MISSIONS | SUNDAY 27TH APRIL | PS TREVOR MCDOWELL

Amen. Bless you guys. Thank you, Pastor

Sarah, for the lovely um words earlier

on. It's hard to believe it's a year

gone and you guys are doing a fantastic

job. Like, as we were sitting here last

week and it was packed. There wasn't a

there wasn't a seat in the place. And

you know what? You know what that does

to our heart? Love it. Because that's

the heart of God that people would be

would would would be drawn by a spirit

and saved and discipled and and equipped

where they can share their the gospel,

the good news to their friends. In fact,

can I take this off?

Okay. Bless her that she's the wife.

Here you go. Thanks, Debs. Hey, no,

thank you. And look, I just want to say

this starting off as well because we we

this is our second week here in about

seven weeks and people have said to me,

"Oh, do you still come to our church?" I

said,

"Absolutely. That's that's our family.

This is this is our house." But um you

need to realize that what what has

happened is that I just opened the elim

and said look if we can go anywhere and

preach or or encourage young pastor

whatever it might be we're happy to do

that cuz you mean we we we carry

something in the spirit of God. We're

like mothers and fathers in the faith

and that's not boasting. We're not

nothing special but doors have opened.

In fact next week and then the following

Sunday we're in Christ Church. So, I'm

preaching and and then Debbiey's doing

Mother's Day somewhere and then we're

home for about two weeks and then we're

down at House of Breakthrough in

Gizbborne

and we're going to Cambodia for three

and a half months on missions. So, we've

just committed to saying, "Hey guys, if

we can help anyway, I I don't know how

it's going to go. We need your prayers."

Um, but we said, "Look, if we can help

you guys do what you're doing, we'll

come. Just let us know." And of course,

Cambodia, they're a little bit slow

getting back to you. Like six weeks

later, they get back, they said, "Pastor

Trev, we'd love to have you and Debbie

here." They run a ministry where uh

young girls who's been trafficing and

stuff, they they actually help them get

out of that and and be trained up over

the next couple of years to be, you

know, how to get into work and all that

sort of stuff. So, Debbie will be great

in that area. I'll be able to help

pastors and stuff. So, guys, it's great.

I mean, who said retire? It's riff iron.

It's just different, but it's great. But

again, we are so proud to be in the

house today. And uh thank you, Pastor

Aaron, for trusting me to

um cuz you don't know what's going to

come your day. Somebody said to me,

Trev, you can do what you want and walk

away. And Aaron's got to clean up the

mess. I thought, I'd never do that. No,

no, no, man. I tell you what, wherever

we go, we'll always bring encouragement,

you know, because Jesus is awesome.

Okay. Can I encourage you as well, guys?

Pastor Aaron asked me to speak on

missions and um can I encourage you if

you ever get a chance to go overseas on

a mission trip, a short-term mission

trip, some like might be like Lily, get

a long one, but if you get a chance, I

want to say take it. It'll change your

life. I mean, seeing all our cultures,

experiencing all our cultures and every

it's just it's a blessing. And you know

what? You get blessed by going, but you

also bless them by being there. So, I

just want to encourage you if you can do

that, do it. We've got some slides here

that short-term missions that we did do.

And you can see the team there. And

that's Cambodia, actually. The left hand

side, this one is Samoa, I think. The

next one's Fiji. Is

it Fiji? Look at them. Look at the top

middle one. That's before we went.

Mission Iron had hair and I had dark

hair. But but what I want to say is guys

like I apologize for people who's not in

the photographs because I can't put

everything up. But what I want to say is

this. What I realized while looking at

this was that we didn't do anything

different there than what we do here. We

showed the love of God. You know in fact

I was lucky to go into missions in 1993.

I think it was 93 and uh with pastor

Norm from Gizbborne and in them days all

as we done as a team we had to wait in

the house all day long and then at night

time they would have evangelistic

meetings. Pastor Norm would pray and

then we'd be part of the team. But what

happened over the years especially with

coming through to to pastor Tarang uh we

got to because I've been in so many

years in a row like nine 10 years in a

row I built strong friendships with the

pastors and they trusted me. And what I

realized was I asked him, he said,

"Look, you were only allowed six people

at one time." And I said, "Look, can can

we bring a slightly bigger team in?" And

he said, "What t what size?" And I said,

"17." And we brought 17 people from

Taranga. Seriously, from from this

church, seven. But but here's the thing.

What I realized was, guys, we're all

gifted differently. We had people who

could build a clanding, who could jump

on their roof and kneel down the tin

roof with people who could paint and

stuff. So because here's the thing, you

know, helping people practically is a

big thing. Amen. So what I'm saying with

what you just seen on the photographs,

feeding the homeless and all that, we

already done it here and we just took it

to somewhere else. But we've seen people

get saved and get set free. Now, I'm

going to tell you a funny a funny story

in a minute, but the word mission means

a specific task or duty assigned to a

person or

persons to do. All right? A specific

task or duty assigned to a group of

people or a person to do. When Pastor

Deb and I were down and we were down to

South Island a few weeks

ago and we we had we had a thought about

do we do the bike trail ebike. So I

talked to pastor Iron before left.

Aaron, what do you think of that trip

from Cromwell down to Clyde? Brother,

you should do it. It's a beauty. Now I'd

only seen some of the track from the

main road when we were at Alex once

coming home cuz you can look across the

lake, right? So Debbie and I talked and

we thought, "Okay, our mission is to do

this." We'd never been on an ebike in

our life. We hadn't been on an ordinary

bike for about 40 years, apart from once

Malcolm loaned me a bike to come down to

church once. And I'll not tell you, I

could hardly walk after. But this is

never been on an e bike in life. So we

we we we meet this guy on a Saturday

morning. He gets us on an ebike each to

drive around the car park and shows us

what buttons to pre push and stuff. He

said, "Listen, by the time you get to a

certain spot, you'll know how to ride

the bike." I said, "Sweet." So, we asked

him, we said, "Hey, how far is it?" "Oh,

it's about 30 km."

47, right? Never slept as well in my

life after it. So, we we we're on these

bikes and and seriously, there's just a

odd little slope as we're heading along.

We' we'd be riding for about 5ks and I

don't know what I had done but I've

obviously hit a button somewhere that

knocked the bike off and put it manual

cuz the next minute Debbie flies by me

and I thought what and I'm tell I'm

seriously these bikes are like something

like 15 kgs and weight. So she goes by I

can catch her. I went up this little

hill. I had to get off the bike and the

old pride was getting me honey slow

down. So, I'm walking with a bike

thinking and I'm thinking in my head,

there's no way I can do this. I cannot

do this mission. I am going to fail

badly. I'm only on a small hill and I

haven't even started. Of course, it's a

woman saying, you know, God knows who to

give us as a

Wi-Fi. He knew what I was lacking, if

you know what I mean. So, Debbie

realizes, "Honey, you've been you've

been doing it in manual. You turned the

bike off." I said, cuz I said to her,

"Honey, we we got to take these bikes

back. We we can't we hang it down there

and look nobody nobody will know if we

don't do it because we didn't tell

people we were doing it. Nobody will

know anything. Keep it to yourselves.

She said you forgot to switch it back on

properly. So So anyway, I was showing

this nice photos. No, keep go away from

that one. Go to the first one. This one.

Look, it looks beautiful. Hey, look at

the scenery and stuff. We even got to

this place where they give you coffee.

They're on a little boat on the lake.

There's two boats on the lake. You can

buy a tea or a coffee. We didn't bother

with that because we thought no, we

we've still a bit of a journey to go

yet. And then we've seen

this that is like

this. I am telling you, I don't think me

and my wife have prayed as much over a

period of about 35 kilometers. Honestly,

Debbie fell off the bike a couple of

times. She wouldn't let me take a

photograph and put it on social media. I

said, "Honey, are you

okay?" Here's the thing, guys. The good

news is we did accomplish the mission,

right? It took about five hours. We did

accomplish the mission, right? I said to

Debbie last night, honey, how cool was

that to finish the mission? That was

good. I says, would you do it again?

No. And what I want to say is this guy,

but we were on the mission to do

something. We wanted to do the ride. We

wanted to finish and we finished it. You

with me? When we're on a mission, guys,

you know the

anx. They left home and they went

overseas for our benefit. The person who

done the greatest mission ever was Jesus

Christ who left his home in heaven and

come onto this earth. Why? Because he

loved us. And the thing is we carry the

presence of God. I love this prayer

present mission because that's the

thing. See, without prayer, you're on

your own strength. But you know, we

carry the presence of God because we're

born again. But the prayer and then the

reaching out is so so so important. You

with me? The great commission. Matthew

Matthew 28:18–20

28:18-20. Then Jesus came to them and

said, "All authority in heaven and on

earth has been given to me. Therefore,

guys, when you read your Bible and you

come there, therefore, you need to know

why it's therefore.

Yeah. Therefore, why is therefore

therefore?

See, you you better take note of what's

coming behind it. You with me.

Therefore, he's getting their attention,

guys. Let's say, look at me. Listen to

what I'm going to say. Look at what

happens. Go and make disciples of all

nations, baptizing the name of the

Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit,

and teaching them to obey everything I

commanded you. And surely I will be with

you always, even until the end of time.

Guys, as disciples, he didn't say make

comforts. He said make disciples. That's

someone who follows Jesus, who practices

his way. He said, "Command them to do

the things I commanded you to do." With

love, everything comes from love. But

you want to realize within that love,

there is miracles. There is healing.

There is freedom.

There is joy. There is life. You know,

we're people. We're people who are not

called to cause strife, but to bring

life. Come on. Amen. So, he's saying to

them, guys, take heed. This is what I

want. The bottom line is guys, love is

the key. Love is the key. Jesus is love.

Jay

John put this quote, "The greatest thing

you can do in life is to make Jesus

known to others."

There's maybe some people here this

morning and you give your life to

Jesus,

but you've maybe been anxious about

sharing your faith, about sharing being

a believer in Jesus. And you know, God

has got people that you're around who he

really wants to use you to touch. He

really wants to let himself be seen

through you, if that makes sense. But

there's maybe somebody here this morning

and you give your life to Jesus. It

might have been years ago. It might have

been months ago. But but there's been

something that's that's holding you back

from sharing just sharing the love of

Jesus. Not talking about preaching to

people. Just sharing that love of Jesus.

You know, I don't know if there's

anybody here or not, but if there is,

I'd like you to be bold enough to stand

now. If that's you, if you've been in

that place, yeah, it's good. It's okay

to stand. Stand up. If you if you feel

that's you, but think of what I said.

Yeah, it's okay. It's okay. You know, I

had a a brother in Gizbborne and I don't

know, he was saved for about 5 years and

he said, "Well, Jeff, I wish I could do

what you do." And I said, "What do you

mean?" He says, "I wish I could tell

people about Jesus." I said, "Have you

not told anyone?" He says, "No, I'm too

scared

to I'm scared in case a little curse at

me." Whatever. I said, "You know what,

bro? Who cares what they do? Just reach

with the love. He loves them. He cares."

So Lord, I pray and I thank you for each

and everyone who was courageous to stand

this morning. And Lord, I pray in Jesus

name that you would move by by your

spirit through their lives that they

would share the love of Jesus in a

practical way. And Lord, when the

opportunity comes to share their faith

because you're the game changer, Jesus,

that they would share their faith in you

and their hope in you in Jesus mighty

name I pray. I break all fear in Jesus

name from off their lives right now in

the name of Jesus. And I pray Lord

freedom ensuring the good news of the

gospel through their lifestyle through

praying and loving on people in Jesus

name. Let's give the Lord a clap guys.

Thank you

guys. I listen I I I thought nothing

about that. My wife said to me this

morning, "Honey, maybe you need to do

this."

She did in the car coming from home. She

said, "Maybe you need to do that." I

thought, "I haven't got that in my

notes." I thought, "Oh, there's

something to that." So, there you go.

That's good. But here's the thing, guys.

Making Jesus known. Our mission is to

make disciples, not just comforts. J.

John quote. The only thing that matters

is that people come to know Christ. John

John 3:16

3:16. To come to know Christ. People

don't know. Lots of people do not know

the real Jesus. He's not a swear word.

He's not a religious not. He's somebody

who's full of compassion and kindness

and love and forgiveness and mercy who

came onto this earth guys to enable us

to have eternal life. He didn't have to

come but because of his love. But lots

of people honestly they haven't heard of

the real Jesus the son of God who was

full of love and compassion who came

onto this earth for us. Amen. You know,

love is a verb. It's an action word.

It's an action. You got to do something

with it. Do you know I know Jesus cast

out demons. I know Jesus healed the

sick. I know Jesus set people free. But

you want to know something else? He also

fed people. He also fed them a couple of

times, at least 5,000 each time with

fish and bread. He even showed them

where to catch the fish. That's how

concerned he is about provision. You

know, he washed the disciples feet. He

was the greatest servant. He showed us

how to live, how to do things. So, what

I want to say is this. What you guys do,

everything you do in this

church is

missions. You see, when you're feeding

the homeless, that's missions. I know

for a

fact that number one thing is that's

feeding the first. But I know our heart

is that one day we'll get a chance to

share with them that Jesus hasn't given

up on you. Hey, cuz they're drug addicts

and stuff. Hey, come on. Come on. But

you know, some of us were probably lucky

not to be there at one time. But Jesus

cares about them. But when you feed them

and you show a genuine concern, you're

not feeding them to get a notch in the

belt. You're feeding them because

they're hungry

and you show that love of Jesus. Listen,

that opens the door a bit for them to

maybe asking you, why do you do this?

Why do you care? And you can share your

story. Wow, I was almost there and I was

in the pit, but I called out to God and

he helped me. And now God wants me to

show his love by helping other people.

Guys, that that is life. That is

missions. Amen. You know, I remember we

started Scotty and Michelle, you were

part of this team, but we started like

it's great to see street reach and I'll

tell you I know for a fact God will give

you things and he has given you and ser

things add the stuff cuz that's what he

does. He adds or he multiplies, right?

But we didn't start off with having the

flash kitchen where we could serve

coffees and make kai. We started off on

the

streets. There's no strings attached

there.

There's a little we had a bag with food

in it. We went into the what we thought

was one of the most needy areas because

Pastor Harvey's was already sewing in

there through a charity shop and stuff

and we went into that area. Yeah. And we

put that on a bag. No str we hope this

small deed brings light into your day.

Simple way of saying God loves you and

we put on it. If we can help in any

other way, let us know. You know guys,

people would phone you in the office.

Could you come and pray in my house?

What for? Because there was a big fight.

There was a big scrap and I just don't

feel good. Can you come and pray? I walk

in the house, mate. There was blood

stains. There was holes in the walls and

stuff. But what happened was because you

got off your backside and we filled the

bag and we went, we knocked the door and

we said, "Hey, we Jesus loves you." That

opened the way for to show the love of

Jesus. Does that make sense? So do not

despise the day of small beginnings. But

I knew last year when we had handed over

to pastor Aaron and Sarah, I knew that

what God had done was his stepping stone

for what has got to come. It's exciting,

guys. It's exciting. But we started

small. Look what's happening now. You

still with me? The great commission.

We're all on some people, oh, I'm on a

mission. You hear that saying? Where you

going, bro? I'm on a mission. Mean,

they've got a task or something to do.

Hey, but we're all missionaries. The

word missionary comes from the Latin

word mito or meto which means send out.

The Greek word is

aposto which means send out. That's all

it means. You see a lot of us Jesus was

the greatest mystery right but lot

office is only I used to think a mystery

was somebody went into the jungle like

Dr. Livingstone. Not a few people

wouldn't know who that was, but I

thought you had to go into a jungle

where there was all these big snakes

that could kill you and spiders and you

had to go somewhere where they had a

bone through their nose and they might

put you in a pot and eat you. I mean, so

so I I would never have been interested

in missions. You want to go on a mission

trip? No, thank you. Cuz I thought

that's what it was. But what I want to

say is guys, we're all

missionaries. Everyone sitting in this

building is a missionary. You know when

Jesus himself the greatest missionary

left heaven to come to earth, what did

he do? Matthew 10, he sent out the 12.

And then 6 months later in Luke 10, he

sends out 72 also. But this is called

the great commission. Why? Because he's

sending us all. We're all sent from his

death and resurrection. Each and every

one of us sitting here today, you are

sent. The people you work with, the

people you live beside, the people you

do sport with, the people whatever,

they're the ones. They're in your radar.

God wants you to be able to touch your

lives with his love and his power in the

name of Jesus. Amen.

You no water here anymore.

We're feeding homeless. We're not pro

We're not giving the flicking pastor a

drink.

I'm going to get that one right

away. Boy, I'm melting up here, Ashley.

But it's good to be back. It's good to

be Thank you for inviting us. Thank you.

John

John 17:18

17:18, the words of Jesus. You got a

Bible, go to it. You got an app, go to

it. I know. Yeah. Come on. John

17. This is Jesus prayer about unity and

stuff, right? But this is the words of

Jesus himself. John 17 verse

John 17:18

18 as you have sent me into the world so

I have sent them into the world talking

about the disciples but we're his

disciples now my prayer is not for them

alone I pray also for those who will

believe in me through what talk to me

through what whose

message their

message you guys are shy

either that or you can't

read. I was but he's saying I have also

prayed for those who father I've also

prayed for those who will believe

through believe in me through their

message. You see we've all got a

message. Your message is different than

mine. It still points to Jesus. Do you

with me? But we've all got a message.

We've all got a message. And as Jay John

said, let's make Jesus Christ known to

all people. That's our job. We want to

see people know Jesus. Man, when you

know Jesus, your life turns around.

Yeah. You'll be like a little bit of us

when we were on that bicycle ride going

up them hills. We were praying in

tongues and everything cuz to do the

mission was hard at times. And sometimes

doing life is hard. But I'm going to

tell you something. When you got Jesus

with you, he gets you through what needs

to get through. He gets you up and over

what need to get up and over, etc. Amen.

But he had sent

you. Another quote is coming on the

screen. Jay John, a missionary is not

someone who crosses the sea. I love

this. But someone who sees the cross.

Guys, we've got family. We've get

friends who don't know Jesus. We know

what the cross represents. And you know

what? If we really love people, we'll

look at ways and just loving on them.

And that's what I'll encourage you. Love

on them. love on them. Help them. Look,

Alpha Course is coming up. I have heard

so many great things about Alpha Course.

And I know that Paul and and and Brody

will do a great job and leading that.

And I know that Stefan's doing a bit of

cooking and stuff. I mean, it's going to

be awesome. But here's the thing,

something so simple. Why don't you pray

about who do you

invite? And don't get caught in this

thing. But but like I've been a

Christian for 25 years and I know all

this stuff. I tell you, there's a lot of

stuff we don't know. a lot of and you

know there'll be a lot of stuff you'll

come think man I forgot all about that I

feel so good but why not pray about who

do you invite and then go and pick them

up and bring them along to the alpha

course seriously that's missions guys

something as simple as hey have you ever

been interested in know is God

real to think is God real did you ever

think that I used to think what happens

after I die did you ever think that you

know we questions like that and smokeo

something so oh I've always thought

about, but is God real? Hey, come along

with us to church. We're running this

little program, what do you want to call

it? Uh to find these things out where

there's questions, they'll be answered.

You know, pick them up. Love on them.

Hey, you with me. Okay, that's that's

cool. That's cool. Let me tell you

something. I want I want to say this.

Hold on. So J. John says what? He says

something about it's not going overseas,

but it's seeing the cross.

Yeah, doing missions is not going

overseas, but it's seeing the cross. So,

I'm at a tongue in Gizbborne. I'm at a

funeral in Gizzy and I'm stand I'm

telling you now, somebody I knew very

very well and massive funeral at the

grave side. I'm going to be honest with

you, I knew the person was in heaven

with Jesus. So, celebrating. But I'm

thinking at the time about boy, we're

going to have some feed after

this cuz you know down the east coast

they know how to feed you. Tell you

about that's why I'm like this. I used

to be skinny like iron when I came

here. But we did tell you. So I'm

standing at the side of the grave. I'm

thinking about now we're going to go

back to the Marai because that that's a

protocol. Go back to the Mariah and the

there's crayfish and everything you want

there. I'll tell you now, not being

super spiritual, the Holy Spirit spoke

to me and said, "Drev, I don't want you

going for a feed. I want you to go and

see this

lady." I

thinking, "I want you to go and see this

lady." So, I went to the husband of the

person who passed away and I said, "Bro,

I just want to put me apologies in. I

might make it, but I might be a bit

late, but I might not." He said, "That's

okay." So I go, this was 10 10 K outside

of Gizbborne. I knew this woman lives

somewhere. I go and knock the door. And

I'm going to tell you now, I was

nervous. I was nervous inside, but I

knew all God said me was you go to see

this woman and what I want you to tell

her. I haven't give up on her and I love

her. So I knock the door and she comes

the door. And I I knew the

person, Pastor Trev, I said, "Sweetie,

listen. Can can I come in? Have we

chat?" Yes, please. So, I again I sit

down with her at the table, takes a cup

of tea and I say to her, listen, I just

got to be honest with you. The main

reason I'm here is I thought I was

coming just for a tongue from Taranga to

here, but I got it wrong. I said, I'm

also here to let you know that God loves

you. God has not give up on you and God

is hungering for a relationship with you

again. And you know what? She sat and

she cried. had a tears come down her

face. So then I wasn't as anxious, you

know, that's a good sign. I think, oh

She said, you know, Trev, I'd

backsliden so bad. I was back into all

the weed and stuff. She said, but let me

tell you something. When I used to get

in the taxi with the girls after being

in the nightclub, stoned and all. I used

to say, "God, please don't let me get

killed in this car." She was still

crying out from my heart some way that

God's mercy would be on her. And I said,

"You know what? God's mercy is on you,

but you can't play with mercy and grace.

Here's the time to accept it. And you

know what? That day, she invited Jesus

back into her life.

Amen. But that I'm just trying to get

that across, guys. That's missions.

That's missions. I thought my mission

was just go to the tongue. But the Holy

Spirit is something else as well. And he

wants to do things with that with you as

well with those sort of things. The

people you're around, Pastor Aaron and S

aren't around. I'm not around. you are.

He wants you to be that witness within

that. Does that make sense? God has

impart us. Acts 18. But you will receive

power when the Holy Spirit comes on you

and you will be my witnesses telling

people about me everywhere. You know

when I say that girl, God loves you and

he wants you to know he hasn't given up.

That's telling her about

God. I didn't have to give her three

scriptures or anything else. I just told

her the truth. heck. Get her.

You know, God loves you. Come on. Good.

E. But look, be witnesses telling

everywhere. Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria,

and the ends of the earth. God is

wanting to impact lives with his love

and power through followers of Jesus

Christ. If you're not there, who's going

to do it? You know, the word says unless

you tell them, they won't know. How they

going to know unless somebody goes and

shares the good news? As it doesn't

mean, it doesn't mean rambling

scripture. It's good news off, hey,

Jesus loves you. Jesus cares. Can I tell

you who Jesus is? Can I tell you who

this Messiah is? Woo. You know, 23 years

ago, roughly 22, maybe 23, something

going to come up here. We were here.

We're just about to go on our first we

we'd be planned our first mission trip

as a church. And what happened was one

day I'm in the office and I get a phone

call. Uh I'm telling it, it might have

been evening. Oh, Pastor Trev, can you

come to the hospital? Why? What's wrong?

She said, "Little Hope's been hit in the

car and uh they think she's not going to

make it. He thinks she's going to die."

This is local. In fact, um Hope's dad's

here this morning. He was here last week

and I asked him if I could share this

stuff. So, I didn't just show it up

randomly. And he said, "Yeah, the family

will give the blessing to do that." But

this little girl, so I go to, she was

nice see you up in the hospital and I

walk in and the first thing the doctor

said to me was, "She's probably not

going to make it." I said, "What do you

mean?" He says, "Now, she's probably

they've got a helicopter coming, but the

chances are that she'll pass away before

the helicopter gets here." And I

remember looking at after that I walked

I was with them and I walked out and

Walker and his wife and some of the

family were there and I remember you

know encouraging them comforting them

putting arms around. We were all crying

at times and we were all weeping and the

young hopes laying on the bed. I said

we're going to we're going to pray. So

we all gather around the bed and and one

of the uncles looked at me and he said

Trey, do you really believe God can

heal? I said

absolutely. He said we're going to pray

then. I said yes. So the prayer was

simple. Lord we pray in Jesus name that

this accident will not lead on to death.

We pray that whatever needs done it'll

be done for hope to get her healing.

That the teleop get here she'll get up

whatever it was right and that her

family would get there well as well. So

we prayed that I went up instead we walk

in the family for two or three days

before they moved him into um McDonald

house whatever it was but she's in

starship and she's in a coma every day

we would go we pray for her we come away

with encourage we'd be thanking God be

worshiping God and stuff and then the

day came for me to go on the mission

trip so I said to walking stuff look we

we got to go but you know I'll keep in

touch will ring every every other day so

it was ringing from Fiji and he said

pastor Trevy not said before we went

that the chances are now guys if she

comes out of a coma she'll be a

vegetable that's what he said she'll

probably be a vegetable now we never

believed that and we weren't fighting

the doctor's thing it was hot god you're

you're bigger than I said we don't feel

that that's what it is so well in Fiji

one of the days I phon here's the good

news she's out of the coma she's come

out of the coma and there's no brain

damage none

whatsoever and you know yeah and give

glory to God. That was that's some of

the photos that was with and her school

were praying for her and stuff as well.

It's pretty awesome. Within about six

weeks of all that happen, she come back

into church. She was in a wheelchair,

you know, and they shared about the the

goodness of God. Isn't God good? But see

guys, that's on the mission field.

That's on the mission field as well. We

got to remember one thing. It's not just

a matter of giving somebody food and

encouragement. God does heal. God does

set free. You with me? That was a big

part of the missions. So, finishing off,

guys. All right. You still

there? Okay. Thank you. Jesus is a

friend of the sinner. The next one, big

mile on holiday. I just I just want to

get into you about wherever you are,

that's where God is. Cuz do you carry

it? Do you carry his presence? Yeah.

Yeah. So, I'm on holiday or in Bali,

right? We're in Bali on holiday. this

big Australian guy, big long blonde

hair, lots of I don't know if it was

gold, it might have been brass. It

looked like gold eye, but like he wasn't

a bad guy, but he was loud. I mean, I'm

loud, he was loud, right? You'd hear him

at the pool and stuff three, four days

ago. You know, it said I said hi to him

a few times and stuff. And what happened

one day, he wasn't there one day and and

it was just his girlfriend. I said,

"Where's the big fella?" And his

nickname was

Hollywood. Where's Hollywood? She said,

"Oh, Hollywood's very sick." I said,

"What do you mean he's sick? He's in

holiday. Not allowed to be sick on

holiday." She said, "No, he's very, very

sick." I said, "Listen, could you go and

ask Holiday if I could come and pray for

him?" Hollywood. What' I say? Hollywood.

Holiday. So, I'm too I need a holiday.

Hollywood, if I could come and pray for

him. So, she went to Eng Hollywood said,

"Yes, you can come and pray." So I went

and I said, "Bro, I'm just going to say

a simple prayer for you. You know, um I

believe, you know, Jesus who set me

free, he can heal you." So I prayed for

him.

Seriously, it seemed that nothing had

happened. We we left the room and stuff

and then we're in the swimming pool

about 2 hours later. Out he comes rip,

roar, loud as can be, boy. Seriously,

boy. At the side of the pool. Yes. Yes.

I'm healed and I'm going to enjoy my

holiday. And you know what that

photograph is? He took me for a feed

that night and Debbie and the

girlfriend. I just cut them out for the

sake of it. But that was that was crave

fish and stuff and he told me, "You can

have whatever you want to eat." Guys,

that guy was so happy of being healed

and set free. I said, "Bro, I I can't do

nothing." That's Jesus. Jesus has

touched you. So, I was able to share

with him about the goodness of God.

Amen. It's good to talk to me to God

about It's good to talk to men about

God, but it's better to talk to God

about men. Pray. Pray before you saying,

"Lord, give me something to share. Help

me to love this person." Does that make

sense? And and and finishing off. Share

the good news. You know, I'm at the

barbers last week getting the getting

the

haircut. She's getting a bit down her

own actually, but who cares? Like when I

look at you and how good-look you are, I

think I could do that as well.

Seriously, I thought if Aaron can look

as good as that, I'm sure I've got that

anointing as well. But I'm but I'm in

the hairdresser or the barbers. The

boy's cutting my hair. He's asking me

questions. So, I've been there three

times. Trev, what's the latest? What are

you up to now? I said, bro, I'm getting

ready to go to

Cambodia. What? What are you going to

Cambodia for? I just shared with him. He

says, bro, that's awesome.

That's awesome. I've never known anybody

to do that sort of stuff. I said, "Bro,

I might be home sooner than what you

think, but I'm going to give it a

go." But he but but but he he was

wanting no question. Why are you going

there? What are you going there for? I

said, "Bro, we're going there because

there's these girls and they get

trafficked. They get pushed into

prostitution and stuff and we're just

going to go and help some people who

help them get set free." And and how do

they do that? I said, "Bro, I don't know

fully, but I know that they actually get

them well, what do you call it? Re

rehabilitate it and they get them into

jobs and stuff over a couple years

because they do." He said to me, "Bro,

that's flipping brilliant. That's

absolutely brilliant." But see, that's

sharing the good news, isn't it? I

didn't notice at the time, but my oldest

boy the same day goes to another barber

and he starts sharing some of his

testimony about how he was trapped in

drugs and all that sort of stuff. And

Jesus turned up and now he's getting his

life sorted. That is that is sharing the

good news. That's on the That's been

missionaries.

We're not preaching to people. We don't

need to give them 20 scriptures. Hey,

God is good. Jesus is good. Here's where

we're at. Here's what's happening.

Here's what's going on. Is that all

right? Okay. Finished. I'm

finishing. There's a line in the song we

do here. And it talks in the song. A

line we sing is about

revival. We're moving out beyond these

walls to see the people know the

Lord. Is it just a

song? Are you just singing it as a song

or do you want to make it a declaration

that we really are moving out beyond

these walls? Because guys, here's the

bottom line. Once you go through those

doors at the front, you're on the

mission field.

That's said majority of us will never

get a chance to go overseas. And let me

tell you, I've been overseas like

probably 25 times, maybe more, right?

But I'm not any better than the person

who's never been over. That is a mission

field.

But can we finish with this song like

declare making it a declaration in our

hearts and then guys praying each day

for an opportunity to reach out and

impact somebody with the love and the

power of Jesus Christ. Can we do that?

Hey, so we're going to finish with that.

And just before we do, is there anyone

here

today? You've never gave your heart to

Jesus and you're maybe wondering why am

I there today? What am I doing with this

building? You're here because God cares

about you. You're here because he

probably he has drawn you here by a

spirit because you can't get saved

unless he draws you. You're thinking,

why? Maybe that's you today and you want

to give your heart to Jesus. If that's

you, can everybody bow their head a

minute first? If that's you, can you

just put your hand up? Anyone here? God

bless you. God bless you. Anyone else?

Do I see them three hands? Yep. I see

it. Say it anymore. Come on, guys. This

is great. This is what it's all about.

Know Jesus. To know Jesus, man. Wow. 1 2

3 4 5. Thank you, Jesus. Five. Six.

Guys, after the service, there'll be

people up the front who will pray for

you. Is that right? Okay. Here's the

second altar call. And I want you to

come up the front too after this. Right

now, these people are just going to pray

for you to ask Jesus into your life.

It's safe. It's good. There's some

people here today and you've been

backsliding. I love what Pastor Aaron

said last week. No, things haven't just

went wrong for the week. Things have

been going wrong for a very long time

and you've been far away from God. But

God wants you to know he hasn't give up

on you. God wants you to know he's not

condemning you. He's not judging you,

but he wants you to recommmit your life

back to him. He loves you. He cares. And

it's the same as it was with that woman

in Gizzy. He wants that type

relationship again. He misses fellowship

with you. If that's you today and you're

going to be honest about it and you want

to get your life right with God, can you

stick your hand up? I see one, two,

three, wow, four, five,

wow, six. I'm not even going to talk

about the counting. Sometimes that's a

pride thing while there's more than one

person. Hey Lord, thank you for these

people today. You see their hearts,

Lord, as they come up the front today.

They either connect with you for the

first time or reconnect. I pray you

touch them by your Holy Spirit. Lord,

turn their lives upside down. I pray in

Jesus mighty name. And Lord, as a

church, this song that we're going to

sing that it's not just words. It's a

declaration that we would be a people

who would move beyond these walls to our

family, our friends, our neighbors, our

work colleagues, whatever it might be in

Jesus name. And everybody who loved the

Lord said, "Amen." And let's give the

Lord a clap.