WEBVTT NOTE Podcast: Acts 29 Vancouver Episode: Power Surge Part 2 Publishing Date: 2024-04-14T06:00:44-07:00 Podcast URL: https://acts29.ca Episode URL: https://acts29.ca/power-surge-part-2/ 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:15.280 Continue with the topic we were talking about last week where we said that the power of 00:00:15.280 --> 00:00:18.360 God is present so why isn't it surging? 00:00:18.360 --> 00:00:22.840 If the power of God is present then it is present because the Holy Spirit lives in us 00:00:22.840 --> 00:00:29.600 and Acts 1-8 said when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, you will have the power you require. 00:00:29.600 --> 00:00:34.200 So the power is present, why is it not surging? 00:00:34.200 --> 00:00:41.960 So that's what we started on last week and let's look at some other ways whereby we can 00:00:41.960 --> 00:00:46.880 have the power of God that's present in us surge. 00:00:46.880 --> 00:01:06.280 So if you go to Exodus 33-20, Exodus 33-20, Exodus 33-20, I thought it was 20, Exodus 00:01:06.280 --> 00:01:23.680 33-13, nope, ah, 17, Exodus 33-17, Exodus 33-17, yeah, so here's what it says, it says 00:01:23.680 --> 00:01:29.280 and the Lord said to Moses, I will do the very thing you have asked. 00:01:29.280 --> 00:01:37.320 So sometimes when we think that we've asked God for something, we don't see it happen, 00:01:37.320 --> 00:01:42.120 you suddenly feel powerless because you talk about how God is a God of power, you talk 00:01:42.120 --> 00:01:47.000 about how Jesus can do this and that and yet when it comes to you actually stepping forward 00:01:47.000 --> 00:01:52.000 and doing something, the power seems to be absent, nothing seems to happen. 00:01:52.000 --> 00:01:56.400 What you said Jesus can do doesn't seem to materialize and then you have to come up with 00:01:57.400 --> 00:02:02.800 why and sometimes the reasons are terrible, sometimes the reasons are honest but in Exodus 00:02:02.800 --> 00:02:13.920 33-17, God says to Moses, I will do the very thing, I will do the very thing you have asked 00:02:13.920 --> 00:02:24.040 for, you have asked for and why is it that he'll do the very thing that Moses has asked 00:02:24.040 --> 00:02:25.040 for? 00:02:25.680 --> 00:02:35.360 So there are three reasons, one, I am pleased with you, I am pleased with you, another version 00:02:35.360 --> 00:02:53.560 says I know you well, second one is I know you by name, I know you by name or in other 00:02:54.080 --> 00:03:03.280 words, you are special to me. 00:03:03.280 --> 00:03:11.840 And so it seems like the very thing that Moses asked God did but he gives a reason as to 00:03:11.840 --> 00:03:20.400 why he did what Moses asked and his reason is Moses, you are special to me, I know you 00:03:20.400 --> 00:03:27.320 by name, I am pleased with you, I know you well, I know you well, you are special to 00:03:27.320 --> 00:03:33.000 me, I know you by name, that seems to be the reason that God gives but see in the Old Testament 00:03:33.000 --> 00:03:41.560 perhaps that was true but isn't this true for us, isn't this true for us, isn't all 00:03:41.720 --> 00:03:47.960 this true for us in Christ? 00:03:47.960 --> 00:03:52.560 That I am pleased with you Jacob, I know you well, I know you by name, you are special 00:03:52.560 --> 00:03:53.800 to me, isn't that true? 00:03:53.800 --> 00:03:58.920 If that is the case then why is it that I am still not able to see what Moses saw when 00:03:58.920 --> 00:04:03.360 every time he would ask God for something, it would happen, power seemed to flow without 00:04:03.360 --> 00:04:06.640 a problem. 00:04:06.640 --> 00:04:10.120 I think this part, I am pleased with you, I know you well, I know you by name, you are 00:04:10.680 --> 00:04:13.880 special to me, is actually the case for each of us. 00:04:13.880 --> 00:04:16.760 I don't know if you actually believe that but it is true. 00:04:16.760 --> 00:04:20.840 Betty, it's so hard to believe this eh? 00:04:20.840 --> 00:04:27.600 I find it difficult where you actually believe that I am pleased with you, I know you well, 00:04:27.600 --> 00:04:31.480 I know you by name, you are special to me and so perhaps one of the first things that 00:04:31.840 --> 00:04:38.840 to happen is for me to realize those four statements with a, childlike simplicity, 00:04:52.720 --> 00:04:59.720 b without analysis or power, power is not enough, power is not enough, power is not 00:05:01.640 --> 00:05:02.160 enough. 00:05:02.160 --> 00:05:09.160 C, a surrender of self preservation and control. 00:05:19.200 --> 00:05:25.640 These two things, self preservation and control are love resistors eh, they are love resistors 00:05:25.640 --> 00:05:28.880 And they resist love regardless of whether it's your spouse, 00:05:29.880 --> 00:05:32.920 whether it's God, or whether it's the church. 00:05:34.080 --> 00:05:37.320 Whenever there's a reluctance to surrender, 00:05:37.320 --> 00:05:40.000 self-preservation, independence, and control, 00:05:40.000 --> 00:05:41.580 love is always resisted. 00:05:41.580 --> 00:05:43.960 It doesn't matter how much someone loves you. 00:05:43.960 --> 00:05:48.500 If I am self-preserving, if I like independence, 00:05:48.500 --> 00:05:50.520 and if I like being in control, 00:05:50.520 --> 00:05:53.240 it doesn't matter how much someone loves me, 00:05:53.240 --> 00:05:55.540 I will not be able to receive that love. 00:05:55.580 --> 00:05:56.380 Not possible. 00:05:57.260 --> 00:05:58.340 Just impossible too. 00:06:00.140 --> 00:06:02.580 And we're talking about God being resisted 00:06:02.580 --> 00:06:06.820 when I am self-preserving, when I wanna be independent, 00:06:06.820 --> 00:06:10.100 because sometimes God's love can be so overwhelming, 00:06:10.100 --> 00:06:11.660 you wanna keep Him at a distance 00:06:11.660 --> 00:06:13.760 because you want to have your own way too. 00:06:16.300 --> 00:06:17.500 And so you distance Himself. 00:06:17.500 --> 00:06:21.500 I remember when I was young and I wanted to sin, 00:06:21.500 --> 00:06:23.420 I would take the Bible and put it in another room 00:06:23.420 --> 00:06:25.020 so that I wouldn't feel guilty. 00:06:26.380 --> 00:06:27.620 Crazy, eh? 00:06:27.620 --> 00:06:29.420 Just wanted to keep the Bible out of sight. 00:06:29.420 --> 00:06:30.580 Because every time I'd look at the Bible, 00:06:30.580 --> 00:06:33.220 I'd think about, oops, this will be a problem with sinning. 00:06:33.220 --> 00:06:34.160 Let's put it away. 00:06:36.260 --> 00:06:40.900 So it's amazing how much these three play into 00:06:42.260 --> 00:06:43.260 childlike simplicity. 00:06:43.260 --> 00:06:44.560 That's another thing, eh? 00:06:44.560 --> 00:06:46.700 Without having childlike simplicity, 00:06:46.700 --> 00:06:50.660 it's almost impossible for us to receive love. 00:06:50.660 --> 00:06:54.180 And so these four things are actually true. 00:06:54.220 --> 00:06:55.920 I know it's hard for us to believe it. 00:06:55.920 --> 00:06:58.300 I know we've been over it over and over again. 00:06:58.300 --> 00:07:00.140 I am pleased with you. 00:07:00.140 --> 00:07:01.540 I know you by name. 00:07:01.540 --> 00:07:03.720 You are special to me. 00:07:03.720 --> 00:07:07.760 And I know you well. 00:07:07.760 --> 00:07:11.500 Our statements that are usually like sawdust in our mouth, 00:07:11.500 --> 00:07:14.220 we can say to others, but it doesn't mean much to us. 00:07:15.420 --> 00:07:18.900 Can I hear an amen or is this only my struggle? 00:07:20.700 --> 00:07:23.020 Yeah, and if you didn't say amen, great. 00:07:23.020 --> 00:07:24.780 I'm glad that you are where you are. 00:07:24.780 --> 00:07:26.900 And bless you, may you increase. 00:07:26.900 --> 00:07:31.900 But this is something that I do not embed myself in 00:07:32.180 --> 00:07:34.380 on a daily 24 seven basis. 00:07:37.780 --> 00:07:40.380 One of the reasons power does not surge 00:07:40.380 --> 00:07:42.280 is because I do not occupy the space. 00:07:43.300 --> 00:07:44.580 And we'll talk about why. 00:07:44.580 --> 00:07:45.440 Any questions on this? 00:07:45.440 --> 00:07:46.280 Any comments? 00:07:46.280 --> 00:07:48.140 Anything you wanna share from your side? 00:07:48.140 --> 00:07:48.980 No? 00:07:52.180 --> 00:07:53.660 No? 00:07:53.660 --> 00:07:54.660 Is this true for you? 00:07:58.120 --> 00:07:58.960 It is? 00:08:01.740 --> 00:08:02.580 Don't speak so loudly. 00:08:02.580 --> 00:08:04.580 I can't hear all of you at one time, yeah? 00:08:11.060 --> 00:08:13.340 It is important for me to live here 00:08:13.340 --> 00:08:16.980 so that he can do everything that I have asked for. 00:08:16.980 --> 00:08:20.220 Because without living here, without living there, 00:08:20.220 --> 00:08:25.220 I can't ask for things confidently. 00:08:29.040 --> 00:08:34.040 I can't ask for things that are his desire. 00:08:39.020 --> 00:08:44.020 And I can't ask for things that will take time. 00:08:47.020 --> 00:08:50.180 Whenever things take time, whenever answers take time, 00:08:50.180 --> 00:08:51.580 we think God doesn't love us. 00:08:52.740 --> 00:08:54.140 So let me go over that again. 00:08:55.940 --> 00:08:57.500 I'm pleased with you, Jacob. 00:08:57.500 --> 00:08:58.460 I know you well. 00:08:58.460 --> 00:08:59.280 I know you by name. 00:08:59.280 --> 00:09:00.940 You are special to me. 00:09:00.940 --> 00:09:03.300 There are occasions when I believe that, 00:09:03.300 --> 00:09:05.940 but very often that is not the place 00:09:05.940 --> 00:09:08.380 that I'm embedded in 24 seven. 00:09:08.380 --> 00:09:13.020 Because I'm not, I then begin to struggle with the fact 00:09:13.020 --> 00:09:15.140 that things don't happen to my life. 00:09:15.140 --> 00:09:17.420 One, because I can't ask for things confidently 00:09:17.420 --> 00:09:20.600 because I'm not sure that he loves me enough to deliver. 00:09:20.600 --> 00:09:22.780 I can't ask for things confidently 00:09:22.780 --> 00:09:26.660 because I'm not sure that his desire and my desire match. 00:09:26.660 --> 00:09:28.580 I can't ask for things confidently 00:09:28.580 --> 00:09:29.740 because when it takes time, 00:09:29.740 --> 00:09:33.140 I begin to doubt whether he has my intent 00:09:33.140 --> 00:09:34.620 and desires at heart. 00:09:34.620 --> 00:09:35.920 And so I struggle with it. 00:09:41.340 --> 00:09:42.400 It affects my faith. 00:09:42.400 --> 00:09:43.460 It affects endurance. 00:09:43.460 --> 00:09:44.780 It affects love. 00:09:45.420 --> 00:09:46.460 It affects everything. 00:09:46.460 --> 00:09:47.500 How do I change this? 00:09:47.500 --> 00:09:49.820 I change this to childlike simplicity. 00:09:50.740 --> 00:09:54.740 I stop trying to analyze and I do not need proof. 00:09:54.740 --> 00:09:56.940 And I need to surrender self preservation, 00:09:56.940 --> 00:09:58.340 control and independence. 00:09:59.420 --> 00:10:02.620 Even with your spouse, if there is self preservation, 00:10:02.620 --> 00:10:04.260 if there is independence, there is control, 00:10:04.260 --> 00:10:06.140 it doesn't matter how loving your spouse is, 00:10:06.140 --> 00:10:08.500 you will not be able to receive his or her love. 00:10:10.300 --> 00:10:11.160 Any questions? 00:10:15.620 --> 00:10:18.100 Self preservation is basically me not allowing you 00:10:18.100 --> 00:10:20.660 into some areas, because if I do, 00:10:20.660 --> 00:10:25.660 either I will be exposed or you may see something 00:10:26.060 --> 00:10:30.300 I'm ashamed of or I don't want you to get in there 00:10:30.300 --> 00:10:32.500 because there'll be nothing left. 00:10:32.500 --> 00:10:33.860 I'll be naked before you. 00:10:33.860 --> 00:10:35.180 And so I protect myself. 00:10:38.060 --> 00:10:39.860 Any questions, any comments? 00:10:39.860 --> 00:10:41.180 Okay, go ahead. 00:10:41.340 --> 00:10:42.420 Okay, go ahead. 00:10:46.900 --> 00:10:47.940 The C part. 00:10:49.780 --> 00:10:51.660 Yeah, a surrender of self preservation, 00:10:51.660 --> 00:10:53.020 independence and control. 00:10:53.020 --> 00:10:54.900 One of the things with children, 00:10:54.900 --> 00:10:57.300 and this is why the first part is so important, 00:10:57.300 --> 00:10:59.980 to have childlike simplicity. 00:10:59.980 --> 00:11:03.260 The reason children are able to receive love so easily 00:11:03.260 --> 00:11:04.580 is because they preserve nothing. 00:11:04.580 --> 00:11:07.420 They're completely helpless. 00:11:07.420 --> 00:11:09.180 Self preservation is helplessness. 00:11:10.060 --> 00:11:13.860 A lack of self, meaning when you negate self preservation, 00:11:13.860 --> 00:11:15.820 you're actually saying you're helpless. 00:11:17.220 --> 00:11:18.700 Children don't control anything. 00:11:18.700 --> 00:11:21.360 They do not even have the capacity to control something, 00:11:21.360 --> 00:11:22.700 so they're at an advantage. 00:11:22.700 --> 00:11:24.820 We as grownups think we control something. 00:11:24.820 --> 00:11:25.760 It's an illusion. 00:11:27.180 --> 00:11:28.420 You control nothing. 00:11:28.420 --> 00:11:29.980 You control nothing. 00:11:29.980 --> 00:11:31.660 There is nothing you control. 00:11:31.660 --> 00:11:33.220 Tell me one thing you control. 00:11:34.300 --> 00:11:36.840 Tell me one thing in your life you control. 00:11:36.840 --> 00:11:40.240 One thing, your breath, you don't control that. 00:11:41.960 --> 00:11:43.360 You don't control anything. 00:11:43.360 --> 00:11:45.460 You don't control which way you will be going home today. 00:11:45.460 --> 00:11:47.460 You don't control what time you will reach. 00:11:47.460 --> 00:11:50.080 You don't control when I will finish this sermon. 00:11:51.240 --> 00:11:56.240 You don't control squat. 00:11:59.920 --> 00:12:02.480 It's a complete illusion, but kids don't know that. 00:12:02.480 --> 00:12:04.120 We think we know it. 00:12:04.160 --> 00:12:07.160 And thirdly, independence, 00:12:07.160 --> 00:12:09.840 where there's nothing that kids want to do on their own. 00:12:09.840 --> 00:12:11.520 If anything, you hate the fact 00:12:11.520 --> 00:12:13.120 that they're so dependent on you. 00:12:15.160 --> 00:12:17.920 Most parents will deny it, but the truth is they hate it. 00:12:18.920 --> 00:12:19.960 Do something yourself. 00:12:19.960 --> 00:12:21.960 Go change your pampers by yourself. 00:12:21.960 --> 00:12:22.800 They won't. 00:12:24.560 --> 00:12:27.440 So at the end of the day, 00:12:27.440 --> 00:12:30.800 it is impossible to receive the fullness of the love of God 00:12:30.800 --> 00:12:32.840 without these three things being active. 00:12:34.160 --> 00:12:35.200 And once you do, 00:12:35.200 --> 00:12:37.720 or even if occasionally you get into the space, 00:12:38.840 --> 00:12:40.920 it is splendid what can happen. 00:12:40.920 --> 00:12:42.520 Splendid. 00:12:42.520 --> 00:12:43.920 And we'll talk about that. 00:12:45.960 --> 00:12:48.720 Guys, everybody here is capable of moving here, right? 00:12:48.720 --> 00:12:49.540 Moving this way. 00:12:49.540 --> 00:12:50.560 Everybody. 00:12:50.560 --> 00:12:52.080 Nothing here is hard. 00:12:53.040 --> 00:12:56.980 It's hard to practice it so that it becomes constant, 00:12:56.980 --> 00:12:58.280 but nothing here is hard. 00:12:59.680 --> 00:13:03.040 Finn, Mark's son, was saying that since January, 00:13:03.040 --> 00:13:05.560 he's been reading the Bible constantly. 00:13:05.560 --> 00:13:06.400 And he says, Jacob, 00:13:06.400 --> 00:13:07.920 it is the hardest thing to do, 00:13:07.920 --> 00:13:09.260 to read things consistently. 00:13:09.260 --> 00:13:11.080 And he said, from January till today, 00:13:11.080 --> 00:13:12.880 I've been reading two chapters every day, 00:13:12.880 --> 00:13:15.480 and it's fascinating how much I've finished. 00:13:15.480 --> 00:13:16.880 He's only doing two chapters. 00:13:19.000 --> 00:13:21.400 But you and I know how hard that is. 00:13:21.400 --> 00:13:22.840 This is not hard to get to. 00:13:22.840 --> 00:13:24.120 It's just hard to stay. 00:13:27.480 --> 00:13:32.480 So here are some statements that perhaps will help. 00:13:33.720 --> 00:13:35.360 If Jesus was speaking to you, 00:13:36.440 --> 00:13:39.340 he would say, as he said in John 13, 00:13:41.040 --> 00:13:46.040 I love you the way my father loves me. 00:13:56.440 --> 00:13:58.400 That would be the statement he would make 00:13:58.400 --> 00:14:00.400 to anybody and everybody in this room. 00:14:00.480 --> 00:14:03.360 I love you, Jesus would say, 00:14:03.360 --> 00:14:06.640 just the way the father loves me. 00:14:06.640 --> 00:14:08.640 It's the same way that I love you. 00:14:08.640 --> 00:14:12.040 And so, make yourself 00:14:16.240 --> 00:14:17.560 intimately at home 00:14:23.400 --> 00:14:24.240 in my love. 00:14:27.540 --> 00:14:29.960 Important words, home intimately. 00:14:30.920 --> 00:14:31.760 Love. 00:14:32.880 --> 00:14:35.680 Let's just wait there and then go on to the next statement. 00:14:37.960 --> 00:14:39.840 I love you the way my father loves you. 00:14:39.840 --> 00:14:41.320 The same way the father loves him, 00:14:41.320 --> 00:14:42.880 and the father loves him perfectly. 00:14:42.880 --> 00:14:44.280 The father loves him always. 00:14:44.280 --> 00:14:47.480 The father has loved him since time didn't exist. 00:14:47.480 --> 00:14:49.760 There's only been love for Jesus. 00:14:49.760 --> 00:14:51.720 There are three things that Jesus thrives in. 00:14:51.720 --> 00:14:54.280 Affection, intimacy, and 00:14:56.560 --> 00:14:57.960 affection, intimacy, and love. 00:14:58.440 --> 00:15:01.240 There's affection between the father and the son. 00:15:01.240 --> 00:15:03.440 There's intimacy between the father and the son. 00:15:03.440 --> 00:15:05.480 And they love each other. 00:15:05.480 --> 00:15:07.360 And he's saying, listen, I love you the same way 00:15:07.360 --> 00:15:10.280 my father has loved me from everlasting to everlasting. 00:15:10.280 --> 00:15:12.480 You don't get anything less than that, Jacob. 00:15:12.480 --> 00:15:14.280 You get the same quality of love 00:15:14.280 --> 00:15:16.720 that I have constantly received from my father. 00:15:16.720 --> 00:15:19.360 It's hard to comprehend, which is why he says, 00:15:19.360 --> 00:15:21.920 make yourself intimately at home in my love. 00:15:21.920 --> 00:15:24.120 The word intimately is important 00:15:24.120 --> 00:15:27.720 because his love carries in it emotions, 00:15:28.400 --> 00:15:31.720 affection, it carries in it thinking and feeling. 00:15:31.720 --> 00:15:34.920 To be able to pursue God is impossible 00:15:34.920 --> 00:15:37.560 if the word intimate is not in there. 00:15:37.560 --> 00:15:38.960 It's not possible. 00:15:38.960 --> 00:15:41.320 So the question you need to ask yourself is, 00:15:41.320 --> 00:15:45.520 one, am I in that kind of a relationship 00:15:45.520 --> 00:15:49.000 where I have an intimate relationship with the father 00:15:49.000 --> 00:15:50.800 or the son or the Holy Spirit? 00:15:50.800 --> 00:15:53.080 Where there are tears, where there's laughing, 00:15:53.080 --> 00:15:56.000 where there's grief, where there's hurt, 00:15:56.000 --> 00:15:58.080 where there's feeling let down. 00:15:58.080 --> 00:16:00.720 Are these feelings part of your intimate relationship? 00:16:00.720 --> 00:16:03.640 He doesn't let you down, but you can feel let down. 00:16:03.640 --> 00:16:05.600 Is intimacy part of the relationship? 00:16:06.800 --> 00:16:08.960 And if it is not a part of the relationship, 00:16:08.960 --> 00:16:11.400 then I want us to know that as humans, 00:16:11.400 --> 00:16:12.920 we are absolutely capable of it 00:16:12.920 --> 00:16:14.480 because that's how God made us. 00:16:15.840 --> 00:16:18.000 To say that, no, that's not how I am, 00:16:18.000 --> 00:16:20.760 that I do not express myself is an absolute lie. 00:16:23.560 --> 00:16:25.960 Let me tell you how horrible a lie it is. 00:16:26.920 --> 00:16:28.320 It is a lie from the pit of hell. 00:16:28.320 --> 00:16:29.320 Why? 00:16:29.320 --> 00:16:31.640 Because God made humans that way. 00:16:32.840 --> 00:16:34.200 He made us that way. 00:16:34.200 --> 00:16:36.640 Adam had an intimate relationship with God 00:16:36.640 --> 00:16:39.840 when he would come down to the garden and walk together. 00:16:39.840 --> 00:16:41.640 He had an intimate relationship. 00:16:41.640 --> 00:16:43.040 Humans are made that way. 00:16:45.760 --> 00:16:47.680 It's just natural for us. 00:16:47.680 --> 00:16:50.240 And as believers, it's even more natural. 00:16:50.240 --> 00:16:52.240 It's just that we haven't tried it. 00:16:52.240 --> 00:16:54.080 And if we tried it, it happens occasionally 00:16:54.080 --> 00:16:55.280 and we don't try it again. 00:16:56.280 --> 00:17:00.920 Intimate at home in my love. 00:17:00.920 --> 00:17:03.680 I love the way it says it, at home. 00:17:03.680 --> 00:17:05.680 It's a place where you dwell. 00:17:05.680 --> 00:17:07.000 It's a place where you dwell. 00:17:07.000 --> 00:17:09.440 It's a place where your clothes are all over the place 00:17:09.440 --> 00:17:10.280 if that's how you live. 00:17:10.280 --> 00:17:12.680 Our clothes are all stacked properly if you're Sheldon. 00:17:12.680 --> 00:17:13.920 But the point is this. 00:17:15.760 --> 00:17:17.880 The first time I met Sheldon, 00:17:17.880 --> 00:17:19.920 and I had a prophetic word for him, 00:17:19.920 --> 00:17:22.200 and here was part of the prophetic word for Sheldon. 00:17:22.200 --> 00:17:24.320 Sheldon, if I came and opened your drawer, 00:17:24.360 --> 00:17:26.200 all your vests and socks and everything 00:17:26.200 --> 00:17:27.720 would be neatly arranged. 00:17:27.720 --> 00:17:28.720 And he's looking at me like, 00:17:28.720 --> 00:17:30.560 when did you look into my drawer? 00:17:30.560 --> 00:17:31.760 But that's how he is. 00:17:31.760 --> 00:17:34.000 I hope you're still like that. 00:17:34.000 --> 00:17:34.840 Good. 00:17:35.600 --> 00:17:39.840 So, moving on from Sheldon's wardrobe, 00:17:39.840 --> 00:17:43.520 making yourself intimately at home in my love. 00:17:43.520 --> 00:17:44.640 To be at home. 00:17:44.640 --> 00:17:47.440 Home is a place where you dwell the most. 00:17:49.240 --> 00:17:52.080 And so can you do the same while you're here in church, 00:17:52.080 --> 00:17:53.160 while you're at work, 00:17:53.160 --> 00:17:54.880 where this becomes a nest for you. 00:17:56.000 --> 00:17:57.680 These things are not abstracts. 00:17:57.680 --> 00:17:59.200 These things are not pictures. 00:17:59.200 --> 00:18:00.320 These things are real. 00:18:00.320 --> 00:18:01.600 They can be practiced. 00:18:03.240 --> 00:18:05.000 You do that when you fall in love. 00:18:05.000 --> 00:18:06.800 It doesn't matter whether you're at work, 00:18:06.800 --> 00:18:08.920 you'll be thinking of her. 00:18:08.920 --> 00:18:10.080 When you're cooking, 00:18:10.080 --> 00:18:11.640 or you're putting a few spices, 00:18:11.640 --> 00:18:13.880 I just thought of you and I thought you were spicy, 00:18:13.880 --> 00:18:15.360 so I put some extra spices. 00:18:16.720 --> 00:18:18.160 That's a terrible line. 00:18:18.160 --> 00:18:19.400 But the point is this. 00:18:21.320 --> 00:18:22.840 Yeah, that line didn't work at all. 00:18:23.400 --> 00:18:24.240 Guys, don't use that line. 00:18:24.240 --> 00:18:26.040 It's disastrous, eh? 00:18:26.040 --> 00:18:27.800 Especially the last row there. 00:18:28.680 --> 00:18:30.440 And the sound guys, except Matt. 00:18:34.440 --> 00:18:35.840 At the end of the day, 00:18:35.840 --> 00:18:40.840 we are able to be at home anywhere when we are in love. 00:18:41.880 --> 00:18:45.200 We are able to be at home anywhere when we are in love. 00:18:46.800 --> 00:18:48.720 And the attempt today is, 00:18:48.720 --> 00:18:53.240 I can got tetas to do this on a regular basis, 00:18:54.400 --> 00:18:56.240 starting perhaps today. 00:18:59.280 --> 00:19:00.960 Let's look at another statement. 00:19:03.440 --> 00:19:04.800 The hardest thing for you, 00:19:06.320 --> 00:19:08.720 make this your core identity. 00:19:08.720 --> 00:19:13.720 Make this your core identity. 00:19:14.560 --> 00:19:16.360 Because I do love you as my own. 00:19:16.360 --> 00:19:21.360 Because I do love you as my own. 00:19:24.080 --> 00:19:26.040 And John realized this. 00:19:27.560 --> 00:19:29.160 And John realized this. 00:19:30.680 --> 00:19:33.520 Where do we know and see him doing this? 00:19:33.520 --> 00:19:36.800 In John 13, verse 23, it says, 00:19:36.800 --> 00:19:40.040 at some point, John just was sitting next to Jesus, 00:19:40.040 --> 00:19:41.360 and he asked him, 00:19:41.400 --> 00:19:43.320 John just was sitting next to Jesus, 00:19:43.320 --> 00:19:45.640 and he actually just leans back 00:19:45.640 --> 00:19:48.680 and rests his head on Jesus' chest. 00:19:48.680 --> 00:19:51.600 I don't know what the other disciples thought, eh? 00:19:51.600 --> 00:19:53.920 Which also shows us that not all the disciples 00:19:53.920 --> 00:19:56.040 could enter into that kind of a relationship. 00:19:56.040 --> 00:19:58.040 Not because Jesus was withholding it, 00:19:58.040 --> 00:20:01.880 but because one had the ability to and took advantage of it. 00:20:01.880 --> 00:20:04.560 Anyone here who takes advantage of this 00:20:04.560 --> 00:20:07.080 and moves into this will run ahead of all of us. 00:20:07.360 --> 00:20:10.160 Anyone here, it doesn't matter how old you are, 00:20:10.160 --> 00:20:12.200 how young you are, how much you know the Bible, 00:20:12.200 --> 00:20:13.760 how much you don't know the Bible. 00:20:13.760 --> 00:20:15.960 At the end of the day, anyone who enters here 00:20:15.960 --> 00:20:17.320 will run ahead of us. 00:20:18.720 --> 00:20:22.440 Just like John ran ahead, even at the tomb, 00:20:22.440 --> 00:20:23.800 he runs ahead. 00:20:23.800 --> 00:20:26.440 He doesn't enter because he defers to Peter, 00:20:26.440 --> 00:20:29.640 because he knows that Jesus had Peter in mind, 00:20:29.640 --> 00:20:30.760 and he defers to Peter, 00:20:30.760 --> 00:20:33.160 but you will run ahead if you go there. 00:20:33.200 --> 00:20:34.320 You had 12 of them, 00:20:34.320 --> 00:20:36.800 and one of them has the ability to lean back. 00:20:38.240 --> 00:20:41.400 Treat him like he was his bosom buddy, 00:20:44.320 --> 00:20:47.320 which is why then you see him writing the way he does 00:20:47.320 --> 00:20:49.480 in 1 John, 2 John, and 3 John. 00:20:55.600 --> 00:20:58.240 The sad thing is we don't even long for it. 00:20:58.240 --> 00:20:59.680 We don't even know what it is. 00:20:59.680 --> 00:21:01.080 We don't even know what it is. 00:21:01.200 --> 00:21:03.480 The sad thing is we don't even long for it 00:21:03.480 --> 00:21:05.680 because we have never seen it nor tasted it. 00:21:07.560 --> 00:21:09.680 And we don't taste it with our own spouses 00:21:09.680 --> 00:21:10.880 and our own families. 00:21:10.880 --> 00:21:13.040 So how can we even see a real model? 00:21:14.040 --> 00:21:16.560 Well then, you get up and show us. 00:21:16.560 --> 00:21:19.240 Stop using the excuse, and I'm not saying you do, 00:21:19.240 --> 00:21:20.760 but if for a moment you're thinking, 00:21:20.760 --> 00:21:22.280 but I didn't receive love, 00:21:22.280 --> 00:21:26.040 or I have been loveless all my life, 00:21:26.040 --> 00:21:27.840 well then get up, Christ is enough, 00:21:28.680 --> 00:21:31.320 and show us, break the cycle, 00:21:31.320 --> 00:21:32.720 break the blooming cycle, 00:21:34.480 --> 00:21:36.800 and show us what it is to live like this. 00:21:44.800 --> 00:21:45.640 Yep. 00:21:48.480 --> 00:21:49.880 Off living like this, yeah. 00:21:49.880 --> 00:21:54.880 So let me skip about 14 lines to answer Dilna's question. 00:21:55.200 --> 00:21:59.640 Okay, so there are three ways we can try and do this. 00:21:59.640 --> 00:22:04.360 The first way is to have an open-handed 00:22:04.360 --> 00:22:08.680 or open-hearted ability to receive 00:22:10.000 --> 00:22:12.840 the overwhelming love of the Father. 00:22:12.840 --> 00:22:14.000 What does that look like? 00:22:14.000 --> 00:22:16.640 Because that's a great line, but what does it look like? 00:22:16.640 --> 00:22:19.680 To begin with, have hands like this, 00:22:19.680 --> 00:22:24.040 or have some kind of a sign where you're walking to work 00:22:24.040 --> 00:22:28.200 and counting bottles and suddenly, sorry. 00:22:29.280 --> 00:22:30.760 Sorry, the light just came in. 00:22:33.880 --> 00:22:36.720 So, see this is the problem if you ask questions. 00:22:38.440 --> 00:22:43.440 So you have this open-handed sense where, 00:22:44.120 --> 00:22:45.600 it doesn't matter whether you're walking down the street 00:22:45.600 --> 00:22:48.120 at work, you suddenly remember that you have 00:22:48.120 --> 00:22:51.960 an open-hearted, open-handed ability to receive God's love. 00:22:51.960 --> 00:22:53.120 What does that look like? 00:22:53.160 --> 00:22:57.440 That looks like sometimes him noticing 00:22:57.440 --> 00:22:59.480 how you're struggling and you've climbed up 00:22:59.480 --> 00:23:02.360 your own sycamore tree and he looks at you and says, 00:23:02.360 --> 00:23:04.920 come down, I know you're feeling lousy. 00:23:04.920 --> 00:23:06.400 I know you are ostracized. 00:23:06.400 --> 00:23:08.560 I know you're not doing well with me, 00:23:08.560 --> 00:23:11.160 but I wanna come to your house for tea. 00:23:11.160 --> 00:23:16.160 Or it looks like him looking at someone 00:23:16.880 --> 00:23:21.240 who's just engaged in lust or porn or something 00:23:21.240 --> 00:23:23.360 and he looks at you and he says, listen, 00:23:23.360 --> 00:23:25.680 look into my eyes and know that you're forgiven 00:23:25.680 --> 00:23:27.600 and don't sin anymore. 00:23:27.600 --> 00:23:32.600 Or it looks like walking with you suddenly 00:23:33.200 --> 00:23:35.320 when you have nothing to do with God 00:23:35.320 --> 00:23:37.760 and he's walking with you and your heart begins to burn 00:23:37.760 --> 00:23:40.000 because it's just like the two guys who were walking 00:23:40.000 --> 00:23:41.320 down the road to M.A.S. 00:23:42.680 --> 00:23:44.760 Or it's a whisper. 00:23:44.760 --> 00:23:47.680 It's just a whisper that says, Jacob, 00:23:47.680 --> 00:23:49.480 you are special to me. 00:23:49.520 --> 00:23:53.760 Or it's a really loud voice where a car goes past you 00:23:53.760 --> 00:23:56.760 and it has the initials JJ777 00:23:56.760 --> 00:23:59.440 and you know that those two numbers can't combine 00:23:59.440 --> 00:24:04.440 because JJ is Jacob's name and 777 is God's favorite number. 00:24:05.040 --> 00:24:09.360 Or it's John leaning back where you're praying 00:24:09.360 --> 00:24:11.400 and you're singing a song and suddenly you know 00:24:11.400 --> 00:24:15.040 the strange embrace of God because God is the only one 00:24:15.040 --> 00:24:18.800 who can turn up invisible into a space and embrace you 00:24:18.880 --> 00:24:21.240 and you know he's there. 00:24:21.240 --> 00:24:25.200 You know, there's no person here who is alive 00:24:25.200 --> 00:24:27.760 who will not know it if God turns up. 00:24:27.760 --> 00:24:30.480 Whether you respond to it or not is different 00:24:30.480 --> 00:24:32.600 but knowing it, you will spot it. 00:24:35.560 --> 00:24:40.560 Or sometimes, this open-handed, open-hearted living 00:24:42.960 --> 00:24:45.600 on a daily basis is beautiful. 00:24:46.600 --> 00:24:47.440 It's beautiful. 00:24:48.080 --> 00:24:49.280 You receive from him. 00:24:49.280 --> 00:24:50.880 I mean, listen to some of the scriptures. 00:24:50.880 --> 00:24:52.760 Sometimes it's words that God says. 00:24:52.760 --> 00:24:55.080 Listen to some of these scriptures. 00:24:55.080 --> 00:24:57.600 Go to Hosea 11. 00:24:57.600 --> 00:24:59.600 I'll only take verse one and four. 00:24:59.600 --> 00:25:01.240 I'll read from the message. 00:25:01.240 --> 00:25:05.080 Hosea 11, verse one and four. 00:25:05.080 --> 00:25:06.600 Because he's actually rebuking them 00:25:06.600 --> 00:25:09.360 but you can still see what he's trying to say to them. 00:25:09.360 --> 00:25:11.680 Hosea 11, verses one to four. 00:25:11.680 --> 00:25:15.480 When Israel was only a child, I loved him 00:25:15.480 --> 00:25:17.640 and I called out my son. 00:25:17.640 --> 00:25:18.680 I called him out of Egypt. 00:25:18.680 --> 00:25:19.960 Put your name there. 00:25:19.960 --> 00:25:22.280 When Dilnah was only a child, I loved him. 00:25:22.280 --> 00:25:25.360 I called out, said, my son, and I called him out of Egypt. 00:25:26.720 --> 00:25:28.000 And look at verse four. 00:25:31.240 --> 00:25:34.160 He never admitted that I was the one pulling the wagon 00:25:34.160 --> 00:25:37.120 but I lifted him up like a baby to my cheek 00:25:37.120 --> 00:25:39.120 that I bent down to feed him. 00:25:39.120 --> 00:25:41.960 You see these parents doing that to their little children, 00:25:41.960 --> 00:25:44.000 lifting up, putting them to their cheek. 00:25:45.000 --> 00:25:48.120 An open-handed, open-hearted approach 00:25:48.120 --> 00:25:50.320 where constantly you remind yourself. 00:25:51.880 --> 00:25:53.480 And this is how I walk. 00:25:53.480 --> 00:25:55.520 And the only reason I'm saying a gesture 00:25:55.520 --> 00:25:57.840 because sometimes gestures are able to 00:25:57.840 --> 00:25:59.240 launch us into something. 00:26:01.280 --> 00:26:04.080 We can say hello to a person without stretching out our hands 00:26:04.080 --> 00:26:06.800 but there's something to a gesture that brings it alive. 00:26:06.800 --> 00:26:08.680 Go to Isaiah 43. 00:26:08.680 --> 00:26:09.840 Isaiah 43. 00:26:15.000 --> 00:26:15.840 Isaiah 43. 00:26:18.840 --> 00:26:20.240 He's been doing this for very long. 00:26:20.240 --> 00:26:22.480 It's just we sometimes forget. 00:26:22.480 --> 00:26:26.880 Isaiah 43, verse three and four. 00:26:29.520 --> 00:26:32.080 Because I am God, your personal God, 00:26:32.080 --> 00:26:34.360 the holy of Israel, your savior, 00:26:34.360 --> 00:26:36.120 I paid a huge price for you, 00:26:36.120 --> 00:26:39.240 all of Egypt with rich kush and sabre thrown in. 00:26:39.240 --> 00:26:40.600 Listen to the next line. 00:26:40.600 --> 00:26:42.560 That's how much you mean to me. 00:26:42.560 --> 00:26:43.640 I love you. 00:26:43.640 --> 00:26:45.680 I'd sell off the whole world to get you back. 00:26:45.680 --> 00:26:47.520 Trade creation just for you. 00:26:47.520 --> 00:26:49.200 So don't be afraid, I'm with you. 00:26:52.120 --> 00:26:55.000 Open-handed, open-hearted approach. 00:26:56.600 --> 00:26:58.000 2 Corinthians 6. 00:26:59.400 --> 00:27:01.120 Let's go to Psalm 139. 00:27:01.120 --> 00:27:02.480 Psalm 139. 00:27:02.480 --> 00:27:05.280 That's a brilliant Psalm that just talks about that. 00:27:05.280 --> 00:27:06.480 Psalm 139. 00:27:12.560 --> 00:27:13.880 Starting at verse three. 00:27:14.920 --> 00:27:17.640 You know when I leave, when I get back, 00:27:17.640 --> 00:27:19.240 I'm never out of your sight. 00:27:19.240 --> 00:27:20.640 You know everything I'm going to say 00:27:20.640 --> 00:27:22.920 before I even start the first sentence. 00:27:22.920 --> 00:27:24.520 I look behind me and you're there, 00:27:24.520 --> 00:27:26.240 then up ahead and you're there too. 00:27:26.240 --> 00:27:28.600 You're reassuring presence coming and going. 00:27:28.600 --> 00:27:30.440 This is too much, too wonderful. 00:27:30.440 --> 00:27:31.840 I can't take it all in. 00:27:31.840 --> 00:27:34.320 Is there any place I can go to avoid your spirit 00:27:34.320 --> 00:27:35.480 to be out of your sight? 00:27:35.480 --> 00:27:36.840 If I climb to the sky, you're there. 00:27:36.840 --> 00:27:38.400 If I go up to the sky, you're there. 00:27:38.400 --> 00:27:39.800 If I go up to the sky, you're there. 00:27:39.800 --> 00:27:41.120 If I go up to the sky, you're there. 00:27:41.160 --> 00:27:42.240 If I climb to the sky, you're there. 00:27:42.240 --> 00:27:43.720 If I go underground, you're there. 00:27:43.720 --> 00:27:46.800 I flew on morning's wings to the far western horizon. 00:27:46.800 --> 00:27:47.840 You'd find me in a minute. 00:27:47.840 --> 00:27:49.440 You're already there waiting. 00:27:49.440 --> 00:27:52.360 Then I said to myself, oh, he even sees me in the dark. 00:27:52.360 --> 00:27:54.080 At night I'm immersed in the light. 00:27:54.080 --> 00:27:54.960 It's a fact. 00:27:54.960 --> 00:27:56.440 Darkness isn't dark to you. 00:27:56.440 --> 00:27:58.040 Night and day, darkness and light, 00:27:58.040 --> 00:27:59.440 they're all the same to you. 00:27:59.440 --> 00:28:02.160 Oh yes, you shaped me first inside and then out. 00:28:02.160 --> 00:28:04.080 You formed me in my mother's womb. 00:28:04.080 --> 00:28:05.360 I thank you, high God. 00:28:05.360 --> 00:28:07.560 You are breathtaking body and soul. 00:28:07.560 --> 00:28:08.720 I'm marvelously made. 00:28:08.720 --> 00:28:10.240 I worship in adoration. 00:28:10.280 --> 00:28:11.360 What a creation. 00:28:11.360 --> 00:28:12.880 You know me inside and out. 00:28:12.880 --> 00:28:14.600 You know every bone in my body. 00:28:14.600 --> 00:28:17.040 You know exactly how I was made bit by bit, 00:28:17.040 --> 00:28:19.400 how I was sculpted from nothing into something. 00:28:19.400 --> 00:28:23.080 Like an open book, you watch me grow from conception to birth. 00:28:23.080 --> 00:28:25.720 All the stages of my life spread out before you. 00:28:25.720 --> 00:28:28.880 The days of my life prepared before I even lived one day. 00:28:28.880 --> 00:28:32.000 Your thoughts, oh God, how rare, how beautiful. 00:28:32.000 --> 00:28:33.800 God, I'll never comprehend them. 00:28:33.800 --> 00:28:36.800 Open-handed, open-hearted. 00:28:36.800 --> 00:28:40.040 It's just a gesture, but it'll make you alive 00:28:40.040 --> 00:28:42.200 during the day where you suddenly realize, 00:28:42.200 --> 00:28:43.600 oh my God, he loves me. 00:28:47.480 --> 00:28:49.840 And different ways he'll convey that to you. 00:28:49.840 --> 00:28:51.600 Never worry about conveying. 00:28:51.600 --> 00:28:55.560 Always be concerned with the childlike simplicity 00:28:55.560 --> 00:28:59.520 that allows you to recognize your child. 00:28:59.520 --> 00:29:01.520 You can't just say, oh, I love you. 00:29:01.680 --> 00:29:05.920 It allows you to recognize and savor 00:29:05.920 --> 00:29:10.920 the love of this father and of the son and of the spirit. 00:29:11.080 --> 00:29:14.320 The triune God, you cannot fall through the cracks. 00:29:15.680 --> 00:29:16.760 That's how he is. 00:29:18.680 --> 00:29:21.320 And you'll get very, very strong. 00:29:22.800 --> 00:29:23.720 Very strong. 00:29:25.400 --> 00:29:26.600 Once this happens, 00:29:26.600 --> 00:29:29.600 it's tremendous strength. 00:29:29.600 --> 00:29:32.280 So, Jesus, is that like rewriting 00:29:32.280 --> 00:29:34.280 of what you said in Scripture? 00:29:34.280 --> 00:29:37.280 Is it in your eyes or is it in your spirit? 00:29:37.280 --> 00:29:38.600 Not necessarily. 00:29:38.600 --> 00:29:40.080 I mean, think of this, guys. 00:29:40.080 --> 00:29:41.880 I know Scripture is super important, 00:29:41.880 --> 00:29:45.440 but what did they do before the 16th century? 00:29:45.440 --> 00:29:47.440 Were they not amazing saints? 00:29:48.440 --> 00:29:51.840 One, they're brilliant Christians 00:29:51.840 --> 00:29:54.400 who never got a chance to be a Christian. 00:29:54.400 --> 00:29:57.800 Christians who never got to read a page of the Bible 00:29:57.800 --> 00:29:59.920 because it wasn't printed? 00:29:59.920 --> 00:30:01.520 It was oral tradition only? 00:30:03.440 --> 00:30:05.560 Yes, now that we have the Scriptures, 00:30:05.560 --> 00:30:07.080 we have a distinct advantage 00:30:07.080 --> 00:30:09.760 and we get to know the nature of God individually 00:30:09.760 --> 00:30:11.600 without even it being necessarily taught 00:30:11.600 --> 00:30:12.680 because we can read it. 00:30:12.680 --> 00:30:14.920 But there was a time when it was not available 00:30:14.920 --> 00:30:16.720 and yet there were amazing saints 00:30:18.320 --> 00:30:20.800 who penned poems and wrote books 00:30:20.800 --> 00:30:22.720 about how much God loves. 00:30:25.400 --> 00:30:28.400 He is not outside. 00:30:28.400 --> 00:30:30.400 He fills everything. 00:30:33.000 --> 00:30:35.600 And so he's able to touch your heart 00:30:35.600 --> 00:30:37.400 like he did David's. 00:30:37.400 --> 00:30:39.000 David didn't have scriptures to go with. 00:30:39.000 --> 00:30:41.600 He only had the Torah, which was so stringent. 00:30:41.600 --> 00:30:43.600 And then he writes Psalms. 00:30:43.600 --> 00:30:45.600 And how does he write it? 00:30:45.600 --> 00:30:47.800 The boy begins to do what we are saying. 00:30:47.800 --> 00:30:49.200 He would sit in a field 00:30:49.200 --> 00:30:52.800 and he would have open hands and an open heart and a harp. 00:30:53.800 --> 00:30:55.200 And he would begin to write. 00:30:58.400 --> 00:31:01.800 And as he wrote, it would be back and forth. 00:31:07.200 --> 00:31:08.600 It becomes so... 00:31:13.400 --> 00:31:16.600 It's like a baby in the amniotic fluid. 00:31:16.600 --> 00:31:17.600 It wraps you. 00:31:19.800 --> 00:31:20.800 It's all around you. 00:31:20.800 --> 00:31:23.600 And you don't know how to breathe without it. 00:31:26.000 --> 00:31:29.200 And then living outside of it becomes an anomaly. 00:31:31.000 --> 00:31:33.200 For us, living outside seems normal. 00:31:33.200 --> 00:31:36.400 Living in love seems like, huh, love? 00:31:36.400 --> 00:31:37.600 Strange thing. 00:31:37.600 --> 00:31:39.000 Tastes good though. 00:31:39.000 --> 00:31:40.400 No, it's the other way around. 00:31:42.400 --> 00:31:44.400 It is possible. It can be worked. 00:31:44.400 --> 00:31:45.400 It just needs practice. 00:31:45.400 --> 00:31:47.400 And it doesn't need long practice, guys. 00:31:47.400 --> 00:31:49.200 It doesn't need long practice. 00:31:49.200 --> 00:31:53.600 I'm telling you, the amount of progress you can make in one week... 00:31:55.200 --> 00:31:57.000 One week you try this 00:31:57.000 --> 00:31:59.000 and you will be surprised at how much progress you make. 00:32:00.600 --> 00:32:02.200 And you become fearless. 00:32:02.200 --> 00:32:04.000 Why? Why fearless? 00:32:04.000 --> 00:32:12.000 Because perfect love casts out all fear and torment ends. 00:32:14.200 --> 00:32:15.200 You become fearless. 00:32:20.200 --> 00:32:21.600 Ezekiel 16. 00:32:21.600 --> 00:32:23.000 Go to Ezekiel 16. 00:32:26.400 --> 00:32:27.800 Why am I showing you these scriptures 00:32:27.800 --> 00:32:30.400 so that you know that this is normal? 00:32:31.200 --> 00:32:32.800 I'm showing you Old Testament scriptures. 00:32:32.800 --> 00:32:34.400 Leave alone New Testament. 00:32:37.600 --> 00:32:39.200 Starting at verse 6. 00:32:40.600 --> 00:32:43.400 This is how he saw you when you were first... 00:32:43.400 --> 00:32:45.000 before you became a believer. 00:32:45.000 --> 00:32:46.800 This is not about when you were a child. 00:32:47.800 --> 00:32:49.200 This is not about when you were a child, 00:32:49.200 --> 00:32:50.600 but before you became a believer. 00:33:16.800 --> 00:33:17.800 I promised you, my love, 00:33:17.800 --> 00:33:19.600 entered the covenant of marriage with you. 00:33:19.600 --> 00:33:21.800 I, God the Master, gave my word. 00:33:21.800 --> 00:33:23.200 You became mine. 00:33:23.200 --> 00:33:26.000 I gave you a good bath, washing off all that old blood, 00:33:26.000 --> 00:33:27.800 anointed you with aromatic oils. 00:33:27.800 --> 00:33:29.800 I dressed you in a colorful gown, 00:33:29.800 --> 00:33:31.200 put leather sandals on your feet. 00:33:31.200 --> 00:33:33.600 I gave you linen blouses, a fashionable wardrobe, 00:33:33.600 --> 00:33:34.600 of expensive clothing. 00:33:34.600 --> 00:33:36.000 I adorned you with jewelry. 00:33:36.000 --> 00:33:38.200 I placed bracelets on your wrists, 00:33:38.200 --> 00:33:39.400 fitted you with a necklace, 00:33:39.400 --> 00:33:42.400 emerald rings, sapphire earrings, diamond tiara. 00:33:42.400 --> 00:33:45.000 You were provided with everything precious and beautiful, 00:33:45.000 --> 00:33:47.000 with exquisite clothes, elegant food, 00:33:47.000 --> 00:33:48.600 garnished with honey and oil. 00:33:48.600 --> 00:33:50.200 You were absolutely stunning. 00:33:50.200 --> 00:33:51.600 You were a queen. 00:33:51.600 --> 00:33:53.000 You became world famous. 00:33:53.000 --> 00:33:57.200 A legendary beauty brought to perfection by my adornments, 00:33:57.200 --> 00:33:59.600 decree of God the Master. 00:33:59.600 --> 00:34:03.200 This love is extravagant, embarrassing, 00:34:03.200 --> 00:34:05.200 and sometimes overwhelming, 00:34:05.200 --> 00:34:06.400 because this is not, 00:34:06.400 --> 00:34:09.000 I love you, but I will not provide for you. 00:34:09.000 --> 00:34:10.600 What kind of love is that? 00:34:10.600 --> 00:34:12.600 This love provides. 00:34:14.600 --> 00:34:15.800 This love provides. 00:34:15.800 --> 00:34:19.200 And doesn't provide just basic amenities for living. 00:34:19.200 --> 00:34:21.800 This love provides plenty. 00:34:21.800 --> 00:34:27.600 But I want the provision to prove that he loves me. 00:34:27.600 --> 00:34:28.800 But he's saying, 00:34:28.800 --> 00:34:32.600 but I love you, the provision is a byproduct. 00:34:32.600 --> 00:34:36.000 You will be surprised at how real it is. 00:34:36.000 --> 00:34:39.600 When you put the love in the person, 00:34:39.600 --> 00:34:43.600 you put the horse before the cart and not the cart before the horse. 00:34:48.600 --> 00:34:51.600 It doesn't matter what situation you're going through, 00:34:51.600 --> 00:34:53.600 when this becomes where you live, 00:34:53.600 --> 00:34:58.600 everything begins to fall into place. 00:35:02.600 --> 00:35:04.600 This is who he is. 00:35:04.600 --> 00:35:07.600 He's a father and he is love. 00:35:08.600 --> 00:35:11.600 These are two essentials of who God is. 00:35:13.600 --> 00:35:15.600 Sit in his presence. 00:35:18.600 --> 00:35:21.600 So sometimes when I walk around like this, 00:35:21.600 --> 00:35:24.600 it doesn't matter which country, which place, which situation, 00:35:24.600 --> 00:35:27.600 my literal pleading is, 00:35:27.600 --> 00:35:29.600 just wash over me with your love. 00:35:29.600 --> 00:35:31.600 Wash over me. 00:35:31.600 --> 00:35:36.600 Let it be like a huge wave that comes in, 00:35:36.600 --> 00:35:40.600 like a surfer I'll walk towards, wash over me. 00:35:42.600 --> 00:35:44.600 I don't want control, oh God. 00:35:44.600 --> 00:35:48.600 Wash over me with your love so that I'm absolutely control-less. 00:35:51.600 --> 00:35:54.600 And then take me anywhere you want. 00:35:54.600 --> 00:35:56.600 You can then ask me, 00:35:56.600 --> 00:35:58.600 do you love me more than these? 00:35:58.600 --> 00:36:01.600 And my resounding answer will be yes. 00:36:02.600 --> 00:36:05.600 Open-handed, open-hearted. 00:36:05.600 --> 00:36:09.600 Suddenly you will not even need other people's love, 00:36:09.600 --> 00:36:12.600 but it will be a bonus. 00:36:13.600 --> 00:36:15.600 What are we doing here on earth? 00:36:15.600 --> 00:36:17.600 Craving to be loved. 00:36:17.600 --> 00:36:19.600 Oh, this person doesn't love me, this person loves me, 00:36:19.600 --> 00:36:21.600 any, many, many more. 00:36:21.600 --> 00:36:23.600 You don't love me, you love me more. 00:36:23.600 --> 00:36:27.600 It just goes on and on, constantly craving for, 00:36:27.600 --> 00:36:29.600 I'm not loved, I am not loved. 00:36:29.600 --> 00:36:31.600 I'm not loved, I am loved. 00:36:31.600 --> 00:36:36.600 And what happens then when this happens is you have everything 00:36:36.600 --> 00:36:42.600 and then the love that you receive from Adam or from Eve 00:36:42.600 --> 00:36:46.600 is something that brings great companionship into your life. 00:36:46.600 --> 00:36:49.600 And you begin to enjoy it as a brilliant bonus. 00:37:00.600 --> 00:37:04.600 It wasn't, ah, Adam, you look like you're not loved. 00:37:04.600 --> 00:37:08.600 Let me provide you with someone who will love you. 00:37:08.600 --> 00:37:14.600 No, it was, he saw that man was alone. 00:37:16.600 --> 00:37:18.600 Not that man was not loved. 00:37:23.600 --> 00:37:27.600 It was not good for man to be alone. 00:37:27.600 --> 00:37:28.600 Pardon? 00:37:28.600 --> 00:37:32.600 More than that, companionship is more than a physical need. 00:37:32.600 --> 00:37:35.600 My God, man, Eve must have been a brilliant woman. 00:37:38.600 --> 00:37:40.600 She must have been a brilliant woman. 00:37:40.600 --> 00:37:45.600 Why? Because, I mean, these were first of creation, right? 00:37:45.600 --> 00:37:50.600 I'm not, like, it was more than physical need. 00:37:50.600 --> 00:37:52.600 It was more than physical need. 00:37:52.600 --> 00:37:53.600 I'm not saying you're doing that. 00:37:53.600 --> 00:37:56.600 We can't reduce Eve to a physical need. 00:37:56.600 --> 00:37:58.600 It was much more than that. 00:37:58.600 --> 00:38:03.600 It was intellectual, it was moral, it was physical, it was emotional. 00:38:03.600 --> 00:38:07.600 But it was because he was alone, not because he was not loved. 00:38:07.600 --> 00:38:10.600 He knew love like nobody knew love. 00:38:10.600 --> 00:38:13.600 Because it was spirit to spirit, God and him, 00:38:13.600 --> 00:38:16.600 walking together, walking together, walking together, 00:38:16.600 --> 00:38:19.600 walking together, walking together, walking together, 00:38:19.600 --> 00:38:23.600 because spirit to spirit, God and him, walking together, 00:38:23.600 --> 00:38:25.600 like Enoch did. 00:38:32.600 --> 00:38:34.600 Therefore, if you're alone, 00:38:34.600 --> 00:38:37.600 yeah, ask God, I don't want to be alone, get me married. 00:38:37.600 --> 00:38:41.600 But if you're not alone, voila. 00:38:41.600 --> 00:38:44.600 Sorry, that was again, erase, erase. 00:38:50.600 --> 00:38:55.600 If you and I can do this, guys, it will break and possess, 00:38:55.600 --> 00:38:58.600 break, possess and mold your heart every day. 00:38:58.600 --> 00:39:00.600 Tomorrow try it, eh? 00:39:00.600 --> 00:39:01.600 Tomorrow try it. 00:39:01.600 --> 00:39:03.600 While you're doing things, 00:39:03.600 --> 00:39:07.600 use whatever gesture you want to hand out. 00:39:07.600 --> 00:39:12.600 Just give him, give him, give him 20 seconds. 00:39:12.600 --> 00:39:15.600 He doesn't need 20 seconds, you need it. 00:39:15.600 --> 00:39:19.600 He doesn't need 20 seconds to say, oh, you want me to love me, 00:39:19.600 --> 00:39:22.600 love you, just give me 20 seconds, I've got to think of a creative way. 00:39:22.600 --> 00:39:25.600 No, he's created 17 million insects. 00:39:25.600 --> 00:39:27.600 He's creative enough. 00:39:27.600 --> 00:39:29.600 17 million species of insects. 00:39:29.600 --> 00:39:32.600 Who does that but God? 00:39:32.600 --> 00:39:34.600 17 million species of insects. 00:39:34.600 --> 00:39:37.600 Who does that but God? 00:39:37.600 --> 00:39:45.600 And so you need 20 seconds or maybe two minutes to recognize this love 00:39:45.600 --> 00:39:48.600 and let it wash over you. 00:39:48.600 --> 00:39:50.600 And in the beginning it will be, 00:39:50.600 --> 00:39:52.600 well, I've given you two minutes, nothing's happened. 00:39:52.600 --> 00:39:53.600 What are you expecting to happen? 00:39:53.600 --> 00:39:55.600 It's not an expectation. 00:39:55.600 --> 00:39:58.600 Let him do it however he wants, begin to enjoy it. 00:39:58.600 --> 00:40:00.600 Every little while go back into, 00:40:00.600 --> 00:40:09.600 Father, I just want to stand here and receive how much you love. 00:40:09.600 --> 00:40:10.600 That's the first part. 00:40:10.600 --> 00:40:14.600 The second part is engage, 00:40:14.600 --> 00:40:19.600 intimately participate in the Holy Spirit's engagement of the Father and the Son. 00:40:19.600 --> 00:40:23.600 Intimately participate. 00:40:23.600 --> 00:40:32.600 Practice intimate participation. 00:40:32.600 --> 00:40:49.600 Practice intimate participation in the Spirit's engagement 00:40:49.600 --> 00:41:01.600 with the Father and the Son. 00:41:01.600 --> 00:41:04.600 Just as Jesus did. 00:41:04.600 --> 00:41:09.600 Just as Jesus did. 00:41:09.600 --> 00:41:10.600 Imagine the scene, eh? 00:41:10.600 --> 00:41:12.600 He's gone into the synagogue. 00:41:12.600 --> 00:41:13.600 He's taken the scroll. 00:41:13.600 --> 00:41:14.600 He begins to open it. 00:41:14.600 --> 00:41:16.600 And he's engaging with the Spirit. 00:41:16.600 --> 00:41:18.600 Because what's he reading? 00:41:18.600 --> 00:41:21.600 The Spirit of the Lord is upon me. 00:41:21.600 --> 00:41:24.600 For he has anointed me to bring good news to the poor. 00:41:24.600 --> 00:41:25.600 And he reads the whole thing. 00:41:25.600 --> 00:41:28.600 And then he rolls back the scroll, gives it back. 00:41:28.600 --> 00:41:29.600 And then he says, 00:41:29.600 --> 00:41:34.600 Right now in your presence this scripture is being fulfilled. 00:41:34.600 --> 00:41:36.600 The Spirit of, Jesus used to engage with the Spirit. 00:41:36.600 --> 00:41:38.600 Jesus used to engage with the Father. 00:41:38.600 --> 00:41:41.600 John 12, 27. 00:41:41.600 --> 00:41:43.600 People are gathered and there's a voice. 00:41:43.600 --> 00:41:44.600 And the voice says, 00:41:44.600 --> 00:41:47.600 This is my Son in whom I'm well pleased. 00:41:47.600 --> 00:41:49.600 And then some say it's thunder. 00:41:49.600 --> 00:41:50.600 Some say it's an angel. 00:41:50.600 --> 00:41:52.600 Some know it's a voice of God. 00:41:52.600 --> 00:41:54.600 And then Jesus begins to speak and say, 00:41:54.600 --> 00:41:58.600 Hey, I just want you to know that that was my Father saying these things about me. 00:41:58.600 --> 00:42:05.600 But the only reason I'm even mentioning it to you is because I want you to know what my Father said. 00:42:05.600 --> 00:42:08.600 I want to draw you in to what the Father said. 00:42:08.600 --> 00:42:10.600 Matthew 11, same thing. 00:42:10.600 --> 00:42:12.600 Verse 23 or 24. 00:42:12.600 --> 00:42:16.600 He was walking down from Capernaum having been rejected by Capernaum. 00:42:16.600 --> 00:42:18.600 And as he's walking, he's talking to the Father. 00:42:18.600 --> 00:42:21.600 And I know I've said this before, but it is so beautiful. 00:42:21.600 --> 00:42:23.600 As he's walking with the Father, he's saying, 00:42:23.600 --> 00:42:28.600 Father, you know, everything that is yours is mine and everything that is mine is yours. 00:42:28.600 --> 00:42:31.600 I just thank you that you've hidden great things from the wise. 00:42:31.600 --> 00:42:36.600 But you reveal it to these guys who are walking behind me and who are simple. 00:42:36.600 --> 00:42:41.600 And then he's talking to his Father and he's talking loud because it could not have been written had no one heard it. 00:42:41.600 --> 00:42:43.600 What's he trying to do? 00:42:43.600 --> 00:42:45.600 He's saying, Hey, Vibi, hey, Josh, hey, Mike. 00:42:45.600 --> 00:42:51.600 Can I bring you along into a conversation that I'm having with the God who created everything, 00:42:51.600 --> 00:42:53.600 who happens to be my Father? 00:42:53.600 --> 00:42:57.600 I'm drawing you in to engage in that conversation. 00:42:57.600 --> 00:42:59.600 And what did he say the Spirit will do? 00:42:59.600 --> 00:43:01.600 The Spirit will bring us into all truth. 00:43:01.600 --> 00:43:02.600 I will not leave you as orphans. 00:43:02.600 --> 00:43:03.600 I have to go. 00:43:03.600 --> 00:43:11.600 But you will have the same and better experience that you are having with me presently when the Spirit of God comes. 00:43:11.600 --> 00:43:12.600 What's he saying? 00:43:12.600 --> 00:43:13.600 What's he saying? 00:43:13.600 --> 00:43:18.600 Hey, participate with the Spirit and engage. 00:43:18.600 --> 00:43:30.600 If you're reading something else, please don't read it and listen. 00:43:30.600 --> 00:43:34.600 This is how it works. 00:43:34.600 --> 00:43:40.600 Are you struggling with sickness? 00:43:40.600 --> 00:43:45.600 Allow the Spirit of God to show you the marks left on his back, man. 00:43:45.600 --> 00:43:52.600 We only think of the marks left on his hand that he showed Thomas and we talk a lot about it. 00:43:52.600 --> 00:43:53.600 What about the side? 00:43:53.600 --> 00:43:57.600 What about the back? 00:43:57.600 --> 00:43:59.600 Plowed it open. 00:43:59.600 --> 00:44:03.600 You think those marks disappeared and these marks stayed? 00:44:03.600 --> 00:44:05.600 Why did he show these marks to Thomas? 00:44:05.600 --> 00:44:13.600 Because he wanted to show him, listen, these are the evidence of crucifixion. 00:44:13.600 --> 00:44:18.600 He has the ability to take you into places and show you things from the Scripture. 00:44:18.600 --> 00:44:23.600 Hattel, melt your heart. 00:44:23.600 --> 00:44:32.600 Intimately participate in the Holy Spirit's engagement with the Father and the Son. 00:44:32.600 --> 00:44:35.600 There are times when the Spirit of God won't tell you. 00:44:35.600 --> 00:44:40.600 You can imagine this Jesus who constantly engages with the Spirit is touched by a woman 00:44:40.600 --> 00:44:42.600 and he doesn't know who touched him. 00:44:42.600 --> 00:44:44.600 He just knows power has left him. 00:44:44.600 --> 00:44:49.600 And he must have been searching the mind of the Spirit because he always knows everything by the Spirit. 00:44:49.600 --> 00:44:53.600 But this one time, the Spirit of God isn't telling him. 00:44:53.600 --> 00:44:56.600 Isn't that a wonderful mystery too? 00:44:56.600 --> 00:44:58.600 Where he's not telling him. 00:44:58.600 --> 00:45:00.600 He says, I know someone touched me. 00:45:00.600 --> 00:45:01.600 Power has left me. 00:45:01.600 --> 00:45:03.600 But who touched me? 00:45:03.600 --> 00:45:11.600 Because there are times when the Spirit of God will say, not telling you this one, figure it out. 00:45:11.600 --> 00:45:18.600 And now the woman comes and kneels before him. 00:45:18.600 --> 00:45:27.600 At the risk of humanizing God, I want you and me to understand that he is an absolute person 00:45:27.600 --> 00:45:31.600 which is why he can say, I have made you in my image. 00:45:31.600 --> 00:45:33.600 He's an absolute person. 00:45:33.600 --> 00:45:38.600 Only he's not a person. 00:45:38.600 --> 00:45:47.600 And so you must try and engage with him as you would a person only at a level of Spirit to Spirit. 00:45:47.600 --> 00:45:50.600 Not touch. 00:45:50.600 --> 00:45:53.600 But he's an absolute person. 00:45:53.600 --> 00:45:55.600 We don't have to understand it. 00:45:55.600 --> 00:45:58.600 We have to comprehend it. 00:45:58.600 --> 00:46:00.600 You can never understand the sunrise. 00:46:00.600 --> 00:46:01.600 Never. 00:46:01.600 --> 00:46:03.600 I've seen far more. 00:46:03.600 --> 00:46:07.600 Actually, I haven't because I don't get up in time. 00:46:07.600 --> 00:46:10.600 Some of you have seen many sunrises. 00:46:10.600 --> 00:46:12.600 But you still can't understand it. 00:46:12.600 --> 00:46:14.600 You can only comprehend it. 00:46:14.600 --> 00:46:16.600 I have heard it is very beautiful. 00:46:26.600 --> 00:46:35.600 Mark chapter, sorry, in Matthew 11, look at how it says it in the message. 00:46:35.600 --> 00:46:43.600 The Father has given me all these things to do and say, it's a unique father-son operation coming out of father and son intimacies and knowledge. 00:46:43.600 --> 00:46:45.600 Just think of that, eh? 00:46:45.600 --> 00:46:54.600 Can you live from a place where everything you do is a unique father-son operation that comes out of father-son intimacies and knowledge? 00:46:54.600 --> 00:47:06.600 And this includes taking care of a child that's crawling all over the place, of a wife that may be throwing up, of a dog, and even a cat, 00:47:06.600 --> 00:47:14.600 pooing in the wrong places, or a deadline that is looming and you don't know how you'll finish the work, 00:47:14.600 --> 00:47:23.600 or a desire to go to heaven, or a desire to go to hell, or a desire to die a need, or pain in the midst of all that to suddenly go into. 00:47:29.600 --> 00:47:37.600 And allow first the love of God to wash over you. 00:47:37.600 --> 00:47:42.600 Not even sometimes saying anything. 00:47:42.600 --> 00:47:57.600 Just letting that peace begin to fill your heart because you're focused on one who said that he whose mind has stayed on me will know a shalom that is full of love and wholeness. 00:47:57.600 --> 00:48:05.600 After you come into that space, then begin to ask the Holy Spirit. 00:48:05.600 --> 00:48:09.600 You know, we ask the Spirit of God for things without being in love with God. 00:48:09.600 --> 00:48:12.600 That's what sometimes marriages are reduced to. 00:48:12.600 --> 00:48:17.600 Asking for things from each other without loving each other. 00:48:17.600 --> 00:48:22.600 And the strange thing is spouses will still fulfill their obligation. 00:48:22.600 --> 00:48:25.600 But every day the love lessens. 00:48:25.600 --> 00:48:29.600 Ah, it must be a terrible thing. 00:48:29.600 --> 00:48:37.600 Come guys, we must show the world. 00:48:37.600 --> 00:48:44.600 Because do you realize as we're talking about it, we don't really know the depth of it. 00:48:44.600 --> 00:48:48.600 We've tasted it. Someone has to show. 00:48:49.600 --> 00:48:59.600 And the third part then is, can you practice loving the Father like Jesus loved the Father? 00:48:59.600 --> 00:49:04.600 Can you practice loving the Father like Jesus loved the Father? 00:49:04.600 --> 00:49:09.600 As in, Father, I want to love you like he loved you. 00:49:09.600 --> 00:49:11.600 Why is that a little easy? 00:49:11.600 --> 00:49:14.600 Because story after story talks about that. 00:49:14.600 --> 00:49:16.600 There's a narrative. 00:49:16.600 --> 00:49:23.600 There are movies, there are pictures, there are words written about how he loved the Father. 00:49:26.600 --> 00:49:31.600 And so sometimes during worship, if I see my mind strain, my thing is not, 00:49:31.600 --> 00:49:33.600 Oh no, no, no, I need to worship the Lord. 00:49:33.600 --> 00:49:39.600 My thing is, Father, I would like to worship you as Jesus used to worship you when he would go up the mountains. 00:49:39.600 --> 00:49:44.600 So I'm going to open all of my heart because in me only one dwells and his name is Christ. 00:49:44.600 --> 00:49:46.600 And his spirit and my spirit has become one. 00:49:46.600 --> 00:49:52.600 So let me now give you the same kind of worship that Jesus gave you. 00:49:52.600 --> 00:49:54.600 The same kind of worship. 00:49:58.600 --> 00:50:00.600 Obedience, the same thing. 00:50:00.600 --> 00:50:02.600 Really difficult to obey something. 00:50:02.600 --> 00:50:05.600 But you decide, man, he used to obey him because he loved him. 00:50:05.600 --> 00:50:10.600 I'm going to show you that I love you and I'm going to obey you just to show you how much I love you 00:50:10.600 --> 00:50:12.600 because love and obedience go hand in hand. 00:50:12.600 --> 00:50:14.600 One does not exist without the other. 00:50:16.600 --> 00:50:20.600 Can you imagine, even as we begin to imagine what this will look like, 00:50:20.600 --> 00:50:22.600 can you imagine the strength you will have? 00:50:23.600 --> 00:50:25.600 It's crazy strength. 00:50:25.600 --> 00:50:27.600 It's unbeatable strength. 00:50:27.600 --> 00:50:33.600 Everything in Christ, everything in Christianity is fueled by this one thing. 00:50:36.600 --> 00:50:37.600 Any questions? 00:50:37.600 --> 00:50:38.600 Any questions? 00:50:40.600 --> 00:50:44.600 You know, if we end early today, you should thank Dilna. 00:50:48.600 --> 00:50:50.600 Fourteen points he has helped you avoid. 00:50:58.600 --> 00:51:02.600 When you joined the church, I had expectations but this was not one of them. 00:51:03.600 --> 00:51:08.600 So begin to love and adore the Father like Jesus loved him. 00:51:08.600 --> 00:51:10.600 Like Jesus loved him. 00:51:14.600 --> 00:51:16.600 Let him ask you, do you love me more than this? 00:51:17.600 --> 00:51:24.600 One of the things that will happen then will, this may sound odd but this is true because it's in scripture, 00:51:24.600 --> 00:51:29.600 where God will begin to say, will you be my friend so I can share my burden with you 00:51:29.600 --> 00:51:32.600 for people, cities, nations and places that I'm burdened for? 00:51:32.600 --> 00:51:40.600 Will you be my friend so I can share my burdens with you for cities, for nations, for peoples? 00:51:42.600 --> 00:51:43.600 Because I'm burdened for them. 00:51:43.600 --> 00:51:45.600 Can I share those burdens with you? 00:51:45.600 --> 00:51:49.600 Can you get to a place where I won't need to hide anything from you 00:51:49.600 --> 00:51:52.600 just like I would not hide anything from Abraham? 00:51:53.600 --> 00:51:56.600 Come on man, surely you want to get there. 00:51:56.600 --> 00:52:03.600 Not because you want to know God's secrets but because you like being someone who God is confident in. 00:52:05.600 --> 00:52:10.600 Don't you want to be called God's friend like Abraham was? 00:52:15.600 --> 00:52:19.600 It's not some great striving. It's not an exploit of faith that gets you there. 00:52:19.600 --> 00:52:26.600 I don't know, find some other sign for engaging with the Spirit and then some other sign for, 00:52:26.600 --> 00:52:30.600 I don't know how you're going to do it but do some of these things. 00:52:32.600 --> 00:52:33.600 Any questions? 00:52:33.600 --> 00:52:34.600 Yeah. 00:52:39.600 --> 00:52:40.600 Let me give you an example. 00:52:42.600 --> 00:52:43.600 The question is, 00:52:46.600 --> 00:52:49.600 is it possible to be a friend of God? 00:52:52.600 --> 00:52:53.600 It's not possible. 00:52:54.600 --> 00:52:56.600 It's not possible to be a friend of God. 00:52:57.600 --> 00:52:58.600 I think it's not possible. 00:52:59.600 --> 00:53:00.600 The question is, 00:53:03.600 --> 00:53:08.600 can you say what you mean when you say without proof or analysis? 00:53:12.600 --> 00:53:14.600 Yeah, do you just accept the love without proof? 00:53:19.600 --> 00:53:27.600 It is receiving love without the need for God to prove that he loves. 00:53:28.600 --> 00:53:29.600 Where you settle that. 00:53:30.600 --> 00:53:35.600 It's receiving love without God having to prove that I'll show you that I love you. 00:53:36.600 --> 00:53:41.600 He seems to have to do that so much with most of his children, leave alone the world. 00:53:41.600 --> 00:53:42.600 With the world it's understandable. 00:53:43.600 --> 00:53:45.600 The world requires a sign. 00:53:46.600 --> 00:53:51.600 But with his children, why is it that we always require some proof? 00:53:53.600 --> 00:53:55.600 And so can I just receive his love without proof? 00:53:55.600 --> 00:53:58.600 And if I receive his love without proof, I'll get all the proof I need. 00:54:01.600 --> 00:54:02.600 Because things begin to happen. 00:54:04.600 --> 00:54:09.600 And receiving love without proof forces you to obey without evidence. 00:54:11.600 --> 00:54:12.600 That's another difficult thing. 00:54:13.600 --> 00:54:18.600 We are so scared to obey without sufficient proof that our obedience will be rewarded. 00:54:20.600 --> 00:54:22.600 And to not have that need but just to obey. 00:54:22.600 --> 00:54:27.600 Sometimes even being okay that the promise that was given has not come to pass 00:54:27.600 --> 00:54:32.600 because Hebrews 11 is full of people to whom promises were given and they did not come to pass. 00:54:34.600 --> 00:54:35.600 And they are recorded as heroes. 00:54:52.600 --> 00:54:53.600 He'll take you on drills then. 00:54:54.600 --> 00:54:56.600 He'll take you on obedience drills. 00:54:58.600 --> 00:55:01.600 Because now he knows he can ask you to do anything he wants. 00:55:02.600 --> 00:55:04.600 He'll just take you along with him. 00:55:05.600 --> 00:55:12.600 I remember waking up one morning and God saying, hey, can you come on a trip with me? 00:55:13.600 --> 00:55:15.600 I just want to take you on a trip to one of my favorite cities. 00:55:15.600 --> 00:55:16.600 I'm thinking, okay, any ministry? 00:55:17.600 --> 00:55:18.600 Any preaching assignments? 00:55:19.600 --> 00:55:20.600 Any churches you want to plant? 00:55:21.600 --> 00:55:22.600 Any people you want to prophesy on? 00:55:22.600 --> 00:55:23.600 No? 00:55:23.600 --> 00:55:24.600 Well then no. 00:55:24.600 --> 00:55:26.600 No, but that wasn't what he was asking. 00:55:26.600 --> 00:55:29.600 He was asking, can I take you on a trip with me? 00:55:30.600 --> 00:55:32.600 Can you come with me as a son goes with his father? 00:55:33.600 --> 00:55:35.600 My dad used to take me on trips like this. 00:55:36.600 --> 00:55:37.600 I'm not going to take you on a trip with me. 00:55:38.600 --> 00:55:40.600 I'm going to take you on a trip with my father. 00:55:41.600 --> 00:55:42.600 I'm going to take you on a trip with my father. 00:55:42.600 --> 00:55:43.600 My dad used to take me on trips like this. 00:55:44.600 --> 00:55:49.600 I'd jump on the back of his bike and he would take me to places. 00:55:50.600 --> 00:55:52.600 What when the father asks and then you go? 00:55:57.600 --> 00:55:59.600 Didn't you do that with your son? 00:56:00.600 --> 00:56:02.600 Crazy. We do this with our children. 00:56:03.600 --> 00:56:04.600 Did he need evidence? 00:56:05.600 --> 00:56:06.600 No. 00:56:12.600 --> 00:56:13.600 Let me conclude. 00:56:14.600 --> 00:56:16.600 As in let me finish, not conclude. 00:56:17.600 --> 00:56:20.600 Finish and conclude are two completely different words when a pastor says it. 00:56:21.600 --> 00:56:22.600 Let me conclude means nothing. 00:56:23.600 --> 00:56:24.600 Let me finish may mean something. 00:56:25.600 --> 00:56:26.600 Let me finish. 00:56:36.600 --> 00:56:40.600 Do you recognize that when you can't shake the relentless thoughts, 00:56:40.600 --> 00:56:47.600 the cares, the concerns, the fears, the insecurities, the questions, 00:56:48.600 --> 00:56:50.600 the frustration that plagues you, 00:56:51.600 --> 00:56:58.600 it's because you haven't gone past those shackles far enough into my love. 00:56:59.600 --> 00:57:04.600 Focus on being filled with my love and these things will begin to melt away 00:57:05.600 --> 00:57:11.600 because my love is powerful enough to drown out all that clamors for your attention. 00:57:12.600 --> 00:57:13.600 Let me say that again. 00:57:14.600 --> 00:57:19.600 Do you recognize that when you can't shake the relentless thoughts that bombard you or torment you? 00:57:20.600 --> 00:57:26.600 These are genuine things that Jesus refers to in the Beatitudes in Matthew chapter 5 and 6 00:57:27.600 --> 00:57:28.600 where he says the pagans run after this. 00:57:29.600 --> 00:57:32.600 You are just being choked with the same thing. 00:57:32.600 --> 00:57:37.600 And so the question is do you recognize that when you can't shake the relentless thoughts, 00:57:38.600 --> 00:57:43.600 the cares, the concerns, the fears, the insecurities, the questions, 00:57:44.600 --> 00:57:46.600 the frustrations that torment and plague you, 00:57:47.600 --> 00:57:53.600 do you realize Jacob it's because you haven't gone past these shackles far enough into my love. 00:57:54.600 --> 00:57:59.600 Focus on being filled with my love and these things will begin to melt away. 00:57:59.600 --> 00:58:00.600 Sit in my presence. 00:58:01.600 --> 00:58:05.600 The more you are persuaded of my love, the easier it is to stay in my presence. 00:58:06.600 --> 00:58:08.600 Find time to let me overtake you. 00:58:09.600 --> 00:58:11.600 You can choose how much you will release to me. 00:58:12.600 --> 00:58:15.600 You can decide how far into my presence you want to go. 00:58:16.600 --> 00:58:17.600 There is always more available. 00:58:18.600 --> 00:58:19.600 I will never block your way. 00:58:30.600 --> 00:58:32.600 So please go home, try it. 00:58:33.600 --> 00:58:34.600 Yeah. 00:58:38.600 --> 00:58:39.600 Any questions? 00:58:44.600 --> 00:58:45.600 No questions? 00:58:46.600 --> 00:58:47.600 Come on guys, any questions, anything you want to add? 00:58:54.600 --> 00:58:57.600 So the first thing is, Father I just receive your love. 00:58:57.600 --> 00:59:02.600 Sometimes I might be able to recognize it in 20 seconds, sometimes it may take a song. 00:59:05.600 --> 00:59:08.600 But I just know and receive your love. 00:59:09.600 --> 00:59:11.600 It just surrounds me. 00:59:12.600 --> 00:59:18.600 There's enough in me and there's enough of the Spirit of God for me to quickly recognize it. 00:59:19.600 --> 00:59:21.600 It brings an odd kind of peace into my life. 00:59:21.600 --> 00:59:30.600 Second, I'll practice engaging this, I'll practice intimate participation with the Holy Spirit's engagement with you and the Son. 00:59:33.600 --> 00:59:35.600 Because the Holy Spirit searches the mind of the Father. 00:59:36.600 --> 00:59:38.600 If I join with him, he'll show me glimpses. 00:59:39.600 --> 00:59:43.600 He'll show me things about Jesus that are in the Scriptures with his fresh eyes. 00:59:43.600 --> 00:59:47.600 He'll show me things about Jesus that are in the Scriptures with his fresh eyes. 00:59:53.600 --> 00:59:55.600 I'll join you Holy Spirit. 00:59:58.600 --> 01:00:01.600 When I watch the sunrise, I'll remember what was said in Job. 01:00:02.600 --> 01:00:06.600 That the morning stars sang as creation was brought into place. 01:00:07.600 --> 01:00:09.600 And you were there Holy Spirit, you were there. 01:00:09.600 --> 01:00:10.600 You were there. 01:00:12.600 --> 01:00:17.600 You remind me of the stripes that still are on the back of Christ, still not gone. 01:00:18.600 --> 01:00:20.600 And I will suddenly know that healing is real. 01:00:23.600 --> 01:00:26.600 I'll be reading a Scripture just like Jesus opened the scroll and read it. 01:00:27.600 --> 01:00:32.600 I'll be reading a Scripture and I'll immediately know that oh shucks, you want to bring this to pass in my life. 01:00:33.600 --> 01:00:34.600 That the Father wants to open something for me. 01:00:34.600 --> 01:00:39.600 There'll be other times when the Father will say to you, tell him that he's special. 01:00:40.600 --> 01:00:41.600 And I'll hear it loud and clear. 01:00:42.600 --> 01:00:47.600 And it'll be all that I need, all the manna I need for the next 40 days as I walk through the wilderness. 01:00:48.600 --> 01:00:51.600 Because I heard you say from the Father that I am special. 01:00:53.600 --> 01:00:58.600 And then the third part is, I'd like to love you back Jesus. 01:00:59.600 --> 01:01:02.600 I'd like to love you Father just like Jesus. 01:01:02.600 --> 01:01:05.600 I'd like to love you Father just as Jesus loved you. 01:01:06.600 --> 01:01:07.600 Just as Jesus loved you. 01:01:08.600 --> 01:01:12.600 And challenge me Lord, ask me, do you love me more than these? 01:01:13.600 --> 01:01:19.600 And may my answer become more and more evident where it'll be yes I love it more than this. 01:01:20.600 --> 01:01:27.600 Yes I love it more than my culture, more than my dignity, more than my job, more than money, more than nationality, more than my plans. 01:01:27.600 --> 01:01:32.600 Jesus this is what we ask for. 01:01:33.600 --> 01:01:35.600 This week allow us to practice this. 01:01:37.600 --> 01:01:40.600 We'll become some of the strongest people on earth. 01:01:43.600 --> 01:01:45.600 Torment free, fear free. 01:01:58.600 --> 01:02:01.600 So we just receive your love right now. 01:02:07.600 --> 01:02:10.600 That's where it all starts because you first loved us. 01:02:16.600 --> 01:02:20.600 So with hands, open hands, with open hands. 01:02:23.600 --> 01:02:24.600 That reflect an open heart. 01:02:28.600 --> 01:02:29.600 We receive your love. 01:02:34.600 --> 01:02:38.600 Lift us up like a child, place us next to your cheek. 01:02:42.600 --> 01:02:47.600 Allow us to hear, I love you, I called you my son and my daughter. 01:02:58.600 --> 01:02:59.600 Shailen can you come up? 01:03:19.600 --> 01:03:20.600 I don't know what to sing about. 01:03:27.600 --> 01:03:28.600 I don't know what to say. 01:03:47.600 --> 01:03:49.600 Matt can you pull up? He knows my name. 01:03:51.600 --> 01:03:53.600 I have a father, he calls me his own. 01:03:57.600 --> 01:03:58.600 I love you. 01:04:27.600 --> 01:04:29.600 I have a father, he calls me his own. 01:04:58.600 --> 01:05:02.600 He knows my name. 01:05:05.600 --> 01:05:09.600 He knows my every thought. 01:05:12.600 --> 01:05:17.600 He sees each tear that falls. 01:05:18.600 --> 01:05:22.600 And he hears me when I call. 01:05:23.600 --> 01:05:25.600 First verse, let's sing this a bit like. 01:05:25.600 --> 01:05:34.600 I have a maker, he formed my heart. 01:05:38.600 --> 01:05:47.600 Before even time began, my life was in his hand. 01:05:47.600 --> 01:05:50.600 He knows my name. 01:05:53.600 --> 01:05:57.600 He knows my every thought. 01:06:00.600 --> 01:06:04.600 He sees each tear that falls. 01:06:05.600 --> 01:06:09.600 And he hears me when I call. 01:06:09.600 --> 01:06:14.600 And he hears me when I call. 01:06:17.600 --> 01:06:27.600 I have a father, he calls me his own. 01:06:27.600 --> 01:06:39.600 He'll never leave me, no matter where I go. 01:06:42.600 --> 01:06:45.600 He knows my name. 01:06:48.600 --> 01:06:53.600 He knows my every thought. 01:06:54.600 --> 01:06:59.600 He sees each tear that falls. 01:07:00.600 --> 01:07:05.600 And he hears me when I call. 01:07:06.600 --> 01:07:09.600 When he made you, sheer love. 01:07:10.600 --> 01:07:12.600 Sheer love. Sheer love. 01:07:13.600 --> 01:07:16.600 That's how I was made. 01:07:17.600 --> 01:07:22.600 Just such a desire to make me so that he could love me. 01:07:24.600 --> 01:07:27.600 Is it any wonder that he knows your name? 01:07:28.600 --> 01:07:31.600 He knows my name. 01:07:34.600 --> 01:07:39.600 He knows my every thought. 01:07:40.600 --> 01:07:45.600 He sees each tear that falls. 01:07:46.600 --> 01:07:50.600 And he hears me when I call. 01:07:50.600 --> 01:07:57.600 I have a maker, I have a maker. 01:07:58.600 --> 01:08:02.600 He formed my heart. 01:08:04.600 --> 01:08:14.600 Before even time began, my life was in his hand. 01:08:15.600 --> 01:08:19.600 He knows my name. 01:08:21.600 --> 01:08:26.600 He knows my every thought. 01:08:27.600 --> 01:08:32.600 He sees each tear that falls. 01:08:33.600 --> 01:08:38.600 And he hears me when I call. 01:08:38.600 --> 01:08:41.600 He hears me when I call. 01:08:42.600 --> 01:08:47.600 He hears me when I call. 01:08:48.600 --> 01:08:53.600 Go in that strength, go in that strength, go in that strength. 01:08:54.600 --> 01:08:56.600 Yeah, and try to practice it. 01:08:57.600 --> 01:09:01.600 I guarantee you every week will make you stronger. 01:09:02.600 --> 01:09:05.600 Yeah. If you need prayer, there'll be people to pray with you. 01:09:05.600 --> 01:09:09.600 Otherwise, I'll see you not next Sunday, but the Sunday after that. 01:09:10.600 --> 01:09:12.600 Cool. Bless you guys.