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Podcast: Acts 29 Vancouver
Episode: Perez – Breaking In
Publishing Date: 2023-07-05T06:00:44-07:00
Podcast URL: https://acts29.ca
Episode URL: https://acts29.ca/perez-breaking-in/

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Thank you guys. Welcome. Today's the third night of, and then we end this, whatever you

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want to call it, today. And let me just introduce guys who are new. That's Matthew. He's Pastor

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Matthew, one of Aron's, one of Tunis' friends. Tunis seems to have many friends. Yeah. So

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welcome, Matthew. Yeah. And that's Ben. And that's Sheba. Sheba's dad used to be someone

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who worked with Chad's dad. And so they live close to Squamish in Abbotsford. Yeah. So

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I'm just kidding. It's in two different directions. I'm sure they'll feel welcome with that applause,

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so we'll just try it again. Yeah. And the rest of us are normal people. Yeah. Jeremy

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brought a friend. Jeremy, you want to introduce him? This is just my dad. Hi, Isaac. Yeah.

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Isaac's an old friend of the church, been around for years. Yeah. Hey, guys. So a couple

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of quick announcements. One, let me introduce Chad. Chad, actually, his dad is the, or was

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the president of the entire Assemblies of God globally. And so he comes from amazing

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stock. I met his dad, really honorable man, man who walks in holiness. And then Chad runs

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a congregation of about 20 or 30,000 people in a church called New Life Assemblies of

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God in Chennai. You're wondering why I'm giving him such a good intro. It's the last day.

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And I met him in 2014, and my life is so much richer because of him. He's my best friend.

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I'm his best friend too, just in case he doesn't say it. Love him dearly. My life has changed

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dramatically after meeting him. Talk to him more often than his wife talks to him. During

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COVID, oh my God, he was a lifeline. He's really knowledgeable. He could have easily

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church thingy because he runs a mega church. But one of his desires and passion is to go

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around the world and build a church the way it's supposed to be built. And we've been

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talking about that for the last four or five years. Much of what we have learned here has

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come from some of the things I've learned from him. And so on one hand, he's 11 years

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younger than me. On the other hand, I really look up to him in many different things. And

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I love you, Dad. I'm glad you're here. Yeah? Come. You don't know what to do with this.

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We can.

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Hey, the other thing I forgot is we had sent out an email saying, hey, if you want to make

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an offering that will go to World's Chat, just put it in the box at the back. And yeah,

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that's it.

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It's quite rare when you have good words from Jacob about someone in the introduction,

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so cherish it and take it in. And if you've been wondering about last time, 2019, when

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I came, I was a whole different size and there's a different size now. It's all thanks to George's

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brother. Okay? And so every good thing. You don't want to meet him. Yeah. So George's

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brother was the one who inspired me. He walked one day into my office and said, everything

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can change for you. And so here am I, changed man. And from that time, I think there was

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easy change with regards to how church needs to be done, but with regards to Jacob's body,

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no chance. Okay? He continues on forever. Yeah. Like that's when you have to take advantage

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and do all.

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Well, it's joy, it's fun to be with you guys. Okay? These two years, two days, two days

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has been like two years, I think, two important things that we have actually done with. Okay?

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Okay. Paris and God has helped us bounce back. How many of you believe that God has

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truly helped us bounce back? I mean, and secondly, Paris and we said, Hey, let's break out because

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God is helping us break out. But this third day, God is warning us to break in. And Jesus

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was moving amongst the towns and villages and the many cities. And as he moved around,

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he saw the people and he saw the people who were harassed and helpless. And he was moved

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with compassion. And when he was moving with compassion, he couldn't actually turn to anybody

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else, but to his disciples. And he said to his disciples, the harvest is plenty. The

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laborers are so few. And then he said, pray to the Lord of the harvest that he will send

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laborers. If we got to break in and if we got to hear the heart of the father, if you

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really, really need to capture the very essence of what God is wanting to do is that he is

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wanting this church to raise up as laborers in a mission field that is harassed and helpless.

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And that is what we got to break in. The season has come that here in Acts 29 that we

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cannot continue on just the way it is, but we need to actually put our foot on the pedal

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and press on the gas because there is an acceleration that God wants for the church. Yes, I have

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built you thus far. Yes, I have done whatever it takes to build you into who you are at this

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moment of time. But if you start to exist just the way you are, you're going to miss out a season

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because this is a season of acceleration that God is bringing for your life. And if you would

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actually capture it, if you would grasp it, if you would actually bounce back, if you would

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break through and if you would break in, I'm going to do mighty things in and through you. Amen?

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And therefore, we got to learn how to actually bind the strong man and get into certain nations

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that God is calling Acts 29 into and take the spoils for Jesus Christ. Are you ready? Are you

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wanting to be laborers? And if you really need to rise up to be laborers for this Jesus Christ,

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then you need to do certain things. Number one, do you actually care for the world just as how

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Christ cares for? And therefore, these are five important questions that I want to leave to you

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this evening. I want to speak, I don't want to speak long, but these are five important questions.

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The first question is, do you really care for the world just the way Christ cares for them?

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Or do you have concern for the world the way I care for this world?

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Jonah, Jonah, Jonah, how long will you actually run away from your call?

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There are certain people seated here who are actually being called specifically and saying,

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hey, you need to be doing something, but you are running away from that call for a long period of time.

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Jonah, you've been running and sometimes you grudgingly do what God has called you to do.

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And after you've grudgingly done what God has called you to do, you sit and crib because all that you're

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concerned about is that small little creeper that you did not sow, that you did not water,

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that you did not do anything, but God actually took care of it and it gave you shade for a moment of

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time. Now that that creeper is gone, you are cribbing and telling God, you took away my shelter,

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you took away my shade, you took away that which was beautiful.

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Jonah, 120,000 people who do not know their left hand from their right hand are existing even in Vancouver.

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120,000 people even in a city like Vancouver, Vancouver who does not know the left hand from their

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right hand and many, many, many, many people, many, many, many, many nations. Europe is

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waiting for you, Vancouver. Europe is waiting for you. There are certain nations in Africa that are

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waiting for you, there are certain nations in Central America that's waiting for you,

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there are certain nations in South America that are waiting for you, there are certain cities in this

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nation, Canada is waiting for you, would you just care only for yourself or

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would you actually start thinking about a lakh and a twenty thousand people who

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do not know the left hand from the right hand? The question is, do you care the way

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I care? Do you care the way I care? None should perish, all should come to

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repentance. What about, yes we are thankful for the 99 that are in the sheep pen,

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but who will care for the one lost sheep? Who would sweep the entire house and

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find that one coin that's lost? Who would actually go back and search and wait and

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do something about the lost sons and daughters in the city? There was a season

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when I asked you to remain a small number, that season is over, that season is over.

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Maybe we don't have to have these large numbers gathered together in one place,

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no? That's a lot of building and administration, I know what it is. But do

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not resist numbers. That's a shift and change that God is wanting this church

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to have. Acts 29, do not resist numbers for I want to give you numbers. Do not

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resist numbers for I want to give you numbers. Because numbers are not just mere

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numbers, they are people. There are people who cannot make a difference between

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their left hand and their right hand. They need to come into the fold, they need to

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come into the house, they need to come into the harvest that's plentiful, the

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laborers are few. But I have laborers here in this church who can rise up. It

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takes a little bit of change in your heart to see numbers is not a limitation.

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Father, I pray over this congregation and I speak of father, every wrong word that

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has been spoken about numbers in this house, every small little slight thing

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that has taken place about numbers of other churches, I pray in the name of

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Jesus be removed. Yes, for a season we needed to be this. But Lord, that season

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is over. And the season of numbers is starting of father. And I pray and bless

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this church in the name of the Father, Son and the Holy Spirit. And I pray that

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the doors of this church is open for multiple services of father that does

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not just take place on a Sunday, because Sunday is not the only day where we can

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worship you. I pray that a Monday of father, a Tuesday, a Wednesday, a Thursday,

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a Friday, a Saturday, a Sunday, a Sunday that would have a morning service, an

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evening service and after service, I pray in different locations, it will not be

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Jacob or father, but there are several of father leaders that are rising up. And

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there are several congregations of father that are spreading across this

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entire Vancouver. And that is what we got to break in. We are no longer afraid of

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numbers.

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What if one Jacob could have 200? What if a father, the entire church would have

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each at 200? I pray Lord God, the harvest is ripe. There is a shift in our hearts.

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If you care, if you care just the way he cares, they will come. If you care, that's it.

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If you care the way he cares, they will come. If you care the way he cares, they

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will come. If you don't care for them, who will care for people? Number two, if

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you do not open your mouth and witness, who will witness? How will they be saved

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if we don't witness and preach? We got to come out of what is called as evangelical

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nice. We are so diplomatic that we don't want to hurt anybody. The gospel

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confronts people and we got to open our mouth and speak. Will you turn with me to

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Romans in chapter 10 and verse 13 and 14 and can we all read together Romans

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chapter 10 verse 13 and 14. Can we all read together? Everyone, everyone. Should

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I wait? Okay. Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved. How then

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can they call on the one they have not believed in? How can they believe in the

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one of whom they have not heard and how can they hear without someone preaching

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to them? So how can they hear without someone preaching to them? If we do not

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open our mouth, who will open the mouth? If after, maybe it's not preaching, maybe

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it's not maybe immediately shoveling the gospel into their throats. No, it's about

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when will we share about the goodness and the faithfulness of our God? When will we

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share with someone? When will that boldness come? Because Acts chapter 1 and

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verse 8 says, you shall receive power after that the Holy Spirit has come upon

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you and you shall be my witnesses in Jerusalem and Judea and Samaria to the

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utmost parts of the earth which means like each and every one of you seated

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here has been anointed by the power of the Holy Spirit. How many of you believe

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that? I mean as a community we are anointed. Is this an anointed community?

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If this is an anointed community then he has actually empowered us and he has

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given us the power to be witnesses and that means we have the power but we are

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not using the power. Every now and then we charge ourselves and we drain the

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charge. We have not done anything about it. Did you know that if you actually

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have a cell phone and you charged it full and you just leave it in one place,

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did you know that even if you didn't use it to call somebody it will start

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draining off its power and God is saying that some of you actually come here on a

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Sunday and get charged. You go to your house churches and you get charged but

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then you don't do anything about the power that is charged inside of you

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because you are not opening your mouth. There is not even a small little effort

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that is taking place between Monday to Saturday because next Sunday you come

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and then you get charged and you go and do nothing about it from Monday to

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Saturday. That must change.

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Mass evangelism is not the means by which people came to Christ.

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Historically two percentage of people came to large meetings. Any large

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meetings only two percentage of people came but 85 percent. Did you know that

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through media ministries you know how many people came? How many percentage?

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Only four percentage of people come through media ministries. All of the

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money pumped. Yes, it's television through television evangelism four to five

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percentage. Two percentage through mass crusades and do you know the maximum

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number of people coming to Christ is because 85 percentage of people come to

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Christ because of what is called as Vicos evangelism and what's Vicos

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evangelism? Vicos evangelism is household evangelism which means I actually go to

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someone who's my acquaintance, my friend, my family, my colleague, my co-worker, my

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exercise mate in the gym or whatever you have. Whoever you are with on a

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regular acquaintance. 85 percentage of such people come to Christ because you

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have personally opened up your life. They are not just listening to the gospel

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message that has been preached with your mouth but they are seeing that

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through your life. They see peace and they see joy and there's something

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different about you and when they look into your eyes something is different

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and something is changing, something is clicking, something is different about

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you. The presence of God is over your life. When you walk in, oh the presence

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of God actually begins to actually get activated into their

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lives. When you walk the corridors of your office something is happening in

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those cubicles. If you would go out with that power that the Holy Spirit has been

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giving unto you, you will be witnesses. You will be witnesses. Yes we need to

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open up our mouth once in a while but most of the times it's about seeing you.

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We are not even thinking about it Monday to Saturday. There's a huge disconnect

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Monday to Saturday. We are not intentional about it. We don't do anything

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about it. When was the last time that you actually did something? At least even if

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you didn't actually open your mouth with someone, when was the last time you

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actually left home thinking that you want to actually bring someone to Christ?

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Unless that changes, we are not going to break in. Yes we will bounce back. Yes we

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will actually break forth but we will not break in because the kingdom of this

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world has to become the kingdom of God and of his Christ and he needs to be

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ruling forever and ever and he trusts each and every one of us with his

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mandate. Go make disciples of all nations baptizing them in the name of the Father

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Son and the Holy Spirit and teaching them to observe all things that which I

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have commanded. I'm with you always. I'm with you always. I'll empower you always.

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Would you open your mouth and start doing something about it from Monday

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through your Saturday? Sunday is a great recharge but what happens is that you

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lose your charge to recharge on a Sunday again. This pattern in Acts 29 must be

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broken.

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Tomorrow when you go to your office, when you go to your grocery stores, when you

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go to the gym, when you go to do something, there must be a change in

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attitude. Is that okay? Do you really care? It all begins with that. If you care, then

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you would do something about it. If you care only for yourself, you won't do

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anything about it. This is breaking in. This is breaking in. It starts with

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caring. It starts with caring for outsiders. It starts with caring. It

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proceeds on to becoming witnesses. Number three, if you don't shepherd

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who else will? Who will shepherd them if we don't? Matthew 9, 35 and 36. Jesus went

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through all the towns and villages teaching in their synagogues, proclaiming

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the good news of the kingdom and healing every disease and sickness. When he saw

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the crowds, he had compassion on them because of four hedges. Okay, number one,

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they were harassed. Number two, they were helpless. Number three, they were homeless.

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Number four, they were shepherdess or headless. They did not have anyone as

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shepherds or heads over them. These are the four things. When Christ is

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saying in the context of that particular scripture, the harvest is plenty, the

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laborers of you, he's not just looking for some laborer. No, he's looking for

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shepherds who would first bring them into a community because if harassment

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and helplessness of people will never cease if they don't actually have a

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community. And that's the reason why we are continuing to emphasize that you

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need to be part of a community and that you need to start building communities.

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Jacob, how many communities are there already? Nine of them are in the days to

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come. For the amount of time that you guys have sat on the pews and listened

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to Jacob, you by now must be teachers. You by now must be shepherds.

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Harassment and helplessness of people will cease when they have a home and

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when they have a head. Harassment and helplessness will cease when they have

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a community home and when they have a head, a shepherd. Would you rise up to

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shepherd? Would you rise up to care? Would you rise up to feed? Would you rise

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up to actually equip yourselves? There's not even one person here who shouldn't

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be a shepherd. Everyone is called because now you are a chosen generation. You are

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a royal priesthood. You are a holy nation. Listen to this. The clergy-lady

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divide that has been brought in by the constant-time Christianity right from

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the third century, Protestant evangelical reformation did not change

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one bit of Roman Catholicism. I know that I'm making a very radical statement

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here. The only thing that Protestant reformation has brought forth is there is

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a better understanding of what the gospel is. Apart from that, the 500 years

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of Protestant evangelicalism is nothing but Roman Catholicism continued on with

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a better understanding of what the gospel is. For Roman Catholicism said

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that by good works you may achieve salvation. Martin Luther and the early

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reformers came and said, no, you will not be actually attaining salvation by works.

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You will actually attain salvation because of faith and grace of God and

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the faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. Period. Not by works but for works and

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that was what the Protestant reformers brought about. Apart from that, 500 years

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is continuing on with Roman Catholicism which actually believes that Jacob is

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the priest and we are all lately sitting in the pew which is the false doctrine

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of the Protestant reformation world. The priesthood of all believers must be

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embraced and Acts 29 must embrace the priesthood of all believers which means

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that each and every one of us must rise up as shepherds. Number one, you and I

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need to start having concern. That means you need to actually rub yourself with

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God. You need to have a touch from God every day of your life. If you would

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actually climb onto the bottom of God and put your ears onto the heart of God,

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you will actually start moving in the concerns of God. Because you don't do

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that, you don't have concerns. If I would climb into the bottom of my father and

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place my ears on his chest and bottom and if I would have his embrace and he

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locks me in, all that I can hear is his concerns. None should perish. All should

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come to repentance. None should perish. All. It all begins with climbing into the

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bottom of Jesus and hearing his heartbeat and having the boldness of the

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Spirit and opening up our mouth to share to those who are our acquaintances and

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then willing to shepherd those who are coming. Because if you are going to bring

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someone to the church and expecting Jacob to shepherd, no, Jacob is not even

00:28:47.700 --> 00:28:53.260
going to be here this night. I'm going to take him to Toronto. Then we're going to

00:28:53.260 --> 00:28:59.820
say, Jacob, go here. Jacob, go there. And we go. We actually are doing what needs to

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be done across the globe, which means Acts 29 is left behind. Unless you raise

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yourself as shepherds, we will be a failure. We will be a failure. It's not you

00:29:12.180 --> 00:29:16.860
being a failure. Jacob is a failure. I'm a failure. Everyone is a failure. If we

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really don't measure up and become shepherds of God's people, are you getting

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it? Harassment, helplessness is solved because we give them a home and we give

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them a shepherd.

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Fourthly, who's going to go beyond the local? Who's going to go beyond the local?

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From amongst you, God is going to set apart a few that's going beyond the local.

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That you actually take your bags and start moving to places not knowing where

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you're going because God would actually not give you full clarity of the place

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that you're going but that you would be able to take your bags and say, yes, God.

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I want to leave behind my father's house. I want to leave even anybody who wants to

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tag along with me. And I'm willing to go. I'm willing to go. Who will go beyond the

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local? Who is willing to go beyond the local is a crucial, crucial aspect of

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breaking in. Yes, we have had a bounce back. Yes, we have had a break out. But who

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will break in? The breaking in happens because I'm able to think beyond the local.

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And that you, every time we worship, and this is what I don't understand about the

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21st century church because every time there was worship in the scriptures, it

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was actually breaking forth into missions. Because anyone who touches the

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throne room of God and goes back, oh, thank you, God, for your presence is missed

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out big time of his presence. Because when in presence to go and who will go

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for me? That's the voice that comes after holy, holy, holy is the Lord God

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Almighty. The whole earth is filled with your glory. Holy, holy, holy is the Lord

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God Almighty. Oh, what a wretched man I am. Yes, I am a man with sinful lips and

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I speak things that are not okay. I'm not okay, God. Yes, I know that you're not

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okay, but I have coal in my altar that I can take and cleanse your lips. That's my

00:31:46.620 --> 00:31:51.980
job to cleanse you, but it's your job to respond when I ask this important

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question, who will go for me into Amsterdam? Who will go for me into Astana?

00:32:06.140 --> 00:32:16.380
Who will go for me into Almaty? Who will go for me into Tbilisi? Who will go for

00:32:16.380 --> 00:32:25.500
me into Batumi in Georgia in Eastern Europe? Into Kazakhstan? Into Almaty?

00:32:25.500 --> 00:32:31.980
Into Astana? Into certain parts of Mongolia? Into certain aspects or and to

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help certain churches in Indonesia and Jakarta that Jacob will be actually

00:32:37.300 --> 00:32:40.020
working on?

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Would you do something about it after you came to Dubai and process whatever

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you have processed? Would you do something about it or would you not do

00:33:00.340 --> 00:33:10.260
anything about it? There are specific questions that God is asking us as a

00:33:10.260 --> 00:33:15.340
church together. Please, maybe my tone is a little different this evening, but I'm

00:33:15.340 --> 00:33:20.340
not angry with you. I'm not angry with you. I'm just carrying the concerns and

00:33:20.340 --> 00:33:26.020
questions that the Spirit has for the church. I'm not angry with you. God is not

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angry with you.

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He's putting on his foot on the gas pedal because he's saying, I can't be

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any longer. I've waited for you. Acts 29. It's time. Who will go beyond the local?

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As long as you are having concerns about the creeper over your head, you will not

00:34:01.900 --> 00:34:06.060
have the concerns of God. You will not even realize that a hundred and twenty

00:34:06.100 --> 00:34:12.500
thousand people in Nineveh, in a city, God is concerned about.

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So will you carry the same concern that God has for cities and nations? Will you

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be a person who would open your mouth to speak and witness? Would you shepherd

00:34:31.340 --> 00:34:36.980
God's people? Would you go beyond the local? Because there's a season that's

00:34:36.980 --> 00:34:44.780
coming when Europe is opening up for Vancouver. Jacob would go and inaugurate.

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Will you go and support? Who will go? You will be able to raise your hands and say,

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Here am I. Send me. Here am I. Send me.

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Fifthly, if you don't give, who's gonna give? Who will give generously if we

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don't? There is a season that's coming for this church where there is a radical

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generosity. And I very specifically, this is the word the Spirit is using, a

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radical generosity, which means like it goes beyond everything. You're able to,

00:35:40.220 --> 00:35:45.260
some of you have the ability to make wealth. Some of you are having the ability

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to have a greater faith for your needs that you are able to extend. There are

00:35:51.740 --> 00:36:00.180
some people who are cutting out and simplifying lives, where the formula of

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a disciple lifestyle is simplicity plus contentment plus generosity.

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Simplicity, contentment and generosity that you actually cut down certain

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things and give generously. You're hitting contentment. You're hitting

00:36:21.580 --> 00:36:27.340
simplicity and you are moving into generosity and it's ways and means by

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which Christ is expecting from Acts 29 in this new season that you would break

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in into a radical form of generosity. It's not just generous giving. It's

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giving of your lives. It's giving off certain aspects of your life in order to

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be generous. And I love the scriptures. Even this morning, Jacob was talking

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about the scriptures. Second Corinthians, chapter 8 was 1 to 5. And now brothers

00:36:51.140 --> 00:36:54.460
and sisters, we want you to know about the grace that God has given the

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Macedonian churches in the midst of very severe trial, their overflowing joy and

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their extreme poverty welled up in rich generosity. For I testify that they gave

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as much as they were able and even beyond their ability, entirely on their

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own. They urgently pleaded with us for the privilege of sharing in the service

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to the Lord's people. In fact, they came and pleaded that Jacob one day must tell,

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hey don't give. And you got to plead with Jacob, please. That's radical generosity.

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When you're pleading with the leaders of this church and saying, want to give,

00:37:33.380 --> 00:37:42.180
please receive it. Please receive this. When you're doing too much, that must be

00:37:42.180 --> 00:37:48.060
the saying of this church. I love what happened in the nation of Israel when

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Moses was collecting an offering for the temple of the Lord that he was actually

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saying, hey it's enough. Don't give anymore. Radical generosity must become

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part and parcel of their life, entirely on their own. There is no nudging. There

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is no aha, do this, do that. We are not psyching you up in order to give. No, you

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are entirely on your own and you are gently pleading with us for the privilege

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of sharing in the service to the Lord's people. And they exceeded our

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expectations. They gave themselves first of all to the Lord and then by the will

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of God also to us, which means, hey you got and every one of you first and

00:38:34.020 --> 00:38:40.140
foremost give yourself fully to the Lord and secondly you are really giving

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yourself to the leaders. It's not only giving yourself to the Lord but also

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trusting and saying, God I know there is a potential for abuse but we want to

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trust this Jacob. We want to trust the leaders of this church. We want to trust

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Derek and Iris and we want to trust me and yesterday we had this wonderful

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apprentice into the service that has been appointed over this church.

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Jacob continues to travel. We trust these folks and we entrust ourselves to God

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and entrust ourselves to you guys.

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Yeah, okay let's take one three and five. One three and four. You don't want me to

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touch on five? Okay let's talk about one three and four. Is that okay?

00:39:52.060 --> 00:39:58.220
Because I believe two and five will happen. Let's see one three and four. Is

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there any questions you guys have? Is it clear? Who shepherds the shepherd?

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When you...

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So there are two... One of the things that you and I need to come to a place is

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that the shepherds have a great shepherd who shepherds us. Okay because one of

00:40:32.060 --> 00:40:38.460
the... What is... When do we become shepherds? We become shepherds when we

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are actually met. If we are harassed and helpless we cannot shepherd. So for us

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harassment and helplessness must be solved because we have found a home and

00:40:48.780 --> 00:40:58.460
we have also found mentors and shepherds. That's one. But we have a great shepherd

00:40:58.460 --> 00:41:05.540
too. Today I have a Jacob that I can call in times of crisis and I... There are

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times that I have cried to Jacob about issues and difficulties that you're

00:41:12.700 --> 00:41:17.260
going through. There are times that Jacob actually calls and says it's too painful

00:41:17.260 --> 00:41:30.740
what's happening. So for the shepherds of shepherds is quite a small number but it

00:41:30.940 --> 00:41:36.540
doesn't happen quite often because you by now you are a shepherd who has learned

00:41:36.540 --> 00:41:42.460
to function under the great shepherd and that comes to the first day that we

00:41:42.460 --> 00:41:47.620
spoke about bouncing back. We need to learn the art of encouraging ourselves

00:41:47.620 --> 00:41:55.340
in the Lord. We need to really have touch from heavens and clear directions from

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heavens. So those are the things of a mature disciple of Christ. Who's a leader

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of God's household. He is a mature disciple of Christ who is able to lead

00:42:04.620 --> 00:42:09.700
himself well. He's able to lead his family. He's able to lead others in the

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community and those are the people that needs to be shepherds and that's

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a process that we all need to rise up. But over a period of time because of so

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much of instructions teachings we have come to a place where we don't actually

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look for a shepherd but that we measure up and be shepherds. Yes there are times

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that we need one another and so we may not have people above us sometimes but

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we have peers amongst us and therefore I can actually go to a Sheldon and say

00:42:38.380 --> 00:42:43.980
Sheldon I trust you man just hold this on to you but this is what I'm going

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through and Sheldon can there can be a peer to peer shepherding that can take

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place. It need not be always about top-down shepherding. A peer to peer

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shepherding that can take place. Is that helping process? Thank you. Anybody else

00:43:01.500 --> 00:43:04.500
any other questions?

00:43:10.740 --> 00:43:13.740
Yes.

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How?

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How can we entrust ourselves to you?

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Yeah I think it's a good question to process. One is trust. But these

00:43:39.260 --> 00:43:45.860
guys would not really mess in their directions for your life. You need to

00:43:45.900 --> 00:43:52.220
come to a place where you trust God and trust the leaders in that they would not

00:43:52.220 --> 00:44:00.260
direct you wrongly. That they have the best interest for you and so moment

00:44:00.260 --> 00:44:07.820
it's entrusting happens because you trust. Because you trust you entrust and so

00:44:07.820 --> 00:44:12.380
it's a process of trust that you got to develop amongst the leaders. So sometimes

00:44:12.380 --> 00:44:19.260
it takes a period of relationship and so if you never knew Derek and Iris then

00:44:19.260 --> 00:44:24.820
you need to actually ask Derek and Iris can I take you out for dinner or

00:44:24.820 --> 00:44:30.220
can I actually go somewhere with you and can I spend this time with you guys. So

00:44:30.220 --> 00:44:36.740
sorry Derek I'm just introducing you into this whole process. May God give you

00:44:36.740 --> 00:44:44.980
enough grace. But that's entrusting yourself to your leaders is a

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process of trusting your leaders. Because you develop that trust you're able to

00:44:49.940 --> 00:44:57.500
entrust. If you're not able to trust you cannot entrust. And so to a place where

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this morning I was having discussions with the larger apostolic team that on

00:45:03.220 --> 00:45:10.740
the zoom and one of them I was telling that in the old paradigm this

00:45:10.740 --> 00:45:15.100
paradigm of the modern missionary era from the 17th century is that missionaries

00:45:15.100 --> 00:45:21.100
will ask God God where should I go and God will say like Adhoni Ram Jatsen or

00:45:21.100 --> 00:45:26.540
David Livingston or all these great missionaries and the missionary stories

00:45:26.540 --> 00:45:32.940
that they've heard a place and they went to a place. But Timothy never asked Paul

00:45:33.060 --> 00:45:39.540
okay Paul is telling Timothy Timothy go to Ephesus Timothy go to Thessalonica

00:45:39.540 --> 00:45:44.820
and Timothy is not sitting and telling Paul Paul wait a minute I need to ask

00:45:44.820 --> 00:45:51.900
God whether he is sending me. No he never asked because they believe they were

00:45:51.900 --> 00:45:56.220
part of the same team and they were interested together as same team and

00:45:56.580 --> 00:46:04.380
because the team actually wanted Timothy and found and Paul found Timothy to be

00:46:04.380 --> 00:46:09.100
the best fit to handle the issues in Ephesus that Paul could say to Timothy

00:46:09.100 --> 00:46:13.900
Timothy go there. He's not sitting scratching his head and thinking God are

00:46:13.900 --> 00:46:18.420
you really sending me to Ephesus. No Paul is sending me to Ephesus that's a

00:46:18.420 --> 00:46:25.860
period that's God sending me to Ephesus because we are all in the same field

00:46:25.860 --> 00:46:30.900
working together for the same God we are building the same Church of Jesus

00:46:30.900 --> 00:46:37.620
Christ and when you are entrusted you're not actually sitting down. Yes God may

00:46:37.620 --> 00:46:42.420
put a particular place as a passion in your heart and because you're entrusted

00:46:42.420 --> 00:46:47.580
you are telling hey this is the place that that's burning in my heart and

00:46:47.740 --> 00:46:55.140
Jacob may say not now would you still trust? He may be a little later but first

00:46:55.140 --> 00:47:04.900
can you take care of Sari before you take care of Timbuktu? That's entrusting

00:47:04.900 --> 00:47:09.740
yourself. Is that helpful?

00:47:17.900 --> 00:47:24.260
The other way around I'm so sorry and I'm sorry I'm not even able to fully

00:47:24.260 --> 00:47:33.500
comprehend what you're saying. Okay thank you. Anybody else?

00:47:38.780 --> 00:47:45.860
Yes. Can a family member shepherd you? Actually fathers are supposed to

00:47:45.860 --> 00:47:55.420
shepherd. Family members can shepherd. A mother can. Because the whole picture of

00:47:55.420 --> 00:47:58.740
shepherding that so you need to understand that in the New Testament

00:47:58.740 --> 00:48:06.460
there are two imageries that are used. One Peter uses so frequently and is

00:48:06.460 --> 00:48:12.820
called the shepherding imagery but Paul on the other hand very rarely uses

00:48:12.820 --> 00:48:19.900
the shepherding imagery and he uses an imagery of the father the mother. I was

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a father to you. You could have a thousand guardians but you couldn't have

00:48:24.180 --> 00:48:28.980
a father like me. We were fathers amongst you. We were mothers amongst you and

00:48:28.980 --> 00:48:38.300
therefore this whole idea of shepherding is fathering parenting. Parenting towards

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the whole of a why are we parenting that first firstly we are parenting and

00:48:45.940 --> 00:48:52.140
shepherding so that Christ is fully formed in people's lives and as Christ

00:48:52.140 --> 00:48:58.040
is formed in people's life that we are able to actually know and hear the

00:48:58.040 --> 00:49:02.940
heartbeat of God and fulfill his heartbeat. These are the two simple things

00:49:02.940 --> 00:49:08.060
that we have a dynamic relationship with Christ so that we would have and become

00:49:08.260 --> 00:49:14.460
like Christ and we actually capture what's in his heart which is nations,

00:49:14.460 --> 00:49:20.940
cities, towns, villages, people, his heartbeat. These two things are the core

00:49:20.940 --> 00:49:26.900
of our shepherding and therefore how do we help people become more and more like

00:49:26.900 --> 00:49:31.740
Christ. That's the whole discipleship process and a disciple is a commission

00:49:31.740 --> 00:49:36.540
disciple and therefore we are about communities and multiplication of this

00:49:36.540 --> 00:49:39.540
communities worldwide.

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Who's shepherding? Just care. It's just not care. Shepherding is not just care.

00:50:01.060 --> 00:50:08.500
Shepherding is actually shaping an entire life to become Christ-like, to

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fulfill Christ's commission. That's the goal of shepherding. It is inclusive of it but it's

00:50:21.580 --> 00:50:25.580
it's only a small part of it.

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It all depends on which stage you are in. There may be some in this seated here who

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needs shepherding and there are some people who have been here for a very

00:50:52.660 --> 00:51:00.580
long period of time who needs to rise up as shepherds and so both would be part

00:51:00.580 --> 00:51:04.500
of a community and both needs to be simultaneously worked on.

00:51:17.340 --> 00:51:20.740
They need to bring it to the notice of the

00:51:20.740 --> 00:51:36.300
handsomest shepherd, Jacob's shepherd. It needs to be brought if in case you are not

00:51:36.300 --> 00:51:42.460
really shepherded well then it needs to be brought because Jacob is the one who

00:51:42.460 --> 00:51:47.900
appoints the shepherds and therefore needs to be brought to the notice of

00:51:47.900 --> 00:51:55.740
Jacob to be discussed thought through and maybe the one who feels I'm not

00:51:55.740 --> 00:52:00.860
shepherded well is actually expect there may be an expectation mismatch and

00:52:00.860 --> 00:52:08.940
that's the reason why they feel or they look up to okay because the challenge

00:52:08.940 --> 00:52:15.140
with apostolic kind of leaders they are charismatic kind of they have a

00:52:15.140 --> 00:52:21.260
charismatic about them and sometimes we expect in local shepherds what you see

00:52:21.260 --> 00:52:30.100
in Jacob that's a big mismatch shepherding does not have to be too

00:52:30.100 --> 00:52:37.300
charismatic shepherding needs a set of skills that is more listening guiding

00:52:37.300 --> 00:52:44.180
helping it does not have to be always giving a series of prophecy need not and

00:52:44.980 --> 00:52:50.340
therefore there needs to be a slowly a shift in our understanding of who

00:52:50.340 --> 00:52:56.220
shepherds are maybe another time that we can sit and explain apostolic kind of

00:52:56.220 --> 00:53:02.220
leaders charismatic apostolic kind of leaders with that's a little different

00:53:02.220 --> 00:53:09.100
from local church elders and deacons shepherds and deacons yes is that

00:53:09.660 --> 00:53:14.220
anybody else

00:53:17.660 --> 00:53:35.300
just Bishop is your name Bishop Jacob James Bishop T James you're bringing me

00:53:35.340 --> 00:53:40.100
back to the point number one okay how do we care for the world like how Christ

00:53:40.100 --> 00:53:46.540
it it's it's it's a heart that we are talking about so what are we doing to

00:53:46.540 --> 00:53:51.460
the least of the brethren what are we doing to the least of the brethren is my

00:53:51.460 --> 00:53:57.820
heart basic simple simple simple understanding is

00:53:57.820 --> 00:54:10.860
Jacob has taught this before me and my family and we make sure that everything

00:54:10.860 --> 00:54:20.060
else actually is done for me and my family I want God and his church for me

00:54:20.060 --> 00:54:27.500
and my family I want to work for me and my family I want the money for me and my

00:54:27.500 --> 00:54:35.660
family I want possessions for me and my family that's our state this must shift

00:54:35.660 --> 00:54:43.180
and must be disciples to Christ and his family if I have that as the center of

00:54:43.180 --> 00:54:49.180
my life and rally around family my family for Christ and his family if I

00:54:49.180 --> 00:54:54.500
rally around work for Christ and his family if I rally around money for

00:54:55.020 --> 00:55:00.580
family if I rally around possessions for Christ and his family that shift

00:55:00.580 --> 00:55:06.660
actually brings about a whole different focus and that means you are beginning

00:55:06.660 --> 00:55:14.660
to care about somebody else outside and not just about you

00:55:25.060 --> 00:55:33.980
so hot that beeps starting intercession good but it's not enough a heart that

00:55:33.980 --> 00:55:40.060
breaks down for people and praise is good but what good it is we just actually

00:55:40.060 --> 00:55:47.700
break down weep and pray and we have no action so it really needs to translate

00:55:47.700 --> 00:55:57.820
into action I am what I'm hearing that's happening with Derek and Tony and me and

00:55:57.820 --> 00:56:03.380
all are you you guys are going out and reaching out to our 70 to 80 guys who

00:56:03.380 --> 00:56:12.620
are meeting once in a wally and Wally and so we need to actually do more Wally's

00:56:13.620 --> 00:56:20.620
and it needs to not only be amongst the needy and the drug addicts and the

00:56:20.620 --> 00:56:27.500
difficult people needs to happen amongst every spectrum of the society maybe

00:56:27.500 --> 00:56:32.660
that's what Derek wants to do but you guys need to do whatever God has given

00:56:33.660 --> 00:56:46.340
but we need to reach out so the concern for others is the concern of Christ

00:56:46.340 --> 00:56:54.140
which actually happens because you you have left your me and my families you

00:56:54.140 --> 00:56:58.100
are giving up on you and your minimum I'm saying you and your family have to

00:56:58.100 --> 00:57:06.860
be careful God has given us a family and why has he given us a family not not for

00:57:06.860 --> 00:57:12.620
me God has given me a wife and God has given me a son to steward them for

00:57:12.620 --> 00:57:27.340
Christ and his family I have I don't own them I steward them for what I steward

00:57:27.380 --> 00:57:30.780
them for Christ and his family

00:57:38.500 --> 00:57:46.620
Christ and his family means Christ in his church third point

00:57:49.500 --> 00:57:56.660
shepherding we've been talking a little bit about shepherding and so would you

00:57:56.660 --> 00:58:02.980
rise up and start doing something about so because we have concern and because

00:58:02.980 --> 00:58:09.380
we are evangelizing for for this group of people there are shepherds who will

00:58:09.380 --> 00:58:14.180
actually shepherd those who are going to come because already Derek and May and

00:58:14.180 --> 00:58:22.980
Betty and everyone is already taking care of people so when newcomers come to

00:58:23.740 --> 00:58:30.660
church who will shepherd the guys here who are already being shepherded are the

00:58:30.660 --> 00:58:37.220
ones who need to raise up as shepherds because others are maxed out already but

00:58:37.220 --> 00:58:41.900
we need to start thinking about being royal priesthood being shepherds within

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God's house do you believe that you have been called everyone if you have been

00:58:47.780 --> 00:58:52.540
saved you have to be a disciple if you are a disciple you are a commissioned

00:58:52.540 --> 00:59:00.180
disciple there is there is no there's there's no other way if you are a

00:59:00.180 --> 00:59:07.740
disciple then the great commission is yours because a disciple is a follower

00:59:07.740 --> 00:59:12.700
of Christ and his teachings and the greatest teaching is to go into all the

00:59:12.700 --> 00:59:18.500
world and make disciples and love the Lord and so you got to be discipling

00:59:18.500 --> 00:59:21.660
others and shepherding others and therefore that's third important thing

00:59:21.660 --> 00:59:27.940
and the fourth thing is a few more months Europe is going to open up for

00:59:27.940 --> 00:59:36.180
acts 29 and I I hope and I pray that one of you two of you three of you actually

00:59:36.180 --> 00:59:45.220
take your bags and move from Vancouver into Europe who will that be

00:59:52.580 --> 00:59:59.180
not just going and coming that's one one thing is for going and coming is for a

00:59:59.180 --> 01:00:07.420
period of time it's for some years that we shift everything to go

01:00:13.540 --> 01:00:20.900
maybe Amsterdam maybe somewhere in some Eastern Europe or last time where did

01:00:20.940 --> 01:00:29.500
you go to Austria Austria Hungary okay better ever Danube flows simple if you

01:00:29.500 --> 01:00:37.180
really want to think right wherever that Danube River flows think of those

01:00:37.180 --> 01:00:39.180
nations

01:00:39.180 --> 01:00:47.540
yeah wherever the Danube

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Jacob over to you

01:01:02.180 --> 01:01:07.140
one of the things we'll have to change the tax training is the pride we take

01:01:07.140 --> 01:01:13.340
and being a strong church being very well taught disciples that has to now

01:01:13.340 --> 01:01:22.540
go just like we very not all that worried about what music sounds like or

01:01:22.540 --> 01:01:30.700
what there's this pride that we have and oh this church is a see a Ben by Shiva

01:01:30.700 --> 01:01:34.780
yeah sorry you were trying to leave silently I just wanted to spoil that

01:01:34.900 --> 01:01:41.900
yeah so there's this pride we taken we are a strong church we are that quality

01:01:41.900 --> 01:01:47.620
will have to go it'll have to be people that are discipled enough to disciple and

01:01:47.620 --> 01:01:52.340
not set the bar so high that everyone has to reach a mark before they can

01:01:52.340 --> 01:02:02.060
disciple that'll have to be something that changes because the bar is there's

01:02:02.100 --> 01:02:08.260
an element of pride attached to it that has to change you got no pride when it

01:02:08.260 --> 01:02:16.700
comes to music not because the musicians are bad just because it doesn't matter

01:02:16.700 --> 01:02:25.420
that's one thing that has to change the second thing that has to change is like

01:02:25.420 --> 01:02:29.540
he said an aversion to numbers that mega churches and mega pastors are really

01:02:29.540 --> 01:02:36.260
sucky and he's one of them and that it's not true you have to ask forgiveness

01:02:36.260 --> 01:02:43.060
yeah you have to repent and most of it has come from me I didn't want to meet

01:02:43.060 --> 01:02:49.660
him the first time someone brought him to me so that's another thing that has to

01:02:49.660 --> 01:02:59.900
change and then the third one is we're not really concerned we really don't

01:02:59.900 --> 01:03:06.900
care as that much we care maybe when we go to Wally but if you took a Wally away

01:03:06.900 --> 01:03:14.620
what would happen so we don't care that much so the three things

01:03:20.660 --> 01:03:25.020
that have to change

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so let's just pray for that and see where we go with that so father first I

01:03:35.300 --> 01:03:40.740
repent for the route that I have introduced into this church of having a

01:03:40.740 --> 01:03:49.140
distaste or dislike for that which is big or has too many numbers because all

01:03:49.180 --> 01:03:54.980
always thought it was fake and not authentic and that's not what you are

01:03:54.980 --> 01:04:00.100
asking us to continue so we repent of that I repent of that because I

01:04:00.100 --> 01:04:08.340
introduced that route and we repent of that as a church yeah we take pride in

01:04:08.340 --> 01:04:14.980
being strong and small and effective not like those other churches and so that

01:04:15.180 --> 01:04:20.260
of talk has to stop and we repent of that from me it's spread to the rest of

01:04:20.260 --> 01:04:27.860
the congregation to the leaders so we change that it doesn't have to be in the

01:04:27.860 --> 01:04:32.500
same place yeah the same location yeah can be multiple multiple locations yeah

01:04:32.500 --> 01:04:36.620
numbers because always when it becomes larger in becomes harder to come to

01:04:36.620 --> 01:04:43.820
yeah well what we change that father and we say yes to numerical increase the New

01:04:43.820 --> 01:04:48.700
Testament was always about numerical increase so that's one the second thing

01:04:48.700 --> 01:04:52.420
father we want to at least I want to change and the church wants to change

01:04:52.420 --> 01:04:58.540
this that you don't have to be terribly strong and learn it to be able to

01:04:58.540 --> 01:05:03.220
shepherd father we've set a standard that's a little too high first time

01:05:03.220 --> 01:05:07.580
Peter preached 5,000 and those guys were ill-equipped though they had spent two

01:05:07.580 --> 01:05:10.700
and a half years or three and a half years with Jesus so could you help us

01:05:10.700 --> 01:05:16.020
with that father to begin to lose that very high standard that we've set which

01:05:16.020 --> 01:05:22.460
becomes very difficult then for people to qualify so we look towards maturity

01:05:22.460 --> 01:05:28.620
but we lower the standard of a that we have set which is perhaps no longer

01:05:28.620 --> 01:05:31.620
applicable in our case

01:05:31.620 --> 01:05:41.940
the priesthood of all believers isn't really fully real in this church yet

01:05:41.940 --> 01:05:50.820
and 30 father

01:05:50.820 --> 01:05:57.500
you don't care enough

01:05:57.500 --> 01:06:05.140
our wine that gives us shade is important you don't care enough

01:06:11.940 --> 01:06:22.620
so we start with these three things father want to change if you want to

01:06:22.620 --> 01:06:25.620
break in

01:06:27.420 --> 01:06:32.340
the fourth thing father was something that Chad was speaking about yesterday he said

01:06:32.340 --> 01:06:37.420
that are you willing during times of harvest to work night and day and not

01:06:37.620 --> 01:06:44.260
with excuses can you say that yes I've worked eight hours but I will come or

01:06:44.260 --> 01:06:47.900
will you say no no we had a long day we don't want to drive anymore or we had a

01:06:47.900 --> 01:06:53.900
long day or this has happened father during times of harvest farmers work

01:06:53.900 --> 01:06:59.740
tirelessly night and day father there are a group of people in this church that

01:06:59.740 --> 01:07:03.700
work tirelessly night and day but there's a large number that don't

01:07:07.700 --> 01:07:10.700
I pray that that would change father

01:07:18.700 --> 01:07:22.900
I'm not feeling condemned about this I just want this to change nor am I

01:07:22.900 --> 01:07:25.900
condemning but just want us to change

01:07:29.740 --> 01:07:32.740
this is so not like yesterday

01:07:48.740 --> 01:07:55.740
father so I call forward right now first anyone who is a believer in this church

01:07:55.740 --> 01:08:02.740
so I call forward right now first anyone who is a leader anyone who leads the

01:08:02.740 --> 01:08:07.980
house church and anyone who assists in a house church just to come to the front

01:08:07.980 --> 01:08:11.980
and kneel and pray pray that this would happen with them

01:08:11.980 --> 01:08:20.340
I ask that first and it come up right now pray for these four changes that they

01:08:20.340 --> 01:08:24.460
would begin at some point as they're praying that the rest of the church would

01:08:24.460 --> 01:08:29.540
come to the front saying we are the next wave we are the next wave we are the

01:08:29.540 --> 01:08:33.460
next wave doesn't matter where they came one month ago whether they came 15 years

01:08:33.460 --> 01:08:41.060
ago that these four things will now begin father the entire church will turn

01:08:41.060 --> 01:08:44.060
up in the frontier then can you remove this

01:08:47.580 --> 01:08:51.500
what are we praying we're saying that oh god these four things we are going to

01:08:51.500 --> 01:08:59.060
change one that we welcome numbers might be over 20 different places but we

01:08:59.060 --> 01:09:04.780
say yes to numbers and if you have caught on to that route that I planted

01:09:04.780 --> 01:09:09.620
then you repent of it saying now numerical growth was part of what the

01:09:09.620 --> 01:09:16.460
New Testament Church engaged in to have we will not set standards that make it

01:09:16.500 --> 01:09:21.220
difficult for people to end up in that place where they can begin to shepherd

01:09:21.220 --> 01:09:29.420
that as the numbers come we lower the standards that sounds like such an odd

01:09:29.420 --> 01:09:39.100
thing to say but we will so that more can be added to shepherd three every

01:09:39.100 --> 01:09:42.100
don't care how we need hearts that care

01:09:46.700 --> 01:09:49.700
what was the fourth one

01:09:51.620 --> 01:09:58.260
pardon yeah will will I work tirelessly for harvest or will I come up with

01:09:58.260 --> 01:10:00.980
excuses like I work too hard

01:10:00.980 --> 01:10:08.140
it's my only weekend a baby didn't sleep eight hours only slept seven hours will

01:10:08.140 --> 01:10:11.140
I come up with stuff like that don't want my house to be dirty

01:10:11.140 --> 01:10:16.380
will this be our excuse father this is what we repent of as leaders first and

01:10:16.380 --> 01:10:20.860
then the present leaders and then father the rest of the church is going to come

01:10:20.860 --> 01:10:26.900
up if you've been here more than a month then we will all come up father because

01:10:26.900 --> 01:10:29.740
this is what you're calling us to till the pews will be empty

01:10:29.740 --> 01:10:33.900
I'll be so symbolic that these pews need to be filled because there are enough

01:10:33.900 --> 01:10:36.900
shepherds up there so that's what we start to do now father

01:10:36.900 --> 01:10:39.340
hallelujah

01:11:03.900 --> 01:11:16.140
for me to do the next thing I want to do this change is important to me says

01:11:16.140 --> 01:11:21.660
God so please change your saying change Jacob you change

01:11:21.660 --> 01:11:35.420
so far I'm going to put down the mic but I have been to repent loudly enough

01:11:35.420 --> 01:11:40.900
father so we can join together in changing these things

01:12:21.660 --> 01:12:24.700
you

01:12:51.660 --> 01:12:54.700
you

01:13:21.660 --> 01:13:24.700
you

01:13:51.660 --> 01:13:54.700
you

01:14:21.660 --> 01:14:24.700
you

01:14:51.660 --> 01:14:54.700
you

01:15:22.300 --> 01:15:27.500
father could you buy the power of your spirit every morning for the next six

01:15:27.500 --> 01:15:31.540
months of the year begin to remind us that you were born to witness you were

01:15:31.540 --> 01:15:35.020
born to witness with your lives and with your words it's not a thing that

01:15:35.020 --> 01:15:39.540
occupies our mind every morning father could you change us in this father

01:15:39.740 --> 01:15:52.700
change me about so easy to lose that focus as I go now to Toronto there will

01:15:52.700 --> 01:15:59.780
be a desire for people a desire for people you desire people you desire

01:15:59.780 --> 01:16:05.620
people something that shifts in a heart and then shifts according to that

01:16:05.620 --> 01:16:11.620
diagram everything is for one purpose Christ and the church not the church

01:16:11.620 --> 01:16:15.820
acts 29 Christ and the church that will keep growing others that have to be

01:16:15.820 --> 01:16:18.140
added

01:16:24.660 --> 01:16:31.260
so we surrender the pride in what we have become we surrender the pride in

01:16:31.260 --> 01:16:34.100
what we have become

01:16:48.660 --> 01:16:58.300
we lay down exclusivity that we have cultivated we shift our boast once

01:16:58.340 --> 01:17:03.180
against to Christ and his love for the world shift our boats from ourselves

01:17:03.180 --> 01:17:08.460
from acts 29 from some of our fine qualities that you have brought we shift

01:17:08.460 --> 01:17:14.580
our boast from acts 29 to the Christ who laid on his life so that all might be

01:17:14.580 --> 01:17:20.660
saved and none may perish we shift our boast Oh God

01:17:20.660 --> 01:17:33.620
I shift my boast from what we have become to Christ and what he wants to

01:17:33.620 --> 01:17:38.140
do through us and what he has made us

01:17:38.140 --> 01:17:48.380
and we come to this time of harvest and I say father I can work harder I can

01:17:48.380 --> 01:17:59.060
work harder I can work harder across this room we say we can work harder we

01:17:59.060 --> 01:18:06.660
will not let our work our possessions the desire for more and more and more

01:18:06.860 --> 01:18:12.820
possessions the desire for money security stability physical strength

01:18:12.820 --> 01:18:18.980
get in the way of what we need to do no more father these excuses they're not

01:18:18.980 --> 01:18:21.980
valid excuses

01:18:21.980 --> 01:18:40.100
so I repent of laziness laziness as in finding time for myself during the time

01:18:40.100 --> 01:18:42.620
of harvest

01:18:42.620 --> 01:18:57.820
this church has strong laborers I'm a strong laborer but I cannot afford

01:18:57.820 --> 01:19:02.660
anymore to find time for myself during times of harvest there'll be other times

01:19:02.660 --> 01:19:07.100
but not during harvest night and day night and day they work to get it all

01:19:07.100 --> 01:19:15.180
in before the rain and the wind comes and ruins and rots it this is that time

01:19:38.100 --> 01:19:46.420
father I'm gonna hand things over to Derek to conclude because Chad and I have

01:19:46.420 --> 01:19:56.060
to leave but before we leave we just sent to Nino for another harvest in

01:19:56.060 --> 01:20:01.860
India he leaves on the seventh he postponed things by a week we are

01:20:01.860 --> 01:20:09.660
grateful that he did father we are richer because he did so with great joy

01:20:09.660 --> 01:20:14.740
in our hearts glad that he and his wife will be coming back in a month or so we

01:20:14.740 --> 01:20:22.740
send him we say to me we send you we send you as a laborer that is faithful

01:20:22.740 --> 01:20:27.460
we send you as a laborer in the name of Jesus Christ we send you as a laborer

01:20:27.460 --> 01:20:40.180
from this body to India we bless you as you go grant and many immunity that God

01:20:40.180 --> 01:20:46.500
gives and the authority that God gives be yours and annulis as you work there

01:20:46.500 --> 01:20:50.120
because the earth and its fullness thereof belongs to God and the nations

01:20:50.120 --> 01:20:58.800
are his inheritance so we send you well Tony we send you well in Jesus name

01:21:20.120 --> 01:21:35.500
father so we are grateful for it we are grateful for Chad and what he has been

01:21:35.500 --> 01:21:40.780
able to do over the last three days I myself I'm a little surprised that he

01:21:40.780 --> 01:21:48.460
did it himself really I mean that father and what a splendid job of her

01:21:50.380 --> 01:21:58.580
so we as a church are grateful for using him to change the next couple of years

01:21:58.580 --> 01:22:04.620
of her life that's what this man has done so I'm grateful father we are

01:22:04.620 --> 01:22:13.860
grateful as he goes now to Toronto we bless him he has to go to India to

01:22:14.000 --> 01:22:22.480
Boston then to India strengthen his body above blesses so me and Nathan at home

01:22:22.800 --> 01:22:29.040
yeah in Jesus name

01:22:29.040 --> 01:22:50.300
father we want to continue on because there is still more to be more to be

01:22:50.500 --> 01:22:59.780
transacted about there are exchanges that still need to happen so we wherever

01:22:59.780 --> 01:23:12.500
we are under this roof our hearts and our minds right now are on you Jesus we

01:23:12.500 --> 01:23:24.940
look at that cross where you died for us you shed your blood blood for us today

01:23:24.940 --> 01:23:30.860
we can sit here like this because you have transferred us from the kingdom of

01:23:30.860 --> 01:23:37.740
darkness into the kingdom of light you have made us sons and heirs to the

01:23:37.740 --> 01:23:45.100
kingdom so father we find a rightful place in you yesterday we heard that

01:23:45.100 --> 01:23:52.220
Paris or two days ago it was bouncing back then we heard breaking in or

01:23:52.220 --> 01:23:57.980
breaking out we find a rightful place in Yoruba for each person sitting here we

01:23:57.980 --> 01:24:03.700
find a rightful place in you and that rightful place first of all begins with

01:24:03.700 --> 01:24:10.780
us recognizing ourselves as sons and daughters that's the fundamental place

01:24:10.780 --> 01:24:16.540
we find ourselves in a bar so father we look at our hands some of us physically

01:24:16.540 --> 01:24:21.740
we look at our hands and we see the ring that's put on our hands because we are

01:24:21.740 --> 01:24:26.820
sons and daughters on whom you've said you're my son you're my daughter here is

01:24:27.020 --> 01:24:36.820
my ring of acceptance here's my ring of acceptance you are to me like Jesus we

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wear the ring of acceptance on our fingers so father that is the place from

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where we go forward and then now about the second thing you want to do is we

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want to align our expectations with your plans and purposes because our

01:24:53.980 --> 01:25:00.140
expectations of you are so small it's so mid-sized but we do not serve a mid-sized

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God we serve you father and so we right now we align our hearts our plans with

01:25:10.780 --> 01:25:18.260
your plans we lay our ambitions and our agendas down we don't want to carry them

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forward about even as I speak right now if we respond to this I know that what

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we would be laid down at your feet you will take them away and you're going to

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replace those things with your purposes in your plans in our hearts in our minds

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so father I come to you and I say there are nations on my mind that I thought I

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have to go to there are places I thought I have to go to there are things that I

01:25:42.980 --> 01:25:48.060
thought I have to do in my life to be successful or to be defined as yeah he

01:25:48.060 --> 01:25:54.780
did well we we laid those things down we laid those things down we want your

01:25:54.780 --> 01:26:00.900
plans about we want your dreams we want your plans and your dreams so we we lay

01:26:00.900 --> 01:26:07.460
we remove limitations we remove limitations then in our expectations our

01:26:07.460 --> 01:26:14.100
expectations are not mid-sized anymore our expectations are true God-sized about

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so it really means then that because we are sons and daughters we now begin to

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think of our lives very differently than how we have thought about it our

01:26:23.780 --> 01:26:29.940
expectations are not small because we serve you the god of this universe you

01:26:29.940 --> 01:26:36.260
created everything you own the nations you rule over them so how can our plans

01:26:36.260 --> 01:26:42.780
and our our desires and you be so limited it cannot be it cannot be so we

01:26:42.780 --> 01:26:48.220
remove those limitations about from our minds we remove it father one of the

01:26:48.220 --> 01:26:51.780
things you're reminding us is and we've been hearing about it over and over

01:26:51.780 --> 01:26:57.180
again you are a supernatural God and everything supernatural is from your

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spirit and so we recognize that we carry your spirit we carry your spirit it

01:27:04.340 --> 01:27:09.580
doesn't matter when we got saved or born again it doesn't matter where it

01:27:09.580 --> 01:27:14.260
happened it doesn't matter how much we know we have your spirit inside us

01:27:14.260 --> 01:27:19.060
because your spirit helps us when we are weak your spirit gives us strength when

01:27:19.060 --> 01:27:25.420
we are weak when we are poor you aid us you help us so we are carriers of your

01:27:25.420 --> 01:27:29.620
presence we are carriers of your presence we have your Holy Spirit inside

01:27:29.620 --> 01:27:34.020
of us about these are simple truths but sometimes we have so complicated

01:27:34.020 --> 01:27:37.940
everything that we cannot function because there are there is too many

01:27:37.940 --> 01:27:43.060
things on our mind when your gospel is so simple when your good news is so

01:27:43.060 --> 01:27:48.740
easy for anyone to understand and for us to live out so we take complexities away

01:27:48.740 --> 01:27:53.420
we don't want complex things we want your simple truth that sheds light in

01:27:53.420 --> 01:27:59.420
our inward most parts so that we can be torchbearers so that we can be light

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bearers so that where we walk about there is such truth in us that darkness

01:28:03.860 --> 01:28:11.620
cannot stand that is what you're asking of us father so as a church then from

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where we are sitting down as you prompt us we're gonna speak out loud about in

01:28:19.620 --> 01:28:25.740
response to what we what has happened over the last little while so we take a

01:28:25.740 --> 01:28:32.520
few minutes to respond to you all to this end of breaking in breaking into

01:28:32.520 --> 01:28:37.240
your purposes breaking into your desires for us so we respond collectively

01:28:37.240 --> 01:28:49.360
so speak out loud church starting from the first person you've set us free so

01:28:49.360 --> 01:28:52.880
that we can work with you Oh God the things that you're calling us to aren't

01:28:52.880 --> 01:28:57.440
because of our own anything to do with us not our own glory not our own

01:28:58.440 --> 01:29:04.760
abilities God you set us free so that we can freely walk alongside you that we are

01:29:04.760 --> 01:29:11.480
yoked with you in the work that you're doing father it's we want to give

01:29:11.480 --> 01:29:18.120
ourselves to this we want to fully fully fully fully fully give ourselves to this

01:29:18.120 --> 01:29:22.760
to this your work the fact that you're building your church in this world this

01:29:22.760 --> 01:29:26.920
is your world and you are building your kingdom in it God we want to give

01:29:26.920 --> 01:29:31.840
ourselves to this this is the only cause worth giving ourselves to there is no

01:29:31.840 --> 01:29:38.360
other cause that is greater than this there is no other cause not our jobs not

01:29:38.360 --> 01:29:42.400
our houses not where we live not how we spend our time this is the only cause

01:29:42.400 --> 01:29:46.640
that's worthy of our full and undivided self so father we want to give ourselves

01:29:46.640 --> 01:29:51.720
fully to this and we can only do that because you actually made it possible to

01:29:51.720 --> 01:29:56.280
do that so we're saying it with gratitude that we give ourselves fully

01:29:56.280 --> 01:30:01.560
to this and thank you Jesus that you've made that possible for us

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father the very the very breath I breathe is from you so how could I even

01:30:10.920 --> 01:30:16.560
imagine using it for anything else how could I even how could I even fathom

01:30:16.560 --> 01:30:23.400
using this breath for any of my own pursuits Lord father I will go so send

01:30:23.720 --> 01:30:34.160
me father I thank you Lord that you have revealed to this church Lord the

01:30:34.160 --> 01:30:38.560
spirit spiritual pride that has to go father I pray Lord that the leadership

01:30:38.560 --> 01:30:42.920
in this church Lord will be built up by the word of the Lord and be strengthened

01:30:42.920 --> 01:30:46.840
Lord father all the youth and all the young men and women Lord will stand up

01:30:46.840 --> 01:30:51.240
like lamb stands and worship father and they will come to you Lord and stand

01:30:51.240 --> 01:30:56.480
before you Lord and serve you father as a band of shepherds Lord that will not

01:30:56.480 --> 01:31:01.120
be broken a band an army of shepherds that will not be broken father I pray

01:31:01.120 --> 01:31:07.240
Lord that we will all together be united father and and join together in one body

01:31:07.240 --> 01:31:12.040
in one spirit Lord moving forward to the next season that you have called us into

01:31:12.040 --> 01:31:17.960
Lord to no longer stay in the stagnant to no longer stay in stagnancy father

01:31:17.960 --> 01:31:22.880
but to move forward father in authentic worship father and I pray Lord that you

01:31:22.880 --> 01:31:27.680
will fill our hearts God you will fill our hearts Lord with Christ concerned

01:31:27.680 --> 01:31:33.960
Christ burdened father for this church and also for the for for the new people

01:31:33.960 --> 01:31:39.760
that are coming about to come to receive receive you Lord and your fullness

01:31:39.760 --> 01:31:44.040
father I pray Lord that you will ready us God you will prepare us Lord before

01:31:44.040 --> 01:31:47.680
the next generation is about to come Lord that you will birth out of us father

01:31:47.720 --> 01:31:55.160
a new spirit a new heart a new burden for you God that will fully establish

01:31:55.160 --> 01:32:00.200
what you have called us to do Lord and and not just do Lord but to become

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father to become the fullness of Christ Lord and father I pray Lord that all the

01:32:05.560 --> 01:32:12.200
young women here Lord will be united God there will be no no conflicts that will

01:32:13.200 --> 01:32:18.600
Lord of pray Lord against any form of division in in the young men and young

01:32:18.600 --> 01:32:26.880
men and women father because we are we are just starting to grow together as

01:32:26.880 --> 01:32:31.080
one body Lord we are all new here father and I pray Lord that you will allow us

01:32:31.080 --> 01:32:37.680
to soften our hearts Lord to have a soft to have a soft heart Lord fertile soil

01:32:37.680 --> 01:32:42.400
Lord to receive the grace of Christ Lord to be extended to one another Lord to

01:32:42.400 --> 01:32:45.840
love one another God and not to be filled with hate not to be filled with

01:32:45.840 --> 01:32:52.120
bitterness not to be filled with on deception father of each other Lord but

01:32:52.120 --> 01:32:58.560
to be filled with what what you want us to perceive of each other Lord what what

01:32:58.560 --> 01:33:02.920
give us the sight to see how Christ sees each other father so that we may be

01:33:02.920 --> 01:33:06.840
filled with love Lord instead of whatever devil tries to fill us with

01:33:07.000 --> 01:33:14.120
so that we may stand strong as one church God fully united Lord I really

01:33:14.120 --> 01:33:18.960
pray for unity in this church God and I pray against any form of disunity father

01:33:18.960 --> 01:33:25.600
Lord just grant this father I know you will grant this word thank you father

01:33:26.600 --> 01:33:36.920
I will go where you go we as a church will go where you want us to go father

01:33:36.920 --> 01:33:44.400
and yeah father amen

01:33:44.400 --> 01:33:56.400
yeah so that makes it four more no father I just want to thank you that

01:33:56.400 --> 01:33:59.680
you're calling us to do something that you will put in our hearts and you will

01:33:59.680 --> 01:34:04.320
give us the desire for I thank you that that we who are shepherds will be

01:34:04.320 --> 01:34:11.100
shepherding shepherds and that as long as we are yoked to you we will not go

01:34:11.260 --> 01:34:15.940
astray and as long as the ones under us are yoked to you they will not go astray

01:34:15.940 --> 01:34:21.620
there's nothing that you're asking us to do as as mavericks or or as lone wolves

01:34:21.620 --> 01:34:26.100
you're asking us to be tied directly with you and that is our security that

01:34:26.100 --> 01:34:31.300
is our hope and that is our desire so thank you father that this is this is

01:34:31.300 --> 01:34:35.660
this is your heart for us and and thank you Lord Jesus that you have made the

01:34:35.660 --> 01:34:40.180
way and you've modeled it so beautifully we just have to become more like you and

01:34:40.180 --> 01:34:49.980
trust you and yeah I look forward to this about father thank you for the

01:34:49.980 --> 01:34:55.180
deposits already done I'm just like you said Christ was slain at the beginning

01:34:55.180 --> 01:35:01.900
of the world this work has already been completed father thank you that it is it

01:35:01.900 --> 01:35:08.740
is in you and you are in us and I thought father I you are being an artist

01:35:08.780 --> 01:35:15.180
tonight I feel like you you're making a beautiful work of art in us and we are

01:35:15.180 --> 01:35:20.660
your temple and we are beautiful to you and it's a we and I want to thank you

01:35:20.660 --> 01:35:32.260
that every time we say it's yeah I thank you that this is not a you're not

01:35:32.300 --> 01:35:38.860
expecting no mistakes from us you're actually you want us to make mistakes

01:35:38.860 --> 01:35:44.340
because it's the normal way of learning and we want to make mistakes in trust of

01:35:44.340 --> 01:35:54.420
you and your goodness to us and so we love and embrace messiness in each other

01:35:54.460 --> 01:36:07.460
and you and thank you for yeah I just pray pray for that we have a home that

01:36:07.460 --> 01:36:14.780
we have a shepherd that we we have been helped and that we have you as our help

01:36:14.780 --> 01:36:20.260
for everything that we have not yet been helped in and so we are ready we look up

01:36:20.260 --> 01:36:25.620
and look out and you'll keep us all together and you'll do marvelous things

01:36:25.620 --> 01:36:35.340
in us so it's nine we'll wrap up by 915 I want to I want to say a few things one

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of the things that I've learned over the last little while is when Jesus said

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that the harvest is plenty and laborers of few he really meant it it was true

01:36:47.740 --> 01:36:56.140
then it is true now it's even more true now the harvest is plenty guys it's

01:36:56.140 --> 01:37:04.500
plenty laborers of you for the world that's outside there are many many

01:37:04.500 --> 01:37:11.060
waiting for our obedience and they are in looking for perfection but sometimes

01:37:11.060 --> 01:37:16.780
we want perfection in ourselves before we attempt to do anything for God and

01:37:16.820 --> 01:37:23.860
today if you can lay down perfection that'll be a very good start we are not

01:37:23.860 --> 01:37:30.260
trying to be perfect because he is already perfect and in our weakness we

01:37:30.260 --> 01:37:37.500
find his strength and that's very important because otherwise we look at

01:37:37.500 --> 01:37:42.340
ourselves and we try to gauge how much we can do by looking at where we are at

01:37:42.340 --> 01:37:48.940
and what's happened and what we've got and that's never good enough but if we

01:37:48.940 --> 01:37:55.860
can look at his perfection if we can look at him and say I want all of you

01:37:55.860 --> 01:38:01.780
then the equation changes so remember wherever you are the schools you go to

01:38:01.780 --> 01:38:08.340
the universities you go to the workplaces you go to super stores you go

01:38:08.340 --> 01:38:16.100
to walmarts you go to it doesn't matter the harvest is plenty we think it's too

01:38:16.100 --> 01:38:21.020
complex when Jesus said all that all that I want you to do is take this

01:38:21.020 --> 01:38:26.820
gospel and this gospel is the power unto salvation we don't need to add

01:38:26.820 --> 01:38:31.340
anything else to it so one of the things we really need to do is make things

01:38:31.340 --> 01:38:38.380
simple not make things complex make things simple so can we say no to

01:38:38.380 --> 01:38:45.420
perfection because it's that one thing that stops us from going ahead in God

01:38:45.420 --> 01:38:49.900
because we are waiting for the day when we are perfect and it won't happen until

01:38:49.900 --> 01:38:58.620
Christ comes so we can't be waiting for that so then in our weakness we go

01:38:58.620 --> 01:39:05.820
because Jesus said that he will work with us day and night and so if we are

01:39:05.820 --> 01:39:12.060
ready to work he will work with us he's not saying you go and we'll figure out

01:39:12.060 --> 01:39:16.620
what happens later no he says I'll come with you so wherever we go he is with

01:39:16.620 --> 01:39:24.620
us and he will bring to pass everything we speak and I want us to all this over

01:39:24.620 --> 01:39:30.940
the next little while really lay ourselves down so that the Spirit of God

01:39:31.420 --> 01:39:39.220
can rule over us that our flesh and our mind is yielded to him that what we

01:39:39.220 --> 01:39:44.900
thought as familiar will say now we don't want that familiarity we want new

01:39:44.900 --> 01:39:49.700
things in him I like what Chad said a few days ago we've got to expect for

01:39:49.700 --> 01:39:55.940
more man we've gotten very familiar with what we know we've got to break out

01:39:55.940 --> 01:40:02.020
into this new thing we've got to expect healings to happen without anyone saying

01:40:02.020 --> 01:40:06.700
anything or speaking anything and can we do that as we begin to meet on Sundays

01:40:06.700 --> 01:40:11.060
or in house churches as more people gather that those leading and those in

01:40:11.060 --> 01:40:15.860
the sitting down doesn't matter who you are but you begin to expect that because

01:40:15.860 --> 01:40:22.340
the presence of God is there that healings will break out the thing is we

01:40:22.340 --> 01:40:27.740
don't expect that we need to expect that because our expectations have become too

01:40:27.740 --> 01:40:39.260
small so let's expect big not afraid of numbers not aiming for perfection then

01:40:39.260 --> 01:40:43.020
the last thing I want to say before Jane comes up to sing and lead us in his song

01:40:43.020 --> 01:40:49.580
is the seed which is in the sack will not bear anything you've got to take your

01:40:49.580 --> 01:40:55.660
hands take the seed from the sack and so it the seed as long as it's in the sack

01:40:55.660 --> 01:41:03.580
it's useless our lives as long as we are in this building is pretty useless you

01:41:03.580 --> 01:41:10.740
know what I mean we've got to go and not all of us need to do the same things and

01:41:10.900 --> 01:41:15.180
one of the things that we said maybe three four weeks ago is that from this

01:41:15.180 --> 01:41:19.460
church there was a prophetic word spoken over us long before we most of us came

01:41:19.460 --> 01:41:25.740
here that from this group will go out a company of people companies of people so

01:41:25.740 --> 01:41:30.420
that's not one or two people going that's a group of people going who will

01:41:30.420 --> 01:41:36.020
love each other and who are united in purpose and they go out they have one

01:41:36.020 --> 01:41:43.140
mission the mission of Jesus and when it's when we read in Hebrews chapter 11

01:41:43.140 --> 01:41:52.180
that they're routed foreign armies with God we can route foreign armies everything

01:41:52.180 --> 01:41:56.740
that is said in Hebrews chapter 11 was done by people who are normal like you

01:41:56.740 --> 01:42:03.500
and I so we don't look for perfection anymore and we look to everything that

01:42:04.460 --> 01:42:10.940
so as you sing the song I pray that you will talk to him that you will commune

01:42:10.940 --> 01:42:15.900
with his spirit and you will lay things down and you'll pick things up that he

01:42:15.900 --> 01:42:20.540
is giving you it's so important we're gonna sing the song these are the days

01:42:20.540 --> 01:42:26.180
of Elijah because yes these are indeed the days of Elijah these are indeed the

01:42:26.180 --> 01:42:30.820
times when you look at the the valley that's filled with dry bones and it will

01:42:31.020 --> 01:42:36.580
come alive so prophesy church prophesy prophesy to things that you're looking

01:42:36.580 --> 01:42:41.860
at prophesy to the schools that you go to prophesy to your workplace to your

01:42:41.860 --> 01:42:46.260
colleagues prophesy because that will change things so when we sing this

01:42:46.260 --> 01:42:51.300
please sing this not in the way you've sang the song before but right now when

01:42:51.300 --> 01:42:55.580
you sing it lay everything down and say I want to receive everything you have

01:42:55.700 --> 01:43:01.300
for me and I want to walk this walk with you because all of your fullness is in me

01:43:01.300 --> 01:43:09.260
and so I am able I am equipped I'm not perfect but I am equipped so let's sing

01:43:09.260 --> 01:43:13.420
sing this and we'll close after that