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I'm excited and passionate about what we're going to be looking
at. I want you to look at One
Thessalonians Chapter 2 and then.
Verse just let's start in. Verse 11.
Thessalonians, chapter 2. This is what the Bible says.
For you yourselves, no. Brothers that are.
Coming to you was. Not in vain.
But though we had already. Suffered and been shamefully
treated at Philippi. As you know, we had boldness in
our God to declare to you the Gospel of God in the midst of
much. Conflict for our.
Appeal does not spring from error or impurity or.
Any attempt to deceive. But just as we have been
approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak not
to please man, but to please. God who tests our hearts.
Amen. You know.
I love this because Paul is. Talking about being entrusted.
With the powerful gospel. Message.
He is talking about that he has received.
The message The powerful. Gospel of Jesus Christ and He
has been entrusted. With that message to proclaim it
to others. And I am here today to say to
you that you and I have been entrusted with this.
Message that we. Have been given this message to
declare to many that we have been given this message not just
to hold to ourselves, but to actually take it out there, take
it to everyone, take it to our world and our community to
absolutely take it to the people in our world.
Wow, what? A privilege to be entrusted with
this message. You know, there's a film that I
absolutely love. It's called 19. 17 and it's a.
Film that is set in World War One.
Some of you may. Seen it, but what basically?
Happens is that during World War 12 British.
Soldiers Lance Corporal Scofield.
And Lance. Corporal Blake.
They received. Seemingly impossible orders.
It's a race against time. They must crossover into enemy.
Territory to deliver a message that will.
Save 1600. Fellow comrades.
They are given this message and they are told if you can get it
through past the enemy territory and get it to the the soldiers
there, you will save 1600 people.
What a responsibility. Wow, you've been entrusted.
With this message. And you know, here I am today to
say this to you, that the Lord has understood that He wants to
entrust you with a. Message that can I.
Say as loud and as clear as I can that this message will save
a generation. That this message that we have
been entrusted with will radically turn people's lives
around. We'll save people.
We'll save families. We'll save communities.
We'll turn Lester around and we? Have been entrusted with this
message. Amen.
Wow. You see, they understood the
horrendous consequences of not carrying the message.
You know 1600 people will die. Including one of the soldiers.
Blake's brother. He was in that platoon.
They will die if this message does not.
Get to them. They were.
Compelled to carry the message and you know I.
Don't want to be over heavy with you, I want you to be my friend
at the end. But the.
Truth is, this guys is in 2026. If the church chooses not to
carry this. Message then a generation.
Is going to spend. Forever and ever without God.
That if we sleep. Through this moment.
If we sleep through the significant, poignant moment in
time, wow, our generation will be totally and.
Utterly lost for all eternity, like the responsibility of that
is on us. That wow, we could just.
In this such a significant moment in time.
Choose to not take. The message many of you know
that we're going through this incredible season where it's
they're calling it the quiet revival.
Where people? Are opening themselves up to
the. Gospel.
Like never before moments where people are actually coming into
our churches and are like saying.
I had a dream. People who are speaking to us on
the street who are like. Saying.
I've bought a Bible and I want to know how to become a
Christian Church. We've never seen this for.
Decades. We've never seen this for many,
many times years, but here we are in this time.
But I want to urge you and say to us that if we sleep through
this quiet revival, if we just decide not to carry the message,
we will not see the powerful outcome that God is wanting us
to see in such a. Time.
Wow, I don't want to. I don't want to sleep.
Through this significant time, I want to understand that I'm
entrusted with the message. You know this message saves.
People, the message. That we're talking about today.
The message that you could communicate this week to people
by the bus stop, by, you know, in your workplace, in your
street. This message can radically.
Turn people's lives around. People who are not sitting in
this room today could be. Sitting in it in a.
Future because you carried the message, you have been entrusted
with one of the most powerful. Messages.
Ever. And it's like.
Wow, will we? Pick up this challenge.
You see those two soldiers, compassion compelled them to get
him right through the enemy territory, right to where the
message needed to be. Because they had such a
compassion to see. Their fellow comrades saved.
And you know I stir us again. That we would be moved by
compassion, that we would allow God to stir our souls, That we
would cry out to God again for the lost.
That we would be like, oh, God, give us souls.
You know, my grandma, she used to weep over the lost.
She used to weep over the lost. She would spend hours and nights
in prayer and she would be there sobbing in her little room,
crying for people that had not known God yet.
And it's a challenge to me because I live in this
generation and I'm thinking, God, do we cry over the lost?
Do we weep over the? Broken mark?
I asked myself. Mark, are you more likely to tot
and moan about what's happening in the city centre than you are
to weep and be crying and compassionately moved for the
people that you see? Around you, I remember I I
prayed a prayer. It should come with a warning.
Because it's a prayer that will
change you, I says. Oh God.
Will you let me? See people how you see them, I
tell you, I absolutely. That prayer you begin to see
people. In a new way.
You begin to weep over people. You know that.
Neighbour that annoys you? They begun.
They capture your. Heart and you began to cry out
of God. For them.
Those people at work that do your head in?
Everyone, we're all Christian here.
Yeah, we love the Lord, but there are some.
People that do your. Head in and and now you know, we
love to moan about them and complain about them, but then we
start to see them how God sees them and it begins to stir us
and it begins to change us. And instead of moaning about
them, we begin to pray for them. We begin to call on God for them
all that why? Would God entrust us with?
This message, Why would he? You know when there's.
Such a such a sense in which we could be like, why would God
give us that job? But he has.
He has entrusted us with the gospel.
I love it, you know. So we speak not to please man,
but to please God who tests our hearts.
And you know, and Pastor Sue mentioned a little bit when she
was praying, but the truth is that this message that we're
talking about today, all my friend, we're not going to win
any popularity competitions with this message because there will
be some people who will not like you.
There will be some people who will get angry and irritated
that you. There will be people that will
tell you to stop banging on about God, or stop being like a
Bible basher or stop being a religious crazy.
You know it's all going to come your way.
But I want to tell you that when you take that message, there are
people out there who are desperately needing to hear the
message that is inside of you, right?
Now and they need. To hear it and they will hear it
and it will change them for. Eternity.
It's like, wow, wow. It's like when I was a young
lad. You know people.
Say to me, you know, when did you become an evangelist?
I've always been like, passionate.
About the lost and I think I. Was in like third year and at
school in year 9 and basically I was outside the gates and I was
speaking and. A few people.
Gathered and I actually did a little preach outside the gates
at my own school. And it was going pretty well.
There was a little crowd gathering and people were
really. Listening.
They'll never. Forget a guy came, right?
Through the crowd and in front of everyone, he spat completely
in my face. And you know, I know that the.
Enemy meant that to stop me. As I I was the.
Same as any other kid you know, you in 3rd year, year nine,
you're like trying to be. Cool, you're trying to be the
guy. It's not a.
Great look having someone. Spit in your face, I know the
enemy. Was.
But you know what? All it did was lit the fire even
more passionately. And you know, I want to
encourage you today that when you go out there and when you
begin to share. Your message.
You're going to get a few knock backs, you're going to get a few
push. Backs but.
Do not allow it to dampen your passion, but just let it fire
you up even more that you would. Bring this message that would
see lives changed. Amen.
Wow, here it is that we would be entrusted with the message, but.
Also that we would. Deliver a message deep into
enemy territory. Deep into enemy territory.
I am. I get.
Asked a lot. You know the show that I'm going
to. Do Tonight is is the show that I
did at the Edinburgh Fringe in August.
I absolutely love this because your church here you guys.
One Church Leicester, you guys helped and sponsored me.
To be able to do it, I was able to.
Communicate, communicate the gospel in right in the centre of
Edinburgh because you guys came alongside me and helped me and I
want to say thank you. Well, you know people, of course
they asked me. I'm a my dad.
Was a minister. I went to Bible college.
I became a pastor. Why is a Scottish pastor doing a
comedy show at the Edinburgh Fringe?
And I'll tell you why. Because.
When I was like 16. I used to go to the.
Edinburgh Fringe. And I used to see comedians
absolutely laughing about Jesus on the cross.
I saw them taking the Mickey out of the Christian faith.
I saw them laughing about people that are Jesus followers.
And I remember. Sitting there and saying.
One day I will be. On that stage.
And I will lift up the name of Jesus.
I will lift the name of Jesus up.
And in the last few years, I've been doing it for eight or nine
years, but the last few years I have got more fervent and more
passionate. I got the cross and I put the
cross right in the centre of the show, right there.
I talk about becoming a Christian.
I talk about giving your life to Jesus.
I talk about becoming a follower of Christ.
And I know that there's a chance.
I could get cancelled. There's.
Quite a few comedians this year last.
Year being cancelled because they're not falling into the way
that the Fringe would like you to talk.
And I know. That they don't.
Want me talking about Jesus being Lord of their life?
But you know what? Maybe.
One day you'll see me. Cancelled on the front papers
and you'll be like oh wow, finally they got him.
Yeah, but I, I honestly, I don't.
Care. I'm going to keep on going until
they cancel me because I want to get take Jesus right into the
enemy's territory, right into the enemy's.
Territory. It's like, wow, you see, I want
to urge US, Church, let us not stay.
In our. Trenches, let us not.
Stay in our trenches, entrenched in our ways.
Hunker down with all the other Christians hiding.
Let us take this message. Deep.
Into enemy territory. I don't want to hide anymore.
I don't know if you become good at becoming a camouflage
Christian. You're like out there.
No one really kind of knows really fully.
Sometimes you go on a Sunday, yeah, but you don't really.
That's a great little. Phrase in it, Yeah.
No one knows. What that means, yeah.
Many of us we we live our. Life as camouflage Christians
and I say. To you.
Everybody else flies the flag. Everybody else is happy to be
aggressively putting their. Message out there and.
Meanwhile the church we keep quiet.
Meanwhile the church we hide. Meanwhile, the church we we go.
Camouflage. No, no, no.
Friends, it's time for us to take the cross right into enemy.
Territory. Right in the centre.
And wow, there it is. I love a speaker called.
Timothy Keller. And he said these words, God.
Only calls you. In for intimacy and blessing in
order to stay now, I want you to live radically for other people
in a way you never have before. We get the lovely blessing of
being together as church. I've loved it this morning.
I have enjoyed it. I'm in church every Sunday.
I'm not knocking. Church in any way?
But friends, I want you to know that some of us, we love it
here. And we just want to keep it like
this. But the reason why we come, we
get filled up, we get energised, we get empowered so that when we
go out there we can make a radical.
Difference in the name of. Jesus.
That we can absolutely take. Territory for the Lord.
We can go from this place and that we can actually like go out
there and be the name of Jesus. Right there in our different
worlds, I am got a massive lesson.
When I was a young pastor and I was, I was doing these missions
and, and I used to get the bus into, into the office and, and
basically I was at the bus stop and I got a few ministers I
needed to phone and I was kind of calling them at the bus.
Stop. And then I got onto my bus and
it was quite a quiet bus and there's a lot of empty seats, so
I got quite near the back and I did like a proper British move.
I took my coat off. And I put my coat next to me and
the bus. Yeah.
Now, if you are maybe not British, you might not fully
know. That means that seats taken.
Yeah, that seat is taken. I'm sitting here and my coat is
sitting there. Yeah, that is what that means.
That's a clear sign. So I was sitting there.
And I was making these. Calls and there's all these
empty seats and we did a couple of stops and then the bus
stopped and a young lad got on maybe. 1414 or 15?
And this young lad looks all these empty.
Seats, he goes. Past all these empty seats and
I'm on the phone and I'm watching him.
I'm thinking sit down in one of the empty seats.
What? Is wrong with you.
Sit down. All of those seats are empty.
Why are you still walking towards me?
And he's still coming. He's looking all these empty
seats and then he gets next to me.
And he asks. Me to move, I'm on the phone.
Yeah, that's another sign. Yeah, I'm British.
I'm on the phone. I'm.
Talking with someone and my. Coat is.
Sitting there, yeah, he says. Oh, will you move your coat?
You know when you let move the coat very passively aggressive.
I'm like moving my coat, put it at my feet.
And then I'm talking on the phone and the young lad starts
to talk to me. Talking to me.
I'm on the. Phone I'm like what do?
I need to do. You don't need to write it on a
bit of paper. I'm on the phone, yeah.
You don't talk to me. And I'm really like, there's a
pastor on the other phone. I'm glad you're coming.
Bringing a mission. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
We just love the lost. We love the lost.
Why are you staying there? So I love the lost.
And I says, listen, just give me a minute.
It comes off the phone. I transfer the show.
I says, oh, you, you want to chat to me?
This is what he said. He says, last night I heard my
dad be in my mum and I heard her screaming and I lay there and I
says tomorrow morning on the bus I want to sit next to someone
who might help me. She goes, I've looked all over
and I can't say she goes, you look a bit different.
She goes and I'm asking, He says, I'm asking what should I
do? And there on, I mean, how Can
you imagine for an evangelist how humbling that is?
This little lads kind of just said, yeah, I'm basically asking
you to do your job. Yeah.
I'm basically asking you, never mind your call and your phone
call. Yeah.
I'm asking you to do what you're on the planet for.
Yeah. And I'm like, oh, God.
Like, deep in my soul, I'm like, oh God, you're making all your
calls to your church mates. Come on.
And, you know, I turned and I, I, I, I shared with that young
lad and we got a chance to chat to him.
We hooked him up with the youth ministry at church.
He came along, we were able to help him.
You know, I don't know if he ever became a Christian, but we
were able to be light in that darkness.
And, you know, I want to say that like for you, we're going
to pray at the end. And I'm believing that for some
of you. You're going to have
conversations with people. That will be life.
Changing. You'll be like, ah, but how can
I do it? I know none of us.
How God hasn't trusted us? With this message, God is wow.
God hasn't trusted us with this message.
And so firstly I wanted to say that he hasn't trusted us with
the message. Secondly, I wanted to say
deliver a message deep into enemy territory.
And thirdly, I wanted to say the responsibility of passing on the
message clearly, you know. We have been given this message,
but many of us, we do not communicate it well.
We do not communicate. It well.
Many of us. We we, we, we don't.
We don't. Say it in a good.
Way we we use religious. Words.
We get a little bit. Fumbly and.
We don't really know. Talk about things like we heard
maybe pastor say and we like. Maybe we'll say, oh, I'm washed
in the blood and the person sitting there listening to you
is like, what? Happens in your church on a
Sunday. That you are washing people.
In blood. Or maybe like we had a we had a
whole influx of young people coming to our youth.
Night and there was hundreds. Of them came so I we worked at
120 young people started coming to our.
Friday night, youth night and. Basically, you know, we started
to get people to stand up and give what we call.
Testimony and they would get up and they would say.
Stuff like oh oh oh I used to be in the.
World and everyone's like, where are you now?
Where if you used to be in the world and you're no longer in
the world, where are you? And of course.
We all know what that meant, but the people listening, they, they
did not understand, they did not get what we were saying.
So, you know, we we've been asked to carry this
responsibility of pressing the message on clearly.
I don't know. If I can just get a little.
Bit help somebody can help me bring up the board is is there
somebody around who can just grab that board for?
Me. Thank you so much.
Sir, I appreciate that. I don't know what your family's
like when it comes to Christmas and games.
Do your family play? Games at Christmas, anyone?
Some people are like, no, we we don't.
We don't do Christmas here. Yeah, we don't.
Thank you so much. You do games.
Thank you some anyone else gives a little way if you do games at
Christmas, thank you. Great.
Well, our family, we play. Games at Christmas and.
Everybody. Everybody does everything they.
Can not to be on my dad's team? Yeah, my dad is a nightmare to
be in the team now. Will you play Pictionary?
So. Pictionary is this game where
you're given a word on a card. You are the.
Only one that sees it. You put the card down.
And then you draw what the card says.
Yeah. And my dad, he gets the card.
He sees it. No one else sees it.
He puts it down. And then my dad will be like
this. You ready?
Everyone's ready.
And then you draw there. And then he doesn't like that.
And then he points like that. Yeah.
And then he's like, come on, come on now.
Anybody got any idea what that might be?
Anyone got a clue? A firework is a good answer, but
it's wrong. Yeah.
Has anyone else got any clue? A river.
You are so.
Prophetic wrong. Sorry, you're wrong.
You know what? We'd be like Dad.
Dog would draw, Draw Something else.
The time's running out. And then my dad would have this
little penny drop moment and then my dad would like go over
exactly what he's already done and do exactly the same again
and just point again. And then the time.
Would run out and we would be like.
Dad, what is it? What?
Is it? And he would go.
It's Turkey and we'd be like, sorry.
And he'd be like, it's Turkey. He goes, there's Britain, yeah,
he goes and that's Europe and that's.
Turkey and we would be like, we don't want to be your sons
anymore. Yeah, we we're done with.
This. And we would be like, Dad, there
are so many other ways you could have drawn Turkey.
You could have drawn the bird. You could have.
Drawn Christmas. You could have drawn any of them
and like. What is that?
And you know so. Many of us when it comes to
carrying this message. We like do what we've always.
Done. And if the person is not getting
it. We don't look at ourselves.
And think we need to do the message differently, We just.
Do it again, but louder. That is what the Christian.
Word We. Do it again, but louder.
Oh, you didn't understand. Let me say it again.
No, no, no, no. We've got to start thinking
creatively and innovatively. And that's why, you know, I love
what you guys are doing at Easter.
And I just, you know, turned to Thomas says, wow, this is what
we're talking about, doing it innovatively, creatively, doing
it differently. And it's like, wow, it's like
the same message. The message never changes.
The message Never. Changes.
But wow, Incredibly, wonderfully, amazingly, we are
able to be innovative. And creative and take.
This message in a most. Clear and powerful.
And positive way, I want to urge you, you would maybe.
Take this serious, you see. I'm going to, I'm going to do
this and I'm going to ask maybe you would do it that you would
maybe between now and Easter that you would work on your two.
Minute story. Of how Jesus has rescued.
You and how? You could give the gospel in
two. Minutes.
I want you to do it in a way. That it's got no jargon in it.
So you're not. Talking about Jesus and and kind
of blood, you're not talking about other words that they
might not understand. Every time I use the word.
Sin I. Always talk about my mess, my
rubbish, my garbage. I try to use different words
that people. Will understand and then I like
try and keep it to two minutes do the discipline.
I don't know if you've got anyone like this in your.
Life. But I've got a friend at church.
When they see you see them coming, you're thinking, oh,
here we go. Get your seat belt on.
Yeah, this is going to be a while.
And some of us, we cannot tell a story.
Quick, have you met those? People, they're like, oh, so we
have to. Learn to.
Cut the waffle out. Yeah, cut the waffle out.
Cut out. Seem like people.
And it was a Tuesday now. Oh, no, it wasn't a Tuesday
because we have pie on Tuesday. Yeah.
Was it a Wednesday? No, Oh no, it's fish.
It was, it was a Friday. Yeah, it was fish like none of
that's important. We want to trim it right.
Down 2 minutes. Share your message.
Share your story. How about me putting it out
there? To you that you do this.
Before Easter. I am wanting to do it to someone
who's not a Christian. You're not allowed to turn over
to your wife who's been a say for 50 years and give your
two-minute thing and go Mark Richie take.
Yeah, you're not allowed to do that.
You've got to do it. To someone who's not yet a
Christian, I'm going to ask you right now if that's a challenge.
Are you going to accept that? Are you going to take it on?
I'm going to be like, I'm going to do it and I'm going to be
uncomfortable, so why should I be uncomfortable of my own?
You should be there as well. And of.
Course, you're going to say a little bit wrong and of course
there's going to be things that are not going to be perfect.
But we want to commit. To try and being creative and
innovative and getting our message over.
And here's another quick challenge just while we're on
with it. Is it like tonight?
You know this show that I'm doing is a.
Show that I did at Edinburgh Fringe in the summer and it's.
Fun, you'll laugh, you'll enjoy. It and there's an amazing moment
where we talk the gospel right out there.
And you know, I want to encourage you that maybe you
could text someone or e-mail them or phone them or whatever
this. Today, see why don't you come
tonight? And like, come along.
Or maybe you weren't planning on coming tonight.
You could come tonight just to fill the room with laughter.
And of course, you know, like, you know, just.
Over laugh, you know. Oh.
He's not that funny. But, you know, let's laugh
anyway. Yeah, Just help him.
Jesus. Yeah, That that, that would also
be helpful. But you know, just making the
most of every opportunity. Wouldn't it be wonderful
tonight? There's going to be a moment
where we're going to get the gospel out there.
And I'm believing that people will.
Respond to Jesus and say yes to the Lord.
We have been, wow, incredibly, the responsibility of passing
this message on clearly and you know.
That. Film I told you about 1917.
When they were getting the. Eventually they got to where
they needed to get to and the message was passed over, but now
he's just a foot soldier. And he's speaking to this.
High ranked Sergeant. And he's got this message, but
the Sergeant is, who are you? You are a little foot soldier.
And you telling me what I should do with my men.
And there's that moment of intimidation.
And I want to say to you today, guys, is that if you take what
I'm saying and you go with this, there are going to be times over
the next little while where you are going to be intimidated,
where you are going to be like, wow.
I got the chance to take my comedy show to Imperial
University. Here's the deal about me.
I've never been a university. On the way down, I got so
intimidated. The enemy got into my head.
I was like, how? I mean Imperial University.
They are intelligent. They are clever people.
You're going to get up and they're going to be like.
What is this? And.
I was so feeling intimidated I phoned.
I get into the centre of London and I'm my head's gone.
I am done. I'm feeling so intimidated.
I phoned Pastor David's friend and my friend Pastor Martin's
story. I think he's been here a few
times and I says Martin, man, I am, I'm.
Going to this. Thing in half an hour I don't
even know if I can speak I'm. Done.
My head's gone. I feel so intimidated.
I says Martin. I've never been to university.
These people are intelligent. Well.
Martin, it's like he goes, I am going to pray for you.
You get that phone up to your ear right now.
He goes, I am going to. He's in his office.
He's so he's speaking in tongues.
He's shouting in the name of Jesus.
We come against this intimidation.
I'm. They're like going, yeah, people
pass him. Yeah.
I'm like, yeah, I must. Admit there was a.
Few people pushing past and I was going, oh, what is this?
I was like, keep going. And he's like.
He was absolutely praying for me and at the end of that prayer I
felt 6 feet and I thought, you know what, I'm going to go in
and I'm going to do this. And I went in and we had an
amazing time and people spoke with us at the end and a
beautiful moment of. Response and I want.
To tell you that you, if you go for this, if we go deep into the
enemy territory, if we absolutely take this message,
there will be a time when you will feel intimidated, you will
feel the enemy go, Who are you? And I'm asking you, Church, to
stand tall and say we are a child of the living God.
We come here not in our own strength.
We come here not in our own strength, but in the anointing
of the living. God, wow.
See in that film, as I'm wrapping up more, we're.
Going to just have a few moments in the presence of God.
At the end of the service, but I wanted to say this.
Is that you know the young? Soldier, he says.
I don't bring this message. On my own back, I.
Come under a higher authority and he brought the message from
from general. Erin Moore.
He says it's from. General Erin Moore.
And when he said general. Erin Moore, He took it.
He took. It and he read it and he's the
men must not go over. Do not send the men over and the
men were saved. He came under a higher authority
and I want to say today you think how can I I'm not even
like that great a Christian. I've never been to Bible
college. I don't know where dinosaurs fit
in the Bible. I don't know whether.
Adam and Eve had belly. Buttons.
I don't know. And we can get intimidated, but
you do not come in your. Own strength.
You come in the authority of the living.
God. You know, my brother and me, we
used to share a room when I was like roundabout. 16 he was 14
and. We would get into fights and you
know, we got into this fight. And there was punches and there
was blood. It was bad.
And in the middle of this fight, there was this little.
Pitter patter up the stairs. The door opened.
It was my little sister. She was 9, little small girl,
92, nearly adult. Blokes.
Fighting. And we're like, what are you
doing here? Get out.
And this little girl in the quietest voice, she just said
Dad sent me. Dad sent me as.
Soon as we heard the words. Dad sent me.
Do you want? To know what happened, the fight
stopped. Immediately.
Because she was not coming. In her own little strength, she
was sent by the Father. She's coming in the authority of
the father, and we go from this. Place and we have our.
Conversations and we. Talk to people about Jesus and
we spread and share the gospel and we take this message and the
enemy says who are? You and we say Dad.
Dad sent me, Father has sent me. Come in the authority of God.
Some of you are going to carry the presence of God in powerful
ways. I'm going to tell you one last
thing before. We have a moment of response
because I feel just start to tell you this, but you know,
when I was 15, I told you that at school, I.
Used to be wanting to see all my.
Mates get saved and my nickname at.
School was the Pope. I was called the Pope.
That's yeah, Heartland still hurts now.
Thanks for laughing. And, and you know, I used to
take all this abuse. And I went in to this class.
I was 15. My mom used to make me go to
school in this horrible cagoo because she didn't want me to
get married. Yeah, she never.
She did not want the opposite sex to find me attractive.
So she put me in this cagoo and I used to go to school, this
little horrible cope and I went into this class and I promise
you the teacher was not in and there were lads at the back of
that class and they were playing with the Ouija board.
Let me just take one moment to say do not mess with that stuff.
That is the enemy stuff. And I want to say to you, if you
are, get some prayer, get some help, get out.
And they were messing with the Ouija board.
And I came in as a young. 15 year old lad and I saw what was
going on and I thought I don't want anything to do with that.
I went and sat at my. Desk and I.
Got my bags out and. My coat, sort of my books out my
bag and I started to do and stuff.
And a couple of minutes later, smack across the back of the
head, one of these lads hit me. I go whoa, whoa, whoa.
Have I done? And this is what they said.
They said we were messing with the Ouija board and the thing
was moving and as soon as you came in the room, it stopped
moving. I mean, when we don't know what
happened, but when you walked in, it's still.
I'm like, I'm a young 50. I went home to my dad.
My dad was a minister. I was like, Dad, what is that?
I've? Got a magic?
Coat. Yeah, he's at the coat.
His mum prayed over the Kagoo. And my dad said this, This is
Mark. You carry the presence of the
living God. When you walk in that.
Room, you're not walking as a little.
Dorky 15 year old. Kid, you're walking with a.
Horse of. Angels into the room and oh
Church, we want to see this city and this generation saved.
We want to see. People's lives turned around.
You do not. Walk in your own strength, but
you walk in the presence of God. The Lord bless you.
And keep you. The Lord make His face shine
upon you and be gracious to you. The Lord turn his face towards
you and give you peace.