WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.800 The theme this morning is about fresh insight in worship. 00:00:04.219 --> 00:00:07.379 And I've had a bit of a fresh insight this week. 00:00:07.900 --> 00:00:14.280 Because while I was shopping, I found another brand of beans. 00:00:15.500 --> 00:00:20.039 Now, believe you me, I have been a 57 different variety. 00:00:20.420 --> 00:00:21.359 You will know the brand. 00:00:21.780 --> 00:00:22.740 Others are available. 00:00:23.580 --> 00:00:28.339 And while shopping, I thought, maybe I need some fresh insights. 00:00:28.339 --> 00:00:29.800 Maybe it was to do with money. 00:00:30.000 --> 00:00:31.400 Maybe it was I needed a change. 00:00:31.920 --> 00:00:39.039 But I have found some beans, which in my opinion, are just as good as my 57 varieties. 00:00:40.439 --> 00:00:46.460 And I just wondered, as we were thinking this morning, as Paul is writing to the people of Ephesus, 00:00:46.460 --> 00:00:52.179 how many times I have wandered through the shopping mall of worship, 00:00:52.640 --> 00:00:59.439 still putting the same thing in my basket time and time and time again. 00:00:59.799 --> 00:01:02.919 It was time for a fresh insight. 00:01:02.920 --> 00:01:07.480 I don't know what you're like at Fresh Insight. 00:01:07.620 --> 00:01:11.599 Because as Paul is saying, the reading this morning, and I love this reading. 00:01:11.960 --> 00:01:12.439 Thanks, Rob. 00:01:12.480 --> 00:01:13.180 This was great. 00:01:13.180 --> 00:01:20.140 I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you, 00:01:20.300 --> 00:01:29.100 this is a prayer, may give you a spirit of wisdom and revelation so that you may know him better. 00:01:29.099 --> 00:01:32.140 You see, Paul knows that there is more for them. 00:01:32.140 --> 00:01:40.640 I mean, I don't know what's gone on before here, but he obviously realizes there's something he wants to encourage them, 00:01:40.959 --> 00:01:44.280 that there is more and that there is always more. 00:01:44.280 --> 00:01:51.659 Paul is praying for the spirit of wisdom and revelation to reveal something more for them. 00:01:52.760 --> 00:01:58.099 You'll find lots of people ready to give you fresh insights, I can assure you. 00:01:58.859 --> 00:02:05.219 If you put fresh insight into your Google search, you will find some very interesting. 00:02:05.359 --> 00:02:06.079 Here is one. 00:02:06.079 --> 00:02:12.199 This is a company who is going to sell you fresh insights. 00:02:13.159 --> 00:02:18.659 I understand that selecting a person to seek help from is an important choice. 00:02:19.500 --> 00:02:20.240 Yes, it is. 00:02:21.000 --> 00:02:26.439 Experience tells me that you will want someone who you feel comfortable and safe with. 00:02:26.740 --> 00:02:27.039 Yes. 00:02:27.620 --> 00:02:32.280 Who shows you understanding, patience and respect that you need and deserve. 00:02:32.400 --> 00:02:34.240 I think they're beginning to stroke my ego now. 00:02:34.240 --> 00:02:34.320 Okay. 00:02:34.960 --> 00:02:41.379 Someone who shares in wanting to see you at your best and supports you in getting there. 00:02:42.700 --> 00:02:48.659 My sessions start from £150 and I recommend that you book 10 sessions. 00:02:50.080 --> 00:02:52.860 That certainly was fresh insight. 00:02:55.000 --> 00:02:57.760 You see, Jesus already paid the cost. 00:02:58.060 --> 00:02:58.820 We know that. 00:02:59.580 --> 00:03:03.360 It happened on the cross and it happened three days later. 00:03:03.360 --> 00:03:10.900 So, he offers us a transformational experience again and again. 00:03:11.020 --> 00:03:12.580 There is always more with him. 00:03:12.660 --> 00:03:15.660 But I ask, do I need fresh insight? 00:03:16.280 --> 00:03:18.520 You know, I'm quite happy the way I am. 00:03:18.720 --> 00:03:20.400 Why do I need this? 00:03:20.920 --> 00:03:24.420 Because, as we've said, there is always more. 00:03:24.419 --> 00:03:34.359 When I worship whatever that is, wherever I come to worship him, I ask myself, why do I come? 00:03:35.639 --> 00:03:44.899 And I come with expectation that the Lord is going to reveal to me something exciting and something new from worship. 00:03:44.900 --> 00:03:48.180 Whatever shape that might be, whatever shape that might be, wherever that is. 00:03:48.180 --> 00:04:00.439 To come with a spirit of criticism, to come with a spirit that is anything less, isn't opening us to the fullness of what he wants to bring. 00:04:00.439 --> 00:04:10.439 When Paul talks about power, it opens us to this fresh view and expectation that we can come and we can receive. 00:04:10.800 --> 00:04:13.020 That there is still more. 00:04:15.199 --> 00:04:18.259 Now, I don't know. 00:04:18.360 --> 00:04:21.079 Have you ever been lost in worship? 00:04:21.079 --> 00:04:25.240 It's a term that Christians often use. 00:04:25.319 --> 00:04:27.439 I've been lost in worship lots of times. 00:04:27.800 --> 00:04:32.180 It's when I've lost myself in the page that everybody else is holding in the book. 00:04:33.060 --> 00:04:35.319 I don't know whether you've experienced that. 00:04:35.639 --> 00:04:38.439 You may remember that time when we used to hold books. 00:04:39.259 --> 00:04:42.060 But I found myself often struggling. 00:04:42.060 --> 00:04:49.120 I had this thing gripped in front of me, trying to catch up with the page that somebody next to... 00:04:49.120 --> 00:04:54.920 And then there's the worst thing, that somebody leans over and moves the page for you. 00:04:55.720 --> 00:04:58.120 Ooh, doesn't that hurt? 00:04:58.560 --> 00:05:00.280 It's good to be on the right page. 00:05:01.259 --> 00:05:03.319 So wrapped up in worship. 00:05:03.519 --> 00:05:10.280 And do you know, what I'm going to ask again, have you ever been truly lost in worship? 00:05:10.279 --> 00:05:21.819 That place where you are wrapped up in intimacy, wonder, and adoration of the one that we love. 00:05:23.459 --> 00:05:25.199 You know, we say we come to worship. 00:05:25.339 --> 00:05:26.379 Why do we come to worship? 00:05:26.819 --> 00:05:30.319 Surely we come to worship wherever that might be. 00:05:30.319 --> 00:05:39.759 Because in worship, it offers us fresh insight into a place where we are swept up into his presence. 00:05:41.219 --> 00:05:44.399 Paul is articulating this very well in his prayer. 00:05:44.399 --> 00:06:03.799 Do you want to know God better? 00:06:03.799 --> 00:06:06.859 Some people are nodding their head. 00:06:06.860 --> 00:06:09.639 We want to worship. 00:06:10.040 --> 00:06:11.560 We want to know him better. 00:06:12.040 --> 00:06:16.340 And what better place there is to be lifted together in a place. 00:06:17.020 --> 00:06:24.580 I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you. 00:06:25.620 --> 00:06:27.460 The riches of his glorious inheritance. 00:06:27.800 --> 00:06:31.180 I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened. 00:06:32.580 --> 00:06:33.939 Fresh insights. 00:06:33.939 --> 00:06:42.719 I was, like many that you have known, I was a hardened, cynical Christian. 00:06:44.040 --> 00:06:49.699 I was, I thought my brand of denomination, like my beans, was the only one. 00:06:50.600 --> 00:06:54.939 I hadn't looked beyond myself and God hadn't shown me. 00:06:54.939 --> 00:07:06.279 And yet sometimes we need to take our eyes off ourselves and look to him in order to receive that fullness of all he has for us. 00:07:06.279 --> 00:07:09.339 We learn to trust. 00:07:09.659 --> 00:07:10.839 We learn to know him more. 00:07:10.959 --> 00:07:12.839 We learn to experience more. 00:07:13.199 --> 00:07:17.919 To see as Christians, can I suggest that we are very comfortable with good teaching? 00:07:18.299 --> 00:07:20.899 We are very comfortable with pastoral care. 00:07:20.899 --> 00:07:35.259 Yet we are less comfortable with the essential element of the transforming, life-giving, life-enhancing, encouraging, empowering, and enabling of the Holy Spirit. 00:07:36.259 --> 00:07:40.120 Which we come in all its fullness for what he has for us. 00:07:40.579 --> 00:07:41.620 Paul gets it. 00:07:41.939 --> 00:07:42.979 He prays for it. 00:07:42.980 --> 00:07:44.660 Basically, and I prays for it. 00:07:44.980 --> 00:07:46.160 Be filled with power. 00:07:46.600 --> 00:07:47.100 Get it. 00:07:47.620 --> 00:07:49.660 Get fresh insights. 00:07:50.520 --> 00:07:54.240 Paul says, be transformed by the renewing of your mind. 00:07:54.900 --> 00:07:56.560 Is that your experience of worship? 00:07:59.160 --> 00:08:01.060 I was a chorister for years. 00:08:01.180 --> 00:08:02.220 I attended church. 00:08:02.400 --> 00:08:03.100 I was baptized. 00:08:03.960 --> 00:08:08.060 My heart had grown hardened and accustomed to things earthly. 00:08:08.060 --> 00:08:11.420 God knows us better than ourselves. 00:08:13.060 --> 00:08:17.959 I know that many women here were blessed yesterday through a woman's breakfast. 00:08:19.420 --> 00:08:21.540 Through worship and through prayer. 00:08:22.920 --> 00:08:29.680 At this very moment, there are 2,000 plus men in a field, very sunny field, near Lechlaid. 00:08:30.240 --> 00:08:33.259 Many of whom will come to know Jesus for the first time. 00:08:33.960 --> 00:08:34.919 In worship. 00:08:38.059 --> 00:08:41.059 God used a moment for me. 00:08:42.319 --> 00:08:49.039 And I had grown cynical, hard, and not trusting. 00:08:49.879 --> 00:08:55.139 Worship for me was coming along on a Sunday, doing what I need to, put my brand of beans in. 00:08:55.239 --> 00:08:56.299 Thanks very much, God. 00:08:56.500 --> 00:08:57.819 And moving on during the week. 00:08:58.079 --> 00:09:01.419 Until my son, who was aged eight, came home and said, 00:09:01.419 --> 00:09:04.479 Dad, can I go on a venture camp? 00:09:04.480 --> 00:09:07.340 I said no. 00:09:08.159 --> 00:09:11.980 Because I'd given up trusting anybody, let alone with my son. 00:09:12.240 --> 00:09:15.820 We had what we called was heavy negotiations between Mandy and I. 00:09:17.779 --> 00:09:19.080 You know what they are. 00:09:20.180 --> 00:09:22.019 And she came up with this great formula. 00:09:22.480 --> 00:09:25.480 And she said, why don't we go as helpers? 00:09:26.420 --> 00:09:27.700 Then he can go. 00:09:27.700 --> 00:09:35.000 My idea of babysitting a whole load of eight-year-olds on a week's annual leave was not on my agenda. 00:09:37.840 --> 00:09:38.600 We went. 00:09:38.740 --> 00:09:40.100 They were an amazing team. 00:09:40.520 --> 00:09:43.560 And the idea was this venture that we were going on. 00:09:43.600 --> 00:09:45.460 It was like a nautical thing, theme. 00:09:45.460 --> 00:09:48.139 And they had this thing called the engine room. 00:09:49.019 --> 00:09:53.820 Down in the bowels of this great big public school where we were for the week. 00:09:55.200 --> 00:09:59.420 And I stood at the back. 00:10:00.580 --> 00:10:05.600 And the children, I asked the question of God, why am I here? 00:10:06.940 --> 00:10:09.440 It's a very powerful question to ask God. 00:10:10.120 --> 00:10:11.960 Why am I here? 00:10:13.220 --> 00:10:14.879 As the kids sang their song. 00:10:16.160 --> 00:10:29.139 Those things as你就无 Murder The unexplained 00:10:29.139 --> 00:10:30.100 Jesus of Jesus on Fox 00:10:32.160 --> 00:10:33.360 And how do you log on? 00:10:34.940 --> 00:10:37.500 Who prays and things like us 00:10:39.759 --> 00:10:43.280 Thank you, Jesus, thank you, Lord 00:10:43.279 --> 00:10:46.159 For loving things I love 00:10:46.159 --> 00:10:50.399 I know I know you're loving me today 00:10:50.399 --> 00:10:54.659 Help me feel your love right now 00:10:54.659 --> 00:10:57.519 I know you're loving my heart 00:10:57.519 --> 00:11:00.319 That I'm your special friend 00:11:00.319 --> 00:11:08.639 To know deep in my heart that you're my special friend 00:11:08.639 --> 00:11:10.199 I was broke 00:11:10.200 --> 00:11:13.640 The Lord broke me at the back of that room 00:11:13.640 --> 00:11:19.200 I was lifted into worship like never before 00:11:19.200 --> 00:11:22.780 Sometimes the Lord takes us to a different place 00:11:22.780 --> 00:11:24.140 To show us stuff 00:11:24.140 --> 00:11:27.940 And I knew that I was loved 00:11:27.940 --> 00:11:29.400 I was accepted 00:11:29.400 --> 00:11:32.180 And most of all that there was more 00:11:32.180 --> 00:11:33.820 Much, much more 00:11:33.820 --> 00:11:37.900 I broke through the low ceiling of my narrowness 00:11:37.899 --> 00:11:40.779 Of my prejudice, of my hardened heart 00:11:40.779 --> 00:11:43.179 And at last I was free 00:11:43.179 --> 00:11:46.480 There are people here that know that is the truth 00:11:46.480 --> 00:11:47.620 Because they were there 00:11:47.620 --> 00:11:48.740 Weren't you Margaret? 00:11:48.939 --> 00:11:50.019 That was wonderful 00:11:50.019 --> 00:11:52.740 I got it large 00:11:52.740 --> 00:11:55.519 And I just thought today for us 00:11:55.519 --> 00:11:56.740 As we talk about worship 00:11:56.740 --> 00:11:58.659 And this new experience 00:11:58.659 --> 00:12:00.519 Maybe this fresh insight 00:12:00.519 --> 00:12:03.960 That there is more for us 00:12:03.960 --> 00:12:06.240 And I want to encourage you 00:12:06.240 --> 00:12:08.639 That there is more for each and every one of us 00:12:08.639 --> 00:12:11.300 I don't lift my hands in worship 00:12:11.300 --> 00:12:13.460 Now because for 38 years 00:12:13.460 --> 00:12:14.620 I held on to a book 00:12:14.620 --> 00:12:16.860 I lift my hands in worship 00:12:16.860 --> 00:12:18.820 For the one that I love 00:12:18.820 --> 00:12:19.840 The one I adore 00:12:19.840 --> 00:12:21.519 The one for whom I live 00:12:21.519 --> 00:12:24.799 And because I am free 00:12:24.799 --> 00:12:26.579 To enter into worship 00:12:26.579 --> 00:12:29.399 I have a foretaste 00:12:29.399 --> 00:12:32.000 Of what eternity is going to be like 00:12:32.000 --> 00:12:33.699 I have a picture 00:12:33.699 --> 00:12:36.460 We are part of God's new creation 00:12:36.460 --> 00:12:42.379 I've seen people's lives change dramatically 00:12:42.379 --> 00:12:43.159 Through worship 00:12:43.159 --> 00:12:44.460 It's been a blessing 00:12:44.460 --> 00:12:46.699 It's been a blessing for you to see as well 00:12:46.700 --> 00:12:51.500 And I just thought really about this ceiling this morning 00:12:51.500 --> 00:12:51.920 You see 00:12:51.920 --> 00:12:54.720 This ceiling for us is 00:12:54.720 --> 00:12:56.879 There 00:12:56.879 --> 00:12:58.580 Maybe 00:12:58.580 --> 00:12:59.720 For some of us 00:12:59.720 --> 00:13:02.820 And that was my ceiling for a long time 00:13:02.820 --> 00:13:04.720 That's where I was 00:13:04.720 --> 00:13:08.180 But I realised that the Lord had to take me to a place 00:13:08.180 --> 00:13:10.500 Where he had to free me 00:13:10.500 --> 00:13:12.060 In order to let go 00:13:12.060 --> 00:13:14.600 And I don't know about you 00:13:14.600 --> 00:13:16.640 For me it was a lot of things 00:13:16.639 --> 00:13:18.360 For each and every one of us 00:13:18.360 --> 00:13:19.240 It would be different 00:13:19.240 --> 00:13:21.319 But I sensed this morning 00:13:21.319 --> 00:13:22.620 The Lord wants to 00:13:22.620 --> 00:13:24.819 The words I had this morning 00:13:24.819 --> 00:13:25.620 Was you for 00:13:25.620 --> 00:13:26.439 To let go 00:13:26.439 --> 00:13:28.299 And let him do what he wants to do 00:13:28.299 --> 00:13:31.939 And so I'm going to offer you this morning 00:13:31.939 --> 00:13:36.039 To let go 00:13:36.039 --> 00:13:38.500 And see where it goes 00:13:38.500 --> 00:13:42.460 Because my ceiling was here 00:13:42.460 --> 00:13:45.159 Until that amazing day 00:13:45.159 --> 00:13:47.159 When I asked the question 00:13:47.159 --> 00:13:48.199 What am I doing here 00:13:48.199 --> 00:13:52.139 And suddenly it takes on a different perspective 00:13:52.139 --> 00:13:54.399 Because from there 00:13:54.399 --> 00:13:56.459 I can see far more 00:13:56.459 --> 00:13:57.500 As he sees 00:13:57.500 --> 00:14:00.019 He sees and has shown me 00:14:00.019 --> 00:14:01.879 And will show in each and every one of us 00:14:01.879 --> 00:14:03.879 More of what he wants for us 00:14:03.879 --> 00:14:04.919 And for our heart 00:14:04.919 --> 00:14:06.139 As we partner with him 00:14:06.139 --> 00:14:09.360 One of my favourite films 00:14:09.360 --> 00:14:11.279 Is Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory 00:14:11.279 --> 00:14:13.299 I'm aware that we're going to play football later 00:14:13.299 --> 00:14:15.240 So I need to come into land 00:14:15.240 --> 00:14:17.980 Paul says 00:14:17.980 --> 00:14:20.620 The power is the same as the mighty strength 00:14:20.620 --> 00:14:23.480 He exerted when he raised Christ from the dead 00:14:23.480 --> 00:14:28.940 And if I were to cut this line 00:14:28.940 --> 00:14:31.000 We don't know where it's going to go 00:14:31.000 --> 00:14:34.620 But Willy Wonka 00:14:34.620 --> 00:14:37.480 In his chocolate factory 00:14:37.480 --> 00:14:40.000 Had shown Charlie many different things 00:14:40.000 --> 00:14:43.740 Charlie had broken through 00:14:43.740 --> 00:14:46.080 Because he didn't have the prejudice 00:14:46.080 --> 00:14:48.500 He wasn't full of pride 00:14:48.500 --> 00:14:51.120 He wasn't gluttonous 00:14:51.120 --> 00:14:53.639 He didn't want everything 00:14:53.639 --> 00:14:56.879 Charlie was Charlie 00:14:56.879 --> 00:14:58.720 And Willy Wonka 00:14:58.720 --> 00:15:01.600 Had one more thing to show him 00:15:01.600 --> 00:15:05.960 And that was the glass elevator 00:15:05.960 --> 00:15:10.279 And there's a button on the glass elevator 00:15:10.279 --> 00:15:13.139 That says up and out 00:15:13.139 --> 00:15:16.100 I'll just remind you of the clip 00:15:16.100 --> 00:15:17.279 That I love so much 00:15:17.279 --> 00:15:18.720 Come on 00:15:18.720 --> 00:15:26.720 Up and out 00:15:26.720 --> 00:15:28.179 What kind of room is that? 00:15:28.740 --> 00:15:29.439 Hold on 00:15:29.439 --> 00:15:40.120 Oh my goodness 00:15:40.120 --> 00:15:42.659 We're going to need to go much faster 00:15:42.659 --> 00:15:44.279 Otherwise we'll just never break through 00:15:44.279 --> 00:15:45.720 Break through what? 00:15:45.720 --> 00:15:49.120 I've been longing to press that button for years 00:15:49.120 --> 00:15:50.960 Well here we go 00:15:50.960 --> 00:15:52.480 Up and out 00:15:52.480 --> 00:15:54.259 What do you really mean? 00:15:54.420 --> 00:15:55.160 Yeah I do 00:15:55.160 --> 00:15:57.040 But it's made of glass 00:15:57.040 --> 00:15:59.160 It'll smash into a million pieces 00:15:59.159 --> 00:16:13.819 You might have missed it 00:16:13.819 --> 00:16:15.299 But Willy Wonka said 00:16:15.299 --> 00:16:19.139 I've been wanting to press that button for years 00:16:19.139 --> 00:16:23.600 I've been wanting to press that button for years 00:16:23.600 --> 00:16:27.000 This morning is about freedom 00:16:27.000 --> 00:16:28.700 And fresh insight 00:16:28.700 --> 00:16:30.800 And I pray 00:16:30.800 --> 00:16:33.040 As Paul prayed for the Ephesians 00:16:33.040 --> 00:16:35.320 I pray for us this morning 00:16:35.320 --> 00:16:37.340 That we would let go 00:16:37.340 --> 00:16:40.000 That we would have fresh insights 00:16:40.000 --> 00:16:43.399 That God would break chains 00:16:43.399 --> 00:16:45.940 That have held us at a ceiling 00:16:45.940 --> 00:16:47.940 For whatever reason 00:16:47.940 --> 00:16:52.159 The women's breakfast yesterday 00:16:52.159 --> 00:16:55.919 They were read Ephesians 3 00:16:55.919 --> 00:16:57.879 And from the message 00:16:57.879 --> 00:17:00.439 God can do anything 00:17:00.439 --> 00:17:03.059 You know far more 00:17:03.059 --> 00:17:04.759 Than you could ever imagine 00:17:04.759 --> 00:17:05.399 Or guess 00:17:05.399 --> 00:17:06.440 Or request 00:17:06.440 --> 00:17:08.460 In your wildest dreams 00:17:08.460 --> 00:17:11.659 He does it not by pushing us around 00:17:11.659 --> 00:17:14.279 But by working within us 00:17:14.279 --> 00:17:16.659 His spirit deeply 00:17:16.659 --> 00:17:18.460 And gently within us 00:17:18.460 --> 00:17:21.139 Glory to God in the church 00:17:21.140 --> 00:17:26.960 Today is about fresh insight 00:17:26.960 --> 00:17:28.180 And I pray for us all 00:17:28.180 --> 00:17:30.440 That whatever it is 00:17:30.440 --> 00:17:31.840 That held us at a ceiling 00:17:31.840 --> 00:17:34.600 That we may receive 00:17:34.600 --> 00:17:36.200 All that he has for us 00:17:36.200 --> 00:17:37.980 Immeasurably more 00:17:37.980 --> 00:17:39.720 Than we can ever imagine