1 00:00:03,520 --> 00:00:06,400 It's nice to see you. Stephen did so well last week on 2 00:00:06,400 --> 00:00:09,840 talking about time and place and that we're going to revisit it 3 00:00:09,840 --> 00:00:13,920 again today as as God does his amazing things. 4 00:00:13,920 --> 00:00:15,920 So if you can turn to Ecclesiastes chapter 3. 5 00:00:15,920 --> 00:00:18,800 If you're new here, we are doing a series in Ecclesiastes. 6 00:00:19,600 --> 00:00:22,600 The series is pretty much there. There are many parts to it. 7 00:00:22,600 --> 00:00:26,120 It's a very rich man with a lot of wives, tried everything in 8 00:00:26,120 --> 00:00:27,560 his life. He's coming to the end of his 9 00:00:27,560 --> 00:00:31,640 life and he's writing back to Pretoria 2025 and he's saying, 10 00:00:31,640 --> 00:00:33,680 hey guys, I've been on this journey. 11 00:00:33,680 --> 00:00:35,640 I've tried everything. I've tried women, I've tried 12 00:00:35,640 --> 00:00:37,280 wealth, I've tried to be significant. 13 00:00:37,280 --> 00:00:40,720 I've built farms, I've built dams, I've built buildings, and 14 00:00:41,280 --> 00:00:43,240 I'm just trying to find something that counts. 15 00:00:43,920 --> 00:00:49,080 When I moved to Pretoria 12 years ago, Clint and Ellen, by 16 00:00:49,520 --> 00:00:52,520 sheer generosity, gave me a beautiful coffee machine. 17 00:00:52,960 --> 00:00:56,680 And Clint said to me, go and enjoy the people of Pretoria. 18 00:00:56,680 --> 00:01:00,400 Go and enjoy making coffee for them, enjoying them, celebrating 19 00:01:00,400 --> 00:01:03,080 with them. And for some reason the coffee 20 00:01:03,080 --> 00:01:05,120 machine is never broken after 12 years. 21 00:01:05,120 --> 00:01:07,440 I've just kept it going. It just hasn't broken down, 22 00:01:07,760 --> 00:01:10,000 which I'm sure you meant to service it every while ago, but 23 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:12,480 I, I didn't service it. So last week it broke down. 24 00:01:14,080 --> 00:01:16,280 Clint, if you'd like to service it for me, you know, minder. 25 00:01:17,280 --> 00:01:20,080 So it broke down and we sent it in to get serviced and, and they 26 00:01:20,080 --> 00:01:22,320 wrote back and said, yeah, I just needed a good service. 27 00:01:22,320 --> 00:01:25,160 It was a bit dirty inside, but just to let you know, there's a 28 00:01:25,160 --> 00:01:29,600 counter on it and you've made 17,000 and 78 cups of coffee. 29 00:01:31,120 --> 00:01:34,360 And I thought, that's Tov. That's Tov. 30 00:01:34,360 --> 00:01:37,280 That means somebody say, oh, you drink too much coffee, please 31 00:01:37,280 --> 00:01:40,200 don't send the letters 12 years. Lots of people in my house. 32 00:01:41,280 --> 00:01:43,000 That's Tov. And I actually phoned Clint. 33 00:01:43,000 --> 00:01:44,840 I said, hey, Clint, do you remember that gift you and Ellen 34 00:01:44,840 --> 00:01:47,440 gave me has made 17,000 cups of coffee? 35 00:01:47,800 --> 00:01:52,880 We've had lots of fellowship and lots of talking around coffee 36 00:01:52,880 --> 00:01:56,960 and meals and food and, and he's kind of saying what's really 37 00:01:56,960 --> 00:01:59,640 important in our lives? What's what really counts? 38 00:01:59,640 --> 00:02:01,840 What's, what are we going to take to heaven with us? 39 00:02:02,400 --> 00:02:04,240 What's going to really, really count? 40 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:08,240 And actually, I was looking at it this morning or this week and 41 00:02:08,240 --> 00:02:11,840 actually Ecclesiastes, I become small and I let God be big. 42 00:02:12,960 --> 00:02:15,680 So when my kids grew up in my house, if we look at time and 43 00:02:15,680 --> 00:02:18,200 place, they didn't decide where do we go on holiday? 44 00:02:18,200 --> 00:02:22,600 I I just love the Kruger. And so every year in Natal, we 45 00:02:22,600 --> 00:02:25,640 would go and stand in the queues at 4:00 in the morning so that 46 00:02:25,640 --> 00:02:27,880 we could make sure that we could also get some space. 47 00:02:27,880 --> 00:02:29,880 That's kakuza didn't belong to Pretoria. 48 00:02:32,480 --> 00:02:35,280 I know every other camp belongs to you, but, but, but we thought 49 00:02:35,280 --> 00:02:37,200 Kakuza, we could get a little bit of space. 50 00:02:37,200 --> 00:02:39,920 That's kakuza. And in that time and place, we 51 00:02:39,920 --> 00:02:43,400 booked our holiday as Scakusa and our children grew up in the 52 00:02:43,400 --> 00:02:45,120 Kruger. Now our kids love the Kruger 53 00:02:45,120 --> 00:02:48,400 because they actually trusted us to take them on a holiday that 54 00:02:48,400 --> 00:02:52,040 was meaningful, that was educational, that was relaxing, 55 00:02:52,040 --> 00:02:54,880 that was family building. And we, and we still and we 56 00:02:54,880 --> 00:02:58,240 bonded around the Kruger fires. Yesterday, I went to rugby with 57 00:02:58,240 --> 00:03:00,840 my family, with my children and their and their spouses. 58 00:03:01,080 --> 00:03:03,440 And one of the members of this congregation took a photo of me 59 00:03:03,440 --> 00:03:06,240 and said, I can see you at the rugby in the rain. 60 00:03:06,240 --> 00:03:09,000 And it said, it's so nice to be with your family because we 61 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:11,240 chose time and place well when we were younger. 62 00:03:11,360 --> 00:03:13,120 We still share time and place now. 63 00:03:14,600 --> 00:03:16,520 Amen. And so we have to try and 64 00:03:16,520 --> 00:03:18,760 understand these things. So, but I want to speak 65 00:03:18,760 --> 00:03:23,080 particularly I was I was looking at some as I as I was preparing 66 00:03:23,080 --> 00:03:26,360 this week, just those little boxes that we get those little 67 00:03:26,360 --> 00:03:29,000 boxes. Every time you fill in a little 68 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:37,160 box, it says a single cross, married cross, divorced cross. 69 00:03:38,360 --> 00:03:40,040 And I was just sitting. I just started to weep. 70 00:03:40,040 --> 00:03:42,240 Remember, I'm not an apostle that's going to change the 71 00:03:42,240 --> 00:03:43,360 world. I'm just a pastor. 72 00:03:44,520 --> 00:03:47,440 I just started to weep. I was sitting in my in my room. 73 00:03:47,440 --> 00:03:50,040 I started to weep. I thought am IA good pastor to 74 00:03:50,040 --> 00:03:54,240 divorced people? Because if you get divorced when 75 00:03:54,240 --> 00:03:58,080 you're young, marry the wrong person or something happens when 76 00:03:58,080 --> 00:04:03,000 you're young and, and and you get divorced at 25 and you never 77 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:06,720 get remarried. So for 60 years, every time you 78 00:04:06,720 --> 00:04:10,000 fill in one of those forms, you've got to put the cross in 79 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:14,560 that little box called divorced. It's quite haunting. 80 00:04:16,200 --> 00:04:17,839 And I thought, can I not present? 81 00:04:17,839 --> 00:04:21,040 Can we not present this cross in a big enough way that it 82 00:04:21,040 --> 00:04:26,400 overrides that cross, that this cross somehow doesn't carry the 83 00:04:26,400 --> 00:04:30,640 stigma that's attached to it? I was thinking of you, Dennis, 84 00:04:30,640 --> 00:04:33,640 as, as, as we pull in because the next line down it says 85 00:04:33,680 --> 00:04:42,240 white, black colored or other. Which one do you do? 86 00:04:42,240 --> 00:04:47,960 Other or, or you or is it Asian? But you're not Asian. 87 00:04:47,960 --> 00:04:53,400 You're from Durban. So I was thinking, So what? 88 00:04:53,400 --> 00:04:56,600 So what does Dennis do? And I'm thinking, do I do I 89 00:04:56,600 --> 00:04:59,240 shepherd you well, Dennis, do I pastor you well? 90 00:04:59,240 --> 00:05:02,080 That, that this cross that you don't know where to put that, 91 00:05:02,080 --> 00:05:05,440 that that society is going to determine where I put that 92 00:05:05,440 --> 00:05:07,240 cross. Is there a bigger cross 93 00:05:07,240 --> 00:05:10,920 somewhere that can override that, that that that little 94 00:05:10,920 --> 00:05:13,880 group of boxes? Don't put me into a box. 95 00:05:15,280 --> 00:05:18,360 And we can see now the Afrikaners fighting for their 96 00:05:18,360 --> 00:05:21,760 independence, now fighting because they're a malign nation 97 00:05:21,760 --> 00:05:23,960 now in this country and they're fighting. 98 00:05:24,080 --> 00:05:26,880 And so we've got these organizations like Solidarity 99 00:05:27,040 --> 00:05:30,440 and every forum meeting with Donald Trump fighting for our 100 00:05:30,440 --> 00:05:32,440 little cross. I want to tell you, Donald Trump 101 00:05:32,440 --> 00:05:34,200 is not the solution of Afrikanadom. 102 00:05:35,360 --> 00:05:38,920 The bigger cross that we preach in the churches of Pretoria is 103 00:05:38,920 --> 00:05:42,440 the solution to Afrikanadom. It's a cross that is bigger 104 00:05:42,440 --> 00:05:46,200 friends than English or Afrikaans or other. 105 00:05:46,200 --> 00:05:51,120 And we don't need to pay for guys to go to America to sit in 106 00:05:51,120 --> 00:05:56,000 Donald Trump's office who at any time can spark a third World War 107 00:05:56,000 --> 00:05:58,680 with all the good daddies. He can start spark a third World 108 00:05:58,680 --> 00:06:01,920 War because he has a personality clash with the Gulf of Ukraine. 109 00:06:02,120 --> 00:06:05,240 And we are dumbing down our existence to what happens in the 110 00:06:05,240 --> 00:06:08,800 Oval Office instead of going to a much higher officers saying 111 00:06:08,960 --> 00:06:11,160 can you put that cross on my heart? 112 00:06:11,640 --> 00:06:16,520 Beautiful. And on my divorce status and on 113 00:06:16,520 --> 00:06:19,480 my black and white status. Can you put that? 114 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:21,880 Then I started to think about divorce. 115 00:06:23,080 --> 00:06:25,000 Your people in this church are divorced because you're the 116 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:28,040 victims of divorce. And I realized I love to be the 117 00:06:28,040 --> 00:06:30,280 hero and the victim of every story I tell. 118 00:06:31,080 --> 00:06:32,920 I'm either the hero or I'm the victim. 119 00:06:32,920 --> 00:06:35,440 Something happened to me and it's really bad and I got badly 120 00:06:35,440 --> 00:06:37,920 treated. And then I realized unless we 121 00:06:37,920 --> 00:06:41,040 are prepared to make Jesus the hero and the victim of every 122 00:06:41,040 --> 00:06:44,160 story that we tell, you'll constantly live with 123 00:06:44,160 --> 00:06:47,520 disappointment in your life. You'll constantly live with 124 00:06:47,520 --> 00:06:50,280 disappointment in life and, and go back and look at your stories 125 00:06:50,280 --> 00:06:55,040 and you'll see how many times we think we saved the day or we 126 00:06:55,040 --> 00:06:56,920 were really maligned really badly. 127 00:06:57,520 --> 00:06:59,640 And so I thought of the people that are sitting here that 128 00:06:59,640 --> 00:07:04,440 actually caused the divorce and you're sitting here and for most 129 00:07:04,440 --> 00:07:07,920 of your life, especially in the church, you'll go through life 130 00:07:07,920 --> 00:07:13,200 as a second class citizen. And I thought, but the reason 131 00:07:13,200 --> 00:07:15,160 you got divorced is because you never kept your word. 132 00:07:16,200 --> 00:07:19,280 You, you, you made a phrase at the front of an aisle and you 133 00:07:19,280 --> 00:07:20,680 never kept. And then I just started looking 134 00:07:20,680 --> 00:07:23,760 at my own life and I thought, I just know endless occasions 135 00:07:23,760 --> 00:07:27,640 where I've not kept my word. You won't believe this, but I'm 136 00:07:27,640 --> 00:07:30,160 actually a people pleaser. I'm sure you don't believe it. 137 00:07:30,360 --> 00:07:35,720 I'm getting better, I'm recovering, especially with the 138 00:07:35,760 --> 00:07:39,160 Afrikaans scars and advocates. I'm I feel like I'm getting some 139 00:07:39,160 --> 00:07:43,920 traction, but but most of my life I've been a people pleaser. 140 00:07:44,240 --> 00:07:47,400 And So what I've done is I've over promised and many times 141 00:07:47,400 --> 00:07:49,440 because I've over promised, I've under delivered. 142 00:07:49,760 --> 00:07:52,080 And when you under deliver you cause disappointment. 143 00:07:54,080 --> 00:07:55,800 A guy phoned me and said, hey, can you do my wedding? 144 00:07:55,800 --> 00:08:00,800 Yes I can do your wedding. About 3 months before the 145 00:08:00,800 --> 00:08:03,760 wedding my son got chosen as a rugby captain of his school and 146 00:08:03,760 --> 00:08:08,320 on that day he had a fixture so I found I wrote to him back. 147 00:08:08,320 --> 00:08:11,440 I'm so I'm terribly sorry to do this but I always try and keep 148 00:08:11,440 --> 00:08:13,480 my word. I've always started but but I 149 00:08:13,480 --> 00:08:15,400 feel like I need to prioritize my son. 150 00:08:15,720 --> 00:08:18,040 He's last year at school. I'm going to ask I've got 151 00:08:18,040 --> 00:08:20,680 somebody who can do the wedding but can I say no? 152 00:08:20,680 --> 00:08:25,040 He's never spoken to me again, so I never kept my word. 153 00:08:25,240 --> 00:08:27,160 And it's caused a broken relationship. 154 00:08:28,040 --> 00:08:30,360 And so now we're going to go through life with these broken 155 00:08:30,360 --> 00:08:31,640 relationships. And it's true. 156 00:08:32,080 --> 00:08:34,760 Are you going to go through this life with this responsibility of 157 00:08:34,760 --> 00:08:37,159 not keeping your word? Or can we find a place? 158 00:08:38,000 --> 00:08:43,919 Can we find a place that God can actually deal with that and 159 00:08:43,919 --> 00:08:47,680 actually take that massive burden off us and imprint us 160 00:08:47,680 --> 00:08:51,160 with His cross? Amen. 161 00:08:51,880 --> 00:08:54,880 And So what I would love today for those of you who carry any 162 00:08:54,880 --> 00:08:59,360 guilt, shame, fear, is just to take a step here and then to 163 00:08:59,360 --> 00:09:04,760 walk out. Good morning. 164 00:09:06,920 --> 00:09:10,800 So the second part, remember, this is what it says in the 165 00:09:10,800 --> 00:09:14,240 Bible. If you've never heard this, the 166 00:09:14,240 --> 00:09:16,840 new is in the old concealed. So when you read the Old 167 00:09:16,840 --> 00:09:19,800 Testament, the New Testament is in there, but it's hidden. 168 00:09:20,120 --> 00:09:22,120 So whenever you read the Old Testament, so when you think 169 00:09:22,120 --> 00:09:24,840 about time, like there's a time for this and a time for that, 170 00:09:25,120 --> 00:09:27,120 the New Testament is in there, but it's hidden. 171 00:09:28,120 --> 00:09:31,840 So the new is in the old concealed, the old is in the new 172 00:09:31,840 --> 00:09:35,960 revealed. OK, so whenever you read the Old 173 00:09:35,960 --> 00:09:37,520 Testament, you think, I don't really understand this. 174 00:09:37,520 --> 00:09:39,040 What does it mean? So that the New Testament is 175 00:09:39,040 --> 00:09:40,280 there, but it's a little bit hidden. 176 00:09:40,560 --> 00:09:43,400 You've got to keep reading and and I'll show you in two weeks 177 00:09:43,400 --> 00:09:45,200 time, I'm going to preach about being better. 178 00:09:45,600 --> 00:09:48,120 What? So so Ecclesiastes talks about 179 00:09:48,120 --> 00:09:50,320 being better. It's like hidden in there. 180 00:09:50,320 --> 00:09:53,440 And then in the New Testament, in the book of Hebrews, it gets 181 00:09:53,440 --> 00:09:57,200 revealed what better looks like. It's the same thing with time. 182 00:09:57,800 --> 00:09:59,720 So time is hidden in the Old Testament. 183 00:10:00,040 --> 00:10:01,880 In the New Testament it gets revealed. 184 00:10:03,040 --> 00:10:05,240 So in Galatians chapter 4, we don't have time to look there 185 00:10:05,240 --> 00:10:06,440 because I have to preach quickly. 186 00:10:06,680 --> 00:10:10,200 And Galatians chapter 4 says this in the fullness of time, 187 00:10:10,200 --> 00:10:15,720 say that in the fullness of time, Jesus was born under the 188 00:10:15,720 --> 00:10:18,560 law so that he could redeem those who were born under the 189 00:10:18,560 --> 00:10:21,120 law. In the fullness of time, Jesus 190 00:10:21,120 --> 00:10:28,280 got born at just the right time. In Romans chapter 5 it says just 191 00:10:28,360 --> 00:10:31,480 at the right time. Say that just at the right time. 192 00:10:32,080 --> 00:10:37,880 Just at the right time, Jesus died while you were yet a 193 00:10:37,880 --> 00:10:40,160 Sinner. So he got born at just the right 194 00:10:40,160 --> 00:10:42,680 time, and he died at just the right time. 195 00:10:42,880 --> 00:10:46,440 And Genesis 24 says on the mountain of the Lord, Isaac on 196 00:10:46,440 --> 00:10:49,280 the top with Abraham on the mountain of the Lord, it will be 197 00:10:49,280 --> 00:10:51,440 provided. So the place was set and the 198 00:10:51,440 --> 00:10:55,400 time was set and at exactly the right time and exactly the right 199 00:10:55,400 --> 00:10:58,400 place, Jesus died. And Romans 5 says I was 200 00:10:58,400 --> 00:11:02,760 justified, say justified. That is just as if I'd never 201 00:11:02,760 --> 00:11:05,240 sinned, justified just as if I'd. 202 00:11:06,080 --> 00:11:11,360 So how come we get justified at just the right time and place by 203 00:11:11,360 --> 00:11:15,320 God, and yet we carry a whole lot of rubbish with us for the 204 00:11:15,320 --> 00:11:18,440 rest of our lives? I want to talk about that today 205 00:11:19,520 --> 00:11:29,550 and I want to specifically speak to divorced people and I want 206 00:11:29,550 --> 00:11:38,150 God to set you free today. And I want to speak to Afrikaans 207 00:11:38,150 --> 00:11:43,960 people and say God's got you perfectly under his authority 208 00:11:43,960 --> 00:11:49,080 and control and you don't need movements to meet with 209 00:11:49,080 --> 00:11:52,440 presidents to validate your future. 210 00:11:53,240 --> 00:11:56,360 He's got you time and place. Amen. 211 00:11:57,240 --> 00:12:01,520 So let's read verse 9. What does the worker gain from 212 00:12:01,520 --> 00:12:05,360 his toil? I've seen the burden that God 213 00:12:05,360 --> 00:12:06,960 has laid on him. So you've all these beautiful 214 00:12:06,960 --> 00:12:09,360 times at the end of it. There's nothing friends. 215 00:12:09,360 --> 00:12:11,600 I mean, fortunately there's nothing that you can do in your 216 00:12:11,600 --> 00:12:14,960 human effort that will make any significant change to the world. 217 00:12:15,160 --> 00:12:17,840 You can bring the latest operation, the Whipple that does 218 00:12:17,840 --> 00:12:20,600 something with the pancreas and in 10 years time there's going 219 00:12:20,600 --> 00:12:22,800 to be another operation that does the pancreas. 220 00:12:24,920 --> 00:12:27,280 You think? Well, Christian Barnard is known 221 00:12:27,280 --> 00:12:30,360 for this. In in 20 years time they won't 222 00:12:30,360 --> 00:12:33,400 even transplant hostile just have false hearts that they just 223 00:12:33,400 --> 00:12:36,760 put inside there. I've seen the burden that God 224 00:12:36,760 --> 00:12:38,840 has laid on men. He has made everything beautiful 225 00:12:38,840 --> 00:12:40,600 in its time. Stephen preached so beautifully 226 00:12:40,600 --> 00:12:42,800 about that. He has also set eternity in the 227 00:12:42,800 --> 00:12:44,840 hearts of men. Yet they cannot fathom what God 228 00:12:44,840 --> 00:12:47,560 has done from beginning to end. So we have to trust God. 229 00:12:47,760 --> 00:12:51,760 I'm a child, He is God and he puts my life together and these 230 00:12:51,760 --> 00:12:54,800 parts I don't understand but like my children love the Kruger 231 00:12:54,800 --> 00:12:56,520 and they love coming to rugby with me. 232 00:12:56,640 --> 00:12:59,200 He is going to put us through a process where these people who 233 00:12:59,200 --> 00:13:02,440 went to Canada to plant a church come back 17 years later and 234 00:13:02,440 --> 00:13:05,040 they still love this place in time because God something here. 235 00:13:07,360 --> 00:13:10,680 I know that there's nothing better tov for men than to be 236 00:13:10,680 --> 00:13:15,600 happy and to do good tov while they live that everything that 237 00:13:15,600 --> 00:13:20,040 everyone may eat and drink 17,000 and 78 cups of coffee and 238 00:13:20,040 --> 00:13:22,600 find tov in all his toil. This is a gift from God. 239 00:13:22,600 --> 00:13:25,840 Of course, doctors as you put a knee together or a back together 240 00:13:25,840 --> 00:13:27,680 or lawyer as you win an amazing case. 241 00:13:27,800 --> 00:13:30,760 This is a gift from God. You must remember. 242 00:13:30,760 --> 00:13:33,360 It's not going to have any significant lasting gain, but it 243 00:13:33,360 --> 00:13:36,120 can be a gift. There's a difference between a 244 00:13:36,120 --> 00:13:38,000 gain. It's not going to be permanent 245 00:13:38,000 --> 00:13:41,880 profit, but it is a gift. When I come to work, I see my 246 00:13:41,880 --> 00:13:43,960 workers as gifts. They're gifts from God to me. 247 00:13:44,120 --> 00:13:46,080 There's one called Hannah, There's one called Michaela. 248 00:13:46,080 --> 00:13:48,840 There's one called Michelle, There's one called Maggie, 249 00:13:49,200 --> 00:13:51,960 There's one called Rini, a gift to me, Stephen and Damien. 250 00:13:52,160 --> 00:13:54,520 These are gifts to me. Every time I look at them, I say 251 00:13:54,520 --> 00:13:56,840 I'm not gay and they're not permanent, but they are gifts. 252 00:13:59,680 --> 00:14:01,720 I know that everything God does will endure forever. 253 00:14:01,720 --> 00:14:03,800 Nothing can be added to it, nothing taken from it. 254 00:14:03,800 --> 00:14:05,640 God does it so that men will Revere Him. 255 00:14:05,640 --> 00:14:09,120 Whatever is has already been, and what will be has been 256 00:14:09,120 --> 00:14:12,240 before, and God will call the past to account. 257 00:14:12,240 --> 00:14:14,760 Say that with me. God will call the past to 258 00:14:14,760 --> 00:14:16,240 account. It's very important. 259 00:14:17,520 --> 00:14:19,720 And I saw something else under the sun. 260 00:14:20,400 --> 00:14:23,240 In the place of judgment, wickedness was there. 261 00:14:23,240 --> 00:14:26,480 So remember, Stephen spoke about time and place, but he didn't 262 00:14:26,480 --> 00:14:30,000 speak about this part of it. In the place of judgement, 263 00:14:30,000 --> 00:14:33,880 wickedness was there, and in the place of justice, wickedness was 264 00:14:33,880 --> 00:14:36,760 there. I thought in my heart, God will 265 00:14:36,760 --> 00:14:39,520 bring to judgement both the righteous and the wicked. 266 00:14:40,120 --> 00:14:41,880 For there will be a time, say time. 267 00:14:42,600 --> 00:14:46,200 So time and place, there will be a time for every activity, a 268 00:14:46,200 --> 00:14:51,280 time for every deed. So now he's going into a 269 00:14:51,280 --> 00:14:54,120 different set of time and place. Time and place is at the cross. 270 00:14:54,120 --> 00:14:57,320 Jesus died at exactly the right time, and he died at exactly the 271 00:14:57,320 --> 00:15:01,320 right place. But there is going to be a place 272 00:15:02,440 --> 00:15:08,080 and a time when God brings the past to account. 273 00:15:09,520 --> 00:15:12,160 I will never face judgement because I believe in God. 274 00:15:12,520 --> 00:15:14,280 You will never face the wrath of God. 275 00:15:14,480 --> 00:15:16,080 You're free from the wrath of God. 276 00:15:16,720 --> 00:15:21,360 But there will be a time that God brings justice to every 277 00:15:21,360 --> 00:15:24,600 decision and every activity under the sun. 278 00:15:26,400 --> 00:15:28,840 I've only been to court twice, thank goodness. 279 00:15:30,520 --> 00:15:34,240 But what this scripture says, I saw something that was very 280 00:15:34,240 --> 00:15:36,560 strange. Where there should have been 281 00:15:36,560 --> 00:15:38,920 justice, Where? Where should justice take place? 282 00:15:40,280 --> 00:15:43,120 In the courtroom? Where there should have been 283 00:15:43,120 --> 00:15:49,920 justice, there was wickedness. I thought, wow. 284 00:15:50,440 --> 00:15:52,320 I thought of one of the advocates in this church here 285 00:15:52,320 --> 00:15:55,280 today, one of the top advocates in South Africa. 286 00:15:55,640 --> 00:15:58,360 He came out of court where there should have been justice. 287 00:15:58,360 --> 00:16:00,960 He came out of court representing a case, dressed in 288 00:16:00,960 --> 00:16:05,880 his robes, and he got punctured by a man from the side with an 289 00:16:05,880 --> 00:16:09,360 HIV needle that was full of a concoction of stuff. 290 00:16:09,360 --> 00:16:12,200 He punctured him with the needle and pushed it into him. 291 00:16:12,360 --> 00:16:15,240 Where there should have been justice, there was wickedness. 292 00:16:16,640 --> 00:16:18,920 A man fighting against the system. 293 00:16:19,400 --> 00:16:21,480 Every person's got a right to defense. 294 00:16:22,560 --> 00:16:25,400 And so actually as I read the scripture, I thought that is so 295 00:16:25,400 --> 00:16:28,400 wrong in the safest place where law should abide. 296 00:16:29,200 --> 00:16:32,960 And needle went into him and he had to go through all the 297 00:16:32,960 --> 00:16:36,840 antiretroviral processes and it found out that the needle didn't 298 00:16:36,840 --> 00:16:38,960 have HIV. But Can you imagine the, the, 299 00:16:38,960 --> 00:16:43,080 the absolute fear of thinking now I'm HIV positive for the 300 00:16:43,080 --> 00:16:46,200 rest of my life because of wickedness instead of the place 301 00:16:46,200 --> 00:16:49,400 of justice? That same man had somebody 302 00:16:49,400 --> 00:16:52,960 agitated with him because he was defending his opposition and 303 00:16:52,960 --> 00:16:57,880 went to his house to hijack him or to murder him or to kidnap 304 00:16:57,880 --> 00:17:00,920 him or whatever it might be, but went to his house and his son 305 00:17:00,920 --> 00:17:03,920 lives, lives next door to him. And they got the wrong address. 306 00:17:03,920 --> 00:17:06,359 And so they got the right time when you come home from work, 307 00:17:06,359 --> 00:17:09,440 but they got the wrong address. And so they beat his son to a 308 00:17:09,440 --> 00:17:13,880 pulp. I ended up doing his son's 309 00:17:13,880 --> 00:17:15,560 wedding. His son was telling me I was 310 00:17:15,599 --> 00:17:20,079 absolutely broken, beaten up to a pulp by 5 or 6 men is lying on 311 00:17:20,079 --> 00:17:21,839 the ground. And he said to the Lord, Lord 312 00:17:21,839 --> 00:17:25,079 God make me heavy. And those six men could not pick 313 00:17:25,079 --> 00:17:28,200 him off the ground. One had his foot, one had his 314 00:17:28,200 --> 00:17:30,720 foot, one had his two hands and I could not pick him off. 315 00:17:30,720 --> 00:17:32,640 He said glory. I was like a dead white there, 316 00:17:32,800 --> 00:17:34,160 friends. Where there's meant to be 317 00:17:34,160 --> 00:17:43,520 justice, there's wickedness. I'm sorry for those who have 318 00:17:43,520 --> 00:17:48,160 heard the story, but I I went to a school and a boy who came from 319 00:17:48,160 --> 00:17:50,760 my school got drunk on the anniversary of his mother's 320 00:17:50,760 --> 00:17:52,400 death. He caused an accident. 321 00:17:52,400 --> 00:17:54,480 The police chased him. He shot at the police. 322 00:17:54,720 --> 00:17:56,680 He eventually cooped himself up in his house. 323 00:17:56,680 --> 00:17:59,640 Keep shooting at the police, which is like go to jail. 324 00:18:00,120 --> 00:18:03,720 And one of my schoolmasters phoned me and said please will 325 00:18:03,720 --> 00:18:05,800 you represent him in court? I said why? 326 00:18:07,040 --> 00:18:08,960 He said because got nobody else to represent him. 327 00:18:09,840 --> 00:18:12,520 I remember going into that courtroom and this young guy 328 00:18:12,520 --> 00:18:14,520 coming out from the cells beneath and he had been 329 00:18:14,560 --> 00:18:16,920 absolutely pulverized by the police. 330 00:18:17,880 --> 00:18:19,760 Where there's meant to be justice, there is. 331 00:18:21,400 --> 00:18:24,040 You see, there's wickedness. Where there's meant to be, he 332 00:18:24,040 --> 00:18:25,480 said, but he deserves it because he shot. 333 00:18:25,680 --> 00:18:28,080 No, no, where there's meant to be justice, there's justice. 334 00:18:28,080 --> 00:18:33,320 I remember arguing the court case. 335 00:18:33,320 --> 00:18:34,640 I was the only guy in court. I thought. 336 00:18:34,960 --> 00:18:37,280 I thought there were others. I was there and they set the 337 00:18:37,280 --> 00:18:39,400 bail and the lawyer turned to me and he said, will you pay the 338 00:18:39,400 --> 00:18:41,200 bail? And I literally looked behind me 339 00:18:41,520 --> 00:18:43,880 thinking, surely you can't be asking me to pay the bail. 340 00:18:44,520 --> 00:18:45,920 I've never met the guy in my life. 341 00:18:47,000 --> 00:18:48,200 I looked behind me. There's no one. 342 00:18:48,200 --> 00:18:50,040 I said, are you talking to me? He said I'm talking to you. 343 00:18:50,040 --> 00:18:54,880 He said, will you pay the bail? I said like what choice do I 344 00:18:54,880 --> 00:18:55,920 have? He said you've got no choice. 345 00:18:56,840 --> 00:19:01,760 I could see this beaten boy and I went and I got the money and I 346 00:19:01,760 --> 00:19:05,240 paid the bail and I stood, stood in my car with his bail stuff. 347 00:19:05,280 --> 00:19:09,000 And I started to weep when I realized that me beaten and 348 00:19:09,000 --> 00:19:12,480 bruised in a dock, guilty of everything that I'd been charged 349 00:19:12,480 --> 00:19:15,560 for, that Jesus just stepped in with his blood and he just paid 350 00:19:15,560 --> 00:19:20,680 my bail, just paid my bail. And then when I appeared the 351 00:19:20,680 --> 00:19:22,880 second time, he just defended me for free. 352 00:19:24,880 --> 00:19:27,200 And when I should have been called guilty, the guilt got put 353 00:19:27,200 --> 00:19:29,040 upon him. And so I walked out free any 354 00:19:29,120 --> 00:19:34,000 anyway. And so justice and righteousness 355 00:19:34,000 --> 00:19:36,400 and time found its place that I was free. 356 00:19:37,440 --> 00:19:40,960 And yet, friends, we don't let the people off the hook that 357 00:19:40,960 --> 00:19:44,280 have hurt us. We keep them on the hook. 358 00:19:51,720 --> 00:19:54,400 The second time I went to court was next to Pretoria Girls High. 359 00:19:54,400 --> 00:19:59,360 I don't know what that court's called, but the main water 360 00:19:59,360 --> 00:20:01,520 supply had broken. It burst. 361 00:20:02,240 --> 00:20:07,440 And so we had this pipe pouring out water at 1000 gallons an 362 00:20:07,440 --> 00:20:09,720 hour. It was just pouring out water. 363 00:20:10,080 --> 00:20:13,080 And I went there five times to appear in court to represent 364 00:20:13,080 --> 00:20:14,760 what I saw. I saw a domestic violence 365 00:20:14,760 --> 00:20:15,840 situation. I stopped. 366 00:20:16,080 --> 00:20:18,800 I gave my telephone number. I said, if you need a witness 367 00:20:18,800 --> 00:20:21,280 here, I was the witness. The advocate shouted at me for 368 00:20:21,280 --> 00:20:23,200 wearing the wrong clothes. I said, sorry, I've never read 369 00:20:23,200 --> 00:20:25,240 the document that says how I should come to court. 370 00:20:25,480 --> 00:20:29,400 Haven't been there very often. So, so and, and I just watched 371 00:20:29,400 --> 00:20:31,840 this process. I watched people burglars and I 372 00:20:31,840 --> 00:20:35,440 watched all these people coming in and, and, and after five 373 00:20:35,840 --> 00:20:38,480 times at court, they cancelled the case. 374 00:20:38,480 --> 00:20:43,040 And I thought where there's meant to be justice, there's 375 00:20:43,040 --> 00:20:46,120 just this water flowing every. It's an absolute dog show, 376 00:20:46,680 --> 00:20:49,400 absolute dogs. I said, can I bring a plumber in 377 00:20:49,400 --> 00:20:50,840 here? I'll pay for the plumber to stop 378 00:20:50,840 --> 00:20:52,840 the water, to save the water for the city. 379 00:20:53,040 --> 00:20:55,200 They say only the city can fix the water. 380 00:20:55,400 --> 00:20:57,480 And I just looked at the and I read the script and I thought 381 00:20:57,480 --> 00:21:00,480 some of our lives are like that. Just like the main lines are 382 00:21:00,480 --> 00:21:03,480 broken, they're pouring out. We're appearing in courts. 383 00:21:03,760 --> 00:21:06,600 Our case gets that reminded and reminded and reminded and 384 00:21:06,600 --> 00:21:08,120 reminded. And we're just trying to find 385 00:21:08,120 --> 00:21:09,600 justice. And God says, I want to tell you 386 00:21:09,600 --> 00:21:12,480 this, my son died on the cross at the right place. 387 00:21:12,480 --> 00:21:15,040 But there is going to be a time when I'm going to recall the 388 00:21:15,040 --> 00:21:22,920 past to a place and I'm going to sort it out and I'm going to 389 00:21:22,920 --> 00:21:30,600 make it beautiful. The person who was the victim of 390 00:21:30,600 --> 00:21:34,400 the divorce, Yep, I'm going to take your victimization. 391 00:21:35,080 --> 00:21:39,480 And I'm going to take And the person who caused the divorce, 392 00:21:40,000 --> 00:21:42,160 Yep, I'm going to make that beautiful too. 393 00:21:42,360 --> 00:21:45,800 How? I got no idea, but he said I'm 394 00:21:45,800 --> 00:21:51,040 going to fix it. If that's the case and that's 395 00:21:51,040 --> 00:21:57,480 going to happen, then then you and I, by God's grace, can bring 396 00:21:57,480 --> 00:21:59,160 it forward and allow it to happen. 397 00:21:59,160 --> 00:22:07,740 Now, there's a phrase, friends, called prevenient grace. 398 00:22:08,220 --> 00:22:12,060 It's a theological phrase. Prevenient grace is the grace 399 00:22:12,060 --> 00:22:14,340 that God gives us before we get saved. 400 00:22:16,080 --> 00:22:18,480 I was in a motor car accident when I was 14 years old. 401 00:22:18,480 --> 00:22:22,160 I didn't know Jesus, and as the car was going down the hill like 402 00:22:22,160 --> 00:22:25,600 this, rolling six or seven times, the car that was so 403 00:22:25,840 --> 00:22:28,800 written off that we never ever recovered it, as it was going 404 00:22:28,800 --> 00:22:32,840 down the hill, I felt the prevenient grace of God where he 405 00:22:32,840 --> 00:22:35,440 pinned me to the chair. I felt completely safe. 406 00:22:35,600 --> 00:22:37,880 I didn't feel rattled. I wasn't scared. 407 00:22:38,040 --> 00:22:40,800 The car bumped and when it eventually landed, I opened the 408 00:22:40,800 --> 00:22:42,080 door. I got out without a scratch. 409 00:22:42,080 --> 00:22:46,400 And me prevenient grace, God was working in my life before I got 410 00:22:46,400 --> 00:22:49,040 saved. This friends that I'm talking 411 00:22:49,040 --> 00:22:52,240 about today is there is going to be an activity in the future 412 00:22:53,000 --> 00:22:56,760 which if you understand it and you make it active now, you can 413 00:22:56,760 --> 00:23:00,480 live with unbelievable freedom over your life and your choices 414 00:23:00,680 --> 00:23:06,240 now. Amen. 415 00:23:07,520 --> 00:23:12,280 Completely and utterly free completely. 416 00:23:12,560 --> 00:23:15,200 There is a place and there's a time. 417 00:23:17,520 --> 00:23:21,960 I wrote a list. Let me read it. 418 00:23:25,080 --> 00:23:29,360 Broken characters. Just broken characters. 419 00:23:33,840 --> 00:23:37,160 I had a man who got bipolar. You can see a little thing. 420 00:23:37,280 --> 00:23:39,640 I'll read it. The new broken characters 421 00:23:40,840 --> 00:23:43,520 jarring and just keep this don't put my face on just keep it at 422 00:23:43,520 --> 00:23:48,040 jarring interruptions. Stephen Kathy serving God, 423 00:23:48,040 --> 00:23:50,680 loving God planted the church, built the church, gave money to 424 00:23:50,680 --> 00:23:56,640 the church, fast and pray hours in the word preaches hearts out 425 00:23:56,880 --> 00:24:00,240 built from the pulpit, loves his wife looks after her parents 426 00:24:00,640 --> 00:24:03,520 unbelievable thing. And in one moment boof their 427 00:24:03,520 --> 00:24:07,080 daughter wakes up completely sick and takes them on a six 428 00:24:07,080 --> 00:24:09,560 month journey of life and death, life and death. 429 00:24:09,680 --> 00:24:12,160 These jarring interruptions. You say God, it's not fair. 430 00:24:12,160 --> 00:24:17,720 No, no, no, you small and I'm big and you'll never understand 431 00:24:17,720 --> 00:24:20,200 it. But I want to tell you, Stephen 432 00:24:20,200 --> 00:24:23,600 and Kathy, one day there's going to be a time and a place where 433 00:24:23,600 --> 00:24:29,480 I'm going to bring the story of Gemma and I'm going to settle it 434 00:24:29,480 --> 00:24:31,880 in your heart. I'm going to settle. 435 00:24:31,880 --> 00:24:35,080 You say, oh, Rory, it's fine for you to be fine, for you to be 436 00:24:35,080 --> 00:24:37,200 protected when you were 14 years old driving a car. 437 00:24:37,200 --> 00:24:41,080 What about my 14 year old child that died in a car accident? 438 00:24:41,560 --> 00:24:46,360 What about that, Rory? There's going to be a time and a 439 00:24:46,360 --> 00:24:52,120 place where God brings justice to your life and where you will 440 00:24:52,120 --> 00:24:54,360 understand that he is big and you are small. 441 00:24:54,560 --> 00:24:56,360 And you say, but no, that is faith. 442 00:24:57,240 --> 00:24:59,680 There will be a time and there will be a place. 443 00:25:00,280 --> 00:25:01,880 You say, Rory, you've never understood divorce. 444 00:25:01,880 --> 00:25:03,960 No, I haven't. I've spent my life trying to 445 00:25:03,960 --> 00:25:11,160 save marriages, but you can't live with second class 446 00:25:11,160 --> 00:25:12,760 citizenship for the rest of your life. 447 00:25:13,320 --> 00:25:16,000 You've got to understand this cross and God has got to do 448 00:25:16,000 --> 00:25:22,960 something on this cross. Relationships caught in 449 00:25:22,960 --> 00:25:25,640 unresolved tension. I remember that first on Broken 450 00:25:25,640 --> 00:25:31,680 Characters when a man had bipolar and he started drawing 451 00:25:31,680 --> 00:25:33,720 money from his bond. He had a mutual bond with his 452 00:25:33,720 --> 00:25:37,200 wife and he started drawing money, spending 100,000 random 453 00:25:37,200 --> 00:25:40,160 month on movies and meals and magazines. 454 00:25:40,160 --> 00:25:41,600 He's spending 100,000 in a month. 455 00:25:41,880 --> 00:25:44,560 And his wife came to see me and said, Rory, he's just, he's 456 00:25:44,560 --> 00:25:46,760 signing this bond and our bond is just going through the roof. 457 00:25:46,960 --> 00:25:49,480 And I had to step in. And when I stepped in to fix it, 458 00:25:50,480 --> 00:25:55,760 he became fixated with me and he started to harass me only 5-6 459 00:25:55,760 --> 00:25:59,320 hundred times a day, send messages to my telecom line. 460 00:25:59,320 --> 00:26:00,400 Used to be able to do that in the day. 461 00:26:00,840 --> 00:26:04,560 You have access to my wife. I want access to your wife. 462 00:26:05,600 --> 00:26:07,680 It's just this horrific. But he was sick. 463 00:26:08,480 --> 00:26:10,960 But that brokenness broke me. I remember sitting in my house 464 00:26:10,960 --> 00:26:14,240 once he drove into my house and I had my son with me, my who led 465 00:26:14,240 --> 00:26:15,320 worship. Today, he was still a little 466 00:26:15,320 --> 00:26:16,840 boy. I picked them up over my 467 00:26:16,840 --> 00:26:18,400 shoulders and I ran the house. I threw him. 468 00:26:18,600 --> 00:26:22,160 Those things have effect on you. They have effect on you. 469 00:26:22,440 --> 00:26:25,840 But there's going to be a time where God will take his bipolar 470 00:26:26,680 --> 00:26:28,680 and he will take my intervention, which I thought 471 00:26:28,680 --> 00:26:31,880 was good, but to him it was bad. And he's going to make it right. 472 00:26:31,880 --> 00:26:36,320 He's going to make it beautiful. And so either I can live with 473 00:26:36,320 --> 00:26:39,520 regret against them for the rest of his life, or I can bring that 474 00:26:39,520 --> 00:26:46,320 prevenient grace back to now and let people off the hook, let 475 00:26:46,320 --> 00:26:49,960 them go, set them free. Amen. 476 00:26:51,400 --> 00:26:54,560 Let's keep going through it. Unexplained unanswered 477 00:26:54,560 --> 00:26:58,720 questions. Spoke to a lady today. 478 00:26:58,960 --> 00:27:03,800 Yeah, before the service. He said, Rory, I can't answer 479 00:27:03,800 --> 00:27:06,680 the question. I said, you know, the reality is 480 00:27:06,680 --> 00:27:09,120 you'll never answer the question, friends. 481 00:27:09,360 --> 00:27:12,400 The book of Job, Job eventually went and stood on that big cross 482 00:27:12,400 --> 00:27:14,360 on the stage. He's still on that cross. 483 00:27:14,360 --> 00:27:17,480 And he said, God, all these unanswered questions, I don't 484 00:27:17,480 --> 00:27:22,880 understand it, but you are God and I am on earth and you are in 485 00:27:22,880 --> 00:27:26,920 heaven and you have eternity and I have a limitation of time. 486 00:27:27,120 --> 00:27:29,720 And So what I'm going to do is I'm going to make peace at this 487 00:27:29,720 --> 00:27:38,330 crossroads. What about prejudice? 488 00:27:42,450 --> 00:27:48,970 We are going to constantly see Pretoria girls fighting a system 489 00:27:50,170 --> 00:27:55,880 that we can heal in the church because one day God is going to 490 00:27:55,880 --> 00:27:58,000 take all prejudice. Whether it's prejudice against 491 00:27:58,000 --> 00:28:02,200 you because you're Afrikaans in post apartheid South Africa and 492 00:28:02,200 --> 00:28:05,280 fighting for some kind of an identity or because you're a 493 00:28:05,280 --> 00:28:07,760 black person trying to make it in the job market. 494 00:28:08,040 --> 00:28:09,560 God is going to take all of that. 495 00:28:16,160 --> 00:28:21,640 He's going to make it right, time and place. 496 00:28:24,400 --> 00:28:26,240 Can you put the picture up of Michelle please? 497 00:28:26,520 --> 00:28:35,120 Michelle in those tears. This is one of our staff ladies. 498 00:28:37,240 --> 00:28:43,640 We had a meeting last Tuesday. She's trusting God for one of 499 00:28:43,640 --> 00:28:47,080 her family members and she doesn't understand. 500 00:28:47,080 --> 00:28:51,480 She's prayed, she's loved God, she's served the church, she's 501 00:28:51,480 --> 00:28:55,600 done everything that she can and it just doesn't seem quite fair. 502 00:28:55,760 --> 00:29:00,280 She's an amazing mum, she's an amazing wife, she's an amazing 503 00:29:00,280 --> 00:29:02,920 worker. It just seems like she's got a 504 00:29:02,920 --> 00:29:06,320 bit of a raw deal. But she stood on the cross and 505 00:29:06,320 --> 00:29:10,920 she just cried. Maybe today we can just stand on 506 00:29:10,920 --> 00:29:12,760 the cross and say, Lord, I don't understand. 507 00:29:14,080 --> 00:29:16,240 You know, the first thing we learn in relationships when 508 00:29:16,240 --> 00:29:19,960 we're young, it's not fair. It's not fair. 509 00:29:19,960 --> 00:29:22,920 Lord God, you know one of the greatest things I deal with is 510 00:29:22,920 --> 00:29:25,640 wills. When a father or a mother leave 511 00:29:25,640 --> 00:29:29,040 a will and the children don't agree, it's not fair. 512 00:29:29,600 --> 00:29:33,200 One day it will be fair. I do not understand to this day 513 00:29:33,200 --> 00:29:35,560 why my dad gave his Land Cruiser to my sister. 514 00:29:38,240 --> 00:29:42,080 It's just not fair. It's not fair. 515 00:29:42,240 --> 00:29:44,800 You can talk to me, you can shout at me, you can stand in 516 00:29:44,800 --> 00:29:47,040 the box at me. And when I see my dad, I'll say 517 00:29:47,040 --> 00:29:50,160 Dad and then I'll see Jesus and he'll just say, are you stupid, 518 00:29:50,160 --> 00:29:56,640 idiot? And then a girl who lost her dad 519 00:29:56,640 --> 00:30:00,320 in a car accident came to Home group for the first time this 520 00:30:00,320 --> 00:30:02,320 week on a Tuesday. She came to Home group. 521 00:30:03,520 --> 00:30:08,480 She just bought a whole lot of hot cross buns to Home group and 522 00:30:08,480 --> 00:30:13,040 said I had a choice when my dad died to be really angry with God 523 00:30:15,720 --> 00:30:17,760 or to know that one day he'll explain it to me. 524 00:30:28,280 --> 00:30:30,280 You know, I don't stand on the stage often 525 00:30:53,300 --> 00:30:55,780 and I'm not sure if I've been a good pastor of divorced people 526 00:31:01,220 --> 00:31:05,500 or a good pastor of people have lost children, car accidents. 527 00:31:08,620 --> 00:31:10,100 I've got one son leading worship today. 528 00:31:10,100 --> 00:31:11,900 I've got another son preaching in Durban. 529 00:31:13,460 --> 00:31:17,240 Some of your sons are sitting in rehab fighting for their lives. 530 00:31:19,360 --> 00:31:27,640 I understand that, I know that. But not only is there a time and 531 00:31:27,640 --> 00:31:29,880 place at the cross, but there's going to be a time and place in 532 00:31:29,880 --> 00:31:33,080 the future. What seems unfair? 533 00:31:34,680 --> 00:31:38,720 The questions you don't know how to answer, The prejudice of not 534 00:31:38,720 --> 00:31:42,720 getting a job promotion because of the colour of your skin or 535 00:31:42,720 --> 00:31:46,760 being treated as a second class citizen because you're a woman. 536 00:31:48,240 --> 00:31:58,130 One day God is going to settle it and all the loose ends of 537 00:31:58,130 --> 00:32:03,410 your life are going to be put together into a beautiful 538 00:32:03,410 --> 00:32:10,970 garment, time and place in the law court of heaven with the 539 00:32:10,970 --> 00:32:18,170 Judge of righteousness and the advocates called Jesus. 540 00:32:19,600 --> 00:32:21,520 He's going to put it all back together. 541 00:32:22,840 --> 00:32:26,440 Whether you've been pained or whether you have caused the 542 00:32:26,440 --> 00:32:34,920 pain, I pray today that you can pull the future forward and 543 00:32:34,920 --> 00:32:40,000 stand here free. Free. 544 00:32:41,720 --> 00:32:44,200 I don't want to call divorced people here because I don't want 545 00:32:44,200 --> 00:32:49,680 to embarrass you, but I pray today that a stigma gets lifted 546 00:32:49,680 --> 00:32:52,360 off you that will never come back to you. 547 00:32:53,360 --> 00:32:56,120 And every time you make that cross on that piece of paper, 548 00:32:56,600 --> 00:33:08,880 white, black, colored, other, male, female, single, married, I 549 00:33:08,880 --> 00:33:13,920 pray that this cross will be bigger than that one in Jesus 550 00:33:13,920 --> 00:33:24,800 name. Heavenly Father, you'll be with 551 00:33:24,800 --> 00:33:28,560 these people. I don't know if some of you have 552 00:33:28,560 --> 00:33:30,560 to come here during the week and stand on that cross in the 553 00:33:30,560 --> 00:33:33,640 middle of the stage, but some of you think you can never stand on 554 00:33:33,640 --> 00:33:35,440 that stage again. I want to tell you, if you've 555 00:33:35,520 --> 00:33:37,840 got to come here on Tuesday, you can phone me. 556 00:33:37,840 --> 00:33:39,240 I'll say to that. If you just come here by 557 00:33:39,240 --> 00:33:41,920 yourself, stand on the cross, God will put you all center 558 00:33:41,920 --> 00:33:43,360 stage because there will be a day. 559 00:33:44,200 --> 00:33:50,000 There will be a day. There will be a day when God 560 00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:53,440 makes everything beautiful in His time. 561 00:33:54,320 --> 00:33:54,880 God bless you.