1 00:00:03,600 --> 00:00:06,200 Grab your Bible. I'd love for you to open up to 2 00:00:06,200 --> 00:00:07,560 Galatians. No, just kidding. 3 00:00:08,039 --> 00:00:10,920 To Genesis chapter 12. If you're going to make it easy, 4 00:00:10,920 --> 00:00:12,080 it's the first book in the Bible. 5 00:00:12,080 --> 00:00:14,080 If you reach the maps, you've gone way too far. 6 00:00:16,239 --> 00:00:21,480 Genesis chapter 12. So if you were here last week 7 00:00:21,480 --> 00:00:26,960 Sunday with Jeff and Jane, you would have heard us intro Jeff 8 00:00:26,960 --> 00:00:30,040 and Jane and and pushing pause on everything because we really 9 00:00:30,040 --> 00:00:33,200 feel it's like God is trying to get our attention back to some 10 00:00:33,200 --> 00:00:35,600 of the foundation stones of three CR, the calling, the 11 00:00:35,600 --> 00:00:40,280 prophetic unctions that have been flowing through three CR as 12 00:00:40,440 --> 00:00:42,080 A. Base Church over the last few 13 00:00:42,080 --> 00:00:45,040 years. And we're going to push pause on 14 00:00:45,040 --> 00:00:48,560 Galatians because I really feel like we, we shouldn't move on 15 00:00:48,560 --> 00:00:51,680 just yet. And this is because just in a 16 00:00:51,680 --> 00:00:54,280 moment, I said, hey, listen, if you don't know Jeff and Jane, 17 00:00:54,280 --> 00:00:57,920 why don't you put up your hand and it felt like 80% of us 18 00:00:58,840 --> 00:01:01,840 hadn't had an encounter with. Our previous church plant which 19 00:01:01,840 --> 00:01:04,519 was four years ago. 80% of the hands end up going like, yeah, 20 00:01:04,519 --> 00:01:06,720 we don't know these people. We don't know their story. 21 00:01:07,280 --> 00:01:09,840 And I thought, well, you know, obviously in the evening because 22 00:01:09,840 --> 00:01:12,040 they're involved in satellite, we'd have less hands up. 23 00:01:12,040 --> 00:01:14,480 But it was pretty much the same even in the evening. 24 00:01:15,400 --> 00:01:18,280 And so I went into the elders meeting on Tuesday, and I just 25 00:01:18,280 --> 00:01:20,400 said to RAW. I said I think we need to push 26 00:01:20,400 --> 00:01:24,040 pause here because I think God has put his finger on something. 27 00:01:24,680 --> 00:01:26,160 Because of what he's about to do. 28 00:01:26,280 --> 00:01:28,200 You know, when when Joshua was about. 29 00:01:28,200 --> 00:01:30,640 To take the Israelites. Over into the promised land, he 30 00:01:30,640 --> 00:01:32,400 said. In three days time we're going 31 00:01:32,400 --> 00:01:34,640 to cross. So get your stuffs ready. 32 00:01:34,960 --> 00:01:36,720 And it feels like we're in that season right now. 33 00:01:36,720 --> 00:01:40,360 So if you were here last week, Sunday and if you were. 34 00:01:40,360 --> 00:01:41,680 Stirred last? Week Sunday. 35 00:01:42,240 --> 00:01:45,400 And if you were to happen to come and chat to me after the 36 00:01:45,400 --> 00:01:48,480 meeting and go like, oh, I don't know what God is doing in here, 37 00:01:48,480 --> 00:01:52,200 but he's definitely stirring something of his prophetic call 38 00:01:52,400 --> 00:01:54,200 on three CR in and through my life. 39 00:01:54,600 --> 00:01:56,520 And if you had to say like. What is God up to you and. 40 00:01:57,240 --> 00:01:59,040 We had to go and do coffee together. 41 00:01:59,080 --> 00:02:03,840 I would say, well, open your Bible to Genesis chapter 12 and 42 00:02:03,840 --> 00:02:05,720 I'd have you read. Just the first bit of verse. 43 00:02:05,920 --> 00:02:08,520 One which says now the Lord said to Abraham. 44 00:02:09,039 --> 00:02:11,280 Go. So have you read that? 45 00:02:11,760 --> 00:02:13,080 Because that is what God is starting to. 46 00:02:13,080 --> 00:02:18,200 Talk to us about we've stopped going as a base. 47 00:02:18,200 --> 00:02:21,680 Church called to plant. Churches, We have had four 48 00:02:21,680 --> 00:02:23,840 years. Where it seems like we've grown 49 00:02:23,840 --> 00:02:26,520 silence on this. And I would have, had you read 50 00:02:26,520 --> 00:02:28,960 that, and then I would have spent some time just explaining 51 00:02:28,960 --> 00:02:34,200 the context you see if you don't know the the story Abraham is. 52 00:02:34,240 --> 00:02:36,600 Referred to as the. Father of our faith, He's kind 53 00:02:36,600 --> 00:02:38,000 of Ground Zero of what? God. 54 00:02:38,240 --> 00:02:40,960 Does with his people. But it's important that you 55 00:02:40,960 --> 00:02:42,880 understand the context. The context. 56 00:02:42,880 --> 00:02:46,680 There's two very distinct sides to the context, and most of us 57 00:02:46,680 --> 00:02:50,000 only really know the one. So he comes from ERB, the 58 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:51,880 Chaldeans as part of Mesopotamia. 59 00:02:52,200 --> 00:02:54,040 Very influential and affluent people. 60 00:02:54,040 --> 00:02:58,240 But they had a very. Dark underbelly, I'll read, one 61 00:02:58,960 --> 00:03:01,600 historian said. They were well versed in all 62 00:03:01,600 --> 00:03:05,880 sorts of sorcery and witchcraft. They had multiple gods and 63 00:03:05,880 --> 00:03:11,040 goddesses, all kinds of wickedness, witchcraft, sorcery 64 00:03:11,040 --> 00:03:16,120 and sacrifices. And into that the Bible says in 65 00:03:16,320 --> 00:03:20,440 Genesis. 12 Yeah 12 verse one. Now the Lord said to Abraham, go 66 00:03:20,440 --> 00:03:22,200 from your country, your people, and your father. 67 00:03:22,200 --> 00:03:23,880 'S household. To the land that I will show 68 00:03:23,880 --> 00:03:25,440 you. You know when when he says go, 69 00:03:25,440 --> 00:03:28,520 and that's the context, It's very much like Moses saying to 70 00:03:28,520 --> 00:03:32,040 Pharaoh, let my people go. And then he goes on to say verse 71 00:03:32,040 --> 00:03:33,920 two, I will make you into a great nation. 72 00:03:33,920 --> 00:03:35,720 I will bless you. I'll make your name great and 73 00:03:35,720 --> 00:03:38,000 you'll be a blessing. I'll bless those who bless you 74 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:40,480 and whoever curses you. I will curse and all peoples on 75 00:03:40,480 --> 00:03:42,000 earth. Will be blessed through you. 76 00:03:42,400 --> 00:03:46,400 See if you understand the context, this sinister, wicked 77 00:03:46,720 --> 00:03:49,320 underbelly. You realize that this? 78 00:03:49,320 --> 00:03:51,640 Was a pure. Act of Grace. 79 00:03:53,440 --> 00:03:56,520 And because of that, when you go through the New Testaments, when 80 00:03:56,520 --> 00:03:59,920 we look at Galatians, we often refer to Abraham and the story 81 00:04:00,160 --> 00:04:03,840 through that lens, the lens of grace and covenant and rescue 82 00:04:03,840 --> 00:04:06,040 and redemption. But it's only half the story. 83 00:04:07,280 --> 00:04:09,120 If you've been in three CI, you've probably heard a lot 84 00:04:09,120 --> 00:04:11,520 about this half of the story. But there's another. 85 00:04:11,520 --> 00:04:14,120 Side to the story. And this is what the historians 86 00:04:14,120 --> 00:04:16,240 and. Archaeologists say they say that 87 00:04:16,360 --> 00:04:18,640 Earl of Chaldea was basically the birth. 88 00:04:18,640 --> 00:04:20,920 Place of civilization and society. 89 00:04:21,360 --> 00:04:23,720 It was the very first place that they built cities where they. 90 00:04:23,720 --> 00:04:29,040 Gathered in communities, they've done some digs in and they found 91 00:04:29,040 --> 00:04:34,000 14 room mansions. It makes us look a little piddly 92 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:37,400 here in Pretoria. East Double Stories Libraries. 93 00:04:37,400 --> 00:04:39,920 Running water. Very rudimentary plumbing, but 94 00:04:39,920 --> 00:04:43,240 they had it, and it's into that context too. 95 00:04:43,240 --> 00:04:46,560 Not only the dark seedy. Underbelly, but also into this 96 00:04:46,560 --> 00:04:49,400 affluence Pretoria E type context. 97 00:04:49,920 --> 00:04:53,600 That God says go. Now if we only. 98 00:04:53,600 --> 00:04:57,560 Look at the rescue. Side We only see the grace and 99 00:04:57,560 --> 00:05:00,560 the covenant of God's interaction with Abraham on 100 00:05:00,560 --> 00:05:02,680 this. Side we see thy. 101 00:05:02,680 --> 00:05:05,960 Kingdom come, and we see his calling and this. 102 00:05:05,960 --> 00:05:08,560 Is where God has. Begun to put his finger on you 103 00:05:08,560 --> 00:05:10,640 and I. These are the whispers that have 104 00:05:10,640 --> 00:05:13,240 started to. Sort of make their way through 105 00:05:13,240 --> 00:05:15,000 the. Corridors of three CR He's. 106 00:05:15,000 --> 00:05:17,760 Beginning to call us again? We don't. 107 00:05:17,760 --> 00:05:19,920 Throw away the grace. Because this has to outwork 108 00:05:19,920 --> 00:05:21,880 itself through an understanding of grace. 109 00:05:22,640 --> 00:05:23,760 But the Bible? Very clearly. 110 00:05:23,760 --> 00:05:27,080 Says. And we really believe that we as 111 00:05:27,080 --> 00:05:29,840 a base. Church are called to go you. 112 00:05:32,320 --> 00:05:36,280 Know Peter Jackson, who made the movie Lord of the Rings? 113 00:05:36,320 --> 00:05:37,600 He said something interesting, he said. 114 00:05:38,120 --> 00:05:39,760 What he decided to do so it's all about. 115 00:05:39,760 --> 00:05:42,360 Taking in the ring of power to go and throw it in the fires of 116 00:05:42,360 --> 00:05:43,640 more door or something like that. 117 00:05:43,920 --> 00:05:46,920 But every time they're on a journey, notice it. 118 00:05:47,200 --> 00:05:49,720 They walk from this side of the screen to that side of the 119 00:05:49,720 --> 00:05:52,240 screen, so whenever they're journeying to more. 120 00:05:52,240 --> 00:05:54,800 Doors always like this. Always headed in this direction. 121 00:05:54,800 --> 00:05:57,360 And they have a battle and then they sit down and whatever the 122 00:05:57,360 --> 00:05:58,720 case might be. But then when they pick up and 123 00:05:58,720 --> 00:06:01,440 go they keep going this way. And so you got this theme 124 00:06:01,440 --> 00:06:03,960 running, and it's exactly the same in Scripture, right at the 125 00:06:03,960 --> 00:06:06,640 very beginning, The very. First word, God says to. 126 00:06:06,680 --> 00:06:08,440 Abraham. So he's just pitched? 127 00:06:08,440 --> 00:06:10,240 Up on the scene we hear his genealogy. 128 00:06:10,440 --> 00:06:12,240 And then the first thing God says to Abraham. 129 00:06:12,560 --> 00:06:14,920 Now the Lord said unto Abraham, Go. 130 00:06:16,920 --> 00:06:20,160 And so he turns, and he begins to go the very first thing. 131 00:06:20,240 --> 00:06:23,400 Jesus says to the disciples. After being raised from the 132 00:06:23,400 --> 00:06:27,080 dead, all authority in heaven and earth has been given to me. 133 00:06:27,200 --> 00:06:31,360 Therefore, go go make disciples. Of all nations, baptizing them 134 00:06:31,360 --> 00:06:33,280 into the name of the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit. 135 00:06:33,480 --> 00:06:36,120 And for me, I look at that and go like, you know, we had Easter 136 00:06:36,120 --> 00:06:38,480 and then the very first weekend after that. 137 00:06:38,720 --> 00:06:44,360 We hear the whispers go. And so that's very simple. 138 00:06:44,480 --> 00:06:46,640 If you were to sit with me, it would be one word. 139 00:06:47,400 --> 00:06:50,280 Underline it in your Bible. Use your wife's lipstick circle. 140 00:06:50,280 --> 00:06:53,080 It if you need to. Go now. 141 00:06:54,040 --> 00:06:59,560 Don't hear what I'm not saying. I'm not saying you have to plant 142 00:06:59,560 --> 00:07:00,960 a church. If you want to count for Jesus, 143 00:07:00,960 --> 00:07:03,040 you have to plant a church. I've heard that gift. 144 00:07:03,040 --> 00:07:09,840 Scream too much going. It's just a simple turning in 145 00:07:09,880 --> 00:07:12,880 obedience beginning of this journey that God is for you. 146 00:07:13,480 --> 00:07:16,720 So for some of you, going might simply be setting that alarm 20 147 00:07:16,720 --> 00:07:18,320 minutes earlier and starting a quiet time. 148 00:07:19,440 --> 00:07:23,920 Going might joining, might be joining your wife at Life Group. 149 00:07:25,160 --> 00:07:28,040 Going might be dropping your kids off at youth on a Friday, 150 00:07:28,040 --> 00:07:31,240 or if you're younger, going to satellite as a student. 151 00:07:31,680 --> 00:07:34,320 That's going. That's the whispers of God 152 00:07:34,320 --> 00:07:37,000 saying, listen, I want to I want to take you from this side of 153 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:39,080 the screen to that side of the screen, and this is where you 154 00:07:39,080 --> 00:07:40,360 start. This is the first step that you 155 00:07:40,360 --> 00:07:42,960 take. Going might be serving. 156 00:07:44,360 --> 00:07:46,640 Oh please. Would you join us? 157 00:07:46,640 --> 00:07:50,080 Remember, Jeff mentioned a few times that God wants to take us 158 00:07:50,080 --> 00:07:52,920 from being consumers to contributors. 159 00:07:55,200 --> 00:07:58,560 Charmaine was telling me that she served at Kidsman on the 160 00:07:58,560 --> 00:08:00,920 Easter weekend because they're low on Sunday. 161 00:08:00,920 --> 00:08:03,600 School teachers and one of the students sort of stuck her head 162 00:08:03,600 --> 00:08:05,760 and said. They're so quiet. 163 00:08:05,840 --> 00:08:08,360 How did you get your class to be quiet? 164 00:08:08,360 --> 00:08:09,080 She said. Simple. 165 00:08:09,400 --> 00:08:11,720 I'm a mom. I know how to put kids ease in 166 00:08:11,720 --> 00:08:14,320 their place. But you know what moms like to 167 00:08:14,320 --> 00:08:14,760 do? And. 168 00:08:14,800 --> 00:08:17,120 There's all grace for this. Moms love to drop their. 169 00:08:17,120 --> 00:08:19,960 Kids off. And run and consume. 170 00:08:20,960 --> 00:08:25,560 What about once every eight weeks you come and surf or AV 171 00:08:25,600 --> 00:08:27,400 team? We've grown so big Hazard to 172 00:08:27,400 --> 00:08:31,800 everyone out in the Cube and in Mulkey Lane and in Tot Zone and 173 00:08:31,800 --> 00:08:34,360 Smallville. We have probably another 174 00:08:34,360 --> 00:08:36,720 thousand people scattered across the property. 175 00:08:36,919 --> 00:08:39,880 They need AV gas to make sure that they've got sound and 176 00:08:40,039 --> 00:08:42,679 camera work and that the headphones work and that they 177 00:08:42,679 --> 00:08:45,520 can focus and they're not pitching up on a Sunday sitting 178 00:08:45,520 --> 00:08:47,560 out there. So that. 179 00:08:48,080 --> 00:08:50,320 Is as simple as it is when it comes to going. 180 00:08:50,320 --> 00:08:53,400 I don't know if you know this, but they they did a study the 181 00:08:53,400 --> 00:08:55,320 Barna group. They loved to study different 182 00:08:55,320 --> 00:08:58,640 nuances of of relationship with God and our relationship with 183 00:08:58,640 --> 00:08:59,600 church. And they. 184 00:09:00,000 --> 00:09:02,560 Published a book called. Lessons learned from the 185 00:09:02,640 --> 00:09:04,720 unchurched And this was their thesis. 186 00:09:04,720 --> 00:09:07,520 They wanted to find out are there certain things that we 187 00:09:07,520 --> 00:09:10,120 blindly? Do as church leaders that 188 00:09:10,120 --> 00:09:13,120 properly put people off. Jesus and the Church make them 189 00:09:13,120 --> 00:09:15,000 never want to come back again now that. 190 00:09:15,560 --> 00:09:17,200 There should be some pretty obvious stuff there. 191 00:09:18,200 --> 00:09:21,360 Or are there some things that we do that is just makes the gospel 192 00:09:21,880 --> 00:09:24,600 deeply attraction? And so they did the study with 193 00:09:24,600 --> 00:09:27,040 something like 10,000 people. And one of the things that they 194 00:09:27,040 --> 00:09:30,680 found out, they asked these unchurched people what made them 195 00:09:30,680 --> 00:09:33,080 stay. Now by unchurched means, they 196 00:09:33,080 --> 00:09:34,800 haven't been to church in like 10 years. 197 00:09:35,000 --> 00:09:36,880 They want nothing to do with it. It's not like they're 198 00:09:37,120 --> 00:09:40,240 backslidden or neither. They have no reference for 199 00:09:40,280 --> 00:09:45,640 church and Christianity. But they found that 73% of those 200 00:09:45,640 --> 00:09:49,360 people who darkened the door of the church, 73%. 201 00:09:49,720 --> 00:09:52,640 Had decided before the preacher. Even got up, whether or not they 202 00:09:52,640 --> 00:09:56,840 were going to come again, 73% of unsaved. 203 00:09:56,840 --> 00:09:59,160 People who? Had taken this massive. 204 00:09:59,160 --> 00:10:00,240 Courageous. Step of. 205 00:10:00,240 --> 00:10:04,440 Going to church on a Sunday had decided before I even stepped 206 00:10:04,440 --> 00:10:06,000 into the pulpit. Whether they're coming back 207 00:10:06,000 --> 00:10:11,120 again or not, based on the parking team and your parking. 208 00:10:11,440 --> 00:10:16,120 By the way. Based on how the welcome they 209 00:10:16,120 --> 00:10:19,440 felt, did someone notice me? Was it easy to release? 210 00:10:19,440 --> 00:10:21,240 My children. Did I even know where to go? 211 00:10:21,240 --> 00:10:23,920 Or did I happen to walk in the back door with my kiddie going, 212 00:10:23,920 --> 00:10:26,480 oh, sucks in the middle of worship and have to duck out all 213 00:10:26,480 --> 00:10:30,280 embarrassing, never come back again. 73% of unchurched people 214 00:10:30,440 --> 00:10:33,840 made the decision whether or not they'd come back to church long 215 00:10:33,840 --> 00:10:36,680 enough to date Jesus and fall in love with him and get radically 216 00:10:36,680 --> 00:10:41,680 saved and have the eternity changed based on whether or not 217 00:10:41,680 --> 00:10:45,080 you and I decided I'm not going to consume this Sunday. 218 00:10:45,080 --> 00:10:49,960 I'm going to contribute. I'm going to serve so Abraham. 219 00:10:51,000 --> 00:10:53,440 Heard the. Voice of God saying go, maybe 220 00:10:53,440 --> 00:10:54,800 for you it means. Go surf. 221 00:10:56,560 --> 00:10:58,760 Maybe it means join a mom's prayer group. 222 00:11:00,280 --> 00:11:02,120 Oh, Mom's. If you can join a mom's prayer 223 00:11:02,120 --> 00:11:09,560 group. If you've been in three CR for a 224 00:11:09,560 --> 00:11:12,480 while, you know our story. We nearly lost my youngest 225 00:11:12,480 --> 00:11:16,640 daughter over December, and there was a moment when she was 226 00:11:16,640 --> 00:11:19,480 eventually moved from one hospital to the other because 227 00:11:19,480 --> 00:11:22,240 the one hospital pretty much realized she's going to die on 228 00:11:22,240 --> 00:11:24,560 their watch. I've never seen fear in a 229 00:11:24,560 --> 00:11:26,920 nurse's eyes before, like in that moment. 230 00:11:27,040 --> 00:11:31,240 And so we had rushed to another hospital where they thought 231 00:11:31,240 --> 00:11:32,520 maybe the specialist could help there. 232 00:11:32,520 --> 00:11:36,480 And while we were at this other hospitals her her health had 233 00:11:36,480 --> 00:11:39,040 gotten worse and worse as the situation get more and more 234 00:11:39,040 --> 00:11:42,000 serious. And while we were there, one of 235 00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:45,600 the moms, I forget the details, I think it was a school mom 236 00:11:46,280 --> 00:11:50,000 arranged a prayer meeting in the parking lot at Unitas Hospital 237 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:51,640 and I think there was like 100 and so many people. 238 00:11:51,640 --> 00:11:54,600 That pitched up. Let's go and pray for someone 239 00:11:54,600 --> 00:11:57,240 they probably never met and pray for my daughter. 240 00:11:57,600 --> 00:12:00,240 And pray for us. And I can clearly remember the 241 00:12:00,240 --> 00:12:03,040 next day. It was the first time I saw life 242 00:12:03,040 --> 00:12:07,080 in my daughter's eyes because moms gathered to pray. 243 00:12:08,520 --> 00:12:12,040 And we've had moms groups get a hold of us from Canada, from the 244 00:12:12,040 --> 00:12:18,040 UK, from Durban, Cape Town in Pretoria, wanting to find out 245 00:12:18,040 --> 00:12:19,640 how she doing, What's the latest? 246 00:12:19,920 --> 00:12:21,480 What can we pray for? We're praying for you. 247 00:12:21,480 --> 00:12:23,120 We've had food delivered and all of that. 248 00:12:23,840 --> 00:12:28,480 But there's one lady who just kept knocking on the door, she 249 00:12:28,480 --> 00:12:30,440 kept saying to my wife. She really. 250 00:12:30,440 --> 00:12:33,640 Feels she needs to lay hands on my daughter and I don't really 251 00:12:33,640 --> 00:12:34,960 feel so. She shouldn't. 252 00:12:34,960 --> 00:12:36,720 I'm like, lady you are weird. Time out. 253 00:12:37,080 --> 00:12:39,320 I know we live in a fishbowl. She's not a Guinea pig. 254 00:12:39,320 --> 00:12:39,840 Thank. You. 255 00:12:39,840 --> 00:12:43,120 I really appreciate it. But you know, Jesus can hear 256 00:12:43,120 --> 00:12:49,000 your breath, you know? And so my wife thought, well, 257 00:12:49,000 --> 00:12:52,040 let me just meet with the lady, put her hearted rest, you know, 258 00:12:52,360 --> 00:12:54,160 because we are so deeply. Grateful for this. 259 00:12:54,640 --> 00:12:57,440 She came home and she said, listen, there's something about 260 00:12:57,440 --> 00:12:59,400 this lady and there's something about her request. 261 00:13:00,120 --> 00:13:03,560 So I'm like, OK, let's go meet. She can pray for my daughter, 262 00:13:03,560 --> 00:13:09,080 lay hands on my daughter. So we went on Saturday, not 263 00:13:09,080 --> 00:13:12,080 yesterday, week ago Saturday, and she walked us into the house 264 00:13:12,080 --> 00:13:14,720 and into the room where. She would sit. 265 00:13:14,760 --> 00:13:18,720 Every night have communion with her husband and then pray for my 266 00:13:18,720 --> 00:13:20,840 daughter. She's not in three CR, never met 267 00:13:20,840 --> 00:13:23,880 her before. She's in Doxa, a faithful 268 00:13:24,040 --> 00:13:26,720 servant and Doxa for 40. Years. 269 00:13:27,120 --> 00:13:30,880 And she prayed for my daughter every single night, and it was 270 00:13:30,880 --> 00:13:33,760 the most remarkable experience to be able to meet someone who 271 00:13:33,760 --> 00:13:36,120 had so faithfully. Served so. 272 00:13:36,120 --> 00:13:39,680 Faithfully obeyed a simple. Request of God, why don't you 273 00:13:39,680 --> 00:13:41,200 go? And pray for her. 274 00:13:43,000 --> 00:13:47,160 And as we were wrapping up, she noticed me noticing something. 275 00:13:47,160 --> 00:13:50,960 There was funny little black mark on on the wall. 276 00:13:51,680 --> 00:13:53,680 And as I look up, there's. A whole bunch of plaster that 277 00:13:53,680 --> 00:13:57,440 had been knocked out of the wall and it and it was blackened. 278 00:13:57,440 --> 00:13:59,960 It looked like the wall had been licked with fire. 279 00:13:59,960 --> 00:14:03,480 And I noticed that she noticed me and I was like, oh, I'm so 280 00:14:03,480 --> 00:14:05,400 sorry. The room was struck by 281 00:14:05,400 --> 00:14:07,320 lightning. Like what? 282 00:14:08,560 --> 00:14:12,840 Struck by lightning. And what had happened was there 283 00:14:12,840 --> 00:14:15,600 was so much power that hit that room that. 284 00:14:16,000 --> 00:14:18,720 All the electrical. Cables are melted in the wall. 285 00:14:20,200 --> 00:14:25,400 They had like proper issues. Now Placid blown out and the 286 00:14:25,400 --> 00:14:28,880 bulbs exploded but melted. Exploded. 287 00:14:29,120 --> 00:14:34,520 You know glass melts at 1600°C in an instant, heated up, 288 00:14:34,520 --> 00:14:37,640 exploded and and when she mentioned that I suddenly 289 00:14:37,640 --> 00:14:40,920 started noticing it looked like black freckles all over the room 290 00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:44,560 because this glass was on fire as it was just. 291 00:14:45,160 --> 00:14:47,240 Like Pixie dust. Sprinkled across the room, 292 00:14:47,520 --> 00:14:54,280 burning holes in the furniture. And I went cold because this 293 00:14:54,280 --> 00:14:58,520 lightning struck that room between inviting us to come and 294 00:14:58,520 --> 00:15:02,240 be prayed for and her praying for my daughter. 295 00:15:02,240 --> 00:15:05,280 And I don't know if you know this, but in Revelation 5 and 296 00:15:05,280 --> 00:15:06,760 again in Revelation 8, the Bible talks. 297 00:15:06,760 --> 00:15:09,480 About this, It's this heavily. Vision that God gets that John 298 00:15:09,480 --> 00:15:12,880 gets given of the throne room of God and the prayers of the 299 00:15:12,880 --> 00:15:16,040 Saints, and it talks about an Angel who takes this bowl and 300 00:15:16,040 --> 00:15:19,480 gathers the prayers of the Saints, and the incense of the 301 00:15:19,480 --> 00:15:22,640 altar pours it into this bowl. When the bowl is full, it's 302 00:15:22,640 --> 00:15:26,240 thrown down as answered prayer with lightning and peals of 303 00:15:26,240 --> 00:15:29,200 Thunder. I get goosebumps because I sit 304 00:15:29,200 --> 00:15:34,480 in a room. I firmly believe received that. 305 00:15:34,480 --> 00:15:37,240 Bowl of your. Prayers and her prayers and the 306 00:15:37,240 --> 00:15:41,240 praying mum's group's prayers for my daughter, that was on the 307 00:15:41,240 --> 00:15:44,400 Saturday, on the Tuesday we go to the doctor and my daughter's 308 00:15:44,400 --> 00:15:58,530 in full remission. The Lord said to Abraham Go. 309 00:15:59,250 --> 00:16:02,010 Maybe going means praying for each person in your department 310 00:16:02,010 --> 00:16:04,570 by name. Maybe going means starting that 311 00:16:04,570 --> 00:16:05,850 business. Do it. 312 00:16:06,050 --> 00:16:07,450 Start that. Business. 313 00:16:07,450 --> 00:16:13,250 Or maybe it's close that business resign from that job. 314 00:16:14,170 --> 00:16:16,530 Or maybe it's praying for someone that you've never met by 315 00:16:16,530 --> 00:16:20,040 name. We were going church and our 316 00:16:20,040 --> 00:16:23,560 Heavenly Father's calling us to turn and begin to take steps of 317 00:16:23,560 --> 00:16:25,720 obedience. In this maybe going means 318 00:16:25,720 --> 00:16:27,680 staying I. Don't know if you've ever 319 00:16:27,680 --> 00:16:31,720 thought of that. For me it was once we planted a 320 00:16:31,720 --> 00:16:33,400 church into Canada many years ago. 321 00:16:33,560 --> 00:16:36,480 Lyndon and Laurie on eldership here in three CR. 322 00:16:36,480 --> 00:16:38,120 They were getting their team together. 323 00:16:38,120 --> 00:16:40,720 We had pre meetings and I just. Felt the stirring. 324 00:16:41,160 --> 00:16:43,520 Are you? Oh Lord, are you calling me kind 325 00:16:43,520 --> 00:16:47,680 of like I've felt not to go? Of the law, but felt I could 326 00:16:47,680 --> 00:16:50,040 hear us like the. Whispers of God saying go. 327 00:16:50,400 --> 00:16:52,240 And so I said to my wife. Let's let's subscribe. 328 00:16:52,240 --> 00:16:55,400 To newspaper in Canada and we look for jobs in Canada and 329 00:16:55,400 --> 00:16:58,840 let's see, maybe God is calling us to go and we sat with Heinz 330 00:16:58,840 --> 00:17:01,360 and Long story short, at the end of the conversation, he said. 331 00:17:01,360 --> 00:17:03,680 Listen, I don't want to tell you yes or no. 332 00:17:03,680 --> 00:17:04,800 God's got to speak, but, he said. 333 00:17:05,000 --> 00:17:08,800 Everything you're saying sounds very much like 3 CR's context 334 00:17:08,800 --> 00:17:10,960 and not so much like Canada's context. 335 00:17:10,960 --> 00:17:14,119 And we sat in silence. For all I said, I think you're 336 00:17:14,119 --> 00:17:15,960 right. This sits well with me. 337 00:17:16,680 --> 00:17:19,119 We're going to plant, but we're going to plant in three CI. 338 00:17:19,160 --> 00:17:21,400 We're going to sink our roots here and maybe you're going 339 00:17:21,400 --> 00:17:25,280 means plant plant into this local church, plant into this 340 00:17:25,280 --> 00:17:28,440 lampstand plant your life and your relationships and your 341 00:17:28,600 --> 00:17:30,800 marriage and your children and your finances. 342 00:17:31,200 --> 00:17:35,760 I heard a story of four or five couples who decided to stay for 343 00:17:35,760 --> 00:17:37,960 40 years. They made this little covenant 344 00:17:38,120 --> 00:17:39,960 with one another. They said we are going to stay 345 00:17:39,960 --> 00:17:43,520 in the suburb for the next 40 years of our lives and we're 346 00:17:43,520 --> 00:17:46,040 going to pray over the streets and the people by name. 347 00:17:46,040 --> 00:17:47,360 We're going to get to know our neighbors. 348 00:17:47,520 --> 00:17:51,000 We're going to share the Intel and what is needed and who needs 349 00:17:51,000 --> 00:17:54,480 to be looked after and who got the, you know, 6 distinctions in 350 00:17:54,480 --> 00:17:56,080 my trick And we're going to celebrate and we're going to 351 00:17:56,080 --> 00:17:57,800 make sure our kids go to the school and we're going to 352 00:17:58,400 --> 00:18:03,240 enculturate our suburb with the Kingdom, Lord said to Abraham 353 00:18:03,240 --> 00:18:04,680 Go. And that's what they decided to 354 00:18:04,680 --> 00:18:07,840 do. Two more I'm going to read 355 00:18:07,840 --> 00:18:10,440 these. To you, psychologists will tell 356 00:18:10,440 --> 00:18:12,120 you that the biggest threat to your child's. 357 00:18:12,120 --> 00:18:14,080 Development. Self worth. 358 00:18:14,280 --> 00:18:17,600 Emotional health and spiritual integrity a bigger threat than 359 00:18:17,600 --> 00:18:20,920 porn, drugs, TV, violence, gaming, phones, behind doors, 360 00:18:20,920 --> 00:18:21,720 etcetera. The. 361 00:18:21,720 --> 00:18:25,240 Biggest threat to your child? Is that you neglect the table. 362 00:18:26,880 --> 00:18:29,360 Eating meals with them is the most formative moment of their 363 00:18:29,360 --> 00:18:31,720 lives and the number one factor in a Christian home that leads 364 00:18:31,720 --> 00:18:35,240 to overall Wellness regarding self worth, emotional health and 365 00:18:35,240 --> 00:18:38,160 spiritual integrity. Maybe when the losses go, he 366 00:18:38,160 --> 00:18:41,200 thinks, go to the. Table just close that laptop, 367 00:18:41,440 --> 00:18:42,680 just switch off that. Phone. 368 00:18:43,200 --> 00:18:45,240 Go. And see what that does for your 369 00:18:45,240 --> 00:18:48,880 family men. A Swedish study on the effects. 370 00:18:48,880 --> 00:18:51,160 Of the Father's. Attendance in church on their 371 00:18:51,160 --> 00:18:53,080 kids. Show that if a father does not 372 00:18:53,080 --> 00:18:53,760 go. To church. 373 00:18:53,840 --> 00:18:57,320 No matter how faithful the mother is at showing up, only 374 00:18:57,320 --> 00:19:00,680 one in 50 children will become a regular worshipper down the 375 00:19:00,680 --> 00:19:04,400 road. If a father does go to church, 376 00:19:04,760 --> 00:19:07,360 If your heavenly father says Sir, go. 377 00:19:08,040 --> 00:19:09,960 And if a father? Does go to church. 378 00:19:10,080 --> 00:19:13,600 Not just visiting, but engaging, serving, participating. 379 00:19:13,800 --> 00:19:15,360 Regardless of what? The mom does. 380 00:19:15,360 --> 00:19:17,520 Almost 75% of the children will become. 381 00:19:17,520 --> 00:19:21,520 Regular churchgoers. Dating Jesus long enough to fall 382 00:19:21,520 --> 00:19:25,200 in love with him and get saved, We're at going. 383 00:19:25,200 --> 00:19:29,640 Church, What are the whispers? Of God and your. 384 00:19:29,720 --> 00:19:32,600 Heart to go. What is he putting his finger 385 00:19:32,600 --> 00:19:34,880 on? Where has he begun to stern? 386 00:19:34,880 --> 00:19:38,720 How is it that he has turned you to wrath and we're going to walk 387 00:19:38,720 --> 00:19:39,840 from this side? To that side. 388 00:19:40,120 --> 00:19:41,880 This is the journey because. That's what Jeff said. 389 00:19:42,200 --> 00:19:45,120 My first question to him, it's like, how does anyone get to the 390 00:19:45,120 --> 00:19:46,640 point where they decide to plant a church? 391 00:19:47,480 --> 00:19:50,000 Very simple answer, he says. You just say yes in the little 392 00:19:50,000 --> 00:19:53,120 things. That's what it looks like to be 393 00:19:53,120 --> 00:19:54,960 a church. That goes, and that's what I 394 00:19:54,960 --> 00:19:57,360 would have told you, would have told you that there are people 395 00:19:57,360 --> 00:19:59,120 waiting on the other side of your obedience. 396 00:19:59,400 --> 00:20:03,760 So go, go through CR, go through CR, Go. 397 00:20:05,040 --> 00:20:06,840 And then I would have looked at the time and seen, well, I've 398 00:20:06,840 --> 00:20:10,280 got 10 minutes left with you, so I'm going to fill the last 10 399 00:20:10,280 --> 00:20:13,600 minutes, not with Go. But with so. 400 00:20:17,480 --> 00:20:18,680 Take a look at the next. Verse. 401 00:20:21,360 --> 00:20:25,320 This is verse. 10 So verse 1212 verse one God says go 12 verse 402 00:20:25,320 --> 00:20:28,360 10 there was a famine in the land. 403 00:20:29,080 --> 00:20:32,960 So. Abram went to. 404 00:20:32,960 --> 00:20:34,880 Egypt to stay for a while because. 405 00:20:35,080 --> 00:20:38,640 The famine was severe. There was a famine in the land. 406 00:20:40,120 --> 00:20:45,000 So. Whenever there's a go, there's 407 00:20:45,320 --> 00:20:50,320 always a So I actually think there's more collateral damage 408 00:20:50,640 --> 00:20:53,320 on the soul with God than the go. 409 00:20:53,480 --> 00:20:55,760 God's romantic. I'm going to plant a church. 410 00:20:56,000 --> 00:20:57,640 God's romantic. I'm going to pray for that 411 00:20:57,640 --> 00:20:59,200 little girl for the next six months. 412 00:20:59,640 --> 00:21:01,600 God's romantic. So. 413 00:21:01,800 --> 00:21:05,640 There was a famine in the land. That's a very. 414 00:21:05,640 --> 00:21:07,440 Different story. I think we have a. 415 00:21:07,440 --> 00:21:10,680 Lot of people who've left church because of Sir. 416 00:21:11,400 --> 00:21:14,240 My wife bumped into a friend that we hadn't seen since youth 417 00:21:14,240 --> 00:21:15,760 days. You know, one of those guys when 418 00:21:15,760 --> 00:21:17,680 you're like, oh, when I grow up, I want to be like him. 419 00:21:18,280 --> 00:21:19,840 And she's. Like, hey Stewart, it's so good 420 00:21:19,840 --> 00:21:20,520 to see you. He's like. 421 00:21:20,520 --> 00:21:21,960 Who are you? No Youth Days. 422 00:21:22,280 --> 00:21:28,920 Church there because of a Sir. David, you're going to be king. 423 00:21:29,480 --> 00:21:32,640 Go. So King Saul wants to kill you. 424 00:21:32,800 --> 00:21:36,040 How's that working out for you, Joshua? 425 00:21:36,040 --> 00:21:37,600 The Promised Land Mook and Honey. 426 00:21:38,280 --> 00:21:41,120 Go. You know the land also has 427 00:21:41,120 --> 00:21:42,920 giants and. Jericho. 428 00:21:42,920 --> 00:21:44,960 So what? Are you going to do about that, 429 00:21:45,560 --> 00:21:46,280 Esther? You. 430 00:21:46,280 --> 00:21:48,640 Gorgeous thing you You're going to be queen. 431 00:21:50,600 --> 00:21:53,040 Queen Esther. You need to put your neck on the 432 00:21:53,040 --> 00:21:55,920 line to save the entire nation of Israel. 433 00:21:56,720 --> 00:22:02,320 So you know what, God? Uses these So's. 434 00:22:03,080 --> 00:22:04,360 It's not because he's going like sure. 435 00:22:05,040 --> 00:22:06,440 A RAM looks. Like, a good choice, you know? 436 00:22:06,480 --> 00:22:07,840 But this, this will help me know. 437 00:22:07,840 --> 00:22:10,080 Just like where's this fear of faith levels? 438 00:22:10,080 --> 00:22:13,760 You know he doesn't do that, he allows. 439 00:22:13,840 --> 00:22:16,600 A. So, because the so reveals. 440 00:22:16,600 --> 00:22:21,280 Us to ourselves. I can tell you Jeff and Jane 441 00:22:21,680 --> 00:22:25,320 planting church into Lisbon, Portugal is like, oh, we're 442 00:22:25,320 --> 00:22:29,160 here. And then the so COVID lockdown 443 00:22:30,000 --> 00:22:31,920 suddenly realize you're here. Abraham. 444 00:22:31,920 --> 00:22:35,800 Probably the same we read about him building altars and 445 00:22:35,800 --> 00:22:38,760 worshipping gods and monuments to his faithfulness, but 446 00:22:38,760 --> 00:22:42,200 suddenly when he gets tested. The so he realizes. 447 00:22:42,200 --> 00:22:46,160 My faith is down there. That's his coping mechanism. 448 00:22:46,160 --> 00:22:47,920 It gets exposed in full, he rushes. 449 00:22:47,920 --> 00:22:49,960 Off to Egypt? Egypt. 450 00:22:49,960 --> 00:22:53,720 Figuratively in Scripture is always looked on as an alliance. 451 00:22:53,720 --> 00:22:55,880 With the world worldly. Systems. 452 00:22:56,480 --> 00:23:00,320 So he comes thinking he's. Abraham, the father of faith. 453 00:23:00,640 --> 00:23:06,800 Finds out like, oh, he's got some explaining to you, and God 454 00:23:06,800 --> 00:23:11,520 does it 1 so that we recognize exactly where we are, where our 455 00:23:11,520 --> 00:23:13,280 faith. Is but two. 456 00:23:13,640 --> 00:23:16,640 So that he can take us into a season of growing and maturing 457 00:23:16,640 --> 00:23:19,600 in him, understanding his will and his ways. 458 00:23:19,800 --> 00:23:23,080 Understanding that he can be trusted and his character 459 00:23:23,400 --> 00:23:27,440 deepening our faith in our relationship so that we can 460 00:23:27,440 --> 00:23:30,760 actually walk out the call. That he has for us. 461 00:23:31,280 --> 00:23:36,280 But it requires this and so whenever he says go, he will 462 00:23:36,280 --> 00:23:38,080 always say. So. 463 00:23:40,840 --> 00:23:47,950 What's he going to do now? Why? 464 00:23:49,230 --> 00:23:53,110 Because whatever is not transformed is transferred. 465 00:23:55,910 --> 00:23:57,790 You see, I don't know if you know this. 466 00:23:57,790 --> 00:24:01,520 But God is not the God of Iran. He's the God of. 467 00:24:01,520 --> 00:24:08,160 Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. And so when you and I have a. 468 00:24:08,160 --> 00:24:11,800 Go. Recently navel gazing and 469 00:24:11,800 --> 00:24:14,960 impressed with ourselves and who you know is like laugh and so 470 00:24:14,960 --> 00:24:16,360 on. And God is going no, no, no, no, 471 00:24:16,360 --> 00:24:20,240 no can can I just turn you. It's going to talk your 472 00:24:20,240 --> 00:24:23,040 generation. And I'd wanted to tip into your 473 00:24:23,040 --> 00:24:26,000 children's generation and your children's children's 474 00:24:26,200 --> 00:24:28,960 generation. You know that to the Jew, it was 475 00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:32,520 only considered a blessing if it influenced your children's 476 00:24:32,640 --> 00:24:37,040 children, which is why you find out throughout the Old Testament 477 00:24:37,720 --> 00:24:40,880 that those who neglect. Well, sorry. 478 00:24:40,880 --> 00:24:43,280 Those who do not. Protect what God is doing. 479 00:24:44,040 --> 00:24:48,040 If we do not tend to the sow having heard. 480 00:24:48,040 --> 00:24:49,960 His go. If, we don't tend to it, if. 481 00:24:50,200 --> 00:24:54,400 If we don't protect it. The next generation will neglect 482 00:24:54,400 --> 00:24:58,360 it, and the generation after that will reject it. 483 00:24:58,960 --> 00:25:01,280 So why? You can go from a missionary, 484 00:25:01,280 --> 00:25:07,360 pastoral grandparents to an atheist, broken grandchildren? 485 00:25:09,200 --> 00:25:10,280 Because. We don't tend to the. 486 00:25:10,280 --> 00:25:14,400 Sow. And God wants us to be aware. 487 00:25:15,600 --> 00:25:18,920 When you face the sow. That you allow God into this 488 00:25:19,720 --> 00:25:22,520 conversation. You learn and you grow. 489 00:25:23,320 --> 00:25:25,880 You drop anchor. You say, OK, I'm not running off 490 00:25:25,880 --> 00:25:27,840 to Egypt. I'm going to trust you. 491 00:25:28,760 --> 00:25:31,680 Show me. You help me grow in you. 492 00:25:32,080 --> 00:25:36,120 In my daughter's experience, I have never appreciated. 493 00:25:36,120 --> 00:25:38,960 Scripture like I have. Having gone through that. 494 00:25:38,960 --> 00:25:40,800 Because that's what God dealt. With us in and through. 495 00:25:40,800 --> 00:25:43,000 That so, he says. Go and then he says so. 496 00:25:43,000 --> 00:25:44,960 And this is what Jeff said the following I actually. 497 00:25:44,960 --> 00:25:47,520 Typed it out, it was. It blew me away, he says. 498 00:25:47,520 --> 00:25:51,760 Parents took him out dealing with the SO parents don't 499 00:25:51,760 --> 00:25:54,120 forfeit your children's inheritance because of the 500 00:25:54,120 --> 00:25:57,880 inconvenience it causes. You don't forfeit their 501 00:25:57,880 --> 00:25:59,760 inheritance. Because it's easier to stick. 502 00:25:59,760 --> 00:26:02,560 To your rhythms and routines rather than being inconvenienced 503 00:26:02,560 --> 00:26:04,560 or stretched. You just like. 504 00:26:04,560 --> 00:26:06,880 I'm not going to handle this, so they want to go. 505 00:26:06,880 --> 00:26:11,800 To youth so. They are the ones who. 506 00:26:11,800 --> 00:26:14,360 Suffer. See if we don't. 507 00:26:14,360 --> 00:26:16,680 Protect it. They'll neglect it. 508 00:26:17,360 --> 00:26:19,880 The younger generation wants to be a part of something great, 509 00:26:20,080 --> 00:26:22,480 but don't want to carry the responsibilities that come with 510 00:26:22,480 --> 00:26:24,600 it. It does not be the cause of 511 00:26:24,600 --> 00:26:28,040 another generation. Let us not be the cause of 512 00:26:28,040 --> 00:26:31,200 another generation that will not carry the cost of following. 513 00:26:31,320 --> 00:26:33,800 Jesus, because we selfishly sheltered. 514 00:26:33,800 --> 00:26:35,680 Them for the inconvenience of saying yes. 515 00:26:35,920 --> 00:26:40,440 To the call of God. When we first came to three. 516 00:26:40,440 --> 00:26:43,560 CR There was a couple. With five children and that five 517 00:26:43,560 --> 00:26:46,680 children were there at everything, sleeping on the 518 00:26:46,680 --> 00:26:50,800 floor. But now those five children are 519 00:26:50,800 --> 00:26:55,400 involved in ministries all around the globe when we LED 520 00:26:55,400 --> 00:26:57,120 youth. I really felt that. 521 00:26:57,200 --> 00:26:59,800 We needed someone to step in and lead youth because it was. 522 00:26:59,800 --> 00:27:03,960 Down to 12 people. And all the young oaks just 523 00:27:03,960 --> 00:27:05,880 didn't want to step in. So I said, OK, well, maybe, 524 00:27:06,280 --> 00:27:08,640 maybe we can help. We had three kids. 525 00:27:08,640 --> 00:27:12,560 I think the oldest was like 5 and they slept on my office 526 00:27:12,560 --> 00:27:15,840 floor every Friday night and they weren't allowed out because 527 00:27:15,840 --> 00:27:17,880 it's really uncool going to youth and there's these tongue 528 00:27:17,880 --> 00:27:21,000 little kiddies running around, so they were stuck in my office. 529 00:27:22,200 --> 00:27:23,920 But if you look at their. Relationship with their heavenly 530 00:27:23,920 --> 00:27:27,080 Father now, and this is what he's saying, this is what Jeff 531 00:27:27,080 --> 00:27:29,720 is going after. I mentioned it in marriage. 532 00:27:29,720 --> 00:27:32,200 Course apologies if I'm. Repeating if you heard this. 533 00:27:32,200 --> 00:27:34,840 Before, but there was a guy, Greg Haswell, He's preached. 534 00:27:34,840 --> 00:27:38,000 Here from time to time many years ago, he spoke at the court 535 00:27:38,000 --> 00:27:41,640 conference and he he was just sharing sort of off the cuff on 536 00:27:41,640 --> 00:27:43,560 an experience he had. Just had with his daughter. 537 00:27:43,880 --> 00:27:46,160 He's a South African guy. Had planted a church into the. 538 00:27:46,400 --> 00:27:48,680 US and. In America, you can drive at the 539 00:27:48,680 --> 00:27:50,840 age of 16. License to kill. 540 00:27:52,240 --> 00:27:55,960 And he was terrified. I mean, he'd seen how his 40 541 00:27:55,960 --> 00:27:58,360 year old wife drives. Now his 16 year old daughter, 542 00:27:58,360 --> 00:28:07,160 this is sleeping on the couch and so she's 15. 543 00:28:07,200 --> 00:28:11,200 She's wanting to do her learners and she says to her dad one 544 00:28:11,200 --> 00:28:12,960 morning he's dropping off at. School and said Dad, why don't 545 00:28:12,960 --> 00:28:15,280 you pray? Said I get a car for my 16th 546 00:28:15,280 --> 00:28:17,120 birthday and please pray because I know. 547 00:28:17,520 --> 00:28:19,600 You know you're a pastor, so you don't have the budget. 548 00:28:19,600 --> 00:28:20,600 God. But God can. 549 00:28:20,600 --> 00:28:22,200 God can. He's like God. 550 00:28:22,200 --> 00:28:27,360 Better not. So that's school just before she 551 00:28:27,800 --> 00:28:28,640 she. Gets dropped off. 552 00:28:29,040 --> 00:28:32,640 He's like puts his. Hand on the leg and and he says. 553 00:28:32,920 --> 00:28:35,280 He prayed a ghost of the shadow, of a whisper, of a prayer. 554 00:28:35,280 --> 00:28:41,800 No faith, no heart. Wink, wink, you guys. 555 00:28:43,160 --> 00:28:44,560 During the day, he gets a phone call from A. 556 00:28:44,560 --> 00:28:47,440 Couple and he's a pastor. Someone in the church in trouble 557 00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:49,800 goes to their house. They hand him a key. 558 00:28:50,520 --> 00:28:53,520 Car key, we feel, God said. We must give you our. 559 00:28:53,520 --> 00:29:02,280 Car Ford Mustang. Said you said. 560 00:29:02,280 --> 00:29:06,640 You not my daughter? So he takes it, but he puts his 561 00:29:06,640 --> 00:29:09,400 keys aside for his daughter's birthday. 562 00:29:10,360 --> 00:29:13,880 They have a car. Goes to church on the Sunday and 563 00:29:14,520 --> 00:29:16,480 on the seat that he normally sits and there's this envelope. 564 00:29:16,480 --> 00:29:18,800 Stuffed with dollars and a. Little note. 565 00:29:18,800 --> 00:29:21,920 That says there this is for your daughter's fuel for the first 566 00:29:21,920 --> 00:29:25,120 year. He's doing Edmond the next 567 00:29:25,120 --> 00:29:27,320 morning and he gets an e-mail from his sister living in South 568 00:29:27,320 --> 00:29:28,640 Africa and she said. We just feel. 569 00:29:28,640 --> 00:29:31,040 That we want to contribute. To first years with the 570 00:29:31,040 --> 00:29:32,760 services. Ties, wear and tear. 571 00:29:33,680 --> 00:29:35,480 And he's like, what first did I quote? 572 00:29:37,600 --> 00:29:44,960 Says, OK Lord, you have got my attention, so I want to hear 573 00:29:44,960 --> 00:29:48,440 what are you saying? And this was his conclusion, he 574 00:29:48,760 --> 00:29:49,960 said. He sat down there and it was 575 00:29:49,960 --> 00:29:51,880 like this nanosecond conversation with God suddenly 576 00:29:51,880 --> 00:29:55,040 reminded him of all the times that they had been generous with 577 00:29:55,040 --> 00:30:00,240 cars, all the times they'd given away 'cause there were moments 578 00:30:00,240 --> 00:30:02,200 when people came to buy a car. But he could just tell. 579 00:30:02,200 --> 00:30:05,160 They can't afford this. And then asking, it dropped a 580 00:30:05,280 --> 00:30:07,880 couple $1000 worth. Off the car's price. 581 00:30:09,360 --> 00:30:10,480 And then God. Said this, he said. 582 00:30:10,480 --> 00:30:14,200 Because. You've won this victory now. 583 00:30:15,840 --> 00:30:19,120 You've. Finished your So what has been 584 00:30:19,120 --> 00:30:22,880 transformed now be transferred, and your daughter and your 585 00:30:22,880 --> 00:30:24,840 children will ride it on the back. 586 00:30:24,840 --> 00:30:28,600 Of your victories. And when God calls us, when He 587 00:30:28,600 --> 00:30:31,760 says go, it's not just this grandiose. 588 00:30:31,760 --> 00:30:33,400 Well, I'm going to go serve on a Sunday. 589 00:30:33,640 --> 00:30:37,280 It's not just this intimate, super spiritual. 590 00:30:37,280 --> 00:30:39,480 I'm going to have a quiet time and memorize the entire book of 591 00:30:39,480 --> 00:30:41,600 Ephesians. No, what you're doing is you're 592 00:30:41,880 --> 00:30:45,600 obeying God so that he can transform us, so we can transfer 593 00:30:45,600 --> 00:30:48,760 it to the next generation in three CR that comes along so 594 00:30:48,760 --> 00:30:51,400 that they're not starting from scratch again, but they are 595 00:30:51,400 --> 00:30:53,400 standing on the shoulders of giants. 596 00:30:54,640 --> 00:31:00,600 The American men's 1 by 4 by 100 relay race is notorious for 597 00:31:00,600 --> 00:31:02,280 dropping the baton. I've got this beautiful 598 00:31:02,280 --> 00:31:05,960 photograph. At the Olympics the. 599 00:31:05,960 --> 00:31:14,400 Last leg they're. In the lead, Yeah, Some of those 600 00:31:14,400 --> 00:31:21,120 men were only at the Olympics for the 4 by 100 relay, given 601 00:31:21,120 --> 00:31:24,880 their lives to athletics meetings every Saturday and. 602 00:31:25,080 --> 00:31:27,640 Early at school. In the morning, staying late in 603 00:31:27,640 --> 00:31:32,920 the afternoon, eating kale and lettuce leaves and going to bed 604 00:31:32,960 --> 00:31:35,560 early and not partying all for that. 605 00:31:35,760 --> 00:31:38,880 Race and. Then the baton is dropped. 606 00:31:40,400 --> 00:31:43,600 And so God says. I want you to be transformed. 607 00:31:43,600 --> 00:31:45,560 I want. The soul to be. 608 00:31:45,560 --> 00:31:48,080 Applied, I want you to allow me to. 609 00:31:48,240 --> 00:31:50,960 To. Woo you and win you so that 610 00:31:50,960 --> 00:31:53,000 when? We as three CI today. 611 00:31:53,960 --> 00:31:57,000 In two, three, 1020 years time when we pass the baton. 612 00:31:57,800 --> 00:31:59,440 That they hit it. Full tilt. 613 00:32:00,720 --> 00:32:03,320 You know how many mega churches are standing as empty? 614 00:32:03,320 --> 00:32:08,000 Caves because of the baton. Change so I call you men and 615 00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:11,120 women of faith. Be people who go. 616 00:32:11,960 --> 00:32:16,720 Be people who tend. To the sow last verse. 617 00:32:17,640 --> 00:32:22,120 Abraham is dead. Isaac is now leading his family 618 00:32:22,120 --> 00:32:27,360 and in Genesis chapter 26 says now there was a severe famine in 619 00:32:27,360 --> 00:32:29,360 the land beside the previous famine. 620 00:32:29,360 --> 00:32:34,320 Sound familiar? Beside the previous famine in 621 00:32:34,360 --> 00:32:37,160 Abraham's time, Abraham had a famine and a. 622 00:32:37,160 --> 00:32:42,240 So Isaac has a. Famine and a So verse 2 The Lord 623 00:32:42,240 --> 00:32:45,760 appeared to Isaac and said, do not go down to Egypt like your 624 00:32:45,760 --> 00:32:47,560 dead. Live in the land where I tell 625 00:32:47,560 --> 00:32:50,080 you to stay in this land, and I will be with you, and I will 626 00:32:50,080 --> 00:32:51,920 bless you. For to you and your descendants, 627 00:32:51,920 --> 00:32:53,840 I will give all these lands and we'll confirm the earth. 628 00:32:53,880 --> 00:32:56,440 I swore to your. Father Abraham, I'll make your 629 00:32:56,440 --> 00:32:59,240 descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky, and we'll give 630 00:32:59,240 --> 00:33:01,240 them all these lands, and through your offspring, all 631 00:33:01,240 --> 00:33:03,200 nations on Earth. Will be blessed. 632 00:33:03,520 --> 00:33:04,960 It's exactly the. Same. 633 00:33:05,320 --> 00:33:07,320 That was. Spoken of Abraham. 634 00:33:07,520 --> 00:33:12,080 Abraham had to sow, but Abraham allowed God to close this gap 635 00:33:12,080 --> 00:33:13,880 between. What his faith really was. 636 00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:17,480 And what his faith needed to be, Abraham allowed God to take that 637 00:33:17,480 --> 00:33:20,800 faith and take that relationship that seemed to be shallow and 638 00:33:20,800 --> 00:33:21,760 seemed to. Have. 639 00:33:22,640 --> 00:33:25,680 Been Glosshoff Phil. Cynical, and allowed him through 640 00:33:25,720 --> 00:33:29,920 a number of famines and and fortunes to form him into the 641 00:33:29,920 --> 00:33:34,440 man of God that he wanted him to be, and what was transformed was 642 00:33:34,440 --> 00:33:37,160 transferred. So we found Isaac. 643 00:33:37,400 --> 00:33:45,600 In verse 6, Sir Isaac stayed. And verse 12 That same year year 644 00:33:45,640 --> 00:33:50,000 of the famine, Isaac planted crops in the land and reaped. 645 00:33:50,120 --> 00:33:52,720 A hundredfold, because the Lord had blessed him. 646 00:33:54,480 --> 00:33:56,480 If you want, if you sit and had coffee with me and you were 647 00:33:56,480 --> 00:33:58,320 wondering like what is going on here? 648 00:33:58,640 --> 00:33:59,800 I would have had to tell you it's a. 649 00:33:59,800 --> 00:34:04,240 Generational call upon three CI upon you and I, for something 650 00:34:04,240 --> 00:34:06,320 far greater than we could ever imagine. 651 00:34:06,760 --> 00:34:12,239 It begins with a simple go. And if you respond, if you turn 652 00:34:12,239 --> 00:34:16,480 in obedience, however small or however sacrificial it is. 653 00:34:17,480 --> 00:34:20,880 You will face us so. And in and. 654 00:34:20,880 --> 00:34:23,320 Through what you go through, every valley you walk through. 655 00:34:23,320 --> 00:34:26,120 Every mountain you climb, God will show himself to you. 656 00:34:26,440 --> 00:34:28,440 We'll deepen your relationship with him. 657 00:34:28,639 --> 00:34:32,000 We'll give you crowns and jewels of reward in heaven, that says. 658 00:34:32,520 --> 00:34:36,400 But most importantly, we will transfer this move of God into 659 00:34:36,400 --> 00:34:39,520 the next generation and the next generation and the next 660 00:34:39,520 --> 00:34:43,120 generation. Until the city is saturated with 661 00:34:43,120 --> 00:34:46,600 Saints. And God can look over Pretoria 662 00:34:46,600 --> 00:34:51,600 and say, truly my Kingdom is gone on a close and pray. 663 00:34:53,320 --> 00:34:55,320 I want to ask you to pray this prayer out loud with me. 664 00:34:55,320 --> 00:35:00,440 If you're comfortable enough, take your hands and just say 665 00:35:00,440 --> 00:35:03,240 this off to me. Speak, Lord. 666 00:35:04,680 --> 00:35:08,440 Your servant is listening. Amen.