WEBVTT NOTE Podcast: Acts 29 Vancouver Episode: Ps. 91 - Hearing With Faith Publishing Date: 2024-08-18T06:04:44-07:00 Podcast URL: https://acts29.ca Episode URL: https://acts29.ca/ps-91-hearing-with-faith/ 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:13.360 Because of our trust in God and the way Psalm 91 portrays Him. 00:00:13.360 --> 00:00:17.920 Psalm 91 wasn't written by David, it was written by Moses. 00:00:17.920 --> 00:00:20.360 So it's a psalm by Moses. 00:00:20.360 --> 00:00:25.880 But before we go into that psalm, one of the things we have to do to grasp the psalm the 00:00:25.880 --> 00:00:29.560 way it is, is to hear with faith. 00:00:29.560 --> 00:00:32.400 To hear with faith. 00:00:32.400 --> 00:00:38.800 If you don't hear with faith, then many things in the Bible, many things that God says won't 00:00:38.800 --> 00:00:39.800 become a reality. 00:00:39.800 --> 00:00:40.800 We have to hear with faith. 00:00:40.800 --> 00:00:44.840 And so I want to talk about what does it look to hear with faith. 00:00:44.840 --> 00:00:46.440 We had talked about this in 2017. 00:00:46.440 --> 00:00:52.240 We felt it was time to just visit it again. 00:00:53.000 --> 00:00:58.400 How is it that Moses can say, even in the Old Testament, without having the Spirit indwell 00:00:58.400 --> 00:01:01.080 him like the Spirit of God indwells us? 00:01:01.080 --> 00:01:19.880 How is it that Moses, in Psalm 91, he's just brimming with doubt-free, confident expectation 00:01:19.880 --> 00:01:25.560 in God? 00:01:25.560 --> 00:01:31.080 Everything in that psalm is so absolutely sure that this is who God is, this is how 00:01:31.080 --> 00:01:32.360 He'll behave. 00:01:32.360 --> 00:01:36.520 Every declaration, He makes it so confident, so doubt-free. 00:01:36.520 --> 00:01:42.560 Part of it was based on his experience, but part of it was because he had this ability 00:01:42.560 --> 00:01:47.720 to both see God and to hear Him, but hear Him with faith. 00:01:47.720 --> 00:01:49.440 And I want to talk about that. 00:01:50.000 --> 00:02:02.440 Normal hearing is just the physical receiving of sounds. 00:02:02.440 --> 00:02:05.600 That's what most of us think of when we think of hearing. 00:02:05.600 --> 00:02:12.400 When we think of hearing, we think of physically receiving, physical receiving of sounds. 00:02:12.400 --> 00:02:13.920 So that's what's happening right now. 00:02:13.920 --> 00:02:15.800 I'm speaking and you can hear me. 00:02:15.840 --> 00:02:20.240 And so often, when we hear the Word of God or when we read the Word of God, that's how 00:02:20.240 --> 00:02:21.240 we take it in. 00:02:21.240 --> 00:02:23.240 We just hear the physical sound. 00:02:23.240 --> 00:02:25.080 But there's a difference. 00:02:25.080 --> 00:02:29.080 God says, can you hear with faith instead of just hearing? 00:02:29.080 --> 00:02:35.280 And the scriptures that go over it again and again, Galatians 3 talks about it, Hebrews 00:02:35.280 --> 00:02:38.320 4 talks about it, and we look at those scriptures. 00:02:38.320 --> 00:02:40.120 Can you not just hear? 00:02:40.120 --> 00:02:44.320 Can you hear with faith? 00:02:44.320 --> 00:02:54.000 At any moment, if we hear with faith, God's Word comes alive immediately in a way that 00:02:54.000 --> 00:02:56.400 is transforming immediately. 00:02:56.400 --> 00:03:01.640 And so hearing with our ears is just hearing physical sound. 00:03:01.640 --> 00:03:29.760 So hearing with faith would be receiving or accepting a report from God, about God, 00:03:29.760 --> 00:03:37.360 of God, immediately. 00:03:37.360 --> 00:03:59.720 First in your spirit, then in your soul, which is your emotions and mind, and then doing 00:03:59.720 --> 00:04:09.680 something about it with your body. 00:04:09.680 --> 00:04:14.080 This is why if you read the King James Version of Hebrews 11, 2, it talks about faith as 00:04:14.080 --> 00:04:16.160 a substance of things unseen. 00:04:16.160 --> 00:04:22.240 Then it says, the patriarchs of old or the heroes of the Old Testament obtained this 00:04:22.240 --> 00:04:26.760 faith by receiving a good report. 00:04:27.760 --> 00:04:32.240 And they would hear a report about God and instantly they were able to hear it and receive 00:04:32.240 --> 00:04:35.160 it. 00:04:35.160 --> 00:04:36.960 It wasn't just hearing with physical ears. 00:04:36.960 --> 00:04:40.320 They would hear it and they would instantly receive it. 00:04:40.320 --> 00:04:44.600 How does Abraham go to a burning bush and instantly receive all that God is saying? 00:04:44.600 --> 00:04:49.600 Yes, he hesitates, but his path was already set. 00:04:49.600 --> 00:04:52.520 How does Mary receive it? 00:04:52.520 --> 00:04:54.040 Zechariah couldn't, Mary did. 00:04:54.040 --> 00:04:58.160 The difference between Mary and Zechariah, even though the words were the same, both 00:04:58.160 --> 00:05:00.400 ask how can this be? 00:05:00.400 --> 00:05:06.600 But one receives it, one hears with faith, the other does not hear with faith. 00:05:06.600 --> 00:05:09.800 One who hears with faith births Christ. 00:05:09.800 --> 00:05:16.120 One who does not hear with faith goes dumb. 00:05:16.120 --> 00:05:17.520 That's the other thing. 00:05:17.520 --> 00:05:24.280 As we hear the word, if we do not receive it with faith and make a practice of not hearing 00:05:24.280 --> 00:05:29.000 with faith, over a period of time our hearts get dull. 00:05:29.000 --> 00:05:30.720 Sclerosis happens. 00:05:30.720 --> 00:05:33.040 The thickening of the heart happens. 00:05:33.040 --> 00:05:37.680 Faith therefore is an essential part of how I hear. 00:05:37.680 --> 00:05:44.560 How I hear the word, how I read the word, how I hear the Spirit of God speak to me. 00:05:44.560 --> 00:05:47.400 All three. 00:05:47.440 --> 00:05:48.880 Any questions on that? 00:05:48.880 --> 00:05:52.840 And we first, we can only receive the things of God in our spirit. 00:05:52.840 --> 00:05:55.560 We are spirit people. 00:05:55.560 --> 00:05:56.560 We are spirit people. 00:05:56.560 --> 00:06:01.280 We receive things in our spirit. 00:06:01.280 --> 00:06:03.600 God dwells in our spirit. 00:06:03.600 --> 00:06:09.360 We may not have cultivated the practice of receiving in our spirit, but that's something 00:06:09.360 --> 00:06:12.840 that we all have to continuously press towards. 00:06:12.840 --> 00:06:17.120 When I read the word, can I know things not by the mind? 00:06:17.160 --> 00:06:20.600 It's one of the curses of Western civilization. 00:06:20.600 --> 00:06:26.720 One of the curses of Western civilization, of enlightenment, of postmodernism. 00:06:26.720 --> 00:06:32.600 That we want to process everything and understand it with our minds. 00:06:32.600 --> 00:06:34.520 It's a curse. 00:06:34.520 --> 00:06:39.280 It's the same curse that befell Adam when he decided to eat of the tree of the knowledge 00:06:39.280 --> 00:06:40.440 of good and evil. 00:06:40.480 --> 00:06:44.360 Immediately reason, speculation and doubt entered. 00:06:47.240 --> 00:06:52.240 And so when God says something in the word, you receive it inside. 00:06:52.240 --> 00:06:55.880 Who here processed salvation? 00:06:55.880 --> 00:07:02.640 Anybody here came to the amazing conclusion that salvation, hmm, it works mentally. 00:07:02.640 --> 00:07:04.000 It does not work mentally. 00:07:04.000 --> 00:07:06.800 A dead man does not rise. 00:07:06.800 --> 00:07:11.960 But somewhere inside you suddenly knew that our shucks, this is true. 00:07:11.960 --> 00:07:14.920 And since then, we've tried to process it. 00:07:14.920 --> 00:07:19.200 Christ's life is the processing of what we believe. 00:07:19.200 --> 00:07:21.040 The emotions will come and go. 00:07:21.040 --> 00:07:26.120 And then the body acts. 00:07:26.120 --> 00:07:30.080 So it's hearing has to be the hearing of faith. 00:07:31.080 --> 00:07:41.280 We'll try to make it a little, I mean, at the end of the day, the gospel is the gospel, 00:07:41.280 --> 00:07:42.280 for instance. 00:07:42.280 --> 00:07:57.600 Why does it say in Romans 10 that faith comes by hearing and hearing of the word? 00:07:57.600 --> 00:07:59.720 Why does it say that? 00:07:59.720 --> 00:08:11.320 Because at the end of the day, the gospel or the good news is a report about the life, 00:08:11.320 --> 00:08:20.760 death, resurrection of Christ. 00:08:20.760 --> 00:08:38.880 And when one hears this report, when one hears this report, depending on how they hear, by 00:08:38.880 --> 00:08:45.920 faith, they get saved. 00:08:45.920 --> 00:08:59.240 And the crazy thing is everyone is given the faith to believe. 00:08:59.240 --> 00:09:08.360 But not everyone hears with faith. 00:09:08.360 --> 00:09:10.840 Crazy, eh? 00:09:10.840 --> 00:09:16.920 There's not a human on earth who has not been provided by God the faith to be saved, not 00:09:16.920 --> 00:09:18.520 one human. 00:09:18.520 --> 00:09:24.480 Every human being on earth has been provided the faith that is required for salvation. 00:09:24.480 --> 00:09:27.480 Every human being. 00:09:27.480 --> 00:09:34.200 But not every human being hears the report of Jesus Christ with faith. 00:09:34.200 --> 00:09:36.640 Now move after being saved. 00:09:36.640 --> 00:09:38.560 After being saved is the same. 00:09:38.760 --> 00:09:45.160 Every one of us has been given the measure of faith to live out life like Christ. 00:09:45.160 --> 00:09:51.440 But not everyone hears the word or reads the word or hears the Holy Spirit with the faith 00:09:51.440 --> 00:09:55.120 that is required to walk. 00:09:55.120 --> 00:10:00.920 Any questions? 00:10:00.920 --> 00:10:01.920 Can you rephrase it? 00:10:01.920 --> 00:10:02.920 Yeah. 00:10:02.920 --> 00:10:03.920 Yeah. 00:10:03.920 --> 00:10:04.920 Yeah. 00:10:04.920 --> 00:10:15.200 So if you take Hebrews 4 verse 2 for instance, it says that the same promises that we receive 00:10:15.200 --> 00:10:20.840 now are the promises that were given to the Israelites in the Old Testament in the desert. 00:10:20.840 --> 00:10:26.080 And then it says, but they did not enter into rest because even though the promises were 00:10:26.080 --> 00:10:30.720 given, even though they heard the promises, and who did they hear it from? 00:10:30.760 --> 00:10:36.440 They heard it on Mount Sinai with the presence, the power and the glory of God settling on 00:10:36.440 --> 00:10:38.560 the mountain, visible. 00:10:38.560 --> 00:10:41.440 But it says they did not enter into rest. 00:10:41.440 --> 00:10:45.880 They could not receive those promises because they did not hear it with faith. 00:10:45.880 --> 00:10:52.320 As in they did not have, they did not exert the ability to trust God even though He was 00:10:52.320 --> 00:10:55.520 visible and even though He had provided it. 00:10:55.520 --> 00:11:02.600 It's something we just don't do. 00:11:02.600 --> 00:11:07.240 Everyone has the faith required to believe the promises of God which are yes and amen 00:11:07.240 --> 00:11:08.400 in Christ. 00:11:08.400 --> 00:11:11.920 But have you noticed how we don't? 00:11:11.920 --> 00:11:12.920 Why don't we? 00:11:12.920 --> 00:11:20.120 Part of the reason we don't is perhaps we haven't cultivated it, perhaps we haven't 00:11:20.320 --> 00:11:24.280 made a practice of immediately knowing in our spirit the things of God and stepping 00:11:24.280 --> 00:11:25.280 out. 00:11:25.280 --> 00:11:30.520 And so they couldn't, and so they didn't enter into the rest that they could have entered 00:11:30.520 --> 00:11:35.120 into. 00:11:35.120 --> 00:11:40.480 And so this idea of hearing with faith is important. 00:11:40.480 --> 00:11:47.840 Sometimes all it takes is one simple word or one sentence or one paragraph in a book 00:11:48.240 --> 00:11:55.240 or in even a teaching like this that can instantly affect our hearts to a point where it changes 00:11:55.240 --> 00:11:58.360 everything we believe. 00:11:58.360 --> 00:12:03.480 Everything we believe. 00:12:03.480 --> 00:12:06.640 We receive it here, we process it here. 00:12:06.640 --> 00:12:11.080 Our emotions work accordingly and our feet start moving. 00:12:11.080 --> 00:12:13.720 But I must hear with faith. 00:12:13.720 --> 00:12:17.600 Come out of your clan, out of your family, out of your nation, out of your people. 00:12:17.600 --> 00:12:20.640 He heard it and then he steps out. 00:12:20.640 --> 00:12:24.360 Hebrews 11, 8, not knowing where he was supposed to go, he steps out. 00:12:24.360 --> 00:12:25.360 Why? 00:12:25.360 --> 00:12:30.960 Because he knew in his spirit that this is God, a God he had never met, a God his father 00:12:30.960 --> 00:12:32.160 didn't believe in. 00:12:32.160 --> 00:12:35.520 Abraham's father, Terah, did not believe in it. 00:12:35.520 --> 00:12:39.360 But Abraham knew, even in the Old Testament, without the Spirit of God dwelling in him, 00:12:39.360 --> 00:12:43.720 he knew this is God. 00:12:43.720 --> 00:12:46.880 And so he steps out. 00:12:46.880 --> 00:12:48.840 Because he heard it with faith. 00:12:48.840 --> 00:12:52.320 And whenever you hear things with faith, it puts you right with God. 00:12:52.320 --> 00:12:59.300 Galatians 3, 7, whenever someone hears with faith, it is credited to him as righteousness. 00:12:59.300 --> 00:13:00.680 What is righteousness? 00:13:00.680 --> 00:13:02.440 Being put right with God. 00:13:02.440 --> 00:13:06.440 Whenever you hear it with faith, be it a small thing or be it a large thing, you immediately 00:13:06.440 --> 00:13:07.920 get put right with God. 00:13:07.920 --> 00:13:11.040 And there's no better place than being put right with God. 00:13:11.040 --> 00:13:17.320 And two walk together except they be agreed. 00:13:17.320 --> 00:13:18.320 It's credited to you. 00:13:18.320 --> 00:13:19.320 Go ahead. 00:13:19.320 --> 00:13:24.320 But is it not, is it a choice we make to hear with faith? 00:13:24.320 --> 00:13:25.320 Yes. 00:13:25.320 --> 00:13:28.320 So how do we make that choice then? 00:13:28.320 --> 00:13:31.320 What's what determines that? 00:13:31.320 --> 00:13:32.320 Yeah. 00:13:32.320 --> 00:13:35.240 Let me give you an example from normal life. 00:13:36.240 --> 00:13:42.040 You can hear your husband with a loving heart or you can hear him with a neutral heart or 00:13:42.040 --> 00:13:44.880 you can hear him with an irritated heart. 00:13:44.880 --> 00:13:47.600 These are choices we make every day. 00:13:47.600 --> 00:13:50.760 And then it doesn't matter what your husband says. 00:13:50.760 --> 00:13:55.920 If you have a heart that hears with love, it is able to take the words, be they bitter, 00:13:55.920 --> 00:13:59.880 sweet or neutral, and you respond differently. 00:13:59.880 --> 00:14:02.360 It's the same way with God. 00:14:02.360 --> 00:14:03.600 It's the same way with God. 00:14:03.600 --> 00:14:09.920 When God speaks, if my heart is in a place where my past experience has taught me that 00:14:09.920 --> 00:14:16.520 he is faithful, where the word, because it's gorged with the Holy Spirit, comes alive for 00:14:16.520 --> 00:14:23.520 me and because I want to know him and grow in him, suddenly my heart is in a receptive 00:14:23.520 --> 00:14:28.720 place to say, yes, even if this costs me, I will. 00:14:28.720 --> 00:14:32.880 These are choices we make every day. 00:14:32.880 --> 00:14:35.880 And we'll get opportunities every day. 00:14:35.880 --> 00:14:40.360 Don't look at the opportunities of yesterday that you have missed out on and think, our 00:14:40.360 --> 00:14:42.560 shucks, all is lost. 00:14:42.560 --> 00:14:46.520 No, tomorrow you'll get 20 to 30 opportunities. 00:14:46.520 --> 00:14:49.040 The day after, 30 to 40. 00:14:49.040 --> 00:14:52.280 The day after that, 18 to 19. 00:14:52.280 --> 00:14:53.280 Doesn't matter. 00:14:53.280 --> 00:14:56.720 There'll be enough opportunities to practice this. 00:14:56.720 --> 00:15:00.000 Because he has one purpose and that purpose is very simple. 00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:02.320 Can I make you like Christ? 00:15:02.320 --> 00:15:06.560 I ain't going to relent on that. 00:15:06.560 --> 00:15:12.400 So opportunities will be plenty. 00:15:12.400 --> 00:15:18.560 Hearing with faith. 00:15:18.560 --> 00:15:26.640 The same applies to, you know, in Revelation 19 it says that the spirit of prophecy is 00:15:26.640 --> 00:15:28.500 the testimony of Jesus. 00:15:28.500 --> 00:15:33.580 What it means there is, even when God says something prophetically to you, you can either 00:15:33.580 --> 00:15:42.100 hear it with faith that this is Christ speaking and even though it's so outlandish, I receive 00:15:42.100 --> 00:15:50.420 it or you can go with the attitude that, I'm not saying don't wait, definitely wait, but 00:15:50.420 --> 00:15:55.980 you can either go with the attitude of this is God speaking and I receive it or let me 00:15:56.460 --> 00:15:58.660 see. 00:15:58.660 --> 00:16:04.780 And what then happens is when you know it is God and you receive it, instantly it begins 00:16:04.780 --> 00:16:08.380 to work in you. 00:16:08.380 --> 00:16:12.860 Instantly it begins to work in you. 00:16:12.860 --> 00:16:18.500 When I didn't know anything about Jesus, hardly two weeks into my being born again, a man 00:16:18.500 --> 00:16:25.500 called Mike Hyman from Tulsa, Oklahoma came to Bahrain and he called me out and he laid 00:16:26.500 --> 00:16:33.500 hands on me and he said, young man, I was young then, young man, he said, I stir up 00:16:35.660 --> 00:16:41.280 within you the gift of faith and didn't know anything about it but this one thing I knew 00:16:41.280 --> 00:16:44.660 that when he said it there was something that resonated immediately. 00:16:44.820 --> 00:16:51.820 That was the first time I had even heard about the prophetic but as soon as I knew then it 00:16:52.300 --> 00:16:57.180 was okay Jacob, from now on know that you can exert the gift of faith. 00:16:57.180 --> 00:17:00.020 Don't know how but you knew it. 00:17:00.020 --> 00:17:05.020 When you receive something that is off God immediately, something happens, eh? 00:17:05.020 --> 00:17:11.060 The question is how do we decipher that it is off God sometimes when it's not within 00:17:11.060 --> 00:17:13.700 your parameter of how things should be. 00:17:14.580 --> 00:17:17.580 But that's a different teaching. 00:17:17.580 --> 00:17:24.580 I can't hear you. 00:17:38.500 --> 00:17:43.020 Yeah, it is a practice. 00:17:43.020 --> 00:17:47.820 The reason you can hear your husband's voice and know that it's your husband is just because 00:17:47.820 --> 00:17:51.060 it's practice and we keep increasing in it. 00:17:51.060 --> 00:17:56.620 There's never going to be a day when we stop and if we do not know the word we will not 00:17:56.620 --> 00:18:00.860 be able to recognize the shepherd's voice. 00:18:00.860 --> 00:18:04.780 Without knowing the word that the shepherd has written you cannot hear the shepherd's 00:18:04.780 --> 00:18:06.100 voice. 00:18:06.100 --> 00:18:08.820 One is completely dependent on the other. 00:18:08.820 --> 00:18:11.580 One can't live without the other. 00:18:11.580 --> 00:18:17.780 To not know the word and to expect God to speak will happen so that God will encourage 00:18:17.780 --> 00:18:20.220 you but it will not be part of my life. 00:18:20.220 --> 00:18:22.020 Let me say that again. 00:18:22.020 --> 00:18:30.220 To not know the word of God and expect God to speak will not happen. 00:18:30.220 --> 00:18:31.820 God will do it to encourage you. 00:18:31.820 --> 00:18:35.580 Every so often he'll give you a word that you give to somebody or you receive a word 00:18:35.580 --> 00:18:40.380 and it's accurate and you feel good about it but don't we get too encouraged by that 00:18:40.620 --> 00:18:47.300 because if the foundation of the word of God is not constantly growing layer by layer by 00:18:47.300 --> 00:18:53.220 layer it is not possible for us to hear the voice of God and it's not necessarily an 00:18:53.220 --> 00:18:59.500 audible voice it's just an invisible voice. 00:18:59.500 --> 00:19:00.500 One is dependent on the other. 00:19:00.500 --> 00:19:21.140 The word of God gives us an understanding of the character and the nature of God. 00:19:21.140 --> 00:19:24.740 The more you understand the character and the nature of someone the more we will be 00:19:24.740 --> 00:19:29.540 able to hear him if he speaks into our spirits or into our hearts. 00:19:29.540 --> 00:19:33.780 The more I know the character and nature of someone the more I understand how they 00:19:33.780 --> 00:19:35.620 communicate. 00:19:35.620 --> 00:19:38.900 I know how Derek communicates. 00:19:38.900 --> 00:19:44.140 I may not know how Nellie communicates but as I get to know the character and nature 00:19:44.140 --> 00:19:51.700 of someone how they are becomes more evident and so as I learn the word of God what am 00:19:51.700 --> 00:19:53.060 I diving into? 00:19:53.060 --> 00:19:56.580 I'm diving into the nature and the character of God. 00:19:56.580 --> 00:20:09.500 Okay so the nature of God is kind, the nature of God is loving, the nature of God is pure, 00:20:09.500 --> 00:20:14.260 the nature of God is gentle, the nature of God is holy. 00:20:14.260 --> 00:20:19.180 Now if I begin to know the nature and the character of God there's some commonality 00:20:19.180 --> 00:20:20.820 between him and me. 00:20:20.820 --> 00:20:22.660 It's like do you speak Tamil? 00:20:22.660 --> 00:20:23.660 I speak Tamil. 00:20:23.660 --> 00:20:25.340 Does Emily speak Tamil? 00:20:25.340 --> 00:20:26.340 No. 00:20:27.100 --> 00:20:30.580 If I speak to Emily in Tamil it means nothing to her but between you and I we have a common 00:20:30.580 --> 00:20:31.740 language. 00:20:31.740 --> 00:20:36.620 As I dive into the word and know his nature I change. 00:20:36.620 --> 00:20:41.000 We are not reading the word so that we know the nature of God, big deal. 00:20:41.000 --> 00:20:46.500 Any scholar can do that but because the word is alive as I read his nature I change. 00:20:46.500 --> 00:20:50.060 Now there's a common language. 00:20:50.060 --> 00:20:56.540 God is able to communicate with like after his kind. 00:20:56.540 --> 00:21:03.020 That which is not after his kind may still hear God but it won't be a conversation. 00:21:03.020 --> 00:21:06.420 The reason you and I have a common language is because we grew up in the same part of 00:21:06.420 --> 00:21:10.700 the world. 00:21:10.700 --> 00:21:13.060 Should I use the other mic? 00:21:13.060 --> 00:21:14.060 Okay. 00:21:20.060 --> 00:21:31.700 What happened Joey? 00:21:31.700 --> 00:21:34.220 Check yeah. 00:21:34.220 --> 00:21:36.420 So like understands like. 00:21:36.420 --> 00:21:37.500 It's the same manner. 00:21:37.500 --> 00:21:43.220 The more we get to become like Christ the easier it is to hear him and how do we get 00:21:43.220 --> 00:21:44.800 to become like Christ? 00:21:44.800 --> 00:21:48.260 We read the word and we pursue him. 00:21:48.260 --> 00:21:52.820 So you read that he is kind you begin to pursue being kind. 00:21:52.820 --> 00:21:57.300 You read the word that he is holy you begin to pursue that he is holy so you will be holy 00:21:57.300 --> 00:21:58.300 too. 00:21:58.300 --> 00:22:03.700 My God when two people walk like that you think there'll be a problem hearing? 00:22:03.700 --> 00:22:07.140 God won't even have to speak you'll know. 00:22:07.140 --> 00:22:13.340 It's like those couples who get old and they don't even talk but they know each other. 00:22:13.340 --> 00:22:18.860 And then there are couples who are old and they're sitting six inches from each other 00:22:18.860 --> 00:22:28.100 and you can feel Siberia between them. 00:22:28.100 --> 00:22:32.380 One is Hawaii one is Siberia. 00:22:32.380 --> 00:22:34.620 That's how this works. 00:22:34.620 --> 00:22:40.260 So hearing with faith is critical to quickly progressing in God. 00:22:40.260 --> 00:22:41.520 Quickly progressing God. 00:22:41.520 --> 00:22:51.760 If you go to Hebrews sorry you can't let me put it this way you can't receive you can't 00:22:51.760 --> 00:23:08.840 you can't receive with faith if you don't hear with faith. 00:23:09.440 --> 00:23:10.620 How does it work? 00:23:10.620 --> 00:23:16.940 One attentive hearing. 00:23:16.940 --> 00:23:21.140 That's the first bit. 00:23:21.140 --> 00:23:23.980 Attentive hearing. 00:23:23.980 --> 00:23:30.300 Am I deeply in friendship with in love with in fellowship with in partnership with the 00:23:30.300 --> 00:23:31.300 one who is speaking. 00:23:31.300 --> 00:23:32.800 Am I ears attentive to him. 00:23:32.800 --> 00:23:34.800 Exodus 33 verse 11. 00:23:34.800 --> 00:23:39.200 After Moses would leave the tent Joshua would still hang out at the tent because he had 00:23:39.200 --> 00:23:42.000 seen the glory of God and he deeply longed for it. 00:23:42.000 --> 00:23:44.800 Can I have a little more volume in the mic? 00:23:44.800 --> 00:23:48.800 So attentive hearing that's that's the first part. 00:23:48.800 --> 00:23:49.800 Attentive hearing. 00:23:49.800 --> 00:23:52.800 Attentive hearing is not not occasional hearing. 00:23:52.800 --> 00:23:55.800 Attentive hearing is not hearing when I need stuff. 00:23:55.800 --> 00:23:58.800 Attentive hearing is not hearing when I need stuff. 00:23:58.800 --> 00:24:01.300 Attentive hearing is not hearing when I need stuff. 00:24:01.300 --> 00:24:06.300 Attentive hearing is not because I want to know the future or want to receive a word. 00:24:06.300 --> 00:24:14.300 Attentive hearing is just doting on someone that you deeply adore care for want to partner 00:24:14.300 --> 00:24:21.300 with want to learn from attentive hearing that itself is a practice that must be cultivated. 00:24:21.300 --> 00:24:26.800 And it is only cultivated in the context of relationship because otherwise why would you 00:24:26.800 --> 00:24:30.800 cultivate it? 00:24:30.800 --> 00:24:31.800 Attentive hearing. 00:24:31.800 --> 00:24:53.800 From there on we move to hearing what hearing what the spirit is saying about Jesus in and 00:24:53.800 --> 00:24:59.800 through the word. 00:24:59.800 --> 00:25:04.800 In and through the word. 00:25:04.800 --> 00:25:14.800 You know in the movie Benher not the new Benher the old Benher in the movie Benher during 00:25:14.800 --> 00:25:22.800 the chariot race there's a car that suddenly appears like a red car. 00:25:22.800 --> 00:25:27.800 It was one of those mistakes made during the shooting of the movie where during the 00:25:27.800 --> 00:25:33.800 chariot race there's this for a second there's a there's a front of a red car that appears. 00:25:33.800 --> 00:25:42.800 And so if you rented that movie tomorrow or you don't rent movies anymore sorry if you 00:25:42.800 --> 00:25:49.800 Netflix sorry my bad if you Netflix the movie tomorrow you would look for that car you would 00:25:49.800 --> 00:25:54.800 sift through it you would search it you would go over the race again and again to find that 00:25:54.800 --> 00:25:59.800 car and most likely you won't because I still don't know whether the car is there or not 00:25:59.800 --> 00:26:02.800 I've looked for it but you would sift through it. 00:26:02.800 --> 00:26:08.800 The second point is along those lines first is attentive hearing second is hearing what 00:26:08.800 --> 00:26:13.800 the spirit is saying in and through the word as you read the word are you looking for what 00:26:13.800 --> 00:26:18.800 the spirit of God is trying to show you about Jesus or about the passage you're reading 00:26:18.800 --> 00:26:25.800 are you looking for it or are you reading it are you looking for the car when you read 00:26:25.800 --> 00:26:35.800 today were you looking for what he's saying were you looking for what he'll highlight 00:26:35.800 --> 00:26:40.800 were you looking for things you had marked four years ago that just happened to be a 00:26:40.800 --> 00:26:46.800 reading again today were you looking at how does this situation match with my present 00:26:46.800 --> 00:26:53.800 situation were you looking for it what were you looking for because he's always illuminating 00:26:53.800 --> 00:26:58.800 Christ through the word and what Christ wants to do through the word in your life. 00:26:58.800 --> 00:27:09.800 The sad fact is we look for Greek and Hebrew context and authorship and geographical location 00:27:09.800 --> 00:27:14.800 and deep spiritual meaning but we sometimes in the process forget the simple things the 00:27:14.800 --> 00:27:21.800 simple things the spirit of God wants us to look at. 00:27:21.800 --> 00:27:30.800 Third thing. 00:27:30.800 --> 00:27:45.800 Hearing what the spirit is saying hearing what the spirit is saying. 00:27:45.800 --> 00:28:01.800 Jesus wants you to do wants to do through you. 00:28:01.800 --> 00:28:07.800 Hearing what the spirit is saying Jesus wants to do through you because Jesus is alive and 00:28:07.800 --> 00:28:12.800 because he's alive every day and in you and because he's continuously doing things across 00:28:12.800 --> 00:28:21.800 the earth with you do you hear every day to find out Jesus what's the agenda today. 00:28:21.800 --> 00:28:25.800 What's next Papa. 00:28:25.800 --> 00:28:33.800 How do I go about things today is that an active question in our lives on a daily basis. 00:28:33.800 --> 00:28:37.800 Tomorrow you'll have four or five difficult situations and seven or eight situations where 00:28:37.800 --> 00:28:41.800 you have to deal with difficulties in other people's lives. 00:28:41.800 --> 00:28:46.800 All of our lives are like this it's not some pastoral counseling thing or a clinical counseling 00:28:46.800 --> 00:28:50.800 thing all of us will have two or three different things that we have to deal with and then 00:28:50.800 --> 00:28:54.800 four or five things to deal with in other people's lives. 00:28:54.800 --> 00:28:59.800 What does Jesus want to do can we cultivate the hearing of faith like that and then the 00:28:59.800 --> 00:29:04.800 cultivating of the hearing of faith is if I hear it can I then chance it knowing that 00:29:04.800 --> 00:29:09.800 I could get it wrong too because getting it wrong unfortunately is part of the human 00:29:09.800 --> 00:29:15.800 experience. 00:29:15.800 --> 00:29:20.800 No child walks without falling. 00:29:20.800 --> 00:29:27.800 The easiest way to avoid walking like this is not to do anything that is risky faith. 00:29:27.800 --> 00:29:31.800 Just don't do anything. 00:29:31.800 --> 00:29:38.800 But otherwise can I can I do this hearing what the spirit is saying Jesus wants to do 00:29:38.800 --> 00:29:41.800 through you. 00:29:41.800 --> 00:29:48.800 I mean yeah. 00:29:48.800 --> 00:29:55.800 No I'm saying that we should the best way to not have any problems in this area is to 00:29:55.800 --> 00:29:57.800 just not risk anything. 00:29:57.800 --> 00:30:03.800 Just the great thing about not exerting faith is you can always have predictable outcomes. 00:30:03.800 --> 00:30:07.800 It's a wonderful way to live don't you think. 00:30:07.800 --> 00:30:09.800 Just manage life. 00:30:09.800 --> 00:30:11.800 Don't do anything risky. 00:30:11.800 --> 00:30:13.800 All outcomes are predictable. 00:30:13.800 --> 00:30:15.800 No adventure. 00:30:15.800 --> 00:30:17.800 No risk. 00:30:17.800 --> 00:30:19.800 Nothing lost nothing gained. 00:30:19.800 --> 00:30:24.800 Give back to the master the coin he gave you saying you're a hard master didn't want to 00:30:24.800 --> 00:30:25.800 risk this coin transact. 00:30:25.800 --> 00:30:30.800 Here take your coin back and then you find out that you're thrown out into the darkness 00:30:30.800 --> 00:30:34.800 where there's a gnashing of teeth and you wonder what you did you return what he gave 00:30:34.800 --> 00:30:35.800 you. 00:30:35.800 --> 00:30:37.800 We are supposed to transact. 00:30:37.800 --> 00:30:44.800 Faith is a medium that is used to transact to take Lou two loaves and five fish and multiply 00:30:44.800 --> 00:30:46.800 it to feed five thousand. 00:30:46.800 --> 00:30:48.800 That is the god life. 00:30:48.800 --> 00:30:52.800 And if that ain't the life you're pursuing then it's just Christianity. 00:30:56.800 --> 00:30:59.800 Sacasim was a tool that Jesus used to. 00:31:02.800 --> 00:31:06.800 He did in his parables my god they drip with sarcasm. 00:31:06.800 --> 00:31:08.800 Last one is. 00:31:10.800 --> 00:31:12.800 Letting the spirit. 00:31:13.800 --> 00:31:15.800 Oi. 00:31:15.800 --> 00:31:17.800 Letting the spirit stir up. 00:31:17.800 --> 00:31:24.800 I had this really interesting conversation I was dropping on between Yaya and Pavan. 00:31:24.800 --> 00:31:26.800 So. 00:31:26.800 --> 00:31:28.800 So Yaya and Pavan. 00:31:28.800 --> 00:31:32.800 So Yaya goes and says Pavan are you joining the army. 00:31:32.800 --> 00:31:35.800 So Pavan says yes I'm thinking of it. 00:31:35.800 --> 00:31:37.800 So are you going to die. 00:31:39.800 --> 00:31:44.800 So Pavan says no I've decided to join the reserves it will be safe. 00:31:46.800 --> 00:31:54.800 So it was quite a I'm sitting there laughing thinking my god man nobody says it like kids. 00:31:54.800 --> 00:32:10.800 Letting the spirit stir up and shape and direct. 00:32:10.800 --> 00:32:12.800 And direct. 00:32:14.800 --> 00:32:16.800 The response. 00:32:18.800 --> 00:32:22.800 Of your heart. 00:32:23.800 --> 00:32:26.800 Mind and feet. 00:32:26.800 --> 00:32:27.800 This is another way. 00:32:27.800 --> 00:32:30.800 These are all ways to hear with faith. 00:32:30.800 --> 00:32:31.800 This is another way. 00:32:31.800 --> 00:32:38.800 Can you let the spirit stir up and shape and direct the response of your heart mind and feet to different things. 00:32:38.800 --> 00:32:40.800 Sometimes it's people's cruelty. 00:32:40.800 --> 00:32:42.800 Sometimes it's someone mocking you. 00:32:42.800 --> 00:32:44.800 Sometimes it's someone treating you badly. 00:32:44.800 --> 00:32:46.800 Sometimes it's not like that it's more adventurous. 00:32:46.800 --> 00:32:52.800 It is generosity where you are suddenly sensing that I need to give. 00:32:52.800 --> 00:32:58.800 Sometimes it's canceling something or changing your schedule. 00:32:58.800 --> 00:33:04.800 Sometimes it's stopping by at a McDonald's when you know you have to get to a certain place in time. 00:33:04.800 --> 00:33:08.800 These are things where the spirit stirs up and shapes and directs the response of your heart and mind. 00:33:08.800 --> 00:33:10.800 This was regular in Jesus's life. 00:33:10.800 --> 00:33:17.800 He's going to Jairus's daughter because she's dead and on the way he's touched by a woman with the issue of blood. 00:33:17.800 --> 00:33:18.800 Now he has to stop. 00:33:18.800 --> 00:33:22.800 He is going to heal Lazarus and he stopped. 00:33:22.800 --> 00:33:24.800 And now Lazarus dies. 00:33:24.800 --> 00:33:26.800 So this is another way. 00:33:26.800 --> 00:33:31.800 These four ways if we can practice every day. 00:33:31.800 --> 00:33:32.800 Always remember guys. 00:33:32.800 --> 00:33:35.800 Let's assume you live another 20 years, 30 years, 40 years. 00:33:35.800 --> 00:33:38.800 Let's take 20 years for all of us just for the fun of it. 00:33:38.800 --> 00:33:41.800 Let's assume that all of us live for another 20 years. 00:33:41.800 --> 00:33:47.800 Can you imagine what we will be like two years from now, four years from now, 16 years from now? 00:33:47.800 --> 00:33:50.800 Amazing. 00:33:50.800 --> 00:33:55.800 Hearing with faith. 00:33:55.800 --> 00:34:01.800 Never be discouraged at where you are at today because tomorrow I'll get so many opportunities. 00:34:01.800 --> 00:34:02.800 So many. 00:34:02.800 --> 00:34:07.800 And God is a God who can make things happen very fast. 00:34:07.800 --> 00:34:09.800 Acceleration. 00:34:09.800 --> 00:34:17.800 It wasn't Tesla that discovered it. 00:34:17.800 --> 00:34:24.800 Oh man, those Tesla guys, they just love jetting off from a red signal. 00:34:24.800 --> 00:34:30.800 And then I wish they were going on a long distance right then I can show them what happens. 00:34:30.800 --> 00:34:38.800 Suddenly the battery runs dry and I keep cruising. 00:34:38.800 --> 00:34:40.800 Feel free to buy a Tesla. 00:34:40.800 --> 00:34:46.800 I just have my own problems. 00:34:46.800 --> 00:34:57.800 Galatians chapter 3 verse 5. 00:34:57.800 --> 00:35:02.800 It's in the context of receiving Christ, but look at what it actually says. 00:35:02.800 --> 00:35:08.800 Galatians 3 verse 5, reading from the NIV. 00:35:08.800 --> 00:35:18.800 So again, I ask you, does God give you his Spirit and work miracles among you by the works of the law or by you believing what you heard? 00:35:18.800 --> 00:35:20.800 Hebrews 4.2. 00:35:20.800 --> 00:35:24.800 Hebrews 4.2. 00:35:24.800 --> 00:35:35.800 For we also have had the good news proclaimed to us just as they did, but the message they heard was of no value to them because they did not share the faith of those who obeyed. 00:35:35.800 --> 00:35:46.800 They did not mix faith when they heard the promises of God. 00:35:46.800 --> 00:35:50.800 So here's the statement that really should affect us. 00:35:50.800 --> 00:35:57.800 For the Holy Spirit to move in me. 00:35:57.800 --> 00:36:04.800 For the Holy Spirit to move in me. 00:36:04.800 --> 00:36:14.800 Or for me to move with the Spirit. 00:36:20.800 --> 00:36:35.800 I must hear with faith. 00:36:35.800 --> 00:36:41.800 It is true that the Holy Spirit lives in me and I live in the Spirit of God. 00:36:41.800 --> 00:36:42.800 This is true. 00:36:42.800 --> 00:36:55.800 For the Holy Spirit to move in me or for me to move with the Spirit, I must hear with faith. 00:36:55.800 --> 00:37:06.800 Any questions on that? 00:37:06.800 --> 00:37:10.800 It goes back to these four things. 00:37:10.800 --> 00:37:14.800 Can I do these things? 00:37:14.800 --> 00:37:17.800 Can I be attentively hearing? 00:37:17.800 --> 00:37:19.800 First, can I be attentively hearing? 00:37:19.800 --> 00:37:23.800 Can I while I'm preaching right now, attentively hear? 00:37:23.800 --> 00:37:30.800 During worship, it was attentive hearing that had me say what I said about Prasanthi Yetu's daughter. 00:37:30.800 --> 00:37:31.800 Attentive hearing. 00:37:31.800 --> 00:37:34.800 Because we are engaged in the Father. 00:37:34.800 --> 00:37:37.800 Why should a baby in the womb suddenly come up? 00:37:37.800 --> 00:37:43.800 But attentive hearing will bring to your mind what God has on his mind. 00:37:43.800 --> 00:37:45.800 Attentive hearing. 00:37:45.800 --> 00:37:50.800 The second one is hearing what the Spirit is saying about Jesus through the Word. 00:37:50.800 --> 00:37:54.800 So I don't remember what I read this morning. 00:37:54.800 --> 00:37:58.800 It was from Psalm 70 and a few other things I read. 00:37:58.800 --> 00:38:01.800 While I'm reading that, my question is, what do you want me to see, oh God? 00:38:01.800 --> 00:38:09.800 Besides the context of Psalm 70, besides the context of Galatians 5 that I read today, 00:38:09.800 --> 00:38:15.800 besides how it affects my life, Galatians 5 talks about, hey, these are the sins of the flesh, 00:38:15.800 --> 00:38:17.800 these are the fruit of the Spirit. 00:38:17.800 --> 00:38:21.800 And as I'm reading through them, on one hand the Word examines you. 00:38:21.800 --> 00:38:24.800 There are so many things happening at the same time, guys. 00:38:24.800 --> 00:38:28.800 As you're reading Galatians 5, for example, the Word examines you. 00:38:29.800 --> 00:38:31.800 Because the Word becomes a litmus. 00:38:31.800 --> 00:38:33.800 Jacob, how are you doing in purity? 00:38:33.800 --> 00:38:36.800 How are you doing in terms of idolatry? 00:38:36.800 --> 00:38:39.800 How are you doing in terms of your thought life? 00:38:39.800 --> 00:38:40.800 The Word examines you. 00:38:40.800 --> 00:38:44.800 And then the Word also encourages you. 00:38:44.800 --> 00:38:47.800 Ah, so the fruit of the Spirit is working in this area. 00:38:47.800 --> 00:38:49.800 The fruit of the Spirit is not working in this area. 00:38:49.800 --> 00:38:50.800 It's encouraging you. 00:38:50.800 --> 00:38:52.800 So that's happening anyways. 00:38:52.800 --> 00:38:55.800 And then the question is, Father, as I read through these passages, 00:38:55.800 --> 00:38:59.800 the Spirit of God, what are you saying to me about Jesus? 00:39:01.800 --> 00:39:02.800 Highlight it. 00:39:06.800 --> 00:39:08.800 This is an answer to Sedef's question. 00:39:08.800 --> 00:39:14.800 Third, can I hear what the Spirit of God is saying during the day? 00:39:14.800 --> 00:39:16.800 What Jesus wants me to do? 00:39:16.800 --> 00:39:21.800 The old-timers here have heard the story, but many haven't. 00:39:21.800 --> 00:39:23.800 I was in Bangalore in India. 00:39:23.800 --> 00:39:25.800 I woke up one morning and felt the Lord saying, 00:39:25.800 --> 00:39:27.800 I want you to go to South Asian Bible College, 00:39:27.800 --> 00:39:29.800 and I want you to meet a guy there. 00:39:30.800 --> 00:39:32.800 This is at five in the morning, 00:39:33.800 --> 00:39:36.800 which God knows is not my favorite time of the day. 00:39:36.800 --> 00:39:41.800 And so I say, okay, I will. 00:39:41.800 --> 00:39:43.800 I said, but who am I looking for? 00:39:43.800 --> 00:39:47.800 And the Lord shows me this face quickly, 00:39:47.800 --> 00:39:51.800 has a beard and this scruffy beard and stuff like that. 00:39:51.800 --> 00:39:54.800 And so I go back to sleep, and then I look, Google, 00:39:54.800 --> 00:39:58.800 and see how far South Asian Bible College is, 00:39:58.800 --> 00:40:00.800 and it is really far. 00:40:01.800 --> 00:40:04.800 But now the question is, will I or won't I? 00:40:04.800 --> 00:40:07.800 Because now you receive it, you hear it with faith, 00:40:07.800 --> 00:40:09.800 you know God is saying it. 00:40:09.800 --> 00:40:13.800 And so I decide, okay, I'll go ask this guy called Santosh 00:40:13.800 --> 00:40:14.800 if he can drive me. 00:40:14.800 --> 00:40:19.800 We drive, we go all the way and get to the college, 00:40:19.800 --> 00:40:22.800 and it's their day of fasting, 00:40:22.800 --> 00:40:25.800 so nobody's where they're supposed to be. 00:40:26.800 --> 00:40:27.800 I thought, go to the cafeteria, 00:40:27.800 --> 00:40:29.800 and that's where students hang out. 00:40:29.800 --> 00:40:31.800 There's nobody in the cafeteria, 00:40:31.800 --> 00:40:33.800 because it's a day of fasting. 00:40:33.800 --> 00:40:35.800 And so I'm thinking, where else do you find students? 00:40:35.800 --> 00:40:36.800 They're all in their room spring, 00:40:36.800 --> 00:40:38.800 I can't enter their rooms. 00:40:38.800 --> 00:40:40.800 How do you find a guy with a beard? 00:40:40.800 --> 00:40:43.800 So I decide, library, that's where students go. 00:40:43.800 --> 00:40:47.800 I go to the library, and just lots of girls, 00:40:47.800 --> 00:40:49.800 there are no guys and none of the girls had beards. 00:40:49.800 --> 00:40:52.800 So I think to myself, okay, now what do I do? 00:40:52.800 --> 00:40:55.800 How do I find this guy with a beard? 00:40:55.800 --> 00:41:00.800 And it had come to a point where having scoured the entire area 00:41:00.800 --> 00:41:02.800 for well over 20, 25 minutes, 00:41:02.800 --> 00:41:05.800 I decided this ain't working, so I'll go home. 00:41:05.800 --> 00:41:08.800 Maybe I heard wrong, which is a possibility. 00:41:08.800 --> 00:41:14.800 And so as I'm heading back to the car park to head home, 00:41:14.800 --> 00:41:18.800 I see this chapel, and that chapel is well known 00:41:18.800 --> 00:41:24.800 for very reputed worship leaders all across India and in the US now. 00:41:24.800 --> 00:41:27.800 Many good worship leaders have come out from that chapel. 00:41:27.800 --> 00:41:29.800 So I decide, let me just go into the chapel, 00:41:29.800 --> 00:41:34.800 just to look at this place from which I've seen so many worship leaders come out. 00:41:34.800 --> 00:41:37.800 I go into the chapel, and there's this guy sitting there. 00:41:37.800 --> 00:41:39.800 And he's been fasting for two days, 00:41:39.800 --> 00:41:41.800 because God said to him two days ago 00:41:41.800 --> 00:41:44.800 that I am going to change your life. 00:41:44.800 --> 00:41:46.800 I'm going to show you what you're about. 00:41:46.800 --> 00:41:48.800 I'm going to change your life. 00:41:48.800 --> 00:41:50.800 Chapel was over. There was nobody else there. 00:41:50.800 --> 00:41:55.800 He's been sitting there for two and a half hours just reading his Bible. 00:41:55.800 --> 00:41:58.800 And I go up to him, and he's the same guy that I had seen in the morning. 00:41:58.800 --> 00:42:01.800 And I go up to him and I say to him, listen, you don't know me, 00:42:01.800 --> 00:42:03.800 but I've been looking for you. 00:42:03.800 --> 00:42:06.800 Here's my name and number. 00:42:07.800 --> 00:42:11.800 If you trust that what I'm saying is of God, call me, 00:42:11.800 --> 00:42:13.800 because it's someone else's campus. 00:42:13.800 --> 00:42:17.800 I can't go force my way or tell him he has to make a free choice. 00:42:17.800 --> 00:42:19.800 I gave him my number and I leave. 00:42:19.800 --> 00:42:21.800 Nothing happens. The next day I'm in Chad's church, 00:42:21.800 --> 00:42:23.800 and I'm preaching in Chad's church. 00:42:23.800 --> 00:42:28.800 And as I'm preaching, I'm relating this very story while I'm preaching. 00:42:28.800 --> 00:42:31.800 And it so happens at that very moment on his phone, 00:42:31.800 --> 00:42:33.800 he gets a message saying, 00:42:33.800 --> 00:42:36.800 I want you to watch the New Life Assemblies of God service. 00:42:36.800 --> 00:42:38.800 It's streaming right now, and he turns it on. 00:42:38.800 --> 00:42:43.800 He turns it on at the exact moment that I am relating this story. 00:42:43.800 --> 00:42:46.800 How does God do all this, man? 00:42:46.800 --> 00:42:50.800 And he's listening to his story being told live. 00:42:50.800 --> 00:42:53.800 Guess what happens? He calls me. 00:42:53.800 --> 00:42:56.800 And then I give him the word that God had for him. 00:42:56.800 --> 00:43:00.800 Later on he came to Shillong with us and so on. 00:43:00.800 --> 00:43:02.800 How did all this happen? 00:43:02.800 --> 00:43:06.800 Through receiving with faith what you heard. 00:43:06.800 --> 00:43:09.800 This is something we need to do. 00:43:09.800 --> 00:43:11.800 As we do this, this will develop. 00:43:11.800 --> 00:43:14.800 You can't have this without this. 00:43:14.800 --> 00:43:20.800 You have to hear the Spirit illuminate the Word. 00:43:20.800 --> 00:43:23.800 If you do that well, the Spirit of God will now begin to speak 00:43:23.800 --> 00:43:25.800 straight into your heart and into your spirit. 00:43:25.800 --> 00:43:27.800 It's natural for him. He's your father. 00:43:27.800 --> 00:43:29.800 He doesn't converse through a book. 00:43:29.800 --> 00:43:31.800 When you want something from your dad, does he go and say, 00:43:31.800 --> 00:43:34.800 check the manual? 00:43:34.800 --> 00:43:36.800 Yes, checking the manual is important, 00:43:36.800 --> 00:43:40.800 because that's where the fundamentals are. 00:43:40.800 --> 00:43:45.800 But after that, it's conversations, too. 00:43:45.800 --> 00:43:47.800 It's not one or the other. It's both, right? 00:43:47.800 --> 00:43:53.800 But there's an order in which it happens. 00:43:53.800 --> 00:44:01.800 I want to show you two pictures. 00:44:01.800 --> 00:44:05.800 What's your name, Brandon? 00:44:05.800 --> 00:44:08.800 The first picture is from June 24th. 00:44:08.800 --> 00:44:12.800 It's when my mom had a stroke. 00:44:12.800 --> 00:44:15.800 She's got three tubes running through her. 00:44:15.800 --> 00:44:19.800 She can hardly connect. I'm trying to speak to her. 00:44:19.800 --> 00:44:21.800 It's not helping. 00:44:21.800 --> 00:44:25.800 She's in a daze of sorts. This was June 22nd or 23rd. 00:44:25.800 --> 00:44:28.800 Again, these are just examples. 00:44:28.800 --> 00:44:33.800 My question to God was, okay, so, Father, she's lived a good life. 00:44:33.800 --> 00:44:38.800 She's 84. Tell me what I need to do so that I do what your will is 00:44:38.800 --> 00:44:43.800 and not what I would want or what the family wants. 00:44:43.800 --> 00:44:45.800 What do you want in this? 00:44:45.800 --> 00:44:47.800 Because that's this idea of hearing by faith. 00:44:47.800 --> 00:44:49.800 Hear what the Spirit is saying. 00:44:49.800 --> 00:44:53.800 What if we went that route instead of first desiring and demanding 00:44:53.800 --> 00:44:55.800 what our desires are? 00:44:55.800 --> 00:44:58.800 Get his perspective. Then you can bargain with him. 00:44:58.800 --> 00:45:02.800 Abraham did. 00:45:02.800 --> 00:45:06.800 And God sometimes relents, sometimes says, 00:45:06.800 --> 00:45:09.800 stop it, Moses, I'm letting you go into the promised land. 00:45:09.800 --> 00:45:16.800 Just pack up your argument and climb up Mount Nebo. 00:45:16.800 --> 00:45:19.800 So, this was, and so my question to God was simple. 00:45:19.800 --> 00:45:21.800 What do you want to do? 00:45:21.800 --> 00:45:24.800 And his, just three words. 00:45:24.800 --> 00:45:27.800 It was, we dream forwards. 00:45:27.800 --> 00:45:31.800 Tell your mother, we dream forward. 00:45:31.800 --> 00:45:35.800 And so I went and kept, we dream forward. 00:45:35.800 --> 00:45:37.800 Yeah, we dream forward. 00:45:37.800 --> 00:45:40.800 And so I keep telling her, what do you want? 00:45:40.800 --> 00:45:42.800 God is saying we dream forward. 00:45:42.800 --> 00:45:44.800 What are your dreams? 00:45:44.800 --> 00:45:46.800 And she had one dream. 00:45:46.800 --> 00:45:50.800 She wanted to attend her granddaughter's wedding. 00:45:50.800 --> 00:45:53.800 And it was impossibly, with tubes running through her, 00:45:53.800 --> 00:45:57.800 with no control over her bowels, with no ability to function normally. 00:45:57.800 --> 00:45:59.800 It is impossible. 00:45:59.800 --> 00:46:00.800 I went three times. 00:46:00.800 --> 00:46:02.800 The second time I went, I thought to myself, 00:46:02.800 --> 00:46:04.800 man, I'll have to come back a third time. 00:46:04.800 --> 00:46:08.800 I'm thinking to myself, how do I tell her this may not be possible? 00:46:08.800 --> 00:46:12.800 But God kept saying, we dream forward. 00:46:12.800 --> 00:46:17.800 You read scriptures and you encourage your heart when your heart is discouraged. 00:46:17.800 --> 00:46:23.800 And then the next picture, that's from last week. 00:46:23.800 --> 00:46:26.800 I don't know how God did it, man. 00:46:26.800 --> 00:46:29.800 I know there were guys here who were praying. 00:46:29.800 --> 00:46:31.800 There were guys in other places that were praying. 00:46:31.800 --> 00:46:38.800 But from, took 45 days. 00:46:38.800 --> 00:46:42.800 Doctors suggested it's a bad idea for her to fly when she's had a stroke 00:46:42.800 --> 00:46:46.800 and she's on blood thinners for 10 hours from India to London. 00:46:46.800 --> 00:46:47.800 We dream forward. 00:46:47.800 --> 00:46:50.800 That was the only word. 00:46:50.800 --> 00:46:55.800 So does this mean now that every time something like this happens to her, we dream forward? 00:46:55.800 --> 00:46:56.800 No. 00:46:56.800 --> 00:46:58.800 She's lived well. 00:46:58.800 --> 00:47:01.800 The Lord wants to take her home two weeks from now, so be it. 00:47:01.800 --> 00:47:05.800 But for that situation, what was his perspective? 00:47:05.800 --> 00:47:11.800 We go situation to situation, looking at God's perspective, hearing with faith. 00:47:11.800 --> 00:47:17.800 Either we discover what he wants in the word or we discover what he wants when he speaks to us. 00:47:17.800 --> 00:47:24.800 But we go step by step by step. 00:47:24.800 --> 00:47:30.800 Any questions? 00:47:30.800 --> 00:47:37.800 Yes. 00:47:37.800 --> 00:47:41.800 Yeah, constantly unlearning. 00:47:41.800 --> 00:47:46.800 I think a time comes in your life where you're only unlearning. 00:47:46.800 --> 00:47:47.800 You're learning less. 00:47:47.800 --> 00:47:51.800 You're unlearning more. 00:47:51.800 --> 00:47:53.800 No, I'm not joking. 00:47:53.800 --> 00:47:55.800 You have to unlearn so much. 00:47:55.800 --> 00:48:05.800 Because we grow up in a cauldron that says reasoning, speculation, think it through, weigh the odds, pros and cons. 00:48:05.800 --> 00:48:07.800 This will be the easiest way. 00:48:07.800 --> 00:48:08.800 Take this route. 00:48:08.800 --> 00:48:09.800 Don't be dumb. 00:48:09.800 --> 00:48:11.800 Be smart. 00:48:11.800 --> 00:48:12.800 Use your common sense. 00:48:12.800 --> 00:48:14.800 These are words. 00:48:14.800 --> 00:48:18.800 The other famous one, you do your best, God will do the rest. 00:48:18.800 --> 00:48:19.800 Don't know where that one came from. 00:48:19.800 --> 00:48:22.800 When God shuts one door, he opens another door. 00:48:22.800 --> 00:48:23.800 All these things. 00:48:23.800 --> 00:48:31.800 So we're in this, we're on this conveyor belt built on nothing in the word, but built on human ways of thinking. 00:48:31.800 --> 00:48:38.800 And so to unlearn all that is painful, man. 00:48:38.800 --> 00:48:40.800 I'm sure Moses had to unlearn a lot. 00:48:40.800 --> 00:48:45.800 He came from Egypt's best, highly educated. 00:48:45.800 --> 00:48:51.800 I'm sure Daniel had to unlearn a lot. 00:48:51.800 --> 00:48:56.800 But these guys, I don't know how they did it. 00:48:56.800 --> 00:49:06.800 I mean, when Nebuchadnezzar took the boys into Babylon, his intent was, can I indoctrinate you to a point where you forget that you're Israeli and that you become Babylonian? 00:49:06.800 --> 00:49:08.800 I'll even change your name. 00:49:08.800 --> 00:49:10.800 And they changed their names. 00:49:10.800 --> 00:49:17.800 But these four boys, Shadrach, Meshech, Abednego, which by the way are the Babylonian names that we refer to them as? 00:49:17.800 --> 00:49:23.800 They are the names of Ahaziah, Michelle and Hananiel. 00:49:23.800 --> 00:49:31.800 We don't even know their real names because we've been taught Shadrach, Meshech, Abednego. 00:49:31.800 --> 00:49:33.800 And so a lot of unlearning. 00:49:33.800 --> 00:49:44.800 But praise God, unlearning is replaced by the learning of God. 00:49:44.800 --> 00:49:49.800 If we can hear with faith, Psalm 91 will spring alive, spring alive. 00:49:49.800 --> 00:49:56.800 I mean, something as simple as no evil shall befall your tent. 00:49:56.800 --> 00:50:13.800 If I could actually embrace and absorb that to a point, I mean, I know one or two people in this church who walked COVID so bravely, so bravely that I felt ashamed. 00:50:13.800 --> 00:50:15.800 It wasn't bravado. 00:50:15.800 --> 00:50:20.800 They were in circumstances where it was easier to catch COVID than any of us. 00:50:20.800 --> 00:50:22.800 But my God, they walked well. 00:50:22.800 --> 00:50:29.800 What was it that gave them that courage that I didn't have? 00:50:29.800 --> 00:50:37.800 And then there are other times I have courage, but in certain places, no. 00:50:37.800 --> 00:50:44.800 This is a preamble to Psalm 91, as in can we have this so that we can have that? 00:50:44.800 --> 00:50:49.800 Because the result should be fearless people. 00:50:49.800 --> 00:50:54.800 Fearless people who walk into, I mean, here's a progression. 00:50:54.800 --> 00:50:57.800 Hide in the cleft of the rock. 00:50:57.800 --> 00:51:00.800 That's the first one. 00:51:00.800 --> 00:51:02.800 When we begin, we hide in the cleft of the rock. 00:51:02.800 --> 00:51:05.800 Whenever we are afraid, we hide in the cleft of the rock. 00:51:05.800 --> 00:51:12.800 The second one is, I don't remember the second one. 00:51:12.800 --> 00:51:15.800 The third one is run towards Goliath. 00:51:15.800 --> 00:51:17.800 First one is hide in the cleft of the rock. 00:51:17.800 --> 00:51:21.800 The second one I think is sleep in the boat. 00:51:21.800 --> 00:51:23.800 Yeah, sleep in the boat. 00:51:23.800 --> 00:51:25.800 Three phases of courage. 00:51:25.800 --> 00:51:26.800 Hide in the cleft of the rock. 00:51:26.800 --> 00:51:31.800 When an enemy comes next against you, oh God, you're my refuge, you're my rock, you're my stronghold. 00:51:31.800 --> 00:51:32.800 Hide in the cleft of the rock. 00:51:32.800 --> 00:51:33.800 He'll keep you there safe. 00:51:33.800 --> 00:51:36.800 Second, sleep in the boat. 00:51:36.800 --> 00:51:42.800 Where now you've gotten accustomed enough to Jesus to know that he can take care of you in a storm. 00:51:42.800 --> 00:51:44.800 So you sleep in the boat. 00:51:44.800 --> 00:51:48.800 You're not too hassled by the fact that there's a storm. 00:51:48.800 --> 00:51:51.800 And the third one is really nuts. 00:51:51.800 --> 00:51:55.800 Run towards Goliath. 00:51:55.800 --> 00:51:57.800 These are the three phases of courage. 00:51:57.800 --> 00:51:59.800 Run towards Goliath. 00:51:59.800 --> 00:52:00.800 You're not running away. 00:52:00.800 --> 00:52:01.800 You're not hiding in the cleft. 00:52:01.800 --> 00:52:02.800 You're not sleeping. 00:52:02.800 --> 00:52:04.800 You're running towards danger. 00:52:09.800 --> 00:52:10.800 Okay. 00:52:18.800 --> 00:52:19.800 Any questions, guys? 00:52:27.800 --> 00:52:28.800 What time is it? 00:52:28.800 --> 00:52:29.800 Okay. 00:52:29.800 --> 00:52:33.800 Let's stop. 00:52:41.800 --> 00:52:47.800 God's adventures and sometimes even what God wants to reveal to you 00:52:47.800 --> 00:52:59.800 are sealed till you open it by obedience through, sorry, with the Spirit. 00:52:59.800 --> 00:53:22.800 You open it by obedience through, sorry, with what you hear in the Word 00:53:22.800 --> 00:53:33.800 and through his dreamer in faith. 00:53:33.800 --> 00:53:43.800 God's adventures and revelations are often sealed till you open it by obedience. 00:53:43.800 --> 00:53:51.800 You open the seal by obedience by hearing with faith what he's saying. 00:53:51.800 --> 00:53:53.800 And then suddenly it springs open. 00:53:53.800 --> 00:53:54.800 Small steps, eh? 00:53:54.800 --> 00:53:56.800 He doesn't want you to take any major steps. 00:53:56.800 --> 00:53:57.800 Small steps. 00:53:57.800 --> 00:54:01.800 Can you just tell your mom, we dream forwards? 00:54:01.800 --> 00:54:05.800 I must have repeated it 200 or 300 times to her. 00:54:05.800 --> 00:54:07.800 We dream forwards. 00:54:07.800 --> 00:54:08.800 We've said this before. 00:54:08.800 --> 00:54:14.800 It's wonderful when you get to a place where obedience precedes understanding, 00:54:14.800 --> 00:54:18.800 where you obey before you understand. 00:54:18.800 --> 00:54:20.800 And often, users as a measure, eh? 00:54:20.800 --> 00:54:22.800 I find that I fail often in this. 00:54:22.800 --> 00:54:29.800 The first things I think about when I think about the things I think about 00:54:29.800 --> 00:54:32.800 and often, users as a measure, eh? 00:54:32.800 --> 00:54:34.800 I find that I fail often in this. 00:54:34.800 --> 00:54:48.800 The first things I think, say, and do, the first things, the first things I think, 00:54:48.800 --> 00:55:01.800 say, and do when adversity happens, when adversity happens, 00:55:01.800 --> 00:55:25.800 tells you everything about my true spiritual condition that day or that week or that year. 00:55:25.800 --> 00:55:27.800 Just keep that in mind. 00:55:27.800 --> 00:55:38.800 The first thing I say or do when adversity happens tells you everything about my true spiritual condition on that day, that week, or that year. 00:55:38.800 --> 00:55:44.800 And so many times when things go wrong, I'm so surprised at my reaction. 00:55:44.800 --> 00:55:46.800 I'm so surprised at what I say and do. 00:55:46.800 --> 00:55:48.800 Sure, you can say, praise the Lord. 00:55:48.800 --> 00:55:55.800 But beyond that, what I say or do tells you everything about my true spiritual condition. 00:55:55.800 --> 00:56:02.800 And I want you to be the first ones close to me know whether this guy has the faith to walk or whether he needs help, 00:56:02.800 --> 00:56:12.800 because it will tell you how you think, how you react, what your first response is, often tells you where things are at. 00:56:25.800 --> 00:56:49.800 To hear with faith, cultivate a violence, cultivate a violence against the fear of man, 00:56:49.800 --> 00:57:11.800 fear of foolishness, fear of the unknown, fear of insecurity, 00:57:11.800 --> 00:57:21.800 because faith will pit you against all four. 00:57:21.800 --> 00:57:25.800 These four will rise up the moment you exert faith. 00:57:25.800 --> 00:57:37.800 Every time you or anybody in the Bible did anything that was faith-worthy, they had to come against these four things. 00:57:37.800 --> 00:57:46.800 The fear of man, as in what will people say, what will my parents say, what will friends say, what will they think of me, 00:57:46.800 --> 00:57:52.800 the fear of foolishness, as in appearing unsophisticated, unreasonable, illogical. 00:57:52.800 --> 00:57:58.800 The fear of foolishness. That's the fear of foolishness. 00:57:58.800 --> 00:58:06.800 The fear of the unknown, as in I'm stepping into something where I've got no idea what's going to happen. 00:58:06.800 --> 00:58:12.800 Shendam's pickup line, Keeru's levinate, not knowing where he was going, he steps out. 00:58:12.800 --> 00:58:21.800 And then, the last one, the fear of insecurity, because it will remove the stability of the security around you. 00:58:21.800 --> 00:58:29.800 And there's no way to deal with them unless it's violently. It's not gradual. 00:58:29.800 --> 00:58:36.520 it'll come back every time. It's like the kind of weed that if you ever tried dealing 00:58:36.520 --> 00:58:43.620 with weeds gradually. I mean, it's not like I know anything about weeds, but I know that 00:58:43.620 --> 00:58:52.380 if you deal with weeds gradually, they just keep weeding, whatever they do. Yeah. Any 00:58:52.380 --> 00:59:06.140 questions on this? Come to me, sing oceans and we'll end. Any questions on this, guys? 00:59:06.140 --> 00:59:16.060 Cultivate a violence, huh? The beautiful thing about, again, going back to the story with my 00:59:16.060 --> 00:59:21.900 mom, was my brother-in-law is a doctor, my sister is a dentist. They know enough about the medical 00:59:21.900 --> 00:59:28.300 field to know that what Jacob is saying is absolutely ridiculous. But the beautiful thing 00:59:28.300 --> 00:59:35.020 was these two guys who think a certain way, chose the route of faith. For me, it's a little easy. 00:59:35.020 --> 00:59:41.940 I don't know what actually is happening inside my mom's body, but they do. And for them to say, 00:59:41.940 --> 00:59:51.580 no, we shall go this way was just nuts. But every day, others would send them cuttings. Be careful, 00:59:51.900 --> 00:59:58.780 you bring your mom to UK. She's not a resident. If she falls ill, it'll cost you 50,000 pounds a day 00:59:58.780 --> 01:00:05.060 because there's no insurance to cover pre-existing medical conditions and so on. So there'll be this 01:00:05.060 --> 01:00:11.460 barrage of bad news that comes your way. And in the midst of it, can you cultivate a violence 01:00:11.460 --> 01:00:18.340 against the fear of man? Cultivate a violence against appearing foolish, illogical, unsophisticated, 01:00:18.340 --> 01:00:23.780 unreasonable, the fear of the unknown. What if, what if, what if, what if, and the fear of 01:00:23.780 --> 01:00:30.580 insecurity? Oh shucks, what are we stepping into? Violence. 01:00:48.340 --> 01:01:07.620 You call me out upon the waters, the great unknown, where feet may foil. 01:01:08.260 --> 01:01:24.180 And there I find you in the mystery, in oceans deep, my fate will stand. You call me out. 01:01:24.180 --> 01:01:40.420 You call me out upon the waters, the great unknown, where feet may fail. 01:01:41.140 --> 01:01:56.660 And there I find you in the mystery, in oceans deep, my fate will stand. 01:01:57.540 --> 01:02:02.900 And I will call upon your name 01:02:06.580 --> 01:02:18.900 and keep my eyes above the waves. When oceans rise, my soul will rest in your embrace. 01:02:18.980 --> 01:02:27.140 For I am yours and you are mine. 01:02:27.140 --> 01:02:31.380 Oh 01:02:34.420 --> 01:02:49.380 Your grace abounds. Your grace abounds in deepest waters. Your sovereign hand will be my guide. 01:02:50.100 --> 01:03:03.620 Where my fail and fear surrounds me, you've never failed and you won't start now. 01:03:05.620 --> 01:03:11.620 And I will call upon your name 01:03:12.580 --> 01:03:25.860 and keep my eyes above the waves. When oceans rise, my soul will rest in your embrace. 01:03:25.860 --> 01:03:33.860 For I am yours and you are mine. 01:03:41.620 --> 01:03:56.500 Spirit lead me. Spirit lead me where my trust is without borders. Let me walk upon the waters 01:03:56.500 --> 01:04:10.340 wherever you would call me. Take me deeper than my feet could ever wander and my fate will be made 01:04:10.340 --> 01:04:24.740 stronger in the presence of my savior. Spirit lead me where my trust is without borders and my fate 01:04:24.740 --> 01:04:38.820 would form the waters wherever you would call me. Take me deeper than my feet could ever wander 01:04:38.820 --> 01:04:51.940 and my fate will be made stronger in the presence of my savior. Spirit lead me where my trust is 01:04:51.940 --> 01:05:02.020 without borders. Let me walk upon the waters wherever you would call me. 01:05:03.540 --> 01:05:16.020 Take me deeper than my feet could ever wander and my fate will be made stronger in the presence of my savior. 01:05:16.020 --> 01:05:21.060 Savior I will call. 01:05:26.500 --> 01:05:30.420 And I will call upon your name 01:05:34.180 --> 01:05:45.140 and keep my eyes above the waves. When oceans rise, my soul will rest in your embrace. 01:05:46.980 --> 01:05:53.940 For I am yours and you are mine. 01:05:58.740 --> 01:06:03.220 You know when you look at this verse, you can't sing this unless you know the word. 01:06:03.940 --> 01:06:07.540 I will call upon your name. Keep my eyes above the waves. When oceans rise. 01:06:07.540 --> 01:06:14.100 This you can't do if you don't know the word. The spirit of God will show you Jesus Christ in the word 01:06:14.180 --> 01:06:16.900 so that you can sing this. But if you go to the verse before this, 01:06:21.140 --> 01:06:24.020 it says, no the verse, the next one, 01:06:26.340 --> 01:06:34.260 next one. Yeah, look at this. Spirit lead me where my trust is without borders. Let me walk upon 01:06:34.260 --> 01:06:38.740 the waters wherever you would call me. You wouldn't know where he's calling you unless you 01:06:39.700 --> 01:06:45.620 heard the spirit speak. And now it's not necessarily through the word because the word doesn't have 01:06:45.620 --> 01:06:52.260 words like Wallis, Surrey, Timbuktu and Madrid. This is where God suddenly speaks you differently 01:06:52.260 --> 01:07:00.180 or McDonald's. It's both. On one hand we need the word to know this is God. We can walk on water. 01:07:00.180 --> 01:07:06.980 On the other hand wherever you would call me with the spirit speaking to you. It's both. It's not one 01:07:06.980 --> 01:07:15.220 or the other. The song does say it well. Yeah. So maybe look at Psalm 91 and hear it with faith. 01:07:15.220 --> 01:07:20.340 When you read it, hear it with faith. Hearing is not audible. When you read it also you hear with 01:07:20.340 --> 01:07:26.580 faith. It's a report written by Moses. Just think of this. We think hearing it always has to be loud. 01:07:26.580 --> 01:07:34.580 Moses is writing a psalm. It is his report on God. And as you read it, you are hearing what Moses is 01:07:34.580 --> 01:07:43.140 saying. At one point Moses says I will say he is my refuge and he is my rock in whom I will trust. 01:07:43.140 --> 01:07:46.580 It's his report we are reading. Sometimes as we read we hear. 01:07:49.860 --> 01:07:54.420 Yeah. God bless you and keep you, make you men and women of great faith. 01:07:56.500 --> 01:08:00.420 If you need prayers, I want to pray with you. Otherwise happy faith day.