WEBVTT NOTE Podcast: Acts 29 Vancouver Episode: Wilderness_Forty_Deliverer Publishing Date: 2020-09-13T06:00:44-07:00 Podcast URL: https://acts29.ca Episode URL: https://acts29.ca/wilderness_forty_deliverer/ 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.000 Okay guys, so 00:00:03.520 --> 00:00:06.240 We've been talking about wilderness 40 00:00:06.920 --> 00:00:08.760 And it started six weeks ago 00:00:08.760 --> 00:00:15.260 And this is I think the final week where we exit the wilderness and step into whatever else 00:00:15.260 --> 00:00:19.640 God wants us to do and we said when we began that wilderness 40 is basically 00:00:20.160 --> 00:00:27.560 the Holy Spirit leading us into a time of drawing aside with God over the last 40 days 00:00:27.880 --> 00:00:34.000 so that we can return with a greater revelation of God with greater power and 00:00:35.800 --> 00:00:37.800 In the process prepare ourselves 00:00:38.120 --> 00:00:44.120 For the post covid landscape that awaits us so that the church will no longer be 00:00:44.520 --> 00:00:50.560 Rendered a non-essential service and I'm not talking about the institution. I'm talking about us as people 00:00:51.360 --> 00:00:56.080 That was the intent with which we started wilderness 40 and over the last six weeks 00:00:56.120 --> 00:01:01.560 Weeks we've covered ground some of you have drawn aside. I know at least one or two of you that 00:01:02.120 --> 00:01:08.160 Took on fasts someone just concluded their 40-day fast a couple of days ago others withdrew from 00:01:09.280 --> 00:01:11.200 Things so that they could set aside time 00:01:11.200 --> 00:01:18.240 I was fascinated by how much you try to draw aside and create time with God so that you come back with a greater revelation 00:01:18.240 --> 00:01:25.920 Of him with greater power and prepared for what awaits us that was the intent and I believe it was God led because as I look 00:01:26.080 --> 00:01:30.240 at the teachings and go over them, I'm just 00:01:31.160 --> 00:01:38.880 Blessed by what has been taught and so today we go on to wilderness 40 the title for today is deliverer 00:01:39.560 --> 00:01:40.800 deliverer 00:01:40.800 --> 00:01:46.000 wilderness 40 deliverer and so this is a perhaps the last in the series and 00:01:46.600 --> 00:01:48.680 Next week we start on something else 00:01:49.320 --> 00:01:52.800 So if you look at Luke 4 14 Luke 4 14 00:01:56.080 --> 00:01:58.080 Luke 4 14 00:02:02.640 --> 00:02:04.640 Boy 00:02:06.840 --> 00:02:08.840 Look for 14 00:02:11.720 --> 00:02:13.720 So 00:02:15.200 --> 00:02:19.480 Jesus returned to Galilee in the power of the Spirit and 00:02:19.920 --> 00:02:22.760 News about him spread through the whole countryside 00:02:23.040 --> 00:02:29.800 He taught in their synagogues and everyone praised him and so this is immediately after being in the wilderness if you go to verse 12 00:02:30.320 --> 00:02:37.400 verse 13 it says when the devil had finished all this tempting he left him until an opportune time and it started off with Luke chapter 00:02:37.400 --> 00:02:40.360 4 verse 1 where it said Jesus full of the Holy Spirit 00:02:40.880 --> 00:02:46.320 Returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness of the desert where for 40 days 00:02:46.320 --> 00:02:49.360 He was tempted by the devil and now we are in verse 14 00:02:49.640 --> 00:02:55.080 Jesus returned to Galilee in the power of the Spirit and news about him began to spread so 00:02:56.200 --> 00:02:59.200 The intent is that if acts 29 actually 00:03:00.280 --> 00:03:06.800 Did engage in drawing aside setting time aside to pursue God then it follows that 00:03:08.440 --> 00:03:10.440 After you come out of the wilderness 00:03:11.920 --> 00:03:13.920 You come out 00:03:15.480 --> 00:03:17.480 Cloth 00:03:17.480 --> 00:03:23.960 With the power of the Holy Spirit like Jesus 00:03:28.920 --> 00:03:35.480 You come out clothed with the power of the Holy Spirit as with Jesus Jesus returned to Galilee in the power of the Spirit 00:03:35.680 --> 00:03:38.000 Which then begs the question. What does that look like? 00:03:38.600 --> 00:03:40.600 What does that look like? 00:03:47.720 --> 00:03:51.520 What does that look like and to look at to see what it looks like go to 00:03:52.400 --> 00:03:56.720 Verse 17 look chapter 4 verse 17 and 18. This is what it looks like 00:03:59.920 --> 00:04:02.720 The scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him 00:04:03.880 --> 00:04:06.480 Unrolling it he found the place where it is written 00:04:06.840 --> 00:04:13.120 The Spirit of the Lord is on me because he has anointed me and this is what it looks like to preach 00:04:14.200 --> 00:04:16.200 the good news to the poor 00:04:18.320 --> 00:04:20.320 To 00:04:21.600 --> 00:04:23.600 Heal 00:04:24.440 --> 00:04:26.440 The broken-hearted 00:04:30.280 --> 00:04:33.880 To open prison doors 00:04:37.200 --> 00:04:43.120 To restore sight to the physically and spiritually blind 00:04:43.680 --> 00:04:46.240 To comfort those who mourn 00:04:53.280 --> 00:04:55.280 To set captives free 00:05:01.520 --> 00:05:09.600 And to declare the year of favor declare the year of Jubilee or the year of favor 00:05:14.120 --> 00:05:16.120 This is what it looks like 00:05:18.160 --> 00:05:21.680 So if acts 29 has 00:05:22.240 --> 00:05:28.320 Done what they are called to do as in follow God into the wilderness learn things from the wilderness 00:05:29.240 --> 00:05:33.240 While we were there setting time aside, then this is what will happen 00:05:35.040 --> 00:05:40.000 That is what it looks like to be clothed by the power of the Holy Spirit because at the end of the day 00:05:40.040 --> 00:05:43.560 The word anointed is basically being completely covered with 00:05:45.280 --> 00:05:50.880 So to be clothed with the Holy Spirit would look like this for each of us for all of us 00:05:50.880 --> 00:05:52.440 Whether we are online or sitting here 00:05:52.440 --> 00:05:57.360 This is what it would look like to preach the good news to the poor to heal the broken-hearted 00:05:57.680 --> 00:06:03.680 To open prison doors to restore sight to the physical and spiritually blind to comfort those who mourn 00:06:03.920 --> 00:06:07.160 To set captives free and to declare the year of the favor of the Lord 00:06:07.160 --> 00:06:10.080 And all this is accomplished simply by one thing 00:06:11.880 --> 00:06:19.160 Anointing or clothing or the power of the Spirit 00:06:28.200 --> 00:06:31.400 So Jesus returns as Israel's son 00:06:31.800 --> 00:06:36.400 So Jesus returns as Israel's deliverer from the wilderness 00:06:37.120 --> 00:06:40.400 He was baptized. He goes into the wilderness has an encounter 00:06:40.920 --> 00:06:47.560 with the enemy but in the process also has a revelation of who he is and who God is comes back and then 00:06:48.240 --> 00:06:51.760 He comes back as Israel's deliverer just like Moses 00:06:51.760 --> 00:06:54.760 Moses went into the wilderness was there for 40 years 00:06:55.080 --> 00:06:57.480 Moses went into the wilderness was there for 40 years 00:06:58.160 --> 00:07:06.640 confronts Yahweh confronts him through the burning bush and now Moses returns back to Egypt to deliver Israel 00:07:06.640 --> 00:07:10.240 It's it's the same motive that's being played again and again 00:07:10.960 --> 00:07:17.200 Moses is rejected by the people he came to Jesus goes opens a scroll and reads it and he is rejected by the people 00:07:17.200 --> 00:07:23.160 He came to just because God calls you and asks you to be a deliverer doesn't mean that the road is easy 00:07:25.360 --> 00:07:31.160 Doesn't matter whether it's delivering your children delivering your parents delivering people in your neighborhood 00:07:31.680 --> 00:07:36.640 Deliverers are not people who have been called and appointed so that they face no resistance a 00:07:37.080 --> 00:07:44.240 Deliverer is proved in his resistance because deliverer requires being someone who is able to set people free 00:07:44.240 --> 00:07:47.960 Which means they have to come up against someone who has taken them captive 00:07:48.560 --> 00:07:50.560 So there will be resistance 00:07:51.360 --> 00:07:55.960 But both Moses and Jesus returned from the wilderness and this is what they begin 00:07:55.960 --> 00:07:59.280 But the strange thing is it's all by the power of the Holy Spirit 00:08:01.840 --> 00:08:03.280 So 00:08:03.280 --> 00:08:09.840 I'm gonna pose a question which is just rhetorical. Is this your expectation? Is this your expectation coming out? 00:08:10.640 --> 00:08:12.320 of 00:08:12.320 --> 00:08:14.320 40 days of wilderness 00:08:14.960 --> 00:08:19.920 This must be your expectation if you actually did set aside your expectations 00:08:20.040 --> 00:08:27.160 Set aside time to draw close to him then expect the Holy Spirit to respond the Holy Spirit honors anything that is set apart 00:08:28.040 --> 00:08:32.840 Understand this guys that setting apart is something that the Holy Spirit loves doing 00:08:33.800 --> 00:08:39.960 Loves responding to every time someone sets themselves apart the Holy Spirit responds every time 00:08:41.080 --> 00:08:43.080 he specializes in 00:08:44.080 --> 00:08:49.880 Taking care of anyone who sets himself apart. What does he say to Manoah and his wife? 00:08:49.920 --> 00:08:55.400 Hey, you're gonna have a son. He's gonna be a Nazarite set him apart. What happens the Holy Spirit falls on him 00:08:55.400 --> 00:09:01.360 What happens to John the Baptist this boy will be special. He's sent by God set him apart. The Holy Spirit falls on him 00:09:02.760 --> 00:09:08.360 Whenever a people set themselves apart it is like a natural provocation 00:09:09.240 --> 00:09:13.600 That is always always met with a supernatural response from the Holy Spirit 00:09:13.600 --> 00:09:19.000 And when we do not set apart ourselves, then the Holy Spirit has to work on setting us apart 00:09:20.040 --> 00:09:25.080 See the difference guys on one hand you have those that do not set themselves apart 00:09:25.160 --> 00:09:32.440 Which doesn't mean that the Holy Spirit abandons you now the Holy Spirit has to take up the arduous work of helping you be set apart 00:09:33.640 --> 00:09:35.120 but if you 00:09:35.120 --> 00:09:39.120 Set yourself apart then the Holy Spirit has the enjoyable work 00:09:40.360 --> 00:09:45.680 Of coming upon you with the kind of power that causes this to happen 00:09:48.400 --> 00:09:50.400 Any questions 00:09:51.960 --> 00:10:00.220 Is this your expectation because or in other words, let me rephrase it this must be your expectation 00:10:02.720 --> 00:10:04.720 This must be your expectation 00:10:05.800 --> 00:10:13.080 Come otherwise the last 42 days have been wasted all you lost was a little bit of weight a bit of watching TV 00:10:18.640 --> 00:10:23.180 This must be my expectation for you this must be my expectation of you 00:10:23.180 --> 00:10:27.440 This must be my expectation of God because he's always done this any questions 00:10:29.840 --> 00:10:31.840 Strangely it's not your responsibility 00:10:35.120 --> 00:10:37.120 Your responsibility is to believe 00:10:39.960 --> 00:10:44.920 After years I was reading I mean I've been a Christian for many years and again 00:10:44.920 --> 00:10:52.360 I'm reading John 7 37 and 38 and I'm fascinated that the only thing required for the Holy Spirit to flow out of you is 00:10:52.840 --> 00:10:54.840 believing 00:10:55.600 --> 00:11:01.480 That's all it says it says if you believe out of you will flow rivers of living water 00:11:02.120 --> 00:11:04.120 So this is not even my responsibility 00:11:05.720 --> 00:11:13.120 But it is required of me to believe this you guys we don't we can't imagine 00:11:14.840 --> 00:11:21.280 How much is wrought through believing or taking God at face value or taking his patterns as face value? 00:11:21.600 --> 00:11:26.720 part of the reason we should read scriptures is not to get a promise but to understand patterns and 00:11:26.840 --> 00:11:31.600 Then believe that God while he is not predictable has behaviors 00:11:35.720 --> 00:11:41.760 That if I do this this and this this is the result because wherever there is sowing there is reaping and 00:11:44.640 --> 00:11:49.880 So I'm going to believe for this for all of us and I have faith enough for all of us 00:11:50.040 --> 00:11:52.320 But if you believe it also it really helps 00:11:57.120 --> 00:11:59.120 Any questions 00:12:06.080 --> 00:12:12.120 It's not your responsibility except to believe and if you believe then the Holy Spirit begins to flow through you so then 00:12:12.440 --> 00:12:14.440 What really did happen in the wilderness? 00:12:14.440 --> 00:12:19.560 Why did we spend all that time in the wilderness if the Spirit of God was going to do this anyways, and it's not your responsibility 00:12:21.880 --> 00:12:23.880 To answer that 00:12:23.960 --> 00:12:26.760 Here's a question. I need to ask while you were in the wilderness 00:12:27.000 --> 00:12:32.680 Did you cut a path through the desert for the spirit to flow in your life while you were in the wilderness? 00:12:33.240 --> 00:12:35.240 Just like water flows 00:12:35.680 --> 00:12:39.880 Through rocks did you while you were in the wilderness did you over the last? 00:12:40.600 --> 00:12:44.640 42 days when you drew aside did you cut a path? 00:12:45.160 --> 00:12:49.960 through the rock through the deserts of your life to 00:12:51.360 --> 00:12:59.040 Cut a path for the Holy Spirit to flow in drawing aside. Here are the questions you need to ask in drawing a side 00:13:00.040 --> 00:13:05.480 Hey, can I have some other pen than a red one because there were complaints about the red one last time 00:13:09.040 --> 00:13:13.120 Yeah, Derek echo it might hit you but you never know yeah 00:13:24.920 --> 00:13:27.740 You just wanted to be on TV you could have easily thrown it 00:13:29.120 --> 00:13:31.120 I 00:13:39.360 --> 00:13:45.000 While you were in the wilderness did you cut a path through the through the desert for the spirit to flow did you cut a path? 00:13:45.000 --> 00:13:47.180 In your life that would make it easy for the spirit to flow 00:13:47.180 --> 00:13:51.720 So here are the questions you need to ask in drawing aside over the last six weeks 00:13:52.440 --> 00:13:54.440 Did you increase? 00:13:54.440 --> 00:13:56.440 Did you? 00:13:56.640 --> 00:13:58.640 increase in 00:13:59.040 --> 00:14:01.040 Did you increase in? 00:14:10.720 --> 00:14:15.320 Character or moral excellence I 00:14:19.080 --> 00:14:24.600 Put these boxes because I when I went down this list I realized that I couldn't tick all these boxes 00:14:25.200 --> 00:14:27.200 Did you increase in? 00:14:27.880 --> 00:14:31.440 Presence filled power 00:14:36.960 --> 00:14:41.880 Did you increase in trusting or yielding 00:14:44.160 --> 00:14:46.160 To his sovereignty 00:14:47.720 --> 00:14:49.000 Or 00:14:49.000 --> 00:14:51.000 his absolute rulership 00:14:51.640 --> 00:14:56.160 Where you trust him saying I don't understand this I can't see you the light at the end of the tunnel 00:14:56.160 --> 00:15:00.840 But I trust your sovereignty. I trust your good fatherness. Did you increase in self-giving? 00:15:03.320 --> 00:15:09.320 Where you give of yourself and that which you have and did you increase in the purity of 00:15:11.080 --> 00:15:12.560 Love 00:15:12.560 --> 00:15:15.920 For others. These are the things that should have happened 00:15:15.960 --> 00:15:23.260 These are the things that always happen when people draw aside and spend time with the creator of the universe 00:15:24.480 --> 00:15:26.480 These are the things that always happen 00:15:27.120 --> 00:15:33.480 With anybody who draws aside and spends time with the creator of the universe you take Moses 00:15:33.520 --> 00:15:36.340 He spent time in the wilderness. He changed you take 00:15:37.120 --> 00:15:42.720 Paul he spent time in the wilderness. He changed you take Jesus. He spent time in the wilderness 00:15:43.400 --> 00:15:47.240 He displayed who he was after that so 00:15:47.880 --> 00:15:52.400 This is the list that I want to ask you did this happen for you in the wilderness 00:15:54.120 --> 00:15:58.140 As you look back at the last 42 days, which ones can you take tick 00:15:58.920 --> 00:16:04.880 Was there a change in your character and your moral excellence the way you function? Was there a change? 00:16:07.360 --> 00:16:12.480 Sometimes it takes time for change to be visible, but you know change within you 00:16:13.400 --> 00:16:17.200 What was there a difference in terms of how you deal with things? 00:16:17.680 --> 00:16:22.880 Very aware of the power of God because you're more aware of his presence presence always translates into power 00:16:23.760 --> 00:16:27.680 The closer you are to royalty or a king the greater clout you have 00:16:29.320 --> 00:16:30.400 So 00:16:30.400 --> 00:16:35.760 Did you trust or yield to his sovereignty where things haven't moved things haven't changed? 00:16:35.760 --> 00:16:36.920 You don't know what's happening 00:16:37.280 --> 00:16:38.560 You don't know what's happening 00:16:38.560 --> 00:16:46.060 But you trust and yield to his sovereignty and his sovereignty is his kingness his fatherhood his lordship his 00:16:46.560 --> 00:16:48.560 absolute control over everything 00:16:49.440 --> 00:16:50.480 and 00:16:50.480 --> 00:16:56.480 His perfect will as in his perfect ways of doing things you are perfect in all your ways 00:16:57.280 --> 00:16:59.840 Was there a yielding or trusting of his sovereignty? 00:17:00.240 --> 00:17:03.440 Force were you self-giving have you become more self-giving? 00:17:03.640 --> 00:17:08.480 Did these last 42 days bring you to a place where you had a loser grip on your money? 00:17:08.720 --> 00:17:12.480 loser grip on the time treasure talent strength and 00:17:13.920 --> 00:17:18.440 The last one is did is there an increase in the purity of your love? 00:17:22.360 --> 00:17:29.160 These are actual measures that you will find in the scriptures again and again to figure out whether someone 00:17:29.200 --> 00:17:36.120 Spends time with God because anyone who spends time with God changes did you change? 00:17:38.120 --> 00:17:40.300 I'm just saying I couldn't take all the boxes 00:17:44.240 --> 00:17:51.880 I'm just saying I couldn't take four boxes and I'll leave it at that. Don't want to know how many boxes I ticked 00:17:51.880 --> 00:17:56.040 So what do we do if we can't go through these boxes and take them hey 00:17:57.080 --> 00:17:59.880 Continue with this process anyways 00:18:01.840 --> 00:18:07.880 Find the areas of deficit and decide that in these areas. I'm not going to back off. I'm going to press forward 00:18:08.960 --> 00:18:13.240 Character or moral excellence how have your habits changed? How have your behaviors changed? 00:18:13.240 --> 00:18:19.080 How have you changed in terms of a purity not purity of love but purity of love? 00:18:19.840 --> 00:18:25.040 Purity not purity of love but purity of character did it get worse or did it get better? 00:18:27.680 --> 00:18:29.680 Or was it comes he comes up 00:18:33.120 --> 00:18:35.120 Any questions 00:18:37.600 --> 00:18:41.680 Moses Jesus Paul chiseled into their lives these traits 00:18:42.320 --> 00:18:48.680 When you chisel into your lives these traits the strange thing that happens is the Holy Spirit who has seen that you have set yourself 00:18:48.680 --> 00:18:52.120 Apart now finds easy pathways in your life to flow through 00:18:54.440 --> 00:19:00.520 It's like a river suddenly finding a secret gorge in the rock face that it 00:19:00.720 --> 00:19:07.240 Rushes through because it doesn't have to spend years creating a pathway. It has found a pathway because you were at work 00:19:10.680 --> 00:19:12.680 Jesus changes people 00:19:13.560 --> 00:19:20.320 Regardless of whether you spend time with him or not if Jesus is in your life there is change and therefore if there is no change 00:19:20.320 --> 00:19:25.720 I must begin to question my relationship with Jesus Christ not whether he is present or absent 00:19:25.960 --> 00:19:27.960 but whether he is active and 00:19:28.440 --> 00:19:36.160 The only reason Jesus is inactive is when I forcibly do not yield my will to him and he'll tolerate that for a while 00:19:36.160 --> 00:19:38.680 But because he loves me he'll begin to discipline me 00:19:42.680 --> 00:19:44.680 Because 00:19:48.280 --> 00:19:55.600 Hebrews chapter 12 says which father does not discipline his children if he did not discipline you you are illegitimate 00:19:58.520 --> 00:20:00.520 That's on the side 00:20:01.720 --> 00:20:03.720 Okay, any questions 00:20:06.240 --> 00:20:11.600 Please go through this list I can give you person after person in the Bible who was changed in these 00:20:12.680 --> 00:20:16.000 The disciples my god those disciples were changed man 00:20:16.720 --> 00:20:23.220 They changed in their character. They changed in the power that they exuded they changed in their ability to trust God 00:20:23.220 --> 00:20:29.660 They changed in giving everything they changed in the purity of their love so much so that people would say we know that these guys 00:20:29.660 --> 00:20:31.660 Have hung around with Jesus 00:20:35.760 --> 00:20:37.760 Okay 00:20:42.760 --> 00:20:44.760 So 00:20:46.680 --> 00:20:51.920 You are to return we are to return I am to return from the wilderness as a deliverer 00:20:51.960 --> 00:20:54.920 But here's the thing man with being a deliverer 00:20:56.640 --> 00:20:59.960 You cannot deliver you cannot deliver 00:21:05.720 --> 00:21:07.720 That which 00:21:08.720 --> 00:21:12.680 You cannot deliver that which you will 00:21:18.800 --> 00:21:24.960 Not lay your life down 00:21:27.160 --> 00:21:33.320 In birth pangs or death 00:21:34.120 --> 00:21:38.320 This is where God is going to take us over the next few weeks 00:21:39.320 --> 00:21:44.200 So Jacob you set yourself apart as a church for the last 42 days 00:21:44.200 --> 00:21:49.320 You drew next to me the Holy Spirit always honors those that set themselves apart 00:21:49.640 --> 00:21:54.040 Some of you have pressed in and you can take off of two or three boxes 00:21:54.040 --> 00:22:01.200 Some of you can take all five you've created pathways in your life through which the Holy Spirit can flow and you can take 00:22:01.200 --> 00:22:08.760 The Holy Spirit can flow and you are now being sent anointed by the Spirit to be deliverers ones who deliver others 00:22:08.880 --> 00:22:11.180 But Jacob here's a question. I want to ask you then 00:22:12.000 --> 00:22:14.000 Actually, and here's a question. I'm asking you 00:22:14.880 --> 00:22:17.040 If you want to be a deliver deliverer 00:22:17.040 --> 00:22:23.960 I want you to know that you cannot deliver that which you will not lay your life down for in birth pangs or death 00:22:25.480 --> 00:22:27.480 I'm not 00:22:27.680 --> 00:22:31.920 I'm not playing around with words. I'm not trying to give you a nice sermon 00:22:32.520 --> 00:22:38.640 You must understand that there's a dirt in acts 29 in our lives in my life when it comes to this area 00:22:38.720 --> 00:22:40.720 You cannot be a deliverer 00:22:40.960 --> 00:22:45.880 Till you're willing to lay down your life either in travail and birth pangs 00:22:45.880 --> 00:22:49.360 So that someone be delivered or in death so that someone be delivered 00:22:50.960 --> 00:22:53.600 If you don't believe me turn to Exodus 32 32 00:22:54.600 --> 00:22:58.000 Exodus 32 32 I'll take you through some scriptures a 00:22:59.280 --> 00:23:01.280 the unfortunate thing about 00:23:01.520 --> 00:23:04.080 Getting serious about God is that? 00:23:05.280 --> 00:23:07.400 He's too serious about stuff 00:23:09.720 --> 00:23:14.400 And so our choice is either to follow down that road or just play church 00:23:16.120 --> 00:23:19.680 And so Exodus 32 32 Moses is in the desert 00:23:20.880 --> 00:23:22.880 Israel needs to be delivered 00:23:23.040 --> 00:23:25.040 They've made themselves gods of gold 00:23:25.920 --> 00:23:27.920 And now Moses says this 00:23:28.800 --> 00:23:34.960 But now please forgive their sins, but if not then erase me out of the book you have written 00:23:36.960 --> 00:23:38.960 If you want to deliver somebody 00:23:39.680 --> 00:23:45.360 If you want to be if you want to be a delivering church we have to be willing to lay our lives down 00:23:45.800 --> 00:23:51.960 either in birth pangs as in travail until something is formed or in death 00:23:52.960 --> 00:23:56.960 As in life for life dying for someone else 00:23:57.840 --> 00:24:03.080 This is the extreme that Jesus is taking us to this is what we'll be talking about in the next few weeks 00:24:04.160 --> 00:24:06.600 Otherwise, we just pretend delivering 00:24:07.920 --> 00:24:09.920 It's not real 00:24:10.120 --> 00:24:12.120 Let me show you another scripture 00:24:13.040 --> 00:24:18.480 Isaiah 53 10 and 11 Isaiah 53 10 and 11 I'm reading from the 00:24:18.480 --> 00:24:20.960 Message Isaiah 53 10 and 11 00:24:27.840 --> 00:24:29.840 Isaiah 53 00:24:30.800 --> 00:24:37.520 10 and 11 reading from the message still it's what God had in mind all along to crush him with pain 00:24:38.160 --> 00:24:44.880 The plan was that he give himself up as an offering for sin so that he'd see life come from it life life and more life 00:24:45.440 --> 00:24:51.520 Life life and more life and God's plan will deeply prosper through him out of that terrible travail of soul 00:24:52.000 --> 00:24:54.880 He'll see that it's worth it and be glad he did it 00:24:55.520 --> 00:24:57.920 Through what he experienced my righteous one 00:24:58.240 --> 00:25:04.880 My servant will make many righteous ones as he himself carries the burden of their sins 00:25:06.240 --> 00:25:12.080 Out of that terrible travail of soul, he'll see that it's worth it and be glad he did it 00:25:12.720 --> 00:25:20.240 Through what he experienced my righteous one my servant will make many righteous ones as he himself carries the burden of their sins 00:25:23.600 --> 00:25:26.240 That's Jesus let's look at paul romans 9 00:25:27.920 --> 00:25:29.920 Romans 9 00:25:31.200 --> 00:25:36.240 Verse 1 to 3 from the message romans 9 verse 1 1 to 3 from the message 00:25:37.040 --> 00:25:39.040 I 00:25:41.120 --> 00:25:45.840 Wish I could say this for you man. You'd have such an amazing pastor if these words were mine 00:25:47.040 --> 00:25:49.040 But they're not 00:25:49.040 --> 00:25:51.040 Romans 9 1 to 3 from the message 00:25:51.920 --> 00:25:57.040 At the same time you need to know that I carry with me at all times a huge sorrow 00:25:58.080 --> 00:26:03.440 It's an enormous pain deep within me. I'm never free of it. I'm not exaggerating 00:26:04.240 --> 00:26:07.440 Christ and the holy spirit are my witnesses. It's the Israelites 00:26:08.000 --> 00:26:11.920 If there were any way I could be cursed by the messiah so that they could be blessed by him 00:26:12.480 --> 00:26:14.240 I'd do it in a minute 00:26:14.240 --> 00:26:16.240 They're my family 00:26:22.320 --> 00:26:26.000 Here's what I mean by you cannot deliver that which 00:26:26.560 --> 00:26:33.600 You cannot deliver that which you will not lay your life down either in travail or in death either in birth pangs or in death 00:26:36.720 --> 00:26:42.480 Let's look at another scripture Galatians 4 19 from the passion translation Galatians 4 19 00:26:50.160 --> 00:26:53.200 From the passion translation and here's what it says 00:26:53.520 --> 00:26:55.520 And here's what it says 00:26:55.840 --> 00:27:03.840 You are my dear children, but I agonize in spiritual labor pains once again until the anointed one will be fully formed in your hearts 00:27:04.480 --> 00:27:08.880 You are my dear children, but I agonize in spiritual labor pains 00:27:09.360 --> 00:27:13.540 Once again until the anointed one will be fully formed in your hearts 00:27:13.540 --> 00:27:17.700 The actual act of deliverance happens by the spirit guys 00:27:19.380 --> 00:27:21.380 He sets the captive free 00:27:21.620 --> 00:27:26.900 He opens blind eyes. He opens prison doors. He brings comfort to the mourning but 00:27:27.620 --> 00:27:34.580 The person through which it will happen radically are people who begin to operate the switch 00:27:35.460 --> 00:27:43.060 And I'm saying to us at acts 29 that we are the people who are the people who are the people who are the people who are the people 00:27:43.540 --> 00:27:44.660 We don't 00:27:44.660 --> 00:27:51.300 See the engine here or the or the or what fuels this whole thing these scriptures is not 00:27:51.780 --> 00:27:57.620 Uh is not obedience. It's not like oh father. We are an obedient church. We will go and deliver whoever you tell us to deliver 00:27:57.780 --> 00:28:00.820 It's a good thing. It's a biblical thing, but it's not obedience 00:28:01.300 --> 00:28:04.660 It's not anointing father anoint us anoint us with your spirit 00:28:04.900 --> 00:28:09.940 Let isaiah 61 happen in our lives so that we may go and deliver others. It's not anointing anointing is a great thing 00:28:10.020 --> 00:28:11.620 But it ain't that 00:28:11.620 --> 00:28:17.060 It's not being apostolic where father sent us out so that we may represent you accurately and set people free 00:28:17.140 --> 00:28:21.060 It is not duty where oh god, we are duty bound as believers. We are 00:28:22.260 --> 00:28:28.580 Called to set others free. No, it's not faith father. I have the faith to set this nation free. It's not calling 00:28:29.140 --> 00:28:36.260 It's not a destiny. It's not nations at the end of the day guys at the end of the day. It is simply this 00:28:36.980 --> 00:28:38.980 the 00:28:39.440 --> 00:28:41.440 Overwhelming 00:28:42.240 --> 00:28:44.240 Ever-ending 00:28:45.460 --> 00:28:47.460 Reckless love 00:28:48.180 --> 00:28:54.920 Of god, and if this is not there then you can't be a deliverer not the god kind 00:29:00.740 --> 00:29:04.740 It is what set you free man, it's not anointing that set you free 00:29:05.700 --> 00:29:09.300 It's the anointed one who behaved a certain way that sets you free 00:29:11.620 --> 00:29:13.620 All 00:29:16.420 --> 00:29:20.500 Those things I mentioned are super important obedience is important anointing is critical 00:29:21.060 --> 00:29:25.700 Faith is required calling helps you function in a certain way 00:29:27.060 --> 00:29:33.540 Destiny allows you to walk with intentionality nations are waiting being apostolic is biblical 00:29:33.860 --> 00:29:36.100 But at the end of the day you can have all that 00:29:36.900 --> 00:29:41.380 And yet this one simple factor can be missing and that's why I was asking her to sing that song 00:29:41.860 --> 00:29:44.260 Because at the end of the day, I am no deliverer 00:29:44.740 --> 00:29:45.940 If i'm not 00:29:45.940 --> 00:29:53.220 Engineed by fueled by motivated by one very simple thing the overwhelming never-ending reckless love of god 00:29:53.620 --> 00:29:55.620 This is how deliverers work 00:29:58.900 --> 00:30:03.300 This is why the spirit of god could fully be upon jesus because he was like this 00:30:06.660 --> 00:30:08.660 And this is not 00:30:09.700 --> 00:30:11.460 You can't 00:30:11.460 --> 00:30:18.740 It is both corporate and individual individuals have to have this burning in their hearts and the body as a whole has to 00:30:19.300 --> 00:30:23.220 Embrace this is this is the only thing we have been called to be 00:30:26.340 --> 00:30:28.340 Any questions 00:30:31.620 --> 00:30:33.780 And this we don't have in trumps guys 00:30:34.740 --> 00:30:40.100 This we don't have we have all those other things and they're brilliant and most churches don't have those other things 00:30:40.740 --> 00:30:43.380 But this is what we need and if we have this we 00:30:44.580 --> 00:30:48.820 Can do whatever god wants to do the way he wants it done 00:30:51.380 --> 00:30:58.420 Because anyways guys god is calling us to do what we are incapable of doing and he's calling us to do it by the spirit 00:30:59.060 --> 00:31:01.060 I 00:31:01.300 --> 00:31:09.940 Writing this message down. I felt god prompting me to watch this movie that many of you probably have already watched hacksaw ridge 00:31:10.980 --> 00:31:15.700 It's about this seven day adventist called desmond dos 00:31:16.660 --> 00:31:18.660 who 00:31:19.060 --> 00:31:22.900 Decides that he will not pick up a gun, but he cannot sit at home 00:31:23.460 --> 00:31:26.100 While world war two is going on he gets a job 00:31:26.740 --> 00:31:28.420 In a certain 00:31:28.420 --> 00:31:33.860 Industry during the war that could do services for the war front. He refuses it 00:31:33.940 --> 00:31:41.380 He says I cannot sit at home while my friends are serving out on the field. And so he registers to 00:31:42.660 --> 00:31:44.420 join the 00:31:44.420 --> 00:31:46.420 battlefield 00:31:46.900 --> 00:31:48.900 And yet he won't pick up a gun 00:31:50.020 --> 00:31:52.740 He says I will not touch a gun he goes through a lot of 00:31:53.620 --> 00:31:58.740 Difficulties he gets court-martialed but at the end of the day without firing a shot and 00:31:59.540 --> 00:32:02.740 In the battle of okinawa on a ridge called 00:32:04.260 --> 00:32:08.340 Hacksaw he saves 75 people 00:32:10.580 --> 00:32:12.580 75 people 00:32:13.140 --> 00:32:19.940 And I wanted to show you the clip but then realized that to show you a clip in church requires a 00:32:20.420 --> 00:32:24.180 A certain license and we don't have that license so it's 00:32:25.300 --> 00:32:26.980 It would be illegal to show you the clip 00:32:26.980 --> 00:32:28.420 But you can watch it at home 00:32:28.420 --> 00:32:34.420 but one of one of the things that happens throughout this movie and I watched the movie with derek yesterday at least a bit of 00:32:34.420 --> 00:32:36.420 it is 00:32:37.060 --> 00:32:38.260 He's 00:32:38.260 --> 00:32:40.260 Quiet injured. He's got 00:32:40.660 --> 00:32:43.860 Blood flowing from different parts of his body. He doesn't touch a gun 00:32:44.500 --> 00:32:49.140 And he goes back and starts pulling one person and this is a true story by the way, so it's not made up 00:32:49.780 --> 00:32:56.740 And he died in 2006 so he goes pulls one guy brings him and then he lowers him over the cliff and he gets saved 00:32:56.740 --> 00:33:04.020 And he saves 75 people like that and every time he saves someone his cry is one more solo god one more soul 00:33:06.260 --> 00:33:08.260 When I was watching it I was thinking of jivan 00:33:08.500 --> 00:33:11.540 This is what sometimes fuels jivan one more girl. Oh god 00:33:12.100 --> 00:33:16.340 One more swati one more devi one more buddhi. Just one more one more 00:33:16.340 --> 00:33:18.340 More 00:33:18.500 --> 00:33:23.700 I want the same thing to happen for me when it comes to this idea of delivering 00:33:24.420 --> 00:33:26.340 the earth 00:33:26.340 --> 00:33:34.900 If I don't have his overwhelming never-ending reckless love I can be very effective, but it'll still lack the aroma of yabe 00:33:35.860 --> 00:33:39.860 I don't want to do anything godly that doesn't have the aroma of joe hova 00:33:39.860 --> 00:33:41.860 So 00:33:42.740 --> 00:33:44.020 So just like 00:33:44.020 --> 00:33:45.620 Desmond d'os says 00:33:45.620 --> 00:33:52.740 One more soul and just like jivan says oh god one more girl or one more kid father that won't kill himself or won't be 00:33:53.360 --> 00:33:55.460 discarded 00:33:55.460 --> 00:34:01.540 It is life for life guys. It is life on life. It is life to life in the sense that 00:34:03.540 --> 00:34:04.660 It is 00:34:04.660 --> 00:34:09.060 Deliverance doesn't happen through a prayer that just causes a demon to leave 00:34:10.420 --> 00:34:12.420 It's life for life 00:34:12.740 --> 00:34:14.500 your life for 00:34:14.500 --> 00:34:19.300 Someone else's life and by your life. I'm not saying you have to die because christ has already done that 00:34:19.540 --> 00:34:22.420 What i'm saying it requires a pouring out of life 00:34:24.420 --> 00:34:30.980 I mean who here could even dare say that oh god, I would rather that you curse me and I never 00:34:31.780 --> 00:34:34.980 See your face and be thrown into eternal damnation so that my 00:34:35.460 --> 00:34:39.540 Family would be served also that my nation would be served who says stuff like that 00:34:40.900 --> 00:34:43.860 Who says stuff like moses did when he says oh god? 00:34:45.540 --> 00:34:51.860 Uh, I would that these Israelites that the rest of my people be saved so block me out of your book 00:34:53.380 --> 00:34:57.460 But let them be written in who says things like this. Where are these people? 00:34:57.700 --> 00:34:59.700 Where are I i'm not even talking about jesus 00:35:00.260 --> 00:35:04.420 I'm talking about people like moses and paul one in the old testament and one in the new testament 00:35:06.260 --> 00:35:10.260 Man if you become a church like this imagine what what can catch fire? 00:35:13.300 --> 00:35:15.700 The 12 the 11 and then 00:35:16.980 --> 00:35:18.980 The 12th one who was chosen 00:35:19.700 --> 00:35:21.700 The they had this 00:35:22.100 --> 00:35:24.100 It was easy for them to run with this 00:35:24.740 --> 00:35:26.740 It was easy for them to run with this 00:35:29.380 --> 00:35:33.460 It's life for life it's life on life 00:35:36.180 --> 00:35:38.180 Life on life 00:35:38.180 --> 00:35:40.180 And it's life to life 00:35:40.980 --> 00:35:42.980 and what I mean by that is 00:35:43.060 --> 00:35:47.860 Jacob if you are really willing to do everything in your power with your life 00:35:48.500 --> 00:35:51.940 Leave alone for someone outside of the church if I did this for you 00:35:52.580 --> 00:35:54.580 You would change dramatically 00:35:56.900 --> 00:35:58.900 There are times when I do it for you 00:36:01.700 --> 00:36:09.140 But if this was something that was really heartfelt in my heart, I guess if it's heartfelt it has to be hot 00:36:11.620 --> 00:36:15.620 If it was really deep in my heart you would be radically changed 00:36:15.620 --> 00:36:17.620 You would be radically changed 00:36:22.820 --> 00:36:28.180 Life for life life on life as in it is not some teaching or sermon of points that's given to you 00:36:28.260 --> 00:36:30.260 It's always life on life that we get to do 00:36:30.900 --> 00:36:35.780 somewhat okay in this church but life for life and then life to life as in it 00:36:36.820 --> 00:36:40.980 If this was real guys, you would find that the people that you're working with go from 00:36:41.380 --> 00:36:48.260 Normal life to another orbit from normal life to divine life from normal life to eternal life you would find a change 00:36:49.140 --> 00:36:54.820 It is impossible to stop this because the life you are pouring out is not yours to begin with we talked about this 00:36:55.060 --> 00:36:58.340 Last week that the life that I have is in mind to begin with 00:36:58.660 --> 00:37:02.500 I live it in union with the anointed one who lives his life through me 00:37:02.500 --> 00:37:06.040 So every time I pour this out and he is waiting 00:37:11.540 --> 00:37:17.620 It's the way of the master guys and no cost is too high it is the way of the master no cost is too high 00:37:18.340 --> 00:37:22.660 It is the way of the master. This is how jesus did it in john 15 verse 13 00:37:22.660 --> 00:37:26.980 He says hey, I don't call you slaves anymore. I call us. I don't call you servants anymore 00:37:26.980 --> 00:37:28.180 I call you friends 00:37:28.180 --> 00:37:32.980 And what is the best thing that a friend can do for another the best thing that a friend can do for another is lay 00:37:32.980 --> 00:37:36.980 Down his life for him. We think that is jesus's prerogative not mine 00:37:36.980 --> 00:37:41.860 Which reminds me of the other line in that song that in giving myself away 00:37:43.380 --> 00:37:49.620 Regardless of whether the other person deserves it or not whether the person has earned it or not 00:37:50.420 --> 00:37:53.700 In giving myself away the way of the master is fulfilled 00:37:54.260 --> 00:37:57.220 Because there's that line in that song you give yourself away 00:37:57.940 --> 00:37:59.940 I did not earn it nor did I deserve it 00:38:00.500 --> 00:38:02.500 I did not earn it nor did I deserve it 00:38:03.060 --> 00:38:05.060 You give yourself away 00:38:05.060 --> 00:38:11.140 I did not earn it nor did I deserve it guys. Can you go and ponder on this? Can you let it first hurt you? 00:38:12.500 --> 00:38:13.700 It should hurt you first 00:38:13.700 --> 00:38:17.540 It should hurt you because this is who christ is and this is not who you are yet 00:38:17.860 --> 00:38:22.360 And after it hurts you after it pierces you can you begin not to escape the piercing? 00:38:26.660 --> 00:38:29.700 Because what god can do with 12 what can he do with 70? 00:38:32.980 --> 00:38:39.460 It's the whole thing of giving oneself away so much could change if I saw you as valuable as I am 00:38:40.900 --> 00:38:44.500 So much could change if I saw you as valuable as me 00:38:48.100 --> 00:38:54.020 I think i'm highly valuable. I think i'm dearly loved. I have a very good estimation of myself 00:38:54.740 --> 00:38:58.840 But what if I had the ability to see you as valuable as me? 00:39:03.060 --> 00:39:05.060 What would I not do for you? 00:39:06.340 --> 00:39:09.620 It may not happen by tomorrow guys, but my god i've been 00:39:12.020 --> 00:39:17.320 Yeah, I think i'd love to go down this route because it is the way of the master 00:39:26.100 --> 00:39:28.100 Isaiah 43 verse 4 00:39:28.660 --> 00:39:30.020 in the 00:39:30.100 --> 00:39:34.980 NIRV the new international readers version puts it very well. Isaiah 43 00:39:37.300 --> 00:39:39.300 Verse 4 00:39:42.820 --> 00:39:47.860 Isaiah 43 verse 4 you are priceless to me 00:39:49.140 --> 00:39:51.220 I love you and honor you 00:39:51.220 --> 00:39:56.500 I'll trade other people for you. I'll give up nations to save your lives. I pray god that 00:39:57.140 --> 00:39:59.140 Other people become priceless to me 00:40:00.500 --> 00:40:01.940 I feel 00:40:01.940 --> 00:40:05.380 Highly valuable. I feel i'm really valued by god 00:40:06.020 --> 00:40:08.020 And I feel i'm valued by people too 00:40:09.700 --> 00:40:13.780 I feel that i'm priceless to god. I feel i'm really loved and honored 00:40:13.780 --> 00:40:19.300 But I wish I could see you like that and you would get so much more from me if I did that 00:40:22.980 --> 00:40:27.540 And same applies to you then towards others any questions guys 00:40:30.340 --> 00:40:33.140 Hey, we got to have causes like this man 00:40:35.140 --> 00:40:40.980 I don't want to die without having a cause that I would lay my life down for 00:40:43.140 --> 00:40:48.660 And christ can't be a cause a cause that christ has must become your cause 00:40:53.140 --> 00:40:58.660 Go home and watch that scene. It's called one last one more soul. It's just a three minute 52 second clip 00:40:59.540 --> 00:41:02.020 He's just crying off to begin with he's 00:41:02.500 --> 00:41:05.700 There are bombs going off all over and he doesn't know what to do and he's standing there 00:41:05.700 --> 00:41:10.100 He says I can't hear you. Oh god. I can't hear you. I don't know what to do next. I can't pick up a gun 00:41:10.660 --> 00:41:13.940 I don't know what to do next and then as he's saying I can't hear you god 00:41:14.260 --> 00:41:20.100 He hears the scream of some person in pain and he knows what he has to do and that begins the journey and keeps saying 00:41:20.100 --> 00:41:23.460 Oh god one more soul his hands are flayed because he's got to lower these people 00:41:23.700 --> 00:41:26.820 He's got cuts and wounds and bruises and he's bleeding 00:41:26.820 --> 00:41:31.860 And yet it is can I have one more soul one more soul 75 people saved he's the only conscientious 00:41:32.660 --> 00:41:36.180 Objector to war who's been awarded the medal of honor 00:41:39.940 --> 00:41:41.940 One more soul 00:41:41.940 --> 00:41:46.260 Man find a cause man. We were born for stuff like this 00:41:46.900 --> 00:41:48.900 my god humans 00:41:49.140 --> 00:41:51.140 Especially ones that have been 00:41:51.300 --> 00:41:53.300 Especially ones that have been 00:41:53.460 --> 00:41:57.780 Found by christ and who have been paid for blood by christ now should become like him 00:41:58.180 --> 00:42:01.320 Where there must be a cause what kind of life is it? Otherwise? 00:42:08.820 --> 00:42:15.540 It's this whole idea of the importance of one importance of one it's that parable of the sheep 00:42:17.860 --> 00:42:19.860 Leaves the 99 00:42:20.340 --> 00:42:22.340 It's the importance of one 00:42:23.380 --> 00:42:27.860 I want you to begin to go down that route. It is the importance of one 00:42:28.740 --> 00:42:30.740 the importance 00:42:31.460 --> 00:42:33.460 Of one 00:42:35.860 --> 00:42:37.860 It is the importance of one 00:42:38.420 --> 00:42:45.620 It is the one sheep that strays it is the one woman by the well in samaria that jesus 00:42:46.020 --> 00:42:48.020 takes a detour 00:42:48.100 --> 00:42:51.380 To meet or to encounter it is the one man on a tree 00:42:52.260 --> 00:42:55.540 Whose name is zekias it is the one eunuch? 00:42:56.500 --> 00:42:59.220 Who is ethiopian and he's going back to? 00:43:00.340 --> 00:43:02.680 Serve candice the queen of ethiopia 00:43:02.980 --> 00:43:10.180 It is the one paul who's riding a horse as a persecutor and gets knocked off it one one one 00:43:10.660 --> 00:43:17.140 It is this one baby or one little girl that is rescued or one grown-up girl that is rescued 00:43:17.380 --> 00:43:23.240 Or one person who is retrieved from sure damage death destruction 00:43:24.980 --> 00:43:30.100 That they end up as people that change the world is a separate thing many of them do 00:43:31.460 --> 00:43:36.420 Paul became who he became the woman in samaria went and told the entire village 00:43:37.380 --> 00:43:43.700 The demoniac in gadrin went to the cities of decapolis and preach the gospel the ethiopian went back 00:43:44.100 --> 00:43:47.460 To his country and africa began to hear about christ 00:43:47.860 --> 00:43:52.500 That's a different thing the outcome is not what it is. It is a value that is in the person 00:43:53.060 --> 00:43:55.700 but we have to understand the importance of one where you 00:43:56.420 --> 00:43:58.420 Where you look at someone and you realize that? 00:43:58.820 --> 00:44:03.700 I may god not bring god will not bring too many encounters into your life when you begin to go down this route 00:44:04.100 --> 00:44:06.100 Which is why jesus dealt with 12 00:44:08.660 --> 00:44:12.260 But when you stand before somebody in your daily encounters or sometimes in your 00:44:12.640 --> 00:44:17.320 Functional encounters given what people is so easy so quick so fast so dismissive 00:44:23.140 --> 00:44:29.140 And now to sing what god is saying to you god is saying to you and we love those lines when betty 00:44:29.540 --> 00:44:31.220 Gets into those four lines 00:44:31.220 --> 00:44:36.260 She sings the first two lines low and then the next two lines high and she really puts on the writs 00:44:36.740 --> 00:44:41.060 But what if it was not god singing to you, but you singing to somebody else? 00:44:42.740 --> 00:44:44.740 These emotions will wear out guys 00:44:46.980 --> 00:44:51.060 This is nice now it touches your heart it breaks my heart 00:44:51.060 --> 00:44:56.580 But tomorrow when there are no emotions, I still have to be able to there's no shadow. I won't light up 00:44:57.540 --> 00:45:00.180 There is no mountain. I won't climb up coming after you 00:45:01.060 --> 00:45:04.740 There is no wall. I won't kick down. No lie. I won't tear down coming after you 00:45:06.740 --> 00:45:10.900 These are this is what deliverers are made of this is the substance of their life 00:45:10.900 --> 00:45:12.900 This is the substance of their life 00:45:17.140 --> 00:45:19.140 Ezekiel 34 verse 16 00:45:19.860 --> 00:45:25.940 From the nir we put to this when jesus is talking about god is talking about the shepherds of israel 00:45:26.340 --> 00:45:30.980 And he says yeah, i'll be the kind of shepherd you want me to be and he says i'll search for the lost 00:45:31.540 --> 00:45:37.380 I'll bring back those that have wandered away. I'll bandage the ones that are hurt. I'll make the weak ones stronger 00:45:37.940 --> 00:45:43.220 I'll destroy those that are fat and strong. I'll take good care of my sheep. I'll treat them fairly 00:45:43.860 --> 00:45:45.700 I'll treat them fairly 00:45:45.700 --> 00:45:47.700 I'll search 00:45:48.020 --> 00:45:49.780 This is cool 00:45:49.780 --> 00:45:54.260 Motive in most of the lost coin lost sheep story. There is the 00:45:54.960 --> 00:45:58.500 Identity as an identify what is lost search for it 00:45:59.380 --> 00:46:01.220 Discover it 00:46:01.220 --> 00:46:04.580 And then i'm always surprised at how joyful 00:46:05.060 --> 00:46:10.020 The response is after it's found there's always a party once it's found 00:46:11.220 --> 00:46:14.980 Both in the lost coin and the lost sheep. It is this idea of 00:46:15.620 --> 00:46:21.780 Yes, i've identified what's lost. Yes. I've gone searching for it. Yes. I've discovered it. Yes. I'm bringing it back 00:46:22.100 --> 00:46:24.580 Yes, I am so joyful over this 00:46:25.940 --> 00:46:30.180 You will know the depth of a joy you haven't known yet 00:46:30.980 --> 00:46:33.300 When you partner with god in this 00:46:33.460 --> 00:46:36.820 You will know the depth of a joy you haven't known yet 00:46:40.500 --> 00:46:43.460 It'll have such a divine quality to it 00:46:55.060 --> 00:46:57.060 I think i'll stop here 00:46:57.060 --> 00:46:59.060 I'll stop here 00:47:02.660 --> 00:47:04.660 Um, can you put up the song so will I 00:47:09.940 --> 00:47:16.260 So starting in the next few weeks we'll go down this road of what does it look oh god to be this kind of a person 00:47:17.540 --> 00:47:19.540 What does it look to 00:47:27.220 --> 00:47:29.220 You 00:47:31.620 --> 00:47:33.620 Can you sing this song with 00:47:33.780 --> 00:47:40.020 Some meaning guys as much as you can muster because when we get to the part where it says god of salvation 00:47:40.580 --> 00:47:41.540 it's 00:47:41.540 --> 00:47:43.540 pretty 00:47:43.620 --> 00:47:45.620 Hey jill, do you know how to play the piano? 00:47:47.620 --> 00:47:49.620 Do you want to try this? 00:47:51.300 --> 00:47:53.300 Okay, no worries 00:47:54.340 --> 00:47:56.660 Anyone else wants to give it a shot if you play the piano? 00:47:57.380 --> 00:48:00.260 Yes, even no demon. It's okay 00:48:04.980 --> 00:48:11.860 Okay, let's just sing it without so father as we sing this song 00:48:14.900 --> 00:48:17.060 There are parts of the song that are so 00:48:18.580 --> 00:48:22.500 Speaking into what we've just talked about 00:48:22.820 --> 00:48:27.060 Father I plead with you for this change it's critical to our existence 00:48:27.940 --> 00:48:34.660 Because there's so much that you've given us so much but this must happen too. It's just the core of your heart. Oh god 00:48:35.220 --> 00:48:37.220 This is why you did what you did 00:48:37.860 --> 00:48:40.660 And we need this so don't deny us this 00:48:41.220 --> 00:48:45.780 I know you won't i'm just trying to tell you how desperate we are how desperate I am 00:48:46.260 --> 00:48:51.060 For this in my own life and then for this in the church and for other churches that we are connected with 00:48:51.060 --> 00:48:53.060 So as we sing this love 00:48:53.060 --> 00:48:55.060 It's just the beginning 00:48:55.380 --> 00:48:58.660 Thank you for taking us through the wilderness. It was a really good trip father 00:48:59.380 --> 00:49:02.420 Six weeks of really learning encountering finding 00:49:09.620 --> 00:49:11.620 God of creation 00:49:13.140 --> 00:49:18.260 There at the start before the beginning of time 00:49:19.220 --> 00:49:21.220 Of time 00:49:22.180 --> 00:49:24.340 With no point of reference 00:49:26.100 --> 00:49:31.620 You spoke to the dark and flashed out the wonder of light 00:49:33.700 --> 00:49:35.700 Change guys because I don't know the words 00:49:40.100 --> 00:49:42.100 God off your promise 00:49:42.500 --> 00:49:49.460 You don't speak in vain no syllable empty or void 00:49:50.900 --> 00:49:52.980 For once you have spoken 00:49:54.820 --> 00:50:00.900 All nature and science follow the sound of your voice 00:50:02.580 --> 00:50:04.580 And as you speak 00:50:06.160 --> 00:50:11.320 A hundred billion creatures catch your breath 00:50:13.040 --> 00:50:17.800 Evolving in pursuit of what you said 00:50:19.300 --> 00:50:24.260 If it all reveals your nature, so will I 00:50:26.100 --> 00:50:31.300 I can see your heart in everything you say 00:50:33.220 --> 00:50:38.900 Heavy painted sky the canvas of your grace 00:50:39.300 --> 00:50:45.940 Is if creation still obeys you so will I 00:50:48.500 --> 00:50:53.620 If the stars were made to worship so will I 00:50:54.980 --> 00:51:00.180 If the mountains bow in reverence, so will I 00:51:01.940 --> 00:51:03.940 If the oceans 00:51:04.340 --> 00:51:07.300 Your greatness so will I 00:51:08.980 --> 00:51:10.980 For if 00:51:17.620 --> 00:51:22.820 If the wind goes where you send it so will I 00:51:24.020 --> 00:51:29.220 If the rocks cry out in silence, so will I 00:51:30.180 --> 00:51:32.180 If the sum of 00:51:33.780 --> 00:51:35.780 Still falls shy 00:51:35.780 --> 00:51:37.780 Shy 00:51:37.940 --> 00:51:41.540 Then we'll sing again a hundred 00:51:43.700 --> 00:51:46.020 Okay, this is the part that I really wanted to sing 00:51:49.140 --> 00:51:52.600 Look at the words first we'll just go through them and then we can sing them god of salvation 00:51:53.380 --> 00:51:55.380 You chased down my heart 00:51:55.380 --> 00:52:01.140 Through all of my failure and pride on a hill you created the light of the world abandoned in darkness 00:52:01.380 --> 00:52:07.540 This is the whole idea of you cannot deliver that which you are not willing to lay your life down for either in birth bangs 00:52:08.180 --> 00:52:10.180 Or in death mothers do this man 00:52:11.780 --> 00:52:13.460 Next one 00:52:13.460 --> 00:52:15.220 next verse sorry 00:52:15.220 --> 00:52:18.100 And as you speak a hundred billion failures disappear 00:52:18.900 --> 00:52:23.300 Where you lost your life so I could find it here if you left the grave behind so will I 00:52:23.700 --> 00:52:25.700 I can see your heart in everything you've done 00:52:26.180 --> 00:52:30.660 Every part designed in a work of art called love if you gladly chose to surrender so will I 00:52:31.140 --> 00:52:33.140 I can see your heart 00:52:33.860 --> 00:52:39.620 Eight billion different ways. This is the encounters we'll have eight eight billion different ways every precious one 00:52:40.260 --> 00:52:44.260 One more soul a child you die to save if you gave your life to love them. So will I 00:52:44.820 --> 00:52:48.820 Like you would again a hundred billion times, but what measure could amount to your desire? 00:52:49.060 --> 00:52:53.060 You're the one who never leaves the one behind. Yeah, so let's just sing it 00:52:55.140 --> 00:52:57.140 God of salvation 00:52:57.380 --> 00:53:04.340 You chased down my heart through all of my failure and pride 00:53:05.780 --> 00:53:07.780 On a hill you created 00:53:09.700 --> 00:53:15.060 The light of the world abandoned in darkness to die 00:53:16.500 --> 00:53:18.500 And as you speak 00:53:20.100 --> 00:53:24.120 A hundred billion failures disappear 00:53:24.680 --> 00:53:31.560 Where you lost your life so I could find it here 00:53:33.000 --> 00:53:38.280 If you left the grave behind you so will I 00:53:39.880 --> 00:53:45.160 I can see your heart in everything you've done 00:53:46.680 --> 00:53:51.960 Every part designed in a work of art called love 00:53:52.280 --> 00:53:58.680 If you gladly chose surrender so will I 00:54:00.360 --> 00:54:06.040 I can see your heart eight billion different ways 00:54:07.400 --> 00:54:12.920 Every precious one a child you died to save 00:54:14.440 --> 00:54:19.800 If you gave your life to love them, so will I 00:54:20.280 --> 00:54:27.000 I like you would again a hundred billion times 00:54:28.200 --> 00:54:33.720 But what measure could amount to your desire? 00:54:35.080 --> 00:54:40.300 You're the one who never leaves the one behind 00:54:41.960 --> 00:54:43.960 We make this our prayer. Oh god 00:54:44.040 --> 00:54:46.040 We want to learn how to self-give 00:54:46.520 --> 00:54:50.680 You gave everything sometimes it's easier to die it's harder to live and give 00:54:52.440 --> 00:54:54.440 Spirit of god, I just pray that 00:54:55.560 --> 00:54:58.200 as we set ourselves apart through both 00:54:59.080 --> 00:55:04.360 This teaching and through this song that you holy spirit would come upon us 00:55:05.640 --> 00:55:09.960 For your own sake for the sake of others who don't know you like this 00:55:12.760 --> 00:55:15.240 So we look forward to what awaits 00:55:16.760 --> 00:55:21.400 It says in luke 4 that from then on 00:55:21.960 --> 00:55:25.960 From that time on when it talks about what jesus did after the wilderness 00:55:27.240 --> 00:55:30.920 That's what we look forward to now. So we bless you about me. Thank you for this day 00:55:31.400 --> 00:55:33.400 Thank you for your kindness and your presence 00:55:33.960 --> 00:55:35.960 In jesus name, amen