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 --> 00:00:15,000 Australia. So when we pray for Dave as he 3 00:00:15,000 --> 00:00:19,600 brings the word Lord that may it also just may your spirit just 4 00:00:19,600 --> 00:00:22,680 bring it alive to us today in Jesus name, Amen. 5 00:00:23,280 --> 00:00:24,640 Amen. Thank you, bro. 6 00:00:25,440 --> 00:00:27,360 My name's Dave. Yeah. 7 00:00:27,360 --> 00:00:30,520 With my wife Hilary, we lead the, the team that leads the 8 00:00:30,520 --> 00:00:34,120 church here. Justin and Bianca are eldership 9 00:00:34,200 --> 00:00:34,760 couple. There's. 10 00:00:34,760 --> 00:00:37,400 Four of us so. Who's got their their Bible with 11 00:00:37,400 --> 00:00:40,000 them this morning? Let's get our Bibles out. 12 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:41,960 We have, we've been, we've been pushing this. 13 00:00:41,960 --> 00:00:46,560 We're going to continue not to be pushy, but just to, we want 14 00:00:46,720 --> 00:00:52,560 to build a culture of bringing our Bibles, getting familiar 15 00:00:52,560 --> 00:00:55,240 with the text for ourselves, being able to dig in here, being 16 00:00:55,240 --> 00:00:57,680 able to find things. I know a lot of you use your 17 00:00:57,720 --> 00:00:59,800 Bible apps and stuff like that. That's fine. 18 00:01:00,360 --> 00:01:05,239 I love a paper Bible. So what I'll do this morning is 19 00:01:05,239 --> 00:01:07,880 when I bring a few scriptures, I'm going to actually turn there 20 00:01:07,880 --> 00:01:10,520 and just give you guys some space to find it for yourselves. 21 00:01:11,200 --> 00:01:12,960 I think sometimes we can just rush through that. 22 00:01:12,960 --> 00:01:16,440 So that's what we want to do. So we're going to have to be 23 00:01:16,440 --> 00:01:18,480 patient in that because it does take a little bit of time to 24 00:01:18,480 --> 00:01:22,440 find it. So I had the privilege this week 25 00:01:22,920 --> 00:01:27,480 of going and seeing the Great Ocean Road for the first time. 26 00:01:29,120 --> 00:01:32,920 And I know many of you that I've spoken to have seen that road, 27 00:01:32,920 --> 00:01:35,760 been driven down that road. What a beautiful part of 28 00:01:35,760 --> 00:01:39,360 Australia, right? It just, it reminds you of how 29 00:01:39,360 --> 00:01:42,760 blessed we are where we live. You know, like quite often when 30 00:01:42,760 --> 00:01:45,360 I think about travelling and going and seeing the world, I 31 00:01:45,360 --> 00:01:47,920 just completely bypass Australia. 32 00:01:48,280 --> 00:01:50,280 I just want to go overseas, right? 33 00:01:50,880 --> 00:01:53,680 Gosh, Australia has some beautiful things to see. 34 00:01:54,400 --> 00:01:57,880 And you know, we, we, you know, you've seen the coastline and 35 00:01:57,880 --> 00:01:59,240 stuff. I've got a couple of photos that 36 00:01:59,240 --> 00:02:00,400 we're going to share in a moment. 37 00:02:00,400 --> 00:02:09,120 Not just yet, but you, you can't see such spectacular views and 38 00:02:09,120 --> 00:02:13,400 not be drawn towards the Lord. Like as a believer, you know, 39 00:02:13,400 --> 00:02:16,600 I'm travelling with some other guys that are, that are pastors 40 00:02:16,600 --> 00:02:20,000 that are, you know, they're believers and we're just looking 41 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:24,160 at each other, just going, Oh my goodness, like the, the majesty 42 00:02:24,160 --> 00:02:26,560 of God, the power of God, his creation. 43 00:02:26,560 --> 00:02:30,600 It's so stunning. You can't not see God's mighty 44 00:02:30,600 --> 00:02:34,800 hand when you go and look and we don't have to go far. 45 00:02:34,800 --> 00:02:38,200 You don't have to go far to to go and and look at nature and 46 00:02:38,200 --> 00:02:41,840 see God's mighty hand, right? But I was just reminded of 47 00:02:41,840 --> 00:02:45,000 Romans 120. So if we can turn there, please 48 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:50,400 Romans one verse 20. If you guys beat me there, it's 49 00:02:50,400 --> 00:02:51,880 because I'm doing it one handed, right? 50 00:02:53,080 --> 00:02:58,960 Romans one verse 20 it says how we doing very good. 51 00:02:59,440 --> 00:03:03,400 It says for since the creation of the world, his invisible 52 00:03:03,400 --> 00:03:07,800 attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things 53 00:03:07,800 --> 00:03:10,680 that are made. Even his eternal power and 54 00:03:10,680 --> 00:03:13,960 Godhead so that you are without excuse. 55 00:03:14,480 --> 00:03:18,840 You know, that's saying that like those that it's like every. 56 00:03:18,840 --> 00:03:24,280 Single person that can see that can witness God's creation is 57 00:03:24,280 --> 00:03:28,640 without excuse to reject the Lord and his creation. 58 00:03:28,640 --> 00:03:30,840 Isn't that wonderful? I mean, it's wonderful for us, 59 00:03:30,840 --> 00:03:35,960 but like it's just so stunning that you could just see God's 60 00:03:35,960 --> 00:03:40,160 mighty hand and and power and Godhead in all that he's made. 61 00:03:40,880 --> 00:03:44,880 And I would encourage us to go and regularly do that, you know, 62 00:03:44,880 --> 00:03:48,000 go down to the coast, go and watch the ocean. 63 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:53,520 See how vast the ocean is. Go and go look at the tree close 64 00:03:53,560 --> 00:03:56,920 up, look at it leaf, turn it over and look at the veins. 65 00:03:56,920 --> 00:04:02,720 Go and inspect this wonderful creation and let it just stir, 66 00:04:03,040 --> 00:04:06,440 you know, just Thanksgiving and glory to the one who made it. 67 00:04:06,440 --> 00:04:11,120 Amen. And so anything that's built of 68 00:04:11,120 --> 00:04:14,560 any, of any substance, you know, like you look at these, the 69 00:04:14,560 --> 00:04:17,720 creation, you look at what God's made, It's so it's got so much 70 00:04:17,720 --> 00:04:23,040 substance, but it's, it's, it takes consistency to build 71 00:04:23,040 --> 00:04:26,480 something with substance. You know, God speaks and things 72 00:04:26,480 --> 00:04:29,000 come to fruition, right? We're, we're not God. 73 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:31,880 Like if I'm going to build something, it's going to take a 74 00:04:31,880 --> 00:04:34,160 lot of effort. You know, like I'll watch my 75 00:04:34,160 --> 00:04:36,080 boys build with Lego and stuff like that. 76 00:04:36,080 --> 00:04:41,440 It's such a step by step process and it takes consistency. 77 00:04:42,120 --> 00:04:45,000 So I'm saying all that just to bring that word to our, to our 78 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:49,120 minds, consistency. It takes consistency to build 79 00:04:49,160 --> 00:04:56,480 anything of any substance, OK. And, you know, consistency 80 00:04:56,480 --> 00:04:59,080 requires patience. You know, there's so much 81 00:04:59,080 --> 00:05:01,720 scripture that talks about we need to be patient. 82 00:05:02,640 --> 00:05:06,040 In order to be consistent with anything, you have to be 83 00:05:06,040 --> 00:05:09,160 patient. So they sort of go hand in hand. 84 00:05:09,160 --> 00:05:11,760 But I've got a couple of photos here just to share with us. 85 00:05:13,320 --> 00:05:15,440 Where where is the first one? What do you got there, Pete? 86 00:05:15,960 --> 00:05:20,400 OK, so this is, I forget what it's called, but it's basically, 87 00:05:21,280 --> 00:05:23,320 you know, you've got the coast obviously here and then you've 88 00:05:23,320 --> 00:05:27,960 got this huge, you know, where the water sort of eroded away 89 00:05:27,960 --> 00:05:31,960 and it's it comes if you show the next photo, this actually 90 00:05:31,960 --> 00:05:36,080 joins with a bit of a cave and this is like, so there's like a 91 00:05:36,080 --> 00:05:38,880 bridge over the top here. And that what we just looked at 92 00:05:38,880 --> 00:05:41,160 is on the other side of that going out to the coast. 93 00:05:41,400 --> 00:05:44,000 And then you've got this little bit of water in here where the 94 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:47,080 waters just come and just eroded through and it's made a bridge 95 00:05:47,080 --> 00:05:50,000 and it's done all this stuff. And I was just looking at that 96 00:05:50,560 --> 00:05:55,480 and I was just thinking about like the consistency of the 97 00:05:55,480 --> 00:05:57,600 ocean. Can we just go back to the to 98 00:05:57,600 --> 00:06:00,280 the first one, please? Like, you know. 99 00:06:00,880 --> 00:06:04,000 It's funny when you read the signs about this, it's like, oh, 100 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:07,560 this happened over 20 billion years and I'm just looking at it 101 00:06:07,560 --> 00:06:08,800 just going, I don't think so, but. 102 00:06:09,280 --> 00:06:13,640 Like consistently hammering away at what must have been like a 103 00:06:13,640 --> 00:06:17,800 weak spot in the coastline here and brought it down and then 104 00:06:17,800 --> 00:06:21,720 just consistently just hammered and hammered and hammered away 105 00:06:21,720 --> 00:06:24,720 over over decades or hundreds of years or thousands of years, 106 00:06:24,720 --> 00:06:28,320 whatever it is. And it's made this huge. 107 00:06:28,800 --> 00:06:31,720 This is massive. Like we stood up here and this 108 00:06:31,720 --> 00:06:34,920 was like, this is like a 40 meter drop. 109 00:06:34,920 --> 00:06:38,360 Like it's massive, right? Like the the photos don't do it 110 00:06:38,360 --> 00:06:41,920 justice, but I just like, I couldn't help but just think 111 00:06:41,920 --> 00:06:46,800 about the consistency of water and waves crashing against 112 00:06:46,800 --> 00:06:52,240 something very solid, you know? Earth and just washing it away, 113 00:06:52,640 --> 00:06:55,960 just washing it away just little by little, little by little and 114 00:06:55,960 --> 00:07:00,000 making this huge dent into the into the coastline here. 115 00:07:01,040 --> 00:07:04,200 And the next photo is the is the 12 apostles. 116 00:07:04,800 --> 00:07:07,880 Which you know, there's like 5 of them left or something like I 117 00:07:07,880 --> 00:07:09,360 don't know how many exactly is left. 118 00:07:09,360 --> 00:07:10,960 There's a couple hiding behind there. 119 00:07:11,240 --> 00:07:13,520 But there was 1 here, there was 1 here. 120 00:07:14,440 --> 00:07:16,640 This was obviously this is going to be gone soon. 121 00:07:17,160 --> 00:07:20,520 And I was talking to to Paul. So Paul lives in Warrnambool. 122 00:07:20,520 --> 00:07:22,560 So he's been, he comes through here quite regularly. 123 00:07:22,560 --> 00:07:25,720 He's blessed to have this beautiful coastline to ride his 124 00:07:25,720 --> 00:07:28,120 motorcycle down. A little bit jealous, but we 125 00:07:28,120 --> 00:07:29,960 don't do jealousy. So good for you, Paul. 126 00:07:31,520 --> 00:07:34,560 But, you know, over the time that Paul's been in Warrnambool 127 00:07:34,560 --> 00:07:37,240 for 20 years, he's seen some of these come down. 128 00:07:38,120 --> 00:07:43,800 And I just think, you know, just the consistency of just this 129 00:07:43,800 --> 00:07:46,760 water just hammering and making a little, you know, just 130 00:07:46,760 --> 00:07:49,240 undercut it a little bit here. And then it just goes a bit 131 00:07:49,240 --> 00:07:52,360 deeper and it falls, you know, and, and all of this would have 132 00:07:52,360 --> 00:07:55,560 been joined to this. Coastline at some point, I would 133 00:07:55,560 --> 00:07:57,000 suspect. Right. 134 00:07:57,000 --> 00:08:00,960 And it's these waves and this ocean is just eroded away and 135 00:08:00,960 --> 00:08:04,400 that's what you're left with. And I thought about, you know, 136 00:08:04,400 --> 00:08:06,800 water can't do much on its on its own. 137 00:08:07,240 --> 00:08:09,760 Like if I have a glass of water like it's not really hurting 138 00:08:09,760 --> 00:08:12,480 anyone like I could. Throw it at someone. 139 00:08:12,480 --> 00:08:14,880 I wouldn't never do that, but like, you could throw it at 140 00:08:14,880 --> 00:08:17,440 someone and you know, you might get wet, but it's not going to 141 00:08:17,440 --> 00:08:21,760 hurt you, right? But when it's got some force. 142 00:08:21,760 --> 00:08:24,520 Behind it, water can be very powerful. 143 00:08:25,120 --> 00:08:28,760 You know, we use water to in high pressure cleaners and stuff 144 00:08:28,760 --> 00:08:30,840 like that. You know, there's a such a thing 145 00:08:30,840 --> 00:08:34,000 as a water jet cutter. You can cut steel with water if 146 00:08:34,000 --> 00:08:36,919 it's like, you know, under enough pressure, that's pretty 147 00:08:36,919 --> 00:08:39,520 amazing, right? You can cut steel that's like 148 00:08:39,520 --> 00:08:41,559 that thick. I used to work in this industry, 149 00:08:41,559 --> 00:08:46,120 right, with water, water. And if the so if the right force 150 00:08:46,120 --> 00:08:48,920 is behind it, it can be very powerful, which we see in these 151 00:08:48,920 --> 00:08:51,080 photos. So yeah, maybe we just take 152 00:08:51,080 --> 00:08:52,880 those photos away so that you'll listen to me. 153 00:08:55,680 --> 00:08:58,760 But you know, the momentum behind the waves, it's the it's 154 00:08:58,760 --> 00:09:03,320 the power behind the ocean that erodes these things away. 155 00:09:03,320 --> 00:09:06,880 Very powerful. It washes away mountains. 156 00:09:07,680 --> 00:09:11,080 That blows my mind that water could do that. 157 00:09:12,200 --> 00:09:17,440 And we know from Scripture, if we turn to Ephesians 5 verse 26, 158 00:09:18,720 --> 00:09:23,680 we we get a bit of an insight into into. 159 00:09:23,680 --> 00:09:30,040 Water or or let's just read it. Hey, Ephesians 5 verse 26. 160 00:09:31,720 --> 00:09:38,040 So this is let's just read from 25 husbands, love your wives, 161 00:09:38,320 --> 00:09:41,680 just as Christ also loves the church and gave himself for her. 162 00:09:41,840 --> 00:09:45,720 So this is talking about Christ, that he might sanctify her, his 163 00:09:45,720 --> 00:09:50,320 bride, and cleanse her with the washing of the water by the 164 00:09:50,320 --> 00:09:54,400 word, that he might present her to himself, a glorious church, 165 00:09:54,640 --> 00:09:58,640 not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she she 166 00:09:58,640 --> 00:10:01,480 should be holy and without blemish. 167 00:10:02,160 --> 00:10:05,960 So Christ is is it says that it's like water. 168 00:10:05,960 --> 00:10:12,040 He's the word of God is like washing us clean and I just 169 00:10:12,040 --> 00:10:14,200 thought about that. It's like the word of God, like 170 00:10:14,200 --> 00:10:18,840 if this Bible of mine is just sitting on the shelf and not 171 00:10:18,840 --> 00:10:21,920 being used. This is like stagnant water 172 00:10:22,280 --> 00:10:24,720 that's just not able to do anything. 173 00:10:24,960 --> 00:10:26,800 It can't clean you. It can't wash you. 174 00:10:26,800 --> 00:10:30,440 It can't, you know, wash away all of the rubbish and make us 175 00:10:30,440 --> 00:10:32,840 like Christ if it's just sitting there stagnant. 176 00:10:33,320 --> 00:10:39,600 But when we read the word, when we, when we eat of it and when 177 00:10:39,600 --> 00:10:43,680 it's empowered by faith. So you know, the water in the 178 00:10:43,680 --> 00:10:47,840 ocean is empowered by, you know, the currents and the, and the 179 00:10:47,840 --> 00:10:49,440 waves and, and these sort of things. 180 00:10:49,440 --> 00:10:52,200 So the word of God is empowered by faith. 181 00:10:52,720 --> 00:10:55,000 The word of God is powerful through faith. 182 00:10:55,320 --> 00:10:58,560 It's like you're reading it and the only way that it's going to 183 00:10:58,560 --> 00:11:00,960 be able to wash you and clean you is through faith. 184 00:11:00,960 --> 00:11:04,240 That's the power trusting God at, at his word and what he 185 00:11:04,240 --> 00:11:08,000 says. And so again, when we think 186 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:13,720 about consistency, we need to be consistent in reading the word 187 00:11:13,720 --> 00:11:16,560 of God in the washing of the water. 188 00:11:16,720 --> 00:11:20,680 You will never end up, you know, as that water washed away the 189 00:11:20,680 --> 00:11:25,560 coastline and it did so much. You're never going to be vastly 190 00:11:25,560 --> 00:11:30,040 transformed to be like Christ outside of consistently being 191 00:11:30,040 --> 00:11:32,800 washed by his word through faith. 192 00:11:33,480 --> 00:11:35,680 Isn't that true? And there's people in this room 193 00:11:35,680 --> 00:11:39,040 that have walked a whole lot further down the road than me 194 00:11:39,320 --> 00:11:42,240 and been washed by his word for a whole lot longer. 195 00:11:42,800 --> 00:11:46,000 And they're a lot more mature than me and, and, and they're, 196 00:11:46,000 --> 00:11:48,280 and they're more Christ like than me. 197 00:11:48,840 --> 00:11:51,720 It's not something that you can just get a hold of straight 198 00:11:51,720 --> 00:11:54,120 away. It takes consistency. 199 00:11:54,120 --> 00:11:56,320 It takes reading his words being washed. 200 00:11:56,320 --> 00:11:59,240 It takes being with the Lord and spending time with him, all of 201 00:11:59,240 --> 00:12:02,400 these things. And so we want to be consistent. 202 00:12:03,240 --> 00:12:07,360 And when we are consistent, all of the, the muck, all of the, 203 00:12:08,480 --> 00:12:11,600 you know, all of the lies, all of the things that bind us up, 204 00:12:11,600 --> 00:12:15,480 all of the misdirection and all of these things that life has 205 00:12:15,480 --> 00:12:17,840 taught us or, or we've been bound by. 206 00:12:17,840 --> 00:12:20,960 And these sort of things that the unchristed like stuff, can I 207 00:12:20,960 --> 00:12:24,560 say, needs, you know, gets washed off us and we become like 208 00:12:24,560 --> 00:12:27,800 him. He is perfect, He is awesome, He 209 00:12:27,800 --> 00:12:30,600 is pure. There is no unrighteousness in 210 00:12:30,600 --> 00:12:32,920 Christ at all. And that's what he, that's his 211 00:12:32,920 --> 00:12:35,400 desire and his will for us as a church. 212 00:12:35,720 --> 00:12:38,080 He wants us to be washed clean and made whole. 213 00:12:38,880 --> 00:12:45,240 And so consistency will, will transform us to be like Him. 214 00:12:45,240 --> 00:12:47,400 This is life changing stuff guys. 215 00:12:49,120 --> 00:12:56,440 You know, I've changed so much in a period of time, but it has 216 00:12:56,440 --> 00:12:59,760 been through consistency. It hasn't been like a lot 217 00:12:59,760 --> 00:13:04,680 changed very fast for me. But after that it was like, all 218 00:13:04,680 --> 00:13:06,360 right, now you're going to have to seek me. 219 00:13:07,160 --> 00:13:10,160 You know, I'm going to, I'm going to the Lord sort of just 220 00:13:10,160 --> 00:13:13,360 changed some things that were really tripping me up in my life 221 00:13:14,000 --> 00:13:15,560 that were leading me away from him. 222 00:13:15,720 --> 00:13:18,080 He he cleansed me of those things and he got those things 223 00:13:18,080 --> 00:13:20,240 out the way. But after that it was like, now 224 00:13:20,240 --> 00:13:23,400 come to me now let me wash you now. 225 00:13:23,400 --> 00:13:28,440 Let now now yield to me, you know, be transformed by my by my 226 00:13:28,440 --> 00:13:30,840 word and it changes your your life. 227 00:13:31,160 --> 00:13:35,200 You will not be the same. And it's such a wonderful 228 00:13:35,200 --> 00:13:37,240 change. You would never go back. 229 00:13:37,240 --> 00:13:40,440 I would never go back to be the person that I used to be. 230 00:13:40,960 --> 00:13:43,040 And I know that we're the same in this room, right? 231 00:13:43,040 --> 00:13:47,000 You would never go back and become the person that you were 232 00:13:47,000 --> 00:13:50,760 before Christ came and started to form you and wash you because 233 00:13:50,760 --> 00:13:52,880 it's so wonderful. He's so good. 234 00:13:53,720 --> 00:13:57,240 And so this is the a culture that we want to build as the 235 00:13:57,240 --> 00:14:02,200 local church here, a culture of consistency, of consistently 236 00:14:02,400 --> 00:14:05,560 seeking the Lord, of consistently being washed by his 237 00:14:05,560 --> 00:14:08,000 word. All of these things that we're 238 00:14:08,000 --> 00:14:11,360 talking about, You know, we want to build biblical culture, 239 00:14:11,360 --> 00:14:16,840 culture that's in accordance with his word and, and whatever 240 00:14:16,840 --> 00:14:21,280 it is, whatever The thing is, we need to be consistently 241 00:14:22,200 --> 00:14:24,880 implementing and going after those things and reminding one 242 00:14:24,880 --> 00:14:27,240 another and, and, and over a period of time. 243 00:14:27,240 --> 00:14:28,520 It's not going to happen overnight. 244 00:14:29,200 --> 00:14:34,720 We're not just going to be, you know, a, a church that is 245 00:14:34,720 --> 00:14:38,320 extravagant in our worship and just come together and just 246 00:14:38,440 --> 00:14:41,160 overflow and, and bring the. Roof down. 247 00:14:41,520 --> 00:14:44,920 You know, just because we decided one Sunday that that's 248 00:14:44,920 --> 00:14:47,360 what we want to do, you know, because I, I stood up one day 249 00:14:47,360 --> 00:14:50,880 and said, Hey, guys, we're going to worship extravagantly today. 250 00:14:51,200 --> 00:14:53,520 And everyone goes, OK. And then like that's now the 251 00:14:53,520 --> 00:14:55,600 culture. It just doesn't happen like 252 00:14:55,600 --> 00:14:57,960 that. It, it, it has to be, we have to 253 00:14:57,960 --> 00:15:02,120 be reminded that guys, we, we owe the Lord everything and we 254 00:15:02,120 --> 00:15:05,600 want to give him the glory that he deserves, right? 255 00:15:05,600 --> 00:15:09,800 And so we constantly remind each other and constantly seek to do 256 00:15:09,800 --> 00:15:12,600 that together. And over time, as people come 257 00:15:12,600 --> 00:15:15,400 into that, they catch something of what the Lord's formed us to 258 00:15:15,400 --> 00:15:17,760 be. And so there's many things that 259 00:15:17,760 --> 00:15:20,800 we want to be as a local church, an extravagant worship is one of 260 00:15:20,800 --> 00:15:23,560 them. We want to praise the Lord 261 00:15:23,600 --> 00:15:27,480 freely, not thinking about what people are thinking, not 262 00:15:27,480 --> 00:15:31,080 worried, not not, you know, scared to raise our hands, not 263 00:15:31,160 --> 00:15:34,040 worried to, you know, when we asked us to stand and, you know, 264 00:15:34,040 --> 00:15:38,000 feeling uncomfortable to hell. With being uncomfortable in 265 00:15:38,000 --> 00:15:40,040 worshipping the Lord. Amen. 266 00:15:40,560 --> 00:15:42,440 Get out of here. We are going to be free. 267 00:15:42,440 --> 00:15:45,760 We're going to be a church that's free to worship the Lord 268 00:15:45,760 --> 00:15:46,760 in this place. Amen. 269 00:15:47,240 --> 00:15:50,480 We are that's the that's the church that the Lord is building 270 00:15:50,480 --> 00:15:52,040 here. One of the aspects, right? 271 00:15:52,840 --> 00:15:57,280 And So what sort of church are we called to be? 272 00:15:57,280 --> 00:16:00,920 Justin preached a couple of weeks ago about being a packed 273 00:16:00,920 --> 00:16:04,280 house. You know, the in heaven, it's a 274 00:16:04,280 --> 00:16:07,080 packed house and everyone's giving glory to God and 275 00:16:07,080 --> 00:16:09,960 everyone's enjoying him. And that's that's in heaven. 276 00:16:10,320 --> 00:16:12,800 It's like on earth as it is in heaven. 277 00:16:12,800 --> 00:16:14,280 We're going to be a packed house. 278 00:16:14,520 --> 00:16:17,200 And we want to see that not just so that we have a lot of people 279 00:16:17,200 --> 00:16:22,480 here, but so that we can be effective in in the mandate that 280 00:16:22,480 --> 00:16:26,440 we have as a church in the seeing the gospel get out in 281 00:16:26,440 --> 00:16:31,040 seeing people safe, but not just safe transformed, set on fire, 282 00:16:31,360 --> 00:16:34,560 turn from their old lives, never want to go back. 283 00:16:34,920 --> 00:16:36,840 You know, that sort of that sort of culture. 284 00:16:36,840 --> 00:16:39,040 That's the sort of culture that the Lord is building in this 285 00:16:39,040 --> 00:16:42,280 house, a packed house. And Daniel shared last week 286 00:16:42,280 --> 00:16:45,480 about daily evangelism. All of these things are sort of 287 00:16:45,480 --> 00:16:49,320 leading us towards, you know, Easter Sunday is next weekend. 288 00:16:49,880 --> 00:16:54,520 Easter Sunday is a big deal. A lot of people go to church on 289 00:16:54,520 --> 00:16:57,880 Easter that don't set foot in a church any other time of year. 290 00:16:58,480 --> 00:17:02,880 And so that's that's a big deal. We want to see people come to 291 00:17:02,880 --> 00:17:04,960 know the Lord. We want to see the people 292 00:17:05,119 --> 00:17:08,400 experience something of the goodness of God and heaven on 293 00:17:08,400 --> 00:17:11,480 earth in our midst. So we're going to take advantage 294 00:17:11,480 --> 00:17:15,599 of that, right? We're going to use this coming 295 00:17:15,760 --> 00:17:19,400 weekend as an opportunity and whatever opportunity is 296 00:17:19,400 --> 00:17:20,720 available, we're going to take hold of it. 297 00:17:21,319 --> 00:17:23,359 And that means that we're going to be expecting, we're going to 298 00:17:23,359 --> 00:17:26,839 do what we can to see God, gather some people here that 299 00:17:26,839 --> 00:17:30,960 don't know him, that can get to know him and be saved and be set 300 00:17:30,960 --> 00:17:34,000 free as we have. Amen, Amen. 301 00:17:34,640 --> 00:17:37,080 So we're going to talk into this packed house just a little bit. 302 00:17:37,640 --> 00:17:41,280 It is because like I'm talking about it leading into Easter, 303 00:17:41,280 --> 00:17:45,960 but this is a culture that we want for our house, a packed 304 00:17:45,960 --> 00:17:49,560 house full of people. You know, the, the in the Acts 305 00:17:49,560 --> 00:17:52,000 church, the early church, it says that the, the Lord was 306 00:17:52,280 --> 00:17:54,400 adding daily those who are being saved. 307 00:17:54,640 --> 00:17:58,600 That's the dream, isn't it? For this church, for this local 308 00:17:58,600 --> 00:18:00,400 church, for the church in our city. 309 00:18:01,080 --> 00:18:05,240 That's the dream that this city would experience people being 310 00:18:05,280 --> 00:18:08,720 added to the church daily. And they we probably are, but we 311 00:18:08,720 --> 00:18:11,840 only get to see a small portion of that, which is why 312 00:18:11,840 --> 00:18:13,920 relationship with other churches is important. 313 00:18:13,920 --> 00:18:15,920 Seeing what God's doing bigger than ourselves. 314 00:18:17,120 --> 00:18:22,840 All right, So for for us to grow in effectiveness and number 315 00:18:22,840 --> 00:18:27,200 requires for people to come, but it also requires for people to 316 00:18:27,200 --> 00:18:29,800 stay. And so we're going to talk 317 00:18:29,800 --> 00:18:32,160 around that a bit for us to grow. 318 00:18:33,440 --> 00:18:35,480 I've just said that move on, David. 319 00:18:36,040 --> 00:18:41,360 But we must play our part here. We must play our part in seeing 320 00:18:41,360 --> 00:18:45,360 people come along. We must play our part in helping 321 00:18:45,360 --> 00:18:48,080 people connect, in helping people. 322 00:18:48,560 --> 00:18:52,680 You know, we are a family, this local church, we are a family, 323 00:18:53,120 --> 00:18:56,480 and we want to see people join this family because we love this 324 00:18:56,480 --> 00:18:58,400 family. This is a good family. 325 00:18:58,720 --> 00:19:01,560 The Lord has built a lovely family here. 326 00:19:02,040 --> 00:19:05,240 And I'm not ashamed to want people to come and join this 327 00:19:05,240 --> 00:19:06,920 family because I enjoy this family. 328 00:19:06,920 --> 00:19:09,920 This is God's family. So we want to see people come. 329 00:19:09,920 --> 00:19:13,120 We want to see people stay. And it's going to require us 330 00:19:13,440 --> 00:19:16,320 bringing them along, inviting them along, helping them 331 00:19:16,520 --> 00:19:19,640 connect. And so three points for building 332 00:19:19,640 --> 00:19:25,000 people in #1 invite. We must invite people. 333 00:19:26,400 --> 00:19:29,520 If we don't invite people, they're probably not going to 334 00:19:29,520 --> 00:19:35,680 come extend extending that that wow, have you guys got pen and 335 00:19:35,680 --> 00:19:37,000 paper? Maybe just write that down. 336 00:19:37,000 --> 00:19:40,720 It's amazing, right? Extending an invitation to 337 00:19:40,720 --> 00:19:43,560 people to come is very important. 338 00:19:43,760 --> 00:19:48,320 If I never asked Hillary, my wife out, we probably wouldn't 339 00:19:48,320 --> 00:19:52,120 be married right now, right? Like if we probably, I don't 340 00:19:52,120 --> 00:19:54,200 know, maybe she would, she probably would have asked me 341 00:19:54,200 --> 00:19:56,040 out. No, she she wouldn't have. 342 00:19:57,040 --> 00:20:00,840 This is exactly right. But do we see what we're saying? 343 00:20:00,840 --> 00:20:03,080 Right? Like if I didn't, if I didn't 344 00:20:03,080 --> 00:20:06,480 step out, if I didn't invite, if I didn't ask, we wouldn't. 345 00:20:06,600 --> 00:20:08,640 There wouldn't be no relationship here. 346 00:20:08,920 --> 00:20:12,440 That is the same for everyone. If we don't invite them along, 347 00:20:12,480 --> 00:20:14,360 we will never grow relationship with them. 348 00:20:14,360 --> 00:20:16,960 That's like step one is invite right? 349 00:20:17,800 --> 00:20:20,800 And again, I'm not just talking about this coming weekend. 350 00:20:21,040 --> 00:20:24,280 I'm talking about every meeting. I'm not just talking about 351 00:20:24,280 --> 00:20:26,400 Sunday meeting. I'm talking about community 352 00:20:26,400 --> 00:20:28,240 group. I'm talking about prayer group. 353 00:20:28,240 --> 00:20:31,840 I'm talking about our homes. I'm talking about coffee. 354 00:20:31,840 --> 00:20:34,880 I'm talking about whatever it is that we, whatever way we can 355 00:20:34,880 --> 00:20:38,440 connect with people to build some relationship, we have to 356 00:20:38,440 --> 00:20:41,120 invite them if we're going to be seated with them talking. 357 00:20:41,840 --> 00:20:45,040 It's very important. Can I say that if you struggle 358 00:20:45,040 --> 00:20:47,680 to make friends, these are really good points as well. 359 00:20:47,680 --> 00:20:51,840 There's three points #1 invite someone, invite someone to your 360 00:20:51,840 --> 00:20:53,120 house. If you, if you don't have a lot 361 00:20:53,120 --> 00:20:55,800 of friends, step one, invite someone. 362 00:20:56,560 --> 00:20:59,520 It's amazing. Anyway, so that's step one. 363 00:21:01,080 --> 00:21:04,240 Why do we invite someone to church? 364 00:21:04,320 --> 00:21:07,120 Like, so why would we invite someone to church next Sunday? 365 00:21:08,720 --> 00:21:13,080 I'm going to tell you, God has a plan to reconnect with lost sons 366 00:21:13,080 --> 00:21:15,160 and daughters. That's God's plan. 367 00:21:16,040 --> 00:21:19,120 He, he. But not only reconnect, not only 368 00:21:19,120 --> 00:21:22,600 Jesus didn't just come to reconnect people with God the 369 00:21:22,600 --> 00:21:25,440 Father, he also wants to protect them. 370 00:21:25,720 --> 00:21:27,760 He also wants to provide for them. 371 00:21:28,000 --> 00:21:30,840 He wants to make them whole. He wants to restore them. 372 00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:34,240 He wants them to become what he created them to be. 373 00:21:34,240 --> 00:21:38,720 He wants them to become like himself because mankind was 374 00:21:38,720 --> 00:21:42,760 created in God's image and God wants to restore that. 375 00:21:43,160 --> 00:21:46,960 That's why we invite people to church, because we want them to 376 00:21:46,960 --> 00:21:50,680 be restored to the Lord. And God wants us to tell 377 00:21:50,680 --> 00:21:55,680 everybody how good he is. Like we, we get saved. 378 00:21:55,680 --> 00:21:58,600 God just doesn't want us to keep this to ourselves. 379 00:21:59,440 --> 00:22:03,520 You know, it's like, if you realize how good God is, you 380 00:22:03,520 --> 00:22:06,680 want to tell people, right? So there's a revelation that 381 00:22:06,680 --> 00:22:09,000 needs to take place. You need to know how good God is 382 00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:11,480 and how wonderful he is and how he's transformed your life. 383 00:22:11,480 --> 00:22:12,560 Do you know what you do after that? 384 00:22:12,720 --> 00:22:16,600 You want to tell people, right? That's it's sort of just happens 385 00:22:16,600 --> 00:22:21,720 like, but I think we've we've hit a bit of a a bit of a snare 386 00:22:21,720 --> 00:22:26,160 as the church where we've sort of just we don't seem to be that 387 00:22:26,160 --> 00:22:28,680 excited about being a Christian anymore as a whole. 388 00:22:28,680 --> 00:22:32,000 I'm not not talking about you guys like you guys are excited, 389 00:22:32,400 --> 00:22:35,160 but like the, if you look at the church as a whole, it's just 390 00:22:35,160 --> 00:22:39,600 like, I remember stepping foot in church after a long absence 391 00:22:40,240 --> 00:22:43,640 and I was pretty excited. Like I'm like, yes, like my, my 392 00:22:43,640 --> 00:22:45,320 life has changed. He is good. 393 00:22:45,760 --> 00:22:47,920 This is amazing going to go be with the Christians. 394 00:22:47,920 --> 00:22:52,440 And yes, there was many people that shared that same excitement 395 00:22:52,440 --> 00:22:55,920 and, and zeal for God's house, but there was many that didn't. 396 00:22:57,000 --> 00:22:59,600 You run into a lot of people that would tell you that they're 397 00:22:59,600 --> 00:23:01,600 believers and they're Christians, but they don't seem 398 00:23:01,600 --> 00:23:04,560 that excited about it. They don't even really tell you 399 00:23:04,560 --> 00:23:07,240 about it. It's like it seems that, you 400 00:23:07,240 --> 00:23:09,240 know, they want to talk about their problems and their 401 00:23:09,240 --> 00:23:11,960 hardships more than they want to talk about how good the Lord is. 402 00:23:13,160 --> 00:23:15,520 And so we want to talk about how, how good the Lord is. 403 00:23:15,520 --> 00:23:20,000 We want to be a house that magnifies how good the Lord is 404 00:23:20,440 --> 00:23:23,360 that the first thing that comes out of our mouth isn't how how 405 00:23:23,520 --> 00:23:27,200 much our week has sucked, right? The first thing when we see each 406 00:23:27,200 --> 00:23:29,440 other is just like, oh gosh, it's good to be in the House of 407 00:23:29,440 --> 00:23:32,160 the Lord again. It's good to see you, You know, 408 00:23:32,840 --> 00:23:34,920 how was your week? It's been hard, but man, I'm 409 00:23:34,920 --> 00:23:37,240 glad to be here. I'm glad to be amongst these 410 00:23:37,240 --> 00:23:39,920 people because I know that when I when we come together and we 411 00:23:40,000 --> 00:23:42,840 worship God and when we pray for one another and we, when we, 412 00:23:43,000 --> 00:23:46,120 when we be a family, that I'll leave feeling better. 413 00:23:46,600 --> 00:23:48,200 I leave this place feeling better. 414 00:23:48,200 --> 00:23:51,240 Do you guys leave this place feeling better, feeling 415 00:23:51,240 --> 00:23:52,160 refreshed? We do. 416 00:23:52,840 --> 00:23:55,640 That's one of the reasons that we would invite people to come 417 00:23:56,360 --> 00:23:58,520 because people aren't doing well. 418 00:23:58,640 --> 00:24:02,320 If you're living outside of of Christ and outside of his 419 00:24:02,320 --> 00:24:05,480 blessing and outside of his favour, life is very difficult. 420 00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:07,600 It's hard enough for us, isn't it? 421 00:24:08,160 --> 00:24:11,600 Life is tough. How much more for those who 422 00:24:11,680 --> 00:24:13,840 don't have any hope that don't know Him? 423 00:24:13,840 --> 00:24:16,680 That's why we want these people to come and and see Him and know 424 00:24:16,680 --> 00:24:18,320 Him. So we don't want to keep it 425 00:24:18,320 --> 00:24:22,560 secret. We want to be eager to share 426 00:24:22,560 --> 00:24:30,800 what the Lord has done. 2 Corinthians 5 verse 20, it says 427 00:24:31,320 --> 00:24:36,840 now, then, now that we're saved. We are ambassadors of Christ as 428 00:24:36,840 --> 00:24:39,960 though God, we're pleading through us. 429 00:24:40,360 --> 00:24:44,480 We implore you on Christ's behalf, be reconciled to God. 430 00:24:44,480 --> 00:24:50,160 You catch the heart of that. It's like we are crying out for 431 00:24:50,160 --> 00:24:54,320 people to know this wonderful God that we know. 432 00:24:55,400 --> 00:24:57,760 This is why we invite people to church. 433 00:24:58,520 --> 00:25:00,000 You know, church is not a building. 434 00:25:00,240 --> 00:25:02,600 You got to, we got to remind ourselves of this. 435 00:25:02,600 --> 00:25:05,200 Church is not a building, It's not an organization. 436 00:25:05,520 --> 00:25:08,160 It's it's not, you know, somewhere that we gather, the 437 00:25:08,280 --> 00:25:13,520 church is a group of believers that know him, that praise him. 438 00:25:13,800 --> 00:25:16,880 So when you're inviting someone to church, you're inviting them 439 00:25:16,880 --> 00:25:22,920 to be in God's house in the family, to experience something 440 00:25:22,920 --> 00:25:26,440 of who the Lord is that they would that they could look at us 441 00:25:26,440 --> 00:25:30,520 and see him and that they would be engaging with a, a people 442 00:25:30,520 --> 00:25:35,560 that are just longing for people to to see him and to know him. 443 00:25:35,600 --> 00:25:37,440 Amen. It's got to be the cry of our 444 00:25:37,440 --> 00:25:39,200 hearts. This is the church that we're 445 00:25:39,200 --> 00:25:44,920 building here, a Church of people that are desperate, 446 00:25:45,320 --> 00:25:49,800 desperate to see this community saved, desperate to see this 447 00:25:49,800 --> 00:25:53,080 city won and taken for the Lord. Amen. 448 00:25:53,080 --> 00:25:56,840 Hope that there's stirs some desperateness, if that's a word 449 00:25:56,960 --> 00:25:59,480 in our hearts. Desperation. 450 00:25:59,480 --> 00:26:05,120 Thank you, love. Desperation to see the Lord move 451 00:26:05,120 --> 00:26:09,600 powerfully in our city and in our community, Justin shared 452 00:26:09,600 --> 00:26:14,200 Luke 14, verse 23. Let's go there, please. 453 00:26:14,320 --> 00:26:21,160 Luke 14, verse 23. It says here that the master 454 00:26:21,160 --> 00:26:25,640 said to the servant, go out into the highways and the hedges and 455 00:26:25,640 --> 00:26:29,880 can compel them to come in, that my house may be filled. 456 00:26:31,760 --> 00:26:33,840 It's not selective, Justin reminded us. 457 00:26:33,840 --> 00:26:37,360 It's not selective. It's not like because we do 458 00:26:37,360 --> 00:26:41,720 this, I do this. I look at people and I look at 459 00:26:41,920 --> 00:26:44,120 their lives that they live. I look at their interests, I 460 00:26:44,120 --> 00:26:46,640 look at who they are, like people, friends, stuff like 461 00:26:46,640 --> 00:26:49,360 that. And I make a call whether I 462 00:26:49,360 --> 00:26:51,360 think. They would want to come to 463 00:26:51,360 --> 00:26:54,200 church or not. I make a call whether they're 464 00:26:54,200 --> 00:26:56,560 ready to receive the gospel or not. 465 00:26:56,720 --> 00:27:00,960 That is not my call to make. That is not my call to make. 466 00:27:01,600 --> 00:27:04,520 We are called to sow seed to water. 467 00:27:04,680 --> 00:27:07,560 We are called to go and invite all of them. 468 00:27:07,640 --> 00:27:11,600 Everyone just invite, invite, invite, invite, right? 469 00:27:11,960 --> 00:27:13,880 Let the Lord do what the Lord's going to do. 470 00:27:14,360 --> 00:27:17,320 Those that are ready will come. Those that won't, will not. 471 00:27:17,760 --> 00:27:21,280 Those that God's calling to Himself will open their hearts 472 00:27:21,280 --> 00:27:24,440 to Him and be saved. Those that aren't ready will 473 00:27:24,440 --> 00:27:27,320 not, but we are. We are called to invite all of 474 00:27:27,320 --> 00:27:29,080 them. This is just one scripture that 475 00:27:29,080 --> 00:27:31,840 teaches that it must be unselective. 476 00:27:32,000 --> 00:27:35,280 We must be unselective in who we are inviting and call along. 477 00:27:36,400 --> 00:27:40,400 The Lord's desire is for the house to be full is our desire 478 00:27:40,400 --> 00:27:45,400 for his house to be full. My desire is for his house to be 479 00:27:45,400 --> 00:27:47,320 full. Like I, I want my house to be 480 00:27:47,320 --> 00:27:49,480 full. I want to sit around, you know, 481 00:27:49,480 --> 00:27:53,560 at the table and and and have people there that are coming to 482 00:27:53,560 --> 00:27:56,320 know him that I can witness to Amen. 483 00:27:56,920 --> 00:28:01,560 This, this is like this is the the fulfilment of life right 484 00:28:01,560 --> 00:28:04,640 here in our hearts. This is the reason that you and 485 00:28:04,640 --> 00:28:06,400 I are here. If we're living a life that's 486 00:28:06,400 --> 00:28:10,320 unfulfilling, it's because we are not living the mandate of 487 00:28:10,320 --> 00:28:13,880 God because we're not living for his plan and purpose. 488 00:28:13,880 --> 00:28:17,120 We might be living for our own. That would be the reason why our 489 00:28:17,120 --> 00:28:20,000 hearts are were unfulfilled in our hearts. 490 00:28:20,360 --> 00:28:25,080 When you start to take on the Lord's desires and the Lord's 491 00:28:25,080 --> 00:28:28,360 will and his desires that his house would be full if I just 492 00:28:28,360 --> 00:28:31,560 take a hold of that and just go Lord, if your desire is for us 493 00:28:31,560 --> 00:28:34,720 to have a full house, my. Desire is going to be to to see 494 00:28:34,720 --> 00:28:38,480 the house full and because your desire is to see the house full, 495 00:28:38,600 --> 00:28:41,680 I'm going to invite all of the people to come and, and let you 496 00:28:41,840 --> 00:28:44,760 sort through who's who's you know, called to come and all of 497 00:28:44,760 --> 00:28:47,280 the rest of it I'm. Going to be unselective. 498 00:28:47,800 --> 00:28:50,160 You know, we've got some Easter Flyers and stuff like that. 499 00:28:50,160 --> 00:28:53,640 Take some Flyers, start handing them out, give them to your 500 00:28:53,640 --> 00:28:55,280 friends, your family, your neighbors, whatever. 501 00:28:55,280 --> 00:28:57,920 Go put them in letter boxes. I don't know, like we haven't 502 00:28:57,920 --> 00:29:01,280 organized a letter box drop. If you feel like it, grab a 503 00:29:01,280 --> 00:29:03,720 stack and go put some in some letter boxes around here. 504 00:29:03,720 --> 00:29:05,680 Don't put them in the ones that say no junk mail. 505 00:29:06,600 --> 00:29:10,360 OK, So you know, like this is just like these Flyers are just 506 00:29:10,360 --> 00:29:12,440 a way that we can reach out to people. 507 00:29:12,960 --> 00:29:15,480 It's you know, if you're not confident to invite someone 508 00:29:15,480 --> 00:29:18,720 personally, just hand them this and say, Hey, we're, we're going 509 00:29:18,720 --> 00:29:20,160 to have a wonderful time next Sunday. 510 00:29:20,160 --> 00:29:22,000 You should come along, bring your family, bring your friends. 511 00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:24,200 All right, so there's ways that we can do this. 512 00:29:24,480 --> 00:29:26,240 We try to make it easier for ourselves. 513 00:29:26,680 --> 00:29:30,440 Pray over the Flyers, like through faith, right? 514 00:29:30,760 --> 00:29:36,120 We we do pray over these Flyers, pick it up and say, Lord, won't 515 00:29:36,120 --> 00:29:38,800 you call whoever this wherever this landslord, I pray that you 516 00:29:38,800 --> 00:29:42,200 would do what I'm unable to do that you would stir hearts that 517 00:29:42,200 --> 00:29:44,800 you would bring them along and and quote the scripture. 518 00:29:44,800 --> 00:29:47,600 We've been talking a lot about speaking God's word. 519 00:29:48,000 --> 00:29:52,680 Quote the scripture, say, Lord, your word says that your desire 520 00:29:52,880 --> 00:29:57,280 is to have a full house. So I'm stepping out with this 521 00:29:57,280 --> 00:30:00,280 and I'm going to give it with to someone and I'm going to trust 522 00:30:00,280 --> 00:30:02,440 that because it's your will and your desire that you're going to 523 00:30:02,440 --> 00:30:04,120 bring the people in. Amen. 524 00:30:04,120 --> 00:30:10,600 Pray in, pray in, in step with his word, take a hold of his 525 00:30:10,600 --> 00:30:15,520 word by faith as we started speaking about all right, so the 526 00:30:15,520 --> 00:30:17,560 second thing, I feel like I'm taking a long time here. 527 00:30:18,000 --> 00:30:19,880 I am taking a long time. All right, I've got to hurry up. 528 00:30:20,400 --> 00:30:27,560 Second point, serve and connect once people come like our job's 529 00:30:27,560 --> 00:30:29,680 not finished, right? Like we are. 530 00:30:29,720 --> 00:30:33,360 We are people here that are called to serve and connect with 531 00:30:33,360 --> 00:30:37,000 these people. And so we're going to have some 532 00:30:37,000 --> 00:30:39,320 like Easter, we're going to have some fun, We're going to have 533 00:30:39,320 --> 00:30:40,760 some fellowship. We're going to have some food. 534 00:30:41,200 --> 00:30:45,680 We're going to have, you know, an Easter egg hunt for our kids, 535 00:30:45,680 --> 00:30:48,240 all of these things. But if you're a part of this 536 00:30:48,240 --> 00:30:52,600 church, if this is your home, if this is your family, there's no 537 00:30:52,600 --> 00:30:55,680 sitting on the bench here like you're on the team. 538 00:30:55,760 --> 00:30:57,480 Like this team doesn't have a bench. 539 00:30:57,480 --> 00:31:00,160 It's like you just get full game time, right? 540 00:31:00,160 --> 00:31:02,600 There's no, there's no rest, no bench. 541 00:31:02,680 --> 00:31:06,000 We're always working doesn't mean you can't sit down and and 542 00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:07,920 play this game. This is a game you can play 543 00:31:07,920 --> 00:31:09,520 sitting down. Thank you, thank you, Lord. 544 00:31:10,160 --> 00:31:14,120 But we're we're all a part of the team and we're all called to 545 00:31:14,120 --> 00:31:16,480 to connect and reach people that come here. 546 00:31:17,240 --> 00:31:19,400 That means that we need to talk with people. 547 00:31:19,520 --> 00:31:23,640 That means that when you, if you bring some friends along, make 548 00:31:23,640 --> 00:31:26,040 sure that you're just not the only person that's going to 549 00:31:26,040 --> 00:31:29,800 stand there and talk to them. I would trust that we as a 550 00:31:29,800 --> 00:31:33,520 family would take the step to, to go and, and talk to people 551 00:31:33,520 --> 00:31:36,160 that we don't know. I pray that's true. 552 00:31:36,240 --> 00:31:38,200 I hope that's true for our visitors today. 553 00:31:38,800 --> 00:31:44,880 But your job can also be to take them to, to and introduce them 554 00:31:44,880 --> 00:31:47,480 to people. You know, if I, if I bring my 555 00:31:47,480 --> 00:31:51,960 friend Johnny and Johnny loves to eat meat, I will take him to 556 00:31:51,960 --> 00:31:54,240 speak to Dan because Dan likes to eat meat. 557 00:31:54,440 --> 00:31:57,400 This is a silly thing, right? I'm being silly, but common 558 00:31:57,400 --> 00:31:59,920 interests is a way that we can connect people together. 559 00:32:00,640 --> 00:32:03,920 And so, you know, just, it's just one of the ways like go and 560 00:32:03,920 --> 00:32:06,240 introduce them to someone that you think they might connect 561 00:32:06,240 --> 00:32:08,440 with. We're going to, we're going to 562 00:32:08,840 --> 00:32:11,720 obviously have coffee and all those serving in the church. 563 00:32:11,720 --> 00:32:14,840 Connecting with people means offering them coffee. 564 00:32:14,840 --> 00:32:19,480 It means offering them food. It means taking their plates. 565 00:32:19,480 --> 00:32:21,560 It means are you finished with that cup? 566 00:32:21,560 --> 00:32:24,280 Can I take that from you? This is a service class. 567 00:32:24,840 --> 00:32:27,600 This is a way that we can connect with people that God 568 00:32:27,600 --> 00:32:29,800 brings in. We are going to serve these 569 00:32:29,800 --> 00:32:32,160 people. We are going to be a church that 570 00:32:32,160 --> 00:32:37,000 serves not just on Sunday in our community groups, in our men's 571 00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:40,000 group and all of the things. Whenever we're together, we're 572 00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:42,560 going to be a group of believers that serves. 573 00:32:42,560 --> 00:32:44,320 Why are we going to be servant hearted? 574 00:32:44,560 --> 00:32:49,040 Because the Lord is servant hearted, Jesus came to serve. 575 00:32:49,320 --> 00:32:53,000 Matthew 20 verse 26. I'm going to keep moving God. 576 00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:55,080 So I'm just going to read. OK, You could turn there if you 577 00:32:55,080 --> 00:32:59,120 like. Matthew 2026 Yet it shall not be 578 00:32:59,120 --> 00:33:03,400 among you, but whoever desires to become great among you, let 579 00:33:03,400 --> 00:33:06,640 him be your servant. Whoever desires to be first 580 00:33:06,640 --> 00:33:08,640 among you, let him be your slave. 581 00:33:09,080 --> 00:33:13,320 Just as the Son of God did not come to be served, but to serve 582 00:33:13,560 --> 00:33:18,760 and to give his life a ransom for many, Jesus came to serve. 583 00:33:19,200 --> 00:33:22,080 And when you read about the life of Jesus in the scripture, you 584 00:33:22,080 --> 00:33:26,440 will see that Jesus was a servant and we are called to be 585 00:33:26,440 --> 00:33:29,480 servants. When people come into the 586 00:33:29,480 --> 00:33:34,200 family, when people come into our meetings, they, they will 587 00:33:34,200 --> 00:33:37,640 see Christ. If we're being Christ like when 588 00:33:37,640 --> 00:33:40,000 we're serving, they see something of the Lord. 589 00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:44,120 Can I say that in a room full of if you had a room full of 590 00:33:44,320 --> 00:33:48,040 believers and people that don't know him, if it was like a 5050 591 00:33:48,040 --> 00:33:52,160 split and we were eating and fellowshipping, we should be 592 00:33:52,160 --> 00:33:56,520 able to see those that know him. We should, you should. 593 00:33:56,520 --> 00:34:00,840 There should be a vast difference between believers who 594 00:34:00,920 --> 00:34:04,920 are seeking to be Christ like and people that don't know him 595 00:34:04,960 --> 00:34:08,199 and don't even know how to be like him, right? 596 00:34:08,199 --> 00:34:13,080 And that means that, you know, that's something of so in 597 00:34:13,080 --> 00:34:17,960 heaven, as in as on earth, so in heaven, it's like people could 598 00:34:17,960 --> 00:34:20,520 experience something of the heart of God when they're in our 599 00:34:20,520 --> 00:34:22,360 midst. And service is one of those 600 00:34:22,360 --> 00:34:26,159 amazing things that we can do. Can I say that our our community 601 00:34:26,159 --> 00:34:29,120 group, we, we love to get together and eat food at our 602 00:34:29,120 --> 00:34:31,560 community groups. Can I say that it should be a 603 00:34:31,560 --> 00:34:34,679 fight to see who goes last, right? 604 00:34:34,679 --> 00:34:38,600 Like a group of believers should be so wanting to serve each 605 00:34:38,600 --> 00:34:41,120 other that no one's even willing to go first. 606 00:34:42,040 --> 00:34:45,800 You do see this if you look for this when we're together, if you 607 00:34:45,800 --> 00:34:49,520 look for this. You will see this, you will see 608 00:34:49,520 --> 00:34:53,159 people that are putting others first look for it because 609 00:34:53,159 --> 00:34:56,639 there's an example here that people set and it's a Christ 610 00:34:56,639 --> 00:35:01,200 like example, people that will. When serving themselves a drink, 611 00:35:01,200 --> 00:35:03,720 if they're thirsty, they go to get a drink, but they will, they 612 00:35:03,720 --> 00:35:07,680 will stand there and they'll go, does anyone else want to drink? 613 00:35:08,280 --> 00:35:10,680 Right. And they'll, they'll pour 5 or 6 614 00:35:10,680 --> 00:35:12,440 drinks before they even get to themselves. 615 00:35:12,440 --> 00:35:14,920 That's service. That's servant heartedness. 616 00:35:15,280 --> 00:35:18,680 That's like when we hand out the plates and because you know, 617 00:35:18,680 --> 00:35:22,040 we've got all this food to eat, it's like you pass your plate 618 00:35:22,040 --> 00:35:25,120 plate on to the next person. These are simple things, guys, 619 00:35:25,440 --> 00:35:28,480 but this is it shows what's going on in our hearts. 620 00:35:28,800 --> 00:35:31,600 If you're handing your plate to someone else so that they can go 621 00:35:31,600 --> 00:35:34,560 first, you are putting someone before yourself. 622 00:35:35,120 --> 00:35:38,840 That is the heart of God that we would put others before 623 00:35:38,840 --> 00:35:41,080 ourselves. Very practical things, but 624 00:35:41,080 --> 00:35:45,280 things that you can see, tangible things, right? 625 00:35:45,600 --> 00:35:49,200 Very special. So we need to example this and 626 00:35:49,200 --> 00:35:51,280 we need to remind ourselves of this. 627 00:35:51,280 --> 00:35:54,040 Don't be harsh. Oh, Gee, I can see that you're 628 00:35:54,040 --> 00:35:57,120 serving yourself there. Like that's, that's not helpful, 629 00:35:57,120 --> 00:35:58,440 right? That's not a, that's not a 630 00:35:58,440 --> 00:35:59,920 heart. That's not God's heart. 631 00:35:59,920 --> 00:36:03,560 God didn't do that to us. Jesus would never do that to us, 632 00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:06,760 right? Jesus exampled and taught. 633 00:36:07,280 --> 00:36:10,640 And so you can hand the plate to someone and say, do you see what 634 00:36:10,640 --> 00:36:11,920 I did there? Right? 635 00:36:11,920 --> 00:36:14,040 Like you can do that. It's OK. 636 00:36:14,360 --> 00:36:18,280 It's stirring us for, you know, a heart of service and worship 637 00:36:18,280 --> 00:36:19,320 to our King. Amen. 638 00:36:19,520 --> 00:36:23,840 It's good stuff. John 1335 says by this all will 639 00:36:23,840 --> 00:36:27,640 know that you are my disciples. If you have love for one 640 00:36:27,640 --> 00:36:30,000 another. It's like people that come in 641 00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:33,480 will know that we are disciples of the Lord because we love one 642 00:36:33,480 --> 00:36:35,160 another. How are they going to know that 643 00:36:35,160 --> 00:36:38,440 we love one another not just because we tell them, Oh yeah, I 644 00:36:38,440 --> 00:36:40,280 love Daniel. Cool. 645 00:36:40,800 --> 00:36:42,640 How would they know? Because I'm going to hand him my 646 00:36:42,640 --> 00:36:45,160 plate, right? I'm going to say you go first. 647 00:36:45,840 --> 00:36:50,040 That's what love is. Love is laying down your life 648 00:36:50,040 --> 00:36:52,000 for someone else. Go and read it. 649 00:36:52,000 --> 00:36:54,760 That's what. Isn't that Jesus's example that 650 00:36:54,760 --> 00:36:59,960 he came to lay down his life for you and I for living for others. 651 00:37:00,280 --> 00:37:03,160 That's what love is. So let's start to example love 652 00:37:03,160 --> 00:37:04,280 when we're together. Amen. 653 00:37:04,760 --> 00:37:07,080 How else did Jesus example service? 654 00:37:07,080 --> 00:37:10,720 I'm trying, I'm really trying to move fast now by washing with 655 00:37:10,720 --> 00:37:13,080 the word. When Jesus was with people, he 656 00:37:13,080 --> 00:37:16,080 spoke life. He he breathed hope. 657 00:37:16,480 --> 00:37:19,320 He spoke words of truth and of encouragement. 658 00:37:20,040 --> 00:37:22,760 Jesus prayed. Jesus prayed for people. 659 00:37:22,800 --> 00:37:26,160 Jesus healed people. Jesus set people free from the 660 00:37:26,160 --> 00:37:31,200 things that were binding them. Jesus sent people away full, not 661 00:37:31,200 --> 00:37:36,240 just in their tummies spiritually full, but Jesus also 662 00:37:36,240 --> 00:37:38,720 sent them away full in their tummies. 663 00:37:38,800 --> 00:37:42,920 Didn't he just the disciples were like, oh, just tell him to 664 00:37:42,920 --> 00:37:45,200 go buy some food. No, you feed them. 665 00:37:46,080 --> 00:37:47,240 You feed them. Why? 666 00:37:47,240 --> 00:37:50,200 I'm not going to send them away and get weary and stumble. 667 00:37:50,360 --> 00:37:53,800 You feed them. This is Jesus teaching and 668 00:37:53,800 --> 00:37:55,960 exampling what the church should look like. 669 00:37:56,240 --> 00:37:58,840 We're going to feed people the word of God. 670 00:37:58,840 --> 00:38:02,680 We're going to wash with the word, word of, of the Lord by 671 00:38:02,680 --> 00:38:04,000 faith. We're going to take a hold of 672 00:38:04,000 --> 00:38:06,320 it, but we are going to feed people. 673 00:38:06,600 --> 00:38:10,040 We have a food ministry here. When we give people bags of 674 00:38:10,040 --> 00:38:14,120 food, you know what we're doing? We're following Jesus's example. 675 00:38:14,560 --> 00:38:17,320 We have food here. We don't charge for coffee. 676 00:38:17,320 --> 00:38:19,440 We don't charge for cakes. And this why? 677 00:38:19,640 --> 00:38:23,920 Because we were told to provide for people and the Lord will 678 00:38:23,920 --> 00:38:26,200 provide for us as we provide for others. 679 00:38:26,240 --> 00:38:28,640 Amen. So this is something of what 680 00:38:28,640 --> 00:38:32,120 this church needs to look like. It needs to be a church that's 681 00:38:32,360 --> 00:38:35,120 preaching the Word, speaking the Word, living out the Word, 682 00:38:35,360 --> 00:38:39,000 praying for one another, seeing people healed, set free. 683 00:38:39,000 --> 00:38:43,080 We are trusting that when people come in here next week, every 684 00:38:43,080 --> 00:38:46,560 week after that today, even if you come in here and you're 685 00:38:46,560 --> 00:38:50,000 heavy and you and you have pain in your body, if you have 686 00:38:50,000 --> 00:38:54,440 illness, we're trusting that in the in God's house, there is 687 00:38:54,440 --> 00:38:57,080 freedom, there is hope, there is healing, Amen. 688 00:38:57,200 --> 00:39:00,200 We stand for that not just because we want that, but 689 00:39:00,200 --> 00:39:01,800 because the word of God says that. 690 00:39:02,040 --> 00:39:05,000 So we will trust God through faith and believe that he will 691 00:39:05,000 --> 00:39:09,480 heal his people, Amen. And he does all right. 692 00:39:10,800 --> 00:39:15,200 This is something of on earth as it is in heaven. 693 00:39:15,240 --> 00:39:19,360 There is no sickness in heaven. There is no depression in 694 00:39:19,360 --> 00:39:22,000 heaven. There is no hunger in heaven. 695 00:39:22,520 --> 00:39:25,680 There is. God provides for His people. 696 00:39:25,720 --> 00:39:28,160 Amen On earth as it is in heaven. 697 00:39:29,120 --> 00:39:33,440 Third Point, follow up. This is probably the most 698 00:39:33,440 --> 00:39:36,680 uncomfortable, I think, you know, it's inviting someone 699 00:39:36,680 --> 00:39:38,840 along. Takes a bit of courage, but you 700 00:39:38,840 --> 00:39:41,240 can do it. Speaking to someone you don't 701 00:39:41,240 --> 00:39:44,160 know, again takes a bit of courage, but you can do it. 702 00:39:44,440 --> 00:39:48,280 Following up requires that we get some information from 703 00:39:48,280 --> 00:39:50,880 people. You can't follow up with anyone 704 00:39:50,880 --> 00:39:54,960 if you have no point of contact. And so, you know, I've said 705 00:39:54,960 --> 00:39:57,560 three things. It's like invite, connect and 706 00:39:57,560 --> 00:40:00,040 follow up. These things are going to help 707 00:40:00,040 --> 00:40:04,760 us build a church, you know, into the future that that is 708 00:40:04,760 --> 00:40:08,880 growing. We need for this to be our our 709 00:40:08,880 --> 00:40:12,320 culture here. And so if we've, if we've 710 00:40:12,320 --> 00:40:15,440 invited, if we've seen people invited, if we've connected 711 00:40:15,440 --> 00:40:19,240 well, if we've blessed people, prayed for people, fed people, 712 00:40:20,040 --> 00:40:23,120 connected with people, you know, like introduced people, all of 713 00:40:23,120 --> 00:40:26,320 these things. Now we need, we need people's 714 00:40:26,840 --> 00:40:28,760 information. We need for, to be able to 715 00:40:28,760 --> 00:40:33,600 connect with people into, into the, you know, into the weekend 716 00:40:33,600 --> 00:40:37,320 so that they can come. And a good way to do this is to 717 00:40:37,320 --> 00:40:40,320 throw out another invite. It's like the process starts 718 00:40:40,320 --> 00:40:43,160 again, right? It's quite often I'll invite 719 00:40:43,160 --> 00:40:47,520 people to our community group, you know, so if we've got church 720 00:40:47,520 --> 00:40:51,280 on Sunday, on Friday night, we, we have a community group where 721 00:40:51,280 --> 00:40:54,280 we gather together and we eat and have fellowship and unpack 722 00:40:54,280 --> 00:40:56,720 his word and pray and all the things that we should be doing. 723 00:40:57,240 --> 00:41:00,840 So I'll invite people, I say, would you like to come and join 724 00:41:00,840 --> 00:41:04,200 us again on Friday night? And if someone says sure, I've 725 00:41:04,200 --> 00:41:06,560 enjoyed this, you know, and I would like to come. 726 00:41:07,080 --> 00:41:08,960 OK, great. Could I have your phone number? 727 00:41:08,960 --> 00:41:12,960 Could I have a social media can how can I connect with you to 728 00:41:12,960 --> 00:41:15,760 give you this information so that you can come and be a part 729 00:41:15,760 --> 00:41:18,160 of this? How like would you do you enjoy 730 00:41:18,160 --> 00:41:20,160 praying? Is prayer something that you're 731 00:41:20,160 --> 00:41:22,720 passionate about? We we gather here and we pray on 732 00:41:22,720 --> 00:41:24,200 Wednesday nights. Would you like to come? 733 00:41:24,200 --> 00:41:25,400 Yes, I would. OK, great. 734 00:41:25,920 --> 00:41:28,560 Can I get your phone number? Can I, how can I, you know, 735 00:41:28,560 --> 00:41:30,600 reach out to you? Or you could you could tell them 736 00:41:30,600 --> 00:41:34,640 when the meeting is. But you know, we want to build a 737 00:41:34,640 --> 00:41:38,720 culture of, of relational connection, right? 738 00:41:38,720 --> 00:41:42,120 And that means that like if you've connected with someone 739 00:41:42,720 --> 00:41:44,960 throughout a meeting or something like that, see if they 740 00:41:44,960 --> 00:41:47,560 want to grab a coffee, invite them to dinner at your house, 741 00:41:48,440 --> 00:41:51,240 throw out an invite, Let God take care of it. 742 00:41:51,320 --> 00:41:54,240 But just be bold, right? It's just one way that we can 743 00:41:54,560 --> 00:41:58,800 get people's information. Can I just say as well, we need 744 00:41:58,800 --> 00:42:00,840 to be wise here. I know that this is sort of 745 00:42:00,840 --> 00:42:03,280 going longer than I intended, but I need to say this. 746 00:42:03,520 --> 00:42:07,080 We need to be wise. OK, So when it comes to like 747 00:42:07,280 --> 00:42:10,600 young people or people of the opposite sex and stuff, please 748 00:42:10,600 --> 00:42:13,320 be wise. Like I wouldn't go to, you know, 749 00:42:13,360 --> 00:42:15,480 a single lady and say, Hey, can I get your phone number? 750 00:42:15,960 --> 00:42:17,960 Like it's do you see what I'm saying? 751 00:42:17,960 --> 00:42:20,680 Like there has we have to be a little wise in this. 752 00:42:20,680 --> 00:42:26,280 OK, If I took my wife along, it might be OK, But just let's just 753 00:42:26,280 --> 00:42:29,080 be a little careful. It might be easier just to ask 754 00:42:29,080 --> 00:42:32,320 someone else along or ask someone else to connect or 755 00:42:32,320 --> 00:42:33,600 something like that. Let's just be wise. 756 00:42:33,680 --> 00:42:36,560 I I know that you guys know what we're saying, right? 757 00:42:37,320 --> 00:42:39,880 Do you have anything to add to that, Justin? 758 00:42:39,880 --> 00:42:42,480 I haven't done a good job of like actually relaying that. 759 00:42:43,120 --> 00:42:44,440 Would you say anything more into that? 760 00:42:44,680 --> 00:42:45,920 That's all good. OK, cool. 761 00:42:46,280 --> 00:42:47,840 All right. So just be wise. 762 00:42:48,520 --> 00:42:52,640 All right, so the so the follow up I would say needs to happen 763 00:42:53,760 --> 00:42:56,560 sooner than later. Like I wouldn't let like 3 weeks 764 00:42:56,560 --> 00:43:00,320 go by and then send them a message and say, Hey, would you 765 00:43:00,320 --> 00:43:02,560 like to, you know, whatever, just be, be quick. 766 00:43:02,560 --> 00:43:06,280 If we've got a community group this Friday, I'm trying to 767 00:43:06,560 --> 00:43:10,600 invite people along that week and not in three weeks time, you 768 00:43:10,600 --> 00:43:14,000 see, because like it's just a way of just staying connected 769 00:43:14,000 --> 00:43:16,120 with people. I think it's just, it's just 770 00:43:16,120 --> 00:43:17,520 good. It helps people to know that we 771 00:43:17,520 --> 00:43:21,080 care as well. Like if if you ask for someone's 772 00:43:21,080 --> 00:43:23,640 information and then they don't hear from you from three weeks, 773 00:43:23,800 --> 00:43:27,200 Like if I said to Hillary when we met again, can I have your 774 00:43:27,200 --> 00:43:29,440 number? And she didn't hear from me for 775 00:43:29,440 --> 00:43:31,760 three weeks, she'd just be like, oh, OK, he wasn't really that 776 00:43:31,760 --> 00:43:34,560 interested, right? Is it just, it says something, 777 00:43:34,920 --> 00:43:37,200 it says that you care when you follow up quickly. 778 00:43:37,880 --> 00:43:42,400 And the other thing that I would say just on that is that we got 779 00:43:42,400 --> 00:43:47,240 to, we got to, we got to follow through with our word. 780 00:43:49,640 --> 00:43:52,640 You know, quite often, like I hear of, of people saying, Hey, 781 00:43:52,680 --> 00:43:53,960 you know, I'll give you a call sometime. 782 00:43:54,000 --> 00:43:56,440 I'll run into this, you know, with my friends and stuff like 783 00:43:56,440 --> 00:43:59,160 that outside of the church, you guys would never do this. 784 00:43:59,440 --> 00:44:01,440 But like you run into friends, say, hey, we should catch up 785 00:44:01,440 --> 00:44:03,040 sometime. Cool, I'll give you a call. 786 00:44:03,440 --> 00:44:06,320 Never hear from them. We want to be authentic. 787 00:44:06,640 --> 00:44:10,600 We want to be. It's like, let your yes be yes 788 00:44:10,600 --> 00:44:13,440 and your no be no. If you say that you're going to 789 00:44:13,440 --> 00:44:16,920 want to connect with someone, you, you have bound yourself 790 00:44:16,920 --> 00:44:20,440 with an oath because we follow through on our word. 791 00:44:20,960 --> 00:44:23,800 So just do what you, I just say all that just to say, just do 792 00:44:23,800 --> 00:44:27,320 what you say you will do because we are representing the King. 793 00:44:27,880 --> 00:44:30,840 The King doesn't do that. The Lord never says, Hey, I'll 794 00:44:30,840 --> 00:44:33,680 do this and doesn't do it. So that's just that's just my 795 00:44:33,680 --> 00:44:35,800 point there. We just got to do what we say 796 00:44:35,800 --> 00:44:39,520 that we will do. All right, So one last scripture 797 00:44:39,520 --> 00:44:42,800 here. I'm just going to get right to 798 00:44:42,800 --> 00:44:46,160 the point. Jesus heals this man beside the 799 00:44:46,560 --> 00:44:50,680 beside the pool and he tells him to pick up his bed and he goes 800 00:44:51,160 --> 00:44:53,800 and this this man doesn't know who Jesus is. 801 00:44:54,240 --> 00:44:56,800 And so, you know, when these questioned by the Pharisees and 802 00:44:56,800 --> 00:44:58,680 stuff, he goes, I don't even know who he was, but he just 803 00:44:58,680 --> 00:45:00,440 told me to like pick up my bed and I'm healed. 804 00:45:00,440 --> 00:45:02,800 And he's wonderful. And you know, this sort of thing 805 00:45:03,240 --> 00:45:07,880 it actually says here, yeah. So John 5 verse 14 actually says 806 00:45:07,880 --> 00:45:13,000 that after all that happened, Jesus found him in the temple. 807 00:45:13,560 --> 00:45:17,800 So Jesus actually sees him and finds him and goes and talks to 808 00:45:17,800 --> 00:45:20,960 him again and gives him further direction for his life. 809 00:45:20,960 --> 00:45:23,360 But my point is that Jesus follows up here. 810 00:45:24,080 --> 00:45:26,760 Jesus like doesn't just leave him alone. 811 00:45:26,760 --> 00:45:28,880 He actually finds him in the temple. 812 00:45:29,360 --> 00:45:32,960 And can I say that like, you know, possibly if Jesus was 813 00:45:32,960 --> 00:45:36,880 around today, he might follow up with, you know, a phone call or 814 00:45:36,880 --> 00:45:39,440 a text or go looking for them on social media, right? 815 00:45:39,440 --> 00:45:42,080 He might go, you know, this man that I healed, I wonder how he's 816 00:45:42,080 --> 00:45:43,320 doing. Do you see what I'm saying? 817 00:45:43,320 --> 00:45:46,640 Like Jesus followed up all that to say that there was an example 818 00:45:46,640 --> 00:45:50,880 that Jesus said that he didn't just send people away and then 819 00:45:50,880 --> 00:45:53,440 that that was it. He did want to follow up with 820 00:45:53,440 --> 00:45:54,960 people. He did want to build 821 00:45:55,160 --> 00:45:57,040 relationally. OK. 822 00:45:57,040 --> 00:46:00,400 So, so those three things, this is kind of a crash landing, but 823 00:46:00,400 --> 00:46:02,160 it's OK because we're sort of running out of time. 824 00:46:03,480 --> 00:46:06,840 What are the three things? Number one was invite. 825 00:46:07,000 --> 00:46:12,240 Number two, serve and connect #3 follow up. 826 00:46:12,440 --> 00:46:16,040 If we do these things, well, if we do these things as as a 827 00:46:16,040 --> 00:46:20,280 church, as a people and out of a good heart, again, like you 828 00:46:20,280 --> 00:46:23,720 could do all these things, you know, with, with wrong motive. 829 00:46:23,800 --> 00:46:28,320 But because we want to do these things because again, we are, we 830 00:46:28,320 --> 00:46:32,160 have a passion in here that wants to see people come to know 831 00:46:32,160 --> 00:46:33,640 him. So we're going to do these 832 00:46:33,640 --> 00:46:35,080 things. We're going to see these things 833 00:46:35,080 --> 00:46:38,240 put in place in this local church and the Lord's going to 834 00:46:38,240 --> 00:46:40,440 add to us. We've seen this. 835 00:46:40,440 --> 00:46:42,040 Can I say we've seen this happen? 836 00:46:42,720 --> 00:46:45,360 This does happen. And, and, and it is a way that 837 00:46:45,360 --> 00:46:47,320 we can do this, but it's going to take all of us. 838 00:46:47,720 --> 00:46:49,880 We can't rely on the few to do this. 839 00:46:50,760 --> 00:46:52,480 All of us can play our part in this. 840 00:46:53,200 --> 00:46:56,240 And so I hope that's OK. I know it's super, super 841 00:46:56,240 --> 00:47:03,040 practical today, but this is the season that God has in, has us 842 00:47:03,040 --> 00:47:06,600 in as a church. We're building foundationally. 843 00:47:07,000 --> 00:47:08,840 We're still putting the foundations in. 844 00:47:08,840 --> 00:47:10,480 The building hasn't gone up yet, guys. 845 00:47:10,920 --> 00:47:13,760 We're putting the, these, the which we're we're putting the 846 00:47:13,760 --> 00:47:18,600 cultures in place that need to be in place, that as people 847 00:47:18,600 --> 00:47:23,040 come, that they can be well taken care of and that we can be 848 00:47:23,080 --> 00:47:26,360 successful in being the lampstand that the Lord has 849 00:47:26,360 --> 00:47:27,720 called us to be. Amen. 850 00:47:27,720 --> 00:47:30,400 I hope that's OK. Could we just stand together? 851 00:47:30,880 --> 00:47:33,360 We're just going to pray. Yeah. 852 00:47:33,400 --> 00:47:36,520 Lord, we, we thank you for your word. 853 00:47:36,960 --> 00:47:41,480 We thank you, Lord, that your word washes us clean, makes us 854 00:47:41,480 --> 00:47:47,800 whole, you know, reveals who you are and transforms us to be like 855 00:47:47,800 --> 00:47:50,000 you. So through faith, Lord, we take 856 00:47:50,000 --> 00:47:53,040 a hold of the things that that you've shared in and through 857 00:47:53,040 --> 00:47:57,200 your scripture today. We want to be a church that has 858 00:47:57,200 --> 00:48:01,760 a healthy Kingdom culture that when people come into this 859 00:48:01,760 --> 00:48:05,200 building into this mix, into this family, Lord, that they 860 00:48:05,200 --> 00:48:08,520 would see and taste that the Lord is good, that they would 861 00:48:08,520 --> 00:48:12,200 experience something of the Kingdom of heaven here. 862 00:48:12,960 --> 00:48:16,200 Lord, I pray that I was just reminded this morning as we were 863 00:48:16,200 --> 00:48:20,320 singing, Lord, that your word says that your that your burden 864 00:48:20,320 --> 00:48:25,120 is light and your yoke is easy. And so I pray over all of us in 865 00:48:25,120 --> 00:48:30,080 this place, over any heaviness, Lord, over any struggles, over 866 00:48:30,080 --> 00:48:35,320 any pain whatsoever, over any sickness, over any frustration, 867 00:48:35,320 --> 00:48:37,040 whatever. It is anxiety. 868 00:48:37,640 --> 00:48:41,200 Lord, I speak to those things now, even as the water just 869 00:48:41,200 --> 00:48:43,680 hammered that mountain. I speak through faith with your 870 00:48:43,680 --> 00:48:45,360 word, with the water of the word. 871 00:48:46,000 --> 00:48:49,360 And I say, be healed in the name of Jesus, be set free, be 872 00:48:49,360 --> 00:48:52,760 delivered, made whole, for the Lord is King. 873 00:48:53,600 --> 00:48:57,960 He all authority has been given unto you, Lord Jesus, Palm 874 00:48:57,960 --> 00:49:00,360 Sunday. Lord, you rode in on a donkey. 875 00:49:00,920 --> 00:49:02,840 Lord, you're not sitting on a donkey anymore. 876 00:49:02,840 --> 00:49:05,440 Lord, you are the lion of the tribe of Judah. 877 00:49:05,760 --> 00:49:07,920 You are seated on the throne in heaven. 878 00:49:08,400 --> 00:49:11,040 You are victorious and we look to you this morning. 879 00:49:11,040 --> 00:49:15,800 We we exalt you, we praise you, we look to your coming and we 880 00:49:15,800 --> 00:49:20,280 will work hard here Lord, to see your Kingdom come and your will 881 00:49:20,280 --> 00:49:24,080 be done in Jesus mighty name, Amen. 882 00:49:25,360 --> 00:49:27,120 Thank you for joining us for today's message. 883 00:49:27,600 --> 00:49:30,080 For more information about The Way Church, please visit 884 00:49:30,080 --> 00:49:33,040 ourwebsite@thewaychurch.com dot AU. 885 00:49:33,600 --> 00:49:34,400 Have a blessed day.