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Podcast: Acts 29 Vancouver
Episode: Laodicea Part 2
Publishing Date: 2021-05-30T06:00:44-07:00
Podcast URL: https://acts29.ca
Episode URL: https://acts29.ca/laodicea-part-2/

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of course. No, I'm good. Okay. Betty, if you want to share the sound that you felt God

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wants us to hear. It's not like I will kill my enemies. It's not that kind of a sound,

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right? Okay. Hey, can you give us some volume? Actually, it's Psalm 45. It's a wedding song.

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Cool. And we are the bride in this song. My heart is stirred by a noble theme as I recite

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my verses for the king. My tongue is the pen of a skillful writer. You are the most excellent

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of men and your lips have been anointed with grace since God has blessed you forever. Gird

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your sword on your side, you mighty one. Clothe yourself with splendor and majesty. In your

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majesty, ride forth victoriously in the cause of truth, humility and justice. Let your right

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hand achieve awesome deeds. Let your sharp arrows pierce the hearts of the king's enemies.

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Let the nations fall beneath your feet. Your throne, O God, will last forever and ever.

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A scepter of justice will be the scepter of your kingdom. You love righteousness and hate

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wickedness. Therefore, God, your God, has set you above your companions by anointing you with the

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oil of joy. All your robes are fragrant with myrrh and aloes and cassia. From palaces adorned with

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ivory and music of the strings make you glad. Daughters of kings are among your honored women.

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At your right hand is a royal bride in gold of Ophir. Listen, daughter, and pay careful attention.

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Forget your people and your father's house. Let the king be enthralled by your beauty. Honor him,

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for he is your Lord. The city of Tyre will come with a gift. People of wealth will seek your favor.

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All glorious is the princess within her chamber. Her gown is interwoven with gold. In embroidered

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garments, she is led to the king. Her virgin companions follow her, those brought to be with

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her. Led in with joy and gladness, they enter the palace of the king. Your sons will take the place

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of your fathers. You will make them princes throughout the land. I will perpetuate your memory

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through all generations. Therefore, the nations will praise you forever and ever.

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Guys, so what you need to do is go home at some point between today and tomorrow and read Psalm

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45 and see if there's a promise for you in it, eh? That's how these things work. If it is a psalm

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given to us as a church, when you read it out like this, it's so hard to keep track, especially

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because it's half the size of Psalm 119. And so then you need to go home and then read through it,

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comb through it to see if there's a promise. That's what I'll be doing once I get home at

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some point between now and tomorrow. Okay. No one still has a pen, right? Okay. Don,

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just can you grab that bag and I'll give you my keys and then check if there's a pen in the back

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of my car. Okay, guys, we'll start. So this is Laodicea Part 2. We did Part 1 last night,

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Laodicea Part 2. And we talked about the problem with Laodicea when it came to hot and cold,

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not being about spiritual temperature that Jesus was talking about. He wasn't saying,

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because that's how it's usually interpreted, that either be hot or be cold. That seems to him that

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Jesus is okay with hot or with cold. I think I'll switch to the other mic, man.

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Can I have some? Yeah. So when we think of hot and cold as two things that Jesus is saying is

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okay, it would imply then that he's okay with being hot or cold, which doesn't make sense,

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because there's nowhere else in the Bible where he says that it's okay to be cold. So we said

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that when he's talking about Laodicea and he's saying you are lukewarm, what he was doing was

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comparing the hot medicinal springs of Hierapolis and the cold, refreshing waters of Colosseum,

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which were about 10 kilometers apart from Laodicea. And then there was water that would come via an

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aqueduct into Laodicea, and it was tepid and it was lukewarm. And so what Jesus is saying there is,

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listen, you have faith, but there's a barrenness to your faith. I don't see your faith as faith

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that produces works. I see your faith as having the ability to exert, but there's no works that

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go with it. And therefore I would rather that you either be help to the sick or be refreshing to

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the weary, but you are neither. And therefore repent, because if you don't, I'll vomit you out,

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because I cannot handle lukewarmness when it comes to the things of faith. That's what we said

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yesterday. And if that's news to you, then you need to go and listen to that teaching from yesterday,

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because only that will allow you to place what I'm saying next in the right perspective, because

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almost everything here is a continuation of yesterday. So let's go to 1 Thessalonians 1.3,

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and we'll continue with the idea of work produced by faith, work produced by faith. And so much that

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I'm saying today is based on the prayer we prayed at the end of the teaching yesterday.

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1 Thessalonians 1.3, 1 Thessalonians 1.3, and it says there, we remember before our God and father,

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your work produced by faith, your labor prompted by love, your endurance inspired by hope,

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in our Lord Jesus Christ. Beautifully. We remember before our God and father, your work produced by

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faith, your labor prompted by love, your endurance inspired by hope, in our Lord Jesus Christ. And I

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want to focus on work produced by faith. And work produced by faith takes five different forms. And

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I'll go slow, because I probably won't be writing it today. And I've used the acronym migrate to kind

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of split it. Migrate has more letters than five. So don't worry, it's still five points. So MI is

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the first set. And so the first place that we need to show works producing faith is in the activity

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of ministry, in our ministry, and we kind of define ministry, what does it look like? So if you go to

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Romans chapter 15, verse 18 to 21, there was fruit to Paul's ministry. The question is, does

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Acts 29 have fruit to our ministry? And as we look at this, you've got to look at it in three ways.

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First, apply it to the church. Second, apply it to us as individuals in the church. And third,

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apply it to yourself as an individual, uniquely placed or uniquely called by God. Three ways we

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need to apply this sermon. The first is, as these questions are being asked, we have to question

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whether we are this way as a church. Then you've got to question, am I this way as an individual

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who is part of this church? And then the third thing is, am I this way as an individual, uniquely

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placed in situations and uniquely called by God with a very specific plan that God has for me?

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How am I doing when it comes to works bearing faith? We talked about Abraham yesterday. He was a guy

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who showed his faith by works. Like I said yesterday, it's one thing for you to say to your

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servants that I'm taking my boy and going up the mountain to offer a sacrifice. It's another thing

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for you to turn to your boy and say, don't worry son, God will provide a lamp. But it is a completely

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different situation when there is no lamp in sight and now you're binding up your son and placing

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him on the altar and pulling out your knife. That is works producing faith. It is faith that does

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not back off. So the first bit is, how do we show works producing faith in our ministry? How is

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Acts 29 doing at it? We can't compare ourselves to other churches. We can only compare ourselves

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to Christ and what the Bible says. So if you go to Romans 15 verse 18 to 21, that's the way we

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evaluate ourselves. Romans 15, 18 to 21, and I'm reading from the message. I have no interest in

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giving you a... I'll start at verse 17. Looking back over what has been accomplished and what I

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have observed, I must say I'm most pleased in the context of Jesus. I'd say even proud,

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but only in that context. I have no interest in giving you a chatty account of my adventures.

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Only the wondrously powerful and transformingly present words and deeds of Christ in me that

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triggered a believing response among outsiders. In such ways, I have trailblazed a preaching of

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the message of Jesus all the way from Jerusalem, far into northwest western Greece. This has all

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been pioneer work, bringing the message only into those places where Jesus was not yet known

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and worshiped. I'll go to Matthew 10, 7 to 33. Matthew 10, 7 to 33. This is what ministry should

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look like by Jesus's standards or by the standards of the New Testament. What Paul was saying in

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Romans 15, 18, 21 was, listen guys, wherever I went, I had this ability by the power of God,

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and I'm quite proud of it, though only proud of it in Jesus. Wherever I went, I had this ability

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to preach the gospel, and then the word would always be accompanied by deeds, as in works,

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as in acts. It would always be accompanied, and therefore I was able to trailblaze. So the question

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is, is that Acts 29's common experience? And the answer is, not yet. There's something that we

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haven't keyed on to, and we will. Persistence always pays off. Endurance always pays off.

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Matthew 10, 7 to 33. Tell them that the kingdom is here. Bring health to the sick. Raise the dead.

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Touch the untouchables. Kick out demons. You have been treated generously. Live generously. Don't

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think you have to put on a fundraising campaign before you start. You don't need a lot of equipment.

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You are the equipment, and all you need to keep that going is three meals a day. For some of us,

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just one. For Dawn, five. Travel light. Sorry, Dawn, you're such a nice guy. I feel bad after I take

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these shots, but not really. When you enter a town or village, don't insist on staying in a luxury

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inn. Get a modest place with some modest people, and be content there until you leave. When you

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knock on a door, be courteous in your greetings. If they welcome you, be gentle in your conversation.

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Don't say, two minutes more, two minutes more. If they don't welcome you, quietly withdraw. Don't

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make a scene. Shrug your shoulders and be on your way. You can be sure that on Judgment Day,

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they'll be mighty sorry, but it's no concern of yours now. Sometimes the way the message presence

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thinks is so real, and it's not too far from the original. But the thing is, this is what it looks

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like when ministry has works producing faith. This is what it looks like. I long for these days,

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not for any of us as individuals, but for us as a body. I long for stories like what happened to

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Manoj and Dawn and Evan on a very regular basis. Not every day, because then you'd be sleep-deprived

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at 1.30, but it would be happening to different people, taking risks. This is what I long for,

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this church. And it'll happen. It'll happen. In John 14, 15, and 16, you find this conversation

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that Jesus is having with the Father, and I've kind of paraphrased it, and it goes like this,

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Father, you've given me works to accomplish. Every day I must see these works and do them.

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And when I do, they will bear witness to people that I'm a sent one and you're the sender. Father,

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you've given me works to accomplish. Every day I must see them, and I must do them,

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because that's what Jesus used to do. Sometimes I don't see them ahead of time. I see them right

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when I'm there. And then as I do them, it'll bear witness to you, and they will recognize

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me as one that you have sent, and they will recognize the sender. Here's another one. This

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one I really love. I put a smiley face next to it. Father, you are in me, and I am in you.

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I will let you who dwell in me do your work. Father, you are in me, and I am in you. I will

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let you who are in me do your work. That way, people will believe on account of the works,

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not just the words. That way, people will believe on account of the works, not just the words.

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Won't that be cool? You think this guy who had a COVID-negative test and was prayed over in the

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name of Jesus, you think he'll not struggle with the idea that Jesus is real? You will believe

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because of the account of my works. Very cool, huh? Love it. So the first one where working faith

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should express itself is in ministry. The next one is good works towards others. Where can Acts

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29 develop work-producing faith, working faith, work-bearing faith, where every time we exert

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faith in these areas, you'll find that it produces works, acts, deeds that the world

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so would be blown away by looking at. Doing good, good towards others. Ephesians 2.10,

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very famous old well-known scripture. We are God's workmanship created for good works. Colossians 1.10,

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not very famous verse. Colossians 1.10. We pray that you live well for the master,

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making him proud of you as you work hard in his orchard. As you learn more and more how God works,

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you will learn how to do your work. Let me read it from the NIV or the ESV.

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Walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him, bearing fruit in every good work,

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and increasing in the knowledge of God. God gives each of us a store of seed and of bread.

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God has given each of us a store of seed and of bread. Let me say that again. God has given each

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of us a store of seed and of bread. It doesn't matter whether it's $20, it doesn't matter whether

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it's not money, whether it's time, it doesn't matter whether it's strength, it doesn't matter

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whether it's some amazing characteristic you have, but God has given each one of us a store of seed

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and of bread so that you may overflow in every good work. Your intent should be, how can I be a

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generous dispenser of the seed to the needy? How can I be a generous dispenser of the seed to the

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needy? There's a guy in our building. I think he's Catholic. Six months ago, the Lord told me,

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every time you meet him, I want you to reach into your wallet and pull out any note that comes and

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give it to him. And so sometimes I might meet him today and then meet him again tomorrow. Sometimes

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I may meet him only once a month. He doesn't know what to do, but he knows this is not charity,

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because I explained it to him. I said, I don't know what to do. I know his name. I don't know

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what to do, but I want to say to you that this is something that I've been asked, God has asked me

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to do. And God has asked me to do it because every time I meet you, he wants you to know how much he

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cares and how much he wants to bless you. This is his graciousness. Now what is happening is every

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time I do this, he just starts weeping. He's not weeping because of, because sometimes you pull out,

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you might only get a $5 note. So he's not weeping for the $5 note. He's weeping because he can't

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understand the graciousness of God. And it is doing something in his life that is marvelous.

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Each of us has in our hands a store of seed and bread. It may not always look like money. It could

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be something else. Each of us has it. Why? So that we may overflow in every good work.

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Your intent should be, how can I be a generous dispenser of the seed so I may disperse it to

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the needy or to those that God is saying, go give it to. Sometimes it's not need. And as you do,

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you will find that your radius of right living, your radius of life work begins to increase.

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Somehow God will begin to give you a greater radius of doing things right, making things right. One

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of the favorite things God likes to do is make things right. Another simple word, a complicated

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word that he uses for make things right is justice. Justice is simply making things right. As you begin

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to do it, God does something else which is so cool, which comes from Malachi 3 verse 11. He rebukes

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the devourer. He rebukes the devourer for you so that the fruit that grows in your garden will not

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be eaten because it's that fruit that is producing the seed and the bread that you use to distribute.

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You think God won't watch over it. We must increase in this. We're doing it individually. We're doing

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it corporately. But if you listen to the end of the message yesterday, I'm saying that we are at

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present beating giants that we beat two years ago and it's time to meet bigger giants. It's

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no fun beating up a guy you know you can beat up every time. Like there's no victory in that,

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right? Like Tooni beats Manoj. Tooni beats Manoj. That was very fast, Don. You should have given

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it another two seconds. Tooni beats Manoj and Don. Like Don and Manoj play on one side, Tooni

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plays on the other side and he beats them at ping pong. It's not much of an accomplishment yet.

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Now nobody even watches now. It's that that's happened to Acts 29. The giants we are dealing

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with we've beaten too many times. So I'm not saying we do not engage in good works individually

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or corporately, but the scale of it has to be so enlarged that we will be scrambling because we

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don't know how to handle it. We'll be out of our element. Any questions? Nick, I can hear a question

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in your head. Pardon? See I told you I could hear the question in your head. Sorry, can you say that

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again? Seed and bread. Bread you give it out once and that's it. You eat it and it's over. Seed

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keeps producing more. So you can give some people seed and they have the ability to then go and live

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the rest of their lives because they know how to use the seed to produce bread. But if you give

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bread it's a one-off thing. But sometimes you need to give breadache to tell a guy who's hungry,

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here's some seeds. Six months from now you just watch. He'll be buried in the same ground as the

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seed. Yeah, so you don't want to do that. So yeah, that's the answer. Yeah, so as you begin to

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distribute this, as we begin to distribute seed and bread, you'll find that God will rebuke the

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devourer for our sake and he'll destroy lack. There'll be no lack of form of famine. He'll destroy

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lack of famine in our midst together and in our midst individually. He'll destroy it. Third one,

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our repairing the breach, restoring streets to dwell in. Essential part of every group of God

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people. Every people of God must have these five things as an essential part of who they are. The

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first one was ministry. Ministry involves word and deed. The second one was good works. This is

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fundamental to Jesus. In Matthew 5, early in his ministry he says, let them see your good works and

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glorify the Father. Let your light so shine. Let them see your good works. It's important. The good

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works have... Guys, at the end of the day good works is not for getting them to receive Jesus. Good

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works is not for salvation. Good works is for nothing. Good works is this is my heart. I like...

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All my life you have been faithful. So, so good. Well then Jacob, behave that way. This is not so

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that you get them saved or get them to come to your church or anything. It is very simple. I'm like

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this. I'm generous. I'm good. So engage in good works. This is why everybody gets seed and bread, man.

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R. R is for repairing the breach and restoring the streets to dwell in. Yesterday in a sense

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what happened was a repairing of a breach and a restoring of streets to dwell in when they stopped

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for this woman. Repairing the breach and restoring streets to dwell in. Leviticus 25, 10. Leviticus

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25, 10. That's what it... That's what we're talking about. These things are so, so important to the

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heart of God. Leviticus 25, 10. I think they have their own little worship service going on inside.

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Sanctify the 50th year. Make it a holy year. Proclaim freedom all over the land to everyone

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who lives in it. A jubilee for you. Each person will go back to his family's property and you

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will reunite with his extended family. One more time. Sanctify the 50th year. Make it a holy year.

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Proclaim freedom all over the land to everyone who lives in it. A jubilee for you. Each person will

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go back to his family's property and reunite with his extended family. So when we talk about

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repairing the breach, we're talking about this idea of a justice of restoration. In the Old Testament,

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justice was an execution of judgment. The Old Testament justice was, I am weighing you. I find

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you guilty. You must now pay the penalty. In the New Testament, justice is a justice of restoration.

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It's a justice of restoration where the church is continuously producing faith-based works that show

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people favor. Faith-based works that show people favor. In this one area, other than Jeevan and

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Nandigama, and some of the things that are happening in Wall-E, Acts 29 lags. I'm not talking about

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Acts 29 lags as in Acts 29 is not putting resources into it or stuff like that. I'm saying as a people,

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we are not Isaiah 58 conscious. We may have individuals who engage in it, but as a people,

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it hasn't grabbed our heart so much so that it hurts if we don't. Things that hurt, Acts 29,

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if you cannot hear the voice of God, we would hurt. If we didn't have the freedom to converse

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with the Father and interact with him the way we do, we would hurt. If he didn't prophesy,

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we would hurt. If he didn't go to the nations, we would hurt. These have become such essential.

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If we didn't walk in rest, we would hurt. If we weren't generous and give money tons of it away,

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we would hurt. If we didn't celebrate Jacob's birthday on July 17th, we would. It's okay to

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chant together this once. Okay, so these are the things that we would hurt about, but I would say

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to you Isaiah 58 verse 8 to 12 does not hurt us yet, and I want it to hurt me. And if it hurts me

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and hurts you, then be a salt. What does it say in Isaiah 58 verse 8 to 12?

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Let's start from 10. If you're generous with the hungry, start giving yourself to the down and out.

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Your lives will begin to glow in the darkness. Your shadowed lives will be bathed in sunlight.

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I will always show you where to go. I'll give you a life full of the emptiest of places.

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Verse 12. You'll use the old rubble of the past. Let me read from some other version. NIV verse 10.

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And if you spend yourself on behalf of the hungry, satisfy the needs of the oppressed.

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Your light will rise in the darkness. Your night will become like noonday.

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58 verse 12. Your people will rebuild the ancient ruins, raise up age-old foundations.

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You will be called repairers of broken walls, restorers of streets with dwellings.

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Verse 6 and 7. Is this not the kind of fast I've chosen to lose the chains of injustice,

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untie the cords of the yoke, set the oppressed free, break every yoke? Is it not to share your

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food with the hungry, provide the poor wanderer with shelter, and you see the naked to clothe them,

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to not turn away from your own flesh and blood? You see, it's not that we are not doing it. I'm

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sure some of you are doing it and you don't even talk about it. And then I know that we are doing

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this in Nandigama and that Jeevan is kind of the engine behind it. But I'm saying as a church,

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we don't see this as an essential. And this must change because God demands that it change.

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And may he hold me responsible if I don't make an attempt.

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That's like inviting trouble, but I'd rather invite trouble than take it easy.

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If we love Micah 8, the Holy Spirit thrills to work through us. If we love Micah 6.8,

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sorry, if we love Micah 6.8, the Holy Spirit thrills to work through us. What's Micah 6.8?

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Walk humbly, act justly, show mercy. Walk humbly, act justly, show mercy. If we can do that,

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he thrills to work through us. This is very close to his heart.

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I know you've heard this quite a few times, but at the end of the day, what was Jesus reading out in

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the synagogue that day when he took the scroll, he was announcing Jubilee. When he read from Luke,

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when he read from Isaiah 53, he was 61, he was announcing Jubilee. Same thing we're talking about.

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He used to have this ability to invite people who were down and out. He would then begin to

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listen to them, then he would protect them, and then he would invest in them.

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Invite, listen, protect, invest. Invite, listen, protect, invest. One day we'll talk about that.

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Invite, listen, protect, invest. He would be so protective of the woman caught in adultery,

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of Levi the tax collector, of children who would come to him. He would be protective. He would

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invite them, he would listen to them, he would protect them, he would then begin to invest in

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them. You read those stories of the down and outs, of the ones that people didn't care for.

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He had this ability to do these four things. He would have done the same thing with LGBTQ.

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Invite, listen, protect, invest.

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I was listening to a woman talk who was gay and became a believer and was talking about how to

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deal with LGBTQ issues. One of the things she said was,

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when you initially speak to someone who's dealing with gender issues, why is it that

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you make sexual preferences the main focus? You wouldn't do that with someone

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who is straight. You wouldn't. Before you save them, you wouldn't begin to talk about their

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sexual preferences or habits or what their sexual norms and approaches are. You wouldn't do that.

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That is not where you would begin. That's a separate topic. Invite, listen, protect, invest.

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The next one is accomplishing tasks. Accomplishing tasks. AT. AT. Accomplishing tasks.

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Where every church and every individual, think church first, then individual. Every church and

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every individual has definite tasks and mandates that God gives, saying, I want you to accomplish

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these tasks and mandates. They are church specific. They are person specific.

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There's no question that Acts 29 is meant to go to the nations. Not every church is asked to go

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to the nations. I know a church downtown that loves working amongst the poor, loves it. You cannot

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be part of the church unless you have a heart for it because that's what they are wrapped around.

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It's called Calvary. A guy called Charles Rigma used to be part of the church and he used to teach

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at Regent. I visited that church a couple of times. Every one of the people in that church

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has a heart that is so towards the poor that they will move out of their houses and go into

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this area. They'll give up their riches and go into this area. Why? Because they cannot bear the

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thought of doing anything else but living amongst the very people that they are supposed to help.

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But then there are churches like Acts 29 that are so completely caught up with the nations that

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you would do anything to go to the nations. There will hardly be a person who hasn't gone in the end.

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Well, they wouldn't be able to do that. That's not in their DNA.

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Accomplishing tasks or mandates specific to a church or specific to a person is another

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important part of what God wants to bring about. And if you look at 1 Corinthians 1,

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if you look at 1 Corinthians 9, 1, 1 Corinthians 9, 1, 1 Corinthians 9, 1,

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Paul is talking about his rights as an apostle. Am I not free? Am I not an apostle?

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Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you not the result of my work in the Lord?

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Even though I may not be an apostle to others, surely I am to you,

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for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord. He had a specific task.

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Many of his letters start with, I come as an apostle appointed by Christ.

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Ephesians 3, 2, he again talks about the same thing. He had a specific mandate.

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Churches have specific mandates. For us right now, there is this idea of a revival,

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a global revival that is supposed to start with us and spread across the earth.

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It is a very specific mandate. And God is saying, okay, if you have faith for it, show me works now.

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If you have faith for it, show me works. Like Tony was saying, step out, fail. God's got no

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problems with failure. Really, he really doesn't think much of failure. You are a prime example.

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Just in case you were thinking, what Bible story can I come up with? You. Ephesians 3, 2.

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Surely you've heard about the administration of God's grace that was given to me for you.

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I love it. The guy had some audacity to talk like this. He's writing to a church and he's saying,

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surely, Acts 29, you have heard about the administration of God's grace that was given

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to me for you. Love it. Where there was a specific mandate appointed to him. 2 Corinthians 10,

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13. That's where he talks about, hey, you guys are people we planted and I have a mandate to go

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further and you guys are going to help me with this. 2 Corinthians 10, 13.

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We, however, will not boast beyond proper limits, but will confine our boasting to the field God has

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assigned us, a field that reaches even to you. As in, listen, guys, I have a specific task. My

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task is to spread the gospel in Lithuania. Therefore, I say to you, let's spread the gospel

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in Lithuania and let's spread the gospel in the whole world. Let's spread the gospel in the whole

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world. Let's spread the gospel in the whole world. Let's spread the gospel in the whole world.

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Let's spread the gospel in Lithuania. Therefore, I say to you,

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Jinteros and I say to you, Davila, you guys are going to be ones that will rise up so that Acts 29

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can spread into Lithuania through you. I wish I had a pen. But guys, when it comes to you as

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individuals, God gives you specific tasks and mandates every six months, every year, every two

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years, and you've got to get it. And one of the easiest ways to get it is to figure out, okay,

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what is God's identity or how is he coming towards me at this present time? We've talked about this,

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but it's brilliant. It works so beautifully. How are you coming towards me, oh God? What is

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your identity as you come towards me? Aha, got it. So you are approaching me nowadays as

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one who wields a scepter. Great. So if you are one who wields a scepter, and that is the way you're

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interacting with me, it means then that you would like me to take on that persona. You identify how

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God is approaching you. You begin to change your persona. So Father, I'll stop fighting and I'll

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start exerting authority. And as you begin to take on the persona that God is now coming towards you

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as, God says, hmm, so you are beginning to change, Jacob. So let me anoint you differently,

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because you need a different anointing for what you're stepping into. I'll have the Holy Spirit

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empower you in ways you haven't tasted before. Before you had the anointing of a swordsman,

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you wielded the sword brilliantly. But now that you're putting down your sword to take up the

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scepter, let me show you what the anointing of a king or a prince looks like. And so you begin to

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operate under a completely different Holy Spirit paradigm. I love using that word paradigm, slipped

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it in somehow. And then you find that as you begin to switch to how the Holy Spirit now leads you,

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you find that your obstacles are different, and the way you deal with obstacles are changing too.

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When you become someone else, your obstacles are different. If you're an electrician today,

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and tomorrow you become a race car driver, your obstacles completely change. Before you'd have to

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put your hand in a socket and you would get a shock. Now you can just ram into another car and

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you get a shock. Completely different set of obstacles, therefore completely different ways

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of dealing with obstacles. This is God's favorite thing. That is why some of the things that James

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will have to learn how to do as he steps into June is he can't go and say, I used to do this,

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so I will do this again. Really? You want to keep doing things that you're good at and feel good

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about yourself? No, give me things I'm not good at so that I can get good at them.

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That is what I meant yesterday when I said we need a new set of giants, man.

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Like a preacher said, that went down like a rat sandwich.

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Pardon? Thank you.

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When I go home, I'm not this bold. I was having my own personal conversation with God's sake. So

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what are you going to do?

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You just wait, Mr. Higgins. You just wait.

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Wait.

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Yeah.

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Guys, one of the ways God...

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If God wants to show you how good you are in his relationship with you,

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he usually shows you that in battle.

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Just like you know your friends when there's friction and when there's trouble, God shows you

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how well you're doing with him by taking you into a battlefield. That's when he shows you. So all the

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things you've learned, I'm right here with you, but now let me show you. You never lose these

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battles, never, but it shows you. You suddenly realize, oh my God, I am my father's son. I jump

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into his arms immediately. Or, oh my God, I do have authority. Did you see the way that demon fled?

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Never thought I'd see something like that.

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Or, oh my God, can't believe that I actually had the guts to step out of the car and go to that

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woman. Didn't know I had courage like that. While Manoj and Donna saying, come back, come back,

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get back into the car.

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No, Manoj was just revving the car.

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Manoj was saying, let's go, Don. It's okay. Evan can come home himself.

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Anyways.

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I'm half excited about this. Okay, E, the last one. This kind of sums it all up. Empty yourselves.

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In this, when you look at the ministry produced, the fate that produces works in ministry.

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When you look at good works, fate that allows you to increase in good works.

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When you look at repairer of the breach, bringing favor and justice to the oppressed and the people

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around you that will really complicate your life if you get involved.

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Fate that produces works amongst them.

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When you look at accomplishing tasks or mandates specifically given to the church or to

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an individual. And producing works because of the fate you exert in that.

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All these things are tied up by the last one, which is in the process of doing this empty

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yourself so that you don't do enough, but you do much, much more than you could have done.

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Emptying yourself is going beyond Christian requirements. Emptying yourself is going beyond

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church requirements. Emptying yourself is going beyond what would be decent, kosher, sufficient

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enough. Not withholding. Not holding onto the advantage that is by right yours. Philippians

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2, 6 to 9. Jesus knowing that he was equal with God did not hold onto that advantage as if it was

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something to be aspired for. It's the key to acceleration. It's not acceleration, it's the

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key to multiplication and acceleration too, but multiplication. John 12 verse 24 to 26,

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unless a seed falls to the ground and dies, it will not produce anything.

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So that's the scary part. One of the things we have to learn is, oh God, as I begin this process,

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I want to pull out the stops so that you don't have to come back and preach this to us again

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in six months. You'll have to come up with another fresh new assignment for us because

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we are so spent with this one that there's nothing left in the tank.

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So here's how I want to conclude. God is inducing us. First I wanted to use the word luring. I

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thought God doesn't lure. So God is inducing us as a church and as individuals into three scenarios

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he hopes we'll be persuaded into. I'm very carefully choosing these words. God is inducing

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us as in he's not saying, hey, this is an invitation. He's not saying I demanded of you.

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He's saying, listen, I'm inducing you as I'm provoking you enough. I'm frightening you enough

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and I'm inviting you enough. It's that kind of an inducement. God is inducing us corporately and

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individually into three scenarios he hopes will persuade us to step into them. So the first one

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is Joshua 14 12. We talked about this yesterday. I'm just summing it up again

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in terms of inducement from God. Joshua 14 12. He's saying to us as a church and to us as individuals,

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hey, any chance that you can provoke me to give any chance I can provoke you to give me an

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opportunity to prove my greatness and faithfulness. Listen to those words, the crazy words.

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God is saying, hey, any chance that I can provoke you to give me an opportunity

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to show you how great and faithful I am.

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That is nuts. Any chance I can provoke you to give me an opportunity to prove my

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greatness and faithfulness again. Hey, Jacob, hey, Heidi, any chance that I can provoke you to give me

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a brand new opportunity to prove again to you a fresh like you've never seen before

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my greatness and my faithfulness. Joshua 14 12. Joshua says, Caleb says to Joshua, hey, Joshua,

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40 years ago I was promised land here. So can I get that hill? I know, I know, I know, I know.

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That hill has giants and acts in it, but please can I have that hill?

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I mean like 70.

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80.

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Crazy, eh? That's what that's the first scenario. Second scenario.

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Again, we talked about this yesterday, Deuteronomy 9 2 and Judges 3 2. Deuteronomy 9 2, Judges 3 2.

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Listen, if you want to be induced, persuaded into what I'm calling you to, I want you to know that

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I'm sending you to take lands with unconquered fortresses stronger than what you've ever come

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across. I'm sending you into places where there are fortresses stronger than what you've ever come

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across. And in the process, I will train you in the art of war and I'll test your obedience.

00:47:08.900 --> 00:47:12.260
Guys, I'll tell you something, this is the best time to leave Acts 29 again.

00:47:12.900 --> 00:47:17.940
Every so many years, you get an opportunity to leave the church. This is a very good time.

00:47:21.540 --> 00:47:22.740
That's the right response.

00:47:25.620 --> 00:47:27.460
That this is the best time to leave the church.

00:47:27.780 --> 00:47:35.860
I'm sending you to take lands or take things. I'm sending you into places where there are

00:47:35.860 --> 00:47:42.500
unconquered fortresses stronger than what you've come across. And in the process, I will train

00:47:42.500 --> 00:47:46.100
you in the art of war and I will test your obedience.

00:47:46.900 --> 00:47:51.300
We haven't gone this way for very long. We've been a happy, strong church.

00:47:53.540 --> 00:47:57.380
Nothing wrong with that. God gives you times like that. But it's longer with you.

00:48:00.420 --> 00:48:05.220
Times of peace are God-sent. And they are strong enough to catch you on you and again,

00:48:06.660 --> 00:48:14.660
it's going over to you. Under him I am. He's right above you. He's right on your head.

00:48:16.100 --> 00:48:20.420
where you prosper and we have.

00:48:25.380 --> 00:48:28.740
Third scenario, I don't know what this means.

00:48:28.740 --> 00:48:30.460
We'll find out what it means later.

00:48:30.460 --> 00:48:35.460
Second Samuel 5.8, use the water shaft

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to enter the fortress city.

00:48:38.740 --> 00:48:42.420
Use the water shaft to enter the fortress city.

00:48:42.420 --> 00:48:43.700
I've just put Selah next to it

00:48:43.700 --> 00:48:45.140
because I don't know what it means.

00:48:45.140 --> 00:48:49.780
Second Samuel 5.8, third scenario, use the water shaft.

00:48:49.780 --> 00:48:52.700
So David is supposed to take this hill

00:48:52.700 --> 00:48:57.700
called that the Jebusites control.

00:48:57.940 --> 00:48:59.860
On top of the hill is a fortress.

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What David doesn't know is soon

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that hill will be called the city of Zion.

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He'll build the city of God there,

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of which it will be said in Psalm 48,

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beautiful in situation, joy of the whole earth,

00:49:11.540 --> 00:49:13.140
is Mount Zion on the side of the north,

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the city of the great king.

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He doesn't know it.

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And the Jebusites taunt him saying,

00:49:18.420 --> 00:49:19.940
nobody can enter this fortress

00:49:19.940 --> 00:49:24.540
because it's way too well placed to be taken.

00:49:24.540 --> 00:49:28.220
And even the blind and the deaf that are within the city

00:49:28.220 --> 00:49:30.420
are enough to drive you away.

00:49:30.420 --> 00:49:32.420
David gets agitated at that.

00:49:32.420 --> 00:49:34.420
And later on he says, there's a way to get the city.

00:49:34.420 --> 00:49:36.820
There's a water shaft that goes right into the fortress.

00:49:36.820 --> 00:49:39.460
Go up by the water shaft, take the fortress, and he does.

00:49:39.460 --> 00:49:42.180
And later on becomes the city of God.

00:49:42.180 --> 00:49:44.420
Don't know what it means, but we'll find out.

00:49:45.020 --> 00:49:51.340
I need to see this clearly.

00:49:51.340 --> 00:49:53.860
We need to see it clearly before we can tell you

00:49:53.860 --> 00:49:55.820
or show you what it looks like.

00:49:55.820 --> 00:49:57.820
So God willing, we'll look at it next week.

00:49:57.820 --> 00:50:00.620
Now can I do it unilaterally as an old Jacob saw this,

00:50:00.620 --> 00:50:02.620
so let the judge go down this route.

00:50:02.620 --> 00:50:05.180
I'll have to talk to some of you and say,

00:50:05.180 --> 00:50:06.260
hey, this is what God is saying.

00:50:06.260 --> 00:50:08.180
What do you think?

00:50:08.180 --> 00:50:10.780
So that we have a good idea of what this looks like.

00:50:16.020 --> 00:50:22.340
And so hopefully next weekend, I'll take you up Mount Pisgah,

00:50:22.340 --> 00:50:26.620
which is to the left of Grouse, and show you the terrain,

00:50:26.620 --> 00:50:30.980
like was shown Moses and like was shown Abraham.

00:50:30.980 --> 00:50:40.980
Just look at those scriptures, Deuteronomy 3, 27 and 28.

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Go up to the top of Pisgah, and look west and north

00:50:50.020 --> 00:50:52.300
and south and east.

00:50:52.300 --> 00:50:53.660
Look at the land with your own eyes,

00:50:53.660 --> 00:50:56.020
since you're not going to cross this Jordan.

00:50:56.020 --> 00:50:58.900
That was Moses' thing with God.

00:50:58.900 --> 00:51:01.820
But commission Joshua and encourage and strengthen him,

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for he will lead those people across and will cause them

00:51:04.300 --> 00:51:06.140
to inherit the land that you will see.

00:51:06.140 --> 00:51:07.500
That's part of the thing we'll have to do.

00:51:07.500 --> 00:51:11.300
We'll have to do the flying V thing, where guys like Pawan

00:51:11.300 --> 00:51:18.820
and Evan and Jillian and Emily and Dawn and guys like that

00:51:18.820 --> 00:51:21.580
will have to, at some point, begin to run with this.

00:51:26.820 --> 00:51:29.540
Look at another scripture.

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Deuteronomy, sorry, Genesis 13, verse 14.

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Genesis 13, verse 14.

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This is what I'm hoping will happen

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in the next couple of weeks, like either next week

00:51:40.860 --> 00:51:42.460
or the week after.

00:51:42.460 --> 00:51:45.220
Genesis 13, verse 14.

00:51:45.220 --> 00:51:48.660
Well, it won't be another set of teachings on how to do this,

00:51:48.660 --> 00:51:51.340
but a set of teachings on what to do.

00:51:51.340 --> 00:51:54.140
Genesis 13, 14.

00:51:54.140 --> 00:51:56.580
The Lord said to Abraham, after Lot had parted from him,

00:51:56.580 --> 00:51:58.980
look around from where you are, to the north and the south,

00:51:58.980 --> 00:52:00.260
to the east and the west.

00:52:00.260 --> 00:52:02.380
All the land that you see I will give to you

00:52:02.380 --> 00:52:04.420
and to your offspring.

00:52:04.420 --> 00:52:06.900
The Lord said to Abraham, after Lot had parted from him,

00:52:06.900 --> 00:52:09.060
look around from where you are, to the north and the south,

00:52:09.060 --> 00:52:09.940
to the east and the west.

00:52:09.980 --> 00:52:11.860
All the land that you see I will give to you

00:52:11.860 --> 00:52:13.180
and your offspring forever.

00:52:15.140 --> 00:52:17.660
This is what I'm hoping will happen over the next weekend,

00:52:17.660 --> 00:52:19.980
or the two weekends that are here.

00:52:19.980 --> 00:52:23.180
God is saying, okay, now that I've shown you, let's go.

00:52:25.580 --> 00:52:26.660
It'll be very cool, man.

00:52:26.660 --> 00:52:27.820
Some of you will grab it.

00:52:27.820 --> 00:52:29.620
Some of you will be like Caleb saying,

00:52:29.620 --> 00:52:31.140
please, please, I know you showed me that.

00:52:31.140 --> 00:52:31.980
Please, can I have that hill?

00:52:31.980 --> 00:52:32.800
Why?

00:52:32.800 --> 00:52:35.180
Because there are giants there, I want that hill one.

00:52:35.180 --> 00:52:37.700
Some of you will be like Caleb's daughter, Aksa,

00:52:37.700 --> 00:52:40.820
who dismounts from her donkey and goes and says to her dad,

00:52:40.820 --> 00:52:41.780
can I have those springs?

00:52:41.780 --> 00:52:44.160
You've given me the Negev, but I need some water,

00:52:44.160 --> 00:52:45.420
so can you give me those springs?

00:52:45.420 --> 00:52:46.260
She gets it.

00:52:49.340 --> 00:52:52.020
I pray, God, that it be such a demand for,

00:52:52.020 --> 00:52:53.820
please give me something difficult,

00:52:53.820 --> 00:52:58.660
that it'll be like, I can go into the easy things

00:53:00.100 --> 00:53:03.340
at your expense and still get paid for it.

00:53:04.460 --> 00:53:05.300
Life is good.

00:53:06.020 --> 00:53:08.420
I'm just kidding.

00:53:08.420 --> 00:53:12.540
I'm looking forward to these giants, man, in a subdued way.

00:53:14.940 --> 00:53:15.780
Sorry?

00:53:18.700 --> 00:53:20.900
Yeah, all these three scenarios will happen.

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And so this is the final point that I wanna make.

00:53:25.460 --> 00:53:27.020
Genesis 13, 14.

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God uses the word please.

00:53:35.860 --> 00:53:39.380
Most translations skip it.

00:53:41.820 --> 00:53:46.060
If you go to King James Version, if you know what that is.

00:53:48.820 --> 00:53:50.820
If you don't, just ask Mike.

00:53:50.820 --> 00:53:52.940
So go to King James Version.

00:53:58.820 --> 00:54:00.180
Genesis 13, 14.

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And the Lord said unto Abraham,

00:54:04.380 --> 00:54:08.060
after that lot was separated from him, lift up now.

00:54:08.060 --> 00:54:12.120
That word now, and really, I'm not a Hebrew Greek guy,

00:54:12.120 --> 00:54:16.540
but this is something that God just brought up suddenly

00:54:16.540 --> 00:54:18.220
and showed saying, hey Jacob,

00:54:18.220 --> 00:54:19.540
this is what I'm doing with you guys,

00:54:19.540 --> 00:54:22.340
and it really broke my heart when he did it,

00:54:22.340 --> 00:54:24.000
and I think I need to convey it to you.

00:54:24.000 --> 00:54:25.980
So this is a God Hebrew Greek,

00:54:25.980 --> 00:54:29.660
not a educational Hebrew Greek.

00:54:30.700 --> 00:54:31.820
In that scripture where it says,

00:54:31.820 --> 00:54:33.080
and the Lord said unto Abraham,

00:54:33.080 --> 00:54:36.260
after that lot was separated from him, lift up now.

00:54:36.260 --> 00:54:38.940
The word now comes from a Hebrew word called na,

00:54:38.940 --> 00:54:42.440
N-A, with a little thingy over it.

00:54:43.580 --> 00:54:44.940
That's how much I know Hebrew.

00:54:44.940 --> 00:54:47.360
Lift up, lift up now.

00:54:47.360 --> 00:54:50.980
And the actual sense of that word now is please.

00:54:50.980 --> 00:54:55.980
Or Abraham, I pray, or I beseech, or please.

00:54:56.820 --> 00:54:58.180
Lift up, please.

00:54:58.180 --> 00:55:00.100
Lift up, I beseech you, Abraham.

00:55:01.020 --> 00:55:03.460
It is very odd that God says please,

00:55:03.460 --> 00:55:06.680
or God says I beseech you, or God says I pray.

00:55:07.620 --> 00:55:10.180
It only happens four times in the Old Testament,

00:55:11.460 --> 00:55:14.420
where God says I beseech you, I pray you,

00:55:14.420 --> 00:55:17.580
I please ask you, four times in the Old Testament.

00:55:17.580 --> 00:55:19.820
And how do the four times it happens in the Old Testament?

00:55:19.820 --> 00:55:21.620
Three times it happens with Abraham.

00:55:23.680 --> 00:55:26.260
One is here in Genesis 13, 14, where he says,

00:55:26.260 --> 00:55:30.180
and it's fascinating when he uses these things.

00:55:30.180 --> 00:55:33.620
He uses it, the first time he uses it is here,

00:55:33.620 --> 00:55:37.080
Genesis 13, 14, where he says, Abraham, listen,

00:55:37.080 --> 00:55:40.660
can you now please exercise faith

00:55:40.660 --> 00:55:43.140
that this land I'm showing you will be yours?

00:55:43.140 --> 00:55:44.340
Can I beseech you?

00:55:46.200 --> 00:55:50.840
The next time it happens is in Genesis 15, verse five.

00:55:50.840 --> 00:55:52.940
Genesis 15, verse five.

00:55:52.940 --> 00:55:55.740
Again, if you were to still use KJV.

00:55:55.780 --> 00:55:57.260
Genesis 15, verse five.

00:55:58.600 --> 00:56:00.780
And he brought him forth abroad and said,

00:56:00.780 --> 00:56:02.780
look now towards heaven.

00:56:02.780 --> 00:56:04.780
And again, the word look now is,

00:56:04.780 --> 00:56:06.940
and he brought him forth abroad and said,

00:56:06.940 --> 00:56:08.940
look, I pray you, look, please,

00:56:08.940 --> 00:56:10.420
look, I beseech you towards heaven

00:56:10.420 --> 00:56:12.300
and tell the stars if you're able to number them,

00:56:12.300 --> 00:56:13.860
and he said, so shall your seed be.

00:56:13.860 --> 00:56:15.380
The second instance is where God is saying,

00:56:15.380 --> 00:56:19.300
listen, I know this is a big deal, but I beseech you.

00:56:20.100 --> 00:56:25.100
Exert the faith that you need to as a 19 year old man

00:56:25.100 --> 00:56:26.900
because you are going to have a son.

00:56:26.900 --> 00:56:28.780
I beseech you, I say please.

00:56:28.780 --> 00:56:32.780
And the third time it happens is in Genesis 22, verse two.

00:56:32.780 --> 00:56:34.580
Genesis 22, verse two.

00:56:38.380 --> 00:56:42.180
And each time God knows the faith that will be required.

00:56:42.180 --> 00:56:44.700
God knows what a demand he's placing.

00:56:44.700 --> 00:56:47.220
God knows how much it's going to cost

00:56:47.340 --> 00:56:49.340
and every time that happens with Abraham,

00:56:49.340 --> 00:56:53.340
God goes into this one word that is just swept

00:56:53.980 --> 00:56:55.980
under the English carpet.

00:56:55.980 --> 00:56:57.980
But it actually means I pray you,

00:56:57.980 --> 00:57:00.100
I beseech you, please, Abraham.

00:57:00.100 --> 00:57:02.980
And in Genesis 22, verse two, it says,

00:57:02.980 --> 00:57:05.900
and he said, take, I beseech you,

00:57:05.900 --> 00:57:08.900
take, please, take, I pray you now,

00:57:08.900 --> 00:57:10.940
your only son, Isaac, whom you love

00:57:10.940 --> 00:57:13.380
and get into the land of Moriah

00:57:13.380 --> 00:57:15.540
and offer him there for a burnt-out child.

00:57:15.540 --> 00:57:17.580
Moriah and offer him there for a burnt offering

00:57:17.580 --> 00:57:19.980
upon one of the mountains which I'll tell thee of.

00:57:21.820 --> 00:57:23.860
And that's so we know where the fourth time is.

00:57:23.860 --> 00:57:25.700
It's in Exodus 11, two,

00:57:25.700 --> 00:57:28.020
when he asks something of Israel

00:57:28.020 --> 00:57:31.180
that must have scared the heebie-jeebies out of them.

00:57:32.060 --> 00:57:33.660
Exodus 11, two.

00:57:35.780 --> 00:57:39.260
And that is when he asks especially the women of Israel

00:57:39.260 --> 00:57:41.180
to go to the Egyptian masters,

00:57:41.180 --> 00:57:42.700
knock on their doors and say,

00:57:42.700 --> 00:57:44.740
you owe me wages for the last 400 years.

00:57:44.740 --> 00:57:45.940
Please give them to me.

00:57:45.940 --> 00:57:47.860
These are the same masters who beat them,

00:57:47.860 --> 00:57:49.660
who whip them, and he's telling them

00:57:49.660 --> 00:57:52.700
to go do something ridiculously impossible.

00:57:52.700 --> 00:57:54.460
And again, he uses the same word,

00:57:54.460 --> 00:57:56.700
speak, I beseech you, I pray.

00:57:56.700 --> 00:57:58.740
Speak, please, in the ears of these people

00:57:58.740 --> 00:58:00.540
and let every man borrow of his neighbor

00:58:00.540 --> 00:58:01.740
and every woman of her neighbor,

00:58:01.740 --> 00:58:03.660
jewels of silver and jewels of gold.

00:58:06.780 --> 00:58:07.940
These are the four instances

00:58:07.940 --> 00:58:09.940
where God actually says, I beseech you.

00:58:10.900 --> 00:58:12.140
Take a look, why I go through all this?

00:58:12.140 --> 00:58:14.220
Because I'm saying to you something that

00:58:14.220 --> 00:58:17.020
just wrecks my heart and it is this.

00:58:17.020 --> 00:58:20.180
God is saying to us that Acts 29, please,

00:58:22.100 --> 00:58:24.140
please will you step into this?

00:58:24.140 --> 00:58:27.820
Please will you take on giants you haven't dealt with?

00:58:27.820 --> 00:58:30.020
Please, I pray you.

00:58:30.020 --> 00:58:32.300
Please, I beseech you for my sake.

00:58:32.300 --> 00:58:37.300
Will you now begin to abandon your security

00:58:37.940 --> 00:58:41.260
and begin to take on something that is way beyond you,

00:58:41.260 --> 00:58:46.260
that will just completely rock your present status

00:58:46.380 --> 00:58:48.340
and put you back into a place

00:58:48.340 --> 00:58:50.020
where you have to interact with me,

00:58:50.020 --> 00:58:52.580
find out who I am, how wonderful I am.

00:58:52.580 --> 00:58:54.060
Please, come.

00:58:54.060 --> 00:58:55.740
If he's saying please, then know that

00:58:55.740 --> 00:58:57.500
what lies ahead of us is something

00:58:57.500 --> 00:58:59.500
that we have not experienced till now.

00:59:00.940 --> 00:59:03.900
If he's saying that, please know that it will test us

00:59:03.900 --> 00:59:07.980
in terms of our obedience, it'll give us an ability to war

00:59:08.020 --> 00:59:11.220
and it'll show us God like we have never seen before.

00:59:12.340 --> 00:59:15.260
That is why he's saying please and I can't refuse him.

00:59:15.260 --> 00:59:18.420
I don't think it's fair to refuse him.

00:59:18.420 --> 00:59:20.420
I hate it when he beseeches anything.

00:59:22.540 --> 00:59:24.620
He should be demanding it.

00:59:24.620 --> 00:59:26.780
He should be sending us out like,

00:59:26.780 --> 00:59:29.660
you're my soldiers, you belong to me, go.

00:59:29.660 --> 00:59:33.340
No, no, no, he's not pleading, he's beseeching.

00:59:38.980 --> 00:59:40.060
Any questions?

00:59:44.940 --> 00:59:45.780
Any questions?

00:59:53.940 --> 00:59:55.020
I don't know.

00:59:56.580 --> 00:59:59.340
I wish I was more scholarly, but I really don't know.

01:00:01.220 --> 01:00:02.900
Ah, it's such a cool picture.

01:00:04.820 --> 01:00:07.580
Why is it left out in English?

01:00:07.660 --> 01:00:08.500
Yeah.

01:00:10.580 --> 01:00:11.900
Why is it left out in English?

01:00:11.900 --> 01:00:15.060
Why is the word I beseech please left out in English?

01:00:15.060 --> 01:00:15.900
I don't know.

01:00:17.580 --> 01:00:21.660
But it just wrecks me that he's asking this office.

01:00:21.660 --> 01:00:23.220
I'm okay if he asks of Abraham,

01:00:23.220 --> 01:00:25.820
because man, he was demanding things of Abraham

01:00:25.820 --> 01:00:30.180
that were ridiculous, but then it puts this holy fear

01:00:30.180 --> 01:00:33.020
of God in me thinking, okay, so what are you asking office?

01:00:33.020 --> 01:00:34.060
What are you planning?

01:00:37.860 --> 01:00:42.780
I have more to say, but I'm gonna ask Renny to come up

01:00:42.780 --> 01:00:47.780
and sing oceans and then we'll continue after.

01:00:47.780 --> 01:00:55.380
I may have more to say, but I'm going to ask Renny to come up and sing oceans, and then

01:00:55.380 --> 01:01:02.780
we'll continue after that.

01:01:02.780 --> 01:01:05.620
Hello.

01:01:05.620 --> 01:01:15.620
Hello.

01:01:15.620 --> 01:01:19.620
I also have no makeup.

01:01:35.620 --> 01:01:45.620
Okay.

01:01:45.620 --> 01:02:00.620
I'm just going to start.

01:03:30.620 --> 01:03:34.620
Keep my eyes above the waves.

01:03:34.620 --> 01:03:40.620
When oceans rise, my soul will rest in your embrace.

01:03:40.620 --> 01:03:50.620
For I am yours, and you are mine.

01:03:50.620 --> 01:03:58.620
You call me out upon the waters, the gray unknown.

01:03:58.620 --> 01:04:04.620
Where my feet may fail.

01:04:04.620 --> 01:04:09.620
And there I find you in the mystery.

01:04:09.620 --> 01:04:18.620
In oceans deep, my faith will stand.

01:04:18.620 --> 01:04:26.620
You call me out upon the waters, the gray unknown.

01:04:26.620 --> 01:04:31.620
Where my feet may fail.

01:04:31.620 --> 01:04:36.620
And there I find you in the mystery.

01:04:36.620 --> 01:04:45.620
In oceans deep, my faith will stand.

01:04:45.620 --> 01:04:52.620
I will call upon your name.

01:04:52.620 --> 01:04:56.620
Keep my eyes above the waves.

01:04:56.620 --> 01:05:02.620
When oceans rise, my soul will rest in your embrace.

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For I am yours, and you are mine.

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Your grace abounds in deepest waters.

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Your sovereign hand will be my guide.

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Where feet may fail, and fear surrounds me.

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You've never failed, and you won't start now.

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Your grace abounds in deepest waters.

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Your sovereign hand will be my guide.

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Where feet may fail, and fear surrounds me.

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You've never failed, and you won't start now.

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So I will call upon your name.

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And keep my eyes above the waves.

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When oceans rise, my soul will rest in your embrace.

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For I am yours, and you are mine.

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I am yours, and you are mine.

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For I am yours, and you are mine.

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So father, I feel like you're saying, be like Peter.

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So I bid you father, if you ask us to step out of this boat, we'll step out father.

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And you're saying come. You're saying come walk on the water.

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Step out of the boat. Keep your eyes on me and walk with me.

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Because when your eyes are fixed on me, when you're walking with me,

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it doesn't matter the winds and the waves. It doesn't matter how big the giants are.

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Because our gaze is fixed on you father.

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So I choose father, I pray that we all choose to step out of this boat.

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Stay out of the comfort zone and the safety that we've been in father.

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So we step out of the boat father, and we come to walk on the water with you.

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Because as we walk on the water with you, the giants are bigger, the waves are bigger.

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But we're walking with you father.

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So I thank you Abba for what you're doing.

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And I choose to step out of this boat with you Abba.

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I choose to come and walk with you and face these bigger giants.

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So with excitement and with glee we choose this father.

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Abba, when Jacob was telling us that you beseech us,

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I very much sensed that you're saying, but I have something for you.

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I have something for you. When I'm beseeching you, when I'm asking you to come towards me,

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it's not coming into the unknown and then black and darkness.

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I'm waiting to give you something, church. I have something. I'm rubbing my hands.

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I'm gleeful. I have something for you to send to the nations.

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So come, come and step out of that boat and you will experience something that you've never experienced.

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And I am preparing you for it. I am readying you for it.

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And I'm willing and I'm going to give it to you.

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I've got something for you, for this church, for the nation, for this world.

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So step out. I just want to thank you for that Abba. Thank you so much.

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Then when you call us out, you're calling us into your glory.

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You're calling us into your goodness. Not just for us, for all the people of this world.

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For all the people of this world. Because we are going to be like Jesus.

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We're going to come to restore. We're going to come to redeem.

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We're going to come to do the work that Jesus has started.

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And he's going to complete in us and through us. In Jesus name we pray. Amen.

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Amen.

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Two or three more.

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Two or three more.

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Father, just staying on the theme of the boat.

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It's what Peter said in Luke when you asked him to throw the net.

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He said we have worked all night, Father. And we have not caught anything.

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But because you say that we should do it, we shall do it.

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So Father, that's what I pray into, Father.

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Because you say, Father, we shall step into that.

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So thank you Jesus for that. Jesus name I pray. Amen.

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Two more.

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Two more.

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Father, I just want to say that I'm tired of sitting and waiting and watching other people go ahead of me.

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That I don't know what or who or where or when.

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But I want to do this just because you said so.

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Two more.

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Thank you Father for pouring out so abundantly over us in these past few years.

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And you're saying it was for a time such as this.

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So the time is now and I thank you that the time has come.

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Yeah.

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Two more.

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Father, thank you for the time.

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Father, thank you for really telling us it is time to leave the old behind.

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It's time to step into the new.

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And Father, we want to step into the new that you have for us.

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We're expecting great things.

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Expecting you to train us as we step into new battles.

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And to receive and experience the victories.

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And the opening of the boundaries and doors that you have for us.

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Father, I'm just coming up as my turn.

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Remind us that we're moving from Elijah to Elisha.

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Elijah's done.

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We're going to a place where Elisha went.

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Where things were twice as many as Elijah.

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So we thank you for our forefathers and what we've done over the last 16 years.

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But we look into this new place that we've never been to before.

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Unfamiliar, completely unfamiliar.

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But the only thing we have is your voice and your presence.

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We step into this phase in our life called Elisha.

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Two more.

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Father, I pray that none of us would be left behind.

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I pray that we would all be totally on, totally engaged in this.

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And when you beseech, may we all follow.

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Two more.

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God just reminded me of Numbers 21, 9 and that's where.

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So Moses made a bronze snake and put it on a pole.

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Then when anyone was bitten by a snake and looked at the bronze snake, they lived.

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And then the next verse says, the Israelites moved on and camped at Oboth.

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And I think that that's where God is calling us to.

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He says, you've seen me make a snake in your midst.

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You've seen running around with this snake.

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You've seen the healing.

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You've seen the breach that has been restored.

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And now I'm calling you to move on from that place to the new place that I'm taking you.

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Not because that place wasn't wonderful, not because that place wasn't full of miracles, but because there's more.

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So like the Israelites, Father, we want to look and acknowledge the snake that you put on the bronze pole to heal us.

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That you have you've made these representations in our midst.

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You've made these you've had these miracles occur in our midst.

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And you're calling us forward to the next place.

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Father, I pray that you would help us to move away from the cares of the world and the culture that that grasps stuff and things and money.

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And and and wants to plan for retirement and do all of the do all of the things that are involved in self preservation.

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That you would help us to move away from those things and move into your culture, which is a culture of giving and generosity.

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And good works and being willing to just pass on what we have at your prompting without without hesitation.

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Because I struggle with that and I know that others do too.

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And so Father, help us to move into that move into that culture, move into a new paradigm of of seeing who you are in our hearts and and being moved by you in our hearts and just doing just doing it.

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One more.

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Our heavenly father.

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We're putting.

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Micah six eight into practice.

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As we step into this new territory, Lord.

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May our walk be humble.

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May our acts be just.

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May our deeds, may our actions may our behaviors, may our attitudes.

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Show mercy.

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About as Jacob said, we step into the land of giants.

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And as I recall the story when the spies went to scout the land, they cut down a branch and the branch was too heavy for one man to carry.

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The two men had to put on their shoulders and carry it back.

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So about thank you for the fruits that you're giving us.

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And these fruits are not just for us as individuals, but we have to share them.

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We have to band together and put them on their shoulders as a body.

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Because we all have to carry it together.

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So thank you for this.

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These enormous fruits that we couldn't grow on our own.

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We can't care on our own, but they're for all of us.

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In Jesus name.

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Great.

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If anyone else has a picture like that, it is important.

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What if he had decided not to have it come up?

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These are critical to our going forward.

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Anyone else with any image that you think you need to speak and that you're holding back, speak now or hold your peace at least until next week.

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Anyone?

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Okay.

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We're done.

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Sorry.

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Oh.

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We're done.