1 00:00:04,160 --> 00:00:08,680 So we're going to wrap it up today in in in 25 or 30 minutes. 2 00:00:09,080 --> 00:00:11,240 I was trying to show you Stevens preached from last week. 3 00:00:11,800 --> 00:00:14,480 If it can just go up on the stage, up on the board. 4 00:00:15,640 --> 00:00:18,880 And it's a beautiful. It's one of the best preachers I 5 00:00:18,880 --> 00:00:20,200 think I've ever heard in my life. 6 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:23,080 And I think you opened the scripture so beautifully, 7 00:00:23,080 --> 00:00:29,720 Steven, and he, he bracketed this, the text of this 8 00:00:29,720 --> 00:00:34,520 incredible conflict between the vices and the virtues of what 9 00:00:34,520 --> 00:00:38,480 happens in the world and, and this fruit of the spirit that 10 00:00:38,480 --> 00:00:40,720 we're trying to produce. But I want to take it. 11 00:00:40,720 --> 00:00:46,040 I want to zoom out just one slide further and, and actually 12 00:00:46,040 --> 00:00:49,760 show you that actually, if you, if you take it further, it's 13 00:00:49,760 --> 00:00:51,720 you, my brothers. And the next verse as well, 14 00:00:51,720 --> 00:00:57,680 please, and you'll see my brothers and you'll see the last 15 00:00:57,680 --> 00:01:03,120 verse is my brothers. So what actually happens is that 16 00:01:03,320 --> 00:01:06,480 Stephen did this incredible thing about all these vices and 17 00:01:06,480 --> 00:01:08,080 virtues that are fighting each other. 18 00:01:08,680 --> 00:01:11,600 But if you take the bracket further out, you will see it's 19 00:01:11,600 --> 00:01:14,640 relational. God is trying to build a 20 00:01:14,640 --> 00:01:16,760 community that looks different to the world. 21 00:01:17,680 --> 00:01:21,240 And, and what we do, especially if you've been to a Christian 22 00:01:21,240 --> 00:01:24,240 School, you have, you have a whole lot of classes about the 23 00:01:24,240 --> 00:01:26,240 fruit of the spirit. And the fruit of the spirit is 24 00:01:26,440 --> 00:01:28,800 Lovejoy, peace, patience, kindness, gentleness, 25 00:01:28,800 --> 00:01:31,360 self-control. We can all sing the songs and we 26 00:01:31,360 --> 00:01:33,680 go through these things of how to apply to ourselves and it 27 00:01:33,680 --> 00:01:37,400 becomes a law in itself. But the law is not meant to be 28 00:01:37,480 --> 00:01:40,320 for me to become peaceful and full of joy. 29 00:01:40,560 --> 00:01:43,600 It's actually to apply it into a community context. 30 00:01:44,360 --> 00:01:47,520 And so we are deeply individualistic, deeply. 31 00:01:47,760 --> 00:01:50,160 And we think when we read the Bible, we're reading it in an 32 00:01:50,160 --> 00:01:53,160 individualistic capacity, but the brackets of the whole 33 00:01:53,160 --> 00:01:55,800 scripture is that we can actually get a community to go 34 00:01:55,800 --> 00:01:57,720 together. And, and there's this 35 00:01:57,720 --> 00:02:00,480 circumcision issue, which is an external thing. 36 00:02:00,480 --> 00:02:03,920 Last week I saw more black guys on the stage than white guys. 37 00:02:03,920 --> 00:02:08,320 First time I've ever seen that in three CI and the amazing 38 00:02:08,320 --> 00:02:13,040 young black guy leading worship. And about six or eight months 39 00:02:13,040 --> 00:02:15,360 ago when he led worship, he sang an Afrikaans song. 40 00:02:16,680 --> 00:02:20,040 And I thought that was really, really, really amazing because 41 00:02:20,040 --> 00:02:22,840 he did it to honor the majority of this auditorium, which is 42 00:02:22,840 --> 00:02:26,880 Afrikaans. But actually, he doesn't need to 43 00:02:26,880 --> 00:02:29,080 sing an Afrikaans song for you to accept him. 44 00:02:30,200 --> 00:02:34,320 He's accepted in Christ. And so we have all these things 45 00:02:34,320 --> 00:02:36,640 in Galatians. The issue is circumcision. 46 00:02:37,800 --> 00:02:40,840 But if we're not careful, we can take that little sign to 47 00:02:40,840 --> 00:02:43,760 anything. You must dress to please me, and 48 00:02:43,760 --> 00:02:46,120 you must sing to please me. And it's OK to have black 49 00:02:46,120 --> 00:02:49,200 worship leaders as long as every time you sing a set of songs, 50 00:02:49,200 --> 00:02:51,840 there's one Afrikaans song. That way we'll accept you. 51 00:02:52,680 --> 00:02:55,600 Now that's rubbish. We will accept you because of 52 00:02:55,600 --> 00:02:58,200 Christ. And, and we just have to be 53 00:02:58,200 --> 00:03:02,080 careful that we don't put these sort of little things upon 54 00:03:02,080 --> 00:03:06,240 people in order to make it a little bit more palatable to 55 00:03:06,240 --> 00:03:09,640 work together. The, the, the, it would be 56 00:03:09,640 --> 00:03:12,560 difficult for some people to walk in, one, to see a woman 57 00:03:12,560 --> 00:03:15,360 leading a meeting, two, to see a black woman leading a meeting. 58 00:03:15,560 --> 00:03:19,200 It, it, it's quite difficult. But her and I are completely 59 00:03:19,200 --> 00:03:23,000 equal in Christ. That's the book of Galatians and 60 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:26,960 the and the and the and the wow factor is that you and I can 61 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:30,760 come from such unbelievably different backgrounds and yet 62 00:03:30,760 --> 00:03:34,520 form a community where we exercise peace and joy and love 63 00:03:34,520 --> 00:03:38,040 and patience and kindness and gentleness and self-control. 64 00:03:39,040 --> 00:03:42,960 Not to the phrase that says suit suk suit suk suit is a worldly 65 00:03:42,960 --> 00:03:46,400 phrase where you where you gather around people that are 66 00:03:46,400 --> 00:03:49,240 similar to you. There is no power in suit Suk 67 00:03:49,240 --> 00:03:53,040 suit. It's very easy for me to get on 68 00:03:53,040 --> 00:03:57,040 with an A type personality who loves rugby, enjoys talking and 69 00:03:57,040 --> 00:03:59,200 tell stories. Very easy for me to do that. 70 00:03:59,400 --> 00:04:03,720 It's not that easy for me to get on with an introverted guy who 71 00:04:03,720 --> 00:04:06,960 is shy by nature. And actually the blessing is 72 00:04:06,960 --> 00:04:10,440 when him and I start working together, the pulpit should 73 00:04:10,440 --> 00:04:12,360 actually thrive and people should be fed. 74 00:04:12,560 --> 00:04:14,800 And then you throw some more people and you throw Christian 75 00:04:14,800 --> 00:04:18,519 in from the Congo and you throw Eugene and you grew up in the in 76 00:04:18,519 --> 00:04:20,839 Kamati put. And as we start understanding 77 00:04:20,839 --> 00:04:24,240 each other, we start to build a community of brotherhood. 78 00:04:25,360 --> 00:04:29,600 And so not only is the theology bracketed but conceited, but 79 00:04:29,600 --> 00:04:32,080 it's actually, if you take it one further, we are brothers and 80 00:04:32,080 --> 00:04:36,040 sisters in Christ. And that's vitally important as 81 00:04:36,040 --> 00:04:37,720 we understand this. Are you with me? 82 00:04:38,160 --> 00:04:40,360 And so we've looked at a whole lot of different words through 83 00:04:40,360 --> 00:04:41,840 this time. You can just put the words up 84 00:04:41,880 --> 00:04:44,640 there and have tried to understand them. 85 00:04:45,920 --> 00:04:49,120 So righteousness, what is that? Is that by behavior, the law? 86 00:04:49,360 --> 00:04:52,400 The law is the whole of the Old Testament, thousands and 87 00:04:52,400 --> 00:04:56,200 thousands of laws. Abraham, we are credited with 88 00:04:56,400 --> 00:04:58,720 Abraham. We've got a sinful nature. 89 00:04:59,200 --> 00:05:02,840 So, so it's like I try and do one thing, but I do another 90 00:05:02,840 --> 00:05:05,320 thing in the book of Galatians that I read, it's called the 91 00:05:05,320 --> 00:05:08,440 flesh in in the book that Stephen is called the sinful 92 00:05:08,440 --> 00:05:10,440 nature. So it's the things I try and do. 93 00:05:10,480 --> 00:05:11,960 I don't do the things I don't do. 94 00:05:12,360 --> 00:05:14,480 It's just like there's this wrestle inside of me. 95 00:05:14,800 --> 00:05:18,120 There's Moses and, and a lot of the church preaches Moses. 96 00:05:18,120 --> 00:05:20,400 We've got to live under the law. We've got to become obedient, 97 00:05:20,400 --> 00:05:22,920 but we preach Abraham, the circumcision. 98 00:05:22,920 --> 00:05:24,960 The circumcision is an external thing. 99 00:05:25,520 --> 00:05:29,200 And you have to be very, very careful that we don't have 100 00:05:29,240 --> 00:05:33,120 external factors that accept us into the church. 101 00:05:34,240 --> 00:05:36,680 I don't like the way he dressed. I don't like the way he wears a 102 00:05:36,680 --> 00:05:39,760 hat. I don't like the external things 103 00:05:40,160 --> 00:05:45,600 are not important. And, and, and we see people who 104 00:05:45,600 --> 00:05:48,640 behave like hooligans during the week and then on Sunday they put 105 00:05:48,640 --> 00:05:53,680 on a jacket and a tie. It is steeped inside of our 106 00:05:53,680 --> 00:05:56,400 culture. On Sundays, they put on a jacket 107 00:05:56,400 --> 00:06:02,600 and a tie to somehow appease God, be more acceptable, be nice 108 00:06:02,600 --> 00:06:06,680 to Jesus. And I've said this, one of the 109 00:06:06,680 --> 00:06:09,240 biggest fights was for some of you to come in short pants. 110 00:06:09,560 --> 00:06:13,520 And I know it's still a fight, but it is not external 111 00:06:13,520 --> 00:06:16,360 acceptance that brings us into the body of Christ. 112 00:06:16,600 --> 00:06:18,560 It's Jesus. Are you with me? 113 00:06:18,920 --> 00:06:22,080 And he just goes over and over again, say, Rudy, why do you 114 00:06:22,080 --> 00:06:24,480 keep doing this? I'm going to keep doing it until 115 00:06:24,480 --> 00:06:28,240 we are completely free. Amen. 116 00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:32,280 And then we start honoring one another, and then we start 117 00:06:32,280 --> 00:06:35,560 serving one another, not inviting you to your house, that 118 00:06:35,560 --> 00:06:38,360 you can invite me back. And we have parties between Moy 119 00:06:38,360 --> 00:06:44,840 Cliff and Boardwalk. It's, it's got to have some kind 120 00:06:44,840 --> 00:06:47,640 of framework. I can't have a young black guy 121 00:06:47,680 --> 00:06:51,240 leading worship thinking I must sing an Afrikaans song to at 122 00:06:51,240 --> 00:06:53,120 least. No, He must do that to honor 123 00:06:53,120 --> 00:06:58,160 you, but you must not expect that of him in order to be 124 00:06:58,160 --> 00:07:00,760 accepted. And so we live with this honor 125 00:07:00,760 --> 00:07:04,040 and yet acceptance, honor and acceptance, acceptance and 126 00:07:04,040 --> 00:07:05,480 honor. Amen. 127 00:07:06,120 --> 00:07:08,440 And it's not easy. It's easier just to walk out and 128 00:07:08,440 --> 00:07:09,960 go and join the church that's like you. 129 00:07:10,720 --> 00:07:12,560 And then we don't have to battle with these things. 130 00:07:13,200 --> 00:07:16,200 And then, and then the Bible says the angels look down upon 131 00:07:16,200 --> 00:07:20,000 the earth and they aren't marveled at the manifold wisdom 132 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:22,680 of God. Manifold means multi colored, 133 00:07:22,680 --> 00:07:26,640 multi talented, multi different backgrounds, multi everything as 134 00:07:26,640 --> 00:07:29,040 God brings them together. The angels look and think flip 135 00:07:29,040 --> 00:07:32,840 God, you are amazing. You're amazing. 136 00:07:35,000 --> 00:07:37,680 I've just I've just I mean I was sitting at the at the door 137 00:07:37,680 --> 00:07:40,600 today. I was standing at the door and a 138 00:07:40,600 --> 00:07:44,280 young girl that I actually I'm not baptized. 139 00:07:44,360 --> 00:07:47,000 I am. What's the word dedicated her? 140 00:07:47,840 --> 00:07:51,200 I knew her mom and dad. I dedicated her, she came up to 141 00:07:51,200 --> 00:07:53,040 Pretoria. She is from the English of 142 00:07:53,040 --> 00:07:57,240 English of English families, and she met an Afrikaans guard 143 00:07:57,240 --> 00:08:02,240 called Chicken. You believe it? 144 00:08:04,360 --> 00:08:06,600 We should actually get old rubbie vessels to come up and 145 00:08:06,600 --> 00:08:17,320 sing. And, you know, today they 146 00:08:17,320 --> 00:08:20,040 invited his parents for the first time. 147 00:08:20,040 --> 00:08:22,800 So they're sitting in this auditorium and I just want to 148 00:08:22,800 --> 00:08:26,800 weep. I said, I'm so touched at this 149 00:08:26,840 --> 00:08:29,360 unity. I'm so touched by the diversity. 150 00:08:29,360 --> 00:08:33,320 I'm so touched by the honor across my comfort zone. 151 00:08:34,000 --> 00:08:36,000 That's the book of that's the book of Galatians. 152 00:08:36,760 --> 00:08:39,320 It's it's an honor. And yet there's some of your 153 00:08:39,320 --> 00:08:42,480 conformities that are stuck inside of you that are fighting 154 00:08:42,480 --> 00:08:44,800 with the thinking, I'm disobeying God, or I'm 155 00:08:44,800 --> 00:08:48,040 disobeying my parents, or I'm disobeying my upbringing. 156 00:08:48,320 --> 00:08:50,280 But that is true freedom in Christ. 157 00:08:51,440 --> 00:08:56,400 And we have to disobey anything that does not exist in Scripture 158 00:08:57,120 --> 00:08:59,280 so that we can come into absolute freedom. 159 00:08:59,760 --> 00:09:03,120 Amen. And holiness, God wants 160 00:09:03,120 --> 00:09:04,040 holiness. People say to me, you're 161 00:09:04,040 --> 00:09:06,840 preaching so radically that we're not going to be holy. 162 00:09:06,840 --> 00:09:10,200 No, God wants a holy church. He doesn't want sin. 163 00:09:10,200 --> 00:09:13,720 He wants sin to stop. But the way we get to holiness 164 00:09:13,720 --> 00:09:17,280 is not by abiding of the law. The way we get to holy holiness 165 00:09:17,600 --> 00:09:19,560 is by the Holy Spirit coming inside of us. 166 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:21,880 And so there's the cross and there's the grace, and there's 167 00:09:21,880 --> 00:09:24,720 circumcision, there's the law, and there's all of these things 168 00:09:24,720 --> 00:09:27,480 in the book of Galatians. So let's have a look from where 169 00:09:27,480 --> 00:09:30,000 Stephen finished last week, verse 26. 170 00:09:31,360 --> 00:09:35,920 It says, let us not become conceited, provoking and envying 171 00:09:35,920 --> 00:09:37,400 each other. He's just finished with the 172 00:09:37,400 --> 00:09:40,160 fruits of the Spirit. And the first thing he says, let 173 00:09:40,160 --> 00:09:44,080 us not become conceited, provoking and envying each 174 00:09:44,080 --> 00:09:48,040 other. Provocation is strong people 175 00:09:48,480 --> 00:09:52,720 poking weak people. I will never provoke somebody 176 00:09:52,720 --> 00:09:57,120 who's stronger than me. I only provoke when I know that 177 00:09:57,120 --> 00:10:00,960 I can win. So why don't you stand, Simon? 178 00:10:02,840 --> 00:10:06,680 I promise you. I promise you in front of all 179 00:10:06,680 --> 00:10:08,680 these people, I will never provoke you. 180 00:10:10,040 --> 00:10:13,320 I might smack you from behind with a baseball bat, but it'll 181 00:10:13,320 --> 00:10:17,360 be a low blow from the back. You don't provoke because you 182 00:10:17,360 --> 00:10:18,720 know you're going to get beaten up. 183 00:10:19,480 --> 00:10:22,760 So, so say, listen. Inside of the church, you've got 184 00:10:22,760 --> 00:10:24,520 strong people and you've got weak people. 185 00:10:25,640 --> 00:10:30,800 Don't pick on the weak guys. Don't provoke them because we're 186 00:10:30,800 --> 00:10:34,840 actually meant to be in a place, you know, The church is actually 187 00:10:34,840 --> 00:10:38,440 not the survival of the fittest or the survival of the 188 00:10:38,440 --> 00:10:41,560 strongest. The church is actually the 189 00:10:41,560 --> 00:10:45,600 survival of the weakest. It says is a bruised reader will 190 00:10:45,600 --> 00:10:47,440 not break in. A smoldering Wicker will not 191 00:10:47,440 --> 00:10:49,680 snuff out. And so when you come into the 192 00:10:49,680 --> 00:10:52,880 church, it shouldn't be pushing you at your weak place like a 193 00:10:52,880 --> 00:10:55,760 push, push, push, push, push and pull something reactions. 194 00:10:55,760 --> 00:10:59,120 No, don't provoke each other and don't envy each other. 195 00:11:00,080 --> 00:11:03,000 And so there's some really successful people in this 196 00:11:03,000 --> 00:11:06,200 church, but don't look at their success and think, I wish I had 197 00:11:06,200 --> 00:11:07,160 it. You haven't got it. 198 00:11:08,280 --> 00:11:12,720 So don't envy them because provocation and envy breaks the 199 00:11:12,720 --> 00:11:15,840 fruit of the Spirit. And So what we should actually 200 00:11:15,840 --> 00:11:18,400 do is celebrate the fact that some people in our church have 201 00:11:18,400 --> 00:11:24,760 been blessed. A man has joined the church. 202 00:11:24,760 --> 00:11:27,400 He said, you know, when I'd walked out this, he said before 203 00:11:27,400 --> 00:11:30,800 I got to my car, I counted six and a half million rands worth 204 00:11:30,800 --> 00:11:32,720 of vehicles. I say praise God. 205 00:11:33,800 --> 00:11:35,880 Praise God, some of you have just been blessed. 206 00:11:36,480 --> 00:11:38,360 Everything you touch turns to gold. 207 00:11:38,960 --> 00:11:41,720 And actually, it's so nice to have you in the church and I'm 208 00:11:41,720 --> 00:11:44,120 not going to envy you. I don't want your car, but I 209 00:11:44,120 --> 00:11:46,640 can't celebrate the fact that you're going to don't provoke an 210 00:11:46,640 --> 00:11:48,320 envy. Just enjoy each people don't 211 00:11:48,320 --> 00:11:50,720 think, oh, I wish I had that. Or why did it go so well for 212 00:11:50,720 --> 00:11:52,480 him? And how come it hasn't gone so 213 00:11:52,480 --> 00:11:56,720 well for me? We sort of, we sort of find 214 00:11:56,720 --> 00:12:01,080 peace, find peace with each other, Lovejoy, peace, patience, 215 00:12:01,080 --> 00:12:03,680 kindness. We're not going to break it with 216 00:12:03,720 --> 00:12:07,000 sort of flesh. And the church is no different 217 00:12:07,000 --> 00:12:09,680 to the world because there's this sort of this fleshliness. 218 00:12:10,960 --> 00:12:12,760 No, we're going to, we're going to enjoy each other. 219 00:12:13,440 --> 00:12:16,360 And when I, when I see a guy drive out and he's brand new, 220 00:12:16,800 --> 00:12:20,120 there's a 4.6 million Rand GT, I've seen it. 221 00:12:20,120 --> 00:12:28,960 I see a drive out and think, wow, wow, God, look what it says 222 00:12:28,960 --> 00:12:35,000 here, brothers say brothers. If someone is caught in a sin, 223 00:12:35,600 --> 00:12:40,560 he's talking to Christians so you can preach Lovejoy, peace, 224 00:12:40,560 --> 00:12:42,240 patience, kindness, gentle and self-control. 225 00:12:42,240 --> 00:12:44,880 They will never ever sin. It's like this auditorium full 226 00:12:44,880 --> 00:12:47,160 of holy people. We, we are trying to be holy. 227 00:12:48,040 --> 00:12:51,800 But if you get caught in sin, that's the same word as trapped. 228 00:12:53,440 --> 00:12:58,640 If someone is caught in sin, you who are spiritual, as you're 229 00:12:58,640 --> 00:13:04,280 trying to be holy, you who are spiritual should restore him 230 00:13:04,720 --> 00:13:08,560 gently. So this is the standard. 231 00:13:08,560 --> 00:13:11,880 This is how we're going to live in three CI Lovejoy, peace, 232 00:13:11,880 --> 00:13:14,160 patience, kindness, gentleness, self-control. 233 00:13:14,320 --> 00:13:15,720 This is what we're going to reject. 234 00:13:15,840 --> 00:13:18,240 Sexual immorality, debauchery, evil thoughts. 235 00:13:18,240 --> 00:13:20,560 We're going to reject that. And this is how we're going to 236 00:13:20,560 --> 00:13:21,480 live. Amen. 237 00:13:22,640 --> 00:13:26,400 And the first thing is like, if anyone gets caught in the sun, 238 00:13:27,320 --> 00:13:31,160 don't be harsh with them. Restore them gently. 239 00:13:33,440 --> 00:13:37,400 I want to be part of a church that when somebody is sinned, 240 00:13:38,120 --> 00:13:40,160 there's not harshness, there's gentleness. 241 00:13:42,440 --> 00:13:45,000 And the picture is just of a bone breaking. 242 00:13:46,720 --> 00:13:50,640 And when a bone is broken, you don't go in and say, how's the 243 00:13:50,640 --> 00:13:56,120 bone doing? I mean, no, they'll send you for 244 00:13:56,160 --> 00:13:57,880 ACT scan. And then if there's not enough 245 00:13:57,880 --> 00:13:59,800 evidence, they'll send you for an MRI scan. 246 00:13:59,800 --> 00:14:02,720 If there's not enough evidence, they'll send you back then and 247 00:14:02,720 --> 00:14:05,480 then and then they will sit. There's a doctor sitting in this 248 00:14:05,480 --> 00:14:07,160 auditorium and there are two doctors sitting in this 249 00:14:07,160 --> 00:14:09,440 auditorium that operate with robots now. 250 00:14:09,440 --> 00:14:13,400 And the doctor said this to me. He said when I used to operate 251 00:14:13,400 --> 00:14:16,840 in the past, if a 42 year old guy had a knee injury when I 252 00:14:16,840 --> 00:14:20,480 operated, I took his knee back to a 42 year old knee back to 253 00:14:20,480 --> 00:14:22,240 health. He said now with the robot, I 254 00:14:22,240 --> 00:14:24,320 take his knee back to a 18 year old knee. 255 00:14:26,200 --> 00:14:27,560 And, and I think that's what he's saying. 256 00:14:27,560 --> 00:14:30,120 He's saying, listen, if somebody's broken their bone 257 00:14:30,120 --> 00:14:35,280 sexually, don't smash them. Don't mock them. 258 00:14:36,040 --> 00:14:38,120 Don't sit and say, hey, we're trying to build this holy 259 00:14:38,120 --> 00:14:42,280 society called the church. But inside the church, the 260 00:14:42,280 --> 00:14:47,160 sinners, he says, listen, just take them and gently put their 261 00:14:47,160 --> 00:14:50,080 bone back together. Not to a 42 year old, back to an 262 00:14:50,080 --> 00:14:53,760 18 year old where the arm and the knee and the joints work 263 00:14:53,760 --> 00:14:57,440 properly together. Hey, man. 264 00:14:58,280 --> 00:15:01,200 And so this is a very high standard that that Paul is 265 00:15:01,200 --> 00:15:05,720 setting, but he's implementing it extremely gently. 266 00:15:07,840 --> 00:15:10,400 And when we set these high standards, you think, oh, it's 267 00:15:10,400 --> 00:15:12,840 another burden to bear, but that's not opposing. 268 00:15:12,840 --> 00:15:19,760 He says Jesus bore the burden. Amen. 269 00:15:22,240 --> 00:15:26,720 But watch yourself or you also may be tempted. 270 00:15:29,040 --> 00:15:32,160 So don't think because your spiritual a guy who's in porno 271 00:15:32,160 --> 00:15:34,760 when you get involved to try and gently just be careful because 272 00:15:34,760 --> 00:15:42,560 you can also get hooked. Carry each other's burdens and 273 00:15:42,560 --> 00:15:44,600 in this way you'll fulfill the law of Christ. 274 00:15:45,360 --> 00:15:48,800 If anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives 275 00:15:48,800 --> 00:15:51,000 themselves. So don't think too much of 276 00:15:51,000 --> 00:15:55,880 yourself, guys, when you sit here when a girl gets up, black 277 00:15:55,880 --> 00:15:58,480 girl gets up and leads, Don't think too much of yourself or a 278 00:15:59,240 --> 00:16:01,720 young guy gets up and leads and stumbles across his words. 279 00:16:01,720 --> 00:16:02,920 Don't think too much of yourself. 280 00:16:02,920 --> 00:16:08,520 You're not that clever. Don't think because you've been 281 00:16:08,520 --> 00:16:11,680 serving God for 65 years that you're more qualified than the 282 00:16:11,680 --> 00:16:16,080 guy who got saved 3 weeks ago. We all hear by the grace of God, 283 00:16:19,240 --> 00:16:21,160 each one should test his own actions. 284 00:16:21,160 --> 00:16:24,000 Then he can take pride in himself without comparing 285 00:16:24,000 --> 00:16:27,120 himself to somebody else. For each one should carry his 286 00:16:27,120 --> 00:16:29,920 own load. So it's very interesting. 287 00:16:30,560 --> 00:16:32,360 I must carry your burden. Why don't you stand hilly? 288 00:16:36,280 --> 00:16:39,560 The Bible says I must help you carry your burden, but I must 289 00:16:39,560 --> 00:16:43,600 carry my own load. So on my back I've got a load. 290 00:16:43,680 --> 00:17:00,560 In that load is a wife, four children, a mother, a 291 00:17:00,560 --> 00:17:06,160 business, a sister, a niece. He's got cancer. 292 00:17:08,560 --> 00:17:11,280 And I got a bit of a load. And so have you. 293 00:17:13,800 --> 00:17:15,680 But the Bible says you must carry your own load. 294 00:17:17,680 --> 00:17:20,240 Because what we do is, is I take this over and say, Healy, would 295 00:17:20,240 --> 00:17:21,760 you mind carrying this on me? Because it's not. 296 00:17:22,200 --> 00:17:27,480 You need to carry the load. Many people come to church, say, 297 00:17:27,480 --> 00:17:28,960 hey, will you? Will you carry my load? 298 00:17:28,960 --> 00:17:30,120 I said, no, I'm not called to carry load. 299 00:17:30,120 --> 00:17:33,240 You must carry your own load. You must find faith for your 300 00:17:33,240 --> 00:17:36,280 rent and you must find faith for your children, and you must find 301 00:17:36,280 --> 00:17:37,920 faith for the life that God has given to you. 302 00:17:37,920 --> 00:17:42,320 And you must find faith. Let's find faith for it. 303 00:17:44,040 --> 00:17:46,600 Otherwise you come here and say, the church is not meeting my 304 00:17:46,600 --> 00:17:47,560 need. No, I'm not meant to meet you. 305 00:17:47,560 --> 00:17:52,560 You meant you're meant to go with God with your load and and 306 00:17:52,560 --> 00:17:54,960 you've got a wife and I'm looking at one of my friends now 307 00:17:54,960 --> 00:17:57,320 his wife has gone into a different set of antibiotics 308 00:17:57,640 --> 00:18:01,200 because her blood levels are are not that's his load. 309 00:18:01,200 --> 00:18:04,920 He must carry it. Otherwise I'll come here every 310 00:18:04,920 --> 00:18:06,240 Sunday. I'll tell you about my niece and 311 00:18:06,240 --> 00:18:08,320 I'll tell you about my sister and I'll tell you about my mom 312 00:18:08,320 --> 00:18:09,600 and I'll tell you about my business. 313 00:18:10,600 --> 00:18:16,640 That's I must carry it. And then I see Hilton when I 314 00:18:16,640 --> 00:18:19,160 walk out the auditorium and I say, hey, Haley, how you doing? 315 00:18:19,160 --> 00:18:22,080 He says I'm doing well raw. I'm actually changing my jobs 316 00:18:22,080 --> 00:18:25,360 now and, and and I'm I'm not quite sure what this is. 317 00:18:25,360 --> 00:18:27,040 I said, hey, can I help you with your burden, Hilly? 318 00:18:27,680 --> 00:18:30,560 Can we pray together? You want to share that with me? 319 00:18:30,560 --> 00:18:34,040 Can I for the next two weeks, can I just help you as you 320 00:18:34,040 --> 00:18:36,880 transition? And so you've got loads and 321 00:18:36,880 --> 00:18:40,840 burdens. Don't make your load somebody 322 00:18:40,840 --> 00:18:47,360 else's burden you with me. Carry it. 323 00:18:47,960 --> 00:18:49,160 Get faithful. You can sit Hilly. 324 00:18:50,920 --> 00:18:54,720 And I saw there was a time when when Hilton's son made some 325 00:18:54,720 --> 00:18:58,360 choices and it and it wasn't just his load. 326 00:18:58,360 --> 00:19:00,120 He's got a load. He has to provide for his son 327 00:19:00,120 --> 00:19:02,920 and to pay for his education. He has to get him qualified. 328 00:19:02,920 --> 00:19:05,520 He has to pay for his university or find loans to pay for his 329 00:19:05,520 --> 00:19:07,840 university. But then there was a time that 330 00:19:07,840 --> 00:19:09,640 his son's choices were affecting him. 331 00:19:10,880 --> 00:19:13,520 Becomes a burden. I can come and help you, Healy. 332 00:19:14,320 --> 00:19:18,440 Let me help you. Does it make sense? 333 00:19:24,160 --> 00:19:27,600 Look at the next verse says anyone who receives instruction 334 00:19:27,600 --> 00:19:30,120 in the word must say all good things with these instructor. 335 00:19:31,360 --> 00:19:33,440 There's too much Internet. You listen to too many guys 336 00:19:33,440 --> 00:19:35,520 online. Just stay here for a length of 337 00:19:35,520 --> 00:19:36,840 time. I'll teach you the whole Bible 338 00:19:39,840 --> 00:19:42,240 and then make sure Stephen can have a holiday in your house and 339 00:19:42,240 --> 00:19:47,160 belita. That's what it says exactly what 340 00:19:47,160 --> 00:19:50,720 it says, exactly what it says it says. 341 00:19:50,880 --> 00:19:53,400 Share the load, including the load of Stevens holidays, 342 00:19:55,240 --> 00:19:58,120 exactly what it says. So it's actually there's there's 343 00:19:58,120 --> 00:19:59,120 some load. Yeah, there's some. 344 00:19:59,800 --> 00:20:02,360 And actually since Stephen and Kathy away, they're working 345 00:20:02,360 --> 00:20:04,080 hard. Yeah. 346 00:20:05,200 --> 00:20:08,280 I'm very fortunate that my dad has left his family a house. 347 00:20:08,280 --> 00:20:11,120 And so I don't need your house. I go to my dad's house. 348 00:20:11,120 --> 00:20:13,320 So. So that's I don't need to be a 349 00:20:13,320 --> 00:20:15,120 burden to you for a holiday because. 350 00:20:15,800 --> 00:20:18,640 Inside of my load is a package that helps me have a holiday. 351 00:20:19,240 --> 00:20:22,920 But but Stephen doesn't have that and and nor does Clint. 352 00:20:25,080 --> 00:20:33,440 So so help help bless him. And there's some guys up there 353 00:20:33,440 --> 00:20:37,480 who've got fancy houses and the coast and there's some guys down 354 00:20:37,480 --> 00:20:43,440 here who need holidays. So just say share the load, 355 00:20:43,440 --> 00:20:45,480 share the burden, share the blessing. 356 00:20:46,680 --> 00:20:49,680 No provoking, no envying. He's got no dad. 357 00:20:49,680 --> 00:20:52,680 Never had a dad. Dads provide opportunities. 358 00:20:54,960 --> 00:20:57,840 Dads bust their guts to try and pay off your university fees. 359 00:20:58,520 --> 00:21:00,520 He's got a degree. He's got it on his degree. 360 00:21:00,520 --> 00:21:02,240 She runs our finances in the church. 361 00:21:04,320 --> 00:21:06,400 Well, hey, Max, can we pay off your student loan? 362 00:21:14,280 --> 00:21:16,200 And so this is a weighty piece of scripture. 363 00:21:16,840 --> 00:21:19,440 It's like a Lovejoy. Peace, patience, kindness, 364 00:21:19,440 --> 00:21:25,080 gentleness, self-control. But I'm not under the law, but I 365 00:21:25,080 --> 00:21:28,200 am under a burden, and the burden is primarily you. 366 00:21:32,320 --> 00:21:34,800 Yeah. And he says, don't think more 367 00:21:34,800 --> 00:21:36,200 highly of yourself than you ought. 368 00:21:36,960 --> 00:21:39,880 Not that clever. Don't boast in anything but the 369 00:21:39,880 --> 00:21:43,720 cross. You know that incredible 370 00:21:43,720 --> 00:21:46,640 scripture when I surveyed the wondrous cross on which the 371 00:21:46,640 --> 00:21:50,400 Prince of Glory died, My richest guy in our count, but lost. 372 00:21:50,400 --> 00:21:55,480 And poor contempt. A poor contempt, a poor content 373 00:21:56,160 --> 00:22:01,960 on all my pride, a poor content on all my pride. 374 00:22:03,120 --> 00:22:05,760 Friends, people come from all over the country to look at this 375 00:22:05,760 --> 00:22:08,160 building. They come from all over the 376 00:22:08,160 --> 00:22:10,600 country. And they asked this question, 377 00:22:10,600 --> 00:22:13,240 how did you raise the money for this facility in the middle of 378 00:22:13,240 --> 00:22:15,120 COVID? And I said, I want to tell you 379 00:22:15,120 --> 00:22:19,520 this, for three weeks I did the best leadership job I've ever 380 00:22:19,520 --> 00:22:21,560 done in my whole life to raise the money. 381 00:22:21,560 --> 00:22:23,840 And I trusted God for 15,000,000 Rand. 382 00:22:24,120 --> 00:22:26,240 And I don't know if you know this, but the first offering we 383 00:22:26,240 --> 00:22:28,480 took up for this building was 50,000 Rand. 384 00:22:29,960 --> 00:22:36,480 And in all my pride, in all my leadership ability, in all my 385 00:22:36,480 --> 00:22:42,600 ability to motivate people, I could raise 50,000 Rand when I 386 00:22:42,600 --> 00:22:46,040 surveyed the wondrous cross on which the Prince of Glory died. 387 00:22:46,360 --> 00:22:49,800 My riches gain, our comfort, loss and poor contempt. 388 00:22:50,920 --> 00:23:01,520 Poor contempt on all my pride. I had an absolute inability to 389 00:23:01,600 --> 00:23:07,000 access any form of financing in my human ability and therefore I 390 00:23:07,000 --> 00:23:10,440 cannot stand up here and boast because everything we have is by 391 00:23:10,480 --> 00:23:12,840 the grace of God. And friends, if you think 392 00:23:12,840 --> 00:23:18,240 differently, you need to repent because everything you've got is 393 00:23:18,240 --> 00:23:21,600 also by the grace of God, also by the grace of God. 394 00:23:23,040 --> 00:23:26,800 Because some of your kids write them a trick and they smash 8A's 395 00:23:27,480 --> 00:23:30,560 and and we take them for dinner and we celebrate and we buy them 396 00:23:30,560 --> 00:23:33,120 cars and we reward them for their intelligence. 397 00:23:33,280 --> 00:23:36,760 That was a gift from God because I know some kids that work their 398 00:23:36,760 --> 00:23:41,360 backsides off and they get 6 DS from a trick, but they've put in 399 00:23:41,360 --> 00:23:43,320 exactly the same amount of effort. 400 00:23:44,240 --> 00:23:48,240 No provoking, no envying, no provoking, no envying. 401 00:23:48,400 --> 00:23:51,960 I know some men that have worked like Trojans and they've got 402 00:23:51,960 --> 00:23:54,360 tiny little businesses. I know some people that have 403 00:23:54,360 --> 00:23:56,040 started businesses by the favor of God. 404 00:23:56,040 --> 00:23:58,920 They have multiplied exponentially into the most 405 00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:03,880 unbelievable places. Poor contempt on all my pride. 406 00:24:09,120 --> 00:24:16,680 Amen. And so we stand here by 407 00:24:16,800 --> 00:24:22,600 absolute, absolute grace, by grace alone in Christ alone, 408 00:24:22,600 --> 00:24:25,440 through faith alone in Scripture alone. 409 00:24:25,960 --> 00:24:30,280 Nothing else. Do not be deceived. 410 00:24:30,280 --> 00:24:33,080 God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. 411 00:24:33,280 --> 00:24:36,760 The one who sows to please his sinful nature, from that nature 412 00:24:36,760 --> 00:24:40,240 will reap destruction. And sometimes I get people who 413 00:24:40,240 --> 00:24:41,760 come up here and they're destructed. 414 00:24:42,480 --> 00:24:45,960 They're completely destructed. The reality is, friends, there 415 00:24:45,960 --> 00:24:48,000 is a long term reality to our faith. 416 00:24:49,040 --> 00:24:50,680 There is long term reality to faith. 417 00:24:51,800 --> 00:24:54,440 The one who sows to please the Spirit from the Spirit will reap 418 00:24:54,440 --> 00:24:57,400 eternal life. Let us not become wary and doing 419 00:24:57,400 --> 00:25:01,520 good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not 420 00:25:01,520 --> 00:25:03,120 give up. Therefore, as we have 421 00:25:03,120 --> 00:25:05,880 opportunity, let us do good to all people, especially those who 422 00:25:05,880 --> 00:25:07,480 belong to the family of believers. 423 00:25:09,240 --> 00:25:12,920 Let's be kind to the people around you ongoingly. 424 00:25:14,160 --> 00:25:16,760 You see what large letters I use as I write to you with my own 425 00:25:16,760 --> 00:25:18,760 hand. Those who want to make a good 426 00:25:18,760 --> 00:25:21,920 impression outwardly are trying to compel you to be circumcised. 427 00:25:22,560 --> 00:25:25,440 The only reason they do this is to avoid being persecuted for 428 00:25:25,440 --> 00:25:28,040 the cross of Christ. Not even those who are 429 00:25:28,040 --> 00:25:31,200 circumcised obey the law, yet they want you to become 430 00:25:31,200 --> 00:25:33,520 circumcised, that they may boast about your flesh. 431 00:25:34,120 --> 00:25:37,240 May I never boast, may I never boast. 432 00:25:38,080 --> 00:25:42,080 May Stephen never boast. May no worship leader ever boast 433 00:25:43,880 --> 00:25:48,760 except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. 434 00:25:49,760 --> 00:25:55,400 I want to say to you, Sir and ma'am, you are nothing outside 435 00:25:55,400 --> 00:25:59,640 of Christ. You are nothing outside of 436 00:25:59,640 --> 00:26:02,200 Christ. You might be educated, you might 437 00:26:02,200 --> 00:26:06,320 be rich, you might be strong, you might be successful, but you 438 00:26:06,320 --> 00:26:14,640 are nothing outside of Christ. And for those of you who are 439 00:26:14,640 --> 00:26:19,880 broken and bankrupt and caught in pornography, you have every 440 00:26:19,880 --> 00:26:25,120 chance in Christ. He can restore you. 441 00:26:25,400 --> 00:26:33,680 How gently in this community, I don't know if you know, I don't 442 00:26:33,720 --> 00:26:40,600 know if it's that guitar, but there's a guy here who loves 443 00:26:40,600 --> 00:26:46,520 guitars and he said last week on stage, he said it was like porn. 444 00:26:46,520 --> 00:26:51,960 It was like guitar porn. He says the best guitars, the 445 00:26:51,960 --> 00:26:54,280 best guitars in the world were being played. 446 00:26:54,360 --> 00:27:04,800 That guy, that guy was about to lose his marriage and his wife 447 00:27:06,080 --> 00:27:08,440 made a decision to pursue her husband. 448 00:27:08,760 --> 00:27:16,080 She made a decision one day to pursue her husband and to break 449 00:27:16,080 --> 00:27:18,280 the ice cold that existed between them. 450 00:27:21,520 --> 00:27:24,480 And then by faith, he went into a business. 451 00:27:24,480 --> 00:27:28,000 And in that business, in the corner of a storeroom was one of 452 00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:30,560 the most valuable guitars in this country. 453 00:27:31,160 --> 00:27:33,920 And his new partner said to him, why don't you have that guitar? 454 00:27:35,040 --> 00:27:38,320 And now, friends, when we stand here, he can't stand on the 455 00:27:38,320 --> 00:27:43,760 stage and boast about his fancy guitar or his fancy life or his 456 00:27:43,760 --> 00:27:47,120 opportunity to lead worship because he was this far away 457 00:27:49,400 --> 00:27:53,200 from losing it all. And then his wife, by the Spirit 458 00:27:53,200 --> 00:27:58,600 of God, made a choice. Where's Louie? 459 00:27:58,600 --> 00:28:02,040 That I met in the Louie Where you that I prayed for the other 460 00:28:02,040 --> 00:28:06,600 day? Was it Louie Where you Louie? 461 00:28:06,600 --> 00:28:08,040 Why don't you come down here? Come here quickly. 462 00:28:11,120 --> 00:28:12,640 Come and tell us what happened 2 weeks ago. 463 00:28:13,080 --> 00:28:14,280 People say why are you doing this? 464 00:28:16,040 --> 00:28:21,440 Because I want to tell you this. Your culture in Pretoria is a 465 00:28:21,440 --> 00:28:24,360 private culture that says I will do nothing publicly and I will 466 00:28:24,360 --> 00:28:28,000 live my life privately and I will struggle privately and I 467 00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:31,080 will hide anything because I'm too embarrassed and in ever to 468 00:28:31,080 --> 00:28:33,520 be ashamed. But this is not a shameful 469 00:28:33,520 --> 00:28:34,920 place. This is a place of grace. 470 00:28:35,600 --> 00:28:42,880 I'll stand here by grace. That's what happened, Lee. 471 00:28:47,560 --> 00:28:49,240 Now it's difficult for me to stand there. 472 00:28:52,720 --> 00:28:59,960 I was about to lose my wife and I gave my life to the Lord. 473 00:29:02,800 --> 00:29:12,400 And yeah, I got baptized, not for the reason to make my 474 00:29:12,400 --> 00:29:18,440 marriage work again, but to get back on track with Jesus. 475 00:29:19,040 --> 00:29:26,960 And then on the Monday I went to my wife, well I moved out for 476 00:29:26,960 --> 00:29:33,800 about 3 months and she said move back on the Friday. 477 00:29:35,720 --> 00:29:39,920 So that's it's an absolute blessing from God. 478 00:29:41,840 --> 00:29:56,040 So, but yeah, if you want to ask me if God exists, I need to tell 479 00:29:56,040 --> 00:29:58,720 you three things. I got baptized the Sunday 480 00:29:58,720 --> 00:30:03,240 morning. I'm an attorney the Monday. 481 00:30:07,200 --> 00:30:11,800 That's a miracle in. Itself the Monday I had my 482 00:30:11,800 --> 00:30:14,040 brothers ride the accident fun climb. 483 00:30:15,320 --> 00:30:21,640 I settled it for 10.1 million. The Monday evening I went to my 484 00:30:21,640 --> 00:30:23,840 wife and she said and moved back Friday. 485 00:30:24,040 --> 00:30:26,920 So there are three blessings in two days. 486 00:30:27,360 --> 00:30:41,120 God does it. 1st Meg's come here if you don't mind. 487 00:30:44,960 --> 00:30:46,560 Let's let's stand there with a bit of space. 488 00:30:53,720 --> 00:30:59,800 Stand between us. That's a guy who led the 489 00:30:59,800 --> 00:31:01,240 worship. There's a girl who did the 490 00:31:01,240 --> 00:31:03,280 meeting. This is a guy who preached. 491 00:31:03,280 --> 00:31:05,800 That's a guy that I met at the front door. 492 00:31:08,040 --> 00:31:14,000 When I surveyed the wondrous cross on which the Prince of 493 00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:18,200 Glory died. My riches gained account, but 494 00:31:18,200 --> 00:31:24,440 loss and poor contempt on all my pride. 495 00:31:24,440 --> 00:31:35,720 I can't envy your guitar because God blessed you with it. 496 00:31:39,280 --> 00:31:43,120 I can't provoke you in law because you'll sought me out in 497 00:31:43,120 --> 00:31:52,360 court. You can't envy me because I'm in 498 00:31:52,400 --> 00:31:54,840 thy a son. It's a gift. 499 00:31:55,640 --> 00:31:59,360 God gave it to me. God gave me the gift of being in 500 00:31:59,360 --> 00:32:03,320 and till thy son. But I can't provoke her because 501 00:32:03,320 --> 00:32:08,520 she never had a dad. And so we become friends. 502 00:32:10,640 --> 00:32:13,760 I carry my load and I help her with her burden. 503 00:32:14,760 --> 00:32:17,640 She carries her load. She helps me with my burden. 504 00:32:20,840 --> 00:32:23,800 You carry your load. We share the burden. 505 00:32:24,960 --> 00:32:29,680 And all of a sudden God starts to build a New Testament church. 506 00:32:31,040 --> 00:32:34,080 And this is how it ends. The last verse of Galatians. 507 00:32:34,480 --> 00:32:36,400 This is how it ends. Keep, keep standing here. 508 00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:39,200 This is how the last verse of Galatians ends. 509 00:32:39,800 --> 00:32:49,960 The grace of our capital L, Capital J Capital C Be with your 510 00:32:49,960 --> 00:32:52,560 spirit. It should be brothers and 511 00:32:52,560 --> 00:32:54,880 sisters. Amen. 512 00:32:58,240 --> 00:33:02,280 It says we study Galatians. We're not under the law, but God 513 00:33:02,280 --> 00:33:06,000 wants holiness. We're completely free, but we 514 00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:09,760 still struggle. Moses is finished, but Abraham 515 00:33:09,760 --> 00:33:12,880 is with us. Righteousness is possible, but 516 00:33:12,880 --> 00:33:16,840 sin is knocking at the door. Life is tough. 517 00:33:17,520 --> 00:33:20,760 It's heavy, but I must carry it and get faith. 518 00:33:22,400 --> 00:33:26,320 We have got gifts, we must share them. 519 00:33:30,320 --> 00:33:33,600 We met a couple on the side of the cricket field 5 three years 520 00:33:33,600 --> 00:33:35,160 ago. I'm leaving tomorrow. 521 00:33:35,160 --> 00:33:38,440 I'm going down to watch the World Cup for a month with my 522 00:33:38,440 --> 00:33:40,880 wife. Expensive to go to Cape Town. 523 00:33:40,880 --> 00:33:44,480 I don't have a house in Cape Town, but the person that we met 524 00:33:44,480 --> 00:33:48,560 on the side of the field on a on a school outing at Saint Albans 525 00:33:48,560 --> 00:33:50,360 College. Because God is wherever you are. 526 00:33:50,360 --> 00:33:52,080 If you're at cross from time, God is there. 527 00:33:52,360 --> 00:33:54,640 Otherwise we'll sit here and say cross from time men though. 528 00:33:54,800 --> 00:33:58,080 Menlo, Afees, Afees, Vata, Cliff, no friends. 529 00:33:58,080 --> 00:34:01,080 Just carry your load. If your load is Afees, carry 530 00:34:01,080 --> 00:34:06,200 your load. If your load is Menlo, carry 531 00:34:06,200 --> 00:34:12,040 your load. But don't don't lose what I'm 532 00:34:12,040 --> 00:34:13,840 saying. If your load is Hussies, carry 533 00:34:13,840 --> 00:34:16,639 it. If your load is Eduplex, carry 534 00:34:16,639 --> 00:34:17,880 it. If your load is Watercliff, 535 00:34:17,880 --> 00:34:21,800 carry it. So my load is Saint Albans. 536 00:34:21,960 --> 00:34:24,520 I pray you know, you know my load is Hilton. 537 00:34:24,520 --> 00:34:27,320 I pray I went to Hilton. My load is Hilton. 538 00:34:27,320 --> 00:34:29,840 I carry Hilton in my heart. I carry the faith of Hilton in 539 00:34:29,840 --> 00:34:31,679 my heart. And when I said, ah, there he 540 00:34:31,679 --> 00:34:33,400 goes again. Yes, there I go again. 541 00:34:33,400 --> 00:34:35,159 It's my load. I'm not asking you to share it. 542 00:34:35,199 --> 00:34:39,280 I must carry it. But the priest from that school 543 00:34:39,280 --> 00:34:42,360 came up to have a canoe race and he phoned me and last night he's 544 00:34:42,360 --> 00:34:44,840 in my house until late at night talking about the faith of the 545 00:34:44,840 --> 00:34:46,120 school. It's my load. 546 00:34:47,159 --> 00:34:50,560 And Vardakliff is your load and Constantine is your load, and 547 00:34:50,560 --> 00:34:53,960 Menlo Park is your load. Carry it and Saint Albans is my 548 00:34:53,960 --> 00:34:55,360 load. I pray for the headmaster, I 549 00:34:55,360 --> 00:34:57,120 pray for the teacher. Some of them are coming to 550 00:34:57,120 --> 00:35:00,680 church now. And the lady and my husband that 551 00:35:00,680 --> 00:35:02,920 we met there called my wife and said, hey, I heard you're going 552 00:35:02,920 --> 00:35:05,200 to Cape Town for a month. We've got a house in Cape Town. 553 00:35:06,560 --> 00:35:09,080 Would you use that? Rory will never, ever accept it. 554 00:35:10,040 --> 00:35:12,360 No, but but we, but we need to because we're building 555 00:35:12,360 --> 00:35:15,360 community. And so there's somebody who's 556 00:35:15,360 --> 00:35:17,520 sitting here that we met on the side of the field that I'm going 557 00:35:17,520 --> 00:35:19,400 to stay in their house. That's going to save me a lot of 558 00:35:19,400 --> 00:35:22,160 money so that I can watch my son so that I can fulfill the load 559 00:35:22,160 --> 00:35:28,760 that God has placed upon me. Amen. 560 00:35:29,920 --> 00:35:31,760 You have a load. You have a load. 561 00:35:31,760 --> 00:35:35,040 You have a load. You've also got burdens and as 562 00:35:35,040 --> 00:35:37,800 we share them, our burdens see our loads see our burdens carry, 563 00:35:37,800 --> 00:35:42,200 our load help each other carry. God starts to build a church. 564 00:35:43,600 --> 00:35:58,080 English like Afrikaans, like beautiful black lady, an 565 00:35:58,080 --> 00:36:03,440 arrogant man who's learnt to pull content on all my pride 566 00:36:04,080 --> 00:36:08,240 because I know without Jesus we can do nothing, we can't boast 567 00:36:08,240 --> 00:36:13,120 or brag. And now I say to you, go in the 568 00:36:13,120 --> 00:36:19,120 grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, brothers and sisters, as we have 569 00:36:19,120 --> 00:36:23,440 a go of trying to build a church that looks like the church in 570 00:36:23,440 --> 00:36:26,200 Galatians, Amen.