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Welcome to the podcast of the 
White Church. 

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In Adelaide, South Australia. 
Well, Justin's going to be 

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bringing the word this morning. 
I was just thinking this morning

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just about, about, you know, 
the, the law, it was in the 

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Lord's Prayer, just talking 
about your Kingdom come and your

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will be done as on earth as it 
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And the, the the church, this 
space that we find ourselves in 

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right now, this gathering of the
Saints together is something 

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very special that we need to 
understand and grasp because 

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this is where are the called out
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Jesus said to pray that the 
things that were in heaven would

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be here. 
And praise is something that is 

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certainly in heaven. 
But you know, like we're not 

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going to get tired from praising
in heaven. 

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Amen. 
So, you know, that's one of the 

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things you know, and just being 
together, being together. 

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When people come in from 
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their communities, from that 
which they know of the world, 

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when they come into the church, 
when they come into the body of 

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Christ, they should be 
experiencing something way 

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different than what they have, 
they have used to and what 

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they've seen. 
And we, we pray that they do. 

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And that means that the Spirit 
of God in US and through US is 

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the thing that they're going to 
be experiencing, you know, the 

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love of God, the community, the 
fellowship, but so much more 

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than that, God's power, healing,
freedom, hope, hope, guys like 

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we're coming into Easter. 
Hope. 

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We have something that the world
doesn't have hope and that is an

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amazing thing and we praise the 
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But I'm going to invite Justin 
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I'm going to pray, Lord, we just
pray your anointing on Justin 

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right now. 
We pray that you would speak the

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words that you would want to say
in him and through him. 

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God, we pray that everything 
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We pray that we we would hear 
your words today and that we 

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would be empowered to be the 
church that you've called us to 

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be. 
We pray this would be a time of 

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enlarging for Justin and for us.
And we pray that we wouldn't 

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leave this place the same. 
In Jesus mighty name, Amen. 

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Amen. 
Cool. 

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Before I I kick off, we have 
Kiara with us this morning. 

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So Kiara actually lives in 
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Moved from Adelaide to Perth. 
Was it was for work? 

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Yeah, yeah. 
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And then friends of ours, 
friends of this house, Liam and 

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Alana Meesk, planted a church in
Perth called Represent, which 

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Kiara is part of. 
So I've just asked her if she 

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can share, just for a couple of 
minutes, what God is doing in 

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Perth, what God is doing through
Represent. 

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So. 
Hi family, I'm so excited to be 

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here with you today. 
God's doing such an incredible 

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work in Perth. 
It's so honestly like such a 

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blessing to be part of it, 
adding new people to our church 

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every single week. 
We're based on a university 

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campus and we've got students. 
It's like, oh week. 

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So it's the start of the first 
semester and every single week 

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we have people coming in. 
I was just looking for a church.

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I've moved from Interstate, I've
moved from overseas and I found 

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I saw there was a church on 
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And so I came and, you know, 
just adding to our family and 

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we're seeing God just provide in
like supernatural ways in, in 

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our ability to keep using the 
building on such a secular 

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campus. 
It's been so incredible. 

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And just seeing God's like 
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we've recently added deacons to 
our team, which has been really,

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really awesome. 
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so many kids as well, just 
everywhere all the time and like

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just seeing how God's moving in 
them and even just like how 

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we've got a couple of teenagers 
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But yeah, it's just been so 
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We recently saw celebrated our 
first birthday as well, which 

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was so cool just to see how 
God's like, grown us so much 

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from Liam and Alana's little 
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lecture hall. 
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see more seats filled every 
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And God be glorified in all of 
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So yeah. 
Father, we just pray for 

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represent right now is their 
their meeting this morning. 

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We just pray Father, just for 
your blessing upon them as 

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they've celebrated one year. 
We just pay that you would 

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continue to grow that house. 
You will continue to stretch why

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they're 10 pegs. 
They would see more and more 

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people added in. 
They would see more and more 

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people added to their leadership
team, more favour with the 

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university. 
We thank you for the great 

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fruitfulness and and as they 
they say on earth and in Perth, 

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as it is in heaven, we proclaim 
that we prophecy that again over

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their church into their church. 
We thank you for Liam and Alana 

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laying down their lives to go 
relocate and plant this church 

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in Jesus name. 
Amen. 

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Amen. 
Awesome. 

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Thank you Chiara for allowing me
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Very cool. 
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here, we've been very privileged
and having some Apostolic input 

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over the last few weeks. 
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weeks who leads the NCMI team. 
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We had Leona Kotra on the back 
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And those guys, they really 
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culture. 
What kind of culture do you want

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in church? 
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you know, lights and cool 
projector screens and great 

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coffee. 
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culture. 
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talking about. 
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do we build a Kingdom culture 
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Because ultimately the thing 
that's going to last is not the 

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church that we build, it's the 
church that he builds, right? 

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Jesus said, I will build my 
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will not prevail. 
And then the Psalms tell us that

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unless the Lord builds the 
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vain. 
And so we want to be a people 

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here who make sure that he's 
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We're not trying to build his 
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We're not coming in with our 
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should be like or our 
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But we're actually kind of 
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What do you say in the Bible 
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Your house? 
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And you know, God is very clear 
in his in his word about some of

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the stuff and some of the 
pillars that he wants to build 

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into his house about what his 
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And I'll just remind you the 
definition of culture is that it

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is a shared set of beliefs, 
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define a. 
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That's what culture means. 
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university back a long time ago 
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culture and cultural 
communication and all of this 

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kind of stuff. 
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academic definition of culture 
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values and behaviours that 
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Particular group of people. 
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explain it. 
It's that it's one of those 

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weird things like I can't quite.
If I was to describe the culture

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of my house, I could give you 
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way more when you were actually 
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Oh, I get it, I get it. 
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Really be like, you know, our 
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you have been to our house, our 
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We have 4 young kids, it's loud.
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Our kids crack me up all the 
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It's fast. 
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Again with kids, the attention 
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and then we're doing that and 
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crazy fun. 
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culture. 
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you don't really know it. 
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It's not something you can be 
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It's like we have to be immersed
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And that's why it's so important
that when we go back to the Word

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of God, we actually got to go. 
These aren't necessarily stuff 

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that we have to do, but it's 
stuff that we actually immerse 

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ourself in. 
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So we don't come to church with 
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do these six things, then, you 
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culture. 
We actually immerse ourself into

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it and say, God, help me to 
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to say and actually action it 
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Does that make sense? 
So this morning I, I'd, I'd like

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to actually look at just some 
attributes when I was looking 

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through the, the scriptures to 
kind of say what, what are some 

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of the characteristics of God's 
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Again, not trying to be like, 
here's a checklist of things we 

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need to do, but just what are 
some of the things when God 

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talks about his house? 
What are some of those values 

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and behaviors that he wants to 
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And hopefully they become our 
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to do in this place. 
Does that make sense? 

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Yeah, cool. 
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writes to Timothy this young 
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gives him this command and says,
go teach the people how to 

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conduct themselves in the house.
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So hopefully some of these 
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of go how what are some of the 
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people should be like? 
Man, this is what we want to see

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in this house here. 
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writer of Hebrews says that we 
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It's not so much about the 
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Woodcroft Community Center. 
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see is when we meet together. 
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Awesome. 
So we're going to run through. 

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We're going to see how many we 
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I apologize for my voice. 
It comes and goes. 

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I've been on well for a little 
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tail end of no voice. 
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But we're going to look at the 
first one and this Dave shared 

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last week on this in Isaiah 56, 
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God says this. 
He says My house shall be called

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a House of prayer. 
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So my first thing if we're 
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God's house or values and 
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his house is that it would be a 
praying house. 

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It's a prayerful house. 
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prayer last week, you know, we 
can sometimes we can have veiled

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prayers that are more like 
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And we can be like, oh Lord, 
like my neighbor really annoys 

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me. 
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like how their kids hit the ball
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And it's really. 
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that's not prayer like that's 
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When when we're talking about my
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prayer for all nations. 
We're talking about the stuff 

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that Dave shared last week, like
becoming God, you're a great 

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God. 
Bless my neighbor. 

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Let him be saved in Jesus name. 
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like it. 
It's it's a front footed prayer.

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And so when we're when we're 
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behaviours and values, we should
have a house desire to come and 

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to pray. 
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is, is to pray when there's 
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And we pray with authority. 
We've tried very hard in our 

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kids to establish a value in our
house that when we're injured, 

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it's our first response is have 
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And to the point where now our 
kids pray for each other when 

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they're injured and they're 
going well, I've prayed, but 

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they're still hurt. 
They need a Band-Aid. 

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We're like, cool, but we're 
teaching them the first thing we

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need to do whenever somebody's 
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It's amazing how much that 
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And they're just like, yeah, 
cool, I'm fine. 

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Now we've prayed and they are on
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God has called us to be a 
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house. 
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emphasizing this morning is that
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praising house. 
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interesting some of the emphasis
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around praise because I think 
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going, yeah, I praise the Lord 
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I'm like, thank you, Lord, for, 
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everything like that. 
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It's interesting when it says in
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there, it says how these things 
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soul. 
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would go with the throng and 
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House of God with glad shouts 
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A multitude keeping festival 
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It is something that is, that is
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Praise the Lord. 
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Give praise, O servants of the 
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the Lord, in the courts of the 
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Praise the Lord, for the Lord is
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Sing to his name, for it is 
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For the Lord has chosen Jacob 
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possession. 
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that praise means something. 
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praise in here. 
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as a man thinks in his heart, so
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When I say, hey, praise the Lord
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the stuff this morning, it looks
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It looks like something. 
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house to be a praising house, 
it's going to be a house full of

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dancing. 
It's going to be a house full of

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jumping. 
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clapping. 
It's going to be a house full of

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singing, full of hands raised 
up, full of people aren't like, 

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that's the kind of house that 
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this house. 
It's going, that's the house 

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that I want. 
I want a house like that of 

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people lifting their hands and 
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of their mind. 
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The house he wants is a house 
that's prayerful, the house 

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that's praising. 
And Luke 14, Jesus tells this 

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parable of a guy throwing a 
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basically this guy sends out, it
says, go, go invite my invited 

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guests and all the invited 
guests that have excuses, you 

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know, one guy's like, I just 
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I can't come. 
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I've got, I'm just getting 
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stuff. 
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people and invite them in and he
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got room. 
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to his servants is go off to the
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the far off towns and invite 
people in that my house might be

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full. 
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wants, his desire for his house 
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Packed house. 
A packed house. 

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Right. 
God's desire for this house here

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is that it would be packed. 
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Can you imagine that viewing 
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wall here. 
Can you imagine that God's heart

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for this church isn't that it 
would stay this size, his heart 

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for represent over in Perth 
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size that it would be packed. 
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venue, but our community groups,
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Let's make it personal, right? 
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our personal time, right. 
We're like, man, I just I love 

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coming to church, but I also 
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You know, God's desire for your 
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with people who want to know him
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It's not about this space. 
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His he wants his house to be 
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talking about being a packed 
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going out and now we're inviting
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They're like, do you want to 
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Do you want to come? 
Do you want to come and see what

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God is doing? 
Do you want to come and be part 

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of what God is doing? 
Come and be part, come and be 

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part. 
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be so selective. 
Oh, that person, they're 

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Look, I need to extend a bit of 
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I invite that person to church. 
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just like, just come, just come 
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And if you say no, I'm going to 
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this. 
House is packed. 

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God wants his house to be 
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I wonder if our desire as well 
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packed. 
The our desire is, you know 

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what, I'm just going to start 
inviting random people to 

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church. 
Come to church. 

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We've got Easter coming up. 
We've got to do some stuff here 

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on Easter Sunday. 
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house to be packed. 
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In mind that you're like, man, 
why don't you come to church at 

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Easter? 
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wants his house to be packed, 
people to encounter him, right? 

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So, so God's. 
Idea these are all from 

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Scripture. 
This is what he these are some 

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of the cultures, the values and 
behaviors that he wants in his 

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house is that it would be a 
prayerful house, a praising 

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house, a packed house. 
Psalm 122 verse one says I was 

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glad when they said to me, let's
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He wants it to be a positive 
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I wonder I was thinking about 
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I wonder if you were glad when 
you woke up this morning because

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you were coming to the House of 
the Lord. 

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I wonder if you were glad. 
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you realized prayer meeting was 
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like, man, it's Wednesday. 
I'm glad when they said to me, 

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let's go to the House of the 
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I wonder if you were glad on on 
Friday night when your community

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group was on. 
You're like, man, I'm glad 

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because I get to go be. 
With the people of God. 

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God's desire is the people. 
We would be glad when they said 

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to us, let's go to the House of 
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It's often said the Christian 
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positive people on the planet. 
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Because we have an eternal hope 
and we have a people that he's 

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redeemed. 
Like we're all, we're all going 

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to get to hang out forever in 
eternity. 

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He's wanting this to be a 
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And we, we sometimes we do have 
bad days and bad sleep and all 

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that kind of stuff. 
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yeah, but do you want to be with
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I'm like 100% because that's 
going to be the most 

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encouraging, uplifting, hope 
filled place that I can find on 

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the planet. 
And so of course, I was glad 

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when they said to me, let's go 
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I wonder when we wake up in the 
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I was glad when they said to me,
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Lord. 
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Is it is it tough? 

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And you're like, look, I'll go 
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because I'm positive, I'm glad. 
Like it's a, it's a huge 

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privilege for us in this country
to come to church in other 

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countries around the world, 
they're persecuted and stuff 

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like that. 
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Should see the joy. 
I've been to some third world 

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countries, the absolute joy on 
their face when they get to meet

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together. 
It's it's blows me away just so 

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like man, I get to be with the 
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That should be our heart, our 
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We are a positive people. 
That's God's idea for his house 

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is that it would be a positive 
people Next one. 

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He his desire is that we would 
be a prophetic Apostolic. 

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House Ephesians 219 to 20. 
It says that his house, the 

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household of God is built on the
foundation of the apostles and 

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prophets. 
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You can look at that and say, 
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it means more than that because 
we see apostles and prophets 

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kind of going extending beyond 
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A prophetic means to to see what
God is doing, to see what God is

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doing and to Apostolic is to be 
a sent people, to be a going 

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people, to be an outward looking
people who can we send? 

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So it's the ability to see what 
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doing in this house. 
Like the Bible gives us a whole 

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bunch of values and stuff, but 
there's also seasons in God that

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we pick up and we say, well, 
God, this is where you want to 

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take us as a people. 
And he's called all of us to 

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come together as a prophetic 
Apostolic people and we partner 

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with a prophetic Apostolic team 
as well. 

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That helps in that regard. 
He's called us to his desire for

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his house is it wouldn't be 
stagnant. 

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It wouldn't be ritualistic, 
traditional. 

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It's, it's it's hearing what God
is doing in the season. 

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It speaks in the word of God 
about these people who knew the 

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seasons and knew what to do. 
And that's the idea of being a 

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prophetic Apostolic people that 
we can understand what God is 

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doing and we know what what 
needs to be done. 

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And God's desire for his house 
is that when we come together 

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here, we're all like, man, we 
know where God is taking us and 

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that all of our hearts is like, 
if God is saying, Hey, I want to

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send you, you're like, yes, 
Lord, I'm there. 

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I have a heart to go. 
I have a heart to be sent from 

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this house and and sent out to 
our neighbors, sent out to the 

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nations. 
That's God's heart for his 

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house. 
One of the values and behaviours

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that he wants in his house is 
that we would all be picking up 

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what God is doing in and through
US. 

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So God has called us to be a 
prayerful people, appraising 

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people. 
He wants it to be a packed 

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house, a positive house, a 
prophetic Apostolic house. 

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And in Ephesians 220, it does go
on. 

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It says built on the foundation 
of the apostles and prophets 

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with Christ Jesus as the chief 
cornerstone. 

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It, it's a house that is 
predicated on and pointing to 

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Jesus. 
It's the house that's predicated

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on and pointing to Jesus. 
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That's cool. 
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Jesus. 
Now, Leo, a couple of weeks ago,

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I would encourage you to go back
and listen to that. 

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He just basically preached on 
this whole idea that it is all 

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about Jesus. 
Do you come, do you come this 

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morning and kind of go, this is,
this is great. 

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This is Dave's church. 
He's leading this. 

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So do you come and go, Hey, man,
God planted A lampstand here. 

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God planted A lampstand. 
Dave was just the guy that said,

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yes, this is God's house, right?
This is God's house. 

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So it, it is predicated upon and
pointing to Jesus. 

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Everything we do is pointing to 
him, right? 

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We can say, Oh man, you know, I,
I love the way that this church 

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does XYZ, but ultimately we need
to be pointing to him and 

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saying, actually, you come to 
church to meet him. 

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You come to church to sing songs
to him. 

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You come to church to hear from 
him when somebody preaches, 

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right? 
So we're always pointing to him.

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And when somebody comes to me 
for advice or like in the 

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privileged role that we have as 
elders in the church, when 

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people are like, Hey, what do 
you think our objective is to 

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point you to him. 
It's not to give you our ideas 

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or our advice. 
It's actually say we'll look to 

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him, look to him and everything 
we do comes from him. 

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Everything that we try and do in
this house and in this place is 

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actually starting with the base 
of him. 

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And so we have to always go back
and say, God, what is, what is 

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your desire? 
And then from there I move 

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forward. 
And so we're always predicated 

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upon everything that we're doing
is founded upon Jesus to begin 

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with. 
And it's always pointing to 

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Jesus at the end. 
In fact, the scriptures, I was, 

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00:22:43,880 --> 00:22:45,400
I was doing some more research 
on this. 

449
00:22:45,640 --> 00:22:48,240
They interchange with the word 
capstone and cornerstone 

450
00:22:48,920 --> 00:22:50,520
throughout the scriptures. 
And they're kind of going, well,

451
00:22:50,520 --> 00:22:52,320
they kind of mean the same thing
that they're different things. 

452
00:22:52,320 --> 00:22:55,560
A cornerstone, as Leo spoke 
about, is the first stone you 

453
00:22:55,560 --> 00:22:59,640
lay in the foundation. 
It sets the tone for everything 

454
00:22:59,640 --> 00:23:02,280
else. 
It is the thing that gives you 

455
00:23:02,280 --> 00:23:05,520
your straight edge. 
And Christ uses our cornerstone.

456
00:23:06,400 --> 00:23:09,000
And a capstone is different. 
The capstone is the last stone. 

457
00:23:09,000 --> 00:23:11,280
You put in place. 
It's the one that holds. 

458
00:23:11,280 --> 00:23:13,800
Everything together right at the
very end, and we need to 

459
00:23:13,800 --> 00:23:15,240
remember that everything. 
We do is. 

460
00:23:15,280 --> 00:23:18,720
Founded and grounded and guided 
by Jesus, and everything we do 

461
00:23:18,880 --> 00:23:22,800
is pointing to him and pointing 
to an eternity with him, our 

462
00:23:22,840 --> 00:23:27,400
great bridegroom. 
And so he wants church. 

463
00:23:27,400 --> 00:23:31,080
God's heart for his house is 
that we would be predicated upon

464
00:23:31,400 --> 00:23:39,440
and pointing to Jesus, right? 
We're getting those so. 

465
00:23:40,680 --> 00:23:44,080
God's heart for his house, one 
of the values and behaviors that

466
00:23:44,080 --> 00:23:47,400
he wants as well is that this 
would be a powerful house. 

467
00:23:51,320 --> 00:23:54,200
In the book of Genesis, this 
goes right back to the very 

468
00:23:54,200 --> 00:23:55,600
beginning. 
Actually, the first mention of 

469
00:23:55,600 --> 00:23:59,760
the word House of God in the 
Scriptures is found in Genesis 

470
00:24:00,120 --> 00:24:03,040
chapter 28. 
Jacob has his dream. 

471
00:24:03,680 --> 00:24:06,000
Jacob awoke from his sleep, so 
he's had this dream. 

472
00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:10,320
This dream is this ladder going 
from heaven to earth and angels 

473
00:24:10,320 --> 00:24:13,640
are ascending and descending. 
This really strange dream. 

474
00:24:13,640 --> 00:24:15,720
Hey, I don't know if you've had 
any dreams like that. 

475
00:24:15,720 --> 00:24:18,160
I certainly haven't. 
Like so vivid that I'm like, Oh 

476
00:24:18,160 --> 00:24:21,400
my goodness, wow. 
Like literally where he is, this

477
00:24:21,400 --> 00:24:24,560
ladder going up to heaven and 
angels and heavens opened and 

478
00:24:24,560 --> 00:24:27,320
it's, it's crazy stuff. 
And then he woke awake from his 

479
00:24:27,320 --> 00:24:31,200
sleep, and he said, surely the 
Lord is in this. 

480
00:24:31,200 --> 00:24:38,040
Place and I did not know it. 
Next verse and he was afraid and

481
00:24:38,040 --> 00:24:41,920
said, how awesome is this place 
this is none other than the 

482
00:24:41,920 --> 00:24:46,280
House of God. 
This is the gate of heaven and 

483
00:24:46,280 --> 00:24:47,760
it goes on. 
He says he called that place 

484
00:24:47,760 --> 00:24:51,040
Bethel, which means House of 
God. 

485
00:24:53,160 --> 00:24:55,760
God's heart for us as a people 
and heart for. 

486
00:24:55,800 --> 00:24:59,480
Every church is that. 
It wouldn't just be a place to 

487
00:24:59,480 --> 00:25:02,200
be come and go, but it would be 
a place where his supernatural 

488
00:25:02,200 --> 00:25:08,080
power is demonstrated well. 
We would see testimonies of the 

489
00:25:08,080 --> 00:25:10,840
miraculous. 
We would hear stories like that.

490
00:25:10,840 --> 00:25:12,840
We're hearing from 
representative how God is 

491
00:25:12,840 --> 00:25:15,720
supernaturally providing 
buildings and people's lives 

492
00:25:15,720 --> 00:25:18,240
being turned around, people 
coming to Christ, which is the 

493
00:25:18,240 --> 00:25:21,480
greatest miracle, people being 
healed, people being set free. 

494
00:25:21,480 --> 00:25:23,840
He's expecting his house to be a
house full of power. 

495
00:25:26,240 --> 00:25:28,640
One of I wonder if it's stirring
in your heart saying. 

496
00:25:28,640 --> 00:25:31,640
Lord, I want this house to be a 
house full of power. 

497
00:25:33,840 --> 00:25:37,000
Lord, would you come and open 
up, make this a gateway of 

498
00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:39,040
heaven. 
The people would come in and 

499
00:25:39,040 --> 00:25:41,800
they would touch something of 
what the heavenly heavenly 

500
00:25:41,800 --> 00:25:47,400
realities is the Lord's Prayer 
right on earth as it is in 

501
00:25:47,800 --> 00:25:51,640
heaven. 
That's that's how Jesus taught 

502
00:25:51,640 --> 00:25:53,960
us to pray on earth as it is in 
heaven. 

503
00:25:53,960 --> 00:25:56,480
There's something of what is in 
heaven that we're expecting to 

504
00:25:56,480 --> 00:26:00,800
take place here on earth. 
And so God has called us to be. 

505
00:26:01,240 --> 00:26:04,840
A powerful house. 
A house demonstrating and 

506
00:26:04,840 --> 00:26:08,080
walking in the power of God and 
we see this throughout the book 

507
00:26:08,080 --> 00:26:11,480
of Acts like as Dave mentioned 
this morning, like this guy's 

508
00:26:11,480 --> 00:26:13,320
paralyzed on a mat. 
They're walking to a prayer 

509
00:26:13,320 --> 00:26:16,560
meeting and Peter and John look 
at this guy and say get up off 

510
00:26:16,560 --> 00:26:18,600
your mat and he goes in and he's
miraculously healed. 

511
00:26:19,320 --> 00:26:22,120
There's a power. 
The early church is birthed in 

512
00:26:22,120 --> 00:26:24,880
Acts chapter 2 by the Holy 
Spirit coming upon them in power

513
00:26:25,560 --> 00:26:28,040
Jesus command in Acts chapter 1.
So we're going to go backwards 

514
00:26:28,040 --> 00:26:31,560
in time as you will receive 
power when the Holy Spirit comes

515
00:26:31,560 --> 00:26:33,320
upon you. 
And then you would be my 

516
00:26:33,320 --> 00:26:35,680
witnesses. 
There's something of the church 

517
00:26:35,680 --> 00:26:37,920
that should actually be 
demonstrating a walking in the 

518
00:26:37,920 --> 00:26:40,720
power of God. 
And I want to encourage you. 

519
00:26:41,160 --> 00:26:44,280
That's God's heart for you. 
That's God's heart for your 

520
00:26:44,280 --> 00:26:47,160
house as well. 
This isn't just, oh, I come to 

521
00:26:47,160 --> 00:26:50,320
the white church and that's 
where the power is. 

522
00:26:50,320 --> 00:26:52,600
No, no, no. 
The book the Bible actually 

523
00:26:52,600 --> 00:26:54,760
teaches that we are the House of
God, which means when people 

524
00:26:54,760 --> 00:26:57,440
come into your house, that 
should be a House of power. 

525
00:26:58,600 --> 00:27:00,920
Where you're actually giving 
testimonies and testifying of 

526
00:27:00,920 --> 00:27:03,520
what God is actually doing in 
supernatural power in your house

527
00:27:04,280 --> 00:27:06,440
that God is providing, that 
there are miracles, that people 

528
00:27:06,440 --> 00:27:08,000
are getting transformed and 
changed. 

529
00:27:08,240 --> 00:27:11,480
There's prophetic words, there's
there's words of knowledge and 

530
00:27:11,480 --> 00:27:14,000
wisdom and all that kind of 
stuff that we see in the Bible. 

531
00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:16,280
That should be in your house as 
well. 

532
00:27:17,120 --> 00:27:20,680
Every time we come together, 
community group prayer meeting, 

533
00:27:21,400 --> 00:27:24,360
they should be powerful places 
where things are moved and 

534
00:27:24,360 --> 00:27:29,240
shifted on earth. 
Prayerful, praising pact, 

535
00:27:29,440 --> 00:27:34,040
positive, prophetic and 
Apostolic, predicated by and 

536
00:27:34,040 --> 00:27:35,720
pointing to Jesus. 
Powerful. 

537
00:27:37,040 --> 00:27:45,120
Malachi 310 The last one. 
The next one is that God wants 

538
00:27:45,120 --> 00:27:47,080
his house to be a providing 
house. 

539
00:27:49,040 --> 00:27:52,840
Malachi 310, which is often 
quoted when we're talking about 

540
00:27:54,400 --> 00:27:55,520
tithing. 
Do you have it there, Pete? 

541
00:27:56,160 --> 00:27:57,360
Awesome. 
Let's throw that up. 

542
00:27:58,920 --> 00:28:02,840
Bring all the ties into the 
storehouse that there may be 

543
00:28:02,840 --> 00:28:08,440
food in my house. 
Bring all the ties into the 

544
00:28:08,440 --> 00:28:10,240
storehouse that there may be 
food. 

545
00:28:10,680 --> 00:28:15,880
In my house, one of the values 
and behaviors of that God wants 

546
00:28:15,880 --> 00:28:19,360
for his house is that there 
would be food in the house. 

547
00:28:21,360 --> 00:28:23,800
I want to ask you, how does the 
food get into the house? 

548
00:28:25,120 --> 00:28:27,720
Because God has called us as 
people to demonstrate a value 

549
00:28:27,720 --> 00:28:31,440
and a behavior of bringing and 
providing for the house. 

550
00:28:33,760 --> 00:28:35,880
Bring all the ties into the 
house. 

551
00:28:35,880 --> 00:28:37,840
When they took up ties and 
offerings throughout the Old 

552
00:28:37,840 --> 00:28:41,120
Testament, when they said, hey, 
bring your offering, it was very

553
00:28:41,120 --> 00:28:42,160
clear where they had to bring 
it. 

554
00:28:42,640 --> 00:28:47,040
Bring it to the house, bring it 
to the priest, into the 

555
00:28:47,040 --> 00:28:51,080
Tabernacle, into the temple. 
Bring it to where God is so that

556
00:28:51,080 --> 00:28:53,280
there would be food in the house
for those who need it. 

557
00:28:55,080 --> 00:28:58,680
One of the values and behaviors 
that God desires for every 

558
00:28:58,680 --> 00:29:02,400
church is that it would be a 
church that's able to to provide

559
00:29:02,400 --> 00:29:05,280
for those who need it. 
We see this in the book of Acts.

560
00:29:05,280 --> 00:29:08,480
When they met together, no one 
had need because everyone, 

561
00:29:08,520 --> 00:29:12,120
everyone sold what they had, 
what they had surplus of and 

562
00:29:12,120 --> 00:29:15,200
gave to the church that the 
church could then give beyond. 

563
00:29:16,320 --> 00:29:19,760
So God's heart for you is a a 
value and a behaviour that He 

564
00:29:19,760 --> 00:29:23,320
wants to instill in you and me. 
Is that we would be people who 

565
00:29:23,320 --> 00:29:27,640
actually provide for God's house
through tithes, through 

566
00:29:27,680 --> 00:29:31,520
offerings that we would provide 
to God's house that God's house 

567
00:29:31,520 --> 00:29:36,040
could then administrate what he 
wants to do right. 

568
00:29:36,040 --> 00:29:38,160
We know the saying money makes 
the world go round right? 

569
00:29:38,720 --> 00:29:41,800
It's a reality. 
But there's something about this

570
00:29:41,800 --> 00:29:44,800
that God says actually in my. 
House, bring your stuff. 

571
00:29:44,800 --> 00:29:49,240
To my house that my house might 
be able to provide it's a one of

572
00:29:49,240 --> 00:29:53,640
God's values for his house as it
would be a providing house that 

573
00:29:53,640 --> 00:29:56,880
when people come we're like we 
can provide why because people 

574
00:29:56,880 --> 00:30:02,440
have provided so God has called 
his house to be a providing 

575
00:30:02,720 --> 00:30:05,920
house with the provision of God 
just flows through. 

576
00:30:06,320 --> 00:30:09,680
It's not meant to be a dam. 
It's a river where we give to 

577
00:30:09,680 --> 00:30:12,360
God and God that just flows 
through and we say cool, we 

578
00:30:12,360 --> 00:30:13,640
could. 
We're just administrating what 

579
00:30:13,640 --> 00:30:16,120
God has already brought in so 
many times through the 

580
00:30:16,120 --> 00:30:17,960
Scriptures is. 
It's amazing. 

581
00:30:17,960 --> 00:30:19,240
I challenge you to go look it 
up. 

582
00:30:19,240 --> 00:30:21,760
When people provided to the 
House of God, they actually had 

583
00:30:21,760 --> 00:30:24,680
to tell the people, stop. 
We've got too much we've 

584
00:30:24,720 --> 00:30:26,160
actually we can't get. 
Rid of this. 

585
00:30:26,160 --> 00:30:29,360
Quick enough, we we're giving it
away as fast as we can, but we 

586
00:30:29,360 --> 00:30:31,560
still can't do it. 
Like that is God's desire for 

587
00:30:31,560 --> 00:30:34,520
his house. 
That's his desire for this house

588
00:30:34,520 --> 00:30:36,640
here that we would have to say, 
whoa, whoa. 

589
00:30:36,800 --> 00:30:39,440
We can't actually administrate 
everything that God's bringing 

590
00:30:39,440 --> 00:30:42,400
in because God is bringing in so
much and we're just trying to 

591
00:30:42,400 --> 00:30:45,480
provide for everything and we've
still got some leftover. 

592
00:30:46,240 --> 00:30:50,440
Because we serve a great and 
generous God, but it's going to 

593
00:30:50,440 --> 00:30:53,160
take every single one of us with
this value and behavior that we 

594
00:30:53,160 --> 00:30:55,520
provide for the House of God so 
that the House of God can 

595
00:30:55,520 --> 00:30:58,440
provide. 
God has called us to be a 

596
00:30:58,440 --> 00:31:05,520
providing house. 
Psalm 92, our next point. 

597
00:31:08,520 --> 00:31:11,760
It's providing house. 
It's called us to be a planted 

598
00:31:12,000 --> 00:31:16,160
house. 
The righteous shall flourish 

599
00:31:16,160 --> 00:31:20,840
like a palm tree. 
He shall grow like a cedar in 

600
00:31:20,840 --> 00:31:23,360
Lebanon. 
Next verse. 

601
00:31:24,280 --> 00:31:29,560
Those who are planted in the 
House of the Lord shall flourish

602
00:31:30,200 --> 00:31:34,280
in the courts of our God. 
What are the next? 

603
00:31:34,280 --> 00:31:38,440
They shall still bear fruit in 
old age. 

604
00:31:39,760 --> 00:31:42,560
They shall be fresh and 
flourishing. 

605
00:31:42,560 --> 00:31:44,800
I wonder for some of you older 
people in the room whether 

606
00:31:44,800 --> 00:31:47,920
that's your prayer, whether you 
actually read the Scripture and 

607
00:31:47,920 --> 00:31:52,560
you say, man, God, you've called
me to bear fruit in my old age. 

608
00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:58,840
You've called me. 
To be fresh and to flourish when

609
00:31:58,840 --> 00:32:01,040
you are planted, That's God's 
promise. 

610
00:32:02,360 --> 00:32:07,720
You shall be a fruit and be 
fresh and flourishing in old 

611
00:32:07,720 --> 00:32:11,840
age. 
Nexus to declare that the Lord 

612
00:32:11,840 --> 00:32:14,120
is upright. 
He is my rock. 

613
00:32:14,520 --> 00:32:17,280
There is no unrighteousness in 
Him. 

614
00:32:18,800 --> 00:32:21,920
The desire for God's house is 
that people would be planted. 

615
00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:26,280
People would be planted in His 
house. 

616
00:32:28,120 --> 00:32:32,280
God has called all of us to be 
planted in, to be knitted in, to

617
00:32:32,280 --> 00:32:36,600
be knitted one to another. 
God's desire is that people 

618
00:32:36,600 --> 00:32:38,440
would be planted for a long 
time. 

619
00:32:39,880 --> 00:32:43,040
As it says, they still bear 
fruit in old age, which means 

620
00:32:43,040 --> 00:32:45,280
they've been there for a while. 
I'm not sure. 

621
00:32:45,440 --> 00:32:47,840
Leona Pat, you guys have been 
around church for how long? 

622
00:32:48,720 --> 00:32:51,480
Decades. 
Probably half a century or 

623
00:32:51,480 --> 00:33:00,360
something before 1960. 
That's 60 plus years, 60 plus 

624
00:33:00,360 --> 00:33:02,680
years planted in. 
The House of the Lord. 

625
00:33:03,720 --> 00:33:08,040
You still flourish and be 
fruitful and fresh when you're 

626
00:33:08,040 --> 00:33:12,400
planted in the house. 
We, we've heard even from Dudley

627
00:33:12,400 --> 00:33:15,640
last year that unfortunately one
of the biggest tragedies in 

628
00:33:15,640 --> 00:33:18,680
church life is people who call 
themselves Christians but are 

629
00:33:18,680 --> 00:33:23,120
not planted in. 
But the promise of God's house 

630
00:33:23,120 --> 00:33:25,760
is what he wants is that people 
who call themselves Christians 

631
00:33:25,760 --> 00:33:28,720
that would be planted in to a 
local church because that's 

632
00:33:28,720 --> 00:33:32,240
where you flourish, that's where
you can be fruitful, is when 

633
00:33:32,240 --> 00:33:35,600
you're planted in, when you're 
built into the local church. 

634
00:33:36,680 --> 00:33:39,960
God once calls every single 
Christian to be planted into his

635
00:33:39,960 --> 00:33:43,120
house, not just coming 
occasionally when they feel like

636
00:33:43,120 --> 00:33:44,960
it, when there's a special 
event, when their favorite 

637
00:33:44,960 --> 00:33:48,240
preachers on, but that they 
would be planted in the House of

638
00:33:48,240 --> 00:33:52,360
the Lord. 
God has called you to be planted

639
00:33:52,360 --> 00:33:56,120
in, but not just to be planted 
as in coming on a Sunday, but to

640
00:33:56,120 --> 00:33:59,360
be planted in, planted in with 
the people next to you. 

641
00:34:01,360 --> 00:34:03,960
God has called. 
His house to be a planted house.

642
00:34:05,560 --> 00:34:07,760
I have three more and then we'll
close. 

643
00:34:08,800 --> 00:34:11,920
Haggai one verse 4. 
It's it's what, and it's an 

644
00:34:11,920 --> 00:34:14,920
incredibly challenging text. 
This. 

645
00:34:14,920 --> 00:34:17,719
I'll just give you a summary. 
Basically, we heard last week, 

646
00:34:17,719 --> 00:34:21,600
Nehemiah, they're building a 
wall and they're rebuilding 

647
00:34:21,600 --> 00:34:23,000
Jerusalem. 
And then they get to the point 

648
00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:25,239
where they're trying to build 
their houses, right? 

649
00:34:25,840 --> 00:34:28,040
And the people of Israel are 
like, you know what, we're going

650
00:34:28,040 --> 00:34:32,000
to build our own house. 
And the prophet Haggai comes in 

651
00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:36,600
this point, and it's not great. 
If we could throw that scripture

652
00:34:36,760 --> 00:34:39,960
up here, his, his God's let it 
go for a while and he goes. 

653
00:34:39,960 --> 00:34:43,239
Is it time for you yourselves to
dwell in your panelled houses, 

654
00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:47,360
and yet this temple to lie in 
ruins, or my. 

655
00:34:47,360 --> 00:34:51,040
House to lie in ruins. 
It's quite a challenging 

656
00:34:51,040 --> 00:34:53,400
scripture when God comes to 
these people and because they're

657
00:34:53,679 --> 00:34:56,920
giving a lot of devotion to 
building their house. 

658
00:34:57,480 --> 00:34:59,360
But they're ignoring God's 
house. 

659
00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:03,440
And this can be a challenge for 
all of us, I think, because we 

660
00:35:03,440 --> 00:35:06,520
live in a world that that is all
about making ourselves look 

661
00:35:06,520 --> 00:35:08,960
good. 
It's all about me making a 

662
00:35:08,960 --> 00:35:11,680
career for myself. 
It's more about me earning some 

663
00:35:11,680 --> 00:35:13,480
money, having a nice car and 
stuff like that. 

664
00:35:13,480 --> 00:35:16,880
And God comes to the people in 
the book of Haggai and says, 

665
00:35:16,880 --> 00:35:20,160
hang on, you're, you're building
your house. 

666
00:35:20,160 --> 00:35:24,080
But my house lays in ruins. 
It's my point with this is that 

667
00:35:24,080 --> 00:35:26,200
God wants his house to be a 
priority. 

668
00:35:28,200 --> 00:35:32,920
His house is to be a priority. 
If I have a choice between being

669
00:35:32,920 --> 00:35:37,360
with God's people and doing 
something else, my choice will 

670
00:35:37,360 --> 00:35:40,440
always be to be with God's 
people unless it is an 

671
00:35:40,440 --> 00:35:45,040
exceptionally rare circumstance.
Because God has wants his house 

672
00:35:45,040 --> 00:35:48,120
to be a priority. 
And I know that can be. 

673
00:35:48,440 --> 00:35:51,360
There has been historically bad 
preaching on this, that it's 

674
00:35:51,360 --> 00:35:53,640
about giving everything you have
to the church. 

675
00:35:54,760 --> 00:35:57,120
And if that's your heart, then 
that's that's not right. 

676
00:35:58,440 --> 00:36:02,680
But I give to his house because 
it's his house, right? 

677
00:36:02,680 --> 00:36:05,400
It's not because some pastor 
told me to that I have to be at 

678
00:36:05,400 --> 00:36:07,800
every meeting and I have to be 
there and serving or whatever 

679
00:36:07,800 --> 00:36:09,600
like that. 
I actually have a revelation 

680
00:36:09,600 --> 00:36:12,760
that this is what the house that
God is building and that this 

681
00:36:12,760 --> 00:36:17,040
thing lasts forever as a God is 
cool. 

682
00:36:17,040 --> 00:36:22,000
God wants a priority, a value 
and a behaviour in his house. 

683
00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:24,280
Is that it is a priority in our 
lives? 

684
00:36:26,160 --> 00:36:28,560
That it is not the last thing on
our list to kind of say, well, 

685
00:36:28,560 --> 00:36:30,920
I'll do this thing and that 
thing and if I've got some time 

686
00:36:30,920 --> 00:36:33,680
leftover, then I'll make it to 
church on time. 

687
00:36:35,640 --> 00:36:38,240
He's going, no, no, no. 
It actually takes high 

688
00:36:38,240 --> 00:36:43,400
precedence to be with the people
of God, right? 

689
00:36:43,920 --> 00:36:47,400
And so we're like, oh, you know,
maybe I'll do that thing and 

690
00:36:47,520 --> 00:36:49,520
then maybe I'm a bit tired now. 
I can't make it to prayer 

691
00:36:49,520 --> 00:36:52,560
meeting. 
God's called it to. 

692
00:36:52,560 --> 00:36:55,640
Be a priority because his house 
is to be a priority. 

693
00:36:57,640 --> 00:37:02,240
His house is to be a priority in
our lives and he he expects it 

694
00:37:02,240 --> 00:37:05,240
to be a priority. 
And I want to just challenge 

695
00:37:05,240 --> 00:37:06,720
you. 
It's challenge for me as well, 

696
00:37:06,720 --> 00:37:10,320
kind of going, God, where in my 
life is your house not a 

697
00:37:10,360 --> 00:37:13,760
priority? 
And help me to make it a 

698
00:37:13,760 --> 00:37:15,840
priority. 
Do I need to swap some things 

699
00:37:15,840 --> 00:37:18,600
over? 
Do I need to change some of my 

700
00:37:18,600 --> 00:37:22,360
priorities here because I've 
actually let something take the 

701
00:37:22,360 --> 00:37:24,560
place of actually building God's
house? 

702
00:37:26,000 --> 00:37:29,680
And it's not so much about just 
coming to God's house because 

703
00:37:29,680 --> 00:37:32,120
he, Haggai doesn't just say it's
enough that you come to the 

704
00:37:32,120 --> 00:37:33,360
house. 
He actually says you've got to 

705
00:37:33,360 --> 00:37:37,120
come and build my house. 
And so it's not just enough to 

706
00:37:37,120 --> 00:37:39,560
say, well, I can go to church 
and that's enough. 

707
00:37:39,560 --> 00:37:41,600
That's that's what God is 
calling about a priority. 

708
00:37:41,600 --> 00:37:44,880
No, no, the priority is that I'm
coming to participate and build 

709
00:37:44,880 --> 00:37:48,040
God's house. 
So are we making it not just a 

710
00:37:48,040 --> 00:37:52,080
priority to be here, but a 
priority to come and build here?

711
00:37:52,600 --> 00:37:55,240
Which means I'm coming ready to 
contribute something. 

712
00:37:55,760 --> 00:37:58,400
I'm coming ready to encourage 
somebody, ready to pray for 

713
00:37:58,400 --> 00:38:02,760
somebody, ready to share 
something, ready to suggest a 

714
00:38:02,760 --> 00:38:06,160
song, ready to read something. 
The Bible actually speaks in the

715
00:38:06,160 --> 00:38:09,920
book of Corinthians and says 
when you come together, everyone

716
00:38:10,720 --> 00:38:13,360
should have a Psalm, A hymn, a 
spiritual song, a word of 

717
00:38:13,360 --> 00:38:18,200
encouragement, everyone, and 
that's challenging. 

718
00:38:18,200 --> 00:38:21,600
I want to ask you, did everyone 
come this morning whether you've

719
00:38:21,600 --> 00:38:25,240
shared on the mic or not? 
Did everyone come with a Psalm 

720
00:38:25,240 --> 00:38:27,640
of him, a spiritual song, a word
of encouragement, a word of. 

721
00:38:27,640 --> 00:38:29,880
Wisdom to share with somebody 
else. 

722
00:38:30,640 --> 00:38:33,320
When God says I want my house to
be a priority, that's what he's 

723
00:38:33,320 --> 00:38:35,800
talking about. 
Not just I come to church on 

724
00:38:35,800 --> 00:38:39,360
time. 
God's house is to be a priority.

725
00:38:41,600 --> 00:38:47,880
Hebrews 3, Four to six. 
Every house is built by someone,

726
00:38:48,880 --> 00:38:51,920
but he who built all things is 
God. 

727
00:38:54,000 --> 00:38:58,200
Moses indeed was faithful in all
God's house as a servant for a 

728
00:38:58,200 --> 00:39:03,600
testimony of those things which 
would be spoken afterward, but 

729
00:39:03,600 --> 00:39:08,760
Christ as a son over his own 
house, whose house we are, if we

730
00:39:08,760 --> 00:39:13,360
hold fast the confidence and the
rejoicing of the hope, firm to 

731
00:39:13,760 --> 00:39:17,840
the end. 
My next point, second to last 

732
00:39:17,840 --> 00:39:23,000
point, is that God wants His 
house to be a persevering house.

733
00:39:24,800 --> 00:39:26,600
We don't run when things get 
hard. 

734
00:39:28,000 --> 00:39:30,920
You see so many people when a 
church goes. 

735
00:39:30,920 --> 00:39:34,400
Through a bit of a trial or or 
something happens or the leaders

736
00:39:34,400 --> 00:39:36,960
make a mistake or something like
that, people run to the hills 

737
00:39:36,960 --> 00:39:39,000
and they kind of go. 
That's it, I'm done. 

738
00:39:39,160 --> 00:39:41,000
I'm out. 
The church hurt me. 

739
00:39:41,000 --> 00:39:45,520
I'm out God's. 
Value that he wants for His 

740
00:39:45,520 --> 00:39:48,440
church is that it would be a 
preserving, persevering church 

741
00:39:49,320 --> 00:39:52,480
that we would hold fast to the 
end. 

742
00:39:54,480 --> 00:39:59,760
God has called all of us to hold
fast to our confession to the 

743
00:39:59,760 --> 00:40:06,800
very end because it's hard for 
all of us is to be persevering. 

744
00:40:10,120 --> 00:40:12,880
Last point comes from 
Ecclesiastes. 

745
00:40:15,320 --> 00:40:20,560
Walk prudently when you go to 
the House of God, draw near to 

746
00:40:20,560 --> 00:40:24,720
here rather than to give the 
sacrifice of fools, for they do 

747
00:40:24,720 --> 00:40:28,400
not know that they do evil. 
If you go on into verse two and 

748
00:40:28,400 --> 00:40:30,400
three, it talks about watching 
what you say. 

749
00:40:31,720 --> 00:40:37,560
But my last point is that God 
wants a value in His House of 

750
00:40:37,560 --> 00:40:44,200
prudence, which is basically 
just to be careful when he 

751
00:40:44,200 --> 00:40:48,040
talks, like don't be so quick. 
We are meeting with the God of 

752
00:40:48,040 --> 00:40:52,920
the universe. 
Like I think sometimes we can we

753
00:40:52,920 --> 00:40:57,480
approach God as our friend, 
which is great and God is our 

754
00:40:57,480 --> 00:41:00,640
father and that's awesome. 
But he's also Almighty God. 

755
00:41:01,880 --> 00:41:05,640
And the author of the book of 
Proverbs, Solomon, the wisest 

756
00:41:05,640 --> 00:41:10,240
man on the planet, said this the
beginning, that the fear of the 

757
00:41:10,240 --> 00:41:16,840
Lord is the beginning of wisdom.
And so when we come into this 

758
00:41:16,840 --> 00:41:20,400
place, we are so careful why we 
are so free. 

759
00:41:20,880 --> 00:41:22,560
We are free because Christ has 
set. 

760
00:41:22,560 --> 00:41:25,320
US free we're. 
Also very careful because this 

761
00:41:25,320 --> 00:41:29,120
is also almighty God. 
And so I'm coming in and I'm 

762
00:41:29,120 --> 00:41:31,440
checking my heart and say, Lord,
let there be nothing offensive 

763
00:41:31,440 --> 00:41:35,080
in me as I come to your house. 
If I actually says in in 

764
00:41:35,080 --> 00:41:38,000
Corinthians as well when they're
talking about the Lord's Supper,

765
00:41:38,440 --> 00:41:42,760
like taking communion and Paul 
writes and says, if you have an 

766
00:41:42,760 --> 00:41:46,520
issue with your brother, stop, 
go sort it out and then come 

767
00:41:47,200 --> 00:41:49,240
because you do it, you're 
dishonouring God. 

768
00:41:50,520 --> 00:41:52,080
And so when God says I want my 
house. 

769
00:41:52,080 --> 00:41:53,840
To be a prudent house. 
He's talking about that kind of 

770
00:41:53,840 --> 00:41:55,760
stuff. 
And so that when we come in, 

771
00:41:55,760 --> 00:41:59,760
we're saying, God creating me a 
clean heart, that when I come 

772
00:41:59,760 --> 00:42:01,640
into the House of the Lord, you 
would accept me. 

773
00:42:02,600 --> 00:42:04,640
And I, I plead the blood of 
Jesus over everything. 

774
00:42:04,640 --> 00:42:07,680
I can't remember, but I come in 
holiness and reverence of an 

775
00:42:07,680 --> 00:42:11,360
almighty God. 
And so we come here, we kind of,

776
00:42:11,360 --> 00:42:14,200
as we encourage this warning 
around praise and around 

777
00:42:14,200 --> 00:42:17,600
worthiness, we're actually 
saying, well, you are worthy 

778
00:42:17,600 --> 00:42:20,440
because you're the king of all 
kings and the Lord of all Lords.

779
00:42:20,440 --> 00:42:23,640
And yes, you're my ABBA father, 
and yes, you're, you're my 

780
00:42:23,640 --> 00:42:28,360
savior and my friend, but you 
are also King of kings, Lord of 

781
00:42:28,360 --> 00:42:31,840
Lords, Almighty God reigning and
ruling in power. 

782
00:42:33,040 --> 00:42:36,640
And so I come and say, whore, I 
need some fear of the Lord in me

783
00:42:37,400 --> 00:42:40,680
when I come. 
And I don't just throw things 

784
00:42:40,680 --> 00:42:44,000
off when God pinpoints stuff in 
my life, I don't just go, yeah, 

785
00:42:44,000 --> 00:42:45,760
it's fine because Jesus covers 
my blood. 

786
00:42:45,840 --> 00:42:48,400
It covers me with his blood. 
I go, no, no, no. 

787
00:42:48,400 --> 00:42:51,200
That needs to be dealt with 
because he wants it to be a pure

788
00:42:51,200 --> 00:42:55,680
and a prudent house. 
When God speaks of his house, 

789
00:42:56,560 --> 00:43:00,320
these are some of the values and
the cultures that he wants. 

790
00:43:00,640 --> 00:43:05,440
And I, I, I want to ask you if 
this is some of the stuff that 

791
00:43:05,440 --> 00:43:08,680
God wants in his house. 
These should be some of the 

792
00:43:08,680 --> 00:43:13,280
stuff that we want in our house.
I want my house to be a 

793
00:43:13,280 --> 00:43:17,360
prayerful house that when people
come in, I want them to know we 

794
00:43:17,360 --> 00:43:20,680
pray that we are a praising 
house. 

795
00:43:20,680 --> 00:43:24,640
We are celebrating who God is, 
that we are a packed house. 

796
00:43:24,640 --> 00:43:27,800
We we are always inviting people
and our door is always open. 

797
00:43:28,320 --> 00:43:30,160
Because I know that God wants a 
packed house. 

798
00:43:30,240 --> 00:43:33,760
He wants people coming in. 
He wants people coming in here. 

799
00:43:33,760 --> 00:43:37,560
So I'm like, come, come, come. 
He wants it to be a positive 

800
00:43:37,560 --> 00:43:41,600
house, a joyful house. 
He wants us even in, in our 

801
00:43:41,600 --> 00:43:44,080
house, in our, in our home where
we live. 

802
00:43:44,360 --> 00:43:47,400
He wants us to be thinking of 
the nations, to be hearing God's

803
00:43:47,400 --> 00:43:50,200
voice for what he wants to do 
into our future and where he 

804
00:43:50,200 --> 00:43:53,280
wants to send us and lead us. 
He wants us to always be 

805
00:43:53,280 --> 00:43:55,400
predicated by and pointing to 
Jesus. 

806
00:43:55,400 --> 00:43:58,560
In everything we do in our 
house, we're always teaching our

807
00:43:58,560 --> 00:44:00,440
kids about Jesus. 
We're reading the word and 

808
00:44:00,440 --> 00:44:02,080
pointing them. 
They have this great Bible, I 

809
00:44:02,320 --> 00:44:05,800
can't remember what it's called,
but basically every story in it 

810
00:44:05,800 --> 00:44:08,240
ends up with the last paragraph 
that actually just points them 

811
00:44:08,240 --> 00:44:11,880
to Jesus like you're reading 
about Abraham offering. 

812
00:44:11,880 --> 00:44:14,160
Isaac as a sacrifice and it's 
pointing and saying, but there 

813
00:44:14,160 --> 00:44:16,800
was a lamb to come to take away 
the sins of the world. 

814
00:44:16,800 --> 00:44:18,600
And it's always pointing to 
Jesus. 

815
00:44:19,040 --> 00:44:22,680
That's what I want in my house, 
that everything, everything that

816
00:44:22,680 --> 00:44:25,880
happens, I'm pointing back and 
say, oh, Jesus, and I'm pointing

817
00:44:25,880 --> 00:44:29,320
my kids to Jesus. 
I want my house to be a powerful

818
00:44:29,320 --> 00:44:32,800
house where the testimony is 
that God is at work. 

819
00:44:34,040 --> 00:44:37,280
I'd love and I dream of this, my
neighbors being like, man, we 

820
00:44:37,280 --> 00:44:40,920
know that when you pray, God 
moves your house. 

821
00:44:40,920 --> 00:44:42,680
It seems to be where God does 
stuff. 

822
00:44:43,240 --> 00:44:45,120
So hey, we've got this problem. 
Come and pray. 

823
00:44:45,720 --> 00:44:47,800
And I'm like, yeah, I believe 
that God will move in power. 

824
00:44:49,240 --> 00:44:52,280
I want my house to be a 
providing house that we would 

825
00:44:52,280 --> 00:44:55,000
not just provide for the House 
of God, but that God would use 

826
00:44:55,000 --> 00:44:57,520
us to provide for his purposes 
and plans. 

827
00:44:58,560 --> 00:45:00,680
It says I got any resources you 
give to me? 

828
00:45:00,880 --> 00:45:02,880
It's not a question of how much 
I should get. 

829
00:45:02,880 --> 00:45:04,560
It's just a question. 
It just flows through. 

830
00:45:05,520 --> 00:45:07,480
I'm just like, Lord, you asked 
me to give that I give. 

831
00:45:07,920 --> 00:45:09,120
Why? 
Because you've called me to be a

832
00:45:09,120 --> 00:45:12,760
providing house. 
He's called me to be a planted 

833
00:45:12,760 --> 00:45:15,520
house. 
I'm this, this is not optional 

834
00:45:15,520 --> 00:45:18,920
for us, our kids, even when 
they're like, oh, we've got to 

835
00:45:18,920 --> 00:45:21,200
do this. 
We've got to do this, yes, but 

836
00:45:21,280 --> 00:45:23,200
it's a priority. 
This is a priority. 

837
00:45:23,200 --> 00:45:24,680
Why? 
Because it's God's priority. 

838
00:45:25,280 --> 00:45:32,160
He's building his house. 
We persevere in our house. 

839
00:45:32,160 --> 00:45:35,560
I want our house to be a house 
where we persevere in the things

840
00:45:35,560 --> 00:45:37,720
of God. 
They were saying, you know what?

841
00:45:37,720 --> 00:45:40,480
Yes, things might get hard and 
tough and whatever, but we 

842
00:45:40,480 --> 00:45:42,240
persevere and we hold fast to 
God. 

843
00:45:42,560 --> 00:45:47,840
No matter what goes on around 
us, we hold fast when when 

844
00:45:47,840 --> 00:45:50,400
things get tough, we hold fast 
and we cling to hope. 

845
00:45:51,440 --> 00:45:54,960
And I want our house also to be 
a prudent house where we deal 

846
00:45:54,960 --> 00:46:00,200
with things quickly and we say, 
Lord, keep us clean, creating us

847
00:46:00,200 --> 00:46:03,240
a clean heart before you so that
when we come, there's nothing. 

848
00:46:03,240 --> 00:46:06,320
There's no offense, there's no 
issues, there's nothing. 

849
00:46:06,320 --> 00:46:09,280
And I'm just it's, we're keeping
quick short accounts with people

850
00:46:09,600 --> 00:46:12,560
and with things. 
So I want to ask you, these are 

851
00:46:12,560 --> 00:46:14,680
some of the values and behaviors
that you want to see in your 

852
00:46:14,680 --> 00:46:19,640
house as well in your home. 
This is what God desires for all

853
00:46:19,640 --> 00:46:24,120
of us to walk in and to live in.
Would you close your eyes? 

854
00:46:24,120 --> 00:46:28,960
And we'll pray. 
Father, we, we come before you 

855
00:46:28,960 --> 00:46:32,040
this morning again, as we've 
just heard attributes of your 

856
00:46:32,040 --> 00:46:36,840
house. 
And we we thank you that it's 

857
00:46:36,840 --> 00:46:40,320
your house, your building, that 
these aren't just things that we

858
00:46:40,320 --> 00:46:42,800
like. 
Probably some things we don't 

859
00:46:42,800 --> 00:46:46,680
like to hear, but ultimately 
this is your house. 

860
00:46:47,800 --> 00:46:50,200
And that when you spoke of 
building your church and 

861
00:46:50,200 --> 00:46:52,640
building your house, you said 
that the gates of hell would not

862
00:46:52,640 --> 00:46:56,120
prevail against it, that this 
would be an advancing house 

863
00:46:56,480 --> 00:46:58,520
taking ground for the king and 
his Kingdom. 

864
00:47:00,240 --> 00:47:03,720
And so we pray, Lord, as a local
church, as you build some of 

865
00:47:03,720 --> 00:47:06,840
these things into our culture, 
some of these values and 

866
00:47:06,840 --> 00:47:10,800
behaviors, into our midst, into 
our homes, the Lord, we would 

867
00:47:10,800 --> 00:47:14,880
see the gates of hell push back.
We would see this house advance 

868
00:47:14,880 --> 00:47:16,200
into all that God. 
Has for it. 

869
00:47:17,360 --> 00:47:20,480
We ask for our own lives on that
list that you would highlight 

870
00:47:20,480 --> 00:47:25,160
something to us where you where 
we need to change, where we need

871
00:47:25,160 --> 00:47:28,880
to adjust a value and a 
behaviour in our life to align 

872
00:47:28,880 --> 00:47:30,680
with what you want for your 
house. 

873
00:47:33,120 --> 00:47:35,240
We thank you for our time 
together this morning. 

874
00:47:37,200 --> 00:47:41,480
We thank you for allowing us to 
meet here, for all that you're 

875
00:47:41,480 --> 00:47:44,240
doing over the past few weeks 
and all that you're going to do.

876
00:47:45,400 --> 00:47:49,240
Into our future we pray Lord, 
that you would build and 

877
00:47:49,240 --> 00:47:55,040
establish your Kingdom come and 
your will be done in this place 

878
00:47:55,040 --> 00:47:58,960
as it is in heaven. 
In Jesus mighty name we thank 

879
00:47:58,960 --> 00:48:00,760
you. 
Amen. 

880
00:48:01,320 --> 00:48:01,640
Amen. 
Good. 

881
00:48:03,080 --> 00:48:07,480
Job, thank you bro, can we can 
we put this the list just back 

882
00:48:07,480 --> 00:48:10,880
up for a second, please? 
You know, as I'm sitting there 

883
00:48:10,880 --> 00:48:13,520
looking at this, I was just like
I was thinking about Jesus, 

884
00:48:13,520 --> 00:48:16,160
right? 
Like Jesus was all of these 

885
00:48:16,160 --> 00:48:19,760
things, like all of them, like 
you look at that Jesus represent

886
00:48:19,760 --> 00:48:22,640
every one of these things. 
He's perfect, right? 

887
00:48:22,920 --> 00:48:26,280
And we are, you know, like as 
much as these things are for our

888
00:48:26,280 --> 00:48:30,920
house and for our houses and we 
are, we are a vessel for his 

889
00:48:30,920 --> 00:48:33,160
Holy Spirit. 
That means that all of these 

890
00:48:33,160 --> 00:48:37,640
things can be found in US if 
we're yielded to God and that 

891
00:48:37,640 --> 00:48:39,480
he's able to use us powerfully, 
right? 

892
00:48:40,640 --> 00:48:44,440
And they like they, they, they, 
they crossover as well. 

893
00:48:44,440 --> 00:48:47,760
Like, you know, like if you've 
got a, if you've got a 

894
00:48:48,040 --> 00:48:53,200
conviction that the House of God
would be packed, you would be 

895
00:48:53,200 --> 00:48:55,720
planted. 
But you would, that this would 

896
00:48:55,720 --> 00:48:58,240
be a priority to you, you would 
be here, right? 

897
00:48:58,240 --> 00:49:00,840
And it works back the other way.
Like if you, if it's not a 

898
00:49:00,840 --> 00:49:04,080
priority, you, you probably 
don't think too much about this 

899
00:49:04,080 --> 00:49:06,720
house being packed. 
But the reality is, if we're not

900
00:49:06,720 --> 00:49:10,200
here, this place isn't packed. 
Do you see what I'm saying? 

901
00:49:10,200 --> 00:49:14,680
So they do crossover and all of 
these things like we can't, we 

902
00:49:14,680 --> 00:49:16,840
can not do these things in our 
own strength. 

903
00:49:17,760 --> 00:49:21,720
And I was reading this morning 
about you just in the book of 

904
00:49:21,720 --> 00:49:25,120
Acts, because, you know, at 
Pentecost, the Holy Spirit comes

905
00:49:25,120 --> 00:49:28,040
and empowers them, right? 
The Holy Spirit comes, that's 

906
00:49:28,040 --> 00:49:31,680
the thing. 
He empowers them, right? 

907
00:49:31,680 --> 00:49:33,920
But that's not the only place 
that you read that, because then

908
00:49:33,920 --> 00:49:36,720
you read a bit further down and 
and they're praying and they're 

909
00:49:36,720 --> 00:49:39,160
persecuted and they're saying, 
Lord, you know, give us 

910
00:49:39,160 --> 00:49:40,200
boldness. 
What happens? 

911
00:49:40,200 --> 00:49:43,560
The Holy Spirit fills them. 
We need to be filled with the 

912
00:49:43,560 --> 00:49:46,040
Holy Spirit. 
So I'm going to pray today like 

913
00:49:46,040 --> 00:49:49,720
if you're willing, if you, if 
you want, if this is the desire 

914
00:49:49,720 --> 00:49:54,400
for you that you want to see the
House of God built the way that 

915
00:49:54,400 --> 00:49:58,200
the Scripture teaches us to, to 
build and for him to do what he 

916
00:49:58,200 --> 00:50:00,960
says he would do. 
We're going to require for the 

917
00:50:00,960 --> 00:50:04,680
Holy Spirit to come and move in 
this place upon us, his vessels.

918
00:50:05,160 --> 00:50:06,760
So would you, would you stand 
with me? 

919
00:50:06,760 --> 00:50:10,360
Like let's just stand on. 
I'm just going to pray and, and 

920
00:50:10,360 --> 00:50:14,200
according to your willingness, 
the Lord will give you what you 

921
00:50:14,200 --> 00:50:16,400
need to fulfill his will. 
Amen. 

922
00:50:16,720 --> 00:50:19,400
That is true. 
So Father, we, we look to you 

923
00:50:19,960 --> 00:50:24,240
and even as we see in scripture,
they, they ask you, Lord, for 

924
00:50:24,240 --> 00:50:26,440
boldness. 
We've praised Jesus, we've lift 

925
00:50:26,440 --> 00:50:28,960
you high, we've lifted the name 
of Jesus in this place. 

926
00:50:28,960 --> 00:50:32,320
Lord, now we're asking, Holy 
Spirit, won't you fill us? 

927
00:50:32,560 --> 00:50:37,640
Won't you come and empower us? 
Lord, won't you allow us to 

928
00:50:37,680 --> 00:50:42,240
overcome the the hurdles to deal
with the stuff that's held us 

929
00:50:42,240 --> 00:50:46,160
back, Lord, whatever it is, 
because there's things that are 

930
00:50:46,160 --> 00:50:50,080
going on in our lives, in our 
thinking, all of this stuff 

931
00:50:50,080 --> 00:50:53,240
that's contrary to your word. 
So I just pray that the Holy 

932
00:50:53,240 --> 00:50:56,280
Spirit would wash over us, wash 
over our minds, wash over our 

933
00:50:56,280 --> 00:51:00,600
spirits, wash over our bodies, 
Lord, and empower us to be the 

934
00:51:00,600 --> 00:51:04,000
vessels you've called us to be, 
but that we would be the house 

935
00:51:04,000 --> 00:51:06,920
that you've called us to be. 
And these things we pray in 

936
00:51:06,960 --> 00:51:09,920
Jesus mighty name, Amen. 
Guess what? 

937
00:51:10,560 --> 00:51:15,880
I think I've been sitting here, 
I, I really appreciate the, the,

938
00:51:17,520 --> 00:51:21,200
the, the piece and I'm 
desperately trying to find 

939
00:51:21,200 --> 00:51:27,880
something that will convey the 
concept that house is mobile 

940
00:51:28,560 --> 00:51:31,360
because within an hour or two, 
the house is gone from here. 

941
00:51:32,080 --> 00:51:35,600
The house is in the house. 
I think we've got to separate in

942
00:51:35,600 --> 00:51:39,360
our minds the brick and whatever
mortal, whatever is around us 

943
00:51:39,680 --> 00:51:42,200
and the people of God. 
If we come to the House of God, 

944
00:51:42,200 --> 00:51:44,560
what are we coming to? 
We're not coming to a building. 

945
00:51:44,960 --> 00:51:48,120
We're coming to God's people. 
And I think it's very helpful to

946
00:51:48,120 --> 00:51:53,080
realize that the word church, 
the word church is, if you go to

947
00:51:53,080 --> 00:51:56,320
the etymology of the word 
church, it comes from a, a 

948
00:51:56,320 --> 00:51:59,600
Germanic base. 
It has to do with the building. 

949
00:52:00,600 --> 00:52:05,720
If we take the word from the the
Greek text of the Bible, the 

950
00:52:05,720 --> 00:52:11,320
word is ecclesia, which is the 
coming together or the the 

951
00:52:11,320 --> 00:52:14,280
gathering of the covenant people
of God. 

952
00:52:14,640 --> 00:52:19,080
We've got to I think it's such a
pity we keep we've got to use 

953
00:52:19,080 --> 00:52:21,920
this word church, because you 
know, if you ask somebody 

954
00:52:21,920 --> 00:52:24,520
where's your church, you will 
say, Oh, well, it's on this Ave.

955
00:52:24,520 --> 00:52:28,400
or that and to just here this 
morning just to separate 

956
00:52:28,400 --> 00:52:31,440
ourselves from the building. 
And I'm appreciate the building.

957
00:52:32,040 --> 00:52:35,200
Don't misunderstand, but we've 
got to believe that when you 

958
00:52:35,200 --> 00:52:37,600
come to the House of God, where 
are you coming to? 

959
00:52:37,600 --> 00:52:39,320
You're coming to a family of 
God. 

960
00:52:39,320 --> 00:52:44,120
You're coming to the cold out 
and, and, and, and if you're 

961
00:52:44,120 --> 00:52:47,200
bringing money, where you, who 
are you bringing the money to? 

962
00:52:47,200 --> 00:52:50,040
To this building? 
No, no, no, you're bringing 

963
00:52:50,040 --> 00:52:54,600
money to this family of God 
that's being led by elders who 

964
00:52:54,600 --> 00:52:57,480
God is putting in position. 
It just helps me. 

965
00:52:57,800 --> 00:53:00,080
It helps me to separate that in 
my mind. 

966
00:53:02,080 --> 00:53:02,640
Very good. 
Very good. 

967
00:53:02,640 --> 00:53:05,960
Do you know that Kiara and Linda
here, who are part of another 

968
00:53:06,000 --> 00:53:08,760
church, have come to church this
morning, Right. 

969
00:53:08,760 --> 00:53:10,320
They've come to be with the 
family. 

970
00:53:10,360 --> 00:53:12,240
Amen. 
It's a wonderful thing. 

971
00:53:12,240 --> 00:53:13,840
Thank you, Leon. 
Thank you guys. 

972
00:53:14,480 --> 00:53:17,800
Let's enjoy this day. 
Let's pray for one another, ask 

973
00:53:17,800 --> 00:53:20,920
each other how we're doing, be 
the House of God, love one 

974
00:53:20,920 --> 00:53:23,480
another. 
Let's experience heaven in this 

975
00:53:23,680 --> 00:53:24,280
place. 
Amen. 

976
00:53:25,080 --> 00:53:26,960
Thank you for joining us for 
today's message. 

977
00:53:27,320 --> 00:53:29,840
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Way Church, please visit 

978
00:53:29,840 --> 00:53:32,800
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AU. 

979
00:53:33,360 --> 00:53:34,120
Have a blessed day.