1 00:00:01,200 --> 00:00:04,300 We Are One church. We love God love. 2 00:00:04,300 --> 00:00:07,100 People love his mission and love his church. 3 00:00:07,500 --> 00:00:09,700 Welcome to the one Church podcast. 4 00:00:15,500 --> 00:00:19,300 Hello, my name is Alice and this is the one Church podcast. 5 00:00:19,600 --> 00:00:23,900 It says, in Psalm 136, he remembered us, when we were in 6 00:00:23,900 --> 00:00:27,000 trouble, his love continues forever. 7 00:00:27,400 --> 00:00:30,600 Today we can be assured of the fact that God remembers us, no 8 00:00:30,600 --> 00:00:33,700 matter what we're facing, no matter what troubles we have in 9 00:00:33,700 --> 00:00:37,300 our lives, whether we're broken or whether we're rejoicing, his 10 00:00:37,300 --> 00:00:42,100 love for us continues forever and he remembers us today, we're 11 00:00:42,200 --> 00:00:44,900 Blessed to have the next installment of our Pioneer. 12 00:00:44,900 --> 00:00:48,400 People series from Pastor David at the Central site. 13 00:00:52,100 --> 00:00:54,300 It's so good to see you today. And for those visiting in the 14 00:00:54,300 --> 00:00:58,600 room, I'm David and along with my wife, Susan, and an amazing 15 00:00:58,600 --> 00:00:59,900 team. Here, we have the privilege of 16 00:00:59,900 --> 00:01:03,300 leading one church, and for those of you joining today on 17 00:01:03,300 --> 00:01:05,800 our podcast and listening throughout the week, welcome 18 00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:07,600 may, you be blessed as you listen. 19 00:01:07,700 --> 00:01:12,500 We're in an exciting season as a church, And I know site in 20 00:01:12,500 --> 00:01:15,000 Beaumont Lee's the last two weeks have been two of the 21 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:18,900 largest ever attendances with people coming and it great sense 22 00:01:18,900 --> 00:01:21,400 of momentum happening over there. 23 00:01:21,400 --> 00:01:24,900 North of the city, in our city site, which is in the to Funky 24 00:01:24,900 --> 00:01:27,900 night club in the city center meeting right now. 25 00:01:28,200 --> 00:01:31,800 We celebrated our sixth birthday last Sunday and in a full room, 26 00:01:32,100 --> 00:01:35,100 we announce with real excitement that we're moving to two 27 00:01:35,100 --> 00:01:37,700 Services there on February the 12th. 28 00:01:37,700 --> 00:01:41,400 Let's have a bit more excitement in the room and I'm just, I'm 29 00:01:41,400 --> 00:01:45,000 just so excited about that. We've seen dozens, and dozens of 30 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:51,500 mostly young adults, find Jesus be baptized be engaged in church 31 00:01:51,500 --> 00:01:57,800 life and be helped to move on. And we just creating another wad 32 00:01:57,800 --> 00:02:01,100 of space for people to find Jesus and find home in our 33 00:02:01,100 --> 00:02:04,200 Bronson site that's meeting right now, we meet in a 34 00:02:04,200 --> 00:02:08,800 community center in a challenging area of our city and 35 00:02:08,800 --> 00:02:12,800 that Community Center we run. All week is being transformed, 36 00:02:13,200 --> 00:02:15,900 the Outreach continues to grow. And, you know, that last year we 37 00:02:15,900 --> 00:02:20,200 averaged three thousand visits to that Center of month with 38 00:02:20,200 --> 00:02:24,800 people coming in and in the safe environment, being able to be 39 00:02:24,800 --> 00:02:28,800 supported and have fun. And also know about Jesus in our 40 00:02:28,800 --> 00:02:30,800 OB site meeting right now, Susan. 41 00:02:30,800 --> 00:02:34,100 Speaking there, this morning, we're preparing for change a 60 42 00:02:34,100 --> 00:02:38,900 to 70 of you move from here to there in a couple of weeks time. 43 00:02:39,300 --> 00:02:42,300 And as we strengthen, Earning and getting really under people. 44 00:02:42,300 --> 00:02:45,100 There are so excited about welcoming. 45 00:02:45,100 --> 00:02:48,100 Those of you that are going and it's going to be a great 46 00:02:48,200 --> 00:02:50,800 journey, and a fun time. And here, in central we're 47 00:02:50,800 --> 00:02:54,600 preparing. We're preparing next week will 48 00:02:54,600 --> 00:02:59,300 be the last time we ever meet in this Hall as it is as a site 49 00:02:59,300 --> 00:03:01,500 here. So don't miss it with baptizing 50 00:03:01,500 --> 00:03:04,800 some people in fact, can I just say if you've not been baptized 51 00:03:04,800 --> 00:03:08,600 in water You know, if you're a young person here, you're under 52 00:03:08,600 --> 00:03:12,500 18 and you've not been baptized in water, honestly, if you think 53 00:03:12,500 --> 00:03:14,600 I'm going to wait a bit longer, if you here thinking, I'm not 54 00:03:14,600 --> 00:03:17,000 quite you ready. Jesus said, repent, and be 55 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:20,700 baptized, and I think there's already about five people being 56 00:03:20,700 --> 00:03:22,800 baptized next week, but it's I wonder if there's anyone. 57 00:03:22,800 --> 00:03:25,800 Anyone else been thinking about they'd like to be baptized and I 58 00:03:25,808 --> 00:03:27,900 think maybe it's time and because I've mentioned it, you 59 00:03:27,900 --> 00:03:30,300 feeling all uncomfortable. But it would do you good to go? 60 00:03:30,300 --> 00:03:32,300 I think I need to be baptized in water. 61 00:03:32,300 --> 00:03:34,800 Anyone here anyone else know, you think? 62 00:03:34,800 --> 00:03:36,000 I think that would be good for me. 63 00:03:36,200 --> 00:03:40,700 You sure you sure, no one else. I don't know. 64 00:03:40,708 --> 00:03:44,100 I can hang in there. But if you, if you have bit 65 00:03:44,100 --> 00:03:46,100 nervous about putting your hand up, come and talk to Pastor, 66 00:03:46,100 --> 00:03:49,000 James past the Claire at the end and just say, I'd like some 67 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:51,800 teaching this week, so I can get baptized next week. 68 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:54,800 But here, our Central, we're preparing. 69 00:03:55,700 --> 00:03:58,700 And we're moving from this beautiful room into a beautiful 70 00:03:58,700 --> 00:04:01,500 room next door, that's smaller. So we're going to go to two 71 00:04:01,500 --> 00:04:04,300 Services as well as sending out for a few months. 72 00:04:04,300 --> 00:04:09,000 Some people to our OB site and we're expecting powerful Sundays 73 00:04:09,200 --> 00:04:13,300 and counters and community. And we know it's a A time of 74 00:04:13,300 --> 00:04:17,399 change. We had the Mets way guys here on 75 00:04:17,399 --> 00:04:20,300 Friday with our building team talking about some of the 76 00:04:20,300 --> 00:04:22,500 changes that will happen on February. 77 00:04:22,500 --> 00:04:26,600 The 7th, we will take every piece of equipment out of this 78 00:04:26,600 --> 00:04:30,000 building every table and chair and everything that doesn't want 79 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:32,700 to get destroyed when we're going to store it somewhere else 80 00:04:32,700 --> 00:04:35,500 and that in itself is a miracle in work. 81 00:04:36,100 --> 00:04:37,800 Lord, Jesus. Thank you for your help. 82 00:04:38,300 --> 00:04:42,200 And this building is going to be gutted over that week and we'll 83 00:04:42,200 --> 00:04:44,700 be in our This is upstairs, they said they might be a little bit 84 00:04:44,700 --> 00:04:47,700 of noise. And they'll be a lot of noise, 85 00:04:47,700 --> 00:04:50,000 but that's part of the fun. And this is going to be 86 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:52,900 transformed over the next six months. 87 00:04:53,600 --> 00:04:55,600 And we know it's a time of change. 88 00:04:55,600 --> 00:04:57,800 We know it's a time of change for us here. 89 00:04:59,600 --> 00:05:02,500 Keep connecting with people that you might not see every week, 90 00:05:03,400 --> 00:05:06,700 you can text. You can go for meals, you can go 91 00:05:06,700 --> 00:05:10,400 to different small groups, you can connect and keep friendships 92 00:05:10,400 --> 00:05:13,600 and keep encouraging. We are one church. 93 00:05:13,800 --> 00:05:15,900 We just happen to be in different places. 94 00:05:16,400 --> 00:05:20,200 Get yourself in a small group. Throw yourself in let's as a 95 00:05:20,200 --> 00:05:23,700 site be next door every week, we're going to fit lots of 96 00:05:23,700 --> 00:05:26,700 people in there. We've got ideas to make it work. 97 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:29,700 We've got space for kids. It's going to be fantastic. 98 00:05:29,700 --> 00:05:33,400 I can't wait and I looking forward to being their first 99 00:05:33,400 --> 00:05:37,400 week and cheering everybody on with all that we're doing and 100 00:05:37,400 --> 00:05:39,900 you're going to be able to follow week by week. 101 00:05:39,900 --> 00:05:41,000 What's happening in this building? 102 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:44,100 They'll be an online facility where we'll upload photographs 103 00:05:44,100 --> 00:05:47,000 of what's happened this week and you can lie, Out one on the 104 00:05:47,000 --> 00:05:50,400 screen there, keep up to speed with what's happening and keep 105 00:05:50,400 --> 00:05:52,800 asking questions. And as I said before some of you 106 00:05:52,800 --> 00:05:57,600 love change and some of you, it unsettles you, I understand 107 00:05:57,700 --> 00:06:00,000 don't be unsettled. We're going to be okay. 108 00:06:00,900 --> 00:06:06,300 Jesus is Lord of his church and we're simply listening to him. 109 00:06:07,400 --> 00:06:09,400 We're Pioneers on New Year's Day. 110 00:06:09,400 --> 00:06:13,500 Here seems so long ago, but I know it wasn't seems a long time 111 00:06:13,500 --> 00:06:15,600 ago. I looked at Ephesians chapter 4 112 00:06:16,200 --> 00:06:20,700 as It speaks about five gifts of the church, five people Gifts of 113 00:06:20,700 --> 00:06:23,500 an Apostle Prophet evangelist pastor and teacher. 114 00:06:23,700 --> 00:06:27,100 And we believe in this season, that Jesus is wanting to release 115 00:06:27,300 --> 00:06:30,300 these gifts in our church, to a greater level or why. 116 00:06:30,300 --> 00:06:34,300 That passage says that to acquit, the people for works of 117 00:06:34,300 --> 00:06:36,400 service. We believe God this year wants 118 00:06:36,400 --> 00:06:40,200 to equip us for the mission. The passage says so that the 119 00:06:40,200 --> 00:06:43,500 body of Christ may be built. We believe that during this 120 00:06:43,500 --> 00:06:46,300 season, he wants all of us as a body, too. 121 00:06:46,400 --> 00:06:50,000 Built up and the passage says, until we reach unity in the 122 00:06:50,000 --> 00:06:52,100 faith. He wants us in this season to 123 00:06:52,100 --> 00:06:54,700 walk in a spirit of unity together. 124 00:06:54,800 --> 00:06:57,500 And lastly, it says and to become mature. 125 00:06:57,600 --> 00:07:00,900 He wants all of us in this season to move into greater 126 00:07:00,900 --> 00:07:04,100 maturity. So, at the start of each month, 127 00:07:04,100 --> 00:07:08,300 this year will have a keynote message to everyone either in 128 00:07:08,300 --> 00:07:11,700 person or on video so that we all get the same message at the 129 00:07:11,700 --> 00:07:15,100 same time and it will be spoken by different people with a 130 00:07:15,108 --> 00:07:18,400 leaning. Odds these Ephesians 4 gifting 131 00:07:18,700 --> 00:07:22,300 and then we'll follow each keynote message with a series 132 00:07:22,500 --> 00:07:25,200 aimed at building up the body and equipping. 133 00:07:25,200 --> 00:07:27,400 All of us for the mission of Jesus. 134 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:31,400 Now, a part of my gifting I believe is Apostolic and on 135 00:07:31,400 --> 00:07:35,300 January the first, I launched the series here about being a 136 00:07:35,300 --> 00:07:40,200 Pioneer and that Series has continued into parts of it about 137 00:07:40,200 --> 00:07:43,200 being a Pioneer people and how, as Pioneers. 138 00:07:43,200 --> 00:07:46,200 We see the possibilities Pioneers, go. 139 00:07:46,400 --> 00:07:49,800 Head, they break new ground, they make away and we are called 140 00:07:49,800 --> 00:07:54,900 to be Pioneers for Jesus. How many of you know Susan on my 141 00:07:54,900 --> 00:07:59,300 journey last year encountering? God on a small mountain in 142 00:07:59,300 --> 00:08:01,100 Wales. And last Sunday morning we were 143 00:08:01,100 --> 00:08:05,800 away and we went to up the same mountain and stood at the top in 144 00:08:05,800 --> 00:08:10,000 a watchtower and knelt down and just invited him this year to 145 00:08:10,000 --> 00:08:13,300 come and do something so extraordinary that only he can 146 00:08:13,300 --> 00:08:18,500 get the credit because God is about Something and we are 147 00:08:18,500 --> 00:08:22,300 simply following what he says and we just returned full of 148 00:08:22,300 --> 00:08:26,100 faith and expectation. What a wonderful Jesus. 149 00:08:26,200 --> 00:08:31,300 What a Wonderful Life, what? A wonderful body of people. 150 00:08:31,300 --> 00:08:33,400 One churches. And today, we're looking at the 151 00:08:33,400 --> 00:08:39,299 reality that our Pioneer has to move and take a step, you can 152 00:08:39,299 --> 00:08:42,799 have a dream and a vision and you can write me pray and wait 153 00:08:42,799 --> 00:08:46,400 but sometimes there comes a moment where as a pioneer You 154 00:08:46,400 --> 00:08:50,700 need to take a step and move. And here we are in Luke chapter 155 00:08:50,700 --> 00:08:52,100 10. We're going to read a few verses 156 00:08:52,100 --> 00:08:56,600 together they'll come up on the screen and reading from the NIV, 157 00:08:57,500 --> 00:09:01,200 that's a version of the Bible that I mostly use in my 158 00:09:01,200 --> 00:09:05,200 devotions and studies after this, the Lord appointed seventy 159 00:09:05,200 --> 00:09:09,700 two others and sent them two by two ahead of him to go to every 160 00:09:09,700 --> 00:09:11,400 town and place where he was about to go. 161 00:09:11,400 --> 00:09:15,400 And he told them the Harvest is plentiful, but the workers are 162 00:09:15,400 --> 00:09:20,500 few. Wow, you worker ready to go 163 00:09:21,400 --> 00:09:25,700 because the Harvest is plentiful as the lord of the Harvest, 164 00:09:25,700 --> 00:09:29,500 therefore to send out workers into his Harvest field. 165 00:09:30,500 --> 00:09:36,400 I'd like to believe one day that one church is filled in which 166 00:09:36,400 --> 00:09:41,100 99% of people are, actively involved in workers in the 167 00:09:41,100 --> 00:09:44,500 Harvest field and the other percent are new Believers, 168 00:09:44,500 --> 00:09:47,000 getting themselves healed, and ready and sorted. 169 00:09:47,100 --> 00:09:50,800 To be used as workers go. He says, I'm sending you out 170 00:09:50,800 --> 00:09:53,100 like Lambs Among Wolves. Sorry about that. 171 00:09:53,400 --> 00:09:56,100 Do not take a purse or bag or sandals, do not greet. 172 00:09:56,100 --> 00:09:58,800 Anyone on the road and when you enter house, say peace to this 173 00:09:58,800 --> 00:10:01,800 house and if someone who promotes pieces, there your 174 00:10:01,800 --> 00:10:04,200 peace will rest on them. If not, it will return to you 175 00:10:04,300 --> 00:10:07,400 and stay there eating and drinking whatever they give you 176 00:10:07,400 --> 00:10:09,800 for the worker deserves his wages. 177 00:10:10,900 --> 00:10:12,800 Do not move around from house to house. 178 00:10:12,800 --> 00:10:16,300 And when you enter a town and are welcomed eat, what is 179 00:10:16,300 --> 00:10:18,600 offered to you. The sake of that, tell them the 180 00:10:18,600 --> 00:10:22,100 kingdom of God has come near to you and the 72 returned with joy 181 00:10:22,100 --> 00:10:26,400 and said, Lord, even the demons submit to us in your name and he 182 00:10:26,400 --> 00:10:28,700 replied. I saw Satan fall, like, 183 00:10:28,700 --> 00:10:31,400 lightning from Heaven, I've given you authority to trample 184 00:10:31,600 --> 00:10:34,100 on snakes and scorpions and to overcome all the power of the 185 00:10:34,100 --> 00:10:38,100 enemy, nothing will harm you however, do not rejoice that the 186 00:10:38,100 --> 00:10:41,800 spirits submit to you, but Rejoice, that your names are 187 00:10:41,800 --> 00:10:44,900 written in heaven. The passage starts with those 188 00:10:45,200 --> 00:10:49,200 interesting words, after After this after what? 189 00:10:50,100 --> 00:10:53,900 Well imagine Matthew Matthew, The extact Collector with his 190 00:10:53,900 --> 00:10:57,900 little notebook, taking notes while the chapter before after 191 00:10:57,900 --> 00:11:02,500 this the chapter is talking about was intense, Jesus had 192 00:11:02,500 --> 00:11:04,800 sent out the twelve had fed the 5,000. 193 00:11:04,800 --> 00:11:07,700 He'd Peter declared that Jesus was the Messiah. 194 00:11:07,700 --> 00:11:11,200 Jesus had been transfigured on a mountain and it had been a 195 00:11:11,208 --> 00:11:12,600 moment. They those there. 196 00:11:12,600 --> 00:11:14,500 Never would forget. Jesus had healed. 197 00:11:14,500 --> 00:11:17,500 Lots of people in welcome children and he demonstrated It 198 00:11:17,600 --> 00:11:21,400 for all eternity, how important children are to the heart of 199 00:11:21,400 --> 00:11:24,600 God. Children's work is to be at the 200 00:11:24,600 --> 00:11:29,100 very core, some of the best things we do as a church and it 201 00:11:29,100 --> 00:11:32,000 I'm so grateful for all that happens here, they had faced 202 00:11:32,000 --> 00:11:34,500 opposition and Jesus had told them, if you're going to follow 203 00:11:34,500 --> 00:11:37,700 me, it's pretty radical and you're going to suffer and you 204 00:11:37,700 --> 00:11:39,900 can't look back. And now he says, I'm sending you 205 00:11:39,900 --> 00:11:43,400 out to a bigger group and think about this moment, the feelings 206 00:11:43,400 --> 00:11:46,100 of these guys. Sure, some of them said, well, 207 00:11:46,100 --> 00:11:48,600 we didn't know that he was sending us out in this way. 208 00:11:48,600 --> 00:11:50,000 We didn't think we'd signed up for this. 209 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:52,200 We thought we would just following Jesus and listening to 210 00:11:52,200 --> 00:11:53,900 him. But now it seems that he's 211 00:11:53,900 --> 00:11:58,000 calling us to go and he's saying that following him means us 212 00:11:58,000 --> 00:12:01,600 being sent out. And more than that, he says, 213 00:12:01,800 --> 00:12:04,500 we're being sent out into the unknown. 214 00:12:04,600 --> 00:12:07,700 Listen for to every town and place where he was about to go 215 00:12:07,900 --> 00:12:12,100 being sent out into possible danger, like Lambs Among Wolves. 216 00:12:12,100 --> 00:12:14,600 Thank you. Come, come be a lamb. 217 00:12:14,600 --> 00:12:19,100 Amongst wolves with very little equipment. 218 00:12:19,200 --> 00:12:21,400 Don't take a purse or a bag or sandals. 219 00:12:21,400 --> 00:12:24,600 Now they obviously have a context but just the challenge 220 00:12:24,600 --> 00:12:28,100 and I imagine these 72 disciples felt a bit vulnerable. 221 00:12:28,700 --> 00:12:32,900 What's going to happen and for us as Pioneers today, it might 222 00:12:32,900 --> 00:12:35,300 look different but it's the same in principle. 223 00:12:35,500 --> 00:12:38,500 So I want to look what it was like for these pioneers. 224 00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:44,900 And then what is it like for us as we step out into the unknown? 225 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:51,200 Whether that means in the room or crossing the see, what do we 226 00:12:51,200 --> 00:12:53,800 see in this passage? Well as ever. 227 00:12:53,800 --> 00:12:58,600 It's all about Jesus first see, Jesus sends out Pioneers where 228 00:12:58,600 --> 00:13:00,300 he will visit. I love that. 229 00:13:00,700 --> 00:13:03,300 The 72. Go ahead to every town and place 230 00:13:03,300 --> 00:13:08,000 where he was about to go. They ought to be the 231 00:13:08,000 --> 00:13:11,800 forerunners. Announcing Jesus is here, 232 00:13:12,300 --> 00:13:16,600 demonstrating his rule, but more than that, he sends them out 233 00:13:16,600 --> 00:13:21,800 together with a purpose. They're not sent alone. 234 00:13:22,100 --> 00:13:26,300 He understands the importance of going together of being 235 00:13:26,300 --> 00:13:30,600 community, and he Paints the picture of why they are to go. 236 00:13:30,600 --> 00:13:36,900 Why there is a harvest of souls waiting, to be gathered in 237 00:13:37,900 --> 00:13:41,800 nothing's changed. There's a harvest of souls 238 00:13:41,800 --> 00:13:45,900 waiting to be gathered in thirdly. 239 00:13:45,900 --> 00:13:50,900 Jesus gives them a choice. He says, you know, go on sending 240 00:13:50,900 --> 00:13:53,200 you buddy they then have to choose to go. 241 00:13:53,400 --> 00:13:58,300 Jesus says pray but then be an answer to your own prayers go 242 00:13:58,700 --> 00:14:01,000 but they still could say yes or no. 243 00:14:02,100 --> 00:14:05,200 What Adventures might just the disciples have missed. 244 00:14:05,300 --> 00:14:09,600 If they weren't willing to step out and go who might not have 245 00:14:09,600 --> 00:14:12,900 heard the good news fourthly. We see that. 246 00:14:12,900 --> 00:14:16,100 Jesus asks for a radical Reliance. 247 00:14:16,200 --> 00:14:20,900 Don't take stuff with. You don't get distracted on the 248 00:14:20,900 --> 00:14:24,000 way. Remember what this is all about? 249 00:14:24,000 --> 00:14:29,500 Preparing the way for me, he then gives them a strategy as 250 00:14:29,500 --> 00:14:33,100 well as sharing the why there's a harvest. 251 00:14:33,400 --> 00:14:36,400 He gives them a, how a plan to follow. 252 00:14:37,400 --> 00:14:39,600 And then he says, I am expecting them. 253 00:14:39,900 --> 00:14:44,200 You to see Miracles heal those who are ill on the journey, 254 00:14:44,200 --> 00:14:48,000 powerful wording, you go and heal, you go and demonstrate. 255 00:14:48,100 --> 00:14:50,900 Straight my rules. So they go out and return to 256 00:14:50,900 --> 00:14:55,200 Jesus with joy that even the demons submit to us. 257 00:14:57,400 --> 00:14:59,200 I like to think that Jesus smile. 258 00:15:00,600 --> 00:15:02,800 And then he reminds them of something that's deeper than 259 00:15:02,800 --> 00:15:05,700 their stories. He brings them back to what is 260 00:15:05,700 --> 00:15:09,400 important. Don't just Rejoice that demon 261 00:15:09,400 --> 00:15:12,800 submit to you rejoice. That your name is written in 262 00:15:12,800 --> 00:15:14,800 heaven. He says, your deepest. 263 00:15:14,800 --> 00:15:20,500 Joy is not in your achievement or even Miracles, but it's in 264 00:15:20,500 --> 00:15:27,100 your relationship with me. And what about you and me and 265 00:15:27,100 --> 00:15:30,000 what about one church? If that was, then that's the 266 00:15:30,000 --> 00:15:33,000 story we're reading in the Bible and the words come out the page 267 00:15:33,000 --> 00:15:36,600 and they come alive as a holy spirit brings different phrases 268 00:15:36,600 --> 00:15:39,000 to us. What About Us? 269 00:15:40,500 --> 00:15:45,700 Jesus is still calling for pioneers and then sending them 270 00:15:45,700 --> 00:15:49,100 out to make the way to do. What? 271 00:15:49,100 --> 00:15:53,100 They've not done before to step. Out is good. 272 00:15:53,100 --> 00:15:54,500 Yes. We encounter his presence. 273 00:15:54,500 --> 00:15:56,500 Yes. We Revel in his love and 274 00:15:56,500 --> 00:15:59,200 embrace. Yes we will keep the the wonder 275 00:15:59,200 --> 00:16:04,000 that we know him but then we remember he still calls us out 276 00:16:04,000 --> 00:16:08,600 to step out. So how do these verses impact 277 00:16:08,600 --> 00:16:11,800 us? And what Represent together 278 00:16:11,900 --> 00:16:16,700 today. Well, Jesus sends us out as 279 00:16:16,700 --> 00:16:19,800 Pioneers where he is going to visit. 280 00:16:19,900 --> 00:16:21,800 I think that phrase listen to that phrase. 281 00:16:22,300 --> 00:16:27,500 Go ahead to every town and place where I am about to go. 282 00:16:28,100 --> 00:16:33,100 I so powerful, you go, because I'm on my way to join you. 283 00:16:33,300 --> 00:16:36,000 Jesus has a plan. We are to go ahead. 284 00:16:36,000 --> 00:16:38,400 We are to be forerunners announcing. 285 00:16:38,500 --> 00:16:41,600 Jesus is here. What John the Baptist did is 286 00:16:41,600 --> 00:16:46,100 also the call of Our Lives. John went preparing the way for 287 00:16:46,100 --> 00:16:48,500 the Lord. After me is coming. 288 00:16:48,500 --> 00:16:52,200 Someone whose sandals. I am not worthy to untie. 289 00:16:52,200 --> 00:16:56,500 And here we are to go ahead. Announcing Jesus is here. 290 00:16:58,500 --> 00:17:00,700 Of course he's gone ahead of us as well. 291 00:17:01,100 --> 00:17:03,500 Susan's been having a lot of Dreams recently. 292 00:17:03,500 --> 00:17:07,300 She's been reading a great book by Pete, Grieg about hearing the 293 00:17:07,300 --> 00:17:10,500 voice of God. It's a really great read that 294 00:17:10,500 --> 00:17:13,000 book and how to pray by Pete Grieg. 295 00:17:13,000 --> 00:17:17,400 I recommend them both excellent books but she's been reading 296 00:17:17,400 --> 00:17:19,800 about having dreams and she's asked the law for more dreams 297 00:17:19,800 --> 00:17:24,900 and she's having lots of dreams and trying to see what God wants 298 00:17:24,900 --> 00:17:27,500 to say. But she had a dream of standing 299 00:17:27,500 --> 00:17:32,900 on a stone. And realizing that she had got 300 00:17:32,900 --> 00:17:38,500 to step out where there was no stone and seeing that picture. 301 00:17:38,700 --> 00:17:44,600 That as she stepped out the next part of the stones appeared, The 302 00:17:44,600 --> 00:17:47,700 path appeared where she would go and she felt the Lord speak to 303 00:17:47,700 --> 00:17:50,500 from Psalm 77. Which says this your road LED 304 00:17:50,500 --> 00:17:54,900 through the see your pathway was through the mighty Waters a 305 00:17:54,908 --> 00:17:57,500 pathway. No one knew was there, are we 306 00:17:57,500 --> 00:17:59,800 listening God's always got a plan? 307 00:17:59,800 --> 00:18:03,000 It's not necessarily the what you think is going to be you. 308 00:18:03,000 --> 00:18:06,600 Led your people along that road through the see, through the 309 00:18:06,600 --> 00:18:10,900 waters, like a flock of sheep with Moses and Aaron as their 310 00:18:10,900 --> 00:18:14,100 Shepherds, whatever obstacle, whatever challenge he knows. 311 00:18:14,200 --> 00:18:17,400 As the way through as a church, this means we're going to stay 312 00:18:17,400 --> 00:18:21,400 close to his heartbeat and do what he says he wants us to do, 313 00:18:21,800 --> 00:18:25,700 because he loves our city and county and he still has many 314 00:18:25,700 --> 00:18:28,800 people here that are going to find him. 315 00:18:30,000 --> 00:18:34,300 But Jesus also wants to visit your street and your neighbors 316 00:18:34,500 --> 00:18:38,200 and your family, your workplace, he has a plan and you are 317 00:18:38,200 --> 00:18:40,500 preparing the way. He's gone ahead of you. 318 00:18:40,500 --> 00:18:45,800 But listen also where I am about Go, you go. 319 00:18:47,100 --> 00:18:50,400 We'll look at how but it starts with the Revelation that the 320 00:18:50,400 --> 00:18:55,600 king is stepping in to where you are, Jesus sends us as Pioneers 321 00:18:55,600 --> 00:18:58,800 where he will visit. But more than that, he sends us 322 00:18:58,800 --> 00:19:04,600 out together with a purpose, Eugene Peterson, whose author of 323 00:19:04,600 --> 00:19:06,900 the message, paraphrase of the Bible. 324 00:19:06,900 --> 00:19:12,000 A translation is more linked to the text of paraphrase is often 325 00:19:12,000 --> 00:19:16,700 someone's interpretation of those texts and they can be very 326 00:19:16,700 --> 00:19:18,600 good. Good for Revelation, but I 327 00:19:18,600 --> 00:19:21,800 always recommend you read a translation of the Bible. 328 00:19:21,900 --> 00:19:24,700 Alongside a paraphrase of the Bible. 329 00:19:25,000 --> 00:19:28,100 That Eugene Peterson offered, the message, paraphrase of the 330 00:19:28,100 --> 00:19:31,100 Bible says this one of the immediate changes that the 331 00:19:31,100 --> 00:19:33,800 gospel makes is grammatical in our lives. 332 00:19:34,100 --> 00:19:41,400 We become we instead of I our instead of my us instead of me, 333 00:19:41,400 --> 00:19:44,800 I love that. And what a family we are. 334 00:19:46,600 --> 00:19:49,800 Pete Grieg writes, this about visiting a monkey and Owl 335 00:19:49,800 --> 00:19:52,300 Sanctuary on the Isle of Wight. I don't know, any of you been 336 00:19:52,300 --> 00:19:56,000 there to the monkey and Owl Sanctuary on the Isle of Wight. 337 00:19:57,600 --> 00:20:01,200 He says, for a start, he says why monkeys and owls together. 338 00:20:03,300 --> 00:20:05,200 He said he was a great place to go. 339 00:20:05,200 --> 00:20:08,600 Every animal had a plaque, telling a story of Abandonment 340 00:20:08,600 --> 00:20:11,700 and eccentricity tragedy and joy. 341 00:20:12,100 --> 00:20:15,100 There was the cross-eyed Gibbon whose legs were too short. 342 00:20:15,100 --> 00:20:19,500 The one eyed owl called Nelson, the rhesus monkey that kept 343 00:20:19,500 --> 00:20:23,400 slapping its keeper. The punk head, Maga Bay called 344 00:20:23,400 --> 00:20:26,800 Jimmy, who had been found loping along next to a busy, German 345 00:20:26,800 --> 00:20:29,400 Motorway. And the writer says this as we 346 00:20:29,400 --> 00:20:33,000 wandered around from one story and One cute face to the next. 347 00:20:33,200 --> 00:20:37,100 Something started to feel really familiar and dawned on me that 348 00:20:37,100 --> 00:20:43,800 it was a lot like the church a community of Oddities A 349 00:20:43,800 --> 00:20:48,100 menagerie of rescues a collection of broken backgrounds 350 00:20:48,500 --> 00:20:50,100 that would never Belong Together. 351 00:20:51,300 --> 00:20:54,500 That is if Jesus had not chosen the foolish and the weak and the 352 00:20:54,500 --> 00:20:59,800 lowly to shame the wise. He says we're an amazing 353 00:20:59,800 --> 00:21:04,800 collection of people and he's chosen us to be his family and 354 00:21:04,800 --> 00:21:09,000 yet we are the ones. He's chosen to step out and 355 00:21:09,000 --> 00:21:13,700 share him with the world. He is with us. 356 00:21:14,800 --> 00:21:18,200 And we go together, he sends us out with a purpose. 357 00:21:18,200 --> 00:21:21,800 The church is a family, it's care, it's confession, it's 358 00:21:21,800 --> 00:21:24,600 forgiveness, it's love, it's Grace, its support its 359 00:21:24,600 --> 00:21:28,800 acceptance, It's not judgmental. That's the group of people that 360 00:21:28,800 --> 00:21:31,400 we are called to be together. It's small groups. 361 00:21:31,400 --> 00:21:34,200 It's growing its connections. You know have somebody around 362 00:21:34,200 --> 00:21:37,800 for dinner soon. The church is to be a safe place 363 00:21:38,200 --> 00:21:42,400 and we're sent out He knows you and he knows me. 364 00:21:42,400 --> 00:21:45,900 And he walks with us. We're never alone, but we're 365 00:21:45,900 --> 00:21:50,300 called to go. And Jesus includes Us in this 366 00:21:50,300 --> 00:21:53,600 great Mission. It's about a harvest of people 367 00:21:54,900 --> 00:21:57,400 follow me. He says, and I will make you and 368 00:21:57,400 --> 00:22:00,600 then the Great Commission go and make a difference. 369 00:22:03,500 --> 00:22:06,800 How do we do this? He sends us out to love the 370 00:22:06,800 --> 00:22:08,600 poor, have a heart for the world. 371 00:22:08,800 --> 00:22:12,500 Celebrate other churches, preach the gospel, keep lost people in 372 00:22:12,500 --> 00:22:16,200 our hearts and our program. Be good news in the community 373 00:22:16,300 --> 00:22:24,300 before of Hope and go listening. And when he says go, we go We 374 00:22:24,300 --> 00:22:26,600 love people. We live in truth. 375 00:22:26,800 --> 00:22:28,700 We care. We don't discriminate. 376 00:22:28,700 --> 00:22:31,000 We pray for others. Where great neighbors were 377 00:22:31,000 --> 00:22:33,300 great. Employees were good. 378 00:22:33,300 --> 00:22:36,900 Friends were loyal. We're available and we say, here 379 00:22:36,900 --> 00:22:40,600 I am. You don't have to be answer able 380 00:22:40,600 --> 00:22:44,400 to answer every question or to be perfect as an evangelist. 381 00:22:44,400 --> 00:22:46,500 You just have to be willing to go. 382 00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:50,800 I love that you've come up now Jason perhaps about a couple of 383 00:22:50,800 --> 00:22:52,400 minutes early but I love that you're here. 384 00:22:52,400 --> 00:22:56,000 I obviously gave you a wave that I scratch, my nose and I became 385 00:22:56,000 --> 00:22:59,500 a keep going because I love it. I had two amazing conversations 386 00:22:59,500 --> 00:23:03,200 last week the place where Susan and I went on holiday has a gym 387 00:23:03,200 --> 00:23:10,300 and a spa next to it and I go in there and I believe to sit with 388 00:23:10,300 --> 00:23:13,100 someone and have an opportunity. It goes like this. 389 00:23:14,200 --> 00:23:16,000 You go and sit down. Someone's there. 390 00:23:16,000 --> 00:23:17,300 Hello, what you been doing today? 391 00:23:17,300 --> 00:23:19,000 All that sounds a great day. What have you been today? 392 00:23:19,000 --> 00:23:20,000 All? We've been doing this. 393 00:23:20,400 --> 00:23:21,400 Yeah. Yes. 394 00:23:21,400 --> 00:23:23,000 What are you did that as a career? 395 00:23:23,000 --> 00:23:24,100 That's interesting. What you do? 396 00:23:24,200 --> 00:23:25,700 I lead a church or what's that like? 397 00:23:25,700 --> 00:23:28,500 Oh let me tell you about the visit and the conversation 398 00:23:28,500 --> 00:23:32,100 starts and I love it. I pursue conversations with 399 00:23:32,100 --> 00:23:34,700 people to give them a different picture about Jesus. 400 00:23:34,700 --> 00:23:38,700 I talked to a manager just being diagnosed with the second batch 401 00:23:38,700 --> 00:23:40,700 of cancer. Talk to me about hope, talk to 402 00:23:40,708 --> 00:23:43,800 another man who is very scientific and didn't believe 403 00:23:44,000 --> 00:23:48,200 Anything, but I encouraged him to go away and think again, and 404 00:23:48,300 --> 00:23:54,500 he sends us out with a purpose. But Jesus also gives us a choice 405 00:23:54,700 --> 00:23:57,100 like he did. I'm sending you Among Wolves but 406 00:23:57,100 --> 00:23:59,000 you've got this Choice. Do you want to do it? 407 00:23:59,800 --> 00:24:03,200 The extent to, which will be true Pioneers for Jesus and live 408 00:24:03,200 --> 00:24:06,900 the life for us to live. Depends on how much we say yes 409 00:24:06,900 --> 00:24:09,900 to him. You can just be a Pew filler a 410 00:24:09,900 --> 00:24:11,800 seat filler. Come and go. 411 00:24:11,800 --> 00:24:14,500 That's it. Or you can say I'm willing to 412 00:24:14,500 --> 00:24:18,800 go, you know, if the hole wider Church of Jesus becomes more 413 00:24:18,800 --> 00:24:22,500 bothered about Services than people or businesses, Buildings 414 00:24:23,300 --> 00:24:25,800 than Community. We miss the heart of God. 415 00:24:26,100 --> 00:24:28,800 This is a family of Believers. We are called to love him and 416 00:24:28,800 --> 00:24:35,100 love people to stay together. And to go, you know, in part of 417 00:24:35,100 --> 00:24:37,600 his church here, we've got a choice in. 418 00:24:37,608 --> 00:24:40,200 We say again, there's no place for religion. 419 00:24:40,200 --> 00:24:42,800 Here, there's no room for Idols here. 420 00:24:43,000 --> 00:24:45,000 There's no place for Superstars here. 421 00:24:45,100 --> 00:24:48,400 There's no time for Pride here. No, look at us, aren't we? 422 00:24:48,400 --> 00:24:50,700 Great. But there's lots of time for 423 00:24:50,700 --> 00:24:53,100 Jesus. And more love of people. 424 00:24:53,100 --> 00:24:55,900 And the words I shared on January the first about more 425 00:24:55,900 --> 00:25:00,000 Purity, more humility more about others, more unity and more 426 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:02,300 grace. And you and me. 427 00:25:02,300 --> 00:25:05,000 We've got this Choice. It gives us a choice. 428 00:25:09,500 --> 00:25:11,500 You live, where you live to be a light. 429 00:25:13,100 --> 00:25:16,500 Those neighbors that you're there to reach them your work 430 00:25:16,500 --> 00:25:20,000 where you work is so that you can be a light, your family is a 431 00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:22,300 place where he wants you to be a light. 432 00:25:22,300 --> 00:25:25,700 The first thing you needs from us is here, I am available to 433 00:25:25,700 --> 00:25:28,500 you. He then is the door own. 434 00:25:29,300 --> 00:25:32,600 Philip were on our podcast last week from the OB site told a 435 00:25:32,608 --> 00:25:36,700 story that deeply impacted me when they organized through our 436 00:25:36,700 --> 00:25:40,700 tops groups, a trip to Belton house, and, and Tom and feel 437 00:25:40,700 --> 00:25:43,600 love belt and how so many happy memories, When the kids were 438 00:25:43,600 --> 00:25:48,300 little, but it was really difficult to fill the boss. 439 00:25:48,300 --> 00:25:51,400 Don't you remember that? I think it may have been that 440 00:25:51,400 --> 00:25:54,800 who when they got there and it was a long way from the car park 441 00:25:54,800 --> 00:25:57,000 to the place. And there's only one Lou, I 442 00:25:57,000 --> 00:25:59,100 think it was Matt, or someone said, have you heard of Abby 443 00:25:59,100 --> 00:26:04,500 Park, it's much easier and they came back to your, it was hard 444 00:26:04,500 --> 00:26:06,800 to fill it hard and it wasn't the greatest trip. 445 00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:11,700 But some months later months and months afterwards, she sat with 446 00:26:11,700 --> 00:26:15,400 a Muslim friend, That's about to be led to Jesus and the lady 447 00:26:15,400 --> 00:26:19,900 says do you remember that time you organize that trip? 448 00:26:20,200 --> 00:26:23,200 And we went as a family to belt and house. 449 00:26:23,900 --> 00:26:26,500 I'll never forget how precious that was to me. 450 00:26:27,700 --> 00:26:30,700 I love it. Gives us a choice when we make 451 00:26:30,700 --> 00:26:33,100 ourselves available. He does amazing things. 452 00:26:33,400 --> 00:26:36,400 Jesus sends us out as Pioneers where he's going to visit. 453 00:26:36,400 --> 00:26:40,100 He sends us together, he gives us a choice and then he asked 454 00:26:40,100 --> 00:26:45,700 for radical Reliance to trust him on the journey to realize 455 00:26:45,700 --> 00:26:47,900 that we can't do it without him. Listen. 456 00:26:49,900 --> 00:26:52,300 The Lord has given me natural gifts, but I want to tell you I 457 00:26:52,308 --> 00:26:56,400 cannot lead without him. I cannot lead this work without 458 00:26:56,400 --> 00:26:58,400 him. I can't bring Vision without 459 00:26:58,400 --> 00:27:00,500 him. I can do nothing without him. 460 00:27:01,800 --> 00:27:07,500 But you and I we can do all things through Christ who gives 461 00:27:07,500 --> 00:27:10,300 us strength. This is the Journey of Faith. 462 00:27:10,300 --> 00:27:14,500 This is the what it means to be called a Pioneer, we're relying 463 00:27:14,500 --> 00:27:16,700 on him here. We're aiming and trying to be 464 00:27:16,700 --> 00:27:20,400 obedient in the little to fill his call. 465 00:27:20,800 --> 00:27:23,800 Trusting him in every season when we've got the answers. 466 00:27:23,800 --> 00:27:26,600 And when it's difficult when were hurting and when were 467 00:27:26,600 --> 00:27:30,100 running, Give me a Pioneer heart. 468 00:27:32,600 --> 00:27:37,000 I was on a cross trainer next to her a little, forgive me, how I 469 00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:42,700 say little more senior lady and she I was on the bike. 470 00:27:42,700 --> 00:27:45,700 She was on the cross chain. She was going, she's 80. 471 00:27:45,800 --> 00:27:50,600 She was going like a bomb. Like I was exhausted looking at 472 00:27:50,800 --> 00:27:53,300 but I felt intimidated, he's just going. 473 00:27:53,800 --> 00:27:56,300 And I said to her and you know, hello. 474 00:27:56,300 --> 00:27:58,800 And she says, I'm doing something every day. 475 00:27:58,800 --> 00:28:02,300 In January, 5, K every day in January to raise. 476 00:28:02,400 --> 00:28:05,300 As money for tier van, I said, oh Christian, charity said, oh 477 00:28:05,300 --> 00:28:07,500 yes, I said, are you a Jesus followers? 478 00:28:07,500 --> 00:28:11,600 She says, I am and all my family is, we love Jesus. 479 00:28:11,900 --> 00:28:13,500 And I said, how did you become a Christian? 480 00:28:13,500 --> 00:28:17,500 And she said, we all became a Christian in the Methodist 481 00:28:17,500 --> 00:28:20,900 Children's Program when we were little and someone had written 482 00:28:20,900 --> 00:28:24,500 those materials and we all got saved as a family and they were 483 00:28:24,500 --> 00:28:26,600 all there. She was there with her brothers 484 00:28:26,600 --> 00:28:33,400 and sisters and How to talk about the Methodist church and 485 00:28:33,400 --> 00:28:37,700 we pray for it today. Fire come again at the Spirit of 486 00:28:37,700 --> 00:28:40,600 John that impacted. John Wesley come upon the 487 00:28:40,608 --> 00:28:45,000 Methodist Church dealing with liberalism and criticism. 488 00:28:45,200 --> 00:28:49,000 May they be of the fire of God again but what she was, she was 489 00:28:49,000 --> 00:28:52,300 relying on him. I was inspired with by this 490 00:28:52,300 --> 00:28:55,300 lady. A Pioneer steps out, a Pioneer 491 00:28:55,300 --> 00:28:59,800 steps out, Jesus gives us a strategy he said to them Go go. 492 00:29:00,300 --> 00:29:03,700 Go now would go it do this to the he gives us a strategy and 493 00:29:03,700 --> 00:29:06,400 he's giving us a strategy at the moment. 494 00:29:06,400 --> 00:29:09,600 Move groups here, have a fresh look at life groups this year. 495 00:29:09,800 --> 00:29:13,300 Tweak each site strengthen the team's get the right people in 496 00:29:13,300 --> 00:29:16,200 the right places change, some things that Central to our 497 00:29:16,200 --> 00:29:19,900 neighbors. To impact a city. 498 00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:23,300 In a few months time, get training courses ready for later 499 00:29:23,300 --> 00:29:26,600 in this year to give every person an opportunity to keep 500 00:29:26,600 --> 00:29:29,200 growing begin leadership training again. 501 00:29:29,300 --> 00:29:33,200 Raising up more leaders planned some extra community events, 502 00:29:33,200 --> 00:29:37,100 prepare for growth, Keep Jesus at the center structure prayer 503 00:29:37,100 --> 00:29:39,400 and everything. This is what God is doing. 504 00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:43,900 And when we've done all of it, we stand because we can't do it 505 00:29:43,900 --> 00:29:49,200 without him. Honestly kneeling down at the 506 00:29:49,208 --> 00:29:52,100 top of that mountain. Last Sunday, thinking of all the 507 00:29:52,100 --> 00:29:55,100 Lord has done in the last 12 months in our house. 508 00:29:57,300 --> 00:30:00,000 Thank you. Thank you. 509 00:30:01,800 --> 00:30:10,000 To you be all the glory. I know it starts with prayer but 510 00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:15,000 he's going to require you to step out expecting miracles on 511 00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:22,800 the way. When all this has happened, he's 512 00:30:22,800 --> 00:30:26,400 going to bring us back to what's most important, where does our 513 00:30:26,400 --> 00:30:28,500 worth and value? Come from. 514 00:30:29,300 --> 00:30:33,100 Don't Rejoice that the spirits submit to you but Rejoice that 515 00:30:33,100 --> 00:30:35,600 your names are written in heaven. 516 00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:38,900 Our Salvation is our greatest miracle. 517 00:30:40,100 --> 00:30:42,400 It is the greatest Miracle always. 518 00:30:48,700 --> 00:30:53,900 We're applying a people and being a Pioneer means you have 519 00:30:53,900 --> 00:30:56,900 to step out. The stone will appear as you 520 00:30:56,900 --> 00:30:58,700 step. Sometimes. 521 00:30:58,700 --> 00:31:02,500 It's a real test of faith. Oh gosh, it would be so easy to 522 00:31:02,500 --> 00:31:06,500 be quiet and reserved. I love that picture of that 523 00:31:06,700 --> 00:31:09,400 Community, stepping out and believing God for that building. 524 00:31:09,400 --> 00:31:14,100 That we saw earlier how powerful a powerful to see what can 525 00:31:14,100 --> 00:31:15,700 happen. When a group of people trust 526 00:31:15,700 --> 00:31:19,200 Jesus and step out together, that's our future. 527 00:31:20,400 --> 00:31:25,800 Brian. One of our, senior Elders prayed 528 00:31:26,300 --> 00:31:29,100 in elders meeting this week. He said how wonderful Lord it 529 00:31:29,100 --> 00:31:33,500 would be that as this one of our buildings is reinvested and 530 00:31:33,500 --> 00:31:38,100 restored that all of our Lives, get restored and enlarged. 531 00:31:40,600 --> 00:31:44,600 And then as we come together again, an explosion of life 532 00:31:44,900 --> 00:31:47,100 because of what has happened in us. 533 00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:52,000 We're talking about pioneers. I know it's a challenge. 534 00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:55,200 I know it's change. Listen, the time is short. 535 00:31:56,300 --> 00:32:01,300 Jesus is coming again. We're here doing something that 536 00:32:01,300 --> 00:32:04,100 we cannot do when we're in heaven and that is tell 537 00:32:04,100 --> 00:32:08,900 everybody about Jesus. The beginning of February the 538 00:32:08,908 --> 00:32:13,500 next in our series. And are together. 539 00:32:13,800 --> 00:32:17,500 I urge you to be here. Someone with a powerful 540 00:32:17,500 --> 00:32:21,300 Evangelistic gift is going to set the scene for us about what 541 00:32:21,300 --> 00:32:26,000 it means. To reach our world. 542 00:32:27,200 --> 00:32:29,500 It's going to involve we step out and I know we're stepping 543 00:32:29,500 --> 00:32:30,800 out. I know this change. 544 00:32:30,800 --> 00:32:34,100 I love the spirit of the house. The willingness please step out 545 00:32:34,100 --> 00:32:37,400 and join us Irving. Team helped us this next step, 546 00:32:37,700 --> 00:32:39,600 step out. Step out together. 547 00:32:41,200 --> 00:32:43,300 And let's see. Just what that might happen. 548 00:32:43,600 --> 00:32:48,300 Let's all Stand Together. Shall we Pioneers step out? 549 00:32:50,200 --> 00:32:53,000 Now, some of you prophetically might want to just where you're 550 00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:55,200 standing, just put a foot in front of the other and just take 551 00:32:55,200 --> 00:32:57,500 a step as a kind of prophetic thing. 552 00:32:57,500 --> 00:33:02,000 I'm not staying still, I'm pressing into all you have for 553 00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:07,300 me I'm stepping into all you have for me I'm laying hold of 554 00:33:07,300 --> 00:33:10,800 everything you have for me in the name of Jesus. 555 00:33:23,300 --> 00:33:26,700 Thank you, Lord. I love to give an opportunity 556 00:33:26,700 --> 00:33:29,600 just right now. For anyone here who doesn't know 557 00:33:29,600 --> 00:33:35,000 Jesus or as a long way away from him, perhaps you visiting today 558 00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:37,100 and you've been drifting in your faith or perhaps you've been 559 00:33:37,100 --> 00:33:39,100 brought by a friend and you don't know him. 560 00:33:39,400 --> 00:33:43,600 Perhaps you here with others and, you know, you need Jesus in 561 00:33:43,600 --> 00:33:45,800 your life. Listen, if that's your prayer, 562 00:33:47,200 --> 00:33:50,500 face your longing, honestly, it's the greatest. 563 00:33:50,600 --> 00:33:54,200 All that will ever happen in you moving from Death To Life. 564 00:33:55,300 --> 00:34:00,100 Being lost to be found and it all comes at the cross of Jesus, 565 00:34:00,800 --> 00:34:05,100 the finished work, and if that's your prayer to find him or 566 00:34:05,100 --> 00:34:08,400 perhaps come back to him, why don't we all together in the 567 00:34:08,400 --> 00:34:10,300 room? Pray this prayer out loud every 568 00:34:10,300 --> 00:34:13,100 one of us. Just say these words, thank you 569 00:34:13,100 --> 00:34:14,300 God. That you love me. 570 00:34:15,900 --> 00:34:18,000 Thank you. That you sent Jesus to die for 571 00:34:18,000 --> 00:34:24,000 me. The cross was for me today, I 572 00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:29,600 come to the cross, I ask you to forgive me for the wrong things, 573 00:34:29,600 --> 00:34:32,699 I've done in my life. I have sinned. 574 00:34:32,699 --> 00:34:39,199 Forgive me. I invite you, Lord Jesus to come 575 00:34:39,199 --> 00:34:42,300 into my life. I give you me. 576 00:34:43,199 --> 00:34:46,699 Take my life. Use Me For Your Glory. 577 00:34:48,500 --> 00:34:50,699 Or just as we're praying. If you prayed that prayer this 578 00:34:50,699 --> 00:34:53,199 morning, perhaps for the first time or perhaps, as a 579 00:34:53,199 --> 00:34:56,300 recommitment honestly God has heard your voice. 580 00:34:57,900 --> 00:35:00,200 Just I'm just looking around. If you prayed that prayer lift 581 00:35:00,200 --> 00:35:02,200 their hand and say I prayed that prayer this morning, I'm 582 00:35:02,200 --> 00:35:04,000 serious. I want you to know. 583 00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:06,600 I've prayed that prayer, fantastic other others. 584 00:35:07,400 --> 00:35:11,300 Great other others in this room want to join those three. 585 00:35:11,300 --> 00:35:13,300 Brilliant guys. So, I have prayed that prayer 586 00:35:13,300 --> 00:35:15,100 this morning. That's me. 587 00:35:15,800 --> 00:35:24,800 Pray for me, honestly. Father, I pray, he's amazing 588 00:35:24,800 --> 00:35:28,000 men. They would be gripped by the 589 00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:30,800 call of God in their lives. And they would know that 590 00:35:30,800 --> 00:35:35,700 whatever the past your grace is enough and you are able to not 591 00:35:35,700 --> 00:35:42,200 only free, but bring into a time of light and blessing, and joy, 592 00:35:42,600 --> 00:35:46,200 the name of Jesus or just as you stand those, the musicians, come 593 00:35:46,200 --> 00:35:48,300 back on the stage. We're going to worship as we 594 00:35:48,300 --> 00:35:51,400 finish, but why not say, And your own life Lord. 595 00:35:51,400 --> 00:35:55,800 I I'm going to step out, I don't know what that means, but I'm 596 00:35:55,800 --> 00:35:58,400 going to step out. I'm going to continue to walk 597 00:35:58,400 --> 00:36:00,500 before you. I'm going to step out. 598 00:36:00,500 --> 00:36:02,500 Go on, make it a prayer. Tell the person. 599 00:36:02,500 --> 00:36:05,600 Next, I'm going to step out. I'm going to keep pioneering. 600 00:36:06,700 --> 00:36:11,700 I'm not giving up. Thank you, Pastor. 601 00:36:11,700 --> 00:36:13,800 David for that. Brilliant message. 602 00:36:13,800 --> 00:36:16,500 Remember that, if you want to respond in any way or if you 603 00:36:16,500 --> 00:36:20,700 want prayer about anything that you can get in touch with us and 604 00:36:20,700 --> 00:36:28,000 now it's time for your family, News 4, in our sights. 605 00:36:28,000 --> 00:36:30,600 Yesterday, we prayed for May way construction. 606 00:36:30,800 --> 00:36:34,200 Let's continue to pray for the team and the project that begins 607 00:36:34,200 --> 00:36:38,600 in two weeks time. United kids is coming up on 608 00:36:38,600 --> 00:36:43,300 Saturday, the 28th of January hosted at the one Center at 6 609 00:36:43,300 --> 00:36:45,600 p.m. for all seven to 11 year olds. 610 00:36:45,600 --> 00:36:48,600 It's two pounds on the door and we'd love to see you there. 611 00:36:50,300 --> 00:36:53,800 Our next one church together is happening on Sunday, the 5th of 612 00:36:53,800 --> 00:36:57,800 February, we have two great in person services at 9:15 and 613 00:36:57,800 --> 00:37:00,100 11:30. Or if you're not able to join 614 00:37:00,100 --> 00:37:03,500 us, we'll be live streaming on our YouTube channel at 11:30. 615 00:37:04,700 --> 00:37:08,200 And finally, United, young adults is coming up on Friday. 616 00:37:08,200 --> 00:37:11,600 The 17th of February. It's a worship night hosted at 617 00:37:11,600 --> 00:37:15,600 the too Funky Music. Cafe at 7 p.m. for all 18 to 30 618 00:37:15,600 --> 00:37:18,600 s join with other young adults from across the city, and let's 619 00:37:18,600 --> 00:37:21,300 worship God together, it's two pounds on the door, and we'd 620 00:37:21,300 --> 00:37:25,500 love to see you there. The Lord bless you and keep you 621 00:37:25,500 --> 00:37:27,800 the Lord. Make his face shine upon you, 622 00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:31,400 and be gracious to you. The Lord turn his face toward 623 00:37:31,400 --> 00:37:25,500 you and give you peace. The Lord bless you and keep you 624 00:37:25,500 --> 00:37:27,800 the Lord. Make his face shine upon you, 625 00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:31,400 and be gracious to you. The Lord turn his face toward 626 00:37:31,400 --> 00:37:33,100 you and give you peace.