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Podcast: Acts 29 Vancouver
Episode: Stewarding Inheritance
Publishing Date: 2022-01-02T05:00:44-08:00
Podcast URL: https://acts29.ca
Episode URL: https://acts29.ca/stewarding-inheritance/

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Okay, guys, a couple of quick announcements.

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Kind of, if you, for whatever reason,

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can't make it up Tanner, to park in the parking lot,

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park anywhere on the street and let us know

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and we'll come and pick you up.

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Because I think someone was trying to come up Tanner

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and the car was beginning to skid.

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But then we can always send Brandon and his pickup out

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to get you.

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So that's one thing.

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Two, I just want to thank guys like Miguel and James

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and Nick and guys like this who clear the parking lot.

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Everything looks much larger when it's covered with snow.

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When I was thinking of the parking lot at home,

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it was very small.

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When I came here, it was massive.

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And Jesus is looking trimmed today because James really,

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sorry, not Jesus, James is looking trimmed today

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because he really worked hard.

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So, Miguel's been clearing the sidewalks.

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Sorry?

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Yeah, if you want your tax receipts to come

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to the right address, please send them to Chantal Meds

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at the Ax 29 email address.

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Otherwise, your tax receipts may come to me

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and the benefit will be mine.

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So just make sure you send the tax.

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If you have a new address, Evan, make sure you send a...

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Okay, so that is the other thing.

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I really appreciate guys who stay home

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because they have a runny nose or irritating cough

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and you decide to stay home, kind of you,

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even though it might have nothing to do with nothing

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except the weather.

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So a few of us are missing here today because of that,

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because they decided to stay home.

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Then there was one more thing that I wanted to say,

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which I don't remember.

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Okay.

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But it's important.

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Yes, the making the mistakes in my email contest is over.

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So I'm finding it hard to make mistakes in my email now.

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And so in this last one, the mistake was the word attendance.

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A-T-T-E-N-D-A-N-C-E, not D-E-N-C-E.

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And the only guy who caught it was Matt Dirks and Diana.

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The only guy who caught it was Matt Dirks.

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The only girl who caught it was Diana.

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But since the contest ended,

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we weren't planning on doing a spin thingy,

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but we'll give Diana and Mark a concession gift.

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Diana and Matt a concession gift.

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Pardon?

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No, that error I corrected.

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All right, no, only Matt wins at this time

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because I did a secret spin in my head and Matt won.

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It was going well for someone

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till they began to find too many mistakes.

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Yeah, all righty, that is the most important announcement.

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Okay.

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So today, the reason we are using this board

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is because people watching at home

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can't see the scribble on the TV

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and our cameraman doesn't have the expertise

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to make it legible.

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So Clara, I want you to take over the camera

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because he isn't able to do some things.

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Okay.

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Okay, today's topic or today's title is

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Stewarding Inheritance.

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Stewarding Inheritance.

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And this is a continuation from last time.

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Stewarding Inheritance.

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Because two days ago we talked about

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how one of the things we have to take into 2022

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is the ability to wrestle

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to steward things that were given to us in 2021.

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We're not leaving them behind.

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We wrestle with it and bring it into 2022.

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And I was telling you about this radio show

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that I was listening to

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where they were talking about the fact

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that there are only four fluent speakers

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of a Salish dialect.

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And if they die, then with them will die

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like huge reservoirs of historical and cultural

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oral traditions in the Salish community.

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And so this lady took upon herself

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the task of teaching a new generation

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this really old dialect

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so that history and culture doesn't die.

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And so she's stewarding a language

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so that it once again spreads across the earth.

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That was the story we were,

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I was talking about last two days ago.

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And so what is it that we have been given to steward?

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So I'm starting with a question

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that I should ask at the end.

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And the question is, and I'll ask it at the end too,

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what is, what is your slash our,

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what is your and our spiritual inheritance?

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That we are meant to steward.

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That we are meant to steward.

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Are you stewarding well that which,

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are we stewarding well,

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hey, there's an echo on my thingy.

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Are we stewarding well that which

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we have been given

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as an inheritance?

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Hey, can you knock off the echo?

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How will you honor,

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how will you honor your spiritual inheritance?

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These are questions that should be asked at the end,

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but I'm asking them at the beginning.

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And then I'll ask them again at the end.

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What is our spiritual inheritance?

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That's the first question.

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What is our spiritual inheritance?

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And that then determines your spiritual inheritance too.

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Cause all inheritances come through relationship.

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Nothing is worked for,

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everything is obtained through relationship.

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What is our spiritual inheritance?

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The moment an inheritance is worked for,

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you have to think two things.

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One, I'm being paid wages.

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Two, I'm not a son, I'm a hireling or an orphan.

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And once that happens, an inheritance turns into wages.

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So you can be in a church

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and you may think you have to work to earn a spot.

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And the moment you begin to think like that,

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you're already rendering yourself incapable

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of carrying what God has given this church.

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Let me say that again.

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The moment you think that you have to work your way

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into places in this church,

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work your way into Jacob's good books

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or the church's good books,

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you have to do this or that to gain entry

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into a place where you will be given

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what functions or roles or places.

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The moment you begin to think like that,

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and it's easy to think like that

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because we live in a rewards and punishment culture.

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So it's easy to think like that.

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The moment you begin to think like that,

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you have already lost your capacity

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to handle an inheritance.

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And we'll talk about this more,

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we have to flesh it out more.

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Because what if you do have a Jacob and a Rebecca like,

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an Isaac and a Rebecca like pastor

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who favors one over the other?

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Then it becomes a problem.

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Because that happened with Isaac and Rebecca.

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One favored Jacob, one favored Esau,

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and it just destroyed the family.

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So a lot depends on that too, and we'll get there.

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So what is our spiritual inheritance?

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And the moment you say inheritance,

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you immediately have to think in terms of stewarding.

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If you say inheritance, you have to think stewarding.

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Because you and I know of hundreds and hundreds

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of rich young kids who were given an inheritance,

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who ran into a lot of trouble, ended up in prison,

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got bankrupt, went into debt, ruined their lives

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and the lives of their children.

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The moment you think inheritance,

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you have to think of the word stewarding.

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The great thing about God is he refuses,

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he can come and tell you, hey,

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Dillna, you have an inheritance,

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but I will not release it to you till you mature.

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So what is your spiritual inheritance?

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What is our spiritual inheritance and thereby yours?

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And what are we meant to steward?

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That's the first question.

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Same question, are we stewarding well

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that which we have been given as an inheritance?

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That's a question that needs to be asked

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because if you're not stewarding it well,

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two things happen.

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One, nothing is added to it.

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Two, what is given is taken away.

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Why is that?

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Because when it comes to God's inheritance,

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according to Deuteronomy 32, verse 29,

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God's inheritance is people.

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Guys, one of the things that sound and camera crew

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have to be aware of is that in your doing your work,

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you cannot stop listening to me

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because you'll miss out.

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I would rather you not sit behind the sound and camera

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and sit somewhere else,

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but do not let sound and camera work distract you

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from the most important part of this

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because at the end of the day,

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Jesus will say the same thing to the sound and camera crew

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that he said to Martha.

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Mary has chosen the best portion.

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Sound and light is not it.

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So if I catch some of us not diving into the word,

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then we'll transfer you up to the elite crowd here.

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So just be aware of that sound and camera crew.

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Tigger, why are you saying these things so strongly?

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Because this year matters and you matter.

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Secondly, because you can't fire me.

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Those two reasons, my God, they give you a free hand.

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Okay, so and the third question is

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how will you honor your spiritual inheritance?

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One of the things that people watch

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when they give you an inheritance is

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how do you deal with it?

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Do you treat it as contemptuous?

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Do you treat it as taken for granted?

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Or do you realize the work that has gone into it

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at the hands of someone else?

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To bequeath it to you.

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Someone else had to work for me to be where I'm at

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and to receive what I have received.

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They put in a lot of hard work.

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I mean, guys like Kamal and Ann know this.

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They know because when you have children and grandchildren,

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then you realize, oh my God,

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we see our grandchildren now doing well

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because of the work that we put in.

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Okay, Colossians 1, 24 to 29.

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You get a sense of what Paul is saying.

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Colossians 1, 24 to 29.

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Colossians 1, 24 to 29.

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Colossians 1, 24 to 29.

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Paul is talking about how he's willing to labor

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in the given situations.

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Now I rejoice in what was suffered for you

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and I fill up in my flesh what is still lacking

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in regard to Christ's afflictions

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for the sake of his body, which is the church.

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I have become its servant by the commission God gave me

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to present to you the word of God in its fullness,

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the mystery that has been kept hidden for ages

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and generations, but is now disclosed to the saints.

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To them God has chosen to make known among the Gentiles,

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the glorious riches of this mystery,

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which is Christ in you the hope of glory.

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The one thing that Paul was supposed to steward

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was very simple, Christ in you the hope of glory.

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That was his commission.

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Two commissions he had.

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First one, Christ in you the hope of glory.

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Second commission, Jew and Gentile have become one.

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That's it.

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Throughout his life in all his letters,

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this is the only thing that he keeps repeating.

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Christ in you the hope of glory.

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There is no difference between Jew and Gentile.

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They have become one and they are the true inheritors

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of salvation through Abraham.

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All the blessings of Abraham have come to them through faith.

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This was Paul's message over and over and over again.

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This is what I mean by an inheritance with your steward.

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And then he goes on to say,

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this is where he wants them to know that we proclaim him

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and look at how he proclaims it.

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We proclaim him admonishing, as in correcting,

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rebuking, admonishing, and teaching everyone

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with all wisdom so that we may present everyone

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perfect in Christ.

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To this end, I labor, struggling with all the energy

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which so powerfully works in me.

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Proclamation does not come without teaching and admonishing.

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Not if you want someone to steward inheritance correctly.

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If you're a bank and you just want to give someone,

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if you're the government and you want to give someone

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a grant, that's different.

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But if it's a house and if there are fathers and sons,

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then an inheritance has to be taught how to steward.

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So these are the first questions we ask.

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And one of the things we have to grasp is that

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God desires that we live from our inheritance

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instead of towards our inheritance.

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God desires that we live from our inheritance

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instead of towards our inheritance.

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God desires that I live, that we live from our inheritance,

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not towards our inheritance.

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Prodigals live towards inheritance.

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As in, when is the time that I will get what is due me?

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And yet the father tells the older brother,

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listen, all I have is yours.

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Acts 29, this is why the words that Jane spoke are critical,

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that I must stand at the end and look at the beginning

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this year.

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I must stand in December 31st, looking at all the things

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that God has ordained for me.

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I've got to give me eyes to see them

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so that I already have a direction set.

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This is what we do when we travel to places we don't know.

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We set the Navi, we look at the end,

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we look at the roads that we have to take to get there.

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We check whether it's traffic, whether it's snow.

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We check all that, why?

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Because we are seeing the end from the beginning.

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And then we start deciding which route to take,

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which is shorter, which is longer.

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We do all this for a simple trip to Costco.

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Much more so when it comes to stewarding

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the most precious thing on earth,

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which is our inheritance, which is people.

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Why?

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Because you are most precious to God.

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And just as you were most precious to God,

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there are hundreds and hundreds that are precious to God.

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And there is nothing more precious than that

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because God's inheritance is people.

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So it doesn't matter whether it's one person or a hundred

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person, God's inheritance is the 99 and the one.

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It's the remaining?

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The people are living in what might have been

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a slavery, mob, practiced crime.

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It's the tribes are living, seeds are being planted.

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We need the animals to be planted.

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We need the animals.

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We need the animals to be planted.

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is this. What are we doing now? We are being apportioned, portions of it that we can fulfill

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on his behalf, which is why Paul says in Colossians, I will complete in my body what Christ has

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already paid the price for. So, one of the joys of every year in the beginning is to

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see the things that God is going to give me this year. And I write it down. Oh, so you're

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going to give me this, you're going to give me that, you're going to give me this nation,

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you're going to have open this place for me, you're going to give me this in terms of resources.

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Great. Now that I know what you're going to release to me this year, let me start working

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towards it. Do I get everything by the end of the year? Do I finish? No. What I don't

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finish I can always transfer to the next year. But my God, I like finding out what is supposed

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to be mine this year because there is every year there's an inheritance given to you. Teachers

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sit because even though schools been postponed to Jan 10th, teachers are ready for Jan 4th. Why?

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Because they got to figure out how in a COVID year they can teach a certain way so that by the time

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they get to the end of the year, all that has to be taught is done. There's planning.

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No, it's not because everything that I get is towards the one thing. So for instance,

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let's say resources. What are the resources for? To be poured out for this inheritance

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called people. Let's say I get a spouse. What's a spouse for? To be poured out with her towards

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serving people. Let's say it is a cat. No, there's nothing there. Let's say whatever happens then,

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you begin to take what you have and you pour it towards the one thing that you have been given.

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Everything now is towards the service of one thing. It's like getting a piece of land and

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someone gives you a bulldozer, someone gives you a spade, someone gives you a seed, someone gives

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you a fence, someone gives you bricks, someone gives you people to do it for you so you don't

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have to do anything, which is my preferred way of doing things. But what happens is everything

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that you get now is towards one end and that is let's take care of this inheritance called people.

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And there are different stages in it. There is the maturing of people. There is the birthing of

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people. There is the gathering of people. There is the enabling of people. There is the commissioning

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of people. There is the releasing of people. Towards what end? More. Where do we find this?

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Acts 15, 16. And I'm raising up the tabernacle of David so that my salvation can go to the ends of

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the earth. Habakkuk 2, 14. My glory shall cover the earth as the waters cover the

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seas. Through whom? Through people.

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The prodigal mentality is, oh, what ministry can I do? When will I get a ministry? When will I sing

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instead of Jane? When will, why not some more preaching for me? When will I get a ministry?

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When will I sing instead of Jane? When will, why not some more preaching for me? Why can't I start

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a church? Why does Miguel start a church as soon as he comes when I have served faithfully for 15

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years? Yeah, it's full of activity. And churches are rife with it.

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It's our turn to ask for the nation, see? So when it comes to inheritance, guys, there's a connection

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between, so when you think of inheritance, you have to think of, when you think of inheritance,

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you've got to, this is how you can be really fruitful. Inheritance, first thing is relationship.

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Second thing is promise. Third thing is understanding or knowing the promise.

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Next thing is endurance. Endurance.

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And then the last thing is responsibility. Oh, sorry, responsibility first.

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And then endurance. That word is totally legible now. It's responsibility. So for inheritance to

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flourish, the first thing I require is relationship. Relationship on two levels, one with God

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and one with the body I'm part of. And then the third thing is, I'm not going to talk about

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inheritance, but the relationship of inheritance begins with relationship because everything is

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obtained, bequeathed, not worked for. Then once I'm in relationship, I realize the promise that

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God has for us this year. And we'll talk about what it is. Once we have a promise, we got to go and

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break open the promise. Like you break open that Cadbury orange thing, you've got to hit it on the

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ground and it breaks into all those pieces. What's that thing called? You know what I mean, right?

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Okay. I was going to say fortune cookies and I thought, what if I'm endorsing fortune cookies?

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So I went with the orange thingy. So basically you break it open to understand what's inside.

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And once you understand it, then it's your responsibility to deal with it well. You have

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to become responsible. You have to become responsible. And once you become responsible,

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you have to endure because nothing comes without endurance. This is how inheritance is flourish.

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Any questions?

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Knowing or understanding your inheritance is what is spoken about in Psalm 48, where David says,

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hey, go check out Zion, examine her fortresses, examine her citadels, go measure the dimensions.

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Why? So that you can tell the next generation.

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I go back to the first question. What is our inheritance?

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I mean, I would love for us to ask questions and then take time to write down our answers.

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So let's do that. What is our inheritance as a church? Quickly write it down, not to get it right,

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but to see what you come up with. What is our inheritance as a church?

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Let's say you and Don and Jagan were my kids. And so there's an inheritance I bequeath to you.

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I am this amazing industrialist. I also discovered Tesla and I run Burger King. And so

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now that I have all these three things together and I'm giving you my inheritance,

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you will get different portions of it. So in that sense, yes, it is something that is released to us

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and in that you play certain roles. Sometimes they overlap, sometimes they don't.

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Yeah, but it is being responsible for what has been given to you so that you can multiply it.

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We'll talk about that. Yeah. Well, that'd be great. You're owning Tesla, Burger King and yeah.

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So we have a question. So you want us to write down what you mean?

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What do you think our inheritance is at Acts 29?

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You have less than two minutes.

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Hey, can someone buy a clock? Because I think it's time to get a clock.

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No, no, no, it'll be behind me. So you guys know. No, so that you can just look at it and be at peace.

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Yeah. Yeah. The clock won't be there. The clock will be there.

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The only place that has pulled a clock on me is NLAG.

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Shush, silence in the peanut butter.

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Calorie.

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Jane, you obviously are from Toronto and we feel bad for you. So you'll have to think about the

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inheritance for you in Toronto because God is gracious and even Toronto has an inheritance.

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Yeah, and it's not the maple leaves.

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Okay.

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To be responsible over my inheritance, over our inheritance, we will have to pay a cost

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and we will have to be accountable to God. We will have to pay a cost and we'll have to be

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accountable to God. So God gave Abraham an inheritance. Listen, I'll make you the father

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of nations. Through you, every nation on the earth will be blessed. As soon as he said that,

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Abraham had to start paying a cost. And what was the cost? It begins in Genesis.

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Jesus, same thing. Through you, Isaiah 53 points out Jesus's inheritance. Through your

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travail and suffering, many will come to me. Through the suffering of the son, many will come

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to me. But as soon as he said that, he was not going to pay a cost. He was going to pay a cost.

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Through the suffering of the son, many will come to me.

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But as soon as he reads out those words in the synagogue, he has to pay a cost.

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So the moment I become responsible for the inheritance God is giving, the moment Acts 29 says,

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this is what we'll do. We must expect to pay a cost. And the cost is things that will take our time,

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treasure, talent, strength, convenience. And it is an axe blow against self-preservation.

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It is what Paul says, that I will suffer so that this may go forth. It's okay. I take it joyfully.

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I may be poured out as a sacrifice so that you may benefit. And when an entire group of people

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begin to think like this, it is nuts. And I'm saying to you, you think like this.

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Can you repeat it? Time, treasure, talent, strength, convenience that deals a death blow to self-preservation.

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And if we don't go down this route, it is not that God withdraws the inheritance, but he says,

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I'll keep it in a fund for you. It's like trust fund for rich kids.

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When you grow up and behave decently, then I'll give you this money. I dreamt of Kanye West last night.

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Yeah, just strange.

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Galatians 4-1.

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Galatians 4-1.

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What I'm saying is that as long as the heir is a child, he's no different from a slave,

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although he owns the whole estate. He's subject to guardians and trustees until the time set by the

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father. So also when we were, yeah, so I'm taking both verses out of context to prove a point that

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till we show maturity, unfortunately, an inheritance is not released.

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Any questions on that? This is why be in a hurry to mature. The great thing with Christianity is

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maturity can be hurried. You don't have to be a babe in the woods for years on end and then grow

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up slowly. Maturity can be hurried because the Spirit of God is very powerful. A heart is a

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heart is a heart is a heart is a heart is a heart is a heart is a heart.

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How can maturity be hurried? Because the Spirit of God is very powerful.

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How can maturity be hurried usually by the practice of the word usually by the practice of the word.

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Wisdom is gained. Yeah, let's not go there usually through the practice of the word

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Now to kind of begin to answer Diana's earlier question.

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So if we have an inheritance, how does it work

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for us individually or as churches

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if the general inheritance is people?

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Within the inheritance are assignments.

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Within an inheritance are assignments.

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Within an inheritance,

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within an inheritance are assignments.

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Within an inheritance are assignments.

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If I don't have an assignment,

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I don't have the authority to function.

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If I don't have an assignment,

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if I don't have an assignment,

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I don't have the authority to function.

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So within an inheritance, there are assignments.

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This is why maturity is so important.

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Guys, I guarantee you one thing.

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It is almost impossible in this church to mature

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and not have God assign you something to do.

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Partly because I do not dislike any of you.

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Partly because I like being obedient to God.

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So I don't think I'll stop you.

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I might on really dull days, I may delay it,

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but I won't have too many dull days by the grace of God.

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Maturity in this church will always have you

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get your portion of the inheritance

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that is supposed to be done by you.

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Within an inheritance are assignments.

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When you get an assignment,

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you have now the authority to function in it.

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Till you get an assignment, you don't.

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If it's too abstract, ask me and I'll illustrate it.

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Can you illustrate?

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Yeah, so maturity is not being skilled at something.

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Maturity is not being at the top of your giftedness.

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Maturity is this ability that a parent sees in the child

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where the child is putting in every ounce of strength

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to become what the child knows is expected of the child

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given the capacity that the child has.

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You put in every ounce of strength you have.

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And what do you mean by putting in every ounce of strength?

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The child is beginning to change.

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The child is beginning to take on habits

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that will make it better.

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The child is being more responsible.

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The child is trying to understand.

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The child is trying to delve into what needs to be done.

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Be it carrying a crystal glass or be it playing soccer

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or be it brushing all 32 teeth.

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It doesn't matter what it is,

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the child actually makes an effort.

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And the moment that happens,

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you'll find that the parent begins to trust the child

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and is willing to have the child

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break a few crystal glasses.

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This is gonna be fun.

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Hey Chad, say hello to the rest of the church.

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You called me while I'm preaching.

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Hi Chad.

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Can I go back?

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Happy New Year it seems.

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Can I go back to teaching?

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Just wanted to check whether you're preaching well.

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Am I preaching well?

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Yeah, it looks like I'm preaching well.

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You just wait, I'll catch you in the middle of analogy.

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This is online, thousands are watching online.

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Cool, talk to you later.

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Bye.

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What is the important point you interrupted?

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Yeah, so this child now makes every effort

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and the parent is so thrilled with the child.

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Please don't think I'm saying I'm the parent,

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you're the child.

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No, I'm just giving you an example.

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The parent gets so impressed that the parent doesn't care

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that the child may end up breaking six Swarovski glasses

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because the child is doing everything possible.

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I am saying to you that God is like that.

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And so begin to rise in that maturity.

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Go ahead, Diana.

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I have a question I'm wrapping my head around that.

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I'm not computing that, but you've also told us

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that we don't have to do anything.

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Yeah, not doing anything is not the absence of work ethic.

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I'm saying you don't have to work to earn,

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but when you are given something,

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you work to show yourself responsible.

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Let's put it this way, let me use Jane as an example.

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Jane does not have the best voice in this church.

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There are at least two people I can think of

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who sing better than her.

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And we've talked about this,

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so it's not like I'm dissing her.

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But there is something about Jane when she leads worship

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that before she led worship, I started seeing.

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Which is why she's been asked to do what she does.

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And every Sunday, I'm surprised at what she does.

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It has nothing to do with musical skill.

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It has nothing to do with great giftedness,

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but there is something that she's habitually creating

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so that she works a certain way.

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So did she have to earn the position?

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Absolutely not.

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If she tried to, she wouldn't have earned it

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because she doesn't have the best voice in the church.

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I hope you're feeling encouraged.

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Yeah.

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So that's one.

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Second, so she didn't have to earn it,

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but now that I've given her the responsibility,

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is she working towards being responsible?

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Oh my God, she is, because you can see it.

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That's how this works.

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Which is why Miguel is not gonna have his notes today.

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He isn't preaching on the church today.

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He's gonna talk about the father's heart.

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No?

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And James is in bigger trouble

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because he doesn't have notes to translate out of.

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He's gotta wing it.

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I did this to someone in India.

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I took him with me to India.

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He used to be in this church.

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He's no longer here.

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He's in another province.

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And so I asked him to preach

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and he had these amazing notes, really well written.

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And so five minutes before he goes to preach,

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I take his notes in and say,

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you gotta preach without these notes.

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He went back to his room and called his wife

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and started crying.

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I didn't know this until much later,

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but my God, what a job he did without it.

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So Miguel, you can call Danny right now,

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get it over with, and then preach.

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So, yeah.

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These assignments give us authority to function.

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And then what happens is every time

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you receive something from God,

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you will immediately see how it applies to your assignment.

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Every time you get something from God,

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you'll immediately see how it applies to your assignment.

00:38:36.020 --> 00:38:38.380
Guys, this might be...

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These statements sound so boastful sometimes,

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but every time I get money,

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I try to see how it will apply

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to the assignments in my life.

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If I saved money, I'd be a really rich man by now.

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Everything you receive now is immediately evaluated

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and applied to your assignment.

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Whatever you know how to steward,

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you must know how to multiply.

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Whatever is given to you to steward, you must multiply.

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Whatever is given to you to steward, you must multiply.

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Whatever is given to you to ast czas, you must multiply.

00:39:23.740 --> 00:39:27.340
Whatever is given to you to ascertain, you must multiply.

00:39:27.340 --> 00:39:30.540
Whatever questioning, you must have.

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is given to you to steward, you must multiply.

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What if you're only given one person to steward?

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Well, multiply yourself into that person.

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Well, multiply yourself in such a way that when that person grows up,

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they'll produce 60-fold where you were only producing 30-fold.

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Jane's job is not to make Betty and Emily sing better,

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or Sheldon play the keys better, or Miguel play the drums better,

00:40:26.540 --> 00:40:30.540
or have Mike begin to play the sax.

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Her job is to make sure that they begin to understand worship,

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they enter the throne room.

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If there are Asaphs, Jadotons, and Haman among them,

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that they learn how to prophesy,

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that the drums become an instrument that can chase demons away,

00:40:45.540 --> 00:40:47.540
that every time someone plays the keyboards,

00:40:47.540 --> 00:40:50.540
just like David used to play the harp, demons would begin to flee.

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These are the things that you multiply.

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You don't multiply music.

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Hey, music is the least important part of worship.

00:41:05.540 --> 00:41:08.540
These things must be multiplied.

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So whatever is given to you to steward, you must multiply.

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And to multiply something without hybridizing it,

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you have to stay true to the original seed.

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This is why I sometimes really don't care what you think.

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I mean that absolutely rudely.

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Really don't care what you think.

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Why? Because to care too much about what you think

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will hybridize the seed that you are.

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Because I will compromise what I can do with you

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if you are a seed placed in my care that I am supposed to multiply.

00:41:48.540 --> 00:41:52.540
Because you must produce, if I have been producing 30 fold,

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multiplication must result in you as a seed producing 60 fold.

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Ask Dilna, has he ever gone to his boy and said,

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I earn, he earns about 180,000 a year,

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I earn 180,000 dollars a year,

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I just want to make sure that you never earn that much.

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See, he is not even denying it.

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Could someone check his typing please?

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So, you always want things to increase like crazy, man.

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Whatever is given to you, to Stuart, you must multiply.

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Which is why when we finally at the end of the evening,

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I won't go that long, end of this afternoon,

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when at the end of this afternoon we look at,

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okay what are the things that we are supposed to Stuart as a church,

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that must multiply.

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December 31st must see a multiplication of it.

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Whatever is given to you to Stuart, you must multiply.

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And whatever you multiply, you have authority over.

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Whatever you multiply, you have authority over.

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Whatever you multiply, you have authority over.

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Authority over as in not dominance over,

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as in you have a say in how it goes.

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Go to 2 Corinthians 10.

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We've read this verse many times,

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but now as we go through these topics,

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it makes more and more sense.

00:43:22.540 --> 00:43:24.540
2 Corinthians 10.

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I love the sound of turning paper.

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You young guys don't understand that.

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2 Corinthians 10.

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Here's what it says.

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Verse 13.

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I am supposed to make sure that multiplication happens,

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but when things begin to multiply,

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I do have a say in it.

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Go ahead.

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Yeah, hybridizing is when you take some DNA from one seed

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and add it to the original seed.

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And then you have to do the same thing.

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You have to do the same thing.

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You take DNA from one seed and add it to the original seed

00:44:41.540 --> 00:44:44.540
so that it no longer holds on to its originality,

00:44:44.540 --> 00:44:47.540
but now has something in it that mutates it.

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It's a compromise. It's a dilution.

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And so once that happens,

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whatever is produced from that seed will forever bear that mutation.

00:44:58.540 --> 00:45:00.540
This is the problem, guys.

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If a seed mutates, you can never change it.

00:45:02.540 --> 00:45:04.540
You can only throw it away.

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Yeah, so let's assume that you want to grow,

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but you don't want to get baptized.

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But I see such amazing talent and giftedness in you.

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And I'll say, yeah, it's okay.

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Even if she's not baptized, it's okay.

00:45:22.540 --> 00:45:23.540
She's so gifted.

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I mean, if she leaves, the worship team will collapse.

00:45:26.540 --> 00:45:28.540
So let's keep her even if she's not baptized.

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I've just hybridized a seed.

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I've compromised a quality.

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Or God may be saying, okay,

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go tell Mark such and such a truth and tell him to change.

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But then I'm scared that Mark will get hurt.

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And so because of my fear of hurting him,

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I will not tell him the truth.

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And in not telling him the truth, he'll continue happily.

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I'll continue happily.

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Everything is fine.

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Churches are made up of the fruit of diplomacy.

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And it's not a Holy Spirit fruit.

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This is how things get mutated.

00:46:08.540 --> 00:46:10.540
Over a period of three, four years,

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the degree of a shift in the steering of a ship

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will cause it to end up at a port that is not of God's calling.

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I use the same words.

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Inheritances are connected to the tribe you belong to.

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Inheritance are connected to the tribe you belong to.

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Inheritance are connected to the tribe you belong to

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the two inheritances are connected to the tribe or house you belong to and the DNA of

00:47:10.620 --> 00:47:25.940
the spiritual fathers in the house both. Inheritances are connected to the tribe or the house you

00:47:25.940 --> 00:47:33.380
belong to and to the DNA of the spiritual fathers in the house. You have the absolute

00:47:33.380 --> 00:47:41.380
right and the freedom to not connect to a tribe or a house or the DNA of the spiritual fathers.

00:47:41.380 --> 00:47:51.180
But notice that many houses do not get you an inheritance. Many houses do not get you an

00:47:51.180 --> 00:48:02.300
inheritance. I cannot be his son and his son and his son and think that by being the son of three

00:48:02.300 --> 00:48:10.180
different houses I'll get an inheritance. Usually guys who do that end up getting squat because

00:48:10.180 --> 00:48:14.820
he knows that I'm not fully committed here. I'm also committed to here and here and here. So he

00:48:14.820 --> 00:48:20.620
won't give me that which I'm supposed to run with not because he's a miser but because he knows that

00:48:20.620 --> 00:48:27.220
Jacob you will not steward this precious thing because you have many houses. You go here, you go

00:48:27.740 --> 00:48:34.740
there and you're gathering. Ain't gonna work. You get squat. I know that doesn't sound biblical

00:48:34.740 --> 00:48:42.340
but it is a very biblical statement. You get squat. Which camera am I supposed to look at and say that?

00:48:42.340 --> 00:48:58.860
Oh that one okay. And again like it or not if you're part of a tribe or a house then the DNA of the

00:48:58.860 --> 00:49:06.340
spiritual fathers in that house is yours that you can either allow or disallow. It just slows down

00:49:06.340 --> 00:49:11.180
or hastens the process of maturity. Why was I standing here? Partly because I wanted to feel

00:49:11.180 --> 00:49:17.020
taller and praying over Danny and Miguel and saying remove this cap. Remove this cap because

00:49:17.020 --> 00:49:22.700
there are those are caps that they have worn in the past and once they are part of this house

00:49:22.700 --> 00:49:28.660
they cannot wear those caps anymore because those caps have to be removed for things to percolate.

00:49:41.180 --> 00:49:49.300
It doesn't mean that if you choose another house it's a bad thing but commit yourself. Commit yourself.

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Don't be I love people who decide and say hey Jacob I gotta go this ain't the right place for me.

00:49:54.740 --> 00:50:03.820
Great at least now you're committed or hey Jacob I'm just checking this place out not sure if this

00:50:03.900 --> 00:50:22.180
is the place for me. Great more power to you. Happy New Year. Inheritance requires a fathering spirit.

00:50:22.180 --> 00:50:30.500
Please don't think Jacob you're talking about yourself. No I'm a grandfather now. Inheritance

00:50:30.660 --> 00:50:39.020
requires a fathering spirit. You cannot help your children handle an inheritance without a

00:50:39.020 --> 00:50:48.060
fathering spirit. Inheritance requires a fathering spirit. A fathering spirit is to continuously

00:50:48.060 --> 00:50:58.300
behave like the father. Increasingly behave like the father. It is to it is to get so deeply embedded

00:50:58.300 --> 00:51:03.580
in the heart of the father that every time you are not like him you know the coldness,

00:51:03.580 --> 00:51:14.700
you know the grating, you know the pebble in your shoe. This is where we go back to the thing we are

00:51:14.700 --> 00:51:19.900
talking about leaders in the church. If leaders in the church do not have a fathering spirit you can

00:51:19.900 --> 00:51:26.420
teach all this and if I don't have that then I am absolutely no use to you. There's great teaching

00:51:26.420 --> 00:51:39.500
but it ain't ever going to be practical here. Inheritance's require a fathering spirit. One

00:51:39.500 --> 00:51:44.580
of the things we need to realize is that a fathering spirit is not shaped by the children. A fathering

00:51:44.580 --> 00:51:51.140
spirit is not shaped by the children. Sam doesn't go and say dad we need to have a talk. Yes son dad

00:51:51.140 --> 00:51:57.060
I just want to tell you how to be a dad. So here are the things you need to be like because I kind

00:51:57.060 --> 00:52:13.660
of don't like the dad you are right now. Children don't shape the fathers and when children begin

00:52:13.660 --> 00:52:19.380
to shape fathers and fathers become like that they're hybridizing again. They're destroying

00:52:19.620 --> 00:52:26.580
the child. My dad used to tell me this story. He's repeated this story so many times because

00:52:26.580 --> 00:52:34.700
he would, it was a gross story. It always used to gross me out. He said there was this kid who would

00:52:34.700 --> 00:52:40.220
keep telling lies and his mother would keep saying it so his father would keep saying it's okay it's

00:52:40.220 --> 00:52:45.980
okay till he got into prison and then yeah it's a gross story so we'll not go there. The point

00:52:45.980 --> 00:52:51.900
being this, fathers do a disservice to their kids when they begin to behave like the kids want them

00:52:51.900 --> 00:52:56.460
to behave. When they begin to behave. When they begin to tell the dad this is how you need to

00:52:56.460 --> 00:53:09.180
treat me. This is the solution to my problems. The first statement I made was an inheritance

00:53:09.180 --> 00:53:14.380
cannot be conveyed without a fathering spirit. So remember that is the first thing that we have to

00:53:14.380 --> 00:53:20.500
continuously be embedded in the father's heart and conveyed. I mean it's a cry in my heart here

00:53:20.500 --> 00:53:27.140
on January on December 31st. Father this year can I please be more like you to the ones that you have

00:53:27.140 --> 00:53:34.660
placed me amongst. Please oh God. So that very rarely will they see anything else but you even

00:53:34.660 --> 00:53:42.460
when there is rebuking or correction or chastising or admonishing that happens can they please see

00:53:42.460 --> 00:53:48.260
you because if I don't do that I am doing your entire church that your son paid for a great

00:53:48.260 --> 00:53:53.900
disservice by completely convoluting who you are and presenting you as something you are not and

00:53:53.900 --> 00:54:03.820
that is highly unaffordable. Which is why it is more important for you to present who the father

00:54:03.820 --> 00:54:12.020
is not who the church is or anything else. Present who the father is because once you present who the

00:54:12.020 --> 00:54:20.180
father is you will have a family. Present a family first and you do not know what the father is like.

00:54:20.180 --> 00:54:28.460
Present the father first and you now know what a family will be like. This is why Jesus came and

00:54:28.460 --> 00:54:36.660
said I have come to show you the father. In every way I have to convey that. I can't be one thing at

00:54:36.660 --> 00:54:44.380
work, one thing at church, one thing at home. No I can't be rude when you do something wrong and good

00:54:44.380 --> 00:54:53.820
when you do something right. I can't shove you off when you don't do things that please me and

00:54:53.820 --> 00:55:00.820
embrace you when you do things that please me. That is not how a father is at least that is not

00:55:00.820 --> 00:55:08.820
how he is and every time I do that to you I'm doing you wrong but was that doing you wrong I'm

00:55:08.820 --> 00:55:17.740
doing him wrong because I am beginning to present his face as very different. Sometimes after I

00:55:17.740 --> 00:55:22.620
preach people come and they feel guilty and I think to myself what did I say that made you feel

00:55:22.620 --> 00:55:27.220
guilty? Is it the way I said it or is it your understanding of the father and if it is the way

00:55:27.220 --> 00:55:34.020
I said it then I need to correct it because a father does not condemn. So what is it? Was it the

00:55:34.020 --> 00:55:42.220
way I said it father? Was it barbed? Was it meant to leave a scar or is it the understanding of

00:55:42.220 --> 00:55:48.100
the person? Because some people have such sensitive skin that you can grab them with love and leave

00:55:48.100 --> 00:56:00.180
four fingers on their skin. Why are we talking about this because we all have to be this to

00:56:00.180 --> 00:56:16.260
others. Whenever God appoints a fathering spirit always be aware that there will be a prophetic

00:56:16.260 --> 00:56:27.980
anointing. Wherever there's a fathering spirit there's a prophetic anointing. It is so beautiful

00:56:27.980 --> 00:56:33.780
wherever there's a fathering spirit there's a prophetic anointing. Why? Because a father has

00:56:33.780 --> 00:56:40.660
dreams for his children. Only this father these are not pipe dreams. This is not vicarious living

00:56:40.660 --> 00:56:47.620
through their children. This father has dreams that are so real because he actually numbered your

00:56:47.620 --> 00:56:54.140
days and created good works for you before you were formed. A fathering spirit will always have

00:56:54.140 --> 00:57:02.060
the prophetic present. It is natural in a church with a fathering spirit to have the prophetic

00:57:02.060 --> 00:57:10.420
highly active and in a church where the fathering spirit is absent and the one who leads is not

00:57:10.700 --> 00:57:16.540
a father like heart you will find the prophetic is scarce. It will come occasionally because it is a

00:57:16.540 --> 00:57:30.100
gift of the Holy Spirit but it won't flow like water. Litmus tests man. But if there is a

00:57:30.100 --> 00:57:34.780
fathering spirit in a church and if the prophetic is present in the church also no Jezebel is present.

00:57:34.780 --> 00:57:46.060
Also no Jezebel is present. If the fathering spirit is in a church and the prophetic naturally

00:57:46.060 --> 00:57:51.420
is also present in the church then also know that Jezebel is present as in the spirit of

00:57:51.420 --> 00:58:04.060
Jezebel will come against that church. We won't talk about the spirit of Jezebel now but it tries

00:58:04.060 --> 00:58:15.220
to come against God's purposes then. It tries to silence the prophetic voice. It tries to distort

00:58:15.220 --> 00:58:43.660
who the father is. It accuses. This line is going to sound self-promoting. So be it.

00:58:43.700 --> 00:58:52.700
Many tap into the inheritance of a spiritual father and then they begin to show some signs

00:58:52.700 --> 00:58:59.860
of power and sometimes signs of fruitfulness and then they decide this is good and then they either

00:58:59.860 --> 00:59:08.740
withdraw or begin to run solo and what happens then is that the access they had to all the

00:59:08.740 --> 00:59:16.300
blessings that were reserved for them do not materialize. So for instance let's assume that

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Jeven is connected to me and sees me as a spiritual father and he draws from me and now he's gotten to

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a place where there's power in his life and there's fruitfulness in his life and now he and Miguel are

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starting a church and so please understand there's not some kind of a barb at him. I can pick on him

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because he knows it's not and so now he decides good enough I can step out and be on my own and

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stuff like that. What will happen then is the access that he had to everything that he was

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supposed to receive suddenly gets cut off and I've seen this so many times even at Acts 29

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where you leave before your time or you leave at time but you cut yourself off and full access

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then limited. This is what the prodigal did. What did he get? Wealth. What didn't he get? Wisdom to

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steward the wealth. I don't need to be there for you to have wisdom to steward the wealth but God

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has set some things in order so that wisdom flows that way. It has nothing to do with me. It's like

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why can't water come out of the ceiling? Because whoever constructed the house put taps.

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Water does come out of the ceiling if you set a fire but it comes through taps. God just ordained

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it that way. Any questions? Any questions? All righty no questions. Here's the cool thing. What

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time is it? We're doing very well. Maybe we should have a... No. Okay. Here's the thing.

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God sees you as responsible even before you have done anything. God sees you as a worthy

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inheritor of things even before you've done anything. God sees it while you're being prepared.

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And he then says it. He says it to you prophetically or through the word or directly or in a dream.

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He says it to you. I mean in Genesis 18 God is saying shall I hide from Abraham what I'm about

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to do given that he is going to be a father of nations and at that time Abraham is important

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and cannot bear children. God is already accepting him as a friend and a father of nations even though

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Abraham has no children. But God saw something about Abraham. Saw his obedience in difficult

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circumstances. Saw his obedience and said aha in this man I see the capacity of an inheritor so I'm

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going to treat him as that. I'm going to give him authority. I'm going to include him in my secrets

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even though he has accomplished nothing yet. You need to understand how God thinks of Acts 29. We

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haven't accomplished anything yet but he sees in this church enough substance and depth, humility,

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willingness, sacrifice, a lack of self-preservation, a care and the unison that is required. God

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already sees it and he sees it and says you are inheritors and you're capable of producing

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inheritors. I'm not patting myself on the back. This is God patting us on the back. We have such

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a low estimation of where we are at that it's brilliant. Okay let me conclude and then answer

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the first question. One of the beautiful things that's happening in this church is

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there's different generations in this church and they are not age-based. There's Abraham,

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there's Isaac, there's Jacob. I'm not talking about myself. Abraham stewards the promise passed

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down from once before. Isaac begins to dig wells and rename them. Jacob begins to wrestle and

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because Jacob wrestles and these generations exist in this church you produce Josephs and these

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Josephs are the ones that will stand in Egypt and save the world. I want you to remember this.

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These are not age-based. These are just character-based in this church where there

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are people in this church who steward promises that were given 16, 17, 20, 25 years ago. Even

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before this church started there are people in this church who received promises that there

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will be a day when there will be a people like this. Abraham's steward promises they wait like

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Anna, like Simeon. They wait to see the salvation of God and they'll wait in the temple. They'll

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pray, they'll fast, they'll steward the promises. Hold on to it dearly, water it. I know I'm spending

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time about stewarding promises but you don't know how important that is because that is what kept

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Israel alive through 400 years of slavery. What kept them alive? Joseph's bones. Every time they

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saw the bones they remember the promise that these bones will not be buried in Egypt. These

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bones will be buried in the promised land. They steward promises. They steward promises with prayer.

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Abraham's generation nobody knows about them because they do it quietly. I love it. Second,

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Isaac's. Isaac's dig wells. They learned how much time was spent raising this place up and they begin

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to go back and say okay we will not forget what we were taught then. We will not forget what they

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taught then. New people are coming in. We will not forget. We will not forget that this is how we show

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David's heart. We will not forget that this is how the Father is. We will not forget that this is how

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church should look like. We will not forget what worship should look like. They go and grab things

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from the Father's heart that are beginning to die in the earth that is so much about their

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tractional model and they keep going back. Keep going back into the word. Pulling out things. What

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does the church look like? What does the family look like? What is the intent of evangelization?

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Everything. Digging up wells. Digging up wells. Every time someone tries to cover those wells.

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Every time some TV station tries to say this is the new trend. You go dig up those wells and you

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rename them. And what do you rename them? You rename them the same thing that was named first when it was

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formed. That is a generation that's present in this church. And then there is a Jacob generation.

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And those are guys like some of you young adults who will do anything. Give up anything. Give up

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your jobs. Give up your cars. Give up your money. Give up your lives. Why? Because you want to wrestle

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things through. Something has caught you. And when these three generations work together,

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that is when through the revival that is going to sweep the world globally, ignited here,

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Joseph's have begun to produce. These are not Joseph's that are meant to come and worship in

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church. These are Joseph's that are supposed to stand and eat it and have the wisdom to save

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grain in silos so the world can be saved from hunger. God never sends a revival without first

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setting up an infrastructure for it. And I'm saying to you, Acts 29 is the infrastructure.

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Because these three generations present here. I'm sorry I'm speaking fast and excited and loud.

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I'm slurring up my words but you got to go sort it out because how can you not be excited about

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something like this? Blessed are you if you have come here at this time. Foolish are you if you

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leave. That's not scripture. It's just a way of talking. Even if you get married and she wants

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to go somewhere else, you stay. Understood? I don't know who I was looking at. I wasn't looking

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at Don. Any questions guys? Where does the threshold or something guys?

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Jane, feel free to move to Vancouver. The Canucks are on a roll. We'll send Evan to Toronto.

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It's Joseph's who end up in Egypt in Pharaoh's courts influencing and saving the world. This

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is praise God. Thank you. You've made us rich. We didn't do anything for this. I certainly didn't.

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Don't assume it for a second. Half the time I don't know what I'm doing Father. This is your

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work and I give you praise. I'm grateful that you go over things line by line with us. So I give

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you praise of I give you praise. We give you praise of I'm turning my mic off for a while Father

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so we can praise Father Yirab Rashed.

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I've given us Jesus bring new wine. We came here with nothing.

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But all that you've given us Jesus bring new wine out of us. Jesus bring new wine out of us.

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Guys the thing with new wine is that you will never find it in a grape. It's always found in

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a cluster. You never can get new wine. Hey sweetheart. You never find. Hi. Where is your

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parent? Why do they allow you like this? So new wine is never found in a grape. It's new wine is

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always found in a cluster. This is something that you do together. You don't do it as an individual

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and yet we start as a cluster and then God shows us what to do individually. So let's answer the

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first question. What is our spiritual inheritance? What is it that we are supposed to steward well?

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What is it that we have received that we are supposed to steward well? This is my understanding

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and I'm not saying it is the perfect understanding. It is just something that I want you to think about.

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Maybe you can add to it. Maybe I can add to it in the future. So the two things that I believe we

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are supposed to steward at this present time here on earth and then once we know this we can find our

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individual roles in it. First is to rebuild David's tent. Yes sweetheart. Hey Phoebes. Rebuild David's tent.

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And what do we mean by rebuilding David's tent? We won't elaborate it today but all it means is

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can we show the world what it is?

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Oh another color. I'll use another color. So what does it mean to rebuild David's tent? It means to

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show the world what it is to be in relationship with God as fathers and sons and fathers and daughters.

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This is something that is given to us to display. To rebuild David's tent, at the end of the day,

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David began to show the world what it is for a man in the Old Testament to be in relationship

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with Yahweh who was unapproachable. How much more in the New Testament? One of the privileges that

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we have as Acts 29 that you see in these kids running around, that you see in Aaron being

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brought to the front. I think it is the thing that has affected me most in 32 years of being a Christian

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in terms of worship. When Sheldon came and asked me if Aaron could come up and then he goes, gets Aaron,

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brings him up and everyone's worshiping amazingly. It's intense worship. Aaron comes up, sits next to

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Sheldon. Sheldon is playing the chords. Aaron starts hitting keys, enjoying himself. The worship team

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is weeping. I am bawling my head off. Heaven is crying. Why? Because this is what it looks like.

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One of the things that this church has given to Stuart is to show the world what it is to be in

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relationship with God as fathers and sons and fathers and daughters. Everything we do should be that way.

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It should be sufficiently messy and yet in that messiness you know when to take a knee

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because the King of Kings is in the room. It should be sufficiently messy so that you can cuddle up

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with your dad. This is a privilege we have been given. It's become our culture. It's become a part

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of everything we do with God together or by ourselves. Our prayers have become conversations.

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Casting out demons is actually a loving thing.

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The intent is to mature. We must show the world who the father is.

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That's one. That's how David's tent is rebuilt. David's tent is not rebuilt through worship

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because we'll never hold a candle to Hill songs or the other songs and the third songs. We'll never be

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able to meet them. Not with Mike playing the piano. Not with Sheldon playing the piano.

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Not with Mike playing the sax. Since he's not here let's put it all on him.

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But David's tent has always we've always thought David's tent means 288

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instrumentalists and 4,000 singers. No. That man had the audacity to go into the holy of holies.

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Into the holy of holies. Bring out the presence of God. Put it under a tent

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and let all Israel come and view that which was only viewed by a priest. And he did it

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in the Old Testament. Completely turning the mosaic law around.

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Our people for the first time saw what they rarely saw.

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That was what produced the worship and the prophesying.

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This is what we are asking people in this church to display and when you display that

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David's tent will be rebuilt. Second thing. There's only two things.

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Thank God there's only two things.

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Thank God there's only two things. Raise a generation

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of teens, 20s, 30s that will be God seers and ancient gate openers

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because of their purity.

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These are the two things we are called to steward right now and in this you will find

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your fulfillment if you're part of this house. If you're not part of this house,

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if you're part of multiple houses then you can have a taste of it, you can have samples of it

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but it won't be fully yours.

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Any questions?

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Yeah the second one is to raise a generation as in God is going to use a revival that he's

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going to ignite from here, has already ignited from here into different nations of the world

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which he's already begun where we will raise a generation of teens, 20s, and 30s that will be

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God seers and ancient gate openers from Psalm 24. Why? Because God is writing this revival as a

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purifier and so what will be produced will be what God is in the revival and that will be

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one who purifies and this will be among the teens, the 20s, and the 30s and they will end up being God

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seers because blessed are the pure for they shall see God and they'll end up being ancient

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gate openers like Joseph in Pharaoh's coat and in Egypt. Why? Because it says who shall ascend

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the holy hill, who shall cause the gates to be open but those that are pure and holy and this

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is what is going to happen. These are the two things that we are supposed to steward at least

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for the next few years. How we do that we'll talk about next week. I was going to ask Derek to come

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and come on online and talk about it but we'll do it next week because next week I want to talk

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about hell will work to wall this church off and we'll try to isolate or silo the influence and the

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impact of this church upon culture and so what do we have to do to make sure we are not walled off?

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How do we counter it? And we'll talk about that next week. Any questions guys? Please don't hesitate

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to ask questions. The Chinese church only comes in at three o'clock but that doesn't mean it'll go on

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forever but there's no hurry to leave. Please ask questions if you have them on this. It's important

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that you understand this. It's important that I wake you up in the middle of the night and you say this.

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So

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okay

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Can I wake you up in the middle of the night and ask you this? May said yes. Diana's face is not moving.

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Yes. Yeah. You should be able to tell what you're stewarding.

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Any questions guys? Anything you would add to this?

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Let's break bread and then we'll go.

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Where there is new life, there is new power. There is new freedom for the kingdom is here.

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I lay down my old, I lay down all old flames to carry a new fire again.

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Make me a blessing. Just hold on to the crackers and we'll eat it together. Make me an offering.

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Make me whatever you want me to be. I came here with nothing

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but all you have given me. Jesus bring new life out of me.

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Do do do do do

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Wait and we eat it together.

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Do do do do do

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Thanks.

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Do do do do do

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God of your promise, you don't speak in vain, no syllable empty or void.

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And as you speak, a hundred billion creatures catch your breath.

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As you speak, a hundred billion creatures catch your breath.

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Evolving in pursuit of what you said.

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If it all reveals your nature, so will I.

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I can see your heart in everything you say.

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Every painted sky, a canvas thanks of your grace.

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If creation still obeys you, so will I.

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God of salvation, you chase down my heart through all of my failure and pride.

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On a hill you created, the light of the world abandoned in darkness to die.

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And as you speak, a hundred billion failures disappear.

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Where you lost your life, so I could find it here.

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If you left the grave behind you, so will I.

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I can see your heart in everything you've done.

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Every part designed in a work of art called love.

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If you gladly chose surrender, so will I.

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I can see your heart eight billion different ways.

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Every precious one, a child you died to save.

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If you gave your life to love them, so will I.

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Father, as we hold this bread in our hands,

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we look at the board on which I have written.

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The inheritance you're giving this church.

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With our hands holding the wafer or bread or cracker this way.

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I just want to say that with trembling with reverence, with holy fear, we receive this inheritance.

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You think we are able.

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We see ourselves through your eyes and it is the only thing that gives us courage to receive this inheritance.

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And what is this inheritance?

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That you guys will rebuild the tabernacle of David by showing people around you.

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What it is for man and woman to be in relationship with God as a father.

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Jesus burned this, brand us with this and bed it so that the display of the father becomes critical this year.

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And the second part of the inheritance that you are portioning to us is that you will raise a generation through the revival that I'm sending.

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Nation after nation after nation.

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Nation after nation after nation.

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Who will walk in such purity that they will be God seers and ancient door openers.

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Because I will strike this revival as a purifier says God.

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I thank you for 10 nations. I thank you for 22 nations.

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So I receive father, we receive this inheritance with fear and with trembling.

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For us who cannot believe this, we say help our unbelief.

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That's the first part. The second part Jesus is as we eat this, may we eat it like Ezekiel ate it.

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You gave him a scroll with the words regarding the future and then you said to Ezekiel eat it.

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And as he ate it was I think sweet in the mouth but bitter in the stomach on the other way around.

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But we want to eat this, eat this my flesh and my blood. We eat this, this is your desire.

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We eat this so that it becomes part of us. We eat this so that we begin to live this.

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So as we eat we remember your desire. We remember your desire for the earth.

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We remember your inheritance which is people. So we eat this now remembering that father.

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So

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so

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in the same manner after supper he took the cup he gave thanks and he said this is my blood with

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which I write a new agreement with you. Jesus today we want to take this blood,

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take this cup which represents your blood.

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And we want to do what they used to do in Jewish weddings or Jewish betrothals.

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If the proposal was accepted the bride would drink the cup and turn the cup upside down

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and it was a sign saying I accept the proposal. Jesus why do you give us things like this to

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partake with you? Why have you called us to work with you? You don't want us, you don't need us

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but you want us there. We can't do this by our strength. Your blood makes it possible,

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your blood gives us access, your blood allows the Holy Spirit to dwell in us.

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Your blood presents us perfect before the father. Your blood allows you to work through us.

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We receive this inheritance this year with everybody online. We receive this inheritance

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this year and so we'll enact that simple gesture. We'll drink it, turn the cup upside down,

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saying we receive your offer, your proposal and we betroth ourselves to your cause. So we do that now

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in Jesus name.

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Turn it upside down.

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I know you don't have a table. I'm sorry about that but turn it upside down. Turn it upside down

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regardless. Even if it's on your hands so be it. Turn it upside down.

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Cool. You're done.

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Hallelujah. Praise God. Thank you Diana. That's awesome.

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Cool. Whenever you feel like leaving, feel free to leave but you have time till three o'clock.