1 00:00:08,760 --> 00:00:11,480 Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Love Quest International 2 00:00:11,480 --> 00:00:14,600 Church Podcast, where we seek to love all nations, equip the 3 00:00:14,600 --> 00:00:17,560 church, mobilize the equipped, and serve all. 4 00:00:17,880 --> 00:00:21,080 We're super glad you're joining us from whenever and wherever 5 00:00:21,080 --> 00:00:23,800 you're at in the world. Welcome to the family to get 6 00:00:23,800 --> 00:00:26,480 your Bibles ready, get some water, get some coffee, maybe 7 00:00:26,480 --> 00:00:28,680 some tea, and get ready to receive. 8 00:00:28,960 --> 00:00:37,760 Let's get into it. Amen. 9 00:00:39,480 --> 00:00:45,320 Amen. God, it's so good. 10 00:00:47,680 --> 00:00:56,400 It's so good and how amazing to be able to be in a place with 11 00:00:56,400 --> 00:01:01,280 others who love Jesus and to celebrate him, celebrate his 12 00:01:01,280 --> 00:01:04,800 goodness, celebrate his kindness, celebrate his work in 13 00:01:04,800 --> 00:01:07,960 our lives, celebrate the love that he's poured out in our 14 00:01:07,960 --> 00:01:12,320 hearts to celebrate him and to do it together with those who 15 00:01:12,320 --> 00:01:13,760 love Jesus. I love it. 16 00:01:15,160 --> 00:01:17,240 Thank you, Pastor Terence and Pastor Julia, for the 17 00:01:17,240 --> 00:01:22,320 opportunity it is to be able to share today at this noon 18 00:01:22,320 --> 00:01:25,040 experience. And thank you so much for your 19 00:01:25,760 --> 00:01:28,960 commitment to being obedient to the call that God has given you. 20 00:01:29,600 --> 00:01:32,520 And we are recipients of your faithfulness. 21 00:01:32,600 --> 00:01:35,520 We appreciate you, we love you. Will you give them a round of a 22 00:01:35,520 --> 00:01:36,920 hand? Our pastor, Pastor Terence, 23 00:01:36,920 --> 00:01:50,000 Pastor Julia for those that may be visiting. 24 00:01:50,520 --> 00:01:54,360 Pastor Terence and Pastor Julia Richmond are the senior pastors 25 00:01:54,360 --> 00:01:58,320 and founding pastors of Love Quest International Church and 26 00:01:58,320 --> 00:02:02,160 they're a blessing to us. They're away this week and so I 27 00:02:02,160 --> 00:02:05,720 have the privilege to be able to share the word of God with you 28 00:02:05,720 --> 00:02:13,360 today. Last week we were remembering. 29 00:02:13,360 --> 00:02:19,080 Pastor Terence spoke on Count Em Up and was remembering the 30 00:02:19,080 --> 00:02:26,480 goodness of God, remembering the great work of God and taking 31 00:02:26,480 --> 00:02:32,200 that time to remember. And if you remember in Luke 17 32 00:02:32,200 --> 00:02:35,120 there was a story of some lepers. 33 00:02:35,120 --> 00:02:40,760 How many lepers were there? There were 10 lepers and they 34 00:02:40,760 --> 00:02:45,160 were all given the word from Jesus to show themselves at the 35 00:02:45,160 --> 00:02:49,200 temple. And as they went, all ten were 36 00:02:49,200 --> 00:02:52,400 healed. All 10 received healing from the 37 00:02:52,400 --> 00:02:57,040 leprosy and how many came back? One. 38 00:02:57,160 --> 00:03:03,840 One came back, one came back. It says in Luke 17 verse 15. 39 00:03:03,840 --> 00:03:08,520 One of them when he saw that he was healed, turned back. 40 00:03:10,080 --> 00:03:12,600 He turned back from where he was going. 41 00:03:13,240 --> 00:03:18,680 Glorifying and praising and honouring God with a loud voice. 42 00:03:18,840 --> 00:03:22,600 Say loud voice with a loud voice that's right. 43 00:03:22,600 --> 00:03:25,320 There was loudness to his praise. 44 00:03:26,320 --> 00:03:28,160 There was a loudness to his praise. 45 00:03:28,320 --> 00:03:30,480 There was there was you could be heard. 46 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:35,720 There was a loud voice of praise and he lay face downward at 47 00:03:35,720 --> 00:03:40,800 Jesus feet thanking him over and over and he was a Samaritan. 48 00:03:44,280 --> 00:03:47,080 There's there's a key here for your breakthrough. 49 00:03:50,040 --> 00:03:51,600 Just a minute. If you, if you could listen with 50 00:03:51,600 --> 00:03:54,080 me, I'm going to praise the Lord for a minute, OK? 51 00:04:03,240 --> 00:04:06,320 Do you agree? What? 52 00:04:06,320 --> 00:04:07,960 What? You didn't hear me? 53 00:04:08,560 --> 00:04:15,880 Oh, what you're saying is my praise can only benefit me in my 54 00:04:15,880 --> 00:04:21,040 head, but it benefits you when you hear it, right? 55 00:04:23,920 --> 00:04:27,120 There's something about you declaring the goodness of God 56 00:04:27,120 --> 00:04:32,080 with your mouth where you say, man, God's been good to me, man, 57 00:04:32,400 --> 00:04:34,360 I got to tell you how he's worked in my life. 58 00:04:34,760 --> 00:04:37,760 I want to encourage you. So there's something about that 59 00:04:37,760 --> 00:04:43,040 loud voice declaring the goodness of God, Pastor Terrance 60 00:04:43,040 --> 00:04:47,600 said in last Sunday's message. When you remember who God has 61 00:04:47,640 --> 00:04:54,640 been, you regain confidence in who God will be and all that to 62 00:04:54,640 --> 00:05:02,800 say, take the time to remember. Take time to remember what God 63 00:05:02,800 --> 00:05:07,880 has done. Take the time to consider how 64 00:05:07,880 --> 00:05:13,400 he's worked in your life, in your family's life, in the life 65 00:05:13,400 --> 00:05:17,520 maybe of your friends. But take that time to remember, 66 00:05:19,760 --> 00:05:23,640 because when you remember who God has been, now you've got 67 00:05:23,640 --> 00:05:28,760 confidence in who he will be. You take that confidence and you 68 00:05:28,760 --> 00:05:33,480 bring it into your presence. So count them up. 69 00:05:35,520 --> 00:05:38,120 That's what Pastor Terence spoke about last Sunday. 70 00:05:38,120 --> 00:05:46,760 Count them up. There's a a good old hymn and he 71 00:05:46,760 --> 00:05:49,000 goes, I won't sing it, I'll just tell you the lyrics. 72 00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:50,520 There you go. Now come on, now come on. 73 00:05:54,080 --> 00:05:58,160 But it says count your blessings, name them one by one, 74 00:05:58,480 --> 00:06:02,120 count your blessings, see what God has done, count your 75 00:06:02,120 --> 00:06:06,200 blessings, name them one by one and it will surprise you what 76 00:06:06,200 --> 00:06:10,520 the Lord has done right. This is taking the time to count 77 00:06:10,520 --> 00:06:14,640 the blessings, to recognize what God has done and completed 78 00:06:14,640 --> 00:06:19,600 already, to take the time to look back and to see the 79 00:06:19,600 --> 00:06:24,000 faithfulness of God, to see the goodness of God, to see how He's 80 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:26,840 moved and blessed, to see how He's protected you. 81 00:06:28,600 --> 00:06:32,800 Some of the greatest miracles in your life are the disasters God 82 00:06:32,800 --> 00:06:38,440 prevented to sometimes, you know, looking back, Pastor Tara 83 00:06:38,440 --> 00:06:42,040 talked about last Sunday. You know, looking back, also 84 00:06:42,760 --> 00:06:44,920 recollect the things He's kept you from. 85 00:06:46,960 --> 00:06:51,160 Perhaps that near miss, but the Lord moved. 86 00:06:51,840 --> 00:06:55,640 Perhaps it is that business opportunity that got away, but 87 00:06:55,640 --> 00:07:02,040 God was protecting your soul because He cared for you. 88 00:07:03,480 --> 00:07:09,120 There's near miss opportunities, but God was looking at you and 89 00:07:09,120 --> 00:07:16,160 desiring your blessing and your keeping for this moment so we 90 00:07:16,160 --> 00:07:19,120 can have a praise for the things that God has prevented in our 91 00:07:19,120 --> 00:07:22,040 lives. Pastor Tara said. 92 00:07:22,120 --> 00:07:27,160 We look forward with hope, with faith, believing, but we look 93 00:07:27,480 --> 00:07:32,960 backward with gratitude. In our looking back, we're 94 00:07:32,960 --> 00:07:38,200 recognizing how God has moved, but they take that and look 95 00:07:38,200 --> 00:07:41,360 ahead now with hope because of what he has done. 96 00:07:43,440 --> 00:07:46,520 We are not turning back. We are building a memorial. 97 00:07:49,400 --> 00:07:53,920 At times in the Old Testament they would set aside markers 98 00:07:53,920 --> 00:07:58,720 that would be a marker to recognise what God had done, how 99 00:07:58,720 --> 00:08:00,680 God had moved. When they went through the 100 00:08:00,680 --> 00:08:05,040 Jordan, they took stones for the riverbed and set them up as a 101 00:08:05,040 --> 00:08:11,120 memorial to say, hey, when you see this, tell your children 102 00:08:11,320 --> 00:08:15,200 that God took you out of Egypt and brought you into this land. 103 00:08:16,320 --> 00:08:19,280 It was a memorial. It was a positioning that was to 104 00:08:19,280 --> 00:08:23,960 be a reminder for generations of the goodness of God. 105 00:08:25,080 --> 00:08:28,760 So we're not turning back. We're building a memorial to 106 00:08:28,760 --> 00:08:35,360 recognize who God is. Psalm 103 verse 2 says bless the 107 00:08:35,360 --> 00:08:39,559 Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits. 108 00:08:44,560 --> 00:08:48,080 It's like I'm going to bless God, but I'm also going to tell 109 00:08:48,080 --> 00:08:53,600 my soul, Don't you forget, Don't you forget God's goodness. 110 00:08:53,600 --> 00:08:57,600 Don't you forget what He's done? Don't you forget how he's moved 111 00:08:57,600 --> 00:09:00,840 upon your life, how His peace has guarded you, how He has 112 00:09:01,080 --> 00:09:05,600 moved into into your heart and transformed you. 113 00:09:05,840 --> 00:09:08,400 Don't forget, soul, all that God has done. 114 00:09:11,120 --> 00:09:13,920 It's a charge to remember the goodness of God. 115 00:09:15,040 --> 00:09:18,880 It's a charge to my soul that says, yes, I will remember what 116 00:09:18,880 --> 00:09:21,080 you've done and how you've moved. 117 00:09:21,600 --> 00:09:24,960 I will remember those times when I felt alone. 118 00:09:24,960 --> 00:09:28,720 But then you would come, Lord, and bring presents when I felt 119 00:09:28,720 --> 00:09:32,440 like I had gone too far and strayed too far away. 120 00:09:32,600 --> 00:09:39,160 But you said no when I felt I had turned away from you. 121 00:09:39,640 --> 00:09:42,680 But you drew me back. That's the kindness and the 122 00:09:42,680 --> 00:09:47,040 goodness of God. Remind your soul. 123 00:09:50,760 --> 00:09:54,080 Remind your soul of his goodness. 124 00:09:54,560 --> 00:09:57,680 And the pastor, Taran, said recognition triggered 125 00:09:57,680 --> 00:10:01,000 remembrance in this man who'd come back in that story from 126 00:10:01,000 --> 00:10:04,160 Luke 17, the leper who had been healed and came back, 127 00:10:04,360 --> 00:10:08,960 recognition of who God was triggered His remembrance and 128 00:10:08,960 --> 00:10:11,960 praise always begins with recognition. 129 00:10:13,840 --> 00:10:17,200 When we take the time to recognise who God is, when we 130 00:10:17,200 --> 00:10:20,960 take the time to remember who He has been in our lives, how He 131 00:10:20,960 --> 00:10:27,520 has worked in our lives, when we see Him even in our troubles and 132 00:10:27,520 --> 00:10:31,880 our trials, but realise He's actually the one who made the 133 00:10:31,880 --> 00:10:36,560 way of escape. When we take the time to 134 00:10:36,560 --> 00:10:44,800 recognise who God is, it will release praise in our hearts. 135 00:10:47,200 --> 00:10:51,160 So we're in remembrance. But our remembrance has a 136 00:10:51,160 --> 00:10:55,480 purpose and that purpose is to fuel them up. 137 00:10:55,960 --> 00:10:58,080 So we had to count them up. Now we're going to fuel them up. 138 00:11:00,160 --> 00:11:04,840 Fuel them up. The remembrance is a reminder 139 00:11:07,320 --> 00:11:13,200 not just to remember the past, to prepare us and propel us into 140 00:11:13,200 --> 00:11:17,320 what God has for us. And so we remember. 141 00:11:17,320 --> 00:11:25,400 I want to share a story about a church from the New Testament 142 00:11:29,320 --> 00:11:35,040 and it's the Church of Ephesus. Ephesus is in around where 143 00:11:35,040 --> 00:11:44,560 Turkey is today. In that area and around 60 AD, 144 00:11:46,200 --> 00:11:50,320 Paul writes a letter to the Ephesians and he had actually 145 00:11:50,320 --> 00:11:52,600 been been with them. He actually spent about three 146 00:11:52,600 --> 00:11:56,000 years there sometime earlier and helped build the church up was 147 00:11:56,000 --> 00:11:57,760 an encouragement to them. In Acts 20. 148 00:11:57,760 --> 00:12:01,680 We we actually read the story about his last farewell to them 149 00:12:01,680 --> 00:12:03,880 because he knew that he was going to go to Rome. 150 00:12:05,640 --> 00:12:12,120 And in this letter to the Ephesians, he makes some 151 00:12:12,120 --> 00:12:15,240 powerful points. And I'm going to let you kind of 152 00:12:15,240 --> 00:12:17,080 figure out what you think the the theme is. 153 00:12:17,080 --> 00:12:23,920 OK, in Ephesians 115 it says for this reason, because I've heard 154 00:12:23,920 --> 00:12:28,400 of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all God's 155 00:12:28,600 --> 00:12:32,680 people. So Paul's writing says, man, you 156 00:12:32,680 --> 00:12:35,680 guys have got such a great reputation of how you love. 157 00:12:37,120 --> 00:12:41,680 Your reputation goes before you, this love you have for all God's 158 00:12:41,680 --> 00:12:46,080 people. Chapter 2, verse 4 but God being 159 00:12:46,080 --> 00:12:50,960 so very rich in mercy because of his great and wonderful love 160 00:12:51,480 --> 00:12:58,520 with which he loved us. Wow, that love of God poured at 161 00:12:58,680 --> 00:13:02,520 us. Visions 317 to 19. 162 00:13:02,520 --> 00:13:05,160 This part is a prayer that Paul's praying. 163 00:13:05,160 --> 00:13:08,360 He says then Christ will make his home in your hearts. 164 00:13:08,360 --> 00:13:13,120 As you trust in Him, your roots will grow down into God's love 165 00:13:13,120 --> 00:13:16,120 and keep you strong. And may you have the power to 166 00:13:16,120 --> 00:13:22,120 understand, as all God's people should, how wide, how long, how 167 00:13:22,120 --> 00:13:28,360 high, and how deep His love is. May you experience the love of 168 00:13:28,360 --> 00:13:31,360 Christ, though it is too great to understand fully. 169 00:13:31,360 --> 00:13:36,760 Then you will be made complete with all the fullness of life 170 00:13:37,080 --> 00:13:42,520 and power that comes from God. Ephesians 5 verse one and two 171 00:13:42,920 --> 00:13:47,360 says imitate God therefore in everything you do, because you 172 00:13:47,400 --> 00:13:52,640 are His dear children, live a life filled with love, following 173 00:13:52,640 --> 00:13:57,600 the example of Christ. He loved us and offered Himself 174 00:13:57,600 --> 00:14:02,320 as a sacrifice for us. A pleasing aroma to God. 175 00:14:02,520 --> 00:14:08,040 Wow, I love that part Imitate God. 176 00:14:14,480 --> 00:14:17,520 Imitate God, how you live your life. 177 00:14:17,560 --> 00:14:24,880 Imitate God, imitate God, be like your father, imitate God. 178 00:14:27,160 --> 00:14:28,760 That's a big one. We'll talk about that one day, 179 00:14:28,760 --> 00:14:32,080 I'm sure. Imitate God, imitate God. 180 00:14:32,080 --> 00:14:35,600 All right. And then in Ephesians 6, verse 181 00:14:35,600 --> 00:14:39,400 23 to 24, these are the last two verses of the letter, and it 182 00:14:39,400 --> 00:14:42,760 says, peace be with you, dear brothers and sisters, and May 183 00:14:42,760 --> 00:14:46,560 God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ give you love with 184 00:14:46,560 --> 00:14:50,800 faithfulness, and may God's grace be eternally upon all who 185 00:14:50,800 --> 00:14:57,320 love our Lord Jesus Christ. OK, so here's the test. 186 00:14:58,720 --> 00:15:02,360 What was the main theme from these verses? 187 00:15:02,360 --> 00:15:06,040 Anybody. OK, good, I made it clear. 188 00:15:06,040 --> 00:15:09,840 All right, I just want to make sure it was all the 189 00:15:09,840 --> 00:15:11,360 highlighting. It's all the, all the 190 00:15:11,360 --> 00:15:12,480 highlighting. I did right. 191 00:15:13,400 --> 00:15:18,280 Love here. He's writing in 60 AD and 192 00:15:18,280 --> 00:15:23,440 saying, man, you love God, God loves you love, love, love, 193 00:15:23,440 --> 00:15:25,280 love. You're rooted in love. 194 00:15:25,360 --> 00:15:27,280 You're grounded in love. His love is great. 195 00:15:27,600 --> 00:15:38,960 There's love around 35 years later here we have in the Book 196 00:15:38,960 --> 00:15:43,440 of Revelation now that was written 35 years after that 197 00:15:43,440 --> 00:15:45,320 letter was written to the Ephesians. 198 00:15:47,240 --> 00:15:54,400 And in chapter 2 and 3, Jesus is speaking and speaking to the 199 00:15:54,480 --> 00:15:59,720 seven churches and the first one is Ephesus. 200 00:16:01,320 --> 00:16:04,160 In Revelation 2, verse one, it says, write this letter to the 201 00:16:04,160 --> 00:16:08,880 Angel of the church in Ephesus. This is the message from the one 202 00:16:08,880 --> 00:16:12,840 who holds the seven stars in his right hand, the one who walks 203 00:16:13,040 --> 00:16:17,280 among the seven gold lampstands. Just you know, from chapter 1, 204 00:16:17,280 --> 00:16:21,000 the gold lampstands were representatives of the churches, 205 00:16:21,000 --> 00:16:23,560 the seven different churches that he was writing to. 206 00:16:25,960 --> 00:16:29,640 In verse 2 it says, I know all the things you do. 207 00:16:31,440 --> 00:16:35,880 So Jesus was aware of the activities of the church. 208 00:16:36,480 --> 00:16:39,240 He knew the doings of the church, what they were involved 209 00:16:39,240 --> 00:16:41,960 with. I have seen your hard work and 210 00:16:41,960 --> 00:16:45,280 your patient endurance. I know you don't tolerate evil 211 00:16:45,280 --> 00:16:47,040 people. You have examined the claims of 212 00:16:47,040 --> 00:16:50,160 those who say they are apostles but are not, and you have 213 00:16:50,160 --> 00:16:53,840 discovered they are liars. You have patiently suffered for 214 00:16:53,840 --> 00:16:57,360 me without quitting. That's pretty good. 215 00:16:58,960 --> 00:17:02,600 You work hard. You got discernment to be able 216 00:17:02,600 --> 00:17:05,240 to, to figure out who's lying, who's not lying. 217 00:17:06,079 --> 00:17:08,680 You're enduring, right? You've got endurance. 218 00:17:09,319 --> 00:17:13,160 These are great things to do, right? 219 00:17:13,160 --> 00:17:15,280 You would think these are really positive, right? 220 00:17:15,960 --> 00:17:18,800 And they are. They've patiently suffered 221 00:17:19,240 --> 00:17:22,520 without quitting here in verse 4. 222 00:17:24,640 --> 00:17:27,400 But I have this complaint against you. 223 00:17:28,079 --> 00:17:32,520 You don't love me or each other as you did at first. 224 00:17:32,520 --> 00:17:39,520 Hold on, didn't know we just read a whole letter, this whole 225 00:17:39,520 --> 00:17:43,800 letter to the Ephesians and he's talking about your love is 226 00:17:43,800 --> 00:17:47,680 great, you love others. Here's the love of God poured 227 00:17:47,680 --> 00:17:56,800 out love, love, love, love, love. 35 years later, you lost 228 00:17:56,800 --> 00:18:00,600 your love. You lost your love. 229 00:18:02,000 --> 00:18:03,480 You love for God and you love for others. 230 00:18:03,480 --> 00:18:11,320 You lost that you forgot. You didn't remember. 231 00:18:14,760 --> 00:18:18,960 You didn't remember that love, that first love that pulled on 232 00:18:18,960 --> 00:18:26,440 you, that drew you into the arms of Almighty God, the love of God 233 00:18:26,440 --> 00:18:31,320 that had been poured out. Love. 234 00:18:32,560 --> 00:18:36,920 They'd forgotten. They'd stop remembering. 235 00:18:37,720 --> 00:18:44,760 They had missed the memorial. 3540 years is about a 236 00:18:44,760 --> 00:18:51,520 generation. So a generation later, they've 237 00:18:51,520 --> 00:18:55,880 forgotten. They've forgotten that first 238 00:18:55,880 --> 00:19:00,600 love. You don't. 239 00:19:00,600 --> 00:19:05,680 You don't love me or each other as you did at first. 240 00:19:07,360 --> 00:19:12,040 Look how far you have fallen. Turn back to me. 241 00:19:13,160 --> 00:19:14,760 So here we see. Turn back again. 242 00:19:14,760 --> 00:19:17,800 Just like the leper who had been healed. 243 00:19:17,840 --> 00:19:22,760 Turn back to give a praise. Jesus is saying, turn back 244 00:19:22,760 --> 00:19:25,440 again. Turn back to me. 245 00:19:27,600 --> 00:19:30,080 Turn back and do the works you did at first. 246 00:19:30,440 --> 00:19:34,720 If you don't repent, I will come and remove your lampstand from 247 00:19:34,720 --> 00:19:46,690 its place among the churches. You warn a child forcefully to 248 00:19:46,690 --> 00:19:49,690 not run on the streets, not because you're being mean, but 249 00:19:49,690 --> 00:19:52,690 because you love them. You want their protection. 250 00:19:53,090 --> 00:19:57,410 And in the same way Jesus is saying you've got to stop this, 251 00:19:58,330 --> 00:20:02,280 come back, don't run on that street, turn around, come back. 252 00:20:03,240 --> 00:20:08,600 Come back to that first love. Turn around and remember again. 253 00:20:08,800 --> 00:20:11,000 Remember again what he has done for you. 254 00:20:11,160 --> 00:20:15,520 Remember how he is love is poured out for you. 255 00:20:15,520 --> 00:20:20,800 Remember that first love, that first love, that moment. 256 00:20:23,440 --> 00:20:27,240 Do you remember that time when you first said to Jesus? 257 00:20:28,120 --> 00:20:35,080 Jesus, I love you, I receive you come into my life that first 258 00:20:35,080 --> 00:20:42,440 love, that first love, that first love that drew you into 259 00:20:42,440 --> 00:20:49,680 the arms of God. So he's calling us to return to 260 00:20:49,680 --> 00:20:54,520 remember First Corinthians Chapter 11, verse 23, Paul's 261 00:20:54,520 --> 00:20:58,960 writing about communion. Communion is a memorial of the 262 00:20:58,960 --> 00:21:02,520 goodness of God. It's a memorial that we have 263 00:21:02,520 --> 00:21:07,280 even to this day in the church because it reminds us of the 264 00:21:07,280 --> 00:21:12,760 fulfillment of the new covenant and the love of God that's been 265 00:21:12,760 --> 00:21:17,280 poured out for us by the blood of Jesus, by his body broken, 266 00:21:18,280 --> 00:21:22,440 and that we can walk in the fullness of his resurrection in 267 00:21:22,440 --> 00:21:25,200 life. And in First Corinthians 11, 268 00:21:25,200 --> 00:21:28,560 Paul's writing and he says, for I pass on to you what I received 269 00:21:28,560 --> 00:21:31,800 from the Lord himself on the night when he was betrayed. 270 00:21:31,800 --> 00:21:35,560 The Lord Jesus took some bread and gave thanks to God for it. 271 00:21:35,800 --> 00:21:40,120 Then he broke it in pieces and said, this is my body which is 272 00:21:40,120 --> 00:21:46,440 given for you. Do this in remembrance of me. 273 00:21:51,760 --> 00:21:55,160 Verse 25 In the same way he took the cup of wine after supper, 274 00:21:55,160 --> 00:21:59,400 saying, This cup is the new covenant between God and his 275 00:21:59,400 --> 00:22:02,760 people, an agreement confirmed with My blood. 276 00:22:03,360 --> 00:22:10,040 Do this in remembrance of me as often as you drink it. 277 00:22:10,120 --> 00:22:13,920 For every time you eat this bread and drink this cup, you 278 00:22:13,920 --> 00:22:18,040 are announcing the Lord's death until he comes. 279 00:22:19,880 --> 00:22:23,760 So here we have within the church a memorial instituted by 280 00:22:23,920 --> 00:22:28,800 Jesus. We call it communion and we do 281 00:22:28,800 --> 00:22:35,080 it to remember so that we don't forget all we have received. 282 00:22:35,560 --> 00:22:38,320 We don't forget what he has completed. 283 00:22:38,720 --> 00:22:42,560 But rather in that memorial, in that time, we're remembering 284 00:22:43,200 --> 00:22:50,160 Jesus sacrifice for me. His body was broken, his blood 285 00:22:50,160 --> 00:22:54,880 was shed, poured out so that I can live. 286 00:22:55,080 --> 00:23:00,000 My sin is dealt with, my relationship with Almighty God 287 00:23:00,600 --> 00:23:05,960 is reset through Jesus. And so we remember. 288 00:23:06,920 --> 00:23:12,360 We remember in this memorial. We remember so that we can have 289 00:23:12,400 --> 00:23:20,800 our faith fuelled again. Every time I take communion, it 290 00:23:20,800 --> 00:23:23,680 fuels my faith. Every time I take those 291 00:23:23,680 --> 00:23:27,480 elements, it fuels my faith because it's a reminder not just 292 00:23:27,480 --> 00:23:31,120 of his sacrifice, but of his covenant that he made, that I 293 00:23:31,120 --> 00:23:36,720 get to walk in because he is kind, He is loving. 294 00:23:38,280 --> 00:23:41,880 He gave his life that I might live. 295 00:23:42,560 --> 00:23:49,480 So I remember how you remember. Stalls you or launches you. 296 00:23:52,960 --> 00:23:58,280 OK, Any of you guys had people who their best time of their 297 00:23:58,280 --> 00:24:02,440 life and they'll still talk to it 10/15/20 years later? 298 00:24:03,160 --> 00:24:09,440 Oh remember high school right? Anybody remember the back of the 299 00:24:09,440 --> 00:24:11,200 day? Hey hey, it's good to remember. 300 00:24:11,200 --> 00:24:13,920 Don't get me wrong, I don't mind remembering, but they got stuck 301 00:24:13,920 --> 00:24:17,800 there. In fact, for some of them, the 302 00:24:17,840 --> 00:24:20,040 music they listen to is still stuck back there. 303 00:24:20,640 --> 00:24:22,160 All right. It doesn't mean you can't listen 304 00:24:22,160 --> 00:24:24,200 to the old songs. I'm not saying that, but don't 305 00:24:24,200 --> 00:24:28,320 get stuck there. But don't get stuck there. 306 00:24:29,840 --> 00:24:33,560 They got stalled. Some people receive, have an 307 00:24:33,560 --> 00:24:39,120 encounter or a trauma in their life and it becomes this, this 308 00:24:39,240 --> 00:24:43,160 stall in their life that they've stalled, like a car has stalled. 309 00:24:43,440 --> 00:24:48,080 It's run out of fuel. Sometimes I test the limits of 310 00:24:48,880 --> 00:24:54,960 my fuel gauge, right. And yes, it has happened once 311 00:24:54,960 --> 00:25:02,600 where we're driving on a highway and it's stalled and, but they, 312 00:25:02,760 --> 00:25:05,880 but people become stalled like that. 313 00:25:05,960 --> 00:25:11,720 They run out of fuel, they run out of gas and it stopped them. 314 00:25:14,080 --> 00:25:18,880 But how you remember? See, when you remember things in 315 00:25:18,880 --> 00:25:23,360 your past, do you remember just the negative or do you see how 316 00:25:23,360 --> 00:25:28,280 God made a way out? Do you see? 317 00:25:29,160 --> 00:25:34,120 Do you remember His goodness? Do you remember His goodness 318 00:25:34,120 --> 00:25:38,520 that helped you through? Do you remember that He brought 319 00:25:38,520 --> 00:25:41,160 along somebody to come alongside you and encourage you? 320 00:25:42,920 --> 00:25:49,120 Do you take the time to remember in a way that launches you, that 321 00:25:49,120 --> 00:25:53,040 actually brings you not out of this stalled position you've 322 00:25:53,040 --> 00:25:57,240 refuelled and now it's launching you into the next possibility, 323 00:25:58,160 --> 00:26:01,080 out of a stalled position, into the launch position. 324 00:26:02,400 --> 00:26:04,800 Remembrance is not a call to nostalgia. 325 00:26:04,800 --> 00:26:16,720 It's fuel to ignite belief. See, when we get stuck, that's 326 00:26:16,720 --> 00:26:21,440 when we have not allowed our remembering to actually be fuel 327 00:26:21,840 --> 00:26:25,640 to proceed and it you don't even have to get stuck by a bad 328 00:26:25,640 --> 00:26:27,240 thing. Sometimes you get stuck because 329 00:26:27,240 --> 00:26:33,840 the past was so good. I've met people who will tell 330 00:26:33,840 --> 00:26:36,200 you about all the cool things that happened. 331 00:26:36,480 --> 00:26:39,440 You know, hey, back, you know, when we were young, God was 332 00:26:39,440 --> 00:26:42,440 doing this and we saw these people saved and we, we saw 333 00:26:42,480 --> 00:26:45,680 miracles and we were there when this happened and that happened. 334 00:26:47,160 --> 00:26:50,280 Powerful. But do you allow that 335 00:26:50,280 --> 00:26:54,680 remembrance to go? Oh, I wish I was back there. 336 00:26:56,040 --> 00:27:00,600 Or do you allow that remembrance to propel you in faith that God 337 00:27:00,600 --> 00:27:04,200 can do it now? God can do it today. 338 00:27:05,200 --> 00:27:07,240 God is more than able now to do it. 339 00:27:09,320 --> 00:27:15,520 It's great to remember those things, but God is able now see 340 00:27:15,520 --> 00:27:18,440 because we remember and then we believe. 341 00:27:20,120 --> 00:27:22,600 We remember. And in our remembering, it is 342 00:27:22,600 --> 00:27:26,440 fuel for belief. It's fuel to believe God. 343 00:27:26,520 --> 00:27:28,480 It's fuel to be able to step out in faith. 344 00:27:28,560 --> 00:27:33,920 It's fuel to be able to move ahead for the now for this time, 345 00:27:36,600 --> 00:27:43,840 John 20 and verse 30 and 31. This is the end of near the end 346 00:27:43,840 --> 00:27:45,840 of the the gospel that John wrote. 347 00:27:46,720 --> 00:27:51,280 And he says there are also many other signs and miracles which 348 00:27:51,280 --> 00:27:54,800 Jesus performed in the presence of the disciples, which are not 349 00:27:54,800 --> 00:27:57,680 written in this book. So there's lots of other things 350 00:27:57,680 --> 00:28:00,000 that he did that didn't make it into the book. 351 00:28:00,960 --> 00:28:07,040 But these are written, say these are written in order that you 352 00:28:07,040 --> 00:28:10,040 may believe that Jesus is the Christ. 353 00:28:11,280 --> 00:28:15,960 You see, these were written so you would believe they aren't 354 00:28:15,960 --> 00:28:17,640 written. So you have information. 355 00:28:19,880 --> 00:28:22,160 They're not written. So I go, Oh yeah, I know that 356 00:28:22,160 --> 00:28:23,120 bit. I know that verse. 357 00:28:23,120 --> 00:28:25,920 I've memorized that verse or yeah, I can, I can figure out 358 00:28:25,920 --> 00:28:27,640 the timeline of Jesus. I've kind of gone through all 359 00:28:27,640 --> 00:28:30,280 that. It's not for that purpose. 360 00:28:30,800 --> 00:28:35,600 It's so you believe this is the author saying I wrote this. 361 00:28:35,600 --> 00:28:40,560 So you would believe that Jesus is the Son of God, that Jesus is 362 00:28:40,560 --> 00:28:43,320 more than they will, and that through believing and cleaving 363 00:28:43,320 --> 00:28:48,120 to and trusting and relying upon him, you may have life through 364 00:28:48,120 --> 00:28:54,560 and in his name. You see, the purpose of remember 365 00:28:54,880 --> 00:29:00,680 is to believe. The purpose of of the gospel is 366 00:29:00,680 --> 00:29:04,840 that you might believe that you believe that Jesus is the Son of 367 00:29:04,840 --> 00:29:07,520 God, that you believe and receive the life that he has for 368 00:29:07,520 --> 00:29:13,840 you, that you would believe. We remember the things that God 369 00:29:13,840 --> 00:29:18,840 has done that you might believe, believe now, not believe just in 370 00:29:18,840 --> 00:29:21,520 the past because your parents did it, not believe because your 371 00:29:21,520 --> 00:29:24,160 grandparents had a great experience, but you to believe 372 00:29:24,160 --> 00:29:29,600 now you see, God didn't give your family bloodline 373 00:29:29,600 --> 00:29:33,120 experiences and encounters with him to be left on the shelf. 374 00:29:34,240 --> 00:29:38,440 They're memorials. They're memorials, they're 375 00:29:38,440 --> 00:29:44,600 memorials I shared shared in the 9:00 AM experience about some of 376 00:29:44,600 --> 00:29:48,480 the things God had done through my grandparents and, and, and in 377 00:29:48,480 --> 00:29:50,720 their lives. And, and, and there are things I 378 00:29:50,720 --> 00:29:53,840 know that God has done through my parents and Stacey's parents 379 00:29:53,840 --> 00:29:55,760 and their lives and encounters with God. 380 00:29:57,120 --> 00:30:03,120 And then I was reminded when I first came to when we were 381 00:30:03,120 --> 00:30:07,960 courting. She's now my wife. 382 00:30:08,000 --> 00:30:11,320 It's OK, But we were caught. We were, we were. 383 00:30:11,440 --> 00:30:13,680 Well, I did not caught it. We were dating and getting to 384 00:30:13,680 --> 00:30:15,560 know each other. I lived in Australia, she lived 385 00:30:15,560 --> 00:30:17,400 here long distance. It worked. 386 00:30:17,440 --> 00:30:27,280 Yeah, definitely good for me. And I came over for three weeks 387 00:30:27,280 --> 00:30:30,640 because we'd met in Australia and her, because she had some, 388 00:30:30,920 --> 00:30:33,480 some family members there that she was visiting with her mum. 389 00:30:33,920 --> 00:30:37,600 And six months later I came over to visit her family. 390 00:30:37,960 --> 00:30:40,600 Because you have to make sure they're not too crazy. 391 00:30:40,600 --> 00:30:42,400 Now they're going to be a little bit crazy, but they're too 392 00:30:42,400 --> 00:30:44,480 crazy, right? Every family's a little bit 393 00:30:44,480 --> 00:30:49,960 crazy. And, and so during that time, I 394 00:30:49,960 --> 00:30:52,920 went to church and, and one of the Knights that were having a 395 00:30:52,920 --> 00:30:57,920 youth gathering at a house and I was there and one of the pastors 396 00:30:57,920 --> 00:31:03,240 gave a word to me and I went, well, that's, that's a lot. 397 00:31:03,680 --> 00:31:07,720 OK, All right. Now, seven years later, we're 398 00:31:07,720 --> 00:31:10,160 married. Thank you. 399 00:31:14,200 --> 00:31:20,400 And it's 2005. And we actually would have been 400 00:31:20,400 --> 00:31:23,200 eight years later, because I think it was 97 when we we had 401 00:31:23,200 --> 00:31:28,560 that first encounter. And 2005 we're married and we've 402 00:31:28,560 --> 00:31:34,040 just found out that Elder Stacey is pregnant with our first born. 403 00:31:35,600 --> 00:31:44,920 And yeah, but you know, we were a couple of months in the 404 00:31:44,920 --> 00:31:46,360 pregnancy. We didn't know for a while to 405 00:31:46,360 --> 00:31:49,680 few other things. And we hadn't really even, I 406 00:31:49,680 --> 00:31:51,480 don't think we'd even told my mum and dad yet. 407 00:31:51,480 --> 00:31:53,120 No, we hadn't. We'd kind of kept to ourselves 408 00:31:53,120 --> 00:31:56,600 for the first little bit and we'd gone to Sydney, Australia 409 00:31:57,920 --> 00:32:00,520 and we're just finished actually, I think. 410 00:32:00,520 --> 00:32:04,120 Were we going in or we're just finished, We're on our way in. 411 00:32:04,120 --> 00:32:06,720 We're on our way into this service in Sydney. 412 00:32:07,080 --> 00:32:09,520 And this elderly gentleman says, oh, excuse me, yeah. 413 00:32:09,720 --> 00:32:12,080 Hi. Do you have children? 414 00:32:12,320 --> 00:32:17,440 And we said no, but knowing, yeah, that she was pregnant, but 415 00:32:18,880 --> 00:32:20,320 OK. Well, the Lord's given me this 416 00:32:20,320 --> 00:32:26,480 word, and then the word was a confirmation of everything that 417 00:32:26,480 --> 00:32:31,880 God had said in 1997 through this other man, from someone in 418 00:32:32,320 --> 00:32:34,880 a different person, in a different continent at a 419 00:32:34,880 --> 00:32:39,760 different time of our life. Don't ask me for the details of 420 00:32:39,760 --> 00:32:41,320 it right now. God's still working it out. 421 00:32:42,400 --> 00:32:45,760 But what it did was tell me God cares about the details of your 422 00:32:45,760 --> 00:32:50,400 life. You see, in my remembering of 423 00:32:50,400 --> 00:32:53,440 that, I was remembering. Wow, God, look at you. 424 00:32:57,080 --> 00:32:59,720 You did. You knew I needed that. 425 00:33:00,960 --> 00:33:04,520 You knew we needed to hear that from someone else as a 426 00:33:04,520 --> 00:33:08,280 confirmation that you are operating, you are doing things. 427 00:33:08,480 --> 00:33:10,880 See, God cares about the details of your life. 428 00:33:14,120 --> 00:33:18,000 We we remember so we can believe. 429 00:33:20,120 --> 00:33:24,880 And that in that believing God is moving, but belief must be 430 00:33:24,880 --> 00:33:29,360 fresh for every generation. I said earlier, it's not good 431 00:33:29,360 --> 00:33:32,320 enough that you believe just because your grandparents 432 00:33:32,320 --> 00:33:37,040 believed or what your parents believed or what do you believe 433 00:33:37,040 --> 00:33:41,880 in God? What are you calling on God for? 434 00:33:42,160 --> 00:33:47,000 What do you believe? How are you pressing in to what 435 00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:51,960 God has for you? What do you believe he's capable 436 00:33:51,960 --> 00:33:53,800 of? What do you believe that He can 437 00:33:53,800 --> 00:33:59,320 provide? How is your belief fuelled? 438 00:34:00,120 --> 00:34:02,680 You see, remembrance fuels our belief. 439 00:34:03,760 --> 00:34:07,120 It gives us a fuel to be able to get going again. 440 00:34:07,640 --> 00:34:11,400 As long as we don't stay stuck in the past, as long as we 441 00:34:11,400 --> 00:34:16,400 remember well, we don't remember to stay lost in our past. 442 00:34:16,560 --> 00:34:22,280 We remember the goodness of God to propel us forward because God 443 00:34:22,280 --> 00:34:26,880 is a present God. The scripture says He's not the 444 00:34:26,880 --> 00:34:30,679 God of the dead because he's the the God of Abraham, Isaac, and 445 00:34:30,679 --> 00:34:33,360 Jacob. He was a God of generations. 446 00:34:34,600 --> 00:34:36,760 He's a God. He's alive and at work now. 447 00:34:37,520 --> 00:34:43,040 He's the same God right now, same God back then, same God 448 00:34:43,040 --> 00:34:47,880 right now, same God back then, same God right now. 449 00:34:49,719 --> 00:34:54,480 Amen. So we believe that God is able. 450 00:34:54,639 --> 00:34:58,160 We we remember, we believe. And now we speak. 451 00:35:00,280 --> 00:35:05,160 In Acts chapter 4, verse 19 and 20, Peter and John had actually 452 00:35:05,680 --> 00:35:08,800 healed a cripple and then had declared the goodness of Jesus. 453 00:35:09,080 --> 00:35:14,880 And then the the Pharisees and Sadducees brought them in and 454 00:35:15,360 --> 00:35:18,680 questioned them about Jesus and told them you're not to speak 455 00:35:18,680 --> 00:35:21,400 about Jesus. And then they beat them. 456 00:35:23,080 --> 00:35:25,520 So imagine that you just get beaten for just talking about 457 00:35:25,520 --> 00:35:29,080 Jesus. They beat them and then said, 458 00:35:29,360 --> 00:35:31,320 don't you talk about Jesus anymore? 459 00:35:34,840 --> 00:35:39,560 Don't you talk about Jesus? And here's their reply. 460 00:35:40,600 --> 00:35:43,880 But Peter and John replied, do you think God wants us to obey 461 00:35:43,880 --> 00:35:48,160 you rather than him? We cannot stop telling. 462 00:35:48,160 --> 00:35:52,000 Cannot stop. We cannot stop telling about 463 00:35:52,040 --> 00:35:53,960 everything we have seen and heard. 464 00:35:55,360 --> 00:35:57,720 Can't stop, Won't stop, can't stop. 465 00:35:57,800 --> 00:35:59,720 I don't know where that one goes anyway. 466 00:36:00,920 --> 00:36:06,280 But can't stop, I can't stop. Can't stop declaring the 467 00:36:06,280 --> 00:36:08,640 goodness of God. I can't stop sharing the love of 468 00:36:08,640 --> 00:36:12,160 God. I can't stop telling people 469 00:36:12,160 --> 00:36:15,280 about how good he is. I can't stop. 470 00:36:18,880 --> 00:36:23,440 We believe, therefore we also speak. 471 00:36:26,240 --> 00:36:28,920 So in our remembering, we remember the goodness of God. 472 00:36:28,920 --> 00:36:31,640 The remembrance of the goodness of God fuels our belief. 473 00:36:31,640 --> 00:36:35,400 Our belief rises up within us and now because we have 474 00:36:35,400 --> 00:36:39,880 believed, so we speak. We speak the goodness of God. 475 00:36:39,880 --> 00:36:43,240 In 2nd Corinthians 4 verse 13, it says, yet we have the same 476 00:36:43,240 --> 00:36:46,240 spirit of faith as he had who wrote in Scripture. 477 00:36:46,240 --> 00:36:50,760 I believe, therefore I spoke. We also believe, therefore we 478 00:36:50,760 --> 00:36:55,960 also speak knowing that he who raised the Lord Jesus will also 479 00:36:55,960 --> 00:37:00,280 raise us with Jesus and will present us with you in his 480 00:37:00,280 --> 00:37:03,880 presence. So we believe, therefore we 481 00:37:03,880 --> 00:37:09,320 speak because we know that knowing comes out of our 482 00:37:09,320 --> 00:37:14,080 remembrance, right? It's fuelling us, it's fuelling 483 00:37:14,080 --> 00:37:16,480 us, it's fuelling us, it's fuelling our belief, it's 484 00:37:16,480 --> 00:37:21,960 fuelling how we see God. I said in the in the first 485 00:37:21,960 --> 00:37:24,680 experience, I said don't be afraid of stealing other 486 00:37:24,680 --> 00:37:28,720 people's encounters with Jesus. We're one big family anyway, 487 00:37:28,720 --> 00:37:31,520 right? So if you're not sure, you're 488 00:37:31,520 --> 00:37:34,760 saying, man, I, I got a little bit, but I don't steal it from 489 00:37:34,760 --> 00:37:37,720 others. I'll give you a few of ours and 490 00:37:37,720 --> 00:37:42,560 steal those remembrances because then you can bring that into 491 00:37:42,560 --> 00:37:45,720 your life. You know there's great men and 492 00:37:45,720 --> 00:37:50,600 women of faith who have pressed in, who obtained the riches of 493 00:37:50,600 --> 00:37:55,040 God. Learn from them, learn from them 494 00:37:55,040 --> 00:38:02,800 that God is more than able lay a hold of that, Pastor Tara said 495 00:38:02,800 --> 00:38:06,000 on Wednesday. There's 3 powers of the voice of 496 00:38:06,000 --> 00:38:10,360 faith. Firstly, the voice of faith 497 00:38:10,360 --> 00:38:22,880 breaks silence. Faith, I broke your silence. 498 00:38:23,960 --> 00:38:25,800 The voice of faith breaks the silence. 499 00:38:26,800 --> 00:38:31,000 It's breaking through the silence here in Acts 4 verse 29. 500 00:38:31,000 --> 00:38:36,160 This is a continuation After they had left and been beaten 501 00:38:36,160 --> 00:38:39,520 and and told them we've got to, we can't but speak of the 502 00:38:39,520 --> 00:38:41,280 goodness of God. They came together and they 503 00:38:41,280 --> 00:38:45,280 prayed and this is the last part of the prayer that they had 504 00:38:45,280 --> 00:38:47,240 there with the other believers of Jesus. 505 00:38:47,240 --> 00:38:51,200 And they said, And now, Lord, observe their threats and grant 506 00:38:51,440 --> 00:38:56,040 to your bondservants full freedom to declare your message 507 00:38:56,360 --> 00:39:01,680 fearlessly, while you stretch out your hand to cure and to 508 00:39:01,680 --> 00:39:05,040 perform signs and wonders through the authority and by the 509 00:39:05,040 --> 00:39:08,600 power of the name of your holy child and servant Jesus. 510 00:39:08,840 --> 00:39:12,360 And when they had prayed, the place in which they were 511 00:39:12,360 --> 00:39:15,680 assembled was shaken and they were all filled with the Holy 512 00:39:15,680 --> 00:39:19,040 Spirit, and they continued to speak the Word of God with 513 00:39:19,040 --> 00:39:20,760 freedom and boldness and courage. 514 00:39:21,400 --> 00:39:25,640 You see, the threats were put there to silence them. 515 00:39:28,920 --> 00:39:30,840 Don't you speak in the name of Jesus. 516 00:39:32,240 --> 00:39:36,160 Be quiet. That's a threat to us. 517 00:39:36,520 --> 00:39:41,720 Jesus is a threat. And the voice of faith said 518 00:39:42,600 --> 00:39:49,640 we're breaking that silence. Now these were real threats. 519 00:39:50,040 --> 00:39:53,080 They could. They just put Jesus to death of 520 00:39:53,080 --> 00:39:55,920 the cross. These weren't idle threats by 521 00:39:55,920 --> 00:40:01,480 somebody who had no power. Remember that when they were 522 00:40:01,480 --> 00:40:04,680 threatened, they were threatened by people who had already showed 523 00:40:04,680 --> 00:40:06,320 that they would follow through on the threat. 524 00:40:07,880 --> 00:40:11,440 But that attempt to silence them was broken because of the voice 525 00:40:11,440 --> 00:40:15,400 of faith in the voices. Faith said, Lord, we want to 526 00:40:15,560 --> 00:40:20,560 preach your word with boldness, with courage, with strength. 527 00:40:22,240 --> 00:40:27,760 The voice of faith speaks. To the voice of faith releases 528 00:40:27,760 --> 00:40:31,280 faith in others. Do you know how much your story 529 00:40:32,080 --> 00:40:36,680 builds the confidence in others? First Thessalonians 5 verse 11 530 00:40:36,680 --> 00:40:40,960 says so encourage each other and build each other up just as you 531 00:40:41,280 --> 00:40:47,040 are already doing. How much more powerful is it 532 00:40:47,040 --> 00:40:50,160 when you hear other people sharing the goodness of God? 533 00:40:51,360 --> 00:40:54,200 Man, at the end of the week, it's like, guess what? 534 00:40:54,640 --> 00:40:56,280 This is what Jesus did this week. 535 00:40:56,920 --> 00:41:02,120 We'll go wait till next week. Maybe this week is like man, I 536 00:41:02,120 --> 00:41:05,720 was dealing with the pressure of finance, but man, the peace of 537 00:41:05,720 --> 00:41:13,800 God, just man overwhelm me and I may not have that final answer, 538 00:41:13,960 --> 00:41:19,400 but man, I've got the peace. Wait for instalment too, right? 539 00:41:19,760 --> 00:41:23,000 Because I'm believing God, because I already know that God 540 00:41:23,000 --> 00:41:25,520 provides. I already know that he is the 541 00:41:25,520 --> 00:41:28,240 provider. So now I'm building. 542 00:41:28,280 --> 00:41:29,640 We're building each other in faith. 543 00:41:29,720 --> 00:41:32,640 And the voice of faith builds and builds and builds. 544 00:41:33,760 --> 00:41:37,680 It grows and grows and grows. Because your faith encourages my 545 00:41:37,680 --> 00:41:39,920 faith. My faith encourages your faith. 546 00:41:40,080 --> 00:41:42,200 And we keep remembering the goodness of God through 547 00:41:42,200 --> 00:41:44,600 testimony. We keep remembering the goodness 548 00:41:44,600 --> 00:41:47,080 of God. We keep building 1 upon the 549 00:41:47,080 --> 00:41:50,520 other. You'll imagine how fired up we'd 550 00:41:50,520 --> 00:41:54,960 be, imagine how stirred up you'd be in your spirit mean how that 551 00:41:54,960 --> 00:41:59,760 would stir you when you start encouraging each other and 552 00:41:59,760 --> 00:42:05,240 building 1 on top of each other. Third, the voice of faith, open 553 00:42:05,240 --> 00:42:11,800 cities, Acts 8, verse 5. It says Philip, for example, 554 00:42:11,800 --> 00:42:15,760 went to the city of Samaria and told the people there about the 555 00:42:15,760 --> 00:42:16,760 Messiah. What do you do? 556 00:42:16,840 --> 00:42:19,480 He told them. The voice of faith speaks. 557 00:42:20,560 --> 00:42:24,160 Crowds listened intently to Philip because they were eager 558 00:42:24,160 --> 00:42:28,280 to hear his message and see the miraculous signs he did. 559 00:42:28,440 --> 00:42:32,200 Many evil spirits were cast out screaming as they left their 560 00:42:32,200 --> 00:42:36,280 victims, and many who had been paralysed or lame were healed. 561 00:42:37,080 --> 00:42:41,720 And so there was what great joy in that city. 562 00:42:45,440 --> 00:42:51,320 The voice of faith opens cities speaking. 563 00:42:51,320 --> 00:42:56,320 The voice of faith open cities. It opens, it opens, it opens. 564 00:42:56,440 --> 00:42:57,960 First of all, it opens our hearts. 565 00:42:58,080 --> 00:43:00,920 And as we build up one another, it opens our hearts to be able 566 00:43:00,920 --> 00:43:02,680 to share it out and speak it out. 567 00:43:02,880 --> 00:43:06,440 And as our words go out and we encourage one another, first of 568 00:43:06,440 --> 00:43:08,640 all each other. And then as we go outside and we 569 00:43:08,640 --> 00:43:10,840 start saying, man, I tell you, God's been good to me this week. 570 00:43:10,960 --> 00:43:12,560 I tell you, God's working in my life. 571 00:43:14,120 --> 00:43:21,200 That voice of faith builds and builds and builds, and so we 572 00:43:21,200 --> 00:43:31,840 remember. We believe, we speak, we've 573 00:43:31,840 --> 00:43:35,960 exposed. The enemy wants to trap us in 574 00:43:35,960 --> 00:43:40,360 our memory, but the memory and remembrance is actually to 575 00:43:40,360 --> 00:43:47,960 propel us in belief. We're equipped because we're 576 00:43:48,200 --> 00:43:52,160 laying a hold of that belief and we're running with it. 577 00:43:54,000 --> 00:44:00,680 I tell you, this is exciting. This is powerful. 578 00:44:05,000 --> 00:44:08,800 I don't know if you had a chance this week to remember this week. 579 00:44:08,800 --> 00:44:13,880 Remember, I don't know if you had a chance this week to build 580 00:44:13,880 --> 00:44:19,120 your belief this week. Remember in such a way that you 581 00:44:19,120 --> 00:44:23,120 see how God moved and recognizes the same God today as He's 582 00:44:23,120 --> 00:44:31,760 always been. Man believe God, believe God and 583 00:44:31,760 --> 00:44:36,120 in your beliefs speak out to one another, encourage one another, 584 00:44:36,120 --> 00:44:40,400 build your faith build up your holy faith by encouraging each 585 00:44:40,400 --> 00:44:44,960 other with a Word of Faith. Maybe it's just just in your 586 00:44:44,960 --> 00:44:46,440 family. Start talking about man. 587 00:44:46,440 --> 00:44:49,200 I'll tell you I forgot about this, but you remember God did 588 00:44:49,200 --> 00:44:55,560 this man I man I I just remembered I God answered that 589 00:44:55,560 --> 00:44:58,320 prayer and I haven't thought about that for so long, but God 590 00:44:58,320 --> 00:45:04,080 answers my prayers. Build your faith step into it. 591 00:45:05,080 --> 00:45:15,160 I encourage you engage. We are stepping into a dimension 592 00:45:15,360 --> 00:45:24,960 of God that if we do not take the time to remember, we might 593 00:45:24,960 --> 00:45:28,200 miss it. There are many who have prayed 594 00:45:28,320 --> 00:45:31,920 for revival who did not see it because they thought it would 595 00:45:31,920 --> 00:45:34,160 come in a package that they would understand. 596 00:45:34,240 --> 00:45:39,160 But God is doing a new thing. He's doing a new thing and right 597 00:45:39,160 --> 00:45:44,160 now our hearts are being prepared for what He's about to 598 00:45:44,160 --> 00:45:45,640 do. Now. 599 00:45:45,640 --> 00:45:49,240 I encourage you, we're in a time to build our belief. 600 00:45:49,880 --> 00:45:52,480 We're in a time of opening our mouths. 601 00:45:52,640 --> 00:45:55,960 We're a time where God is moving in power through our 602 00:45:55,960 --> 00:45:59,680 remembrances to equip us and fuel us for the now. 603 00:46:00,360 --> 00:46:02,680 We're not remembering to remember. 604 00:46:02,680 --> 00:46:06,480 We're remembering to fuel. It's like an athlete. 605 00:46:06,480 --> 00:46:08,880 There are athletes who eat and there's athletes who eat to 606 00:46:08,880 --> 00:46:11,400 fuel. There's a difference. 607 00:46:12,000 --> 00:46:14,120 An athlete who just eats will eat whatever. 608 00:46:14,360 --> 00:46:17,680 An athlete who eats to fuel will think about how their balances 609 00:46:17,680 --> 00:46:20,480 between their protein and the carbohydrates and their starches 610 00:46:20,480 --> 00:46:22,360 and all the stuff that other people know, I don't know much 611 00:46:22,360 --> 00:46:25,600 about, but they're, but they're, they're, they're, they're 612 00:46:25,600 --> 00:46:31,000 fuelling for purpose. We are, we are fuelling for 613 00:46:31,000 --> 00:46:34,240 purpose. We are fuelling with purpose. 614 00:46:34,600 --> 00:46:36,280 We're fuelling to be able to run. 615 00:46:36,400 --> 00:46:39,920 We're fuelling to be able to run with the vision, run with the 616 00:46:39,920 --> 00:46:42,480 purposes of God, run with what he's called us to. 617 00:46:42,760 --> 00:46:47,160 We're fuelling to run. I encourage you fuel to run this 618 00:46:47,160 --> 00:46:51,320 week. Take the time to remember so 619 00:46:51,320 --> 00:46:55,960 you're fuelled up to run, not to stay at the same level no more. 620 00:46:59,040 --> 00:47:04,160 There's too much to do. There's too much for us to do. 621 00:47:04,160 --> 00:47:07,200 To stay sitting back, stalled in our faith. 622 00:47:09,320 --> 00:47:12,200 There's too much to do. There's too much. 623 00:47:14,920 --> 00:47:20,360 God has given us this great purpose. 624 00:47:25,360 --> 00:47:31,120 There's there's too much for us to sit still any longer, to sit 625 00:47:31,120 --> 00:47:37,760 back any longer. We're in lunchtime. 626 00:47:39,440 --> 00:47:42,800 I thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord, that your word 627 00:47:42,800 --> 00:47:45,360 is alive and powerful. Lord, I thank you that you were 628 00:47:45,360 --> 00:47:48,240 doing a great work in this house, Lord. 629 00:47:48,240 --> 00:47:53,280 I thank you, Lord, for what you have begun here at Lovequest is 630 00:47:53,280 --> 00:47:56,920 to impact this city. Lord, I thank you and rejoice in 631 00:47:56,920 --> 00:47:59,040 you, Lord, because you have given us the tools. 632 00:47:59,120 --> 00:48:00,840 You've given us remembrance, Lord. 633 00:48:00,840 --> 00:48:02,240 You've given us the word to believe. 634 00:48:02,320 --> 00:48:05,080 I believe, though, You've given us the tools to be able to run 635 00:48:05,080 --> 00:48:08,280 with it, to run with the coal, to run into what you're calling 636 00:48:08,280 --> 00:48:11,480 us to. Lord, I pray that each one here 637 00:48:11,560 --> 00:48:17,360 will be stirred up out of this comfort level, out of comfort, 638 00:48:17,960 --> 00:48:24,800 into coal, out of comfort into the place of God's greatness, 639 00:48:25,200 --> 00:48:30,880 out of comfort into the coal of the love of God, because the 640 00:48:30,880 --> 00:48:34,800 love of God is sometimes uncomfortable. 641 00:48:37,120 --> 00:48:39,840 Lord, I thank you. This house is a house that 642 00:48:39,840 --> 00:48:44,040 honours your presence. This house is a house that 643 00:48:44,200 --> 00:48:50,600 honours what you're doing now. Thank you, Lord, for our pastors 644 00:48:51,240 --> 00:48:56,560 who speak the Word in truth Have prepared this way. 645 00:48:56,560 --> 00:49:02,040 Lord, I thank you, Lord, that we are running together the vision. 646 00:49:03,640 --> 00:49:06,560 Lord, we stir up the gift of God. 647 00:49:07,000 --> 00:49:10,120 We stir up the call. We stir up again our 648 00:49:10,120 --> 00:49:12,840 remembrance. We stir up again the remembrance 649 00:49:12,840 --> 00:49:15,160 of that first love. We stir it up again. 650 00:49:15,280 --> 00:49:18,000 Stir it up, stir it up, stir it up. 651 00:49:18,480 --> 00:49:20,200 Lord, we're stirring the gift of God. 652 00:49:20,320 --> 00:49:23,400 Lord, we're stirring into remembrance those encounters 653 00:49:23,400 --> 00:49:27,600 with you, those encounters that we've sat on for too long. 654 00:49:29,040 --> 00:49:31,120 I thank you, Lord, You're stirring today. 655 00:49:31,800 --> 00:49:34,280 You're calling us up. You're calling us higher. 656 00:49:34,360 --> 00:49:39,440 You're calling us up into new dimensions, Lord, that our 657 00:49:39,440 --> 00:49:46,600 belief in you is it stirred up. Oh, so we're encountering Jesus 658 00:49:46,600 --> 00:49:50,520 kind of faith when we step into our workplace, we're 659 00:49:50,520 --> 00:49:53,000 encountering a Jesus kind of belief. 660 00:49:53,160 --> 00:49:56,640 When we're coming home to family, we've got a Jesus kind 661 00:49:56,640 --> 00:50:00,560 of faith that's stirring us up. Lord, Lord, we have a voice that 662 00:50:00,560 --> 00:50:04,760 declares the goodness of God, a voice that breaks the silence, a 663 00:50:04,760 --> 00:50:09,200 voice that stirs the city. Lord, a voice of faith that 664 00:50:09,200 --> 00:50:14,600 loves, that declares, that walks in the goodness of God. 665 00:50:15,840 --> 00:50:19,360 Lord, we encounter the risen Saviour. 666 00:50:20,680 --> 00:50:22,640 Lord, I thank you, you're stirring. 667 00:50:23,080 --> 00:50:26,400 Thank you, you're stirring. I encourage you, stir yourself 668 00:50:26,400 --> 00:50:28,680 up in prayer. Now, Lord, if you, you could 669 00:50:28,880 --> 00:50:33,280 pray in the spirit, pray in the spirit, whatever mechanism you 670 00:50:33,280 --> 00:50:35,120 have to pray, just stir yourself up. 671 00:50:35,680 --> 00:50:37,720 Start to recite the word in your prayer. 672 00:50:37,920 --> 00:50:41,160 See, I am the head and not the tail. 673 00:50:41,360 --> 00:50:45,320 I am the redeemed of the Lord. I am filled with the Spirit of 674 00:50:45,320 --> 00:50:46,680 God. The same Spirit that raised 675 00:50:46,680 --> 00:50:48,320 Christ from the dead dwells in me. 676 00:50:49,040 --> 00:50:51,160 That's just the Spirit of God that dwells in me. 677 00:50:51,160 --> 00:50:53,280 It's the same Spirit that dwelled in Jesus. 678 00:50:53,720 --> 00:50:55,880 I thank you Lord. Thank you, Lord for your 679 00:50:55,880 --> 00:50:58,360 goodness. Thank you Lord, for your great 680 00:50:58,360 --> 00:51:00,800 love. Lord, I stirred myself up that 681 00:51:00,800 --> 00:51:03,600 love that I've received as a love that others need. 682 00:51:04,240 --> 00:51:08,960 I stir the belief and a memory of the love of God, Lord. 683 00:51:08,960 --> 00:51:13,760 I stir myself up, Lord. I thank you that we're stirring. 684 00:51:14,760 --> 00:51:17,040 Thank you, Lord. We're stirring the goodness of 685 00:51:17,040 --> 00:51:19,320 God. We're through our remembrance. 686 00:51:19,320 --> 00:51:21,040 We're stirring up into that place. 687 00:51:21,120 --> 00:51:24,440 We're stirring up, Lord, stirring our hearts, stirring 688 00:51:24,440 --> 00:51:27,560 our memory, stirring ourselves into the goodness of God. 689 00:51:27,640 --> 00:51:29,480 The things you have for us, Lord. 690 00:51:30,080 --> 00:51:32,200 Lord, we're fuelling up for the future. 691 00:51:32,440 --> 00:51:36,320 We're fuelling up for the now faith now kind of faith, Lord. 692 00:51:36,360 --> 00:51:39,360 We're fueling up from the word. We're fueling up from the 693 00:51:39,360 --> 00:51:42,400 declaration of those who believed in you and trusted in 694 00:51:42,400 --> 00:51:44,280 you. We're stirring ourselves up, 695 00:51:44,280 --> 00:51:46,400 Lord. We pick ourselves up off the 696 00:51:46,400 --> 00:51:50,760 floor and we get going again. We pick ourselves up from that 697 00:51:50,760 --> 00:51:53,160 stall position and we're ready to run. 698 00:51:53,160 --> 00:51:56,000 Lord, we thank you. Lord, we stir up. 699 00:51:56,440 --> 00:51:58,320 We stir it up. We stir it up. 700 00:51:58,760 --> 00:52:03,120 We thank you, Lord. Thank you Lord, You're fueling 701 00:52:03,120 --> 00:52:05,560 us. Fuel us with your fire. 702 00:52:05,560 --> 00:52:08,040 Fuel us Lord, with our remembrance. 703 00:52:09,000 --> 00:52:12,240 We're fueled, Lord, we're fueled for what you called us to. 704 00:52:12,840 --> 00:52:17,600 You fueled us up, Lord, you fueled us up to run in Jesus 705 00:52:17,640 --> 00:52:28,880 name, Amen. Thank you so much for tuning 706 00:52:28,880 --> 00:52:30,840 into this week. 'S sermon We pray you were 707 00:52:30,840 --> 00:52:34,440 challenged, equipped and encouraged make sure to follow 708 00:52:34,440 --> 00:52:38,240 us on all platforms that's love quest intl church. 709 00:52:38,440 --> 00:52:40,960 We out here for real. We're really doing it that's 710 00:52:40,960 --> 00:52:43,680 Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and TikTok. 711 00:52:44,000 --> 00:52:46,120 You can find us anywhere you need to find us. 712 00:52:46,280 --> 00:52:48,160 But until next time you know the drill. 713 00:52:48,160 --> 00:52:51,400 You know the motto, get your love fixed man and we'll see 714 00:52:51,400 --> 00:52:52,040 y'all real soon.