1 00:00:01,160 --> 00:00:05,080 We are one church. We love God, love people, love 2 00:00:05,080 --> 00:00:06,960 His mission, and love His church. 3 00:00:07,520 --> 00:00:09,520 Welcome to the One Church podcast. 4 00:00:16,280 --> 00:00:19,160 I'm excited and passionate about what we're going to be looking 5 00:00:19,160 --> 00:00:20,400 at. I want you to look at One 6 00:00:20,560 --> 00:00:23,280 Thessalonians Chapter 2 and then. 7 00:00:23,600 --> 00:00:25,920 Verse just let's start in. Verse 11. 8 00:00:25,920 --> 00:00:29,600 Thessalonians, chapter 2. This is what the Bible says. 9 00:00:30,160 --> 00:00:33,840 For you yourselves, no. Brothers that are. 10 00:00:33,840 --> 00:00:36,200 Coming to you was. Not in vain. 11 00:00:36,520 --> 00:00:39,880 But though we had already. Suffered and been shamefully 12 00:00:39,880 --> 00:00:44,400 treated at Philippi. As you know, we had boldness in 13 00:00:44,520 --> 00:00:49,920 our God to declare to you the Gospel of God in the midst of 14 00:00:49,920 --> 00:00:52,400 much. Conflict for our. 15 00:00:52,400 --> 00:00:56,520 Appeal does not spring from error or impurity or. 16 00:00:56,560 --> 00:01:01,080 Any attempt to deceive. But just as we have been 17 00:01:01,080 --> 00:01:09,160 approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak not 18 00:01:09,160 --> 00:01:15,360 to please man, but to please. God who tests our hearts. 19 00:01:15,640 --> 00:01:17,920 Amen. You know. 20 00:01:18,000 --> 00:01:22,720 I love this because Paul is. Talking about being entrusted. 21 00:01:22,800 --> 00:01:26,040 With the powerful gospel. Message. 22 00:01:26,560 --> 00:01:29,040 He is talking about that he has received. 23 00:01:29,040 --> 00:01:33,640 The message The powerful. Gospel of Jesus Christ and He 24 00:01:33,640 --> 00:01:36,760 has been entrusted. With that message to proclaim it 25 00:01:36,880 --> 00:01:40,720 to others. And I am here today to say to 26 00:01:40,720 --> 00:01:45,560 you that you and I have been entrusted with this. 27 00:01:45,560 --> 00:01:49,240 Message that we. Have been given this message to 28 00:01:49,240 --> 00:01:53,480 declare to many that we have been given this message not just 29 00:01:53,480 --> 00:01:58,240 to hold to ourselves, but to actually take it out there, take 30 00:01:58,240 --> 00:02:02,520 it to everyone, take it to our world and our community to 31 00:02:02,560 --> 00:02:06,960 absolutely take it to the people in our world. 32 00:02:07,240 --> 00:02:10,680 Wow, what? A privilege to be entrusted with 33 00:02:10,680 --> 00:02:14,320 this message. You know, there's a film that I 34 00:02:14,320 --> 00:02:18,480 absolutely love. It's called 19. 17 and it's a. 35 00:02:18,480 --> 00:02:21,240 Film that is set in World War One. 36 00:02:21,360 --> 00:02:24,000 Some of you may. Seen it, but what basically? 37 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:28,000 Happens is that during World War 12 British. 38 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:30,560 Soldiers Lance Corporal Scofield. 39 00:02:30,680 --> 00:02:32,360 And Lance. Corporal Blake. 40 00:02:32,720 --> 00:02:36,320 They received. Seemingly impossible orders. 41 00:02:36,840 --> 00:02:42,160 It's a race against time. They must crossover into enemy. 42 00:02:42,160 --> 00:02:45,280 Territory to deliver a message that will. 43 00:02:45,280 --> 00:02:49,760 Save 1600. Fellow comrades. 44 00:02:50,440 --> 00:02:54,520 They are given this message and they are told if you can get it 45 00:02:54,520 --> 00:03:00,320 through past the enemy territory and get it to the the soldiers 46 00:03:00,320 --> 00:03:03,560 there, you will save 1600 people. 47 00:03:03,640 --> 00:03:07,920 What a responsibility. Wow, you've been entrusted. 48 00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:11,720 With this message. And you know, here I am today to 49 00:03:11,720 --> 00:03:16,480 say this to you, that the Lord has understood that He wants to 50 00:03:16,720 --> 00:03:19,440 entrust you with a. Message that can I. 51 00:03:19,440 --> 00:03:25,280 Say as loud and as clear as I can that this message will save 52 00:03:25,320 --> 00:03:28,200 a generation. That this message that we have 53 00:03:28,200 --> 00:03:32,360 been entrusted with will radically turn people's lives 54 00:03:32,360 --> 00:03:34,440 around. We'll save people. 55 00:03:34,560 --> 00:03:37,840 We'll save families. We'll save communities. 56 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:43,600 We'll turn Lester around and we? Have been entrusted with this 57 00:03:43,600 --> 00:03:45,320 message. Amen. 58 00:03:45,840 --> 00:03:49,680 Wow. You see, they understood the 59 00:03:49,680 --> 00:03:54,400 horrendous consequences of not carrying the message. 60 00:03:55,080 --> 00:04:00,040 You know 1600 people will die. Including one of the soldiers. 61 00:04:00,040 --> 00:04:03,240 Blake's brother. He was in that platoon. 62 00:04:03,360 --> 00:04:05,840 They will die if this message does not. 63 00:04:05,840 --> 00:04:07,760 Get to them. They were. 64 00:04:07,760 --> 00:04:13,280 Compelled to carry the message and you know I. 65 00:04:13,280 --> 00:04:17,360 Don't want to be over heavy with you, I want you to be my friend 66 00:04:17,360 --> 00:04:18,399 at the end. But the. 67 00:04:18,399 --> 00:04:24,240 Truth is, this guys is in 2026. If the church chooses not to 68 00:04:24,240 --> 00:04:27,800 carry this. Message then a generation. 69 00:04:27,800 --> 00:04:31,560 Is going to spend. Forever and ever without God. 70 00:04:32,520 --> 00:04:34,880 That if we sleep. Through this moment. 71 00:04:35,480 --> 00:04:40,160 If we sleep through the significant, poignant moment in 72 00:04:40,160 --> 00:04:44,480 time, wow, our generation will be totally and. 73 00:04:44,480 --> 00:04:52,120 Utterly lost for all eternity, like the responsibility of that 74 00:04:52,120 --> 00:04:56,560 is on us. That wow, we could just. 75 00:04:57,000 --> 00:05:00,640 In this such a significant moment in time. 76 00:05:01,160 --> 00:05:06,200 Choose to not take. The message many of you know 77 00:05:06,640 --> 00:05:09,480 that we're going through this incredible season where it's 78 00:05:09,560 --> 00:05:11,840 they're calling it the quiet revival. 79 00:05:12,280 --> 00:05:15,040 Where people? Are opening themselves up to 80 00:05:15,040 --> 00:05:15,680 the. Gospel. 81 00:05:15,680 --> 00:05:21,280 Like never before moments where people are actually coming into 82 00:05:21,280 --> 00:05:22,760 our churches and are like saying. 83 00:05:22,920 --> 00:05:26,760 I had a dream. People who are speaking to us on 84 00:05:26,760 --> 00:05:28,440 the street who are like. Saying. 85 00:05:28,600 --> 00:05:33,120 I've bought a Bible and I want to know how to become a 86 00:05:33,120 --> 00:05:37,040 Christian Church. We've never seen this for. 87 00:05:37,040 --> 00:05:39,680 Decades. We've never seen this for many, 88 00:05:39,680 --> 00:05:43,520 many times years, but here we are in this time. 89 00:05:43,880 --> 00:05:47,880 But I want to urge you and say to us that if we sleep through 90 00:05:47,880 --> 00:05:53,160 this quiet revival, if we just decide not to carry the message, 91 00:05:53,320 --> 00:05:57,800 we will not see the powerful outcome that God is wanting us 92 00:05:57,920 --> 00:06:00,000 to see in such a. Time. 93 00:06:00,640 --> 00:06:06,320 Wow, I don't want to. I don't want to sleep. 94 00:06:06,320 --> 00:06:09,840 Through this significant time, I want to understand that I'm 95 00:06:09,840 --> 00:06:15,600 entrusted with the message. You know this message saves. 96 00:06:15,800 --> 00:06:19,560 People, the message. That we're talking about today. 97 00:06:19,680 --> 00:06:23,200 The message that you could communicate this week to people 98 00:06:23,200 --> 00:06:27,080 by the bus stop, by, you know, in your workplace, in your 99 00:06:27,080 --> 00:06:29,960 street. This message can radically. 100 00:06:29,960 --> 00:06:34,080 Turn people's lives around. People who are not sitting in 101 00:06:34,080 --> 00:06:36,760 this room today could be. Sitting in it in a. 102 00:06:36,760 --> 00:06:42,400 Future because you carried the message, you have been entrusted 103 00:06:42,400 --> 00:06:45,080 with one of the most powerful. Messages. 104 00:06:45,080 --> 00:06:46,640 Ever. And it's like. 105 00:06:46,640 --> 00:06:49,840 Wow, will we? Pick up this challenge. 106 00:06:51,000 --> 00:06:56,360 You see those two soldiers, compassion compelled them to get 107 00:06:56,920 --> 00:07:00,000 him right through the enemy territory, right to where the 108 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:03,000 message needed to be. Because they had such a 109 00:07:03,000 --> 00:07:06,880 compassion to see. Their fellow comrades saved. 110 00:07:07,640 --> 00:07:11,280 And you know I stir us again. That we would be moved by 111 00:07:11,280 --> 00:07:16,200 compassion, that we would allow God to stir our souls, That we 112 00:07:16,200 --> 00:07:19,760 would cry out to God again for the lost. 113 00:07:20,600 --> 00:07:24,320 That we would be like, oh, God, give us souls. 114 00:07:25,040 --> 00:07:29,040 You know, my grandma, she used to weep over the lost. 115 00:07:29,440 --> 00:07:34,880 She used to weep over the lost. She would spend hours and nights 116 00:07:34,880 --> 00:07:38,520 in prayer and she would be there sobbing in her little room, 117 00:07:38,680 --> 00:07:42,120 crying for people that had not known God yet. 118 00:07:43,040 --> 00:07:45,600 And it's a challenge to me because I live in this 119 00:07:45,600 --> 00:07:50,160 generation and I'm thinking, God, do we cry over the lost? 120 00:07:50,760 --> 00:07:54,880 Do we weep over the? Broken mark? 121 00:07:54,880 --> 00:07:58,640 I asked myself. Mark, are you more likely to tot 122 00:07:59,040 --> 00:08:02,960 and moan about what's happening in the city centre than you are 123 00:08:03,080 --> 00:08:07,600 to weep and be crying and compassionately moved for the 124 00:08:07,600 --> 00:08:12,440 people that you see? Around you, I remember I I 125 00:08:12,440 --> 00:08:16,360 prayed a prayer. It should come with a warning. 126 00:08:16,880 --> 00:08:19,400 It should come with a warning. Because it's a prayer that will 127 00:08:19,400 --> 00:08:22,000 change you, I says. Oh God. 128 00:08:22,480 --> 00:08:27,520 Will you let me? See people how you see them, I 129 00:08:27,560 --> 00:08:33,440 tell you, I absolutely. That prayer you begin to see 130 00:08:33,440 --> 00:08:34,799 people. In a new way. 131 00:08:35,559 --> 00:08:39,039 You begin to weep over people. You know that. 132 00:08:39,039 --> 00:08:41,960 Neighbour that annoys you? They begun. 133 00:08:42,080 --> 00:08:45,160 They capture your. Heart and you began to cry out 134 00:08:45,160 --> 00:08:46,080 of God. For them. 135 00:08:46,760 --> 00:08:49,200 Those people at work that do your head in? 136 00:08:49,760 --> 00:08:51,680 Everyone, we're all Christian here. 137 00:08:51,680 --> 00:08:53,760 Yeah, we love the Lord, but there are some. 138 00:08:53,760 --> 00:08:58,560 People that do your. Head in and and now you know, we 139 00:08:58,560 --> 00:09:01,360 love to moan about them and complain about them, but then we 140 00:09:01,360 --> 00:09:05,680 start to see them how God sees them and it begins to stir us 141 00:09:05,680 --> 00:09:08,440 and it begins to change us. And instead of moaning about 142 00:09:08,440 --> 00:09:13,000 them, we begin to pray for them. We begin to call on God for them 143 00:09:14,080 --> 00:09:16,960 all that why? Would God entrust us with? 144 00:09:16,960 --> 00:09:20,040 This message, Why would he? You know when there's. 145 00:09:20,040 --> 00:09:23,920 Such a such a sense in which we could be like, why would God 146 00:09:24,280 --> 00:09:27,000 give us that job? But he has. 147 00:09:27,120 --> 00:09:29,720 He has entrusted us with the gospel. 148 00:09:30,200 --> 00:09:34,240 I love it, you know. So we speak not to please man, 149 00:09:34,360 --> 00:09:38,120 but to please God who tests our hearts. 150 00:09:39,040 --> 00:09:41,760 And you know, and Pastor Sue mentioned a little bit when she 151 00:09:41,760 --> 00:09:44,840 was praying, but the truth is that this message that we're 152 00:09:44,840 --> 00:09:48,640 talking about today, all my friend, we're not going to win 153 00:09:48,640 --> 00:09:54,120 any popularity competitions with this message because there will 154 00:09:54,120 --> 00:09:56,640 be some people who will not like you. 155 00:09:57,440 --> 00:10:01,280 There will be some people who will get angry and irritated 156 00:10:01,280 --> 00:10:03,520 that you. There will be people that will 157 00:10:03,520 --> 00:10:08,680 tell you to stop banging on about God, or stop being like a 158 00:10:08,840 --> 00:10:12,560 Bible basher or stop being a religious crazy. 159 00:10:12,720 --> 00:10:14,880 You know it's all going to come your way. 160 00:10:15,360 --> 00:10:19,000 But I want to tell you that when you take that message, there are 161 00:10:19,000 --> 00:10:22,760 people out there who are desperately needing to hear the 162 00:10:22,760 --> 00:10:25,000 message that is inside of you, right? 163 00:10:25,000 --> 00:10:28,240 Now and they need. To hear it and they will hear it 164 00:10:28,240 --> 00:10:31,200 and it will change them for. Eternity. 165 00:10:31,720 --> 00:10:37,400 It's like, wow, wow. It's like when I was a young 166 00:10:37,400 --> 00:10:39,000 lad. You know people. 167 00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:41,440 Say to me, you know, when did you become an evangelist? 168 00:10:41,640 --> 00:10:43,640 I've always been like, passionate. 169 00:10:43,800 --> 00:10:47,600 About the lost and I think I. Was in like third year and at 170 00:10:47,600 --> 00:10:54,120 school in year 9 and basically I was outside the gates and I was 171 00:10:54,440 --> 00:10:56,560 speaking and. A few people. 172 00:10:56,560 --> 00:11:00,040 Gathered and I actually did a little preach outside the gates 173 00:11:00,080 --> 00:11:03,080 at my own school. And it was going pretty well. 174 00:11:03,120 --> 00:11:05,560 There was a little crowd gathering and people were 175 00:11:05,560 --> 00:11:06,560 really. Listening. 176 00:11:07,040 --> 00:11:09,960 They'll never. Forget a guy came, right? 177 00:11:09,960 --> 00:11:14,320 Through the crowd and in front of everyone, he spat completely 178 00:11:14,480 --> 00:11:18,320 in my face. And you know, I know that the. 179 00:11:18,320 --> 00:11:22,240 Enemy meant that to stop me. As I I was the. 180 00:11:22,240 --> 00:11:25,880 Same as any other kid you know, you in 3rd year, year nine, 181 00:11:26,280 --> 00:11:28,920 you're like trying to be. Cool, you're trying to be the 182 00:11:28,920 --> 00:11:30,320 guy. It's not a. 183 00:11:30,320 --> 00:11:33,840 Great look having someone. Spit in your face, I know the 184 00:11:33,840 --> 00:11:34,640 enemy. Was. 185 00:11:34,800 --> 00:11:38,080 But you know what? All it did was lit the fire even 186 00:11:38,080 --> 00:11:40,720 more passionately. And you know, I want to 187 00:11:40,720 --> 00:11:43,440 encourage you today that when you go out there and when you 188 00:11:43,440 --> 00:11:45,120 begin to share. Your message. 189 00:11:45,240 --> 00:11:48,240 You're going to get a few knock backs, you're going to get a few 190 00:11:48,240 --> 00:11:49,360 push. Backs but. 191 00:11:49,360 --> 00:11:53,960 Do not allow it to dampen your passion, but just let it fire 192 00:11:53,960 --> 00:11:59,280 you up even more that you would. Bring this message that would 193 00:11:59,280 --> 00:12:02,160 see lives changed. Amen. 194 00:12:03,440 --> 00:12:08,360 Wow, here it is that we would be entrusted with the message, but. 195 00:12:08,360 --> 00:12:11,640 Also that we would. Deliver a message deep into 196 00:12:11,680 --> 00:12:16,920 enemy territory. Deep into enemy territory. 197 00:12:17,920 --> 00:12:19,720 I am. I get. 198 00:12:19,720 --> 00:12:22,040 Asked a lot. You know the show that I'm going 199 00:12:22,040 --> 00:12:24,000 to. Do Tonight is is the show that I 200 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:26,600 did at the Edinburgh Fringe in August. 201 00:12:27,160 --> 00:12:31,120 I absolutely love this because your church here you guys. 202 00:12:31,120 --> 00:12:35,640 One Church Leicester, you guys helped and sponsored me. 203 00:12:35,760 --> 00:12:38,360 To be able to do it, I was able to. 204 00:12:38,360 --> 00:12:42,600 Communicate, communicate the gospel in right in the centre of 205 00:12:42,600 --> 00:12:46,600 Edinburgh because you guys came alongside me and helped me and I 206 00:12:46,600 --> 00:12:49,880 want to say thank you. Well, you know people, of course 207 00:12:49,880 --> 00:12:52,240 they asked me. I'm a my dad. 208 00:12:52,240 --> 00:12:54,520 Was a minister. I went to Bible college. 209 00:12:54,520 --> 00:12:59,360 I became a pastor. Why is a Scottish pastor doing a 210 00:12:59,360 --> 00:13:02,360 comedy show at the Edinburgh Fringe? 211 00:13:02,800 --> 00:13:04,400 And I'll tell you why. Because. 212 00:13:04,400 --> 00:13:07,400 When I was like 16. I used to go to the. 213 00:13:07,400 --> 00:13:10,560 Edinburgh Fringe. And I used to see comedians 214 00:13:10,600 --> 00:13:13,480 absolutely laughing about Jesus on the cross. 215 00:13:13,720 --> 00:13:16,760 I saw them taking the Mickey out of the Christian faith. 216 00:13:17,040 --> 00:13:20,560 I saw them laughing about people that are Jesus followers. 217 00:13:20,920 --> 00:13:22,880 And I remember. Sitting there and saying. 218 00:13:22,880 --> 00:13:26,200 One day I will be. On that stage. 219 00:13:26,440 --> 00:13:29,760 And I will lift up the name of Jesus. 220 00:13:30,200 --> 00:13:32,360 I will lift the name of Jesus up. 221 00:13:33,080 --> 00:13:35,880 And in the last few years, I've been doing it for eight or nine 222 00:13:35,880 --> 00:13:39,520 years, but the last few years I have got more fervent and more 223 00:13:39,520 --> 00:13:42,800 passionate. I got the cross and I put the 224 00:13:42,800 --> 00:13:46,240 cross right in the centre of the show, right there. 225 00:13:46,360 --> 00:13:48,120 I talk about becoming a Christian. 226 00:13:48,240 --> 00:13:50,960 I talk about giving your life to Jesus. 227 00:13:51,080 --> 00:13:53,560 I talk about becoming a follower of Christ. 228 00:13:53,880 --> 00:13:55,640 And I know that there's a chance. 229 00:13:55,640 --> 00:13:57,520 I could get cancelled. There's. 230 00:13:57,720 --> 00:13:59,600 Quite a few comedians this year last. 231 00:13:59,600 --> 00:14:03,760 Year being cancelled because they're not falling into the way 232 00:14:03,760 --> 00:14:05,480 that the Fringe would like you to talk. 233 00:14:05,800 --> 00:14:06,920 And I know. That they don't. 234 00:14:06,920 --> 00:14:09,760 Want me talking about Jesus being Lord of their life? 235 00:14:10,200 --> 00:14:11,400 But you know what? Maybe. 236 00:14:11,400 --> 00:14:13,920 One day you'll see me. Cancelled on the front papers 237 00:14:14,120 --> 00:14:16,640 and you'll be like oh wow, finally they got him. 238 00:14:16,640 --> 00:14:20,360 Yeah, but I, I honestly, I don't. 239 00:14:20,360 --> 00:14:22,040 Care. I'm going to keep on going until 240 00:14:22,040 --> 00:14:26,200 they cancel me because I want to get take Jesus right into the 241 00:14:26,200 --> 00:14:29,480 enemy's territory, right into the enemy's. 242 00:14:29,480 --> 00:14:33,720 Territory. It's like, wow, you see, I want 243 00:14:33,800 --> 00:14:36,320 to urge US, Church, let us not stay. 244 00:14:36,320 --> 00:14:38,920 In our. Trenches, let us not. 245 00:14:38,920 --> 00:14:42,080 Stay in our trenches, entrenched in our ways. 246 00:14:42,320 --> 00:14:46,200 Hunker down with all the other Christians hiding. 247 00:14:47,040 --> 00:14:49,720 Let us take this message. Deep. 248 00:14:49,720 --> 00:14:53,920 Into enemy territory. I don't want to hide anymore. 249 00:14:54,480 --> 00:14:57,320 I don't know if you become good at becoming a camouflage 250 00:14:57,320 --> 00:15:00,840 Christian. You're like out there. 251 00:15:00,840 --> 00:15:03,640 No one really kind of knows really fully. 252 00:15:04,120 --> 00:15:09,640 Sometimes you go on a Sunday, yeah, but you don't really. 253 00:15:09,680 --> 00:15:13,080 That's a great little. Phrase in it, Yeah. 254 00:15:13,320 --> 00:15:15,080 No one knows. What that means, yeah. 255 00:15:16,160 --> 00:15:19,840 Many of us we we live our. Life as camouflage Christians 256 00:15:20,720 --> 00:15:21,840 and I say. To you. 257 00:15:21,840 --> 00:15:27,200 Everybody else flies the flag. Everybody else is happy to be 258 00:15:27,200 --> 00:15:30,280 aggressively putting their. Message out there and. 259 00:15:30,280 --> 00:15:32,520 Meanwhile the church we keep quiet. 260 00:15:32,640 --> 00:15:36,160 Meanwhile the church we hide. Meanwhile, the church we we go. 261 00:15:36,160 --> 00:15:37,800 Camouflage. No, no, no. 262 00:15:37,800 --> 00:15:41,760 Friends, it's time for us to take the cross right into enemy. 263 00:15:41,760 --> 00:15:44,280 Territory. Right in the centre. 264 00:15:44,440 --> 00:15:48,640 And wow, there it is. I love a speaker called. 265 00:15:48,640 --> 00:15:51,760 Timothy Keller. And he said these words, God. 266 00:15:51,960 --> 00:15:56,640 Only calls you. In for intimacy and blessing in 267 00:15:56,640 --> 00:16:03,080 order to stay now, I want you to live radically for other people 268 00:16:03,360 --> 00:16:09,040 in a way you never have before. We get the lovely blessing of 269 00:16:09,040 --> 00:16:12,480 being together as church. I've loved it this morning. 270 00:16:13,120 --> 00:16:15,960 I have enjoyed it. I'm in church every Sunday. 271 00:16:16,240 --> 00:16:18,560 I'm not knocking. Church in any way? 272 00:16:19,120 --> 00:16:22,720 But friends, I want you to know that some of us, we love it 273 00:16:22,720 --> 00:16:24,720 here. And we just want to keep it like 274 00:16:24,720 --> 00:16:27,240 this. But the reason why we come, we 275 00:16:27,240 --> 00:16:31,760 get filled up, we get energised, we get empowered so that when we 276 00:16:31,760 --> 00:16:34,400 go out there we can make a radical. 277 00:16:34,400 --> 00:16:36,360 Difference in the name of. Jesus. 278 00:16:36,520 --> 00:16:40,680 That we can absolutely take. Territory for the Lord. 279 00:16:40,760 --> 00:16:44,520 We can go from this place and that we can actually like go out 280 00:16:44,520 --> 00:16:48,440 there and be the name of Jesus. Right there in our different 281 00:16:48,440 --> 00:16:52,600 worlds, I am got a massive lesson. 282 00:16:52,600 --> 00:16:57,320 When I was a young pastor and I was, I was doing these missions 283 00:16:57,320 --> 00:17:02,720 and, and I used to get the bus into, into the office and, and 284 00:17:02,720 --> 00:17:06,359 basically I was at the bus stop and I got a few ministers I 285 00:17:06,359 --> 00:17:10,160 needed to phone and I was kind of calling them at the bus. 286 00:17:10,160 --> 00:17:13,000 Stop. And then I got onto my bus and 287 00:17:13,000 --> 00:17:16,319 it was quite a quiet bus and there's a lot of empty seats, so 288 00:17:16,319 --> 00:17:20,480 I got quite near the back and I did like a proper British move. 289 00:17:20,960 --> 00:17:25,760 I took my coat off. And I put my coat next to me and 290 00:17:25,760 --> 00:17:26,800 the bus. Yeah. 291 00:17:27,319 --> 00:17:30,240 Now, if you are maybe not British, you might not fully 292 00:17:30,240 --> 00:17:33,440 know. That means that seats taken. 293 00:17:33,440 --> 00:17:37,520 Yeah, that seat is taken. I'm sitting here and my coat is 294 00:17:37,520 --> 00:17:40,160 sitting there. Yeah, that is what that means. 295 00:17:40,160 --> 00:17:42,760 That's a clear sign. So I was sitting there. 296 00:17:42,840 --> 00:17:45,840 And I was making these. Calls and there's all these 297 00:17:45,840 --> 00:17:50,400 empty seats and we did a couple of stops and then the bus 298 00:17:50,400 --> 00:17:54,440 stopped and a young lad got on maybe. 1414 or 15? 299 00:17:55,040 --> 00:17:57,880 And this young lad looks all these empty. 300 00:17:57,880 --> 00:18:03,400 Seats, he goes. Past all these empty seats and 301 00:18:03,400 --> 00:18:05,200 I'm on the phone and I'm watching him. 302 00:18:05,200 --> 00:18:08,840 I'm thinking sit down in one of the empty seats. 303 00:18:10,160 --> 00:18:11,080 What? Is wrong with you. 304 00:18:11,120 --> 00:18:13,920 Sit down. All of those seats are empty. 305 00:18:14,040 --> 00:18:16,520 Why are you still walking towards me? 306 00:18:16,840 --> 00:18:18,960 And he's still coming. He's looking all these empty 307 00:18:18,960 --> 00:18:20,600 seats and then he gets next to me. 308 00:18:21,040 --> 00:18:23,960 And he asks. Me to move, I'm on the phone. 309 00:18:24,080 --> 00:18:26,880 Yeah, that's another sign. Yeah, I'm British. 310 00:18:27,000 --> 00:18:28,240 I'm on the phone. I'm. 311 00:18:28,240 --> 00:18:30,560 Talking with someone and my. Coat is. 312 00:18:30,560 --> 00:18:35,280 Sitting there, yeah, he says. Oh, will you move your coat? 313 00:18:38,720 --> 00:18:42,200 You know when you let move the coat very passively aggressive. 314 00:18:43,280 --> 00:18:46,120 I'm like moving my coat, put it at my feet. 315 00:18:47,280 --> 00:18:49,760 And then I'm talking on the phone and the young lad starts 316 00:18:49,760 --> 00:18:52,160 to talk to me. Talking to me. 317 00:18:52,360 --> 00:18:55,800 I'm on the. Phone I'm like what do? 318 00:18:55,800 --> 00:18:57,440 I need to do. You don't need to write it on a 319 00:18:57,440 --> 00:18:59,840 bit of paper. I'm on the phone, yeah. 320 00:19:00,160 --> 00:19:04,800 You don't talk to me. And I'm really like, there's a 321 00:19:04,800 --> 00:19:09,360 pastor on the other phone. I'm glad you're coming. 322 00:19:09,360 --> 00:19:11,640 Bringing a mission. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 323 00:19:11,640 --> 00:19:13,400 We just love the lost. We love the lost. 324 00:19:15,000 --> 00:19:17,800 Why are you staying there? So I love the lost. 325 00:19:18,040 --> 00:19:21,320 And I says, listen, just give me a minute. 326 00:19:21,320 --> 00:19:23,520 It comes off the phone. I transfer the show. 327 00:19:23,520 --> 00:19:25,640 I says, oh, you, you want to chat to me? 328 00:19:26,080 --> 00:19:30,360 This is what he said. He says, last night I heard my 329 00:19:30,360 --> 00:19:36,960 dad be in my mum and I heard her screaming and I lay there and I 330 00:19:36,960 --> 00:19:40,320 says tomorrow morning on the bus I want to sit next to someone 331 00:19:40,480 --> 00:19:43,560 who might help me. She goes, I've looked all over 332 00:19:43,560 --> 00:19:46,320 and I can't say she goes, you look a bit different. 333 00:19:47,480 --> 00:19:51,040 She goes and I'm asking, He says, I'm asking what should I 334 00:19:51,040 --> 00:19:53,600 do? And there on, I mean, how Can 335 00:19:53,600 --> 00:19:56,800 you imagine for an evangelist how humbling that is? 336 00:19:57,280 --> 00:20:00,680 This little lads kind of just said, yeah, I'm basically asking 337 00:20:00,680 --> 00:20:02,160 you to do your job. Yeah. 338 00:20:02,440 --> 00:20:06,080 I'm basically asking you, never mind your call and your phone 339 00:20:06,080 --> 00:20:06,880 call. Yeah. 340 00:20:07,240 --> 00:20:09,720 I'm asking you to do what you're on the planet for. 341 00:20:09,720 --> 00:20:12,880 Yeah. And I'm like, oh, God. 342 00:20:13,760 --> 00:20:18,080 Like, deep in my soul, I'm like, oh God, you're making all your 343 00:20:18,080 --> 00:20:21,280 calls to your church mates. Come on. 344 00:20:22,400 --> 00:20:25,920 And, you know, I turned and I, I, I, I shared with that young 345 00:20:25,920 --> 00:20:27,800 lad and we got a chance to chat to him. 346 00:20:27,920 --> 00:20:30,320 We hooked him up with the youth ministry at church. 347 00:20:30,480 --> 00:20:32,680 He came along, we were able to help him. 348 00:20:32,880 --> 00:20:35,000 You know, I don't know if he ever became a Christian, but we 349 00:20:35,000 --> 00:20:37,480 were able to be light in that darkness. 350 00:20:38,080 --> 00:20:40,360 And, you know, I want to say that like for you, we're going 351 00:20:40,360 --> 00:20:43,360 to pray at the end. And I'm believing that for some 352 00:20:43,360 --> 00:20:44,360 of you. You're going to have 353 00:20:44,360 --> 00:20:47,000 conversations with people. That will be life. 354 00:20:47,160 --> 00:20:50,440 Changing. You'll be like, ah, but how can 355 00:20:50,440 --> 00:20:52,320 I do it? I know none of us. 356 00:20:52,400 --> 00:20:57,080 How God hasn't trusted us? With this message, God is wow. 357 00:20:58,160 --> 00:21:01,160 God hasn't trusted us with this message. 358 00:21:02,200 --> 00:21:05,560 And so firstly I wanted to say that he hasn't trusted us with 359 00:21:05,560 --> 00:21:07,560 the message. Secondly, I wanted to say 360 00:21:07,560 --> 00:21:11,000 deliver a message deep into enemy territory. 361 00:21:11,320 --> 00:21:16,000 And thirdly, I wanted to say the responsibility of passing on the 362 00:21:16,000 --> 00:21:22,440 message clearly, you know. We have been given this message, 363 00:21:22,720 --> 00:21:26,440 but many of us, we do not communicate it well. 364 00:21:27,560 --> 00:21:29,480 We do not communicate. It well. 365 00:21:30,280 --> 00:21:32,720 Many of us. We we, we, we don't. 366 00:21:32,800 --> 00:21:34,320 We don't. Say it in a good. 367 00:21:34,320 --> 00:21:37,080 Way we we use religious. Words. 368 00:21:37,800 --> 00:21:41,760 We get a little bit. Fumbly and. 369 00:21:42,080 --> 00:21:45,800 We don't really know. Talk about things like we heard 370 00:21:45,800 --> 00:21:51,760 maybe pastor say and we like. Maybe we'll say, oh, I'm washed 371 00:21:51,760 --> 00:21:55,360 in the blood and the person sitting there listening to you 372 00:21:55,360 --> 00:21:58,560 is like, what? Happens in your church on a 373 00:21:58,560 --> 00:22:01,360 Sunday. That you are washing people. 374 00:22:01,520 --> 00:22:06,040 In blood. Or maybe like we had a we had a 375 00:22:06,040 --> 00:22:08,800 whole influx of young people coming to our youth. 376 00:22:09,040 --> 00:22:12,000 Night and there was hundreds. Of them came so I we worked at 377 00:22:12,000 --> 00:22:14,520 120 young people started coming to our. 378 00:22:14,520 --> 00:22:18,040 Friday night, youth night and. Basically, you know, we started 379 00:22:18,040 --> 00:22:20,520 to get people to stand up and give what we call. 380 00:22:20,520 --> 00:22:22,880 Testimony and they would get up and they would say. 381 00:22:22,880 --> 00:22:26,640 Stuff like oh oh oh I used to be in the. 382 00:22:26,640 --> 00:22:31,000 World and everyone's like, where are you now? 383 00:22:31,280 --> 00:22:36,520 Where if you used to be in the world and you're no longer in 384 00:22:36,520 --> 00:22:40,400 the world, where are you? And of course. 385 00:22:40,400 --> 00:22:43,960 We all know what that meant, but the people listening, they, they 386 00:22:43,960 --> 00:22:47,040 did not understand, they did not get what we were saying. 387 00:22:47,640 --> 00:22:50,680 So, you know, we we've been asked to carry this 388 00:22:50,680 --> 00:22:54,720 responsibility of pressing the message on clearly. 389 00:22:55,600 --> 00:22:56,760 I don't know. If I can just get a little. 390 00:22:56,760 --> 00:22:59,720 Bit help somebody can help me bring up the board is is there 391 00:22:59,720 --> 00:23:01,720 somebody around who can just grab that board for? 392 00:23:01,720 --> 00:23:03,200 Me. Thank you so much. 393 00:23:03,200 --> 00:23:06,280 Sir, I appreciate that. I don't know what your family's 394 00:23:06,280 --> 00:23:10,440 like when it comes to Christmas and games. 395 00:23:10,440 --> 00:23:13,800 Do your family play? Games at Christmas, anyone? 396 00:23:13,840 --> 00:23:16,720 Some people are like, no, we we don't. 397 00:23:16,720 --> 00:23:19,360 We don't do Christmas here. Yeah, we don't. 398 00:23:19,760 --> 00:23:22,960 Thank you so much. You do games. 399 00:23:22,960 --> 00:23:25,840 Thank you some anyone else gives a little way if you do games at 400 00:23:25,840 --> 00:23:27,240 Christmas, thank you. Great. 401 00:23:27,560 --> 00:23:29,760 Well, our family, we play. Games at Christmas and. 402 00:23:29,800 --> 00:23:33,160 Everybody. Everybody does everything they. 403 00:23:33,160 --> 00:23:38,800 Can not to be on my dad's team? Yeah, my dad is a nightmare to 404 00:23:38,800 --> 00:23:41,640 be in the team now. Will you play Pictionary? 405 00:23:41,800 --> 00:23:43,680 So. Pictionary is this game where 406 00:23:43,680 --> 00:23:46,320 you're given a word on a card. You are the. 407 00:23:46,320 --> 00:23:49,240 Only one that sees it. You put the card down. 408 00:23:49,480 --> 00:23:52,720 And then you draw what the card says. 409 00:23:52,720 --> 00:23:56,720 Yeah. And my dad, he gets the card. 410 00:23:56,720 --> 00:23:58,800 He sees it. No one else sees it. 411 00:23:58,920 --> 00:24:02,080 He puts it down. And then my dad will be like 412 00:24:02,080 --> 00:24:03,240 this. You ready? 413 00:24:03,240 --> 00:24:04,520 You ready? Everyone's ready. 414 00:24:04,680 --> 00:24:07,240 And then you draw there. And then he doesn't like that. 415 00:24:07,480 --> 00:24:08,920 And then he points like that. Yeah. 416 00:24:09,480 --> 00:24:12,600 And then he's like, come on, come on now. 417 00:24:12,800 --> 00:24:15,200 Anybody got any idea what that might be? 418 00:24:15,200 --> 00:24:19,680 Anyone got a clue? A firework is a good answer, but 419 00:24:19,680 --> 00:24:20,760 it's wrong. Yeah. 420 00:24:21,040 --> 00:24:24,680 Has anyone else got any clue? A river. 421 00:24:24,880 --> 00:24:26,560 A river. You are so. 422 00:24:26,560 --> 00:24:29,440 Prophetic wrong. Sorry, you're wrong. 423 00:24:31,160 --> 00:24:33,480 You know what? We'd be like Dad. 424 00:24:33,480 --> 00:24:36,160 Dog would draw, Draw Something else. 425 00:24:36,160 --> 00:24:38,840 The time's running out. And then my dad would have this 426 00:24:38,840 --> 00:24:44,480 little penny drop moment and then my dad would like go over 427 00:24:44,760 --> 00:24:50,640 exactly what he's already done and do exactly the same again 428 00:24:50,840 --> 00:24:54,800 and just point again. And then the time. 429 00:24:54,800 --> 00:24:56,880 Would run out and we would be like. 430 00:24:56,880 --> 00:24:58,560 Dad, what is it? What? 431 00:24:58,840 --> 00:25:00,640 Is it? And he would go. 432 00:25:01,120 --> 00:25:05,320 It's Turkey and we'd be like, sorry. 433 00:25:05,640 --> 00:25:09,320 And he'd be like, it's Turkey. He goes, there's Britain, yeah, 434 00:25:09,480 --> 00:25:11,200 he goes and that's Europe and that's. 435 00:25:11,200 --> 00:25:16,720 Turkey and we would be like, we don't want to be your sons 436 00:25:16,720 --> 00:25:19,320 anymore. Yeah, we we're done with. 437 00:25:19,320 --> 00:25:24,280 This. And we would be like, Dad, there 438 00:25:24,280 --> 00:25:27,600 are so many other ways you could have drawn Turkey. 439 00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:30,200 You could have drawn the bird. You could have. 440 00:25:30,200 --> 00:25:32,760 Drawn Christmas. You could have drawn any of them 441 00:25:32,760 --> 00:25:35,240 and like. What is that? 442 00:25:36,280 --> 00:25:40,560 And you know so. Many of us when it comes to 443 00:25:40,560 --> 00:25:45,960 carrying this message. We like do what we've always. 444 00:25:45,960 --> 00:25:49,960 Done. And if the person is not getting 445 00:25:49,960 --> 00:25:52,080 it. We don't look at ourselves. 446 00:25:52,080 --> 00:25:56,840 And think we need to do the message differently, We just. 447 00:25:57,320 --> 00:26:01,240 Do it again, but louder. That is what the Christian. 448 00:26:01,240 --> 00:26:03,200 Word We. Do it again, but louder. 449 00:26:03,560 --> 00:26:05,520 Oh, you didn't understand. Let me say it again. 450 00:26:05,520 --> 00:26:08,560 No, no, no, no. We've got to start thinking 451 00:26:08,560 --> 00:26:13,280 creatively and innovatively. And that's why, you know, I love 452 00:26:13,280 --> 00:26:14,880 what you guys are doing at Easter. 453 00:26:15,360 --> 00:26:17,920 And I just, you know, turned to Thomas says, wow, this is what 454 00:26:17,920 --> 00:26:21,320 we're talking about, doing it innovatively, creatively, doing 455 00:26:21,320 --> 00:26:24,640 it differently. And it's like, wow, it's like 456 00:26:24,640 --> 00:26:27,960 the same message. The message never changes. 457 00:26:28,240 --> 00:26:30,120 The message Never. Changes. 458 00:26:30,280 --> 00:26:34,880 But wow, Incredibly, wonderfully, amazingly, we are 459 00:26:34,880 --> 00:26:37,960 able to be innovative. And creative and take. 460 00:26:37,960 --> 00:26:41,000 This message in a most. Clear and powerful. 461 00:26:41,120 --> 00:26:46,280 And positive way, I want to urge you, you would maybe. 462 00:26:46,680 --> 00:26:50,800 Take this serious, you see. I'm going to, I'm going to do 463 00:26:50,800 --> 00:26:54,320 this and I'm going to ask maybe you would do it that you would 464 00:26:54,320 --> 00:26:59,200 maybe between now and Easter that you would work on your two. 465 00:26:59,280 --> 00:27:03,320 Minute story. Of how Jesus has rescued. 466 00:27:03,560 --> 00:27:06,480 You and how? You could give the gospel in 467 00:27:06,480 --> 00:27:07,920 two. Minutes. 468 00:27:08,600 --> 00:27:11,760 I want you to do it in a way. That it's got no jargon in it. 469 00:27:12,080 --> 00:27:15,480 So you're not. Talking about Jesus and and kind 470 00:27:15,480 --> 00:27:18,000 of blood, you're not talking about other words that they 471 00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:20,800 might not understand. Every time I use the word. 472 00:27:20,800 --> 00:27:24,120 Sin I. Always talk about my mess, my 473 00:27:24,120 --> 00:27:28,160 rubbish, my garbage. I try to use different words 474 00:27:28,160 --> 00:27:31,560 that people. Will understand and then I like 475 00:27:31,680 --> 00:27:36,080 try and keep it to two minutes do the discipline. 476 00:27:36,720 --> 00:27:38,440 I don't know if you've got anyone like this in your. 477 00:27:38,440 --> 00:27:40,080 Life. But I've got a friend at church. 478 00:27:40,080 --> 00:27:42,360 When they see you see them coming, you're thinking, oh, 479 00:27:42,360 --> 00:27:45,240 here we go. Get your seat belt on. 480 00:27:45,240 --> 00:27:47,680 Yeah, this is going to be a while. 481 00:27:47,680 --> 00:27:49,280 Yeah, this is going to be a while. 482 00:27:49,720 --> 00:27:51,800 And some of us, we cannot tell a story. 483 00:27:51,800 --> 00:27:56,680 Quick, have you met those? People, they're like, oh, so we 484 00:27:56,680 --> 00:27:57,400 have to. Learn to. 485 00:27:57,400 --> 00:28:01,000 Cut the waffle out. Yeah, cut the waffle out. 486 00:28:01,200 --> 00:28:02,920 Cut out. Seem like people. 487 00:28:03,040 --> 00:28:05,760 And it was a Tuesday now. Oh, no, it wasn't a Tuesday 488 00:28:05,760 --> 00:28:07,960 because we have pie on Tuesday. Yeah. 489 00:28:08,280 --> 00:28:10,960 Was it a Wednesday? No, Oh no, it's fish. 490 00:28:10,960 --> 00:28:14,360 It was, it was a Friday. Yeah, it was fish like none of 491 00:28:14,360 --> 00:28:18,160 that's important. We want to trim it right. 492 00:28:18,160 --> 00:28:22,560 Down 2 minutes. Share your message. 493 00:28:22,560 --> 00:28:26,240 Share your story. How about me putting it out 494 00:28:26,240 --> 00:28:28,880 there? To you that you do this. 495 00:28:28,880 --> 00:28:32,640 Before Easter. I am wanting to do it to someone 496 00:28:32,640 --> 00:28:35,760 who's not a Christian. You're not allowed to turn over 497 00:28:35,760 --> 00:28:39,240 to your wife who's been a say for 50 years and give your 498 00:28:39,240 --> 00:28:41,600 two-minute thing and go Mark Richie take. 499 00:28:41,600 --> 00:28:43,240 Yeah, you're not allowed to do that. 500 00:28:43,440 --> 00:28:45,560 You've got to do it. To someone who's not yet a 501 00:28:45,560 --> 00:28:50,080 Christian, I'm going to ask you right now if that's a challenge. 502 00:28:50,760 --> 00:28:54,240 Are you going to accept that? Are you going to take it on? 503 00:28:54,960 --> 00:28:58,200 I'm going to be like, I'm going to do it and I'm going to be 504 00:28:58,200 --> 00:29:01,000 uncomfortable, so why should I be uncomfortable of my own? 505 00:29:01,200 --> 00:29:03,880 You should be there as well. And of. 506 00:29:03,880 --> 00:29:06,240 Course, you're going to say a little bit wrong and of course 507 00:29:06,240 --> 00:29:08,040 there's going to be things that are not going to be perfect. 508 00:29:08,440 --> 00:29:11,400 But we want to commit. To try and being creative and 509 00:29:11,400 --> 00:29:13,480 innovative and getting our message over. 510 00:29:13,920 --> 00:29:16,240 And here's another quick challenge just while we're on 511 00:29:16,240 --> 00:29:18,360 with it. Is it like tonight? 512 00:29:19,240 --> 00:29:21,560 You know this show that I'm doing is a. 513 00:29:21,560 --> 00:29:25,840 Show that I did at Edinburgh Fringe in the summer and it's. 514 00:29:25,840 --> 00:29:31,560 Fun, you'll laugh, you'll enjoy. It and there's an amazing moment 515 00:29:31,560 --> 00:29:34,080 where we talk the gospel right out there. 516 00:29:34,840 --> 00:29:37,200 And you know, I want to encourage you that maybe you 517 00:29:37,200 --> 00:29:40,760 could text someone or e-mail them or phone them or whatever 518 00:29:41,160 --> 00:29:42,960 this. Today, see why don't you come 519 00:29:42,960 --> 00:29:45,160 tonight? And like, come along. 520 00:29:45,320 --> 00:29:47,280 Or maybe you weren't planning on coming tonight. 521 00:29:47,280 --> 00:29:50,600 You could come tonight just to fill the room with laughter. 522 00:29:50,800 --> 00:29:52,800 And of course, you know, like, you know, just. 523 00:29:52,800 --> 00:29:54,160 Over laugh, you know. Oh. 524 00:29:54,160 --> 00:29:56,680 He's not that funny. But, you know, let's laugh 525 00:29:56,680 --> 00:29:58,720 anyway. Yeah, Just help him. 526 00:29:58,760 --> 00:30:00,560 Jesus. Yeah, That that, that would also 527 00:30:00,560 --> 00:30:03,560 be helpful. But you know, just making the 528 00:30:03,560 --> 00:30:06,920 most of every opportunity. Wouldn't it be wonderful 529 00:30:06,920 --> 00:30:08,920 tonight? There's going to be a moment 530 00:30:09,040 --> 00:30:10,880 where we're going to get the gospel out there. 531 00:30:11,160 --> 00:30:12,760 And I'm believing that people will. 532 00:30:12,760 --> 00:30:16,240 Respond to Jesus and say yes to the Lord. 533 00:30:16,640 --> 00:30:21,680 We have been, wow, incredibly, the responsibility of passing 534 00:30:21,800 --> 00:30:25,760 this message on clearly and you know. 535 00:30:26,320 --> 00:30:28,920 That. Film I told you about 1917. 536 00:30:29,560 --> 00:30:33,920 When they were getting the. Eventually they got to where 537 00:30:33,920 --> 00:30:37,800 they needed to get to and the message was passed over, but now 538 00:30:37,800 --> 00:30:41,880 he's just a foot soldier. And he's speaking to this. 539 00:30:41,880 --> 00:30:47,520 High ranked Sergeant. And he's got this message, but 540 00:30:47,520 --> 00:30:54,000 the Sergeant is, who are you? You are a little foot soldier. 541 00:30:54,240 --> 00:30:57,440 And you telling me what I should do with my men. 542 00:30:58,320 --> 00:31:00,560 And there's that moment of intimidation. 543 00:31:01,320 --> 00:31:05,480 And I want to say to you today, guys, is that if you take what 544 00:31:05,480 --> 00:31:09,200 I'm saying and you go with this, there are going to be times over 545 00:31:09,200 --> 00:31:12,840 the next little while where you are going to be intimidated, 546 00:31:13,240 --> 00:31:15,120 where you are going to be like, wow. 547 00:31:15,920 --> 00:31:21,040 I got the chance to take my comedy show to Imperial 548 00:31:21,080 --> 00:31:24,280 University. Here's the deal about me. 549 00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:30,040 I've never been a university. On the way down, I got so 550 00:31:30,040 --> 00:31:33,240 intimidated. The enemy got into my head. 551 00:31:33,880 --> 00:31:37,640 I was like, how? I mean Imperial University. 552 00:31:37,640 --> 00:31:41,400 They are intelligent. They are clever people. 553 00:31:41,920 --> 00:31:43,720 You're going to get up and they're going to be like. 554 00:31:43,720 --> 00:31:46,640 What is this? And. 555 00:31:46,640 --> 00:31:51,760 I was so feeling intimidated I phoned. 556 00:31:51,760 --> 00:31:55,320 I get into the centre of London and I'm my head's gone. 557 00:31:55,480 --> 00:31:58,880 I am done. I'm feeling so intimidated. 558 00:31:59,120 --> 00:32:03,320 I phoned Pastor David's friend and my friend Pastor Martin's 559 00:32:03,320 --> 00:32:04,880 story. I think he's been here a few 560 00:32:04,880 --> 00:32:09,400 times and I says Martin, man, I am, I'm. 561 00:32:09,400 --> 00:32:12,200 Going to this. Thing in half an hour I don't 562 00:32:12,200 --> 00:32:16,000 even know if I can speak I'm. Done. 563 00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:18,960 My head's gone. I feel so intimidated. 564 00:32:18,960 --> 00:32:21,640 I says Martin. I've never been to university. 565 00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:24,560 These people are intelligent. Well. 566 00:32:24,920 --> 00:32:27,960 Martin, it's like he goes, I am going to pray for you. 567 00:32:28,080 --> 00:32:30,520 You get that phone up to your ear right now. 568 00:32:30,640 --> 00:32:32,200 He goes, I am going to. He's in his office. 569 00:32:32,240 --> 00:32:34,280 He's so he's speaking in tongues. 570 00:32:34,400 --> 00:32:36,680 He's shouting in the name of Jesus. 571 00:32:36,800 --> 00:32:38,920 We come against this intimidation. 572 00:32:39,120 --> 00:32:40,640 I'm. They're like going, yeah, people 573 00:32:40,640 --> 00:32:41,400 pass him. Yeah. 574 00:32:41,600 --> 00:32:44,400 I'm like, yeah, I must. Admit there was a. 575 00:32:44,400 --> 00:32:47,000 Few people pushing past and I was going, oh, what is this? 576 00:32:47,160 --> 00:32:48,520 I was like, keep going. And he's like. 577 00:32:48,880 --> 00:32:53,000 He was absolutely praying for me and at the end of that prayer I 578 00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:56,480 felt 6 feet and I thought, you know what, I'm going to go in 579 00:32:56,480 --> 00:32:58,760 and I'm going to do this. And I went in and we had an 580 00:32:58,760 --> 00:33:02,280 amazing time and people spoke with us at the end and a 581 00:33:02,280 --> 00:33:04,720 beautiful moment of. Response and I want. 582 00:33:04,720 --> 00:33:08,680 To tell you that you, if you go for this, if we go deep into the 583 00:33:08,680 --> 00:33:12,240 enemy territory, if we absolutely take this message, 584 00:33:12,360 --> 00:33:15,920 there will be a time when you will feel intimidated, you will 585 00:33:15,920 --> 00:33:20,600 feel the enemy go, Who are you? And I'm asking you, Church, to 586 00:33:20,600 --> 00:33:24,160 stand tall and say we are a child of the living God. 587 00:33:24,720 --> 00:33:26,880 We come here not in our own strength. 588 00:33:27,200 --> 00:33:30,480 We come here not in our own strength, but in the anointing 589 00:33:30,480 --> 00:33:32,920 of the living. God, wow. 590 00:33:33,280 --> 00:33:35,880 See in that film, as I'm wrapping up more, we're. 591 00:33:35,880 --> 00:33:38,440 Going to just have a few moments in the presence of God. 592 00:33:38,680 --> 00:33:41,040 At the end of the service, but I wanted to say this. 593 00:33:41,960 --> 00:33:46,160 Is that you know the young? Soldier, he says. 594 00:33:46,160 --> 00:33:49,400 I don't bring this message. On my own back, I. 595 00:33:49,400 --> 00:33:53,320 Come under a higher authority and he brought the message from 596 00:33:53,560 --> 00:33:55,200 from general. Erin Moore. 597 00:33:55,640 --> 00:33:57,280 He says it's from. General Erin Moore. 598 00:33:57,280 --> 00:34:00,440 And when he said general. Erin Moore, He took it. 599 00:34:00,440 --> 00:34:04,360 He took. It and he read it and he's the 600 00:34:04,360 --> 00:34:07,680 men must not go over. Do not send the men over and the 601 00:34:07,680 --> 00:34:11,639 men were saved. He came under a higher authority 602 00:34:12,239 --> 00:34:15,960 and I want to say today you think how can I I'm not even 603 00:34:15,960 --> 00:34:18,560 like that great a Christian. I've never been to Bible 604 00:34:18,560 --> 00:34:22,760 college. I don't know where dinosaurs fit 605 00:34:22,760 --> 00:34:25,239 in the Bible. I don't know whether. 606 00:34:25,239 --> 00:34:27,080 Adam and Eve had belly. Buttons. 607 00:34:27,840 --> 00:34:32,600 I don't know. And we can get intimidated, but 608 00:34:32,600 --> 00:34:34,679 you do not come in your. Own strength. 609 00:34:35,320 --> 00:34:38,199 You come in the authority of the living. 610 00:34:38,199 --> 00:34:41,800 God. You know, my brother and me, we 611 00:34:41,800 --> 00:34:47,159 used to share a room when I was like roundabout. 16 he was 14 612 00:34:47,159 --> 00:34:50,800 and. We would get into fights and you 613 00:34:50,800 --> 00:34:53,639 know, we got into this fight. And there was punches and there 614 00:34:53,639 --> 00:34:55,679 was blood. It was bad. 615 00:34:56,719 --> 00:34:59,280 And in the middle of this fight, there was this little. 616 00:34:59,280 --> 00:35:02,360 Pitter patter up the stairs. The door opened. 617 00:35:02,760 --> 00:35:06,680 It was my little sister. She was 9, little small girl, 618 00:35:06,680 --> 00:35:10,600 92, nearly adult. Blokes. 619 00:35:10,600 --> 00:35:13,840 Fighting. And we're like, what are you 620 00:35:13,840 --> 00:35:15,440 doing here? Get out. 621 00:35:17,160 --> 00:35:20,680 And this little girl in the quietest voice, she just said 622 00:35:21,520 --> 00:35:26,920 Dad sent me. Dad sent me as. 623 00:35:26,920 --> 00:35:30,680 Soon as we heard the words. Dad sent me. 624 00:35:31,440 --> 00:35:33,280 Do you want? To know what happened, the fight 625 00:35:33,280 --> 00:35:34,760 stopped. Immediately. 626 00:35:35,720 --> 00:35:40,080 Because she was not coming. In her own little strength, she 627 00:35:40,080 --> 00:35:45,760 was sent by the Father. She's coming in the authority of 628 00:35:45,760 --> 00:35:50,320 the father, and we go from this. Place and we have our. 629 00:35:50,320 --> 00:35:53,680 Conversations and we. Talk to people about Jesus and 630 00:35:53,680 --> 00:35:58,800 we spread and share the gospel and we take this message and the 631 00:35:59,120 --> 00:36:04,400 enemy says who are? You and we say Dad. 632 00:36:05,360 --> 00:36:14,160 Dad sent me, Father has sent me. Come in the authority of God. 633 00:36:15,560 --> 00:36:19,840 Some of you are going to carry the presence of God in powerful 634 00:36:19,840 --> 00:36:23,400 ways. I'm going to tell you one last 635 00:36:23,400 --> 00:36:25,920 thing before. We have a moment of response 636 00:36:25,920 --> 00:36:30,160 because I feel just start to tell you this, but you know, 637 00:36:30,320 --> 00:36:34,400 when I was 15, I told you that at school, I. 638 00:36:34,680 --> 00:36:37,120 Used to be wanting to see all my. 639 00:36:37,120 --> 00:36:39,960 Mates get saved and my nickname at. 640 00:36:39,960 --> 00:36:42,640 School was the Pope. I was called the Pope. 641 00:36:43,640 --> 00:36:45,880 That's yeah, Heartland still hurts now. 642 00:36:45,880 --> 00:36:51,320 Thanks for laughing. And, and you know, I used to 643 00:36:51,320 --> 00:36:55,920 take all this abuse. And I went in to this class. 644 00:36:55,920 --> 00:36:59,320 I was 15. My mom used to make me go to 645 00:36:59,320 --> 00:37:03,360 school in this horrible cagoo because she didn't want me to 646 00:37:03,360 --> 00:37:05,920 get married. Yeah, she never. 647 00:37:06,480 --> 00:37:09,720 She did not want the opposite sex to find me attractive. 648 00:37:09,720 --> 00:37:13,840 So she put me in this cagoo and I used to go to school, this 649 00:37:13,840 --> 00:37:19,600 little horrible cope and I went into this class and I promise 650 00:37:19,600 --> 00:37:23,640 you the teacher was not in and there were lads at the back of 651 00:37:23,640 --> 00:37:26,360 that class and they were playing with the Ouija board. 652 00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:31,840 Let me just take one moment to say do not mess with that stuff. 653 00:37:32,920 --> 00:37:37,040 That is the enemy stuff. And I want to say to you, if you 654 00:37:37,080 --> 00:37:40,120 are, get some prayer, get some help, get out. 655 00:37:41,320 --> 00:37:43,120 And they were messing with the Ouija board. 656 00:37:43,280 --> 00:37:46,720 And I came in as a young. 15 year old lad and I saw what was 657 00:37:46,720 --> 00:37:49,400 going on and I thought I don't want anything to do with that. 658 00:37:49,520 --> 00:37:51,480 I went and sat at my. Desk and I. 659 00:37:51,680 --> 00:37:54,680 Got my bags out and. My coat, sort of my books out my 660 00:37:54,680 --> 00:37:56,280 bag and I started to do and stuff. 661 00:37:57,040 --> 00:38:01,120 And a couple of minutes later, smack across the back of the 662 00:38:01,120 --> 00:38:04,560 head, one of these lads hit me. I go whoa, whoa, whoa. 663 00:38:04,560 --> 00:38:07,200 Have I done? And this is what they said. 664 00:38:07,680 --> 00:38:11,200 They said we were messing with the Ouija board and the thing 665 00:38:11,200 --> 00:38:15,640 was moving and as soon as you came in the room, it stopped 666 00:38:15,640 --> 00:38:18,280 moving. I mean, when we don't know what 667 00:38:18,280 --> 00:38:20,680 happened, but when you walked in, it's still. 668 00:38:21,080 --> 00:38:23,400 I'm like, I'm a young 50. I went home to my dad. 669 00:38:23,400 --> 00:38:25,760 My dad was a minister. I was like, Dad, what is that? 670 00:38:26,400 --> 00:38:27,320 I've? Got a magic? 671 00:38:27,320 --> 00:38:29,440 Coat. Yeah, he's at the coat. 672 00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:36,120 His mum prayed over the Kagoo. And my dad said this, This is 673 00:38:36,120 --> 00:38:40,440 Mark. You carry the presence of the 674 00:38:40,440 --> 00:38:43,160 living God. When you walk in that. 675 00:38:43,160 --> 00:38:45,120 Room, you're not walking as a little. 676 00:38:45,120 --> 00:38:48,040 Dorky 15 year old. Kid, you're walking with a. 677 00:38:48,040 --> 00:38:52,120 Horse of. Angels into the room and oh 678 00:38:52,120 --> 00:38:56,280 Church, we want to see this city and this generation saved. 679 00:38:57,000 --> 00:38:59,400 We want to see. People's lives turned around. 680 00:38:59,640 --> 00:39:02,240 You do not. Walk in your own strength, but 681 00:39:02,240 --> 00:39:09,880 you walk in the presence of God. The Lord bless you. 682 00:39:09,960 --> 00:39:12,560 And keep you. The Lord make His face shine 683 00:39:12,560 --> 00:39:16,760 upon you and be gracious to you. The Lord turn his face towards 684 00:39:16,760 --> 00:39:18,480 you and give you peace.