1 00:00:09,880 --> 00:00:12,880 Welcome to the podcast of the White Church in Adelaide, South 2 00:00:12,880 --> 00:00:13,520 Australia. I'm. 3 00:00:14,200 --> 00:00:16,920 Just going to share with something that I shared in the 4 00:00:17,680 --> 00:00:22,560 in the prayer meeting just with us again, Visions 3, verse 10. 5 00:00:22,880 --> 00:00:26,400 You know, this one, we've read it recently to the intent that 6 00:00:26,400 --> 00:00:31,760 now the wisdom, the sorry, the manifold wisdom of God might be 7 00:00:31,760 --> 00:00:36,640 made known by the Church to the principalities and powers in the 8 00:00:36,640 --> 00:00:40,000 heavenly places. And so, you know, I was thinking 9 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:41,880 about that this morning. I was praying about that. 10 00:00:41,880 --> 00:00:44,880 I was reading about that through the Church. 11 00:00:44,880 --> 00:00:49,120 When the Church gathers, principalities and powers should 12 00:00:49,120 --> 00:00:56,000 know that, that we know who God is, that we know something of 13 00:00:56,000 --> 00:00:58,480 his wisdom, we know something of his might. 14 00:00:58,920 --> 00:01:03,040 And it's on display to be made known that they could look in 15 00:01:03,560 --> 00:01:07,240 and see that the power of God is at work in our midst. 16 00:01:08,520 --> 00:01:10,400 And I hope that we're expecting today. 17 00:01:10,400 --> 00:01:13,800 I hope we've have been expecting even as we've been praying. 18 00:01:13,800 --> 00:01:17,080 You know, when we're sorry, as we've been singing, as we're 19 00:01:17,080 --> 00:01:23,280 praising, we are making known to principalities and powers who 20 00:01:23,320 --> 00:01:26,120 our God is, that he is victorious. 21 00:01:26,400 --> 00:01:30,280 These scriptures that we read about what he has done and who 22 00:01:30,280 --> 00:01:35,200 we are in him now as we as we know that and as it dwells in 23 00:01:35,200 --> 00:01:38,200 our hearts and as we declare it and as we share it and as we 24 00:01:38,200 --> 00:01:41,880 speak about it and as we pray about it, principalities and 25 00:01:41,880 --> 00:01:47,840 powers know who he is, right? I think that's pretty cool. 26 00:01:47,840 --> 00:01:51,000 So we're, we're, we're going to be continuing to unpack his 27 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:52,440 word. I'm going to ask Dudley to come. 28 00:01:52,720 --> 00:01:54,720 Dudley is going to come and share the word with us this 29 00:01:54,720 --> 00:01:56,920 morning. I'm not going to say he's going 30 00:01:56,920 --> 00:01:58,440 to finish what he started last week. 31 00:01:58,440 --> 00:02:01,120 Dudley's going to continue on and that's great. 32 00:02:01,160 --> 00:02:04,320 That's fine. So please come. 33 00:02:05,240 --> 00:02:09,199 I'm just going to pray for us. But I hope that we're expecting 34 00:02:09,199 --> 00:02:13,040 that, you know, that God is speaking through this man. 35 00:02:14,760 --> 00:02:18,400 You know, I know that he is. I know that the Lord has raised 36 00:02:18,400 --> 00:02:23,520 this man up to to speak the things that he would have him 37 00:02:23,520 --> 00:02:24,880 speak. I know that this man is 38 00:02:24,880 --> 00:02:28,040 surrendered to the Lord saying, Lord, what do you want me to 39 00:02:28,040 --> 00:02:30,280 speak? So he's not just coming with 40 00:02:30,280 --> 00:02:33,520 stuff that he feels to come. He he's, you know, he could tell 41 00:02:33,560 --> 00:02:37,440 you this himself, but he's prayerful in what he wants, what 42 00:02:37,440 --> 00:02:42,240 the Lord wants him to say. And I hope that we're listening 43 00:02:42,240 --> 00:02:46,560 within ear that's receptive to what the Lord's wanting to say, 44 00:02:47,600 --> 00:02:49,520 because I am and, and I know that we are. 45 00:02:49,520 --> 00:02:52,280 So let's pray together. Lord, we, we thank you that 46 00:02:52,320 --> 00:02:54,200 you're with us in this place this morning. 47 00:02:55,080 --> 00:02:56,720 We thank you for who you are, Lord. 48 00:02:57,400 --> 00:03:00,720 We thank you, Lord, that that this church belongs to you. 49 00:03:01,560 --> 00:03:05,680 It's your thing. We are blessed and privileged to 50 00:03:05,680 --> 00:03:10,560 partake in in your thing. And it's an honor, Lord, to to 51 00:03:10,560 --> 00:03:12,240 come under your word this morning. 52 00:03:12,880 --> 00:03:17,040 It's an honor and a privilege to hear the manifold wisdom of God 53 00:03:17,720 --> 00:03:20,240 and to be able to apply it into our lives. 54 00:03:20,600 --> 00:03:24,280 So I just pray your anointing over Dudley this morning that 55 00:03:24,280 --> 00:03:28,680 you would anoint him in a, in a, in a, in a mighty way, Lord, to 56 00:03:28,680 --> 00:03:32,000 declare your thing and your your truth and your word in this 57 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:35,000 place. But the you would anoint us, our 58 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:39,800 ears and our hearts to receive, to receive from you today that 59 00:03:39,800 --> 00:03:43,200 we would be changed, transformed to be conformed into your image 60 00:03:43,440 --> 00:03:45,800 and not just as individuals as your church. 61 00:03:46,160 --> 00:03:50,760 We gather together in as as your church to be formed and to be 62 00:03:50,760 --> 00:03:56,080 shaped and to be led by you, Lord, we we are our desire is 63 00:03:56,080 --> 00:03:59,760 for this church to be what you've called us to be and to 64 00:03:59,760 --> 00:04:03,320 continue on the road that you have led us and are leading us. 65 00:04:03,760 --> 00:04:08,080 So we just hand all of these things over to you, Lord God, in 66 00:04:08,080 --> 00:04:12,160 the name of Jesus, by your Holy Spirit, Lord, do your work in 67 00:04:12,160 --> 00:04:15,400 this place. Have your way in Jesus mighty 68 00:04:15,400 --> 00:04:17,959 name, Amen. Thank you. 69 00:04:18,440 --> 00:04:21,959 Thank you. Well, good morning for those I 70 00:04:21,959 --> 00:04:26,360 have and greeted this morning. We're looking at Ephesians 3 71 00:04:26,360 --> 00:04:32,360 chapter chapter 3, verses 10 onward that David just quoted to 72 00:04:32,360 --> 00:04:35,840 us that the manifold wisdom through the church. 73 00:04:36,200 --> 00:04:38,760 Should be known to the principalities and powers. 74 00:04:39,560 --> 00:04:43,800 And I try to answer the question why church attendance? 75 00:04:46,760 --> 00:04:51,880 When we know the why, we can see the importance of what we do, 76 00:04:52,120 --> 00:04:53,720 how we do it, etcetera, etcetera. 77 00:04:53,720 --> 00:04:57,480 If we don't know the why, so often we're just going through 78 00:04:57,480 --> 00:05:00,400 the motions. And I try to share with you that 79 00:05:00,400 --> 00:05:05,080 in order to understand the why, why church attendance, why do we 80 00:05:05,080 --> 00:05:08,080 attend meetings? There are two major things that 81 00:05:08,080 --> 00:05:11,880 we need to understand to start with before we look at the 82 00:05:11,880 --> 00:05:15,840 things that happen in church. What when the church meets, I 83 00:05:15,840 --> 00:05:19,160 said the first one was that we need to understand that certain 84 00:05:19,160 --> 00:05:23,240 things have happened over history, pressures in life 85 00:05:23,840 --> 00:05:26,280 sometimes. And I said very graciously last 86 00:05:26,280 --> 00:05:30,000 week weekend that it's not necessarily intentional. 87 00:05:30,560 --> 00:05:34,560 Lots of these things happen just from the bombardment of life and 88 00:05:34,560 --> 00:05:38,520 pressure, disappointments, discouragements and whatever 89 00:05:38,520 --> 00:05:41,560 else goes on, pain and suffering and what we see around the 90 00:05:41,560 --> 00:05:44,080 world. But there is a sense too, that 91 00:05:44,080 --> 00:05:48,240 some of these things can happen because of rebellion, because of 92 00:05:48,240 --> 00:05:52,520 unwillingness to obey God. This. 93 00:05:53,080 --> 00:05:57,560 I gave, I think I gave 9 reasons and types of churches, but 94 00:05:57,560 --> 00:05:59,160 they're actually 10. I left one out. 95 00:05:59,160 --> 00:06:02,120 I can't go through all of them again, but if we don't 96 00:06:02,120 --> 00:06:04,480 understand the one I left out, just for those who are making 97 00:06:04,480 --> 00:06:07,920 any notes in their hearts or in their mind, they're scribbling 98 00:06:07,920 --> 00:06:11,400 them down. There's also those that want 99 00:06:11,400 --> 00:06:14,040 only power. We come to church for power. 100 00:06:14,720 --> 00:06:17,280 We want power. So when we don't get the power, 101 00:06:17,520 --> 00:06:21,240 we create the power. And we then have a false sense 102 00:06:21,240 --> 00:06:24,640 of the fire of God and the power of God. 103 00:06:24,640 --> 00:06:26,920 And there's churches all over the world that are doing that 104 00:06:26,920 --> 00:06:30,240 every Sunday. So we need to understand how do, 105 00:06:30,280 --> 00:06:33,360 how did all these churches come about, these church models, 106 00:06:33,360 --> 00:06:38,680 these church kind of examples and that most every person 107 00:06:38,680 --> 00:06:41,480 around the world, every church fits into one or more. 108 00:06:41,480 --> 00:06:45,280 Of these these. Examples, but there's only one 109 00:06:45,960 --> 00:06:48,120 that is biblical and it includes. 110 00:06:48,160 --> 00:06:51,400 All the good. In all of those others, the 111 00:06:51,920 --> 00:06:56,440 power, praise, pray, the priesthood, etcetera, etcetera, 112 00:06:56,440 --> 00:06:58,760 all those things. If we we understand the 113 00:06:58,760 --> 00:07:01,760 prophetic Apostolic or the Apostolic prophetic church. 114 00:07:02,520 --> 00:07:06,480 So first of all, we need to understand why certain churches 115 00:07:06,480 --> 00:07:10,840 do what they do and why there's so little happening in the world 116 00:07:10,840 --> 00:07:13,840 as a result of it. If you think of it, if 12 men 117 00:07:13,840 --> 00:07:19,200 could turn the world upside down and there are 10s of thousands 118 00:07:19,200 --> 00:07:23,000 of churches around the world meeting today and so little's 119 00:07:23,000 --> 00:07:28,880 happening, just stop for a moment and think about that. 120 00:07:30,080 --> 00:07:35,520 Just in the city there would be hundreds of churches doing the 121 00:07:35,560 --> 00:07:39,480 church thing. How much is happening in 122 00:07:39,480 --> 00:07:47,640 Adelaide to change it? And when we understand why God 123 00:07:47,640 --> 00:07:52,680 wants us to meet, that's when things change in a city, a 124 00:07:52,680 --> 00:07:56,440 community, a country and change the nations. 125 00:07:57,120 --> 00:08:00,920 When we understand why and then as if we understand why. 126 00:08:01,080 --> 00:08:05,240 I'm talking about not here, I'm talking about understanding 127 00:08:05,240 --> 00:08:07,880 here. When it gets into our hearts, 128 00:08:08,680 --> 00:08:12,120 that's when things change. When it gets into our hearts, 129 00:08:12,120 --> 00:08:15,920 that's when your home changes, your family life changes. 130 00:08:17,360 --> 00:08:19,920 You. Most everyone of you will know 131 00:08:19,920 --> 00:08:24,120 most of what I say this morning, but I want to ask you to just to 132 00:08:24,120 --> 00:08:27,840 stop for a moment and think, how's that affecting my family? 133 00:08:29,760 --> 00:08:33,919 How's that affecting my life? Etcetera. 134 00:08:34,440 --> 00:08:37,159 Just be real with yourself. That's all God wants. 135 00:08:37,159 --> 00:08:40,039 God doesn't ever come to make us feel bad. 136 00:08:40,760 --> 00:08:43,919 We feel bad when we reject what God's saying. 137 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:47,960 God isn't the one trying to make us feel bad. 138 00:08:48,320 --> 00:08:52,200 His conviction is loving. Anyway, I don't want to go into 139 00:08:52,200 --> 00:08:54,120 all that. I've taken too long, never get 140 00:08:54,120 --> 00:08:56,400 through this. So that's the first reason. 141 00:08:56,400 --> 00:08:58,520 The second thing is we need to understand if we're going to 142 00:08:58,520 --> 00:09:03,240 ever do what God wants us to do. See the reason for why we do 143 00:09:03,240 --> 00:09:04,960 what we do in our church meetings. 144 00:09:05,520 --> 00:09:07,440 We're going to have to understand what the Bible 145 00:09:07,440 --> 00:09:12,040 teaches from the Old Testament and the New Testament, how they 146 00:09:12,040 --> 00:09:15,920 conducted church meetings while it's not prescribed and that we 147 00:09:15,920 --> 00:09:19,120 need to understand and remember there's no prescribed thing. 148 00:09:19,120 --> 00:09:22,160 And yet so many of us have got a prescribed routine. 149 00:09:23,880 --> 00:09:26,760 It just develops. Now there has to be some 150 00:09:26,760 --> 00:09:32,200 organization or or some. We can't just sit down and say, 151 00:09:32,440 --> 00:09:35,080 well, let's see. But there does have to be a 152 00:09:35,080 --> 00:09:39,720 certain sense of let's see what's God going to do today? 153 00:09:40,720 --> 00:09:43,440 It has to be a part of that. But you can't just come in and 154 00:09:43,440 --> 00:09:45,680 say, well, let's just sit down and. 155 00:09:46,480 --> 00:09:51,840 Be. Quiet, Of course, we'll spend an 156 00:09:51,840 --> 00:09:57,080 hour doing that, and having been quiet, we'll all go home quite 157 00:09:57,080 --> 00:10:02,480 disappointed. So we need to understand what 158 00:10:02,840 --> 00:10:06,560 does the Bible have to say about it in the Old Testament and what 159 00:10:06,560 --> 00:10:09,360 does the Bible have to say about in the New Testament and what 160 00:10:09,360 --> 00:10:12,000 does the Bible have to say about it even in heaven? 161 00:10:13,440 --> 00:10:17,280 For Jesus said in that model prayer, your Kingdom come and 162 00:10:17,280 --> 00:10:20,520 your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. 163 00:10:21,600 --> 00:10:25,640 And when we understand that church first and foremost, the 164 00:10:25,640 --> 00:10:30,480 major thing for why church, why we have church attendance, is to 165 00:10:30,480 --> 00:10:34,520 bring the King and the Kingdom into our midst in a different 166 00:10:34,520 --> 00:10:37,120 way to what we experience alone with God. 167 00:10:37,120 --> 00:10:40,800 And I'll come back to that hopefully later in this message. 168 00:10:41,440 --> 00:10:45,560 So that's the first thing. Remember this too, that what 169 00:10:45,560 --> 00:10:49,280 happens on a Sunday in a church, if we're going to do what God 170 00:10:49,280 --> 00:10:51,480 wants us to be doing, if we're going to be doing it the 171 00:10:51,480 --> 00:10:54,920 biblical way, whatever happens here is going to have global 172 00:10:54,920 --> 00:10:59,240 ramifications. By that I mean, there's a lot of 173 00:10:59,240 --> 00:11:02,200 things that I can't cover, but one of them is going to be that 174 00:11:02,200 --> 00:11:05,040 we're going to be equipped to do the work of the ministry. 175 00:11:05,360 --> 00:11:09,120 And the work of the ministry, major part of it is to go to the 176 00:11:09,120 --> 00:11:15,280 nations, not just meet on a Sunday and go home, have lunch 177 00:11:15,280 --> 00:11:18,240 and forget about it. But God equips us when we're 178 00:11:18,240 --> 00:11:20,960 together. If we're doing it the Bible way, 179 00:11:20,960 --> 00:11:24,520 if we understand why God has called us to be together, it's 180 00:11:24,520 --> 00:11:28,120 for the equipping of the Saints to do the work of the ministry 181 00:11:28,120 --> 00:11:31,840 that Ephesians 4. And that's going to have global 182 00:11:31,840 --> 00:11:34,120 ramifications. It's going to touch other parts 183 00:11:34,120 --> 00:11:37,000 of the world because one of those things we do, and I'll 184 00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:40,240 come back to this in a moment, but God wants us to gather 185 00:11:40,240 --> 00:11:45,800 together as a church to pray. And when we pray the way Jesus 186 00:11:45,800 --> 00:11:50,440 wants us to pray, like he taught us to pray, and like he himself 187 00:11:50,440 --> 00:11:52,880 prayed. For the world. 188 00:11:53,240 --> 00:11:55,760 For the nations. Then that has. 189 00:11:55,760 --> 00:12:01,840 Global ramifications it touches nations so having and I hope I 190 00:12:01,840 --> 00:12:04,600 can come back to this thing about in heaven as on earth 191 00:12:05,240 --> 00:12:08,160 because as you look at the Book of Revelation I'm hoping even if 192 00:12:08,160 --> 00:12:10,840 I can't read them I'll give you a few of those scriptures soon 193 00:12:11,360 --> 00:12:12,080 about. How? 194 00:12:12,360 --> 00:12:19,240 They worship in heaven and Jesus said on earth as it is in 195 00:12:19,240 --> 00:12:22,920 heaven. So there's lots we can learn, we 196 00:12:22,920 --> 00:12:25,040 just don't have time. It's, it's a sad thing. 197 00:12:25,040 --> 00:12:28,960 We have an hour, hour and a half, once a week by and large, 198 00:12:29,240 --> 00:12:32,880 to try and unpack what God's hearts is for his people. 199 00:12:33,440 --> 00:12:35,640 So you just got to sometimes rush through things. 200 00:12:36,200 --> 00:12:40,320 But let's just move on quickly and I'll start to try and give 201 00:12:40,320 --> 00:12:45,560 you those things that I, that I've felt God has shown me and 202 00:12:45,560 --> 00:12:49,440 I'm hoping you'll catch with me. So the first one then is to 203 00:12:49,440 --> 00:12:55,160 encounter Jesus, see the Kingdom come and His will be done here 204 00:12:55,160 --> 00:12:57,600 on earth. We come to have a life 205 00:12:57,600 --> 00:13:03,320 transforming encounter with Christ, to be involved in His 206 00:13:03,320 --> 00:13:07,520 purposes and His plans, and He reveals those purposes and plans 207 00:13:07,520 --> 00:13:09,240 to us. When we meet. 208 00:13:10,160 --> 00:13:11,800 I'm going to stop and ask a question. 209 00:13:12,960 --> 00:13:18,400 Last Sunday and the Sunday before and the Sunday before. 210 00:13:18,400 --> 00:13:20,360 Just take the last three or 4. Weeks. 211 00:13:20,880 --> 00:13:26,000 What did God reveal to you about His purposes and plans? 212 00:13:28,280 --> 00:13:31,800 If you say nothing, then that means your heart wasn't open to 213 00:13:31,800 --> 00:13:37,320 Him. You were going to church and you 214 00:13:37,320 --> 00:13:40,640 were sitting in your seat and you were doing what you've been 215 00:13:40,640 --> 00:13:43,680 doing for years and nothing changed. 216 00:13:46,480 --> 00:13:49,480 So I don't want to say this unkindly and I don't want to say 217 00:13:49,480 --> 00:13:53,360 it too strongly, but in a very real sense, you. 218 00:13:53,360 --> 00:13:57,560 Wasted an hour. And a half not fully. 219 00:14:00,400 --> 00:14:03,360 Are you listening to me? That's not a condemnation. 220 00:14:03,360 --> 00:14:05,920 I'm just God's trying to catch our attention. 221 00:14:05,920 --> 00:14:07,960 This little church he really wants. 222 00:14:08,640 --> 00:14:13,160 I don't when I pray for us, you, I pick up this thing and God 223 00:14:13,160 --> 00:14:14,560 says. You don't know how. 224 00:14:14,560 --> 00:14:18,480 Precious those people are to me, and I've got such an important 225 00:14:18,600 --> 00:14:22,400 role for them to play in the internal things across the 226 00:14:22,400 --> 00:14:24,600 earth, as small as they are right now. 227 00:14:27,560 --> 00:14:31,240 So we come first of all to encounter Jesus, the Kingdom, 228 00:14:31,760 --> 00:14:34,240 the King and His Kingdom. Secondly, we come to worship 229 00:14:34,240 --> 00:14:37,120 God. And I try to share last Sunday 230 00:14:37,480 --> 00:14:40,040 that worship is an all-encompassing thing. 231 00:14:41,200 --> 00:14:43,600 Worship is something that happens in the heart. 232 00:14:43,600 --> 00:14:48,120 God is a spirit and they that worship God must worship him in 233 00:14:48,120 --> 00:14:51,560 spirit and in truth. And the truth is the word of God 234 00:14:51,840 --> 00:14:56,760 and truth is Jesus. So we've got to do it according 235 00:14:56,760 --> 00:14:59,960 to the way Jesus did it and the way that Jesus teaches us from 236 00:14:59,960 --> 00:15:05,160 his word to worship God. And there's a scary verse 237 00:15:05,160 --> 00:15:07,560 actually that I want to just read to you. 238 00:15:08,120 --> 00:15:11,720 It says, and I, because I'm saying to you that it involves 239 00:15:11,920 --> 00:15:17,160 our hands, our mouths, our hearts, involves our intellect. 240 00:15:17,320 --> 00:15:20,560 It can sometimes involve jumping or bouncing or dancing or 241 00:15:20,720 --> 00:15:22,400 whatever else. And I'll come to that in a 242 00:15:22,400 --> 00:15:25,760 moment again too. But there's a scary verse and 243 00:15:25,760 --> 00:15:29,080 it's in Isaiah chapter 29, verse 13, which says this. 244 00:15:29,480 --> 00:15:38,880 Then the worship of me is made-up of rules taught by men. 245 00:15:39,560 --> 00:15:44,080 So I can say, raise your hands and praise God, clap your hands. 246 00:15:44,240 --> 00:15:48,440 I can say let's all jump, dance, bounce, let's run around the 247 00:15:48,440 --> 00:15:50,800 meeting hall and we can do it all. 248 00:15:50,800 --> 00:15:54,640 And yet it's just a rule if it's not coming from here. 249 00:15:56,280 --> 00:16:01,560 And when God can explode in here, we begin to want to do 250 00:16:01,560 --> 00:16:04,800 these things, not because others are doing it or the leaders are 251 00:16:04,800 --> 00:16:07,360 saying, come on. Like we used to say, not me 252 00:16:07,360 --> 00:16:10,120 personally. I don't hope not, but 20-30 253 00:16:10,120 --> 00:16:13,960 years ago, give us AJ, give us AE, give us AS, give us AU, give 254 00:16:13,960 --> 00:16:16,440 us AES. What does that mean? 255 00:16:16,440 --> 00:16:18,880 Jesus G And we're trying to whip the crowd up. 256 00:16:19,360 --> 00:16:24,680 It's rules made by men. It's got to come from here. 257 00:16:26,480 --> 00:16:29,680 And it's all encouraging. You know that the word worship, 258 00:16:31,120 --> 00:16:34,640 I've written it down here that word worship is used 95 times in 259 00:16:34,640 --> 00:16:41,120 the Bible. Worshipped is we're used 67 260 00:16:41,120 --> 00:16:48,160 times, worshippers twice, worshipping five times. 261 00:16:48,480 --> 00:16:53,840 That's a total of 174 times that the Bible talks about worship. 262 00:16:55,280 --> 00:16:57,920 I mean, that's important. You guys. 263 00:16:57,920 --> 00:16:59,880 You know how important it is to be born again. 264 00:17:01,440 --> 00:17:03,800 Read through the Bible and try to find out how many times it 265 00:17:03,800 --> 00:17:11,520 says you must be born again. Worship 174 times, born again. 266 00:17:11,520 --> 00:17:15,640 So important worship. You get the picture. 267 00:17:16,160 --> 00:17:19,319 How important it is that we worship God. 268 00:17:21,000 --> 00:17:25,720 So worship is an attitude or an action that gives God first 269 00:17:25,720 --> 00:17:29,960 place in our hearts. It's an attitude, but it's also 270 00:17:29,960 --> 00:17:34,000 an action. I'm going to move on because 271 00:17:34,000 --> 00:17:35,480 I've said some of this stuff before. 272 00:17:39,040 --> 00:17:41,600 Some of the expressions, the most beautiful expressions of 273 00:17:41,600 --> 00:17:43,760 that worship are in the in the New Testament. 274 00:17:43,760 --> 00:17:45,800 I'm going to ask if we have these verses. 275 00:17:45,800 --> 00:17:49,240 Revelation chapter 4 verses 8 through to 11. 276 00:17:50,160 --> 00:17:52,200 This is how they worship God in heaven. 277 00:17:52,680 --> 00:17:55,120 Each of the four living creatures had 6 wings and was 278 00:17:55,120 --> 00:17:58,160 covered with eyes all around, even under his wings. 279 00:17:58,160 --> 00:18:05,160 Day and night, they never. Stop saying. 280 00:18:05,800 --> 00:18:13,240 Holy, holy, holy. Is the Lord God Almighty, who 281 00:18:13,240 --> 00:18:19,160 was, is and is to come whenever the living creatures give glory, 282 00:18:19,400 --> 00:18:23,520 honor and thanks to Him who sits on the throne and who lives 283 00:18:23,520 --> 00:18:27,240 forever and ever. The 24 elders fall down before 284 00:18:27,240 --> 00:18:31,400 Him who sits on the throne and they worship Him who lives 285 00:18:31,400 --> 00:18:34,080 forever and ever. And this is a beautiful thing. 286 00:18:35,120 --> 00:18:39,800 They also cast all their crowns down before him. 287 00:18:41,520 --> 00:18:45,120 Now there's so many crowns. There's a crown of victory, the 288 00:18:45,120 --> 00:18:48,880 crown of righteousness, all these different crowns. 289 00:18:49,400 --> 00:18:53,040 And one day when we stand before God, God's going to say, David, 290 00:18:53,320 --> 00:18:54,680 you were faithful with these things. 291 00:18:54,680 --> 00:18:57,920 He has a crown, Peter, he has a crown. 292 00:18:59,080 --> 00:19:02,920 And then I believe we will join with these angels and they won't 293 00:19:02,920 --> 00:19:05,400 be on our heads walking around. So wow, look at the crown I've 294 00:19:05,400 --> 00:19:07,080 got. I've got about four of them. 295 00:19:07,080 --> 00:19:10,560 You only got 1. And you guys who didn't live all 296 00:19:10,560 --> 00:19:13,160 out for Jesus, you got in here by the skin of your teeth. 297 00:19:13,320 --> 00:19:16,400 You've got no crowns. But look at me. 298 00:19:17,040 --> 00:19:22,800 No, everyone will just cost him down before God get the picture. 299 00:19:22,800 --> 00:19:29,160 Everything's for Jesus, even the rewards that God gives us, every 300 00:19:29,160 --> 00:19:32,760 one of them is because of Jesus and for His sake. 301 00:19:33,720 --> 00:19:36,840 So let's move to the next scripture in the Book of 302 00:19:36,840 --> 00:19:40,680 Revelation, Revelation, that one is worship, expressing God's 303 00:19:40,680 --> 00:19:43,880 holiness, His power, and His glory. 304 00:19:44,480 --> 00:19:47,240 The next one, Revelation 5, verses 8 through to 14. 305 00:19:47,240 --> 00:19:52,760 And when he had taken it, the four living creatures and the 24 306 00:19:52,760 --> 00:19:55,000 elders fell down before the Lamb. 307 00:19:55,880 --> 00:19:58,520 Each one had a harp and then they were holding golden bowls 308 00:19:58,520 --> 00:20:02,800 of full of incense. Incense in some senses as 309 00:20:02,800 --> 00:20:08,480 prayer, but it's also the just the Thanksgiving and the praise. 310 00:20:08,960 --> 00:20:12,920 You see both of those in the Scriptures full of incense, 311 00:20:12,920 --> 00:20:15,240 which are the praise of the Saints Here it tells us that. 312 00:20:15,480 --> 00:20:19,240 And they sang a new song. Now in heaven they don't only 313 00:20:19,240 --> 00:20:21,280 sing the songs Peter had for us today. 314 00:20:21,920 --> 00:20:24,320 They sing new songs. Now. 315 00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:27,200 You stop and think about that because it's in the book of 316 00:20:27,200 --> 00:20:31,960 Ephesians 2 about singing songs and ministering to one another, 317 00:20:31,960 --> 00:20:34,000 etcetera, etcetera, songs, etcetera. 318 00:20:34,600 --> 00:20:40,080 But a new song can be while we're using the words that or 319 00:20:40,080 --> 00:20:44,360 the tune that the musicians are playing, we can break out into 320 00:20:44,480 --> 00:20:49,160 other parts our own songs with the same tune that the rest of 321 00:20:49,160 --> 00:20:51,440 the congregate. That's what God is looking for 322 00:20:51,440 --> 00:20:54,360 in His church. God is the God of creativity. 323 00:20:54,640 --> 00:20:56,800 He. Doesn't want us to be restricted 324 00:20:57,000 --> 00:21:01,960 to just the words of a song written sometimes 24500 years 325 00:21:01,960 --> 00:21:05,360 ago. As true as it is, he wants new 326 00:21:05,360 --> 00:21:10,160 songs to come out and there's not one of us, no matter how bad 327 00:21:10,160 --> 00:21:14,880 your voice is, that Can't Sing while we're all singing just 328 00:21:14,880 --> 00:21:17,080 your song to Jesus as a new song. 329 00:21:17,720 --> 00:21:21,200 That's not the, I don't want to restrict a new song to that, but 330 00:21:21,200 --> 00:21:24,040 I just want to give you some creative ideas of what can 331 00:21:24,040 --> 00:21:26,760 happen here. Why restrict yourself to just 332 00:21:26,760 --> 00:21:32,520 that that we see up there on a Sunday, excuse me, when we can 333 00:21:33,160 --> 00:21:37,520 be having all these creative expressions within our hearts 334 00:21:37,520 --> 00:21:41,760 coming out all right, so they sang. 335 00:21:41,880 --> 00:21:43,360 This is how they do it in heaven. 336 00:21:44,000 --> 00:21:48,920 They sang a new song and they said you are worthy to take us 337 00:21:48,920 --> 00:21:52,480 the scroll and to open its seals because you were slain and you 338 00:21:52,480 --> 00:21:56,280 with your blood, you purchase men for God from every tribe and 339 00:21:56,280 --> 00:21:58,520 language and and people and nation. 340 00:21:58,520 --> 00:22:02,480 Now just let me stop and say every, almost every day I sing 341 00:22:02,480 --> 00:22:09,080 to God about the blood of Jesus. Oh, the blood shall never lose 342 00:22:09,080 --> 00:22:14,240 its power now, never now, never Jesus blood avails for me 343 00:22:14,240 --> 00:22:17,440 forever and shall never lose its power. 344 00:22:18,520 --> 00:22:23,120 I sing that in the mornings, reminding myself and reminding 345 00:22:23,120 --> 00:22:26,560 God and reminding the powers of hell that the. 346 00:22:26,560 --> 00:22:29,400 Power. Of the blood they did it in 347 00:22:29,400 --> 00:22:32,160 heaven. With your blood you purchase 348 00:22:32,160 --> 00:22:35,800 men. Next, next little verse please. 349 00:22:37,040 --> 00:22:40,080 You have made them to be a Kingdom and priests. 350 00:22:42,600 --> 00:22:45,800 Just think about that when we're singing new songs. 351 00:22:45,800 --> 00:22:48,680 God, you've made me a Kingdom of a priest. 352 00:22:49,400 --> 00:22:53,480 You've made me a Prince. You've you've, you've got. 353 00:22:53,480 --> 00:22:58,680 I'm the son of the king of all kings, the king of the nations, 354 00:23:00,240 --> 00:23:03,560 not only priests, but to serve God, and they will reign on 355 00:23:03,560 --> 00:23:06,840 earth. Then I looked and I heard the 356 00:23:06,840 --> 00:23:10,240 voice of many angels, numbering thousands upon thousands and 10 357 00:23:10,240 --> 00:23:13,800 thousands of times 10,000 They encircled the throne and the 358 00:23:13,800 --> 00:23:17,640 living creatures and the elders in a loud voice. 359 00:23:18,840 --> 00:23:21,120 Now I'm not one who likes screamers. 360 00:23:22,720 --> 00:23:25,680 I don't like God standing up. You know what God says. 361 00:23:29,480 --> 00:23:31,720 I've never actually heard God speak to me like that. 362 00:23:31,720 --> 00:23:41,800 Tell me I love you. Imagine me saying a turn and man 363 00:23:41,800 --> 00:23:45,760 do I love you. Even that mother has to take the 364 00:23:45,760 --> 00:23:51,640 baby after you get the picture. And yet some preachers feel like 365 00:23:51,640 --> 00:23:53,600 that's how you got to talk to God and that's how you got to 366 00:23:53,600 --> 00:23:56,440 talk to God's people. I'm now I'm, I don't know what 367 00:23:56,440 --> 00:24:04,640 you're hearing the, the volume here anyway, but they give him 368 00:24:04,640 --> 00:24:08,880 wood to receive power, wealth, wisdom, strength, honor and 369 00:24:08,880 --> 00:24:11,320 glory and praise. So in that one you see worship 370 00:24:11,320 --> 00:24:15,440 expressing prayer, salvation, expressing Jesus, etcetera. 371 00:24:16,080 --> 00:24:17,840 I would now I'd like to read the others. 372 00:24:17,840 --> 00:24:18,800 I'm going to just give them to you. 373 00:24:18,800 --> 00:24:21,680 If you're making notes, Revelation 7 verses 10 through 374 00:24:21,680 --> 00:24:23,360 to 17, maybe you can put them up. 375 00:24:23,360 --> 00:24:27,120 I'm not going to read them. And then Revelation 11 verses 16 376 00:24:27,120 --> 00:24:30,880 to 19 and then Revelation 710 to 17. 377 00:24:30,880 --> 00:24:35,320 They're emphasizing salvation in their singing and their worship 378 00:24:35,320 --> 00:24:38,680 and their praise to God and they envy the nations and 379 00:24:38,680 --> 00:24:42,120 deliverance. In Revelation 11/16 to 19, they 380 00:24:42,120 --> 00:24:48,200 emphasizing worship, emphasizing God's power, his authority and 381 00:24:48,200 --> 00:24:51,080 his reign. Revelation 15 verses one through 382 00:24:51,080 --> 00:24:54,520 to four and then verse 6. It's about power, the nation's, 383 00:24:54,520 --> 00:24:56,480 the righteous acts of God and glory. 384 00:24:57,120 --> 00:25:01,840 All of these, if we had had time to read them all, would show you 385 00:25:01,840 --> 00:25:04,560 that this, this is what worship includes. 386 00:25:04,560 --> 00:25:06,440 Then I'm going to just give it to you quickly. 387 00:25:06,440 --> 00:25:10,360 Again, adoration, these are all coming out of the Old Testament, 388 00:25:10,360 --> 00:25:16,560 Psalm 149, Psalm 150, etcetera, out of the New Testament as you 389 00:25:16,560 --> 00:25:19,960 read through the Scriptures. And then this year in heaven, 390 00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:25,960 there's adoration, this praise, this Thanksgiving, this 391 00:25:25,960 --> 00:25:31,680 proclamation, this declaration, this humility, this shouting, 392 00:25:31,800 --> 00:25:34,920 this clapping, this dancing, there's kneeling, there's 393 00:25:34,920 --> 00:25:37,720 singing, there's service, there's silence. 394 00:25:38,280 --> 00:25:42,240 Psalm 46, verse 10, Be still and know that I am God. 395 00:25:42,760 --> 00:25:47,640 All of these encapsulate what worship is. 396 00:25:48,640 --> 00:25:52,600 And all of these should take place on a Sunday to some extent 397 00:25:52,800 --> 00:25:55,040 from Sunday to Sunday somewhere along the line. 398 00:25:55,400 --> 00:25:58,000 All of these things should be part of what's happening in a 399 00:25:58,000 --> 00:26:01,080 church that is doing it God's way. 400 00:26:02,400 --> 00:26:06,080 Now, if you sit there and say, count me out, you're in one of 401 00:26:06,080 --> 00:26:10,320 those nine of the 10 models of church. 402 00:26:13,240 --> 00:26:14,200 That's the bottom. Line. 403 00:26:16,400 --> 00:26:20,760 You're not in that. Apostolic prophetic that God is 404 00:26:20,760 --> 00:26:25,520 wanting the Church to be. Does that sound ungracious? 405 00:26:25,520 --> 00:26:30,480 I hope not Jehoshaphat when he went out to war. 406 00:26:31,240 --> 00:26:32,920 What did he do? He put the praises, the 407 00:26:32,920 --> 00:26:34,720 worshippers, the singers out front. 408 00:26:36,680 --> 00:26:39,720 When Paul and Barnabas were, when Paul was in prison, what 409 00:26:39,720 --> 00:26:44,600 did he do? Midnight, I think Acts 16, he 410 00:26:44,600 --> 00:26:47,800 began to just worship. And what happened? 411 00:26:48,360 --> 00:26:54,040 Prison doors shook, they opened. The jailer almost was going to 412 00:26:54,360 --> 00:26:58,520 commit suicide. That's in the the dirtiest, 413 00:26:58,520 --> 00:27:06,760 stinkiest, filthy, polluted prison where the prisoners were 414 00:27:07,680 --> 00:27:11,160 above one another and they would urinate. 415 00:27:12,680 --> 00:27:16,320 The bowel movements just gather on the floor. 416 00:27:16,320 --> 00:27:18,680 Nobody cleaned that up. They were in the and that would 417 00:27:18,680 --> 00:27:23,920 be dropping down, down, down, down in all of that that none of 418 00:27:23,920 --> 00:27:28,520 us has ever experienced. They sang praises. 419 00:27:30,800 --> 00:27:33,560 What are you trying to say? No matter what your 420 00:27:33,560 --> 00:27:37,480 circumstances before you got here this morning, you can still 421 00:27:37,480 --> 00:27:42,000 join in and sing and praise and worship God no matter what. 422 00:27:43,640 --> 00:27:50,680 All right, let me see what I can leave out here. #3 So we come 423 00:27:50,680 --> 00:27:53,680 first of all. To encounter God, Christ, the 424 00:27:53,680 --> 00:27:57,160 Kingdom, King and the Kingdom. Secondly, we come to worship. 425 00:27:57,800 --> 00:28:01,320 Thirdly, we come to hear God, to hear from him. 426 00:28:02,920 --> 00:28:05,920 That's why we need to preach the Word. 427 00:28:08,800 --> 00:28:12,000 Now why? Do we need to hear God? 428 00:28:16,120 --> 00:28:17,960 Why can't I just hear God at home? 429 00:28:20,840 --> 00:28:25,280 Why do I have to come to a meeting to hear God? 430 00:28:27,960 --> 00:28:30,440 I'm going to try to explain a few little things to you now 431 00:28:30,880 --> 00:28:32,600 that I hope you will grasp. Let me just. 432 00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:35,360 Do it my way, even if I'm not answering the question 433 00:28:35,640 --> 00:28:38,560 explicitly right at this moment. I hope you'll get the answer. 434 00:28:38,800 --> 00:28:43,200 As I talk, you come to hear from God because first of all, God is 435 00:28:43,200 --> 00:28:48,280 a speaking, communicating God in the book of in the Bible, in the 436 00:28:48,280 --> 00:28:51,640 book of well in in the Gospels and especially in the Book of 437 00:28:51,640 --> 00:28:56,040 Revelation, God kept on saying he that here has an ear to hear. 438 00:28:57,120 --> 00:29:00,400 Let him hear what the Spirit is saying now. 439 00:29:00,400 --> 00:29:03,960 Very often the Holy Spirit is able to say things in a meeting 440 00:29:05,040 --> 00:29:07,760 when we're together that he cannot. 441 00:29:08,080 --> 00:29:12,560 You would not listen to if you are just alone with God. 442 00:29:15,160 --> 00:29:20,040 That's one of the reasons why we need to come to a meeting to 443 00:29:20,040 --> 00:29:23,520 hear God. There's certain things that we 444 00:29:23,520 --> 00:29:29,240 have already shut our minds out to totality that you've got no 445 00:29:29,240 --> 00:29:34,480 option to listen to and hear and then respond one way or the 446 00:29:34,480 --> 00:29:39,120 other, yes or no in a meeting. Now that puts an onus on us that 447 00:29:39,120 --> 00:29:43,240 preach then we need to be sure we're preaching what God is 448 00:29:43,240 --> 00:29:46,120 saying, not just what God has been saying to us about our 449 00:29:46,120 --> 00:29:51,680 lives, but what God is saying to us as a church, not David 450 00:29:51,680 --> 00:29:54,880 Dudley, whatever you, the preacher is US. 451 00:29:56,280 --> 00:29:59,440 Because I find that other these 50 odd years that I've been so, 452 00:29:59,640 --> 00:30:03,360 so often, the preacher preaches what God's dealing with in their 453 00:30:03,360 --> 00:30:12,000 life and very seldom, but thank God sometime, very seldom do 454 00:30:12,000 --> 00:30:13,880 they preach what God's saying to us. 455 00:30:14,480 --> 00:30:18,880 That's why so many people go home still empty, not empty in 456 00:30:18,880 --> 00:30:23,360 the wrong sense, not getting what God wants, not hearing God 457 00:30:23,360 --> 00:30:25,320 speak. They can't go out and say God 458 00:30:25,320 --> 00:30:29,920 spoke to me today. So it puts an onus on the 459 00:30:29,920 --> 00:30:32,280 preachers, especially those in the leadership. 460 00:30:35,040 --> 00:30:36,920 I can, yeah. My wife will bear me out. 461 00:30:37,040 --> 00:30:41,080 When we pray, I ask God, God, don't let me speak things that I 462 00:30:41,080 --> 00:30:45,880 that are not from you. And then help me to speak 463 00:30:45,880 --> 00:30:48,600 things, even if I haven't thought of them, that are from 464 00:30:48,600 --> 00:30:49,680 you. For the people. 465 00:30:51,160 --> 00:30:53,440 I don't want to preach superfluous things, even if 466 00:30:53,440 --> 00:30:55,720 they're true, even if they're in the Bible. 467 00:30:57,000 --> 00:31:01,520 But they're not for us today. God wants to speak to us. 468 00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:03,760 We should. Come here and get out. 469 00:31:03,760 --> 00:31:08,320 A lot of our problems, perplexities sorted out sitting 470 00:31:08,320 --> 00:31:11,480 together. Now God can do that alone. 471 00:31:12,000 --> 00:31:14,480 But as I said so often we're not open to it. 472 00:31:15,240 --> 00:31:20,200 So God calls us together. Let's so we come to hear God his 473 00:31:20,200 --> 00:31:25,520 word and preaching does that. Paul says I'm not shunned to 474 00:31:25,520 --> 00:31:28,600 preach to you the whole or to declare to you the whole council 475 00:31:28,600 --> 00:31:30,880 of God. So we've got to be sure that 476 00:31:30,880 --> 00:31:35,040 we're covering as leaders, as preachers, even if it's Bible 477 00:31:35,040 --> 00:31:38,440 studies, Sunday school teaching, whatever the case, we've got to 478 00:31:38,440 --> 00:31:41,720 cover the make sure we're covering the whole gamut of 479 00:31:41,720 --> 00:31:45,680 what's in Scripture over certain period of time, not just 480 00:31:45,680 --> 00:31:49,360 favorite subjects. And you see, we go back to those 481 00:31:49,360 --> 00:31:53,040 nine models that are not good. They cover certain favorite 482 00:31:53,040 --> 00:31:56,560 subjects, but not the whole counts. 483 00:31:57,480 --> 00:32:01,040 How seldom do we preach on hell? Thank God he preached. 484 00:32:01,040 --> 00:32:03,360 David preached a little while ago on hell. 485 00:32:03,680 --> 00:32:07,040 I don't like the subject, but Jesus had a lot to say about it. 486 00:32:10,040 --> 00:32:15,280 There's so many things we don't preach about because why? 487 00:32:15,320 --> 00:32:19,360 We'll offend the people. Moving on. 488 00:32:20,320 --> 00:32:23,280 How does God speak? He speaks first of all through 489 00:32:24,760 --> 00:32:29,640 preaching, teaching. Got to hear what God is saying. 490 00:32:30,800 --> 00:32:33,880 Second, he preaches, he teaches, he talks to us, speaks to us 491 00:32:34,040 --> 00:32:39,440 through the gifts of the Spirit. That's why it's so important. 492 00:32:39,760 --> 00:32:42,000 How is it in One Corinthians 1426? 493 00:32:42,160 --> 00:32:46,640 How is it then, brethren, when you come together, every one of 494 00:32:46,640 --> 00:32:49,920 you has, and then he tells us these different gifts and 495 00:32:49,920 --> 00:32:53,160 ministries. So we got to understand it's 496 00:32:53,160 --> 00:32:57,720 very important that we listen to what others are saying, not only 497 00:32:57,720 --> 00:33:02,320 the preacher here, but it's also very important that you and I 498 00:33:02,320 --> 00:33:07,160 come with something, even if it's just something for one 499 00:33:07,160 --> 00:33:09,960 person. And we've got to. 500 00:33:10,080 --> 00:33:13,200 Ask God to help us to discern the difference between what you 501 00:33:13,200 --> 00:33:16,640 want me to say to one person in the meeting and what you want me 502 00:33:16,640 --> 00:33:20,200 to stand up and say so that all people here now, none of this 503 00:33:20,200 --> 00:33:24,160 happens like that. When we get to sun, we begin to 504 00:33:24,160 --> 00:33:29,200 understand. When it begins to get here, we 505 00:33:29,200 --> 00:33:31,840 begin to develop this and it gets stronger and stronger. 506 00:33:32,640 --> 00:33:36,280 But this may not happen overnight for you. 507 00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:42,760 But don't be discouraged, keep on hearing and keep on obeying. 508 00:33:45,240 --> 00:33:48,280 And can I just say this lovingly, if someone brings 509 00:33:48,280 --> 00:33:51,960 something to you privately in the meeting, during the meeting, 510 00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:55,120 after the meeting? You see, you can't interrupt the 511 00:33:55,120 --> 00:33:57,120 meeting. Paul actually said that if 512 00:33:57,120 --> 00:33:59,800 someone gets another revelation, the one who's speaking needs to 513 00:33:59,800 --> 00:34:02,800 stop. So I was used to encourage the 514 00:34:02,800 --> 00:34:05,160 people in that church. Just put your hand up if you've 515 00:34:05,160 --> 00:34:10,040 got something that we need to hear together and the one who's 516 00:34:10,040 --> 00:34:13,239 speaking needs to stop and give that child person a child. 517 00:34:13,440 --> 00:34:17,239 But that also you don't have to stop if you've got something 518 00:34:17,239 --> 00:34:19,840 just for one person. Alan might have something. 519 00:34:20,400 --> 00:34:23,639 He wants to come in here and just just get up and ran 520 00:34:23,719 --> 00:34:26,760 whispered in his ear. And we've got to be as a 521 00:34:26,760 --> 00:34:30,679 congregation, grow up enough to say I'm not going to be put off 522 00:34:30,679 --> 00:34:32,679 by that. Now, there's a difference 523 00:34:32,679 --> 00:34:35,400 between that and being, because it happens in our church. 524 00:34:35,400 --> 00:34:37,639 I'm going to mention this. And so you don't have excuses. 525 00:34:37,880 --> 00:34:41,520 There's a difference between a screaming child and somebody 526 00:34:41,520 --> 00:34:44,760 getting up and ministering to someone. 527 00:34:44,760 --> 00:34:47,719 Else. Big difference. 528 00:34:48,800 --> 00:34:51,920 The one is disruptive and there's not much you can do 529 00:34:51,920 --> 00:34:56,800 about it if you're not the parent, but it's not disruptive 530 00:34:56,800 --> 00:35:01,080 if suddenly you get up and say something to David and sit down. 531 00:35:01,960 --> 00:35:05,840 And one tendency if I'm leading is to say what's going on here? 532 00:35:07,280 --> 00:35:12,000 And somehow we've got to ask God to not let it interfere with us 533 00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:15,600 that way. Just we beginning to understand 534 00:35:15,960 --> 00:35:19,240 God speaks to us through the gifts of the Spirit. 535 00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:23,600 So it's publicly and it's personal. 536 00:35:36,220 --> 00:35:40,980 Amen. You get that God's agape, agape 537 00:35:40,980 --> 00:35:46,620 love holds no record of wrongs done by anyone else. 538 00:35:49,100 --> 00:35:53,540 Now that's for all of us. Which means somebody must be 539 00:35:53,540 --> 00:35:58,000 doing it. You see, You see what I'm trying 540 00:35:58,000 --> 00:36:02,160 to say? Now, if that was false, the 541 00:36:02,160 --> 00:36:05,840 leaders have to stop that and say we ignore that. 542 00:36:08,520 --> 00:36:10,760 That's part of our that's what it's about. 543 00:36:11,480 --> 00:36:13,800 We don't let stuff just get said. 544 00:36:14,960 --> 00:36:16,480 And then act. Like that was God. 545 00:36:16,480 --> 00:36:18,440 That's not the priesthood of all believers. 546 00:36:20,280 --> 00:36:23,960 And I, you've heard me say this lots of times, so many times 547 00:36:23,960 --> 00:36:27,040 people who are feeling unloved get up and say this is what God 548 00:36:27,040 --> 00:36:30,600 says is not enough love yet. No, that's not what God's 549 00:36:30,600 --> 00:36:33,440 saying. That's what you feeling. 550 00:36:34,640 --> 00:36:37,040 And then for David to stand up and say, all right, we better 551 00:36:37,040 --> 00:36:39,800 start loving each other better. It's just to have given in to 552 00:36:39,800 --> 00:36:42,480 the devil, bringing condemnation. 553 00:36:44,160 --> 00:36:47,920 Are you beginning to understand what can happen if we come to 554 00:36:47,920 --> 00:36:51,600 the meeting understanding what God wants us to do? 555 00:36:52,080 --> 00:36:55,760 Now I'm never going to get through this message because I 556 00:36:55,760 --> 00:36:59,240 think I've got 20 something points and I'm on .3. 557 00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:09,440 His thing speaks also through psalms, hymns, spiritual songs. 558 00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:13,240 Can you put up Ephesians chapter 5 verses 19 and 20 quickly to 559 00:37:13,240 --> 00:37:14,280 me? For me, please? 560 00:37:17,280 --> 00:37:19,840 Now listen. God speaks to us through psalms, 561 00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:24,320 hymns, and spiritual songs. Those are not the ones necessary 562 00:37:24,320 --> 00:37:28,960 that we sang before we started, before the preaching came on. 563 00:37:30,320 --> 00:37:36,840 Speak to one another. Stop and think about that, Oh my 564 00:37:36,840 --> 00:37:44,680 son, God says that's what God wants for us, to speak to one 565 00:37:44,680 --> 00:37:48,200 another. My daughter, why are you so 566 00:37:48,200 --> 00:37:55,040 confused? Family, Why? 567 00:37:55,760 --> 00:37:59,400 You get the picture. Can I ask you? 568 00:37:59,680 --> 00:38:01,280 I've got to ask myself this regularly. 569 00:38:01,600 --> 00:38:06,280 Did I come with that expectation for God to use me even if I 570 00:38:06,280 --> 00:38:10,200 Can't Sing? I remember some of those songs 571 00:38:10,200 --> 00:38:12,280 that Mike introduced to sing from time to time. 572 00:38:12,640 --> 00:38:17,360 They penetrated the hearts. He just, he wasn't preaching, 573 00:38:17,360 --> 00:38:19,440 just sitting in the congregation. 574 00:38:19,920 --> 00:38:21,560 Suddenly we just break out in song. 575 00:38:21,560 --> 00:38:25,760 Do you think that God could do that with you? 576 00:38:25,920 --> 00:38:30,080 Take a song that's in the Scriptures and sing it. 577 00:38:31,200 --> 00:38:36,280 Bless the Lord. Oh my soul and all that is 578 00:38:36,280 --> 00:38:41,000 within me, bless His whole, His holy name. 579 00:38:42,600 --> 00:38:45,040 Why? For He has done great things, 580 00:38:45,280 --> 00:38:48,600 etcetera. Now that's a song that we all 581 00:38:48,600 --> 00:38:54,160 know, but God can give us Psalms that we can dare to be. 582 00:38:54,160 --> 00:38:56,880 And if we don't dare to sing, and can I just say at least 583 00:38:56,880 --> 00:39:02,880 speak it out, read it out. I'm just wanting to change our 584 00:39:02,880 --> 00:39:07,920 meetings for God's sake, not for the sake of change. 585 00:39:08,840 --> 00:39:11,400 Just what does the Bible say? How? 586 00:39:11,400 --> 00:39:14,640 Can we do it more? Like God's Word says, look at 587 00:39:14,640 --> 00:39:20,520 the time, Make music in your heart to the Lord, always giving 588 00:39:20,520 --> 00:39:22,960 thanks to God the Father for everything in the name of our 589 00:39:22,960 --> 00:39:25,240 Lord Jesus Christ. And so that scripture goes on. 590 00:39:25,240 --> 00:39:29,800 I'm sorry, Colossians chapter 3 says let the word of Christ, 591 00:39:30,080 --> 00:39:32,200 verse 16. Let the word of Christ dwell in 592 00:39:32,200 --> 00:39:39,240 you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all 593 00:39:40,200 --> 00:39:43,600 wisdom, and as you sing psalms, hymns, and. 594 00:39:43,600 --> 00:39:48,920 Spiritual songs with gratitude. So we minister to one another 595 00:39:49,400 --> 00:39:55,360 songs that minister, that teach, that instruct, that give 596 00:39:55,360 --> 00:39:59,560 guidance. Anyway, I just wish I could 597 00:39:59,680 --> 00:40:00,680 spend more time. Here. 598 00:40:01,440 --> 00:40:05,360 Another way that God speaks to us is through the prophets, and 599 00:40:05,360 --> 00:40:09,760 from time to time as our church develops and grows, we'll have 600 00:40:09,760 --> 00:40:13,160 prophets come in and they will prophecy. 601 00:40:14,040 --> 00:40:17,480 And generally to me, just so that we don't get carried away 602 00:40:17,480 --> 00:40:22,360 on this one, the prophet normally confirms what you 603 00:40:22,360 --> 00:40:25,240 already know is beginning to happen in your life or through 604 00:40:25,240 --> 00:40:26,760 your life. That's what happened with 605 00:40:26,760 --> 00:40:29,560 Agabus. He came to Paul, I think it's 606 00:40:29,560 --> 00:40:33,240 Acts 21, and he prophesied what Paul was already knowing. 607 00:40:34,600 --> 00:40:38,080 They don't always tell us this is what's going to happen. 608 00:40:39,000 --> 00:40:43,320 As much as confirm what God wants, they can sometimes tell 609 00:40:43,320 --> 00:40:44,720 us. Don't want to rule that out. 610 00:40:44,720 --> 00:40:48,840 I'm just trying to massage this whole thing into us that we hear 611 00:40:48,840 --> 00:40:50,600 what God's trying to do in our midst. 612 00:40:51,800 --> 00:40:54,040 And can I say this, that all may prophecy. 613 00:40:55,400 --> 00:40:58,920 Paul says that now that's the gift of prophecy, but it's still 614 00:40:58,920 --> 00:41:02,400 prophecy. It's not the office of the 615 00:41:02,400 --> 00:41:06,000 prophet. Anyway, God speaks to us through 616 00:41:06,000 --> 00:41:09,520 prophecies and prophets. Another one that I think that 617 00:41:09,520 --> 00:41:13,280 people don't understand much is that God actually speaks to us 618 00:41:13,400 --> 00:41:15,040 just through general conversation. 619 00:41:15,920 --> 00:41:18,680 Now, let me, let me just, I know I've said this once before. 620 00:41:18,680 --> 00:41:22,760 Yeah, or maybe more than once. If you come in here and say, did 621 00:41:22,760 --> 00:41:25,640 you watch the 30 Sixers last night and they got beaten? 622 00:41:27,280 --> 00:41:30,480 And if you were the 30 Sixers, I'm talking about the basketball 623 00:41:31,080 --> 00:41:34,880 the 30 Sixers lost last night. And if you were 30 Sixers 624 00:41:34,880 --> 00:41:38,320 supporter immediately, that just depresses you. 625 00:41:39,840 --> 00:41:42,640 Or the Crows did this and the Port Adelaide did that or 626 00:41:42,760 --> 00:41:46,680 whatever it may be. Or I went to out to lunch and I 627 00:41:46,680 --> 00:41:49,520 did this, or I was sick of blah blah, all these things. 628 00:41:50,480 --> 00:41:55,200 None of those things, Minister life, they may be true. 629 00:41:55,880 --> 00:42:00,760 God wants us to come and have more of our conversation around 630 00:42:00,760 --> 00:42:04,400 Christ and the Kingdom when we come together. 631 00:42:04,560 --> 00:42:09,760 That's what fellowship is. It's 2 fellows in the same ship. 632 00:42:11,120 --> 00:42:14,960 You get it. We talk about everything else 633 00:42:15,480 --> 00:42:17,440 but the stuff that God wants to minister. 634 00:42:17,440 --> 00:42:20,240 That's why people don't get ministered to through the 635 00:42:20,240 --> 00:42:22,920 conversation. That's why certain people try to 636 00:42:22,920 --> 00:42:27,400 avoid certain people. Not because they don't like 637 00:42:27,400 --> 00:42:30,560 them, they just don't want their minds filled with the wrong 638 00:42:30,560 --> 00:42:32,760 stuff. Negative stuff. 639 00:42:33,720 --> 00:42:37,680 If we now look for again, can I say that's not going to happen 640 00:42:37,680 --> 00:42:42,360 overnight. This could be 6 months time. 641 00:42:42,560 --> 00:42:45,440 It's still happening, developing in our midst. 642 00:42:46,040 --> 00:42:49,720 I don't want to put in anyone off and say this is too hard. 643 00:42:50,560 --> 00:42:53,360 I might as well not even hurt, you know, open my heart to it. 644 00:42:53,680 --> 00:42:55,520 So he speaks through conversations. 645 00:42:56,560 --> 00:42:59,960 He also speaks through just contributions we make 646 00:42:59,960 --> 00:43:05,040 financially or just a little something, A chocolate given to 647 00:43:05,040 --> 00:43:09,120 someone or just $10 put into someone's pocket. 648 00:43:10,000 --> 00:43:13,520 I don't know why, just sometimes that's exactly what God puts on 649 00:43:13,520 --> 00:43:16,760 people's hearts. When you see Peter, give him 650 00:43:16,760 --> 00:43:18,400 this. Don't let anybody. 651 00:43:18,400 --> 00:43:20,760 Else see it. So you walk up and slip it in 652 00:43:20,760 --> 00:43:23,720 his hand. That says something to Peter, 653 00:43:23,720 --> 00:43:26,120 who's been going through a hard time say this isn't true for 654 00:43:26,120 --> 00:43:27,360 him. Right now I'm just using him as 655 00:43:27,360 --> 00:43:30,200 an example. It says to Peter, I understand, 656 00:43:30,200 --> 00:43:33,880 I know, God knows I care for you, don't worry, I've got it 657 00:43:33,880 --> 00:43:35,760 under control. It's all in my hand. 658 00:43:35,880 --> 00:43:37,600 I've got you cut you, you're back covered. 659 00:43:39,720 --> 00:43:42,640 Sometimes I've walked and young people have said you are in my 660 00:43:42,640 --> 00:43:45,640 heart before through the week. Just want to tell you I'm 661 00:43:45,640 --> 00:43:48,520 praying for you. And God knows I needed that 662 00:43:48,520 --> 00:43:52,400 word. It doesn't have to be money. 663 00:43:52,680 --> 00:43:55,480 It can be a cake, it can be just foods. 664 00:43:55,480 --> 00:43:58,160 I remember when we were in one of the churches that I used to 665 00:43:58,160 --> 00:44:02,840 be part of, one of these Asian ladies used to very regularly 666 00:44:03,000 --> 00:44:09,360 just bring Anne a nice Curry. So this is for you and Dudley. 667 00:44:09,360 --> 00:44:14,760 She said something to me. She wasn't a personal friend. 668 00:44:14,760 --> 00:44:19,280 We didn't hang out together. She just felt touched of God. 669 00:44:19,640 --> 00:44:23,480 And God said, I know what's going on, I know what you like, 670 00:44:23,480 --> 00:44:26,240 I know what you need. I've got it all in control, 671 00:44:26,240 --> 00:44:28,640 under control. I'm sure that there's some of 672 00:44:28,640 --> 00:44:30,840 you here that that would be very meaningful. 673 00:44:33,120 --> 00:44:37,560 I struggle with the scope of the term prophesied to one another. 674 00:44:37,600 --> 00:44:39,920 Would you mind? Are you speaking about that now? 675 00:44:39,920 --> 00:44:43,480 Are you talking about these are these actions of prophecy of 676 00:44:43,480 --> 00:44:45,360 these actions? What are these actions and what 677 00:44:45,360 --> 00:44:49,400 is the What is the action of when the Bible says prophesied 678 00:44:49,720 --> 00:44:51,000 over one another? What? 679 00:44:51,000 --> 00:44:53,120 What's the scope? Of that if you have time for it. 680 00:44:53,520 --> 00:44:57,280 Because I don't, I don't, I don't grasp that concept other 681 00:44:57,360 --> 00:45:00,080 than you will do this and you will do that or this is going to 682 00:45:00,120 --> 00:45:01,840 happen to you. Is there? 683 00:45:02,200 --> 00:45:04,800 Is there a broader? Well, the gift of prophecy is to 684 00:45:04,800 --> 00:45:09,480 encourage, to build up, to strengthen. 685 00:45:10,520 --> 00:45:15,720 So you I may prophecy over him, something that encourages him. 686 00:45:17,000 --> 00:45:20,200 That's the gift of prophecy. The prophet will prophecy 687 00:45:20,200 --> 00:45:24,960 something that's more solace stronger than that and about 688 00:45:25,360 --> 00:45:30,880 some issue in your life like Agabus said, the man whose belt 689 00:45:30,880 --> 00:45:33,800 this is, this is what's going to happen to you when you get to 690 00:45:33,800 --> 00:45:37,240 Jerusalem. That's the that's prophet, the 691 00:45:37,240 --> 00:45:40,760 office of the prophet. But the gift of prophecy is post 692 00:45:40,760 --> 00:45:44,840 things that let me just say it's not just I want to encourage 693 00:45:44,840 --> 00:45:47,080 you. It's something God prompts in 694 00:45:47,080 --> 00:45:49,280 your heart. It's not something I thought 695 00:45:49,280 --> 00:45:52,760 about at home that can be the priesthood of all believers. 696 00:45:52,760 --> 00:45:56,400 I come and read a scripture, something that I've got from God 697 00:45:56,400 --> 00:45:58,680 at home that I feel is for the body. 698 00:45:59,120 --> 00:46:03,080 But prophecy, most of those gifts are spontaneous. 699 00:46:03,080 --> 00:46:05,280 They happen while we're. In the meeting. 700 00:46:05,280 --> 00:46:12,880 Not planned, not written down as much as there can be value in 701 00:46:12,880 --> 00:46:14,720 those. That's what it is. 702 00:46:14,720 --> 00:46:20,480 Thank you. It's not very valuable. 703 00:46:20,480 --> 00:46:21,600 Thank. You all right, Moving on 704 00:46:21,600 --> 00:46:25,000 quickly. The fourth reason we come how 705 00:46:25,000 --> 00:46:30,400 while we have meet you, I look at the time just to pray and I'm 706 00:46:30,400 --> 00:46:32,840 going to say I'll finish with this one. 707 00:46:32,840 --> 00:46:37,880 Just say what is pray the pray that God wants us in the church 708 00:46:38,960 --> 00:46:41,600 in our meetings. God wants us to confess. 709 00:46:42,400 --> 00:46:49,160 His promises and God wants us to claim His promises for us as a 710 00:46:49,160 --> 00:46:52,200 church. He wants us to confess his 711 00:46:52,200 --> 00:46:58,880 promises for people that are sick, discouraged, black, sudden 712 00:47:00,280 --> 00:47:05,480 claim them. It's not you know, you, you look 713 00:47:05,480 --> 00:47:07,840 at how often Jesus and his disciples prayed. 714 00:47:08,840 --> 00:47:11,160 You look at the prayers that Doug Paul prayed. 715 00:47:12,840 --> 00:47:15,400 That's what God wants us to be praying, praying for one 716 00:47:15,400 --> 00:47:18,160 another. This is the place where we 717 00:47:18,160 --> 00:47:22,480 should be able to pray. Now I feel like I'm a bad 718 00:47:22,480 --> 00:47:26,040 example of that because this is what this is part of my problem 719 00:47:26,840 --> 00:47:29,640 is that I felt God. So when I came to this church 720 00:47:30,080 --> 00:47:38,120 not to be always making some statement to try to lay back, be 721 00:47:38,120 --> 00:47:41,720 in the background. God wants to develop a church 722 00:47:41,720 --> 00:47:45,600 here that is not the church that I'm leaving, a church that's 723 00:47:45,600 --> 00:47:49,200 built around the gifting of the men he ran, women he raises up 724 00:47:49,200 --> 00:47:53,760 in this this church. So very often I feel I'm saying 725 00:47:53,760 --> 00:47:57,720 things that I'm not doing myself, but it's generally 726 00:47:58,080 --> 00:48:02,840 because I'm trying to obey God and I've got these 50 something 727 00:48:02,840 --> 00:48:06,640 years of experience. People think I've got it all put 728 00:48:06,640 --> 00:48:09,120 together. And people, sometimes it's not 729 00:48:09,120 --> 00:48:12,320 foolish enough to believe that what I'm saying is stronger than 730 00:48:12,320 --> 00:48:16,440 what the gifted leadership that God raised up in the church is 731 00:48:16,440 --> 00:48:19,360 saying. So I feel like God's given me a 732 00:48:19,360 --> 00:48:22,000 just a little kind of a pattern to be careful. 733 00:48:23,400 --> 00:48:25,360 But don't let that be your excuse. 734 00:48:27,480 --> 00:48:30,800 If Dudley doesn't do it, I'm not going to have to do it either. 735 00:48:32,080 --> 00:48:34,840 You hear what I'm saying? God wants you to pray. 736 00:48:35,840 --> 00:48:39,280 David should not have to ask us, is there anyone who wants to 737 00:48:39,280 --> 00:48:41,760 pray? He should be sitting and saying, 738 00:48:42,200 --> 00:48:43,400 sit down. We've had enough. 739 00:48:44,560 --> 00:48:48,080 Not quite those words, but. Too many. 740 00:48:48,080 --> 00:48:55,450 Prayers a Table in the Wilderness. 741 00:48:55,810 --> 00:48:57,890 It's a devotional book by Watchman Knee. 742 00:48:58,650 --> 00:49:02,890 And yesterday the reading was Watchman Knee was thick. 743 00:49:03,650 --> 00:49:07,850 So he had the the big prayers in the church. 744 00:49:07,850 --> 00:49:10,050 Come pray for him. And nothing happened. 745 00:49:10,730 --> 00:49:13,610 And he used to look down his nose at the wicked people in his 746 00:49:13,610 --> 00:49:17,880 church, but then one day they came and said, we pray for you. 747 00:49:17,880 --> 00:49:19,680 And they got on their knees and prayed. 748 00:49:19,760 --> 00:49:22,760 And the people that he looked down on, the people that were 749 00:49:22,760 --> 00:49:26,160 weaker, prayed for him and he was healed. 750 00:49:26,680 --> 00:49:30,000 And that's why I think he thinks that there are some people that 751 00:49:30,000 --> 00:49:34,680 are the professional prayer and, and we might not even know how 752 00:49:34,680 --> 00:49:39,720 to pray properly and we feel weak and but God wants to pray 753 00:49:39,760 --> 00:49:42,600 and it's the prayer of faith that doesn't matter how weak you 754 00:49:42,600 --> 00:49:44,120 feel you are or. Or. 755 00:49:45,360 --> 00:49:51,040 How we could feel your praise of faith in God brings on such a. 756 00:49:53,160 --> 00:49:53,640 Prayer. Amen. 757 00:49:55,840 --> 00:49:58,080 All right, I'm not going to abuse you any more than I have. 758 00:49:58,640 --> 00:50:02,760 It's already 10 fast, so I'm going to hand over. 759 00:50:02,760 --> 00:50:05,720 But can I just pray for you before we do? 760 00:50:09,400 --> 00:50:15,840 Again Father, we thank you that heaven is full of people because 761 00:50:15,840 --> 00:50:23,640 people prayed and because Jesus prayed and he set us the 762 00:50:23,640 --> 00:50:28,160 example. And I ask in Jesus name, I pray 763 00:50:28,160 --> 00:50:30,080 with these people and we stand in agreement. 764 00:50:30,080 --> 00:50:34,920 And you said if two shall agree as touching anything in heaven, 765 00:50:36,000 --> 00:50:38,200 you promised the movie granted us. 766 00:50:39,160 --> 00:50:44,360 We asked together, change our church, change our hearts 767 00:50:44,360 --> 00:50:47,720 individually, and change it in our togetherness. 768 00:50:49,240 --> 00:50:54,040 Let it be that we come here to really do what the Bible wants 769 00:50:54,040 --> 00:50:59,280 us to do, that we grasp, we understand, and we begin to live 770 00:50:59,280 --> 00:51:07,280 in, embrace, participate in, obey what your scriptures teach. 771 00:51:08,120 --> 00:51:11,200 So I commit this precious group of people to you. 772 00:51:11,200 --> 00:51:16,520 Lord, we belong to you. Some of us are older, some of us 773 00:51:16,520 --> 00:51:19,080 are weaker. Some of us feel we cannot 774 00:51:19,080 --> 00:51:22,000 communicate well or we can't do this and we can't do that. 775 00:51:22,720 --> 00:51:25,520 But we know that every one of us has a contribution to make. 776 00:51:26,200 --> 00:51:29,440 And I pray that every one of us, that contribution will start to 777 00:51:29,440 --> 00:51:33,040 spill out Sunday by Sunday when we meet or during the week 778 00:51:33,600 --> 00:51:39,080 whenever we're together, that these things would just begin to 779 00:51:39,080 --> 00:51:43,800 surface and change lives. So we ask these things with 780 00:51:44,160 --> 00:51:47,480 gratitude in our hearts, with praise towards you, 781 00:51:48,000 --> 00:51:51,280 acknowledging it's you and everything we have, every gift, 782 00:51:51,720 --> 00:51:56,240 everything we can do, even the ability to speak, to breathe all 783 00:51:56,240 --> 00:51:58,400 of these scum from your loving hand. 784 00:51:59,040 --> 00:52:01,720 We are grateful people. We love you. 785 00:52:01,720 --> 00:52:04,880 We ask you to bless these men and women that are on leadership 786 00:52:04,880 --> 00:52:08,040 that are leading us here. We pray you bless their 787 00:52:08,040 --> 00:52:12,400 families, their children. Their children will grow up to 788 00:52:12,400 --> 00:52:16,680 live for you become mighty men and women of God, bigger than 789 00:52:16,680 --> 00:52:20,640 them in the Kingdom with more capacity. 790 00:52:21,200 --> 00:52:24,760 We want generation after generation till you come back to 791 00:52:24,760 --> 00:52:28,560 be better than the last generation in terms of knowing 792 00:52:28,560 --> 00:52:32,960 more, all that you've done, bringing it with them, but all 793 00:52:32,960 --> 00:52:37,160 that you're doing and will do into the future, making it such 794 00:52:37,160 --> 00:52:41,760 a cataclysmic. Dynamic breaking of hell. 795 00:52:42,160 --> 00:52:45,880 And breaking in of heaven in the minds and hearts and lives of 796 00:52:45,880 --> 00:52:52,160 all your people, nations changed in Jesus name, Amen. 797 00:52:53,320 --> 00:52:57,280 God bless you. Thank you Sir, that was 798 00:52:57,280 --> 00:52:59,800 wonderful. Let's just pray for Dudley 799 00:52:59,800 --> 00:53:03,120 before he leaves. Lord, we sorry man Lord, we just 800 00:53:03,120 --> 00:53:05,760 pray just your, your blessing and your favour and your 801 00:53:05,760 --> 00:53:09,520 strength over Dudley and Anne. Lord, we thank you for him 802 00:53:09,520 --> 00:53:12,280 pouring out. Lord, we thank you for a man 803 00:53:12,280 --> 00:53:16,560 that's, you know, been persistently obedient to Lord 804 00:53:16,560 --> 00:53:19,040 for many years. And so we just pray your 805 00:53:19,040 --> 00:53:22,200 strength and your favour and, and just your continued 806 00:53:22,200 --> 00:53:24,280 blessing, Lord, just over his health. 807 00:53:24,280 --> 00:53:25,840 Lord, we just pray strength over him. 808 00:53:25,840 --> 00:53:27,840 We pray that you would restore his body. 809 00:53:28,280 --> 00:53:31,560 We pray that Lord as he leaves this place that that he would be 810 00:53:31,560 --> 00:53:34,520 strong Lord and he would enjoy the rest of this day and he'd 811 00:53:34,520 --> 00:53:38,000 have a good night's rest Lord, we pray for good night's rest 812 00:53:38,320 --> 00:53:41,400 for him and and moving forward just bless them in every way. 813 00:53:41,400 --> 00:53:44,480 Lord, we thank you for them. We love them where it's a 814 00:53:44,520 --> 00:53:47,680 privilege to to have them in this church in Jesus mighty 815 00:53:47,680 --> 00:53:51,040 name, Amen. Thank you man love you bro 816 00:53:52,400 --> 00:53:53,880 excellent. I'm not going to say too much 817 00:53:53,880 --> 00:53:56,880 more, but we, we want to grow, right? 818 00:53:56,880 --> 00:54:00,240 And when, if we're going to grow, we're going to have to 819 00:54:00,240 --> 00:54:03,640 change, you know, like a small tree, that plant that becomes a 820 00:54:03,640 --> 00:54:06,600 tree. It can't stay the same to become 821 00:54:06,600 --> 00:54:08,680 a tree. So we want to grow. 822 00:54:09,280 --> 00:54:12,080 We want us to grow as people. We want this church to grow. 823 00:54:14,000 --> 00:54:17,400 Yeah. So let's just continue to to be 824 00:54:17,440 --> 00:54:21,440 open to hear what God's saying and, and put these things into 825 00:54:21,440 --> 00:54:23,080 place. I hope that you guys have 826 00:54:23,080 --> 00:54:25,640 challenged by some of those things and I hope that you will, 827 00:54:26,120 --> 00:54:28,760 you know, with us as well. Just do something with this 828 00:54:28,760 --> 00:54:31,560 stuff. Yeah. 829 00:54:31,960 --> 00:54:36,160 May the Lord bless you and favour you and let his face 830 00:54:36,160 --> 00:54:39,280 smile upon you. I'm being silly, but like, you 831 00:54:39,280 --> 00:54:42,440 know, these are the things, you know, like we're, we're going to 832 00:54:42,440 --> 00:54:46,360 have to step outside of our comfort zone here in many ways. 833 00:54:46,360 --> 00:54:48,400 So Lord, help us do that. Amen. 834 00:54:49,120 --> 00:54:50,520 Bless you guys. Have a wonderful day. 835 00:54:52,160 --> 00:54:53,960 Thank you for joining us for today's message. 836 00:54:54,360 --> 00:54:56,880 For more information about The Way Church, please visit 837 00:54:56,880 --> 00:54:59,720 ourwebsite@thewaychurch.com dot AU. 838 00:55:00,400 --> 00:55:01,200 Have a blessed day.