WEBVTT NOTE Podcast: Acts 29 Vancouver Episode: Presence to Go Publishing Date: 2023-02-19T05:00:44-08:00 Podcast URL: https://acts29.ca Episode URL: https://acts29.ca/presence-to-go/ 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:10.720 Okay, alrighty, guys, so today we talk about presence to go, as in like, is it for here 00:00:10.720 --> 00:00:11.720 or to go? 00:00:11.720 --> 00:00:12.720 To go. 00:00:12.720 --> 00:00:16.400 So, presence to go, yeah. 00:00:16.400 --> 00:00:21.120 Presence to go, girl side pick up. 00:00:21.120 --> 00:00:24.120 Christ Mart, not Walmart. 00:00:24.120 --> 00:00:28.520 It's getting worse by the minute, huh? 00:00:28.520 --> 00:00:29.520 Presence to go. 00:00:29.520 --> 00:00:37.000 See, Marcus and I are old, our jokes are little dad jokes, kind of a thing. 00:00:37.000 --> 00:00:39.000 Yeah. 00:00:39.000 --> 00:00:53.720 So, if you look at Exodus 23, 20 to 22, Exodus 23, 20 to 22, Exodus 23, 20 to 22, it says 00:00:53.720 --> 00:01:01.600 that, see I'm sending an angel ahead of you to guard you along the way and to bring you 00:01:01.600 --> 00:01:03.920 to the place I have prepared. 00:01:03.920 --> 00:01:06.580 Pay attention to him and listen to what he says. 00:01:06.580 --> 00:01:08.460 Do not rebel against him. 00:01:08.460 --> 00:01:12.400 He will not forgive your rebellion since my name is in him. 00:01:12.400 --> 00:01:16.680 If you listen carefully to what he says and do all that I say, I'll be an enemy to your 00:01:16.680 --> 00:01:19.520 enemies and will oppose those who oppose you. 00:01:20.520 --> 00:01:33.080 So, this is God saying to Moses in Exodus 23, shortly after Mount Sinai. 00:01:33.080 --> 00:01:39.760 He says to Moses, see I'm sending an angel ahead of you to guard you along the way, to 00:01:39.760 --> 00:01:41.880 bring you to the place I've prepared. 00:01:41.880 --> 00:01:44.020 Pay attention to him and listen to what he says. 00:01:44.020 --> 00:01:45.020 Do not rebel against him. 00:01:45.020 --> 00:01:50.700 He will not forgive your rebellion since my name is in him. 00:01:50.700 --> 00:01:55.300 If you listen carefully to what he says and do all that I say, I'll be an enemy to your 00:01:55.300 --> 00:01:58.940 enemies, will oppose those who oppose you, my angel will go ahead of you and bring you 00:01:58.940 --> 00:02:02.940 into the land of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Heavites and Jebusites and I'll 00:02:02.940 --> 00:02:04.660 wipe them out. 00:02:04.660 --> 00:02:05.820 That's what he says to them. 00:02:05.820 --> 00:02:21.980 And yet, if you go to Exodus 33, Exodus 33, now we see Moses responding differently. 00:02:21.980 --> 00:02:27.340 Exodus 33 verse 1, the Lord said to Moses, depart, go up from here, you and the people 00:02:27.340 --> 00:02:31.460 whom you have brought up out of the land of Egypt, to the land which I swore to Abraham, 00:02:31.460 --> 00:02:34.900 Isaac and Jacob saying, to your offspring I will give it. 00:02:34.980 --> 00:02:39.220 And he repeats what he says in Exodus 23, I will send an angel before you and I will 00:02:39.220 --> 00:02:43.020 drive out the Canaanites, the Canaanites, the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, 00:02:43.020 --> 00:02:44.820 the Heavites and the Jebusites. 00:02:44.820 --> 00:02:50.020 Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey, but I will not go up among you lest I consume 00:02:50.020 --> 00:02:52.260 you on the way for you are a stiff necked people. 00:02:52.620 --> 00:03:08.020 And that is what then begins Moses' conversation with God where he says in verse 15, here's 00:03:08.020 --> 00:03:14.420 what Moses says, if your presence will not go with me, do not bring us up from here. 00:03:14.420 --> 00:03:18.860 If your presence does not go with us, do not bring me out of here. 00:03:19.460 --> 00:03:26.460 And so at some point Moses realizes that even though all this time God has sent an angel 00:03:26.460 --> 00:03:32.980 to lead them, even though all this time there's an angel with the name of, with God's name 00:03:32.980 --> 00:03:36.940 that has been leading them, Moses is saying, hey it's not enough. 00:03:36.940 --> 00:03:44.740 Moses didn't have this problem earlier, but an angel is not enough. 00:03:44.740 --> 00:03:49.940 He knows that going forward is only possible with presence. 00:03:49.940 --> 00:03:51.380 Gifts are not enough. 00:03:51.380 --> 00:03:55.300 Evangelism is not enough. 00:03:55.300 --> 00:03:58.540 Having an ability to speak to people is not enough. 00:03:58.540 --> 00:04:03.460 Knowing the four laws of the Roman road is not enough. 00:04:03.460 --> 00:04:09.140 Having success in the past is not enough. 00:04:09.140 --> 00:04:10.940 Having mantra is not enough. 00:04:10.940 --> 00:04:14.420 Having an amazing opening with gifted celebrities is not enough. 00:04:15.100 --> 00:04:21.140 The only thing that Moses is willing to leave with, even though he can get the same end 00:04:21.140 --> 00:04:25.500 with the angel, he's refusing it. 00:04:25.500 --> 00:04:26.900 That's a strange thing. 00:04:26.900 --> 00:04:29.100 The end goal he's going to achieve. 00:04:29.100 --> 00:04:31.500 I have promised this land to your fathers. 00:04:31.500 --> 00:04:33.020 I'm going to give it to you. 00:04:33.020 --> 00:04:35.500 Exodus 23, 20, I'll send an angel with you. 00:04:35.500 --> 00:04:36.900 He's been with you all this time. 00:04:36.900 --> 00:04:39.020 In 33 he's reiterating the same thing. 00:04:39.020 --> 00:04:40.380 I'm sending that angel with you. 00:04:40.380 --> 00:04:41.900 I'm not withdrawing that angel. 00:04:41.900 --> 00:04:43.660 You will still enter the promised land. 00:04:43.700 --> 00:04:45.580 I will still keep my promise. 00:04:45.580 --> 00:04:48.580 I will be faithful to what I said to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. 00:04:48.580 --> 00:04:50.180 And Moses is saying, it ain't enough. 00:04:56.540 --> 00:05:03.060 And that should grab us somewhere inside to the point where we respond the same way. 00:05:03.060 --> 00:05:09.340 It ain't enough if presence is, if an awareness of presence isn't there. 00:05:09.340 --> 00:05:10.860 It ain't enough. 00:05:11.860 --> 00:05:19.860 One of the sentences that I preach that has ruined my life is periodic presence, 00:05:19.860 --> 00:05:25.660 periodic awareness of presence was never God's design for man. 00:05:25.660 --> 00:05:30.420 Periodic awareness of presence was never God's design for Jacob. 00:05:30.420 --> 00:05:37.300 Periodic awareness of presence was never God's design for Jacob. 00:05:37.300 --> 00:05:40.180 It ain't enough. 00:05:40.180 --> 00:05:41.460 It ain't enough. 00:05:41.460 --> 00:05:51.100 Because we are happy when we are periodically aware of his presence. 00:05:51.100 --> 00:05:52.500 We seem quite happy. 00:05:52.500 --> 00:05:53.700 Not enough. 00:05:57.700 --> 00:06:02.300 With Jesus and with anything kingdom, there's only two ways to function. 00:06:02.300 --> 00:06:03.900 Lower the bar. 00:06:03.900 --> 00:06:05.300 Lower the bar. 00:06:05.300 --> 00:06:06.300 Lower the bar. 00:06:06.300 --> 00:06:07.300 Lower the bar. 00:06:07.420 --> 00:06:09.420 There are two ways to function. 00:06:09.420 --> 00:06:14.420 Lower the bar and make everyone feel happy about jumping over the bar. 00:06:14.420 --> 00:06:21.420 Or set the bar high because there's a Christ bar that is so high that is always outside our grasp, 00:06:21.420 --> 00:06:24.420 but within our reach if we press in. 00:06:27.420 --> 00:06:29.420 Those are the two ways to do this. 00:06:31.420 --> 00:06:35.420 And so like Moses, you must be convinced in your heart. 00:06:35.420 --> 00:06:36.420 I must be convinced. 00:06:36.540 --> 00:06:37.540 I've been doing this for 34 years. 00:06:37.540 --> 00:06:39.540 Someone asked me this morning when I got born again. 00:06:39.540 --> 00:06:42.540 And I realized I was 24 then. 00:06:42.540 --> 00:06:43.540 I'm 58 now. 00:06:45.540 --> 00:06:46.540 Yeah. 00:06:47.540 --> 00:06:49.540 34 years I've been born again. 00:06:49.540 --> 00:06:52.540 34 years. 00:06:52.540 --> 00:06:57.540 And then you suddenly think to yourself, okay, have you settled for the experience you have, 00:06:57.540 --> 00:07:03.540 for the gifts you have, for the skill you have, for the fact that you've been doing this for 30 years? 00:07:03.660 --> 00:07:06.660 And obviously I do it well, but have you settled for that? 00:07:08.660 --> 00:07:12.660 The only thing Moses was saying is, I don't care that you're going to fulfill your promise. 00:07:12.660 --> 00:07:14.660 I don't care that you're faithful. 00:07:14.660 --> 00:07:16.660 I don't care that you are going to give us the land that you promised. 00:07:16.660 --> 00:07:19.660 I don't care that it is flowing with land, a land flowing with milk and honey. 00:07:19.660 --> 00:07:24.660 I don't care that you're sending an angel that has been with us for all this time. 00:07:28.660 --> 00:07:32.660 If you want me to be involved in this, then I will not go if your presence does not go with me. 00:07:33.660 --> 00:07:40.660 And that should somehow worm itself into the very core of your solar plexus, 00:07:40.660 --> 00:07:43.660 which is this amazing place inside here. 00:07:43.660 --> 00:07:47.660 I don't know, I remember talking about it, studying it again 34 years ago. 00:07:48.660 --> 00:07:53.660 It should be somewhere deep in your core that, Father, everything I do, 00:07:53.660 --> 00:07:59.660 including what I'm doing right now before you, must come only from presence or otherwise. 00:07:59.660 --> 00:08:01.660 It's a mixture. 00:08:01.780 --> 00:08:03.780 It's a mixture. 00:08:07.780 --> 00:08:12.780 The strange thing about Moses is, when he talks about presence, he uses two words. 00:08:12.780 --> 00:08:17.780 How will they know that I am your people? 00:08:17.780 --> 00:08:20.780 And that should be your phrase too. 00:08:20.780 --> 00:08:25.780 It cannot be, how will they know if your presence doesn't go with me? 00:08:25.780 --> 00:08:28.780 How will they know that I am special to you? 00:08:28.900 --> 00:08:34.900 He never says I alone, nor does he say people. 00:08:34.900 --> 00:08:36.900 He always joins it. 00:08:36.900 --> 00:08:42.900 How will they know that I am your people are not distinct, are not special? 00:08:42.900 --> 00:08:45.900 And that must be your phraseology too. 00:08:46.900 --> 00:08:53.900 Oh God, if this is not the core of my being, then how will they know that I, 00:08:53.900 --> 00:08:56.900 because he deals with it individually. 00:08:57.020 --> 00:09:00.020 Sometimes it just takes one person to change everything. 00:09:00.020 --> 00:09:05.020 How will they know that I and your people, they cannot be separated? 00:09:05.020 --> 00:09:09.020 You separate that and presence doesn't work. 00:09:09.020 --> 00:09:12.020 Crazy, presence doesn't work when you separate that. 00:09:19.020 --> 00:09:22.020 Presence doesn't work if they separate that. 00:09:27.020 --> 00:09:38.020 What good is presence to Judah, to Isabel? 00:09:38.020 --> 00:09:48.020 If it isn't with their family, what good is it? 00:09:57.020 --> 00:10:03.020 And then the Lord replies in Exodus 33, 14. 00:10:03.020 --> 00:10:06.020 And here is God. 00:10:06.020 --> 00:10:11.020 I mean the way Moses could change God's mind fascinates me. 00:10:11.020 --> 00:10:13.020 What was it? 00:10:13.020 --> 00:10:15.020 Did he know how God was thinking? 00:10:15.020 --> 00:10:17.020 Did he know the nature of God? 00:10:17.020 --> 00:10:22.020 How is it that he is always able to argue and change God's mind? 00:10:22.020 --> 00:10:25.020 Isn't God's mind unchanging? 00:10:25.140 --> 00:10:28.140 Isn't God very sure of his decisions? 00:10:28.140 --> 00:10:29.140 Does he dilly-dally? 00:10:29.140 --> 00:10:32.140 Does he go one way once and then another way another time? 00:10:33.140 --> 00:10:44.140 But Moses had this amazing in into God, partly because of the time that he would spend with God face to face. 00:10:44.260 --> 00:10:56.260 I know you know this, but the word presence and face come from the same word, panim. 00:11:00.260 --> 00:11:04.260 Presence and face have the same Hebrew word, panim. 00:11:04.260 --> 00:11:10.260 So why is Moses able to figure out how to change God's mind? 00:11:10.380 --> 00:11:19.380 In Exodus 33, when you start reading it, it says Moses had this habit of taking a tent and pitching it outside the camp. 00:11:19.380 --> 00:11:20.380 He had a habit of it. 00:11:20.380 --> 00:11:22.380 He would pitch this tent outside the camp. 00:11:22.380 --> 00:11:23.380 Why? 00:11:23.380 --> 00:11:25.380 Because that's where he would go and meet God. 00:11:25.380 --> 00:11:31.380 And when Moses would enter the tent, the pillar of cloud would move over the tent. 00:11:31.380 --> 00:11:37.380 And Moses and God would talk face to face as one talks to his friend. 00:11:37.500 --> 00:11:43.500 And then when he would come out, all Israel would stand and watch. 00:11:43.500 --> 00:11:45.500 And Moses would come back to the camp. 00:11:45.500 --> 00:11:49.500 But Joshua would still stay at the tent. 00:11:49.500 --> 00:11:51.500 Shows you a couple of things. 00:11:51.500 --> 00:11:57.500 One, if you have gotten into the practice of presence and if you know how to access God, 00:11:57.500 --> 00:11:59.500 take someone with you and help them learn it too. 00:12:01.500 --> 00:12:03.500 It is not meant just for you. 00:12:03.500 --> 00:12:06.500 There is nothing in Christendom that is meant just for you. 00:12:06.620 --> 00:12:11.620 It is always supposed to be go forth, multiply, replenish, subdue. 00:12:12.620 --> 00:12:13.620 Everything. 00:12:13.620 --> 00:12:16.620 There must be nothing that belongs to you. 00:12:16.620 --> 00:12:19.620 Everything is relationally to be deposited. 00:12:21.620 --> 00:12:22.620 Nothing that belongs to you. 00:12:22.620 --> 00:12:24.620 You must leave the earth empty. 00:12:24.620 --> 00:12:26.620 You must leave the earth empty. 00:12:36.620 --> 00:12:38.620 I will leave the earth empty. 00:12:42.620 --> 00:12:45.620 Nothing is just for you. 00:12:45.620 --> 00:12:51.620 So we see then that Moses takes Joshua and goes to the tent of meeting. 00:12:51.620 --> 00:12:54.620 Why? Because he knew, he knew before Joshua knew, 00:12:54.620 --> 00:12:58.620 that he was a kid who would one day end up taking my place. 00:12:58.740 --> 00:13:00.740 Was Joshua being treated specially? 00:13:00.740 --> 00:13:04.740 No, Joshua would be thrown into the worst places by Moses. 00:13:10.740 --> 00:13:16.740 And then Joshua would wait and he would see this God that Moses had just spoken to face to face. 00:13:18.740 --> 00:13:22.740 And because Moses had this kind of an intimacy face to face relationship with God, 00:13:22.860 --> 00:13:25.860 Moses always knew when God would not change and when God would change 00:13:25.860 --> 00:13:28.860 and when he would find any opening, he would take advantage of it. 00:13:30.860 --> 00:13:31.860 Some kids know it, eh? 00:13:34.860 --> 00:13:35.860 They know it. 00:13:38.860 --> 00:13:41.860 This is the difference between religion and relationship. 00:13:41.860 --> 00:13:45.860 We just say religion and relationship as in Christianity is not about religion. 00:13:45.860 --> 00:13:48.860 We just say religion and relationship as in Christianity is not about religion. 00:13:48.980 --> 00:13:53.980 We just say religion and relationship as in Christianity is not a religion, it's a relationship. 00:13:53.980 --> 00:13:58.980 Actually, Christianity is a religion, but in that religion, there is a relationship. 00:14:01.980 --> 00:14:05.980 That relationship continuously progresses till you know how God thinks. 00:14:08.980 --> 00:14:10.980 Till you know how God thinks. 00:14:13.980 --> 00:14:16.980 And that comes only through continuous engagement. 00:14:18.980 --> 00:14:21.980 And based on sheer biblical evidence, 00:14:21.980 --> 00:14:25.980 you come to know it through watching others interact with God. 00:14:29.980 --> 00:14:33.980 Leave any of those elements out and you are the poorest person on earth 00:14:36.980 --> 00:14:37.980 as a Christian. 00:14:38.100 --> 00:14:43.100 And so Moses begins to have this conversation with God saying, 00:14:43.100 --> 00:14:48.100 hey, but I just want you to know that I'm not going to leave 00:14:48.100 --> 00:14:49.100 if your presence doesn't come in. 00:14:49.100 --> 00:14:54.100 So in Exodus 33, 14, Yahweh, the king of the universe, 00:14:54.100 --> 00:14:57.100 who later on says to Moses, enough, do not talk anymore. 00:14:57.100 --> 00:15:00.100 Because Moses says, be quiet, I'm going to leave. 00:15:00.100 --> 00:15:02.100 And he says, I'm going to leave. 00:15:02.100 --> 00:15:04.100 And he says, I'm going to leave. 00:15:04.220 --> 00:15:07.220 Who later on says to Moses, enough, do not talk anymore. 00:15:07.220 --> 00:15:10.220 Because Moses says, please, can I go into the promised land? 00:15:10.220 --> 00:15:12.220 God is saying, hey, go up the mountain, you're coming home. 00:15:12.220 --> 00:15:14.220 You did not hallow me, I'm taking you. 00:15:14.220 --> 00:15:16.220 But you can see the land, but you will not enter. 00:15:16.220 --> 00:15:17.220 And Moses says, please, please. 00:15:17.220 --> 00:15:19.220 God says, enough. 00:15:19.220 --> 00:15:21.220 He actually uses the word enough. 00:15:21.220 --> 00:15:22.220 You're not going. 00:15:22.220 --> 00:15:24.220 And Moses stops, eh? 00:15:26.220 --> 00:15:29.220 And yet here, he has the audacity to say to God, 00:15:29.220 --> 00:15:32.220 you've got a plan, but I'm not in it if you're incoming. 00:15:32.340 --> 00:15:36.340 And God says, all right, Genesis 33, 14, I'll come. 00:15:36.340 --> 00:15:38.340 My presence will go with you. 00:15:40.340 --> 00:15:43.340 Remember, this guy is in the Old Testament. 00:15:45.340 --> 00:15:47.340 He doesn't have any of the advantages 00:15:47.340 --> 00:15:49.340 that everybody in this room right now has. 00:15:55.340 --> 00:15:58.340 That's why it is said of him, he was a type of Jesus. 00:16:02.340 --> 00:16:05.340 And this is the same theme that comes up in Matthew 28, verse 20. 00:16:06.340 --> 00:16:08.340 After the Great Commission, 00:16:09.340 --> 00:16:11.340 the Great Commission is bookended by two statements. 00:16:11.340 --> 00:16:12.340 The first statement is, 00:16:12.340 --> 00:16:14.340 all authority has been given to me in heaven and earth. 00:16:14.340 --> 00:16:16.340 And the other bookend is, 00:16:16.340 --> 00:16:20.340 I will be with you till the end of the age. 00:16:21.340 --> 00:16:22.340 I will be with you. 00:16:22.340 --> 00:16:26.340 As in, hey guys, my presence will be with you as you go. 00:16:27.340 --> 00:16:29.340 That's part of the reason why we're going with this title, 00:16:29.340 --> 00:16:31.340 presence to go. 00:16:32.340 --> 00:16:36.340 Presence wasn't meant just for personal comfort 00:16:36.340 --> 00:16:38.340 in an individual believer's life. 00:16:38.340 --> 00:16:42.340 Presence was meant for the community 00:16:43.340 --> 00:16:46.340 to fulfill the mission and the mandate of Christ. 00:16:46.340 --> 00:16:48.340 That is what presence was meant for. 00:16:50.340 --> 00:16:53.340 I'm Raden, the guy from Dayton, Ohio, 00:16:53.340 --> 00:16:56.340 and Ed, one of the guys in New York, 00:16:56.340 --> 00:16:59.340 both went to Ashbury in Kentucky 00:17:00.340 --> 00:17:01.340 over the last four days. 00:17:01.460 --> 00:17:03.460 And I asked, I spoke to both of them, 00:17:03.460 --> 00:17:05.460 and I asked both of them to be critical 00:17:05.460 --> 00:17:08.460 about the revival that's broken out in Ashbury. 00:17:08.460 --> 00:17:10.460 It started, if you haven't heard about it, 00:17:11.460 --> 00:17:13.460 on the 8th of Feb, 00:17:13.460 --> 00:17:17.460 kids used to gather, as usual, in a chapel in Ashbury, 00:17:17.460 --> 00:17:18.460 because it was part of their curriculum 00:17:18.460 --> 00:17:21.460 that they had to attend three meetings a week. 00:17:21.460 --> 00:17:23.460 So they turned up, someone preached, 00:17:23.460 --> 00:17:24.460 and the preaching was very simple. 00:17:24.460 --> 00:17:26.460 Guys, care less about your degree, 00:17:26.460 --> 00:17:28.460 care more about how much God loves you 00:17:28.460 --> 00:17:30.460 and how you can love him back. 00:17:30.580 --> 00:17:33.580 And in the process, don't know what happened, 00:17:33.580 --> 00:17:37.580 but when chapel was over, 25 or 30 kids remained 00:17:37.580 --> 00:17:41.580 and they started worshiping and praising God. 00:17:41.580 --> 00:17:43.580 And that was on Feb 8th, it still hasn't stopped. 00:17:45.580 --> 00:17:47.580 And so I asked both Ed and Raden, 00:17:47.580 --> 00:17:48.580 so what is happening? 00:17:48.580 --> 00:17:51.580 And Raden's response was, when you go in there, 00:17:51.580 --> 00:17:56.580 there's a humility there that is tangible. 00:17:56.580 --> 00:17:58.580 You can touch it. 00:17:58.700 --> 00:18:00.700 As in, these are kids, and it's strange, 00:18:00.700 --> 00:18:04.700 God has started revivals so many times 00:18:04.700 --> 00:18:06.700 amongst the Methodists. 00:18:06.700 --> 00:18:07.700 You would think he would choose 00:18:07.700 --> 00:18:09.700 Charismatics or Pentecostals, 00:18:09.700 --> 00:18:11.700 but no, he goes for the most 00:18:11.700 --> 00:18:13.700 methodical people in the world, 00:18:13.700 --> 00:18:17.700 the Methodists, and he started so many revivals with them 00:18:17.700 --> 00:18:20.700 because that's where he least expected to happen. 00:18:20.700 --> 00:18:22.700 I was actually complaining to God the day before yesterday 00:18:22.700 --> 00:18:25.700 saying, we've been preparing for this for two years, 00:18:25.700 --> 00:18:26.700 and you go find a bunch of kids 00:18:26.820 --> 00:18:28.820 who turned up there for curriculum, 00:18:28.820 --> 00:18:31.820 but everything good only comes out of Nazareth. 00:18:31.820 --> 00:18:36.820 And so one of the things that they said was, 00:18:36.820 --> 00:18:40.820 there's such humility, such humility. 00:18:40.820 --> 00:18:42.820 And suddenly my prayer has changed. 00:18:42.820 --> 00:18:48.820 Oh God, can I be a warrior that is humble? 00:18:48.820 --> 00:18:50.820 How does that work? 00:18:50.820 --> 00:18:53.820 How do you, on one hand, walk in humility 00:18:53.820 --> 00:18:55.820 and yet robe yourself with the zeal 00:18:55.940 --> 00:18:57.940 and the passion of a warrior? 00:19:00.940 --> 00:19:02.940 But these kids seem to have an odd humility 00:19:02.940 --> 00:19:04.940 where they don't know what is happening, 00:19:04.940 --> 00:19:06.940 they don't know how it started, 00:19:06.940 --> 00:19:08.940 they don't even know how to put their hands around it, 00:19:08.940 --> 00:19:11.940 but they're just submitting to it, 00:19:11.940 --> 00:19:13.940 and they don't know when it'll end, 00:19:13.940 --> 00:19:16.940 they don't know how to keep it going. 00:19:16.940 --> 00:19:19.940 There's a quarter mile of a long line 00:19:19.940 --> 00:19:20.940 because of fire codes, 00:19:20.940 --> 00:19:22.940 some are inquisitive, 00:19:22.940 --> 00:19:23.940 some just want to come there 00:19:24.060 --> 00:19:26.060 and touch something and take it back. 00:19:26.060 --> 00:19:28.060 Different people coming for different reasons, 00:19:28.060 --> 00:19:30.060 but the students there have this odd humility 00:19:30.060 --> 00:19:32.060 and it seems to be very authentic 00:19:32.060 --> 00:19:35.060 from both their reports and both didn't go together. 00:19:35.060 --> 00:19:39.060 Yeah, and different unis in Kentucky 00:19:39.060 --> 00:19:42.060 are now beginning to do their own thing. 00:19:45.060 --> 00:19:50.060 So Matthew 28.20 goes back to this idea of presence. 00:19:50.060 --> 00:19:52.060 Hey, I just want you to know that as I send you 00:19:52.180 --> 00:19:54.180 to the most dangerous mission on the face of the earth, 00:19:54.180 --> 00:19:56.180 I will be with you. 00:19:56.180 --> 00:19:59.180 And then the idea of presence there is that 00:20:03.180 --> 00:20:08.180 the presence of Jesus 00:20:09.180 --> 00:20:14.180 in mission or in the Great Commission 00:20:14.180 --> 00:20:17.180 requires relationship 00:20:17.300 --> 00:20:20.300 not just obedience. 00:20:23.300 --> 00:20:26.300 The presence of Jesus in mission 00:20:26.300 --> 00:20:29.300 requires relationship, not just obedience. 00:20:31.300 --> 00:20:36.300 The presence of Jesus is not for personal comfort, 00:20:39.300 --> 00:20:40.300 not just for, 00:20:40.300 --> 00:20:45.300 the presence of Jesus is not just for personal comfort. 00:20:47.300 --> 00:20:52.300 But for successful completion of mission. 00:20:59.300 --> 00:21:00.300 And here's the third one. 00:21:00.300 --> 00:21:01.300 This I don't know fully about. 00:21:01.300 --> 00:21:03.300 I mean, I can't wrap my head around it. 00:21:03.300 --> 00:21:05.300 In John 14, Jesus says, 00:21:05.300 --> 00:21:07.300 I will not leave you as orphans. 00:21:07.300 --> 00:21:09.300 I will leave you my children. 00:21:09.300 --> 00:21:11.300 I will leave you my children. 00:21:11.300 --> 00:21:13.300 I will leave you my children. 00:21:13.300 --> 00:21:15.300 I will leave you my children. 00:21:15.420 --> 00:21:16.420 I will leave you my orphans. 00:21:16.420 --> 00:21:18.420 I will leave you my Holy Spirit. 00:21:18.420 --> 00:21:19.420 He says that. 00:21:19.420 --> 00:21:21.420 That I will, I'm going away, 00:21:21.420 --> 00:21:23.420 but I'll give you the Holy Spirit. 00:21:23.420 --> 00:21:24.420 But in Matthew 28, 20, 00:21:24.420 --> 00:21:26.420 he's not talking about the Holy Spirit. 00:21:26.420 --> 00:21:29.420 He says, I, Jesus, will be with you. 00:21:29.420 --> 00:21:30.420 When you go out in mission, 00:21:30.420 --> 00:21:32.420 I, Jesus, will be with you. 00:21:32.420 --> 00:21:34.420 I don't understand it, 00:21:34.420 --> 00:21:36.420 but there is a difference. 00:21:36.420 --> 00:21:37.420 He is not saying, 00:21:37.420 --> 00:21:39.420 as you go out on mission, 00:21:39.420 --> 00:21:41.420 my Holy Spirit will be with you. 00:21:41.420 --> 00:21:43.420 He's saying, as you go out on mission, 00:21:43.540 --> 00:21:44.540 Jesus, the Christ, 00:21:44.540 --> 00:21:45.540 the King of the universe, 00:21:45.540 --> 00:21:47.540 will be with you. 00:21:47.540 --> 00:21:49.540 What is the difference? 00:21:49.540 --> 00:21:51.540 I'm not sure. 00:21:51.540 --> 00:21:53.540 But there is something odd that's happening there. 00:21:59.540 --> 00:22:01.540 Why is he on mission? 00:22:01.540 --> 00:22:03.540 Perhaps because he's the commander 00:22:03.540 --> 00:22:05.540 of the armies of heaven. 00:22:05.540 --> 00:22:07.540 Perhaps because this is his mission. 00:22:07.540 --> 00:22:09.540 Because he is the King of the universe. 00:22:09.540 --> 00:22:11.540 Because he has redeemed every person. 00:22:13.540 --> 00:22:15.540 So when you go, 00:22:15.540 --> 00:22:20.540 when we begin to follow the Great Commission, 00:22:20.540 --> 00:22:22.540 and I'm not talking about house churches now. 00:22:22.540 --> 00:22:25.540 When we follow the Great Commission, 00:22:25.540 --> 00:22:27.540 Christ himself, besides the Holy Spirit 00:22:27.540 --> 00:22:28.540 who lives within us, 00:22:28.540 --> 00:22:30.540 Christ himself is with us 00:22:30.540 --> 00:22:32.540 till the end of the age. 00:22:32.540 --> 00:22:33.540 There is someone there. 00:22:33.540 --> 00:22:35.540 There is a fourth man in the fire. 00:22:35.540 --> 00:22:39.540 There is a fourth man in the fire in every mission. 00:22:39.540 --> 00:22:41.540 You challenge Nebuchadnezzar, 00:22:41.660 --> 00:22:43.660 the fourth man turns up. 00:22:46.660 --> 00:22:47.660 Just keep that in the back of your mind 00:22:47.660 --> 00:22:49.660 because I don't know how it works. 00:22:52.660 --> 00:22:54.660 Okay, so presence to go. 00:22:55.660 --> 00:22:57.660 Presence to go 00:23:01.660 --> 00:23:04.660 is when presence is known. 00:23:05.660 --> 00:23:06.660 When presence goes, 00:23:06.660 --> 00:23:07.660 presence is known. 00:23:07.660 --> 00:23:09.660 When presence goes, 00:23:09.660 --> 00:23:10.660 presence is known. 00:23:10.780 --> 00:23:11.780 As in, 00:23:12.780 --> 00:23:13.780 it is most evident, 00:23:13.780 --> 00:23:15.780 the presence of God is most evident to the world 00:23:15.780 --> 00:23:17.780 when the people of presence go. 00:23:17.780 --> 00:23:19.780 The presence of God, 00:23:19.780 --> 00:23:21.780 the presence of God 00:23:21.780 --> 00:23:25.780 is most evident in the world, 00:23:25.780 --> 00:23:28.780 is most evident in the world 00:23:30.780 --> 00:23:35.780 when the people of presence, 00:23:35.780 --> 00:23:37.780 which is us, 00:23:37.900 --> 00:23:40.900 when the people of presence go. 00:23:42.900 --> 00:23:44.900 That's when presence is evident. 00:23:44.900 --> 00:23:46.900 Otherwise, presence is evident within these walls, 00:23:46.900 --> 00:23:49.900 which is not much good because we already know it. 00:23:49.900 --> 00:23:51.900 We just have to walk in the awareness of it. 00:23:51.900 --> 00:23:53.900 But the presence of God 00:23:53.900 --> 00:23:55.900 is most evident in the world 00:23:55.900 --> 00:23:57.900 when the people of presence go. 00:23:57.900 --> 00:23:59.900 If you look at Mark 16, verse 19 and 20, 00:23:59.900 --> 00:24:02.900 Mark 16, verse 19 and 20, 00:24:07.900 --> 00:24:09.900 It's beautiful, the turning of pages, 00:24:09.900 --> 00:24:11.900 which is so rarely heard nowadays. 00:24:17.900 --> 00:24:19.900 Mark 16, verse 19 and 20, 00:24:19.900 --> 00:24:21.900 After the Lord Jesus had spoken to them, 00:24:21.900 --> 00:24:23.900 he was taken up into heaven 00:24:23.900 --> 00:24:25.900 and he sat at the right hand of God. 00:24:25.900 --> 00:24:27.900 Guys, the sitting at the right hand of God, 00:24:27.900 --> 00:24:29.900 why is this so important? 00:24:29.900 --> 00:24:30.900 Why put that in there? 00:24:30.900 --> 00:24:32.900 Because to sit at the right hand of God 00:24:32.900 --> 00:24:34.900 was to be the ruler of everything. 00:24:34.900 --> 00:24:36.900 Nothing is spared now. 00:24:37.020 --> 00:24:40.020 Nothing is accepted, exempted, exempted. 00:24:40.020 --> 00:24:42.020 Nothing is an exception. 00:24:42.020 --> 00:24:44.020 To sit at the right hand of God 00:24:44.020 --> 00:24:47.020 just meant that everything that has breath 00:24:47.020 --> 00:24:50.020 is now under my command. 00:24:53.020 --> 00:24:55.020 Not under my control, under my command. 00:24:55.020 --> 00:24:57.020 If it was under his control, 00:24:57.020 --> 00:24:59.020 he could change everybody into a believer instantly. 00:24:59.020 --> 00:25:01.020 He still gives us the free will to resist. 00:25:01.020 --> 00:25:04.020 But to say he sat at the right hand of God 00:25:04.020 --> 00:25:06.020 is to say that there is nothing 00:25:06.140 --> 00:25:09.140 exempt from my absolute rulership. 00:25:09.140 --> 00:25:10.140 Nothing. 00:25:10.140 --> 00:25:12.140 This is why the pink turbaned man 00:25:12.140 --> 00:25:14.140 and the six foot five guy 00:25:14.140 --> 00:25:16.140 and the guy who was heading north, 00:25:16.140 --> 00:25:18.140 everything now comes together 00:25:18.140 --> 00:25:21.140 because this is not like chess pieces 00:25:21.140 --> 00:25:23.140 being moved by God. 00:25:23.140 --> 00:25:25.140 This is God in his foresight knowing 00:25:25.140 --> 00:25:27.140 who is where, what's in the heart, 00:25:27.140 --> 00:25:29.140 when is he ready, everything known 00:25:29.140 --> 00:25:31.140 because of the sovereign lordship 00:25:31.140 --> 00:25:33.140 that he now exerts from the highest place in the universe. 00:25:33.140 --> 00:25:35.140 There is no other place higher than that. 00:25:35.260 --> 00:25:37.260 It cannot be challenged, it cannot be brought down, 00:25:37.260 --> 00:25:39.260 it cannot be touched, it cannot be interfered with. 00:25:45.260 --> 00:25:48.260 This is not a Southern Baptist Church I have realized. 00:25:53.260 --> 00:25:55.260 Um, thank you. 00:25:55.260 --> 00:25:59.260 Some of that coming from you Brandon. 00:25:59.380 --> 00:26:01.380 Hahaha. 00:26:05.380 --> 00:26:07.380 Hahaha. 00:26:10.380 --> 00:26:12.380 And then it says in verse 20 00:26:12.380 --> 00:26:15.380 then the disciples went out and preached everywhere 00:26:15.380 --> 00:26:17.380 and this is the part where 00:26:17.380 --> 00:26:19.380 the evidence of presence 00:26:19.380 --> 00:26:22.380 is not known till a people of presence go out. 00:26:22.380 --> 00:26:24.380 And then it says in verse 20 00:26:24.380 --> 00:26:26.380 then the disciples went out and preached everywhere 00:26:26.380 --> 00:26:28.380 and the lord worked with them 00:26:28.380 --> 00:26:33.500 confirmed his word by signs that accompanied it. The Lord worked with 00:26:33.500 --> 00:26:37.500 them. This is when Jesus Christ turns up. The Lord worked with them. It's not even 00:26:37.500 --> 00:26:40.820 the Holy Spirit who lives in you, who's telling you what to do, giving 00:26:40.820 --> 00:26:46.100 you direction. But when you're actually going out, the presence that is present 00:26:46.100 --> 00:26:53.140 with you is the Christ himself. The Lord worked with them. 00:26:58.380 --> 00:27:19.340 There's a song by Amy Grant which even Mike won't know. The song is called 00:27:19.340 --> 00:27:24.420 Mountaintop and here's what it says, I love to sing, I love to praise, I love to 00:27:24.420 --> 00:27:29.820 worship God in every way. I go to the mountain and I like to stay to worship 00:27:29.820 --> 00:27:34.980 the Lord night and day and then it says but I've got to come down from the 00:27:34.980 --> 00:27:39.180 mountaintop to the people of the valley below or they will they'll never know 00:27:39.180 --> 00:27:45.300 that they can go to the mountain of the Lord. Beautifully. I love to be on the 00:27:45.300 --> 00:27:49.420 mountaintop but I know I've got to come down from the mountaintop to the valley 00:27:49.420 --> 00:27:57.580 below or they'll never know that they can go to the mountain of the Lord. So 00:27:57.580 --> 00:28:06.180 the premise is if I go out then people will see someone who is highly favored, 00:28:06.180 --> 00:28:11.740 distinguished from the rest of the earth. People will see that you belong to a 00:28:11.740 --> 00:28:17.580 kingdom that they would now desire to enter. Less I go, presence is not known. 00:28:17.580 --> 00:28:21.100 Unless I go, presence is not known and we'll do something about it today. 00:28:21.100 --> 00:28:28.220 Unless I go, presence is not known. In Wally, presence is known because people 00:28:28.220 --> 00:28:36.380 are going out. When we hear these stories I sit here and marvel because there's a 00:28:36.380 --> 00:28:42.500 going out happening and the presence of God is known. They think it's 00:28:42.500 --> 00:28:47.340 natural, like we would think it's natural to hear God but what about the man who 00:28:47.340 --> 00:28:51.020 started weeping? What about the others who are being touched? They get to know 00:28:51.020 --> 00:28:57.740 the presence of God because the people of presence go. Any questions before we 00:28:57.740 --> 00:29:08.180 move on? Any questions? If you go people will know what presence looks like. Very 00:29:08.180 --> 00:29:31.660 simple. If you go people will know what presence looks like. 00:29:31.660 --> 00:29:42.940 Go to Numbers 14 verse 14. Numbers 14 verse 14. 00:29:42.940 --> 00:30:08.860 Look at it eh? Verse 14. Moses is saying to God and they will tell the 00:30:09.860 --> 00:30:14.860 inhabitants of this land about it. They've already heard that you oh Lord are with these people. 00:30:14.860 --> 00:30:21.420 That you oh Lord have been seen face to face. That your cloud stays over them. 00:30:21.420 --> 00:30:26.460 That you go before them in a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night. 00:30:26.460 --> 00:30:35.260 This is what they would say about Israel. Israel, yeah we've heard of them. They are the people of 00:30:35.260 --> 00:30:43.700 whom we have heard where the Lord has been seen by them face to face. Where the cloud of God 00:30:43.700 --> 00:30:48.500 stays over them. That he goes before them in a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by 00:30:48.500 --> 00:31:00.420 night. Go to Deuteronomy chapter 4. Deuteronomy 4. 32 to 37. Deuteronomy 4. 32 to 37. 00:31:00.420 --> 00:31:15.060 This is God speaking now. Deuteronomy 4. 32 to 37. Ask now about the former days. 00:31:15.100 --> 00:31:21.460 Long before your time from the day God created man on earth. Ask from one end of the heavens 00:31:21.460 --> 00:31:27.220 to the other. This is what makes them so distinct. What is God saying? Hey go check your history. 00:31:27.220 --> 00:31:33.660 Go read Moses's books. Check from Genesis on till today. Has there ever been a nation that was 00:31:33.660 --> 00:31:40.060 treated like this by God? And is the same thing that he wants to display it again? Saying hey if 00:31:40.060 --> 00:31:44.500 you go out others will see presence and they will begin to say the same thing. So let's read that 00:31:44.500 --> 00:31:48.620 again. Ask now about the former days. Long before your time from the day God created man on earth. 00:31:48.620 --> 00:31:53.580 Ask from one end of the heavens to the other. Has anything so great as this ever happened or has 00:31:53.580 --> 00:31:58.780 anything like it ever been heard of? Has any other people heard the voice of God speaking out of the 00:31:58.780 --> 00:32:04.420 fire as you haven't lived? Has any God ever tried to take for himself one nation out of another 00:32:04.420 --> 00:32:09.700 nation by testings, by miraculous signs and wonders, by war, by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, 00:32:09.700 --> 00:32:14.940 or by great and awesome deeds like all the things the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your 00:32:14.940 --> 00:32:20.140 very eyes. Your words matter when you begin to stand here and tell people that the presence of 00:32:20.140 --> 00:32:27.380 God affects my car or that my daughter has learned how to cry out for the presence of God. These are 00:32:27.380 --> 00:32:33.580 things that in a church like this may seem small but out there to people in the world it becomes 00:32:33.580 --> 00:32:43.060 bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger. But it's presence to go. It's not presence to keep 00:32:43.060 --> 00:32:54.700 here and share testimonies. Presence to go. The things I do as a pastor. And yet they don't call 00:32:54.700 --> 00:33:08.140 me pastor. What to do, Sophie? Sorry, I might pick on you a few times about that. Here's the 00:33:08.140 --> 00:33:17.620 next one. Presence must lead. Presence must lead. Presence must lead for presence to go with you. 00:33:17.620 --> 00:33:27.460 Presence must lead for presence to go with you. Meaning where God leads, His presence will go. 00:33:27.460 --> 00:33:32.900 Where God leads, His presence will go. God has to lead. You can't take His presence where He doesn't 00:33:32.900 --> 00:33:42.540 want to go. This is why you find Acts 16. To go to Acts 16, there are places God doesn't want to 00:33:42.540 --> 00:33:48.700 go at present with you. It may be your favorite place to go but it doesn't matter. He ain't going. 00:33:48.700 --> 00:34:04.620 Acts 16, verse 6. And they went through the region of Phrygia in Galatia having been forbidden by the 00:34:04.620 --> 00:34:09.740 Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia. And when they had come to Mycea, they attempted to go into 00:34:09.740 --> 00:34:14.940 Bithynia but the Spirit of Jesus did not allow them to. So passing by Mycea, they went down to 00:34:14.940 --> 00:34:20.540 Troas and a vision appeared to Paul in the night. A man of Macedonia was standing there urging him 00:34:20.540 --> 00:34:25.420 and saying, come over to Macedonia and help us. And when Paul had seen the vision, immediately we 00:34:25.420 --> 00:34:29.580 sought to go into Macedonia concluding that God had called us to preach the gospel to them. 00:34:30.220 --> 00:34:37.100 The presence must lead for the presence to go with you. The presence of God must lead us. 00:34:37.820 --> 00:34:42.220 It can't be where I want to go. It can't be where you want to go. It must be where he wants to go. 00:34:45.100 --> 00:34:56.060 Go to Exodus 13, verse 21. I mean Israel was a picture of what God wanted to do 00:34:56.060 --> 00:34:59.660 with the New Testament church. Exodus 13, verse 21. 00:34:59.660 --> 00:35:11.100 Beautiful, eh? Let's start at verse 20. Exodus 13, verse 20. After leaving Sukkot, they camped at 00:35:11.660 --> 00:35:17.660 Aetham on the edge of the desert. By day the Lord went ahead of them in a pillar of cloud 00:35:17.660 --> 00:35:22.940 to guide them on their way, and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light, so that they 00:35:22.940 --> 00:35:28.380 could travel by day or night. Neither the pillar of cloud by day nor the pillar of fire by night 00:35:28.380 --> 00:35:32.940 left its place in the front of people. What is it saying? Hey, I was trying to show you through 00:35:32.940 --> 00:35:37.260 Israel that my presence dwells with you forever. The only difference is I don't dwell outside you, 00:35:37.260 --> 00:35:43.900 I dwell inside you, and it is permanent. Day and night I'll always be there. It doesn't matter 00:35:43.900 --> 00:35:48.140 whether you're sleeping or waking, my presence is permanent. And now that it is permanent, 00:35:48.140 --> 00:35:56.860 when I get up, you get up. When I say no, you stay down. If I only park here for two hours, 00:35:56.860 --> 00:36:01.020 park here for two hours. Just when you've set everything up and you're going to sleep, 00:36:01.020 --> 00:36:06.620 I might start moving again. Move! When you go to the left, we go to the left. That song is fun 00:36:06.620 --> 00:36:13.740 because we're only doing two steps. But when we sing that song, what we are saying is, 00:36:14.860 --> 00:36:18.380 Holy Spirit, if you go to the left, I'll go to the left. If you go to the right, I'll go to the right. 00:36:18.460 --> 00:36:25.340 Jump, jump, jump, jump. This is an old pattern of God. 00:36:31.420 --> 00:36:35.180 When presence leads, presence goes with you. 00:36:40.780 --> 00:36:46.940 And presence was leading a nation. Does presence lead us individually? Yes. But 00:36:46.940 --> 00:36:48.300 you accomplish nothing individually. 00:36:57.660 --> 00:37:02.860 I love it. And the Lord went before them by day in a pillar of cloud to lead them or guide them 00:37:02.860 --> 00:37:07.420 along the way, and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light, that they may travel by day 00:37:07.420 --> 00:37:10.700 and by night. He didn't care, eh? Sometimes they would have to travel at night. 00:37:11.660 --> 00:37:17.660 Imagine a million people following this huge pillar of fire and they're walking in the middle 00:37:17.660 --> 00:37:23.340 of the night. And there are scorpions, there are snakes. They all scurry away. There are nations 00:37:23.340 --> 00:37:29.660 watching and they began to call the God who led Israel the dread of Jacob because they were afraid 00:37:29.660 --> 00:37:35.580 of him. The nations were in fear. Crazy, man. Imagine a million people. 00:37:35.580 --> 00:37:39.340 Okay. Next one. If presence leads, 00:37:46.300 --> 00:37:53.500 I don't know why my... If presence leads, presence defeats the enemy. 00:37:56.060 --> 00:37:58.780 If presence leads, presence defeats the enemy. 00:37:59.020 --> 00:38:00.060 Defeats the enemy. 00:38:02.620 --> 00:38:05.180 If presence leads, presence defeats the enemy. 00:38:07.820 --> 00:38:09.340 Exodus 14 verse 19. 00:38:14.380 --> 00:38:16.540 The same angel that Moses didn't want to go with, 00:38:18.780 --> 00:38:22.860 it was very effective those days. Then the angel of the Lord who had been traveling in front of 00:38:22.860 --> 00:38:29.100 Israel's army withdrew and went behind them. The pillar of cloud also moved from in front 00:38:29.740 --> 00:38:35.580 and stood behind them. Two different things, man. Do you see what's happening there? The angel 00:38:35.580 --> 00:38:40.300 moves behind them. So God sent an angel to clear the way amongst the Heavites, 00:38:40.300 --> 00:38:45.420 Perizzites, Kinnonites and so on. But the pillar of cloud was his Shekinah, was him. 00:38:46.220 --> 00:38:52.620 And then there's an angel too. The angel withdraws and goes behind. And then the pillar of cloud, 00:38:53.340 --> 00:38:57.580 the glory of God now moves from the front to the back. And now see what happens. 00:38:59.260 --> 00:39:05.420 Throughout the night, the cloud brought darkness to one side and light to the other side. So the 00:39:05.420 --> 00:39:12.860 neither went near the other all night long. You're talking about 12, 13 hours from 6 p.m. today to 00:39:12.860 --> 00:39:20.620 6 a.m. tomorrow. There's this huge pillar in the middle of two nations. And it's a blazing fire 00:39:20.620 --> 00:39:25.740 pillar. But the blazing fire pillar has a strange thing. It shows light on one side and darkness on 00:39:25.740 --> 00:39:33.900 the other side. And you cannot go around it. Just impossible. For 12, 13 hours, while one group walks 00:39:33.900 --> 00:39:41.500 into safety, the other group is being set up for failure. When presence goes and the presence... 00:39:42.060 --> 00:39:46.700 So here's what we're saying. If you do not go, you will not see evidence of... the world will not see 00:39:46.700 --> 00:39:50.860 evidence of the presence. If you go, you must follow the presence. Because where the presence 00:39:50.860 --> 00:39:55.740 leads, that's where we must go. If presence leads, then the enemy is defeated. Because it becomes light 00:39:55.740 --> 00:40:01.580 to some and darkness to the other. The aroma of death to some, the fragrance of life to others. 00:40:06.140 --> 00:40:12.220 And so what happens? Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea and all that night the Lord 00:40:12.300 --> 00:40:17.420 drove the sea back with a strong east wind and turned it into dry land. The waters were divided 00:40:17.420 --> 00:40:21.740 and the Israelites went through the sea on dry ground with a wall of water on their right and 00:40:21.740 --> 00:40:27.180 on their left. The Egyptians pursued them and all pharaohs, horses and chariots and horsemen followed 00:40:27.180 --> 00:40:32.300 them into the sea. During the last watch of the night, which must be about 3 a.m. to 6 a.m., 00:40:33.340 --> 00:40:37.900 the Lord looked down from the pillar of fire and cloud and the Egyptian army was thrown into 00:40:37.900 --> 00:40:42.380 confusion. And then a strange thing begins to happen. They hear this rattling and the rattling 00:40:42.380 --> 00:40:48.620 is the sound of the wheels of the chariots coming off. What kind of God is this, man? And you think 00:40:48.620 --> 00:41:00.140 he can't do it again? But how will we know if he does it again? If he don't? Geo. 00:41:08.060 --> 00:41:17.340 The same God who made chariot wheels come off is the same God who can fix the engine light 00:41:20.060 --> 00:41:23.740 and who can make iron axes float to the surface. 00:41:26.540 --> 00:41:31.340 We're becoming less and less used to the impossible and people get more and more 00:41:31.900 --> 00:41:35.980 people get duller to the impossible when people stop going out. 00:41:41.100 --> 00:41:47.820 People get duller to the impossible or the supernatural as the people begin to choose 00:41:49.580 --> 00:41:50.780 not to go out. 00:41:53.980 --> 00:41:57.260 Okay, if presence leads, presence defeats the enemy, let's look at another scripture. 00:41:58.220 --> 00:42:01.260 If presence leads, presence defeats the enemy, let's look at another scripture. 00:42:02.540 --> 00:42:09.020 Isaiah 19 verse 1. There's one simple line but so powerful. Isaiah 19 verse 1. 00:42:14.460 --> 00:42:15.660 Just so you know what happens. 00:42:15.660 --> 00:42:19.180 This is what actually happens. You don't see it but this is what actually happens. 00:42:20.380 --> 00:42:26.380 I've seen this with Chad a few times when we've gone to certain places. 00:42:29.100 --> 00:42:34.540 An article concerning Egypt. See the Lord rides on a swift cloud and is coming to Egypt. 00:42:34.540 --> 00:42:37.820 The idols of Egypt are coming to Egypt. The Lord is coming to Egypt. 00:42:37.820 --> 00:42:40.620 The Lord is coming to Egypt. The Lord is coming to Egypt. 00:42:41.580 --> 00:42:44.860 See the Lord rides on a swift cloud and is coming to Egypt. 00:42:44.860 --> 00:42:49.900 The idols of Egypt tremble before him and the hearts of the Egyptians melt within them. 00:42:50.540 --> 00:42:54.860 The idols of Egypt tremble before the presence of God. Depending on the version you read, 00:42:54.860 --> 00:42:57.900 it says the idols of Egypt tremble before the presence of God. 00:43:00.220 --> 00:43:06.300 That is fear in the enemy when people are aware of presence. Think of it like this. 00:43:06.300 --> 00:43:06.800 Listen. 00:43:10.540 --> 00:43:20.620 Wondered creatures of the forest, the animals of the forest, tremble if Aslan is right behind you. 00:43:25.020 --> 00:43:33.020 In Chronicles of Narnia, little Lucy is unafraid because Aslan is right there. 00:43:33.740 --> 00:43:41.740 When he roars, sometimes it gives life. When he roars, sometimes it destroys all opposition 00:43:42.940 --> 00:43:46.140 and knees begin to tremble at the roar of Aslan. 00:43:48.940 --> 00:43:54.940 The idols of Egypt tremble when the people are aware of the presence of Aslan with them. 00:43:57.340 --> 00:44:00.780 When you're not aware of that presence, and this is why earlier I was saying, 00:44:00.860 --> 00:44:09.180 Father, what does it look like to have amazing humility but robed in a warrior's zeal? 00:44:10.780 --> 00:44:13.180 Jesus managed that really well. 00:44:24.620 --> 00:44:30.060 Here's another thing presence does. Presence gets people an awareness of presence 00:44:30.780 --> 00:44:51.180 that goes, gets people battle ready, battle ready. 00:44:51.180 --> 00:45:12.180 To know Aslan is to awaken people, awaken others into the warrior spirit. 00:45:12.180 --> 00:45:20.180 I want you to know, and I've said this before but I'll say it again because I said it a long time ago, 00:45:20.180 --> 00:45:44.180 that it is impossible to advance the kingdom without conflict and warfare. 00:45:44.180 --> 00:46:00.180 That kingdom implies warfare, and warfare has no context without kingdom. 00:46:00.180 --> 00:46:06.180 Which is why we've been talking about kingdom, kingdom, kingdom, presence, king and king, kingdom. 00:46:07.180 --> 00:46:12.180 One doesn't exist without the other. This is the story of the Old Testament and the New Testament. 00:46:12.180 --> 00:46:18.180 In the Old Testament, every battle and every war was about one simple thing. 00:46:18.180 --> 00:46:27.180 In Genesis 3 it was said that the seed of the woman will crush the head of the serpent. 00:46:27.180 --> 00:46:33.180 As soon as that was said, there was only one thing that the serpent wanted. 00:46:33.180 --> 00:46:40.180 Can I destroy the seed of the woman? Can I destroy the woman so that the seed of the woman will not be born? 00:46:40.180 --> 00:46:44.180 Every battle in the Old Testament is only about that. 00:46:44.180 --> 00:46:51.180 Can the seed of the woman be prevented from being born? Can Israel be removed? 00:46:51.180 --> 00:46:58.180 Why was there weeping in Rama? Why was Herod slaughtering kids? 00:46:58.180 --> 00:47:03.180 Why was Herod doing what Pharaoh had done years ago? Because Moses was the type of Jesus. 00:47:03.180 --> 00:47:08.180 Why were Jacob's sons on the verge of being annihilated? 00:47:08.180 --> 00:47:15.180 Why in the Old Testament was this continuous effort to decimate Israel? 00:47:15.180 --> 00:47:21.180 Why have the festival of Purim where the Israelites were given a chance by Esther to fight back? 00:47:21.180 --> 00:47:25.180 Why was Haman trying to destroy Israel? 00:47:25.180 --> 00:47:32.180 They didn't know that they were players in a plot that began in Genesis 3 and did not finish till Christ rose from the dead. 00:47:32.180 --> 00:47:38.180 Why were there multiple attempts to try and throw Jesus off the cliff? 00:47:38.180 --> 00:47:44.180 And He said, you can't take my life, it's not in your hands. 00:47:44.180 --> 00:47:50.180 Why? Because this is very simple. If the seed of the woman is born, the seed of the serpent will be crushed. 00:47:50.180 --> 00:47:56.180 So prevent the seed of the woman being born. And every Old Testament battle is just about that. 00:47:56.180 --> 00:47:59.180 And then Christ comes, dies, rises again. And now it changes. 00:47:59.180 --> 00:48:01.180 Now it is no longer the seed of the woman that must be crushed. 00:48:01.180 --> 00:48:07.180 Now the seed of the woman has grown up into a man-child from Revelation 12 and 13. 00:48:07.180 --> 00:48:12.180 Who is now here on earth. And it is the body of Christ. 00:48:12.180 --> 00:48:18.180 And you think that the New Testament will spare you from conflict for the advancement of the kingdom? 00:48:18.180 --> 00:48:23.180 This kingdom will not advance except through conflict and warfare. 00:48:23.180 --> 00:48:30.180 And to no presence is the greatest weapon in battle. 00:48:30.180 --> 00:48:35.180 But we don't need to fight if we don't go. 00:48:35.180 --> 00:48:40.180 We don't need to fight if we don't go. 00:48:40.180 --> 00:48:45.180 I will still go to heaven. 00:48:50.180 --> 00:48:55.180 Any questions? 00:48:55.180 --> 00:49:00.180 Oi! 00:49:00.180 --> 00:49:05.180 Any questions? He asked questions before I gave him time. 00:49:05.180 --> 00:49:10.180 Any questions guys? 00:49:10.180 --> 00:49:15.180 Any questions guys? 00:49:15.180 --> 00:49:20.180 You understand what he is saying, Tony? 00:49:20.180 --> 00:49:25.180 He is saying learn to play instruments better. 00:49:25.180 --> 00:49:30.180 Okay, next one. 00:49:31.180 --> 00:49:36.180 Presence gives rest. 00:49:36.180 --> 00:49:41.180 Presence gives rest. 00:49:41.180 --> 00:49:46.180 Presence gives rest. 00:49:46.180 --> 00:49:51.180 Presence gives rest. 00:49:51.180 --> 00:49:56.180 Isaiah 63? What? I mean did I offend you? 00:49:56.180 --> 00:50:01.180 Okay, next one guys, later. 00:50:01.180 --> 00:50:06.180 Quietly trying to slip out. No chance. 00:50:06.180 --> 00:50:11.180 Isaiah 63... 00:50:11.180 --> 00:50:16.180 Isaiah 63 was suddenly a mass exodus. 00:50:16.180 --> 00:50:21.180 Isaiah 63, 11-14. 00:50:21.180 --> 00:50:24.620 Recall the days of old, the days of Moses and his people. 00:50:24.620 --> 00:50:29.340 Where is he who brought them through the sea with the shepherd of his flock? 00:50:29.340 --> 00:50:35.700 Where is he who set his Holy Spirit among them, who sent his glorious arm of power 00:50:35.700 --> 00:50:39.420 to be at Moses's right hand, who divided the waters before them, 00:50:39.420 --> 00:50:42.020 to gain for himself everlasting renown? 00:50:42.020 --> 00:50:46.420 Who led them through the depths like a horse in open country that did not stumble, 00:50:46.420 --> 00:50:48.300 like cattle that go down to the plain? 00:50:48.300 --> 00:50:50.820 They were given rest by the Spirit of the Lord. 00:50:50.860 --> 00:50:54.020 This is how you guided your people to make yourself a glorious name. 00:50:54.020 --> 00:51:00.700 Guys, rest gives God a glorious name. 00:51:02.060 --> 00:51:17.660 Because at the heart of rest is the principle that I will not do anything more than he asks 00:51:17.700 --> 00:51:34.620 so that he is the doer and I am just the wrong English word, obeyer. 00:51:37.820 --> 00:51:45.380 Rest is his ability in hostile terrain under tremendous pressure to not strive, 00:51:46.340 --> 00:52:06.820 not strive, not sweat, not generate ways of self sustenance, no self effort. 00:52:06.820 --> 00:52:18.420 Whoa! Two people go out, three people come in. No self effort, no machinations. 00:52:18.420 --> 00:52:30.380 Nothing. This is what rest looks like. And so, presence gives rest and rest gives God a glorious 00:52:30.380 --> 00:52:34.780 name because you will not do anything more than he asks so that he is the doer and I'm just the 00:52:34.780 --> 00:52:38.940 obeyer. I will not strive, will not sweat, will not generate ways of self sustenance, 00:52:38.940 --> 00:52:43.180 no self effort, no machinations. Nothing. In hostile terrain. 00:52:43.180 --> 00:52:46.300 Will not try any which way to provide for myself. 00:52:46.300 --> 00:52:50.500 It's crazy. It goes against everything the world says. 00:52:50.500 --> 00:52:56.380 Which one? No machinations. Machinations as in, 00:52:56.380 --> 00:53:04.820 if I want him to sit here, like to have all kinds of schemes and plans and all the stuff. 00:53:04.820 --> 00:53:13.180 Yeah. To just do nothing to make things happen is what rest is. 00:53:13.180 --> 00:53:18.140 And our immediate response is, but shouldn't we plan? 00:53:18.140 --> 00:53:25.140 Answer is, not unless he tells you to. Crazy. 00:53:25.140 --> 00:53:30.140 I just took care of that question because about six people wanted to ask that question. 00:53:30.140 --> 00:53:34.700 So, no you don't unless he tells you to. 00:53:34.700 --> 00:53:43.860 Yeah. Karen and Dawn and Emily just came back from Vernon and from what I heard, 00:53:43.860 --> 00:53:49.140 they did a really good job. And I believe Dawn spoke really well. 00:53:49.140 --> 00:53:56.460 It happens occasionally when we send them. So this is what rest looks like. 00:53:56.460 --> 00:54:02.660 Any questions on that? Exodus 33 verse 14. 00:54:02.660 --> 00:54:07.180 What does God say? Hey Moses, I'll come with you and my presence will give you rest. 00:54:07.180 --> 00:54:13.780 Any questions? Okay. Moving on. 00:54:14.220 --> 00:54:18.220 Presence comes with angelic armies. Presence comes with angelic armies. 00:54:18.220 --> 00:54:24.220 Presence comes with angelic. 00:54:29.220 --> 00:54:34.540 Thank God. Today I decided to teach long. Otherwise you would have come here and none of us would have been here. 00:54:34.540 --> 00:54:42.940 Had it been any other week. Presence comes with angelic armies. 00:54:43.100 --> 00:54:56.100 And angels aid in helping people inherit salvation. 00:54:56.100 --> 00:54:59.100 What, where is scripture for all this? 00:54:59.100 --> 00:55:04.100 So the first one is, the first scripture is Deuteronomy 33. 00:55:04.100 --> 00:55:07.100 Deuteronomy 33, 2 to 5. 00:55:07.100 --> 00:55:11.100 And the second one is Hebrews 1, 14. 00:55:11.260 --> 00:55:14.260 So in Deuteronomy 33, 2 to 5, let me sum it up for you. 00:55:14.260 --> 00:55:18.260 It says God and his presence comes on Mount Sinai. 00:55:18.260 --> 00:55:23.260 When he comes on Mount Sinai, he comes with thousands and thousands and thousands of angels. 00:55:23.260 --> 00:55:27.260 That is how he arrives. When his presence is there, when his presence is in a place. 00:55:27.260 --> 00:55:32.260 I mean, thank God our eyes don't always open to his presence. 00:55:32.260 --> 00:55:37.260 Because if we saw who he comes with, if we saw the angelic hosts that always accompany him, 00:55:37.420 --> 00:55:40.420 we would all be lying down and worshipping. 00:55:40.420 --> 00:55:43.420 And none of us would be getting up till someone comes and says, do not fear. 00:55:43.420 --> 00:55:46.420 And then you would be able to get up. Because nobody sees an angel and says, 00:55:46.420 --> 00:55:49.420 whoa, I saw an angel. Doesn't work like that. 00:55:49.420 --> 00:55:54.420 And so with his presence comes a host of angels. 00:55:54.420 --> 00:55:58.420 And in Hebrews 1, 14 it says, do you not know? 00:55:58.420 --> 00:56:01.420 Do you want to go and sit there? She's doing stuff at you. 00:56:01.420 --> 00:56:04.420 My God, right across. 00:56:07.420 --> 00:56:10.420 This is a very distracting church. 00:56:14.420 --> 00:56:18.420 I'm teaching on angels and salvation and she's doing this. 00:56:27.420 --> 00:56:30.420 Alrighty, done? Okay. 00:56:32.420 --> 00:56:35.420 Hebrews 1, 14. 00:56:35.580 --> 00:56:38.580 Hebrews 1, 14. 00:56:41.580 --> 00:56:44.580 It says in Hebrews 1, 14, 00:56:46.580 --> 00:56:53.580 Are not all angels, ministering spirits, sent to serve those who will inherit salvation? 00:56:55.580 --> 00:56:58.580 How does teaching this help? 00:56:58.580 --> 00:57:03.580 At some point in the middle of us going out, you will remember. 00:57:03.740 --> 00:57:07.740 At some point when you're approaching a group of guys that you know, 00:57:07.740 --> 00:57:10.740 run a what? House trap or trap house? 00:57:10.740 --> 00:57:13.740 Trap house, yeah. 00:57:13.740 --> 00:57:18.740 So when you approach a group running a trap house, suddenly you know. 00:57:18.740 --> 00:57:22.740 This kicks in because the Holy Spirit has the ability to bring to mind what has been taught. 00:57:22.740 --> 00:57:25.740 And it kicks in and you know that there is angelic presence here. 00:57:25.740 --> 00:57:28.740 And as I go, I may be afraid, but it begins to disappear. 00:57:28.740 --> 00:57:32.740 Because angels are sent to minister, to those that are to inherit salvation. 00:57:32.900 --> 00:57:36.900 We don't see the activity, we don't know what it looks like, so we don't have an idea. 00:57:36.900 --> 00:57:40.900 But most of the reasons we don't have an idea is because we don't go. 00:57:40.900 --> 00:57:44.900 Our lack of understanding of certain scriptures in the Bible 00:57:44.900 --> 00:57:48.900 is because we have not been able to use it in actual going. 00:57:48.900 --> 00:57:51.900 How come missionaries have stories? 00:57:57.900 --> 00:58:00.900 Presence comes with angelic army. 00:58:01.060 --> 00:58:04.060 Presence comes with angelic armies. 00:58:04.060 --> 00:58:06.060 Two more and we're done. 00:58:06.060 --> 00:58:10.060 Presence shelters. 00:58:10.060 --> 00:58:13.060 Presence shelters. 00:58:13.060 --> 00:58:16.060 You can read Revelation 7.15 where God says, 00:58:16.060 --> 00:58:19.060 I shelter people with my presence. 00:58:19.060 --> 00:58:21.060 And that is one thing. 00:58:21.060 --> 00:58:24.060 What I love is presence shelters you from the schemes of men. 00:58:24.060 --> 00:58:30.060 Presence shelters from the schemes of or plots of men. 00:58:30.220 --> 00:58:33.220 And this is super important when we start going out 00:58:33.220 --> 00:58:37.220 or when you indulge in anything that God is sending you out for. 00:58:37.220 --> 00:58:39.220 There will be people that oppose you. 00:58:39.220 --> 00:58:42.220 Some of the people that oppose you will be people from within the community of God. 00:58:42.220 --> 00:58:47.220 And some of the people that oppose you will be people from the world. 00:58:47.220 --> 00:58:49.220 Both. 00:58:49.220 --> 00:58:53.220 When you read Nehemiah chapter 6, you see the opposition the guy faces. 00:58:53.220 --> 00:58:56.220 Sanballat, Tobiah, Gashem. 00:58:56.220 --> 00:58:58.220 They all come against him. 00:58:58.380 --> 00:58:59.380 Some of them are Israelites. 00:58:59.380 --> 00:59:01.380 Some of them are quasi-Israelites. 00:59:01.380 --> 00:59:02.380 Some of them are not. 00:59:02.380 --> 00:59:03.380 But they all come against him. 00:59:03.380 --> 00:59:04.380 Why? 00:59:04.380 --> 00:59:08.380 Because he's been sent to build a wall and they want to prevent him. 00:59:08.380 --> 00:59:12.380 So presence shelters from the schemes and plots of men. 00:59:12.380 --> 00:59:14.380 Psalm 31 verse 20. 00:59:14.380 --> 00:59:17.380 That your presence of God has the ability to shelter me from the strife of tongues, 00:59:17.380 --> 00:59:21.380 from the schemes of men, from the plots of men you keep me safe. 00:59:23.380 --> 00:59:25.380 Hey! 00:59:25.540 --> 00:59:28.540 It's words that discourage us. 00:59:28.540 --> 00:59:30.540 It's words that discourage us. 00:59:32.540 --> 00:59:37.540 If I could show you the words that are sent to me or spoken to me every week, 00:59:37.540 --> 00:59:41.540 that are meant to discourage me, you'd be surprised. 00:59:43.540 --> 00:59:46.540 And then some years ago I learned a trick. 00:59:46.540 --> 00:59:52.540 Learn how every time negative words are spoken and resistance is given. 00:59:52.700 --> 00:59:55.700 Learn how to have your dynamo charged by it. 00:59:55.700 --> 00:59:59.700 And if there is no resistance and no negative words to discourage you, 00:59:59.700 --> 01:00:01.700 question whether you're on the right track. 01:00:06.700 --> 01:00:11.700 Once we begin this pathway of, okay, this is what is the mandate given to me 01:00:11.700 --> 01:00:13.700 and I need to walk on it, 01:00:13.700 --> 01:00:17.700 know that words will be spoken to discourage and dismantle you. 01:00:17.860 --> 01:00:22.860 It's been happening for thousands and thousands and thousands of years. 01:00:22.860 --> 01:00:26.860 Doesn't matter whether it's Jesus, whether it's David, whether it's Moses. 01:00:26.860 --> 01:00:29.860 And it sometimes happens to people close to you. 01:00:29.860 --> 01:00:31.860 Who was trying to strip Moses? 01:00:31.860 --> 01:00:33.860 Miriam, Aaron. 01:00:33.860 --> 01:00:35.860 Who was trying to strip Jesus? 01:00:35.860 --> 01:00:38.860 Mary, his brothers and sisters. 01:00:41.860 --> 01:00:44.860 And to be able to get to a point where resistance, 01:00:45.020 --> 01:00:48.020 just begins to rev you up. 01:00:48.020 --> 01:00:51.020 The more you resist, the more you get revved up. 01:00:51.020 --> 01:00:54.020 The more you resist, the more you get revved up. 01:00:58.020 --> 01:01:01.020 I don't want to say like George Bush said, bring it on, but... 01:01:04.020 --> 01:01:06.020 How do we resist? 01:01:06.020 --> 01:01:09.020 No, no, I'm saying resisting is a bad thing. 01:01:09.020 --> 01:01:10.020 Yeah. 01:01:10.020 --> 01:01:13.020 But when there is negative resistance, 01:01:13.180 --> 01:01:16.180 one should only get charged up more. 01:01:21.180 --> 01:01:23.180 Last one. 01:01:23.180 --> 01:01:25.180 This is so beautiful. 01:01:30.180 --> 01:01:33.180 Presence covers what you steward. 01:01:33.180 --> 01:01:36.180 Presence covers what you steward. 01:01:39.180 --> 01:01:41.180 It's odd, eh? 01:01:41.340 --> 01:01:43.340 It's odd, eh? 01:01:43.340 --> 01:01:46.340 On one hand, it is OK to confess to people 01:01:48.340 --> 01:01:52.340 the failures and the sins and the shortcomings you have. 01:01:55.340 --> 01:01:58.340 Sometimes it's OK to confess to a church 01:01:58.340 --> 01:02:03.340 the troubles you face in the position I'm in. 01:02:05.340 --> 01:02:08.340 You need to be aware of it. 01:02:11.340 --> 01:02:14.340 Let me get your attention back so you actually hear me. 01:02:14.340 --> 01:02:17.340 Because I think it's important. 01:02:17.340 --> 01:02:21.340 As much as I'm OK confessing my faults and my shortcomings 01:02:21.340 --> 01:02:23.340 and my failures before you, 01:02:23.340 --> 01:02:25.340 and sometimes it may even disturb you 01:02:25.340 --> 01:02:27.340 to know that we have a pastor who has these failures, 01:02:27.340 --> 01:02:29.340 shortcomings and flaws, 01:02:29.340 --> 01:02:32.340 it may disturb you, and I'm OK about doing that. 01:02:32.340 --> 01:02:35.340 But you also need to hear the trouble 01:02:35.340 --> 01:02:39.340 that I actually sometimes go through every week. 01:02:39.500 --> 01:02:42.500 You need to be aware of it and try not to add to it. 01:02:45.500 --> 01:02:47.500 Just wanted to add that too, 01:02:47.500 --> 01:02:49.500 because it's not just one side, eh? 01:02:49.500 --> 01:02:51.500 Multiple sides to this. 01:02:58.500 --> 01:03:01.500 Presence covers what you steward. 01:03:01.500 --> 01:03:05.500 Presence covers what you steward with the goodness 01:03:09.500 --> 01:03:11.500 or the glory of God. 01:03:11.500 --> 01:03:14.500 This is the last point. It's a beautiful point. 01:03:16.500 --> 01:03:18.500 Presence covers what you steward 01:03:18.500 --> 01:03:20.500 with the goodness or the glory of God. 01:03:20.500 --> 01:03:23.500 What it means is, now that you're aware of presence 01:03:23.500 --> 01:03:25.500 and you've gone into a mission, 01:03:25.500 --> 01:03:27.500 be it Wally or be it anything you do, 01:03:27.500 --> 01:03:29.500 be it taking care of your three kids, 01:03:29.500 --> 01:03:31.500 be it taking care of Mia, 01:03:31.500 --> 01:03:33.500 once you do that, 01:03:33.500 --> 01:03:36.500 presence covers what you steward with the glory of God. 01:03:36.660 --> 01:03:39.660 The goodness of God suddenly covers what you're stewarding. 01:03:39.660 --> 01:03:41.660 The goodness of God, the power of God, 01:03:41.660 --> 01:03:44.660 the laughter of God, the presence of God, 01:03:44.660 --> 01:03:46.660 it begins to cover what you're stewarding. 01:03:46.660 --> 01:03:48.660 Look at what Moses does. 01:03:48.660 --> 01:03:50.660 As soon as he knows 01:03:50.660 --> 01:03:53.660 that God is willing to send his presence with him, 01:03:53.660 --> 01:03:55.660 what's Moses' next sentence? 01:03:55.660 --> 01:03:57.660 Whoever does stuff like that, no man has done it. 01:03:57.660 --> 01:04:00.660 As soon as he realizes God's presence is going with him, 01:04:00.660 --> 01:04:01.660 Moses' next question is, 01:04:01.660 --> 01:04:03.660 oh, by the way, now that you've given me what I asked 01:04:03.660 --> 01:04:04.660 and I've changed your mind, 01:04:04.820 --> 01:04:06.820 now, have a look at your glory. 01:04:06.820 --> 01:04:10.820 God says, sure, I'll let you see my goodness. 01:04:10.820 --> 01:04:13.820 Guys, if you're faithful over what you're stewarding, 01:04:13.820 --> 01:04:16.820 expect, ask, saying, oh God, please, 01:04:16.820 --> 01:04:20.820 I want to catch the descent of your goodness 01:04:20.820 --> 01:04:23.820 upon this thing that I'm stewarding. 01:04:23.820 --> 01:04:25.820 It could be your daughter 01:04:25.820 --> 01:04:28.820 or it could be some massive mission, 01:04:28.820 --> 01:04:31.820 but God's glory covers 01:04:31.820 --> 01:04:33.820 what you steward with his presence. 01:04:33.980 --> 01:04:38.980 God's glory covers what you steward with his presence. 01:04:38.980 --> 01:04:43.980 God's glory covers what you steward with his presence. 01:04:44.980 --> 01:04:49.980 So I'm done, but here's what we will do in response. 01:05:03.980 --> 01:05:05.980 These are three places we're gonna go. 01:05:07.980 --> 01:05:10.980 We'll go to Victoria, not a house tour. 01:05:10.980 --> 01:05:11.980 We'll go to Victoria 01:05:11.980 --> 01:05:14.980 and see what we need to start in Victoria. 01:05:14.980 --> 01:05:16.980 We'll go to Nanaimo. 01:05:16.980 --> 01:05:18.980 I can see Nanaimo from my house. 01:05:18.980 --> 01:05:20.980 I can see you as you go. 01:05:20.980 --> 01:05:22.980 We'll go to Nanaimo. 01:05:22.980 --> 01:05:23.980 We'll go to Nanaimo 01:05:23.980 --> 01:05:26.980 and we will start what God wants there. 01:05:26.980 --> 01:05:28.980 And then we'll go to UBC 01:05:28.980 --> 01:05:32.980 and we'll start something in or around UBC. 01:05:33.140 --> 01:05:36.140 Victoria, Nanaimo and UBC 01:05:36.140 --> 01:05:38.140 does not need a visa or a passport. 01:05:38.140 --> 01:05:40.140 Sorry, it does, but these places don't. 01:05:48.140 --> 01:05:49.140 Yeah. 01:05:49.140 --> 01:05:52.140 It's the city but not the street. 01:05:52.140 --> 01:05:54.140 It's the city but not the street? 01:05:54.140 --> 01:05:55.140 Oh, no, no. 01:05:55.140 --> 01:05:57.140 My God, this is a tough church. 01:05:57.140 --> 01:05:58.140 I said Victoria and Nanaimo 01:05:58.140 --> 01:06:00.140 and he wants to go to the street. 01:06:03.140 --> 01:06:06.140 New. 01:06:08.140 --> 01:06:11.140 It is, these are the islands. 01:06:11.140 --> 01:06:13.140 On the island. 01:06:13.140 --> 01:06:14.140 Pardon? 01:06:14.140 --> 01:06:15.140 They're on the island. 01:06:15.140 --> 01:06:16.140 They're on the island, yeah. 01:06:16.140 --> 01:06:18.140 They are not the streets. 01:06:18.140 --> 01:06:20.140 I can see Sheldon hanging out 01:06:20.140 --> 01:06:23.140 at the Golden Seafood on Victoria. 01:06:26.140 --> 01:06:28.140 Yeah, that's where we went, right? 01:06:28.140 --> 01:06:29.140 That's on Victoria. 01:06:29.140 --> 01:06:31.140 Western Lake, yeah. 01:06:31.300 --> 01:06:33.300 Yeah, these are on the island 01:06:33.300 --> 01:06:35.300 but these are accessible. 01:06:35.300 --> 01:06:36.300 These are closed. 01:06:36.300 --> 01:06:38.300 These can be visited multiple times. 01:06:38.300 --> 01:06:40.300 This is closer than Vernon. 01:06:43.300 --> 01:06:46.300 So we will take these three places 01:06:46.300 --> 01:06:48.300 immediately, immediately, 01:06:48.300 --> 01:06:50.300 without needing to wait. 01:06:50.300 --> 01:06:52.300 And what will it look like? 01:06:52.300 --> 01:06:55.300 We'll have to follow the presence of God 01:06:55.300 --> 01:06:57.300 to know how he leads. 01:06:57.300 --> 01:07:00.300 So the plan ahead would be pointless. 01:07:00.460 --> 01:07:02.460 It's not like repeating something we've done. 01:07:02.460 --> 01:07:03.460 Let him lead. 01:07:03.460 --> 01:07:05.460 Yeah. 01:07:05.460 --> 01:07:07.460 Every week I want to do communion 01:07:07.460 --> 01:07:09.460 but then when we get to 1.10 01:07:09.460 --> 01:07:10.460 I think to myself, 01:07:10.460 --> 01:07:12.460 how are we going to do communion? 01:07:12.460 --> 01:07:17.460 But I would like to today. 01:07:17.460 --> 01:07:19.460 So let's break bread. 01:07:19.620 --> 01:07:20.620 Let's break bread. 01:07:20.620 --> 01:07:22.620 Yeah. 01:07:32.620 --> 01:07:34.620 Because you break bread in the house, 01:07:34.620 --> 01:07:36.620 I think to myself, it's okay. 01:07:36.620 --> 01:07:38.620 But together we just want to break bread today. 01:07:38.620 --> 01:07:40.620 Just take the bread and hold it. 01:07:40.620 --> 01:07:42.620 We'll eat it together. 01:07:46.620 --> 01:07:48.620 And we eat and drink together 01:07:48.780 --> 01:07:50.780 and we eat and drink together. 01:07:50.780 --> 01:07:52.780 Thank you. 01:08:18.780 --> 01:08:20.780 I'll check it. 01:08:22.780 --> 01:08:24.780 Cool. 01:08:35.780 --> 01:08:37.780 Can I have a... 01:08:37.780 --> 01:08:39.780 Can I have the bread? 01:08:42.780 --> 01:08:44.780 Thanks. 01:08:44.780 --> 01:08:46.780 Thank you. 01:08:46.940 --> 01:08:48.940 Thanks. 01:08:50.940 --> 01:08:52.940 Guys, if you have children, 01:08:52.940 --> 01:08:54.940 let them have it too. 01:08:54.940 --> 01:08:58.940 Let them know that there's not some mystical thing 01:08:58.940 --> 01:09:00.940 that it's okay to have it too. 01:09:00.940 --> 01:09:02.940 And you can tell them when they grow up. 01:09:02.940 --> 01:09:05.940 So don't hesitate. 01:09:08.940 --> 01:09:10.940 They'll just eat it as a cracker 01:09:10.940 --> 01:09:12.940 and that's fine. 01:09:12.940 --> 01:09:14.940 But they participate in everything else 01:09:15.100 --> 01:09:17.100 but when it comes to this, stop it. 01:09:17.100 --> 01:09:18.100 This is holy. 01:09:18.100 --> 01:09:20.100 What was the rest of it? 01:09:20.100 --> 01:09:22.100 So we don't want to do that. 01:09:22.100 --> 01:09:24.100 So... 01:09:24.100 --> 01:09:26.100 Father, 01:09:26.100 --> 01:09:28.100 as we take the bread and the cup, 01:09:30.100 --> 01:09:32.100 what do you want us to do with this? 01:09:32.260 --> 01:09:34.260 Father, as we break this bread, 01:09:34.260 --> 01:09:36.260 would you... 01:09:41.260 --> 01:09:43.260 Guys, how do we go about this? 01:09:43.260 --> 01:09:45.260 I want to connect it to what we were teaching. 01:09:45.260 --> 01:09:47.260 How do we go about this? 01:09:51.260 --> 01:09:53.260 So, 01:09:53.260 --> 01:09:55.260 I want to ask you, 01:09:55.260 --> 01:09:57.260 what do you want us to do with this? 01:09:57.260 --> 01:09:59.260 So, 01:09:59.420 --> 01:10:01.420 any thoughts? 01:10:05.420 --> 01:10:07.420 This is a physical reminder 01:10:07.420 --> 01:10:09.420 of what is happening in the spiritual. 01:10:09.420 --> 01:10:11.420 Okay. 01:10:11.420 --> 01:10:13.420 It's an awareness of what Christ did and what he's done. 01:10:13.420 --> 01:10:15.420 And then, 01:10:15.420 --> 01:10:17.420 and you've done, 01:10:17.420 --> 01:10:19.420 after you've already came and 01:10:19.420 --> 01:10:21.420 you've put it in us. 01:10:21.420 --> 01:10:23.420 It's something to remember. 01:10:23.420 --> 01:10:25.420 Okay. 01:10:25.420 --> 01:10:27.420 So on one hand, it is an awareness of what Christ has done 01:10:27.580 --> 01:10:29.580 for us on the cross. 01:10:29.580 --> 01:10:31.580 He was sent, 01:10:31.580 --> 01:10:33.580 and then he said, 01:10:33.580 --> 01:10:35.580 as I was sent, I now send you. 01:10:35.580 --> 01:10:37.580 What were you saying, Diana? 01:10:37.580 --> 01:10:39.580 It's a physical reminder of what's happening in the spiritual. 01:10:39.580 --> 01:10:41.580 Explain. 01:10:41.580 --> 01:10:43.580 We can hold these in our hands. 01:10:43.580 --> 01:10:45.580 Right? 01:10:45.580 --> 01:10:47.580 Yes. 01:10:47.580 --> 01:10:49.580 It's limited to what we can hold in our hands. 01:10:49.580 --> 01:10:51.580 It's a physical reminder. 01:10:51.580 --> 01:10:53.580 Everything is in front of us. 01:10:53.580 --> 01:10:55.580 Okay. Anyone else? 01:10:55.740 --> 01:10:57.740 It's a tangible representation of his presence. 01:10:57.740 --> 01:10:59.740 It's a tangible representation of his presence. 01:10:59.740 --> 01:11:01.740 Amen. 01:11:01.740 --> 01:11:03.740 Yeah. 01:11:03.740 --> 01:11:05.740 We eat, 01:11:05.740 --> 01:11:07.740 it's Exodus 24, 01:11:07.740 --> 01:11:09.740 they ate and drank with God. 01:11:09.740 --> 01:11:11.740 His presence is here, and yet, 01:11:11.740 --> 01:11:13.740 this is a tangible symbolic presence 01:11:13.740 --> 01:11:15.740 in our hands that we are participating in. 01:11:15.740 --> 01:11:17.740 Anything else? 01:11:17.740 --> 01:11:19.740 Sorry? 01:11:19.740 --> 01:11:21.740 Yeah. 01:11:21.740 --> 01:11:23.740 As I have poured out my life for you, 01:11:23.900 --> 01:11:25.900 please go and pour out your life for others. 01:11:25.900 --> 01:11:27.900 As I have poured out my life for you, 01:11:27.900 --> 01:11:29.900 can you go and pour out your life for others? 01:11:29.900 --> 01:11:31.900 What else? 01:11:31.900 --> 01:11:33.900 We all participate. 01:11:33.900 --> 01:11:35.900 We all participate together in this. 01:11:35.900 --> 01:11:37.900 It's not an individual eating. 01:11:37.900 --> 01:11:39.900 It is sharing his presence, 01:11:39.900 --> 01:11:41.900 sharing the bread of presence. 01:11:41.900 --> 01:11:43.900 There used to be a thing called the bread of presence. 01:11:43.900 --> 01:11:45.900 It's sharing. 01:11:45.900 --> 01:11:47.900 So, what else? 01:11:47.900 --> 01:11:49.900 Because you can't do this on your own. 01:11:49.900 --> 01:11:51.900 This is Jesus. 01:11:52.060 --> 01:11:54.060 This represents Jesus' physical body 01:11:54.060 --> 01:11:56.060 which went to places for others 01:11:56.060 --> 01:11:58.060 and went to the cross for others. 01:11:58.060 --> 01:12:00.060 Yeah. 01:12:00.060 --> 01:12:02.060 This is a representation of Jesus' physical body 01:12:02.060 --> 01:12:04.060 which went to places for others 01:12:04.060 --> 01:12:06.060 and went to the cross. 01:12:06.060 --> 01:12:08.060 And therefore, 01:12:08.060 --> 01:12:10.060 can it be an example for me 01:12:10.060 --> 01:12:12.060 to go to places for others 01:12:12.060 --> 01:12:14.060 and suffer 01:12:14.060 --> 01:12:16.060 for the sake of Christ, 01:12:16.060 --> 01:12:18.060 King, Gospel and Kingdom? 01:12:18.060 --> 01:12:20.060 What else? 01:12:20.220 --> 01:12:22.220 As we eat and drink of this, 01:12:22.220 --> 01:12:24.220 we carry what Christ's mission was 01:12:24.220 --> 01:12:26.220 here on earth, we carry it forward. 01:12:26.220 --> 01:12:28.220 What else? 01:12:28.220 --> 01:12:30.220 As we eat and drink of this, 01:12:30.220 --> 01:12:32.220 we remember that his body was broken 01:12:32.220 --> 01:12:34.220 not for Christians, his blood was shed 01:12:34.220 --> 01:12:36.220 not for Christians, not even for the Church. 01:12:36.220 --> 01:12:38.220 That it was broken and shed 01:12:38.220 --> 01:12:40.220 for the Earth, 01:12:40.220 --> 01:12:42.220 for mankind. 01:12:42.220 --> 01:12:44.220 And we remember that 01:12:44.220 --> 01:12:46.220 the blood of Jesus was shed 01:12:46.220 --> 01:12:48.220 for the people of the world. 01:12:48.380 --> 01:12:50.380 This is the earth, for mankind. 01:12:50.380 --> 01:12:52.380 This buys back all creation. 01:12:52.380 --> 01:12:54.380 This reconciles all creation 01:12:54.380 --> 01:12:56.380 when it is received. 01:12:56.380 --> 01:12:58.380 It is just so we have received it, so we remember it. 01:12:58.380 --> 01:13:00.380 Those that haven't received it cannot remember it. 01:13:00.380 --> 01:13:02.380 What else? 01:13:06.380 --> 01:13:08.380 Sorry? 01:13:08.380 --> 01:13:10.380 Feeding. 01:13:10.380 --> 01:13:12.380 Actually, he did it with Elijah, 01:13:12.380 --> 01:13:14.380 he did it with 01:13:14.380 --> 01:13:16.380 someone else to wear. 01:13:16.540 --> 01:13:18.540 He said, eat this and it will sustain you. 01:13:18.540 --> 01:13:20.540 And he says it in John chapter 6, 01:13:20.540 --> 01:13:22.540 this will give you life. 01:13:22.540 --> 01:13:24.540 This is not bread that your forefathers ate, 01:13:24.540 --> 01:13:26.540 this is bread from heaven that will give you life. 01:13:26.540 --> 01:13:28.540 What else? 01:13:32.540 --> 01:13:34.540 This is a family sharing a meal. 01:13:34.540 --> 01:13:36.540 Yeah, it is. 01:13:36.540 --> 01:13:38.540 It's completely okay for Gene to say no, 01:13:38.540 --> 01:13:40.540 and it's completely okay for Aaron to make noises. 01:13:40.540 --> 01:13:42.540 Because, no, no, 01:13:42.540 --> 01:13:44.540 really, I just want us to understand 01:13:44.700 --> 01:13:46.700 what is happening. This is how families eat. 01:13:46.700 --> 01:13:48.700 The Passover was not a silent meal. 01:13:48.700 --> 01:13:50.700 The Passover was a frantic meal. 01:13:50.700 --> 01:13:52.700 Which doesn't mean you have to keep doing it. 01:13:56.700 --> 01:13:58.700 No, but I just 01:13:58.700 --> 01:14:00.700 want to take away 01:14:00.700 --> 01:14:02.700 what we consider a solemn situation. 01:14:02.700 --> 01:14:04.700 I want us to remember 01:14:04.700 --> 01:14:06.700 who Christ is in our midst. 01:14:06.700 --> 01:14:08.700 Who Christ is in our midst. 01:14:08.700 --> 01:14:10.700 What else? 01:14:10.700 --> 01:14:12.700 What else? 01:14:14.700 --> 01:14:16.700 You want to pray? 01:14:16.700 --> 01:14:18.700 Come here, come up. 01:14:20.700 --> 01:14:22.700 She likes bread. 01:14:22.700 --> 01:14:24.700 Yeah, good for you. 01:14:26.700 --> 01:14:28.700 Anything else, guys? 01:14:28.700 --> 01:14:30.700 Okay. 01:14:30.700 --> 01:14:32.700 Now let's eat. 01:14:32.700 --> 01:14:34.700 Jesus, we've talked about this, and now we eat. 01:14:34.700 --> 01:14:36.700 In the knowledge of the... 01:14:36.700 --> 01:14:38.700 This is what is called remembering. 01:14:38.700 --> 01:14:40.700 This is what remembrance looks like. 01:14:40.700 --> 01:14:42.700 So we eat. 01:14:45.180 --> 01:14:47.180 Here we go. 01:14:47.180 --> 01:14:49.180 In the temple. 01:14:49.180 --> 01:14:51.600 Battle. 01:14:51.600 --> 01:14:53.600 What for we ask? 01:14:53.600 --> 01:14:55.600 For it is an omen. 01:14:57.600 --> 01:14:59.600 Right, maybe the caravan needs to hijack 01:14:59.600 --> 01:15:01.600 the fire from the theft. 01:15:01.600 --> 01:15:03.600 What's the cause, I don't think? 01:15:03.600 --> 01:15:05.600 To destroy this veneration. 01:15:05.600 --> 01:15:07.600 Right now, we are分鐘 מנ película 01:15:07.600 --> 01:15:09.600 and after we are done warming up 01:15:09.600 --> 01:15:11.600 possibly you'll need a preparation 01:15:11.600 --> 01:15:13.600 for the war. 01:15:13.600 --> 01:15:18.600 of your sins. This is the blood that I'm shedding for you to write a new 01:15:18.600 --> 01:15:26.520 agreement not just with you as Christians but with the earth. So Jesus 01:15:26.520 --> 01:15:37.320 we recognize you as the leader, as a head, and we follow you. We follow not an 01:15:37.320 --> 01:15:43.720 angel but we follow you. Please oh God change this church from a church that 01:15:43.720 --> 01:15:49.360 enjoys presence to a church that goes in presence. 01:15:49.360 --> 01:15:54.840 Whatever the wording is about, presence to go, presence to go. Jesus, 01:15:54.840 --> 01:16:03.640 amazing, brave, courageous, champion leader, please now accept our commitment 01:16:03.640 --> 01:16:10.680 to follow you out. Let Victoria change, let Nanaimo change, let UBC have 01:16:10.680 --> 01:16:15.480 something new happening besides all the other churches that work there. We come 01:16:15.480 --> 01:16:21.420 in humility but we come to be cloaked in the robes of warriors. This is what we 01:16:21.420 --> 01:16:24.920 ask for now as we drink. We lift our glasses to you and we acknowledge you 01:16:24.920 --> 01:16:29.560 Jesus as our champion, as our leader, as the magnificent Christ, as the king of 01:16:29.600 --> 01:16:33.280 the universe, and as the one that is present right now in our midst. We 01:16:33.280 --> 01:16:41.560 acknowledge you as we drink now in Jesus name, Amen. It is good to do communion 01:16:41.560 --> 01:16:50.240 with the church. Thank you. We won't have a concluding song so leave when you have 01:16:50.240 --> 01:16:54.880 to. If you need prayer feel free to come up and someone would pray with you.