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Welcome to the podcast of the 
White Church in Adelaide, South 

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Australia. 
So we've got Leo is with us 

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today. 
Leo leads a church with his wife

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Christine and the eldership team
there, GGC in Sydney. 

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So we're blessed to have these 
guys here today. 

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Leo and Christine are part of 
the NCMI team. 

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You know that they're here to 
them to minister and impart 

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something of, you know, from 
their gift into this church. 

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So, you know, I say all that 
just to say that let's be 

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expected. 
Let's be expecting that God's 

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bringing these people in. 
These are, you know, we say 

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this, these aren't guest 
speakers. 

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We partner with NCMI. 
God brings the gifts in from the

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from the NCMI team. 
They impart something here 

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that's needed for the building 
and the establishing of this 

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lampstand. 
And, and you know, these gifts, 

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where, where are they imparted? 
It's not imparted into this 

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building. 
It's not imparted to the name, 

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the way church. 
It's into the vessels of the 

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sons and daughters, the bride of
the church. 

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That means that we need to be 
open to receive this morning. 

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And I know that we are, and I'm 
going to just invite Leo to come

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and share with us. 
And also Dudley's going to come 

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and pray for us and for Leo. 
And I'll just hand over to these

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guys. 
But I hope we're expecting 

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because God's wanting to do 
something in this place today. 

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Amen. 
Amen. 

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Just before we pray for you, 
I've known you for, I don't 

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know, 30-40 years. 
I don't know how long it is. 

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He's a man of integrity, got a 
great church planted out of 

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their church just in the last 
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growing. 
To me, it's an absolute honor 

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and a privilege to have him in 
our church today. 

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I really mean that. 
I think it's a special time for 

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us and I can't say strongly 
enough how much I'd like you 

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just to open your hearts and 
say, God, we've got to change 

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whatever he has to say, no 
matter how tough it may be or 

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how encouraging it is, we 
embrace it all. 

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So Father, in Jesus name, I just
put my hands on this man. 

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We stretch our hands out. 
He's your vessel, he's your son.

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We just honor what he has done, 
what he's done for you, how much

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he loves you, the joy we see, 
the liberty, the freedom, we ask

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your blessing upon him. 
Give him such a sense of freedom

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today that there may be that 
authority and power that 

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transforms and doesn't just 
inform in Jesus name. 

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Amen. 
Thanks for having us. 

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My wife went back to Sydney to 
preach in in our church and so 

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she left Friday so she would 
have loved to be with me. 

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Good to see. 
So good to see Leon and Pat 

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again after many years. 
And Leon and Pat were the first 

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one of the first couples that 
came into my home when my mom 

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was alive and she put on a 
massive Italian meal. 

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And that's when we first 
connected and they helped us 

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connect to the into my team. 
I got saved at 19, started the 

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church at 22 and Leon was 
talking about God uses rookies 

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and man was IA rookie and still 
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But I, I want to, I want to say 
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Dudley and Anne came from South 
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Is that correct? 
89 roughly around there and you 

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know, to, to take over a church 
and, and little did I know God 

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was connecting us and connecting
the dots because I'm starting a 

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church in 1990 that already come
from South Africa to Adelaide to

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take over a church. 
And if we didn't connect with 

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the team, I can honestly say I 
would have been a shipwrecked in

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ministry because I had no 
blueprint. 

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I had no understanding on how to
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I, I got saved at 19, started at
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I'm three years in the Lord and 
now I'm going to start a church 

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in my mom's lounge room. 
Literally had no understanding 

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except from the church that came
out of which was quite religious

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and legalistic and very, very 
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And they spoke, they told unless
you speak in tongues, you're not

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saved and had a lot of other 
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So the Lord showed me through 
the word of God, I needed to 

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come out and but but two or 
three years after we started 

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with when we heard of Dudley, 
actually friend of mine, Kevin 

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Wilcox invited Dudley come to 
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I don't know if you remember 
that little meeting with about 

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8910 pastors because Kevin was 
leading a great church in the 

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Wollongong and heard about 
what's happening in Coastlands 

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and flew him over. 
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Dudley speak. 
And I thought this is this is 

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what I've been looking for. 
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three years after the church 
started and because we partnered

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with the team of A5 fold 
ministry gift that's biblical 

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according to Ephesians chapter 
4, God uses and God raises 

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authentic apostles, prophets, 
pastors, evangelist teachers to 

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give to the church to to equip 
the Saints to do the work of the

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ministry. 
And then I started to I started 

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to start to understand the 
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blueprint meaning how do you 
build a house if you don't have 

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a blueprint? 
How do you build a church if 

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God's way if you don't have a 
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And so little by little, month 
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sometimes three years into it, I
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And then ten years later realize
I'm still changing, still 

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learning. 
I'm still unlearning all the 

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wrong stuff. 10/15/20 And now 
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still unlearning, believe it or 
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And I just want to, I want us to
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this. 
I remember Dudley preaching in 

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one of the equips in Adelaide 25
years ago about and he was 

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preaching about the Kingdom. 
I remember in those days no one 

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was speaking about the Kingdom 
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brought the Kingdom and he 
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Kingdom. 
He said repent for the Kingdom 

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of God is at hand. 
And so I did my own study to 

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look at the word Kingdom and 
understand that's what he was 

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all about. 
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Apostolic ministry. 
It shows the church to get back 

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on the Plumb line and focus on 
the word of God, what the word 

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of God speaks about. 
And so Tyra in the last, I don't

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know, 10, maybe 15 years he's 
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back to Jesus because Jesus is 
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And we could hear that guy. 
Yeah, but why is he saying that?

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Because he's Apostolic and 
trying to get us back to the 

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word, trying to get us back to 
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And so, you know, this year I, I
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holiday and I was, and I thought
to myself, well, our, our vision

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for the, the year, it's always 
the same, but we want to present

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to the church the same vision. 
But we try to say, guys, what 

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are we going to focus on this 
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And it's more Jesus. 
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throughout the whole year, what 
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What do you mean more Jesus? 
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Jesus. 
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even the way you see the church 
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not about Jesus. 
It's not it's we we get off 

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track and we we emphasize on 
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emphasizes. 
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Plumb line. 
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going to look up the word Christ
Jesus in the New Testament. 238 

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scriptures were there. 
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every one of them one by one. 
Then I looked up the word Jesus,

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just the name Jesus in the New 
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It's 998 scriptures in the New 
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I'm going to go for every single
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So it's going to take me a long 
time to get through, but to read

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with fresh eyes and look at the 
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Word emphasizes. 
It's about being in relationship

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with Christ. 
It's about knowing him, you 

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know, because when you start a 
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easy to you start to do things 
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You can start to even prepare 
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So I find, I find I'm going to 
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Sometimes there's passes or 
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We, we, we'll pay a price 
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grow. 
So we'll pay a price and seek 

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God's face and get in the word. 
And, and so I'm in the word was 

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going to prepare a message. 
But what about my relationship 

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with him? 
There were, there were stages in

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my walk where I had to prepare 
5-6 messages a week, morning and

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night service. 
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Wednesday night leaders or 
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And there's always, sometimes at
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So every time you're in the 
Barb, you're trying to get a 

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message that can burn you out 
because your relationship with 

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God isn't being sustained, just 
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And he speaks to you as a son 
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your relationship with him, not 
because you want something to 

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grow. 
So I, I think people have paid. 

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Please hear my heart. 
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body of Christ. 
I mean, the men and the men and 

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women of God that are in 
leadership are doing the 

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absolute best and, and sometimes
we'll pay a price because we 

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want to succeed. 
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succeed? 
We're created to succeed. 

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No one, no one wakes up in the 
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today. 
I want to fail so good. 

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Like you don't wake up thinking 
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failure. 
Now you wake up, whatever you're

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doing, business, ministry, work,
home, family, you want to 

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succeed. 
So we seek God because I want to

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be anointed. 
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days and seek God's word. 
I want to be anointed so I can 

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preach the word with power, so 
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And it's usually my motive was 
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So without knowing there was 
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ambition. 
When I, when I started at 22, I 

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didn't know I had so much 
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But you can't wait until you're 
completely clean of all those 

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wrong motives. 
So don't hear what I'm not 

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saying. 
You've got to move with God and 

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in the process of growing and 
changing and, and, and you know,

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doing the will of God the best 
way, you know, he, he, you die 

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1000 deaths, you die to 
yourself, you die to your flesh,

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you die to your selfish 
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You died of the wrong motives, 
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So, so please don't look too 
introspective and go, I must 

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have some selfish motives. 
I'm not going to do anything. 

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No, pay a price, seek God and 
let him cleanse us and wash us 

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and purify us as we move closer 
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So, so I'm just saying, I 
believe that when people are 

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paying a price for success and 
whatever they think success is, 

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when they get there, they're no 
longer motivated to pay a price 

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because they weren't paying a 
price to know him, to be in love

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with him, to be known by him. 
So if you're paying a price even

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because you want your business 
to grow, I'm going to, I'm going

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to be this soft discipline. 
I'm going to be, I'm going to, 

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I'm going to get in the word. 
I'm going to, I'm going to, I'm 

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going to get wisdom from the 
word so I, I can make my 

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business grow and all that. 
All great motives. 

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What happens when you, when you 
arrive, what you think is 

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success? 
If that was a motivation, the 

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motivation's no longer there. 
And that's where, where people 

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will fall. 
You've seen many, many men and 

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women that fall once they've got
to what they thought success was

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because along the way you lose 
your intimate relationship with 

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the Lord. 
So they were sincere. 

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They started well, but we've got
to stay focused on it's all 

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about relationship with him and 
stay. 

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And I, you know, I, I looked up 
the word like, as I said, Gee, 

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and I'm still going through 
those scriptures and I, and I, I

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just want to show us how the, 
the whole, the whole word of God

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is all about him from Genesis to
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It's actually about God's love 
story where God the Father 

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restores us back to himself 
through his son, Jesus Christ, 

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from the book of Genesis to the 
revelations, right, right at 

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the, the whole, through the 
whole redemptive story. 

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It's a whole plan of God, God's 
mystery that was hidden in God 

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so he could bring mankind back 
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It's all about him. 
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motives and fleshly motives. 
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and sell one of our guys. 
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origins of Jesus and it gives 
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begat, begat, begat, but it's 
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It's actually the cry of the 
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and the and it finishes with the
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you, not the grace of positions 
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I can get a titles, I can get a 
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is where we get it all wrong. 
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Christ right, all right. 
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you look at it, when you look 
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the clouds of glory and wrap up 
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that Angel will say time will be
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face will shine brighter than 
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I want, I don't got time to go 
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in Daniel, it's in Matthew, it's
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quotes, it, you know where the 
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the moon won't shed its light. 
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outshine the sun so that the sun
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turned off in a light bulb and I
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like, oh God, one day you're 
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Your face will shine the sun. 
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Jesus, our God, our Creator, 
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2123 again, I just want to show 
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the Lamb of God, which is who is
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will sit on the throne and his 
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up the whole city. 
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our mind who we worship and that
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Jesus, the Alpha and the Omega, 
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The, the word of God is really 
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revelation of Jesus. 
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to Peter, who you know, when the
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do people say that I am? 
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basically they say, well, some 
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back from the dead. 
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Jeremiah, one of the prophets 
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superstitious, possibly them. 
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you're, you're the Christ, the 
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this to you. 
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that I'm the Christ, the Son of 
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powerful. 
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Peter, Little Rock, upon this 
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knowing who Christ is, I'll 
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the church because of your 
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principles of growth finding all
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growth and what are the methods 
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of Jesus. 
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because it's when we get a 
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us as part of the body of Christ
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revelation of Jesus God will 
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the foundation that's powerful. 
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church upon the revelation of 
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identity. 
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He will build his church, 
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church. 
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you get a revelation of Christ. 
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intimate relationship with Jesus
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it all about him in 
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and 11:00 So that at the name of
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every those in heaven, those on 
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and that every tongue will 
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8000 million people on the 
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that ever existed, those in 
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under the earth will confess and
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because they stand before the 
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that Jesus Lord. 
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emphasis. 
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the power, the glory of who 
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everyone's going to do it and we
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connecting, encouraging, 
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relationship with him. 
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that. 
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thought I'd start to understand 
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everything on Jesus? 
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the context of ultimately you 
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the New Testament and 
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bring the 10% of all that have 
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To the high priest, to Jesus, 
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him, He's my creator, He's my 
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I want to bring my first fruits 
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my tithe and I receive to him so
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with the Kingdom. 
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the gospel of the Kingdom to 
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not just tithing because we're 
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anyway. 
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more than that for the sake of 
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I'm intimately in my 
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I'm actually giving my first 
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my relationship as a person. 
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Jesus been the pattern, Jesus 
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all that, but you don't preach 
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If you teach on faith. 
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faith and I've heard the 
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how it works and no mention of 
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of faith works like this. 
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His word, so we have to preach 
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Because you have faith in Jesus 
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But we've, we've heard so many 
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we've done that to so many of 
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like I said, some messages, some
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preach and we that's a great 
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faith, but no relationship with 
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Everything has to point to him. 
Does that make sense? 

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Ephesians chapter 4, verse 1116.
We haven't got time to go 

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through it, but it's, it's I'm 
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and, and Ephesians 11 basically 
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the pastor, evangelist, the 
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the whole body of Christ. 
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Saints to do the work of the 
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Saints into maturity. 
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until we all come into the unity
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the fullness of the stature of 
Christ. 

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So what do those gifts do? 
Point us all to Jesus in our 

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relationship with him so that we
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They want to preach so they can 
impress people. 

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So that wow, I love that 
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You know, sometimes we go to 
church and we go, wow, that was 

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a great message. 
I love that message. 

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That was so powerful. 
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saying, I went to church and 
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got a fresh revelation of Jesus.
Well, you know, the songs and 

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you say the worship was great. 
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drink closer to him. 
So the focus isn't the encounter

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You're following Ephesians 
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built on the foundation of the 
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Jesus himself being the chief 
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And you know, I, I, I looked up,
I heard about this, but I looked

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it up as well and researched it 
how they used to build with a 

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chief cornerstone. 
They had to get the squarestone 

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and if it, and they'd also test 
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crack that would use it, they're
going to make sure it's a strong

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stone so they can be in the 
corner of the, of the building 

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and they're going to Plumb line.
That stone has to be a straight 

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stone because depending on that 
stone will determine how strong 

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that wall will be on that side 
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If you've got a crooked stone 
and it's offline and off kilter 

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kilter, it would, the building 
wouldn't stand, wouldn't handle 

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the pressure. 
So in the mind of a building 

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those days, the cornerstone was 
the most important stone and 

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everything, it's lined up, 
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directed by it from the 
cornerstone. 

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So Jesus is the cornerstone, but
he's also the foundation of what

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we built, like everything we do 
is built on him. 

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Does it make sense? 
I mean, Jesus said, if you hear 

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my words and don't do it, you're
like a man who built his house 

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on sand. 
He's actually talking about 

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foundation. 
But if you hear my words and put

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it into practice, you're a man 
that built his house on the 

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rock. 
The storms came, the floods came

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to both. 
And we usually act like, oh, you

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don't know what I've gone 
through. 

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I mean, really, really bad. 
I like, like, you don't know, 

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00:23:55,640 --> 00:23:57,320
I've just this happened, this 
happened. 

445
00:23:57,720 --> 00:24:00,760
My mom died of cancer. 
I, you know, my, my wife left me

446
00:24:00,760 --> 00:24:03,680
for another person like you, 
you, you What we're doing is 

447
00:24:03,680 --> 00:24:06,520
we're, I started a business and 
I went bankrupt. 

448
00:24:06,640 --> 00:24:08,200
What are we doing? 
We're blaming the severity of 

449
00:24:08,200 --> 00:24:10,600
the storm. 
So you don't know how bad my 

450
00:24:10,600 --> 00:24:12,240
storm was. 
This is why I'm crumbling. 

451
00:24:12,240 --> 00:24:14,080
I'm crumbling because the storm 
was so bad. 

452
00:24:14,080 --> 00:24:17,120
Now the storm was bad for the 
one who built on the rock and 

453
00:24:17,120 --> 00:24:19,360
the storm was just as bad the 
one who built on the sand. 

454
00:24:19,920 --> 00:24:21,400
The difference was the 
foundation. 

455
00:24:22,920 --> 00:24:25,520
So when you got the right 
foundation, even when the storms

456
00:24:25,520 --> 00:24:29,720
come, it won't move you. 
It wasn't the severity of the 

457
00:24:29,720 --> 00:24:32,440
storm. 
No matter how hard the storm 

458
00:24:32,440 --> 00:24:35,760
hits, you're on the rock. 
You got nowhere to go when 

459
00:24:35,760 --> 00:24:38,880
you're on the foundation of the 
Word, which is Jesus's word. 

460
00:24:40,520 --> 00:24:46,520
Amen. 
Colossians 3 verse one there. 

461
00:24:46,520 --> 00:24:48,760
Therefore you have been raised 
up with Christ. 

462
00:24:49,240 --> 00:24:52,760
Keep seeking those things that 
are above where Christ is like 

463
00:24:53,200 --> 00:24:55,200
you've been raised with Christ. 
Keep seeking those things that 

464
00:24:55,200 --> 00:24:57,360
are above where Christ is No, 
this Christ is seated at the 

465
00:24:57,360 --> 00:24:59,960
right hand of the Father. 
It says think on those things 

466
00:25:00,400 --> 00:25:02,520
dwell there seated at the right 
hand of God. 

467
00:25:02,520 --> 00:25:05,640
Set your mind on things above 
where Christ is not on the 

468
00:25:05,640 --> 00:25:08,320
things on the earth for you have
died and your life is hidden 

469
00:25:08,320 --> 00:25:12,360
with who Christ. 
So the Bible's always 

470
00:25:12,360 --> 00:25:15,880
instructing us to make sure your
mind, your focus, your heart, 

471
00:25:15,880 --> 00:25:17,600
your faith, your relationship is
about him. 

472
00:25:20,720 --> 00:25:23,320
I love you know, this is when 
you go through the scriptures 1 

473
00:25:23,320 --> 00:25:25,080
by 1 you'll start to see it's 
all over. 

474
00:25:25,640 --> 00:25:32,200
Like I said, 928 scriptures just
on Jesus Christ Jesus 238 and 

475
00:25:32,200 --> 00:25:36,360
and and like for example, this 
one, it says all in Colossians 

476
00:25:36,360 --> 00:25:40,360
2-3 in whom in Christ are hidden
all the treasures of wisdom and 

477
00:25:40,360 --> 00:25:44,040
knowledge. 
So not like not me attending 

478
00:25:44,040 --> 00:25:47,640
church, not me not even me being
faithful going to church, which 

479
00:25:47,640 --> 00:25:51,920
we need to do, but churches ask 
gathering because we all have an

480
00:25:51,920 --> 00:25:53,160
intimate relationship with 
Christ. 

481
00:25:53,880 --> 00:25:57,600
So, so to me that's saying in 
Christ, my relationship with him

482
00:25:58,080 --> 00:26:01,520
and obeying his word are hidden 
in all the treasures of wisdom 

483
00:26:01,520 --> 00:26:04,680
and knowledge. 
And then we do get we are 

484
00:26:04,680 --> 00:26:07,480
connected to the body of Christ.
We are connected to family, we 

485
00:26:07,480 --> 00:26:10,000
are connected to the community. 
We do serve together. 

486
00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:12,160
You can't just say, well, I'm 
going to follow Jesus and I'll 

487
00:26:12,160 --> 00:26:13,360
be at home. 
Thank you very much. 

488
00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:16,160
That's not going to work because
Jesus himself said we need to 

489
00:26:16,160 --> 00:26:18,920
gather, we need to be a body, we
need to be a family, and we need

490
00:26:18,920 --> 00:26:21,680
to be in covenant. 
You know, my children, I've 

491
00:26:21,680 --> 00:26:24,440
raised five children. 
Never ever once my children 

492
00:26:24,640 --> 00:26:26,640
were, even if they had arguments
with each other, and they never,

493
00:26:26,640 --> 00:26:28,640
ever did this. 
So I've had enough. 

494
00:26:28,640 --> 00:26:30,440
I'm going down the road and find
another family. 

495
00:26:31,800 --> 00:26:33,800
I've never done that, never 
tempted to do that because they 

496
00:26:33,800 --> 00:26:36,720
belong to our family. 
And so yeah, when we don't 

497
00:26:36,720 --> 00:26:41,840
understand how we belong little 
little little misunderstanding a

498
00:26:41,840 --> 00:26:43,560
little thing here a little a 
little hurt. 

499
00:26:43,680 --> 00:26:47,480
I'm going to find another church
that's not biblical thinking 

500
00:26:48,080 --> 00:26:53,560
Kingdom thinking. 
I love here it says Jesus says 

501
00:26:53,600 --> 00:26:57,880
Romans one verse one Paul a bond
servant of Christ Jesus. 

502
00:26:58,840 --> 00:27:02,640
Think about that for a second. 
Paul is a servant of Christ. 

503
00:27:03,200 --> 00:27:05,600
So when we go to church who am 
IA servant of I'm a servant of 

504
00:27:05,600 --> 00:27:08,640
Christ first. 
Not even I'm not a servant of 

505
00:27:09,360 --> 00:27:11,720
the way or the leadership here 
or the elders here. 

506
00:27:12,240 --> 00:27:15,440
You ultimately serve Christ. 
But Christ puts us in and we 

507
00:27:15,440 --> 00:27:18,760
submit to our elders 100%. 
But my hard attitude is I'm 

508
00:27:18,760 --> 00:27:21,680
serving him first. 
That's the foundation. 

509
00:27:22,120 --> 00:27:24,400
And because I serve Him, he puts
us in a body. 

510
00:27:24,400 --> 00:27:26,320
And yes, submit yourself to your
elders. 

511
00:27:26,520 --> 00:27:28,240
Obey your elders. 
Have a rule over you. 

512
00:27:34,280 --> 00:27:36,400
You know, there's so many 
promises, the redemption, which 

513
00:27:36,400 --> 00:27:39,120
is in Christ Jesus, the promises
that are in Christ. 

514
00:27:39,120 --> 00:27:42,000
In other words, the promise of 
the Spirit, the promise of God's

515
00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:44,400
presence, the promise of the 
Holy Spirit living in me is 

516
00:27:44,400 --> 00:27:45,960
because we have relationship 
with Christ. 

517
00:27:47,120 --> 00:27:49,400
Isn't that true? 
You can go to church every week 

518
00:27:49,400 --> 00:27:51,960
for social reasons. 
Even because I'm lonely, I'm 

519
00:27:51,960 --> 00:27:54,120
going to, I'm going to connect 
with someone that I can talk to,

520
00:27:54,120 --> 00:27:55,720
so I'll go to church. 
But you're not having an 

521
00:27:55,720 --> 00:27:59,400
interrelationship with Christ. 
The promises are in Christ, in 

522
00:27:59,400 --> 00:28:01,600
your love. 
That's why everything we do and 

523
00:28:01,600 --> 00:28:05,200
emphasize should be all about 
Him, because that's all the 

524
00:28:05,200 --> 00:28:08,720
promises, redemption, everything
found is in Christ, in our 

525
00:28:08,720 --> 00:28:14,400
relationship with Him. 
I love the fact that Bible says 

526
00:28:14,920 --> 00:28:18,000
we must all appear before the 
judgement seat of Christ. 

527
00:28:18,880 --> 00:28:20,840
Think about that for a moment. 
Everyone one day is going to 

528
00:28:20,840 --> 00:28:25,120
stand before Christ so that each
one may be recompensed for his 

529
00:28:25,120 --> 00:28:27,440
deeds in the body according to 
what he has done, whether good 

530
00:28:27,440 --> 00:28:29,760
or bad. 
And I used to think, what? 

531
00:28:29,760 --> 00:28:31,200
What do you mean? 
Whether good or bad, How do you 

532
00:28:31,200 --> 00:28:34,320
get recompensed for what you've 
done in your body, whether good 

533
00:28:34,320 --> 00:28:37,120
or bad? 
So if I've done something that 

534
00:28:37,240 --> 00:28:42,520
was a bad thing would be my 
fleshly works, not, not, not 

535
00:28:42,520 --> 00:28:44,280
listen to the voice of the Holy 
Spirit, but trying to do 

536
00:28:44,280 --> 00:28:47,920
something in my own effort. 
So that'll burn up and mount to 

537
00:28:47,920 --> 00:28:50,840
nothing. 
I'll suffer loss in that day, 

538
00:28:51,680 --> 00:28:55,640
but I'm still saved. 
And in First Corinthians chapter

539
00:28:55,640 --> 00:29:00,680
3 gives us that well Paul opens 
it up a lot better and he goes 

540
00:29:02,520 --> 00:29:07,920
verse pick it up from verse 11 
chapter 3. 

541
00:29:07,920 --> 00:29:10,760
For no man can lay a foundation 
other than the one which is 

542
00:29:10,760 --> 00:29:13,600
light, which is Jesus Christ. 
Again the foundation is Jesus 

543
00:29:13,800 --> 00:29:18,040
can't lay any other foundation 
other than Jesus right now if 

544
00:29:18,040 --> 00:29:22,880
any man builds on the foundation
with gold, silver or precious 

545
00:29:22,880 --> 00:29:25,160
stone. 
Now gold, silver and precious 

546
00:29:25,160 --> 00:29:28,520
stone can handle fire. 
Gold, silver and precious stone 

547
00:29:28,520 --> 00:29:31,440
gets purified in fire. 
You're following. 

548
00:29:32,320 --> 00:29:35,160
So if I, if I put gold through 
the fire, it purifies, it 

549
00:29:35,160 --> 00:29:38,600
handles the fire and it gets 
better on the other side, silver

550
00:29:38,600 --> 00:29:39,800
is the same, precious stones the
same. 

551
00:29:39,960 --> 00:29:44,200
But wood, if you build on the 
foundation of Jesus with, with 

552
00:29:44,200 --> 00:29:49,840
the objects of wood, hay and 
stubble, straw, I mean wood, hay

553
00:29:49,840 --> 00:29:52,000
or straw is going to burn up, 
right? 

554
00:29:52,480 --> 00:29:55,640
Each man's work will become 
evident, for the day will show 

555
00:29:55,640 --> 00:29:59,240
it, because it is to be revealed
with fire, and the fire itself 

556
00:29:59,240 --> 00:30:03,240
will test the quality of each 
man's work, so that the day of 

557
00:30:03,240 --> 00:30:06,160
the Lord will test it. 
If any man's work which he has 

558
00:30:06,160 --> 00:30:09,200
built on remains, he will 
receive a reward. 

559
00:30:09,440 --> 00:30:14,600
If any man's work builds up, so 
anyone's work is burnt up, he 

560
00:30:14,600 --> 00:30:19,120
will suffer loss, but he himself
will be saved yet so through the

561
00:30:19,120 --> 00:30:20,520
fire. 
How do you suffer loss when you 

562
00:30:20,520 --> 00:30:21,960
stand before the judgment seat 
of Christ? 

563
00:30:22,520 --> 00:30:26,320
Whatever I've done on this earth
with selfish motives, prideful 

564
00:30:26,320 --> 00:30:29,720
motives, not listening to the 
voice of the Holy Spirit, where 

565
00:30:29,720 --> 00:30:32,800
He spoke to me and I acted and 
obeyed, if He spoke to me and 

566
00:30:32,800 --> 00:30:34,120
acted and obeyed, He'll be 
rewarded. 

567
00:30:34,760 --> 00:30:37,880
If I done it in my own strength,
it'll burn up to nothing. 

568
00:30:37,920 --> 00:30:40,640
Be careful how you build. 
But the foundation is Jesus. 

569
00:30:41,560 --> 00:30:44,840
So we want to build with the 
right things because in heaven 

570
00:30:44,840 --> 00:30:47,440
you will be rewarded. 
It's just that's just God's 

571
00:30:47,440 --> 00:30:50,680
nature. 
But if we don't do it his way, 

572
00:30:50,680 --> 00:30:53,400
it'll burn up to nothing. 
Again. 

573
00:30:53,400 --> 00:30:55,680
It's it's, it's all about 
intimate relationship with him. 

574
00:30:56,120 --> 00:30:59,360
I'm trying to help us see that 
everything I do for him, it's 

575
00:30:59,360 --> 00:31:04,160
all about relationship with him.
And, and, and I love Philippians

576
00:31:04,480 --> 00:31:08,880
chapter 3. 
And maybe before we read that 

577
00:31:09,200 --> 00:31:11,960
and quickly read that, but 
because I think Paul's really 

578
00:31:11,960 --> 00:31:14,560
trying to hit something about 
it's all about Jesus. 

579
00:31:15,160 --> 00:31:18,000
It's all about knowing him but 
Ephesians chapter 1, you know 

580
00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:20,800
his pray as an apostle. 
I mean write 3/4 of the New 

581
00:31:20,800 --> 00:31:22,640
Testament. 
He's close to the Lord. 

582
00:31:22,760 --> 00:31:26,800
He's writing scripture and he's 
emphasis of prayer. 

583
00:31:27,040 --> 00:31:29,760
I, I bound my knee to the Father
of our Lord Jesus Christ and 

584
00:31:29,760 --> 00:31:32,920
this is what he prays for. 
I pray and I pray that the Lord 

585
00:31:32,920 --> 00:31:36,440
will open up your eyes and sorry
the Lord pray that the Lord will

586
00:31:36,440 --> 00:31:39,280
give you the spirit of wisdom 
and revelation in the knowledge 

587
00:31:39,280 --> 00:31:40,800
of Jesus. 
That's it. 

588
00:31:41,280 --> 00:31:44,040
The spirit of wisdom and 
revelation to know him better. 

589
00:31:45,560 --> 00:31:50,320
I mean, wow, his whole emphasis,
his revelation is the best 

590
00:31:50,320 --> 00:31:53,440
prayer I can pray is that you 
would have the spirit of wisdom 

591
00:31:53,440 --> 00:31:56,160
and revelation to know him 
better because it's all about 

592
00:31:56,160 --> 00:31:58,920
knowing him better. 
And that he would open up the 

593
00:31:58,920 --> 00:32:03,480
eyes of your understanding to 
the hope of your calling. 

594
00:32:04,360 --> 00:32:06,440
And I know calling's got to do 
with your calling. 

595
00:32:06,440 --> 00:32:10,080
You know your destiny, your what
you're called to do. 

596
00:32:10,400 --> 00:32:12,200
But I believe it's even more, 
it's the word. 

597
00:32:12,360 --> 00:32:15,280
The word is invitation. 
I'd like to look at it this way,

598
00:32:15,520 --> 00:32:18,720
open up my eyes to the hope of 
my invitation into relationship 

599
00:32:19,480 --> 00:32:22,200
because that's the foundation, 
not what I do for him. 

600
00:32:22,200 --> 00:32:26,440
Does it make sense? 
Like if I'm if I'm motivated to 

601
00:32:26,440 --> 00:32:29,480
pay a price so I can grow and 
succeed, what happens when I'm 

602
00:32:29,480 --> 00:32:33,360
no longer leading a church? 
What? 

603
00:32:33,360 --> 00:32:35,840
What stops us from sin? 
The fear of the Lord stops us 

604
00:32:35,840 --> 00:32:38,240
from sinning. 
So what should stop us from 

605
00:32:38,240 --> 00:32:40,040
sinning and walking in the 
flesh? 

606
00:32:40,040 --> 00:32:44,160
The Bible says give no provision
to the flesh, but put on the 

607
00:32:44,160 --> 00:32:46,360
Lord Jesus Christ and give no 
provision to the flesh. 

608
00:32:46,560 --> 00:32:48,200
Why do we not give provision to 
the flesh? 

609
00:32:48,480 --> 00:32:50,880
Because if we give provision to 
the flesh, it hinders our 

610
00:32:50,880 --> 00:32:56,840
relationship with God. 
Not the growth, not success, but

611
00:32:56,840 --> 00:32:59,480
our relationship with God. 
And your, your relationship with

612
00:32:59,480 --> 00:33:01,320
God is so precious to you. 
And it's, it's the most 

613
00:33:01,320 --> 00:33:03,720
important thing that I don't 
want to do that it's hindering 

614
00:33:03,720 --> 00:33:06,880
our relationship. 
That's what's going to motivate 

615
00:33:06,880 --> 00:33:08,280
you to become holy and set 
apart. 

616
00:33:09,440 --> 00:33:12,920
And I say, Lord, one day, if you
one day he will, I'll hand over 

617
00:33:12,920 --> 00:33:15,560
the church and and trust God. 
I'll still minister and 

618
00:33:15,560 --> 00:33:18,480
everything, but what happens if 
I've got no invitations? 

619
00:33:18,560 --> 00:33:22,760
How about me and the Lord? 
Am I still willing to spend time

620
00:33:22,760 --> 00:33:25,880
in the word in his presence and 
pray and seek his face just to 

621
00:33:25,880 --> 00:33:31,160
know him? 
If it's if we if we preach the 

622
00:33:31,160 --> 00:33:34,120
word, I think we will. 
Paul says for to me to live is 

623
00:33:34,120 --> 00:33:38,520
Christ to live is Christ to die 
is going because I go straight 

624
00:33:38,520 --> 00:33:41,520
into the presence of God. 
But to live what's what's living

625
00:33:41,520 --> 00:33:45,320
about Christ. 
Think about that for a second so

626
00:33:45,320 --> 00:33:48,760
we don't get sidetracked where 
we our focus becomes everything 

627
00:33:48,760 --> 00:33:50,840
else but my relationship with 
him. 

628
00:33:52,320 --> 00:33:57,000
Even in the church. 
I believe I know Tyron's been 

629
00:33:57,120 --> 00:34:00,040
speaking to us for for over a 
decade, 10 years. 

630
00:34:00,040 --> 00:34:02,600
Get us on the Plumb line, get us
back to the Lord, back to the 

631
00:34:02,600 --> 00:34:05,840
Word, back to Jesus. 
And he talks about doing it in 

632
00:34:05,840 --> 00:34:07,880
him, with him, from him, for 
him. 

633
00:34:08,400 --> 00:34:12,120
I write down for him, to him. 
Everything's got to be for him, 

634
00:34:12,120 --> 00:34:15,440
from him, to him, with him. 
And that's in the book of 

635
00:34:15,440 --> 00:34:17,280
Revelations. 
That gives you a love. 

636
00:34:17,560 --> 00:34:19,760
Romans says. 
For from him and through him and

637
00:34:19,760 --> 00:34:22,120
to him are all things. 
To him be glory. 

638
00:34:22,120 --> 00:34:25,800
Forever. 
Worthy are you, O Lord our God, 

639
00:34:25,800 --> 00:34:27,560
to receive glory and honor and 
power. 

640
00:34:27,560 --> 00:34:29,760
For you created all things, and 
because of your will they 

641
00:34:29,760 --> 00:34:32,199
existed and were created. 
Everything is for you. 

642
00:34:33,520 --> 00:34:37,400
And so Philippians, who is it? 
Philippians? 

643
00:34:37,679 --> 00:34:42,199
Let's read Philippians chapter 3
and where Paul really is using 

644
00:34:42,199 --> 00:34:46,760
this powerful argument like he's
talking about wanting to know 

645
00:34:46,760 --> 00:34:52,639
Christ and he says you know it 
gives his qualifications, but 

646
00:34:52,639 --> 00:34:53,880
you don't understand what he's 
saying. 

647
00:34:53,920 --> 00:34:56,840
Verse 3 says, for we are the 
true circumcision who worship in

648
00:34:56,840 --> 00:34:59,000
the Spirit of God and glory in 
Christ. 

649
00:34:59,120 --> 00:35:01,920
We glory in Christ. 
Everything we do is glory in our

650
00:35:01,920 --> 00:35:05,280
relationship with Christ Jesus 
and put on put no confidence in 

651
00:35:05,280 --> 00:35:07,640
the flesh. 
We don't put any confidence in 

652
00:35:07,640 --> 00:35:10,080
the flesh, right? 
Although I myself might have 

653
00:35:10,080 --> 00:35:13,040
confidence even in the flesh. 
In other words, he's saying if I

654
00:35:13,040 --> 00:35:15,600
was to be like you and try to 
have confidence in the flesh, 

655
00:35:15,800 --> 00:35:17,480
then I've got a few things that 
I can boast about. 

656
00:35:17,480 --> 00:35:21,080
I wouldn't do it, but it is if I
was in the flesh and I wanted to

657
00:35:21,080 --> 00:35:23,320
boast, I would say this is what 
Paul's saying. 

658
00:35:23,960 --> 00:35:26,640
If anyone else has a mind to put
confidence in the flesh, I far 

659
00:35:26,640 --> 00:35:31,120
more circumcise the 8th day. 
I mean, really big deal. 

660
00:35:32,440 --> 00:35:34,800
Circumcise the 8th day. 
Listen to what he's trying to 

661
00:35:34,800 --> 00:35:38,400
say of the of the nation of 
Israel, of the tribe of 

662
00:35:38,400 --> 00:35:40,600
Benjamin. 
I'm a Hebrew of Hebrews as to 

663
00:35:40,600 --> 00:35:42,480
the law of the Pharisee, as to 
zeal. 

664
00:35:42,480 --> 00:35:45,280
I was persecuting, persecuting 
the church as to write the 

665
00:35:45,280 --> 00:35:47,640
righteousness which is in the 
law found blameless. 

666
00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:51,080
But whatever things were gained 
to me in the flesh, if that was 

667
00:35:51,080 --> 00:35:54,760
supposed to be gained to me, 
those things I counted as lost 

668
00:35:55,040 --> 00:36:01,000
for the sake of knowing Christ. 
If I rely on those things, I'm 

669
00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:04,640
not relying on Christ, even if I
think, well, I've been a 

670
00:36:04,640 --> 00:36:08,520
Christian for 39 years, I 
preached the gospel for 35 

671
00:36:08,520 --> 00:36:11,560
years, Big deal. 
It gives me no right standing 

672
00:36:11,560 --> 00:36:14,080
with God. 
It gives me no access to the 

673
00:36:14,080 --> 00:36:16,480
Father. 
I have no confidence in the 

674
00:36:16,480 --> 00:36:17,880
flesh. 
No matter what I've done. 

675
00:36:18,400 --> 00:36:19,960
I've preached thousands of 
messages. 

676
00:36:19,960 --> 00:36:22,480
So what? 
It's basically what he's trying 

677
00:36:22,480 --> 00:36:24,040
to say. 
It means nothing. 

678
00:36:24,360 --> 00:36:27,480
We all stand before God because 
of the blood of Jesus, because 

679
00:36:27,480 --> 00:36:28,840
of what he did for us on the 
cross. 

680
00:36:28,880 --> 00:36:31,800
I, I can't have any confidence 
whatsoever. 

681
00:36:32,200 --> 00:36:35,280
Anything I've done for him all 
my life, even if I've served him

682
00:36:35,280 --> 00:36:38,680
for 100 years, there's nothing I
can't look at that. 

683
00:36:38,680 --> 00:36:42,680
I don't even look at that right.
More than that, I count all 

684
00:36:42,680 --> 00:36:48,480
things to be lost in view of the
surpassing value of knowing 

685
00:36:48,480 --> 00:36:50,960
Christ Jesus my Lord. 
See how he his emphasis is 

686
00:36:51,280 --> 00:36:53,240
that's nothing. 
Oh, that's nothing. 

687
00:36:53,560 --> 00:36:56,360
So that I I don't rely on it. 
I don't take confidence. 

688
00:36:56,360 --> 00:36:59,560
I don't I'm not confident what 
I've done for him because I want

689
00:36:59,560 --> 00:37:03,000
to be look what he says. 
View of the surpassing value of 

690
00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:05,240
knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, 
for whom I have suffered the 

691
00:37:05,240 --> 00:37:08,600
loss of all those things and 
count them but rubbish so that I

692
00:37:08,600 --> 00:37:13,520
may gain Christ and be found in 
him not having a righteousness 

693
00:37:13,520 --> 00:37:15,280
of my own. 
If I've got a righteousness of 

694
00:37:15,280 --> 00:37:17,040
my own, that means I've got 
confidence in what I've done for

695
00:37:17,040 --> 00:37:19,680
him. 
And he's saying I don't rely on 

696
00:37:19,920 --> 00:37:22,200
anything I've done for him 
because I want to be found in 

697
00:37:22,200 --> 00:37:23,840
Him. 
Not having a righteousness on my

698
00:37:23,840 --> 00:37:28,000
own, but my righteousness which 
comes from God on the basis of 

699
00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:29,800
faith. 
Do you see what he's concluding?

700
00:37:30,360 --> 00:37:33,920
He's saying, guys, none of 
nothing that you've done for him

701
00:37:34,680 --> 00:37:37,480
all the years you've served him 
means nothing because that 

702
00:37:37,480 --> 00:37:40,520
doesn't give you access. 
If it did, then then it relies 

703
00:37:40,520 --> 00:37:43,960
on our good works. 
Realize how good we've been. 

704
00:37:44,560 --> 00:37:46,920
It's got nothing to do with our 
access to the Father through the

705
00:37:46,920 --> 00:37:49,160
blood of Jesus Christ and faith 
in him. 

706
00:37:49,560 --> 00:37:53,120
And so, so he's basically saying
that that that I would be found 

707
00:37:53,120 --> 00:37:56,320
in him, but that which is 
through faith in Christ, the 

708
00:37:56,320 --> 00:37:58,360
righteousness which comes from 
God. 

709
00:37:58,360 --> 00:37:59,400
I mean, think about that for a 
second. 

710
00:37:59,400 --> 00:38:04,360
God's righteousness on the basis
of faith so that I may know him 

711
00:38:04,600 --> 00:38:06,840
and the power of his 
resurrection and the fellowship 

712
00:38:06,840 --> 00:38:09,600
of his suffering and being 
conformed to his death in order 

713
00:38:09,600 --> 00:38:12,600
that I may attain to the 
resurrection of that I be that I

714
00:38:12,600 --> 00:38:16,240
may know him all that I'm doing.
Everything I'm pursuing Paul 

715
00:38:16,240 --> 00:38:19,080
saying is to know him. 
Isn't that beautiful 

716
00:38:19,080 --> 00:38:23,400
encouragement and in verse 12, 
not that I have already obtained

717
00:38:23,600 --> 00:38:26,800
or have already become mature 
and know him. 

718
00:38:26,800 --> 00:38:31,440
I'm not I haven't arrived, but I
press on to that I may hold, 

719
00:38:31,480 --> 00:38:37,240
sorry, I press on so that I may 
lay hold of that for which also 

720
00:38:37,240 --> 00:38:39,880
I was laid hold of in Christ 
Jesus sounds like a bit of 

721
00:38:39,880 --> 00:38:43,720
mixture of words, but he's 
basically saying he goes, I 

722
00:38:43,720 --> 00:38:48,520
press on Paul saying I press on 
so that I may lay hold of that 

723
00:38:48,520 --> 00:38:51,480
for which also Christ laid hold 
of me. 

724
00:38:51,760 --> 00:38:53,880
The witch. 
What motivated Christ that laid 

725
00:38:53,880 --> 00:38:57,000
hold of me? 
What motivated Christ that laid 

726
00:38:57,000 --> 00:38:59,440
down his life for me, his love 
for me, the very thing that 

727
00:38:59,440 --> 00:39:02,080
motivated Christ to love me. 
I want to be motivated to love 

728
00:39:02,080 --> 00:39:03,840
him. 
That's what he's saying. 

729
00:39:03,840 --> 00:39:06,920
I want to I want to be motivated
by the same everlasting love 

730
00:39:06,920 --> 00:39:09,440
that motivated Christ to take a 
hold of me. 

731
00:39:10,240 --> 00:39:12,840
I want to, I want to also take a
hold of him, right. 

732
00:39:13,240 --> 00:39:17,240
And he's saying not that. 
Yeah, brethren, I do not regard 

733
00:39:17,240 --> 00:39:19,000
myself having laid hold of it 
yet. 

734
00:39:19,200 --> 00:39:21,160
I mean, this is after he's 
raised the dead, healed the 

735
00:39:21,160 --> 00:39:23,920
sick, planted churches, turned 
the world upside down with the 

736
00:39:23,920 --> 00:39:28,480
gospel is I have not because his
pursuit wasn't the things and 

737
00:39:28,480 --> 00:39:30,960
the planting of the churches. 
Yet we do all that and preach in

738
00:39:30,960 --> 00:39:32,760
the gospel. 
His pursuit is Jesus. 

739
00:39:34,200 --> 00:39:36,960
Brethren, I do not regard myself
as having laid hold of it, but 

740
00:39:36,960 --> 00:39:41,480
one thing I do, forgetting what 
is behind, forgetting what lies 

741
00:39:41,480 --> 00:39:43,480
behind, and there are some 
pretty successful things for 

742
00:39:43,480 --> 00:39:46,720
Paul and reaching forward to 
what lays ahead. 

743
00:39:46,920 --> 00:39:50,760
I press on towards the goal of 
the prize, of the outward call 

744
00:39:50,760 --> 00:39:53,520
of God in Christ Jesus. 
I press on towards the prize. 

745
00:39:54,080 --> 00:39:55,960
There's a, there's a word that I
looked up and said. 

746
00:39:55,960 --> 00:39:59,400
It means the prize. 
Like when you aim at a target, 

747
00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:04,640
there is a focus of what we do 
and why we do what we do. 

748
00:40:04,640 --> 00:40:07,520
And the focus, the target is to 
know him. 

749
00:40:08,640 --> 00:40:10,960
That's actually what it's 
saying, the prize of the high 

750
00:40:10,960 --> 00:40:14,920
calling, the high invitation. 
This is a high invitation that 

751
00:40:14,920 --> 00:40:17,000
God invited us into relationship
with Him. 

752
00:40:17,320 --> 00:40:19,160
But that's my prize. 
That's what I'm going for. 

753
00:40:20,280 --> 00:40:25,520
Our eyes are on that, not the 
things we do, but on Him and 

754
00:40:25,520 --> 00:40:29,560
relationship with Him. 
And I love this because he just 

755
00:40:29,560 --> 00:40:33,320
keeps making the point stronger 
and stronger and he says I press

756
00:40:33,320 --> 00:40:35,520
on towards the goal for the 
prize of the upward call of God 

757
00:40:35,520 --> 00:40:37,680
in Christ Jesus. 
Let us therefore, as many as are

758
00:40:37,680 --> 00:40:43,720
mature have this attitude, what 
attitude to seek him to go after

759
00:40:43,720 --> 00:40:47,040
him. 
And if anything you have 

760
00:40:47,040 --> 00:40:49,240
different attitude. 
God will reveal that this also 

761
00:40:49,240 --> 00:40:51,280
to you. 
If you have a good different 

762
00:40:51,280 --> 00:40:53,640
attitude and it's not the this 
attitude which are the mature. 

763
00:40:53,760 --> 00:40:55,880
The mature has this attitude go 
after him. 

764
00:40:57,960 --> 00:41:01,400
And so because we want to know 
more, we want to know him 

765
00:41:01,400 --> 00:41:02,880
better. 
I remember asking the Lord just 

766
00:41:03,120 --> 00:41:07,000
a few weeks ago, I said, Lord, I
want to know you more. 

767
00:41:07,000 --> 00:41:09,280
How do I get to know you more? 
And obviously it's hearing his 

768
00:41:09,280 --> 00:41:11,280
word and obeying. 
Hearing his word and obeying. 

769
00:41:11,560 --> 00:41:13,160
You get more into me. 
You get to know Him better. 

770
00:41:13,280 --> 00:41:15,920
You see his work, you see his 
faithfulness, You see how he 

771
00:41:15,920 --> 00:41:18,360
never lets his word down and you
get to know him better. 

772
00:41:18,680 --> 00:41:20,760
And the Lord spoke to me. 
He says, Leo, it's the little 

773
00:41:20,760 --> 00:41:25,520
foxes, the spoil, the vineyard. 
I know that's in the Bible. 

774
00:41:26,160 --> 00:41:28,280
He just said it to my heart, 
little foxes. 

775
00:41:28,480 --> 00:41:33,280
So I looked it up in Song of 
Solomon chapter 2 and it's found

776
00:41:33,280 --> 00:41:38,160
in verse 14 and 16 and it says, 
oh, my dove in the Cliff of the 

777
00:41:38,160 --> 00:41:41,080
rock in the secret place of the 
steep pathway. 

778
00:41:41,080 --> 00:41:45,080
Let me see your form. 
Now this some people say it's, 

779
00:41:45,080 --> 00:41:48,200
it's it's us saying that to God.
I believe it's possibly God 

780
00:41:48,200 --> 00:41:50,320
saying it's us. 
Let me see your form. 

781
00:41:50,600 --> 00:41:52,400
Let me hear your voice. 
I mean, have you ever thought 

782
00:41:52,400 --> 00:41:56,320
that God wants to see your form?
God wants to hear your voice. 

783
00:41:56,840 --> 00:41:59,960
He longs for you more than you 
long for him, right? 

784
00:42:00,520 --> 00:42:03,080
Let me hear your voice. 
Let your voice. 

785
00:42:03,080 --> 00:42:05,120
I'm sorry your for your voice is
sweet. 

786
00:42:05,120 --> 00:42:08,200
And I thought God, you, you 
think my voice is sweet. 

787
00:42:09,200 --> 00:42:12,840
You want to know me. 
You love me so much and you say 

788
00:42:12,840 --> 00:42:17,720
my voice is sweet and and your 
form is lovely. 

789
00:42:17,720 --> 00:42:20,040
I'm not talking about physical 
form, obviously. 

790
00:42:20,040 --> 00:42:23,600
You talk about our heart. 
Your form is lovely to him. 

791
00:42:24,040 --> 00:42:28,200
And out of the blue, catch the 
foxes for us, the little foxes 

792
00:42:28,200 --> 00:42:31,400
that are ruining the vineyards 
while our vineyards are in 

793
00:42:31,400 --> 00:42:34,160
blossom. 
So the vineyards are blossoming.

794
00:42:34,160 --> 00:42:37,000
They're, they're harvest. 
And think of the little foxes. 

795
00:42:38,120 --> 00:42:40,440
I think a little fox. 
We, we, you know, we let a 

796
00:42:40,440 --> 00:42:43,640
little fox come into the harvest
because that won't affect me. 

797
00:42:44,320 --> 00:42:48,000
That won't affect the harvest. 
That won't affect the blossoming

798
00:42:48,000 --> 00:42:49,840
harvest. 
It's blooming everywhere. 

799
00:42:50,120 --> 00:42:51,280
That's OK. 
One little fox. 

800
00:42:51,280 --> 00:42:54,440
I let 1 little fox into my 
really into my hindering 

801
00:42:54,440 --> 00:42:56,280
relationship with God, but I let
it. 

802
00:42:56,280 --> 00:42:59,440
And then so the problem with 
letting 1 little fox in, it's 

803
00:42:59,440 --> 00:43:03,120
got a little fox, got a little 
friend and then before you got 1

804
00:43:03,120 --> 00:43:05,880
fox, it's got 2 foxes. 
Then before you got 3 foxes and 

805
00:43:05,880 --> 00:43:08,800
maybe one minute won't affect 
the harvest, maybe one hour 

806
00:43:08,800 --> 00:43:10,840
might not. 
But after a few hours and a few 

807
00:43:10,840 --> 00:43:13,760
days and a few weeks and a few 
months and they got a few foxes 

808
00:43:13,760 --> 00:43:18,880
around, it starts to actually 
ruin the harvest overflow of 

809
00:43:18,880 --> 00:43:22,200
your relationship with God. 
Ultimately, the little foxes 

810
00:43:22,200 --> 00:43:24,920
have been sent to hinder your 
relationship with God. 

811
00:43:24,920 --> 00:43:26,400
That's how we should see it, not
the harvest. 

812
00:43:26,760 --> 00:43:29,200
I think it's pointing us. 
We have this attitude, that's 

813
00:43:29,200 --> 00:43:30,640
fine. 
The harvest is blossoming. 

814
00:43:30,640 --> 00:43:33,800
It's not going to affect, but 
it's the little foxes you got to

815
00:43:33,800 --> 00:43:35,480
get to. 
Then you got to ask yourself, 

816
00:43:35,480 --> 00:43:36,640
that's what I'm asking you to 
do. 

817
00:43:36,960 --> 00:43:39,160
What are the foxes in my life 
that are hindering my 

818
00:43:39,160 --> 00:43:42,960
relationship with God? 
And be honest with the Lord. 

819
00:43:43,640 --> 00:43:46,560
Remember how beautiful he is, 
how magnificent he is, how how 

820
00:43:46,560 --> 00:43:50,440
wonderful he is. 
He loves you of an everlasting 

821
00:43:50,440 --> 00:43:53,040
love, that the greatest desire 
of your heart in my heart is to 

822
00:43:53,040 --> 00:43:55,920
actually know him. 
And then sometimes I ask myself 

823
00:43:55,920 --> 00:43:57,880
why, Lord, I'm not pursuing the 
way I should. 

824
00:43:58,440 --> 00:44:00,840
I know you're so good because we
sometimes forget. 

825
00:44:01,920 --> 00:44:06,280
But what are the little foxes, 
Anna, You can answer that with 

826
00:44:06,280 --> 00:44:08,720
the Holy Spirit and say, Lord, 
what is it in my life that could

827
00:44:08,720 --> 00:44:13,080
be hindering my relationship 
with you, the little foxes? 

828
00:44:13,760 --> 00:44:16,440
And then the next phrase after 
we deal, we got to deal with it.

829
00:44:16,720 --> 00:44:19,680
My beloved is mine and I'm his, 
his pastor, his flock. 

830
00:44:20,360 --> 00:44:22,120
He passes his flock among the 
lilies. 

831
00:44:22,520 --> 00:44:26,040
Back to romance, back to 
relationship, your relationship,

832
00:44:26,400 --> 00:44:29,760
catch the foxes relationship, 
beautiful love relationship 

833
00:44:29,760 --> 00:44:33,520
between you and the, you know, 
the bride and I was Solomon and 

834
00:44:33,520 --> 00:44:35,760
the bride, but we're talking 
about Christ and the bride. 

835
00:44:36,120 --> 00:44:39,000
And then it was catch the foxes 
and then back to relationship. 

836
00:44:39,520 --> 00:44:42,640
In other words, those little 
foxes are hindering relationship

837
00:44:42,960 --> 00:44:45,280
and we need to be honest before 
God and say, what is it? 

838
00:44:45,280 --> 00:44:49,000
Lord, this young generation, 
there's so many distractions 

839
00:44:49,520 --> 00:44:53,120
with social media and posts and 
reading the word and posts come 

840
00:44:53,120 --> 00:44:55,360
up, reading the word and 
notification comes up, reading 

841
00:44:55,360 --> 00:44:57,320
the word and SMS has come up. 
So that's your fox. 

842
00:44:57,320 --> 00:44:59,520
Get rid of that. 
Don't what? 

843
00:44:59,520 --> 00:45:00,840
Don't read the Bible on the 
mobile. 

844
00:45:00,840 --> 00:45:03,120
Read it in the turn off the 
notifications. 

845
00:45:05,360 --> 00:45:07,720
You know, like I did this with 
my wife and she's not here so I 

846
00:45:07,720 --> 00:45:09,760
can't really do it. 
But if I had a romantic dinner 

847
00:45:09,760 --> 00:45:13,960
with my wife and I'm poor and as
a husband, I want to pour my 

848
00:45:13,960 --> 00:45:16,680
heart out to and I'll share my 
secrets and everything, but 

849
00:45:16,680 --> 00:45:19,200
she's on the phone. 
She grabbed the phone didn't 

850
00:45:19,200 --> 00:45:20,560
out. 
She's on the phone and she's 

851
00:45:20,560 --> 00:45:23,680
just looking at the phone and 
and then talking a selfie of 

852
00:45:23,680 --> 00:45:26,880
herself and and I'm trying to 
pour my heart out in a romantic 

853
00:45:26,880 --> 00:45:29,040
dinner. 
No husband would do that. 

854
00:45:30,160 --> 00:45:33,240
Jesus would never do that 
because he values himself too 

855
00:45:33,240 --> 00:45:38,240
much to pour out his heart to 
you if you're distracted with 

856
00:45:38,240 --> 00:45:41,600
everything. 
So when we, you know, spend time

857
00:45:41,600 --> 00:45:43,200
with him, let's take his words 
seriously. 

858
00:45:43,200 --> 00:45:46,280
And I read, you know, we should 
be reading the word, not I've 

859
00:45:46,280 --> 00:45:47,520
done my chapter. 
I read my chapter. 

860
00:45:47,520 --> 00:45:51,800
No, I want to know you, Lord, 
speak to me, Lord, that's 

861
00:45:51,800 --> 00:45:53,520
fellowship. 
Speak into my heart. 

862
00:45:53,680 --> 00:45:55,920
What do I need to change to get 
closer to you? 

863
00:45:56,360 --> 00:45:59,240
What's stopping me from getting 
closer to you? 

864
00:45:59,720 --> 00:46:01,160
Which are again the little 
foxes. 

865
00:46:01,160 --> 00:46:04,000
Holy Spirit, highlight. 
Deal with it, repent of it, get 

866
00:46:04,000 --> 00:46:06,120
rid of it. 
And you watch your relationship 

867
00:46:06,120 --> 00:46:10,880
blossom from from strength to 
strength and and and continue 

868
00:46:10,880 --> 00:46:13,560
with it like because, because 
then the enemy will come in 

869
00:46:13,560 --> 00:46:16,200
again. 
You just got to OK like the Lord

870
00:46:16,200 --> 00:46:17,840
spoke to me about my yoke is 
easy. 

871
00:46:18,040 --> 00:46:20,680
That's what he said. 
You know, our responsibilities 

872
00:46:20,680 --> 00:46:23,440
are growing in in the church and
things that we're doing. 

873
00:46:23,800 --> 00:46:26,000
And the Lord just spoke 
whispered in my holiday. 

874
00:46:26,000 --> 00:46:28,640
He said they are my yoke is 
easy. 

875
00:46:28,640 --> 00:46:32,760
I knew exactly what he meant. 
So if if I'm not if I'm not 

876
00:46:32,760 --> 00:46:36,200
carrying a yoke that's easy. 
I mustn't be carrying his yoke. 

877
00:46:37,560 --> 00:46:41,800
I must be carrying my own yoke, 
yoke of performance, yoking of 

878
00:46:42,000 --> 00:46:44,800
being successful, yoking of 
looking good, the yoke of 

879
00:46:44,800 --> 00:46:48,160
wanting praises from people. 
Our pre appears and one of it 

880
00:46:48,240 --> 00:46:50,560
looks, that's a that's not his 
yoke. 

881
00:46:51,280 --> 00:46:54,560
That's not Christ's yoke to me. 
I need to take his because his 

882
00:46:54,560 --> 00:46:57,040
yoke's easy. 
His burden is light. 

883
00:46:58,080 --> 00:47:00,640
And that's what he says. 
Come unto me, all you heavy 

884
00:47:00,640 --> 00:47:03,160
laden and, and labor and 
heavenly laden. 

885
00:47:03,160 --> 00:47:05,360
I come to me. 
I will give you a rest. 

886
00:47:05,880 --> 00:47:07,040
That's it. 
For my yoke is easy. 

887
00:47:07,160 --> 00:47:11,320
So we've got to come to him to 
have a, a yoke that's easy. 

888
00:47:12,200 --> 00:47:15,160
Even if the yoke gets larger, 
more responsibility, it needs to

889
00:47:15,160 --> 00:47:18,200
be easy if it's his yoke. 
So I'm carrying it with him. 

890
00:47:18,640 --> 00:47:20,080
He's got a lot of strength by 
the way. 

891
00:47:20,880 --> 00:47:24,160
He's got all the strength, 
eternal strength, eternal power,

892
00:47:24,360 --> 00:47:26,280
eternal. 
And we're carrying his yoke. 

893
00:47:27,440 --> 00:47:31,000
So I now ask, now he's told me 
that a few weeks ago, but if, 

894
00:47:31,240 --> 00:47:34,800
if, if I start getting thoughts 
of response heaviness or it's 

895
00:47:34,800 --> 00:47:36,600
not easy. 
OK, not his yoke is easy. 

896
00:47:36,600 --> 00:47:37,760
I'm only going to carry his 
yoke. 

897
00:47:38,080 --> 00:47:39,760
His joke is easy. 
His joke is easy. 

898
00:47:40,240 --> 00:47:42,720
His burden is light. 
I'm doing it for him. 

899
00:47:43,120 --> 00:47:45,320
His burden is light. 
You're following. 

900
00:47:46,240 --> 00:47:51,760
So can we pray? 
I'm just going to pray, but I'm 

901
00:47:51,760 --> 00:47:54,320
asking you to in your own hearts
to talk to the Lord. 

902
00:47:54,320 --> 00:47:57,040
Hopefully, I trust the Holy 
Spirit has already spoken to 

903
00:47:57,040 --> 00:47:59,840
you, has already highlighted, 
yet they're the little foxes 

904
00:47:59,840 --> 00:48:02,000
that that's what you need to do.
You need to fix that. 

905
00:48:02,200 --> 00:48:04,120
And he's, he's actually 
highlighted in your heart. 

906
00:48:04,280 --> 00:48:07,120
If that's come to your memory or
your spirit, then that means 

907
00:48:07,200 --> 00:48:10,560
God's saying yet that thing 
might be too much TV, too much 

908
00:48:10,560 --> 00:48:13,920
Netflix, too much social time. 
It could be anything. 

909
00:48:14,280 --> 00:48:16,400
The Holy Spirit could speak to 
you that this is what it is for 

910
00:48:16,400 --> 00:48:20,520
you, things that are not 
necessarily sin, but it's 

911
00:48:20,520 --> 00:48:24,240
hindering your relationship. 
And so Father, we ask, we come 

912
00:48:24,240 --> 00:48:26,200
before your throne, we come 
before your word. 

913
00:48:27,360 --> 00:48:30,240
We lay our hearts bare because 
we want to know you, Lord, we, 

914
00:48:30,240 --> 00:48:32,760
we want, we want everything to 
be about you. 

915
00:48:33,280 --> 00:48:36,320
Well, the church to be 
established in their love 

916
00:48:36,320 --> 00:48:38,840
relationship with you, that 
everything is built on Christ, 

917
00:48:38,840 --> 00:48:41,800
Lord, And anything that's not 
built on Christ will be burnt 

918
00:48:41,800 --> 00:48:44,680
away and will suffer loss and 
will be gone forever. 

919
00:48:44,680 --> 00:48:46,560
But Lord, we want to be obedient
to you. 

920
00:48:47,280 --> 00:48:50,120
So Holy Spirit, speak to us 
about the little foxes in our 

921
00:48:50,120 --> 00:48:52,680
lives. 
We make a decision right now in 

922
00:48:52,680 --> 00:48:55,640
our hearts to get rid of it, to 
repent of it, to change our 

923
00:48:55,640 --> 00:48:58,320
thinking about it. 
And Lord, if it doesn't honor 

924
00:48:58,320 --> 00:49:01,320
you, if it's hindering our 
relationship with you, we deal 

925
00:49:01,320 --> 00:49:03,440
with it. 
We get rid of it. 

926
00:49:03,720 --> 00:49:07,800
We say no to it. 
Or we say yes to more time with 

927
00:49:07,800 --> 00:49:10,200
you, yes to more time in your 
word. 

928
00:49:10,280 --> 00:49:14,120
Yes, to be obedient to your 
word, not to, yes to not be 

929
00:49:14,120 --> 00:49:18,280
afraid of man, not to fee men, 
but to obey you. 

930
00:49:18,920 --> 00:49:21,920
We thank you, Father, for what 
you're going to do in and 

931
00:49:21,920 --> 00:49:25,120
through this church and what 
you're going to establish in 

932
00:49:25,120 --> 00:49:27,160
this place. 
Lord, a lamp stand for your 

933
00:49:27,160 --> 00:49:31,320
glory. 
We give you praise in Jesus 

934
00:49:31,320 --> 00:49:35,280
name, Jesus name. 
If I can just encourage you on 

935
00:49:35,280 --> 00:49:39,800
something with your children. 
When we first started at 2020, I

936
00:49:39,800 --> 00:49:42,520
wasn't even married. 22, got 
married at 25. 

937
00:49:42,520 --> 00:49:46,120
We had the first kid a year 
later and then five children, as

938
00:49:46,120 --> 00:49:50,520
you know, and little did I know,
if you build, will slowly build 

939
00:49:50,560 --> 00:49:53,520
according to God's Word that God
was going to use our children 

940
00:49:53,520 --> 00:49:56,280
the way he has been. 
So don't. 

941
00:49:57,160 --> 00:49:58,760
These kids are the next 
generation. 

942
00:49:58,760 --> 00:50:01,600
They're going to carry the 
revelation of Christ. 

943
00:50:01,840 --> 00:50:04,480
So invest in them, spend time 
with them. 

944
00:50:04,840 --> 00:50:06,880
Don't ever, don't ever think 
it's wasted time. 

945
00:50:07,560 --> 00:50:09,320
Your own children. 
I mean, if anything, that's the 

946
00:50:09,320 --> 00:50:12,320
greatest investment that you 
pour your life into them so they

947
00:50:12,320 --> 00:50:14,760
can do great things for you, for
the Kingdom. 

948
00:50:15,480 --> 00:50:15,840
Amen. 
Awesome. 

949
00:50:17,520 --> 00:50:21,400
Thank you. 
Thank you for joining us for 

950
00:50:21,400 --> 00:50:23,800
today's message. 
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951
00:50:23,800 --> 00:50:28,000
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952
00:50:28,040 --> 00:50:29,400
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