A Toolkit of Acronyms

If you say you want to walk with the Divine Warrior, He is a picture. You can't walk with

someone unless you are dressed like them. One of the things about the Divine Warrior is you

can't walk with Him, you can't keep in stride with Him unless we wear this. If you had a

choice, which one would you pick? If there was a weak spot, which one would you pick?

Just think about it for a second. In Isaiah 59 verse 17 it says, He wraps Himself in a

Isaiah 59:17

cloak of passion or zeal. He has vengeance against the enemy. He wears a breastplate

of righteousness and a helmet of salvation. It is from that that Ephesians 6 borrows its

picture. In Zephaniah 3 verse 17 it says, The Lord is like a mighty warrior in your

Zephaniah 3:17

midst and He sings over you loudly. He is not singing songs of love. Mighty warrior

in your midst. That's the actual translation. Zephaniah 3 verse 17, I am like a mighty warrior

Zephaniah 3:17

in your midst and I sing over you. You can imagine what those songs are. They are not

come my beloved. No. So when you look at this, it is impossible to keep in stride with the

Divine Warrior unless you dress correct. And so the question I have for you, and we won't

take it further than this today, the question I have for you is out of that from Ephesians

6, what is something that you wear often and out of that what is it that you don't have?

We can worship all we want but if we want to keep in stride with the warrior, king,

who is here on earth right now saying, do not pray anymore, come with me, it will be

impossible for this shirt, for Jacob, for you to keep in stride with him if this is

not how I travel. Strangely enough, this isn't traveling light but you put this on, you suddenly

walk faster. So I'll ask the question again and then we'll go on to the teaching. What

is it that you are familiar with because you wear it often and what is it that you are

not familiar with at all because it's not something you think of? What it means then

is that we take off our top hats, our tuxedos, Hawaii shorts and shirts and then we go on

and we wear this and it will make your stride faster and you'll be surprised. We'll talk

about it next time. One last announcement before we move. There are guys who need a

break from Acts 29 who sometimes text me or text one of the leaders and says, I would

like a break from Acts 29 and they have it for different reasons. Some because they don't

like you. Some because they want to learn something else somewhere else. Some because

they're finding it difficult to continue for reasons that might be personal. When someone

says they want a break, please let them have a break. Don't go after them and bring them

back. Yeah? When they're ready, our arms will be open wide but if someone wants a break

from now on, give them a break. Yeah? Jesus said bring back the strides but he didn't

mean bring back the strides who are reluctant and tie a noose on their neck and drag them

home. Yeah? They choke on the way and they blame you. So from now on, if someone wants

a break and leaves, let them take a break. When they want to come back, they will come

back and arms will be open wide. Yeah? Just remember that. So do not pray. Do not say

please come back. We love you. All that is already known. That's standard procedure going

forward. There will always be exceptions but I want you to know that. And when I speak

like this, if you feel it's not Christ-like and you're offended, come and talk to me because

you don't know context. Yeah? Whenever stuff like this, when the pastor says and I speak

openly and you feel, ah, that's not Christ-like, come and say to me, Jacob, that was not Christ-like

and I'll give you context and you'll say, Jacob, what can I buy you as a gift? You're

so wonderful. Yeah? I could have avoided the last bit. I'm sorry I added that.

Okay. Today's topic strangely is... Sorry. Oh, I've got to do that thing.

Today's topic strangely is a toolkit of acronyms. A toolkit of acronyms. And so we look at three

different acronyms and see which one am I clicking on. Yeah. A toolkit of acronyms.

A toolkit of acronyms. The first acronym is SPROLL. The first acronym is SPROLL, the

second one is SPEAK, the third one is SPREAD. SPROLL is for your individual life, SPEAK

is for the church, SPREAD is for what? What is the meaning of the word? What is the meaning

of the word? What is the meaning of the word? What is the meaning of the word? What is the

meaning of the word? SPROLL is for your individual life, SPEAK is for the church, SPREAD is

for what is happening now in our midst and how to understand it. SPEAK is for the church

at all times and SPROLL is for your personal maturity. And SPROLL is for your personal

maturity. Yeah. So we'll start with SPROLL. Some of it you already know. If you want to

really every day begin to live at a level that you'll be just so blessed by, start with

this idea every morning that I am a son and then a daughter. And then you'll be blessed

by a servant. I know we've heard this a million times, but have you realized or do you notice

that that's not how we start our day? I'm a son or a daughter, that I'm a son and then

a servant. Psalm 80, verse 15 says, you are the son I'm raising for myself. You are the

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root that I have planted. You are the root that I have planted. And you are the son I'm

raising up for myself. Psalm 80, verse 15. Every day it's so critical that I get this

Psalms 80:15

part. If I do, I immediately see him as father and I immediately come to the conclusion that

he is here. He has not gone anywhere. He is here. He is here. He is here. He is here.

He has not gone anywhere. He is not planning to. This is where we start. I do this every

day and it helps. That I'm a son and then a servant. I am not a servant first. It's

a really bad idea to be a servant first. It's a really bad idea to be a servant leader first.

You have to be a son. Anyone who gets it wrong, just think of your own kids. What if your

kid Gabe or your kid Liam or your kid Judah decided that they were servants in the house

first? That's the first one. Once you get to the son stage, you have to decide whether

you want to stay at being a much loved child, which is a great place to start, but do you

want to go further to knowing the father's heart and then do you want to go further

to becoming a mature son? These are three stages that are important to travel through.

We talk about being a much loved child and it's important, but a much loved child should

be what you go back to when you mess up, when you fall, when you're unsure of God.

Go back to much loved child. There is a progression. We don't want our children to stay babies.

We go from much loved child to knowing the father's heart. A much loved child needs to

be reassured and we'll find reassurance in the arms of the father. You go from a much

loved child to a place where you now begin to know the father's heart and it's okay if

he doesn't say anything. It's okay if he doesn't ruffle your hair. Then you go to a place called

mature son where now you're taking care of your younger brothers and sisters. Very often

what happens is we get stuck at much loved child and then it's this constant flurry of

reassurance that's both from God and man. Any questions on that?

Okay, next one. Pray in the mountains. Pray in the mountains. P, pray in the mountains.

Jesus used to do this. Turn to John 6.15. Pray in the mountains. John 6.15. John 6.15.

Then Jesus, because he knew they were coming to, coming, they were going to come and seize

him by force to make him king, withdrew again. It's not the first time. Withdrew again up

the mountainside alone and that's where he begins to pray and then he comes walking to

them on the water come evening. He spends an entire day up the mountain because he knows

what he's facing. So this idea of praying in the mountains is super important and find

your time. If you can't do it in the morning, find it in the afternoon. If you can't do

it in the afternoon, find it in the evening. If you don't find it, you will unravel. You

will unravel. That's not a negative confession. That's the truth. You will unravel. Find that

time where you withdraw. Pray in the mountains. He would do it. If he did it, surely you need

it. Find time. And if you miss a day, you don't have to go two hours the next day.

Just go back, which leads us to the next one, which is R. R is for retrieve immediately.

R is for retrieve immediately. Retrieve immediately. In 2 Kings 6, there's a story of some disciples

of Elisha who took his permission before they went to build a school and they were chopping

down trees to build a school and the prophet had blessed the endeavor. And in those days

it was like God blessing the endeavor. And while they were chopping wood, they had borrowed

an axe because Israel did not have metal tools. They had borrowed an axe from the Philistines

or whoever. While they were chopping, the axe that flies out goes into the water, sinks.

And Elisha says, where did the axe hit fall? And then he throws a piece of wood and the

axe that floats up and he says, go and take it. This idea of retrieving immediately is

a Christian talent that surprisingly gets lost because of the guilt and the condemnation

and times that we live in. Whenever you mess up, retrieve immediately. Whenever you make

a mistake, retrieve immediately. Whenever you lose sight of him, retrieve immediately.

Don't wait for Monday. Don't wait for the first of the month. Only the rent gets paid

that day. It's not rent immediately. It's retrieve immediately. Go get it back immediately.

Do not waste time. Do not let guilt or condemnation keep you away from God. Sin must drive one

to God, not keep one away from God because it is sin that drove Jesus to you. Sin must

drive one to God, not keep one away from God because it is sin that drove Jesus to you.

When you mess up, retrieve immediately. Go find the place that you last were connected

with God. Throw the piece of wood there. Let it float up because I guarantee you of that

miracle. I guarantee you that miracle. Every time you throw the wood where the axe had

fell, you will retrieve it. God is like that. The days that are lost between falling and

rising up actually is a measure of your maturity. The days and the hours spent between failing

or falling and coming back to normal, be it with God or be it with people, is actually

a sign of your maturity. Your response and retrieval time, recovery time, will show me

whether you are mature or whether you are not. The longer you take, the more immature

you are. Any questions on that? Any questions on that? You heard what I said, right? Because

in Isaiah 30, I think it's verse 15, I might be wrong, it says, in returning and rest is

your strength. You are the strength of the world. You are the strength of the world.

You are the strength of the world. You are the strength of the world. You are the strength

is your strength. Go back quickly, eh? Next one, eh? Eh is aware in Christ, not aware,

not just aware of, aware in Christ, aware in Christ. At 1728, there's this pretty amazing

verse, we used to sing it when we were kids, in Him we live and move and have our being.

In Him we live and move and have our being. It's to be aware in Christ. It's the same

thing that at present happens to any baby in a mother's womb. Every awareness that baby

has comes through the mother's womb. Sounds, prayers, movements, worship, it's all felt

through someone. When you are aware in Christ, you begin to see what Christ is showing you

that you would not otherwise notice. When someone is really in love, you notice what

they see when you take them shopping but won't buy. When you're not really in love, you breathe

a sigh of relief that you walked past Gucci without her looking at it. You are not really

in love, you breathe a sigh of relief that you walked past Gucci without her looking

at it. But when you're in love, every time she looks at something longingly, you're writing

it on the palm of your hand, which you will wash and you will forget anyways. But the

point is, you still notice, you notice what she likes through her eyes. Everything becomes

through her eyes. Or if you're a female, through his eyes. But then guys hardly look at anything

except George. To be aware in Christ is different from being aware of Christ. Practice it, it's

a wonderful skill. Colossians 3.3, Colossians 3.3, it says that, let me read it from the

beginning. Colossians 3.3, verse 2, don't shuffle along, eyes to the ground, absorb

with things right in front of you. Look up and be alert to what is going on around Christ.

That's where the action is. See things from his perspective. Your old life is dead. Your

new life, which is your real life, even though invisible to spectators, is with Christ in

God. He is your life. So you're wound in Christ who is wound in God. And you begin

to see things from his perspective. You'll notice people who need a ten dollar tip even

though you bought food worth five dollars. You will notice those that are outsiders who

need a helping hand. You will notice blind Bartimaeus. You'll begin to see things that

way. Awareness of Christ is a good place to start, but that is sometimes self-serving,

because you want an intense relationship. Awareness in Christ is completely different.

You should try it. As a pastor or someone who leads a thing, it's a great gift if I

can cultivate it, because if I'm aware in Christ, I'm aware of what he's aware of, not

aware of God and how the worship service should go. W. You should try it. You should try it.

Walk in your season. Walk in your season. Walk in your season. 1 Chronicles 12-32. There

was a tribe called the tribe of Issachar who knew their times and seasons. That's the name

of the tribe and that was a blessing that was theirs from God. They knew their times

and seasons. Isaiah 28, 23 onwards. Different seeds are sown at different times and are

harvested differently and are threshed differently and the master teaches us all this. How do

you discover your seasons with the Spirit and with counselors? You know, I often think

that I often hear students in school saying, I went and spoke to my counselor. What are

they speaking to their counselor about? About what course to take in the future. Why? Because

that may determine the job you get, the career you choose and the college you go to. It's

the same method. If you know how to walk in your season with regard to your job and your

education, wouldn't it be a great idea to walk in your season by finding out from the

Spirit what is it? It is not an easy peasy prophetic word. It is more laborious than

that but it is so worth it. The only other way to walk in that is if you're walking in

such righteousness that God will direct your steps. But you may still not know where you're

at. There's an intentionality about this method. And the last one. Yep. Sorry. Yep.

Isaiah 28 verse 23 onwards. Different seeds are sown at different times and are harvested

Isaiah 28:23

at different times, threshed differently, and the Master teaches us all this. That's

what Isaiah 28, 23 says. And the last one is love with the Spirit. Love with the Spirit.

Discernment or judgment. Sorry. Love with hope after discernment and judgment. Love

with hope after discernment and judgment. You must judge what is happening. To love

without discernment and judgment is a really bad idea. One must love with discernment,

with judgment, as in judge things correctly. And then even if things are broken, love

with hope. So let's assume that Tooney is a difficult person. Is Anil here? Yeah. Okay.

So let's assume Tooney is a difficult person. Like it is so hard to work with him. But just

because he sings out there we shouldn't think he's sugar coated. And it will require that

Tooney be judged for some of the things he does wrong. That we discern where he goes

awry. We understand that these are areas that Tooney should change in. And it could well

be that after you help him, talk to him, that he still refuses. I should love him with hope,

expecting that tomorrow Tooney can change. Day after tomorrow Tooney can change. A year

from now Tooney can change. But I should not pretend that Tooney exists without problems.

That's not love. That's ostrich. One of the things that happens in a church sometimes

is you become so loving that it's absolutely no good to the person that you love. Imagine

if you loved your children that way. That's not the way to do it. Any questions? Sprawl

is important. As we go further and as people are put under our care, it is important to

love with hope after discernment and judgment, not without discernment and judgment. I can't

hear you, Dana. The fan's allowed so you'll have to speak louder. I can't hear you. Can

you hear me? Retrieve because sometimes I drop what God is doing in my life and walk

away and I need to actually retrieve it. It's not even reconnect. I'm so removed from it.

It seems so impossible to get it back. Many of us here, when we look back at some of the

things that have happened to us and the dreams that have died, you begin to think, how in

the world am I going to ever get this back? You retrieve it. Once you retrieve it, it

can be attached or you can leave it alone. I love what Elijah says. Show me where it

dropped. And then he causes it to come up and then he says, now go pick it up. It doesn't

mean because it floats that everything is done. Okay. Any other questions before we

move on to the next one? Okay. Next one is for the church. Let's come to that last. Let's

go to spread. That kind of explains what's happening with us right now. S is for signs

of his presence. Signs of his presence. S is for signs of his presence. S is for signs

of his presence. Signs of his presence. Let me write them all down and then we'll go to

purifying fire. Then I can pick what I want. Revival. Hebrides 2.0. This one will be hard

to understand. I'll have to explain it. Eight princes and seven shepherds. Abundance. Abundance.

Abundance. Abundance. Abundance. Abundance. Abundance. Abundance. Abundance. Abundance.

Divine warrior. So let me start with our, as I was saying last Sunday maybe or last week,

almost four years, eight months ago. And this is something that nobody can convince you

whether it's true or not. You'll have to check with the spirit. If the spirit helps you see

it, so be it. If not, try again or I don't know what else to say because I can't deny

it nor can I convince you. It will have to be a work of the spirit. So more than four

years ago, four years and some months, when the Lord first said that, listen, in 1949

there was this thing called Hebrides 1.0. I want to start 2.0. Affecting young men and

women, 20s and 30s across the earth, we said yes to it and we had a week called Shekinah

where every week we met and we wanted to say to God that we receive what we have. Then

we went to the place where Hebrides happened, the revival happened. And then last two Fridays

ago, not this Friday, the Friday before that, some of us were sitting and worshipping and

while we were worshipping, we were praying, oh God, when is this going to come? When is

this going to come? And I was playing the guitar and leading and worship and at some

point I had to stop because I could hear the distinct loud cry of a baby and there are

no babies in my house. And then I'm thinking to myself, how is this sound even coming?

Now this is anecdotal. Should you build theology on it? No. But why am I sharing it? How else

do I explain this? And so you hear the sound of this baby and you begin to think, okay,

so I'm hearing the sound, maybe there's a baby in the other apartments. Nothing like

that. Finally, I opened my eyes and I look around to see why the sound is coming. And

as I'm looking around, I hear God saying, and I already said this three times this week,

I hear God saying, listen, you've been praying that this thing called Hebrides 2.0 be birthed.

I want to say to you that it is here, so stop praying for it. And that was what began Monday

night and Tuesday night and Thursday night. And those that were there to taste it, to

experience it, know that we've begun to taste and experience something that is distinctly

different from anything and everything Acts 29 has experienced to this day. Distinctly

different. And so since then, two things have been made evident. When you look at what Hebrides

2.0 is about, here's what it used to say. I am sending a purifying fire that will burn

up historical and religious junk. That's in Hebrews 12. I will enter as divine warrior,

Isaiah 59, 17. And I will set free young men and women from nations into the kingdom. And

I will call them sons and daughters. And I will invite them into a circle of abundance,

of dancing and of joy before the lion and the lamb. And I will raise for myself a torch-bearing

generation that will go out and will not return empty. That's a statement. The statement has

to change now. There is a purifying fire that is already on earth. You, Acts 29, have experienced

it over the last three times you've met and you will continue to experience it. It will

burn up everything that is not Christ so that the only thing that is left is Christ. And

as people stand before Sheldon, they will stand before the presence of God. We have

to change the second line too. Not, I will enter as divine warrior. I stride the earth

as divine warrior. Those are the two important parts to this entire equation. Those are the

two parts that make the other things form. I will set the young men and women free. I

will invite them into a circle of dancing, abundance and joy before the lion and the

lamb. I will take them from nations into a kingdom. I will raise a torch-bearing generation.

All that happens because of two things. One, I will come as a purifying fire and he is

here and I will be a divine warrior and he is that. Learn it. Ask anybody who is a purifier.

Anybody who works in any position where you have people under you and you have a project

to do. You learn, learn the fundamentals of the project. You can never go and explain

it to somebody. Learn it. If you don't believe it, don't learn it. You can taste it. But

if you believe it, learn it. Any questions on that one? Okay. So, I will end this lecture

here. So, that's R. S is signs of his presence. If God is going to do what he is going to

do, then we need to understand that we need to, as people have been praying here and I

think Derek prayed today, you have to have signs of his presence. I think Don prayed

wells of healing, wells of provision. Where are the signs of his presence? If revival

is the proximity and the nearness of a terrifyingly holy God who is consuming fire and father

is in the house, then what about burning up sickness? What about burning up lack? What

about burning up oftenhood? What about burning up situations that are averse? What about

burning up the enemy's traps? What about those burnings? Signs of his presence. That's what

we are talking about. How do we go about not backing off on signs of his presence?

Arm yourself with the truth of the word. What does he say about this particular thing? If

that is true, then I will trust the word, trust the spirit, trust the spirit. That's

the second one. Try the promise. You cannot try it if you don't choose to be foolish.

No promise is proven without foolishness. Hey, hear me again. No promise is proven without

foolishness. If you have a promise in your life, if you want to see God work in your

life, I assure you there is no promise that will be proven without foolishness. I assure

you. That's how promises work. Psalm 105, the word of the Lord tested him. His hands

were put in shackles. His feet were put in chains. And the word of the Lord tested him.

And when the word came to pass, Joseph went from being a prisoner to the Prime Minister

of Egypt. What does foolishness invite? The scorn of men.

That's why we shy away from it. Try the promise. Four, test the soul. Five, tell the story.

Hopefully next week we'll have someone talk about this. How they received the truth of

the word. That God in his nature is a healer. How they then began to trust the work of the

spirit. That they would trust the work of the spirit. You know what trust the work of

the spirit looks like. Oh God, I am not going to do any hard sell. What has to happen here

has to be sheerly you. I can't even look at faces and figure out whether Janelle believes

it, whether Iris believes it, or whether Anna believes it. Because their faces may either

be ehh, doesn't sound real. Or aha, wonderful truth. You can't go by faces. Ezekiel 1 says

something. God says to Ezekiel, do not be dismayed by the look on their faces. Oh it's

one of my favorite scriptures when I come to Acts 29. It'll be yours too if you come

here. Because trust the spirit. That the work of the spirit is enough to change. Third one,

try the promise. Try the promise even though you failed 43 times before. That's as many

years as the Canucks have tried to make it to the Stanley Cup. Doesn't matter how many

times you failed, try it again. Because this year Vancouver is the home of the Stanley

Cup champions. Yeah? So you keep trying the promise. The leaves of the promise are the

same. So you keep trying the promise. The leaves have been saying it for 65 years. Yeah?

Don't smile. Wipe that smile off your face. So try the promise. Sheldon, you want to talk

about hockey or this? This, okay. Sorry? Yeah. It's just helplessness. It's just helplessness

helplessly falling backwards on his faithfulness. Helplessly falling backwards on his faithfulness.

Nothing less than that. What God is inviting this church into, it's just such a foolish

thing. Fourth one, test the soul. Your emotions will go up and down. Let God test your soul

and let him find you trustworthy. Let him test your soul. Let him test your soul. Let

you be able to show him that your soul is stable. May you write psalms when you're down

and psalms when you're up like David because he knew how to always bring his soul back

to a place where it was stable. On one hand he'll say, why should I go mourning oppressed

by your enemies? Look, they mock at me. And then as he comes to the end of the psalm,

he'll say, send forth your light, send forth your truth and let them guide me well. Let

them lead me to your mountain, the place where you dwell. There I will go to the altar of

God, my joy and my delight and I will bless you and praise you. Oh God, you are my God.

Why are you so sad, my soul? Why so disturbed with me? Put your trust in God for I will

yet praise him. This is what we do in every circumstance, guys. Next week we'll hear a

story like this and then the last one is tell the story. Do not tell the story when

you get to the end. Tell the story while it's happening. Tell the story while it's happening.

Tell the story while it's happening so that they can come and say at the end of it, how

does your God work because mine doesn't? I'm going to tell you a story. I'm going to tell

you a story. Purifying fire. Purifying fire. We've talked about it already. It's a consuming

fire from the Father that burns up everything until only Christ is left. It's a consuming

fire. You know one of the areas that God's been working on my life in, in terms of purifying

fire, pride. Every time pride rises up in my life over the last one week, he takes his

finger and pokes it saying, dare. The great thing is every time that is happening, I have

an opportunity to repent and retrieve immediately without guilt or shame or condemnation because

I know what he's working on. I keep telling myself, you're not the meekest man on earth

yet. That was Moses and your middle name is not Moses, Jacob. Keep working at it. That's

one area. Yesterday someone cut us off in traffic. Goat came up. What is yours? It's

so unfortunate that we can't pass a mic around asking what area God is pointing your finger

at. I would do it for you happily but I'm not God. Oh, that's the wrong screen. Consuming

fire. Guys, invite it. This is such a cool fire. It's from the Father. It consumes.

What if I stick with this? Not only will I benefit, you will benefit and people will

see God more clearly because pride has nothing to do with Christ. Everything about him is

diametrically opposed to pride. It's the reason why people get offended. People get

angry. People make bad decisions. People feel like they're being treated badly all because

of it. What is wrong, Jacob, with being humiliated? What is wrong with humiliation? Oh, but you

shouldn't be a doormat. When have you been a doormat, Jacob? We always go to this thing

of we shouldn't be doormats. I've got no problems with that because I've never been a doormat

in my life. I'm not trying to beat myself up here. I'm trying to say that what a wonderful

thing when meekness begins to affect my life. And it's not through outer signs, eh? Me saying

dearly beloved brothers and sisters doesn't make me humble or lowering my voice. It's

not there. It's something inside. I'm not trying to beat myself up here. I'm trying

to be a doormat. Next one. Eight princes and seven shepherds. That's from Micah 5, verse

Micah 5:4

4 and 5. It's actually verse 5, I think, where God says, listen, when the adversary comes

into Jerusalem or Judah, I will raise up for you eight princes and seven shepherds.

It actually says seven shepherds and eight princes. And they will stand at the gate and

prevent the adversary from entering it. Not only that, not only will they prevent and

defend Jerusalem and Judah, they'll go into a Syrian territory and they'll take territory

from the enemy. One of the things that will happen during this time that God is taking

Acts 29 through is people will rise up from this congregation and stand up like they've

never stood up because the Holy Spirit will descend upon you like it did upon Samson,

like it did upon Saul, like it did upon people in the Bible, where suddenly something will

happen inside you. I've seen it, man. I've seen it. I remember the first time, 1990,

1990, this guy called Mike from Tulsa, Oklahoma, is preaching in a U.S. Navy chapel. And he

asks, are there people here who really want God to touch them and change them so that

they'll never be able to escape the hand of God? I've been a believer for four months

and I go up and he looks at me, he lays hands on me and he prophesies and says, son, you

have got the gift of faith and he prays over me and something hits me, man. And I've never

been the same since then. Never. It changed me from inside. I suddenly had what it takes

to believe things that are impossible. And the reason I'm saying it is because it's a

gift. It's not even my own. I can't claim to have grown. It is a gift. That's what the

Spirit of God can do. Where a Prosper sitting there or a Nelly sitting here or a Chermy

suddenly has the Spirit of God watch upon them. The same God will do it again. You know

why? Because he has a vested interest in what he's doing on the earth. And he has found

the people, which is why he's saying, I'm not waiting for you to call out to me again.

The purifying fire is here and I stride the earth as the divine warrior. And he says,

if that doesn't wake the dead, nothing will. Did I tell you about those emergency guys

that came in once they went into a church because someone had died and they couldn't

find the dead person? Because everybody was dead. And I was like, I'm not going to die

because everybody looked the same. My God, when you have to explain a joke, it's difficult.

But this is not our case. They found what they needed to find immediately. You know

what God is looking for and what I am desperate for? God is not desperate for it. God is looking

for it. He knows and he'll find. He'll find a Remy. He'll find a Prosper. He'll find

a Terme. He knows ahead of time. He knows your tomorrow. The more you resist, the more

you fall off your donkey and your eyes go blind till an anus have to come around. That's

the only difference. Listen to me. I said to someone last week, either leave this church

because you are not allowed to coast in this church. You are not allowed to coast in this

church. You can't come and sit, leave this church or rise up because that is the kind

of God that is present in this church right now. And when you face that kind of God, then

one of two things happen. Either people step up or God knocks them off their horse. They

go blind for a while and then an anus has to come. They don't eat for three, four days.

You lose weight. You lose sight and you still come back to your senses. There's a better

way to do it. So quickly go to God and say, Father, here, can you consume this and can

you consume this and can you consume this and can you consume this? Hey, you may not

like this package, but you have to decide whether what this package is saying is the

truth or not. Do not judge the truth by the package. Judge him morally, but do not judge

the truth by the package. Because I shout or because I come out straight doesn't mean

that you judge the truth through the package. This is not the way it's done. It is important

for you to know it because we are in a time where you can't sit on the fence guys and

you can't sit with your wounds either. God needs you. God needs you, not me. I'm just

desperate. What's he looking for? Inheritance carriers. Inheritance carriers. You know what

inheritance carriers are? They're the ones who carry the inheritance forward for someone

else's children and grandchildren. Portal openers. Can I find some here who are so convinced

of what I'm doing and of the truth that you can go somewhere and you can stand and as

you stand just because you believe in me as God and believe me in the truth I'm speaking,

that I will begin to flow to you and touch anything that moves. These are the eight shepherds

and the seven princes. For us God will make a concession. He'll say I don't mind your

faces as long as I know your hearts. In most southern churches or in any church in Africa

this kind of preaching would be so full of hallelujahs and amens and praise the Lord.

Here one has to trust the Lord for more strength. What's wrong with you, Bishop? Guys, what

you steward is what you multiply, is what you have to do. You have to do what you have

authority over. It goes back to Genesis 1.27 and 1.28, the Adamic mandate. What you steward

is what you multiply and what you have authority over. Any time God gives something to a people

and says to him, hey John, can you steward this well? And John steps up under the power

of the Spirit of God and he says, all I have for this cause I will steward it, oh God,

pour your Spirit upon me. What he stewards will immediately begin to multiply because

he's stewarding it under the power of the Spirit. And whatever you multiply you have

authority over. As in it's radial authority, it keeps increasing. We steward by the power

of the Spirit. We steward by the power of the Spirit. When God said to Adam, go forth,

multiply, replenish, subdue, it was not by Adam's strength, he was just one man. It was

by the strength of the Spirit. One of the things this church is blessed with is that

it has Abraham's who stewarded the promises, Isaac's who dug wells and renamed them, Jacob's

who wrestled still to bring it to pass and Joseph's who will go out there in Egypt and

show that God is a purifier and God is a divine warrior. Who are you? Who are you? Ask this

question of yourself. Who are you? Are you the Abraham kind who's stewarding a promise?

Well then define the promise. Let me hear it. I'm challenging you. Who are you? Abraham

stewarded the promise. Isaac's go and dig up the wells that have been covered and they

rename them saying, oh God, I remember this well. You said there's a well of healing here.

Well, I'll go dig it up. Jacob's will wrestle through thick and thin, through circumstances

that are negative, through lack. They'll still wrestle. I will not go till you bless me.

That's what our prayers are right now. Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, today. Oh God, I'll wrestle

with you. Change our name but we will not let you go till you bless us. That's what

his name is praying when he started shouting from there. What's your name? Dennis Caleb.

And then you've got Joseph's. Joseph's are the one that now go out in the strength of

Abraham's, Isaac's and Jacob's and they go out there and they begin to function with

such ease. Who are you? You have to be one of them. Pardon? You can be more than one.

Yes. A. Abundance. Can you go read these two scriptures this week at a time when you're

at home? One is Zechariah 8 and the other one is Isaiah 60. These are kind of inheritance

passages for us at this time from God. Zechariah 8. I remember being at the first meeting that

we had at Josh and Charlene's home in Burnaby. That's when God gave us this promise saying,

the day is coming when Acts 29, you will see Zechariah 8 in the city that you are in.

You should go read it. At one point in Zechariah 8 verse 12 or 13, it talks about how God will

Zechariah 8:12

change our fasts to feasts. Once again the young will walk around with joy, the old will

be strengthened. And then read Isaiah 60. Instead of bronze, I'll give you the golden

instead of wood, I'll give you bronze. It's a time where there will be increase that goes

from where you are stuck to a place you didn't imagine. And then you will see the change

will be an exchange for you, for your business, for your marriage, for your children. It is

so hot here, I could preach a sermon on salvation and get people saved. Treasures of darkness

we will get. Treasures of darkness are the souls of men and what they bring to the temple

of the church. We'll talk about that later, but this is the idea. Can you go read Isaiah

60 and Zechariah 8? And as you read it, can you pray that other people at Acts 29 receive

the benefit of these two verses? And finally, it's the Divine Warrior. S-P-R-E-A-D. Divine

Warrior, and let me, we'll end with that, we won't do the other thing today. Divine Warrior.

Who is the Divine Warrior? What does he do? What's he doing in our midst? Besides the

parts of the armor that I showed you, what's he doing in our midst? One, he is Sheldon,

Sheldon, you are the new associate pastor. Don't you love going and doing this? You guys

don't do that? Still so much fun. He is preparing disciple soldiers. He is preparing disciples

for the battle. He will lead into battle with his presence. All these will be elaborated

later and he will set creation and children free from bondage. He will set the bondage

and children free from bondage. What's the Divine Warrior doing? This is one of the things

he will continue to do. Can I prepare you as disciple soldiers? The crazy thing is there

are amazing soldiers who don't want to be disciple, so they don't get called. They will

have to be mavericks. Another word for mavericks when you go to war is mercenaries. I'm sure

mercenaries are going to be mercenaries. Guns for hire. So that's one. Second, he will lead

into battle with his presence. What does it look like to heal, deliver, raise, cleanse,

save? And then the last thing is he will free from bondage. He will set the bondage and

he will set the bondage. Spiritual, social, decay, demonic, disease, damage, death.

Modest statement of faith. I will see this with you. I will not see this separately,

but I will see this with you. This is important. Every word I'm saying is important. I will

not see this separately. I will not be allowed to see this separately. I will see this with

you. It's almost factual. It's not even faithful. Any questions, guys? Any questions?

Because Romans 8.15 says that, that a day is coming when creation will be set free from

its bondage and corruption and the children of God will be set free too. And both creation

and the children of God will begin to enjoy the glorious freedom that belongs to the sons

of God. Both. God is after everything he's made. Can I restore it all? Can you help me

in it? I know you know this word. Even though you don't know its meaning, for that you have

to spend $24,000 at Regen. But I can do it for two. Yeah? We are, we are the children

of God. An eschatological community of Christ giving people a taste. Not a complete taste,

but a pretty good taste. And I know that you know this word. I know that you know this

word. Of the end before it comes. As in, we are an end time, while everyone's waiting

for end times, end times, end times, we are an end time community that have the ability

to give people a pretty good taste of what it will be like in the end. And we can give

that taste to them right now. What does that look like? The joyful dancing and prancing

of undignified childlike joy. That's, that's an end time phenomena. And I know that you

know that we get a taste now. Our people get a taste. The reason people get repulsed

by it or find it hard to jump into it, because of our traditions and our cultures. Do you

realize that it doesn't matter which kid from which culture, they all behave the same? You

can take someone from India, China, New Zealand and Surrey. I don't know how that got in there.

But you can, and yet they all behave the same. It's later that they get dignified. Healing,

provision and end time community. Come on man. Isn't that such a magnificent opportunity,

responsibility, joy? I visited Don's house when he first moved into that house. And there

were just boxes all over the place. It just looked pretty ugly. But I kept saying, oh

wonderful house, wonderful house. And then recently I visited it again. And you should

have seen how Don was taking us, showing in different rooms. And everything looked so

good. And you could see that he was happy with what he was showing. It wasn't pride,

it wasn't boastful. But he was saying, hey look at this and look at this. And everything

was done well. He even had three little electric candles that he turned on so we can view them.

But the point being this, there was a joy in showing something done well. It's our privilege

guys. It's my privilege. You know, every time I see some of us, all of us coming and doing

what we do here and it actually is from a genuine place of joy, my heart thrills. Oh

God, you're creating a community that doesn't care. Every time you do worship without instruments,

my heart thrills. Every time Eden comes up and Mia comes up or we had Phoebe sing a

song at North Vancouver. Every time they sing I think to myself, this is so cool.

Next week when we hear healing testimonies, what if there are two new people and they

hear that our God heals? Next week when Mark comes by and he says, you know, I know what

happened and it was, I felt a little embarrassed and I believe I left in a Rolls Royce. We'll

have to tell him it wasn't a Rolls Royce. But at the end of the day, he'll come back

here and instead of going downwards, he'll start going upwards and you'll rejoice in

your heart. For there is nothing that seems to be able to bring a good man down. This

is what we're talking about. An end time community present right now are people tasting it. People

that were offended, no longer carrying offense. People that were proud, getting meeker by

the day. But if someone cuts me off in traffic, I'll honk and say, the day is coming guys.

The day is coming guys. The day is coming.