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 --> 00:00:15,880 perspective for your day. Enjoy. 6 00:00:18,000 --> 00:00:21,200 Graham and I are. Very, very excited. 7 00:00:21,200 --> 00:00:24,920 And at the same time, to be perfectly honest, for the first 8 00:00:24,960 --> 00:00:27,080 time in a long time, I'm being really vulnerable with you. 9 00:00:27,080 --> 00:00:31,520 I am. I'm nervous about bringing this 10 00:00:31,520 --> 00:00:34,720 word. This word carries weight. 11 00:00:34,840 --> 00:00:38,960 I know it carries weight for you and I and it's going to carry 12 00:00:38,960 --> 00:00:41,960 weight for future generations. And so it. 13 00:00:41,960 --> 00:00:44,800 Can't remain limited. To 1 Preach. 14 00:00:44,800 --> 00:00:48,280 It's going to be something that we unpack over the next month 15 00:00:48,760 --> 00:00:53,600 and it will culminate when Pastor Sharon comes on August 16 00:00:53,600 --> 00:00:56,560 1st and August. It's not the first that's the we 17 00:00:56,560 --> 00:00:57,200 get. I get her. 18 00:00:57,320 --> 00:00:58,840 She flies in on the 1st I get her. 19 00:00:58,840 --> 00:01:00,560 On the first you. Get her on the 3rd. 20 00:01:01,080 --> 00:01:04,640 All right on the. 3rd. To. 21 00:01:04,640 --> 00:01:10,160 Bring us as a church or. Begin to lead us in a specific. 22 00:01:10,160 --> 00:01:12,840 Way that we. As the church are going to step 23 00:01:12,840 --> 00:01:17,320 into for the first time in many years and so the the. 24 00:01:17,320 --> 00:01:20,200 Title of this theme that. We're going to unpack over the 25 00:01:20,200 --> 00:01:22,240 next couple of weeks. Is called from. 26 00:01:22,240 --> 00:01:27,920 Believers to followers from believers to followers. 27 00:01:28,640 --> 00:01:30,200 And so I would like to. Open. 28 00:01:30,200 --> 00:01:32,000 This theme with something a little bit. 29 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:34,120 Unusual. I'd like to. 30 00:01:34,120 --> 00:01:39,440 Open this theme with an apology that might sound really unusual. 31 00:01:40,280 --> 00:01:43,000 Who in the room? Has followed Jesus. 32 00:01:43,000 --> 00:01:50,160 For more than 45 years, yeah. So could just a little higher. 33 00:01:50,160 --> 00:02:00,520 So we can see 123-4567 8 about let's say 10 to 15 people, 34 00:02:01,160 --> 00:02:05,240 right? I can tell you. 35 00:02:06,080 --> 00:02:09,240 That what? We're going to lead in this next 36 00:02:09,240 --> 00:02:10,520 month. Us as a church. 37 00:02:10,520 --> 00:02:13,800 Into and. See it in your spirits. 38 00:02:14,600 --> 00:02:16,880 Is something. That we. 39 00:02:16,880 --> 00:02:20,680 As the church. Have not done very well since 40 00:02:20,680 --> 00:02:25,640 that time. There is a specific generation 41 00:02:25,640 --> 00:02:31,560 of people who, when they came to know Jesus, had the gift. 42 00:02:31,600 --> 00:02:36,480 And the blessing? To have their lives transformed 43 00:02:36,480 --> 00:02:40,680 or their lives undone by all that God had done. 44 00:02:40,680 --> 00:02:43,120 For them and. And then move. 45 00:02:43,120 --> 00:02:48,840 From that moment. To have their lives walked with 46 00:02:48,840 --> 00:02:52,960 somebody through the transformation that 47 00:02:52,960 --> 00:02:58,080 discipleship. Brings, I know. 48 00:02:58,360 --> 00:03:02,480 Because I am a child of. Somebody who got discipled. 49 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:07,240 When my. Mum and Dad radically came to. 50 00:03:07,400 --> 00:03:13,520 Jesus in the 80s. The church in that era was 51 00:03:13,520 --> 00:03:20,320 heavily led by discipleship. In that time, the heartbeat of 52 00:03:20,320 --> 00:03:23,720 the church was to go into all the world. 53 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:28,560 So it was not an unusual thing that churches had giant. 54 00:03:28,560 --> 00:03:33,120 Maps of the world. In their foyers with little 55 00:03:33,120 --> 00:03:36,040 pins. In them I remember the pins. 56 00:03:36,400 --> 00:03:38,160 And I I was because I was a church. 57 00:03:38,160 --> 00:03:39,640 Kid John was there with me. We. 58 00:03:39,640 --> 00:03:41,920 Were doing it together. Misbehaving up there. 59 00:03:42,160 --> 00:03:47,840 Moving the pins. Tell me you didn't see. 60 00:03:50,040 --> 00:03:51,960 Who else did a? Moving of the pins. 61 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:56,480 Like placing Bolivia in, you know, England. 62 00:03:57,240 --> 00:03:59,160 So fun. Because they also had. 63 00:03:59,160 --> 00:04:02,120 String attached to them. Everywhere that we were going to 64 00:04:02,120 --> 00:04:06,360 reach with the gospel of Jesus Christ had pins with string. 65 00:04:06,640 --> 00:04:08,600 And I love to make shapes with the string. 66 00:04:11,200 --> 00:04:13,000 You knew a lot of. Kids were doing it in the church 67 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:16,079 because there were so many extra pin holes in the map. 68 00:04:17,839 --> 00:04:21,800 But the heartbeat of the church in that era was to go into all 69 00:04:21,800 --> 00:04:26,480 the world and not live in the vicinity of other people in that 70 00:04:26,480 --> 00:04:32,040 nation, but to share the gospel of Jesus Christ and see people 71 00:04:32,040 --> 00:04:34,280 come into a knowledge of who he was. 72 00:04:35,160 --> 00:04:40,280 But that was part of what that. Era was about the. 73 00:04:40,400 --> 00:04:44,720 Other part of it was which was the pretty much the the 74 00:04:44,720 --> 00:04:50,400 culmination of everything the church did was about taking that 75 00:04:50,400 --> 00:04:55,240 person who had accepted Jesus with their with their life and 76 00:04:55,240 --> 00:04:59,680 say, let me walk with you, Rachel, the journey of 77 00:04:59,680 --> 00:05:00,720 Christian. Faith. 78 00:05:02,320 --> 00:05:08,400 So because of it, my parents 2 drug addicts who had had 79 00:05:08,400 --> 00:05:15,400 devastating childhoods, walked from brokenness and didn't just 80 00:05:15,400 --> 00:05:20,040 experience wonderful worship services and hear the word of 81 00:05:20,040 --> 00:05:24,760 God for 25 minutes on a. Sunday, they got walked. 82 00:05:25,120 --> 00:05:28,760 Hand in hand with specific people into. 83 00:05:29,560 --> 00:05:31,040 Come on, I believe that the holy. 84 00:05:31,040 --> 00:05:33,720 Spirit wants to heal this specific thing. 85 00:05:36,600 --> 00:05:39,400 Not finished, not done. Just begun. 86 00:05:41,120 --> 00:05:44,720 Come on, I believe that that specific behaviour that you 87 00:05:44,720 --> 00:05:49,160 carried and operated in before you knew Jesus, God wants to 88 00:05:49,160 --> 00:05:52,680 transform. He wants to align according to 89 00:05:52,680 --> 00:05:54,640 his word. Let's do it. 90 00:05:57,760 --> 00:06:02,480 Because of this, I got to witness as a child and a 91 00:06:02,480 --> 00:06:07,080 teenager, than a young adult and now as a woman, the continuing 92 00:06:07,080 --> 00:06:11,560 process in my parents of people's lives being 93 00:06:11,560 --> 00:06:13,000 transformed. Not. 94 00:06:13,000 --> 00:06:16,440 Was transformed in a season in the 1st 18 months of them 95 00:06:16,440 --> 00:06:20,360 becoming believers but over their life being continually 96 00:06:20,360 --> 00:06:24,320 transformed. And so my parents in their 60s 97 00:06:24,600 --> 00:06:27,880 are doing more powerful things in the spirit, in the spirit 98 00:06:27,880 --> 00:06:32,720 realm and for the Kingdom of God then they did in their 20s and 99 00:06:32,720 --> 00:06:35,240 in their 30s, even though God used. 100 00:06:35,240 --> 00:06:42,040 Them in that time. This is not supposed to be the 101 00:06:42,040 --> 00:06:45,520 story that is unique. To my parents, to Colleen and 102 00:06:45,520 --> 00:06:47,240 Henry for. Graham witnessed. 103 00:06:47,240 --> 00:06:50,760 The exact same thing. When his parents walked into a 104 00:06:50,960 --> 00:06:56,960 Holy Spirit revival, intoxicated when he was one, came out sober 105 00:06:56,960 --> 00:07:05,640 and filled with the Holy Spirit. Who you know today in Pastor? 106 00:07:05,640 --> 00:07:10,400 Colleen and Henry. Is not who they were 40-5 years 107 00:07:10,400 --> 00:07:17,680 ago and it's not who they were. It's not who they are or were 20 108 00:07:17,680 --> 00:07:22,880 years ago. Just yesterday, Graham and I 109 00:07:22,880 --> 00:07:25,400 watched our wedding video for the first time in 20. 110 00:07:25,400 --> 00:07:32,440 Five years. And I got to see and witness the 111 00:07:32,440 --> 00:07:38,080 transformation that has taken place since that moment in my 112 00:07:38,080 --> 00:07:41,920 parents, in law, in my parents, I was. 113 00:07:41,920 --> 00:07:43,600 I was marked. By it to go. 114 00:07:44,400 --> 00:07:46,200 Wow, who they? Are today. 115 00:07:46,520 --> 00:07:47,920 I knew I had. Good ones. 116 00:07:47,920 --> 00:07:51,400 We knew we had good parents. We knew we'd been raised with a 117 00:07:51,400 --> 00:07:56,240 heritage of faith. But God has been allowed to 118 00:07:56,240 --> 00:08:02,600 continue to disciple their life. Nick so beautifully articulated 119 00:08:02,600 --> 00:08:05,680 the testimony of what God has done in her life to intervene. 120 00:08:06,920 --> 00:08:14,040 Because my mum, a beautifully broken woman at 19, walked into 121 00:08:14,040 --> 00:08:16,760 the Kingdom of God and said here I am. 122 00:08:18,080 --> 00:08:24,040 You love me as you receive me and I accept your love, but 123 00:08:24,040 --> 00:08:29,840 would you transform my life? Would you rewrite who I am? 124 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:34,840 And has continued to do that for the last. 125 00:08:35,760 --> 00:08:38,760 I don't know how many years, a lot of years. 126 00:08:40,280 --> 00:08:46,920 Because of this, I can attest today that discipleship is a. 127 00:08:46,920 --> 00:08:49,720 Key part. It is not a program in a church. 128 00:08:50,480 --> 00:08:53,520 It is not, even though it is one of the best things you could do. 129 00:08:53,720 --> 00:08:56,360 Because. My father-in-law, amazing man 130 00:08:56,360 --> 00:08:59,480 and God teaches it. It is not a Foundations course 131 00:08:59,840 --> 00:09:01,480 that is finished ten weeks from now. 132 00:09:02,040 --> 00:09:06,560 Discipleship is a lifelong. Journey you do with somebody who 133 00:09:06,560 --> 00:09:10,600 is more mature than you in the faith so that your life is 134 00:09:10,600 --> 00:09:16,280 growing in likeness with God continually and so I this 135 00:09:16,280 --> 00:09:19,960 morning want to right from the get go apologize to the 136 00:09:19,960 --> 00:09:22,320 generations who've come after and. 137 00:09:22,320 --> 00:09:24,720 Even to those. In this generation who may have 138 00:09:24,720 --> 00:09:26,440 missed this because of the church. 139 00:09:27,240 --> 00:09:32,080 And I love the church. I love the church, but we're not 140 00:09:32,080 --> 00:09:40,160 always right. The Word of God says do not be 141 00:09:40,160 --> 00:09:42,800 conformed to the ways of the world because it's reminding us 142 00:09:42,800 --> 00:09:46,280 as believers to not conform to the ways of the world. 143 00:09:47,600 --> 00:09:54,720 But sometimes we like to go or conform or move to what culture 144 00:09:54,800 --> 00:10:00,280 is doing. And Gray and I can see that 145 00:10:00,280 --> 00:10:02,720 there are some things. That as a church. 146 00:10:02,800 --> 00:10:06,400 As a generation, even our generation. 147 00:10:07,400 --> 00:10:10,680 That we have missed. Out on because we. 148 00:10:10,680 --> 00:10:12,640 Moved. From 1:00. 149 00:10:12,640 --> 00:10:16,880 On one relationship. To corporatizing. 150 00:10:17,280 --> 00:10:21,960 As much as we could, we do this because it is being really 151 00:10:21,960 --> 00:10:23,760 frank. A lazier model. 152 00:10:24,560 --> 00:10:27,800 It is easy to do a corporate e-mail than it is to do an 153 00:10:27,800 --> 00:10:30,840 individual. Coffee, am I right? 154 00:10:31,000 --> 00:10:32,160 Come on. I need to. 155 00:10:32,160 --> 00:10:33,400 Hear an Amen. Somebody's like. 156 00:10:33,480 --> 00:10:35,640 Amen. I'm booking you in this week, 157 00:10:35,960 --> 00:10:37,280 right? Come on. 158 00:10:38,560 --> 00:10:40,400 I know. That this is confronting. 159 00:10:41,640 --> 00:10:44,040 But I also know that there are. People sitting here today. 160 00:10:44,040 --> 00:10:48,200 Going yeah, I know, I know. I know there are. 161 00:10:48,200 --> 00:10:50,040 Things I've. Missed out on? 162 00:10:51,080 --> 00:10:54,760 Because discipleship took. A back step. 163 00:10:56,240 --> 00:11:00,440 In the. Church because of it. 164 00:11:00,800 --> 00:11:03,160 We've been left. By its effect in the House of 165 00:11:03,160 --> 00:11:08,080 God globally. But as there isn't a. 166 00:11:08,080 --> 00:11:10,160 Great awakening that has. Begun. 167 00:11:10,160 --> 00:11:11,640 It's not that we're waiting for it. 168 00:11:11,640 --> 00:11:16,680 It has begun across the earth. You and I actually need to step 169 00:11:16,680 --> 00:11:20,640 into this again, exactly what Jesus asked us to do when he 170 00:11:20,640 --> 00:11:26,040 left, to be discipled and to make disciples because. 171 00:11:27,240 --> 00:11:29,160 With a great. Awakening of people with. 172 00:11:30,200 --> 00:11:32,640 The Spirit of God. Moving across our nation. 173 00:11:33,840 --> 00:11:35,840 And people being drawn. By the spirit of. 174 00:11:35,840 --> 00:11:37,400 God. Into. 175 00:11:37,400 --> 00:11:41,240 The House of God saying I know that there is more and I've got 176 00:11:41,240 --> 00:11:43,600 to seek this. This is already happening all 177 00:11:43,600 --> 00:11:47,240 across the planet. There isn't a country attesting 178 00:11:47,240 --> 00:11:48,560 to this. Did. 179 00:11:48,560 --> 00:11:52,440 You know that Amazon? Prime has identified this. 180 00:11:52,920 --> 00:11:55,160 It is the entire model. Of where they've done the 181 00:11:55,160 --> 00:11:57,440 direction. It's why for those of you who. 182 00:11:57,440 --> 00:12:00,760 Follows Amazon Prime. It's why they actually are 183 00:12:00,840 --> 00:12:05,400 flooding this particular forum. With Christian content because. 184 00:12:05,400 --> 00:12:10,440 They've said the next generation is crying out for content to be 185 00:12:10,560 --> 00:12:15,760 disciples and to be able to know how to follow Christ, that this 186 00:12:15,760 --> 00:12:19,960 particular medium that actually just a couple of years ago was 187 00:12:19,960 --> 00:12:24,280 trying to win people with thriller and witchcraft content 188 00:12:24,680 --> 00:12:27,960 identified. It dipped in what this next 189 00:12:27,960 --> 00:12:32,440 generation is crying out for and it started to do away with this 190 00:12:32,440 --> 00:12:35,080 business. They became irrelevant and other 191 00:12:35,080 --> 00:12:37,360 forums were grabbing. People's attention. 192 00:12:39,680 --> 00:12:44,880 And so one smart man just decided, why don't we find out 193 00:12:44,880 --> 00:12:46,240 what the next generation is actually? 194 00:12:46,240 --> 00:12:49,680 Asking for. What are they? 195 00:12:49,920 --> 00:12:53,240 What are they asking for? They're asking for the ways to. 196 00:12:53,280 --> 00:12:57,000 Follow God so. Amazon Prime is flooding their 197 00:12:57,320 --> 00:13:01,920 total forum with shows and content so that people can 198 00:13:02,000 --> 00:13:04,120 actually. Begin to seek. 199 00:13:04,120 --> 00:13:07,560 Out faith and follow and. Find out who Jesus. 200 00:13:07,560 --> 00:13:11,600 Is. This has already begun, but for 201 00:13:11,600 --> 00:13:14,960 us to be able to do what God. Wants us to. 202 00:13:14,960 --> 00:13:17,120 Do with the people. Who walk in here? 203 00:13:17,800 --> 00:13:18,800 We. Ourselves. 204 00:13:18,800 --> 00:13:22,160 Have to be discipled. Because otherwise what we will 205 00:13:22,160 --> 00:13:23,480 do? Is be friendly. 206 00:13:23,920 --> 00:13:25,560 I don't want to be a friendly church. 207 00:13:27,040 --> 00:13:30,320 I know that sounds really weird. Anybody. 208 00:13:30,320 --> 00:13:31,400 Can put on a. Smile. 209 00:13:32,040 --> 00:13:35,080 Hold a wobble board. Right and say. 210 00:13:35,160 --> 00:13:41,080 We're glad you're here. But I want to know who Victoria 211 00:13:41,080 --> 00:13:45,120 is, and I want to know that Victoria is living his best life 212 00:13:45,120 --> 00:13:46,280 for Jesus. Christ and that. 213 00:13:46,320 --> 00:13:48,480 Everything that called that. God called. 214 00:13:48,480 --> 00:13:50,480 Victoria to is. Being done. 215 00:13:50,840 --> 00:13:54,600 And cultivated and transformed and moved by his. 216 00:13:54,600 --> 00:13:56,560 Spirit and that. Victoria. 217 00:13:56,560 --> 00:14:02,160 Leaves a legacy beyond his family, beyond a bloodline for 218 00:14:02,160 --> 00:14:11,920 the Kingdom of God that happens not in a Sunday service. 219 00:14:13,040 --> 00:14:17,680 This is this this. Here is for encouragement, 220 00:14:18,600 --> 00:14:25,320 edification, to stir us, to come alongside others who are going. 221 00:14:25,480 --> 00:14:27,680 You doing all that God's asked you to do. 222 00:14:28,600 --> 00:14:31,280 Awesome. You're not all right. 223 00:14:31,280 --> 00:14:34,640 Come on, let's walk together. Come on, come on. 224 00:14:34,760 --> 00:14:39,280 There's more. There's more, there's more, so I 225 00:14:39,280 --> 00:14:45,040 want to unpack this morning. Just a couple of things about 226 00:14:45,040 --> 00:14:48,560 discipleship because when I say the word discipleship, I know 227 00:14:49,160 --> 00:14:52,440 that there are going to be 100 different definitions in this 228 00:14:52,440 --> 00:14:55,120 house. Can we begin to see this in your 229 00:14:55,120 --> 00:14:59,320 spirit this morning, church? Thank you, Shane. 230 00:14:59,600 --> 00:15:06,040 Shane is ready to be discipled. Can we see just spirit this 231 00:15:06,040 --> 00:15:08,520 morning for something that hasn't taken place in a long 232 00:15:08,520 --> 00:15:10,240 time? Is that all right? 233 00:15:11,040 --> 00:15:13,040 I know you feel afraid. I can hear it. 234 00:15:13,720 --> 00:15:18,720 That's OK. Belief in Jesus is the key. 235 00:15:19,720 --> 00:15:22,600 It is a key. Like I spoke to Joan, like I 236 00:15:22,600 --> 00:15:24,800 spoke over you when she was being ministered to. 237 00:15:25,360 --> 00:15:30,320 But a discipled life opens the door to the house and allows God 238 00:15:30,320 --> 00:15:35,560 to walk into each room. Clean house and use the rooms 239 00:15:35,560 --> 00:15:39,040 for their proper function. This is discipleship. 240 00:15:39,160 --> 00:15:41,920 Can I give you a biblical definition of discipleship? 241 00:15:42,680 --> 00:15:45,640 Ready discipleship is the intentional. 242 00:15:46,080 --> 00:15:47,880 Spirit. LED process of being. 243 00:15:47,880 --> 00:15:51,800 Formed into the image of Christ. Through obedience. 244 00:15:51,800 --> 00:15:57,720 To His word say obedience, to his word intimacy with Him. 245 00:15:59,600 --> 00:16:02,280 And in a. One-on-one investment from 246 00:16:02,280 --> 00:16:03,960 someone. More spiritually. 247 00:16:03,960 --> 00:16:06,960 Mature so that we. Can learn to follow. 248 00:16:07,160 --> 00:16:08,920 Jesus. And lead others. 249 00:16:08,920 --> 00:16:14,640 To do the same. You cannot be discipled alone. 250 00:16:16,200 --> 00:16:21,240 True discipleship happens in. Relationship, not just with 251 00:16:21,440 --> 00:16:24,520 Jesus. But with someone who walks ahead 252 00:16:24,520 --> 00:16:29,080 of you in faith and Jesus modelled this by closely. 253 00:16:29,080 --> 00:16:33,560 Doing this with his disciples, not merely teaching from a 254 00:16:33,560 --> 00:16:38,320 distance, but. Calling them to individually 255 00:16:38,840 --> 00:16:42,040 walk. With him intimately for 3 1/2 256 00:16:42,040 --> 00:16:46,560 years. Some of my notes are also on my 257 00:16:46,560 --> 00:16:52,040 phone so I'm opening. This quickly can I? 258 00:16:52,040 --> 00:16:58,440 Tell you the results of what we see in the church that sound a 259 00:16:58,440 --> 00:17:03,040 lot like there are areas we have conformed to the ways of the 260 00:17:03,040 --> 00:17:07,240 world that have happened and crept into the church into. 261 00:17:07,240 --> 00:17:11,760 You and I into our everyday. Because of an absence. 262 00:17:11,760 --> 00:17:14,280 Of this in our. Life let me. 263 00:17:14,599 --> 00:17:18,560 Explain some of them. We have become consumer 264 00:17:18,680 --> 00:17:21,920 believers who are fat on content. 265 00:17:22,720 --> 00:17:27,040 And poor in character. Just take a breath. 266 00:17:28,520 --> 00:17:30,040 I'm going to come to hope in a minute. 267 00:17:30,120 --> 00:17:32,200 I'm going to explain what we're going to do in this. 268 00:17:33,080 --> 00:17:38,120 We are concerned about the state of the world, and either we feel 269 00:17:38,120 --> 00:17:44,560 hopeless or we've become conspiracy theorists, or we have 270 00:17:44,560 --> 00:17:47,800 an expectation that the church and leaders do something about 271 00:17:47,800 --> 00:17:53,680 it. Another symptom that is cript in 272 00:17:53,680 --> 00:17:59,680 because we lack discipleship is that opinions flow freely. 273 00:18:00,360 --> 00:18:02,920 They flow freely out of our lips. 274 00:18:03,640 --> 00:18:08,040 These thoughts are allowed to play out like movies and cinema. 275 00:18:08,040 --> 00:18:12,520 In our minds, we. Open our mouths about things 276 00:18:12,720 --> 00:18:16,440 that are destructive, divisive, and not according to the Word of 277 00:18:16,440 --> 00:18:20,040 God. Do you know, even in the last 278 00:18:20,040 --> 00:18:24,440 two years, I have heard people in conversations, I've been 279 00:18:24,440 --> 00:18:25,760 involved. In or in? 280 00:18:25,800 --> 00:18:29,960 After church hangs on significant services where we 281 00:18:29,960 --> 00:18:32,360 have appointed pastors and leaders. 282 00:18:32,440 --> 00:18:35,720 I have heard in cafe conversations where people have 283 00:18:35,720 --> 00:18:38,160 gone. Oh, that's an unusual move to 284 00:18:38,160 --> 00:18:40,160 do. There or what are they doing 285 00:18:40,160 --> 00:18:43,800 with? That person opinions are 286 00:18:43,840 --> 00:18:50,320 flowing. Freely we've had leaders, 287 00:18:50,320 --> 00:18:53,680 spirits. Discouraged on the day of 288 00:18:53,680 --> 00:18:56,640 commissioning because they've gone. 289 00:18:57,240 --> 00:18:59,160 They mustn't have anything else for you to do. 290 00:19:06,740 --> 00:19:13,220 Church. When our words flow freely and 291 00:19:13,220 --> 00:19:17,340 they aren't according to what God has asked us to come into 292 00:19:17,340 --> 00:19:22,620 alignment with His word about our words, it is evidence that 293 00:19:22,620 --> 00:19:25,580 we lack discipleship in our life. 294 00:19:26,040 --> 00:19:30,800 That means there's nobody to go, Oi, that's foul. 295 00:19:33,120 --> 00:19:35,080 I have a question for you this morning. 296 00:19:36,400 --> 00:19:38,560 Who's allowed to tell you that you're off? 297 00:19:44,400 --> 00:19:46,760 Couple know, but I. Want you to? 298 00:19:46,760 --> 00:19:48,600 Think for a second. Who? 299 00:19:49,880 --> 00:19:55,400 Who is actually allowed? Who is actually? 300 00:19:56,280 --> 00:19:58,200 Do you have? One or two trusteds who are 301 00:19:58,200 --> 00:20:02,040 actually allowed to say God didn't say that your feelings 302 00:20:02,040 --> 00:20:05,440 are same. That oh. 303 00:20:12,180 --> 00:20:14,660 Because I can. Tell you I'm going to get there. 304 00:20:17,340 --> 00:20:19,100 When? You are not discipled. 305 00:20:19,420 --> 00:20:23,220 God says everything God says. What to eat for? 306 00:20:23,220 --> 00:20:27,020 Breakfast because you want to. Eat the waffle and not something 307 00:20:27,020 --> 00:20:29,640 healthy. He's like you deserve it because 308 00:20:29,640 --> 00:20:33,680 I love you. You are beautifully and 309 00:20:33,680 --> 00:20:36,000 wonderfully made. So are waffles. 310 00:20:36,600 --> 00:20:41,520 Go for it and. Not. 311 00:20:42,000 --> 00:20:45,160 Your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, and you are to 312 00:20:45,160 --> 00:20:47,840 cultivate it. And you are to look after it. 313 00:20:48,120 --> 00:20:49,920 And you are to nurture it. With all the. 314 00:20:49,920 --> 00:20:55,200 Due diligence of that a holy Creator created it and is 315 00:20:55,200 --> 00:20:58,560 entrusting it to. You to steward because he's got 316 00:20:58,560 --> 00:21:03,160 things to do in and. Through it is somebody allowed 317 00:21:03,160 --> 00:21:10,520 to say that poignant thought, but our opinions flow freely. 318 00:21:10,920 --> 00:21:12,720 We claim God told. Us when in. 319 00:21:12,720 --> 00:21:20,280 Fact, our feelings or. Preferences told us, we claim 320 00:21:20,280 --> 00:21:23,360 God told us. In actual fact, in the last 321 00:21:23,360 --> 00:21:28,800 three years, I have been told multiple times that God told me 322 00:21:29,200 --> 00:21:33,320 by people who had heard it in gossip, and I knew they'd heard 323 00:21:33,320 --> 00:21:37,480 it in gossip. They'd heard information and 324 00:21:37,480 --> 00:21:43,040 they said I'm silly, I'm silly. Pastamel, I've been around for a 325 00:21:43,040 --> 00:21:45,120 long time, followed Jesus my whole life. 326 00:21:45,320 --> 00:21:48,200 I just knew. See that I just knew. 327 00:21:48,560 --> 00:21:52,480 Undisciple. It's called gossip. 328 00:21:52,480 --> 00:21:54,920 You had a conversation on Thursday. 329 00:21:55,240 --> 00:21:57,640 Where you found out? And now you're fishing for 330 00:21:57,640 --> 00:22:01,960 information. Come on, let it stir our spirit. 331 00:22:02,760 --> 00:22:05,920 Let it challenge us. This particular message right 332 00:22:05,920 --> 00:22:07,880 now is discipling a couple of us. 333 00:22:08,960 --> 00:22:13,240 All right. We are forming. 334 00:22:13,240 --> 00:22:16,040 Another symptom is is we form our own doctrines. 335 00:22:17,280 --> 00:22:19,720 The. Hymns are the only holy songs. 336 00:22:21,680 --> 00:22:26,040 Oh, you laugh. I know you're laughing, but in 337 00:22:26,040 --> 00:22:27,800 truth. We. 338 00:22:27,800 --> 00:22:30,480 Form our own doctrines when we're undisciple. 339 00:22:31,400 --> 00:22:34,720 And these new songs, they're too wordy and I've got to follow the 340 00:22:34,720 --> 00:22:37,160 overhead projector, which is only half up there half the 341 00:22:37,160 --> 00:22:42,080 time. And so I can't do it. 342 00:22:42,080 --> 00:22:44,240 They should. Just do the hymns because they 343 00:22:44,240 --> 00:22:45,400 were the only. Holy songs. 344 00:22:45,600 --> 00:22:47,440 Oh. Sorry to David and all of the 345 00:22:47,440 --> 00:22:50,880 beautiful poets in the Bible who wrote the songs way before the 346 00:22:50,880 --> 00:22:51,880 hymns. Ever. 347 00:22:51,880 --> 00:22:56,440 Were written. Come on, if we're going to get 348 00:22:56,440 --> 00:22:58,000 bigger on the doctrine, let's go back and. 349 00:22:58,040 --> 00:23:01,800 Only sing the psalms. Come on. 350 00:23:01,960 --> 00:23:04,200 And then Miriam's out a step because she wasn't in the 351 00:23:04,200 --> 00:23:05,720 Psalms. When she sang a song. 352 00:23:06,480 --> 00:23:11,680 Awkward in awkward. But here's the thing. 353 00:23:12,480 --> 00:23:13,280 You might go. I've never. 354 00:23:13,280 --> 00:23:16,760 Articulated that however you're. Standing in worship and going 355 00:23:16,760 --> 00:23:18,920 hmm Yep. And the drums are really loud 356 00:23:18,920 --> 00:23:23,200 again. Oh, it's in my eyes, right in. 357 00:23:23,200 --> 00:23:24,800 My eyes. It's in my eyes and oh. 358 00:23:29,760 --> 00:23:31,640 Right, we've just been taken to heavenly places. 359 00:23:31,920 --> 00:23:33,680 I'm so glad. Thank you, Gray and Mel, for 360 00:23:33,680 --> 00:23:36,320 allowing the Holy Spirit to lead this morning. 361 00:23:37,240 --> 00:23:42,200 We form our own doctrines because of undiscipleship. 362 00:23:43,000 --> 00:23:50,320 Being undiscipled, all right, We can't be instructed how to live, 363 00:23:52,200 --> 00:23:56,640 so therefore we never come under authority, which means we are 364 00:23:56,960 --> 00:23:59,640 not practiced at coming under God's authority. 365 00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:02,160 We can't come. Under God's authority and yet 366 00:24:02,160 --> 00:24:08,400 not come under man's because it is in the relationship of 367 00:24:08,400 --> 00:24:10,440 humans. That we learn. 368 00:24:10,440 --> 00:24:17,960 Humility we learn Vulnerability. We learn transparency when I 369 00:24:18,400 --> 00:24:20,320 engage in a. Conversation with Rachel. 370 00:24:20,320 --> 00:24:22,680 We talk. About the things that. 371 00:24:22,680 --> 00:24:24,600 Hurt. And how to forgive? 372 00:24:25,520 --> 00:24:26,240 And we talk. About the. 373 00:24:26,240 --> 00:24:28,920 Things that are fractured and how to heal. 374 00:24:30,920 --> 00:24:33,160 There is vulnerability and. Humility. 375 00:24:33,160 --> 00:24:37,200 And it's in that space that the Holy Spirit can transform our 376 00:24:37,200 --> 00:24:42,600 lives. Another thing that I can. 377 00:24:42,600 --> 00:24:45,240 Say is the result. Of not discipleship is our 378 00:24:45,240 --> 00:24:52,200 altars are empty. Our altars are empty. 379 00:24:53,560 --> 00:24:57,000 Which means we've got a problem with pride. 380 00:25:02,320 --> 00:25:05,440 I'm really grateful as the pastor of the church that my 381 00:25:05,440 --> 00:25:09,840 name is on the seat right there, so I can stand here really 382 00:25:09,840 --> 00:25:15,160 easily. Just because you might be in the 383 00:25:15,160 --> 00:25:21,080 3rd or the 15th or the 20th row does not mean you can't come and 384 00:25:21,080 --> 00:25:25,440 stand on this whole tattoo regularly. 385 00:25:27,640 --> 00:25:31,640 Do you know our young people, being younger, in faith, and 386 00:25:31,640 --> 00:25:36,960 still in a stage of such passion and vigor for the Lord, know in 387 00:25:36,960 --> 00:25:42,160 their heart that this is a place of humility and vulnerability 388 00:25:42,800 --> 00:25:44,200 when God is doing something in them. 389 00:25:44,720 --> 00:25:46,640 You can all see it and you're watching like this. 390 00:25:47,920 --> 00:25:49,760 Come on with the one eye, everybody knows it. 391 00:25:50,880 --> 00:25:52,720 Who's a seasoned one Eye worshipper? 392 00:25:55,600 --> 00:26:01,760 You know what I'm talking about. This place is exposed for a 393 00:26:01,760 --> 00:26:05,520 reason. Because when you come and you 394 00:26:05,520 --> 00:26:08,120 bring your. Stuff into the beautiful. 395 00:26:08,120 --> 00:26:11,400 Exposure before God, he. Does. 396 00:26:11,400 --> 00:26:14,720 Things in this place. That are more restorative. 397 00:26:14,720 --> 00:26:18,320 Than in a place of pride going. That's just for somebody else. 398 00:26:22,800 --> 00:26:28,600 So our altars are empty, we don't share our faith, we don't 399 00:26:28,600 --> 00:26:32,320 serve. And the absence of discipleship 400 00:26:32,320 --> 00:26:38,640 has bred super spiritualism in the immature and pride and 401 00:26:38,640 --> 00:26:41,280 religious spirits in long term believers. 402 00:26:41,880 --> 00:26:44,880 This is the result of the church without discipleship. 403 00:26:46,480 --> 00:26:50,600 But God had an antidote. He's always had an antidote. 404 00:26:50,840 --> 00:26:52,560 In actual fact, it wasn't the antidote. 405 00:26:52,640 --> 00:26:55,440 It's the plan. He always had a plan. 406 00:26:56,200 --> 00:27:01,200 He has a plan and he says his. Ways lead to life, say his ways. 407 00:27:01,200 --> 00:27:05,000 Lead to life. Now, because of the time, I can 408 00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:07,000 say I'm going to get. Through 2. 409 00:27:07,280 --> 00:27:10,360 Of my five points, and I'm just going to give you those today, 410 00:27:11,280 --> 00:27:15,200 2. This morning I want to unpack 411 00:27:15,200 --> 00:27:18,520 very quickly. In this message saying from 412 00:27:18,520 --> 00:27:22,320 believers to followers. Just two. 413 00:27:22,320 --> 00:27:28,640 Things about discipleship. That we miss when we aren't. 414 00:27:28,640 --> 00:27:31,640 Disciple over the next. Month I'm going to. 415 00:27:31,640 --> 00:27:35,880 Unpack all 5 so that we get a full picture of what we're 416 00:27:35,880 --> 00:27:38,960 missing out on, and I pray that it stirs your spirit to go. 417 00:27:39,680 --> 00:27:43,000 I've got to jump. In on this I need this for my 418 00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:44,800 life. Church. 419 00:27:44,920 --> 00:27:46,640 I need. This for my life. 420 00:27:48,280 --> 00:27:51,680 I would be a lousy pastor. I can tell you that with 421 00:27:51,680 --> 00:27:55,680 confidence. If my life is not led by 422 00:27:55,680 --> 00:27:59,440 somebody more mature, if there isn't wise counsel going, Nope, 423 00:27:59,520 --> 00:28:00,160 that's. You. 424 00:28:00,480 --> 00:28:01,920 Nope, that's. Feelings. 425 00:28:02,000 --> 00:28:05,760 Nope, that's. Being real with me and teaching 426 00:28:05,760 --> 00:28:07,880 me the. Ways of the Lord, places they've 427 00:28:07,880 --> 00:28:11,760 gone that I've never gone. We all need this. 428 00:28:12,760 --> 00:28:16,560 My iPad's going into low power mode, so pray read in the 429 00:28:16,560 --> 00:28:20,440 spirit. We're going to Luke 923 quickly 430 00:28:20,920 --> 00:28:25,320 and it says this. Whoever wants to be my disciple 431 00:28:26,040 --> 00:28:30,920 must deny themselves and take up their cross daily, say daily. 432 00:28:32,120 --> 00:28:34,800 That means not finished. That means not graduated. 433 00:28:35,120 --> 00:28:36,280 That means you're not. Done yet? 434 00:28:36,840 --> 00:28:40,280 That means you're also ready. Whoa. 435 00:28:41,640 --> 00:28:44,760 And follow me. There is a difference between 436 00:28:44,760 --> 00:28:46,680 believing in. Jesus and following Him. 437 00:28:47,200 --> 00:28:49,320 Believing is the. Beginning of the journey 438 00:28:49,640 --> 00:28:52,480 following is the. Transformation of the journey. 439 00:28:53,480 --> 00:28:55,760 Many Christians today stop at belief. 440 00:28:55,800 --> 00:28:57,680 And never step. Into the rich. 441 00:28:58,040 --> 00:29:01,840 But costly, beautiful life of discipleship. 442 00:29:04,520 --> 00:29:07,080 Today I want to unpack just two of five. 443 00:29:07,080 --> 00:29:11,080 Points, and then we're going to see this out over this month of 444 00:29:11,080 --> 00:29:15,080 what we miss out on when we are not discipled #1 if you're 445 00:29:15,080 --> 00:29:17,200 taking notes. If you're not taking notes, this 446 00:29:17,200 --> 00:29:19,520 is discipleship 101. Pull out a notepad. 447 00:29:20,400 --> 00:29:22,760 Pull out your. Phone this is something you're. 448 00:29:22,760 --> 00:29:23,800 Going to go back. And you're going to. 449 00:29:23,800 --> 00:29:25,640 Stew on and meditate. On. 450 00:29:26,160 --> 00:29:28,400 Come on and go. To the word of God and verify 451 00:29:28,400 --> 00:29:31,800 it. Not chat, not chat your BT Go 452 00:29:31,800 --> 00:29:35,720 and verify. It in the word of God we miss 453 00:29:35,760 --> 00:29:38,600 out number one, we. Miss out on the power of. 454 00:29:38,600 --> 00:29:43,720 Transformation. Romans 12/2 says do not conform 455 00:29:43,720 --> 00:29:45,080 to the pattern. Of this world. 456 00:29:45,360 --> 00:29:51,920 But be be by the renewing. Of your mind. 457 00:29:52,520 --> 00:29:56,600 Undisciplined believers say. But this is the way I am. 458 00:29:57,520 --> 00:30:00,040 This is just the way I talk. This is just the. 459 00:30:00,040 --> 00:30:02,160 Way my whole family does this is. 460 00:30:02,160 --> 00:30:04,520 The way I've lived, this is the way. 461 00:30:04,520 --> 00:30:06,560 This is the way. This is the way I. 462 00:30:06,560 --> 00:30:09,240 AM and God loves. Me anyway. 463 00:30:12,120 --> 00:30:15,400 Undisciplined believers also say only God. 464 00:30:15,800 --> 00:30:18,560 Can disciple me, just me and the. 465 00:30:18,560 --> 00:30:21,040 Holy Spirit, he's. Talking to me about it all the 466 00:30:21,040 --> 00:30:26,600 time. That's an attitude, even if it's 467 00:30:26,600 --> 00:30:31,440 subconscious that we have arrived or we've graduated. 468 00:30:31,920 --> 00:30:36,160 At this discipleship journey. I can. 469 00:30:36,160 --> 00:30:38,800 Tell you with confidence. Church, you never arrive until 470 00:30:38,800 --> 00:30:41,800 you've gone to heaven. In the discipleship journey, 471 00:30:42,400 --> 00:30:46,360 you're never finished. These are often used to be. 472 00:30:46,360 --> 00:30:50,880 Really, Frank as an excuse for spiritual stagnation? 473 00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:57,440 True disciples. Say search me Lord and change 474 00:30:57,440 --> 00:31:00,360 me. Search me, Lord put me. 475 00:31:00,360 --> 00:31:02,360 On the Potter's. Wheel again. 476 00:31:03,080 --> 00:31:05,600 Put me on the Potters wheel. Jesus didn't just come to 477 00:31:05,600 --> 00:31:08,680 forgive your sin, He came. To transform your life. 478 00:31:09,680 --> 00:31:11,720 Dallas. Willard says this. 479 00:31:11,880 --> 00:31:14,720 The greatest issue facing the world today is whether. 480 00:31:14,720 --> 00:31:17,840 Those who identify. As Christians will become. 481 00:31:17,840 --> 00:31:24,000 Disciples, students, apprentices, practitioners. 482 00:31:24,240 --> 00:31:27,720 Of Jesus Christ. What a statement. 483 00:31:27,880 --> 00:31:30,000 It's huge. Belief is the beginning. 484 00:31:30,200 --> 00:31:35,040 Transformation is the journey. Without discipleship we we 485 00:31:35,040 --> 00:31:39,960 settle for spiritual survival instead of spiritual renewal. 486 00:31:42,360 --> 00:31:46,280 Believing in Jesus saves our soul, but following. 487 00:31:46,280 --> 00:31:51,520 Jesus transforms our life. Without discipleship, we risk. 488 00:31:51,520 --> 00:31:56,760 Staying the same saved but struggling. 489 00:31:57,920 --> 00:32:01,160 I don't know about you but I want to go beyond Saved but 490 00:32:01,160 --> 00:32:03,600 struggling. Who else here today is? 491 00:32:03,600 --> 00:32:08,720 Saying you know what, that's me. I want to go beyond saved but 492 00:32:08,720 --> 00:32:12,320 struggling. There is more for us and it 493 00:32:12,320 --> 00:32:14,360 comes through. Transformation. 494 00:32:14,960 --> 00:32:17,800 Come on, Jesus didn't just die to. 495 00:32:17,800 --> 00:32:21,120 Give us a new. Destination, yes. 496 00:32:21,160 --> 00:32:26,080 Your salvation equals eternity, and that is worth rejoicing 497 00:32:26,080 --> 00:32:28,880 over. But he died to give you and IA 498 00:32:28,880 --> 00:32:31,560 new identity. Come on. 499 00:32:33,240 --> 00:32:36,400 Discipleship. Reshapes our thinking, our. 500 00:32:36,400 --> 00:32:38,560 Relationships. Our priorities. 501 00:32:38,640 --> 00:32:45,560 Our purpose? And our written story, finally, 502 00:32:45,560 --> 00:32:49,440 as the ban comes this morning #2. 503 00:32:51,400 --> 00:32:55,600 We miss the joy. Of intimacy with Jesus. 504 00:32:56,720 --> 00:32:58,960 We miss. The Joy of intimacy. 505 00:32:59,720 --> 00:33:03,800 John 1515 says this I no. Longer call you. 506 00:33:03,800 --> 00:33:07,600 Servants, somebody needs to hear this today. 507 00:33:09,360 --> 00:33:16,000 You've come to know Jesus. You are rejoicing in the. 508 00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:19,240 Salvation of your sins. But he's saying to. 509 00:33:19,240 --> 00:33:23,200 You and I today. I no longer call you servants. 510 00:33:24,160 --> 00:33:29,400 Instead I've called you friends. Friends. 511 00:33:29,880 --> 00:33:33,840 Undisciple believers say I just. Need the church? 512 00:33:33,840 --> 00:33:38,040 Service to feed me all that. Great podcast to feed me. 513 00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:41,240 Actually I have a whole Sunday set up. 514 00:33:41,240 --> 00:33:42,840 I love this. Preacher, then this preacher, 515 00:33:42,840 --> 00:33:45,480 then this preacher on. You know, Christian TV or 516 00:33:45,480 --> 00:33:49,640 Instagram or whatever, and then I'll come to the service, love 517 00:33:49,640 --> 00:33:51,520 it. The life experience that can 518 00:33:51,520 --> 00:33:53,000 feed me. I am. 519 00:33:53,000 --> 00:33:56,240 Feeling encouraged and a. Boost of faith. 520 00:33:56,680 --> 00:34:00,280 To launch me into my Wii? Undesirable. 521 00:34:00,280 --> 00:34:03,520 Believers say, which is. Common and. 522 00:34:03,520 --> 00:34:05,960 Very, very sad. I. 523 00:34:05,960 --> 00:34:11,280 Believe in God. But I don't feel close to God. 524 00:34:12,560 --> 00:34:15,760 I don't feel his nearness. I don't. 525 00:34:15,800 --> 00:34:18,239 Feel His presence that is with me always. 526 00:34:18,239 --> 00:34:20,239 As his words. Says it is. 527 00:34:20,960 --> 00:34:21,840 He doesn't. Leave you. 528 00:34:22,280 --> 00:34:24,920 He doesn't forsake you, he says. I will. 529 00:34:24,920 --> 00:34:26,840 Never leave you. And I will never. 530 00:34:26,840 --> 00:34:32,440 Forsake you. But when we miss the joy of. 531 00:34:32,440 --> 00:34:36,400 Intimacy we can often. Be very aware. 532 00:34:37,120 --> 00:34:42,280 That he does not feel near or present in our everyday life and 533 00:34:42,280 --> 00:34:48,320 so we often will come to a Sunday service and be consumers 534 00:34:48,719 --> 00:34:53,800 of a feeling that makes me feel near to the presence of God. 535 00:34:54,920 --> 00:35:00,960 Did you know you can experience? That always I wonder. 536 00:35:00,960 --> 00:35:04,160 If you believe that today. Did you know you can experience 537 00:35:04,160 --> 00:35:05,360 that when you brush your teeth, you. 538 00:35:07,200 --> 00:35:09,080 Know I think I'm crazy, but you can. 539 00:35:09,800 --> 00:35:12,120 You can experience it's. Hard to pray in the Spirit. 540 00:35:12,120 --> 00:35:14,440 Brushing your teeth. I don't recommend it. 541 00:35:16,240 --> 00:35:19,440 You can do it here. You can feel His presence and 542 00:35:19,440 --> 00:35:25,760 His nearness in every moment, waking and sleeping. 543 00:35:26,040 --> 00:35:28,760 For some of you, you are plagued in your dreams. 544 00:35:28,880 --> 00:35:31,360 With things. That God never designed. 545 00:35:31,360 --> 00:35:35,720 To be there, deposit there for you to have to process and his 546 00:35:35,720 --> 00:35:39,760 presence and His nearness. Is not felt because there is a 547 00:35:39,760 --> 00:35:42,320 lack. Of intimacy with him. 548 00:35:44,040 --> 00:35:49,400 When you take a journey of discipleship, somebody can walk 549 00:35:49,400 --> 00:35:53,560 you through how to be a spiritual overcomer, even in 550 00:35:53,560 --> 00:35:56,760 your. Sleeping hours because you. 551 00:35:56,760 --> 00:36:00,320 Can be an overcomer. In your sleeping hours. 552 00:36:00,600 --> 00:36:03,560 I have walked with girls who used to be plagued with 553 00:36:03,560 --> 00:36:05,680 nightmares. They were marked by this for 554 00:36:05,680 --> 00:36:10,080 their life, who now are spiritual prophetesses. 555 00:36:10,320 --> 00:36:13,280 And you know what? They often don't dream anymore 556 00:36:13,440 --> 00:36:15,440 because I know that the enemy is afraid. 557 00:36:15,440 --> 00:36:18,280 When he shows up. And they're wielding this, so 558 00:36:18,280 --> 00:36:20,640 you go back for more. Ready. 559 00:36:21,080 --> 00:36:26,120 Come on, in the name of Jesus, we have the. 560 00:36:26,120 --> 00:36:30,680 Ability to do this. But many of us actually have to 561 00:36:30,680 --> 00:36:31,360 be. Not many. 562 00:36:31,360 --> 00:36:34,640 All of us have to be walked. Like Jesus? 563 00:36:34,840 --> 00:36:39,640 Called disciples to walk with so they understood and knew how to 564 00:36:39,640 --> 00:36:44,640 do this. Because of this, this reflects. 565 00:36:44,640 --> 00:36:49,560 Second hand relationship discipleship leads us into 566 00:36:49,560 --> 00:36:52,000 direct. Communion with God. 567 00:36:53,160 --> 00:36:58,040 CS Lewis says this. Christ says give me all. 568 00:36:58,720 --> 00:37:01,440 I don't want so much of your time or so. 569 00:37:01,440 --> 00:37:04,520 Much of your money or so much of your work? 570 00:37:05,800 --> 00:37:09,720 I want it all. It's not going to cost you 571 00:37:09,720 --> 00:37:12,160 something church to follow Jesus. 572 00:37:12,160 --> 00:37:15,080 It is going to cost you everything. 573 00:37:17,120 --> 00:37:21,160 Jesus doesn't want your. Belief He wants your heart, He 574 00:37:21,160 --> 00:37:24,920 wants your thoughts, He wants your actions, He wants your. 575 00:37:24,920 --> 00:37:26,400 Walk. He wants your. 576 00:37:26,400 --> 00:37:29,720 Talk. Come on, followers. 577 00:37:29,720 --> 00:37:34,440 Make space daily to meet with Jesus in. 578 00:37:34,440 --> 00:37:38,080 Scripture in prayer. And in obedience. 579 00:37:38,280 --> 00:37:43,080 At our IMC conference this week. Oh, it was fun. 580 00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:45,360 Graham and I were. Challenged in the. 581 00:37:45,360 --> 00:37:47,560 Very first session for as a. In a. 582 00:37:47,560 --> 00:37:50,160 Pastor's lunch. It's supposed to be the cushy 583 00:37:50,160 --> 00:37:52,680 section. You know, cushy session with 584 00:37:52,680 --> 00:37:58,160 lunch. And Corey Russell says to us as 585 00:37:58,160 --> 00:38:01,080 pastors, who covets your prayer life? 586 00:38:02,240 --> 00:38:07,000 Who wants it? Come on, I know. 587 00:38:07,120 --> 00:38:08,880 Even here in this. House today. 588 00:38:09,160 --> 00:38:11,200 There will be. Specific believers that you. 589 00:38:11,200 --> 00:38:16,080 Covet their prayer life. Come on, am I right? 590 00:38:17,160 --> 00:38:19,360 Covered in a good way. There are spiritual gifts. 591 00:38:19,360 --> 00:38:23,200 You're allowed to covet. Do you know if you want to learn 592 00:38:23,200 --> 00:38:23,720 to pray? Why? 593 00:38:23,880 --> 00:38:25,640 Don't you spend some? Time with Rachel Eaton. 594 00:38:26,960 --> 00:38:28,880 Even in an office when I'm trying. 595 00:38:28,880 --> 00:38:33,000 To get work done. There is warfare and intimacy 596 00:38:33,720 --> 00:38:35,360 taking. Place at all times. 597 00:38:36,720 --> 00:38:40,200 And I love it because it draws me in to say. 598 00:38:40,800 --> 00:38:45,480 I covet this gift. I covet the gift of prayer on 599 00:38:45,480 --> 00:38:52,120 Pastor TJ and Saraya's. Life, but it's I. 600 00:38:52,120 --> 00:38:55,600 Wonder if this morning you and I can go instead of coveting? 601 00:38:55,600 --> 00:38:59,280 These things. Coveting the prophetic of Pastor 602 00:38:59,280 --> 00:39:05,000 Rachel, we go and said, I'm going to be walked into the 603 00:39:05,000 --> 00:39:09,480 development and the fulfillment and the fullness of the gifts 604 00:39:09,480 --> 00:39:11,400 God's placed in my. Life. 605 00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:15,720 And instead of vicariously operating out of Rachel, I go. 606 00:39:15,920 --> 00:39:19,920 Would you teach me how? What does this require? 607 00:39:19,920 --> 00:39:22,960 How many hours a day of intimacy with God? 608 00:39:23,720 --> 00:39:28,320 Is there a number? I learnt some numbers. 609 00:39:28,320 --> 00:39:30,480 This week we. Learnt some numbers. 610 00:39:30,480 --> 00:39:34,640 This week that went. Something we're coveting, 611 00:39:35,200 --> 00:39:38,160 Something that we're craving, Something we want to step into. 612 00:39:38,640 --> 00:39:40,840 We allowed. Team members to disciple us and 613 00:39:40,840 --> 00:39:43,440 went well, this is what it's cost us. 614 00:39:44,720 --> 00:39:48,320 This is the cost of this discipleship gift. 615 00:39:49,960 --> 00:39:53,640 OK, how do we do that? How do I step into that? 616 00:39:54,160 --> 00:39:56,000 Would you help me? Would you start to walk with me 617 00:39:56,000 --> 00:39:57,360 in this? Would you? 618 00:39:57,360 --> 00:39:59,560 Begin to cultivate this and not would. 619 00:39:59,560 --> 00:40:02,040 You do it for me. Would you hold me accountable to 620 00:40:02,040 --> 00:40:04,720 it? Would you ring me up and say 621 00:40:04,720 --> 00:40:06,240 what did God speak? To you about when you. 622 00:40:06,480 --> 00:40:08,920 Asked him that. What did he tell you? 623 00:40:08,920 --> 00:40:11,720 Are you going to do? It how when when are? 624 00:40:12,240 --> 00:40:20,120 You going to do these things, discipleship, church, You and I 625 00:40:20,120 --> 00:40:25,440 cannot lack intimacy with God because when we do, we have a 626 00:40:25,440 --> 00:40:27,360 whole lot of knowledge about who He is. 627 00:40:28,560 --> 00:40:33,120 But we can't lead people who are searching for somebody to 628 00:40:33,240 --> 00:40:37,280 absolutely turn their lives upside down if we've not allowed 629 00:40:37,280 --> 00:40:39,560 God to totally turn our lives upside down. 630 00:40:39,920 --> 00:40:42,120 And I'm not talking about fill up your calendar. 631 00:40:43,880 --> 00:40:45,920 I'm talking about transform your life. 632 00:40:47,760 --> 00:40:49,520 We can't live off second hand faith. 633 00:40:51,520 --> 00:40:57,560 We can't be consumers. Podcasts, sermons, others 634 00:40:57,560 --> 00:41:02,400 experiences. Today Jesus is inviting us to 635 00:41:02,400 --> 00:41:08,200 walk with him, to hear his voice, to know his heart. 636 00:41:09,960 --> 00:41:12,640 Because disciples are not just learning about Jesus, they are 637 00:41:12,640 --> 00:41:17,960 becoming more like him. And so this morning I'm going to 638 00:41:17,960 --> 00:41:22,000 ask for a response to this message. 639 00:41:22,640 --> 00:41:24,200 And I know it's been challenging. 640 00:41:25,240 --> 00:41:27,920 Put your seatbelts on. We're going for four weeks to 641 00:41:27,920 --> 00:41:33,240 see this, but it's not going anywhere after a month. 642 00:41:33,880 --> 00:41:39,880 We believe there is a power and an intimacy found when we become 643 00:41:39,880 --> 00:41:45,440 mature disciples, which doesn't happen in a moment, it happens 644 00:41:45,480 --> 00:41:50,200 in a journey. So I'm wondering right now in 645 00:41:50,200 --> 00:41:55,760 this meeting is Keys beautifully plays and you've been reminded 646 00:41:55,760 --> 00:42:02,080 that God is here, He is near, he is present if you have. 647 00:42:02,080 --> 00:42:08,120 Felt during this. Time the challenge, the 648 00:42:08,120 --> 00:42:16,480 reminder, the call to be disciple, if you would just 649 00:42:16,480 --> 00:42:23,400 stand to your feet where you are. 650 00:42:31,080 --> 00:42:33,480 God, this is such a humbling journey. 651 00:42:38,280 --> 00:42:40,760 There's something you want to do in each and every one of us. 652 00:42:41,640 --> 00:42:45,040 You don't want us to miss out on the fullness of what you want to 653 00:42:45,040 --> 00:42:49,000 do in us. Every single one of us has been 654 00:42:49,000 --> 00:42:55,880 called the Purpose. But to walk in it, we've got to 655 00:42:55,880 --> 00:43:00,720 walk following you. This is not done alone. 656 00:43:02,280 --> 00:43:05,920 And so this morning, with arms outstretched. 657 00:43:09,240 --> 00:43:13,000 We. Humbly come before you to do 658 00:43:13,000 --> 00:43:16,520 what you've asked us to do to follow. 659 00:43:16,520 --> 00:43:20,000 You if you're. Choosing to do that this 660 00:43:20,000 --> 00:43:21,840 morning, I'm going to just ask you to confess it. 661 00:43:21,840 --> 00:43:25,080 Say I'll follow you, Jesus. Now just I believe in you. 662 00:43:26,720 --> 00:43:31,480 I am choosing from this moment forward to follow you. 663 00:43:33,720 --> 00:43:37,280 To walk in. Obedience to your word to be 664 00:43:37,280 --> 00:43:41,960 transformed, and so to grow in intimacy with you. 665 00:43:43,240 --> 00:43:46,600 To actually hear your. Voice and not profess your voice 666 00:43:48,440 --> 00:43:52,200 based on my feelings. God, you have. 667 00:43:52,200 --> 00:43:55,920 Permission to lead my life. Would you say your own prayer 668 00:43:55,920 --> 00:43:58,320 this morning instead of me doing it? 669 00:43:58,880 --> 00:44:02,600 You can borrow my words, but God, would you lead my life? 670 00:44:03,440 --> 00:44:05,400 Would you? Help me to be. 671 00:44:05,400 --> 00:44:11,120 Humble and allow people. Allow somebody. 672 00:44:12,120 --> 00:44:15,040 To come. Alongside my life and. 673 00:44:15,040 --> 00:44:17,800 Walk with. Me on this journey. 674 00:44:19,080 --> 00:44:22,880 To speak in the areas where there is more that you have. 675 00:44:22,880 --> 00:44:25,400 For me. In the areas that maybe I've. 676 00:44:25,400 --> 00:44:31,520 Settled or become comfortable God would you do it because this 677 00:44:31,520 --> 00:44:33,640 morning I. Choose to follow you. 678 00:44:34,800 --> 00:44:38,000 I choose to follow you. I want to be counted. 679 00:44:39,040 --> 00:44:42,640 As one of your disciples, not just believers. 680 00:44:44,320 --> 00:44:45,680 I want to be counted as one of your. 681 00:44:45,680 --> 00:44:48,360 Disciples I want. To know you intimately, I want 682 00:44:48,360 --> 00:44:51,880 to know how you think, how you speak, how you do. 683 00:44:52,080 --> 00:44:55,280 I want to know the questions to ask, like how do I pray? 684 00:44:55,440 --> 00:45:00,840 Because I witness it in your. Life God teach me how? 685 00:45:02,640 --> 00:45:08,480 Help me to keep my spirit sweet, teachable, humble so that I'm up 686 00:45:08,480 --> 00:45:12,280 for this journey and never let me get stagnant or comfortable 687 00:45:12,280 --> 00:45:16,160 or complacent in an attitude that I have made it. 688 00:45:16,640 --> 00:45:19,760 And that it's done. And that it's finished and that 689 00:45:19,760 --> 00:45:20,520 it's. Just for the young. 690 00:45:20,520 --> 00:45:23,440 Ones. God, shake that up. 691 00:45:23,440 --> 00:45:26,960 You had permission this morning to put us on. 692 00:45:26,960 --> 00:45:29,840 The Potter's wheel. To put us on the. 693 00:45:29,840 --> 00:45:36,520 Potter's wheel again, God. Break us and make us and mold 694 00:45:36,520 --> 00:45:42,040 us. To be in the likeness of you for 695 00:45:42,040 --> 00:45:43,000 you. Alone. 696 00:45:43,760 --> 00:45:46,760 Holy. You alone are righteous. 697 00:45:46,760 --> 00:45:50,440 You alone are good. You alone are mighty, you alone 698 00:45:50,440 --> 00:45:56,200 are powerful, and for me to carry and do any of these 699 00:45:56,200 --> 00:45:57,600 things. I've. 700 00:45:57,600 --> 00:46:02,200 Got to be transformed. Into your likeness. 701 00:46:02,640 --> 00:46:05,440 So God you have. Permission this morning to 702 00:46:05,440 --> 00:46:13,200 transform my life. That is your. 703 00:46:13,200 --> 00:46:15,680 Prayer this morning say Amen.