WEBVTT NOTE Podcast: Acts 29 Vancouver Episode: Transaction to Intimacy Publishing Date: 2021-02-14T05:00:44-08:00 Podcast URL: https://acts29.ca Episode URL: https://acts29.ca/transaction-to-intimacy/ 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:07.000 The last one is just feelings sometimes that God is not reliable, thought-induced feelings. 00:00:07.000 --> 00:00:10.000 Thought-induced feelings. 00:00:10.000 --> 00:00:19.000 Thought-induced feelings where over a period of time because in certain areas I found that things are taking too long. 00:00:19.000 --> 00:00:25.000 Over a period of time because certain requests or prayer requests of mine were not granted. 00:00:25.000 --> 00:00:33.000 Over a certain period of time when I realized that he didn't take up on my behalf. 00:00:33.000 --> 00:00:43.000 Now my thoughts begin to crystallize to the point where my feelings are induced by the thoughts I have nurtured. 00:00:43.000 --> 00:00:51.000 And no longer am I willing to let go of the suspicion I have of God. 00:00:51.000 --> 00:00:56.000 And the moment you have suspicions about God, your love becomes transactional. 00:01:01.000 --> 00:01:06.000 And transactional relationships with God have existed since the beginning of time. 00:01:06.000 --> 00:01:17.000 We see in Genesis chapter 4 that Cain is angry with God because God hasn't responded with what he thinks he is due after the sacrifice he gave. 00:01:17.000 --> 00:01:20.000 So this goes back a long way. 00:01:20.000 --> 00:01:31.000 Where Cain is upset with God, why didn't you respond the way I think you should respond given the fact that I gave you an offering? 00:01:31.000 --> 00:01:35.000 Why didn't you respond the way you're supposed to respond? 00:01:35.000 --> 00:01:40.000 Satan is a transactional trader. 00:01:40.000 --> 00:01:43.000 Satan is a transactional trader. 00:01:43.000 --> 00:01:51.000 Right from Genesis 3 verse 6 where he tries to have Eve transact her relationship with God for something else. 00:01:51.000 --> 00:02:02.000 To Luke chapter 4, 6 where he's trying to get Jesus to engage in a transaction saying if you bow before me I will give you this or that or the other. 00:02:02.000 --> 00:02:06.000 He's always been a transactional merchant. 00:02:10.000 --> 00:02:18.000 So in transactional relationships there is always a lurking suspicion 00:02:18.000 --> 00:02:25.000 in transactional relationships there is always a lurking suspicion that God is withholding something 00:02:25.000 --> 00:02:29.000 that God is withholding something 00:02:29.000 --> 00:02:32.000 or God will punish 00:02:32.000 --> 00:02:39.000 or God will exact his pound of flesh. 00:02:39.000 --> 00:02:46.000 There's always this lurking suspicion in the background. 00:02:46.000 --> 00:02:50.000 Whenever things go wrong you think this is what is happening. 00:02:50.000 --> 00:03:02.000 Whenever things go wrong this lurking suspicion becomes very deafening. 00:03:02.000 --> 00:03:15.000 This is why I believe that a revival that is personal in terms of how I can be rooted or embedded in the love of the Father 00:03:15.000 --> 00:03:21.000 can really destroy both things that are transactional in my life and things that are legalistic. 00:03:21.000 --> 00:03:25.000 This is a legalistic mindset that whenever things go wrong 00:03:25.000 --> 00:03:32.000 the lurking suspicion in my mind is that God is withholding something, God is punishing, God is exacting his pound of flesh. 00:03:32.000 --> 00:03:38.000 If that is how I think and if that lurking suspicion begins to grow louder 00:03:38.000 --> 00:03:44.000 I need to deal with it because I am not rooted and embedded in his love the way I'm supposed to be. 00:03:44.000 --> 00:03:54.000 You either think that you did something wrong or you think that you didn't do something right. 00:03:54.000 --> 00:04:03.000 Job and his friends were in this kind of a situation. 00:04:03.000 --> 00:04:08.000 Job's friends were convinced that either Job did something wrong or he didn't do something right. 00:04:08.000 --> 00:04:12.000 They spent about 30 chapters going down that road. 00:04:12.000 --> 00:04:26.000 In transactional relationships circumstances color the face of God. 00:04:26.000 --> 00:04:34.000 Circumstances color the face of God. 00:04:34.000 --> 00:04:39.000 It's happened to the best of them. 00:04:39.000 --> 00:04:47.000 If you read Jeremiah 15 verse 18, Jeremiah 15 verse 18, can someone get my phone from somewhere please? 00:04:47.000 --> 00:04:54.000 Jeremiah 15 verse 18, thanks. 00:04:54.000 --> 00:05:01.000 Jeremiah 15 verse 18 00:05:01.000 --> 00:05:08.000 It says that Jeremiah at one point says this, 00:05:08.000 --> 00:05:13.000 Why is my pain unceasing, my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? 00:05:13.000 --> 00:05:19.000 And he's saying to God, will you be to me like a deceitful brook, like waters that fail? 00:05:19.000 --> 00:05:25.000 So it's not something that only the weak Christian goes through. 00:05:25.000 --> 00:05:29.000 Jeremiah was someone who was so in tune with God. 00:05:29.000 --> 00:05:35.000 And yet he at this point begins to speak like this because circumstances color the face of God. 00:05:35.000 --> 00:05:48.000 And in the process distort the character of God in my life. 00:05:48.000 --> 00:05:56.000 I need a change in this. 00:05:56.000 --> 00:05:59.000 Jesus wasn't like this. 00:05:59.000 --> 00:06:03.000 Jesus wasn't like this. 00:06:03.000 --> 00:06:06.000 Some of us may have gone through things for a while. 00:06:06.000 --> 00:06:10.000 Some of us haven't gotten the answers we are supposed to get. 00:06:10.000 --> 00:06:19.000 Some of us have prayed and things come in spurts, but they do not flood the field. 00:06:19.000 --> 00:06:27.000 Some of us have been waiting for vindication or waiting for restoration and it still hasn't happened. 00:06:27.000 --> 00:06:39.000 Some of us have gotten to a place where our hearts are either resentful, full of pity, sad, unable to trust God. 00:06:39.000 --> 00:06:49.000 And in the process our relationship with God and our love for him becomes transactional. 00:06:49.000 --> 00:06:58.000 Where like Job's friends, like Jeremiah, like Cain, like Eve, we begin to say, but how come you didn't do this? 00:06:58.000 --> 00:07:07.000 Or okay, I don't think I can go ahead and trust you in this because last time or the time before that or for the last four years. 00:07:07.000 --> 00:07:18.000 And no longer are we embedded or rooted in the splendid love of the Father. 00:07:18.000 --> 00:07:23.000 And no circumstance on earth should drive me to that place outside the Father. 00:07:23.000 --> 00:07:31.000 No circumstance on earth should drive me outside that place in the very heart of the Father. 00:07:31.000 --> 00:07:33.000 No circumstance. 00:07:33.000 --> 00:07:41.000 My hope is that never again in my life will a circumstance drive me into that place. 00:07:41.000 --> 00:07:50.000 You know between euphoric first love that you see in Song of Songs chapter 1 to say chapter 2 verse 13 00:07:50.000 --> 00:07:59.000 and between invincible all conquering love that you see from chapter 5 to chapter 8 of Song of Songs. 00:07:59.000 --> 00:08:04.000 There is this period between 2.13 and 5.8 where the woman is unsure, where the woman is doubtful, 00:08:04.000 --> 00:08:09.000 where the woman is in the wilderness having lost her way, where the woman is uncommitted, 00:08:09.000 --> 00:08:13.000 where the woman is suspicious, where the woman is not sure of the lover. 00:08:13.000 --> 00:08:20.000 I don't want to keep visiting this place called wilderness love where I am unsure, where I am suspicious, 00:08:20.000 --> 00:08:27.000 where I am not absolutely euphoric or invincible in my relationship and my love with the Father. 00:08:27.000 --> 00:08:35.000 And if we can live there we will be surprised at how quickly God will be able to do what he wants to do with this revival. 00:08:45.000 --> 00:08:51.000 So how do we deal with it? Here are some steps that I thought we could employ in our own lives. 00:08:52.000 --> 00:09:03.000 To move out of this place in our lives permanently and then repeat it again and again if it ever makes a resurgence. 00:09:03.000 --> 00:09:16.000 Step 1. Desire to turn away from orphanhood. Desire to turn away from orphanhood. 00:09:22.000 --> 00:09:27.000 One of the things about God is just when you think you've mastered a certain area in your life, 00:09:27.000 --> 00:09:31.000 he'll show you a few more feet that you can go. 00:09:31.000 --> 00:09:38.000 And I am just surprised that there are still such strong streaks of orphanhood in my life, 00:09:38.000 --> 00:09:41.000 even though I have a decent relationship with the Father. 00:09:41.000 --> 00:09:48.000 And I want to get to a place where it's no longer there and I desire it, I badly desire to step away from orphanhood. 00:09:48.000 --> 00:09:58.000 Because I know that the claims that the Father makes about himself and the character that I see of the Father through the life of Jesus 00:09:58.000 --> 00:10:05.000 and the relationship I see that Jesus had with the Father, because I know these are real, I just don't think it's... 00:10:05.000 --> 00:10:09.000 I think it's putrid when I stay here. 00:10:09.000 --> 00:10:19.000 So the first thing, step one is to turn, to have a desire to turn away from orphanhood. 00:10:19.000 --> 00:10:22.000 The word turn away is just another word for repent. 00:10:22.000 --> 00:10:27.000 If I say repent you may think more in terms of sin, that's why I'm saying turn away from orphanhood. 00:10:27.000 --> 00:10:42.000 Second, confess Psalm 92, 15, which says that there is no unrighteousness or wickedness in our God. 00:10:42.000 --> 00:10:46.000 There is no unrighteousness or wickedness in our God. 00:10:46.000 --> 00:10:53.000 I must look at my condition in different areas where I feel God hasn't come through or God has let me down or where I can't trust God. 00:10:53.000 --> 00:11:05.000 And I should say this may be so, but I confess today, I say right from the depths of my heart, O God, that you are righteous and there is no wickedness in my God. 00:11:05.000 --> 00:11:10.000 There is no wickedness in my God. There is no shortcoming. There is no failure in my God. 00:11:10.000 --> 00:11:15.000 I say it with all the strength that I can muster. Say it, say it. 00:11:15.000 --> 00:11:21.000 Words, yeah, words must be used. 00:11:21.000 --> 00:11:30.000 Eve could have changed the course of mankind's history with words. Adam could have changed it with words. 00:11:35.000 --> 00:11:46.000 Step three, I was surprised at this step. Step three, ask God to heal you. Ask God to heal you. 00:11:46.000 --> 00:11:51.000 This has been an amazing thing. God can heal you. 00:11:51.000 --> 00:11:57.000 This is when I always think of the simple words, trust the work of the Spirit, trust the work of the Spirit, 00:11:57.000 --> 00:12:03.000 where if the first two are met, God moves in like a mother eagle. 00:12:03.000 --> 00:12:08.000 He swoops in and he begins to heal. He begins to heal the resentment. 00:12:08.000 --> 00:12:14.000 He begins to heal the suspicion. He begins to heal the wounds that have been open for years. 00:12:14.000 --> 00:12:19.000 He begins to heal it, where he takes it away so that I can love again. 00:12:23.000 --> 00:12:26.000 So that's something I'd like to pray right now. 00:12:33.000 --> 00:12:42.000 Father, bring with me everyone who in any form experiences any of these things we have talked about. 00:12:43.000 --> 00:12:50.000 I bring to you my own self, wanting to turn away from orphanhood, 00:12:53.000 --> 00:12:57.000 wanting to stop looking at you through the eyes of my circumstances, 00:12:57.000 --> 00:13:09.000 saying, Oh God, that you have always only been perfect and fair and good and kind, unfailing, 00:13:11.000 --> 00:13:20.000 never betraying, letting down, ignoring, setting aside, never irritated, annoyed. 00:13:20.000 --> 00:13:27.000 That there is nothing that is less unrighteous, wicked in you. 00:13:29.000 --> 00:13:35.000 And then I come to this all-important step three, where with all that are standing with me, 00:13:35.000 --> 00:13:41.000 Spirit of God, I trust your work, something that only you can do. 00:13:41.000 --> 00:13:48.000 And I ask to be healed, to be healed of distrust, to be healed of disappointment, 00:13:50.000 --> 00:14:00.000 to be healed of loss, to be healed of regret, to be healed of the fear of trusting again. 00:14:00.000 --> 00:14:10.000 To be healed of wounds, to be healed of resentment, to be healed, Oh God, 00:14:10.000 --> 00:14:16.000 so that I may love you by giving myself away to you again. 00:14:16.000 --> 00:14:19.000 I want to give myself away to you again. 00:14:20.000 --> 00:14:23.000 I want to give myself away to you again. 00:14:23.000 --> 00:14:28.000 I may love you by giving myself away to you again. 00:14:28.000 --> 00:14:35.000 I want to give myself away just like you have given yourself away to me as that song says, 00:14:36.000 --> 00:14:40.000 I want to be healed that I may give myself away. 00:14:40.000 --> 00:14:47.000 I thank you Spirit of God, because this is your work that is happening across the, 00:14:49.000 --> 00:14:56.000 across listeners right now, people being healed, people being miraculously healed, miraculously healed. 00:15:11.000 --> 00:15:17.000 Miraculously healed, triggers being broken, 00:15:19.000 --> 00:15:24.000 people being freed to join God in love, 00:15:26.000 --> 00:15:32.000 people being freed in body and soul, in thought and feeling, 00:15:32.000 --> 00:15:36.000 people being repaired and freed by the work of the Spirit. 00:15:36.000 --> 00:15:41.000 I thank you Holy Spirit. Thank you that you are able to do this, that you are willing to do this, 00:15:41.000 --> 00:15:45.000 that you initiated it and that you will complete what you have started now. 00:15:46.000 --> 00:15:51.000 That when I finish this prayer, we are going to not say now the healing has started, 00:15:51.000 --> 00:15:55.000 we are going to say we will walk in the healing that just happened. 00:15:59.000 --> 00:16:03.000 I received this in my own life with great joy, with great gratitude, Oh God, 00:16:03.000 --> 00:16:08.000 free to love, free to walk in your love, free to walk with you, 00:16:09.000 --> 00:16:14.000 unfettered, uninhibited in Jesus Christ's name. Amen. 00:16:18.000 --> 00:16:26.000 Step four, return to the Father's heart. Step four, return to the Father's heart. 00:16:27.000 --> 00:16:29.000 Return to the Father's heart. 00:16:29.000 --> 00:16:32.000 Return to the Father's heart. What are we talking about? 00:16:32.000 --> 00:16:42.000 That he is unadulteratedly good, that he is continuously looking for ways to do me good every minute, every hour, every day. 00:16:43.000 --> 00:16:49.000 That he is embarrassingly lavish and extravagantly kind. 00:16:49.000 --> 00:16:56.000 That the way he deals with me is with anger-free discipline that prospers me. 00:17:01.000 --> 00:17:06.000 That his attitude is, come close, let me show you what I am doing. 00:17:08.000 --> 00:17:18.000 That he is unadulteratedly good, that he is continuously looking for ways to do me good every minute, every hour, every hour, every day. 00:17:20.000 --> 00:17:24.000 That he has laughter-filled Jacob-enjoying eyes. 00:17:29.000 --> 00:17:38.000 That his laser counsel and presence does not leave me for a second for the rest of eternity. 00:17:38.000 --> 00:17:50.000 That he gives me inward and outward purity through the always speaking, freshly slain blood of his own son, Jesus Christ. 00:17:54.000 --> 00:18:01.000 That he heals my wounds and places me in Christ, in the heart of God himself. 00:18:01.000 --> 00:18:09.000 These are the things I must ponder on so that I can return to the Father's heart, regardless of the circumstances that I find myself in. 00:18:10.000 --> 00:18:13.000 Because I will find myself in circumstances in the future too. 00:18:15.000 --> 00:18:17.000 But do not be troubled, for I have overcome the world. 00:18:17.000 --> 00:18:23.000 In the world you will have trials and tribulations, but do not be troubled, for I have overcome the world. 00:18:24.000 --> 00:18:27.000 And I find myself in the overcome of the world. 00:18:27.000 --> 00:18:29.000 That is where I need to be deeply, deeply rooted. 00:18:36.000 --> 00:18:37.000 Step five. 00:18:40.000 --> 00:18:52.000 As things happen tomorrow, day after, separate worthless words from worthy words. 00:18:57.000 --> 00:19:07.000 As in when things go wrong and there's a resurgence of old memories, old patterns that you have been healed of a few minutes ago. 00:19:08.000 --> 00:19:10.000 Do not go down that route. 00:19:11.000 --> 00:19:20.000 Because in Jeremiah 15.19 you see God saying to Jeremiah, in 15.19, therefore that says the Lord, 00:19:20.000 --> 00:19:25.000 If you return, I will restore you, and you shall stand before me. 00:19:25.000 --> 00:19:30.000 If you utter what is precious and not what is worthless, you shall be as my mouth. 00:19:30.000 --> 00:19:33.000 They shall turn to you, but you shall not turn to them. 00:19:34.000 --> 00:19:39.000 To go back and say, no Father, I refuse to say the things that I used to say. 00:19:39.000 --> 00:19:46.000 How come? Why not? I did this for you. Or how come you haven't come through? 00:19:50.000 --> 00:19:57.000 Where there's this accusation that begins to rise in your heart against the Father, that you may or may not express. 00:19:59.000 --> 00:20:07.000 It doesn't mean that you don't talk to him about it, but decide ahead of time that this is who he is, this is how I feel, 00:20:07.000 --> 00:20:12.000 and I'm going to use words now to move from where I feel to what is the truth about him. 00:20:12.000 --> 00:20:14.000 That is what David would do. 00:20:14.000 --> 00:20:17.000 They would say, this is what I feel, but this is who I know you are, 00:20:17.000 --> 00:20:21.000 so I'm going to use words to go from what I'm feeling to who the truth is. 00:20:22.000 --> 00:20:23.000 That's what he would do. 00:20:23.000 --> 00:20:27.000 So when you read Psalm 42, he may say in Psalm 42, 00:20:27.000 --> 00:20:31.000 Why are you so sad, my soul? Why so distressed within me? 00:20:31.000 --> 00:20:33.000 Put your hope in God, for I will yet trust him. 00:20:33.000 --> 00:20:36.000 And then in Psalm 43, he ends with, 00:20:38.000 --> 00:20:41.000 Send forth your light, send forth your word, and let them guide me well. 00:20:41.000 --> 00:20:44.000 Let them lead me to your mountain, to the place where you dwell. 00:20:44.000 --> 00:20:49.000 For I will go to the altar of God, my joy and my delight, and I will praise him with the harp. 00:20:49.000 --> 00:20:51.000 Oh Lord, you are my God. 00:20:51.000 --> 00:20:53.000 That is how it ends. 00:20:55.000 --> 00:20:58.000 From feelings to truth with words. 00:21:01.000 --> 00:21:06.000 But from, this is one of those times where we are seeing the end from the beginning and saying, 00:21:06.000 --> 00:21:09.000 This is who God is, these are my circumstances. 00:21:09.000 --> 00:21:12.000 I cannot be uprooted from who God is. 00:21:12.000 --> 00:21:15.000 I will no longer transact business with him. 00:21:15.000 --> 00:21:19.000 I'm embedded in him, in his love. I know my father. 00:21:21.000 --> 00:21:24.000 This is where I want to live for the rest of my life. 00:21:27.000 --> 00:21:29.000 One minute at a time. 00:21:34.000 --> 00:21:36.000 Step six. 00:21:39.000 --> 00:21:42.000 The pleasure of his presence. 00:21:42.000 --> 00:21:45.000 Live out of the pleasure of his presence. 00:21:45.000 --> 00:21:47.000 When you begin to love like this, 00:21:47.000 --> 00:21:50.000 when love is no longer transactional, 00:21:50.000 --> 00:22:01.000 you will find that presence is easily located and presence is easily lived in. 00:22:01.000 --> 00:22:06.000 Psalm 16 verse 11 says that at your right hand, 00:22:06.000 --> 00:22:08.000 are pleasures forevermore. 00:22:09.000 --> 00:22:12.000 The idea is, okay, if I'm going down this route Lord, 00:22:12.000 --> 00:22:14.000 I will enjoy the pleasure of your presence. 00:22:14.000 --> 00:22:18.000 Jesus always enjoyed the pleasure of the father's presence. 00:22:22.000 --> 00:22:25.000 These are things that sometimes we may enjoy during a time of worship 00:22:25.000 --> 00:22:27.000 or during a time when we are sitting and talking to God. 00:22:27.000 --> 00:22:29.000 But what about walking in the pleasure of God's presence? 00:22:29.000 --> 00:22:33.000 Isn't this what reviving a church looks like? 00:22:33.000 --> 00:22:38.000 Once this happens, isn't it natural for anyone and everything that we touch to catch fire? 00:22:40.000 --> 00:22:42.000 The pleasure of his presence. 00:22:44.000 --> 00:22:47.000 And then the last one is, 00:22:47.000 --> 00:22:51.000 trust that whenever we do mess up, 00:22:51.000 --> 00:22:56.000 that there will be correction in love. 00:22:57.000 --> 00:22:59.000 Corrections in love. 00:23:00.000 --> 00:23:02.000 In love. 00:23:02.000 --> 00:23:04.000 Correction in love. 00:23:04.000 --> 00:23:06.000 Psalm 32 verse 8 says that, 00:23:06.000 --> 00:23:09.000 listen Jacob, I'll counsel you with my eye upon you. 00:23:09.000 --> 00:23:11.000 I'll instruct you with my eye upon you. 00:23:13.000 --> 00:23:15.000 I'll instruct you with my eye upon you. 00:23:15.000 --> 00:23:17.000 It's the way you instruct Phoebe. 00:23:18.000 --> 00:23:20.000 I'll instruct you with my eye upon you. 00:23:20.000 --> 00:23:24.000 And occasionally when Phoebe is like a horse or a mule, 00:23:24.000 --> 00:23:27.000 you'll use bitten bridle to prevent what? 00:23:27.000 --> 00:23:30.000 To prevent her from stumbling into things that would hurt her. 00:23:31.000 --> 00:23:36.000 That is so different from a God who has a stick to slam you. 00:23:36.000 --> 00:23:39.000 I know it's an old picture and that we think we've escaped it, 00:23:39.000 --> 00:23:43.000 but we have our own variations of Jesus with a stick. 00:23:43.000 --> 00:23:50.000 Guys, it's not possible to understand Jesus apart from his affection, 00:23:50.000 --> 00:23:52.000 his trust and his awareness of the Father. 00:23:52.000 --> 00:23:58.000 It is not possible to understand Jesus or to walk with Jesus 00:23:58.000 --> 00:24:03.000 unless we understand that at the core of his walk here on earth, 00:24:03.000 --> 00:24:08.000 he is not a person who is not a person who is not a person who is not a person 00:24:08.000 --> 00:24:14.000 because unless we understand that at the core of his walk here on earth and now in heaven, 00:24:14.000 --> 00:24:18.000 because his life wasn't any different on earth as it was in heaven, 00:24:18.000 --> 00:24:26.000 that at the core of what Jesus did here on earth was this awareness, 00:24:26.000 --> 00:24:29.000 affection and trust that he had in the Father. 00:24:29.000 --> 00:24:34.000 Jesus went through these circumstances changing around him multiple times. 00:24:34.000 --> 00:24:39.000 In Matthew chapter 11, for instance, the cities are rejecting his teaching. 00:24:39.000 --> 00:24:43.000 People are accusing him of being in league with Beelzebub. 00:24:43.000 --> 00:24:46.000 His family thinks he has lost his mind. 00:24:46.000 --> 00:24:49.000 All three things have just happened. 00:24:49.000 --> 00:24:56.000 And in the middle of these circumstances, in Matthew chapter 11, verse 27, 00:24:56.000 --> 00:24:59.000 what a hero we have that we can follow. 00:24:59.000 --> 00:25:00.000 What a hero we have. 00:25:00.000 --> 00:25:02.000 He's a champion, man. 00:25:02.000 --> 00:25:04.000 He is a hero. 00:25:04.000 --> 00:25:07.000 In the midst of this, with cities rejecting his teaching, 00:25:07.000 --> 00:25:10.000 people accusing him of being in league with the devil, 00:25:10.000 --> 00:25:13.000 his family thinking that he has lost his mind, 00:25:13.000 --> 00:25:19.000 Jesus is talking about a unique father-son operation coming out of father-son intimacies. 00:25:19.000 --> 00:25:23.000 Go to Matthew 11, verse 27 and read it out the message. 00:25:23.000 --> 00:25:27.000 Matthew 11, verse 27 and verse 28. 00:25:32.000 --> 00:25:37.000 Jesus resumes talking to the people but now tenderly. 00:25:37.000 --> 00:25:40.000 The Father has given me all these things to do and say, 00:25:40.000 --> 00:25:46.000 this is a unique father-son operation coming out of father-son intimacies and knowledge. 00:25:46.000 --> 00:25:50.000 No one knows the Son the way the Father does, nor the Father the way the Son does. 00:25:50.000 --> 00:25:52.000 But I'm not keeping it to myself. 00:25:52.000 --> 00:25:55.000 I'm ready to go over it line by line with anyone willing to listen. 00:25:55.000 --> 00:25:58.000 Then he goes on to say, are you tired and weary? 00:25:58.000 --> 00:26:01.000 Then he goes on to say, are you tired and weary? 00:26:01.000 --> 00:26:05.000 I'm willing to go over it line by line with anyone who's inclined to listen. 00:26:05.000 --> 00:26:07.000 He's calling me. 00:26:07.000 --> 00:26:09.000 He's inviting me every day. 00:26:09.000 --> 00:26:11.000 He's calling you. 00:26:11.000 --> 00:26:15.000 He's inviting you into this relationship that he has with the Father. 00:26:15.000 --> 00:26:17.000 And he's willing to go over it line by line. 00:26:17.000 --> 00:26:18.000 Listen to me. 00:26:18.000 --> 00:26:21.000 I don't know whether this is the most important line in this teaching. 00:26:21.000 --> 00:26:23.000 But every morning he's calling you. 00:26:23.000 --> 00:26:27.000 He's inviting you into the same relationship that he has with the Father. 00:26:27.000 --> 00:26:33.000 He's inviting you, saying, come, I'm inviting you into the same relationship as I have with the Father. 00:26:33.000 --> 00:26:37.000 And I'll go over it line by line so you can walk in it. 00:26:37.000 --> 00:26:43.000 Guys, I was created to enjoy what Jesus has with the Father. 00:26:43.000 --> 00:26:50.000 I was created, and I don't want to live below my privilege. 00:26:50.000 --> 00:26:59.000 This privilege is mine because of the shedding of life. 00:26:59.000 --> 00:27:04.000 It is in his death that I am included. 00:27:04.000 --> 00:27:11.000 I don't know if I can afford to continue living below my privilege, at least in this area, 00:27:11.000 --> 00:27:17.000 where I was created to enjoy what Jesus has with the Father. 00:27:17.000 --> 00:27:20.000 And every morning he's inviting me into it. 00:27:20.000 --> 00:27:24.000 At work, at home, with your wife, with your mother, with your children, 00:27:24.000 --> 00:27:27.000 with your sisters, with your brothers while you're driving, 00:27:27.000 --> 00:27:37.000 you're being invited every day because you were created to enjoy what Jesus has with the Father. 00:27:37.000 --> 00:27:44.000 One of the, perhaps, ways to put it that may offend some, 00:27:44.000 --> 00:27:49.000 but actually makes a lot of sense, is that I'm included in the Trinity. 00:27:49.000 --> 00:27:57.000 I'm included in the Trinity, as in the relationship that the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit have. 00:27:57.000 --> 00:28:00.000 I'm included. Come, let me show you. 00:28:00.000 --> 00:28:02.000 This is why I created you. 00:28:02.000 --> 00:28:05.000 I want you to be part of my relationship with the Father. 00:28:05.000 --> 00:28:08.000 And it's not possible except by the Spirit of God. 00:28:08.000 --> 00:28:11.000 And the thing that I'm living so far below it, 00:28:11.000 --> 00:28:15.000 I don't know if I want to spend another minute like that. 00:28:18.000 --> 00:28:22.000 To be aware, even as I speak to you and I'm trying to look at the camera, 00:28:22.000 --> 00:28:27.000 and aware of my notes and all that, to be aware that there is someone else here who is the Father. 00:28:27.000 --> 00:28:34.000 And that every moment as I speak, as I look at my notes, that he's inviting, Jesus is inviting me, 00:28:34.000 --> 00:28:39.000 that listen, I've done this too. I've preached, I taught, I had to think of a hundred things. 00:28:39.000 --> 00:28:42.000 And while I was doing that, I was highly aware of the Father. 00:28:42.000 --> 00:28:45.000 And I'm inviting you and I'll go over it line by line with you, 00:28:45.000 --> 00:28:49.000 so that whether you're leading worship, whether you're cooking, whether you're teaching, or whether you're talking, 00:28:49.000 --> 00:28:53.000 whether you're driving, or whether you're with your wife, or whatever your situation is, 00:28:53.000 --> 00:28:57.000 I want you to know that I'm inviting you into a relationship with the Father 24-7. 00:28:57.000 --> 00:29:01.000 That'll be the prime relationship out of which everything else finds its alignment. 00:29:01.000 --> 00:29:05.000 We must show the world how to live out this intimacy with the Father. 00:29:05.000 --> 00:29:07.000 Because this is the prime reason Jesus came. 00:29:07.000 --> 00:29:12.000 This is the prime reason why he's raising a bride or a son here on earth. 00:29:15.000 --> 00:29:20.000 I once saw a dream and that dream always comes back to me at times like this. 00:29:20.000 --> 00:29:25.000 And in that dream I'm on a beach and it was not Hawaii, where the three of them are going. 00:29:25.000 --> 00:29:32.000 I was on a beach and strangely a wave comes in, but when the wave retreats, on the beach are words. 00:29:32.000 --> 00:29:35.000 You would think the wave comes in, the words should disappear. 00:29:35.000 --> 00:29:38.000 No, when the wave comes in and leaves, there are words on the beach. 00:29:38.000 --> 00:29:42.000 And it was Psalm 80 verse 14 or verse 15. 00:29:42.000 --> 00:29:46.000 And I woke up and I quickly opened my Bible and I started looking at the words. 00:29:46.000 --> 00:29:49.000 And I saw a picture of a woman who was in a dream. 00:29:49.000 --> 00:29:51.000 And I was like, what is this? 00:29:51.000 --> 00:29:55.000 And I woke up and I quickly opened my Bible and I started looking at the words. 00:29:55.000 --> 00:29:58.000 And it said, you are the root my right hand has planted. 00:29:58.000 --> 00:30:01.000 You are the sun that I'm raising up for myself. 00:30:01.000 --> 00:30:03.000 And it always comes back at times like this. 00:30:03.000 --> 00:30:08.000 That Jacob, I have invited you into such great privilege. 00:30:08.000 --> 00:30:12.000 I want you to enjoy what I have with the Father. 00:30:12.000 --> 00:30:18.000 I include you as part of the Trinity so you can hear us whisper, you can hear us talk. 00:30:18.000 --> 00:30:24.000 What was a once in a lifetime event for Isaiah can become a normal thing for you. 00:30:24.000 --> 00:30:27.000 I'm willing to go over it line by line. 00:30:27.000 --> 00:30:30.000 I'm inviting you into this relationship every day. 00:30:36.000 --> 00:30:39.000 We must show the world how to live out this intimacy with the Father. 00:30:39.000 --> 00:30:43.000 We must show them how good and faithful He is even when life is uphill. 00:30:43.000 --> 00:30:51.000 It is even when life is uphill that is when I need to openly show them that He is still good and faithful. 00:30:51.000 --> 00:30:56.000 It is possible for Christians when life is uphill to show the world that He is good and faithful. 00:30:56.000 --> 00:30:59.000 But inside their heart they are not thinking so. 00:30:59.000 --> 00:31:01.000 But outside they are professing so. 00:31:01.000 --> 00:31:04.000 Good. But there's a better place we can live in. 00:31:04.000 --> 00:31:07.000 Where inside and outside it is the same. 00:31:07.000 --> 00:31:10.000 That is when you are transparent about your uphill. 00:31:13.000 --> 00:31:17.000 We need Enoch's guys. We need Enoch's. 00:31:17.000 --> 00:31:21.000 Genesis 5 22, Genesis 5 24. 00:31:21.000 --> 00:31:28.000 Twice it says in those three or four verses that Enoch walked with God. 00:31:28.000 --> 00:31:32.000 We need Enoch's. 00:31:32.000 --> 00:31:35.000 Enoch walked with God the other day. 00:31:35.000 --> 00:31:38.000 He walked with God the other day. 00:31:38.000 --> 00:31:40.000 Enoch walked with God. 00:31:40.000 --> 00:31:44.000 The idea of walking with God was three-fold. 00:31:44.000 --> 00:31:46.000 It was communing. 00:31:46.000 --> 00:31:48.000 It was intimacy. 00:31:48.000 --> 00:31:50.000 It was one-and-othering. 00:31:50.000 --> 00:31:52.000 What kind of life did this man live? 00:31:52.000 --> 00:31:56.000 He lived for 365 years. 00:31:59.000 --> 00:32:03.000 Where he had the ability to commune with God. 00:32:03.000 --> 00:32:05.000 This is not a man who lived in the New Testament. 00:32:05.000 --> 00:32:09.000 This is not a man who was sinless because only Jesus has been sinless thus far. 00:32:09.000 --> 00:32:14.000 But this was a man who knew how to commune with Yahweh. 00:32:14.000 --> 00:32:16.000 This is early. 00:32:16.000 --> 00:32:18.000 Shortly after the fall. 00:32:18.000 --> 00:32:20.000 Just before the flood. 00:32:20.000 --> 00:32:21.000 Not just before. 00:32:21.000 --> 00:32:23.000 A thousand years before the flood. 00:32:23.000 --> 00:32:25.000 Where he could commune with God. 00:32:25.000 --> 00:32:27.000 As in converse with God. 00:32:27.000 --> 00:32:32.000 Where he could have an intimate relationship with God. 00:32:32.000 --> 00:32:37.000 Have an intimate relationship with the same invisible God we are talking about. 00:32:37.000 --> 00:32:40.000 At least we know him through Jesus. 00:32:40.000 --> 00:32:44.000 Where he was one-and-othering with God. 00:32:44.000 --> 00:32:46.000 We need more Enoch's. 00:32:46.000 --> 00:32:47.000 My God. 00:32:47.000 --> 00:32:50.000 Some of you young people have life ahead of you. 00:32:50.000 --> 00:32:52.000 Show them what Enoch's are like. 00:32:52.000 --> 00:32:55.000 Disappear from the earth then. 00:32:55.000 --> 00:32:59.000 Enoch walked with God and then one day he was not. 00:32:59.000 --> 00:33:01.000 And twice it is said there. 00:33:01.000 --> 00:33:04.000 Usually when God says something twice in three verses. 00:33:04.000 --> 00:33:08.000 It is worth taking note that here was a man that was exceptional. 00:33:15.000 --> 00:33:19.000 To walk intimately is to sit at his feet hanging on to every word. 00:33:19.000 --> 00:33:21.000 Like in Luke 10.39. 00:33:21.000 --> 00:33:23.000 To walk intimately like Enoch did. 00:33:23.000 --> 00:33:25.000 To walk intimately. 00:33:25.000 --> 00:33:35.000 Find time to sit at his feet hanging on to every word. 00:33:43.000 --> 00:33:45.000 But Jacob you have no idea how busy I am. 00:33:45.000 --> 00:33:46.000 Absolutely. 00:33:46.000 --> 00:33:50.000 But there is something that is far greater value. 00:33:50.000 --> 00:33:53.000 That will release far greater rest. 00:33:53.000 --> 00:33:56.000 And far greater fruitfulness into your life. 00:33:56.000 --> 00:33:59.000 If somehow you can craft. 00:34:03.000 --> 00:34:06.000 The time to walk intimately by sitting at his feet. 00:34:06.000 --> 00:34:10.000 Hanging on to every word that comes from his mouth. 00:34:10.000 --> 00:34:12.000 Like in Luke 10.39. 00:34:12.000 --> 00:34:15.000 Asking him to tell you about himself. 00:34:15.000 --> 00:34:19.000 He is inviting you into his relationship with the father. 00:34:19.000 --> 00:34:21.000 Even in Matthew 11 as he is walking. 00:34:21.000 --> 00:34:24.000 He is actually having a conversation with his father. 00:34:24.000 --> 00:34:27.000 But it is a conversation that is loud enough. 00:34:27.000 --> 00:34:31.000 I am just going to make Manoj's life a little miserable. 00:34:31.000 --> 00:34:33.000 It is a conversation that is loud enough. 00:34:33.000 --> 00:34:35.000 Manoj go do something with the camera. 00:34:35.000 --> 00:34:37.000 I am going off screen. 00:34:37.000 --> 00:34:39.000 He is just sitting there. 00:34:39.000 --> 00:34:41.000 You have got to now turn the camera this way. 00:34:46.000 --> 00:34:48.000 Now you will have to change it again. 00:34:48.000 --> 00:34:50.000 He has to do this twice during the thing. 00:34:50.000 --> 00:34:52.000 Thank you Manoj. 00:34:52.000 --> 00:34:54.000 Your work has been duly noted. 00:34:54.000 --> 00:34:55.000 I don't know why. 00:34:55.000 --> 00:34:58.000 In the middle of such a serious sentence I thought of Manoj. 00:34:58.000 --> 00:35:00.000 But anyways. 00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:01.000 Yeah. 00:35:01.000 --> 00:35:03.000 Guys he is inviting you. 00:35:03.000 --> 00:35:05.000 He is. 00:35:09.000 --> 00:35:11.000 Manoj come up. 00:35:11.000 --> 00:35:13.000 Come up. 00:35:13.000 --> 00:35:14.000 Yeah. 00:35:14.000 --> 00:35:16.000 Let me just pray for you. 00:35:16.000 --> 00:35:18.000 Father. 00:35:21.000 --> 00:35:23.000 Father I just break him out of his mould. 00:35:23.000 --> 00:35:25.000 Out of his job. 00:35:25.000 --> 00:35:27.000 Out of his present occupation. 00:35:27.000 --> 00:35:31.000 Out of that which he is consumed with. 00:35:31.000 --> 00:35:33.000 Stooped over. 00:35:38.000 --> 00:35:40.000 Father you are saying to him. 00:35:44.000 --> 00:35:46.000 That what you are in is good. 00:35:46.000 --> 00:35:49.000 But what you are in does not explore the truth. 00:35:50.000 --> 00:35:53.000 The depth and the breadth of who I made you. 00:35:53.000 --> 00:35:56.000 So get ready for a change. 00:35:56.000 --> 00:35:58.000 In job. 00:35:58.000 --> 00:36:00.000 In challenge. 00:36:00.000 --> 00:36:02.000 In level of difficulty. 00:36:02.000 --> 00:36:04.000 In terms of what I want you to attempt. 00:36:12.000 --> 00:36:14.000 And so I am going to open the field before you. 00:36:14.000 --> 00:36:16.000 I am going to lay it open. 00:36:16.000 --> 00:36:18.000 I am going to stretch it from one end to the other. 00:36:18.000 --> 00:36:20.000 Where you are is very limited. 00:36:20.000 --> 00:36:22.000 It is almost insulated. 00:36:22.000 --> 00:36:24.000 It is beginning to mould you and shape you. 00:36:24.000 --> 00:36:26.000 And I am not going to allow that to happen. 00:36:26.000 --> 00:36:28.000 Because what I had put in you before you were born. 00:36:28.000 --> 00:36:30.000 Is a far greater value. 00:36:30.000 --> 00:36:32.000 It requires far greater sunlight. 00:36:32.000 --> 00:36:34.000 Far greater exposure. 00:36:34.000 --> 00:36:36.000 And so as changes begin to come. 00:36:36.000 --> 00:36:38.000 None of them will be destructive. 00:36:38.000 --> 00:36:40.000 None of them will harm you. 00:36:40.000 --> 00:36:42.000 None of them will bring you down. 00:36:42.000 --> 00:36:44.000 None of them will harm you. 00:36:44.000 --> 00:36:46.000 None of them will harm you. 00:36:46.000 --> 00:36:48.000 None of them will bring you down. 00:36:48.000 --> 00:36:50.000 But I... 00:36:50.000 --> 00:36:52.000 want you to be afraid of the changes. 00:36:52.000 --> 00:36:54.000 But I am changing entirely the picture that you will view from here on. 00:36:54.000 --> 00:36:56.000 It will be a new panorama. 00:36:56.000 --> 00:36:58.000 It is not what it used to be. 00:36:58.000 --> 00:37:00.000 It will be a new scene. 00:37:00.000 --> 00:37:02.000 Get ready for it. 00:37:02.000 --> 00:37:04.000 Loosen your grip over that which you thought 00:37:04.000 --> 00:37:06.000 is your bread and butter. 00:37:06.000 --> 00:37:08.000 Or your livelihood. 00:37:08.000 --> 00:37:10.000 Or your area of operation. 00:37:10.000 --> 00:37:12.000 No matter what you do. 00:37:12.000 --> 00:37:14.000 No matter what you do. 00:37:14.000 --> 00:37:16.000 Or your area of operation. 00:37:16.000 --> 00:37:18.000 No longer. 00:37:18.000 --> 00:37:20.000 It's like a flood that comes in. 00:37:20.000 --> 00:37:22.000 And the flood goes away. 00:37:22.000 --> 00:37:24.000 And you see that the land has been 00:37:24.000 --> 00:37:26.000 shaped and changed in its contours. 00:37:26.000 --> 00:37:28.000 That is what I am planning to do. 00:37:28.000 --> 00:37:30.000 In Jesus name. 00:37:30.000 --> 00:37:32.000 Amen. 00:37:38.000 --> 00:37:40.000 Yeah. And so ask him. 00:37:40.000 --> 00:37:42.000 One of the things he 00:37:42.000 --> 00:37:44.000 is inviting us into. 00:37:44.000 --> 00:37:46.000 Like perhaps Mary did. 00:37:46.000 --> 00:37:48.000 Sit at his feet and 00:37:48.000 --> 00:37:50.000 ask him to tell you about 00:37:50.000 --> 00:37:52.000 himself. 00:37:52.000 --> 00:37:54.000 And at the end of the day 00:37:54.000 --> 00:37:56.000 you will hear him say, 00:37:56.000 --> 00:37:58.000 you've chosen the good portion and it won't be taken away from you. 00:37:58.000 --> 00:38:00.000 You've chosen the good portion 00:38:00.000 --> 00:38:02.000 and it won't be taken away from you. 00:38:04.000 --> 00:38:06.000 These are the things we need to hear. 00:38:06.000 --> 00:38:08.000 Eh? 00:38:08.000 --> 00:38:10.000 It's not 00:38:10.000 --> 00:38:12.000 the quantity of time. 00:38:12.000 --> 00:38:14.000 There will be days when time needs to be 00:38:14.000 --> 00:38:16.000 spent. 00:38:16.000 --> 00:38:18.000 Mostly it is 00:38:18.000 --> 00:38:20.000 the intent of the heart. 00:38:20.000 --> 00:38:22.000 The intent of the heart always creates 00:38:22.000 --> 00:38:24.000 the amount of time that is necessary. 00:38:24.000 --> 00:38:26.000 It doesn't matter what 00:38:26.000 --> 00:38:28.000 I'm doing. Whether I'm preaching, whether I'm singing. 00:38:28.000 --> 00:38:30.000 And Phoebe will come up 00:38:30.000 --> 00:38:32.000 doing her funny little 00:38:32.000 --> 00:38:34.000 steps and look up. And then she'll go like this. 00:38:34.000 --> 00:38:36.000 It doesn't matter what I'm doing. 00:38:36.000 --> 00:38:38.000 I'll go like this too. 00:38:40.000 --> 00:38:42.000 God should be able to say to me every day, 00:38:42.000 --> 00:38:44.000 God should be able to say to me every day, 00:38:44.000 --> 00:38:46.000 you have won my heart Jacob. 00:38:46.000 --> 00:38:48.000 You have won my heart Jacob. 00:38:48.000 --> 00:38:50.000 It is one thing for him to hear that 00:38:50.000 --> 00:38:52.000 It is one thing for him to hear that 00:38:52.000 --> 00:38:54.000 from me. You have won my heart 00:38:54.000 --> 00:38:56.000 and I am yours. 00:38:56.000 --> 00:38:58.000 But I want to hear that 00:38:58.000 --> 00:39:00.000 from him too. Jacob you have won my heart. 00:39:04.000 --> 00:39:06.000 A people 00:39:06.000 --> 00:39:08.000 revived like this 00:39:08.000 --> 00:39:10.000 set the world on fire. 00:39:18.000 --> 00:39:20.000 It's my daily 00:39:20.000 --> 00:39:22.000 destiny or portion 00:39:22.000 --> 00:39:24.000 to be loved by God. 00:39:24.000 --> 00:39:26.000 I said that 00:39:26.000 --> 00:39:28.000 yesterday. It is my daily destiny 00:39:28.000 --> 00:39:30.000 or portion to be loved by God like this. 00:39:30.000 --> 00:39:32.000 And it initiates a chain 00:39:32.000 --> 00:39:34.000 reaction that 00:39:34.000 --> 00:39:36.000 is mentioned in Ephesians 00:39:36.000 --> 00:39:38.000 3, 17 to 19. 00:39:38.000 --> 00:39:40.000 It initiates a chain reaction 00:39:40.000 --> 00:39:42.000 that you read about in Ephesians 00:39:42.000 --> 00:39:44.000 3, 17 to 19. 00:39:52.000 --> 00:39:54.000 Hey Gary, 00:39:54.000 --> 00:39:56.000 Caleb, if you want to head to 00:39:56.000 --> 00:39:58.000 Pilgrim and get there by 00:39:58.000 --> 00:40:00.000 fiveish, that's good. 00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:02.000 Ephesians 3, 17 to 19. 00:40:02.000 --> 00:40:04.000 That Christ will live in you 00:40:04.000 --> 00:40:06.000 that Christ will live in you 00:40:06.000 --> 00:40:08.000 as you open the door and invite 00:40:08.000 --> 00:40:10.000 him in. 00:40:10.000 --> 00:40:12.000 And I ask him that with both feet 00:40:12.000 --> 00:40:14.000 planted firmly on love 00:40:14.000 --> 00:40:16.000 you will be able to take in with all 00:40:16.000 --> 00:40:18.000 Christians the extravagant 00:40:18.000 --> 00:40:20.000 dimensions of Christ's love. 00:40:20.000 --> 00:40:22.000 Retour and experience the breath, 00:40:22.000 --> 00:40:24.000 test its length, plumb the depths, 00:40:24.000 --> 00:40:26.000 rise to the heights, 00:40:26.000 --> 00:40:28.000 live full lives, live in the fullness 00:40:28.000 --> 00:40:30.000 of God. If I read it from the 00:40:30.000 --> 00:40:32.000 NIV or ESV. 00:40:32.000 --> 00:40:34.000 So that Christ may dwell 00:40:34.000 --> 00:40:36.000 in your hearts through faith 00:40:36.000 --> 00:40:38.000 that you being rooted and grounded in love 00:40:38.000 --> 00:40:40.000 may have the strength to comprehend with 00:40:40.000 --> 00:40:42.000 all the saints what is the breadth, 00:40:42.000 --> 00:40:44.000 length, height and depth and to know the love 00:40:44.000 --> 00:40:46.000 of Christ that surpasses knowledge 00:40:46.000 --> 00:40:48.000 that you may be filled with the fullness of God. 00:40:48.000 --> 00:40:50.000 Here's what we are saying guys. 00:40:50.000 --> 00:40:52.000 We are saying that if I learn 00:40:52.000 --> 00:40:54.000 to be loved by God 00:40:54.000 --> 00:40:56.000 to be loved by God 00:40:56.000 --> 00:40:58.000 that's 00:40:58.000 --> 00:41:00.000 then it inevitably leads 00:41:00.000 --> 00:41:02.000 to loving God in return 00:41:04.000 --> 00:41:06.000 uninhibited, unfettered 00:41:08.000 --> 00:41:10.000 not transactional 00:41:10.000 --> 00:41:12.000 and that inevitably leads 00:41:12.000 --> 00:41:14.000 to loving others with God's love. 00:41:14.000 --> 00:41:16.000 That's the progression. 00:41:16.000 --> 00:41:18.000 But it all starts here. 00:41:18.000 --> 00:41:20.000 Then it goes here and then it goes here. 00:41:20.000 --> 00:41:22.000 That's what Ephesians 3.17 to 19 00:41:22.000 --> 00:41:24.000 is really saying. 00:41:30.000 --> 00:41:32.000 So, 00:41:32.000 --> 00:41:34.000 I'm going to read it from the NIV 00:41:34.000 --> 00:41:36.000 and ESV. 00:41:36.000 --> 00:41:38.000 And I'm going to read it from the NIV 00:41:38.000 --> 00:41:40.000 and ESV. 00:41:40.000 --> 00:41:42.000 And I'm going to read it from the NIV 00:41:42.000 --> 00:41:44.000 and ESV. 00:41:44.000 --> 00:41:46.000 What does this 00:41:46.000 --> 00:41:48.000 look like when you have too much time 00:41:48.000 --> 00:41:50.000 on your hands? 00:41:50.000 --> 00:41:52.000 I'm one of those blessed people who's got too much time 00:41:52.000 --> 00:41:54.000 on my hands. 00:41:54.000 --> 00:41:56.000 And when you have too much time on your hands 00:41:56.000 --> 00:41:58.000 then God 00:41:58.000 --> 00:42:00.000 allows you to 00:42:00.000 --> 00:42:02.000 explore adventure options. 00:42:02.000 --> 00:42:04.000 Hey Jacob, so now that you and I 00:42:04.000 --> 00:42:06.000 have talked, would you like to plan something 00:42:06.000 --> 00:42:08.000 for this person or plan something for 00:42:08.000 --> 00:42:10.000 this country or plan something 00:42:10.000 --> 00:42:12.000 for the 00:42:12.000 --> 00:42:14.000 house church or would you like 00:42:14.000 --> 00:42:16.000 to read about this or would you like to read 00:42:16.000 --> 00:42:18.000 about that or would you like to talk to me 00:42:18.000 --> 00:42:20.000 about those six things you had in mind? 00:42:20.000 --> 00:42:22.000 Do you want to write them down? Let's talk about them. 00:42:22.000 --> 00:42:24.000 Would you like me to answer 00:42:24.000 --> 00:42:26.000 them immediately? Well then let's sit together 00:42:26.000 --> 00:42:28.000 and why don't you try to figure out 00:42:28.000 --> 00:42:30.000 what I'm trying to say? 00:42:30.000 --> 00:42:32.000 Let me give you a scripture. Go look at it. 00:42:32.000 --> 00:42:34.000 And as you look at it, I'll begin to develop 00:42:34.000 --> 00:42:36.000 thoughts so that you can 00:42:36.000 --> 00:42:38.000 write down things so that you have 00:42:38.000 --> 00:42:40.000 the ability to remember the words you were teaching. 00:42:40.000 --> 00:42:42.000 Even though you may never teach it, you will learn it. 00:42:42.000 --> 00:42:44.000 Oh by the way, let me 00:42:44.000 --> 00:42:46.000 point out some flaws 00:42:46.000 --> 00:42:48.000 that we can discuss that I've been keeping 00:42:48.000 --> 00:42:50.000 quiet about for the last 14 years. 00:42:50.000 --> 00:42:52.000 But I think it's time to bring it up 00:42:52.000 --> 00:42:54.000 because I think you can handle it. 00:42:54.000 --> 00:42:56.000 Ah Jacob, you've got so much time 00:42:56.000 --> 00:42:58.000 on your hand. Why don't you do 00:42:58.000 --> 00:43:00.000 nothing? Just leave me alone for a while 00:43:00.000 --> 00:43:02.000 and I'll leave you alone for a while. 00:43:02.000 --> 00:43:04.000 Though we'll both be absolutely present. Do nothing. 00:43:04.000 --> 00:43:06.000 Or go watch hockey. 00:43:06.000 --> 00:43:08.000 I'm not kidding. 00:43:08.000 --> 00:43:10.000 All these are real. 00:43:12.000 --> 00:43:14.000 I wasn't being 00:43:14.000 --> 00:43:16.000 facetious. 00:43:16.000 --> 00:43:18.000 Whenever I say that word 00:43:18.000 --> 00:43:20.000 I do not understand why it is spelled the way 00:43:20.000 --> 00:43:22.000 it's spelled. 00:43:24.000 --> 00:43:26.000 Okay. God 00:43:26.000 --> 00:43:28.000 put me 00:43:28.000 --> 00:43:30.000 God put Christ into me and 00:43:30.000 --> 00:43:32.000 me into Christ. John 00:43:32.000 --> 00:43:34.000 14.20 says that. That 00:43:34.000 --> 00:43:36.000 God put Christ into me 00:43:36.000 --> 00:43:38.000 and me into Christ 00:43:38.000 --> 00:43:40.000 so that his presence was no longer 00:43:40.000 --> 00:43:42.000 dependent on me. 00:43:42.000 --> 00:43:44.000 I find some of the things 00:43:44.000 --> 00:43:46.000 that God does so funny. God put 00:43:46.000 --> 00:43:48.000 Christ in me and me in Christ so that 00:43:48.000 --> 00:43:50.000 his presence was no longer dependent 00:43:50.000 --> 00:43:52.000 on me. God put 00:43:52.000 --> 00:43:54.000 Christ into me and me into 00:43:54.000 --> 00:43:56.000 Christ so that his presence was no longer dependent 00:43:56.000 --> 00:43:58.000 on me. It's like 00:43:58.000 --> 00:44:00.000 a dandy. 00:44:00.000 --> 00:44:02.000 It doesn'tப matter what I do. 00:44:02.000 --> 00:44:07.200 shake myself, I can push, I can jump. It doesn't matter, he doesn't go away. I'm 00:44:07.200 --> 00:44:10.800 I'm in Christ. It doesn't matter how much I shake. It's like shaking something 00:44:10.800 --> 00:44:15.980 inside a cup. You don't escape it. You can hang me upside down, Christ doesn't come 00:44:15.980 --> 00:44:22.040 out. God has put Christ in me and has put me in Christ so that His presence 00:44:22.040 --> 00:44:25.300 was no longer dependent on me. Did I ever tell you? Of course I've told you but I 00:44:25.300 --> 00:44:30.520 love telling the story. So my sister Reba was asking Caleb, my nephew, to sit 00:44:30.520 --> 00:44:36.280 and eat and there were about three or four mussels left and she said you're 00:44:36.280 --> 00:44:40.080 not getting up till you finish eating and Caleb had one more mussel and she 00:44:40.080 --> 00:44:43.840 said nope I said you will not get up till you finish eating and then he takes 00:44:43.840 --> 00:44:49.040 one more mussel and then he says to my sister if I eat one I'm so full that if 00:44:49.040 --> 00:44:54.640 I eat one more mussel Jesus will have to come out and that created such a 00:44:54.640 --> 00:45:00.240 dilemma for my sister Re because does she tell her boy to obey and lose his 00:45:00.240 --> 00:45:09.320 salvation or can he keep Jesus inside but disobey? Guess who won? The boy won. 00:45:09.680 --> 00:45:15.280 Yeah but it doesn't matter what you do you can't empty yourself of Jesus. He's 00:45:15.280 --> 00:45:20.640 taken care of presence forever. As a son or a daughter I draw his presence. I 00:45:20.640 --> 00:45:26.360 never lose it. I don't have to worry about keeping it. He has taken care of 00:45:26.400 --> 00:45:30.880 that so that presence is no longer dependent on me. I can be aware of it or 00:45:30.880 --> 00:45:34.720 not. I can draw his presence just because I'm a son. We talked about this 00:45:34.720 --> 00:45:40.200 during the time of revival that it is natural for fathers to be drawn towards 00:45:40.200 --> 00:45:47.360 their sons there. It is very natural. I draw his presence. I don't have to grovel 00:45:47.360 --> 00:45:51.900 for it. I don't have to perform for it and I cannot repel it because this is my 00:45:51.900 --> 00:45:57.220 father's presence. I cannot even repel it because it's my father's presence. I 00:45:57.220 --> 00:46:03.300 cannot even repel it because it is my father's presence and a father is drawn 00:46:03.300 --> 00:46:11.820 to his son. I would say to you that awareness of presence, awareness of 00:46:11.820 --> 00:46:28.780 presence is, awareness of presence stems out of, is a sensitivity, is a sensitivity 00:46:28.780 --> 00:46:37.740 that stems out of intimacy. Awareness of presence is a sensitivity that stems out 00:46:37.860 --> 00:46:43.820 of intimacy or is spawned by intimacy. As in, when I'm intimate with someone, 00:46:43.820 --> 00:46:48.540 I'm very aware of their presence. I remember this person I was really 00:46:48.540 --> 00:46:56.140 friendly with. I could, I knew the click clack of her heels even at a distance 00:46:56.140 --> 00:47:00.340 because she walked a certain way. I could be in an elevator and she'd enter and I 00:47:00.340 --> 00:47:03.540 had no, she was in the elevator even if it was crowded because of the perfume 00:47:03.540 --> 00:47:13.140 that she wore. How? You become aware of someone's presence, it is a sensitivity 00:47:13.140 --> 00:47:20.860 that stems out of intimacy. We just know. Derek, these things will happen to you 00:47:20.860 --> 00:47:30.500 one day. But Derek's eyes are set on things above, not things of the earth. 00:47:30.500 --> 00:47:42.900 Yeah. Guys, our experience of God's nearness or distance is not, is not a 00:47:42.900 --> 00:47:49.820 description of his actual proximity but just of our experience of intimacy. Our 00:47:49.820 --> 00:47:54.220 experience of God's nearness, I don't feel God is close to me or I feel God is 00:47:54.220 --> 00:47:58.740 very distant. It's really not a description of his proximity because 00:47:58.780 --> 00:48:03.260 once and for all that has been settled. It is just an experience of our intimacy 00:48:03.260 --> 00:48:08.260 with him and the more intimate you are, the more you are sensitive to his 00:48:08.260 --> 00:48:14.620 presence or aware of his presence. A distance from God is almost always due 00:48:14.620 --> 00:48:20.420 to a disruption caused by sin or ignorance or distrust or disappointment 00:48:20.420 --> 00:48:26.220 which is why we are saying let us not go down that road of distrust, suspicion 00:48:26.220 --> 00:48:34.140 and disappointment because we choose to be embedded and rooted in God. No more am 00:48:34.140 --> 00:48:45.700 I going to succumb easily to distrust, disappointment, suspicion. No more. Even 00:48:45.700 --> 00:48:49.500 when things are uphill, even when things are not happening, even when requests are 00:48:50.060 --> 00:49:01.460 I cannot go there. We cannot go there. Let me conclude. This part is important. 00:49:01.460 --> 00:49:11.020 Intimacy is by faith not by atmosphere or emotions. Intimacy, intimacy is by 00:49:11.020 --> 00:49:21.820 faith not emotions or atmosphere. Emotions and atmosphere may precede and 00:49:21.820 --> 00:49:29.300 proceed from intimacy but it is not what intimacy is born or birthed out of. 00:49:29.300 --> 00:49:36.620 Intimacy is by faith. Intimacy is by faith. I know this is who you are. I know 00:49:36.860 --> 00:49:50.060 you are present. I know you understand. This next line is for me mind and heart 00:49:50.060 --> 00:50:01.820 shaking. Intimacy with God, intimacy with God often occurs, often occurs. Intimacy 00:50:01.820 --> 00:50:17.580 with God often occurs in places of your greatest need where you need to trust, 00:50:17.580 --> 00:50:33.900 where you must trust, where you must trust Him most. As in sometimes in those 00:50:33.900 --> 00:50:38.580 very areas that in the past have turned you to distrust, to suspicion, to 00:50:38.580 --> 00:50:46.700 disappointment, to resentment, in those areas very often intimacy with God can 00:50:46.700 --> 00:50:55.380 occur in those places of your greatest need, in those places where you 00:50:55.380 --> 00:51:01.460 trust Him most. That is where some of the purest intimacy occurs. I've known 00:51:01.460 --> 00:51:06.740 husbands and wives who have come into such a place of bonding when one of 00:51:06.740 --> 00:51:13.540 them fell ill and the other one took care of them. Or people who didn't know 00:51:13.540 --> 00:51:18.580 each other, who were enemies, who were stuck in a tragic or critical 00:51:18.580 --> 00:51:27.380 circumstance that begin to bond like no other place. Your flesh demands proof of 00:51:27.380 --> 00:51:32.700 God's love in situations like this. Your flesh demands proof. If you are God then 00:51:32.700 --> 00:51:36.580 come through. If you're God, heal this. If you're God, take this pain away. If you're 00:51:36.580 --> 00:51:43.500 God, do this for me. If you're God, where are you? If you're God, your flesh demands 00:51:43.500 --> 00:51:51.380 proof of God's love. Israel was a poster child for this often. Where is the bread? 00:51:51.380 --> 00:52:00.220 Where is the fish? Oh for the leeks and cucumbers of Egypt. Where is the water? It 00:52:00.220 --> 00:52:04.780 was always transactional in the desert which is why in Luke chapter 4 Satan 00:52:04.780 --> 00:52:09.220 comes and tries to be transactional with Jesus and says, hey do you want the 00:52:09.220 --> 00:52:12.540 kingdoms of the earth for which you have come? Bow before me and I'll give it to 00:52:12.540 --> 00:52:20.380 you. Your flesh demands proof of God's love while the spirit in those 00:52:20.380 --> 00:52:26.040 situations begins to reveal God's love, reveal God's later, reveal God's 00:52:26.040 --> 00:52:30.460 faithfulness and says, hey Jacob do you want to draw closer independence in this 00:52:30.460 --> 00:52:36.540 area and I'll bring you into a place of intimacy you haven't seen before. 00:52:44.620 --> 00:52:50.020 There is nobody who has gone into the wilderness with a correct attitude and 00:52:50.020 --> 00:52:55.900 has not come out without greater intimacy. Jesus went, came back like never 00:52:55.900 --> 00:53:04.460 before. Moses went, came back like never before. Even Israel went, came back like 00:53:04.460 --> 00:53:13.180 never before. Saul or Paul went, came back like never before. Hagar went, came back 00:53:13.180 --> 00:53:16.060 like never before. 00:53:25.900 --> 00:53:46.380 What song did you have in mind Jane? What song did you say you had? Which one? Okay 00:53:46.420 --> 00:54:00.420 Let's, even if you don't know the song I pray God that the words be...okay there's 00:54:00.420 --> 00:54:11.020 someone called Surian who wants prayer for a job. Yeah? So just pray open doors 00:54:11.020 --> 00:54:16.860 for him so that he gets things according to his ability and that his 00:54:16.860 --> 00:54:24.860 dependence for livelihood be on God and not on his job so that the job doesn't 00:54:24.860 --> 00:54:32.060 take center place and yet provides a amazing God. Hey guys I'll just stop 00:54:32.060 --> 00:54:40.300 there. May our flesh not demand proof of God's love and yet in every place where 00:54:40.300 --> 00:54:47.540 the devil says hey do you really think you can trust him? Remember the last 00:54:47.540 --> 00:54:51.540 time you trusted him and remember what happened? Aren't you disappointed? In 00:54:51.540 --> 00:54:57.780 those places let the spirit reveal God's loving nature. In those places let the 00:54:57.780 --> 00:55:02.740 spirit reveal God's faithfulness. In those places may I be drawn even closer 00:55:02.740 --> 00:55:08.020 into dependence in that area. One of the coolest ways to be drawn even closer to 00:55:08.020 --> 00:55:13.980 God is to start being full of gratitude for what he's done, who he is. I will not 00:55:13.980 --> 00:55:18.660 lower my expectations. One of the things that churches say is you should be happy 00:55:18.660 --> 00:55:24.700 with salvation. Isn't that good enough? Why desire anything else? You lower your 00:55:24.700 --> 00:55:28.980 expectations you never need faith. The lowering of expectations hollows out 00:55:28.980 --> 00:55:35.220 faith. Worst case scenario Christians are not practicing Christianity. 00:55:38.020 --> 00:55:54.020 Okay let's sing that song. Father before Jane comes to sing is there anything you want me to just pray out for our sake? 00:55:54.020 --> 00:56:10.740 Father I hear you sing to all of us when I take these words to heart. I hear you 00:56:10.740 --> 00:56:28.500 saying don't be afraid to love me openly, recklessly, boastfully. 00:56:28.500 --> 00:56:43.060 Don't be afraid to love me openly, recklessly, boastfully. I've healed you from the past. I've healed you from the past. Trust me son I've healed you from the past. 00:56:43.060 --> 00:57:04.820 When you prayed I healed you. Here's another secret he's letting you in on. He's saying from your standpoint you have never been closer to me than I have been to you. 00:57:04.820 --> 00:57:19.820 There is nothing between you and I. Nothing between you and I. He says your roots are embedded in your heart. 00:57:19.820 --> 00:57:47.820 Nothing between you and I. He says your roots are embedded deep in my love. Abide in my love. Abide in my love. Jesus said those words in John 15. Abide in my love. Dwell, tent. Giving you a new start. 00:57:47.820 --> 00:58:15.820 Giving you a new start. A bride revived in love for her bridegroom is a bride that will boast of her bridegroom across the earth. This is all part of my plan for you. 00:58:15.820 --> 00:58:40.820 When I told Jacob to start teaching from Song of Songs for two days, Saturday and Sunday, it is part of my plan. This is part of my intent to revive you. A bride revived in her love, in her fresh new love for her bridegroom is a bride that cannot keep quiet. 00:58:40.820 --> 00:59:08.820 I will announce her bridegroom to the entire world. I love you. Receive my love so that you can return it. So that I may fill you with a fullness of love. So that you can love others and draw them into the relationship that Jesus is inviting you into. 00:59:08.820 --> 00:59:30.820 Will you remember this children? Will you remember this tomorrow morning, this evening? That I, Jesus Christ, am inviting you into the same relationship I have with the Father. You are included in the conversations and the relationship of the Trinity. Come. Come. 00:59:30.820 --> 00:59:45.820 So I end with these words, says God. You have won my heart. It's the best gift you could have given me today.