Perez – Breaking In

Thank you guys. Welcome. Today's the third night of, and then we end this, whatever you

want to call it, today. And let me just introduce guys who are new. That's Matthew. He's Pastor

Matthew, one of Aron's, one of Tunis' friends. Tunis seems to have many friends. Yeah. So

welcome, Matthew. Yeah. And that's Ben. And that's Sheba. Sheba's dad used to be someone

who worked with Chad's dad. And so they live close to Squamish in Abbotsford. Yeah. So

I'm just kidding. It's in two different directions. I'm sure they'll feel welcome with that applause,

so we'll just try it again. Yeah. And the rest of us are normal people. Yeah. Jeremy

brought a friend. Jeremy, you want to introduce him? This is just my dad. Hi, Isaac. Yeah.

Isaac's an old friend of the church, been around for years. Yeah. Hey, guys. So a couple

of quick announcements. One, let me introduce Chad. Chad, actually, his dad is the, or was

the president of the entire Assemblies of God globally. And so he comes from amazing

stock. I met his dad, really honorable man, man who walks in holiness. And then Chad runs

a congregation of about 20 or 30,000 people in a church called New Life Assemblies of

God in Chennai. You're wondering why I'm giving him such a good intro. It's the last day.

And I met him in 2014, and my life is so much richer because of him. He's my best friend.

I'm his best friend too, just in case he doesn't say it. Love him dearly. My life has changed

dramatically after meeting him. Talk to him more often than his wife talks to him. During

COVID, oh my God, he was a lifeline. He's really knowledgeable. He could have easily

church thingy because he runs a mega church. But one of his desires and passion is to go

around the world and build a church the way it's supposed to be built. And we've been

talking about that for the last four or five years. Much of what we have learned here has

come from some of the things I've learned from him. And so on one hand, he's 11 years

younger than me. On the other hand, I really look up to him in many different things. And

I love you, Dad. I'm glad you're here. Yeah? Come. You don't know what to do with this.

We can.

Hey, the other thing I forgot is we had sent out an email saying, hey, if you want to make

an offering that will go to World's Chat, just put it in the box at the back. And yeah,

that's it.

It's quite rare when you have good words from Jacob about someone in the introduction,

so cherish it and take it in. And if you've been wondering about last time, 2019, when

I came, I was a whole different size and there's a different size now. It's all thanks to George's

brother. Okay? And so every good thing. You don't want to meet him. Yeah. So George's

brother was the one who inspired me. He walked one day into my office and said, everything

can change for you. And so here am I, changed man. And from that time, I think there was

easy change with regards to how church needs to be done, but with regards to Jacob's body,

no chance. Okay? He continues on forever. Yeah. Like that's when you have to take advantage

and do all.

Well, it's joy, it's fun to be with you guys. Okay? These two years, two days, two days

has been like two years, I think, two important things that we have actually done with. Okay?

Okay. Paris and God has helped us bounce back. How many of you believe that God has

truly helped us bounce back? I mean, and secondly, Paris and we said, Hey, let's break out because

God is helping us break out. But this third day, God is warning us to break in. And Jesus

was moving amongst the towns and villages and the many cities. And as he moved around,

he saw the people and he saw the people who were harassed and helpless. And he was moved

with compassion. And when he was moving with compassion, he couldn't actually turn to anybody

else, but to his disciples. And he said to his disciples, the harvest is plenty. The

laborers are so few. And then he said, pray to the Lord of the harvest that he will send

laborers. If we got to break in and if we got to hear the heart of the father, if you

really, really need to capture the very essence of what God is wanting to do is that he is

wanting this church to raise up as laborers in a mission field that is harassed and helpless.

And that is what we got to break in. The season has come that here in Acts 29 that we

cannot continue on just the way it is, but we need to actually put our foot on the pedal

and press on the gas because there is an acceleration that God wants for the church. Yes, I have

built you thus far. Yes, I have done whatever it takes to build you into who you are at this

moment of time. But if you start to exist just the way you are, you're going to miss out a season

because this is a season of acceleration that God is bringing for your life. And if you would

actually capture it, if you would grasp it, if you would actually bounce back, if you would

break through and if you would break in, I'm going to do mighty things in and through you. Amen?

And therefore, we got to learn how to actually bind the strong man and get into certain nations

that God is calling Acts 29 into and take the spoils for Jesus Christ. Are you ready? Are you

wanting to be laborers? And if you really need to rise up to be laborers for this Jesus Christ,

then you need to do certain things. Number one, do you actually care for the world just as how

Christ cares for? And therefore, these are five important questions that I want to leave to you

this evening. I want to speak, I don't want to speak long, but these are five important questions.

The first question is, do you really care for the world just the way Christ cares for them?

Or do you have concern for the world the way I care for this world?

Jonah, Jonah, Jonah, how long will you actually run away from your call?

There are certain people seated here who are actually being called specifically and saying,

hey, you need to be doing something, but you are running away from that call for a long period of time.

Jonah, you've been running and sometimes you grudgingly do what God has called you to do.

And after you've grudgingly done what God has called you to do, you sit and crib because all that you're

concerned about is that small little creeper that you did not sow, that you did not water,

that you did not do anything, but God actually took care of it and it gave you shade for a moment of

time. Now that that creeper is gone, you are cribbing and telling God, you took away my shelter,

you took away my shade, you took away that which was beautiful.

Jonah, 120,000 people who do not know their left hand from their right hand are existing even in Vancouver.

120,000 people even in a city like Vancouver, Vancouver who does not know the left hand from their

right hand and many, many, many, many people, many, many, many, many nations. Europe is

waiting for you, Vancouver. Europe is waiting for you. There are certain nations in Africa that are

waiting for you, there are certain nations in Central America that's waiting for you,

there are certain nations in South America that are waiting for you, there are certain cities in this

nation, Canada is waiting for you, would you just care only for yourself or

would you actually start thinking about a lakh and a twenty thousand people who

do not know the left hand from the right hand? The question is, do you care the way

I care? Do you care the way I care? None should perish, all should come to

repentance. What about, yes we are thankful for the 99 that are in the sheep pen,

but who will care for the one lost sheep? Who would sweep the entire house and

find that one coin that's lost? Who would actually go back and search and wait and

do something about the lost sons and daughters in the city? There was a season

when I asked you to remain a small number, that season is over, that season is over.

Maybe we don't have to have these large numbers gathered together in one place,

no? That's a lot of building and administration, I know what it is. But do

not resist numbers. That's a shift and change that God is wanting this church

to have. Acts 29, do not resist numbers for I want to give you numbers. Do not

resist numbers for I want to give you numbers. Because numbers are not just mere

numbers, they are people. There are people who cannot make a difference between

their left hand and their right hand. They need to come into the fold, they need to

come into the house, they need to come into the harvest that's plentiful, the

laborers are few. But I have laborers here in this church who can rise up. It

takes a little bit of change in your heart to see numbers is not a limitation.

Father, I pray over this congregation and I speak of father, every wrong word that

has been spoken about numbers in this house, every small little slight thing

that has taken place about numbers of other churches, I pray in the name of

Jesus be removed. Yes, for a season we needed to be this. But Lord, that season

is over. And the season of numbers is starting of father. And I pray and bless

this church in the name of the Father, Son and the Holy Spirit. And I pray that

the doors of this church is open for multiple services of father that does

not just take place on a Sunday, because Sunday is not the only day where we can

worship you. I pray that a Monday of father, a Tuesday, a Wednesday, a Thursday,

a Friday, a Saturday, a Sunday, a Sunday that would have a morning service, an

evening service and after service, I pray in different locations, it will not be

Jacob or father, but there are several of father leaders that are rising up. And

there are several congregations of father that are spreading across this

entire Vancouver. And that is what we got to break in. We are no longer afraid of

numbers.

What if one Jacob could have 200? What if a father, the entire church would have

each at 200? I pray Lord God, the harvest is ripe. There is a shift in our hearts.

If you care, if you care just the way he cares, they will come. If you care, that's it.

If you care the way he cares, they will come. If you care the way he cares, they

will come. If you don't care for them, who will care for people? Number two, if

you do not open your mouth and witness, who will witness? How will they be saved

if we don't witness and preach? We got to come out of what is called as evangelical

nice. We are so diplomatic that we don't want to hurt anybody. The gospel

confronts people and we got to open our mouth and speak. Will you turn with me to

Romans in chapter 10 and verse 13 and 14 and can we all read together Romans

Romans 10:13

chapter 10 verse 13 and 14. Can we all read together? Everyone, everyone. Should

I wait? Okay. Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved. How then

can they call on the one they have not believed in? How can they believe in the

one of whom they have not heard and how can they hear without someone preaching

to them? So how can they hear without someone preaching to them? If we do not

open our mouth, who will open the mouth? If after, maybe it's not preaching, maybe

it's not maybe immediately shoveling the gospel into their throats. No, it's about

when will we share about the goodness and the faithfulness of our God? When will we

share with someone? When will that boldness come? Because Acts chapter 1 and

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verse 8 says, you shall receive power after that the Holy Spirit has come upon

you and you shall be my witnesses in Jerusalem and Judea and Samaria to the

utmost parts of the earth which means like each and every one of you seated

here has been anointed by the power of the Holy Spirit. How many of you believe

that? I mean as a community we are anointed. Is this an anointed community?

If this is an anointed community then he has actually empowered us and he has

given us the power to be witnesses and that means we have the power but we are

not using the power. Every now and then we charge ourselves and we drain the

charge. We have not done anything about it. Did you know that if you actually

have a cell phone and you charged it full and you just leave it in one place,

did you know that even if you didn't use it to call somebody it will start

draining off its power and God is saying that some of you actually come here on a

Sunday and get charged. You go to your house churches and you get charged but

then you don't do anything about the power that is charged inside of you

because you are not opening your mouth. There is not even a small little effort

that is taking place between Monday to Saturday because next Sunday you come

and then you get charged and you go and do nothing about it from Monday to

Saturday. That must change.

Mass evangelism is not the means by which people came to Christ.

Historically two percentage of people came to large meetings. Any large

meetings only two percentage of people came but 85 percent. Did you know that

through media ministries you know how many people came? How many percentage?

Only four percentage of people come through media ministries. All of the

money pumped. Yes, it's television through television evangelism four to five

percentage. Two percentage through mass crusades and do you know the maximum

number of people coming to Christ is because 85 percentage of people come to

Christ because of what is called as Vicos evangelism and what's Vicos

evangelism? Vicos evangelism is household evangelism which means I actually go to

someone who's my acquaintance, my friend, my family, my colleague, my co-worker, my

exercise mate in the gym or whatever you have. Whoever you are with on a

regular acquaintance. 85 percentage of such people come to Christ because you

have personally opened up your life. They are not just listening to the gospel

message that has been preached with your mouth but they are seeing that

through your life. They see peace and they see joy and there's something

different about you and when they look into your eyes something is different

and something is changing, something is clicking, something is different about

you. The presence of God is over your life. When you walk in, oh the presence

of God actually begins to actually get activated into their

lives. When you walk the corridors of your office something is happening in

those cubicles. If you would go out with that power that the Holy Spirit has been

giving unto you, you will be witnesses. You will be witnesses. Yes we need to

open up our mouth once in a while but most of the times it's about seeing you.

We are not even thinking about it Monday to Saturday. There's a huge disconnect

Monday to Saturday. We are not intentional about it. We don't do anything

about it. When was the last time that you actually did something? At least even if

you didn't actually open your mouth with someone, when was the last time you

actually left home thinking that you want to actually bring someone to Christ?

Unless that changes, we are not going to break in. Yes we will bounce back. Yes we

will actually break forth but we will not break in because the kingdom of this

world has to become the kingdom of God and of his Christ and he needs to be

ruling forever and ever and he trusts each and every one of us with his

mandate. Go make disciples of all nations baptizing them in the name of the Father

Son and the Holy Spirit and teaching them to observe all things that which I

have commanded. I'm with you always. I'm with you always. I'll empower you always.

Would you open your mouth and start doing something about it from Monday

through your Saturday? Sunday is a great recharge but what happens is that you

lose your charge to recharge on a Sunday again. This pattern in Acts 29 must be

broken.

Tomorrow when you go to your office, when you go to your grocery stores, when you

go to the gym, when you go to do something, there must be a change in

attitude. Is that okay? Do you really care? It all begins with that. If you care, then

you would do something about it. If you care only for yourself, you won't do

anything about it. This is breaking in. This is breaking in. It starts with

caring. It starts with caring for outsiders. It starts with caring. It

proceeds on to becoming witnesses. Number three, if you don't shepherd

who else will? Who will shepherd them if we don't? Matthew 9, 35 and 36. Jesus went

through all the towns and villages teaching in their synagogues, proclaiming

the good news of the kingdom and healing every disease and sickness. When he saw

the crowds, he had compassion on them because of four hedges. Okay, number one,

they were harassed. Number two, they were helpless. Number three, they were homeless.

Number four, they were shepherdess or headless. They did not have anyone as

shepherds or heads over them. These are the four things. When Christ is

saying in the context of that particular scripture, the harvest is plenty, the

laborers of you, he's not just looking for some laborer. No, he's looking for

shepherds who would first bring them into a community because if harassment

and helplessness of people will never cease if they don't actually have a

community. And that's the reason why we are continuing to emphasize that you

need to be part of a community and that you need to start building communities.

Jacob, how many communities are there already? Nine of them are in the days to

come. For the amount of time that you guys have sat on the pews and listened

to Jacob, you by now must be teachers. You by now must be shepherds.

Harassment and helplessness of people will cease when they have a home and

when they have a head. Harassment and helplessness will cease when they have

a community home and when they have a head, a shepherd. Would you rise up to

shepherd? Would you rise up to care? Would you rise up to feed? Would you rise

up to actually equip yourselves? There's not even one person here who shouldn't

be a shepherd. Everyone is called because now you are a chosen generation. You are

a royal priesthood. You are a holy nation. Listen to this. The clergy-lady

divide that has been brought in by the constant-time Christianity right from

the third century, Protestant evangelical reformation did not change

one bit of Roman Catholicism. I know that I'm making a very radical statement

here. The only thing that Protestant reformation has brought forth is there is

a better understanding of what the gospel is. Apart from that, the 500 years

of Protestant evangelicalism is nothing but Roman Catholicism continued on with

a better understanding of what the gospel is. For Roman Catholicism said

that by good works you may achieve salvation. Martin Luther and the early

reformers came and said, no, you will not be actually attaining salvation by works.

You will actually attain salvation because of faith and grace of God and

the faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. Period. Not by works but for works and

that was what the Protestant reformers brought about. Apart from that, 500 years

is continuing on with Roman Catholicism which actually believes that Jacob is

the priest and we are all lately sitting in the pew which is the false doctrine

of the Protestant reformation world. The priesthood of all believers must be

embraced and Acts 29 must embrace the priesthood of all believers which means

that each and every one of us must rise up as shepherds. Number one, you and I

need to start having concern. That means you need to actually rub yourself with

God. You need to have a touch from God every day of your life. If you would

actually climb onto the bottom of God and put your ears onto the heart of God,

you will actually start moving in the concerns of God. Because you don't do

that, you don't have concerns. If I would climb into the bottom of my father and

place my ears on his chest and bottom and if I would have his embrace and he

locks me in, all that I can hear is his concerns. None should perish. All should

come to repentance. None should perish. All. It all begins with climbing into the

bottom of Jesus and hearing his heartbeat and having the boldness of the

Spirit and opening up our mouth to share to those who are our acquaintances and

then willing to shepherd those who are coming. Because if you are going to bring

someone to the church and expecting Jacob to shepherd, no, Jacob is not even

going to be here this night. I'm going to take him to Toronto. Then we're going to

say, Jacob, go here. Jacob, go there. And we go. We actually are doing what needs to

be done across the globe, which means Acts 29 is left behind. Unless you raise

yourself as shepherds, we will be a failure. We will be a failure. It's not you

being a failure. Jacob is a failure. I'm a failure. Everyone is a failure. If we

really don't measure up and become shepherds of God's people, are you getting

it? Harassment, helplessness is solved because we give them a home and we give

them a shepherd.

Fourthly, who's going to go beyond the local? Who's going to go beyond the local?

From amongst you, God is going to set apart a few that's going beyond the local.

That you actually take your bags and start moving to places not knowing where

you're going because God would actually not give you full clarity of the place

that you're going but that you would be able to take your bags and say, yes, God.

I want to leave behind my father's house. I want to leave even anybody who wants to

tag along with me. And I'm willing to go. I'm willing to go. Who will go beyond the

local? Who is willing to go beyond the local is a crucial, crucial aspect of

breaking in. Yes, we have had a bounce back. Yes, we have had a break out. But who

will break in? The breaking in happens because I'm able to think beyond the local.

And that you, every time we worship, and this is what I don't understand about the

21st century church because every time there was worship in the scriptures, it

was actually breaking forth into missions. Because anyone who touches the

throne room of God and goes back, oh, thank you, God, for your presence is missed

out big time of his presence. Because when in presence to go and who will go

for me? That's the voice that comes after holy, holy, holy is the Lord God

Almighty. The whole earth is filled with your glory. Holy, holy, holy is the Lord

God Almighty. Oh, what a wretched man I am. Yes, I am a man with sinful lips and

I speak things that are not okay. I'm not okay, God. Yes, I know that you're not

okay, but I have coal in my altar that I can take and cleanse your lips. That's my

job to cleanse you, but it's your job to respond when I ask this important

question, who will go for me into Amsterdam? Who will go for me into Astana?

Who will go for me into Almaty? Who will go for me into Tbilisi? Who will go for

me into Batumi in Georgia in Eastern Europe? Into Kazakhstan? Into Almaty?

Into Astana? Into certain parts of Mongolia? Into certain aspects or and to

help certain churches in Indonesia and Jakarta that Jacob will be actually

working on?

Would you do something about it after you came to Dubai and process whatever

you have processed? Would you do something about it or would you not do

anything about it? There are specific questions that God is asking us as a

church together. Please, maybe my tone is a little different this evening, but I'm

not angry with you. I'm not angry with you. I'm just carrying the concerns and

questions that the Spirit has for the church. I'm not angry with you. God is not

angry with you.

He's putting on his foot on the gas pedal because he's saying, I can't be

any longer. I've waited for you. Acts 29. It's time. Who will go beyond the local?

As long as you are having concerns about the creeper over your head, you will not

have the concerns of God. You will not even realize that a hundred and twenty

thousand people in Nineveh, in a city, God is concerned about.

So will you carry the same concern that God has for cities and nations? Will you

be a person who would open your mouth to speak and witness? Would you shepherd

God's people? Would you go beyond the local? Because there's a season that's

coming when Europe is opening up for Vancouver. Jacob would go and inaugurate.

Will you go and support? Who will go? You will be able to raise your hands and say,

Here am I. Send me. Here am I. Send me.

Fifthly, if you don't give, who's gonna give? Who will give generously if we

don't? There is a season that's coming for this church where there is a radical

generosity. And I very specifically, this is the word the Spirit is using, a

radical generosity, which means like it goes beyond everything. You're able to,

some of you have the ability to make wealth. Some of you are having the ability

to have a greater faith for your needs that you are able to extend. There are

some people who are cutting out and simplifying lives, where the formula of

a disciple lifestyle is simplicity plus contentment plus generosity.

Simplicity, contentment and generosity that you actually cut down certain

things and give generously. You're hitting contentment. You're hitting

simplicity and you are moving into generosity and it's ways and means by

which Christ is expecting from Acts 29 in this new season that you would break

in into a radical form of generosity. It's not just generous giving. It's

giving of your lives. It's giving off certain aspects of your life in order to

be generous. And I love the scriptures. Even this morning, Jacob was talking

about the scriptures. Second Corinthians, chapter 8 was 1 to 5. And now brothers

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and sisters, we want you to know about the grace that God has given the

Macedonian churches in the midst of very severe trial, their overflowing joy and

their extreme poverty welled up in rich generosity. For I testify that they gave

as much as they were able and even beyond their ability, entirely on their

own. They urgently pleaded with us for the privilege of sharing in the service

to the Lord's people. In fact, they came and pleaded that Jacob one day must tell,

hey don't give. And you got to plead with Jacob, please. That's radical generosity.

When you're pleading with the leaders of this church and saying, want to give,

please receive it. Please receive this. When you're doing too much, that must be

the saying of this church. I love what happened in the nation of Israel when

Moses was collecting an offering for the temple of the Lord that he was actually

saying, hey it's enough. Don't give anymore. Radical generosity must become

part and parcel of their life, entirely on their own. There is no nudging. There

is no aha, do this, do that. We are not psyching you up in order to give. No, you

are entirely on your own and you are gently pleading with us for the privilege

of sharing in the service to the Lord's people. And they exceeded our

expectations. They gave themselves first of all to the Lord and then by the will

of God also to us, which means, hey you got and every one of you first and

foremost give yourself fully to the Lord and secondly you are really giving

yourself to the leaders. It's not only giving yourself to the Lord but also

trusting and saying, God I know there is a potential for abuse but we want to

trust this Jacob. We want to trust the leaders of this church. We want to trust

Derek and Iris and we want to trust me and yesterday we had this wonderful

apprentice into the service that has been appointed over this church.

Jacob continues to travel. We trust these folks and we entrust ourselves to God

and entrust ourselves to you guys.

Yeah, okay let's take one three and five. One three and four. You don't want me to

touch on five? Okay let's talk about one three and four. Is that okay?

Because I believe two and five will happen. Let's see one three and four. Is

there any questions you guys have? Is it clear? Who shepherds the shepherd?

When you...

So there are two... One of the things that you and I need to come to a place is

that the shepherds have a great shepherd who shepherds us. Okay because one of

the... What is... When do we become shepherds? We become shepherds when we

are actually met. If we are harassed and helpless we cannot shepherd. So for us

harassment and helplessness must be solved because we have found a home and

we have also found mentors and shepherds. That's one. But we have a great shepherd

too. Today I have a Jacob that I can call in times of crisis and I... There are

times that I have cried to Jacob about issues and difficulties that you're

going through. There are times that Jacob actually calls and says it's too painful

what's happening. So for the shepherds of shepherds is quite a small number but it

doesn't happen quite often because you by now you are a shepherd who has learned

to function under the great shepherd and that comes to the first day that we

spoke about bouncing back. We need to learn the art of encouraging ourselves

in the Lord. We need to really have touch from heavens and clear directions from

heavens. So those are the things of a mature disciple of Christ. Who's a leader

of God's household. He is a mature disciple of Christ who is able to lead

himself well. He's able to lead his family. He's able to lead others in the

community and those are the people that needs to be shepherds and that's

a process that we all need to rise up. But over a period of time because of so

much of instructions teachings we have come to a place where we don't actually

look for a shepherd but that we measure up and be shepherds. Yes there are times

that we need one another and so we may not have people above us sometimes but

we have peers amongst us and therefore I can actually go to a Sheldon and say

Sheldon I trust you man just hold this on to you but this is what I'm going

through and Sheldon can there can be a peer to peer shepherding that can take

place. It need not be always about top-down shepherding. A peer to peer

shepherding that can take place. Is that helping process? Thank you. Anybody else

any other questions?

Yes.

How?

How can we entrust ourselves to you?

Yeah I think it's a good question to process. One is trust. But these

guys would not really mess in their directions for your life. You need to

come to a place where you trust God and trust the leaders in that they would not

direct you wrongly. That they have the best interest for you and so moment

it's entrusting happens because you trust. Because you trust you entrust and so

it's a process of trust that you got to develop amongst the leaders. So sometimes

it takes a period of relationship and so if you never knew Derek and Iris then

you need to actually ask Derek and Iris can I take you out for dinner or

can I actually go somewhere with you and can I spend this time with you guys. So

sorry Derek I'm just introducing you into this whole process. May God give you

enough grace. But that's entrusting yourself to your leaders is a

process of trusting your leaders. Because you develop that trust you're able to

entrust. If you're not able to trust you cannot entrust. And so to a place where

this morning I was having discussions with the larger apostolic team that on

the zoom and one of them I was telling that in the old paradigm this

paradigm of the modern missionary era from the 17th century is that missionaries

will ask God God where should I go and God will say like Adhoni Ram Jatsen or

David Livingston or all these great missionaries and the missionary stories

that they've heard a place and they went to a place. But Timothy never asked Paul

okay Paul is telling Timothy Timothy go to Ephesus Timothy go to Thessalonica

and Timothy is not sitting and telling Paul Paul wait a minute I need to ask

God whether he is sending me. No he never asked because they believe they were

part of the same team and they were interested together as same team and

because the team actually wanted Timothy and found and Paul found Timothy to be

the best fit to handle the issues in Ephesus that Paul could say to Timothy

Timothy go there. He's not sitting scratching his head and thinking God are

you really sending me to Ephesus. No Paul is sending me to Ephesus that's a

period that's God sending me to Ephesus because we are all in the same field

working together for the same God we are building the same Church of Jesus

Christ and when you are entrusted you're not actually sitting down. Yes God may

put a particular place as a passion in your heart and because you're entrusted

you are telling hey this is the place that that's burning in my heart and

Jacob may say not now would you still trust? He may be a little later but first

can you take care of Sari before you take care of Timbuktu? That's entrusting

yourself. Is that helpful?

The other way around I'm so sorry and I'm sorry I'm not even able to fully

comprehend what you're saying. Okay thank you. Anybody else?

Yes. Can a family member shepherd you? Actually fathers are supposed to

shepherd. Family members can shepherd. A mother can. Because the whole picture of

shepherding that so you need to understand that in the New Testament

there are two imageries that are used. One Peter uses so frequently and is

called the shepherding imagery but Paul on the other hand very rarely uses

the shepherding imagery and he uses an imagery of the father the mother. I was

a father to you. You could have a thousand guardians but you couldn't have

a father like me. We were fathers amongst you. We were mothers amongst you and

therefore this whole idea of shepherding is fathering parenting. Parenting towards

the whole of a why are we parenting that first firstly we are parenting and

shepherding so that Christ is fully formed in people's lives and as Christ

is formed in people's life that we are able to actually know and hear the

heartbeat of God and fulfill his heartbeat. These are the two simple things

that we have a dynamic relationship with Christ so that we would have and become

like Christ and we actually capture what's in his heart which is nations,

cities, towns, villages, people, his heartbeat. These two things are the core

of our shepherding and therefore how do we help people become more and more like

Christ. That's the whole discipleship process and a disciple is a commission

disciple and therefore we are about communities and multiplication of this

communities worldwide.

Who's shepherding? Just care. It's just not care. Shepherding is not just care.

Shepherding is actually shaping an entire life to become Christ-like, to

fulfill Christ's commission. That's the goal of shepherding. It is inclusive of it but it's

it's only a small part of it.

It all depends on which stage you are in. There may be some in this seated here who

needs shepherding and there are some people who have been here for a very

long period of time who needs to rise up as shepherds and so both would be part

of a community and both needs to be simultaneously worked on.

They need to bring it to the notice of the

handsomest shepherd, Jacob's shepherd. It needs to be brought if in case you are not

really shepherded well then it needs to be brought because Jacob is the one who

appoints the shepherds and therefore needs to be brought to the notice of

Jacob to be discussed thought through and maybe the one who feels I'm not

shepherded well is actually expect there may be an expectation mismatch and

that's the reason why they feel or they look up to okay because the challenge

with apostolic kind of leaders they are charismatic kind of they have a

charismatic about them and sometimes we expect in local shepherds what you see

in Jacob that's a big mismatch shepherding does not have to be too

charismatic shepherding needs a set of skills that is more listening guiding

helping it does not have to be always giving a series of prophecy need not and

therefore there needs to be a slowly a shift in our understanding of who

shepherds are maybe another time that we can sit and explain apostolic kind of

leaders charismatic apostolic kind of leaders with that's a little different

from local church elders and deacons shepherds and deacons yes is that

anybody else

just Bishop is your name Bishop Jacob James Bishop T James you're bringing me

back to the point number one okay how do we care for the world like how Christ

it it's it's it's a heart that we are talking about so what are we doing to

the least of the brethren what are we doing to the least of the brethren is my

heart basic simple simple simple understanding is

Jacob has taught this before me and my family and we make sure that everything

else actually is done for me and my family I want God and his church for me

and my family I want to work for me and my family I want the money for me and my

family I want possessions for me and my family that's our state this must shift

and must be disciples to Christ and his family if I have that as the center of

my life and rally around family my family for Christ and his family if I

rally around work for Christ and his family if I rally around money for

family if I rally around possessions for Christ and his family that shift

actually brings about a whole different focus and that means you are beginning

to care about somebody else outside and not just about you

so hot that beeps starting intercession good but it's not enough a heart that

breaks down for people and praise is good but what good it is we just actually

break down weep and pray and we have no action so it really needs to translate

into action I am what I'm hearing that's happening with Derek and Tony and me and

all are you you guys are going out and reaching out to our 70 to 80 guys who

are meeting once in a wally and Wally and so we need to actually do more Wally's

and it needs to not only be amongst the needy and the drug addicts and the

difficult people needs to happen amongst every spectrum of the society maybe

that's what Derek wants to do but you guys need to do whatever God has given

but we need to reach out so the concern for others is the concern of Christ

which actually happens because you you have left your me and my families you

are giving up on you and your minimum I'm saying you and your family have to

be careful God has given us a family and why has he given us a family not not for

me God has given me a wife and God has given me a son to steward them for

Christ and his family I have I don't own them I steward them for what I steward

them for Christ and his family

Christ and his family means Christ in his church third point

shepherding we've been talking a little bit about shepherding and so would you

rise up and start doing something about so because we have concern and because

we are evangelizing for for this group of people there are shepherds who will

actually shepherd those who are going to come because already Derek and May and

Betty and everyone is already taking care of people so when newcomers come to

church who will shepherd the guys here who are already being shepherded are the

ones who need to raise up as shepherds because others are maxed out already but

we need to start thinking about being royal priesthood being shepherds within

God's house do you believe that you have been called everyone if you have been

saved you have to be a disciple if you are a disciple you are a commissioned

disciple there is there is no there's there's no other way if you are a

disciple then the great commission is yours because a disciple is a follower

of Christ and his teachings and the greatest teaching is to go into all the

world and make disciples and love the Lord and so you got to be discipling

others and shepherding others and therefore that's third important thing

and the fourth thing is a few more months Europe is going to open up for

acts 29 and I I hope and I pray that one of you two of you three of you actually

take your bags and move from Vancouver into Europe who will that be

not just going and coming that's one one thing is for going and coming is for a

period of time it's for some years that we shift everything to go

maybe Amsterdam maybe somewhere in some Eastern Europe or last time where did

you go to Austria Austria Hungary okay better ever Danube flows simple if you

really want to think right wherever that Danube River flows think of those

nations

yeah wherever the Danube

Jacob over to you

one of the things we'll have to change the tax training is the pride we take

and being a strong church being very well taught disciples that has to now

go just like we very not all that worried about what music sounds like or

what there's this pride that we have and oh this church is a see a Ben by Shiva

yeah sorry you were trying to leave silently I just wanted to spoil that

yeah so there's this pride we taken we are a strong church we are that quality

will have to go it'll have to be people that are discipled enough to disciple and

not set the bar so high that everyone has to reach a mark before they can

disciple that'll have to be something that changes because the bar is there's

an element of pride attached to it that has to change you got no pride when it

comes to music not because the musicians are bad just because it doesn't matter

that's one thing that has to change the second thing that has to change is like

he said an aversion to numbers that mega churches and mega pastors are really

sucky and he's one of them and that it's not true you have to ask forgiveness

yeah you have to repent and most of it has come from me I didn't want to meet

him the first time someone brought him to me so that's another thing that has to

change and then the third one is we're not really concerned we really don't

care as that much we care maybe when we go to Wally but if you took a Wally away

what would happen so we don't care that much so the three things

that have to change

so let's just pray for that and see where we go with that so father first I

repent for the route that I have introduced into this church of having a

distaste or dislike for that which is big or has too many numbers because all

always thought it was fake and not authentic and that's not what you are

asking us to continue so we repent of that I repent of that because I

introduced that route and we repent of that as a church yeah we take pride in

being strong and small and effective not like those other churches and so that

of talk has to stop and we repent of that from me it's spread to the rest of

the congregation to the leaders so we change that it doesn't have to be in the

same place yeah the same location yeah can be multiple multiple locations yeah

numbers because always when it becomes larger in becomes harder to come to

yeah well what we change that father and we say yes to numerical increase the New

Testament was always about numerical increase so that's one the second thing

father we want to at least I want to change and the church wants to change

this that you don't have to be terribly strong and learn it to be able to

shepherd father we've set a standard that's a little too high first time

Peter preached 5,000 and those guys were ill-equipped though they had spent two

and a half years or three and a half years with Jesus so could you help us

with that father to begin to lose that very high standard that we've set which

becomes very difficult then for people to qualify so we look towards maturity

but we lower the standard of a that we have set which is perhaps no longer

applicable in our case

the priesthood of all believers isn't really fully real in this church yet

and 30 father

you don't care enough

our wine that gives us shade is important you don't care enough

so we start with these three things father want to change if you want to

break in

the fourth thing father was something that Chad was speaking about yesterday he said

that are you willing during times of harvest to work night and day and not

with excuses can you say that yes I've worked eight hours but I will come or

will you say no no we had a long day we don't want to drive anymore or we had a

long day or this has happened father during times of harvest farmers work

tirelessly night and day father there are a group of people in this church that

work tirelessly night and day but there's a large number that don't

I pray that that would change father

I'm not feeling condemned about this I just want this to change nor am I

condemning but just want us to change

this is so not like yesterday

father so I call forward right now first anyone who is a believer in this church

so I call forward right now first anyone who is a leader anyone who leads the

house church and anyone who assists in a house church just to come to the front

and kneel and pray pray that this would happen with them

I ask that first and it come up right now pray for these four changes that they

would begin at some point as they're praying that the rest of the church would

come to the front saying we are the next wave we are the next wave we are the

next wave doesn't matter where they came one month ago whether they came 15 years

ago that these four things will now begin father the entire church will turn

up in the frontier then can you remove this

what are we praying we're saying that oh god these four things we are going to

change one that we welcome numbers might be over 20 different places but we

say yes to numbers and if you have caught on to that route that I planted

then you repent of it saying now numerical growth was part of what the

New Testament Church engaged in to have we will not set standards that make it

difficult for people to end up in that place where they can begin to shepherd

that as the numbers come we lower the standards that sounds like such an odd

thing to say but we will so that more can be added to shepherd three every

don't care how we need hearts that care

what was the fourth one

pardon yeah will will I work tirelessly for harvest or will I come up with

excuses like I work too hard

it's my only weekend a baby didn't sleep eight hours only slept seven hours will

I come up with stuff like that don't want my house to be dirty

will this be our excuse father this is what we repent of as leaders first and

then the present leaders and then father the rest of the church is going to come

up if you've been here more than a month then we will all come up father because

this is what you're calling us to till the pews will be empty

I'll be so symbolic that these pews need to be filled because there are enough

shepherds up there so that's what we start to do now father

hallelujah

for me to do the next thing I want to do this change is important to me says

God so please change your saying change Jacob you change

so far I'm going to put down the mic but I have been to repent loudly enough

father so we can join together in changing these things

you

you

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you

you

you

father could you buy the power of your spirit every morning for the next six

months of the year begin to remind us that you were born to witness you were

born to witness with your lives and with your words it's not a thing that

occupies our mind every morning father could you change us in this father

change me about so easy to lose that focus as I go now to Toronto there will

be a desire for people a desire for people you desire people you desire

people something that shifts in a heart and then shifts according to that

diagram everything is for one purpose Christ and the church not the church

acts 29 Christ and the church that will keep growing others that have to be

added

so we surrender the pride in what we have become we surrender the pride in

what we have become

we lay down exclusivity that we have cultivated we shift our boast once

against to Christ and his love for the world shift our boats from ourselves

from acts 29 from some of our fine qualities that you have brought we shift

our boast from acts 29 to the Christ who laid on his life so that all might be

saved and none may perish we shift our boast Oh God

I shift my boast from what we have become to Christ and what he wants to

do through us and what he has made us

and we come to this time of harvest and I say father I can work harder I can

work harder I can work harder across this room we say we can work harder we

will not let our work our possessions the desire for more and more and more

possessions the desire for money security stability physical strength

get in the way of what we need to do no more father these excuses they're not

valid excuses

so I repent of laziness laziness as in finding time for myself during the time

of harvest

this church has strong laborers I'm a strong laborer but I cannot afford

anymore to find time for myself during times of harvest there'll be other times

but not during harvest night and day night and day they work to get it all

in before the rain and the wind comes and ruins and rots it this is that time

father I'm gonna hand things over to Derek to conclude because Chad and I have

to leave but before we leave we just sent to Nino for another harvest in

India he leaves on the seventh he postponed things by a week we are

grateful that he did father we are richer because he did so with great joy

in our hearts glad that he and his wife will be coming back in a month or so we

send him we say to me we send you we send you as a laborer that is faithful

we send you as a laborer in the name of Jesus Christ we send you as a laborer

from this body to India we bless you as you go grant and many immunity that God

gives and the authority that God gives be yours and annulis as you work there

because the earth and its fullness thereof belongs to God and the nations

are his inheritance so we send you well Tony we send you well in Jesus name

father so we are grateful for it we are grateful for Chad and what he has been

able to do over the last three days I myself I'm a little surprised that he

did it himself really I mean that father and what a splendid job of her

so we as a church are grateful for using him to change the next couple of years

of her life that's what this man has done so I'm grateful father we are

grateful as he goes now to Toronto we bless him he has to go to India to

Boston then to India strengthen his body above blesses so me and Nathan at home

yeah in Jesus name

father we want to continue on because there is still more to be more to be

transacted about there are exchanges that still need to happen so we wherever

we are under this roof our hearts and our minds right now are on you Jesus we

look at that cross where you died for us you shed your blood blood for us today

we can sit here like this because you have transferred us from the kingdom of

darkness into the kingdom of light you have made us sons and heirs to the

kingdom so father we find a rightful place in you yesterday we heard that

Paris or two days ago it was bouncing back then we heard breaking in or

breaking out we find a rightful place in Yoruba for each person sitting here we

find a rightful place in you and that rightful place first of all begins with

us recognizing ourselves as sons and daughters that's the fundamental place

we find ourselves in a bar so father we look at our hands some of us physically

we look at our hands and we see the ring that's put on our hands because we are

sons and daughters on whom you've said you're my son you're my daughter here is

my ring of acceptance here's my ring of acceptance you are to me like Jesus we

wear the ring of acceptance on our fingers so father that is the place from

where we go forward and then now about the second thing you want to do is we

want to align our expectations with your plans and purposes because our

expectations of you are so small it's so mid-sized but we do not serve a mid-sized

God we serve you father and so we right now we align our hearts our plans with

your plans we lay our ambitions and our agendas down we don't want to carry them

forward about even as I speak right now if we respond to this I know that what

we would be laid down at your feet you will take them away and you're going to

replace those things with your purposes in your plans in our hearts in our minds

so father I come to you and I say there are nations on my mind that I thought I

have to go to there are places I thought I have to go to there are things that I

thought I have to do in my life to be successful or to be defined as yeah he

did well we we laid those things down we laid those things down we want your

plans about we want your dreams we want your plans and your dreams so we we lay

we remove limitations we remove limitations then in our expectations our

expectations are not mid-sized anymore our expectations are true God-sized about

so it really means then that because we are sons and daughters we now begin to

think of our lives very differently than how we have thought about it our

expectations are not small because we serve you the god of this universe you

created everything you own the nations you rule over them so how can our plans

and our our desires and you be so limited it cannot be it cannot be so we

remove those limitations about from our minds we remove it father one of the

things you're reminding us is and we've been hearing about it over and over

again you are a supernatural God and everything supernatural is from your

spirit and so we recognize that we carry your spirit we carry your spirit it

doesn't matter when we got saved or born again it doesn't matter where it

happened it doesn't matter how much we know we have your spirit inside us

because your spirit helps us when we are weak your spirit gives us strength when

we are weak when we are poor you aid us you help us so we are carriers of your

presence we are carriers of your presence we have your Holy Spirit inside

of us about these are simple truths but sometimes we have so complicated

everything that we cannot function because there are there is too many

things on our mind when your gospel is so simple when your good news is so

easy for anyone to understand and for us to live out so we take complexities away

we don't want complex things we want your simple truth that sheds light in

our inward most parts so that we can be torchbearers so that we can be light

bearers so that where we walk about there is such truth in us that darkness

cannot stand that is what you're asking of us father so as a church then from

where we are sitting down as you prompt us we're gonna speak out loud about in

response to what we what has happened over the last little while so we take a

few minutes to respond to you all to this end of breaking in breaking into

your purposes breaking into your desires for us so we respond collectively

so speak out loud church starting from the first person you've set us free so

that we can work with you Oh God the things that you're calling us to aren't

because of our own anything to do with us not our own glory not our own

abilities God you set us free so that we can freely walk alongside you that we are

yoked with you in the work that you're doing father it's we want to give

ourselves to this we want to fully fully fully fully fully give ourselves to this

to this your work the fact that you're building your church in this world this

is your world and you are building your kingdom in it God we want to give

ourselves to this this is the only cause worth giving ourselves to there is no

other cause that is greater than this there is no other cause not our jobs not

our houses not where we live not how we spend our time this is the only cause

that's worthy of our full and undivided self so father we want to give ourselves

fully to this and we can only do that because you actually made it possible to

do that so we're saying it with gratitude that we give ourselves fully

to this and thank you Jesus that you've made that possible for us

father the very the very breath I breathe is from you so how could I even

imagine using it for anything else how could I even how could I even fathom

using this breath for any of my own pursuits Lord father I will go so send

me father I thank you Lord that you have revealed to this church Lord the

spirit spiritual pride that has to go father I pray Lord that the leadership

in this church Lord will be built up by the word of the Lord and be strengthened

Lord father all the youth and all the young men and women Lord will stand up

like lamb stands and worship father and they will come to you Lord and stand

before you Lord and serve you father as a band of shepherds Lord that will not

be broken a band an army of shepherds that will not be broken father I pray

Lord that we will all together be united father and and join together in one body

in one spirit Lord moving forward to the next season that you have called us into

Lord to no longer stay in the stagnant to no longer stay in stagnancy father

but to move forward father in authentic worship father and I pray Lord that you

will fill our hearts God you will fill our hearts Lord with Christ concerned

Christ burdened father for this church and also for the for for the new people

that are coming about to come to receive receive you Lord and your fullness

father I pray Lord that you will ready us God you will prepare us Lord before

the next generation is about to come Lord that you will birth out of us father

a new spirit a new heart a new burden for you God that will fully establish

what you have called us to do Lord and and not just do Lord but to become

father to become the fullness of Christ Lord and father I pray Lord that all the

young women here Lord will be united God there will be no no conflicts that will

Lord of pray Lord against any form of division in in the young men and young

men and women father because we are we are just starting to grow together as

one body Lord we are all new here father and I pray Lord that you will allow us

to soften our hearts Lord to have a soft to have a soft heart Lord fertile soil

Lord to receive the grace of Christ Lord to be extended to one another Lord to

love one another God and not to be filled with hate not to be filled with

bitterness not to be filled with on deception father of each other Lord but

to be filled with what what you want us to perceive of each other Lord what what

give us the sight to see how Christ sees each other father so that we may be

filled with love Lord instead of whatever devil tries to fill us with

so that we may stand strong as one church God fully united Lord I really

pray for unity in this church God and I pray against any form of disunity father

Lord just grant this father I know you will grant this word thank you father

I will go where you go we as a church will go where you want us to go father

and yeah father amen

yeah so that makes it four more no father I just want to thank you that

you're calling us to do something that you will put in our hearts and you will

give us the desire for I thank you that that we who are shepherds will be

shepherding shepherds and that as long as we are yoked to you we will not go

astray and as long as the ones under us are yoked to you they will not go astray

there's nothing that you're asking us to do as as mavericks or or as lone wolves

you're asking us to be tied directly with you and that is our security that

is our hope and that is our desire so thank you father that this is this is

this is your heart for us and and thank you Lord Jesus that you have made the

way and you've modeled it so beautifully we just have to become more like you and

trust you and yeah I look forward to this about father thank you for the

deposits already done I'm just like you said Christ was slain at the beginning

of the world this work has already been completed father thank you that it is it

is in you and you are in us and I thought father I you are being an artist

tonight I feel like you you're making a beautiful work of art in us and we are

your temple and we are beautiful to you and it's a we and I want to thank you

that every time we say it's yeah I thank you that this is not a you're not

expecting no mistakes from us you're actually you want us to make mistakes

because it's the normal way of learning and we want to make mistakes in trust of

you and your goodness to us and so we love and embrace messiness in each other

and you and thank you for yeah I just pray pray for that we have a home that

we have a shepherd that we we have been helped and that we have you as our help

for everything that we have not yet been helped in and so we are ready we look up

and look out and you'll keep us all together and you'll do marvelous things

in us so it's nine we'll wrap up by 915 I want to I want to say a few things one

of the things that I've learned over the last little while is when Jesus said

that the harvest is plenty and laborers of few he really meant it it was true

then it is true now it's even more true now the harvest is plenty guys it's

plenty laborers of you for the world that's outside there are many many

waiting for our obedience and they are in looking for perfection but sometimes

we want perfection in ourselves before we attempt to do anything for God and

today if you can lay down perfection that'll be a very good start we are not

trying to be perfect because he is already perfect and in our weakness we

find his strength and that's very important because otherwise we look at

ourselves and we try to gauge how much we can do by looking at where we are at

and what's happened and what we've got and that's never good enough but if we

can look at his perfection if we can look at him and say I want all of you

then the equation changes so remember wherever you are the schools you go to

the universities you go to the workplaces you go to super stores you go

to walmarts you go to it doesn't matter the harvest is plenty we think it's too

complex when Jesus said all that all that I want you to do is take this

gospel and this gospel is the power unto salvation we don't need to add

anything else to it so one of the things we really need to do is make things

simple not make things complex make things simple so can we say no to

perfection because it's that one thing that stops us from going ahead in God

because we are waiting for the day when we are perfect and it won't happen until

Christ comes so we can't be waiting for that so then in our weakness we go

because Jesus said that he will work with us day and night and so if we are

ready to work he will work with us he's not saying you go and we'll figure out

what happens later no he says I'll come with you so wherever we go he is with

us and he will bring to pass everything we speak and I want us to all this over

the next little while really lay ourselves down so that the Spirit of God

can rule over us that our flesh and our mind is yielded to him that what we

thought as familiar will say now we don't want that familiarity we want new

things in him I like what Chad said a few days ago we've got to expect for

more man we've gotten very familiar with what we know we've got to break out

into this new thing we've got to expect healings to happen without anyone saying

anything or speaking anything and can we do that as we begin to meet on Sundays

or in house churches as more people gather that those leading and those in

the sitting down doesn't matter who you are but you begin to expect that because

the presence of God is there that healings will break out the thing is we

don't expect that we need to expect that because our expectations have become too

small so let's expect big not afraid of numbers not aiming for perfection then

the last thing I want to say before Jane comes up to sing and lead us in his song

is the seed which is in the sack will not bear anything you've got to take your

hands take the seed from the sack and so it the seed as long as it's in the sack

it's useless our lives as long as we are in this building is pretty useless you

know what I mean we've got to go and not all of us need to do the same things and

one of the things that we said maybe three four weeks ago is that from this

church there was a prophetic word spoken over us long before we most of us came

here that from this group will go out a company of people companies of people so

that's not one or two people going that's a group of people going who will

love each other and who are united in purpose and they go out they have one

mission the mission of Jesus and when it's when we read in Hebrews chapter 11

Hebrews 11 · chapter mention

that they're routed foreign armies with God we can route foreign armies everything

that is said in Hebrews chapter 11 was done by people who are normal like you

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and I so we don't look for perfection anymore and we look to everything that

so as you sing the song I pray that you will talk to him that you will commune

with his spirit and you will lay things down and you'll pick things up that he

is giving you it's so important we're gonna sing the song these are the days

of Elijah because yes these are indeed the days of Elijah these are indeed the

times when you look at the the valley that's filled with dry bones and it will

come alive so prophesy church prophesy prophesy to things that you're looking

at prophesy to the schools that you go to prophesy to your workplace to your

colleagues prophesy because that will change things so when we sing this

please sing this not in the way you've sang the song before but right now when

you sing it lay everything down and say I want to receive everything you have

for me and I want to walk this walk with you because all of your fullness is in me

and so I am able I am equipped I'm not perfect but I am equipped so let's sing

sing this and we'll close after that