WEBVTT NOTE Podcast: Acts 29 Vancouver Episode: Palm Sunday – City On A Hill Publishing Date: 2021-03-28T06:00:44-07:00 Podcast URL: https://acts29.ca Episode URL: https://acts29.ca/palm-sunday-city-on-a-hill/ 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.000 Hi guys. 00:00:05.000 --> 00:00:14.000 Okay, guys, so I read Matthew 21 and if you want a title for today, it's Palm Sunday's 00:00:14.000 --> 00:00:20.000 City on a Hill or Palm Sunday Going Public. 00:00:20.000 --> 00:00:25.000 Yeah, one of those titles. 00:00:25.000 --> 00:00:30.000 Or City on a Hill Going Public, giving you so many titles you can put any which one. 00:00:30.000 --> 00:00:42.000 So I read Matthew 21 and Matthew 21 is an account of provocative public confrontation 00:00:42.000 --> 00:00:46.000 that Jesus had that was designed to draw attention. 00:00:46.000 --> 00:00:49.000 Hear me again. 00:00:49.000 --> 00:00:54.000 Matthew 21 is actually Matthew 21 to 24, but Matthew 21 starting in the 00:00:54.000 --> 00:01:06.000 Matthew 21 is this narrative where Matthew is trying to present to us the provocative 00:01:06.000 --> 00:01:14.000 public confrontations that Jesus had that were designed to draw attention. 00:01:14.000 --> 00:01:24.000 I mean, when you look at Jesus's actions in Matthew 21, first there's the royal procession, 00:01:24.000 --> 00:01:34.000 the royal procession towards Jerusalem. 00:01:34.000 --> 00:01:51.000 Then there is the attack on traders and lenders in the temple. 00:01:51.000 --> 00:02:15.000 Then there is the prophetic cursing, prophetic cursing and destruction of the fruitless fig tree, 00:02:15.000 --> 00:02:24.000 of the fruitless fig tree, and it was a symbolic prophetic cursing of a fruitless fig tree, 00:02:24.000 --> 00:02:29.000 which again was going to point towards what awaited. 00:02:29.000 --> 00:02:42.000 And then there were parables, there were healings of the blind and the lame that infuriated some of the leaders. 00:02:42.000 --> 00:02:59.000 And then finally there was, there were two parables that denounced and challenged the scribes and the Pharisees, 00:02:59.000 --> 00:03:07.000 or basically the Sanhedrin, which was made up of scribes, Pharisees, Sadducees, Herodians, 00:03:08.000 --> 00:03:13.000 the most powerful body in Israel. 00:03:13.000 --> 00:03:16.000 This is what is happening in that one chapter. 00:03:16.000 --> 00:03:27.000 We don't realize that Palm Sunday is suddenly a provocative public confrontation designed to draw attention to Jesus. 00:03:27.000 --> 00:03:35.000 And he had just walked about a hundred miles from Caesarea to Jerusalem, like he always used to do. 00:03:35.000 --> 00:03:37.000 Jesus met everybody everywhere walking. 00:03:37.000 --> 00:03:44.000 I'm kind of glad I wasn't born then because I would have been a disciple of his and there'd be a lot of walking involved. 00:03:49.000 --> 00:03:54.000 But he's just walked a hundred miles from Caesarea to Jerusalem, 00:03:54.000 --> 00:04:02.000 and strangely the last two miles he rides on a donkey, something that he's never done. 00:04:03.000 --> 00:04:07.000 And so you've got all these pilgrims who are coming to Jerusalem, 00:04:07.000 --> 00:04:15.000 and it is said that Jerusalem's population used to go up from 60,000 to 180,000 during Passover. 00:04:15.000 --> 00:04:20.000 And so you've got all these pilgrims going up the ascent to Jerusalem, 00:04:20.000 --> 00:04:22.000 and most of them are on foot. 00:04:22.000 --> 00:04:27.000 And then there is this rider on a donkey with hundreds traveling with him. 00:04:27.000 --> 00:04:30.000 And these are his traveling companions. 00:04:30.000 --> 00:04:36.000 John 12, 17, Mark 11, indicates that the ones who were shouting Hosanna 00:04:36.000 --> 00:04:43.000 were ones who knew Jesus, who had seen him raise Lazarus. 00:04:43.000 --> 00:04:50.000 John 12, 17 actually talks about some of the guys accompanying him being the ones who saw him raise Lazarus in Bethany. 00:04:50.000 --> 00:04:52.000 They were disciples. 00:04:52.000 --> 00:04:59.000 And so I've preached this before, and I've said that the crowd that shouted Hosanna 00:04:59.000 --> 00:05:04.000 a week later shouted crucify him, and that's not true. 00:05:04.000 --> 00:05:10.000 The people that were with him were actually traveling companions, disciples, 00:05:10.000 --> 00:05:13.000 and ones who had seen Lazarus raised from the dead. 00:05:13.000 --> 00:05:19.000 These were ones who actually believed in this prophet from Nazareth of Galilee. 00:05:19.000 --> 00:05:24.000 It was in Jerusalem that there was a crowd that began to say crucify him. 00:05:24.000 --> 00:05:30.000 And he had not entered Jerusalem yet. He was on the way to Jerusalem. 00:05:30.000 --> 00:05:34.000 And they begin to do for Jesus what was done for Jehu. 00:05:34.000 --> 00:05:40.000 If you read 2 Kings 9, 13, you'll find that when Jehu was crowned king, 00:05:40.000 --> 00:05:43.000 it was the same thing. People took off their cloaks, laid it on the ground. 00:05:43.000 --> 00:05:49.000 They started waving branches, and they started declaring Jehu is king, Jehu is king. 00:05:49.000 --> 00:05:56.000 So what was being done there was a reenactment of what had been done for Jehu when he became king. 00:05:56.000 --> 00:06:01.000 I mean Elijah had appointed Jehu, and Elisha had sent his man to anoint Jehu. 00:06:01.000 --> 00:06:04.000 The same thing was done. 00:06:04.000 --> 00:06:09.000 And as they are doing what they're doing as he comes into Jerusalem, 00:06:09.000 --> 00:06:14.000 most Israelites would have recognized the prophecy in Zechariah 9, 9, 00:06:14.000 --> 00:06:20.000 which says, behold, Zion, here is your king, humble, meek, riding on a donkey. 00:06:20.000 --> 00:06:23.000 And that is when they start shouting, Hosanna. 00:06:23.000 --> 00:06:30.000 Hosanna basically means save us now. Save us now. 00:06:30.000 --> 00:06:34.000 And so they start shouting, Hosanna, save us now, son of David. 00:06:34.000 --> 00:06:47.000 And then in shouting that, they are declaring him messiah. 00:06:47.000 --> 00:06:53.000 Because the word Hosanna, which means save us now, 00:06:53.000 --> 00:06:59.000 and son of David when combined can only be attributed to the messiah. 00:06:59.000 --> 00:07:08.000 And so suddenly these people are beginning to make obvious his messianic arrival into Jerusalem. 00:07:08.000 --> 00:07:14.000 And the strange thing is Jesus isn't saying anything about it. 00:07:14.000 --> 00:07:17.000 Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. 00:07:17.000 --> 00:07:24.000 This enthusiasm is what begins to outrage the Pharisees, the scribes, the leaders, the elders, the Sadducees. 00:07:24.000 --> 00:07:27.000 It begins to enrage them. 00:07:27.000 --> 00:07:31.000 And strangely, even though they are enraged, Jesus is not conciliatory. 00:07:31.000 --> 00:07:35.000 He's not trying to calm them down. He's confrontational. 00:07:35.000 --> 00:07:38.000 Why is Jesus confrontational? 00:07:38.000 --> 00:07:46.000 Because he has this passion to rebuild the tent of David. 00:07:46.000 --> 00:07:49.000 He actually talks about it in John 2, 17. 00:07:49.000 --> 00:07:53.000 After cleansing the temple, driving away the money changers and the traders, 00:07:53.000 --> 00:07:58.000 Jesus actually says, they ask him, what authority are you doing this in? 00:07:58.000 --> 00:08:01.000 And his reply is, this is the authority I have. 00:08:01.000 --> 00:08:05.000 In three days I will destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up. 00:08:05.000 --> 00:08:11.000 What Jesus is bringing into Jerusalem that day is a new order. 00:08:11.000 --> 00:08:18.000 Sometimes we get, I get so caught up in the Palm Sunday, the waving of branches and Hosanna 00:08:18.000 --> 00:08:24.000 that you miss out on what is actually happening. 00:08:24.000 --> 00:08:32.000 Where Jesus is saying the tent of David or the tabernacle of David or the temple is in disrepair. 00:08:32.000 --> 00:08:39.000 The traders and the money lenders have filled the outer courtyard of the temple. 00:08:39.000 --> 00:08:44.000 That is where the Gentiles used to be able to have access and now the Gentiles have no access. 00:08:44.000 --> 00:08:48.000 He actually quotes a verse from Isaiah 56, verse 7. 00:08:48.000 --> 00:08:54.000 Isaiah 56 is a chapter that is dedicated to letting Israel know that a day is coming 00:08:54.000 --> 00:08:58.000 when the outsider and the foreigner will be part of Israel. 00:08:58.000 --> 00:09:05.000 It is Isaiah 56, 7 that Jesus quotes in Matthew 21. 00:09:05.000 --> 00:09:08.000 Go to Matthew 21 and it says there, 00:09:15.000 --> 00:09:18.000 Jesus at the temple. It is written, he said, 00:09:18.000 --> 00:09:22.000 My house will be called a house of prayer, but you are making it a den of robbers. 00:09:22.000 --> 00:09:25.000 And that is taken from Isaiah 56, verse 7. 00:09:25.000 --> 00:09:31.000 And Isaiah 56 is his idea of the foreigners and the outsiders becoming part of Israel. 00:09:31.000 --> 00:09:34.000 And so what Jesus is doing, why is he being confrontational? 00:09:34.000 --> 00:09:40.000 Because he has this passion to rebuild the tabernacle of David so that the Gentiles may seek him. 00:09:40.000 --> 00:09:45.000 If you look at Amos 9, verse 11 from the New King James version, 00:09:45.000 --> 00:09:51.000 Amos 9, verse 11, this is the beginning or the initiation of that work. 00:09:51.000 --> 00:09:56.000 Amos 9, verse 11 from the New King James, 00:09:56.000 --> 00:10:01.000 Amos 9, verse 11, here is what it says, 00:10:01.000 --> 00:10:08.000 On that day I will raise up the tabernacle of David which has fallen down and repair its damages. 00:10:08.000 --> 00:10:11.000 I will raise up its ruins and rebuild it as the days of old. 00:10:11.000 --> 00:10:17.000 Why? That they may possess the remnant of Edom and all the Gentiles who are called by my name, 00:10:17.000 --> 00:10:19.000 Says the Lord who does this thing. 00:10:19.000 --> 00:10:21.000 Behold the days are coming, says the Lord, 00:10:21.000 --> 00:10:26.000 When the ploughman shall overtake the reaper, the treader of grapes, him who sows seed, 00:10:26.000 --> 00:10:30.000 The mountains shall drip with sweet wine, and all the hills shall flow with it. 00:10:30.000 --> 00:10:33.000 I will bring back the captives of my people Israel. 00:10:33.000 --> 00:10:35.000 They shall build the waste cities and inhabit them. 00:10:35.000 --> 00:10:37.000 They shall plant vineyards and drink wine from them. 00:10:37.000 --> 00:10:39.000 They shall also make gardens and eat fruit from them. 00:10:39.000 --> 00:10:44.000 I will plant them in the land, and no longer shall they be pulled up from the land I have given them, 00:10:44.000 --> 00:10:45.000 Says the Lord, your God. 00:10:45.000 --> 00:10:46.000 But I want to focus on 11 and 12. 00:10:46.000 --> 00:10:51.000 On that day I will raise up the tabernacle of David which has fallen down and repair its damages. 00:10:51.000 --> 00:10:54.000 I will raise up its ruins and rebuild it as in days of old, 00:10:54.000 --> 00:10:58.000 That they may possess the remnant of Edom and all the Gentiles who are called by my name, 00:10:58.000 --> 00:11:00.000 Says the Lord who does these things. 00:11:00.000 --> 00:11:04.000 That is why Jesus refuses to back out. 00:11:04.000 --> 00:11:07.000 And it's the work he initiates in John 2.19 when he says, 00:11:07.000 --> 00:11:10.000 Hey, three days I will destroy this temple and raise it up. 00:11:10.000 --> 00:11:13.000 And the Holy Spirit is in the process of completing it. 00:11:13.000 --> 00:11:18.000 Which is why Peter rises up in Acts chapter 15 verse 16 00:11:18.000 --> 00:11:24.000 And quotes Amos 9.11 again, go to Acts chapter 15, verse 16. 00:11:24.000 --> 00:11:36.000 The words of the prophets are in agreement with this, as it is written, 00:11:36.000 --> 00:11:40.000 After this I will return and rebuild David's fallen tent. 00:11:40.000 --> 00:11:43.000 Its ruins I will rebuild and I will restore it, 00:11:43.000 --> 00:11:45.000 That the rest of mankind may seek the Lord, 00:11:45.000 --> 00:11:49.000 Even all the Gentiles who bear my name, Says the Lord who does these things from long ago. 00:11:49.000 --> 00:11:52.000 The same Jesus, here's the strange thing man, 00:11:52.000 --> 00:11:56.000 That the same Jesus who said it was not time yet, 00:11:56.000 --> 00:11:58.000 Every time someone would say, 00:11:58.000 --> 00:12:01.000 Hey, why don't you go and do some miracles and let your glory be known, 00:12:01.000 --> 00:12:03.000 He would say it's not time yet. 00:12:03.000 --> 00:12:06.000 The same Jesus who would stay in the outskirts of cities 00:12:06.000 --> 00:12:09.000 So that he wouldn't be too famous or popular. 00:12:09.000 --> 00:12:13.000 The same Jesus who would shun messianic recognition. 00:12:13.000 --> 00:12:15.000 In John chapter 6 verse 15, 00:12:15.000 --> 00:12:18.000 People recognize him as king and they want to go crown him as king 00:12:18.000 --> 00:12:20.000 And Jesus shuns it and walks away. 00:12:20.000 --> 00:12:24.000 In John 6 15, the same Jesus who shunned messianic recognition, 00:12:24.000 --> 00:12:29.000 The same Jesus who told his disciples not to tell anyone that he was a messiah. 00:12:29.000 --> 00:12:32.000 The same Jesus is no longer keeping it a secret. 00:12:32.000 --> 00:12:36.000 He's letting it be public. 00:12:36.000 --> 00:12:40.000 Palm Sunday is the day he is fine with letting the secret out. 00:12:40.000 --> 00:12:42.000 He no longer wants to be known. 00:12:42.000 --> 00:12:45.000 He's doing it aggressively. 00:12:45.000 --> 00:12:49.000 This is not the meek lamb of God, though there is meekness in him. 00:12:49.000 --> 00:12:52.000 There is a strength in him which takes on an entire establishment 00:12:52.000 --> 00:12:55.000 And which is what leads to his death. 00:12:55.000 --> 00:12:59.000 Palm Sunday was the day they decided that this man needs to die. 00:12:59.000 --> 00:13:03.000 Because he had taken on an entire establishment. 00:13:03.000 --> 00:13:07.000 Palm Sunday is the day that Jesus was taken on an entire establishment. 00:13:08.000 --> 00:13:11.000 A religious, political, social establishment. 00:13:11.000 --> 00:13:14.000 So why talk about this? 00:13:14.000 --> 00:13:17.000 This sounds so not Palm Sunday-ish, so not Hosanna-ish. 00:13:17.000 --> 00:13:20.000 But this is what actually was happening. 00:13:20.000 --> 00:13:22.000 So why talk about this? 00:13:22.000 --> 00:13:24.000 Because 00:13:24.000 --> 00:13:27.000 I'm not going to talk about this. 00:13:27.000 --> 00:13:30.000 I'm going to talk about this because 00:13:30.000 --> 00:13:33.000 I'm going to talk about this because 00:13:33.000 --> 00:13:36.000 We talk about this because 00:13:57.000 --> 00:14:00.000 I believe 00:14:00.000 --> 00:14:03.000 Not I believe. 00:14:03.000 --> 00:14:06.000 We talk about this because 00:14:06.000 --> 00:14:09.000 I believe that God is saying 00:14:09.000 --> 00:14:12.000 that for Acts 29 00:14:12.000 --> 00:14:15.000 that for Acts 29 00:14:15.000 --> 00:14:18.000 the time of concealment 00:14:18.000 --> 00:14:21.000 the time of concealment 00:14:21.000 --> 00:14:24.000 is over. 00:14:24.000 --> 00:14:27.000 The time of concealment is over. 00:14:27.000 --> 00:14:30.000 The time of concealment is over. 00:14:30.000 --> 00:14:33.000 Matthew 5.14b 00:14:33.000 --> 00:14:36.000 as in the second part of Matthew 5.14 00:14:36.000 --> 00:14:39.000 When I say Acts 29, I mean 00:14:39.000 --> 00:14:42.000 all the many people that are connected with Acts 29 too. 00:14:42.000 --> 00:14:45.000 If you read from the message 00:14:45.000 --> 00:14:48.000 Matthew 5.14 00:14:48.000 --> 00:14:51.000 it will give you an idea of what God is about. 00:14:51.000 --> 00:14:54.000 Matthew 5.14 00:14:54.000 --> 00:14:57.000 Here's another way to put it. 00:14:57.000 --> 00:15:00.000 You're here to be light bringing out God colors in the world. 00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:03.000 The second part is what I want to look at. 00:15:03.000 --> 00:15:06.000 God is not a secret to be kept. 00:15:06.000 --> 00:15:09.000 We are going public with this 00:15:09.000 --> 00:15:12.000 as public as a city on a hill. 00:15:12.000 --> 00:15:15.000 God is not a secret to be kept. 00:15:15.000 --> 00:15:18.000 We are going public with this 00:15:18.000 --> 00:15:21.000 as public as a city on a hill. 00:15:21.000 --> 00:15:24.000 We are going public with this 00:15:24.000 --> 00:15:27.000 as public as a city on a hill. 00:15:27.000 --> 00:15:30.000 What does that mean? It means corporately and individually. 00:15:30.000 --> 00:15:33.000 Today is the day that God is saying 00:15:33.000 --> 00:15:36.000 I'm blowing the trumpet and breaking the pitcher. 00:15:36.000 --> 00:15:39.000 What do you mean blowing the trumpet and breaking the pitcher? 00:15:39.000 --> 00:15:42.000 Go to Judges 7, verse 20. 00:15:42.000 --> 00:15:45.000 I'm sorry I'm not able to muster 00:15:45.000 --> 00:15:48.000 enough excitement in my voice. 00:15:48.000 --> 00:15:51.000 I'm not able to muster enough excitement in my voice. 00:15:51.000 --> 00:15:54.000 This is a sober prophetic message. 00:15:54.000 --> 00:15:57.000 I wish I could be a little more about it like I normally am. 00:15:57.000 --> 00:16:00.000 Judges 7, verse 20. 00:16:00.000 --> 00:16:03.000 Judges 7, verse 20. 00:16:03.000 --> 00:16:06.000 Judges 7, verse 20. 00:16:06.000 --> 00:16:09.000 Judges 7, verse 20. 00:16:09.000 --> 00:16:12.000 Starting at verse 19, Gideon and the hundred men with him 00:16:12.000 --> 00:16:15.000 reached the edge of the camp at the beginning of the middle watch 00:16:15.000 --> 00:16:18.000 just after they had changed the guard. 00:16:18.000 --> 00:16:21.000 They blew their trumpets and broke the jars that were in their hands. 00:16:21.000 --> 00:16:24.000 The three companies blew the trumpets, smashed the jars, 00:16:24.000 --> 00:16:27.000 grasping the torches in their left hands and holding in their right hand the trumpets. 00:16:27.000 --> 00:16:30.000 They were to blow, they shouted, a sword for the Lord and for Gideon. 00:16:30.000 --> 00:16:33.000 While each man held his position around the camp, 00:16:33.000 --> 00:16:36.000 all the Midianites ran, crying out as they fled. 00:16:36.000 --> 00:16:39.000 And so let me say again what I just said. 00:16:39.000 --> 00:16:42.000 For Acts 29, the time of concealment is over. 00:16:42.000 --> 00:16:45.000 We are going public like a city on a hill. 00:16:45.000 --> 00:16:48.000 Corporately and individually, 00:16:48.000 --> 00:16:51.000 today is the day that God is saying, 00:16:51.000 --> 00:16:54.000 I'm blowing the trumpet and breaking the pitcher. 00:16:54.000 --> 00:16:57.000 Today is the day God is saying, 00:16:57.000 --> 00:17:00.000 I'm blowing the trumpet and breaking the pitcher. 00:17:00.000 --> 00:17:03.000 I'm blowing the trumpet and breaking the pitcher. 00:17:03.000 --> 00:17:06.000 Corporately we need to understand that when the service ends, 00:17:06.000 --> 00:17:09.000 we need to understand that when the service ends, 00:17:09.000 --> 00:17:12.000 the service ends, 00:17:12.000 --> 00:17:15.000 when this meeting ends, a new kind of service begins 00:17:15.000 --> 00:17:18.000 where God is saying, 00:17:18.000 --> 00:17:21.000 your days of concealment are over. 00:17:21.000 --> 00:17:24.000 You're going public like a city on the hill. 00:17:24.000 --> 00:17:27.000 That's my intent. 00:17:27.000 --> 00:17:30.000 I am blowing the trumpet. God is blowing the trumpet. 00:17:30.000 --> 00:17:33.000 And he's breaking the pitcher so that the light inside is exposed, 00:17:33.000 --> 00:17:36.000 which means we have to blaze. 00:17:36.000 --> 00:17:39.000 Today, but that is not part of today's equation. 00:17:39.000 --> 00:17:42.000 Individually, you have to think along these lines too. 00:17:42.000 --> 00:17:45.000 Individually, I have to examine 00:17:45.000 --> 00:17:48.000 what is it that is happening in my life right now 00:17:48.000 --> 00:17:51.000 that God wants to say, today I commission you 00:17:51.000 --> 00:17:54.000 into what you're doing. 00:17:54.000 --> 00:17:57.000 For some of us it may start today, for some of us maybe it started four days ago. 00:17:57.000 --> 00:18:00.000 For some of us it may be publicly being declared today 00:18:00.000 --> 00:18:03.000 that today you step into all that I've been saying all these years. 00:18:03.000 --> 00:18:06.000 Come, step into it right now. Did I call you to be a forerunner? 00:18:06.000 --> 00:18:09.000 Step into it. Did I call you to be a warrior? 00:18:09.000 --> 00:18:12.000 Step into it. Did I call you to the prophetic? Step into it. 00:18:12.000 --> 00:18:15.000 Did I call you to deal with princes and principalities? 00:18:15.000 --> 00:18:18.000 Step into it. Did I call you to be a benefactor? 00:18:18.000 --> 00:18:21.000 Step into it. Did I call you to be a wall builder? 00:18:21.000 --> 00:18:24.000 Step into it. Today is the day. 00:18:24.000 --> 00:18:27.000 Why, Jacob, why just pick a day? 00:18:27.000 --> 00:18:30.000 Man, I never was going this way when I started this message. 00:18:30.000 --> 00:18:33.000 When I was preparing this message, this wasn't part of it. 00:18:33.000 --> 00:18:36.000 It was during the preparation of the message that I sensed God saying, 00:18:36.000 --> 00:18:39.000 but this is what I want to do. 00:18:46.000 --> 00:18:53.000 Like a rushing wind, Jesus breathed within. 00:18:53.000 --> 00:19:00.000 Lord, have Your way, Lord, have Your way with us. 00:19:00.000 --> 00:19:08.000 Like a mighty storm, stir within my soul. 00:19:08.000 --> 00:19:16.000 Lord, have Your way, Lord, have Your way with us. 00:19:16.000 --> 00:19:19.000 Father, we just paused for a second. 00:19:19.000 --> 00:19:26.000 I don't know how to make this dramatic or drum up enough tension or emotion into this. 00:19:26.000 --> 00:19:34.000 But you're saying today is the day that you're literally pulling the covers off us. 00:19:34.000 --> 00:19:40.000 Today is the day you're going public with this company of yours. 00:19:40.000 --> 00:19:45.000 Today is the day that our concealment ends. 00:19:45.000 --> 00:19:47.000 Today is the day you're blowing the trumpet. 00:19:47.000 --> 00:19:50.000 You are blowing the trumpet, not us blowing the shofar. 00:19:50.000 --> 00:19:51.000 You are blowing the trumpet. 00:19:51.000 --> 00:19:55.000 Today is the day you are breaking the picture. 00:19:55.000 --> 00:19:57.000 Today is the day you have decided to do all these things. 00:19:57.000 --> 00:20:00.000 There's nothing that we need to do. 00:20:00.000 --> 00:20:02.000 What we are, you have already made us. 00:20:02.000 --> 00:20:06.000 All you're doing is revealing what you've already accomplished. 00:20:06.000 --> 00:20:10.000 But Father, as you lift the covers out, 00:20:10.000 --> 00:20:13.000 we just sing this song. 00:20:13.000 --> 00:20:14.000 We just sing this song. 00:20:14.000 --> 00:20:15.000 I sing this song for the church. 00:20:15.000 --> 00:20:22.000 I sing this song for seasons and stages and phases and upgrades in my own personal life. 00:20:22.000 --> 00:20:25.000 And I sing it for what you're doing with Acts 29. 00:20:25.000 --> 00:20:30.000 And across the city, you'll hear the voices singing, Father. 00:20:30.000 --> 00:20:35.000 They said, we can't sing together, but we are singing together. 00:20:35.000 --> 00:20:37.000 We are singing together. 00:20:38.000 --> 00:20:40.000 We are singing together. 00:20:45.000 --> 00:20:54.000 Like a rushing wind, Jesus breathes within. 00:20:54.000 --> 00:21:02.000 Lord, have Your way, Lord, have Your way with us. 00:21:03.000 --> 00:21:13.000 Like a mighty storm, stir within my soul. 00:21:13.000 --> 00:21:21.000 Lord, have Your way, Lord, have Your way with us. 00:21:21.000 --> 00:21:22.000 One more time. 00:21:22.000 --> 00:21:31.000 Like a rushing wind, Holy Spirit breathes within. 00:21:31.000 --> 00:21:39.000 Lord, have Your way, Lord, have Your way with us. 00:21:40.000 --> 00:21:49.000 Like a mighty storm, stir within our souls. 00:21:49.000 --> 00:21:58.000 Lord, have Your way, Lord, have Your way with us. 00:22:01.000 --> 00:22:24.000 Let people rise up, Father. 00:22:24.000 --> 00:22:39.000 Rise up in the new ministries, in the new phases, in the new seasons, in the new times, in the new roles, in the new calling, in the new rest, in the new mountaintop, 00:22:39.000 --> 00:22:51.000 in the new burning bush, in the new burning mountain, in the new mantle, in the new pursuit. 00:22:51.000 --> 00:22:55.000 Let people rise up, Holy Spirit, stir within their souls right now. 00:22:55.000 --> 00:22:57.000 Stir within their souls. 00:22:57.000 --> 00:23:07.000 Call, appoint, anoint, call, appoint, anoint, call, appoint, anoint, call, appoint, anoint, call, appoint, anoint, call, appoint, anoint, O God. 00:23:07.000 --> 00:23:16.000 O Lord, have Your way with us. 00:23:16.000 --> 00:23:19.000 I am going to start with the cities, with nations. 00:23:19.000 --> 00:23:24.000 I am going to start with You first. 00:23:24.000 --> 00:23:26.000 You are my prototype. 00:23:26.000 --> 00:23:29.000 If I don't do it with You, why would I do it with other cities and nations? 00:23:29.000 --> 00:23:32.000 I will start with You. 00:23:32.000 --> 00:23:38.000 I will start with the twelve and then it becomes five hundred and then it becomes three thousand and then it becomes five thousand. 00:23:38.000 --> 00:23:41.000 Father, He is your prototype. Do as You will. 00:23:41.000 --> 00:23:43.000 Lord, have Your way. 00:23:43.000 --> 00:23:48.000 Lord, have Your way with us. 00:23:48.000 --> 00:23:57.000 Like a rushing wind, Jesus breathed with sin. 00:23:57.000 --> 00:24:00.000 Lord, have Your way. 00:24:00.000 --> 00:24:05.000 Lord, have Your way with us. 00:24:05.000 --> 00:24:14.000 Like a mighty storm, stir within my soul. 00:24:14.000 --> 00:24:16.000 Lord, have Your way. 00:24:16.000 --> 00:24:25.000 Lord, have Your way with us. 00:24:30.000 --> 00:24:37.000 Jesus undertakes three actions that we must replicate going forward from today. 00:24:37.000 --> 00:24:43.000 Jesus undertakes three actions that we must replicate going forward today. 00:24:43.000 --> 00:24:48.000 The first action He takes is He cleanses the temple. 00:24:48.000 --> 00:24:57.000 He cleanses the temple. 00:24:57.000 --> 00:25:07.000 This day forth, I pray, O God, that He would expose in us any historical or any religious junk. 00:25:07.000 --> 00:25:10.000 This day forth, I pray, O God, that He would expose in us any historical or any religious junk. 00:25:10.000 --> 00:25:16.000 Cleanse the temple. Cleanse this temple first and then we will be cleansers of other temples. 00:25:16.000 --> 00:25:18.000 But cleanse this temple first. 00:25:18.000 --> 00:25:24.000 So this day forth, expose in us historical and religious junk. 00:25:24.000 --> 00:25:30.000 Historical as in things from the past that were not wrong but are incomplete that we are holding on to. 00:25:30.000 --> 00:25:34.000 Expose it so that we may do away with it. 00:25:34.000 --> 00:25:37.000 New wine requires new wine skin. 00:25:37.000 --> 00:25:46.000 Expose religious junk, religious legalistic things that we are still caught up in at Acts 29. 00:25:46.000 --> 00:25:50.000 Or in our own individual lives or in the pastor's life. 00:25:50.000 --> 00:25:58.000 Expose every golden calf, O God, every golden calf, anything that has been shaped in this church with our own hands. 00:25:58.000 --> 00:26:02.000 Anything that is created from our own minds. 00:26:02.000 --> 00:26:05.000 Anything that is created out of our imaginations. 00:26:05.000 --> 00:26:08.000 Anything that did not come from heaven. 00:26:08.000 --> 00:26:12.000 Anything that is not birthed solely through your spirit. 00:26:12.000 --> 00:26:17.000 Expose it so that we may destroy it, that we may powder it. 00:26:17.000 --> 00:26:22.000 Expose the spirit of Jezebel. 00:26:22.000 --> 00:26:39.000 Any manipulation, any control, any restriction of freedom, any false prophecy, any fall in sexual standards, any form of idolatry. 00:26:39.000 --> 00:26:41.000 Any manipulation. 00:26:42.000 --> 00:26:44.000 Any manipulation. 00:26:44.000 --> 00:26:50.000 Expose it, O God, in this church because it has no place in this church. 00:26:50.000 --> 00:26:56.000 You came against Jezebel in churches in the New Testament, in the book of Revelation. 00:26:56.000 --> 00:27:01.000 Paul came against it. 00:27:01.000 --> 00:27:05.000 Expose, O God, divisions that you have crucified on the cross. 00:27:05.000 --> 00:27:08.000 Divisions between clergy and laity. 00:27:08.000 --> 00:27:18.000 Father, in this church, may there be no difference between those that can minister and those that aren't qualified because there is no such division that you have, O God. 00:27:18.000 --> 00:27:21.000 We are the common, we have a common priesthood. 00:27:21.000 --> 00:27:27.000 Every person in this church is a priest who has gifts and abilities to minister. 00:27:27.000 --> 00:27:35.000 Father, we just destroy the division between man and woman that is false. 00:27:35.000 --> 00:27:39.000 We hold on to that which is true, but we destroy that which is false. 00:27:39.000 --> 00:27:45.000 Where women have to occupy a certain place and men occupy a certain place and women are not allowed in there. 00:27:45.000 --> 00:27:47.000 That is a false dichotomy. 00:27:47.000 --> 00:27:49.000 Galatians 3 talks about it. 00:27:49.000 --> 00:27:54.000 That there is no longer man or woman in Christ. 00:27:54.000 --> 00:27:57.000 We destroy this division that you have crucified. 00:27:57.000 --> 00:28:03.000 We destroy the division between Jew and Greek, Jew and Gentile. 00:28:03.000 --> 00:28:14.000 There will be no such division, Father, between us being special Christians and the world out there being pagan to the point that we are always despising them. 00:28:14.000 --> 00:28:15.000 I end that, Father. 00:28:15.000 --> 00:28:18.000 Give us the wisdom to know how to deal with that just as you did. 00:28:18.000 --> 00:28:30.000 And finally, Father, we destroy the division between Greeks and barbarians where we choose to be Greeks and we look at whoever we want to look at as barbarians and that ends. 00:28:30.000 --> 00:28:37.000 There will be no strife or divisiveness based on ethnicity, on background, on color, on sex. 00:28:37.000 --> 00:28:39.000 Father, we refuse this. 00:28:39.000 --> 00:28:41.000 This is anathema to you, Father. 00:28:41.000 --> 00:28:44.000 It is an abomination in your sight. 00:28:44.000 --> 00:28:47.000 So even though I'm preaching, Father, I'm also praying. 00:28:47.000 --> 00:28:59.000 This temple must be cleansed, Father, because unless this temple is cleansed, we cannot have an intolerance towards this when we see it around us. 00:28:59.000 --> 00:29:02.000 Let the zeal for your house consume me, O God. 00:29:02.000 --> 00:29:05.000 Let the zeal for your house consume me. 00:29:05.000 --> 00:29:07.000 Let the zeal for your house consume me. 00:29:07.000 --> 00:29:10.000 Let the zeal for your house consume people. 00:29:10.000 --> 00:29:21.000 That it is important to us that this house that we belong in, belong to, will be built correctly because she is the bride of Christ. 00:29:21.000 --> 00:29:26.000 Cleanse this temple and then make us temple cleansers. 00:29:26.000 --> 00:29:37.000 Unafraid, intolerant, uncompromising, merciful. 00:29:37.000 --> 00:29:44.000 The second thing Jesus did is he reconstituted praise. 00:29:44.000 --> 00:29:48.000 Reconstituted praise. 00:29:48.000 --> 00:29:54.000 Reconstituted praise. 00:29:54.000 --> 00:29:57.000 He reconstituted praise. 00:29:57.000 --> 00:29:59.000 They told the kids to be quiet. 00:29:59.000 --> 00:30:01.000 They were enraged that people were praising. 00:30:01.000 --> 00:30:05.000 And Jesus goes ahead and says, 00:30:05.000 --> 00:30:10.000 that out of the mouth of babes I have ordained strength, Psalm 8.2. 00:30:10.000 --> 00:30:14.000 This day forth, guys, this day forth, 00:30:14.000 --> 00:30:20.000 I ask, O God, this day forth, establish through the praise of your children at Acts 29, 00:30:20.000 --> 00:30:25.000 a stronghold against your enemies to silence the foe and the avenger. 00:30:25.000 --> 00:30:27.000 Father, I know this is scripture. 00:30:27.000 --> 00:30:31.000 Sometimes we don't fully understand it, but I pray scripture for this church, 00:30:31.000 --> 00:30:37.000 that this day forth, O God, would you establish through the praise of your children, 00:30:37.000 --> 00:30:45.000 a stronghold against the enemy to silence the foe and the avenger. 00:30:45.000 --> 00:30:50.000 This day forth, O God, would you establish through the praise of your children, 00:30:50.000 --> 00:31:00.000 a stronghold, a fortress, a fortress against the enemy that will silence the devil and that will avenge us. 00:31:00.000 --> 00:31:03.000 Through praise, O God, would you initiate this? 00:31:03.000 --> 00:31:05.000 We haven't tasted it yet. 00:31:05.000 --> 00:31:09.000 We've learnt, but we haven't tasted this yet, to build a fortress, 00:31:09.000 --> 00:31:20.000 to build a fortress through praise of your children against the enemy that will silence him, that will silence him. 00:31:20.000 --> 00:31:29.000 Guys, revivals are almost always fueled by a reconstitution of worship. 00:31:29.000 --> 00:31:33.000 So let's ask the Holy Spirit to release a new pattern of worship. 00:31:33.000 --> 00:31:39.000 I think on March 15th or thereabouts, Jane had texted me this thing about 00:31:39.000 --> 00:31:43.000 what our worship weaponry will look like in the coming months. 00:31:43.000 --> 00:31:45.000 I was going over it today. 00:31:45.000 --> 00:31:50.000 There's not much we can do about this. 00:31:50.000 --> 00:31:56.000 I can't drum up enough oomph to get you to praise or anything right now, 00:31:56.000 --> 00:32:00.000 but all I know is that these are things God wants to do, 00:32:00.000 --> 00:32:05.000 because he has decided to pull the covers off. 00:32:05.000 --> 00:32:08.000 I want to show you a pattern in the Bible. 00:32:08.000 --> 00:32:13.000 Go to Revelations 4.1, 00:32:13.000 --> 00:32:19.000 a pattern of praise which doesn't necessarily involve singing, but can involve singing. 00:32:19.000 --> 00:32:23.000 Revelations 4.1. 00:32:23.000 --> 00:32:26.000 So this is how it starts. 00:32:26.000 --> 00:32:31.000 We start with Revelations 4.1 where heaven is open, 00:32:31.000 --> 00:32:34.000 and God says, hey, come up higher, I want to show you something. 00:32:34.000 --> 00:32:36.000 That's where praise starts. 00:32:36.000 --> 00:32:40.000 That's where reconstituted new praise that is expected of Acts 29 will start. 00:32:40.000 --> 00:32:46.000 Doesn't matter whether it is you or me or us. 00:32:46.000 --> 00:32:49.000 Doesn't matter whether there is a worship leader or not. 00:32:49.000 --> 00:32:51.000 Doesn't matter whether there are instruments or not. 00:32:51.000 --> 00:32:55.000 Doesn't matter whether you have a voice that can sing or not. 00:32:55.000 --> 00:33:02.000 The first thing that God will do to reconstitute the kind of praise that he expects of us going into the future is, 00:33:02.000 --> 00:33:07.000 hey, let me open heaven and show you what's happening. 00:33:07.000 --> 00:33:11.000 I'm calling you up. See who I am. See where I am at. 00:33:11.000 --> 00:33:15.000 That's the first thing that happens. 00:33:15.000 --> 00:33:19.000 And as soon as that happens in response, the church begins to praise. 00:33:19.000 --> 00:33:25.000 That is in Revelations 5, Revelations 5, verse 9. 00:33:25.000 --> 00:33:28.000 Revelations 5, verse 9. 00:33:28.000 --> 00:33:34.000 The church begins to praise. 00:33:34.000 --> 00:33:42.000 So go to Revelations 5.9, and it says there, 00:33:42.000 --> 00:33:45.000 The 24 elders fell down before the Lamb. 00:33:45.000 --> 00:33:50.000 The 24 elders, as we had learned many, many years ago, represents the complete church. 00:33:50.000 --> 00:33:52.000 The 24 elders fell down before the Lamb. 00:33:52.000 --> 00:33:57.000 Each one had a harp, and they were holding golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints. 00:33:57.000 --> 00:33:59.000 And they sang a new song. 00:33:59.000 --> 00:34:04.000 You are worthy to take the scroll to open its seals, because you were slain, and with your blood you purchased men for God. 00:34:04.000 --> 00:34:10.000 From every type and language and people and nations, you made them to be a kingdom and priests to serve our God, and they will reign on earth. 00:34:10.000 --> 00:34:12.000 Guys, here is the strange thing. 00:34:12.000 --> 00:34:13.000 Look at the order. 00:34:13.000 --> 00:34:15.000 First, God initiates it by saying, 00:34:15.000 --> 00:34:21.000 Hey, I am opening new places for you to look at, to see me. 00:34:21.000 --> 00:34:24.000 Come up higher, and then the church begins to praise. 00:34:24.000 --> 00:34:27.000 When the church begins to praise, a strange thing happens. 00:34:27.000 --> 00:34:29.000 The angels join. 00:34:29.000 --> 00:34:31.000 It is not the angels begin to praise and the church joins. 00:34:31.000 --> 00:34:34.000 The church begins to praise and the angels begin to praise. 00:34:34.000 --> 00:34:36.000 That is in verse 11. 00:34:36.000 --> 00:34:42.000 Then I looked and heard the voice of many angels, numbering thousands upon thousands, and ten thousand times ten thousand. 00:34:42.000 --> 00:34:46.000 They encircled the throne and the living creatures and elders, and a loud voice they sang, 00:34:46.000 --> 00:34:51.000 Worthy is the Lamb who was slain to receive power and wealth and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and praise. 00:34:51.000 --> 00:34:53.000 And then even a stranger thing happens. 00:34:53.000 --> 00:35:00.000 When the angels begin to praise, the earth recognizes and joins in the song. 00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:02.000 And now you see the earth praising. 00:35:02.000 --> 00:35:03.000 Go to verse 13. 00:35:03.000 --> 00:35:08.000 Then I heard every creature in heaven and on earth, under the earth and on the sea, and all that is in them singing. 00:35:08.000 --> 00:35:13.000 To him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb be praise and honor and glory and power forever and ever. 00:35:13.000 --> 00:35:20.000 It is this strange movement where God shows, God initiates it saying, 00:35:20.000 --> 00:35:22.000 Jacob, come up high, I want to show you something. 00:35:22.000 --> 00:35:26.000 Jacob sees it and goes, Oh shucks, and he starts praising. 00:35:26.000 --> 00:35:32.000 When he starts praising and he cannot stop, the angels join in because now they can't. 00:35:32.000 --> 00:35:37.000 But help it because many of the things that are presently revealed are revealed to us as a church 00:35:37.000 --> 00:35:41.000 and the angels stoop to listen in on what is being revealed. 00:35:41.000 --> 00:35:42.000 And they start praising. 00:35:42.000 --> 00:35:44.000 I'm just quoting scripture. 00:35:44.000 --> 00:35:49.000 Once they start praising with the church and the angels praising based on what God is showing, 00:35:49.000 --> 00:35:51.000 now the earth joins. 00:35:51.000 --> 00:35:55.000 The earth joins in praise. 00:35:55.000 --> 00:36:00.000 This is a completely reconstituted form of praise that God wants to bring on earth 00:36:00.000 --> 00:36:06.000 because he's in the process of rebuilding the tabernacle of David, 00:36:06.000 --> 00:36:15.000 which was known for its praise with 4,000 singers and 200-something or 800-something odd instrumentalists day and night. 00:36:15.000 --> 00:36:20.000 And then when this happens, the enemy is ambushed. 00:36:20.000 --> 00:36:21.000 The enemy is ambushed. 00:36:21.000 --> 00:36:24.000 You see that in Revelation 6.15. 00:36:24.000 --> 00:36:28.000 The enemy is ambushed. 00:36:28.000 --> 00:36:39.000 It's like the 2 Kings 20 story or 2 Chronicles 20 story of Jehoshaphat sending the singers ahead, 00:36:39.000 --> 00:36:43.000 where it says in chapter 6, verse 15, 00:36:44.000 --> 00:36:48.000 where it says in chapter 6, verse 15, 00:36:48.000 --> 00:36:51.000 Then the kings of the earth, the princes, the generals, the rich and the mighty, 00:36:51.000 --> 00:36:55.000 and every slave and every free man and hidden caves among the rocks of the mountains, 00:36:55.000 --> 00:37:01.000 they call to the mountains and the rocks fall on us and save us from the wrath of the Lamb. 00:37:01.000 --> 00:37:10.000 I'll explain 6.15 also with Psalm 149, 6-9. 00:37:10.000 --> 00:37:13.000 I'll go over this in a little more detail. 00:37:13.000 --> 00:37:19.000 And then the last scene is now that we've reached this place, 00:37:19.000 --> 00:37:24.000 God then says, okay, let me open the heavens again. 00:37:24.000 --> 00:37:27.000 And you see that in Revelation 11.19. 00:37:27.000 --> 00:37:30.000 Open the heavens again. 00:37:30.000 --> 00:37:36.000 Open the heavens again. 00:37:36.000 --> 00:37:41.000 So if you go to Revelation 11.19, 00:37:41.000 --> 00:37:46.000 Revelation 11.19, 00:37:46.000 --> 00:37:50.000 starting from verse 16, 00:37:50.000 --> 00:37:55.000 And the twenty-four elders who were seated on the throne before God fell on their faces and worshiped God, saying, 00:37:55.000 --> 00:38:00.000 We give thanks to you, O Lord God Almighty, the one who is and who was, 00:38:00.000 --> 00:38:03.000 because you have taken your great power and have begun to reign. 00:38:03.000 --> 00:38:07.000 The nations who are angry in your wrath has come, the time has come for judgment of the dead 00:38:07.000 --> 00:38:09.000 and rewarding of your servants, the prophets and your saints, 00:38:09.000 --> 00:38:12.000 and those who reverence your name both small and great, 00:38:12.000 --> 00:38:14.000 and for destroying those who destroy the earth. 00:38:14.000 --> 00:38:16.000 Then look at what happens in verse 19. 00:38:16.000 --> 00:38:18.000 Then God's temple in heaven was opened, 00:38:18.000 --> 00:38:21.000 and within the temple was seen the ark of the covenant. 00:38:21.000 --> 00:38:26.000 And then this cycle just continues. 00:38:26.000 --> 00:38:30.000 I pray God that if you are a worshiper, 00:38:30.000 --> 00:38:34.000 and I pray God that all of us are worshippers that act through the night, 00:38:34.000 --> 00:38:37.000 that we realize that there is something afoot, 00:38:37.000 --> 00:38:44.000 that God is wanting to reconstitute praise in this church. 00:38:44.000 --> 00:38:57.000 And the last thing that Jesus did was confront, confront powers. 00:38:57.000 --> 00:39:20.000 The last thing Jesus did was confront powers, confront powers, confront powers. 00:39:20.000 --> 00:39:23.000 First one was cleanse the temple. 00:39:23.000 --> 00:39:26.000 Second one was reconstitute praise. 00:39:26.000 --> 00:39:28.000 Third one was confront powers. 00:39:28.000 --> 00:39:36.000 Hey, I don't know which, I mean, different people watching right now have different roles. 00:39:36.000 --> 00:39:42.000 As you hear this, in your role, embrace what is being specifically said. 00:39:42.000 --> 00:39:46.000 And make sure you stick with it. 00:39:46.000 --> 00:39:48.000 Make sure you stick with it. 00:39:48.000 --> 00:39:54.000 Say that, okay, I understand this, this is where I will go, God will help me. 00:39:54.000 --> 00:39:58.000 God is the one who both provides the word that we need to hear, 00:39:58.000 --> 00:40:02.000 and then fleshes out the word so that we can live it. 00:40:02.000 --> 00:40:05.000 I'm not responsible for this. 00:40:05.000 --> 00:40:09.000 I'm responsible to receive, I'm responsible to believe, 00:40:09.000 --> 00:40:18.000 but I'm not responsible to make it happen. 00:40:18.000 --> 00:40:21.000 Because I can't. 00:40:21.000 --> 00:40:23.000 Confront powers. 00:40:23.000 --> 00:40:26.000 So here's our prayer, here's my prayer for us. 00:40:26.000 --> 00:40:35.000 This day forth, oh God, this day forth, appoint us, oh God, to cities, nations, and kingdoms. 00:40:35.000 --> 00:40:37.000 Appoint us to uproot and tear down. 00:40:37.000 --> 00:40:40.000 Appoint us to destroy and overthrow. 00:40:40.000 --> 00:40:42.000 Appoint us to build and to plant. 00:40:42.000 --> 00:40:43.000 This was a huge ask. 00:40:43.000 --> 00:40:47.000 I was scared to go down this route, because I'm thinking to myself, 00:40:47.000 --> 00:40:51.000 come on, are you asking God to set us, appoint us to do this? 00:40:51.000 --> 00:40:54.000 This is what God said to Jeremiah in Jeremiah 1.10. 00:40:54.000 --> 00:40:59.000 Aren't we perhaps biting more than we can chew? 00:40:59.000 --> 00:41:04.000 And yet, these are words that I believe God wants us to pray to him. 00:41:04.000 --> 00:41:06.000 We talked about this yesterday. 00:41:06.000 --> 00:41:08.000 What does mature prayer look like? 00:41:08.000 --> 00:41:12.000 Mature prayer is asking God what he wants to do, and then asking him to do it. 00:41:12.000 --> 00:41:17.000 Mature prayer is asking God what he wants to do, and then asking him to do it. 00:41:17.000 --> 00:41:23.000 So I'm asking God, and if this is what God wants, then we're asking him to do it. 00:41:23.000 --> 00:41:33.000 And so, this day forth, appoint us, oh God, to cities, to nations, to kingdoms. 00:41:33.000 --> 00:41:37.000 Appoint us to uproot and tear. 00:41:37.000 --> 00:41:41.000 Appoint us to destroy and overthrow. 00:41:41.000 --> 00:41:45.000 And appoint us to build and to plant. 00:41:45.000 --> 00:41:49.000 Just like you did with Jeremiah, do with us, oh God. 00:41:49.000 --> 00:41:53.000 Otherwise, all these songs we're singing are pretty meaningless. 00:41:53.000 --> 00:41:57.000 We won't give up on our inheritance. 00:41:57.000 --> 00:41:59.000 What is our inheritance? Nations. 00:41:59.000 --> 00:42:02.000 But we don't want to tear, we don't want to uproot, we don't want to do anything of that sort. 00:42:02.000 --> 00:42:07.000 All we can do is keep singing this song and telling Emily that the words are nice. 00:42:07.000 --> 00:42:13.000 So don't want to do that, Abba. 00:42:14.000 --> 00:42:18.000 Guys, Jesus confronted, eh? Look at who all he confronted. 00:42:18.000 --> 00:42:22.000 This is crazy what Jesus is doing in a matter of a week. 00:42:22.000 --> 00:42:28.000 He first goes and confronts the chief priests. 00:42:28.000 --> 00:42:32.000 He goes and confronts the chief priests. 00:42:32.000 --> 00:42:36.000 The chief priests were like a religious authority regime. 00:42:36.000 --> 00:42:40.000 Religious authority regime. 00:42:40.000 --> 00:42:48.000 I pray, God, that when God calls us to challenge status quo 00:42:48.000 --> 00:42:52.000 in this city and in other places around the world, 00:42:52.000 --> 00:42:57.000 that we'll be in a position to do it. 00:42:57.000 --> 00:43:07.000 That I'll be in a position to lead it and not be afraid of how it may affect us, how it may affect me. 00:43:07.000 --> 00:43:12.000 He confronted the scribes. 00:43:12.000 --> 00:43:20.000 Of the scribes, it was said by Jesus in Matthew 21, verse 15, 00:43:20.000 --> 00:43:27.000 that they do not enter themselves and they take the keys away so they don't allow others to enter. 00:43:27.000 --> 00:43:32.000 They do not enter. They do not enter themselves. 00:43:32.000 --> 00:43:38.000 And they take the keys away so others can't enter. 00:43:38.000 --> 00:43:43.000 These are highly scholarly people who, despite all they know, 00:43:43.000 --> 00:43:50.000 will not enter into the reality of the supernatural, the reality of who Christ alive is, 00:43:50.000 --> 00:43:55.000 and then will not prevent others, will prevent others from entering 00:43:55.000 --> 00:44:02.000 by coming up with frameworks that people are now trapped in themselves. 00:44:02.000 --> 00:44:06.000 He confronted the scribes. 00:44:06.000 --> 00:44:09.000 He confronted the elders of the people. 00:44:09.000 --> 00:44:11.000 He confronted the elders of the people. 00:44:11.000 --> 00:44:15.000 These elders were literally like the tribe leaders. 00:44:15.000 --> 00:44:25.000 They were ambitious, Cora-like leaders. 00:44:25.000 --> 00:44:27.000 Cora, who's Cora? 00:44:27.000 --> 00:44:32.000 Cora is the guy who said, why should Aaron be the high priest? 00:44:32.000 --> 00:44:35.000 Why can't my family be the high priest? 00:44:35.000 --> 00:44:40.000 Cora was the one who brought censors and saying, why can't we offer incense to the Lord? 00:44:40.000 --> 00:44:44.000 And that is when Moses said, all right, all of you bring your rods 00:44:44.000 --> 00:44:48.000 and let's see the rod that blossoms and we'll choose him to be the leader. 00:44:48.000 --> 00:44:53.000 And Cora and his family were destroyed because the earth opened and swallowed them up. 00:44:53.000 --> 00:44:58.000 These are the elders we are talking about, ambitious Cora-like leaders. 00:44:58.000 --> 00:45:03.000 And the word ambition and leadership should never be put together. 00:45:03.000 --> 00:45:10.000 These are ambitious Cora-like influences. They have tremendous influence. 00:45:10.000 --> 00:45:15.000 They swing the fortunes of the kingdom. They swing the fortunes of churches. 00:45:15.000 --> 00:45:17.000 May it not be found in us. 00:45:17.000 --> 00:45:19.000 May I not be an ambitious leader. 00:45:19.000 --> 00:45:31.000 The word leader and ambitious should never go together. 00:45:31.000 --> 00:45:34.000 The greater your influence, the more careful you have to be. 00:45:34.000 --> 00:45:37.000 I know you're going to text me saying, what's wrong with ambition? 00:45:37.000 --> 00:45:41.000 Ambition can only be achieved at the cost of someone else. 00:45:41.000 --> 00:45:46.000 When God gives you a dream or vision, run with it. It'll be much greater than your ambition. 00:45:46.000 --> 00:45:50.000 I got no ambitions, guys. I got zero ambitions. 00:45:50.000 --> 00:45:54.000 Because I can never dream up what I have been able to do today. 00:45:54.000 --> 00:45:56.000 This has been a soul work of God. 00:45:56.000 --> 00:46:03.000 Everything that I may have attained in my life is just because someone else dreamed it and made it happen. 00:46:03.000 --> 00:46:07.000 If I was ambitious, this wouldn't happen. 00:46:12.000 --> 00:46:18.000 Like a mighty storm, stir within my soul. 00:46:18.000 --> 00:46:25.000 Lord have your way, Lord have your way in us. 00:46:26.000 --> 00:46:34.000 Like a rushing wind, Jesus breathes within. 00:46:34.000 --> 00:46:41.000 Lord have your way, Lord have your way in us. 00:46:41.000 --> 00:46:50.000 Like a mighty storm, stir within my soul. 00:46:50.000 --> 00:46:57.000 Lord have your way, Lord have your way in us. 00:46:57.000 --> 00:47:07.000 Like a rushing wind, stir within my soul. 00:47:07.000 --> 00:47:15.000 Lord have your way, Lord have your way in us. 00:47:16.000 --> 00:47:20.000 Just as it blows outside, Father. 00:47:29.000 --> 00:47:33.000 Guys, just give yourself over to God right now and then we'll continue. 00:47:33.000 --> 00:47:44.000 Father, we just lay ourselves before you, open, bare soul, ready, inadequate. 00:47:44.000 --> 00:47:46.000 Willing. 00:47:49.000 --> 00:47:51.000 Saying yes. 00:47:51.000 --> 00:47:53.000 Desiring. 00:47:53.000 --> 00:47:55.000 Hungry. 00:47:55.000 --> 00:47:57.000 Wanting. 00:48:00.000 --> 00:48:02.000 Seeking latter rain. 00:48:04.000 --> 00:48:06.000 Hearing the storm. 00:48:08.000 --> 00:48:10.000 Knowing your breath. 00:48:10.000 --> 00:48:16.000 As you pull off the covers, the time of concealment is done. 00:48:17.000 --> 00:48:21.000 You are blowing the trumpet and breaking the pitcher. 00:48:22.000 --> 00:48:24.000 Cleansing this temple. 00:48:24.000 --> 00:48:28.000 Reconstituting the pattern of praise. 00:48:30.000 --> 00:48:36.000 And giving us the clout and the authority to confront powers. 00:48:37.000 --> 00:48:48.000 That you may use us as your servants at your bidding to do what you want. 00:48:48.000 --> 00:48:50.000 Like it says in Job 37. 00:48:52.000 --> 00:48:55.000 He forms the clouds and he fills them with moisture. 00:48:55.000 --> 00:48:59.000 And then he sends them, sometimes this way, sometimes that. 00:49:00.000 --> 00:49:05.000 So that through us, you may bring discipline, you may bring extravagance, you may bring love. 00:49:05.000 --> 00:49:07.000 You may bring correction. 00:49:08.000 --> 00:49:11.000 Here we are, down on our knees again. 00:49:12.000 --> 00:49:14.000 Let it be so, God. 00:49:21.000 --> 00:49:23.000 He confronted the Pharisees. 00:49:26.000 --> 00:49:31.000 The Pharisees, Jesus said, be careful of the leaven of hypocrisy in them. 00:49:31.000 --> 00:49:35.000 Where they said one thing and they did another. 00:49:37.000 --> 00:49:39.000 He confronted the Herodians. 00:49:40.000 --> 00:49:47.000 The Herodians were guys who would crave for signs. 00:49:47.000 --> 00:49:49.000 Crave for signs. 00:49:49.000 --> 00:49:52.000 They wanted Jesus to perform a sign. 00:49:52.000 --> 00:49:55.000 They would validate things only by sight, not by faith. 00:49:55.000 --> 00:49:59.000 They were political, but at the same time, aristocratic actually. 00:49:59.000 --> 00:50:01.000 But they craved for signs. 00:50:01.000 --> 00:50:03.000 Show me a sign. Do this for me. 00:50:03.000 --> 00:50:05.000 If you do this, then I will believe you. 00:50:07.000 --> 00:50:09.000 Was it Paul or was it Jesus who said? 00:50:09.000 --> 00:50:10.000 No, Paul said. 00:50:11.000 --> 00:50:12.000 Now, who said it? 00:50:12.000 --> 00:50:16.000 The Jews crave, the Greeks crave a sign. 00:50:16.000 --> 00:50:18.000 No, I don't remember. 00:50:18.000 --> 00:50:21.000 But there's a, you know the scripture I'm talking about. 00:50:21.000 --> 00:50:23.000 And finally the Sadducees. 00:50:24.000 --> 00:50:25.000 Sadducees. 00:50:25.000 --> 00:50:26.000 Sadducees. 00:50:28.000 --> 00:50:36.000 And these were religio-political kingmakers. 00:50:38.000 --> 00:50:40.000 Religio-political kingmakers. 00:50:42.000 --> 00:50:47.000 And these were the guys who constituted what was called the Sanhedrin. 00:50:48.000 --> 00:50:49.000 Seventy of them. 00:50:50.000 --> 00:50:52.000 And Jesus decides to confront them. 00:50:52.000 --> 00:50:53.000 He's confronting them. 00:50:53.000 --> 00:50:54.000 He signs his death warrant. 00:50:54.000 --> 00:51:02.000 But he also destroys the enormous burdens placed upon a people. 00:51:02.000 --> 00:51:03.000 Destroyed. 00:51:03.000 --> 00:51:09.000 So that three thousand would respond on the very first day to Peter's message. 00:51:09.000 --> 00:51:11.000 Five thousand in a week. 00:51:11.000 --> 00:51:17.000 Suddenly the chains were broken because one man decided it was time to confront the powers. 00:51:17.000 --> 00:51:19.000 The secret is out. 00:51:20.000 --> 00:51:21.000 We are going public. 00:51:23.000 --> 00:51:27.000 Till that is done, tyranny continues. 00:51:27.000 --> 00:51:30.000 Tyrants, till they are challenged, will not back down. 00:51:32.000 --> 00:51:34.000 That is what we are being called to, to confront powers. 00:51:35.000 --> 00:51:38.000 Our battle though guys is not against flesh and blood. 00:51:38.000 --> 00:51:39.000 I know you know that. 00:51:39.000 --> 00:51:47.000 And nor are our weapons carnal, but they are weapons of divine power to demolish strongholds. 00:51:47.000 --> 00:51:50.000 Weapons of divine power to demolish strongholds. 00:51:50.000 --> 00:51:58.000 We'll talk about these three aspects later, but remember what we are being called to, what we prayed, what I prayed on your behalf. 00:51:58.000 --> 00:52:01.000 Now will be the best time to get out of this church because of what I prayed. 00:52:02.000 --> 00:52:04.000 And we fully understand if you don't turn up for the AGM. 00:52:04.000 --> 00:52:05.000 I'm just kidding. 00:52:05.000 --> 00:52:09.000 If you're not there, we'll put you on probation anyways whether you stay or leave. 00:52:09.000 --> 00:52:11.000 But the point is this. 00:52:11.000 --> 00:52:13.000 This is what we are being called to. 00:52:13.000 --> 00:52:17.000 James Freedy, how do you avoid ambition but still get involved in the move of God? 00:52:17.000 --> 00:52:20.000 The move of God is just following God. 00:52:20.000 --> 00:52:22.000 He's the leader, we follow him. 00:52:22.000 --> 00:52:24.000 Ambition has nothing to do with the move of God. 00:52:24.000 --> 00:52:31.000 Ambition is setting your sight on something and say, I've got to achieve this, come what may. 00:52:36.000 --> 00:52:37.000 When it comes to God, it's different. 00:52:37.000 --> 00:52:40.000 With God it is, hey Jacob, this is what I'm calling you to. 00:52:40.000 --> 00:52:42.000 I just want to let you know there's no way you can get there. 00:52:42.000 --> 00:52:46.000 You don't have the resources, the manpower, the intellect, the connections. 00:52:46.000 --> 00:52:48.000 You've got nothing, son. 00:52:48.000 --> 00:52:53.000 So now that I've given you this really high place that I'm going to ask you to reach out for, 00:52:53.000 --> 00:52:54.000 do you want to stretch out your hand? 00:52:54.000 --> 00:52:56.000 See, I told you, you won't get there. 00:52:56.000 --> 00:53:00.000 All right, now that you've stretched out your hand because you believe me, let me take you there. 00:53:04.000 --> 00:53:08.000 Ambition is let's build a church of a thousand people. 00:53:08.000 --> 00:53:12.000 Dream is let's build a strong church that will pour itself out so there's none left. 00:53:13.000 --> 00:53:15.000 Ambition is easy, man. 00:53:17.000 --> 00:53:23.000 Ambition is what sports stars, Hollywood stars, and hockey players say. 00:53:23.000 --> 00:53:25.000 How did you make it? 00:53:25.000 --> 00:53:30.000 You just have to believe in yourself and just set your goals high and just go for it. 00:53:30.000 --> 00:53:31.000 And it's teamwork. 00:53:31.000 --> 00:53:34.000 And I just want to thank my mom and dad and my agent. 00:53:34.000 --> 00:53:37.000 That is not how it is done. 00:53:38.000 --> 00:53:40.000 Okay, that answers the question, James. 00:53:40.000 --> 00:53:45.000 All righty, just want to end with one simple symbolic act. 00:53:45.000 --> 00:53:53.000 And it doesn't matter how silly a symbolic act is. 00:53:53.000 --> 00:53:55.000 If it is to be done, it needs to be done. 00:53:55.000 --> 00:53:57.000 So I'm going to do it. 00:53:59.000 --> 00:54:03.000 So this is the best I could do. 00:54:04.000 --> 00:54:18.000 So under these covers is a painting that is the first draft of a painting representing Acts 29. 00:54:18.000 --> 00:54:24.000 First draft because the person is, actually it's Betty. 00:54:25.000 --> 00:54:35.000 She just did a first draft and instead of going ahead with it, she's adding more things to it. 00:54:35.000 --> 00:54:38.000 And so it represents Acts 29. 00:54:38.000 --> 00:54:41.000 And I just wanted to cover it and then remove the covers. 00:54:41.000 --> 00:54:48.000 And in removing the covers, I'm agreeing with God saying the time of concealment is over. 00:54:48.000 --> 00:54:53.000 The time of concealment is over. 00:54:53.000 --> 00:54:58.000 We are going public like a city on a hill. 00:54:58.000 --> 00:55:06.000 Corporately and individually today is the day that God is saying, I'm blowing the trumpet and breaking the pitcher. 00:55:06.000 --> 00:55:09.000 So all I'm going to do is just lift up the cover. 00:55:09.000 --> 00:55:10.000 That's it. 00:55:10.000 --> 00:55:11.000 Nothing else. 00:55:11.000 --> 00:55:12.000 Yeah. 00:55:12.000 --> 00:55:16.000 So Father, in Jesus' name, I just engage in this. 00:55:16.000 --> 00:55:24.000 I just engage in this symbolic act that you have asked. 00:55:24.000 --> 00:55:27.000 There's no suspense here. 00:55:27.000 --> 00:55:31.000 Just an act here on earth that says we agree with heaven. 00:55:31.000 --> 00:55:33.000 We agree with you, O God. 00:55:33.000 --> 00:55:40.000 So on behalf of the rest of the body, I just remove these covers, as you said, because the time of concealment is over. 00:55:40.000 --> 00:55:45.000 And as I do that, I just thank you that heaven will do everything heaven needs to do. 00:55:45.000 --> 00:55:48.000 The angels will be deployed. 00:55:48.000 --> 00:56:09.000 The Spirit of God will lead so that this church may now begin to affect the cleansing of the temple, the reconstituting of praise, the confronting of powers, 00:56:09.000 --> 00:56:12.000 and the spread of the revival that will wash the globe. 00:56:12.000 --> 00:56:15.000 So we just do that, Father, right now, in Jesus' name. 00:56:15.000 --> 00:56:17.000 In Jesus' name. 00:56:17.000 --> 00:56:19.000 So we thank you, Father. 00:56:19.000 --> 00:56:20.000 We thank you. 00:56:20.000 --> 00:56:32.000 We thank you that this first draft of a painting that Betty did is sufficient to call to remembrance you saying to us, let your light so shine. 00:56:32.000 --> 00:56:35.000 I have not called you and put you under a bucket. 00:56:35.000 --> 00:56:37.000 I don't take a lamp and put it under a bucket. 00:56:37.000 --> 00:56:40.000 I put a lamp on a lamp stand. 00:56:40.000 --> 00:56:42.000 So we're going public, Abba. 00:56:42.000 --> 00:56:45.000 Don't know what else to do, Holy Spirit, would you just back this up? 00:56:45.000 --> 00:56:47.000 Just want to stop here now. 00:56:47.000 --> 00:56:48.000 In Jesus' name. 00:56:48.000 --> 00:56:50.000 Amen. 00:56:50.000 --> 00:56:52.000 I'm going to ask Derek to close in prayer. 00:56:52.000 --> 00:56:57.000 And then we are done. 00:57:10.000 --> 00:57:16.000 Go for it. 00:57:16.000 --> 00:57:21.000 I can't hear you. 00:57:21.000 --> 00:57:28.000 Can't hear you. 00:57:28.000 --> 00:57:29.000 Just one sec. 00:57:29.000 --> 00:57:30.000 Okay, try now. 00:57:30.000 --> 00:57:31.000 Yeah. 00:57:31.000 --> 00:57:32.000 Okay. 00:57:32.000 --> 00:57:34.000 It's really gusty, windy outside. 00:57:34.000 --> 00:57:35.000 Yeah. 00:57:35.000 --> 00:57:36.000 Awesome. 00:57:36.000 --> 00:57:39.000 Let's pray. 00:57:39.000 --> 00:57:42.000 Father, today is a very important day. 00:57:42.000 --> 00:57:47.000 It's a very important day, Abba, because you're saying the concealment has been lifted off. 00:57:47.000 --> 00:57:56.000 Right next to my building, there is a new building being built, constructed, and there was concealment there and with the wind, it's all gone down. 00:57:56.000 --> 00:57:59.000 And we see that as a very important day. 00:57:59.000 --> 00:58:04.000 And there was concealment there and with the wind, it's all gone down. 00:58:04.000 --> 00:58:10.000 And we see that as you're saying, yeah, concealment days are over and it is public. 00:58:10.000 --> 00:58:26.000 So, Father, one of the things that I sense is that for us at Acts 29, if there have been things that we've waited for, if there have been things that we said we wanted to do but we couldn't, because the concealment is over, it's been lifted off. 00:58:26.000 --> 00:58:30.000 Now is the time to jump into it. 00:58:30.000 --> 00:58:32.000 And so I say I want to do it. 00:58:32.000 --> 00:58:34.000 We want to do it together. 00:58:34.000 --> 00:58:43.000 Father, the other thing I'm reminded of, as Jacob said, is that you want to cleanse us and we are ready to be cleansed. 00:58:43.000 --> 00:58:47.000 So cleanse me, Father, cleanse us of anything that is not from you. 00:58:47.000 --> 00:58:53.000 One of the things that we've been talking about lately is the fact that you want clean hands and a pure heart. 00:58:53.000 --> 00:58:56.000 So give me and give us clean hands and a pure heart, Abba. 00:58:56.000 --> 00:58:58.000 Cleanse us as a body, Abba. 00:58:58.000 --> 00:59:04.000 May we be a beautiful bride adorned for our Savior, our groom, Christ. 00:59:04.000 --> 00:59:16.000 Father, I also pray that in our lives individually together that there will be a new level of praise, a rebuilding of the building of the temple of David. 00:59:17.000 --> 00:59:24.000 Abba, one of the things that I sense is you saying if you come close enough, you will even hear the breath of my nostrils. 00:59:24.000 --> 00:59:26.000 That's the level of intimacy. 00:59:26.000 --> 00:59:29.000 That's the level of open heavens that we have. 00:59:29.000 --> 00:59:32.000 Do you even hear the breath of your nostrils, Father? 00:59:32.000 --> 00:59:36.000 Who are we to do that or be even able to attain it? 00:59:36.000 --> 00:59:38.000 But that's what you're saying is possible. 00:59:38.000 --> 00:59:40.000 That's what you're inviting us into. 00:59:40.000 --> 00:59:42.000 And if we are there with you, what else can we see? 00:59:42.000 --> 00:59:46.000 What else can you what else do you want to show us? 00:59:46.000 --> 00:59:48.000 We're ready, Abba. 00:59:48.000 --> 00:59:56.000 Thirdly, Abba, you're saying tear down Asherah poles, tear down things that are not from me. 00:59:56.000 --> 00:59:58.000 And we are saying we are willing. 00:59:58.000 --> 00:59:59.000 We are willing. 00:59:59.000 --> 01:00:06.000 So even as we sang this morning or this afternoon, Abba, train us, empower us by your Spirit. 01:00:06.000 --> 01:00:11.000 So I thank you for this new day in our lives, Abba, in the life of Acts 29. 01:00:11.000 --> 01:00:16.000 Abba, I can so clearly hear the wind here. 01:00:16.000 --> 01:00:18.000 It is so gusty outside. 01:00:18.000 --> 01:00:21.000 I thank you that the concealment has been brought down. 01:00:21.000 --> 01:00:26.000 And I thank you that the new day has come for us together as a body. 01:00:26.000 --> 01:00:28.000 In Jesus' name, I pray. Amen. 01:00:28.000 --> 01:00:55.000 You know, when we first started Shekinah, I remember on Shekinah 1, I was half expecting suddenly the wind to blow through Pilgrim when we did Shekinah 1. 01:00:55.000 --> 01:01:10.000 I've experienced it once where I was in a church in Africa and we were talking about the Holy Spirit and the wind blew so strong that the doors and windows in the church blew open. 01:01:10.000 --> 01:01:16.000 And there were dust storms just raising dust outside. 01:01:16.000 --> 01:01:22.000 I was expecting it to be Shekinah 1, the first day, a couple of months ago or whatever. 01:01:22.000 --> 01:01:28.000 And yeah. 01:01:28.000 --> 01:01:29.000 Yeah. 01:01:29.000 --> 01:01:44.000 So to have God show us a visible physical sign while we are singing that song, saying, Like a mighty wind, stir within my soul, so be it, O God, so be it. 01:01:44.000 --> 01:01:46.000 In Jesus' name. Amen. 01:01:46.000 --> 01:01:48.000 We're not going to sing it in. 01:01:48.000 --> 01:01:50.000 We've ended. 01:01:50.000 --> 01:01:54.000 But just have a quick announcement that I need to make. 01:01:54.000 --> 01:02:06.000 So Pilgrim just texted and said that the 35 people capacity that they had, they realized was when you have 25% of the church. 01:02:06.000 --> 01:02:11.000 So the actual 10% capacity is 15 people. 01:02:11.000 --> 01:02:17.000 And so we'll have two services on Sunday. 01:02:17.000 --> 01:02:22.000 We'll send you the timing of the services because we'll have to work that out with Pilgrim. 01:02:22.000 --> 01:02:30.000 But we'll have two services because with the tech crew, we can have 17 actually, 15 plus two. 01:02:30.000 --> 01:02:33.000 And the two are supposed to monitor that everybody is behaving. 01:02:33.000 --> 01:02:37.000 So we'll take advantage of that and get two more. 01:02:37.000 --> 01:02:42.000 And we'll have most probably Phoebe and Jocelyn take care of that. 01:02:42.000 --> 01:02:44.000 I'm just kidding. 01:02:44.000 --> 01:02:45.000 I'm kidding. 01:02:45.000 --> 01:02:46.000 I'm kidding. 01:02:46.000 --> 01:02:51.000 So we can have 17 people in each service. 01:02:51.000 --> 01:02:54.000 So we'll have two services, details during the week. 01:02:54.000 --> 01:02:55.000 Yeah. 01:02:55.000 --> 01:03:00.000 I know it's only 3.36 and I know this is not easy for you to finish early. 01:03:00.000 --> 01:03:01.000 Let's give it a shot. 01:03:01.000 --> 01:03:05.000 Okay. 01:03:05.000 --> 01:03:10.000 Jane, you just want to come in, say ciao or whatever. 01:03:10.000 --> 01:03:11.000 Okay. 01:03:11.000 --> 01:03:12.000 Derek, oh, he's gone too. 01:03:12.000 --> 01:03:13.000 All righty. 01:03:13.000 --> 01:03:16.000 Ciao and see you later like Derek says. 01:03:16.000 --> 01:03:17.000 Bye. 01:03:43.000 --> 01:04:10.000 I am the first, the last, and everything between the world. 01:04:10.000 --> 01:04:17.000 I hold your future who can know these things about me. 01:04:17.000 --> 01:04:21.000 So don't fear. 01:04:21.000 --> 01:04:26.000 I will be your song. 01:04:26.000 --> 01:04:27.000 Sing it out, y'all. 01:04:27.000 --> 01:04:32.000 Sing, sing, oh, baby. 01:04:32.000 --> 01:04:37.000 Water is coming to the fantasy. 01:04:37.000 --> 01:04:40.000 Oh, you are empty. 01:04:40.000 --> 01:04:42.000 I am the well. 01:04:42.000 --> 01:04:43.000 Draw from me. 01:04:43.000 --> 01:04:48.000 I will provide. 01:04:48.000 --> 01:04:52.000 I will provide. 01:04:52.000 --> 01:04:56.000 I'm the well of living water. 01:04:56.000 --> 01:04:58.000 Never run empty. 01:04:58.000 --> 01:05:02.000 Never run dry. 01:05:02.000 --> 01:05:06.000 Oh, this is the word. 01:05:06.000 --> 01:05:10.000 The Lord your creator. 01:05:10.000 --> 01:05:12.000 Say I stand from age. 01:05:12.000 --> 01:05:16.000 I stand from age to age. 01:05:16.000 --> 01:05:19.000 The ancient of days. 01:05:19.000 --> 01:05:21.000 I'm the holy one. 01:05:21.000 --> 01:05:22.000 Sing it out. 01:05:22.000 --> 01:05:25.000 I am the holy one. 01:05:25.000 --> 01:05:29.000 The fairest of 10,000. 01:05:29.000 --> 01:05:31.000 And all who call. 01:05:31.000 --> 01:05:34.000 And all who call upon. 01:05:34.000 --> 01:05:37.000 My name is Shown. 01:05:37.000 --> 01:05:39.000 So don't fear. 01:05:39.000 --> 01:05:41.000 Don't fear. 01:05:41.000 --> 01:05:43.000 I will be. 01:05:43.000 --> 01:05:46.000 I will be your song. 01:05:46.000 --> 01:05:53.000 Sing, sing, oh, baby. 01:05:53.000 --> 01:05:58.000 Water is coming to the fantasy. 01:05:58.000 --> 01:06:01.000 Oh, you are empty. 01:06:01.000 --> 01:06:04.000 I am the well. 01:06:04.000 --> 01:06:05.000 Draw from me. 01:06:05.000 --> 01:06:07.000 I will provide. 01:06:07.000 --> 01:06:08.000 Sing again. 01:06:08.000 --> 01:06:13.000 Sing, sing, oh, baby. 01:06:13.000 --> 01:06:15.000 Oh, water. 01:06:15.000 --> 01:06:17.000 Is coming to the fantasy. 01:06:17.000 --> 01:06:19.000 Oh, you are empty. 01:06:19.000 --> 01:06:21.000 Oh, you are empty. 01:06:21.000 --> 01:06:22.000 I am the well. 01:06:22.000 --> 01:06:23.000 Draw from me. 01:06:23.000 --> 01:06:24.000 Draw from me. 01:06:24.000 --> 01:06:25.000 I will provide. 01:06:25.000 --> 01:06:27.000 So draw from me. 01:06:27.000 --> 01:06:28.000 I will provide. 01:06:28.000 --> 01:06:29.000 Draw from me. 01:06:29.000 --> 01:06:31.000 I will provide. 01:06:31.000 --> 01:06:40.000 Because I'm a river in the desert.