1 00:00:05,360 --> 00:00:06,840 You've tuned into a mega. Church. 2 00:00:07,000 --> 00:00:09,600 We are people hungry to encounter God through worship 3 00:00:09,600 --> 00:00:12,040 and His Word being witnesses to the world around us. 4 00:00:12,480 --> 00:00:15,080 We pray this teaching blesses you and trust God will reveal 5 00:00:15,080 --> 00:00:16,560 Himself to you in a new way today. 6 00:00:16,560 --> 00:00:18,760 And. If you need prayer for healing 7 00:00:18,760 --> 00:00:21,680 or breakthrough, or to find out more about Omega, get to our 8 00:00:21,680 --> 00:00:23,800 website or Facebook page through the links below. 9 00:00:44,120 --> 00:00:47,280 How many of you are excited to hear a sermon on Nehemiah 10 00:00:47,280 --> 00:00:51,520 Chapter 7? Oh, there's one hand up there. 11 00:00:51,960 --> 00:00:55,080 I can see some more now. I'm glad there's somebody 12 00:00:55,080 --> 00:00:58,240 interested to hear. That's really good. 13 00:00:59,240 --> 00:01:02,240 You know, for me, every word is very important. 14 00:01:02,240 --> 00:01:05,920 The Word of God is inspired, and there's something that God wants 15 00:01:05,920 --> 00:01:10,040 to say from most boring future portions. 16 00:01:10,040 --> 00:01:13,640 Also, there will be something that God wants to say, so let us 17 00:01:13,640 --> 00:01:16,440 see what He has to say to us from Chapter 7. 18 00:01:17,200 --> 00:01:21,960 And yeah, I'm not going to go on all that, every name that's 19 00:01:21,960 --> 00:01:25,440 listed there and the tribes and things like that, but some of 20 00:01:25,440 --> 00:01:28,360 the things which are very important I want to share with 21 00:01:28,360 --> 00:01:32,240 you from Chapter 7. So after the wall had been 22 00:01:32,240 --> 00:01:36,760 rebuilt and I had set the doors in place that gatekeepers and 23 00:01:36,760 --> 00:01:40,800 the singers and the Levites were appointed, I put in charge of 24 00:01:40,800 --> 00:01:44,680 Jerusalem my brother Hanani, along with Hananiah, the 25 00:01:44,680 --> 00:01:48,240 commander of the citadel, because he was a man of 26 00:01:48,240 --> 00:01:52,840 integrity and feared God more than most men do. 27 00:01:54,360 --> 00:01:56,920 Beautiful, very beautiful scripture. 28 00:01:58,000 --> 00:02:00,200 Some of you may be thinking what's beautiful about it? 29 00:02:02,200 --> 00:02:06,120 What is beautiful about it is that now the walls are rebuilt, 30 00:02:06,680 --> 00:02:10,960 gates are set up, work is done in 52 days. 31 00:02:11,720 --> 00:02:16,440 Amazing miracle. But now does the work cease 32 00:02:16,440 --> 00:02:20,720 afterwards? There's no more work for to do. 33 00:02:21,520 --> 00:02:24,000 There's plenty more to do on a daily basis. 34 00:02:25,080 --> 00:02:27,960 So here you see Nehemiah doing certain things. 35 00:02:28,160 --> 00:02:34,000 What is he doing here is he says he set the doors in place. 36 00:02:34,160 --> 00:02:37,480 The gatekeepers and the singers and the Lee Whites were 37 00:02:37,480 --> 00:02:40,080 appointed. Who are these three categories 38 00:02:40,080 --> 00:02:43,840 of people? Gatekeepers are appointed and 39 00:02:43,840 --> 00:02:46,720 you have the singers and Levites. 40 00:02:49,040 --> 00:02:54,600 You don't disconnect the safety of the city from the worship of 41 00:02:54,600 --> 00:02:57,320 the temple. They both are united. 42 00:02:58,400 --> 00:03:02,360 They are 1. You have the walls rebuilt, 43 00:03:02,960 --> 00:03:05,760 gates set up, doors set in place. 44 00:03:05,920 --> 00:03:09,440 It's not over. You need to keep an eye on who 45 00:03:09,440 --> 00:03:12,720 comes in, who goes out. So you need gatekeepers. 46 00:03:13,760 --> 00:03:17,080 Now who are these gatekeepers? Probably there are some of them 47 00:03:17,200 --> 00:03:20,280 who are gatekeepers of the temple were also used as 48 00:03:20,280 --> 00:03:25,360 gatekeepers of the city. Am I communicating here 49 00:03:25,360 --> 00:03:28,680 something? Gatekeepers of the temple are 50 00:03:28,680 --> 00:03:31,400 appointed as gatekeepers of the city. 51 00:03:33,760 --> 00:03:35,800 Do we have gatekeepers in our church? 52 00:03:40,720 --> 00:03:43,720 Everybody's a gatekeeper. I'm telling you, you need to 53 00:03:43,720 --> 00:03:47,840 keep your eyes wide open to see who is coming in, who is going 54 00:03:47,840 --> 00:03:52,000 out, who is coming in, who is going out, because you don't 55 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:55,360 know who is coming in. Somebody may come in with the 56 00:03:55,400 --> 00:03:58,440 wrong motives and somebody picks up those wrong motives. 57 00:03:58,440 --> 00:04:01,480 It's good to communicate to somebody who is in leadership 58 00:04:01,800 --> 00:04:04,320 because not everything can be done by a leader. 59 00:04:04,960 --> 00:04:08,440 So there is a necessity for keeping your eyes and your ears 60 00:04:08,440 --> 00:04:11,240 open as a gatekeeper. Everybody is a gatekeeper. 61 00:04:12,760 --> 00:04:17,200 And then singers and Lee Whites. Now this is very important 62 00:04:17,200 --> 00:04:19,279 position. Now if you have, if you have to 63 00:04:19,279 --> 00:04:22,640 understand the background of this, you need to look at Second 64 00:04:22,640 --> 00:04:26,640 Chronicles. You need to look at where King 65 00:04:26,640 --> 00:04:31,920 David has appointed Asaph as the leader of those who will be, who 66 00:04:31,920 --> 00:04:34,800 will be leading people in worship and in musical 67 00:04:34,800 --> 00:04:38,440 instruments. And Asaph was not only a choir 68 00:04:38,440 --> 00:04:42,120 leader, but Asaph was also a prophet because when they were 69 00:04:42,120 --> 00:04:45,800 worshipping God and singing, he would also prophecy. 70 00:04:47,240 --> 00:04:50,240 Sometimes we expect the prophecy to come out from nothing. 71 00:04:50,640 --> 00:04:54,000 You don't want to do sing to God, don't want to pray, just 72 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:56,160 want to do your things. And you expect to become a 73 00:04:56,160 --> 00:05:00,320 prophet. What kind of prophecy will come 74 00:05:00,320 --> 00:05:02,040 out of a man who is not connected to God? 75 00:05:03,680 --> 00:05:08,200 If you are tap into your own soul, soulish prophecies will 76 00:05:08,200 --> 00:05:10,320 come out. But if you tap into the Spirit 77 00:05:10,320 --> 00:05:15,760 of God, then the real prophecy comes out and singing and 78 00:05:15,760 --> 00:05:18,200 worship. See, today John was encouraging 79 00:05:18,200 --> 00:05:19,800 people to connect with the heart of God. 80 00:05:19,920 --> 00:05:23,880 Say something to him, just like a child says to the Father, I 81 00:05:23,880 --> 00:05:26,520 love you. Say something to the Father. 82 00:05:27,560 --> 00:05:31,840 You know, that is what we need. Somehow tapping into the heart 83 00:05:31,840 --> 00:05:35,760 of God is what is the central thing from which prophecy will 84 00:05:35,760 --> 00:05:39,640 flow. Prophecy is not something you 85 00:05:39,640 --> 00:05:44,200 think of. I shared with you when we came 86 00:05:44,200 --> 00:05:48,440 back from America how God gave me a word about a church they 87 00:05:48,440 --> 00:05:51,360 were meeting in a kindergarten. So you will expect that you can 88 00:05:51,360 --> 00:05:52,920 easily get away with the prophecy. 89 00:05:52,920 --> 00:05:56,480 You will get a land to build a church because they have a need. 90 00:05:56,480 --> 00:05:59,360 You can say it, but God did not stop there. 91 00:05:59,600 --> 00:06:04,440 He gave me the dream of a lady and I could, I could see be in 92 00:06:04,600 --> 00:06:07,160 in that building and I said I am on the 3rd or 4th floor. 93 00:06:07,160 --> 00:06:10,000 I see these things on this side and this side on this side and 94 00:06:10,480 --> 00:06:12,920 that's my house. I dreamed about it last night. 95 00:06:13,600 --> 00:06:15,920 Now the second one confirms the first one. 96 00:06:16,960 --> 00:06:20,120 The second word of knowledge confirms the first word of 97 00:06:20,120 --> 00:06:22,280 knowledge that they are going to get a land to build a church. 98 00:06:23,320 --> 00:06:25,560 So you need to tap into the heart of God. 99 00:06:26,080 --> 00:06:28,160 It is not coming out of your brain. 100 00:06:28,400 --> 00:06:30,320 Prophecy should not come out of your brain. 101 00:06:30,640 --> 00:06:35,680 Think about it and then just say something that will that will 102 00:06:35,680 --> 00:06:39,120 fit into the situation. Somebody loses a job and you 103 00:06:39,120 --> 00:06:41,880 hear about it and you say, don't worry brother, God is giving you 104 00:06:41,880 --> 00:06:45,880 a job from your mind. You can say it, but if you go on 105 00:06:45,880 --> 00:06:49,400 your knees and worship God and touch the heart of God and God 106 00:06:49,400 --> 00:06:51,880 shows you, yes, I'm opening this door. 107 00:06:51,960 --> 00:06:55,760 And then you go and say that word will be prophecy, because 108 00:06:55,760 --> 00:06:57,680 it will come with power to fulfill it. 109 00:07:00,480 --> 00:07:05,760 Am I communicating here? So you need the singers and the 110 00:07:05,760 --> 00:07:08,160 Levites. And they were appointed by 111 00:07:08,160 --> 00:07:10,880 Nehemiah. They were appointed by Nehemiah. 112 00:07:11,040 --> 00:07:13,760 They were appointed by King David 1st. 113 00:07:14,080 --> 00:07:17,720 And later King Solomon carried on with the same kind of 114 00:07:17,720 --> 00:07:20,880 classification and he redid the job of his father. 115 00:07:21,520 --> 00:07:24,720 And then you see subsequently many kings have failed to 116 00:07:24,720 --> 00:07:27,040 continue the tradition. And then you come across 117 00:07:27,040 --> 00:07:31,360 Jehoshaphat who ordains these people to go in the battle 118 00:07:31,440 --> 00:07:37,480 singing before the the army. So worship is not just a thing 119 00:07:37,480 --> 00:07:41,880 that you do when you are in comfortable zone, but worship is 120 00:07:41,880 --> 00:07:44,640 something you do even in a situation of a war with an 121 00:07:44,640 --> 00:07:46,880 enemy. That is what is going to give 122 00:07:46,880 --> 00:07:49,720 you victory. You think you are being defeated 123 00:07:49,720 --> 00:07:52,760 by the enemy. Start worshipping God and you 124 00:07:52,760 --> 00:07:55,920 may say I am not a good singer. Do like what I do. 125 00:07:56,120 --> 00:07:59,800 I put I record the things on my Apple Music thing and I play it 126 00:07:59,800 --> 00:08:02,160 there and I sing with it because I am not a good singer. 127 00:08:02,640 --> 00:08:04,640 If I sing, you will all run away from here. 128 00:08:05,000 --> 00:08:10,640 So I can say boldly that I don't know singing. 129 00:08:10,880 --> 00:08:13,800 I am just zero in that part. But can I sing to the Lord? 130 00:08:13,800 --> 00:08:19,040 Yes, God will be pleased to hear my voice because He made me and 131 00:08:19,040 --> 00:08:22,240 he loves to hear my not so musical voice. 132 00:08:22,280 --> 00:08:26,200 He loves to hear it as well. And if you have a good voice you 133 00:08:26,200 --> 00:08:27,920 have no reason to say I don't want to sing. 134 00:08:30,440 --> 00:08:34,440 Praise God, I never knew that I can preach about my not able to 135 00:08:34,440 --> 00:08:37,760 sing also. Its a thing. 136 00:08:38,120 --> 00:08:43,600 So I put in charge of Jerusalem. So you have this temple and you 137 00:08:43,600 --> 00:08:47,680 have the walls rebuilt and the people who are serving the 138 00:08:47,680 --> 00:08:50,840 temple are not just busy with the things of the temple, they 139 00:08:50,840 --> 00:08:53,320 are also busy with the security of the place. 140 00:08:53,840 --> 00:08:56,440 Now you have to have security. Very important. 141 00:08:56,720 --> 00:08:59,760 Security is very important. And if you are aware of the 142 00:09:00,080 --> 00:09:03,840 computers and your other things, you know how how cyber security 143 00:09:03,840 --> 00:09:07,680 is playing a key role. Basically to keep the enemy out 144 00:09:07,680 --> 00:09:11,760 of hacking into your computer, into your details, its very 145 00:09:11,760 --> 00:09:15,440 important. If there was ever any time in 146 00:09:15,440 --> 00:09:21,520 history that security was most important, it is now, is now. 147 00:09:21,920 --> 00:09:24,720 Countries are spying on other countries, hijacking things, 148 00:09:24,720 --> 00:09:27,040 companies shutting down electricity, shutting down the 149 00:09:27,040 --> 00:09:28,720 banks, shutting down the hospitals. 150 00:09:28,840 --> 00:09:33,000 They're doing it from the little thing they have in their house. 151 00:09:33,000 --> 00:09:39,520 They sit there and attack. So same way enemy is busy trying 152 00:09:39,520 --> 00:09:42,960 to attack the Christian Christians and the church and 153 00:09:42,960 --> 00:09:45,400 individuals. He is busy. 154 00:09:46,040 --> 00:09:50,560 We are not busy attacking him. We are not busy becoming aware 155 00:09:50,560 --> 00:09:52,200 that there's been attack going on. 156 00:09:53,280 --> 00:09:59,320 We are not aware. Is there somebody with pain in 157 00:09:59,320 --> 00:10:05,040 the right foot right now? Anybody with the pain in the 158 00:10:05,040 --> 00:10:09,120 right foot, somebody he's attacking. 159 00:10:09,160 --> 00:10:12,320 I know he's attacking somebody. So I bind it right now in the 160 00:10:12,320 --> 00:10:14,000 name of Jesus. They will. 161 00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:17,480 I bind you in the name of Jesus. You will not touch mice, the 162 00:10:17,480 --> 00:10:20,000 children here, no one you will touch. 163 00:10:20,120 --> 00:10:23,000 I bind you in the name of Jesus. Cool. 164 00:10:23,560 --> 00:10:26,120 Let's go on. And the second thing we hear is 165 00:10:26,640 --> 00:10:30,840 now, is there a place for what you call it, family 166 00:10:30,840 --> 00:10:36,600 relationships, promoting family? That's not what I want to say 167 00:10:36,600 --> 00:10:38,200 here. But basically you see Neymar 168 00:10:38,200 --> 00:10:41,360 doing the exactly same thing I put in charge of Jerusalem. 169 00:10:41,520 --> 00:10:46,040 My brother Hanani. My brother Hanani, who is this 170 00:10:46,040 --> 00:10:48,280 guy? He's the same name you heard in 171 00:10:48,280 --> 00:10:50,840 Chapter 1. He brought the news from 172 00:10:50,840 --> 00:10:55,240 Jerusalem to Susa saying the walls have been broken down, 173 00:10:55,280 --> 00:10:58,440 gates have been burned down, and city has got no security. 174 00:10:58,680 --> 00:11:04,800 We are in a great its very insulting to live in Judah, in 175 00:11:04,800 --> 00:11:07,800 Jerusalem, because there is no dignity anymore, no protection 176 00:11:07,800 --> 00:11:10,320 anymore. And when he heard Nehemiah heard 177 00:11:10,320 --> 00:11:14,840 that story, he sat down and he wept for months and prayed. 178 00:11:15,960 --> 00:11:19,960 So that Hanani who brought the news, he is putting him as in 179 00:11:19,960 --> 00:11:23,560 charge of Jerusalem. Why? 180 00:11:24,280 --> 00:11:29,040 He has a heart for Jerusalem, he has a heart to sow, he has a 181 00:11:29,040 --> 00:11:33,040 heart for his safety, he has a heart for his prosperity, he has 182 00:11:33,040 --> 00:11:37,520 a heart for his to flourish. So how do you find people just 183 00:11:37,520 --> 00:11:40,680 because he's name as brother, he's not appointing him there. 184 00:11:42,040 --> 00:11:45,680 You have to find whether they have a heart for the ministry. 185 00:11:46,160 --> 00:11:49,480 Otherwise we cannot put even the family into the positions. 186 00:11:50,280 --> 00:11:52,880 Secondly, you see another man called Hananaya. 187 00:11:53,160 --> 00:11:55,880 Hananaya, who is he? He was a commander of the 188 00:11:55,880 --> 00:11:57,760 citizen. Where is the citadel? 189 00:11:57,920 --> 00:12:00,480 We have seen the map before several times in the in the 190 00:12:00,480 --> 00:12:06,640 northern part of it we have it there Citadel. 191 00:12:07,040 --> 00:12:13,120 There is a tower of 100 is a tower of another 1-2 towers 192 00:12:13,120 --> 00:12:16,680 there and he was in charge of that tower. 193 00:12:17,400 --> 00:12:20,840 What does the tower do you when you are in charge of tower? 194 00:12:21,040 --> 00:12:26,280 You are there appointing people day and night to see if the 195 00:12:26,280 --> 00:12:29,280 enemy is approaching. You will see if the enemy is 196 00:12:29,280 --> 00:12:31,880 approaching. And then you blow the trumpet so 197 00:12:31,880 --> 00:12:34,960 that everybody knows that there's a danger to the city. 198 00:12:35,200 --> 00:12:37,160 And he was in charge of that place. 199 00:12:37,400 --> 00:12:41,080 And now that man, does he have a heart for the city of Jerusalem? 200 00:12:41,680 --> 00:12:45,040 He has. And what he says is about him. 201 00:12:46,080 --> 00:12:52,720 He says because he was a man of integrity, he was not partial. 202 00:12:52,720 --> 00:12:54,120 There's no partiality in his heart. 203 00:12:54,120 --> 00:12:59,520 He was a man of integrity, honest man, and feared God more 204 00:12:59,520 --> 00:13:03,680 than most men do. Fearing God is the number one 205 00:13:03,680 --> 00:13:07,760 quality to serve God. If you don't have fear of God 206 00:13:08,160 --> 00:13:11,920 and you're serving God, I don't think you're really serving God. 207 00:13:11,920 --> 00:13:16,680 You're serving yourself. Fearing God is more than to be 208 00:13:16,680 --> 00:13:20,440 coveted than anything else, because fear of God is the 209 00:13:20,440 --> 00:13:23,360 beginning of wisdom. Fear of God is the beginning of 210 00:13:23,360 --> 00:13:25,600 wisdom. And you need to have that fear. 211 00:13:25,600 --> 00:13:28,920 And when you do not have the fear of God, you can do many 212 00:13:28,920 --> 00:13:30,840 religious things, but it is of no use. 213 00:13:32,880 --> 00:13:38,080 It will be like an offering of Cain, not an offering of Abel. 214 00:13:40,040 --> 00:13:43,160 So we need our life to be accepted, service to be 215 00:13:43,160 --> 00:13:45,920 accepted. We need to have fear of God. 216 00:13:46,320 --> 00:13:51,040 And here you have this two people, Hanani and Hananiah. 217 00:13:52,240 --> 00:13:57,160 Some people think that it is just an error is Hanani and 218 00:13:57,160 --> 00:13:58,880 Hanani are actually the same person. 219 00:13:59,240 --> 00:14:02,120 But when you read there, it says because you're a man of 220 00:14:02,120 --> 00:14:06,640 integrity. I said to them, verse three, I 221 00:14:06,640 --> 00:14:11,800 said to them, them is plural. So Hanani and Hanaya not the 222 00:14:11,800 --> 00:14:13,200 same man. They're two different people. 223 00:14:13,400 --> 00:14:15,920 So he said to them in verse 3, what does he say? 224 00:14:17,960 --> 00:14:22,640 The gates of Jerusalem are not to be opened until the sun is 225 00:14:22,640 --> 00:14:25,400 hot. While the gatekeepers are still 226 00:14:25,400 --> 00:14:30,560 on duty, have them shut down the doors and bar them. 227 00:14:32,520 --> 00:14:36,360 This is another rule that is important when in times of 228 00:14:36,360 --> 00:14:39,360 crisis and in times of peace as well. 229 00:14:39,840 --> 00:14:43,240 There is a precaution. People can slip in through the 230 00:14:43,240 --> 00:14:46,320 darkness. You remember what was the time 231 00:14:46,320 --> 00:14:50,680 and what was the strategy the people had when they wanted to 232 00:14:50,680 --> 00:14:54,440 kill Samson in a city. They said we will wait until he 233 00:14:54,440 --> 00:14:57,520 goes out in the morning when the doors are open, gates are open. 234 00:14:57,880 --> 00:14:59,760 But he did not wait until the morning. 235 00:15:00,040 --> 00:15:02,520 In the middle of the night, he went and picked up, pulled up 236 00:15:02,520 --> 00:15:05,920 the bars and gate, everything and ran away with it. 237 00:15:07,000 --> 00:15:10,280 But they were waiting because once the gates are shut, you 238 00:15:10,280 --> 00:15:12,720 cannot go out. You have to wait for the gates 239 00:15:12,720 --> 00:15:16,920 to be open and people who want to come in to do business, you 240 00:15:16,920 --> 00:15:18,760 have to open the gates for them to come in. 241 00:15:18,840 --> 00:15:20,640 So Nehemiah is giving them orders. 242 00:15:20,640 --> 00:15:24,520 What is the order here? You have to open when the sun is 243 00:15:24,520 --> 00:15:28,000 hot. That means people are wide 244 00:15:28,000 --> 00:15:30,120 awake, they are out of their beds, they are doing their 245 00:15:30,120 --> 00:15:33,000 things and now is the time to open the gates. 246 00:15:33,080 --> 00:15:36,800 Don't open it too early because when it is still dark, you open 247 00:15:36,800 --> 00:15:41,640 the gates. People can sneak in and close 248 00:15:41,640 --> 00:15:45,440 the gate when it is still daylight, so that you are 249 00:15:45,440 --> 00:15:49,920 reducing the possibility of the enemy sneaking in through the 250 00:15:49,920 --> 00:15:54,160 gates before your very own eyes. So he says when it is still, 251 00:15:54,160 --> 00:15:57,800 when it is hot and before it is dark, you close it. 252 00:15:58,480 --> 00:16:01,000 So these are the things. But what? 253 00:16:01,000 --> 00:16:04,640 How do you apply this to us in the church today? 254 00:16:06,200 --> 00:16:07,720 There has to be application, isn't it? 255 00:16:08,160 --> 00:16:13,840 The application today is we need to be doctrinally sound. 256 00:16:15,200 --> 00:16:19,000 All the doctrines that we learn about Trinity, inspirational 257 00:16:19,000 --> 00:16:23,000 scriptures, justification by faith, sanctification, second 258 00:16:23,000 --> 00:16:27,880 coming of Christ, baptism laying on our hands, impartation of the 259 00:16:27,880 --> 00:16:31,080 whole gifts of the Holy Spirit. We must have a very good 260 00:16:31,080 --> 00:16:35,240 knowledge of all the basic doctrines as in as a church, and 261 00:16:35,240 --> 00:16:38,760 that will actually strengthen the walls of the church. 262 00:16:40,960 --> 00:16:47,080 And then you need people who has a proper vision to when they 263 00:16:47,080 --> 00:16:49,600 look at the people, they should be able to say, oh, I see 264 00:16:49,600 --> 00:16:52,800 there's a devil behind that man or this woman. 265 00:16:53,160 --> 00:16:56,280 So you need to have that kind of discernment, the gift of 266 00:16:56,280 --> 00:16:59,600 designing of the spirits. When we have all this, this is 267 00:16:59,600 --> 00:17:01,880 the New Testament pattern and this is the Old Testament. 268 00:17:01,880 --> 00:17:05,319 You've got a physical building, a physical city, walls and 269 00:17:05,319 --> 00:17:09,359 gates, but when you don't have the same situation, the church, 270 00:17:09,359 --> 00:17:11,119 what the church is different body. 271 00:17:11,119 --> 00:17:13,280 Now. Its a living Organism and we 272 00:17:13,280 --> 00:17:16,839 need to have people who will have the gift of discerning of 273 00:17:16,839 --> 00:17:19,760 the spirits and they have to make the right kind of church. 274 00:17:19,760 --> 00:17:22,400 Church should have should be able to make a right kind of 275 00:17:22,400 --> 00:17:26,440 dishes account to that as being led by the Holy Spirit. 276 00:17:27,280 --> 00:17:29,760 So this is a high calling for the church. 277 00:17:29,920 --> 00:17:35,520 Its not something you simply go clap your hands, sing songs, sit 278 00:17:35,520 --> 00:17:38,320 there, listen to the message, put some money and go home. 279 00:17:38,560 --> 00:17:46,520 No, there is more to being a Christian than doing these 280 00:17:46,520 --> 00:17:50,480 things. Anybody excited about what I'm 281 00:17:50,480 --> 00:17:52,600 saying? Can I hear? 282 00:17:52,600 --> 00:17:55,160 Amen. Do you want to grow in the gifts 283 00:17:55,160 --> 00:17:58,440 of the Holy Spirit? Do you want to grow in the good 284 00:17:58,440 --> 00:18:03,640 doctrines of the Bible? That is how you protect the 285 00:18:03,640 --> 00:18:07,960 church. And I'm telling you, it's not 286 00:18:07,960 --> 00:18:10,160 something I am. These are the end times. 287 00:18:10,160 --> 00:18:15,320 Everybody knows it. In these end times, false 288 00:18:15,320 --> 00:18:20,520 prophets will come and false miracle workers will come. 289 00:18:22,320 --> 00:18:26,080 They even will make fire come down from heaven. 290 00:18:27,560 --> 00:18:29,320 That's what is written in the Book of Revelation. 291 00:18:30,320 --> 00:18:35,160 So this is not a time I am not discouraging pursuing miracles. 292 00:18:35,520 --> 00:18:39,200 I am not discouraging pursuing prophecy. 293 00:18:39,200 --> 00:18:44,400 No, it should be from the Holy Spirit, not from the demonics 294 00:18:44,400 --> 00:18:50,080 realm. And when you look into the Cham 295 00:18:50,080 --> 00:18:56,200 in media like YouTube and other places, so much of the demonic 296 00:18:56,400 --> 00:19:02,400 passing for as if it is from God and some of us have got 297 00:19:03,440 --> 00:19:07,960 sometimes it is good to be generous to people, but gift of 298 00:19:07,960 --> 00:19:10,200 discerning of spirits is something different. 299 00:19:10,600 --> 00:19:13,200 You need to wait upon God. So many times I have prayed for 300 00:19:13,200 --> 00:19:17,200 the people who are so well known on the media say God, what is 301 00:19:17,200 --> 00:19:20,040 this from you? Can I trust this person? 302 00:19:20,760 --> 00:19:24,080 I lost that ability to accept everybody because there are so 303 00:19:24,080 --> 00:19:27,000 many of them now deceiving in the name of Jesus. 304 00:19:28,160 --> 00:19:31,080 So you need to be very careful, very, very careful. 305 00:19:32,240 --> 00:19:36,880 And and that's part of guarding the city, guarding Jerusalem, 306 00:19:36,880 --> 00:19:40,240 the church. Then what happens here? 307 00:19:42,640 --> 00:19:44,320 Gates have to be shut. OK. 308 00:19:47,640 --> 00:19:49,200 Is there anyway mostly identical? 309 00:19:49,400 --> 00:19:50,720 Oh, that's OK. Next thing. 310 00:19:51,880 --> 00:19:56,200 And also apart residents of Jerusalem as gods, some at their 311 00:19:56,200 --> 00:19:58,880 posts and some near their own houses. 312 00:19:59,360 --> 00:20:02,000 Now you need people to take turns. 313 00:20:02,000 --> 00:20:05,760 It is everybody's job. Protection of city is not just 314 00:20:05,760 --> 00:20:08,360 handful of people appointed to take care of it. 315 00:20:08,680 --> 00:20:11,800 It's everybody's job. So what is Neymar saying? 316 00:20:12,040 --> 00:20:14,680 He's appointed them. Some of them. 317 00:20:14,680 --> 00:20:17,000 He appointed residents of Jerusalem. 318 00:20:17,000 --> 00:20:18,920 They are living inside Jerusalem. 319 00:20:19,040 --> 00:20:24,400 But they also have to take turns to care for wherever this 320 00:20:24,400 --> 00:20:27,160 protection needs. Somebody has to do the night 321 00:20:27,160 --> 00:20:29,320 shift. They has somebody has take turns 322 00:20:29,320 --> 00:20:33,760 for it and then some at their own, at their own residency, 323 00:20:33,840 --> 00:20:37,680 their own houses. The houses may be closer to the 324 00:20:37,680 --> 00:20:41,640 wall and there is a gate and then you, your house is there. 325 00:20:41,640 --> 00:20:44,080 So you go and do your shift. There is a night shift. 326 00:20:44,960 --> 00:20:48,280 You know, so many times there was not yet. 327 00:20:48,280 --> 00:20:51,640 I mean in Christchurch we didn't have crime rates as it's 328 00:20:51,640 --> 00:20:55,760 becoming more and more these days. 23 years ago when we came 329 00:20:56,560 --> 00:21:00,800 you don't hear once in a year or twice in a year you'll hear 330 00:21:00,800 --> 00:21:05,360 about a stabbing or a murder. But now its just going on and 331 00:21:05,360 --> 00:21:07,680 now not even being reported looks like sometimes. 332 00:21:08,400 --> 00:21:12,040 So drug cases, shootings and so many things are happening which 333 00:21:12,040 --> 00:21:16,160 is just an increase in the crime rate and cars are being stolen 334 00:21:16,160 --> 00:21:19,160 in the night in the most decent of the areas. 335 00:21:20,040 --> 00:21:22,960 What I'm trying to say here is that the crime is going up. 336 00:21:23,080 --> 00:21:26,560 So people are coming together and forming neighborhood, you 337 00:21:26,560 --> 00:21:31,520 know, guard duties. They form a committee. 338 00:21:31,720 --> 00:21:34,560 They're into small groups. They're going driving in the 339 00:21:34,560 --> 00:21:37,920 night to keep looking suspicious cars stop them, talk to them. 340 00:21:37,920 --> 00:21:42,320 You know, people are taking security into their own hands. 341 00:21:43,320 --> 00:21:47,960 And what are the police doing? That can be a big question mark. 342 00:21:48,760 --> 00:21:51,280 But police have their own hands full that that's what they say. 343 00:21:51,280 --> 00:21:53,840 They cannot attend to it. Even if you hold somebody, 344 00:21:54,320 --> 00:21:57,040 arrest somebody and say your hold, I'm holding him right now, 345 00:21:57,040 --> 00:22:00,240 this guy who was walking with a knife will say no, no, no, don't 346 00:22:00,600 --> 00:22:04,160 just let him go. They are saying so it's not 347 00:22:04,160 --> 00:22:08,280 right. But in Neymar's time, people 348 00:22:08,280 --> 00:22:09,880 took security in their own hands. 349 00:22:10,680 --> 00:22:14,320 In turns. They are going standing there in 350 00:22:14,320 --> 00:22:16,360 the nights and taking care of the city. 351 00:22:16,960 --> 00:22:20,000 And we cannot physically translate that into the church. 352 00:22:20,320 --> 00:22:25,160 But one of the ways anybody can protect a church is to maintain 353 00:22:25,160 --> 00:22:28,360 doctrinal purity. Well, there, there will be 354 00:22:28,360 --> 00:22:30,760 differences in doctrines. I am not trying to say there is 355 00:22:30,760 --> 00:22:32,640 a uniform way of understanding everything. 356 00:22:32,640 --> 00:22:35,480 There will be some. Some things you can say, OK, I 357 00:22:35,480 --> 00:22:39,880 accept it or I can leave it and don't have to force the other 358 00:22:39,880 --> 00:22:41,280 guy. He had to believe what I 359 00:22:41,280 --> 00:22:42,800 believe. No, I don't have to do that. 360 00:22:43,480 --> 00:22:47,520 But at the same time some things non negotiable. 361 00:22:48,040 --> 00:22:51,640 You disagree on this matter? We cannot have fellowship, that 362 00:22:51,640 --> 00:22:52,720 kind of a thing. Cool. 363 00:22:53,480 --> 00:22:56,680 Now the city was large and spacious, but there were few 364 00:22:56,680 --> 00:23:00,760 people in it. As I told you, it was only the 365 00:23:00,760 --> 00:23:07,320 whole you can go around the city walls, 2.4 kilometers roughly. 366 00:23:07,320 --> 00:23:09,600 It will take you about 25 minutes to 30 minutes to walk 367 00:23:09,600 --> 00:23:13,720 around the city on the walls. It's not a very big area, but 368 00:23:13,720 --> 00:23:17,040 very few people who were there. So he had to encourage some 369 00:23:17,040 --> 00:23:20,880 people to come and dwell inside the city so that the security 370 00:23:20,880 --> 00:23:23,800 will increase. When you have only few people, 371 00:23:24,080 --> 00:23:26,480 you cannot ask. Everybody will be have to be 372 00:23:26,480 --> 00:23:29,960 doing the shift all through the nights, every day and they get 373 00:23:29,960 --> 00:23:32,560 tired. So he was saying, OK, come in. 374 00:23:33,400 --> 00:23:35,440 Also, there's a lesson here for the church. 375 00:23:35,720 --> 00:23:38,440 There's more room for others to come into the church. 376 00:23:38,720 --> 00:23:42,280 Can we say that again, there is more room for others to come 377 00:23:42,280 --> 00:23:45,960 into the church? Let's say it again. 378 00:23:49,200 --> 00:23:53,080 Yeah, we are actually few now, like the Jerusalem, there is 379 00:23:53,080 --> 00:23:55,360 more room. We need people to come in. 380 00:23:55,880 --> 00:24:00,640 So when you just keep sharing the vision of Omega with 381 00:24:00,640 --> 00:24:03,840 somebody who will, who is interested, and they may say, 382 00:24:03,880 --> 00:24:06,240 OK, we want to come in and see what happens here. 383 00:24:06,960 --> 00:24:11,360 We are not here to steal sheep. We are here to share the gospel 384 00:24:11,880 --> 00:24:14,720 and so that they will believe in the name of Jesus and then we 385 00:24:14,720 --> 00:24:17,920 disciple them and that they will be rooted and grounded and bear 386 00:24:17,920 --> 00:24:19,480 fruit, much fruit in the glory of God. 387 00:24:19,480 --> 00:24:22,640 That's the vision of Omega. So everybody has to do it, not 388 00:24:22,640 --> 00:24:25,560 just one person. So we need to do all of us 389 00:24:25,560 --> 00:24:28,840 should be sharing the gospel, bringing in people because 390 00:24:28,840 --> 00:24:31,480 there's more room in the church to bring people in. 391 00:24:32,440 --> 00:24:36,520 Cool. And the houses have not yet been 392 00:24:36,520 --> 00:24:39,880 rebuilt. So my God put into my heart to 393 00:24:39,880 --> 00:24:43,160 assemble the nobles and the officials and the common people 394 00:24:43,320 --> 00:24:47,080 for registration by families. Now this is very important thing 395 00:24:47,080 --> 00:24:51,440 for Nehemiah Chapter 7. This is a very important 396 00:24:51,440 --> 00:24:53,840 statement. We are reading here what he was 397 00:24:53,840 --> 00:24:56,480 trying to say. OK, we have few people here, but 398 00:24:56,480 --> 00:24:59,920 the people have come from different parts of Judah. 399 00:25:00,040 --> 00:25:01,600 People have been taken as captives. 400 00:25:01,720 --> 00:25:05,600 When they return, they go back to their own home, like you are 401 00:25:05,600 --> 00:25:08,280 living in, let's say #1 Warden St. 402 00:25:08,400 --> 00:25:10,000 You are taken away and you come back. 403 00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:14,560 Where will you go #1 Warden St. And see, ah, is my house still 404 00:25:14,560 --> 00:25:16,440 there? Is there something that I can 405 00:25:16,440 --> 00:25:18,000 recover? Can I rebuild it? 406 00:25:18,200 --> 00:25:21,920 So people who came back from Soussa, who came back from 407 00:25:21,920 --> 00:25:25,520 Babylon, from the Persian Kingdom, and they had to, they 408 00:25:25,520 --> 00:25:26,960 were going back to their own places. 409 00:25:26,960 --> 00:25:29,560 That's the reason why we have less people inside Jerusalem. 410 00:25:30,040 --> 00:25:33,520 So he said its important that we should register the family. 411 00:25:33,600 --> 00:25:37,480 We should make a registry or make registration by families. 412 00:25:37,640 --> 00:25:41,360 What he was trying to do here is he wants to have a pure race 413 00:25:41,360 --> 00:25:45,160 comeback. Its simply OK tell me who is 414 00:25:45,160 --> 00:25:47,480 your father and who is your grandfather? 415 00:25:47,600 --> 00:25:50,800 Who is your great grandfather? You have a list of they used to 416 00:25:50,800 --> 00:25:56,440 carry the story by orally by mouth most of them. 417 00:25:56,720 --> 00:26:00,080 You ask him who are you? He will tell his fathers name 418 00:26:00,080 --> 00:26:03,120 and son of so and so father who is son of so and so who is son 419 00:26:03,120 --> 00:26:06,200 of so and so son of so and so. They'll go back to the 12 tribes 420 00:26:06,800 --> 00:26:09,320 leaders. So he was trying to get that 421 00:26:09,320 --> 00:26:13,680 back and make sure there's a pure Israelites coming back. 422 00:26:14,080 --> 00:26:17,760 So that's what he did and genealogical record of those who 423 00:26:17,760 --> 00:26:20,760 had been the first written. This is what I found written 424 00:26:20,760 --> 00:26:24,680 there. So this is he is relying on some 425 00:26:24,680 --> 00:26:26,760 other record. What is he saying here? 426 00:26:27,320 --> 00:26:29,000 Who had been the first to return? 427 00:26:29,200 --> 00:26:31,280 This is what I found written there. 428 00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:33,560 So he is looking at some document. 429 00:26:33,760 --> 00:26:36,040 Where is the document Ezra chapter 2? 430 00:26:37,160 --> 00:26:38,960 That document is in Ezra chapter 2. 431 00:26:39,280 --> 00:26:44,440 So if you sit have a lot of time, sit with Ezra chapter 2 432 00:26:44,720 --> 00:26:48,000 and Nema Chapter 7 and look and compare. 433 00:26:48,160 --> 00:26:52,560 There will be some differences, but those differences are not 434 00:26:52,560 --> 00:26:55,240 irreconcilable. They can be reconciled. 435 00:26:55,600 --> 00:26:58,360 Like the total number of people that you find in Ezra is certain 436 00:26:58,360 --> 00:27:00,400 number and in Neymar it's a certain number. 437 00:27:00,560 --> 00:27:03,200 There's a difference of few thousands, but that difference 438 00:27:03,200 --> 00:27:06,560 can be explained if you have time to sit down and do. 439 00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:10,680 I don't find any great moral value in doing it, so I'm 440 00:27:10,680 --> 00:27:13,240 skipping that part. I can do it for you, but it's 441 00:27:13,240 --> 00:27:16,720 not so important. So you have all these people 442 00:27:16,720 --> 00:27:18,400 come back. You've got a dozen people 443 00:27:18,400 --> 00:27:21,400 mentioned there and I was thinking about the dozen names. 444 00:27:21,400 --> 00:27:24,960 Why does he use 12 names? Are they referring to the 12 445 00:27:24,960 --> 00:27:28,080 tribes of Israel? No, because you don't have 12 446 00:27:28,080 --> 00:27:30,080 tribes. Come back to Jerusalem, the 447 00:27:30,080 --> 00:27:33,880 northern part, 10 tribes, they are gone and now we don't know 448 00:27:33,880 --> 00:27:36,320 where they are. And that's why you have the 449 00:27:36,320 --> 00:27:39,520 Samaritans, the Sun Ballot and Tobiah. 450 00:27:39,520 --> 00:27:42,840 There are mixed race now from the northern tribes and some of 451 00:27:42,840 --> 00:27:44,160 them are the southern tribe as well. 452 00:27:44,560 --> 00:27:50,480 So you are looking at a list of people who belong to Judah and 453 00:27:50,480 --> 00:27:54,880 he's giving you 12 names of leaders who who are leaders and 454 00:27:54,880 --> 00:27:57,280 who you can connect to one of the 12. 455 00:27:57,920 --> 00:28:00,960 Its like that. So now after all these things, 456 00:28:00,960 --> 00:28:05,800 where do we go? Now these searched for their 457 00:28:05,800 --> 00:28:08,480 family records but they could not find them and so they were 458 00:28:08,480 --> 00:28:10,920 excluded from the priesthood as unclean. 459 00:28:10,920 --> 00:28:12,720 Now this is a very bold statement. 460 00:28:12,880 --> 00:28:16,080 Neymar did OK. Some people claim to belong to 461 00:28:16,080 --> 00:28:19,200 the priestly family. We are from the priests. 462 00:28:19,720 --> 00:28:21,520 Who is your father? Grandfather. 463 00:28:21,520 --> 00:28:24,840 Great grandfather. I can tell some things, but some 464 00:28:24,840 --> 00:28:25,920 things are missing. I just. 465 00:28:25,920 --> 00:28:28,960 I can't prove that I'm 100%. I am from the priestly family. 466 00:28:29,200 --> 00:28:30,520 OK. You cannot prove it. 467 00:28:31,040 --> 00:28:34,200 You will not eat from the food that is allowed, only for 468 00:28:34,200 --> 00:28:38,720 priests to eat. You will stay away until we make 469 00:28:38,720 --> 00:28:43,080 sure by consulting Urim and Tamim. 470 00:28:44,360 --> 00:28:49,600 What is Urim? Tamim again you have to go back 471 00:28:49,600 --> 00:28:57,480 to Aaron the priest. He had on his robe a set of I 472 00:28:57,480 --> 00:29:00,760 think 2 stones or a set of 2 stones, 6 + 6, whatever. 473 00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:04,360 Urim is one set of stones or one stone, and Thummim is another 474 00:29:04,360 --> 00:29:07,920 stone. And when they have to find out 475 00:29:07,920 --> 00:29:11,720 something, the will of God is this right or wrong? 476 00:29:13,040 --> 00:29:16,200 So some priest will come and ask the question as the high priest 477 00:29:16,200 --> 00:29:20,600 is standing wearing these robes and one of them is going to 478 00:29:20,600 --> 00:29:28,760 light up, and if that lights up, it is a South and the other one 479 00:29:28,760 --> 00:29:34,240 lights up, it is a number. So this is how they used to 480 00:29:34,240 --> 00:29:37,560 determine the mind of God, will of God, on every individual 481 00:29:37,560 --> 00:29:43,200 matter and every individual matter they used to console Orim 482 00:29:43,200 --> 00:29:45,480 and Tamim. If you look back into the story 483 00:29:45,480 --> 00:29:50,320 of Saul, when Jonathan went in and attacked the Philistines, 484 00:29:50,320 --> 00:29:54,840 they had a great victory. But then he said he made a vow, 485 00:29:55,280 --> 00:29:58,520 he took a oath. No one should eat anything until 486 00:29:58,520 --> 00:30:01,640 we finish our enemies. But Jonathan, he put his stick 487 00:30:01,640 --> 00:30:04,840 and ate some honey and he was refreshed. 488 00:30:05,080 --> 00:30:08,440 His eyes became bright and he was able to go in great vigor 489 00:30:08,440 --> 00:30:10,720 and go after the Philistines and finish them. 490 00:30:10,800 --> 00:30:13,880 Kill the mall. And now that the mattress 491 00:30:13,880 --> 00:30:17,840 brought to Saul, your son Jonathan ate some honey. 492 00:30:17,840 --> 00:30:20,840 Oh, did he? I told anybody who eats honey 493 00:30:20,840 --> 00:30:26,560 will be put to death. So he has to carry the thing 494 00:30:26,560 --> 00:30:29,280 forward. So he wanted some more support. 495 00:30:29,280 --> 00:30:35,400 So he says, let us now consult the priest, Urim and Tamim. 496 00:30:36,120 --> 00:30:41,520 So he says OK if me and my family are at fault speak 497 00:30:41,520 --> 00:30:45,880 through Urim, if rest of the Israelis are false speak to 498 00:30:45,880 --> 00:30:50,360 Tamil. So the this light comes up, he 499 00:30:50,360 --> 00:30:53,800 and his family are guilty. So now he next time he says now 500 00:30:53,800 --> 00:30:56,720 speak O God, is it between me and my son? 501 00:30:57,320 --> 00:31:00,600 The son was taken up. And then he says tell me what 502 00:31:00,600 --> 00:31:02,280 you have done. Oh I ate some of the honey. 503 00:31:02,400 --> 00:31:06,240 OK, you will be put to death. A whole Israelite just said no 504 00:31:06,240 --> 00:31:08,600 you cannot put him to death. Because of him, we got a 505 00:31:08,600 --> 00:31:12,720 victory. Because of him we got victory. 506 00:31:12,920 --> 00:31:14,440 We are not going to put him to death. 507 00:31:14,800 --> 00:31:17,520 So that day the people rescued Jonathan from being put to 508 00:31:17,520 --> 00:31:21,640 death. This is a very glib way of 509 00:31:21,640 --> 00:31:26,960 finding God's will, misusing the provision of Urim and Tamim. 510 00:31:26,960 --> 00:31:29,960 That's what he did. But when he wanted, when he was 511 00:31:29,960 --> 00:31:34,120 in a crisis, when he wanted to go into the war and he wanted to 512 00:31:34,120 --> 00:31:37,320 hear God, God, are you going to give me victory there? 513 00:31:37,320 --> 00:31:40,480 It says in the book of First Samuel, you see that he says 514 00:31:40,480 --> 00:31:43,760 that God did not speak to him through dream. 515 00:31:43,960 --> 00:31:46,200 God did not speak to him through a prophecy. 516 00:31:46,360 --> 00:31:49,320 God did not speak to him through Urim and Tamim. 517 00:31:51,400 --> 00:31:53,600 God says, no, I am not going to speak. 518 00:31:53,600 --> 00:31:58,360 You cannot make him speak. But in the New Testament it's 519 00:31:58,360 --> 00:32:02,040 different. Can I hear everybody say it? 520 00:32:02,160 --> 00:32:03,600 In the New Testament is different. 521 00:32:06,360 --> 00:32:09,520 Why is it different? You have the gift of the Holy 522 00:32:09,520 --> 00:32:11,920 Spirit dwelling in you. You are in union with the Holy 523 00:32:11,920 --> 00:32:14,320 Spirit. And when you get into the habit 524 00:32:14,320 --> 00:32:17,680 of hearing His voice on a small matters and then hear His voice 525 00:32:17,680 --> 00:32:21,240 on the big matters, it is something you can grow into. 526 00:32:21,360 --> 00:32:23,320 There's something you need to invest your time. 527 00:32:23,520 --> 00:32:26,280 You cannot always depend on somebody to prophecy to you. 528 00:32:29,160 --> 00:32:32,440 It don't depend on somebody prophesying into your life. 529 00:32:32,960 --> 00:32:37,680 Why you can hear yourself, everybody can hear the voice of 530 00:32:37,680 --> 00:32:41,440 the Holy Spirit. So the last time you see the 531 00:32:41,440 --> 00:32:45,720 people make a mistake is in the book of Acts chapter 1 where you 532 00:32:45,720 --> 00:32:49,480 see that because Judas was killed already, I mean he 533 00:32:49,480 --> 00:32:52,640 committed suicide and out of the 12 you have got only 11 534 00:32:52,640 --> 00:32:56,120 disciples. Now Peter says OK, we had to 535 00:32:56,120 --> 00:33:00,240 replace according to the Psalm he quotes on the Psalm, we had 536 00:33:00,240 --> 00:33:02,240 to replace the one who is missing in our side. 537 00:33:02,480 --> 00:33:08,920 So let us cast lots, write the names of they found two people 538 00:33:09,000 --> 00:33:12,360 and they both they write their names on two pieces of paper or 539 00:33:12,360 --> 00:33:15,880 something and cast lots and it was taken a Matthias came out 540 00:33:16,320 --> 00:33:18,360 and he was becoming one of the 12:00. 541 00:33:19,680 --> 00:33:24,040 But that is the last time you hear in the church this kind of 542 00:33:24,080 --> 00:33:26,480 external means of finding the mind of God. 543 00:33:27,200 --> 00:33:30,080 Some Christians, some some people come and tell me, oh, I 544 00:33:30,080 --> 00:33:32,920 wanted to know the will of God, should I go to Australia or not? 545 00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:38,040 So I made two pieces of paper, Australia and other people, New 546 00:33:38,040 --> 00:33:41,960 Zealand and I prayed over it and folded and I picked up with my 547 00:33:41,960 --> 00:33:49,920 eyes closed, it came Australia. That's not how God wants to 548 00:33:49,920 --> 00:33:52,640 communicate anymore. He doesn't want to communicate 549 00:33:52,640 --> 00:33:56,320 to you through lots. He has given you the Holy Spirit 550 00:33:56,440 --> 00:34:02,480 to live in you 24 by 724 by 7. He is not going to leave you 551 00:34:02,640 --> 00:34:04,080 Monday. He is not going to leave on a 552 00:34:04,080 --> 00:34:06,720 Tuesday. He won't be leaving on a Sunday. 553 00:34:08,199 --> 00:34:10,360 But we are not despising the gift of prophecy. 554 00:34:10,360 --> 00:34:13,920 No, we are encouraging everybody to become a prophet. 555 00:34:16,360 --> 00:34:19,760 Everyone of you can prophecy. That's what Paul wrote to them. 556 00:34:20,080 --> 00:34:25,199 All of you can prophecy. All of you does all have your 557 00:34:25,199 --> 00:34:30,600 name included? You believe that your name is 558 00:34:30,600 --> 00:34:34,800 included in that all and set aside time to pray. 559 00:34:36,320 --> 00:34:38,440 Pray. I took me 7 years. 560 00:34:38,440 --> 00:34:41,360 I'm telling my friend seven years to hear the I used to hear 561 00:34:41,880 --> 00:34:44,440 on and off. But I had one encounter with the 562 00:34:44,440 --> 00:34:46,760 Holy Spirit. He spoke to me for seven days 563 00:34:46,920 --> 00:34:49,520 explaining the scriptures every evening. 564 00:34:49,760 --> 00:34:54,480 That changed my life. But you need to have that hunger 565 00:34:55,440 --> 00:34:59,280 to hear the voice of God. You may not understand what's 566 00:34:59,280 --> 00:35:01,760 going on in your life. Why is this happening? 567 00:35:01,800 --> 00:35:03,680 Why is that happening? Why is that happening? 568 00:35:03,720 --> 00:35:05,120 Why? Why am I losing money? 569 00:35:05,240 --> 00:35:08,600 Why am I becoming sick? Go to God and ask God what is 570 00:35:08,600 --> 00:35:10,560 the root cause of all my problems. 571 00:35:10,800 --> 00:35:14,160 Wait in His presence, pray in tongues, wait in His presence, 572 00:35:14,200 --> 00:35:16,040 Pray in tongues, wait in His presence. 573 00:35:16,160 --> 00:35:19,080 If he doesn't speak tomorrow, do the same thing tomorrow and day 574 00:35:19,080 --> 00:35:23,800 after until he says the problem is this and puts the finger on 575 00:35:23,800 --> 00:35:28,680 the problem. When we don't want to pay the 576 00:35:28,680 --> 00:35:33,440 price, we have no solution. When we don't want to pay the 577 00:35:33,440 --> 00:35:37,760 price, we have no solution. We need to have the time with 578 00:35:37,760 --> 00:35:41,320 God and then bang you, you have these things. 579 00:35:42,760 --> 00:35:46,560 At the conference they said, oh all of you pair up and pray for 580 00:35:46,560 --> 00:35:50,240 each other. So I pair up with a man and he 581 00:35:50,240 --> 00:35:53,360 happened to be a man who has been a fourth generation 582 00:35:53,360 --> 00:35:58,280 minister of Four Square, great grandfather who worked with Amy 583 00:35:58,280 --> 00:36:01,600 Simple MacPherson. And she said just go to this 584 00:36:01,600 --> 00:36:06,200 place and do the ministry. And he went off to Argentina and 585 00:36:06,200 --> 00:36:09,240 he started a church there and then his son and his son. 586 00:36:09,240 --> 00:36:12,160 And this man is now the 4th generation man is serving in 587 00:36:12,160 --> 00:36:14,040 Foursquare. He was born in Argentina, 588 00:36:14,120 --> 00:36:17,960 brought up in the US. And he says I'm a Argentinian, I 589 00:36:17,960 --> 00:36:20,240 speak Spanish, that's my motherland, that's my first 590 00:36:20,240 --> 00:36:22,280 language. English is my second language. 591 00:36:22,400 --> 00:36:25,040 You see a Spanish man bound in a white man's body. 592 00:36:26,080 --> 00:36:30,560 I said that's inspiring testimony, how somebody's 593 00:36:30,560 --> 00:36:34,120 consecration can impact 4 generations and on and on. 594 00:36:36,120 --> 00:36:41,160 When you love God, your children will love God and your 595 00:36:41,160 --> 00:36:44,160 grandchildren will love God. Some things can go wrong. 596 00:36:44,160 --> 00:36:46,920 Don't worry about that every. We cannot take guilt about it, 597 00:36:47,160 --> 00:36:49,880 but you bring it to God and say, well, I put that blood on my 598 00:36:49,880 --> 00:36:52,480 family now. It's never too late for God to 599 00:36:52,480 --> 00:36:54,000 put his finger and change things. 600 00:36:54,280 --> 00:36:57,440 So put that family, bring the family before God. 601 00:36:57,840 --> 00:37:02,120 As a high priest, as a king, you have the responsibility to hold 602 00:37:02,120 --> 00:37:04,920 the family and let that thing begin to work. 603 00:37:04,920 --> 00:37:07,520 Now. It's never too late. 604 00:37:07,720 --> 00:37:09,600 It's never too late. It's never too late. 605 00:37:09,960 --> 00:37:12,920 We need to go back to God and say, I will wait in your 606 00:37:12,920 --> 00:37:15,040 presence until you give me an answer. 607 00:37:17,160 --> 00:37:22,000 And he, the Holy Spirit who lives in you wants to speak to 608 00:37:22,000 --> 00:37:26,480 you. Decision making. 609 00:37:27,680 --> 00:37:31,320 Everybody said decision making. I will conclude it very soon. 610 00:37:31,680 --> 00:37:33,360 Jesus Christ has to make the decision. 611 00:37:33,800 --> 00:37:36,360 Did he? He wanted to select the 12. 612 00:37:36,600 --> 00:37:39,680 What did he do? He went away on the mountain 613 00:37:39,680 --> 00:37:44,960 top, prayed all night. Was it the only time he prayed? 614 00:37:45,560 --> 00:37:49,760 He must have prayed several nights and said, God, who do you 615 00:37:49,760 --> 00:37:51,640 father? Tell me, who are you selecting 616 00:37:51,640 --> 00:37:53,400 out of this? Children of Israel? 617 00:37:54,080 --> 00:37:58,240 Whom are you selecting, father? Brother said take 12 people. 618 00:37:59,200 --> 00:38:03,480 Hi, that guy Peter whom you called Rock, take him. 619 00:38:03,480 --> 00:38:07,680 He is one of them, and his brother Andrew and all the 12 620 00:38:07,680 --> 00:38:10,120 names. And in the morning he comes and 621 00:38:10,120 --> 00:38:15,160 calls the disciples and selects 12 out of all the disciples. 622 00:38:15,600 --> 00:38:18,800 And he said, I am sending you, sorry, I am calling you 623 00:38:18,800 --> 00:38:24,120 apostles. Should we do anything different? 624 00:38:26,040 --> 00:38:28,120 Should we have a structure just because we need to have a 625 00:38:28,120 --> 00:38:30,680 structure? No, I don't believe so. 626 00:38:31,040 --> 00:38:34,600 I personally wait upon God for everybody here. 627 00:38:35,400 --> 00:38:37,720 You may think, oh, I just go, sit there and go. 628 00:38:38,120 --> 00:38:40,520 I don't think Ramana ever remembers me in his prayer. 629 00:38:41,560 --> 00:38:44,880 You are wrong. I am praying for everyone of you 630 00:38:45,440 --> 00:38:48,480 and there are times I pray and say God show me what's happening 631 00:38:48,480 --> 00:38:53,080 in this family and I may release a word of prophecy here. 632 00:38:53,520 --> 00:38:57,960 I will not tell the name. I know that that person if they 633 00:38:57,960 --> 00:39:00,040 identify, they will come and send. 634 00:39:00,040 --> 00:39:02,920 Many times I missed it. Though I have given the word for 635 00:39:02,920 --> 00:39:04,720 the family, they did not respond. 636 00:39:05,000 --> 00:39:06,400 They think that's not my problem. 637 00:39:07,440 --> 00:39:10,240 If God says that's his problem and people don't come forward, 638 00:39:10,240 --> 00:39:13,320 that's not my problem too. My responsibility ends with 639 00:39:13,320 --> 00:39:15,600 prayer and waiting in the presence of God for each one of 640 00:39:15,600 --> 00:39:18,720 the families. So it's the same thing for 641 00:39:18,720 --> 00:39:23,520 everything. We don't make decisions just 642 00:39:23,520 --> 00:39:25,600 because I want. I like somebody, take him. 643 00:39:25,800 --> 00:39:27,440 I don't like somebody, I don't take him. 644 00:39:27,440 --> 00:39:31,480 This is not the way I function. I go to God and say, God, show 645 00:39:31,480 --> 00:39:36,560 me are you raise your hand on this person to join me. 646 00:39:38,200 --> 00:39:40,480 I think that's how we need to be guided by the Holy Spirit. 647 00:39:40,480 --> 00:39:43,400 And He wants to guide. Who wants to guide? 648 00:39:44,800 --> 00:39:47,640 Holy Spirit wants to guide. He is interested in your 649 00:39:47,640 --> 00:39:50,640 business. He he is interested in your 650 00:39:50,640 --> 00:39:52,400 health. He is interested in your 651 00:39:52,400 --> 00:39:54,080 finances. He is interested in your 652 00:39:54,080 --> 00:39:58,200 children. He is interested in your every 653 00:39:58,200 --> 00:40:01,040 kind of unforeseen circumstances. 654 00:40:01,040 --> 00:40:05,480 He is interested in it. He wants to give you warning. 655 00:40:05,520 --> 00:40:07,840 He wants to protect you. He wants to guide you. 656 00:40:08,000 --> 00:40:11,800 He wants to bless you. And I encourage you to connect 657 00:40:11,800 --> 00:40:15,320 with the Holy Spirit. If you say, oh, I have not, no, 658 00:40:15,320 --> 00:40:18,560 I have never done it like this before, You can do now. 659 00:40:20,200 --> 00:40:24,480 Until you hear from the Holy Spirit, you don't get up. 660 00:40:25,320 --> 00:40:27,840 That is a determination with which you go on your knees. 661 00:40:28,160 --> 00:40:30,960 So many times I go on my knees, I say, Father, I want to hear. 662 00:40:31,960 --> 00:40:34,000 I want to hear your voice. I want to hear the voice of the 663 00:40:34,000 --> 00:40:36,480 Holy Spirit. I don't want to get up until you 664 00:40:36,480 --> 00:40:38,920 hear. I'm waiting there for one hour I 665 00:40:38,920 --> 00:40:41,680 don't hear, two hours I don't hear, 3 hours I don't hear. 666 00:40:43,920 --> 00:40:46,040 And then I carry the problem into the next day. 667 00:40:46,560 --> 00:40:51,320 Do the same thing. Wait, wait, pray, wait, pray, 668 00:40:51,320 --> 00:40:54,400 wait. And usually takes three days, 669 00:40:55,640 --> 00:41:00,440 not longer than three days. He will speak even before 3 days 670 00:41:00,480 --> 00:41:03,760 or even the third day. Many difficult decisions I made. 671 00:41:04,000 --> 00:41:07,200 The third day he spoke to me. That's why I'm telling you 3 672 00:41:07,200 --> 00:41:10,880 days. Try it. 673 00:41:11,520 --> 00:41:14,000 Then you can come and stand here and give your testimony. 674 00:41:17,400 --> 00:41:19,200 I am not telling you what doesn't work. 675 00:41:20,440 --> 00:41:22,280 I'm telling you something that works. 676 00:41:23,400 --> 00:41:27,400 Shall we pray? Thank you Jesus. 677 00:41:28,720 --> 00:41:33,240 Savarana Sastre Bharano Harasaktasandarano ristaka 678 00:41:33,240 --> 00:41:37,680 barano Rosa barani mandarani sastaroni ho bash rastako 679 00:41:37,920 --> 00:41:42,960 sandana mana re sastar E barano ho rabasha nakasek reni risha 680 00:41:42,960 --> 00:41:46,160 rabahano Rosa bahari mandastakoroni. 681 00:41:49,800 --> 00:41:52,600 If some of you says no, I never heard the voice of Holy Spirit. 682 00:41:53,080 --> 00:41:55,800 I want to hear just stand where you are. 683 00:41:55,880 --> 00:41:59,720 I am going to pray and ask the Holy Spirit true touch you feel 684 00:41:59,720 --> 00:42:03,640 you refresh you in such a way that you will begin to your ears 685 00:42:03,640 --> 00:42:06,520 will begin to hear his voice. Your eyes will begin to see the 686 00:42:06,520 --> 00:42:09,320 spiritual realm in the name of Jesus. 687 00:42:09,640 --> 00:42:12,360 He paid a great price that you should hear his voice. 688 00:42:12,920 --> 00:42:14,560 Why do you want to lose that gift? 689 00:42:15,200 --> 00:42:17,360 Why do you want to lose the lose the privilege of hearing his 690 00:42:17,360 --> 00:42:19,760 voice? I never heard his voice. 691 00:42:19,840 --> 00:42:22,120 I want to do so. Just stand where you are. 692 00:42:22,120 --> 00:42:25,400 I am going to pray for you. Thank you Jesus. 693 00:42:26,360 --> 00:42:30,640 Rashi Khandarani Marsu who? Rabba Shandosto Kandaranaste 694 00:42:30,800 --> 00:42:33,680 rista raho ribbonama Sandasakuroni. 695 00:42:35,000 --> 00:42:37,960 Thank you, Jesus, Lord, I pray for your children. 696 00:42:37,960 --> 00:42:42,360 Now I confess the blood of the powerful, blood that you shed 697 00:42:42,360 --> 00:42:45,160 for each one of us. I put that blood on the spirit, 698 00:42:45,160 --> 00:42:49,240 soul and body, and I disconnect every voice of the enemy. 699 00:42:49,240 --> 00:42:52,720 Right now I disconnect the Satan, the thief. 700 00:42:53,440 --> 00:42:56,680 I kick you out of their life now You will not stop them from 701 00:42:56,680 --> 00:42:59,080 hearing and seeing in the spiritual realm in the name of 702 00:42:59,080 --> 00:43:01,400 Jesus. I bind you, I bind you, I bind 703 00:43:01,400 --> 00:43:04,240 you in the name of Jesus. Let my children go free. 704 00:43:04,320 --> 00:43:07,400 Let my children go free. Let my children go free in the 705 00:43:07,400 --> 00:43:12,440 name of Jesus Ears be open to hear the voice of the Holy 706 00:43:12,440 --> 00:43:14,440 Ghost. Eyes be open to see in the 707 00:43:14,440 --> 00:43:18,640 spiritual realm in the name of Jesus, right now, right now, 708 00:43:18,800 --> 00:43:23,120 right now, right now. Holy Ghost, come with power upon 709 00:43:23,120 --> 00:43:24,920 your children. I light upon them now. 710 00:43:25,040 --> 00:43:28,120 Come Holy Ghost, Come Holy Ghost, come Holy Ghost, come 711 00:43:28,120 --> 00:43:30,640 Holy Ghost, touch them now in the name of Jesus. 712 00:43:33,040 --> 00:43:35,280 Thank you again for your children who have this hunger. 713 00:43:35,920 --> 00:43:37,760 Give them grace to wait in your presence. 714 00:43:38,040 --> 00:43:41,560 Pray in tongues and become silent to hear your voice and 715 00:43:41,560 --> 00:43:45,840 pursue that day after day after day and before they know. 716 00:43:46,520 --> 00:43:49,960 Let them hear your voice and see things you have kept in store 717 00:43:49,960 --> 00:43:51,920 for them. I bless them in the name of the 718 00:43:51,920 --> 00:43:53,960 Father, Son, the Holy Ghost. You are blessed. 719 00:43:54,240 --> 00:43:59,040 No one can change it. Jesus mighty name, Amen.