WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:07.000 Hey guys, welcome to session one of School of the Spirit. 2 00:00:07.000 --> 00:00:15.000 I'm excited and feel free as you connect with this live to just drop a comment on, 3 00:00:15.000 --> 00:00:18.000 letting us know where you're tuned in from. 4 00:00:18.000 --> 00:00:26.000 I realize that many people are going to be tuning in on the replay because the time doesn't work for you guys, 5 00:00:26.000 --> 00:00:28.000 and that's awesome. 6 00:00:28.000 --> 00:00:33.000 So welcome if you're on the replay, welcome if you're live. 7 00:00:33.000 --> 00:00:38.000 Exciting, we're going to kick this off very shortly, 8 00:00:38.000 --> 00:00:46.000 but I'm just going to give a couple of minutes to wait for people just to jump on board. 9 00:00:46.000 --> 00:00:53.000 Also feel free to spread the word and share this with your friends, 10 00:00:53.000 --> 00:00:54.000 and the more the merrier. 11 00:00:54.000 --> 00:00:59.000 I'm excited about today's session, we've actually got two sessions today. 12 00:00:59.000 --> 00:01:03.000 Each session is, so School of the Spirit is going to... 13 00:01:03.000 --> 00:01:07.000 Hey Jan, good to see you. 14 00:01:07.000 --> 00:01:14.000 The School of the Spirit is a three day online school right here on the Raising Royalty group, 15 00:01:14.000 --> 00:01:22.000 and the sessions are all going to be from between 12pm and 2pm NZ time. 16 00:01:22.000 --> 00:01:32.000 Two sessions a day, and there might be a few extras in there too. 17 00:01:32.000 --> 00:01:37.000 All the sessions will be between 12pm and 2pm, let's just say that. 18 00:01:37.000 --> 00:01:43.000 And the sessions will be around about, give or take, around about half an hour, 45 minutes per session, 19 00:01:43.000 --> 00:01:46.000 so just so you can plan your time a little bit. 20 00:01:46.000 --> 00:01:52.000 After this first session, I'll let you know how long the break's going to be before the second session, 21 00:01:52.000 --> 00:02:01.000 and that's going to be coming in straight after this one. 22 00:02:01.000 --> 00:02:11.000 And then after this three day school, I'm going to share this pretty much at least every day, 23 00:02:11.000 --> 00:02:15.000 possibly every session, just to make sure people are aware of it. 24 00:02:15.000 --> 00:02:21.000 But straight after the school, there's going to be a three week activation, 25 00:02:21.000 --> 00:02:23.000 but that's going to be in the online School of Sonship. 26 00:02:23.000 --> 00:02:25.000 Now, I'll drop the link for that. 27 00:02:25.000 --> 00:02:31.000 That does have a cost, so there's no pressure to do that. 28 00:02:31.000 --> 00:02:38.000 It will be really helpful and beneficial for people who are wanting to engage in a deeper life in the spirit, 29 00:02:38.000 --> 00:02:43.000 and who connect with this three day school that I'm running right now. 30 00:02:43.000 --> 00:02:52.000 But I think it's about $50 NZ, $30 US, and that's not just for my three week activation. 31 00:02:52.000 --> 00:02:59.000 That gives you, I'm pretty sure that gives you a lifetime access to every other thing that's on that site, 32 00:02:59.000 --> 00:03:06.000 including a bunch of other teaching by me, and a whole bunch by Benji, and just Norm, 33 00:03:06.000 --> 00:03:12.000 and a whole bunch of others who have got incredible teaching on there, and really helpful stuff. 34 00:03:13.000 --> 00:03:17.000 And then you get access to everything that will be there in the future too, so it's a pretty small price. 35 00:03:17.000 --> 00:03:21.000 I personally think it's a pretty epic deal, but I'm not trying to sell it to you, 36 00:03:21.000 --> 00:03:23.000 just letting you know that that's where that will be. 37 00:03:23.000 --> 00:03:30.000 And I'll put the link on the comments of this Facebook live session after I've finished it, 38 00:03:30.000 --> 00:03:34.000 so that you can access that if you do want to sign up to that. 39 00:03:34.000 --> 00:03:39.000 And then following that, I'm going to give an opportunity, 40 00:03:39.000 --> 00:03:45.000 make some time available for those who would be interested in some one-on-one mentoring coaching. 41 00:03:45.000 --> 00:03:50.000 That will also have a cost attached to it, but it will be far more in-depth, far more thorough, 42 00:03:50.000 --> 00:04:00.000 and we can work out the details as per the individual who is applying for it. 43 00:04:00.000 --> 00:04:06.000 So that's going to be available too, and I'll let you know more about that as we carry on through the school, 44 00:04:06.000 --> 00:04:10.000 and as we carry on through the activation, the three-day activation. 45 00:04:10.000 --> 00:04:17.000 So just to explain how the activation, three-day activation, and this three-day school kind of work, 46 00:04:17.000 --> 00:04:21.000 and I'll just share a little illustration to kind of share the big picture, 47 00:04:21.000 --> 00:04:28.000 and once I've done that, we're going to get into kind of the theme and the principle behind today's two sessions, 48 00:04:28.000 --> 00:04:30.000 and then we'll get into session one. 49 00:04:31.000 --> 00:04:41.000 So the way these two kind of work, it reminds me of teaching my daughter how to surf. 50 00:04:41.000 --> 00:04:45.000 I'm in the middle of like teaching my daughter how to surf. It's super fun. I absolutely love it. 51 00:04:45.000 --> 00:04:50.000 And the father loves taking you on a journey too and teaching you what's available for you. 52 00:04:50.000 --> 00:04:57.000 And so for Ari, what the first step is, you know, wait for a good swell day. 53 00:04:57.000 --> 00:04:59.000 And there's a couple of ways for her. 54 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:11.000 The way it kind of works is, the first thing is I normally get her to hold on to my leg rope and I paddle her out the back. 55 00:05:11.000 --> 00:05:23.000 So sometimes it's pretty hard to duck dive under the waves, sometimes it's pretty hard to get through the onslaught of energy that's coming towards you. 56 00:05:23.000 --> 00:05:27.000 And so I get her to hold on to the leg rope and I paddle her out. 57 00:05:27.000 --> 00:05:30.000 And that's the equivalent of these three days. 58 00:05:30.000 --> 00:05:38.000 The purpose of these three days, school of the spirit here on the Raven Royalty Group, is to get you out the back ready to catch the waves. 59 00:05:38.000 --> 00:05:45.000 And then the three week activation is what I do once Ari is out the back with the surfboard and she's in the spot. 60 00:05:45.000 --> 00:05:48.000 And I've got her to the spot ready to catch the wave. 61 00:05:48.000 --> 00:05:53.000 Because when the wave comes, her paddle muscles aren't fully strong enough yet to paddle on by herself. 62 00:05:53.000 --> 00:05:56.000 Most of the time, although she is getting there. 63 00:05:56.000 --> 00:06:01.000 I'll be out the back and I... 64 00:06:01.000 --> 00:06:10.000 Oh, sorry, I'm just reading a comment from you, Tia. 65 00:06:10.000 --> 00:06:15.000 There is, typing is over your voice. It is a bit challenging to focus. 66 00:06:15.000 --> 00:06:21.000 I'm really sorry about that, Tia. I'm not sure what I can do about that. 67 00:06:22.000 --> 00:06:27.000 If anyone knows, if there's anything Tia can do about that, you just drop that on the comments. 68 00:06:27.000 --> 00:06:29.000 That would be really helpful. 69 00:06:29.000 --> 00:06:32.000 I'll try and fix that for next time. I really apologize for that. 70 00:06:32.000 --> 00:06:36.000 Is it my typing? 71 00:06:36.000 --> 00:06:38.000 Yeah, so... 72 00:06:38.000 --> 00:06:40.000 But when, yeah, so sorry, back to that. 73 00:06:40.000 --> 00:06:43.000 When Ari's out the back and the wave comes, I push her onto the wave. 74 00:06:43.000 --> 00:06:49.000 And my push, along with her paddle, just gives her that little push, that little supercharge, 75 00:06:49.000 --> 00:06:54.000 to get her onto the wave so that she can enjoy the flow of the wave. 76 00:06:54.000 --> 00:06:57.000 And she can thereby... 77 00:07:13.000 --> 00:07:16.000 Oh, sorry, I'm just reading a comment from you, Tia. 78 00:07:16.000 --> 00:07:19.000 There is, typing is over your voice. It is a bit challenging to focus. 79 00:07:19.000 --> 00:07:22.000 I'm really sorry about that. I'm not sure what I can do about that. 80 00:07:22.000 --> 00:07:26.000 If anyone knows, if there's anything Tia can do about that, you just drop that on the comments. 81 00:07:26.000 --> 00:07:28.000 That would be really helpful. 82 00:07:28.000 --> 00:07:30.000 I'll try and fix that for next time. 83 00:07:30.000 --> 00:07:33.000 But when Ari's out the back and the wave comes, I push her onto the wave. 84 00:07:33.000 --> 00:07:38.000 And my push, along with her paddle, just gives her that little push, that little supercharge, 85 00:07:38.000 --> 00:07:41.000 to get her onto the wave so that she can enjoy the flow of the wave. 86 00:07:42.000 --> 00:07:45.000 Oh, OK. 87 00:07:45.000 --> 00:07:47.000 Do you disconnect Bluetooth? No. 88 00:07:47.000 --> 00:07:49.000 Little thing, isn't it? 89 00:07:49.000 --> 00:07:50.000 Here we go. 90 00:07:50.000 --> 00:07:53.000 Now, can you guys hear me now? 91 00:07:53.000 --> 00:07:56.000 Tell me, can you hear me now? 92 00:07:56.000 --> 00:07:58.000 Is this better? 93 00:07:58.000 --> 00:08:02.000 Matt, no voice. Oh! 94 00:08:02.000 --> 00:08:07.000 Tell me, am I sound off? Is sound still off? 95 00:08:07.000 --> 00:08:12.000 OK, just give me a thumbs up. Can you hear me? 96 00:08:12.000 --> 00:08:17.000 OK, cool, sweet. I think you can hear me. 97 00:08:17.000 --> 00:08:19.000 I don't know where we got up to. 98 00:08:19.000 --> 00:08:23.000 Hang on, let me just ask my wife when she turned the headphones on. 99 00:08:23.000 --> 00:08:24.000 No. 100 00:08:24.000 --> 00:08:26.000 When did you turn the headphones on? 101 00:08:26.000 --> 00:08:29.000 They've been on the whole time, but they always do that. 102 00:08:29.000 --> 00:08:32.000 OK. 103 00:08:32.000 --> 00:08:36.000 I don't know what you last heard from me. 104 00:08:36.000 --> 00:08:39.000 But maybe I'll just start again. 105 00:08:39.000 --> 00:08:41.000 I'm really sorry about that, guys. 106 00:08:41.000 --> 00:08:46.000 That is such a bummer. 107 00:08:46.000 --> 00:08:48.000 Thanks, Rachel. Thanks so much. 108 00:08:48.000 --> 00:08:50.000 Thanks for all the responses. That's awesome. 109 00:08:50.000 --> 00:08:53.000 OK, so let me just start again. 110 00:08:53.000 --> 00:08:55.000 Again, really sorry about that. 111 00:08:55.000 --> 00:08:58.000 Welcome to School of the Spirit. 112 00:08:58.000 --> 00:09:00.000 And sorry, there's no Zoom link for this, 113 00:09:00.000 --> 00:09:03.000 but there will be for the next thing that's coming up. 114 00:09:03.000 --> 00:09:07.000 So the purpose of the School of the Spirit is, 115 00:09:07.000 --> 00:09:13.000 I've designed this to equip you to live naturally supernatural 116 00:09:13.000 --> 00:09:15.000 at a greater dimension. 117 00:09:15.000 --> 00:09:17.000 That's kind of the whole idea of this, 118 00:09:17.000 --> 00:09:24.000 is that you would step into your life in the Spirit at another level. 119 00:09:24.000 --> 00:09:27.000 Hearing the voice of lady who said her typing. 120 00:09:27.000 --> 00:09:31.000 OK. 121 00:09:32.000 --> 00:09:36.000 You were just getting to the waves with your daughter. 122 00:09:36.000 --> 00:09:37.000 OK, cool. 123 00:09:37.000 --> 00:09:39.000 So, right, all right. 124 00:09:39.000 --> 00:09:42.000 Thank you so much for letting me know where I was. 125 00:09:42.000 --> 00:09:44.000 So this school, this three-day school, 126 00:09:44.000 --> 00:09:46.000 is the equivalent of getting you out the back. 127 00:09:46.000 --> 00:09:48.000 Paddling you out, you're holding onto my leg, 128 00:09:48.000 --> 00:09:50.000 I'm getting you out the back. 129 00:09:50.000 --> 00:09:57.000 And the three-week activation is my way of pushing you onto the wave 130 00:09:57.000 --> 00:09:58.000 once you're out the back, 131 00:09:58.000 --> 00:10:00.000 to give you that extra little bit of support. 132 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:06.080 of oomph to get you on the energy of the wave, to get you into the flow of the spirit, and 133 00:10:06.080 --> 00:10:08.800 I'm not assuming that all of you aren't in a flow of the spirit. 134 00:10:08.800 --> 00:10:13.040 I know that many of you are doing amazing things and you're already in that flow, but 135 00:10:13.040 --> 00:10:16.560 this is to get you into an even greater flow. 136 00:10:16.560 --> 00:10:21.440 And then after that, there'll be available one-on-one mentoring coaching sessions, which 137 00:10:21.440 --> 00:10:31.040 will be, I was apologizing, that's all good, which will be getting you improving in that. 138 00:10:31.040 --> 00:10:33.040 So that's going to be awesome. 139 00:10:33.040 --> 00:10:35.760 Right, let's get stuck into today. 140 00:10:35.760 --> 00:10:39.200 Thanks everyone for tuning in and thanks for your comments. 141 00:10:39.200 --> 00:10:41.320 Also just let us know where you're tuning in from. 142 00:10:41.320 --> 00:10:45.080 I might interrupt myself every now and again with reading a comment. 143 00:10:45.080 --> 00:10:48.720 I really love the interaction. 144 00:10:48.880 --> 00:10:54.560 Yeah, so cool to have you all on here, whether you're tuning in live or whether you're tuning 145 00:10:54.560 --> 00:11:00.160 in on the replay, God bless you, and we're going to pray right now. 146 00:11:00.160 --> 00:11:06.240 And my prayer really is that you will be deeply touched by the reality of God's presence and 147 00:11:06.240 --> 00:11:14.400 that you would feel the reality of this is not just me teaching you, but that you would 148 00:11:14.400 --> 00:11:20.640 actually feel the reality of God teaching you and the Spirit of God teaching you as 149 00:11:20.640 --> 00:11:21.760 I'm teaching you as well. 150 00:11:21.760 --> 00:11:26.720 And so, Father, right now, I just thank you and I declare your peace, I declare your goodness, 151 00:11:26.720 --> 00:11:34.000 I declare your kindness and an awareness of your presence over every person that is tuned 152 00:11:34.000 --> 00:11:36.240 in that's a part of this right now. 153 00:11:36.240 --> 00:11:38.480 And I pray, Holy Spirit, teach us. 154 00:11:38.480 --> 00:11:39.440 You are the teacher. 155 00:11:39.440 --> 00:11:41.840 You are our teacher. 156 00:11:41.920 --> 00:11:48.720 And Lord, the things that I'm sharing that you're wanting to awaken in individuals' lives 157 00:11:48.720 --> 00:11:55.200 during this session, God, I pray for a spirit of revelation to explode and to erupt and to 158 00:11:58.560 --> 00:12:02.640 alight in people's hearts as I'm teaching. 159 00:12:02.640 --> 00:12:08.000 Holy Spirit, we invite your presence into this moment in Jesus' name. 160 00:12:09.360 --> 00:12:09.920 Amen. 161 00:12:10.560 --> 00:12:11.280 Awesome, guys. 162 00:12:11.280 --> 00:12:12.560 Thanks for letting us know where you're from. 163 00:12:12.560 --> 00:12:13.920 God, there's people from all over the world. 164 00:12:13.920 --> 00:12:14.880 This is so cool. 165 00:12:15.840 --> 00:12:18.160 So, guys, this is day one, School of the Spirit. 166 00:12:18.160 --> 00:12:24.880 And today, there's kind of an undergirding principle that undergirds both sessions. 167 00:12:25.680 --> 00:12:30.480 And this principle goes way beyond just these both sessions, just these two sessions and 168 00:12:30.480 --> 00:12:31.520 what I'm talking about today. 169 00:12:31.520 --> 00:12:38.880 But it really undergirds and gives kind of the reason why what I'm talking about today 170 00:12:38.880 --> 00:12:39.680 is important. 171 00:12:40.320 --> 00:12:43.200 And so I'm going to share that principle, and then we're going to get into session one. 172 00:12:44.800 --> 00:12:47.920 So it's the Proverbs 23, 7 principle. 173 00:12:47.920 --> 00:12:52.560 And Proverbs 23, 7 says this, as a man thinks in his heart, so is he. 174 00:12:55.040 --> 00:12:56.480 And the principle is this. 175 00:12:56.560 --> 00:13:04.400 Your concrete experience of life is not necessarily in line with God's version of reality. 176 00:13:05.600 --> 00:13:17.120 Your concrete experience of life is evidence or is not necessarily reality, but it is the 177 00:13:17.120 --> 00:13:20.080 evidence of what you believe reality to be. 178 00:13:21.040 --> 00:13:29.440 Your experience of life is determined by what you believe is real, not necessarily what 179 00:13:29.440 --> 00:13:30.000 is real. 180 00:13:30.000 --> 00:13:31.680 And that's why repentance is so important. 181 00:13:31.680 --> 00:13:36.240 And that's why changing the way you think until you begin to think like God is important. 182 00:13:36.240 --> 00:13:40.640 Because when you learn to think the way God thinks, and when you learn to have the mind 183 00:13:40.640 --> 00:13:44.800 of Christ, and you receive the mind of Christ, and you learn to think within the mind of 184 00:13:44.800 --> 00:13:50.480 Christ, then you are believing the same reality as God. 185 00:13:50.480 --> 00:13:55.040 And your life will come into, eventually, maybe not instantly, but eventually will come 186 00:13:55.040 --> 00:14:02.000 into alignment with what you, and here's the powerful thing, with what you choose to believe. 187 00:14:02.720 --> 00:14:07.440 And sometimes changing your belief and choosing what direction you want your belief to go 188 00:14:07.440 --> 00:14:12.880 in can take discipline, can take intentionality, and can take a rerouting of tracks that are 189 00:14:12.880 --> 00:14:16.080 thoroughly entrenched in your brain already to think a different way. 190 00:14:16.080 --> 00:14:18.480 And that's where the Spirit of God comes in. 191 00:14:18.480 --> 00:14:24.240 And that's where the beauty of being a disciple of Jesus and following Jesus in moments like 192 00:14:24.240 --> 00:14:31.200 this are important because they help us to retract the way we think to think the way 193 00:14:31.200 --> 00:14:31.920 God thinks. 194 00:14:31.920 --> 00:14:38.000 And therefore, our reality of life or our concrete experience of life comes into alignment 195 00:14:38.000 --> 00:14:38.720 with what we think. 196 00:14:38.800 --> 00:14:40.640 As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. 197 00:14:41.680 --> 00:14:44.880 And your life will line up with what you believe is real. 198 00:14:45.440 --> 00:14:49.920 And when what you believe is real is what is actually real, then your life will look 199 00:14:49.920 --> 00:14:50.560 like Jesus. 200 00:14:51.280 --> 00:14:55.840 We're all on a journey of repentance, and we're all on a journey of going from glory 201 00:14:55.840 --> 00:14:59.600 to glory, especially in terms of the way we think, which 202 00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:06.840 Translates into the way we live and so that is the the principle that's behind these two sessions 203 00:15:07.480 --> 00:15:09.640 Exactly, right Janice the renewing of our minds 204 00:15:10.560 --> 00:15:15.440 And there's a lot to be said about that principle. There's probably session upon session upon session 205 00:15:16.000 --> 00:15:21.720 That that I would actually be tempted to teach you on just that one principle alone, but we're going to take that 206 00:15:22.240 --> 00:15:24.800 principle I've tried to put it in a very succinct way and 207 00:15:25.160 --> 00:15:26.240 And 208 00:15:26.240 --> 00:15:27.840 And we're going to go into session one 209 00:15:27.840 --> 00:15:32.480 I'll repeat that principle again as we go into session two just to recap and remind and 210 00:15:34.080 --> 00:15:37.160 But that's the Proverbs 23 7 principle 211 00:15:38.320 --> 00:15:45.020 Super important and worth taking a note of worth applying to and considering in pretty much every area of life 212 00:15:46.760 --> 00:15:48.600 And 213 00:15:48.600 --> 00:15:53.920 In session one where session one is is entitled our compass for spirit life 214 00:15:54.720 --> 00:15:56.720 This is what we're going to go into 215 00:15:56.840 --> 00:16:01.400 We're going to answer these questions. What is life intended to look like? What's your life? What's my life? 216 00:16:01.400 --> 00:16:08.480 What is that? What are our lives intended by God to look like and what can we expect on our journey with the father? 217 00:16:08.480 --> 00:16:14.400 What can we expect our journey with Papa God to look like? What can we expect our sonship? 218 00:16:14.400 --> 00:16:18.480 What can we expect our expression of life as a child of God to look like? 219 00:16:19.480 --> 00:16:24.200 Where do we get our bearings from how do we navigate the spirit life? How do we know when we're safe? 220 00:16:24.320 --> 00:16:26.840 How do we know when we're off? How do we know when we're on? 221 00:16:26.840 --> 00:16:32.360 How do we know when we're like what what's the roadmap to spirit life? And we're going to talk about that 222 00:16:33.280 --> 00:16:36.080 And we're going to talk about kind of resetting 223 00:16:36.880 --> 00:16:38.880 what 224 00:16:40.560 --> 00:16:41.960 Resetting 225 00:16:41.960 --> 00:16:43.760 resetting our 226 00:16:43.800 --> 00:16:51.080 Expectations of what's available and when we reset our expectations what we're in effect really doing is we're resetting what we believe and as we 227 00:16:51.080 --> 00:16:52.920 reset what we believe and 228 00:16:52.920 --> 00:17:00.120 Reset what we expect then we reset the trajectory or the direction or or where our life is hitting 229 00:17:02.200 --> 00:17:07.800 And like I said before our life will match up and will tend to bend towards 230 00:17:08.680 --> 00:17:12.520 the direction that we set our belief and set our mindset and so 231 00:17:13.280 --> 00:17:15.280 Our compass for spirit life 232 00:17:16.880 --> 00:17:19.319 Let's start off we're going to start off with a few scriptures 233 00:17:19.319 --> 00:17:24.160 Then I'm going to share a moment that happened to me that kind of illustrates what I'm talking about 234 00:17:24.160 --> 00:17:28.440 We're going to share another scripture and we're going to pray and we'll end with a little activation 235 00:17:30.360 --> 00:17:33.200 John 1 14 the word became flesh and 236 00:17:33.920 --> 00:17:40.360 Dwells amongst us who is the word now? The word is now. I love I love the graphite. I love the Bible 237 00:17:40.360 --> 00:17:44.320 I love the scriptures. I think all scriptures God breathed and useful for 238 00:17:44.920 --> 00:17:46.920 for for life for 239 00:17:47.640 --> 00:17:55.040 You know, I believe I believe in the inspired scriptures. I I really feel I even feel like in this day and in this time 240 00:17:56.000 --> 00:17:56.920 the 241 00:17:56.920 --> 00:18:01.960 The significance the importance and the relevance of the scriptures is so important 242 00:18:01.960 --> 00:18:07.880 And so I absolutely do not want to dumb that down or dial that down or dilute that in any way 243 00:18:08.520 --> 00:18:13.440 But what I do want to say is that when John is talking about the word became flesh 244 00:18:13.440 --> 00:18:18.200 He's not talking about the Bible became flesh. He's not talking even about the scripture became flesh 245 00:18:18.520 --> 00:18:22.960 He's talking about the word that was in the beginning that created all things 246 00:18:22.960 --> 00:18:28.720 He's talking about God became flesh and dwelt amongst us and we beheld his glory the glory of the unbegotten Son 247 00:18:29.840 --> 00:18:31.480 and 248 00:18:31.480 --> 00:18:36.320 And so so what is this word? What is the word? What is Jesus is? 249 00:18:37.320 --> 00:18:40.000 And what what John is really saying there is 250 00:18:40.840 --> 00:18:43.920 Jesus is this is a this is a profound statement 251 00:18:43.920 --> 00:18:49.060 I just want to throw this out there and this this really is a game-changer for so many things 252 00:18:50.600 --> 00:18:54.520 Jesus is what God has to say 253 00:18:56.680 --> 00:18:58.000 Sailor 254 00:18:58.000 --> 00:19:00.000 Jesus is what God has to say about himself 255 00:19:00.200 --> 00:19:06.200 Jesus is what God has to say about you and Jesus is what God has to say about life and what he's intended life to be like 256 00:19:06.840 --> 00:19:08.840 it's almost like 257 00:19:08.880 --> 00:19:10.880 It's almost like 258 00:19:11.040 --> 00:19:13.040 Like this it's almost like 259 00:19:14.960 --> 00:19:16.960 God was trying to describe 260 00:19:17.960 --> 00:19:19.560 himself 261 00:19:19.560 --> 00:19:20.880 life 262 00:19:20.880 --> 00:19:22.640 Who he created you to be like? 263 00:19:22.640 --> 00:19:27.000 Through the prophets and he was like just say it like this to say like this and it was kind of like Chinese whispers 264 00:19:27.000 --> 00:19:32.840 And it was sort of half game through but wasn't fully getting through and it was almost like he was like, you know what? 265 00:19:33.880 --> 00:19:37.560 I'm gonna stop trying to explain it to you. I'm just gonna come and show you 266 00:19:38.080 --> 00:19:40.880 I'm gonna come and show you myself. It's like trying to teach 267 00:19:41.400 --> 00:19:45.800 I was trying to teach my my youngest daughter how to kick a football the other day 268 00:19:45.800 --> 00:19:51.800 and I was like you use this kind of I was like trying to explain use this kind of part of your foot here and 269 00:19:52.320 --> 00:19:56.920 You sort of do that put your your ankle in front of you and you're like, I'm gonna kick a football 270 00:19:57.000 --> 00:19:59.640 And you point your other foot and I was trying to explain it 271 00:20:00.000 --> 00:20:04.680 And then I was just like, you know what, pass me the ball, come stand beside me, and I'll 272 00:20:04.680 --> 00:20:05.680 actually show you. 273 00:20:05.680 --> 00:20:09.240 I'll demonstrate to you how to kick the soccer ball. 274 00:20:09.240 --> 00:20:13.560 Jesus is God's own demonstration of what it is to be you. 275 00:20:13.560 --> 00:20:23.040 Jesus is God's own demonstration of what it is to be a normal human. 276 00:20:23.040 --> 00:20:24.760 That is so awesome. 277 00:20:24.760 --> 00:20:26.800 He is, Jesus is our compass. 278 00:20:26.800 --> 00:20:28.160 Jesus is our map. 279 00:20:28.160 --> 00:20:30.760 Jesus is our guide. 280 00:20:30.760 --> 00:20:41.360 And now as we know Jesus in the Holy Spirit, and so that's just a real amazing thing. 281 00:20:41.360 --> 00:20:49.120 Jesus manifested as, he gave himself and was given a few titles. 282 00:20:49.120 --> 00:20:51.800 One of the main ones was Jesus is the Son of God. 283 00:20:51.800 --> 00:20:53.480 He was crucified for that one. 284 00:20:53.480 --> 00:20:54.840 Jesus is the Son of God. 285 00:20:54.840 --> 00:20:56.480 In other words, if you look at me, you see God. 286 00:20:56.480 --> 00:21:00.600 You see me, you see the Father. 287 00:21:00.600 --> 00:21:03.400 Jesus is God's own word. 288 00:21:03.400 --> 00:21:06.600 Jesus is what God has to say about himself, Son of God. 289 00:21:06.600 --> 00:21:13.440 Jesus was the most common, I think you'll find the most common title for Jesus is Son 290 00:21:13.440 --> 00:21:17.280 of Man. 291 00:21:17.280 --> 00:21:19.360 And what is that? 292 00:21:19.360 --> 00:21:20.360 What is that all about? 293 00:21:20.360 --> 00:21:25.840 Well, what that is all about is this, is what we're talking about right now, is Jesus is 294 00:21:26.200 --> 00:21:30.080 not just what God has to say about himself, but Jesus is what God has to say about you. 295 00:21:30.080 --> 00:21:37.520 In other words, not just when you see me, you see the Father, but also when you see 296 00:21:37.520 --> 00:21:39.640 me, you see you. 297 00:21:39.640 --> 00:21:42.040 When you see me, you see you. 298 00:21:42.040 --> 00:21:45.600 When you see the way I live, you see the way that you've been designed to live. 299 00:21:45.600 --> 00:21:50.040 When you see the way I walk with the Father, you see the way that you have been invited. 300 00:21:50.040 --> 00:21:59.440 You get to decide whether you respond to the invitation or not, but you get to decide. 301 00:21:59.440 --> 00:22:08.840 You have been invited to live with God in the same way that I am showing you how I live 302 00:22:08.840 --> 00:22:13.960 with God. 303 00:22:13.960 --> 00:22:17.840 As he is, so are we in this world. 304 00:22:17.840 --> 00:22:19.840 Incredible. 305 00:22:19.840 --> 00:22:29.560 This mindset, what I'm sharing right now, is really what undergirds spirit life, what 306 00:22:29.560 --> 00:22:33.960 undergirds a naturally supernatural Jesus kind of lifestyle. 307 00:22:33.960 --> 00:22:41.920 It's learning to believe what Jesus believes, not just about God, but about you also. 308 00:22:41.920 --> 00:22:46.220 Another amazing scripture is Philippians 2 verse 7, and I've just pulled that up in my 309 00:22:46.220 --> 00:22:56.220 analog right here, my retro, beautiful, sometimes I just love to smell the pages. 310 00:22:56.220 --> 00:23:00.300 This right here has served me well. 311 00:23:00.300 --> 00:23:01.900 Thank you Jesus for the scripture. 312 00:23:01.900 --> 00:23:07.060 Philippians 2, and we'll start in, this is another amazing principle I just want to pull 313 00:23:07.060 --> 00:23:12.900 out, Philippians 2, and we'll actually start in verse 5. 314 00:23:13.180 --> 00:23:17.580 Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus. 315 00:23:17.580 --> 00:23:22.660 Now that statement is made in the context of the scripture that's been written right 316 00:23:22.660 --> 00:23:27.180 here by Paul, but man, you could take that same thing and just apply that to just about 317 00:23:27.180 --> 00:23:29.500 every aspect of your life. 318 00:23:29.500 --> 00:23:42.260 Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, Selah, who being in the form 319 00:23:42.260 --> 00:23:46.740 of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal of God. 320 00:23:46.740 --> 00:23:53.220 In other words, Jesus was happy to acknowledge that he is God and the Son of God. 321 00:23:53.220 --> 00:23:57.540 As I said, that's why he was crucified, you just read the scripture and see that. 322 00:23:57.540 --> 00:24:06.620 But he made himself, in verse 7, of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant and coming 323 00:24:06.620 --> 00:24:11.300 in the likeness of men, and being found in appearance as a man. 324 00:24:11.300 --> 00:24:21.380 He humbled himself, he volunteered this, he humbled himself and became obedient to 325 00:24:21.380 --> 00:24:27.180 the point of death, even the death of the cross. 326 00:24:27.180 --> 00:24:28.740 What is all of this saying? 327 00:24:28.740 --> 00:24:34.820 When it says he made himself of no reputation, it literally can mean this, it could be translated 328 00:24:34.820 --> 00:24:36.660 as this, he emptied himself. 329 00:24:36.660 --> 00:24:38.440 He emptied himself of what? 330 00:24:38.440 --> 00:24:48.480 He emptied himself of his divine rights as God, and what did he empty himself into? 331 00:24:48.480 --> 00:24:52.520 He emptied himself of his divine rights as God, listen, he didn't consider it robbery 332 00:24:52.520 --> 00:24:59.080 to be equal of God, he never denied that he was God, he in fact confirmed, I am God, I 333 00:24:59.080 --> 00:25:00.040 am the Son of God. 334 00:25:00.000 --> 00:25:06.720 I'm equal with God. He said all those things. Jesus is 100% God in the flesh. 335 00:25:07.760 --> 00:25:14.960 We know that. I mean, that's Orthodox theology. That's clear in the Scriptures. That's clear in 336 00:25:14.960 --> 00:25:18.960 the life of Jesus. But what is also clear is Philippians 2 verse 7, where it says, 337 00:25:19.600 --> 00:25:27.600 listen, while that is true, that he is 100% God, he chose by his own volunteering, by his own choice 338 00:25:28.560 --> 00:25:37.040 to humble himself into the limitations of what it is to be a human. In other words, I am God, 339 00:25:37.040 --> 00:25:43.280 but I'm putting aside my Godness. In other words, what makes me distinct from being a human? What 340 00:25:44.560 --> 00:25:53.040 makes me different from you? I'm putting that aside and I am going to wear the limitations 341 00:25:53.120 --> 00:25:59.440 of humanity to show you what the human life and the human experience is designed to be like, 342 00:26:00.160 --> 00:26:05.840 because you just haven't got it yet. In other words, Jesus is saying this, I want you to look 343 00:26:05.840 --> 00:26:13.120 at me. And while you're looking at me, I want you to see you. I want you to look at me because when 344 00:26:13.120 --> 00:26:18.000 you look at me, you will see the way that you have been designed to live. 345 00:26:22.960 --> 00:26:30.320 It's one thing to receive Jesus as fully 100% God, and that just makes you just go, 346 00:26:30.320 --> 00:26:34.080 wow, God, you are so good. To have a God that is 100% like Jesus, 347 00:26:34.720 --> 00:26:42.480 whoo-wee, man, that's what kind of God you want. And that just adds ammunition to the praise 348 00:26:42.480 --> 00:26:47.600 canon. If you want to have an amazing worship time, just think on that, man, we have a God 349 00:26:47.600 --> 00:26:55.440 that is 100% like Jesus. Come on, God, you're so good. But that doesn't necessarily propel you or 350 00:26:55.440 --> 00:27:01.040 activate you into a life that's like Jesus. What activates you into a life that's like Jesus is 351 00:27:01.040 --> 00:27:12.400 this thought and this truth, is that you are a you that's like Jesus. God made you like Jesus, 352 00:27:13.920 --> 00:27:21.200 and God came in the form of man as Jesus Christ to show you who you are. He's 100% son of man 353 00:27:21.200 --> 00:27:26.960 and 100% God. That's an amazing mystery, and there's a lot to that that will remain a mystery 354 00:27:27.040 --> 00:27:30.640 and is designed and meant to remain a mystery, and it's a beautiful mystery. 355 00:27:33.840 --> 00:27:37.440 But Jesus is not just something, a life to stand back and applaud. 356 00:27:37.440 --> 00:27:44.720 Jesus is God's invitation to live in a certain way. Jesus is God's invitation and challenge 357 00:27:47.120 --> 00:27:52.640 to live at a certain standard and to live with a certain belief and to live with a certain set of 358 00:27:52.640 --> 00:28:00.320 expectations and in a certain level of hope that wasn't available until we saw ourselves in Jesus, 359 00:28:00.320 --> 00:28:04.560 and we'll talk more about that in a second, but just absolutely outstanding. I remember 360 00:28:06.480 --> 00:28:14.320 to sort of illustrate this point, and what I'm about to share is not going to completely 361 00:28:14.320 --> 00:28:18.240 illustrate the point, and I was trying to think there's multiple different examples to share, but 362 00:28:18.240 --> 00:28:25.040 I just felt that this would be appropriate for the time. I just remember when I was growing up, 363 00:28:27.280 --> 00:28:35.440 and I say this with the slight risk of coming across disrespectful or non-honoring, but 364 00:28:36.880 --> 00:28:39.680 believe me, I have the biggest amount of honor for every 365 00:28:40.480 --> 00:28:52.480 just seeing that the video keeps getting interrupted. Is that true? Can anyone else comment? Is anyone else experiencing that too? 366 00:28:54.000 --> 00:28:57.040 Just drop a quick comment on there if you are experiencing that. 367 00:28:59.680 --> 00:29:02.560 Is anyone else experiencing the delay or broken 368 00:29:02.720 --> 00:29:11.520 video feed? Okay, thanks, Denise. That's really good to know. Is anyone else fine? Is everyone else okay? 369 00:29:12.320 --> 00:29:19.360 Okay, cool. Thanks, Catherine. All right. Oh, sorry. Now I can't see who 370 00:29:19.360 --> 00:29:23.440 commented that first comment. Sorry, I've forgotten who commented the first comment, but 371 00:29:24.960 --> 00:29:30.400 it might be your reception. I just wanted to see if it was my reception or yours. It might be yours. 372 00:29:31.200 --> 00:29:41.920 I'll leave you to figure that one out. Sorry about that. I remember when I was in my first 373 00:29:41.920 --> 00:29:49.840 few years of Christianity, and I remember God sending a teaching about the fivefold ministry, 374 00:29:49.840 --> 00:29:55.920 and I remember looking at the fivefold ministry, looking at the prophet, the apostle, the pastor, 375 00:29:55.920 --> 00:30:00.000 the teacher, the evangelist, and at the time my church leader 376 00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:07.320 Amazing man of God, Don McDonnell, I have the hugest respect for him. 377 00:30:07.320 --> 00:30:27.380 He is a 100% purebred evangelist, purebred evangelist and I remember thinking, he was 378 00:30:27.380 --> 00:30:34.460 shining and he was such a great example of an evangelist that I was like, my perspective 379 00:30:34.460 --> 00:30:39.820 of an evangelist and evangelism was like way up there, I was like, man, I want to be an 380 00:30:39.820 --> 00:30:40.820 evangelist. 381 00:30:40.820 --> 00:30:44.200 Evangelists are so exciting, they're so cool, you know. 382 00:30:44.200 --> 00:30:48.160 And then I remember reading books and stuff about prophets and seeing that prophetic gift 383 00:30:48.160 --> 00:30:55.060 in operation and thinking, whoa, man, the prophet, man, it'd be so cool to be called 384 00:30:55.060 --> 00:30:59.580 as a prophet, you know, like to have that gift and to see, you know, to walk in that 385 00:30:59.580 --> 00:31:03.660 way and to have that kind of dynamic with God, man, because there were so many clear 386 00:31:03.660 --> 00:31:07.940 examples of, for me, maybe not the same for you, but for me, there were so many examples 387 00:31:07.940 --> 00:31:10.740 around me of purebred prophets. 388 00:31:10.740 --> 00:31:15.300 And then I started to see even the apostolic in certain areas emerge and I thought, man, 389 00:31:15.300 --> 00:31:19.660 that's so attractive and to a degree teachers as well. 390 00:31:19.660 --> 00:31:24.580 But one thing that wasn't in my life at the time or that just to be honest, and I've been 391 00:31:24.580 --> 00:31:29.380 a bit vulnerable here, that seemed quite boring to me, was the pastoral office. 392 00:31:29.380 --> 00:31:34.020 I used to pray like, God, the last thing I would want to be is a fivefold pastor, it 393 00:31:34.020 --> 00:31:35.020 just seems so boring. 394 00:31:35.020 --> 00:31:41.260 It's just like the examples I had at the time were just like, you know, people who were 395 00:31:41.260 --> 00:31:46.420 engaged in pastoral ministry that didn't have that fivefold pastor office in their lives. 396 00:31:46.420 --> 00:31:50.660 And of course, we're not doing a teaching on the fivefold ministry right now, so I'm 397 00:31:50.660 --> 00:31:53.220 assuming you have some kind of idea around that. 398 00:31:53.220 --> 00:31:58.260 And if you don't, we can do one of those at a later time, another session in a different 399 00:31:58.260 --> 00:31:59.260 school sometime. 400 00:31:59.260 --> 00:32:03.780 But just to let you know, I didn't really have an example of a pastor and therefore 401 00:32:03.780 --> 00:32:07.420 my mindset of the pastoral ministry was quite low. 402 00:32:07.420 --> 00:32:15.620 My expectation of what was available in terms of a pastoral fivefold office was really low 403 00:32:15.620 --> 00:32:17.620 to non-existent. 404 00:32:17.620 --> 00:32:24.380 And my level of expectation or delight in that function from the heart of God, that 405 00:32:24.380 --> 00:32:32.380 pastoral function, that pastoral gift from the heart of God, my expectation of how good 406 00:32:32.380 --> 00:32:39.300 that was, was just not really there until I spent some time, for those of you, some 407 00:32:39.300 --> 00:32:43.300 of you know this, but I spent two years living in Redding, California and studying at the 408 00:32:43.300 --> 00:32:44.900 Bethel School of Supernatural Ministry. 409 00:32:45.180 --> 00:32:55.980 And I met a man named Danny Silk, who is a fivefold mature pastor. 410 00:32:55.980 --> 00:33:01.860 And I saw the pastoral grace and it was being honored, it was being received, and it was 411 00:33:01.860 --> 00:33:04.500 in full operation. 412 00:33:04.500 --> 00:33:10.460 And I'm, you know, I know this is probably illegal to say this, but like for so many 413 00:33:10.460 --> 00:33:14.620 of the students, Danny was like their favorite person, their favorite pastor, their favorite 414 00:33:14.620 --> 00:33:18.580 teacher, their favorite leader. 415 00:33:18.580 --> 00:33:23.780 And I think because so many of them had not seen a clear example of a fivefold pastor, 416 00:33:23.780 --> 00:33:28.180 and Danny was the first example they had seen in that kind of way. 417 00:33:28.180 --> 00:33:30.980 And for me, it just, it lit something up on the inside of me. 418 00:33:30.980 --> 00:33:36.060 And I realized, oh my gosh, like the pastoral, I started thinking like this, man, how cool 419 00:33:36.060 --> 00:33:38.740 would it be to be called as a fivefold pastor? 420 00:33:38.740 --> 00:33:43.500 I used to say, God, the last thing, please, just anything but a fivefold pastor. 421 00:33:43.500 --> 00:33:45.980 I do not want to be a fivefold pastor. 422 00:33:45.980 --> 00:33:52.220 I know that sounds funny to say that, but when I heard Danny, I was like, man, how epic 423 00:33:52.220 --> 00:33:56.180 would that be to be a fivefold pastor? 424 00:33:56.180 --> 00:34:01.100 And it changed my perspective, it changed my expectation, it changed the way I interacted 425 00:34:01.100 --> 00:34:04.180 with the pastoral grace and the pastoral ministry. 426 00:34:04.180 --> 00:34:07.740 It gave me a whole different value system and a whole different mindset that opened 427 00:34:07.740 --> 00:34:12.020 up a whole different realm of teaching. 428 00:34:12.020 --> 00:34:17.900 Just saw a comment there by you, True Sandy, what is a fivefold pastor? 429 00:34:17.900 --> 00:34:24.820 I really apologize, I actually am not going to explain that in this session, but I will 430 00:34:24.820 --> 00:34:33.060 be able to explain that in some future question and answer sessions, and we might do some 431 00:34:33.060 --> 00:34:36.219 teaching on the fivefold ministry in a later school, but I'm not going to explain that 432 00:34:36.219 --> 00:34:37.219 right now. 433 00:34:37.219 --> 00:34:40.219 But thanks so much for the question, and it is a valid question, and there are probably 434 00:34:40.219 --> 00:34:44.780 others asking that same question as well. 435 00:34:44.780 --> 00:34:50.659 But just to let you know that when I, I had had people talk to me about the pastoral ministry, 436 00:34:50.659 --> 00:34:55.219 and it kind of went in one ear and out the other, but when I saw the example of it, when 437 00:34:55.219 --> 00:34:59.940 I saw the demonstration of it in a person's life fleshed out, it was as if... 438 00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:05.200 The Word became flesh, it was as if that pastoral ministry, that pastoral grace had become flesh 439 00:35:05.200 --> 00:35:10.560 in the person of Danny Silk, and it was only then that I could fully receive it and benefit 440 00:35:10.560 --> 00:35:13.400 from it and be enriched by it. 441 00:35:13.400 --> 00:35:19.160 And when I say it, I'm talking about enriched by the presence of God and the Spirit of God 442 00:35:19.160 --> 00:35:24.760 manifest through that pastoral grace. 443 00:35:24.760 --> 00:35:28.000 And my life has been so much better because of it. 444 00:35:28.000 --> 00:35:33.600 And I could only receive it because it was demonstrated in the flesh of a human life. 445 00:35:33.600 --> 00:35:36.040 I hope that makes sense to you. 446 00:35:36.040 --> 00:35:42.920 And the same is true of Jesus, but not just with the narrowing of one pastoral grace or 447 00:35:42.920 --> 00:35:48.400 one color of grace, which I call the pastoral grace. 448 00:35:48.400 --> 00:35:58.480 When I saw Jesus, Jesus is, you know, He is a in-fleshed manifestation example from 449 00:35:58.480 --> 00:36:02.840 God of a pastor. 450 00:36:02.840 --> 00:36:05.200 But He's much more than that. 451 00:36:05.200 --> 00:36:14.760 He is the in-fleshed manifestation, the incarnation from God of not just what it is to be a pastor, 452 00:36:14.760 --> 00:36:17.480 not just what it is to be an apostle, prophet, teacher. 453 00:36:17.560 --> 00:36:18.560 He's all of those things. 454 00:36:18.560 --> 00:36:20.080 He's all five-in-one. 455 00:36:20.080 --> 00:36:26.280 But not just the five-fold ministry, He is God's demonstration to us of the normal human 456 00:36:26.280 --> 00:36:29.720 life. 457 00:36:29.720 --> 00:36:31.160 He is God's demonstration. 458 00:36:31.160 --> 00:36:39.880 He is God's compass given to us as a gift, God's own word about what it is to simply 459 00:36:39.880 --> 00:36:44.880 be human with Him. 460 00:36:44.880 --> 00:36:49.200 I know this sounds very simple, and for the most part, it is very simple. 461 00:36:49.200 --> 00:36:50.640 And that's the cool thing. 462 00:36:50.640 --> 00:36:55.400 Spirit life, Christian life, supernatural life, the miraculous, the gifts of the Spirit, 463 00:36:55.400 --> 00:36:59.120 seeing tumors dissolve, seeing blind eyes open up, seeing the dead raised, seeing all 464 00:36:59.120 --> 00:37:00.160 those things happen. 465 00:37:00.160 --> 00:37:05.520 It is very simple, and it all boils down to actually truly deeply believing very simple 466 00:37:05.520 --> 00:37:10.880 things that God has been trying to teach us for thousands of years, which we can really 467 00:37:10.880 --> 00:37:17.040 truly receive in our relationship with Jesus. 468 00:37:17.040 --> 00:37:24.440 One more scripture, and then we're going to pray, and that is in Colossians 3, and this 469 00:37:24.440 --> 00:37:34.640 is one of my favorite scriptures, Colossians 3, and verse, let's start in verse 2. 470 00:37:34.640 --> 00:37:36.920 Colossians 3 and verse 2. 471 00:37:36.920 --> 00:37:40.400 Set your mind on things above, not on things of the earth. 472 00:37:40.920 --> 00:37:42.600 Now, just stop right there for a second. 473 00:37:42.600 --> 00:37:48.480 This is slightly out of context of the rest of the session, but given the state of social 474 00:37:48.480 --> 00:37:56.600 media, media, the airwaves, and life in general at the moment, the general kind of conversation 475 00:37:56.600 --> 00:38:00.720 you have when you walk down the beach or you have a coffee with your friend at the cafe, 476 00:38:00.720 --> 00:38:05.400 it's pretty easy to have your mind not set on things from heaven. 477 00:38:05.400 --> 00:38:09.840 It's pretty easy to have your mind set on a whole bunch of other things that have nothing 478 00:38:09.840 --> 00:38:14.360 to do with the nature of God. 479 00:38:14.360 --> 00:38:21.600 Set your mind on things above, not on things of the earth. 480 00:38:21.600 --> 00:38:33.320 Not on things of the earth, for you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. 481 00:38:33.320 --> 00:38:39.320 When Christ who is our life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. 482 00:38:39.320 --> 00:38:41.000 Let me just try and break this down for you. 483 00:38:41.000 --> 00:38:46.200 Oh my gosh, this is such a very, very good scripture. 484 00:38:46.200 --> 00:38:47.200 For you died. 485 00:38:47.200 --> 00:38:49.960 Now, it says you died, and then it says your life is hidden. 486 00:38:49.960 --> 00:38:53.880 So you died, but you're also alive. 487 00:38:53.880 --> 00:38:55.320 What died? 488 00:38:55.320 --> 00:38:57.060 What you died? 489 00:38:57.060 --> 00:39:05.040 The you that was apart from God, the old you, the darkened minded you, the you that was 490 00:39:05.040 --> 00:39:11.480 trying to navigate life on your own strength and your own understanding, under your own 491 00:39:11.480 --> 00:39:13.320 autonomy, under your own leadership. 492 00:39:13.320 --> 00:39:23.520 That you, the alone you, the you in lack, the limited you, the lost you, the you outside 493 00:39:23.520 --> 00:39:27.720 of relationship with God, that you is dead. 494 00:39:27.720 --> 00:39:32.560 It died with Jesus. 495 00:39:32.560 --> 00:39:35.200 But your life is hidden. 496 00:39:35.200 --> 00:39:36.200 What life? 497 00:39:36.200 --> 00:39:41.760 Your true life, the life that you have, that has always been, that God has always intended 498 00:39:41.760 --> 00:39:43.520 for you. 499 00:39:43.520 --> 00:39:52.880 That you is hidden with Christ in God. 500 00:39:52.880 --> 00:39:59.920 That word hidden, it could also be translated kept secure and safe. 501 00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:10.400 up, that God has kept, God never lost sight of who you are, God has, sorry I'm just getting 502 00:40:10.400 --> 00:40:15.840 all these emails, they just keep coming over the screen, it's so funny, I probably need 503 00:40:15.840 --> 00:40:23.060 to turn the notification off, but that you, the you that God has always intended for you, 504 00:40:23.060 --> 00:40:29.240 the you that God created you to be like, the you that is in the mind of God, that was in 505 00:40:29.240 --> 00:40:33.120 the mind of God when he first created you, that has stayed in the mind of God and stayed 506 00:40:33.120 --> 00:40:41.640 in the heart of God, that he never lost, that you has been kept safe, no one, nothing, absolutely 507 00:40:41.640 --> 00:40:46.280 there is no power, no strength, no power, principality, there's no might, there is no 508 00:40:46.280 --> 00:40:52.240 authority that could ever steal that from the heart of God, you, the true you, the real 509 00:40:52.240 --> 00:40:58.840 you has been kept, has been guarded, has been in the most secure vault in the entire universe, 510 00:40:58.840 --> 00:41:03.880 it has been kept safe by the Father in the heart of God, the true you has been stored 511 00:41:03.880 --> 00:41:09.280 right alongside Jesus, and you might have heard me say this before, but when you go 512 00:41:09.280 --> 00:41:16.280 to the supermarket and you go to, you know, the food is arranged in certain sections, 513 00:41:16.280 --> 00:41:22.800 if you want crackers you go to the cracker section and the cheese crackers will be alongside 514 00:41:22.800 --> 00:41:29.680 the pepper crackers in the cracker section, if you go to the wine department of the supermarket, 515 00:41:29.680 --> 00:41:35.000 if you want wine, the wine area is an area that's set aside for wine and within that 516 00:41:35.000 --> 00:41:40.000 wine area there are bottom shelf wines, middle shelf wines, top shelf wines and then there 517 00:41:40.000 --> 00:41:44.560 are the wines that are in the locked case and they're the really expensive wines, that's 518 00:41:44.560 --> 00:41:49.440 like the top, top, top, top shelf wines, at least that's what it's like in New Zealand 519 00:41:49.440 --> 00:41:56.680 supermarkets, you have been hidden, kept safe in God with Christ, if you want to find 520 00:41:56.680 --> 00:42:05.160 you, you go to, to the space in the heart of God that is that locked wine space, you 521 00:42:05.160 --> 00:42:09.920 have been, you are, you are top shelf, you are the very top shelf of the supermarket, 522 00:42:09.920 --> 00:42:16.240 you are the most prized possession, you are the, the absolute treasure of the heart of 523 00:42:16.240 --> 00:42:22.160 God and you have been kept right alongside Jesus, right in that space, in other words 524 00:42:22.160 --> 00:42:30.680 if you want to see you, when you see him you see you, it says this, when Christ who is 525 00:42:30.680 --> 00:42:41.440 our life appears, when Christ who is our life manifests or shines or is shown or is, or 526 00:42:41.440 --> 00:42:47.920 you see him, when Christ who is our life appears for you, for you to see, then you 527 00:42:47.920 --> 00:42:56.000 too appear with him in glory, in other words when Christ appears and you see him, you don't 528 00:42:56.000 --> 00:43:01.240 just see him, you also see you, where, in glory, what does that word glory mean, I mean 529 00:43:01.240 --> 00:43:06.920 there's many teachings on glory but if you look up the Greek word doxa, it means, it 530 00:43:06.920 --> 00:43:12.920 literally can be translated a high opinion, a high opinion, when Christ who is our life 531 00:43:12.920 --> 00:43:21.120 appears, you too appear with him in God's high and good opinion of you, in other words 532 00:43:21.120 --> 00:43:27.720 you see God's, when you see Jesus, you see the Father's perspective and the Father's 533 00:43:27.720 --> 00:43:35.080 good opinion or the way the Father sees you, you see God's opinion of you, you see God's 534 00:43:35.120 --> 00:43:40.360 mindset towards you, you see God's perspective of you, you see the way that God sees you, 535 00:43:40.360 --> 00:43:45.480 when you see Jesus, you see the way God sees you, the same way God sees Jesus, he sees 536 00:43:45.480 --> 00:43:51.960 you, now I'm teaching this right now, I'm sharing this session with you and I want to 537 00:43:51.960 --> 00:44:02.480 just be a little bit vulnerable with you right now, I am on a process of learning to believe 538 00:44:02.560 --> 00:44:12.560 this and I believe that I will be on this process for a very long time, you see the 539 00:44:12.560 --> 00:44:28.680 depths and the richness of what I'm sharing right now, the quantity of revelation that's 540 00:44:28.680 --> 00:44:36.920 available in what I'm sharing right now is so vast and so deep and so wide and so rich 541 00:44:36.920 --> 00:44:43.080 that it cannot be consumed in one meal, it cannot be consumed in two meals, it cannot 542 00:44:43.080 --> 00:44:47.280 be consumed in three meals, it's not even a year-long course that you can do to get 543 00:44:47.280 --> 00:44:57.120 to the bottom of this, this is a bottomless forever extensive resource, reservoir of goodness 544 00:44:57.120 --> 00:45:00.000 from the heart of God that you will never find... 545 00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:08.680 the end of. And so really, as I'm sharing that, because I want you to know that this 546 00:45:08.680 --> 00:45:17.700 is a journey to which you will never fully reach the end. But the joy is not in reaching 547 00:45:17.700 --> 00:45:23.760 the end, the joy is being on the journey. The joy is learning to enjoy the ocean of 548 00:45:23.760 --> 00:45:29.180 God's heart that you've been invited to swim in. And the ocean of God's opinion of you 549 00:45:29.180 --> 00:45:33.720 that you have been invited to adopt as your own mindset towards yourself. And until we 550 00:45:33.720 --> 00:45:37.880 can look in the mirror and see, looking back at us, the same person that God sees when 551 00:45:37.880 --> 00:45:46.520 he sees us, we really need to retrain and repent towards the way that God sees us in 552 00:45:46.520 --> 00:45:57.880 the way that God thinks about us. Because as I said before, our experience, our concrete 553 00:45:57.880 --> 00:46:06.860 experience of life is not necessarily what God has designed or intended to be your reality. 554 00:46:06.860 --> 00:46:11.560 It's not necessarily a reflection of reality. Most people are living lies. Most people are 555 00:46:11.560 --> 00:46:17.880 living below the reality that God designed for them. Your concrete experience of life 556 00:46:17.880 --> 00:46:25.480 is evidence of what you believe to be real, not necessarily what is actually real. And 557 00:46:25.480 --> 00:46:31.900 as we learn to engage with this process of repentance, as we learn to engage with Jesus 558 00:46:31.900 --> 00:46:40.940 show me you so that I can see me. As we learn that, we go deeper and deeper and further 559 00:46:40.940 --> 00:46:47.220 and further into God's reality for us until our lives begin to look like the life of Jesus. 560 00:46:47.220 --> 00:46:53.320 Until we begin to live naturally supernatural in the same way that Jesus did. Until walking 561 00:46:53.320 --> 00:46:57.440 on water is normal for us. Until raising the dead is normal for us. Until walking through 562 00:46:57.440 --> 00:47:05.680 walls is normal for us. As he is, so are we in this world. As we start to believe in that, 563 00:47:05.680 --> 00:47:11.240 we start to see the same sort of things erupting and flowing from our lives as Jesus did and 564 00:47:11.240 --> 00:47:17.400 the disciples did, the apostles did from their lives. And the process of doing that is learning 565 00:47:17.400 --> 00:47:21.960 to be a really good beholder. And we're going to spend a little bit more time talking about 566 00:47:21.960 --> 00:47:27.440 this in some of the other sessions. But what I want to ask you to do, I'm going to give 567 00:47:27.440 --> 00:47:36.960 you a little bit of homework right now. And if you join in for the three week activation, 568 00:47:36.960 --> 00:47:42.400 some of that three week activation is going to be meditation and going to be beholding 569 00:47:42.400 --> 00:47:51.320 Jesus time. And I'll take you through some guided meditations and I'll also be giving 570 00:47:51.320 --> 00:47:57.000 you homework to just spend time and challenges to spend time beholding God. And what I'm 571 00:47:57.000 --> 00:48:01.880 going to do now is just issue a little challenge for you. And I realize that different ones 572 00:48:01.880 --> 00:48:07.280 of you are at different time zones and things like that. But what I want to challenge you 573 00:48:07.280 --> 00:48:13.280 to do is find just a simple 15 minutes to begin with. And I feel like 15 minutes is 574 00:48:13.280 --> 00:48:17.840 something that most people can do. Find 15 minutes. It doesn't need to be right now, 575 00:48:17.840 --> 00:48:24.960 but sometime before you go to sleep. I want to challenge you to find 15 minutes, put some 576 00:48:24.960 --> 00:48:31.020 nice music on if that helps you. If you like the silence, just choose the silence. Sometimes 577 00:48:31.020 --> 00:48:37.000 I like to go to the beach and just hear the ocean. That really does wonders for me. 15 578 00:48:37.000 --> 00:48:43.980 minutes and I just want you to make some space with God. And I know that's very simple and 579 00:48:43.980 --> 00:48:50.140 I know that most of you do that often anyway. But just after the session and in terms of 580 00:48:50.140 --> 00:48:55.580 reflecting on this session right now, I just want to invite you to do that. And I want 581 00:48:55.580 --> 00:49:05.700 to invite you to really ask Him, Jesus, what aspect of you do you want me to behold right 582 00:49:05.700 --> 00:49:15.660 now? Don't just sort of broadly behold Jesus. Ask Him to narrow it down a little bit. Just 583 00:49:15.660 --> 00:49:22.940 ask Him, Jesus, I want to see you freshly today, but I want to see the aspect of you 584 00:49:22.940 --> 00:49:27.820 that you're wanting to show me. What are you wanting to show me? And just wait on Him until 585 00:49:27.820 --> 00:49:33.660 He shows you the aspect that He's wanting to show you. And then as you begin to behold 586 00:49:33.700 --> 00:49:40.100 that, I just want to also invite you to ask Jesus how that will affect change in your 587 00:49:40.100 --> 00:49:47.100 life. How it would look in your life if you were to be transformed by the aspect that 588 00:49:47.100 --> 00:49:51.300 God's showing you. What kind of change would that bring in your life? What kind of change 589 00:49:51.300 --> 00:49:53.780 would that bring in your day-to-day? What kind of change would that bring in your marriage 590 00:49:53.780 --> 00:49:59.300 and your workplace and your relationship with your children? 591 00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:03.400 So I want to encourage you to do that, find some space to do that. 592 00:50:03.400 --> 00:50:09.600 I also want to encourage you just to recap, some of you may be taking notes if you haven't, 593 00:50:09.600 --> 00:50:18.400 just to recap on what I've shared and just ask the Lord to give you some ways to or give 594 00:50:18.400 --> 00:50:24.240 some ideas or some practices that you can put into place in your life to be a good beholder, 595 00:50:24.240 --> 00:50:30.540 to behold Jesus in order to be transformed into what you're beholding. 596 00:50:30.540 --> 00:50:35.140 Truth is, your life will look the most like what you spend the most time beholding. 597 00:50:35.140 --> 00:50:40.960 And your belief structure will imitate what you spend the most time thinking about. 598 00:50:40.960 --> 00:50:48.020 If you spend all of your time thinking about the latest COVID conversation, then your life 599 00:50:48.020 --> 00:50:54.620 will actually end up looking like the spirit behind that COVID conversation. 600 00:50:54.620 --> 00:50:59.660 But if you instead engage in that conversation, but spend more of your time beholding Jesus, 601 00:50:59.660 --> 00:51:05.940 then your life will look more like Jesus than the spirit behind the COVID conversation. 602 00:51:05.940 --> 00:51:14.020 So I just want to encourage you with that and yeah, awesome. 603 00:51:14.020 --> 00:51:15.020 So thanks guys. 604 00:51:15.020 --> 00:51:16.960 That is session one. 605 00:51:16.960 --> 00:51:21.140 Feel free, I won't have heaps of time, but I might have a little bit of time to answer 606 00:51:21.140 --> 00:51:23.420 a couple of questions on the comments. 607 00:51:23.420 --> 00:51:29.540 If you have some questions in the comments, feel free, just drop a comment with the question 608 00:51:29.540 --> 00:51:35.580 and I'll try and answer a couple of those. 609 00:51:35.580 --> 00:51:42.580 And even if I don't get around to answering it like today and on this comment thread, 610 00:51:42.580 --> 00:51:49.160 it will also help with later schools and things like that as well. 611 00:51:49.160 --> 00:51:50.160 So bless you. 612 00:51:50.160 --> 00:51:52.080 And Father, right now I just bless every person. 613 00:51:52.080 --> 00:51:57.400 I pray God again for that spirit of wisdom and revelation to really explode in people's 614 00:51:57.400 --> 00:52:00.000 minds and in people's hearts. 615 00:52:00.000 --> 00:52:07.400 I really pray in the name of Jesus, I pray God, Holy Spirit, that you come right over 616 00:52:07.400 --> 00:52:14.780 people right now, that you be the one that's peddling us out the back, that you be the 617 00:52:14.780 --> 00:52:16.220 one that's pushing us under the waves. 618 00:52:16.220 --> 00:52:27.220 God, I declare in the name of Jesus, I declare in the name of Jesus that your color floods 619 00:52:27.220 --> 00:52:29.500 people's minds and hearts right now. 620 00:52:29.500 --> 00:52:30.500 Thank you, God. 621 00:52:30.500 --> 00:52:36.180 Hey, Andrea, thanks for, I just noticed your question pop up as I was just praying there. 622 00:52:36.180 --> 00:52:40.760 Could you define the word behold in the context of this teaching? 623 00:52:40.760 --> 00:52:47.960 What I mean by behold is to meditate towards the person of Jesus. 624 00:52:47.960 --> 00:52:56.020 To behold means, in the most simple way you could say it, is to look at. 625 00:52:56.020 --> 00:52:57.880 How do you look at Jesus? 626 00:52:57.880 --> 00:53:03.640 Well, a really great way is through the Scriptures, through the Gospels, to study the life of 627 00:53:03.640 --> 00:53:11.700 Jesus and to think about and internally look towards the nature of Jesus. 628 00:53:11.700 --> 00:53:17.140 It might even be to look towards some of the ways He's been in your life. 629 00:53:17.140 --> 00:53:24.020 I think one of the absolute keys is to, and this is where the Scripture really does come 630 00:53:24.020 --> 00:53:33.540 in, is to look to the Jesus described in the Gospels and to spend time, obviously not physically 631 00:53:33.540 --> 00:53:39.400 looking at Jesus, but closing your eyes and internally looking at the person of Jesus 632 00:53:39.400 --> 00:53:45.440 as described in the four Gospels and in the Scripture. 633 00:53:45.440 --> 00:53:49.720 Janice, thanks for that question. 634 00:53:49.720 --> 00:53:52.360 Is guided meditation scriptural or godly? 635 00:53:52.360 --> 00:53:53.360 Isn't this anti-Christian? 636 00:53:53.360 --> 00:54:01.200 Yes, some guided meditation might be ungodly, but meditation just means to internally think, 637 00:54:01.200 --> 00:54:03.080 and so that's obviously not ungodly. 638 00:54:03.620 --> 00:54:10.300 That's obviously thinking, and imagination is something that's come from God, and it's 639 00:54:10.300 --> 00:54:14.700 something that He designed us with for a specific purpose. 640 00:54:14.700 --> 00:54:23.320 And when meditation is redeemed, in other words, when it's surrendered and devoted to 641 00:54:23.320 --> 00:54:32.820 Jesus and in the Holy Spirit, it can be possibly one of the most powerful things, and also 642 00:54:32.820 --> 00:54:34.660 a very scriptural thing. 643 00:54:34.660 --> 00:54:37.980 If you look up meditation in the Scripture and just do a word study on meditation, you'll 644 00:54:37.980 --> 00:54:49.940 see that it's been a part of life in God for, well, you see it through the entire Scripture 645 00:54:49.940 --> 00:54:56.900 from Genesis all the way to Revelation, so I suppose the big thing, whether it's anti-Christian 646 00:54:56.900 --> 00:55:00.020 or ungodly or not, is... 647 00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:11.440 who's the guide? If the guide is the Holy Spirit or it's someone that's leading people to the 648 00:55:11.440 --> 00:55:15.360 guide who is the Holy Spirit, then I think it's very Christian and very scriptural. So 649 00:55:15.920 --> 00:55:21.680 thanks for that question. Awesome. All right. We're going to peace out. And what's the time 650 00:55:21.680 --> 00:55:32.960 right now? It is one o'clock. We're going to come back in, we're going to come back in 651 00:55:34.560 --> 00:55:40.560 15 minutes. We're going to come back in 15 minutes, quarter past one, and in 15 minutes, 652 00:55:40.560 --> 00:55:45.280 and we're going to come back with session two. Session two is going to be a really good one. 653 00:55:45.280 --> 00:55:50.320 It's entitled Balancing Your Internal Stance for the Miraculous. 654 00:55:51.360 --> 00:55:56.960 It's going to be a fun session. So we'll see you in 15 minutes. Peace.