1 00:00:03,920 --> 00:00:06,320 Well, good morning, nice to see you. 2 00:00:07,520 --> 00:00:10,040 It's actually a privilege to preach on your birthday. 3 00:00:10,040 --> 00:00:15,600 Somebody put a thing on my seat. I was born to preach so I never 4 00:00:15,600 --> 00:00:19,040 thought I'd be a preacher. My dad phoned me when I was 24 5 00:00:19,040 --> 00:00:22,680 years old, took me to business meetings from the age of 14 and 6 00:00:22,680 --> 00:00:25,840 he had seven petrol stations and he phoned me and said, boy, 7 00:00:25,840 --> 00:00:28,400 you've got a week to decide to come and take over the business. 8 00:00:28,880 --> 00:00:31,800 You come and work with me and when you're 30 years old you can 9 00:00:31,800 --> 00:00:35,560 take over the businesses and and then I'll go and retire. 10 00:00:36,360 --> 00:00:38,760 And I phoned him back after a week and I said Dad, God's 11 00:00:38,760 --> 00:00:45,000 called me to preach and he just started to sob on the phone. 12 00:00:45,400 --> 00:00:49,360 He didn't know Jesus and I didn't hear from him for about 13 00:00:49,360 --> 00:00:51,840 two weeks, never heard a word from him. 14 00:00:51,840 --> 00:00:54,120 And I thought I've disappointed my dad so much. 15 00:00:55,080 --> 00:00:57,440 And then one day he phoned me and I picked up the phone. 16 00:00:57,440 --> 00:01:00,160 I said I always speak. He said, hey boy, it's dad. 17 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:02,920 I said, how are you, dad? He said, what's it going to take 18 00:01:02,920 --> 00:01:04,840 for you to be the best preacher in South Africa? 19 00:01:05,560 --> 00:01:09,320 That was the response of a businessman to his son deciding 20 00:01:09,320 --> 00:01:11,760 for Jesus where he had no context whatsoever. 21 00:01:12,600 --> 00:01:15,480 And so it's a privilege to be, I don't think I'm even close to 22 00:01:15,480 --> 00:01:21,040 the top 5%, but but I'm here and it's great to share the gospel 23 00:01:21,040 --> 00:01:23,480 with you and it's great to have all of you. 24 00:01:23,480 --> 00:01:27,360 I saw some visitors coming in 4 1/2 years ago. 25 00:01:27,360 --> 00:01:30,520 I met a couple on the side of a cricket field and I just 26 00:01:30,520 --> 00:01:34,200 happened to have some blueberry muffins from Woolworths and I 27 00:01:34,200 --> 00:01:36,360 wanted to share them with them and and they refused. 28 00:01:36,360 --> 00:01:38,760 So I ended up chasing them around the field with blueberry 29 00:01:38,760 --> 00:01:43,760 muffin. I'm quite a convincing guy and 30 00:01:43,760 --> 00:01:46,400 and they obviously thought that was quite cool for a pastor to 31 00:01:46,400 --> 00:01:50,120 do so they came to church. I have got no idea why. 32 00:01:50,760 --> 00:01:53,400 How do you get people saved with blueberry muffins? 33 00:01:54,200 --> 00:01:58,560 And through a process of events, I had the privilege of doing 34 00:01:58,560 --> 00:02:02,000 their dad's funeral on Friday. And I actually thought it's 35 00:02:02,000 --> 00:02:04,240 quite an amazing thing how God builds community. 36 00:02:04,280 --> 00:02:07,520 I heard the Blue Bulls rugby players come back from France 37 00:02:07,520 --> 00:02:09,840 and his granny comes to this church. 38 00:02:09,840 --> 00:02:13,080 And so now he comes to this church and, and God uses the 39 00:02:13,080 --> 00:02:15,840 most and, and his granny came to this church because they were 40 00:02:15,840 --> 00:02:18,960 friends with my accountant from my business and Harry Smith that 41 00:02:18,960 --> 00:02:21,080 I eventually did take over when my dad died. 42 00:02:21,560 --> 00:02:24,360 And so God works in the most unbelievably and unusual 43 00:02:24,360 --> 00:02:27,320 circumstances. But, but I had this privilege of 44 00:02:27,320 --> 00:02:31,040 doing this amazing man, Chris, his funeral and seeing his 45 00:02:31,040 --> 00:02:34,080 friends speak and hearing his daughter speak about her dad. 46 00:02:34,840 --> 00:02:37,040 And it is just one of the most amazing privilege. 47 00:02:37,040 --> 00:02:39,080 You don't know what God is doing, what will happen in three 48 00:02:39,080 --> 00:02:42,080 years or four years or five years time by being part of a 49 00:02:42,080 --> 00:02:44,400 community. Anyway, their friends, their 50 00:02:44,400 --> 00:02:47,120 business partners and their friends, their best friends from 51 00:02:47,120 --> 00:02:50,000 down the road have come to church today and they're 52 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:52,840 Catholics. Welcome to our church. 53 00:02:54,320 --> 00:02:56,000 Sort of same, same, but not quite. 54 00:02:57,120 --> 00:02:59,720 So I wanted to be a Catholic priest and then I met this 55 00:02:59,720 --> 00:03:04,360 chick. So I had a choice. 56 00:03:04,360 --> 00:03:06,880 I chose her. I thought I'd work out my faith 57 00:03:06,880 --> 00:03:08,680 in a different place. You know what I'm saying? 58 00:03:09,120 --> 00:03:11,680 So it's same, same, but different. 59 00:03:11,680 --> 00:03:14,400 And the stained glass windows are not here, but it's, they're 60 00:03:14,400 --> 00:03:16,360 in the eyes of the person sitting next to you. 61 00:03:17,080 --> 00:03:19,640 And if you look in their eyes, you'll see the love of God 62 00:03:20,240 --> 00:03:32,770 shining through their eyes. Ariel beautiful man, a beautiful 63 00:03:32,770 --> 00:03:35,490 man, been through lots, a beautiful man. 64 00:03:36,370 --> 00:03:41,370 Life of God Signs 3. And so I'll see The tattoo boys 65 00:03:41,370 --> 00:03:43,170 have been preaching for the last few weeks. 66 00:03:46,490 --> 00:03:48,370 Have you seen them? I think they've done remark. 67 00:03:48,370 --> 00:03:50,010 And yes, thank you. They're doing well. 68 00:03:50,640 --> 00:03:53,520 You're like the mean tattoos and doing well don't go together or 69 00:03:53,880 --> 00:03:54,760 OK. OK. 70 00:03:55,480 --> 00:03:57,440 And you still don't know whether I've got a tattoo. 71 00:03:57,440 --> 00:03:59,280 You think Rory shut up and start preaching. 72 00:03:59,280 --> 00:04:02,120 It's my birthday. It's my birthday. 73 00:04:02,120 --> 00:04:04,840 It's my birthday. My mum, as you saw her is 74 00:04:04,840 --> 00:04:06,120 getting dementia. Hello mum. 75 00:04:06,120 --> 00:04:09,600 I know you're online and you see I had her on the stage the other 76 00:04:09,600 --> 00:04:12,600 day, one foot in the coffin and 1 foot out and she's saying when 77 00:04:12,600 --> 00:04:14,160 you waiting for me to get both feet in. 78 00:04:14,440 --> 00:04:19,760 Well, I mean, it will be good. I mean, not now, not now when 79 00:04:19,760 --> 00:04:22,880 the time is right, but because she's got dements, it just adds 80 00:04:22,880 --> 00:04:24,320 a naughty to my birthday present. 81 00:04:24,320 --> 00:04:25,880 So I phoned her very early this morning. 82 00:04:25,880 --> 00:04:31,440 I said Mum. So anyway, the tattoo boys have 83 00:04:31,440 --> 00:04:33,280 been doing a good job. So do you mind? 84 00:04:33,280 --> 00:04:34,840 Do you mind just taking your shirts off? 85 00:04:34,840 --> 00:04:38,320 You're in your jersey. Do you mind just taking it off, 86 00:04:38,320 --> 00:04:39,800 please? But now you can stand up and 87 00:04:39,800 --> 00:04:40,680 take it off, please. Just. 88 00:04:41,360 --> 00:04:43,560 Yeah, yeah. So yeah, yeah. 89 00:04:43,560 --> 00:04:44,480 And you too. None of you. 90 00:04:44,480 --> 00:04:47,240 The other tattoo boy. No, no, no, no, no. 91 00:04:47,240 --> 00:04:50,200 Take it off. Let me hold this down. 92 00:04:54,840 --> 00:04:56,320 So these are my preaching partners. 93 00:04:57,520 --> 00:05:00,440 How are we doing? OK, I've got to lose a bit of 94 00:05:00,440 --> 00:05:02,640 weight and put on some muscle and have some ink. 95 00:05:03,200 --> 00:05:05,600 But but we're going to use you in a moment. 96 00:05:06,880 --> 00:05:11,440 So this is like Christianity. This this is like Christianity. 97 00:05:11,720 --> 00:05:14,440 I I don't if you can't fix it with prestig or super glue, I 98 00:05:14,440 --> 00:05:17,560 normally get a a guy who can. But you know what this is 99 00:05:17,560 --> 00:05:25,040 called? What's it Anybody else know what 100 00:05:25,040 --> 00:05:28,040 this is called? A Jack. 101 00:05:29,120 --> 00:05:30,640 Yeah. But what kind of jackhammer? 102 00:05:34,240 --> 00:05:37,800 Don't say Hilti. That's not the answer. 103 00:05:39,200 --> 00:05:41,560 Who said it? How do you know that? 104 00:05:42,680 --> 00:05:44,720 Your wife told your wife told you. 105 00:05:46,960 --> 00:05:50,600 Your wife told you. You should be embarrassed. 106 00:05:51,600 --> 00:05:53,800 You should be highly, highly embarrassed. 107 00:05:53,800 --> 00:06:00,280 You're one of those prestig guys that is a pneumatic jackhammer. 108 00:06:02,360 --> 00:06:04,480 And this is the challenge of life. 109 00:06:06,440 --> 00:06:08,320 And that's what you and I are like. 110 00:06:09,200 --> 00:06:14,000 If we don't have a source, it is impossible with that thing to 111 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:18,040 break these things unless you plug it into some form of power. 112 00:06:21,040 --> 00:06:23,800 Impossible. And so we're reading Romans 113 00:06:23,800 --> 00:06:27,680 chapter 8 and you can put my Bible up just so you show your I 114 00:06:27,680 --> 00:06:29,760 read. I'm a little bit of ADD funny 115 00:06:29,760 --> 00:06:35,160 guy, but that's my Bible. And this is an invitation into 116 00:06:35,160 --> 00:06:44,280 the very deep part of my heart. And Stephen and Chad have so 117 00:06:44,280 --> 00:06:48,160 well taken us through Chapter 8. And for the next few weeks, 118 00:06:48,160 --> 00:06:49,840 we're going to study this part of Scripture. 119 00:06:51,080 --> 00:06:58,160 It's a very holy, very beautiful, very freeing, very 120 00:06:58,160 --> 00:07:02,760 empowering part of the Bible. And you need to concentrate and 121 00:07:03,640 --> 00:07:08,040 you need to believe it and you need to understand it so that 122 00:07:08,040 --> 00:07:13,040 that thing can be released inside of our hearts so that 123 00:07:13,040 --> 00:07:16,680 these things around us can be broken and we can start to live 124 00:07:16,680 --> 00:07:23,280 in freedom. When I look at that, and I've 125 00:07:23,280 --> 00:07:25,800 underlined not for your sake, I've just done it in my Bible, 126 00:07:25,800 --> 00:07:31,600 over time, you'll see the word holiness, holiness. 127 00:07:31,600 --> 00:07:34,040 And you think, wow, I'm coming to church. 128 00:07:34,040 --> 00:07:36,040 Holiness, if you can just put Holy Spirit up, please. 129 00:07:36,040 --> 00:07:45,840 For me in Pretoria, the Trinity goes like this. 130 00:07:45,840 --> 00:07:52,000 God the Father, God the Son, and Angus Buchan, that's the 131 00:07:52,000 --> 00:07:56,680 Trinity. When you mention Holy Spirit, 132 00:07:56,680 --> 00:08:03,840 people immediately become nervous for two reasons, and 133 00:08:03,840 --> 00:08:08,600 they're both up there. The first one is the word holy, 134 00:08:10,480 --> 00:08:12,640 and the second reason is the word spirit. 135 00:08:14,840 --> 00:08:17,120 And the moment you talk about holiness, people say don't put 136 00:08:17,120 --> 00:08:20,280 your stuff on me, don't put your stuff on me. 137 00:08:22,400 --> 00:08:25,840 And the moment you talk about Spirit, you think, oh, hectic 138 00:08:26,400 --> 00:08:33,159 speaking in tongues, weird stuff, prophecy. 139 00:08:34,240 --> 00:08:35,679 You're going to get your friends to church. 140 00:08:35,679 --> 00:08:37,919 Your Catholic friends are going to come on this Sunday that I 141 00:08:37,919 --> 00:08:41,320 speak on the Holy Spirit. I remember inviting my boss to 142 00:08:41,320 --> 00:08:43,840 church. He didn't come, didn't come. 143 00:08:43,840 --> 00:08:46,360 And then one Sunday he came and one of my friends decided he's 144 00:08:46,360 --> 00:08:49,240 going to jump. So he started jumping all around 145 00:08:49,240 --> 00:08:52,480 the congregation, all around past my bus, all the way then. 146 00:08:52,480 --> 00:08:54,760 And I lined them up and as he came towards, you know, just put 147 00:08:54,760 --> 00:08:58,560 my foot down and he tripped and I stuck my foot on his chest. 148 00:09:00,160 --> 00:09:01,640 Is that wrong? Yes, of course it's wrong. 149 00:09:01,640 --> 00:09:03,600 I've grown up dramatically since then. 150 00:09:07,320 --> 00:09:10,440 But let's just forget about the person next to you and just 151 00:09:10,440 --> 00:09:14,800 think of Holy Spirit. What does that mean, Holy 152 00:09:14,800 --> 00:09:20,080 Spirit? And you might have had bad 153 00:09:20,080 --> 00:09:23,160 experiences with the church. You might have had weird 154 00:09:23,160 --> 00:09:26,760 experiences with the church. You might have come from a 155 00:09:26,760 --> 00:09:30,840 spiritual realm or be worried about witch doctors or sangomas 156 00:09:30,840 --> 00:09:34,000 or maybe and you think, so now what? 157 00:09:34,040 --> 00:09:37,680 You sort of keep this aside. And we build the church with God 158 00:09:37,680 --> 00:09:41,760 the Father and God the Son, but we never allow access to God the 159 00:09:41,760 --> 00:09:46,400 Holy Spirit because we are, we grow up with a tendency to 160 00:09:46,400 --> 00:09:49,280 reject anything where I lose control. 161 00:09:50,480 --> 00:09:53,560 And So what we'll do, we'll do God on my terms. 162 00:09:55,040 --> 00:09:58,760 We'll do God by my terms. And what I'll do is I'll just 163 00:09:58,760 --> 00:10:02,320 dig really deep. Instead of plugging this thing 164 00:10:02,320 --> 00:10:07,320 into a power source, instead of taking this cord and linking it 165 00:10:07,320 --> 00:10:10,520 to a power source, I will pick it up and I will try and smash 166 00:10:10,560 --> 00:10:14,480 these rocks by myself. And then Christianity becomes 167 00:10:14,480 --> 00:10:18,880 really exhausting, becomes really, really tiring. 168 00:10:21,040 --> 00:10:24,120 Amen. And we want to teach you that 169 00:10:24,120 --> 00:10:29,120 Christianity is actually a joy. It's actually a joy, actually 170 00:10:29,120 --> 00:10:32,320 fullness and holiness and but but it but it comes on the 171 00:10:32,320 --> 00:10:34,040 inside. So if you can put my Bible back 172 00:10:34,040 --> 00:10:37,480 up again. And so you see these words, 173 00:10:37,480 --> 00:10:43,800 holiness and holiness. And then you see this law, law, 174 00:10:44,040 --> 00:10:50,160 law, law, law, law, law, commandment, commandment, 175 00:10:50,160 --> 00:10:55,480 commandment, commandment, law, commandment, law, law, law, law. 176 00:10:55,480 --> 00:10:58,400 You think, Oh my head, they're going to come to church and they 177 00:10:58,400 --> 00:11:01,320 want me to be holy and they're going to put the law on me. 178 00:11:03,000 --> 00:11:07,240 Let me explain the law to you. My son went to a boarding 179 00:11:07,240 --> 00:11:09,720 school. The law and the rules. 180 00:11:09,720 --> 00:11:11,880 And we have to have rules because if we don't have rules, 181 00:11:11,880 --> 00:11:15,560 we have lawlessness. But laws cannot change you 182 00:11:15,560 --> 00:11:19,800 inside. Laws just put restrictions on 183 00:11:19,800 --> 00:11:22,480 you. And most of the time, we are 184 00:11:22,480 --> 00:11:25,600 either rewarded or punished according to the law. 185 00:11:26,440 --> 00:11:29,000 And what happens, we come into the church and think, if I 186 00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:34,880 behave well, I will be rewarded, and if I behave badly, I will be 187 00:11:34,880 --> 00:11:37,520 punished. That's how most of you grew up 188 00:11:37,520 --> 00:11:40,080 in the church. But the church doesn't work like 189 00:11:40,080 --> 00:11:44,760 that because the church is not an external set of laws trying 190 00:11:44,760 --> 00:11:49,080 to contain your behavior. And so for five years, I saw my 191 00:11:49,080 --> 00:11:52,280 son and his hundred classmates go through the law. 192 00:11:52,280 --> 00:11:54,520 You're not allowed to drink and you're not allowed to smoke. 193 00:11:55,560 --> 00:11:57,920 Obviously, as a schoolboy, you're not allowed to do that. 194 00:11:58,640 --> 00:12:01,320 But at the end of their passing out parade, when they got their 195 00:12:01,320 --> 00:12:04,400 old boys tires and as they walked off the gates of the 196 00:12:04,400 --> 00:12:07,200 school, the first thing they did was pop the champagne and open 197 00:12:07,200 --> 00:12:09,800 the cigars. The way that they expressed 198 00:12:09,800 --> 00:12:12,080 their freedom was by drinking and smoking. 199 00:12:13,800 --> 00:12:16,520 And so you realize the rule can't actually change you from 200 00:12:16,520 --> 00:12:19,080 inside. And so if you come to the church 201 00:12:19,080 --> 00:12:22,720 and you get smacked on the nose and you go away and you be 202 00:12:22,720 --> 00:12:25,040 naughty and you come back the next week to get smacked on the 203 00:12:25,040 --> 00:12:27,360 nose again, and then you come back and you go, I didn't smoke 204 00:12:27,360 --> 00:12:29,640 as much as I did last week. So I feel a bit better. 205 00:12:30,200 --> 00:12:32,640 And you feel good and bad and good and bad and good and bad. 206 00:12:32,640 --> 00:12:34,440 They said no, there's got to be a better way. 207 00:12:34,440 --> 00:12:37,720 There's got to be a better way, which Stephen has been 208 00:12:37,720 --> 00:12:41,680 introducing to us. And so God does want holiness. 209 00:12:42,560 --> 00:12:47,720 And so we don't get justified by obedience, but justification 210 00:12:47,720 --> 00:12:52,040 does lead to obedience, and we get completely covered by grace. 211 00:12:52,400 --> 00:12:54,960 But God wants us to outwork holiness, but not from the 212 00:12:54,960 --> 00:12:59,360 outside in, from the inside. And if you read this little 213 00:12:59,360 --> 00:13:04,120 scripture at the bottom here, it says, but now by dying to what 214 00:13:04,120 --> 00:13:07,120 once bound us, we have been released from the law so that we 215 00:13:07,120 --> 00:13:11,440 serve in a new way, say new way of the Spirit, and not in the 216 00:13:11,440 --> 00:13:15,960 old way of the written code. Now you can see what we're 217 00:13:15,960 --> 00:13:19,760 studying here with Stephen, and I think it's been an amazing 218 00:13:19,760 --> 00:13:21,640 introduction from Stephen and Chad. 219 00:13:22,720 --> 00:13:30,160 What does it say? Say it, say it. 220 00:13:43,210 --> 00:13:46,130 So you got the law, you got the spirit. 221 00:13:47,570 --> 00:13:50,810 We are not under the law. We are under the spirit. 222 00:13:51,930 --> 00:13:55,330 But most of you are scared of the Spirit. 223 00:14:00,840 --> 00:14:05,280 And push away the spirit. And so Christianity is hard. 224 00:14:06,840 --> 00:14:10,000 So I'm going to get my 2 preaching buddies to do a 225 00:14:10,000 --> 00:14:18,480 hammering competition. Come here, big boys. 4 nails 226 00:14:18,480 --> 00:14:27,410 each and a hammer. He's already telling you what to 227 00:14:27,410 --> 00:14:27,650 do. Yeah. 228 00:14:27,730 --> 00:14:33,560 Told him he must let me win. 4 nails. 4 nails. 229 00:14:36,160 --> 00:14:41,880 You got four and a hammer. You can check. 230 00:14:41,880 --> 00:14:47,120 Ease on the bluff. That's hors d'oeuvres. 231 00:14:49,480 --> 00:14:54,600 OK, on three we start nailing them 123. 232 00:15:01,920 --> 00:15:15,520 Hard, hard, hard. Yeah, yeah. 233 00:15:18,920 --> 00:15:21,520 Not very straight, but they keep going a bit harder and faster. 234 00:15:21,960 --> 00:15:23,320 Give up smoking. Give up quickly. 235 00:15:23,320 --> 00:15:24,840 Give up quickly. Pornography. 236 00:15:24,920 --> 00:15:27,400 Pornography. Stop your pornography. 237 00:15:29,560 --> 00:15:30,440 Yeah. Come on, give it. 238 00:15:30,440 --> 00:15:32,280 You preach better than your nail, Bruce. 239 00:15:36,600 --> 00:15:39,040 Come now, let's look at your dad's remarkably poor work. 240 00:15:40,640 --> 00:15:43,960 Come now, stand there. One of them's gone through. 241 00:15:47,400 --> 00:15:51,200 How's it look if you 2 can just hold that for me? 242 00:16:00,400 --> 00:16:03,000 Hey, Chick, you're the reason I didn't become a Catholic. 243 00:16:03,000 --> 00:16:04,200 What do you say? Be careful. 244 00:16:10,560 --> 00:16:16,360 Ah, fully aware. It's in on it. 245 00:16:16,640 --> 00:16:21,800 Out. Ricky, come get it out. 246 00:16:21,800 --> 00:16:25,400 Yes. Listen. 247 00:16:36,520 --> 00:16:38,440 Put up Romans chapter 8 to me, please. 248 00:16:38,920 --> 00:16:41,040 The second part of it, just before you can keep standing 249 00:16:41,040 --> 00:16:46,640 there. Second part, Numa, part, second 250 00:16:46,640 --> 00:16:49,800 part, right. Therefore there's now no 251 00:16:49,800 --> 00:16:53,400 condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, because Christ 252 00:16:53,400 --> 00:16:55,600 Jesus, the law of the Spirit, Numa. 253 00:16:56,520 --> 00:17:01,720 What kind of drill is that the Numa of life set me free from 254 00:17:01,720 --> 00:17:03,600 the law of sin and death. Next verse please. 255 00:17:08,040 --> 00:17:10,520 We do not live according to the sinful nature, but according to 256 00:17:10,520 --> 00:17:18,079 the say Numa, but those who live in accordance with her have 257 00:17:18,079 --> 00:17:21,319 their mind set on what? The next verse, please. 258 00:17:22,920 --> 00:17:25,520 The mind of sinful man is death, but the mind controlled by the. 259 00:18:05,280 --> 00:18:10,360 None. Christianity by the power of 260 00:18:10,360 --> 00:18:16,400 God. Christianity by human effort. 261 00:18:38,410 --> 00:18:43,840 Or you must love your wife, you must look after her, you must 262 00:18:43,840 --> 00:18:47,000 treat her properly. When you're really tired and 263 00:18:47,000 --> 00:18:48,800 grumpy, you're going to have to lay down, you're laughing, 264 00:18:48,800 --> 00:18:52,880 you're going to have to serve her because God wants to use you 265 00:18:52,920 --> 00:18:57,800 and her to show people what it's like to live by the Spirit of 266 00:18:57,800 --> 00:19:02,080 God. Sometimes I'll get really tired 267 00:19:04,280 --> 00:19:07,400 and marriage is not easy because a man has to live with the woman 268 00:19:07,400 --> 00:19:09,720 and they're different. And come on with me. 269 00:19:10,320 --> 00:19:16,920 Oh God, oh God, oh God, oh God, oh God. 270 00:19:25,240 --> 00:19:28,560 So Holy Spirit, would you, would you just fill me? 271 00:19:28,560 --> 00:19:35,080 Holy Spirit, would you take my small offering and instead of 272 00:19:35,080 --> 00:19:40,520 the law and works and activity and buy flowers? 273 00:19:40,520 --> 00:19:43,600 And instead of that, Lord God, would you fill me from the 274 00:19:43,600 --> 00:19:46,400 inside? Would you do something deep 275 00:19:46,400 --> 00:19:48,680 inside of me, Lord God, that I don't live with the rule? 276 00:19:48,800 --> 00:19:53,480 You must, you must, you can't, you shouldn't stop, start, do, 277 00:19:53,600 --> 00:19:59,000 give, don't you start acting pneumatically. 278 00:19:59,920 --> 00:20:02,120 You start acting by the Spirit of God. 279 00:20:03,280 --> 00:20:07,880 And then I bless her not with something from the out, 280 00:20:07,880 --> 00:20:10,720 something from the inside goes to her. 281 00:20:11,440 --> 00:20:14,440 And then she says, Lord. Can I love that guy? 282 00:20:14,440 --> 00:20:19,920 He's he's difficult sometimes he's grumpy, sometimes Lord God, 283 00:20:19,920 --> 00:20:23,440 he's unreasonable. And sometimes Lord God, he's too 284 00:20:23,440 --> 00:20:25,720 short. He he answers too quickly or 285 00:20:25,720 --> 00:20:29,560 sometimes he's harsh. But Lord God can somehow, Lord 286 00:20:29,560 --> 00:20:34,800 God can somehow can you pneumatically take me from just 287 00:20:34,800 --> 00:20:38,480 being a vessel that lies on the ground and actually be filled 288 00:20:38,480 --> 00:20:42,840 with the Spirit, the numer of God so that I can bless my 289 00:20:42,840 --> 00:20:48,000 husband with those words. And so I am the product of being 290 00:20:48,000 --> 00:21:00,120 pneumatically loved by my wife. And what the scripture says in 291 00:21:00,120 --> 00:21:05,560 Romans 8 as we read it. Let's put my Bible back up 292 00:21:05,560 --> 00:21:08,240 again, if you don't mind my Bible. 293 00:21:15,600 --> 00:21:17,880 Which is therefore, brothers, you have an obligation, but it's 294 00:21:17,880 --> 00:21:21,440 not to the sinful nature to live according to it for you live. 295 00:21:21,440 --> 00:21:23,960 If you live according to the sinful nature, you will die. 296 00:21:24,800 --> 00:21:27,760 But if by the sinful nature you put death the myth deeds of the 297 00:21:27,760 --> 00:21:30,280 body, you will live. I've been quite taken by this 298 00:21:30,280 --> 00:21:34,360 verse. If the numer of God deals with 299 00:21:34,360 --> 00:21:39,360 me, I will live. And so this is my illustration. 300 00:21:40,480 --> 00:21:43,920 If I said to you, what is the stinkiest animal on earth, you 301 00:21:43,920 --> 00:21:49,040 would say to me, a pig? A person is as greedy as a, a 302 00:21:49,040 --> 00:21:52,680 person stinks like a. If a man commits adultery, acts 303 00:21:52,680 --> 00:21:59,320 like A and then God, when Peter's there and he's under the 304 00:21:59,320 --> 00:22:04,960 law, it's under the rules of the church, under the rules of his 305 00:22:04,960 --> 00:22:09,600 religion, and God drops a sheet from heaven and it's full of all 306 00:22:09,600 --> 00:22:14,520 sorts of dirty animals. And you've got to believe inside 307 00:22:14,520 --> 00:22:20,040 of there were pigs, dirty, stinking feces, eating fat pigs. 308 00:22:20,960 --> 00:22:26,880 And God says kill and eat. So God's basically saying, you 309 00:22:26,880 --> 00:22:29,200 know what, Peter, if you understand this gospel, you're 310 00:22:29,200 --> 00:22:31,680 going to love Rory Dyer. He's a pig, he stinks, but 311 00:22:31,680 --> 00:22:35,840 you're going to love her. And Peter says that's not right. 312 00:22:35,840 --> 00:22:37,520 I've never eaten anything impure. 313 00:22:38,000 --> 00:22:39,520 I thought, why did he say kill and eat? 314 00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:43,240 And I realized this. When the pig dies, it starts to 315 00:22:43,240 --> 00:22:45,880 live. Because you cannot imagine 316 00:22:45,880 --> 00:22:49,680 breakfast without bacon. You can't. 317 00:22:50,320 --> 00:22:53,760 You can't. You can't imagine breakfast. 318 00:22:54,000 --> 00:22:57,200 How can something that stinks so much when it's alive smells so 319 00:22:57,200 --> 00:23:04,690 good when it's dead? And for you connoisseurs, a good 320 00:23:04,690 --> 00:23:08,890 Parmer ham. A sliced Parmer ham on a good 321 00:23:08,890 --> 00:23:13,200 biscuit with a bit of Brie cheese and cranberry sauce, or 322 00:23:13,200 --> 00:23:16,960 crackling in front of the fire on a winter's night with a glass 323 00:23:16,960 --> 00:23:19,400 of red wine. You see, when it dies, it 324 00:23:19,400 --> 00:23:22,800 actually starts to live. And so you know what? 325 00:23:23,800 --> 00:23:29,680 I'm just a dirty pig. But by the grace of God, I trust 326 00:23:31,080 --> 00:23:33,440 as somebody walked in and wished me happy birthday and said, when 327 00:23:33,440 --> 00:23:34,800 you arrived here, you were really. 328 00:23:34,800 --> 00:23:37,680 Venkat said. Thank you for the compliment. 329 00:23:41,320 --> 00:23:43,720 I actually thought maybe I'm smelling a little bit more like 330 00:23:43,720 --> 00:23:48,600 bacon now, or maybe like Parmer Han, or maybe like a crumbed 331 00:23:48,600 --> 00:23:54,080 chop with some Mashed potato. But when the Spirit gets hold of 332 00:23:54,080 --> 00:24:01,400 me and the numer of God, the air starts to flow through me. 333 00:24:02,200 --> 00:24:06,960 The life of God starts to break out around me. 334 00:24:08,360 --> 00:24:27,500 This is my prayer. That you will be plugged in to 335 00:24:27,500 --> 00:24:31,180 the Spirit of God. Instead of trying to fight those 336 00:24:31,180 --> 00:24:34,260 rocks, kick those rocks, get removal companies to remove 337 00:24:34,260 --> 00:24:40,620 those rocks. You just plug in and allow the 338 00:24:40,620 --> 00:24:45,780 Spirit of God to lead you apart from the law into freedom and 339 00:24:45,780 --> 00:24:48,240 holiness. Amen.