Okay guys, so
We've been talking about wilderness 40
And it started six weeks ago
And this is I think the final week where we exit the wilderness and step into whatever else
God wants us to do and we said when we began that wilderness 40 is basically
the Holy Spirit leading us into a time of drawing aside with God over the last 40 days
so that we can return with a greater revelation of God with greater power and
In the process prepare ourselves
For the post covid landscape that awaits us so that the church will no longer be
Rendered a non-essential service and I'm not talking about the institution. I'm talking about us as people
That was the intent with which we started wilderness 40 and over the last six weeks
Weeks we've covered ground some of you have drawn aside. I know at least one or two of you that
Took on fasts someone just concluded their 40-day fast a couple of days ago others withdrew from
Things so that they could set aside time
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
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
at the teachings and go over them, I'm just
Blessed by what has been taught and so today we go on to wilderness 40 the title for today is deliverer
deliverer
wilderness 40 deliverer and so this is a perhaps the last in the series and
Next week we start on something else
So if you look at Luke 4 14 Luke 4 14
Luke 4 14
Boy
Look for 14
So
Jesus returned to Galilee in the power of the Spirit and
News about him spread through the whole countryside
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
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
4 verse 1 where it said Jesus full of the Holy Spirit
Returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness of the desert where for 40 days
He was tempted by the devil and now we are in verse 14
Jesus returned to Galilee in the power of the Spirit and news about him began to spread so
The intent is that if acts 29 actually
Did engage in drawing aside setting time aside to pursue God then it follows that
After you come out of the wilderness
You come out
Cloth
With the power of the Holy Spirit like Jesus
You come out clothed with the power of the Holy Spirit as with Jesus Jesus returned to Galilee in the power of the Spirit
Which then begs the question. What does that look like?
What does that look like?
What does that look like and to look at to see what it looks like go to
Verse 17 look chapter 4 verse 17 and 18. This is what it looks like
The scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him
Unrolling it he found the place where it is written
The Spirit of the Lord is on me because he has anointed me and this is what it looks like to preach
the good news to the poor
To
Heal
The broken-hearted
To open prison doors
To restore sight to the physically and spiritually blind
To comfort those who mourn
To set captives free
And to declare the year of favor declare the year of Jubilee or the year of favor
This is what it looks like
So if acts 29 has
Done what they are called to do as in follow God into the wilderness learn things from the wilderness
While we were there setting time aside, then this is what will happen
That is what it looks like to be clothed by the power of the Holy Spirit because at the end of the day
The word anointed is basically being completely covered with
So to be clothed with the Holy Spirit would look like this for each of us for all of us
Whether we are online or sitting here
This is what it would look like to preach the good news to the poor to heal the broken-hearted
To open prison doors to restore sight to the physical and spiritually blind to comfort those who mourn
To set captives free and to declare the year of the favor of the Lord
And all this is accomplished simply by one thing
Anointing or clothing or the power of the Spirit
So Jesus returns as Israel's son
So Jesus returns as Israel's deliverer from the wilderness
He was baptized. He goes into the wilderness has an encounter
with the enemy but in the process also has a revelation of who he is and who God is comes back and then
He comes back as Israel's deliverer just like Moses
Moses went into the wilderness was there for 40 years
confronts Yahweh confronts him through the burning bush and now Moses returns back to Egypt to deliver Israel
It's it's the same motive that's being played again and again
Moses is rejected by the people he came to Jesus goes opens a scroll and reads it and he is rejected by the people
He came to just because God calls you and asks you to be a deliverer doesn't mean that the road is easy
Doesn't matter whether it's delivering your children delivering your parents delivering people in your neighborhood
Deliverers are not people who have been called and appointed so that they face no resistance a
Deliverer is proved in his resistance because deliverer requires being someone who is able to set people free
Which means they have to come up against someone who has taken them captive
So there will be resistance
But both Moses and Jesus returned from the wilderness and this is what they begin
But the strange thing is it's all by the power of the Holy Spirit
So
I'm gonna pose a question which is just rhetorical. Is this your expectation? Is this your expectation coming out?
of
40 days of wilderness
This must be your expectation if you actually did set aside your expectations
Set aside time to draw close to him then expect the Holy Spirit to respond the Holy Spirit honors anything that is set apart
Understand this guys that setting apart is something that the Holy Spirit loves doing
Loves responding to every time someone sets themselves apart the Holy Spirit responds every time
he specializes in
Taking care of anyone who sets himself apart. What does he say to Manoah and his wife?
Hey, you're gonna have a son. He's gonna be a Nazarite set him apart. What happens the Holy Spirit falls on him
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
Whenever a people set themselves apart it is like a natural provocation
That is always always met with a supernatural response from the Holy Spirit
And when we do not set apart ourselves, then the Holy Spirit has to work on setting us apart
See the difference guys on one hand you have those that do not set themselves apart
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
but if you
Set yourself apart then the Holy Spirit has the enjoyable work
Of coming upon you with the kind of power that causes this to happen
Any questions
Is this your expectation because or in other words, let me rephrase it this must be your expectation
This must be your expectation
Come otherwise the last 42 days have been wasted all you lost was a little bit of weight a bit of watching TV
This must be my expectation for you this must be my expectation of you
This must be my expectation of God because he's always done this any questions
Strangely it's not your responsibility
Your responsibility is to believe
After years I was reading I mean I've been a Christian for many years and again
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
believing
That's all it says it says if you believe out of you will flow rivers of living water
So this is not even my responsibility
But it is required of me to believe this you guys we don't we can't imagine
How much is wrought through believing or taking God at face value or taking his patterns as face value?
part of the reason we should read scriptures is not to get a promise but to understand patterns and
Then believe that God while he is not predictable has behaviors
That if I do this this and this this is the result because wherever there is sowing there is reaping and
So I'm going to believe for this for all of us and I have faith enough for all of us
But if you believe it also it really helps
Any questions
It's not your responsibility except to believe and if you believe then the Holy Spirit begins to flow through you so then
What really did happen in the wilderness?
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
To answer that
Here's a question. I need to ask while you were in the wilderness
Did you cut a path through the desert for the spirit to flow in your life while you were in the wilderness?
Just like water flows
Through rocks did you while you were in the wilderness did you over the last?
42 days when you drew aside did you cut a path?
through the rock through the deserts of your life to
Cut a path for the Holy Spirit to flow in drawing aside. Here are the questions you need to ask in drawing a side
Hey, can I have some other pen than a red one because there were complaints about the red one last time
Yeah, Derek echo it might hit you but you never know yeah
You just wanted to be on TV you could have easily thrown it
I
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?
In your life that would make it easy for the spirit to flow
So here are the questions you need to ask in drawing aside over the last six weeks
Did you increase?
Did you?
increase in
Did you increase in?
Character or moral excellence I
Put these boxes because I when I went down this list I realized that I couldn't tick all these boxes
Did you increase in?
Presence filled power
Did you increase in trusting or yielding
To his sovereignty
Or
his absolute rulership
Where you trust him saying I don't understand this I can't see you the light at the end of the tunnel
But I trust your sovereignty. I trust your good fatherness. Did you increase in self-giving?
Where you give of yourself and that which you have and did you increase in the purity of
Love
For others. These are the things that should have happened
These are the things that always happen when people draw aside and spend time with the creator of the universe
These are the things that always happen
With anybody who draws aside and spends time with the creator of the universe you take Moses
He spent time in the wilderness. He changed you take
Paul he spent time in the wilderness. He changed you take Jesus. He spent time in the wilderness
He displayed who he was after that so
This is the list that I want to ask you did this happen for you in the wilderness
As you look back at the last 42 days, which ones can you take tick
Was there a change in your character and your moral excellence the way you function? Was there a change?
Sometimes it takes time for change to be visible, but you know change within you
What was there a difference in terms of how you deal with things?
Very aware of the power of God because you're more aware of his presence presence always translates into power
The closer you are to royalty or a king the greater clout you have
So
Did you trust or yield to his sovereignty where things haven't moved things haven't changed?
You don't know what's happening
But you trust and yield to his sovereignty and his sovereignty is his kingness his fatherhood his lordship his
absolute control over everything
and
His perfect will as in his perfect ways of doing things you are perfect in all your ways
Was there a yielding or trusting of his sovereignty?
Force were you self-giving have you become more self-giving?
Did these last 42 days bring you to a place where you had a loser grip on your money?
loser grip on the time treasure talent strength and
The last one is did is there an increase in the purity of your love?
These are actual measures that you will find in the scriptures again and again to figure out whether someone
Spends time with God because anyone who spends time with God changes did you change?
I'm just saying I couldn't take all the boxes
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
So what do we do if we can't go through these boxes and take them hey
Continue with this process anyways
Find the areas of deficit and decide that in these areas. I'm not going to back off. I'm going to press forward
Character or moral excellence how have your habits changed? How have your behaviors changed?
How have you changed in terms of a purity not purity of love but purity of love?
Purity not purity of love but purity of character did it get worse or did it get better?
Or was it comes he comes up
Any questions
Moses Jesus Paul chiseled into their lives these traits
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
Apart now finds easy pathways in your life to flow through
It's like a river suddenly finding a secret gorge in the rock face that it
Rushes through because it doesn't have to spend years creating a pathway. It has found a pathway because you were at work
Jesus changes people
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
I must begin to question my relationship with Jesus Christ not whether he is present or absent
but whether he is active and
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
But because he loves me he'll begin to discipline me
Because
Hebrews chapter 12 says which father does not discipline his children if he did not discipline you you are illegitimate
That's on the side
Okay, any questions
Please go through this list I can give you person after person in the Bible who was changed in these
The disciples my god those disciples were changed man
They changed in their character. They changed in the power that they exuded they changed in their ability to trust God
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
Have hung around with Jesus
Okay
So
You are to return we are to return I am to return from the wilderness as a deliverer
But here's the thing man with being a deliverer
You cannot deliver you cannot deliver
That which
You cannot deliver that which you will
Not lay your life down
In birth pangs or death
This is where God is going to take us over the next few weeks
So Jacob you set yourself apart as a church for the last 42 days
You drew next to me the Holy Spirit always honors those that set themselves apart
Some of you have pressed in and you can take off of two or three boxes
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
The Holy Spirit can flow and you are now being sent anointed by the Spirit to be deliverers ones who deliver others
But Jacob here's a question. I want to ask you then
Actually, and here's a question. I'm asking you
If you want to be a deliver deliverer
I want you to know that you cannot deliver that which you will not lay your life down for in birth pangs or death
I'm not
I'm not playing around with words. I'm not trying to give you a nice sermon
You must understand that there's a dirt in acts 29 in our lives in my life when it comes to this area
You cannot be a deliverer
Till you're willing to lay down your life either in travail and birth pangs
So that someone be delivered or in death so that someone be delivered
If you don't believe me turn to Exodus 32 32
Exodus 32 32 I'll take you through some scriptures a
the unfortunate thing about
Getting serious about God is that?
He's too serious about stuff
And so our choice is either to follow down that road or just play church
And so Exodus 32 32 Moses is in the desert
Israel needs to be delivered
They've made themselves gods of gold
And now Moses says this
But now please forgive their sins, but if not then erase me out of the book you have written
If you want to deliver somebody
If you want to be if you want to be a delivering church we have to be willing to lay our lives down
either in birth pangs as in travail until something is formed or in death
As in life for life dying for someone else
This is the extreme that Jesus is taking us to this is what we'll be talking about in the next few weeks
Otherwise, we just pretend delivering
It's not real
Let me show you another scripture
Isaiah 53 10 and 11 Isaiah 53 10 and 11 I'm reading from the
Message Isaiah 53 10 and 11
Isaiah 53
10 and 11 reading from the message still it's what God had in mind all along to crush him with pain
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
Life life and more life and God's plan will deeply prosper through him out of that terrible travail of soul
He'll see that it's worth it and be glad he did it
Through what he experienced my righteous one
My servant will make many righteous ones as he himself carries the burden of their sins
Out of that terrible travail of soul, he'll see that it's worth it and be glad he did it
Through what he experienced my righteous one my servant will make many righteous ones as he himself carries the burden of their sins
That's Jesus let's look at paul romans 9
Romans 9
Verse 1 to 3 from the message romans 9 verse 1 1 to 3 from the message
I
Wish I could say this for you man. You'd have such an amazing pastor if these words were mine
But they're not
Romans 9 1 to 3 from the message
At the same time you need to know that I carry with me at all times a huge sorrow
It's an enormous pain deep within me. I'm never free of it. I'm not exaggerating
Christ and the holy spirit are my witnesses. It's the Israelites
If there were any way I could be cursed by the messiah so that they could be blessed by him
I'd do it in a minute
They're my family
Here's what I mean by you cannot deliver that which
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
Let's look at another scripture Galatians 4 19 from the passion translation Galatians 4 19
From the passion translation and here's what it says
And here's what it says
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
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
The actual act of deliverance happens by the spirit guys
He sets the captive free
He opens blind eyes. He opens prison doors. He brings comfort to the mourning but
The person through which it will happen radically are people who begin to operate the switch
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
We don't
See the engine here or the or the or what fuels this whole thing these scriptures is not
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
It's a good thing. It's a biblical thing, but it's not obedience
It's not anointing father anoint us anoint us with your spirit
Let isaiah 61 happen in our lives so that we may go and deliver others. It's not anointing anointing is a great thing
But it ain't that
It's not being apostolic where father sent us out so that we may represent you accurately and set people free
It is not duty where oh god, we are duty bound as believers. We are
Called to set others free. No, it's not faith father. I have the faith to set this nation free. It's not calling
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
the
Overwhelming
Ever-ending
Reckless love
Of god, and if this is not there then you can't be a deliverer not the god kind
It is what set you free man, it's not anointing that set you free
It's the anointed one who behaved a certain way that sets you free
All
Those things I mentioned are super important obedience is important anointing is critical
Faith is required calling helps you function in a certain way
Destiny allows you to walk with intentionality nations are waiting being apostolic is biblical
But at the end of the day you can have all that
And yet this one simple factor can be missing and that's why I was asking her to sing that song
Because at the end of the day, I am no deliverer
If i'm not
Engineed by fueled by motivated by one very simple thing the overwhelming never-ending reckless love of god
This is how deliverers work
This is why the spirit of god could fully be upon jesus because he was like this
And this is not
You can't
It is both corporate and individual individuals have to have this burning in their hearts and the body as a whole has to
Embrace this is this is the only thing we have been called to be
Any questions
And this we don't have in trumps guys
This we don't have we have all those other things and they're brilliant and most churches don't have those other things
But this is what we need and if we have this we
Can do whatever god wants to do the way he wants it done
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
I
Writing this message down. I felt god prompting me to watch this movie that many of you probably have already watched hacksaw ridge
It's about this seven day adventist called desmond dos
who
Decides that he will not pick up a gun, but he cannot sit at home
While world war two is going on he gets a job
In a certain
Industry during the war that could do services for the war front. He refuses it
He says I cannot sit at home while my friends are serving out on the field. And so he registers to
join the
battlefield
And yet he won't pick up a gun
He says I will not touch a gun he goes through a lot of
Difficulties he gets court-martialed but at the end of the day without firing a shot and
In the battle of okinawa on a ridge called
Hacksaw he saves 75 people
75 people
And I wanted to show you the clip but then realized that to show you a clip in church requires a
A certain license and we don't have that license so it's
It would be illegal to show you the clip
But you can watch it at home
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
it is
He's
Quiet injured. He's got
Blood flowing from different parts of his body. He doesn't touch a gun
And he goes back and starts pulling one person and this is a true story by the way, so it's not made up
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
And he saves 75 people like that and every time he saves someone his cry is one more solo god one more soul
When I was watching it I was thinking of jivan
This is what sometimes fuels jivan one more girl. Oh god
One more swati one more devi one more buddhi. Just one more one more
More
I want the same thing to happen for me when it comes to this idea of delivering
the earth
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
I don't want to do anything godly that doesn't have the aroma of joe hova
So
So just like
Desmond d'os says
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
discarded
It is life for life guys. It is life on life. It is life to life in the sense that
It is
Deliverance doesn't happen through a prayer that just causes a demon to leave
It's life for life
your life for
Someone else's life and by your life. I'm not saying you have to die because christ has already done that
What i'm saying it requires a pouring out of life
I mean who here could even dare say that oh god, I would rather that you curse me and I never
See your face and be thrown into eternal damnation so that my
Family would be served also that my nation would be served who says stuff like that
Who says stuff like moses did when he says oh god?
Uh, I would that these Israelites that the rest of my people be saved so block me out of your book
But let them be written in who says things like this. Where are these people?
Where are I i'm not even talking about jesus
I'm talking about people like moses and paul one in the old testament and one in the new testament
Man if you become a church like this imagine what what can catch fire?
The 12 the 11 and then
The 12th one who was chosen
The they had this
It was easy for them to run with this
It's life for life it's life on life
Life on life
And it's life to life
and what I mean by that is
Jacob if you are really willing to do everything in your power with your life
Leave alone for someone outside of the church if I did this for you
You would change dramatically
There are times when I do it for you
But if this was something that was really heartfelt in my heart, I guess if it's heartfelt it has to be hot
If it was really deep in my heart you would be radically changed
You would be radically changed
Life for life life on life as in it is not some teaching or sermon of points that's given to you
It's always life on life that we get to do
somewhat okay in this church but life for life and then life to life as in it
If this was real guys, you would find that the people that you're working with go from
Normal life to another orbit from normal life to divine life from normal life to eternal life you would find a change
It is impossible to stop this because the life you are pouring out is not yours to begin with we talked about this
Last week that the life that I have is in mind to begin with
I live it in union with the anointed one who lives his life through me
So every time I pour this out and he is waiting
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
It is the way of the master. This is how jesus did it in john 15 verse 13
He says hey, I don't call you slaves anymore. I call us. I don't call you servants anymore
I call you friends
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
Down his life for him. We think that is jesus's prerogative not mine
Which reminds me of the other line in that song that in giving myself away
Regardless of whether the other person deserves it or not whether the person has earned it or not
In giving myself away the way of the master is fulfilled
Because there's that line in that song you give yourself away
I did not earn it nor did I deserve it
You give yourself away
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?
It should hurt you first
It should hurt you because this is who christ is and this is not who you are yet
And after it hurts you after it pierces you can you begin not to escape the piercing?
Because what god can do with 12 what can he do with 70?
It's the whole thing of giving oneself away so much could change if I saw you as valuable as I am
So much could change if I saw you as valuable as me
I think i'm highly valuable. I think i'm dearly loved. I have a very good estimation of myself
But what if I had the ability to see you as valuable as me?
What would I not do for you?
It may not happen by tomorrow guys, but my god i've been
Yeah, I think i'd love to go down this route because it is the way of the master
Isaiah 43 verse 4
in the
NIRV the new international readers version puts it very well. Isaiah 43
Verse 4
Isaiah 43 verse 4 you are priceless to me
I love you and honor you
I'll trade other people for you. I'll give up nations to save your lives. I pray god that
Other people become priceless to me
I feel
Highly valuable. I feel i'm really valued by god
And I feel i'm valued by people too
I feel that i'm priceless to god. I feel i'm really loved and honored
But I wish I could see you like that and you would get so much more from me if I did that
And same applies to you then towards others any questions guys
Hey, we got to have causes like this man
I don't want to die without having a cause that I would lay my life down for
And christ can't be a cause a cause that christ has must become your cause
Go home and watch that scene. It's called one last one more soul. It's just a three minute 52 second clip
He's just crying off to begin with he's
There are bombs going off all over and he doesn't know what to do and he's standing there
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
I don't know what to do next and then as he's saying I can't hear you god
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
Oh god one more soul his hands are flayed because he's got to lower these people
He's got cuts and wounds and bruises and he's bleeding
And yet it is can I have one more soul one more soul 75 people saved he's the only conscientious
Objector to war who's been awarded the medal of honor
One more soul
Man find a cause man. We were born for stuff like this
my god humans
Especially ones that have been
Found by christ and who have been paid for blood by christ now should become like him
Where there must be a cause what kind of life is it? Otherwise?
It's this whole idea of the importance of one importance of one it's that parable of the sheep
Leaves the 99
It's the importance of one
I want you to begin to go down that route. It is the importance of one
the importance
Of one
It is the importance of one
It is the one sheep that strays it is the one woman by the well in samaria that jesus
takes a detour
To meet or to encounter it is the one man on a tree
Whose name is zekias it is the one eunuch?
Who is ethiopian and he's going back to?
Serve candice the queen of ethiopia
It is the one paul who's riding a horse as a persecutor and gets knocked off it one one one
It is this one baby or one little girl that is rescued or one grown-up girl that is rescued
Or one person who is retrieved from sure damage death destruction
That they end up as people that change the world is a separate thing many of them do
Paul became who he became the woman in samaria went and told the entire village
The demoniac in gadrin went to the cities of decapolis and preach the gospel the ethiopian went back
To his country and africa began to hear about christ
That's a different thing the outcome is not what it is. It is a value that is in the person
but we have to understand the importance of one where you
Where you look at someone and you realize that?
I may god not bring god will not bring too many encounters into your life when you begin to go down this route
Which is why jesus dealt with 12
But when you stand before somebody in your daily encounters or sometimes in your
Functional encounters given what people is so easy so quick so fast so dismissive
And now to sing what god is saying to you god is saying to you and we love those lines when betty
Gets into those four lines
She sings the first two lines low and then the next two lines high and she really puts on the writs
But what if it was not god singing to you, but you singing to somebody else?
These emotions will wear out guys
This is nice now it touches your heart it breaks my heart
But tomorrow when there are no emotions, I still have to be able to there's no shadow. I won't light up
There is no mountain. I won't climb up coming after you
There is no wall. I won't kick down. No lie. I won't tear down coming after you
These are this is what deliverers are made of this is the substance of their life
This is the substance of their life
Ezekiel 34 verse 16
From the nir we put to this when jesus is talking about god is talking about the shepherds of israel
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
I'll bring back those that have wandered away. I'll bandage the ones that are hurt. I'll make the weak ones stronger
I'll destroy those that are fat and strong. I'll take good care of my sheep. I'll treat them fairly
I'll treat them fairly
I'll search
This is cool
Motive in most of the lost coin lost sheep story. There is the
Identity as an identify what is lost search for it
Discover it
And then i'm always surprised at how joyful
The response is after it's found there's always a party once it's found
Both in the lost coin and the lost sheep. It is this idea of
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
Yes, I am so joyful over this
You will know the depth of a joy you haven't known yet
When you partner with god in this
You will know the depth of a joy you haven't known yet
It'll have such a divine quality to it
I think i'll stop here
I'll stop here
Um, can you put up the song so will I
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
What does it look to
You
Can you sing this song with
Some meaning guys as much as you can muster because when we get to the part where it says god of salvation
it's
pretty
Hey jill, do you know how to play the piano?
Do you want to try this?
Okay, no worries
Anyone else wants to give it a shot if you play the piano?
Yes, even no demon. It's okay
Okay, let's just sing it without so father as we sing this song
There are parts of the song that are so
Speaking into what we've just talked about
Father I plead with you for this change it's critical to our existence
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
This is why you did what you did
And we need this so don't deny us this
I know you won't i'm just trying to tell you how desperate we are how desperate I am
For this in my own life and then for this in the church and for other churches that we are connected with
So as we sing this love
It's just the beginning
Thank you for taking us through the wilderness. It was a really good trip father
Six weeks of really learning encountering finding
God of creation
There at the start before the beginning of time
Of time
With no point of reference
You spoke to the dark and flashed out the wonder of light
Change guys because I don't know the words
God off your promise
You don't speak in vain no syllable empty or void
For once you have spoken
All nature and science follow the sound of your voice
And as you speak
A hundred billion creatures catch your breath
Evolving in pursuit of what you said
If it all reveals your nature, so will I
I can see your heart in everything you say
Heavy painted sky the canvas of your grace
Is if creation still obeys you so will I
If the stars were made to worship so will I
If the mountains bow in reverence, so will I
If the oceans
Your greatness so will I
For if
If the wind goes where you send it so will I
If the rocks cry out in silence, so will I
If the sum of
Still falls shy
Shy
Then we'll sing again a hundred
Okay, this is the part that I really wanted to sing
Look at the words first we'll just go through them and then we can sing them god of salvation
You chased down my heart
Through all of my failure and pride on a hill you created the light of the world abandoned in darkness
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
Or in death mothers do this man
Next one
next verse sorry
And as you speak a hundred billion failures disappear
Where you lost your life so I could find it here if you left the grave behind so will I
I can see your heart in everything you've done
Every part designed in a work of art called love if you gladly chose to surrender so will I
I can see your heart
Eight billion different ways. This is the encounters we'll have eight eight billion different ways every precious one
One more soul a child you die to save if you gave your life to love them. So will I
Like you would again a hundred billion times, but what measure could amount to your desire?
You're the one who never leaves the one behind. Yeah, so let's just sing it
God of salvation
You chased down my heart through all of my failure and pride
On a hill you created
The light of the world abandoned in darkness to die
And as you speak
A hundred billion failures disappear
Where you lost your life so I could find it here
If you left the grave behind you so will I
I can see your heart in everything you've done
Every part designed in a work of art called love
If you gladly chose surrender so will I
I can see your heart eight billion different ways
Every precious one a child you died to save
If you gave your life to love them, so will I
I like you would again a hundred billion times
But what measure could amount to your desire?
You're the one who never leaves the one behind
We make this our prayer. Oh god
We want to learn how to self-give
You gave everything sometimes it's easier to die it's harder to live and give
Spirit of god, I just pray that
as we set ourselves apart through both
This teaching and through this song that you holy spirit would come upon us
For your own sake for the sake of others who don't know you like this
So we look forward to what awaits
It says in luke 4 that from then on
From that time on when it talks about what jesus did after the wilderness
That's what we look forward to now. So we bless you about me. Thank you for this day
Thank you for your kindness and your presence
In jesus name, amen