1 00:00:03,500 --> 00:00:06,200 If you feel comfortable, once you open your hands. 2 00:00:06,200 --> 00:00:08,700 So stretch out your arms, I'd love to pray. 3 00:00:09,900 --> 00:00:15,100 As we start. Holy Spirit, Come. 4 00:00:16,200 --> 00:00:20,500 Father, it's been said. That you go where you are wanted 5 00:00:20,500 --> 00:00:22,800 and this morning with everything in us. 6 00:00:23,400 --> 00:00:27,900 I cry as we want. You father, we are desperate for 7 00:00:27,900 --> 00:00:33,300 you father. We dare not stand in the midst 8 00:00:33,600 --> 00:00:36,800 of your goodness and your blessing and your favor and look 9 00:00:36,800 --> 00:00:40,900 anywhere else. But at you, but I don't know 10 00:00:40,900 --> 00:00:44,000 what you want to do in hearts and hands and homes here today. 11 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:48,600 But as best as we know how we want to give you permission, 12 00:00:49,300 --> 00:00:54,300 have your way, hello to be your name. 13 00:00:55,600 --> 00:01:01,800 Have your way. Father from those who are far 14 00:01:01,800 --> 00:01:05,400 from you, those who are afraid of you. 15 00:01:06,400 --> 00:01:09,600 Who look at you and only see judgment and wrath in 16 00:01:09,600 --> 00:01:14,300 condemnation. To those of us who know your 17 00:01:14,300 --> 00:01:17,200 saving grace and the power of your forgiving blood. 18 00:01:18,700 --> 00:01:23,100 And everything in between. Hallowed Be Your Name. 19 00:01:23,600 --> 00:01:30,300 Help your name. if you have your Bible with you, I'd love you to 20 00:01:30,300 --> 00:01:34,400 turn to Psalm 145. I'm going to see how far we can 21 00:01:34,400 --> 00:01:38,300 to get today. We're starting a new series 22 00:01:38,500 --> 00:01:43,000 called Hallowed, be your name. And you should be familiar with 23 00:01:43,200 --> 00:01:45,200 the phrase that comes from the Lord's prayer. 24 00:01:45,500 --> 00:01:50,400 Our Father who art in heaven Hallowed Be Your Name hallowed 25 00:01:50,800 --> 00:01:54,600 it means to exalts to magnify, to glorify to set your 26 00:01:54,600 --> 00:01:58,000 affections on to be captivated by Hallowed. 27 00:01:58,400 --> 00:02:01,700 Be your name. But, I don't know if you know 28 00:02:01,700 --> 00:02:06,700 the context that it pops up in. It's found in Matthew chapter 6 29 00:02:07,400 --> 00:02:10,800 and the context is last weekend's feast. 30 00:02:12,200 --> 00:02:16,700 Jesus has started his ministry. He is called his disciples. 31 00:02:16,900 --> 00:02:20,100 And she says, early on in Matthews, he's a Matthew, it's, 32 00:02:20,100 --> 00:02:25,500 he's surrounded by the crowds, there's a hum and a buzz. 33 00:02:25,800 --> 00:02:32,800 It's just this swarming, this around his ministry, And then he 34 00:02:32,800 --> 00:02:35,600 says in Matthew chapter 6, and this is the New Living 35 00:02:35,600 --> 00:02:40,800 Translation he says watch out. Says, don't do your good deeds 36 00:02:40,800 --> 00:02:43,000 publicly to be admired by others. 37 00:02:43,500 --> 00:02:47,400 No fanfare. When you give to someone in 38 00:02:47,400 --> 00:02:50,900 need, don't post it on Instagram and you know, right? 39 00:02:50,900 --> 00:02:54,000 You little I was prompted by God to lead by the whole he's no, he 40 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:55,800 says, no. No blowing trumpets. 41 00:02:55,900 --> 00:02:58,400 No drawing attention and he actually says when it comes to 42 00:02:58,400 --> 00:03:00,800 your relationship with your heavenly father, don't stand on 43 00:03:00,800 --> 00:03:04,700 the street corners, babbling like a pagan pretending to have 44 00:03:04,700 --> 00:03:07,200 a moment of intimacy with your father's instead. 45 00:03:08,700 --> 00:03:12,700 When you pray, This is begin like this Our Father who art in 46 00:03:12,700 --> 00:03:17,600 heaven Hallowed be your name. It's like like he walks right 47 00:03:17,600 --> 00:03:21,300 into the middle of the feast and he stands in front of that ox 48 00:03:21,600 --> 00:03:24,900 and he turns our attention off ourselves and off God's blessing 49 00:03:24,900 --> 00:03:27,900 and his favor and his abundance and his kindness to us as a 50 00:03:27,908 --> 00:03:30,100 community. And he sets our affections on 51 00:03:30,100 --> 00:03:35,600 the father, Hallowed be your name and that is the series that 52 00:03:35,600 --> 00:03:38,300 we're going to run a probably up until Easter. 53 00:03:40,400 --> 00:03:43,100 Because we feeling like I was saying, you know, it's 54 00:03:43,100 --> 00:03:45,200 wonderful. I don't know if you saw at the 55 00:03:45,200 --> 00:03:49,900 cars parked out on the streets down past the traffic circle to 56 00:03:49,900 --> 00:03:53,600 that family that came in the BMW that you nearly had a check 57 00:03:53,600 --> 00:03:56,200 streets. Thank you for coming and we left 58 00:03:56,200 --> 00:03:58,000 the car was still there. I'm just thinking that's like an 59 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:03,800 hour's walk back to your car. And it's wonderful that we have 60 00:04:03,800 --> 00:04:07,700 family still sitting down the corridors and some families 61 00:04:07,700 --> 00:04:10,400 sitting on the floor. But we're going to look past the 62 00:04:10,400 --> 00:04:14,700 people past the personalities and over the next month we are 63 00:04:14,700 --> 00:04:18,300 going to make much of our heavenly father Hallowed be your 64 00:04:18,300 --> 00:04:23,300 name. Hello Dad, be your name and that 65 00:04:23,300 --> 00:04:25,600 is the reason why we've even cleaned the stage. 66 00:04:27,400 --> 00:04:31,800 Don't know if you noticed how hard it was to worship without 67 00:04:31,800 --> 00:04:37,800 Fanfare that bling. Because our hearts are prone to 68 00:04:37,800 --> 00:04:40,200 drift. So that is where we going today. 69 00:04:40,200 --> 00:04:43,600 We are going to hello the name of our Heavenly father's through 70 00:04:43,800 --> 00:04:47,800 Psalm 145. I've put it up on the screen for 71 00:04:47,800 --> 00:04:50,400 you of actually merged two translations because there's so 72 00:04:50,400 --> 00:04:54,900 much meat in this is just one, didn't it just as verse one? 73 00:04:54,900 --> 00:04:59,200 Psalm 145 my heart explodes with praise to you. 74 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:08,900 Well, maybe not Now and forever my heart bowels in worship to 75 00:05:08,900 --> 00:05:14,200 you my king and my God, every day, I will lift up my praise of 76 00:05:14,200 --> 00:05:16,200 your name every day. I will. 77 00:05:16,200 --> 00:05:20,900 Hello your name to this age and the age to come Lord. 78 00:05:20,900 --> 00:05:24,500 You are great and worthy of the highest praise. 79 00:05:24,700 --> 00:05:27,100 Look at this. For there is no end to the 80 00:05:27,100 --> 00:05:30,100 discovery of the greatness that surrounds. 81 00:05:30,100 --> 00:05:34,900 You do. You know this God or do you just 82 00:05:34,900 --> 00:05:39,000 know his church? One generation will praise your 83 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:42,600 Works to another and I will declare your Mighty acts 84 00:05:43,800 --> 00:05:52,600 Hallowed be your name. What I want to do is the portion 85 00:05:52,600 --> 00:05:54,800 that really caught my attention verse 2 and 4. 86 00:05:55,500 --> 00:05:58,600 There's this repeat to says, every day, I will lift up my 87 00:05:58,600 --> 00:06:01,600 praise of your name to this age and the age to come those 88 00:06:01,600 --> 00:06:03,400 forces. One generation will praise your 89 00:06:03,400 --> 00:06:05,000 Works to another what's interesting. 90 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:07,600 It doesn't say one generation will praise your Works to the 91 00:06:07,600 --> 00:06:09,600 next. It's not me standing up here 92 00:06:09,600 --> 00:06:14,300 speaking to the young people. If every generation saying, do 93 00:06:14,300 --> 00:06:16,700 you know this? God is he hallowed? 94 00:06:16,800 --> 00:06:19,400 Can I tell you what he's done for me and so we going to do 95 00:06:19,400 --> 00:06:23,700 that by looking At possibly three of his name's. 96 00:06:25,500 --> 00:06:28,000 I want to look at where he is named. 97 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:32,100 Ella him in the very first line of the Bible where he then says, 98 00:06:32,100 --> 00:06:35,200 but call me Yahweh in the middle of scripture and then we're 99 00:06:35,200 --> 00:06:38,100 Jesus, ultimately says, but do you know him as ever? 100 00:06:38,700 --> 00:06:40,200 I don't know if we'll get there but let's see. 101 00:06:40,500 --> 00:06:44,600 Hmm. Genesis 1 and verse 1. 102 00:06:46,300 --> 00:06:52,500 You know, says any the burning God. 103 00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:56,300 Need James, Earl Jones in the beginning. 104 00:06:57,000 --> 00:07:03,000 God And that word is Elohim. I don't know if you've heard the 105 00:07:03,000 --> 00:07:05,800 that word. God, introduces himself on the 106 00:07:05,808 --> 00:07:08,100 very first page of the very first chapter of the very first 107 00:07:08,100 --> 00:07:09,500 line. The very first sentence before 108 00:07:09,500 --> 00:07:14,100 you even take a breath. You read in the beginning, God 109 00:07:14,200 --> 00:07:16,300 hello him. But I don't know if you know 110 00:07:16,300 --> 00:07:19,200 this about the name Elohim something I discovered in my 111 00:07:19,200 --> 00:07:23,500 study recently is that Elohim is not a Hebrew word. 112 00:07:24,300 --> 00:07:27,000 So if you familiar with Old Testament and New Testament, the 113 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:30,000 Old Testament was originally written in Hebrew ancient Hebrew 114 00:07:30,100 --> 00:07:32,900 and the New Testament predominantly in Greek, but 115 00:07:32,900 --> 00:07:38,000 Elohim is not a Hebrew word. It comes from one of these 116 00:07:38,000 --> 00:07:42,300 Semitic family of languages that eventually morphed into Arabic 117 00:07:42,700 --> 00:07:46,300 and Hebrew and Aramaic and Tigre that they speak in Sudan and 118 00:07:46,400 --> 00:07:51,100 whole bunch of others. But God introduces himself with 119 00:07:51,100 --> 00:07:53,300 a random name. Picked from a hat. 120 00:07:53,400 --> 00:07:55,900 He said, okay this is for all you people. 121 00:07:55,900 --> 00:08:00,600 You kind of know the concepts of God in the beginning Elohim. 122 00:08:00,600 --> 00:08:02,600 It's like he took a bag and stuck his hand in and said well 123 00:08:02,600 --> 00:08:06,400 okay you know that that name I mean it's it is so condescending 124 00:08:06,400 --> 00:08:10,600 it Almost offensive. The God said, it's okay. 125 00:08:10,600 --> 00:08:16,200 You can just know me as Elohim. Which means that the Arabs would 126 00:08:16,200 --> 00:08:19,200 know Elohim. The Ethiopians would know, 127 00:08:19,200 --> 00:08:22,700 Elohim, the Egyptians would know the term Elohim. 128 00:08:23,700 --> 00:08:29,300 He's so condescending. If it was me It would be a Min 129 00:08:29,300 --> 00:08:34,200 presentation is a big deal. It's like I have arrived smoke 130 00:08:34,200 --> 00:08:38,900 and mirrors, you know, Anthem playing care, Coral, nice and 131 00:08:38,900 --> 00:08:43,799 loud. I am Ian. 132 00:08:44,000 --> 00:08:46,700 God most high. No, no. 133 00:08:46,700 --> 00:08:48,300 Is this him? Hi. 134 00:08:48,700 --> 00:08:51,500 You can actually, you could almost write it to the small 135 00:08:51,500 --> 00:08:57,700 letter G now, that bothers me, Because my picture of God, who 136 00:08:57,700 --> 00:08:59,900 creates the heavens and the Earth is far greater than that. 137 00:08:59,900 --> 00:09:02,900 I mean, if I'm called to lift up my praise of your name, then 138 00:09:02,900 --> 00:09:05,700 that name needs to be a big name, but he says, no not just 139 00:09:05,700 --> 00:09:11,400 call me Ella him. He simply says, let's start by 140 00:09:11,400 --> 00:09:15,700 being familiar. Shane Carroll's is the 141 00:09:15,700 --> 00:09:19,200 following. His God was willing to Simply 142 00:09:19,200 --> 00:09:23,900 make himself familiar to mankind because he is a God who wants to 143 00:09:23,900 --> 00:09:30,200 be discovered Do you know this God, have you discovered him? 144 00:09:32,500 --> 00:09:34,900 He wants to be discovered. Don't just take my word for it 145 00:09:34,900 --> 00:09:37,700 or Shane Carol's word for it. Take scriptures word for it. 146 00:09:37,800 --> 00:09:39,800 You know the very first thing that God does that 147 00:09:39,800 --> 00:09:42,500 differentiates Mankind from all of creation? 148 00:09:44,000 --> 00:09:47,200 It's this. He starts a conversation. 149 00:09:48,900 --> 00:09:51,700 Having made the heavens and the Earth, but the black holes and 150 00:09:51,700 --> 00:09:54,200 the planets, and the stars and its place. 151 00:09:55,500 --> 00:09:58,700 He passes them all by, gets down on his knees in the dirt and 152 00:09:58,700 --> 00:10:05,900 starts a conversation with us. One person said he begins an 153 00:10:05,900 --> 00:10:11,100 undomesticated wild raw wrecking, ball of the pursuit of 154 00:10:11,100 --> 00:10:13,500 a heart. What a quiet. 155 00:10:14,900 --> 00:10:21,800 I want to do, you know him. Because he wants to know you and 156 00:10:21,800 --> 00:10:26,800 he wants to be known by you. You know, the feasts that we've 157 00:10:26,800 --> 00:10:30,500 been enjoying over the last few weeks, the feast will put in 158 00:10:30,508 --> 00:10:34,400 place, so that we could have a conversation with god. 159 00:10:35,300 --> 00:10:39,000 The primary purpose for a feast was to gather the people so that 160 00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:41,000 God could start a conversation with his people. 161 00:10:41,100 --> 00:10:43,300 Or for those who have had a conversation, you can pick up 162 00:10:43,300 --> 00:10:46,400 where they left off and hopefully spend enough time with 163 00:10:46,400 --> 00:10:49,100 one another so that we would fall in love with Jesus. 164 00:10:49,600 --> 00:10:52,400 That's the purpose of the feast and it is such a big deal to 165 00:10:52,400 --> 00:10:56,000 Jesus and to scripture. And to God and relating to his 166 00:10:56,000 --> 00:10:59,800 people that he links the feasts to the lunar cycle. 167 00:11:00,200 --> 00:11:03,300 Now, get this. That means having a conversation 168 00:11:03,300 --> 00:11:08,100 with you is so important to God, that he places a rock, the size 169 00:11:08,100 --> 00:11:14,800 of a planet in the sky. His can we ever conversation? 170 00:11:16,800 --> 00:11:18,200 We lost. Did you look at the Moon? 171 00:11:19,300 --> 00:11:23,100 Psalm 104 verse 19. Says, John Elefante says it was 172 00:11:23,100 --> 00:11:25,400 all about romance back in the 90's. 173 00:11:25,400 --> 00:11:28,600 That's why God made the moon got to wrong, completely some 104, 174 00:11:28,600 --> 00:11:36,300 19 is He made the moon as a marker for your Feast as a mock, 175 00:11:36,300 --> 00:11:38,900 a made Moon. So that you, look at that 176 00:11:39,000 --> 00:11:41,700 tonight. And it's got a looking down 177 00:11:41,700 --> 00:11:46,200 saying, I want to have a conversation of you, hello him. 178 00:11:48,400 --> 00:11:50,900 Wants to know you and wants you to know him. 179 00:11:52,500 --> 00:11:56,800 Hello, be that name but here's the problem with Elohim. 180 00:11:58,600 --> 00:12:05,000 It's kind of a distant name. We, I think in the city, we 181 00:12:05,000 --> 00:12:08,700 predominantly only really know him as Elohim. 182 00:12:09,900 --> 00:12:13,700 We happy with God out there. We happy with familiar. 183 00:12:15,000 --> 00:12:17,500 Father, who know, then you've crossed the line. 184 00:12:18,900 --> 00:12:22,300 I just need you there. If my kids exams are taking 185 00:12:22,500 --> 00:12:26,300 strain, or I can't find my car keys or I'm looking for a 186 00:12:26,300 --> 00:12:29,900 parking spot. I'm happy with you being Elohim 187 00:12:31,600 --> 00:12:34,400 but it seems there I will lift up my praise of your name to 188 00:12:34,400 --> 00:12:37,500 this age and the age to come. It says there is no end to the 189 00:12:37,500 --> 00:12:39,800 discovery of the greatness that surrounds you. 190 00:12:40,400 --> 00:12:45,800 But why aren't we discovering, why are we hanging up the name 191 00:12:45,800 --> 00:12:49,500 of Elohim as familiar and leaving it right there. can I 192 00:12:49,508 --> 00:12:54,100 talk to the older generation for just a moment and I lump myself 193 00:12:54,100 --> 00:12:58,400 in there, We were down in case it in a genrich church 3C. 194 00:12:58,400 --> 00:13:02,200 I was planted out of Glenridge and I saw something that we have 195 00:13:02,200 --> 00:13:09,100 lost and if I can be, A little pastoral something that we've 196 00:13:09,100 --> 00:13:14,800 lost in the morning service. Slightly all the demographic and 197 00:13:14,800 --> 00:13:19,300 we are in danger of settling. We're in danger of saying, I 198 00:13:19,300 --> 00:13:22,000 know Elohim and that's good enough. 199 00:13:22,100 --> 00:13:23,700 I can't. Thank God, thank you. 200 00:13:24,900 --> 00:13:29,300 Don't put yourself some me, but here's an elderly gentleman in 201 00:13:29,300 --> 00:13:31,400 his, he was 84. When he wrote this Martyn, 202 00:13:31,400 --> 00:13:34,500 lloyd-jones said opposition to what is called. 203 00:13:34,500 --> 00:13:38,300 Enthusiasm can be one of the greatest hindrances of Revival. 204 00:13:39,700 --> 00:13:43,100 Now if we just, we just leave it to the kids, you know, it'll 205 00:13:43,100 --> 00:13:45,300 wear off eventually. I don't know in last. 206 00:13:45,300 --> 00:13:47,900 You hung around with a newly saved Christian and they are 207 00:13:47,900 --> 00:13:50,500 just everywhere. He was like, why have you read 208 00:13:50,500 --> 00:13:52,600 this in scripture? The promises. 209 00:13:52,600 --> 00:13:55,500 I remember when I was young a problem, my kids a is like 12 210 00:13:55,500 --> 00:13:57,200 13. I remember getting, is someone 211 00:13:57,200 --> 00:14:00,500 standing up taking up the Tarzan offerings and reading from 212 00:14:00,500 --> 00:14:05,400 Malachi The promise that says bring the tithes into the 213 00:14:05,400 --> 00:14:09,500 storehouse and see if I will not open up the floodgates of heaven 214 00:14:09,600 --> 00:14:12,600 and pour out so much blessing on you that you cannot contain it. 215 00:14:12,700 --> 00:14:15,000 I'm thinking that can't be in the scripture, I've never heard 216 00:14:15,000 --> 00:14:17,800 that before and going and looking finding for myself, 217 00:14:18,100 --> 00:14:20,900 changing the way. I handle finances for the rest 218 00:14:20,900 --> 00:14:23,300 of my life based on that. One moment, when an elderly 219 00:14:23,300 --> 00:14:26,600 gentleman said, you people have forgotten the promises of God. 220 00:14:27,800 --> 00:14:31,300 And we do this look, just just dial it down a little, you know, 221 00:14:31,300 --> 00:14:34,800 Rory, I mean if you can introvert just a little bit 222 00:14:34,800 --> 00:14:39,500 more, that would be wonderful. Opposition to what is called. 223 00:14:39,500 --> 00:14:43,300 Enthusiasm can be one of the greatest hindrances of Revival 224 00:14:43,300 --> 00:14:46,200 because why? Because we are pigeonholing God 225 00:14:46,200 --> 00:14:52,400 as Elohim and Elohim alone. Instead in case you're wondering 226 00:14:52,400 --> 00:14:56,500 the Plumb line, biblically is Simeon and Anna, and Luke to 227 00:14:56,500 --> 00:15:00,500 Jesus is brought to the temple as a baby dedication and simming 228 00:15:00,500 --> 00:15:02,500 as there. And he says, I have seen the 229 00:15:02,508 --> 00:15:04,700 promises of God. One of the promises he says, I 230 00:15:04,700 --> 00:15:10,600 will see with my own eyes, the very Messiah Hungry thirsty. 231 00:15:10,600 --> 00:15:14,900 He says he was in the temple. When Jesus arrived, he wasn't on 232 00:15:14,900 --> 00:15:16,200 the beach. Picking up shells. 233 00:15:17,500 --> 00:15:22,100 Well Anna 84 years old fasting, and praying in the temple, 234 00:15:22,100 --> 00:15:25,400 everyday pursuing, the presence of God, you're not too old. 235 00:15:25,400 --> 00:15:27,900 You haven't been there, done that, there is more to discover. 236 00:15:27,900 --> 00:15:30,400 The Bible says, there is no end to the discovery of the 237 00:15:30,400 --> 00:15:34,800 greatness that surrounds you and our danger is that we grow into 238 00:15:34,800 --> 00:15:39,200 this crust of Duty and cynicism and been there done that your 239 00:15:39,200 --> 00:15:43,900 church leadership and we shrink down our heavenly father to just 240 00:15:43,900 --> 00:15:47,400 tell him Henry Thoreau says the following the Young Man gets 241 00:15:47,400 --> 00:15:50,700 together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or 242 00:15:50,700 --> 00:15:54,900 perchance a palace or a temple on Earth and at length, the 243 00:15:54,908 --> 00:15:57,800 middle aged, man, concludes to build a wood shed with him. 244 00:16:00,500 --> 00:16:05,200 God calls you and you wrestle and pray like, Laura, you are 245 00:16:05,200 --> 00:16:07,500 you calling me to join their Church Plant? 246 00:16:08,700 --> 00:16:10,000 Are you calling me to the ministry? 247 00:16:10,000 --> 00:16:12,700 And these stirrings are there but the years come and go and 248 00:16:12,700 --> 00:16:16,700 after a while you have your nice house and your car and God is 249 00:16:16,700 --> 00:16:20,000 kept at arm's length. To the younger generation. 250 00:16:20,400 --> 00:16:28,400 Has anyone here under the age of 25 or they're still asleep to 251 00:16:28,400 --> 00:16:31,800 the younger generation? The post, the way you pursue 252 00:16:31,800 --> 00:16:34,500 God. Now, the prayers that you pray 253 00:16:34,700 --> 00:16:39,400 now, we'll set the trajectory of the rest of your life. 254 00:16:39,600 --> 00:16:47,300 Do not pray, small, praise do not pray, safe, praise Make sure 255 00:16:47,300 --> 00:16:50,800 you judge demands on Heaven. On this God on this God. 256 00:16:50,800 --> 00:16:53,900 Who says there is no end to the discovery of his greatness. 257 00:16:54,500 --> 00:16:58,500 Don't shrink it down to some lukewarm two-minute noodle 258 00:16:58,500 --> 00:17:02,500 faith. It sets the trajectory of the 259 00:17:02,500 --> 00:17:04,300 rest of your life. Who knows what God has called 260 00:17:04,300 --> 00:17:08,000 you to? Maybe you are next president, 261 00:17:08,200 --> 00:17:11,800 don't you dare take that mental without being drenched in the 262 00:17:11,800 --> 00:17:14,300 presence, and the purpose and the prayers. 263 00:17:15,300 --> 00:17:20,000 Of God. David was out in the field was 264 00:17:20,000 --> 00:17:24,500 called to be king Esther and often and she changed the 265 00:17:24,500 --> 00:17:29,700 trajectory of a Nation. Lean in. 266 00:17:30,900 --> 00:17:35,800 Drew Nia. He's waiting for you. he's 267 00:17:35,800 --> 00:17:41,800 waiting for you, 3ci Hello him. The God. 268 00:17:41,800 --> 00:17:46,300 Who longs to be discovered? He is waiting for you. 269 00:17:48,500 --> 00:17:52,200 He? The creator of Heaven and Earth, 270 00:17:52,200 --> 00:17:56,800 one, who put the moon in the night, sky is waiting for you. 271 00:17:59,800 --> 00:18:04,700 There's something about Elohim with the name is it's acceptable 272 00:18:05,300 --> 00:18:09,100 but it's distance which is why we see in scripture, although it 273 00:18:09,100 --> 00:18:13,600 begins on page one line, one verse one Elohim, it doesn't 274 00:18:13,600 --> 00:18:16,800 stay there. He moves to the moment where he 275 00:18:16,800 --> 00:18:21,500 introduces himself as Yahweh. And if you read your Bible you 276 00:18:21,500 --> 00:18:23,900 probably crossed it many times. That the moment that he does 277 00:18:23,900 --> 00:18:26,000 that with without seeing it because it's kind of Lost in 278 00:18:26,000 --> 00:18:32,200 Translation because most bubbles translated Yahweh as Lord LR D 279 00:18:32,500 --> 00:18:34,600 in capital letters. I don't know if you have ever 280 00:18:34,600 --> 00:18:37,600 seen that but the pops up in a place, very familiar to you. 281 00:18:37,900 --> 00:18:40,200 It's when Moses is standing in the desert. 282 00:18:41,500 --> 00:18:44,300 Having a conversation with god through this Burning Bush you 283 00:18:44,300 --> 00:18:47,800 know the account and he says God is busy saying listen I'm going 284 00:18:47,800 --> 00:18:50,000 to send you back to pharaoh and you going to tell him to let my 285 00:18:50,000 --> 00:18:51,800 people go. And you going to tell my people 286 00:18:51,800 --> 00:18:53,700 to get ready because I'm going to make sure that they get let 287 00:18:53,700 --> 00:18:56,400 go and most of this is going like, whoa, whoa, Tom McCann, 288 00:18:56,400 --> 00:19:01,600 can we just back up? Who do I say, send me and he 289 00:19:01,608 --> 00:19:04,400 says, two things. A lot of the time we only see 290 00:19:04,400 --> 00:19:06,700 one. Firstly, he says, tell them. 291 00:19:07,000 --> 00:19:09,500 I am has sent you remember that fortune? 292 00:19:10,600 --> 00:19:12,800 Tell them I am and we've struggled with it. 293 00:19:12,800 --> 00:19:17,700 Like I am what? Yeah, I mu I can like to be what 294 00:19:17,800 --> 00:19:20,200 who it, like, I'd like to not add a full stop day. 295 00:19:20,500 --> 00:19:25,200 I am. Yeah, a lot of theologians say, 296 00:19:25,200 --> 00:19:27,900 actually, he is whoever you need him to be. 297 00:19:30,500 --> 00:19:33,100 But he gives his own commentary, God. 298 00:19:34,300 --> 00:19:38,000 Says, tell them, I am I am a sin to you and that is in verse 14, 299 00:19:38,100 --> 00:19:41,800 verse 15. God also said to Moses say this 300 00:19:41,800 --> 00:19:48,000 to the Israelites Yahweh The god of your ancestors, the Elohim of 301 00:19:48,000 --> 00:19:50,700 your ancestors, the god of Abraham, the god of Isaac, and 302 00:19:50,700 --> 00:19:52,300 the god of Jacob has sent me to you. 303 00:19:53,100 --> 00:19:58,200 This is my name forever. This is how I am to be 304 00:19:58,200 --> 00:20:03,700 remembered in every generation. Notice that link. 305 00:20:04,700 --> 00:20:11,900 How, as Yahweh? Sorry, my iPad is just glitching 306 00:20:12,900 --> 00:20:17,200 want to read this to you. Jim Allen Martin says this 307 00:20:17,200 --> 00:20:21,500 Yahweh. Is only ever used in scripture 308 00:20:21,500 --> 00:20:24,700 when the author is talking about God's personal relationship with 309 00:20:24,700 --> 00:20:29,800 us, because his priority in relating to us is to emphasize 310 00:20:29,800 --> 00:20:34,400 that he is an intensely personal God. 311 00:20:35,800 --> 00:20:42,900 An intensely personal God. To the point where we wanted, no 312 00:20:42,900 --> 00:20:48,200 distractions this morning. Now, the drummer or guitarist? 313 00:20:50,300 --> 00:20:56,000 Not a host or preacher. Because he is an intensely 314 00:20:56,000 --> 00:21:01,300 personal God. John Tyson. 315 00:21:02,500 --> 00:21:05,200 Kind of strange guy. He took his family on a Revival 316 00:21:05,200 --> 00:21:07,400 to her like hey what are you doing for your summer holidays? 317 00:21:07,400 --> 00:21:10,500 No, we're going to all the Revival spots across Europe. 318 00:21:10,700 --> 00:21:12,200 Here's a grave site. That was George. 319 00:21:12,200 --> 00:21:16,200 Would feel is another grave site earlier, but he came back and he 320 00:21:16,200 --> 00:21:20,800 was asked having seen all these big historic moments of Revival 321 00:21:20,800 --> 00:21:22,300 poured out. What's the secret? 322 00:21:24,200 --> 00:21:26,900 And he said he found the secret when he went up to Espiritu the 323 00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:31,200 Revival, that happened there. And he simply said this, the 324 00:21:31,200 --> 00:21:35,600 secret to Revival that God comes where he is wanted. 325 00:21:39,900 --> 00:21:43,500 Imagine two and a half thousand people saying, God, you are 326 00:21:43,500 --> 00:21:50,200 wanted. He said he stood in that room in 327 00:21:50,200 --> 00:21:53,900 Asbury. And he said there's was properly 328 00:21:53,900 --> 00:21:57,300 analog. Do you know, big names? 329 00:21:57,300 --> 00:22:02,000 No, big personalities, the musicians who sell millions of 330 00:22:02,000 --> 00:22:05,000 CDs and songs that we sing phone and said, Hey, listen, if you 331 00:22:05,000 --> 00:22:07,800 need help because you doing worship 24/7, we come in, they 332 00:22:07,800 --> 00:22:10,000 like as fun. We got it, you know, that they 333 00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:14,500 actually had a consecration room So before you even stood on that 334 00:22:14,500 --> 00:22:17,300 stage, whether you are hosting or sharing a testimony, you 335 00:22:17,300 --> 00:22:20,800 would be prayed over and you could spend hours in this 336 00:22:20,800 --> 00:22:23,400 consecration room. So that when you sit up there, 337 00:22:23,700 --> 00:22:25,600 you are not on display. It was just God. 338 00:22:25,900 --> 00:22:28,700 And he even said there were some, who would be worshipping 339 00:22:28,900 --> 00:22:31,600 and they get a little tap on the shoulder going, like, I think 340 00:22:31,600 --> 00:22:33,300 you need to go back to the consecration room. 341 00:22:34,600 --> 00:22:36,400 And that humbly put the guitar down. 342 00:22:36,500 --> 00:22:39,700 Go back to see. Hallowed be your name. 343 00:22:44,400 --> 00:22:47,000 And the world has not known what to do with aspirin. 344 00:22:48,700 --> 00:22:50,500 And we've not known what to do with Revival. 345 00:22:51,200 --> 00:22:54,100 Not fabricated is not generated, it's not hyped up. 346 00:22:54,500 --> 00:22:57,700 God comes where he is wanted and Martyn. 347 00:22:57,700 --> 00:23:00,900 Lloyd-jones goes on to say read the histories and accounts of 348 00:23:00,900 --> 00:23:03,100 every vile Revival that has ever taken place. 349 00:23:03,200 --> 00:23:06,200 And you are invariably find this that those who have been used by 350 00:23:06,200 --> 00:23:09,400 God to usher in Revival, have always known a state of utter 351 00:23:09,400 --> 00:23:16,100 desperation and final despair. Every Single one of them. 352 00:23:17,500 --> 00:23:19,900 Read the journals of Whitfield. And Wesley, Reed, they life 353 00:23:19,900 --> 00:23:21,600 story. They've always come to a place 354 00:23:21,800 --> 00:23:25,000 where they realized they utter and absolute impotence. 355 00:23:25,500 --> 00:23:28,200 There is the rain. See here is the enemy. 356 00:23:28,900 --> 00:23:31,900 They are the mountains, they are shut in their shut down there on 357 00:23:31,900 --> 00:23:35,500 their knees. It is always the prerequisite to 358 00:23:35,500 --> 00:23:39,900 Revival. It is always the moment at which 359 00:23:39,900 --> 00:23:42,800 God acts and I read that I thought Lord. 360 00:23:44,600 --> 00:23:52,000 You could come today. If it's the prerequisite to 361 00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:57,300 Revival and we are shutting shut down on our knees, God help us. 362 00:23:58,600 --> 00:24:04,100 We need you, we need you. Hello would be your name. 363 00:24:06,500 --> 00:24:09,200 I don't know if, you know the Atacama Desert, got a picture 364 00:24:09,200 --> 00:24:15,600 for you, the Atacama dist, it's apparently the driest place on 365 00:24:15,600 --> 00:24:18,900 Earth. Average rainfall of less than a 366 00:24:18,900 --> 00:24:22,100 millimeter a year, but some parts of the Atacama Desert, 367 00:24:22,300 --> 00:24:25,800 they have done, however, they do their research, but they believe 368 00:24:25,800 --> 00:24:29,900 that some parts of the Atacama hasn't had rain for nearly 500 369 00:24:29,900 --> 00:24:36,200 years. And if your relationship with 370 00:24:36,200 --> 00:24:39,900 your heavenly father is only Ella him and not Yahweh. 371 00:24:40,900 --> 00:24:42,200 That's what your Christian faith. 372 00:24:42,200 --> 00:24:53,100 Probably looks like dry distant, desperate In the next 30 Years, 373 00:24:53,100 --> 00:24:55,600 some of the largest denominations in the US are 374 00:24:55,600 --> 00:24:58,100 going to close. They talk about a fading to 375 00:24:58,100 --> 00:25:03,300 Black Anglican churches are in total crisis. 376 00:25:03,300 --> 00:25:07,800 At the moment, they say 60% of all Anglican ministers are set 377 00:25:07,800 --> 00:25:09,400 to retire in the next seven years. 378 00:25:09,600 --> 00:25:12,500 Which means that in the next seven years more than half of 379 00:25:12,500 --> 00:25:15,800 the Anglican, churches are going to be sheep without Shepherds. 380 00:25:17,500 --> 00:25:27,200 It is breathtakingly dry times. but, Under the Atacama Desert. 381 00:25:27,300 --> 00:25:30,200 They've discovered more than 200 species of flowers. 382 00:25:31,700 --> 00:25:34,900 They lying there, dormant waiting for the rain. 383 00:25:37,400 --> 00:25:43,300 And in 2015, rain came more than just the one molar year about 10 384 00:25:43,300 --> 00:25:46,000 mils of rain in an hour. That doesn't sound like a lot 385 00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:51,000 but contrast that's radical And something happened called a 386 00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:53,800 super bloom. I want to show you a super blue 387 00:25:53,800 --> 00:26:02,200 the same desert. The next one's my favorite. 388 00:26:06,400 --> 00:26:09,900 That's a color of royalty right there, you know, they said that 389 00:26:09,900 --> 00:26:14,700 they could see the Super Bloom from space, which means that if 390 00:26:14,700 --> 00:26:19,200 you are on that planet, let's rock the size of a planet. 391 00:26:19,300 --> 00:26:24,200 Aka the moon. You could see standing on that 392 00:26:24,200 --> 00:26:27,200 rock, this is, I want to start a conversation. 393 00:26:27,400 --> 00:26:31,300 You could see the handiwork of God, turning a desert to bloom. 394 00:26:37,000 --> 00:26:41,000 I don't know about you, but I really think Pretoria as a whole 395 00:26:41,600 --> 00:26:47,200 is like that Atacama Desert. Maybe you're here and all you've 396 00:26:47,200 --> 00:26:51,300 ever known of God is Elohim. You know, he's high and lifted 397 00:26:51,300 --> 00:26:54,500 up, you know, he's a God of all creation, you know, he demands 398 00:26:54,500 --> 00:26:57,700 worship, but you don't know him as Yahweh. 399 00:26:57,900 --> 00:27:02,700 The covenants making God the god who's absolutely intent on a 400 00:27:02,700 --> 00:27:06,600 personal relationship with you, then it's highly likely that the 401 00:27:06,600 --> 00:27:09,300 best your faith can produce is dust. 402 00:27:10,900 --> 00:27:15,000 And God wants to rain on you. You know, the reason why you 403 00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:20,800 struggled with worship without a band without the hype is because 404 00:27:20,800 --> 00:27:22,500 you only really know God is Elohim. 405 00:27:24,800 --> 00:27:28,700 But he wants to draw near. See because here's the thing, 406 00:27:29,700 --> 00:27:32,900 here's our spoke to me so much about that super bloom that in 407 00:27:32,900 --> 00:27:37,500 spite of looking at. Church and general in the city. 408 00:27:38,900 --> 00:27:42,200 and maybe that's unfair, but in spite of looking at the city, 409 00:27:43,700 --> 00:27:46,900 That's definitely free. and in spite of looking at the 410 00:27:46,900 --> 00:27:52,000 corruption and the baroness of our nation, And that's an 411 00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:57,200 understatement. As much as the surface is 412 00:27:57,200 --> 00:28:03,200 Godless. Desperate corrupt, underneath 413 00:28:03,200 --> 00:28:07,000 the surface, I believe last tens of thousands of seeds of 414 00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:14,200 salvation. Just waiting for Ray. 415 00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:20,100 Just waiting for heaven to touch a hot. 416 00:28:23,100 --> 00:28:24,700 And I wonder if that's you today. 417 00:28:28,100 --> 00:28:30,700 I'm not going to get to my wrist because what I want to do, I'm 418 00:28:30,700 --> 00:28:37,300 going to ask you to stand I'll get to the rest tonight. 419 00:28:40,300 --> 00:28:43,400 underneath, if underneath the Despair and the godlessness 420 00:28:44,400 --> 00:28:47,900 underneath the baroness, Underneath the Wilderness of 421 00:28:47,900 --> 00:28:50,200 your relationship with your heavenly, father lies, these 422 00:28:50,200 --> 00:28:54,300 seeds of Salvation, these the seeds of intimacy in our prayer 423 00:28:54,300 --> 00:28:58,400 needs to be littered, right? It's like those clouds. 424 00:29:00,100 --> 00:29:03,900 The cows are there. And God is saying, do you want 425 00:29:03,900 --> 00:29:09,600 it to rain? father, this morning, we want to 426 00:29:09,600 --> 00:29:14,200 do this that Lord, I've done all I know to do. 427 00:29:16,600 --> 00:29:19,600 Asbestos on her ha. Lord. 428 00:29:19,600 --> 00:29:23,900 As papa says, you are most glorified in us when we are most 429 00:29:23,900 --> 00:29:27,400 satisfied in. You Hallowed, be your name. 430 00:29:30,800 --> 00:29:33,400 Don't know what more to do father, but to cry out to you. 431 00:29:34,700 --> 00:29:38,000 Would you come would you fellas? Would you draw us? 432 00:29:40,200 --> 00:29:42,300 Would you present yourself amongst us? 433 00:29:42,300 --> 00:29:45,000 We need you father, the city needs you. 434 00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:49,400 Our families need you? Future Generations. 435 00:29:49,400 --> 00:29:55,700 Need you, Lord. Pray. 436 00:29:55,700 --> 00:29:59,800 Holy spirit that you would come. That as we go into the rest of 437 00:29:59,800 --> 00:30:04,800 the days, we go into the rest of our week. if we would find 438 00:30:04,800 --> 00:30:09,900 ourselves soggy soggy, with your presence, saturated with your 439 00:30:09,900 --> 00:30:13,200 presence, father, Fight for tonight. 440 00:30:13,200 --> 00:30:17,000 Lord is we had a predominantly young congregation pray for the 441 00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:20,900 Next Generation Lord. I pray that we would be the ones 442 00:30:20,900 --> 00:30:24,400 that shot from the mountaintops who stand on that, Hilltop and 443 00:30:24,400 --> 00:30:27,900 declare Hallowed, be your name. If they would see you in US, 444 00:30:27,900 --> 00:30:31,000 father, that they would come face-to-face with you in us. 445 00:30:31,500 --> 00:30:34,100 And when they bump into US father, that they would just be 446 00:30:34,800 --> 00:30:39,600 overwhelmed with your presence because we are those who pursue 447 00:30:39,600 --> 00:30:41,300 your presence. We are those who have found in 448 00:30:41,300 --> 00:30:44,400 your presence, those who are saturated by your presence. 449 00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:50,200 Lord, we cannot bridge this gap between where we stand, And The 450 00:30:50,200 --> 00:30:53,900 Rains of Heaven. It's up to you. 451 00:30:55,100 --> 00:30:57,600 It's up to you falling. So we just said it this morning, 452 00:30:58,400 --> 00:31:04,200 let it rain. Let It Rain Jesus name.