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We welcome you to the We Are 
Zion sermon podcast. 

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We are a church based out of 
Chennai, India. 

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We are thrilled that you tuned 
in today and hope that you will 

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be refreshed, revived, and 
energized by what you hear. 

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Our desire is that you will live
life with a renewed sense of 

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purpose that stems from a 
vibrant faith in Jesus. 

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The year 2025 is 1 where we will
be positioned by God to possess 

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our promise. 
We are celebrating all that God 

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has done and has promised to do 
over the next few weeks. 

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Every word that God has spoken 
will come to pass. 

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Everything that you have sown 
into will begin to reap its 

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fruit. 
The harvest is here and it's 

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plentiful. 
Can we lean into the Lord of the

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harvest and hear what He has to 
say to us? 

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Let's get into God's word today 
we're going through this entire 

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series called Season of Harvest,
and today we're coming to the 

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last part. 
Last week we saw about 

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winnowing, and I just want to go
back to that same verse, Luke 

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chapter 3, verses 16 to 17. 
It says John answered them all. 

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I baptize you with water, but 
one who's more powerful than I 

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will come, the straps of whose 
sandals I'm not worthy to untie.

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He will baptize you with the 
Holy Spirit and fire. 

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His winnowing fork is in his 
hand to clear his threshing 

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floor and to gather the wheat 
into his barn. 

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But he will burn up the shaft 
with unquenchable fire. 

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So last week when we saw what 
the winnowing fork, there were a

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couple of things that we saw. 
We saw that it's God's Kingdom, 

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it's his shaft, it's his wheat, 
and he's taking them into his 

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barn. 
Everything is all, it's all 

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about God. 
But even as you're concluding, 

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one of the things that we 
thought was we can't do go 

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through harvest without going 
through fire. 

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How many of you can agree? 
A lot of you are probably in the

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midst of a fire, so probably 
hesitating to raise your hand. 

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But fire plays an important role
even in the farming community. 

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And it's interesting the 
previous verse, it says he says 

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I'm not unworthy, I'm not worthy
to untie. 

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He will baptize you with the 
Holy Spirit and fire. 

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There is a fire in each and 
every one of us the minute we 

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accept Jesus Christ into our 
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How many of you can agree? 
And even as you are getting the 

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baptism done and as you are 
seated in the church, the the 

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fall back was to the day when we
committed our lives, when we got

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baptized. 
You know, that was the thing I 

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was remembering. 
And even as I was remembering 

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that, I, I was so overjoyed in 
the fact that many others have 

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the same story where we all can 
go back to that day. 

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There's a fire, but how many can
you say that fire is 

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extinguished a bit? 
Or, you know, it was probably 

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big. 
Now it's just small. 

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How many, if you can agree? 
Or do you have seasons where you

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go through that? 
Or some of us are in this weekly

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cycle. 
Sunday, it'll be on fire. 

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We would have told 100, Praise 
the Lord, and then by Monday to 

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Friday it will be a dim. 
It's typically like a stove. 

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You know, we have a cook in our 
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And so yesterday, even as she 
was leaving, I told Tina at the 

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end of the day after her tenure.
I don't know when that will be. 

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She may not have learnt to cook 
properly because we just agree 

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with whatever she cooks and 
gives us. 

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You know how it is, but she 
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you know. 
So by because I have a lot of 

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you heard last week, we've 
fostered a dog, apparently is 

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what my wife's saying. 
But the way she's holding it and

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hugging it now everyone in the 
family is hugging. 

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I'm sure now that's another 
added expense in the family. 

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You know, it's funny. 
How so as the interesting thing 

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what she was telling was ma'am, 
she's not listening to what I'm 

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saying, but when I say sit, 
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So she knows English, ma'am. 
So she's learning English really

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well is what she said. 
So I just realized that a flame 

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and one of the, the reason I'm 
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believe in SIM cooking. 
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just been what, 7 years we've 
bought stuffed up and last year 

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we have to replace it purely 
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always on high. 
It's always on high weather, 

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whatever it is, you know, And so
the, the vessels become black in

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between. 
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patience Tina has, but I don't 
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me, it's like whenever I see it,
that time I'm like, I'm getting,

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I'm losing it because everything
tastes a bit burnt and all that.

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But at the end of the day, we 
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say I'm always on fire for God. 
You know, there are there are 

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times when we regulate it, but a
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especially today, in 2025, in 
September, I don't know how many

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of you can see based on whatever
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whatever is happening across the
nation, we hesitate to light 

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that flame brighter or, you 
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because what will others think? 
All the Christians are getting a

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bad rap already. 
They think we are like this, we 

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are like that and so we dumb it,
we dull it down a lot. 

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But today as I was reading this 
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inside of us, he will 
continuously keep lighting that 

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fire because he's the wind. 
He's the wind. 

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And I just before we go into 
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says in the, the Greek word over
here for the Spirit says wind 

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and for fire it says for which 
is the fire of God, which 

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transforms all it touches. 
And so when God keeps something 

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within us and when that wind 
acts as an accelerant, things 

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change. 
So last week we saw the wind 

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removes the chaff. 
When when knowing happens, it 

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removes chaff. 
And So what happens if our 

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identity is secure in God, we 
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If we are, if we know whose we 
are, we fall down because you're

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confident in knowing who he who 
we are in Christ. 

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But when fire, when the fire has
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realize we'll all have a 
reference point saying back in 

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the day, I did so much for God. 
When I was 20, I was all on fire

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for God. 
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the fire died. 
Or we have some story like that.

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But the truth is the fire has to
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means the Spirit of God should 
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How many of you actually spend 
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Not we don't have a BBQ pit, but
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anytime. 
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Light. 
After you light that first cold,

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spreading that fire across is 
the hardest part. 

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Before, you know, before we 
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dryer, we used to use our exam 
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You know, it used to be really 
painful because by the time you 

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do all the work, you don't feel 
like enjoying eating what is 

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being cooked. 
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continuous wind that's coming, 
fire starts spreading. 

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Fire starts spreading. 
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Spirit is the wind, when He is 
in the wind in our lives, he 

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acts as the accident, which 
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increase of oxygen supply. 
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going. 
And I believe because of he's 

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that he's allowing us to burn 
brighter because he's allowing 

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us to breathe. 
Whatever anxiety that you're 

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going through, you still are 
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because the Holy Spirit is able 
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I believe also he drives, he 
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When the Holy Spirit is moving, 
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That's why these winds the the 
forest burning when it happens, 

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the minute there's a strong 
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moves forward. 
I believe we all need the wind 

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of the Holy Spirit in our fire 
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If you stop dreaming the God 
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If you've been lacking and 
seeing God, I'm, I'm just, I 

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feel so stuck. 
You open the news, what is the 

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new say Manny 90,00,000 for H1B 
visa and then suddenly every 

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what is the next thing? 
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Monday, I don't know tomorrow I 
don't know what the stock market

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is going to be like. 
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have I got stocks in IT 
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And if you're going down the 
trajectory, you will always be 

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anxious. 
But if you have the wind of God,

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you'll realize God, this is 
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Help me see things more clearer.
Greener pastures are where you 

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are, not what a country is. 
Greener pastures are not which I

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need to go searching for. 
It's when I search your will and

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plan I find it. 
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I was just reading up on the 
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It says it also transports 
embers when there's wind which 

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blows and when it carries what 
happens, it carries burning 

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embers and sparks along the 
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And I believe what is deposited 
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spark. 
You won't know the impact and we

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don't know, and we don't need to
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A lot of us are trying to have a
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where our dashboard is only in 
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The book of heaven is where God 
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we've done. 
Let's not try saying, oh, I LED 

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50 people to Christ. 
I did that. 

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Quietly do what God's calling 
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Quietly do it. 
What quietly do what God's 

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calling you to do? 
It also says it preheats fuels, 

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which means the wind can bend 
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preheating them before the main 
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I believe God prepares the way 
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You know, even as we were here 
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I was telling Tina, look how 
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children need to get baptized. 
He prepares the church for us. 

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We didn't have to strive. 
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I just had to. 
All I had to do is get a get on 

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a call and tell pastor he said 
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This is where he preheats. 
He goes before us and he does 

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something for us. 
So during the season of harvest,

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it's cyclic. 
Not all of us are reaping at the

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same time. 
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sowing, some of us in the midst 
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Some of us are in the midst of 
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But it's lifelong. 
It's seasonal. 

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I'm not going to be doing 
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No, I won't be doing till I'm 
old age, you know, till one of 

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us goes to be with the Lord and 
then I can go to be with the 

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Lord. 
That's what we we talk about 

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that a lot because if we don't 
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towards living about it. 
Start believing what Gods 

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calling you to do today? 
Start believing. 

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And so, and the reason I want to
ask you today is today is a fire

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lacking the accelerant. 
Is our fire lacking the 

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accident? 
Are we having the wind of 

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disbelief rather than the wind 
which the Holy Spirit is? 

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Are we having the wind of 
despair even before something 

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good happens? 
We're just looking at the 

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negative side of it and we are 
blowing a different kind of 

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wind. 
Are we having the wind of just 

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not wanting to burn? 
But we've just kept certain 

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walls up so that to know wind 
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with this. 
I just want to go, you know, to 

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I was just reading the story of 
a couple called Adrenalin and 

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Anne Judson who actually were 
missionaries to boot, Burma, 

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Myanmar. 
And this happened in the in 

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17/18/26 is when they all passed
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And this is what the story says.
And at the age of 25, Adiniram 

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Judson was the first American 
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He and Anne married two weeks 
before they boarded a ship bound

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for India before they eventually
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Burma. 
Judson would spend the next 

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nearly 40 years of his life 
living among the and witnessing 

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to the Burmese people until her 
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Anne was a friend of many and 
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language than her academically 
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Judson's efforts were slow 
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He was imprisoned and tortured, 
but he never gave up on his 

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God-given calling to reach Burma
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Before his death, Adinaram 
Judson had not only established 

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several churches in Burma, but 
he had also given Burma one of 

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the greatest gifts, the Bible in
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The minute the fire starts 
burning in you, ask God. 

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God let the Holy Spirit blow the
wind on it, blow the wind on it.

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We're not here to it's not the 
reason I'm saying this is we can

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be in a we can be in a place 
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impact is far beyond a lifetime,
far beyond a lifetime. 

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Ask the accident, ask the Holy 
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yes. 
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does far beyond what we can 
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Every stage, the transformation 
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a one time transformation. 
It's a lifelong transformation 

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that happens. 
A lot of us are looking for that

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one time transformation. 
That's what the world sells. 

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You go to the gym, which I've 
gone to many. 

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I keep telling you guys, they 
love me. 

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The coaches love me because they
look at me as this immediate pet

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project. 
They're like the minute I come 

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in, Sir, How are you, Sir? 
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grill me, they'll make sure I do
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they've given. 
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not reducing. 
Get this. 

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As a personal trainer, I'm like,
I can't handle. 

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I just needed space. 
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because of that much pressure, I
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This is in 18 years of marriage.
You can ask Tina. 

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This has been a recurrent thing.
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working. 
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happened was our company had 
this policy that if you they had

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tied up with fitness one, I know
how many of you know that time 

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fitness one was there and that 
time the fitness one on Omar was

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in Ascenders office and was 
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And if I take a couple's 
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So our Indian mind is OK, why 
take one? 

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We'll take half. 
So I take Tina and go. 

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And no one is bothered about 
Tina. 

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They're only bugging me. 
They're like, you know, and so 

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and it's so tempting because 
that time in Ascenders only KFC 

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was there next to us, next to 
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It was so tempting, but then 
within a month, Caleb, we got 

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pregnant with Caleb and then 
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That went down. 
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her cravings and things like 
that, you know, you buy 1 rice 

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and then she doesn't finish and 
then we have to finish it. 

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You know, all that one thing 
after the other. 

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But the reason why I'm saying 
this is on Earth we can go about

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transformation. 
A physical transformation can be

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so short lived and you know how 
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maintain. 
For all those of you who are in 

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a protein diet and doing all the
different kinds of fast, you 

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know how hard it is. 
But I want to talk about the 

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spiritual transformation. 
The season of harvest is not a 

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one time. 
Oh, in 2025 we had a great 

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harvest. 
No got every season, every 

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season. 
We need a season of harvest 

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every season. 
Lot of us don't talk about the 

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season of harvest during Lent, 
probably because you're fasting 

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and things like, no, every time 
there has to be a testimony, a 

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word of God's goodness on our 
lives, faithfulness on our 

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lives. 
And so today, this 

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transformation, as we look, 
we're going to look into a 

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parable, which is the main part 
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But I wanted to bring to an 
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on God's side of the fire here 
on earth than to be eternally in

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fire the minute I think about 
the fire, because quite a time, 

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a lot of time when the fire 
keeps coming, this parable, I 

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would rather be handled by God 
and fire here on earth than be 

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left to deal with fire 
eternally. 

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And so when we look into this 
passage today, I just want us to

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see what is God moving us to do 
because there's something God is

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wanting us to change in US 
internally. 

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A lot of us are in different 
stages that keep saying that in 

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each stage He wants us to do so.
If you can turn with me from 

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Matthew chapter 13 verses 24 to 
30. 

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This is the parable and this is 
what it says. 

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And Jesus told them another 
parable. 

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The Kingdom of heaven is like a 
man who sowed good seed in his 

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field, but while everyone was 
sleeping, his enemy came and 

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sowed weeds among the wheat and 
went away. 

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When the wheat sprouted and 
formed heads, then the weeds 

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also appeared. 
The owner's servants came to him

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and said, Sir, didn't you sow 
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Where then did the seeds come 
from? 

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An enemy did this, he replied. 
The servants asked him, Do you 

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want us to go and pull them up? 
No, he answered, because while 

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you are pulling the weeds, you 
may uproot the wheat with them. 

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Let's both grow together until 
the harvest. 

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At that time I'll tell the 
harvesters, first collect the 

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weeds and tie them in bundles to
be burnt. 

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Then gather the wheat and bring 
it into my barn. 

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You know one of the things that 
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to explain that in verses 36 to 
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crowd and mentored in the house.
His disciples came to him and 

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said, explain to us the parable 
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He answered, the one who sowed 
the good seed is the Son of Man,

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because out of Jesus only 
goodness comes, and so he sows 

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good in our lives. 
The field is the world and the 

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good seed stands for the people 
of the Kingdom. 

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The weeds are the people of the 
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them is the devil. 
The harvest is the end of the 

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age and the harvesters are 
angels. 

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As the weeds are pulled up and 
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at the end of the age. 
The Son of Man will send out his

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angels and they will weed out 
the Kingdom, weed out his 

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Kingdom, everything that causes 
sin and all who do evil, they 

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will throw them into the blazing
furnace where there will where 

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they'll be weeping and gnashing 
of teeth. 

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Then the righteous will shine 
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their father. 
Whoever has ears, let them hear.

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You know, one of the things when
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scary because we on this side of
eternity, we'll have to deal 

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with the weed. 
A lot of us many a times are 

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trying to pray the weed out. 
How many of you have done that? 

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Lord remove this person out of 
my life. 

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Lord, remove this sickness out 
of my life. 

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Lord, remove this particular 
ailment out of the middle. 

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Lord, remove this particular 
patch on my skin. 

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Some of the things in this or 
you know even our our own 

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issues. 
I know how many of you I 

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sometimes feel out this angry 
issue which has been the 

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generation which I've seen. 
Lord, please can you remove from

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me? 
But it all it matters to do the 

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minute I drive over here and I 
go and one guy cuts me off, the 

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unholy words that just come out 
of my mouth is like very bad. 

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I'm I, I'm so I'm feeling bad 
about my and that doesn't come 

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in English. 
It comes in Tamil. 

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So it's even more worse. 
And that's what I know I'm not 

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saved. 
This transformation that I'm 

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really struggling with is not is
it's so difficult to be lived 

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out. 
I and I'm being honest here 

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because I can preach up a storm 
here, but I'm still struggling 

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as you are struggling, as you 
are struggling, you won't 

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believe it. 
This this week I was out of the 

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country and we were on a filming
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And as we were there, we were in
this we were, we had to do go 

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from a city to another, another 
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And so we landed on Monday and 
we are going on this and this 

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driver, I know, I mean, I've not
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And, you know, and we were 
seated in the back and I was 

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going with my friend David. 
And both of us was just like he 

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said, guess I don't think you 
can sleep. 

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I said, yeah, I definitely can't
sleep. 

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And he was just going through 
it. 

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And then I thank the regional 
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as you're going, the highway is 
dark, it's empty. 

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And he's just driving crazy, 
going behind the truck, cutting 

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them left and right. 
And then he after he reached, I 

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asked him why is he driving like
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He said no. 
Because you had expensive gear 

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in the car, the driver was 
scared that because there's a 

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lot of decoys on this road. 
So usually what happens is they 

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come with a car, they'll 
suddenly stop you bang, and then

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they'll you'll end up having an 
argument and then someone from 

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the back will come and then all 
that can happen. 

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And so he was scared and that's 
why he was also driving like 

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that. 
But I was like, I understand the

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decoys thing, but there were so 
many close calls. 

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But as we are in this journey, 
I'm just starting to realize 

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that transformation has to 
happen so much with them because

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your worst fears start coming 
out at the unexpected times. 

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Things where you're supposed to 
speak life, you suddenly are 

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speaking death. 
You know, there are sometimes in

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our own lives where Tina's 
telling something that this is 

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what she wants to believe in. 
And then my logical sense, 

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because being a spouse, I'm 
speaking death over what faith 

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is being spoken out of. 
It can happen to anyone. 

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And so as we are in this journey
for transformation, some of 

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these weeds will have to live 
by. 

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And we have to be careful 
because when we read this, what 

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this weed is, the weed looks 
like the wheat plant. 

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It looks like the wheat husk, 
but inside it's, it's called, 

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it's called Darnell or a 
poisonous ryegrass weed. 

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And inside it looks black. 
The fruit of it is black. 

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So after distance, it look like,
oh wow, there's a big harvest 

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there. 
But as you go close is when the 

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weed is seen what's inside. 
And so today as we meditate on 

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this, in fact, the Greek word 
for the weed is weed is, which 

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means fall sweet. 
So a lot of us can look like 

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we've got it right, we've got it
going. 

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But what is actually happening 
inside is very important. 

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Are we really a loving? 
Because what happens when you 

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read it says it's the most toxic
thing before the harvest, it 

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poisons, it causes lethargy, 
deep sleep, and even death. 

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That is what spiritually it can 
cause. 

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When we read it, when we read 
and understand it bears a close 

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resemblance to eat. 
It looks black inside. 

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And these are aspects of our 
life and we leave unchecked. 

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What the enemy is slowly telling
us will suddenly start bringing 

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out that fruit. 
And so as we look into this 

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verse, it's clear that God is 
doing something in US. 

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God is the chief harvest. 
I would say He comes in, he sees

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everything, He's allowed it. 
And that's what that's where 

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free will comes in. 
When you look at God of 

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creation, He created Eden, he 
gave, he put us there. 

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But when sin came, it's easy for
God to take it out. 

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But then everything around seems
orchestrated. 

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God allows us to go through 
certain things and so internally

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can we align our hearts so that 
God can work through us in turn,

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externally, what is aligned 
being said, will start showing 

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externally, will start showing 
externally through the fruit 

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that we bear. 
I believe the storehouses should

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have all of us in it. 
Whatever is not making it to the

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storehouse goes into fire. 
And even as we read, fire is 

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being used mostly when you look 
at all these agricultural lands 

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and farmers, when they talk, 
they use the minute there's an 

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infestation on their harvest, 
they use fire to kill 

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everything. 
They kill everything. 

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And so sometimes this fire that 
we feel will be like God's 

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wanting some things out of our 
lives to be deadened. 

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It's used to manage farm lands 
by removing weeds. 

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It's also sometimes used for 
improving the better, to get a 

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better yield of the land. 
Nutrients grow better. 

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In our men's Bible study, we've 
been going through this entire 

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series and he mentioned about 
the silversmith. 

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And ever since he mentioned 
about it, I've just been reading

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upon it because I was really 
intrigued by that one statement 

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he mentioned, which I'll mention
later. 

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But the heating process, the, 
the whole thing with fire, when 

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I was thinking and meditating on
it, I was saying, God, I would 

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rather go through fire in your 
hands because there's something 

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beautiful come. 
And so the silversmith has a 

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whole bunch of processes through
which it goes. 

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And you might think I'm 
switching between a farmer and a

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silversmith. 
The reason being, if Jesus is 

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the chief harvester, he also 
knows how to handle the fire. 

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And so today, if my fire is 
lacking for for a lot of us in 

446
00:24:58,080 --> 00:25:00,760
this day and age, our fire is 
lacking because sin has overcome

447
00:25:00,760 --> 00:25:02,840
us. 
We've given into the pleasures 

448
00:25:02,840 --> 00:25:05,640
of the world. 
We've given into alcohol, into 

449
00:25:05,640 --> 00:25:07,840
probably being unfaithful with 
our spouse. 

450
00:25:08,080 --> 00:25:11,200
Or we are probably just thinking
of work Oregon. 

451
00:25:11,200 --> 00:25:13,560
We're just thinking, you know 
what, let me just get by this. 

452
00:25:13,760 --> 00:25:15,160
Or we're not taking 
responsibility. 

453
00:25:15,160 --> 00:25:17,080
That's on self. 
Or probably it could be a 

454
00:25:17,080 --> 00:25:20,880
marriage or it could be the the 
things around us with our work 

455
00:25:20,880 --> 00:25:24,760
life or in places for us with 
community, our church life. 

456
00:25:25,160 --> 00:25:30,120
God is wanting a fire to burn 
the same everywhere, everywhere.

457
00:25:30,120 --> 00:25:32,760
He wants us to be whole. 
That's what being whole looks 

458
00:25:32,760 --> 00:25:35,760
like. 
If I come here and preach and I 

459
00:25:35,760 --> 00:25:38,600
mistreat my wife, what I'm 
preaching is hollow. 

460
00:25:39,480 --> 00:25:43,560
If I, who can talk to my wife 
Phil, but I run my kids down and

461
00:25:43,560 --> 00:25:48,840
I'm, you know, not being a good 
parent, I am again being hollow.

462
00:25:49,240 --> 00:25:52,760
If I'm good in all of this, but 
don't know how to handle my 

463
00:25:52,760 --> 00:25:56,320
house order, if I'm in debt and 
if I'm not handling finance in 

464
00:25:56,320 --> 00:25:58,240
this country, that's definitely 
a hollow site. 

465
00:25:58,720 --> 00:26:04,600
And so God wants to walk through
the fire that he puts us through

466
00:26:04,760 --> 00:26:07,200
to remove certain things. 
How many of you really want 

467
00:26:07,440 --> 00:26:09,680
things to change from your 
generation onwards? 

468
00:26:11,720 --> 00:26:16,000
We can't change about. 
Let's come to that term because 

469
00:26:16,400 --> 00:26:19,440
that was at one point I remember
talking to my parents about 

470
00:26:19,440 --> 00:26:22,800
something, but they just sound 
probably are just anxious and 

471
00:26:22,800 --> 00:26:24,680
they just brushed it off and 
then I didn't know what to say 

472
00:26:24,680 --> 00:26:28,720
after that. 
So I so then I got why are you 

473
00:26:28,720 --> 00:26:29,880
going to them? 
Come to me. 

474
00:26:30,840 --> 00:26:34,360
It starts with you. 
It starts with you, what you can

475
00:26:34,360 --> 00:26:37,240
do. 
And so they've lived their life 

476
00:26:37,360 --> 00:26:39,720
and I can't change. 
So a lot of us are trying to go 

477
00:26:39,720 --> 00:26:42,600
and rewrite our past or take 
identity from the past. 

478
00:26:43,200 --> 00:26:46,360
If you look at many people I'm 
talking to, they talk about 

479
00:26:46,360 --> 00:26:49,760
their past so strong, they feel 
like because they have language 

480
00:26:49,760 --> 00:26:51,960
about their past, that's your 
identity now. 

481
00:26:51,960 --> 00:26:56,240
No, your identity starts right 
where here you are because God 

482
00:26:56,240 --> 00:26:58,320
can rewrite that. 
That doesn't have to be your 

483
00:26:58,320 --> 00:27:00,000
identity. 
And so today when we give our 

484
00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:04,800
hands to the person who can 
handle the fire, well, he wants 

485
00:27:04,800 --> 00:27:06,960
to do great things. 
So the first thing he does is 

486
00:27:06,960 --> 00:27:09,920
anyone who actually has gone to 
a Goldsmith or a silversmith 

487
00:27:09,920 --> 00:27:13,200
will realize they take the 
entire ornament or the gold bar 

488
00:27:13,200 --> 00:27:16,360
and they put it into a vessel 
and they heat it up fully. 

489
00:27:16,360 --> 00:27:20,080
So the first thing is we are 
heated by a masters Craftsman. 

490
00:27:20,480 --> 00:27:22,320
What happens when we allow him 
to heat? 

491
00:27:22,520 --> 00:27:24,600
He just doesn't have a candle 
lighting. 

492
00:27:24,600 --> 00:27:29,240
No, he's heating. 
He's putting it in all high 

493
00:27:29,240 --> 00:27:33,160
flame and heating us up so that 
we really melt. 

494
00:27:33,680 --> 00:27:35,960
And I believe this is where a 
hardened heart, when we come to 

495
00:27:35,960 --> 00:27:38,680
the Saviour starts melting. 
How many of you experienced 

496
00:27:38,680 --> 00:27:42,200
that? 
I really experienced that hard 

497
00:27:42,200 --> 00:27:44,720
things. 
I, I'll tell Tina, you know, 

498
00:27:44,720 --> 00:27:46,480
this is what I've decided. 
This is what I'll do. 

499
00:27:46,760 --> 00:27:48,640
Then two days later she'll ask 
whatever you decide. 

500
00:27:48,640 --> 00:27:51,120
I said no, I just read the word 
and then things changed. 

501
00:27:51,960 --> 00:27:54,560
The minute you bring God into 
the mix, things change. 

502
00:27:55,000 --> 00:27:57,320
God can't operate with hardened 
hearts. 

503
00:27:58,360 --> 00:28:01,280
And so today, if there are 
hardened areas in your life, 

504
00:28:01,600 --> 00:28:04,520
allow God to come, he can set 
things. 

505
00:28:04,520 --> 00:28:07,960
It might look like fire, it'll 
look like self condom. 

506
00:28:07,960 --> 00:28:09,680
You're you're you're talking to 
yourself. 

507
00:28:09,680 --> 00:28:13,080
God is like walking to you 
directly and saying this is what

508
00:28:13,080 --> 00:28:16,160
you need to change. 
It's not a day problem. 

509
00:28:16,160 --> 00:28:19,920
It's a you problem. 
It's confronting because the 

510
00:28:19,920 --> 00:28:22,520
fingers not pointed at anyone, 
but right at you. 

511
00:28:23,160 --> 00:28:26,120
So I pray that we will allow 
ourselves to be heated by the 

512
00:28:26,120 --> 00:28:30,080
master Craftsman because this is
where change starts. 

513
00:28:31,920 --> 00:28:34,880
So today when we hand over 
ourselves to God and say God, 

514
00:28:34,880 --> 00:28:37,800
I'm willing to be heated, what 
happens myself gets heated. 

515
00:28:37,920 --> 00:28:42,080
Every pride, every identity that
I have gets melted down 

516
00:28:43,000 --> 00:28:45,600
suddenly, even my marriage. 
All this while I just thought of

517
00:28:45,600 --> 00:28:48,800
my own interests. 
But then when I've allowed 

518
00:28:48,800 --> 00:28:51,240
myself to the master Craftsman, 
he we start having 

519
00:28:51,240 --> 00:28:53,720
conversations. 
What are we called to do? 

520
00:28:54,480 --> 00:28:56,760
What should we do for his 
Kingdom? 

521
00:28:56,760 --> 00:28:58,840
What should we do for the 
family? 

522
00:28:59,160 --> 00:29:03,080
Suddenly, because we both have 
done this, now we're I'm 

523
00:29:03,160 --> 00:29:04,960
allowing him into my parenting. 
Also. 

524
00:29:04,960 --> 00:29:07,720
There have been seasons in my 
life where I've just been like a

525
00:29:07,720 --> 00:29:09,720
bulldozer just going with 
parenting. 

526
00:29:10,560 --> 00:29:15,160
And Tina said no, that's not the
way She'll talk about it. 

527
00:29:15,680 --> 00:29:18,320
The next day I visibly will 
remember God leading me to 

528
00:29:18,320 --> 00:29:22,080
passages where he'll confront me
to change the way I parent. 

529
00:29:23,560 --> 00:29:26,480
If you're struggling, go back to
your master Craftsman. 

530
00:29:26,480 --> 00:29:29,880
He can change you. 
He can change you because the 

531
00:29:30,280 --> 00:29:32,200
it's not you're not operating 
out of here, but you're 

532
00:29:32,200 --> 00:29:35,720
operating out of the fact that 
God you want to give wholeness 

533
00:29:35,720 --> 00:29:38,320
into the next generation. 
For those of you who are 

534
00:29:38,320 --> 00:29:41,400
struggling with your parents, 
take that heart and heart and 

535
00:29:41,400 --> 00:29:43,200
allow the master Craftsman to 
work in. 

536
00:29:43,280 --> 00:29:46,600
And for those who are struggling
with work life, you feel like 

537
00:29:46,600 --> 00:29:48,520
you're striving. 
You feel like you're trying to 

538
00:29:48,520 --> 00:29:51,640
catch up to your supervisor, to 
your superior, just so that you 

539
00:29:51,640 --> 00:29:53,680
don't get blacklisted, you don't
get laid off. 

540
00:29:54,040 --> 00:29:57,280
Bring it back. 
If you, you feel like you're 

541
00:29:57,280 --> 00:30:00,240
living one life Monday to Friday
and another life Saturday and 

542
00:30:00,240 --> 00:30:04,440
Sunday, tell God, God, I want to
live the same life across the 

543
00:30:04,440 --> 00:30:09,040
entire week. 
I want to ask also for those of 

544
00:30:09,040 --> 00:30:12,720
you who've who've who've had the
past of church life being hard, 

545
00:30:13,080 --> 00:30:15,200
take that hardened thing and 
allow it to the master 

546
00:30:15,200 --> 00:30:16,960
Craftsman. 
Let him mould you. 

547
00:30:17,400 --> 00:30:19,960
Let him breathe his accident on 
you. 

548
00:30:20,520 --> 00:30:23,080
You'll start realizing the body 
is far bigger. 

549
00:30:23,600 --> 00:30:27,640
The bride that he's wanting to 
come is far bigger, far whiter 

550
00:30:27,640 --> 00:30:32,400
than he ever possibly thought. 
Let God one or two instances 

551
00:30:32,800 --> 00:30:37,360
think that this is what churches
all around lot of the pastor 

552
00:30:37,360 --> 00:30:40,600
friends are in the when you see 
who I'm following are putting 

553
00:30:40,600 --> 00:30:44,800
post after post saying church 
members don't please come to 

554
00:30:44,800 --> 00:30:48,560
church just because your pastor 
did not address about Charlie 

555
00:30:48,560 --> 00:30:51,680
Kirk and his death and all that.
It doesn't stop there. 

556
00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:56,080
It doesn't stop there. 
We have to be there. 

557
00:30:56,160 --> 00:31:00,080
Things will come, things will 
happen, but that can't deter us 

558
00:31:00,080 --> 00:31:01,920
from being who God has called me
to be. 

559
00:31:02,440 --> 00:31:05,080
Israel left Egypt. 
They knew they were going to the

560
00:31:05,080 --> 00:31:07,640
promised land, but they didn't 
know that they'll have to go 

561
00:31:07,640 --> 00:31:13,840
through so many hardships. 
The minute we are saved, we are 

562
00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:17,880
confirmed that our book is in 
the eternal life, but we don't 

563
00:31:17,880 --> 00:31:19,280
know that we'll go through a lot
of struggles. 

564
00:31:20,240 --> 00:31:24,080
And I believe that journey is 
very important for us to realize

565
00:31:24,080 --> 00:31:25,720
that. 
In that journey, what are we 

566
00:31:25,720 --> 00:31:28,840
starting to grumble about? 
Because when you look in One 

567
00:31:28,840 --> 00:31:32,200
Corinthians chapter 810 verses 8
to 12, there are a couple of 

568
00:31:32,200 --> 00:31:34,400
things that Paul tells the 
Corinthian church that 

569
00:31:34,400 --> 00:31:38,080
Israelites started doing the 
minute they went out of Egypt. 

570
00:31:38,600 --> 00:31:42,400
First one, they were testing 
God, so idolatry came in other 

571
00:31:42,400 --> 00:31:44,200
gods. 
There was sexual immorality 

572
00:31:44,200 --> 00:31:47,000
versus 8 onwards says neither 
should we commit sexual 

573
00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:51,600
immorality as some of them did, 
which caused the death of 23,000

574
00:31:51,600 --> 00:31:54,280
on a single day. 
Nor should we provoke the Lord 

575
00:31:54,280 --> 00:31:58,680
as some of them did by putting 
him to outrageous tests that 

576
00:31:58,680 --> 00:32:01,920
resulted in the death from snake
bites day after day. 

577
00:32:01,920 --> 00:32:05,880
And we must not embrace their 
ways by complaining, grumbling 

578
00:32:05,880 --> 00:32:10,080
with discontent as many of them 
did and were killed by the 

579
00:32:10,080 --> 00:32:13,480
destroyer. 
All the tests were they endured 

580
00:32:13,480 --> 00:32:16,120
on their way through the 
wilderness are a symbolic 

581
00:32:16,120 --> 00:32:19,280
picture, an example that 
provides us with a warning so 

582
00:32:19,280 --> 00:32:22,960
that we can learn through what 
they experienced. 

583
00:32:23,160 --> 00:32:27,440
For we live in a time when the 
purpose of all the ages past is 

584
00:32:27,440 --> 00:32:29,600
now completing its goal within 
us. 

585
00:32:29,760 --> 00:32:34,040
So beware if you think it could 
never happen to you, lest your 

586
00:32:34,040 --> 00:32:39,120
pride becomes your downfall. 
There's this interesting line 

587
00:32:39,120 --> 00:32:42,480
that says over there, which I 
think I'm starting to see 

588
00:32:42,480 --> 00:32:47,400
patterns happening in our time. 
All the tests they endured on 

589
00:32:47,400 --> 00:32:50,560
their way through the wilderness
are a symbolic picture, an 

590
00:32:50,560 --> 00:32:54,800
example that provides us with a 
warning so that we can learn 

591
00:32:54,800 --> 00:33:00,360
through what they experienced. 
Church is a place where people 

592
00:33:00,360 --> 00:33:03,920
will tell what they've 
experienced, what they've gone 

593
00:33:03,920 --> 00:33:06,640
through. 
Receive it when someone is 

594
00:33:06,640 --> 00:33:10,360
talking to you, don't think you 
can figure it out on your own 

595
00:33:11,520 --> 00:33:14,240
because some of these 
experiences I would rather learn

596
00:33:14,240 --> 00:33:17,080
from someone who's already been 
on that journey that me 

597
00:33:17,160 --> 00:33:21,680
experience sitting because my 
pride was far too out there. 

598
00:33:22,240 --> 00:33:24,240
And so when I'm talking about 
this heating thing, a lot of 

599
00:33:24,240 --> 00:33:26,600
time, what God does in all of 
these situations that I 

600
00:33:26,600 --> 00:33:30,800
explained is pride. 
A pride is the one that gets hit

601
00:33:31,320 --> 00:33:34,360
because there's so much in us 
that we think we can make it 

602
00:33:34,360 --> 00:33:36,960
right. 
Where I can get the best deal, I

603
00:33:36,960 --> 00:33:39,440
can figure it out. 
I know contacts, I know this. 

604
00:33:39,680 --> 00:33:42,880
I know I think I can God. 
That's why God's saying no. 

605
00:33:42,920 --> 00:33:44,760
Let's see. 
Let me put you through the fire.

606
00:33:45,240 --> 00:33:47,720
Let me see what you're really 
made-up of. 

607
00:33:48,720 --> 00:33:52,840
And I pray that we will change. 
We'll allow God to transform us.

608
00:33:53,080 --> 00:33:55,120
And mind you, this happens 
across stages. 

609
00:33:55,920 --> 00:33:59,360
This happens across stages. 
It doesn't happen only to the 

610
00:33:59,360 --> 00:34:01,400
one who is between the baby face
of Christian. 

611
00:34:01,400 --> 00:34:05,120
No, it also happens to the one 
who's walked the Christian life 

612
00:34:05,120 --> 00:34:07,320
for 30-40 years. 
They also go through this 

613
00:34:07,480 --> 00:34:12,280
because sometimes the obedience 
that we have towards Christ can 

614
00:34:12,280 --> 00:34:15,280
become the prideful thing that 
we have in front of God. 

615
00:34:16,440 --> 00:34:20,080
We start looking down on others,
we start looking down on others 

616
00:34:20,080 --> 00:34:22,320
we start looking down on. 
And this is where God, we have 

617
00:34:22,320 --> 00:34:25,000
to constantly take it back. 
Oh, that person doesn't look 

618
00:34:25,000 --> 00:34:28,400
like he reads the Bible for that
person. 

619
00:34:28,400 --> 00:34:30,360
Oh, I don't think they don't 
come for prayer. 

620
00:34:30,360 --> 00:34:31,639
So I don't think they have a 
prayer life. 

621
00:34:32,679 --> 00:34:35,040
God deals with our spiritual 
pride first. 

622
00:34:35,040 --> 00:34:38,159
Anything that's internal. 
The very fact is it's all built 

623
00:34:38,159 --> 00:34:40,760
on pride. 
So God takes that and is wanting

624
00:34:40,760 --> 00:34:44,560
to deal with that first. 
The second thing that he does in

625
00:34:44,639 --> 00:34:48,600
in terms of this process is 
they, it's called dross removal.

626
00:34:48,880 --> 00:34:53,520
The minute you start burning 
anything impure because India we

627
00:34:53,520 --> 00:34:56,800
have gold that we also have 
covering whom you have bought 

628
00:34:56,800 --> 00:34:59,880
covering. 
My wife and me are getting 

629
00:34:59,880 --> 00:35:03,840
married said she wanted she 
didn't want gold to this one. 

630
00:35:03,840 --> 00:35:06,280
So she said she got covering. 
But the only problem with 

631
00:35:06,280 --> 00:35:08,840
covering is after you wear it 
for 8 hours straight, it'll 

632
00:35:08,840 --> 00:35:11,320
cause it'll cause skin 
irritation and itching. 

633
00:35:11,320 --> 00:35:14,440
And so I remember all the thing 
that she had after a point, she 

634
00:35:14,440 --> 00:35:16,680
wear it for a wedding and then 
there'll be a lot of red patches

635
00:35:16,680 --> 00:35:21,560
over here because she would have
endured the fakeness of that 

636
00:35:21,960 --> 00:35:25,480
ornament that she was wearing 
and many a times the real gold. 

637
00:35:25,480 --> 00:35:26,960
Also, there's a lot of 
impurities within. 

638
00:35:26,960 --> 00:35:29,680
And so when the burning happens,
this draws comes up. 

639
00:35:30,560 --> 00:35:34,040
How many of you felt felt. 
Sometimes when God is actually 

640
00:35:34,040 --> 00:35:37,240
putting you through the ringer, 
he's dealing with one area of 

641
00:35:37,240 --> 00:35:40,320
your life specifically. 
How many of you felt that? 

642
00:35:41,720 --> 00:35:45,200
Yeah, we can cover it up and say
pride, but then suddenly you'll 

643
00:35:45,200 --> 00:35:47,520
say no, this is a weird 
expectation that you have. 

644
00:35:47,920 --> 00:35:51,480
This is not a God expectation. 
This is a you expectation. 

645
00:35:52,240 --> 00:35:54,720
Why are you having this 
expectation of this person? 

646
00:35:54,720 --> 00:35:57,320
So that you can control them. 
Oh God, I thought I was not 

647
00:35:57,320 --> 00:35:59,960
controlling. 
No, but that's what's happening 

648
00:35:59,960 --> 00:36:03,240
internally. 
God starts revealing the deepest

649
00:36:03,240 --> 00:36:10,720
motives of your heart. 
He starts and these are areas 

650
00:36:10,720 --> 00:36:14,920
which which only you can 
personally do with God. 

651
00:36:15,400 --> 00:36:19,480
This can't be done in open 
heavens because we'll start 

652
00:36:19,480 --> 00:36:21,840
comparing. 
This is what happens between a 

653
00:36:21,840 --> 00:36:25,200
Monday to a Saturday, Monday to 
a Saturday where he's starting 

654
00:36:25,200 --> 00:36:27,080
to work in and through you, 
Gheshum. 

655
00:36:27,080 --> 00:36:29,040
Why is that white life so 
important for you? 

656
00:36:29,520 --> 00:36:31,480
Can't you tell the truth, 
Gheshum? 

657
00:36:31,480 --> 00:36:33,200
Can't you be consistent in this 
area? 

658
00:36:33,600 --> 00:36:36,120
Why are you demanding so much of
this person? 

659
00:36:37,280 --> 00:36:40,160
Why are you fudging that one 
thing which no one sees? 

660
00:36:40,760 --> 00:36:44,680
He starts working that in those 
small nitpick areas that that 

661
00:36:44,680 --> 00:36:48,280
selfishness that we start 
introducing it in different 

662
00:36:48,480 --> 00:36:51,120
themes of our lives. 
You know, many times as a 

663
00:36:51,120 --> 00:36:54,000
husband and a father, we have so
many ways of drawing our 

664
00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:57,200
selfishness. 
We, we demand it in different 

665
00:36:57,200 --> 00:36:58,200
ways. 
I don't know about you, but 

666
00:36:58,400 --> 00:37:01,560
sometimes when I tell my kids to
do certain things, I'll make it 

667
00:37:01,560 --> 00:37:06,320
like you have to do this for me,
you know, and I sometimes God 

668
00:37:06,320 --> 00:37:08,200
has to no guess room. 
You're just lazy. 

669
00:37:08,200 --> 00:37:10,160
You need to get up and do it. 
And so there are so many things 

670
00:37:10,160 --> 00:37:13,600
now I just have decided to get 
up and do it because there'll be

671
00:37:13,600 --> 00:37:14,840
a time when they leave the 
house. 

672
00:37:15,440 --> 00:37:16,880
That time I only have to get up 
and do it. 

673
00:37:17,600 --> 00:37:20,080
So I might as well learn to do 
that now. 

674
00:37:20,520 --> 00:37:24,280
But motives really matter. 
Motives, Dr. our actions. 

675
00:37:24,280 --> 00:37:27,120
So I pray that this draws 
removal that God's wanting to 

676
00:37:27,120 --> 00:37:29,280
do. 
God does it. 

677
00:37:30,280 --> 00:37:34,960
God does it and we willingly 
give ourselves draws is removed 

678
00:37:34,960 --> 00:37:37,640
from us. 
When we are heated, it rises to 

679
00:37:37,640 --> 00:37:41,480
the surface so that God can 
remove it. 

680
00:37:41,480 --> 00:37:44,120
But if you don't allow it, that 
starts reacting and we start 

681
00:37:44,120 --> 00:37:45,880
spilling that around with many 
others. 

682
00:37:48,200 --> 00:37:53,120
What is being exposed happens 
because you're allowing God to 

683
00:37:53,120 --> 00:37:56,360
bring it out. 
And I pray that this will only 

684
00:37:56,360 --> 00:37:58,640
happen. 
This happens only when we open 

685
00:37:58,640 --> 00:38:01,960
God's Word. 
I know, but I'm not come to a 

686
00:38:01,960 --> 00:38:05,440
place of spirituality where God 
just speaks to me and I have a 

687
00:38:05,440 --> 00:38:08,040
very clear mind to understand 
what He's immediately speaking. 

688
00:38:08,040 --> 00:38:10,600
I'm not come to that kind of a 
spiritual level yet. 

689
00:38:11,400 --> 00:38:13,800
So for me, every time when I 
open God's Word is when He's 

690
00:38:13,800 --> 00:38:18,360
showing me my flaws. 
So I pray today that as he, as 

691
00:38:18,360 --> 00:38:21,760
we open God's word, because the 
word of God says that it 

692
00:38:21,760 --> 00:38:26,400
penetrates bone and marrow. 
When we read Hebrews 412, it 

693
00:38:26,400 --> 00:38:29,440
says for the word of God is 
alive and active, sharper than 

694
00:38:29,440 --> 00:38:32,320
any double edged sword. 
It penetrates even to the 

695
00:38:32,320 --> 00:38:35,280
dividing soul and spirit joins 
and marrow. 

696
00:38:35,560 --> 00:38:38,920
It judges the thoughts and 
attitudes of the heart. 

697
00:38:40,200 --> 00:38:44,920
So I pray that as we move in the
space of allowing the master 

698
00:38:44,920 --> 00:38:48,360
Craftsman to handle the fire in 
our lives, that he will remove 

699
00:38:48,360 --> 00:38:51,160
the dross out. 
He will remove the dross out. 

700
00:38:51,400 --> 00:38:55,120
For those of us who've been used
to using people, you know, we'll

701
00:38:55,120 --> 00:38:58,520
give them food and then we'll 
control them, or we'll do this 

702
00:38:58,520 --> 00:39:00,400
one favour for them and then 
we'll control them. 

703
00:39:01,720 --> 00:39:04,840
God, that's all dross. 
That's all things that God wants

704
00:39:04,840 --> 00:39:07,680
to take out. 
Do it out of the love that you 

705
00:39:07,680 --> 00:39:10,800
have for God, not for people. 
Have it forgot. 

706
00:39:10,800 --> 00:39:14,280
It overflows onto people. 
Let's not get equations mixed. 

707
00:39:15,960 --> 00:39:19,400
The third thing we see is when 
the dross is being reported 

708
00:39:19,960 --> 00:39:23,920
observation by the master 
Craftsman, the the the 

709
00:39:23,920 --> 00:39:27,800
silversmith of Goldsmith. 
They're carefully observing that

710
00:39:27,800 --> 00:39:30,160
thing and what a comforting 
thing to know that in this 

711
00:39:30,160 --> 00:39:32,920
process God is going to observe 
us. 

712
00:39:33,400 --> 00:39:35,720
We lot of times think God's not 
seeing us. 

713
00:39:35,880 --> 00:39:38,200
How many of you have that 
narrative in your head? 

714
00:39:40,080 --> 00:39:42,600
How many middle children here in
the house today? 

715
00:39:43,960 --> 00:39:45,720
All the middle children will 
feel they're not seen. 

716
00:39:46,560 --> 00:39:48,920
How many of you had that fight? 
You're not I'm here, but you're 

717
00:39:48,920 --> 00:39:50,440
not. 
I don't even feel seen. 

718
00:39:50,440 --> 00:39:55,280
I feel ignored. 
But a lot of times our narrative

719
00:39:55,280 --> 00:39:57,640
of God is also that that God 
does not see me. 

720
00:39:58,880 --> 00:40:01,120
But when we are in committed to 
something like this, when we 

721
00:40:01,120 --> 00:40:05,440
give ourselves to God, when he's
removing us, he's carefully 

722
00:40:05,440 --> 00:40:09,720
watching us because he's wanting
us to not crumble and break. 

723
00:40:10,240 --> 00:40:14,440
His entire end objective is so 
that we flourish in his hand. 

724
00:40:15,960 --> 00:40:19,000
He's kind, a God is kind. 
He's a God who never sleeps. 

725
00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:21,280
He hold us. 
He holds us at the palm of his 

726
00:40:21,280 --> 00:40:23,040
hand. 
Psalm 121 versus 2 to 4. 

727
00:40:23,040 --> 00:40:25,920
It says, my help comes from the 
Lord, the Maker of the heaven, 

728
00:40:26,120 --> 00:40:28,840
heaven and earth. 
He will not let your foot slip. 

729
00:40:28,840 --> 00:40:30,840
He who watches over you will not
slumber. 

730
00:40:31,160 --> 00:40:35,040
Indeed, he who watches over 
Israel will neither slumber nor 

731
00:40:35,040 --> 00:40:38,680
sleep. 
And all the heavy sleepers in 

732
00:40:38,680 --> 00:40:45,200
the house said, Amen, you know, 
so we've got this new foster dog

733
00:40:45,200 --> 00:40:49,160
home and this dog cries in the 
night. 

734
00:40:49,800 --> 00:40:54,080
And I remember the first day the
dog came home, I know why she 

735
00:40:54,080 --> 00:40:56,200
was crying. 
But then Tina told me, Geshom, 

736
00:40:56,400 --> 00:40:58,200
the dog is crying, you need to 
get up. 

737
00:40:58,200 --> 00:41:01,200
I said, no, I'm not getting up. 
I just turned around and I 

738
00:41:01,280 --> 00:41:04,280
slept. 
I said I can't be bothered and I

739
00:41:04,280 --> 00:41:06,600
remember her going. 
And then the emotional one in 

740
00:41:06,600 --> 00:41:08,960
our family, Calvin from Top came
all the way down. 

741
00:41:09,280 --> 00:41:12,600
Both were sitting over there and
spending time with the dog AT2O 

742
00:41:12,600 --> 00:41:16,680
clock in the night. 
And so the the the more I think 

743
00:41:16,680 --> 00:41:23,280
about it, we all have a time 
frame when we're really alert. 

744
00:41:25,120 --> 00:41:28,600
But imagine that God never 
sleeps and he's working. 

745
00:41:29,360 --> 00:41:32,120
How many of you sometimes sleep 
on certain things and wake up 

746
00:41:32,120 --> 00:41:35,040
with such clarity? 
I believe sometimes when you're 

747
00:41:35,120 --> 00:41:37,760
saying God, this is really 
disturbing me, working me. 

748
00:41:37,760 --> 00:41:39,680
Lord, he gives you clarity when 
you wake up. 

749
00:41:39,680 --> 00:41:42,920
Amen. 
So I think your best, the 

750
00:41:42,920 --> 00:41:45,080
problem is not to sleep it 
through the problem, but just to

751
00:41:45,080 --> 00:41:49,000
ask committed to God so God can 
speak to you because I believe 

752
00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:52,920
in this. 
God really wants us to change 

753
00:41:53,800 --> 00:41:56,120
for the good. 
Leighton Ford says this. 

754
00:41:56,120 --> 00:42:00,800
He says God loves us the way we 
are, but too much to leave us 

755
00:42:00,800 --> 00:42:04,120
that way. 
And I pray that we'll, we'll, 

756
00:42:05,600 --> 00:42:08,800
we'll give ourselves, we'll, 
we'll be on that path. 

757
00:42:08,800 --> 00:42:11,000
We'll be committed to that 
journey we'll take. 

758
00:42:11,280 --> 00:42:13,400
We'll stay the course. 
We won't tap out. 

759
00:42:14,120 --> 00:42:17,320
You know, one of the beautiful 
things is when, when you read 

760
00:42:17,320 --> 00:42:20,240
Genesis 1, it says the Spirit of
God is hovering over the earth. 

761
00:42:20,320 --> 00:42:23,040
There was chaos and God brought 
things into existence. 

762
00:42:23,560 --> 00:42:27,880
Just imagine the very fact that 
God's hovering over us right 

763
00:42:27,880 --> 00:42:29,600
now. 
The Spirit of God, the accident 

764
00:42:29,600 --> 00:42:33,120
is hovering and he can turn any 
chaos into something beautiful. 

765
00:42:33,600 --> 00:42:36,840
Any chaos, any chaos in our 
mind, any chaos in our heart, 

766
00:42:36,840 --> 00:42:40,560
any chaos in our body, any chaos
spiritually, He can turn it 

767
00:42:40,560 --> 00:42:43,240
around. 
Any worry that you have of the 

768
00:42:43,240 --> 00:42:45,640
future, any worry that you're 
having of God. 

769
00:42:45,640 --> 00:42:48,200
I don't know what my children 
will do from now on. 

770
00:42:48,200 --> 00:42:51,600
God saying I can change it. 
Would you commit it to me? 

771
00:42:53,360 --> 00:43:02,320
Don't let anyone, anyone else 
any teaching Today I have to 

772
00:43:02,320 --> 00:43:06,440
also add podcasts because a lot 
of whether we like it or not, if

773
00:43:06,440 --> 00:43:08,600
you listen to 10 different 
podcasts, automatically the 

774
00:43:08,600 --> 00:43:11,760
recommendations come. 
Don't let that hover around you.

775
00:43:12,320 --> 00:43:15,680
Let the Holy Spirit whole just 
so that he can guide you. 

776
00:43:16,440 --> 00:43:21,560
His silent observing is a clear 
indicator that he's working. 

777
00:43:22,760 --> 00:43:26,880
His observation will be in 
silence many a times, but that 

778
00:43:26,880 --> 00:43:28,600
doesn't deny the fact that he's 
not working. 

779
00:43:28,600 --> 00:43:31,840
He is working. 
Some of the things that we are 

780
00:43:31,840 --> 00:43:34,360
starting to see in our lives, 
some of the things that we 

781
00:43:34,360 --> 00:43:38,320
prayed for, we failed to 
acknowledge and celebrate God. 

782
00:43:38,320 --> 00:43:40,360
You've answered. 
So a couple of the things that 

783
00:43:40,360 --> 00:43:43,720
we've been praying for in the 
last 3-4 years, we are starting 

784
00:43:43,920 --> 00:43:47,360
to see things happen, starting 
to see things happen, starting 

785
00:43:47,360 --> 00:43:49,800
to some of the calls estate, You
know, I was sitting on a call 

786
00:43:49,800 --> 00:43:53,480
and she got on the call thinking
it's going to be something. 

787
00:43:53,480 --> 00:43:56,120
But at the end we just saw it's 
an answer prayer for something 

788
00:43:56,120 --> 00:43:58,200
else. 
And so today you will be 

789
00:43:58,200 --> 00:44:01,880
surprised that God has an eye 
for detail. 

790
00:44:02,360 --> 00:44:05,680
It's just that we miss the 
detail entirely because we are 

791
00:44:05,680 --> 00:44:09,600
concentrated on a beautiful 
curated picture that we want to 

792
00:44:09,600 --> 00:44:12,600
see. 
God is involved in the detail 

793
00:44:12,600 --> 00:44:16,600
and that happens because he's 
looking at it, observing it 

794
00:44:16,600 --> 00:44:19,440
carefully. 
The fourth thing that we see 

795
00:44:19,440 --> 00:44:23,600
that happens is when this 
beautiful Craftsman is working. 

796
00:44:23,600 --> 00:44:27,560
Is it till it gets ready? 
You know the, the, the line that

797
00:44:27,560 --> 00:44:30,520
that person said is the 
silversmith. 

798
00:44:30,760 --> 00:44:32,480
He met a silversmith and he was 
talking. 

799
00:44:32,480 --> 00:44:35,160
He said how does he know when 
the silver is released, when he 

800
00:44:35,160 --> 00:44:37,320
can see his own reflection on 
the silver? 

801
00:44:38,160 --> 00:44:41,520
And the problem with the 
statement of the reflection of 

802
00:44:41,520 --> 00:44:43,880
the master Craftsman is the 
fourth point. 

803
00:44:43,880 --> 00:44:47,840
The process we really get is 
many a times you're trying to, 

804
00:44:48,040 --> 00:44:51,960
we know God shining his light, 
but we want our reflection to be

805
00:44:51,960 --> 00:44:54,160
there. 
We want, if you wanted to 

806
00:44:54,160 --> 00:44:57,320
showcase us. 
So a lot of times the struggle, 

807
00:44:57,600 --> 00:45:00,600
many times when I've sensed this
is a struggle is God all this, 

808
00:45:00,600 --> 00:45:02,880
I'm doing it for your glory, but
where will my glory come? 

809
00:45:02,880 --> 00:45:05,240
God? 
And then suddenly instead of 

810
00:45:05,240 --> 00:45:08,240
reflecting, I'm trying to hold 
my own signpost. 

811
00:45:08,840 --> 00:45:11,440
This is geshum. 
This is what geshum does. 

812
00:45:12,160 --> 00:45:15,520
And so God's asking today, what 
am I boasting about? 

813
00:45:15,960 --> 00:45:18,600
Because when we are boasting 
about something, God cannot be 

814
00:45:18,600 --> 00:45:21,880
reflected. 
God cannot be reflected. 

815
00:45:22,120 --> 00:45:25,520
So it's comes down to the fact 
that boasting many a times, 

816
00:45:25,520 --> 00:45:28,240
which I'm trying to do, is 
revolving around my identity. 

817
00:45:28,240 --> 00:45:31,480
My identity issues. 
No God, if I'm reflecting you, 

818
00:45:31,760 --> 00:45:33,600
nothing is small in front of 
you. 

819
00:45:33,600 --> 00:45:37,480
Everything is something which I 
can participate in. 

820
00:45:39,800 --> 00:45:42,360
The silver is considered pure 
and ready for the next stage 

821
00:45:42,360 --> 00:45:46,120
when it's surface becomes smooth
enough to form a clear unbroken 

822
00:45:46,120 --> 00:45:48,720
reflection of the silversmiths 
face. 

823
00:45:49,960 --> 00:45:52,640
And I pray that God will take us
to that place. 

824
00:45:52,640 --> 00:45:56,920
Just just imagine if my identity
is 1 which reflects Christ. 

825
00:45:57,200 --> 00:46:00,600
If my marriage is one that 
reflects Christ, if my parenting

826
00:46:00,600 --> 00:46:03,880
is one that reflects, if my work
is like that, just imagine how 

827
00:46:03,880 --> 00:46:07,240
whole we'll be. 
But many a times you as it. 

828
00:46:07,240 --> 00:46:08,760
As we did earlier in the 
parable. 

829
00:46:08,760 --> 00:46:10,960
We are so concerned about the 
weeds that are around us that 

830
00:46:11,080 --> 00:46:13,520
He's planned. 
God will help us overcome all 

831
00:46:13,520 --> 00:46:16,920
that when we yield ourselves 
because those all will go so 

832
00:46:16,920 --> 00:46:18,840
many a times. 
Allow God to give you the 

833
00:46:18,840 --> 00:46:23,600
strength it's in the struggle 
here to give you the strength my

834
00:46:23,600 --> 00:46:25,440
boasting can be only of the 
Lord. 

835
00:46:26,280 --> 00:46:30,640
And so today that's what when 
someone came and asked why don't

836
00:46:30,640 --> 00:46:32,000
you share about this particular 
thing. 

837
00:46:32,000 --> 00:46:35,160
I said this is too early because
I believe these are areas which 

838
00:46:35,160 --> 00:46:39,920
I really feel I'm ongoing 
struggling, not struggling in 

839
00:46:39,920 --> 00:46:42,760
I'm I'm I'm I'm ongoing allowing
God to work in me. 

840
00:46:43,760 --> 00:46:45,800
We were sitting in a 
conversation with a couple of 

841
00:46:45,800 --> 00:46:50,840
friends and I just realized the 
journey that God's taken us in 

842
00:46:50,840 --> 00:46:57,440
this last seven years has can be
a sort of pride that I look down

843
00:46:57,440 --> 00:47:00,720
on others on their journey. 
And then God reminded me of 

844
00:47:00,720 --> 00:47:02,560
this, that I'm not reflecting 
him. 

845
00:47:03,440 --> 00:47:06,440
I'm reflecting my methods, my 
ways, my ways of doing it. 

846
00:47:06,440 --> 00:47:09,080
And God had to tell, no, you're 
not boasting about me. 

847
00:47:09,080 --> 00:47:12,480
This is just boasting about you.
And I had to repent over there. 

848
00:47:12,480 --> 00:47:17,600
And so so as we work on this, 
let's allow God one Corinthians 

849
00:47:17,600 --> 00:47:21,680
one verse 2631 says, brothers 
and sisters, think of what you 

850
00:47:21,680 --> 00:47:25,440
were when you were called. 
Not many, not many of you are 

851
00:47:25,440 --> 00:47:28,480
wise by human standards. 
Not many were influential. 

852
00:47:28,480 --> 00:47:31,720
Not many were noble birth. 
But God chose the foolish things

853
00:47:31,720 --> 00:47:35,040
of the world to shame the wise. 
God chose the weak things of the

854
00:47:35,040 --> 00:47:38,080
world to shame the strong. 
God chose the lowly things of 

855
00:47:38,080 --> 00:47:40,720
the world and the despised 
things and the things that are 

856
00:47:40,720 --> 00:47:46,520
not to nullify the things that 
are so that no one can boast, so

857
00:47:46,520 --> 00:47:48,320
that no one may boast before 
him. 

858
00:47:48,800 --> 00:47:51,080
It is because of him that you 
are in Christ. 

859
00:47:51,080 --> 00:47:54,520
Jesus was become for His wisdom 
from God. 

860
00:47:54,560 --> 00:47:57,160
That is our righteousness, 
holiness and redemption. 

861
00:47:57,480 --> 00:48:01,280
Therefore, as it is written, let
the one who boasts in the let 

862
00:48:01,480 --> 00:48:03,800
the one who boasts boast in the 
Lord. 

863
00:48:04,920 --> 00:48:06,720
The harvest is the Lords, as we 
did. 

864
00:48:07,280 --> 00:48:11,400
Everything is of the Lord. 
Maybe not make it about 

865
00:48:11,400 --> 00:48:15,000
ourselves. 
The last part of this is where 

866
00:48:15,000 --> 00:48:19,560
God, the master Craftsman pours 
it and shapes it into a 

867
00:48:19,560 --> 00:48:23,800
beautiful ornate piece which we 
are reflecting Him. 

868
00:48:24,520 --> 00:48:27,560
And I believe that as He's 
pouring us out and shaping us, 

869
00:48:28,120 --> 00:48:30,880
each of us are called for a 
unique purpose here on this 

870
00:48:30,880 --> 00:48:34,800
earth in this entire journey. 
Each of us are called for that 

871
00:48:34,800 --> 00:48:42,360
unique as He pours and shapes. 
May my identity be so clear so 

872
00:48:42,360 --> 00:48:44,680
that I'll start witnessing to 
others. 

873
00:48:45,160 --> 00:48:49,080
When my identity is clear, I 
start telling others, hey, this 

874
00:48:49,320 --> 00:48:51,120
this part of your life, give it 
to God. 

875
00:48:51,120 --> 00:48:53,080
God can set it right because 
He's done it for you. 

876
00:48:53,280 --> 00:48:57,400
For me, when he pose and shapes 
my marriage, what happens? 

877
00:48:57,560 --> 00:49:00,400
Suddenly I'm able to start 
seeing and helping others. 

878
00:49:00,560 --> 00:49:04,120
Hey, for both of us, this, this 
is how God shaped our marriage. 

879
00:49:04,360 --> 00:49:06,800
This was the area of struggle. 
This was the area of deep 

880
00:49:06,800 --> 00:49:10,600
dependence in your God pose and 
shapes my work. 

881
00:49:10,680 --> 00:49:13,480
For all those who are 
freelancers here, I will tell 

882
00:49:13,480 --> 00:49:19,320
you this is how God shaped us. 
You know, in fact, this work 

883
00:49:19,320 --> 00:49:26,440
project that we went last week 
six months back for, for my 

884
00:49:26,640 --> 00:49:29,120
other contractor who I really 
who I work with often, we had 

885
00:49:29,120 --> 00:49:30,560
applied for a business visa for 
him. 

886
00:49:31,200 --> 00:49:34,200
We got the business visa and 
then the client got back a week 

887
00:49:34,200 --> 00:49:36,600
before the travel and said we 
don't want him, just want you to

888
00:49:36,600 --> 00:49:40,800
come. 
And I was deeply, I was teased 

889
00:49:40,800 --> 00:49:43,920
off one thing, one, because the 
whole process went through and 

890
00:49:43,920 --> 00:49:46,960
then they said no need. 
But then I was also like, God, I

891
00:49:46,960 --> 00:49:50,120
thought this could be something 
where I could have another 

892
00:49:50,120 --> 00:49:52,680
person come and then slowly I 
can phase out and then we can 

893
00:49:52,680 --> 00:49:55,360
build a team around this. 
Why did it not happen? 

894
00:49:55,360 --> 00:49:58,200
And then the other worst part is
the minute you get a business 

895
00:49:58,200 --> 00:50:02,920
visa and the visa is just valid 
for six months, if you don't, if

896
00:50:02,920 --> 00:50:05,760
it's not, if you don't make an 
entry in, then next time they 

897
00:50:05,760 --> 00:50:08,240
may not issue a visa for you. 
And so all these thoughts were 

898
00:50:08,240 --> 00:50:10,320
coming. 
And then out of the blue, two 

899
00:50:10,320 --> 00:50:13,600
weeks back, another project call
came and they said, hey, we just

900
00:50:13,600 --> 00:50:16,040
need you to come here. 
By any chance do you happen to 

901
00:50:16,040 --> 00:50:18,400
have a visa? 
And I said, yeah, we both have 

902
00:50:19,080 --> 00:50:21,600
business visas, one year entry, 
we can go in. 

903
00:50:21,920 --> 00:50:25,000
Little did we know that we 
couldn't have been planned this 

904
00:50:25,000 --> 00:50:27,480
particular project that came two
weeks back. 

905
00:50:28,680 --> 00:50:31,240
And so even as I was taking him 
on that thing and as we were in 

906
00:50:31,240 --> 00:50:33,960
that card journey, as you were 
telling, I was telling him 

907
00:50:34,080 --> 00:50:36,880
David, I don't know how God made
this possible. 

908
00:50:37,760 --> 00:50:43,600
And right when if it if he and 
and he told me Geshram, I don't.

909
00:50:43,600 --> 00:50:45,920
I think it's God's timing 
because the time when we had to 

910
00:50:45,920 --> 00:50:49,360
do it that time, we have just 
finished to 10 days of 

911
00:50:49,360 --> 00:50:51,680
Philippine project. 
We would have to go to another 

912
00:50:51,680 --> 00:50:54,040
country and then come back and 
do another project in Chennai. 

913
00:50:54,040 --> 00:50:56,000
It has been three weeks 
straight. 

914
00:50:56,000 --> 00:50:59,640
Should have been very tough and 
so as I was thinking I realized 

915
00:50:59,680 --> 00:51:03,200
his plans are different. 
So what happens is when I allow 

916
00:51:03,240 --> 00:51:06,360
God to pour and shape even my 
work. 

917
00:51:06,360 --> 00:51:08,600
He gives me rest even when 
there's a project that's not 

918
00:51:08,600 --> 00:51:12,600
there, he gives me rest to 
realize God you're in control 

919
00:51:13,480 --> 00:51:16,520
when he allows and pause and 
shapes me. 

920
00:51:16,720 --> 00:51:20,280
Church life looks different. 
Suddenly I'm starting to see 

921
00:51:20,360 --> 00:51:22,080
things ripple effect happen 
here. 

922
00:51:22,680 --> 00:51:27,120
Suddenly even the community 
looks different, everything gets

923
00:51:27,120 --> 00:51:31,400
shaped, nothing is left out and 
that's what transformation look 

924
00:51:31,400 --> 00:51:34,760
like as we come to the near and 
when we can see him face to 

925
00:51:34,760 --> 00:51:36,800
face. 
This is where you will say, 

926
00:51:36,800 --> 00:51:40,080
Lord, we are being made in the 
image of you. 

927
00:51:40,640 --> 00:51:43,120
Original design doesn't happen 
by accident. 

928
00:51:43,120 --> 00:51:45,840
You don't just suddenly go back 
to original design. 

929
00:51:46,080 --> 00:51:49,320
Original design goes back only 
when you go back to the original

930
00:51:49,320 --> 00:51:53,880
creator and you're with him. 
He tests, he runs test case 

931
00:51:53,880 --> 00:51:56,560
after test case to see how 
you're reacting. 

932
00:51:58,040 --> 00:52:02,320
He'll test you out fully to know
are you really because we have a

933
00:52:02,320 --> 00:52:04,400
free will. 
We can deny him every time. 

934
00:52:04,400 --> 00:52:07,800
We can do whatever we think. 
And that's what God's walks in 

935
00:52:07,800 --> 00:52:11,280
through us and that's where we 
see he wants to shape us today. 

936
00:52:11,720 --> 00:52:14,800
So I pray that we today, the 
promised Holy Spirit will be 

937
00:52:14,800 --> 00:52:17,640
their accident in our lives 
because as I want to conclude, I

938
00:52:17,640 --> 00:52:20,760
want to conclude from this 
passage from Song of Songs 

939
00:52:21,080 --> 00:52:26,360
versus 8 chapter 8 versus 5 to 
7, because there is something 

940
00:52:26,360 --> 00:52:30,280
about burning bright for Jesus 
with our flames. 

941
00:52:31,240 --> 00:52:32,960
Today. 
You and I are in this world. 

942
00:52:34,400 --> 00:52:39,960
We might be a minority here, but
we are serving a King who is the

943
00:52:39,960 --> 00:52:44,600
creator of everything who does 
in according to his vision. 

944
00:52:44,600 --> 00:52:47,440
There's no majority or minority 
According to him. 

945
00:52:47,720 --> 00:52:52,080
It's all who is created, those 
who obey and hear His voice, 

946
00:52:52,080 --> 00:52:54,440
those who hear His voice and 
don't obey. 

947
00:52:55,320 --> 00:53:01,840
And I pray that as we read this,
this is where the bridegroom is 

948
00:53:01,840 --> 00:53:06,920
talking and talks about Jesus, 
in fact, more or less coming for

949
00:53:06,920 --> 00:53:08,920
His bride. 
And this is what it says. 

950
00:53:09,280 --> 00:53:12,880
Who is the one? 
She arises out of a desert, 

951
00:53:12,880 --> 00:53:16,000
clinging to a beloved. 
When I awakened you under the 

952
00:53:16,040 --> 00:53:19,640
apple tree as you were feasting 
upon me, I awakened your 

953
00:53:19,640 --> 00:53:23,280
innermost being with the travail
of birth. 

954
00:53:23,280 --> 00:53:26,920
As you longed for, as you longed
for more of me. 

955
00:53:27,360 --> 00:53:32,280
Fasten me upon your heart as a 
seal of fire. 

956
00:53:32,280 --> 00:53:37,000
Forevermore this living 
consuming flame will will seal 

957
00:53:37,000 --> 00:53:41,360
you as my prisoner of love. 
My passion is stronger than the 

958
00:53:41,360 --> 00:53:45,120
chains of death and the grave 
all consuming as the very 

959
00:53:45,120 --> 00:53:49,800
flashes of fire from the burning
heart of God place this fierce 

960
00:53:49,800 --> 00:53:52,240
under renting fire over your 
entire being. 

961
00:53:52,760 --> 00:53:56,120
Rivers of pain and persecution 
will never extinguish this 

962
00:53:56,120 --> 00:53:59,000
flame. 
Endless floods will be unable to

963
00:53:59,000 --> 00:54:02,120
quench this raging fire that 
burns within you. 

964
00:54:02,520 --> 00:54:07,640
Everything will be consumed. 
It will stop at nothing as you 

965
00:54:07,640 --> 00:54:12,600
yield everything to this furious
fire until it won't even seem to

966
00:54:12,600 --> 00:54:18,320
you like a sacrifice anymore. 
And I pray today that as we 

967
00:54:18,320 --> 00:54:24,560
yield ourselves, God's asking 
us, will we do it out of that 

968
00:54:24,560 --> 00:54:28,360
love that we have for him? 
It won't be like sacrifice. 

969
00:54:28,800 --> 00:54:32,080
Oh God, I'm giving you just 10 
minutes of my time here for no 

970
00:54:32,360 --> 00:54:34,920
God. 
I want this to be my everything,

971
00:54:35,680 --> 00:54:39,440
everything. 
And I mean, as I started today, 

972
00:54:40,520 --> 00:54:45,200
I really want us to be sealed by
fire just so that Satan in no 

973
00:54:45,200 --> 00:54:50,360
way will have any room to create
hollowness in our hearts, to 

974
00:54:50,360 --> 00:54:53,360
create a vacuum in our hearts 
that's filled with contempt, 

975
00:54:53,360 --> 00:54:56,320
deceit, malice, jealousy, 
selfishness. 

976
00:54:56,960 --> 00:55:01,680
But rather, it will be sealed 
closed so that God can do his 

977
00:55:01,680 --> 00:55:04,320
work. 
And in turn, it'll come out of 

978
00:55:04,320 --> 00:55:07,960
an overflow of what he's done. 
I just want us to take some time

979
00:55:07,960 --> 00:55:11,800
to, to prayerfully consider and 
ask God, what area of my life 

980
00:55:12,360 --> 00:55:19,160
have I withheld myself from you?
Is it the stage where because of

981
00:55:19,160 --> 00:55:21,920
my pride, I've not given of 
myself to your hands? 

982
00:55:22,680 --> 00:55:27,560
You can say, God, I'm ready to 
be heated by you, heated by you.

983
00:55:28,240 --> 00:55:32,040
Holy Spirit, I pray right now, 
Lord, that you would just move 

984
00:55:32,040 --> 00:55:36,880
amongst us as the wind. 
I pray that Lord, all you need 

985
00:55:36,880 --> 00:55:38,600
is that spark. 
And I pray we would return to 

986
00:55:38,600 --> 00:55:41,760
that first love, the love that 
we have for you. 

987
00:55:41,760 --> 00:55:47,520
Lord Jesus, move right now. 
Lord, move right now. 

988
00:55:47,520 --> 00:55:52,400
Let the flame burn brighter. 
I pray, Lord, for those who've 

989
00:55:52,400 --> 00:55:55,640
struggled dreaming, for those 
who've struggled to have hope, 

990
00:55:55,640 --> 00:55:58,600
those who've struggled to see a 
future, those who've struggled 

991
00:55:58,600 --> 00:56:02,320
to see beyond the next day. 
I pray right now, Lord Jesus, 

992
00:56:02,320 --> 00:56:06,640
would you as the accident Holy 
Spirit, breathe upon them. 

993
00:56:06,640 --> 00:56:09,200
Lord Jesus, your wind blew upon 
them. 

994
00:56:12,560 --> 00:56:15,920
I pray Lord, for those who 
think, Lord, this is hard work, 

995
00:56:15,920 --> 00:56:18,640
that they would realize that 
you're doing all the hard work. 

996
00:56:19,440 --> 00:56:20,960
You're just wanting us to be 
present. 

997
00:56:20,960 --> 00:56:24,480
Lord, I pray that we'll be 
present so that you can do your 

998
00:56:24,480 --> 00:56:28,080
work. 
We'll be present so you can do 

999
00:56:28,080 --> 00:56:29,640
your thing in and through our 
lives. 

1000
00:56:29,640 --> 00:56:37,240
Lord Jesus, be glorified, Lord, 
be glorified, be glorified. 

1001
00:56:37,240 --> 00:56:42,520
Lord, I pray Lord, for those of 
us who are struggling to let go 

1002
00:56:42,520 --> 00:56:46,400
of those dross like elements in 
our lives because we've used it 

1003
00:56:46,400 --> 00:56:50,080
as a protective layer. 
I pray, Lord, we ask that you 

1004
00:56:50,080 --> 00:56:53,320
would take it. 
You would take it, Lord Jesus, 

1005
00:56:53,960 --> 00:56:58,400
our ideas, our ideologies, our 
comebacks, our walls that we've 

1006
00:56:58,400 --> 00:57:01,880
built to insulate ourselves, 
Lord, you can move through 

1007
00:57:01,880 --> 00:57:05,520
everything, Lord Jesus, move 
through everything, Lord. 

1008
00:57:07,320 --> 00:57:10,760
I pray, Lord, if our identity is
attached to everything that 

1009
00:57:11,040 --> 00:57:13,760
we've done so far, Lord Jesus, 
and we've been boasting about 

1010
00:57:13,760 --> 00:57:17,240
it, we're sorry, Lord. 
We thank you, Lord, that you 

1011
00:57:17,240 --> 00:57:21,120
modelled what it is, Lord Jesus,
to say those words. 

1012
00:57:21,120 --> 00:57:24,200
Lord, in Gethsemane you said, 
Lord Jesus, let not our will, 

1013
00:57:24,200 --> 00:57:28,920
but your will be done, Lord, as 
obediently you gave yourself to 

1014
00:57:28,920 --> 00:57:31,120
the Father, Lord Jesus, to the 
will of the Father. 

1015
00:57:31,360 --> 00:57:36,480
We give ourselves obediently to 
you, Lord Jesus, because we have

1016
00:57:36,480 --> 00:57:39,360
a deep love for all that you're 
doing in and through US, Lord. 

1017
00:57:40,800 --> 00:57:43,560
Thank you, Jesus, would you work
in US? 

1018
00:57:44,480 --> 00:57:45,680
Would you work in US? 
Lord? 

1019
00:57:46,320 --> 00:57:48,280
Strengthen us. 
Lord Jesus, in your most holy 

1020
00:57:48,280 --> 00:57:49,920
name we pray. 
Amen. 

1021
00:57:50,120 --> 00:57:50,840
Amen. 
Amen. 

1022
00:57:51,880 --> 00:57:53,720
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1023
00:57:54,120 --> 00:57:57,560
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1024
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