Wilderness_Forty_Deliverer

Okay guys, so

We've been talking about wilderness 40

And it started six weeks ago

And this is I think the final week where we exit the wilderness and step into whatever else

God wants us to do and we said when we began that wilderness 40 is basically

the Holy Spirit leading us into a time of drawing aside with God over the last 40 days

so that we can return with a greater revelation of God with greater power and

In the process prepare ourselves

For the post covid landscape that awaits us so that the church will no longer be

Rendered a non-essential service and I'm not talking about the institution. I'm talking about us as people

That was the intent with which we started wilderness 40 and over the last six weeks

Weeks we've covered ground some of you have drawn aside. I know at least one or two of you that

Took on fasts someone just concluded their 40-day fast a couple of days ago others withdrew from

Things so that they could set aside time

I was fascinated by how much you try to draw aside and create time with God so that you come back with a greater revelation

Of him with greater power and prepared for what awaits us that was the intent and I believe it was God led because as I look

at the teachings and go over them, I'm just

Blessed by what has been taught and so today we go on to wilderness 40 the title for today is deliverer

deliverer

wilderness 40 deliverer and so this is a perhaps the last in the series and

Next week we start on something else

So if you look at Luke 4 14 Luke 4 14

Luke 4 14

Boy

Look for 14

So

Jesus returned to Galilee in the power of the Spirit and

News about him spread through the whole countryside

He taught in their synagogues and everyone praised him and so this is immediately after being in the wilderness if you go to verse 12

verse 13 it says when the devil had finished all this tempting he left him until an opportune time and it started off with Luke chapter

Luke 4:1

4 verse 1 where it said Jesus full of the Holy Spirit

Returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness of the desert where for 40 days

He was tempted by the devil and now we are in verse 14

Jesus returned to Galilee in the power of the Spirit and news about him began to spread so

The intent is that if acts 29 actually

Did engage in drawing aside setting time aside to pursue God then it follows that

After you come out of the wilderness

You come out

Cloth

With the power of the Holy Spirit like Jesus

You come out clothed with the power of the Holy Spirit as with Jesus Jesus returned to Galilee in the power of the Spirit

Which then begs the question. What does that look like?

What does that look like?

What does that look like and to look at to see what it looks like go to

Verse 17 look chapter 4 verse 17 and 18. This is what it looks like

The scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him

Unrolling it he found the place where it is written

The Spirit of the Lord is on me because he has anointed me and this is what it looks like to preach

the good news to the poor

To

Heal

The broken-hearted

To open prison doors

To restore sight to the physically and spiritually blind

To comfort those who mourn

To set captives free

And to declare the year of favor declare the year of Jubilee or the year of favor

This is what it looks like

So if acts 29 has

Done what they are called to do as in follow God into the wilderness learn things from the wilderness

While we were there setting time aside, then this is what will happen

That is what it looks like to be clothed by the power of the Holy Spirit because at the end of the day

The word anointed is basically being completely covered with

So to be clothed with the Holy Spirit would look like this for each of us for all of us

Whether we are online or sitting here

This is what it would look like to preach the good news to the poor to heal the broken-hearted

To open prison doors to restore sight to the physical and spiritually blind to comfort those who mourn

To set captives free and to declare the year of the favor of the Lord

And all this is accomplished simply by one thing

Anointing or clothing or the power of the Spirit

So Jesus returns as Israel's son

So Jesus returns as Israel's deliverer from the wilderness

He was baptized. He goes into the wilderness has an encounter

with the enemy but in the process also has a revelation of who he is and who God is comes back and then

He comes back as Israel's deliverer just like Moses

Moses went into the wilderness was there for 40 years

Moses went into the wilderness was there for 40 years

confronts Yahweh confronts him through the burning bush and now Moses returns back to Egypt to deliver Israel

It's it's the same motive that's being played again and again

Moses is rejected by the people he came to Jesus goes opens a scroll and reads it and he is rejected by the people

He came to just because God calls you and asks you to be a deliverer doesn't mean that the road is easy

Doesn't matter whether it's delivering your children delivering your parents delivering people in your neighborhood

Deliverers are not people who have been called and appointed so that they face no resistance a

Deliverer is proved in his resistance because deliverer requires being someone who is able to set people free

Which means they have to come up against someone who has taken them captive

So there will be resistance

But both Moses and Jesus returned from the wilderness and this is what they begin

But the strange thing is it's all by the power of the Holy Spirit

So

I'm gonna pose a question which is just rhetorical. Is this your expectation? Is this your expectation coming out?

of

40 days of wilderness

This must be your expectation if you actually did set aside your expectations

Set aside time to draw close to him then expect the Holy Spirit to respond the Holy Spirit honors anything that is set apart

Understand this guys that setting apart is something that the Holy Spirit loves doing

Loves responding to every time someone sets themselves apart the Holy Spirit responds every time

he specializes in

Taking care of anyone who sets himself apart. What does he say to Manoah and his wife?

Hey, you're gonna have a son. He's gonna be a Nazarite set him apart. What happens the Holy Spirit falls on him

What happens to John the Baptist this boy will be special. He's sent by God set him apart. The Holy Spirit falls on him

Whenever a people set themselves apart it is like a natural provocation

That is always always met with a supernatural response from the Holy Spirit

And when we do not set apart ourselves, then the Holy Spirit has to work on setting us apart

See the difference guys on one hand you have those that do not set themselves apart

Which doesn't mean that the Holy Spirit abandons you now the Holy Spirit has to take up the arduous work of helping you be set apart

but if you

Set yourself apart then the Holy Spirit has the enjoyable work

Of coming upon you with the kind of power that causes this to happen

Any questions

Is this your expectation because or in other words, let me rephrase it this must be your expectation

This must be your expectation

Come otherwise the last 42 days have been wasted all you lost was a little bit of weight a bit of watching TV

This must be my expectation for you this must be my expectation of you

This must be my expectation of God because he's always done this any questions

Strangely it's not your responsibility

Your responsibility is to believe

After years I was reading I mean I've been a Christian for many years and again

I'm reading John 7 37 and 38 and I'm fascinated that the only thing required for the Holy Spirit to flow out of you is

believing

That's all it says it says if you believe out of you will flow rivers of living water

So this is not even my responsibility

But it is required of me to believe this you guys we don't we can't imagine

How much is wrought through believing or taking God at face value or taking his patterns as face value?

part of the reason we should read scriptures is not to get a promise but to understand patterns and

Then believe that God while he is not predictable has behaviors

That if I do this this and this this is the result because wherever there is sowing there is reaping and

So I'm going to believe for this for all of us and I have faith enough for all of us

But if you believe it also it really helps

Any questions

It's not your responsibility except to believe and if you believe then the Holy Spirit begins to flow through you so then

What really did happen in the wilderness?

Why did we spend all that time in the wilderness if the Spirit of God was going to do this anyways, and it's not your responsibility

To answer that

Here's a question. I need to ask while you were in the wilderness

Did you cut a path through the desert for the spirit to flow in your life while you were in the wilderness?

Just like water flows

Through rocks did you while you were in the wilderness did you over the last?

42 days when you drew aside did you cut a path?

through the rock through the deserts of your life to

Cut a path for the Holy Spirit to flow in drawing aside. Here are the questions you need to ask in drawing a side

Hey, can I have some other pen than a red one because there were complaints about the red one last time

Yeah, Derek echo it might hit you but you never know yeah

You just wanted to be on TV you could have easily thrown it

I

While you were in the wilderness did you cut a path through the through the desert for the spirit to flow did you cut a path?

In your life that would make it easy for the spirit to flow

So here are the questions you need to ask in drawing aside over the last six weeks

Did you increase?

Did you?

increase in

Did you increase in?

Character or moral excellence I

Put these boxes because I when I went down this list I realized that I couldn't tick all these boxes

Did you increase in?

Presence filled power

Did you increase in trusting or yielding

To his sovereignty

Or

his absolute rulership

Where you trust him saying I don't understand this I can't see you the light at the end of the tunnel

But I trust your sovereignty. I trust your good fatherness. Did you increase in self-giving?

Where you give of yourself and that which you have and did you increase in the purity of

Love

For others. These are the things that should have happened

These are the things that always happen when people draw aside and spend time with the creator of the universe

These are the things that always happen

With anybody who draws aside and spends time with the creator of the universe you take Moses

He spent time in the wilderness. He changed you take

Paul he spent time in the wilderness. He changed you take Jesus. He spent time in the wilderness

He displayed who he was after that so

This is the list that I want to ask you did this happen for you in the wilderness

As you look back at the last 42 days, which ones can you take tick

Was there a change in your character and your moral excellence the way you function? Was there a change?

Sometimes it takes time for change to be visible, but you know change within you

What was there a difference in terms of how you deal with things?

Very aware of the power of God because you're more aware of his presence presence always translates into power

The closer you are to royalty or a king the greater clout you have

So

Did you trust or yield to his sovereignty where things haven't moved things haven't changed?

You don't know what's happening

You don't know what's happening

But you trust and yield to his sovereignty and his sovereignty is his kingness his fatherhood his lordship his

absolute control over everything

and

His perfect will as in his perfect ways of doing things you are perfect in all your ways

Was there a yielding or trusting of his sovereignty?

Force were you self-giving have you become more self-giving?

Did these last 42 days bring you to a place where you had a loser grip on your money?

loser grip on the time treasure talent strength and

The last one is did is there an increase in the purity of your love?

These are actual measures that you will find in the scriptures again and again to figure out whether someone

Spends time with God because anyone who spends time with God changes did you change?

I'm just saying I couldn't take all the boxes

I'm just saying I couldn't take four boxes and I'll leave it at that. Don't want to know how many boxes I ticked

So what do we do if we can't go through these boxes and take them hey

Continue with this process anyways

Find the areas of deficit and decide that in these areas. I'm not going to back off. I'm going to press forward

Character or moral excellence how have your habits changed? How have your behaviors changed?

How have you changed in terms of a purity not purity of love but purity of love?

Purity not purity of love but purity of character did it get worse or did it get better?

Or was it comes he comes up

Any questions

Moses Jesus Paul chiseled into their lives these traits

When you chisel into your lives these traits the strange thing that happens is the Holy Spirit who has seen that you have set yourself

Apart now finds easy pathways in your life to flow through

It's like a river suddenly finding a secret gorge in the rock face that it

Rushes through because it doesn't have to spend years creating a pathway. It has found a pathway because you were at work

Jesus changes people

Regardless of whether you spend time with him or not if Jesus is in your life there is change and therefore if there is no change

I must begin to question my relationship with Jesus Christ not whether he is present or absent

but whether he is active and

The only reason Jesus is inactive is when I forcibly do not yield my will to him and he'll tolerate that for a while

But because he loves me he'll begin to discipline me

Because

Hebrews chapter 12 says which father does not discipline his children if he did not discipline you you are illegitimate

Hebrews 12 · chapter mention

That's on the side

Okay, any questions

Please go through this list I can give you person after person in the Bible who was changed in these

The disciples my god those disciples were changed man

They changed in their character. They changed in the power that they exuded they changed in their ability to trust God

They changed in giving everything they changed in the purity of their love so much so that people would say we know that these guys

Have hung around with Jesus

Okay

So

You are to return we are to return I am to return from the wilderness as a deliverer

But here's the thing man with being a deliverer

You cannot deliver you cannot deliver

That which

You cannot deliver that which you will

Not lay your life down

In birth pangs or death

This is where God is going to take us over the next few weeks

So Jacob you set yourself apart as a church for the last 42 days

You drew next to me the Holy Spirit always honors those that set themselves apart

Some of you have pressed in and you can take off of two or three boxes

Some of you can take all five you've created pathways in your life through which the Holy Spirit can flow and you can take

The Holy Spirit can flow and you are now being sent anointed by the Spirit to be deliverers ones who deliver others

But Jacob here's a question. I want to ask you then

Actually, and here's a question. I'm asking you

If you want to be a deliver deliverer

I want you to know that you cannot deliver that which you will not lay your life down for in birth pangs or death

I'm not

I'm not playing around with words. I'm not trying to give you a nice sermon

You must understand that there's a dirt in acts 29 in our lives in my life when it comes to this area

You cannot be a deliverer

Till you're willing to lay down your life either in travail and birth pangs

So that someone be delivered or in death so that someone be delivered

If you don't believe me turn to Exodus 32 32

Exodus 32 32 I'll take you through some scriptures a

the unfortunate thing about

Getting serious about God is that?

He's too serious about stuff

And so our choice is either to follow down that road or just play church

And so Exodus 32 32 Moses is in the desert

Israel needs to be delivered

They've made themselves gods of gold

And now Moses says this

But now please forgive their sins, but if not then erase me out of the book you have written

If you want to deliver somebody

If you want to be if you want to be a delivering church we have to be willing to lay our lives down

either in birth pangs as in travail until something is formed or in death

As in life for life dying for someone else

This is the extreme that Jesus is taking us to this is what we'll be talking about in the next few weeks

Otherwise, we just pretend delivering

It's not real

Let me show you another scripture

Isaiah 53 10 and 11 Isaiah 53 10 and 11 I'm reading from the

Message Isaiah 53 10 and 11

Isaiah 53

10 and 11 reading from the message still it's what God had in mind all along to crush him with pain

The plan was that he give himself up as an offering for sin so that he'd see life come from it life life and more life

Life life and more life and God's plan will deeply prosper through him out of that terrible travail of soul

He'll see that it's worth it and be glad he did it

Through what he experienced my righteous one

My servant will make many righteous ones as he himself carries the burden of their sins

Out of that terrible travail of soul, he'll see that it's worth it and be glad he did it

Through what he experienced my righteous one my servant will make many righteous ones as he himself carries the burden of their sins

That's Jesus let's look at paul romans 9

Romans 9

Romans 9:1–3

Verse 1 to 3 from the message romans 9 verse 1 1 to 3 from the message

Romans 9:1

I

Wish I could say this for you man. You'd have such an amazing pastor if these words were mine

But they're not

Romans 9 1 to 3 from the message

At the same time you need to know that I carry with me at all times a huge sorrow

It's an enormous pain deep within me. I'm never free of it. I'm not exaggerating

Christ and the holy spirit are my witnesses. It's the Israelites

If there were any way I could be cursed by the messiah so that they could be blessed by him

I'd do it in a minute

They're my family

Here's what I mean by you cannot deliver that which

You cannot deliver that which you will not lay your life down either in travail or in death either in birth pangs or in death

Let's look at another scripture Galatians 4 19 from the passion translation Galatians 4 19

From the passion translation and here's what it says

And here's what it says

You are my dear children, but I agonize in spiritual labor pains once again until the anointed one will be fully formed in your hearts

You are my dear children, but I agonize in spiritual labor pains

Once again until the anointed one will be fully formed in your hearts

The actual act of deliverance happens by the spirit guys

He sets the captive free

He opens blind eyes. He opens prison doors. He brings comfort to the mourning but

The person through which it will happen radically are people who begin to operate the switch

And I'm saying to us at acts 29 that we are the people who are the people who are the people who are the people who are the people

We don't

See the engine here or the or the or what fuels this whole thing these scriptures is not

Uh is not obedience. It's not like oh father. We are an obedient church. We will go and deliver whoever you tell us to deliver

It's a good thing. It's a biblical thing, but it's not obedience

It's not anointing father anoint us anoint us with your spirit

Let isaiah 61 happen in our lives so that we may go and deliver others. It's not anointing anointing is a great thing

But it ain't that

It's not being apostolic where father sent us out so that we may represent you accurately and set people free

It is not duty where oh god, we are duty bound as believers. We are

Called to set others free. No, it's not faith father. I have the faith to set this nation free. It's not calling

It's not a destiny. It's not nations at the end of the day guys at the end of the day. It is simply this

the

Overwhelming

Ever-ending

Reckless love

Of god, and if this is not there then you can't be a deliverer not the god kind

It is what set you free man, it's not anointing that set you free

It's the anointed one who behaved a certain way that sets you free

All

Those things I mentioned are super important obedience is important anointing is critical

Faith is required calling helps you function in a certain way

Destiny allows you to walk with intentionality nations are waiting being apostolic is biblical

But at the end of the day you can have all that

And yet this one simple factor can be missing and that's why I was asking her to sing that song

Because at the end of the day, I am no deliverer

If i'm not

Engineed by fueled by motivated by one very simple thing the overwhelming never-ending reckless love of god

This is how deliverers work

This is why the spirit of god could fully be upon jesus because he was like this

And this is not

You can't

It is both corporate and individual individuals have to have this burning in their hearts and the body as a whole has to

Embrace this is this is the only thing we have been called to be

Any questions

And this we don't have in trumps guys

This we don't have we have all those other things and they're brilliant and most churches don't have those other things

But this is what we need and if we have this we

Can do whatever god wants to do the way he wants it done

Because anyways guys god is calling us to do what we are incapable of doing and he's calling us to do it by the spirit

I

Writing this message down. I felt god prompting me to watch this movie that many of you probably have already watched hacksaw ridge

It's about this seven day adventist called desmond dos

who

Decides that he will not pick up a gun, but he cannot sit at home

While world war two is going on he gets a job

In a certain

Industry during the war that could do services for the war front. He refuses it

He says I cannot sit at home while my friends are serving out on the field. And so he registers to

join the

battlefield

And yet he won't pick up a gun

He says I will not touch a gun he goes through a lot of

Difficulties he gets court-martialed but at the end of the day without firing a shot and

In the battle of okinawa on a ridge called

Hacksaw he saves 75 people

75 people

And I wanted to show you the clip but then realized that to show you a clip in church requires a

A certain license and we don't have that license so it's

It would be illegal to show you the clip

But you can watch it at home

but one of one of the things that happens throughout this movie and I watched the movie with derek yesterday at least a bit of

it is

He's

Quiet injured. He's got

Blood flowing from different parts of his body. He doesn't touch a gun

And he goes back and starts pulling one person and this is a true story by the way, so it's not made up

And he died in 2006 so he goes pulls one guy brings him and then he lowers him over the cliff and he gets saved

And he saves 75 people like that and every time he saves someone his cry is one more solo god one more soul

When I was watching it I was thinking of jivan

This is what sometimes fuels jivan one more girl. Oh god

One more swati one more devi one more buddhi. Just one more one more

More

I want the same thing to happen for me when it comes to this idea of delivering

the earth

If I don't have his overwhelming never-ending reckless love I can be very effective, but it'll still lack the aroma of yabe

I don't want to do anything godly that doesn't have the aroma of joe hova

So

So just like

Desmond d'os says

One more soul and just like jivan says oh god one more girl or one more kid father that won't kill himself or won't be

discarded

It is life for life guys. It is life on life. It is life to life in the sense that

It is

Deliverance doesn't happen through a prayer that just causes a demon to leave

It's life for life

your life for

Someone else's life and by your life. I'm not saying you have to die because christ has already done that

What i'm saying it requires a pouring out of life

I mean who here could even dare say that oh god, I would rather that you curse me and I never

See your face and be thrown into eternal damnation so that my

Family would be served also that my nation would be served who says stuff like that

Who says stuff like moses did when he says oh god?

Uh, I would that these Israelites that the rest of my people be saved so block me out of your book

But let them be written in who says things like this. Where are these people?

Where are I i'm not even talking about jesus

I'm talking about people like moses and paul one in the old testament and one in the new testament

Man if you become a church like this imagine what what can catch fire?

The 12 the 11 and then

The 12th one who was chosen

The they had this

It was easy for them to run with this

It was easy for them to run with this

It's life for life it's life on life

Life on life

And it's life to life

and what I mean by that is

Jacob if you are really willing to do everything in your power with your life

Leave alone for someone outside of the church if I did this for you

You would change dramatically

There are times when I do it for you

But if this was something that was really heartfelt in my heart, I guess if it's heartfelt it has to be hot

If it was really deep in my heart you would be radically changed

You would be radically changed

Life for life life on life as in it is not some teaching or sermon of points that's given to you

It's always life on life that we get to do

somewhat okay in this church but life for life and then life to life as in it

If this was real guys, you would find that the people that you're working with go from

Normal life to another orbit from normal life to divine life from normal life to eternal life you would find a change

It is impossible to stop this because the life you are pouring out is not yours to begin with we talked about this

Last week that the life that I have is in mind to begin with

I live it in union with the anointed one who lives his life through me

So every time I pour this out and he is waiting

It's the way of the master guys and no cost is too high it is the way of the master no cost is too high

It is the way of the master. This is how jesus did it in john 15 verse 13

John 15:13

He says hey, I don't call you slaves anymore. I call us. I don't call you servants anymore

I call you friends

And what is the best thing that a friend can do for another the best thing that a friend can do for another is lay

Down his life for him. We think that is jesus's prerogative not mine

Which reminds me of the other line in that song that in giving myself away

Regardless of whether the other person deserves it or not whether the person has earned it or not

In giving myself away the way of the master is fulfilled

Because there's that line in that song you give yourself away

I did not earn it nor did I deserve it

I did not earn it nor did I deserve it

You give yourself away

I did not earn it nor did I deserve it guys. Can you go and ponder on this? Can you let it first hurt you?

It should hurt you first

It should hurt you because this is who christ is and this is not who you are yet

And after it hurts you after it pierces you can you begin not to escape the piercing?

Because what god can do with 12 what can he do with 70?

It's the whole thing of giving oneself away so much could change if I saw you as valuable as I am

So much could change if I saw you as valuable as me

I think i'm highly valuable. I think i'm dearly loved. I have a very good estimation of myself

But what if I had the ability to see you as valuable as me?

What would I not do for you?

It may not happen by tomorrow guys, but my god i've been

Yeah, I think i'd love to go down this route because it is the way of the master

Isaiah 43 verse 4

Isaiah 43:4

in the

NIRV the new international readers version puts it very well. Isaiah 43

Isaiah 43:4

Verse 4

Isaiah 43 verse 4 you are priceless to me

Isaiah 43:4

I love you and honor you

I'll trade other people for you. I'll give up nations to save your lives. I pray god that

Other people become priceless to me

I feel

Highly valuable. I feel i'm really valued by god

And I feel i'm valued by people too

I feel that i'm priceless to god. I feel i'm really loved and honored

But I wish I could see you like that and you would get so much more from me if I did that

And same applies to you then towards others any questions guys

Hey, we got to have causes like this man

I don't want to die without having a cause that I would lay my life down for

And christ can't be a cause a cause that christ has must become your cause

Go home and watch that scene. It's called one last one more soul. It's just a three minute 52 second clip

He's just crying off to begin with he's

There are bombs going off all over and he doesn't know what to do and he's standing there

He says I can't hear you. Oh god. I can't hear you. I don't know what to do next. I can't pick up a gun

I don't know what to do next and then as he's saying I can't hear you god

He hears the scream of some person in pain and he knows what he has to do and that begins the journey and keeps saying

Oh god one more soul his hands are flayed because he's got to lower these people

He's got cuts and wounds and bruises and he's bleeding

And yet it is can I have one more soul one more soul 75 people saved he's the only conscientious

Objector to war who's been awarded the medal of honor

One more soul

Man find a cause man. We were born for stuff like this

my god humans

Especially ones that have been

Especially ones that have been

Found by christ and who have been paid for blood by christ now should become like him

Where there must be a cause what kind of life is it? Otherwise?

It's this whole idea of the importance of one importance of one it's that parable of the sheep

Leaves the 99

It's the importance of one

I want you to begin to go down that route. It is the importance of one

the importance

Of one

It is the importance of one

It is the one sheep that strays it is the one woman by the well in samaria that jesus

takes a detour

To meet or to encounter it is the one man on a tree

Whose name is zekias it is the one eunuch?

Who is ethiopian and he's going back to?

Serve candice the queen of ethiopia

It is the one paul who's riding a horse as a persecutor and gets knocked off it one one one

It is this one baby or one little girl that is rescued or one grown-up girl that is rescued

Or one person who is retrieved from sure damage death destruction

That they end up as people that change the world is a separate thing many of them do

Paul became who he became the woman in samaria went and told the entire village

The demoniac in gadrin went to the cities of decapolis and preach the gospel the ethiopian went back

To his country and africa began to hear about christ

That's a different thing the outcome is not what it is. It is a value that is in the person

but we have to understand the importance of one where you

Where you look at someone and you realize that?

I may god not bring god will not bring too many encounters into your life when you begin to go down this route

Which is why jesus dealt with 12

But when you stand before somebody in your daily encounters or sometimes in your

Functional encounters given what people is so easy so quick so fast so dismissive

And now to sing what god is saying to you god is saying to you and we love those lines when betty

Gets into those four lines

She sings the first two lines low and then the next two lines high and she really puts on the writs

But what if it was not god singing to you, but you singing to somebody else?

These emotions will wear out guys

This is nice now it touches your heart it breaks my heart

But tomorrow when there are no emotions, I still have to be able to there's no shadow. I won't light up

There is no mountain. I won't climb up coming after you

There is no wall. I won't kick down. No lie. I won't tear down coming after you

These are this is what deliverers are made of this is the substance of their life

This is the substance of their life

Ezekiel 34 verse 16

Ezekiel 34:16

From the nir we put to this when jesus is talking about god is talking about the shepherds of israel

And he says yeah, i'll be the kind of shepherd you want me to be and he says i'll search for the lost

I'll bring back those that have wandered away. I'll bandage the ones that are hurt. I'll make the weak ones stronger

I'll destroy those that are fat and strong. I'll take good care of my sheep. I'll treat them fairly

I'll treat them fairly

I'll search

This is cool

Motive in most of the lost coin lost sheep story. There is the

Identity as an identify what is lost search for it

Discover it

And then i'm always surprised at how joyful

The response is after it's found there's always a party once it's found

Both in the lost coin and the lost sheep. It is this idea of

Yes, i've identified what's lost. Yes. I've gone searching for it. Yes. I've discovered it. Yes. I'm bringing it back

Yes, I am so joyful over this

You will know the depth of a joy you haven't known yet

When you partner with god in this

You will know the depth of a joy you haven't known yet

It'll have such a divine quality to it

I think i'll stop here

I'll stop here

Um, can you put up the song so will I

So starting in the next few weeks we'll go down this road of what does it look oh god to be this kind of a person

What does it look to

You

Can you sing this song with

Some meaning guys as much as you can muster because when we get to the part where it says god of salvation

it's

pretty

Hey jill, do you know how to play the piano?

Do you want to try this?

Okay, no worries

Anyone else wants to give it a shot if you play the piano?

Yes, even no demon. It's okay

Okay, let's just sing it without so father as we sing this song

There are parts of the song that are so

Speaking into what we've just talked about

Father I plead with you for this change it's critical to our existence

Because there's so much that you've given us so much but this must happen too. It's just the core of your heart. Oh god

This is why you did what you did

And we need this so don't deny us this

I know you won't i'm just trying to tell you how desperate we are how desperate I am

For this in my own life and then for this in the church and for other churches that we are connected with

So as we sing this love

It's just the beginning

Thank you for taking us through the wilderness. It was a really good trip father

Six weeks of really learning encountering finding

God of creation

There at the start before the beginning of time

Of time

With no point of reference

You spoke to the dark and flashed out the wonder of light

Change guys because I don't know the words

God off your promise

You don't speak in vain no syllable empty or void

For once you have spoken

All nature and science follow the sound of your voice

And as you speak

A hundred billion creatures catch your breath

Evolving in pursuit of what you said

If it all reveals your nature, so will I

I can see your heart in everything you say

Heavy painted sky the canvas of your grace

Is if creation still obeys you so will I

If the stars were made to worship so will I

If the mountains bow in reverence, so will I

If the oceans

Your greatness so will I

For if

If the wind goes where you send it so will I

If the rocks cry out in silence, so will I

If the sum of

Still falls shy

Shy

Then we'll sing again a hundred

Okay, this is the part that I really wanted to sing

Look at the words first we'll just go through them and then we can sing them god of salvation

You chased down my heart

Through all of my failure and pride on a hill you created the light of the world abandoned in darkness

This is the whole idea of you cannot deliver that which you are not willing to lay your life down for either in birth bangs

Or in death mothers do this man

Next one

next verse sorry

And as you speak a hundred billion failures disappear

Where you lost your life so I could find it here if you left the grave behind so will I

I can see your heart in everything you've done

Every part designed in a work of art called love if you gladly chose to surrender so will I

I can see your heart

Eight billion different ways. This is the encounters we'll have eight eight billion different ways every precious one

One more soul a child you die to save if you gave your life to love them. So will I

Like you would again a hundred billion times, but what measure could amount to your desire?

You're the one who never leaves the one behind. Yeah, so let's just sing it

God of salvation

You chased down my heart through all of my failure and pride

On a hill you created

The light of the world abandoned in darkness to die

And as you speak

A hundred billion failures disappear

Where you lost your life so I could find it here

If you left the grave behind you so will I

I can see your heart in everything you've done

Every part designed in a work of art called love

If you gladly chose surrender so will I

I can see your heart eight billion different ways

Every precious one a child you died to save

If you gave your life to love them, so will I

I like you would again a hundred billion times

But what measure could amount to your desire?

You're the one who never leaves the one behind

We make this our prayer. Oh god

We want to learn how to self-give

You gave everything sometimes it's easier to die it's harder to live and give

Spirit of god, I just pray that

as we set ourselves apart through both

This teaching and through this song that you holy spirit would come upon us

For your own sake for the sake of others who don't know you like this

So we look forward to what awaits

It says in luke 4 that from then on

From that time on when it talks about what jesus did after the wilderness

That's what we look forward to now. So we bless you about me. Thank you for this day

Thank you for your kindness and your presence

In jesus name, amen