to go? Okay, the conference just happened last week and so we've got to extract what
God wants us to extract from the conference and it's not to go over the teachings that
were taught. That you can listen to the tape as soon as it's online. But we have to extract
what God may have shown during the conference and so one of the things that I have strongly
felt after the conference is that the conference was like a dividing line. Like a dividing
line. Once I find a pen I'll draw you a dividing line. Has Derek no more responsibilities in
this church? Alright, so the conference is like a dividing line and I want to show you
what I mean by a dividing line. Let me just pray so that we, I'm not praying till they
come back, I'm just praying so that we actually pay attention. Father, this is for the lack
of a better word a message that is prophetic and all that means is that you are showing
ahead of time that which is going to spring forth. Because of that I pray before I start
asking that you would have me stay within the lines and that you would have our ears
open because this is more what you want to say to us than what I have to say and this
is important that we hear with ears that are open and that are able to receive. I pray
this now for us as a people in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen. So guys it's like a dividing
line and by dividing line what I mean is if you look at Isaiah 42 verse 9, Isaiah 42 verse
9 you'll begin to kind of get what I mean. Isaiah 42 verse 9. Isaiah 42 verse 9. Yeah,
you can give out those notes Ryan thanks while I'm speaking. Isaiah 42 verse 9 and in Isaiah
42 verse 9 it says, See the former things have taken place and now the new things I declare.
Before they spring into being I announce them to you. It's almost like God saying, see there
were former things I announced they've taken place now I announce new things that are going
to happen they will spring up so I want you to pay attention. It's almost like a dividing line,
the same kind of dividing line that you see in Luke 2. The same kind of dividing line that you
see in Luke 2 where in Luke 2 48 and 49 you have Mary saying to Jesus, we have been so anxious
your father and I have been looking for you. Your father and I have been looking for you.
That's what Mary says and look at what Jesus replies. Jesus replies, but don't you know
that I would be in my father's house about my father's business. That's what I mean by
dividing line. A dividing line is when there is a clear demarcation between the things that have
been in the past and the things that are now in the future. It sometimes requires disconnecting
with practices, people, traditions of the past and connecting to that which again may be unfamiliar
and new. It's a great time to be alive. So here is Mary who says to Jesus at 12, your father and I
have been looking for you and Jesus's reply is, but don't you know that I would be in my father's
house and in that dividing line he is establishing once and for all with Mary and Joseph that yes,
I realize you are my earthly mother and father but you must realize that I have an assignment
and an allegiance to a father who is greater than Joseph and Mary. There is a separation here that
happens at the age of 12. So we are at that point after this conference where God is saying,
listen there's a change of direction that's happening in full stride. I don't know if you
see I was trying to get these big video of horses who are galloping and while they're galloping you
suddenly find the lead horse or a couple of horses beginning to veer off and then in full
gallop all the horses begin to turn and it's literally that we're going to stop and start.
And you're running. I need you to now begin to change direction. Just put up that picture Ryan.
And this is the best.
Check. Okay. Yeah. It's almost this. The only reason I
am getting these pictures and I thought to myself man you're spending far too much time
trying to get these pictures. But the idea is to get you and I to understand what God is really
doing. He's not saying I want you to change direction of stuff. He's saying in your full
gallop just watch as I begin to veer you towards another path that you have not traveled by. That
is what he's trying to do. And that is where we're going. Where suddenly the lead horse is
beginning to veer off and the lead horse ain't me. Where suddenly the whole church will begin
to veer off in a direction that we were not on. This is why I said it is a prophetic message and
by prophetic all I mean is the former things are done. Look at the new things I'm starting. Look
at Isaiah 42 9 from different versions and you will see it coming through. So let me read Isaiah
42 verse 9 from different versions and you'll see it coming through. Isaiah 42 verse 9. Take note,
the earlier predictions have been fulfilled. I'm announcing new salvation work before it bursts on
scene. I'm telling you all about it. What I said would happen has taken place. Now I announce new
things to you before they even begin to happen. I announce them to you. Behold the former things
that come to pass. The new things do I declare. Before they spring forth I tell you them. That
is the sense of it. So here's the first thing we need to understand will begin to happen starting
today. One, just like in Joshua 5 10 after 40 years of eating manna, manna suddenly stopped. In
Joshua 5 10 Israel had eaten manna for 40 years and after 40 years manna suddenly stopped. One of
the things I want us to know is the familiar is done, change is on again. Get ready. If that means
moving from this place so be it. If that means changing the way we do praise and worship so be
it. If that means changing the way we do church so be it. But the familiar is done. When we stepped
out that evening and went out and stood in the parking lot, we'll get there a little later,
but the familiar is done. Change is on us again. One of the cool things about Acts 29 is Acts 29
has never had much of a problem with change. You don't even look at it as if it's a big deal. You
behave as if it's part of life and it's happening again. And the strange thing is you don't even say
Amen and stuff like that. Looks like you're half dead but my god you're alive because change only
happens to alive people. I never go by the response I get from you because if I did I'd
found another church long ago. I just know that you are so open to change. You don't even look
at it as oh no. So the familiar is done. Change is on us again. Get ready. So that's one. The second
thing is guys there's an Elijah to Elisha thing happening where Elijah was great but if you read
first Kings 19 to 21, please follow me on these scriptures. Just for this message actually follow
the preacher. Don't go off on your own tangent. Don't start googling. Don't check the text messages
and whatsapps coming through. For this message not out of respect for me but just perhaps if I'm
right and this is God out of respect for what he wants to do with us as a people for the benefit
of the world track along. Yeah so first Kings 19, 19 to 21. First Kings 19, 19 to 21. First Kings 19, 19 to 21.
Here's what it says. So Elijah went from there and found Elisha son of Shaphat. He was plowing with
twelve yoke of oxen and he himself was driving the twelfth pair. Elijah went up to him and threw
his cloak around him. Elisha then left his oxen and ran after Elijah. Let me kiss my father and
mother goodbye he said and then I'll come with you. Go back Elijah replied what have I done to you?
So Elisha left him and went back. He took his yoke of oxen, slaughtered them. He burned the
plowing equipment to cook the meat and gave it to the people and they ate and then he set out to
follow Elijah and became his attendant. So there is this whole idea now of Jacob we may have been
connected with different people, different traditions, different ways in the past but a
time is coming when a whole new way of functioning has begun which the people in the past have not
been able to capture nor have they been able to model it so God will have to show us how to do
this. In Isaiah 51 verse 1 & 2 it says look to the quarry that you have been cut from look to
Abraham and Sarah your mother. Go to Isaiah 51 verse 1 & 2. Isaiah 51 verse 1 & 2. Isaiah 51 verse 1 & 2.
Isaiah 51 verse 1 & 2. Listen to me you who pursue righteousness and who seek the Lord. Look to the
rock from which you were cut and to the quarry from which you were hewn. Look to Abraham your
father and Sarah who gave you birth. When I called him he was but one and I blessed him and made him
many. One more time. Listen to me you who pursue righteousness and who seek the Lord. Look to the
rock from which you were cut and to the quarry from which you were hewn. Look to Abraham your father
and to Sarah who gave you birth. When I called him he was but one and I blessed him and made him
many. Guys when we read this scripture there is a tendency to look at our grandfathers and grandmothers,
and mothers and try to stay connected to them. That is good. But what God is saying here is listen
look to Sarah and Abraham and look to the quarry you got cut from because when you do you will find
that the way I do things is I start with a small number and I multiply them. That is what we need
to be aware of. I want to say to Acts 29 that regardless of the great people that have influenced
this church and have come and done tremendous good for us, changed the way we walk. Starting today we
do not copy their model. God is starting something brand new. We honor them for what they did but we
are not following them anymore. I know these are really strong words coming from me but this is true.
God is going to take this church and what it has become, sheerly by his grace and he's going to use
this to multiply. We are not severing our connections with people from the past but we are saying that was
good but a new time has come that the old does not have an idea of. Isaiah 43 verse 16 and 19. I'll
give you time to ask questions. If your questions are too sticky don't ask them. You can ask them
privately. If your questions are non-sticky ask them. Isaiah 43 verse 16 to 19. Isaiah 43 verse 16 to 19.
Isaiah 43 verse 16 to 19. This is what the Lord says, he who made a way through the sea, a path
through the mighty waters, who drew out the chariots and horses, the army and the reinforcements
together and they lay there never to rise again, extinguished, snuffed out like a wick. Forget the
former things, do not dwell on the past. See I'm doing a new thing now it springs up, do you not
perceive it? Let me read it from the message. I love the way the message words verse 18. Isaiah 43
verse 16 to 19. Isaiah 43 verse 16 to 19. Here's what the message says, this is what God says,
the God who builds a road through the ocean, who carves a path through the pounding waves, the God
who summons horses and chariots and armies, they lie down and they can't get up, they're snuffed out
like so many candles. Forget about what's happened, don't keep going over old history. That's what I
want us to remember. Forget what has happened, don't keep going over old history. God's writing
afresh. God is writing afresh. I'm so looking forward to this because it's going to be an
adventure. God is going to start writing afresh. Any questions before we go on? Just shift to the
next picture Ryan, we'll get there slowly. Any questions before we go on? This is a dangerous
thing not to be connected to the past? No! For whatever reason God has brought us to a place
where we've got to start afresh man. Got to start afresh. I look forward to this. This means I have
to disconnect to things in my past too. Examples of this? Okay, so let's assume I've come from a
Pentecostal tradition and let's assume that when I worship I insist on worshipping in tongues. Let's
assume Paul and the Bible say no. Now I have a choice. Do I worship with the Pentecostal tradition
or worshipping in tongues? Do I worship like that because the ones that I've learned under have
worshipped like that or do I start afresh because God has different orders? Let's look at the whole
idea of fathers and sons, spiritual fathers and sons being a very important part of how the church
is built. Great, but are there other blocks that the church must be built with in which case fathers
and sons have to take its rightful place and we can't continue building on old foundations. These
are foundations that were solid for our start but my God when we move into another phase we can't
keep taking bricks from an old building to build new buildings. God will provide us fresh new bricks
for new buildings, fresh new stones not old. I mean I was talking to Dano about this new business
that he's starting and I remember God giving Dano three new things to do with his new business which
cannot be like his old business even though he has prospered in his old business. It doesn't matter
that it sounds abstract right now, the prophetic always sounds a little abstract when it begins but
God will flesh it out. All I want us to know is we are not going to honor the traditions of the past
like we have done for many years. We're going to say that was good. God you want to start a new
thing. Here's a fresh piece of paper that you can start with and we'll change whatever we need to
change. You know when someone throws a mantle on somebody it's different from giving the mantle
to them. There was a time when Elijah gave his mantle to Elisha and Elisha became like Elijah
but this is when Elijah throws his mantle on Elisha and all that God is saying to us right now is hey
I'm claiming you for a new chapter. Do you want to write this or don't you? If you agree and choose
to then I'll show you what needs to be done but till then I'm just claiming you for a new chapter.
Do you want to respond or not? And the response is open to everybody. I'm gonna do something
unfamiliar with you Acts 29. I'm gonna do something unfamiliar with you Jacob. You can't go back and
draw from your past experience. It'll be absolutely new ground. I'll show you how to do it. You might
make some mistakes but I'm claiming you for this chapter. Do you want to run this or don't you want
to run this? May you say yes because here's what Elisha did. He takes his plow breaks it into pieces,
makes firewood out of it, takes the oxen, slaughters it, feeds his friends, says goodbye to his family,
goodbye to his possessions. If he had 12 yoke of oxen he was wealthy. Says goodbye to his wealth,
says goodbye to his relationships and knows now that he has launched into a completely different
way of living. And the great thing about God bringing us through so many changes is that when
he asks for Isaac it won't be hard to give. It's always hard to give up Isaac if you haven't given
up Hagar, if you haven't given up Lot, if you haven't given up your country, clan and people.
But if you've given all that up it's easy to give up Isaac. Any questions? Yep.
If you don't know the principles from those teachings listen to them. If you already know
the principles then let's look forward to what else God has for us. I mean we just did Christ
Life at Josh and Charlene's place. Josh and Charlene were listening to Christ Life for the
first time. It was taught 10 years ago but they were relative newbies and so they listened to it
and it was enriching. I love teaching it all over again. So those things are inviolable. There are
some fundamentals that we'll go over again and again and again and again. This is not so much
the change of fundamental truths. This is the change of direction. Next one. You know when we
went and stood outside in the parking lot maybe we thought it was, some of us may have thought,
it's just a photo opportunity that's dressed up in the spiritual. But when Chad came and explained
it to me the first time I didn't understand it and then he explained it again and here's what he was
saying. He was saying, Jacob this is what I sense you need to wait and let me know if I'm right. So
first time I didn't understand it I asked him to explain it again. So here's what he was saying.
He's saying somehow this church has come to a place where it's achieved everything that God had
asked it to achieve over the last many years. It's become a place where there are people of
different cultures. It's become a place where even though there is no structure there's sufficient
order. It's become a place where saints do the work not a few. It's become a place where the
Holy Spirit can move whenever he wants, however he wants and people follow. It's become a place
where things if God demands a change usually change happens. It's become a place where there's
sufficient money. It's become a place where even though there are very few people in this
church they're reaching into places like Lithuania which nobody goes to. It's a small miniscule church
that somehow has become potent in the hands of God and whatever God wanted to accomplish in the
past many years has been done and so here is what God is saying. Can we go out and stand and take a
photograph and why take the photograph? Because God wants you to put this in your scrapbook as
this is done. You have reached a certain place. Now in the sunset take a last look at how you
looked before the new day comes and so after having understood it the second time we went out,
took a photograph and it was very simple. That was the night before and now there's a new day. So now
begin to walk in the light of the new things I'll place before you. Do not keep looking back at old
history. It was good. Do not savor the conference. Lick your lips. Get over it. Move on and that's
what he meant by a prototype that it's reached a place that it needed to reach. Now launch it in a
way that it becomes very fruitful and begins to multiply rapidly. I mean if any of you are wearing
this sweatshirt, Pawan come up. Look at just come up running running running. Look at the back. That's
it. That's exactly what he wants to do. Just wants it to begin to multiply like crazy. Yeah you just
need to look at me. They look at you. Yeah that's what needs to happen. So in Genesis 15, Genesis
15, Genesis 15, Genesis 15, verse 12. Genesis 15 verse 12 and then verse 17 and 18. Genesis 15
verse 12 and then verse 17 and 18. Genesis 15 verse 12. As the sun was setting, Abraham fell into
a deep sleep and a thick and dreadful darkness came over him. Verse 17. When the sun had set and
darkness had fallen, a smoking fire pot with a blazing torch appeared and passed between the pieces.
On that day the Lord made an agreement with Abraham and said to your descendants I give this land from
the river of Egypt to the great river of Euphrates and then he begins to name the places that he is
going to give them. Guys listen to this very carefully. The reason Abraham goes to sleep and
he has dread take over him was not because he was scared but because of the heavy presence of God
that he had never encountered before. Till then he was taking branches and chasing away the birds
of prey that were coming to try and eat his sacrifice. He falls asleep and a dread takes
over him. Sometimes God is known as the dread of Jacob. It's a name that he used to have. The dread
of Jacob meaning his presence would be so terrifying. It is the same presence that they
saw in Exodus 19, 18 on the Mount Sinai where the same thing happened. There was smoke and there
was fire and people began to back away because they did not know how to handle his presence.
I want to say something to you and I'm both afraid enough and excited enough about this that as we
now begin to go into whatever God has for us and I promise you God will begin to flesh it out. Know
that you will not be able to handle his presence in the way that you used to handle it. It will
be heavier, it will be of greater blazing purity and you will not be able to handle it if you do
not change. It's like here let me put it this way. God will begin to turn up in your lives
individually and in our lives corporately with a far greater strength and intensity to the point
that we will either not be able to connect and we will back off and when we back off we will have
to subsist on whatever we used to do before or we can enter into this presence of God and we will
see glimpses of him that we've never seen before. Does that explain it any better? Let me give you
another. Peter, James and John walked with him continuously and then one day they went up a
mountain and it was called the Mount of Transfiguration and the same Peter, James and John that used to
thumb Jesus on the back and Jesus would thumb them back on the back and then they go up this
mountain and for the first time Jesus reveals his absolute divinity where his clothes begin to blaze
like cloth that had been bleached and it says Peter, James and John began to literally hide away when
they saw it and they began to tremble and they began to offer to build booths for Jesus, Moses and
Elijah because they could not handle his radiance. This is what I'm talking about. So one of two
things happens when God begins to increase his intensity. Either people dive in because they are
ready in their hearts and their minds or people begin to move away and negotiate from a distance.
One of two things. It's always been that way in the Bible. Either you dive in because you want this
or you back away and you have others step in on your behalf. It's one or the other and always
remember this. Any revolution in your identity is always possible only after a revelation of God.
Any revolution in your identity. If your identity has to change it must first meet and see a new
revelation of God before your identity changes. Doesn't matter whether it was Moses. Moses saw
the burning bush. He had the ability to lead a people out of Egypt. It was not enough to lead
them through the wilderness. So Moses goes up on Mount Sinai for 40 days. He changes and he's able
to lead them out of Egypt into the wilderness and into the promised land. Look at Peter. Peter
first meets Jesus. How? He is fishing. He cannot catch fish. Jesus says throw your net on the other
side. He catches fish. Peter says do not come near me master for I'm a sinful man. Peter begins his
journey then. The scene changes and now Peter is on the mount of transfiguration and he sees Jesus
in his divinity and he changes him again. And then Peter betrays Jesus and says things about him and
then there's a scene on a beach where Jesus holds him, restores him and Peter changes again.
And then the final one is when Peter is in the is in John chapter 21 and Jesus says to him Peter
feed my flock and the Holy Spirit falls in Acts chapter 2. Peter begins to leave the church.
Four different occurrences had to happen in Peter's life and each one took him from one place to the
other to the other to the other which is why it's a cool name to give a conference upgrade.
As you upgrade your idea or revelation of who God is your identity changes and you begin to be able
to handle the things that you're supposed to handle. I want to tell you and I guarantee you this
that God's presence will grow heavier and when it grows heavier you will have only two choices
embrace it leap into it dive into it swim in it or back off because I never sharpened my ability to
sharpen my ability to connect with him back off because you can't handle it
and the more you back off the duller you get.
Any questions on that?
A new vision of God is mandatory for a new commission
and new vision of God is mandatory for a new commission and at the end of the day what is God
saying I'm commissioning you for? He's saying listen I took you showed told you what to become
you become that you've taken a photograph in the dusk now that you've taken a photograph in the
dusk I want you to know that my presence in your midst will grow really heavy. Why will it grow
really heavy? Partly for your sake partly when people walk into this place 1st Corinthians 14
will begin to happen they will say God is in this place they will not say God is in the place
because the teaching is good they will not even say God is in this place because the worship
was good they will say God is in this place because God is in this place
everything else the teaching and the praise and the worship and all that will be a response
to God is in this place. It will not be to get him into the place and it'll be heavy
it'll be there in your business it'll be there in your homes it'll be in the lives of your kids
It will be in every area of life, not just two hours on a Sunday.
And this is the heaviness we are expecting.
And whenever God's heaviness begins to settle like this amongst the people 24x7,
trust me, it quickens your mortal bodies and fills your wine flasks and your storehouses too.
Always.
The Ark of the Covenant moved into Obed-Edom's house for three months.
For three months, Obed-Edom was the richest man in all of Israel.
Why this commission?
Why this, I want to come and become heavier in your midst.
Why this whole idea of what you were is done now, look at what I'm going to do.
What is he going to do?
He's going to just begin to give you territory, both individually and corporately as a body has never before.
If you have a business, my God, don't think Vancouver.
If you've got a ministry, do not think Vancouver.
If you've got a profession, do not think Vancouver.
Something long ago before the foundations of the earth, before the earth existed,
before there was a single human being, before there was a blade of grass, before there was time,
there was something in the mind of God with regard to Acts 29.
And that was this tiny group of people will leave such a footprint upon the nations that there'll be very few like it.
I say it with such absolute modesty and confidence that it is God.
Please dive into it.
The other great thing is if you've come in the last one year,
you are so blessed because now you get to benefit all the good things without the hard work.
This is like the workers who came at 3 p.m. also get the same wages.
This is the best time to come to this church.
So bring more.
This is the best time to come to this church.
Because we're eating the fruit of labor.
God will plant, God will establish, God will multiply churches, businesses, homes, families in Vancouver and worldwide
as His kingdom and the gospel and His ways of living progress through you.
God will plant, God will establish, God will multiply churches, businesses, homes, families in Vancouver and worldwide
as His kingdom and the gospel and His ways of living progress through you.
Absolutely, I guarantee it.
Jacob, how can you say stuff like I guarantee it? Because what if I'm right and this is God?
I'm saying it is. I'm just throwing the what if just in case you have a doubt in your head.
Just put the next picture. I keep forgetting the pictures.
Right? Yeah, that was the prototype picture that we took outside.
Forget the word prototype. It was just this whole thing of let's take one more picture before you move to New Zealand.
And so we all stood together and we took a picture and then we moved to New Zealand.
And this was the last picture we took. It goes up on Facebook as an old when we were young.
And that is it. From here on, it's going to be different.
And that is why we went out and then came back in.
And once I understood it, I thought, ah shucks, oh God, I'm looking forward to this.
Please understand, it's not just with regard to church life. It's with regard to every area of our lives.
My God, if God only worked in church, we'd have to call Him a Christian God.
Any questions? Any questions?
For those of us who are really young and are running strong,
just know that bitten bridle may sometimes have to be put on you so that in your running strong, you still stay within order.
Because when I saw you guys running over the last four or five months, my heart thrills.
But now as responsibilities increase, may you know that there will always be order and ways that we should function in.
Look forward to that. I mean, I've told you this, but it's so worth telling for the sake of the tape.
Horses that pull the king's chariot are put through a whole regimen of exercises.
There are stallions and thoroughbreds that run all across the globe in meadows and large fields.
And they eat what they want. They run like crazy. They're the ones that appear in videos and photographs.
And then there are these 10 to 12 horses that are pulled out of the thousands of stallions and thoroughbreds that exist.
And they're brought to a training facility. And in that facility, they begin to train them.
They put car exhausts backfiring, crowd noises, fire, bullets, cannons exploding, gunshots.
They put these horses through all these sounds and noises and out of that, they pull out six horses.
And those six horses that are able to listen to the whisper of the master in the middle of all that sound
and not twitch a muscle and do what the master says are the horses that get to pull the king's chariot
or the queen's chariot through the streets of London. I love that story.
Some want to be thoroughbreds who run the fields. Some want to do this other thing.
Last bit. Go to the next picture.
This was a picture I took at the Bangladesh border. Praise and worship was going on.
And there were these two kids. I don't know what that kid was doing.
I like what was he saying to God? What is the kid next to him doing?
What is the kid next to him doing?
Anyways, the picture is just for some other reason.
Guys, one of the things God wants to do in this show, the third thing, and there's only three things that I wanted to extract out of the conference,
is that he wants to rebuild the tabernacle of David in this church. Rebuild the tabernacle of David.
And only in one area in terms of praise and worship. He wants to change praise and worship in this church.
It's already changed a lot because I was so predictable. I was so grateful when first Jane came and then Emily came.
But that has changed the style. It has changed worship into being worship that has simplicity.
Then he added instruments and people that now play. We got almost two worship teams sometimes.
All that is good. But now God wants to change not the style, but the very way worship is done.
I don't even know what it looks like, but I caught a glimpse of it on Monday night when we sang, Raise a Hallelujah.
I'm not saying we'll have to capture that bottle and make it happen every time.
But there's something that God will want to do with regard to praise and worship in this church.
Let me tell you why he's doing it. Amos 9, verse 11 and 12.
It says, And then in the last days I will come and I will restore the tabernacle of David.
And the tabernacle of David was famous for praise and worship.
Let's go to 1 Chronicles 16, verse 1 to 7.
They brought the Ark of God and set it inside the tent that David had pitched for it.
And they presented burnt offerings and fellowship offerings before God.
After David had finished sacrificing the burnt offerings and fellowship offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the Lord.
Then he gave a loaf of bread, a cake of dates and a cake of raisins to each Israelite man and woman.
He appointed some of the Levites to minister before the Ark of the Lord, to make petition, to give thanks and to praise the Lord, the God of Israel.
Then Asaph was the chief, Zechariah second.
Then Jeel, Shemiramoth, Jeheel, Matityah, Eliab, Benaiah, Obadiadam and Jeel.
They were to play the lyres and harps.
Asaph was to sound the cymbals and Benaiah and Jehaziel the priests were to blow the trumpets regularly before the Ark of the Covenant.
And then go to verse 37.
David left Asaph and his associates before the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord to minister there regularly according to each day's requirements.
He also left Obadiadam and his 68 associates to minister with them.
Obadiadam, son of Jadetham and also Hosa were gatekeepers.
Look at how the message puts it.
David left Asaph and his co-workers with the Ark of the Covenant of God and in charge of the work of worship, they were responsible for the needs of worship around the clock.
And so when in Amos 9 verse 11 and 12 God says,
In the last days I will rebuild David's fallen tent.
He's talking about ordinary people declaring the praises of an extraordinary God and the night and day difference he has made in their lives.
Ordinary people declaring the praises of an extraordinary God and the night and day difference he has made in their lives.
And these are people who will begin to praise and worship in a way that Acts 29 has not experienced and it's going to happen.
I don't know how, but I know that because we are willing and because the worship team will learn to be willing and because we as a church will respond that God will change this.
God will change it.
Why is he doing this?
Go to Acts 15-16.
Acts 15-16.
Why does he want to change praise and worship?
And remember praise and worship is the act of ordinary people declaring the praises of an extraordinary God and the night and day difference he has made in their lives.
Sometimes after he has done a great deed, sometimes before he has done a great deed because they believe in the one who said he will.
And why is it important to rebuild the tabernacle of David and launch praise and worship like we've never done before?
Because it says in Acts 15-16, so that the outsiders may seek God, so that the pagans who do not believe may find him.
Acts 15-16.
And this is the third thing that I believe will begin to change after the conference.
As we change in how we magnify him in our worship and praise, he will be lifted up and he will be known differently and he will draw men unto him.
As we begin to magnify him in our worship and praise, he will be lifted up.
He will be known differently.
He will draw men unto him.
As we change in how we magnify him in our worship and praise, he will be lifted up.
be lifted up, he will be known differently and he will draw men unto him.
As we change in how we magnify him in our worship and praise, he will be lifted
up, he will be known differently and he will draw men unto him. These are the
three things that I wanted to pull out of this conference. The first one, the
first one is that, you know in Hebrews chapter 7, there's this line which says
when Jesus came, he had to start a new priesthood. He could not continue from
the line of Aaron. He had to start a new priesthood. He came from the tribe of
Judah. And so the first thing I want to say to you, if you go down these three
points, is the first point is, guys we are disconnecting from the ways and the
traditions of the past brought to us by honorable men and women who built us up
and we are saying thank you. But there is a new chapter, a new page, a new pathway
ahead of us and we cannot walk into it as long as we are hooked on to anything
from that past so we are free from it to walk into a completely new way of doing
things that we are unfamiliar with. That's the first one. The second one is
that a new commission where God wanted to achieve something through this group
of people and he achieved that. And now he's saying take a photograph as the
sun sets. This is your history. Do not look at the former things. Do not go over
your history again. It's done. Great job guys. Now that you have come to this
place, you are potent enough. You have the potency to now become something else and
so starting today, I now launch you into a new way where I'll give you new
territory. I'll give each of you, whether it be in your business, your families,
your homes, your professions, your church, I will through you cause the gospel to
progress, my life to progress, churches to multiply and I'll do it all over the
world because I want you to know Acts 29 that before Jacob was born, before any of
you were born, before the world existed, before there was a blade of grass, before
there was time when it was still null and void, I had in my mind this tiny
little church called Acts 29 that would leave a massive footprint, my footprint
in nations across the globe. You cannot even imagine what I have for you.
Therefore now, as the dread of my presence begins to occupy you as a
people like never before and it will get heavy and you have only two choices,
either draw near and be pulled into it or step away like people did in the Old
Testament and say Moses you go speak to them because I don't want to come. My
presence will grow heavier, so heavy not just for your sake but for the sake of
those that walk in because they will say God is here and we know it. They will not
say like Jacob did in the Old Testament that God is here and I did not know it.
You will become the gate of heaven. You will become the ladder that I ascend and
descend on and I will give you new territory that will span from Vancouver
all the way to New Zealand. Oh you little of strength, you remind me so much of
the Church of Philadelphia for behold I place before you an open door and I'm
saying it to you that prototype is beautiful I treasure it it's like a
trophy but I got new games, new ways, new roads, new paths for you to play and I'm
saying to you if you have joined recently do not go away you have tasted
right stay. I'm not saying this so that you stay guys I'm just saying this
because God's saying it. And then the third bit is I'll change the way you
praise and worship. I'm rebuilding the tabernacle of David in your midst. I'll
change the way you praise and worship. You will magnify me. You will magnify me
in your worship and praise. I will be lifted up. I will be known differently. I
will draw men unto me. Ordinary people declaring the praises of an extraordinary
God and the night and day difference he has made in your lives. This will
happen. These three things will happen. That's what I wanted to extract from the
conference. I had a different message based on the vision that God has given
us for 2020 and I had it ready and then at some point yesterday even God said
no you need to tell them what I'm about and then you can go back to the 2020
vision. Do you have any more pictures Ryan? Yeah that's the spread of how far
God will take us. Go back one. Yeah the last little thing is in Auckland
New Zealand. I might go there next week. Not next week, a week from today. Yeah. I
wanted to read this out on you as a benediction. In new days coming announces
the Lord. Things are going to happen so fast your head will swim. One thing fast
on the heels of the other. You won't be able to keep up. Everything will be
happening at once and everywhere you look blessings. Blessings like wine
pouring off the mountains and hills. I'll make everything right again for my
people. You will rebuild the ruined cities and live in them. You will plant
vineyards and drink their wine. You will make gardens and eat their fruit. And
he's not saying this about church. Please don't think he divides life into
church life and then the six days of the week he's so not like that. One more time.
A new day is coming announces the Lord. This is from Amos chapter 9. A new day is
coming announces the Lord. Things are going to happen so fast your head will
swim. One thing fast on the heels of the other. You won't be able to keep
up. Everything will be happening at once and everywhere you look blessings.
Blessings like wine pouring off the mountains and the hills. I'll make
everything right again for my people. You will rebuild the ruined cities and live
in them. You will plant vineyards and drink their wine. You will make gardens
and eat their fruit. That's what awaits us. And so the only thing I want to do
now in conclusion is I'm gonna ask three or four people to come and just pray for
me because I have to lead this and I don't have what it takes and need help
to do this correctly. I know God will give it but I just want three or four
people to pray for me and then if you need prayer someone will pray for you
and we can go home. So I'm gonna ask Jeevan and Danu and Sue and let's pick
one more. Sue and May and to come up and just pray for me and Derek and Jillian
to come up and pray for me. That's six people so we still have 15 minutes you
don't have to take all the 15 minutes up. So if you guys can come up.
Okay so what are we doing? We were praying for Jacob. Why? Because this is a
mammoth task and he needs to know how to do this. If he doesn't do it right we all
suffer. So think in prayer.