What Caused It? | Ps Jon Eaton

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faith that it helps you have more of a God perspective for

your day enjoy so we're. In February.

February. Strange word.

And who has been successful at keeping the New Year's

resolutions? Oh, good.

Very good. My wife and I, we had this

really deep conversation leading up to New Year's Eve, and she

said to me, she's like John this year.

This year I want to be more thoughtful about what I say.

I really want to watch my words. I want to take people's, like,

being into consideration before I say anything to them.

And then she said, and obviously your New Year's resolution

should be to lose weight. That's a joke.

She didn't say that, right? Oh, my gosh, just don't send

emails. But the reason why I wanted to,

you know, wake you up was because there is a very big

difference between a New Year's resolution or even a plan for

the year and a cause for your life, because the cause for your

life is for your whole life. And can anything good can come

out of Cabo. Of course it can in philosophy.

Actually, for those who like philosophy.

Yeah, I like philosophy. It's pretty great.

Bit weird sometimes. But Doctor William Lane Craig

back in 1979, he made a profound what's called a premise and it's

been argued for decades now about it's reality in life.

But this is what this is what he said in his premise.

This is called the Calum cosmological argument.

Alright, for those who like notes, it says this whatever

begins to exist has a cause to the universe began to exist.

Therefore the universe has a cause.

So then if existence is only by 'cause then your existence, your

existence has a cause that you can choose to ignore it.

But I'm telling you, you have a cause.

And let me tell you, your cause is not to be a passive witness.

People say, you know, oh, in Hebrews 12, it says that we're

surrounded by such a great crowd of witnesses.

I'm here as an observer. No, OK, that whole Greek, the

whole context actually, actually relates to Hebrews Chapter 11.

Hebrews 11 · chapter mention

Who were the people in Hebrews Chapter 11?

Hebrews 11 · chapter mention

Great men and women of faith who had a cause and who were active.

So that great cloud of witnesses were not a bunch of people just

watching. It was about a bunch of people

who knew there was a cause in their life and they were doing

something with it in faith, getting out there and doing it,

getting out there and do it. Another thing about 'cause cause

is not comfort. Thank you, Pastor Rachel.

Look, I have no problem with comfort, Rachel and I just

bought a Pastor Rachel. I just bought a spa for

Christmas. Sweet.

I would much rather be in my spa than I'll be at preaching in the

flesh. But there's a problem with that

concept, John. Let's look at Genesis 24, verse

Genesis 24:67

67 very quickly. This is about Isaac.

Isaac, this is Abraham's son. You know, Abraham tried to

sacrifice him. If you look at the Judaic

writings about him, they believe that Isaac went into massive

PTSD in Melbourne terms and had a serious childhood trauma.

It's like, how was your childhood?

My dad tried to kill me on an altar.

OK, lousy traumatic childhood, right?

Anyhoo, Genesis 24 verse 67 says this.

Genesis 24:67

And Isaac bought her into her mother's Sarah's tent.

OK. This is when he met Rebecca,

married Rebecca, and it says that he took Rebecca and she

became his wife. That's nice, Isaac, Rebecca.

Fantastic. This is the important part, it

says. And he loved her.

And Isaac was comforted after his mother's death, so he found

his comfort in his mother. And then when he got married to

Rebecca, he placed his comfort in her.

Sounds nice. That's lovely.

Great marriage. Except the fact that you do not

hear anything from Isaac for 20 years literally was like, I'm

good now I've got my spa, I don't need to do this anymore.

I've had a lousy, traumatic childhood.

I have an excuse to find comfort and to drop the cause.

This job's too hard. Have you heard that?

Interestingly, Abraham, his dad, understood the true 'cause and

he also understood that the cause has a cost and comfort is

pretty much cost less, isn't it? Now, two chapters later, Genesis

26, this is what happens. 26 one to 33.

In that passage, God fires that back up the cause in Isaac back

in his belly. And once again Isaac received

God's appearance and a renewed promise from God of blessing and

land. Wonderful.

God fires up the passion back in Isaac.

How does he do it? Well, the bad news and the

painful news is that he did it through a famine.

Sometimes God's got to get a famine in your life to get you

up off your butt. We're talking about 20 years of

melancholy comfort. Maybe there's a famine in your

life and God's just trying to wake you up.

Maybe look, if you can't think of a 'cause, if you think, well,

what is my 'cause then because I'm in a famine, I need to find

it. I can tell you right now that in

Psalms 133 it says that there is blessing in finding and being

part of the unity of the brethren.

So if you're thinking to yourself, well, I don't know

what the cause of God is in my life, I can tell you what it is.

Get here, get activated, get into unity.

If you're causeless, I wonder if your unity with the church is a

problem in your life. So .1 I know that was just the

intro .1 yes. So everything begins with a

'cause we're going to bring up on the screen our, you know,

Scripture for the year, which is in First Samuel 17, verse 29.

1 Samuel 17:29

And of course, it's about David. Great passage.

We've been preaching about it for last few weeks.

So there's a battle going on and life is, you know, blaspheming

and going on about Israel and God.

And David rocks up to the Big Brothers and he's like, hey,

I've got food. And they're like, go away, you

little creep. And he says this.

He says, and David said, what have I done now?

Is there not a cause? First part?

What have I done now? Is there not a 'cause you can

see there's a correlation between done activity and A

cause, because the cause always has activity.

In fact, cause breathes activity.

In creation. All things are actually moving.

It's like dirt. Dirt's got no 'cause it's not

moving. Have you looked at anything from

a subatomic level? Everything is moving, all of it.

When there's a cause and when God spoke the universe into

being from a 'cause, you can't help but have activity when you

pick the cause up, because every 'cause breathes births activity.

And get this, every cause has a corresponding action and every

action has an equal and opposite reaction.

So let's talk about both Goliath and David.

Because you see, both of them had a cause.

Goliath believed his cause was to speak against God, to

overcome Israel and to enslave them.

He, he had a cause, wasn't godly, but he had, he had a

cause in his heart that he wanted to do.

And then David is like, I've also got a cause because is

there not a cause? What was David's cause?

What's the difference between these two causes?

One was selfish intent and one was from the living word of God,

the living word of God. Because David could actually go

back to the promise of Abraham. He was like, what was the word

here? What was the cause here?

Oh, there's promises from Abraham.

What else? What other word was there?

I Balaam. Balaam's prophecy that, you

know, whoever blesses Israel will be blessed and whoever

curses Israel will be cursed. Goliath doesn't have a chance

because there's a 'cause there's a word.

In fact, one of the very first words that I learned in Hebrew.

Geez, I was trying to look it up yesterday, how long ago it was.

I think it was like 20 years ago.

One of the first words I ever learned in Hebrew was the word

devar. Devar means word.

I know, pretty silly. Hey, it's true.

It's like, yeah, I thought so too.

The first word was word divar. I want to show you something in

this verse in First Samuel 17, verse 29.

1 Samuel 17:29

All right, It says, and David said, what have I done now?

Is there not a 'cause that word, their 'cause is the Hebrew word

divar. People like, Oh yeah, cool,

let's take up purpose. Rah, rah.

That's not what it says. He's staying here.

Is there not a word devah? Because on his heart he's like,

I know the word of God. I know the promises of God.

I know that Byron, Abraham, patriarchs, promises of God are

true and you can stand on the word of God.

And I wonder, do you have a word of God for your life?

Because whilst Goliath spoke words, Devarim spoke words

against Israel. David just simply stood on the

word. There's a massive difference

between the two. And what word are you living

for? I wonder .2 You are the 'cause

you are the cause. Like this in Job 5 verse eight,

Job says in the depths of despair.

But As for me, I would seek God, and to God I would commit my

'cause. I already mentioned that A cause

has a cost. Abraham saw that there was a

true cost in the cause and Job here he paid a high price for

his testimony. If you are the cause, then your

testimony is the 'cause as well. Testimony is so powerful.

People can come and hear us preach and do all sorts of

wonderful things. They say healings and say

miracles and they walk out and they're like, great, that was a

wonderful experience. I years ago I had a chat to his

full blown spiritual Satanist dude and he told me that he went

to a Billy Graham's crusade. I thought, that's great.

Yeah, kind of odd that you now worshipping Satan even though

you went to a Billy Graham crusade.

I said what what happened to the Billy Graham crusade?

And he's like, oh man, we thought the presence of God, he

says on the floor, he's like, oh, amazing feeling.

And so he wanted to keep that feeling up, saying was more than

happy to keep giving him that feeling.

But you know what does transform people more than just the

feeling? Your testimony, seeing the power

of God transforming your life just like we, it's why you're

going to hear a lot. We want to see spiritual and

social transformation in the city.

We don't just want to preach the gospel.

We want to also for it to impact their life and make changes.

That's why that's why I love the internship thing and what you

were saying earlier. We want to see into intentional,

intentional transformation in themselves so that they can

intentionally transform the city.

But the cause of Christ, the cause for Christ is costly.

The cause is not the final destination.

It is also a here and now moment of view because the cause can

have these transcendent moments. In Exodus 24, verse 12, I really

Exodus 24:12

want you to get this in your heart.

In Exodus 24 verse 12, then the Lord said to Moses, come up to

Exodus 24:12

me on the mountain and be there. Weird thing to say, hey, like

where else will I be? Come up to the mountain, the

mountain and be there. The yeshem in Hebrew, the

yeshem, and it means this. Come up to the mountain and just

exist. Just be there.

Just be there. Didn't they come up on the

mountain? Yes, there was a 'cause yes, God

was about to give him the 10 commandments, but it it's so

bizarre, so wonderful that in your 'cause God also just wants

you to be there and exist. Be in the moment.

That's literally what it means. Be in the moment.

You know, there's an old saying that says your days feel short

because you are not truly present in any of them.

I love what Pastor Dan said just a few weeks ago.

He said you can be a Christian for 50 years, but you're only a

one year old Christian. You've just lived the one year

50 times. Told you I'd write that down.

I was like, great, kind of preach that if you're living the

same thing day by day over and over, it's this is actually

psychologically true. If you're living the same thing

over and over and over and over again, you know, your brain

actually deletes it. You know why Think about when

you're driving home and you go on auto pilot and you get home

and you think, how did I get here?

You have done it so many times. Your brain literally deletes

part of it because it's like, well, that's not essential

information anymore. You've learnt that habit.

Go for it. And unfortunately, sometimes we

live our everyday like that and we look back and I don't know

where the last year went. You did not leave in the moment.

You did not. But yeah, Sham, you weren't not

there to just exist. There's a time and a place when

you're in the 'cause we also need to know how to just remain

in the moment, remain in God's present.

And this might surprise you because whilst the cause is

absolutely about other people, the cause is absolutely about

you. I think sometimes we forget that

God's relationship is with you. Sometimes I think that no one

else exists. God just loves me.

I love what? Yeah.

You feel that way, too. I remember Pastor Rick saying

I'm God's favorite person. It's just like, you know, you're

not. Oh, I need God more than all of

you to put together. That's probably why he's so kind

to me. But yeah, there's a duplicity

going on. It's like God treats you like

you are the actually the only person in the world.

At the same time, God sees his whole church and he works it all

together. Even in the Old Testament times,

there was a community sacrifice and a personal sacrifice.

It's God. There's a duplicity.

It's like, well, this whole community sacrifice should be

enough with the body of Christ. Yeah, but God wants a personal

relationship. Come up here and just exist with

me because your cause is for others, but your cause is also

just for you. Sometimes actually God really

does think that. Let your testimony, let your

life be the cause of Christ. But here guys, really important

point. Yes, exists in the moment, but

also realise that the cause has a cost.

Your life has a cost. You might not know this, but

Mount Sinai, the word, the Hebrew word Sinai means thorny.

Thorny. Mount Sinai literally means

mountain of like massive thorns. You don't, you don't call a

mountain Mount Thorny unless it's got like some serious

thorns. Right.

Mount Thorny. Has Pastor Sharon ever shown you

this? The thorns in from Israel?

Yeah. The thorns on the thorn trees

over there. They're not the little ones.

Hey, Pastor. No, they're like this big hay.

Yeah. So when they when they looked up

at this mountain, they were like them some nasty, nasty thorns.

So they called it now thorny. Anyway, massive thorns.

God caused Moses up firstly to spend time in his presence and

just exist with him, but also because Moses had a job to do.

But here's the thing, on Moses trip up the mountain, he would

have had to slash through a ton of thorns.

Moses knew there was a cost. He looked up and he goes, oh,

that's going to hurt. That's going to hurt a lot.

And he fights his way up this mountain of thorns because he

knew the goal was to exist in the presence of God.

Now when he gets to the top, you know what he didn't do?

He didn't get up there and start rebuking the thorns.

God, I just pray that you remove the thorns.

I pray God that you smite those thorns.

Almighty smiter. Sometimes we want to pray away

the cost. We are absolutely allowed to

pray in the Lord's presence in the Lord's Prayer.

Lead us not to temptation. It also means their temptations

and trials. That's fine, but there are some

costs you are just going to have to pay.

Think of Jesus in the garden, right?

He says the Godfather. If there's another way, can we

do this a different way? Because that cost is that.

That one's brutal. What does the Father say?

Nope, that's the cost. There's a time and a place to

rebuke the thorns for sure. The other thing he didn't do is

he didn't beg God to look at all these cuts and bruises.

I'm bleeding. What's wrong with you, God?

Why would you let me suffer this way?

You know you must hate me. Oh, be quiet.

So. Because sometimes when it comes

to the cause and the cost, you just simply have to pay it, not

pray it. Have you ever wondered why Jesus

wore a crown of thorns? It wasn't for decoration.

It's because that crown of thorns in His head relates

directly to Mount Sinai. He was breaking the bondage, the

fear, the condemnation, the pain and the bruises and the death of

Mount Sinai. Now look, I'm all for prayer

meetings. Absolutely.

I'm more for breaking down strongholds, buking the enemy of

people's lives, shun the devil down 100%.

In fact, you know, especially since we're having a 630 prayer

meeting tomorrow. Yeah, throw, throw your plug in

there, babe. You know, totally, totally for

breaking enemy 100%. I'm also very keen on

petitioning God to see miracles and signs and wonders.

And that is Rachel's course after the prayer meeting.

So no problem, babe. The thing is, guys, over my

experience of decades of Christianity, you know, I've

noticed sometimes people come up to me and they say, John, I get

up at 3:30 in the morning and I pray every day, which is great,

keep that up, fantastic. Or they will say to me, you

know, I've just been fasting for a whole month.

I think that's great, fantastic. But then I look at them and

their life afterwards, and they've come out of it angrier,

more critical, and just worse. I'm thinking, what did you do

for 30 days? I'll tell you what they did.

They spent 30 days jumping up and down, getting angry at the

thorns. And they're getting angrier and

they're getting hungrier. And that's means they're hangry,

right? And I just wish that at some

point they would just sit in the presence of God and just exist.

I love that song. I was telling you that I love

that song Empty, just making space.

You know what it says? It says that stop the talking.

Then it says, let my mind be still.

And then we just, we just make a space for God.

And when you make a space for God, then you breathe in his

grace and kindness. Over the years, I've also had

people say, you know, and I've heard them pray.

They're like, God show this church the truth.

Like maybe if you spent time actually existing with God, he

would bring out the truth in you that needs to be dealt with.

I've heard people say, yeah, you know, I'm praying that the the

darkness is brought into the light, not expecting for the

darkness to be in their own life, to be watched the light.

Maybe that's why we don't like to quiet with God because he

might just whisper something that we don't like.

Like, you know, that person you really should forgive.

Maybe that person you really need to apologize to.

Oh, I'd rather, I would rather keep praying so the words that

I'm hearing drown out that horrible noise of God.

But there is a time and a place in the cause where we just need

to come into the presence of God and just be.

I've been told over the years that I'm not a woman, so I don't

know. You can absolutely like shoot me

down for this. But when it comes to 1st dates,

you know, I've been told that the first date for a lady should

preferably include lovely things like flowers, candlelight,

dinner, chocolates, maybe music in the background while there's

a sunset. Is that OK?

Is that, is that good so far? Yeah.

Yeah. It's wonderful.

Do you know what works for a male on the first date?

She should just show up. But in my room, guys, you, you

are the love of God's life. He just wants you sometimes just

to show up. But, yeah, sometimes showing up

has a cost. And one of my favorite

evangelists, actually, her name's Catherine Kuhlman.

Has anyone heard of Catherine Kuhlman?

So good. Yeah, she was such an anointed,

amazing woman of God, great preacher, healing evangelist, a

lot of controversy, right? Because like, wait, she's a

woman. She's preaching.

God hates that. You know what I've what I've

noticed over the years and I've sowed the Bible a little bit is

I've noticed what's not in the Bible is your opinion.

So. So God can just do whatever he

wants and if he wants to annoyed a woman, he's happy for that,

right. Anyway, so Katherine Kuhlman,

right, the reason why I'm bringing her up, not just, not

just to make people mad, OK, is because she reconciled the cost.

Really, genuinely, I'm going to read out something from her, OK?

It's not going to be on the screen because it's a little bit

too long, but she reconciled the cost.

How did she work out the cost? Because she spent so much time

in the presence of God. They're related.

I'm sorry. Maybe that's why people don't

like spending time in the presence of God because the cost

is the thorns and the pain and the anger and the bitterness.

God dealing with things in your life.

This is what she said because she took the words of Jesus very

seriously in Luke 1428 where He says before you go on your

cause, count the cost. This is what she said when she

found her 'cause it's called the seven prices paid for the

anointing. You can look this up, number

one, this is what she said. I paid the price of absolute

surrender. Nothing in my life was mine

anymore. Another thing, you're like, oh,

I don't like this cost very much.

Where's my spa? I love my spa.

But nothing in my life was mine anymore.

Not plans, not dreams, not reputation.

The anointing cost me the ownership of myself #2 I paid

the price of obedience even when it hurt.

There were instructions from God that broke my heart, but delayed

obedience threatens the flow. Three, I paid the price of

loneliness. There were places God took me

when no one could follow or even wanted to.

Depth required separation. 4 I paid the price of being

misunderstood. Many judged what they could not

discern. I learned to let God explain for

me and not have an explanation at all.

I like that one. Yeah, because she was.

She was hated on for a fair bit. They're like, get off the stage,

woman. Five.

I paid the price of brokenness. Success did not heal my

brokenness. It deepened it.

Brokenness kept me usable. 6 I know.

That's why I wanted to read this amazing stuff.

Look this up. Put it on your wall or

something. All right. 6 I paid the price of

discipline, guarding my time, my words, my emotion, and my focus.

Carelessness was too expensive. Seven I paid the price of

letting God take all the glory. I gave up the right to defend

myself. That's a tough one.

Or promote myself. If God used me he would be seen

in him alone. And she finishes it with

anointing costs everything, but gives you Jesus in return.

Nothing but the name and blood of Jesus.

Oh musicians, you should come up.

That'd be great. Thank you .3.

Don't clock out. Don't clock out guys.

It's a lifelong cause, a lifelong cost.

It's a Great Commission. In Matthew 2819 and 20, it says

go ye therefore, good Lord King James Version, go ye therefore

teach all nations baptized in the name, in the name of the

Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost, teaching them to observe

all things whatsoever I've commanded you and lo, I am with

you always, even unto the end of the world, that very first term

there where it says go therefore and teach into all teach the

West Fort. Sorry guys, teach all the

nations baptizing them. The Greek word, there's matateo.

It it isn't just teaching Matateo is a personal

relationship where you interact. We would call it discipleship.

That's why in some translations it says and disciple.

All right, it's probably a better translation than teach,

but it still has a teaching aspect of it.

So people are like, you know, we want to do a discipleship thing,

but you know, we don't want it just to be social.

Great. We don't want just social get

togethers. Do do that whenever you want.

But discipleship is getting together, having relationships,

then teaching and learning Matthew Teo.

But the next one, verse 20 there says teaching them to observe

all things. That word there is Didasco.

So yes, to teach Scripture separates the two.

The difference between discipleship and teaching is

very clear in these two words, in these two verses.

So we do discipleship so that we can build each other in a

personal one-on-one, one on 4, whatever, but a small way.

Yeah. But then we will start teaching

internship, the courses. Next step course, prayer course.

Yeah, let's do this. Interestingly though, this is

what I want to go with this. If you ever get a chance to have

a look at this, this passage right way back in the original

Greek, you'll find really weird stuff.

Like for example, there are no gaps in any of the words you

know, We have gaps between the words in like really proper

traditional Greek, there aren't any gaps.

You have to guess where the what this is from, practice where the

words start and finish. Bizarre.

There is no punctuation at all. So when Jesus gave this Great

Commission, you could read all of this in one context.

Now we always, we always stop a little bit short.

We say, yeah, go into the world, preach the gospel, rah, rah,

rah. But what's the last part?

Say I am with you always. You're a part of the Great

Commission is discipleship that is life long.

Discipleship isn't a course that's just 8 weeks.

Discipleship is a lifetime journey.

So the Great Commission isn't to I'm going to go out there and

just do a thing and then everyone will be fine.

I'm going to do my Sunday preach and move on.

No, no, discipleship is I'm going to be with you through

this journey. We actually see this in

marriage, yes, the vows for better, for worse, for richer,

for poorer. That's discipleship, actually

growing together, learning from each other, teaching each other.

So for us to take on the challenge of being more Christ

like, then we also have to make and take up the promise to never

leave or depart the cause of Christ for each other.

Preach the gospel, disciple and then create spiritual and social

transformation in our city and dedicate yourself to it.

This is my lifelong course because discipleship is

longevity. The cause is for life.

And if you're alive, you have a cause.

You know Elijah, one of the great prophets of the of the

Bible, he was on course till his last breath.

It even says in scripture that his final illness did not stop

him. Age was not an excuse.

Sickness was not an excuse. So I'm going to read this out to

you. Just stay with me.

It says this, it's on the screen because 6 verses 14 this is our

second kings 1314 and 20 it says this, Elisha had become sick

with the illness of which he would die, which is nice way of

saying he was deathly sick. But he was still on purpose with

a 'cause then Joash the king of Israel came down to him and wept

over him and said, Oh father, my father, the Chariots of Israel

and the horsemen. Very poetic nice.

But Elisha said to him, because Elisha knew what he wanted, he

said take a bow and some arrows. So Joash took himself a bow and

some arrows. Then Elijah said to the king of

Israel, put your hand on the bow.

So he put his hand on it. And Elijah put his hands on the

King's hands and he said, open the east window.

Then Elijah said him shoot and he shot the arrow of the Lord's

deliverance and the arrow of the deliverance of Syria, for you

must strike the Syrians at APEC till you have destroyed them.

He's so, so Elijah, he's so sick.

He's literally dying. He's in his later years and here

he is prophesying a great victory over the enemy.

So that's exactly what happened. So he then said to the king,

take the arrows, strike it on the ground.

So he struck it three times. And then Elijah was angry.

He's like, why do you only strike it three times?

If you kept going, you would have defeated everybody.

You can imagine. When you're sick, you know,

you'd get a little bit grumpy. Yeah.

Elijah's like, I'm literally like so sick I'm dying and you

couldn't even take up the 'cause you couldn't even put in the

effort to see your enemy overcome.

And he says if you struck A5 or six times, Syria would have been

wiped out, but now you'll only strike Syria three times.

It says then Elisha died and they buried him.

However, a while later there was some raiding, raiding bands like

Enemy from Moab. You know, people got killed and

they were burying a man and they actually ended up throwing this

guy into the tomb of Elisha. And when they threw the man into

Elisha's tomb, guess what happened to the man?

He came back to life. Elisha was on course even after

his death. What's your excuse?

Look, if you haven't taken your last breath, I'm going to let

you away. I'm going to be kind.

He's like, if you're dead, maybe you're not Elijah, OK, that's

fine. But if there is lung breath in

your lungs, that's just challenging.

Take up the cause, count the cost.

And just like Catherine Kuhlman said, he's like, well, what, You

know, what's the reward? It sounds very painful.

Your reward is Jesus. You know, people talk about

heaven and I got a mansion, this sports car.

I'm like, just give me Jesus. Like genuinely like, like man,

God has saved me from me so many times.

I'm pretty sure in heaven I've got this little patch of grass.

I'm fine with that. I will sit on that patch of

grass and just standing. All of God forever starts with

'cause I just want to give everyone an opportunity right

now. Maybe you haven't begun your

cause with Christ yet. You've come here first time,

10th time, 100th time, doesn't matter.

And you're thinking I need something more significant in my

life than just the daily go to work or don't go to work life.

It's like you need a cause. The best 'cause you will ever

pick up is the cause of Christ. I like what Rachel says, Thomas.

Sometimes she's like, you know, like not doing this rah rah is

hard. You know, there's like life is

hard and you get to choose your hard because no matter which you

choose, a causeless life or a life full of 'cause it's still

going to be hard. So why not pick up the chords?