WEBVTT NOTE Podcast: Acts 29 Vancouver Episode: Wilderness Forty – Sonship Publishing Date: 2020-08-31T06:00:44-07:00 Podcast URL: https://acts29.ca Episode URL: https://acts29.ca/wilderness-forty-sonship/ 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:10.360 Okay, so we've been following the Holy Spirit into the wilderness, drawing aside, creating 00:00:10.360 --> 00:00:17.820 time, doing things so that over the 40 days or the six weeks that we've set aside, we 00:00:17.820 --> 00:00:22.040 will have a revelation of God unlike the past. 00:00:22.040 --> 00:00:29.920 We will have the ability to be empowered to return to a post-COVID landscape where we 00:00:29.920 --> 00:00:38.480 as people will no longer be rendered non-essential services, but people will begin to say, take 00:00:38.480 --> 00:00:45.560 me with you because God is in your midst. 00:00:45.560 --> 00:00:52.000 Ten men will tug on the sleeve of one believer and say, take me with you because I heard 00:00:52.000 --> 00:00:53.000 God is in your midst. 00:00:53.000 --> 00:00:56.400 And that's the process we've been going through for the last four weeks. 00:00:56.400 --> 00:01:03.280 This week we talk about sonship because we must return from the wilderness steeped in 00:01:03.280 --> 00:01:05.560 the culture of sonship. 00:01:05.560 --> 00:01:17.600 We must return from the wilderness steeped in the culture of sonship. 00:01:17.600 --> 00:01:18.920 Steeped in the culture of sonship. 00:01:18.920 --> 00:01:25.120 We're not talking about just being sons, the culture of sonship. 00:01:25.120 --> 00:01:30.440 There is a collective way of behaving, there's a collective way of thinking, there's a collective 00:01:30.440 --> 00:01:35.520 way of speaking, there's a collective response that people should see when they are in our 00:01:35.520 --> 00:01:41.320 midst and they should say, ah, so this is what sonship looks like. 00:01:41.320 --> 00:01:46.200 And in the wilderness, remember that the devil did try to sabotage sonship. 00:01:46.200 --> 00:01:51.080 The devil tried to sabotage sonship in the wilderness. 00:01:51.080 --> 00:01:58.240 Twice in the three temptations, Satan makes a statement to Jesus that if you are the son 00:01:58.240 --> 00:02:03.520 of God, Luke chapter four, verse three, if you are the son of God, turn stones into bread. 00:02:03.520 --> 00:02:08.320 Luke chapter four, verse nine, if you are the son of God, jump off this high place and 00:02:08.320 --> 00:02:10.160 the angels will keep you safe. 00:02:10.160 --> 00:02:15.600 So every time you go into the wilderness, you're supposed to come back with a greater 00:02:15.600 --> 00:02:18.480 understanding of what sonship looks like. 00:02:18.480 --> 00:02:24.600 And if that is the case, then know that sonship is sabotaged or challenged in the wilderness. 00:02:24.600 --> 00:02:28.840 Israel did not understand sonship in the wilderness. 00:02:28.840 --> 00:02:33.120 Israel came out of the wilderness as orphans. 00:02:33.120 --> 00:02:37.480 They spent 40 years in the wilderness and they came out as orphans. 00:02:37.480 --> 00:02:44.640 Jesus spent a day for every year and came out more a son than could have been ever made 00:02:44.680 --> 00:02:49.360 visible before that. 00:02:49.360 --> 00:02:51.760 So when did sonship begin? 00:02:51.760 --> 00:02:53.520 When did sonship begin? 00:02:53.520 --> 00:02:58.280 Go to Ephesians one, verse four and five. 00:02:58.280 --> 00:03:00.480 Ephesians one, four and five. 00:03:00.480 --> 00:03:07.000 Tell Jillian that I'll give her my notes. 00:03:07.000 --> 00:03:10.640 Ephesians one, four and five. 00:03:10.640 --> 00:03:18.480 If you read it from the passion version, Ephesians one, four and five, it says there, long before 00:03:18.480 --> 00:03:25.440 he laid down earth's foundations, he had us in mind, had settled on us as the focus of 00:03:25.440 --> 00:03:29.440 his love, to be made whole and holy by his love. 00:03:29.440 --> 00:03:37.000 Long, long ago, he decided to adopt us into his family through Jesus Christ. 00:03:37.000 --> 00:03:39.320 What pleasure he took in planning this. 00:03:39.320 --> 00:03:45.720 He wanted us to enter into the celebration of his lavish gift-giving by the hand of his 00:03:45.720 --> 00:03:46.720 beloved son. 00:03:46.720 --> 00:03:48.400 So when did sonship start? 00:03:48.400 --> 00:03:51.400 Sonship started before the earth was founded. 00:03:51.400 --> 00:03:53.920 Sonship started before the earth was founded. 00:03:53.920 --> 00:03:59.320 It began before the earth was founded and a day is coming when like Adam, and by the 00:03:59.320 --> 00:04:04.520 way if you look at Luke 3.37, it says Adam was the son of God. 00:04:04.520 --> 00:04:06.780 Luke 3.37 says Adam was the son of God. 00:04:06.780 --> 00:04:14.540 So a day is coming when like Adam, we will once again experience the full status of sonship, 00:04:14.540 --> 00:04:15.980 the full status of sonship. 00:04:15.980 --> 00:04:21.020 Go to Romans 8, Romans 8 verse 23. 00:04:21.020 --> 00:04:27.140 Again if I read from the passion version, Romans 8 verse 23. 00:04:27.140 --> 00:04:29.380 Here's what it says. 00:04:29.380 --> 00:04:37.620 Romans 8 verse 23. 00:04:37.620 --> 00:04:40.180 It says, and it's not just creation. 00:04:40.180 --> 00:04:45.660 We who have already experienced the first fruits of the spirit also inwardly grown as 00:04:45.660 --> 00:04:51.540 we passionately long to experience our full status as God's sons and daughters, including 00:04:51.540 --> 00:04:53.660 our physical bodies being transformed. 00:04:53.660 --> 00:04:58.120 Meaning we are already experiencing what it is to be sons and daughters. 00:04:58.120 --> 00:05:03.480 The time is coming when we'll experience the full status of it which includes new bodies. 00:05:03.480 --> 00:05:04.940 But press towards this. 00:05:04.940 --> 00:05:10.960 Do not postpone things into the future where you do not then have to work at it here on 00:05:10.960 --> 00:05:11.960 earth. 00:05:11.960 --> 00:05:15.960 I want to experience the fullness of that when I am in heaven. 00:05:15.960 --> 00:05:20.760 But my God, I want God to say Jacob you've covered so much ground, there's not much left 00:05:20.760 --> 00:05:23.480 to show you in heaven. 00:05:23.480 --> 00:05:30.920 Because you learned how to live it here. 00:05:30.920 --> 00:05:37.260 So here's a statement I made on Wednesday night when I was with a few people. 00:05:37.260 --> 00:05:42.560 If heaven is where the father is, then sonship pulls heaven down. 00:05:42.560 --> 00:05:50.120 If heaven is where the father is, if heaven is where the father is, if heaven is where 00:05:50.280 --> 00:06:06.680 the father is, then sonship pulls heaven down. 00:06:06.680 --> 00:06:09.120 People try to pull heaven down in all kinds of ways. 00:06:09.120 --> 00:06:12.080 You can do it through worship like we did just now. 00:06:12.080 --> 00:06:14.680 You can do it through prayer. 00:06:14.680 --> 00:06:16.560 You can do it through warfare. 00:06:16.800 --> 00:06:22.960 One of the ways you pull heaven down, as in the presence of the father in a place, is 00:06:22.960 --> 00:06:27.840 pulled down through sheer sonship. 00:06:27.840 --> 00:06:34.360 This is why we see even in Eden, in Genesis 1, or Genesis 3 verse 8, what do we read? 00:06:34.360 --> 00:06:41.720 That in the cool of the evening, Adam and Eve heard the sound of God walking in the 00:06:41.720 --> 00:06:43.100 garden. 00:06:43.100 --> 00:06:44.100 It started there. 00:06:44.140 --> 00:06:49.340 One of the cool things about Genesis is that in Genesis 1-12, you see the pattern for the 00:06:49.340 --> 00:06:50.500 earth. 00:06:50.500 --> 00:06:52.000 You see the pattern for the earth. 00:06:52.000 --> 00:06:55.900 You see everything in Genesis 1-12 now being repeated in history. 00:06:55.900 --> 00:07:05.700 Till the end of the times, Genesis 1-12 is your model for what continually happens. 00:07:05.700 --> 00:07:11.120 One of the things that would happen every evening was that God would come down because 00:07:11.120 --> 00:07:14.720 he wanted to meet with his son. 00:07:14.720 --> 00:07:20.720 Beautifully, you can pull heaven down sheerly through sonship. 00:07:20.720 --> 00:07:28.760 The more you walk in an awareness of how to be the son, the more you know, recognize, 00:07:28.760 --> 00:07:31.240 are aware of the presence of the father. 00:07:31.240 --> 00:07:38.560 When that happens, around you, you now create an environment where if people enter, they 00:07:38.560 --> 00:07:40.320 hear the sound of God. 00:07:40.320 --> 00:07:42.920 They hear the sound of God through your life. 00:07:42.920 --> 00:07:47.160 They hear the sound of God through your life. 00:07:47.160 --> 00:07:51.420 Just imagine that. 00:07:51.420 --> 00:07:53.000 What does that sound like? 00:07:53.000 --> 00:07:58.680 They hear the sound of God through your life when they come with a sickness and your mere 00:07:58.680 --> 00:08:06.720 shadow or an apron that falls off you heals them. 00:08:06.720 --> 00:08:11.440 They hear the sound of God because they come with hearts that are hurt, decaying, and they 00:08:11.440 --> 00:08:14.840 leave with life and hope. 00:08:14.840 --> 00:08:18.620 They hear the sound of God because they come with confusion. 00:08:18.620 --> 00:08:19.620 They come with doubts. 00:08:19.620 --> 00:08:22.000 They come with fear and they come with questions. 00:08:22.000 --> 00:08:28.080 And they leave having fears undone and answers to their problems. 00:08:28.080 --> 00:08:32.440 They hear the sound of God because when you pray, you're not praying from earth to heaven. 00:08:32.440 --> 00:08:38.360 You're praying from heaven to earth and you release to them the will of God. 00:08:38.360 --> 00:08:40.680 Sunship pulls heaven down. 00:08:40.680 --> 00:08:49.160 Just like in Genesis 3, 8, God looked forward to, longed to spend time with Adam. 00:08:49.160 --> 00:08:59.800 So he longs to do now and you can hear the sound of God in the garden when you walk as 00:08:59.800 --> 00:09:00.800 a son. 00:09:01.760 --> 00:09:06.240 Hey guys, one of the things you have to do, and I say this to Nick and to others here, 00:09:06.240 --> 00:09:10.280 you cannot fathom everything I'm saying right now. 00:09:10.280 --> 00:09:16.100 If you try to fathom it, you will miss out on the rest of the teaching. 00:09:16.100 --> 00:09:22.480 You cannot even make notes at the speed I'm saying things because again, you'll miss out 00:09:22.480 --> 00:09:25.200 on the teaching. 00:09:25.200 --> 00:09:28.280 Make notes of the main points. 00:09:28.280 --> 00:09:30.320 Don't make notes of the entire thing. 00:09:30.320 --> 00:09:35.040 Don't try to fathom what is being said now because if you do, you'll miss out on the 00:09:35.040 --> 00:09:37.240 rest of it. 00:09:37.240 --> 00:09:38.520 Go home and fathom it. 00:09:38.520 --> 00:09:42.320 Go home and wrap your head around it like, yeah. 00:09:42.320 --> 00:09:51.560 If you try it here, you're going to get lost in Eden while we are somewhere in the middle 00:09:51.560 --> 00:09:54.320 of second Kings. 00:09:54.320 --> 00:09:57.080 Yeah, just want us to know that. 00:09:58.080 --> 00:10:05.680 And the third thing I want to say is intensely focusing your spirit and your mind on a teaching 00:10:05.680 --> 00:10:10.840 for one hour is absolutely normal at Acts 29. 00:10:10.840 --> 00:10:11.840 Absolutely normal. 00:10:11.840 --> 00:10:16.400 It's not a big deal. 00:10:16.400 --> 00:10:20.520 And the last thing I want to say is sleep well Saturday night so that you don't come 00:10:20.520 --> 00:10:23.080 and sleep here during the sermon. 00:10:23.080 --> 00:10:26.880 Really, I mean it. 00:10:27.880 --> 00:10:35.040 These are moments that we have once a week, two hours where God gives his best. 00:10:35.040 --> 00:10:37.040 Not Jacob gives his best. 00:10:37.040 --> 00:10:40.480 God gives his best because that's the only way he knows how to function. 00:10:40.480 --> 00:10:42.880 I must be ready for it. 00:10:42.880 --> 00:10:46.440 Yeah, that's just on the side. 00:10:46.440 --> 00:10:48.160 Not that anyone was sleeping. 00:10:48.160 --> 00:10:49.960 I'm just telling you in advance. 00:10:49.960 --> 00:10:52.040 It's called a preemptive strike. 00:10:52.040 --> 00:10:54.640 Yeah. 00:10:54.640 --> 00:11:00.600 So guys, sonship is real-time intimacy and one-on-othering with God. 00:11:00.600 --> 00:11:05.320 Sonship if you...one of the ways to define it, I mean it is such a broad thing, but one 00:11:05.320 --> 00:11:10.840 of the ways to define it is sonship is real-time intimacy, meaning it's not some prayer-time 00:11:10.840 --> 00:11:11.840 intimacy. 00:11:11.840 --> 00:11:16.280 It's not as I lay my head to sleep, ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-teep. 00:11:16.280 --> 00:11:18.160 It's not that kind of intimacy. 00:11:18.160 --> 00:11:23.640 It is real-time, as in every moment, every hour, every breath that I take. 00:11:23.640 --> 00:11:26.320 It is that kind of intimacy and it's one-on-othering. 00:11:26.320 --> 00:11:30.640 It is God one-on-othering with you and it's you one-on-othering with God. 00:11:30.640 --> 00:11:33.160 In your language with God, you should get mixed up. 00:11:33.160 --> 00:11:37.500 While he is...while you are saying to him, God, you are so kind, you suddenly hear an 00:11:37.500 --> 00:11:42.080 echo saying, but Jacob, you are so kind and you wonder whether you heard right because 00:11:42.080 --> 00:11:48.080 God just told you that you are kind. 00:11:48.080 --> 00:11:50.200 And then you ask him, why do you say that? 00:11:50.240 --> 00:11:54.280 He reminds you that you were kind to someone at work or that you did something so beautiful 00:11:54.280 --> 00:11:59.240 during worship that nobody else noticed, but you just wiped his nail-scarred feet with 00:11:59.240 --> 00:12:04.600 your hair and he just enjoyed that moment. 00:12:04.600 --> 00:12:10.040 It's real-time intimacy and it's one-on-othering where conversations get confused. 00:12:10.040 --> 00:12:15.800 When is it that you've ever had a conversation with someone you love where there are no interruptions? 00:12:15.800 --> 00:12:20.520 Only people who don't know each other well wait till the other person finishes and say 00:12:20.520 --> 00:12:23.840 stuff like, excuse me, I'm sorry I interrupted. 00:12:23.840 --> 00:12:27.200 When does it ever happen between people you love? 00:12:27.200 --> 00:12:31.520 Have you ever watched Derek and Don and Jeevan talk? 00:12:31.520 --> 00:12:36.500 They don't hear a word about what the other one is saying because they're continuously 00:12:36.500 --> 00:12:43.240 interrupting each other. 00:12:43.240 --> 00:12:45.960 Real-time intimacy and one-on-othering with God. 00:12:45.960 --> 00:12:51.960 That's part of what sonship may tangibly be explained as though it's just such a shallow 00:12:51.960 --> 00:12:55.240 definition of it. 00:12:55.240 --> 00:12:57.000 Adam gave up sonship. 00:12:57.000 --> 00:12:59.440 Adam gave up sonship. 00:12:59.440 --> 00:13:04.720 The thing is, if you give up sonship, you can only get one other thing. 00:13:04.720 --> 00:13:08.240 When you give up sonship, the only thing you acquire is orphanhood. 00:13:08.240 --> 00:13:10.920 There is no other middle ground. 00:13:11.400 --> 00:13:14.320 Adam gave up sonship and he acquired orphanhood. 00:13:14.320 --> 00:13:19.160 So there's nothing like, oh, if I give up sonship, maybe I can be a foster child or 00:13:19.160 --> 00:13:24.320 if I give up sonship, I can be someone who has a guardian over them. 00:13:24.320 --> 00:13:25.320 No. 00:13:25.320 --> 00:13:27.920 If you give up sonship, there's only one place to go to, orphanhood. 00:13:27.920 --> 00:13:31.200 And sonship is an active place to stand. 00:13:31.200 --> 00:13:35.680 One of the things I really liked and I haven't heard it before was what Emily said when she 00:13:35.680 --> 00:13:37.520 said waiting on God. 00:13:37.520 --> 00:13:39.520 Strength will rise as we wait upon the Lord. 00:13:39.520 --> 00:13:44.200 Every time we sing that song, it's almost like if we sing enough, perhaps he will do 00:13:44.200 --> 00:13:46.760 something and we won't have to wait on him. 00:13:46.760 --> 00:13:47.760 No. 00:13:47.760 --> 00:13:49.080 He's an active God. 00:13:49.080 --> 00:13:52.640 He's always acting. 00:13:52.640 --> 00:13:56.920 Waiting is this anticipated neck-craned kind of waiting. 00:13:56.920 --> 00:13:58.720 It's not a resigned waiting. 00:13:58.720 --> 00:14:04.720 My neck is craned as I stand at the airport waiting for my wife to come back because I 00:14:04.720 --> 00:14:08.720 haven't seen her for two days. 00:14:08.720 --> 00:14:09.960 That's how much I love her. 00:14:09.960 --> 00:14:17.480 So that's the kind of anticipation we are talking about. 00:14:17.480 --> 00:14:21.160 So when Adam gave up sonship, he acquired the status of an orphan. 00:14:21.160 --> 00:14:25.880 You must understand that if sonship is not active, then it becomes stagnant and stagnant 00:14:25.880 --> 00:14:29.280 sonship always leads to orphanhood. 00:14:29.280 --> 00:14:36.560 There is nothing called stagnant sonship. 00:14:36.560 --> 00:14:41.640 The enemy scheme from the beginning was to separate a son from his father. 00:14:41.640 --> 00:14:46.000 The enemy scheme right from the beginning was to separate a son from his father and 00:14:46.000 --> 00:14:50.200 the strategy hasn't changed. 00:14:50.200 --> 00:14:52.840 This world cultures orphanhood. 00:14:52.840 --> 00:14:54.640 This world is an orphan. 00:14:54.640 --> 00:15:01.480 This world is a petri dish or whatever that thing where you cultivate organisms. 00:15:01.480 --> 00:15:05.280 Yeah. 00:15:05.280 --> 00:15:08.320 This world thrives at it and the strategy is the same. 00:15:08.320 --> 00:15:10.520 Can I separate a son from his father? 00:15:10.520 --> 00:15:13.760 And he's been doing that forever and he's doing it again. 00:15:13.760 --> 00:15:21.640 I can't tell you how critical this is to our understanding. 00:15:21.640 --> 00:15:29.960 All fear, all doubt, all suspicion that I have of God is spawned by a diseased and misshapen 00:15:29.960 --> 00:15:31.220 view of the father. 00:15:32.140 --> 00:15:36.980 Every time I'm afraid, every time I'm suspicious of God's intent, every time I'm confused, 00:15:36.980 --> 00:15:42.420 every time I have doubt, every time I'm suddenly unsure of what's happening, every time my 00:15:42.420 --> 00:15:47.900 prayers take on a desperation that comes out of fear, doubt, confusion, suspicion, it is 00:15:47.900 --> 00:15:55.900 simply because I have a diseased or a misshapen view of the father. 00:15:55.900 --> 00:16:00.860 And even though it's a great idea to go to the word to get promises to stand on, I would 00:16:00.860 --> 00:16:05.140 suggest you go to the word to get an accurate picture of your father before you go to the 00:16:05.140 --> 00:16:07.780 word for promises. 00:16:07.780 --> 00:16:12.660 For what good is a promise that comes from a misshapen diseased view of the father? 00:16:12.660 --> 00:16:17.420 Heidi, am I speaking slow enough? 00:16:17.420 --> 00:16:18.780 Okay. 00:16:18.780 --> 00:16:20.260 Let me know if I go super fast. 00:16:20.260 --> 00:16:24.780 I brought pretty mild coffee today. 00:16:24.780 --> 00:16:37.860 Any questions, guys? 00:16:37.860 --> 00:16:40.060 So what should the culture of sonship look like? 00:16:40.060 --> 00:16:45.020 As we return from the wilderness, what should the culture of sonship look like? 00:16:45.020 --> 00:16:46.740 That's what we'll talk about. 00:16:46.740 --> 00:16:50.900 What should the culture of sonship look like? 00:16:50.900 --> 00:17:12.140 First, root your lineage, root your lineage and your heritage in the father. 00:17:12.140 --> 00:17:16.780 Root your lineage and your heritage in the father. 00:17:16.780 --> 00:17:24.100 As in, make the family that you come from, the parents that you belong to, the clan that 00:17:24.100 --> 00:17:28.980 you have been birthed into, make that secondary. 00:17:28.980 --> 00:17:31.860 Make that secondary. 00:17:31.860 --> 00:17:37.440 That is where sonship starts. 00:17:37.440 --> 00:17:44.860 If you want to cultivate the culture of sonship, you have to root yourself up out of the culture 00:17:44.860 --> 00:17:47.460 that you have been raised in. 00:17:47.460 --> 00:17:52.020 And I mean that in terms of both denomination country, creed, clan. 00:17:52.020 --> 00:17:58.500 It is almost a Genesis 12 repeat of Abraham leaving everything because he heard, I love 00:17:58.500 --> 00:18:00.000 your voice. 00:18:00.000 --> 00:18:01.620 You have been my father. 00:18:01.620 --> 00:18:03.780 You've been my friend. 00:18:03.780 --> 00:18:06.420 It is uprooting to be transplanted. 00:18:06.420 --> 00:18:10.300 And if we don't start there, there's no further progress. 00:18:10.300 --> 00:18:15.380 Psalm 80 verse 15 and verse 17. 00:18:15.380 --> 00:18:19.260 I am the root your right hand has planted. 00:18:19.260 --> 00:18:22.460 I am the sun you're raising up for yourself. 00:18:22.460 --> 00:18:23.660 I am the root. 00:18:23.660 --> 00:18:28.860 You know, long ago, and I think I've said this before, I had a dream and it was during 00:18:28.860 --> 00:18:31.300 a time when I needed God's assurance. 00:18:31.300 --> 00:18:36.900 And in this dream, I see I'm at a beach and as I'm walking at the beach, I am able to 00:18:37.540 --> 00:18:42.160 above that someone's written Psalm 80 verse 15 on it. 00:18:42.160 --> 00:18:44.640 And I wake up and I quickly go to look at it. 00:18:44.640 --> 00:18:46.860 And this is a scripture that I saw many years ago. 00:18:46.860 --> 00:18:51.380 And every time I feel like I'm falling away, every time I feel like I'm being drawn into 00:18:51.380 --> 00:18:57.060 sin, every time I want to do something wrong, I remember who I am because my lineage inherited 00:18:57.060 --> 00:19:00.060 has changed. 00:19:00.060 --> 00:19:05.500 I am the root or the stock that his right hand has planted. 00:19:05.500 --> 00:19:08.820 I am the sun that he's raising up for himself. 00:19:08.820 --> 00:19:12.780 I cannot belong to any other. 00:19:12.780 --> 00:19:16.460 I don't want to belong to any other. 00:19:16.460 --> 00:19:20.380 Psalm 80 verse 15 and 17 talk about this. 00:19:20.380 --> 00:19:28.420 You must find yourself rooted in a new family where your parents do not dictate what happens 00:19:28.420 --> 00:19:31.600 next. 00:19:31.600 --> 00:19:38.160 They dictate it, but they are always secondary to what the father says. 00:19:38.160 --> 00:19:43.000 And it always proves itself in times of crisis. 00:19:43.000 --> 00:19:53.480 And if you don't get this right early, you will not get it right in a crisis. 00:19:53.480 --> 00:19:58.460 Jesus turned around in Matthew 12 49 and he said, who are my mother? 00:19:58.460 --> 00:20:01.480 Who is my mother and who are my brothers? 00:20:01.480 --> 00:20:07.140 And these are these that obey, these that believe are my mothers and my brothers. 00:20:07.140 --> 00:20:14.300 There is something to being rooted in the lineage and the heritage of the father. 00:20:14.300 --> 00:20:15.980 Any questions on that one? 00:20:15.980 --> 00:20:17.460 You have a new family. 00:20:17.460 --> 00:20:30.140 If you don't really think so, then we are making the truth a lie. 00:20:30.140 --> 00:20:35.360 Any questions? 00:20:35.360 --> 00:20:41.360 Many of the things that are hereditary will disappear when you find yourself rooted in 00:20:41.360 --> 00:20:43.060 the family of Christ. 00:20:43.060 --> 00:20:50.160 You will not need deliverance because you get a new set of roots. 00:20:50.160 --> 00:20:58.200 Okay, second one. 00:20:59.200 --> 00:21:07.240 This is what is expected as we come out of a 40 day wilderness and we begin to walk in 00:21:07.240 --> 00:21:09.160 the valleys of the world. 00:21:09.160 --> 00:21:12.920 This is what is expected of us. 00:21:12.920 --> 00:21:14.880 You are committed to the father's business. 00:21:14.880 --> 00:21:19.800 You are committed to the father's business. 00:21:19.800 --> 00:21:23.160 It's in Luke 2 49 where Jesus uses those words. 00:21:23.160 --> 00:21:26.600 You're committed to the father's business. 00:21:26.600 --> 00:21:28.360 Most other versions say father's house. 00:21:28.360 --> 00:21:31.760 KJV and NKJV still say business. 00:21:31.760 --> 00:21:35.640 You are committed to the father's business. 00:21:35.640 --> 00:21:37.400 What is the father's business? 00:21:37.400 --> 00:21:49.100 The father's business may be summarized as MD leading to MC, which is make disciples 00:21:49.100 --> 00:21:51.240 multiply churches. 00:21:51.240 --> 00:21:52.900 Make disciples multiply churches. 00:21:52.900 --> 00:21:54.840 That is the father's business. 00:21:54.840 --> 00:21:56.240 You're committed to this. 00:21:56.240 --> 00:21:57.920 You're committed to this. 00:21:57.920 --> 00:22:04.480 That everything else is always heading towards this one end. 00:22:04.480 --> 00:22:07.920 Making disciples and multiplying churches. 00:22:07.920 --> 00:22:10.000 It's not that you're giving up anything to do this. 00:22:10.000 --> 00:22:14.840 It is that you are using everything to do this. 00:22:14.840 --> 00:22:15.960 You use your vocation. 00:22:15.960 --> 00:22:17.120 You use your money. 00:22:17.120 --> 00:22:18.120 You use your job. 00:22:18.120 --> 00:22:19.200 You use your life. 00:22:19.200 --> 00:22:20.240 You use your family. 00:22:20.240 --> 00:22:21.640 You use your possessions. 00:22:21.640 --> 00:22:22.960 You use your wealth. 00:22:22.960 --> 00:22:24.800 You use everything. 00:22:24.800 --> 00:22:28.640 Every status in life you use towards one common end. 00:22:28.640 --> 00:22:30.200 Make disciples multiply churches. 00:22:30.200 --> 00:22:33.600 This is the father's business. 00:22:33.600 --> 00:22:41.480 Because the father can only hand his job to a son. 00:22:41.480 --> 00:22:44.880 The father could only reveal himself through the son. 00:22:44.880 --> 00:22:50.440 The father continues to reveal himself only through the body of the son. 00:22:50.440 --> 00:22:54.160 Any questions? 00:22:54.160 --> 00:23:13.840 You are not exempt from Christmas gifts and birthday gifts just because you move. 00:23:13.840 --> 00:23:17.560 What I meant is that I would still love to continue giving them Christmas and birthday 00:23:17.560 --> 00:23:20.560 gifts. 00:23:20.560 --> 00:23:29.600 Third one. 00:23:29.600 --> 00:23:34.960 You surrender the right. 00:23:34.960 --> 00:23:36.800 This is a big one guys. 00:23:36.800 --> 00:23:42.640 You surrender the right to self-determination. 00:23:42.640 --> 00:23:47.240 To self-determination. 00:23:47.240 --> 00:23:49.780 You surrender the right to self-determination. 00:23:49.780 --> 00:23:53.940 This is so critical in the whole culture of sonship. 00:23:53.940 --> 00:23:57.060 And it is what the church has not learned. 00:23:57.060 --> 00:24:00.180 The church has learned the culture of servanthood. 00:24:00.180 --> 00:24:08.060 The church refuses to learn the culture of sonship. 00:24:08.060 --> 00:24:09.940 A servant can change master. 00:24:09.940 --> 00:24:12.220 A son cannot change his father. 00:24:12.220 --> 00:24:17.020 A son can only become an orphan. 00:24:17.020 --> 00:24:25.500 Your servanthood is far more appealing in a church than sonship. 00:24:25.500 --> 00:24:31.260 And you surrender the right to self-determination if you are a son. 00:24:31.260 --> 00:24:36.260 If you go to Matthew 16, verse 24. 00:24:36.260 --> 00:24:45.260 Matthew 16, 24. 00:24:46.260 --> 00:24:49.540 I'll read from the message. 00:24:49.540 --> 00:24:52.380 Then Jesus went to work on his disciples. 00:24:52.380 --> 00:24:55.780 Hey, Jillian, thanks for doing this man. 00:24:55.780 --> 00:25:01.460 I'll give you my notes at the end of the service. 00:25:01.460 --> 00:25:04.660 Not that it'll help at all, but I'll give it to you anyways. 00:25:04.660 --> 00:25:07.140 Then Jesus went to work on his disciples. 00:25:07.140 --> 00:25:11.580 Anyone who intends to come with me has to let me lead. 00:25:11.580 --> 00:25:13.780 You are not in the driver's seat. 00:25:13.780 --> 00:25:14.980 I am. 00:25:14.980 --> 00:25:16.500 Don't run from suffering. 00:25:16.500 --> 00:25:17.500 Embrace it. 00:25:17.500 --> 00:25:19.900 Follow me and I'll show you how. 00:25:19.900 --> 00:25:21.460 Just listen to those words again. 00:25:21.460 --> 00:25:24.060 Then Jesus went to work on his disciples. 00:25:24.060 --> 00:25:27.780 Anyone who intends to come with me has to let me lead. 00:25:27.780 --> 00:25:31.020 That's the surrendering of the right of self-determination. 00:25:31.020 --> 00:25:32.900 You are not in the driver's seat. 00:25:32.900 --> 00:25:33.940 I am. 00:25:33.940 --> 00:25:35.300 Don't run from suffering. 00:25:35.300 --> 00:25:36.300 Embrace it. 00:25:36.300 --> 00:25:37.700 Follow me and I'll show you how. 00:25:37.700 --> 00:25:40.100 This is critical to our existence, guys. 00:25:40.100 --> 00:25:44.580 We cannot be any other kind of church because there is no other kind of church. 00:25:44.580 --> 00:25:52.140 You surrender the right to self-determination. 00:25:52.140 --> 00:25:56.380 It's when you want what your will does not want. 00:25:56.380 --> 00:26:02.500 It is when you want what your will does not want because you love someone way too much. 00:26:02.500 --> 00:26:05.700 It happens in a marriage continuously. 00:26:05.700 --> 00:26:09.100 Spouses want what they do not want. 00:26:09.420 --> 00:26:17.420 Spouses want what their wills don't want because they love their partner way too much to not change. 00:26:24.620 --> 00:26:26.620 Luke 14.33 00:26:28.620 --> 00:26:30.620 Luke 14.33 00:26:31.140 --> 00:26:41.260 It says that, simply put, if you are not willing to take what is dearest to you by the plans 00:26:41.260 --> 00:26:45.020 of people and kiss it goodbye, you can't be my disciple. 00:26:45.020 --> 00:26:46.660 Listen to these words. 00:26:46.660 --> 00:26:53.900 Sometimes other versions just expand what Jesus was actually saying. 00:26:53.900 --> 00:26:54.900 Listen to this. 00:26:55.180 --> 00:27:02.740 Simply put, if you are not willing to take what is dearest to you, we hear it differently. 00:27:02.740 --> 00:27:07.540 We hear it as, if you don't give me whatever I want that is dearest to you. 00:27:07.540 --> 00:27:09.020 That's not what Jesus is saying. 00:27:09.020 --> 00:27:13.940 Jesus is not here to take away what is dearest to you because remember who gave it to you? 00:27:13.940 --> 00:27:15.380 Him. 00:27:15.380 --> 00:27:20.780 But having given it to you, it is the Abraham Isaac thingy. 00:27:20.780 --> 00:27:27.380 Now that you have Isaac and I have promised you an heir, are you willing to lay it down? 00:27:27.380 --> 00:27:38.100 Count your blessings, renounce them one by one and you get to a place where you are free. 00:27:38.100 --> 00:27:42.180 Simply put, if you are not willing to take what is dearest to you by the plans of people 00:27:42.180 --> 00:27:46.140 and kiss it goodbye, you cannot be my disciple. 00:27:46.140 --> 00:27:48.300 I love Jesus' straightforwardness. 00:27:48.300 --> 00:27:51.500 He doesn't give me any wiggle room. 00:27:51.500 --> 00:27:52.500 That's the beauty of this. 00:27:52.500 --> 00:27:57.660 No wiggle room. 00:27:57.660 --> 00:28:06.300 The post-COVID landscape must meet a people like this. 00:28:06.300 --> 00:28:16.300 Fourth, you seek pathways of wisdom. 00:28:16.300 --> 00:28:20.660 You seek pathways of wisdom. 00:28:20.660 --> 00:28:27.900 You seek pathways of wisdom and you process life through the word. 00:28:27.900 --> 00:28:35.780 You process life through the word. 00:28:35.780 --> 00:28:44.460 As a son, you refuse to stay immature. 00:28:44.460 --> 00:28:50.180 In Galatians 4 it says, till a son comes of age, he is just like a servant in the house 00:28:50.180 --> 00:28:53.300 and is under the care of guardians. 00:28:53.300 --> 00:28:57.500 But once he comes of age, he becomes the master of the house. 00:28:57.500 --> 00:28:59.420 The same principle applies here. 00:29:00.420 --> 00:29:07.060 Sonship, the culture of sonship, seeks out pathways of wisdom and processes life through 00:29:07.060 --> 00:29:12.660 the word so that you can come into a place of maturity. 00:29:12.660 --> 00:29:20.060 One of the reasons we fall into diverse temptations is because we do not process our thinking 00:29:20.060 --> 00:29:25.780 through the word and we do not seek into the word for pathways of wisdom and we still want 00:29:25.780 --> 00:29:27.020 God to use us. 00:29:27.020 --> 00:29:30.300 We still want God to keep us from falling. 00:29:30.300 --> 00:29:33.260 We still want to have intimate times with God. 00:29:33.260 --> 00:29:40.220 Go to the one place where his intimacy is made plain and it is the word. 00:29:40.220 --> 00:29:43.460 How can a man keep his way pure? 00:29:43.460 --> 00:29:53.700 By cherishing your word. 00:29:53.740 --> 00:30:03.620 I mean daily bread and my Atmosphere is highest and all those things are really a great help. 00:30:03.620 --> 00:30:08.980 But they are not staple diet. 00:30:08.980 --> 00:30:13.540 They are like french fries. 00:30:13.540 --> 00:30:15.380 Who goes buys just fries? 00:30:15.380 --> 00:30:22.780 You always get a burger with it. 00:30:22.780 --> 00:30:26.580 No? 00:30:26.580 --> 00:30:30.060 I think so. 00:30:30.060 --> 00:30:35.500 John 17 verse 8, if I were to read it from the passion translation. 00:30:35.500 --> 00:30:42.780 John 17 verse 8 and verse 14. 00:30:42.780 --> 00:30:46.020 John 17 verse 8. 00:30:46.020 --> 00:30:49.580 Hey, you had a burger in that, right? 00:30:49.580 --> 00:30:50.260 May? 00:30:50.260 --> 00:30:52.060 It was not just fries. 00:30:52.060 --> 00:30:54.660 Okay, just checking. 00:30:54.660 --> 00:30:57.860 Otherwise we would have to put you on probation. 00:30:57.860 --> 00:31:03.260 John 17 verse 8 and the very words you gave to me to speak I have passed on to them. 00:31:03.260 --> 00:31:06.660 They have received your words and carried them in their hearts. 00:31:06.660 --> 00:31:10.060 They are convinced that I have come from your presence and they have fully believed that 00:31:10.060 --> 00:31:12.860 you sent me to represent you. 00:31:12.860 --> 00:31:19.660 Verse 14, I have given them your message and that is why the unbelieving world hates them 00:31:19.660 --> 00:31:24.260 for their allegiance is no longer to the world because I am not of the world. 00:31:24.260 --> 00:31:28.160 What changes, what shifts our allegiance from the world to him? 00:31:28.160 --> 00:31:31.260 His word. 00:31:31.260 --> 00:31:35.340 What shifts our allegiance from the world to him? 00:31:35.340 --> 00:31:39.460 His word. 00:31:39.460 --> 00:31:45.860 You cannot shift allegiances without letting his word renew your mind. 00:31:45.860 --> 00:31:52.860 How is that possible? 00:31:52.860 --> 00:31:59.660 Part of the culture of sonship is to seek pathways of wisdom and the process your thinking 00:31:59.660 --> 00:32:04.660 through the word so that your allegiance is so starkly evident to the watching world 00:32:04.660 --> 00:32:10.660 that they hate you or they join you. 00:32:10.660 --> 00:32:14.660 The great thing about Christians is that people can be neutral about them and that is what 00:32:14.660 --> 00:32:19.060 makes them a non-essential service. 00:32:19.060 --> 00:32:20.060 Next one. 00:32:20.060 --> 00:32:27.160 This is a beautiful one and this is a constant, not struggle for me but a constant endeavor 00:32:27.160 --> 00:32:28.360 for me. 00:32:28.360 --> 00:32:57.160 You don't seek dignity, authority, security, purpose, provision, companionship or freedom 00:32:57.160 --> 00:33:04.060 outside of God. 00:33:04.060 --> 00:33:05.060 You don't seek this. 00:33:05.060 --> 00:33:14.060 The culture of sonship is constantly learning how to live off what was guaranteed in Eden 00:33:14.060 --> 00:33:16.560 and has never been rescinded. 00:33:16.560 --> 00:33:25.760 In Eden God said, let us make man in our image, let us put him in a garden where he is safe, 00:33:25.860 --> 00:33:30.860 let us give him dominion or authority over that which we have created so he can be a 00:33:30.860 --> 00:33:36.460 steward, let us put him to work and give him purpose and part of his purpose was to subdue 00:33:36.460 --> 00:33:42.260 and go forth and multiply, let us provide for him so that he does not have to work for 00:33:42.260 --> 00:33:47.460 his living but he shall have provision before he works, let us give him companionship not 00:33:47.460 --> 00:33:52.460 just in terms of intimacy with God but let us create Eve so that he has someone that 00:33:52.560 --> 00:33:58.660 finds himself absolutely compatible with and let us give him the freedom of choosing as 00:33:58.660 --> 00:34:02.560 he pleases and not having his moral will taken captive. 00:34:02.560 --> 00:34:07.960 All these things were given to man in the garden of Eden and they have never been rescinded. 00:34:07.960 --> 00:34:14.560 They are always supposed to be sought from just one and throughout history human beings 00:34:14.560 --> 00:34:21.360 have sought all these things outside of God and when you do you get a distorted, perverted, 00:34:21.460 --> 00:34:26.860 diluted, adulterated version of this and it never satisfies and it leads to more sin. 00:34:26.860 --> 00:34:33.860 A culture of sonship will always go and seek these things from the father because he gives 00:34:33.860 --> 00:34:37.860 these willingly and it was the first thing he gave man, hallelujah. 00:34:37.860 --> 00:34:44.860 And to constantly go down this road, father I am not going to take my dignity, get my 00:34:44.860 --> 00:34:48.960 dignity from the applause or the angst of men. 00:34:48.960 --> 00:34:52.860 I am not going to seek my security outside of you. 00:34:52.860 --> 00:34:59.860 My security first comes from you. 00:34:59.860 --> 00:35:03.860 Any questions? 00:35:03.860 --> 00:35:14.360 Jesus knew this. 00:35:14.360 --> 00:35:21.160 In John 15 5 he puts it this way when he walked the earth. 00:35:21.160 --> 00:35:24.160 He says I am the sprouting wine and you are my branches. 00:35:24.460 --> 00:35:30.460 As you live in union with me as your source fruitfulness will stream from within you. 00:35:30.460 --> 00:35:33.460 But when you live separate from me you are powerless. 00:35:33.460 --> 00:35:40.460 So when you live separate, when you seek this outside of God you really are handing over 00:35:40.460 --> 00:35:44.460 your power to somebody else. 00:35:49.460 --> 00:35:51.460 You are handing over power to an institution. 00:35:51.460 --> 00:35:53.460 You are handing over power to a degree. 00:35:53.760 --> 00:35:55.760 You are handing over your power to a bank account. 00:35:55.760 --> 00:36:01.760 You are handing your power over to the number of nostrils that you control. 00:36:01.760 --> 00:36:07.760 You are handing over power to things that are so temporal when these temporal things 00:36:07.760 --> 00:36:10.760 were already provided by the permanent one. 00:36:10.760 --> 00:36:13.760 What a shame eh? 00:36:13.760 --> 00:36:16.760 Do you understand why this is critical to sonship? 00:36:16.760 --> 00:36:23.060 Because what good is it if as sons we run to other fathers for this? 00:36:47.060 --> 00:36:49.060 Yeah, you explained it well. 00:36:49.060 --> 00:36:59.060 God takes on such an ascendancy in these areas that sure if you guys right now say things 00:36:59.060 --> 00:37:02.060 that honor me I won't say no no no don't say anything. 00:37:02.060 --> 00:37:07.060 I'll just lap it up like a dog enjoying your compliments and your comments. 00:37:07.060 --> 00:37:12.060 But having enjoyed it thoroughly I'll still know where my dignity came from. 00:37:12.360 --> 00:37:20.360 I will lock my door at night and I will lock my car. 00:37:20.360 --> 00:37:26.360 But I know that both my home and my car are intact not because I locked the door but because 00:37:26.360 --> 00:37:28.360 God takes care. 00:37:42.360 --> 00:37:44.360 Questions? 00:37:46.360 --> 00:37:48.360 Okay. 00:37:48.360 --> 00:37:50.360 Next one. 00:37:52.360 --> 00:37:54.360 You comprehend the father's nature? 00:37:54.360 --> 00:37:56.360 You comprehend the father's nature? 00:38:00.360 --> 00:38:02.360 You comprehend the father's nature? 00:38:07.360 --> 00:38:09.360 You comprehend the father's nature? 00:38:12.360 --> 00:38:22.360 And represent his words and works and represent his words and works. 00:38:25.360 --> 00:38:30.360 A son loves knowing the nature of his father. 00:38:30.360 --> 00:38:33.360 A son loves knowing the nature of his father. 00:38:33.660 --> 00:38:35.660 A son loves knowing the nature of his father. 00:38:42.660 --> 00:38:44.660 Yeah. 00:38:44.660 --> 00:38:49.660 Doesn't matter what kind of a father you have it is strange how sons want to know their 00:38:49.660 --> 00:38:51.660 fathers. 00:38:51.660 --> 00:38:57.660 What breaks my heart sometimes is when I hear about sons and daughters who wanted to know 00:38:57.960 --> 00:39:03.960 what their fathers were like and were met again and again with being let down or with 00:39:03.960 --> 00:39:07.960 being harmed or with facing their anger. 00:39:07.960 --> 00:39:11.960 But there's something innate in us that wants to know the nature of the father. 00:39:11.960 --> 00:39:17.960 And if it has gone it is because Satan has been successful in separating a son from his 00:39:17.960 --> 00:39:23.960 father and has kept you an orphan for so long now that it doesn't matter. 00:39:24.260 --> 00:39:29.260 Recover it because the father is never more than a cry away. 00:39:35.260 --> 00:39:37.260 A son loves knowing the nature of his father. 00:39:37.260 --> 00:39:41.260 I mean I knew my dad quite well but there were certain things that I would do with him 00:39:41.260 --> 00:39:46.260 because I knew that if I went out with him in those times those were the best storytelling 00:39:46.260 --> 00:39:48.260 times of my life. 00:39:48.560 --> 00:39:53.560 Certain things he would begin to tell stories and if I was able to go out with him during 00:39:53.560 --> 00:39:55.560 those times I'd hear stories. 00:39:55.560 --> 00:39:57.560 Otherwise I'd only hear advice. 00:39:57.560 --> 00:40:01.560 I learned more from his stories than his advice. 00:40:04.560 --> 00:40:08.560 And why do sons want to learn from their father, learn the nature of their father so that 00:40:08.560 --> 00:40:12.560 when they grow up I mean there's that really sad thing that happens to them. 00:40:12.860 --> 00:40:16.860 I just want to be like you dad, I just want to be like you. 00:40:19.860 --> 00:40:21.860 Every child has that. 00:40:21.860 --> 00:40:23.860 Only in this case, go ahead. 00:40:24.160 --> 00:40:30.260 Yeah so which is about 70 to 80 percent of the world has had fathers who could never 00:40:30.260 --> 00:40:35.260 represent their heavenly father to their children and that is because they were raised in the 00:40:35.260 --> 00:40:36.260 same place. 00:40:36.260 --> 00:40:37.260 They were raised in the same place. 00:40:37.260 --> 00:40:39.260 They were raised in the same place. 00:40:39.260 --> 00:40:41.260 They were raised in the same place. 00:40:41.260 --> 00:40:43.260 So they were raised in the same place. 00:40:43.260 --> 00:40:49.260 That's why we have so many parents who at least try to be like their parents. 00:40:49.260 --> 00:40:53.620 has had fathers who could never represent the Heavenly Father to their children. 00:40:53.620 --> 00:40:57.820 And that is when you take people through a process where you help them understand that 00:40:57.820 --> 00:41:03.920 just because the copy was distorted, the original is not. 00:41:03.920 --> 00:41:10.340 Just because the copy was distorted does not mean that the original is defective. 00:41:10.340 --> 00:41:17.960 And sometimes it takes time to help people trust a God again when your father was not 00:41:17.960 --> 00:41:18.960 like that. 00:41:18.960 --> 00:41:27.200 When your father was absent, untrustable, abusive or abdicated as responsibility, at 00:41:27.200 --> 00:41:33.280 that time you have to take longer to help a person understand that, hey, this was what 00:41:33.280 --> 00:41:39.040 happened to the copy but the original is still absolutely holy and beautiful. 00:41:39.040 --> 00:41:47.960 And 80% of the world suffers from that. 00:41:47.960 --> 00:41:49.300 You comprehend the father's nature. 00:41:49.300 --> 00:41:55.420 Matthew 11, 27, Jesus says that, listen, I'm willing to go over it line by line with you. 00:41:55.420 --> 00:41:58.280 Everything that I do comes from a father-son intimacy. 00:41:58.280 --> 00:41:59.360 It's very unique. 00:41:59.360 --> 00:42:00.360 But guess what? 00:42:00.360 --> 00:42:01.360 I'm not keeping it to myself. 00:42:01.360 --> 00:42:04.160 I'm willing to go over it line by line with you. 00:42:04.160 --> 00:42:09.320 This thrills my heart. 00:42:09.320 --> 00:42:14.740 One of my desires on earth is I want to leave this earth as one who knew you at moments 00:42:14.980 --> 00:42:25.260 as intimately as your own son Christ did. 00:42:25.260 --> 00:42:26.820 And so work towards it. 00:42:26.820 --> 00:42:31.500 So if I lived to 72, 82, 92, work towards it till the last day of my life because I 00:42:31.500 --> 00:42:34.840 want to know him and walk with him here on earth just as Christ did. 00:42:34.840 --> 00:42:37.900 I may not be able to do it for three and a half years in a stretch, but I can do it for 00:42:37.900 --> 00:42:41.740 three and a half hours, three and a half days, three and a half weeks. 00:42:41.740 --> 00:42:47.980 Now we're talking. 00:42:47.980 --> 00:42:52.660 I'd hate to find out every good thing only in heaven. 00:42:52.660 --> 00:43:01.220 That'd be such a waste of a life on earth. 00:43:01.220 --> 00:43:03.980 And represent his words and works. 00:43:03.980 --> 00:43:05.980 Represent his words and works. 00:43:05.980 --> 00:43:07.300 Talk like him. 00:43:07.300 --> 00:43:09.060 Do like him. 00:43:09.060 --> 00:43:10.780 Represent his words and works. 00:43:10.780 --> 00:43:13.340 John 14, verse 10 and 11. 00:43:13.340 --> 00:43:17.060 Believe me for the words I speak, but if you do not believe me for the words I speak, believe 00:43:17.060 --> 00:43:20.660 me for the words I do. 00:43:20.660 --> 00:43:21.820 Words and works. 00:43:21.820 --> 00:43:27.180 Sonship, representing the father accurately, representing the father accurately. 00:43:27.180 --> 00:43:29.460 Doesn't happen overnight, but press into it. 00:43:29.460 --> 00:43:34.940 Press into it, press into it, press into it, representing the father accurately. 00:43:34.940 --> 00:43:38.100 Jesus was pressing into it for 30 years. 00:43:38.100 --> 00:43:41.260 And then when he was made public, he showed them. 00:43:41.260 --> 00:43:42.840 But there was a process of learning. 00:43:42.840 --> 00:43:46.980 He grew in wisdom and stature and favor with God and man. 00:43:46.980 --> 00:43:48.580 There was a time of learning. 00:43:48.580 --> 00:43:57.620 Press into it. 00:43:58.300 --> 00:44:07.660 Next one. 00:44:07.660 --> 00:44:11.820 As you get to know his nature, you will change. 00:44:11.820 --> 00:44:14.240 As you get to know his nature, you will change. 00:44:14.240 --> 00:44:18.380 Why is it essential to keep comprehending the nature of the father? 00:44:18.380 --> 00:44:20.620 Because if you don't, then you don't change. 00:44:20.620 --> 00:44:26.860 May I say to you that one of the reasons some of us may not have changed as much as we want. 00:44:26.860 --> 00:44:31.660 One of the reasons some of us don't see continuous change happening in our lives is because we 00:44:31.660 --> 00:44:38.220 are not continuously comprehending the nature of the father. 00:44:38.220 --> 00:44:47.720 Change is more rapid as the comprehension of the father is more rapid. 00:44:47.720 --> 00:44:52.580 The knowledge of the father is one of the few things on earth that does not puff up. 00:44:52.580 --> 00:44:55.380 It doesn't cause you to be puffed up. 00:44:55.380 --> 00:44:56.380 Knowledge puffs up. 00:44:56.380 --> 00:45:01.780 But the knowledge of the father, it's an apostolic prayer that Paul prays in Ephesians 1. 00:45:01.780 --> 00:45:06.900 That you may know Jacob, the length and the breadth and the height and the width of his 00:45:06.900 --> 00:45:09.620 love and his power towards you. 00:45:09.620 --> 00:45:13.700 The knowledge of the father only changes your persona. 00:45:13.700 --> 00:45:15.900 And I've gone over this with some of you. 00:45:15.900 --> 00:45:21.940 And when your persona changes, the anointing changes. 00:45:21.940 --> 00:45:23.680 Isn't that beautiful? 00:45:23.680 --> 00:45:28.840 Those that have been in this church for 14 or 15 years have seen my persona change. 00:45:28.840 --> 00:45:33.240 And with the change of my persona, you've seen a radical difference in the anointing 00:45:33.240 --> 00:45:34.240 upon my life. 00:45:34.240 --> 00:45:40.720 And all I've been by anointing is the way the Spirit of God comes upon and expresses 00:45:40.720 --> 00:45:44.200 himself through a person changes. 00:45:44.200 --> 00:45:46.560 I've seen the same in you. 00:45:46.560 --> 00:45:51.800 Those that I've known for one year, two years, 15 years, I've seen how your persona changes 00:45:51.800 --> 00:45:53.680 as you get to know God better. 00:45:53.680 --> 00:45:58.680 And as you get to know God better, the anointing that comes and flows through you, as in the 00:45:58.680 --> 00:46:06.600 Holy Spirit begins to fit upon you so well because your shape has changed. 00:46:06.600 --> 00:46:13.480 God always provides you clothes, not for you to wear today, but for you to wear tomorrow. 00:46:13.480 --> 00:46:15.320 It's like buying clothes for a baby. 00:46:15.320 --> 00:46:18.180 You never buy them clothes that they can fit today. 00:46:18.180 --> 00:46:20.220 You buy them clothes that can fit tomorrow. 00:46:20.220 --> 00:46:26.080 Because the parents will take care of what fits them today. 00:46:26.080 --> 00:46:29.860 Because you're trusting that the child is going to grow into it. 00:46:29.860 --> 00:46:34.700 God always buys you clothes that can fit you tomorrow, hoping that by seeing him, your 00:46:34.700 --> 00:46:40.420 neck grows fatter, your body builds up so that you can fit into the anointing that the 00:46:40.420 --> 00:46:42.380 Holy Spirit has for you. 00:46:42.380 --> 00:46:54.780 And when that happens, the way you deal with obstacles is unique. 00:46:54.780 --> 00:46:56.940 The way you deal with obstacles is very unique. 00:46:56.940 --> 00:46:59.840 It's very different from how you used to. 00:46:59.840 --> 00:47:04.780 In Luke 8 24, we see how Jesus dealt with the wind and the waves. 00:47:04.780 --> 00:47:07.800 Very different. 00:47:07.800 --> 00:47:14.380 In Acts 28 verse 5, you see how Paul dealt with a snake that had bitten him and was hanging 00:47:14.380 --> 00:47:15.380 onto his hand. 00:47:15.380 --> 00:47:18.840 How do you deal with a snake like that? 00:47:18.840 --> 00:47:27.840 Snake. 00:47:27.840 --> 00:47:31.720 Sonship is never stagnant, guys. 00:47:31.720 --> 00:47:35.660 And please, I've said this before and I say it again, you cannot grow at the pace that 00:47:35.660 --> 00:47:37.300 you determine. 00:47:37.300 --> 00:47:42.360 You can, but you're really not supposed to. 00:47:42.360 --> 00:47:47.300 Phoebe doesn't turn to Sheldon and Jane and says, you know what, this growth thing is 00:47:47.300 --> 00:47:48.300 really getting to me. 00:47:48.300 --> 00:47:49.680 It's happening too fast. 00:47:49.680 --> 00:47:50.920 So can we just slow the process down? 00:47:50.920 --> 00:47:53.600 I'm going to start crawling again for a little while. 00:47:53.600 --> 00:47:54.600 Yeah. 00:47:54.600 --> 00:47:58.480 She doesn't do that. 00:47:58.480 --> 00:48:03.160 It's once she grows up that she decides that. 00:48:03.160 --> 00:48:05.500 And she won't. 00:48:05.500 --> 00:48:07.480 But you cannot grow at your own pace. 00:48:07.480 --> 00:48:08.480 That was just for effect. 00:48:08.480 --> 00:48:09.480 It was nothing else. 00:48:09.480 --> 00:48:11.400 And it didn't have the desired effect. 00:48:11.400 --> 00:48:13.560 That's why I have to apologize for it. 00:48:13.560 --> 00:48:16.600 You cannot grow at your own pace. 00:48:16.600 --> 00:48:19.600 You cannot grow at your own pace. 00:48:19.600 --> 00:48:22.640 There's a pace that is set for you. 00:48:22.640 --> 00:48:32.320 And it's different for different people, eh? 00:48:32.320 --> 00:48:33.320 Any questions? 00:48:33.320 --> 00:48:39.060 Ah, the next one. 00:48:39.060 --> 00:48:43.820 Man, all of these are so rich. 00:48:43.820 --> 00:48:53.200 Next one is, when you, the culture of the, the culture of sonship has generational promises 00:48:53.200 --> 00:48:57.140 burst on your retina, on your spiritual retina. 00:48:57.140 --> 00:49:03.420 Generational promises from the father begin to burst on your spiritual retina. 00:49:03.420 --> 00:49:07.780 Because one of the things God does when you begin to walk in the culture of the sonship, 00:49:07.780 --> 00:49:10.420 of sonship, is he says, okay, Jacob, let me show you more. 00:49:10.420 --> 00:49:14.100 I haven't told you about this particular piece of land I have. 00:49:14.100 --> 00:49:15.100 It's about 40 acres. 00:49:15.100 --> 00:49:16.100 I didn't tell you. 00:49:16.100 --> 00:49:17.100 But now let me tell you about it. 00:49:17.100 --> 00:49:20.100 Hey, Jacob, I'm going to show you a little bit of the culture of the sonship. 00:49:20.100 --> 00:49:23.100 I'm going to show you a little bit of the culture of the sonship. 00:49:24.100 --> 00:49:25.100 It's about 40 acres. 00:49:25.100 --> 00:49:26.100 I didn't tell you. 00:49:26.100 --> 00:49:27.100 But now let me tell you about it. 00:49:27.100 --> 00:49:29.100 Hey, Jacob, let me tell you about this oil well that I had. 00:49:29.100 --> 00:49:32.100 Hey, Jacob, let me tell you about this other brother that you have. 00:49:32.100 --> 00:49:36.380 Hey, Jacob, let me, it's, hey, Jacob, let me tell you this promise that I've kept for 00:49:36.380 --> 00:49:37.380 you hidden. 00:49:37.380 --> 00:49:39.940 Hey, Jacob, let me tell you about this treasure chest that I have for you now. 00:49:39.940 --> 00:49:46.060 It is this constant bursting of generational promises onto your retina. 00:49:46.060 --> 00:49:50.720 I'm very deliberately using the word generational promise because it is not for you. 00:49:50.720 --> 00:49:55.160 It is meant for someone else through you. 00:49:55.160 --> 00:49:59.560 It is meant for someone else through you because this father is raising sons not so that he 00:49:59.560 --> 00:50:03.600 can have a household of strong sons, so that he can have a household of strong sons that 00:50:03.600 --> 00:50:12.720 empty themselves out like their elder brother. 00:50:12.720 --> 00:50:18.080 Psalm 48 verse 12 to 14. 00:50:18.080 --> 00:50:20.440 Go around Zion. 00:50:20.440 --> 00:50:22.040 Circle around Zion. 00:50:22.040 --> 00:50:23.160 Look at her bulwarks. 00:50:23.160 --> 00:50:24.940 Look at her fortresses. 00:50:24.940 --> 00:50:26.520 Look at her citadels. 00:50:26.520 --> 00:50:27.520 Measure them. 00:50:27.520 --> 00:50:28.520 Why? 00:50:28.520 --> 00:50:34.000 So that you can tell the next generation about the goodness of God. 00:50:34.000 --> 00:50:37.600 Why do you think we are building what we are building? 00:50:37.600 --> 00:50:44.560 I'm telling you with every shred of honesty I have that Acts 29 is only being built this 00:50:44.560 --> 00:50:47.880 way so that others may benefit. 00:50:47.880 --> 00:50:51.400 What you benefit is a side product. 00:50:51.400 --> 00:51:01.720 You are no longer the object of Acts 29. 00:51:01.720 --> 00:51:06.000 There's enough material stored in you over the last two years which is sufficient for 00:51:06.000 --> 00:51:07.800 most Christians for a lifetime. 00:51:07.800 --> 00:51:09.440 You don't need more. 00:51:09.440 --> 00:51:18.920 You just need to be punctured so that you can leak like crazy. 00:51:18.920 --> 00:51:23.320 We are being built up so that it can be a generational promise that can be delivered 00:51:23.320 --> 00:51:25.960 to someone else. 00:51:25.960 --> 00:51:29.360 Efficiency was five talks about the same thing. 00:51:29.360 --> 00:51:32.640 You can read it later. 00:51:32.640 --> 00:51:33.780 Here's another one. 00:51:33.780 --> 00:51:45.700 As you go down this road, you'll find that the Father begins to endorse you privately, 00:51:45.700 --> 00:51:52.380 publicly and through others. 00:51:52.380 --> 00:52:03.180 That's something that happens in the culture of sonship. 00:52:03.180 --> 00:52:05.100 The pace is different for each person. 00:52:05.100 --> 00:52:07.700 How does that work? 00:52:07.700 --> 00:52:13.940 God knows the backgrounds we come from, the struggles we've had, the setbacks we've suffered, 00:52:13.940 --> 00:52:17.340 the mindsets that we presently occupy. 00:52:17.340 --> 00:52:24.180 I should not expect off you the same way that God dealt with me is not the way that he deals 00:52:24.180 --> 00:52:25.180 with you. 00:52:25.180 --> 00:52:31.860 I was talking to a couple who are twins and they were telling me how both twins, though 00:52:32.860 --> 00:52:35.340 different, and they have to be dealt with differently. 00:52:35.340 --> 00:52:39.980 Every parent knows that they cannot impose upon their children if you have more than 00:52:39.980 --> 00:52:40.980 one child. 00:52:40.980 --> 00:52:45.900 My sister tells me that you cannot expect to impose upon all three children what she 00:52:45.900 --> 00:52:46.900 did with her. 00:52:46.900 --> 00:52:47.900 Oldest one. 00:52:47.900 --> 00:52:48.900 It doesn't work. 00:52:48.900 --> 00:52:53.180 The dreams have to be different. 00:52:53.180 --> 00:52:55.140 The way you approach them has to be different. 00:52:55.140 --> 00:52:56.780 The way you teach them has to be different. 00:52:56.780 --> 00:52:58.600 The way you discipline them has to be different. 00:52:58.600 --> 00:53:01.580 The way you cuddle them after discipline has to be different. 00:53:01.580 --> 00:53:11.620 Everything has to be different because of our unique slow flakiness. 00:53:11.620 --> 00:53:15.380 You're endorsed by the father privately, publicly, and by others. 00:53:15.380 --> 00:53:18.700 One of the things about this culture of sonship is the father is very involved in this. 00:53:18.700 --> 00:53:20.620 It is not really our work. 00:53:20.620 --> 00:53:22.700 It is the father and us. 00:53:22.700 --> 00:53:25.980 It's never the son's working to create this. 00:53:25.980 --> 00:53:28.700 It's the father working with the son to create this. 00:53:28.700 --> 00:53:31.940 One of the things the father loves doing is telling us, hey, great job, man. 00:53:31.940 --> 00:53:32.940 Hey, well done. 00:53:32.940 --> 00:53:34.180 Hey, I saw that. 00:53:34.180 --> 00:53:35.180 Nobody else noticed it. 00:53:35.180 --> 00:53:36.700 I saw what you did. 00:53:36.700 --> 00:53:40.460 And come and give you these private public paths and sometimes through others. 00:53:40.460 --> 00:53:42.300 You see this in Jesus' life. 00:53:42.300 --> 00:53:46.780 When he was a child and he probably didn't realize it, Simeon comes along and he carries 00:53:46.780 --> 00:53:51.620 Jesus and he says, God, now that I've seen him, now that I've seen the salvation of 00:53:51.620 --> 00:53:54.420 Israel, I can die. 00:53:54.420 --> 00:53:55.420 His parents heard it. 00:53:55.420 --> 00:53:56.420 He didn't. 00:53:56.420 --> 00:54:04.180 Publicly, there were at least two times where God spoke and people heard, this is my beloved 00:54:04.180 --> 00:54:06.740 son in whom I'm well pleased. 00:54:06.740 --> 00:54:08.580 Listen to him. 00:54:08.580 --> 00:54:11.460 Sometimes through others and sometimes through strange others. 00:54:11.460 --> 00:54:15.780 One of the strange others was the soldier who was standing at the cross who turns to 00:54:15.780 --> 00:54:20.380 him and says, this after the earthquake and the darkness, he said, this is truly the son 00:54:20.380 --> 00:54:21.380 of God. 00:54:22.340 --> 00:54:27.900 You see this in Paul's life, where first it's Jesus having a private conversation with 00:54:27.900 --> 00:54:31.820 Paul while he's lying down, knocked off his horse and he says, I am Jesus. 00:54:31.820 --> 00:54:34.140 Go into the city and I'll tell you what to happen. 00:54:34.140 --> 00:54:38.220 Meanwhile, in the city is Ananias in Acts chapter 9 and he's saying to Ananias, go 00:54:38.220 --> 00:54:42.100 tell him that I have set him aside to send him to the Gentiles and to the kings of the 00:54:42.100 --> 00:54:46.020 earth so that he can tell them what needs to happen. 00:54:46.660 --> 00:54:51.460 Man, you should thrill at this because I'm telling you, it is such a normal, regular 00:54:51.460 --> 00:54:53.140 thing. 00:54:53.140 --> 00:54:58.820 Every good father on earth has learned his habits from a father in heaven who's a million 00:54:58.820 --> 00:54:59.820 times better. 00:54:59.820 --> 00:55:03.980 I cannot tell you the number of times God endorses and validates my life because I 00:55:03.980 --> 00:55:08.580 would not be able to do some of the things that I'm doing if he did not do it because 00:55:08.580 --> 00:55:12.140 sometimes faith needs to be validated, man. 00:55:16.140 --> 00:55:20.940 And the more you begin to receive it, the more you will give it. 00:55:34.940 --> 00:55:38.060 Someone had to bring the flags today to be waved. 00:55:38.060 --> 00:55:44.060 It is not the flags that caused God to enter the place, but the flags had some kind of 00:55:44.100 --> 00:55:46.980 role to play in the kind of worship we have today. 00:55:46.980 --> 00:55:52.020 But someone had to bring them and someone must be acknowledged for that. 00:55:52.020 --> 00:55:56.580 God acknowledges us sometimes directly, other times through people. 00:55:56.580 --> 00:55:59.260 Someone had to lead worship the way she did. 00:55:59.260 --> 00:56:03.820 Someone had to play the piano the way he did. 00:56:03.820 --> 00:56:10.980 And God acknowledges them. 00:56:11.900 --> 00:56:13.900 Grace always flows through kindness. 00:56:13.900 --> 00:56:19.100 Remove kindness from your life and grace will not flow through your life. 00:56:19.100 --> 00:56:22.540 Grace always flows through kindness. 00:56:22.540 --> 00:56:27.180 Remove kindness from your life or make it an occasional pathway in your life and grace 00:56:27.180 --> 00:56:28.180 cannot flow. 00:56:28.180 --> 00:56:36.660 Ephesians 2, 7, I have seated you in heavenly places so that you may receive the grace of 00:56:36.660 --> 00:56:40.340 God shown through you, through the kindness of Christ. 00:56:56.340 --> 00:57:00.100 I'll finish in seven minutes. 00:57:00.540 --> 00:57:13.540 You usher in the Father's, as culture of sonship, you usher in the Father's government. 00:57:13.540 --> 00:57:20.140 You usher in the Father's government and his peace. 00:57:20.140 --> 00:57:26.540 And in the process you subdue the enemy. 00:57:26.980 --> 00:57:28.980 We are part of our responsibility as sons. 00:57:28.980 --> 00:57:32.980 Psalm 127, I think, opens with the line that, 00:57:32.980 --> 00:57:40.980 Blessed is the man whose quiver is full of sons, for he can stand against the enemy at the gates. 00:57:40.980 --> 00:57:46.980 Blessed is God if he has found in this church a quiver full of sons. 00:57:46.980 --> 00:57:55.980 Because now he knows that the enemy that he has subdued can be imposed upon by his children in this church. 00:57:56.420 --> 00:57:58.420 Sorry? 00:57:58.420 --> 00:58:00.420 Yeah. 00:58:00.420 --> 00:58:02.420 In here or what I said? 00:58:02.420 --> 00:58:09.420 Oh, you usher in the Father's government and his peace and you subdue the enemy. 00:58:09.420 --> 00:58:11.420 You subdue the enemy. 00:58:11.420 --> 00:58:18.420 Isaiah 9, 7, Unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, and the government shall be upon his shoulders. 00:58:18.420 --> 00:58:24.420 Isaiah 22, verse 22, And I call forth now Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, 00:58:24.860 --> 00:58:30.860 And I give him a robe, I give him a belt, I give him the keys of David, 00:58:30.860 --> 00:58:35.860 So that whatsoever he opens shall remain open, whatsoever he shuts shall remain shut. 00:58:35.860 --> 00:58:39.860 I give him authority, I place on him authority. 00:58:41.860 --> 00:58:52.860 So there is, the culture of sonship learns how to cause God's rule to enter situations here on earth 00:58:53.300 --> 00:58:57.300 in individuals, in cities, in nations. 00:58:59.300 --> 00:59:02.300 It is absolutely doable, I have seen it. 00:59:10.300 --> 00:59:12.300 So you begin to steward creation. 00:59:12.300 --> 00:59:15.300 Because your father is a king. 00:59:16.300 --> 00:59:18.300 Just think of yourself as sons. 00:59:18.300 --> 00:59:20.300 Don't go, if my father is a king, I'm the next king. 00:59:20.300 --> 00:59:22.300 Look at what's happening with Prince Charles. 00:59:22.740 --> 00:59:23.740 He's been waiting forever. 00:59:23.740 --> 00:59:29.740 So why not just go with, my father is a king and I'm his son, or I'm his daughter. 00:59:29.740 --> 00:59:31.740 That's much easier. 00:59:37.740 --> 00:59:39.740 You usher in the father's peace, eh? 00:59:40.740 --> 00:59:45.740 His peace is this combination of it is well and rest. 00:59:45.740 --> 00:59:47.740 It enters into situations. 00:59:47.740 --> 00:59:51.740 He gets up in the middle of the boat, looks at the storm and says, it is well, be still. 00:59:52.180 --> 00:59:54.180 And the whole thing becomes still. 00:59:54.180 --> 00:59:57.180 There's a rest and it is well natured to its peace. 00:59:57.180 --> 00:59:59.180 And we are supposed to be ones that usher it in. 01:00:00.180 --> 01:00:02.180 This is the culture of sons. 01:00:02.180 --> 01:00:04.180 Jesus did this. 01:00:04.180 --> 01:00:08.180 Other than the one occasion where he took a whip and drove out people. 01:00:08.180 --> 01:00:11.180 Even there it was driving out things to bring peace. 01:00:11.180 --> 01:00:14.180 It was driving out things to say it is now well. 01:00:14.180 --> 01:00:17.180 It is driving out things to say now rest. 01:00:17.180 --> 01:00:21.180 No longer shall this sacred place be trodden by the profane. 01:00:21.620 --> 01:00:27.620 It was again and it is well peace that he brought in even through his using of the whip. 01:00:31.620 --> 01:00:32.620 Go home and go over it. 01:00:32.620 --> 01:00:34.620 This may take 15 weeks to get. 01:00:34.620 --> 01:00:37.620 But my God, you can go over it again and again. 01:00:44.620 --> 01:00:45.620 Here's another one. 01:00:46.620 --> 01:00:48.620 You don't shrink from discipline. 01:00:49.420 --> 01:00:51.420 You don't shrink from discipline. 01:00:56.420 --> 01:00:58.420 You don't shrink from discipline. 01:01:03.420 --> 01:01:05.420 You don't shrink from discipline. 01:01:05.420 --> 01:01:07.420 Because you know it accelerates your fruitfulness. 01:01:07.420 --> 01:01:10.420 It accelerates your fruitfulness. 01:01:13.420 --> 01:01:15.420 It accelerates your fruitfulness. 01:01:15.420 --> 01:01:20.420 You don't shrink from discipline because it accelerates your fruitfulness. 01:01:20.420 --> 01:01:32.420 If you go to Hebrews 12, I'm reading from the passion version, Hebrews 12 verse 5 to 8, 01:01:32.420 --> 01:01:38.420 And have you forgotten his encouraging words spoken to you as his children? 01:01:38.420 --> 01:01:44.420 He said, My child, don't underestimate the value of discipline and training of the Lord God, 01:01:44.420 --> 01:01:46.420 Or get depressed when he has to correct you. 01:01:46.420 --> 01:01:50.420 For the Lord's training of your life is the evidence of his faithful love, 01:01:50.420 --> 01:01:54.420 And when he draws you to himself, it proves you are his delightful child. 01:01:54.420 --> 01:01:57.420 Fully embrace God's correction as part of your training, 01:01:57.420 --> 01:02:00.420 For he is doing what any loving father does for his children. 01:02:00.420 --> 01:02:04.420 For whoever has heard of a child who never had to be corrected. 01:02:04.420 --> 01:02:09.420 Verse 11, Now all discipline seems to be more pain than pleasure at the time, 01:02:09.420 --> 01:02:12.420 Yet later it will produce a transformation of character, 01:02:12.420 --> 01:02:16.420 Bringing a harvest of righteousness and peace to those who yield to it. 01:02:16.420 --> 01:02:21.420 One of the easiest ways is to avoid people who are willing to correct you. 01:02:21.420 --> 01:02:26.420 Avoid them and you can avoid discipline. 01:02:26.420 --> 01:02:29.420 Because sometimes when discipline comes, we blame the devil. 01:02:29.420 --> 01:02:34.420 Sometimes it's good to have people who tell you what's happening to you right now is the discipline of God, 01:02:34.420 --> 01:02:36.420 Or correction needs to be put. 01:02:36.420 --> 01:02:40.420 Don't take a week off or two weeks off and then come after everything is done 01:02:40.420 --> 01:02:45.420 for training. Training without correction ain't training. 01:02:45.420 --> 01:02:53.420 I once got a gym membership. It's the only thing I've won in Vancouver. 01:02:53.420 --> 01:02:56.420 In one of these lucky draws that I put my business card in. 01:02:56.420 --> 01:03:01.420 Of all the things that I could win, I won a gym membership for seven days. 01:03:01.420 --> 01:03:05.420 I mean, how bad is that? 01:03:05.420 --> 01:03:08.420 But I decided I'd go, I'd go. 01:03:08.420 --> 01:03:14.420 And they're showing me all these machines and what it can do to parts of my body that they said had muscles. 01:03:14.420 --> 01:03:22.420 I decided that this wasn't a good idea because I knew that I would not go through the correction or the pain of training. 01:03:22.420 --> 01:03:25.420 I could go for a week. Many of us are Christians like that. 01:03:25.420 --> 01:03:30.420 We try for a week and then we take two weeks off and have a siesta or a fiesta. 01:03:30.420 --> 01:03:32.420 And we come back and try again for a week. 01:03:32.420 --> 01:03:35.420 There is no word called trying in Christendom. 01:03:35.420 --> 01:03:39.420 It's always training. 01:03:39.420 --> 01:03:43.420 And training will involve correction. 01:03:43.420 --> 01:03:51.420 The best way to avoid it is to avoid people who may bring that into your life. 01:03:51.420 --> 01:03:55.420 Last point. 01:03:55.420 --> 01:03:57.420 Last two points. 01:03:57.420 --> 01:04:05.420 You yearn for the maturity of oneness with your other, with other sons. 01:04:05.420 --> 01:04:08.420 You yearn for the maturity of oneness with other sons. 01:04:08.420 --> 01:04:14.420 Meaning, it is important to you to be one with other sons and daughters. 01:04:14.420 --> 01:04:21.420 It is important to you to have oneness with other sons and daughters. 01:04:21.420 --> 01:04:24.420 And it's not on a Sunday basis. 01:04:24.420 --> 01:04:25.420 It's important to you. 01:04:25.420 --> 01:04:27.420 It was important to Jesus. 01:04:27.420 --> 01:04:28.420 John chapter 17. 01:04:28.420 --> 01:04:30.420 Father, they have seen how you and I are one. 01:04:30.420 --> 01:04:34.420 Now could you help them be one too? 01:04:34.420 --> 01:04:40.420 It is important. 01:04:40.420 --> 01:04:43.420 There is a maturity in a church that is shown through its oneness. 01:04:43.420 --> 01:04:46.420 I think you've done well in that. 01:04:46.420 --> 01:04:47.420 You've done well in that. 01:04:47.420 --> 01:04:50.420 One of the things I was doing while we were worshipping, 01:04:50.420 --> 01:04:53.420 while I was walking up and down and crying was, 01:04:53.420 --> 01:04:58.420 you know, today's worship reminded me of the mist that was over Eden. 01:04:58.420 --> 01:04:59.420 It watered the garden. 01:04:59.420 --> 01:05:03.420 There was this mistiness to the worship. 01:05:03.420 --> 01:05:05.420 And I've longed for days like this. 01:05:05.420 --> 01:05:10.420 And I was just crying saying, Father, thank you for being able to do it amongst us as a people. 01:05:10.420 --> 01:05:13.420 It wasn't something that I was yearning for individually. 01:05:13.420 --> 01:05:16.420 But to see a people in worship like that, blesses my heart. 01:05:16.420 --> 01:05:18.420 It does something to my heart. 01:05:18.420 --> 01:05:21.420 Desire oneness in the things that we do. 01:05:21.420 --> 01:05:24.420 Because what good is individual Christianity that flourishes? 01:05:24.420 --> 01:05:28.420 It is so not kingdom. 01:05:28.420 --> 01:05:32.420 At least not New Testament kingdom. 01:05:32.420 --> 01:05:39.420 Ephesians 4, verse 15, that we may all grow up into the maturity and the oneness and the fullness of the stature of Christ. 01:05:39.420 --> 01:05:41.420 Who wants to grow individually? 01:05:41.420 --> 01:05:47.420 Who here wants a long nose or a long ear or a long hand, longer than the rest? 01:05:47.420 --> 01:05:50.420 Any takers? 01:05:50.420 --> 01:05:54.420 I'm not surprised. 01:05:54.420 --> 01:05:57.420 Pawan, you want one? 01:05:57.420 --> 01:05:59.420 Oh, I thought you were saying... 01:05:59.420 --> 01:06:00.420 No, okay. 01:06:00.420 --> 01:06:03.420 Okay, a long beard, okay. 01:06:03.420 --> 01:06:06.420 Last point. 01:06:06.420 --> 01:06:08.420 Last point. 01:06:08.420 --> 01:06:14.420 Guys, when it comes to sonship, ask, receive, cultivate, contend for your inheritance. 01:06:14.420 --> 01:06:25.420 When it comes to sonship, ask, receive, cultivate, contend for your inheritance. 01:06:25.420 --> 01:06:33.420 Jesus did this and he says to us, God says to Jesus, ask of me and I'll give you your inheritance. 01:06:33.420 --> 01:06:40.420 And now Jesus is saying to us, ask of me and I'll give you your inheritance as a church, as individuals, ask of me. 01:06:40.420 --> 01:06:42.420 And if you ask, you can receive. 01:06:42.420 --> 01:06:44.420 If you receive, you have to cultivate. 01:06:44.420 --> 01:06:48.420 If you cultivate, there will be opposition. 01:06:48.420 --> 01:06:51.420 When there is opposition, contend. 01:06:51.420 --> 01:06:56.420 Ask, receive, cultivate, contend your inheritance and do it in allotted timeframes. 01:06:56.420 --> 01:07:00.420 Try to finish what I give you in a certain time frame. 01:07:00.420 --> 01:07:04.420 The only thing that you don't have to finish in time is your teaching, Jacob. 01:07:04.420 --> 01:07:08.420 Everything else has to be within allotted timeframes. 01:07:08.420 --> 01:07:10.420 Ephesians 2.10. 01:07:10.420 --> 01:07:14.420 You are my workmanship created for good works in Christ. 01:07:14.420 --> 01:07:15.420 Prepared when? 01:07:15.420 --> 01:07:17.420 Before the foundations of the earth. 01:07:17.420 --> 01:07:20.420 Allotted timeframes for things that God wants to release to you. 01:07:20.420 --> 01:07:31.420 One of the coolest stories, and I'll end with it, is Joshua 14 verse 12 where Caleb after 40 years says, I was given this land. 01:07:31.420 --> 01:07:34.420 I was given this land 40 years ago and I still want it. 01:07:34.420 --> 01:07:35.420 I'm asking for it. 01:07:35.420 --> 01:07:36.420 I know there are anach in the hills. 01:07:36.420 --> 01:07:38.420 I also know that I'm 84. 01:07:38.420 --> 01:07:40.420 But this was promised to me. 01:07:40.420 --> 01:07:45.420 It was taken away from me because of a number of people who protested against it. 01:07:45.420 --> 01:07:51.420 But now that I am here, give me this land because I want to fulfill what was allotted to me 40 years ago. 01:07:51.420 --> 01:07:52.420 I want my inheritance. 01:07:52.420 --> 01:07:53.420 I will take it. 01:07:53.420 --> 01:07:54.420 I will take care of those giants. 01:07:54.420 --> 01:07:55.420 And he did.