1 00:00:03,400 --> 00:00:05,480 Good morning. Good morning, Steve. 2 00:00:05,480 --> 00:00:09,240 You're happy new. Are we allowed to say That's all 3 00:00:09,960 --> 00:00:11,760 I saw in some of the hours. Maybe there's not. 4 00:00:12,240 --> 00:00:14,840 Don't go there, especially since I don't know if you were here 5 00:00:14,840 --> 00:00:17,640 last week. Matt reminded us that Friday was 6 00:00:17,640 --> 00:00:22,400 International Quitters Day. It's about as as best as the 7 00:00:22,400 --> 00:00:24,720 world has to offer. You know, the 2nd Friday of the 8 00:00:24,720 --> 00:00:26,320 year. Thanks for coming. 9 00:00:26,320 --> 00:00:28,480 New Year's resolutions done and dusted. 10 00:00:28,720 --> 00:00:31,120 It's all you can hope for. Yes, it's all the world can 11 00:00:31,120 --> 00:00:33,000 offer. But what I want to do today is I 12 00:00:33,000 --> 00:00:36,640 want to remind you of all that God has to offer for us as a 13 00:00:36,640 --> 00:00:39,160 community, for us as sons and daughters of the Most High. 14 00:00:39,160 --> 00:00:44,000 I want to stand, as Rora says, not as ACEO, but as Acroa Chief 15 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:46,840 reminding Officer. And I want to remind you of 16 00:00:46,840 --> 00:00:51,280 something rather particular and that is the mandates given to us 17 00:00:51,280 --> 00:00:55,760 as a church's three CR back probably nearly 30 years ago 18 00:00:55,760 --> 00:00:59,360 when Ash and Nadine came and planted this church this past 19 00:00:59,360 --> 00:01:02,800 Christmas was 30 years. They sat in their lounge as a 20 00:01:02,800 --> 00:01:06,960 family, had the first 3 CR service on Christmas 30 years 21 00:01:06,960 --> 00:01:10,000 ago. And not long after that, God 22 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:14,480 planted in their heart a prophetic call to be a base 23 00:01:14,480 --> 00:01:17,000 church. And the portion of Scripture is 24 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:18,640 the very portion that we're going to look at today. 25 00:01:18,920 --> 00:01:21,320 It's from Acts Chapter 11. If you have your Bible, you can 26 00:01:21,320 --> 00:01:25,160 page on over there. Essentially what was laid on on 27 00:01:25,160 --> 00:01:28,560 Ash's heart was that God is going to do exceedingly 28 00:01:28,560 --> 00:01:33,360 abundantly what he could even hope or imagine, blow his mind 29 00:01:33,760 --> 00:01:36,280 while they're sitting in a lounge just with him and his 30 00:01:36,280 --> 00:01:39,440 family opening the Bible and essentially doing church 31 00:01:39,440 --> 00:01:42,160 together. And now he's sitting in the 32 00:01:42,160 --> 00:01:44,800 fullness of it. But I want to remind you what 33 00:01:44,800 --> 00:01:48,520 that is, Carl, your second Sunday here, you don't know what 34 00:01:48,520 --> 00:01:50,080 that's about. I want to show you today, and 35 00:01:50,080 --> 00:01:54,400 we're going to look at the book of Acts Chapter 11, and it's 36 00:01:54,760 --> 00:01:58,000 essentially what happens in a town. 37 00:01:58,000 --> 00:01:59,720 Well, it's a city called Antioch. 38 00:01:59,720 --> 00:02:01,440 While you're paging, there's just a little bit of a 39 00:02:01,440 --> 00:02:05,000 background about Antioch. So Antioch, it was a Roman city. 40 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:07,920 Actually, it was the third biggest city in the Roman 41 00:02:07,920 --> 00:02:10,919 Empire. It carried significant political 42 00:02:10,919 --> 00:02:12,400 clout. Apparently. 43 00:02:12,400 --> 00:02:16,200 They say Antioch held sway of the whole eastern side of the 44 00:02:16,200 --> 00:02:18,480 Roman Empire like we have over the East. 45 00:02:18,480 --> 00:02:21,400 Pretoria. They were a a very dense 46 00:02:21,400 --> 00:02:25,360 political place. Lots of diplomats and what have 47 00:02:25,360 --> 00:02:29,640 you set up in Antioch. They were a sports crazy city. 48 00:02:30,160 --> 00:02:33,080 Their sports of the day was chariot racing, which meant that 49 00:02:33,080 --> 00:02:35,400 they had people coming from all over Rome. 50 00:02:35,400 --> 00:02:37,200 They had celebrities in the city. 51 00:02:37,560 --> 00:02:40,160 They also were a bit of a melting pot because of the 52 00:02:40,160 --> 00:02:43,040 attraction of the city. You had Greeks, Persians, 53 00:02:43,040 --> 00:02:46,880 Romans, Jews, Arabs all in there, and then they also had 54 00:02:46,920 --> 00:02:50,280 the temple to Daphne, which meant that the streets were 55 00:02:50,280 --> 00:02:52,120 filled, the slews of prostitutes. 56 00:02:52,880 --> 00:02:56,520 And in this dark place, the gospel comes rushing in. 57 00:02:56,520 --> 00:02:58,360 Are we going to take a look at what happens? 58 00:02:58,360 --> 00:03:02,320 Because firstly, what we'll see is the fingerprints of what God 59 00:03:02,320 --> 00:03:06,600 wants to place on three CR And He's spoken over decades about 60 00:03:06,600 --> 00:03:10,200 this calling upon us. But also because this is no 61 00:03:10,200 --> 00:03:14,440 minor portion of Scripture. They say that this is possibly 62 00:03:14,440 --> 00:03:17,880 one of the biggest shifts in Christian history that we're 63 00:03:17,880 --> 00:03:22,080 about to read. It's a hinge moment in this 64 00:03:22,080 --> 00:03:25,040 portion of Scripture, a door is open that Satan has tried to 65 00:03:25,040 --> 00:03:29,600 close for over 2000 years. It's a massive moment. 66 00:03:29,600 --> 00:03:32,600 It goes from the gospel only going to the Jews to going to 67 00:03:32,600 --> 00:03:35,840 the Gentiles as well. It goes from synagogues only to 68 00:03:35,840 --> 00:03:38,560 city streets. And that is our call that I want 69 00:03:38,560 --> 00:03:41,240 to remind you of today. So reading from verse 19 and in 70 00:03:41,240 --> 00:03:44,800 Acts Chapter 11, it says now those who had been scattered by 71 00:03:44,800 --> 00:03:48,080 the persecution that broke out when Stephen was killed traveled 72 00:03:48,080 --> 00:03:51,160 as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus and Antioch, spreading the word only 73 00:03:51,160 --> 00:03:54,320 among Jews. Some of them, however, men from 74 00:03:54,320 --> 00:03:57,520 Cyprus and Cyrene went to Antioch and began to speak to 75 00:03:57,520 --> 00:04:00,880 Greeks also, telling them the good news about the Lord Jesus. 76 00:04:01,280 --> 00:04:03,800 The Lords hand was with him and a great number of people 77 00:04:03,800 --> 00:04:07,280 believed and turned to the Lord. News of this reached the church 78 00:04:07,280 --> 00:04:09,400 in Jerusalem and they sent Barnabas to Antioch. 79 00:04:09,640 --> 00:04:12,360 When he arrived and saw what the grace of God had done. 80 00:04:12,600 --> 00:04:16,440 When he arrived and he saw what the grace of God was able to do, 81 00:04:16,680 --> 00:04:19,200 he was glad and encouraged them all to remain true to the Lord 82 00:04:19,200 --> 00:04:21,959 with all their hearts. Barnabas was a good man, full of 83 00:04:21,959 --> 00:04:24,080 the Holy Spirit and faith, and a great number of people were 84 00:04:24,080 --> 00:04:26,800 brought to the Lord. Then Barnabas went to Tarsus to 85 00:04:26,800 --> 00:04:29,760 look for Saul, and when he found him, he brought him to Antioch. 86 00:04:29,760 --> 00:04:32,880 So for a whole year Barnabas and Saul met with the church, taught 87 00:04:32,880 --> 00:04:35,760 great numbers of people, and the disciples were first called 88 00:04:35,960 --> 00:04:41,160 Christians in Antioch. It's a massive moment and it's a 89 00:04:41,160 --> 00:04:46,360 massive call upon 3 CR to be a base church in the ilk of the 90 00:04:46,360 --> 00:04:48,360 church that God planted in Antioch. 91 00:04:48,360 --> 00:04:51,400 And I just, there's a whole bunch of things that we can draw 92 00:04:51,400 --> 00:04:53,440 out, but for time's sake, we want to look at four or five 93 00:04:53,440 --> 00:04:56,640 things that I want to remind you of what we are about. 94 00:04:56,640 --> 00:04:59,480 What has God spoken over us? What is the prophetic future 95 00:04:59,480 --> 00:05:03,280 that he would prefer us to have over our own devices and plans? 96 00:05:03,280 --> 00:05:06,360 And the first is this. The first thing we see here is 97 00:05:06,360 --> 00:05:09,640 radical salvations. Take a look at verse 21. 98 00:05:09,640 --> 00:05:12,960 It says the Lord's hand was with them and a great number of 99 00:05:12,960 --> 00:05:15,920 people believed and turned to the Lord. 100 00:05:16,600 --> 00:05:20,360 Now, so often church growth, especially in the city of 101 00:05:20,360 --> 00:05:23,680 Pretoria, is nothing more than a church relocation. 102 00:05:25,240 --> 00:05:30,600 You know, I used to be at this church, but now I'm at 3 CR and 103 00:05:32,320 --> 00:05:33,920 you can bend it either which way. 104 00:05:33,920 --> 00:05:36,640 I'm often like, oh come on Lord, give us the city for my 105 00:05:36,640 --> 00:05:38,000 inheritance. Give me the lost. 106 00:05:38,920 --> 00:05:41,600 And someone actually said, you know, sometimes it's like God 107 00:05:41,600 --> 00:05:44,040 just takes the pack of cards and he just shuffles it a bit, you 108 00:05:44,040 --> 00:05:46,680 know, deals a different hand. You can you can play a different 109 00:05:46,680 --> 00:05:48,600 hand. It's not all bad and I agree 110 00:05:48,600 --> 00:05:50,480 with that. But it seems here the Lord's 111 00:05:50,480 --> 00:05:54,160 hand was with them. Can we agree the Lord's hand is 112 00:05:54,160 --> 00:05:57,040 with three CR? I'm speaking to the people in 113 00:05:57,040 --> 00:05:59,960 our overflow overflow, and they're sitting in the cube and 114 00:05:59,960 --> 00:06:02,880 the guy's out in the quad. The Lord's hand is with us. 115 00:06:02,880 --> 00:06:06,480 If that is the case, and if this is what his preferred future is 116 00:06:06,480 --> 00:06:08,560 for us, then it shouldn't just be. 117 00:06:08,600 --> 00:06:11,640 It should be a comma, not a full stop comma. 118 00:06:11,880 --> 00:06:15,800 And a great number of people believed and turned to the Lord. 119 00:06:17,520 --> 00:06:21,000 We should have corals and bellas getting saved every Sunday. 120 00:06:21,200 --> 00:06:25,480 We should see prostitutes and politicians and businessmen and 121 00:06:25,480 --> 00:06:30,600 chariot races and sportsmen flooding to the church and even 122 00:06:30,600 --> 00:06:35,600 advocates and lawyers. People relocating from still by. 123 00:06:38,840 --> 00:06:39,960 Because that's what happened here. 124 00:06:41,120 --> 00:06:44,800 Arabs, you know, I don't know if you know this, but the fastest 125 00:06:44,800 --> 00:06:48,600 growing church in the world is in Iran. 126 00:06:50,080 --> 00:06:56,400 The gospel is like wildfire in Iran at the moment and it's 127 00:06:56,400 --> 00:07:00,760 gotten so bad that Jesus seems to be appearing in Muslims 128 00:07:00,760 --> 00:07:04,280 dreams and the the Christians who aren't allowed to 129 00:07:04,280 --> 00:07:07,480 evangelize, you know, the peril of your own life have now 130 00:07:07,480 --> 00:07:10,920 started putting up posters. Have you seen the man in white 131 00:07:10,920 --> 00:07:16,760 phone this number for reals. I've been listening to, I listen 132 00:07:16,760 --> 00:07:19,920 to sermons every day from around the world and I've, I've heard 133 00:07:19,920 --> 00:07:23,480 time and time again the pastors in the UK preparing their people 134 00:07:23,480 --> 00:07:28,680 for the influx of curious people coming to church because God is 135 00:07:28,680 --> 00:07:32,520 up to something. God's hand is upon them and 136 00:07:32,520 --> 00:07:36,120 multitudes believed. Multitudes believed. 137 00:07:36,640 --> 00:07:39,920 Our problem, though, is that we're rather comfortable. 138 00:07:41,440 --> 00:07:45,400 One more person and we're going to think, you know, and I know 139 00:07:45,400 --> 00:07:47,720 Dennis and any have mentioned many times they ain't giving up 140 00:07:47,720 --> 00:07:53,320 their seat. So you wore a Man United shirt. 141 00:07:53,320 --> 00:07:55,400 They've got to go see you. But you're going down. 142 00:07:58,200 --> 00:08:00,440 Yeah. Or, or we let's let's outsource 143 00:08:00,440 --> 00:08:02,680 it, you know, let let the pastors do it. 144 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:04,800 You know, I was told the other day someone said to me, you know 145 00:08:04,800 --> 00:08:08,520 what we need to do? Like what if one's a term we 146 00:08:08,520 --> 00:08:11,040 have a big like outreach, you know, we invite all our 147 00:08:11,280 --> 00:08:13,280 estranged family and unsaved people. 148 00:08:13,800 --> 00:08:15,800 Imagine we do this like 4 * a year. 149 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:19,880 What if like 2000 people got saved in each one of those 150 00:08:19,880 --> 00:08:22,040 nights? That would be beautiful. 151 00:08:22,040 --> 00:08:25,680 I can't agree more, except we're in a city of 3 million people. 152 00:08:25,680 --> 00:08:28,520 You do the maths. If we were to get 8000 people 153 00:08:28,520 --> 00:08:32,679 saved a year, it would take us more than 350 years to reach the 154 00:08:32,679 --> 00:08:39,840 city. But if you and you and me just 155 00:08:40,159 --> 00:08:44,640 reached out to one person and we just put their name on our hands 156 00:08:44,800 --> 00:08:47,160 and their name in our journals and we prayed for them every day 157 00:08:47,160 --> 00:08:50,920 and we invited them to church or maybe had them over for a bra, 158 00:08:50,920 --> 00:08:53,760 we got them to know some of our friends and we cried out to God. 159 00:08:53,880 --> 00:08:57,960 We stood in the gap as the Bible says, and cried out to God for 160 00:08:57,960 --> 00:09:00,880 their salvation. And if they got saved and the 161 00:09:00,880 --> 00:09:04,760 next year we all did that, plus the new guys who got saved and 162 00:09:04,760 --> 00:09:07,120 did the same. And the next year, you know, in 163 00:09:07,120 --> 00:09:10,880 10 years time, not 350 years time, in 10 years time, we would 164 00:09:10,880 --> 00:09:12,520 have reached the city of Pretoria twice. 165 00:09:13,480 --> 00:09:17,600 Beautiful. But we love to sit in our La Z 166 00:09:17,600 --> 00:09:21,400 boy Christian chairs and we love to think someone else is going 167 00:09:21,400 --> 00:09:26,800 to do that. But it says in verse 20, not the 168 00:09:26,800 --> 00:09:30,120 pastors, not the apostles, not the high priest. 169 00:09:30,560 --> 00:09:34,680 Acts 1120. Some of them, some of them. 170 00:09:35,280 --> 00:09:37,600 Some of them, however, men from Cyprus and Surrey and went to 171 00:09:37,600 --> 00:09:40,080 Antioch and began to speak to Greeks telling them the good 172 00:09:40,080 --> 00:09:41,880 news. You know that city was turned on 173 00:09:41,880 --> 00:09:45,520 its head by some of them every day run of the mall. 174 00:09:45,520 --> 00:09:47,560 Christians just share their faith. 175 00:09:47,560 --> 00:09:49,800 And this is my first reminder to you. 176 00:09:49,800 --> 00:09:54,280 The gospel needs to make its way into the city. 177 00:09:54,480 --> 00:09:56,800 This could be a hinge moment in history. 178 00:09:57,960 --> 00:10:03,000 This could be why you are here for a moment such as this. 179 00:10:04,280 --> 00:10:08,000 And it is the prophetic call upon 3 CR and upon you and I 180 00:10:08,840 --> 00:10:12,360 radical salvations and covenant community. 181 00:10:13,200 --> 00:10:15,600 Sure. I'm troubled by this because I'm 182 00:10:15,600 --> 00:10:17,800 a I'm an introvert. I don't like people. 183 00:10:18,200 --> 00:10:21,920 So this one really bothers me. I let Rory do the the past that 184 00:10:21,920 --> 00:10:23,120 they you know, you meet with the people. 185 00:10:24,280 --> 00:10:27,640 But it says here news of this news of this revival this what 186 00:10:27,640 --> 00:10:29,760 was going on in Antioch reached the church in Jerusalem. 187 00:10:29,760 --> 00:10:32,400 They sent Barnabas to Antioch. This is verse 22. 188 00:10:33,040 --> 00:10:35,360 When he arrived and saw what the grace of God had done, he was 189 00:10:35,360 --> 00:10:38,400 glad and encouraged them all to remain true to the Lord with all 190 00:10:38,400 --> 00:10:40,000 their hearts. And a great number of people 191 00:10:40,000 --> 00:10:42,360 were brought to the Lord. Now when you read that, you sort 192 00:10:42,360 --> 00:10:44,120 of think, OK, Luke is saying the same thing. 193 00:10:44,120 --> 00:10:46,320 You know, more people are getting saved, which is true. 194 00:10:46,320 --> 00:10:48,800 But what he's trying to emphasize here, the, the Greek 195 00:10:48,880 --> 00:10:51,080 word that he used there is prostithemi. 196 00:10:51,200 --> 00:10:54,160 And prostithemi is kind of like you would use when you graft 197 00:10:54,160 --> 00:10:57,960 something into a van or when you Weld something to the fence. 198 00:10:58,200 --> 00:11:01,520 It's this, as ROM mentioned a little earlier, those who plant 199 00:11:01,520 --> 00:11:03,800 themselves in the House of the Lord will flourish. 200 00:11:04,240 --> 00:11:06,440 This is what was happening. It wasn't just that people were 201 00:11:06,440 --> 00:11:08,000 getting saved. Wonderful. 202 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:11,640 You got your get out of jail free card passcode. 203 00:11:11,640 --> 00:11:13,760 Do not collect 200. You're going straight to heaven. 204 00:11:13,760 --> 00:11:15,920 No, no, no. They grafted themselves in. 205 00:11:16,160 --> 00:11:19,800 They formed a covenant community in Antioch. 206 00:11:19,800 --> 00:11:23,640 It was one of the key Kingdom attributes about these people. 207 00:11:23,840 --> 00:11:27,760 Because what I failed to mention was I mentioned how this was 208 00:11:27,760 --> 00:11:32,760 kind of like a ethnic racial melting pot, but it was a very 209 00:11:32,760 --> 00:11:37,200 divided the, the, the ethnic tension was unprecedented. 210 00:11:38,000 --> 00:11:40,280 They used to build walls across the streets. 211 00:11:40,280 --> 00:11:42,960 Imagine if we went down and we just built the wall across 212 00:11:42,960 --> 00:11:45,800 Lynwood Road and say, sorry, you're silver like shady Oaks, 213 00:11:45,800 --> 00:11:47,000 you know, you're not welcome here. 214 00:11:47,160 --> 00:11:48,240 That's essentially what they did. 215 00:11:48,240 --> 00:11:51,000 They built walls to keep other races out. 216 00:11:51,320 --> 00:11:54,880 Think the Berlin Wall. Think Northern Ireland. 217 00:11:55,280 --> 00:11:57,560 I don't know how if, if you have to speed on your, your Northern 218 00:11:57,560 --> 00:12:01,920 Ireland history and, and the the 60s and the Protestants and the 219 00:12:01,920 --> 00:12:04,960 Catholics, they were, you know, throwing petrol bombs at each 220 00:12:04,960 --> 00:12:06,880 other. That's what was happening here. 221 00:12:06,880 --> 00:12:09,360 To the point that they built walls to protect themselves from 222 00:12:09,360 --> 00:12:15,160 violence and attacks, to look after their families, except the 223 00:12:15,160 --> 00:12:16,800 Christians climbed over those walls. 224 00:12:18,400 --> 00:12:22,880 They would not allow them to live without hearing the Gospel, 225 00:12:23,320 --> 00:12:25,560 climbed over the walls, looked after them, cared for them, 226 00:12:25,840 --> 00:12:29,840 reunited and unified the city. It was just unprecedented and 227 00:12:29,840 --> 00:12:32,120 how they did it. Now imagine you're going to life 228 00:12:32,120 --> 00:12:35,400 group in Antioch or you're the life group leader. 229 00:12:35,400 --> 00:12:37,520 You've only been saved a couple weeks, but these guys have only 230 00:12:37,520 --> 00:12:39,320 been saved a couple days. So you've got a bit of a head 231 00:12:39,320 --> 00:12:40,920 start. And so you've got this group and 232 00:12:40,920 --> 00:12:43,600 you're introducing everybody. And on this side, you've got 233 00:12:43,760 --> 00:12:47,680 Debbie, a former prostitute. Hi, Say hi to Debbie. 234 00:12:47,920 --> 00:12:53,560 And, you know, some of you know Debbie, but she got radically 235 00:12:53,560 --> 00:12:55,480 saved the other day. And it's, it's good to have you, 236 00:12:55,480 --> 00:12:57,240 Debbie. Yeah. 237 00:12:57,240 --> 00:13:01,320 On this side, we got Michelle. He's a Torah observing Jew. 238 00:13:01,320 --> 00:13:03,480 Excuse the fact that he's twitching because he's never 239 00:13:03,480 --> 00:13:06,120 been around a prostitute, let alone in a gentiles home. 240 00:13:06,360 --> 00:13:10,800 And then we got this poor Persian sorcerer who wants to 241 00:13:10,800 --> 00:13:13,400 burn all his witchcraft and everything tonight. 242 00:13:13,400 --> 00:13:14,720 We're really looking forward to that. 243 00:13:14,720 --> 00:13:18,000 That's that's the love group. Wild. 244 00:13:18,440 --> 00:13:21,320 And when I read that, I was reminded of Jeff and Jane, you 245 00:13:21,320 --> 00:13:23,000 know, the guys who planted into Lisbon. 246 00:13:23,920 --> 00:13:26,840 He made a statement. I mean, yeah, I won't go there 247 00:13:26,840 --> 00:13:29,120 because we got children in the building what some of these 248 00:13:29,120 --> 00:13:31,240 people are getting saved out of. But he made the statement. 249 00:13:31,240 --> 00:13:35,080 He said they were saved out of their past with absolutely no 250 00:13:35,080 --> 00:13:39,440 sediment. Absolutely no. 251 00:13:39,440 --> 00:13:43,680 Said nothing, left behind. Completely set free. 252 00:13:43,680 --> 00:13:45,200 And this is what we start to see here. 253 00:13:46,560 --> 00:13:51,400 So only way you can get into this covenant community now. 254 00:13:51,400 --> 00:13:55,800 Nona did a released research on covenant community. 255 00:13:55,800 --> 00:13:58,960 I don't know if it was particularly on Antioch, but 256 00:13:58,960 --> 00:14:01,440 this is interesting. You know me and my stats, they 257 00:14:01,640 --> 00:14:06,760 said that adults take 164 hours to go from sort of like a 258 00:14:06,960 --> 00:14:11,360 business acquaintance to real friendship, 164 hours to go from 259 00:14:11,520 --> 00:14:15,680 an acquaintance to Prosti Fermi, this covenant community. 260 00:14:16,280 --> 00:14:18,520 Now again, I did the maths. 164 hours. 261 00:14:18,560 --> 00:14:21,480 I mean, imagine you meant meet Dennis for the first time or 262 00:14:21,480 --> 00:14:24,480 Carl for the first time and you decide, you know what, I want to 263 00:14:24,480 --> 00:14:27,520 build a relationship here, never met you, don't know you from a 264 00:14:27,520 --> 00:14:32,240 bar of soap and you just put an hour aside every week for an 265 00:14:32,240 --> 00:14:33,960 entire year. It's going to take you 3 years 266 00:14:33,960 --> 00:14:37,720 to get in those 164 hours. But NONA, which is a Christian 267 00:14:37,720 --> 00:14:41,880 organization, says, however, if you and I were to join a life 268 00:14:41,880 --> 00:14:45,880 group and to be part of a serving team, you get there in a 269 00:14:45,880 --> 00:14:48,840 year. And not only that, they added 270 00:14:48,840 --> 00:14:54,320 this little caveat that if you do that, you are 500% more 271 00:14:54,320 --> 00:14:57,440 likely to still be in church five years later. 272 00:14:58,920 --> 00:15:02,040 In other words, if you don't, it's not likely that you're 273 00:15:02,040 --> 00:15:03,560 still in church five years later. 274 00:15:04,080 --> 00:15:07,480 It's planting yourself in the House of God and you will 275 00:15:07,480 --> 00:15:11,320 flourish 500% more likely to still be in church five years 276 00:15:11,320 --> 00:15:12,960 later. And you know who knows this 277 00:15:12,960 --> 00:15:15,480 best? Satan himself. 278 00:15:16,680 --> 00:15:20,000 And in this church which is called to have covenant 279 00:15:20,000 --> 00:15:25,280 community, this church which is disproportionately top heavy 280 00:15:25,560 --> 00:15:30,080 with a top personality, broad shouldered, big hitting leaders. 281 00:15:30,440 --> 00:15:33,040 He doesn't have to make you bad. He just has to make you busy. 282 00:15:35,680 --> 00:15:40,160 And slowly but surely we fall by the wayside as he whittles us 283 00:15:40,160 --> 00:15:45,360 away and keeps us from the fire. You know, even Jesus needed 284 00:15:45,360 --> 00:15:47,960 friends. He needed brothers. 285 00:15:48,040 --> 00:15:52,320 This is the Son of God who surrounded himself with 286 00:15:52,320 --> 00:15:56,680 protesthami. I was looking in Matthew 26. 287 00:15:57,160 --> 00:15:58,720 Jesus is in the Garden of Gethsemane. 288 00:15:58,720 --> 00:16:01,000 He says, wait here and keep watch with me. 289 00:16:01,720 --> 00:16:03,640 So he says, there's disciples here, wait here and keep watch 290 00:16:03,640 --> 00:16:04,840 with me. I'm just going to go and pray. 291 00:16:04,840 --> 00:16:08,000 And he comes back. He's like, they didn't either. 292 00:16:08,000 --> 00:16:10,000 They fell asleep. And he's like, couldn't you even 293 00:16:10,320 --> 00:16:13,280 keep watching me for an hour? But the phrase that he uses 294 00:16:13,280 --> 00:16:18,280 there, it can be translated into English as intertwine yourself 295 00:16:18,280 --> 00:16:21,840 with me. You see, Jesus is about to face 296 00:16:21,960 --> 00:16:24,560 the darkest moment, the toughest moment of his life. 297 00:16:24,560 --> 00:16:27,680 His life is about to unravel. And he turns to those he's 298 00:16:27,680 --> 00:16:31,240 prophecy familied with. And he says, intertwine yourself 299 00:16:31,240 --> 00:16:33,320 with me. If you do that, if you stand 300 00:16:33,320 --> 00:16:37,000 with me, if I'm in a covenant community, I can face this. 301 00:16:38,080 --> 00:16:40,320 And you know, the city is saying exactly the same. 302 00:16:40,520 --> 00:16:43,320 The city is facing darkness. The city's, the lives are 303 00:16:43,320 --> 00:16:47,440 unraveling before our very eyes. And the cry of our city is, 304 00:16:47,440 --> 00:16:50,760 would you just climb over those walls and entwine yourself with 305 00:16:50,760 --> 00:16:56,280 me form the covenant community? It's God's charge, it's his 306 00:16:56,280 --> 00:17:00,520 'cause his prophetic voice over us as a community and over us as 307 00:17:00,520 --> 00:17:03,960 sons and daughters, Radical salvation, covenant community. 308 00:17:04,200 --> 00:17:07,640 And another thing I loved was the Kingdom generosity. 309 00:17:09,560 --> 00:17:11,920 Verse 27 says during this time, what time? 310 00:17:12,560 --> 00:17:15,880 Well, the time that church was forming in Antioch. 311 00:17:16,520 --> 00:17:20,319 Now if you remember, I said the poor and and Barnabas were only 312 00:17:20,319 --> 00:17:23,000 there for about a year. So it was maybe a couple months 313 00:17:23,000 --> 00:17:25,640 into the very first person getting saved. 314 00:17:26,079 --> 00:17:28,600 During this time, some prophets came down from Jerusalem to 315 00:17:28,600 --> 00:17:30,800 Antioch. One of them, named Agabus, stood 316 00:17:30,800 --> 00:17:33,280 up and through the Spirit predicted that a severe famine 317 00:17:33,280 --> 00:17:35,080 would spread over the entire Roman world. 318 00:17:35,320 --> 00:17:37,320 And this did happen during the reign of Claudius. 319 00:17:37,600 --> 00:17:41,040 The disciples, as each one was able, decided to provide help 320 00:17:41,040 --> 00:17:43,000 for the brothers and sisters living in Judea. 321 00:17:43,360 --> 00:17:46,640 This they did, sending their gifts to the elders by Barnabas 322 00:17:46,640 --> 00:17:51,480 and Saul. I'm amazed by the fact that 323 00:17:51,640 --> 00:17:53,560 here's a bunch of people that just gotten served. 324 00:17:55,040 --> 00:17:57,520 They've just been introduced to this prophetic gift. 325 00:17:57,960 --> 00:17:59,800 Never seen it before. Someone gets up and says there's 326 00:17:59,800 --> 00:18:02,440 a famine coming. You know, I mean, they didn't 327 00:18:02,440 --> 00:18:05,080 have weather men. They didn't have any climate 328 00:18:05,080 --> 00:18:08,200 models or nothing. There's a famine coming and it's 329 00:18:08,200 --> 00:18:09,480 going to strike the entire region. 330 00:18:09,480 --> 00:18:11,640 So now they're going like, OK, this is new. 331 00:18:11,840 --> 00:18:13,360 And then he says, we want your money. 332 00:18:15,280 --> 00:18:18,400 And they don't go like, ah, no, they sell. 333 00:18:18,400 --> 00:18:24,040 They still buy home and they give lavishly Kingdom 334 00:18:24,040 --> 00:18:26,440 generosity, Tim Keller says of this. 335 00:18:26,440 --> 00:18:29,880 He says the early church was strikingly different from 336 00:18:29,880 --> 00:18:33,800 Pretoria E culture. The Pagan society was stingy 337 00:18:33,800 --> 00:18:37,080 with its money and promiscuous with its body. 338 00:18:37,960 --> 00:18:41,000 A Pagan never gave anyone their money and practically gave 339 00:18:41,080 --> 00:18:44,400 everyone their body. The Christians came along and 340 00:18:44,400 --> 00:18:48,320 were stingy with their bodies and gave everyone their money. 341 00:18:49,120 --> 00:18:52,600 Amazing. What side of that do you fall? 342 00:18:56,320 --> 00:18:59,400 CS Lewis, I don't know if you know him, prolific author from 343 00:18:59,400 --> 00:19:02,600 the 50s and 60s. He realized once the money 344 00:19:02,600 --> 00:19:06,440 started pouring in, he realized, oh, I really need to plan my way 345 00:19:06,440 --> 00:19:08,400 forward. And so he set up an agape fund 346 00:19:08,400 --> 00:19:11,640 where he gave away 2/3 of all his earnings, 2/3. 347 00:19:11,840 --> 00:19:15,240 And the reason behind this, he says, was because he realized if 348 00:19:15,360 --> 00:19:20,680 the love of money is the root of all evil, what would the love of 349 00:19:20,680 --> 00:19:23,800 generosity be? Maybe the route of revival. 350 00:19:24,320 --> 00:19:25,680 So how? No, let me give it a try. 351 00:19:26,160 --> 00:19:30,760 Imagine 5003 CRS walking through the streets of Pretoria with an 352 00:19:30,760 --> 00:19:34,040 agape fund, the generosity fund in their back pockets drawn a 353 00:19:34,040 --> 00:19:35,720 couple 1000 Rand. And it's just there and you're 354 00:19:35,720 --> 00:19:37,800 just listening to the voice of the Holy Spirit and you're 355 00:19:37,800 --> 00:19:41,960 giving and you're caring and you're loving on as we left 356 00:19:41,960 --> 00:19:46,760 still by we're putting petrol to return the rental vehicle and 357 00:19:47,160 --> 00:19:49,320 hours. I love to give these guys lots. 358 00:19:49,480 --> 00:19:51,160 OK. And he did a little dance. 359 00:19:51,160 --> 00:19:55,400 Beautiful made some moves. He was like what? 360 00:19:55,920 --> 00:19:58,520 And we actually we had to go for sort of paid and I was reaching 361 00:19:58,520 --> 00:20:01,400 for the tip and he disappeared. So we had to ride around, chase 362 00:20:01,400 --> 00:20:03,000 this poor guy down. I don't think he knew what was 363 00:20:03,000 --> 00:20:04,120 coming. Next thing we handed out, just 364 00:20:04,120 --> 00:20:06,040 like, you know, we just robbed the bank. 365 00:20:06,040 --> 00:20:07,040 It's all yours. Cheers. 366 00:20:08,440 --> 00:20:12,080 But this is what you see. The city will feel it, the city 367 00:20:12,080 --> 00:20:13,760 will feel it. The city will sit up and take 368 00:20:13,760 --> 00:20:16,360 notice, especially in the east of Pretoria. 369 00:20:17,480 --> 00:20:19,680 Well, it's all about me, myself and I. 370 00:20:20,640 --> 00:20:24,400 And that's Ferrari, Your, your, it was one home that we saw. 371 00:20:25,760 --> 00:20:30,680 The garage was glass on the one side so that you could see this, 372 00:20:30,680 --> 00:20:34,520 the Ferrari. But I don't know how often they 373 00:20:34,520 --> 00:20:37,720 go there because the shutters were closed and the Ferrari was 374 00:20:37,720 --> 00:20:39,600 covered in this beautiful red cover. 375 00:20:39,600 --> 00:20:45,760 This thing you like, but the generous people catch the eye of 376 00:20:45,760 --> 00:20:47,520 the city. They don't know what to do with 377 00:20:47,520 --> 00:20:49,120 that. They know what to do with fancy 378 00:20:49,120 --> 00:20:51,600 cars and bling. They don't know what to do with 379 00:20:51,600 --> 00:20:55,320 generosity, Kingdom generosity. But The thing is that every time 380 00:20:55,320 --> 00:20:59,680 there's a significant move of God, there's Kingdom generosity. 381 00:21:00,840 --> 00:21:04,680 And one of the commentators said it's hard to tell whether the 382 00:21:04,680 --> 00:21:08,640 move of God releases the generosity or the generosity 383 00:21:08,640 --> 00:21:12,280 releases the move of God. I'm saying let's give it a try. 384 00:21:13,200 --> 00:21:14,320 What's the worst that can happen? 385 00:21:16,440 --> 00:21:23,040 So we've seen some unbelievable radical salvations. 386 00:21:24,560 --> 00:21:28,040 That's what God has spoken over us, what we can trust Him for, 387 00:21:28,040 --> 00:21:32,560 what we can hold Him to. We've seen covenant community, 388 00:21:32,560 --> 00:21:36,440 which he calls us to. We've seen this Kingdom 389 00:21:36,440 --> 00:21:38,920 generosity and the last one I want to put on and I want to 390 00:21:38,920 --> 00:21:41,240 spend just a little bit of time on this because essentially this 391 00:21:41,240 --> 00:21:43,440 is where I see it moving from a Sunday to a Monday. 392 00:21:43,720 --> 00:21:47,400 And that's essentially what I've called life changing leadership. 393 00:21:47,960 --> 00:21:51,280 I was just I want to till the soil just a little bit, so bear 394 00:21:51,280 --> 00:21:53,240 with me. It says in verse 25. 395 00:21:53,240 --> 00:21:56,360 Then Barnabas went to Tarsus to look for Saul and when he found 396 00:21:56,360 --> 00:21:59,840 him, he brought him to Antioch. So for a whole year, Barnabas 397 00:21:59,840 --> 00:22:03,440 and Saul met with the church and taught great numbers of people. 398 00:22:05,720 --> 00:22:07,760 I don't know if I've ever noticed this before, but in 399 00:22:07,760 --> 00:22:10,680 prepping for today, I noticed that he went and called Paul 400 00:22:11,160 --> 00:22:14,240 instead of Peter. I don't know if you know Peter. 401 00:22:14,880 --> 00:22:16,480 Peter was trending at that moment. 402 00:22:17,440 --> 00:22:20,280 Yeah, he he he was a bona fide hashtag. 403 00:22:20,280 --> 00:22:23,080 He was, you know, his Insta account is blowing up. 404 00:22:23,160 --> 00:22:25,040 Everyone knew Peter. He was the Golden Boy. 405 00:22:25,040 --> 00:22:28,400 You know, he had preached one day and 3000 people got saved. 406 00:22:28,840 --> 00:22:30,960 Why not go? You've got another revival. 407 00:22:30,960 --> 00:22:32,800 He's the guy. I mean, tried and tested. 408 00:22:34,200 --> 00:22:37,000 But notice it doesn't say he went and called Paul. 409 00:22:37,000 --> 00:22:41,200 It says he went and called Saul. So if you don't know your church 410 00:22:41,200 --> 00:22:44,640 history, Saul was the guy who persecuted the church. 411 00:22:45,000 --> 00:22:47,760 He had blood on his hands. He was the black sheep of the 412 00:22:47,760 --> 00:22:49,240 family. Yeah, I'd been saved. 413 00:22:49,240 --> 00:22:50,920 But I mean, can God really use that guy? 414 00:22:53,440 --> 00:22:58,280 Later on, he gets he he goes by his Greek name, Paul, but it 415 00:22:58,280 --> 00:23:00,320 says he went and fetched Saul. I'm not. 416 00:23:00,640 --> 00:23:05,320 What's going on here? I read a crazy article. 417 00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:07,240 I don't know if you know who Gen. 418 00:23:07,240 --> 00:23:07,960 Z is. Gen. 419 00:23:07,960 --> 00:23:12,520 Z are people from between the ages of 20 and 3020 somethings. 420 00:23:13,640 --> 00:23:16,600 And the article is was a business article all about how 421 00:23:16,880 --> 00:23:22,440 businesses are currently quietly purging the staff of all 20 422 00:23:22,440 --> 00:23:24,880 somethings, getting rid of 20 somethings. 423 00:23:26,640 --> 00:23:31,200 And he goes on to explain why I might hit a nerve or you might 424 00:23:31,200 --> 00:23:34,760 be going like, that's why. But it, it was a rather long 425 00:23:34,760 --> 00:23:35,920 article. So I'm going to just give you 426 00:23:35,920 --> 00:23:39,200 like two or three of them. First reason why businesses are 427 00:23:39,200 --> 00:23:40,920 purging their stuff of Gen. Z. 428 00:23:41,160 --> 00:23:43,560 Number one is the iPad syndrome is what it's called. 429 00:23:43,960 --> 00:23:47,280 So iPad syndrome is you've got a generation that are so used to 430 00:23:47,280 --> 00:23:52,480 constant dopamine hits and constant likes and applauses 431 00:23:52,720 --> 00:23:56,200 that now they're doing everyday mundane, real work. 432 00:23:57,360 --> 00:23:59,760 And no one's applauding them for coming to work two days in a 433 00:23:59,760 --> 00:24:01,720 row. And so they are saying this is a 434 00:24:01,800 --> 00:24:05,120 toxic environment. I don't know if I can endure 435 00:24:05,120 --> 00:24:08,560 this. You know, where's the care room? 436 00:24:10,400 --> 00:24:12,840 The second thing is feedback and tolerance among Gen. 437 00:24:12,840 --> 00:24:15,040 Z. They can't handle constructive 438 00:24:15,040 --> 00:24:19,040 criticism, see it as a personal attack, microaggression. 439 00:24:19,720 --> 00:24:22,040 And HRCEOS are going like, you know what? 440 00:24:22,040 --> 00:24:26,880 I can't handle these, these fickle, sensitive egos. 441 00:24:27,560 --> 00:24:29,840 And the other one and this we have had the privilege of 442 00:24:29,840 --> 00:24:32,320 experiencing is the ghosting culture with within the 443 00:24:32,320 --> 00:24:34,480 workplace. And for the older generation, 444 00:24:34,480 --> 00:24:37,640 ghosting is like when someone Whatsapps you, you see it and 445 00:24:37,800 --> 00:24:40,080 you see that they've read it because it's 2 blue ticks. 446 00:24:40,520 --> 00:24:43,400 But you know, days later, they still haven't replied. 447 00:24:43,960 --> 00:24:45,800 But now ghosting has come into the workplace. 448 00:24:46,440 --> 00:24:49,080 And there's this trend among Gen. 449 00:24:49,080 --> 00:24:54,840 Z to not arrive on day one after being the new hire just doesn't 450 00:24:54,840 --> 00:24:56,960 arrive. Or as we had, you know, they 451 00:24:56,960 --> 00:24:59,120 worked 3 or 4 days and then their WhatsApp, you said, no, 452 00:24:59,120 --> 00:25:02,600 it's not for me. Now, I don't know if you've ever 453 00:25:02,600 --> 00:25:05,960 hired anybody. But you, you write together, you 454 00:25:05,960 --> 00:25:07,920 know, everything that they need to do and then you start 455 00:25:07,920 --> 00:25:10,520 publishing it. And then you get this flood from 456 00:25:10,520 --> 00:25:12,880 LinkedIn. Thanks, LinkedIn, everyone. 457 00:25:12,880 --> 00:25:15,400 Can we work from home? And so you filter out all of 458 00:25:15,400 --> 00:25:18,160 those, and then you finally get to maybe your top five, 459 00:25:18,160 --> 00:25:20,400 hopefully, maybe just one or two. 460 00:25:20,600 --> 00:25:23,320 And then you have interviews and you sit with them and you 461 00:25:23,320 --> 00:25:26,240 finally decide you get it and you sign the contracts. 462 00:25:26,240 --> 00:25:28,160 And then they don't pitch up on day one. 463 00:25:29,560 --> 00:25:34,520 And so he goes on to say, says the marketplace no longer PANDAS 464 00:25:34,520 --> 00:25:39,200 to infantilism. Either they grow up or they get 465 00:25:39,200 --> 00:25:45,520 replaced. Yeah, my therapist says I need 466 00:25:45,520 --> 00:25:52,480 to speak. OK, Life changing leadership. 467 00:25:52,480 --> 00:25:56,280 You've got Gen. Z on this side. 468 00:25:57,000 --> 00:25:59,480 And if I could just step into your office for two minutes, 469 00:26:00,360 --> 00:26:02,000 I'll tell you about Gen. Z on this side. 470 00:26:03,480 --> 00:26:07,680 Barna Published over the December holidays stats on Gen. 471 00:26:07,680 --> 00:26:09,600 Z. They are considered the most 472 00:26:09,720 --> 00:26:14,080 open generation to the gospel in recorded history. 473 00:26:15,440 --> 00:26:19,160 They are a seeking generation. They're called the Seekers. 474 00:26:19,440 --> 00:26:22,160 They are more curious than you have ever been in your whole 475 00:26:22,160 --> 00:26:26,080 entire life. The number one Christmas present 476 00:26:26,080 --> 00:26:30,800 request was the Bible. 87% increase in Bible sales because 477 00:26:30,800 --> 00:26:32,160 of Gen. ZI was actually one of the 478 00:26:32,160 --> 00:26:33,880 sermons I heard yesterday. The guy was talking about 479 00:26:33,880 --> 00:26:36,560 someone in the community who didn't get a Bible for his for 480 00:26:36,560 --> 00:26:39,600 Christmas and he threw his toys, ordered one off Amazon and said 481 00:26:39,600 --> 00:26:41,640 I'm not coming out until I've read this thing and halfway 482 00:26:41,640 --> 00:26:43,840 through got radically saved and is in their church. 483 00:26:44,080 --> 00:26:45,360 This is what's happening with Gen. 484 00:26:45,360 --> 00:26:48,760 Z. See the culture. 485 00:26:50,160 --> 00:26:55,600 The secular think says, you know what, wash your hands, go get 486 00:26:55,600 --> 00:26:59,840 Peter. But Barnabas was a man familiar 487 00:26:59,840 --> 00:27:02,280 with the grace of God and what the grace of God could do. 488 00:27:02,560 --> 00:27:07,400 And so he went and got saw he went through all those CVS and 489 00:27:07,400 --> 00:27:10,520 he sat down with HR and said, can we give so And so just 490 00:27:10,520 --> 00:27:13,560 another chance because I could build a little bit of a rapport 491 00:27:13,560 --> 00:27:16,400 with this person. And actually, unbeknownst to 492 00:27:16,400 --> 00:27:20,040 you, that's the name God has placed on my heart to pray for 493 00:27:20,040 --> 00:27:22,440 and trust for salvation. And if they can just hang around 494 00:27:22,440 --> 00:27:23,720 and get a little bit of the culture. 495 00:27:23,920 --> 00:27:27,080 Let his mistakes be to my account. 496 00:27:29,600 --> 00:27:36,040 That is why Paul or Saul gets renamed Paul and because 497 00:27:36,040 --> 00:27:39,520 Barnabas gave him this is the very first ministry moment, 498 00:27:40,240 --> 00:27:46,560 official ministry moment of Saul Paul and because Barnabas gave 499 00:27:46,560 --> 00:27:48,720 him that moment, because Barnabas said, listen, I'm not 500 00:27:48,720 --> 00:27:51,760 going to quiet purge. I'm going to quiet time over 501 00:27:51,760 --> 00:27:55,320 this kid gave stall the opportunity, became poor. 502 00:27:55,440 --> 00:27:59,000 You know, he wrote 13 of the books in your New Testament. 503 00:28:00,480 --> 00:28:06,000 There's black sheep planted churches turned cities upside 504 00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:10,240 down, saw thousands of people saved and then raised another 505 00:28:10,240 --> 00:28:13,720 generation of leaders like Timothy and Silas and Epaphras 506 00:28:13,720 --> 00:28:16,720 and Mark and Luke who also themselves wrote portions of the 507 00:28:16,720 --> 00:28:19,040 Bibles and other three that could be attributed to Paul. 508 00:28:22,360 --> 00:28:28,000 And so this is a call upon us as three CR I think because we are 509 00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:32,200 so top heavy with influential decision making businessmen and 510 00:28:32,200 --> 00:28:36,760 women, C-Suite executives that have a say of who comes and goes 511 00:28:36,920 --> 00:28:42,280 tempers the secular think of just you know what 3 strikes in 512 00:28:42,280 --> 00:28:46,120 their arts, but rather carry a grace into our city so the 513 00:28:46,120 --> 00:28:47,880 gospel can follow suit. Unbelievable. 514 00:28:49,040 --> 00:28:50,360 And this is what God calls us to. 515 00:28:50,840 --> 00:28:54,640 He calls us to radical salvations, covenantal 516 00:28:54,640 --> 00:28:58,040 community, Kingdom, generosity and life changing or should I 517 00:28:58,040 --> 00:29:01,240 say future dictating and forging leadership. 518 00:29:02,040 --> 00:29:05,880 Now I've covered all of this and Paul Luke writing the book of 519 00:29:05,880 --> 00:29:08,800 Acts covers all of this. Not because he wants to set a 520 00:29:08,800 --> 00:29:15,240 new gold standard, not because if you guys really aim high and 521 00:29:15,240 --> 00:29:17,880 if we can just drill this into, you know, this is what you're 522 00:29:17,880 --> 00:29:20,600 going to be measured by. This is the new aim, the new 523 00:29:20,600 --> 00:29:22,920 goal. You know, 2025 was done here. 524 00:29:22,920 --> 00:29:25,680 2026, we're going to go big. It's not because of that. 525 00:29:26,680 --> 00:29:29,280 It's not like like you might find on Monday when you sit with 526 00:29:29,280 --> 00:29:31,400 your sales manager and they say, oh, listen, we've doubled your 527 00:29:31,400 --> 00:29:33,880 target for 26. He's not doing this. 528 00:29:35,800 --> 00:29:39,000 Why am I hounding this? Well, we'll look at verse 26. 529 00:29:40,680 --> 00:29:45,280 The disciples were first called Christians at Antioch. 530 00:29:46,560 --> 00:29:49,440 Yes, it is the prophetic mantle that we carry as three CI and 531 00:29:49,440 --> 00:29:52,760 has been spoken of us and God has whispered it to us and 532 00:29:52,760 --> 00:29:56,960 called us to it for decades. But essentially at his very 533 00:29:56,960 --> 00:30:02,600 core, all I'm reminding you to do this year, just Christian in 534 00:30:02,600 --> 00:30:09,640 2026, just Christian in 2026. And with that trust that God 535 00:30:09,800 --> 00:30:15,360 who's spoken, the promise, who's called us to this, it is we 536 00:30:15,360 --> 00:30:18,520 follow down that line of his prophetic future for us as 537 00:30:18,520 --> 00:30:22,440 individuals, as sons and daughters and us as a community, 538 00:30:23,080 --> 00:30:27,160 that on that road we find his presence, we find his power, we 539 00:30:27,160 --> 00:30:30,080 find his provision, we find his purposes. 540 00:30:31,200 --> 00:30:34,440 And on that day we can say, he will say, well done, good and 541 00:30:34,440 --> 00:30:38,840 faithful servant, well done for being Christian in 2026. 542 00:30:39,560 --> 00:30:39,800 Amen.