1 00:00:09,890 --> 00:00:12,890 Welcome to the podcast of the White Church in Adelaide, South 2 00:00:12,890 --> 00:00:16,610 Australia. Lord, you are great, You are 3 00:00:16,610 --> 00:00:19,850 wonderful. Lord, we thank you, God for this 4 00:00:19,850 --> 00:00:23,650 opportunity to be together. We thank you, Lord, that we are 5 00:00:23,650 --> 00:00:27,010 the church, we are your body, we are your sons and daughters. 6 00:00:27,010 --> 00:00:30,170 Lord, we are your family. And that fills us with 7 00:00:30,170 --> 00:00:33,640 excitement and joy this morning to know that we belong to you, 8 00:00:33,640 --> 00:00:37,960 Lord, a good, good Father. You're so amazing, Lord. 9 00:00:38,440 --> 00:00:41,040 Thank you for who you are. Thank you for all you're doing. 10 00:00:41,640 --> 00:00:44,400 Thank you for all that you'll continue to do this morning. 11 00:00:44,400 --> 00:00:47,280 In this moment. Lord, we just want to honor you. 12 00:00:47,680 --> 00:00:53,160 Praise you, bless your mighty name, Jesus name, Amen. 13 00:00:53,880 --> 00:00:56,800 Excellent. Well, I am, I'm excited to be 14 00:00:56,800 --> 00:00:59,640 here this morning and I know that some of you are as well. 15 00:00:59,640 --> 00:01:02,080 I'm looking at your faces. We're excited to be here, right? 16 00:01:02,400 --> 00:01:05,519 Today's a good day. I can see the I can see the joy 17 00:01:05,519 --> 00:01:07,520 in your Eliza. It's not because your shirt says 18 00:01:07,520 --> 00:01:08,760 joy. I can see it there. 19 00:01:09,320 --> 00:01:11,840 It's amazing. Now I just want to open up to 20 00:01:11,840 --> 00:01:13,480 you guys. We started in prayer this 21 00:01:13,480 --> 00:01:16,680 morning and we said that we come together and all of us has a 22 00:01:16,680 --> 00:01:19,000 word and has a song and has something to share. 23 00:01:19,520 --> 00:01:22,240 And I love that we're, we're growing in these things. 24 00:01:22,240 --> 00:01:25,160 We're going to continue to push into that and come ready and 25 00:01:25,160 --> 00:01:27,240 prepared. But I just want to ask you guys 26 00:01:27,240 --> 00:01:30,200 here, has anyone got anything they'd like to share with us as 27 00:01:30,200 --> 00:01:34,320 a church this morning? It's OK if we don't. 28 00:01:35,080 --> 00:01:36,640 There will be more opportunities. 29 00:01:37,360 --> 00:01:39,800 Amen. Like I, I, I want to, I want you 30 00:01:39,800 --> 00:01:44,800 guys to know that when, when I'm sharing the word of God and when 31 00:01:44,800 --> 00:01:48,360 we're, when we're preaching the word that we want to be a 32 00:01:48,600 --> 00:01:53,040 church, that, you know, Jesus was interrupted a lot. 33 00:01:53,760 --> 00:01:55,240 If you see that in Scripture, right? 34 00:01:55,600 --> 00:02:01,280 And I think that we got to be open as leaders and, and in the 35 00:02:01,280 --> 00:02:03,920 church to be interrupted as music leaders, whatever. 36 00:02:04,240 --> 00:02:06,120 We got to be open to be interrupted. 37 00:02:06,120 --> 00:02:09,680 If it's the Lord and something's burning on your heart and it's, 38 00:02:09,680 --> 00:02:12,640 it's in line with what we're sharing and you feel it's the 39 00:02:12,640 --> 00:02:14,760 Lord, come and share it. Just, I don't know, put your 40 00:02:14,760 --> 00:02:17,960 hand up, make us aware. We want to be open to what the 41 00:02:17,960 --> 00:02:20,200 Spirit of God is saying. It's more important that the 42 00:02:20,200 --> 00:02:22,560 Spirit of God would lead us and speak to us. 43 00:02:23,040 --> 00:02:26,680 Then I just stand here and share with you all the things that I 44 00:02:26,680 --> 00:02:29,720 feel God's saying because we are the church. 45 00:02:30,280 --> 00:02:32,920 Amen. Yeah. 46 00:02:32,920 --> 00:02:36,880 We're just leave that at that. But yeah, I just want to welcome 47 00:02:36,880 --> 00:02:40,520 you guys to do that. Excellent. 48 00:02:40,520 --> 00:02:44,080 Come, please. That'll give me time to work out 49 00:02:44,080 --> 00:02:50,640 what's going with this. Morning on Friday night, we went 50 00:02:50,640 --> 00:02:57,760 to Daniel and Bianca's home. And I get excited, Daniel and 51 00:02:57,760 --> 00:03:03,000 Chantal, sorry. And I get excited because I get 52 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:07,880 to meet you. And it's not only that, it's 53 00:03:07,880 --> 00:03:14,200 because I'm learning how to speak to you because of who you 54 00:03:14,200 --> 00:03:20,200 are and I get to share with everyone else, but also to bring 55 00:03:20,200 --> 00:03:24,880 you in as well so that you're not left out. 56 00:03:25,800 --> 00:03:34,040 And so that excites me. And it's exciting for us to be 57 00:03:34,040 --> 00:03:37,200 able to enjoy each other because we're unique. 58 00:03:38,120 --> 00:03:44,320 And what God has put on my heart for these since Friday night is, 59 00:03:44,560 --> 00:03:48,440 do you know your authority in Christ? 60 00:03:48,600 --> 00:03:51,840 Do you know who you are in Christ? 61 00:03:52,080 --> 00:03:57,760 Really. Because our uniqueness makes us 62 00:03:58,440 --> 00:04:04,440 so powerful and so different that God will use it and He will 63 00:04:04,440 --> 00:04:10,960 use us and use that to be able to speak to the ones out there 64 00:04:11,080 --> 00:04:13,760 that need it more than we do in here. 65 00:04:14,680 --> 00:04:21,839 But to be able to come in and enjoy each other's company and 66 00:04:21,839 --> 00:04:26,320 be able to encourage each other. And then we go back out there, 67 00:04:27,480 --> 00:04:30,360 you know, and it's out there where the harvest is that God 68 00:04:30,360 --> 00:04:35,160 needs us the most. But when we come here, we need 69 00:04:35,160 --> 00:04:39,240 each other to encourage each other to be able to keep going 70 00:04:39,240 --> 00:04:42,960 out there because that's where we live now. 71 00:04:43,600 --> 00:04:48,480 The understanding of we are in this world, but we don't belong 72 00:04:48,480 --> 00:04:54,320 to it comes into play because we do come into this world, but 73 00:04:54,320 --> 00:04:56,000 that doesn't mean we belong to it. 74 00:04:56,560 --> 00:05:03,200 We belong to a heavenly realm and a heavenly place that God 75 00:05:03,200 --> 00:05:10,120 will give us the words, the encouragement, and the guidance 76 00:05:10,120 --> 00:05:12,480 to be able to live in this world. 77 00:05:13,160 --> 00:05:17,200 And so that's my encouragement to all of you is is know who you 78 00:05:17,200 --> 00:05:21,240 are in Christ. Know who you are and carry it. 79 00:05:21,880 --> 00:05:28,040 And he will always do something magnificent just because of 80 00:05:28,040 --> 00:05:32,000 what's so ugly out there. We can be a light in that 81 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:34,640 ugliness, and so shine your light. 82 00:05:36,600 --> 00:05:37,120 Amazing. Thank you. 83 00:05:37,560 --> 00:05:39,640 Thank you. We're going to help each other 84 00:05:39,640 --> 00:05:40,760 to know who we are. Right. 85 00:05:41,720 --> 00:05:43,720 It's so good. That's very, very. 86 00:05:44,600 --> 00:05:47,680 Thank you for sharing that. Yeah, it's very much in line 87 00:05:47,680 --> 00:05:49,600 with what we're talking about this morning, which is great. 88 00:05:49,600 --> 00:05:52,200 So we've seen a lot of that this morning, which is good. 89 00:05:52,200 --> 00:05:54,440 So love that. All right. 90 00:05:54,440 --> 00:05:58,960 We, we had an amazing time last week with Justin brought a word 91 00:05:58,960 --> 00:06:04,560 to us talking about, you know, what if we caught what it was 92 00:06:04,560 --> 00:06:08,480 that God's wanting to do because we need to like, if we don't 93 00:06:08,480 --> 00:06:12,280 catch what God's wanting to do, then what are we doing, right? 94 00:06:12,280 --> 00:06:13,840 We're just doing our own thing, right? 95 00:06:13,840 --> 00:06:17,200 So we need to catch what God's wanting to do and we partner 96 00:06:17,200 --> 00:06:19,720 with God. And so that's really exciting. 97 00:06:19,720 --> 00:06:23,680 This is the season that we're in as a church to really push in 98 00:06:23,680 --> 00:06:27,240 and hear what it is that God's wanting to do, what he's wanting 99 00:06:27,240 --> 00:06:30,760 us to be and where he's wanting to lead us, you know, as 100 00:06:30,760 --> 00:06:32,480 individuals. What Lord, like, what do you 101 00:06:32,480 --> 00:06:34,600 want me to be? Who do you want me to be? 102 00:06:34,600 --> 00:06:36,480 How do you want me to be like you? 103 00:06:36,480 --> 00:06:37,920 How do you want me to represent you? 104 00:06:38,880 --> 00:06:40,520 And there's such an adventure in God. 105 00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:44,160 I thought we didn't talk about this a lot, but like what an 106 00:06:44,160 --> 00:06:48,880 adventure it is to be in, in Christ and to serve him like the 107 00:06:48,880 --> 00:06:50,880 greatest adventure that you could ever go on. 108 00:06:51,520 --> 00:06:56,400 It's such an exciting thing to to know the God of the universe 109 00:06:56,480 --> 00:07:00,520 and to like seek him and find him and be led by him. 110 00:07:00,880 --> 00:07:03,400 That is the greatest adventure we could ever go on. 111 00:07:03,920 --> 00:07:06,200 And we get to go on that adventure together. 112 00:07:06,800 --> 00:07:09,680 It's like people don't do well on their own, right? 113 00:07:10,080 --> 00:07:13,800 We do well when we're together. And this is, you know, funnily 114 00:07:13,800 --> 00:07:16,760 enough, this is the way that God structured things to be right, 115 00:07:16,760 --> 00:07:17,920 because he knows what he's doing. 116 00:07:18,720 --> 00:07:23,240 And so, you know, we're on this adventure, you know, the, the 117 00:07:23,280 --> 00:07:27,440 NCMY team. I just want to speak about this 118 00:07:27,440 --> 00:07:29,920 for just a moment. You know, when we're at the when 119 00:07:30,400 --> 00:07:36,360 we're at the, I think it was the eldest time last year, You know, 120 00:07:36,360 --> 00:07:40,720 Ty just spoke about what this team is and, and he simplified 121 00:07:40,720 --> 00:07:45,800 it in, in these terms. He said that we're, we're an, a 122 00:07:45,800 --> 00:07:52,480 trans local team of the fivefold gifts given to the church with 123 00:07:52,480 --> 00:07:55,080 an Apostolic and prophetic heart. 124 00:07:57,480 --> 00:08:01,320 She's laughing because she's laughing because Ty singled me 125 00:08:01,320 --> 00:08:05,040 out after he just said it and I couldn't say it again. 126 00:08:05,120 --> 00:08:07,360 And then I wrote it down. Then he singled me out again and 127 00:08:07,360 --> 00:08:09,720 I still couldn't say it. So so he gave me another 128 00:08:09,720 --> 00:08:11,400 opportunity. Then I finally got it out. 129 00:08:11,400 --> 00:08:15,320 So anyway, here we are. So that's so cool because you 130 00:08:15,320 --> 00:08:17,600 know what, someone came up to me afterwards and said you're never 131 00:08:17,600 --> 00:08:22,000 going to forget that, are you? And I'm like, probably not, but 132 00:08:22,000 --> 00:08:24,360 it's true and it's not. That's not just for the NCMI 133 00:08:24,840 --> 00:08:29,480 team guys. That's the heart of the church. 134 00:08:30,200 --> 00:08:32,880 You know, that's the heart for us as a church having an 135 00:08:32,960 --> 00:08:39,120 Apostolic prophetic heart to go, you know, so an apostle is, is 136 00:08:39,240 --> 00:08:42,440 simply, you know, there's a, there's a gift of an apostle, 137 00:08:42,440 --> 00:08:43,880 there's an office of the apostle. 138 00:08:43,880 --> 00:08:47,680 But apostle just means it's the sent one, the one that's sent. 139 00:08:48,240 --> 00:08:52,440 So we, we need to have a heart to be sent, a heart to go. 140 00:08:53,240 --> 00:08:56,720 And the other side is a prophetic heart, you know, in a 141 00:08:56,720 --> 00:09:00,680 very simple, in my very simple way of understanding what 142 00:09:00,680 --> 00:09:04,560 prophecy is, It's hearing what God's saying and then telling 143 00:09:04,560 --> 00:09:09,520 someone, right? You know, So yeah, that's my 144 00:09:09,520 --> 00:09:11,560 simple understanding. And that's the heart that we 145 00:09:11,560 --> 00:09:13,920 need to have. We need to have a heart that's 146 00:09:13,920 --> 00:09:19,240 willing to go to be sent with a prophetic heart, one that's can 147 00:09:19,240 --> 00:09:24,200 hear God and can share wherever we find ourselves what God is 148 00:09:24,200 --> 00:09:29,800 saying. And so this is the the vision 149 00:09:29,800 --> 00:09:32,440 for us as a church. You know, God wants to do 150 00:09:32,440 --> 00:09:34,320 amazing things with the way church. 151 00:09:35,400 --> 00:09:37,960 I'm so hopeful that of the things that we're going to see 152 00:09:37,960 --> 00:09:42,280 God do in and through us as a people here, we're going to be 153 00:09:42,280 --> 00:09:47,520 successful in God's economy. We're going to see God do what 154 00:09:47,520 --> 00:09:49,120 God wants to do in US and through us. 155 00:09:49,120 --> 00:09:51,240 We're going to see people reached with the gospel. 156 00:09:51,520 --> 00:09:54,600 We're going to see people saved. We're going to see people whose 157 00:09:54,600 --> 00:09:58,240 needs looked after. We're going to see a people in 158 00:09:58,240 --> 00:10:00,440 our midst, us included, that are going to grow. 159 00:10:01,200 --> 00:10:02,640 That are going to hear what God's saying. 160 00:10:02,640 --> 00:10:04,720 That we're going to even as mum said, that we're going to be 161 00:10:04,720 --> 00:10:07,800 refined. That God's going to burn the 162 00:10:07,800 --> 00:10:11,280 chaff off, you know, and that we're going to stand here in a 163 00:10:11,280 --> 00:10:14,960 year's time different to how we stand here today because God is 164 00:10:14,960 --> 00:10:19,680 working in US and through us. God's will is always for things 165 00:10:19,680 --> 00:10:21,640 to grow. I was, we were reminded of this 166 00:10:21,640 --> 00:10:23,600 a couple of weeks ago. It's all through his Word. 167 00:10:24,360 --> 00:10:26,160 God's will is always for things to grow. 168 00:10:26,200 --> 00:10:28,560 You, you could witness that with your own eyes. 169 00:10:28,560 --> 00:10:30,600 Just have a look outside, have a look in the garden. 170 00:10:31,400 --> 00:10:33,480 God's will is for things to always grow. 171 00:10:33,480 --> 00:10:36,960 Babies grow, people grow, they grow. 172 00:10:37,800 --> 00:10:41,960 God's intention is for growth. That applies to us the way 173 00:10:41,960 --> 00:10:43,840 church. God's intention is for us to 174 00:10:43,840 --> 00:10:48,600 grow not only in ourselves and in becoming like more Christ 175 00:10:48,600 --> 00:10:52,040 like and being able to represent him better, but that God would 176 00:10:52,080 --> 00:10:55,040 add to us. Growth is numerical in the 177 00:10:55,040 --> 00:10:57,400 Scriptures as well. We should be expectant, and 178 00:10:57,400 --> 00:11:00,560 we're hopeful and we are, that God will add to this church. 179 00:11:00,720 --> 00:11:02,640 He will. He is. 180 00:11:04,920 --> 00:11:09,080 And as leaders, you know, we're committed to these, these 181 00:11:09,080 --> 00:11:12,320 truths. We're committed to what the word 182 00:11:12,320 --> 00:11:15,320 says about growth. We're committed to what the word 183 00:11:15,320 --> 00:11:19,000 says about having a, a prophetic and Apostolic heart. 184 00:11:19,000 --> 00:11:22,040 We're committed to these things. But I want to ask you as, as 185 00:11:22,040 --> 00:11:25,480 Saints in this room, are we committed to those things? 186 00:11:26,520 --> 00:11:29,280 Are we committed to the word of God that says yes, when when 187 00:11:29,280 --> 00:11:30,560 things are healthy, there's growth? 188 00:11:31,080 --> 00:11:34,320 Are we committed to know that the Holy Spirit wants to do a 189 00:11:34,320 --> 00:11:37,320 work in and through us? Like if we ask each other what, 190 00:11:37,320 --> 00:11:39,720 what work is the Holy Spirit doing in and through you? 191 00:11:39,720 --> 00:11:42,640 We should have an answer for that at any given time. 192 00:11:43,160 --> 00:11:44,800 What's the Lord doing in your life? 193 00:11:46,400 --> 00:11:49,680 You know, think about that. That's a question that we should 194 00:11:49,680 --> 00:11:52,360 be asking God. That's a that's a question that 195 00:11:52,360 --> 00:11:53,720 we should be hearing the answer to. 196 00:11:54,520 --> 00:11:57,080 I want to know what it is that God's wanting to work on me. 197 00:12:00,200 --> 00:12:02,120 And I believe that we are committed to these things. 198 00:12:02,200 --> 00:12:05,280 I believe that we do want to grow, that we do want to become 199 00:12:05,280 --> 00:12:06,480 like Him. Amen. 200 00:12:08,360 --> 00:12:11,160 But you know, us as leaders, just getting back to the leaders 201 00:12:11,160 --> 00:12:14,240 side of this, that we're committed to hearing God and 202 00:12:14,240 --> 00:12:16,760 doing the will of God. Are you guys submitted to your 203 00:12:16,760 --> 00:12:18,880 leaders? I know that you are like, I'm 204 00:12:18,880 --> 00:12:20,720 not saying you guys need to submit. 205 00:12:20,720 --> 00:12:24,600 I'm just saying that as a body, as a church, we have to be 206 00:12:24,600 --> 00:12:28,960 submitted to our leaders. And I say that because, you 207 00:12:28,960 --> 00:12:31,240 know, we're going to, we're going to have conversations. 208 00:12:31,400 --> 00:12:34,360 Leaders are going to have conversations with science 209 00:12:34,360 --> 00:12:37,000 because they're leading them. And we're going to have to talk 210 00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:40,000 about some hard stuff. We're going to have to unearth 211 00:12:40,000 --> 00:12:44,120 some hard truths. And if you're not committed, you 212 00:12:44,120 --> 00:12:46,680 know, to us as, as your leaders, you're not going to want to hear 213 00:12:46,680 --> 00:12:49,320 that. This is why it's important that 214 00:12:49,320 --> 00:12:52,840 you have to be sorry, submitted to, to leadership, because you 215 00:12:52,840 --> 00:12:55,440 have to trust that leaders will come with the word of God and, 216 00:12:55,480 --> 00:12:57,040 and, and challenge you on things. 217 00:12:57,400 --> 00:12:59,040 And you have to be willing to hear. 218 00:13:00,040 --> 00:13:02,680 And you know, we have to be submitted to you guys. 219 00:13:02,680 --> 00:13:06,760 We have to lay down our lives to serve you guys to, to, to go and 220 00:13:06,760 --> 00:13:10,240 find out what God is saying to spend time in prayer for you 221 00:13:10,240 --> 00:13:11,360 guys. You guys should be doing that 222 00:13:11,360 --> 00:13:14,120 for us as well. But we need to as leaders, we 223 00:13:14,120 --> 00:13:17,840 spend time praying and asking God, what are the things that 224 00:13:17,840 --> 00:13:21,160 these people need? And so when we come and we, we 225 00:13:21,160 --> 00:13:24,440 have these conversations with you guys, it's not just 226 00:13:24,440 --> 00:13:27,240 flipping, it's not just like, oh, how you doing and then try 227 00:13:27,240 --> 00:13:29,000 and speak the word of God. It's prayerful. 228 00:13:29,840 --> 00:13:32,480 We're asking God, Lord, how can we serve these people? 229 00:13:32,480 --> 00:13:34,080 How can we help these people to grow? 230 00:13:34,400 --> 00:13:37,640 How can we help get to the deep roots and the things that are 231 00:13:37,640 --> 00:13:40,840 holding us, holding the people back so that we can speak the 232 00:13:40,840 --> 00:13:44,960 gospel into it, so that we can apply the gospel into our into 233 00:13:44,960 --> 00:13:47,720 our lives. It's the applying of the gospel 234 00:13:47,720 --> 00:13:52,040 that brings freedom. And so, you know, there's a 235 00:13:52,200 --> 00:13:54,600 there's the big visions for the church that, you know, the 236 00:13:54,600 --> 00:13:57,800 things that we're about and, and the bigness of being a body 237 00:13:57,800 --> 00:13:59,680 that's worldwide and all of these things. 238 00:14:01,120 --> 00:14:04,240 But the steps to be a part of the church and to be a part of 239 00:14:04,240 --> 00:14:08,280 the, the bigger vision. It's daily, it's a lifestyle for 240 00:14:08,280 --> 00:14:12,080 us. It's like consistent living in 241 00:14:12,080 --> 00:14:14,480 the Lord that leads us to the bigger picture. 242 00:14:15,680 --> 00:14:18,600 We're never going to get where God's leading us to go without 243 00:14:18,600 --> 00:14:23,400 consistent living, without daily walking, without the steps that 244 00:14:23,400 --> 00:14:26,440 lead to the to the place, to the destination. 245 00:14:27,280 --> 00:14:32,080 We need a godly rhythm for our lives. 246 00:14:33,600 --> 00:14:35,880 And So what do I mean about these little steps? 247 00:14:35,880 --> 00:14:39,200 It's like I thought about this, you know, the global equip, 248 00:14:39,200 --> 00:14:40,960 right? This is an example of this. 249 00:14:40,960 --> 00:14:44,680 This is grand vision for the for the global equip. 250 00:14:44,680 --> 00:14:48,000 It's like come from all of the corners of the earth and come 251 00:14:48,000 --> 00:14:52,600 and gather here and we'll be unified together and we will 252 00:14:52,600 --> 00:14:56,960 hear from from leaders the things that God's wanting to say 253 00:14:56,960 --> 00:14:59,280 to the to the church around the world. 254 00:15:00,280 --> 00:15:03,160 He got like we want to catch God's plan and purpose for the 255 00:15:03,160 --> 00:15:07,880 global church and it flows all the way through to the local 256 00:15:07,880 --> 00:15:10,840 church and to our lives. So that's the big vision. 257 00:15:10,840 --> 00:15:13,760 It's like, all right, guys, let's all come to South Africa 258 00:15:13,760 --> 00:15:19,880 and we go, OK, let's do it where we're in South Africa, you know, 259 00:15:19,880 --> 00:15:21,600 because if we all just go, all right, we're going to South 260 00:15:21,600 --> 00:15:24,040 Africa, we all jump on a plane, then what are we? 261 00:15:24,160 --> 00:15:26,520 Are we together yet? No, I'm over there. 262 00:15:26,520 --> 00:15:27,920 You're over there. We don't know where we are. 263 00:15:27,920 --> 00:15:31,640 So it's like we need a clearer vision now so that we end up in 264 00:15:31,640 --> 00:15:35,240 the same place, right? So we need further revelation. 265 00:15:35,240 --> 00:15:39,840 We need, we need, you know, we need the the we need to narrow 266 00:15:39,840 --> 00:15:43,560 it down a bit, right? Well, OK, What what city we're 267 00:15:43,560 --> 00:15:45,040 going to, we're all going to go to Johannesburg. 268 00:15:45,040 --> 00:15:46,800 OK, great. Let's all go to Johannesburg. 269 00:15:47,040 --> 00:15:48,240 We're not quite there yet, are we? 270 00:15:48,600 --> 00:15:51,680 What suburb? What street, what number do you 271 00:15:51,720 --> 00:15:52,240 see? Like it? 272 00:15:52,320 --> 00:15:56,600 It just gets more detailed. And it's the same with our 273 00:15:56,600 --> 00:15:58,320 lives. It's the same for us as a 274 00:15:58,320 --> 00:16:00,120 church. It's like we have a, we have a 275 00:16:00,120 --> 00:16:02,760 broad vision of what God's wanting to do in US and through 276 00:16:02,760 --> 00:16:05,040 us. And then it's like, then we get 277 00:16:05,040 --> 00:16:11,040 the more specific leadings and guiding the daily steps in our 278 00:16:11,040 --> 00:16:13,440 lives so that we can reach the destination. 279 00:16:13,440 --> 00:16:18,160 The destination doesn't change. It's we've got the vision, we've 280 00:16:18,160 --> 00:16:21,760 got what God wants to do. And now it's just like working 281 00:16:21,760 --> 00:16:24,520 out, OK, you know, because we're all coming from different 282 00:16:24,520 --> 00:16:26,080 places, right? Think about that. 283 00:16:26,080 --> 00:16:29,760 Like I, if I jump on a certain plane and go there, other people 284 00:16:29,760 --> 00:16:31,440 have to go on a different plane to get there. 285 00:16:31,800 --> 00:16:35,480 So it looks unique. Now, you know, my personal walk 286 00:16:35,480 --> 00:16:38,240 to get to God's destination is different from your personal 287 00:16:38,240 --> 00:16:40,520 walk to get to God's destination. 288 00:16:41,160 --> 00:16:44,000 But we have to just be hearing clearly and being obedient and 289 00:16:44,000 --> 00:16:46,480 saying, yes, Lord and taking the steps in obedience. 290 00:16:46,480 --> 00:16:50,600 And again, it's the same way for us as a local church, for the 291 00:16:50,600 --> 00:16:52,480 way church is the same, same for us. 292 00:16:53,120 --> 00:16:55,680 We can have a big understanding of what God's wanting to do. 293 00:16:55,680 --> 00:16:57,960 But now it's like, all right, let's break it down and talk 294 00:16:57,960 --> 00:17:02,200 about our lives. Let's talk about how we live. 295 00:17:02,720 --> 00:17:05,880 Let's talk about how we apply God's truths to our lives in a 296 00:17:05,880 --> 00:17:08,960 daily step by step manner. That's what we do from here. 297 00:17:10,000 --> 00:17:12,560 We bring things down, we simplify things, we try to help 298 00:17:12,560 --> 00:17:16,319 us to catch the truths for today and for tomorrow and and you 299 00:17:16,319 --> 00:17:20,240 know, for our lives. I enjoyed Justin's message last 300 00:17:20,240 --> 00:17:24,480 week and I love that, you know, we're talking about the coming 301 00:17:24,480 --> 00:17:29,000 weeks, hearing from God and, and catching what it is. 302 00:17:29,000 --> 00:17:33,080 These are catching the specifics for the season that God has us 303 00:17:33,080 --> 00:17:34,520 in. This is what we should be 304 00:17:34,520 --> 00:17:36,320 hopeful for. This is what we need to be 305 00:17:36,320 --> 00:17:37,960 praying about. This is why we're going. 306 00:17:38,360 --> 00:17:42,200 We want to catch the specifics for us, not only just for our 307 00:17:42,200 --> 00:17:45,600 lives, but for the local church, for the church in this city, how 308 00:17:45,600 --> 00:17:48,120 we connect to the the churches around the world, all of these 309 00:17:48,120 --> 00:17:50,600 things. We want to catch some specifics 310 00:17:50,600 --> 00:17:57,840 and put some things in place. I love Justin Eva's list of ES. 311 00:18:00,120 --> 00:18:03,440 I love how Justin preaches on a whole different way to how my 312 00:18:03,440 --> 00:18:07,120 brain works and it's so good because like, we need that, 313 00:18:07,280 --> 00:18:09,440 right? What Justin brings in the way 314 00:18:09,440 --> 00:18:12,080 that he teaches and the way that he shares is so different to me. 315 00:18:12,520 --> 00:18:15,080 This church needs it, right? It's wonderful. 316 00:18:15,560 --> 00:18:18,600 But you know, some of these, the Justin Eva's ease were 317 00:18:18,600 --> 00:18:22,600 excitement and encouragement expanded, emboldened, equipped, 318 00:18:22,600 --> 00:18:25,480 envisioned expedient. I love the expedient. 319 00:18:25,480 --> 00:18:28,840 The Expedient 1 is the one that stuck with me because I want to 320 00:18:28,840 --> 00:18:31,440 see things happen now. It's just like I shouldn't 321 00:18:31,440 --> 00:18:35,160 ignore the other ones, but you know, like I'm, I'm excited for 322 00:18:35,520 --> 00:18:40,600 for things to move, you know, and I and I hope I'm catching 323 00:18:40,600 --> 00:18:44,720 God in that, that that's something that he wants to do in 324 00:18:44,720 --> 00:18:46,720 US and through US. I would love to see that. 325 00:18:46,920 --> 00:18:48,680 And I believe it is. Yeah. 326 00:18:49,520 --> 00:18:52,200 And so let me just remind you of the scripture that Justin shared 327 00:18:52,200 --> 00:18:58,760 with with us from Ephesians 310 says his intent was that now and 328 00:18:58,760 --> 00:19:01,880 he highlighted the now because this wasn't just written to 329 00:19:01,880 --> 00:19:03,120 them. This is written to us. 330 00:19:03,120 --> 00:19:08,480 This is the now. His intent was that now through 331 00:19:08,480 --> 00:19:13,200 the church, the manifold wisdom of God should be made known to 332 00:19:13,200 --> 00:19:15,880 the rulers and authorities in the heavenly realms. 333 00:19:17,120 --> 00:19:21,880 This is a big vision statement. And again, the vision is big, 334 00:19:22,400 --> 00:19:28,720 but the footsteps are small. Something that you know, the 335 00:19:28,720 --> 00:19:32,440 things that God wants to, you know, the manifold wisdom that 336 00:19:32,440 --> 00:19:36,000 God wants to be revealed in and through his church in us as 337 00:19:36,000 --> 00:19:40,000 individuals is just him. It's who he is. 338 00:19:40,440 --> 00:19:44,320 It's his wisdom, it's his goodness, the goodness of God. 339 00:19:44,320 --> 00:19:47,160 It's his power. You know, we spoke about the 340 00:19:47,160 --> 00:19:50,360 laws have shared. It's his authority that we stand 341 00:19:50,360 --> 00:19:52,480 in. This needs to be demonstrated 342 00:19:52,480 --> 00:19:56,680 through the church. It's God's heart for people. 343 00:19:57,720 --> 00:20:00,680 It's God's ways in and through the church. 344 00:20:00,720 --> 00:20:04,200 This is like what we need to be expressing and showing and 345 00:20:04,200 --> 00:20:08,680 revealing and manifesting that the world would know who God is. 346 00:20:09,720 --> 00:20:14,160 And it's interesting when you think about that, it's not, it's 347 00:20:14,160 --> 00:20:16,480 actually easier than you think when you just start having 348 00:20:16,480 --> 00:20:19,760 conversations with people and just bringing in the truth. 349 00:20:20,400 --> 00:20:24,000 Just bring the truth in, bring who God is when someone's 350 00:20:24,000 --> 00:20:25,360 struggling and and stuff like that. 351 00:20:25,360 --> 00:20:28,080 You say, mate. You know, you know that God's 352 00:20:28,080 --> 00:20:30,200 intent was never for you to be struggling. 353 00:20:30,200 --> 00:20:33,640 Just this is just as an example. It's just like, just bring God 354 00:20:33,640 --> 00:20:38,240 in, bring the gospel in, bring the truth in, reveal Christ, 355 00:20:38,240 --> 00:20:43,200 reveal God in, in everywhere you go, wherever you find yourself, 356 00:20:43,800 --> 00:20:48,960 Reveal the manifold wisdom of God everywhere you go. 357 00:20:49,640 --> 00:20:52,520 Just tell people the truth of the word. 358 00:20:52,520 --> 00:20:54,720 Tell people who he is. Tell people what he's done. 359 00:20:55,880 --> 00:20:58,920 Bear witness of his goodness. Share your testimony. 360 00:21:00,480 --> 00:21:04,080 Don't hold it to yourself. Tell someone, especially when 361 00:21:04,080 --> 00:21:07,400 someone asks. When someone asks, that is it. 362 00:21:07,400 --> 00:21:10,280 That's like the green light. That's that's just like, all 363 00:21:10,280 --> 00:21:12,680 right, here we go. If someone's asking me now, 364 00:21:12,720 --> 00:21:14,320 you're going to cop it. Do you know what I mean? 365 00:21:14,320 --> 00:21:16,240 I'm going to tell you now like you asked. 366 00:21:16,240 --> 00:21:18,040 And you can even say that I've said this to people. 367 00:21:18,120 --> 00:21:22,120 Well, you asked, right? That's a green light. 368 00:21:22,120 --> 00:21:28,720 Love, when people ask why do you go to church, take a seat, you 369 00:21:28,880 --> 00:21:34,040 know, I'm going to tell you. So this means something in and 370 00:21:34,040 --> 00:21:37,560 through all of us. None of us have excluded from 371 00:21:37,560 --> 00:21:41,120 this. All of us have a part to play in 372 00:21:41,280 --> 00:21:44,640 revealing who God is, the manifold wisdom of God. 373 00:21:45,880 --> 00:21:51,240 It's wonderful. This is ministry, Gods, this is 374 00:21:51,600 --> 00:21:55,880 ministry, but that is ministry going. 375 00:21:56,000 --> 00:21:58,080 This is like the, you know, we've heard this before. 376 00:21:58,080 --> 00:22:01,040 This is like half time. This is like when we come 377 00:22:01,040 --> 00:22:03,240 together and talk about what we're going to do when we leave 378 00:22:03,240 --> 00:22:05,800 here, right? This is half time. 379 00:22:05,800 --> 00:22:08,440 This is being equipped. This is the Saints being 380 00:22:08,440 --> 00:22:11,920 equipped for the for the ministry and the ministry. 381 00:22:12,320 --> 00:22:16,160 It happens in here, but it should be happening a whole lot 382 00:22:16,160 --> 00:22:18,400 more out there because we've just made it about this. 383 00:22:19,000 --> 00:22:21,000 That church is where ministry happens. 384 00:22:22,280 --> 00:22:25,560 Ministry happens wherever you are because the Holy Spirit 385 00:22:25,560 --> 00:22:31,080 lives in you and he wants for you to release him, his truth, 386 00:22:31,160 --> 00:22:36,480 his Spirit wherever you go. And so the church is like a 387 00:22:36,480 --> 00:22:41,080 training ground for us to, you know, trust to even share, like 388 00:22:41,080 --> 00:22:43,960 when we talk about us coming together as a priesthood of all 389 00:22:43,960 --> 00:22:46,840 believers and, and when we ask, hey, what's the Lord saying? 390 00:22:46,840 --> 00:22:48,400 What's the Lord saying? What's the Lord saying? 391 00:22:48,600 --> 00:22:52,160 This is like a training ground. If you could be bold to share 392 00:22:52,160 --> 00:22:55,880 what the Lord's saying here, you're being equipped to share 393 00:22:55,880 --> 00:22:57,520 what the Lord's saying out there. 394 00:22:57,800 --> 00:23:01,600 This is a training ground. It's like learning to walk. 395 00:23:01,600 --> 00:23:04,120 It's like babies need help to learn to walk. 396 00:23:04,280 --> 00:23:07,120 Young kids, they don't just do it on their own. 397 00:23:07,200 --> 00:23:09,000 They don't just get up and start walking. 398 00:23:09,000 --> 00:23:12,000 You know what you do? You hold their hands and you 399 00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:15,040 walk with them, you know, and then they get, then they get 400 00:23:15,040 --> 00:23:18,520 confident and you let them go for a bit and they're all you 401 00:23:18,520 --> 00:23:20,600 know. It's really cool to watch, but 402 00:23:20,680 --> 00:23:23,600 that's what we're doing here. We're taking each other by the 403 00:23:23,600 --> 00:23:27,440 hand and we're helping each other to become fruitful 404 00:23:27,440 --> 00:23:31,120 ministers in the church. And so once the kids learn to 405 00:23:31,120 --> 00:23:34,960 walk, it's like it's not over. You know, I think about your 406 00:23:34,960 --> 00:23:36,840 maturity in Christ. It never ends. 407 00:23:37,600 --> 00:23:39,200 Once you learn to walk, then what? 408 00:23:39,680 --> 00:23:42,400 Well, now you're going to want to run, right? 409 00:23:42,440 --> 00:23:44,880 And when kids start to run, they fall a lot. 410 00:23:44,880 --> 00:23:47,920 So they need to be picked up again, you know, Then they want 411 00:23:47,920 --> 00:23:51,120 to learn to jump. It's just like as we grow in the 412 00:23:51,120 --> 00:23:54,200 Lord, it's like you're always going to need the body around 413 00:23:54,200 --> 00:23:58,280 you to pick you up again, to dust you off, to send you back 414 00:23:58,280 --> 00:24:02,600 out. The Word of God is so powerful. 415 00:24:02,600 --> 00:24:05,640 He has knit His word in everything. 416 00:24:06,280 --> 00:24:08,560 You can see God's goodness in everything. 417 00:24:09,320 --> 00:24:13,000 So amazing. Once your eyes are open, you see 418 00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:14,520 it everywhere. You see God everywhere. 419 00:24:14,880 --> 00:24:17,880 This is why it's quite easy to share God because it's 420 00:24:17,920 --> 00:24:20,280 everywhere. And Jesus did this all the time. 421 00:24:20,640 --> 00:24:24,720 He shared things through physical things that were around 422 00:24:24,720 --> 00:24:27,280 him. Both physical things still 423 00:24:27,280 --> 00:24:30,520 existed at you, us. You could still use them to 424 00:24:30,520 --> 00:24:31,760 reveal Christ. Amen. 425 00:24:32,760 --> 00:24:35,480 So we're talking about, you know, the priest sort of 426 00:24:35,480 --> 00:24:36,960 believers. We're talking about carrying 427 00:24:36,960 --> 00:24:38,800 this thing together. We're talking about equipping 428 00:24:38,800 --> 00:24:41,080 each other to do this work together. 429 00:24:41,680 --> 00:24:45,080 And I just want to, we had such an amazing time on Friday night 430 00:24:45,760 --> 00:24:47,440 and I wanted to share around that. 431 00:24:47,960 --> 00:24:52,400 And Eliza already sort of touched on it a little, but it 432 00:24:52,400 --> 00:24:55,360 was such an amazing time. And so I just want to, I've 433 00:24:55,360 --> 00:24:57,880 asked, you know, just a couple of the guys that were here. 434 00:24:57,880 --> 00:25:00,840 I've asked Tony, do you want to come up or you want me to hand 435 00:25:00,840 --> 00:25:03,920 you the you want to stay there? OK, All right. 436 00:25:03,920 --> 00:25:06,720 So we're just going to share just something that we enjoyed 437 00:25:06,960 --> 00:25:08,280 on Friday night. So go for a bit. 438 00:25:10,040 --> 00:25:12,560 Eliza touched on it really because I enjoyed everyone's 439 00:25:12,560 --> 00:25:16,560 company, but I enjoyed getting to know this fella Brayden and 440 00:25:17,360 --> 00:25:19,920 you know, and his story and getting getting to know him 441 00:25:20,440 --> 00:25:22,080 because I used to be the real new person. 442 00:25:22,320 --> 00:25:27,560 And but that's what I found, you know, as much as you enjoy 443 00:25:27,560 --> 00:25:30,800 everyone's company and that it was just someone new and it was, 444 00:25:31,720 --> 00:25:35,880 you know, that's that's what I found uplifting other night. 445 00:25:35,880 --> 00:25:36,880 So. Good. 446 00:25:37,640 --> 00:25:40,280 Yeah. Thank you, man. 447 00:25:40,280 --> 00:25:43,040 Amen. We love you bro and thank you 448 00:25:43,040 --> 00:25:46,440 for being bold enough to share that I'm going to take it takes 449 00:25:46,440 --> 00:25:47,600 courage, man. Thank you man, I'll. 450 00:25:49,080 --> 00:25:52,440 Walk with you, come with me. So it's such a good night. 451 00:25:52,880 --> 00:25:55,640 And you know, one of the things that God really impressed upon 452 00:25:55,640 --> 00:25:58,600 me was the work he's done in Tony. 453 00:25:59,720 --> 00:26:03,160 You know, I think as as Christians have been around for 454 00:26:03,160 --> 00:26:08,360 a little while, we can we get tainted, we get tainted and you 455 00:26:08,360 --> 00:26:12,960 know what, what what the Lord's saying to me through seeing the 456 00:26:12,960 --> 00:26:17,080 freshness and the growth and the change and his just his spirit 457 00:26:17,080 --> 00:26:20,760 moving in you buddy. It's just it's just so 458 00:26:20,760 --> 00:26:23,960 encouraging and to meet you again. 459 00:26:24,160 --> 00:26:26,080 It's a little while since I've seen you, but it's great. 460 00:26:26,080 --> 00:26:29,960 Great to spend some time with you also, but what God quickened 461 00:26:29,960 --> 00:26:34,080 to me around seeing the freshness of the spirit of God 462 00:26:34,280 --> 00:26:38,200 on a man who's changing visibly because that's the question that 463 00:26:38,200 --> 00:26:41,160 we were discussing was when come that he comes up to you and Tony 464 00:26:41,160 --> 00:26:44,040 was saying this my friend saying to me what's going on what's 465 00:26:44,040 --> 00:26:46,800 happening? You know what you're changing 466 00:26:46,800 --> 00:26:51,280 and and I I was quick and that I had a time in my life where that 467 00:26:51,280 --> 00:26:53,560 was really prominent as well where people could see the 468 00:26:53,560 --> 00:27:01,760 change in me and I'm my my cry out to God is Lord that that you 469 00:27:01,760 --> 00:27:06,080 would take me in you into a season where people would see 470 00:27:06,080 --> 00:27:10,040 that change again, that I would be refreshed that we would all 471 00:27:10,040 --> 00:27:13,920 be refreshed within the Lord and that change that that those 472 00:27:13,920 --> 00:27:17,480 steps that we're taking towards him would continue to be 473 00:27:17,480 --> 00:27:22,840 manifestly visible in the change that he's affecting enough. 474 00:27:22,840 --> 00:27:26,480 Does that make sense? So God's doing great things and 475 00:27:26,480 --> 00:27:31,800 my prayer is, Lord, let your Spirit be visible through us and 476 00:27:31,800 --> 00:27:35,640 on us to the people who need to see you and to know you, thank 477 00:27:35,640 --> 00:27:37,320 you, Lord, so. Good. 478 00:27:37,800 --> 00:27:39,960 Thank you. Did you want to share? 479 00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:41,960 I'll, I'll bring it to you. You look like you were a bit 480 00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:46,240 handsful. Well, again, I think everyone 481 00:27:46,240 --> 00:27:50,680 who was here for the pre prayer before we started caught this 482 00:27:50,680 --> 00:27:54,760 anyway. But Dave just shared the 483 00:27:54,760 --> 00:28:00,200 scripture out of Acts when they were waiting for the spirit to 484 00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:03,840 come at Pentecost and how they were all together in one accord 485 00:28:04,680 --> 00:28:08,560 and, and in the context of the of the evening. 486 00:28:08,600 --> 00:28:14,280 I mean, as dad just said, there was a recurring theme of people 487 00:28:14,280 --> 00:28:18,160 crying out for the freshness of God and, and that was why Dave 488 00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:22,480 shared the scripture just of being in one place and of 1 489 00:28:22,480 --> 00:28:24,520 accord. And I I guess my faith was 490 00:28:24,520 --> 00:28:29,440 really just stirred for for seeing that actually out worked. 491 00:28:30,320 --> 00:28:33,840 And then and then I guess it overflows into today when we 492 00:28:33,840 --> 00:28:37,720 start talking about being woven together and just that real 493 00:28:37,720 --> 00:28:41,920 being of 1 accord with each other and the faith to see the 494 00:28:41,920 --> 00:28:43,920 fruit of what God can do in that space. 495 00:28:45,600 --> 00:28:49,240 Yeah, and the power that comes when we're unified and together. 496 00:28:50,200 --> 00:28:52,440 Amazing. So good. 497 00:28:53,360 --> 00:28:57,280 And so, yeah, like I, I had such a great time, you know, it was 498 00:28:57,280 --> 00:29:01,640 wonderful and it was cool because we made a plan to be 499 00:29:01,640 --> 00:29:04,440 together. You know, it's a community 500 00:29:04,440 --> 00:29:05,880 group. We're going to come together. 501 00:29:05,880 --> 00:29:10,320 So that's like the first step. Let's be together, you know? 502 00:29:11,040 --> 00:29:13,040 And then. But the cool thing was that 503 00:29:13,240 --> 00:29:16,480 everyone that was there actively participated. 504 00:29:17,680 --> 00:29:20,200 There was no one, you know? Hillary nodded off on the couch 505 00:29:20,200 --> 00:29:23,200 for a bit, but she was tired. OK, so that's OK. 506 00:29:23,200 --> 00:29:28,320 We'll we'll let that slide. Sorry, babe, but everyone was 507 00:29:28,400 --> 00:29:31,840 actively participating and you felt it. 508 00:29:32,600 --> 00:29:35,840 You're like, this is wonderful. You know, the Lord's here and 509 00:29:35,840 --> 00:29:37,960 and we're his people. And it was just, it felt 510 00:29:38,160 --> 00:29:41,600 wonderful. And we ate together. 511 00:29:41,600 --> 00:29:44,240 We love eating together. You know, he's just eating 512 00:29:44,240 --> 00:29:47,280 together is just one of the privileges we have. 513 00:29:47,920 --> 00:29:50,360 You know, Dan LED well when he opened up the word, he's just, 514 00:29:50,360 --> 00:29:53,920 it was as simple as just, hey, you know, I just felt this 515 00:29:53,920 --> 00:29:56,640 scripture. I mean, he read it and then we 516 00:29:56,640 --> 00:30:00,760 started talking and it just opened up this conversation with 517 00:30:00,760 --> 00:30:02,760 us. We were, as Hillary said, we 518 00:30:02,760 --> 00:30:06,760 were able just to share out of our own lives and their own 519 00:30:06,840 --> 00:30:10,200 struggles and, and it was all entwined together. 520 00:30:10,200 --> 00:30:15,600 It was just wonderful. Such a simple, simple thing, you 521 00:30:15,600 --> 00:30:19,040 know, and we waited on him. Isn't that just such a simple 522 00:30:19,040 --> 00:30:22,640 thing like that? We would come together and then 523 00:30:22,640 --> 00:30:26,480 we would wait on him and just say, Lord, we're here because of 524 00:30:26,480 --> 00:30:29,280 you. We know that you're here. 525 00:30:29,280 --> 00:30:34,560 What do you want to do? You know, and when we share out 526 00:30:34,560 --> 00:30:37,160 of that and it was just good, but that's that you. 527 00:30:37,200 --> 00:30:41,880 I'm saying all this because, you know, that's what we should be 528 00:30:41,880 --> 00:30:45,040 expecting every time that we're together. 529 00:30:45,720 --> 00:30:48,840 You know, church has become a lot of things in a lot of places 530 00:30:50,000 --> 00:30:54,960 and we've kind of lost the just to be together and to all 531 00:30:54,960 --> 00:30:57,480 participate. It's become very much about a 532 00:30:57,480 --> 00:31:01,040 stage mentality and that the only ones that would share with 533 00:31:01,040 --> 00:31:05,440 those that have the stage and have the mic, you know, but we 534 00:31:05,440 --> 00:31:09,280 can still, we can still actively participate even though, you 535 00:31:09,280 --> 00:31:10,880 know, we have these things for a reason, right? 536 00:31:12,040 --> 00:31:14,840 But we can still actively participate, no matter how big 537 00:31:14,840 --> 00:31:18,000 we get when we come together in the morning. 538 00:31:19,040 --> 00:31:24,600 And I would encourage us to come because we pray at 9:30 and the 539 00:31:24,600 --> 00:31:28,200 purpose behind it is just to hear from the Lord and see what 540 00:31:28,200 --> 00:31:30,360 it what it is that he was wanting to do today. 541 00:31:31,040 --> 00:31:33,720 And so I'd encourage all of us to be here to do that. 542 00:31:37,160 --> 00:31:40,960 But yeah, church can, church can look like that, where it's just 543 00:31:40,960 --> 00:31:45,440 a family of believers coming together and playing their part 544 00:31:45,440 --> 00:31:51,120 and contributing. You know, when I was, when I was 545 00:31:51,120 --> 00:31:55,280 prepping for this message, you know, I said that. 546 00:31:56,440 --> 00:31:58,160 I said that there was a there was a guy here. 547 00:31:58,160 --> 00:31:59,360 This is what I wrote down in my notes. 548 00:31:59,360 --> 00:32:02,720 I said there was a guy there and I could see that God was working 549 00:32:02,720 --> 00:32:05,760 in him. Yeah, that's what I wrote down. 550 00:32:06,200 --> 00:32:10,080 But then I had to change that because, you know, I, I don't 551 00:32:10,080 --> 00:32:13,360 want to, I'm not going to single you out or anything. 552 00:32:13,360 --> 00:32:15,720 You don't need to come up here. But we're dude, we are excited 553 00:32:15,720 --> 00:32:17,840 that you're here. You've heard we were excited 554 00:32:17,840 --> 00:32:20,280 that you were there. And the reason that I had to 555 00:32:20,280 --> 00:32:25,440 change this is because Brayden gave his life to the Lord the 556 00:32:25,440 --> 00:32:28,720 next day. That is a huge deal. 557 00:32:29,240 --> 00:32:33,440 Thank you, Lord. Thank you Lord, you know, so so 558 00:32:33,440 --> 00:32:36,080 it went from being there was a guy here that you could 559 00:32:36,600 --> 00:32:41,240 literally see God working in to there was a there was a guy with 560 00:32:41,240 --> 00:32:43,720 us that received Christ that was saved. 561 00:32:44,680 --> 00:32:47,880 That is so exciting. We are so stoked, you know, and 562 00:32:47,880 --> 00:32:49,320 I've got a scripture for you bro. 563 00:32:49,320 --> 00:32:54,600 It says Luke 1517 says this. It says this is Jesus speaking. 564 00:32:54,600 --> 00:32:58,360 He says, I say to you that likewise there will be more joy 565 00:32:58,360 --> 00:33:05,240 in heaven over 1 Sinner who repents than over 99 that who do 566 00:33:05,240 --> 00:33:07,800 not need repentance. Do you know what that means? 567 00:33:08,320 --> 00:33:12,280 That means that when you said, Lord, I take you as my Lord and 568 00:33:12,280 --> 00:33:17,120 Saviour, that heaven erupted and they praised for you. 569 00:33:17,880 --> 00:33:19,840 And we do the same thing in this place, man. 570 00:33:19,840 --> 00:33:24,520 We are so overjoyed that God has gripped your heart and that you 571 00:33:24,520 --> 00:33:27,520 made it here because I know that it's difficult for you to be 572 00:33:27,520 --> 00:33:29,600 here. But you're overcoming already, 573 00:33:29,600 --> 00:33:31,440 man. And you're going to need to 574 00:33:31,440 --> 00:33:33,720 because you know, we're going to have to overcome together. 575 00:33:34,200 --> 00:33:36,760 But can we just lift our voice and just give it a big praise? 576 00:33:36,760 --> 00:33:40,280 And we thank you, Lord, we thank you, Lord, thank you for Braden. 577 00:33:40,280 --> 00:33:42,720 Lord, thank you for the work you're doing in him and through 578 00:33:42,720 --> 00:33:45,000 him. Bless him, Lord, strengthen him. 579 00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:47,360 Lord, we just pray your protection over him. 580 00:33:47,720 --> 00:33:49,000 We pray that you would protect him. 581 00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:50,800 We pray that you would reveal yourself to him. 582 00:33:50,960 --> 00:33:53,040 We pray that you would be formed in him. 583 00:33:53,480 --> 00:33:56,320 We pray that you would fill him with joy and with hope and with 584 00:33:56,320 --> 00:33:59,440 peace and with strength, that you would make yourself known to 585 00:33:59,440 --> 00:34:01,560 him and use him. Lord, I pray that you would use 586 00:34:01,560 --> 00:34:05,160 him for your plans and your purpose in and through the 587 00:34:05,160 --> 00:34:07,240 church. Lord, that the manifold wisdom 588 00:34:07,400 --> 00:34:11,520 of God would be revealed in and through this Son in Jesus mighty 589 00:34:11,520 --> 00:34:14,280 name, Amen. Amen. 590 00:34:14,280 --> 00:34:18,520 What a wonderful thing, Thank you Lord, Thank you. 591 00:34:18,520 --> 00:34:22,760 Lord. And so you know, I left that 592 00:34:22,760 --> 00:34:25,320 meeting, you know, before I even knew about that. 593 00:34:25,320 --> 00:34:28,280 I left that meeting just being excited. 594 00:34:29,159 --> 00:34:31,440 I was pumped up. I was like, that was wonderful. 595 00:34:31,440 --> 00:34:33,440 You know, we woke up the next day and Hillary and I are 596 00:34:33,440 --> 00:34:34,320 talking. We're just going. 597 00:34:34,320 --> 00:34:37,840 That was so nice, you know? And you know what? 598 00:34:37,840 --> 00:34:41,760 We're feeling excited, encouraged, expanded, 599 00:34:41,760 --> 00:34:45,920 emboldened, equipped, and envisioned expedient. 600 00:34:46,520 --> 00:34:49,080 We saw God move in a in an instant. 601 00:34:49,960 --> 00:34:53,760 Amen. So let's be expected that God's 602 00:34:53,760 --> 00:34:56,760 going to continue to do in, in these things in and through 603 00:34:56,760 --> 00:34:58,920 these coming weeks. This is a big week for us as a 604 00:34:58,920 --> 00:35:00,920 church. There's a lot going on. 605 00:35:02,400 --> 00:35:05,200 And so, you know, the other thing that I thought about last 606 00:35:05,280 --> 00:35:10,640 on Friday night, I was just like, I would be excited to 607 00:35:10,640 --> 00:35:12,320 invite someone to come along to that. 608 00:35:13,480 --> 00:35:15,680 Like be excited. Like I'd, I'd be like, yeah, 609 00:35:15,680 --> 00:35:20,200 you, you need to come to this, you know, not inviting out of 610 00:35:20,280 --> 00:35:23,560 obligation, you know, not inviting because we should 611 00:35:23,560 --> 00:35:26,120 invite people to church. We should invite people to 612 00:35:26,120 --> 00:35:29,080 community because we should. That's what we're supposed to 613 00:35:29,080 --> 00:35:32,600 do. Excited because God was there, 614 00:35:33,280 --> 00:35:36,240 because we saw the Spirit of God move. 615 00:35:36,920 --> 00:35:41,200 And that's what the world needs. That's what people need. 616 00:35:41,200 --> 00:35:46,200 That's what your unfriend save, sorry, your unsaved neighbors 617 00:35:46,200 --> 00:35:49,480 and friends and work colleagues, That's what they need. 618 00:35:50,040 --> 00:35:52,240 We need to invite them along, you know. 619 00:35:52,240 --> 00:35:55,160 And again, sometimes it's going to be easier for people to come 620 00:35:55,160 --> 00:35:58,200 for a meal with with a small group of people than come into a 621 00:35:58,200 --> 00:36:01,080 church context. And we've talked about this in 622 00:36:01,080 --> 00:36:05,640 weeks gone by, this fruit. Now that means that God's on 623 00:36:05,640 --> 00:36:09,280 this, right? Our our gathering together at 624 00:36:09,320 --> 00:36:12,240 our men's group. There's fruit there, there's 625 00:36:12,240 --> 00:36:14,720 people coming. We're sharing the word of God. 626 00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:17,240 We're in a room and it's not just believers. 627 00:36:17,680 --> 00:36:20,440 People are wanting to come and, and I'll leave those meetings. 628 00:36:20,440 --> 00:36:21,760 Do you enjoy those meetings, Brandon? 629 00:36:21,760 --> 00:36:27,240 Do you enjoy the men's groups? So good, so good. 630 00:36:28,080 --> 00:36:30,640 You know, it's another one of those ones that you leave and I 631 00:36:30,640 --> 00:36:34,400 know that you enjoy it too tiny. We leave and we were like, that 632 00:36:34,400 --> 00:36:37,800 was one that was wonderful. God's with us. 633 00:36:38,200 --> 00:36:40,760 You know, this is super encouraging for us guys. 634 00:36:42,440 --> 00:36:46,360 So awesome. All right, so Jesus got people 635 00:36:46,360 --> 00:36:50,720 gathered to Jesus through word of mouth, didn't they? 636 00:36:52,000 --> 00:36:55,040 They just went and told people what it was that that Jesus was 637 00:36:55,040 --> 00:36:56,680 doing. They they told him who he was 638 00:36:57,080 --> 00:36:59,000 and they said you got to come and see this guy. 639 00:36:59,640 --> 00:37:01,880 You got to come and see the things that Jesus does. 640 00:37:02,840 --> 00:37:05,160 It's the same for us. When we get excited about what 641 00:37:05,160 --> 00:37:06,080 God's doing. It's the same. 642 00:37:06,080 --> 00:37:10,160 Come and see, Come and see what Jesus to come and see, you know, 643 00:37:10,240 --> 00:37:12,320 there's an excitement. There's a word of mouth. 644 00:37:12,320 --> 00:37:15,440 We grow through word of mouth predominantly. 645 00:37:15,440 --> 00:37:18,920 That's how the church has grown. That's how the early church 646 00:37:18,920 --> 00:37:21,800 grew. You got it. 647 00:37:22,680 --> 00:37:25,040 Yeah, it's still growing that way now. 648 00:37:25,040 --> 00:37:28,960 You know, we won't rely on other things now, but word of mouth is 649 00:37:28,960 --> 00:37:30,440 where the power is. Do you know why? 650 00:37:30,440 --> 00:37:32,960 Because like when I'm standing next to someone, you know what? 651 00:37:32,960 --> 00:37:38,480 Someone's experience. Holy Spirit, It's true you. 652 00:37:38,480 --> 00:37:42,480 When we're together, we experience God in a real way. 653 00:37:42,480 --> 00:37:45,640 When we're on the phone, God can do amazing things. 654 00:37:45,640 --> 00:37:48,000 Don't get me wrong, God can come and touch people through the 655 00:37:48,000 --> 00:37:51,000 phone. But when we're together, the 656 00:37:51,000 --> 00:37:53,200 Holy Spirit flows in US and through us. 657 00:37:54,840 --> 00:37:56,480 It's like when you walk into a room. 658 00:37:56,480 --> 00:37:57,880 Do you know who walks into the room? 659 00:37:58,240 --> 00:38:01,200 God walks into the room. The Holy Spirit's here. 660 00:38:01,200 --> 00:38:06,400 It's very cool. It's this is like the, this is 661 00:38:06,400 --> 00:38:09,800 the adventure of being a son of God or a daughter of God. 662 00:38:09,800 --> 00:38:12,600 This is the adventure knowing that when you show up God's 663 00:38:12,600 --> 00:38:16,760 there and the authority of God, that Christ's authority has gone 664 00:38:16,760 --> 00:38:18,600 with you. It's pretty cool. 665 00:38:19,840 --> 00:38:22,240 And so this is the, the, you know, when we think about the 666 00:38:22,240 --> 00:38:26,400 church like this, this is a healthy DNA for a church and 667 00:38:26,400 --> 00:38:29,160 into the future. It's like if we can build 668 00:38:29,160 --> 00:38:33,320 something that's healthy and strong, then when we plant out 669 00:38:33,320 --> 00:38:38,520 of this place, you, you build upon out of the DNA that we have 670 00:38:38,520 --> 00:38:40,280 here. Then, then, then you build, you 671 00:38:40,280 --> 00:38:43,680 multiply somewhere else and you build a healthy church there. 672 00:38:43,680 --> 00:38:46,600 That's what church planting is. That's what's happened here. 673 00:38:47,040 --> 00:38:48,280 We've come out of another church. 674 00:38:48,280 --> 00:38:50,480 We've been planted here. We've had to find our way for a 675 00:38:50,480 --> 00:38:53,640 little while now. It's time to grow and with the 676 00:38:53,640 --> 00:38:58,320 intent of planting into the future because we want to see 677 00:38:58,320 --> 00:39:02,640 more churches where we can experience these amazing, fun 678 00:39:02,640 --> 00:39:05,680 things that the presence of God in our midst. 679 00:39:05,680 --> 00:39:08,800 We want for others to experience that over there where there's 680 00:39:08,800 --> 00:39:11,080 not a church there or where there needs to be a a new 681 00:39:11,080 --> 00:39:13,440 covenant church there. That's simply what church 682 00:39:13,440 --> 00:39:16,520 planting is. And so in the coming weeks, I 683 00:39:16,520 --> 00:39:19,040 loved Eliza's word last week. She said it's time. 684 00:39:20,480 --> 00:39:24,880 It is time, it is time, time for what? 685 00:39:24,880 --> 00:39:28,800 Time for us to get some clarity, time for us to to get the steps, 686 00:39:29,240 --> 00:39:31,600 you know, where God's been showing us some cool stuff, but 687 00:39:31,600 --> 00:39:34,760 we need some more clarity. We need to know, Lord, what is 688 00:39:34,760 --> 00:39:38,160 it that you want us to do specifically in all of this? 689 00:39:38,960 --> 00:39:42,040 That we could be successful that we could see your mighty hand 690 00:39:42,040 --> 00:39:44,120 move. We want to hear the specifics 691 00:39:44,120 --> 00:39:47,400 Lord give us ears to hear. Open our hearts up wide Lord. 692 00:39:48,440 --> 00:39:50,640 So for those that are staying while we go. 693 00:39:51,400 --> 00:39:53,400 I love this scripture. Obviously I shared this with 694 00:39:53,400 --> 00:39:56,640 with you guys before it's one Samuel 3024. 695 00:39:57,160 --> 00:40:02,120 This is David David and his men. He says for for who will healed 696 00:40:02,560 --> 00:40:04,640 Sorry. Let me start again for who will 697 00:40:04,640 --> 00:40:08,880 heal heed you in this matter. But as his part is, who goes 698 00:40:08,880 --> 00:40:12,960 down to the battle? So shall his part be who stays 699 00:40:12,960 --> 00:40:16,240 with the suppliers? They shall share alike. 700 00:40:16,760 --> 00:40:19,400 That means that the men that grabbed their swords and their 701 00:40:19,400 --> 00:40:23,880 weapons and went to fight share the inheritance with those that 702 00:40:23,880 --> 00:40:26,360 had to stay. You know, when I was thinking 703 00:40:26,360 --> 00:40:29,080 about this this week, do you think that there was work to be 704 00:40:29,080 --> 00:40:32,000 done for those that stayed? They weren't just sitting there 705 00:40:32,000 --> 00:40:34,200 just going, oh, we'll just wait till they get back and then 706 00:40:34,200 --> 00:40:37,200 we'll just get on with it. They're looking after all of the 707 00:40:37,200 --> 00:40:39,640 animals. They're looking after the kids. 708 00:40:39,640 --> 00:40:41,880 And the, you know, there's they're, they're keeping the 709 00:40:41,880 --> 00:40:44,600 house. There's work to be done. 710 00:40:45,200 --> 00:40:47,640 And I say that to you guys because it's not like, you know, 711 00:40:47,640 --> 00:40:49,760 we'll just send them away and wait till they get back. 712 00:40:49,760 --> 00:40:53,080 There's work to be done here, you know, and, and Justin will 713 00:40:53,080 --> 00:40:54,680 be here next week and I'm here this week. 714 00:40:54,680 --> 00:40:57,120 So, you know, you're not left on your own completely. 715 00:40:57,120 --> 00:41:01,520 But I say that because you guys are going to need each other 716 00:41:02,160 --> 00:41:05,560 mostly out of looking after the the sheep, right? 717 00:41:06,000 --> 00:41:08,440 You guys need to look after one another while we're gone. 718 00:41:08,440 --> 00:41:10,360 You're going to need to make sure that you're OK. 719 00:41:11,040 --> 00:41:12,640 Guys got to gather around this man. 720 00:41:13,400 --> 00:41:15,000 Yeah. We've got to look after one 721 00:41:15,000 --> 00:41:16,760 another. We've got to make sure that our 722 00:41:16,760 --> 00:41:18,920 needs are met. You know, the early church took 723 00:41:18,920 --> 00:41:22,400 care of the needs of each other. And that's going to be 724 00:41:22,400 --> 00:41:24,920 prayerfully, but that's going to be more than prayerfully. 725 00:41:24,920 --> 00:41:26,880 That's going to be picking up the phone and saying, how are 726 00:41:26,880 --> 00:41:29,240 you doing? We spoke about Bianca last week. 727 00:41:29,240 --> 00:41:32,400 Bianca's here with the family. And I know I love to hear the 728 00:41:32,400 --> 00:41:33,960 stories that you guys are doing that. 729 00:41:35,160 --> 00:41:38,200 But what about the rest of us? You know, because we need each 730 00:41:38,200 --> 00:41:39,440 other. We need to just pick up the 731 00:41:39,440 --> 00:41:42,360 phone. If you feel if you hear a name 732 00:41:42,360 --> 00:41:44,640 or someone's on your heart, you just think about someone 733 00:41:45,120 --> 00:41:47,760 throughout the next week or two, send them a text. 734 00:41:47,760 --> 00:41:49,920 If you've got their number, flick them or give them a call. 735 00:41:50,360 --> 00:41:52,880 Find out how they're doing. Just say, hey, I was just 736 00:41:52,880 --> 00:41:54,480 thinking about you. Are you OK? 737 00:41:54,760 --> 00:41:57,640 Is there anything you need? It's simple stuff. 738 00:41:58,560 --> 00:42:01,960 Wonderful. So we need to be the church the 739 00:42:02,000 --> 00:42:05,120 the, the the Bible church Acts 246. 740 00:42:05,320 --> 00:42:09,040 So they continued daily with 1 accord in the temple and 741 00:42:09,040 --> 00:42:11,680 breaking bread from house to house. 742 00:42:12,160 --> 00:42:15,040 They ate their food with gladness and simplicity of 743 00:42:15,040 --> 00:42:16,760 heart. They gathered together. 744 00:42:16,760 --> 00:42:20,280 It's daily they were together. You know, I've heard push back 745 00:42:20,280 --> 00:42:22,720 on this, you know, like when you start talking a little this way 746 00:42:22,720 --> 00:42:25,280 and you just go, you know, the early church, they gathered 747 00:42:25,280 --> 00:42:28,400 together daily. You've heard push back and 748 00:42:28,400 --> 00:42:29,960 you're well, you know, that's the early church. 749 00:42:29,960 --> 00:42:31,600 We don't need to be like the early church. 750 00:42:31,720 --> 00:42:34,120 Are you sure? Because the early church 751 00:42:34,280 --> 00:42:40,920 experienced the power of God. The early church saw 3000 people 752 00:42:40,920 --> 00:42:44,440 saved in one day. I think we need to be like the 753 00:42:44,480 --> 00:42:46,960 early church. I think that we need to take on 754 00:42:46,960 --> 00:42:50,680 the example of the early church. So if they were gathering daily, 755 00:42:51,000 --> 00:42:55,520 I think we need to make a way to be together as regularly as we 756 00:42:55,520 --> 00:42:57,560 can. The other thing that the early 757 00:42:57,560 --> 00:42:59,280 church did was they prayed together. 758 00:43:00,240 --> 00:43:02,880 We pray together, We have a prayer meeting, we pray again, 759 00:43:02,880 --> 00:43:05,000 we pray before the meeting. Very important. 760 00:43:05,000 --> 00:43:07,120 Please come. Please come to the prayer 761 00:43:07,120 --> 00:43:09,720 meeting if you can. I'd realize that some of us 762 00:43:09,720 --> 00:43:10,840 can't make it. That's fine. 763 00:43:11,800 --> 00:43:14,800 But what I do know is usually those that can't make it want to 764 00:43:14,800 --> 00:43:16,320 be here and they're praying anyway. 765 00:43:16,760 --> 00:43:20,520 Can I just say that Psalm 5 talks about prayer. 766 00:43:21,680 --> 00:43:23,440 It says, I'm just going to read it to us here. 767 00:43:23,440 --> 00:43:27,920 Psalm 5, verse one, it says, give ear to my words. 768 00:43:27,920 --> 00:43:34,320 O Lord, consider my meditation. Give heed to my voice of my cry, 769 00:43:35,080 --> 00:43:38,640 my King and my God, for to you I will pray. 770 00:43:38,920 --> 00:43:43,720 My voice you shall hear in the morning, O Lord, in the morning 771 00:43:44,040 --> 00:43:47,640 I will direct it to you and I will look up. 772 00:43:48,600 --> 00:43:50,440 We will pray. And then if you skip down to 773 00:43:50,440 --> 00:43:54,880 verse 7, it says this. But As for me, I will come into 774 00:43:54,880 --> 00:43:59,640 Your house in the multitude of Your mercy, in fear of You, I'll 775 00:43:59,640 --> 00:44:01,920 worship towards Your holy temple. 776 00:44:02,960 --> 00:44:06,240 Listen to this. Lead me, O Lord, in Your 777 00:44:06,240 --> 00:44:10,000 righteousness. Because of my enemies, make Your 778 00:44:10,000 --> 00:44:14,640 way straight before my face. This is prayer. 779 00:44:15,080 --> 00:44:17,440 You know what this means? It means that when I pray to the 780 00:44:17,440 --> 00:44:21,440 Lord, I lift up my voice and I speak to Him. 781 00:44:21,920 --> 00:44:23,720 But you know what He does in return? 782 00:44:24,400 --> 00:44:29,400 He leads me. He leads me in the paths of 783 00:44:29,400 --> 00:44:32,320 righteousness. Prayer is not one sided. 784 00:44:32,760 --> 00:44:36,480 Prayer is not just me spitting out all of my requests to God. 785 00:44:37,160 --> 00:44:41,920 Prayer is me crying out to Him because I need Him and we need 786 00:44:41,920 --> 00:44:46,000 Him. And God responds by hearing and 787 00:44:46,000 --> 00:44:48,720 then leading us by His Holy Spirit. 788 00:44:49,880 --> 00:44:54,000 Be expectant that when you do pray, Holy Spirit will lead you 789 00:44:54,080 --> 00:44:55,040 and guide you. He does. 790 00:44:55,040 --> 00:44:58,320 His word says that He does. We know He does. 791 00:44:59,000 --> 00:45:02,480 Amen. All right, so we are and I just 792 00:45:02,480 --> 00:45:04,480 getting back to the start, I'm just wrapping this up. 793 00:45:04,880 --> 00:45:08,160 So we are an Apostolic prophetic people. 794 00:45:09,880 --> 00:45:14,680 He shows the way that we go, the way the Church's name is is 795 00:45:15,240 --> 00:45:19,200 significant for us. He shows us the way. 796 00:45:20,320 --> 00:45:23,200 When he shows us the way, do you know what we do? 797 00:45:24,560 --> 00:45:30,320 We go in obedience. Yeah, that's being sent. 798 00:45:30,600 --> 00:45:34,320 That's Apostolic. That's going the way, Lord. 799 00:45:34,320 --> 00:45:37,160 Show us the way, Lord, so that we can follow you, so that we 800 00:45:37,160 --> 00:45:39,680 can go, so that we can do what you've called us to do. 801 00:45:41,440 --> 00:45:45,240 He shows us the way to live. You know, this is the prophetic 802 00:45:45,240 --> 00:45:48,520 side to this. He, he shows us not only where 803 00:45:48,520 --> 00:45:51,560 to go, but he shows us how to go. 804 00:45:52,240 --> 00:45:56,200 He shows us how to live. He again, prophetic is just like 805 00:45:56,360 --> 00:46:01,520 hearing from God and then speaking, speaking it. 806 00:46:03,040 --> 00:46:09,280 So we want to be a Apostolic prophetic hearted people, 807 00:46:10,200 --> 00:46:13,360 priesthood of all believers. We read this this morning. 808 00:46:13,360 --> 00:46:15,880 I'm going to read it for us again, a priesthood of all 809 00:46:15,880 --> 00:46:18,400 believers. That just means that all of us 810 00:46:19,320 --> 00:46:24,160 have a role to play in His church as a priest to the Lord. 811 00:46:24,880 --> 00:46:30,960 The Old covenant had specific priests that would be in between 812 00:46:31,120 --> 00:46:33,960 God and the people that they would come to the priest, and 813 00:46:33,960 --> 00:46:36,840 the priest would. You know you're not in Christ. 814 00:46:37,480 --> 00:46:41,920 A priesthood of all believers has direct access to God through 815 00:46:41,920 --> 00:46:44,640 Christ. We are a priesthood. 816 00:46:44,880 --> 00:46:51,320 That means that you don't need me to get to God, You don't need 817 00:46:51,320 --> 00:46:53,600 me to go. Can you just pray for me that 818 00:46:53,600 --> 00:46:58,160 God would, right? That means that you as a 819 00:46:58,160 --> 00:47:04,120 believer, as a spirit filled believer, as a son of God, and 820 00:47:04,120 --> 00:47:08,040 having received the cross, having received Jesus sacrifice, 821 00:47:08,240 --> 00:47:12,800 forgiveness of sins, can walk boldly into the throne room of 822 00:47:12,800 --> 00:47:15,840 God. That means that He is opening up 823 00:47:15,840 --> 00:47:19,000 a way for you to come to him. It means that you can come and 824 00:47:19,000 --> 00:47:21,640 ask, give him your, your requests and your needs. 825 00:47:21,640 --> 00:47:25,960 That's a, that's a, that is a substantial truth of the gospel 826 00:47:26,760 --> 00:47:31,560 that we could come to the Lord. So 1 Corinthians 1426, it says, 827 00:47:31,960 --> 00:47:37,240 how is it then, brethren, whenever, whenever, today is a 828 00:47:37,240 --> 00:47:40,520 whenever. Friday night was a whenever, 829 00:47:41,320 --> 00:47:43,840 when I have friends around, you know, when, when Justin and 830 00:47:43,840 --> 00:47:47,000 Bianca come for dinner, It's a whenever, whenever you're 831 00:47:47,000 --> 00:47:51,000 together, whenever you come together, each of you has a 832 00:47:51,000 --> 00:47:55,120 Psalm, has a teaching, has a tongue, has a revelation, has an 833 00:47:55,120 --> 00:48:00,360 interpretation. Let all things be done for 834 00:48:00,360 --> 00:48:04,160 edification. All things whenever we're 835 00:48:04,160 --> 00:48:09,040 together that we would be edified, strengthened, set on 836 00:48:09,040 --> 00:48:10,720 the path that the Lord has for us. 837 00:48:10,720 --> 00:48:13,600 Amen. So how are we going to respond 838 00:48:13,600 --> 00:48:16,880 to that? Because any time that we share 839 00:48:16,880 --> 00:48:20,640 the word of God, it's, it's if you, if you hear it and you go, 840 00:48:21,200 --> 00:48:23,120 yeah, that's the Lord. He's speaking. 841 00:48:23,120 --> 00:48:26,160 This is his word. Now we have to respond. 842 00:48:26,160 --> 00:48:30,160 We have to respond to the Lord. And responding to the Lord is 843 00:48:30,160 --> 00:48:34,480 very easy, again, because you've got access to the God, because 844 00:48:34,480 --> 00:48:39,440 you can go into the holiest place where the Lord dwells, the 845 00:48:39,440 --> 00:48:43,000 throne room of God. That means that responding 846 00:48:43,000 --> 00:48:46,680 happens in here. We are the temple of God. 847 00:48:47,720 --> 00:48:50,240 We are the temple of the Holy Spirit. 848 00:48:50,960 --> 00:48:54,280 That means you don't have to look outwardly to respond to the 849 00:48:54,280 --> 00:48:56,160 Lord. Respond comes in your heart. 850 00:48:57,040 --> 00:49:00,640 It's as simple as saying, Lord, I hear you. 851 00:49:02,320 --> 00:49:05,160 I want to respond to you. You can use your mouth, but you 852 00:49:05,160 --> 00:49:08,080 can use your heart. So I'm just going to pray for us 853 00:49:08,080 --> 00:49:10,280 and let's all respond. How about that? 854 00:49:10,720 --> 00:49:13,480 Who wants to respond? We all need to respond. 855 00:49:14,120 --> 00:49:19,240 Please, yeah, please. It's a verse that many of you 856 00:49:19,240 --> 00:49:22,800 are familiar with because I've given it to some of you before, 857 00:49:23,280 --> 00:49:25,440 but it's coming in to me this morning. 858 00:49:26,120 --> 00:49:30,440 It's I grew up with as a young believer, and I spent a lot of 859 00:49:30,440 --> 00:49:34,200 time in the Living Bible. And this is a verse from Psalm 860 00:49:34,200 --> 00:49:38,400 32, verse 8. And in the Living Bible it says, 861 00:49:38,760 --> 00:49:43,680 I would instruct you, says the Lord, and guide you along the 862 00:49:43,680 --> 00:49:48,200 best pathway for your love. And then he says, and I would 863 00:49:48,200 --> 00:49:52,080 advise you and watch your progress. 864 00:49:54,080 --> 00:50:02,320 Be blessed. Add to that, we forget that He 865 00:50:02,360 --> 00:50:07,400 loves our progress. He created us and when he sees 866 00:50:07,400 --> 00:50:11,080 the faculties that he's put into us and the the gifting and the 867 00:50:11,080 --> 00:50:15,400 other things, when we see us use that and move forward, he 868 00:50:15,400 --> 00:50:18,680 rejoices. He sings over us, he dances over 869 00:50:18,680 --> 00:50:24,680 us. Can he pray for us? 870 00:50:24,680 --> 00:50:28,880 OK, Our great, wonderful, wonderful Father in heaven, our 871 00:50:28,880 --> 00:50:35,160 Papa Father, the great God of the universe, the, the sovereign 872 00:50:35,160 --> 00:50:40,520 God, the highest level of authority and and the deepest 873 00:50:40,520 --> 00:50:44,720 well of resources that exist. We, we rejoice today that we 874 00:50:44,720 --> 00:50:47,520 could come through the curtain that was torn. 875 00:50:48,200 --> 00:50:55,120 They, the experts think it was 3 feet at least thick and it was 876 00:50:55,120 --> 00:50:58,920 torn from top to bottom. So we come with boldness to you. 877 00:50:59,480 --> 00:51:01,840 We thank you for the encouragement this morning from 878 00:51:01,840 --> 00:51:04,320 your word. We thank you for the examples 879 00:51:04,320 --> 00:51:07,440 that we have. Thank you for those 3 chapters 880 00:51:07,880 --> 00:51:11,040 that that speak of. What do you do when you come 881 00:51:11,040 --> 00:51:13,320 together? We thank you for what happened 882 00:51:13,320 --> 00:51:15,120 on Friday night. I wasn't there, but I can 883 00:51:15,120 --> 00:51:18,480 imagine. And so, Father, we pray that you 884 00:51:18,480 --> 00:51:23,000 will help us to respond to the things we've heard, to respond 885 00:51:23,000 --> 00:51:28,560 to what you are calling us to be, to respond not with fear, 886 00:51:28,560 --> 00:51:33,600 but with confidence that if you made us and you sent us and 887 00:51:33,600 --> 00:51:40,120 you've given us the incredible good news, then Lord, we pray 888 00:51:40,120 --> 00:51:43,680 that you'll help us to be courageous enough and sensitive 889 00:51:43,680 --> 00:51:46,920 enough not to go out of this door and justice think, Oh well, 890 00:51:46,920 --> 00:51:50,680 I'm going to get on with life. No, but go out of this door 891 00:51:50,680 --> 00:51:58,560 differently, expecting, aware of, of abiding in Jesus, of of 892 00:51:58,560 --> 00:52:04,560 being in touch, synced, synced to you, Lord Jesus 100%. 893 00:52:04,800 --> 00:52:09,400 So whatever you want to do, and you do it with us together, we 894 00:52:09,400 --> 00:52:13,600 pray that in Jesus name for and we give you the glory and the 895 00:52:13,600 --> 00:52:17,960 credit for what you're going to do in Jesus name, Amen. 896 00:52:20,120 --> 00:52:23,280 Thank you guys. I just wanna thank you all for 897 00:52:23,280 --> 00:52:26,160 contributing and this has been a wonderful time together, hasn't 898 00:52:26,160 --> 00:52:27,920 it? Bless you guys. 899 00:52:27,920 --> 00:52:31,320 Hey, have a wonderful. Day, Thank you for joining us 900 00:52:31,320 --> 00:52:33,840 for today's message. For more information about The 901 00:52:33,840 --> 00:52:38,040 Way Church, please visit ourwebsite@thewaychurch.com dot 902 00:52:38,080 --> 00:52:39,440 AU. Have a blessed day.