1 00:00:07,960 --> 00:00:10,960 Hi and welcome to the We Are Zion Sermon podcast. 2 00:00:11,320 --> 00:00:14,000 We are a local church based here in Chennai, India. 3 00:00:14,480 --> 00:00:17,240 We are so glad you are with us and hope that this will 4 00:00:17,240 --> 00:00:20,280 encourage, inspire and instill fresh faith in you. 5 00:00:21,160 --> 00:00:24,080 We have started a series called The Kingdom Life based on the 6 00:00:24,080 --> 00:00:27,920 life and teachings of Jesus from the Gospel according to Mark. 7 00:00:28,520 --> 00:00:31,800 We look at how we must live our lives on this earth as followers 8 00:00:31,800 --> 00:00:35,680 of Jesus in a way that is countercultural yet powerfully 9 00:00:35,680 --> 00:00:39,160 impactful. As you listen in, our hope is 10 00:00:39,160 --> 00:00:44,080 that you will be motivated to live, love, lead, and serve just 11 00:00:44,080 --> 00:00:47,120 like Jesus. Hi Church. 12 00:00:47,280 --> 00:00:50,280 Even as we continue meditating on God's Word, we go into the 13 00:00:50,280 --> 00:00:52,560 second part of the series called The Kingdom Life. 14 00:00:53,120 --> 00:00:55,760 Even last week as we saw the Kingdom life, we see from the 15 00:00:55,760 --> 00:00:59,920 book of Mark as we emphasize and see from the life of Jesus, we 16 00:00:59,920 --> 00:01:03,720 see how Jesus lived right here on this earth and how He lived 17 00:01:03,720 --> 00:01:06,640 that Kingdom life. And what can we also take from 18 00:01:06,640 --> 00:01:09,240 his teachings, take from his life and live that out? 19 00:01:09,560 --> 00:01:11,680 Last week He saw a couple of things which are very important, 20 00:01:11,680 --> 00:01:14,000 which I just wanted to go through some of those points 21 00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:17,480 because I believe they matter. The first thing we saw is our 22 00:01:17,480 --> 00:01:19,680 motives matter if you want to do good. 23 00:01:20,280 --> 00:01:23,200 The second thing we saw surrender matters if you want 24 00:01:23,200 --> 00:01:25,680 the blessing. Third, we saw as Jesus was 25 00:01:25,680 --> 00:01:29,200 feeding the 5000 breaking matters if he want the 26 00:01:29,200 --> 00:01:32,400 breakthrough. And the last is our sensitivity. 27 00:01:32,400 --> 00:01:36,280 Our spiritual sensitivity matters if we want to know God 28 00:01:36,280 --> 00:01:40,760 more today, even as we look, continue on to look from Mark in 29 00:01:40,760 --> 00:01:42,560 the book of Mark. I'm going to take this entire 30 00:01:42,560 --> 00:01:48,400 passage right from Mark chapter 2 when God calls Matthew and 31 00:01:48,400 --> 00:01:51,920 some of the translations, it says Levi, but Matthew is again 32 00:01:52,400 --> 00:01:54,240 the tax collector. He's the one who's written the 33 00:01:54,240 --> 00:01:58,120 book, the Gospel according to Matthew, and he was a tax 34 00:01:58,120 --> 00:02:00,320 collector. And Jesus says, come and, you 35 00:02:00,320 --> 00:02:02,720 know, follow me. And even as he makes that 36 00:02:02,720 --> 00:02:07,600 obedient call on his own life and follows Jesus, that evening 37 00:02:07,600 --> 00:02:11,160 he is sitting and they all are dining together. 38 00:02:11,160 --> 00:02:12,920 And this incident happens right there. 39 00:02:13,360 --> 00:02:15,760 And even as you look at the Kingdom life, we see that this 40 00:02:15,760 --> 00:02:18,680 Kingdom life is not something that we are called to live by 41 00:02:18,680 --> 00:02:21,040 our own. We are part of a Kingdom. 42 00:02:21,440 --> 00:02:25,520 We are part of God's Kingdom, and our God is Jesus. 43 00:02:25,760 --> 00:02:28,480 And we see that in this entire Kingdom. 44 00:02:28,480 --> 00:02:30,880 We don't get to just live the way we like. 45 00:02:30,880 --> 00:02:33,560 There are guardrails. There are ways in which God's 46 00:02:33,560 --> 00:02:35,480 calling us to live because we represent him. 47 00:02:35,720 --> 00:02:39,200 We are walking witnesses of Jesus right here on this earth. 48 00:02:39,480 --> 00:02:42,280 And today, as you and me are reading through the Scripture, I 49 00:02:42,280 --> 00:02:43,760 want you to look into your own lives. 50 00:02:44,120 --> 00:02:47,480 Probably there are areas where we've been ashamed of being part 51 00:02:47,480 --> 00:02:50,880 of the Kingdom that we've chosen to live by the standards of the 52 00:02:50,880 --> 00:02:52,560 world. But God saying, no, if you're 53 00:02:52,560 --> 00:02:55,640 part of my Kingdom, if you call me Lord and Savior of your life, 54 00:02:55,920 --> 00:02:59,400 you need to be following me. You need to be living the way I 55 00:02:59,400 --> 00:03:03,120 want you to live, doing what I've called you to do, and also 56 00:03:03,120 --> 00:03:06,680 hope that I would come through. And one of the beautiful things 57 00:03:06,680 --> 00:03:10,000 that we see when Jesus came here to establish his Kingdom here on 58 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:12,960 this earth is not one like our earthly kingdoms. 59 00:03:13,200 --> 00:03:17,600 He's not like an authoritarian. He's operating out of pure love. 60 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:20,720 He's cleansed us, He's washed us white as snow. 61 00:03:20,960 --> 00:03:24,760 He's purchased us, He's redeemed us wherein we no longer have to 62 00:03:24,760 --> 00:03:28,480 strive for our salvation. Rather we invite him and we live 63 00:03:28,720 --> 00:03:30,440 the life that he's called us to live. 64 00:03:30,680 --> 00:03:33,720 So let's continue on to read from Mark chapter 2, verses 18 65 00:03:33,720 --> 00:03:35,200 to 22. And this is what it says. 66 00:03:35,520 --> 00:03:37,920 Now John's disciples and the Pharisees were fasting. 67 00:03:38,160 --> 00:03:40,920 Some people came and asked Jesus, How is it that John's the 68 00:03:40,920 --> 00:03:44,520 disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees are fasting, but 69 00:03:44,520 --> 00:03:46,880 yours are not? Jesus answered. 70 00:03:46,880 --> 00:03:50,240 How can the guess of the bridegroom fast while he is with 71 00:03:50,240 --> 00:03:53,200 them? They cannot so long as they have 72 00:03:54,120 --> 00:03:56,480 with him. But the time will come, and the 73 00:03:56,480 --> 00:03:59,800 bridegroom will be taken from them, and on that day they will 74 00:03:59,800 --> 00:04:02,680 fast. No one soothes a patch of 75 00:04:02,680 --> 00:04:06,240 unshrunk cloth on an old garment, otherwise a new piece 76 00:04:06,240 --> 00:04:09,120 will pull away from the old, making the tear worse. 77 00:04:09,600 --> 00:04:13,240 And no one pours new wine into old wine skins, otherwise the 78 00:04:13,240 --> 00:04:17,200 wine will burst the skin. Both the wine and the wine skin 79 00:04:17,200 --> 00:04:21,120 will be ruined, nor they pour new wine into new wine skins. 80 00:04:21,959 --> 00:04:28,040 As we read this, Jesus was talking to a group of Pharisees 81 00:04:28,320 --> 00:04:31,080 and the disciples of John the Baptist. 82 00:04:31,080 --> 00:04:34,960 And one of the things that we see when we are living and being 83 00:04:34,960 --> 00:04:40,200 part of the Kingdom is sometimes if we don't allow ourselves to 84 00:04:41,080 --> 00:04:44,880 live in the newness that Jesus wants us to live, what is the 85 00:04:44,880 --> 00:04:48,160 newness that Jesus wants us? A constant dependency, a 86 00:04:48,160 --> 00:04:53,360 constant communication with him. We will be people who are 87 00:04:53,360 --> 00:04:55,960 questioning everything we see here. 88 00:04:55,960 --> 00:04:59,120 They come in the question. They say why are you not fasting 89 00:04:59,480 --> 00:05:02,080 and probably in the Jewish culture at that time was 90 00:05:02,080 --> 00:05:05,760 probably a season of fast. But Jesus goes on to say they 91 00:05:05,760 --> 00:05:09,520 have the bridegroom with them and it's a time of celebration 92 00:05:09,960 --> 00:05:13,320 during a wedding time during a weddings usually take a week 93 00:05:13,320 --> 00:05:16,320 long celebration and no one is fasting during that week long 94 00:05:16,320 --> 00:05:18,200 celebration. They in fact joyous they're 95 00:05:18,200 --> 00:05:22,000 celebrating. They are are not moaning or 96 00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:25,960 they're not, you know, in repentance mode and sitting 97 00:05:25,960 --> 00:05:30,360 quietly covered in sackcloth. No, there is a time for that. 98 00:05:30,360 --> 00:05:34,360 And here Jesus reiterates them to tell them you need to know 99 00:05:34,360 --> 00:05:38,040 what time you're in. He says there will be a time 100 00:05:38,040 --> 00:05:40,520 when they will fast. There will be a time when they 101 00:05:40,520 --> 00:05:42,280 will pray. There will be a time, but this 102 00:05:42,280 --> 00:05:45,760 is a time for celebration because the bridegroom is with 103 00:05:45,760 --> 00:05:47,320 them. One of the beautiful things we 104 00:05:47,320 --> 00:05:52,080 see as followers of Jesus is we need to be aware of which season 105 00:05:52,080 --> 00:05:54,800 we are in. You know, one of the things that 106 00:05:54,800 --> 00:05:57,360 we see is the disciples just follow Jesus. 107 00:05:57,360 --> 00:06:00,840 And so they, they, they did whatever Jesus told them to do. 108 00:06:00,840 --> 00:06:03,680 They were in the company of Jesus, but the others didn't 109 00:06:03,680 --> 00:06:05,880 know who this Jesus was. They didn't spend time with him. 110 00:06:05,880 --> 00:06:08,800 They didn't acknowledge who Jesus was. 111 00:06:08,800 --> 00:06:11,640 And so often times they looked through these critical eyes 112 00:06:11,640 --> 00:06:13,600 saying that they're not fulfilling something, they're 113 00:06:13,600 --> 00:06:15,360 not observing this, they're not doing that. 114 00:06:15,520 --> 00:06:18,680 But Jesus came to set his Kingdom here on this earth. 115 00:06:19,440 --> 00:06:22,120 And it got me wondering, are we sometimes like that? 116 00:06:22,480 --> 00:06:27,040 Where we have been so caught up in doing the right thing that 117 00:06:27,040 --> 00:06:28,760 our hearts are not there in the right place? 118 00:06:29,200 --> 00:06:32,080 That we have been so caught up in doing the right thing that 119 00:06:32,080 --> 00:06:35,640 our minds are wandered, our hearts are affected with other 120 00:06:35,640 --> 00:06:38,720 things that concern the world rather than concern God? 121 00:06:39,040 --> 00:06:43,800 Because if we are having this dichotomy within ourselves where 122 00:06:43,800 --> 00:06:47,800 we do things so that it looks pleasing to the world that we 123 00:06:47,800 --> 00:06:50,320 are Christ followers, yet our hearts that's a far away. 124 00:06:50,720 --> 00:06:53,760 There is a problem with that. I'll probably our encounter with 125 00:06:53,760 --> 00:06:57,440 Jesus just at one time and eventually we built these 126 00:06:57,440 --> 00:07:01,280 systems, these habits, these ways of saying things and doing 127 00:07:01,280 --> 00:07:05,800 things that we forget that we need to live in the new 128 00:07:05,840 --> 00:07:08,320 anointing. You know, as I'm going to pick 129 00:07:08,320 --> 00:07:12,560 up specifically on the passage of new wine and new wineskins 130 00:07:12,880 --> 00:07:15,600 because I believe that is the Kingdom life. 131 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:22,600 We are not called to be old wine with old wine skins. 132 00:07:22,920 --> 00:07:25,880 He's saying I want to be new wine with new wine skins. 133 00:07:26,560 --> 00:07:28,960 You know, the world celebrates when things are aged. 134 00:07:29,200 --> 00:07:32,000 It's probably sold much. It probably tastes better. 135 00:07:32,520 --> 00:07:37,560 They have reasons as to what it looks like, but God's saying, 136 00:07:37,560 --> 00:07:42,000 no, I don't want my children. I don't want people who follow 137 00:07:42,000 --> 00:07:45,160 me, who are part of my Kingdom to be content with the old 138 00:07:45,160 --> 00:07:47,880 anointing. And we see a key element in this 139 00:07:48,200 --> 00:07:52,680 is the Holy Spirit, who Jesus said, I'm leaving back so that 140 00:07:52,680 --> 00:07:54,920 he will be there with you to take you on this journey. 141 00:07:55,960 --> 00:07:58,520 We need to be aware of our time. We read in One Chronicles, 142 00:07:58,520 --> 00:08:02,240 chapter 12, verse 32. This is a time when David was 143 00:08:02,240 --> 00:08:05,600 establishing and gathering people around, even as Saul was 144 00:08:05,600 --> 00:08:09,240 just on a wild goose chase to hunt down David. 145 00:08:09,440 --> 00:08:12,600 There was an entire tribe, the sons of Issachar. 146 00:08:12,600 --> 00:08:20,200 It says they knew and understood the times and they joined David. 147 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:23,240 We need to know when seasons are shifting. 148 00:08:23,560 --> 00:08:27,280 We need to know we need to be aware, and that happens when we 149 00:08:27,280 --> 00:08:29,360 are spiritually connected to God's Word. 150 00:08:29,600 --> 00:08:33,000 That's what I love our church. I love every time when the 151 00:08:33,000 --> 00:08:36,960 church gathers across the world, every Sunday, every every 152 00:08:36,960 --> 00:08:39,840 weekend, when they gather to worship God and hear God's Word. 153 00:08:40,200 --> 00:08:42,480 It's a confirmation of what you've been reading through the 154 00:08:42,480 --> 00:08:45,120 week. That has to be that you can't go 155 00:08:45,120 --> 00:08:46,640 there thinking this will just be my word. 156 00:08:46,640 --> 00:08:49,880 No, it is a confirmation. Everything will culminate. 157 00:08:50,040 --> 00:08:53,360 The Holy Spirit will beautifully integrate everything to what we 158 00:08:53,360 --> 00:08:56,680 are reading and confirming at that season, at that point, at 159 00:08:56,680 --> 00:08:59,320 that week. And so today I want to ask you, 160 00:08:59,560 --> 00:09:03,960 can we be people of discernment? Jesus was saying if you would 161 00:09:03,960 --> 00:09:07,560 know your time, he was telling that to the Pharisees and to 162 00:09:07,560 --> 00:09:11,600 John the Baptist disciples, you would be discerning of what's 163 00:09:11,600 --> 00:09:13,840 happening right now, what was happening? 164 00:09:13,840 --> 00:09:15,640 The Messiah was seated right there. 165 00:09:16,200 --> 00:09:20,240 The Messiah was seated. He says He came to seek and save 166 00:09:20,240 --> 00:09:23,000 those which are lost and he was sitting right there with the tax 167 00:09:23,000 --> 00:09:26,640 collectors and he was seeking and doing conversations with 168 00:09:26,640 --> 00:09:28,840 them. He was discerning. 169 00:09:28,840 --> 00:09:31,480 He was at that home. The disciples were with Jesus. 170 00:09:31,720 --> 00:09:34,600 And so today, as we follow this Kingdom life here on this earth, 171 00:09:34,760 --> 00:09:37,240 one of the key qualities we need to have is discernment. 172 00:09:37,560 --> 00:09:40,320 In fact, that's I'm just piggybacking of what we heard 173 00:09:40,320 --> 00:09:43,760 last week as she concluded. Discernment is the baseline. 174 00:09:44,240 --> 00:09:46,640 We need to discern. When we discern is when we will 175 00:09:46,640 --> 00:09:49,600 know which season we are in. It's in discerning. 176 00:09:49,600 --> 00:09:52,960 We'll know whether we are operating out of our old wine or 177 00:09:52,960 --> 00:09:56,320 have you allowed God to work in and through us that we can 178 00:09:56,320 --> 00:09:59,800 operate out of the new wine? Why were they blinded? 179 00:09:59,800 --> 00:10:03,000 They were blinded by tradition, appearances and status. 180 00:10:04,160 --> 00:10:09,160 And Jesus wants to deal with that in our own lives. 181 00:10:09,160 --> 00:10:11,280 One of the beautiful things about the Kingdom life is we 182 00:10:11,280 --> 00:10:13,600 always will unlearn. And then we'd learn. 183 00:10:13,880 --> 00:10:16,400 We don't come here. It's not like we get educated 184 00:10:16,640 --> 00:10:19,720 like how we do in our schools and our universities and then we 185 00:10:19,720 --> 00:10:23,320 go into work here in this school of the Kingdom of life. 186 00:10:23,520 --> 00:10:26,880 We always unlearn and learn because there's always this 187 00:10:26,880 --> 00:10:29,800 component that gets attached to us because of our very own 188 00:10:29,800 --> 00:10:32,320 sinful nature. And Jesus is saying, I want to 189 00:10:32,320 --> 00:10:37,800 unlearn so that you can learn. Your dependency has to be solely 190 00:10:37,800 --> 00:10:39,640 on me. In this Kingdom life, there's no 191 00:10:39,640 --> 00:10:44,360 one else who you can depend on but me, and that's Jesus. 192 00:10:45,360 --> 00:10:47,720 So one of the key Kingdom principles with regard to 193 00:10:47,720 --> 00:10:50,440 unlearning so we can learn. In fact, it's very so true in my 194 00:10:50,440 --> 00:10:54,120 life. I remember in 2013 when God, we 195 00:10:54,120 --> 00:10:57,880 had just finished five years of working with our church and we 196 00:10:57,880 --> 00:11:00,200 had taken, we had quit and gone to study. 197 00:11:00,560 --> 00:11:03,920 And I remember those next two years was a lot of unlearning, 198 00:11:04,560 --> 00:11:08,280 lot of unlearning, unlearning because we were in a bubble and 199 00:11:08,280 --> 00:11:11,560 got her to take us out. And in that season, it didn't 200 00:11:11,560 --> 00:11:13,040 look like, I mean, we weren't serving. 201 00:11:13,040 --> 00:11:17,120 We want we, we were present, but there was a lot of unlearning 202 00:11:17,120 --> 00:11:20,280 and a lot of learning. And I still remember the two 203 00:11:20,800 --> 00:11:24,280 years before we started the church in 2016, seventeen, a 204 00:11:24,280 --> 00:11:27,920 lot, a lot of unlearning. I remember we used to go for our 205 00:11:27,920 --> 00:11:30,600 cohort sessions and it was happening in Bangalore. 206 00:11:30,600 --> 00:11:33,200 And so every time we left, we had to drive there six hours. 207 00:11:33,200 --> 00:11:35,640 And even as you're going, we went with a lot of questions. 208 00:11:35,840 --> 00:11:37,440 We went with God. Why is this? 209 00:11:37,440 --> 00:11:40,760 What, how, why now, Why all that? 210 00:11:41,120 --> 00:11:44,320 And when we came back, we came back with all those questions 211 00:11:44,320 --> 00:11:48,960 answered because God taught us how to unlearn right there and 212 00:11:48,960 --> 00:11:51,360 he taught us how to learn right there. 213 00:11:51,640 --> 00:11:55,000 So today it comes down to us. And I would encourage if you 214 00:11:55,120 --> 00:11:58,960 would take time to look into your own life and say, God, what 215 00:11:58,960 --> 00:12:01,760 is it that I have to unlearn? Some things have become so 216 00:12:01,760 --> 00:12:04,200 confident, but I don't know about you, but sometimes when we 217 00:12:04,200 --> 00:12:07,720 do things 4-5 times, we've become so confident of that 218 00:12:07,720 --> 00:12:10,080 process. We know this is what the outcome 219 00:12:10,080 --> 00:12:12,200 is. But with Kingdom life, God's 220 00:12:12,200 --> 00:12:14,120 telling no. Your dependency should be on me 221 00:12:14,120 --> 00:12:16,760 so you will trust me with the outcome. 222 00:12:17,240 --> 00:12:19,840 So there are three things I want to highlight even as we look 223 00:12:19,840 --> 00:12:22,360 into the Scripture. The first thing which I want to 224 00:12:22,360 --> 00:12:26,360 do with Jesus in our lives, every season needs a new 225 00:12:26,360 --> 00:12:29,000 anointing. Every season needs a new 226 00:12:29,000 --> 00:12:31,280 anointing. Yesterday's anointing cannot 227 00:12:31,280 --> 00:12:35,200 sustain me for today. Today a lot of us are dependent 228 00:12:35,200 --> 00:12:37,800 on yesterday's anointing. What does that mean? 229 00:12:38,000 --> 00:12:41,840 A lot of us have to. When we are doing this Christian 230 00:12:41,840 --> 00:12:46,280 walk, we are walking in seasons. There's a season of sewing, 231 00:12:46,280 --> 00:12:48,840 there's a season of watering, There's a season of growth. 232 00:12:49,080 --> 00:12:51,640 There's a season of pruning. There's a season of harvest. 233 00:12:51,880 --> 00:12:55,240 There's a season of rest. There's a season of planting the 234 00:12:55,240 --> 00:12:59,520 seeds again and we see that our lives are in seasons. 235 00:12:59,720 --> 00:13:04,160 And just imagine if each and every individual one of us are 236 00:13:04,160 --> 00:13:07,840 in a season, then imagine the entire church. 237 00:13:08,280 --> 00:13:11,520 Each of us have our own seasons and we need to know what season 238 00:13:11,520 --> 00:13:13,960 we are in. Because if we have to operate in 239 00:13:13,960 --> 00:13:17,320 the season we are in today, we need today's anointing. 240 00:13:17,320 --> 00:13:19,400 We can't rely on yesterday's anointing. 241 00:13:20,320 --> 00:13:22,520 Yesterday's anointing was for yesterday. 242 00:13:23,160 --> 00:13:26,680 Today's anointing is for today. And that's why we have to seek 243 00:13:26,880 --> 00:13:30,160 God every day. That's why we go back to His 244 00:13:30,160 --> 00:13:32,640 words in God. I need your grace today. 245 00:13:32,920 --> 00:13:36,720 God, I need your help today. God, I need your word for today. 246 00:13:37,880 --> 00:13:42,560 I need to seek Jesus every season and operate out of that 247 00:13:42,560 --> 00:13:44,360 anointing I receive for that day. 248 00:13:45,440 --> 00:13:49,120 A lot of us are trying to operate the entire new season 249 00:13:49,120 --> 00:13:52,360 with an old anointing. We can get away, we can showcase 250 00:13:52,360 --> 00:13:56,720 we've got it. But Jesus knows, you know, last 251 00:13:56,720 --> 00:13:59,240 week we were just looking in the youth. 252 00:13:59,240 --> 00:14:03,160 We were looking and it reminded me our intentions matter a lot. 253 00:14:03,160 --> 00:14:06,760 Our heart intentions matter a lot because we can justify 254 00:14:06,760 --> 00:14:10,520 ourselves with our actions, but our motives really matter. 255 00:14:11,160 --> 00:14:14,920 And it says here that if we do not operate the new season with 256 00:14:14,920 --> 00:14:17,040 the new anointing and if you're operating out of the old 257 00:14:17,040 --> 00:14:20,480 anointing, it leaves us empty. How many of you've seen that, 258 00:14:20,480 --> 00:14:23,800 that you've you've just, you've just clinging on to a promise 259 00:14:23,800 --> 00:14:26,960 that was given for a previous season and it's left you empty. 260 00:14:26,960 --> 00:14:30,520 Some of you seem to be operating out of that old anointing, but 261 00:14:30,520 --> 00:14:34,840 it's kept in the same position. You don't see any movement for 262 00:14:34,840 --> 00:14:37,640 lot of us when we are in that old anointing and we don't have 263 00:14:37,640 --> 00:14:40,320 a fresh revelation. We don't have plans for the 264 00:14:40,320 --> 00:14:43,120 next. We seem to have so many plans in 265 00:14:43,120 --> 00:14:45,240 our mind, but we're not able to convert it into paper. 266 00:14:45,480 --> 00:14:48,120 Some of us, for those of us who are stuck in paper, we're not 267 00:14:48,360 --> 00:14:53,080 able to see it in reality. We need a fresh anointing. 268 00:14:53,240 --> 00:14:55,960 We need a fresh anointing from him. 269 00:14:57,000 --> 00:15:00,240 We feel left alone while others are going forward. 270 00:15:01,120 --> 00:15:04,560 Jesus draws a parallel to new wine and new wine skin. 271 00:15:05,240 --> 00:15:11,800 And the reason is these new wine that's been processed, that's 272 00:15:11,800 --> 00:15:18,240 been made, is stored and is used then and there, It's used for 273 00:15:18,240 --> 00:15:21,280 that season. They don't just keep it and 274 00:15:21,280 --> 00:15:25,320 store it and, you know, keep it for years and no, they use it 275 00:15:25,320 --> 00:15:27,720 for that season right ahead. It was a staple thing. 276 00:15:27,920 --> 00:15:32,080 So which Jesus is coming to say you all should desire in your 277 00:15:32,080 --> 00:15:34,560 wine. And even as we look into that, I 278 00:15:34,560 --> 00:15:40,240 wanted to take a couple of a portion from Isaiah and it shows 279 00:15:40,240 --> 00:15:43,840 a parallel as to what happens when we settle with the old 280 00:15:43,840 --> 00:15:46,680 anointing, when we settle with the old wine, when we settle 281 00:15:46,680 --> 00:15:48,320 thinking, you know what, that's enough. 282 00:15:49,000 --> 00:15:50,720 Isaiah chapter 5 verses one to seven. 283 00:15:50,720 --> 00:15:53,520 And this is what it says. Now I will sing for the one I 284 00:15:53,520 --> 00:15:56,720 love a song about his vignette. My beloved had a vignette on a 285 00:15:56,720 --> 00:15:59,720 rich and fertile hill. He ploughed the land, cleared 286 00:15:59,720 --> 00:16:01,680 its stones and planted it with the best vines. 287 00:16:02,000 --> 00:16:05,120 In the middle he built a watchtower and carved a 288 00:16:05,120 --> 00:16:09,200 winepress in the nearby rocks. Then he waited for a harvest of 289 00:16:09,200 --> 00:16:11,520 sweet grapes. The grapes that grew were 290 00:16:11,520 --> 00:16:13,640 bitter. Now, people of Jerusalem and 291 00:16:13,640 --> 00:16:16,400 Judah, you judge between me and my vineyard. 292 00:16:16,600 --> 00:16:19,920 What more could I have done for my vineyard that I have not 293 00:16:19,920 --> 00:16:22,600 already done when I expected sweet grapes? 294 00:16:22,600 --> 00:16:24,760 Why did my vineyard give me bitter grapes? 295 00:16:25,040 --> 00:16:28,240 Now let me tell you what I will do to my vineyard. 296 00:16:28,240 --> 00:16:30,800 I will tear down its hedges and let it be destroyed. 297 00:16:30,800 --> 00:16:34,320 I will breakdown its walls and let the animals trample it. 298 00:16:34,360 --> 00:16:38,080 I will make it a wild place where the wines are not pruned 299 00:16:38,080 --> 00:16:42,280 and the ground is not Ford, a place of overgrown with briar 300 00:16:42,400 --> 00:16:44,360 and thorns. I will command the clouds to 301 00:16:44,360 --> 00:16:45,560 drop. No rain on it. 302 00:16:46,000 --> 00:16:49,200 The nation of Israel is a vineyard of the Lord of heaven's 303 00:16:49,200 --> 00:16:50,600 armies. The people of Judah had his 304 00:16:50,600 --> 00:16:54,920 pleasant gardens. He expected a crop of justice, 305 00:16:55,160 --> 00:16:58,440 but instead he found oppression. He expected to find 306 00:16:58,440 --> 00:17:02,800 righteousness, but instead he heard cries of violence. 307 00:17:03,760 --> 00:17:07,480 What is inside matters. What is inside matters. 308 00:17:07,720 --> 00:17:10,319 Today we are all about appearances. 309 00:17:10,319 --> 00:17:14,240 The reason why we desire for a new anointing is because we want 310 00:17:14,240 --> 00:17:17,560 to be changed inside out. The reason why we desire for a 311 00:17:17,560 --> 00:17:20,839 new anointing is that we are saying, God fill me in first 312 00:17:20,839 --> 00:17:23,680 before I pour it out. Lord fill me in first. 313 00:17:23,680 --> 00:17:26,560 I don't want to operate out of the old anointing. 314 00:17:26,560 --> 00:17:28,560 The old anointing will be bitter. 315 00:17:29,120 --> 00:17:31,840 The old anointing will bring about prejudice. 316 00:17:32,040 --> 00:17:34,800 The old anointing will bring about judgement. 317 00:17:34,960 --> 00:17:38,920 The old anointing will make me strive. 318 00:17:38,920 --> 00:17:42,160 And one of the things we see here, Isaiah's prophesying. 319 00:17:42,160 --> 00:17:45,520 And right after this, God sends the Assyrians to them, and you 320 00:17:45,520 --> 00:17:49,680 know they go into captivity. What we see happen is when we 321 00:17:49,920 --> 00:17:54,320 stop seeking God's anointing in the everyday, when we settle for 322 00:17:54,320 --> 00:17:58,360 the old anointing, whatever good turns to bad. 323 00:17:59,440 --> 00:18:02,080 Yes, the people enjoyed freedom, the old anointing, probably they 324 00:18:02,080 --> 00:18:04,800 enjoyed that freedom. But soon the freedom later 325 00:18:04,800 --> 00:18:08,920 became they started oppressing those who were underneath them. 326 00:18:09,240 --> 00:18:12,840 The richest got to them and then they started becoming proud. 327 00:18:13,200 --> 00:18:15,720 They suddenly start thought they had more than enough and they 328 00:18:15,720 --> 00:18:18,400 didn't need a God. So you see, sometimes our old 329 00:18:18,400 --> 00:18:23,120 anointing can be the very chokehold for us to receive 330 00:18:23,120 --> 00:18:26,680 God's blessing today. And I would ask if we can all go 331 00:18:26,680 --> 00:18:29,840 back to that posture of the altar where we say God we are 332 00:18:29,840 --> 00:18:32,560 sorry, my heart was not in the right place. 333 00:18:32,560 --> 00:18:34,800 My heart was proud. In fact, when I read from the 334 00:18:34,800 --> 00:18:36,880 message, this is what it says in verse 7. 335 00:18:36,880 --> 00:18:39,320 It says do you get it? The veneer of the God of the 336 00:18:39,320 --> 00:18:41,560 Angel armies is the country of Israel. 337 00:18:41,560 --> 00:18:44,360 All the men and women of Judah are the garden he was so proud 338 00:18:44,360 --> 00:18:46,920 of. He looked for a crop of justice 339 00:18:46,920 --> 00:18:48,520 and saw them murdering each other. 340 00:18:48,840 --> 00:18:51,440 He looked for harvest of righteousness and heard only the 341 00:18:51,440 --> 00:18:54,280 moans of victims. And so today I want to ask you, 342 00:18:54,280 --> 00:18:58,640 Church, I want to ask us, are we people who are operating off the 343 00:18:58,640 --> 00:19:01,640 old anointing that we think we're doing God's work and we're 344 00:19:01,640 --> 00:19:04,640 living the Kingdom life, but yet we become oppressors. 345 00:19:04,720 --> 00:19:06,520 We've become people who are slanderers. 346 00:19:06,520 --> 00:19:07,920 We've become people who are gossip. 347 00:19:08,080 --> 00:19:10,640 We have become people who are so discontent. 348 00:19:11,320 --> 00:19:13,200 God's wanting us to have a heart check. 349 00:19:14,120 --> 00:19:20,200 Sin turns good into evil. The old anointing can only guard 350 00:19:20,200 --> 00:19:24,160 us and keep us safe for that season. 351 00:19:26,320 --> 00:19:29,240 Some of those successes that come out of the old anointing 352 00:19:29,400 --> 00:19:33,400 will become the very stones that we stumble and fall in the new 353 00:19:33,400 --> 00:19:36,680 season in a pursuit to show kindness and help. 354 00:19:36,800 --> 00:19:40,360 We end up causing more damage because we fail to work on our 355 00:19:40,360 --> 00:19:43,000 anointing and rely on our good works. 356 00:19:43,800 --> 00:19:47,960 The reading of Isaiah is a reminder that are anointing for 357 00:19:47,960 --> 00:19:51,960 a season may be a chokehold for the coming season ahead if we 358 00:19:51,960 --> 00:19:57,320 don't see God in comparison. Jesus reminded the people that 359 00:19:57,520 --> 00:20:01,280 they just don't have to fast and celebrate and do this out of the 360 00:20:01,280 --> 00:20:05,680 rhythm of just being in Israel, being an Israelite and just 361 00:20:05,680 --> 00:20:07,240 doing it because everyone is doing it. 362 00:20:07,440 --> 00:20:11,280 But rather it has to be a heart dissection where I go back and 363 00:20:11,280 --> 00:20:14,960 say God in the season of fast I truly repent. 364 00:20:15,600 --> 00:20:19,600 I'm just not doing it so that we all are called to do it. 365 00:20:19,600 --> 00:20:23,400 No, I'm doing it because God, you are working in through me. 366 00:20:23,600 --> 00:20:26,000 When it's a season of celebration, I'm really giving 367 00:20:26,000 --> 00:20:28,000 thanks. I'm really celebrating. 368 00:20:28,000 --> 00:20:31,960 I'm really in jubilation of what God's done and I testify about 369 00:20:31,960 --> 00:20:36,960 what He's done. You see that anointing is 370 00:20:36,960 --> 00:20:43,080 essential if we need Jesus to be in our life so that we can live 371 00:20:43,080 --> 00:20:46,440 this Kingdom lifeout. The anointing is what will keep 372 00:20:46,440 --> 00:20:51,280 us in check. The anointing is what will guard 373 00:20:51,280 --> 00:20:53,320 our very mouth before we even utter it. 374 00:20:53,800 --> 00:20:57,400 The anointing it is what will enable our discernment levels to 375 00:20:57,400 --> 00:21:00,840 be more clear. Our anointing is what will open 376 00:21:00,840 --> 00:21:06,640 our spiritual ears and spiritual eyes to see His truth, to see 377 00:21:06,640 --> 00:21:09,240 the fruitfulness of the Kingdom of God in our own lives. 378 00:21:09,520 --> 00:21:13,320 We need to wholly give ourselves to Him, not in part. 379 00:21:14,040 --> 00:21:17,960 So today there has to be an equation between our inner man 380 00:21:17,960 --> 00:21:21,440 and what we do. We can keep doing it all we want 381 00:21:21,440 --> 00:21:23,240 because many of us are people pleasers. 382 00:21:23,240 --> 00:21:24,720 Many of us are doing it for the crowd. 383 00:21:24,960 --> 00:21:26,760 Many of us are doing it for the audiences. 384 00:21:26,760 --> 00:21:29,120 We can do, we can show up, we can be there. 385 00:21:29,640 --> 00:21:34,040 But God saying, I want you entirely not a part of you, not 386 00:21:34,040 --> 00:21:36,760 the physical part of you. In fact, one of the things Jesus 387 00:21:36,760 --> 00:21:41,320 came to the world and wanted to break down was the physical act, 388 00:21:41,320 --> 00:21:44,920 which they got right. He wanted to break that down. 389 00:21:44,920 --> 00:21:47,800 He said the physical act and your spiritual act are not 390 00:21:47,800 --> 00:21:50,440 matching. And today in the Kingdom life, 391 00:21:50,440 --> 00:21:53,200 they both have to match. And that's where the anointing 392 00:21:53,200 --> 00:21:55,960 comes. And so church today, I want you 393 00:21:55,960 --> 00:21:59,320 to come first to realize that you all need the anointing. 394 00:21:59,720 --> 00:22:01,760 It's not for the one who's actually on this side of the 395 00:22:02,080 --> 00:22:04,000 pulpit. No, it's for each and every one 396 00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:06,080 of us. I need the anointing every time 397 00:22:06,080 --> 00:22:08,440 I come to speak God's. But this, I'll be speaking out 398 00:22:08,440 --> 00:22:11,200 of my own flesh. I'll be speaking what I think is 399 00:22:11,200 --> 00:22:13,480 right. I have to come to a peace in God 400 00:22:14,680 --> 00:22:18,160 as I'm speaking this Lord. You're doing this in my life and 401 00:22:18,160 --> 00:22:22,200 I'm grateful for you. I'm grateful even as I share 402 00:22:22,200 --> 00:22:23,440 this. I know I'm not worthy. 403 00:22:23,440 --> 00:22:28,280 But even as I stand and hear and share it, I'm sharing it because 404 00:22:28,280 --> 00:22:30,600 you are working in and through my life. 405 00:22:31,040 --> 00:22:34,840 And so Church, I want to ask you today, each of you desire the 406 00:22:34,840 --> 00:22:37,600 anointing. Each of you are meant to have 407 00:22:37,600 --> 00:22:42,680 your own anointing and each of you are called to operate in 408 00:22:42,680 --> 00:22:45,440 that anointing. That anointing is for this 409 00:22:45,440 --> 00:22:49,720 season, this season. So today, if you are a parent 410 00:22:49,720 --> 00:22:53,400 and if you have a teenager, ask him, God, I want the anointing 411 00:22:53,400 --> 00:22:57,480 of that, to parent a teenager. For those of you who are single 412 00:22:57,480 --> 00:22:59,320 and who are ready to get married, you've started your 413 00:22:59,320 --> 00:23:01,960 work, you've been working, and now parents are starting to look 414 00:23:01,960 --> 00:23:03,320 out for you. Ask God. 415 00:23:03,320 --> 00:23:06,000 Even as I'm looking out for this person in my life, I have to do 416 00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:08,200 life with. Give me the anointing for that. 417 00:23:08,960 --> 00:23:12,280 And suddenly what happens when the anointing comes? 418 00:23:12,720 --> 00:23:15,960 Things that matter the most start becoming, rising up to the 419 00:23:15,960 --> 00:23:17,840 surface. Things that don't matter the 420 00:23:17,840 --> 00:23:22,120 most all start sinking. Now you start keeping your eyes 421 00:23:22,120 --> 00:23:25,520 on what God's called you. That's why I love when we seek 422 00:23:25,520 --> 00:23:29,400 His anointing for that season. He shows us what to value, what 423 00:23:29,400 --> 00:23:32,760 to make the main thing name and press on. 424 00:23:33,160 --> 00:23:38,000 The second thing that we see is with Jesus in our lives, every 425 00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:41,960 crushing needs a VAT. Every crushing needs a VAT. 426 00:23:42,240 --> 00:23:44,640 You know, even as I'm talking about the new wine, new wine 427 00:23:44,640 --> 00:23:48,320 skin, I was just reading up upon the entire process of how wine 428 00:23:48,320 --> 00:23:51,360 is made and why Jesus brought this as a reference. 429 00:23:51,360 --> 00:23:54,640 And on the beautiful things that you see happen in the culture of 430 00:23:54,640 --> 00:23:58,800 Israel is they had these places where these where they would 431 00:23:58,800 --> 00:24:03,200 build so that they can bring all the harvested grapes, put it in 432 00:24:03,200 --> 00:24:06,400 there, they would wash their feet and they would jump into 433 00:24:06,400 --> 00:24:08,000 it. And this is where it became a 434 00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:10,400 community thing. And this is where I think Jesus 435 00:24:10,680 --> 00:24:13,840 says that, you know, constantly says that you're not called to 436 00:24:13,840 --> 00:24:17,200 do this life alone. You have to do it with people. 437 00:24:17,200 --> 00:24:20,560 And So what happens in that process of the crushing of the 438 00:24:20,560 --> 00:24:22,480 grapes is people stand and they stack. 439 00:24:23,320 --> 00:24:27,880 And if you see them do that entire process, it's it's one 440 00:24:27,880 --> 00:24:32,920 they sing songs, it's a it's a time of they make, they make joy 441 00:24:32,920 --> 00:24:34,360 out of the work that they're doing. 442 00:24:34,880 --> 00:24:38,240 But the entire thing is it's, it's merciless. 443 00:24:38,240 --> 00:24:39,760 The grapes don't receive any mercy. 444 00:24:40,960 --> 00:24:45,080 And it's a messy affair. And I believe a lot of times 445 00:24:45,080 --> 00:24:49,480 when we are giving ourselves to Jesus in this Kingdom life and 446 00:24:49,480 --> 00:24:52,320 we submit ourselves, we go through that crushing. 447 00:24:52,960 --> 00:24:56,720 We go through that crushing, and the crushing is necessary. 448 00:24:57,480 --> 00:25:02,120 A lot of us today are outside trying to figure out a way of 449 00:25:02,120 --> 00:25:05,000 how we can become wine without the crushing. 450 00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:07,760 But Jesus saying, no, you need to go through that process of 451 00:25:07,760 --> 00:25:10,000 crushing. And what does that crushing 452 00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:13,080 involve? God allows us to crush it. 453 00:25:13,280 --> 00:25:16,840 If I for for those of us who don't like the messiness, we 454 00:25:16,840 --> 00:25:18,920 might just be so soft in our crushing. 455 00:25:19,200 --> 00:25:24,040 But Jesus saying no, if you need to go through that crushing, you 456 00:25:24,040 --> 00:25:28,160 need to do it the right way. You need to do it the right way. 457 00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:32,640 In Israel they stood on the wine press and crushed the grapes. 458 00:25:33,400 --> 00:25:36,840 And another thing is the heel is the strongest part of the 459 00:25:36,840 --> 00:25:40,520 crushing in our feet. The heel where our entire body 460 00:25:40,520 --> 00:25:43,040 weight rests on is where the crushing is the most. 461 00:25:43,840 --> 00:25:46,560 And crushing is really necessary. 462 00:25:47,240 --> 00:25:51,040 Crushing is nearly necessary. Even as I said earlier, sin 463 00:25:51,280 --> 00:25:53,280 everything. If we operate on the old 464 00:25:53,280 --> 00:25:57,920 anointing and we don't seek for the new, suddenly the good 465 00:25:59,040 --> 00:26:02,280 becomes evil because sin is constantly at work. 466 00:26:02,800 --> 00:26:06,000 Just because we've received our anointing doesn't mean we are 467 00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:09,360 devoid of sin. It's in our in our process of 468 00:26:09,360 --> 00:26:13,440 being anointed, we are made more aware of our sinful nature. 469 00:26:13,800 --> 00:26:17,240 And So what happens in this crushing is that even as we are, 470 00:26:17,520 --> 00:26:22,040 we are using our heel to crush. We are crushing our pride. 471 00:26:22,280 --> 00:26:27,280 We are crushing our selfishness. We are crushing our self pity. 472 00:26:27,480 --> 00:26:30,360 We are crushing our me first attitude. 473 00:26:30,480 --> 00:26:33,680 We are crushing our understanding of God. 474 00:26:33,800 --> 00:26:36,880 Why? I'm making it all about myself. 475 00:26:37,160 --> 00:26:42,480 God causes us to stand on our heels and crush it, crush our 476 00:26:42,480 --> 00:26:46,840 own grapes, crush our own ego, crush our own self so that He 477 00:26:46,840 --> 00:26:50,680 will be glorified through that, so that we die to our sin. 478 00:26:51,480 --> 00:26:54,560 And even as I was meditating on this and I suddenly the Holy 479 00:26:54,560 --> 00:26:58,480 Spirit reminded me the heel has the power to crush. 480 00:26:58,880 --> 00:27:03,360 And a lot of us are hesitating to crush with our heel because 481 00:27:03,360 --> 00:27:06,600 we don't want sin to go out completely from our lives. 482 00:27:06,880 --> 00:27:11,400 If I take our references back to Genesis chapter 3 verses 15, God 483 00:27:11,400 --> 00:27:14,200 comes into the garden and asks Adam and Eve where they are and 484 00:27:14,200 --> 00:27:16,680 they are hiding. And then Eve points out, this is 485 00:27:16,680 --> 00:27:19,880 what Satan made me do. And this is what God gives us, a 486 00:27:19,880 --> 00:27:22,320 punishment to Satan. And where did it say? 487 00:27:22,320 --> 00:27:26,240 It says in three verse 15, Genesis 315, I will put enmity 488 00:27:26,240 --> 00:27:30,080 between you and the women and between your offspring and hers 489 00:27:30,480 --> 00:27:35,000 and he will crush your head and you will strike his heel. 490 00:27:35,320 --> 00:27:40,800 The reason why we need the new anointing is because Satan is 491 00:27:40,800 --> 00:27:43,040 constantly going to be attacking our heel. 492 00:27:43,440 --> 00:27:46,560 He's going to be constantly attacking our heel so that we 493 00:27:46,560 --> 00:27:49,840 don't crush sin out of our own systems, so that we don't crush 494 00:27:49,840 --> 00:27:54,160 sin out of our own earthly desires that we have. 495 00:27:54,160 --> 00:28:01,760 So for those of you who want to crush pornography out, stand by 496 00:28:01,760 --> 00:28:04,080 your heel and in Jesus name, break it. 497 00:28:04,320 --> 00:28:07,200 For those of you who want to crush the emotional distress 498 00:28:07,200 --> 00:28:11,200 that you're going through, take courage in who Jesus is and 499 00:28:11,200 --> 00:28:14,680 stand on your heel and crush every negativity that the enemy 500 00:28:14,680 --> 00:28:17,360 is putting. For those of you who want to 501 00:28:17,360 --> 00:28:22,080 take a hold of your sexuality, stand on your heels and crush 502 00:28:22,080 --> 00:28:24,880 the enemy on the questioning that he's doing over your 503 00:28:24,880 --> 00:28:27,720 sexuality. For those of you who are who are 504 00:28:27,720 --> 00:28:31,360 discontent with your marriage better and looking elsewhere, I 505 00:28:31,360 --> 00:28:35,720 would urge you person to take, I would urge you believer, take 506 00:28:35,920 --> 00:28:42,760 Jesus at His word and stand on your heels and crush sin out of 507 00:28:42,760 --> 00:28:46,440 that grapefruit that is causing you discontent and causing you 508 00:28:46,440 --> 00:28:50,440 to look elsewhere, causing you to look elsewhere. 509 00:28:50,680 --> 00:28:53,960 He will constantly strike you at this because He doesn't want you 510 00:28:53,960 --> 00:28:57,920 to let go of the sinful nature. That's what happens in the 511 00:28:57,920 --> 00:29:01,760 crushing. It breaks us, it tears us apart. 512 00:29:01,920 --> 00:29:07,080 It messes us up so much that we're saying, God, I'm so sorry, 513 00:29:07,400 --> 00:29:11,960 my sinful nature was at play. Romans chapter 16 verses 19 to 514 00:29:11,960 --> 00:29:15,640 20 goes on to say everyone has heard about your obedience, so I 515 00:29:15,640 --> 00:29:19,240 rejoice because of you, but I want you to be wise about what 516 00:29:19,240 --> 00:29:23,200 is good and innocent about what is evil. 517 00:29:23,400 --> 00:29:26,880 The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. 518 00:29:27,120 --> 00:29:29,480 The grace of our Lord Jesus be with you. 519 00:29:29,960 --> 00:29:33,520 I was meditating on this. I was thinking, God, what is it 520 00:29:33,840 --> 00:29:38,000 that you want me to be aware he's saying here Paul tells the 521 00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:41,640 Roman church as he concludes he says everyone has heard about 522 00:29:41,640 --> 00:29:45,680 your obedience, so I rejoice, but I want you to be wise so 523 00:29:45,680 --> 00:29:49,680 that what is good and innocent. He wants us to be wise about 524 00:29:49,680 --> 00:29:53,120 what is good and innocent about what is evil. 525 00:29:53,760 --> 00:29:56,760 In the message, it says make sure every good thing is a real 526 00:29:56,760 --> 00:30:00,320 thing. People's intentions, 527 00:30:00,400 --> 00:30:04,120 discernment, all that will have to go through the healing. 528 00:30:04,360 --> 00:30:07,480 You will soon see people's true color in their crushing. 529 00:30:07,920 --> 00:30:13,240 You will see that's why people who have not sought after a new 530 00:30:13,240 --> 00:30:16,720 anointing in the crushing go missing from church, they go 531 00:30:16,720 --> 00:30:19,040 missing from community. They suddenly are within the 532 00:30:19,040 --> 00:30:21,960 four walls having a pity party all by themselves. 533 00:30:21,960 --> 00:30:25,760 And God is saying rise up. You need the new anointing in 534 00:30:25,760 --> 00:30:27,040 your life. You need to go through the 535 00:30:27,040 --> 00:30:31,280 crushing so that you will know and die to your sinful nature. 536 00:30:32,640 --> 00:30:37,000 The crushing causes me to re evaluate the crushing causes me 537 00:30:37,000 --> 00:30:39,600 to distinguish between the good and innocent. 538 00:30:39,600 --> 00:30:42,160 Things that I thought were good and innocent, but they actually 539 00:30:42,160 --> 00:30:44,560 are evil. But they're actually are evil. 540 00:30:44,560 --> 00:30:46,680 They're not. They're not causing me to take 541 00:30:46,680 --> 00:30:49,400 make progress in this new season that God's calling me. 542 00:30:49,880 --> 00:30:53,560 It's in the crushing of the grapes that every small bit, 543 00:30:53,560 --> 00:30:57,240 everything that's unwanted, the seed, the, the stem of it, 544 00:30:57,240 --> 00:30:59,360 everything starts coming out. Everything is separated. 545 00:30:59,360 --> 00:31:02,760 The skin comes out, the pulp comes out, everything gets. 546 00:31:02,800 --> 00:31:07,360 And it's in that that they all go down to the bottleneck where 547 00:31:07,560 --> 00:31:11,200 they get filtered out and that gets poured into the VAT. 548 00:31:12,680 --> 00:31:15,360 When you see the olden days, how they did it, especially in 549 00:31:15,360 --> 00:31:19,000 Israel's context, is with every of that wine press next to it. 550 00:31:19,160 --> 00:31:21,160 They would have dug up and they would have placed earthen 551 00:31:21,160 --> 00:31:25,680 vessels there, and this wine would go in which is being 552 00:31:25,680 --> 00:31:28,200 pressed. They would collect all the 553 00:31:28,200 --> 00:31:30,040 sediments away, but they would go right in. 554 00:31:30,040 --> 00:31:34,760 And as it goes right in, as it goes in, it goes in there and it 555 00:31:34,760 --> 00:31:37,200 sits there. And in a couple of weeks it 556 00:31:37,200 --> 00:31:39,880 ferments. It ferments and it becomes wine. 557 00:31:40,600 --> 00:31:43,640 And a lot of us today need a rat for our crushing. 558 00:31:44,360 --> 00:31:48,120 You don't need social media to tell people you know what, I'm 559 00:31:48,120 --> 00:31:50,200 going through crushing. You don't need your best friends 560 00:31:50,200 --> 00:31:52,400 here to say, you know what, I'm going through a crushing. 561 00:31:52,600 --> 00:31:57,400 You need Jesus and you time to go through a crushing. 562 00:31:57,840 --> 00:32:02,520 There are a few people who I know who would rather spend 563 00:32:04,520 --> 00:32:08,880 their Sunday mornings with Jesus and coffee and breakfast or 564 00:32:08,880 --> 00:32:12,440 Jesus coffee and brunch. I would challenge you come to 565 00:32:12,440 --> 00:32:15,560 the community of believers because that's where you'll find 566 00:32:15,560 --> 00:32:17,240 encouragement. That's where you'll be able to 567 00:32:17,480 --> 00:32:19,840 stand in the gap for someone else who's wanting a 568 00:32:19,840 --> 00:32:22,520 breakthrough. If you don't stand for someone 569 00:32:22,520 --> 00:32:25,560 else who's wanting a breakthrough, how will someone 570 00:32:25,560 --> 00:32:28,120 else be able to stand on your behalf and pray for your 571 00:32:28,120 --> 00:32:30,200 breakthrough? That's what community does. 572 00:32:30,400 --> 00:32:33,920 The problem is a lot of us have gone into silos with our vats, 573 00:32:34,240 --> 00:32:38,520 but the beauty that we see in following Jesus is that we bring 574 00:32:38,560 --> 00:32:43,800 that crushing. We bring that very wine, wine 575 00:32:43,800 --> 00:32:46,320 that's come out after all that messiness. 576 00:32:47,080 --> 00:32:50,760 We bring it back every day to Jesus and we allow Him to walk 577 00:32:50,760 --> 00:32:54,960 in and through us. The reason is why I'm saying we 578 00:32:54,960 --> 00:32:57,520 all need a VAT. A lot of us are using someone 579 00:32:57,520 --> 00:33:00,280 else's VAT. Lot of us are using our support 580 00:33:00,280 --> 00:33:02,200 system. Lot of us are use our thinking, 581 00:33:02,200 --> 00:33:04,920 our spouse is our saviour. Lot of us are thinking our 582 00:33:04,920 --> 00:33:08,000 parents is our saviour. Lot of us are using our kids as 583 00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:10,200 our VAT. Lot of us are thinking, you know 584 00:33:10,200 --> 00:33:12,320 what, my Monday to Friday is my VAT. 585 00:33:12,320 --> 00:33:15,960 That's where no God is saying you need to take it for 586 00:33:15,960 --> 00:33:19,800 yourself. Dig a hole, put it right there 587 00:33:19,800 --> 00:33:22,440 and allow it to ferment, allow it to work. 588 00:33:22,440 --> 00:33:25,080 There'll be seasons where God will say, you know what, just 589 00:33:25,080 --> 00:33:28,080 take a step back. Let me, let me work in you. 590 00:33:29,240 --> 00:33:33,280 This thing that's caused you to see the messiness and the sin 591 00:33:33,280 --> 00:33:34,880 that you've dealt with and everything. 592 00:33:35,040 --> 00:33:37,840 Allow me to shape you today. Allow me to shape you. 593 00:33:37,840 --> 00:33:40,800 And that's where we have the Potter who's willing to shape 594 00:33:40,800 --> 00:33:45,720 our VAT so that we can hold the wine and he can work in and 595 00:33:45,720 --> 00:33:50,000 through us. It's in the crushing which 596 00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:52,240 brings us to a place of total surrender. 597 00:33:53,520 --> 00:34:02,000 And as we give our lives to Him holy, we realized that we give 598 00:34:02,000 --> 00:34:06,120 our identity a security and our dependency to Him. 599 00:34:07,280 --> 00:34:11,120 A false sense of identity is crushed, a false understanding 600 00:34:11,120 --> 00:34:14,080 of security is crushed, and that whatever we are leaning and 601 00:34:14,080 --> 00:34:16,520 hoping on and the dependency that we have is crushed. 602 00:34:16,520 --> 00:34:20,320 And Jesus is saying I am here to strengthen you. 603 00:34:20,840 --> 00:34:23,840 I am here to work in and through you. 604 00:34:23,840 --> 00:34:27,800 I remember a season in my life when the crushing happened and 605 00:34:27,800 --> 00:34:31,639 everything happened and I knew that I was not being used of God 606 00:34:31,639 --> 00:34:33,360 in the physical, but in the spiritual. 607 00:34:33,360 --> 00:34:34,880 God was definitely doing something. 608 00:34:34,880 --> 00:34:37,560 God was enabling me to see the Kingdom at large. 609 00:34:37,560 --> 00:34:40,320 God was starting to deposit certain and things and I 610 00:34:40,320 --> 00:34:44,280 realized in that season if I was more busy in the physical, I 611 00:34:44,280 --> 00:34:46,639 would have missed out of everything in the things that he 612 00:34:46,639 --> 00:34:49,239 was doing in the spiritual. So for those of you who've been, 613 00:34:49,480 --> 00:34:52,560 probably you were busy at one season and now you're holding 614 00:34:52,560 --> 00:34:55,239 back. You're seeing God is taking you 615 00:34:55,239 --> 00:34:58,280 through this crushing face. Enjoy the season of rat because 616 00:34:58,280 --> 00:35:01,040 in this, in the season of rat is where he ferments it. 617 00:35:01,200 --> 00:35:04,240 In the season of rat is where he births a lot of things in the 618 00:35:04,240 --> 00:35:07,880 season of rat where he gives dreams and visions and ideas of 619 00:35:07,880 --> 00:35:10,360 what you have to do. It's in the season of rat he 620 00:35:10,360 --> 00:35:12,320 equips you. It's in the season of rat. 621 00:35:12,760 --> 00:35:16,000 You draw closer to him because then there will be a season when 622 00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:20,280 he'll call you to pour out and it'll be busy and you will be 623 00:35:20,280 --> 00:35:22,440 pouring out out of what you've received. 624 00:35:23,080 --> 00:35:27,040 The crushing happens because we are not aligned with the Word, 625 00:35:27,560 --> 00:35:31,440 but rather with Jesus. So today if you've gone through 626 00:35:31,440 --> 00:35:36,720 the crushing, go to that VAT and say, God, I'm here, deposit in 627 00:35:36,720 --> 00:35:41,520 me, work in this new self in me. Lord Jesus, whatever was causing 628 00:35:41,520 --> 00:35:43,160 that sinful nature, I'm out of it. 629 00:35:43,160 --> 00:35:45,840 Today. I allow you to work in and 630 00:35:45,840 --> 00:35:50,360 through me, in and through me. And it goes on to say John 15, 631 00:35:50,360 --> 00:35:53,680 when I was reading it, reminded me that Jesus goes on to say the 632 00:35:53,680 --> 00:35:56,280 world hates me. So don't think that the world 633 00:35:56,280 --> 00:35:58,800 has to like you. The world will hate you because 634 00:35:58,800 --> 00:36:01,600 you are mine. The world will persecute you 635 00:36:01,600 --> 00:36:04,720 because it also persecuted me. And one of the things that got 636 00:36:04,720 --> 00:36:08,880 me to understand was the fact that Jesus when he walked here 637 00:36:08,880 --> 00:36:10,920 on this earth, went through the crushing. 638 00:36:10,920 --> 00:36:13,360 Himself went through the crushing. 639 00:36:13,680 --> 00:36:18,520 So today a lot of people will preach to you that we don't. 640 00:36:18,520 --> 00:36:20,880 We are called to be kings. We are called to be sons. 641 00:36:21,040 --> 00:36:24,480 We are called to be prosperous. All that may sound good to our 642 00:36:24,480 --> 00:36:28,800 reaching years, but when we start going through the gospel 643 00:36:28,800 --> 00:36:32,520 narrative of what Jesus has to do in and through our lives, He 644 00:36:32,560 --> 00:36:37,760 will crush sin out of us the more we go deeper in identifying 645 00:36:37,760 --> 00:36:39,520 God. What is it you want me to do? 646 00:36:39,640 --> 00:36:43,520 He reveals our sinful nature. He tells us, take your heel and 647 00:36:43,520 --> 00:36:46,120 stamp on it. This anger issue which has come 648 00:36:46,120 --> 00:36:47,720 down generationally, stamp on it. 649 00:36:48,040 --> 00:36:50,960 This alcoholism which has come down generationally, stamp on 650 00:36:50,960 --> 00:36:53,000 it. This infidelity which has been 651 00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:55,320 coming down to you from generation after generation, 652 00:36:55,480 --> 00:36:57,520 stamp on it. It stops with you. 653 00:36:57,800 --> 00:37:00,720 Go, let it die with you here in this wine press. 654 00:37:00,720 --> 00:37:03,520 And as the wine goes in, allow me to work in you. 655 00:37:03,680 --> 00:37:06,360 Let me give you new desires. Let me give you new thirst. 656 00:37:06,360 --> 00:37:09,360 Let me give you new longings. Let me give you new dreams. 657 00:37:09,520 --> 00:37:13,200 Let me reveal the will of God for your life so that you can 658 00:37:13,200 --> 00:37:16,960 walk in that anointing, so that you can walk in your anointing. 659 00:37:18,200 --> 00:37:21,920 So today as we as I conclude this point, I want to ask you, 660 00:37:22,280 --> 00:37:25,560 what is your rat today? A lot of you have taken your rat 661 00:37:25,560 --> 00:37:27,840 as your social media. You're thinking you need to 662 00:37:28,640 --> 00:37:30,800 process everything out there on social media. 663 00:37:30,800 --> 00:37:34,040 But God saying no, it's only between you and me. 664 00:37:34,040 --> 00:37:39,080 Let us spend time together. A lot of you are finding those 665 00:37:39,080 --> 00:37:41,360 who are disgruntled, and I'm thinking, you know what? 666 00:37:41,560 --> 00:37:43,560 We need to, we need to do this together. 667 00:37:43,560 --> 00:37:46,320 No God saying no, I'll deal with them separately. 668 00:37:46,480 --> 00:37:51,440 I'm here to deal with you. That is where ferments and the 669 00:37:51,440 --> 00:37:54,640 sediments go down. Whatever's still lagging behind, 670 00:37:54,760 --> 00:37:56,760 he still works and those sediments go down. 671 00:37:57,120 --> 00:38:00,280 Learn to enjoy the quietness. Learn to enjoy the presence. 672 00:38:00,560 --> 00:38:07,840 Learn to enjoy worshipping. Learn to enjoy reading, learn to 673 00:38:07,840 --> 00:38:10,560 enjoy and meditating. Allow him to speak to you. 674 00:38:10,840 --> 00:38:14,920 Those years that it start opening up, that is where we 675 00:38:14,920 --> 00:38:19,000 learn what we are set apart for and set apart from. 676 00:38:21,440 --> 00:38:24,920 We are set apart for his glory and we are set apart from 677 00:38:24,920 --> 00:38:29,280 something and so automatically things starts changing. 678 00:38:30,080 --> 00:38:33,920 Hebrews chapter 12 verse 11 goes on to say NLT no discipline is 679 00:38:33,920 --> 00:38:37,440 enjoyable while it's happening. It's painful, but afterward 680 00:38:37,440 --> 00:38:40,520 there will be a peaceful harvest of right living. 681 00:38:40,760 --> 00:38:44,320 For those who are trained in this way, there is going to be a 682 00:38:44,320 --> 00:38:47,000 harvest. There is going to be a time of 683 00:38:47,000 --> 00:38:49,120 pouring out. There is going to be a time 684 00:38:49,120 --> 00:38:54,280 where you will be used. But if you enjoyed the season of 685 00:38:54,280 --> 00:38:57,840 the VAT where he's caused you to, but he's been in 686 00:38:57,840 --> 00:39:01,520 communication where all those sediments have gone down, He 687 00:39:01,520 --> 00:39:05,280 will cause you to live out in the new anointing. 688 00:39:06,520 --> 00:39:09,720 The third thing we see is when Jesus in our lives, we are 689 00:39:09,720 --> 00:39:12,560 yielding ourselves to the Holy Spirit daily. 690 00:39:13,120 --> 00:39:15,840 We are yielding ourselves to the Holy Spirit daily today. 691 00:39:15,840 --> 00:39:22,400 Now wine skins are filled today. I want to ask you as we read, 692 00:39:22,800 --> 00:39:26,480 when the wine is ready, we ask and God, where do you want me to 693 00:39:26,480 --> 00:39:28,640 pour out? And we get transferred from 694 00:39:28,640 --> 00:39:31,840 these bats into wine skins. And so it's important that this 695 00:39:31,840 --> 00:39:36,080 fresh revelation that we receive does not go back into old 696 00:39:36,080 --> 00:39:39,920 bodies, into old wineskins, because old wineskins won't help 697 00:39:39,920 --> 00:39:42,080 you serve. It's purposes rather burst. 698 00:39:42,480 --> 00:39:45,400 And so this is where we are dependent on the Holy Spirit. 699 00:39:45,400 --> 00:39:48,920 When we have new wineskins where He causes us to pour. 700 00:39:49,880 --> 00:39:52,800 We are not called to store up. They're called to pour out. 701 00:39:53,400 --> 00:39:56,160 And that's a beautiful thing that we see when when with new 702 00:39:56,160 --> 00:40:00,120 wine and new wine skins, we are called to pour out. 703 00:40:00,120 --> 00:40:04,080 A lot of us have a season of anointing and I've carefully 704 00:40:04,080 --> 00:40:07,880 been put into our wine skins, but a lot of us are unable to 705 00:40:07,880 --> 00:40:12,240 pour out because we we still carry that old bitterness that 706 00:40:12,840 --> 00:40:16,000 as a mark that we are still residing in old wineskins. 707 00:40:16,880 --> 00:40:19,320 So today, our wineskin don't define us. 708 00:40:20,320 --> 00:40:24,000 Don't take an old seasons wineskin and try using it in the 709 00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:25,880 new season. It won't make sense. 710 00:40:27,080 --> 00:40:29,000 Our ministry cannot be what defines us. 711 00:40:29,000 --> 00:40:31,560 A lot of us are trying to pour new wine through that lens of 712 00:40:31,560 --> 00:40:34,480 ministry. A lot of us are trying to pour 713 00:40:34,480 --> 00:40:37,360 out new wine by if you're endorsed by others. 714 00:40:37,360 --> 00:40:39,560 No, you're it's between you and God. 715 00:40:40,000 --> 00:40:42,600 Pour it out the way He wants you to pour it out. 716 00:40:43,120 --> 00:40:48,480 A lot of us are wanting to be defined and endorsed by others. 717 00:40:48,480 --> 00:40:52,440 A lot of us are wanting Papas, fathers, bishops, and everyone 718 00:40:52,440 --> 00:40:54,800 else breathing through down us to tell where to pour. 719 00:40:54,920 --> 00:40:57,120 It's between you and the Holy Spirit. 720 00:40:58,080 --> 00:41:00,080 It's between you and the Holy Spirit. 721 00:41:00,440 --> 00:41:05,120 All of humanity has only a certain kind and an amount of 722 00:41:05,120 --> 00:41:06,240 revelation. No one has. 723 00:41:06,720 --> 00:41:09,960 No one here has a revelation as much as the Holy Spirit. 724 00:41:10,280 --> 00:41:13,520 Depend on the Holy Spirit. Ask Him where to pour out. 725 00:41:13,760 --> 00:41:15,840 Don't look for significant places. 726 00:41:16,400 --> 00:41:18,080 Don't look for significant places. 727 00:41:18,360 --> 00:41:23,200 Start doing the insignificant well, because that's where God 728 00:41:23,200 --> 00:41:25,920 wants us to be. That's where God wants us to 729 00:41:25,920 --> 00:41:28,520 pour out. Because when we pour out our 730 00:41:28,520 --> 00:41:32,240 insignificant, when we pour out our new wine in insignificant 731 00:41:32,240 --> 00:41:35,720 places, he is glorified because he brings that significance. 732 00:41:36,480 --> 00:41:39,680 To eyes, it still seems insignificant, but to his eyes, 733 00:41:39,680 --> 00:41:43,080 everything is significant. Can we imagine that we will 734 00:41:43,080 --> 00:41:46,200 never look for stages and platforms, but rather we would 735 00:41:46,200 --> 00:41:49,640 look for God opportunities, we'd look for God appointments, we'd 736 00:41:49,640 --> 00:41:56,600 look for God places. So today when the wine after 737 00:41:56,600 --> 00:41:59,320 it's kept in a VAT and fermented, it's meant to be used 738 00:41:59,320 --> 00:42:02,680 and poured out. Where is Jesus calling you to 739 00:42:02,920 --> 00:42:05,560 pour out today in this Kingdom life? 740 00:42:07,280 --> 00:42:11,240 You know when we read about when when a when a wine bottle is 741 00:42:11,240 --> 00:42:14,680 open it has to last for three to six days. 742 00:42:15,240 --> 00:42:18,800 But if you re cock it and store it in a cool place and a dark 743 00:42:18,800 --> 00:42:22,680 place it might last. But there are certain things 744 00:42:24,200 --> 00:42:27,000 which are present in the wine. They call it the tanis. 745 00:42:27,240 --> 00:42:30,480 Tanis are basically plant compounds extracted from grapes 746 00:42:30,840 --> 00:42:33,520 during wine making. They can be found in the skin 747 00:42:33,520 --> 00:42:39,200 and the seeds and the stems of the grapes, but if there is more 748 00:42:39,200 --> 00:42:43,640 of the Tannus, they tend to last longer because they're protected 749 00:42:43,640 --> 00:42:46,960 against oxygen. And even as I was reading this, 750 00:42:46,960 --> 00:42:52,240 it reminded me the Holy Spirit who breathes life cannot work if 751 00:42:52,240 --> 00:42:54,840 there is still Tannus in your wine. 752 00:42:56,120 --> 00:42:59,600 These sediments are not meant to be make it into your wine which 753 00:42:59,600 --> 00:43:02,320 is being poured out. So which means it comes down to 754 00:43:02,320 --> 00:43:04,440 a daily yielding of the Holy Spirit because he's going to 755 00:43:04,440 --> 00:43:07,040 reveal, hey, this is a Tanus. This is these are sediments. 756 00:43:07,040 --> 00:43:08,720 These are things that are not of me. 757 00:43:08,720 --> 00:43:11,000 These are things that should have been filtered out. 758 00:43:11,000 --> 00:43:13,160 So can you filter it out before you pour it out? 759 00:43:13,400 --> 00:43:17,320 That's why every time when we come to serve, we do a 760 00:43:17,320 --> 00:43:21,200 filtration and we come every time we ask God, God, I'm not, I 761 00:43:21,200 --> 00:43:24,960 feel unworthy to do this. He prepares us and he says, now 762 00:43:24,960 --> 00:43:27,160 go do it. He go do it. 763 00:43:27,160 --> 00:43:28,240 You're not doing a lot of your strength. 764 00:43:28,240 --> 00:43:30,160 They're doing a lot of the strength that I give. 765 00:43:31,360 --> 00:43:35,520 John 14 was 26. Jesus says before he goes, He 766 00:43:35,520 --> 00:43:37,080 says. But the Advocate, the Holy 767 00:43:37,080 --> 00:43:40,760 Spirit, who the Father will send in my name will teach you all 768 00:43:40,760 --> 00:43:43,200 things and will remind you of everything I have said to you. 769 00:43:43,560 --> 00:43:47,000 And it got me thinking. A lot of us are unable to listen 770 00:43:47,000 --> 00:43:50,200 to the Holy Spirit when He wants to weed out certain things out 771 00:43:50,200 --> 00:43:53,000 of our lives. The tenaces have to be removed 772 00:43:53,000 --> 00:43:55,000 from our lives, from your life and my life. 773 00:43:56,040 --> 00:44:00,040 We all have wine to pour, but it comes with these sediments which 774 00:44:00,040 --> 00:44:04,280 are not good. And it got me thinking, these 775 00:44:04,280 --> 00:44:10,400 stannises, because they don't allow oxygen to happen, it makes 776 00:44:10,400 --> 00:44:14,240 the wine last longer. Sometimes you're carrying that 777 00:44:14,280 --> 00:44:17,800 extra portion of old wine into an old, into a new season. 778 00:44:18,800 --> 00:44:23,040 And so today at church, I want us to come to a place. 779 00:44:23,040 --> 00:44:25,680 Can we become more aware of what season we are in? 780 00:44:26,840 --> 00:44:31,400 Can we be aware of what season we have left so that we don't 781 00:44:31,440 --> 00:44:34,480 yearn for that? If we've left it, we've left it. 782 00:44:34,480 --> 00:44:35,960 Let's look at the season we are in. 783 00:44:36,600 --> 00:44:39,280 And for those of us who've been in the season that you're in for 784 00:44:39,280 --> 00:44:41,920 some time, would you also start looking for the season that 785 00:44:41,920 --> 00:44:44,640 you're heading into? Because there are some promises 786 00:44:44,640 --> 00:44:46,680 that we start need to claim, start claiming. 787 00:44:47,080 --> 00:44:51,920 We need to sometimes have that extra lift in our steps so that 788 00:44:51,920 --> 00:44:55,280 we'll be able to push through. We need that extra portion of 789 00:44:55,280 --> 00:44:58,720 grace and strength. And so even as I was thinking, 790 00:44:58,720 --> 00:45:01,520 God, this Kingdom life seems so hard. 791 00:45:01,760 --> 00:45:05,240 How do we live it out? How do we what, what, what are 792 00:45:05,240 --> 00:45:08,440 you wanting us to do? And God reminded me of what I 793 00:45:08,440 --> 00:45:11,560 read in one Peter chapter 4 verses 7 to 11. 794 00:45:11,560 --> 00:45:14,480 And this is what it says. The end of the world is coming 795 00:45:14,480 --> 00:45:16,040 soon. Therefore be honest and 796 00:45:16,040 --> 00:45:19,960 disciplined in your prayers. Most important of all, continue 797 00:45:19,960 --> 00:45:24,040 to show deep love for each other for love covers a multitude of 798 00:45:24,040 --> 00:45:26,880 sins. Cheerfully share your home with 799 00:45:26,880 --> 00:45:29,400 those who need a meal or a place to stay. 800 00:45:29,960 --> 00:45:33,640 God has given each of you a gift from His great variety of 801 00:45:33,640 --> 00:45:36,880 spiritual gifts. Use them well to serve one 802 00:45:36,880 --> 00:45:39,280 another. Do you have the gift of speaking 803 00:45:39,280 --> 00:45:42,280 that speak as the God Himself was speaking through you? 804 00:45:42,280 --> 00:45:43,800 Do you have the gift of helping others? 805 00:45:43,800 --> 00:45:47,280 Do it with all strength and energy that God supplies. 806 00:45:47,280 --> 00:45:50,200 Then everything you do will bring glory to God through 807 00:45:50,280 --> 00:45:53,640 Jesus, or glory and power to Him forever and ever. 808 00:45:53,680 --> 00:45:55,600 Amen. There are a couple of things 809 00:45:55,600 --> 00:45:57,240 which I want to highlight even as I close. 810 00:45:58,480 --> 00:46:00,520 What does the pouring of wine look like? 811 00:46:01,000 --> 00:46:02,680 This anointing that you've received? 812 00:46:02,680 --> 00:46:05,280 As each and every one of you have received it, it looks 813 00:46:05,280 --> 00:46:07,480 different. But here are some applications 814 00:46:07,480 --> 00:46:09,160 that we can go back to and thank God. 815 00:46:09,480 --> 00:46:12,520 Are these some areas that I've intentionally not looked into? 816 00:46:12,760 --> 00:46:15,200 Would you allow me to look into? So therefore, the first thing I 817 00:46:15,200 --> 00:46:18,200 would say is therefore be honest and disciplined in your prayers. 818 00:46:18,200 --> 00:46:21,480 When we receive this anointing, we are disciplined in our 819 00:46:21,480 --> 00:46:23,440 prayers. We commit everything to prayer. 820 00:46:23,720 --> 00:46:27,520 We don't take anything lightly where we are called to pour. 821 00:46:29,360 --> 00:46:34,160 May we continue to grow in deep love for one another cheerfully, 822 00:46:35,000 --> 00:46:38,600 without grudgingly and grumbing. Share your home with those who 823 00:46:38,600 --> 00:46:43,160 need a meal and a place to stay. God has given each and everyone 824 00:46:43,160 --> 00:46:44,840 of us spiritual gifts. Use them. 825 00:46:45,200 --> 00:46:48,600 Serve one another, it says. Do you have a gift of speaking? 826 00:46:48,960 --> 00:46:52,680 Wait on God and allow Him to open that right door for you to 827 00:46:52,680 --> 00:46:55,000 go and speak. Use the gift. 828 00:46:55,240 --> 00:46:56,960 Do you have a gift of helping others? 829 00:46:57,240 --> 00:47:01,160 Do it with all the strength and energy that God supplies. 830 00:47:01,720 --> 00:47:05,440 I remember a friend who was complaining. 831 00:47:05,680 --> 00:47:08,440 They had served, they had opened their their home and they were 832 00:47:08,760 --> 00:47:12,480 having this guest over and they served and this person enjoyed 833 00:47:12,480 --> 00:47:15,520 the meal at their home and they were upset that that person 834 00:47:15,520 --> 00:47:17,080 didn't comment anything about the food. 835 00:47:18,920 --> 00:47:21,520 Don't do it for the appreciation of people. 836 00:47:22,120 --> 00:47:23,800 Do it like you're doing it unto God. 837 00:47:25,200 --> 00:47:28,240 If Jesus was sitting at the table, our love should be 838 00:47:28,240 --> 00:47:31,560 overrun so much that we'll be able to do it so that we'll come 839 00:47:31,560 --> 00:47:34,240 to this place like God. I'm doing it for you no matter 840 00:47:34,240 --> 00:47:36,520 what. And that will get past. 841 00:47:36,840 --> 00:47:39,640 That will get past. And God's wanting us to rise up 842 00:47:39,640 --> 00:47:43,080 to that place, that even as we pour out today, even as we have 843 00:47:43,080 --> 00:47:46,560 been crushed, even as you're fine being filled into that VAT, 844 00:47:47,160 --> 00:47:49,560 even as we are yielding ourselves to the Holy Spirit for 845 00:47:49,560 --> 00:47:53,000 our everyday, He's asking to pour out that new wine. 846 00:47:53,920 --> 00:47:56,040 To pour out that new wine. Would you trust me? 847 00:47:56,640 --> 00:47:59,240 Because every place that you go, you would need to do it 848 00:47:59,240 --> 00:48:01,080 prayerfully. There's nothing you cannot do 849 00:48:01,240 --> 00:48:03,800 without considering it. Pray. 850 00:48:03,800 --> 00:48:07,800 And even as I had mentioned earlier, maybe come to a place 851 00:48:08,200 --> 00:48:13,320 where we are able to distinguish between the good and the evil 852 00:48:13,320 --> 00:48:15,160 because God wants us to be alert. 853 00:48:15,840 --> 00:48:19,480 God wants us to be alert. So today, Church, even as I 854 00:48:19,480 --> 00:48:22,400 close, I want to give this opportunity to you for those of 855 00:48:22,400 --> 00:48:24,480 you who've been struggling to invite Jesus in. 856 00:48:24,640 --> 00:48:27,920 Because I know many of us don't love the crushing. 857 00:48:28,200 --> 00:48:33,240 Many of us don't love the way in which sometimes God takes us in 858 00:48:33,240 --> 00:48:36,600 and molds us and shapes us. But Jesus saying, if you need to 859 00:48:36,600 --> 00:48:38,840 live this Kingdom life, you need to go through that. 860 00:48:39,280 --> 00:48:42,040 You need to go. Let us become more aware of your 861 00:48:42,040 --> 00:48:45,360 presence. Let us be aware, Lord, of the 862 00:48:45,360 --> 00:48:48,880 season that we are in, so that we will be useful for you in 863 00:48:48,880 --> 00:48:51,640 this Kingdom. So Church, even as we step in, 864 00:48:52,840 --> 00:48:58,200 may every season be a place where we seek for new anointing. 865 00:48:59,120 --> 00:49:03,720 May every crushing that we have maybe do it so that our heels 866 00:49:03,720 --> 00:49:06,800 are crushing at once. And for all that sin and Satan 867 00:49:06,800 --> 00:49:10,440 and his schemes don't have any way, may be filtered out so that 868 00:49:10,440 --> 00:49:14,560 our rats will be filled, maybe be fermented to those sediments 869 00:49:14,560 --> 00:49:17,720 might go down, Everything of the earthly and sinful nature will 870 00:49:17,720 --> 00:49:21,240 die off. And then as we allow the Holy 871 00:49:21,240 --> 00:49:26,360 Spirit to live, maybe not allow those tenaces to chokehold the 872 00:49:26,360 --> 00:49:29,240 Holy Spirit away, but maybe rather allow the Holy Spirit to 873 00:49:29,240 --> 00:49:32,640 show us where to pour it out. Maybe maybe not go to 874 00:49:32,640 --> 00:49:36,760 preservation mode, but maybe go out into pouring out mode so 875 00:49:36,760 --> 00:49:40,680 that you're pouring out up my pour my love on you. 876 00:49:42,160 --> 00:49:46,800 And I love how God's asking us, would you come out and pour the 877 00:49:46,800 --> 00:49:51,280 love that we have for our God towards him, towards his people. 878 00:49:52,240 --> 00:49:55,320 What God's calling us is not to be in silos, but to do it in 879 00:49:55,320 --> 00:50:02,320 community so that we'll be able to see his people and do it for 880 00:50:02,320 --> 00:50:04,800 his glory. And so that we'll be able to 881 00:50:04,800 --> 00:50:08,720 live this out knowing that God's calling us for greater things in 882 00:50:08,720 --> 00:50:11,440 the days to come. So Church, can I pray for all 883 00:50:11,440 --> 00:50:13,800 those of you listening and watching, if you can join with 884 00:50:13,800 --> 00:50:14,880 the Lord. We thank you, Lord, for this 885 00:50:14,880 --> 00:50:17,200 time. Lord, I thank you, Lord, that in 886 00:50:17,200 --> 00:50:21,760 the crushing, in the waiting, in the things that are happening 887 00:50:21,760 --> 00:50:23,960 right now, Lord, in our own lives, we committed to you, Lord 888 00:50:24,000 --> 00:50:25,520 Jesus. And even as we heard this word, 889 00:50:25,840 --> 00:50:28,880 I pray we won't shy away or we won't run away from the Kingdom 890 00:50:28,880 --> 00:50:30,760 life, but rather we would press on. 891 00:50:30,760 --> 00:50:33,720 Lord Jesus, I pray specifically, Lord, for these people who are 892 00:50:33,720 --> 00:50:36,400 struggling, Lord, of letting go their previous season. 893 00:50:36,840 --> 00:50:39,360 I pray, Lord, you would come down right now and give them the 894 00:50:39,360 --> 00:50:42,800 strength to let go. I pray for those who are in the 895 00:50:42,800 --> 00:50:45,120 season right now and where you've placed them. 896 00:50:45,120 --> 00:50:48,480 Let them become more aware, Lord Jesus, more sensitive, more 897 00:50:48,480 --> 00:50:50,600 clear of what you're calling them to do. 898 00:50:50,600 --> 00:50:54,760 Lord Jesus, I pray for those who are struggling in their faith, 899 00:50:54,760 --> 00:50:58,720 Lord Jesus, to take a step of faith into the new season that 900 00:50:58,720 --> 00:51:00,480 you're calling. I pray they would step in with 901 00:51:00,480 --> 00:51:04,240 new anointing, with a new crushing Lord Jesus, with new 902 00:51:04,240 --> 00:51:07,200 wine so that in due time they'll be able to pour that out. 903 00:51:07,200 --> 00:51:12,000 Lord Jesus, we thank you take us on this journey so that we'll be 904 00:51:12,000 --> 00:51:15,800 able to give you the glory and honor that you will be 905 00:51:15,800 --> 00:51:17,720 glorified. Lord Jesus, I pray maybe never 906 00:51:17,720 --> 00:51:21,280 become, Lord Jesus, people who become so sticklers, Lord Jesus, 907 00:51:21,480 --> 00:51:24,640 that we just operate out of the physical and I break everyone 908 00:51:24,640 --> 00:51:29,680 who's every spiritual stronghold that's causing us to operate 909 00:51:29,680 --> 00:51:32,160 only out of the physical. But I pray there'll be a unison 910 00:51:32,360 --> 00:51:35,480 between a spiritual and a physical that we will operate in 911 00:51:35,480 --> 00:51:39,400 that Lord Jesus, go before us, be with us, bless the food and 912 00:51:39,400 --> 00:51:41,560 water of our home, bless our conversations. 913 00:51:41,560 --> 00:51:44,240 I pray our doorposts will be marked by a precious blood that 914 00:51:44,240 --> 00:51:47,760 we'll be able to enjoy your love, peace and joy everyday. 915 00:51:47,760 --> 00:51:50,960 Lord Jesus, be with us. I pray especially for those who 916 00:51:50,960 --> 00:51:53,680 are listening. Lord Jesus, Holy Spirit, work in 917 00:51:53,680 --> 00:51:55,280 them. I pray specifically right now, 918 00:51:55,280 --> 00:51:58,320 Lord, people will identify the season that they are in. 919 00:51:58,600 --> 00:52:01,640 They will desire for the new wine, and they will run after 920 00:52:01,640 --> 00:52:04,600 you. Lord, mostly we pray, Amen, 921 00:52:04,720 --> 00:52:06,840 Amen. So Church, even as you step out 922 00:52:06,840 --> 00:52:09,280 this week, I pray and step out in boldness. 923 00:52:10,320 --> 00:52:13,840 Don't be scared of the word of crushing, because after every 924 00:52:13,840 --> 00:52:15,320 crushing comes something beautiful. 925 00:52:16,040 --> 00:52:18,520 I am a testament of that. I've seen God come through that. 926 00:52:18,920 --> 00:52:22,040 What he's crushed and what he continues, He keeps crushing. 927 00:52:22,520 --> 00:52:26,040 It's because this world will cause us to look elsewhere. 928 00:52:26,680 --> 00:52:28,200 But that's where we go back to his word. 929 00:52:28,200 --> 00:52:31,200 We go back to his presence. We go back to his people, we go 930 00:52:31,200 --> 00:52:35,560 back to his church and say, God, I'm here, I've shown up, I'm 931 00:52:35,560 --> 00:52:38,360 here for you. Let's press in together. 932 00:52:38,720 --> 00:52:42,560 Let's do this Kingdom life together because Jesus wants us 933 00:52:42,800 --> 00:52:47,320 to live our best in the Kingdom that He's called us to live. 934 00:52:47,840 --> 00:52:49,240 So I pray that you have a blessed week. 935 00:52:49,480 --> 00:52:53,240 Go out in boldness and be strengthened in Jesus name. 936 00:52:53,240 --> 00:52:56,080 God bless you all. 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