Kia ora whānau. Right with you.
Anyway, if you want to take a photo of this, take a photo.
Anyway, I'll put it up. I'll put it up shortly.
Kia ora Elise.
Hallelujah.
Kia ora whānau.
Lois, Lois, Elise, Scotty.
Kia ora young blood, young warrior, Camille, Caroline.
Hi Jess, Kylie, hey Kyle. God bless you over there in Aussie, my bro. Yeah, let's do it.
Hi Olivia.
Kia ora Kenneth, Kathy.
Now today, you, hopefully, I sent through, hang on a sec.
Now, Bendy kindly put online this study.
So it's on the embassy page.
And I'm going to be operating off that today off the embassy page.
So hopefully you got that. That was, I think he did that on Thursday or Friday.
And they went up on Friday. Yeah, one of those days anyway.
So I'm going to put another couple up.
And so once they go up online, you'll need to, I don't know how you do it, you need to, I don't know, print it out.
If you've got a printer at home, or make a copy of it on your own notes.
But unfortunately, I'm not going to email these out because I'll be forever in a day sending out emails.
There's about 400 people on the course. And there's no way I'm doing 400 emails, unless somebody knows.
Anyway, so I'm going to do that study today.
And it's going back to church government.
And it's going back to church government, kingdom government.
Because if we don't have a grasp, if you don't understand the structure of it, you know, you are a human being made with the body.
And the fact is that we're, I think we're, I forget how many buckets of water in one bucket of mud we are.
We're just buckets of water and mud. Physically, our makeup, the substance of our makeup is physically so many buckets of water in a bucket of mud.
And so that's, you know, imagine pushing or putting all that stuff together. It's just a globby, big glob.
The only reason that we stand upright is because we have a skeleton.
Come here. Come here.
We have a skeleton.
And it's the skeleton, it's the structure that God puts in this mud and this mud and water.
If we didn't have structure, we'd just be a blob, just a glob, a blob.
And so structure is so important. God ordains structure. Without structure, things fall to pieces.
And so the body has to have the skeletal structure in order for it to operate.
And there has to be structure in marriage, has to have a structure.
The husband and wife and there's going to be, you know, operating out of love.
There's a structure. The Word of God gives us guidance on how to structure our lives.
Gives us guidance on how to structure our thoughts. Gives us guidance on how to structure our relationships.
In heaven, there's structure. There's someone in charge. There's someone that calls the shots.
The Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit, the Trinity.
There are angels. There are beasts. There are elders. There's creatures.
There's animals up there. There's structure in heaven.
And the structure in heaven is perfect harmony.
And that's why Jesus says, pray thy kingdom come and thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
And so the structure of heaven, the harmony of heaven, and there's two rules with heaven.
Two rules. And those rules are rules of love.
Number one, love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your mind, all your soul, all your strength.
Number one. Number two rule is love your neighbor as yourself.
Well, in heaven, it's easy to live by that structure because it's heaven.
There's no demons up there. There's no death up there. There's no decay.
It's just, it's heaven.
And so on earth, it's a bit harder to fulfill those two rules.
But they're the two rules of the kingdom.
They're the two rules of the church, they're the two rules of the Kingdom of God, of the
system that we live under, of the unshakable system that we live under.
Yeah, so, I was in India many years ago, well, yeah, quite a few years ago, and our church
had grown from nothing, oh sorry, had grown from 130, I think we were getting up around
about close to 2,000 at that time, and the church has grown because we're reaching Muslims,
Hindus, and Communists, and the Communists are one of the very, very volatile, very violent
over there, and there's one village quite a few hours from where the city we operated
in, and there's a village up there where the Communists murdered the pastor by chopping
off his head, his arms, and his legs, and they just left the stump of his body on the
steps of the church to put fear into the church members, and they had a message, if we will
do this to your leader, what will we do to you?
And so the church is just shut down because it's run by fear, so this is the militant
Communists, and the Lord said to me, as our church was growing in the area we're in, He
said that soon the Communists will, they will attack us, He said, but I want you to go to
them first to pre-empt their attack, and He said, I want you to prophesy over the leader,
I didn't realise at the time I was going to prophesy, but He said, I want you to speak
to the leader, and as I spoke to the leader I actually prophesied over him, and He gave
me a message to say to the leader, and He says, I don't want you going as a pastor,
I don't want you going representing church, I don't want you going representing churchianity,
I don't want you going representing Christianity, I want you just going as a son of my kingdom,
as a son of the kingdom, and just share this message.
So I went to the, this ties in with what I'm teaching today, so I went to him and he's
sitting there like this, actually I'll send a photo through to you, because my pastors
wasn't, they're not taking photos of this time, so there are guards out there, armed
guards you know with the AK-47s and it's awesome, and so he's sitting there like this and basically
says, what do you want?
And I said, hello sir, I just want to honour you and basically show respect to you for
what you are trying to do for your people, you know try to overcome the system of injustice
and try to lift your people up to a better quality of life, so I just want to acknowledge
that and recognise that, and I want to share that I would like to help you in your efforts
to bring a better future for your people, and he's still like this, and then he said,
no church talks to us like this, and I says, I don't represent a church, and I don't represent
a Christianity, I represent a system, but it's neither religious nor political, and
the system I represent is called a kingdom, and it has a king, and the king has two rules
in this kingdom, and the kingdom is, the first rule is that I'm to love my God with
all my heart and soul, and the second rule is I'm to love my neighbour as myself, your
poor are my neighbours, your widows are our neighbours, those who are being oppressed
by injustice, they are our neighbours, and I said, so I represent the system of the kingdom
and I want to come and help share our love for our neighbours, but through practical
ways, I said, I want to put my money where my mouth is, and we want to help the uneducated
poor children in your neighbourhood, we want to help build houses for your widows and your
orphans, we want to help provide food and a better way of living, I said, why should
we fight as Christians and communists, why should we concentrate fighting one another
when our real enemy is injustice, and if we were joined together we could break that power
of injustice over our poor, and this guy's like this, and he puts his, his body language
changes and he just puts his hand down, so I kept talking him like this, and I said,
I know that you have in your heart to help lift your people out of the yoke of injustice,
and you're doing it politically, you're using communism as a method, I see where your heart
is, and you have a good heart, I said, I come from the land that sees the sun rise
first before any other nation in the world, my city sees it before any other nation, I
come from the land that sees the dawn of a new day before anyone else in the world, and
I believe that God wants you to bring a new day in your life, and the dawn of a new day
to break forth, and that I'm bringing a message.
from the dawn of a new day, and that God wants to bring a new day through you, and
that if we will work together in this kingdom, we'll do far much better, far
much more for our people, rather than all the dysfunction. And this guy, he stands
up, this communist leader stands up, and he leant forward, and he said to me, pray
for me. This is the man who previously, no church has talked, he's very arrogant, very
didn't want anything to do with us, to put his head forward and saying, pray for me.
I mean, that's the Spirit of the Lord, that's unction, that's the anointing,
that's not by might or power, that's by Spirit, that's not me. So I prayed over this
man, and from this point on, that point on, that's about six, easy six years ago,
he has been an alliance of the kingdom, and we don't fight, he doesn't harass
our teams when we go into their villages now. In fact, when I go into their
villages, they open up their village, and they welcome me in to preach, and other
pastors, other churches, they have burnt down their material, they have beaten
them up, but they love us, they open up to us. Why? Because I don't preach the
gospel of churchianity or Christianity, I preach the gospel Jesus told us to
preach, the gospel of the kingdom of God, and the kingdom has two laws, love God
with all your heart, and express that love for God by expressing love for
your neighbor, and our neighbors are not just Christians, our neighbors are the
sinners, the gays, the communists, the Hindu, the people, just take away
all the labels, they're just people, they're human beings, love human beings, that's all
it is. So this man now, he comes to our church at least twice a year, he comes as
an invited guest, and he helps hand out books to the children, or yeah, he just
helps, he's part of the work that we're doing, and we have built seven houses
over there in India, we have built a house for a Muslim widow and her
orphans, a Hindu widow and her orphans, and a communist widow and her
orphans, and when we had the housing minister come and open the house for, the
first house for the communist lady, the communist family, the communist leader
was there, and he came up to me, and this is another communist leader, he came up
to me, and he had tears in his eyes, and he shook my hand, he said you've
done more for us in one year than we've been able to do in ten years, and so
there's a communist leader standing with me, a Hindu housing minister, a communist
widow and her orphans, there's also a Muslim widow and orphans, so that's
the kingdom, the kingdom of God brings people together, we've got to understand
the kingdom, we've got to understand that God has structure, and the church has to
have structure, and it's got to be God's structure, and so I'm going to talk
to you about building a church, and church government, and how to build
that, how to build it, so I'm going to go through these notes, hopefully that you
have got, if you haven't got them, kaiti pai, go back, text, message Benji and say
where are they, see my unit is unit six on the embassy, so if you go into the
embassy unit six, there's all my teaching, all my sessions, and so hopefully this
study should be there, and it is called church, let's see it's called module two
lesson three, the pattern, okay should be there, and on the first page you should
have a man, so I've got to put that there with pictures, because I'm
visual, and we're visual, and Jesus taught by visual, by you know, put pictures in
your mind, okay so I'm gonna go through this, and if you haven't got the study
kaiti pai, you can just, you'll still catch something of it, okay, and then I'm
gonna, if I have time, I'm gonna go on how to upgrade yourself academically, how to
upgrade yourself spiritually, how to upgrade yourself mentally, by doing, how
to do, how to study the Word of God, how to study the Bible, how to get an
overview of the Bible, how to do something with your time, okay, more than
what you're doing here, okay, so church government, building the church, and so
after this, the next session will be about kingdom, kingdom structure, church
structure, kingdom structure, okay, okay, if you're just tuning in, this probably
won't make much sense to you, unless you've done the, looked at the sessions
I've already talked about on church government, and church structure, so I
don't know what units are, you can go back to that, but here we go, we must
build according to the pattern, the church belongs to Jesus, and just as he
gave us a structure for our bodies, and their structure in heaven, their
structure in the natural order of society.
there's structure in the police force, there's structure in the army, there's structure in the
health systems, there's structure in the hospital, everything's got a structure.
You imagine an organisation running without structure. Even in sport, there's structure.
There's a coach, there's a captain, there's a team. Everyone's got structure and everybody's
got to know their place in that structure to help that structure operate. And I think it's
really interesting that, sorry to be negative, but it's reality, that people come to church
and they're raised in a structure, a government structure, we're under the government,
we drive on the road according to the right side of the road because that's a structure,
that we're the laws of the land, we're structured to live under that. We go to work, we obey our
boss because it's a structure we live under. We have a marriage, we have husbands and wives,
live under the structure of husband and wife, and we live under structure and we submit to
structure and to God-ordained structures all around us. But I've seen Christians come to church
and suddenly they don't want to have any structure in church. They say, no, I want to do what I want
to do. I want to prophesy wherever I want to prophesy. I don't want to need to sit under a
pastor and tell me what to do. And suddenly structure goes out the window. And I call it,
it's called the charismatics, charismatic movement. Well, sometimes I think it's like
the charismaniacs. You've got to have structure in church. It's got to have structure in church.
Now, there are some people where there's been abusive church leadership, there's been abusive
churches, and there's been wacky churches. I'm not talking about them, okay? I'm talking about
the churches Jesus is in charge of. Now, you might be saying, but I got hurt there. Look,
I'm not talking about perfect churches because there's none on earth. There's no perfect church
on earth. If you don't believe me, read Revelations 2 and 3. There's only a couple of churches Jesus
commands, but they're not perfect. So when people hear this, sometimes their shackles go up because
they've been hurt by church, hurt by church leadership. But I've got to say, come on,
you've got to get over yourself. You've got to get over it. And I'm not memonizing your pain,
but you've got to learn to put Jesus above your pain, Jesus above dysfunction, Jesus above what
happened in the past. You can't keep moving forward, looking in the past, being defined by
your past or being defined by churches of the past. We've got to build Jesus' church. We've
got to build according to His pattern. So I've determined instead of being part of the problem
in church, I'm going to be part of the solution. Instead of criticizing the way where church isn't,
I'm going to help build the church to where she should be. So in the name of Jesus, let's get
going with this study. Jesus has a structure for the church, okay? Psalm 127. It says,
This is where you should be filling in. So you'll have empty spots there. So
for those of you who got the study, printed them out, I'm going through this with you right now.
So unless the Lord builds the house, its builders labour in vain, okay? So we need, the Lord's got
to be helping build the house. The next one is Exodus 25 verse 9.
So make this tabernacle, all its furnishings, the blank, where the blank is, exactly
like the next blank pattern. I'm sorry if you haven't got this, but that's what it's saying.
Make the tabernacle, all its furnishings, exactly according to the pattern. Again, we're seeing from
Old Testament that the church of the New Testament is founded on the shadow of the Old Testament.
Everything that's happening in our lives today, the shadow of it was written in the Old Testament.
When people, all they quote is New Testament, but they don't have any depth of the principles
and the patterns of God, they go back through to the Old Testament. So the Old Testament is like a
foundation, and the New Testament is what's built on top of that, okay? So you've got to use the old
and the new. And so I always, most times, when I'm doing a teaching, I'll have a balance of the old
and the new. You can see the pattern in the Old Testament and the pattern in the New Testament,
okay? So imagine building a house.
Yeah, so imagine building a house, and you start trying to build the roof first. I mean,
that's crazy. Imagine building a house, and instead you're trying to build the floor,
or put bring the carpet in. Now, you've got to build the foundation for a stay.
You've got to put a foundation.
If you're going to build a house, you've got to start with the foundation. You should start with the ground,
okay, the land first. Don't build on sand, okay? You've got to find rock, got to find a solid bed.
And Jesus, the word, the rock is the word of God. So you've got to build on the word of God,
the standard, the rock, the foundation of the church is the word of God, right? Okay, that's,
that's, that's the rock bed we build on. And Matthew 16, 18, there's a blank, I will build my,
there's a blank, church, okay? And the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
Okay, going over, over the page. Why do we need leadership structure?
Okay, well, how would a rugby team get on without a captain or a coach?
How would an army get on without anyone in charge, without a general or a, or a major?
How do families cope when parents don't take their position of parental authority?
When there's no God-ordained structure in a marriage, in a family, in a society, it turns
to mush. So imagine a church without godly structure, turns to mush. You've got to have
God-ordained structure in the church. Okay, Mark chapter 12, verse 10. Have you not even read the
scripture, the stone which the builders rejected has become, now here's the blanks to fill in,
the chief cornerstone, the chief cornerstone.
Fill it in. Welcome to school. So those of you watching, if you don't have these notes,
please look out for what I'm going to put back on the embassy or Benji will put up
for the notes so you can print them out or go through them in some way. Excuse me a minute.
Okay, moving on. Ephesians 2, verse 19 and 20, the next one below.
The household of God having been built on the foundation,
the blank is foundation, put in the words foundation.
Right there, foundation. So the question came, what is the foundation of the church?
And I automatically said, oh Jesus, but they said, no, it's not Jesus. He's, what? That's blasphemy.
Of course it's Jesus. He's the foundation of everything. Now he's the foundation of our faith,
but he's not the foundation of the church. He is the cornerstone. He's the chief cornerstone,
but he's not the foundation. So what's the foundation? Well, Ephesians 2, 19 and 20,
the household of God having been built on the foundation of the, so the word foundation,
of the apostles and prophets. Jesus Christ himself being the chief cornerstone. So he's the stone
right on the end of the building. You take that stone, everything falls, but that stone's there.
But then the foundation, the one that really is the apostle and the prophet.
Interesting, isn't it? That is the foundation of the apostles and prophets,
the foundation of the church. Okay, let's turn over to...
Some churches are built on traditions. Some churches are built on the forefathers' traditions,
and some of these could be good godly traditions, good godly foundations.
Some could be built on philosophies. Now some are being built on the foundation of humanism,
and you've got to be careful what you build on because it's not built on the
foundation that Jesus ordained, the ministry of the apostle and the prophet, then it's a flop.
Okay, so these are not my words. These are his words. So we turn over to the next page.
Okay, and you see a straight stick and a crooked stick. This is interesting. You could
pick up a branch that fell off a tree and put it up, and it looks really, really straight,
until you get a ruler and put it next to it, and you make a comparison. Oh, it doesn't look as
straight as it did before. And the crooked stick and the straight stick, see,
people might look pretty righteous. They might look like they're living righteous lives, and
they don't swear, and they don't hurt people, and their life looks pretty righteous until you put
Jesus next to them, and you see his life, and then the boy. And so Jesus is the straight stick. The
Word of God is the straight stick. We judge everything by the straight stick, by the Word
of God, not by human philosophy, not by human opinions.
not by human traditions, not what you think or I think, but what the Word of God says.
We're going to build the house of God according to the straight stick of the Word of God,
the Word of Jesus. So a crooked stick looks pretty straight until it's compared with a
straight stick. Jesus is our straight stick. He is our point of reference. He is the one we compare
ourselves against. In like manner, we must build the church according to the straight stick of His
pattern. Unless the Lord builds the house, they that build it labor in vain. We must build
according to the straight stick of the Word of God, not the crooked stick of man's opinion,
not the crooked stick of religious traditions, not the crooked stick of charismaniac's opinions.
We've got to build according to the straight stick of what the Word of God says, how His church is to
be built. And it has to have a foundation. It has to have the foundation of the apostles and the
prophets. It has to have structure. God loves His people. You know what church is? Church is not the
building. Church is not an organization, although it operates like one. It is not an organization.
It is a whānau. It is a family. As Māori, we understand this concept. It's a family.
And in a family, they're summoned. In a family, Dad's voice is the loudest, okay? Not an abusive
Dad, not a dictatorial Dad, not a religious Dad, not an overbearing, oppressive Dad,
but a Dad who loves us. His voice is the loudest. What Dad says, kids listen to. And Mum as well.
We love Mum. Church is a whānau. And we've got brothers and sisters. Hallelujah. Anyway,
we're getting there, whānau. And so, you've got to have the crooked stick pushed aside and
right up, we'll get the straight stick of God's Word, the words of Jesus Christ.
Now, in a church, there's differences of ministries and giftings, okay? Square pegs don't
fit in round holes. Square pegs don't fit in round holes, okay? And that's been part of the problem
in building the church in the West, is that we're trying to put square pegs in round holes.
Round holes, square pegs round holes, come on. And what I'm saying is that we've got to
recognize the different functions and the giftings that God has given to different
members of the body of Christ. And for instance, you don't try to make an apostle a pastor.
You don't try and make a prophet a teacher necessarily. You don't try and make a teacher
an apostle. You don't try and make an evangelist a prophet. You've got to recognize the giftings
and the functions God gave to the fivefold, and we'll come to that in a minute, that they've got
to be put in their right position. And to try and lead the church, the body of Christ, to try to
lead it by pastors and teachers and administrators, it's just not, it's got to flop. It's not according
to pattern. And they may be the best teachers and the best pastors and godly administrators,
but it's not God's pattern. It's the crooked stick. And we've got to begin to recognize and
acknowledge there's apostles and prophets alive today in our nation who have so much to offer the
body of Christ. But for one reason or another, they don't recognize the body of Christ, the church in
general, doesn't recognize them because they're uneducated. They're uneducated. They don't know
this stuff. Church government. They don't know about church structure, church government, that
God has structure. And it's just like every man doing his own thing. In the days of judges,
there was a season where there was no teaching priest in the country. And it says that
every man did what was right in his own eyes. And for too long the church has done,
I'm speaking generally, okay? I'm not speaking over every church. There are great churches in
our nation. There have been great churches in our nation for decades and decades. So I'm not
criticizing. Remember, I'm part of the solution to help build God's house. But often they have been,
we can't just do what's right in our own eyes. We can't just build churches the way that we
think they should be built in our own eyes. We've got to suck it up and look at what the pattern is
and make, build it exactly according to the pattern that God gave us,
through his word, through his son, Jesus. So Romans 12,
verse 12, chapter 12, verse four and six, for as we are many members in one body,
but all the members do not have the same function, fill in function. So, okay, sorry,
function. F-U-N-C-T-I-O-N. Okay. So we are many. So we
being many are the blank one body right one body okay so now you're filled in the blank
so it reads like this for as we are many members in one body but all the members do not have
the same function so we being many are one body in Christ and individually members of
one another having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us let us use
them prophecy let us prophesy in proportion to our faith etc etc okay you turn over the
page okay you've got this so the church well you don't have the words filled this is the
teacher's manual so I'm reading out to fill in the missing point I made this study up
years ago I made this up about 11 years ago in 2008 and I told it to a church I told it
to a church over in India and our church has grown exponentially and because it's got a
good foundation and I'm not yeah and it just has it's I mean her church can go from 130
to 3007 years and I'm only there I was only there seven to ten days a year it's not just
me it's they apply this stuff they apply and they build the church according to the pattern
that God has shown them from the word so now if we can get churches like that built in New Zealand
imagine that so here let's read fill in the blanks the church is made up of blank is members
it's right in members okay with many different right and different that's your blank functions
and God given abilities right and abilities a b i l i t i e s okay although every member m e m b
e r every member has an equal position p o s i t i o n before God not all members have the same
function of ministry so right and function of ministry before God and so it should read
understanding church structure understanding church government understanding kingdom kingdom
transformation the church is made up of members with many different functions and God-given
abilities although every member has an equal position before God not all members have the
same function of ministry before God so we're all equal position before God he loves us all
there's no difference in that in our in our position of love before God okay but our function
before God's God is different we have different functions some are here some are there some are
there okay there's a the back parts body that Paul talks about there's a not so seemingly parts of
the body and your physical body got different functions you can't the eye you know the the
butt can't say to the eye hey I'm gonna be in charge today I'm gonna be sitting up here I said
come on you're out of order you're out of structures ghastly illustration isn't it but face
so so every member of your body is important but it's it's in its place for a reason the eyes are
up here the nose is here the mouth is here it's not down here it's not on the toe all right and
it doesn't get upset it's not divided against itself your toes not having an argument with
your nose I should be up there who do you think you are being the nose up there I was important
I was loved as the how stupid is that and yet that is the mentality that the charismatic mentality
that's been going on for decades and churches of Christians insecure they don't know who they are
they don't know their sonship identity they don't know the beloved sons of God when you get that
you don't care where you are you're just part of the body you're happy to be part of the body and
to help the body to function in order to express Jesus through the body that's what it's all about
so so we have different functions okay now the function the the man's function or man's leadership
structure and businesses is of course a CEO and there's the the the whatever who is I'm an under
him and then there's this yeah different function different I don't know who their president or
whatever in the army you have the general you have the president United States and you have
the generals and then you got all those underneath the majors and sub lieutenants all that sort of
stuff this structure and even the Romans and Terence's I'm a man under authority and I have
authority under me okay so being understanding your your position understanding your function
okay okay your position before God as your greatly beloved okay so in
Apostle or somebody else comes along with a function that's above yours and if you get all insecure and all hey
I should be out there. God loves me just as much. That's an example. That's just I
an expression of
Rejection in your life. That's an expression of something in your heart that you need to deal with. That's an expression of
Insecurity that it's not a position that's going to make you feel significant. It's your it's it's your identity
It's your identity in Christ knowing that you don't have to have a function up there that your identity
Puts you in equal position and love before God
Identity is more important than your sense of significance is more important than your function
So so I hope this is helping somebody out there
Amen
Hallelujah, sorry, somebody's trying to ring through I'm just pressing the screen all the time. Can't get through at the moment pilot
So you have natural abilities to help build the church you have abilities you have talents
You have giftings that God has given you to help build the church of old terror to be something that expresses
Expresses Jesus and you may not have the function when you're up here a prophet or an apostle
You may not be they have the fun. You know, I might not have the function of evangelist or a pastor or a teacher
It's KT pi find out what your function is because it's important to the body of Christ
On a Mirai everybody's important. It's not just a coma to her on the pipeline
She is the core at all the fight corridor the corridor
It's our cooks out the back that are cooking the kai and eat in order to feed the the the coma to it
Who can do the core at all?
It's it's the cooks on the back that are providing the kai to welcome the money hitting on the visitors on
Everybody's important. It's the cleaners to clean up afterwards
It's the hunters who go and and bring the pork and and that's the at the gardeners get and bring the kumara and the vegeta
Everybody's important the body of Christ
everybody
But but the position that we have in the Mirai isn't what gives us a sense of significance
The fact is the sense of significance comes from the fact that hey, I'm part of this Iwi. I'm part of this hapu
I'm part of this panel and and it's a sense of identity and that's why we'll go hunting. We'll go to the garden
We'll we'll contribute to the well-being of the function of the Mirai because it's not about me. It's not about one person
It's about the Mirai and it's about the ministry of the Mirai to the people and so the church is meant to be it's not
About oh look at me. I'm a prophet. Oh, I'm a deserter. Oh, please recognize me recognize me
I've got this gifting
That's a terrible expression of deep insecurity of people who have never come into a relationship
With father and don't understand that they're beloved sons and beloved daughters of God that they're greatly beloved for who they are
Not what they try to do and some of these poor people unfortunately have been raised in a performance to police
System or performed to police family where unless you got high marks and I'm generalizing a bit here unless you got high marks
You never got any praise for mum or dad unless you did. Well, you've got any praise
I mean it goes goes all the way down. It goes all the way down in different aspects of
Trying to please to please. Yeah
Rather trying to perform to please with father with God, you don't have to perform to please he's pleased with you
He loves you for who you are and you've got to get to that place
So whether you know, you're greatly beloved where you know
Your position before God is equal to anyone else and you doesn't doesn't matter if somebody comes along with a with a heart with a
Gifting above yours. You don't get insecure
You don't feel like you're you're look that that you're suddenly rejected because your rejections not based on what you do
It's not based in your in your ministry. It's not based in your function. It's based in your position before God. Okay, let's move on
Ephesians that night to 1920 in the household of God heaven
Foundation so put the word foundation. Sorry, Ernest can't get through at the moment, bro. I'm doing a quarter
Okay
Foundations of the Apostles and the prophets Jesus Christ himself being the chief cornerstone. Okay, so we're building we're giving you knowledge. We're giving you
understanding
of the
Structure of the house of God. Okay. This is all this is not revelation. It's information for many
Okay, Nick going on down there. These are the foundational leadership ministries needed to build the church
according to the pattern that God has given us in the Bible and
1 Corinthians 12 28. Okay, there's some blanks that you've got to fill in here
I'll read them out in and in the church. God has appointed first of all
Apostles
And in the church God has appointed
Not me not you not our opinions, but this is God has appointed
first
This is in the church. God has appointed first in the church
Apostles, okay
It doesn't mean if the church here you belong to that
There's a pastor who runs the church or a teacher or an evangelist or a prophet doesn't it doesn't mean okay
Don't suddenly leave your church because there's not a possible leading your church. There's very few churches in this nation being led by Apostles
We'll go we'll come to that
You just stay where you are and learn to serve and be faithful to your pastor
And I'm sure he's a faithful partner
So don't take this out of context. You're just learning so okay. We're in we're doing ABC's wait till we
Yeah, okay and second prophets right and prophets
This is one Corinthians 12 28 third teachers
This is God's structure for his church
teachers
then
Workers of miracles
No miracles me am I are a CLE and also those having gifts of healing
H-e-a-l-i-n-g
those able to help
H-e-l-p
others those with the gifts of administration a
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m-i-n-i-s
t-r-a-t
A-t-i-o-n
and
those speaking
s-p-e-a-k-i-n-g
speaking in different tongues
So isn't that interesting?
that God
has a pattern for church and
Paul's Paul speaking here, but he's saying from God and the inspiration of the Holy Spirit in the church God has appointed first
So in the church in the church, okay first the church throughout the church
God has appointed first
Apostle then prophets then teachers then workers of miracles man
What a long way the church has come from away from this pattern
How do you see miracles and healings in your church every week all through the day all through the week?
Not just on Sunday, I mean that's that's the expression
That's that's what the giftings of the church and the church is meant to be operating
There's going to be this is just normal miracles
I mean, I thank God for the gift that he's given me us
there's been over a hundred testimonies come in over the last 18 days or less of
Healings and about a third of them. I'd say are miracles instantaneous healings. This is normal
How come it's just only a few of us doing this in this nation. You should be doing it. Well, maybe not
What's your function if you're not a worker of miracles or you know, don't try to be one
But you are somebody important your function and the body of Christ is so necessary
Let's go down to the next page 1 Corinthians 12 28 and God has appointed these in the church. We've already done that
Okay, so come into a close whanau
Other leadership roles in the church
Okay, Ephesians 4 11 and 13 it was he Jesus who gave some to be Apostles some to be
Prophets. Okay, we're in prophets
And some to be evangelists put in evangelists
And some to be pastors put in pastors
And teachers put in teachers
So God gives these giftings these functions to the body price now the question is why why does God give this
This is why to prepare gods of people for works of service
So they're given for you and me to prepare us for the works of service
So that the body of Christ may be built right and built
So the function the function of these giftings is not to oppress us hold you down or me down is to help build us up
It's how us to be built up not down push down build up
Until how long how long will get to be built up? Well until we
Build up, okay, so the function of these giftings is not to oppress us
Hold you down or me down is to help build us up as help us to be built up
Well until we all reach unity are we there yet? Nah
all reach unity
to the in the faith in
the in the knowledge of the Son of God and become
Mature right and mature become mature
Wow
Attaining to the whole measure of the fullness right and fullness
the fullness of Christ
so
the fivefold
gifting the fivefold function
Apostle, prophet, evangelist, pastor, and teacher is given to build us up, not push
us down.
To build us up.
Why?
That we might be built up until we reach unity in the faith, until we come to a place of
spiritual academic maturity, that we are no longer infants, babies, being tossed to and
fro by every wind of doctrine and every opinion of who they say this and they say that.
That's why the fivefold is given.
It was him who gave some to be apostles and some to be prophets, some to be evangelists,
some to be pastors, some to be teachers.
So I'm just going to tie over there right now because what I'm seeing online is there's
a lot of people who don't have the notes, okay?
So listen, if you're reading a book, right?
And it's got, I don't know, 10 chapters, and as you're reading your book and you decide
to miss a chapter or two, then when you finish the book, you're not going to have the full
understanding of what the story's about.
Because what you have taken, missing one or two chapters, what you read at the end is
out of context of the foundation of the other teachings, you see, of the other chapters.
You wouldn't read a book and miss out two or three or four or five chapters and get
to the end of the story and only have half an understanding of what the story's about.
Same with these sessions, I would encourage you to start from day one.
Because if you're just going to come straight on here, chances are some of you are going
to take this out of the context of what I'm speaking.
You haven't heard my heart, my spirit, you don't know my story.
And so, you know, just a bit of intelligence would be start at page one, start at day one,
and then day two, and then day three.
Because the teachings I'm giving are sequential, they're in a sequence, okay?
And each sequence is building line upon line, precept upon precept.
So if you're watching this stuff, and you're just grabbing a unit here and a unit there,
kaiti pai, God bless you, I hope it blesses you, I hope it encourages you, I'm sure it
will.
But if you want to be a history maker, if you want to really do something to bring change,
not just to bring change to your life, or to change a couple of people around your life,
but to bring change to a nation, then we've got to be serious about this.
And realize in order to help bring change to the nation, there has to be reformation.
Reformation is coming to the body of Christ, reformation, which will lead in, I believe,
to social transformation.
And if we're seriously wanting to see something done in our time in history, then, you know,
we need to upskill, we need to upgrade, we need to do this stuff.
And so the stuff that I'm teaching, it's only a drop in the ocean.
There's other amazing apostles and prophets I'm working in collaboration with, Benji,
and Joseph, and Matt, and on the embassy.
And hey, we're just a bunch of guys with fire and passion in our hearts.
And we just want to, you know, help change the world.
That's all, nothing, nothing major, nothing big, just change the world.
Okay, just to make history, to shake some cities and to change some nations.
That's all.
Jesus said, the works I do, you will do also.
We can play a part.
And I may not be able to change the world, but I can make a world of change with what
I've got, okay?
I may not be able to change the world, but I can make a world of change with what I've
got.
Same for you, you may not be able to change the world, but you and I together, we can
make a world of change, which in turn can result in a changed world.
So whanau, I'm going to leave it at that, I'm going to stop there.
We're just obviously not going to have time to do this kōrero, I'll just leave that up
there for when we do have time.
I would think we have probably two or three more of these to go.
And so going back to, don't be missing slots, because those of you who have missed it, you've
missed the notes.
And I can't help you there.
You'll have to dig them out somewhere.
I don't know where they are, they'll be up there in the embassy somewhere.
So Benji, I'm going to ask him to put up the next two set of notes.
And so it's up to you, your hanga, seek them out, find where they are, and print them out
or do whatever you need to do in order to be able to go through this with me.
Hareluya, this is just a taste of things that are coming.
After the 30 days, what are we on?
Day 19, 20.
So there's 11 more days to go.
What's after 30 days?
So I have been planning for a couple of years now to do Wari Activist course online.
And it's not the same as the two day Wari Activist course, which I've got, I've postponed
a few of them.
Hamilton coming up, there's Christchurch coming up, going to Christchurch twice,
there's Ruakaka, there's West Auckland. So I've got some Wari Activist
course physical teacher where I come along and I give two days of impartation
and it's the sum of the stuff you're getting, some of that gets shared but
this is activating the physical practical applications where I teach
people how to begin to operate in a level of faith of releasing glory,
releasing miracles that I can't do online. I just can't do that online, it's
just impossible. I've got to be there. And so I'm still doing these two-day
courses and I'm just assessing whether I'll keep doing, whether
these will be the last that I do in New Zealand. But anyway, what I am
doing is I want to reach more people with this teaching and I want to
empower the body of Christ, really I do. We've got to change this nation, then I'm
going to do my part to raise up the leaders that are needed to help
change this nation, the leadership in this nation. And it's not just church
leaders, it's leaders out there, entrepreneurial, it's those in
politics, it's those in media, social and not just social media but media and the
arts and health and education and especially the arts and how to use
the arts to share the Kingdom of God. There's so many incredible people out
there with incredible giftings and some of you, all you need is a bit of
encouragement. Now I won't become your pastor and I will in part become a
mentor to you and I'll help share principles and patterns and prophetic
words and to offer you to get there. So I'm looking at starting this, it's
going to be a seven-week online warrior activist course, seven weeks. And so the
deeper level than what I'm doing here and that way you will get notes, okay,
they'll be sent to you, you'll be writing them out and so forth. This is just my
effort to to bless the body of Christ with what I've got, the little I've got,
with the resource I have. So I'm just doing this, I can do this freely. But I'm
going to do a seven-week warrior activist course and I'll let you know as it's
coming and to those who want to register to that, you'll be able to register for
that. And there will be a fee for that of course because I'm going to be
printing off material, sending stuff around and also it's, well, I'll do
teaching soon and I'll talk about poverty mentality, about victim mentality.
Poverty mentality always wants to receive something for nothing but never
wants to give anything back. It wants to reap but it doesn't want to sow
and that's a poverty mentality. And this nation has got a bad poverty
mentality. It's got a poor poverty mentality and if it sees other Kiwis
doing well, often the comment is, oh well, who do they think they are? Where did
they get that? Or where did they get the money to do that? And it's just a
terrible, terrible poverty mentality, victim mentality. And so we need to smash
that out of the way. We need to applaud people who are doing well in our nation.
We need to applaud people who are doing good. We need to applaud people who are
prospering, not pull them down because it offends our little religious
mindset. So I'm going to be doing teaching on that and it's only those
who've got that stuff out of their way, who don't have that, who've got sonship
in their heart and don't have poverty in their heart, you'll want to be part of
the seven-week course. Then from the seven-week course, I'm building this up
because I'm using it like a, to draw in those who are carrying these giftings. I
want to know who you are and I want to know how we can, how I can connect to you
and how I can give my best to you to help bring you up into the, which is
after the seven-week warrior discipleship course online. There's a
thing I'm working on and it's going to be called the World Changes Academy, okay.
Like a lot of what Benji's doing with Embassy, we're already doing it. I mean
you can never have enough of a good thing because there's millions in the
world. There's billions of, there's millions or billions, a billion
Christians, okay, at least and there are millions of believers out there and we
all need, we all need to be equipped and Joseph does a training that I can't
do and Benji does a ministry that I can't do and Matt reaches people that I
can't reach and I can put my part and reach you, God's people, in a way that
they can't reach. We need one another but we acknowledge each other's function and
gifting. We want to use it to the best of our ability to build you up, to build
God's people up, the sons of God, daughters of God, whom creation is groaning and
travailing for the appearing of the sons and daughters. We want creation to begin
to hear your footprints on the earth and instead of travailing, it begins to say, sigh,
ah, at last the sons and daughters of God are here, hallelujah, and this healing
begins to come upon our land, healing upon our people, healing upon our
upon our nation, as the kingdom begins to invade every sphere of influence, every sphere
of strata in our society.
And so, that's going to be the History Makers Academy.
That's going to be a 12-month course, okay?
And don't think, oh, I'm going to sign up for that.
There's a price to pay, okay?
And so, I'm just letting you know in advance, that's what's after 30 days.
Where do we go after the 30 days of Free Wari Activist Course Teaching?
So there you go, whānau.
I'm going to pray for those now who need healing.
I'm going to pray for those who need a touch from God, actually.
I don't usually pray for those who need a touch from God.
I only generally pray for those who need healing, who physically need physical healing.
That's the gift I carry.
It's the healing of the physical bodies, it's the casting out of demons.
When I pray and lay hands on people, it's for impartation, other than for healing with
laying on of hands.
So what I do, I pray, my ministry is for results, okay?
It's not just for a nice little feeling, nice touch.
You can get somebody else to pray for you for that.
I don't pray for little touches.
My prayers bless, but I pray for change, I pray for physical change, I pray for change
in reality.
I change for turnarounds.
I change for diagnosis and prognosis to be turned around.
I pray for the physical man, the body, and the soul, and the encouragement by the spirit.
So if that's you, you're needing physical healing right now, a physical touch, here's
the deal, okay?
Jesus is going to touch you, Jesus is going to heal you.
Some of you will be healed, you'll feel slightly better.
And hour by hour throughout the day, you're going to feel like you're just recovering
more and more.
That's called recovery.
That's the gifts of healing, operating, recovery, recovery, recovery.
And others, when I pray for you, you're going to instantaneously, the pain's going to go
instantly.
That's a miracle.
That's the working of miracles.
And so here's the deal.
That's a gift that God has given me freely that I'm going to freely release to you, okay?
Freely I've received, freely I'm going to give.
Now you're getting it for free, and so freely you should honour Jesus.
To testify is to glorify.
So the moment he touches you, the moment you are healed, the moment you receive that
miracle, I want you to reply with three answers to three questions.
What did you have?
How long did you have it?
How do you know you're healed?
Just those three answers.
Just share with me what you had, how long you had it, and how you know you're healed.
To testify is to glorify, okay?
So the moment Jesus touches you, heals you, does that miracle upon you, opens that air,
opens those eyes, clears away that cataract, takes all that pain, that arthritic pain out
of your throat, out of your back, out of your stomach, out of your esophagus, out of your
side.
The moment it has disappeared, you freely testify for the glory of Jesus.
Okay, Te Pai?
Okay, whānau, here we go, about to pray now.
Get ready to lean forward like this into the presence of Jesus, and touch the screen, and
as you touch the screen, you touch my hand, I'm going to touch your hand in the name of
Jesus.
Are you ready?
Okay, this is my function, it's the gifting on me.
It's not me, it's the gifting on me.
It's Jesus flowing through me, okay?
It's not me.
I don't have a great gift of, it's just Jesus, right?
It's Jesus.
I'm lifting up Jesus' ministry, not my ministry, okay?
I'm lifting up His ministry.
His ministry is with you always.
Mine's only with you online, so to speak.
Are you ready?
In the name of Jesus of Nazareth, I will invite you to lean forward into the wonderful presence
of Yeshua.
The wonderful presence, Yeshua HaMashiach.
The wonderful presence of Yehudaite.
The wonderful presence of Yeshu, bravo.
The wonderful presence of Jesus Christ.
He's known by different terms and different languages, different names, but He's the same
yesterday, today, forever.
I want you to lean into His presence on the count of three.
And as you do that, that's your point of connection, that's your act of faith.
Touch the screen and the power of Jesus Christ come upon you.
And as many as touched Him was made healed, was made whole back then, 2,000 years ago.
The same Jesus that they touched then will make you whole.
In the name of Jesus, and lean forward on the count of three.
Two.
Three.
Lean forward, touch the screen if you can.
Right now.
Father, I thank you as my friend is touching, as I'm touching my hand, as I touch the screen,
it's your hand Lord, there's a three-fold cord here.
There's not just my hand, there's your hand.
their hand in my hand.
And I thank you for that power,
like the electricity of heaven,
that's generated by the love of God, the Father,
exuding through this body right now.
I thank you, Father.
It's literally driving out the pain.
It's literally driving out that sluggishness,
that sort of buildup, that blockage is just,
boom, be open now in the name of Jesus.
Yes, I thank you, Lord.
It's just open that, that Lord,
let that, Lord, let that,
that sore just, Lord, just be healed right now
as it just opens up and all that pus
just flows out right now.
Thank you, Jesus.
All that infirmity, all that infection
just flows out right now.
Thank you, Jesus.
Give you praise, Lord, I give you praise.
Thank you, Jesus, for the fire of your presence,
the healing anointing right now
going through the top of your head
to the soles of your feet,
from fingertip to fingertip,
there by the, He who was wounded
for your diseases.
Jesus who bore your sin in His own body on the cross.
You're dead to sin and you're alive to righteousness now.
You're dead to disease and you're alive to health right now.
You're dead to curses and you're alive
to blessings right now.
And by His wounds, you have been healed.
Thank you, Jesus of Nazareth, Amen.
God bless you.
Finally, we'll see you tomorrow.
Keep your eyes out on Embassy
so that you get to print out,
actually, the notes that I've just worked from,
they're already on Embassy somewhere.
So find them and print them out
because we haven't finished,
we'll be doing them tomorrow.
And, but also print out the other ones
that I'm gonna get Benji to print.
Okay, God bless you finally.
I love you heaps, man.
Bless you.