1 00:00:19,720 --> 00:00:22,480 Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Love Quest International 2 00:00:22,480 --> 00:00:25,600 Church Podcast where we seek to love all nations, equip the 3 00:00:25,600 --> 00:00:28,560 church, mobilize the equipped, and serve all. 4 00:00:28,880 --> 00:00:32,080 We're super glad you're joining us from whenever and wherever 5 00:00:32,080 --> 00:00:34,760 you're at in the world. Welcome to the family to get 6 00:00:34,760 --> 00:00:37,480 your Bibles ready, get some water, get some coffee, maybe 7 00:00:37,480 --> 00:00:39,720 some tea, and get ready to receive. 8 00:00:39,880 --> 00:00:41,720 It's go time. Let's get into it. 9 00:00:44,320 --> 00:00:48,320 Isn't God so good? What a what a revelation that 10 00:00:48,320 --> 00:00:50,440 is. What a revelation of heart. 11 00:00:50,880 --> 00:00:54,240 What a revelation to know the One who gave himself for you. 12 00:00:54,400 --> 00:00:58,160 He is good. He has good intention for you, 13 00:00:58,560 --> 00:01:02,480 He is good purpose for you. His heart is towards you. 14 00:01:03,080 --> 00:01:05,120 His desire is that you would know Him. 15 00:01:05,360 --> 00:01:08,200 He is good. He made a way so that you can 16 00:01:08,320 --> 00:01:11,200 come and dwell with Him. He is good. 17 00:01:12,360 --> 00:01:16,520 What a revelation. If we seize that revelation, if 18 00:01:16,520 --> 00:01:20,720 we bring that revelation into our workplace, into our family, 19 00:01:20,800 --> 00:01:24,280 into our life, it will change everything. 20 00:01:26,360 --> 00:01:27,840 We bring that into our prayer life. 21 00:01:27,840 --> 00:01:31,720 God is good. My God, who I call upon, He is 22 00:01:31,720 --> 00:01:34,080 good. Woo. 23 00:01:35,960 --> 00:01:39,520 Receive that. Take a seat and remind your 24 00:01:39,520 --> 00:01:43,440 neighbor our God truly is good. Hallelujah. 25 00:01:47,360 --> 00:01:53,240 Well, it's great to see you this Sunday, 9:00 AM experience here 26 00:01:53,240 --> 00:01:55,400 at Love Quest International Church. 27 00:01:55,920 --> 00:02:00,920 My name is Elder Brett, and our pastors, Pastor Terence and 28 00:02:00,920 --> 00:02:03,880 Pastor Julia are away this weekend. 29 00:02:03,880 --> 00:02:08,039 I want to just thank them for the opportunity that it is and 30 00:02:08,039 --> 00:02:10,840 the blessing that it is to be able to share with you this 31 00:02:10,840 --> 00:02:15,480 morning. God is moving in this place and 32 00:02:15,480 --> 00:02:21,120 there's a word in the house, and I believe that He has a word for 33 00:02:21,120 --> 00:02:25,840 you. So have expectant hearts today 34 00:02:27,440 --> 00:02:31,920 expecting that God is working. You always find interesting is 35 00:02:32,400 --> 00:02:37,120 have you ever been to an experience and you've heard the 36 00:02:37,120 --> 00:02:39,760 message and you go, oh, this was really good. 37 00:02:39,760 --> 00:02:42,680 This is this is what I've got in the message and you're talking 38 00:02:42,680 --> 00:02:46,480 to to someone who's in the same message and they say I missed 39 00:02:46,480 --> 00:02:48,280 that bit. But man, this bit here, this was 40 00:02:48,280 --> 00:02:49,880 really good. I love this bit. 41 00:02:50,360 --> 00:02:54,200 Why, why does that happen? Because the Holy Spirit is 42 00:02:54,200 --> 00:02:58,400 speaking to you because He knows you and he knows what you need. 43 00:02:59,640 --> 00:03:03,400 So there's going to be Nuggets here that God has just for you 44 00:03:05,320 --> 00:03:08,400 because he's good. Remember we talked about that 45 00:03:08,400 --> 00:03:14,480 just a second ago. All right, God is good and all 46 00:03:14,480 --> 00:03:16,360 the time. Amen. 47 00:03:17,800 --> 00:03:19,200 See, I didn't have that in Australia. 48 00:03:19,200 --> 00:03:23,120 That wasn't a big thing in Australia, but it's a good thing 49 00:03:23,120 --> 00:03:27,080 here. So we're going to continue with 50 00:03:27,320 --> 00:03:32,560 the theme of lush, the perfecting of the Saints. 51 00:03:34,760 --> 00:03:39,600 And part of this message was a prophetic message the Lord gave 52 00:03:39,600 --> 00:03:43,280 through Pastor Terence that he is equipping us because the 53 00:03:43,280 --> 00:03:48,640 wind's about to blow. The wind's about to blow is a 54 00:03:51,320 --> 00:03:55,280 suggestion. No, is a statement that the Holy 55 00:03:55,280 --> 00:03:57,200 Spirit is about to move in a great way. 56 00:03:59,520 --> 00:04:02,560 And so He is equipping us, preparing us, perfecting us, 57 00:04:02,560 --> 00:04:07,520 maturing us. So we are prepared for when the 58 00:04:07,520 --> 00:04:11,200 wind blows, but even if we're not prepared, the wind's going 59 00:04:11,200 --> 00:04:14,960 to blow. And so we take the 60 00:04:14,960 --> 00:04:20,320 responsibility to be prepared for what God is doing. 61 00:04:21,959 --> 00:04:26,280 John chapter 3 and verse 8 is a verse that's been used through 62 00:04:26,280 --> 00:04:32,080 this theme. And John 38 says the wind blows, 63 00:04:32,680 --> 00:04:39,000 breathes wherever it wills. And though you hear its sound, 64 00:04:39,320 --> 00:04:43,320 yet you neither know where it comes from nor where it is 65 00:04:43,320 --> 00:04:48,200 going. So it is with everyone who is 66 00:04:48,200 --> 00:04:52,840 born of the Spirit. Now, it's a fascinating thing 67 00:04:52,840 --> 00:04:57,520 with wind, and we all know the kind of wind comes from a high 68 00:04:57,520 --> 00:04:59,800 pressure, low pressure. It's shifting from different 69 00:05:00,160 --> 00:05:04,160 areas of pressure within the systems and it always is 70 00:05:04,160 --> 00:05:07,640 adjusting and moving. And we've got highs and lows. 71 00:05:07,640 --> 00:05:09,560 And this is the stuff I learned in high school. 72 00:05:09,720 --> 00:05:14,800 I kind of remember high pressure, low pressure, and the 73 00:05:14,800 --> 00:05:16,880 wind is escaping from a high pressure area towards a low 74 00:05:16,880 --> 00:05:18,640 pressure area, but it's always changing. 75 00:05:20,640 --> 00:05:23,800 So we know that. But do we see the wind? 76 00:05:25,440 --> 00:05:28,000 Well, no. What do we see? 77 00:05:29,720 --> 00:05:35,880 The results of the wind, right? You know, flags, flutters, maybe 78 00:05:35,920 --> 00:05:41,080 a tumbleweed blows down the Midwest, something like that. 79 00:05:41,920 --> 00:05:46,680 But we see the result of the wind right as it is with the 80 00:05:46,680 --> 00:05:52,400 Spirit. He is moving and he is shifting 81 00:05:52,600 --> 00:05:56,680 and he is blowing. He is moving in lies, and we 82 00:05:56,680 --> 00:06:03,760 don't know where it comes from or yet we know that he is 83 00:06:03,760 --> 00:06:06,760 moving. He is moving in power. 84 00:06:06,760 --> 00:06:11,160 He's moving to touch lies. And so we're going to talk about 85 00:06:11,160 --> 00:06:14,480 the wind of the Spirit in three different areas. 86 00:06:15,760 --> 00:06:24,720 The wind exposes, the wind refreshes and the wind reveals. 87 00:06:26,520 --> 00:06:34,160 The wind exposes, the wind refreshes and the wind reveals. 88 00:06:38,680 --> 00:06:43,880 In Australia, they will have tropical cyclones come down and 89 00:06:43,880 --> 00:06:47,320 it's like the hurricane here, different term for exactly the 90 00:06:47,320 --> 00:06:51,440 same thing, a bunch of very blowy wind that causes damage 91 00:06:51,440 --> 00:06:56,760 and strife, right? And I've not been in a hurricane 92 00:06:56,760 --> 00:07:00,280 or a tropical cyclone to experience that kind of wind, 93 00:07:00,280 --> 00:07:05,280 but you see pictures of it and usually now we know that they're 94 00:07:05,320 --> 00:07:08,600 on their way, they're coming in off the shore and you've usually 95 00:07:08,600 --> 00:07:11,920 got a few days to prepare. So what do people do when 96 00:07:11,920 --> 00:07:17,280 they're preparing for the wind to come, right? 97 00:07:17,280 --> 00:07:20,720 They're getting out plywood, they're protecting the windows. 98 00:07:20,720 --> 00:07:23,720 They're, they're battering down. Anything will be blown away. 99 00:07:23,720 --> 00:07:27,440 They're, they're trying to, to find a way to prepare so that 100 00:07:27,440 --> 00:07:29,800 when the wind blows, it's not going to take away their house 101 00:07:29,800 --> 00:07:34,160 or their belongings or, or, or cause too much damage, right? 102 00:07:37,440 --> 00:07:46,640 Wind exposes the weak points. So if you have a roof that's 103 00:07:46,960 --> 00:07:49,880 gone, you know, been nailed in, but the nails aren't so good or 104 00:07:49,880 --> 00:07:54,400 something, it's going to create this weak point where it starts 105 00:07:54,400 --> 00:07:57,320 to flap and all of a sudden, you know, also it's gone. 106 00:07:57,320 --> 00:07:59,280 The roof is gone. It's just disappeared. 107 00:07:59,600 --> 00:08:02,000 It's just exposed. Everything's exposed now. 108 00:08:02,000 --> 00:08:05,320 The roof is gone. That was a weak point. 109 00:08:09,800 --> 00:08:14,680 It's an exposure. Now we just spoke about how God 110 00:08:14,680 --> 00:08:15,680 is good. Yes. 111 00:08:18,720 --> 00:08:21,800 So when the wind of his Spirit is moving, he's exposing. 112 00:08:21,800 --> 00:08:28,560 But to what end? Is he exposing to condemn or is 113 00:08:28,560 --> 00:08:36,360 he exposing to build you up? There's a, there's a great 114 00:08:36,360 --> 00:08:43,520 scripture Paul's writing and he says God disciplines those he 115 00:08:43,520 --> 00:08:48,240 loves. If you're not disciplined, then 116 00:08:48,240 --> 00:08:50,400 you're not one of his children, right? 117 00:08:50,400 --> 00:08:53,200 You're, you're, you're, you're, you're not really his. 118 00:08:56,160 --> 00:08:58,960 Why? Because he wants you to grow 119 00:08:59,080 --> 00:09:03,360 into who you can be. So when the wind of the Spirit 120 00:09:03,360 --> 00:09:07,200 is exposing, it's exposing so that you can shift that thing 121 00:09:07,200 --> 00:09:11,040 out, get rid of that part to be able to shape it differently, 122 00:09:11,880 --> 00:09:14,800 reset your priorities, reset your agendas. 123 00:09:16,960 --> 00:09:22,160 Because the wind is exposing, it's tearing off those things 124 00:09:22,160 --> 00:09:24,760 that have covered it. We talked about the roof coming 125 00:09:24,760 --> 00:09:26,040 off. When the roof comes off, 126 00:09:26,080 --> 00:09:29,400 everything inside that house or barn or whatever that might have 127 00:09:29,400 --> 00:09:35,120 been is exposed now to the wind. But the purpose of God in 128 00:09:35,120 --> 00:09:41,440 exposing you is to heal you. The purpose of God in exposing 129 00:09:41,440 --> 00:09:45,320 you is to actually bring order and life into something that's 130 00:09:45,320 --> 00:09:49,320 been dead. So when the wind of the Spirit 131 00:09:49,320 --> 00:09:53,880 is exposing, he's doing it for your good, He's doing it for 132 00:09:53,880 --> 00:09:56,120 your benefit, He's doing it for your life. 133 00:09:56,840 --> 00:10:01,360 This is why we have to start with God is good, right? 134 00:10:01,480 --> 00:10:04,880 Because when God is good, that's my measuring line, right? 135 00:10:05,320 --> 00:10:07,960 That's how I define what's occurring. 136 00:10:10,960 --> 00:10:14,760 I can see the exposure of how God's moving and they go, but I 137 00:10:14,760 --> 00:10:17,360 know God's good. So I know at the end of this 138 00:10:17,560 --> 00:10:23,160 journey, at the end of this season, I'm shifting towards the 139 00:10:23,160 --> 00:10:29,120 goodness of God. He's exposing for our good. 140 00:10:31,960 --> 00:10:37,200 Matthew 7 verse 24 to 27. Anyone who listens to my 141 00:10:37,200 --> 00:10:43,000 teaching and follows it and does what and right, not just listens 142 00:10:43,240 --> 00:10:48,160 but follows obeys, is obedient to, is wise. 143 00:10:48,880 --> 00:10:54,360 Like a person who builds a house on solid rock, though the rain 144 00:10:54,360 --> 00:11:02,480 comes in torrents and the floodwaters rise and the winds 145 00:11:02,480 --> 00:11:06,080 beat against that house, it won't collapse because it is 146 00:11:06,080 --> 00:11:12,000 built on bedrock solid rock. But anyone who hears my teaching 147 00:11:12,120 --> 00:11:17,160 and doesn't obey it is foolish. Like a person who builds a house 148 00:11:17,160 --> 00:11:20,880 on sand, when the rains and floods come and the winds beat 149 00:11:20,880 --> 00:11:24,080 against that house, it will collapse with a mighty crash. 150 00:11:24,240 --> 00:11:31,160 Exposure, you see when they're first built, both those houses 151 00:11:31,160 --> 00:11:33,520 look the same. In fact the one on the sand 152 00:11:33,520 --> 00:11:36,960 might have looked pretty good. It might have looked like pretty 153 00:11:36,960 --> 00:11:41,120 flashy might have had that nice little, you know, beautiful 154 00:11:41,120 --> 00:11:46,920 kitchen and great view of the water, those big windows and you 155 00:11:46,920 --> 00:11:50,320 know a lovely entrance and there there were probably like 5 or 6 156 00:11:50,320 --> 00:11:54,480 bedrooms and you know, you've got like a media centre and it 157 00:11:54,480 --> 00:12:04,280 looks flash so good. But sand what what happens with 158 00:12:04,280 --> 00:12:09,480 sand? Sand shifts right The the the 159 00:12:09,520 --> 00:12:14,120 foundation shifts. Sand gets undermined by water. 160 00:12:17,560 --> 00:12:27,520 It can sink, it's not solid. So despite the houses both 161 00:12:27,520 --> 00:12:34,400 looking the same, when difficult times come, when the challenge 162 00:12:34,400 --> 00:12:41,440 comes, when the wind blows, when, when there's an exposure 163 00:12:41,440 --> 00:12:44,360 to the elements, it can't hold up. 164 00:12:46,240 --> 00:12:48,880 So it doesn't matter how beautiful the facade is. 165 00:12:50,880 --> 00:12:53,160 It doesn't matter how nice it looked. 166 00:12:55,400 --> 00:13:01,680 The foundation was off. Now you What's interesting, in 167 00:13:01,680 --> 00:13:05,440 the parable, Jesus says both of them heard the word. 168 00:13:07,440 --> 00:13:10,960 It wasn't like 1 didn't hear the word, but the other did. 169 00:13:10,960 --> 00:13:14,800 Now he doesn't say that. He says the one who doesn't do 170 00:13:14,800 --> 00:13:21,040 it, the one who doesn't obey me is like the one who does it on 171 00:13:21,040 --> 00:13:25,000 the sand. You can have head knowledge, but 172 00:13:25,000 --> 00:13:31,080 how do you live it? The sand wasn't the one who 173 00:13:31,080 --> 00:13:35,680 didn't know what Jesus said. He was just like the one who 174 00:13:35,680 --> 00:13:40,920 built on the rock. They both heard the word, but 175 00:13:40,920 --> 00:13:45,200 what did you do with it? Did you obey? 176 00:13:45,200 --> 00:13:48,360 Did you follow? Did you follow the plan? 177 00:13:48,840 --> 00:13:52,120 Did you did you hear the word of the Lord and continue to do it? 178 00:13:52,760 --> 00:13:55,520 Or did you say, oh, that was a nice message. 179 00:13:55,520 --> 00:13:57,720 I'm so glad I came on Sunday to Lovequest. 180 00:13:57,720 --> 00:13:58,960 It was fantastic. Yeah. 181 00:13:58,960 --> 00:14:00,400 Anyway, anyway, what else are we doing? 182 00:14:01,600 --> 00:14:06,680 Or did you take the word and did you do something with it? 183 00:14:08,080 --> 00:14:12,040 Did you apply it? That's the only difference 184 00:14:12,040 --> 00:14:15,720 between the two stories. The bedrock, the solid rock was 185 00:14:15,720 --> 00:14:20,840 those who did it follow through, obeyed the word of the Lord. 186 00:14:25,360 --> 00:14:36,490 The wind is blowing to blow out the shakeable, the wind that the 187 00:14:36,490 --> 00:14:41,330 Lord blows so that we can be purified, so we can come to that 188 00:14:41,330 --> 00:14:47,410 place of being aware, truly aware of where we stand and 189 00:14:47,410 --> 00:14:49,450 truly aware of what God is doing. 190 00:14:52,050 --> 00:14:57,600 First John chapter 2 verse 3. And we can be sure that we know 191 00:14:57,600 --> 00:15:06,320 him if we what obey his commandments and we can be sure 192 00:15:06,320 --> 00:15:12,240 that we know him if we OK, so the answer is obey his 193 00:15:12,240 --> 00:15:15,640 commandments. OK, all right. 194 00:15:16,160 --> 00:15:24,400 And we can be sure that we know him if we yes, if someone claims 195 00:15:24,440 --> 00:15:29,160 I know God but doesn't obey God's commandments, that person 196 00:15:29,160 --> 00:15:33,640 is a liar and is not living in the truth. 197 00:15:40,990 --> 00:15:44,870 Next slide. But those who obey God's word 198 00:15:44,870 --> 00:15:48,310 truly show how completely they love him. 199 00:15:49,030 --> 00:15:51,350 That is how we know we are living in him. 200 00:15:51,670 --> 00:15:55,830 Those who say they live in God should live their lives as Jesus 201 00:15:55,830 --> 00:15:58,720 did. You see those who obey guys were 202 00:15:58,720 --> 00:16:03,040 truly they show. It's revealed in their life. 203 00:16:03,680 --> 00:16:05,960 It's revealed in how they speak to people. 204 00:16:06,160 --> 00:16:11,440 It's revealed in how they walk. It's revealed there's an 205 00:16:11,440 --> 00:16:18,560 exposure to it. Reminds me of the message from 206 00:16:18,680 --> 00:16:21,720 the beginning of this year, which is our theme, the fear of 207 00:16:21,720 --> 00:16:29,480 God. There's a difference. 208 00:16:30,880 --> 00:16:36,160 I don't want to I don't want to understate the importance of the 209 00:16:36,160 --> 00:16:40,040 love of God that well, not the love of God that I love God, I 210 00:16:40,040 --> 00:16:45,520 love God, right? I love God is a powerful 211 00:16:45,520 --> 00:16:50,920 statement. I fear God, I honour God. 212 00:16:50,920 --> 00:17:00,200 I'm in reverential awe of God is actually a different level. 213 00:17:02,440 --> 00:17:06,839 John Bevere, who's a author and and minister. 214 00:17:07,000 --> 00:17:13,480 He spoke to a man sketch my memory right now who had gone to 215 00:17:13,480 --> 00:17:17,440 prison because he had actually embezzled funds through his 216 00:17:17,440 --> 00:17:23,160 ministry and he questioned me said he said what was it? 217 00:17:23,400 --> 00:17:28,079 How did you what, what happened? You know, you had this massive 218 00:17:28,079 --> 00:17:29,760 ministry. You were reaching millions of 219 00:17:29,760 --> 00:17:33,320 people. And he said, I loved God. 220 00:17:34,720 --> 00:17:44,540 I didn't fear God. I didn't have a reverential awe 221 00:17:44,540 --> 00:17:50,480 of who God was. I didn't come to that space 222 00:17:50,480 --> 00:17:55,600 where I, I, I feared God and had an awe of God and I recognised 223 00:17:55,600 --> 00:17:59,920 it massively who he was, that I would allow that to affect how I 224 00:17:59,920 --> 00:18:01,880 lived my life, how I walked it out. 225 00:18:05,120 --> 00:18:10,160 You see, here's what John is writing here is those who obey 226 00:18:10,160 --> 00:18:14,120 God's word truly show how completely they love him. 227 00:18:15,040 --> 00:18:17,280 That is how we know we're living in Him. 228 00:18:17,840 --> 00:18:22,680 We're abiding Him in Him. John 15 Jesus talks about being 229 00:18:22,680 --> 00:18:23,920 the vine and we are the branches. 230 00:18:23,920 --> 00:18:26,160 When we abide in Him, we can be fruitful. 231 00:18:26,600 --> 00:18:29,040 When we abide outside of Him, we can't be fruitful. 232 00:18:30,280 --> 00:18:34,560 It's the abiding in Him, in knowing Him, in in obeying his 233 00:18:34,560 --> 00:18:38,880 commandments, in responding to His Word and actually applying 234 00:18:38,880 --> 00:18:43,160 it into our lives. That's that point, that point of 235 00:18:43,160 --> 00:18:48,520 obedience. It says, yes, I will submit 236 00:18:48,520 --> 00:18:52,000 myself and surrender myself to what God has called and what God 237 00:18:52,000 --> 00:18:55,400 has said in His Word. That now becomes the point at 238 00:18:55,400 --> 00:18:58,160 which I can say I begin to know Him. 239 00:19:03,510 --> 00:19:06,310 And then it says those who say they live in God should live 240 00:19:06,310 --> 00:19:09,630 their lives as Jesus did. You see, Jesus is our model. 241 00:19:10,190 --> 00:19:13,270 In fact, the Scriptures talk about us being shaped into the 242 00:19:13,270 --> 00:19:16,190 image of God. Galatians 419 and again in I 243 00:19:16,190 --> 00:19:19,880 believe there's Ephesians 4 around verse 21, we're being 244 00:19:19,880 --> 00:19:23,480 matured into the image of Christ, into the very stature of 245 00:19:23,480 --> 00:19:26,560 Christ, it says. So we're actually being shaped. 246 00:19:26,560 --> 00:19:29,880 The purpose of our our walk is to be shaped into the image of 247 00:19:29,880 --> 00:19:34,840 Jesus, to live out our lives in a way that models what Jesus 248 00:19:34,840 --> 00:19:36,960 did. Hearing the voice of the Lord, 249 00:19:37,560 --> 00:19:41,080 being obedient in what we're saying, walking with the Spirit, 250 00:19:41,080 --> 00:19:47,320 being led by the Spirit. This is our call not just to get 251 00:19:47,320 --> 00:19:50,160 in by the the the skin of our teeth and say great, I've got 252 00:19:50,160 --> 00:19:56,760 the golden ticket. It's about us being discipled 253 00:19:56,760 --> 00:20:01,280 into the walk, being discipled by hearing the word, being 254 00:20:01,280 --> 00:20:06,760 discipled by spending time with people who love God so we can 255 00:20:06,760 --> 00:20:10,640 walk in him. Dear friends, I'm not writing a 256 00:20:10,640 --> 00:20:13,840 new commandment for you. Rather, it is an old one you 257 00:20:13,840 --> 00:20:15,640 have had from the very beginning. 258 00:20:16,280 --> 00:20:21,360 This old commandment to love one another is the same message you 259 00:20:21,360 --> 00:20:24,120 heard before, yet it is also new. 260 00:20:24,560 --> 00:20:27,920 Jesus lived the truth of this commandment and you also are 261 00:20:27,920 --> 00:20:30,640 living it. For the darkness is disappearing 262 00:20:30,640 --> 00:20:32,800 and the true light is already shining. 263 00:20:33,280 --> 00:20:37,240 If anyone claims I am living in the light but hates a fellow 264 00:20:37,240 --> 00:20:40,560 believer, that person is still living in darkness. 265 00:20:46,360 --> 00:20:49,440 Anyone who loves a fellow believer is living in the light 266 00:20:49,840 --> 00:20:51,840 and does not 'cause others to stumble. 267 00:20:52,320 --> 00:20:55,640 But anyone who hates a fellow believer is still living and 268 00:20:55,640 --> 00:20:58,960 walking in darkness. Such a person does not know the 269 00:20:58,960 --> 00:21:04,040 way to go, having been blinded by the darkness. 270 00:21:04,520 --> 00:21:10,240 You see, this becomes very real. Now the rubber hits the road. 271 00:21:11,880 --> 00:21:14,600 Oh my goodness, it was nice where I could just love God and 272 00:21:14,600 --> 00:21:17,440 he's out there. But now I've got, I show that I 273 00:21:17,440 --> 00:21:24,040 love God by how I treat you. Oh man, how now? 274 00:21:24,160 --> 00:21:27,320 Now we've got to, I've got to show love through connecting 275 00:21:27,320 --> 00:21:28,080 with you. But I don't. 276 00:21:28,600 --> 00:21:30,160 What if I don't always like everything? 277 00:21:30,160 --> 00:21:38,560 That's OK. We show through this 278 00:21:38,560 --> 00:21:41,320 relationship what God's done here. 279 00:21:44,360 --> 00:21:47,560 If anyone loves a fellow believer, they are living in the 280 00:21:47,560 --> 00:21:50,200 light. Now what does that term mean? 281 00:21:51,120 --> 00:21:54,680 Interestingly, in first John chapter one, verse four and 282 00:21:54,680 --> 00:22:01,640 five, John says God is light and there is no darkness in him. 283 00:22:02,640 --> 00:22:07,720 So that actually sets the framework for the rest of the 284 00:22:07,720 --> 00:22:11,040 book of the first John. God is light, and there's no 285 00:22:11,040 --> 00:22:12,840 darkness in him. So now we're seeing a difference 286 00:22:12,840 --> 00:22:16,720 between light and darkness. Anyone who hates their fellow 287 00:22:16,720 --> 00:22:18,640 believer, everyone who hates their brother and sister in 288 00:22:18,640 --> 00:22:21,600 Jesus, is walking in the darkness. 289 00:22:21,680 --> 00:22:27,720 Well, that's not where God is. Anyone who loves their fellow 290 00:22:27,720 --> 00:22:33,920 believer shows love, shows true love, true heart, then they're 291 00:22:33,920 --> 00:22:36,760 walking in the light. Well, that's where God is 292 00:22:36,880 --> 00:22:42,880 because God is light. And so it comes down to this 293 00:22:42,880 --> 00:22:53,680 relationship, how we speak about one another, how we walk with 294 00:22:53,680 --> 00:22:57,040 each other. I mean, this is pretty strong 295 00:22:57,040 --> 00:22:59,760 stuff. John's not, you know, pulling 296 00:22:59,760 --> 00:23:09,600 any punches. This relationship here is where 297 00:23:09,600 --> 00:23:14,080 we are showing and revealing our love for God. 298 00:23:19,490 --> 00:23:24,690 Could you pull up for me Proverbs chapter 26 and verse 299 00:23:24,690 --> 00:23:30,810 20, please? Proverbs 26 verse 20 to 22. 300 00:23:33,010 --> 00:23:38,680 Proverbs 16 verse 28 says perverse man sows strife and a 301 00:23:38,680 --> 00:23:42,520 whisperer separates close friends. 302 00:23:45,560 --> 00:23:50,480 A whisperer. The whisperer is the gossip. 303 00:23:51,520 --> 00:23:56,680 The one who gets in the ear of another sows seed of discontent. 304 00:23:59,080 --> 00:24:02,400 The Whisperer sows seeds to separate. 305 00:24:04,320 --> 00:24:09,440 They separate them from others. A Whisperer does it in the 306 00:24:09,440 --> 00:24:15,280 darkness. A whisperer will go in the quiet 307 00:24:15,280 --> 00:24:22,160 side rooms, go to the corners to have their little discussions. 308 00:24:25,440 --> 00:24:28,760 We often talk about, I think it's in foundations too. 309 00:24:28,760 --> 00:24:35,080 We talk about centre of the ring, we come to the centre of 310 00:24:35,080 --> 00:24:36,720 the ring. We have our discussions here. 311 00:24:37,200 --> 00:24:40,400 We don't have our discussions in the corner, in the quiet, in the 312 00:24:40,400 --> 00:24:44,120 darkness, right? Those places where whispering 313 00:24:44,120 --> 00:24:48,760 occurs, we expose it. We come in love with one another 314 00:24:49,160 --> 00:24:54,280 to show and reveal it. I've got it here if we don't 315 00:24:54,280 --> 00:24:58,000 pull it up. Proverbs 26, verse 20. 316 00:24:58,840 --> 00:25:03,680 Oh, here it is, a lying tongue hates those it wounds and 317 00:25:03,680 --> 00:25:09,200 crushes. Oh, there is for lack of wood 318 00:25:09,200 --> 00:25:12,000 the fire goes out, and where there is no whisperer, 319 00:25:12,200 --> 00:25:17,440 contention ceases. As coals are to hot embers as 320 00:25:17,440 --> 00:25:20,040 wood to the fire, so is a quarrelsome man. 321 00:25:20,440 --> 00:25:23,000 Quarrelsome man to inflamed strife. 322 00:25:25,320 --> 00:25:28,520 Next verse. The words of a whisperer or 323 00:25:28,520 --> 00:25:33,240 slanderer are like dainty morsels or words of sport to 324 00:25:33,240 --> 00:25:39,360 some, but to others are like burning lips uttering insincere. 325 00:25:39,360 --> 00:25:43,560 Words of love and a wicked heart are like an earthen vessel 326 00:25:43,560 --> 00:25:46,920 covered with a scum thrown off the molten silver. 327 00:25:51,280 --> 00:25:54,000 It's interesting. The whisperers first feel the 328 00:25:54,040 --> 00:25:57,600 The words of a whisperer are a gossip first feels like a dainty 329 00:25:57,600 --> 00:25:58,920 morsel. It's like, oh, that was, that 330 00:25:58,920 --> 00:26:00,400 was. Oh, I know something now. 331 00:26:02,080 --> 00:26:05,720 Did you hear George? Did you hear? 332 00:26:09,400 --> 00:26:14,560 Do you know about that guy called Elder Brett? 333 00:26:14,640 --> 00:26:20,800 Oh my goodness. Oh, I know something. 334 00:26:20,800 --> 00:26:24,640 That's a dainty morsel. Oh, that tasted good at first. 335 00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:33,760 But a whisperer creates firewood for the firewood for the 336 00:26:33,800 --> 00:26:39,200 dissension. And so this connects with first 337 00:26:39,200 --> 00:26:43,720 John chapter 2 where it's like, hey, do you love your, you love 338 00:26:43,720 --> 00:26:45,600 your brother? You love your fellow believer in 339 00:26:45,640 --> 00:26:50,800 Jesus. Or is whispering part of it? 340 00:26:53,800 --> 00:26:55,680 Because they are not the same thing. 341 00:26:58,960 --> 00:27:06,600 A whisperer's tongue burns. That's why we talk about centre 342 00:27:06,600 --> 00:27:10,760 of the ring, because we're about exposing the things that will 343 00:27:10,880 --> 00:27:15,560 draw us away, exposing that heart that needs to shift. 344 00:27:15,720 --> 00:27:19,400 And remember God is good, so the exposure is for our good. 345 00:27:21,440 --> 00:27:26,480 The exposure is actually so that we see with new eyes, that our 346 00:27:26,480 --> 00:27:30,000 minds are renewed, that we're walking in a different path. 347 00:27:31,400 --> 00:27:36,120 The purpose of it is not to condemn, but actually to convict 348 00:27:36,120 --> 00:27:40,200 so that it can be healed in First Corinthians chapter 5. 349 00:27:40,280 --> 00:27:42,280 I read it earlier today. Don't worry about pulling it up. 350 00:27:42,280 --> 00:27:47,040 But Oh my goodness, imagine if Paul was your pastor. 351 00:27:48,440 --> 00:27:54,200 Paul says there's a man committing sexual immorality in 352 00:27:54,200 --> 00:27:56,480 your church. He's sleeping with his 353 00:27:56,480 --> 00:27:59,600 stepmother. What are you doing? 354 00:27:59,880 --> 00:28:02,360 I'm afar off and I've already judged him. 355 00:28:02,720 --> 00:28:06,120 Get together the church and kick him out. 356 00:28:06,680 --> 00:28:09,840 Get rid of him, and here's why we go Well, hang on, that 357 00:28:09,840 --> 00:28:11,600 doesn't sound very good. That's not very loving. 358 00:28:11,680 --> 00:28:14,200 Hold on. Here's why we kick him out so 359 00:28:14,200 --> 00:28:17,080 that he can see the wrong and still be saved. 360 00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:20,840 Do you understand that the love of God is actually about 361 00:28:20,840 --> 00:28:24,440 revealing and exposing. So he's because Paul's heart was 362 00:28:24,440 --> 00:28:27,840 actually that the man would eventually come to the knowledge 363 00:28:27,840 --> 00:28:33,840 of Jesus in such a way that he would still be saved, but the 364 00:28:33,840 --> 00:28:38,880 exposure was get him out because that little bit of 11 will 365 00:28:39,280 --> 00:28:43,320 affect the whole lot of you that little bit. 366 00:28:47,480 --> 00:28:50,360 And so he would say get everyone together, say OK, see you length 367 00:28:50,440 --> 00:28:53,240 you're off when you're ready to switch and change your mind, 368 00:28:53,240 --> 00:28:56,280 change your ways. Then we'll, you're open, right? 369 00:29:02,630 --> 00:29:09,160 See, He's moving for our good. He's exposing so we can be 370 00:29:09,160 --> 00:29:12,800 healed. He's exposing these areas in our 371 00:29:12,800 --> 00:29:17,080 lives so that we can come back to that knowledge of Jesus or we 372 00:29:17,080 --> 00:29:20,880 can deal with that and have the path to move forward. 373 00:29:21,760 --> 00:29:27,320 His exposure is for our good. The wind of God is moving to 374 00:29:27,320 --> 00:29:33,520 expose, and His exposure will lift us up, redeem us, and save 375 00:29:33,520 --> 00:29:36,600 us. The wind refreshes. 376 00:29:43,830 --> 00:29:44,550 Where am I? There? 377 00:29:44,550 --> 00:29:49,390 I am OK sorry, lost my part, got all excited, lost my part Here 378 00:29:49,430 --> 00:29:52,950 we're good acts, chapter 3, verse 19. 379 00:29:53,310 --> 00:29:58,910 And now you must repent and turn back to God so that your sins 380 00:29:58,910 --> 00:30:04,430 will be removed and so that times of refreshing will stream 381 00:30:04,430 --> 00:30:11,560 from the Lord's presence. You see in the exposure, the 382 00:30:11,560 --> 00:30:16,720 repentance makes the way for the refreshing. 383 00:30:19,400 --> 00:30:24,800 It actually makes it possible that streams are refreshing, 384 00:30:26,160 --> 00:30:29,120 times are refreshing will stream from the Lord's presence. 385 00:30:29,120 --> 00:30:31,480 I love that idea of streams for those. 386 00:30:31,760 --> 00:30:33,640 Now we think of streaming, we think we're going to watch 387 00:30:33,640 --> 00:30:35,760 something. This is like the old fashioned 388 00:30:35,760 --> 00:30:37,480 stream where it's like a water flow. 389 00:30:39,480 --> 00:30:43,560 The water flows the the water flows through a stream. 390 00:30:44,280 --> 00:30:47,000 The great thing about running water, especially for the 391 00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:53,880 mountains, it's got freshness to it and streams of the times of 392 00:30:53,880 --> 00:30:56,720 refreshing will stream from the Lord's presence. 393 00:30:59,840 --> 00:31:03,760 This shows you the heart of the Father God. 394 00:31:04,960 --> 00:31:08,800 He calls us to repentance because he wants so much more 395 00:31:08,800 --> 00:31:12,240 for us. He calls us to repent and turn 396 00:31:12,240 --> 00:31:18,560 back to him because he desires to pour out times of refreshing 397 00:31:19,200 --> 00:31:23,680 into our lives. The Spirit of God is moving to 398 00:31:23,680 --> 00:31:26,920 refresh us. There's something about 399 00:31:26,920 --> 00:31:31,080 something that's been refreshed. You know, you go do a good car 400 00:31:31,080 --> 00:31:34,280 valet and now all of a sudden the, the car that felt a little 401 00:31:34,280 --> 00:31:39,360 bit musty or, you know, and very dirty or whatever it might be 402 00:31:39,360 --> 00:31:41,840 becomes fresh. It's refreshed. 403 00:31:42,480 --> 00:31:47,080 It's become fresh again. It's become fresh to to smell 404 00:31:47,080 --> 00:31:53,160 fresh to see it's refreshed. There's something when you see 405 00:31:53,160 --> 00:31:56,280 something for the first time. Have you ever? 406 00:31:57,200 --> 00:32:01,720 I remember when I first came to Canada, I grew up in Adelaide, 407 00:32:01,720 --> 00:32:04,640 South Australia, great part of the world that grew up nice and 408 00:32:04,640 --> 00:32:06,120 warm. We didn't get much rain. 409 00:32:06,120 --> 00:32:09,240 It's a little different here. Well, we didn't have mountains. 410 00:32:09,240 --> 00:32:12,480 And remember the first time we would drove up and I think we're 411 00:32:12,480 --> 00:32:16,200 driving up towards Whistler and I saw these mountains. 412 00:32:16,200 --> 00:32:27,040 I went, these things are huge. Wow, right. 413 00:32:27,040 --> 00:32:30,240 The first time you see snow, Stacey took a picture of me. 414 00:32:30,240 --> 00:32:33,640 The first time I saw snow. I was so cute back then. 415 00:32:36,360 --> 00:32:41,400 Thank you. And I'm like, oh, wow, you got 416 00:32:41,400 --> 00:32:43,480 my hands out. I'm in the snow, you know, 417 00:32:43,880 --> 00:32:55,080 tongue out. Oh, then 15 years later and 418 00:32:55,080 --> 00:32:56,960 you're trying to shovel it out of your driveway. 419 00:33:01,880 --> 00:33:09,600 It's a different joy. Thank you, Lord, I don't have to 420 00:33:09,600 --> 00:33:11,400 go to the gym now. I've got it, you know? 421 00:33:14,960 --> 00:33:20,480 But the refreshing takes you back to that first moment. 422 00:33:22,400 --> 00:33:27,680 That first moment of joy is like that first moment of joy that 423 00:33:27,680 --> 00:33:31,720 says, wow, look at those mountains now I see them every 424 00:33:31,720 --> 00:33:34,000 day. Can I have that same freshness 425 00:33:34,000 --> 00:33:42,320 of joy? See, times of refreshing as the 426 00:33:42,320 --> 00:33:44,440 Holy Spirit is blowing is actually bringing us to our 427 00:33:44,440 --> 00:34:01,440 first love, our first love. At first love we say Jesus thank 428 00:34:01,440 --> 00:34:04,240 you. Can we? 429 00:34:05,040 --> 00:34:10,120 Can we thank him with the same passion and zeal and pursuit 430 00:34:11,239 --> 00:34:20,159 from that first time? Jesus, Jesus, you changed 431 00:34:20,199 --> 00:34:25,400 everything. Oh, Lord, everything changed. 432 00:34:27,159 --> 00:34:28,920 That first love, that refreshing. 433 00:34:29,040 --> 00:34:32,719 There's a part of when the wind is blowing to bring you back 434 00:34:32,719 --> 00:34:36,120 with new eyes to see what God has done and what he's doing in 435 00:34:36,120 --> 00:34:42,520 your life to refresh you. Chris, sledding. 436 00:34:42,560 --> 00:34:44,880 I'm going to tell you a story, if that's all right. 437 00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:47,120 Thank you. OK, I got permission. 438 00:34:47,120 --> 00:34:53,080 I got the thumbs up with good. So he was out hunting a couple 439 00:34:53,080 --> 00:34:57,800 weeks back and he had a big load on his back and he's having to 440 00:34:57,800 --> 00:35:02,080 go up this mountain and it was hot and he's going up the 441 00:35:02,080 --> 00:35:06,480 mountain right with his big pack on his back. 442 00:35:07,120 --> 00:35:14,920 And then the wind would blow. Refreshing that wind is a 443 00:35:14,920 --> 00:35:18,280 refreshing wind. The wind when it gets at your 444 00:35:18,280 --> 00:35:21,440 back, you know, you, you got a load, it gets to your back. 445 00:35:21,440 --> 00:35:24,600 It's like, oh, that's so good. I'm going to go with that, 446 00:35:24,600 --> 00:35:27,560 right. There's a refreshing of the wind 447 00:35:30,160 --> 00:35:32,440 in Adelaide. We'd have a gully breeze that 448 00:35:32,440 --> 00:35:37,840 would come through and it'd be like 40° in the day and, and 449 00:35:37,840 --> 00:35:39,800 it'd been hot for, you know, about a week. 450 00:35:39,800 --> 00:35:42,400 And then you get this gully breeze come through and you're 451 00:35:42,400 --> 00:35:49,720 like, oh, stand outside and just enjoy the breeze because it's a 452 00:35:49,720 --> 00:35:53,000 refreshing. The Holy Spirit's blowing for 453 00:35:53,000 --> 00:35:59,120 refreshing to refresh us, equipping us and preparing us. 454 00:36:00,720 --> 00:36:03,600 The wind is blowing to refresh your soul. 455 00:36:06,520 --> 00:36:09,000 Matthew Chapter 11, verse 28 to 29. 456 00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:11,400 Pastor Terence used this scripture last week. 457 00:36:11,920 --> 00:36:14,120 I think it's really important. It says come to me. 458 00:36:14,440 --> 00:36:18,160 Jesus is saying come to me, all you who labour and are heavy 459 00:36:18,240 --> 00:36:21,960 laden, overburdened, overburdened, really receiving 460 00:36:21,960 --> 00:36:25,680 great weight. And it says and I will cause you 461 00:36:25,680 --> 00:36:30,800 to rest. I will cause you to come into a 462 00:36:30,800 --> 00:36:35,520 place of rest if you come to me. See he puts the invitation out 463 00:36:36,200 --> 00:36:41,840 and what's our response? He says, come to me, all you who 464 00:36:41,840 --> 00:36:43,440 labor in a heavy laden are overburdened. 465 00:36:43,440 --> 00:36:46,440 That will cause you to rest. I will ease and relieve and 466 00:36:46,440 --> 00:36:50,120 refresh your souls. Take my yoke upon you and learn 467 00:36:50,120 --> 00:36:56,800 of me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will 468 00:36:56,800 --> 00:37:06,160 find rest for your souls. Rest refreshing. 469 00:37:07,400 --> 00:37:11,200 The Lord is calling us because He wants to give us rest. 470 00:37:11,200 --> 00:37:18,720 The Lord is calling us to be able to position us for rest, to 471 00:37:18,720 --> 00:37:22,320 come into His presence, to come into that place of rest. 472 00:37:22,440 --> 00:37:26,360 Do you remember about a month ago I had a chair here. 473 00:37:26,360 --> 00:37:27,920 Does anyone remember? I had a chair here. 474 00:37:28,920 --> 00:37:31,440 Anyone remember? And I had had laid out on the 475 00:37:31,440 --> 00:37:33,200 chair. I'm not going to do it now 476 00:37:33,200 --> 00:37:34,640 because there's no chair there. I'd fall on the ground. 477 00:37:34,640 --> 00:37:41,600 That wouldn't do any good. Kick back is the undisturbed 478 00:37:41,840 --> 00:37:52,290 soul. When we find our rest in Father 479 00:37:52,290 --> 00:38:04,010 God, we can live with an undisturbed soul refreshed at 480 00:38:04,010 --> 00:38:17,200 rest in Him. The wind refreshes, the wind 481 00:38:17,200 --> 00:38:23,560 reveals. I'm going to touch on this a bit 482 00:38:23,560 --> 00:38:27,280 more in the noon experience. So if you I would have make it, 483 00:38:27,600 --> 00:38:29,120 thank you. And if you're unable to make it, 484 00:38:29,120 --> 00:38:32,120 I encourage you to to watch it online. 485 00:38:32,680 --> 00:38:34,120 But I want to touch on it briefly. 486 00:38:35,840 --> 00:38:38,720 There's something about wind that reveals as well. 487 00:38:41,000 --> 00:38:43,600 We talked about hurricanes, and there's been occasions where 488 00:38:43,600 --> 00:38:48,880 there's been a big storm and it blows away debris. 489 00:38:49,040 --> 00:38:52,720 It blows away the things that have covered for so long. 490 00:38:55,240 --> 00:39:02,920 And in that blowing, something's revealed all of a sudden that I 491 00:39:02,920 --> 00:39:05,480 didn't even know. In those stories is often like a 492 00:39:05,480 --> 00:39:08,160 secret door, you know, a secret door to the treasure. 493 00:39:08,160 --> 00:39:10,600 It's right there. I had no idea it was revealed by 494 00:39:10,600 --> 00:39:12,520 the wind that blew all the dust off it. 495 00:39:13,680 --> 00:39:21,760 There's a revealing, and I define it differently from 496 00:39:21,760 --> 00:39:25,040 exposure. Exposure to me is to show us the 497 00:39:25,040 --> 00:39:29,040 things we're dealing with. The wind revealing the Holy 498 00:39:29,040 --> 00:39:34,800 Spirit when He reveals is actually reminding us and 499 00:39:34,800 --> 00:39:40,920 showing us again. He is the Spirit of wisdom and 500 00:39:40,920 --> 00:39:43,920 revelation, revelation that comes from the word reveal. 501 00:39:45,880 --> 00:39:48,560 And the Holy Spirit, when He reveals, is actually bringing 502 00:39:48,560 --> 00:39:56,000 back to our remembrance something, bringing back to 503 00:39:56,000 --> 00:40:00,720 remembrance a word. Perhaps there was a call that 504 00:40:00,720 --> 00:40:08,760 has become covered over with debris and dust and mud, and the 505 00:40:08,760 --> 00:40:10,840 Holy Spirit wants to reveal it again. 506 00:40:14,440 --> 00:40:21,720 The Holy Spirit is revealing that again, there's a call the 507 00:40:21,720 --> 00:40:24,360 time and circumstance had covered. 508 00:40:25,960 --> 00:40:34,080 But that word was not in vain. There's prophetic words that 509 00:40:34,080 --> 00:40:40,680 have been left in a drawer and he's saying, time to get that 510 00:40:40,680 --> 00:40:47,760 out again. There's a revelation you 511 00:40:47,760 --> 00:40:55,360 received in the Word and you were disappointed the first 512 00:40:55,360 --> 00:41:00,200 time. The Spirit of the Lord is 513 00:41:00,200 --> 00:41:11,090 calling you to go back and faith again, believe again, walk with 514 00:41:11,090 --> 00:41:17,290 him again. The wind of the Spirit is here 515 00:41:17,290 --> 00:41:26,260 to reveal. The Holy Spirit of God is moving 516 00:41:27,020 --> 00:41:32,040 and there are words of your past that He is breathing new life 517 00:41:32,040 --> 00:41:36,680 into. There are promises that you gave 518 00:41:36,680 --> 00:41:39,800 up on. He's breathing new life into 519 00:41:39,800 --> 00:41:47,200 those promises. Again, the wind of the Spirit is 520 00:41:47,200 --> 00:41:51,840 blowing life. Again, He is the Spirit of life 521 00:41:55,080 --> 00:42:05,520 and He's revealing to you. Hebrews 12. 522 00:42:08,160 --> 00:42:10,880 Hebrews 1212 to 13. It says 2 is 12 January. 523 00:42:12,080 --> 00:42:14,960 Trust me. Hebrews 12 verse 12 to 13. 524 00:42:15,000 --> 00:42:21,360 For the Word of God is living and powerful and sharper than 525 00:42:21,440 --> 00:42:27,200 any 2 edged sword, piercing, cutting through even to the 526 00:42:27,200 --> 00:42:30,200 division of soul and spirit and of joints and of marrow. 527 00:42:32,240 --> 00:42:36,640 And the Word of God is a discern of the thoughts and intents of 528 00:42:36,640 --> 00:42:40,280 the heart. And there is no creature hidden 529 00:42:40,280 --> 00:42:44,680 from His side. All things are naked and open to 530 00:42:44,680 --> 00:42:47,640 the eyes of Him to whom we must give an account. 531 00:42:50,640 --> 00:42:53,760 The Lord is revealing because He sees it all anyway. 532 00:42:56,280 --> 00:42:58,400 You thought you could hide from God? 533 00:42:59,400 --> 00:43:07,480 Oh my goodness, what a good one You thought you just tuck away 534 00:43:07,480 --> 00:43:11,800 under the radar. There's another verse that talks 535 00:43:11,800 --> 00:43:14,360 about I made the heavens and the earth. 536 00:43:14,360 --> 00:43:16,000 Do you think you can hide anywhere? 537 00:43:16,000 --> 00:43:19,000 I made it all. I know where those caves are. 538 00:43:19,440 --> 00:43:22,680 I know where it all is. Stop trying to run. 539 00:43:24,200 --> 00:43:32,760 Spirit of the Lord is here to reveal because God is good. 540 00:43:36,040 --> 00:43:39,720 He desires relationship with you. 541 00:43:43,400 --> 00:43:48,600 He's exposing for your good, He's refreshing you for your 542 00:43:48,600 --> 00:43:55,440 good, and He is revealing hidden things for your good. 543 00:43:57,640 --> 00:44:03,880 Though we might be matured, strengthened and equipped for 544 00:44:03,880 --> 00:44:07,960 the next season, I invite you to pray with me. 545 00:44:25,840 --> 00:44:30,160 Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah. 546 00:44:30,160 --> 00:44:33,760 Praise you Jesus. We love you, Lord. 547 00:44:33,760 --> 00:44:39,240 We love you, Lord. Thank you Father. 548 00:44:42,520 --> 00:44:47,840 Thank you, Father, God that you are moving in this place. 549 00:44:49,600 --> 00:44:57,760 Thank you Father, to each and every individual and the sound 550 00:44:57,760 --> 00:45:05,440 of my voice. You know them, you desire 551 00:45:05,440 --> 00:45:14,920 relationship with them, and you desire to mature them, to 552 00:45:14,920 --> 00:45:20,360 perfect them, to bring them into this knowledge of You so they 553 00:45:20,360 --> 00:45:25,240 can walk in the power, the love, and the grace of God. 554 00:45:28,480 --> 00:45:37,650 I thank you, Lord, that you're more interested in our 555 00:45:37,650 --> 00:45:48,850 perfecting than our deliverance. The Lord, you are moving upon us 556 00:45:51,010 --> 00:46:00,120 to strengthen us for the fight. Thank you, Holy Spirit, the wind 557 00:46:00,120 --> 00:46:10,150 is blowing. The wind is blowing to expose 558 00:46:10,150 --> 00:46:14,030 those areas you're dealing with to bring exposure so that we can 559 00:46:14,030 --> 00:46:16,790 be purified. Or the wind is blowing to 560 00:46:16,790 --> 00:46:21,830 refresh us and prepare us to strengthen us for the walk, for 561 00:46:21,830 --> 00:46:23,310 the run that you're calling us to. 562 00:46:23,310 --> 00:46:28,440 The Holy Spirit you're revealing, you're blowing to 563 00:46:28,440 --> 00:46:34,040 reveal, to bring back the remembrance, the promises to 564 00:46:34,040 --> 00:46:36,840 bring back the remembrance, the call to bring back the 565 00:46:36,840 --> 00:46:41,320 remembrance. What you've called us to, to 566 00:46:41,320 --> 00:46:45,080 come back to our first love, to come back into that place of 567 00:46:45,360 --> 00:46:54,240 knowing you. Lord, we desire to know you, to 568 00:46:55,560 --> 00:47:05,880 know you, to know you. Lord, let that be the cry of a 569 00:47:05,880 --> 00:47:12,320 heart. To know your presence, to know 570 00:47:12,320 --> 00:47:22,340 who you are, to know how you move, to know you intimately, to 571 00:47:22,340 --> 00:47:32,640 get connected, to get real, to get open and vulnerable, and to 572 00:47:32,640 --> 00:47:37,040 come into your presence with open hearts. 573 00:47:37,040 --> 00:47:52,280 Lord, Father, thank you. Challenge us, convict us, reveal 574 00:47:52,280 --> 00:48:01,040 to us so we might grow in you that meanwhile walk in your 575 00:48:01,040 --> 00:48:03,600 presence and be conformed into your image. 576 00:48:06,240 --> 00:48:12,320 Lord, we desire to know you and to abide in you. 577 00:48:15,560 --> 00:48:19,360 In the name of Jesus, Hallelujah. 578 00:48:19,440 --> 00:48:21,600 Amen. Amen. 579 00:48:21,600 --> 00:48:30,840 Hallelujah. God's good man. 580 00:48:32,520 --> 00:48:33,560 Oh, and all the time God is good. 581 00:48:33,560 --> 00:48:37,280 Yes, I forgot about the bit. Yes, absolutely. 582 00:48:37,880 --> 00:48:41,680 Well, it's a blessing to be in this house. 583 00:48:42,120 --> 00:48:48,520 And we actually have a short video for you to see that is 584 00:48:48,520 --> 00:48:53,640 from our televised 100 Huntley segment. 585 00:48:54,000 --> 00:48:55,640 So if you turn your eyes to the screen. 586 00:48:59,600 --> 00:49:02,480 Yeah. Kind of an industrial area. 587 00:49:02,760 --> 00:49:06,000 Tell us a bit about why you chose to start the church here. 588 00:49:06,200 --> 00:49:10,080 We were looking for a space and personnel as a part of our 589 00:49:10,080 --> 00:49:15,320 community said, hey, there's this kind of abandoned garage in 590 00:49:15,320 --> 00:49:18,560 the area, come check it out. It was abandoned. 591 00:49:18,880 --> 00:49:23,120 It was available and we prayed about it and we walked through 592 00:49:23,200 --> 00:49:25,480 every step and every door. We ended up here. 593 00:49:25,640 --> 00:49:27,360 I thought we'll be in in four months. 594 00:49:27,760 --> 00:49:31,600 And due to my ignorance, I found out four years later we're still 595 00:49:31,600 --> 00:49:33,080 waiting to get in the building. Yeah. 596 00:49:33,120 --> 00:49:36,000 Yeah, well, it's hard not to think that maybe God has 597 00:49:36,000 --> 00:49:38,680 something behind that weight because we see these high rises 598 00:49:38,680 --> 00:49:41,640 being built up all around this building. 599 00:49:42,240 --> 00:49:46,040 Julia, when you think about your church life here, it's full of 600 00:49:46,040 --> 00:49:46,960 joy. I've heard. 601 00:49:47,280 --> 00:49:50,120 What would you say it looks like in action? 602 00:49:50,400 --> 00:49:53,000 Over and over again we hear people when they walk through 603 00:49:53,080 --> 00:49:56,760 just the the tent doors or even just coming onto the property 604 00:49:56,760 --> 00:49:59,240 that they feel love like they've never felt before. 605 00:49:59,480 --> 00:50:02,240 I think for us to be an expression of God's love in this 606 00:50:02,240 --> 00:50:05,840 community, not just inside these four walls, though, everywhere 607 00:50:05,840 --> 00:50:08,960 around here. God really strategically planted 608 00:50:08,960 --> 00:50:12,040 us here. There is every university in 609 00:50:12,040 --> 00:50:14,640 this, the region has a satellite campus right here. 610 00:50:14,640 --> 00:50:16,480 We are literally in the city center. 611 00:50:16,640 --> 00:50:18,600 We also have public transportation. 612 00:50:18,840 --> 00:50:21,960 They're completely changing the city and it's all happening 613 00:50:21,960 --> 00:50:24,680 while we are building simultaneously. 614 00:50:24,880 --> 00:50:28,720 So I know that every equipping, everything that we're doing here 615 00:50:28,880 --> 00:50:31,440 is part of what's happening outwardly as well. 616 00:50:34,600 --> 00:50:43,920 Amen. So we saw a great picture down 617 00:50:43,920 --> 00:50:47,200 over our property there and we're in the middle property in 618 00:50:47,200 --> 00:50:50,480 this location. We have our currently for our 619 00:50:50,480 --> 00:50:53,840 SSK over in that area, but that's actually going to be our 620 00:50:53,840 --> 00:50:57,720 media space and this is going to be our youth and children's 621 00:50:57,720 --> 00:51:00,960 space. And that side of the wall is our 622 00:51:00,960 --> 00:51:03,480 worship centre. It's exciting. 623 00:51:08,040 --> 00:51:12,640 And so we've been giving into the Remnant campaign and we're 624 00:51:12,640 --> 00:51:15,520 just in this last stretch. We're going to finish well. 625 00:51:16,000 --> 00:51:19,760 There's a last stretch of 500,000 that we're raising. 626 00:51:19,840 --> 00:51:23,960 We've raised over a million and we're excited to be able to give 627 00:51:23,960 --> 00:51:26,520 into that. Now we're going to have our next 628 00:51:26,760 --> 00:51:30,000 big giving opportunity is on September the 21st. 629 00:51:30,000 --> 00:51:33,960 Sunday, September 21st is our next big giving opportunity into 630 00:51:33,960 --> 00:51:37,680 the Remnant. But don't be held back by that 631 00:51:37,680 --> 00:51:39,680 date. If you want to give before, you 632 00:51:39,680 --> 00:51:42,960 can give before. Just mark on the envelope that 633 00:51:42,960 --> 00:51:45,480 it's for Remnant and we'll make sure it gets allocated 634 00:51:45,480 --> 00:51:47,760 accordingly. But this is a tremendous 635 00:51:47,760 --> 00:51:51,440 opportunity for us to be sowing seed into the Kingdom. 636 00:51:51,440 --> 00:51:55,840 As you can see from that segment where you're in a place where 637 00:51:55,840 --> 00:51:59,120 there's lots of people coming in, you got to just look at the 638 00:51:59,120 --> 00:52:02,160 towers that are being built up over here where there's going to 639 00:52:02,160 --> 00:52:08,320 be souls that are living there. I say souls because they're 640 00:52:08,320 --> 00:52:15,960 souls that need Jesus and they need the refreshing streams from 641 00:52:15,960 --> 00:52:21,120 the Lord and they're looking for something. 642 00:52:22,160 --> 00:52:25,160 And So what we're going to be able to do next door at our 643 00:52:25,160 --> 00:52:27,720 worship centre and the people we're going to be able to impact 644 00:52:27,960 --> 00:52:30,440 is a part of that. And so I encourage you, this is 645 00:52:30,440 --> 00:52:34,360 a great place to invest and sow seed because God is doing a 646 00:52:34,360 --> 00:52:39,160 great work through Love Quest. God is definitely doing a great 647 00:52:39,160 --> 00:52:41,400 work through Love Quest. All right, Amen. 648 00:52:41,760 --> 00:52:43,760 I want to make sure you believe it too, but I believe it. 649 00:52:49,160 --> 00:52:53,480 Quick scheduling note. So for Dynasty Wednesday, it's 650 00:52:53,480 --> 00:52:54,880 going to continue to be on Wednesday. 651 00:52:54,880 --> 00:52:57,440 We got some feedback from some people because we're looking to 652 00:52:57,440 --> 00:53:01,560 change the day, but because we want to make sure that everyone 653 00:53:01,800 --> 00:53:05,360 as who can can be there. We're going to keep it on 654 00:53:05,360 --> 00:53:08,280 Wednesdays. That will begin on October the 655 00:53:08,280 --> 00:53:13,600 first now scheduling note. So it's October the first. 656 00:53:13,600 --> 00:53:16,560 We're going to run to November 19 because after that we have 657 00:53:16,560 --> 00:53:21,240 the interruption Christmas activities going on, but the 658 00:53:21,520 --> 00:53:28,560 time will be 645. Everyone say 6:45 now did we do 659 00:53:28,560 --> 00:53:33,520 that just to be a little different maybe, but so it's 660 00:53:33,520 --> 00:53:36,040 memorable. It's 6:45 and it gives you an 661 00:53:36,040 --> 00:53:39,160 extra 15 minutes to get here. We're going to start again with 662 00:53:39,160 --> 00:53:41,520 our group discussions at the beginning of the experience. 663 00:53:41,760 --> 00:53:45,040 And we have always have an amazing time midweek here at 664 00:53:45,040 --> 00:53:47,640 Lovequest Church. So Dynasty Wednesdays still on 665 00:53:47,640 --> 00:53:52,600 Wednesdays starting October 1st, then Church in the Wild Pasta, 666 00:53:52,600 --> 00:53:57,160 Terence Terrence Richmond and the crew will be at Guilt Co on 667 00:53:57,160 --> 00:54:00,080 October the 10th at 9:30 PM in Vancouver. 668 00:54:00,400 --> 00:54:04,280 That's a 19 plus location. So you've got to be above 19 to 669 00:54:04,280 --> 00:54:07,480 a 10, but it's a great opportunity to support what God 670 00:54:07,480 --> 00:54:09,880 is doing here. And if you've been to a concert 671 00:54:09,880 --> 00:54:12,560 who's been to one of the concerts, Monsters got 672 00:54:12,720 --> 00:54:15,200 fantastic, right? It's a good time. 673 00:54:15,320 --> 00:54:18,960 I encourage you to come along because you're also investing in 674 00:54:19,160 --> 00:54:24,200 sewing into a exposure and being a light into that space. 675 00:54:24,200 --> 00:54:25,680 So I would encourage you to put that. 676 00:54:25,840 --> 00:54:29,520 So that's October 10th at 9:30 PM at Giltco and Co. 677 00:54:29,800 --> 00:54:34,360 And then Mocktails Toronto PT and the crew are heading to 678 00:54:34,360 --> 00:54:37,000 Toronto and want us to come along and be part of it. 679 00:54:37,360 --> 00:54:43,200 So we're going to have a Muktale Muktail's album released there 680 00:54:43,200 --> 00:54:46,160 in Toronto, and it'll be at El Macombo. 681 00:54:46,520 --> 00:54:49,560 Doors will open at 6:30, show is at 7:00 PM. 682 00:54:50,040 --> 00:54:52,120 Be a part of that. It's going to be great. 683 00:54:52,360 --> 00:54:54,800 And if you know anyone in the Toronto area, this is an 684 00:54:54,880 --> 00:54:57,400 opportunity to invite them to be a part of it as well. 685 00:54:58,960 --> 00:55:10,760 All right, God is good. I think we've established that I 686 00:55:10,760 --> 00:55:13,640 want to encourage you to remember to take it with you. 687 00:55:14,600 --> 00:55:17,480 Don't leave that revelation here at the door. 688 00:55:18,800 --> 00:55:22,880 Take that revelation and let it affect you in your prayer, in 689 00:55:22,880 --> 00:55:25,680 your the way you speak to people, and in the way you 690 00:55:25,680 --> 00:55:30,960 expect from God. We may be out of time and never 691 00:55:30,960 --> 00:55:35,240 out of Jesus. So until next time and get your 692 00:55:35,240 --> 00:55:42,240 love fixed man. The wisdom and the 693 00:55:42,400 --> 00:55:46,240 understanding, the spirit of counsel, the spirit of might, 694 00:55:46,840 --> 00:55:52,600 the spirit of knowledge we need. The fear of the Lord we want. 695 00:55:52,760 --> 00:55:55,160 The thank you so much for tuning into this week's sermon. 696 00:55:55,160 --> 00:55:58,480 We pray you were challenged, equipped and encouraged. 697 00:55:58,760 --> 00:56:00,680 Make sure to follow us on all platforms. 698 00:56:00,680 --> 00:56:04,760 That's lovequest intl church. We out here for real. 699 00:56:04,840 --> 00:56:07,120 We're really doing it. That's Facebook, Instagram, 700 00:56:07,120 --> 00:56:10,360 YouTube and TikTok. You can find us anywhere you 701 00:56:10,360 --> 00:56:12,760 need to find us. But until next time you know the 702 00:56:12,760 --> 00:56:14,840 drill. You know the motto, get your 703 00:56:14,840 --> 00:56:17,120 love fixed man and we'll see y'all real soon.