WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:09.000 Hallelujah, hallelujah, whoop, kia ora whānau, dream team. 2 00:00:13.000 --> 00:00:21.000 Hallelujah, oh it's hot here in Gizzee, the glory, the fire of heaven, thank you Jesus. 3 00:00:22.000 --> 00:00:35.000 Hallelujah, hey, kia ora Jackie, Francis, kia ora Francis, Hayley, hi darling, Auckland, how are you? 4 00:00:36.000 --> 00:00:42.000 Hallelujah, kia ora Jay, Helen, thank you Jesus. 5 00:00:43.000 --> 00:00:50.000 So I think we'll just start with a waiata to Jesus, I just feel like worshipping him. 6 00:00:51.000 --> 00:00:55.000 Hallelujah, so if you need to watch me worship, join in. 7 00:00:56.000 --> 00:01:00.000 Where's my kita? Hang on a sec, I'll get my kit. 8 00:01:22.000 --> 00:01:25.000 So Jess is busy in there cooking, baking. 9 00:01:26.000 --> 00:01:34.000 So tomorrow morning, Jess and I are going to be on and we're going to just share some tips on conflict resolution. 10 00:01:35.000 --> 00:01:43.000 The title I put on is going from the honeymoon from hell to the marriage blessed by heaven. 11 00:01:43.000 --> 00:01:54.000 And so she's going to be sharing her side of the story and I'll be sharing, and so we'll just be sharing, testifying, just sharing how Jesus, how he brought us together. 12 00:01:55.000 --> 00:01:57.000 How we were going to be separated but he brought us together. 13 00:01:57.000 --> 00:01:59.000 He brought us together. 14 00:02:27.000 --> 00:02:44.000 I exalt Thee, I exalt Thee, I exalt Thee. 15 00:02:45.000 --> 00:03:02.000 Oh, I exalt Thee, I exalt Thee, I exalt Thee. 16 00:03:03.000 --> 00:03:19.000 Oh, I exalt Thee, I exalt Thee, I exalt Thee. 17 00:03:19.000 --> 00:03:36.000 Oh, Lord, I exalt Thee, I exalt Thee, I exalt Thee. 18 00:03:36.000 --> 00:03:57.000 Oh, Lord, I exalt Thee, I exalt Thee, I exalt Thee, I exalt Thee. 19 00:03:57.000 --> 00:04:26.000 Holy, Holy, Holy, Holy, Holy, Holy, Holy, Holy, Holy, Holy, Holy, Holy, Holy, Holy, Holy, Holy, Holy, Holy, Holy, Holy, Holy, Holy, Holy, Holy, Holy, Holy, Holy. 20 00:04:27.000 --> 00:04:51.000 Holy, Holy, Holy, Holy, Holy, Holy, Holy, Holy, Holy, Holy, Holy, Holy, Holy. 21 00:04:51.000 --> 00:04:58.000 Hallelujah. 22 00:04:58.000 --> 00:05:00.000 Hallelujah. 23 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:12.000 Alleluia, Alleluia 24 00:05:12.000 --> 00:05:19.000 Oh Lord, Hallelujah Jesus 25 00:05:19.000 --> 00:05:31.000 Now, O Lord, high, high above all the earth 26 00:05:31.000 --> 00:05:43.000 You are exalted high above all gods 27 00:05:43.000 --> 00:05:55.000 Now, O Lord, high, high above all the earth 28 00:05:55.000 --> 00:06:06.000 You are exalted high above all gods 29 00:06:06.000 --> 00:06:22.000 And we exalt You, we exalt You, we exalt You 30 00:06:22.000 --> 00:06:27.000 Oh Lord, yes we do Jesus 31 00:06:27.000 --> 00:06:36.000 We exalt Thee, oh Holy One We exalt Thee, yes Jesus 32 00:06:36.000 --> 00:06:45.000 We exalt Thee, oh Lord, oh Lord 33 00:06:45.000 --> 00:06:53.000 We exalt Thee, oh Lord, we exalt Thee, oh Lord 34 00:06:53.000 --> 00:06:59.000 We exalt Thee, oh Lord, forever and ever 35 00:06:59.000 --> 00:07:01.000 Glory to Your Name 36 00:07:01.000 --> 00:07:04.000 Lord, we thank You for Your presence 37 00:07:04.000 --> 00:07:06.000 We thank You for Your presence 38 00:07:06.000 --> 00:07:09.000 Father, Son, and Holy Spirit 39 00:07:09.000 --> 00:07:14.000 Thank You, Jesus, the Kingdom isn't meat and drink 40 00:07:14.000 --> 00:07:18.000 It's peace, it's joy 41 00:07:18.000 --> 00:07:21.000 It's Your righteousness that is in us 42 00:07:21.000 --> 00:07:25.000 We thank You, Lord, that You're closer than breathing 43 00:07:25.000 --> 00:07:28.000 And we just honour You with our breath 44 00:07:28.000 --> 00:07:31.000 We honour You with our praise 45 00:07:31.000 --> 00:07:34.000 We honour You with our adoration 46 00:07:34.000 --> 00:07:38.000 We honour You with our affections 47 00:07:38.000 --> 00:07:41.000 We honour You with our presence 48 00:07:41.000 --> 00:07:45.000 We honour You with our worship 49 00:07:45.000 --> 00:07:48.000 We honour You with our gratefulness 50 00:07:48.000 --> 00:07:52.000 We honour You with our thankfulness 51 00:07:52.000 --> 00:07:55.000 We honour You with our recognition 52 00:07:55.000 --> 00:07:58.000 Without You, who are we and what are we? 53 00:07:58.000 --> 00:08:01.000 We just give You all the glory and all the praise 54 00:08:01.000 --> 00:08:05.000 Amen, and all the saints said, Amen 55 00:08:05.000 --> 00:08:11.000 Oh, hallelujah 56 00:08:11.000 --> 00:08:18.000 But I know today, we're going on to this study 57 00:08:18.000 --> 00:08:26.000 So Benji loaded it onto our Embassy page 58 00:08:26.000 --> 00:08:29.000 And if you can't find it on the main page 59 00:08:29.000 --> 00:08:32.000 If you go where it says Units in the top left hand corner 60 00:08:32.000 --> 00:08:34.000 If you just flick along, flick along 61 00:08:34.000 --> 00:08:36.000 You'll come to Files and under Files 62 00:08:36.000 --> 00:08:42.000 You have Module 2, Lesson 3 63 00:08:42.000 --> 00:08:44.000 Module 2, Lesson 2 64 00:08:44.000 --> 00:08:46.000 Module 2, Lesson 4 65 00:08:46.000 --> 00:08:49.000 So we're going to be doing a Module 2, Lesson 2 66 00:08:49.000 --> 00:08:51.000 Introduction to the Church 67 00:08:51.000 --> 00:08:53.000 So as I was saying before 68 00:08:53.000 --> 00:08:59.000 If we want to see long lasting reformation 69 00:08:59.000 --> 00:09:01.000 Transformation in our nations 70 00:09:01.000 --> 00:09:05.000 There needs to be a reformation in the way that we do church 71 00:09:05.000 --> 00:09:08.000 And because it's not working, is it? 72 00:09:08.000 --> 00:09:10.000 Our nation's not getting any better 73 00:09:10.000 --> 00:09:14.000 And we need more than a move of God 74 00:09:14.000 --> 00:09:15.000 We need more than a revival 75 00:09:15.000 --> 00:09:17.000 Because you can have a revival 76 00:09:17.000 --> 00:09:21.000 But if it revives the present system that we're doing church on 77 00:09:21.000 --> 00:09:23.000 What's it going to accomplish? 78 00:09:23.000 --> 00:09:27.000 And so I believe God wants to bring a reformation 79 00:09:27.000 --> 00:09:29.000 He wants to reset the way we do church 80 00:09:29.000 --> 00:09:34.000 And it's not just a radical change necessarily from what you're used to 81 00:09:34.000 --> 00:09:37.000 But sometimes we can exalt our traditions more than 82 00:09:37.000 --> 00:09:40.000 And just because it's tradition doesn't mean it was right 83 00:09:40.000 --> 00:09:43.000 But we want to 84 00:09:43.000 --> 00:09:45.000 Yeah, so anyway 85 00:09:45.000 --> 00:09:47.000 Okay, I don't want to start rambling 86 00:09:47.000 --> 00:09:50.000 So if you've got your book, I'm going to read through 87 00:09:50.000 --> 00:09:52.000 Or if you've got your notes, I'm going to read through it 88 00:09:52.000 --> 00:09:55.000 In this lesson, I'll explain the purpose of the church 89 00:09:55.000 --> 00:09:58.000 Why God wants every believer to be planted in the church 90 00:09:58.000 --> 00:10:00.000 And help you see the value of the church 91 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:02.440 of making a lifetime commitment to the church. 92 00:10:02.440 --> 00:10:03.600 Now I'm talking about his church. 93 00:10:03.600 --> 00:10:05.320 Church is whānau, remember? 94 00:10:05.320 --> 00:10:07.480 It's not just an organisation down the road 95 00:10:07.480 --> 00:10:09.280 that opens up on Sundays. 96 00:10:09.280 --> 00:10:13.760 Church is a family, and a family is not just one day, okay? 97 00:10:13.760 --> 00:10:17.120 Whānau is not just one day, whānau is every day. 98 00:10:17.120 --> 00:10:19.200 My family, whānau is every day. 99 00:10:19.200 --> 00:10:20.600 And so church is every day. 100 00:10:22.000 --> 00:10:23.200 That's the concept. 101 00:10:23.200 --> 00:10:25.160 The concept of it just being an organisation 102 00:10:25.160 --> 00:10:26.960 like a rugby club down the road, 103 00:10:26.960 --> 00:10:29.520 or the housey club, or whatever. 104 00:10:30.520 --> 00:10:33.120 That it's an event that we go to once in a while. 105 00:10:33.120 --> 00:10:36.640 We get our fix of sport, we get our fix of religion, 106 00:10:36.640 --> 00:10:38.640 we get our fix, this is family. 107 00:10:38.640 --> 00:10:41.760 So what do the words Christian and church mean? 108 00:10:41.760 --> 00:10:42.720 Do you ever thought about, 109 00:10:42.720 --> 00:10:45.000 what is the word Christian and church? 110 00:10:45.000 --> 00:10:46.960 What does the word Christian mean? 111 00:10:46.960 --> 00:10:49.600 And what does the word church mean? 112 00:10:49.600 --> 00:10:52.160 See, often people say, oh, there's the church, 113 00:10:52.160 --> 00:10:53.360 and they point to our building. 114 00:10:53.360 --> 00:10:55.240 It's not the church, is it? 115 00:10:55.240 --> 00:10:56.800 It's not the church, it's just a building. 116 00:10:57.640 --> 00:10:58.480 So what does Christian mean? 117 00:10:58.480 --> 00:10:59.880 So Christian, the word Christian means, 118 00:10:59.880 --> 00:11:03.760 put it right in your blank there, follower of Christ. 119 00:11:03.760 --> 00:11:06.440 Okay, Christian means follower of Christ. 120 00:11:06.440 --> 00:11:07.920 I'm a bit hot this morning, whānau, 121 00:11:07.920 --> 00:11:09.440 I've been doing the vacuuming. 122 00:11:09.440 --> 00:11:11.120 Yes, I'm a good husband. 123 00:11:16.200 --> 00:11:18.960 Okay, so Christian means a follower of Christ. 124 00:11:18.960 --> 00:11:20.680 What does church mean? 125 00:11:20.680 --> 00:11:22.520 So in the Greek, what the church means, 126 00:11:22.520 --> 00:11:25.200 the word church means called out ones, 127 00:11:25.200 --> 00:11:27.720 called out ones, called out. 128 00:11:27.720 --> 00:11:30.720 So imagine a selector going along, 129 00:11:30.720 --> 00:11:32.160 a all black selector going along, 130 00:11:32.160 --> 00:11:36.760 watching rugby players play in regional playoffs. 131 00:11:36.760 --> 00:11:40.600 And so the coach or the selector calls you out. 132 00:11:40.600 --> 00:11:42.480 He says, oi, over here, oi, over here. 133 00:11:42.480 --> 00:11:44.440 Hey, you'd be great in this team. 134 00:11:44.440 --> 00:11:45.840 And so it's called out ones. 135 00:11:45.840 --> 00:11:49.360 And so Jesus has called us out from living for the world. 136 00:11:49.360 --> 00:11:51.480 He's called us out from being part of the world's team. 137 00:11:51.480 --> 00:11:54.040 He says, oi, over here, come be part of my team. 138 00:11:54.040 --> 00:11:56.000 So church means called out ones. 139 00:11:56.000 --> 00:11:57.240 So the building houses, 140 00:11:57.240 --> 00:11:59.520 a bunch of called out ones every Sunday. 141 00:11:59.520 --> 00:12:02.920 But the called out ones, the church called out ones, 142 00:12:02.920 --> 00:12:06.320 when you go to work on Monday, you're still the church. 143 00:12:06.320 --> 00:12:08.920 Because you are part of the church. 144 00:12:08.920 --> 00:12:12.880 The church is made up of living stones, okay? 145 00:12:12.880 --> 00:12:14.640 And so we're two or three together, 146 00:12:14.640 --> 00:12:15.480 the I am in the midst, 147 00:12:15.480 --> 00:12:17.800 but when I'm down the street, 148 00:12:17.800 --> 00:12:19.520 there's the church, there's old Norm. 149 00:12:19.520 --> 00:12:20.480 No, there's the church. 150 00:12:20.480 --> 00:12:21.640 Oh, there's old Jess. 151 00:12:21.640 --> 00:12:22.920 Oh, there's the church. 152 00:12:22.920 --> 00:12:23.920 There's Hayley. 153 00:12:24.800 --> 00:12:25.640 There's Francis. 154 00:12:25.640 --> 00:12:26.480 There's the church. 155 00:12:26.480 --> 00:12:29.520 The church is the called out ones, okay? 156 00:12:29.520 --> 00:12:30.800 As Christians, we are called out 157 00:12:30.800 --> 00:12:32.320 from following the world's system 158 00:12:32.320 --> 00:12:34.640 to follow God's kingdom system. 159 00:12:34.640 --> 00:12:37.640 So church is not a human institution. 160 00:12:37.640 --> 00:12:38.960 So you write in the blank, 161 00:12:38.960 --> 00:12:42.400 church is not a human institution. 162 00:12:43.320 --> 00:12:46.600 Put your notes here, otherwise this might be quite boring. 163 00:12:46.600 --> 00:12:48.920 But if you don't have your notes, 164 00:12:48.920 --> 00:12:50.760 you can put them off afterwards 165 00:12:50.760 --> 00:12:53.520 or if you have a printer in your house. 166 00:12:53.520 --> 00:12:54.480 But one way or the other, 167 00:12:54.480 --> 00:12:55.560 you'll be able to print these out 168 00:12:55.560 --> 00:12:57.760 because once lockdown's off, 169 00:12:57.760 --> 00:13:00.680 you'll be able to go and get them printed out somewhere. 170 00:13:01.800 --> 00:13:05.560 Okay, so church is not a human institution. 171 00:13:05.560 --> 00:13:07.200 Man makes up his institutions. 172 00:13:07.200 --> 00:13:08.600 Man makes up the societies 173 00:13:08.600 --> 00:13:12.120 that gather humans around human kingdoms, okay? 174 00:13:13.880 --> 00:13:18.480 God made the church to gather humans around God, okay? 175 00:13:18.480 --> 00:13:20.560 So man's institutions, 176 00:13:20.560 --> 00:13:23.440 they gather humans around human institutions. 177 00:13:24.200 --> 00:13:27.680 Human systems, political systems, sporting systems, 178 00:13:27.680 --> 00:13:30.680 societal systems, religious systems, 179 00:13:30.680 --> 00:13:33.200 and they're gathering humans around systems. 180 00:13:33.200 --> 00:13:34.680 See, all the religions of the world, 181 00:13:34.680 --> 00:13:36.520 they go around the idols and so forth, 182 00:13:36.520 --> 00:13:38.000 but it's a system as well. 183 00:13:38.000 --> 00:13:42.320 But church is a heavenly, a divine, 184 00:13:43.400 --> 00:13:46.840 it's a divine institution, if you like, 185 00:13:46.840 --> 00:13:49.040 and it's to gather humans around God. 186 00:13:49.040 --> 00:13:52.400 Church is to gather humans around God, okay? 187 00:13:52.400 --> 00:13:54.280 So Matthew 16, 18, 188 00:13:54.280 --> 00:13:56.200 I say also unto thee, you are Peter, 189 00:13:56.200 --> 00:13:59.440 and upon this rock I will build my church. 190 00:13:59.440 --> 00:14:02.000 Fill in the blanks, you already know it, my church. 191 00:14:02.000 --> 00:14:03.880 Jesus is building his church. 192 00:14:03.880 --> 00:14:05.960 And we've got to remember, it's his church. 193 00:14:05.960 --> 00:14:07.280 If we look at the dysfunction 194 00:14:07.280 --> 00:14:09.720 or we look at churches that aren't operating 195 00:14:09.720 --> 00:14:12.800 the way that we would like them to operate or whatever, 196 00:14:12.800 --> 00:14:14.680 then we can get discouraged. 197 00:14:14.680 --> 00:14:16.840 And God doesn't want us to get discouraged 198 00:14:16.840 --> 00:14:19.520 because Jesus said, I will build my church. 199 00:14:19.520 --> 00:14:21.080 And so what I want to be, 200 00:14:21.120 --> 00:14:25.200 I want to be part of the solution to building his church. 201 00:14:25.200 --> 00:14:26.680 I don't want to be part of the problem. 202 00:14:26.680 --> 00:14:28.200 I don't want to tear it down, 203 00:14:28.200 --> 00:14:30.520 I want to help build it up, amen? 204 00:14:30.520 --> 00:14:33.440 So the church belongs to Jesus, makes up, 205 00:14:33.440 --> 00:14:36.000 yeah, belongs to Jesus. 206 00:14:36.000 --> 00:14:38.480 Man makes up his organisations and societies 207 00:14:38.480 --> 00:14:39.960 that gather humans to humans, 208 00:14:39.960 --> 00:14:41.760 but Jesus built the church up 209 00:14:41.760 --> 00:14:44.440 to gather people, humans, to God. 210 00:14:44.440 --> 00:14:46.800 Okay, the church has different names 211 00:14:46.800 --> 00:14:49.400 and the body of Christ, 212 00:14:49.400 --> 00:14:52.360 so the emphasis that Jesus will act through us 213 00:14:52.360 --> 00:14:55.120 to reach out to a dying world through his body. 214 00:14:55.120 --> 00:14:56.840 So when Jesus walked the earth 215 00:14:56.840 --> 00:14:59.320 and now his physical body walked the earth, 216 00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:05.760 hands, he had a mouth, he had eyes, he had feet, and the body of Christ walked around the earth. 217 00:15:05.760 --> 00:15:09.840 And he went about doing good and healing all those oppressed of the devil. 218 00:15:09.840 --> 00:15:15.280 How God had anointed Jesus. Acts 10 38, that's your memory verse, remember it? Acts 10 38, 219 00:15:15.280 --> 00:15:20.000 how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and power, and he went about doing good and 220 00:15:20.000 --> 00:15:24.880 healing all those oppressed of the devil, for God was with them. So the body of Christ, the church, 221 00:15:24.880 --> 00:15:30.160 the body of Jesus doing that then, we the body of Christ, that's what we're meant to be doing, 222 00:15:30.160 --> 00:15:34.160 going about doing good and healing all those oppressed of the devil, right? Don't know why 223 00:15:34.160 --> 00:15:40.960 I got my hands out. So the church, different names for church, the body, the bride, okay? 224 00:15:40.960 --> 00:15:46.400 The bride speaks that we're loved by Jesus, he's the husband of the bride, our Lord, our provider, 225 00:15:46.400 --> 00:15:53.200 our protector, and we carry his name. The elect, and so we're not that we're better than anyone 226 00:15:53.280 --> 00:15:57.120 else, but we're better off than anyone else. So we're called the elect. The family of faith is 227 00:15:57.120 --> 00:16:03.440 another name for the church. The church, the house, in the Old Testament was a temple of God, 228 00:16:03.440 --> 00:16:08.560 which is where humans gathered to God, the Hebrews. Well, in the same similar sense, 229 00:16:08.560 --> 00:16:12.800 that church was like the temple of God. So don't get all hung up on the words, 230 00:16:12.800 --> 00:16:16.800 don't get sort of splitting hairs, it's no big deal, okay? Okay. 231 00:16:17.200 --> 00:16:21.360 The importance of being planted. Oh, I love this part. So we're turning over the page now. 232 00:16:22.080 --> 00:16:30.160 So you were there, so there we go. Over there. The importance of being planted in the church, 233 00:16:30.160 --> 00:16:35.440 being planted in the house. So the top there, John 12, 24, most assuredly I say to you, 234 00:16:35.440 --> 00:16:44.640 unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, write down dies. D-I-E-S. 235 00:16:47.680 --> 00:16:55.440 It remains alone, but if it dies, it produces much grain. And so the importance of being planted, 236 00:16:55.440 --> 00:17:02.400 a seed will never be a fourth fruit unless it falls into the ground and dies. And so there's 237 00:17:02.400 --> 00:17:08.160 a principle here. A seed must be planted in the ground before it can grow. When a seed is planted, 238 00:17:08.160 --> 00:17:14.560 the pressures from the soil crack the outside shell of the seed. Once the hard shell is broken, 239 00:17:14.560 --> 00:17:19.440 the seed will automatically send a root out. Once it has a root, the seed can begin to receive 240 00:17:19.440 --> 00:17:25.200 the nutrients that it needs on the soil to grow, grows up. Over time, the seed will grow into a 241 00:17:25.200 --> 00:17:30.720 plant and produce many more other seeds. Jesus said that our lives follow a similar process 242 00:17:30.720 --> 00:17:37.200 to the seed. We get planted, we die, and then we produce life. So what does it mean to get planted? 243 00:17:38.240 --> 00:17:44.160 Getting planted is the first step of our journey towards fruitfulness, towards success. The Bible 244 00:17:44.160 --> 00:17:51.120 teaches us that we must be planted in the house. Psalm 92, 13. And those that are, and you're 245 00:17:51.120 --> 00:18:01.840 writing in, those that are, those that are planted, okay, are planted. So write in A-R-E-P-L-A-N-T. 246 00:18:02.560 --> 00:18:14.080 Planted in the house, okay, the H-O-U-S-E. So Psalm 92, 13 says those that are planted 247 00:18:14.720 --> 00:18:21.120 in the house of the Lord, okay, so next, if it's not filled in, it might already be filled in there. 248 00:18:21.120 --> 00:18:28.640 So the house of the Lord, of the Lord, I think that's already in there. They shall flourish, 249 00:18:28.640 --> 00:18:38.880 F-L-O-U-R-I-S-H. They shall flourish in the courts of our God. Okay, so this is Old Testament, 250 00:18:38.880 --> 00:18:45.440 Psalm 92, 13. Those that are planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in the courts of our 251 00:18:45.440 --> 00:18:51.440 God. So you want to flourish and bear much fruit? Jesus said we didn't choose him, John 15, 16. 252 00:18:51.440 --> 00:18:57.440 So I chose you and I ordained you that you will bear much fruit and much, God wants us to bear 253 00:18:57.440 --> 00:19:02.880 much fruit. And one of the ways that we bear fruit is we get planted in the house of God. 254 00:19:02.880 --> 00:19:07.200 Why do we get planted in the house of God? Because we draw from the nutrients that are going to get 255 00:19:07.200 --> 00:19:13.440 out of the house of God. Now I'm talking about the house of God that's under the influence and 256 00:19:13.440 --> 00:19:19.120 under the instruction of an apostle, a prophet, evangelist, pastor, teacher. Why are they important? 257 00:19:19.120 --> 00:19:25.200 Because Jesus ordained them, Ephesians 4, 11, we've already talked about this, Ephesians 2, 20, 258 00:19:25.200 --> 00:19:30.720 that God set first the apostle, then the prophet, that he gave these different functioning ministries 259 00:19:30.720 --> 00:19:36.800 so that they would grow the body of Christ, that they will equip the 260 00:19:36.800 --> 00:19:42.400 saints for the work of the ministry. And so if I'm planted in the house of God, and Jess and I, we got 261 00:19:42.400 --> 00:19:46.320 planted at the name, don't worry about the name of the church, I'm never going to tell you the name 262 00:19:46.320 --> 00:19:51.280 of the church because people get, humans get all hung up on the denominations and so on. We were 263 00:19:51.280 --> 00:19:59.280 planted in an amazing church in Ōamaru, and under that church, our pastor, he was an apostle actually. 264 00:20:00.000 --> 00:20:03.240 We're extremely blessed to be raised and nourished 265 00:20:03.240 --> 00:20:04.920 and mentored by an apostle. 266 00:20:04.920 --> 00:20:06.840 Well, actually it's an apostle prophet. 267 00:20:06.840 --> 00:20:10.680 So because we were planted in the house, 268 00:20:10.680 --> 00:20:12.680 we didn't just pop along for a couple of weeks, 269 00:20:12.680 --> 00:20:14.480 couple of months, over in a year or two, 270 00:20:14.480 --> 00:20:17.600 and get what we could and then pop off to another church 271 00:20:17.600 --> 00:20:20.200 because we felt led to go to another church 272 00:20:20.200 --> 00:20:21.760 and to sit under another ministry. 273 00:20:21.760 --> 00:20:25.480 And we sat under John and we sat under him, 274 00:20:25.480 --> 00:20:26.760 I sat under him, me and Jess, 275 00:20:26.760 --> 00:20:30.160 we sat under him for 10 or 11 years. 276 00:20:30.160 --> 00:20:32.480 And I didn't want to go out from under him. 277 00:20:32.480 --> 00:20:35.160 I wanted to be faithful and serve him 278 00:20:35.160 --> 00:20:37.520 and be faithful to the vision that God had given him 279 00:20:37.520 --> 00:20:40.600 for the church in Oamaru in North Otago. 280 00:20:40.600 --> 00:20:42.800 That's how I learned how to grow. 281 00:20:42.800 --> 00:20:45.800 That's how I learned to become, to move in prophecy. 282 00:20:45.800 --> 00:20:48.360 That's how I learned how to move in signs and wonders. 283 00:20:48.360 --> 00:20:50.480 And that's how I learned how to be a pastor. 284 00:20:50.480 --> 00:20:52.160 That's how I learned how to teach. 285 00:20:52.200 --> 00:20:57.200 That's how I learned how to develop the character of Christ. 286 00:20:59.120 --> 00:21:01.000 Because when you're with other people, 287 00:21:01.000 --> 00:21:03.200 you're not always gonna agree with other people. 288 00:21:03.200 --> 00:21:05.560 And so other people help you become, 289 00:21:05.560 --> 00:21:07.040 grow your, develop your character. 290 00:21:07.040 --> 00:21:09.520 Other people force you, as it were, 291 00:21:09.520 --> 00:21:13.680 to sort of forgive or to get over yourself 292 00:21:13.680 --> 00:21:16.040 and to suck it up and to die to self, 293 00:21:16.040 --> 00:21:19.320 to die to selfishness and to live for others. 294 00:21:19.320 --> 00:21:21.600 You can't do that when you're apart from one another. 295 00:21:22.040 --> 00:21:24.160 And that's why being planted in the house of God, 296 00:21:24.160 --> 00:21:26.400 where you have to learn how to work together. 297 00:21:26.400 --> 00:21:28.320 You have to learn how to develop social skills, 298 00:21:28.320 --> 00:21:31.080 spiritual skills, mental, emotional skills, 299 00:21:31.080 --> 00:21:34.520 because it helps us grow up and helps us become mature, 300 00:21:35.480 --> 00:21:37.640 not just mature spiritually, 301 00:21:37.640 --> 00:21:39.800 it helps us become mature socially, 302 00:21:39.800 --> 00:21:42.040 mentally, relationally. 303 00:21:42.040 --> 00:21:46.320 And sometimes, and I had enough rejection in my life 304 00:21:46.320 --> 00:21:48.240 and so did Jess, that we could just run away. 305 00:21:48.240 --> 00:21:50.520 In fact, I'll never forget the first time 306 00:21:50.520 --> 00:21:51.840 I had an upset in church, 307 00:21:51.840 --> 00:21:54.840 the first time when I realised Christians can betray you 308 00:21:54.840 --> 00:21:56.480 and Christians can hurt you. 309 00:21:56.480 --> 00:21:59.000 And it was a couple of elders, actually. 310 00:21:59.000 --> 00:22:00.920 And my pastor had, 311 00:22:02.280 --> 00:22:07.280 he promoted me to lead an evangelism programme in our church. 312 00:22:07.520 --> 00:22:09.360 And only because I had that gift on my life. 313 00:22:09.360 --> 00:22:12.360 And so I found winning people to Jesus is just simpler, 314 00:22:12.360 --> 00:22:13.760 but there was no effort to it. 315 00:22:13.760 --> 00:22:16.680 And so he put me in charge of the evangelism programme. 316 00:22:16.680 --> 00:22:17.960 But unbeknown to me, 317 00:22:17.960 --> 00:22:20.120 there were a couple of other elders in the church 318 00:22:20.520 --> 00:22:23.320 and they thought that they were older than me in the Lord 319 00:22:23.320 --> 00:22:26.040 and they thought they should be getting that job, not me. 320 00:22:26.040 --> 00:22:29.680 And so anyway, what happened is that, 321 00:22:29.680 --> 00:22:30.720 and I don't have to go into detail, 322 00:22:30.720 --> 00:22:34.200 but what happened is that these other elders, 323 00:22:39.640 --> 00:22:41.680 they went to the pastor and told him 324 00:22:41.680 --> 00:22:44.680 that I wasn't doing the job that he wanted me to do well. 325 00:22:44.680 --> 00:22:46.200 And basically they knocked on me 326 00:22:46.200 --> 00:22:47.680 for something I hadn't done. 327 00:22:47.720 --> 00:22:50.440 And so we sat down and we're having a meeting 328 00:22:50.440 --> 00:22:52.040 and I thought we're having a fellowship meeting, 329 00:22:52.040 --> 00:22:53.960 but, and we're going to have a cup of tea 330 00:22:53.960 --> 00:22:54.800 and something to eat. 331 00:22:54.800 --> 00:22:56.760 But I found out that he had a cup of tea, 332 00:22:56.760 --> 00:22:58.160 but they were eating me. 333 00:22:58.160 --> 00:23:02.320 And suddenly I was being accused of this and that. 334 00:23:02.320 --> 00:23:05.400 And I remember sitting there thinking, 335 00:23:05.400 --> 00:23:09.280 and I'm only about three years old in the Lord, 336 00:23:09.280 --> 00:23:12.120 or maybe three, two, three years. 337 00:23:12.120 --> 00:23:16.120 And I'm sitting there thinking, how can this be church? 338 00:23:16.160 --> 00:23:19.400 I mean, we love each other, we're meant to love one another. 339 00:23:19.400 --> 00:23:21.320 We're not meant to talk behind each other's back 340 00:23:21.320 --> 00:23:24.400 and then bring it to the pastor and drop it on, you know, 341 00:23:24.400 --> 00:23:25.880 on you. 342 00:23:25.880 --> 00:23:28.400 And so I was just, I was bewildered. 343 00:23:28.400 --> 00:23:30.280 So I'm sitting there and I've got to say 344 00:23:30.280 --> 00:23:32.520 the old flesh rose up in me, you know. 345 00:23:32.520 --> 00:23:35.120 I'm sitting there and they're bringing up these accusations 346 00:23:35.120 --> 00:23:36.560 and the pastor's listening and they say, 347 00:23:36.560 --> 00:23:40.400 well, what's your side of the story, Norma? 348 00:23:40.400 --> 00:23:42.920 And I was, and a thought came to my mind, 349 00:23:42.920 --> 00:23:45.760 you know what, if this is church, 350 00:23:46.640 --> 00:23:49.880 if you want this ministry, I didn't ask for it. 351 00:23:49.880 --> 00:23:52.640 If this is what you want, and I've got to say, 352 00:23:52.640 --> 00:23:53.960 the flesh rose up. 353 00:23:53.960 --> 00:23:55.240 I didn't say it, but I was thinking, 354 00:23:55.240 --> 00:23:58.120 if you want this, you can have it. 355 00:23:58.120 --> 00:24:00.840 You can take your church and your ministry 356 00:24:00.840 --> 00:24:03.040 and you can stick it where the sun don't shine, 357 00:24:03.040 --> 00:24:03.880 I'm out of here. 358 00:24:03.880 --> 00:24:07.680 And I was biting my tongue from rising up 359 00:24:07.680 --> 00:24:09.640 and just reverting back to the old man, 360 00:24:09.640 --> 00:24:11.760 just stuff you, out of here. 361 00:24:11.800 --> 00:24:16.600 So I know what it's like to be, to have misunderstanding, 362 00:24:16.600 --> 00:24:18.160 to have sense of betrayal. 363 00:24:18.160 --> 00:24:20.960 That was my early days and it's happened many, many 364 00:24:20.960 --> 00:24:23.360 dozens of times since it's happened. 365 00:24:23.360 --> 00:24:24.640 Not just as a member of the church, 366 00:24:24.640 --> 00:24:25.720 but as a pastor of the church, 367 00:24:25.720 --> 00:24:27.640 I've had that happen many times. 368 00:24:27.640 --> 00:24:28.840 And why am I saying that? 369 00:24:28.840 --> 00:24:31.640 Because you've got to get over it, you know? 370 00:24:31.640 --> 00:24:35.560 So that meeting finished and I was angry. 371 00:24:35.560 --> 00:24:37.840 I got up and I left and I was hurt. 372 00:24:37.840 --> 00:24:39.600 You know what God said to me? 373 00:24:39.640 --> 00:24:42.200 He said, son, cause I was thinking to myself, 374 00:24:42.200 --> 00:24:44.160 I'm never coming back here again, stuff ya. 375 00:24:44.160 --> 00:24:45.960 Stuff your church, stick it. 376 00:24:45.960 --> 00:24:48.520 And Jesus said, are you loyal to me? 377 00:24:50.080 --> 00:24:52.600 Are you loyal to me or to man? 378 00:24:54.000 --> 00:24:55.960 And I said, oh Lord, this sucks. 379 00:24:55.960 --> 00:24:58.240 He says, son, and he gave me a vision 380 00:24:58.240 --> 00:24:59.920 and that I'm standing on a rock. 381 00:25:00.000 --> 00:25:02.520 And there's all this dust around and others, 382 00:25:02.520 --> 00:25:06.160 the others are standing on sand, on mud, 383 00:25:06.160 --> 00:25:09.560 on lies, falsity, and I'm standing on truth. 384 00:25:09.560 --> 00:25:13.200 He said, son, wait for the dust to settle. 385 00:25:13.200 --> 00:25:14.720 Just humble yourself before me. 386 00:25:14.720 --> 00:25:16.400 Wait for the dust to settle 387 00:25:16.400 --> 00:25:19.480 and we'll be seeing who's standing on what. 388 00:25:19.480 --> 00:25:22.280 And I says, oh, okay. 389 00:25:22.280 --> 00:25:23.520 So I left and I tell you, 390 00:25:23.520 --> 00:25:25.000 it took me two weeks to get over that. 391 00:25:25.000 --> 00:25:27.640 Took me two weeks to work through that anger 392 00:25:27.640 --> 00:25:29.160 and to forgive and to release 393 00:25:29.160 --> 00:25:31.640 and then just invest back into those elders 394 00:25:31.640 --> 00:25:32.920 and to love them. 395 00:25:32.920 --> 00:25:34.440 And I still do to this day. 396 00:25:36.160 --> 00:25:37.480 A couple of them passed away now. 397 00:25:37.480 --> 00:25:40.320 But all that to say, 398 00:25:40.320 --> 00:25:41.840 if I wasn't planted in the house, 399 00:25:41.840 --> 00:25:43.560 I could have done a runner. 400 00:25:43.560 --> 00:25:44.720 And if I'd done a runner, 401 00:25:44.720 --> 00:25:46.080 then that part of my character 402 00:25:46.080 --> 00:25:48.000 wouldn't have developed to become like Jesus. 403 00:25:48.000 --> 00:25:49.360 I wouldn't have learned how to, 404 00:25:49.360 --> 00:25:50.720 Jesus was betrayed. 405 00:25:51.960 --> 00:25:53.880 Jesus was slandered. 406 00:25:53.880 --> 00:25:56.040 Jesus was gossiped about. 407 00:25:56.040 --> 00:25:58.000 False chances were put against Jesus. 408 00:25:58.120 --> 00:25:59.640 And I learnt, 409 00:25:59.640 --> 00:26:00.960 I went to, 410 00:26:00.960 --> 00:26:02.400 we want to taste the cup of glory. 411 00:26:02.400 --> 00:26:04.360 We want to taste the glory wine, 412 00:26:04.360 --> 00:26:05.200 the new wine. 413 00:26:05.200 --> 00:26:06.600 But Jesus said, 414 00:26:06.600 --> 00:26:07.560 there's another cup too. 415 00:26:07.560 --> 00:26:09.560 It's called the cup of suffering. 416 00:26:09.560 --> 00:26:11.600 You all want to drink the cup of suffering? 417 00:26:11.600 --> 00:26:13.320 And there's times when we're required 418 00:26:13.320 --> 00:26:14.480 to drink the cup of suffering 419 00:26:14.480 --> 00:26:16.280 and it's bitter and it's yuck. 420 00:26:16.280 --> 00:26:19.480 But it develops, I said. 421 00:26:19.480 --> 00:26:22.400 So if I wasn't planted in the house, 422 00:26:22.400 --> 00:26:26.000 I wouldn't have learnt how to be like Jesus. 423 00:26:26.040 --> 00:26:27.560 One thing to do like Jesus 424 00:26:27.560 --> 00:26:29.520 and prophesy and cast out devils, 425 00:26:29.520 --> 00:26:31.960 it's another thing to be like Jesus. 426 00:26:32.880 --> 00:26:36.480 And God is more focused on who we become 427 00:26:36.480 --> 00:26:38.280 than what we do. 428 00:26:38.280 --> 00:26:39.120 Many will say, 429 00:26:39.120 --> 00:26:40.920 but we cast out demons in your name, 430 00:26:40.920 --> 00:26:42.760 did all these wonderful things in your name. 431 00:26:42.760 --> 00:26:45.440 And Jesus says, I didn't know you. 432 00:26:45.440 --> 00:26:46.800 Okay, so he's more concerned about 433 00:26:46.800 --> 00:26:48.120 who we become than what we, 434 00:26:48.120 --> 00:26:49.880 so that's why be planted, 435 00:26:49.880 --> 00:26:50.960 that's one of the benefits 436 00:26:50.960 --> 00:26:52.440 of being planted in the house. 437 00:26:52.440 --> 00:26:54.120 If you're not planted in the house, 438 00:26:54.120 --> 00:26:55.800 you're not going to learn how to develop. 439 00:26:56.320 --> 00:26:58.360 You're going to learn how to be a mature Christian. 440 00:26:58.360 --> 00:27:00.560 And if every time that you get hurt, 441 00:27:00.560 --> 00:27:02.560 or any time somebody upsets, 442 00:27:02.560 --> 00:27:04.280 if anyone upset me, 443 00:27:04.280 --> 00:27:05.200 I did a runner, 444 00:27:05.200 --> 00:27:07.360 then I guarantee God will bring 445 00:27:07.360 --> 00:27:10.840 that same situation to my face to deal with. 446 00:27:10.840 --> 00:27:12.760 He'll bring the same circumstances, 447 00:27:12.760 --> 00:27:14.120 it might be different people, 448 00:27:14.120 --> 00:27:15.240 but it'll be the same thing 449 00:27:15.240 --> 00:27:16.280 that I have to confront. 450 00:27:16.280 --> 00:27:17.320 How to forgive, 451 00:27:17.320 --> 00:27:18.640 how to get over myself, 452 00:27:18.640 --> 00:27:20.040 how to get over betrayal, 453 00:27:20.040 --> 00:27:22.000 how to get over my insecurity, 454 00:27:22.000 --> 00:27:24.120 how to get over focusing on me 455 00:27:24.120 --> 00:27:25.360 and focus on Jesus. 456 00:27:25.720 --> 00:27:26.560 That's one of the benefits 457 00:27:26.560 --> 00:27:27.880 of being planted in the house of God. 458 00:27:27.880 --> 00:27:29.280 So how does a plant grow? 459 00:27:29.280 --> 00:27:31.280 It's planted in God's soil. 460 00:27:31.280 --> 00:27:32.360 And so obviously, 461 00:27:32.360 --> 00:27:33.400 they'll get a church 462 00:27:33.400 --> 00:27:34.720 where they believe in the Bible, 463 00:27:34.720 --> 00:27:37.120 at least they believe in the Bible. 464 00:27:37.120 --> 00:27:40.920 Okay, and just start somewhere. 465 00:27:40.920 --> 00:27:41.760 Me and Jess, 466 00:27:41.760 --> 00:27:42.600 the first, 467 00:27:42.600 --> 00:27:43.440 we went looking for a church, 468 00:27:43.440 --> 00:27:45.480 the first church we went to. 469 00:27:45.480 --> 00:27:46.440 We sat under there, 470 00:27:46.440 --> 00:27:48.480 and because my heart's open, 471 00:27:48.480 --> 00:27:50.520 I love the word he was saying, 472 00:27:50.520 --> 00:27:52.160 but he was dead as doornail. 473 00:27:52.160 --> 00:27:53.680 Man, he was dead and boring. 474 00:27:53.680 --> 00:27:54.520 So we thought, 475 00:27:54.520 --> 00:27:55.360 let's go to another church. 476 00:27:55.360 --> 00:27:56.200 It's in our early days, 477 00:27:56.200 --> 00:27:57.360 it's brand new Christians. 478 00:27:57.360 --> 00:27:59.120 And we sat under John. 479 00:27:59.120 --> 00:28:00.480 And as soon as he opened his mouth, 480 00:28:00.480 --> 00:28:02.160 it's like he's speaking to me. 481 00:28:02.160 --> 00:28:03.440 And I knew that was the church 482 00:28:03.440 --> 00:28:05.160 where we're going to stay in. 483 00:28:05.160 --> 00:28:06.600 And we stayed under John 484 00:28:06.600 --> 00:28:08.480 for 10, 11 years. 485 00:28:10.560 --> 00:28:12.720 So get planted in a church 486 00:28:12.720 --> 00:28:13.960 that has good soil, 487 00:28:13.960 --> 00:28:15.640 that they teach the word of God. 488 00:28:15.640 --> 00:28:17.560 Now, your pastor may not be an apostle 489 00:28:17.560 --> 00:28:18.440 or a prophet. 490 00:28:18.440 --> 00:28:19.280 He may be a pastor, 491 00:28:19.280 --> 00:28:20.520 he may be a teacher. 492 00:28:20.600 --> 00:28:22.480 Ktipi, serve him. 493 00:28:23.680 --> 00:28:25.400 Serve him. 494 00:28:25.400 --> 00:28:27.520 Serve Jesus. 495 00:28:27.520 --> 00:28:28.480 Serving him. 496 00:28:28.480 --> 00:28:29.320 One another. 497 00:28:29.320 --> 00:28:30.600 See, the greatest gift 498 00:28:30.600 --> 00:28:32.120 is not being served. 499 00:28:33.600 --> 00:28:35.160 The greatest gift 500 00:28:35.160 --> 00:28:38.120 is not people recognizing our ministry. 501 00:28:39.240 --> 00:28:42.320 It's not developing 502 00:28:42.320 --> 00:28:44.200 or lifting up our ministry. 503 00:28:44.200 --> 00:28:46.160 It's lifting up Jesus. 504 00:28:46.160 --> 00:28:48.120 It's lifting up his ministry. 505 00:28:48.120 --> 00:28:49.240 And the greatest gift 506 00:28:49.240 --> 00:28:51.680 is serving, not being served. 507 00:28:51.680 --> 00:28:53.280 And some people go to church and say, 508 00:28:53.280 --> 00:28:55.520 well, I'm not gonna find my gift here, 509 00:28:55.520 --> 00:28:56.520 so I'll go somewhere else. 510 00:28:56.520 --> 00:28:57.720 I'll go somewhere else. 511 00:28:57.720 --> 00:28:58.680 Well, like I said, 512 00:28:58.680 --> 00:29:01.320 Jesus is more focused on who you become. 513 00:29:01.320 --> 00:29:02.720 And you don't know 514 00:29:02.720 --> 00:29:06.840 the links, the chain links, 515 00:29:06.840 --> 00:29:08.560 that you might be there for a reason 516 00:29:08.560 --> 00:29:09.400 to learn something. 517 00:29:09.400 --> 00:29:11.520 But anyway, all that to say, 518 00:29:11.520 --> 00:29:13.920 Jesus came to serve. 519 00:29:13.920 --> 00:29:14.760 He came to minister, 520 00:29:14.760 --> 00:29:16.080 not be ministered to. 521 00:29:16.080 --> 00:29:17.480 What was the last thing Jesus did 522 00:29:17.480 --> 00:29:18.760 before he left the earth? 523 00:29:22.480 --> 00:29:25.080 The last act that he did 524 00:29:25.080 --> 00:29:26.280 besides dying on the cross, 525 00:29:26.280 --> 00:29:27.120 before that. 526 00:29:28.040 --> 00:29:29.760 He had communion, but what else? 527 00:29:30.840 --> 00:29:31.720 Because the thing he did, 528 00:29:31.720 --> 00:29:34.880 he says, what I'm doing is an example to you. 529 00:29:34.880 --> 00:29:36.800 And what I do, you do, 530 00:29:36.800 --> 00:29:37.800 you follow this example. 531 00:29:37.800 --> 00:29:39.200 What he did is he washed 532 00:29:39.200 --> 00:29:40.800 the feet of his disciples. 533 00:29:40.800 --> 00:29:42.120 He took on the form, literally, 534 00:29:42.120 --> 00:29:42.960 of a sermon, 535 00:29:42.960 --> 00:29:45.400 and he washed the feet of his disciples. 536 00:29:45.400 --> 00:29:46.880 And he said, if the lords, 537 00:29:46.880 --> 00:29:48.160 the kings of the earth, 538 00:29:48.160 --> 00:29:50.200 they lord it over one another, 539 00:29:50.200 --> 00:29:53.640 they rule with objective power. 540 00:29:53.640 --> 00:29:57.040 He says, if I, your lord and master, 541 00:29:58.000 --> 00:29:59.400 I do, if I do this, 542 00:29:59.400 --> 00:30:00.600 I leave as an example. 543 00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:03.840 example. So Jesus is the King of Kings, the Prime Minister of Prime Ministers, 544 00:30:03.840 --> 00:30:08.320 and the President of Presidents. Instead of ruling from up here, 545 00:30:08.320 --> 00:30:13.620 he rules from underneath, and he washes the feet of his people. And that's what 546 00:30:13.620 --> 00:30:18.500 ministry is. Learning how to wash the feet of God's people. That's what your 547 00:30:18.500 --> 00:30:23.200 gift is for. Washing your feet right now with the washing of the water of the 548 00:30:23.200 --> 00:30:28.880 Word. Okay? And so if you're not planted in a house, you're not going to 549 00:30:28.880 --> 00:30:34.800 learn how to wash the feet of the body of Christ. If you always leave up and go 550 00:30:34.800 --> 00:30:40.280 after every year or two years or a month, and I don't know how many people 551 00:30:40.280 --> 00:30:47.720 have come through the doors in the last 29 years? Thousands. Literally thousands. Very few have 552 00:30:47.720 --> 00:30:52.920 planted themselves in the house. Very few have planted themselves. Excuse me. So 553 00:30:52.920 --> 00:31:01.200 being planted in the house of God is so important. God promises that if we put 554 00:31:01.200 --> 00:31:05.880 our roots down and get fully connected in the house, then we will. Well, the word of God 555 00:31:05.880 --> 00:31:11.160 shows that, doesn't it? In Psalms, blessed is the man who is 556 00:31:11.160 --> 00:31:18.280 planted in the Lord, who's planted by the streams, and his roots go down. Well, what 557 00:31:18.280 --> 00:31:23.160 happens when you keep uprooting a plant? What happens when you keep uprooting a plant? 558 00:31:23.160 --> 00:31:29.280 So you put a little sapling in, and say it's a lemon tree, and you put it in, 559 00:31:29.280 --> 00:31:33.720 and after about, I don't know, 12 months, you say, well, there's no fruit on it, so 560 00:31:33.720 --> 00:31:38.640 you uproot it, and you replant it somewhere else, and there's still no fruit, 561 00:31:38.640 --> 00:31:49.240 and so you, excuse me, and so you replant it, and after another 12 months, you rip it up, 562 00:31:49.240 --> 00:31:55.240 and is that tree ever going to bear any fruit? And that's what happens when, 563 00:31:55.240 --> 00:32:02.520 that's what happens if a person keeps uprooting from church to church to church. They never 564 00:32:02.520 --> 00:32:07.680 develop, number one, relational skills. They never learn how to develop in some of those 565 00:32:08.120 --> 00:32:12.680 situations, and getting over betrayal, and hurt, and disappointment, it's not all bad, 566 00:32:12.680 --> 00:32:19.560 but they never get to develop that mental, emotional, academic, relational skills, 567 00:32:19.560 --> 00:32:24.360 let alone the spiritual side. They keep uprooting, and they never bear fruit, 568 00:32:24.360 --> 00:32:28.160 and so that's why it's important to be, to plant yourself, get planted in one place, 569 00:32:28.160 --> 00:32:33.920 and stay planted. The sad thing is that so many Christians don't want to be planted in church. 570 00:32:33.920 --> 00:32:38.800 I heard years ago that there are 30,000 Christians in Auckland who used to attend 571 00:32:38.800 --> 00:32:44.640 church but no longer attend church, and I'm not trying to mnemonise that, but that's shocking, 572 00:32:44.640 --> 00:32:50.600 and we've got to get over that stuff, eh? So if you don't go to a church, if you're looking at 573 00:32:50.600 --> 00:32:54.440 me and I'm teaching you, and you don't go to any church, and you've got a history of stuff happening, 574 00:32:54.440 --> 00:32:58.240 I'm not your judge. I'm not telling you what to do or where to go. I'm not telling you that, 575 00:32:58.320 --> 00:33:02.640 but I'm just telling you the benefits of why it's important to be part of a church. 576 00:33:05.200 --> 00:33:11.760 See, people say, well, I'd like you to be my pastor. I'd like to tithe into your ministry 577 00:33:11.760 --> 00:33:16.480 and into your church, and I'm happy with that, as long as you're not taking your tithe out of 578 00:33:16.480 --> 00:33:21.840 the church that you're planted in. That tithe is to help develop and to provide for the needs of 579 00:33:21.840 --> 00:33:26.560 the people in your community, how to provide for the needs of your pastor, and so, you know, 580 00:33:26.560 --> 00:33:32.240 I want to keep integrity here, but if you're not part of a church, and you want to be sowing into 581 00:33:32.240 --> 00:33:38.240 this ministry or to our church, I'll be honoured. I mean, that's very humbling, 582 00:33:38.240 --> 00:33:42.320 but really, I can't be your pastor in the sense of we don't have personal interaction, 583 00:33:42.320 --> 00:33:49.920 and it's only Facebook time. It's not real time, but you're just saying that you can't be one-on-one 584 00:33:50.480 --> 00:33:57.120 face-to-face interaction with one another, and so, until you find that church, you're 585 00:33:57.120 --> 00:34:03.120 welcome to be part of this one and connected to this ministry, but there we go. 586 00:34:05.040 --> 00:34:11.520 Okay, Matthew 16, 18, I will build my church and the gates of hell fill in hell, or Hades shall 587 00:34:11.520 --> 00:34:18.560 not prevail against it. Okay, isn't that good? You are the church, okay? You are a living stone, 588 00:34:18.560 --> 00:34:22.719 and it says that Jesus is going to build his church. He's going to build you, and the gates 589 00:34:22.719 --> 00:34:27.440 of hell will not prevail against you, so when we think of church, we think of the corporate church, 590 00:34:27.440 --> 00:34:33.360 don't we? Usually, we think of all the people, and so, think of you. So, the church is made up 591 00:34:33.360 --> 00:34:39.360 of living stones, and there's billions of living stones. You are one of the living stones, 592 00:34:39.360 --> 00:34:43.600 so when Jesus talks about the church, he's talking about you personally as well, 593 00:34:43.920 --> 00:34:50.159 so take this on an individual level, that Jesus said, I will build my church. As an individual, 594 00:34:50.159 --> 00:34:53.679 he's saying, I will build you. That's what he's saying. I will build you, 595 00:34:54.719 --> 00:34:59.840 and the gates of hell will not prevail against you. That's what he's saying. 596 00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:07.780 Okay, we could make it academic and say Jesus is building the church, everyone else out 597 00:35:07.780 --> 00:35:11.920 there, and the gates of hell won't prevail against them, the church. 598 00:35:11.920 --> 00:35:15.040 But take it individually, let it be subjective. 599 00:35:15.040 --> 00:35:16.380 Take personal responsibility. 600 00:35:16.380 --> 00:35:18.960 He's speaking about you because you are the church. 601 00:35:18.960 --> 00:35:23.640 Every member is an individual brick in the church. 602 00:35:23.640 --> 00:35:24.640 So he's talking about you. 603 00:35:24.640 --> 00:35:27.640 I will build you and the gates of hell will not prevail against you. 604 00:35:27.640 --> 00:35:29.720 Have you ever thought about that? 605 00:35:29.720 --> 00:35:31.320 That's what he's saying. 606 00:35:31.320 --> 00:35:37.440 And so it's so important that you are planted in the house and you learn how to develop 607 00:35:37.440 --> 00:35:40.840 and to be strong so the gates of hell can't prevail against you. 608 00:35:40.840 --> 00:35:45.080 So imagine having a church full of people that Jesus has built and that he's built his 609 00:35:45.080 --> 00:35:48.600 character into and the gates of hell can't stand against them. 610 00:35:48.600 --> 00:35:54.520 Then you've got a church on earth that the devil fears. 611 00:35:54.520 --> 00:35:59.800 So Jesus is building his church, he expects every Christian to be part of his church 612 00:35:59.800 --> 00:36:01.280 because Christians are followers of Christ. 613 00:36:01.280 --> 00:36:04.480 If we're going to follow Christ, now did Jesus go to church? 614 00:36:04.480 --> 00:36:06.480 Well, he went to the synagogue. 615 00:36:06.480 --> 00:36:10.440 It's the same thing, the principle is the same. 616 00:36:10.440 --> 00:36:15.000 He went to an institution where God gathered people unto God, okay? 617 00:36:15.000 --> 00:36:17.960 So it was a synagogue there, today it's the church. 618 00:36:17.960 --> 00:36:22.640 And Jesus gathered his disciples, he waited in the upper room and so there was that transference 619 00:36:22.760 --> 00:36:26.240 but it's the same principle, where humans gathered unto God. 620 00:36:26.240 --> 00:36:32.440 And of course, it was his habit to go into church, it was his habit. 621 00:36:32.440 --> 00:36:33.680 Every Sabbath he went into the church. 622 00:36:33.680 --> 00:36:37.760 Now some say, oh, it's Saturday, it shouldn't be Saturday, not Sunday. 623 00:36:37.760 --> 00:36:43.480 It doesn't matter what day it was, don't split hairs, it just doesn't matter. 624 00:36:43.480 --> 00:36:48.440 That was under Hebrew law, that was, see the law is broken up into three things, there's 625 00:36:48.640 --> 00:36:54.560 there's ceremonial, and there's the law of conscience, the law of ceremonial, civil, 626 00:36:54.560 --> 00:37:01.880 and what's that other one, ceremonial, civil, and, anyway, I'm going to teach on that later on. 627 00:37:01.880 --> 00:37:10.120 So step two, when you're planted in the house, you learn how to die, okay? 628 00:37:10.120 --> 00:37:14.600 Luke 9, 23, 24, yeah. 629 00:37:14.640 --> 00:37:21.600 Jesus said, if any man will come after me, let him take up his cross daily and deny himself. 630 00:37:21.600 --> 00:37:25.040 For he that finds his life will lose it, but he that loses his life will find it. 631 00:37:25.040 --> 00:37:29.720 So when you're in church, that's when you're interacting with other Christians, the cross 632 00:37:29.720 --> 00:37:31.600 is the instrument of death. 633 00:37:31.600 --> 00:37:36.960 And to follow Jesus is easy, but to get on with one another, with other humans, is not 634 00:37:36.960 --> 00:37:39.440 so easy, yeah? 635 00:37:39.440 --> 00:37:45.560 But the cross of learning how to die daily, Paul died daily, and Jesus says we learn to 636 00:37:45.560 --> 00:37:46.560 die daily. 637 00:37:46.560 --> 00:37:52.080 So it's not that every day, it's not that every day there's some trial in my life, but 638 00:37:52.080 --> 00:37:56.960 I've learned to deny myself and take up my cross daily, follow Jesus. 639 00:37:56.960 --> 00:38:02.720 Sometimes, you know, it's sometimes, it's the seasons where I'm dying, dying, dying, 640 00:38:02.720 --> 00:38:07.960 that's okay, it only happens in seasons, but when you're dead, how do you know you're dead? 641 00:38:07.960 --> 00:38:08.960 People don't bug you anymore. 642 00:38:08.960 --> 00:38:13.160 How do you know you're dead? 643 00:38:13.160 --> 00:38:17.080 People ask me to pray for me, pastor, I want to be dead to self and dead to sin. 644 00:38:17.080 --> 00:38:21.080 I say, well, you're dead to sin already, you've got to learn how to be dead to yourself. 645 00:38:21.080 --> 00:38:25.480 And I can't pray for that, you've just got to die yourself, just over, you know, deny 646 00:38:25.480 --> 00:38:28.800 yourself daily until he's dead. 647 00:38:28.800 --> 00:38:31.160 So how do you know when you're dead? 648 00:38:31.160 --> 00:38:35.880 Well, I don't know about you, but if you've seen a dead body, if you go up to a dead body, 649 00:38:35.880 --> 00:38:39.160 it's in a coffin, you say, hey, who dressed you, your mother? 650 00:38:39.160 --> 00:38:44.400 If you started insulting a dead body, do they get up and slap you in the face? 651 00:38:44.400 --> 00:38:46.200 Of course not, they're dead. 652 00:38:46.200 --> 00:38:49.560 And that's how you know you're dead, when people can insult you, people can say all 653 00:38:49.560 --> 00:38:54.320 sorts of things, and it doesn't bug you anymore, it just doesn't bug you anymore, okay? 654 00:38:54.320 --> 00:38:55.440 That's when you know you're dead. 655 00:38:55.440 --> 00:38:56.440 How do you get dead? 656 00:38:56.440 --> 00:39:01.480 Take up your cross daily, Jesus says, and deny yourself and follow him, deny yourself 657 00:39:01.480 --> 00:39:02.480 for his sake. 658 00:39:02.640 --> 00:39:09.400 You know, there's times when I've wanted to just react in the flesh, and I've heard Jesus 659 00:39:09.400 --> 00:39:14.480 say to me, will you do, about sucking it up, and I've heard him say to me, would you do 660 00:39:14.480 --> 00:39:20.120 it for me, son, would you do it for me, would you do it for me, would you do it for me? 661 00:39:20.120 --> 00:39:23.520 And you know, when I think about that, I was like, yeah, I'll do it for you, I'll do it 662 00:39:23.520 --> 00:39:24.520 for you. 663 00:39:24.520 --> 00:39:28.600 I won't do it for myself though, I won't do it for others, but I'll do it for you. 664 00:39:28.600 --> 00:39:35.440 So that's when we deny ourselves to follow Jesus and do what he would do, okay? 665 00:39:35.440 --> 00:39:37.040 So die daily. 666 00:39:37.040 --> 00:39:40.920 Being planted in the church will give you opportunity to develop kingdom character. 667 00:39:40.920 --> 00:39:44.440 Submit to God-ordained spiritual authority in your life and develop greater authority. 668 00:39:44.440 --> 00:39:48.440 You see, if you want authority flying out of you, you've got to learn how to submit 669 00:39:48.440 --> 00:39:49.840 to authority over you. 670 00:39:49.840 --> 00:39:55.040 I know, I heard it, oh, I've submitted to abusive authority, come on, as I said, we're 671 00:39:55.040 --> 00:39:56.960 learning to get over that stuff. 672 00:39:56.960 --> 00:39:59.760 And Romans 13 talks about God-ordained authority. 673 00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:05.840 When God puts authority over our lives, when we resist the authority, we're resisting God, 674 00:40:05.840 --> 00:40:10.560 and it releases judgments upon us. And that's why things just don't go well with Christians who 675 00:40:10.560 --> 00:40:14.960 just aren't willing to submit. They might obey, but they still won't submit. 676 00:40:14.960 --> 00:40:20.080 Well, I'll do that because you tell me to. But submission is an attitude. Obedience is an action. 677 00:40:20.080 --> 00:40:25.360 Submission is a hard attitude, and obedience is an action. And now a kid can say, 678 00:40:26.320 --> 00:40:30.320 their dad says, put the toys away, and they obey, and they're throwing them into the 679 00:40:30.320 --> 00:40:36.800 toy box with it. They've got a bad attitude. It says in Hebrews 13, 17, 680 00:40:36.800 --> 00:40:42.000 obey them that have the rule over you, and submit to them as they have to watch for your soul. 681 00:40:42.640 --> 00:40:47.600 And so I learned how to not just obey my pastor, I learned how to submit to him. 682 00:40:47.600 --> 00:40:53.440 And he wasn't a dictatoring, overbearing, abusive pastor. He was a great man of God. 683 00:40:54.320 --> 00:40:59.120 Some didn't mean I agreed with every decision. It didn't mean that I liked every choice that 684 00:40:59.120 --> 00:41:05.120 he made in that. It doesn't matter who cares whether you agree or not. You can have your 685 00:41:05.120 --> 00:41:12.880 opinion, but keep it to yourself. If an opinion comes to divide, bring division, then it's not 686 00:41:12.880 --> 00:41:18.000 wisdom from above, okay? So you can keep, I've got opinions, and some of them I just keep to 687 00:41:18.000 --> 00:41:20.960 myself because I divide because people don't understand what I'm talking about. 688 00:41:21.600 --> 00:41:27.760 So if opinions just divide, it's wisdom from hell. It comes from hell because the wisdom from hell 689 00:41:27.760 --> 00:41:32.640 is full of contention and strife, James 3. Wisdom from above is pure, peaceful, 690 00:41:32.640 --> 00:41:38.240 easy to be entreated, okay? So being planted in the house, you learn how to develop this. 691 00:41:38.240 --> 00:41:43.840 You develop humility by serving one another. You develop mercy and patience by forgiving others. 692 00:41:44.640 --> 00:41:49.440 You develop faithfulness by attending service, church service, week after week, 693 00:41:49.520 --> 00:41:54.640 and being involved in serving through midweek. You develop faithfulness. You develop generosity. 694 00:41:54.640 --> 00:41:58.800 You learn how to give. You tithe and serve offerings into the house of God. You develop 695 00:41:58.800 --> 00:42:04.800 generosity. You let other people get to know you, and you develop honesty and integrity. 696 00:42:04.800 --> 00:42:09.120 You open up to others. You persevere, and you hang in there when things get tough. 697 00:42:09.120 --> 00:42:13.760 You develop integrity. So being planted in the house of God is such a wonderful thing. 698 00:42:13.760 --> 00:42:19.280 This study is about the introduction to the church. Over the page, 699 00:42:24.000 --> 00:42:29.520 you can't develop these things as a Christian by yourself, just me, myself, I. I'm having church 700 00:42:29.520 --> 00:42:35.280 at home today. There's the Trinity, me, myself, and I. Hey, look, if you're in jail, that's different. 701 00:42:35.280 --> 00:42:38.640 But if you're at home, by choice, when there's a great church down the road, 702 00:42:39.600 --> 00:42:43.120 you're not going to grow. You'll grow strange. You'll grow strange. 703 00:42:44.000 --> 00:42:51.040 Okay, Matthew 20, verse 28. As the Son, okay, writing in, you might already have written in 704 00:42:51.040 --> 00:42:57.760 Matthew, just as the Son of Man did not come to be served. You've been served. Okay, served. 705 00:42:58.560 --> 00:43:03.920 Right and served. Just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve and give 706 00:43:04.080 --> 00:43:09.680 his life for a ransom for many. Unfortunately, many Christians go from church to church looking 707 00:43:09.680 --> 00:43:14.640 for the perfect church. But they don't realize that there is no perfect church on the earth. 708 00:43:14.640 --> 00:43:19.040 The church is made up of imperfect people like you and me. And these Christians often don't 709 00:43:19.040 --> 00:43:24.800 realize that God uses uncomfortable situations to help us identify things in our own life 710 00:43:24.800 --> 00:43:30.720 that he wants to change. Sometimes they know you need to change, so I feel better. Sometimes God 711 00:43:30.720 --> 00:43:38.320 says, no, you need to change so you can get over this. This might be my testimony. Hebrews 12, 7. 712 00:43:38.320 --> 00:43:44.560 Endure hardships. Hardship is discipline. It's easy to blame others for our problems and make 713 00:43:44.560 --> 00:43:49.360 excuses for ourselves. However, harmony and blessing flow into our lives when we choose 714 00:43:49.360 --> 00:43:57.040 to live a life of humility and serving God and men. What happens if we keep uprooting a plant? 715 00:43:57.600 --> 00:43:58.960 Yeah, that's what happens. 716 00:44:01.760 --> 00:44:06.160 Christians who have a wandering spirit uproot themselves and move from church to church. 717 00:44:06.160 --> 00:44:11.760 They never grow to reach their full potential and end up spiritually dead, like this dude. 718 00:44:15.840 --> 00:44:21.200 Ah, there must be an easier way of putting pictures up. Living Māori, eh? This is a merry way. 719 00:44:22.000 --> 00:44:27.680 Okay, now stage three. When you're planted in the house, you produce life, okay? You don't have 720 00:44:27.680 --> 00:44:34.000 to go to church to get saved, true. All you have to do is believe in Jesus Christ, okay? You don't 721 00:44:34.000 --> 00:44:39.280 have to go to church to get saved. You can get saved anywhere. But if you want to be successful and 722 00:44:39.280 --> 00:44:43.920 fruitful, if you want to be productive, if you want to build what Jesus is building, and he ain't 723 00:44:43.920 --> 00:44:48.960 building your ministry or my ministry, he's building his church. If you want to be fruitful, then you've 724 00:44:48.960 --> 00:44:53.360 got to join the church. If you want to discover your destiny, if you want to develop your gifting 725 00:44:53.360 --> 00:44:58.240 and your calling, you've got to be planted in the church. Why? Because the foundation of the church 726 00:44:58.240 --> 00:45:00.000 is the fivefold, and that fivefold 727 00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:04.660 are there to help equip you for the work of your ministry and to help you become 728 00:45:04.660 --> 00:45:08.660 mature. And if you're not part of the church and you're not under the 729 00:45:08.660 --> 00:45:12.420 influence of the fivefold, then you're not going to get equipped and you're not 730 00:45:12.420 --> 00:45:15.820 going to grow. It's just simple. I mean it's common sense. If I want to be a 731 00:45:15.820 --> 00:45:20.020 soldier, then I'm going to join the army. I'm going to submit myself to 732 00:45:20.020 --> 00:45:24.980 corporals and sergeants and lieutenants and majors in general. I'm going to submit 733 00:45:24.980 --> 00:45:28.860 myself to them. I'm going to be shouted at. I'm going to be yelled at. It's going to be 734 00:45:28.860 --> 00:45:33.100 uncomfortable. I'm going to go through physical training that's going to 735 00:45:33.100 --> 00:45:37.260 nearly kill me, all the way up to get on a battlefield with a rifle. It might risk my 736 00:45:37.260 --> 00:45:41.020 life. But if that's what I want to be, then I'm going to learn how to submit myself 737 00:45:41.020 --> 00:45:45.580 under that authority in order to have authority. St. Terence said, I am a man 738 00:45:45.580 --> 00:45:50.540 under authority and therefore I have authority. And if I want to be an 739 00:45:50.540 --> 00:45:53.620 all-black, then I'm going to submit myself to my coach. I'm going to submit 740 00:45:53.620 --> 00:45:57.620 myself to the captain. I'm going to submit myself to rigorous training, to 741 00:45:57.620 --> 00:46:02.820 uncomfortable training, to times I don't want to give up, just to get that black jersey, to 742 00:46:02.820 --> 00:46:07.260 get on the field and to play for my nation. It's simple. That's a 743 00:46:07.260 --> 00:46:13.540 natural principle that we all live by in the world. But it's amazing when some 744 00:46:13.540 --> 00:46:17.700 people become Christians, they come to church and suddenly all this goes out 745 00:46:17.700 --> 00:46:21.420 their head. That I don't have to be, I'm not under man, I'm under God. It's just 746 00:46:21.420 --> 00:46:28.460 what? What? What? What? Every great man and woman of God was under a great man or 747 00:46:28.460 --> 00:46:36.620 woman of God. Joshua was under Moses. Elisha was under Elijah. Timothy 748 00:46:36.620 --> 00:46:41.260 was under Paul. Disciples were under Jesus. It's a pattern, a principle. It's when 749 00:46:41.260 --> 00:46:45.740 you submit to authority and learn. I mean, if I'm going to be a brain surgeon, I 750 00:46:45.740 --> 00:46:50.260 can't just say, I'm going to do it myself. God will show me. No, you idiot. 751 00:46:50.260 --> 00:46:55.260 He'll show you nothing. It's arrogance and pride. I have to submit to those who've 752 00:46:55.260 --> 00:46:58.700 gone before me and learn from the experience. And now I have to apply 753 00:46:58.700 --> 00:47:04.860 myself. So anyway, coming to church, it's about the development of our 754 00:47:04.860 --> 00:47:12.540 being. Get the point across? So if you don't go to church, you don't 755 00:47:12.540 --> 00:47:15.140 have to go to church to get saved, but you have to go to church. You want to be 756 00:47:15.140 --> 00:47:20.820 developed, okay? Number one, it says being. Success means different things to 757 00:47:20.820 --> 00:47:27.380 different people. What does success mean? Okay, you got number one, being, right? 758 00:47:27.380 --> 00:47:32.620 And being everything that God created me to be. Being everything that God created 759 00:47:32.620 --> 00:47:39.340 me to be in life. Number two, doing everything God created me to do in life. 760 00:47:39.340 --> 00:47:45.300 Fill in the blanks. Doing and do. Doing everything that God created me to do in 761 00:47:45.300 --> 00:47:49.700 life. So being is about identity. I'm a human being. I'm not trying to be a 762 00:47:49.700 --> 00:47:54.420 human being. I am. And I'm a son of God, okay? I'm a child. I'm the son of the 763 00:47:54.420 --> 00:47:58.820 living God. I'm not trying to be. I am. I'm not trying to be a human being. I am. 764 00:47:58.820 --> 00:48:03.860 It's a state of being. Sonship is a state of being. I'm the delight of my 765 00:48:03.860 --> 00:48:09.060 father, you know? I'm the delight of my father. He delights in me. He sings over 766 00:48:09.060 --> 00:48:14.340 me. My father does. My father God. He delights in me. That's a state of being. 767 00:48:14.340 --> 00:48:19.260 And so being everything you're called to be. And it's that sonship. This is what 768 00:48:19.260 --> 00:48:24.420 the embassy is about. Helping you to discover your sonship. The freedom of 769 00:48:24.420 --> 00:48:30.780 being a son. And a son submits to his dad. And under dad, dad has the authorities 770 00:48:30.780 --> 00:48:34.780 he's put on the earth. And those authorities that we can learn 771 00:48:34.780 --> 00:48:39.340 from. It's like apostles and prophets and evangelists and pastors and teachers. 772 00:48:39.340 --> 00:48:43.860 But there's our boss at work. We can learn from our boss. Even if he's like 773 00:48:43.860 --> 00:48:48.540 Adolf Hitler. God says, yeah, submit to him. Learn how to be like me. 774 00:48:48.540 --> 00:48:52.860 What would Jesus be in your workplace? How would Jesus be? So state of being, 775 00:48:52.860 --> 00:48:56.220 number one. Number two, a state of doing. And that's about ministry and destiny. 776 00:48:56.220 --> 00:49:01.140 Okay. You won't find that outside of this church. Being all that God created me to 777 00:49:01.180 --> 00:49:07.020 be. Okay. Going on. Doing what I was created to do. Let's turn over the page. 778 00:49:07.020 --> 00:49:17.060 And okay. We've got this. And I already drew that up on the board about how to get 779 00:49:17.060 --> 00:49:22.300 into Abraham's family. You had to be born into it. Abraham had three sons, 780 00:49:22.300 --> 00:49:29.580 Isaac and Jacob. And Jacob had 12 sons. And his 12 sons formed the house of 781 00:49:29.580 --> 00:49:34.940 Israel. And when the house of Israel was formulated in the times of 400 years in 782 00:49:34.940 --> 00:49:40.020 Egypt, they went and invaded the land Canaan. And the house of Israel then, 783 00:49:40.020 --> 00:49:44.340 they divided the 12 tribes, became the tribes of Israel, and it became the nation 784 00:49:44.340 --> 00:49:50.460 of Israel. It became the kingdom of Israel. So born into Abraham's whanau, 785 00:49:50.460 --> 00:49:56.460 whakapapa, back to Abraham. So you're born into that. You're part of the 12 tribes, 786 00:49:56.460 --> 00:49:59.900 you're part of the house of Israel, and then you're a step... 787 00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:04.800 in the land of Israel, you're part of the kingdom of Israel. The house extends the 788 00:50:04.800 --> 00:50:09.700 kingdom. That's the principle. The house extends the kingdom. I've heard Christians 789 00:50:09.700 --> 00:50:13.200 say, oh I'm part of the kingdom. I don't go to any church though. You can't be part 790 00:50:13.200 --> 00:50:16.800 of the kingdom if you're not part of the house. What kingdom are you 791 00:50:16.800 --> 00:50:21.720 extending? You can't be extending God's kingdom because that he ordained that 792 00:50:21.720 --> 00:50:24.800 the house will extend the kingdom. Well let's go into the New Testament, that 793 00:50:24.800 --> 00:50:29.680 Jesus comes. He has 12 disciples. Those 12 disciples of the Day of Pentecost are 794 00:50:29.680 --> 00:50:33.640 the foundation of the house of God as it's revealed through the Old New 795 00:50:33.640 --> 00:50:36.960 Testament. And they're told to go and preach the gospel of the kingdom to all 796 00:50:36.960 --> 00:50:41.440 nations. And so the house of God goes to spread the kingdom of God in all the 797 00:50:41.440 --> 00:50:46.560 earth. So the house extends the kingdom. I talked about this in a previous study 798 00:50:46.560 --> 00:50:50.240 that if the house is dysfunctional, its kingdom impact is going to be 799 00:50:50.240 --> 00:50:53.680 dysfunctional. If the house is full of gossip and bitterness and 800 00:50:53.680 --> 00:50:56.920 backbiting, then its influence in the community is going to be bitterness and 801 00:50:56.920 --> 00:51:00.160 backbiting. And they might be preaching about Jesus loves you and Jesus saves 802 00:51:00.160 --> 00:51:04.840 and praying for the sick, but if they're bringing new Christians into a 803 00:51:04.840 --> 00:51:09.720 dysfunctional house, then that's just terrible. That's why you've got to be 804 00:51:09.720 --> 00:51:14.240 planted in a house that Jesus is building and that Jesus is Lord. Lord of 805 00:51:14.240 --> 00:51:20.160 that house. Lord of the people in the house. So I think that's the last 806 00:51:20.160 --> 00:51:26.080 page, Farmer? It is. So I hope you enjoyed that study. I hope you know all the 807 00:51:26.080 --> 00:51:33.040 informative. It was module 2, lesson 2, Introduction to the Church. Got little 808 00:51:33.040 --> 00:51:39.040 pictures and lets the Lord build the house. Okay. As the Lord builds the house. 809 00:51:39.040 --> 00:51:47.560 What a waste of time. So Farmer, there we go. Hallelujah. 810 00:51:47.640 --> 00:51:57.080 Kei te pai. So tomorrow I'm going to be doing, me and Jessica are going to be speaking 811 00:51:57.080 --> 00:52:03.440 from the honeymoon from hell. It really was. I'm not joking. You're here. It was, I 812 00:52:03.440 --> 00:52:13.680 demanded a divorce on the wedding night. Yeah. So here we are over 40 years later. 813 00:52:13.720 --> 00:52:21.000 40 years later. What happened? Jesus happened. But it didn't just happen. 814 00:52:21.000 --> 00:52:25.400 There had to be a response from me. There had to be a response from Jess for 815 00:52:25.400 --> 00:52:29.720 him to restore and to heal us. So we're going to share that tomorrow. Some two or 816 00:52:29.720 --> 00:52:35.920 three points of how to conflict resolution. And you might not be married 817 00:52:35.920 --> 00:52:41.840 but the principles, they will help you. And you may have a great marriage. 818 00:52:41.920 --> 00:52:46.600 That's kei te pai. This will just refresh you. You may be having some things you 819 00:52:46.600 --> 00:52:49.160 need to, you want to enhance your marriage with. Well, these things will 820 00:52:49.160 --> 00:52:54.040 help enhance. So anyway, Farmer, it's been great to be with you this morning. And I 821 00:52:54.040 --> 00:52:58.800 pray that the presence and the spirit of the Most High just flow into your 822 00:52:58.800 --> 00:53:02.800 household right now. And if those of you need healing, count to three, just lean 823 00:53:02.800 --> 00:53:08.880 forward. I mean, a hundred people being healed, over a hundred people have 824 00:53:08.920 --> 00:53:13.040 testified and sent in testimonies of healings. And many of them have been 825 00:53:13.040 --> 00:53:16.640 miracles. But at least a third have been instantaneous healings. And these 826 00:53:16.640 --> 00:53:20.920 aren't light things. A lot of these are long-standing issues. Some were born with 827 00:53:20.920 --> 00:53:25.680 them. And it's just incredible what an honor that is to see Jesus doing this. To 828 00:53:25.680 --> 00:53:31.680 me, it's humbling. But it's him that does it. And so we're getting everybody healed 829 00:53:31.680 --> 00:53:36.520 out there. I have no one to pray for soon. So you need to find somebody to pray 830 00:53:36.520 --> 00:53:40.000 for. So on the count of three, just lean your head forward. Just lean forward. If 831 00:53:40.000 --> 00:53:44.200 you need healing in your body right now, in the name of Jesus, on the count of 832 00:53:44.200 --> 00:53:51.440 three, just lean forward into the healing presence of Jesus. One, two, three. 833 00:53:51.440 --> 00:53:58.600 Just lean forward. Thank you, Jesus. And straight away you felt that presence of 834 00:53:58.600 --> 00:54:03.400 God just come all over you, all over your shoulders. And that heaviness, that weight 835 00:54:03.400 --> 00:54:08.040 just comes out of you right now. It's like I just heard a whoosh, just go whoosh 836 00:54:08.040 --> 00:54:12.840 like a wind. And your lungs just open up right there. And that 837 00:54:12.840 --> 00:54:17.240 heaviness on your back, it just lifted like that. And somebody had a 838 00:54:17.240 --> 00:54:20.720 tight band around your head, it just went like that. That band of wickedness, that 839 00:54:20.720 --> 00:54:23.960 yoke of oppression. It's not because you're a bad person. It's because the 840 00:54:23.960 --> 00:54:27.360 devil's a bad person. And he tries to afflict you. He tries to rob, steal, and 841 00:54:27.360 --> 00:54:31.920 kill, and destroy. But when you lean into the presence of Jesus, light makes 842 00:54:31.960 --> 00:54:35.800 darkness flee. I give you praise, Jesus. Thank you, Father. It's funny, I can hear 843 00:54:35.800 --> 00:54:45.560 someone's ear go brrrrr. God is, he's healing, he's putting that frequency 844 00:54:45.560 --> 00:54:48.960 back into your ear. This isn't a spiritual flutter. This is a physical 845 00:54:48.960 --> 00:54:55.840 thing, okay. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Lord. So as the presence of God comes upon 846 00:54:55.840 --> 00:55:00.120 you, when I sign off, the presence of God will stay on you. It won't just leave because 847 00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:05.120 We leave, it stays on you. He gets in you. God bless you whānau. See you tomorrow. 848 00:55:05.120 --> 00:55:09.840 Excited to share with me and Jess, to be sharing with you. God bless you.