1 00:00:03,440 --> 00:00:05,960 The only time I've ever shouted from Manchester United in my 2 00:00:05,960 --> 00:00:10,120 whole life is last night. Dennis, you've got to be the 3 00:00:10,120 --> 00:00:12,720 bravest or dumbest man in the whole world. 4 00:00:13,440 --> 00:00:17,360 So we're Manchester United Church or just blindly 5 00:00:17,360 --> 00:00:20,880 patriotic, Patriotic. May God bless you, my brother. 6 00:00:22,240 --> 00:00:24,400 It's nice to see. We were going to stop our online 7 00:00:24,400 --> 00:00:25,720 meetings, one of my friends said. 8 00:00:25,720 --> 00:00:28,160 He said, I already see I was not designed to be online. 9 00:00:28,160 --> 00:00:30,880 And I said, I agree with you. And this thing's happened very 10 00:00:30,880 --> 00:00:32,600 quickly. We never actually asked for 11 00:00:32,600 --> 00:00:33,840 this. It just happened. 12 00:00:34,280 --> 00:00:35,920 And now we've got to try and look after it. 13 00:00:36,760 --> 00:00:39,840 And we've got all these people online and I just, so why don't 14 00:00:39,840 --> 00:00:43,400 we just cancel our cameras? And then I, I walked into the 15 00:00:43,400 --> 00:00:46,400 church on, on Thursday and I never answered the telephone. 16 00:00:47,040 --> 00:00:49,720 But on Thursday I just answered. I said, hello, 3 CR Rory 17 00:00:49,720 --> 00:00:54,320 speaking like Rory here. I said, no Rory. 18 00:00:54,400 --> 00:00:58,120 Rory, the guy from three CR said Rory, my name is Mariana, I'm 19 00:00:58,120 --> 00:01:01,920 finding from Polyquani and three showers, my church. 20 00:01:02,160 --> 00:01:03,160 Can I just have your bank detail? 21 00:01:03,160 --> 00:01:08,200 I said absolutely ma'am, First National Bank 743-484-9424. 22 00:01:08,440 --> 00:01:09,920 I said ma'am, sorry, I don't know. 23 00:01:10,280 --> 00:01:12,640 And the young girl that's been employed since I've been away 24 00:01:12,640 --> 00:01:15,280 came into my office said Roy, that girls just phoned from a 25 00:01:15,280 --> 00:01:18,280 town in the Western Cape to say actually she just got baptized 26 00:01:18,280 --> 00:01:19,600 because of what she's seen online. 27 00:01:19,600 --> 00:01:23,240 So we've got some all sorts of problems like parking problems 28 00:01:23,240 --> 00:01:25,240 and traffic problems and growth problems. 29 00:01:25,240 --> 00:01:28,000 But we can thank God. Let's not take it for granted. 30 00:01:28,160 --> 00:01:33,280 Amen. So this is my shout out to 31 00:01:33,280 --> 00:01:35,120 Mariana. And I've got friends in Turkey 32 00:01:35,120 --> 00:01:36,880 that are visiting us. They've been following us on on 33 00:01:36,880 --> 00:01:40,680 for two years and they definitely say we must carry on. 34 00:01:41,120 --> 00:01:43,880 And so it's just, it's just nice to be together. 35 00:01:45,320 --> 00:01:49,720 So most organizations start the year with a yes, like a big yes. 36 00:01:49,720 --> 00:01:51,960 Let's go for it. Let's take the mountain, let's 37 00:01:51,960 --> 00:01:53,680 take ground. Let's say yes to Jesus. 38 00:01:53,680 --> 00:01:56,560 Let's go, let's let's win people for Christ. 39 00:01:56,560 --> 00:02:00,120 Yes, yes, yes. Every public speaker, yes. 40 00:02:00,120 --> 00:02:02,160 And the motivational speakers say yes. 41 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:08,000 And I felt God say just say no, just teach the people how to say 42 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:10,280 no yes. And so I actually just want to 43 00:02:10,280 --> 00:02:17,320 do 1 sermon on just no, No, yes to your no, yes to your no, yes 44 00:02:17,320 --> 00:02:20,120 to my no. Do you want to support 45 00:02:20,120 --> 00:02:26,880 Manchester? No, no, no, no, dear God, no, 46 00:02:26,880 --> 00:02:30,200 not over my dead body. Lord God, please don't Lord God. 47 00:02:30,800 --> 00:02:33,480 And I don't ever want to be part of a building project again 48 00:02:33,480 --> 00:02:36,400 either. I just say no. 49 00:02:36,400 --> 00:02:38,280 But I, I know what God's going to do. 50 00:02:39,120 --> 00:02:41,320 It's going to send me to the crew or somewhere. 51 00:02:42,880 --> 00:02:46,520 So I want to talk about the holiness of no. 52 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:51,360 And when we talk about God's holiness, it should not make 53 00:02:51,360 --> 00:02:54,440 sinners feel guilty. It should actually make people 54 00:02:54,440 --> 00:02:57,920 feel inspired. And I think what happens with 55 00:02:57,920 --> 00:03:00,760 the church is we can take any subject. 56 00:03:00,760 --> 00:03:04,600 We can take the subject of sex. And immediately if you think sex 57 00:03:04,600 --> 00:03:08,880 and the church, you think of some kind of taboo subject that 58 00:03:08,880 --> 00:03:11,960 the church has got a dark age mentality around that has not 59 00:03:11,960 --> 00:03:14,760 kept up with the times. That's what some of you young 60 00:03:14,760 --> 00:03:17,120 people are thinking now. That's not God's heart. 61 00:03:17,160 --> 00:03:22,560 God created sex and alcohol. And so when he created it, he 62 00:03:22,560 --> 00:03:24,920 created with his everything, with his character and his 63 00:03:24,920 --> 00:03:27,560 personality and the color of which he expressed himself 64 00:03:27,560 --> 00:03:29,560 through a rainbow and through space. 65 00:03:29,560 --> 00:03:31,160 He said, I'm taking it to a spacious place. 66 00:03:31,400 --> 00:03:35,400 So sexuality in the church should be colorful, creative, 67 00:03:35,400 --> 00:03:38,880 adventurous, exciting, magnificent. 68 00:03:38,880 --> 00:03:41,680 But he does put a restriction on it, which is the no. 69 00:03:42,840 --> 00:03:44,720 And when he says no, it's not because he's bad. 70 00:03:44,720 --> 00:03:47,600 It's actually because he's good. And so don't take all these 71 00:03:47,600 --> 00:03:51,240 subjects that you've inherited through your understanding of 72 00:03:51,240 --> 00:03:54,080 what the church messages and think, No, God wants to spoil my 73 00:03:54,080 --> 00:03:55,640 fun. No, God wants you to have fun. 74 00:03:56,680 --> 00:03:59,760 There's just absolutely different ways of having fun and 75 00:03:59,760 --> 00:04:02,360 expressing God. And I just felt like we need to 76 00:04:02,680 --> 00:04:08,240 understand that the know of God leads to holiness, not to a lack 77 00:04:08,240 --> 00:04:10,760 of fun. Are you with me guys? 78 00:04:11,280 --> 00:04:13,680 And so just you'll just, you'll just remember this through the 79 00:04:13,680 --> 00:04:15,960 year as we, as we go through the Scripture. 80 00:04:15,960 --> 00:04:20,320 So we're going to start with Titus chapter 2 and verse 11 and 81 00:04:20,320 --> 00:04:23,840 just keep the scripture, take my face off and we're going to read 82 00:04:23,840 --> 00:04:26,560 the Scripture. Let's read it together for the 83 00:04:26,560 --> 00:04:31,040 grace of God. You say that and just stop there 84 00:04:31,040 --> 00:04:33,160 and look at the Scripture for the grace of God. 85 00:04:34,440 --> 00:04:37,480 OK, so so we're about to learn no, but but for the grace of God 86 00:04:37,760 --> 00:04:41,400 and so you have to understand Jesus and his grace before we 87 00:04:41,400 --> 00:04:43,520 even think of no, you see, no comes later. 88 00:04:43,520 --> 00:04:46,080 You can see it in the middle of the 2nd 9:00 but you've got to 89 00:04:46,080 --> 00:04:49,720 think of God's grace first. How does God treat people? 90 00:04:50,680 --> 00:04:55,640 The woman caught in the act of adultery Sinner they didn't do 91 00:04:55,640 --> 00:04:58,800 that. He got down into the dust and he 92 00:04:58,800 --> 00:05:02,520 started to write in the ground says who has not sinned? 93 00:05:02,520 --> 00:05:07,920 Cast your first stone. We think of the woman who'd been 94 00:05:07,920 --> 00:05:10,400 married five times. So where's your husband? 95 00:05:11,480 --> 00:05:12,680 Oh, I'm not married. No, you're right. 96 00:05:12,680 --> 00:05:14,200 You're not married. You've been married five times. 97 00:05:14,200 --> 00:05:16,240 The man you're living with now, how do you divorce? 98 00:05:16,240 --> 00:05:18,960 People come into our church. They've got to come in with the 99 00:05:18,960 --> 00:05:22,840 grace of God because most people, at the very worst have 100 00:05:22,840 --> 00:05:24,960 been divorced 3 or 4 times. She was divorced five times. 101 00:05:24,960 --> 00:05:26,280 Maybe you've been divorced 6 times. 102 00:05:26,520 --> 00:05:28,720 But when you walk in there, you have to walk into the grace of 103 00:05:28,720 --> 00:05:30,520 God. So when you hear the message of 104 00:05:30,520 --> 00:05:33,720 no, you're not hearing the judgement of the church, you're 105 00:05:33,720 --> 00:05:37,400 hearing the grace of God. Does that make sense to you? 106 00:05:37,880 --> 00:05:46,080 So we have to wrap it in grace, complete grace that brings 107 00:05:46,080 --> 00:05:50,200 salvation, say salvation. So salvation is an amazing word. 108 00:05:52,200 --> 00:05:54,360 Stephen's clever than me, but the but the word in the Old 109 00:05:54,360 --> 00:05:57,040 Testament, Yasser, the word in the New Testament is sotira. 110 00:05:57,280 --> 00:05:59,680 And that word has got space attached to it. 111 00:06:00,360 --> 00:06:02,720 So when God talks about salvation, he's talking about 112 00:06:02,720 --> 00:06:06,200 space. What we think about salvation is 113 00:06:06,200 --> 00:06:09,120 a lack of space. He's invited me. 114 00:06:09,120 --> 00:06:11,480 Some will take the narrow gate and some will take the wide 115 00:06:11,480 --> 00:06:13,480 gate. And you think salvation is a no? 116 00:06:13,520 --> 00:06:17,280 The excellent, the word salvation is spacious, but 117 00:06:17,280 --> 00:06:20,600 inside of that word is a narrow gate where we have to say no 118 00:06:20,600 --> 00:06:23,880 sometimes. So God in the Old Testament and 119 00:06:23,880 --> 00:06:27,080 in the in the Genesis, he's a God of a very big yes. 120 00:06:27,280 --> 00:06:30,160 You can eat of any tree in the middle of the garden, but you 121 00:06:30,160 --> 00:06:33,560 must not eat of this tree. Big yes, small no. 122 00:06:33,960 --> 00:06:36,520 That's how we live our lives. But I think what's happened 123 00:06:36,520 --> 00:06:39,440 under an overgraced message is the nose disappeared. 124 00:06:39,440 --> 00:06:41,120 It's like God says yes and you keep going. 125 00:06:42,160 --> 00:06:43,920 Now there's a no and it's a good no. 126 00:06:44,280 --> 00:06:46,440 And if the church preaches properly, it has to preach the 127 00:06:46,440 --> 00:06:49,280 nose of God. Amen. 128 00:06:50,240 --> 00:06:52,480 So salvation is incredible. It deals with my past. 129 00:06:52,480 --> 00:06:54,040 The punishment of my sin is dealt with. 130 00:06:54,680 --> 00:06:56,600 Everything that I've ever done is dealt with. 131 00:06:56,600 --> 00:06:59,040 I don't carry any burden of my past. 132 00:06:59,240 --> 00:07:01,440 And if you sitting here, you're wicked, you're dirty, you're 133 00:07:01,440 --> 00:07:03,960 divorced, and you've confessed your sin, your punishment is 134 00:07:03,960 --> 00:07:06,120 dealt with. You're sitting here completely 135 00:07:06,120 --> 00:07:11,120 and utterly free. Salvation present means that God 136 00:07:11,120 --> 00:07:14,120 is dealing with the power of sin in my life and He's actually 137 00:07:14,120 --> 00:07:15,840 teaching me to live victoriously. 138 00:07:16,760 --> 00:07:19,600 I might fall and stand up and fall and stand up, but like a 139 00:07:19,600 --> 00:07:22,360 child, you eventually learn how to walk and eventually learn how 140 00:07:22,360 --> 00:07:24,480 to run. Not by morals. 141 00:07:24,880 --> 00:07:26,680 The government want us to be moral. 142 00:07:27,400 --> 00:07:30,040 And so fortunately I didn't get a speeding fine this holiday, 143 00:07:30,040 --> 00:07:33,040 but normally I do. But you know, I am on such a 144 00:07:33,040 --> 00:07:35,720 journey of obedience, it's remarkable. 145 00:07:35,720 --> 00:07:41,320 I am becoming so like Jesus. I honestly only speed when 146 00:07:41,320 --> 00:07:44,840 somebody fosters in front of me. I never speed alone. 147 00:07:45,520 --> 00:07:47,920 Now I don't know if that's right or wrong, but I'm I'm getting 148 00:07:47,920 --> 00:07:51,240 I'm learning how to speak. No, I'm only joking. 149 00:07:51,240 --> 00:07:55,800 I never got caught. Well done. 150 00:07:55,960 --> 00:07:59,760 But when that guy comes out and he does that or her does that, 151 00:07:59,760 --> 00:08:03,600 immediately everything inside think I have broken that. 152 00:08:04,360 --> 00:08:08,560 Say it. You see, you've got don't and 153 00:08:08,560 --> 00:08:12,280 can't do and don't. That's the law. 154 00:08:12,560 --> 00:08:15,080 And under grace, you've got no, It's different. 155 00:08:16,400 --> 00:08:18,520 I'm not talking about can and can't do and don't. 156 00:08:18,800 --> 00:08:23,920 I'm talking about no. And God teaches me to overcome 157 00:08:23,920 --> 00:08:26,760 the power of sin. And in the future, I'll be 158 00:08:26,760 --> 00:08:28,120 released from the presence of sin. 159 00:08:28,120 --> 00:08:31,400 I'll be in the presence of God. And so salvation's doing its 160 00:08:31,400 --> 00:08:33,159 work. I want you to take the scripts 161 00:08:33,159 --> 00:08:35,919 and to learn it. Salvation has appeared to all 162 00:08:35,919 --> 00:08:42,080 men, say all men. You see on the stage. 163 00:08:42,080 --> 00:08:44,240 It was a black oak. It was a white oak. 164 00:08:44,760 --> 00:08:47,000 There were some pretty girls and some very ugly guys. 165 00:08:47,000 --> 00:08:49,160 Did you see it all? All on one. 166 00:08:49,160 --> 00:08:49,760 Did you see it? Yeah. 167 00:08:50,600 --> 00:08:52,040 Yeah. You're actually looking at the 168 00:08:52,040 --> 00:08:53,360 ugly oaks. I know that. 169 00:08:54,120 --> 00:08:58,000 That's just how God works. It teaches us how it teaches us. 170 00:09:00,160 --> 00:09:03,680 Are you teachable? Are you teachable? 171 00:09:06,400 --> 00:09:08,040 Hard when you get older to be teachable. 172 00:09:08,040 --> 00:09:14,920 Hey, not easy to be teachable teaches us. 173 00:09:14,920 --> 00:09:18,920 It teaches us always say you got to take off your your teacher's 174 00:09:18,920 --> 00:09:22,480 hat, you got to put on your student hat and you've got to 175 00:09:22,480 --> 00:09:26,640 say, God, I'm 57 years old. I've served you for a long time, 176 00:09:27,520 --> 00:09:31,160 but I want you to teach me your ways under the grace of God. 177 00:09:32,640 --> 00:09:38,640 It teaches us to say no, say no, say no in, in, in brackets. 178 00:09:38,720 --> 00:09:42,800 I just feel like this year is a no year and it sounds so 179 00:09:42,800 --> 00:09:45,080 negative but I want it to be unbelievably positive. 180 00:09:45,320 --> 00:09:59,900 It teaches us to say no, say no, turn the person, say no, say it 181 00:09:59,900 --> 00:10:09,140 loudly, no now, no, no, no. And for 95% of you near? 182 00:10:17,400 --> 00:10:19,520 Do you say I corner? Did you say that? 183 00:10:20,280 --> 00:10:23,400 Are you churros telling me where are you talking? 184 00:10:23,400 --> 00:10:30,360 I corner, See. What do you What do you say? 185 00:10:35,680 --> 00:10:37,840 Yeah. Every church needs a good Indian 186 00:10:37,840 --> 00:10:45,440 in the front row. And don't worry, He's my friend. 187 00:10:46,880 --> 00:10:48,800 It teaches us. It teaches us, Lord God. 188 00:10:49,120 --> 00:10:51,920 This year I want to be teachable with the people of three CI to 189 00:10:51,920 --> 00:10:57,640 say no to ungodliness. That means systems and 190 00:10:57,640 --> 00:11:01,400 situations and behavioral patterns that don't have God in 191 00:11:01,400 --> 00:11:07,040 them, that we've learned that we get surrounded by and worldly 192 00:11:07,040 --> 00:11:14,160 passions and worldly passions and to live self controlled, 193 00:11:14,360 --> 00:11:18,760 upright and godly lives in this present age, say this present 194 00:11:18,760 --> 00:11:26,360 age in South Africa at this time when people call themselves 195 00:11:26,360 --> 00:11:31,360 cats, dogs, camels, there are all sorts of things. 196 00:11:32,480 --> 00:11:36,680 Somebody applied at one of the schools and said my child aligns 197 00:11:36,680 --> 00:11:39,160 as a cat, and they said, unfortunately we've got people 198 00:11:39,160 --> 00:11:43,560 in our school allergic to cats, so your child will not be able 199 00:11:43,560 --> 00:11:49,440 to be admitted. In this present age where 200 00:11:49,440 --> 00:11:53,080 masculinity and femininity is completely and utterly 201 00:11:53,080 --> 00:11:57,240 distorted, we are going to say no to ungodliness and worldly 202 00:11:57,240 --> 00:12:01,040 passions in this present age and we're going to represent God as 203 00:12:01,040 --> 00:12:07,440 best we can while we wait. Say, while we wait. 204 00:12:08,400 --> 00:12:12,960 It's not so like in a MacDonald organization while we wait for 205 00:12:12,960 --> 00:12:16,400 the blessed hope, the glorious appearing of our great God and 206 00:12:16,400 --> 00:12:21,520 Savior Jesus Christ next verse who gave himself for us to 207 00:12:21,520 --> 00:12:25,120 redeem us say redeem us. Keep the scripture on that word 208 00:12:25,120 --> 00:12:29,200 is an auction. It's an auction I love I love 209 00:12:29,200 --> 00:12:31,320 auctioning. I go on online auctions. 210 00:12:31,320 --> 00:12:34,280 One of my hobbies, but, but if you've ever listened to an 211 00:12:34,280 --> 00:12:48,440 auctioneer going, going, going, and I myself sitting there and I 212 00:12:48,440 --> 00:12:51,640 think of the devil bidding for me and I think of Christ bidding 213 00:12:51,640 --> 00:12:53,600 for me. And the price is going up 214 00:12:53,600 --> 00:12:56,160 because he wants to win me. Because if he can win me, then 215 00:12:56,160 --> 00:12:58,840 he can use me for destruction. And so he's going to pay a 216 00:12:58,840 --> 00:13:00,560 price. And every time the price goes 217 00:13:00,560 --> 00:13:03,040 up, Christ lifts the price, lifts the price, lift the price, 218 00:13:03,040 --> 00:13:05,720 lift the price, and eventually he says no, to heck with this, 219 00:13:06,080 --> 00:13:08,760 10 times the value going to Jesus Christ. 220 00:13:08,760 --> 00:13:15,840 Rory Dyer redeemed, redeemed. And he does it over every single 221 00:13:15,840 --> 00:13:24,120 one of you, Georgina. And the enemy is fighting 1000 222 00:13:24,320 --> 00:13:30,160 million, 10 million 100 million $10 billion. 223 00:13:30,160 --> 00:13:32,600 Georgina Yes, Lord. Redeemed. 224 00:13:34,080 --> 00:13:37,800 So when we read no, we read it from the picture of redemption. 225 00:13:38,360 --> 00:13:42,280 You and I have been bought by a price that is highly expensive. 226 00:13:42,280 --> 00:13:44,720 It cost him his blood. But you and I are free. 227 00:13:45,840 --> 00:13:57,000 And in that freedom he teaches us to say no to ungodliness, to 228 00:13:57,000 --> 00:14:01,120 redeem us some all wickedness, and to purify for himself, for 229 00:14:01,120 --> 00:14:04,600 people that are his very own, eager to do what is good. 230 00:14:05,240 --> 00:14:07,520 He said, are we going for the goody 2 shoes church? 231 00:14:08,160 --> 00:14:10,120 No, we're not. We're going for the church. 232 00:14:10,560 --> 00:14:19,920 It represents Christ, Amen. So The Tonight, today I want to 233 00:14:19,920 --> 00:14:21,920 speak about the nose of God. You can just put it up. 234 00:14:21,920 --> 00:14:29,720 I'll show you what it looks like the nose of God, not the nose of 235 00:14:29,720 --> 00:14:31,760 God in case some of you don't understand English. 236 00:14:32,800 --> 00:14:36,200 So Hoovas Kat von duh nearly Domnica Pratt von uses an yes 237 00:14:37,400 --> 00:14:46,840 NIA NIA NIA Pratt von say niyes NI say niyes NI N EE S not NEUSI 238 00:14:46,840 --> 00:14:50,800 say I had OK that. Can you spell me the nose of 239 00:14:50,800 --> 00:14:52,080 God? Next slide, please. 240 00:14:55,960 --> 00:15:00,280 Just keep that up. I've done hundreds of weddings. 241 00:15:01,400 --> 00:15:04,720 Hundreds. And most of the weddings I've 242 00:15:04,720 --> 00:15:07,120 done, and some of you are sitting here, have been through 243 00:15:07,680 --> 00:15:11,800 salvation, the grace of God, and redemption. 244 00:15:12,960 --> 00:15:17,000 And we've done the wedding as if you had never sinned. 245 00:15:19,960 --> 00:15:22,840 But the last three or Four Weddings I've done have been a 246 00:15:22,840 --> 00:15:26,680 group of young people that decided when they were young 247 00:15:26,680 --> 00:15:29,560 they were going to say no to the things of the world and to 248 00:15:29,560 --> 00:15:34,120 ungodliness and live their lives out of obedience to Christ. 249 00:15:35,400 --> 00:15:43,520 And this message came from a young girl called Jesse that I 250 00:15:43,520 --> 00:15:45,720 watched from a little girl growing up in our church in 251 00:15:45,720 --> 00:15:48,800 Durban. I worked with her mum and dad, 252 00:15:50,640 --> 00:15:54,760 and her mum prayed for her. Titus chapter 2, verse 11. 253 00:15:54,840 --> 00:15:57,560 Lord God, will you bring my daughter up in your ways? 254 00:15:57,920 --> 00:16:01,680 And will you teach my daughter to say no to ungodliness outside 255 00:16:01,680 --> 00:16:05,080 of the in the grace of God, not because of law or not because 256 00:16:05,080 --> 00:16:08,040 she's a pastor's daughter or a teacher's daughter, but Lord 257 00:16:08,040 --> 00:16:11,520 God, what do you teach her to say no because of grace? 258 00:16:12,680 --> 00:16:14,560 And I had the privilege of going to her wedding. 259 00:16:14,560 --> 00:16:17,640 And as she walked down the aisle, I felt this unbelievable 260 00:16:17,640 --> 00:16:21,480 presence of God. And I realized, no does not 261 00:16:21,480 --> 00:16:24,720 produce law. No produces holiness. 262 00:16:27,960 --> 00:16:29,800 And I just stood there. I just sobbed. 263 00:16:30,720 --> 00:16:34,120 And I watched this man, Joel, receive this beautiful, pure 264 00:16:34,120 --> 00:16:38,600 bride. None of you should feel guilt. 265 00:16:38,600 --> 00:16:42,520 None of you should feel shame. But the beautiful thing is that 266 00:16:42,520 --> 00:16:45,000 we're starting to raise a generation of people that are 267 00:16:45,000 --> 00:16:49,440 saying no from young and it's having an effect. 268 00:16:51,080 --> 00:16:55,080 You see friends, one of my neighbors phoned me recently 269 00:16:55,080 --> 00:16:57,760 from from the talent and he said I'm so worried about the 270 00:16:57,760 --> 00:17:00,720 government and the laws, that Christianity doesn't come from 271 00:17:00,720 --> 00:17:03,480 the top down. It doesn't matter if the 272 00:17:03,480 --> 00:17:07,839 government is ANC or communist, Christianity comes from the 273 00:17:07,839 --> 00:17:10,480 bottom up. Christianity is subversive. 274 00:17:10,480 --> 00:17:13,240 It doesn't matter what South Africa does with the laws. 275 00:17:13,480 --> 00:17:15,359 Don't be worried about Ramaphosa. 276 00:17:15,480 --> 00:17:17,560 He's not in charge of South Africa. 277 00:17:18,760 --> 00:17:21,640 Jesus is. And it doesn't matter what law 278 00:17:21,640 --> 00:17:24,480 in education or whatever they stick in place. 279 00:17:24,640 --> 00:17:27,720 The Bible says the word of God cannot be chained. 280 00:17:29,040 --> 00:17:31,840 And every time the church gets thrown to the dogs, the dogs 281 00:17:31,840 --> 00:17:34,560 die. You can't kill the church, you 282 00:17:34,560 --> 00:17:38,160 can't kill the word. And it doesn't come through laws 283 00:17:38,160 --> 00:17:44,880 in the land. It comes from young girls saying 284 00:17:44,880 --> 00:17:47,800 no. It comes from underneath there. 285 00:17:48,200 --> 00:17:50,560 And when it comes, it starts to gather power. 286 00:17:50,960 --> 00:17:53,840 And when the power starts to rise, nobody can fight it. 287 00:17:55,040 --> 00:17:57,280 I'd much rather be in a Christian government than a non 288 00:17:57,280 --> 00:17:59,440 Christian government. But that doesn't actually that. 289 00:17:59,440 --> 00:18:02,680 If you can read the whole book of Acts, it's got nothing to do 290 00:18:02,680 --> 00:18:05,240 with the government. It's got to do with the name of 291 00:18:05,240 --> 00:18:08,520 Jesus and the word of God and nothing can stop it. 292 00:18:09,520 --> 00:18:14,680 It comes underneath, and when you come to church and you see a 293 00:18:14,680 --> 00:18:17,440 orthopaedic surgeon sticking behind the machine or an 294 00:18:17,440 --> 00:18:20,760 entrepreneur of medical company standing behind the machine 295 00:18:20,760 --> 00:18:24,240 serving you coffee, you don't even know some of you guys who's 296 00:18:24,240 --> 00:18:26,920 serving you coffee. You've got some of the best 297 00:18:26,920 --> 00:18:29,680 specialists in the country sitting in our church and 298 00:18:29,800 --> 00:18:32,560 they're serving you coffee. And while they're doing it, 299 00:18:32,560 --> 00:18:35,360 underneath is coming. The power of God and the 300 00:18:35,360 --> 00:18:37,320 holiness of God is busy rising up. 301 00:18:38,320 --> 00:18:50,000 Amen. Connor and Selena and Cameron 302 00:18:50,000 --> 00:18:51,440 and Jess. I saw a little girl getting 303 00:18:51,440 --> 00:18:53,800 born. Her dad was a pastor, so getting 304 00:18:53,800 --> 00:18:56,440 born. I was there when she got born. 305 00:18:56,720 --> 00:18:59,280 I saw her growing up in the church, parents at a very 306 00:18:59,280 --> 00:19:01,480 difficult church in a very poor area. 307 00:19:01,800 --> 00:19:05,480 They had 200 break insurance a year for four years in a row, 308 00:19:05,760 --> 00:19:08,360 and her father responded to every break in their church was 309 00:19:08,360 --> 00:19:10,840 right next to a Township. They had hundreds and hundreds 310 00:19:10,840 --> 00:19:14,200 of break insurance. And I saw her family just break 311 00:19:14,200 --> 00:19:16,000 under the emotional strain of that. 312 00:19:16,240 --> 00:19:20,560 But I saw this little girl grow up and then eventually moved to 313 00:19:20,560 --> 00:19:24,840 Tucky's as an 18 year old, never been out of home to study 314 00:19:24,840 --> 00:19:28,000 medicine. And in December she qualified as 315 00:19:28,000 --> 00:19:29,440 a doctor. I've just watched her growing up 316 00:19:29,440 --> 00:19:31,360 in my home. What's that? 317 00:19:32,240 --> 00:19:35,800 And then when she walked down the aisle to say yes to her 318 00:19:35,800 --> 00:19:44,080 husband, I thought this year's is because of 1000 no's and 319 00:19:44,080 --> 00:19:47,960 those thousand no's completely overwhelmed me. 320 00:19:49,040 --> 00:19:53,280 And I thought I get her parents are five steps away, 5 steps 321 00:19:53,280 --> 00:20:00,040 away and I get to stand less than two feet from this sense of 322 00:20:00,040 --> 00:20:02,640 holiness. And I thought, I have to say to 323 00:20:02,640 --> 00:20:05,960 us as a church guys, there's the grace of God, there's the 324 00:20:05,960 --> 00:20:09,240 salvation that sets us free. There is the redemption that 325 00:20:09,240 --> 00:20:11,120 comes. But can we learn this here just 326 00:20:11,120 --> 00:20:19,640 to say no? To ungodliness and worldly 327 00:20:19,640 --> 00:20:28,360 passions that somehow will put into the heart of people not the 328 00:20:28,360 --> 00:20:31,240 law of God, not the policeman of God. 329 00:20:31,640 --> 00:20:33,600 Parents trying to get their kids to behave. 330 00:20:33,600 --> 00:20:35,560 Teachers try and get their kids to behave. 331 00:20:35,800 --> 00:20:40,160 Politicians try and get their citizens to behave, but pastors 332 00:20:40,160 --> 00:20:43,920 have to somehow teach the word of God that the grace says no, 333 00:20:43,920 --> 00:20:47,040 not law. That grace says no. 334 00:20:52,160 --> 00:20:53,640 You can put the next slide up, please. 335 00:20:54,680 --> 00:20:59,520 The church is made-up of three groups of people, followers, 336 00:21:00,560 --> 00:21:04,760 believers and obeyers. That's how the church is made. 337 00:21:04,760 --> 00:21:09,240 Jesus said to me, come follow me and he ends up in their house. 338 00:21:09,240 --> 00:21:11,080 You can read it. It's in Matthew, come follow me. 339 00:21:11,080 --> 00:21:12,600 It ends up there. What we say to people is come 340 00:21:12,600 --> 00:21:14,480 follow me and we expect them to end up in our house. 341 00:21:16,120 --> 00:21:19,040 Jesus says come follow me. It ends up in their house and 342 00:21:19,040 --> 00:21:21,120 the Bible says, and they're drinking whiskey and smoking 343 00:21:21,120 --> 00:21:22,840 cigars. You can read between the lines. 344 00:21:23,840 --> 00:21:26,240 So Jesus says follow me and he ends up in their house, says 345 00:21:26,680 --> 00:21:29,480 hoeing single malt, puffing cigars. 346 00:21:30,480 --> 00:21:32,040 And you think, what are you doing Jesus? 347 00:21:32,040 --> 00:21:33,600 He said I'm getting people to follow me. 348 00:21:35,120 --> 00:21:43,040 I met Mel when I was 18/17/16 15. 349 00:21:46,040 --> 00:21:51,240 We were young and we were free. Sunday night was the first time 350 00:21:51,760 --> 00:21:56,160 we dropped our son at boarding school, was the first time in 29 351 00:21:56,160 --> 00:21:58,160 years we've not had a child living in our home. 352 00:22:05,120 --> 00:22:06,440 I didn't say hi. I'm Rory. 353 00:22:06,440 --> 00:22:07,360 She said hi. I'm Melanie. 354 00:22:07,360 --> 00:22:08,240 I said, hey, Melanie. Hi. 355 00:22:08,240 --> 00:22:10,640 Would you like to marry me? She'll say. 356 00:22:10,640 --> 00:22:15,200 Listen to you, Randy, young man. Leave me alone. 357 00:22:16,120 --> 00:22:17,920 You don't. You don't get married on the 358 00:22:17,920 --> 00:22:20,840 first date. You follow each other. 359 00:22:20,840 --> 00:22:22,240 You learn each other's ways. You. 360 00:22:22,600 --> 00:22:24,480 And so inside the church, they're followers. 361 00:22:24,840 --> 00:22:27,400 How do I know you? You come in here at the last 362 00:22:27,400 --> 00:22:28,760 minute and you take your last puff. 363 00:22:33,960 --> 00:22:37,200 You think, oh hour of Christianity, now I check you 364 00:22:37,200 --> 00:22:41,640 every Sunday. You're out there guys, and now 365 00:22:41,640 --> 00:22:43,520 you think you can. Now you think with that little 366 00:22:43,520 --> 00:22:48,240 that that that E tag thing you can just you pull your belt and 367 00:22:51,520 --> 00:22:54,320 when an obeyer walks past you and says, oh, you must stop 368 00:22:54,320 --> 00:22:56,200 smoking. Jesus doesn't like smoking. 369 00:23:01,240 --> 00:23:03,040 You know what happens when you have a Church of too many 370 00:23:03,040 --> 00:23:05,680 followers? You become seeker sensitive and 371 00:23:05,680 --> 00:23:09,400 you start to preach to tickle their ears. 372 00:23:10,880 --> 00:23:13,960 When you have a Church of too many obeyers And normally very 373 00:23:13,960 --> 00:23:28,840 small churches don't think don't snake, especially their green 374 00:23:28,840 --> 00:23:33,080 stuff. You guys from Durban, that's 375 00:23:33,080 --> 00:23:37,880 called grass. Jesus invented it, but it's to 376 00:23:37,880 --> 00:23:43,400 walk on and not to smoke. Church of the Bayers. 377 00:23:44,680 --> 00:23:47,520 And so So what do we have here is we have got some followers 378 00:23:47,520 --> 00:23:49,280 and you know what I want to say to you. 379 00:23:49,720 --> 00:23:53,520 I want to say the grace of God and the salvation of God and the 380 00:23:53,520 --> 00:23:56,240 redemption of God welcomes You. Beautiful. 381 00:23:57,760 --> 00:24:00,040 And then we've got a group of believers that are no longer 382 00:24:00,040 --> 00:24:03,120 just wanting to follow God. They actually want to believe. 383 00:24:03,560 --> 00:24:06,320 And so they said, you know what I'm going to do today in front 384 00:24:06,320 --> 00:24:08,800 of 2 1/2 thousand people? I'm going to be baptized. 385 00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:12,520 I want to make my faith public and I'm going to invite my 386 00:24:12,520 --> 00:24:16,760 family and I'm going to go under the waters because I believe 387 00:24:16,760 --> 00:24:22,040 God. And then we're going to spend 388 00:24:22,040 --> 00:24:29,360 the rest of our life learning how to obey him by his grace, by 389 00:24:29,360 --> 00:24:31,800 his grace. And when you have followers and 390 00:24:31,800 --> 00:24:36,560 believers and obeyers all together, you start to find 391 00:24:36,560 --> 00:24:38,480 amazing joy. You think that's where I've come 392 00:24:38,480 --> 00:24:39,480 from. That's where I'm going. 393 00:24:39,480 --> 00:24:43,320 This is how God helped me and and we start to find something. 394 00:24:43,320 --> 00:24:48,080 I was actually going to get Damian up here with a guitar. 395 00:24:48,080 --> 00:24:49,120 Actually. Grab a guitar. 396 00:24:49,120 --> 00:24:56,520 Damian, grab one of the guitars. Grab the and Andy, grab another. 397 00:24:56,520 --> 00:24:59,600 Grab that guitar. Andy, grab this guitar. 398 00:25:00,360 --> 00:25:02,760 Yeah, your son. Grab that guitar. 399 00:25:11,400 --> 00:25:13,080 Come and stand together. Put it on. 400 00:25:19,840 --> 00:25:23,960 So you guys don't know this, but this is probably one of the best 401 00:25:23,960 --> 00:25:26,320 musicians in our country. No, seriously. 402 00:25:27,120 --> 00:25:30,240 Hey. No, no, no, He is. 403 00:25:30,960 --> 00:25:35,000 He is and, and if we got him to play a tune and we asked his son 404 00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:37,480 to follow, it wouldn't be so sharp. 405 00:25:38,720 --> 00:25:41,280 It wouldn't be that good because he's still learning guitar. 406 00:25:41,280 --> 00:25:47,000 Do you understand that? And so, so I've served God now 407 00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:50,280 for 30 years and I, I still stumble and fall, but, but 408 00:25:50,280 --> 00:25:53,000 actually, if you live in my home and you live with me and we, and 409 00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:56,040 we have eat together and we worship together, we eventually 410 00:25:56,040 --> 00:25:59,840 start following the same music sheet. 411 00:26:01,080 --> 00:26:03,800 And So what we had. So now we've got a follower and 412 00:26:03,800 --> 00:26:05,480 eventually you'll get the tunes right. 413 00:26:06,760 --> 00:26:08,440 And then eventually we'll become like a believer. 414 00:26:08,440 --> 00:26:10,600 Think actually, I can get on stage now and play because I'm 415 00:26:10,600 --> 00:26:13,280 confident enough. And eventually you'll be able to 416 00:26:13,280 --> 00:26:15,240 put the music sheet aside and you'll be able to play. 417 00:26:15,240 --> 00:26:18,240 So I can obey the song. I can obey the chords because 418 00:26:18,240 --> 00:26:21,280 actually I know them and I trust that guy because he's been doing 419 00:26:21,280 --> 00:26:23,880 it for a long time. And then you see a guy on a 420 00:26:23,880 --> 00:26:27,320 guitar on a piano, white guy, and you see a black guy on a 421 00:26:27,320 --> 00:26:31,160 guitar and somebody on the drums and two ladies, and all of a 422 00:26:31,160 --> 00:26:32,800 sudden they're singing from the same hymn sheet. 423 00:26:32,800 --> 00:26:35,880 So what happens to us? We get blessed by the music, yes 424 00:26:35,880 --> 00:26:39,040 or no, because they obeying the script. 425 00:26:40,200 --> 00:26:43,320 And as they obey the script, not under law, as they obey the 426 00:26:43,320 --> 00:26:46,120 script, the sound comes out of their mouths and you and I get 427 00:26:46,120 --> 00:26:50,320 drawn into it. And when he misses the note, as 428 00:26:50,320 --> 00:26:57,120 some of them do, you have to scowl and boost the note or turn 429 00:26:57,120 --> 00:26:59,640 to the guy in the music, change the slide. 430 00:27:00,920 --> 00:27:02,320 Ricky and I've had to work together. 431 00:27:02,320 --> 00:27:05,200 The the relationship between the past and the sound guy is an 432 00:27:05,200 --> 00:27:15,040 awkward one. I send Ricky a picture of a of a 433 00:27:15,040 --> 00:27:17,760 pastor turned around to the sound team and turned into a 434 00:27:17,760 --> 00:27:21,600 pillow of salt. That's what I think. 435 00:27:21,720 --> 00:27:24,320 Ricky, that's not the slide I sent you. 436 00:27:28,240 --> 00:27:32,120 And as we work together, Ricky and I, we follow each other and 437 00:27:32,120 --> 00:27:34,200 then we actually start to believe in each other. 438 00:27:34,800 --> 00:27:36,680 And then there's an obedience that comes. 439 00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:40,400 And from that obedience comes the slides that go up, and we 440 00:27:40,400 --> 00:27:43,360 start to present a church that works together. 441 00:27:44,600 --> 00:27:48,280 And the picture of this when these musical instruments start 442 00:27:48,280 --> 00:27:49,880 playing together, I haven't ever got to my notes. 443 00:27:49,880 --> 00:27:58,560 Doing good. But when we learn how to say no 444 00:27:59,760 --> 00:28:03,160 to ungodliness and worldly passion, we learn to play the 445 00:28:03,160 --> 00:28:07,880 same tune who followers, believers obey us. 446 00:28:08,320 --> 00:28:15,480 We learn to play the same tune. And what happens is you get 447 00:28:15,480 --> 00:28:17,640 sucked into the moment of holiness. 448 00:28:19,080 --> 00:28:21,320 You know, Jesse, every time I see you, I just want to cry. 449 00:28:22,680 --> 00:28:30,760 I don't know why, but maybe there's 1000 no's that allowed 450 00:28:30,760 --> 00:28:33,640 me to experience the yes of your dad walking you down the aisle. 451 00:28:44,120 --> 00:28:48,680 Say no, say no. Say Lord God. 452 00:28:49,840 --> 00:28:54,720 Will you teach me to say no? We'll preach next week. 453 00:28:54,920 --> 00:28:55,280 Amen.