1 00:00:02,120 --> 00:00:04,480 Hey, welcome to the City Point Church podcast. 2 00:00:04,480 --> 00:00:07,280 Thanks for joining us. Every day is an opportunity to 3 00:00:07,280 --> 00:00:10,280 take hold of. So we hope this message inspires 4 00:00:10,280 --> 00:00:13,560 you and build your faith that it helps you have more of a God 5 00:00:13,560 --> 00:00:15,920 perspective for your day. Enjoy and. 6 00:00:18,120 --> 00:00:20,520 If you just want to come and bring a message of faith. 7 00:00:20,520 --> 00:00:23,600 To you this morning. So we've got a title tonight's 8 00:00:23,640 --> 00:00:24,880 message. I hope most of you're going to 9 00:00:24,880 --> 00:00:28,520 be taking notes this morning. It's encouraging us to live a 10 00:00:28,520 --> 00:00:32,720 life of active faith, living a life of active faith. 11 00:00:32,720 --> 00:00:35,880 And I've got a lot of material because I sort of teach and 12 00:00:35,880 --> 00:00:38,640 preach. Can I trust you with my notes? 13 00:00:39,120 --> 00:00:41,160 Like I'm not going to get through them all today. 14 00:00:41,840 --> 00:00:44,880 But what you can do is I've made them available to you in Word 15 00:00:44,880 --> 00:00:48,640 format so that you can click on the link and you can then 16 00:00:49,040 --> 00:00:51,600 plagiarize. I mean, you can use them and, 17 00:00:51,600 --> 00:00:55,400 and quote me as your source because I think we've got 16 18 00:00:55,400 --> 00:00:58,440 students or something here from this church study at the School 19 00:00:58,440 --> 00:01:01,880 of Ministries. I love this church with a big 20 00:01:01,880 --> 00:01:05,120 focus on discipleship. Get you in the internship, 21 00:01:05,600 --> 00:01:08,160 great, a great Monday night activity and then you then we 22 00:01:08,160 --> 00:01:10,920 get you into the Upper Room Academy and get you full of the 23 00:01:10,920 --> 00:01:13,080 Holy Spirit and power. And then you just want to go 24 00:01:13,080 --> 00:01:15,400 change the world. And then it's time for you to do 25 00:01:15,400 --> 00:01:19,520 a little bit more structured study with our academic 26 00:01:19,520 --> 00:01:21,520 coaching. And then you're really literally 27 00:01:21,520 --> 00:01:26,120 ready for ordination to be a man and woman of God to impact your 28 00:01:26,120 --> 00:01:29,800 world in every sphere of life. So QR code's going to come up on 29 00:01:29,800 --> 00:01:32,160 the screen there. Do you remember QR codes from 30 00:01:32,160 --> 00:01:34,560 COVID? It was like the mark of the 31 00:01:34,560 --> 00:01:37,040 beast, remember? Anyway, we won't even we won't 32 00:01:37,040 --> 00:01:38,760 even go there, but it's a safe. Yeah. 33 00:01:39,280 --> 00:01:41,560 My, my QR code's been vaccinated. 34 00:01:41,560 --> 00:01:45,440 All right? It's it's So what you do is you 35 00:01:45,440 --> 00:01:47,480 get a camera out. You're allowed to use your 36 00:01:47,480 --> 00:01:50,400 iPhones in church as long as you're on air airplane mode, All 37 00:01:50,400 --> 00:01:51,520 right? That way. 38 00:01:51,520 --> 00:01:53,600 Because it's been a good week for Alex this week. 39 00:01:53,600 --> 00:01:55,400 He's picked himself up a girlfriend. 40 00:01:55,400 --> 00:02:00,240 So, so oh, so sorry. Anyway, it's family. 41 00:02:00,240 --> 00:02:03,600 It's family here, isn't it? Anyway, hey God see, God's done 42 00:02:03,600 --> 00:02:06,760 a good work in his life so that they're not going to be texting 43 00:02:06,760 --> 00:02:10,639 each other in church, right? Like wow, you are a well 44 00:02:10,639 --> 00:02:14,960 tabernacled spirit. Well, it's family time here. 45 00:02:14,960 --> 00:02:16,920 It's in the lounge room. Focus, Andrew. 46 00:02:16,920 --> 00:02:19,960 Focus, focus, focus, focus. There's a QR code here. 47 00:02:20,280 --> 00:02:23,520 You get your camera out, put the camera and it should go to a 48 00:02:23,520 --> 00:02:26,400 yellow link. Now, this is not an IQ test, but 49 00:02:26,400 --> 00:02:29,280 you're having trouble with IT. We've always got Chris Collins 50 00:02:29,280 --> 00:02:31,200 in the front row where he's good with technology. 51 00:02:31,200 --> 00:02:34,720 He's got a beautiful wife too. Yours not working? 52 00:02:34,720 --> 00:02:38,560 All right, we're going to Pastor Graham Polidanski or Rachel and 53 00:02:38,560 --> 00:02:40,160 you should come up with something. 54 00:02:40,680 --> 00:02:43,240 If you get the code, there's you got something that says like a 55 00:02:43,240 --> 00:02:46,560 link tree or how bizarre. What's the very, very good top 56 00:02:46,560 --> 00:02:48,480 of the school? What's what's the first thing it 57 00:02:48,480 --> 00:02:51,280 says? First option, so there's a 58 00:02:51,280 --> 00:02:55,120 course guide there, you see Upper Room Academy videos and 59 00:02:55,120 --> 00:02:56,720 stuff. Go right to the bottom. 60 00:02:56,720 --> 00:02:59,200 What's the very bottom entry at the bottom of the black? 61 00:03:00,720 --> 00:03:02,640 That's my name. So you click on that. 62 00:03:02,920 --> 00:03:04,920 This is where the propaganda starts. 63 00:03:05,040 --> 00:03:07,320 Come into my little world, my greenhouse. 64 00:03:08,400 --> 00:03:10,240 Start with your credit card details. 65 00:03:10,240 --> 00:03:13,520 No, so there's podcasts on there, the Flourishing Life 66 00:03:13,520 --> 00:03:15,080 podcast. I've got a great guest. 67 00:03:15,760 --> 00:03:18,360 There's a great episode recently, Pastor Dave MacDonald 68 00:03:18,360 --> 00:03:20,160 and Peter Earl talking about the power of prayer. 69 00:03:20,560 --> 00:03:21,840 So you want to learn hardcore prayer. 70 00:03:21,840 --> 00:03:24,520 It's a long episode because we have a prayer meeting on there. 71 00:03:24,520 --> 00:03:27,640 It just goes hardcore and it literally broke my first seven 72 00:03:27,640 --> 00:03:31,320 day record of people listening. But towards the top there, there 73 00:03:31,320 --> 00:03:34,440 should be a Word document called preaching notes or whatever. 74 00:03:34,840 --> 00:03:38,120 If you've got that fast, you've got an IQ of 120. 75 00:03:38,560 --> 00:03:41,600 Click on that, it says open the browser and you should have the 76 00:03:41,600 --> 00:03:44,080 notes. Once you notes, you want to yell 77 00:03:44,080 --> 00:03:47,680 out got it, got it, got it, got it, got it. 78 00:03:47,680 --> 00:03:48,960 Well, I don't have to preach today. 79 00:03:48,960 --> 00:03:53,680 Now you've got all the notes, but I want us to talk. 80 00:03:53,680 --> 00:03:58,560 I really am so impressed about next Saturday night because I 81 00:03:58,560 --> 00:04:02,520 want, I want to talk to us about faith this morning. 82 00:04:03,080 --> 00:04:07,400 I want to talk to you about your faith and how your faith can get 83 00:04:07,400 --> 00:04:10,800 stronger and stronger. Talk to the Romans. 84 00:04:10,800 --> 00:04:12,720 One if you read. It from the New King James 85 00:04:12,720 --> 00:04:17,200 Version, the Apostle Paul encourages us to go from faith 86 00:04:17,399 --> 00:04:20,200 to faith. It's like stand climbing up 87 00:04:20,200 --> 00:04:23,920 steps in a staircase. We're going to go from faith to 88 00:04:23,920 --> 00:04:26,480 faith and there's 5 levels of faith. 89 00:04:26,480 --> 00:04:30,080 I want to encourage us about this morning because next week 90 00:04:30,520 --> 00:04:32,760 there's going to be hurting people from our wonderful 91 00:04:32,760 --> 00:04:36,400 community going to come forward. And then we're going to pray. 92 00:04:36,400 --> 00:04:38,360 There's going to be an atmosphere of faith. 93 00:04:38,760 --> 00:04:41,440 You've been praying and fasting. There's going to be a canopy of 94 00:04:41,600 --> 00:04:43,520 faith. That's what I saw coming in when 95 00:04:43,520 --> 00:04:44,760 I was coming in here this morning. 96 00:04:45,080 --> 00:04:46,800 It's going to come under a canopy of faith. 97 00:04:46,960 --> 00:04:50,160 And what happens is the minute people start even walking on the 98 00:04:50,160 --> 00:04:53,640 property, all of a sudden people's doubts are going to 99 00:04:53,640 --> 00:04:57,640 start to disappear because because you're people of faith. 100 00:04:58,040 --> 00:05:02,040 But when we pray, we're just not going to just pray and lay hands 101 00:05:02,040 --> 00:05:03,120 on people because this is what we do. 102 00:05:03,320 --> 00:05:05,640 We're going to pray and I'm going to encourage you to pray 103 00:05:05,640 --> 00:05:09,080 in faith because it's just not prayers. 104 00:05:09,600 --> 00:05:11,320 They're going to bring healing and breakthrough. 105 00:05:11,320 --> 00:05:15,880 It's prayers prayed in faith and a faith in God. 106 00:05:16,440 --> 00:05:19,120 What I want to do is get you even to start your praying and 107 00:05:19,120 --> 00:05:22,760 moving from praying to declaring and to decreeing. 108 00:05:23,400 --> 00:05:27,400 And like we have tremendous power in our tongue to bring 109 00:05:27,400 --> 00:05:29,600 literally heaven onto onto earth. 110 00:05:30,120 --> 00:05:34,120 So the the writer of Hebrews, Hebrews 11 verse 6 says, and 111 00:05:34,120 --> 00:05:38,640 without faith it is impossible to please God. 112 00:05:39,440 --> 00:05:42,720 This is a family that wants to please God, that is pleasing 113 00:05:42,720 --> 00:05:45,200 God. But I don't know about you, but 114 00:05:45,320 --> 00:05:48,440 I I've walked with God a long time and I've had friends with 115 00:05:48,440 --> 00:05:51,480 me on some part of the journey and some who don't, they've 116 00:05:51,480 --> 00:05:54,760 fallen away side because they've lost faith or fallen out of 117 00:05:54,760 --> 00:05:56,800 faith or they've jettisoned their faith. 118 00:05:56,800 --> 00:06:00,840 They haven't held on tightly, haven't held on tightly to the 119 00:06:00,840 --> 00:06:04,720 harness of faith to hold on because this is how you're going 120 00:06:04,720 --> 00:06:08,280 to go from season to season, from faith to faith, from step 121 00:06:08,280 --> 00:06:11,040 to step to faith. Now I've been meditating on this 122 00:06:11,040 --> 00:06:13,960 and this is something that I've found in my prayer journal 123 00:06:13,960 --> 00:06:17,480 because there was a season in my life where I'd started right at 124 00:06:17,480 --> 00:06:22,280 these declaration because I just realized how important my faith 125 00:06:22,280 --> 00:06:24,560 is. Without faith, we know it's 126 00:06:24,560 --> 00:06:28,680 impossible to please God, but without faith, it's impossible 127 00:06:28,680 --> 00:06:32,200 to live the life I meant to live in relationship with Jesus 128 00:06:32,200 --> 00:06:34,040 Christ under that dynamic life flow. 129 00:06:34,440 --> 00:06:36,480 So this is what I put. Here's what a couple of 130 00:06:36,480 --> 00:06:39,920 declarations. Jesus, my faith in you is 131 00:06:39,920 --> 00:06:44,640 precious. My faith enables me to connect 132 00:06:44,640 --> 00:06:48,680 with you and your power. My faith in you means that I 133 00:06:48,720 --> 00:06:54,000 what I trust, I trust you. My faith in you means I believe 134 00:06:54,000 --> 00:06:58,840 your word is true regardless of what the context and the 135 00:06:58,840 --> 00:07:03,200 circumstances are, which could be completely the opposite to 136 00:07:03,200 --> 00:07:05,200 what you were saying or have said to me. 137 00:07:06,400 --> 00:07:09,160 My wife and I know what it's like to be childless. 138 00:07:09,160 --> 00:07:14,680 For years, God gave us a promise her womb would be open and a 139 00:07:14,680 --> 00:07:16,600 miracle child would come forward. 140 00:07:17,160 --> 00:07:20,480 For years we wrestled with that and we had, she had to literally 141 00:07:20,880 --> 00:07:28,040 walk a fight of faith to see the word of God, the seed of faith 142 00:07:28,200 --> 00:07:30,400 come to full fruition. Wonderful. 143 00:07:30,400 --> 00:07:35,360 When beautiful Katie Rose was born in December 1995, family of 144 00:07:35,360 --> 00:07:37,760 four boys. Then I had a girl didn't know 145 00:07:37,760 --> 00:07:38,880 what to do. It was awesome. 146 00:07:38,880 --> 00:07:41,480 And she started choosing my clothes from the age of 18 147 00:07:41,480 --> 00:07:42,800 months. Wonderful. 148 00:07:42,800 --> 00:07:46,200 Daughter's about to turn 30 and I think she's just picked up a 149 00:07:46,200 --> 00:07:48,480 boyfriend recently. All right, so he's just just 150 00:07:48,480 --> 00:07:52,200 great. But then I always wanted a son. 151 00:07:52,200 --> 00:07:55,480 And God, I really felt like God promised me my faith. 152 00:07:55,560 --> 00:07:59,960 I want to give you a son. And at my last month of Bible 153 00:07:59,960 --> 00:08:02,680 college, God just said it was prophesied. 154 00:08:02,960 --> 00:08:05,880 I'm going to make up something that's very dear to your heart. 155 00:08:05,880 --> 00:08:07,720 As a matter of fact, God's already answered your prayer. 156 00:08:07,720 --> 00:08:10,400 My wife was pregnant. It's wonderful. 157 00:08:11,120 --> 00:08:13,680 And it was Jethro's wedding on Thursday. 158 00:08:14,600 --> 00:08:18,520 So like, I know it, like I'm preaching this stuff this 159 00:08:18,520 --> 00:08:20,760 morning. That's why I've got grey hair. 160 00:08:21,880 --> 00:08:24,720 This stuff can be a wrestle sometimes. 161 00:08:24,720 --> 00:08:26,720 But but your faith friend is precious. 162 00:08:26,720 --> 00:08:28,960 Turn your neighbor and say your faith is precious. 163 00:08:29,880 --> 00:08:31,600 Your faith is important. Is that you, Steve? 164 00:08:33,480 --> 00:08:37,200 Is that Steve? No, Alan. 165 00:08:37,400 --> 00:08:38,600 Alan. Alan, Steve. 166 00:08:38,600 --> 00:08:43,360 For those of you who know YouTube, No, sorry Alan, my 167 00:08:43,400 --> 00:08:46,360 faith is precious. Faith is essential to prayer. 168 00:08:46,960 --> 00:08:52,040 On social media this week, some left wing ideologue commentators 169 00:08:52,040 --> 00:08:54,600 were mocking a Christian leader. They said. 170 00:08:54,600 --> 00:08:55,720 Oh. He's just talking to his 171 00:08:55,720 --> 00:08:59,960 imaginary friend Jesus, mocking, mocking the truth. 172 00:09:00,520 --> 00:09:04,960 But when you know Jesus Christ, when you know him to be real, 173 00:09:04,960 --> 00:09:09,320 you know him to be real. You have an active faith because 174 00:09:09,400 --> 00:09:13,160 your faith is precious. Your faith is the bedrock of our 175 00:09:13,160 --> 00:09:17,000 ongoing relationship with God all throughout the Bible, 176 00:09:17,000 --> 00:09:20,000 especially the Apostle Paul's talking about this idea of 177 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:22,520 holding on to our faith. Do not throw away our 178 00:09:22,520 --> 00:09:25,240 confidence. Do not throw away our hard 179 00:09:25,240 --> 00:09:29,280 gained faith, our gift of faith from God because it is precious. 180 00:09:29,440 --> 00:09:31,280 Even have a look. This is one of the first verses 181 00:09:31,280 --> 00:09:33,800 I ever memorized as a young teenager. 182 00:09:33,800 --> 00:09:36,680 It's Galatians 220. Have a look at the Passion 183 00:09:36,680 --> 00:09:38,480 paraphrase. It's awesome wording. 184 00:09:38,680 --> 00:09:43,360 He says it's my old identity because I'm a spiritual being 185 00:09:43,800 --> 00:09:46,720 having a physical experience here on planet earth. 186 00:09:47,360 --> 00:09:51,200 The trouble is the flesh gets in the way of my spirit man having 187 00:09:51,200 --> 00:09:54,360 a relationship with God. So this is battle, but God gives 188 00:09:54,360 --> 00:09:56,320 us keys in the relationship of Jesus. 189 00:09:56,480 --> 00:10:01,760 My old identity has been what Co crucified which is death. 190 00:10:01,760 --> 00:10:04,680 There has to be an active daily dying. 191 00:10:04,680 --> 00:10:09,560 The apostle Paul says I die daily or I literally take off 192 00:10:09,560 --> 00:10:13,760 the persona of the spiritual man, I mean the fleshly man with 193 00:10:13,760 --> 00:10:18,360 all its desires and lusts and I focus and activate on the area 194 00:10:18,360 --> 00:10:21,480 of the 4th dimension, the spirit realm, my spirit man which is 195 00:10:21,480 --> 00:10:25,040 the realm of faith, which is the realm which pleases God. 196 00:10:25,520 --> 00:10:29,200 It's been Co crucified with the Messiah and no longer lives for 197 00:10:29,200 --> 00:10:35,680 the nails of his cross crucified me with him and now the essence 198 00:10:35,680 --> 00:10:37,840 of this new life is no longer mine. 199 00:10:37,840 --> 00:10:40,320 For the anointed One lives his life through me. 200 00:10:40,520 --> 00:10:46,320 We live in union as one. My new life is empowered by what 201 00:10:47,120 --> 00:10:51,320 the faith of the Son of God who loves me so much that he gave 202 00:10:51,320 --> 00:10:56,120 himself for me and dispenses his life into mine. 203 00:10:56,680 --> 00:11:02,760 Galatians 220 look at the CEVI have died, but Christ lives in 204 00:11:02,760 --> 00:11:08,240 me and I now live what by faith in the Son of God who loved me 205 00:11:08,440 --> 00:11:12,760 and gave his life for me. Here's an example where we see 206 00:11:12,760 --> 00:11:17,440 our faith, our precious faith, transforming our old identity 207 00:11:17,440 --> 00:11:21,280 and giving us a new life and deep connection with Jesus 208 00:11:21,280 --> 00:11:24,520 Christ. Faith is essential to living 209 00:11:24,520 --> 00:11:28,160 well with God. I remember this clearly when 210 00:11:28,640 --> 00:11:32,080 when I was at Bible college, I was a youth worker and we worked 211 00:11:32,080 --> 00:11:35,400 with troubled kids from diverse backgrounds in low socio 212 00:11:35,560 --> 00:11:39,040 economic areas and we took them out to the Gregory Terrace 213 00:11:39,040 --> 00:11:42,000 Outdoor Education Centre. And when you're dealing with 214 00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:45,240 people with different education needs and learning challenges, 215 00:11:45,600 --> 00:11:47,320 you have to communicate in different ways. 216 00:11:47,320 --> 00:11:49,800 So we did this thing called adventure based counselling or 217 00:11:49,800 --> 00:11:52,680 group dynamics challenge in the outdoors. 218 00:11:52,840 --> 00:11:56,640 Things like high ropes courses, low ropes courses, soft 219 00:11:56,640 --> 00:12:00,040 challenge, hard challenge and then group debriefing and 220 00:12:00,040 --> 00:12:03,200 processing around a a campfire. It worked brilliantly. 221 00:12:04,200 --> 00:12:07,280 So I would take all my young people on and we'd just go 222 00:12:07,400 --> 00:12:09,800 weekends away. It's an amazing transforming 223 00:12:09,800 --> 00:12:12,480 experience. We had about 8 or 9 challenges, 224 00:12:12,480 --> 00:12:16,680 but the peace Dear resistance, the last one is a challenge 225 00:12:16,680 --> 00:12:19,680 called the the Americans called the Pamper Pole. 226 00:12:20,360 --> 00:12:23,240 Now pampering America means nappy. 227 00:12:24,320 --> 00:12:25,880 So it's like it's the nappy pole. 228 00:12:25,880 --> 00:12:28,760 It's it's, it's a real challenge what it is it's a very tall 229 00:12:28,760 --> 00:12:31,240 Telegraph pole and you have to climb up. 230 00:12:31,240 --> 00:12:35,200 They put a harness on you and then they connect a rope to you. 231 00:12:35,200 --> 00:12:37,840 And I think, thank God, there's a safety rope on this thing. 232 00:12:38,120 --> 00:12:39,760 So you get saddled up with a rope. 233 00:12:40,000 --> 00:12:45,640 They get this carabiner and they connect it up to you and they. 234 00:12:46,800 --> 00:12:48,680 Yeah, you've got the idea anyway. 235 00:12:50,200 --> 00:12:53,280 They hook you up and you climb up this pole and there's this 236 00:12:53,280 --> 00:12:57,720 little platform no bigger than the size of basically just two, 237 00:12:57,720 --> 00:13:00,080 two feet. So you climb up there. 238 00:13:00,080 --> 00:13:03,320 And so so I was ever up there going, you can do a breath. 239 00:13:03,360 --> 00:13:04,840 You're awesome. You're a legend. 240 00:13:04,840 --> 00:13:06,720 You know, you're breaking stuff in your life. 241 00:13:06,720 --> 00:13:09,200 You're getting confidence. And my mate Rod said, hey, 242 00:13:09,280 --> 00:13:10,920 Stagsy, you want to have a go? You want to get there. 243 00:13:10,920 --> 00:13:12,560 Oh, no, it's all right. Let the young fellas have a bit 244 00:13:12,560 --> 00:13:13,440 of a go. It's all right. 245 00:13:14,240 --> 00:13:17,120 So anyway, after a while, mate, he goes, mate, I I reckon you 246 00:13:17,120 --> 00:13:19,040 could nail that, mate. I mean, you just show these 247 00:13:19,040 --> 00:13:21,800 young fellas what it's like. Oh, OK, mate. 248 00:13:21,840 --> 00:13:22,840 Yeah. All right. 249 00:13:22,840 --> 00:13:25,840 Next thing, I'm halfway up the pole and it's a long pole. 250 00:13:25,840 --> 00:13:28,520 It's, oh, it's starting to sway. I finally get up. 251 00:13:28,520 --> 00:13:31,960 It takes me about 20 minutes to get to the top and then stand on 252 00:13:31,960 --> 00:13:35,160 this little platform. The idea, as you can see from 253 00:13:35,160 --> 00:13:38,160 the picture here, you stand on this this platform and out the 254 00:13:38,160 --> 00:13:40,320 out the front is a trapeze, a triangle. 255 00:13:40,720 --> 00:13:43,800 And So what they do is they get a bit of rope and they work out 256 00:13:43,840 --> 00:13:46,960 how far it is that you can jump out and you've got to grab the 257 00:13:46,960 --> 00:13:49,640 trapeze. And So what happens is there's 258 00:13:49,640 --> 00:13:53,280 no net underneath, but thank God there's a rope that which should 259 00:13:53,280 --> 00:13:55,160 be shackled onto here to help saviour. 260 00:13:55,720 --> 00:14:00,400 So what we did was we saw all morning guys, some miss and some 261 00:14:00,560 --> 00:14:04,120 some achieve. So I'm, I'm up there and I'm on 262 00:14:04,120 --> 00:14:07,760 this pole and I'm just thinking, and as I'm thinking, and then 263 00:14:07,760 --> 00:14:10,920 I'm sort of lowering down thinking like a powerful thighs. 264 00:14:10,920 --> 00:14:12,440 This is going to be awesome spring. 265 00:14:12,440 --> 00:14:16,520 And they put the bar out there and the sun's sparkling down on 266 00:14:16,520 --> 00:14:19,440 this stainless steel bar. And I'd say it's going to be 267 00:14:19,440 --> 00:14:21,520 about probably 3 meters out in front of me. 268 00:14:22,240 --> 00:14:30,800 So I start the spring and so I just start to test. 269 00:14:31,280 --> 00:14:34,320 And as I start to do some fake springing, I see the sort of 270 00:14:34,320 --> 00:14:36,920 pole begin to wobble. I think, oh, I'm going to have 271 00:14:36,920 --> 00:14:39,680 to overcompensate for this anyway after. 272 00:14:39,680 --> 00:14:44,000 A series of. 10 to 15 minutes. I remember just visualizing that 273 00:14:44,000 --> 00:14:47,960 bar. I thought I got hope on a rope. 274 00:14:48,960 --> 00:14:53,520 This is going to be awesome. And I just you, you should have 275 00:14:53,520 --> 00:14:56,000 seen me. It was awesome then. 276 00:14:57,400 --> 00:15:05,440 Like a tiger and I just remember in everything in slow motion and 277 00:15:05,440 --> 00:15:09,360 then the next thing I know I grabbed the bar, seal the bar 278 00:15:09,680 --> 00:15:12,080 and it's like whoo, you know, right from deep and he's like, 279 00:15:14,880 --> 00:15:17,280 and then they lowered me down. Everyone's high fiving me and 280 00:15:17,280 --> 00:15:19,680 stuff like that. I just remember it's the most 281 00:15:19,680 --> 00:15:23,320 amazing experience. But literally, I had to put all 282 00:15:23,320 --> 00:15:28,440 my faith, had to fight in a harness with the rope of hope 283 00:15:28,440 --> 00:15:30,200 that it would save me. It was in. 284 00:15:30,200 --> 00:15:34,280 The most amazing, exhilarating experience is that day I 285 00:15:34,280 --> 00:15:37,880 overcame a series of obstacles that I didn't realise were 286 00:15:37,880 --> 00:15:41,120 lurking around in my life, like I overcame ignorance. 287 00:15:41,120 --> 00:15:44,680 That day there was a lack of knowledge about my ability. 288 00:15:44,680 --> 00:15:49,280 I overcame an unbelief that day because I overcame a sense of a 289 00:15:49,280 --> 00:15:52,360 lack of trust that was in my life for my abilities. 290 00:15:52,520 --> 00:15:56,880 I remember I overcame doubt that day because I became aware of a 291 00:15:56,880 --> 00:15:59,960 lack of certainty that was lurking around in the depths of 292 00:15:59,960 --> 00:16:02,440 my soul. I remember that time I overcame 293 00:16:02,440 --> 00:16:05,600 fear and anxiety and I overcame distance. 294 00:16:05,600 --> 00:16:09,160 There was a sense of a distance between me and my ability to to, 295 00:16:09,240 --> 00:16:12,920 to achieve epic things with an an adrenaline rush. 296 00:16:13,560 --> 00:16:17,000 And I tell you this story to let you know this is a bit like what 297 00:16:17,000 --> 00:16:20,680 our faith is. And sometimes faith is the gap 298 00:16:20,680 --> 00:16:24,560 between where we are and where God is calling us to be. 299 00:16:24,840 --> 00:16:28,800 And sometimes it just takes a giant, literally a leap of 300 00:16:28,800 --> 00:16:32,720 faith, trusting in the abilities, God's deep work 301 00:16:32,720 --> 00:16:36,520 within us and trusting in his power to get us to where he 302 00:16:36,520 --> 00:16:39,840 wants to become. I began to realise I was just so 303 00:16:40,040 --> 00:16:44,800 aware of the essential nature of my faith in Jesus Christ and my 304 00:16:44,800 --> 00:16:47,360 faith is literally like a hope on a rope. 305 00:16:47,920 --> 00:16:49,560 Some of us grew up with soap on a rope. 306 00:16:49,560 --> 00:16:52,120 This is not soap on a rope, this is hope on a rope. 307 00:16:52,120 --> 00:16:56,560 So this idea of faith and our launching pad, pardon the pun, 308 00:16:56,560 --> 00:17:00,640 our launching pad is Hebrews 11 verse one which I mentioned 309 00:17:00,640 --> 00:17:03,280 before. It says this now faith is what 310 00:17:03,280 --> 00:17:10,280 being sure faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain 311 00:17:10,280 --> 00:17:13,760 of what we do not see. I love the message. 312 00:17:13,760 --> 00:17:18,200 It says this the fundamental act of existence is that this trust 313 00:17:18,200 --> 00:17:24,640 in God, this faith is the what a firm foundation under everything 314 00:17:24,640 --> 00:17:29,360 that makes life worth living. It's our what handle is this 315 00:17:29,360 --> 00:17:31,160 great language. It's a handle. 316 00:17:31,520 --> 00:17:34,760 It's a substance. It's being sure the amplified 317 00:17:34,760 --> 00:17:39,320 says this now, faith is what the assurance it is, the 318 00:17:39,760 --> 00:17:42,920 confirmation, it is the title deed. 319 00:17:44,080 --> 00:17:48,040 You can own a house, you can be renting it out and bikies are 320 00:17:48,040 --> 00:17:50,360 living there. They may be destroying your 321 00:17:50,360 --> 00:17:53,840 house, but you're the owner of that because you have the title 322 00:17:53,840 --> 00:17:56,840 deed. You may have a promise from God, 323 00:17:56,840 --> 00:18:00,040 a gift of faith. It may look like there's bikies 324 00:18:00,040 --> 00:18:03,120 or someone squatting on your promise, but God says you own 325 00:18:03,120 --> 00:18:05,240 that and one day you will take full possession of it. 326 00:18:06,680 --> 00:18:10,240 God is at work through the faith that He's placed within us. 327 00:18:10,480 --> 00:18:14,040 It's of the things we hope for is the proof of things we do not 328 00:18:14,040 --> 00:18:17,320 see and what the conviction of their reality. 329 00:18:17,520 --> 00:18:22,400 Faith perceiving as real fact what is not revealed to the 330 00:18:22,400 --> 00:18:24,880 senses. NLT says this faith is the 331 00:18:24,880 --> 00:18:27,920 confidence of what we hope for will actually happen. 332 00:18:27,920 --> 00:18:31,040 It gives us assurance about things that we cannot see. 333 00:18:31,760 --> 00:18:34,320 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence 334 00:18:34,320 --> 00:18:37,280 of things not seen. ESV says it's the assurance of 335 00:18:37,280 --> 00:18:39,120 things hoped for and it's a conviction. 336 00:18:39,240 --> 00:18:42,720 You get the idea. A little further, on the Hebrews 337 00:18:42,720 --> 00:18:46,440 Chapter 11, we see almost 40 verses where people in the Old 338 00:18:46,440 --> 00:18:49,120 Testament are commended for their faith. 339 00:18:49,600 --> 00:18:55,240 Their faith is doesn't actually see the full fruition in their 340 00:18:55,240 --> 00:18:58,280 lifetime. Like Abraham is known as the 341 00:18:58,400 --> 00:19:02,120 father of faith and you and I are an example of the outworking 342 00:19:02,120 --> 00:19:05,320 of the promise that was given to him so many, many thousands of 343 00:19:05,320 --> 00:19:07,360 years ago. It's an amazing thing. 344 00:19:07,840 --> 00:19:12,480 Your faith is precious because God is deep at work within you. 345 00:19:13,640 --> 00:19:17,040 Faith is being sure, it is being certain. 346 00:19:17,040 --> 00:19:20,440 We have this absolute assurance that is within us. 347 00:19:21,280 --> 00:19:25,680 I remember my daughter in a very dark period of her life, which 348 00:19:25,680 --> 00:19:29,440 is, I only recently found out the full implication of what 349 00:19:29,440 --> 00:19:31,840 was. Driving the pain and I almost 350 00:19:32,600 --> 00:19:36,480 lost it twice in a month. It was a very dark time for our 351 00:19:36,480 --> 00:19:41,040 family, but God gave me a promise out of Isaiah 61. 352 00:19:41,800 --> 00:19:46,640 Your children, the nations will see that your children are 353 00:19:46,640 --> 00:19:49,360 blessed of the Lord. And I just. 354 00:19:49,360 --> 00:19:54,200 Remember holding on to that, doing a 40 day fast, believing, 355 00:19:54,200 --> 00:19:58,320 just basically depriving myself of food as an act of faith, 356 00:19:58,320 --> 00:20:01,520 standing in the gap for my daughter now to see her you, you 357 00:20:01,520 --> 00:20:06,320 wouldn't even like she's been in an emotional head on smash and 358 00:20:06,320 --> 00:20:08,680 she's been panel beater. You wouldn't even know there'd 359 00:20:08,680 --> 00:20:11,400 been any work that that that that had ever been done, any 360 00:20:11,400 --> 00:20:13,480 tragedy in her life. It's an amazing thing. 361 00:20:14,280 --> 00:20:17,120 This is the depth of the assurance and the conviction 362 00:20:17,120 --> 00:20:21,360 that God has got us. It says this, that we have faith 363 00:20:21,440 --> 00:20:25,520 not in ourselves or in karma or in good coffee. 364 00:20:25,520 --> 00:20:31,720 We have faith in God. faith in God who saves, God who gives 365 00:20:31,720 --> 00:20:35,040 life, God who speaks destiny and purpose in our life. 366 00:20:35,200 --> 00:20:39,240 Faith must begin with the fact that God is and nothing can be 367 00:20:39,240 --> 00:20:44,120 known of God unless a person first believes that God is. 368 00:20:44,800 --> 00:20:48,880 God is faith. Faith is essential because when 369 00:20:48,880 --> 00:20:52,840 God speaks to you. Faith comes because it is the 370 00:20:52,840 --> 00:20:57,200 spoken word of God. Quickly in your notes I put 371 00:20:57,200 --> 00:20:58,560 here, why is your faith important? 372 00:20:58,880 --> 00:21:01,760 Faith is vital because it enables us to connect with God 373 00:21:01,760 --> 00:21:05,480 in God's power. Without faith, I I cannot know 374 00:21:05,480 --> 00:21:09,040 that God is real and I cannot feel a connection and a life 375 00:21:09,200 --> 00:21:12,200 flow coming in with that. My faith enables me to receive 376 00:21:12,200 --> 00:21:15,440 guidance from the Holy Spirit. I can trust His guidance and His 377 00:21:15,440 --> 00:21:17,120 wisdom. It doesn't happen magically. 378 00:21:17,120 --> 00:21:20,160 It happens when I open up a channel of faith and say, God, I 379 00:21:20,160 --> 00:21:23,480 believe you. I don't see it, but I'm trusting 380 00:21:23,480 --> 00:21:28,200 you to speak in the building of my life #3 my faith helps me to 381 00:21:28,200 --> 00:21:32,040 have victory over sin. Living Christ Jesus within me 382 00:21:33,160 --> 00:21:38,760 gives me the power to overcome temptation and to live in sin 383 00:21:38,760 --> 00:21:41,400 and to draw down His righteousness. 384 00:21:41,840 --> 00:21:45,360 When your body and your life and your spirit is wracked with 385 00:21:45,360 --> 00:21:48,880 guilt and shame, you know nothing, no matter what you do, 386 00:21:49,400 --> 00:21:53,640 can eradicate that unless by faith you accept God's free gift 387 00:21:53,640 --> 00:21:55,320 of salvation and He can cleanse you. 388 00:21:56,080 --> 00:22:06,520 What can wash away my sin? Nothing but the blood of Jesus. 389 00:22:06,680 --> 00:22:10,000 Now you think what's blood like once you get the symbolic and 390 00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:12,280 there's a sacrifice or whatever. But I know if you're here this 391 00:22:12,280 --> 00:22:16,240 morning, I believe Holy Spirit right now if you are not walking 392 00:22:16,240 --> 00:22:19,520 in relationship with God. God is an act of faith. 393 00:22:19,520 --> 00:22:21,160 He's given us all the measure of faith. 394 00:22:21,320 --> 00:22:22,840 Some of you are resonating right now. 395 00:22:22,840 --> 00:22:25,000 That's me. I don't understand the blood or 396 00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:27,840 whatever, but I can feel and sense that there's hope that the 397 00:22:27,840 --> 00:22:30,960 God is wanting to and has the ability to reach into my heart 398 00:22:30,960 --> 00:22:33,880 and mind right now. And by faith I can access that 399 00:22:33,880 --> 00:22:37,280 free gift and I can be clean and I can behold and my life can be 400 00:22:37,280 --> 00:22:39,520 free from guilt and shame in Jesus name. 401 00:22:41,000 --> 00:22:45,400 My faith helps me experience God's peace in challenging 402 00:22:45,400 --> 00:22:49,800 circumstances, trusting that he is control that God's got this 403 00:22:50,000 --> 00:22:53,440 is I can only access that by faith and and the fifth thing is 404 00:22:53,440 --> 00:22:56,360 praying. My faith is essential for 405 00:22:56,360 --> 00:22:59,800 effective prayer, believing that God hears and God answers 406 00:22:59,800 --> 00:23:02,160 prayers. The Bible says in Psalms that 407 00:23:02,160 --> 00:23:05,520 even a sigh when you don't even have words. 408 00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:11,280 A sigh is considered a prayer. God bottles up our tears as 409 00:23:11,280 --> 00:23:13,360 expressions of faith and he answers them. 410 00:23:13,440 --> 00:23:17,280 Another version I think is Isaiah 32 that says God answers 411 00:23:17,280 --> 00:23:20,080 speedily. There's another version, a Bible 412 00:23:20,080 --> 00:23:22,240 verse that says that God even answers our prayers. 413 00:23:22,240 --> 00:23:25,280 Before we pray them. That's awesome. 414 00:23:25,280 --> 00:23:27,280 What about the prayers that God still hasn't answered yet? 415 00:23:27,280 --> 00:23:28,720 Well, I'll come to that in a minute moment. 416 00:23:29,520 --> 00:23:33,200 God is at work within our life and we activate His presence 417 00:23:33,200 --> 00:23:37,000 through faith. Mark 1124 says therefore Jesus 418 00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:39,360 says wherever I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, 419 00:23:39,360 --> 00:23:43,920 believe that you have received it and it will be yours quickly. 420 00:23:43,920 --> 00:23:45,520 A couple of laws of faith on the screen. 421 00:23:45,880 --> 00:23:51,000 Your faith is a spiritual force. No wonder the devil is trying to 422 00:23:51,000 --> 00:23:53,600 steal it. Somebody said if the garage was 423 00:23:53,600 --> 00:23:56,480 having it, if the devil was having a garage sale and getting 424 00:23:56,480 --> 00:24:00,560 rid of all these tools, the only tool that he would not sell is 425 00:24:00,560 --> 00:24:03,760 the tool of doubt. He knows as long as there's 426 00:24:03,760 --> 00:24:05,800 doubt there, it will start like cancer. 427 00:24:05,800 --> 00:24:09,320 It will just nobble away at your faith because he now realises 428 00:24:09,320 --> 00:24:13,840 your, your faith is precious and your faith is a spiritual force. 429 00:24:14,400 --> 00:24:17,760 So next weekend, the people in this community who don't know 430 00:24:17,760 --> 00:24:19,840 anything about this, they're going to be leveraging off your 431 00:24:19,840 --> 00:24:22,840 faith. Your faith is a spiritual force. 432 00:24:23,320 --> 00:24:26,280 It's going to break chains. Generational bondages are going 433 00:24:26,280 --> 00:24:28,840 to break. Next week a chain reaction is 434 00:24:28,840 --> 00:24:33,120 going to start because your faith is a spiritual force #2 435 00:24:33,120 --> 00:24:34,400 faith. I love this. 436 00:24:34,520 --> 00:24:39,120 Faith is God giving you the ability to see what He can do? 437 00:24:43,320 --> 00:24:45,600 Wish I was holding a microphone now I could drop it. 438 00:24:48,720 --> 00:24:51,440 Doctor Elmer Towns look at this for definition of faith. 439 00:24:51,440 --> 00:24:56,360 It's a positive, correct response to God's revelation. 440 00:24:58,520 --> 00:25:00,840 We're going to go through the names of God and the team, the 441 00:25:00,840 --> 00:25:02,360 worship team. We've already started to go 442 00:25:02,360 --> 00:25:04,040 through them today. Well done, Matt. 443 00:25:05,720 --> 00:25:06,320 Matt. Matt where? 444 00:25:06,320 --> 00:25:07,960 Are you studying you you studying Bible college? 445 00:25:07,960 --> 00:25:08,960 Where? Where are you studying? 446 00:25:10,680 --> 00:25:11,920 CHC? Oh, CHC. 447 00:25:12,440 --> 00:25:15,280 There's a there's a free product placement going through the 448 00:25:15,280 --> 00:25:17,640 names of God because that's God's revelation of himself. 449 00:25:17,640 --> 00:25:21,440 There's 85 different names of God, which I've counted up 85 450 00:25:21,440 --> 00:25:23,200 facets. If he's wondering the way that 451 00:25:23,200 --> 00:25:24,960 he can express his power, one of them is he's. 452 00:25:24,960 --> 00:25:28,520 A God who heals. So faith is a what? 453 00:25:28,520 --> 00:25:32,240 A positive, correct response to God's revelation. 454 00:25:32,640 --> 00:25:35,040 God says I'm a healing guy. He's demonstrated it. 455 00:25:35,200 --> 00:25:36,400 Yet. There'll be some people in our 456 00:25:36,400 --> 00:25:37,760 community next week who come and go. 457 00:25:38,480 --> 00:25:39,080 Yeah. Nah. 458 00:25:40,400 --> 00:25:43,680 Yeah, Nah. There's some versions of church 459 00:25:43,680 --> 00:25:46,320 going on today in this city which will go. 460 00:25:46,320 --> 00:25:48,480 Yeah. Nah, stop. 461 00:25:48,480 --> 00:25:50,080 Stopped at Acts 28. Yeah. 462 00:25:50,080 --> 00:25:53,040 Nah. Where are people of faith? 463 00:25:53,320 --> 00:25:54,720 Where are people of an active faith? 464 00:25:55,120 --> 00:25:57,720 My guess is there may be people who come in here next Saturday 465 00:25:57,720 --> 00:25:58,400 night. Yeah, Nah. 466 00:25:58,400 --> 00:26:02,560 But when they get in here in this room under a canopy of 467 00:26:02,560 --> 00:26:06,920 faith, all their objections will disappear and they're going to 468 00:26:06,920 --> 00:26:08,160 go. I don't know what's happened. 469 00:26:08,280 --> 00:26:10,240 Because faith, friends, is not a logical thing. 470 00:26:10,720 --> 00:26:12,880 It's an act of the Spirit. It's an act of the will. 471 00:26:12,880 --> 00:26:16,320 When we part and with God #4 faith is not measured by your 472 00:26:16,320 --> 00:26:20,080 intellect, emotion, or will, or how much you know. 473 00:26:21,080 --> 00:26:24,720 It is not how deeply you feel or how decisively you act. 474 00:26:24,720 --> 00:26:29,240 Faith is measured by God and His ability to do what you ask. 475 00:26:29,240 --> 00:26:32,320 Faith is dependent on the integrity of God. 476 00:26:32,800 --> 00:26:35,800 Because it says that God honors his word above his name. 477 00:26:37,760 --> 00:26:40,600 God says I am the God who heals you. 478 00:26:40,600 --> 00:26:42,720 I am the God who forgives your sin. 479 00:26:43,280 --> 00:26:46,480 It says in one John 3, Even if our heart condemns us, God is 480 00:26:46,480 --> 00:26:49,680 greater than our heart. Regardless of what we think #5 481 00:26:49,680 --> 00:26:53,560 I'm to grow and live from faith to faith, which is Romans 117. 482 00:26:53,560 --> 00:26:56,560 I mentioned that before. And when I live by faith, I live 483 00:26:56,560 --> 00:26:58,560 by the principles of the word of God. 484 00:26:58,560 --> 00:27:01,520 So you get the idea. Faith is essential. 485 00:27:01,520 --> 00:27:04,000 So this morning there's five refractions. 486 00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:06,120 And somebody gave me this. They saw me preach and they 487 00:27:06,120 --> 00:27:09,280 prophesied and said. Andrew, you're like a prism and 488 00:27:09,280 --> 00:27:12,760 you refract the light of God and they they spend a lot of money. 489 00:27:13,280 --> 00:27:15,680 It comes all wrapped in velvet. Anyway, I'm here to show you to 490 00:27:15,680 --> 00:27:19,320 say that I'm going to talk about the refractions of faith. 491 00:27:19,320 --> 00:27:22,080 Can some of you see that If it goes through the light properly, 492 00:27:22,520 --> 00:27:24,520 we should see all the colours of the rainbow. 493 00:27:25,160 --> 00:27:27,480 If you're lucky, you might even see some unicorns while you're 494 00:27:27,480 --> 00:27:29,080 there. We might find a pot of gold at 495 00:27:29,080 --> 00:27:31,760 the end. But basically there's a number 496 00:27:31,760 --> 00:27:35,160 of colours on the spectrum. It's the same light, but it's 497 00:27:35,160 --> 00:27:37,320 reflect refracted through a prism. 498 00:27:37,760 --> 00:27:39,320 And it's the same with our faith. 499 00:27:39,920 --> 00:27:42,520 Our faith has a series of refractions or different 500 00:27:42,520 --> 00:27:45,920 expressions or different elements of the same light 501 00:27:45,920 --> 00:27:49,240 expressing or manifesting itself in different way. 502 00:27:49,840 --> 00:27:52,720 So there's five refractions of faith I want to quickly mention 503 00:27:52,720 --> 00:27:54,800 today. The first one is it's saving 504 00:27:54,800 --> 00:27:58,160 faith. Step one in our journey is a 505 00:27:58,160 --> 00:28:00,320 staircase of faith is saving faith. 506 00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:05,720 And this is believing in Jesus for salvation based on God's 507 00:28:05,720 --> 00:28:08,240 gracious. Gift to us. 508 00:28:09,040 --> 00:28:13,640 It's God-given, it's an act of faith, for salvation means that 509 00:28:13,640 --> 00:28:20,280 we then obtain a spiritual life. We obtain salvation by faith. 510 00:28:21,480 --> 00:28:24,720 At that moment. It says we are justified, which 511 00:28:24,720 --> 00:28:27,760 really means it's just as if I'd never sinned before. 512 00:28:28,160 --> 00:28:32,080 We are made right when we activate saving faith and when 513 00:28:32,080 --> 00:28:36,240 we say yes to Jesus. A note to our old life and you 514 00:28:36,240 --> 00:28:38,400 actually say I'm under new Management Today. 515 00:28:38,680 --> 00:28:42,920 Jesus is the Lord of my life. At that moment you get a deposit 516 00:28:42,920 --> 00:28:44,960 of Holy Spirit living within you and. 517 00:28:45,840 --> 00:28:47,680 Basically, it's a it's a down payment. 518 00:28:47,680 --> 00:28:51,040 It's a guarantee that when time stops and eternity kicks in, you 519 00:28:51,040 --> 00:28:52,600 will go to heaven to be with Him. 520 00:28:53,160 --> 00:28:56,760 It's a wonderful thought. So we have Jesus and Holy Spirit 521 00:28:57,040 --> 00:28:59,920 living within us. We have a deposit of his Spirit 522 00:29:00,080 --> 00:29:04,480 and it's that's when we obtain spiritual blessings and favour. 523 00:29:04,880 --> 00:29:09,600 It says in John one that is many of us who've called on his name. 524 00:29:09,600 --> 00:29:12,600 It gives us the right to become the children of God. 525 00:29:13,160 --> 00:29:17,200 This is level 1. This is refraction #1 it's 526 00:29:17,200 --> 00:29:20,400 called saving faith. And that's a great place. 527 00:29:20,400 --> 00:29:24,400 For us to start. And I'd say before I finish, 528 00:29:24,400 --> 00:29:25,440 I'm. Going to give you an 529 00:29:25,440 --> 00:29:28,080 opportunity. To say, oh, I want a bit of 530 00:29:28,080 --> 00:29:29,400 that. I want to pull the lever. 531 00:29:29,400 --> 00:29:31,080 I want to, I want to go to the first step. 532 00:29:31,120 --> 00:29:34,560 I want to activate and move into the dimension of saving faith 533 00:29:34,560 --> 00:29:37,040 and accept God's free gift to salvation. 534 00:29:37,360 --> 00:29:40,120 The second refraction is this. It's the fruit of faith or 535 00:29:40,120 --> 00:29:43,440 faithfulness. This is the fruit of faith. 536 00:29:43,440 --> 00:29:46,000 This is evidence that we've received saving. 537 00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:48,400 Faith. We have a new life, a new 538 00:29:48,400 --> 00:29:52,160 nature, and over time we will have a changing character. 539 00:29:52,680 --> 00:29:54,760 This is the process of transformation. 540 00:29:54,760 --> 00:29:56,880 It's beautiful. What you start to see is the 541 00:29:56,880 --> 00:29:58,840 character qualities of a new nature. 542 00:29:58,840 --> 00:30:02,040 The nature of Jesus are articulated in a couple of 543 00:30:02,040 --> 00:30:05,320 verses where Paul writes about what he calls the 9 fruit of the 544 00:30:05,320 --> 00:30:07,040 spirit. There is there is a 545 00:30:07,040 --> 00:30:10,480 manifestations or fruit. You know someone who's been a 546 00:30:10,480 --> 00:30:15,160 Christian a long time, they just smell good, don't they? 547 00:30:15,680 --> 00:30:19,840 They just, if you known someone who in their old life, you see 548 00:30:19,840 --> 00:30:25,640 them now, they're often kinder, more patient, more sweeter, like 549 00:30:25,840 --> 00:30:28,760 it's just a beautiful thing watching the transformation. 550 00:30:28,760 --> 00:30:34,400 Like I remember my brother, 323 of my brothers a long, long way 551 00:30:34,400 --> 00:30:37,440 away from God when they said yes to Jesus, activate saving faith. 552 00:30:37,520 --> 00:30:40,200 You look at them 10 years out, they are completely different 553 00:30:40,200 --> 00:30:42,080 people. That's what it says in Two 554 00:30:42,080 --> 00:30:45,720 Corinthians 517. Anyone who is in Christ becomes 555 00:30:45,760 --> 00:30:48,000 a new creation. They've been transformed. 556 00:30:48,120 --> 00:30:50,360 This is what I'm talking about here, the evidence of 557 00:30:50,360 --> 00:30:52,720 faithfulness. So one of the one of the one of 558 00:30:52,720 --> 00:30:55,440 the 9 through the Spirit is this faithfulness. 559 00:30:56,720 --> 00:31:03,600 The Greek word is translated faithful, trustworthy, reliable 560 00:31:04,040 --> 00:31:06,960 or dependable. If you take some old or old or 561 00:31:06,960 --> 00:31:10,120 fashioned versions of the Bible, it says we use the word 562 00:31:10,280 --> 00:31:12,600 fidelity. It means to be loyal and 563 00:31:12,600 --> 00:31:14,920 trustworthy in one's dealings with others. 564 00:31:15,720 --> 00:31:18,520 It's a beautiful thought. Imagine this community, they 565 00:31:18,520 --> 00:31:20,000 say. Oh, the people who've been 566 00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:21,840 around City Point North for a while. 567 00:31:22,280 --> 00:31:25,000 They are a faithful group of people. 568 00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:29,880 They have gone the distance they do the time as a fruit of the 569 00:31:29,880 --> 00:31:32,240 Spirit. Faithfulness is the character 570 00:31:32,240 --> 00:31:35,680 quality produced by the Spirit of complete reliability. 571 00:31:36,080 --> 00:31:39,080 This means that you and I will be faithful in our service. 572 00:31:39,640 --> 00:31:42,640 Our word can unreservedly be accepted. 573 00:31:43,400 --> 00:31:46,320 They are loyal and trustworthy in their relationships or 574 00:31:46,320 --> 00:31:50,720 dealing with others they are unswervingly faithful to. 575 00:31:50,760 --> 00:31:54,640 Jesus to friends, if we had say we have faith in God. 576 00:31:55,120 --> 00:31:57,920 Then it must over time be displayed by the character 577 00:31:57,920 --> 00:32:01,960 quality of faithfulness, a supernatural fruit of the new 578 00:32:01,960 --> 00:32:04,800 nature produced by the spirits work in our lives. 579 00:32:05,560 --> 00:32:09,120 A colleague in my network died this week, Alan Lucas. 580 00:32:09,120 --> 00:32:11,480 He ran real estate businesses in the Redlands. 581 00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:14,280 He was a man you should see in the eulogy. 582 00:32:14,640 --> 00:32:19,080 He was known as a man. You could trust his word. 583 00:32:20,200 --> 00:32:23,800 We all know that real estate agents have different 584 00:32:23,800 --> 00:32:26,520 reputations just like car used car salesman do. 585 00:32:27,600 --> 00:32:30,720 Alan said this three strikes, three lies and you no longer 586 00:32:30,720 --> 00:32:35,320 work for me because he believed in the through the spirit of 587 00:32:35,320 --> 00:32:38,520 faith, there are faithfulness and that we should be true to 588 00:32:38,520 --> 00:32:41,120 our word. The third reflection of faith is 589 00:32:41,120 --> 00:32:44,080 the gift of faith in One Corinthians 12 Paul. 590 00:32:44,080 --> 00:32:47,760 This what we Spirit filled Pentecostals call the 9 gifts of 591 00:32:47,760 --> 00:32:50,560 the Holy Spirit. And these are 9 divine 592 00:32:50,560 --> 00:32:54,280 enablements of the Spirit for supernatural ministry which can 593 00:32:54,280 --> 00:32:57,000 operate either in the public gatherings of Christians or 594 00:32:57,000 --> 00:33:00,560 through Christians involved in gospel ministry through 7 days 595 00:33:00,560 --> 00:33:03,640 of the week. In verse 9 we read that one of 596 00:33:03,640 --> 00:33:06,760 these gifts is faith by the same Spirit. 597 00:33:07,200 --> 00:33:10,200 So some would say this is a manifestation, an expression of 598 00:33:10,200 --> 00:33:12,160 the Spirit is known as the gift of faith. 599 00:33:12,920 --> 00:33:15,920 I love this dimension. This is the third refraction. 600 00:33:15,920 --> 00:33:18,080 Refraction. And this is the gift that we're 601 00:33:18,080 --> 00:33:21,360 going to need next Saturday night and next Sunday night. 602 00:33:22,520 --> 00:33:25,200 It's a supernatural faith. It's a special faith. 603 00:33:25,640 --> 00:33:27,920 It's a faith given by the Holy Spirit. 604 00:33:28,400 --> 00:33:32,040 It's a gift or manifestation from the Spirit so we can ask 605 00:33:32,040 --> 00:33:34,760 God for it. It's an enablement of faith from 606 00:33:34,760 --> 00:33:37,040 the Holy Spirit. It's a supernatural endowment of 607 00:33:37,040 --> 00:33:40,600 faith from the Spirit at a specific time for a specific 608 00:33:40,600 --> 00:33:42,760 person, but for a particular purpose. 609 00:33:43,520 --> 00:33:47,960 It's just not faith in God, but it is faith from God, or it is 610 00:33:47,960 --> 00:33:52,440 the faith of God. It's a divine endowment of faith 611 00:33:52,440 --> 00:33:56,200 to know, to do, or to receive the will of God. 612 00:33:56,200 --> 00:34:00,120 Friends, there is a difference between the prayer of faith and 613 00:34:00,120 --> 00:34:01,960 the. Exercise of faith and the gift 614 00:34:01,960 --> 00:34:05,320 of faith. Faith is this gift of faith 615 00:34:05,320 --> 00:34:08,040 manifests itself like this in the next 7 days. 616 00:34:08,320 --> 00:34:12,560 Some of you may be praying and believing sex Saturday night. 617 00:34:12,560 --> 00:34:16,639 Next Sunday night you're going to see someone row 3 fur one 618 00:34:16,639 --> 00:34:18,159 back. There'd be someone wearing a red 619 00:34:18,159 --> 00:34:21,920 jacket with a red jacket with a with a purple shirt with dots on 620 00:34:21,920 --> 00:34:23,760 it. God will give you a picture of 621 00:34:23,760 --> 00:34:26,960 it and then all of a sudden you like you don't make this stuff 622 00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:30,080 up. God on his supernatural ability 623 00:34:30,080 --> 00:34:34,080 will put an impression on us and you'll know God says I want to 624 00:34:34,080 --> 00:34:36,760 work in that person in their right arm. 625 00:34:36,760 --> 00:34:39,520 They've got a tumor there. They've got surgery next week. 626 00:34:40,199 --> 00:34:43,679 I want to shrivel that thing up. That's that's literally when you 627 00:34:43,960 --> 00:34:45,159 you don't actually. Have to make. 628 00:34:45,159 --> 00:34:48,320 That up, you don't actually have to conjure up any faith. 629 00:34:48,760 --> 00:34:51,000 All you got to do is pray because at that moment you then 630 00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:54,159 have the faith of God. You know what God wants to do in 631 00:34:54,159 --> 00:34:56,600 that particular person. And I just think that's awesome. 632 00:34:57,200 --> 00:35:01,280 So I'm trying as much in my life and I pray this God moved me to 633 00:35:01,280 --> 00:35:03,640 the dimension of this gift of faith. 634 00:35:04,240 --> 00:35:06,800 Where it's like I'm not having to prime the pump, I'm just 635 00:35:06,800 --> 00:35:09,880 channeling and coming the frequency and coming alongside 636 00:35:09,880 --> 00:35:11,160 you. So I'm saying, God, you want to 637 00:35:11,160 --> 00:35:13,840 do that in that body, I'll come and I'll pray in partnership 638 00:35:13,840 --> 00:35:15,880 with that. And I believe and I know that 639 00:35:15,880 --> 00:35:17,720 God wants to heal. I know that God's good. 640 00:35:17,880 --> 00:35:20,120 I know that the House of God is the House of miracles. 641 00:35:20,120 --> 00:35:21,880 And nothing's impossible for God in this place. 642 00:35:22,160 --> 00:35:24,600 Come on, let's do it. Some of you want to get The Time 643 00:35:24,600 --> 00:35:26,240 Machine. Go hurry up and let's have next 644 00:35:26,240 --> 00:35:29,360 Saturday night right now. So I'd encourage you this week 645 00:35:29,360 --> 00:35:32,120 start to believe and pray, especially for people you 646 00:35:32,120 --> 00:35:33,680 invite. You wouldn't be surprised. 647 00:35:33,680 --> 00:35:36,920 Something going to get coffee this week and someone's going to 648 00:35:36,920 --> 00:35:39,080 say oh. I'm having a bad day. 649 00:35:39,120 --> 00:35:42,320 My mum's just been diagnosed with something and and you're 650 00:35:42,320 --> 00:35:44,440 going to have to work out what comes out of your mouth next. 651 00:35:44,840 --> 00:35:46,760 You've got a brochure ready in your hand or whatever. 652 00:35:47,120 --> 00:35:49,320 Can I just say that I don't want to sound freaky, but. 653 00:35:50,280 --> 00:35:52,760 I, I I. We're, we're praying for things 654 00:35:52,760 --> 00:35:54,720 like that and we believe God could do something good. 655 00:35:55,280 --> 00:35:57,960 So you've got to be ready to do your bit because even right now, 656 00:35:57,960 --> 00:36:01,560 God's already got he, he knows what he's doing next week with 657 00:36:01,560 --> 00:36:04,440 it, with the full expression of what he wants to do depends or 658 00:36:04,440 --> 00:36:06,320 not whether we're on the frequency and we're moving to 659 00:36:06,320 --> 00:36:09,600 this refraction of faith, which is the gift of faith. 660 00:36:10,120 --> 00:36:13,200 I, I love this, this area of interventional faith. 661 00:36:13,760 --> 00:36:18,120 This is the level of faith where one of my mentors, Mike, his son 662 00:36:18,120 --> 00:36:24,160 Paul, had a brain tumour and at the time the top neurosurgeon at 663 00:36:24,160 --> 00:36:28,560 the PA hospital was Doctor Lee Atkinson and they had a series 664 00:36:28,560 --> 00:36:30,280 of consultations. That morning. 665 00:36:30,280 --> 00:36:34,080 Mike and Wendy got up to pray and Mike was reading the 666 00:36:34,080 --> 00:36:39,120 scriptures and got a verse that says my son will be healed, he's 667 00:36:39,120 --> 00:36:42,960 going to behold and saw a picture of Paul married with a 668 00:36:42,960 --> 00:36:45,160 couple of kids. Amazing. 669 00:36:45,280 --> 00:36:48,320 So he, he, he. That morning in the wood had 670 00:36:48,320 --> 00:36:50,680 literally believed he had something from God. 671 00:36:50,680 --> 00:36:54,040 He was moving in the the the area, the dimension, the third 672 00:36:54,040 --> 00:36:59,000 level of the gift of faith, the intervention faith, Doctor Lee 673 00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:02,760 Atkinson said. Mike and Wendy, I'm a good 674 00:37:02,760 --> 00:37:05,200 surgeon. In fact, I'm a great surgeon. 675 00:37:05,960 --> 00:37:08,560 But I think you need to prepare yourself for the worst. 676 00:37:10,280 --> 00:37:13,880 Yeah, Mike said. Level 3 noted but not accepted. 677 00:37:15,680 --> 00:37:19,160 Noted, but not accepted. This is why we need to have a 678 00:37:19,160 --> 00:37:21,720 living, active faith, friends, because otherwise you're going 679 00:37:21,720 --> 00:37:25,000 to be sideswiped by the pressures of everyday life. 680 00:37:25,320 --> 00:37:27,520 And it can. Hammer us from time to time, 681 00:37:27,520 --> 00:37:29,000 can't it? We just need to know. 682 00:37:29,000 --> 00:37:31,680 We need to move at this level. The 4th level is the era of 683 00:37:31,680 --> 00:37:34,960 trusting faith. This is more than simply 684 00:37:34,960 --> 00:37:37,040 believing. It also incorporates this 685 00:37:37,040 --> 00:37:41,640 element of trust, the appropriate responsive, active 686 00:37:41,800 --> 00:37:46,120 right responsive. And expecting, believing should 687 00:37:46,120 --> 00:37:50,040 be trust. In Scripture, to trust can mean 688 00:37:50,040 --> 00:37:53,080 the following. To wholeheartedly depend, to 689 00:37:53,080 --> 00:37:59,720 lean on, to take refuge in, to hope, to have confidence in. 690 00:38:00,640 --> 00:38:03,600 Faith is based. On our relationship of trust and 691 00:38:03,600 --> 00:38:07,520 as a result of knowing the person of Jesus Christ. 692 00:38:08,160 --> 00:38:11,400 Proverbs 3 five verse 5 says there's trust in the Lord with 693 00:38:11,400 --> 00:38:16,200 all your heart and lean not on your own understanding. 694 00:38:16,440 --> 00:38:19,360 Verse 6 in all your ways acknowledge him and he will make 695 00:38:19,360 --> 00:38:24,240 your path straight. Trusting God is the heart and 696 00:38:24,240 --> 00:38:28,160 soul of the faith that centres on our Lord Jesus Christ. 697 00:38:29,480 --> 00:38:33,880 This is the tough area of faith. I love the ZAP and the bells and 698 00:38:33,880 --> 00:38:36,360 the whistles. This is what I would call even 699 00:38:36,360 --> 00:38:38,760 call the grind of faith. This is the fight of faith. 700 00:38:39,720 --> 00:38:42,840 This relationship of trust says it's irrespective of what has 701 00:38:42,840 --> 00:38:44,840 happened, is happening, or will happen. 702 00:38:45,280 --> 00:38:49,760 God cannot be inconsistent with His nature, His character, His 703 00:38:49,760 --> 00:38:54,680 promises, or His word on the basis of the blood that was shed 704 00:38:54,680 --> 00:38:57,640 by Jesus and his resurrection with the dead. 705 00:38:57,840 --> 00:39:01,640 I am now, He is, and He is mine. He lives in me and I in Him. 706 00:39:02,760 --> 00:39:05,800 And because he is love completely faithful and true, I 707 00:39:05,800 --> 00:39:09,240 declare God. You are a good God who has my 708 00:39:09,240 --> 00:39:14,080 ultimate good in mind and I trust in you, friend. 709 00:39:14,080 --> 00:39:17,400 This is the the faith of the dark night of the soul. 710 00:39:19,080 --> 00:39:24,440 This is the faith of Job, who under extreme pressure, I've got 711 00:39:24,440 --> 00:39:26,480 to admit Job's a pretty sad book. 712 00:39:26,480 --> 00:39:28,480 I remember the season God said, I want you to read the book of 713 00:39:28,480 --> 00:39:29,960 Job. I said I don't think we want to 714 00:39:29,960 --> 00:39:34,080 do that. You when you realize it, it's 715 00:39:34,080 --> 00:39:39,560 just two bad years in a life of 120 years, it's 22 bad years, 2 716 00:39:39,560 --> 00:39:43,880 very bad years, bad, bad years. But there comes to a moment 717 00:39:43,880 --> 00:39:46,440 where the pressure is so great and even his Christian or 718 00:39:46,440 --> 00:39:50,680 believer friends around him are giving him advice and it's a bit 719 00:39:50,680 --> 00:39:53,040 rough. But this is what happens. 720 00:39:53,520 --> 00:39:57,720 Just him and him and God and Job goes this level of trusting 721 00:39:57,720 --> 00:40:01,520 faith. God, even if you slay me. 722 00:40:01,960 --> 00:40:05,840 Yeah, well, I trust you. This is the faith of Jesus in 723 00:40:05,840 --> 00:40:09,680 Gethsemane. Not my will, but yours. 724 00:40:10,480 --> 00:40:12,040 This is the faith where you know God. 725 00:40:12,040 --> 00:40:14,400 This is the faith where sometimes it takes years or 726 00:40:14,400 --> 00:40:18,920 decades for something to come to pass that God has promised. 727 00:40:18,920 --> 00:40:20,800 This is the faith where we hold on, friend. 728 00:40:21,640 --> 00:40:25,200 Now this is the dimension where when this service is closed and 729 00:40:25,200 --> 00:40:28,080 we always close with a big woo Hoo, but some of you are 730 00:40:28,080 --> 00:40:31,320 carrying heavy burdens today. And after the service is closed, 731 00:40:31,320 --> 00:40:35,320 I'm happy to stay down the front and, and I'll pray with you if 732 00:40:35,320 --> 00:40:38,160 you're carrying something and you just need a bit of a push. 733 00:40:38,280 --> 00:40:41,120 I just know this. There are many people who I've 734 00:40:41,120 --> 00:40:44,800 leaned on from time to time and I'm saying, look, I'm not strong 735 00:40:44,800 --> 00:40:46,640 enough in this area. Can I, can I rent? 736 00:40:46,800 --> 00:40:49,160 Can I rent or borrow some of your faith right now? 737 00:40:49,680 --> 00:40:51,440 Because this is what the family of God does. 738 00:40:52,080 --> 00:40:54,320 We stand with each other. And for some of you, you may 739 00:40:54,320 --> 00:40:56,960 need myself or some of the team to come and do that and I'd be 740 00:40:56,960 --> 00:41:00,160 happy to do that. Level 5 quickly is the life of 741 00:41:00,160 --> 00:41:03,240 the lifestyle of faith. And this, the New Testament 742 00:41:03,240 --> 00:41:06,400 teaches that our whole Christian walk should be characterized by 743 00:41:06,400 --> 00:41:11,280 faith in Two Corinthians 5 or 7 pulpits that we live by faith 744 00:41:11,400 --> 00:41:15,320 and not by sight. So as believers, we must move 745 00:41:15,320 --> 00:41:20,440 from small faith to great faith, from weak faith to strong faith, 746 00:41:20,840 --> 00:41:23,880 from acts of faith to a life of faith. 747 00:41:23,880 --> 00:41:27,360 I remember the first time God said, I want you to leave this 748 00:41:27,360 --> 00:41:30,200 job. I was first one from my family, 749 00:41:30,200 --> 00:41:32,360 educated, first one to go from university. 750 00:41:32,360 --> 00:41:34,040 I'm studying to be an accountant. 751 00:41:34,040 --> 00:41:36,040 I'm a trained accountant. I'm in good jobs. 752 00:41:36,480 --> 00:41:39,720 God says to me, Andrew, I want you to give that up and I want 753 00:41:39,720 --> 00:41:42,720 you to work part time and I want you to go set up a youth group 754 00:41:42,720 --> 00:41:46,000 and plant a church like it takes me four months. 755 00:41:46,000 --> 00:41:51,520 I need to have dinner with 10 mentors, fast for 30 days, get 756 00:41:51,520 --> 00:41:52,680 100 scriptures. That all. 757 00:41:52,680 --> 00:41:56,320 Line up, get my bank balance organised Excel spreadsheet. 758 00:41:56,320 --> 00:42:00,080 And then I think tippy toe, I might just take a little tippy 759 00:42:00,080 --> 00:42:02,960 toe of faith. Like like that's what happens 760 00:42:02,960 --> 00:42:06,840 when you first start off now, like we're talking harness of 761 00:42:06,840 --> 00:42:08,560 faith type stuff. I'm on the edge. 762 00:42:08,560 --> 00:42:12,440 God says jump and you go like that. 763 00:42:12,800 --> 00:42:14,240 Like this is what grey hair does. 764 00:42:14,240 --> 00:42:18,480 It just you learn to make bigger decisions quicker. 765 00:42:19,080 --> 00:42:20,560 I love grey hair. Some of the young guys say, oh 766 00:42:20,560 --> 00:42:22,800 bastard, Andrew, you're a bit old man. 767 00:42:22,800 --> 00:42:25,440 No, I just can make, I can make the big decisions. 768 00:42:25,440 --> 00:42:28,320 He's quicker than you. You got three months of fasting, 769 00:42:28,320 --> 00:42:30,360 man. I just say, Yep, let's go with 770 00:42:30,360 --> 00:42:32,280 that. That's what that's what. 771 00:42:32,280 --> 00:42:34,520 And you move towards a lifestyle of faith. 772 00:42:34,520 --> 00:42:36,960 You can move on a big thing. So I can believe God for all 773 00:42:36,960 --> 00:42:39,360 sorts of stuff. Now, Jacket, Pastor Graham and 774 00:42:39,360 --> 00:42:41,480 Mel can believe God for buildings and property. 775 00:42:41,680 --> 00:42:44,080 How many times this place being flooded and blown up, whatever. 776 00:42:44,120 --> 00:42:45,920 Yeah, that's nothing. That's a walk in the park. 777 00:42:45,920 --> 00:42:48,560 We overcome that. Let's take on another campus. 778 00:42:48,560 --> 00:42:50,000 All of a sudden, Bribie Island pops up. 779 00:42:50,000 --> 00:42:52,520 See the flood? The flood was just getting you 780 00:42:52,520 --> 00:42:56,160 ready to take on more campuses. All right, you look back right, 781 00:42:56,160 --> 00:42:57,720 probably now and go what was I worried about it. 782 00:42:57,720 --> 00:42:59,640 I was a source of our masters in faith. 783 00:42:59,640 --> 00:43:02,440 Now just get yourself a. Bigger harness mate, that's what 784 00:43:02,440 --> 00:43:04,680 you need to do. So here we are, saving faith, 785 00:43:04,680 --> 00:43:07,560 the fruit of faith and faith on us, Gift of faith, trusting 786 00:43:07,560 --> 00:43:10,200 faith or lifestyle of faith. Hey, we better stand up. 787 00:43:10,720 --> 00:43:13,960 We better land the plane you're looking forward to next week. 788 00:43:15,480 --> 00:43:18,720 I just feel like I'm John the Baptist coming along, just 789 00:43:18,720 --> 00:43:21,040 providing a bit of support, getting you ready. 790 00:43:21,040 --> 00:43:24,440 Jesus is going to come. He's the seven names of God, 791 00:43:24,600 --> 00:43:28,120 Jehovah Jireh. He's going to provide Rafa. 792 00:43:28,120 --> 00:43:30,400 He's God who heals. Jehovah Nisi. 793 00:43:30,720 --> 00:43:33,960 Is it Jehovah Kia or Toyota? Jehovah Nissan? 794 00:43:34,120 --> 00:43:35,280 No. Jehovah Nisi. 795 00:43:35,760 --> 00:43:40,280 He's the Lord our banner. He's our peace, Raha. 796 00:43:40,280 --> 00:43:43,640 He's the Lord our shepherd. I love this one Tiskindu. 797 00:43:43,640 --> 00:43:45,440 He is the Lord our righteousness. 798 00:43:45,720 --> 00:43:48,040 I love this Shema. The Lord is present. 799 00:43:48,040 --> 00:43:50,960 He is here, but as well as long as there's oil in the house, 800 00:43:51,080 --> 00:43:56,120 nothing is impossible with God. So knowing the name of God, I 801 00:43:56,120 --> 00:43:58,200 got story. I was supposed to tell you 10 802 00:43:58,200 --> 00:44:00,240 stories about how this has worked in my life. 803 00:44:00,600 --> 00:44:03,400 Anyway, you got the idea. Let me just close with a couple 804 00:44:03,400 --> 00:44:07,240 of faith defaults. All right, like I, I. 805 00:44:07,240 --> 00:44:10,240 See, next week, some of you, you're going to be in groups of 806 00:44:10,240 --> 00:44:14,680 four bringing needy people. You don't have to RIP a hole in 807 00:44:14,680 --> 00:44:17,560 the roof next week, all right, Just bring them through the barn 808 00:44:17,560 --> 00:44:19,680 door. But, but this week God's going 809 00:44:19,680 --> 00:44:22,800 to get your people to bring along and, and, and, and other 810 00:44:22,800 --> 00:44:24,480 people are going to lean on your faith. 811 00:44:24,480 --> 00:44:26,960 And hopefully today some of you think, you know, I need to go to 812 00:44:26,960 --> 00:44:30,080 Level 3, the, the Level 3 refraction of the prism. 813 00:44:30,080 --> 00:44:33,960 I need to move to the, you know, the gift, the gift of faith. 814 00:44:33,960 --> 00:44:37,440 I want to have the faith of God to see what's going to God wants 815 00:44:37,440 --> 00:44:39,720 to do and break chains in people's lives. 816 00:44:40,520 --> 00:44:43,800 For some of you, you've just decided I just need to move from 817 00:44:43,800 --> 00:44:46,880 head faith. I've got good doctrine faith, 818 00:44:47,080 --> 00:44:49,600 but I need to move to an active faith today. 819 00:44:49,600 --> 00:44:51,480 You know, I got to give myself a giddy up. 820 00:44:51,480 --> 00:44:52,960 I've got to, I've got to believe. 821 00:44:53,560 --> 00:44:56,360 For some of you, you just might want to add to your prayer list. 822 00:44:56,360 --> 00:45:00,160 God, give me interventional faith, the faith of God. 823 00:45:00,440 --> 00:45:03,360 And that's going to be your focus in this next season as you 824 00:45:03,640 --> 00:45:07,280 walk the walk of faith. Some of you just think, I just 825 00:45:07,280 --> 00:45:10,840 need prayer at the end because I just, I'm, I'm, I'm in the gap 826 00:45:10,840 --> 00:45:15,440 between where I was and, and where God wants me to be. 827 00:45:15,440 --> 00:45:18,360 So I've got a series of faith defaults. 828 00:45:18,360 --> 00:45:20,920 And this is just five of them, but I want to give them to you. 829 00:45:20,920 --> 00:45:24,440 And this is really going to help some people to just land this, 830 00:45:24,440 --> 00:45:28,600 this teaching today. Here's my faith defaults or my 831 00:45:28,600 --> 00:45:32,640 reflex actions. The number one, God is good and 832 00:45:32,640 --> 00:45:34,880 only ever does good, and he always does good. 833 00:45:35,480 --> 00:45:40,480 All right, you look back things that you thought were going to 834 00:45:40,480 --> 00:45:42,240 crush you, you realise God was good. 835 00:45:43,000 --> 00:45:47,760 He's, he's the trapeze net, He's the hope on a rope. 836 00:45:47,760 --> 00:45:50,280 He's holding, he's holding you there all right. 837 00:45:50,280 --> 00:45:54,240 He's the rock underneath the cloud you're standing on #2 The 838 00:45:54,240 --> 00:45:58,360 Word of God is true, is the only foundation of our faith. 839 00:45:59,560 --> 00:46:01,200 As you read the Word, you say God. 840 00:46:01,200 --> 00:46:02,480 Here I am. As a prospect. 841 00:46:02,480 --> 00:46:05,200 They're looking for another nugget of wisdom and hope today 842 00:46:05,200 --> 00:46:08,960 and gold to some of you. We'll need to ramp up your 843 00:46:08,960 --> 00:46:12,520 reading of the Word. You worry about your faith. 844 00:46:12,600 --> 00:46:15,080 Your faith will be strong as you read more of the Word and 845 00:46:15,080 --> 00:46:19,600 meditate on more of the Word. And I won't even sell you a 846 00:46:19,600 --> 00:46:22,080 Bible college course that will teach you how to read the Word 847 00:46:22,080 --> 00:46:23,880 of God. You got good discipleship here 848 00:46:23,880 --> 00:46:26,640 locally #3 I love this one. The steps of a good man are 849 00:46:26,640 --> 00:46:30,680 ordered by the Lord. Even if you or I trip up stuff 850 00:46:30,680 --> 00:46:34,160 up, inflict trouble on ourselves, we will not be 851 00:46:34,160 --> 00:46:37,640 utterly cast down. I'll be restored to a place of 852 00:46:37,640 --> 00:46:42,640 blessing and favour. God looks after US #4 God will 853 00:46:42,640 --> 00:46:45,680 make all things work together for my good and make me more 854 00:46:45,680 --> 00:46:48,240 Christ life. I love this. 855 00:46:48,880 --> 00:46:51,400 God always restores the righteous with double for your 856 00:46:51,400 --> 00:46:54,320 trouble. There are two things that God 857 00:46:54,320 --> 00:46:58,840 hates, shame and pain deals with these and promises us a double 858 00:46:58,840 --> 00:47:01,600 bonus. Except for some of your paydays 859 00:47:01,600 --> 00:47:05,040 coming, you're going to get reward for your grief wage as it 860 00:47:05,040 --> 00:47:09,880 says in the message in Jeremiah. I've just chronicled my life the 861 00:47:09,880 --> 00:47:14,800 last 40 years, my relationship with Jesus and I've proven this 862 00:47:14,800 --> 00:47:18,840 time and time again. God shows me something in a 863 00:47:18,840 --> 00:47:22,040 challenge and he creates something new in me and He's 864 00:47:22,040 --> 00:47:27,040 just strengthens my faith. I have loss, I have pain, and 865 00:47:27,040 --> 00:47:30,040 I'm restored to a stronger position than I ever have been 866 00:47:30,040 --> 00:47:33,480 before. I bet you that's your story too.