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Praise you Jesus, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, kia ora whānau, Francis wow

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First in eh? It's the early bird that gets the worm, kia ora, kia ora, kia ora, okay

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Right, how are we all today? God bless you whānau, you guys are amazing

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You have a hunger and that hunger is

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God inspired, so thank you Jesus. Whānau I'm going to go straight into our kōrero today and

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just turn you around a bit there, oops don't fall over, so it's day 17 today and today I've got,

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today and tomorrow are going to be sequential teachings, I'm going to be teaching on the same

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topic. So first I just want to do a, this isn't the main topic I'm speaking on, but I want to

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talk to you a little bit about praying for our nation. On Sunday morning at church, our church

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service, I'm going to, I'm going to teach how to make biblical, how to make biblical prophetic

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decrees across our nation. We are under an open heaven, mahorangi in Māori means an open heaven,

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and where there's open hearts there's always an open heaven. But there's certain times in

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history where God opens the heavens and releases something. I heard Noel saying that take the

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opportunity of a lifetime in the lifetime of the opportunity, and so the opportunities of lifetimes

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come and they only come once a lifetime, and when that door is opening, the opportunity of a lifetime

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opens, at the same time as opening it is also closing. It's only for a season.

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The Pentecost, that was a door that opened in that lifetime of the opportunity in

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Jerusalem. Now of course Holy Spirit's willing to be poured out on the earth any time, any place,

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but you couldn't make that happen. That had to be a certain timing in history before that

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door would open. Abraham prophesied that his people, that his descendants, that would be

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slaves, or that there would be slaves in a foreign land in Egypt for 400 years.

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And you know, and if you were a Hebrew in Egypt for 400 years, you can pray all you like,

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but you can pray the first 100 years, 150 years, 200, 300, you can pray up to 300 when you're under

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Egypt under 399 years, but that door of deliverance for the Hebrews would not take place into the

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appointed time. And so there are times and seasons in God, and the church needs to understand these

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times and seasons, that the sons of Issachar, they knew the times and the seasons, you know,

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and Ecclesiastes 3.1 says that for everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose

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under heaven. And the church needs to understand what is the season that we're going through at

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this present time, not just locally, nationally, but globally. What is the purpose of God in this

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time, in this season? And if we don't know what that purpose and that season is, then we're going

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to miss the door of opportunity that's opening but closing at the same time. And so there's an

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open heaven over this nation. There's a time where God is about to unleash and release,

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well, he's already doing that, actually. He's already doing that through the national prayer

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anthem being sung, through giving God a clap and a praise. It has unleashed that general,

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he's unleashed, the angels are unleashed, but there's other doors opening, more portals of

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heaven are opening. And now he wants to, God wants to bring to pass things in our city,

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in our nation. Now, it'd be short-sighted to think we just pray for the end of coronavirus.

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Coronavirus is a demon. It's a work of the devil. And so forget the bug, just think of a demon

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who's got an assignment to come and bring destruction on the earth, to stop the church

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from growing, to stop the kingdom from being extended, to stop the gospel from being preached.

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Just imagine that coronavirus, forget him, just think of a demon with an assignment to bring

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destruction to the earth. So his tool is sickness, is a virus. And so that's to put fear across the

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face of the earth and bring sickness and disease and kill a few million people. But that's not a

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major purpose. That's so short-sighted to think that's his only purpose. So don't just be praying

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for the breaking up for a vaccine coronavirus. It's...

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His next step is then to bring a crash on the global economy,

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to crash, to bring mass unemployment,

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to bring mass discouragement, disillusionment,

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suicides, death, poverty, anarchy.

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That's his next job.

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Now that's, the virus is just a fuse.

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It's the bomb that he wants to blow off

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on the earth and the earth.

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And so this is the work of the devil,

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to rob, kill, and destroy.

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Anything to do that, it's the work of the devil.

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But Jesus came to destroy the works of the devil.

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But he's in heaven, father's in heaven,

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but he's left us, the church on the earth

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by the Holy Spirit to be the,

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when the enemy comes like a flood,

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the spirit of the Lord raise up a standard against him.

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So we, the church of Jesus Christ,

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Jesus said the gates of hell won't prevail against us.

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And we need to understand this is our time,

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this is our season to speak as God would have us speak

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and not to allow the devil's plan to come to place

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on the earth or the nation,

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that we can decree a turnaround.

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We can decree this work of the devil to be torn down.

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The reason Joshua went to take Canaan,

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it's because God had ordained the termination

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of the occupation of the enemy in the land of Canaan.

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And Jesus has already ordained the termination

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of the occupation of the enemy,

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the principalities and the powers in our land.

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And but we got, we need people, men, woman of God

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who understand this, who are not just with head knowledge,

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who think about it, who hope it is,

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but who know this, that our time has come now

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to invade our land and the termination

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of the occupation of the enemy to decree that,

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but also to bring in and to decree what God is calling

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the kingdom on the earth, kingdom of God.

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And so we need people who know what to decree,

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to decree biblical, biblical decrees,

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based on history, based on true and tried history.

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So I'm gonna give you a very quick little lesson,

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but on Sunday morning, I'm gonna talk more about this.

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Joshua 1, verse eight, the Lord said to Joshua,

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do not fear and do not be dismayed.

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Take all the fighting men with you.

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So we need fighting men and woman, okay?

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We don't want charismaniacs.

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We don't want self-appointed, self-styled,

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self-focused so-called watchmen, so-called prophets.

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We want those who God has appointed,

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those who've got fruit after their lives.

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I don't learn from somebody to,

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I've never learned how to heal the sick

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from somebody who's never healed the sick.

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I've never learned how to move in miracles

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from somebody who's never moved in a miracle.

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I've never learned how to win souls to Christ

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from somebody who's never won anyone to Jesus.

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I mean, that's just plain common sense, right?

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And you're never gonna learn how to take a town,

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you're never gonna learn how to take a nation,

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a city for Jesus, unless you learn

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from somebody who's done it before.

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So I just get so ho-ha with these crazy posts

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and yes, we're gonna do this, we're gonna take the city

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and it's buying the enemy and the strong man.

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Most of these people have no idea

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what they're talking about.

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Now, you show me a soul, I'm not gonna,

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somebody comes to me and tells me,

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I'll show you how to take a city for Jesus.

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I say, you show me how many souls have you won

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to Jesus in the last month?

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Show me how many people have you won to Jesus?

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If you can't win one person to Jesus,

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one family to Jesus,

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if you can't even win a street to Jesus,

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who do you think you are to tell me

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you're gonna show me how to take a city for Jesus,

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how to take a nation for Jesus?

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Such nonsense.

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And that time of the charismaniac is gone.

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Thank God the old wineskin is going.

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There's a new wineskin being formed

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that's gonna carry new wine.

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Praise you, Jesus.

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Sorry, I get a bit ho-ha.

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Yes, you can see I'm passionate about this.

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Acts chapter, so I'm reading, Joshua,

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take the fighting men with you.

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See, I haven't even got into the lesson.

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Arise and go up to Ai, the city of Ai,

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which was his first defeat.

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Joshua had his first defeat.

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He'd never been defeated in all his life.

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And after this defeat, well, it's another story.

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He didn't know how to handle defeat.

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And you gotta know how to handle defeat.

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You gotta know how to, but anyway, moving on.

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I have, and this is what God says to Joshua.

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I have given unto your hand the king of Ai,

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the people, his city, and his land.

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Listen to this, so it's four things.

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God says to Joshua, I've given you the king of Ai,

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his people, his city, and his land, four things.

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Now, when I say the Lord spoke to me, I mean it.

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Then the, but, so, go on a minute.

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Then the Lord said to Joshua, verse 18,

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stretch out your spear that is in your hand towards Ai.

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Stretch out your spear.

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Stretch out your spear.

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This is the tifa-tifa.

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So, but, if it was a spear,

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you'd be stretch out your spear.

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Stretch out your spear.

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Stretch out your spear.

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hand towards I for I will give it into your hand and Joshua stretched out the

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javelin that was in his hand towards the city

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and the man in the ambush rose up quickly out of their place

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and as soon as he had stretched out his hand

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they ran and entered the city and captured it and they hurried to

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set the city on fire verse 26 but Joshua did not pull his hand back

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with which he stretched out his spear until he had devoted all the inhabitants

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of I to destruction amen

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I'm not going into detail on that teaching but

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the spear is prayer when Joshua stretched out the spear he was

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stretching out what the will of God was what God said see I will give you the

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king his people his city and the land you

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stretch so when Joshua's stretching out the

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the spear in a sense it's a declaration he's decreeing

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what God has said and we're going to learn how to decree what God is saying

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over our cities and over our nation today you can't just

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get it and say anything you got to decree what God is saying

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and so Joshua that stretching out the prayer it's it speaks of what God is

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saying over the land number one number two it's also about for us today

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it's declaring it's speaking it's speaking it out

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out of our mouths God creates and creates things with his hands but God

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creates things with his mouth every word that goes out of his mouth

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shall not return void and when God created the heavens and the

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earth let there be boom and it became so

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as God's sons we also create things on the earth

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through what comes out of our mouth and our whole our decrees it's got to be

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what God is saying not what your imagination's saying not

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what you might have indigestion you might have might have been a pizza you

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ate that might be what's talking to you in your sleep

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you got to hear what God is saying and and there's going to be a band of

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warriors that God's going to raise up in this nation

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and what we decree together when we put our notes together it will be exactly

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the same thing and so um and so

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so the the it's so it's the word of God decreeing

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what God is saying it's uh it's decreeing it with the mouth number two

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and number three it's persistence you don't pull back

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the spear you don't pull back the prayer you don't stop the declaration

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until the enemy has been destroyed too many people

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they they they they see the enemy on the run

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and he's not totally taken out yet and they pull back on the on the fight

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and he rises up again uh there was a king and a prophet it was Elijah Elijah

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one of them and he said get those arrows and

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strike the smite the ground and the king only submitted three times

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and the prophet was angry he says why did you only do it three times

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should have done it six times you would have surely destroyed the king of syria

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and so sometimes as God's people we don't know

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we pull back the spear of prayer too early

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so on sunday i'm going to share a bit more about this stuff

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okay blessed be the name of the lord so that's not the message for today the

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message of today's final it's uh you probably never heard

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anything like this what i'm about to teach

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and when i heard about this 16 years ago i thought well that sounds really boring

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but i have got such passion for this subject now

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because it's on the heart of God it's on the heart of Jesus it's not been on the

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heart of the church it's not been on the heart of most

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christians but it's on the heart of God and because it hasn't been on the heart

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of God's people God has been able to do very little in

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the church and in the nation and so i and i've sat on this message

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for 16 years so i'm going to share some of it today

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it's called church government and kingdom expansion

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church government and kingdom expansion see the government is on his shoulder

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the word government i'm not talking about the natural government of

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politics i'm talking about the governance that

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Jesus has a government he governs heaven is governed

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by divine principles and pain is governed by him the king of kings

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it's governed by the father and the holy spirit and under that there are

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different kings he's called the king of kings and there's

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different governing forces on the earth and in the world we

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there's different levels of authority the centurion said i am a man under

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authority therefore i have authority and unless you understand realms of

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authority you'll never operate in authority

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authority divine authority will never flow through

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you and you can yell and huff and puff all you like at the devil

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and he's just going to laugh at you because you have no authority if you

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don't know how to submit to divine authority

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okay so understanding church governance church government and kingdom

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expansion was going to help bring the church move

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Right, OK Father, day 17. I'm going to talk about a pattern. When you look at Bible, you look at

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patterns and principles. I can understand the ways of God when I see the patterns go out from Genesis

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to Revelations. I see patterns of God form. I see principles of God. And when I see patterns and

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principles, it helps me understand the heart of God. But you get to know the heart of God

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by spending time with them. So I want to talk to you about a man called Abraham. Abraham

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had a son called Isaac. Isaac had a son called Jacob. And Jacob had Joseph. And out of Jacob

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came 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12. Came 12 sons, right? Excuse me.

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OK, so Abraham, 12 sons. And those 12 sons, they moved to Egypt. And over a 400 year period

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of time, they grew to be a great nation, the Hebrew nation. And out of that Hebrew nation,

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they became known as the House of Israel. Amen? House of Israel. OK?

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And so they come out of Egypt as the House of Israel. And God sends them into Canaan to

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extend His ways. And so they go from being Abraham, 12 sons, House of Israel,

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they went into Canaan and they as 12 tribes, they together were collectively in unity

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and they invaded Canaan and extended what is known today as the Kingdom

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of Israel. OK?

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Where's my pen? OK. So, OK, to be part of the Kingdom of Israel, you had to be part of the

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House of Israel. To be part of the House of Israel, you had to be part of the family of Abraham.

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You had to be born into. You had to be born into the family to be part of the House of Israel,

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the Kingdom of Israel. OK, that's a pattern. The house extends the kingdom. The kingdom doesn't

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extend the house. The house extends the kingdom. It's a principle I want to teach you. OK, let's

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look at Jesus now. So Jesus comes. He has how many? How many apostles? Twelve. OK, so there's

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twelve apostles. They were disciples, but they're actually apostles. So here's one, two, three,

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four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve. OK, now the twelve apostles, Ephesians

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that the foundation of the church is not Jesus. Some of you, ah, do you know the foundation of

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the church is not Jesus? He's a cornerstone. The foundation of your faith is Jesus. No man may be

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saved but through the name of Jesus. But the foundation of the church is the apostle and the

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prophet. Yeah, yeah. Read your Bible if you don't know that. And so the foundation of the church,

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the apostle and the prophet, they were integral in building the house of God, right? And then you

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have the evangelist, the pastor, and the teacher. So the fivefold, but they have the apostle and

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prophet. It's not exalting one above the other. The apostle and prophet, they serve from below.

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They don't rule from the top. They serve from below. And they help develop the evangelist,

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pastor, teacher, who in turn, the fivefold develop God's people, who lift God's people

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into their destiny, into their calling. There's other governance systems where church apostles

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and prophets rule from the top and they govern over people and, well, I don't, maybe not control

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people, but it's a different form of governance systems where God's apostles and prophets and

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fivefold, they come from below and they lift the people up to be who God created the people to be.

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Anyway, so that's where I'm coming from. I'm not coming from some sort of religious legalistic

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controlling leadership structure or style. I'm coming from the kingdom style, the biblical

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teaching of church governance and how the church should be operating, in my opinion,

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from what I see in scripture. So the 12 apostles, they formed an early church,

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we would call the house of God.

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they were the foundation of the house of God.

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Matthew 10, and heal the sick,

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the kingdom of God has come near to you today,

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or the kingdom of heaven has come near to you.

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Jesus preached the gospel of the kingdom of God.

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Do you know what the gospel of the kingdom is?

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on the day of Pentecost, the Holy Spirit filled them,

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and 120 were filled with the Holy Spirit.

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and they began to extend the kingdom.

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The church began to extend the kingdom of God.

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12 apostles, foundation of the house of God,

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which in turn began to extend the kingdom of God.

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You are the house of God.

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I'm the house of God.

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That's what church means, called out ones.

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but the church is meant to be together.

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Matthew 16, 18,

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and the gates of hell will not prevail against it.

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to be part of the kingdom of God.

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to be part of the kingdom of Israel,

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you had to be born into the family.

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you have to be born again.

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Jesus, you gotta be born again.

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You gotta be born again.

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that Abraham's 12 sons formed the house of Israel,

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which created the kingdom of Israel,

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which the kingdom of Israel was then to extend

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through the land and take God's rule.

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which formed the foundation of the house of God,

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they were empowered, the house of God was empowered

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to extend the kingdom of God throughout all the earth.

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That's our job.

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We're called to extend the kingdom of God.

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The church is called to extend the kingdom of God.

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The church extends the kingdom.

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Pattern, just a pattern.

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Choo, choo, choo, choo, choo.

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Jesus, Jesus, Jesus.

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I give you praise.

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Okay, so that's teaching number one on.

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I'll put it on the page, okay?

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The point is, is that the kingdom always existed.

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The kingdom of God's always existed.

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But God has, Jesus has chosen the church

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to be the instrument by which

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he's gonna extend his kingdom on the earth.

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So let me talk about this.

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How else extends the kingdom?

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Acts 1.8.

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Now, the early church, it was not divided.

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right through to Acts 4 or 6,

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you'll find these terms.

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They were one mind.

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They were one heart.

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They were one voice.

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They had one Lord, one baptism, one faith.

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because the house of God had incredible unity,

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you know Psalm 133,

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when the brethren dwell together in unity,

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God has to command the blessing.

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because the house of God was in unity,

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was built on the foundation of the Apostle and the Prophet,

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the Evangelist, Pastor and Teacher,

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because it was built, Psalm 126,

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unless the Lord builds a house,

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they that build it labour in vain.

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according to God's pattern,

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then it's going to have dysfunctional impact, isn't it?

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If you want to make a chocolate cake,

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you've got to put chocolate in it.

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but there's no chocolate.

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The recipe's wrong, you're going to have a flop.

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is the Apostle, Prophet, Evangelist, Pastor, Teacher,

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and other ministries that have to be instigated

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in the church, in the church that Jesus is building anyway.

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a divided house can't stand, it falls,

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but the early church had unity,

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and because of its unity, it had a powerful impact.

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into cities, and into nations.

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because the church was in order,

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the house of God was in order,

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and therefore the extension of the kingdom was powerful.

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There's a direct correlation between the house

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and the kingdom, between the function of the house

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and the function of the kingdom.

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So Paul said that the kingdom of God

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comes in demonstration of the spirit and the power of God.

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Now, why am I talking about this?

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Let me give you an example.

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The house, if I had my household,

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if my children, if I'm a criminal, or I'm a thief,

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and I teach my children, if just me,

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we teach our kids how to be dishonest,

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how to lie, how to steal, how to be violent.

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then I have a dysfunctional household.

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If the head of the house is dysfunctional,

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then we train our children in dysfunctional values.

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Values are expressed by behaviours.

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will have no problem raping a woman.

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A man or a person who's got values

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and they have no respect for your property,

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their inner value will be reflected by them,

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they will steal your property.

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they will take your property.

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Values are reflected through behaviours, right?

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no values, but disrespect, lying, stealing, violence,

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thieving, then my house is a dysfunctional house.

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And guess what my household is gonna contribute to society?

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dysfunctional children that bring dysfunction into society.

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crime's gonna increase in my street,

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crime's gonna increase in my town.

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I'm part of the problem, not part of the solution.

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it will have a dysfunctional impact in society.

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when the house of God is dysfunctional,

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when it's not operating according to God's pattern,

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when there's dysfunctional values in the house of God,

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its kingdom impact is gonna be dysfunctional.

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00:28:03.800 --> 00:28:06.280
It's not gonna have a powerful kingdom impact

484
00:28:06.280 --> 00:28:10.320
because if a divided house can't stand, it will fall.

485
00:28:10.320 --> 00:28:11.920
If there's division in the house,

486
00:28:11.920 --> 00:28:14.840
then it's not gonna have a power.

487
00:28:14.840 --> 00:28:16.440
The kingdom's not divided,

488
00:28:16.480 --> 00:28:19.920
but if the house of the church is dysfunctional,

489
00:28:19.920 --> 00:28:22.840
its kingdom impact's gonna be dysfunctional.

490
00:28:22.840 --> 00:28:25.040
And why would I want to have,

491
00:28:26.120 --> 00:28:28.280
imagine if I build a dysfunctional,

492
00:28:28.280 --> 00:28:31.440
why would God want me to go and save souls,

493
00:28:31.440 --> 00:28:34.240
to bring them into a dysfunctional church?

494
00:28:34.240 --> 00:28:37.360
Why would God want me to bring children, orphans,

495
00:28:37.360 --> 00:28:39.480
if I was a dysfunctional father,

496
00:28:39.480 --> 00:28:41.240
with a dysfunctional family,

497
00:28:41.240 --> 00:28:43.320
teaching my children how to lie and steal,

498
00:28:43.320 --> 00:28:45.280
why would God want to bring orphans

499
00:28:45.280 --> 00:28:46.960
into my dysfunctional house,

500
00:28:46.960 --> 00:28:50.400
to learn how to be a problem, not the solution?

501
00:28:50.400 --> 00:28:52.080
And at the same way, church,

502
00:28:53.880 --> 00:28:55.680
I love the church.

503
00:28:55.680 --> 00:28:57.640
I love the church.

504
00:28:57.640 --> 00:29:01.360
Jesus loves the church, that's what he's coming back for.

505
00:29:01.360 --> 00:29:03.000
He loves the church.

506
00:29:03.000 --> 00:29:04.880
He gave his life for the church.

507
00:29:04.880 --> 00:29:09.880
But the church, our role is to extend the kingdom of God.

508
00:29:10.800 --> 00:29:13.400
And Jesus, we're in a time and a season

509
00:29:13.440 --> 00:29:14.760
where God's trying to reset

510
00:29:14.760 --> 00:29:16.960
and bring the church back into divine order,

511
00:29:16.960 --> 00:29:19.400
into a place where we have that unity,

512
00:29:19.400 --> 00:29:22.080
we have that one mind, one heart, one voice.

513
00:29:22.080 --> 00:29:24.560
And we begin to operate and move together

514
00:29:24.560 --> 00:29:27.240
with a unity that's never been seen in the land,

515
00:29:27.240 --> 00:29:29.080
in our history in New Zealand,

516
00:29:29.080 --> 00:29:30.920
so that we can see God do something

517
00:29:30.920 --> 00:29:32.760
we've never seen done in our history.

518
00:29:33.720 --> 00:29:35.360
If you want to see God do something

519
00:29:35.360 --> 00:29:37.920
you've never seen him do before,

520
00:29:37.920 --> 00:29:40.400
you've got to take your faith where it's never been before.

521
00:29:40.400 --> 00:29:42.320
Otherwise, you'll just see the same old, same old.

522
00:29:42.360 --> 00:29:45.400
You've got to give God opportunity to move himself

523
00:29:45.400 --> 00:29:47.320
and show himself mighty through your life.

524
00:29:47.320 --> 00:29:49.520
And that's the principle of the whole church.

525
00:29:49.520 --> 00:29:51.360
And the church has never been at a place

526
00:29:51.360 --> 00:29:53.440
of 100% unity before.

527
00:29:53.440 --> 00:29:55.760
And I believe this reset that's going on

528
00:29:55.760 --> 00:29:56.880
is to help us do that.

529
00:29:58.360 --> 00:29:59.200
Okay.

530
00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:02.760
So church government, talk about church government.

531
00:30:02.760 --> 00:30:05.240
And so there's just that example.

532
00:30:05.240 --> 00:30:08.040
In 1995, I was praying for revival.

533
00:30:08.040 --> 00:30:10.360
Well, I was praying for revival way up,

534
00:30:10.360 --> 00:30:13.400
but way before then, praying for revival.

535
00:30:13.400 --> 00:30:18.400
And see the two passions in my heart was Jesus and souls.

536
00:30:20.360 --> 00:30:25.360
And so we come to Gisborne and the church grew

537
00:30:25.880 --> 00:30:27.240
and we'd never been here in our lives.

538
00:30:27.240 --> 00:30:29.560
We didn't know anybody in the city.

539
00:30:29.640 --> 00:30:31.720
Honestly, but God had caught us.

540
00:30:31.720 --> 00:30:33.400
We were seen here by divine vision

541
00:30:33.400 --> 00:30:34.600
and by the divine anointing.

542
00:30:34.600 --> 00:30:36.000
So we didn't went to Gisborne,

543
00:30:36.000 --> 00:30:38.000
we were sent by the Holy Spirit to Gisborne.

544
00:30:38.000 --> 00:30:40.680
And I saw in advance what God was gonna do in this city.

545
00:30:40.680 --> 00:30:42.760
He's gonna cause a warrior church to rise.

546
00:30:42.760 --> 00:30:45.000
It's gonna touch the nation and the nations.

547
00:30:45.000 --> 00:30:49.040
And so we started our first services

548
00:30:49.040 --> 00:30:51.440
on the 28th of April, 1991,

549
00:30:51.440 --> 00:30:53.920
which our anniversary is coming up in a couple of weeks.

550
00:30:53.920 --> 00:30:56.960
And that morning, it was only me, Jess,

551
00:30:56.960 --> 00:30:58.480
and my two children, Kelly and Tom,

552
00:30:58.480 --> 00:31:01.040
standing at the Te Apita School Hall,

553
00:31:01.040 --> 00:31:02.520
wondering who's gonna turn up.

554
00:31:02.520 --> 00:31:03.360
And you know what?

555
00:31:03.360 --> 00:31:05.440
God sent 36 people in the morning,

556
00:31:05.440 --> 00:31:09.400
no, 31 people in the morning and 36 came that night.

557
00:31:09.400 --> 00:31:10.240
It was amazing.

558
00:31:10.240 --> 00:31:11.800
12 people gave their lives to Jesus,

559
00:31:11.800 --> 00:31:13.240
committed their hearts to Christ.

560
00:31:13.240 --> 00:31:14.320
There's at least six of them

561
00:31:14.320 --> 00:31:16.160
are still going on for God today.

562
00:31:16.160 --> 00:31:18.280
The church grew from that first day.

563
00:31:18.280 --> 00:31:21.520
It grew from, so that's 67 in the first day

564
00:31:21.520 --> 00:31:26.400
and it grew to 500 in our morning attendance, 500,

565
00:31:26.600 --> 00:31:28.560
four years, four years later,

566
00:31:28.560 --> 00:31:33.360
it went from nothing from that in four years to 500.

567
00:31:33.360 --> 00:31:35.520
Most, 98% come from the streets.

568
00:31:35.520 --> 00:31:36.600
There weren't church growth.

569
00:31:36.600 --> 00:31:38.320
There weren't Christians from one church

570
00:31:38.320 --> 00:31:39.880
like our church come and join our church.

571
00:31:39.880 --> 00:31:40.720
It's not growth.

572
00:31:40.720 --> 00:31:42.840
That's musical chairs, okay?

573
00:31:42.840 --> 00:31:44.920
And I'm talking about people right out of the streets,

574
00:31:44.920 --> 00:31:46.320
people with unchurched backgrounds,

575
00:31:46.320 --> 00:31:49.120
people from gangs, people from all sorts of backgrounds.

576
00:31:49.120 --> 00:31:51.560
And so the church grew, exploded like that.

577
00:31:51.560 --> 00:31:54.080
And then it just kept growing and growing and growing

578
00:31:54.080 --> 00:31:58.200
and the first 15, I'd say even the first 20 years,

579
00:31:58.200 --> 00:31:59.160
we saw revival.

580
00:31:59.160 --> 00:32:02.600
We're in revival and we were one mind, one heart, one voice

581
00:32:02.600 --> 00:32:04.400
and we still are.

582
00:32:04.400 --> 00:32:06.200
We're doing things together.

583
00:32:06.200 --> 00:32:09.480
And our role was to bring Jesus,

584
00:32:09.480 --> 00:32:11.520
to lift up Jesus in our community.

585
00:32:11.520 --> 00:32:13.080
And we did that by signs and wonders,

586
00:32:13.080 --> 00:32:15.440
by operating them in the supernatural

587
00:32:15.440 --> 00:32:18.480
and just the amazing miraculous hand of God

588
00:32:18.480 --> 00:32:20.760
and diseases being healed and so forth.

589
00:32:20.760 --> 00:32:23.640
But we also did it in social impact ministries.

590
00:32:23.640 --> 00:32:24.640
And so the church grew.

591
00:32:24.640 --> 00:32:26.960
So I'm speaking from a little bit of experience

592
00:32:26.960 --> 00:32:29.440
of seeing a revival, well, not a revival,

593
00:32:29.440 --> 00:32:34.160
a move of God over a period of years from experience.

594
00:32:34.160 --> 00:32:38.520
I'm not speaking from some sort of theory book.

595
00:32:39.400 --> 00:32:40.240
And so,

596
00:32:43.760 --> 00:32:45.120
I just wanna make sure I get everything out.

597
00:32:45.120 --> 00:32:46.880
So I wrote down notes this morning

598
00:32:46.880 --> 00:32:49.800
to make sure I was a good steward

599
00:32:49.800 --> 00:32:51.360
of what God's given me for you.

600
00:32:52.280 --> 00:32:54.360
So the influence in society,

601
00:32:54.360 --> 00:32:56.120
when we started our church,

602
00:32:56.120 --> 00:32:58.240
within the first two years,

603
00:32:58.240 --> 00:33:00.800
I received a small check,

604
00:33:00.800 --> 00:33:04.000
but it was a check from the Justice Department every year

605
00:33:04.000 --> 00:33:05.400
for the first two years

606
00:33:05.400 --> 00:33:09.160
in recognition of the impact we're making in our community.

607
00:33:09.160 --> 00:33:10.920
And then about three years later,

608
00:33:10.920 --> 00:33:13.360
Television New Zealand heard of the work we're doing

609
00:33:13.360 --> 00:33:14.640
amongst the poor and the gangs,

610
00:33:14.640 --> 00:33:17.480
and they came down and they made two documentaries

611
00:33:17.480 --> 00:33:18.600
on what the church was doing.

612
00:33:18.600 --> 00:33:20.640
And so the function of the church,

613
00:33:20.640 --> 00:33:22.640
when the church has got in unity

614
00:33:22.640 --> 00:33:25.320
and operating in the way it should be,

615
00:33:25.320 --> 00:33:27.920
its impact, its kingdom impact in the community

616
00:33:27.920 --> 00:33:28.760
is gonna be,

617
00:33:31.320 --> 00:33:35.200
it's gonna be parallel to what's happening in the church

618
00:33:35.200 --> 00:33:37.120
will be what's happening in the community.

619
00:33:37.120 --> 00:33:39.920
If there's dysfunction in the house, in the church,

620
00:33:39.920 --> 00:33:42.320
there'll be dysfunction in its impact on the community.

621
00:33:42.320 --> 00:33:45.920
But if there's unity and power in the house,

622
00:33:45.920 --> 00:33:48.840
then there'll be unity and power in its kingdom impact.

623
00:33:48.840 --> 00:33:50.040
Okay?

624
00:33:50.040 --> 00:33:52.160
And so it's such a dysfunctional state

625
00:33:52.160 --> 00:33:53.240
we're in at the moment.

626
00:33:53.240 --> 00:33:56.640
I go to churches that are just, which, telling the truth,

627
00:33:56.640 --> 00:33:58.840
I wouldn't invite anyone to come along there.

628
00:33:58.840 --> 00:34:00.920
I wouldn't invite some of my mates out of the world

629
00:34:00.920 --> 00:34:01.760
to come along to them.

630
00:34:01.760 --> 00:34:02.880
It's too religious.

631
00:34:02.880 --> 00:34:05.440
It might be some nice people and they might love Jesus,

632
00:34:05.440 --> 00:34:09.239
but we don't wanna disciple them to become religious people

633
00:34:09.239 --> 00:34:10.760
and just sitting on pews all their lives

634
00:34:10.760 --> 00:34:12.320
waiting for Jesus to come.

635
00:34:12.320 --> 00:34:16.000
You don't want them to come to, you know, God bless.

636
00:34:16.000 --> 00:34:18.040
And so, so 1995,

637
00:34:18.040 --> 00:34:20.080
I remember this whole church government thing.

638
00:34:20.080 --> 00:34:22.239
I knew nothing about it until 1995.

639
00:34:22.239 --> 00:34:23.760
It was a very defining moment

640
00:34:23.760 --> 00:34:25.880
and I was just praying God for revival.

641
00:34:25.880 --> 00:34:28.800
And the Lord spoke to me a very unusual,

642
00:34:28.800 --> 00:34:30.159
well, he said this.

643
00:34:30.159 --> 00:34:32.080
He said, just imagine you,

644
00:34:32.080 --> 00:34:35.000
there's that, you're in downtown Main Street

645
00:34:35.000 --> 00:34:38.639
and a car comes and runs over and kills a man.

646
00:34:38.639 --> 00:34:40.159
And he's, you know, he's dead.

647
00:34:41.360 --> 00:34:43.960
And he's taken up to the hospital,

648
00:34:43.960 --> 00:34:45.600
put in the morgue and he's dead.

649
00:34:46.600 --> 00:34:49.760
And, but that man,

650
00:34:49.760 --> 00:34:51.600
you didn't know this, but that man,

651
00:34:51.600 --> 00:34:53.239
imagine if that man was a child abuser

652
00:34:53.239 --> 00:34:54.639
who was molesting children.

653
00:34:55.560 --> 00:34:56.880
Okay.

654
00:34:56.880 --> 00:34:58.960
That's a weird story Lord.

655
00:34:58.960 --> 00:35:00.200
He says, and then imagine.

656
00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:02.200
that you go up to the morgue and you pray for him,

657
00:35:02.200 --> 00:35:03.280
and he comes back to life.

658
00:35:03.280 --> 00:35:05.680
Three days later, he comes back to life.

659
00:35:05.680 --> 00:35:08.680
I said, wow, that will cause revival.

660
00:35:08.680 --> 00:35:10.160
He said, will it?

661
00:35:10.160 --> 00:35:11.680
I said, yes.

662
00:35:11.680 --> 00:35:13.440
Of course, the television will come down,

663
00:35:13.440 --> 00:35:15.920
and if it cannot be denied that he was dead,

664
00:35:15.920 --> 00:35:17.840
now he's alive, it's gonna cause revival.

665
00:35:17.840 --> 00:35:20.720
People are gonna come to Jesus, and they probably would.

666
00:35:20.720 --> 00:35:22.960
Hey, this man's been dead for three days,

667
00:35:22.960 --> 00:35:24.920
and he's back from the dead.

668
00:35:24.920 --> 00:35:27.880
But the Lord said, but what if he's a child molester

669
00:35:27.880 --> 00:35:29.720
before he was killed?

670
00:35:29.800 --> 00:35:33.000
And he's still a child molester after he's been resurrected.

671
00:35:34.920 --> 00:35:35.960
I said, oh.

672
00:35:35.960 --> 00:35:38.160
He said, does that glorify me?

673
00:35:38.160 --> 00:35:39.000
I said, yeah.

674
00:35:39.000 --> 00:35:41.560
He said, you want me to resurrect the church?

675
00:35:44.320 --> 00:35:46.080
You want revival?

676
00:35:46.080 --> 00:35:48.480
You want me to revive the church

677
00:35:48.480 --> 00:35:50.960
out of a state of death or apathy?

678
00:35:52.520 --> 00:35:54.840
He said, now this sounds pretty harsh.

679
00:35:54.840 --> 00:35:57.280
This is way back in 95, some stuff were happening.

680
00:35:57.280 --> 00:36:00.600
He says, why would I raise,

681
00:36:00.600 --> 00:36:04.600
why would I revive a church that abuses my children?

682
00:36:05.560 --> 00:36:09.240
It's pretty hard, pretty harsh, but just bear with me.

683
00:36:09.240 --> 00:36:12.760
He said, why would I revive a church

684
00:36:12.760 --> 00:36:14.560
that abuses my children?

685
00:36:14.560 --> 00:36:16.360
Now, he wasn't talking about our church.

686
00:36:16.360 --> 00:36:17.840
He wasn't talking about the church in particular,

687
00:36:17.840 --> 00:36:19.440
but he's saying in general terms.

688
00:36:19.440 --> 00:36:23.840
And I thought, yeah, that won't glorify you.

689
00:36:23.840 --> 00:36:26.000
And then he said to me, he said,

690
00:36:26.000 --> 00:36:28.800
son, you must have three passions.

691
00:36:28.800 --> 00:36:30.640
I said, well, I've got two.

692
00:36:30.640 --> 00:36:32.640
My two passions are the same as you probably,

693
00:36:32.640 --> 00:36:35.200
love Jesus with all my heart and love the lost.

694
00:36:35.200 --> 00:36:36.040
Yeah.

695
00:36:36.040 --> 00:36:38.640
He says, no, I have three passions.

696
00:36:38.640 --> 00:36:41.120
I says, what's the third one?

697
00:36:41.120 --> 00:36:43.240
He says, yeah, love me with all your heart

698
00:36:43.240 --> 00:36:45.200
and certainly love the lost.

699
00:36:45.200 --> 00:36:48.200
But the second passion that you should have that I have,

700
00:36:49.200 --> 00:36:50.840
do you know what that passion is?

701
00:36:51.720 --> 00:36:52.720
I'll read it to you.

702
00:36:53.720 --> 00:36:57.840
It's, it's in John.

703
00:37:02.640 --> 00:37:03.480
Jesus.

704
00:37:06.120 --> 00:37:08.640
It's John chapter two, verse 17.

705
00:37:08.640 --> 00:37:11.080
You know the scripture where he made a whip

706
00:37:11.080 --> 00:37:13.680
and he drove out the thieves, the money change.

707
00:37:13.680 --> 00:37:15.200
He drove the thieves out of the temple.

708
00:37:15.200 --> 00:37:17.480
He drove the thieves out of the church.

709
00:37:17.480 --> 00:37:22.360
And then he said, the zeal of God has consumed me.

710
00:37:22.920 --> 00:37:25.240
The zeal for thine house has consumed me,

711
00:37:25.240 --> 00:37:27.440
zeal for my house.

712
00:37:27.440 --> 00:37:30.600
And he says, son, you need zeal for my house.

713
00:37:30.600 --> 00:37:32.680
And you don't have zeal for my house.

714
00:37:32.680 --> 00:37:34.760
You have zeal for me and zeal for the last,

715
00:37:34.760 --> 00:37:36.400
but you must have zeal for my house.

716
00:37:36.400 --> 00:37:37.840
I have zeal for my house.

717
00:37:37.840 --> 00:37:40.280
I use the house to win the lost.

718
00:37:40.280 --> 00:37:43.120
And if you don't have zeal for my house,

719
00:37:43.120 --> 00:37:46.640
you'll put up with the dysfunction that comes to our house.

720
00:37:46.640 --> 00:37:47.720
If you have zeal for my house,

721
00:37:47.720 --> 00:37:49.680
you'll put my house in order son.

722
00:37:49.680 --> 00:37:51.240
And when my house is an order

723
00:37:51.240 --> 00:37:52.320
the zeal for the lost,

724
00:37:52.320 --> 00:37:54.960
I'll be able to reach the lost through such a house.

725
00:38:01.720 --> 00:38:02.560
So,

726
00:38:07.080 --> 00:38:08.920
I'm not talking about your church.

727
00:38:08.920 --> 00:38:10.320
I don't want you to go around now

728
00:38:10.320 --> 00:38:11.800
and comparing churches and saying,

729
00:38:11.800 --> 00:38:12.640
well,

730
00:38:15.040 --> 00:38:17.120
we're all on the same boat.

731
00:38:17.120 --> 00:38:19.360
There's no perfect church in the city.

732
00:38:19.360 --> 00:38:22.000
There's no perfect church in the nation.

733
00:38:23.960 --> 00:38:24.800
Thank God,

734
00:38:24.800 --> 00:38:29.280
God uses imperfect people to build his church.

735
00:38:29.280 --> 00:38:30.360
But at the same time,

736
00:38:30.360 --> 00:38:31.840
there is a system,

737
00:38:31.840 --> 00:38:32.720
there is a governance.

738
00:38:32.720 --> 00:38:33.560
And so God,

739
00:38:33.560 --> 00:38:34.680
in 1995,

740
00:38:34.680 --> 00:38:37.560
he began to teach me about how to get the house in order.

741
00:38:37.560 --> 00:38:38.760
Get my church in order,

742
00:38:38.760 --> 00:38:40.640
get my house in order.

743
00:38:40.640 --> 00:38:43.000
And it's something Satan hates.

744
00:38:43.000 --> 00:38:45.120
Because he knows if the church is in order,

745
00:38:45.120 --> 00:38:46.160
if the church is one mind,

746
00:38:46.160 --> 00:38:47.000
one heart,

747
00:38:47.000 --> 00:38:47.840
one voice,

748
00:38:47.840 --> 00:38:50.600
then his kingdom is going to be destroyed.

749
00:38:50.600 --> 00:38:53.040
That the kingdom of God is going to boom,

750
00:38:53.040 --> 00:38:55.520
smash the kingdom of darkness in every town,

751
00:38:55.520 --> 00:38:57.680
every city of every nation.

752
00:38:57.680 --> 00:38:59.920
That's why he's so against the church.

753
00:38:59.920 --> 00:39:02.480
That's why there's so many Christians hate the church.

754
00:39:02.480 --> 00:39:04.200
So there's all sorts of excuses,

755
00:39:04.200 --> 00:39:06.960
church abuse and leadership abuse and so forth.

756
00:39:06.960 --> 00:39:09.400
And you don't understand what spirit you're speaking from.

757
00:39:09.400 --> 00:39:11.600
It's the enemy trying to stop you

758
00:39:11.600 --> 00:39:13.720
from building the house of God

759
00:39:13.720 --> 00:39:15.720
and bring the church back into order

760
00:39:16.520 --> 00:39:18.440
to bring the kingdom into the earth.

761
00:39:18.440 --> 00:39:19.280
That's what it is.

762
00:39:19.280 --> 00:39:21.640
So you got to wake up and get over your pains,

763
00:39:21.640 --> 00:39:22.920
over your abuse,

764
00:39:22.920 --> 00:39:24.240
over your anger,

765
00:39:24.240 --> 00:39:25.280
over your unforgiveness,

766
00:39:25.280 --> 00:39:26.120
overbidden.

767
00:39:26.120 --> 00:39:27.560
You got to get over all that stuff.

768
00:39:27.560 --> 00:39:28.880
This whole thing is bigger than you,

769
00:39:28.880 --> 00:39:29.920
bigger than me.

770
00:39:29.920 --> 00:39:32.560
This whole thing is bigger than our lifetime.

771
00:39:32.560 --> 00:39:36.000
It's about building the church that Jesus is building.

772
00:39:36.000 --> 00:39:37.840
That you might have been hurt.

773
00:39:37.840 --> 00:39:39.440
Well, who hasn't been hurt?

774
00:39:39.440 --> 00:39:41.160
Take a ticket and join the queue.

775
00:39:41.160 --> 00:39:43.240
Who hasn't been hurt in churches?

776
00:39:43.240 --> 00:39:45.040
Who hasn't been hurt by Christians?

777
00:39:45.240 --> 00:39:46.800
You should talk to some pastors.

778
00:39:46.800 --> 00:39:48.320
They've been hurt multitude times.

779
00:39:48.320 --> 00:39:50.320
They're the ones with all the pin cushions in the back

780
00:39:50.320 --> 00:39:51.560
and all the backstabbing.

781
00:39:51.560 --> 00:39:53.880
And so, you know, instead of blaming pastors,

782
00:39:53.880 --> 00:39:55.960
some Christians need to sort of look

783
00:39:55.960 --> 00:39:57.320
at what they're put up with.

784
00:39:57.320 --> 00:40:00.000
And there's no excuse to justify.

785
00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:03.960
for bad behavior. But the fact of the matter is we're imperfect people and God

786
00:40:03.960 --> 00:40:08.120
gives us grace to deal with each other and to get over ourselves. And for the

787
00:40:08.120 --> 00:40:12.360
sake of the kingdom, for the sake of Jesus, we do forgive people and we do

788
00:40:12.360 --> 00:40:16.960
move forward. We make progress, not excuses. And so when the church starts

789
00:40:16.960 --> 00:40:21.000
making, stops making excuses for being hurt, being this, and I'm not ever going to

790
00:40:21.000 --> 00:40:24.800
go to church, well I am the church, I do it at home. That's your house church, your

791
00:40:24.800 --> 00:40:29.000
house group is a fellowship meeting. It's not a church. A church is made up,

792
00:40:29.000 --> 00:40:33.040
it's got a foundation of apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, teachers. That's the

793
00:40:33.040 --> 00:40:37.160
church Jesus is making. That's the church He's built. And if you're not part of

794
00:40:37.160 --> 00:40:40.680
church, you're not going to get benefits of the five-fold ministry and you're

795
00:40:40.680 --> 00:40:44.200
never going to be equipped for the work, you know, for the five-fold there to

796
00:40:44.200 --> 00:40:47.800
equip the saints for the work of the ministry. So you're being created for a

797
00:40:47.800 --> 00:40:51.920
work and for a ministry. In order to be equipped for that work of the

798
00:40:51.920 --> 00:40:55.760
ministry, you've got to have the five-fold. To be part, to have the five-fold ministry,

799
00:40:55.760 --> 00:41:00.600
you can't just get it off YouTube and get it off Facebook. You've got to be in

800
00:41:00.600 --> 00:41:05.080
a church, connected to those five-fold. You've got to be part of a church. It's a

801
00:41:05.080 --> 00:41:09.720
physical thing, it's a family. It's not a virtual church, it's a real church.

802
00:41:09.720 --> 00:41:19.160
Hallelujah. To reach real people. And so, look, don't be the missing brick in your

803
00:41:19.160 --> 00:41:23.560
church. The church is made up out of living stones, alright? You're a living

804
00:41:23.600 --> 00:41:27.520
stone, I'm a living stone. When those stones come together, that's where the

805
00:41:27.520 --> 00:41:33.840
power is. When the stones come together, okay? Now, a brick by itself, it's

806
00:41:33.840 --> 00:41:38.360
powerless. It can sit in the brickyard and say, look at me, I'm a beautiful brick.

807
00:41:38.360 --> 00:41:41.600
I'm not going to join with other bricks because they hurt me. I'm just a

808
00:41:41.600 --> 00:41:45.360
beautiful brick in the yard. Well, that's a stupid brick because that brick is of

809
00:41:45.360 --> 00:41:49.440
no use and of no purpose. It's just a brick sitting in a yard. But when you get

810
00:41:49.440 --> 00:41:53.360
a brick and you put it together with other bricks and you form, you can

811
00:41:53.360 --> 00:41:56.600
start to begin to build something. You can build a wall, you can build a house.

812
00:41:56.600 --> 00:42:01.560
When bricks come together, you're a brick. You're a spiritual stone.

813
00:42:01.560 --> 00:42:08.440
You're a brick and your strength and your ability is multiplied when you

814
00:42:08.440 --> 00:42:12.960
connect with other bricks. Your gifting and your ability and your strength and

815
00:42:12.960 --> 00:42:17.640
your productivity multiplies when you connect with other bricks. So when other

816
00:42:17.640 --> 00:42:21.680
bricks come together, they form a strong wall. When other bricks come together,

817
00:42:21.680 --> 00:42:28.320
they can form a house. But by themselves, they form nothing.

818
00:42:28.320 --> 00:42:31.120
And so there are many Christians and they've got a wandering spirit on them.

819
00:42:31.120 --> 00:42:34.840
It's called the wandering spirit. That's what Israel had for 40 years because they

820
00:42:34.840 --> 00:42:39.240
wouldn't become one. They wouldn't submit under a leadership of Moses. They didn't

821
00:42:39.240 --> 00:42:44.400
like church government. And so they resisted church government and they had

822
00:42:44.400 --> 00:42:47.240
this wandering spirit come upon them. There's so many Christians out there.

823
00:42:47.240 --> 00:42:50.560
You have a wandering spirit because you've been hurt and you haven't got

824
00:42:50.560 --> 00:42:55.040
over your bitterness, your unforgiveness, your resentment. And you've got to let go.

825
00:42:55.040 --> 00:43:00.680
You've got to let this go. This is bigger than you and me. I love Jesus. I love

826
00:43:00.680 --> 00:43:04.880
Him. And I've had to get over hurts. I've had to get over people betraying me.

827
00:43:04.880 --> 00:43:08.840
I've had to get over people abusing me, my wife, my family, my children. I've had

828
00:43:08.840 --> 00:43:12.720
to get over. And this is not from the sinners. This is from churches. This is

829
00:43:12.720 --> 00:43:17.960
from Christians. But this is bigger than me. This is His church. And my

830
00:43:17.960 --> 00:43:23.320
love for Him's got to be bigger than me. Here's something. The reason so many

831
00:43:23.320 --> 00:43:29.440
Christians have problems. They haven't had their funeral. They haven't had their

832
00:43:29.440 --> 00:43:36.040
funeral. Now funeral. A figurative funeral. Luke 9, 23, 24. I'll talk about that another

833
00:43:36.040 --> 00:43:41.520
day. Okay. And so we're talking about church government here. So this is just a

834
00:43:41.520 --> 00:43:44.760
basic introduction. Tomorrow I'm going to go into more detail. I'm going to give you

835
00:43:44.760 --> 00:43:48.720
the notes also. The scriptures. I'm going to give you. I'm going to send this

836
00:43:48.720 --> 00:43:51.960
through to you. I haven't printed this out. I haven't sent these notes to

837
00:43:51.960 --> 00:43:58.760
anywhere and anyone in the nation. So I'm even wondering, is this wise? Well I

838
00:43:58.760 --> 00:44:02.400
don't want you taking this stuff and using it against me or using it against

839
00:44:02.400 --> 00:44:06.240
God. Or religious spirits will do that. They'll twist it and turn it. But you

840
00:44:06.240 --> 00:44:10.480
can't resist what God is doing. So church government. It's so important. If we've

841
00:44:10.480 --> 00:44:13.080
got to run our nation, we've got to get the house of God's got to get

842
00:44:13.080 --> 00:44:16.560
back in order. Okay. And you've got to be part of the solution, not part of the

843
00:44:16.560 --> 00:44:21.600
problem. Okay. Dysfunctional heads of houses have dysfunctional families and

844
00:44:21.600 --> 00:44:24.440
dysfunctional families have dysfunctional impacts in the community.

845
00:44:24.440 --> 00:44:28.760
Dysfunctional churches with dysfunctional Christians go out and

846
00:44:28.760 --> 00:44:32.200
bring a dysfunctional impact in the community. And they go out there and

847
00:44:32.200 --> 00:44:36.320
yeah it's just terrible seeing Christians lying and cheating and

848
00:44:36.320 --> 00:44:41.400
going to work early and going to work late and finishing early and not doing

849
00:44:41.400 --> 00:44:44.800
the job they should be. Not glorifying Jesus by the way they live their lives.

850
00:44:44.800 --> 00:44:51.240
Not paying the bill at the corner dairy. Always bludgeoning off others. Not wanting

851
00:44:51.240 --> 00:44:54.720
to give tithes or offerings to help build the house of God that's

852
00:44:54.720 --> 00:45:00.840
helping change society. You know there's all this dysfunction and God hates it.

853
00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:09.600
Haggai 1, 8. Go to the mountains and find some wood and build me a house I take

854
00:45:09.600 --> 00:45:15.840
pleasure in and I will be glorified, says the Lord. Haggai 1 talks about how God's

855
00:45:15.840 --> 00:45:20.680
people, he delivered them from Babylon after 70 years to come back to Jerusalem

856
00:45:20.680 --> 00:45:25.400
and to rebuild the temple, to rebuild the house of God. And they made the start of

857
00:45:25.400 --> 00:45:29.400
putting the foundation down, but after a while they got more focused on their

858
00:45:29.400 --> 00:45:32.760
own house and they started building their own houses, their own ministries,

859
00:45:32.760 --> 00:45:38.120
their own families, their own farms. And the Prophet Haggai said to them, God said

860
00:45:38.120 --> 00:45:42.240
to them through the Prophet Haggai, is it time for you to build your own house

861
00:45:42.240 --> 00:45:47.080
while my house lies in ruins? And he rebuked them and he said to the church

862
00:45:47.080 --> 00:45:52.240
back then, God's people back then, he says you look for much but it comes to little.

863
00:45:52.240 --> 00:45:57.920
He said that I have stopped the heavens, I've stopped the rain, I've stopped the

864
00:45:57.920 --> 00:46:02.600
grain, I've stopped the fields, I have done this. And you have now

865
00:46:02.600 --> 00:46:07.520
pockets to earn money to put them into pockets with holes. Why is this? And God

866
00:46:07.520 --> 00:46:11.440
says I have done this. And he says why is this? And he says again,

867
00:46:11.440 --> 00:46:16.560
because you are busy building your own house while my house is in ruins. And I

868
00:46:16.560 --> 00:46:20.800
feel prophetically, that's a word for the nation of New Zealand, that God's house

869
00:46:20.800 --> 00:46:27.560
is in ruins. Because oftentimes we're too busy building our own house, building our

870
00:46:27.560 --> 00:46:30.640
own marriage and family, our business, let's get this in order. Instead of

871
00:46:30.640 --> 00:46:34.160
seeking first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, we seek the other things.

872
00:46:34.160 --> 00:46:39.240
And the other things that become first instead of God. Our house becomes first

873
00:46:39.240 --> 00:46:44.560
instead of God's house. And so the Prophet shared that message and the

874
00:46:44.560 --> 00:46:48.280
people repented and then there was a turnaround and at ten months there was a

875
00:46:48.280 --> 00:46:52.600
turnaround where the Prophet says consider your days today to when it was

876
00:46:52.600 --> 00:46:56.720
back then. And they can see that the foundation is laid in the blessing of

877
00:46:56.720 --> 00:47:00.840
God to come back. And he says work for my spirit is with you. I want to say

878
00:47:00.840 --> 00:47:05.080
Father, work to help build the house of God. Work to be part of the solution, not

879
00:47:05.080 --> 00:47:09.640
part of the problem. Don't speak down against the Church of Jesus Christ. It's

880
00:47:09.640 --> 00:47:15.800
His house. It's His bride. And learn to understand that God's plan to

881
00:47:15.800 --> 00:47:19.760
build His house is bigger than your plan to build your house. And if you help

882
00:47:19.760 --> 00:47:23.600
build God's house, you watch, God will bless your house. He will help build your

883
00:47:23.680 --> 00:47:27.800
house. This is a promise. So I went to India. This is my last story. I went to

884
00:47:27.800 --> 00:47:36.840
India in 2006. The pastor had 130 people, around 130 people. And I began to

885
00:47:36.840 --> 00:47:40.280
teach him the stuff I'm teaching you that I haven't been able to teach this

886
00:47:40.280 --> 00:47:46.080
stuff in New Zealand. But I teach it in third worlds and they love it. They just

887
00:47:46.080 --> 00:47:50.400
love it. They don't argue. They just accept it. And so I taught them how to

888
00:47:50.400 --> 00:47:53.960
build their church and their leadership according to church government. God's

889
00:47:53.960 --> 00:47:58.080
governance. And how to have leaders that come from beneath that serve and

890
00:47:58.080 --> 00:48:02.960
lift the people up, rather than living on top and ruling. You know, I taught

891
00:48:02.960 --> 00:48:09.720
this church governance. And the church grew from 130 to 3,000 in seven years.

892
00:48:09.720 --> 00:48:14.720
Yeah. Did you hear me? Do you know of any church in New Zealand that's growing from

893
00:48:14.720 --> 00:48:22.480
130 to 3,000 in seven years? 130 to 3,000 in seven years. We're well over

894
00:48:22.480 --> 00:48:28.960
4,000 now. Not just through church governance, putting structures in.

895
00:48:28.960 --> 00:48:33.520
And God just moved through that. God's commanded blessing on our church in

896
00:48:33.520 --> 00:48:37.480
India. We've got 17 churches over there now. I mean, they're doing hard right now,

897
00:48:37.480 --> 00:48:43.680
as we all are. But it grew to that. And I don't have to. Let's see.

898
00:48:43.680 --> 00:48:48.960
Look, I get invited to speak with government officials. I don't have to

899
00:48:48.960 --> 00:48:54.000
write letters or email them or send them hate mail. I get invited by mayors. I get

900
00:48:54.000 --> 00:49:00.400
invited by communist leaders, communist government leaders, Hindu leaders, Muslim

901
00:49:00.400 --> 00:49:04.560
leaders, Muslim mullahs, religious leaders. They ask me to come. And I share with

902
00:49:04.560 --> 00:49:08.520
them the kingdom of God. I don't share with them Christianity, the gospel of

903
00:49:08.520 --> 00:49:12.920
churchianity. I share the gospel of the kingdom. And some of you don't even know

904
00:49:12.920 --> 00:49:17.480
what the gospel of the kingdom is that I'm preaching about. But we're starting

905
00:49:17.480 --> 00:49:21.800
one step at a time. So this is church government. And if we don't understand

906
00:49:21.800 --> 00:49:25.560
church government, if we're not part of the solution to the church, then you're

907
00:49:25.560 --> 00:49:29.640
not going to see any revival happen in our nation. Or if we do, it will be

908
00:49:29.640 --> 00:49:34.640
short-lived. It will be short-lived. Because the kingdom might be extended,

909
00:49:34.640 --> 00:49:38.280
but if the people come back into dysfunctional churches with

910
00:49:38.280 --> 00:49:40.960
dysfunctional leadership and dysfunctional governance, then it's

911
00:49:40.960 --> 00:49:45.320
going to go back to the way it was. I don't know how God's going to change the

912
00:49:45.320 --> 00:49:48.240
church. It's going to change in the leadership structure. It's going to change

913
00:49:48.240 --> 00:49:52.560
in the fivefold. I don't know how. See, I've got the revelation. I have the

914
00:49:52.560 --> 00:49:56.960
interpretation. But the application, I have no idea. That's for other apostles

915
00:49:56.960 --> 00:50:01.280
and prophets to work out. They will show me.

916
00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:02.560
I only show, this is my part of the jigsaw puzzle,

917
00:50:02.560 --> 00:50:04.240
but the other part, I have no idea.

918
00:50:04.240 --> 00:50:07.160
And I submit this to the five-fold of our nation.

919
00:50:07.160 --> 00:50:09.320
I submit what I've got, but I need to submit,

920
00:50:09.320 --> 00:50:11.240
now I'm willing to submit to what they've got,

921
00:50:11.240 --> 00:50:13.440
to how we can make this become a reality.

922
00:50:14.280 --> 00:50:16.400
It's about everyone knowing their place

923
00:50:16.400 --> 00:50:17.440
in the body of Christ.

924
00:50:17.440 --> 00:50:18.600
We are all important.

925
00:50:18.600 --> 00:50:20.560
We're not all bigger and greater than another.

926
00:50:20.560 --> 00:50:22.360
We all have a part to play.

927
00:50:22.360 --> 00:50:24.160
But if we don't put our parts together,

928
00:50:24.160 --> 00:50:27.040
we're like the missing brick in the wall, okay?

929
00:50:27.040 --> 00:50:28.520
Your gifting is required.

930
00:50:30.600 --> 00:50:32.040
I just feel now that just,

931
00:50:34.920 --> 00:50:37.560
just grace coming to you right now, grace.

932
00:50:39.400 --> 00:50:40.240
People have hurt you.

933
00:50:40.240 --> 00:50:41.080
People have abused you.

934
00:50:41.080 --> 00:50:42.560
There's pastors watching.

935
00:50:42.560 --> 00:50:44.520
And you've just, I give up.

936
00:50:44.520 --> 00:50:45.360
I want to give up.

937
00:50:45.360 --> 00:50:46.960
They just, I know how you feel.

938
00:50:48.680 --> 00:50:50.440
But that's what they did to Jesus too.

939
00:50:50.440 --> 00:50:52.840
The very people Jesus came and gave his life to,

940
00:50:52.840 --> 00:50:54.040
they did that to him.

941
00:50:54.040 --> 00:50:55.320
And the reason why I'll keep going,

942
00:50:55.320 --> 00:50:58.040
because Jesus keeps going, he kept going for me.

943
00:50:58.040 --> 00:50:59.920
He didn't give up on me.

944
00:51:00.800 --> 00:51:03.320
And I abused him and I've let him down so many times,

945
00:51:03.320 --> 00:51:04.960
but he kept going for me.

946
00:51:04.960 --> 00:51:05.960
And he's there for me.

947
00:51:05.960 --> 00:51:08.640
And so keep your eyes back on Jesus.

948
00:51:08.640 --> 00:51:09.640
Keep your eyes on Jesus.

949
00:51:09.640 --> 00:51:11.960
If he did it for us, we can do it for him.

950
00:51:11.960 --> 00:51:13.160
Aroha mai.

951
00:51:13.160 --> 00:51:15.840
It's out of our aroha, out of our aroha for him.

952
00:51:15.840 --> 00:51:17.320
It's his, it's for us.

953
00:51:17.320 --> 00:51:19.920
Others who are watching, you have been hurt by pastors,

954
00:51:19.920 --> 00:51:21.880
by leaders, okay?

955
00:51:21.880 --> 00:51:23.280
Look, Jesus got hurt too.

956
00:51:23.280 --> 00:51:24.960
You hurt Jesus, remember.

957
00:51:24.960 --> 00:51:27.200
It was your sin that put Jesus on the cross.

958
00:51:27.200 --> 00:51:28.880
Not, yeah, it was your sin.

959
00:51:28.880 --> 00:51:30.920
So take it, take things personally

960
00:51:30.920 --> 00:51:33.840
in the sense of take responsibility

961
00:51:33.840 --> 00:51:36.160
that people are gonna hurt you.

962
00:51:36.160 --> 00:51:37.280
People are gonna offend you.

963
00:51:37.280 --> 00:51:39.480
This world is full of offenses.

964
00:51:39.480 --> 00:51:41.560
God didn't create us to live in a world

965
00:51:41.560 --> 00:51:44.440
and to be into a little bubble where we never get offended.

966
00:51:44.440 --> 00:51:46.080
He said, you will be offended.

967
00:51:46.080 --> 00:51:47.640
Offenses will come.

968
00:51:47.640 --> 00:51:49.920
And so we're gonna learn how to overcome offenses.

969
00:51:49.920 --> 00:51:52.080
We're gonna learn how to overcome hurts.

970
00:51:52.080 --> 00:51:54.080
We're gonna learn to overcome betrayal.

971
00:51:54.080 --> 00:51:55.440
We're gonna learn how to do that.

972
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How do we learn?

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Follow Jesus.

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For goodness sake, read your Bible.

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Follow Jesus.

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Learn from him and imitate Jesus.

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His grace will help you.

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Just because, yeah, we've gotta do this.

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We're the Christians.

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We're the nation changers.

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We're the history makers.

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We're the city shakers.

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Not in the present condition, not, okay?

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So let's be part of the solution today.

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Let's begin to, so if you need to put things right,

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go by yourself and write down a list

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of people who have hurt you and ask God to give you grace

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to forgive and release them, of pastors who have hurt you.

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Pastors, go and make a list of people who have hurt you

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and ask the grace of God to come upon you

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and forgive and release them.

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If you need to go and apologize to somebody,

993
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if you've publicly slandered them,

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you can ask Jesus to show you how to put that right, okay?

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But look, you're part of the solution,

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not part of the problem.

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Thank you, Jesus.

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You want healing?

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See,

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Holy Spirit's holding me back from ministering

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because there's people being healed

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and you're not, right again,

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you're not testifiers to God.

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Thank God for those of you who are.

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I'm not talking to you.

1006
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I'm not talking about you.

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But there's a bunch of you there

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and God touched you and some of you got a fear.

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So, well, if I declare it,

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then the devil will take it back again.

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That's just stupidity.

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It's nonsense.

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You don't have a spirit of fear, but a power.

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You will, don't get out of that.

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You're dishonoring the Holy Spirit and don't do that.

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And I can't minister this presence,

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His wonderful presence, where there's dishonor

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and to His presence.

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So I'm not gonna minister the Holy Spirit this morning.

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I'm not gonna minister that healing anointing right now.

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I just really say, no, not right now.

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Because He's my best friend.

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I love Him more and I gotta respect Him more,

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respect Him more.

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But I wanna bless all those of you,

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those of you who are not withholding

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or those of you who are honoring

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and those of you who are hungry

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and those of you who have humility.

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I bless your household

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and I speak blessing over your household as an apostle.

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In Mount Matthew 10, it says,

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whenever an apostle comes to a house,

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it says, peace to this house.

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If there's anyone in that house worthy of the blessing,

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the blessing will rest.

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It won't return.

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It will rest on that house.

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But if there's no one in that house worthy of the blessing,

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it will return.

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It will come back to me.

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And so I literally feel that sometimes

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when I pray over people,

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I feel the blessing come back upon me

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because there's something in their lives,

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their hearts that they dishonor, they disrespect.

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But I'm feeling the honor.

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I'm feeling the respect.

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I'm feeling the humility from your house right now.

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And I command your blessing, Father,

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in the name of the Father,

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name of the Son, name of the Holy Spirit.

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I bless these households of those Lord God

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who are the world changers,

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who are the city shakers,

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who are the history makers.

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I bless your household in Jesus' name.

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God bless you, Father.

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See you tomorrow, church government tomorrow.

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Is church government boring? I tell you, it will change if it brings

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reformation to the church, it will bring transformation to the nation.

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It will bring reformation, if we can get church reformation, there will be societal transformation.

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But until the house of God has been in order, we're going to see dysfunction in our nation.

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God brings judgment not on a nation, he brings judgment on the house of God first.

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Judgment is not punitive, judgment is bringing back into alignment what is out of alignment.

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When God brings judgment, when God chastised, when Jesus chastised, wrote Revelations 3,

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he doesn't do it to punish, he doesn't do it because he hates us, he does it because he loves us.

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He says, I only chasten, I only discipline those whom I love, so please hear my wairua,

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hear my spirit. I've been speaking about, you know, some people need to get over yourself,

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I'm doing, I'm speaking that in aroha. Sometimes it's not what, I'll share what you need to hear,

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not necessarily what you want to hear, okay. Sometimes you'll hear what you need to hear,

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not necessarily what you want to hear. But if you've got humility in your heart, you'll accept

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it and receive it and let the Holy Spirit give you grace to deal with it. And so,

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the house is in order, the kingdom impacts is in order. When the house is in order,

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God has to command blessing. God bless you. See you tomorrow.