Quality Control

Let's go.

Thanks, man.

Guys, we've been talking about people being forged at Gilgal.

We started five weeks ago or six weeks ago.

And the whole idea is we are approaching this theme called

authentic sun's open heaven.

What does it take to walk the earth as an authentic sun

so that the heavens, or the favor of God,

and the scepter of God that is outstretched,

may be something that we walk under continuously?

And we said that one of the stages

that we have to go through is to become a people forged

at Gilgal, readied at Gilgal.

And we've talked about reconciliation.

We've talked about different things

that we have to work into and through our lives

so that we be ready.

So that just as Jesus stepped out of the Jordan

as an authentic sun, and the heavens were torn open,

and the Father said, this is my son in whom I'm well pleased.

Listen to him.

In the same way, us as an authentic son called Acts 29

has to step out of the Jordan so that God can say,

this is my beloved son in whom I'm well pleased.

Listen to Acts 29 because they've become an oracle of God

here on earth.

That's the place we are heading towards.

And so today, I just want to say that it's

the privilege of every Christian to partake in God's grace.

But we want to pick on a passage today in the Old Testament

where we hear God saying, listen, as priests,

you can partake in my grace anytime.

But if you want to be a dispenser of grace,

if you want to be someone who ministers grace to others,

then you have to be readied into a certain type of people.

And that's what you're going to talk about today.

So if you want to turn to Leviticus 21.

Leviticus 21.

Leviticus 21.

And I think once we are done with this,

we can move on from Gilgal to other things.

And if possible, I was telling Wayne

that he should put all the five CDs of the last five weeks

together because it will form what

is something that you can listen to during the rest of December

so that you enter into this new season starting

Jain as a person fully formed at Gilgal,

having taken the trouble to deal with what needs

to be dealt with in our lives.

Leviticus 21.

Leviticus 21.

And I'm reading from verse 17 to 23.

Here it goes.

Leviticus 21, 17 to 23.

Then the Lord said to Moses, starting at verse 16,

the Lord said to Moses, say to Aaron,

for the generations to come, none of your descendants

who has a defect may come near to offer the food of his God.

No man who has any defect may come near me.

No man who is blind or lame, disfigured or deformed,

no man with a crippled foot or hand

or who is handicapped or dwarfed or who has an eye effect

or who has festering or running sores or damaged testicles.

No descendant of Aaron the priest who has any defect

is to come near to present the offerings made to the Lord

by fire.

He has a defect.

He must not come near to offer the food of his God.

He may eat the most holy food of his God

as well as the holy food, yet because of his defect,

he must not go near the curtain or approach the altar

and so desecrate my sanctuary.

I am the Lord who makes them holy.

Obviously, these are physical defects

that were used in the Old Testament

as banning the sons of Aaron from entering the sanctuary.

These physical defects obviously don't transfer

into the New Testament.

We have to stand in the New Testament

and look at the Old Testament and then interpret

what the Old Testament is trying to say.

So I said before, on one hand, we are, we are,

yeah, don't worry about that.

So these physical defects exclude no one today

but must be viewed from the New Testament

and it should be interpreted.

So let's go through these different defects

that are to prevent a person from being a minister

or dispenser of grace.

If you notice in Leviticus 21, it

says, if you have these defects, you are not excluded

from eating of the bread.

You are not excluded from partaking in grace.

But if you want to offer the bread before God,

if you want to offer things before God,

if you want to minister before God,

if you want to be a dispenser of grace for God,

then you have to be defect less, blemish less, fault less,

flaw less.

That's why I've titled it Quality Control

because here is a chance for us to look at our lives

and see if things need to be arranged.

And I've had so much fun going over each of these

and trying to make adjustments.

The first one that's mentioned, then,

depending on the kind of Bible you're reading,

the words differ.

In some Bibles, they say eunuch.

In other Bibles, they say damaged testicles.

In some Bibles, they say dwarf.

In other Bibles, they say handicapped.

In some Bibles, they say eczema.

In other Bibles, they say scurvy.

In other Bibles, they say festering sores.

So we'll take all those words together

and see what God is trying to say.

So the first one is blindness.

Blindness here, how do we interpret it

in the New Testament?

It is a lack of vision or no vision

for the purposes of God.

No vision for the purposes of God.

No vision or lack of vision for the purposes of God.

A lack of vision for the purposes of God.

And I so strongly encourage you to go home

and check if this is true of me, true of you.

Do I have an idea of the vision or the purpose of God

for me in general for life, or specifically for life,

or specifically for the year ahead,

or specifically for today?

Do I have a vision of the purpose of God for me?

And if I don't, why don't I?

And if I don't, is it important that I have one?

Why is it that I don't have one?

So that's something I'd so strongly encourage you

to look at each one of them.

Because Proverbs 29, verse 18 says

Proverbs 29:18

that my people perish for the lack of vision.

In another place it says,

because my people don't have vision,

they have cast off their restraint.

Which is to say that now that I am purposeless,

I can go any which way because purposelessness allows me

to be blown like the wind any which way I want.

But once there's the vision,

once you understand the purpose of your life,

understand the purpose your family has here on earth.

I mean, you know families of destiny?

You know that Marcus, Ryan, and Laurie,

I called you Rosalyn once.

Marcus, Ryan, and Laurie have a destiny as a family?

That this family is meant to leave a legacy here on earth?

That Elmer, Anne, and their children and grandchildren

have a destiny appointed to them here on earth?

God always operated in clan, stripes, families.

What is it?

What is your purpose?

Let me assure you that when a people continue

for a period of time without vision or purpose,

they cast off restraint.

It becomes, what's the point?

I can be anything I want to be because what's the point?

I'm going to heaven, my ticket is secure.

So be what you want to be.

That's what happens.

So check on that.

And so what would be, I mean,

one of the things I have often done,

and I've told you about this,

is whenever I feel even a little purposeless

in terms of what the next step is,

where is Acts 29 going, where is Jacob going,

where is life supposed to go next year or tomorrow,

I always go back and listen to what has been spoken over me.

And our tendency is to think,

but I've heard that three times, what can be new?

I cannot tell you how much there is

in what has been spoken over you by different people.

Each time I listen to it, each time I read it,

it's like digging out new treasure.

Because if prophecy is genuine and is unadulterated,

it is the counsel of God,

and there is no fathoming the counsel of God.

So if you think you've reached the end of it,

you're wrong.

Be proactive about this.

I cannot emphasize it enough.

So what I do is I'll go and listen.

I'll listen to it again and again and again.

This morning I was listening to what Eddie said.

I was listening to it and I found something in it

that I hadn't seen before.

I found something in it that I should have heard

before I went to Indonesia.

Thank God it came to pass,

but he had said something about Indonesia

that I'm finding two months after I've come from Indonesia.

Sometimes it's the grace of God.

So do that.

And the other thing we need to understand is that,

guys, how do you know if you have vision?

I'd say one of the litmus test is communicated.

Let me hear you communicate the purpose

you have here on earth.

If I were to ask you right now,

okay, you say you have vision, you have purpose,

communicate it.

And if you can communicate it with clarity,

I would then say, yes, you do have a grasp of it.

But if you cannot communicate it with clarity,

if it is generic, if it is,

yeah, God loves me and I'm his son,

that's absolutely true, okay?

I'm not saying no to that at all.

But if it is in that area,

then I'd say something needs to be studied even more.

I mean, if I were to go up to Ryan and ask him,

so what are you gonna do after grade 10?

If he says, oh, I'm gonna study more, something is wrong.

But guess what?

If I ask him now, he's gonna tell me

what he's gonna major in.

Because he already knows.

There is a clarity there.

And if you read Habakkuk chapter two,

you'll see that there's a,

I mean, for every handicap here, we will have a solution.

So the solution then for lack of purpose

is one, obviously, to find it out

because I really think that there is nobody in this house

who does not already have some kind of an inkling

as to where you're heading.

If you've been in this house for more than six months,

you have an idea of where you're going.

Because God has touched your life prophetically.

That's the nature of this house.

So if you go to Habakkuk two,

it's one of those books that plays hide and seek.

Habakkuk two after Nahum, it doesn't help at all,

and before Zephaniah.

Habakkuk two, verses one and two.

You'll see that it says there,

I will stand at my watch and station myself on the ramparts.

I will look to see what he will say to me

and what answer I am to give to his complaint.

Then the Lord replied.

First, what does he say?

What's the first word?

Write down the revelation.

So first thing you do if you want to crystallize

or filter your vision,

so you're going to write down the revelation.

He says write down the revelation and make it what?

Plain.

Write it with clarity.

There should be a clarity to it.

And then he goes on to say write it,

make it plain so that

you can get it.

So what is the first thing you do?

Write down the revelation.

So first thing you do is write down the revelation.

At the appointed time,

a herald may run with it

for the revelation waits an appointed time,

it will speak in the end.

So guys, first you see it.

So obviously purpose has to be seen

and like I said in this house,

you have begun to see what it is for you.

Because really the destiny of this house

is your destiny too,

besides what God speaks to you individually.

So you see it, you write it,

there's clarity

and then the herald cannot see it

unless you communicate it.

And once you communicate it,

it's taken and then you act on it

or initiate action on it.

This is how vision is actually developed

or crystallized or filtered

so that it becomes something tangible.

You see it or you hear it,

you write it.

I cannot tell you how to write it.

I cannot tell you how important writing it is.

You write it.

After you write it,

you go over it and you begin to see clarity in it.

After clarity in it,

now you have sufficient clarity

in your spirit and in your mind

to be able to communicate it.

And once you've been communicated,

now you're in a position

where you can begin to act on it.

This is how blindness

in terms of a lack of vision

for the purpose of God

can be destroyed.

Any questions?

When does time play?

Time plays in terms of

once you begin to initiate action,

then time has to unfold it

because you can't push it,

you can't hurry it,

but you've initiated the action.

Now God begins to cooperate

because God does say,

James, war with the prophetic word.

Take it and war with it.

Begin with it.

I'll bring it to pass,

but begin with it.

If you do not initiate it,

if you do not act on it,

then Isaiah 7 applies,

where because you did not believe,

it was not established.

There's that too.

A prophetic word does not come to pass

because it was not believed in,

therefore it shall not be established.

You know why I said my guitaring will improve?

Because many years ago,

a prophet came and said that

I would be a very good instrumentalist.

And I found that so not up my alley

because I was a worship leader,

not a guitarist,

that I decided that I was going to put it

on my prophetic shelf and not use it.

And I have used as an example,

many times to say,

some people prophesy

things that are not true.

And I was talking to someone about how

we need to take things that have been spoken

and have to begin to apply it.

And I felt the Lord saying,

but you have things in your life

that you haven't applied yet.

And I had to go and examine it

and this was one of them.

So I remember walking in front of the Lord

after I spoke to this person.

I was saying to the Lord,

your father,

there was no reason to suspect

what the guy said.

It's just because it was not something

I'm interested in

or has been something that I'm fond of.

And so today I undo what I've said

and I want to become this asset

or aspect that you wanted to bring into my life.

And so I'm not surprised

when my guitaring will begin to improve.

And you guys will say,

well, Jacob, your singing needs improvement now

and stuff like that.

So moving on.

That's how it works.

So time works that way.

It happens when I agree.

If I do not believe,

I will not be established.

That's what Isaiah 7 says.

I think it's Isaiah 7.

I don't remember it.

I think it's an Isaiah 7.

Yeah.

Let's go on to lameness then.

Lameness is...

This is so sad, guys.

What happens?

Lameness...

Lameness is when those who...

Lameness happens to those who can see

what God is saying,

but don't have the ability to walk in it.

But don't have the ability to walk in it.

Can.

Lameness...

Lameness is when...

It's a people or an individual

who is aware of it.

It's a people or an individual

who is aware of it.

And he can see.

He can see what God is saying.

He can see it.

But he does not know or she does not know

or does not have the ability to walk in it.

I mean, one of the classic examples

is the man at the beautiful gate

in Acts chapter 3.

Acts 3 · chapter mention

In Acts chapter 3, verse 2,

Acts 3:2

it says,

There was a man who was lame from his mother's womb

who was brought to the gate.

What was the name of the gate?

The beautiful gate at the temple.

And he was left at the beautiful gate.

And he would be there always at the right time.

When the temple worship would start,

he would be there.

He could probably hear the worship.

He knew what was happening inside,

but he could not enter into it.

It's someone who knows what is required,

but does not know how to step into it.

Some of us here know what is required of us.

We know. We already know.

But we have no idea.

How the heck do I move from knowing

to stepping into it?

Mephi-Bosheith was like that.

Mephi-Bosheith was Saul's grandson,

Jonathan's son.

David's friend Jonathan, his son.

Mephi-Bosheith was meant to be king.

But when he hears that David has defeated his dad,

his granddad,

his nurse picks him up

and starts running,

the boy drops out of her arm,

falls on the ground,

and he becomes lame.

And so here is a king

who is now lame,

does not attain the throne,

until David calls him into the palace.

And he had everything that was required to be a king,

but he ran and he could not even run at that

because he was lame.

So what's the solution?

Another way of looking at it,

to pick on a word that Anne had used,

guys, these are people who get touched at every meeting.

They go for different meetings all over the place.

They get touched at all the meetings,

but they don't know how to launch into orbit.

The launching is missing.

How was the meeting?

Oh, brother, I was deeply touched.

What's going to happen out of it?

Nothing.

Why? Because I have to go for another meeting

and I have to go to another meeting

and I have to go to another meeting

and I have to go for another meeting to get deeply touched again.

You guys are laughing.

There's a place where after being touched,

you have to be launched.

And I'd suggest to you

that the solution,

what people normally resort to

in terms of solutions is

they resort to methods,

they resort to church growth,

they resort to formulas,

they resort to fire conferences,

they resort to somehow trying to activate what's in them.

But I'd like to tell you that it is impossible

to move from lameness

unless you are somehow

charged by the apostolic and the prophetic guys.

Here was this lame man

sitting at the beautiful gate.

And what does he ask for?

He asks for some arms.

And who comes along?

Peter and John.

And what do they say to him?

They say, look at us.

There needs to be a penetration of that

which is prophetic and apostolic

to begin to push you into orbit, guys.

You've seen that activated

in lives here through

Eddie,

through different people

who have come here, through me

laying hands on people.

You've seen it activated.

You've seen what Eddie has done in my life

where there's a sudden launching.

It needs an apostolic

and prophetic knife-feds to cut

cleave open and say, look at me

and then silver and gold I have none

but what I have I give you in the name of Jesus Christ.

Rise up and walk.

And suddenly your lameness is gone.

So may I tell you

you can sit at Acts 29 and miss out

on it.

Because

you have chosen

not to understand

the apostolic and the prophetic.

Guys, there's nothing anybody can do about it.

There are people

in Eddie's church,

in Eddie's friends churches

who have sat there for years and years and years.

And have not been

affected by it.

Why? Because they like what

they like and are selective in their

hearing and the rest of it

does not apply to me

because that is not my thing.

I beg of you, we give the whole

council of God, take it all.

Guys, these messages

may be a little

nasty in terms of how

it's being presented but we are

at Gilgal.

Circumcision was not a walk in the park.

It was painful.

Questions?

Comments? Disagreements?

Not physical, spiritual lameness.

Yeah.

I think it's impossible to move from lameness

to a place where you can get

launched into who you know

God is asking you to be.

It's impossible to be launched into it

unless you say, okay

I, guys, if

but yeah

position yourself to

receive, guys, if you have missed out

on understanding what the apostolic is

I might use

this word again and again. I beg of you

ask Wayne for the CDs

and grasp an understanding because otherwise

you are losing out.

I don't care how friendly you are

with each other or with me.

It won't benefit you unless

truth is taught. Friendship

does not set you free.

The knowledge of the

truth does.

Go ahead, Valentina.

At the appointed time, which will happen?

At the appointed time, which will happen?

Yes, in Habakkuk,

which we dealt with in terms

of blindness. I'm talking about

lameness where people have

seen it

but they do not know how to take what they've

seen and launch.

Because prophetic words

can be received by many.

Israel received tons of prophetic words

but it didn't do them any good.

So that's the problem.

The lame guy didn't launch himself though.

The other two. Exactly.

The apostolic and the prophetic have the ability

to remove lameness

and launch you into

that which God is already

showing you. It's like being

impotent. I know what it takes

but I don't know how to do it.

How does that tie into when people in any church

have just sit there? Like if it's not the lame

person's act of doing that

launches them, can they

do the same as the lame person sitting at church

for 20 years waiting to get launched?

Absolutely. When we come to dwarfs, we'll talk about that.

Dwarfs are people who have

aged without growing.

Dwarfs are people who have aged without growing

in the spiritual.

What can the lame guy do to

expedite his launch?

There is a point where the analogy of the lame

when you use it in the spiritual has to be disconnected

from actual physical lameness.

Here is a lame person who now

has the, when it comes to

spiritual understanding of things

I have to open up my

spirit to receive from the apostolic

and the prophetic.

David was a spiritual giant.

Yep.

So let's use some real words

to get facts here. So what is the lame people

that are waiting to get...

Okay, I'll give you an example. I could have

gone for many apostolic summits

and conferences all over the world

listened to Eddie and all his friends

and have come back without

any change.

I listened to it

I'd have tons of notes, I'd probably preach a sermon

but I'd never leave it. Why? Because I

did not open up my spirit to receive it

I did not want anything to do with it.

I've gone to places

and sat with elders in churches

and taught them

how to do things and they have said

no.

The church won't collapse, they'll still

do wonderful things, people will still get saved

some will get healed but they will

never enter into the orbit that

was meant for them. Instead of going to

Mars, they'll keep going around the moon.

Are you still in space?

Yes. But you were supposed

to hit the red planet, not the

little white piece of cheese in the sky.

It'll be nice but not the abundant life

that you're going to get. There you go.

We got orbits man

that we have to enter into.

I asked Valentine already.

Guys, it's the apostolic and the prophetic

that has the ability to penetrate.

I've always shown you that picture

of the spear with

this is the shaft

but a shaft without

a spear has no penetration.

A spear without the shaft

has no direction.

Goes together.

That's a good example.

If this is the apostolic

and the prophetic, this is

the evangelistic

the teaching

and the pasturing.

It has to go hand in hand.

Who does all this? The saints are involved in this.

These are not some kind of aliens

that fell out of the sky. These are normal

people. These are you

and me.

Then it applies that a whole lot of people

can see the prophetic. This is

sometimes what happens to the charismatic and the

Pentecostal where

they operate in the prophetic but are never

able to launch fully into orbit

just because there is no

there is nothing to

that input is missing

because there is a resistance

or a lack of acknowledgement of the apostolic

and the prophetic.

If you want to know what it is as I use

the words apostolic and prophetic, if you do

not know it, let me very gently

say to you, it is not because it hasn't

been spoken of or taught. It is

because you have forgotten or chosen not

to listen.

I am going to be very, very plain and gentle today.

And if you have listened and you do not

remember, then go back and revisit it.

Because we are ending Gilgal today.

We are moving on to other things.

I pray God that we examine this.

I am always surprised at how much

you remember because when I ask questions

there is expectation in my mind that

oh you won't know the definition because it was

so long ago and then when you come up with it

I am always surprised. But if you don't

remember all the nitty gritties

just go re-examine it.

I have to do that guys.

Deformed and marred faces.

The third one is deformed and marred faces

in the King James that says

people with flat noses.

So, yeah, people with flat noses

are deformed or marred

faces.

Guys, a deformed or marred face

is someone

I mean I am drawing

this interpretation from James

James 1:23–25

chapter 1 verses 23 to 25

where

the Bible says that

do not be like a man who goes

and looks in the mirror and forgets what he

looks like. Instead be like

the man who looks into the mirror

of the perfect law of liberty

and sees who he really is.

So a deformed or marred face

is someone, is one

who has no idea

of who they are

and what they look like

because they have stopped

catching glimpses

of themselves

in the word of God.

Instead

they see the world

they see themselves

through the looking glass

of someone else's eyes

or their own eyes.

One who has no idea

of who they are

and what they look like

because they have stopped catching glimpses

of themselves in the word of God.

Eddie talked about this.

And so where do they get

the information about themselves?

They get it through the

eyes of somebody else

or they get it through their own eyes and we have

a tendency to beat ourselves up

or to see ourselves less than

who we are.

Therefore what we see

are marred and deformed faces.

Instead

go back to

what this says about you.

Someone pointed out an area

of pride in my life a few days ago.

I acknowledge that there was pride

and I talked to God about it

and after that I went quickly to this.

Because I wanted to see my real self.

I started looking for scriptures

on humility.

I started looking for the

humble life of Christ.

I started looking for the life of another

that I have in me that I can live by.

So that I could return

not to I have to lose my pride

I have to lose my pride.

No, so that I could return to walking

in the life of another which is humble.

But I had to go to this.

I found about six or seven different places

that I could go to.

I spent about 20-25 minutes

reading through them.

Because I have to

have an idea of myself

through this.

Because this is life.

This goes into me.

It makes sense.

Your platitudes help.

But they never go into my spirit.

Unless they come from God.

Important.

Otherwise you see a deformed face guys.

You see marred faces.

I thought I wrote better than I wrote last week.

One who has

one who has no idea of who they are

and what they look like.

Because they have stopped catching glimpses

of themselves in the life of another.

Because they have stopped catching glimpses

of themselves in the life of another.

They have stopped catching themselves in the word of God.

Instead they see themselves

through the looking glass of someone else's eyes.

Which then brings another important point up.

We have to make sure that we don't

when we talk

to others about themselves

that we try not to look at them

through our own eyes.

Because otherwise we will hoist on them

a marred deformed face

that they begin to live with for the rest of their lives.

Which is why suddenly in the middle of the worship

that Amy Grandsong came back.

Do you have your father's eyes?

People who live under dominion

or under control end up having

a mask put on their face.

That is marred and deformed.

Because it has been

once you keep hearing it for a while

it becomes your mask guys.

So I have to be

careful of how I speak to somebody

about themselves.

Jacob, how do you deal

with other people who try to deceive you?

I have to keep going back to this.

And I have to do it

because trust me guys

there are times when people

say things about me as wonderful a guy as I am.

They still say things about me

that are sometimes not so wonderful.

And sometimes they are true

and sometimes they are not.

I cannot give it time guys.

I find that

I have to be careful.

I find that

the way the mind works

if there is a gap between what I hear

and

the time that I take action

I begin to

have a mindset that begins to take

bits and forms its own little puzzle

that is grotesque.

Because now a person has said

you are this and then I remember another

person who said something like that

and that piece comes and all the

pieces that have this evil

affinity for each other from all the

parts of my mind that have

gone over the last 20 years come and say

aha so they must all be right.

And now there is a grotesque little mask

that is created inside my mind that I begin to wear.

So there has to be very little gap

between hearing something

and seeing myself

in the mirror of God.

This does not mean that every time someone says something

it is negative.

Because there are times when people have said something and it is true.

But after I realize it is true I still have to go

back to the word to see who Christ is

because I have to live the life of another

I cannot become it by my own strength guys.

You have got to go back to this.

So when pride was pointed out

and it was genuine

I had to go back and see the life of another

who is humble.

And then come to the realization that it is he who lives within

now that I have told the Lord that

yeah you were right in pointing it out

I can let that live out.

It is a different way of dealing with it guys.

Keep the gap between what you hear

and what you do in terms of looking in the mirror

very short.

The shorter it is the better it is for you.

Yeah.

So go to the word.

When there is ugliness in your life

when there is confusion

when there is failure, when there is past

when there is fears, when there is accusations

go to the word and close the gap between

when it happens and when you have to deal with it.

Become what you are like we said last week.

Become what you are.

The next deformity

or handicap

was

some Bible say a limb too long.

Meaning either it was

a few extra fingers and toes

or it was

one foot was longer than the other or one hand was longer than the other.

That was another deformity that forbade

people from entering

into God's presence. That is the deformity.

So that is the deformity.

Limbs too long.

And what happens if

one leg is shorter and one leg is longer?

There is an imbalance guys.

Or even if you are doing push ups

there will be an imbalance.

I mean not that I would use my hands ever

for things like push ups.

But the point is that

there is an imbalance.

And

imbalance or additions

that become useless baggage

that become useless baggage.

Slowing spiritual progress.

I mean if you have six or seven toes

it slows your walk man.

Plus you got to get one shoe

that looks really funny.

So the point is

it becomes a useless appendage

or excess baggage

that now slows your spiritual

progress.

Or if one limb is shorter than the other

one limb is longer.

Now you have an imbalance in your gait

and it slows your spiritual progress.

So

how does it translate

into the spiritual?

Guys make sure that

you always

embrace and that Acts 29

always embraces the whole

gospel as in Acts 20

Acts 20:27

verse 27.

May we never specialize in the apostolic

or the demonic or in

healing or in church planting.

No, no, no, no.

How we do this is we got to

enter and exit seasons of God

with God.

When God takes us through a season of

healing enter into it.

But please exit as soon as he exits.

When God

takes you through the season of the apostolic

enter into it. But exit as soon

as he exits. When he takes you

through Gilgal as he is taking us right now

enter. But exit as soon as he exits.

Don't spend a moment more in Gilgal.

If it takes three days to heal

a circumcision wound, wound get

over it after three days. Don't sit there

saying oh need another week for this wound

to heal. No.

Done.

Because God's glory is

there's no end to it. But on

one hand I have to behold his glory.

On the other hand I have to see what does he want me

to be? What does he want

to be to me right now in

his glory? Does he want to be Lord Sabaoth?

Does he want to be Jehovah

Jaira? Does he want to be Jehovah Rafa?

Because you can't take one aspect and say

this is what we will be. Guys in the Bible

there were gifts. In the Bible

there were services. Meaning apostle, prophet, evangelist,

teacher. But the Bible

rarely says and so

they said come forth

for thy ministry is casting

out demons.

There's no mention such as such of

Yeah.

I mean today we see

a ministry of this, a ministry of that.

That's not the way it should be.

That's not the way it should be.

I pray God that one of my dreams

for us as a church, I was talking to the Lord

this morning about this, that Acts 29

sends out teams. Teams.

So that a team is whole.

There'll be people in the team

that have the ability to teach.

There'll be those with the gift of healing.

There'll be those with the gift of miracles.

And they go as a team. And when they go as a team

and stand you'll see

the whole council of God being modeled

and worked out.

Yeah.

That's the way it should be guys.

That's the way it should be.

That'll be so crazy man.

There'll never be one limb that is too long.

It'll be whole.

That is why I so

encourage you, come and stand here

if you have things to share.

He's writing a rap song.

I encourage him in it.

There's nothing rap about me.

But I encourage him in it.

Because you should listen to the lyrics.

Just remember that guys. I mean

we've become too old to listen to the lyrics.

I mean we've become too specialized.

We should become

people.

I'm not saying ministry should not exist.

I believe ministry should exist.

But the whole council of God

is better. Sometimes the Lord says, okay guys

I want you to concentrate on healing.

Then do that. But please remember

when ministries begin to concentrate on healing

what went 10 years down the road God says

move to something else. But now you've established

yourself as a healing ministry.

It's very hard now to hear God say

move in another direction.

Fractured foot.

Hey that thing stopped or is it working?

Okay I'll try to finish in about 25 minutes guys.

If not we'll have to continue in the next time.

Fractured foot.

Fractured foot.

Guys fractured foot is different from

lameness. Fractured foot is a

breaking away of the foot.

Resulting in an inability to

keep pace with others.

So it's not lameness.

It's not something that a person was born

in. It was not a congenital

condition. It was something that happened in the process.

A person was born fine

and then he breaks his foot.

It's a breaking away of the foot.

And this allows you to continue to keep in

pace with others. And I suggest

to you that again this can be absolutely

prevalent in Acts 29.

Where the breaking of a limb, if you go to Proverbs

25.19 it says unfaithfulness

is like a broken foot.

Unfaithfulness or a lack

of faithfulness

or a degree of steadfastness

is like a broken foot

it says in Proverbs 25 verse 19.

Proverbs 25:19

And it is possible

to be

in a house and yet operate

in isolation. And it's very disabling.

Spiritually very disabling.

Can you explain that for me?

Yeah.

A fractured foot is when

a foot breaks away.

It breaks away.

And I would suggest to you

that the spiritual

interpretation of this

breaking away of the foot is how

you can be part of the body and yet you can be

broken away.

You can be part of a body and yet be

separate. You can disconnect from the

ankle onwards. So you start

from the ankle onwards. So you are still part of the body.

There was nothing wrong with you to begin with.

It is something that can be restored.

It's broken away.

So now you have a foot that

is part of the body and yet is not connected to the body.

It's when

people begin to be part of something

and yet are isolated.

Yeah, not wanting to be part of it.

Let's assume I was part of this body.

I come for these meetings.

Listen to it. Listen to the messages.

Pick up the CD and I disappear.

I've got nothing to do with you.

I've got nothing to do with anyone here.

I come to receive.

I may make offerings.

But I do not want to connect one on one.

Connect for partnership, fellowship,

body ministry,

friendship.

Opening my life to you. You opening your life to me.

Becoming transparent. Becoming part of each other.

I love this verse in Romans 12.

It says, you are corporately

together one body, but you are

individual members to each other.

Off one another. Off one another.

Can you imagine that?

You are members of one body

and members of each other individually.

Such a strange verse.

Members of each other individually.

This is one family

but they are members

of each other individually.

And yet when you look at them from outside

you call them the Dekruses.

One family.

But each of them is an individual and yet

is an individual one to another.

So when a person chooses to break away

and this is why in Deuteronomy 25

we've talked about this.

What happens to the man who does not build

up his brother's house?

His wife, his

brother's wife comes and spits on

him and then he has to put his head

on his head and shoe on his head and

walk.

And he walks with the same gait as that of a

man with a broken foot.

There's a limp.

You cannot live together alone.

Like the Trinity.

God is relational even in the

Godhead.

Guys, look around you right now.

I mean actually look, okay?

Look at the people around you right now.

And I asked myself this question this morning.

How many here do you know superficially?

It's a very genuine question.

As you look around at different people

here, how many of them do you know superficially?

Meaning there has been no cultivation of real depth and relationship.

Here's another question.

How many of them do you know superficially?

Meaning there has been no cultivation of real depth and relationship.

Here's another question.

How many, about how many of these

people sitting here, do you have

preconceived notions about?

How many here

do you have preconceived notions about?

When you look at them you'd say,

I know her, she is like this.

I know him, he is like this. How many do you have preconceived notions about?

I'm not going to make a small guess.

No, no, no.

But it's surprising.

One of the things I have to continuously work on

at Acts 29 is not to have preconceived notions about you.

I was talking to James about that

some days ago.

Ah, beautiful words.

2 Corinthians 5,

Henceforth I shall know no man after the

flesh.

Because every man is a new creation.

I shall know them after the

five somewhere.

I shall know them after the spirit.

Just as I know Christ now.

Not after the flesh. Go ahead.

I have learned that every time I've had

preconceived ideas about someone I have been wrong.

Thank God.

Yeah.

Gosh, Matt, I have no

preconceived notions about you.

I just so like you.

And appreciate you.

Fractured hand.

Fractured hand.

The hand is always a symbol of strength.

The hand is always a symbol of strength.

Panja larega?

What is that?

Panja larega means do you want to arm wrestle.

So that's Greek for arm wrestling.

So the hand is always a symbol of strength.

Diana, you're a great wrestler.

Diana, you're a great wrestler.

Diana, you're a great wrestler.

A symbol of strength. Diana, you may enter.

The hand is always a symbol of strength.

So a broken hand

is strength broken.

But in what areas in regard to

a spiritual house?

It's with my hands that I bless.

It's with my hands that I minister.

The Bible talks about the laying on of hands.

The Bible talks about blessing with your hands.

The Bible talks about giving with your hands.

The Bible talks about in Galatians 2.9

stretching out the hand of

you can shake it at some point

stretching out your hand in

fellowship in Galatians 2.9

and so again the broken hand

goes with the broken foot because

a broken hand is a lack of strength

in serving.

And in serving it includes ministering,

it includes giving, it includes fellowship.

So if I were to gently ask

is your hand fractured?

And you ask me that and I say no

then your next question should be

so how is your giving Jacob?

How is your ministering?

How is your serving?

How is your reaching out in fellowship?

And if your answer is great

then how is your giving Jacob?

How is your giving Jacob?

How is your giving Jacob?

And if your answer is great

then praise God your hand is doing well.

If the answer is eh, it means you have a hairline fracture.

And if the answer is no

then the hand is broken and needs to be fixed.

The beautiful thing about broken hand and broken feet

is they can both be fixed.

I asked Heidi yesterday

to give me an idea of the months

that I did not

the three or four months last year

where my giving to the church was low

compared to what I know

compared to what I normally give

I wanted to ask her that

and she is going to give it to me.

I have different reasons for it

but one of the reasons is in 2010

I don't want to be the giver I was in 2009.

I want to be a better giver in 2010 guys.

It has nothing to do with

whether my income increases or not

it has everything to do with giving

because I am not the best giver I know.

So

maybe increase in the solution

step up, upgrade

upgrade in these areas.

I mean

have the guts to come and say

let's minister, let's do this.

One of the things that really blessed my heart

on Leah's dedication

was when Matt came up

and he was kind of hobbling

because his leg was hurting

and he said Jacob

my leg has been hurting, do not know why

so I just thought I would let you know

and I said yeah Matt I will remember to pray

and then went about eating and drinking

and suddenly

this guy, Ryan comes up behind me

and he says

I feel

the spirit of God saying that we need to pray

for Matt right now and God will want to do something.

And then he says

but I don't know what to say

but this is what I know I need to say.

So I said okay

and he and I called Matt up

and I told Matt and then I did the talking

but he initiated it

and we agreed and prayed for him

and his feet seemed okay or at least he didn't tell me about it

later on.

But the point is here is someone who is the

youngest among us who

decided that I will step up

to stretch out my hands to minister.

I'm sorry I'm picking on him

as a good example today but

this boy tights

or gives

he doesn't have a regular job yet

but he gives

his hands are not fractured guys

he serves

without asking

he has hands that are strong

I won't embarrass you again

not today

let's change

turn the page

hunchbacked

a man who was a hunchback

was a man who

had a curvature of the spine

and

some were born that way

others had muscles of their shoulders

and back forced

either by trauma

or accident or

some kind of problem

where the muscles would then

begin to clench and you would have a curvature of the back

and so

hunchbacks were not allowed into the presence of God

and a hunchback

who had a curvature of the spine

was unable to stand for long periods

he was unable to stand

for long periods

and Hebrews 10

35 to 39 talks about it

Hebrews 10 35 to 39

it says that listen

don't cast away your confidence

don't cast away your confidence

and the just

shall live by faith

and my pleasure is in him

who is able to stand in times of trouble

and does not shrink back

check and see

when you look back at this year

how many times

another word for hunchback in english is compromise

how many times

did

did you and I compromise

and

choose to take the easy route

because we

did not have the ability to stand

and the pressures of life

forced the muscles of our back

to curve our spine

how many times this year

when we should have stood

we had a compromise

because the demands of life

forced

untried faith muscles

in my body into submission

because the demands of life

forced untried

unexercised faith muscles

into submission

the demands of life

forced untried faith muscles

into submission

you know who

you know three guys who were not hunchbacked

or four guys who were not hunchbacked

Daniel

Shadrach, Mesha Kabednego

another

another

another

person who is going through times

and is not hunchbacked

people who don't have hunchbacks

gotta stand

as I look back at the year

I was driving up and down yesterday

and thinking of the hunchback situation

I can remember one place where

I developed a hunchback

I compromised

I didn't have the strength to stand in faith

and I

chose the easy way

Gail has stood

Ruth has stood

many others of you have stood

many others of you are standing even right now

so what's the solution?

the solution initially guys is to have others stand and hold you up

initially if

hunchbacking is a regular hobby

you have to stand

what's your hobby?

hunchbacking

they'll think it's something like horse riding

but if hunchbacking is a regular hobby where I'm not able to stand

then the first thing I need to do is

get a couple of people

who will be firm with me

and yet hold me up when my back begins to hunch

and so once I have that

why?

because you got to exercise those faith muscles

before they can be active

there have been occasions this year when

Lauren has stood

Rosalind has stood

Chris has stood

James has stood in his cab a couple of times

you have to have others help you stand

for the first little while

now that those muscles are beginning to grow strong

now you begin to stand

on your own for things

and as you stand and the pressure increases

you find that your muscles are not buckling

you begin to take on one Goliath who is 5 feet

so that you can take on the next

Goliath who is 6 feet next time

suddenly your muscles keep getting stronger

one of the things David would do often

is he would go back and remember the last

victory so that he could fight the next battle

he would say I have fought the lion and the bear

they came and they tried to take a sheep

and I beat them hollow

so if I have fought the lion and the bear why can't I take on Goliath

he would always remember the last episode

you have stood

Banees and Vane have stood for different things

I mean there is nobody I can look at right now

who hasn't stood

nobody

I am not trying to be inclusive

I am just looking at you right now

and I know of situations where you have stood this year

yeah everybody

but this is how you develop

spiritual muscles

John has stood through a jaunt

moving on then to the dwarf

guys remember truth is

learned through repeated application

there is no other way

truth is learned

through repeated application

you do have to understand the truth first

truth the knowledge of the truth is important

but the knowledge of the truth now has to be

applied truth is

learned through repeated application

any man or woman of faith that you see

has become that

through repeated application

of the truth

no other way

dwarf

a dwarf is a person

who ages but does not grow

aging without growth

I mean the only people who are growing right now

are the people who are growing

the little kids and Marcus and Matt and Ryan

the rest of us have stopped growing

parents

parents

who thought it was me

so the dwarfs are those who age

without growing

that's because they have attained

they have

what happens is you set

self set spiritual

statutes that you want to attain

and you don't aim for attaining the stature of

Christ

and this is common

among millions and millions of Christians

who have

grown to be 60 and 70

but have the

spiritual IQ of a five year old

and I mean that

in all earnestness without exaggeration

dwarfs

stunted growth

what causes stunted growth?

a feast of infant food

try living on what Leah lives on

those little bottles

with very untasty food

I know I once tasted a bit of it

in my sister's place

I don't know how these kids survive

I wanted to feed the little child Pepsi

after that

just to take away the taste

but I don't know how

these kids survive

I wanted to take away the taste

but stunted growth is because

of feeding on

infant food

you just dropped the world Marcus

which country

don't worry about it

I'm just kidding

you're feeding on

lies yeah

it could be

stunted growth is a result of

feeding on infant food

it dulls your ability to discern between right and wrong

so that every wind of doctrine

holds you captive which is what

lies are

stunted growth read Hebrews 5 verses 14 to 17

you'll see it there

Hebrews 5 verses 14 to 17

I'll repeat what I said after that

Hebrews 5 verses 14 to 17

I'll repeat it again

Hebrews 5 verses 14 to 17

it's in your notes here

and it says in Hebrews 5

anyone who lives on milk

being still an infant is not

acquainted with the teaching about righteousness

but solid food is for the mature

who by constant use have

trained themselves to distinguish

good from evil

guys stunted growth is

a result of feeding on infant food

it dulls your ability to discern

between right and wrong

and when that happens every wind

of doctrine holds you captive

every wind of doctrine holds you captive

oh no

I have to say it gently and plainly

if you have a tendency

to pick up CDs, books

and believe every

TV program on channel 10

and channel 118

then you are feeding

on infant food

and I've lost

your discernment between right and wrong

I'm not saying don't watch TV

I'm saying may that not become your

diet

may that not become your diet

I used to receive a lot of CDs from

the person in

Abbotsford

Todd Bentley

knew right away when I began hearing

listening to Open Heaven

that it was faulty

right away

you should know that there

is a distinction between right and wrong

this is not to prove whether I have

sense of discernment or not

this is to show that we have to feast

on solid food so that we

know when they give you bonvita

or Horlicks

you suddenly realize that he did not brew it

it's not real coffee

what's the solution guys?

the solution

is in Ephesians 4

guys

we said that

it is age without

growth because people have decided

that this is the spiritual stature

they want to attain and they do not want

to attain the spiritual stature of Christ

remember that verse

which talks about attaining the spiritual

stature of Christ

what is required for that?

do you remember?

and God has appointed to the body

apostles, prophets, evangelists

teachers and pastors

why?

to equip the saints

for

ministry

towards what? so that every part of the body

will join, will grow ligament to ligament

to attain what? to attain the

full

full stature of

Christ. Guys it is

vital that we be connected to a

place, I'm not talking about Acts 29

right now, to a place where

we are equipped

a people who are not equipped

will never be able to

feed on solid food

it will always be food

that is infant

connected doesn't necessarily mean

attending every week

take Tino, Suhani for instance

they are not able to come every week

it's not possible, given our timings

it's not possible for them to come

but are they connected to the house?

yes. Will they benefit from it?

yes

press on to the high calling

press on to the high calling

what's the rest of the words?

crisis, as for us

solution, be equipped through the

five fold servants by being

part of a body, solution

eat at one table

solution

this is an important one

solution, end selective

listening and growth

end, guys I pray

that the whole church listens to me right now

not because I'm looking at anybody

but because this is important

end selective listening

and selective growth

I'm saying that it is prevalent

at Acts 29

where we

decide that this is

not important or this is not for me

right now

so I will not listen to it

there are other things that are more pertinent to my life

I'm saying to you

that there is not a single

teaching that has been taught in this

church that wasn't in the exact

timing of God and I know

that for a fact

I know that is a big

thing to say but not once

has anything been taught in this church

that was not

in God's time, I promise you

that

challenge me, questions, disagreements

even when I'm preparing a

sermon in the plane

on a 10 hour flight back

I plead with God saying

only what you want, I know I got only

6 hours left, I got only 5 hours left

I don't have a sermon yet, please please please give me something

I'm landing at 3.30, I have a service at 6

but it's always what he wants

it's never been any hand me

downs guys, never once

in the last 3 and a half years

that's why it's so easy

end to selective listening guys

Jeep

defect in the eyes

defect in the eye is not blindness

its something that impedes your vision

defect in the eye is not blindness

it's something that impedes you vision

it doesn't... it's not blindness it's something that comes into your eye

and impedes your vision

and once it impedes your vision it becomes

a plank in your eye

and distorts your perception of issues

distorts your perception of people

There's error then in your perception of issues and people because a plank has come in.

Can I ask you what these impediments can you be?

What do you think these impediments can be?

Give me a few impediments that can bring in error in your perception, become a plank in

your eye.

What are some of those impediments?

Taking offense?

Anything else that becomes a plank in your eye?

Listening to rumour?

Judging other people?

Not forgiving?

Jealousy?

You see how many impediments?

This is not blindness guys, it's impediments.

The depth perception changes on issues and people.

Pride?

Pride is a major vision impediment.

Be it jealousy, be it taking offense, behind all of it the underlying thing is pride.

Greed?

There you go.

It just changes it.

You develop conjunctivitis, critical conjunctivitis is one of the things that develops.

Anger?

Control?

Depending on what this impediment is in your life, no?

Fear?

Begin to work on it guys, begin to work on it.

I mean for me, what I've written down is a lot of underlying factors in many of the things

you've spoken is pride.

So I've written here foremost vision impediment is pride.

It leads to critical conjunctivitis.

There can be a whole lot of other things too.

Solution?

For each of the things you said there's different solutions but one of the things that can form

a really good basis for you is be quick to listen, slow to speak, slow to anger.

Quick to listen, slow to speak, slow to anger.

Eugene Peterson puts it this way, let your hearing lead you.

Let your speaking follow slowly and let your anger not be there at all.

I'll have to get it on my phone.

James 1, James 1 verse 19.

James 1:19

James 1 19.

Yeah, and now from the message.

I don't like these dead times on the CD.

I don't know what to do when I'm driving in the car and you have these quiet times.

James 1.

Yeah, I love the way it's written here.

It's worth waiting for.

Post this at all intersections, dear friends.

Post this at all the intersections, dear friends.

Lead with your ears, follow up with your tongue and let anger straggle along in the rear.

Yeah, lead with your ears, meaning next time we at Act 1A and walk we have to walk like

this.

Lead with your ears, follow with your tongues and let anger straggle along in the rear.

In simple humility, let our gardener God landscape you with the word, making a salvation garden

of your life.

Beautiful.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Moving on to scurvy, eczema and sores.

Moving on to scurvy, eczema and sores.

Sounds like a medical school and not a Bible.

Moving on to scurvy, eczema and sores.

Regardless of which Bible you use, at the end of the day, scurvy, eczema and sores have

much to do with stale food, stale environment, stale condition, a lack of freshness.

Scurvy was caused when sailors would travel on ships for more than six months and the

fruit and the vegetable would become stale and they would develop scurvy.

Stale food, stale environment, stale condition, lack of freshness resulting in scurvy, festering

sores, no vitamin C, lack of sunlight, lack of freshness or lack of sunlight was rickets,

vitamin D. Sorry, take that out.

It's very easy to connect this to what we've already learned.

Exodus 16 verses 16 to 21 said that manna was sent once a week, once every two weeks,

Exodus 16:16–21

every day.

If it was held for more than one day and it would go stale and it would rot and you'd

have not manna but another word starting with M, maggots.

Big difference though.

So the whole idea is guys to be free of scurvy, eczema and festering sores, we've got to walk

in the preceding word and in present truth.

Now if both those phrases do not ring a bell, I'd suggest again that you go and listen to

the CD from the preceding word.

The preceding word is what God speaks now.

What God is saying now, manna was fresh every day.

We live by the preceding word not by the preceding word.

And what is present truth?

Present truth is how we see God speaking through this that he has written, what he reveals

it in this present season.

That is present truth.

This is truth and it is present.

It is not how Josephus or Barnes or Alfred Noble or whoever wrote it 80 years ago.

That's not the commentary we follow.

We like Matthew Henry but we don't follow him.

We live by present truth, the truth as it is presently revealed by the spirit of God

because if this is all God is, he's a very finite, limited God.

This is just the launch pad, guys.

It is not the beginning and the end of God.

The Lord said, I am Alpha and Omega.

He didn't say the Bible was Alpha and Omega.

The canned word, the preceding word can cause eczema, scurvy and sores and render you useless

to minister grace.

The canned word as in C-A-N-N-E-D or the preceding word, the word from last season.

We cannot operate by last season's word to us.

Proceeding word is authentic suns, open heavens.

We cannot operate by that, not by the preceding word.

Guys, and it's not the sole responsibility of the teacher to do that.

I would ask you, do you in your daily life live by a present truth?

And so you would ask me, how would you go about seeking present truth?

I'd ask you, so do you study this or do you read this?

Do you chew it?

Do you meditate on it or do you glance through it?

But how can I study?

Oh, once the internet came, there are no more excuses left.

Every resource available to anybody is available to everybody.

I'm not talking about using commentaries.

I'm talking about using study tools.

History, customs, Greek meanings, Hebrew meanings.

Why what was said was said.

What do people say about it?

How does it strike with what I'm learning in the house?

Is the house wrong or does the house have an accurate plumb line?

How does this reflect?

You bring it all together.

Nothing is in isolation, right?

Like I said, I deliberately read opposing views to what I hold just so I can understand

why they're saying it and correct if I'm wrong.

Not just relying on others' opinions.

No.

But allowing God to have that.

It's like taking a bit from Anne, from Elmer, from Bernice and Chris and drawing it all

and putting it and seeing, huh, so I see what she's saying makes sense.

And then taking it all together, piecing it together, knowing what I already know and

developing something that is chewing, meditating, studying.

This is present truth, guys, because God does reveal himself fully to the bride, fully in

the presence of us as a people.

Agreed.

Is there a discovery of truth in your own private times, right?

There is.

It can be very, very specific for you.

Yes.

So you need that.

Yes.

Your inheritance.

Our inheritance as a house, yes, but what about your personal inheritance for your family?

What about that?

I wish I could turn that clock around.

I'm well past what I said.

Five minutes past what I said.

Guys, I find many times my life getting jaded or stale, or like it could be perhaps once

every month, once every three months, I find that there's a staleness entering and I immediately

have to go and recalibrate.

I'll spend miles walking up and down my two rooms saying, Father, I'm kind of feeling

jaded.

I just don't know what I'm doing.

I'm just doing it because I'm doing it.

So you want to talk about it, any agenda, and then just keep walking and talking because

you've got to recalibrate because there's a jadedness or a staleness entering life.

And you always know it.

There's a freshness going on.

Your childlikeness disappears.

Love turns to duty.

Moving on, because I see some of you are beginning to fall asleep.

We've got only three more left.

You can sleep the whole evening, guys.

You don't have to come back at night.

Scabs.

Scabs.

Mike Scantleberry talks about scabs and I like some of the points he makes.

A scab is a wound that is not healed.

When pressure is applied, the scab breaks open and it hurts.

A scab is a wound that is not healed.

So when pressure is applied, the scab breaks open and pain returns.

And sometimes it breaks open and pus is released if it's not healed.

A scab is a wound that is not healed.

When pressure is applied, the scab breaks open and pains.

But he makes another point.

He says there's something other than scabs called scars.

Scars are marks left after a wound is healed.

Scars are marks left after a wound is healed and it may remind you of something, but it

does not hurt anymore because it's not a scab, it's a scar.

And then I love this point that he brings up.

He says that it may remind you of something, but it does not hurt anymore because it's

not a scab, it's a scar.

And then I love this point that he brings up.

He says that Jesus showed Thomas not scabs.

He didn't say, Thomas, here are my scabs.

He said, here are my scars, my wounds.

Scars were there.

The scar of the wound was there, not a running scab.

So Thomas said, till I put my hand in the imprints of the nails, I will not believe.

He showed him the scars, man.

And guess what?

Christ bears those scars, but the scars remind him of what he did for us and the scars remind

us of what he did.

Those are not scabs, those are scars.

And I'd say to you that it is vital that we have scars but no scabs.

Scabs are always a result of unforgiveness or an inability to let go of the hurt.

And we've talked about unforgiveness.

If you want the CD, let Wayne know.

Wayne's going to have a full-time job at this rate.

Not that he already doesn't have one or two.

Scabs hurt, signifying a continuing bondage to events and to offenders.

Still unforgiven.

Scars hurt, signifying a continuing bondage to events or to offenders.

Still unforgiven.

Wounds turn to scars when there is forgiveness.

Wounds turn to scars when there is forgiveness.

Guys, it is impossible to minister out of an unforgiving, hurting, critical heart.

We cannot minister life of God to others from a wounded, critical or unforgiving spirit.

Let me repeat the line before that first.

Scabs hurt, signifying bondage to events and to offenders.

Still unforgiven.

But wounds turn to scars when forgiveness is complete.

Wounds turn to scars when forgiveness is complete.

And I just want us to know that we cannot minister the life of God to another from a

wounded, critical or unforgiving spirit.

It is impossible.

I cannot minister life to him if I have a wounded, unforgiving or critical heart.

It is impossible.

I cannot.

Because it will come up.

The solution?

Listen to the reconciliation CD.

Turn scabs that you rake into scars that will tell a story of grace.

That sounds very nice.

But basically he has to turn scabs into scars.

Guys, if you have had a scab for more than five years, then you want to know the real

solution?

Let me put it very gently.

Get over it.

I know that sounds cruel.

You don't know my pain.

True, I do not know your pain.

But I know someone whose love is greater than your pain and the brutality he suffered is

greater than your pain.

Listen to the reconciliation CD.

Last one.

The reason I wrote eunuch on the pages, I thought if these pages are lying around and

someone sees the word damaged testicles on it, they'll wonder what we are teaching here.

So the actual word that the Bible uses is damaged testicles.

Damaged testicles means that a person is unable to reproduce.

Unable to reproduce.

Leviticus 21 ends with that.

A person who has damaged testicles will not be able to offer bread before God or minister

grace.

Damaged testicles mean someone who is unable to reproduce.

And guys, we do not reproduce messages.

We do not reproduce ministries.

We do not reproduce mantles.

We reproduce life on life.

Please understand that.

In Acts 29, we are not going to reproduce ministries.

We are not going to reproduce mantles.

Oh brother, take this mantle and run.

No.

We are not going to reproduce messages.

We are going to reproduce life, guys.

The life that is within us that Christ is creating as a people.

When we go to Montreal, if Montreal should work out, we will not reproduce going to Indonesia

or to Bahrain or to India.

We will not reproduce this worship.

We will not reproduce having this furniture for church.

We will not reproduce breakfast on Sunday mornings.

But we'll reproduce the DNA that Christ has put within us so that the other person can

take it and run as they please with their own personality.

Life on life.

That's what we reproduce.

You don't want clones.

That's why we don't want an Acts 29 chapter.

We don't want anything to look like this.

We want to reproduce life on life.

You can be a husband and yet not be a father.

A husband is not a father till he reproduces.

So you can have loyal husbands that can still be input in fathers.

And check your lives, guys.

I remember the resistance I had to the whole idea of father-son when Eddie first brought

it up.

And I've talked to you about it.

There was a resistance in my heart towards the whole idea because I thought it was too

intense.

I found it a little too intense and I didn't know what it meant.

And I thought, how will this translate and what does this connectedness mean?

And so I knew there was a resistance that's coming up.

And I'd like to say to you again, gently and plainly, there are people right now in this

room in Acts 29 and you are an intrinsic person in this house, but you still have a resistance

towards coming into a father-son relationship.

And while I understand that resistance, I say to you, you are going to lose out.

I'm putting it very plainly and gently.

You are not identifying with Jacob.

But like Eddie said before you, when he called me up for prayer on October 5th, he said,

this is not Jacob identifying with Eddie.

It's the spirit within Jacob identifying with the spirit in Eddie.

And therefore having downloaded into my life all the grace that is in his life.

And is there grace in my life?

Absolutely.

This was what I was born for.

And you will download the grace in my life into your life and increase in intensity and

produce children that are much greater than you or I.

But till you connect as sons in this house to a father, you will not receive that.

And it has nothing to do with this person.

I have a very decent estimate estimation of myself and yet I know my faults.

There are plenty every day.

You are not connecting to this person.

I welcome you, invite you to connect on that level so that you can be fathers because you

can be a husband in this house and never be a father because you never were a son.

This is not my advantage guys.

This is your advantage and the advantage of the house.

And I am glad that I modeled it first so that I can stand here confidently and speak to

you knowing that I have the street creds for it.

We reproduce life on life.

We reproduce grace on grace.

And we reproduce and release destiny.

That's what we do guys.

We reproduce life on life.

We reproduce grace on grace.