WEBVTT NOTE Podcast: Acts 29 Vancouver Episode: Telios – Testify Publishing Date: 2020-10-18T06:00:44-07:00 Podcast URL: https://acts29.ca Episode URL: https://acts29.ca/telios-testify/ 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.040 So today the title of the message is 00:00:05.080 --> 00:00:09.720 testify so we're still in with us we still with that series on telly us and 00:00:10.520 --> 00:00:13.480 The title is testify or to speak or to prophesy 00:00:14.400 --> 00:00:17.040 That's basically where we're going. So 00:00:18.600 --> 00:00:20.840 Cut feedback on this should it 00:00:22.160 --> 00:00:26.780 Should you hey Brandon, can you turn that towards all the babies? 00:00:30.000 --> 00:00:32.000 Yeah 00:00:32.560 --> 00:00:34.560 Okay 00:00:34.560 --> 00:00:36.160 Evan can I 00:00:36.160 --> 00:00:42.560 Go a little lower in volume because if I shout it'll be really shouty. I have a feeling I'll be shouting at some point 00:00:43.080 --> 00:00:45.080 Yeah 00:00:45.120 --> 00:00:47.120 Yeah 00:00:48.800 --> 00:00:52.200 Let the baby sleep right now, I'll catch them halfway through yeah 00:00:53.720 --> 00:00:56.160 Okay, now can you increase it a little 00:01:00.440 --> 00:01:02.640 Whatever makes me feel like I'm loud enough 00:01:05.680 --> 00:01:09.080 Just the monitors I guess yeah, thanks 00:01:12.920 --> 00:01:14.920 Silence in the gallery 00:01:16.200 --> 00:01:18.200 Unruly part of the church a that 00:01:19.880 --> 00:01:23.960 Okay, so guys post kovat we are heading into a 00:01:24.720 --> 00:01:27.820 time of revelations 9 20 to 21 00:01:28.220 --> 00:01:30.220 So some of these things I'm saying 00:01:30.980 --> 00:01:32.500 being said 00:01:32.500 --> 00:01:35.740 From an isekar or a prophetic point of view 00:01:37.180 --> 00:01:43.740 So this is one of those statements that post kovat the earth is heading or the globe or the world 00:01:43.740 --> 00:01:46.980 We live in is heading into a time of revelations 9 00:01:47.660 --> 00:01:49.900 20 and 21 so things are not 00:01:50.700 --> 00:01:56.260 This hasn't been a moment that has sobered the earth if anything the earth 00:01:58.820 --> 00:02:03.420 Continues with its ways of living and so it says in verse 20 and 21 00:02:03.820 --> 00:02:10.900 The rest of mankind when that were not killed by these plagues still did not repent of the work of their hands 00:02:11.180 --> 00:02:17.660 They did not stop worshipping demons and idols of gold silver bronze stone and wood 00:02:18.060 --> 00:02:24.820 Idols that cannot see or hear a walk nor did they repent of the their murders or the shedding of innocent blood 00:02:25.220 --> 00:02:28.620 Their magic arts or occult and witchcraft 00:02:29.420 --> 00:02:33.620 their sexual immorality or perversity or their thefts and 00:02:33.860 --> 00:02:39.940 So if anything this cycle just like in the wash cycle in your washer will 00:02:40.780 --> 00:02:42.780 Get more intense 00:02:43.020 --> 00:02:48.060 And we talked about this when kovat first started if you go to the messages in March and April 00:02:48.220 --> 00:02:54.380 We talked about how some of these things would increase after kovat not decrease and unfortunately, that's 00:02:54.860 --> 00:02:57.060 The context in which we find ourselves 00:02:57.500 --> 00:03:03.220 So this is the context that acts 29 and churches around will have to play a central role in 00:03:04.100 --> 00:03:08.620 we've been talking about how the church is not peripheral to the world, but it's central and 00:03:09.260 --> 00:03:15.940 That the world is peripheral to the church and whenever the world has a central whenever the church has a central role to play 00:03:16.260 --> 00:03:19.620 Remember it is in the context of greater darkness 00:03:20.020 --> 00:03:26.380 So just as Daniel stood in Babylon just as John stood in Patmos against the 00:03:26.500 --> 00:03:32.220 Roman Empire just like Paul stood in the midst of Ephesus just as Moses stood in the middle of 00:03:32.980 --> 00:03:38.160 Egypt just as Elijah stood in the center of Israel that was that turned away from God 00:03:38.300 --> 00:03:45.020 So the context of the church playing a central role is in the context of Revelation 9 20 and 21 00:03:45.340 --> 00:03:46.540 where 00:03:46.540 --> 00:03:53.140 Idolatry the shedding of innocent blood occult and witchcraft sexual perversity and thefts will increase 00:03:53.980 --> 00:03:55.980 this is the 00:03:56.180 --> 00:04:00.700 Matrix into which God is asking actually not to step in because it'll be global. It'll be here 00:04:00.700 --> 00:04:02.700 and it'll be other parts of the world and 00:04:04.140 --> 00:04:06.640 While we don't rub our hands with glee 00:04:07.100 --> 00:04:14.740 Because of the things we are stepping into we do rub our hands with glee because this is exactly where Christ makes himself known splendidly 00:04:16.540 --> 00:04:18.540 So 00:04:18.940 --> 00:04:25.620 In a situation like this part of the governmental makeup of a church which we've been discussing is to behave 00:04:26.020 --> 00:04:29.660 Like the two witnesses in revelations 11 00:04:31.140 --> 00:04:36.540 Part of the governmental makeup of the church and we talked about this for the last two weeks is to behave 00:04:37.300 --> 00:04:42.780 Like the two witnesses in revelations 11 if you go to revelations 11 3 to 13 00:04:44.140 --> 00:04:45.060 and 00:04:45.060 --> 00:04:48.180 I'll probably park here for the next two weeks 00:04:48.260 --> 00:04:54.660 We've been talking about how the church must be the government of God on earth that we should be the government of God on earth 00:04:54.660 --> 00:04:56.660 and so 00:04:56.700 --> 00:05:02.340 We've kind of begun describing what it looks like and I'm saying to you one of the essential 00:05:02.860 --> 00:05:09.600 Makeups of a governmental church is to behave like the two witnesses of revelations 11 3 to 13 00:05:09.600 --> 00:05:13.700 So I'm reading revelations 11 3 to 13 and here's what it sounds like 00:05:14.540 --> 00:05:19.040 And I will give power to my two witnesses and they will prophesy for 00:05:19.820 --> 00:05:21.820 1260 days clothed in sackcloth 00:05:22.620 --> 00:05:27.860 These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth 00:05:28.420 --> 00:05:33.560 If anyone tries to harm them fire comes from their mouths and devours their enemies 00:05:33.980 --> 00:05:36.780 This is how anyone who wants to harm them must die 00:05:37.300 --> 00:05:41.740 These men have power to shut up the sky so that it will not rain during the time 00:05:41.780 --> 00:05:48.420 They're prophesying and they have the power to turn the waters into blood and to strike the earth with every kind of plague as 00:05:48.580 --> 00:05:50.100 often as they want 00:05:50.100 --> 00:05:57.460 Now when they have finished their testimony the beasts that comes up from the abyss will attack them and overpower and kill them 00:05:57.620 --> 00:06:00.220 Their bodies will lie in the street of the great city 00:06:00.380 --> 00:06:04.820 Which is figuratively called Sodom and Egypt where also their Lord was crucified 00:06:05.180 --> 00:06:11.860 For three and a half days men from every people tribe language and nation will gaze on their bodies and refuse them burial 00:06:12.180 --> 00:06:17.040 The inhabitants of the earth will gloat over them and will celebrate by sending each other gifts 00:06:17.220 --> 00:06:20.400 Because these two prophets had tormented those who live on the earth 00:06:21.060 --> 00:06:23.380 But after the three and a half days a breath of life 00:06:23.820 --> 00:06:29.320 From God entered them and they stood on their feet and terror struck those who saw them 00:06:29.480 --> 00:06:35.600 Then they heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them come up here and they went up to heaven in a cloud while 00:06:35.920 --> 00:06:38.520 Their enemies looked on at that very hour 00:06:38.520 --> 00:06:40.600 There was a severe earthquake and a tenth of the city 00:06:40.920 --> 00:06:46.600 Collapsed seven thousand people were killed in the earthquake and the survivors were terrified and gave glory to the God of heaven 00:06:46.800 --> 00:06:50.000 the second war has passed the third was soon coming so the 00:06:50.680 --> 00:06:56.960 The two witnesses isn't necessarily two prophets that will turn up. It is the nature of the church 00:06:56.960 --> 00:07:01.640 How do we know that because in Zechariah talks about the olive and the olive 00:07:02.160 --> 00:07:05.280 Trees and the lampstand and it is a picture of the church 00:07:05.280 --> 00:07:09.720 We'll talk about that later, but many things will come out of this simple 00:07:10.240 --> 00:07:16.960 Ten verses with regard to how can the church be governmental? What does it mean to be clothed in sackcloth? 00:07:16.960 --> 00:07:21.320 What does it mean to stand before the Lord? What does it mean to judge the earth? 00:07:21.360 --> 00:07:24.180 What does it mean to be like Elijah or Moses? 00:07:24.460 --> 00:07:30.900 What does it mean to finish your testimony? What does it mean to be persecuted? What does it mean to be revived again? 00:07:31.500 --> 00:07:33.500 We'll talk about this over the next two weeks 00:07:34.420 --> 00:07:40.700 But today with regard to the witnesses all I want to say is that there's two things that are distinct about them 00:07:40.740 --> 00:07:43.100 They stand before the Lord and 00:07:46.300 --> 00:07:49.620 To they speak on his behalf 00:07:50.420 --> 00:07:55.340 And that's the second half is what we'll be looking at mostly 00:07:56.060 --> 00:07:58.060 these are two distinctives of 00:07:58.540 --> 00:08:04.220 These two witnesses which I am saying is a type of the church if a church wants to be 00:08:04.460 --> 00:08:12.060 Governmental and the church must be governmental because Christ is head over all things Christ is head of the church 00:08:12.700 --> 00:08:18.860 Christ fills the church with his presence Christ speaks through the church Christ acts through the church 00:08:19.340 --> 00:08:25.700 Therefore if he is head over all thing and he's head of the church and he speaks in accents fills the church the church has 00:08:25.700 --> 00:08:32.700 A pivotal role to play in the affairs of the earth because Zion is a people through whom God issues decrease 00:08:32.700 --> 00:08:37.780 We've gone over this before I'm just going it over again so that I'm used to it guys 00:08:37.780 --> 00:08:43.260 The reason I repeat these things without even looking at my notes because I've got to be so well versed in what I've been 00:08:43.580 --> 00:08:45.580 Talking about so that I know it by heart 00:08:45.980 --> 00:08:51.540 So I always have a reason for what I do do you have a reason for what you do 00:08:51.540 --> 00:08:53.540 Do you have a reason for what you say? 00:08:53.700 --> 00:08:59.580 Do you have a reason it is one thing to believe it is another thing to have a reason for your belief and the reason 00:08:59.580 --> 00:09:01.580 Must be scriptural 00:09:01.900 --> 00:09:05.960 It can't even be interpretation it has to be simple scripture 00:09:09.860 --> 00:09:13.080 Which is why it's important to keep repeating it till you know it 00:09:15.900 --> 00:09:17.900 So 00:09:19.780 --> 00:09:26.100 One of the things about the two about the church is that about a governmental church is that it stands before the Lord 00:09:26.300 --> 00:09:29.500 It stands before the Lord. I love the fact that 00:09:30.300 --> 00:09:34.260 There is no speaking on his behalf till there is a standing before him 00:09:34.260 --> 00:09:40.900 There is no speaking on his behalf till there is a standing before him and to stand before him on one hand 00:09:41.100 --> 00:09:46.900 God makes you righteous so you can stand before him on the other hand Psalm 24 is 00:09:47.260 --> 00:09:53.100 Critical if you want to stand before him. It's a mixture of Psalm 24 plus Hebrews 10 22 00:09:53.260 --> 00:09:58.980 We'll go over each one. So, you know what it takes to stand before him to stand before him Psalm 24 00:10:00.340 --> 00:10:06.580 It's almost you have to think of yourself as one invited to the wedding feast on one hand 00:10:07.180 --> 00:10:10.640 Everybody sitting here has been invited to sit before him 00:10:10.900 --> 00:10:18.080 On the other hand having received the invitation you have to come to the wedding feast dressed a certain way 00:10:19.100 --> 00:10:25.740 Nobody is exempt from the wedding feast. Everybody is welcome. But now that you have come here is how you need to 00:10:27.300 --> 00:10:30.700 Dress there's a protocol and so Psalm 24 00:10:31.540 --> 00:10:35.720 Gives you the basics of what it takes to stand before God 00:10:35.840 --> 00:10:41.880 The earth is the Lord's and everything in it the world and all who live in it for he founded it upon the seas and 00:10:42.120 --> 00:10:44.120 established it upon the waters 00:10:44.400 --> 00:10:49.320 Who may ascend the hill of the Lord who may stand in his holy place? 00:10:49.840 --> 00:10:52.120 He who has clean hands and a pure heart 00:10:52.640 --> 00:10:57.160 Who does not lift up his soul to an idol or swear by what is false? 00:10:57.680 --> 00:11:03.520 He will receive blessing from the Lord and vindication from God his Savior such as the generation of those that seek him 00:11:03.520 --> 00:11:08.880 Who seek your face of God of Jacob and so standing before him requires that now that I've been invited 00:11:09.120 --> 00:11:10.720 That if I want to stand in the holy place 00:11:10.720 --> 00:11:16.320 I have clean hands and a pure heart and my soul is not dedicated to any form of idolatry by idolatry 00:11:16.320 --> 00:11:17.920 I don't mean actual 00:11:17.920 --> 00:11:22.960 Pagan idols it could be idols that I've shaped with my own hands or swear by what is false 00:11:23.200 --> 00:11:25.200 These are allowed to stand before 00:11:25.520 --> 00:11:32.160 God and if you fall there's Hebrews 10 22 and if you fall there's Hebrews 10 22 00:11:32.160 --> 00:11:35.680 If you fall there's Hebrews 10 22 go to Hebrews 10 22 00:11:40.160 --> 00:11:43.280 Hebrews 10 22 let's start at verse 19 00:11:44.760 --> 00:11:50.360 Therefore brothers since we have confidence to enter the most holy place by the blood of Jesus by a new and living way 00:11:50.360 --> 00:11:56.760 Open for us through the curtain that is his body and since we have a great priest over the house of God verse 22 00:11:56.840 --> 00:12:02.600 Let us draw near to God with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith having our hearts 00:12:03.040 --> 00:12:08.360 sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and having our bodies washed with pure water 00:12:08.480 --> 00:12:14.600 Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess for he who promised his faithful the great thing about 00:12:15.120 --> 00:12:21.440 Falling and standing before God is that the falling and the standing before God has less to do with you and absolutely 00:12:22.040 --> 00:12:24.040 everything to do with his faithfulness 00:12:24.040 --> 00:12:29.080 Even first John 1 9 brings it out so brilliantly he is faithful and just 00:12:30.760 --> 00:12:33.600 It is not even my confession of sins that makes me 00:12:34.160 --> 00:12:39.400 Gives me permission to stand before him again. It is that he is faithful and just what is required of me 00:12:39.400 --> 00:12:44.200 Jacob can you please come to me with a sincere heart because I know your insincerity 00:12:44.200 --> 00:12:47.480 I also know your sincerity. Can you come to me with a sincere heart? 00:12:47.720 --> 00:12:49.840 This is what allows us to stand before him a 00:12:51.800 --> 00:12:55.520 But today I want to look at what does it take to speak on his behalf 00:12:56.320 --> 00:12:59.680 to speak testify prophesy on his behalf 00:13:06.200 --> 00:13:12.800 There's no one who's actually exempt from government because there is no one who is actually exempt from the church 00:13:12.840 --> 00:13:19.400 If you're here and you're the people of God and God intends to use the church as a means to act speak and 00:13:20.120 --> 00:13:22.280 Fill then nobody is exempt 00:13:25.720 --> 00:13:30.160 Press into this it's something that the Lord longs for you know 00:13:32.040 --> 00:13:34.240 Evangelists have been restored to the church 00:13:34.960 --> 00:13:39.080 Teachers have been restored to the church pastors have been restored to the church 00:13:39.880 --> 00:13:41.880 Teachers have been restored to the church 00:13:42.000 --> 00:13:43.900 Pastors have been restored to the church 00:13:43.900 --> 00:13:47.680 Prophets have been restored to the church apostles have to be in restored to the church 00:13:47.740 --> 00:13:52.920 But the one thing that is yet to be restored to the church is the governmental nature of the church 00:13:52.920 --> 00:13:54.920 It is the next thing that will happen 00:13:56.160 --> 00:14:01.800 The equippers have now been restored to the church now the church will learn how to be equipped 00:14:01.800 --> 00:14:12.040 two issue decrees as God sees fit that can affect the territories that are given to you. 00:14:12.040 --> 00:14:16.360 You would have no problem thinking about this if you were actually elected. Let's assume 00:14:16.360 --> 00:14:20.800 that you're in this area and this is Langara and you are standing for elections and by 00:14:20.800 --> 00:14:28.920 some strange way you get elected as the new MLA from Langara. You would have no problems 00:14:28.920 --> 00:14:34.960 believing that you would have an influence in the affairs of this area. The Defence Minister 00:14:34.960 --> 00:14:42.240 of Canada is actually the MP from this area, Sajjan Singh. He makes policy with regard to 00:14:42.240 --> 00:14:50.000 weaponry, with regard to when you go for war, when you don't go for war. I must believe that 00:14:50.000 --> 00:14:55.040 Jesus Christ, if he says that the church is governmental and is supposed to affect territories 00:14:55.040 --> 00:15:00.400 around me, that I actually will begin to believe that. Because if I can believe that of Sajjan Singh, 00:15:00.400 --> 00:15:10.640 I must believe it of Jesus Christ. Could you for a moment take your eyes of your own little problems, 00:15:10.640 --> 00:15:15.160 which are big in your eyes, but could you take your eyes off your little problems and believe 00:15:15.160 --> 00:15:21.840 that just because your little problems aren't yet solved doesn't mean that Christ cannot use you 00:15:21.840 --> 00:15:28.960 to affect territories, nations, regions. Between yesterday and today I was sitting down and writing 00:15:28.960 --> 00:15:35.760 down the people, the nations, the regions that have been affected by my simple obedience. Simple 00:15:35.760 --> 00:15:42.160 obedience. Nothing fancy. Simple obedience of going and speaking. I'm fascinated as I put the list out. 00:15:42.160 --> 00:16:01.360 We'll get there. The way God has us testify, prophesy and speak in the present is by first 00:16:01.360 --> 00:16:08.080 showing us the end. Because the present is really ugly. The end is very different from where things 00:16:08.080 --> 00:16:14.200 are at. What God has as a picture of the end is very different. I mean look at Eliana. You think 00:16:14.200 --> 00:16:25.000 her end will be like this? Do you know what a beautiful end this child has? We have no idea. 00:16:25.000 --> 00:16:45.160 Right now all she can do is eat, sleep, poo. ESP. Just one second. 00:16:45.160 --> 00:17:00.800 Yeah so you have to see the end from the beginning so that you can work towards it. One of the things 00:17:00.800 --> 00:17:06.440 that will happen with Eliana is that she'll sense things early. She'll sense things early. You know 00:17:06.440 --> 00:17:12.240 you have this AVAC planes, A-W-A-C. You see them when you're going to SeaTac. They are these planes 00:17:12.240 --> 00:17:18.120 with big round umbrella like things over. And AVAC basically means early warning and control. 00:17:18.120 --> 00:17:24.320 And one of the things that will happen with this child is that she'll have the ability to sense 00:17:24.320 --> 00:17:33.080 things early and that's a good part where she'll be able to sense situations. Sense people before 00:17:33.080 --> 00:17:38.220 she's actually in the situation. Before she knows people. Even at a young age she will know who to 00:17:38.220 --> 00:17:43.300 approach who not to. The kind of people and the kind of situations she can and she cannot step 00:17:43.300 --> 00:17:50.540 into. The so-called negative part of it is that Eliana will try to control outcomes because she 00:17:50.540 --> 00:17:55.860 knows what awaits. One of the things Matt and Rachel will have to learn how to do is help her 00:17:55.860 --> 00:18:02.660 not to be controlling so that she lets things happen. Another thing about this child is that 00:18:02.660 --> 00:18:09.380 she'll take up causes. She'll take up causes and she'll escalate these causes rapidly because she'll 00:18:09.380 --> 00:18:14.100 have a skill to assemble people. If she and her brother are standing in a group of ten people, 00:18:14.100 --> 00:18:19.340 her brother will have a different skill set but this girl will have ten people eating out of her 00:18:19.340 --> 00:18:26.540 hand very easily. You'll see this when she grows up. You'll see it in a couple of years. She'll know 00:18:26.540 --> 00:18:33.980 how to escalate causes very rapidly. It might be save the ants or something or the termites 00:18:33.980 --> 00:18:39.020 but she'll know how to get a whole group of people together to save the termites. So on one hand, 00:18:39.020 --> 00:18:45.980 that is a huge advantage. Criticism will be water off a duck's back for this child. You can criticize 00:18:45.980 --> 00:18:57.980 her and she'll say... One of the things that the parents will have to watch out for is that she 00:18:57.980 --> 00:19:03.860 will know how to change an atmosphere by deflecting or blunting what was meant to harm and she'll step 00:19:03.860 --> 00:19:08.740 into situations early in life where she can walk into a room that is tense, where there's a lot of 00:19:08.740 --> 00:19:14.340 fighting going on, argument and she has this amazing ability to walk into a room and deflect 00:19:14.340 --> 00:19:21.540 or blunt the harm in the place so that the atmosphere changes rapidly. If there is a 00:19:21.540 --> 00:19:28.620 beatitude that I would associate with this child, it would be blessed are the peacemakers. Blessed 00:19:28.620 --> 00:19:35.860 are the peacemakers. Which child is making all this noise? The same one I'm talking about? Oh my 00:19:35.860 --> 00:19:53.140 Lord. This is why I said the end is very different from the beginning. God's word associations are 00:19:53.140 --> 00:19:59.340 very different from ours. If I called out this word, let's see what your word association would be. 00:19:59.340 --> 00:20:19.580 Army. General, Navy. One more time, let's try. Army. See, but when, if you threw the word army, 00:20:19.580 --> 00:20:42.500 okay let's say vast army. Any associations? Surprisingly with God it is bones. Bones. We 00:20:42.500 --> 00:20:52.860 don't realize how extreme God is. When God says army, his association, word association will be 00:20:52.860 --> 00:21:00.060 bones. Vast army, valley of bones. We don't realize, we haven't realized. We get very excited with a 00:21:00.060 --> 00:21:05.980 shoulder pain disappearing or stuff like that and it is good. These are critically important things 00:21:05.980 --> 00:21:12.420 when your shoulder is paining. But we don't realize the alpha and omega-ness of this God and therefore 00:21:12.420 --> 00:21:26.820 we fall short in government. When I see a valley of bones, he sees a vast army. One of the cleverest 00:21:26.820 --> 00:21:40.340 ploys of the enemy is to help lower the expectation that children can have of everything so that God 00:21:40.380 --> 00:21:48.060 is a far cry. So right from when you're a kid, you are forced to lower your expectations so that you 00:21:48.060 --> 00:21:58.980 can never ask or imagine Efficiency 20. It's out of question. It is a killer. It is a killer. Either 00:21:58.980 --> 00:22:05.260 your parents help you do that or circumstances just completely lower your expectations. Government 00:22:05.260 --> 00:22:11.580 is run through seeing ends even though you're in the midst of a valley of bones. So if you go to 00:22:11.580 --> 00:22:28.220 Ezekiel 37.1. Ezekiel 37.1. Ezekiel 37.1. Ezekiel 37.1. The hand of the Lord was upon me and he brought 00:22:28.220 --> 00:22:35.900 me out by the spirit and the Lord set me in the middle of a valley. The hand of the Lord was upon 00:22:35.900 --> 00:22:42.820 me and he brought me out by the spirit of the Lord and set me in the middle of a valley. So guys, 00:22:42.820 --> 00:22:50.700 the first thing is the hand of Yahweh speaks of overwhelming force with which you are seized by 00:22:50.700 --> 00:22:56.020 God. Whenever the Bible talks about the hand of the Lord is upon me, it's not something casual. It 00:22:56.300 --> 00:23:02.460 is this overwhelming force with which God seizes someone. And here is a statement I want you to 00:23:02.460 --> 00:23:11.940 remember because I think it is critical if we can get this that God seizes those lives. God seizes 00:23:11.940 --> 00:23:29.700 those lives he can help himself to. He can help himself to at will. You want the hand of the Lord 00:23:29.700 --> 00:23:43.580 upon you? Ask yourself this question. Is my life the kind of life that he can help himself to at 00:23:43.580 --> 00:23:50.380 will? Whenever the Bible talks about the hand of the Lord was upon me, you will find a character 00:23:50.380 --> 00:23:59.980 who's gotten to a place where God can help himself to that life at will. We pass quickly 00:23:59.980 --> 00:24:04.020 past that the hand of the Lord was upon me because we use it so frequently that it loses 00:24:04.020 --> 00:24:09.900 its meaning but it is the overwhelming force of God by the spirit that seizes someone to do 00:24:09.900 --> 00:24:19.500 something ridiculously impossible. There are four things that you need to surrender if you want to 00:24:19.500 --> 00:24:26.940 be a man like this. The first one is I have to surrender who I am. Second one is I have to surrender 00:24:26.940 --> 00:24:35.380 where I go. Third one is I have to surrender what I have. And the fourth one is I have to surrender 00:24:35.380 --> 00:24:45.460 what I say. I no longer have the freedom of self-determination when it comes to these four 00:24:45.460 --> 00:24:54.180 things. Great time to do stuff like this. If it's your birthday today, man, these are some of the 00:24:54.180 --> 00:25:12.580 things that you can really step into. God willing, we'll respond to these four things towards the end 00:25:12.580 --> 00:25:19.900 of the teaching. But if you want to be, if I want to be a man that God can seize, then I have to be 00:25:19.900 --> 00:25:33.460 a man who he can help himself to at will and it requires a surrender of who I am as in my identity 00:25:33.460 --> 00:25:42.180 but be that my identity come from vocation or from any other thing. Where I go as in are my feet 00:25:42.180 --> 00:25:49.540 willing to go anytime, anywhere, at any cost to wherever he sends me. What I have as in my security, 00:25:49.540 --> 00:25:55.300 my money, my bank account and everything that I have at his disposal. And the last one is what I 00:25:55.300 --> 00:26:03.420 say. Where I cannot amend what he wants me to say and doesn't matter how unpopular, how contradictory, 00:26:03.420 --> 00:26:10.020 how at opposition it puts me. These are four things that allows you to become a man on whose 00:26:10.020 --> 00:26:20.100 hand God, on whose head God's hand can rest because he seizes you. Any questions? Any questions? 00:26:20.100 --> 00:26:32.500 Any questions? The first thing that God will do when he leads you back and when he leads you into 00:26:32.500 --> 00:26:38.140 this valley of bones and so by valley of bones I mean he shows you where you are presently. And 00:26:38.620 --> 00:26:44.380 one of the things he does is he wants you to get so accustomed to the reality of your situation. 00:26:44.380 --> 00:26:48.300 Look at what he does with Ezekiel. He says, Ezekiel I'm going to take you to this valley. It was a 00:26:48.300 --> 00:26:52.940 known valley. It wasn't a random valley. Ezekiel goes to this valley and God doesn't show him a 00:26:52.940 --> 00:26:57.620 bird's eye view. He puts him in the valley. In the valley he takes him back and forth. The Bible says 00:26:57.620 --> 00:27:02.220 and God took him back and forth. The spirit of God took him back and forth and around so he could 00:27:02.220 --> 00:27:10.380 see the bones glistening in the sun. We do not operate with God by avoiding our present reality. 00:27:10.380 --> 00:27:16.460 We get so used to it that it breaks your heart or it makes you wear sackcloth or it does something 00:27:16.460 --> 00:27:25.500 to you. That the bones lay on the surface of the valley meant that whoever threw those bodies there 00:27:25.980 --> 00:27:33.740 meant to impose upon those bodies the indignity of a curse because it says in Deuteronomy 28 verse 25 00:27:33.740 --> 00:27:39.180 that any man whose body is left to the scavenging birds is a man who is cursed. 00:27:41.660 --> 00:27:47.580 It wasn't buried. It was just left there. It was an indignity. It was supposed to be 00:27:48.540 --> 00:27:54.140 a way to make sure that a corpse and the family that the corpse belonged to was cursed. 00:27:55.900 --> 00:28:02.060 Then God goes on to let Ezekiel know, hey Ezekiel do you realize that these bones are extremely dry? 00:28:02.060 --> 00:28:07.820 They've been here far too long. They're long dead with no life force and they're hopelessly dead. 00:28:11.260 --> 00:28:16.460 While he's showing Ezekiel the reality of his situation, God's doing something else and please 00:28:16.460 --> 00:28:21.340 understand this. I'll go over this again if you need to. This is the way God operates. He shows 00:28:21.340 --> 00:28:26.300 you a very dead situation that isn't showing any life. He shows you the ins and outs on it. He 00:28:26.300 --> 00:28:33.420 exposes it. He brings it to the open and as you look at it, he at the same time begins to show you 00:28:33.420 --> 00:28:40.460 the end. It is not one or the other. In verse 5 and 6 of 37 you realize that as God is taking him 00:28:40.460 --> 00:28:45.660 through the valley up and down the bones, he's also showing him, hey this will live, this will live, 00:28:45.660 --> 00:28:51.420 this will live, this will live. This is the way God operates. You've got to think like this. 00:28:51.420 --> 00:28:58.060 Take any situation in your life which is a valley of bones now, indignity, curses, bondages, 00:28:58.060 --> 00:29:05.180 unbroken, continuous, long dead, hopeless, glistening in the sun, bleached, irretrievable 00:29:05.180 --> 00:29:10.940 and as he begins to show you the condition of those bones, he is also saying, let me show you 00:29:10.940 --> 00:29:13.980 what's going to happen. Let me show you what's going to happen. It is at the same time 00:29:17.900 --> 00:29:23.500 what happens with us and may it not happen to this church. This church is far too grown up to go 00:29:23.500 --> 00:29:29.580 through this again and again and again and if you do go through it, snap out of it quickly by asking 00:29:29.580 --> 00:29:40.860 for help and so while he's showing you the bones, he's also showing you the end from the beginning. 00:29:40.860 --> 00:29:45.740 He does this in Deuteronomy chapter 9. You would think to yourself, how could you do this oh God? 00:29:45.740 --> 00:29:52.140 Deuteronomy chapter 9. Look at how it starts. Deuteronomy chapter 9 verse 1 to 3. Verse 1 and 00:29:52.140 --> 00:30:00.060 2 are, let me show you the bones. Verse 3, let me show you the end. This is not at all inspiring. 00:30:00.700 --> 00:30:05.500 Here oh Israel, you are now about to cross the Jordan. Hallelujah, they start shouting. To go 00:30:05.500 --> 00:30:10.540 in and dispossess nations greater and stronger than you with large cities that are walls up to 00:30:10.540 --> 00:30:14.540 the sky. Now they're beginning to pant and shiver. The people are strong and tall, 00:30:14.540 --> 00:30:19.660 Anarchites. You know about them and if you don't know, then let me tell you what I have heard about 00:30:19.660 --> 00:30:24.860 them. Who can stand up against the Anarchites? But be assured that today the Lord your God, 00:30:24.860 --> 00:30:30.060 the one who goes across ahead of you like a devouring fire, he will destroy them. He will 00:30:30.060 --> 00:30:35.420 subdue them. You will drive them out. You will annihilate them as the Lord has promised you. It 00:30:35.420 --> 00:30:41.820 is this thing where God always shows you this is what the true reality is Jacob. But as I'm showing 00:30:41.820 --> 00:30:46.060 you this true reality, can you just look up and can you see what I have in store? Can you see what 00:30:46.060 --> 00:30:51.500 I have in store? Problem with the church is you keep looking down and you see nothing changing. 00:30:51.500 --> 00:30:59.020 You have to see the end before the present changes. You have to see the end before the 00:30:59.020 --> 00:31:04.300 present changes. Otherwise you don't even know what you're expecting change as. You don't even 00:31:04.300 --> 00:31:11.260 know what you expect to change. Let him show you what he can do. Let him show you what he can do. 00:31:11.820 --> 00:31:16.860 Otherwise your expectations are at best slightly better than mine which is like pointless. 00:31:23.100 --> 00:31:29.180 This is what Abraham did. He knows that he's in a tent. He knows that he's left his clan country. 00:31:29.180 --> 00:31:34.140 Hebrews chapter 11 verse 9 or thereabouts. While he knows that God is also saying listen I know 00:31:34.140 --> 00:31:38.540 you're on a journey from the Ur of Chaldees. You've come out. You've left everybody behind. 00:31:38.540 --> 00:31:42.540 You even left Lot behind and I know you're journeying. You look at your tent and you think 00:31:42.540 --> 00:31:47.500 to yourself is this what I bargained for? But let me show you. Let me show you the end. And Abraham 00:31:47.500 --> 00:31:53.500 looks and he sees a city that an architect has built. A city that is indescribable. A city that 00:31:53.500 --> 00:31:59.260 no hands have made and he suddenly is filled with enough moxie to see through. 00:32:08.620 --> 00:32:15.180 You might think that this is just a fancy way of putting it but one of the reasons Jesus endured 00:32:15.180 --> 00:32:20.700 the cross was for the joy that was set before him and part of it was the father's joy. Part of it 00:32:20.700 --> 00:32:28.460 was to see the joy of me and Jeremy, Isaac and Sue and Blessy and Eva and Echo being drawn back 00:32:28.460 --> 00:32:33.660 to the Lord. You must understand that it is that kind of end picture that allows you to keep 00:32:33.660 --> 00:32:39.580 marching towards it. What is your end picture for what you are at present completely embedded in? 00:32:39.580 --> 00:32:47.580 You've been embedded in it for years. So much so that you smell of it. People have to go by and 00:32:47.580 --> 00:32:52.460 they know the aroma they can get off you as they walk by because you've been so embedded in it. 00:32:54.460 --> 00:32:57.660 It is easy for a preacher to stand here and say stuff like this 00:32:59.020 --> 00:33:02.700 but there is a God who wants you to think like this where you begin to see the end picture. 00:33:03.260 --> 00:33:07.660 So what if you're not alive to see it? You will see the end picture even if you're not alive to see it. 00:33:09.500 --> 00:33:13.900 I have an end picture for the church. I'm not talking about Acts 29. I have an end picture for 00:33:13.900 --> 00:33:20.620 what the church will look like in 20 years, 30 years, 40 years. I dreamt what I see right now. 00:33:20.620 --> 00:33:25.420 I dreamt what I see when Jane leads worship. I dreamt what I see when Jeevan does Nandigama. 00:33:25.420 --> 00:33:31.820 I dreamt what I see when Karen and Sue come to preach, come to pray. I dreamt this. I dreamt 00:33:31.820 --> 00:33:38.380 this when we were two people. I dreamt nations. I dreamt nations. I dreamt kings. I dreamt rulers. 00:33:38.380 --> 00:33:41.980 I dreamt the changing of territories. I dreamt the taking of nations. 00:33:45.580 --> 00:33:51.500 Why am I so excited? Because God is faithful but I must see the end picture 00:33:52.620 --> 00:33:59.900 and 20 years from now or 30 years from now I still know what the end picture is and 30 years from now 00:33:59.900 --> 00:34:05.820 if I am not alive it does not matter because I have seen the end picture and I will have enough 00:34:05.820 --> 00:34:15.260 faith to bring it a pass even if you bury me. You got to see the end picture. 00:34:21.900 --> 00:34:30.060 Other religions do. Other religions plan 100 years in advance so that the balance of power will shift 00:34:30.780 --> 00:34:37.900 so that certain nations that they used to rule over will come back into their territory. 100 years 00:34:37.900 --> 00:34:45.500 they don't mind waiting. They'll die for it but they will wait to see. 100 years from now 00:34:45.500 --> 00:34:51.500 the same rulers who once used to rule certain parts of Europe and certain parts of Asia 00:34:51.500 --> 00:34:53.900 their hope is that it'll come back again. 00:34:53.900 --> 00:34:57.340 Companies plan far beyond their founders. 00:35:06.220 --> 00:35:11.180 And while he's showing you the end from the beginning here's something else he does which is so 00:35:13.820 --> 00:35:14.380 so 00:35:14.380 --> 00:35:23.900 god-ish but so sneaky is not the word so I don't know the right word. As you wrestle through the 00:35:23.900 --> 00:35:30.540 contradiction of where you are at and what the end picture is God begins to ask you a question and 00:35:30.540 --> 00:35:35.820 the question is can this happen? Can this happen? Can this happen? And he expects a reply. 00:35:36.380 --> 00:35:41.740 He asks you a question and the question is can this happen? Can this happen? Can this happen? 00:35:41.740 --> 00:35:47.980 And he expects a reply. So while he's showing him the value of bones he's also showing him the end 00:35:47.980 --> 00:35:53.740 picture in verse 5 and 6 and yet he's also asking Ezekiel a question. Hey Ezekiel do you think these 00:35:53.740 --> 00:35:57.580 bones can live? Do you think these bones can live? Do you think these bones can live? He's 00:35:57.580 --> 00:36:02.300 showing you the end picture. He's also showing you the present and even though he's showing you the 00:36:02.300 --> 00:36:06.620 the end picture. He's deliberately asking you a question, can these bones live? Can 00:36:06.620 --> 00:36:11.500 these bones live? Can these bones live? And Ezekiel tries to get out. He tries to 00:36:11.500 --> 00:36:18.500 disengage. He says, oh you know God and God will not settle for a disingenuous 00:36:18.500 --> 00:36:23.460 reply like, oh whatever you will oh God, oh you know God. He does not allow that. 00:36:23.460 --> 00:36:27.660 He wants to hear whether what I have shown you is enough for you to believe 00:36:27.660 --> 00:36:39.100 Jacob. What are your words now? What does your mouth speak? And initially 00:36:39.100 --> 00:36:43.520 Ezekiel's reaction is, oh you know a lot and God doesn't let him get away with 00:36:43.520 --> 00:36:51.700 that. A disingenuous reply like, only you know God or your will be done won't cut 00:36:51.700 --> 00:37:01.420 it. He asks a question expecting a reply. Die speaking what God has shown you so 00:37:01.420 --> 00:37:06.020 that the ones you are speaking it about will live. 00:37:14.340 --> 00:37:19.300 And once he begins to see that Ezekiel is moving away from whatever you will or 00:37:19.300 --> 00:37:25.380 God to, I will do what you command. Now he says call the dry bones to attention 00:37:25.380 --> 00:37:33.740 on my behalf. Guys this is what government is about, on my behalf. On my 00:37:33.740 --> 00:37:40.340 behalf. I want to do things on his behalf. I want to be the one who fills the room 00:37:40.340 --> 00:37:44.340 with his presence because he fills the church with his presence. I want to be 00:37:44.340 --> 00:37:48.640 the one who acts on his behalf because he acts through the church. I want to be 00:37:48.640 --> 00:37:54.400 the one who speaks on his behalf because he speaks through the church on his 00:37:54.400 --> 00:38:15.880 behalf. Call the dry bones to attention on my behalf. On my behalf always starts 00:38:15.880 --> 00:38:24.100 with simple obedience to a simple command. On my behalf always starts with 00:38:24.100 --> 00:38:29.700 simple obedience to a simple command. It does not start in some profound way. It 00:38:29.700 --> 00:38:36.940 is simple obedience to a simple command without any need to understand. Without 00:38:36.940 --> 00:38:42.940 any need to understand. That goes beyond your limitations. Your limitations are 00:38:42.940 --> 00:38:47.320 not going to prevent you from obeying. Your limitations begin to disappear as 00:38:47.320 --> 00:38:52.120 you obey and take one step, one step, one step. That is when leprosy disappears. 00:38:52.120 --> 00:38:58.720 That is when water holds you up. Water holds you up and lepers begin to get 00:38:58.720 --> 00:39:04.240 cleansed as you begin to walk because everything that you do on his behalf 00:39:04.240 --> 00:39:11.960 starts with one simple act of obedience to one simple command. I can reel off 00:39:12.020 --> 00:39:17.100 simple commands that I obeyed. Go to Jakarta even though you're flying to 00:39:17.100 --> 00:39:24.860 Bahrain. Go tonight to Jakarta. Changes the direction of East Java and the 00:39:24.860 --> 00:39:31.540 effect that this church had in Indonesia for years because one simple command to 00:39:31.540 --> 00:39:36.080 go to Jakarta to meet the Sultan of Java on a day that he's desperate to 00:39:36.080 --> 00:39:43.420 prophesy over him changes the nature. One simple command go to Ulaanbaatar. You 00:39:43.420 --> 00:39:48.340 don't know anybody there. Check into a hotel and wait there and even today 00:39:48.340 --> 00:39:52.780 there's a course called the Tellyos Bible course that is being done across 00:39:52.780 --> 00:39:57.360 Mongolia that you guys participated in that has been translated into the 00:39:57.360 --> 00:40:06.300 language then from one end of Mongolia to the other. Go meet the person in 00:40:06.300 --> 00:40:11.780 charge of West Java. Three of us fly there. Simple command. Do not know what 00:40:11.780 --> 00:40:25.460 is going to happen. Go connect with Jeevan and let Jeevan have the freedom to run 00:40:25.460 --> 00:40:30.860 so that a 4,000 year old curse that disallows a certain community from 00:40:30.860 --> 00:40:37.060 buying land is broken and a whole gate or portal now opens for generations and 00:40:37.060 --> 00:40:41.040 generations for another thousand years if the Lord tarries of people that were 00:40:41.040 --> 00:40:45.080 not allowed for 4,000 years now being allowed. What has been permitted in 00:40:45.080 --> 00:40:49.200 heaven will be permitted on earth when a people decide that they will obey a 00:40:49.200 --> 00:40:53.540 simple command and act on his behalf and what is forbidden in heaven can be 00:40:53.540 --> 00:41:01.220 forbidden on earth. I can't... the only reason I'm not going into each 00:41:01.220 --> 00:41:05.360 story is because I've told these stories many times over. But this 00:41:05.360 --> 00:41:09.800 government thing is real and it happens to simple people who obey a simple 00:41:09.800 --> 00:41:13.160 command on his behalf but before you do anything learn how to stand before the 00:41:13.160 --> 00:41:24.020 Lord man. God loves restoring physical life and he loves reviving spiritual 00:41:24.020 --> 00:41:30.320 life. God loves restoring physical life. He loves reviving spiritual life. This 00:41:30.320 --> 00:41:35.060 government is benevolent. It restores physical life. It revives spiritual 00:41:35.060 --> 00:41:39.560 lives. This government is benevolent. It restores physical lives. It revives 00:41:39.560 --> 00:41:48.160 spiritual lives. It's the main agenda of this government. It reverses 00:41:48.160 --> 00:41:51.680 decomposition. I mean those bones have been lying there. It reverses 00:41:51.680 --> 00:41:56.320 decomposition and starts restoring flesh. Listen to these words. Audible words 00:41:56.320 --> 00:41:59.840 spoken into the invisible will eventually burst forth in sight and 00:41:59.840 --> 00:42:14.080 sound. Audible words, audible words spoken into the invisible will eventually burst 00:42:14.080 --> 00:42:28.040 forth, will eventually burst forth in sight and sound. 00:42:30.120 --> 00:42:47.400 Audible words spoken into the invisible will eventually burst forth in sight and sound. God is going to help you and Jaya to distill the way you speak. Distill, as in where all the sediments that need to be removed from the 00:42:47.400 --> 00:43:04.920 council or advice or conversations that you have with people and with each other will be distilled so that every other sediment of the past of a certain way of thinking, of cultural, traditional, denominational, religious, 00:43:04.920 --> 00:43:21.040 intellectual, experiential council will suddenly be removed and all that will be left is a pure sediment, is a pure distilled form of council that God is going to use you to do the work of 00:43:21.040 --> 00:43:50.400 council will suddenly be removed and all that will be left is a pure sediment, is a pure distilled form of council that God is going to use you both for. You just said you finished your 18th anniversary. Well, for the next 12 years till you actually have your 30th anniversary, enjoy advising and counseling those that will say surely they must have been with Jesus. 00:43:51.200 --> 00:44:15.440 That is one of the things he wants to do with you and so be very deliberate about seething cultural, intellectual, denominational, religious, experiential sediments so that all that is left is the pure distilled version of God's council and they'll come to you in droves and their response will always be these must have spent time with Jesus. 00:44:15.440 --> 00:44:27.840 Just as they said of the disciples, uneducated bunch of fishermen, these must have spent time with Jesus. This is something God will begin to use you tremendously and it will be an ever enlarging circle. 00:44:34.440 --> 00:44:40.440 Guys, audible words spoken into the invisible will eventually burst forth in sight and sound. Any questions? 00:44:45.440 --> 00:45:13.440 All those incidents that Jeevan mentioned where situations were happening and then we would pray was basically speaking audible words into the invisible and watching results change in two days and three days, decreeing what needs to be decreed as the word of God from the church upon territories, upon powers, upon deities saying, 00:45:13.440 --> 00:45:20.440 release, saying be gone, saying burst forth, saying come forth. 00:45:20.440 --> 00:45:43.440 Authority and morality go hand in hand, build both up, it's brilliant and as Ezekiel discovers suddenly think of being in this valley say somebody at Grouse Mountain or I can't remember the last valley I was in but look at a valley and think of it full of bones and then think of his words that he's speaking and as he 00:45:43.440 --> 00:46:13.440 begins to speak these words the strangest thing happens, he hears bone begin to rise and knock against bone and there's a rattling and the bones begin to fit and it's not a random fitting, it is a very proper fitting as bone finds bone correctly and connects and even as he watches sinew and flesh begin to cover it and these bones now become corpses that begin to come alive, that begin to come alive and then he sees bones and he sees bones and he sees bones and he sees bones and he sees bones and he sees bones and he sees bones and he sees bones and he sees bones and he sees bones and he sees bones and he sees bones and he sees bones and he sees bones and he sees bones and he sees bones and he sees bones and he sees bones and he sees bones and he sees bones and he sees bones and he sees bones and he sees bones and he sees bones and he sees bones and he sees bones and he sees bones and he sees bones and he sees bones and he sees bones and he sees bones and he sees bones and he sees bones and he sees bones and 00:46:13.440 --> 00:46:43.420 begins to literally come alive. Ezekiel's never done this before. Sometimes God will take you and put you in a very huge situation or he'll start you with something small, he knows the level of your faithfulness. So don't think you'll start at the bottom of the rung. The kingdom has no bottom rungs, it just 00:46:43.440 --> 00:46:47.840 has assignments and these assignments and the domain you have increases with 00:46:47.840 --> 00:46:56.720 faithfulness. There's no ladder that you have to climb up but there's faithfulness 00:46:56.720 --> 00:47:01.040 which allows you to increase your domain. 00:47:01.040 --> 00:47:15.040 In rapid response to the word Ezekiel marvels as bone rattles on bone fitting 00:47:15.040 --> 00:47:19.440 properly and just as it looks like it's going to come together in verse 8 you 00:47:19.440 --> 00:47:23.720 see that the whole process is about to collapse and abort because there is no 00:47:23.720 --> 00:47:27.980 breath in the bones. So imagine these bodies being put together. Suddenly you 00:47:27.980 --> 00:47:32.020 see your grandfather, you see your nephew, you see your grandmother, you see your 00:47:32.020 --> 00:47:35.820 great-grandmother, all their bodies restored, flesh coming over their faces. 00:47:35.820 --> 00:47:41.260 It's like one of those movies where CSI puts back finds a skull and puts flesh 00:47:41.260 --> 00:47:45.980 over it and you know aha this looks like Derek and so it's that kind of a thing. 00:47:45.980 --> 00:47:57.740 Sorry Derek. So it's that kind of a sense but just as you think things are 00:47:57.740 --> 00:48:02.540 now on the upswing it looks like it's going to abort because there is no 00:48:02.540 --> 00:48:09.500 breath in the bones and this is where we as Christians just do not know how to 00:48:09.500 --> 00:48:17.420 persist. Persistence is alert discipline and enduring patience. Alert discipline 00:48:17.420 --> 00:48:24.200 and enduring patience. Persistence alert discipline and enduring patience. Alert 00:48:24.200 --> 00:48:28.700 discipline as in I'm not going to back off I'm alert to this. I know this thing 00:48:28.700 --> 00:48:32.500 has come together it suddenly looks like it's going to abort again but instead of 00:48:32.500 --> 00:48:36.500 being frightened of that I'm going to persist because what he has said I'm 00:48:36.660 --> 00:48:45.980 fully persuaded can happen. Get up Jacob. So you don't throw away your confidence 00:48:45.980 --> 00:48:53.300 because the just shall only live by faith and they shall not live by anything 00:48:53.300 --> 00:48:58.980 else but faith. Faith that sees, faith that speaks. You know tomorrow it'll be 00:48:58.980 --> 00:49:03.540 27 years since I came to Canada. I just realized I've lived almost half my life 00:49:03.540 --> 00:49:06.820 in Canada but one of the things that happened when I was immigrating to 00:49:06.820 --> 00:49:10.020 Canada and things looked completely wrong and most of you have heard that 00:49:10.020 --> 00:49:15.460 story is is that there was one thing that I persisted in with alert discipline 00:49:15.460 --> 00:49:20.700 and with enduring patience that God said he would bring me to this land. My God 00:49:20.700 --> 00:49:24.580 will bring me to this land. It didn't matter which pastor I met. It didn't 00:49:24.580 --> 00:49:28.300 matter which prophet I met. It didn't matter which senior Christian I met who 00:49:28.300 --> 00:49:33.580 came and said to me use your head. God does use logic. Operate with logic. The 00:49:33.580 --> 00:49:39.460 continuous declaration of my lips was but God said and it must come to pass 00:49:39.460 --> 00:49:42.940 and do you know how much this nation has benefited? Do you know how many nations 00:49:42.940 --> 00:49:51.220 have benefited because of that one stance? You think I couldn't say no and 00:49:51.220 --> 00:50:02.500 walk away? The prophetic and destiny is not inevitable. It is conditional and the 00:50:02.500 --> 00:50:06.060 condition is simple obedience. 00:50:21.260 --> 00:50:27.460 You know one of the things I find not good about this generation of young 00:50:27.460 --> 00:50:35.700 people is that not too many are finishers. When I look at the older ones 00:50:35.700 --> 00:50:41.860 here you realize that one of the things you learned if you're over 40 is that 00:50:41.860 --> 00:50:47.420 you knew how to finish. This generation is great and starting stuff. 00:50:47.420 --> 00:50:55.300 They love starting stuff every third week but the ability to endure through 00:50:55.300 --> 00:51:00.580 routine and through the drab and through nothing happening and no recognition and 00:51:00.580 --> 00:51:08.900 finishing it man that is an apostolic Holy Spirit quality to finish. Desire that 00:51:08.900 --> 00:51:12.700 more than anything else to finish. 00:51:17.700 --> 00:51:21.540 Withstand the mocking spirit. We talked about this yesterday. At the end of the 00:51:21.540 --> 00:51:24.140 day I said no not at the end of the day at the beginning of this teaching I 00:51:24.140 --> 00:51:28.620 said the title for this teaching is testify to speak to prophesy. Guys we are 00:51:28.620 --> 00:51:33.620 so blessed we are so blessed. I give praise to God I thank God that this 00:51:33.620 --> 00:51:40.700 church has in its core DNA the ability to prophesy the respect for the prophetic 00:51:40.700 --> 00:51:45.540 the unction to prophesy the spirit of prophecy it was born in this church it 00:51:45.580 --> 00:51:50.300 was when this church was born we were born with that. We don't know we don't 00:51:50.300 --> 00:51:55.420 realize how blessed we are that this is a natural part of our being but we will 00:51:55.420 --> 00:51:59.340 be called to account and God will come and look at the tree and say now that 00:51:59.340 --> 00:52:04.140 you have grown show me the fruit and the fruit is no longer personal prophecy the 00:52:04.140 --> 00:52:08.500 fruit is can you prophesy to the nations. 00:52:08.500 --> 00:52:18.660 I'm pressing this hard on stuff like this because I see the end for us too 00:52:18.660 --> 00:52:23.540 and there are different ends. God shows you an end one year from now God 00:52:23.540 --> 00:52:27.180 shows you an end ten years from now and he would prefer that we finish it in the 00:52:27.180 --> 00:52:30.420 time frame that he has allotted. 00:52:39.020 --> 00:52:45.820 So don't stop halfway withstand the mocking spirit that's his great so you think this 00:52:45.820 --> 00:52:51.100 can actually happen great so you saw the end picture how many years has it been 00:52:51.100 --> 00:52:58.900 Jacob 13 14 40 how many years and you hear that mocking spirit. 00:52:59.020 --> 00:53:05.060 You know there was a guy called Rabshakeh don't name your son that Rabshakeh 00:53:05.060 --> 00:53:17.220 Isaiah 36 Isaiah 36 he he reveals something that we need to know Isaiah 36 00:53:17.660 --> 00:53:27.900 really smart ploy this was Isaiah 36 verse 2 to 9 then the king of Assyria 00:53:27.900 --> 00:53:32.300 sent his field commanders with a large army from Lachish to King Hezekiah at 00:53:32.340 --> 00:53:35.940 Jerusalem when the commander stopped at the aqueduct of the upper pool on the 00:53:35.940 --> 00:53:41.340 road to Washerman's field Eliakim son of Hilkeah remember who Eliakim is we talked 00:53:41.340 --> 00:53:46.780 about him last week Isaiah 22 22 Eliakim was the guy who had the keys on his 00:53:46.780 --> 00:53:50.660 shoulders he carried government on his shoulders yet look what is happening to 00:53:50.660 --> 00:53:56.860 him now. Eliakim son of Hilkeah the palace administrator Shebna the 00:53:56.860 --> 00:54:01.260 secretary Joah the son of Asaph the recorder went out to him the field 00:54:01.260 --> 00:54:05.460 commander said to them tell Hezekiah this is what the great king the king of 00:54:05.460 --> 00:54:10.820 Assyria says on what are you basing this confidence of yours 00:54:10.820 --> 00:54:24.740 oh which one is it man all the parents are denying that it's their child. 00:54:24.740 --> 00:54:38.500 Jeeva go show your face no so the field commander said to them tell has my god 00:54:38.500 --> 00:54:52.500 the very name of Jeevan. That's that's that's for those who don't know Greek 00:54:52.500 --> 00:54:58.340 that's a that's a dialogue from a Hindi movie where the villain speaks Greek 00:54:58.340 --> 00:55:10.660 yeah yeah pardon that at night in the village when the child refuses to sleep 00:55:10.660 --> 00:55:21.220 the mum says child go to sleep otherwise Jeevan will turn up no the 00:55:21.260 --> 00:55:25.900 actual name of the guy is Gabbar he's like this he was the most amazing villain 00:55:25.900 --> 00:55:32.660 that ever existed nobody's been like him before ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha yeah 00:55:32.660 --> 00:55:41.620 gosh we're going somewhere completely different we've is he kill 36 I mean the 00:55:41.620 --> 00:55:48.100 children have gone quiet that's good as he killed 36 verse 4 the field commander 00:55:48.100 --> 00:55:51.900 said to them tell Hezekiah this is what the great king the king of Assyria says 00:55:51.900 --> 00:55:59.220 on what on what are you basing this confidence of yours you say you have 00:55:59.220 --> 00:56:04.500 strategy and military strength but you speak only empty words on whom are you 00:56:04.500 --> 00:56:08.780 depending that you rebel against me look now you're depending on Egypt that 00:56:08.780 --> 00:56:12.940 splintered read of a star which pierces a man's hand and wounds him if he leans on 00:56:12.940 --> 00:56:19.780 it the point here is he says to Israel hey Israel do you really think that your 00:56:19.780 --> 00:56:28.500 words can help you he's trying to take away the only weapon Israel has words 00:56:28.500 --> 00:56:36.420 and then he is using words to intimidate them but he's taking away the only 00:56:36.420 --> 00:56:39.860 weapon there he had they have if you read the other versions it says do you 00:56:39.860 --> 00:56:45.380 think your words will amount to anything Rapshaka has the ability to come 00:56:45.380 --> 00:56:48.860 to you and say hey Emily you've been praying for a while and declaring things 00:56:48.860 --> 00:56:53.940 how's it going with you hey Roslyn how are things changing for you hey Jacob 00:56:53.940 --> 00:56:58.380 how long have you been saying stuff has anything happened you think your words 00:56:58.380 --> 00:57:02.580 will amount to anything you think your words are weaponry you think your words 00:57:02.580 --> 00:57:12.980 are strategy it's the only thing I have it is the only thing I have all I have 00:57:12.980 --> 00:57:17.060 is words you know when I was watching the looking at the lyrics of the song 00:57:17.060 --> 00:57:34.860 so will I everything there is words just words so Ezekiel has a valley full 00:57:34.860 --> 00:57:42.620 of slain corpses but no breath and then in the ISV verse 9 puts it this way then 00:57:42.620 --> 00:57:47.300 he ordered me Yahweh ordered me prophesy to the spirit son of man tell 00:57:47.300 --> 00:57:51.260 the spirit this is what the Lord God says come from the four winds and breathe 00:57:51.260 --> 00:58:00.740 I often go and ask the Holy Spirit whenever there's a situation Spirit of 00:58:00.740 --> 00:58:07.300 God so what are you saying I want to say that I want to say that I'll ask the 00:58:07.300 --> 00:58:11.860 Holy Spirit what do I need to speak into the situation what do I need to first 00:58:11.900 --> 00:58:15.780 see in the situation and once I see it what do I need to speak two questions 00:58:15.780 --> 00:58:20.940 that I always ask father what do I need to see in the situation father what do I 00:58:20.940 --> 00:58:28.220 need to speak in this situation what I see is what I will speak everything in 00:58:28.220 --> 00:58:32.340 life is it is the only way to deal with it show me another way to deal with it 00:58:32.340 --> 00:58:36.460 please I'm asking genuinely show me another biblical way of dealing things 00:58:37.060 --> 00:58:42.340 with things other than going this route show me how Jesus did it show me how any 00:58:42.340 --> 00:58:45.900 of the other guys from Joshua Moses all the guys in the Old Testament show me 00:58:45.900 --> 00:58:49.860 guys in the New Testament show me how else they did it other than seeing what 00:58:49.860 --> 00:58:54.080 the spirit was showing and he's very willing to show and then speaking what 00:58:54.080 --> 00:59:01.840 the spirit is speaking show me another way and it has to be audible it has to 00:59:01.840 --> 00:59:12.400 be audible it's tiring work guys he ordered me prophesied to the spirit 00:59:12.400 --> 00:59:16.120 son of man tell the spirit so what you're doing is you're asking the spirit 00:59:16.120 --> 00:59:19.000 of God what to say and then you're agreeing with him and after agreeing 00:59:19.000 --> 00:59:22.780 with him you're speaking here there's this very cool verse in Hosea 2 verse 20 00:59:22.780 --> 00:59:27.320 to 22 where God says I'll answer the skies this I'll answer the heavens the 00:59:27.320 --> 00:59:32.240 heavens will answer the earth the earth with rain the rain will answer the 00:59:32.240 --> 00:59:38.900 ground and the ground will produce new oil wine and grain it's this virtuous 00:59:38.900 --> 00:59:44.600 cycle that begins with God speaking I will answer the heavens the heavens shall 00:59:44.600 --> 00:59:48.260 answer the earth with rain the rain shall answer the earth and cause grain 00:59:48.260 --> 00:59:53.220 new wine and oil and they shall answer Jezreel as in whatever you saw that you 00:59:53.220 --> 01:00:04.500 will get back in bountifully Hosea 2 verse 20 to 22 speak your words can 01:00:04.500 --> 01:00:13.340 transform exceedingly numerous bones into an exceedingly vast army speak Psalm 01:00:13.340 --> 01:00:19.180 29 the voice of the Lord is powerful the voice of the Lord is majestic the voice 01:00:19.940 --> 01:00:24.140 the earth the voice of the Lord births new life the voice of the Lord strips 01:00:24.140 --> 01:00:27.800 bare the voice of the Lord rules the waves let me go through that again 01:00:27.800 --> 01:00:33.100 Psalm 29 verse 3 onwards the voice of the Lord is powerful the voice of the 01:00:33.100 --> 01:00:38.040 Lord is kingly royal majestic the voice of the Lord shakes the deserts the earth 01:00:38.040 --> 01:00:42.720 the voice of the Lord strips bare that which needs to be broken or dismantled 01:00:42.720 --> 01:00:47.400 the voice of the Lord births new things the voice of the Lord rules over the 01:00:47.400 --> 01:00:52.080 turmoil or the turbulence of the waves the voice of the Lord and then when 01:00:52.080 --> 01:00:56.040 Jacob begins to agree with the spirit and begins to say the very things that 01:00:56.040 --> 01:00:59.280 the voice of the Lord is saying permitting things here on earth as they 01:00:59.280 --> 01:01:02.520 are permitted in heaven forbidding things on earth as they are forbidden in 01:01:02.520 --> 01:01:07.040 heaven and as he does three things at the same time look at the bones realize 01:01:07.040 --> 01:01:12.240 they are bleached in the Sun look at the end picture realize what God is for 01:01:12.240 --> 01:01:16.880 doing and then listen to the voice in his ear which says Jacob do you think 01:01:16.880 --> 01:01:21.200 this will happen can this happen can this happen and out of Jacob's heart 01:01:21.200 --> 01:01:25.160 first from his spirit and then from his heart and then from his mind comes this 01:01:25.160 --> 01:01:30.120 resounding agreement with God saying yes it can and then I begin to prophesy with 01:01:30.120 --> 01:01:35.560 the spirit and people change situations change families change bodies change 01:01:35.560 --> 01:01:40.760 nations change regions change governors are lifted up kings are brought down the 01:01:40.760 --> 01:01:47.600 destiny of nations are shifted someone asked me once why I haven't written a 01:01:47.600 --> 01:01:54.040 book yet simply because I cannot reveal what actually happened because I'll 01:01:54.040 --> 01:02:01.480 never be allowed back into those places again because if I put down any name or 01:02:01.480 --> 01:02:10.120 any place then I cannot go back there again any questions 01:02:11.760 --> 01:02:27.280 sorry as opposed to hearing and obeying yes but one of the things that God 01:02:27.280 --> 01:02:37.160 requires in the anatomy of faith is believe no first it starts with see 01:02:37.160 --> 01:02:44.600 believe speak act this is the anatomy of faith if you were to dissect faith it 01:02:44.600 --> 01:02:50.720 sees or hears and then it believes as in it's an unshakable conviction which you 01:02:50.720 --> 01:02:56.840 will not amend which you will not step back from and then there is a confessing 01:02:56.840 --> 01:03:02.080 or a speaking of what you believe Paul said it himself I believe therefore I 01:03:02.080 --> 01:03:07.120 speak God said it himself in Psalm 60 or 61 once have I heard it twice as God 01:03:07.120 --> 01:03:13.320 spoken and then there is the acting part of it which is a preemptive acting in the 01:03:13.320 --> 01:03:18.240 knowledge that what you have seen believed and now spoken will come to 01:03:18.240 --> 01:03:24.400 pass so I might as well get going because I know what awaits 01:03:24.400 --> 01:03:37.240 yep the sign language fulfill the idea of being audible 01:03:37.240 --> 01:03:55.000 yeah so symbols sometimes speak louder than words symbols can speak louder than words and so if you 01:03:55.000 --> 01:04:03.240 want to include sign language and being symbolic sure man the symbols that Jacob would set up when 01:04:03.240 --> 01:04:09.160 he knew that layman was tricking him and his cattle would multiply the symbols that were set 01:04:09.160 --> 01:04:15.840 up on the journey through the desert Abraham's altars those altars were symbols that were calling 01:04:15.840 --> 01:04:21.280 on the name of God or a character of God that would be exemplified over the next phase of the 01:04:21.280 --> 01:04:34.320 journey or was exemplified in the journey past symbols are powerful too any questions guys 01:04:34.320 --> 01:04:55.160 you know in the movie karate kid they make you do that that's what we are doing here I just want 01:04:55.160 --> 01:05:01.640 you to get so used to speaking I just want you to get so used to speaking and occasionally 01:05:01.640 --> 01:05:07.520 remove your eyes from your personal situations your personal situations cannot become the 01:05:07.520 --> 01:05:18.440 plumb line for the kingdom my ailment cannot be the plumb line for whether I believe for 01:05:18.440 --> 01:05:27.880 something profound to happen to 300 people in some other country I would love for my ailment 01:05:27.880 --> 01:05:47.120 to be undone to oh who is this yeah Eliana is allowed yeah my ailment cannot be the plumb line 01:05:47.120 --> 01:05:56.600 for my refusal to fully participate in something much greater is there not a cause is there not 01:05:56.600 --> 01:06:04.160 a cause please don't look at your personal situation and opt out because you haven't seen 01:06:04.160 --> 01:06:13.160 the reality in your life all that has to happen then is to preempt anything you do by sending you 01:06:13.160 --> 01:06:18.160 something that doesn't work out immediately the devil doesn't even have to oppose you he just has 01:06:18.160 --> 01:06:33.120 to delay things just has to delay things any questions okay so here's how I want to end 01:06:33.120 --> 01:06:52.800 seeing and hearing is both the same yeah seeing and hearing is the same when I say see or hear 01:06:52.800 --> 01:07:01.320 I just mean God conveying his thoughts Jesus put it this way in John 520 I only see what I hear my 01:07:01.320 --> 01:07:06.800 father I only I only do what I see my father doing but in verse 30 he says I only speak what 01:07:06.800 --> 01:07:19.720 I hear my father speaking yeah guys here's how we want one more question say that again 01:07:19.720 --> 01:07:31.120 no when the scripture that says people are blessed when they believe without seeing it's 01:07:31.120 --> 01:07:35.920 talking about Christ but otherwise when we walk our daily walks we are supposed to see what Christ 01:07:35.920 --> 01:07:41.480 wants us to see so that we can walk in it those scriptures are different yeah