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RCF 140424 All Aged All Nation Service - Dave Food - Building Church for Community
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Amen. You know where God is, there is no room for sickness,
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there is no room for pain. So we're going to believe. If you
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haven't expecting heart, come with expectation that God's going to touch some very specific
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areas today. You might go back. Not you might, You most definitely
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can go back with a healing that could be physical, it could be emotional,
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It could even be spiritual if someone's experienced pain, even spiritually. I
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believe there is healing today. So come drink, Come, drink of this
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living water. So going to pray for a moment and get ready church,
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get ready for the world, get ready to hear the voice of God.
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Amen. Yeah, let's pray. Heavenly Father, we thank you for this
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time where you have us in your presence. We are ready and we are
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open to your work. Lord. We worship you. We thank you for
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the ability Lord to come here today. As we sang, there are faithful
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that are gathered underground today on this Sunday. They're faithful believers gathered underground.
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But we are here and we can boldly and openly and freely worship you.
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So we thank you, Lord, Holy Spirit, Come and speak to us
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and touch us and heal us and do us your will. We pray for
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the word, and we pray Lord Jesus that you will bless and anointed that
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as it reaches our hearts and our hearts to yield the hard sixty or even
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a hundred. But we wanted to leave you. Thank you for your word,
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Jesus viciously so to word, and we're welcome here too. Morning everybody.
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Do you know what God's already give me some visual aids for my sermon
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this morning because there's building going on down the front. There's building going on
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down the front, and you think I might not have planned this. I'd
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already bought a box of Lego and asked some of our children to make something
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for me in lego because we're talking about building today and God adds to that
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by bringing children to the front who are going to take part. So fantastic,
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fantastic stuff. So I'm talking this morning about building church, building community.
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My name's David. I'm going to kind of lead us through a short
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sermon today. This is the one Sunday in the month when the children stay
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in and you know, we have some fun together. Interestingly enough, let
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me just mention this. There's no face to face Sunday school, but it's
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online Sunday School still going on as well. Work that out. So we're
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talking about building, church, building, community building together. Who likes building.
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I've just had a week's holiday. I've been down in Cornwall. There's
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a sandy beach in Loop. It's just sand, sand, sand and sometimes
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seaweed. Do you know what I am known? Julia would tell you this.
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I am known amongst my family and amongst some of our friends as well
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as the sand castle builder. When I get to the beach, I get
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the spade out, and I get a big spade out. I don't mean
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a little plastic spade. I mean a proper spade, because I'm not just
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building a little sand castle. I'm building a big sand castle. And when
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I say a big sand castle, I mean this high. My objective is
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to build a pile of sand so when the tide comes in, the children
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who are with me, Notice the children who are with me, it's not
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just for me. The children who are with me can stand on the sand
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castle and they can see the sea come in, and it can come in,
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it can slowly wash the pile of sand away until they get to that
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moment when the adults have to help them because it's now so deep around them
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that once the sand castle clapses, they're going to get wet, and they
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go, Mummy, Daddy, uncle Dave, please help. I love beaches.
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I love building, and I hope you love building too, because do
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you know what we are building? God is building in our midst There are
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faces in the room that I don't recognize. Hallelujah. I don't mean that
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I Hallelujah. I don't recognize yet. I mean your new faces, your
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new faces. And there's new people joining us online. I can see people
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joining us today from Turkey, from Italy and from Sweden were some countries that
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I noticed this morning. So I just amazed what God is doing in armies
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as we gather, and Debbie very rightly commented, you know, I don't
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know what to call it. All nation, all age, all nation.
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We're multinational? Well isn't that business? But we are multi national. I
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was saying to somebody the other day, I said, you know what,
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I think we're probably about twenty two to three different nationalities if you add up
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all our different groups. And he said, wow, how big a church
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are you? Saying, well, not that big. Yet yet, notice
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I say yet, And so let me journey into building community and building church.
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In Acts, Chapter two, verses thirty eight and thirty nine, it
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says this, Then Peter said to them, repent, and let every one
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of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins.
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And you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. For the promise
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is to you and to your children, and to all those are far off,
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as many as our Lord God will all. You know, when we
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get our eyes off stuff and on God and his son Jesus, our perspective
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changes, do you know? Perspective often changes. If if i'm if I've
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got something, if I hold my hand up in front of my face,
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I can't see you because my hand's in the way, and I have to
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step back. I have to move back so that I get a different perspective.
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I traveled into London a number of years ago now, and sitting in
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Waterloo station was a gentleman who had a piece of cardboard in front of me.
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He said, please give I need food. Do you know what?
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I thought? I could have put some money in his pot, But the
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first thing I had time, I had a nice pair of trous on a
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nice shirt like I had today, but I had time, I got there
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early. You think my nice shirt is not a nice shirt today? Oh
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okay, sorry, But I decided to stop. And I decided to stop
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and sit down next to him. And I sat down next to him on
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the bridge near Waterloo Station. I sat down next to him and I started
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talking to him. I'm not looking him in the face, just chatting to
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him. He said, what, why are you sitting down next to me?
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I said, well, so I join you for a few minutes if
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that's okay? Is that right? And he said yes, please do.
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I said, what's it like down here? He said, oh, people
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don't acknowledge you. They don't look at you. They just walked past.
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And I realized as I sat with him, all I could see was knees,
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because as people walk past on the bridge, people didn't even when I
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looked up, people didn't look at me. They probably thought, why is
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this guy in a in a pair of shirts and a pair of trousers and
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a shirt. Why is he sitting on the floor, Why is he asking
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for money? But do you know what, everybody just walked past just didn't
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even acknowledge. And I thought, how challenging is that? How challenging is
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that that every person walking past just ignored, And even the people who put
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some money in the hat and on the on the guitar bag that he had
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there, even those he put money and didn't look at him. I just
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thought, this is I struggle here, and Jesus loves all of us,
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not just those who are good, because we all get things wrong. I'm
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going to put my hand up and say I get things wrong from time to
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time. Do you get things wrong from time to time? Do things that
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aren't so good? There are certain things that I've probably done in the last
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month that I would not want on the screen in front of you right now.
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Maybe you got angry with somebody, maybe it got crossed, Maybe I
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said something I shouldn't have said. Do you know we all do things wrong,
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and when we do things wrong, it gets in the way in our
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relationships. Just think about if you said something to somebody and it didn't quite
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come out right, and in saying it, you think you kind of want
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to put the words back in again. You know those bubbles in comics,
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Yeah, you almost want to take the bubble and squeeze it back in again.
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We can't. That's right, quite right. We're not perfect, and
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that's none of us. None of us are perfect. That's why we need
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God's help. We need God's help when we get it wrong to say I'm
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sorry. And he made a way. He made a way for our wrongdoing.
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His son Jesus, we've just celebrated at Easter. His son Jesus went
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to the cross and died to pay the price for you and me, so
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that for the wrongdoing that we have, there is a solution. It's not
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about me being good or you being good. It's about Christ, God's son
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being good. And we read here in Acts for the promises for you and
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your children. You know, having Christian parents doesn't make you a Christian child.
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Everybody needs to come to a place brought up in a Christian home,
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don't get me wrong. Brought up in a good way, absolutely, But
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we need to get to a place where we choose for ourselves Jesus as savior.
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But there is a promise, there is a as we read on in
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Acts chapter two, verses forty one and forty two. Then those who gladly
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received his word were baptized and that day, there were about three thousand souls
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added to the church, and they continued insteadfast in the apostles, doctrine,
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and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and of prayers. Prayers matter.
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I think prayer is something we should all get good at. I don't
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mean we get a PhD or an A level or a GCSE in prayer,
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but we're just ready to pray. It was great to see the children start
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the service off. They were willing to make a few mistakes. Well done,
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guys. You know, we don't like making mistakes, especially in the
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world of online, you know, because it's recorded forever. We've had some
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we had some technical challenges this morning. I think we've still got some technical
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challenges going on that's going to get recorded forever. But I want to show
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that we're real. I want to show that we're not perfect. We don't
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get it quite right. Because for me, as soon as we model perfection,
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then we start to do things like people say, well, I can't
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do that, I can't do that that well, and we continue in steadfast,
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prayer and the breaking of bread. Communion's important part of journeying together,
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building together. That's why we take communion on a regular basis. Reading further
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on in Acts chapter two, and then fear came upon every soul, and
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many wonders and signs were done through the apostles. I don't think this was
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a fear. This was a This wasn't a fear of God. This was
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there's something going on here. You imagine three thousand people turning up at church
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next Sunday. Just just imagine it, because this is what I'm talking about.
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Three thousand people. We'd have to take the speakers that we've got and
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the bad and we'd have to go out to the car park, lovely subject.
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And the car park's empty because they're charging for it now, so we've
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got lots of space. Maybe that's what's going on. Maybe God's emptied the
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car park so that we can move in and take over it. I don't
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know. We need to listen to God. You know. This building is
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just where we're at at the moment, you know, and when, and
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you may notice, for those who are regulous, we keep on putting out
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more and more and more chairs every Sunday, you know. And we have
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elastic walls because we do this online, so you know that we are not
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limited by the number of chairs in the room. I'd just like you to
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imagine if we said, actually, you can only come to church once a
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month now, and here's the ticket for you to come to church. Otherwise,
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join us online. Just imagine that. Just imagine that, because you
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know, if you go to something you really want to go to, you
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book weeks or months ahead. If you think of a concert that you'd love
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to go to, Think of a concert you'd love to go to, think
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of you'd bought the ticket years ahead if you had to, because you really
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want to go. You know what, I sense that God is moving in
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our midge. He's going to answer prayer. He's going to move by his
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Holy Spirit. As Debbie declared, there will be healing. So if somebody's
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sick today, we're going to give some space for praying for those people who
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are sick. We're going to believe that God's going to do something amazing.
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Incredible. Scripture says God is able to do immeasurably more than we ask or
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imagine. How big is your imagination? Is it? This big? Is
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it? This big? Is it? This big? Immeasurably more? That
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means more than we can measure. Now, I'm pretty good at measuring in
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feet and inches our old school, but meters would do as well. You
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know, so I could measure three meters by five meters, I could measure
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that re reasonably accurately. But God says He's able to do immeasurably more than
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we ask. Or imagine, three thousand were added on that day. So
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what should we do as we build in community? In One Peter two,
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verse seventeen, it says this, treat everyone you meet with dignity, love
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in your spiritual family, revere God, and respects the government. Now I
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find it fascinating. You may not. I'm not going to get into a
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political perspective here, but do you know what there are over half the world
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in twenty twenty four will go through an election. Over half the world's population
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will see a new or maybe a repeat of a minister. That's a lot
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of people concerned about their government. And I think so many people I don't
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like the government. I'm not talking about politics here, I'm just talking about
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we don't like what we've currently got, and so we want a change.
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And I'm not trying to get politically I'm just saying, Actually, scripture says
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respect those who govern you. They've set some of the rules. Now we
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might not like the rules, but that's our opportunity. And I will get
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on my hobby horse a little bit here. When I've talked to some students
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that I've studied with and taught, and it's been around election time, I
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often said, Okay, are you voting? And they said to me,
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oh, no, I don't see the point in voting. I said,
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it's the one thing you do have that gives you the power to make a
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difference. And I said, to be honest, if you're not willing to
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vote, then I'm not willing to listen to your political opinion because it's the
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one thing that you've got you can do something with. Now we might feel
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powerless, it might be in a majority. I don't know those kind of
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things. But the point I'm making is the one thing I could do.
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And you know what, when we don't do the one thing that we can
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do, then we become disempowered. Prayer. Every one of us can pray.
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We don't need a PhD In praying. We can just pray God help
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me. That's a prayer. Didn't take a lot of thinking about, wasn't
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difficult wasn't challenging. But God can then move because he's heard a man or
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woman of faith say, God do something. So I encourage you. Pray
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for our government, Pray for the governments around the world. They will change.
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Treat everyone you meet with dignity. I was in a shop earlier on
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this week, busy place down in Cornwall. I held open the door to
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the shop because there was a few people behind me. The first poor person
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walked through didn't even look at me. Next person walk through, I think
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it was about four or five, maybe six people who walk through. No
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one even acknowledged me. No one said thank you for holding the door open.
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So as I walked through the door after the six people, I went
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thank you. Yeah, And what do you know what I was doing?
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Because a few people in front of me look around? Oh? Sorry?
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Do you know what you matter? Now? And all the time we ignore
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one another, we're basically saying you don't matter. You know, we live
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in a world now where looking people in the face is becoming more and more
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rare. Gen Z and I'm not picking on gen Z, but as an
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example, I've seen some statistics like they don't want to pick up the phone,
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they don't want to pick up the phone. They'd rather send you a
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text message or a snapchat or an Instagram as to talking face to face.
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And I saw this in a restaurant the other about three weeks ago. There
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are a group of young people, young adults, sitting around the table.
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They were having a meal together, and they were all on their mobile phones.
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And then they roared with laughter and I heard them talking and then they
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said, oh yeah, and they just shared something amongst them people around the
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table. I just thought, you could talk. I know it sounds revolutionary,
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and I know it sounds radical, but you could talk. You know,
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love your spiritual family. This is church. This is church. I
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don't know some of you as well as I should do, and that's down
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to me, but it's also down to you. We can have a coffee,
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we can talk. Any one of us can meet and have a coffee.
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And I know there's some that I've tried to have a coffee with for
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weeks and we haven't managed to do it yet. But it will happen.
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It will happen. Treat everyone with dignity. We're going to have food together
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after church, and you know it's a potlut lunch. The second Sunday of
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the month, we have a pot lut lunch. I can't tell you what's
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going to be served because I don't know. It's a surprise. You might
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be chilly with with cheesecake, but you know, I just love the diversity
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that gathers around a meal when we celebrate together. So when we eat together,
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the first people to eat will be the guests. To be honest.
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In my family, when I was younger, we had a principal with FHB.
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Anybody know what FHB stands for? Family holds back? Yeah, often
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you have more people around the table than you'd cooked for. Family holds back
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guests first. And some of you know. I used to teach in Papua
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New Guinea and because I was the only white man in some of the villages,
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I'd often walk into a village and there'd be a whole group of people
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that would gather around me. I'll tell you a bit of a personal story
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now, I hope you won't spoil your lunch. But in this particular village,
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so I was a teacher in a secondary school there, and in the
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school holidays, I used to travel on medical trips. We'd go somewhere,
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we'd the boat would land. We'd then walk in land, we'd walk to
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a village. We'd gather for the evening, and then the next morning there
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would be a medical clinic. And my job was to weigh babies. I
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have weighed thousands of babies in my life, or in two particular years.
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But anyway, in this particular village, they built a dam up in the
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mountains and they'd put a pipe in from the dam to the center of the
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village. There was a tap in the middle of the village. There was
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no mains water, you know, and this was revolutionary for the village.
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They had fresh water whenever they needed it. Now, I don't know what
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you think about, but yeah, you know, bucket showers are amazing.
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Anybody who's ever had a bucket shower. I did not realize that a bucket
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of water was enough to have a full shower on them. But in thisicular
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village, no place to hang a bucket. They had a shower. They
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had a tap and a shower head over the tap, and they had a
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bamboo curtain that went around the tap, and so anybody who wanted a shower
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used to stand in the middle of the village, pull the bamboo curtain around
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them, have their shower, and then go away. Now there I was
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in the middle of the village with a bamboo curtain, ran having a shower,
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and I suddenly noticed there were some faces underneath the bamboo curtain looking at
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me. And now I was a bit wool anyway, they then ran away.
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There were children, and they ran away. I didn't kind of say
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what were you doing. I just said to some of the parents, I
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said, what was going on there? And they said, well, because
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they'd never seen a white man before, they wanted to know whether you were
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white all over and so tree everyone with respect, treat everybody. In one
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Thessalonians, chapter four, it says this, and indeed you do so towards
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the brethren who are in Macedonia. But we urge you, brethren, that
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you increase more and more. There's an encouragement Impaul Stata here to say,
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increase. And I don't think that's about round the waistline. I think that's
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about increasing our capacity to love one another, are increasing our capacity to share
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with one another, increasing our flexibility to be responsive. We live in a
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world where our lives are run by diaries. We can often find that.
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Imagine this, I know this might press some buttons for one or two people.
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Imagine you say, let's get together for coffee. What's the first thing
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you do? You get your phone or your diary out, and you go,
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let's find a day when we can all make it. And two or
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three of you okay, three weeks time, Thursday, nine o'clock. Okay,
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what about now, have had a coffee. Now it may not be
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for a long period of time, but we could do twenty minutes. Now.
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I think there's just a great opportunity to be spontaneous and grab the little
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moments that you have. I need to pray with someone. I might say,
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okay, let's make an appointment. Or I could say let's pray now.
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I've got two minutes. Now I can pray for two minutes. God
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doesn't need a thirty minute prayer. Two minute prayer will be perfectly enough.
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And Paul goes on in his letter to the Ephesians to say this, now,
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therefore, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens,
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with the saints and members of the household of God. Having been built on
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the foundation of the apostles and the prophets Jesus Christ himself being the corner stove.
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I think it's probably a couple of decades ago now, so it shows
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you when there was still a teacher training college in Engelfield Green, which was
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part of one of the other universes, not Royal Holloway. It's all been
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turned into flats and houses now. But one of the students who joined us
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there was from gud and he came and he spent a year with us whilst
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he was studying. And when we came to the end of his year here
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in Egham, we had a sum of barbecue, not just for him,
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but we had a sum of barbecue and we were saying farewell, and he
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quoted us this scripture. He quoted us this scripture and he said, you
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know, I felt like a foreigner and a stranger, but you made me
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welcome. You welcomed me in. And I hope Church that you feel welcome
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today. I hope I was listening online even if we had technical problems with
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sound, You're able to feel welcome today because we are members of the household
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of God. As members the household of God, let's reach out to someone
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now. I'm going to ask to do something a bit Unbritish now with permission.
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So turn to someone you don't know near you and just say, is
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it okay if I touch you? And I'm not going to ask you to
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touch people in appropriate places, but please maybe you want to put your hand
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on their shoulder, maybe you want to shake hands. Just turn to someone
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right now. Those at home just say hello or say greeting to Okay,
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now, my experiments, my experiment. So there's a lot of touching that's
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going on. You know, I believe touch has disappear from our world because
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of COVID. You know, you still see people wearing masks, you still
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see people using sanitizer. But do you know what, if that's what you
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need to do, that's fine, absolutely no problem. I went to a
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church during COVID, not this church, by the way. I went to
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this church and as I walked in, I'd never been I hadn't been there
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for a long time. I had not been there before. And as I
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walked in, I was greeted with what kind of badge would you like?
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Sir? I said, do I need to wear a badge? You said,
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well, you're either yes, you can hug or no. I don't
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want hugging or please ask Those were the three badges. They were three different
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colors. And do you know what I thought? Why do I need a
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badge to say whether I want to hug or not? All I need to
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do is look at you and say would you like a hug or would you
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like to shake hands? I asked Hope and Joel to take some of the
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lego that I bought the church. Lego's a great example of building, and
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I said, build me something. These are the two things they built me.
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Hope built me this. Now you might think it's just a little tower,
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but she said, I thought of Jesus, and I thought of communion,
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she said, and I thought of water into wine. And she said
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when I saw the clear plastic, I thought water, and then I thought
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Jesus turned water into wine. So she said, I made this little tower
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as a memorial to Jesus turns water into wine. And then Joel built me
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that. Joel built me this. And my first response was is it a
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car? He said no, no, Dave, it's a seat for Jesus.
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I said, you mean a throne and he said yes. I said,
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do you know what that's biblical? The Bible says, as we worship,
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we build a throne, and a little child in ourmage builds a throne.
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He said, even there there are things that we bring as an offering.
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No, I hope I won't break this too much. Door, but
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he said. He went on to say, you know there are yeah,
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there you go, Pa, where this is a robot that Jesus food.
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And then when this goes, this for to stand, this comes for to
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stand, and then Jesus needs anyhow this comes and then God's Jesus, thank
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you? What what? What great stuff? You know? What? What?
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What? What do tea be hosts say? Don't do anything with animals
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and children in front of camera? Okay, so what have I shared today?
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Now? We God is building something in our midst. The glue that's
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joining us together is coming out of relationship. God is joining us together by
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His Holy Spirit. And so I'm going to pray. I'm going to pray.
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I'm going to pray that God does immeasurably more than you ask or imagine.
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Oh, do you know what taking taking Lego away? So I'd like
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you to just let's just close our eyes. Those listening at home, those
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listening later, those in the room, just like us to close our eyes.
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And I want to make this really, really really personal. First thing
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I want to do. Who is this? The first thing I want to
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do is this? I want to say if you have a need right now,
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I'm not talking about you'd like a new suit or a I'm talking about
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a need. God knows our needs from our wants. Maybe there's some bit
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of you that's not working quite right and you need a healing touch. Maybe
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there's a situation where things have got stuck and blocked. Something needs to get
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unlocked. Maybe you need a breakthrough in a certain area. There seems to
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be a mountain or a wall in front of you. I'm not going to
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ask you anything about any of those things, because God knows your situation.
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But I am going to ask you to take a step of faith. And
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that step of faith would be this simple. If you have a need that's
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specific for you right now, would you just stand where you are? God
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is able to God is able to do multinational God is able to do multi
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people. God is able to do multi healing. God is able to do
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multi miracles. And just because you've got a different situation to somebody else in
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a different row. God's still able to deal with this stuff. So if
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there's something that you're bringing before God, if we had an altar built at
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the front here and he said I'm coming with this question, I'm coming with
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this request, then I'm going to ask you to stand where you are.
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I'm not going to ask you anything about it. God knows about that stuff.
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But we're going to pray to quite a few people standing in the room,
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and for those who are back home as well, or those who are
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watching online, if you need to please stand. I know it sounds crazy.
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Maybe you're in a room on your own. No one else is going
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to see you. But God sees. God sees that you make in the
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step. You're saying, Lord help me. You're reaching out in this moment
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and saying God help me. Do you know I just sense the presence of
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God right now, even as I'm talking, even as I'm asking, even
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as I'm declaring, God is that close. He's that close. Some people,
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you just need to kind of gently, don't even nobody else needs to
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even notice. Put your hand out and sense the Father's hand, sense the
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Father's sense Christ's grip of your hand. As the song says, put your
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hand in the hand of the man who stilled the waters is a miracle working
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God. We're going to pray right now. And so God, we come
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before you as your people in this place, your church, in this moment,
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and we're asking for now. We're asking for healing, Lord God,
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Father, would you bring liberty to the joints that are stuck? Lord,
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would you bring a cleansing to the liver that's not working? Father? Would
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you readjust the heartbeat? Lord God, would you bring balance and rhythm and
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synchronicity to the heart, Lord God, that is not beating quite right?
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Father, I pray for strengthened muscle in those joints that are starting to move.
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Father, I pray for increased heart muscle, increased heart capability. Father,
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I too, pray for a readjustment and a realignment of minds. Father,
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would you release blockages in the mind wrong mindsets? Lord God, Father,
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would you let would you release fresh thinking to those minds that need a
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fresh touch. Scripture says by the renewing of our minds be transformed. And
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I'm praying for transformation today, Oh God. And I'm also praying Lord for
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paperwork. I see one or two bits of paper that are sat on a
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dusty desk. They've sat on a dusky, dusty desk for weeks, maybe
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even months. Some thing's got stuck in a process, and I just sense
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the Father brings a nudge. The papers get resorted and suddenly the paper that
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was at the bottom, that hasn't been seen for weeks and months is now
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on top, ready to be processed. Father, I pray for release.
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I pray for release today in Jesus' name. Lord, we ask Lord.
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It's not just me praying, Lord, I'm praying together with the church.
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Lord. We're coming to you with our needs and we're asking you to do
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miraculous things. And Father, I pray that you confirm it, you release
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it. As we worship with you, Church, I'm going to ask you
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to sit down again. Now I'm going to pray for one more thing.
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We pray for ourselves, and it's okay. Some people kind of say,
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I can't be selfish. Do you know if we're not in a good place,
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then we struggle to be in a good place to share with others.
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If our minds and our heads are full of struggle, then how can we
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share our faith? So I'm going to move our focus now off us onto
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somebody else. Some of us have got dear friends, somers have got family
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members who need a breakthrough right now. And I'm going to ask you to
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stand again. If you're standing in the gap, that's intercession. If you're
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standing in the gap for a breakthrough, if you're standing in the gap for
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someone else, would you stand again, say David making me exercise day,
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Yes I am, but I'm asking you to do it in faith. So
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stand again if you need, If you want to stand for someone, you
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know who it is. God knows who it is. And we're going to
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pray for a breakthrough in those situations. We're going to pray for a healing
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in those situations. And so, Father God, as we stand again,
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we stand and believe for a completed work. Or we stand and believe for
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health and wholeness. Lord, we stand and believe for things that did not
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work that now work again. Father, I pray you jumpstart some things that
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I've got stuck. The doctors were talking about bringing medicine and jump starting something.
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But Father, I pray you miraculously jump start some biological processes in beings
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and bodies that we're standing for today. Father, I pray for the new
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job that someone's just to play for. I pray for that provision. I
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pray that that would bring the funds that that person is looking for. You've
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looked at your empty purse a week after week for a few months now,
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and this is your friend, not you, but you've looked at that empty
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They've looked at that empty purse, and they've applied and there and they're believing.
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And God, I pray the Lord you'd open doors, you'd anoint interviews,
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and there'd be a breakthrough. We pray in Jesus. So finally,
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I pray for those who are far from God, those that we've been crying
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out to, we've been crying out to. We've been crying out for that
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they would come to know the Jesus that we know. Father, I pray
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that you'd whisper in that ear. You give us an opportunity to test if,
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by Lord, you cause them to turn from their walk and walk a
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new way, following Jesus. And so Father, we bring all these prayers
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to you, and we say, let your kingdom come, Let your will
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be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us today our daily
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bread, forgive us our sins, as we've forgive those who sinned against us.
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Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For Thine
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is the Kingdom, the Power, and the glory forever and ever. Amen.
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Please do take your seats. We're going to come back to a time
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of worship in church. Mm hmm. Sorry, I'm just overwhelmed by the
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presence of God during this time of m hm hm, I'm sorry. M
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Yeah. I believe that we're going to hear things that have changed. We're
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going to see we're going to hear testimonies in the following days weeks. Maybe
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so God does something that we've prayed for to be a free share with one
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of us, to beat out to us. Since then we're going to we're
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going to move into a season of answered friends, especially for creating. So
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just take hold of that church, take hold of I would say, take
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hold of the hem of his garment. Stakehold. Yeah, we're going to
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see h see the song it says his name is Jesus. If you want
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to stand, stand, take any postility for you feel comfortable in. Just
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take this time to really just express your