1 00:00:03,560 --> 00:00:06,720 It's great to see you. My family is here, my mum and my 2 00:00:06,720 --> 00:00:11,040 sister and my brother-in-law and he's made my sister really 3 00:00:11,040 --> 00:00:13,880 happy. I mean Button is a funny 4 00:00:13,880 --> 00:00:15,400 surname. Belinda Button. 5 00:00:15,920 --> 00:00:18,280 I mean, Belinda Dyer sounds good. 6 00:00:18,280 --> 00:00:20,480 Belinda Button. Anyway, it's very nice. 7 00:00:22,680 --> 00:00:24,360 I mean Button is what you put in a shirt. 8 00:00:24,360 --> 00:00:26,400 But anyway, Button, Button, Belinda Button. 9 00:00:26,400 --> 00:00:27,800 Nice. Nice name, Cliff. 10 00:00:28,560 --> 00:00:31,040 So, my mom and sis, if you could come and join me, please. 11 00:00:31,640 --> 00:00:32,119 Yes. Yeah. 12 00:00:32,119 --> 00:00:33,320 You my mom. Yeah. 13 00:00:35,720 --> 00:00:40,520 But hurry up, OK? I know you're not getting the 14 00:00:40,520 --> 00:00:41,760 microphone. So 15 00:00:57,340 --> 00:01:00,020 you see that Lady over there was married by your dad. 16 00:01:00,020 --> 00:01:02,660 Was married. Why don't you stand quickly? 17 00:01:04,459 --> 00:01:10,040 Your dad married them 53 years, 56 years ago in Pretoria, when 18 00:01:10,040 --> 00:01:11,720 my grandpa was an Anglican minister. 19 00:01:11,720 --> 00:01:14,200 I'm going to ask my sister to take my mum onto the stage 20 00:01:14,600 --> 00:01:18,440 slowly. And I'm going to ask you to put 21 00:01:18,440 --> 00:01:21,240 your foot in that box. Why not? 22 00:01:21,240 --> 00:01:24,120 Just because. Yeah, you're going to fall. 23 00:01:24,120 --> 00:01:25,200 Probably. But that's all right. 24 00:01:26,320 --> 00:01:27,920 Can you get up here? Do you need stairs? 25 00:01:29,840 --> 00:01:31,040 You need stairs. OK. 26 00:01:31,040 --> 00:01:33,600 Take it slowly, ma'am. Yeah. 27 00:01:33,680 --> 00:01:35,160 Yeah. You want to tune me on Sundays 28 00:01:35,200 --> 00:01:52,660 after you watch me online? And James, why don't you stand 29 00:01:52,660 --> 00:02:01,450 over there? One step. 30 00:02:01,450 --> 00:02:03,690 OK? I'll walk around my knees or so. 31 00:02:17,180 --> 00:02:18,540 Don't worry. It's all part of the preach. 32 00:02:18,540 --> 00:02:25,600 Are you going to put 1 foot in the box? 33 00:02:25,600 --> 00:02:39,160 That's a coffin. Hey, guys. 34 00:02:39,280 --> 00:02:43,240 You read your Bibles. Read your Bibles, OK? 35 00:02:43,240 --> 00:02:46,320 You just stand right there, man. You stand right there, buddy 36 00:02:46,320 --> 00:02:49,840 boy. It wasn't for my mum. 37 00:02:49,840 --> 00:02:52,720 I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for her praise. 38 00:02:52,720 --> 00:02:54,520 I wouldn't be standing here, nor would my sister. 39 00:02:55,520 --> 00:02:57,840 It's through the praise of a faithful mother that we 40 00:02:58,680 --> 00:03:01,800 sometimes come to know the Lord. Maybe you're a mum out there and 41 00:03:01,800 --> 00:03:06,960 your children are far from God. Never forget this picture. 2018, 42 00:03:06,960 --> 00:03:09,720 my mum got diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer. 43 00:03:10,240 --> 00:03:12,800 If you're a doctor here, you will know stage 4 pancreatic 44 00:03:12,800 --> 00:03:15,000 cancer. There's a death sentence On 45 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:16,840 20/18. She took us on a holiday. 46 00:03:16,840 --> 00:03:18,920 She said this will be our last family holiday. 47 00:03:19,200 --> 00:03:22,200 I'm not going to have chemo and after this I go home. 48 00:03:22,520 --> 00:03:25,240 That was seven years ago. Seven years ago. 49 00:03:32,400 --> 00:03:36,080 She's the toughest woman I know, but she has one of the greatest 50 00:03:36,080 --> 00:03:39,560 faiths that I've ever met. If I can put the first 51 00:03:39,560 --> 00:03:42,640 photograph up, please, Just a few photos of my family. 52 00:03:44,880 --> 00:03:50,440 So that is me captaining my first team rugby and I never 53 00:03:50,440 --> 00:03:52,400 realized that. I just found the photograph in 54 00:03:52,400 --> 00:03:59,240 my drawer yesterday and I was, I just like I thought, this is 36 55 00:03:59,240 --> 00:04:03,600 years ago, 37 years ago. And I actually never knew this 56 00:04:03,600 --> 00:04:05,280 and I never ever seen this before. 57 00:04:05,280 --> 00:04:09,440 But this is my dad. That's my dad. 58 00:04:09,480 --> 00:04:11,440 I've never seen the photograph before. 59 00:04:11,760 --> 00:04:13,760 And I looked at the photograph. I thought, wow. 60 00:04:14,680 --> 00:04:17,519 You see, he's not looking at one other person running down that 61 00:04:17,519 --> 00:04:21,440 tunnel, he's not looking at the other 14 guys, He's only looking 62 00:04:21,440 --> 00:04:23,240 at me. It's like I've passed. 63 00:04:23,240 --> 00:04:24,880 Them and you can see where he's looking. 64 00:04:26,920 --> 00:04:31,640 And then 35 years later, this is the next picture on exactly the 65 00:04:31,640 --> 00:04:39,120 same tunnel. 35 years later is my son leading the exact same 66 00:04:39,120 --> 00:04:43,400 rugby team 35 years later, as strong as an ox and my knees are 67 00:04:43,400 --> 00:04:47,240 starting to get sore. The next picture, please. 68 00:04:49,280 --> 00:04:54,680 That's this guy When when we arrived in Pretoria, that's him 69 00:04:54,680 --> 00:04:58,680 when we arrived in Pretoria. And this is taken 2 weeks ago. 70 00:05:03,760 --> 00:05:06,000 And so life happens very quickly, doesn't it? 71 00:05:06,960 --> 00:05:12,440 The next picture please. That doctor is the head, the 72 00:05:12,440 --> 00:05:19,800 world leading head of the anti aging Medical Center in Las 73 00:05:19,800 --> 00:05:22,240 Vegas. His job is to keep people young. 74 00:05:24,880 --> 00:05:32,480 What's the problem? It's not working. 75 00:05:36,960 --> 00:05:39,920 He is the world expert on age management. 76 00:05:40,920 --> 00:05:42,960 He's the world expert on age management. 77 00:05:43,240 --> 00:05:45,560 But he's got 2 degenerative diseases. 78 00:05:47,040 --> 00:05:52,680 He's got a shrinking hairline which he can do whatever. 79 00:05:52,680 --> 00:05:54,720 You like you can. Go and get transplants in 80 00:05:54,720 --> 00:05:58,160 Turkey, as some of you have, and realize you're just a Turkey 81 00:05:58,160 --> 00:06:01,760 anyway, because transplants don't work. 82 00:06:02,480 --> 00:06:05,480 They're very expensive. That's why there's so many rich 83 00:06:05,480 --> 00:06:09,160 bald people in this room. And you'll notice that he's got 84 00:06:09,160 --> 00:06:11,440 a degenerative eye disease. That's why they're 85 00:06:11,440 --> 00:06:14,880 ophthalmologists in this room. So Mum, put your foot back in 86 00:06:14,880 --> 00:06:25,680 the box if you don't mind. Are you waiting for the second? 87 00:06:26,760 --> 00:06:28,080 What's? That Are you waiting for the 88 00:06:28,080 --> 00:06:32,760 second foot? I'm waiting for the second foot. 89 00:06:32,760 --> 00:06:34,000 Yeah. I'll probably earn a few bucks 90 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:36,000 anyway. That's a second. 91 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:41,600 That's a whole nother story. So this part of Ecclesiastes is 92 00:06:41,600 --> 00:06:46,760 written with one foot in the coffin and 1 foot still alive, 93 00:06:47,600 --> 00:06:53,920 speaking to her children and to her grandchildren about their 94 00:06:53,920 --> 00:07:00,440 youthfulness and their strength. So Solomon has lived his life. 95 00:07:00,440 --> 00:07:04,080 Now he's got to know God unbelievably well. 96 00:07:04,800 --> 00:07:07,960 He hasn't passed away yet. He's tried absolutely everything 97 00:07:07,960 --> 00:07:10,040 in life. And there are two ways we can 98 00:07:10,040 --> 00:07:13,080 live life. You can either live life this 99 00:07:13,080 --> 00:07:17,880 way with your leaning towards the grave or like my mother, you 100 00:07:17,880 --> 00:07:23,160 can live life this way with the leaning towards God and to the 101 00:07:23,160 --> 00:07:26,480 next generation. And So what my mum has done, 102 00:07:26,800 --> 00:07:30,360 having survived cancer and all those things, she leans this way 103 00:07:31,040 --> 00:07:34,560 and speaks to her children who have still got vigor and 104 00:07:34,560 --> 00:07:38,960 strength and energy and says you must walk in the ways of God 105 00:07:39,360 --> 00:07:42,320 because this is going to happen very quickly. 106 00:07:45,120 --> 00:07:48,200 And the problem, friends, if we get this wrong, when we lean 107 00:07:48,200 --> 00:07:51,400 this way, we are negative about everything. 108 00:07:52,440 --> 00:07:56,600 When we lean this way, we start to represent God well. 109 00:07:57,400 --> 00:08:00,960 And I want to say to your mom, in front of all these people, to 110 00:08:00,960 --> 00:08:06,760 me and to my sister, you have represented God unbelievably 111 00:08:06,760 --> 00:08:09,440 well. There's not a day that I've 112 00:08:09,440 --> 00:08:12,560 woken up in your house where I've not found you with your 113 00:08:12,560 --> 00:08:13,600 Bible. Open. 114 00:08:13,880 --> 00:08:17,520 With your prayer book next to you, crying out to God, not just 115 00:08:17,520 --> 00:08:20,840 for your circumstance and your situation and your husband and 116 00:08:20,840 --> 00:08:25,840 your family, but crying out to God for those big, strapping, 117 00:08:25,840 --> 00:08:29,320 healthy grandchildren that God has got. 118 00:08:29,320 --> 00:08:34,480 I'm somewhere between the middle of these two things, Stephen. 119 00:08:35,640 --> 00:08:38,440 He's not yet today. He's just done a wedding, was 120 00:08:38,440 --> 00:08:42,080 telling me the exhilaration of riding a motorbike at 260 121 00:08:42,080 --> 00:08:46,760 kilometers an hour doing dangerous things. 122 00:08:46,760 --> 00:08:49,360 When God calls us, we're not called to do evil things, but 123 00:08:49,360 --> 00:08:51,280 you are called to do dangerous things. 124 00:08:52,120 --> 00:08:55,040 And then he went for a 3K run with his daughter last week and 125 00:08:55,040 --> 00:08:57,320 he's completely dislocated his knee and he's having an 126 00:08:57,320 --> 00:09:05,360 operation next week. 260. KS an hour on a bike in the 127 00:09:05,400 --> 00:09:08,880 absolute exhilaration and then because he's getting older, 3K 128 00:09:08,880 --> 00:09:12,000 run has completely damaged his knee and Solomon is saying, hey, 129 00:09:12,000 --> 00:09:13,920 listen, I want to write to young people. 130 00:09:13,920 --> 00:09:16,600 I want to tell you about the goodness of God and I'm calling 131 00:09:16,600 --> 00:09:21,280 you to live a dangerous life, not an evil life, a dangerous 132 00:09:21,280 --> 00:09:23,800 life. I want you to take risks so that 133 00:09:23,800 --> 00:09:26,640 you can count for God. And so, Mama, I want to honor 134 00:09:26,640 --> 00:09:31,560 you in front of my church family and say the way that you have 135 00:09:32,360 --> 00:09:34,920 gone through this season when the doctor said to you that you 136 00:09:34,920 --> 00:09:37,360 had six weeks left to live and one last holiday with your 137 00:09:37,360 --> 00:09:39,960 family. And seven years later, you stand 138 00:09:39,960 --> 00:09:44,160 here as a victor of pancreatic cancer with some people have 139 00:09:44,160 --> 00:09:47,000 been diagnosed in the last six weeks in the life of this church 140 00:09:47,280 --> 00:09:48,320 you. Stand here. 141 00:09:49,120 --> 00:09:51,200 Yes, you are closer to the end of your life than to the 142 00:09:51,200 --> 00:09:53,640 beginning, but your leaning is to the left. 143 00:09:54,280 --> 00:09:56,280 And I want to say to you, everyone of you, lean to the 144 00:09:56,280 --> 00:10:00,560 left, lean to the left so that you can represent God well at 145 00:10:00,560 --> 00:10:01,960 this time. Amen. 146 00:10:02,800 --> 00:10:16,910 Great, you're with me. So let's have a look. 147 00:10:18,350 --> 00:10:20,830 Ecclesiastes 11. We're going to read Ecclesiastes 148 00:10:20,830 --> 00:10:24,710 11 to 12, verse one. Make a few comments. 149 00:10:26,110 --> 00:10:29,630 Cast your bread upon the waters for this. 150 00:10:29,630 --> 00:10:31,910 The title of the sermon is We don't Know. 151 00:10:32,430 --> 00:10:35,720 We don't know. You'll see it comes up over and 152 00:10:35,720 --> 00:10:37,720 over again. We love to know, we love to be 153 00:10:37,720 --> 00:10:42,120 in control, but we don't know. Cast your bread upon the waters 154 00:10:42,120 --> 00:10:44,560 for after many days you'll find it again. 155 00:10:45,760 --> 00:10:47,960 Give portions to seven years to 8. 156 00:10:48,160 --> 00:10:52,000 I know there are financial gurus here and and one of my very dear 157 00:10:52,000 --> 00:10:55,200 friends is in this church who's one of the top financial guys in 158 00:10:55,200 --> 00:10:58,120 the country. They use this as a scripture in 159 00:10:58,120 --> 00:11:02,800 divestment in in, in putting your your, your risk in 160 00:11:02,800 --> 00:11:05,440 different places, which I think is 100% fair. 161 00:11:06,120 --> 00:11:08,320 And I think it's one of the amazing ways that talks about 162 00:11:08,320 --> 00:11:11,640 international trade, about putting your seed upon boats and 163 00:11:11,640 --> 00:11:13,720 letting the boats go to different countries and coming 164 00:11:13,720 --> 00:11:17,240 back and, and getting a return on your investment, not putting 165 00:11:17,240 --> 00:11:19,520 all your eggs in one basket. I think that's the truth. 166 00:11:20,000 --> 00:11:22,200 But I'm not going to preach from that today like that. 167 00:11:23,520 --> 00:11:25,720 Give portions to seven, yes to 8. 168 00:11:26,800 --> 00:11:29,120 For you do not know. Say you do not know. 169 00:11:30,240 --> 00:11:33,720 You do not know. What disaster may come upon the 170 00:11:33,720 --> 00:11:36,240 land. You don't know, Don't know the 171 00:11:36,240 --> 00:11:37,560 future. You do not know. 172 00:11:37,560 --> 00:11:39,160 It doesn't matter where you invest your money. 173 00:11:39,440 --> 00:11:40,920 Doesn't matter how you run your business. 174 00:11:40,920 --> 00:11:44,800 You do not know. 2008 the economy crashed. 175 00:11:44,800 --> 00:11:47,720 Nobody knew. Twin towers got smacked. 176 00:11:47,720 --> 00:11:49,880 One day they were standing, the next day they were down. 177 00:11:49,880 --> 00:11:52,440 World markets crashed. You do not know. 178 00:11:53,280 --> 00:11:56,720 You do not know. If clouds are full of water, 179 00:11:56,720 --> 00:12:00,240 They pour rain upon the earth where their tree falls to the 180 00:12:00,240 --> 00:12:04,800 South or to the north, In the place where it falls, there will 181 00:12:04,800 --> 00:12:07,040 it lie. And so part of life is 182 00:12:07,040 --> 00:12:10,560 predictable. You see the clouds, you see them 183 00:12:10,560 --> 00:12:11,920 form, you know they're going to rain. 184 00:12:11,920 --> 00:12:13,480 And part of life is unpredictable. 185 00:12:14,080 --> 00:12:15,800 You don't know which way the tree is going to fall. 186 00:12:15,800 --> 00:12:18,840 You can stand on your head. You will not determine when the 187 00:12:18,840 --> 00:12:20,680 wind blows which way the tree will fall. 188 00:12:21,520 --> 00:12:23,320 And so we try and control our lives. 189 00:12:23,320 --> 00:12:26,760 We've got every My mum used to live, my mom and dad lived in 190 00:12:26,760 --> 00:12:28,960 the next door neighbor. There's a really, really big gum 191 00:12:28,960 --> 00:12:30,240 tree. And the neighbors worried 192 00:12:30,240 --> 00:12:33,320 because if the gum tree falls his side, his house goes down. 193 00:12:33,600 --> 00:12:36,960 If the gum tree falls outside, my parents house goes down and 194 00:12:36,960 --> 00:12:39,240 if the gum tree falls the other side, it just falls into the 195 00:12:39,240 --> 00:12:42,200 forest. And so everybody's worried about 196 00:12:42,200 --> 00:12:44,880 the gum tree because we actually can't determine which way it's 197 00:12:44,880 --> 00:12:50,960 going to fall. Whoever watches the wind will 198 00:12:50,960 --> 00:12:53,720 not plant. Whoever looks at the clouds will 199 00:12:53,720 --> 00:12:56,880 not reap. And so we become scared because 200 00:12:56,880 --> 00:12:58,880 you think, well, I'm not going to invest in South Africa. 201 00:12:58,880 --> 00:13:00,520 I'm not going to start a business South Africa because I 202 00:13:00,520 --> 00:13:02,120 don't know what's going to happen in South Africa. 203 00:13:02,120 --> 00:13:03,720 But God called me to South Africa. 204 00:13:04,440 --> 00:13:07,640 God told me I must live here. And so if you must live here, 205 00:13:07,640 --> 00:13:09,360 you must live here and you must plant yourself here. 206 00:13:09,360 --> 00:13:11,480 And if God has called you to the church, think, well, I'm not 207 00:13:11,480 --> 00:13:13,440 going to plant myself in the church because the church has 208 00:13:13,440 --> 00:13:16,000 hurt me. My friends, every church will 209 00:13:16,000 --> 00:13:18,880 hurt you because there's some things we can predict and 210 00:13:18,880 --> 00:13:20,280 there's some things we can't predict. 211 00:13:21,120 --> 00:13:23,520 Every church is going to hurt you, but you got to plant 212 00:13:23,520 --> 00:13:24,920 yourself. Otherwise you're just waiting. 213 00:13:25,080 --> 00:13:28,120 I'll just keep, wait six weeks, 7 weeks, 8 weeks, 9 weeks, 10 214 00:13:28,120 --> 00:13:30,280 weeks, 6 months. And I don't actually invest 215 00:13:30,280 --> 00:13:32,080 myself in anything because I'm keeping. 216 00:13:32,080 --> 00:13:34,560 My options open. So we end up in this very safe 217 00:13:34,560 --> 00:13:39,720 world. You do not know, so you do not 218 00:13:39,720 --> 00:13:42,120 know. You do not know the path of the 219 00:13:42,120 --> 00:13:44,200 wind. Or how the body is formed. 220 00:13:44,200 --> 00:13:46,160 In a mother's womb. You don't know that. 221 00:13:48,360 --> 00:13:56,640 You don't know that. Come stand here sis, exactly the 222 00:13:56,640 --> 00:14:04,640 same DNA formed in that womb and you think how God, how this is 223 00:14:04,640 --> 00:14:07,120 the only person in the whole world that has got exactly the 224 00:14:07,120 --> 00:14:11,400 same DNA as me, the only person and you think same seed, same 225 00:14:11,400 --> 00:14:14,680 womb, completely different. You don't know. 226 00:14:16,120 --> 00:14:17,840 You don't know. You've got actually no clue how 227 00:14:17,840 --> 00:14:20,520 it's going to come out. You don't know when the spirit 228 00:14:20,520 --> 00:14:23,400 actually fills the child. You don't know if this child is 229 00:14:23,400 --> 00:14:25,960 going to be a teacher in remedial or if this child is 230 00:14:25,960 --> 00:14:27,960 going to be a preacher. You don't know what the spirit's 231 00:14:27,960 --> 00:14:34,160 going to fill in that child. And you know, one of the reasons 232 00:14:34,160 --> 00:14:36,600 friends, that people don't have children is because they don't 233 00:14:36,600 --> 00:14:38,760 know. And they think. 234 00:14:38,760 --> 00:14:40,560 Well, I'm not going to have. Children, because I don't. 235 00:14:40,560 --> 00:14:41,640 Know how they're going to come out? 236 00:14:41,800 --> 00:14:43,920 And so they play it safe. Because they don't trust God, 237 00:14:43,920 --> 00:14:46,120 think, well, we won't have children because maybe we'll 238 00:14:46,120 --> 00:14:50,360 have a Down syndrome child or maybe we'll have a child with 239 00:14:50,360 --> 00:14:52,800 disability because we don't know. 240 00:14:54,360 --> 00:14:56,280 And then the scan comes after, Adrian said. 241 00:14:56,280 --> 00:15:00,360 Your child has got a very. High percentage of being Down 242 00:15:00,360 --> 00:15:02,000 syndrome. And then we've got to make a 243 00:15:02,000 --> 00:15:03,200 choice. Abort, not abort. 244 00:15:03,400 --> 00:15:05,680 I want to tell you the three. Kindest men that I. 245 00:15:05,680 --> 00:15:10,920 Know that are in this auditorium have got disabled children the 246 00:15:10,920 --> 00:15:13,520 three kindest. Men that I know and the kindest 247 00:15:13,520 --> 00:15:15,520 man that I know, The kindest man that I've. 248 00:15:15,560 --> 00:15:16,960 Ever met in? My life is. 249 00:15:16,960 --> 00:15:19,480 Sitting in this auditorium. Today, and he has got. 250 00:15:19,480 --> 00:15:22,400 Three disabled children. He's got 3. 251 00:15:22,400 --> 00:15:25,280 Disabled. Because we think we can control 252 00:15:25,280 --> 00:15:28,200 God. And then God gives us something, 253 00:15:28,200 --> 00:15:30,000 and then he gives us the power to live. 254 00:15:30,000 --> 00:15:31,880 With that thing. Even when we. 255 00:15:31,880 --> 00:15:34,920 Don't know the future? And it's not a sentence of 256 00:15:34,920 --> 00:15:36,280 death, that's. Going to affect the rest. 257 00:15:36,280 --> 00:15:39,600 Of your life, it is going to be God's order to change you to. 258 00:15:39,600 --> 00:15:42,720 Become like Christ. That is God's desire. 259 00:15:42,720 --> 00:15:45,160 He wants us to be like Jesus. And so we. 260 00:15:45,160 --> 00:15:47,840 Cannot control the future and we cannot. 261 00:15:47,840 --> 00:15:50,040 Control what happens. Inside of a woman's womb. 262 00:15:52,920 --> 00:15:55,240 Amen. But we all control freaks. 263 00:15:56,920 --> 00:15:58,840 And so he hedged our bets. We make sure that. 264 00:15:58,840 --> 00:16:05,040 We win. You cannot understand the work 265 00:16:05,040 --> 00:16:08,480 of God, the Maker of all things. You can't understand it. 266 00:16:11,000 --> 00:16:14,720 So you'll see it in the morning and at evening. 267 00:16:14,720 --> 00:16:18,680 Let not your hands be idle, for you do not know. 268 00:16:18,680 --> 00:16:22,760 So you do not know. This scripture is about, You do 269 00:16:22,760 --> 00:16:28,240 not know, but I've got a mum, he's got 1 foot in the coffin 270 00:16:29,720 --> 00:16:33,920 and she's got 1 foot in life and she's leaning towards the left 271 00:16:33,920 --> 00:16:36,560 and she's saying I'm not going to become cynical about my 272 00:16:36,560 --> 00:16:38,800 death. I'm going to spend the next part 273 00:16:38,800 --> 00:16:42,640 of my life telling you about God, spend the next part of my 274 00:16:42,640 --> 00:16:44,120 life telling him I'm going to keep praying. 275 00:16:44,120 --> 00:16:48,160 I'm going to keep reading my Bible if I ask my most that I'd 276 00:16:48,160 --> 00:16:50,800 need to go home sometimes. And I feel like being with Dad 277 00:16:50,800 --> 00:16:53,360 and I want to be with God, but I know my job's not finished. 278 00:16:53,360 --> 00:16:55,240 Of course, your job's not finished because you've learned 279 00:16:55,240 --> 00:16:58,360 about God and you have to tell young strong people about God 280 00:16:58,360 --> 00:17:05,200 and how to live. You do not know which will 281 00:17:05,200 --> 00:17:08,160 succeed. So you can't determine success 282 00:17:08,160 --> 00:17:11,000 and failure. You cannot determine success and 283 00:17:11,000 --> 00:17:19,079 failure. I had this very strange thing 284 00:17:19,079 --> 00:17:24,920 when I was preparing. We we measure success by all 285 00:17:24,920 --> 00:17:28,040 external and most of them are body related. 286 00:17:28,200 --> 00:17:30,400 You never see a fat girl on a poster. 287 00:17:31,200 --> 00:17:34,920 You only see an athletic girl with a six pack on a poster, big 288 00:17:34,920 --> 00:17:37,360 boobs 6 pack on a poster in a bikini. 289 00:17:38,320 --> 00:17:40,920 That's success. And so most of the success that 290 00:17:40,920 --> 00:17:44,880 we measure is body related or achievement related. 291 00:17:45,760 --> 00:17:48,960 What did you get from a trick? Especially young girls. 292 00:17:48,960 --> 00:17:52,560 I want to speak to young girls. There is such a pressure because 293 00:17:52,560 --> 00:17:56,120 Saint Mary's produce. 4A's. Per Metric Girl, every year 294 00:17:56,280 --> 00:17:58,600 there's such a pressure when you go to Saint Mary's that you need 295 00:17:58,600 --> 00:18:01,080 to get. 4A's. So you can keep the standard of 296 00:18:01,080 --> 00:18:02,960 Saint Mary's up. That's not a measurement 297 00:18:02,960 --> 00:18:07,800 standard because there's some people that don't get that, and 298 00:18:07,800 --> 00:18:10,120 when they don't get that, they start cutting. 299 00:18:10,120 --> 00:18:14,240 Themselves, they start self. Harming because the measurement 300 00:18:14,280 --> 00:18:17,400 is wrong. And I was reminded. 301 00:18:17,400 --> 00:18:21,560 Friends 20 years ago 20 years ago a young girl walked into my 302 00:18:21,560 --> 00:18:27,000 office with her dad. And she lifted up her her shirt 303 00:18:27,000 --> 00:18:28,280 like. This and they were just cut 304 00:18:28,280 --> 00:18:30,400 marks. All the way along her arm. 305 00:18:30,400 --> 00:18:34,760 Just these cut Marks and I said. What's wrong this pastor? 306 00:18:34,800 --> 00:18:39,280 I am just a disaster. You cannot determine success, 307 00:18:39,560 --> 00:18:42,600 and I want to tell you this failure is not fatal. 308 00:18:44,640 --> 00:18:47,880 Failure is not. Fatal and she said. 309 00:18:47,880 --> 00:18:49,080 To me. How? 310 00:18:49,080 --> 00:18:52,880 Do I fix this? I said, do you not think Jesus 311 00:18:52,880 --> 00:18:57,120 knew that you would come into my office one day and the. 312 00:18:57,120 --> 00:19:01,320 Bible says by his, by his stripes. 313 00:19:01,320 --> 00:19:05,680 Say, by his stripes. By his stripes you are healed. 314 00:19:06,120 --> 00:19:07,920 He knew that you were going to compare. 315 00:19:07,920 --> 00:19:11,600 Yourself with other girls getting. 4A's and he knew that 316 00:19:11,600 --> 00:19:14,320 some of you are not going to get it and so when you put the 317 00:19:14,320 --> 00:19:16,080 stripe on your arm, he. Knew he had to have. 318 00:19:16,080 --> 00:19:17,440 Stripes. On his own arm. 319 00:19:17,600 --> 00:19:21,280 So his arm can envelope your arm and healing can take place. 320 00:19:23,960 --> 00:19:26,240 That story. Spread around the country and. 321 00:19:26,760 --> 00:19:29,520 When I moved to Pretoria, a man from. 322 00:19:29,520 --> 00:19:32,440 Krugersdorp phoned me seven or eight years. 323 00:19:32,440 --> 00:19:35,200 Ago he said hello. Pastor, I'm from Krugersdorp. 324 00:19:35,480 --> 00:19:37,960 I've got a daughter who's. Cutting herself and I. 325 00:19:37,960 --> 00:19:40,680 Heard. That you met a girl in Durban 20 326 00:19:40,680 --> 00:19:43,920 years ago or 13 years ago? And that little girl. 327 00:19:43,920 --> 00:19:45,680 Came from Krugersdorp and she sat in my. 328 00:19:45,680 --> 00:19:49,160 Office and I realized Ecclesiastes, you can't. 329 00:19:49,160 --> 00:19:56,560 Determine success or failure, and success is not the ultimate 330 00:19:56,560 --> 00:20:01,720 in failure is not fatal. That makes sense. 331 00:20:03,080 --> 00:20:04,560 So don't sit here because Christ. 332 00:20:04,560 --> 00:20:07,880 Dealt with both. And if you've cut yourself? 333 00:20:07,880 --> 00:20:10,840 Or you've been cut by life. I want to tell you by his 334 00:20:10,840 --> 00:20:14,120 stripes. You have been healed. 335 00:20:21,080 --> 00:20:23,840 You do not know which will succeed, whether this or that, 336 00:20:23,840 --> 00:20:25,680 or whether both will do equally well. 337 00:20:26,840 --> 00:20:30,240 Light is. Sweet, and it pleases the eyes 338 00:20:30,240 --> 00:20:33,920 to see the sun. However many years a man may 339 00:20:33,920 --> 00:20:37,480 live, let him enjoy them all, but let him remember the days of 340 00:20:37,480 --> 00:20:38,960 darkness where they will be many. 341 00:20:38,960 --> 00:20:43,200 You're going to die. Everything to come is fleeting, 342 00:20:43,200 --> 00:20:45,880 meaningless. Be happy, young man. 343 00:20:45,880 --> 00:20:51,240 While you are young, let your heart give you joy. 344 00:20:51,240 --> 00:20:55,080 In the days of your youth. Follow the ways of your heart 345 00:20:55,080 --> 00:20:58,920 and whatever your eyes see. But know that for all these 346 00:20:58,920 --> 00:21:02,440 things, God will bring you to judgment now, if you. 347 00:21:02,640 --> 00:21:05,400 Read the. Bible in a certain way you will 348 00:21:05,400 --> 00:21:07,400 think, OK young man, go and have fun. 349 00:21:07,400 --> 00:21:09,680 But I just want to tell you everything you do, God's going 350 00:21:09,680 --> 00:21:12,560 to judge. And then you've got young people 351 00:21:12,560 --> 00:21:15,920 who are scared. This is what it actually says, 352 00:21:15,920 --> 00:21:18,200 young man. God has made you strong. 353 00:21:18,400 --> 00:21:21,800 Now go and make that strength count in skydiving, 354 00:21:22,120 --> 00:21:24,800 cardboarding, riding motorbikes really fast. 355 00:21:24,800 --> 00:21:27,320 Do dangerous things, Go. Deep sea diving Go. 356 00:21:27,320 --> 00:21:30,440 Overseas spend all. Nights in prayer and fasting 357 00:21:30,440 --> 00:21:33,160 with your friends Have celebrations that last with hot 358 00:21:33,160 --> 00:21:34,720 chocolate until the middle of the night. 359 00:21:34,840 --> 00:21:36,880 Live life to the absolute full and if. 360 00:21:36,880 --> 00:21:38,960 You don't. God's going to judge you 361 00:21:40,760 --> 00:21:43,680 different way. So stand up, young man. 362 00:21:45,800 --> 00:21:47,280 And I want to say to you as you share the. 363 00:21:47,280 --> 00:21:51,000 Stage with your granny with one foot in the coffin and 1 foot 364 00:21:51,000 --> 00:21:53,320 out. A granny who knows God. 365 00:21:53,320 --> 00:21:54,960 A granny who's seen the goodness of God. 366 00:21:54,960 --> 00:21:56,920 A granny who's seen the protection of God. 367 00:21:57,160 --> 00:21:59,000 A granny who's seen the faithfulness of God. 368 00:21:59,000 --> 00:22:00,760 A granny who's seen the provision of God. 369 00:22:01,000 --> 00:22:02,280 I want to say. To you, young man. 370 00:22:02,520 --> 00:22:06,800 Run live life to the full. Ride your motorbike. 371 00:22:06,800 --> 00:22:09,640 In the Forest, play rugby at the from the bottom. 372 00:22:09,640 --> 00:22:13,240 Of your heart, enjoy your friends, go out, celebrate, 373 00:22:13,240 --> 00:22:16,160 dance, of course. Don't get drunk. 374 00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:18,960 Of course don't. Sin but live. 375 00:22:18,960 --> 00:22:22,760 Life to the absolute. Fullest because soon, before you 376 00:22:22,760 --> 00:22:28,880 know it, you're going to have one foot in the coffin and many. 377 00:22:28,880 --> 00:22:31,640 Reasons why young people. Don't want to come to church is 378 00:22:31,640 --> 00:22:33,960 because they think they're going to hear from a grumpy old group 379 00:22:33,960 --> 00:22:35,760 of people that God is tough. And you need. 380 00:22:35,760 --> 00:22:39,600 To be holy, yes, you do need to be holy. 381 00:22:40,040 --> 00:22:43,320 But have holy fun. Be adventurous. 382 00:22:43,760 --> 00:22:46,080 Live life to the full. There's a young man here, his 383 00:22:46,080 --> 00:22:48,400 name is Bevan. You can put the picture up of 384 00:22:48,400 --> 00:22:50,920 that guy who's memorial this Steve. 385 00:22:52,560 --> 00:22:55,840 That's my friend Steve. His name is Steve Lorenz. 386 00:22:57,600 --> 00:23:00,120 He died last week on Friday riding a motorbike. 387 00:23:01,520 --> 00:23:05,080 He lived life to he loved life, he loved his wife, he. 388 00:23:05,080 --> 00:23:07,840 Loved his daughters. He loved the church. 389 00:23:09,000 --> 00:23:13,480 He was the most amazing man. He built reservoirs in his house 390 00:23:13,480 --> 00:23:15,440 and he built solar systems and his house. 391 00:23:15,440 --> 00:23:18,560 Was off the grid and he. Loved riding motorbikes and he 392 00:23:18,560 --> 00:23:22,200 loved riding them fast and it's not evil to ride a motorbike and 393 00:23:22,200 --> 00:23:23,960 he came round the corner too fast and he. 394 00:23:23,960 --> 00:23:25,760 Went over his handlebars and he died. 395 00:23:26,440 --> 00:23:29,200 But he. Lived, but he lived. 396 00:23:29,600 --> 00:23:31,320 And at his memorial service, everywhere, he said. 397 00:23:31,320 --> 00:23:34,400 But he lived. And we've got people who are too 398 00:23:34,400 --> 00:23:36,880 scared to do anything because I can't do this and I can't do 399 00:23:36,880 --> 00:23:38,920 this. God is your father. 400 00:23:38,920 --> 00:23:52,160 He's not your mother. Be careful, Be careful, Be 401 00:23:52,160 --> 00:23:53,320 careful. Be careful. 402 00:23:53,480 --> 00:23:54,800 Don't do that. Stop doing this. 403 00:23:54,920 --> 00:23:55,840 Do this. Be this. 404 00:23:55,840 --> 00:23:56,960 Don't do that. Don't do that. 405 00:23:56,960 --> 00:23:57,920 Be careful. Be careful. 406 00:23:57,920 --> 00:23:59,200 Pull your socks up. Put your tie on. 407 00:23:59,320 --> 00:24:01,360 Where's your lunch? I don't care if you don't have 408 00:24:01,360 --> 00:24:02,560 your lunch. You don't eat. 409 00:24:07,080 --> 00:24:09,440 Hey, Mel, where you going? James forgot his lunch. 410 00:24:09,440 --> 00:24:11,800 I said forget it. He's 17 years old. 411 00:24:11,920 --> 00:24:13,640 He must remember his. Lunch. 412 00:24:15,560 --> 00:24:18,520 Seriously, friends, I've got a. Friend, he's sitting. 413 00:24:18,520 --> 00:24:20,800 Up there some his name is. Bevan, his dad taught him how to 414 00:24:20,800 --> 00:24:23,880 ride a motorbike. His dad taught him how to ride a 415 00:24:23,880 --> 00:24:25,520 motorbike. He's 17 years old. 416 00:24:25,760 --> 00:24:27,160 I was riding with him the other day. 417 00:24:27,160 --> 00:24:30,720 I was riding on the road and he was riding in a pine forest that 418 00:24:30,720 --> 00:24:34,080 had been stumped. So all there are a pine forest, 419 00:24:34,080 --> 00:24:37,600 stumps, stumps. And I'm doing 60 and he's doing 420 00:24:37,600 --> 00:24:42,120 60. I'm thinking and and he's doing 421 00:24:42,120 --> 00:24:46,000 this going through the thing and, and, and it says tell the 422 00:24:46,000 --> 00:24:49,600 young man to have a go. And I'm thinking, but whatever, 423 00:24:49,600 --> 00:24:52,040 he goes over his handlebars and I'm going to phone his dad. 424 00:24:52,160 --> 00:24:54,800 His dad prepared him to ride a motorbike. 425 00:24:55,760 --> 00:24:58,040 His dad prepared him not to be scared. 426 00:24:59,800 --> 00:25:02,720 And we've got this like careful, cautious thing that has come 427 00:25:02,720 --> 00:25:04,840 into us. When God says no, I want you to 428 00:25:04,840 --> 00:25:08,920 have a go. I'm old now and I want to speak 429 00:25:08,920 --> 00:25:10,600 to the young people when they come to church. 430 00:25:10,600 --> 00:25:14,120 They must be commissioned to have a go, not quieten down to 431 00:25:14,120 --> 00:25:16,920 you or get your degree and go to London so you can make lots of 432 00:25:16,920 --> 00:25:19,800 money, so that you can educate your kids who can make lots of 433 00:25:19,800 --> 00:25:22,360 money, so they can educate the kids who can make lots of money. 434 00:25:22,520 --> 00:25:28,360 Or let's change our nation. Let the Spirit of God fill us 435 00:25:28,920 --> 00:25:30,960 with young men. So I thought, OK Bevin, let's 436 00:25:30,960 --> 00:25:32,920 see how this goes. I'm going to speed up on the 437 00:25:32,920 --> 00:25:35,840 road. So I speed up and he's fed up. 438 00:25:36,840 --> 00:25:40,200 So I speed up and he's fed up. Now we go and get 90 KS and I'm 439 00:25:40,200 --> 00:25:43,480 on a proper dirt road and Bevin's going through the tree 440 00:25:43,480 --> 00:25:48,080 stumps. I'm thinking, dear God, how he's 441 00:25:48,080 --> 00:25:51,600 young. He's young and part of my half a 442 00:25:51,600 --> 00:25:53,800 foot in the grave. I feel like saying be careful 443 00:25:53,800 --> 00:25:55,880 Bevin. Don't drive so fast, Bevin. 444 00:25:56,000 --> 00:25:59,320 You might fall off, Bevin. But God is saying. 445 00:25:59,480 --> 00:26:02,800 Have a go Bevan. Have a go Bevan. 446 00:26:02,800 --> 00:26:07,480 Are you with me? Have a go can we trust God 447 00:26:09,840 --> 00:26:11,920 imagine if we didn't pull this building off imagine if we 448 00:26:11,920 --> 00:26:13,560 failed. Imagine if we half built it. 449 00:26:13,800 --> 00:26:16,880 Failure is not fatal. At least we had a go. 450 00:26:17,920 --> 00:26:20,760 At least we trust God. When this is over, I say, oh 451 00:26:20,760 --> 00:26:22,640 God, surely this can't be the biggest thing you're. 452 00:26:22,640 --> 00:26:25,640 Ever going to call me to? Surely, God, I want to change 453 00:26:25,640 --> 00:26:26,760 the world. I want to preach. 454 00:26:27,040 --> 00:26:29,880 I've had a mother who's prayed for me for 57 years. 455 00:26:30,240 --> 00:26:32,040 There's got to be some value in that. 456 00:26:32,640 --> 00:26:35,200 She's not leaning and thinking. How you must slow down now, boy, 457 00:26:35,440 --> 00:26:37,840 she's saying, son, you must take that which God has given to you 458 00:26:37,840 --> 00:26:49,800 and go and change the world are. You with me light is sweet and 459 00:26:49,800 --> 00:26:52,520 pleases the eyes of the sun. However many years a man may 460 00:26:52,520 --> 00:26:54,800 live, let him enjoy it. But remember this OK? 461 00:26:55,160 --> 00:26:58,400 Be happy young man while you're young and let your heart give 462 00:26:58,400 --> 00:27:00,280 you joy in the days of your youth. 463 00:27:00,560 --> 00:27:03,840 Follow the ways of your heart and whatever your eyes see, but 464 00:27:03,840 --> 00:27:05,920 know that all of these things, God will bring you judgement. 465 00:27:05,920 --> 00:27:07,840 If you don't live properly, God's going to judge you. 466 00:27:08,400 --> 00:27:12,240 If you don't live free and full and tough and hard, and if you 467 00:27:12,240 --> 00:27:14,880 don't bungee jump when you're young because your mother says. 468 00:27:14,880 --> 00:27:20,920 Be careful, Be careful. Johnny. 469 00:27:21,960 --> 00:27:27,920 Just jump, Johnny. Jump, Johnny, Jump. 470 00:27:33,900 --> 00:27:36,460 So then banish anxiety from your heart. 471 00:27:36,700 --> 00:27:38,900 You young people, stop. Being scared? 472 00:27:39,780 --> 00:27:45,460 Stop wearing. She's lived on a farm her whole 473 00:27:45,460 --> 00:27:48,100 life. My mom, she walked the dogs. 474 00:27:48,940 --> 00:27:50,220 Don't be scared. I can't be scared. 475 00:27:50,220 --> 00:27:51,780 She lived on a farm. What's going to happen on the 476 00:27:51,780 --> 00:27:53,540 farm? Lived on a farm. 477 00:27:54,540 --> 00:27:57,300 Grew up, ran a business, Trusted God. 478 00:27:57,880 --> 00:27:59,920 Took a loan. From the bank, stop being 479 00:27:59,920 --> 00:28:03,400 scared. Worked. 480 00:28:03,400 --> 00:28:06,440 All day long, 16 hours a day. Sometimes to come and watch my 481 00:28:06,440 --> 00:28:09,000 mum count the money. My dad was selling petrol, my 482 00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:11,680 mum was counting the money. Now I've got to look at my young 483 00:28:11,680 --> 00:28:13,880 people and say don't be anxious about. 484 00:28:13,880 --> 00:28:17,160 Business, young man. Don't be anxious because there's 485 00:28:17,160 --> 00:28:18,960 your granny with one foot in the grave. 486 00:28:19,160 --> 00:28:21,240 And she's leaning. For so you can be a businessman. 487 00:28:21,240 --> 00:28:23,280 Your grandpa was a businessman, She counted. 488 00:28:23,280 --> 00:28:30,320 The money. Start businesses, young people. 489 00:28:31,120 --> 00:28:38,640 In this country start businesses, trust God, so then 490 00:28:38,640 --> 00:28:43,280 balance anxiety from your heart and cast off the troubles of 491 00:28:43,280 --> 00:28:46,800 your body. Oh, I. 492 00:28:46,800 --> 00:28:48,440 Hate talking to people? How you? 493 00:29:03,320 --> 00:29:07,200 I'm not asking how your body is. I want to know how your spirit 494 00:29:07,200 --> 00:29:10,480 that God birthed inside of you when you were born. 495 00:29:10,680 --> 00:29:12,560 I want to know how your spirit is. 496 00:29:13,920 --> 00:29:16,120 I want to know because we could build a world that's tricked us 497 00:29:16,120 --> 00:29:17,920 with our bodies. It's all about the body. 498 00:29:18,040 --> 00:29:20,480 Your body is going to get so you saw how long it. 499 00:29:20,480 --> 00:29:24,040 Took my mother to get there. But my mother is just the body. 500 00:29:24,040 --> 00:29:27,720 The body is aging, the body is becoming frail, but inside lives 501 00:29:27,720 --> 00:29:30,800 the resilient spirit that when the doctor says you will live 502 00:29:30,800 --> 00:29:33,120 six weeks, she says I will live seven years. 503 00:29:36,680 --> 00:29:40,120 Amen. When COVID. 504 00:29:40,120 --> 00:29:43,960 Came along, my mum used to live in Nottingham Road, my son said. 505 00:29:43,960 --> 00:29:47,920 COVID came driving. Up the N 3 highway, stopped the 506 00:29:47,920 --> 00:29:51,360 Nottingham Road and said is there any old person that I 507 00:29:51,360 --> 00:29:56,080 could infect you? And pancreatic cancer said 508 00:29:56,080 --> 00:29:58,000 there's an old woman here called Jill Dyer. 509 00:29:59,080 --> 00:30:03,320 See Scop mahat you must get. Back on the road. 510 00:30:03,320 --> 00:30:05,280 And disappear because she's. Going to. 511 00:30:05,280 --> 00:30:07,920 Scop your hat too. So. 512 00:30:07,920 --> 00:30:09,920 COVID. Got back on the road and off he 513 00:30:09,920 --> 00:30:14,040 went. Friends, stop talking. 514 00:30:14,040 --> 00:30:19,160 About your aches and pains. Give up the anxiety and the stop 515 00:30:19,160 --> 00:30:21,280 talking about it. It's all everybody talks about. 516 00:30:21,760 --> 00:30:24,680 And we're. Sitting with people leading here 517 00:30:24,680 --> 00:30:27,080 thinking I'm my back, sue, I'm my knee sue. 518 00:30:27,280 --> 00:30:32,120 I'm going for an operation on my shoulder that happens. 519 00:30:32,120 --> 00:30:36,360 Friends Paddle was invented by orthopaedic surgeons. 520 00:30:38,680 --> 00:30:41,120 They're all sitting here. They invented the game. 521 00:30:41,760 --> 00:30:45,280 They had a National Orthopedic Surgeon Society meeting and 522 00:30:45,280 --> 00:30:48,560 thought, what should we do to make people snap their Achilles 523 00:30:48,560 --> 00:30:52,800 tendons? Paddle, paddle. 524 00:30:53,160 --> 00:31:01,120 They don't even know how to Afrikaans and as they invented 525 00:31:01,120 --> 00:31:04,920 the game. Knees go, muscles go, everything 526 00:31:04,920 --> 00:31:05,520 goes. Who? 527 00:31:05,520 --> 00:31:15,000 Old people shoulders go, but cast off the anxiety of your 528 00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:18,360 heart and cast off the troubles of your body. 529 00:31:18,360 --> 00:31:20,080 For youth and vigor are meaningless. 530 00:31:20,280 --> 00:31:23,120 It happens quickly. Happens quickly. 531 00:31:23,280 --> 00:31:25,240 You see when you're. Old You can compare yourself to 532 00:31:25,240 --> 00:31:27,200 young, but when you're young, you can't compare yourself to 533 00:31:27,200 --> 00:31:29,560 old. Look at this. 534 00:31:29,560 --> 00:31:32,880 Remember your creator in the days of your youth. 535 00:31:33,840 --> 00:31:38,240 Remember your Creator, not your Savior, not your Lord, not your 536 00:31:38,240 --> 00:31:40,800 King, your. The guy who? 537 00:31:40,800 --> 00:31:42,760 Put you together in your stomach, in your mother's 538 00:31:42,760 --> 00:31:44,160 stomach. Remember your Creator. 539 00:31:45,400 --> 00:31:48,880 Remember your Creator in the days of their youth, before the 540 00:31:48,880 --> 00:31:51,480 days of trouble come and the years approach. 541 00:31:51,480 --> 00:31:53,560 When you will say, I find no pleasure in them. 542 00:31:53,800 --> 00:31:56,760 Before the sun and the light and the moon and the stars grow dark 543 00:31:56,760 --> 00:31:58,440 and the clouds will turn off the rain. 544 00:31:58,760 --> 00:32:00,560 When the keepers of the house tremble. 545 00:32:00,800 --> 00:32:03,000 And the strong men, the keepers of the house, or your teeth, 546 00:32:04,960 --> 00:32:08,800 when they start getting loose. Before that, remember your 547 00:32:08,800 --> 00:32:10,640 Creator. Three things, friends. 548 00:32:10,640 --> 00:32:14,600 We cannot predict the future. We cannot predict the future, 549 00:32:19,240 --> 00:32:21,640 cannot predict it. So you've got to live in the 550 00:32:21,640 --> 00:32:25,320 now. We cannot predict the future. 551 00:32:25,320 --> 00:32:31,360 So when you've got 1 foot in the grave and 1 foot here, make sure 552 00:32:31,360 --> 00:32:34,680 you lean this way #2 we don't know God's ways. 553 00:32:35,920 --> 00:32:39,920 We don't know God's ways, so don't question him when things 554 00:32:39,920 --> 00:32:46,800 you don't understand don't know God's ways said to Job. 555 00:32:46,800 --> 00:32:48,840 He said, Job, do you know where the wind comes from? 556 00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:51,720 You know where the mountain goat gives birth? 557 00:32:51,720 --> 00:32:55,200 You know where I hide the stars? Job, do you Do you know who 558 00:32:55,200 --> 00:32:58,480 controls lightning? And Job says, I don't know, 559 00:32:58,480 --> 00:33:00,400 Lord, he says, and who are you to question me? 560 00:33:01,840 --> 00:33:04,280 One of the things that Ecclesiastes is don't question 561 00:33:04,280 --> 00:33:09,320 God. I've seen my mum with a 1 foot 562 00:33:09,320 --> 00:33:15,280 in the coffin and a one foot here and the 57 years that I've 563 00:33:15,280 --> 00:33:17,480 known her I've never ever heard a question God. 564 00:33:19,240 --> 00:33:21,000 I watched their business go through this. 565 00:33:21,640 --> 00:33:24,880 I remember being in the Kruger National Park on holiday when 566 00:33:24,880 --> 00:33:28,200 the bank pulled my dad's credit line, and I remember my mom and 567 00:33:28,200 --> 00:33:29,920 dad having a talk. My sister and I were in a 568 00:33:29,920 --> 00:33:31,720 separate bungalow. They ran and they said we're 569 00:33:31,720 --> 00:33:33,480 going home. We got in the car. 570 00:33:33,480 --> 00:33:36,840 We raced from Cricket Park to Bethlehem where my dad's bank 571 00:33:36,840 --> 00:33:38,000 was. I remember him going in there 572 00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:41,560 and arguing to get his credit line back in, but never 573 00:33:41,560 --> 00:33:45,560 questioned God. You don't know God's ways. 574 00:33:47,880 --> 00:33:51,120 So whether you succeed or whether you fail, success is not 575 00:33:51,120 --> 00:33:53,880 a sign of God's blessing and failure a sign of his curse. 576 00:33:54,360 --> 00:33:57,920 We don't know God's ways. We don't know God's ways. 577 00:34:03,250 --> 00:34:07,010 I watched my son with some of your sons lose a rugby match 578 00:34:07,010 --> 00:34:13,730 yesterday. 73 Seven. I prayed, I read, I blessed, I 579 00:34:13,929 --> 00:34:20,929 asked. 73 Seven. I don't know God's ways, but I'm 580 00:34:20,929 --> 00:34:23,600 not going to lean this way. I'm going to lean this way 581 00:34:23,600 --> 00:34:25,639 because I know that there's a young man and he needs to 582 00:34:25,639 --> 00:34:28,360 explore things and needs to express things, and he needs to 583 00:34:28,360 --> 00:34:30,360 go back and dig deep and find things. 584 00:34:30,600 --> 00:34:34,280 And I know that 73 seven will not be a loss that will haunt 585 00:34:34,280 --> 00:34:35,960 him. It'll be a loss that will shape 586 00:34:35,960 --> 00:34:48,480 him for the rest of his life #3 we cannot guarantee success or 587 00:34:48,480 --> 00:34:52,960 failure. So what should we do #1 be 588 00:34:52,960 --> 00:34:55,639 generous. Just be generous. 589 00:34:55,639 --> 00:34:58,080 Just so how many times? 7 * 8 times? 590 00:34:58,080 --> 00:35:01,200 Just keep sewing, Just keep sewing, keep sewing, keep 591 00:35:01,200 --> 00:35:07,480 sewing, just keep sewing. There's a man called Nicotus. 592 00:35:08,400 --> 00:35:12,280 He's a man whose one son is a doctor, his daughter's a doctor. 593 00:35:12,280 --> 00:35:16,280 His one son is an advocate. His other son is one of the big 594 00:35:16,280 --> 00:35:18,960 shots of PSG in South Africa as an English boy. 595 00:35:20,480 --> 00:35:22,360 And all he did was just sow pray. 596 00:35:22,440 --> 00:35:26,200 Just sowed, just sowed, sowed, sowed, sowed, pray. 597 00:35:27,080 --> 00:35:30,520 And one day I realized actually the only reason that I'm still 598 00:35:30,520 --> 00:35:32,320 in ministry because I should have burnt out. 599 00:35:32,800 --> 00:35:34,720 Because I've made some dumb decisions and I've over 600 00:35:34,720 --> 00:35:37,720 committed and I've worked sometimes too hard and I've 601 00:35:37,720 --> 00:35:40,640 stayed up late at night and I've done all these things. 602 00:35:40,640 --> 00:35:43,680 And sometimes I lean this way, but through the prayers of 603 00:35:43,680 --> 00:35:45,720 Nicotus and through the prayers of my mum. 604 00:35:52,200 --> 00:35:53,720 Somehow I've got to lean this way. 605 00:35:56,880 --> 00:36:01,520 And now I say to you, Bevan, ride your motorbike faster in 606 00:36:01,520 --> 00:36:13,760 the forests, run harder on the rugby field, jump higher when 607 00:36:13,760 --> 00:36:19,040 you jump. Work harder with the gift that 608 00:36:19,040 --> 00:36:22,520 God has given to you, young man and business, and the blessing 609 00:36:22,520 --> 00:36:26,960 that God has given to you and young lady, your entrepreneurial 610 00:36:26,960 --> 00:36:28,880 spirit that you got from your grandpa. 611 00:36:28,880 --> 00:36:33,480 Somehow through the grace of God, exercise it and start more 612 00:36:33,480 --> 00:36:36,680 businesses and more businesses and more businesses. 613 00:36:36,920 --> 00:36:40,520 Otherwise, God will judge you for not using the skill. 614 00:36:40,720 --> 00:36:44,120 And you young man who know how to tackle, and I've got a very 615 00:36:44,120 --> 00:36:48,040 big heart inside of your chest as a gift from your mother that 616 00:36:48,040 --> 00:36:51,720 when you were knit together in that room, God put a big heart 617 00:36:51,720 --> 00:36:54,520 in there. And it's not the spirit of a 618 00:36:54,520 --> 00:36:56,840 passive man. It's the spirit of a lion. 619 00:36:57,520 --> 00:37:00,040 And you're meant to. Be buying cars at the tender age 620 00:37:00,040 --> 00:37:02,440 of. 17 and selling them for a profit. 621 00:37:02,440 --> 00:37:04,880 Because God is putting. Business inside of you, young 622 00:37:04,880 --> 00:37:08,320 man, and you know how to tackle and you know how to stand up and 623 00:37:08,320 --> 00:37:10,480 you know how to live. And when your body gets sore, 624 00:37:10,480 --> 00:37:15,000 then shake it off and don't. Worry about it and just remind 625 00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:16,640 that the. Spirit that God put. 626 00:37:16,640 --> 00:37:19,440 Inside your mother's womb. Was a spirit. 627 00:37:19,440 --> 00:37:22,400 To make a difference I want to say to all. 628 00:37:22,400 --> 00:37:25,400 Of you old guys like me because sometimes my shoulders sore, 629 00:37:25,640 --> 00:37:27,400 other pull ups. And my shoulders a bit sore. 630 00:37:27,520 --> 00:37:29,680 Stop complaining about your shoulders. 631 00:37:29,680 --> 00:37:35,840 And your jolly back and your knees, and speak to the next 632 00:37:35,840 --> 00:37:37,720 generation in the life of the Church and say. 633 00:37:37,720 --> 00:37:42,480 Hey, have a go, have a go, have a go. 634 00:37:43,040 --> 00:37:45,880 Be wild, be free. Be dangerous, don't be. 635 00:37:45,880 --> 00:37:49,600 Evil. And have a go, but I don't know 636 00:37:49,600 --> 00:37:50,680 the future. No, you don't. 637 00:37:51,400 --> 00:37:55,120 But I'm not so sure I'll fail. Don't worry, don't worry. 638 00:37:55,360 --> 00:37:56,400 I'm going to feel like I'm going to get. 639 00:37:56,400 --> 00:37:58,080 Cut. Don't worry, Jesus was cut for 640 00:37:58,080 --> 00:37:59,080 you. He'll heal you. 641 00:38:00,120 --> 00:38:02,960 But have a go young people, in Jesus name.