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 Good morning, great to see you all this morning. It's sunny at last. I felt a bit like I was back in the UK these last couple of days with the weather.

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 We're coming to the end of our series, as Tobin said, of God's story, our story.

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 I don't know if you've been looking around the world, but God is up to something at the moment.

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 As you look around the world, things seem to be pretty chaotic.

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 There's ISIS, there's terrorism, there's immigration issues, there's corruption.

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 My wife and I, next week, we're going to Kosomui to a wedding next week.

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 I just found out there's just been a bomb explosion in Kosomui.

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 You think, where in the world can you get away from the chaos and the craziness that's going on in the world?

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 I wish we'd booked tickets later because they're probably very cheap now.

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 But the issue is, as we look around, we think, what is going on?

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 The world seems crazy, it seems out of control, but the Bible tells us something really different.

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 The Bible tells us that God has got a story.

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 God is up to something.

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 God is doing something in the world at the moment, and he has been from the beginning of history to the end of history.

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 And what is God doing, even in the craziness of everything that you see around?

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 Well, God is actually, he's on a mission.

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 God is on a global mission.

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 He's doing something in this world, and he always has been.

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 And the Bible's story is a story about what God has been doing from the beginning until now,

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 and then when he comes back again, how he'll complete the story.

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 And if you remember some of the story, we looked in the Garden of Eden at how God created Adam and Eve's relationship with him,

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 and how he created them in his image to be people united together in community,

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 but who would go out and who would fill the earth and multiply.

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 We saw that God came to Abraham, and he gave Abraham this promise, and he said,

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 I'm going to give you a land and this people and a blessing which is going to go to all the nations.

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 It was global.

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 And then he says to Israel, he calls them to be his distinctive people.

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 He says, you are my people.

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 You are to be the way that you love each other.

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 You love me.

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 You love those around you.

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 That is to be this light to all the nations so that when they see it,

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 they will come and they will see just how amazing God is.

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 That's what God was up to.

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 But as you look through, and Tobin said earlier, as you look through the story,

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 and then you think, how did the people respond to what they were called to be?

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 Well, you see that while God was faithful, they were completely unfaithful.

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 And they didn't want to be God's unique, special people.

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 They wanted to be different.

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 Well, they didn't want to be different.

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 They wanted to be like everybody else.

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 They wanted to have kings like everybody else.

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 They wanted to follow idols and gods like everybody else.

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 They wanted to do what everybody else did.

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 They chased after money.

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 They chased after power.

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 They chased after pleasure.

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 They chased after comfort.

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 They chased after everything else that everybody else chased after.

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 And God kept chasing after them.

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 He kept being faithful, and they kept running away and being unfaithful.

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 they were adulterers, like in the story of Hosea and Goma,

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 if you remember that story we looked at a few weeks ago.

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 But the story of the Old Testament, in one sense, is quite a depressing story

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 because it's a story of our powerlessness.

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 Our powerlessness to obey, our powerlessness to be the people that God has called us to be.

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 God is the amazingly faithful God, but we are powerless to be who He's called us to be.

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 Romans 5 says this,

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 Just when we were completely powerless, while we were still at that point of weakness,

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 Christ came and He died for us.

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 While we were still ungodly, still couldn't do what God had called us to be,

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 Christ died for us.

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 He died to recreate this people who would be those communities of light

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 which would shine throughout the world in every dark place.

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 He died to recreate this people.

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 Now, that's all very nice.

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 That's all very well.

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 The problem is, if you think about the people Jesus chose for this mission,

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 Jesus had been three years with His disciples.

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 He's given them the best seminary you could ever have,

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 three years of the most amazing teaching with Jesus.

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 And after three years, what are His students like?

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 Are they the brightest of the bright?

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 Well, no.

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 Let's think about it.

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 After three years, one of them betrays Jesus.

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 One of them denies in front of the lowliest servant girl that He even knew Him.

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 All the others flee and run away.

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 And then even after Jesus has risen from the dead,

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 the disciples, the women come to the disciples and say,

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 Jesus has risen.

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 And they say, we don't believe you.

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 They're locked themselves inside a room because they're afraid of everybody else finding out

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 that they're followers of Jesus.

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 That's not a very good track record for Jesus.

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 If I was that teacher, I would feel a bit disappointed with my students.

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 And if that's not enough, Jesus then comes back.

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 For 40 days, He's teaching the disciples.

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 And for 40 days, He's given this kind of top-up class,

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 you know, the kind of revision of everything He's done,

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 all of God's plans and purposes, you know.

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 And after this amazing top-up course,

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 the disciples come with a fascinatingly penetrating question.

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 They say, Jesus, that's great.

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 Love what you're up to.

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 Are you going to bring about kind of a political revolution here in Israel?

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 And when are you going to do it?

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 And I think Jesus probably did laugh.

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 Or He might have even cried, I think, at that point.

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 Because Jesus is like, you guys, you still haven't got it, have you?

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 You still haven't got it that I'm actually part of something so much bigger.

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 I've got this global perspective.

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 And all you can think about is your own little politics.

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 And the Bible is really saying to us, up to this point,

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 God's plans and God's purposes for making us the people who we're meant to be

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 don't seem to be looking very good.

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 And the Bible is telling us this.

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 If you are relying on education or good moral teaching

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 to be able to make you the people that God has made you to be,

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 to sort out the world's problem, to sort out ISIS,

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 to sort out all the terrorism, just educate them a bit more.

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 If you think that's what's going to help you,

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 well, the people in the Old Testament had some of the world's greatest teachers.

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 They had Moses.

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 Then the disciples had Jesus, teaching them like nobody else.

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 And after 2,000 years, do you know the reason why the Old Testament is so long?

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 Is because, you know, it starts off and it's, okay, obey me.

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 Okay, and they don't.

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 Obey me, they don't.

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 Obey me, they don't.

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 And time and time again, and you have to go through 37 books of it

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 before finally you get the message, oh, maybe they're not able to obey him.

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 That's why the Old Testament is so long,

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 because education is not the thing which is going to save you,

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 which is going to change you.

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 Teaching is good, but it doesn't deal with your hearts and our powerlessness.

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 Because you can know all the right doctrines,

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 you can know all the right theology,

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 you can know all the right Christian stuff,

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 but actually you can be as disobedient and dead as anybody else.

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 Because what we need to be able to be the people God has called us to be

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 is power to live as he wants us to.

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 Because of ourselves, we are powerless to obey.

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 The disciples knew that very well.

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 And relying on your own willpower can only get you so far.

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 You know, you think about it, you say,

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 I'm not going to eat that chocolate, I'm not going to eat that chocolate,

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 I'm not going to eat that chocolate.

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 And then five seconds later, it's just, well, maybe just one.

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 Or if you manage to say, and you know, you feel really guilty afterwards,

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 you're, oh, I blew it.

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 And then you do exactly the same thing the next week.

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 Or even if you manage to succeed with your willpower

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 at thinking you're doing the right thing,

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 what happens is you say,

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 oh, I didn't eat the chocolate.

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 Aren't I disciplined?

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 Aren't I strong?

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 And then you look down at everybody else who ate the chocolate,

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 and you think, wow, I am so good at being disciplined.

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 You should be like me.

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 And I'm an expert at this.

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 I've done this so many times, I can assure you.

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 And you know what the Bible calls that?

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 Pride.

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 So if you rely on your willpower solely to obey God,

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 if you succeed, you'll become proud.

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 If you fail, you'll become guilty.

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 And so either way, before God, you're basically screwed.

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 Okay?

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 If I can say that.

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 And in Cantonese, there's a phrase which says,

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 which is like, what shall we do?

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 What do we do?

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 And God has brought the disciples down to this point on their knees,

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 and I think Peter particularly knows this.

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 He's just denied Jesus.

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 And Peter knows that he is completely powerless to obey and follow God,

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 but he wants to follow him.

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 And it's at the point where God has brought,

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 Jesus brought them to their knees to see,

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 I can't do this by myself.

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 And as he does that with all of us and the church to bring us to the point of saying,

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 I cannot in my own strength,

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 through my own will path,

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 through my own cleverness,

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 through my own planning,

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 be the person,

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 be the church that God wants us to be.

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 When you get to that point,

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 that's the beginning,

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 the starting point for gaining true spiritual power.

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 We're powerless without God.

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 So let's then look at the,

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 how God says,

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 how Jesus says,

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 I'm going to give you power.

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 So we're going to look at the coming of power,

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 and then we're going to look at plugging into the power.

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 So in this coming of power,

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 Jesus tells the disciples,

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 okay,

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 I'm not here for politics and political kingdom at this moment.

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 That's not now.

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 Later,

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 yes,

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 not now,

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 but you will receive power to do my mission,

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 power from the Holy Spirit,

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 and you will be witnesses,

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 my witnesses in Jerusalem,

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 Judea,

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 Samaria,

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 and to the ends of the earth.

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 It's going to start right where you are,

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 and it's going to spread outwards.

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 And I want you to be part of this movement of Christian communities,

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 which are multiplying,

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 and which are testifying to me in every area of the globe.

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 In a world which is so dark and broken in so many ways,

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 God wants communities of light to shine in every place.

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 That's what we as Watermark want to be about.

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 That's what when we talk about church planting,

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 that's what we want to be about,

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 because that is the mission that God has called us to be as his people.

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 That's what Jesus tells us to do.

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 And it's interesting,

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 as Jesus gives them this commission,

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 and then he ascends to heaven,

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 and Jesus tells them to wait,

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 and he tells them to wait until the day of Pentecost.

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 Now, the day of Pentecost is actually a festival.

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 It's also called the Feast of Firstfruits.

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 And in chapter 2, verse 1, it says,

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 when the day of Pentecost,

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 in your translation, it says arrived,

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 the word actually means when it was fulfilled.

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 And this festival,

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 people will come from all over to Jerusalem

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 to celebrate the ingathering of the barley harvest,

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 because the barley harvest was the first harvest of the year

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 before the wheat harvest and the olives and the grapes

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 and all the other harvests.

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 So here is the time of celebrating

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 the incoming of the first harvest

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 and it's no accident that God chooses this time

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 to bring his spirit

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 because God had his human harvest

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 that he was harvesting that day.

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 3,000 people from around the nations

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 on that global mission that God is doing

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 began to come into his kingdom.

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 That was the first harvest in Jerusalem.

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 It's going to go out to Judea.

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 The rest of Acts is how it goes out to Judea,

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 Samaria, and then the rest of the earth.

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 But that's what God's up to.

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 Pentecost.

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 And the thing was, for most people,

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 it's an ordinary day.

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 You know, it's an ordinary festival day.

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 Everyone was enjoying themselves.

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 But the disciples were gathered there

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 in this room together, praying.

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 We don't know where the room was.

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 It might have been near the temple.

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 And everywhere around,

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 there's thousands of people gathering.

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 And then suddenly, there's a sound of a violent,

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 rushing wind fills the entire house.

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 And what appears to be fire comes down

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 and rests on the heads of the people in that room.

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 And it's not a problem with the air conditioning unit.

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 Something comes.

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 The Holy Spirit comes, and they start speaking in other languages.

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 And 3,000 people that day come to faith in Christ.

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 And what's going on here in this theme?

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 Because the imagery is a little bit weird,

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 but it comes from the Old Testament as well.

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 Because the word wind is the same word as spirit.

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 And the fire in the Old Testament

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 was always a symbol of God's presence.

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 You remember the burning bush, Mount Sinai?

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 It's always a symbol of God coming to be with his people,

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 his presence being there.

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 And so when the tongues of fire divide and rest on everybody,

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 what is it saying?

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 It's saying everybody,

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 the Spirit, God's presence,

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 comes upon every believer in that room.

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 In the Old Testament,

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 the Spirit only came upon certain individuals,

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 certain priests could go into God's presence.

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 Certain prophets had the Spirit.

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 But here, it's not just restricted to a few.

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 Everybody has it.

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 Which means that if you are a Christian,

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 if you are a Christian today,

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 because he says it later on in the verse,

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 he says, you know,

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 the promise of the Spirit is for you

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 and for your children

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 and for all who are far off.

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 He says,

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 for people like you and me who are powerless,

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 God's power has come upon us

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 and has come inside of us

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 to live with us and to dwell with us.

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 God himself has come to dwell with you.

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 Now the Spirit is a person.

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 God is a personal God.

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 And he wants to come and empower each one of us

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 for his mission to do what we cannot do apart from him.

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 I think it would be a bit like,

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 last week I was trying to,

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 we had a barbecue.

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 I was trying to light this barbecue

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 with just some newspaper.

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 I am terrible at lighting barbecues.

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 And I spent 40 minutes with this newspaper

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 trying to get some fire going.

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 And every time the fire started,

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 I was hopeful,

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 then suddenly it just disappeared.

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 And after 40 minutes,

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 I was thinking I was going to be eating raw chicken,

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 which didn't sound fun.

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 And then somebody came up and said,

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 hey, you know you can get some fire lighters,

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 some fire starters from nearby.

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 So we went and bought one and we came.

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 And then suddenly,

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 the moment we had the fire starter,

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 the whole thing just took off.

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 And what I'd been trying frustratingly to do

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 for 40 minutes,

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 suddenly became so much easier,

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 so much better,

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 because there was a new power.

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 The Holy Spirit is to be that new power

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 to enable us to do what we ourselves cannot do,

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 which is to be the people God has called us to be

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 and to do the things that God has called us to do,

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 to love people,

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 to love Him,

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 to love the world,

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 love the lost.

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 Now, when you start talking about the Holy Spirit and power,

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 some of us get a little bit nervous.

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 Some of us get a little bit too excited.

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 Because some of us think power is just about miracles,

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 spectacular kind of glory,

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 which flies around the room and does amazing things.

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 Some of us,

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 the supernatural kind of things,

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 freak us out a little bit.

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 And I'm not really going to talk a lot about the tongues and things,

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 but basically just to see,

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 in the history of the church

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 and in the history of the Bible,

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 we see God does do extraordinary things at specific times.

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 We have a mighty,

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 extraordinary God.

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 Sometimes in history,

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 they're called revivals,

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 where God does amazing things in people's lives.

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 Healings.

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 He does do things where He changes the way that we normally think about

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 the ordinary things that happen.

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 He does touch people's hearts in dramatic ways.

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 And I don't want to be,

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 and I know this is so often what I do,

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 I box God into my little way of,

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 I think He should operate.

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 And I don't want to be like the people who say,

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 they've simply just had too much wine.

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 But here's the thing,

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 the book of Acts is actually,

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 when it talks about power,

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 it's not primarily talking about miracles

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 and all that kind of stuff.

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 Because the tongues and the things that are going on here,

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 they're actually the trailer to the movie,

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 they're not the movie itself.

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 It would be very weird if I said to Fiona,

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 hey, let's go down Friday night to the cinema,

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 and let's watch a trailer together.

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 And then we'll leave before the movie starts.

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 Or if you go to direct to the film and you say,

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 hey, I loved your trailer, it's so good.

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 And he says, have you watched the movie?

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 And you say, no, but the trailer was fantastic.

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 You've missed the whole point.

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 Because actually here,

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 nobody is actually saved through the tongues in this story.

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 The tongues are actually that trailer

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 which is pointing to something greater.

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 They're real languages here in this story

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 which is speaking to people from different nations,

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 speaking their heart language,

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 attracting them to what the main message

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 of what Peter is about to tell them.

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 And that main message,

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 which Peter then goes and talks about,

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 and we've only got a short section here in your text,

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 is the gospel.

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 That is the main movie that God is about.

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 Because that's why when Peter gets up,

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 he starts preaching.

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 Do you know what he starts preaching?

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 He starts preaching Jesus.

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 He just says, Jesus is amazing.

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 Jesus died.

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 Jesus rose again.

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 It's all about Jesus.

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 And conviction of sin comes upon people

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 because he's talking about Jesus.

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 That's what gets people saved.

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 It's the gospel.

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 It's the message of truth

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 which saves and delivers and captivates people.

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 And that's what they're witnesses to.

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 That's what should excite us the most

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 is that gospel.

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 Pentecost only happened once.

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 Pentecost doesn't happen again.

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 So if you're thinking that tongues of fire

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 are going to come down this morning,

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 it may be the AC unit.

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 Okay?

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 But the Holy Spirit's power

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 is for everyone at all times,

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 every believer.

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 And when that Holy Spirit comes

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 and fills you with his power

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 throughout the Bible

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 and throughout history,

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 there's a number of things which happen.

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 I'm just going to mention three things

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 which happen.

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 In this story,

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 when the people are filled with the Spirit,

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 they're filled with joy-filled praise

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 at the gospel.

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 Because you see,

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 they're declaring,

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 when the Spirit fills them,

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 they start declaring the wonders of God.

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 They burst forth in praise

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 at how amazing God is.

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 And as we've said,

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 Peter's sermon,

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 as Peter gets up,

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 what is he full of?

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 He's just full of Jesus.

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 And he can only talk about Jesus

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 because it's so amazing.

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 God's word has just become alive in his heart

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 and it just bursts forth in praise.

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 It's a bit like,

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 somebody once said,

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 when the Spirit's power comes on you

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 and you're filled with him,

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 it's like you're a child

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 walking with your father

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 and you know your father loves you,

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 but then your father picks you up,

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 hugs you,

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 kisses you,

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 and embraces you.

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 And now it's not just you know in your head

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 you know theoretically that God loves you.

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 You experience right deep in your soul

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 just how much he loves you.

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 You know it.

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 And it's not just that the gospel

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 kind of is some thing,

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 yeah, I know Jesus died,

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 he forgave my sins,

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 la la la la la,

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 great, thank you.

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 It's, wow,

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 he died for my sins.

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 He died for what I did yesterday.

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 He's freed me from all of that stuff

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 that I've been trying to do,

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 all that shame and that fear in the past.

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 He's freed me

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 and that's just so liberating.

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 That's the gospel.

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 That's what the Spirit is doing.

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 It's always pointing to Jesus

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 and getting you excited about what his death,

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 what his resurrection has done.

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 Because you see what they do,

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 even as a community later on,

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 you see they're constantly praising God.

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 And it's not they're having to tell them,

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 you've got to praise God now.

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 It's because it's just erupting inside of them.

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 Because Jesus is that amazing for them.

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 And I wonder,

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 as I just think about this,

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 when did you,

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 and this is the question I ask myself,

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 have I experienced

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 the presence of God

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 in a real way,

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 a tangible way,

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 in this last week?

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 Has the gospel

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 and that assurance

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 that I'm his child,

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 that I'm loved by him,

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 has it

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 thrilled my heart

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 in this last week?

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 So I just want to

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 release in thanksgiving and praise.

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 Because often when I look at my own life,

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 I would say,

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 yep, sometimes,

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 but often a lot of the time

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 I just go through the motions.

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 And what the passage

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 calls us to do is

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 we're powerless to change

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 by ourselves.

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 We need to get on our knees

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 and start praying

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 and asking God

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 to give us

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 that

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 his spirit's

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 filling

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 so that we just

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 are just

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 full of Jesus.

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 but it's not just

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 that the gospel

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 becomes beautiful

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 so that we praise,

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 it's also that the spirit

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 makes you bold

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 and boldly proclaiming

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 this gospel.

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 So it doesn't just stay,

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 you know,

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 the disciples don't just stay

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 in the upper room

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 having a little

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 Holy Spirit moment

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 together.

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 You know,

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 they actually,

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 it releases them out

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 to proclaim Jesus.

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 You know,

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 some people

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 are naturally braver

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 than other people,

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 right?

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 Some people

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 are more cowardly

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 than other people.

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 Peter thought

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 he was brave

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 but God showed him

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 that he was a coward

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 when he denied

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 Jesus in front

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 of the servant girl.

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 But what the spirit

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 does

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 in our lives

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 is he turns a chicken

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 into a lion.

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 He turns

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 someone who denied

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 Jesus

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 into someone

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 who wanted to

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 proclaim him.

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 And Peter stands up

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 in the midst

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 of all the people

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 and he proclaims to them.

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 If you look in verse 23

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 he says to them,

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 you,

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 with the help

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 of wicked men,

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 put Jesus to death.

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 It was you

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 who did it.

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 And if he hasn't

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 offended people enough

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 by that,

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 because that's not

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 very politically correct,

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 he then,

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 in verse 36,

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 he repeats it.

00:25:37.199 --> 00:25:37.519
 He says,

00:25:37.759 --> 00:25:38.339
 this Jesus

00:25:38.339 --> 00:25:39.899
 whom you crucified

00:25:39.899 --> 00:25:40.639
 has been made

00:25:40.639 --> 00:25:41.599
 Lord and Messiah

00:25:41.599 --> 00:25:42.619
 because he's risen

00:25:42.619 --> 00:25:43.359
 from the dead.

00:25:44.339 --> 00:25:45.559
 Now that's bold

00:25:45.559 --> 00:25:47.319
 because you think

00:25:47.319 --> 00:25:48.119
 about where he is.

00:25:48.179 --> 00:25:49.000
 He's right in the temple

00:25:49.000 --> 00:25:50.240
 where seven weeks earlier

00:25:50.240 --> 00:25:52.220
 Jesus was also teaching

00:25:52.220 --> 00:25:53.419
 and what happened,

00:25:53.500 --> 00:25:53.940
 the priests

00:25:53.940 --> 00:25:55.000
 and all the people around,

00:25:55.839 --> 00:25:57.960
 they were plotting

00:25:57.960 --> 00:25:58.740
 to kill him.

00:26:00.779 --> 00:26:02.619
 And from cowards

00:26:02.619 --> 00:26:03.619
 who locked themselves

00:26:03.619 --> 00:26:04.179
 in a room

00:26:04.179 --> 00:26:04.720
 fearful

00:26:04.720 --> 00:26:06.179
 just a few weeks earlier,

00:26:06.940 --> 00:26:08.240
 afraid of these priests

00:26:08.240 --> 00:26:08.679
 again

00:26:08.679 --> 00:26:09.759
 and these people

00:26:09.759 --> 00:26:10.779
 who might attack them

00:26:10.779 --> 00:26:11.559
 and kill them

00:26:11.559 --> 00:26:13.519
 to unashamed boldness,

00:26:13.519 --> 00:26:15.200
 that's the Holy Spirit.

00:26:15.299 --> 00:26:15.819
 That's nothing

00:26:15.819 --> 00:26:16.839
 you can work up.

00:26:19.720 --> 00:26:21.079
 And it's the right word

00:26:21.079 --> 00:26:21.920
 at the right time

00:26:21.920 --> 00:26:23.079
 because 3,000 people

00:26:23.079 --> 00:26:23.960
 are cut to the heart

00:26:23.960 --> 00:26:24.420
 and say,

00:26:24.579 --> 00:26:25.160
 what should we do

00:26:25.160 --> 00:26:25.960
 to be saved?

00:26:29.400 --> 00:26:30.519
 And they also

00:26:30.519 --> 00:26:31.720
 experience that joy

00:26:31.720 --> 00:26:32.299
 of the gospel.

00:26:33.940 --> 00:26:35.000
 And I don't know about you,

00:26:35.059 --> 00:26:35.539
 do you want

00:26:35.539 --> 00:26:36.839
 that kind of boldness?

00:26:39.379 --> 00:26:40.139
 Because I do.

00:26:40.339 --> 00:26:41.879
 And if you think about it,

00:26:41.900 --> 00:26:42.460
 if you think,

00:26:42.460 --> 00:26:42.980
 well,

00:26:43.100 --> 00:26:44.039
 they're just the disciples,

00:26:44.519 --> 00:26:44.720
 you know,

00:26:44.779 --> 00:26:45.680
 they had a bit of Jesus,

00:26:45.880 --> 00:26:46.740
 they saw Jesus,

00:26:46.960 --> 00:26:47.900
 it was different from them.

00:26:47.980 --> 00:26:48.380
 Well, you see,

00:26:48.620 --> 00:26:49.460
 two chapters later

00:26:49.460 --> 00:26:50.140
 they're arrested

00:26:50.140 --> 00:26:51.860
 and they're told

00:26:51.860 --> 00:26:52.420
 not to speak

00:26:52.420 --> 00:26:53.319
 and when they're released

00:26:53.319 --> 00:26:54.240
 they come out

00:26:54.240 --> 00:26:54.840
 and the first thing

00:26:54.840 --> 00:26:55.460
 they start doing

00:26:55.460 --> 00:26:56.340
 is they start praying.

00:26:58.000 --> 00:26:58.700
 And what do they

00:26:58.700 --> 00:26:59.420
 start praying?

00:26:59.500 --> 00:26:59.740
 They say,

00:26:59.860 --> 00:27:00.000
 pray,

00:27:00.140 --> 00:27:00.460
 God,

00:27:00.900 --> 00:27:02.460
 please give us boldness

00:27:02.460 --> 00:27:03.120
 to keep praying.

00:27:03.220 --> 00:27:04.240
 Why do they have to pray that?

00:27:04.279 --> 00:27:05.039
 Because they're afraid.

00:27:06.640 --> 00:27:07.880
 Because they can't do it.

00:27:08.299 --> 00:27:09.539
 And they know they can't.

00:27:09.799 --> 00:27:10.819
 They know they're weak.

00:27:12.460 --> 00:27:13.380
 And I know that

00:27:13.380 --> 00:27:15.559
 I'm naturally not bold

00:27:15.559 --> 00:27:16.579
 in many situations.

00:27:17.680 --> 00:27:18.279
 And sometimes

00:27:18.279 --> 00:27:19.559
 sharing the gospel for me

00:27:19.559 --> 00:27:20.539
 is a bit more like

00:27:20.539 --> 00:27:22.279
 burping.

00:27:22.980 --> 00:27:23.100
 Okay?

00:27:24.000 --> 00:27:24.299
 You know,

00:27:24.539 --> 00:27:25.840
 because burping

00:27:25.840 --> 00:27:27.100
 is something that's unpleasant

00:27:27.100 --> 00:27:27.620
 but you know

00:27:27.620 --> 00:27:28.360
 it's got to come out

00:27:28.360 --> 00:27:29.019
 at some point.

00:27:30.079 --> 00:27:31.920
 And you just hope

00:27:31.920 --> 00:27:32.539
 you can kind of

00:27:32.539 --> 00:27:33.559
 release it silently

00:27:33.559 --> 00:27:34.799
 with nobody else noticing

00:27:34.799 --> 00:27:35.680
 if possible.

00:27:35.680 --> 00:27:37.279
 or you try and

00:27:37.279 --> 00:27:38.000
 you try and work

00:27:38.000 --> 00:27:39.140
 for an appropriate moment

00:27:39.140 --> 00:27:40.060
 to be able to release

00:27:40.060 --> 00:27:40.539
 but then

00:27:40.539 --> 00:27:41.620
 sometimes that moment

00:27:41.620 --> 00:27:42.539
 never really comes.

00:27:43.480 --> 00:27:44.880
 Or if you're in Hong Kong

00:27:44.880 --> 00:27:45.880
 then

00:27:45.880 --> 00:27:47.539
 you can just feel it

00:27:47.539 --> 00:27:47.860
 rising.

00:27:48.039 --> 00:27:48.080
 It's like,

00:27:48.140 --> 00:27:48.279
 you know,

00:27:48.340 --> 00:27:48.880
 you've got to share it,

00:27:48.920 --> 00:27:49.060
 you know,

00:27:49.100 --> 00:27:49.600
 you've got to say it,

00:27:49.600 --> 00:27:49.779
 you know,

00:27:49.900 --> 00:27:50.680
 you feel it rising.

00:27:50.840 --> 00:27:50.880
 It's like,

00:27:50.920 --> 00:27:51.340
 you just kind of

00:27:51.340 --> 00:27:52.799
 splurge it all out.

00:27:53.620 --> 00:27:55.100
 And you feel great about it

00:27:55.100 --> 00:27:55.759
 but everyone else

00:27:55.759 --> 00:27:56.480
 feels terrible.

00:27:56.640 --> 00:27:56.900
 They're like,

00:27:57.000 --> 00:27:57.820
 what hit me?

00:27:57.819 --> 00:28:00.939
 And so often

00:28:00.939 --> 00:28:02.079
 because I'm relying

00:28:02.079 --> 00:28:03.079
 on my own strength

00:28:03.079 --> 00:28:04.240
 that's what sharing

00:28:04.240 --> 00:28:05.319
 the gospel is like

00:28:05.319 --> 00:28:05.899
 for me.

00:28:07.379 --> 00:28:08.480
 And yet it's when

00:28:08.480 --> 00:28:09.700
 I realize that I'm weak

00:28:09.700 --> 00:28:10.039
 that I,

00:28:10.240 --> 00:28:11.419
 that's what I'm like

00:28:11.419 --> 00:28:12.559
 and I say,

00:28:12.599 --> 00:28:12.779
 God,

00:28:12.839 --> 00:28:14.139
 I cannot do this.

00:28:14.240 --> 00:28:15.220
 I cannot obey you

00:28:15.220 --> 00:28:16.339
 unless you come

00:28:16.339 --> 00:28:17.700
 and give me your power

00:28:17.700 --> 00:28:18.599
 and your ability

00:28:18.599 --> 00:28:19.559
 and your strength

00:28:19.559 --> 00:28:20.819
 because I'm just going

00:28:20.819 --> 00:28:21.980
 to be burping the gospel.

00:28:22.179 --> 00:28:22.539
 I'm not going

00:28:22.539 --> 00:28:23.439
 to be sharing it.

00:28:25.039 --> 00:28:26.220
 And when you do that,

00:28:26.299 --> 00:28:26.740
 you see,

00:28:26.740 --> 00:28:30.680
 I've seen it in my life

00:28:30.680 --> 00:28:31.440
 so many times

00:28:31.440 --> 00:28:32.900
 where I start praying

00:28:32.900 --> 00:28:33.180
 and I say,

00:28:33.279 --> 00:28:34.440
 I don't know what to say.

00:28:34.559 --> 00:28:35.460
 I don't know how to say it.

00:28:35.480 --> 00:28:36.079
 And God just

00:28:36.079 --> 00:28:38.000
 gives you the words.

00:28:39.259 --> 00:28:40.200
 He promises you will.

00:28:43.099 --> 00:28:43.859
 So do you dare

00:28:43.859 --> 00:28:44.960
 to get on your knees

00:28:44.960 --> 00:28:46.079
 today

00:28:46.079 --> 00:28:47.680
 and ask God

00:28:47.680 --> 00:28:48.720
 to give you the courage

00:28:48.720 --> 00:28:49.839
 and the opportunities

00:28:49.839 --> 00:28:50.640
 this week

00:28:50.640 --> 00:28:53.059
 to be able to share

00:28:53.059 --> 00:28:53.700
 that gospel

00:28:53.700 --> 00:28:54.859
 with the people around you?

00:28:55.920 --> 00:28:56.720
 And not just pray one,

00:28:56.740 --> 00:28:57.779
 but just keep praying

00:28:57.779 --> 00:28:58.599
 again and again

00:28:58.599 --> 00:28:59.079
 and again.

00:29:02.319 --> 00:29:03.220
 Because the Spirit

00:29:03.220 --> 00:29:04.539
 delights you

00:29:04.539 --> 00:29:05.140
 in the gospel.

00:29:05.519 --> 00:29:06.720
 The Spirit makes you bold.

00:29:07.440 --> 00:29:07.980
 And the Spirit

00:29:07.980 --> 00:29:08.819
 also leads you

00:29:08.819 --> 00:29:09.539
 to be devoted

00:29:09.539 --> 00:29:11.160
 to Christian community.

00:29:13.819 --> 00:29:14.220
 Because

00:29:14.220 --> 00:29:17.380
 the Holy Spirit's power,

00:29:17.720 --> 00:29:18.680
 you see what this happens

00:29:18.680 --> 00:29:19.259
 and I won't spend

00:29:19.259 --> 00:29:19.900
 a long time on this,

00:29:19.960 --> 00:29:21.559
 but it leads to a desire

00:29:21.559 --> 00:29:22.620
 to meet with God's people.

00:29:22.740 --> 00:29:23.400
 Do you see what happens

00:29:23.400 --> 00:29:24.859
 in verses 42 to 47?

00:29:25.819 --> 00:29:26.179
 Suddenly,

00:29:26.339 --> 00:29:26.659
 they're just

00:29:26.659 --> 00:29:27.740
 all the time,

00:29:27.819 --> 00:29:28.679
 they're just spending

00:29:28.679 --> 00:29:29.619
 all the time together

00:29:29.619 --> 00:29:30.139
 with each other.

00:29:30.339 --> 00:29:31.119
 They can't get enough

00:29:31.119 --> 00:29:31.679
 of each other.

00:29:32.259 --> 00:29:32.740
 You see that?

00:29:33.099 --> 00:29:34.019
 They're in the temple,

00:29:34.179 --> 00:29:34.839
 so they've got the formal

00:29:34.839 --> 00:29:35.459
 meetings together,

00:29:35.559 --> 00:29:36.299
 but then afterwards,

00:29:36.719 --> 00:29:37.859
 they're in each other's homes.

00:29:38.059 --> 00:29:39.159
 They just can't get enough

00:29:39.159 --> 00:29:39.719
 of each other.

00:29:39.899 --> 00:29:40.639
 And it's not as if

00:29:40.639 --> 00:29:41.299
 they're all the same

00:29:41.299 --> 00:29:41.719
 kind of people,

00:29:41.799 --> 00:29:42.240
 because they're people

00:29:42.240 --> 00:29:43.439
 from every kind of background.

00:29:44.819 --> 00:29:45.259
 And you know,

00:29:45.619 --> 00:29:47.299
 so often we're preoccupied

00:29:47.299 --> 00:29:47.399
 with,

00:29:47.479 --> 00:29:47.699
 well,

00:29:47.779 --> 00:29:49.339
 they're not my kind of person.

00:29:49.919 --> 00:29:50.459
 They're just

00:29:50.459 --> 00:29:51.599
 different personality.

00:29:51.759 --> 00:29:52.179
 They don't lead

00:29:52.179 --> 00:29:52.859
 the Bible study

00:29:52.859 --> 00:29:54.059
 as well as I'd like them to.

00:29:54.359 --> 00:29:55.279
 But those are not

00:29:55.279 --> 00:29:55.919
 the issues

00:29:55.919 --> 00:29:57.099
 that they're struggling with,

00:29:57.139 --> 00:29:59.119
 because there's a spontaneity,

00:29:59.319 --> 00:30:00.000
 and the Spirit

00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:01.019
 is exciting them

00:30:01.019 --> 00:30:02.199
 about Christian community.

00:30:06.319 --> 00:30:07.279
 And so often,

00:30:07.439 --> 00:30:07.959
 I know,

00:30:08.119 --> 00:30:08.779
 my tendency

00:30:08.779 --> 00:30:09.539
 and our tendency

00:30:09.539 --> 00:30:10.519
 can be when people

00:30:10.519 --> 00:30:11.559
 are different from you,

00:30:11.779 --> 00:30:12.959
 when things are difficult,

00:30:14.519 --> 00:30:16.419
 when things are not quite

00:30:16.419 --> 00:30:17.619
 the way we want them to be,

00:30:17.719 --> 00:30:18.419
 what our tendency

00:30:18.419 --> 00:30:19.039
 can often be

00:30:19.039 --> 00:30:19.720
 is to withdraw

00:30:19.720 --> 00:30:21.240
 from Christian community.

00:30:24.619 --> 00:30:25.599
 And when we begin

00:30:25.599 --> 00:30:26.519
 to hold back,

00:30:26.579 --> 00:30:27.039
 when we begin

00:30:27.039 --> 00:30:27.599
 to withdraw,

00:30:28.420 --> 00:30:29.159
 what you see

00:30:29.159 --> 00:30:29.759
 is actually,

00:30:31.099 --> 00:30:32.599
 that's a sign

00:30:32.599 --> 00:30:33.539
 that you're not relying

00:30:33.539 --> 00:30:34.240
 on the Spirit,

00:30:34.940 --> 00:30:36.220
 but you're relying

00:30:36.220 --> 00:30:37.299
 on your own strength

00:30:37.299 --> 00:30:38.899
 to be able to do

00:30:38.899 --> 00:30:40.539
 and be who you think

00:30:40.539 --> 00:30:41.099
 you should be.

00:30:42.500 --> 00:30:43.099
 The Spirit

00:30:43.099 --> 00:30:44.039
 always pushes you

00:30:44.039 --> 00:30:45.279
 into Christian community.

00:30:45.420 --> 00:30:46.500
 It never pushes you away.

00:30:47.639 --> 00:30:48.039
 So you see

00:30:48.039 --> 00:30:48.920
 what the Spirit does?

00:30:49.940 --> 00:30:50.379
 Gospel.

00:30:51.240 --> 00:30:52.279
 It thrills you

00:30:52.279 --> 00:30:52.940
 with the gospel.

00:30:53.819 --> 00:30:54.220
 Mission.

00:30:54.740 --> 00:30:55.659
 It gives you a heart

00:30:55.659 --> 00:30:56.220
 and a desire

00:30:56.220 --> 00:30:56.920
 to reach out

00:30:56.920 --> 00:30:57.899
 to those around you.

00:30:58.039 --> 00:30:58.440
 Community.

00:30:58.899 --> 00:30:59.960
 It pushes you back

00:30:59.960 --> 00:31:00.680
 into community.

00:31:01.539 --> 00:31:01.759
 Do you see,

00:31:01.839 --> 00:31:03.240
 that's why these are our values,

00:31:04.000 --> 00:31:04.920
 because they're right

00:31:04.920 --> 00:31:05.359
 at the heart

00:31:05.359 --> 00:31:05.980
 of what it means

00:31:05.980 --> 00:31:07.000
 to be God's people.

00:31:08.180 --> 00:31:09.279
 And we can't do it

00:31:09.279 --> 00:31:09.879
 by ourselves.

00:31:10.819 --> 00:31:11.579
 We need God

00:31:11.579 --> 00:31:12.899
 to come and give us grace.

00:31:15.599 --> 00:31:16.740
 So if this is what

00:31:16.740 --> 00:31:17.759
 we are called to be,

00:31:18.420 --> 00:31:19.180
 and I don't know

00:31:19.180 --> 00:31:19.920
 if you think about this,

00:31:20.019 --> 00:31:22.940
 but as I think about

00:31:22.940 --> 00:31:23.700
 some of those things

00:31:23.700 --> 00:31:24.799
 and I look at my own life,

00:31:24.859 --> 00:31:25.720
 I see this gap.

00:31:27.160 --> 00:31:28.299
 I see I'm not always

00:31:28.299 --> 00:31:29.220
 what I'm meant to be.

00:31:29.599 --> 00:31:30.460
 I'm not always bold.

00:31:30.559 --> 00:31:31.539
 I'm not always passionate

00:31:31.539 --> 00:31:32.240
 about the gospel.

00:31:32.640 --> 00:31:33.559
 I'm not always passionate

00:31:33.559 --> 00:31:34.400
 about community.

00:31:35.879 --> 00:31:36.900
 So how do we

00:31:36.900 --> 00:31:38.579
 plug in

00:31:38.579 --> 00:31:39.599
 to that power?

00:31:39.599 --> 00:31:44.079
 Because if the Holy Spirit

00:31:44.079 --> 00:31:44.299
 lives,

00:31:44.419 --> 00:31:44.579
 I mean,

00:31:44.619 --> 00:31:45.059
 if you thought about it,

00:31:45.059 --> 00:31:45.619
 if the Holy Spirit

00:31:45.619 --> 00:31:46.679
 really lives inside of me,

00:31:46.759 --> 00:31:47.939
 why do I not experience

00:31:47.939 --> 00:31:50.039
 that thrill all the time?

00:31:51.679 --> 00:31:53.559
 Why do I have to be filled again?

00:31:53.679 --> 00:31:54.899
 Because Ephesians tells us

00:31:54.899 --> 00:31:55.759
 keep being filled

00:31:55.759 --> 00:31:56.379
 with the Spirit.

00:31:57.119 --> 00:31:57.839
 So if I've already got it,

00:31:57.859 --> 00:31:58.500
 why do I have to keep

00:31:58.500 --> 00:31:58.919
 being filled?

00:32:00.899 --> 00:32:01.159
 Well,

00:32:01.539 --> 00:32:02.099
 Spurgeon,

00:32:02.259 --> 00:32:03.659
 who was a 19th century preacher,

00:32:03.759 --> 00:32:04.259
 he once said,

00:32:04.259 --> 00:32:05.159
 the reason we need to

00:32:05.159 --> 00:32:06.199
 constantly be filled

00:32:06.199 --> 00:32:06.679
 with the Spirit

00:32:06.679 --> 00:32:07.679
 is because we leak.

00:32:07.680 --> 00:32:11.000
 Now,

00:32:11.500 --> 00:32:13.360
 what he meant by that,

00:32:13.820 --> 00:32:14.380
 the Spirit's not

00:32:14.380 --> 00:32:15.060
 this kind of liquid

00:32:15.060 --> 00:32:16.240
 that you need to top up

00:32:16.240 --> 00:32:17.060
 like the oil

00:32:17.060 --> 00:32:18.100
 in your car or something.

00:32:18.220 --> 00:32:18.900
 That's not what

00:32:18.900 --> 00:32:19.600
 he's talking about.

00:32:19.920 --> 00:32:21.060
 The analogy is

00:32:21.060 --> 00:32:23.320
 we stop,

00:32:24.360 --> 00:32:25.120
 we leak

00:32:25.120 --> 00:32:26.120
 because we stop

00:32:26.120 --> 00:32:26.759
 looking

00:32:26.759 --> 00:32:29.500
 to the person

00:32:29.500 --> 00:32:30.279
 of the Spirit

00:32:30.279 --> 00:32:31.779
 for our power

00:32:31.779 --> 00:32:32.320
 to live

00:32:32.320 --> 00:32:33.500
 as God wants us to be

00:32:33.500 --> 00:32:34.340
 and we start relying

00:32:34.340 --> 00:32:35.539
 on another power source

00:32:35.539 --> 00:32:37.660
 and we just leak away.

00:32:38.680 --> 00:32:40.100
 And how do you depend

00:32:40.100 --> 00:32:40.840
 on the Spirit?

00:32:43.380 --> 00:32:43.799
 Well,

00:32:43.820 --> 00:32:44.860
 I think one of the main ways

00:32:44.860 --> 00:32:45.700
 is through prayer.

00:32:46.560 --> 00:32:47.000
 Regular,

00:32:47.420 --> 00:32:48.779
 persistent prayer

00:32:48.779 --> 00:32:49.820
 which knows

00:32:49.820 --> 00:32:50.759
 your need of God.

00:32:52.100 --> 00:32:52.539
 Because

00:32:52.539 --> 00:32:54.019
 if you see

00:32:54.019 --> 00:32:54.779
 in between Jesus'

00:32:54.940 --> 00:32:55.900
 ascension and resurrection,

00:32:56.180 --> 00:32:57.539
 what are the disciples doing?

00:32:59.220 --> 00:32:59.620
 Praying.

00:33:00.080 --> 00:33:01.060
 In the communities,

00:33:01.180 --> 00:33:01.960
 from house to house,

00:33:02.019 --> 00:33:02.680
 what's one of the things

00:33:02.680 --> 00:33:03.140
 they're doing?

00:33:03.960 --> 00:33:04.360
 Praying.

00:33:04.700 --> 00:33:06.140
 When they are persecuted,

00:33:06.420 --> 00:33:07.220
 what do they start doing?

00:33:07.880 --> 00:33:08.279
 Praying.

00:33:08.600 --> 00:33:09.380
 When they're about to,

00:33:09.640 --> 00:33:10.920
 before they ever think

00:33:10.920 --> 00:33:11.640
 about sending people

00:33:11.640 --> 00:33:12.240
 off the mission

00:33:12.240 --> 00:33:13.019
 and Paul,

00:33:13.220 --> 00:33:14.019
 what do they start doing?

00:33:14.180 --> 00:33:14.839
 They're praying.

00:33:15.579 --> 00:33:16.360
 All the time

00:33:16.360 --> 00:33:17.259
 because they know

00:33:17.259 --> 00:33:18.160
 that they are powerless

00:33:18.160 --> 00:33:18.779
 and they know

00:33:18.779 --> 00:33:19.900
 that they need God.

00:33:21.819 --> 00:33:22.640
 And so often

00:33:22.640 --> 00:33:23.819
 I know in my life,

00:33:24.380 --> 00:33:25.079
 what I do

00:33:25.079 --> 00:33:25.440
 is I do

00:33:25.440 --> 00:33:26.279
 all my planning,

00:33:26.440 --> 00:33:27.299
 all my preparations,

00:33:27.519 --> 00:33:28.100
 all the things

00:33:28.100 --> 00:33:28.960
 that I think I should do

00:33:28.960 --> 00:33:29.500
 and then I say

00:33:29.500 --> 00:33:30.180
 a little quick prayer

00:33:30.180 --> 00:33:30.500
 at the end,

00:33:30.759 --> 00:33:31.500
 oh please bless this,

00:33:31.559 --> 00:33:31.720
 Lord,

00:33:31.880 --> 00:33:32.100
 amen.

00:33:32.640 --> 00:33:33.279
 And then I go off

00:33:33.279 --> 00:33:34.120
 and do what I want to do.

00:33:34.119 --> 00:33:38.039
 But if we as a church

00:33:38.039 --> 00:33:38.719
 want to be about

00:33:38.719 --> 00:33:39.639
 church planting,

00:33:40.079 --> 00:33:40.779
 want to be about

00:33:40.779 --> 00:33:41.919
 reaching this city,

00:33:42.059 --> 00:33:42.579
 want to be about

00:33:42.579 --> 00:33:43.959
 encouraging people

00:33:43.959 --> 00:33:45.019
 to go into

00:33:45.019 --> 00:33:45.799
 all the nations,

00:33:45.959 --> 00:33:46.679
 if we want to be

00:33:46.679 --> 00:33:47.639
 that kind of people,

00:33:48.339 --> 00:33:50.779
 we cannot be

00:33:50.779 --> 00:33:51.579
 that kind of people

00:33:51.579 --> 00:33:52.099
 unless we're

00:33:52.099 --> 00:33:52.959
 a prayerful people.

00:33:54.859 --> 00:33:55.399
 You know,

00:33:55.599 --> 00:33:56.619
 you get desperate

00:33:56.619 --> 00:33:57.179
 in prayer

00:33:57.179 --> 00:34:00.139
 when you know

00:34:00.139 --> 00:34:00.699
 you need it.

00:34:00.700 --> 00:34:02.620
 like before

00:34:02.620 --> 00:34:03.360
 a job interview,

00:34:04.220 --> 00:34:05.259
 before an exam,

00:34:06.140 --> 00:34:06.319
 yes,

00:34:06.559 --> 00:34:07.380
 before a difficult

00:34:07.380 --> 00:34:08.059
 conversation,

00:34:08.340 --> 00:34:08.880
 before preaching

00:34:08.880 --> 00:34:09.360
 a sermon.

00:34:10.059 --> 00:34:10.240
 You know,

00:34:10.260 --> 00:34:10.820
 it does amazing

00:34:10.820 --> 00:34:11.320
 things for your

00:34:11.320 --> 00:34:11.820
 prayer life

00:34:11.820 --> 00:34:12.420
 and then you

00:34:12.420 --> 00:34:13.179
 forget about it.

00:34:14.360 --> 00:34:15.400
 Because why do we

00:34:15.400 --> 00:34:16.380
 sometimes not pray

00:34:16.380 --> 00:34:17.079
 with that sense

00:34:17.079 --> 00:34:17.699
 of desperation?

00:34:17.880 --> 00:34:18.380
 It's because the rest

00:34:18.380 --> 00:34:18.800
 of the time

00:34:18.800 --> 00:34:19.380
 we think we don't

00:34:19.380 --> 00:34:19.860
 need it.

00:34:21.079 --> 00:34:22.000
 And because I'm

00:34:22.000 --> 00:34:23.099
 self-reliant

00:34:23.099 --> 00:34:24.539
 and what keeps

00:34:24.539 --> 00:34:25.519
 me self-reliant

00:34:25.519 --> 00:34:26.340
 is often

00:34:26.340 --> 00:34:27.220
 I'm fueled

00:34:27.220 --> 00:34:28.099
 by distraction.

00:34:28.880 --> 00:34:29.619
 I'm distracted.

00:34:30.699 --> 00:34:31.559
 Because prayer

00:34:31.559 --> 00:34:32.419
 is communication

00:34:32.419 --> 00:34:33.319
 with God.

00:34:33.460 --> 00:34:34.059
 If we want to have

00:34:34.059 --> 00:34:35.319
 that His power

00:34:35.319 --> 00:34:36.519
 and His presence

00:34:36.519 --> 00:34:38.339
 experienced in our life,

00:34:38.480 --> 00:34:39.059
 prayer is that

00:34:39.059 --> 00:34:40.359
 communication with God

00:34:40.359 --> 00:34:41.179
 and yet we spend

00:34:41.179 --> 00:34:42.179
 like more than

00:34:42.179 --> 00:34:42.859
 any other time

00:34:42.859 --> 00:34:43.799
 in the whole of history,

00:34:44.139 --> 00:34:45.239
 we are communicating

00:34:45.239 --> 00:34:46.419
 more than any other time.

00:34:46.719 --> 00:34:46.879
 You know,

00:34:46.939 --> 00:34:48.519
 like 24-7,

00:34:48.779 --> 00:34:48.980
 right?

00:34:49.480 --> 00:34:49.779
 You know,

00:34:50.139 --> 00:34:51.059
 we're on Facebook,

00:34:51.299 --> 00:34:52.039
 we're tweeting,

00:34:52.359 --> 00:34:54.039
 we're emailing,

00:34:54.259 --> 00:34:54.960
 we're Whatsapping,

00:34:55.239 --> 00:34:56.099
 we're Instagramming,

00:34:56.219 --> 00:34:57.079
 we're doing all kinds

00:34:57.079 --> 00:34:58.039
 of things all the time.

00:34:58.039 --> 00:35:00.639
 And you know,

00:35:00.699 --> 00:35:01.420
 you take your phone

00:35:01.420 --> 00:35:02.279
 away from somebody

00:35:02.279 --> 00:35:04.539
 and it's like

00:35:04.539 --> 00:35:05.619
 taking drugs away

00:35:05.619 --> 00:35:06.259
 from an addict.

00:35:07.460 --> 00:35:07.820
 I mean,

00:35:07.880 --> 00:35:09.099
 suddenly you're so insecure,

00:35:09.539 --> 00:35:10.619
 but what if I miss

00:35:10.619 --> 00:35:11.380
 that message?

00:35:11.900 --> 00:35:12.079
 You know?

00:35:12.579 --> 00:35:14.940
 And I think

00:35:14.940 --> 00:35:16.239
 sometimes what we're like

00:35:16.239 --> 00:35:16.480
 is,

00:35:16.840 --> 00:35:17.079
 we're like,

00:35:17.340 --> 00:35:17.460
 you know,

00:35:17.539 --> 00:35:18.360
 you've been to those

00:35:18.360 --> 00:35:19.360
 restaurants where

00:35:19.360 --> 00:35:20.820
 you see a couple

00:35:20.820 --> 00:35:21.659
 opposite each other,

00:35:21.699 --> 00:35:21.820
 you know,

00:35:21.840 --> 00:35:22.619
 it's a nice romantic

00:35:22.619 --> 00:35:23.059
 restaurant,

00:35:23.179 --> 00:35:23.860
 beautiful scene,

00:35:23.860 --> 00:35:26.400
 and what is the couple,

00:35:26.700 --> 00:35:26.940
 you know,

00:35:27.079 --> 00:35:28.099
 a great time just

00:35:28.099 --> 00:35:28.740
 to spend time

00:35:28.740 --> 00:35:29.300
 with each other

00:35:29.300 --> 00:35:30.440
 and just enjoy

00:35:30.440 --> 00:35:31.720
 that intimate fellowship

00:35:31.720 --> 00:35:33.220
 with each other

00:35:33.220 --> 00:35:34.180
 and what are they doing?

00:35:38.180 --> 00:35:39.240
 And both of them

00:35:39.240 --> 00:35:40.099
 seem to be having

00:35:40.099 --> 00:35:41.500
 some kind of connection

00:35:41.500 --> 00:35:42.440
 through cyberspace.

00:35:42.519 --> 00:35:42.900
 I don't know

00:35:42.900 --> 00:35:43.579
 what they're doing,

00:35:43.980 --> 00:35:45.579
 but it must be

00:35:45.579 --> 00:35:46.980
 a really healthy relationship.

00:35:48.720 --> 00:35:49.400
 And I think

00:35:49.400 --> 00:35:50.120
 that's a little bit

00:35:50.120 --> 00:35:51.500
 about how we treat

00:35:51.500 --> 00:35:52.420
 God often.

00:35:53.840 --> 00:35:55.059
 God is like the spouse

00:35:55.059 --> 00:35:55.820
 on the other side

00:35:55.820 --> 00:35:56.059
 saying,

00:35:56.340 --> 00:35:56.440
 hey,

00:35:56.500 --> 00:35:57.260
 I want you to enjoy

00:35:57.260 --> 00:35:57.900
 my presence.

00:35:58.199 --> 00:35:59.619
 I want you to empower

00:35:59.619 --> 00:36:00.780
 for you to just

00:36:00.780 --> 00:36:02.239
 delight myself in me.

00:36:02.460 --> 00:36:03.099
 And what we're doing,

00:36:03.179 --> 00:36:03.400
 we're saying,

00:36:03.760 --> 00:36:04.019
 hold on,

00:36:04.079 --> 00:36:05.320
 I've just got one message.

00:36:05.900 --> 00:36:06.659
 Give us a second.

00:36:06.760 --> 00:36:06.900
 Sorry,

00:36:06.980 --> 00:36:07.639
 this is important.

00:36:08.000 --> 00:36:08.179
 Okay.

00:36:08.619 --> 00:36:08.820
 Or,

00:36:09.340 --> 00:36:10.920
 I've just got to get

00:36:10.920 --> 00:36:11.400
 this one.

00:36:13.480 --> 00:36:15.699
 And God is there

00:36:15.699 --> 00:36:17.920
 saying,

00:36:18.780 --> 00:36:19.920
 you've forgotten

00:36:19.920 --> 00:36:21.460
 that I am the source

00:36:21.460 --> 00:36:22.780
 of the power

00:36:22.780 --> 00:36:23.760
 to be who

00:36:23.760 --> 00:36:25.340
 you and we

00:36:25.340 --> 00:36:25.960
 as a church

00:36:25.960 --> 00:36:27.000
 are called to be.

00:36:28.139 --> 00:36:29.559
 Because I am that source

00:36:29.559 --> 00:36:30.679
 and you're so distracted

00:36:30.679 --> 00:36:31.760
 and every other thing

00:36:31.760 --> 00:36:32.519
 you think is what's

00:36:32.519 --> 00:36:33.300
 going to make you,

00:36:33.480 --> 00:36:34.920
 make your life successful.

00:36:38.500 --> 00:36:39.420
 And we say,

00:36:39.659 --> 00:36:40.920
 and we are,

00:36:41.139 --> 00:36:41.860
 we're so busy.

00:36:42.900 --> 00:36:43.519
 And we say,

00:36:43.579 --> 00:36:44.400
 because we're so busy,

00:36:44.460 --> 00:36:45.059
 we don't have time

00:36:45.059 --> 00:36:45.480
 to pray.

00:36:47.079 --> 00:36:47.300
 But,

00:36:47.380 --> 00:36:48.579
 Kathy Keller,

00:36:48.720 --> 00:36:50.280
 who is Tim Keller's wife,

00:36:50.280 --> 00:36:53.560
 puts it like this.

00:36:53.660 --> 00:36:53.880
 He said,

00:36:53.960 --> 00:36:55.180
 if the doctor told you

00:36:55.180 --> 00:36:56.640
 that you had a fatal condition,

00:36:57.580 --> 00:36:58.700
 and unless you take

00:36:58.700 --> 00:36:59.740
 this medicine

00:36:59.740 --> 00:37:00.680
 every night

00:37:00.680 --> 00:37:02.080
 from 11 to 11.15

00:37:02.080 --> 00:37:03.720
 and swallow these pills,

00:37:03.820 --> 00:37:04.400
 you'll be dead

00:37:04.400 --> 00:37:05.019
 by morning.

00:37:06.080 --> 00:37:07.360
 If that was the case,

00:37:07.540 --> 00:37:07.960
 she says,

00:37:08.019 --> 00:37:09.560
 you would never miss.

00:37:10.360 --> 00:37:11.240
 You would never say,

00:37:11.340 --> 00:37:12.080
 I was too tired

00:37:12.080 --> 00:37:12.920
 or I didn't get it

00:37:12.920 --> 00:37:14.400
 or I was watching a movie

00:37:14.400 --> 00:37:15.440
 and I didn't have time.

00:37:15.440 --> 00:37:17.340
 you wouldn't do that.

00:37:18.300 --> 00:37:19.059
 But we say,

00:37:19.179 --> 00:37:20.440
 I don't have time to pray

00:37:20.440 --> 00:37:23.139
 because the Bible would say

00:37:23.139 --> 00:37:24.099
 and I think Kathy Keller

00:37:24.099 --> 00:37:24.599
 would say,

00:37:25.599 --> 00:37:27.880
 maybe it's not we don't

00:37:27.880 --> 00:37:28.760
 have time to pray,

00:37:28.820 --> 00:37:29.340
 it's we don't feel

00:37:29.340 --> 00:37:30.380
 the need to pray.

00:37:32.019 --> 00:37:33.619
 Because we rely

00:37:33.619 --> 00:37:34.599
 on everything else

00:37:34.599 --> 00:37:35.940
 to satisfy

00:37:35.940 --> 00:37:37.019
 and fill our lives

00:37:37.019 --> 00:37:38.880
 and we stop running

00:37:38.880 --> 00:37:39.980
 to the one who says,

00:37:40.179 --> 00:37:41.019
 I am the source

00:37:41.019 --> 00:37:42.280
 of your power to live

00:37:42.280 --> 00:37:43.740
 and to be

00:37:43.740 --> 00:37:44.620
 who you're meant to be.

00:37:46.060 --> 00:37:46.920
 And that's what God

00:37:46.920 --> 00:37:47.640
 calls us

00:37:47.640 --> 00:37:48.780
 as his people to be.

00:37:51.320 --> 00:37:52.460
 Because when you pray,

00:37:53.000 --> 00:37:53.700
 when you reach

00:37:53.700 --> 00:37:54.519
 that point of saying,

00:37:54.660 --> 00:37:56.580
 I need you, God.

00:37:56.740 --> 00:37:58.080
 I need to be

00:37:58.080 --> 00:37:58.740
 the people

00:37:58.740 --> 00:37:59.880
 you have called us to be,

00:37:59.940 --> 00:38:00.680
 we need you.

00:38:02.100 --> 00:38:03.620
 Then you will start

00:38:03.620 --> 00:38:04.060
 to pray.

00:38:05.460 --> 00:38:06.360
 And not just once,

00:38:06.519 --> 00:38:07.820
 but again and again

00:38:07.820 --> 00:38:08.460
 and again

00:38:08.460 --> 00:38:09.860
 until you see

00:38:09.860 --> 00:38:11.300
 God doing this work

00:38:11.300 --> 00:38:12.040
 in our lives.

00:38:12.280 --> 00:38:17.640
 When you pray,

00:38:17.740 --> 00:38:18.480
 it's not just that you

00:38:18.480 --> 00:38:19.200
 begin to get

00:38:19.200 --> 00:38:20.640
 direct answers,

00:38:21.620 --> 00:38:22.780
 although I believe you do.

00:38:24.200 --> 00:38:25.200
 When you pray,

00:38:25.400 --> 00:38:26.120
 God changes

00:38:26.120 --> 00:38:27.000
 your perspective

00:38:27.000 --> 00:38:28.780
 and you begin

00:38:28.780 --> 00:38:30.400
 to get God's story,

00:38:30.740 --> 00:38:31.620
 God's picture,

00:38:31.840 --> 00:38:32.460
 God's vision

00:38:32.460 --> 00:38:33.120
 of the world.

00:38:34.120 --> 00:38:35.080
 I remember once,

00:38:35.460 --> 00:38:36.760
 I had a boss once,

00:38:37.180 --> 00:38:37.700
 not now,

00:38:37.900 --> 00:38:38.840
 but in the past.

00:38:39.880 --> 00:38:40.880
 Got to make that clear.

00:38:42.280 --> 00:38:43.280
 God's vision

00:38:43.280 --> 00:38:46.080
 and I used to want

00:38:46.080 --> 00:38:47.519
 to hang her

00:38:47.519 --> 00:38:48.480
 from the gallows

00:38:48.480 --> 00:38:49.940
 and torture her

00:38:49.940 --> 00:38:50.780
 mercilessly.

00:38:51.860 --> 00:38:52.820
 Just being real.

00:38:55.100 --> 00:38:56.480
 And I would be

00:38:56.480 --> 00:38:57.800
 outwardly polite to her

00:38:57.800 --> 00:38:59.019
 but inwardly cold.

00:38:59.019 --> 00:39:01.659
 And I would tell

00:39:01.659 --> 00:39:02.500
 everybody else

00:39:02.500 --> 00:39:03.719
 how mean she was

00:39:03.719 --> 00:39:05.300
 but I would never

00:39:05.300 --> 00:39:06.079
 pray for her.

00:39:07.679 --> 00:39:08.280
 And one day,

00:39:08.380 --> 00:39:09.179
 God kind of

00:39:09.179 --> 00:39:11.360
 convicted me of this

00:39:11.360 --> 00:39:12.000
 and just said,

00:39:12.199 --> 00:39:12.780
 because I realized

00:39:12.780 --> 00:39:13.900
 I just didn't want to love her.

00:39:13.980 --> 00:39:15.099
 I couldn't care less

00:39:15.099 --> 00:39:15.559
 about her,

00:39:15.800 --> 00:39:16.300
 if I'm honest.

00:39:17.019 --> 00:39:18.460
 And God convicted me

00:39:18.460 --> 00:39:18.840
 and said,

00:39:18.960 --> 00:39:19.500
 I want you to start

00:39:19.500 --> 00:39:20.159
 praying for her.

00:39:20.960 --> 00:39:21.980
 Not praying for her

00:39:21.980 --> 00:39:23.019
 agonizing death

00:39:23.019 --> 00:39:24.340
 but praying

00:39:24.340 --> 00:39:26.179
 for her

00:39:26.179 --> 00:39:27.519
 to come to know

00:39:27.519 --> 00:39:28.079
 the beauty

00:39:28.079 --> 00:39:28.980
 of the gospel.

00:39:29.360 --> 00:39:30.480
 Come to know her

00:39:30.480 --> 00:39:31.739
 to know

00:39:31.739 --> 00:39:32.619
 just how amazing

00:39:32.619 --> 00:39:33.519
 Jesus is.

00:39:34.059 --> 00:39:34.739
 And for me

00:39:34.739 --> 00:39:35.579
 to have a boldness

00:39:35.579 --> 00:39:36.679
 to be able to reach out

00:39:36.679 --> 00:39:37.119
 to her

00:39:37.119 --> 00:39:38.119
 with the gospel,

00:39:38.500 --> 00:39:39.159
 with a love,

00:39:39.360 --> 00:39:40.099
 with that sense

00:39:40.099 --> 00:39:41.000
 of mission to her.

00:39:41.059 --> 00:39:41.360
 And do you know

00:39:41.360 --> 00:39:42.139
 what began to happen

00:39:42.139 --> 00:39:43.420
 as I prayed over time?

00:39:43.739 --> 00:39:44.519
 It didn't happen instantly

00:39:44.519 --> 00:39:45.280
 but over time,

00:39:45.400 --> 00:39:46.759
 I began to see her differently.

00:39:48.059 --> 00:39:49.059
 She was no longer

00:39:49.059 --> 00:39:50.599
 Godzilla in my mind.

00:39:51.539 --> 00:39:52.219
 She began to,

00:39:52.299 --> 00:39:53.299
 I began to see her

00:39:53.299 --> 00:39:54.039
 as a hurting,

00:39:54.360 --> 00:39:54.679
 fearful,

00:39:54.900 --> 00:39:55.619
 insecure woman

00:39:55.619 --> 00:39:56.900
 who needed the gospel

00:39:56.900 --> 00:39:57.659
 of grace

00:39:57.659 --> 00:39:59.199
 in her life.

00:40:00.219 --> 00:40:01.019
 And that began

00:40:01.019 --> 00:40:01.839
 to change the way

00:40:01.839 --> 00:40:03.099
 I responded to her

00:40:03.099 --> 00:40:04.440
 and I started to look

00:40:04.440 --> 00:40:05.239
 for ways that I could

00:40:05.239 --> 00:40:05.839
 bless her

00:40:05.839 --> 00:40:06.739
 and that I might be able

00:40:06.739 --> 00:40:07.539
 to share something

00:40:07.539 --> 00:40:08.279
 of the love of God

00:40:08.279 --> 00:40:08.759
 with her.

00:40:10.799 --> 00:40:11.759
 Because that's what

00:40:11.759 --> 00:40:13.119
 the Holy Spirit does.

00:40:15.119 --> 00:40:16.779
 We can't be the people

00:40:16.779 --> 00:40:17.819
 we're called to be

00:40:17.819 --> 00:40:18.719
 unless

00:40:18.719 --> 00:40:20.459
 we're relying

00:40:20.459 --> 00:40:21.439
 on a power source

00:40:21.439 --> 00:40:22.219
 other than

00:40:22.219 --> 00:40:23.039
 the things

00:40:23.039 --> 00:40:23.799
 that we rely on

00:40:23.799 --> 00:40:24.500
 by ourselves.

00:40:26.639 --> 00:40:28.000
 And if we as a church

00:40:28.000 --> 00:40:28.599
 want to be

00:40:28.599 --> 00:40:29.879
 this church of gospel,

00:40:30.099 --> 00:40:30.539
 community,

00:40:30.539 --> 00:40:31.159
 and mission,

00:40:32.039 --> 00:40:32.879
 we're never going

00:40:32.879 --> 00:40:33.379
 to be that

00:40:33.379 --> 00:40:34.379
 unless we start

00:40:34.379 --> 00:40:35.319
 getting on our knees

00:40:35.319 --> 00:40:35.659
 saying,

00:40:35.739 --> 00:40:35.980
 God,

00:40:36.179 --> 00:40:37.119
 unless you do it,

00:40:37.279 --> 00:40:38.619
 we cannot be that people.

00:40:43.439 --> 00:40:44.279
 We're powerless

00:40:44.280 --> 00:40:46.340
 but God has given us

00:40:46.340 --> 00:40:47.260
 His power.

00:40:47.440 --> 00:40:48.380
 It's not a weird,

00:40:48.519 --> 00:40:49.600
 wacky thing in the air.

00:40:49.780 --> 00:40:51.900
 It's His personal presence

00:40:51.900 --> 00:40:53.760
 to excite us about Himself,

00:40:54.340 --> 00:40:55.560
 to excite us about

00:40:55.560 --> 00:40:56.580
 His Christian community,

00:40:56.800 --> 00:40:57.880
 to give us boldness

00:40:57.880 --> 00:40:58.560
 to reach out

00:40:58.560 --> 00:41:00.280
 where we have no idea

00:41:00.280 --> 00:41:01.060
 how to reach out

00:41:01.060 --> 00:41:01.880
 to the people in us,

00:41:02.140 --> 00:41:03.220
 people around us.

00:41:03.660 --> 00:41:05.019
 That's where God's story

00:41:05.019 --> 00:41:05.800
 has got to.

00:41:06.620 --> 00:41:07.820
 That's why we're here

00:41:07.820 --> 00:41:08.840
 in Hong Kong

00:41:08.840 --> 00:41:09.660
 as His people.

00:41:09.659 --> 00:41:13.000
 We have opportunities,

00:41:13.199 --> 00:41:13.940
 Toby mentioned them,

00:41:14.179 --> 00:41:15.299
 to begin to pray together.

00:41:15.420 --> 00:41:15.779
 Tonight,

00:41:16.000 --> 00:41:16.480
 there's a chance

00:41:16.480 --> 00:41:17.119
 to pray together

00:41:17.119 --> 00:41:18.000
 at the community center.

00:41:19.279 --> 00:41:20.519
 There's a class afterwards

00:41:20.519 --> 00:41:21.480
 on learning how to pray

00:41:21.480 --> 00:41:22.460
 using the Psalms.

00:41:22.859 --> 00:41:23.879
 In your CGs,

00:41:24.500 --> 00:41:25.279
 why don't you start

00:41:25.279 --> 00:41:26.219
 making prayer

00:41:26.219 --> 00:41:27.460
 something which is not

00:41:27.460 --> 00:41:28.279
 just about getting

00:41:28.279 --> 00:41:29.159
 what I want

00:41:29.159 --> 00:41:30.420
 but a start about us

00:41:30.420 --> 00:41:31.440
 being who we were

00:41:31.440 --> 00:41:32.239
 made to be

00:41:32.239 --> 00:41:33.139
 because that is

00:41:33.139 --> 00:41:34.159
 where God's story is.

00:41:34.359 --> 00:41:35.559
 We're not the perfect people.

00:41:35.659 --> 00:41:36.179
 That's the end

00:41:36.179 --> 00:41:36.779
 of the story.

00:41:38.279 --> 00:41:39.559
 We will keep messing

00:41:39.559 --> 00:41:39.759
 up.

00:41:39.840 --> 00:41:40.699
 That's why the grace

00:41:40.699 --> 00:41:41.380
 of the gospel

00:41:41.380 --> 00:41:42.719
 has got to thrill us again

00:41:42.719 --> 00:41:43.460
 because we will

00:41:43.460 --> 00:41:44.400
 keep messing up

00:41:44.400 --> 00:41:45.579
 but then we come back

00:41:45.579 --> 00:41:46.779
 again and again

00:41:46.779 --> 00:41:47.440
 and again

00:41:47.440 --> 00:41:48.179
 to saying,

00:41:48.259 --> 00:41:48.480
 God,

00:41:48.539 --> 00:41:49.420
 we need you

00:41:49.420 --> 00:41:51.299
 and you will begin

00:41:51.299 --> 00:41:52.480
 to see God

00:41:52.480 --> 00:41:53.659
 do amazing things

00:41:53.659 --> 00:41:55.159
 because that's the kind

00:41:55.159 --> 00:41:55.799
 of God He is.

00:41:56.420 --> 00:41:57.059
 Let's pray.

00:42:09.559 --> 00:42:13.099
 Father,

00:42:13.219 --> 00:42:13.539
 I just

00:42:13.539 --> 00:42:17.380
 I'm just so aware

00:42:17.380 --> 00:42:18.000
 of the gap

00:42:18.000 --> 00:42:18.599
 between

00:42:18.599 --> 00:42:19.880
 who you have

00:42:19.880 --> 00:42:20.519
 called me,

00:42:20.699 --> 00:42:21.599
 who you've called us

00:42:21.599 --> 00:42:22.759
 as a church to be

00:42:22.759 --> 00:42:24.219
 and

00:42:24.219 --> 00:42:26.559
 where I am

00:42:26.559 --> 00:42:27.500
 and where we are

00:42:27.500 --> 00:42:29.039
 and I know

00:42:29.039 --> 00:42:29.539
 that it's not

00:42:29.539 --> 00:42:30.820
 by trying harder

00:42:30.820 --> 00:42:31.559
 that I'm going

00:42:31.559 --> 00:42:33.039
 to close that gap,

00:42:33.099 --> 00:42:33.360
 that we're going

00:42:33.360 --> 00:42:34.320
 to close that gap.

00:42:34.320 --> 00:42:35.740
 It's not by

00:42:35.740 --> 00:42:37.640
 lots of great planning

00:42:37.640 --> 00:42:38.980
 and all those other things,

00:42:39.080 --> 00:42:39.840
 good those are,

00:42:39.980 --> 00:42:40.180
 Lord.

00:42:41.420 --> 00:42:42.539
 Please give me,

00:42:42.940 --> 00:42:43.780
 please give us

00:42:43.780 --> 00:42:44.640
 that sense

00:42:44.640 --> 00:42:45.680
 of just how much

00:42:45.680 --> 00:42:46.340
 we need you.

00:42:49.519 --> 00:42:50.500
 Please give us

00:42:50.500 --> 00:42:51.380
 that desperation

00:42:51.380 --> 00:42:52.180
 for you

00:42:52.180 --> 00:42:53.620
 that unless you come,

00:42:53.820 --> 00:42:55.080
 unless you change us,

00:42:55.200 --> 00:42:56.059
 unless you work

00:42:56.059 --> 00:42:57.080
 in our church,

00:42:57.200 --> 00:42:57.860
 in our lives,

00:42:57.960 --> 00:42:58.660
 in our families,

00:42:58.820 --> 00:42:59.480
 in our colleagues,

00:42:59.480 --> 00:43:00.980
 in every area

00:43:00.980 --> 00:43:01.840
 of this city,

00:43:02.059 --> 00:43:02.240
 Lord.

00:43:04.679 --> 00:43:06.000
 We cannot be

00:43:06.000 --> 00:43:06.400
 the people

00:43:06.400 --> 00:43:07.320
 you call us to be.

00:43:09.219 --> 00:43:10.039
 But thank you,

00:43:10.099 --> 00:43:11.059
 you have not left us

00:43:11.059 --> 00:43:12.000
 alone as orphans.

00:43:12.159 --> 00:43:12.980
 You have given us

00:43:12.980 --> 00:43:13.659
 your spirit

00:43:13.659 --> 00:43:14.740
 because you want

00:43:14.740 --> 00:43:15.820
 to be beside us.

00:43:15.860 --> 00:43:16.219
 You want us

00:43:16.219 --> 00:43:17.280
 to enjoy you.

00:43:18.579 --> 00:43:19.099
 And I pray,

00:43:19.260 --> 00:43:19.320
 Lord,

00:43:19.340 --> 00:43:20.159
 that your gospel,

00:43:20.300 --> 00:43:21.119
 that your word

00:43:21.119 --> 00:43:21.699
 would become

00:43:21.699 --> 00:43:22.980
 living in our lives.

00:43:24.860 --> 00:43:25.760
 I pray that we

00:43:25.760 --> 00:43:26.340
 would get

00:43:26.340 --> 00:43:29.340
 excited about you.

00:43:30.480 --> 00:43:31.699
 I can't work up

00:43:31.699 --> 00:43:32.199
 excitement,

00:43:32.440 --> 00:43:32.559
 Lord,

00:43:33.460 --> 00:43:34.380
 but give us

00:43:34.380 --> 00:43:35.139
 that passion

00:43:35.139 --> 00:43:35.960
 to pray,

00:43:37.340 --> 00:43:38.039
 that passion

00:43:38.039 --> 00:43:38.800
 to be people

00:43:38.800 --> 00:43:39.820
 who just keep

00:43:39.820 --> 00:43:40.920
 coming back to you,

00:43:41.760 --> 00:43:42.599
 knowing that you

00:43:42.599 --> 00:43:43.320
 are our hope,

00:43:43.800 --> 00:43:44.860
 you're our salvation,

00:43:45.400 --> 00:43:46.539
 you're our joy,

00:43:46.940 --> 00:43:47.880
 you are the one

00:43:47.880 --> 00:43:49.920
 who is our only one

00:43:49.920 --> 00:43:50.760
 who can make us

00:43:50.760 --> 00:43:51.199
 the people

00:43:51.199 --> 00:43:51.960
 we're made to be.

00:43:52.679 --> 00:43:54.000
 Thank you so much

00:43:54.000 --> 00:43:55.139
 that you're so good

00:43:55.139 --> 00:43:55.639
 to us.

00:43:57.079 --> 00:43:58.219
 May you get the glory

00:43:58.219 --> 00:43:58.860
 through this.

00:43:58.860 --> 00:43:59.780
 in your name.

00:44:00.340 --> 00:44:00.559
 Amen.

00:44:00.559 --> 00:44:00.700
 Amen.

00:44:00.699 --> 00:44:02.759
 Amen.

00:44:02.759 --> 00:44:03.299
 Amen.

00:44:03.299 --> 00:44:03.579
 Amen.

00:44:06.000 --> 00:44:06.439
 Amen.

00:44:06.439 --> 00:44:06.559
 Amen.

00:44:07.219 --> 00:44:07.399
 Amen.

00:44:07.399 --> 00:44:07.739
 Amen.

00:44:07.939 --> 00:44:08.399
 Amen.

00:44:08.399 --> 00:44:08.500
 Amen.

00:44:08.539 --> 00:44:09.319
 Amen.

00:44:19.739 --> 00:44:20.559
 Amen.

00:44:21.099 --> 00:44:21.279
 Amen.

00:44:21.399 --> 00:44:21.739
 Amen.

00:44:21.960 --> 00:44:22.899
 Amen.

00:44:22.919 --> 00:44:23.000
 Amen.

00:44:23.460 --> 00:44:23.919
 Come on.

00:44:23.919 --> 00:44:25.759
 Amen.

00:44:25.759 --> 00:44:26.239
 Amen.

00:44:26.239 --> 00:44:26.779
 Amen.

00:44:26.899 --> 00:44:26.980
 Amen.

00:44:26.980 --> 00:44:27.839
 Amen.