

00:32:49.320 --> 00:32:51.320
about, Desmond Tutu. Remember

00:32:51.320 --> 00:32:53.320
that story.

00:32:57.320 --> 00:32:59.320
Problem is once you start inviting

00:32:59.320 --> 00:33:01.320
everyone,

00:33:01.320 --> 00:33:03.320
once you start inviting everyone,

00:33:03.320 --> 00:33:05.320
you find both good

00:33:05.320 --> 00:33:07.320
and bad.

00:33:07.320 --> 00:33:09.320
And Jesus

00:33:09.320 --> 00:33:11.320
actually means good and bad.

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So this is not some Oscar

00:33:15.320 --> 00:33:17.320
award thing where everyone

00:33:17.320 --> 00:33:19.320
is good people and he's a great person,

00:33:19.320 --> 00:33:21.320
he's a good person, we are...

00:33:21.320 --> 00:33:23.320
It's a whole lot of crap, eh?

00:33:23.320 --> 00:33:25.320
This good person stuff that you hear at most

00:33:25.320 --> 00:33:27.320
award ceremonies.

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There are good and there are bad.

00:33:31.320 --> 00:33:33.320
And Jesus is the only one who can turn water into

00:33:33.320 --> 00:33:35.320
wine.

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We all come rotten to the core

00:33:39.320 --> 00:33:41.320
and we are changing because of him.

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So,

00:33:43.320 --> 00:33:45.320
you're getting the good and the bad.

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And

00:33:51.320 --> 00:33:53.320
we'll talk about what happens to the good and the bad

00:33:53.320 --> 00:33:55.320
a little later. Where are we sent?

00:33:55.320 --> 00:33:57.320
Everywhere.

00:33:57.320 --> 00:33:59.320
To get who?

00:33:59.320 --> 00:34:01.320
Everyone.

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Here's a statement that I wanted to make.

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So we are readiness

00:34:07.320 --> 00:34:09.320
to be ready

00:34:09.320 --> 00:34:11.320
Our readiness

00:34:13.320 --> 00:34:15.320
is measured, and you can apply this

00:34:15.320 --> 00:34:17.320
to yourself.

00:34:17.320 --> 00:34:19.320
Our readiness or my readiness

00:34:19.320 --> 00:34:21.320
is measured

00:34:21.320 --> 00:34:23.320
by

00:34:23.320 --> 00:34:25.320
our

00:34:25.320 --> 00:34:27.320
my capacity

00:34:29.320 --> 00:34:31.320
to pour out

00:34:33.320 --> 00:34:35.320
and distribute

00:34:35.320 --> 00:34:37.320
life.

00:34:39.320 --> 00:34:41.320
It's the secret

00:34:45.320 --> 00:34:47.320
to constructing

00:34:49.320 --> 00:34:51.320
strong nets.

00:34:53.320 --> 00:34:55.320
God sends

00:34:55.320 --> 00:34:57.320
harvests

00:34:59.320 --> 00:35:01.320
where nets can hold it.

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I can't tell you how much there is in this.

00:35:05.320 --> 00:35:07.320
Your readiness,

00:35:07.320 --> 00:35:09.320
my readiness,

00:35:09.320 --> 00:35:11.320
our readiness is measured

00:35:11.320 --> 00:35:13.320
by your capacity or my capacity

00:35:13.320 --> 00:35:15.320
to pour out and distribute life.

00:35:21.320 --> 00:35:23.320
It is the secret

00:35:23.320 --> 00:35:25.320
to constructing strong nets.

00:35:25.320 --> 00:35:27.320
God sends harvests where nets can hold it.

00:35:27.320 --> 00:35:29.320
So let's go from the last line to the top line.

00:35:29.320 --> 00:35:31.320
Many of us want to see

00:35:31.320 --> 00:35:33.320
harvests.

00:35:33.320 --> 00:35:35.320
And in different areas.

00:35:35.320 --> 00:35:37.320
Some of us want to see a harvest of healing.

00:35:37.320 --> 00:35:39.320
Others want to see a harvest of finances

00:35:39.320 --> 00:35:41.320
so it can be redistributed.

00:35:41.320 --> 00:35:43.320
God sends harvests

00:35:43.320 --> 00:35:45.320
where nets can hold it.

00:35:47.320 --> 00:35:49.320
But to construct

00:35:49.320 --> 00:35:51.320
nets that can hold it,

00:35:51.320 --> 00:35:53.320
there's a secret.

00:35:53.320 --> 00:35:55.320
There's a secret.

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And the secret is your readiness

00:35:57.320 --> 00:35:59.320
to pour out

00:35:59.320 --> 00:36:01.320
what you want to harvest.

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To pour it out,

00:36:03.320 --> 00:36:05.320
to distribute it.

00:36:05.320 --> 00:36:07.320
Not in an occasional jaunt

00:36:07.320 --> 00:36:09.320
once a week

00:36:09.320 --> 00:36:11.320
or once a month

00:36:11.320 --> 00:36:13.320
or a token idea.

00:36:13.320 --> 00:36:15.320
It is this idea of constantly pouring out.

00:36:15.320 --> 00:36:17.320
That is what then

00:36:17.320 --> 00:36:19.320
begins to give you the capacity.

00:36:19.320 --> 00:36:21.320
And that capacity is perfect

00:36:21.320 --> 00:36:23.320
for constructing nets.

00:36:23.320 --> 00:36:25.320
And where those nets are constructed,

00:36:25.320 --> 00:36:27.320
harvests happen.

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Any questions?

00:36:35.320 --> 00:36:37.320
Any thoughts?

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You'll find in the life of anyone

00:36:41.320 --> 00:36:43.320
who is harvesting a lot

00:36:43.320 --> 00:36:45.320
in a certain area,

00:36:45.320 --> 00:36:47.320
if you trace their lives or look at their

00:36:47.320 --> 00:36:49.320
hidden lives or look at the life

00:36:49.320 --> 00:36:51.320
underwater, if you were to think

00:36:51.320 --> 00:36:53.320
of an iceberg, then you will find

00:36:53.320 --> 00:36:55.320
that underwater,

00:36:55.320 --> 00:36:57.320
there is an immense

00:36:57.320 --> 00:36:59.320
pouring out or a distribution

00:36:59.320 --> 00:37:01.320
of whatever

00:37:01.320 --> 00:37:03.320
they want to harvest.

00:37:03.320 --> 00:37:05.320
You'll find it.

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And you will also see

00:37:09.320 --> 00:37:11.320
in all our lives that

00:37:11.320 --> 00:37:13.320
whatever we pour out with our

00:37:13.320 --> 00:37:15.320
words, with our deeds, is also being

00:37:15.320 --> 00:37:17.320
harvested in the negative sense.

00:37:17.320 --> 00:37:19.320
It's both.

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Go ahead.

00:37:27.320 --> 00:37:29.320
An individual person can be a

00:37:29.320 --> 00:37:31.320
net or a net has to be a net?

00:37:31.320 --> 00:37:33.320
An individual person can be a node

00:37:33.320 --> 00:37:35.320
in a net, but

00:37:35.320 --> 00:37:37.320
that's how nets are formed. Little nodes

00:37:37.320 --> 00:37:39.320
that tie together. So when an

00:37:39.320 --> 00:37:41.320
entire church begins to pour out

00:37:41.320 --> 00:37:43.320
and distribute life, man,

00:37:43.320 --> 00:37:45.320
that church then becomes a net that can

00:37:45.320 --> 00:37:47.320
be used for harvest.

00:37:47.320 --> 00:37:49.320
But on an individual level,

00:37:49.320 --> 00:37:51.320
whatever you begin to, whatever

00:37:51.320 --> 00:37:53.320
I pour out of my life,

00:37:53.320 --> 00:37:55.320
I'll find myself harvesting like crazy.

00:37:57.320 --> 00:37:59.320
I've seen it.

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I've seen it in your lives too.

00:38:05.320 --> 00:38:07.320
I know some of you and the way you pour

00:38:07.320 --> 00:38:09.320
out in certain areas. In those areas,

00:38:09.320 --> 00:38:11.320
my God,

00:38:11.320 --> 00:38:13.320
you will see harvest.

00:38:15.320 --> 00:38:17.320
What prevents

00:38:17.320 --> 00:38:19.320
this? Two of the simple things

00:38:19.320 --> 00:38:21.320
that prevent it are laziness,

00:38:23.320 --> 00:38:25.320
procrastination.

00:38:27.320 --> 00:38:29.320
What does laziness and procrastination

00:38:29.320 --> 00:38:31.320
lead to?

00:38:31.320 --> 00:38:33.320
Lack of consistency

00:38:33.320 --> 00:38:35.320
and discipline.

00:38:39.320 --> 00:38:41.320
And that is why

00:38:41.320 --> 00:38:43.320
it becomes so difficult. What is procrastination?

00:38:43.320 --> 00:38:45.320
Procrastination is doing

00:38:45.320 --> 00:38:47.320
things that are easy

00:38:47.320 --> 00:38:49.320
so that I can avoid doing

00:38:49.320 --> 00:38:51.320
the things that are difficult. You know that one

00:38:51.320 --> 00:38:53.320
call that you have to make that you don't want to

00:38:53.320 --> 00:38:55.320
make. So what do you do? You call 20

00:38:55.320 --> 00:38:57.320
other people. Because if I

00:38:57.320 --> 00:38:59.320
can avoid that one call, hallelujah.

00:38:59.320 --> 00:39:01.320
And so you

00:39:01.320 --> 00:39:03.320
get yourself busy calling 20 people that are

00:39:03.320 --> 00:39:05.320
absolutely pointless.

00:39:05.320 --> 00:39:07.320
That's procrastination.

00:39:07.320 --> 00:39:09.320
Procrastination.

00:39:15.320 --> 00:39:17.320
Pouring out can look different for different people.

00:39:17.320 --> 00:39:19.320
It's hidden.

00:39:21.320 --> 00:39:23.320
It's quiet.

00:39:27.320 --> 00:39:29.320
A poi.

00:39:29.320 --> 00:39:31.320
It always shows.

00:39:31.320 --> 00:39:33.320
How we pour out over the next

00:39:33.320 --> 00:39:35.320
two months

00:39:35.320 --> 00:39:37.320
determines

00:39:37.320 --> 00:39:39.320
so much.

00:39:39.320 --> 00:39:41.320
Why do you say that, Deekab? Did you notice what I said

00:39:41.320 --> 00:39:43.320
before I called Derek up?

00:39:43.320 --> 00:39:45.320
It wasn't because Derek can pray special

00:39:45.320 --> 00:39:47.320
or that, oh I need to call him up

00:39:47.320 --> 00:39:49.320
and stuff like that. It was just a simple thing

00:39:49.320 --> 00:39:51.320
where God said that

00:39:51.320 --> 00:39:53.320
there was a time when Wally was

00:39:53.320 --> 00:39:55.320
as dry as a desert.

00:39:55.320 --> 00:39:57.320
And you may not have

00:39:57.320 --> 00:39:59.320
much to show. Oh my

00:39:59.320 --> 00:40:01.320
God, there was

00:40:01.320 --> 00:40:03.320
a pouring out.

00:40:03.320 --> 00:40:05.320
And we now read the rewards

00:40:05.320 --> 00:40:07.320
of it. And now others

00:40:07.320 --> 00:40:09.320
will read the rewards of what these four were telling

00:40:09.320 --> 00:40:11.320
us.

00:40:11.320 --> 00:40:13.320
This parable is completely tied

00:40:13.320 --> 00:40:15.320
into where we are at and what we are

00:40:15.320 --> 00:40:17.320
trying to do.

00:40:19.320 --> 00:40:21.320
Okay, the next thing is as we now go

00:40:21.320 --> 00:40:23.320
about inviting everyone,

00:40:25.320 --> 00:40:27.320
as we said, you'll get good

00:40:27.320 --> 00:40:29.320
and bad.

00:40:29.320 --> 00:40:31.320
Always remember that purity

00:40:31.320 --> 00:40:33.320
is intention

00:40:35.320 --> 00:40:37.320
with mission.

00:40:39.320 --> 00:40:41.320
When you offer the gospel to everyone

00:40:41.320 --> 00:40:43.320
that's exactly what the church will get.

00:40:43.320 --> 00:40:45.320
Good and bad.

00:40:45.320 --> 00:40:47.320
It's always been that way.

00:40:49.320 --> 00:40:51.320
The moment you offer the gospel

00:40:51.320 --> 00:40:53.320
to everyone,

00:40:53.320 --> 00:40:55.320
you will get both good and bad.

00:40:55.320 --> 00:40:57.320
You will get both good and bad.

00:40:57.320 --> 00:40:59.320
You will get both the good and the bad.

00:41:01.320 --> 00:41:03.320
That's the nature of mission.

00:41:03.320 --> 00:41:05.320
And purity and mission

00:41:05.320 --> 00:41:07.320
have to exist in tension.

00:41:09.320 --> 00:41:11.320
So, I mean, when you look at the

00:41:11.320 --> 00:41:13.320
parable of the wheat and tares, remember we did that?

00:41:13.320 --> 00:41:15.320
Parable of the wheat and tares.

00:41:15.320 --> 00:41:17.320
What did we see?

00:41:17.320 --> 00:41:19.320
That an enemy came and planted

00:41:21.320 --> 00:41:23.320
evil seeds that became weeds.

00:41:23.320 --> 00:41:25.320
But then when you go to the parable

00:41:25.320 --> 00:41:27.320
of the net where the fish are caught,

00:41:29.320 --> 00:41:31.320
there's no enemy.

00:41:31.320 --> 00:41:33.320
Satan's not doing anything.

00:41:33.320 --> 00:41:35.320
You know, I've only gone fishing once in my lifetime

00:41:35.320 --> 00:41:37.320
for crabs.

00:41:39.320 --> 00:41:41.320
And it was with Wayne

00:41:41.320 --> 00:41:43.320
and with Elmer.

00:41:45.320 --> 00:41:47.320
And we went up Indian Arm.

00:41:47.320 --> 00:41:49.320
After that I decided I will never do this again.

00:41:49.320 --> 00:41:51.320
Maybe fishing is a better sport

00:41:51.320 --> 00:41:53.320
but not hunting for crabs.

00:41:53.320 --> 00:41:55.320
So we go up Indian Arm and then

00:41:55.320 --> 00:41:57.320
when we get to a place where it's

00:41:57.320 --> 00:41:59.320
about 300 feet deep,

00:41:59.320 --> 00:42:01.320
they put a

00:42:03.320 --> 00:42:05.320
cage in which these crabs come

00:42:05.320 --> 00:42:07.320
and then you have to pull it up.

00:42:07.320 --> 00:42:09.320
And these are 90-year-old men

00:42:09.320 --> 00:42:11.320
and this was when I was younger.

00:42:11.320 --> 00:42:13.320
And they said, Jacob, you want to try it?

00:42:13.320 --> 00:42:15.320
And I thought, what's the big deal?

00:42:15.320 --> 00:42:17.320
Just pull it up. I didn't know you had to pull

00:42:17.320 --> 00:42:19.320
300 feet of rope up.

00:42:19.320 --> 00:42:21.320
By the time I'm

00:42:21.320 --> 00:42:23.320
about 150 feet up, I handed it over

00:42:23.320 --> 00:42:25.320
to Wayne and said, Wayne, you can do the rest.

00:42:27.320 --> 00:42:29.320
The thing is, when they

00:42:29.320 --> 00:42:31.320
pulled the cage up, there were

00:42:31.320 --> 00:42:33.320
not just crabs in it. There was

00:42:33.320 --> 00:42:35.320
all kind of crap in it.

00:42:35.320 --> 00:42:37.320
Like, I mean, exchange the word

00:42:37.320 --> 00:42:39.320
P for B. But in the end

00:42:39.320 --> 00:42:41.320
we got some crabs and a whole

00:42:41.320 --> 00:42:43.320
lot of stuff that they started throwing

00:42:43.320 --> 00:42:45.320
out of the boat.

00:42:45.320 --> 00:42:47.320
I mean, it's only

00:42:47.320 --> 00:42:49.320
rarely that I have experiences like this

00:42:49.320 --> 00:42:51.320
but I feel like Jesus suddenly

00:42:51.320 --> 00:42:53.320
like a real experience here.

00:42:53.320 --> 00:42:55.320
But the point is this, that

00:42:55.320 --> 00:42:57.320
at the end of the day

00:42:57.320 --> 00:42:59.320
when you go fishing, every

00:42:59.320 --> 00:43:01.320
fisherman comes and once they come back to

00:43:01.320 --> 00:43:03.320
the boat, they start throwing the good and the bad

00:43:03.320 --> 00:43:05.320
and it's not the devil.

00:43:05.320 --> 00:43:07.320
In the wheat and the tares, it was the devil.

00:43:07.320 --> 00:43:09.320
In the parable of the net,

00:43:09.320 --> 00:43:11.320
it was just fish. You get good fish

00:43:11.320 --> 00:43:13.320
and you get bad fish.

00:43:15.320 --> 00:43:17.320
And Jesus says

00:43:17.320 --> 00:43:19.320
that I will send my angels

00:43:19.320 --> 00:43:21.320
at the end of the age or whenever

00:43:21.320 --> 00:43:23.320
the time has come to separate them.

00:43:23.320 --> 00:43:25.320
You don't have to throw away the

00:43:25.320 --> 00:43:27.320
unrighteous because I came to seek the

00:43:27.320 --> 00:43:29.320
ones that are

00:43:29.320 --> 00:43:31.320
unrighteous and sick.

00:43:31.320 --> 00:43:33.320
That's why you send a physician.

00:43:33.320 --> 00:43:35.320
So it's not our job

00:43:35.320 --> 00:43:37.320
to get rid of the unrighteous.

00:43:39.320 --> 00:43:41.320
Now we have a problem.

00:43:43.320 --> 00:43:45.320
Because we're not a church that tolerates stuff like that.

00:43:47.320 --> 00:43:49.320
Fishes of men will draw in both

00:43:49.320 --> 00:43:51.320
good people and not so good people.

00:43:51.320 --> 00:43:53.320
Fishes of men will draw in faithful

00:43:53.320 --> 00:43:55.320
followers and compromised

00:43:55.320 --> 00:43:57.320
worldly followers. Even at Acts

00:43:57.320 --> 00:43:59.320
29, you have faithful followers

00:43:59.320 --> 00:44:01.320
and you can have compromised worldly

00:44:01.320 --> 00:44:03.320
followers that live

00:44:03.320 --> 00:44:05.320
in the world and

00:44:05.320 --> 00:44:07.320
in the kingdom. Both get caught

00:44:07.320 --> 00:44:09.320
in the net. It's what happens

00:44:09.320 --> 00:44:11.320
when you do ministry

00:44:11.320 --> 00:44:13.320
and practice kingdom metrics in the world.

00:44:13.320 --> 00:44:15.320
The only way to preserve our

00:44:15.320 --> 00:44:17.320
purity is to make sure that

00:44:17.320 --> 00:44:19.320
the doors are shut and that nobody

00:44:19.320 --> 00:44:21.320
else comes in that does not

00:44:21.320 --> 00:44:23.320
meet our mark.

00:44:29.320 --> 00:44:31.320
Or does not meet our standards.

00:44:35.320 --> 00:44:37.320
And the tension that we have to go through with

00:44:37.320 --> 00:44:39.320
good and bad coming into the church

00:44:39.320 --> 00:44:41.320
is not a failure of the gospel.

00:44:41.320 --> 00:44:43.320
It is just the way Jesus wants it

00:44:43.320 --> 00:44:45.320
until the end of time. Hello!

00:44:45.320 --> 00:44:47.320
This is just the way Jesus wants it.

00:44:47.320 --> 00:44:49.320
He's not telling us

00:44:49.320 --> 00:44:51.320
get rid of the unrighteous. He says leave that to me.

00:44:55.320 --> 00:44:57.320
For us it's going to be a mind shift.

00:45:03.320 --> 00:45:05.320
You will have ones

00:45:05.320 --> 00:45:07.320
that don't live right

00:45:07.320 --> 00:45:09.320
alongside ones who live in blazing

00:45:09.320 --> 00:45:11.320
purity.

00:45:13.320 --> 00:45:15.320
Can you handle that?

00:45:15.320 --> 00:45:17.320
Can you handle that?

00:45:17.320 --> 00:45:19.320
Can I handle that?

00:45:19.320 --> 00:45:21.320
Can I handle that?

00:45:25.320 --> 00:45:27.320
Or will

00:45:29.320 --> 00:45:31.320
the Pharisee in me rise up?

00:45:35.320 --> 00:45:37.320
Will the older

00:45:37.320 --> 00:45:39.320
brother in me rise up?

00:45:39.320 --> 00:45:41.320
Will the

00:45:41.320 --> 00:45:43.320
first

00:45:43.320 --> 00:45:45.320
shift

00:45:45.320 --> 00:45:47.320
of vineyard

00:45:47.320 --> 00:45:49.320
workers rise up?

00:45:49.320 --> 00:45:51.320
You know the parable where

00:45:51.320 --> 00:45:53.320
some guys work from nine to five and they were

00:45:53.320 --> 00:45:55.320
upset that some guys came at four and

00:45:55.320 --> 00:45:57.320
still made the same money?

00:45:59.320 --> 00:46:01.320
There's going to be a problem and you need

00:46:01.320 --> 00:46:03.320
to examine your heart.

00:46:03.320 --> 00:46:05.320
Especially if you're a pastoral type

00:46:05.320 --> 00:46:07.320
or a leader, this will

00:46:07.320 --> 00:46:09.320
really begin to irk you.

00:46:13.320 --> 00:46:15.320
Because that's the time we are coming

00:46:15.320 --> 00:46:17.320
into.

00:46:19.320 --> 00:46:21.320
Will the young adults

00:46:21.320 --> 00:46:23.320
be able to

00:46:23.320 --> 00:46:25.320
handle that? Because right now

00:46:25.320 --> 00:46:27.320
it's great. I mean you don't sing Kumbaya

00:46:27.320 --> 00:46:29.320
but you sing another version of that

00:46:29.320 --> 00:46:31.320
after Sunday night when you go

00:46:31.320 --> 00:46:33.320
to a restaurant. But what if there are people

00:46:33.320 --> 00:46:35.320
that just don't

00:46:35.320 --> 00:46:37.320
fit in? Are you still going

00:46:37.320 --> 00:46:39.320
to congregate around them like

00:46:39.320 --> 00:46:41.320
you congregate around the fun ones?

00:46:47.320 --> 00:46:49.320
Any questions?

00:46:53.320 --> 00:46:55.320
Sorry?

00:46:55.320 --> 00:46:57.320
How

00:46:57.320 --> 00:46:59.320
do we hold

00:46:59.320 --> 00:47:01.320
that intention

00:47:01.320 --> 00:47:03.320
with the...I don't even want to ask

00:47:03.320 --> 00:47:05.320
how do we hold that intention?

00:47:05.320 --> 00:47:07.320
I will be touching on that.

00:47:07.320 --> 00:47:09.320
Yeah.

00:47:09.320 --> 00:47:11.320
Quiet, Dhillna.

00:47:23.320 --> 00:47:25.320
Great.

00:47:25.320 --> 00:47:27.320
Doesn't this make us

00:47:27.320 --> 00:47:29.320
become like the church in Corinth where there's a

00:47:29.320 --> 00:47:31.320
mixture? Yep.

00:47:31.320 --> 00:47:33.320
So the last part will deal with that.

00:47:33.320 --> 00:47:35.320
Hey, trust me, there's nobody who's

00:47:35.320 --> 00:47:37.320
concerned about this than me.

00:47:55.320 --> 00:47:57.320
What are practical ways to deal with

00:47:57.320 --> 00:47:59.320
bad seeds being

00:47:59.320 --> 00:48:01.320
sown into our midst?

00:48:01.320 --> 00:48:03.320
Good question.

00:48:03.320 --> 00:48:05.320
Thank God

00:48:05.320 --> 00:48:07.320
there's a fifth part to this story.

00:48:09.320 --> 00:48:11.320
Okay.

00:48:15.320 --> 00:48:17.320
Okay, so let me ask

00:48:17.320 --> 00:48:19.320
these questions that I've written down. Can you handle

00:48:19.320 --> 00:48:21.320
ones

00:48:21.320 --> 00:48:23.320
that don't live right

00:48:23.320 --> 00:48:25.320
alongside

00:48:25.320 --> 00:48:27.320
ones who live in blazing purity?

00:48:27.320 --> 00:48:29.320
Can you handle it? Or will the

00:48:29.320 --> 00:48:31.320
Pharisee, will the elder brother, will the

00:48:31.320 --> 00:48:33.320
early worker syndrome kick in?

00:48:33.320 --> 00:48:35.320
Because you and I cannot

00:48:35.320 --> 00:48:37.320
enforce purity by

00:48:37.320 --> 00:48:39.320
discriminating between the righteous and the

00:48:39.320 --> 00:48:41.320
unrighteous. That would be the easiest way to do this.

00:48:41.320 --> 00:48:43.320
All the righteous, please stand up.

00:48:43.320 --> 00:48:45.320
The rest of you can leave.

00:48:45.320 --> 00:48:47.320
That would be an easy fit.

00:48:47.320 --> 00:48:49.320
And I wonder how many

00:48:49.320 --> 00:48:51.320
of us would stand up when I say

00:48:51.320 --> 00:48:53.320
all the righteous, please stand up.

00:48:53.320 --> 00:48:55.320
Because Jesus would have a problem with that

00:48:55.320 --> 00:48:57.320
also. But you

00:48:57.320 --> 00:48:59.320
cannot enforce purity by discriminating

00:48:59.320 --> 00:49:01.320
between the righteous and the unrighteous.

00:49:01.320 --> 00:49:03.320
So when we are opening the doors

00:49:03.320 --> 00:49:05.320
of the hall wide

00:49:05.320 --> 00:49:07.320
to receive

00:49:07.320 --> 00:49:09.320
guests who are coming

00:49:09.320 --> 00:49:11.320
to the banquet and when we tell them,

00:49:11.320 --> 00:49:13.320
hey, there's a banquet on,

00:49:13.320 --> 00:49:15.320
please understand that we will be tested.

00:49:15.320 --> 00:49:17.320
This will

00:49:17.320 --> 00:49:19.320
test us.

00:49:19.320 --> 00:49:21.320
That's why it's important to build a strong

00:49:21.320 --> 00:49:23.320
core. That's why it's important

00:49:23.320 --> 00:49:25.320
to get IKM right.

00:49:25.320 --> 00:49:27.320
What's IKM? Internal Kingdom

00:49:27.320 --> 00:49:29.320
Matrix. What is IKM?

00:49:29.320 --> 00:49:31.320
Sheldon, you seem

00:49:31.320 --> 00:49:33.320
to be brimming with confidence.

00:49:33.320 --> 00:49:35.320
Go ahead.

00:49:35.320 --> 00:49:37.320
What?

00:49:37.320 --> 00:49:39.320
Okay, Prosper, you seem to be laughing

00:49:39.320 --> 00:49:41.320
at him. Go ahead.

00:49:41.320 --> 00:49:43.320
What?

00:49:43.320 --> 00:49:45.320
Derek, you're my

00:49:45.320 --> 00:49:47.320
hope.

00:49:47.320 --> 00:49:49.320
In the?

00:49:49.320 --> 00:49:51.320
What?

00:49:51.320 --> 00:49:53.320
Yeah, yeah, clap.

00:49:53.320 --> 00:49:55.320
Yeah, yeah, clap.

00:49:55.320 --> 00:49:57.320
So,

00:49:57.320 --> 00:49:59.320
here are

00:49:59.320 --> 00:50:01.320
Internal Kingdom Metics that if you

00:50:01.320 --> 00:50:03.320
don't develop, you won't be able to handle this.

00:50:03.320 --> 00:50:05.320
Righteousness, as in

00:50:05.320 --> 00:50:07.320
right relationship,

00:50:07.320 --> 00:50:09.320
through, sorry, right

00:50:09.320 --> 00:50:11.320
living through right relationship,

00:50:11.320 --> 00:50:13.320
with God, with myself,

00:50:13.320 --> 00:50:15.320
with others,

00:50:15.320 --> 00:50:17.320
and with creation. Two,

00:50:17.320 --> 00:50:19.320
peace, peace

00:50:19.320 --> 00:50:21.320
in our hearts.

00:50:21.320 --> 00:50:23.320
We're not even talking about the Shalom

00:50:23.320 --> 00:50:25.320
that we talk about in External Kingdom

00:50:25.320 --> 00:50:27.320
Metics. Peace in our hearts.

00:50:27.320 --> 00:50:29.320
Joy, regardless

00:50:29.320 --> 00:50:31.320
of circumstances.

00:50:31.320 --> 00:50:33.320
Power.

00:50:35.320 --> 00:50:37.320
Power that comes from self-control

00:50:37.320 --> 00:50:39.320
and power that comes from the Holy Spirit.

00:50:39.320 --> 00:50:41.320
Rest.

00:50:41.320 --> 00:50:43.320
To do what is required

00:50:43.320 --> 00:50:45.320
and not do an iota more.

00:50:45.320 --> 00:50:47.320
And finally,

00:50:47.320 --> 00:50:49.320
in the Holy Spirit.

00:50:49.320 --> 00:50:51.320
All of it from the Holy Spirit,

00:50:51.320 --> 00:50:53.320
in the Holy Spirit.

00:50:53.320 --> 00:50:55.320
When that is developed,

00:50:55.320 --> 00:50:57.320
then you can handle it.

00:50:57.320 --> 00:50:59.320
Otherwise, it's hard to handle.

00:50:59.320 --> 00:51:01.320
We will be tested on it.

00:51:01.320 --> 00:51:03.320
Another scripture that I want to join

00:51:03.320 --> 00:51:05.320
to Internal Kingdom Metics is

00:51:05.320 --> 00:51:07.320
Micah 6.8.

00:51:07.320 --> 00:51:09.320
For winter, we

00:51:09.320 --> 00:51:11.320
bring out hoodies and jackets

00:51:11.320 --> 00:51:13.320
and t-shirts. I want to put Micah 6.8.

00:51:13.320 --> 00:51:15.320
Act justly.

00:51:15.320 --> 00:51:17.320
Love

00:51:17.320 --> 00:51:19.320
mercy.

00:51:19.320 --> 00:51:21.320
Walk humbly.

00:51:21.320 --> 00:51:23.320
What a statement, man!

00:51:25.320 --> 00:51:27.320
Act justly.

00:51:27.320 --> 00:51:29.320
Love mercy.

00:51:29.320 --> 00:51:31.320
Walk humbly.

00:51:31.320 --> 00:51:33.320
Do you know how hard that is to live out in the world

00:51:33.320 --> 00:51:35.320
today?

00:51:35.320 --> 00:51:37.320
And then to put it on the back of your shirt?

00:51:39.320 --> 00:51:41.320
Just keep walking like this, eh?

00:51:41.320 --> 00:51:43.320
Don't let them see the back if you can't live it.

00:51:43.320 --> 00:51:45.320
Just keep walking backwards.

00:51:49.320 --> 00:51:51.320
Okay.

00:51:53.320 --> 00:51:55.320
So now let's answer the questions

00:51:55.320 --> 00:51:57.320
that were asked.

00:51:57.320 --> 00:51:59.320
Does this mean that the bride should tolerate

00:51:59.320 --> 00:52:01.320
compromise?

00:52:01.320 --> 00:52:03.320
So we go to the last piece

00:52:03.320 --> 00:52:05.320
of this parable, which is

00:52:05.320 --> 00:52:07.320
from verse 11 to 14.

00:52:07.320 --> 00:52:09.320
Matthew 22,

00:52:09.320 --> 00:52:11.320
11 to 14.

00:52:15.320 --> 00:52:17.320
But the king came in

00:52:17.320 --> 00:52:19.320
to see the guests.

00:52:19.320 --> 00:52:21.320
He noticed a man there who was not

00:52:21.320 --> 00:52:23.320
wearing wedding clothes.

00:52:23.320 --> 00:52:25.320
Friend. You know, in the parables

00:52:25.320 --> 00:52:27.320
whenever Jesus uses friend,

00:52:27.320 --> 00:52:29.320
just be careful, eh?

00:52:29.320 --> 00:52:31.320
He doesn't actually mean it the way it should sound.

00:52:33.320 --> 00:52:35.320
He did the same thing in the parable of

00:52:35.320 --> 00:52:37.320
the vineyard

00:52:37.320 --> 00:52:39.320
workers. They came to complain to him

00:52:39.320 --> 00:52:41.320
saying, we came, we're working

00:52:41.320 --> 00:52:43.320
from nine to five, you gave us one

00:52:43.320 --> 00:52:45.320
denarius, and now this guy comes four to five,

00:52:45.320 --> 00:52:47.320
and you're giving him another denarius, and Jesus

00:52:47.320 --> 00:52:49.320
is responsible. Friend,

00:52:49.320 --> 00:52:51.320
what is it to you?

00:52:51.320 --> 00:52:53.320
I had a contract with you, I gave you a denarius, and when

00:52:53.320 --> 00:52:55.320
he says friend like that, just be careful.

00:52:57.320 --> 00:52:59.320
That doesn't make you go, I'm a friend of God.

00:52:59.320 --> 00:53:01.320
It makes you hesitate.

00:53:01.320 --> 00:53:03.320
So here's what it says.

00:53:03.320 --> 00:53:05.320
Then the king,

00:53:05.320 --> 00:53:07.320
yeah, but when the king came in to see the

00:53:07.320 --> 00:53:09.320
guests, he noticed a man there who was not

00:53:09.320 --> 00:53:11.320
wearing wedding clothes. Friend, he

00:53:11.320 --> 00:53:13.320
asked, how did you get in here

00:53:13.320 --> 00:53:15.320
without wedding clothes? The man was

00:53:15.320 --> 00:53:17.320
speechless. Then the king told the attendants,

00:53:17.320 --> 00:53:19.320
tie him hand and foot and throw

00:53:19.320 --> 00:53:21.320
him outside into the darkness where

00:53:21.320 --> 00:53:23.320
there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth

00:53:23.320 --> 00:53:25.320
for many are invited

00:53:25.320 --> 00:53:27.320
and few are chosen. Many are called,

00:53:27.320 --> 00:53:29.320
few are chosen, many are invited, few are chosen.

00:53:31.320 --> 00:53:33.320
So does it mean the bride should tolerate

00:53:33.320 --> 00:53:35.320
compromise? No.

00:53:35.320 --> 00:53:37.320
Even though Jesus is talking about

00:53:37.320 --> 00:53:39.320
this parable in terms of the end times,

00:53:39.320 --> 00:53:41.320
we can draw parallels of it now.

00:53:41.320 --> 00:53:43.320
So the king himself will come into the wedding hall.

00:53:43.320 --> 00:53:45.320
He sees the guests.

00:53:45.320 --> 00:53:47.320
He sees this guy. He spots

00:53:47.320 --> 00:53:49.320
a man not wearing a wedding garment.

00:53:49.320 --> 00:53:51.320
He asks the question, how did you get in here

00:53:51.320 --> 00:53:53.320
without the right clothes? So

00:53:55.320 --> 00:53:57.320
he's singling out someone

00:53:57.320 --> 00:53:59.320
who responded

00:53:59.320 --> 00:54:01.320
to the invitation.

00:54:05.320 --> 00:54:07.320
He responded to the invitation

00:54:07.320 --> 00:54:09.320
to come to the banquet hall,

00:54:13.320 --> 00:54:15.320
which here represents

00:54:15.320 --> 00:54:17.320
both kingdom and

00:54:17.320 --> 00:54:19.320
his church

00:54:23.320 --> 00:54:25.320
because ramblations proves that.

00:54:25.320 --> 00:54:27.320
But who

00:54:27.320 --> 00:54:29.320
failed

00:54:31.320 --> 00:54:33.320
to recognize

00:54:33.320 --> 00:54:35.320
the seriousness

00:54:39.320 --> 00:54:41.320
of where he is

00:54:43.320 --> 00:54:45.320
and who's invited him.

00:54:53.320 --> 00:54:55.320
So responding to the invitation is only

00:54:55.320 --> 00:54:57.320
the beginning.

00:54:57.320 --> 00:54:59.320
The church is where disciples are trained

00:54:59.320 --> 00:55:01.320
and then sent out.

00:55:01.320 --> 00:55:03.320
The wedding garment here represents

00:55:03.320 --> 00:55:05.320
the clothing of a mature disciple.

00:55:05.320 --> 00:55:07.320
The wedding garment

00:55:09.320 --> 00:55:11.320
represents

00:55:11.320 --> 00:55:13.320
the clothing

00:55:17.320 --> 00:55:19.320
of a mature disciple.

00:55:21.320 --> 00:55:23.320
Let's see if there's any evidence

00:55:23.320 --> 00:55:25.320
for this.

00:55:25.320 --> 00:55:27.320
Go to Revelation 19.

00:55:27.320 --> 00:55:29.320
Go to Revelation 19.

00:55:29.320 --> 00:55:31.320
6 to 8.

00:55:31.320 --> 00:55:33.320
What's a mature

00:55:33.320 --> 00:55:35.320
disciple? Someone who knows the

00:55:35.320 --> 00:55:37.320
ways of righteousness,

00:55:37.320 --> 00:55:39.320
who is beginning

00:55:39.320 --> 00:55:41.320
to get conformed

00:55:41.320 --> 00:55:43.320
to the image of Christ.

00:55:43.320 --> 00:55:45.320
Go to

00:55:45.320 --> 00:55:47.320
Revelation 19, 6 to 8.

00:55:47.320 --> 00:55:49.320
Revelation 19,

00:55:49.320 --> 00:55:51.320
6 to 8.

00:55:57.320 --> 00:55:59.320
Then I heard

00:55:59.320 --> 00:56:01.320
starting at verse 6.

00:56:01.320 --> 00:56:03.320
Then I heard what sounded

00:56:03.320 --> 00:56:05.320
like a great multitude,

00:56:05.320 --> 00:56:07.320
like the roar of rushing waters,

00:56:07.320 --> 00:56:09.320
like loud peals of thunder

00:56:09.320 --> 00:56:11.320
shouting, Hallelujah!

00:56:11.320 --> 00:56:13.320
For our Lord Almighty reigns,

00:56:13.320 --> 00:56:15.320
let us rejoice and be

00:56:15.320 --> 00:56:17.320
glad and give him glory.

00:56:17.320 --> 00:56:19.320
For the wedding of the Lamb has come

00:56:19.320 --> 00:56:21.320
and his bride has made herself

00:56:21.320 --> 00:56:23.320
ready. Fine linen,

00:56:23.320 --> 00:56:25.320
bright and clean, was given her

00:56:25.320 --> 00:56:27.320
to wear. Fine linen

00:56:27.320 --> 00:56:29.320
stands for the righteous acts

00:56:29.320 --> 00:56:31.320
of the saints.

00:56:33.320 --> 00:56:35.320
So there's a difference between

00:56:35.320 --> 00:56:37.320
being called, because many

00:56:37.320 --> 00:56:39.320
are called, and then

00:56:39.320 --> 00:56:41.320
being revealed as having conformed

00:56:41.320 --> 00:56:43.320
to the statue of Christ, and that

00:56:43.320 --> 00:56:45.320
is where we get to few are chosen.

00:56:45.320 --> 00:56:47.320
This applies

00:56:47.320 --> 00:56:49.320
to all of us, not just to the ones

00:56:49.320 --> 00:56:51.320
that are coming in.

00:56:51.320 --> 00:56:53.320
Where the idea is,

00:56:53.320 --> 00:56:55.320
you can come in,

00:56:55.320 --> 00:56:57.320
and yes you are called,

00:56:57.320 --> 00:56:59.320
everybody is called,

00:56:59.320 --> 00:57:01.320
everyone is invited, come.

00:57:01.320 --> 00:57:03.320
Once you come in,

00:57:03.320 --> 00:57:05.320
the King expects

00:57:05.320 --> 00:57:07.320
that you consider the seriousness

00:57:07.320 --> 00:57:09.320
of what you are attending,

00:57:09.320 --> 00:57:11.320
both in terms of the banquet

00:57:11.320 --> 00:57:13.320
being the Kingdom

00:57:13.320 --> 00:57:15.320
and the Church, and he spots

00:57:15.320 --> 00:57:17.320
one, he spots one

00:57:17.320 --> 00:57:19.320
that is not dressed.

00:57:19.320 --> 00:57:21.320
And his reaction

00:57:21.320 --> 00:57:23.320
is pretty immediate.

00:57:23.320 --> 00:57:25.320
Tie him, bind him, throw him out.

00:57:25.320 --> 00:57:27.320
Message puts it this way,

00:57:27.320 --> 00:57:29.320
pack him off to hell.

00:57:31.320 --> 00:57:33.320
Many are called, few are chosen.

00:57:33.320 --> 00:57:35.320
Now begins extra work for us,

00:57:35.320 --> 00:57:37.320
because the ones that

00:57:37.320 --> 00:57:39.320
are calling are good and bad,

00:57:39.320 --> 00:57:41.320
now you have to pour yourself out,

00:57:41.320 --> 00:57:43.320
just like others poured themselves out

00:57:43.320 --> 00:57:45.320
for you, so that you can

00:57:45.320 --> 00:57:47.320
be called, and you can be

00:57:47.320 --> 00:57:49.320
poured themselves out for you,

00:57:49.320 --> 00:57:51.320
so that you can go from

00:57:51.320 --> 00:57:53.320
what was bad to what is now

00:57:53.320 --> 00:57:55.320
getting better, till we get conformed

00:57:55.320 --> 00:57:57.320
to the status of Christ.

00:57:59.320 --> 00:58:01.320
Go to Colossians 1,

00:58:01.320 --> 00:58:03.320
28 and 29, and you'll see

00:58:03.320 --> 00:58:05.320
Paul talking about this,

00:58:05.320 --> 00:58:07.320
and I would like to say to you

00:58:07.320 --> 00:58:09.320
that anyone

00:58:09.320 --> 00:58:11.320
who is a leader here

00:58:11.320 --> 00:58:13.320
has to do this.

00:58:13.320 --> 00:58:15.320
I do this continuously.

00:58:15.320 --> 00:58:17.320
Colossians 1, 28 and 29.

00:58:23.320 --> 00:58:25.320
Colossians 1,

00:58:25.320 --> 00:58:27.320
28 and 29.

00:58:27.320 --> 00:58:29.320
And may

00:58:29.320 --> 00:58:31.320
nobody in this church ever

00:58:31.320 --> 00:58:33.320
escape what this

00:58:33.320 --> 00:58:35.320
scripture says.

00:58:35.320 --> 00:58:37.320
May you never escape, may you dislike,

00:58:37.320 --> 00:58:39.320
may you hate, may you leave,

00:58:39.320 --> 00:58:41.320
but may you never escape

00:58:41.320 --> 00:58:43.320
this from your leaders.

00:58:43.320 --> 00:58:45.320
Colossians 1,

00:58:45.320 --> 00:58:47.320
28 and 29.

00:58:47.320 --> 00:58:49.320
It says,

00:58:51.320 --> 00:58:53.320
let's start at verse 27.

00:58:55.320 --> 00:58:57.320
Oh, 28 and 29 is fine.

00:58:57.320 --> 00:58:59.320
He is the one we proclaim,

00:58:59.320 --> 00:59:01.320
admonishing and teaching

00:59:01.320 --> 00:59:03.320
everyone with all wisdom,

00:59:03.320 --> 00:59:05.320
so that we may present everyone

00:59:05.320 --> 00:59:07.320
fully mature in Christ.

00:59:07.320 --> 00:59:09.320
To this end, I strenuously

00:59:09.320 --> 00:59:11.320
contend with all the

00:59:11.320 --> 00:59:13.320
energy Christ so powerfully

00:59:13.320 --> 00:59:15.320
works in me. I do acknowledge

00:59:15.320 --> 00:59:17.320
that the energy comes from

00:59:17.320 --> 00:59:19.320
Christ, who powerfully empowers

00:59:19.320 --> 00:59:21.320
me, but may it be known

00:59:21.320 --> 00:59:23.320
that there will not be a day

00:59:23.320 --> 00:59:25.320
when I will not strenuously

00:59:25.320 --> 00:59:27.320
contend to present you

00:59:27.320 --> 00:59:29.320
to Christ mature.

00:59:29.320 --> 00:59:31.320
And if you don't like that,

00:59:31.320 --> 00:59:33.320
you can take it for some time and leave,

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or take it for some time and stay in change.

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And this is, I'm not speaking for myself here.

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I'm speaking for every leader in

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this church, in whatever capacity.

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I'm not talking about house church leaders or this.

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I'm talking about anyone in a leadership

00:59:45.320 --> 00:59:47.320
capacity must do this,

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and does it,

00:59:49.320 --> 00:59:51.320
and will continue to do it as

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more leaders come up in the future.

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You who may not be a leader today

00:59:55.320 --> 00:59:57.320
may be a leader tomorrow, and this is

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expected of you.

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And if you chaff at it, good.

01:00:01.320 --> 01:00:03.320
That means it's effective. What you do

01:00:03.320 --> 01:00:05.320
with the chaffing.

01:00:05.320 --> 01:00:07.320
If you chaff at it,

01:00:07.320 --> 01:00:09.320
do what, it's a good thing.

01:00:09.320 --> 01:00:11.320
That means some friction is really

01:00:11.320 --> 01:00:13.320
rubbing off. What you do with the

01:00:13.320 --> 01:00:15.320
chaffing is up to you. Chaffing.

01:00:15.320 --> 01:00:17.320
Chaffing. Chaffing.

01:00:17.320 --> 01:00:19.320
Oh, what, okay.

01:00:19.320 --> 01:00:21.320
Let me change the word so

01:00:21.320 --> 01:00:23.320
I don't mess it up.

01:00:23.320 --> 01:00:25.320
If you find it like

01:00:25.320 --> 01:00:27.320
a pebble in your shoe, good.

01:00:27.320 --> 01:00:29.320
It's beginning to bother you.

01:00:29.320 --> 01:00:31.320
What you do with a pebble is up to you.

01:00:37.320 --> 01:00:39.320
But may you not have a week

01:00:39.320 --> 01:00:41.320
where this pressure is not on you.

01:00:59.320 --> 01:01:01.320
The man is speechless.

01:01:01.320 --> 01:01:03.320
The servants are ordered

01:01:03.320 --> 01:01:05.320
to bind him hand and foot

01:01:05.320 --> 01:01:07.320
and throw him into outer darkness

01:01:07.320 --> 01:01:09.320
where there will be weeping

01:01:09.320 --> 01:01:11.320
and gnashing of teeth.

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Or, in other words,

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the judgment of the unrighteous. Please don't think

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that there is some condition reserved

01:01:17.320 --> 01:01:19.320
for those that are going to come in from Richmond

01:01:19.320 --> 01:01:21.320
months from now.

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Always remember, judgment

01:01:23.320 --> 01:01:25.320
starts in the house of God.

01:01:25.320 --> 01:01:27.320
House of God.

01:01:33.320 --> 01:01:35.320
Let's read two

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scriptures that I want us to read

01:01:37.320 --> 01:01:39.320
before we conclude.

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Galatians 6,

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verse 7 and 8.

01:01:43.320 --> 01:01:45.320
Galatians 6, 7 and 8.

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If your life is the same

01:01:47.320 --> 01:01:49.320
as that of ones in the world,

01:01:49.320 --> 01:01:51.320
regardless of the excuse you may have,

01:01:51.320 --> 01:01:53.320
you need to take

01:01:53.320 --> 01:01:55.320
note that you cannot trifle

01:01:55.320 --> 01:01:57.320
with God.

01:01:57.320 --> 01:01:59.320
Galatians 6,

01:01:59.320 --> 01:02:01.320
verse 7 and 8.

01:02:09.320 --> 01:02:11.320
I'm going to read verse 6 too.

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Might be for someone who

01:02:13.320 --> 01:02:15.320
is wondering whether you should or should not.

01:02:15.320 --> 01:02:17.320
Anyone who receives instruction in the word

01:02:17.320 --> 01:02:19.320
must share all good things

01:02:19.320 --> 01:02:21.320
with his instructor.

01:02:21.320 --> 01:02:23.320
Verse 7, do not be deceived.

01:02:23.320 --> 01:02:25.320
God cannot

01:02:25.320 --> 01:02:27.320
be mocked.

01:02:27.320 --> 01:02:29.320
A man reaps what he

01:02:29.320 --> 01:02:31.320
sows. The one who sows

01:02:31.320 --> 01:02:33.320
to please his sinful nature

01:02:33.320 --> 01:02:35.320
from that nature will reap

01:02:35.320 --> 01:02:37.320
destruction.

01:02:37.320 --> 01:02:39.320
The one who sows to please the spirit

01:02:39.320 --> 01:02:41.320
from the spirit will reap

01:02:41.320 --> 01:02:43.320
eternal life.

01:02:43.320 --> 01:02:45.320
Now the scripture on this one I want to read from

01:02:45.320 --> 01:02:47.320
the message.

01:02:47.320 --> 01:02:49.320
1 Corinthians 10,

01:02:49.320 --> 01:02:51.320
18 to 22.

01:02:51.320 --> 01:02:53.320
1 Corinthians 10,

01:02:53.320 --> 01:02:55.320
18 to 22.

01:02:59.320 --> 01:03:01.320
Reading from the message.

01:03:07.320 --> 01:03:09.320
That's basically what happened even in

01:03:09.320 --> 01:03:11.320
old Israel.

01:03:11.320 --> 01:03:13.320
Those who ate the sacrifices offered

01:03:13.320 --> 01:03:15.320
on God's altar entered

01:03:15.320 --> 01:03:17.320
into God's action at the altar.

01:03:17.320 --> 01:03:19.320
Do you see the difference?

01:03:19.320 --> 01:03:21.320
Sacrifices offered to idols

01:03:21.320 --> 01:03:23.320
are nothing.

01:03:23.320 --> 01:03:25.320
For what's the idol

01:03:25.320 --> 01:03:27.320
but a nothing?

01:03:27.320 --> 01:03:29.320
Or worse than nothing are minus a demon.

01:03:29.320 --> 01:03:31.320
I don't want you to become part of something that

01:03:31.320 --> 01:03:33.320
reduces you to lessen yourself.

01:03:33.320 --> 01:03:35.320
And you can't have it

01:03:35.320 --> 01:03:37.320
both ways. Banqueting with the

01:03:37.320 --> 01:03:39.320
master one day, slumming with demons

01:03:39.320 --> 01:03:41.320
the next. Besides

01:03:41.320 --> 01:03:43.320
the master won't put up with it.

01:03:43.320 --> 01:03:45.320
He wants us all

01:03:45.320 --> 01:03:47.320
to be a demon or nothing.

01:03:47.320 --> 01:03:49.320
Do you think you can get off with anything

01:03:49.320 --> 01:03:51.320
less? Wow.

01:03:53.320 --> 01:03:55.320
And that is why

01:03:55.320 --> 01:03:57.320
1 Corinthians

01:03:57.320 --> 01:03:59.320
1 Corinthians 28 and 29

01:03:59.320 --> 01:04:01.320
is important.

01:04:01.320 --> 01:04:03.320
Our job as pastors, leaders

01:04:03.320 --> 01:04:05.320
let me say our job

01:04:05.320 --> 01:04:07.320
as mature believers. Forget the word pastor

01:04:07.320 --> 01:04:09.320
forget the word leaders. Our job

01:04:09.320 --> 01:04:11.320
as mature believers

01:04:11.320 --> 01:04:13.320
is summed up by Paul

01:04:13.320 --> 01:04:15.320
in Colossians 1, 28 and 29.

01:04:15.320 --> 01:04:17.320
What is it?

01:04:17.320 --> 01:04:19.320
Let's go look at it again. Colossians 1,

01:04:19.320 --> 01:04:21.320
28 and 29. Our job

01:04:21.320 --> 01:04:23.320
as mature believers

01:04:23.320 --> 01:04:25.320
is to do this.

01:04:27.320 --> 01:04:29.320
Colossians 1,

01:04:29.320 --> 01:04:31.320
28 and 29.

01:04:37.320 --> 01:04:39.320
We proclaiming, admonishing

01:04:39.320 --> 01:04:41.320
and teaching everyone with all wisdom

01:04:41.320 --> 01:04:43.320
so that we may present

01:04:43.320 --> 01:04:45.320
everyone perfect in Christ.

01:04:45.320 --> 01:04:47.320
To this end I labor,

01:04:47.320 --> 01:04:49.320
struggling with all his energy

01:04:49.320 --> 01:04:51.320
which he so powerfully works in me.

01:04:51.320 --> 01:04:53.320
Any questions guys?

01:04:53.320 --> 01:04:55.320
This is where we are going.

01:04:55.320 --> 01:04:57.320
These are the

01:04:57.320 --> 01:04:59.320
challenges that we will face.

01:04:59.320 --> 01:05:01.320
These are the tests

01:05:01.320 --> 01:05:03.320
that we must pass

01:05:03.320 --> 01:05:05.320
because the word of the Lord will test us.

01:05:05.320 --> 01:05:07.320
The word of God

01:05:07.320 --> 01:05:09.320
always tests us. Study to be

01:05:09.320 --> 01:05:11.320
approved. When you study you have to be

01:05:11.320 --> 01:05:13.320
approved. The way the

01:05:13.320 --> 01:05:15.320
kingdom works is approval is through

01:05:15.320 --> 01:05:17.320
the testing of the word.

01:05:17.320 --> 01:05:19.320
Psalm 105, verse 19. And the word of the

01:05:19.320 --> 01:05:21.320
Lord tested Joseph.

01:05:25.320 --> 01:05:27.320
And sometimes in a test

01:05:27.320 --> 01:05:29.320
like this we'll fail.

01:05:29.320 --> 01:05:31.320
So get up and get tested

01:05:31.320 --> 01:05:33.320
again and pass.

01:05:35.320 --> 01:05:37.320
We might have a situation where we deal

01:05:37.320 --> 01:05:39.320
really badly with

01:05:39.320 --> 01:05:41.320
a context in terms of

01:05:41.320 --> 01:05:43.320
how we spoke. Tomorrow we get

01:05:43.320 --> 01:05:45.320
another shot at it.

01:05:45.320 --> 01:05:47.320
We don't compensate for what we did wrong.

01:05:47.320 --> 01:05:49.320
God does. But we step

01:05:49.320 --> 01:05:51.320
up again to do it well.

01:05:53.320 --> 01:05:55.320
Any questions?

01:05:55.320 --> 01:05:57.320
Okay.

01:06:01.320 --> 01:06:03.320
How should we end this?

01:06:13.320 --> 01:06:15.320
Any thoughts on how to end it?

01:06:15.320 --> 01:06:17.320
Okay.

01:06:17.320 --> 01:06:19.320
So,

01:06:19.320 --> 01:06:21.320
we're going to

01:06:21.320 --> 01:06:23.320
start with

01:06:23.320 --> 01:06:25.320
any thoughts on how to end it?

01:06:37.320 --> 01:06:39.320
Okay. Let's play.

01:06:39.320 --> 01:06:41.320
Father,

01:06:45.320 --> 01:06:47.320
we haven't gone down this road

01:06:47.320 --> 01:06:49.320
before.

01:06:49.320 --> 01:06:51.320
We think we are all that, but

01:06:51.320 --> 01:06:53.320
this will present a challenge.

01:07:01.320 --> 01:07:03.320
So,

01:07:05.320 --> 01:07:07.320
most changes begin top

01:07:07.320 --> 01:07:09.320
down in the kingdom.

01:07:09.320 --> 01:07:11.320
So in a test like this it begins with me.

01:07:11.320 --> 01:07:13.320
So the three things we want to avoid is being

01:07:13.320 --> 01:07:15.320
farasacal,

01:07:19.320 --> 01:07:21.320
being like the older brother,

01:07:25.320 --> 01:07:27.320
or the workers in the vineyard

01:07:27.320 --> 01:07:29.320
who don't like that after putting all the work

01:07:29.320 --> 01:07:31.320
they have, someone else is being treated

01:07:31.320 --> 01:07:33.320
way worse

01:07:33.320 --> 01:07:35.320
than they are.

01:07:35.320 --> 01:07:37.320
So,

01:07:37.320 --> 01:07:39.320
we're going to start with

01:07:39.320 --> 01:07:41.320
someone else being treated way too nicely,

01:07:43.320 --> 01:07:45.320
or the farasi who

01:07:47.320 --> 01:07:49.320
has worked hard at keeping rules.

01:07:51.320 --> 01:07:53.320
And our people just walk in and there's

01:07:53.320 --> 01:07:55.320
grace, grace, grace.

01:07:57.320 --> 01:07:59.320
So the one thing that I pray for in

01:07:59.320 --> 01:08:01.320
Acts 29,

01:08:01.320 --> 01:08:03.320
today as we conclude,

01:08:03.320 --> 01:08:05.320
is that we

01:08:05.320 --> 01:08:07.320
do what

01:08:07.320 --> 01:08:09.320
1 Peter says,

01:08:09.320 --> 01:08:11.320
submit to God, resist the devil,

01:08:11.320 --> 01:08:13.320
and he will flee from you.

01:08:13.320 --> 01:08:15.320
So the thing we want to resist today

01:08:15.320 --> 01:08:17.320
is the religious spirit.

01:08:17.320 --> 01:08:19.320
Every church

01:08:19.320 --> 01:08:21.320
unfortunately has it.

01:08:21.320 --> 01:08:23.320
Acts 29 has it.

01:08:23.320 --> 01:08:25.320
And if Acts 29 has it,

01:08:25.320 --> 01:08:27.320
then I sure know that I have it too.

01:08:29.320 --> 01:08:31.320
So today, Father,

01:08:31.320 --> 01:08:33.320
we just take a couple of moments to

01:08:33.320 --> 01:08:35.320
ponder on this thing of the religious spirit.

01:08:35.320 --> 01:08:37.320
It makes, the religious spirit

01:08:37.320 --> 01:08:39.320
makes you deaf, makes you mute.

01:08:43.320 --> 01:08:45.320
And so we just want to take

01:08:45.320 --> 01:08:47.320
a couple of minutes to just think about that.

01:08:47.320 --> 01:08:49.320
That is the religious spirit

01:08:49.320 --> 01:08:51.320
active in my life.

01:09:03.320 --> 01:09:05.320
The religious spirit is judgmental.

01:09:15.320 --> 01:09:17.320
The religious spirit does not

01:09:17.320 --> 01:09:19.320
have judgmental

01:09:19.320 --> 01:09:21.320
or judgmental

01:09:21.320 --> 01:09:23.320
or judgmental

01:09:23.320 --> 01:09:25.320
or judgmental

01:09:25.320 --> 01:09:27.320
or judgmental

01:09:27.320 --> 01:09:29.320
judgmental

01:09:29.320 --> 01:09:31.320
judgmental

01:09:31.320 --> 01:09:33.320
It does not

01:09:33.320 --> 01:09:35.320
relent

01:09:35.320 --> 01:09:37.320
unless

01:09:37.320 --> 01:09:39.320
external

01:09:39.320 --> 01:09:41.320
change is seen.

01:09:41.320 --> 01:09:43.320
The religious spirit

01:09:43.320 --> 01:09:45.320
holds back mercy.

01:09:49.320 --> 01:09:51.320
The religious spirit creates

01:09:51.320 --> 01:09:53.320
hopes for people to jump through.

01:09:53.320 --> 01:09:55.320
The religious spirit is always

01:09:55.320 --> 01:09:57.320
Christ plus something.

01:10:07.320 --> 01:10:09.320
The religious spirit

01:10:09.320 --> 01:10:11.320
does not understand grace

01:10:11.320 --> 01:10:13.320
because grace should only

01:10:13.320 --> 01:10:15.320
be done by the

01:10:15.320 --> 01:10:17.320
person who is

01:10:17.320 --> 01:10:19.320
the person who is

01:10:19.320 --> 01:10:21.320
the person who is

01:10:21.320 --> 01:10:23.320
the person who is.

01:10:23.320 --> 01:10:25.320
The religious spirit is

01:10:25.320 --> 01:10:27.320
completely based on

01:10:27.320 --> 01:10:29.320
deservedness

01:10:29.320 --> 01:10:31.320
and is so

01:10:31.320 --> 01:10:33.320
antithetical to the cross.

01:10:41.320 --> 01:10:43.320
The religious spirit

01:10:43.320 --> 01:10:45.320
can pigeonhole certain people

01:10:45.320 --> 01:10:47.320
who have been through certain things

01:10:47.320 --> 01:10:49.320
as forever tainted.

01:10:51.320 --> 01:10:53.320
The religious spirit does not

01:10:53.320 --> 01:10:55.320
as it says

01:10:55.320 --> 01:10:57.320
in 1 Corinthians 13

01:10:57.320 --> 01:10:59.320
hope, love hopes

01:10:59.320 --> 01:11:01.320
the religious spirit does not.

01:11:01.320 --> 01:11:03.320
It is pessimistic in its outlook.

01:11:07.320 --> 01:11:09.320
Father when I hear all of these things

01:11:09.320 --> 01:11:11.320
you're not done yet.

01:11:11.320 --> 01:11:13.320
You're saying there's another side to the religious spirit.

01:11:15.320 --> 01:11:17.320
There are some that live by the religious spirit

01:11:17.320 --> 01:11:19.320
by saying everything is okay, God loves me.

01:11:19.320 --> 01:11:21.320
Strangely that's also a religious spirit.

01:11:23.320 --> 01:11:25.320
Where you live and slum with

01:11:25.320 --> 01:11:27.320
demons today

01:11:27.320 --> 01:11:29.320
and then eat at the Lord's table tomorrow.

01:11:29.320 --> 01:11:31.320
That is a religious spirit too.

01:11:31.320 --> 01:11:33.320
Which treats grace

01:11:33.320 --> 01:11:35.320
like

01:11:35.320 --> 01:11:37.320
gutter water.

01:11:39.320 --> 01:11:41.320
Strange that you included that also.

01:11:43.320 --> 01:11:45.320
It's okay to live however you want

01:11:45.320 --> 01:11:47.320
because God is love

01:11:47.320 --> 01:11:49.320
and He'll forgive me.

01:11:57.320 --> 01:11:59.320
Jesus as we go through this list

01:11:59.320 --> 01:12:01.320
I definitely have these problems.

01:12:01.320 --> 01:12:03.320
If not all of them

01:12:03.320 --> 01:12:05.320
quite a few of them.

01:12:05.320 --> 01:12:07.320
The reason I'm admitting it publicly

01:12:07.320 --> 01:12:09.320
so that we can

01:12:09.320 --> 01:12:11.320
so that I can turn away from it publicly

01:12:11.320 --> 01:12:13.320
so that I can make myself aware of it.

01:12:15.320 --> 01:12:17.320
If I do it then the church can do it too.

01:12:23.320 --> 01:12:25.320
So across this room would you help people

01:12:25.320 --> 01:12:27.320
with their problems?

01:12:27.320 --> 01:12:29.320
I would.

01:12:29.320 --> 01:12:31.320
I would.

01:12:31.320 --> 01:12:33.320
I would.

01:12:33.320 --> 01:12:35.320
So across this room would you help people

01:12:35.320 --> 01:12:37.320
Father before we end?

01:13:03.320 --> 01:13:05.320
Father we can stop you from doing what you want.

01:13:15.320 --> 01:13:17.320
So on behalf of this church

01:13:17.320 --> 01:13:19.320
I repent Father.

01:13:23.320 --> 01:13:25.320
I pray that if we are not aware of it

01:13:25.320 --> 01:13:27.320
that you would make us aware of it.

01:13:29.320 --> 01:13:31.320
I pray that you would make us aware of it.

01:13:33.320 --> 01:13:35.320
It's what sent you to the cross.

01:13:35.320 --> 01:13:37.320
It's what made people

01:13:37.320 --> 01:13:39.320
deaf to what you said.

01:13:49.320 --> 01:13:51.320
Now having submitted to you

01:13:51.320 --> 01:13:53.320
we resist the spirit of legalism

01:13:53.320 --> 01:13:55.320
and religion.

01:13:55.320 --> 01:13:57.320
Church just quietly agree

01:13:57.320 --> 01:13:59.320
yeah?

01:13:59.320 --> 01:14:01.320
Because it's a spirit being

01:14:01.320 --> 01:14:03.320
it must be resisted

01:14:03.320 --> 01:14:05.320
and it will flee.

01:14:05.320 --> 01:14:07.320
Yeah?

01:14:07.320 --> 01:14:09.320
We can't try and forward this.

01:14:09.320 --> 01:14:11.320
We can't drive it out of our lives as a people.

01:14:13.320 --> 01:14:15.320
So Father in submission

01:14:15.320 --> 01:14:17.320
to you Jesus

01:14:17.320 --> 01:14:19.320
we as a church resist

01:14:19.320 --> 01:14:21.320
the spirit of religion

01:14:21.320 --> 01:14:23.320
the spirit of legalism in our midst

01:14:23.320 --> 01:14:25.320
in our lives

01:14:25.320 --> 01:14:27.320
we resist it in the name of Jesus Christ

01:14:27.320 --> 01:14:29.320
right now.

01:14:29.320 --> 01:14:31.320
It doesn't make us less discerning

01:14:31.320 --> 01:14:33.320
it just makes us aware

01:14:33.320 --> 01:14:35.320
that the spirit that was operating

01:14:35.320 --> 01:14:37.320
will not have free reign here.

01:14:37.320 --> 01:14:39.320
We resist the spirit

01:14:39.320 --> 01:14:41.320
in the name of Jesus Christ

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and it flees so that these doors

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can be opened.

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So we thank you for prompting us

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to take this small step, Holy Spirit.

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And for the big thing that you are doing

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because of that.

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Amen.

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In Jesus name. Amen.

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Bless you guys as you go

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and

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if you need prayer

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there will be someone here to pray with you.

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Otherwise we will see you when the church

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meets again. Yeah?

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Cool.