WEBVTT NOTE Podcast: Acts 29 Vancouver Episode: Threshold - Witness Publishing Date: 2021-11-07T05:00:44-08:00 Podcast URL: https://acts29.ca Episode URL: https://acts29.ca/threshold-witness/ 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.000 Am I too loud? 00:00:05.000 --> 00:00:06.000 Where's the iPad? 00:00:06.000 --> 00:00:08.000 I thought everyone who teaches here gets an iPad. 00:00:08.000 --> 00:00:09.000 Yeah. 00:00:09.000 --> 00:00:10.000 Yeah. 00:00:10.000 --> 00:00:15.000 No, thanks. 00:00:15.000 --> 00:00:18.000 That's fine. 00:00:18.000 --> 00:00:19.000 All right. 00:00:19.000 --> 00:00:20.000 Let's pray. 00:00:20.000 --> 00:00:22.000 Let's pray. 00:00:22.000 --> 00:00:24.000 Heavenly Father, thank you so much for this wonderful time. 00:00:24.000 --> 00:00:29.000 Thanks for this opportunity you have given to me to stand in front of the, 00:00:29.000 --> 00:00:32.000 along with the body after many months. 00:00:32.000 --> 00:00:35.000 Thanks for bringing me from death to life. 00:00:35.000 --> 00:00:40.000 So here I am, O God, obeying your command. 00:00:40.000 --> 00:00:43.000 So may your name be lifted high. 00:00:43.000 --> 00:00:45.000 May your name be alive. 00:00:45.000 --> 00:00:49.000 May your word be alive here in this session. 00:00:49.000 --> 00:00:50.000 We praise you. 00:00:50.000 --> 00:00:51.000 In Jesus' name I pray. 00:00:51.000 --> 00:00:52.000 Amen. 00:00:52.000 --> 00:00:53.000 Okay. 00:00:53.000 --> 00:00:59.000 Let's read a couple of passages and then we'll see what God has for us. 00:00:59.000 --> 00:01:03.000 John, the Gospel, Chapter 1. 00:01:23.000 --> 00:01:28.000 John, the Gospel, Chapter 1, verse 6 onwards. 00:01:28.000 --> 00:01:33.000 There was a man sent from God whose name was John. 00:01:33.000 --> 00:01:39.000 He came as a witness to bear witness among the light, about the light, 00:01:39.000 --> 00:01:42.000 that all might believe through him. 00:01:42.000 --> 00:01:47.000 He was not the light, but came to bear witness about the light. 00:01:47.000 --> 00:01:55.000 And Acts, Chapter 22. 00:01:55.000 --> 00:02:03.000 Acts, Chapter 22, verse 12 onwards. 00:02:03.000 --> 00:02:10.000 And this is the account of Paul and his beautiful encounter with Jesus Christ 00:02:10.000 --> 00:02:12.000 and the way he became a Christian. 00:02:12.000 --> 00:02:16.000 So Acts, Chapter 22, verse 12 onwards. 00:02:16.000 --> 00:02:21.000 And one Ananias, a devout man according to the law, 00:02:21.000 --> 00:02:25.000 well spoken by all the Jews who believed there, 00:02:25.000 --> 00:02:29.000 came to me and standing by me said to me, 00:02:29.000 --> 00:02:32.000 Brother Saul, receive your sight. 00:02:32.000 --> 00:02:37.000 And at the very hour I received my sight and saw him. 00:02:37.000 --> 00:02:42.000 And he said, The God of our fathers appointed you to know his will, 00:02:42.000 --> 00:02:47.000 to see the righteous one, and to hear a voice from his mouth. 00:02:47.000 --> 00:02:55.000 For you will be a witness for him, to everyone of what you have seen and heard. 00:02:55.000 --> 00:03:04.000 And let's do Ezekiel and Chapter 43. 00:03:04.000 --> 00:03:21.000 Chapter 43, verse 8. 00:03:21.000 --> 00:03:25.000 By setting their threshold by my threshold, 00:03:25.000 --> 00:03:29.000 and their doorpost beside my doorpost, 00:03:29.000 --> 00:03:32.000 with only a wall between me and them, 00:03:32.000 --> 00:03:38.000 they have defiled my holy name by their abomination that they have committed. 00:03:38.000 --> 00:03:41.000 So I have consumed them in my anger. 00:03:41.000 --> 00:03:46.000 I just want to repeat those words, the first half of the verse. 00:03:46.000 --> 00:03:49.000 By setting their threshold by my threshold, 00:03:49.000 --> 00:03:52.000 and their doorpost beside my doorpost, 00:03:52.000 --> 00:03:56.000 with only a wall between me and them. 00:03:56.000 --> 00:04:10.000 And let's do 1 John, Chapter 5, 00:04:10.000 --> 00:04:18.000 verse 11 and 12. 00:04:18.000 --> 00:04:19.000 Let's do from 10 onwards. 00:04:19.000 --> 00:04:24.000 Whoever believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. 00:04:24.000 --> 00:04:28.000 Whoever does not believe, God has made him a liar, 00:04:28.000 --> 00:04:34.000 because he has not believed in the testimony that God has borne concerning his Son. 00:04:34.000 --> 00:04:40.000 And this is the testimony that God gave us eternal life. 00:04:40.000 --> 00:04:43.000 And this life is in his Son. 00:04:43.000 --> 00:04:45.000 Whoever has a son has life. 00:04:45.000 --> 00:04:49.000 And whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life. 00:04:49.000 --> 00:04:52.000 And this is the testimony that God gave us eternal life. 00:04:52.000 --> 00:04:56.000 And this is the life, and this life is in his Son. 00:04:56.000 --> 00:04:58.000 Whoever has a son has life. 00:04:58.000 --> 00:05:03.000 And whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life. Amen. 00:05:03.000 --> 00:05:07.000 So we've read a couple of passages. 00:05:07.000 --> 00:05:12.000 So today we're going to learn about the lifestyle of witness. 00:05:12.000 --> 00:05:16.000 Because you see John and then you see Paul, 00:05:16.000 --> 00:05:19.000 and God is calling them to be witness. 00:05:19.000 --> 00:05:22.000 And we all know that we are called to be witness. 00:05:22.000 --> 00:05:25.000 So Jacob has been teaching about threshold. 00:05:25.000 --> 00:05:30.000 And last week he taught about the hindrances of these thresholds. 00:05:30.000 --> 00:05:35.000 And then now we have come to a place, threshold means we have come to a place, 00:05:35.000 --> 00:05:39.000 we have reached this level and then we are looking for the next door to open. 00:05:39.000 --> 00:05:44.000 And all of us, and in fact even me and then all of us, most of us, 00:05:44.000 --> 00:05:48.000 we are at a place where we know that there is something in front of us 00:05:48.000 --> 00:05:53.000 where we need to step into, where we need to go into. 00:05:53.000 --> 00:05:55.000 The room is ready, we know that. 00:05:55.000 --> 00:05:59.000 So even in our spiritual lives and even our jobs and the work 00:05:59.000 --> 00:06:02.000 and then with the moving and with all of this, 00:06:02.000 --> 00:06:05.000 we all know that as a church together we are at a place 00:06:05.000 --> 00:06:07.000 we got to go and then step into the next level. 00:06:07.000 --> 00:06:09.000 And that's what we've been training on. 00:06:09.000 --> 00:06:13.000 That's what we've been training for and we've been listening to for the past couple of months. 00:06:13.000 --> 00:06:19.000 In fact, you've got to be very careful here because I just came from India. 00:06:19.000 --> 00:06:22.000 So you can, I'll tell you a beautiful story. 00:06:22.000 --> 00:06:29.000 So a couple of years ago I went to, I went for a dinner here in Vancouver. 00:06:29.000 --> 00:06:32.000 So these are like beautiful senior couples. 00:06:32.000 --> 00:06:36.000 So I had dinner with them and then I was sharing my story 00:06:36.000 --> 00:06:38.000 and then they couldn't understand some words. 00:06:38.000 --> 00:06:41.000 Then I told them, I told them, 00:06:41.000 --> 00:06:44.000 Oh, it's actually British English. 00:06:46.000 --> 00:06:51.000 Because I'm from India and then we have more influence from British people than American. 00:06:51.000 --> 00:06:56.000 And then they told me that they actually worked at Oxford for 20 years. 00:07:00.000 --> 00:07:04.000 And the guts I have to say that it's British English. 00:07:05.000 --> 00:07:13.000 So you might hear some British English, some Canadian English, and some Indian English. 00:07:13.000 --> 00:07:16.000 But I hope Holy Spirit may convince you. 00:07:18.000 --> 00:07:23.000 So as a church and as a body together we are at a place where we are looking 00:07:23.000 --> 00:07:26.000 to step into the next phase of our life. 00:07:26.000 --> 00:07:30.000 And by this time we kind of have a sense where God is going to take 00:07:30.000 --> 00:07:32.000 and which room God is going to take. 00:07:32.000 --> 00:07:35.000 But then the room, we kind of understand that. 00:07:35.000 --> 00:07:39.000 But in order to enter the room we actually need to find the right door. 00:07:39.000 --> 00:07:42.000 We actually need to step into the right door. 00:07:42.000 --> 00:07:45.000 Because door is the entrance of the room. 00:07:45.000 --> 00:07:50.000 Because so far we have learned about the intimacy with the Father. 00:07:50.000 --> 00:07:54.000 And we know that the God from Isaiah chapter 22 and verse 22, 00:07:54.000 --> 00:07:58.000 he's the one who was holding the keys of the David on his shoulder. 00:07:58.000 --> 00:08:00.000 And then he said in Matthew chapter 16, he said, 00:08:00.000 --> 00:08:03.000 I'm going to give you these keys. I give you these keys of the kingdom. 00:08:03.000 --> 00:08:05.000 Whatever you open it will be open. 00:08:05.000 --> 00:08:08.000 So God, the God of the universe and this God, 00:08:08.000 --> 00:08:12.000 he has trusted his sons and daughters, his body on this earth 00:08:12.000 --> 00:08:16.000 to actually live a life that we're supposed to live in heaven. 00:08:18.000 --> 00:08:20.000 The Garden of Eden was like that. 00:08:20.000 --> 00:08:26.000 It is like a conjunction of this holy, beautiful, of heaven and the earth together. 00:08:26.000 --> 00:08:30.000 And then now we on this earth as the walking Garden of Eden 00:08:30.000 --> 00:08:33.000 where we bring, we carry the presence of God, 00:08:33.000 --> 00:08:37.000 we are connected with the spiritual world and the presence of God. 00:08:37.000 --> 00:08:42.000 And on this earth we do things as we see things in heaven. 00:08:42.000 --> 00:08:44.000 And that's what we are called for. 00:08:44.000 --> 00:08:49.000 And for that God has given us the keys and he has prepared us. 00:08:49.000 --> 00:08:53.000 And then now we are at a place, each one of us, even at my own life, 00:08:53.000 --> 00:08:56.000 I am at a place where I need to find the right door. 00:08:56.000 --> 00:08:59.000 And the door is Jesus, always. 00:08:59.000 --> 00:09:03.000 He's the door. He's the door. 00:09:03.000 --> 00:09:08.000 And then from Ezekiel chapter 43, we have learned that God is telling those guys, 00:09:08.000 --> 00:09:12.000 guys, you know, you know, you have come to your threshold point. 00:09:12.000 --> 00:09:14.000 You know, you have come to your threshold. 00:09:14.000 --> 00:09:17.000 And God is also saying that I have my threshold. 00:09:17.000 --> 00:09:21.000 But what you guys are doing is that you're bringing your threshold and keeping that next to me. 00:09:21.000 --> 00:09:24.000 And I have a doorstep for you. I have a door for you. 00:09:24.000 --> 00:09:26.000 And you also have your own door. 00:09:26.000 --> 00:09:30.000 And you are bringing that and then keeping that next to me. 00:09:30.000 --> 00:09:35.000 And with just a wall where we're supposed to leave our doorsteps and our thresholds 00:09:35.000 --> 00:09:41.000 and catch his doorstep and catch his threshold and then step into his threshold. 00:09:41.000 --> 00:09:45.000 Because we might think we are at a place for the next step, 00:09:45.000 --> 00:09:48.000 but we got to be very careful with the Holy Spirit and then ask him, 00:09:48.000 --> 00:09:53.000 God, help me. Am I really at the right place for the next step? 00:09:56.000 --> 00:10:01.000 So for that to happen, as I was praying for that to happen, 00:10:01.000 --> 00:10:06.000 this lifestyle, witness lifestyle is the most is very helpful 00:10:06.000 --> 00:10:12.000 because witnessing the power of Christ, witnessing what gospel has taught us, 00:10:12.000 --> 00:10:16.000 witnessing how he has transformed us, witnessing who he is, 00:10:16.000 --> 00:10:22.000 is actually, it should be actually one of our DNA that we should never lose it. 00:10:25.000 --> 00:10:29.000 I'll tell you, so you're going to listen to most of the stories, beautiful stories, 00:10:29.000 --> 00:10:32.000 but these stories are actually from India, not from British. 00:10:32.000 --> 00:10:35.000 I just want to make sure that you understand the context. 00:10:40.000 --> 00:10:45.000 You know I went to India for 17 days, but then God allowed me to stay there for 10 months, right? 00:10:46.000 --> 00:10:50.000 So when I first went there, on Sunday we were ready to go to church, 00:10:50.000 --> 00:10:55.000 and all of a sudden there was a motorbike and then three young people, 00:10:55.000 --> 00:10:59.000 they came to our home, we were ready to go to church. 00:10:59.000 --> 00:11:03.000 Two of them, I know two of them, so they were three on the motorbike, 00:11:03.000 --> 00:11:07.000 and then there's a guy in the middle, they are 21 years old young guys, right? 00:11:07.000 --> 00:11:12.000 So two of those guys we know, and the guy in the middle, he got a brain tumor, 00:11:12.000 --> 00:11:16.000 and he couldn't even stand properly, he couldn't even remember anyone, 00:11:16.000 --> 00:11:22.000 he can't even speak, he was just hanging like this, they had to carry him. 00:11:22.000 --> 00:11:27.000 So I was about to go to church, and then we saw that, 00:11:27.000 --> 00:11:30.000 and then those two guys came to me and they said, 00:11:30.000 --> 00:11:33.000 brother, we should pray for this guy. 00:11:33.000 --> 00:11:35.000 And I'm like, okay, we will pray for sure. 00:11:35.000 --> 00:11:41.000 And the guy goes, no, we should pray for healing, right now, and then our God can heal. 00:11:42.000 --> 00:11:48.000 And I've seen such a great faith in them, because they played together, 00:11:48.000 --> 00:11:51.000 and then he's been struggling like that for past six months, 00:11:51.000 --> 00:11:55.000 and then even doctors, they went for, he went to the hospitals, 00:11:55.000 --> 00:11:58.000 even they said there's a tumor and then it's growing, 00:11:58.000 --> 00:12:04.000 and they need a lot of money for the surgery, and then they don't have money, 00:12:04.000 --> 00:12:07.000 so they said, okay, we will gather our money and then we will come back to the surgery. 00:12:07.000 --> 00:12:08.000 So that's where they are at. 00:12:08.000 --> 00:12:11.000 And then these two friends, they brought him, and he's not from Christian background, 00:12:11.000 --> 00:12:15.000 he's from Hindu background, and then we prayed, and then I was there, 00:12:15.000 --> 00:12:18.000 and then I said, you guys have greater faith, why don't you guys pray? 00:12:18.000 --> 00:12:20.000 We all prayed together. 00:12:20.000 --> 00:12:23.000 And then those two guys, they laid hands on him, and then I was there, 00:12:23.000 --> 00:12:28.000 and my mom and some of our people were there, and then we all prayed for that boy, 00:12:28.000 --> 00:12:32.000 and then I was like, okay, thank God, so they left. 00:12:32.000 --> 00:12:35.000 Two weeks later, not two weeks, almost a month later, 00:12:35.000 --> 00:12:41.000 that was December, and then in January, we were having a camp for the young adults, 00:12:41.000 --> 00:12:44.000 so all the teenagers were there, and then we were having a camp, 00:12:44.000 --> 00:12:48.000 and then I was there, and then I looked at the sound system, 00:12:48.000 --> 00:12:53.000 and there's one guy, and then who's operating the sound, and that's this guy. 00:12:53.000 --> 00:12:56.000 He's completely healed. 00:12:56.000 --> 00:13:00.000 And I said, what are you doing here? 00:13:00.000 --> 00:13:04.000 No, I'm arranging the sound, I'm the sound guy here. 00:13:04.000 --> 00:13:09.000 Because there are so many teenagers here, we're talking about at least 2,000 teenagers, right? 00:13:09.000 --> 00:13:13.000 So I don't remember most of them, but when I saw him, he's like, yeah, I'm the sound guy here, 00:13:13.000 --> 00:13:16.000 I'm taking care of the sound. 00:13:16.000 --> 00:13:19.000 I said, how are you doing? I said, oh, we're doing well. 00:13:19.000 --> 00:13:24.000 And even after the camp, they were playing soccer, and then this guy was also playing soccer. 00:13:24.000 --> 00:13:30.000 He's completely healed, and then he's back, and he gave his life to Christ. 00:13:30.000 --> 00:13:33.000 It's amazing. 00:13:33.000 --> 00:13:39.000 I believe that our lifestyle, our calling in the lifestyle is actually not to do stuff, 00:13:39.000 --> 00:13:42.000 but actually to witness what God is doing. 00:13:42.000 --> 00:13:47.000 That's what we are called for, and that's what Acts chapter 1, verse 8 says, 00:13:47.000 --> 00:13:51.000 that when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, and He shall come upon you, 00:13:51.000 --> 00:13:55.000 and then you will receive power, you will receive power to bear the witness, 00:13:55.000 --> 00:13:58.000 and then go to the ends of the earth to bear the witness. 00:13:58.000 --> 00:14:02.000 That's what we are doing. Now the church, Acts 29, all of our people, 00:14:02.000 --> 00:14:05.000 some of them are in Ohio, some of them are in New York, 00:14:05.000 --> 00:14:08.000 and some of them, the best people are in Vancouver, here, right here, 00:14:08.000 --> 00:14:12.000 and then enjoying and celebrating the presence of God. 00:14:12.000 --> 00:14:16.000 And what we are all doing is actually witnessing what Christ has done, 00:14:16.000 --> 00:14:23.000 what Christ is doing, and what Christ will do in our lives and through our lives in this world. 00:14:23.000 --> 00:14:27.000 The moment we take that responsibility and then put it on our shoulders, 00:14:27.000 --> 00:14:30.000 we are carrying the heaviest burden. 00:14:30.000 --> 00:14:35.000 And this witness life is beautiful life because you never operate from a place 00:14:35.000 --> 00:14:37.000 where you carry this heavy burden. 00:14:37.000 --> 00:14:40.000 It's always on the next person who is Jesus Christ, 00:14:40.000 --> 00:14:44.000 and then you are called to be there and then to watch and then to enjoy 00:14:44.000 --> 00:14:48.000 and then to praise God for whatever He's doing. 00:14:48.000 --> 00:14:52.000 There, at the miracle that happened, we didn't do anything, 00:14:52.000 --> 00:14:55.000 but those guys there have heard about Jesus Christ, and then they knew that. 00:14:55.000 --> 00:14:59.000 When I saw them, the immediate picture that came to me, and for most of you, 00:14:59.000 --> 00:15:03.000 the immediate picture that might have come to your mind is where, in Jesus' times, 00:15:03.000 --> 00:15:08.000 where people, four friends, carried the guy and then just landed in front of Jesus Christ. 00:15:08.000 --> 00:15:09.000 And that's what I saw. 00:15:09.000 --> 00:15:13.000 It's like, okay, these people, they have faith, and they are carrying this guy, 00:15:13.000 --> 00:15:18.000 and then one day this guy is going to walk without anyone's help, and that's what happened. 00:15:18.000 --> 00:15:21.000 We have witnessed that, and that's our calling. 00:15:22.000 --> 00:15:27.000 So I want to talk about that lifestyle a bit more. 00:15:27.000 --> 00:15:30.000 So what do you mean by witness? What's the definition of witness? 00:15:30.000 --> 00:15:36.000 I just Googled it, so I want to be honest today. 00:15:36.000 --> 00:15:45.000 So the definition of the witness, and then I changed it a bit, is that it has two parts. 00:15:45.000 --> 00:15:46.000 It has two parts. 00:15:46.000 --> 00:15:54.000 One, the first one is actually to see, to see or to know by personal experience. 00:15:56.000 --> 00:16:03.000 The first part is to see or to know by your personal experience or with your own eyes. 00:16:03.000 --> 00:16:08.000 And then in biblical terms, it's got to be personal experience. 00:16:08.000 --> 00:16:21.000 And the second part, the second part is to bear the testimony, to carry it, and then to bear and then to share it. 00:16:26.000 --> 00:16:28.000 I feel so proud when people are taking notes. 00:16:28.000 --> 00:16:29.000 Wow. 00:16:32.000 --> 00:16:35.000 I'm humbling myself at the same time. Sorry. 00:16:38.000 --> 00:16:39.000 Shoot. 00:16:44.000 --> 00:16:45.000 And that's the two parts. 00:16:46.000 --> 00:16:55.000 I was watching a documentary, and also one of my deepest pain that I always ask was like, 00:16:55.000 --> 00:16:59.000 I mean it's my personal question, but I always struggle with this question, 00:16:59.000 --> 00:17:04.000 was like the gospel in India, it's been there since the beginning of the church. 00:17:04.000 --> 00:17:09.000 Because Jesus' disciple, Thomas, he came to India, and since then the gospel was there. 00:17:09.000 --> 00:17:14.000 But still in India, we only have 2.5 to 3% Christians, and I struggle with that. 00:17:14.000 --> 00:17:15.000 Like why? 00:17:22.000 --> 00:17:30.000 I think the things that I've observed even in my life, the place where I got stuck was that the first part, 00:17:31.000 --> 00:17:35.000 I experienced the power of God. I experienced the healing of God. 00:17:35.000 --> 00:17:44.000 I experienced his strength. I experienced his redemption, power, redemptive love that has actually brought from the depths, 00:17:44.000 --> 00:17:49.000 brought from the bottomless pit and lifted me up and then placed me at a place. 00:17:49.000 --> 00:17:56.000 And even in the last trip from COVID, God literally pulled me from the class of the death, 00:17:56.000 --> 00:18:00.000 and then he made me alive and then he allowed me to stand back again. 00:18:00.000 --> 00:18:04.000 So I experienced it, and that's a beautiful part of the witness, 00:18:04.000 --> 00:18:09.000 that you get to experience this wonderful power of Christ in your personal life. 00:18:09.000 --> 00:18:16.000 It becomes subjective. All the principles and all the ideas that were objective, 00:18:16.000 --> 00:18:21.000 they become subjective to your personal life, and then all of a sudden, the creator of the universe, 00:18:21.000 --> 00:18:27.000 the creator of the universe, the one who created you, becomes your best friend, becomes your father, 00:18:27.000 --> 00:18:32.000 becomes the one whom you want to love, the one whom you want to walk with. 00:18:32.000 --> 00:18:37.000 And what a beautiful witness and what a beautiful relationship that is. 00:18:37.000 --> 00:18:41.000 And each one of you and every one of us in this world, if you go and ask them, 00:18:41.000 --> 00:18:48.000 once you start to dig your life, then you start to understand, you start to see the beauty of his love over your life, 00:18:48.000 --> 00:18:54.000 that he never leaves you nor forsakes you. And there was not a single moment where he has failed his words. 00:18:54.000 --> 00:19:05.000 Absolutely. Absolutely. He's so, so in love with you. And we get to experience that. 00:19:05.000 --> 00:19:12.000 And not only we get to experience that, we also see with other people, we get to experience God as a body together. 00:19:13.000 --> 00:19:21.000 And then each one of us, each one of us tagging each other, okay, now if you look at young people in the church, 00:19:21.000 --> 00:19:28.000 I'm also very young, so like five, six years ago when I got a job, that was the situation. 00:19:28.000 --> 00:19:36.000 I didn't have a job. And then if you see Acts 29 jobless positions, like people who are jobless, 00:19:36.000 --> 00:19:43.000 and then in a majestic way how God actually gives the work to people. It's like one story after the other. 00:19:43.000 --> 00:19:48.000 It's like, okay, okay, Jeevan, I'm done. Hey, hey, Don, okay, I got my job. Now it's your turn. 00:19:48.000 --> 00:19:52.000 And then Don comes in and then God does a beautiful miracle in his life and he gets a job. 00:19:52.000 --> 00:19:55.000 And the next person and the next person and the next person. 00:19:55.000 --> 00:20:01.000 We get to experience God in the community, in the beautiful, in the body. 00:20:01.000 --> 00:20:07.000 But then the next part is the most important thing too, where we take that and we start to share. 00:20:07.000 --> 00:20:15.000 And that is the witnessing lifestyle. One hand you experience it, on the other hand you start to release it. 00:20:15.000 --> 00:20:23.000 You start to share it. So I'm not just talking about the salvation, about sharing the gospel. 00:20:23.000 --> 00:20:29.000 We have to understand that the kingdom of God is bigger than whatever we can think of. 00:20:29.000 --> 00:20:33.000 Gospel is the most important thing. We have to carry it at the same time. 00:20:33.000 --> 00:20:39.000 As we carry the gospel, there are so many elements into that where God has called us with different callings and gifts. 00:20:39.000 --> 00:20:46.000 And then we have to be at a place where we want to share them, where we want to open up and then let the world see that. 00:20:46.000 --> 00:20:52.000 And in fact, the first service, the first thing we have started was like, I've been touched by a fire. 00:20:52.000 --> 00:20:58.000 Come, now see, let me watch burn. That's it. 00:20:58.000 --> 00:21:07.000 So this is the witnessing lifestyle. So we're going to learn about what do we witness? 00:21:07.000 --> 00:21:15.000 What are we supposed to witness? So the first one from John chapter 5 and verse 11 and 12, 00:21:15.000 --> 00:21:20.000 the first John 5, verse 11 and 12, which we read. 00:21:20.000 --> 00:21:29.000 The first one, we witness the finished and redeemed work of the Christ. 00:21:29.000 --> 00:21:38.000 We witness the finished and redeemed work of Christ. 00:21:38.000 --> 00:21:46.000 The God who loved us, he has done it. He has finished it long time back. 00:21:46.000 --> 00:21:56.000 He has finished it long time back. And then all we got to do is step in and then ask him and receive it. 00:21:56.000 --> 00:21:58.000 And that's where we step in. That's where we step in. 00:21:58.000 --> 00:22:06.000 Now, back in India, this is Christmas season and we started to do Christmas in 200 villages. 00:22:06.000 --> 00:22:10.000 Last year we want to give 90,000 New Testaments. 00:22:10.000 --> 00:22:14.000 And then last night I was in a meeting with those guys and they were telling me beautiful stories. 00:22:14.000 --> 00:22:19.000 They told me that they went to your village and then they want to be usually street Christmas. 00:22:19.000 --> 00:22:25.000 The process goes like this. We pray for a village. We go there and then we find a busy street. 00:22:25.000 --> 00:22:31.000 And then they put up a mat and they invite people. They invite kids. They invite families. 00:22:31.000 --> 00:22:37.000 Because they're going to be there for an hour and they sing some songs and then they preach the gospel. 00:22:37.000 --> 00:22:44.000 And then if anyone needs prayer, they pray for them and then give them Bibles if anybody wants and then they leave. 00:22:44.000 --> 00:22:47.000 So that's the street Christmas that they were doing. 00:22:47.000 --> 00:22:56.000 And then they said that in one of the villages where they want to go and then all of a sudden the radical people who doesn't like Christianity, they stopped them. 00:22:56.000 --> 00:22:58.000 They said, you're not allowed to come into this village. 00:22:58.000 --> 00:23:02.000 They said, okay, so we don't want to come. 00:23:02.000 --> 00:23:13.000 But then these guys said, if you don't allow us, we won't enter into this one because you're closing your doors for the mighty God. 00:23:13.000 --> 00:23:18.000 And when they start to use those words, one guy said, okay, why don't you guys come? We will see what you do. 00:23:18.000 --> 00:23:23.000 So then they're it. And then they have about 300 people. 00:23:24.000 --> 00:23:29.000 Children and young people and old people who are all going in that village. 00:23:29.000 --> 00:23:31.000 They were all there and even these guys were there. 00:23:31.000 --> 00:23:39.000 And you know the first one who accepted Christ, these people who have who have tried to stop them. 00:23:39.000 --> 00:23:47.000 We have to understand that I don't know where we get this notion that, okay, people are not actually interested in their spiritual lives. 00:23:47.000 --> 00:23:50.000 No, they're actually more hungrier than ever before. 00:23:53.000 --> 00:23:55.000 They're actually more hungry than ever before. 00:23:55.000 --> 00:23:57.000 The light shines brighter in the darkness. 00:23:58.000 --> 00:24:00.000 And they're actually more hungrier. 00:24:00.000 --> 00:24:06.000 And then we are called to witness this finished and deemed work of Christ. 00:24:07.000 --> 00:24:12.000 He has finished it and it's ready and it's available and he has done it in a long time. 00:24:13.000 --> 00:24:14.000 The second one. 00:24:22.000 --> 00:24:23.000 The second one. 00:24:30.000 --> 00:24:35.000 We witness the will and the kingdom above. 00:24:35.000 --> 00:24:41.000 We witness the will, the will of God and the kingdom which is above, not this kingdom. 00:24:44.000 --> 00:24:52.000 As I shared this beautiful story in the video, I don't know if you have watched the video when I was in India. 00:24:53.000 --> 00:24:59.000 We wanted to build the girls sewing factory who make t-shirts, t-shirts factory. 00:24:59.000 --> 00:25:04.000 We want to build and then I went to India and I was like, oh, I'm going to build a t-shirt factory. 00:25:04.000 --> 00:25:06.000 I went to India and I went to India in December. 00:25:06.000 --> 00:25:13.000 So when I went there, I was praying in the land and God clearly spoke to me that by March 1st you have to move into this place. 00:25:14.000 --> 00:25:19.000 So I went and told our team, our guys, our family, we said, okay guys, March 1st we are moving there. 00:25:20.000 --> 00:25:24.000 And they go, are you crazy because we already paid rent until March 31st. 00:25:25.000 --> 00:25:26.000 We have the contract until March 1st. 00:25:27.000 --> 00:25:30.000 And then I go, it's okay if you lose money but we're going to move by March 1st. 00:25:30.000 --> 00:25:33.000 And they're like, God is the one who provided and then we can stay there. 00:25:34.000 --> 00:25:35.000 And they're like, no, we're going to move. 00:25:36.000 --> 00:25:39.000 And then they're like, because it's the end of January and then March 1st is only two months. 00:25:40.000 --> 00:25:42.000 And then they said, it's impossible to build this building. 00:25:43.000 --> 00:25:48.000 But then God clearly spoke to me and this is his will which he spoke to me, which I believed in it. 00:25:49.000 --> 00:25:50.000 And that's the will and that's how the kingdom works. 00:25:51.000 --> 00:25:55.000 Then I called these guys who are going to build it and then I told them, I was like super excited. 00:25:56.000 --> 00:25:57.000 And I'm like, okay guys, this is what we're going to build. 00:25:58.000 --> 00:25:59.000 Can you build it and give it to me by March 1st? 00:26:00.000 --> 00:26:01.000 And the guy said, no, this is impossible. 00:26:02.000 --> 00:26:07.000 And then I told him, I begged him, I said, please, because we have to move. 00:26:08.000 --> 00:26:10.000 It's okay even if you don't construct the whole thing but we are going to move. 00:26:11.000 --> 00:26:17.000 And the guy came back and then he told me, okay, I will hire more people and I will give it to you by February 28th. 00:26:18.000 --> 00:26:19.000 I'm like, okay, sure. 00:26:20.000 --> 00:26:22.000 So, you know, Indian times are very different, right? 00:26:23.000 --> 00:26:28.000 So, even though he said February 28th and we weren't able to move in by March 1st until March 1st, March 5th. 00:26:28.000 --> 00:26:33.000 So, but March 1st I decided that, okay, we're going to move at any cost. 00:26:34.000 --> 00:26:47.000 So, even though the place wasn't ready yet and even though we had the place until March 31st and we moved all of the stuff and then kept all the machines, all the computers, all these sewing machines under a tree in the open place. 00:26:48.000 --> 00:26:49.000 And then we covered them. 00:26:50.000 --> 00:26:51.000 We didn't even have a protective place for them. 00:26:52.000 --> 00:26:53.000 But we have to take risks because God told me so. 00:26:53.000 --> 00:26:58.000 So, we went there, we came there and then by March 5th we were able to finish and then we moved in. 00:26:59.000 --> 00:27:07.000 We had a beautiful inauguration and then March 12th, a week later, we found out that there was a murder that happened in the old, just in front of the old place. 00:27:08.000 --> 00:27:22.000 And then the guys told me, the neighbors told me that you have done the greatest thing because if had you guys were here, here at the time, they said about 400 people, they fought amongst each other because they saw a murder right in front of them and they were beaten to death. 00:27:23.000 --> 00:27:24.000 They were beating everybody. 00:27:25.000 --> 00:27:26.000 They destroyed the whole property. 00:27:27.000 --> 00:27:35.000 They broke the glasses and then he said, if you were here, then you wouldn't even have a chance to even take a pin from that place because of the murder. 00:27:36.000 --> 00:27:37.000 They would seal everything. 00:27:38.000 --> 00:27:45.000 And then they said, and then the guy said, your name, your company's name would have become the reference point for this murder in the news. 00:27:46.000 --> 00:27:56.000 The enemy knows that we stayed there for four years and then we wanted to move out and then the enemy has planned to destroy us on March 12th. 00:27:57.000 --> 00:28:07.000 But God, the one who knew it all before, he has allowed us to, he has given us his will to come out of that place and move even before the enemy has done something. 00:28:08.000 --> 00:28:22.000 As children of God, and that's what even the prayer that Jesus taught to his disciples, it teaches us that his will, however it happens in the kingdom, should happen here because we belong to that kingdom. 00:28:24.000 --> 00:28:25.000 We follow that rule. 00:28:26.000 --> 00:28:27.000 We follow that process. 00:28:27.000 --> 00:28:28.000 We follow him. 00:28:28.000 --> 00:28:34.000 We follow his ways on this earth and show the world that, hey, actually, we belong to somewhere else. 00:28:35.000 --> 00:28:36.000 And our citizenship is not here. 00:28:37.000 --> 00:28:38.000 Yeah. 00:28:38.000 --> 00:28:39.000 So that's the second one. 00:28:39.000 --> 00:28:41.000 And the third one, what do we bear? 00:28:41.000 --> 00:28:42.000 What do we witness? 00:28:44.000 --> 00:28:45.000 The third one. 00:28:46.000 --> 00:28:48.000 Acts chapter 22, verse 15. 00:28:50.000 --> 00:28:52.000 Acts 22, verse 15. 00:28:52.000 --> 00:29:09.000 Verse 15, it says, for you will be a witness for him to everyone of what you have seen and heard. 00:29:09.000 --> 00:29:24.000 The church, the call of the church to bear the witness of everything what we see in kingdom, in spirit, and what we hear presently. 00:29:25.000 --> 00:29:26.000 Because he is alive. 00:29:28.000 --> 00:29:31.000 The only God who's alive is Jesus Christ. 00:29:32.000 --> 00:29:39.000 Yeah, I come from a place where you have so many gods and then everyone who claimed God, they still have their tombs. 00:29:39.000 --> 00:29:42.000 They still have their death anniversaries. 00:29:42.000 --> 00:29:46.000 But there is only one God who is alive and active even today. 00:29:47.000 --> 00:29:54.000 And the church and us, we should never stop at some place where we have heard him before and then we should never stop because he's proceeding. 00:29:54.000 --> 00:29:55.000 He's moving. 00:29:55.000 --> 00:29:57.000 And we've got to move with him. 00:29:57.000 --> 00:30:08.000 And we have to bear witness of the things you see today or very recently or present and hear very recently. 00:30:12.000 --> 00:30:16.000 So that's where the witnessing power comes. 00:30:16.000 --> 00:30:25.000 As you keep seeing in the spirit what he is doing and then we will be able to see that in this physical reality. 00:30:25.000 --> 00:30:31.000 As we hear him every day, we walk and then we move our lives along with him. 00:30:33.000 --> 00:30:42.000 So we, the church, and then I have to bear witness to the things that what I see today in him. 00:30:43.000 --> 00:30:51.000 Which means it requires a constant relationship, a communion with him all the time. 00:30:51.000 --> 00:30:52.000 And that's where he is. 00:30:52.000 --> 00:30:55.000 He is so committed to that. 00:30:55.000 --> 00:31:02.000 If there is anyone who is so committed to have a beautiful communion and relationship with you, and that is Jesus alone. 00:31:03.000 --> 00:31:08.000 Because he has put his spirit in us who never leaves at any cost, at any situation. 00:31:08.000 --> 00:31:10.000 He's always there to connect with us. 00:31:10.000 --> 00:31:16.000 So that's one of my frustrations with the back home with the people, with our leaders, some of the leaders. 00:31:16.000 --> 00:31:19.000 Because they had such beautiful, powerful stories. 00:31:19.000 --> 00:31:20.000 But they got stuck. 00:31:20.000 --> 00:31:26.000 They still witness for the things that happened before, which is good, which is amazing, which needs to be done. 00:31:26.000 --> 00:31:33.000 But then they have not, they have missed witnessing him what the present is. 00:31:33.000 --> 00:31:34.000 What the present, recent things that God is doing. 00:31:34.000 --> 00:31:38.000 And we have to move with him. 00:31:38.000 --> 00:31:47.000 We have to walk with him and then see what God is doing in this world today and recently in our life and start to witness to that. 00:31:47.000 --> 00:31:49.000 And that's where the power comes. 00:31:49.000 --> 00:31:51.000 That's where the doors open. 00:31:51.000 --> 00:31:53.000 Because the time is now. 00:31:53.000 --> 00:31:55.000 And that's why we have to be in the presence of God. 00:31:55.000 --> 00:31:57.000 And that's why we have to be in the presence of God. 00:31:58.000 --> 00:32:00.000 Because the times are changing. 00:32:00.000 --> 00:32:01.000 People are changing. 00:32:01.000 --> 00:32:02.000 And you know God is moving to meet everyone where they are at with his love. 00:32:02.000 --> 00:32:03.000 Amen. 00:32:03.000 --> 00:32:05.000 Next one. 00:32:05.000 --> 00:32:12.000 So how does this witness lifestyle look like? 00:32:12.000 --> 00:32:18.000 How does this witness lifestyle look like? 00:32:18.000 --> 00:32:21.000 The first one. 00:32:22.000 --> 00:32:27.000 It's a lifestyle of sent one. 00:32:27.000 --> 00:32:32.000 It's a lifestyle of sent one. 00:32:32.000 --> 00:32:36.000 Because we are never meant to witness alone because Holy Spirit is there. 00:32:36.000 --> 00:32:37.000 That's what Paul says. 00:32:37.000 --> 00:32:43.000 The Holy Spirit in us, who bears witness, is the one who bears witness. 00:32:43.000 --> 00:32:47.000 Because we are never meant to witness alone because Holy Spirit is there. 00:32:47.000 --> 00:32:48.000 That's what Paul says. 00:32:48.000 --> 00:32:51.000 The Holy Spirit in us, who bears witness. 00:32:51.000 --> 00:32:56.000 And when we are witnessing, what we are witnessing is that we are not by ourselves. 00:32:56.000 --> 00:32:59.000 We are actually sent by him. 00:32:59.000 --> 00:33:01.000 It's a beautiful relationship. 00:33:01.000 --> 00:33:05.000 So when we accept Christ, we become sons and daughters. 00:33:05.000 --> 00:33:08.000 So our identity is who we are. 00:33:08.000 --> 00:33:10.000 Who we are becomes like we are his son. 00:33:10.000 --> 00:33:13.000 But at the same time, we connect with him as a son. 00:33:13.000 --> 00:33:19.000 But then at different times, we take different roles and we witness who God is. 00:33:19.000 --> 00:33:22.000 There are times where we need to weep. 00:33:22.000 --> 00:33:24.000 There are times where we fight. 00:33:24.000 --> 00:33:27.000 There are times where we go and preach the gospel. 00:33:27.000 --> 00:33:30.000 There are times where we wait. 00:33:30.000 --> 00:33:33.000 And then he is the one who gives us power. 00:33:33.000 --> 00:33:37.000 So that's what John chapter 7 and verse 18 says. 00:33:37.000 --> 00:33:43.000 Jesus always seeks the one who seeks the glory of one who sent him. 00:33:43.000 --> 00:33:45.000 And then he says, you believe in me. 00:33:45.000 --> 00:33:50.000 If you believe in me, you will also believe in the one who sent me. 00:33:50.000 --> 00:33:55.000 He always takes his place from him who has sent. 00:33:55.000 --> 00:34:06.000 And when we go to witness, when we go to witness, be it sharing the gospel or be it writing a blog or be it making a video or going to work, 00:34:06.000 --> 00:34:09.000 whatever, wherever God is calling you, wherever he's taking you, 00:34:09.000 --> 00:34:16.000 whenever you want to go and witness his power, his help and his presence right there, always remember that. 00:34:16.000 --> 00:34:18.000 We are sent by him. 00:34:18.000 --> 00:34:25.000 And when we are sent by him, the one who sent you is the one who is going to provide you, who's going to protect you, 00:34:25.000 --> 00:34:27.000 who's going to give you opportunity, who's going to give you strength. 00:34:27.000 --> 00:34:30.000 And you never work. You never work. 00:34:30.000 --> 00:34:39.000 It's only the one who has sent you will empower you to stand there and to see the power of God come alive in that place. 00:34:39.000 --> 00:34:48.000 And the moment you think that, OK, maybe I need to do this one, you carry the burden. 00:34:48.000 --> 00:34:54.000 A Christian life is that it's like we know who we are. 00:34:54.000 --> 00:35:00.000 So what I who am I, what I do and then what we witness. 00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:04.000 And this is the way right. So you know who you are out of who you are. 00:35:04.000 --> 00:35:12.000 You start to do you start to act. And then out of that, you start to witness the first miracle that happened after church was born, 00:35:12.000 --> 00:35:19.000 where John and Peter, they were at this temple and then they saw this beggar and then they said, they said, OK, we see you. 00:35:19.000 --> 00:35:22.000 And then we don't have silver and gold, but we know what we have. 00:35:22.000 --> 00:35:26.000 We give you in Jesus name. Rise up. 00:35:26.000 --> 00:35:28.000 They know who they are. 00:35:28.000 --> 00:35:33.000 And then they did because out of that, because they know that they are their sons of God. 00:35:33.000 --> 00:35:38.000 And then they like we don't have any silver, we don't have any gold, but we know what we what we have. 00:35:38.000 --> 00:35:42.000 And then they they asked him to rise up and then he did. 00:35:42.000 --> 00:35:54.000 They witnessed his miracle. But people who are not belong to the body yet, their lives, their journey starts from what they witness. 00:35:54.000 --> 00:35:58.000 What they witness, that's where their life starts from out of the witness. 00:35:58.000 --> 00:36:02.000 Then they step into they get to do something. 00:36:02.000 --> 00:36:08.000 And then they understand their they understand they get to their own identity. 00:36:08.000 --> 00:36:10.000 That's how that's how we got our identity. 00:36:10.000 --> 00:36:17.000 Someone told us the gospel or someone came in and preached the gospel or we have seen the miracle of God or we have seen the goodness of God. 00:36:17.000 --> 00:36:21.000 We have witnessed it. And then we start to say, OK, Father, I turn to you. 00:36:21.000 --> 00:36:24.000 Can you forgive me? Can you take me as your son? 00:36:24.000 --> 00:36:27.000 And then Jesus says, I've done it. I've been waiting for you. 00:36:27.000 --> 00:36:31.000 And then he access and then we get new identity as a children of God. 00:36:31.000 --> 00:36:35.000 We get the new identity and that identity is the sonship. 00:36:35.000 --> 00:36:40.000 And out of sonship, he sends you as a witness. 00:36:40.000 --> 00:36:51.000 So this witness lifestyle always looks like sent one that when they see you, when they see you at different places, they don't actually they see you, but they see Jesus in you. 00:36:51.000 --> 00:36:56.000 They see that there is someone who is behind you, who is working for you. 00:36:57.000 --> 00:37:00.000 So it's always a sent one lifestyle, always. 00:37:00.000 --> 00:37:04.000 They would never forget that that that that there's a God who has sent you. 00:37:04.000 --> 00:37:06.000 There's God who is with you. 00:37:06.000 --> 00:37:13.000 And he wants you to be there to see his power and majestic and the love so that you worship him. 00:37:13.000 --> 00:37:19.000 The second one. From Matthew, Chapter 11, it was 2129. 00:37:19.000 --> 00:37:23.000 The second this lifestyle is the lifestyle of rest. 00:37:23.000 --> 00:37:25.000 It's a rest lifestyle. 00:37:29.000 --> 00:37:31.000 It's a rest lifestyle. 00:37:31.000 --> 00:37:33.000 That's what happens when you come to him. 00:37:33.000 --> 00:37:35.000 He gives you rest. 00:37:36.000 --> 00:37:37.000 He gives you rest. 00:37:37.000 --> 00:37:39.000 He gives you rest at the same time. 00:37:39.000 --> 00:37:45.000 He gives you that rest is and also he keeps he puts his yoke on you, which is light. 00:37:46.000 --> 00:37:48.000 That you're not you'll never work. 00:37:48.000 --> 00:37:49.000 You're never without work. 00:37:49.000 --> 00:37:51.000 You're always there. 00:37:51.000 --> 00:37:53.000 But this is this comes from rest. 00:37:53.000 --> 00:37:56.000 This comes from knowing that he has already finished. 00:37:56.000 --> 00:37:59.000 What I'm here is declaring what he has promised. 00:37:59.000 --> 00:38:01.000 And I'm going to see it. 00:38:01.000 --> 00:38:05.000 So it comes from rest lifestyle. 00:38:05.000 --> 00:38:06.000 It's like a rest. 00:38:06.000 --> 00:38:08.000 It's like it's like you you fight battles. 00:38:08.000 --> 00:38:16.000 You take the battles and then you know you you experience this immense peace that surpasses all understanding. 00:38:16.000 --> 00:38:19.000 Because you know who has called you. 00:38:19.000 --> 00:38:20.000 You know who has put you here. 00:38:20.000 --> 00:38:22.000 And then you know where he's going to take you. 00:38:22.000 --> 00:38:23.000 But you don't know how. 00:38:23.000 --> 00:38:26.000 But that's where faith comes in and you trust his process. 00:38:29.000 --> 00:38:30.000 Rest. 00:38:31.000 --> 00:38:34.000 Because the sent one bears all the weight. 00:38:34.000 --> 00:38:36.000 He bears all the weight. 00:38:36.000 --> 00:38:48.000 And then today I pray today I pray that if we if we are carrying any burden whatever it is any burden even the burden of growing in the Lord whatever it is any burden I pray that Jesus calls all of us to come. 00:38:48.000 --> 00:38:55.000 And then to lay our burden there and then to carry and then to take his rest on our shoulders and his yoke which is light. 00:38:55.000 --> 00:38:57.000 It's important to switch that. 00:38:57.000 --> 00:39:06.000 Otherwise we get used we get used to carry this burden and this burden becomes part of our life until it is actually taken away. 00:39:06.000 --> 00:39:08.000 Then we feel the light. 00:39:08.000 --> 00:39:09.000 Yeah. 00:39:09.000 --> 00:39:10.000 The third one. 00:39:11.000 --> 00:39:13.000 From Acts chapter one eight. 00:39:13.000 --> 00:39:16.000 It's a lifestyle of empowered. 00:39:16.000 --> 00:39:18.000 Empowered by the power. 00:39:19.000 --> 00:39:20.000 Of Holy Spirit. 00:39:27.000 --> 00:39:30.000 It's a lifestyle of empowered by the power of the Holy Spirit. 00:39:31.000 --> 00:39:38.000 When I was in India it was about eleven thirty in the night and then all of a sudden I got a video call from a from a different village. 00:39:38.000 --> 00:39:44.000 And then this guy called me up and then he said brother my grandmother is demon possessed. 00:39:45.000 --> 00:39:49.000 I'm like show me I want to see her and I saw her then I'm like OK stop. 00:39:50.000 --> 00:39:58.000 I want to see your face because she was acting so crazy so weird because she went to buy a refrigerator in the next town. 00:39:58.000 --> 00:40:05.000 But then she was she came very late and then one of the this guy was driving and then she was behind him. 00:40:05.000 --> 00:40:12.000 And then as he was driving in and all of a sudden she started to change her voice all of a sudden she started to change her name and then act so weirdly. 00:40:12.000 --> 00:40:19.000 And they brought to the village and they started to beat her so that the demon would leave and the demon wouldn't leave. 00:40:20.000 --> 00:40:28.000 And then he called me and then he said he said another this my grandmother and she's she's everybody's beating her and it's hard for me to watch. 00:40:29.000 --> 00:40:35.000 And then I saw her and then she was she was she was with the demon possessed and I didn't and I told him do you want me to come. 00:40:36.000 --> 00:40:41.000 But it's already 1130 and it's very it's not a it's not it's not safe journey for me to go. 00:40:42.000 --> 00:40:52.000 Then I started to pray I started to pray I said I told the guy what do you want I said I told him I have two options here one I'll come tomorrow early morning to you get to pray for her. 00:40:54.000 --> 00:41:04.000 And he's like no no I don't want to pray because if I pray then what if I what if the demon doesn't leave what if the demon catches then I told him I told him what the Bible teaches I told him the authority we give. 00:41:05.000 --> 00:41:16.000 I told him I told him I told him how this works is like I opened the scripture I said do you have a Bible and then one scripture after the other and then after teaching I told him again I have two choices one. 00:41:17.000 --> 00:41:20.000 Do you want me to come tomorrow with our with some of the boys or do you want to pray now. 00:41:21.000 --> 00:41:32.000 And he said I will pray now and as we were watching right so he put he put the camera he give the camera to someone else and then as he was watching he went and then he started to pray and then and then he was he was shivering. 00:41:32.000 --> 00:41:47.000 But at the same time I started we started to pray again right and then all of a sudden the guy who was shivering the guy who was not not uttering the words properly he went and then he he went and then he hugged his grandmother and then he started to cast out the demon. 00:41:48.000 --> 00:41:55.000 It's like in Jesus name with the authority that he has given I don't have anything in me but only the power of the Holy Spirit in me and then I pray in Jesus name be gone. 00:41:57.000 --> 00:42:00.000 I have the screen screen recording of the video if you want to see. 00:42:02.000 --> 00:42:03.000 Be gone. 00:42:04.000 --> 00:42:12.000 And the demon has no way no way to act any other way than the commandment that comes from the Spirit of God. 00:42:13.000 --> 00:42:15.000 His grandmother was completely free. 00:42:16.000 --> 00:42:21.000 She sat down and then the next day we went and then she was cleaning her dishes. 00:42:21.000 --> 00:42:32.000 We are empowered by the power of the Holy Spirit and that comes only when we align with the scripture and then we believe what he has written for us and what he has done in our life. 00:42:33.000 --> 00:42:35.000 What was the reference that you gave in Acts? 00:42:36.000 --> 00:42:39.000 Oh 1 8 when the power of the Holy Spirit comes. 00:42:41.000 --> 00:42:42.000 Yeah. 00:42:42.000 --> 00:42:45.000 And he's the one who's always there to empower us. 00:42:46.000 --> 00:42:55.000 It's beautiful and we know the love of the Father where he wants us to enjoy his work along with him by co partnering with him. 00:42:57.000 --> 00:43:04.000 I thought this guy is going to go and then stretch his hand and then command the demon but this guy went and hugged his grandmother started to pray. 00:43:04.000 --> 00:43:12.000 I thought this guy is going to go and then stretch his hand and then command the demon but this guy went and hugged his grandmother started to pray. 00:43:13.000 --> 00:43:17.000 God knows his heart and God knows and the Holy Spirit empower him. 00:43:18.000 --> 00:43:19.000 Yeah. 00:43:20.000 --> 00:43:27.000 That's a witness lifestyle is always empowered by the Holy Spirit because he's the one who's doing the work and we are there to witness and then he gives us strength and courage and boldness. 00:43:29.000 --> 00:43:30.000 Fourth one. 00:43:30.000 --> 00:43:40.000 It's a lifestyle that we know what's going to come but we don't know how it's going to happen. 00:43:47.000 --> 00:43:48.000 We know what's going to come. 00:43:49.000 --> 00:43:50.000 We know what's going to happen. 00:43:50.000 --> 00:43:51.000 We pray for redemption. 00:43:51.000 --> 00:43:53.000 We pray for things to move. 00:43:53.000 --> 00:43:55.000 We pray for things to shift. 00:43:55.000 --> 00:43:56.000 We know. 00:43:56.000 --> 00:44:02.000 But then it's a lifestyle where we don't know how it's going to happen but we still trust the one who has given the word. 00:44:06.000 --> 00:44:12.000 Because God's will is not what happens is actually what he says. 00:44:14.000 --> 00:44:15.000 We know what's going to happen. 00:44:15.000 --> 00:44:17.000 What happens is actually what he says. 00:44:20.000 --> 00:44:32.000 We always we should we should never check his promise based on what's happening but actually what he said what he says always go back to what he said what he told you because that's how you began. 00:44:33.000 --> 00:44:37.000 That's how you started your journey because he said something and then you started to walk in it. 00:44:37.000 --> 00:44:43.000 Yeah so it's a life it's a lifestyle that we know what's what's going to come. 00:44:43.000 --> 00:44:45.000 We know what's going to happen but we don't know how. 00:44:46.000 --> 00:44:50.000 And that's where that's where that's where our faith comes in trusting his ways. 00:44:52.000 --> 00:44:55.000 Trusting his ways and his ways are always higher than us. 00:44:59.000 --> 00:45:00.000 And seven next one. 00:45:02.000 --> 00:45:03.000 Six one. 00:45:08.000 --> 00:45:09.000 What a fifth one right. 00:45:09.000 --> 00:45:10.000 OK fifth one sorry. 00:45:15.000 --> 00:45:18.000 I want to skip points because I told someone that I'm going to talk for 20 minutes. 00:45:19.000 --> 00:45:22.000 I have a feeling that we passed the 20 minutes long time back. 00:45:23.000 --> 00:45:24.000 OK so OK. 00:45:26.000 --> 00:45:27.000 Oh sorry. 00:45:28.000 --> 00:45:29.000 OK it's a lifestyle. 00:45:33.000 --> 00:45:35.000 It's a lifestyle that transforms you. 00:45:35.000 --> 00:45:40.000 The more you witness you are transformed and you are empowered. 00:45:43.000 --> 00:45:45.000 And your hunger increases. 00:45:47.000 --> 00:45:52.000 And the power you receive increases and the opportunities to live that life increases. 00:46:05.000 --> 00:46:10.000 So as I said in the camp I saw this guy setting up the mic right. 00:46:10.000 --> 00:46:13.000 So I asked him why don't you stand up and then share this story. 00:46:13.000 --> 00:46:17.000 I said no no no no no I don't even know how to say I don't even know how to say praise the Lord. 00:46:17.000 --> 00:46:19.000 Because he comes from a different background right. 00:46:19.000 --> 00:46:24.000 I said don't worry about it just just be who you are and just say what whatever has happened right. 00:46:24.000 --> 00:46:27.000 So this guy was already shivering and he was like oh my god I'm going to die. 00:46:28.000 --> 00:46:29.000 And I said OK. 00:46:29.000 --> 00:46:35.000 And then he started to share and then all of a sudden the guy who takes care of the property the watchman. 00:46:36.000 --> 00:46:37.000 He he disturbed us. 00:46:38.000 --> 00:46:40.000 He's also not a Christian he comes from different background. 00:46:40.000 --> 00:46:44.000 But he came and then he disturbed us that the guy himself was already shivering. 00:46:44.000 --> 00:46:45.000 The guy came in his leg. 00:46:45.000 --> 00:46:47.000 No no no can you guys talk about this. 00:46:47.000 --> 00:46:48.000 I mean I'm not sure. 00:46:48.000 --> 00:46:49.000 I'm not sure. 00:46:49.000 --> 00:46:50.000 I'm not sure. 00:46:50.000 --> 00:46:51.000 I'm not sure. 00:46:51.000 --> 00:46:52.000 I'm not sure. 00:46:52.000 --> 00:46:53.000 I'm not sure. 00:46:53.000 --> 00:46:54.000 I'm not sure. 00:46:54.000 --> 00:46:55.000 I'm not sure. 00:46:55.000 --> 00:46:56.000 I'm not sure. 00:46:56.000 --> 00:46:57.000 I'm not sure. 00:46:57.000 --> 00:46:58.000 The guy came in his leg. 00:46:58.000 --> 00:47:00.000 No no no can you guys talk on this phone. 00:47:01.000 --> 00:47:05.000 I said was that no no no we will talk on the phone but let him finish. 00:47:05.000 --> 00:47:07.000 But the guy said no no no my daughter is on the call. 00:47:07.000 --> 00:47:08.000 Can you please talk to her. 00:47:09.000 --> 00:47:11.000 Like like OK we will talk but let him finish. 00:47:11.000 --> 00:47:14.000 The guy is like no no no no please talk for us. 00:47:14.000 --> 00:47:15.000 So then we were like OK. 00:47:16.000 --> 00:47:17.000 And we started to talk. 00:47:17.000 --> 00:47:24.000 She was on the loudspeaker and then she started to talk and then she said I have a daughter who is who is four who is four and a half years old now. 00:47:24.000 --> 00:47:33.000 And then she got a disease where her stomach and then her legs and then her hands and entire body swallow body swells so much. 00:47:33.000 --> 00:47:37.000 And then even the water started to ooze out from this from the tummy. 00:47:37.000 --> 00:47:42.000 We took her to hospital and then they said they can't do anything. 00:47:42.000 --> 00:47:44.000 And then and then even the tests are expensive. 00:47:44.000 --> 00:47:53.000 But then she said she said my family who is who is next to me they always talk about Jesus Christ and that Jesus heals. 00:47:53.000 --> 00:47:54.000 And then we have heard it. 00:47:54.000 --> 00:48:01.000 And then now she said now my dad called me and then said he heard a story where the boy is completely healed. 00:48:01.000 --> 00:48:03.000 Can you guys pray for my daughter too. 00:48:05.000 --> 00:48:06.000 And then we prayed for the daughter. 00:48:06.000 --> 00:48:07.000 I wish I can. 00:48:07.000 --> 00:48:09.000 I think Jacob might have shown you the picture. 00:48:09.000 --> 00:48:11.000 I will show you the picture before and after. 00:48:11.000 --> 00:48:12.000 It was so beautiful. 00:48:13.000 --> 00:48:15.000 We started we all started to pray. 00:48:15.000 --> 00:48:16.000 We all started to pray. 00:48:16.000 --> 00:48:22.000 And then after two weeks or so they came to us and then she started to get well. 00:48:23.000 --> 00:48:30.000 And then God started to heal her because she started to eat and then the swelling started to go down. 00:48:30.000 --> 00:48:33.000 And then in a month she was completely healed. 00:48:34.000 --> 00:48:35.000 She was completely healed. 00:48:35.000 --> 00:48:42.000 And then she came she came up she came up the girl she came up and then she told that Jesus Christ healed me. 00:48:42.000 --> 00:48:50.000 I told my grandfather that why don't you go to church because if you go to church he will also heal you. 00:48:51.000 --> 00:48:58.000 And the and the and the grandfather said no I don't want to go to church because if I go to church then the whole village will shame me. 00:48:59.000 --> 00:49:07.000 But then she said because within that one month what we did was we built a church in that property which is right in front of his home. 00:49:09.000 --> 00:49:16.000 So and then now and then now she's telling you said you were you were ashamed to go to church which is a to a different village. 00:49:16.000 --> 00:49:20.000 And then now the God of this creation he came right in front of your home. 00:49:20.000 --> 00:49:21.000 How can you escape now. 00:49:25.000 --> 00:49:30.000 Wow for a four and a half year old girl to say that those words. 00:49:32.000 --> 00:49:33.000 Beautiful. 00:49:34.000 --> 00:49:42.000 The more we started to witness the more it creates more excitement and hunger to see the hand of God moving because he's alive and he's active and he's everywhere. 00:49:42.000 --> 00:49:49.000 And he's out of his sheer love and mercy which is which overflows from his heart will actually touch the life and change the life. 00:49:50.000 --> 00:49:55.000 And we get to see the taste of his beautiful beautiful heaven beautiful beautiful presence. 00:49:56.000 --> 00:50:10.000 I pray I pray that this hunger increases I pray that was so that when hunger increases the power that we experience increases and then we get the more opportunities to his to to see his power and then we get to praise him more and more. 00:50:10.000 --> 00:50:12.000 Praise God for who he is. 00:50:12.000 --> 00:50:13.000 Praise God. 00:50:14.000 --> 00:50:15.000 So next one. 00:50:16.000 --> 00:50:17.000 What are the things that hinder. 00:50:18.000 --> 00:50:20.000 That hinder that stop this lifestyle. 00:50:25.000 --> 00:50:26.000 What can hinder. 00:50:27.000 --> 00:50:28.000 Our witness lifestyle. 00:50:32.000 --> 00:50:33.000 The first one. 00:50:36.000 --> 00:50:37.000 The first one. 00:50:37.000 --> 00:50:38.000 The first one. 00:50:39.000 --> 00:50:40.000 Expecting Holy Spirit. 00:50:43.000 --> 00:50:44.000 To witness. 00:50:45.000 --> 00:50:47.000 To our own reason. 00:50:51.000 --> 00:50:55.000 To our own reason than his way. 00:50:59.000 --> 00:51:01.000 That can be the huge hindrance. 00:51:01.000 --> 00:51:10.000 To expect him to help us to see this witness to see this thing happen in our own reason for our own reason for our own ways. 00:51:12.000 --> 00:51:20.000 And after I've experienced that so many times I've gone through that so many times and that actually pushes me into uncertainty. 00:51:20.000 --> 00:51:26.000 Especially when the code thing was happening we were helping families we were helping families to come out of the code. 00:51:27.000 --> 00:51:37.000 To come out of the code and then and you know you know as people of God we have so many beautiful ideas and then we want to go and then we want to help them in our own way just like how Jesus how. 00:51:37.000 --> 00:51:46.000 God said in Ezekiel so he has his own doorstep and then we bring and then we say our door and then say Jesus this story is the best because they can they can do much better and then no no no no no it's actually his door which is important. 00:51:47.000 --> 00:51:57.000 So so we go and then we we were like okay God do this for them or else oh God deliver her in this way there are so many girls who who are not willing to do this for them. 00:51:57.000 --> 00:52:19.000 So so we go and then we we were like okay God do this for them or else oh God deliver her in this way there are so many girls who who was being abused and then we go and then we say why don't you just take them this way and then that way and then and and we expect God to do whatever he said but in our own reason in our own way. 00:52:19.000 --> 00:52:26.000 And when thing doesn't happen in our own way that's when we get discouraged and that becomes a hindrance. 00:52:26.000 --> 00:52:44.000 When you want to witness you have to give him you have to give him room you we need to allow him to happen you need to allow him to work in his own way and trusting that you have said this I know I will reach there I know I will witness this one but in your own way. 00:52:44.000 --> 00:52:50.000 Yeah let's not push him let's not let's not let's not expect him to work in our own ways. 00:52:50.000 --> 00:52:55.000 Yeah let's not push him let's not let's not let's not expect him to work in our own ways. 00:52:55.000 --> 00:53:12.000 I was there's one girl whom we have helped her and then I was meeting her and then she told me I said I asked her she was in she was at a place where she was she wasn't sure which way to go and then we were there and then we asked her one of our team guy he asked her and then said. 00:53:12.000 --> 00:53:29.000 So what do you want to become what do you what is your will what do you what do you want to do and then she stood up and then she said it's not important what I want to do to me I came to a place where I want to know what he loves to do in my life and turn that as my desire. 00:53:29.000 --> 00:53:37.000 So can you guys help me to find out what he loves to do in my life. 00:53:38.000 --> 00:53:50.000 She completely changed her way to actually find what he loves to do in our life and then wants to take that as the direction for her life. 00:53:50.000 --> 00:54:06.000 And she's 1920 and we were like blown away like praise God so so so that something hinders us because we go and we expect got to do in a different way in some way and then that doesn't happen and then but then children of God as sons of God we know that his ways are so 00:54:06.000 --> 00:54:14.000 higher and and we have to stick with him we have to hang on to him even when we came to the end of the rope. 00:54:14.000 --> 00:54:16.000 The second one. 00:54:16.000 --> 00:54:20.000 The second one. 00:54:20.000 --> 00:54:23.000 It's from X chapter one and seven. 00:54:23.000 --> 00:54:29.000 The desire to know times and seasons. 00:54:29.000 --> 00:54:34.000 The desire to know times and seasons can actually hinder this witness lifestyle. 00:54:34.000 --> 00:54:38.000 Sometimes we go on sometimes I go on how long should I wait God. 00:54:39.000 --> 00:54:43.000 How long should I wait one this gonna shift when this gonna happen. 00:54:43.000 --> 00:54:48.000 How long should I wait and this actually hinders our lifestyle and that's why the next words it says that. 00:54:48.000 --> 00:55:04.000 It says that X chapter one verse seven and two and he said to them it is not for you to know the times of season that father has already fixed in his own authority but you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you that you will be my witness in Jerusalem and all the earth. 00:55:05.000 --> 00:55:15.000 So the desire to know the times and seasons sometimes hinders our lifestyle but remember that always always rely on the power of the Holy Spirit always rely that he is there. 00:55:15.000 --> 00:55:22.000 You don't need to know the times and seasons sometimes but he's there to cover you and then to empower you and to help you to walk through. 00:55:22.000 --> 00:55:25.000 Yeah the last one. 00:55:25.000 --> 00:55:33.000 The last one. 00:55:33.000 --> 00:55:36.000 Seeking self promotion or self glory. 00:55:45.000 --> 00:55:50.000 Yeah seeking self promotion self glory. 00:55:50.000 --> 00:56:05.000 We know that authority comes with the intimacy authority comes with the intimacy but at the same time Jesus said the authority is actually given to people who wants to glorify the one who gave the authority. 00:56:05.000 --> 00:56:12.000 The authority is always given to people who wants to glorify him. 00:56:12.000 --> 00:56:22.000 Yeah. 00:56:22.000 --> 00:56:23.000 I'm done. 00:56:23.000 --> 00:56:24.000 Last section. 00:56:24.000 --> 00:56:26.000 So what do you need now as a church. 00:56:26.000 --> 00:56:30.000 What do we need to have this lifestyle. 00:56:30.000 --> 00:56:32.000 That's the last section. 00:56:32.000 --> 00:56:34.000 And I'm done. 00:56:34.000 --> 00:56:44.000 What do we need to live this lifestyle. 00:56:44.000 --> 00:56:52.000 What do we need. 00:56:52.000 --> 00:57:03.000 The only thing we need is is the desire and urge because Holy Spirit is always there to empower us. 00:57:03.000 --> 00:57:22.000 The desire when you have this desire then as we said this witnessing becomes our own experience and then we start to move with that we start to witness. 00:57:22.000 --> 00:57:26.000 Yeah we have we should expect more from God we should expect. 00:57:26.000 --> 00:57:53.000 We should have this desire Lord I want to be a witness to you and there are people who have been doing that and you've been doing that and now I pray that I pray that we don't live we don't leave this this element of our DNA when we step into the next phase of our life next room of our life that this becomes as a part of our DNA that wherever we go even in the next phase we see more opportunities to actually witness. 00:57:53.000 --> 00:57:58.000 Yeah let's pray. 00:57:58.000 --> 00:58:01.000 Can we sing the same song I've been touched by a fire. 00:58:01.000 --> 00:58:11.000 Yeah and then we close. 00:58:11.000 --> 00:58:19.000 Yeah, and I'll pray. 00:58:19.000 --> 00:58:22.000 What do you want to what do you want to receive. 00:58:22.000 --> 00:58:38.000 We want to we want to see more opportunities for us to witness and we want to see we want to we want to experience more of him in our personal lives. 00:58:38.000 --> 00:58:52.000 Father we pray. 00:58:52.000 --> 00:59:05.000 You can start.