Faith in the Blood

Welcome, welcome. Nice to see you.

I've never had so many letters in my life after last Sunday.

If you weren't here, you'll never, I don't think, ever

experience again ever the intervention of God in such a

most marvelous way. You can't reenact it.

And you think, well, what are you going to preach?

After last week, I can preach nothing except the word of God.

And as you know, I've just come back from Australia and I was

deeply touched by Hillsong Church and, and, and many of you

will have an opinion on Hillsong Church.

You would have watched the documentary series that they did

on Hillsong Church. I just want to tell you that

inside of Hillsong Church are thousands and thousands and

thousands of godly, anointed, humble, faithful, faithful

people that have seen the Kingdom of God advance through

their efforts and through their sacrifice and through their

prayers and through their love to that church.

There are one or two people that have made bad choices, but the

organization is absolutely filled with incredible people.

And, and the thing that inspires me as I come back here is that

with this group of people, we can make a radical difference in

our nation, a radical difference.

They bought a piece of property. I don't know what the value is.

I didn't ask, I was too scared to ask.

But they bought a piece of property 35 years ago in Sydney,

which has now become one of the main suburbs of Sydney.

And it must be worth a billion Rand, this property, I thought

we've got this little piece of land.

And Can you imagine if we buy the land next door and the land

next door and we build orphanages and we build schools

and we build Bible college And in 25 or 30 years time when we

dodded up from Naisner or most of you are being still by or or

Krit Brock, I know where you Pretoria guys go Kneisner.

Where do you come from Kneisner or from from still Fontaine or

fleasby? Fleasby is there, but that's

it's like still by for the most and fleasby for the really rich

guys. When you come back and imagine

this whole piece of land belongs to Jesus and and and and

Pretoria has extended out there. And in the middle of this is

this bright light that we helped to establish something of the

gospel. It's amazing.

And so we're we're doing a series on Galatians.

It's not going to come up on the board where I'm going to read it

to you and I'm going to just preach a few things.

It is for freedom that Christ has set us free.

Stand firm then and do not let yourselves be burdened again by

a yoke of slavery. So we we're talking about

freedom in in all sorts of areas, completely free from the

law, free from the rules and regulations of religion, but

filled with the spirit, not to do our own thing, but to obey

God. But from an internal

perspective, not an external set of rules.

Mark my words. I, Paul, tell you that if you

let yourselves be circumcised, Christ will be of no value to

you at all. Stephen preached so well in this

last week. Again, I declare to every man

who lets himself be circumcised that he is obligated to obey the

whole law. It goes on in the book of, of

Galatians and says you guys are into circumcision.

I just wish you'd go the whole way and cut the whole thing off.

You can read it. I'm going to, I'll preach and

run it with a hopefully with a rusty blade.

So that in fiction sets in and that you never trust religion,

but you only trust grace. You only trust grace.

That's what Paul is saying. He's so radical against religion

that he's saying you I'm going to keep preaching until you

understand that you're free, but you're not so free that you can

do whatever you like. You're free to obey the Spirit

of God. You are trying to be justified

by law, have been alienated from Christ.

You have fallen away from grace, but by faith we eagerly away

through the Spirit, the righteousness for which we hope.

So there's hope for in Christ Jesus.

Neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value.

The only thing that that counts is faith expressing itself

through love. So we've got faith, hope, and

love. You know the scripture that

says, and these three things remain faith, hope, and love.

And the greatest of these is cash flow.

That's not what it says. That's just what every

businessman says. So it says, this is what I want.

I want you to have faith expressing itself in love.

And so in the book of Exodus, when he came back from

travelling, he came back and shared the triplet.

I've come back with faith in my heart.

And it comes into Galatians that we must have faith because

otherwise this just becomes another Sunday.

We just come together and it's kind of what we do, but we

actually have to come here with faith in our hearts.

Did you see what happened there? A lady baptized the lady, a man

baptized the lady, a lady baptized the man, a white

baptized the black a a big guy baptized another big guys.

Did you see what happened? That that is just in the

baptismal pool. And we can sometimes just sit

and think, oh, it's just another Sunday, but we've got to have

faith. And so this is what it says.

It says Galatians. I've spoken on the yokes Stephen

has spoken on, but he says, this is what I'm looking for.

I'm looking for faith, working through love.

I'm looking for faith working through love.

And this is how Hebrew goes. And, and you don't have your

Bibles with your 97% of you don't.

But if I ask you the, the, the, the heroes of the faith are

mentioned in Hebrews 11. And if you read Hebrews 11,

it's, it's the kind of faith that we need in Hebrews 11.

They're four members of faith. The first four, the first one is

Abel, which Stephen preached about last week.

Abel believed in the blood. The second one is Enoch, and

there are two Enochs. There's Enoch who had a city

named after him, and there's Enoch who walked with God.

The guy that is in the in Hebrews 11 is the guy who walked

with God. We've got to have faith to

believe in the blood, but we're not sitting here Sunday after

Sunday believing the blood, believing the blood and doing

nothing about it. You've got to have faith to walk

with God. You've got to take that blood

and you've got to go and walk it out.

The third guy mentioned is a guy called Noah and Noah built the

ark and he covered it with pitch.

That's exactly the same thing that covered Moses's basket.

It's a redemptive you cover, you build something that is covered

with redemption. And so now for hundreds of years

built God's vessel on earth that was going to bring redemption.

And so we actually have to have faith to build the church.

You can't just come here as a consumer enjoying this beautiful

building, enjoying this beautiful people, enjoying

beautiful worship and thinking. But I'm not contributing to any

of that. We don't take up an offering.

You can relax, but you have to have faith to build the church

because the Bible says it is now through the church.

Now through the church. This flawed group of people with

a pastor sometimes talks too long and and all the IT is now

through the church that the manifold wisdom of Christ will

be made known to the principalities of powers.

It's not through your business or your beach houses still by it

is through the church that the manifold wisdom of God will be

made known to principalities and powers.

It's through the church. Jesus Christ purchased the

church with his blood. And so this very flawed group of

people is God's plan A for the earth.

It is not even the government. It is the church, the church.

And so we'd like Noah, we have to have faith to build God's

thing on earth when nobody understands.

And we are going to come here on Tuesday.

I'm, I'm not even asking, I'm telling you you're coming here

on Tuesday because by faith, we're going to trust God for our

nation because the church has to come together.

And the problem, friends, sometimes when you walk into an

established church is that you never contribute because

everything's been paid for. So you just become a consumer

that enjoy all the byproducts of but none of your resource, your

time, your energy, your influence goes into.

I just met a man outside there in the I just walked past him

and said, hi, my name's Rory said hi, Rory, my name's Bob.

I said, hey, Bob, so nice to meet you.

I said, who are you? Bob told me his surname.

I said I know that surname. He said yes, my children are

Bobby and Carlene Van Yosfeld. I said, Bob, you produced those.

I said, can you sing? He said not really, but he said

this. He said I love this church.

I. Said thanks, Bob, I.

Love this church. Just Bobby's sitting in the

overflow room. Been coming for a year.

Maybe your name's Bob or John or Candace.

I know what your name is. But, but, but we've got to

contribute. We've got to have faith that

this thing can thrive. Amen.

And, and the fourth guy is Abraham.

And God says, I will bless you, Abraham, and you'll be a

blessing to the nations of the earth.

I will bless you, Abraham, and you'll be a blessing to the

nations of the earth. Friends, this is not to boast or

brag, but my father, my spiritual father taught me.

He said, Rory, God will bless you and you must take that

blessing and you must go and bless the ends of the earth.

So Hillsong asked me to come and preach there and they say I will

pay for your aeroplane tickets to come to Hillsong because

people in the chest gets all caught up with money.

I've tried to set you free, but I want to tell you you're still

responsible. And so I booked my tickets and

we didn't get our credit cards ready.

So I put it, I've got an overdraft facility.

I put it on the credit card and and then the secretary from

Hillsong SMS says, please send us your bank details past the

buyer. We want to pay for your airplane

tickets. And I felt God say to me, but

this is not how you grew up. You didn't grow up with this

faith. We are not businessmen within

transactions. So we had enough money in our

church account and Hillsong have got money in their church

account. And because I'm going there,

we're going to do a transactional decision where

they're going to transfer money from their account into our

account and we can actually pay for the tickets I set with the

elder. I said, guys, we are not

businessmen. How about faith?

Am I'm going to stand up in Hillsong and preach when they've

paid for me to come here? There's no faith involved.

There's no seed, there's no power inside of that journey.

So I'm going to stand up there. It's awesome.

It's like everything's paid for. I get picked up by a driver.

I've got my own Land Cruiser I'm at and I'm thinking, no, I'm

Alani. But there's no faith.

There's no price, there's no sacrifice.

So I said to the elders, we called together, I said, guys,

is it possible that maybe we can pay for the tickets?

And then when I get there, I can say, actually three CI would

like to bless Hillsong. And then I walked and the elder

said, that's cool. We've got enough money to cover

your tickets and, and which is your money.

And and then I walked out and felt like I said, but why don't

you pay yourself? You see, friends, when we preach

this, I'm not preaching from a perspective of a hot pulpit

lecturing people. I'm saying there's a journey

that we inherited from our forefathers who trusted God,

that we're going to plant churches all over the earth.

And God is going to come through not by the principles of this

world, by the principles of the Kingdom, Amen.

And I've told this to our leaders friends, but there's a

little girl in this church who lost her parents, lost her dad

and her grandparents and and her funeral was announced.

And I was meant to go to court on the Thursday because I

witnessed the domestic violence case and I was a witness.

And I went on the Thursday and it is meant to be Friday.

I went on Thursday. I ended up going to Nailsprit on

the Friday. I walked in, the pastor started

weeping. I said, what's wrong?

He said I'm in trouble. And I've asked God to.

Send you to help me. Now I'm sitting in Nailsprit.

Friends by faith because there's a little girl.

In this. Church who lost?

Her dad. I'm sitting there by faith and I

said what's wrong? He said I've got my in law

staying with me. I don't even have enough money

to buy groceries. So I went to Woolworths.

I bought him groceries. I gave it to him.

On Saturday morning I woke up, there's a man who's owed me

money since 2018. Enough money friends, I thought

I'd written it off. I thought I'd never get the

money. At 8:00 on Saturday morning, the

money got put into my account and I paid for my own tickets to

go to Hillsong. So don't sit here and think.

There he goes again, traveling. Overseas, I've got faith to

build this thing. I'm not, I don't.

I will not rip you off on your money.

I want to rip your money off. But I want to tell you, as we

preach freedom, it doesn't release your responsibility.

It doesn't release your responsibility.

You're completely free, but you're still under the Spirit.

And then I stood up in front of 300 businessmen in Hillsong, 300

of their top businessmen were invited to a meeting and I could

stand up there by faith. And say I've got.

Skin in the game, I believe God, I'm going to put a seed inside

of this thing and that seed is going to produce fruit.

Amen. You got to have faith to be

here. You are not just a observer

through the three CR ranks. This was built with blood, sweat

and tears and the praise of many people.

And I want to ask you to come to choose their nights being so we

could cry out to God for our nation.

Amen. So you've got to have the faith

in the blood of Abel. You've got to have faith in the

blood. I'll, I'll introduce you to a

girl I met in Australia. I'll call her the girl from

Gulu. You can put a picture, please.

The girl from Gulu, Isn't she beautiful?

Her name is Laura. I met Laura at the end of the

conference and she was at the hotel.

Reception She was about to be picked up in a car and I walked.

Past her, I said how are you, ma'am?

She said how are you? And I said you're about to.

Leave this conference and you saying God hasn't seen you.

Hey. And she burst like crying.

She said yes, that's exactly what I felt in my heart.

And I said no, but God has seen you.

I took her hands like this and she started to weep.

Her dad. Peter came to Uganda, was sick,

went to hospital, was nursed by a nurse in Uganda who eventually

fell in love with and they had a child and before she was born he

got on an aeroplane and he flew back to Australia to his other

family. Those are.

His natural children. And she never met her.

Dad And she chased her dad all over the world trying to find

him. But she couldn't and then COVID,

she ended up in Australia. That's her dad, Peter and her

dad had said to her. Siblings, one day there's going

to be a girl who phones you, there's going to be a girl who

phones you one day and I want to make sure that she gets an

Australian citizenship. She never met her dad.

And so she had to. Go for blood tests and she had

to find her siblings and they all had to give blood and she

gave. Blood and that's the day.

That the blood results. Came through to say.

She is Peter, the Australians daughter and she got.

Her citizenship. Based on a blood test that is

her spreading the ashes of her dad, her her siblings never

spread the ashes because they said one day we're going to find

another sister. You and I, Sir.

Have got nothing in common except our DNA and that your dad

and my dad and your dad and my dad and your dad and my dad and

your dad and my dad and your dad and my dad.

Have got the same DNA and by God's grace He has put us all

together in the same room. And even if you just have got

ashes, the Bible says out of the ashes will come beauty.

That girl and her husband now lead the church in Australia.

I walked in there on Mother's Day.

My preaching is about the Father, heart of God.

I walked in on Mother's Day and they said, will you preach

today? I said, I preach about the

Father. They said, well, today you're

going to have to preach about the mother.

And I took one scripture in the book of John.

When Jesus was on the cross, he looked down and he said to John,

John, your Mother, Mother, your son.

John writes about the Father 125 times.

Because when you know Jesus, you know the Father, and when you

know the Father you can look after the mother.

That's all I could preach on. And I just carried on preaching.

And then I saw a man sitting at the back there somewhere.

I said, what's your name, Sir? He said, my name is John.

And there's a lady right next to me.

I said, what's your name, man? She said my name is Mary.

God builds the church by his blood, By his blood you have got

to have faith. You say we are so different.

We are English and Afrikaans who are young and we are old.

We are rich and we are poor. We are conservative and who are

extravagant. But when you take a blood

sample, our DNA is the same. You got faith in the blood.

You got to have faith in the blood.

So that when a man stands up here on a Sunday, what gets

elevated is the blood of Christ to a level that we've never seen

in this church, I've never seen. But we'll never go back to the

blade again. We keep going back to the blood.

Amen. The second thing we have to have

faith for is you've got to walk with God.

Like Enoch, we have to have faith to walk with God, Amen.

Let me show you a picture of yesterday.

So, you know, I went to watch my son play rugby.

So I got up to preach, I preached about Goboiki.

I got in an aeroplane, I traveled 650 kilometers.

I went into the stadium and because I had preached the word

of God, this lady, her husband whistled at me.

You heard the story of Goboiki. This is in Australia.

And she had made a sign because somehow the priest that was

broadcast from Sydney to Maroochydore got into her heart.

And that's the sign that she said the next picture.

Please. I'm not boasting or bragging.

I'm not. I'm not trying to.

I'm not I really. I'm not trying to.

But sometimes you just got to. Stop sometimes.

You got to stop and say I love being your dad.

I love being your dad. I had faith in my heart because

I knew some people would say, oh there he goes paid for by the

church to get to the other side of the world to watch your son

play. But I know this when I sowed a

seed in the heart of a man and know spread God provided the

finances for me to watch you and the Bible says this.

If our fathers on earth, though they are evil, know how to give

good gifts to their children, how?

Much more say that. How much more the next picture

please? Now I'm in the stadium that's on

TV, sent to me by a man that I met at a wedding, Brandon

Barrows. That man walked up to me and he

said. Rory, you don't.

Know who I am, but my father played for the Springboks in

19501951. I'm 68 years old today.

And he said my father was a spring back and he was a hero in

South Africa, but he was a very poor dad.

And when you? Preached online, God did

something and he said for the last seven days all I've been.

Doing is weeping and he. Came and he held me in a rugby.

Stadium friends, we've got to have faith.

Not just to worship on Sundays. We've got to have faith to take

it in the stadiums or wherever your workplace might be, or

whether you're a barista or whether you're a barrister or

whatever you do, you've got to take your faith.

In there that. You can embrace.

People that are. Broken and hurt.

I'm not I. Seriously.

I'm not boasting. I'm serious.

I'm not. I want you to understand that we

have to have faith. To do this, that was last night,

you know that our own Shell petrol stations and Shell is

going through great trouble in South Africa and so they've sent

new leadership in from overseas to take over Shell to help it

through its troubles. And there's a man in this

church, he's from Chile, you didn't know that we worshipping.

He's from Chile, he's sitting here this morning, he's from

Chile and he married an Africana.

It's like a Chiley Afrikaner. I don't know what they I don't

know what you call their children, cold Afrikaners or I

don't know what you call it, but.

But now you've got a chili Afrikaner.

Can you imagine the child? It's like, yeah, yeah.

But but, you know, when Afrikaner meets a Chilean, I

mean, things happen, you know what I'm saying?

And he works for the British government.

Yeah. Yeah.

True story. And he invited me last night to

the British Embassy for dinner, and I said no.

So Jay, my mate said to me, hey, why don't you come for dinner?

So I said, AJ, I'm, I'm preaching on Sunday.

I said, OK, I'll come for dinner.

But I didn't RSVP, said no, we'll get the Chilean guard to

put you back on the list. So now we're standing outside

the British Embassy, but there's a long queue of cars, a long

queue of people waiting to go because, you know, you've got to

check everything. So I get chatting to this guy.

I said, where you from? He said I'm from England.

I said, hey, nice meeting you. I said, what do you do?

He said I'll work for an oil company.

I said, oh, really? Hey, I said, which one?

He said Shell. I said funnily enough, we own

the oldest family, run Shell business in South Africa and

everybody's trying to get hold of you.

He said yes, I know that. He said here's my business card,

He's the new boss of Shell. He said why don't we have lunch

next week? Friends, have you got faith?

Have you got faith? I'm not.

I'm not preaching. Do you have faith?

That's why you've got to bring your Bibles.

You've got to see the words I've got to need.

I need faith. You need faith to be a husband.

You need faith to be a wife. You need faith to be a provider.

I met a man who's a headmaster of a school.

He. Used to teach my.

Boy, when he was in grade seven, I met him in the bathroom.

Hey, how's it? How's it?

How's it? We meet all sorts of people in

bathrooms. Hey, what do you do?

What do you do? What do you do?

I said, he said, I've just been appointed headmaster.

We come and speak at the school. I said, hey, I remember you when

you're a latte. Now he's the headmaster of the

school. You got to have faith.

You got to have faith that if you need to meet the new

director of Shell and nobody else can get to him because they

but we are sons of God, we've got faith.

You can meet him in a queue organized by a chili guy who's

made an Afrikaanskaansky that met on a ship serving Jesus when

they were teenagers. Now they're in the business

world and, and do you have faith?

Amen. And turn it off.

Thanks. Are there any other pictures?

Putting the other pictures up? Maybe there's some more

pictures. He had to take his stuff out.

That's Sydney. But you know, friends, I did

this business. I'll finish in 3 minutes.

I did this business conference and there's 300 people sitting

there. I don't know.

They measure their guys differently to how we do it.

I don't know who gives what here.

I've never looked at the finances.

We haven't had a finance meeting in six years in this church, and

people say that's irresponsible. Well, I don't care because I

don't see any budgets in the Bible.

No budget. There's no place of budgeting in

the Bible. Yes, you've got to budget your

own finances. I'm talking about church says if

you're in trouble, just give and then God will you'll reap.

And when you when you reap, you give away in a bit.

But we'll do another talk on that some other time.

So I'm walking, I'm doing a business thing.

I don't know what to say. I haven't taken a single notice

when I'm walking and I see this couple about 75 years old and

they're sitting at the table. They're very distinguished.

I got them to stand and I said ma'am.

And so I don't know who you are, but I could hear the whole room

go like I thought, wow. I said, I just want to say thank

you. Thank you for building the

church. Thank you for having faith to

build the church. And the man just said, it's a

pleasure. I said, where are you from?

So he said, I'm from Iran, you know, the country that everybody

hates because they're supporting the Palestinians.

Who that and, and, and now we've got this Palestinian section in

the church and we've got this Israel section.

We are Jesus people. So God takes a man from Iran and

he sends them to Australia. And a man called Brian and his

wife Bobby planted church. And God says to this Iranian

man, you and your wife must support the church.

You must, you must, you must start a coffee shop and and you

must support the church. You must journey with them.

So I've never done this before in my life.

I hope I don't do too many times, but I knelt in front of

the woman and I said, ma'am, we glorify God.

But I want to honor you today and I want to say thank you for

building the church. They started 4000 coffee shops

as they partnered with the church.

It's called Gloria Jeans. They said when the church was

planted, faith grew in their heart that they would support

the church plant. And then I had lunch with their

count that he said whether the business was going well or the

business was going badly, they gave money to support the church

because they wanted to partner with the church.

And afterwards I said, Sir, how did you do it?

He said, all glory to God, Rory, all glory to God.

Friends, hundreds of millions of rands have flown through those

two people into the establishment of that church

because they got faith. And I said, is it worth it?

So he said it is 100% worth it. I will do it all again.

And he said, all glory to God. I went for lunch with their top

20 givers. Can you imagine that?

Who are you? I just know this.

The top giver in this church is a single girl that I've never

met. I don't know who she is.

I don't know her name. She's probably here this

morning, but she's given more money to this church than

anybody else. And I don't know her name, but

I'm sitting at this meeting of these top givers.

And opposite me is a specialist pediatric nurse.

And I said, young lady, she's yeah, she is young.

I said how do you make it onto the top 20 givers of Hillsong

International? Just cheers she.

Said she said. I'm not a very fancy person, but

I knew. That if I studied, I'd become a

specialist, and if I became a specialist I'd get more money.

And if I got more money? I would have to.

Choose where I would kept my standard of living.

So she said I decided as a young person to live at this level and

everything else was going to go to the advancement of the

Kingdom of God. So I don't know if you're a

hotshot entrepreneur, you're a highly experienced doctor, or

you're just a single girl who specialized in pediatric

nursing. I'm just going to ask you this,

that you have faith that you have faith not just in the

blood, but faith to walk with God, faith to walk with God,

faith to trust God. I've been made for 31 years,

friends, I know you've heard this, but for somebody I've been

made for 31 years to. The most beautiful girl in the

world, but you got to have faith to be married.

We get tired, we get grumpy. We we we take each other for

granted. We expect.

And then I read one little verse of.

Scripture in me the worst of sinners.

God displayed his unlimited patience and that word gripped

my heart and I went to my wife and.

I said I will give you 30. Years of unlimited patience I

know you've heard me speak this friends, but we have unlimited

Wi-Fi and we have limited patience and limited generosity

and limited words cap your flipping Wi-Fi and uncap your

patience because you got to have faith.

We have faith, ask my wife. I don't think I'm a.

Great husband, but but, but ask. You what the last?

Four weeks. Have been like friends as I've

given her unlimited pace. You could have faith and my

prayer at this time, Australia, I rented a car.

I never passed one person because everybody just goes at

the right speed. I pulled out of Woodlands the

other day flipping this. I hooted me this.

I hooted me flipping. And you got to have faith to

live here. You got to have faith.

They don't need God there. It's a sterile communist

country. Seriously, if you don't work,

you just get the dole. You don't.

They don't need faith. We need faith to live here.

Faith in the blood of Christ. Faith to see myself and Jay

saved. Faith to trust God to meet

people that we need to help us with our walk.

Faith to build the church. This church.

Too much of your money is going to still buy.

I'm serious. You got to build the church and

faith to bless the nations. We don't need Hillsong to pay

for our tickets. We don't even need three CR to

pay for our tickets. We can pay for our own tickets

because Abraham is our father. He's in my DNA.

Don't settle down into Sunday mediocre, mediocre suburban

Christianity. Trust God in Jesus name.