WEBVTT NOTE Podcast: Acts 29 Vancouver Episode: Waist-deep Publishing Date: 2019-08-18T06:00:44-07:00 Podcast URL: https://acts29.ca Episode URL: https://acts29.ca/waist-deep/ 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:10.920 Okay, so we've been talking about the river in Ezekiel 47 as it flows from the throne room 00:00:10.920 --> 00:00:18.080 and flows first ankle deep, then knee deep, then waist deep, and then it was a river that 00:00:18.080 --> 00:00:20.600 you could not walk in but you had to swim in. 00:00:20.600 --> 00:00:27.640 And so we finished ankle deep and knee deep and today we are at that place where in Ezekiel 00:00:27.640 --> 00:00:34.280 47 verse 4 I think it says that, and then the man took me further into the river another 00:00:34.280 --> 00:00:40.640 1500 or 1700 feet and he brought me to a place where the water was waist deep. 00:00:40.640 --> 00:00:43.320 And so that's what we're going to talk about today. 00:00:43.320 --> 00:00:49.200 And we said every time we started on this topic that stepping into this river moves 00:00:49.200 --> 00:01:03.640 you from your measure to the fullness of God. 00:01:03.640 --> 00:01:09.240 And what we mean by that is on your best day there's only so much you can do at the highest 00:01:09.240 --> 00:01:14.820 level of your skill, your ability, your gifting, your natural talent. 00:01:15.300 --> 00:01:20.620 Stepping into this river and if you learn how to do it will bring you into a place where 00:01:20.620 --> 00:01:24.260 you operate out of the measure of God not out of your best. 00:01:24.260 --> 00:01:32.900 Because after a while we as believers have this tendency to default into this is how 00:01:32.900 --> 00:01:34.920 well I can operate. 00:01:34.920 --> 00:01:39.380 So in my case it might be this is how well I can teach or this is how well I can hear 00:01:39.380 --> 00:01:41.380 or this is how well I can do this. 00:01:41.380 --> 00:01:45.540 And then God says sure you have a gifting, you have an ability, you have learned things 00:01:45.540 --> 00:01:50.780 from me, but if you keep walking into this river which is basically the life of the spirit 00:01:50.780 --> 00:01:55.680 and the way I tell you to walk in it you will regardless of how talented or gifted you are 00:01:55.680 --> 00:02:02.020 you'll switch from being the best Jacob you can be to the best God empowered Jacob that 00:02:02.020 --> 00:02:03.020 you can be. 00:02:03.020 --> 00:02:07.500 And it makes a heck of a lot of difference and the world profits. 00:02:07.500 --> 00:02:13.760 So we've gone through ankle and knee deep and now we're talking about waist deep. 00:02:13.760 --> 00:02:17.180 Waist deep water, here's the thing with waist deep water. 00:02:17.180 --> 00:02:19.900 Waist deep water is when you can't see the bottom. 00:02:19.900 --> 00:02:24.500 Waist deep water is when you can't see the bottom and you can't fathom if the next step 00:02:24.500 --> 00:02:28.020 that you take is going to be level or uneven. 00:02:28.020 --> 00:02:29.820 That's the problem with waist deep water right? 00:02:29.820 --> 00:02:33.020 Till it's ankle deep things in life can be sorted out. 00:02:33.260 --> 00:02:37.460 But it comes to a place where God says hey now that you walked the way you walked can 00:02:37.460 --> 00:02:42.300 I take you deeper where you have no way of figuring out what the next step looks like. 00:02:42.300 --> 00:02:50.340 Where you have no idea of whether the next step is just a gradient or whether it's a 00:02:50.340 --> 00:02:53.460 whether it's some kind of a pit that you might walk into. 00:02:53.460 --> 00:02:59.160 Now you can't see what is around and that's where God wants to take us. 00:02:59.200 --> 00:03:04.020 And so the question that we asked each time we talked about these different levels is 00:03:04.020 --> 00:03:08.720 what does it take to walk in waist deep water? 00:03:08.720 --> 00:03:10.960 What does it take to walk in waist deep water? 00:03:10.960 --> 00:03:12.520 So that's what we'll be talking about today. 00:03:12.520 --> 00:03:14.120 Any questions before we go on? 00:03:16.200 --> 00:03:19.520 It's two things happening guys when you think of it. 00:03:19.520 --> 00:03:38.400 One God is saying hey my spirit can take you places you have no control over. 00:03:38.400 --> 00:03:41.120 That's what waist deep water looks like. 00:03:41.120 --> 00:04:00.160 On the other hand God is saying to walk with my spirit you need to know how. 00:04:00.160 --> 00:04:03.880 So these are the two things that are happening in the series. 00:04:03.880 --> 00:04:07.280 On one hand God is saying hey you want to walk in ankle deep water? 00:04:07.280 --> 00:04:09.440 Great my spirit will take you there. 00:04:09.920 --> 00:04:14.480 You need to know a few things as to how to do that so that he can take you there. 00:04:14.480 --> 00:04:19.920 And today we are saying my spirit can take you places you have no control over. 00:04:19.920 --> 00:04:22.000 Where you don't know what's going to happen next. 00:04:22.000 --> 00:04:24.000 My spirit can take you there. 00:04:24.000 --> 00:04:29.200 And then he is also saying but to walk with my spirit in places where you have no control 00:04:29.200 --> 00:04:32.880 you need to know how. 00:04:32.880 --> 00:04:33.600 Any questions? 00:04:39.440 --> 00:04:42.880 Because even though we are believers we love knowing what's going to happen next. 00:04:42.880 --> 00:04:49.840 And then if we kind of have a rough idea as long as there's some kind of a bleak picture 00:04:49.840 --> 00:04:52.960 you can now begin to trust God and hear God is saying you won't even know what's going 00:04:52.960 --> 00:04:53.760 to happen next. 00:04:53.760 --> 00:04:55.760 Want to walk with me? 00:04:55.760 --> 00:04:57.760 That's what he's inviting us into. 00:04:57.760 --> 00:05:00.800 But then he says if you want to walk with me there are a few things you'll need to know. 00:05:00.800 --> 00:05:04.320 So this is basically how do we walk in that kind of water. 00:05:05.600 --> 00:05:06.640 No questions? 00:05:06.640 --> 00:05:08.640 No, I thought we'd stop here. 00:05:08.640 --> 00:05:10.640 Yes, Diana. 00:05:16.640 --> 00:05:20.640 I've got to be more careful now with my mum around. 00:05:20.640 --> 00:05:24.640 Otherwise I might hear a thing or two once I get home. 00:05:24.640 --> 00:05:28.640 So what does it take to walk with a spirit? 00:05:28.640 --> 00:05:32.640 Otherwise I might hear a thing or two once I get home. 00:05:32.640 --> 00:05:38.640 So what does it take to walk in waste deep water? 00:05:38.640 --> 00:05:40.640 What does it take to walk in waste deep water? 00:05:40.640 --> 00:05:46.640 The answer is so blooming simple it sounds like not fun. 00:05:46.640 --> 00:05:48.640 Like I thought there would be a more profound answer. 00:05:48.640 --> 00:05:50.640 What does it take to walk in waste deep water? 00:05:50.640 --> 00:05:52.640 Here's the answer guys. 00:05:58.640 --> 00:06:00.640 Which is basically the answer to this question. 00:06:00.640 --> 00:06:02.640 That's the answer. 00:06:02.640 --> 00:06:04.640 This is the answer. 00:06:04.640 --> 00:06:06.640 Let's give it a try. 00:06:06.640 --> 00:06:08.640 We'll see how it goes. 00:06:08.640 --> 00:06:10.640 So we're going to start with the first question. 00:06:12.640 --> 00:06:16.640 What does it take to walk in waste deep water? 00:06:16.640 --> 00:06:20.640 And the answer, according to Moses and according to Jesus, 00:06:20.640 --> 00:06:22.640 in John 15, Verse 10, 00:06:22.640 --> 00:06:26.640 is, hey, begin to live in the 00:06:26.640 --> 00:06:30.020 begin to live out of the secret place of the Most High. 00:06:30.020 --> 00:06:32.140 Moses starts of Psalm 91 saying, 00:06:32.140 --> 00:06:36.080 he that dwells in the secret place of the Most High 00:06:36.080 --> 00:06:38.780 shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. 00:06:38.780 --> 00:06:42.760 Jesus put it this way in John chapter 15, verse 10. 00:06:42.760 --> 00:06:43.800 And that kind of explains 00:06:43.800 --> 00:06:45.820 what the secret place of the Most High is. 00:06:45.820 --> 00:06:47.180 He says, Jesus says, 00:06:47.180 --> 00:06:48.980 hey guys, you know what I've done? 00:06:48.980 --> 00:06:53.980 I've made myself at home 00:06:57.360 --> 00:07:02.360 in my father's love. 00:07:05.640 --> 00:07:08.320 The secret place that Moses talked about, 00:07:08.320 --> 00:07:10.440 the secret place that David knew, 00:07:10.440 --> 00:07:13.680 the secret place that Paul talked about when he says, 00:07:13.680 --> 00:07:16.080 I'm compelled by, I can't be held back 00:07:18.200 --> 00:07:20.160 by this love of God that I know. 00:07:20.160 --> 00:07:21.880 And he talks about it in Romans 5, 5. 00:07:21.880 --> 00:07:24.560 But I love the way Jesus puts it in John 15, 10, 00:07:24.560 --> 00:07:27.280 where he says, guys, come abide with me, 00:07:27.280 --> 00:07:30.320 just as I have begun to abide with my father. 00:07:30.320 --> 00:07:32.040 And by the way, just so you know, 00:07:32.040 --> 00:07:35.400 I've made myself at home in my father's love. 00:07:38.880 --> 00:07:41.880 And so at the end of the day, waist deep walking 00:07:43.280 --> 00:07:48.280 is when I become so secure in the father's love, 00:07:49.060 --> 00:07:52.560 that I don't care if the next step 00:07:52.560 --> 00:07:56.760 is a chasm that plunges me into deep sea 00:07:56.760 --> 00:07:58.040 or whether it's even. 00:07:58.040 --> 00:08:01.680 I don't care that I don't see what's gonna happen next. 00:08:01.680 --> 00:08:05.160 I don't care that I have provision or don't have provision. 00:08:05.160 --> 00:08:05.980 Why? 00:08:05.980 --> 00:08:09.780 Because I am taken care of by the love of a father 00:08:09.780 --> 00:08:12.320 that I so deeply have grasped 00:08:12.320 --> 00:08:15.420 that nothing, nothing shakes me anymore. 00:08:15.420 --> 00:08:17.420 It's so simple that you would think, 00:08:17.420 --> 00:08:19.420 surely it has to be a little more profound 00:08:19.420 --> 00:08:21.020 when you're in waist deep water. 00:08:21.020 --> 00:08:23.660 But you find that the deeper you go into God, 00:08:23.660 --> 00:08:24.780 the simpler it gets. 00:08:28.660 --> 00:08:32.660 This is not some God who is nebulous and secretive 00:08:32.660 --> 00:08:34.220 where the deeper you go into him, 00:08:34.220 --> 00:08:38.860 you get to find new mysteries about him. 00:08:38.860 --> 00:08:41.260 No, the deeper you go into God, 00:08:41.260 --> 00:08:43.580 the more you get to know about him. 00:08:43.580 --> 00:08:46.140 No, the deeper you get into him, the simpler he becomes. 00:08:46.140 --> 00:08:49.060 Because at the core, God is love. 00:08:49.940 --> 00:08:52.940 And so the deeper you go, the simpler it becomes. 00:08:56.300 --> 00:09:00.660 And so today we'll examine what we know in our heads, 00:09:00.660 --> 00:09:04.780 but find it hard to wrap around in our hearts. 00:09:04.780 --> 00:09:08.260 That how do you get secure in the love of the father? 00:09:08.260 --> 00:09:09.100 How do you do it? 00:09:09.100 --> 00:09:11.340 How do you get secure in the love of the father? 00:09:11.340 --> 00:09:13.260 That's basically what we're gonna do today. 00:09:14.220 --> 00:09:15.860 And that's what we're gonna talk about. 00:09:15.860 --> 00:09:17.900 Because the more secure I am in it, 00:09:17.900 --> 00:09:20.100 the more I'm sure that I'll be taken care of. 00:09:21.860 --> 00:09:25.300 And not everybody has had good father parent experiences. 00:09:26.900 --> 00:09:31.100 Perhaps some of us had parents or fathers who were scary 00:09:31.100 --> 00:09:33.540 or unpredictable or untrustworthy. 00:09:33.540 --> 00:09:36.220 I mean, I was talking to somebody recently about 00:09:36.220 --> 00:09:38.100 a person who was telling me about their dad 00:09:38.100 --> 00:09:40.340 and the cruelty that was, 00:09:40.340 --> 00:09:42.580 this was a guy and the cruelty that was imposed 00:09:42.900 --> 00:09:44.940 and he always grew up being so afraid. 00:09:45.860 --> 00:09:48.180 So some of us may have had fathers who were scary, 00:09:48.180 --> 00:09:50.540 parents or a parent who was scary, 00:09:50.540 --> 00:09:52.740 unpredictable, untrustworthy. 00:09:52.740 --> 00:09:56.700 Oftentimes their love was a contradiction or a transaction 00:09:56.700 --> 00:09:59.540 or it had to be earned. 00:09:59.540 --> 00:10:01.860 And it was just one incident away 00:10:01.860 --> 00:10:05.140 from their anger or disapproval. 00:10:05.140 --> 00:10:06.540 Why am I bringing this up? 00:10:06.540 --> 00:10:08.660 Because guys like it or not, 00:10:08.660 --> 00:10:11.740 our understanding of God as father 00:10:11.740 --> 00:10:14.380 is so skewed by our human experience. 00:10:15.380 --> 00:10:19.780 We'd like to escape it, but unfortunately it is skewed. 00:10:25.780 --> 00:10:28.380 Or perhaps I had a father or a parent 00:10:29.340 --> 00:10:34.140 who was willfully absent or indifferent 00:10:34.180 --> 00:10:38.940 or sometimes sarcastic where everything you did 00:10:38.940 --> 00:10:41.780 was met with disdain or with a response 00:10:41.780 --> 00:10:43.620 that was not uplifting. 00:10:43.620 --> 00:10:46.060 And so what happens then is this is what you begin 00:10:46.060 --> 00:10:47.580 to expect of God. 00:10:47.580 --> 00:10:51.580 And occasionally when you figure out that's not who he is, 00:10:51.580 --> 00:10:52.780 it doesn't last long. 00:10:54.580 --> 00:10:57.700 But in the midst of all that stands God as father. 00:10:57.700 --> 00:10:59.780 And I love this line, I don't know who said it, 00:10:59.780 --> 00:11:01.820 but it basically says, 00:11:01.820 --> 00:11:06.820 a twisted copy does not destroy the original. 00:11:13.620 --> 00:11:18.020 As in when you put a paper into the photocopier 00:11:18.020 --> 00:11:21.020 and it comes out and it looks mangled and damaged, 00:11:21.020 --> 00:11:24.020 doesn't matter because the original is not destroyed. 00:11:24.020 --> 00:11:25.460 The father is different. 00:11:25.460 --> 00:11:28.980 A twisted copy does not and cannot destroy the original. 00:11:28.980 --> 00:11:30.740 Keep that in the back of your mind, 00:11:30.780 --> 00:11:33.180 that regardless of the experience that you may have had 00:11:33.180 --> 00:11:35.100 with your parent or with your father, 00:11:35.100 --> 00:11:37.420 this father just ain't like that. 00:11:37.420 --> 00:11:40.180 I wanted to say that before we examine who he is. 00:11:40.180 --> 00:11:44.060 So basically we're doing a forensic audit on the father. 00:11:44.060 --> 00:11:47.620 And I mean, I've gone over this at least eight times 00:11:47.620 --> 00:11:48.940 in the last two days. 00:11:48.940 --> 00:11:51.460 I still find it so hard to wrap my head around it 00:11:51.460 --> 00:11:52.860 because it's not real. 00:11:54.220 --> 00:11:57.340 But that's the beauty about the father, right? 00:11:57.340 --> 00:12:00.180 He's so not real and so real. 00:12:01.620 --> 00:12:06.060 Any questions before we go on? 00:12:10.540 --> 00:12:12.860 It's really very simple when you think of it. 00:12:12.860 --> 00:12:17.460 Why wouldn't a child walk unafraid into any situation 00:12:17.460 --> 00:12:21.340 if he was absolutely confident of someone 00:12:21.340 --> 00:12:23.420 who says, I will take care of you? 00:12:24.340 --> 00:12:26.740 This is the secret that Jesus lived out of. 00:12:27.300 --> 00:12:29.820 I love, I mean, I know I'm saying John 15, 10 again 00:12:29.820 --> 00:12:30.780 out of the message. 00:12:31.820 --> 00:12:35.100 I have made myself home in my father's love. 00:12:35.100 --> 00:12:35.940 Why don't you? 00:12:38.220 --> 00:12:40.540 He that dwells in the secret place of the most high. 00:12:40.540 --> 00:12:44.020 This is not some entry into the holy of holies. 00:12:44.020 --> 00:12:46.540 That the blood of Jesus will get you there. 00:12:46.540 --> 00:12:48.180 But it's one thing to get there. 00:12:48.180 --> 00:12:49.820 It's another thing to stay there. 00:12:50.780 --> 00:12:52.420 Stay there because you so love it. 00:12:55.460 --> 00:12:56.460 Okay, let's go. 00:12:56.860 --> 00:12:59.900 I was praying this afternoon, this morning. 00:12:59.900 --> 00:13:01.020 The father, as I teach this, 00:13:01.020 --> 00:13:04.220 could you just make this go so deep into my heart 00:13:04.220 --> 00:13:07.460 that something will happen for me? 00:13:07.460 --> 00:13:10.100 So I just pray the same for us, man. 00:13:18.660 --> 00:13:20.860 Some of these lines I'll write down. 00:13:20.860 --> 00:13:23.100 Some of the lines you'll have to scribble away 00:13:23.100 --> 00:13:24.140 or listen to later. 00:13:25.020 --> 00:13:28.420 So here are things about the father 00:13:28.420 --> 00:13:32.340 that if I am able to forever solidify 00:13:32.340 --> 00:13:34.900 or never doubt in my heart, 00:13:34.900 --> 00:13:38.820 you'll have such a wonderful pastor and friend 00:13:38.820 --> 00:13:42.100 and amazing guy you can hang out with. 00:13:42.100 --> 00:13:44.260 I'm talking about me right now. 00:13:44.260 --> 00:13:46.540 Okay, so the first thing is, 00:13:48.300 --> 00:13:51.180 here's all these are statements that God is making. 00:13:51.180 --> 00:13:52.260 So it's not me making them. 00:13:52.660 --> 00:13:54.100 The father's saying it to you. 00:13:56.060 --> 00:14:01.060 I have never turned my back on you. 00:14:04.660 --> 00:14:07.300 I have never turned my back on you. 00:14:07.300 --> 00:14:09.340 I have never turned my back on you. 00:14:10.500 --> 00:14:14.460 Long ago at Acts 29, we had done this thing 00:14:14.460 --> 00:14:15.900 where, Josh, just come up. 00:14:15.900 --> 00:14:20.900 Where we talked about how God is a face-to-face God. 00:14:20.900 --> 00:14:24.060 So Josh sits on this, and every time Josh sits, 00:14:24.060 --> 00:14:25.660 God sees him face-to-face. 00:14:25.660 --> 00:14:27.940 Josh is upset with God. 00:14:27.940 --> 00:14:32.300 He turns his back away, and there he is in your face again. 00:14:32.300 --> 00:14:36.660 He picks up the chair, and he goes to one end of the room, 00:14:36.660 --> 00:14:38.540 and there God is already waiting 00:14:38.540 --> 00:14:40.140 because he knows every move, 00:14:40.140 --> 00:14:41.460 and he's in your face again. 00:14:41.460 --> 00:14:42.940 So he's in your face again. 00:14:42.980 --> 00:14:44.900 He's waiting because he knows every move, 00:14:44.900 --> 00:14:46.140 and he's in your face again. 00:14:46.140 --> 00:14:49.260 Then he decides, that's it, I'm walking out of here, 00:14:49.260 --> 00:14:53.060 and he just walks away, and for once we let him go. 00:14:54.540 --> 00:14:55.380 Come back. 00:14:58.260 --> 00:15:02.140 So the point is that this God has this amazing ability 00:15:02.140 --> 00:15:03.340 to be in your face. 00:15:03.340 --> 00:15:05.420 He's a face-to-face God. 00:15:05.420 --> 00:15:08.900 He's a God who, I just, 00:15:08.900 --> 00:15:11.260 maybe you should go home and let this sink in, 00:15:11.260 --> 00:15:13.620 that he has never turned his back on you. 00:15:14.540 --> 00:15:17.340 It's not your experience, but it is the truth. 00:15:18.340 --> 00:15:20.140 I have never turned my back on you. 00:15:20.980 --> 00:15:22.780 I have never turned my back on you. 00:15:24.260 --> 00:15:27.300 I'm always conferring, same point, 00:15:27.300 --> 00:15:28.700 I'm always conferring 00:15:32.700 --> 00:15:35.220 worth on you 00:15:36.820 --> 00:15:40.780 through words and actions. 00:15:42.260 --> 00:15:47.260 Which means that when I'm in a really lousy place, 00:15:48.460 --> 00:15:51.420 or when I'm full of resentment against God, 00:15:51.420 --> 00:15:53.580 perhaps if I listened, 00:15:53.580 --> 00:15:56.300 I would either hear a loud voice or a whisper 00:15:56.300 --> 00:15:57.900 that confers worth on me. 00:15:59.780 --> 00:16:01.820 John 8, verse 10 and 11, 00:16:01.820 --> 00:16:05.340 they've just got a woman who's been caught in adultery, 00:16:05.340 --> 00:16:08.260 and they bring her before him, 00:16:08.260 --> 00:16:10.820 and the worth that he confers on her. 00:16:12.260 --> 00:16:13.940 Christoza. 00:16:14.820 --> 00:16:15.900 I've said this before, 00:16:15.900 --> 00:16:19.740 but what gives a coin that has lost its value 00:16:19.740 --> 00:16:22.300 is not the coin itself, but the seeker. 00:16:23.140 --> 00:16:26.060 When you lose a 10 cent coin under your sofa, 00:16:26.060 --> 00:16:28.700 you don't call the neighbors to recover the coin. 00:16:29.780 --> 00:16:31.820 But if you should call your neighbors 00:16:31.820 --> 00:16:33.780 to move the sofa to recover the coin, 00:16:33.780 --> 00:16:34.980 or if you should call your neighbors 00:16:34.980 --> 00:16:37.820 to move the piano as Mark and Rhonda did, 00:16:37.820 --> 00:16:39.180 to find the coin, 00:16:39.220 --> 00:16:43.500 then it's the seeker who gives the coin the value. 00:16:43.500 --> 00:16:44.700 At the end of the day, guys, 00:16:44.700 --> 00:16:47.420 here's the difference between Jesus offering salvation 00:16:47.420 --> 00:16:48.820 and we preaching salvation. 00:16:48.820 --> 00:16:51.860 We preach salvation because we think people need rescue. 00:16:51.860 --> 00:16:55.380 Jesus gives salvation because he thinks people have value. 00:16:56.980 --> 00:16:58.580 Big difference, eh? 00:16:58.580 --> 00:16:59.900 Jesus goes looking for people 00:16:59.900 --> 00:17:02.020 not because he wants to save them or rescue them. 00:17:02.020 --> 00:17:03.100 He goes looking for people 00:17:03.100 --> 00:17:04.900 because he thinks they are valuable. 00:17:06.180 --> 00:17:08.580 This is where the church completely loses it, 00:17:08.620 --> 00:17:11.060 because the church goes looking for people to save 00:17:11.060 --> 00:17:13.260 because they need saving and rescuing. 00:17:16.500 --> 00:17:18.420 Jesus does not rescue you because, 00:17:18.420 --> 00:17:21.140 Jesus does not save you because you need rescuing. 00:17:21.140 --> 00:17:24.300 Jesus saves you because you are highly valuable. 00:17:24.300 --> 00:17:27.180 It is the value that causes him to rescue you. 00:17:29.900 --> 00:17:32.540 And once you attach value to a person, 00:17:32.540 --> 00:17:34.380 then it's very hard to be put off 00:17:34.380 --> 00:17:35.620 because the person has value 00:17:35.620 --> 00:17:37.220 regardless of how they respond. 00:17:39.180 --> 00:17:41.260 Jessica problem? 00:17:41.260 --> 00:18:03.580 Are you particular about Jess 00:18:03.580 --> 00:18:04.900 or both of them? 00:18:04.900 --> 00:18:06.020 Youominous person! 00:18:06.020 --> 00:18:09.020 because I was made in his image. 00:18:12.020 --> 00:18:14.020 It's scary to equate yourself like that, 00:18:14.020 --> 00:18:17.020 but when God made me in his image, 00:18:17.020 --> 00:18:20.020 he really designed a self-portrait of sorts, 00:18:20.020 --> 00:18:22.020 of sorts, but he did. 00:18:22.020 --> 00:18:24.020 Highly valued man. 00:18:26.020 --> 00:18:28.020 He never turned his back on me. 00:18:28.020 --> 00:18:33.020 Second, even when you deserve the consequences 00:18:33.020 --> 00:18:37.020 of your sin, dullness, wickedness, disobedience, 00:18:37.020 --> 00:18:42.020 even when you deserve the consequences 00:18:43.020 --> 00:18:48.020 of your disobedience, your dullness, 00:18:48.020 --> 00:18:50.020 your wickedness, your sin, 00:18:53.020 --> 00:18:56.020 I refuse... look at the words he uses. 00:18:56.020 --> 00:18:58.020 I'll give you a scripture for all of them 00:18:58.020 --> 00:19:01.020 so that this isn't coming out of my head. 00:19:01.020 --> 00:19:09.020 I refuse to count your sins against you. 00:19:11.020 --> 00:19:14.020 I refuse to count your sins against you. 00:19:16.020 --> 00:19:18.020 And instead, 00:19:21.020 --> 00:19:24.020 I endeavor to keep you 00:19:24.020 --> 00:19:28.020 in right standing with me. 00:19:34.020 --> 00:19:37.020 Even when you, Jacob, deserve the consequences 00:19:37.020 --> 00:19:40.020 of your disobedience, of your wickedness, 00:19:40.020 --> 00:19:42.020 of your sin, of your dullness, 00:19:42.020 --> 00:19:46.020 I, God, refuse to count your sins against you. 00:19:46.020 --> 00:19:48.020 I refuse it. 00:19:48.020 --> 00:19:50.020 I'm not even entertaining the thought of, 00:19:50.020 --> 00:19:52.020 I do not think like that, 00:19:52.020 --> 00:19:54.020 I refuse to count your sins against you. 00:19:54.020 --> 00:19:57.020 Instead, I'm busy trying to help you understand 00:19:57.020 --> 00:19:59.020 that you have a right standing with me. 00:19:59.020 --> 00:20:02.020 Do you know how freeing that could be 00:20:02.020 --> 00:20:04.020 if we actually got that? 00:20:07.020 --> 00:20:09.020 Do you know how much we struggle with guilt? 00:20:13.020 --> 00:20:15.020 I'm not even entertaining the thought of, 00:20:15.020 --> 00:20:17.020 ah, you deserve it. 00:20:17.020 --> 00:20:19.020 It must be reckoned to you. 00:20:20.020 --> 00:20:23.020 Where is it? Romans 4, 8 talks about it. 00:20:23.020 --> 00:20:26.020 Romans 4, 8, first in Psalm 32 or somewhere, 00:20:26.020 --> 00:20:30.020 it says, Blessed is he whose sin is not imputed to him by God. 00:20:30.020 --> 00:20:33.020 And then Romans 4, 8, Paul takes the same principle 00:20:33.020 --> 00:20:36.020 and he says two things in Romans 4, 8, 7 and 8. 00:20:36.020 --> 00:20:39.020 He says, on one hand, God imputes to me His Holiness. 00:20:39.020 --> 00:20:42.020 On the other hand, He does not impute to me my sin. 00:20:42.020 --> 00:20:45.020 He refuses it. He does not reckon my sins against me. 00:20:45.020 --> 00:20:48.020 Most ministries that deal with healing and all 00:20:48.020 --> 00:20:50.020 first reckon your sins against you. 00:20:50.020 --> 00:20:52.020 It is not from the nature of God. 00:20:52.020 --> 00:20:55.020 It might work, but it ain't the nature of God. 00:20:58.020 --> 00:21:01.020 There is a place where sin needs to be dealt with, 00:21:01.020 --> 00:21:03.020 but God doesn't think of that first. 00:21:03.020 --> 00:21:05.020 This is not cheap grace. 00:21:05.020 --> 00:21:07.020 You know I'm not a cheap grace speaker. 00:21:09.020 --> 00:21:11.020 But this is the nature of God. 00:21:11.020 --> 00:21:13.020 While He does this, while He chooses not, 00:21:13.020 --> 00:21:16.020 while He refuses to count my sins against me 00:21:16.020 --> 00:21:20.020 and while He endeavors to keep me in right standing with Him, 00:21:20.020 --> 00:21:22.020 He's also expecting me to return. 00:21:22.020 --> 00:21:27.020 And He's hoping that I can't bear the condition of broken fellowship. 00:21:27.020 --> 00:21:29.020 He's hoping that Jacob is so desperate for me 00:21:29.020 --> 00:21:32.020 because he's missing me that he'll come running back to me. 00:21:32.020 --> 00:21:35.020 See the thing with the prodigal father and the prodigal son was 00:21:35.020 --> 00:21:37.020 the prodigal son, both the brothers thought 00:21:37.020 --> 00:21:39.020 that they didn't have a relationship with God. 00:21:39.020 --> 00:21:41.020 And both the brothers thought that they didn't have a relationship 00:21:41.020 --> 00:21:43.020 and they didn't have fellowship with their father. 00:21:43.020 --> 00:21:45.020 The father knew the relationship was intact. 00:21:45.020 --> 00:21:48.020 All he was looking was for the fellowship to be restored. 00:21:48.020 --> 00:21:51.020 The relationship never gets broken. Never gets broken. 00:21:54.020 --> 00:21:58.020 I pray God that some of these statements will liberate your heart. 00:21:59.020 --> 00:22:03.020 Because otherwise man, God is a song and a dance 00:22:03.020 --> 00:22:06.020 before you get anywhere close to Him. 00:22:09.020 --> 00:22:11.020 Hey, I've been doing this for 27, 28 years. 00:22:11.020 --> 00:22:13.020 It still hasn't sunk in. 00:22:13.020 --> 00:22:16.020 Because none of our relationships are like this. 00:22:16.020 --> 00:22:18.020 If it ain't your parent or your father, 00:22:18.020 --> 00:22:22.020 it's your spouse or your sibling or your pastor or your mentor 00:22:22.020 --> 00:22:28.020 or someone who will bring this cycle alive. 00:22:28.020 --> 00:22:32.020 And yet one of us needs to, two of us need to, 00:22:32.020 --> 00:22:35.020 70 of us need to stand and say, hey, there's a different way. 00:22:36.020 --> 00:22:39.020 Sorry. I love this one. 00:22:39.020 --> 00:22:42.020 I will not cause you to live in the fear of my anger 00:22:42.020 --> 00:22:44.020 or my withdrawal of love. 00:22:44.020 --> 00:22:48.020 I will not cause you to live in the fear of my anger. 00:22:48.020 --> 00:22:51.020 As in, hey, Jacob, you've got to stop thinking 00:22:51.020 --> 00:22:54.020 that you have to be afraid of my anger. 00:22:54.020 --> 00:22:56.020 I will not cause that to happen. 00:22:56.020 --> 00:23:00.020 I will not cause you to make your life miserable. 00:23:00.020 --> 00:23:05.020 You have to be afraid of my anger. I will not cause that to happen. I I 00:23:07.100 --> 00:23:08.260 Didn't know how to word it 00:23:08.260 --> 00:23:14.800 I will not cause you I will not cause you that if you are ever afraid of my anger because of something you've done 00:23:14.900 --> 00:23:19.980 Then it ain't me and you never have to live in the fear of the withdrawal of my love 00:23:20.100 --> 00:23:24.420 That's a lie that you may have preached Jacob, but it's still a lie. I 00:23:24.420 --> 00:23:30.860 Will not allow my love to be withdrawn. I will not allow you to live in the fear of my anger 00:23:34.380 --> 00:23:40.700 First John 4 18 wherever there is fear there is torment and it ain't from God 00:23:42.900 --> 00:23:44.900 Any questions any thoughts 00:23:45.420 --> 00:23:50.980 Hey, you may have heard this before I know everybody knows first John 4 18, but try to wrap 00:23:50.980 --> 00:23:56.140 Your heart around it so that you can live without the fear of his anger 00:23:56.380 --> 00:23:59.740 Lashing out and without the fear of his love being withdrawn 00:24:05.900 --> 00:24:07.900 Any questions any thoughts 00:24:15.380 --> 00:24:17.380 The next one 00:24:18.100 --> 00:24:20.100 The next one 00:24:22.060 --> 00:24:25.240 I've given myself wholeheartedly to you holding nothing back 00:24:26.060 --> 00:24:29.920 I've given myself wholeheartedly to you holding nothing back 00:24:31.180 --> 00:24:38.560 I've given myself wholeheartedly to you holding nothing back. There's nothing. I'm not going to give you. There's nothing 00:24:38.560 --> 00:24:44.580 I'm mäinzi againЧто nombreux вам七 00:24:44.580 --> 00:24:50.600 from from I am and Romans 833 he who gave his son will he not freely give us 00:24:50.600 --> 00:24:58.880 all things and oh by the way I live in you and you live in me I actually I God 00:24:58.880 --> 00:25:03.400 actually live in you and you live in me I do not hold back anything from you 00:25:03.400 --> 00:25:07.940 Jacob I do not hold back anything from you Jacob my house is open my life is 00:25:07.940 --> 00:25:13.880 open Jesus at one point said it this way in Matthew 11 27 in the message this 00:25:13.880 --> 00:25:18.560 unique father-son intimacy that I have Jesus said I'm willing to go over it 00:25:18.560 --> 00:25:22.040 line by line with anyone who is interested because whatever you have 00:25:22.040 --> 00:25:28.660 given me I will give them there is no limit to how far you and I can plumb the 00:25:28.660 --> 00:25:33.200 depths of God's heart and God's mind 00:25:35.480 --> 00:25:40.320 what does it mean when has it ever happened to you perhaps your spouse may 00:25:40.320 --> 00:25:46.920 have said it to you when you got married all that I am and all that I have I 00:25:46.920 --> 00:25:56.280 pledge to you that is where do you think that came from from your spouse no a 00:25:56.280 --> 00:26:02.120 pastor wrote those lines for a where did the pastor get it from from the Bible 00:26:02.120 --> 00:26:06.160 where did the Bible get it from from God who is basically saying all that I am 00:26:06.160 --> 00:26:11.840 and all that I have I pledge to you 00:26:14.480 --> 00:26:19.400 this way to earth-shaking man it's very hard to wrap our minds around it so let 00:26:19.400 --> 00:26:24.880 it sink somewhere else like the spirit and then slowly begin to feel perhaps 00:26:24.880 --> 00:26:27.880 the emotion of it and process it in terms of your thinking so that you 00:26:27.880 --> 00:26:32.960 change but if you're trying to understand this there ain't no human 00:26:33.000 --> 00:26:38.640 model for this man you won't be able to understand it my god sometimes it is 00:26:38.640 --> 00:26:42.080 irritating when you try to understand these things with your head because it 00:26:42.080 --> 00:26:44.640 ain't gonna work 00:26:49.120 --> 00:26:55.680 because we don't have apples and oranges to compare it to 00:26:56.680 --> 00:27:05.280 I love this line because you're my temple and because I live in you I still 00:27:05.280 --> 00:27:12.720 the I still bear the brunt of your collision with sin because I because you 00:27:12.720 --> 00:27:20.840 take about my temple and because I live in you I still bear the brunt of the of 00:27:20.840 --> 00:27:26.120 your collision with sin because it is my spirit that is violated and it is my 00:27:26.120 --> 00:27:31.640 dwelling that is defiled I found that very sad eh that he 00:27:31.640 --> 00:27:38.480 thinks like that because you are my temple and because I live in you I still 00:27:38.480 --> 00:27:43.840 bear the brunt of your collision with sin because it is my spirit who is 00:27:43.840 --> 00:27:50.120 violated and it is my dwelling that is defiled 00:27:51.840 --> 00:27:59.520 first Corinthians 6 19 don't you know that you are my dwelling place James 00:27:59.520 --> 00:28:06.840 chapter 4 verse 5 don't you know that my spirit yearns jealously over you I mean 00:28:06.840 --> 00:28:15.680 is that your phone is that your phone no as long as it's not yours I'm okay 00:28:16.280 --> 00:28:24.360 yeah because you're my temple and I live in you I still bear the brunt of your 00:28:24.360 --> 00:28:31.600 collision with sin because it violates my spirit and defiles my dwelling place 00:28:32.200 --> 00:28:37.680 first Corinthians 6 19 James 4 5 00:28:45.720 --> 00:28:50.240 listen to this one I can be grieved 00:28:52.400 --> 00:28:55.400 displeased 00:28:57.080 --> 00:29:03.560 I can be grieved displeased exploited 00:29:04.600 --> 00:29:10.880 defied and hurt by you 00:29:11.400 --> 00:29:19.920 I can be grieved displeased exploited defied and be hurt by you but I never 00:29:19.920 --> 00:29:25.960 condemn you and I will never lash out in anger at you but I will never condemn 00:29:25.960 --> 00:29:30.760 you and I will never lash out in anger at you 00:29:31.800 --> 00:29:37.360 imagine if you as a parent could grant this to your children 00:29:41.760 --> 00:29:49.840 that you can hurt me you can defy me that you can grieve me you can displease 00:29:49.840 --> 00:29:56.760 me that you can take advantage and exploit me but after all that I will 00:29:56.760 --> 00:30:02.680 still not condemn you as in judge and sentence I will still not lash out in 00:30:02.680 --> 00:30:05.800 anger at you 00:30:06.560 --> 00:30:11.360 what kind of safety does this God give man if this is the kind of God he is if 00:30:11.360 --> 00:30:14.520 this is the kind of father he is 00:30:15.600 --> 00:30:19.960 the other great thing that will happen if you begin to understand this is sin 00:30:19.960 --> 00:30:24.200 won't have a long-term hold on us 00:30:24.520 --> 00:30:28.000 very often when we sin we stay there for ages because we don't know how to go 00:30:28.000 --> 00:30:32.880 back to God the prodigal son could have gone back pretty soon man as soon as 00:30:32.920 --> 00:30:36.880 his wealth got over he should have gone back nope he went through wealth getting 00:30:36.880 --> 00:30:41.440 over then borrowing from the citizens of the land then you losing that then went 00:30:41.440 --> 00:30:45.280 and hung out with the pigs for a while ate the food of pigs and then finally 00:30:45.280 --> 00:30:49.360 came to his senses you come to your senses faster when you realize the kind 00:30:49.360 --> 00:30:52.040 of father you have 00:30:52.040 --> 00:30:54.080 you 00:30:58.960 --> 00:31:05.160 I don't know why we've developed such an unhealthy fear of God 00:31:09.200 --> 00:31:14.360 yeah but you would think it would change but it hasn't changed either it's super 00:31:14.360 --> 00:31:19.840 cheap grace but God is your buddy buddy or it's this other God and there's 00:31:19.840 --> 00:31:22.680 nothing in between 00:31:25.880 --> 00:31:30.880 our pastors are mainly responsible for this and Sunday school teachers don't 00:31:30.880 --> 00:31:37.160 leave them out my god there'll be a special line for Sunday school teachers 00:31:37.160 --> 00:31:43.920 in heaven really and as they're walking through that 00:31:43.920 --> 00:31:48.160 corridor in heaven there'll be Jonah's whale coming to eat them up Daniel's 00:31:48.160 --> 00:31:52.920 lion no I'm just kidding all the things that they've frightened kids with I'm 00:31:52.920 --> 00:32:00.600 just kidding this is not a scene from heaven I forgot no I'm not talking about 00:32:00.600 --> 00:32:07.240 us I'm talking about Sunday school teachers that I have experienced yeah the 00:32:07.240 --> 00:32:13.080 one the Sunday school teachers at acts 29 my god man they're like angels 00:32:13.600 --> 00:32:15.600 yeah 00:32:16.600 --> 00:32:23.520 yeah okay good sorry that I went down a rabbit 00:32:23.520 --> 00:32:29.440 trail I didn't need to go down okay my love is jealous and my spirit wages war 00:32:29.440 --> 00:32:34.800 against the devil over you my love is jealous this is something else you need 00:32:34.800 --> 00:32:39.520 to know because very often we think has God set me free did God take care of 00:32:39.520 --> 00:32:43.600 the situation has God dealt with the devil has he broken that bondage and 00:32:43.600 --> 00:32:49.160 here is the response and it's from James chapter 4 he says my I want you to know 00:32:49.160 --> 00:32:54.240 that my love is jealous as in when someone else has his tentacles in you 00:32:54.240 --> 00:32:59.640 when someone else has his foot in your house when someone else has entered into 00:32:59.640 --> 00:33:04.440 the recesses of your mind and heart my heart is jealous I'm a possessive God who 00:33:04.440 --> 00:33:08.640 is not controlling but my god I can be possessive about you and because I'm 00:33:08.640 --> 00:33:14.280 possessive my spirit wages war against Satan over you my spirit wages war 00:33:14.280 --> 00:33:19.320 against Satan over you when you call out to God to be set free you must know 00:33:19.320 --> 00:33:24.800 that he goes into action just because he is a jealous God 00:33:38.640 --> 00:33:40.700 you 00:33:48.160 --> 00:33:55.680 one of the saddest and happiest scenes in the Bible is Genesis chapter 3 verse 00:33:55.680 --> 00:34:04.800 9 where this man who knew the presence of God like nobody else is hiding behind 00:34:04.800 --> 00:34:07.880 a bush with his wife 00:34:09.320 --> 00:34:19.520 that is sad but then there's a Saturn scene that is so brilliant where you 00:34:19.520 --> 00:34:23.320 hear the voice of God saying Adam where are you 00:34:23.320 --> 00:34:31.640 that is how he still is Adam Adam where are you it's not that God doesn't know 00:34:31.720 --> 00:34:39.040 where he is but it is a cry that's coming from his heart saying Adam where 00:34:39.040 --> 00:34:41.320 are you 00:34:43.080 --> 00:34:47.600 we don't think he is like this anymore when we sin and hide it's almost like 00:34:47.600 --> 00:34:52.760 I gotta go back and find him and just a thought of waking up next morning and 00:34:52.760 --> 00:34:57.440 going to him and doing the whole routine that depending on how long you've been a 00:34:57.440 --> 00:35:02.840 Christian could take five minutes or 20 minutes such a painful exercise we 00:35:02.840 --> 00:35:07.080 forget that there is someone who's going around saying Adam where are you I was a 00:35:07.080 --> 00:35:12.880 cry that came from God and it gave Adam the courage to whisper from behind the 00:35:12.880 --> 00:35:18.400 bush because he was so afraid 00:35:18.400 --> 00:35:28.840 and so when your actions have consequences I'm there with a toolkit I 00:35:28.840 --> 00:35:34.800 remember having to fix that painting that you guys gave me and there was Mark 00:35:34.800 --> 00:35:39.600 with his toolkit anytime there's repair work to be done or there's a consequence 00:35:39.600 --> 00:35:44.160 God is there with his tool belt and toolkit he's there before you even know 00:35:44.160 --> 00:35:47.120 the mess you've created 00:35:48.440 --> 00:35:54.240 and his usual question is where are you 00:35:57.160 --> 00:36:02.400 when you're feeling dirty and guilty when your sin makes you feel dirty or 00:36:02.400 --> 00:36:06.080 guilty I'm there with water 00:36:07.360 --> 00:36:14.640 when you resent me I'm there with persistent kindness when you're dull to 00:36:14.680 --> 00:36:22.800 my presence I'm there in blazing light as I was in Genesis 3 9 where I went 00:36:22.800 --> 00:36:26.240 looking for him and I said Adam where are you 00:36:26.240 --> 00:36:31.320 sometimes I wish I had oratorial skills that could take you to this crescendo 00:36:31.320 --> 00:36:34.840 Adam where are you and all of you will start weeping and stuff like that 00:36:34.840 --> 00:36:39.400 unfortunately that's not how we change right we change because something 00:36:39.440 --> 00:36:45.480 happens inside us emotion will only get you so far man 00:36:45.480 --> 00:36:51.520 John Francisco sings this song called Adam where are you it's a beautiful song 00:36:54.040 --> 00:37:00.720 here's another line guys I'm incapable of hurting you failing you ignoring you 00:37:00.720 --> 00:37:08.640 or rejecting you this is God speaking eh I'm incapable of hurting you I'm 00:37:08.680 --> 00:37:11.920 incapable of failing you 00:37:12.280 --> 00:37:16.320 I'm even incapable of ignoring you 00:37:17.960 --> 00:37:21.840 and I'm incapable of rejecting you 00:37:22.320 --> 00:37:30.120 do you know that I was the one who drew you to Jesus thought how whenever we 00:37:30.120 --> 00:37:35.920 talk about getting saved that we say and then I found Jesus no John 6 44 says 00:37:35.960 --> 00:37:42.680 that the father draws people unto Jesus so that you can see Jesus and be saved 00:37:42.680 --> 00:37:50.840 and be drawn back to the father all day he draws you to his son so that you can 00:37:50.840 --> 00:37:57.600 see his son and receive him so that you can be drawn back to the father I am 00:37:57.600 --> 00:38:07.800 incapable of hurting you I'm incapable of ignoring you of rejecting you of 00:38:07.800 --> 00:38:12.760 failing you I'm incapable of it I love this next line because I used to 00:38:12.760 --> 00:38:19.400 struggle with this for years my love comes first my love comes first and 00:38:19.400 --> 00:38:25.560 precedes discipline my love comes first and precedes discipline I don't 00:38:25.600 --> 00:38:30.720 discipline to punish you I discipline to instruct you change you prevent you from 00:38:30.720 --> 00:38:35.800 destroying or prevent you from being destroyed I'll write it down 00:38:36.480 --> 00:38:43.840 my love comes first it precedes discipline my love comes first it 00:38:43.840 --> 00:38:49.960 precedes discipline my love comes first 00:38:50.120 --> 00:38:54.080 it precedes discipline 00:38:56.080 --> 00:39:01.880 I don't punish you 00:39:02.920 --> 00:39:06.040 through discipline 00:39:06.960 --> 00:39:12.680 I do not punish you take away the fear of punishment take away the fear of 00:39:12.680 --> 00:39:18.600 punishment God does not punish me why Jacob because all the punishment is 00:39:18.600 --> 00:39:22.920 obviously poured on Jesus forgot to punish me again for the things that 00:39:23.000 --> 00:39:30.000 Jesus was already punished for is a repudiation of Jesus sacrifice 00:39:32.400 --> 00:39:37.360 I don't discipline to punish you I discipline to 00:39:38.960 --> 00:39:41.960 instruct you 00:39:42.480 --> 00:39:49.400 change you prevent you from destroying things 00:39:53.080 --> 00:39:57.080 and prevent you from being destroyed 00:40:11.200 --> 00:40:15.400 why I keep saying I've gone over this eight times and stuff like that is guys 00:40:15.400 --> 00:40:21.360 after going over it eight times the last two days I still don't have it fully 00:40:21.400 --> 00:40:27.120 embedded inside my spirit I so badly want this because I want to be for I 00:40:27.120 --> 00:40:31.840 want to have the freedom to walk in God with him as the kind of father that you 00:40:31.840 --> 00:40:36.120 can make your home in and walk in waste deep water water or the valley of the 00:40:36.120 --> 00:40:39.960 shadow of death knowing that you're absolutely taken care of that these 00:40:39.960 --> 00:40:45.200 demons that have been planted in our heads through teaching through our own 00:40:45.200 --> 00:40:50.360 experiences will not rise up in the middle of a storm because it so hollows 00:40:50.360 --> 00:40:52.880 you out 00:40:54.560 --> 00:40:57.560 any questions 00:41:02.640 --> 00:41:10.320 okay next one I've just got another three or four so we might finish on time 00:41:10.320 --> 00:41:14.760 I know you've heard this before at least the guys who've been here for a 00:41:14.760 --> 00:41:17.760 while have heard this before 00:41:18.760 --> 00:41:21.760 you are the object 00:41:24.640 --> 00:41:29.640 of my extravagant 00:41:29.960 --> 00:41:32.960 delight 00:41:33.240 --> 00:41:36.240 the target 00:41:36.240 --> 00:41:45.040 of my reckless love and by reckless I mean that which is not calculated that 00:41:45.040 --> 00:41:49.480 which is foolish that which is vulnerable and ready to get hurt that 00:41:49.480 --> 00:41:56.480 which is not measured and you are the focus of my laughter filled 00:41:56.800 --> 00:42:03.800 favor and favor if it can be earned is an oxymoron 00:42:07.800 --> 00:42:12.800 just this one sentence alone will change your life if you and I actually believe 00:42:12.800 --> 00:42:21.800 it and I'm the object of your laughter filled favor and favor if it can be 00:42:21.840 --> 00:42:27.800 if you and I actually believe it and I'm the object of his extravagant delight 00:42:27.800 --> 00:42:30.800 but Jacob what about when you do wrong go back to the other points before that 00:42:30.800 --> 00:42:37.280 but Jacob and I go back to the other points before that take this whole thing 00:42:37.280 --> 00:42:43.960 take some clay and make a God sorry it sounds like I'm espousing idolatry what 00:42:43.960 --> 00:42:49.240 I'm saying is take the clay of what has been presented and remake the face of 00:42:49.240 --> 00:42:55.120 God because the face of God that we perhaps have is inaccurate and the 00:42:55.120 --> 00:42:58.120 object of his 00:42:59.800 --> 00:43:02.800 extravagant delight 00:43:04.600 --> 00:43:09.800 I'm the daily target of his reckless love and the daily target of his reckless 00:43:09.800 --> 00:43:16.840 love and I'm the center focus of his laughter filled favor I must include 00:43:16.840 --> 00:43:21.520 laughter there of his laughter filled favor this is a God who refuses to 00:43:21.520 --> 00:43:28.360 reckon account my sins against me he refuses to credit the very real sins 00:43:28.360 --> 00:43:35.440 that I have defiantly committed he refuses to count those sins or credit 00:43:35.440 --> 00:43:41.560 those sins against me he refuses it instead he is attempting to help me 00:43:41.560 --> 00:43:46.360 understand that my relationship with you is intact come restore your broken 00:43:46.360 --> 00:43:51.040 fellowship may you ache because you miss me 00:43:59.440 --> 00:44:05.000 this next one is mind-blowing he does it as soon as you're born again 00:44:05.280 --> 00:44:22.920 soon as you're born again I placed in you the about cry so that you could 00:44:22.960 --> 00:44:25.960 instinctively 00:44:27.720 --> 00:44:38.600 be intimate with me the moment you're born again Galatians 4 6 the spirit that 00:44:38.600 --> 00:44:41.960 I have given you and you get the spirit the day you're born again the spirit 00:44:41.960 --> 00:44:45.760 that I have given you is not a spirit of fear it is not a spirit that subjects 00:44:45.760 --> 00:44:50.280 you to becoming a slave again but it's a spirit of sonship and from within you 00:44:50.440 --> 00:44:57.080 begins to rise the other cry it's instinctive and it is meant for intimacy 00:44:57.080 --> 00:45:04.880 and when that instinctive other cry is replaced by lordship and other things 00:45:04.880 --> 00:45:12.680 Savior Lord and you miss out on the father aspect of God gosh man 00:45:12.680 --> 00:45:19.480 it's an instinctive cry it's like that boy there Daniel instinctive cry 00:45:26.280 --> 00:45:31.800 I choose not to remember since we have dealt with and I don't use it as a 00:45:31.800 --> 00:45:38.480 filter when I deal with you I choose not to remember the sins we have dealt with 00:45:38.480 --> 00:45:42.120 I love the fact that it says we have dealt with as in me going and talking to 00:45:42.120 --> 00:45:46.880 him and he coming and talking about it back because confession is really not 00:45:46.880 --> 00:45:53.840 going telling God that you have sinned he knows that it's talking about it it's 00:45:53.840 --> 00:45:57.360 having a conversation about our shucks father this is what happened and I did 00:45:57.360 --> 00:46:03.080 this and it says and so he says I choose not to remember the sins we have dealt 00:46:03.080 --> 00:46:08.360 with and I never use it as a filter when I deal with you I choose not to 00:46:08.360 --> 00:46:13.080 use it as a filter in future communication I never use it as a filter I don't go 00:46:13.080 --> 00:46:19.200 plunk he had done this before 84 times no I don't use it as a filter what an 00:46:19.200 --> 00:46:25.160 amazing God this is I will use it as a filter he won't I will use it as a 00:46:25.160 --> 00:46:28.520 filter to judge you and judge myself but father I did this last time do you 00:46:28.520 --> 00:46:32.000 think I'll make it this time or Sue has done this before will she do it again 00:46:33.000 --> 00:46:40.640 that's how I will think but the same God man this is why you can see now why 00:46:40.640 --> 00:46:45.280 first Corinthians 13 takes on new meaning 00:46:45.560 --> 00:46:51.120 where it is love keeps no record of wrongs 00:46:53.240 --> 00:46:59.840 I'll give away one of the punchlines right away the problem is this is the 00:46:59.840 --> 00:47:04.640 love that I received from God this is the love that I have to show you that 00:47:04.640 --> 00:47:07.800 just messes things up I wish it was just between God and me but now I'm supposed 00:47:07.800 --> 00:47:12.800 to behave this way with you also but we'll deal with that another day enough 00:47:12.800 --> 00:47:21.840 is that enough is that good that we have today yeah listen to this next one the 00:47:21.840 --> 00:47:26.180 scripture reference for the last one was Psalm 103 verse 12 all the scriptures 00:47:26.180 --> 00:47:30.500 are given on top of your page anyways listen to this this is a problem many 00:47:30.500 --> 00:47:35.500 of us have here despite what you think I don't stand by silently as bad things 00:47:35.500 --> 00:47:41.100 happen to you despite what you think I don't stand silently as bad things 00:47:41.100 --> 00:47:45.900 happen to you it's so natural for me to work on your behalf even if it costs me 00:47:45.900 --> 00:47:51.180 the world it is so natural for me to work on your behalf even if it costs me 00:47:51.180 --> 00:47:56.140 the world despite what you think 00:47:56.220 --> 00:48:03.380 I don't stand by silently when you go through bad things it's natural for me 00:48:03.380 --> 00:48:06.660 to work on your behalf even if it costs me the world let me read you out 00:48:06.660 --> 00:48:13.540 scripture without giving you the reference listen to these words eh 00:48:17.180 --> 00:48:21.780 when you're in over your head this is God speaking when you're in over your 00:48:21.780 --> 00:48:25.380 head I'll be there with you when you're in rough waters you will not go down 00:48:25.380 --> 00:48:29.100 when you're between a rock and a hard place it won't be a dead end because I'm 00:48:29.100 --> 00:48:33.580 God your personal God the holy of Israel your Savior I paid a huge price for you 00:48:33.580 --> 00:48:38.420 all of Egypt with rich Kush and Seba thrown in that's how much you mean to me 00:48:38.420 --> 00:48:42.420 that's how much I love you I'd sell off the whole world to get you back trade 00:48:42.420 --> 00:48:49.060 creation just for you so don't be afraid I'm with you just listen to that eh 00:48:49.060 --> 00:48:52.740 that's how much you mean to me that's how much I love you I'd sell off the 00:48:52.740 --> 00:48:58.260 whole world to get you back trade creation just for you so don't be afraid 00:48:59.340 --> 00:49:10.220 Isaiah 43 verse 2 to 4 Isaiah 43 2 to 4 okay two more points 00:49:15.380 --> 00:49:20.460 I know this but listen to it the love with which I love my son is how I love 00:49:20.780 --> 00:49:27.140 you hey Jacob yah Lord the love with which I love my son is the love Adai 00:49:27.140 --> 00:49:32.660 have for you the love with which I love my son is the way I love you Jacob the 00:49:32.660 --> 00:49:36.300 love with which I love my son is the way I love you narrative oh and by the way I 00:49:36.300 --> 00:49:37.540 love my son perfectly 00:49:37.540 --> 00:49:44.720 The love with which I love my son is the way I love you and by the way I love my 00:49:44.720 --> 00:49:47.480 son perfectly 00:49:47.480 --> 00:49:51.280 John 15, 9. 00:49:51.280 --> 00:49:55.640 The love with which he loves his son is the way he loves me. 00:49:55.640 --> 00:49:58.920 Oh, and by the way, he loves his son perfectly. 00:50:06.000 --> 00:50:10.640 Here's another line that puts things in perspective. 00:50:10.640 --> 00:50:15.440 You see yourself as a failure or a success. 00:50:16.120 --> 00:50:18.560 I see you as a precious son or daughter 00:50:18.560 --> 00:50:22.840 who is either being faithful or faithless. 00:50:22.840 --> 00:50:28.560 You see yourself as a failure or a success. 00:50:28.560 --> 00:50:31.800 I see you as a precious son or daughter 00:50:31.800 --> 00:50:36.720 who is either being faithful or faithless. 00:50:36.720 --> 00:50:39.960 And every time you repent of your faithlessness, 00:50:39.960 --> 00:50:42.600 I move you from glory to glory, strength to strength, 00:50:42.600 --> 00:50:44.760 faith to faith. 00:50:44.800 --> 00:50:47.680 You see yourself as a success or a failure. 00:50:47.680 --> 00:50:49.560 Those are the two places you live in. 00:50:49.560 --> 00:50:51.920 Either I did well and I was successful, 00:50:51.920 --> 00:50:53.960 or I didn't do well, I'm a failure or I'm mediocre, 00:50:53.960 --> 00:50:55.800 I'm average. 00:50:55.800 --> 00:50:59.080 People look at you that way, you look at yourself that way. 00:50:59.080 --> 00:51:01.040 I see you as a precious son or daughter. 00:51:01.040 --> 00:51:06.240 It's inviolable, who is either being faithful or faithless. 00:51:06.240 --> 00:51:09.480 And every time, Jacob, you turn from your faithlessness 00:51:09.480 --> 00:51:12.560 and move you from strength to strength or glory to glory. 00:51:14.760 --> 00:51:15.760 Let me end. 00:51:15.760 --> 00:51:31.040 If you want to thrive in a decaying world 00:51:31.040 --> 00:51:33.680 that is still under the sway of the prince of the power 00:51:33.680 --> 00:51:37.560 of the air or of the devil, as it says in Ephesians 2, verse 2, 00:51:37.560 --> 00:51:40.080 if you want to thrive, not survive, 00:51:40.080 --> 00:51:41.880 surviving anyone can do. 00:51:41.880 --> 00:51:44.400 If you want to thrive in a decaying world 00:51:44.400 --> 00:51:46.720 that is still under the sway of the enemy, 00:51:46.720 --> 00:51:49.560 then it's impossible without resting securely 00:51:49.560 --> 00:51:50.600 in the Father's love. 00:51:50.600 --> 00:51:54.200 There's this amazing scripture in Deuteronomy 33, verse 12, 00:51:54.200 --> 00:51:56.240 where it's a promise over Benjamin. 00:51:56.240 --> 00:51:58.120 And here's what the word says about Benjamin. 00:51:58.120 --> 00:52:01.920 Benjamin will rest securely between the shoulders of God 00:52:01.920 --> 00:52:02.760 in his love. 00:52:02.760 --> 00:52:03.720 I love that, eh? 00:52:03.720 --> 00:52:05.720 It has so many different connotations. 00:52:05.720 --> 00:52:09.000 Benjamin will rest securely between the shoulders 00:52:09.000 --> 00:52:10.280 of God's love. 00:52:10.280 --> 00:52:12.880 So it could either mean that he will rule from between 00:52:12.920 --> 00:52:14.720 the shoulders of God's love, because the shoulders 00:52:14.720 --> 00:52:15.680 represent government. 00:52:15.680 --> 00:52:18.720 Or it could mean, like when your kid is on your shoulder 00:52:18.720 --> 00:52:21.080 and you have your arms wrapped around him, 00:52:21.080 --> 00:52:24.680 that Benjamin will rest securely in God's love 00:52:24.680 --> 00:52:25.880 between his shoulders. 00:52:25.880 --> 00:52:27.640 Deuteronomy 33, 12. 00:52:29.520 --> 00:52:31.920 Once you rest securely in the Father's love 00:52:31.920 --> 00:52:34.680 between his shoulders, my God, man, 00:52:34.680 --> 00:52:36.480 there's nothing that can shake. 00:52:39.920 --> 00:52:41.840 And then it doesn't matter whether you're going 00:52:41.840 --> 00:52:44.840 through waist-deep water or Death Valley. 00:52:44.840 --> 00:52:47.560 You will walk without sight in happy faith. 00:52:47.560 --> 00:52:50.680 You will walk without sight in happy faith. 00:52:50.680 --> 00:52:52.360 There's faith, and there's sad faith, 00:52:52.360 --> 00:52:53.920 and then there's happy faith. 00:52:53.920 --> 00:52:55.080 Faith is just faith. 00:52:55.080 --> 00:52:57.920 Sad faith is, oh, I'm just holding on. 00:52:57.920 --> 00:52:59.960 When will God come through? 00:52:59.960 --> 00:53:00.960 And then there's happy faith, 00:53:00.960 --> 00:53:03.880 which just doesn't even talk about faith, 00:53:03.880 --> 00:53:07.000 because it's so convinced of God's amazing, secure love. 00:53:09.040 --> 00:53:10.400 Questions, thoughts? 00:53:12.840 --> 00:53:14.800 Disagreements, challenges? 00:53:16.160 --> 00:53:18.440 Is anything I said not biblical? 00:53:28.640 --> 00:53:30.880 Nothing, man, no angel, no demon, 00:53:30.880 --> 00:53:32.880 no nothing living nor dead, 00:53:32.880 --> 00:53:34.200 neither today nor tomorrow, 00:53:34.200 --> 00:53:37.440 nor high nor low, no thinkable or unthinkable, 00:53:37.440 --> 00:53:40.920 can prevent God's love from getting through to me. 00:53:41.040 --> 00:53:42.280 Nothing can stop it. 00:53:42.280 --> 00:53:45.520 Psalm 26, verse three, puts it this way in the message. 00:53:45.520 --> 00:53:48.240 Psalm 26, verse three, Psalm 26, three. 00:53:48.240 --> 00:53:49.920 I never lose sight of your love, 00:53:49.920 --> 00:53:51.280 but I keep in step with it, 00:53:51.280 --> 00:53:54.200 never missing a beat, reliant on your faithfulness. 00:53:54.200 --> 00:53:56.520 I never lose sight of your love. 00:53:56.520 --> 00:53:58.080 I never lose sight of your love. 00:53:58.080 --> 00:54:00.800 Having said all this, now begins the real work. 00:54:00.800 --> 00:54:02.040 And what is the real work? 00:54:03.280 --> 00:54:04.760 You know, the strange thing is, 00:54:04.760 --> 00:54:06.680 in Matthew 11, 27, Jesus says, 00:54:06.680 --> 00:54:08.640 I'll teach you about the Father's love. 00:54:08.640 --> 00:54:10.560 In 2 Thessalonians 3, 5, 00:54:10.600 --> 00:54:12.560 Paul says, Jesus Christ will teach you 00:54:12.560 --> 00:54:13.600 about the Father's love. 00:54:13.600 --> 00:54:15.640 So even the teaching is left to him. 00:54:15.640 --> 00:54:16.880 He will show you. 00:54:18.200 --> 00:54:21.560 All that is left to me is having heard the truth 00:54:21.560 --> 00:54:23.000 about the Father's love. 00:54:23.000 --> 00:54:26.200 Can I not take my eyes off 00:54:26.200 --> 00:54:28.600 this Father that has been presented here today? 00:54:30.080 --> 00:54:33.680 Can I not look at all the other relationships 00:54:33.680 --> 00:54:36.680 I may have had in life that contradict this? 00:54:37.680 --> 00:54:40.520 Can I just not take my eyes off? 00:54:40.520 --> 00:54:44.200 Psalm 26, verse 3, I never lose sight of your love. 00:54:44.200 --> 00:54:46.040 I keep in step with you. 00:54:46.040 --> 00:54:47.960 I never miss a beat, 00:54:47.960 --> 00:54:50.200 and I'm reliant on your faithfulness. 00:54:50.200 --> 00:54:52.600 Amazing, eh, how David could come up with stuff. 00:54:52.600 --> 00:54:55.080 I never lose sight of your love. 00:54:55.080 --> 00:54:56.800 I don't miss a beat. 00:54:56.800 --> 00:54:59.360 I'm reliant on your faithfulness. 00:55:01.360 --> 00:55:02.760 And 2 Thessalonians 3, 5, 00:55:02.760 --> 00:55:05.280 I was so relieved to know that Jesus is the one. 00:55:05.640 --> 00:55:07.680 Who will instruct me into the Father's love. 00:55:07.680 --> 00:55:10.040 I was so pleased to know that Jesus is saying, 00:55:10.040 --> 00:55:12.440 hey, this thing that I have with my Father 00:55:12.440 --> 00:55:14.880 is a unique Father-Son intimacy. 00:55:14.880 --> 00:55:17.040 And I will go over line by line 00:55:17.040 --> 00:55:18.520 with anyone who is interested 00:55:18.520 --> 00:55:20.120 so that you can also partake 00:55:20.120 --> 00:55:22.120 in this unique Father-Son intimacy. 00:55:23.120 --> 00:55:27.880 So you got two places where God very clearly says, 00:55:27.880 --> 00:55:29.320 hey, I'll teach you this man, 00:55:29.320 --> 00:55:31.040 but Jacob, can you keep your eyes on this? 00:55:31.040 --> 00:55:32.280 And every time you're straight, 00:55:32.280 --> 00:55:33.680 can you bring your eyes back? 00:55:33.680 --> 00:55:35.320 This is who the Father really is. 00:55:38.520 --> 00:55:39.840 Any questions, guys? 00:55:43.040 --> 00:55:46.080 Now once you understand the Father like this, 00:55:46.080 --> 00:55:47.880 you can begin telescoping him. 00:55:50.000 --> 00:55:51.600 If you don't know the Father like this, 00:55:51.600 --> 00:55:55.640 we are telescoping Venus when it's actually Mercury. 00:55:55.680 --> 00:55:57.880 Because once you know him like this, John 1.18, 00:55:57.880 --> 00:55:59.760 there is only one who has journeyed 00:55:59.760 --> 00:56:01.760 into the Father's bosom or Father's heart 00:56:01.760 --> 00:56:03.320 and has shown him for who he is, 00:56:03.320 --> 00:56:04.560 and his name is Christ. 00:56:04.560 --> 00:56:06.800 And now to that one, you add your real name. 00:56:06.800 --> 00:56:08.680 There is another one who has journeyed 00:56:08.680 --> 00:56:10.000 into the Father's heart 00:56:10.000 --> 00:56:12.720 and would like to show you what the Father is like. 00:56:15.560 --> 00:56:18.560 So, I'm going to go over the line by line by line. 00:56:18.560 --> 00:56:20.560 So, I'm going to go over the line by line 00:56:20.560 --> 00:56:22.560 and I'm going to go over the line by line. 00:56:22.560 --> 00:56:24.560 So, I'm going to go over the line by line 00:56:24.560 --> 00:56:26.880 and I'm going to go over the line by line again. 00:56:32.880 --> 00:56:33.760 Okay. 00:56:33.760 --> 00:56:34.600 I'm done. 00:56:34.600 --> 00:56:35.520 Any questions, guys? 00:56:39.480 --> 00:56:42.120 Anyone wants to say anything about this? 00:56:50.200 --> 00:56:51.320 One at a time, please. 00:56:54.560 --> 00:56:57.960 please go either read it over and over again, 00:56:57.960 --> 00:56:59.720 or learn it over and over again, 00:56:59.720 --> 00:57:01.560 or listen to it over and over again, 00:57:01.560 --> 00:57:03.880 because it ain't human experience, 00:57:03.880 --> 00:57:08.160 and it must become human experience through you for others. 00:57:08.160 --> 00:57:09.880 Then at some point we'll deal with 00:57:09.880 --> 00:57:13.000 how you and I need to be like this to others, 00:57:13.000 --> 00:57:18.000 which is another ball of wax which we won't touch right now. 00:57:21.920 --> 00:57:23.840 Someone had a question? 00:57:24.000 --> 00:57:24.840 Who, Don? 00:57:28.040 --> 00:57:28.880 Go ahead. 00:57:32.360 --> 00:57:33.840 Hi Jason, you had a question? 00:57:35.120 --> 00:57:35.960 Okay. 00:57:40.200 --> 00:57:42.320 Oh, I know, I know. 00:57:42.320 --> 00:57:43.880 I said hi to Devraj already. 00:57:47.400 --> 00:57:48.840 Thanks Don, you're very kind. 00:57:49.840 --> 00:57:51.560 Did your brother put you up to that? 00:57:51.560 --> 00:57:53.520 No, I saw Devraj and his wife walk in, 00:57:53.560 --> 00:57:55.000 and I said hello to them already. 00:57:55.000 --> 00:57:56.400 Well, thanks for being so caring. 00:57:56.400 --> 00:57:57.560 So let's pray. 00:57:57.560 --> 00:57:59.320 I love it when you get embarrassed. 00:58:01.280 --> 00:58:02.840 Because it's usually your brother who gets it, 00:58:02.840 --> 00:58:04.080 but this time it was you. 00:58:05.920 --> 00:58:06.740 Father, 00:58:09.880 --> 00:58:13.520 sometimes I wish there were these syringes 00:58:13.520 --> 00:58:15.480 that you could just poke us with, 00:58:15.480 --> 00:58:19.280 and then you just get a direct download 00:58:19.280 --> 00:58:20.520 and everything changes. 00:58:20.520 --> 00:58:22.080 That would be so amazing, 00:58:22.080 --> 00:58:25.120 but I don't know why you didn't think of that, Father. 00:58:25.120 --> 00:58:29.760 But since we don't have that option open, 00:58:29.760 --> 00:58:31.720 we'll have to consider these things. 00:58:31.720 --> 00:58:35.720 And I just want to leave us with those two last sentences 00:58:37.560 --> 00:58:41.080 that Jesus, you are willing to go over this with us. 00:58:41.080 --> 00:58:43.400 I'll just read out that scripture 00:58:43.400 --> 00:58:46.040 so that we hear it from your mouth. 00:58:46.040 --> 00:58:49.000 It's from the message, Jesus. 00:58:49.000 --> 00:58:50.600 Just one sec. 00:58:50.640 --> 00:58:52.120 Matthew 11, 00:58:54.320 --> 00:58:55.160 27. 00:59:00.600 --> 00:59:03.800 Jesus resumed talking to people, but now tenderly. 00:59:05.280 --> 00:59:08.120 The Father has given me all these things to do and say, 00:59:09.000 --> 00:59:13.000 this is a unique father-son operation, 00:59:13.000 --> 00:59:16.560 coming out of father and son intimacies and knowledge. 00:59:17.600 --> 00:59:19.600 No one knows the son the way the father does, 00:59:19.600 --> 00:59:22.040 nor the father the way the son does. 00:59:22.040 --> 00:59:24.480 But I'm not keeping it to myself. 00:59:24.480 --> 00:59:27.720 I'm ready to go over it line by line 00:59:27.720 --> 00:59:30.120 with anyone willing to listen. 00:59:30.120 --> 00:59:34.160 And so we respond saying, we are willing to listen. 00:59:34.160 --> 00:59:37.400 Oh, God teaches your father. 00:59:37.400 --> 00:59:39.800 We want to learn your father 00:59:39.800 --> 00:59:43.800 so that we can rest secure between his shoulder blades 00:59:44.720 --> 00:59:48.320 in love like you did, where you made yourself home 00:59:48.320 --> 00:59:50.640 in your father's love when he walked the earth. 00:59:50.640 --> 00:59:54.560 And then despite what may be ravaging my mind, my soul, 00:59:54.560 --> 00:59:57.960 my body, I will know that, oh my God, I'm secure. 00:59:57.960 --> 01:00:00.800 He is not being silent or inactive. 01:00:00.800 --> 01:00:03.120 He is moving heaven and earth on my behalf. 01:00:03.120 --> 01:00:04.800 And that sounds like a cliche, 01:00:04.800 --> 01:00:07.520 but it's not because you said it in Isaiah 43, 01:00:07.520 --> 01:00:08.960 verse two to four. 01:00:08.960 --> 01:00:10.360 And then one last scripture. 01:00:10.360 --> 01:00:13.080 It's in 2 Thessalonians 3, 5. 01:00:13.080 --> 01:00:16.160 2 Thessalonians 3, 5. 01:00:19.320 --> 01:00:24.600 It doesn't matter which version we read it from, father, 01:00:24.600 --> 01:00:25.960 but here's what it says. 01:00:25.960 --> 01:00:28.800 May the master, as in your son, Jesus, 01:00:28.800 --> 01:00:31.760 take you by the hand, as in take us by the hand, 01:00:31.760 --> 01:00:34.760 and lead you along the path of God's love 01:00:34.760 --> 01:00:36.600 and Christ's endurance. 01:00:36.600 --> 01:00:39.760 And Ivy, may the Lord direct your hearts 01:00:39.760 --> 01:00:43.160 into God's love and Christ's perseverance. 01:00:43.160 --> 01:00:44.520 May the Lord direct your heart. 01:00:44.520 --> 01:00:47.680 So Jesus, I'm praying on behalf of all of us here. 01:00:47.720 --> 01:00:49.840 Anyone else who listens to this, 01:00:49.840 --> 01:00:53.200 I just pray that would you direct our hearts 01:00:53.200 --> 01:00:55.240 into the Father's love 01:00:55.240 --> 01:00:59.200 and into your ability to persist and to persevere. 01:00:59.200 --> 01:01:01.920 Grant us this, it is in your will. 01:01:01.920 --> 01:01:03.280 It is for your sake. 01:01:04.600 --> 01:01:06.840 In the name of Jesus Christ, amen.