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Gather 25: Gathering The Global Church | Gather 25: Gathering The Global Church Recap | March 2, 2025
- What you're about to
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- Experience is nothing short of extraordinary.
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- Gather 25.
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- A truly historic milestone for the global church.
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- This 25 hour worldwide event has united the body
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- Of christ across every nation and timezone,
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- Bringing believers together like never before.
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- Think about this.
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- We're the first generation in history
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- That can bring together people from every corner of the world
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- In real time,
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- To proclaim the gospel and watch god move all across the earth.
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- Technology has opened a door that allows us to gather
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- The entire global church like we have never seen before.
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- Tbn ensures you don't miss this historic moment.
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- Over the past 25 hours, starting friday night
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- And concluding just last night, the global church has gathered
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- To pray, to repent and worship in unity.
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- And what a miraculous moment it has been.
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- But tonight you will witness a powerful recap
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- Of how god moved across the globe
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- During this unprecedented gathering.
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- So join us,
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- Lean in and be part of this historic moment
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- As we celebrate the global church coming together.
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- And i believe if we are going to see revival
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- And it's going to result in everybody, everywhere having
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- A chance to hear about jesus,
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- And that prayer is going to
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- Have to come from every believer on planet earth.
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- Whether or not we show up for the things of god,
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- The mandate of god still continues.
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- Whether you're waiting to have enough money or enough status,
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- And to be known and qualified in ways that men qualified,
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- But not in the way
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- Where god puts us in right standing with him.
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- Whether we join in the kingdom.
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- And my prayer for the church
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- Is that we wouldn't fear the darkness,
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- But we would understand greater is he
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- That is in us, that he that is in the world,
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- In the same spirit that raised jesus christ from the dead,
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- Lives on the inside of you.
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- John says that even right here on patmos, on the lord's day,
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- I decided i was going to be on in the spirit
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- That i was going to worship the lord anyhow.
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- Worship opens up a window of revelation.
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- In jesus there is hope.
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- It's a defining moment in history,
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- A time to witness how god is moving across
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- The earth and be encouraged to share jesus everywhere.
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- This is our moment
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- In history to come together.
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- This is gather 25.
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- We are coming live
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- From the continent of north america,
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- From the rugged peaks of the canadian rockies
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- To the niagara falls, down the mighty mississippi river,
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- To the caribbean islands, through the vibrant villages
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- Of central america, to the remarkable panama canal.
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- These shores have welcomed journeys
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- From all over the world, existing as a melting pot
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- Of ideas, a place of musical innovation,
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- And a mosaic of many vibrant cultures.
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- It has also been a land of spiritual awakenings,
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- From the great revivals of the 18th century to the present day.
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- Outpourings across numerous college campuses.
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- Baptisms by the thousands.
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- Overflowing arenas of young men and women.
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- University students repenting and turning to jesus.
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- There continues to be a wind of revival blowing.
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- Although overall church attendance is in decline.
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- There's a renewed passion in north american churches
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- For discipleship, for authenticity,
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- And a purified church.
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- To give you a glimpse of what's happening across the continent
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- Right now, there are gather groups meeting live
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- In mexico and cuba and trinidad and tobago
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- From canada
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- Down to belize and all 50 states of the united states.
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- And that's
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- Where we're headed now, to the lone star state of texas.
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- We're gathered.
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- 25 is coming to you from the city
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- Of dallas.
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- Lord bless you
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- And keep you.
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- Make his face shine upon you.
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- Be gracious to the lord today.
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- His face could be.
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- And give it to.
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- We receive it all together.
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- Amen.
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- Amen
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- Amen
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- The pledge you
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- And been
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- To make his face shine upon
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- And be gracious in the lord.
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- Turn it
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- Face to shine.
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- They give you peace.
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- Amen
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- Amen
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- I thank you for your love. god.
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- Amen
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- Amen
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- Amen amen
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- May his favor
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- Be upon you in a thousand generations.
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- Your very.
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- Your children give you that.
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- You may
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- Be upon.
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- And the thousand generations.
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- And your family and your children.
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- And then you.
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- And you may never be alone.
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- And from generation
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- And your family and your children.
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- And this, this and this is
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- Yours may be 100,000 generations.
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- And your family and your children, and this you
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- He is for you
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- Amen
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- Amen
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- May his favor be upon you
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- You know we
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- The reason
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- For. us.
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- What a blessing to be able to be together
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- As the body of christ, to gather with one another.
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- I'm thrilled to be able to share just a thought with you
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- That i hope will be an encouragement to you,
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- A challenge to you, and inspiring to you
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- As we all seek to surrender more fully to the lord.
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- Let's pray.
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- Lord jesus, i thank you that your word is alive.
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- Speak.
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- We are your sons and daughters and we came to hear in
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- Jesus name, amen.
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- Not too long ago a friend came to the door,
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- But i didn't know it was this friend.
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- She knocked on the door loudly.
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- Consists gently, passionately, aggressively.
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- And she would not stop.
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- And it was one of those days where i wasn't expecting anyone.
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- The kids were gone.
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- My husband was out for the day.
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- It was just a quiet day.
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- I was intentionally doing what
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- We calling our family hibernating.
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- I had intentionally gone into the bedroom.
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- I closed the door.
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- I was underneath the covers.
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- I was watching my favorite show.
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- I wasn't
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- Expecting any deliveries, wasn't expecting anybody to show up.
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- It was one of those days i was looking forward to.
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- So when i heard the knocking on
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- The door, i thought, well, at some point
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- This person's going to get the message
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- And they will go away.
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- But the knocking continued.
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- It was loud and it was aggressive
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- And it was consistent and i was getting annoyed.
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- The knocking would not stop.
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- So eventually i got myself up.
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- I put a robe on. i went to the door.
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- I opened the door
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- And saw that it was this friend and i said as i would girl,
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- Why are you knocking on my door like that?
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- Her response to me was,
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- Because i know you.
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- She said.
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- I know that one of two things
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- Was happening on the other side of this door.
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- I knew that either you were in hibernation mode,
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- Which means you're intentionally
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- Ignoring the knock on the door,
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- Or i knew that the opposite extreme could also be true, that
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- There's so much chaos going on in here
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- With the kids and the dogs
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- And the washing machine going in the dishwasher,
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- That there's
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- So much happening in here that it is possible
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- That you didn't even hear the knock.
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- So she said, what?
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- No matter which extreme it was, i knew that if i did not knock
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- Passionately and persistently and consistently,
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- You might not come to this door.
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- So i had to knock with purpose and passion
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- To get you to pay attention.
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- Jesus speaks in
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- Revelation to a man named john,
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- A man who has walked with him and talked with him
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- In the three years of jesus earthly ministry.
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- But when we meet the apostle john, who also wrote the gospel,
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- When we meet the apostle john in the book of revelation,
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- He is now 80 something years old and he is being persecuted
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- For his faith.
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- He is sitting on the isle of palmas.
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- He has been relegated there because he has refused to bend
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- The knee.
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- He has refused to give any symmetry in his life
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- Of allegiance to any other emperor
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- Or any other leader
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- Outside of his allegiance to christ and christ alone.
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- And it occurs to me
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- That there are very many of you that are on the other side
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- Of the screen.
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- And as we all join together today,
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- And you know what it feels like to be persecuted,
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- Not because you've done something wrong,
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- But because not perfectly,
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- But intentionally, you've tried to fix your eyes on jesus.
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- John has been exiled because not
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- He's done something wrong, but he has done something right.
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- He has refused to bend the knee to the emperor at the time,
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- And as a result of that, he's been exiled to patmos
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- And on this island, in the midst of devastation
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- And disappointment, in the midst of a situation
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- None of us would ever prefer to be in.
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- In the first chapter of the book of revelation,
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- John says that even right here on patmos, on the lord's day,
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- I decided i was going to be on in the spirit
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- That i was going to worship the lord anyhow.
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- And i bet there are a bunch of us
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- That are gathered together that you've just decided,
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- Despite what i'm facing and despite
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- What i'm going through,
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- And despite what i'm feeling, and despite the disappointment
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- In my life that i wouldn't prefer, i wouldn't ask for this.
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- But you've just decided.
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- As for me and my house, what we're going to
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- Do is serve the lord anyway.
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- John decides i'm going to worship the lord.
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- So on the lord's day,
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- While sitting in disappointment and discouragement,
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- He decides to worship and your worship
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- Opens up a window of revelation.
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- This is a man who'd already walked with jesus.
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- He knew jesus. he heard jesus speak.
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- He saw jesus perform miracles.
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- And yet in revelation, jesus is revealed to him more fully.
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- The book of revelation is basically an unveiling.
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- It's like the cover being lifted so that jesus is exposed in
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- His fullness.
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- John is worshiping on the lord's day,
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- And he hears a voice behind him.
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- And when he turns to see who it is that is talking to him,
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- He sees seven lampstands and someone standing
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- In the middle of the lampstands that is like the son of god,
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- And in one hand he's got seven stars,
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- And he is standing there with po
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- And john and jesus says to john, write down everything
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- You see and everything that you hear.
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- And jesus gives him seven messages
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- For seven churches, warnings.
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- And the seventh of those churches is a church called
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- The church of leo.
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- To see the complacent, indifferent,
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- Casual christian.
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- And to those believers, he says,
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- I stand at the door.
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- Revelation 320 and i knock
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- If anyone will hear my voice, if anybody will decide
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- That they're going to open up the door,
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- He said, i'm going to come in and i'm going to feast with you.
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- I'm going to open up fellowship
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- And communion
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- With you, the likes of which you have never experienced before.
- 00:16:13.896 --> 00:16:17.266
- Jesus says, i'm standing at the door and knock,
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- And he describes his own posture
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- To his own people as being outside the door.
- 00:16:23.772 --> 00:16:28.043
- Most of the time when we hear that verse,
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- It is used appropriately so in an evangelistic way
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- To invite people to respond to jesus as their savior.
- 00:16:34.983 --> 00:16:38.720
- But when jesus said it, he was talking to the church.
- 00:16:38.720 --> 00:16:43.025
- He said, i am standing outside
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- Of the door of my own church,
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- And i am knocking on the doors of those who have already placed
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- Faith in me, of those who have already said
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- That they're going to be followers of mine,
- 00:16:55.637 --> 00:16:57.739
- He says, somehow i've gotten relegated
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- To the periphery of my own brides life.
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- Lord, help us if we're in here and he's out there,
- 00:17:04.713 --> 00:17:08.951
- Help us.
- 00:17:09.218 --> 00:17:09.852
- If we're busy and brimming
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- With ministry activity and good works, and celebrating
- 00:17:11.153 --> 00:17:14.523
- And singing songs and waving our hands
- 00:17:14.523 --> 00:17:16.492
- And on our knees and participating
- 00:17:16.492 --> 00:17:18.694
- In religious events, and jesus is outside the door.
- 00:17:18.694 --> 00:17:24.032
- Jesus says, i'm standing outside the door.
- 00:17:24.900 --> 00:17:27.369
- Not just corporately, not just the global body of christ,
- 00:17:27.369 --> 00:17:31.573
- Not just your local church
- 00:17:31.573 --> 00:17:33.242
- That you attend, whether in north america
- 00:17:33.242 --> 00:17:35.410
- Or whatever continent on which in which you live,
- 00:17:35.410 --> 00:17:38.347
- He says,
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- Not only am i standing outside of the door of the church
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- Corporately, but i'm standing outside
- 00:17:42.918 --> 00:17:45.087
- Of the door of your own heart because you are the church.
- 00:17:45.087 --> 00:17:49.691
- The holy spirit of god lives on the inside of you
- 00:17:49.691 --> 00:17:52.995
- And on the inside of me.
- 00:17:52.995 --> 00:17:54.530
- And he says to those who are already my bride,
- 00:17:54.530 --> 00:17:57.432
- To those that have redeemed, to those that have accepted me
- 00:17:57.432 --> 00:18:00.669
- At saved as savior, i am still outside of your door,
- 00:18:00.669 --> 00:18:04.806
- Constantly knocking, inviting you to open up the door,
- 00:18:04.806 --> 00:18:09.411
- To surrender more, to walk in step with me more fully.
- 00:18:09.411 --> 00:18:12.915
- To hear my voice more completely.
- 00:18:12.915 --> 00:18:14.850
- To be filled with my spirit more fully.
- 00:18:14.850 --> 00:18:17.352
- He says i am always at the door, inviting you,
- 00:18:17.352 --> 00:18:21.256
- Drawing you, calling you if you'll listen.
- 00:18:21.256 --> 00:18:24.726
- Even now,
- 00:18:24.726 --> 00:18:26.628
- You will hear him at the door.
- 00:18:27.229 --> 00:18:30.365
- Everything you and i have experienced.
- 00:18:30.365 --> 00:18:34.102
- In all of our individual lives and experiences
- 00:18:35.003 --> 00:18:37.639
- Over the last week, month, year,
- 00:18:37.639 --> 00:18:41.143
- The disappointments,
- 00:18:41.610 --> 00:18:43.979
- That was him at the door,
- 00:18:43.979 --> 00:18:46.481
- The discouragement
- 00:18:46.481 --> 00:18:48.283
- That was him at the door,
- 00:18:48.283 --> 00:18:50.819
- The mountains, the joys, the triumphs, the good days.
- 00:18:50.819 --> 00:18:55.991
- That was him at the door.
- 00:18:55.991 --> 00:18:58.093
- The diagnosis you weren't expecting, the difficulty
- 00:18:58.093 --> 00:19:01.230
- In your finances, the struggle you have in that relationship.
- 00:19:01.230 --> 00:19:04.967
- All of it was jesus saying, draw near to me.
- 00:19:04.967 --> 00:19:09.738
- And i will draw near to you.
- 00:19:10.339 --> 00:19:14.176
- He speaks to the complacent, the indifferent,
- 00:19:14.176 --> 00:19:17.813
- The lukewarm, the casual christian.
- 00:19:17.813 --> 00:19:21.283
- And he says, i'm still calling you.
- 00:19:22.050 --> 00:19:25.087
- I'm still at the door.
- 00:19:25.554 --> 00:19:28.156
- I cannot get over this picture of jesus
- 00:19:28.156 --> 00:19:30.592
- Standing at the door because
- 00:19:30.592 --> 00:19:33.362
- This is jesus
- 00:19:33.729 --> 00:19:34.763
- We talking about this.
- 00:19:34.763 --> 00:19:38.166
- In ancient, culture,
- 00:19:38.634 --> 00:19:41.903
- Knocking at the door is very different
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- Than what you and i would think about in our minds.
- 00:19:44.039 --> 00:19:46.241
- I, very many of us,
- 00:19:46.241 --> 00:19:47.542
- We think
- 00:19:47.542 --> 00:19:48.210
- About going to our next door
- 00:19:48.210 --> 00:19:49.111
- Neighbor's house and we're knocking on
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- An actual physical structure in their inside.
- 00:19:50.345 --> 00:19:52.981
- Living quarters weren't that way in the first century
- 00:19:52.981 --> 00:19:55.651
- In jesus day, or john at the time that he was living.
- 00:19:55.651 --> 00:19:58.854
- It wasn't,
- 00:19:58.854 --> 00:20:00.122
- The same structural context as what you and i might have
- 00:20:00.122 --> 00:20:03.392
- In our minds.
- 00:20:03.392 --> 00:20:04.026
- Instead,
- 00:20:04.026 --> 00:20:04.993
- There was not just one single family dwelling,
- 00:20:04.993 --> 00:20:07.663
- But they were basically looped together all in a compound.
- 00:20:07.663 --> 00:20:10.832
- There was generational living.
- 00:20:10.832 --> 00:20:12.501
- So you had toddlers
- 00:20:12.501 --> 00:20:13.735
- And teenagers and parents and grandparents
- 00:20:13.735 --> 00:20:16.104
- And your cousins and your mom and them.
- 00:20:16.104 --> 00:20:18.106
- They all lived together in the exact same compound.
- 00:20:18.106 --> 00:20:21.476
- There was a land around
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- The entire compound creating a courtyard of sorts.
- 00:20:22.644 --> 00:20:25.981
- And then on the outside of that property, that compound
- 00:20:25.981 --> 00:20:29.084
- Where there was not only just the family,
- 00:20:29.084 --> 00:20:31.086
- But also the workers
- 00:20:31.086 --> 00:20:32.387
- That were tending and taking care
- 00:20:32.387 --> 00:20:33.855
- Of those structures of their gardens.
- 00:20:33.855 --> 00:20:35.724
- Are there, all of the nuances of living there.
- 00:20:35.724 --> 00:20:38.760
- They also have their cattles and their goats and their sheep,
- 00:20:38.760 --> 00:20:42.297
- All of those nuances happening in the courtyard.
- 00:20:42.297 --> 00:20:45.267
- And then there was a fenceline, there was an enclosure,
- 00:20:45.267 --> 00:20:48.136
- So to speak, and the door was on that,
- 00:20:48.136 --> 00:20:51.340
- That exterior enclosure, that fence line.
- 00:20:51.340 --> 00:20:55.077
- So when an ancient visitor would come to a compound,
- 00:20:55.077 --> 00:20:59.214
- That ancient visitor knew they might be outside
- 00:20:59.214 --> 00:21:02.250
- Of that exterior door for quite some time before
- 00:21:02.250 --> 00:21:05.620
- Anybody on the inside even recognize their presence.
- 00:21:05.620 --> 00:21:09.725
- They knew up front
- 00:21:09.725 --> 00:21:10.726
- They were going to have to
- 00:21:10.726 --> 00:21:11.760
- Be incredibly patient if they came to visit,
- 00:21:11.760 --> 00:21:14.796
- Because depending upon the time of day,
- 00:21:14.796 --> 00:21:17.032
- One of two extremes might be happening inside that compound.
- 00:21:17.032 --> 00:21:21.103
- Either the people that lived there had already gone inside
- 00:21:21.103 --> 00:21:24.539
- Of the interior quarters,
- 00:21:24.539 --> 00:21:26.074
- Which would make it even more difficult
- 00:21:26.074 --> 00:21:28.410
- For them to be aware of the visitor outside of that gate
- 00:21:28.410 --> 00:21:32.848
- Because they were in hibernation mode,
- 00:21:32.848 --> 00:21:35.584
- Or the other extreme could be happening,
- 00:21:35.584 --> 00:21:38.186
- That it's so noisy and so busy with all the generations
- 00:21:38.186 --> 00:21:41.456
- That are living together and the animals
- 00:21:41.456 --> 00:21:43.625
- That are bleeding and mooing and,
- 00:21:43.625 --> 00:21:46.027
- And all of the
- 00:21:46.027 --> 00:21:47.095
- Chaos of the workers that are busy on the inside,
- 00:21:47.095 --> 00:21:50.065
- It could be so busy and noisy either.
- 00:21:50.065 --> 00:21:53.502
- Extreme let the visitor know before they even arrived
- 00:21:53.502 --> 00:21:56.738
- That this might take some time.
- 00:21:56.738 --> 00:21:59.708
- They knew they had to be patient if they were going to come,
- 00:21:59.708 --> 00:22:03.912
- And if someone was going to become aware of their presence.
- 00:22:03.912 --> 00:22:07.649
- Think about the fact that jesus
- 00:22:08.283 --> 00:22:11.453
- Patiently stands at your door.
- 00:22:11.453 --> 00:22:16.691
- Jesus,
- 00:22:16.892 --> 00:22:18.960
- We're talking about the king of the universe.
- 00:22:18.960 --> 00:22:22.097
- We're talking about the one who has all power in his hands.
- 00:22:22.097 --> 00:22:25.600
- We're talking about
- 00:22:26.067 --> 00:22:26.868
- The one who sits on high,
- 00:22:26.868 --> 00:22:28.470
- Who controls the throes of the universe, who is right
- 00:22:28.470 --> 00:22:31.506
- Now, as we are in this room and in that room where you are.
- 00:22:31.506 --> 00:22:34.576
- He is controlling
- 00:22:34.576 --> 00:22:35.777
- The throes of the galaxies that scientists haven't even yet
- 00:22:35.777 --> 00:22:38.980
- Discovered yet.
- 00:22:38.980 --> 00:22:40.015
- Neighborhoods they're not even aware, are there?
- 00:22:40.015 --> 00:22:42.517
- He is the one who hangs the stars in the sky.
- 00:22:42.517 --> 00:22:45.720
- He knows every single one of them by name.
- 00:22:45.720 --> 00:22:47.989
- And he knows every single one of them by number.
- 00:22:47.989 --> 00:22:50.525
- This is the god of the universe
- 00:22:50.525 --> 00:22:52.060
- Who is making sure that the entire earth
- 00:22:52.060 --> 00:22:55.063
- Rotates on its axis at just the right speed,
- 00:22:55.063 --> 00:22:58.033
- To make sure
- 00:22:58.033 --> 00:22:58.900
- That every single one of us
- 00:22:58.900 --> 00:23:00.268
- Has enough oxygen to be able to sustain life on this planet.
- 00:23:00.268 --> 00:23:04.272
- He is the one that makes sure the sun rises and stays at it.
- 00:23:04.272 --> 00:23:07.509
- At its post.
- 00:23:07.509 --> 00:23:08.543
- He is the one that makes short
- 00:23:08.543 --> 00:23:09.911
- Swaps places with the moon at the exact right time.
- 00:23:09.911 --> 00:23:13.181
- He is the one who is in control of it all, and that
- 00:23:13.181 --> 00:23:16.284
- Great majestic, all mount, mighty, omnipresent,
- 00:23:16.284 --> 00:23:20.622
- Omniscient, all sovereign god is at your door.
- 00:23:20.622 --> 00:23:28.730
- It's unbelievable.
- 00:23:29.164 --> 00:23:31.900
- It's unbelievable to think that we have a savior
- 00:23:31.900 --> 00:23:35.270
- Who patiently stands waiting on us.
- 00:23:35.270 --> 00:23:40.141
- What manner of man is this?
- 00:23:40.742 --> 00:23:44.279
- What manner of love is this?
- 00:23:44.279 --> 00:23:47.382
- What manner of mercy and patience
- 00:23:47.382 --> 00:23:50.085
- And grace is this,
- 00:23:50.085 --> 00:23:53.488
- That when he knows us,
- 00:23:53.488 --> 00:23:56.157
- He knows that we go into hibernation mode.
- 00:23:56.157 --> 00:23:59.761
- He knows when your heart is indifferent.
- 00:23:59.761 --> 00:24:02.597
- He knows when you've been lukewarm.
- 00:24:02.597 --> 00:24:05.166
- He knows when you've become defensive.
- 00:24:05.166 --> 00:24:07.769
- He knows when you've been hurt and want to walk away.
- 00:24:07.769 --> 00:24:10.705
- He knows when you've intentionally
- 00:24:10.705 --> 00:24:12.307
- Locked yourself away and turned your back on him.
- 00:24:12.307 --> 00:24:15.810
- He knows you.
- 00:24:15.810 --> 00:24:17.979
- He knows when you've been too busy.
- 00:24:17.979 --> 00:24:20.549
- He knows when the chaos surrounding your life,
- 00:24:20.549 --> 00:24:23.184
- The exterior noise of your life,
- 00:24:23.184 --> 00:24:25.053
- Or the internal noise of your life
- 00:24:25.053 --> 00:24:26.988
- Has made it difficult for you to recognize his presence.
- 00:24:26.988 --> 00:24:30.191
- He knows,
- 00:24:30.191 --> 00:24:31.693
- And grace comes anyway.
- 00:24:32.193 --> 00:24:42.571
- I just can't get over the fact
- 00:24:43.171 --> 00:24:44.806
- That he keeps on coming for me,
- 00:24:44.806 --> 00:24:47.943
- And he keeps on coming for you.
- 00:24:47.943 --> 00:24:50.912
- I'm so grateful for a savior who passionately,
- 00:24:50.912 --> 00:24:53.448
- Patiently stands.
- 00:24:53.448 --> 00:24:55.383
- But this is also a messiah who passionately knocks,
- 00:24:55.383 --> 00:24:58.920
- And a sovereign who clearly speaks.
- 00:24:58.920 --> 00:25:02.223
- An ancient visitor knew
- 00:25:02.223 --> 00:25:03.892
- That they couldn't just stand at the door.
- 00:25:03.892 --> 00:25:05.627
- Nobody would recognize them for sure if they just stood there.
- 00:25:05.627 --> 00:25:09.598
- No, they had to knock aggressively and passionately
- 00:25:09.598 --> 00:25:13.301
- And consistently
- 00:25:13.301 --> 00:25:14.736
- And over time to make sure that someone was aware
- 00:25:14.736 --> 00:25:18.540
- That they were standing outside of that exterior enclosure.
- 00:25:18.540 --> 00:25:22.077
- And then they had to compound the noise.
- 00:25:22.944 --> 00:25:24.980
- They had to level it up. they couldn't just stand.
- 00:25:24.980 --> 00:25:27.782
- They couldn't just knock.
- 00:25:27.782 --> 00:25:29.451
- They had to call out with a loud voice
- 00:25:29.451 --> 00:25:32.087
- To make sure that the people on the other side
- 00:25:32.087 --> 00:25:34.823
- Could hear the one who was speaking.
- 00:25:34.823 --> 00:25:38.159
- Do you know that you serve a savior who is not just standing?
- 00:25:38.159 --> 00:25:42.998
- You serve a god who loves you so much
- 00:25:42.998 --> 00:25:45.533
- That he takes the initiative to keep on knocking,
- 00:25:45.533 --> 00:25:50.238
- And to keep on calling the conviction in your heart.
- 00:25:50.238 --> 00:25:54.109
- That is not coincidence.
- 00:25:54.109 --> 00:25:55.710
- That's the voice of god.
- 00:25:55.710 --> 00:25:57.379
- All of the things that have lined up in your life
- 00:25:58.380 --> 00:26:00.715
- Directing you in a particular way.
- 00:26:00.715 --> 00:26:02.517
- Someone else might call it coincidence.
- 00:26:02.517 --> 00:26:05.086
- That's your savior at the door he is knocking.
- 00:26:05.086 --> 00:26:09.090
- He is calling, he is drawing, he is reaching out to you
- 00:26:09.090 --> 00:26:13.161
- And he is reaching out to me.
- 00:26:13.161 --> 00:26:14.929
- And he says, if you will respond
- 00:26:14.929 --> 00:26:17.399
- To the savior who passionately stands,
- 00:26:17.399 --> 00:26:19.868
- And the messiah who passionately knocks, and the savior
- 00:26:19.868 --> 00:26:23.505
- Who clearly speaks, he says, if anybody hears my voice
- 00:26:23.505 --> 00:26:28.143
- And opens the door.
- 00:26:28.610 --> 00:26:31.880
- He says, i'm coming in.
- 00:26:32.380 --> 00:26:35.884
- Open the door.
- 00:26:36.217 --> 00:26:42.457
- Church,
- 00:26:42.691 --> 00:26:44.492
- Open the door.
- 00:26:44.492 --> 00:26:47.796
- The price.
- 00:26:47.796 --> 00:26:51.032
- He paid is too high.
- 00:26:51.032 --> 00:26:54.736
- For us to be out here
- 00:26:55.236 --> 00:26:56.371
- Playing games.
- 00:26:56.371 --> 00:27:01.710
- He has redeemed us from too much.
- 00:27:02.410 --> 00:27:05.647
- He has delivered us from so deep a pit
- 00:27:05.647 --> 00:27:09.417
- For us to be casual about
- 00:27:09.984 --> 00:27:12.153
- His persistent pursuit of us.
- 00:27:12.153 --> 00:27:17.492
- He that half of the ear.
- 00:27:18.026 --> 00:27:21.162
- Let him hear what the spirit says to the church.
- 00:27:21.162 --> 00:27:25.433
- I'm at the door.
- 00:27:25.834 --> 00:27:28.136
- Open it and i will come in.
- 00:27:28.136 --> 00:27:31.706
- In jesus name.
- 00:27:32.040 --> 00:27:33.842
- Amen.
- 00:27:33.842 --> 00:27:37.579
- Come on, lift up the name of jesus
- 00:27:37.579 --> 00:27:40.849
- All around the floor.
- 00:27:40.849 --> 00:27:44.185
- Welcome to gather 25.
- 00:27:44.185 --> 00:27:50.592
- But you mobilize your church for the sake of your glory.
- 00:27:51.726 --> 00:27:55.530
- Pour out your spirit.
- 00:27:55.530 --> 00:27:57.065
- Send revival.
- 00:27:57.065 --> 00:27:58.133
- God, there's too many people
- 00:27:58.133 --> 00:28:00.535
- Falling away, ditching their faith,
- 00:28:00.535 --> 00:28:02.670
- Ditching their theology, ditching their morality.
- 00:28:02.670 --> 00:28:05.607
- I'm just encouraging with just stand together
- 00:28:05.607 --> 00:28:21.389
- This is gathered 25.
- 00:28:21.856 --> 00:28:26.494
- We're moving together across the earth
- 00:28:27.328 --> 00:28:30.431
- To oceania.
- 00:28:30.431 --> 00:28:34.803
- Right now for your day.
- 00:28:35.303 --> 00:28:36.704
- The group's meeting together in fiji, nauru and micronesia.
- 00:28:36.704 --> 00:28:41.409
- Get the groups in samoa, australia and papua new guinea.
- 00:28:41.409 --> 00:28:45.513
- Christianity first arrived in oceania
- 00:28:46.314 --> 00:28:49.250
- In 1797 on the shores of tahiti.
- 00:28:49.250 --> 00:28:53.288
- From there, the gospel spread rapidly
- 00:28:53.288 --> 00:28:56.090
- Through both missionaries and indigenous believers.
- 00:28:56.090 --> 00:28:59.260
- I carried the message from ireland to ireland.
- 00:28:59.260 --> 00:29:01.863
- Now we are on a journey to new zealand.
- 00:29:01.863 --> 00:29:05.366
- Known to the maori as altidore.
- 00:29:05.366 --> 00:29:08.269
- For many years in the 20th century, new zealand
- 00:29:08.269 --> 00:29:11.339
- Retained the world's highest rate of sending missionaries.
- 00:29:11.339 --> 00:29:15.777
- Today, new zealand is a beacon of unity among the churches
- 00:29:15.777 --> 00:29:21.182
- And it's the year that we're going live for the 25.
- 00:29:21.182 --> 00:29:25.954
- In the city of auckland.
- 00:29:25.954 --> 00:29:35.663
- My jesus,
- 00:29:35.964 --> 00:29:39.434
- You need to do the will.
- 00:29:39.434 --> 00:29:42.837
- There is not much.
- 00:29:42.837 --> 00:29:47.041
- And all the day
- 00:29:47.408 --> 00:29:50.812
- I want to praise
- 00:29:51.212 --> 00:29:54.482
- The wonders of the mighty.
- 00:29:54.482 --> 00:30:03.958
- I confess my shield to you.
- 00:30:04.559 --> 00:30:10.531
- Tower of refuge and strength.
- 00:30:10.531 --> 00:30:15.403
- Let every breath
- 00:30:15.803 --> 00:30:19.173
- And all that i may never cease
- 00:30:19.173 --> 00:30:24.579
- To worship you.
- 00:30:24.579 --> 00:30:31.653
- Shout to the lord all the earth.
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- Let us sing
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- Power and majesty.
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- Praise here in the mountains
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- Around town and the seas will
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- At the sound
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- On your name.
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- I sing for joy, i do
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- When you here forever
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- I love you for you stand.
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- Nothing compares to the promise
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- Shout the lord's for us.
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- Shout for the love of the land.
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- And see the power.
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- And i just enjoy every mountain.
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- But i love that.
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- And the sea below.
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- At the sound of your name i sing for joy,
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- I do when i it
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- Forever i love you
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- Where i stand and nothing
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- Compares to the promise i sing for joy.
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- Oh i sing for joy.
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- Have the best of your hands
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- Forever i love with you forever i.
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- I nothing compares
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- Come on.
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- Shouting for
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- Every nation.
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- Trying to turn. come on.
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- Every man, woman and child.
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- For now i'll be waiting.
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- When you enjoy your life for our nations.
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- You are lord. other nations.
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- You are one of the relations we friendship you.
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- We honor you king. jesus.
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- Come on, shout to god be the glory.
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- Life.
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- Hallelujah
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- We welcome you.
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- We welcome you, we welcome you.
- 00:33:49.517 --> 00:33:56.757
- As we go, we go empower.
- 00:33:57.291 --> 00:33:59.127
- We can live assured and stand firm
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- In our belief and our following of jesus christ.
- 00:34:02.964 --> 00:34:06.567
- Because he is present with us.
- 00:34:06.567 --> 00:34:08.936
- I can't wait to see what happens when a generation
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- Just goes after god with everything.
- 00:34:14.442 --> 00:34:16.878
- I have traveled through australia, parts of fiji
- 00:34:16.878 --> 00:34:19.680
- And literally jesus is everywhere.
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- We all do our part.
- 00:34:21.482 --> 00:34:23.251
- Together we can reach the globe for jesus.
- 00:34:23.251 --> 00:34:31.559
- This is the persecuted church,
- 00:34:32.160 --> 00:34:34.762
- A story that often remains silent, hidden in the shadows.
- 00:34:34.762 --> 00:34:38.065
- But today we shed light on the unwavering hope, strength
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- And resolve of those who continue to stand
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- Firm in their faith despite unimagineable adversity.
- 00:34:46.174 --> 00:34:51.579
- There's an
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- Incredible work happening in north korea there.
- 00:34:52.880 --> 00:34:55.683
- So the underground church
- 00:34:55.683 --> 00:34:56.884
- Is growing exponentially like ever before.
- 00:34:56.884 --> 00:34:59.987
- We just don't realize it because there's a lot,
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- A lot of barriers in communication
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- And a lot of safety precautions and things like that.
- 00:35:06.227 --> 00:35:09.130
- But we also have a different picture of what success
- 00:35:09.130 --> 00:35:12.600
- In christianity is.
- 00:35:12.600 --> 00:35:13.801
- Yeah, we might think it's a big church
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- Or a lot of people or influence or some sort of cultural power,
- 00:35:15.736 --> 00:35:19.740
- But for them, it's not that.
- 00:35:20.341 --> 00:35:21.709
- For them, it's nearness to god.
- 00:35:21.709 --> 00:35:23.978
- And persecution has brought them so close to god that
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- They don't feel like they need help from the outside world.
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- God's already there.
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- God's doing everything he needs.
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- He's doing it in that place.
- 00:35:33.120 --> 00:35:34.488
- So it redefines what we understand
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- Even as church success.
- 00:35:36.791 --> 00:35:38.893
- Faithful ness, what this whole christianity thing is about.
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- Yeah.
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- You know, when i think about
- 00:35:44.198 --> 00:35:46.000
- We're about to watch pastor q's story. yeah.
- 00:35:46.000 --> 00:35:48.336
- And what i love about pastor q the first time i saw his story,
- 00:35:48.336 --> 00:35:51.639
- I was so confused. he's so joyful.
- 00:35:52.373 --> 00:35:54.875
- He is running into these villages.
- 00:35:54.875 --> 00:35:56.744
- But in northern nigeria, more people are killed
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- For the gospel than the rest of the world
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- Combined that we know of.
- 00:36:02.183 --> 00:36:03.985
- And so this is one of the most dangerous places
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- To be a christian.
- 00:36:06.687 --> 00:36:08.155
- But you're not going to believe this.
- 00:36:08.155 --> 00:36:09.757
- You're going to love it. watch this.
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- This story takes place in nigeria.
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- This is gather 25
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- And we are headed to asia.
- 00:39:04.231 --> 00:39:10.237
- This is a land of innumerable
- 00:39:10.871 --> 00:39:12.940
- Ancient kingdoms and cultural crossroads, and it's
- 00:39:12.940 --> 00:39:16.877
- Currently the home to 60% of the earth's population.
- 00:39:16.877 --> 00:39:21.449
- Going all the way back to the apostle thomas.
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- Missionaries have been carrying the gospel
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- To asia for 2000 years,
- 00:39:28.022 --> 00:39:31.158
- But in the last two centuries, these faithful seeds
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- Have bloomed, flourishing through the underground church
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- In china, through evangelism
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- And revivals in many nations, and the perseverance
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- Of believers in the face of persecution.
- 00:39:44.638 --> 00:39:47.508
- To give you a glimpse of what's happening
- 00:39:48.409 --> 00:39:50.344
- Across the continent right now, there are gathered groups
- 00:39:50.344 --> 00:39:53.714
- Meeting live in mongolia, in the philippines and cambodia.
- 00:39:53.714 --> 00:39:58.385
- Gather groups in nepal, bangladesh and south korea.
- 00:39:58.385 --> 00:40:02.456
- As we continue, we are journeying to the south
- 00:40:03.357 --> 00:40:06.627
- Eastern region to malaysia, where gather 25
- 00:40:06.627 --> 00:40:10.731
- Is joining together life in the capital city
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- Of kuala lumpur.
- 00:40:14.435 --> 00:40:17.838
- (music)
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- You are worthy of it all.
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- (music)
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- She was a missionary sent from a western country to asia.
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- They grew up in the philippines.
- 00:46:20.934 --> 00:46:22.035
- I'm going to invite her right now
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- To come and lead us in prayer.
- 00:46:23.370 --> 00:46:25.272
- Because we're believing
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- That just
- 00:46:28.976 --> 00:46:29.877
- Like god brought missionaries to asia.
- 00:46:29.877 --> 00:46:32.412
- But maybe this is asia.
- 00:46:32.412 --> 00:46:33.580
- Time to release missionaries to the rest of the world.
- 00:46:33.580 --> 00:46:37.284
- Can we believe that?
- 00:46:37.284 --> 00:46:38.619
- Lead us in prayer?
- 00:46:38.619 --> 00:46:41.355
- Holy spirit, we asked you to come into this place right now,
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- That you would awaken the labor in us from our children
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- To our teenagers, to our working it out,
- 00:46:49.596 --> 00:46:52.566
- To the single mothers, to the families, to our seniors.
- 00:46:52.566 --> 00:46:55.969
- Lord god, that every one of us that 100 years ago,
- 00:46:55.969 --> 00:46:59.006
- When the missionaries came here.
- 00:46:59.006 --> 00:47:00.741
- It's time now, asia, to go back to europe,
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- To go back to the middle east,
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- To go back to the ends of the earth, to bring the gospel.
- 00:47:05.812 --> 00:47:08.749
- So we say, wait,
- 00:47:08.749 --> 00:47:09.983
- You awaken, we to awaken the power of the holy spirit,
- 00:47:09.983 --> 00:47:14.588
- That when we walk into a room, oh, demons will flee, that
- 00:47:14.588 --> 00:47:18.158
- When we walk into a room, sickness will go,
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- That they will know that it is our god.
- 00:47:21.028 --> 00:47:23.430
- I god is the god above all.
- 00:47:23.430 --> 00:47:25.999
- So we declare and we speak it, and we praise your name.
- 00:47:25.999 --> 00:47:30.137
- We thank you that your grace is sufficient for us.
- 00:47:30.137 --> 00:47:34.107
- It's the right now with revival burn burning our souls.
- 00:47:34.107 --> 00:47:40.080
- Yes, and in our spirit let revive burn
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- That we will see the greatest revival
- 00:47:43.984 --> 00:47:47.120
- The world has ever seen in jesus name, amen and amen.
- 00:47:47.120 --> 00:47:52.526
- Somebody shout amen!
- 00:47:52.526 --> 00:47:54.561
- Let's give god the highest praise.
- 00:47:54.561 --> 00:47:58.298
- May we today, the global church of jesus christ,
- 00:47:59.266 --> 00:48:02.703
- Not only those here in malaysia,
- 00:48:02.703 --> 00:48:04.271
- But those around the world, united, confident.
- 00:48:04.271 --> 00:48:08.075
- Wait, proclaiming, healing and spirit filled community.
- 00:48:08.075 --> 00:48:12.446
- Do we realize god has designed the globalization
- 00:48:12.446 --> 00:48:16.016
- Of today's marketplace
- 00:48:16.016 --> 00:48:17.417
- For the spread of his glory among the nations?
- 00:48:17.417 --> 00:48:20.520
- We have more opportunities to spread the gospel
- 00:48:20.520 --> 00:48:25.125
- To the nations than ever before
- 00:48:25.125 --> 00:48:28.428
- In history.
- 00:48:28.428 --> 00:48:36.436
- This is gather 25
- 00:48:36.870 --> 00:48:40.407
- And we are headed to europe,
- 00:48:40.407 --> 00:48:43.510
- Up from the shores of the adriatic sea,
- 00:48:43.510 --> 00:48:46.413
- Across the majestic sea and mountains,
- 00:48:46.413 --> 00:48:49.416
- Along the serene waters of the danube river
- 00:48:49.416 --> 00:48:52.886
- To the gathering fjord of norway.
- 00:48:52.886 --> 00:48:55.389
- This region of the earth was once
- 00:48:55.389 --> 00:48:57.491
- The heart of the byzantine empire, the spring
- 00:48:57.491 --> 00:49:00.694
- From which orthodox christianity arose with its art,
- 00:49:00.694 --> 00:49:05.032
- Iconography and education century to century.
- 00:49:05.032 --> 00:49:09.603
- Through countless transitions of power,
- 00:49:09.603 --> 00:49:11.972
- The christian faith has persevered and prevailed.
- 00:49:11.972 --> 00:49:16.143
- To give you a glimpse of what's happening across the continent
- 00:49:16.143 --> 00:49:20.380
- Right now, there are gathered groups meeting live in moldova,
- 00:49:20.380 --> 00:49:24.051
- In bulgaria and georgia, gathered groups in austria
- 00:49:24.051 --> 00:49:27.854
- And the czech republic.
- 00:49:27.854 --> 00:49:29.689
- As we continue, we are journeying
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- To the eastern region.
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- To romania. we are gathered.
- 00:49:33.927 --> 00:49:36.663
- 25 is joining together, live in the city of creation.
- 00:49:36.663 --> 00:49:49.743
- Come on.
- 00:49:50.010 --> 00:49:50.510
- We sing together.
- 00:49:50.510 --> 00:49:51.845
- You were the word at the beginning
- 00:49:51.845 --> 00:49:56.883
- One with god the lord most high.
- 00:49:57.517 --> 00:50:03.990
- For your hidden
- 00:50:04.357 --> 00:50:07.127
- Glory in creation.
- 00:50:07.127 --> 00:50:10.997
- Now revealed in you, our christ.
- 00:50:11.631 --> 00:50:17.471
- What a beautiful name it is.
- 00:50:17.471 --> 00:50:20.173
- Come on.
- 00:50:20.173 --> 00:50:24.077
- Then the name of
- 00:50:24.478 --> 00:50:26.379
- Jesus christ, my king.
- 00:50:26.379 --> 00:50:31.118
- What a beautiful name.
- 00:50:31.585 --> 00:50:33.453
- It is.
- 00:50:33.453 --> 00:50:35.555
- Nothing compares to the this
- 00:50:35.555 --> 00:50:38.692
- What a beautiful name it is the name
- 00:50:38.692 --> 00:50:42.829
- Of jesus
- 00:50:43.096 --> 00:50:56.810
- So, jesus, you brought
- 00:50:57.277 --> 00:51:00.313
- Heaven down.
- 00:51:00.313 --> 00:51:07.320
- Your love is greater.
- 00:51:07.821 --> 00:51:15.729
- Nothing.
- 00:51:15.996 --> 00:51:17.464
- What a wonderful name.
- 00:51:17.464 --> 00:51:19.966
- Come on. what a wonderful name.
- 00:51:19.966 --> 00:51:22.802
- It is the name of
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- Jesus christ, my king. you.
- 00:51:26.306 --> 00:51:30.977
- What a wonderful name it is.
- 00:51:31.578 --> 00:51:35.015
- Nothing compares to this.
- 00:51:35.582 --> 00:51:38.652
- What a wonderful name it is!
- 00:51:38.652 --> 00:51:45.125
- What a wonderful name it is.
- 00:51:45.725 --> 00:51:48.762
- The name of jesus
- 00:51:48.762 --> 00:51:59.339
- So we call the name of jesus.
- 00:51:59.973 --> 00:52:04.477
- Jesus? yes.
- 00:52:04.811 --> 00:52:06.813
- You may have him over.
- 00:52:06.813 --> 00:52:10.417
- I surrender.
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- Jesus.
- 00:52:29.869 --> 00:52:33.206
- So come on, we say
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- Death could not hold me to the things.
- 00:52:35.508 --> 00:52:47.487
- Hallelujah!
- 00:52:47.821 --> 00:52:51.992
- Come on.
- 00:52:52.259 --> 00:53:57.724
- Jesus christ,
- 00:53:58.091 --> 00:55:27.313
- But i'm really moved today to speak about surrender on.
- 00:55:28.415 --> 00:55:32.852
- Now. we don't like that word because we want to be in charge.
- 00:55:32.852 --> 00:55:36.589
- We want to be in control and to the world.
- 00:55:37.490 --> 00:55:40.360
- Surrender feels weak.
- 00:55:40.360 --> 00:55:43.396
- But in the kingdom, surrender
- 00:55:43.396 --> 00:55:45.198
- Is the doorway to the things of god.
- 00:55:45.198 --> 00:55:48.768
- And even jesus modeled this for us on earth.
- 00:55:48.768 --> 00:55:52.906
- Think about jesus on earth for a minute.
- 00:55:52.906 --> 00:55:56.342
- Surrendering his glory,
- 00:55:56.843 --> 00:56:00.046
- His throne,
- 00:56:00.380 --> 00:56:02.549
- All rule and dominion.
- 00:56:02.549 --> 00:56:05.218
- And as paul wrote to us in philippians two,
- 00:56:05.218 --> 00:56:08.822
- He took on the form of a man
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- And came as a servant
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- Of humanity.
- 00:56:16.529 --> 00:56:18.331
- God becoming man, the god man surrendering
- 00:56:18.331 --> 00:56:23.169
- All live in eternity of glory to come into this world.
- 00:56:23.169 --> 00:56:27.941
- And then in this world, surrendering every day.
- 00:56:27.941 --> 00:56:31.644
- He said, i only say what i hear the father saying,
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- And i
- 00:56:36.516 --> 00:56:37.350
- Only do what i see the father doing.
- 00:56:37.350 --> 00:56:40.053
- I'm surrendered.
- 00:56:40.053 --> 00:56:42.655
- And then at the end of it, he shares this meal, his last
- 00:56:42.655 --> 00:56:46.259
- Meal with his followers, the passover meal.
- 00:56:46.259 --> 00:56:49.562
- They sing a hymn of worship,
- 00:56:49.562 --> 00:56:51.798
- And then they go down out of jerusalem
- 00:56:51.798 --> 00:56:54.067
- To the mount of olives, to a place where jesus
- 00:56:54.067 --> 00:56:57.003
- Apparently went often to pray.
- 00:56:57.003 --> 00:57:00.073
- It's already late in the night.
- 00:57:00.073 --> 00:57:02.475
- The disciples, they decamp and they hang out here.
- 00:57:02.475 --> 00:57:07.347
- A few go a little further, and then jesus goes by himself,
- 00:57:07.347 --> 00:57:11.484
- And he's troubled in spirit,
- 00:57:12.085 --> 00:57:14.854
- Sweating drops of blood.
- 00:57:14.854 --> 00:57:18.024
- And the scripture says
- 00:57:18.491 --> 00:57:20.827
- That this is what happened in that moment.
- 00:57:20.827 --> 00:57:22.562
- This is luke chapter 22 that jesus
- 00:57:22.562 --> 00:57:26.299
- Withdrew a stone's throw beyond.
- 00:57:26.299 --> 00:57:29.669
- So i don't know how far i can throw a rock from here.
- 00:57:29.669 --> 00:57:32.305
- But he went there,
- 00:57:32.305 --> 00:57:34.374
- And then he knelt down.
- 00:57:34.874 --> 00:57:38.044
- God, man
- 00:57:38.311 --> 00:57:41.915
- Raised the dead, walked on water,
- 00:57:41.915 --> 00:57:45.051
- Fed 5000, healed a leper, turned water into wine.
- 00:57:45.051 --> 00:57:49.622
- He knelt down.
- 00:57:49.622 --> 00:57:52.692
- And he prayed.
- 00:57:53.026 --> 00:57:56.195
- The most powerful prayer that has ever been prayed.
- 00:57:55.094 --> 00:58:00.633
- He said, father.
- 00:58:01.034 --> 00:58:04.137
- If you are willing,
- 00:58:04.137 --> 00:58:06.372
- Take this cup from me.
- 00:58:06.372 --> 00:58:09.576
- Yet not my will,
- 00:58:09.976 --> 00:58:12.645
- But yours be done,
- 00:58:12.645 --> 00:58:16.182
- Not my will,
- 00:58:16.516 --> 00:58:19.919
- But yours be done.
- 00:58:20.353 --> 00:58:22.555
- And i believe if we're going to see revival,
- 00:58:22.555 --> 00:58:25.425
- And it's going to result in everybody, everywhere
- 00:58:25.425 --> 00:58:28.328
- Having a chance to hear about jesus,
- 00:58:28.328 --> 00:58:31.664
- And that prayer is going to have to come
- 00:58:31.664 --> 00:58:33.499
- From every believer on planet earth, not my will,
- 00:58:33.499 --> 00:58:38.304
- But your will
- 00:58:38.671 --> 00:58:40.740
- Be done.
- 00:58:40.740 --> 00:58:43.042
- Let's talk about the cup for a moment, because
- 00:58:43.042 --> 00:58:45.578
- I think it's good for us, and a global
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- Gathering of followers of jesus to talk about the gospel,
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- The good news. amen.
- 00:58:51.451 --> 00:58:53.653
- And the good news is in the cup.
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- There were two cups this night.
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- The cup earlier in the upper room.
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- Jesus said, this is my blood
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- Shed for the forgiveness of sins.
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- Has anybody taken hold of the gift of christ
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- Jesus blood
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- For the forgiveness of sins and this gathering, or anywhere
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- On planet earth right now?
- 00:59:17.343 --> 00:59:19.779
- No. okay.
- 00:59:20.079 --> 00:59:21.214
- Well, includes we'll have an invitation
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- Very shortly and everyone will come to know jesus.
- 00:59:22.982 --> 00:59:26.152
- I'll ask again, is anybody taking hold
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- Of the forgiveness that jesus was offering that night?
- 00:59:29.822 --> 00:59:33.159
- There we go.
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- So in the first cup,
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- He's giving something.
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- You don't earn a relationship with god.
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- It is a gift of god.
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- You can't be holy enough
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- To get into a relationship with a holy god.
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- It is a gift of god.
- 00:59:51.678 --> 00:59:53.479
- And the gift was in that cup.
- 00:59:53.479 --> 00:59:55.081
- Jesus said this is a new agreement.
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- It's my blood shed for the forgiveness of sins.
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- It was a gift in that cup.
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- But when he knelt down the cup
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- That he was talking about was a different cup.
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- And what was in that cup wasn't something that he was
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- Going to give.
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- What was in this cup was something
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- That he was going to take,
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- Because in this cup was the wrath of god
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- For the sins of the world.
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- I'm giving my life to forgive.
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- I'm taking the wrath
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- That we deserve.
- 01:00:32.985 --> 01:00:35.621
- And this is why he sweated great drops of blood.
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- It wasn't just the nails.
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- It wasn't just the agony.
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- It wasn't just the cross and the humiliation.
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- It was the weight of the wrath of the sins
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- Of the world on an innocent life.
- 01:00:49.902 --> 01:00:53.706
- And he said, if this cup can go by me.
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- I know it can, because i was there
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- When the plan was unfolded.
- 01:01:04.050 --> 01:01:06.652
- But i'm just going to ask one more time.
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- But at the end of it, not my will,
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- But your will be done.
- 01:01:13.893 --> 01:01:15.628
- And that's what paul wrote in second corinthians 521.
- 01:01:15.628 --> 01:01:19.665
- He talked about the exchange of the two cups.
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- He says that god made him jesus, who had no sin
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- To be sin for us, so that in him,
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- In jesus we might become the righteousness of god.
- 01:01:31.644 --> 01:01:35.381
- In those two cups was a divine exchange.
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- Because here's the good news sin didn't make us bad people.
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- Sin made us dead people.
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- The wages of sin is not that you're bad.
- 01:01:45.224 --> 01:01:47.393
- The wages of sin is that you are dead.
- 01:01:47.393 --> 01:01:50.163
- And jesus did not come from heaven to earth and kneel
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- And pray that prayer to make bad people good people.
- 01:01:52.899 --> 01:01:56.235
- He came from heaven to earth to make dead people
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- Alive, people to bring the spiritual,
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- The dead, to bring new, everlasting life.
- 01:02:02.008 --> 01:02:05.978
- And that is the gospel
- 01:02:05.978 --> 01:02:07.613
- That we are proclaiming all around the world today.
- 01:02:07.613 --> 01:02:10.950
- The gift of god.
- 01:02:10.950 --> 01:02:11.884
- And it came out of a moment
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- Of surrender.
- 01:02:15.688 --> 01:02:18.324
- So what do we learn from jesus in that moment?
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- Four things about surrender.
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- Number one, surrender is a choice.
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- God is not going to make one person in this gathering today.
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- Surrender your life to his great plans.
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- He is not coming down any road
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- And twisting any arm.
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- And demanding that you surrender your life.
- 01:02:43.349 --> 01:02:45.451
- He is just putting grace and mercy on display
- 01:02:45.451 --> 01:02:50.089
- And saying, if you see that cross,
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- Then how would you respond?
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- It is a choice.
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- It was for jesus that night.
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- It was a choice.
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- He didn't have to do it.
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- He chose the cross.
- 01:03:05.638 --> 01:03:09.075
- And today, you and i don't have to surrender.
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- But in view of the cross,
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- In view of his mercy.
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- Don't you want to surrender
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- To him?
- 01:03:21.988 --> 01:03:23.222
- The second thing we see about surrender is that it's costly.
- 01:03:23.222 --> 01:03:26.893
- I want to make sure we understand that today,
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- Before we go too much further.
- 01:03:31.030 --> 01:03:33.633
- Following jesus is costly,
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- You say?
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- Yeah, i know it cost me a friendship or it cost me
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- Something in my work, or some of my mates at uni
- 01:03:41.741 --> 01:03:45.745
- Didn't get me and i didn't get included in some things.
- 01:03:45.745 --> 01:03:48.681
- It cost me something.
- 01:03:48.681 --> 01:03:49.882
- I know what it cost us
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- Is everything of us all worship,
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- All worship requires sacrifice.
- 01:03:58.457 --> 01:04:01.761
- We have to be sure that we have not moved
- 01:04:02.595 --> 01:04:04.530
- Into a definition of worship, which is i love this song.
- 01:04:04.530 --> 01:04:08.501
- Oh, i love this moment.
- 01:04:08.501 --> 01:04:09.769
- Oh, i really feel this one.
- 01:04:09.769 --> 01:04:12.772
- That's great.
- 01:04:12.772 --> 01:04:13.472
- I love worship songs.
- 01:04:13.472 --> 01:04:14.874
- I love singing songs of praise.
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- I love hands of worship to god.
- 01:04:16.475 --> 01:04:18.844
- But worship is way bigger than a song.
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- Amen.
- 01:04:22.381 --> 01:04:23.816
- Worship requires a sacrifice.
- 01:04:23.816 --> 01:04:26.986
- Bring a sacrifice of praise, the scripture says.
- 01:04:26.986 --> 01:04:30.656
- And what is that sacrifice?
- 01:04:30.656 --> 01:04:32.091
- What is the sacrifice today that god wants? hello, anybody?
- 01:04:32.091 --> 01:04:35.061
- What is the sacrifice he wants?
- 01:04:35.061 --> 01:04:38.397
- Us. he wants
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- Us to surrender our lives to him.
- 01:04:41.834 --> 01:04:47.006
- The third thing we learn about surrender is that it is the way
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- To the most significant and meaningful life.
- 01:04:51.210 --> 01:04:54.313
- You can say it this way.
- 01:04:54.313 --> 01:04:55.348
- It's the way to the highest heights.
- 01:04:55.348 --> 01:04:58.951
- And jesus showed us that.
- 01:04:59.518 --> 01:05:00.753
- He kneels down.
- 01:05:00.753 --> 01:05:02.221
- Then he gets lifted up on the cross.
- 01:05:02.221 --> 01:05:04.023
- If i be lifted up, i'll draw him into me.
- 01:05:04.023 --> 01:05:06.459
- Then he gets put down in a tomb.
- 01:05:06.459 --> 01:05:08.260
- He goes down into the depths of the earth.
- 01:05:08.260 --> 01:05:10.162
- But then, according to paul in philippians two, again
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- He gets raised up to the highest place
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- With the highest name, above all names.
- 01:05:16.836 --> 01:05:18.637
- And that's the way it is for you and me.
- 01:05:18.637 --> 01:05:20.406
- The world says, if you want to go to the heights,
- 01:05:20.406 --> 01:05:22.541
- Then climb your way over everybody and get your will.
- 01:05:22.541 --> 01:05:27.546
- But the kingdom says, if you want the most meaningful
- 01:05:27.546 --> 01:05:30.783
- Life, the most significant life, surrender
- 01:05:30.783 --> 01:05:35.521
- And kneel to the plans of god.
- 01:05:36.122 --> 01:05:39.925
- Surrender is not going to leave you at the bottom.
- 01:05:39.925 --> 01:05:43.329
- It's going to lead you up into the best
- 01:05:43.329 --> 01:05:46.365
- Plans of god.
- 01:05:46.732 --> 01:05:49.802
- And then lastly, the fourth thing we see about surrender.
- 01:05:49.802 --> 01:05:52.271
- And i love this.
- 01:05:52.271 --> 01:05:53.706
- That surrender is saying yes to god's hand,
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- Not to a plan.
- 01:05:59.178 --> 01:06:02.048
- Amen.
- 01:06:02.048 --> 01:06:03.282
- Does anybody want to know god's plan for your life?
- 01:06:03.282 --> 01:06:06.318
- Yes, we all do.
- 01:06:06.318 --> 01:06:07.953
- Like if you could just give me the plan.
- 01:06:07.953 --> 01:06:10.089
- Thank you very much.
- 01:06:10.089 --> 01:06:11.991
- Here's the diagram, here's
- 01:06:11.991 --> 01:06:14.427
- The timetable, here's the finances.
- 01:06:14.427 --> 01:06:17.630
- She said yes. he said yes.
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- Oh, it's not her, it's her.
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- Good to know i'm going to work here.
- 01:06:22.334 --> 01:06:24.537
- We're going to live here.
- 01:06:24.537 --> 01:06:26.572
- I just need to plan.
- 01:06:26.572 --> 01:06:28.307
- And i'm just here to tell you today.
- 01:06:28.307 --> 01:06:29.842
- I hope it's not discouraging.
- 01:06:29.842 --> 01:06:31.877
- He's not giving you the plan,
- 01:06:31.877 --> 01:06:34.814
- But he's offering you his hand.
- 01:06:35.448 --> 01:06:40.319
- Oh, he has plans.
- 01:06:40.753 --> 01:06:43.155
- Jeremiah 2911.
- 01:06:43.155 --> 01:06:45.624
- He said, i know the plans now.
- 01:06:45.624 --> 01:06:48.194
- You don't know him, but are you okay that i know him?
- 01:06:48.194 --> 01:06:52.798
- And then he says in isaiah, listen to this.
- 01:06:53.699 --> 01:06:55.701
- This is so crazy, miraculous, for i am the lord
- 01:06:55.701 --> 01:07:00.372
- Your god who takes hold of your right hand
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- And says to you, do not be afraid.
- 01:07:05.878 --> 01:07:12.251
- I will help you.
- 01:07:12.651 --> 01:07:14.787
- Yahweh is in this gathering,
- 01:07:14.787 --> 01:07:18.390
- And he is extending his right hand.
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- That means his rule, his authority, his power.
- 01:07:20.693 --> 01:07:25.197
- And he's saying.
- 01:07:25.598 --> 01:07:28.634
- And we're like, oh, that's great, nice to meet you.
- 01:07:29.668 --> 01:07:31.670
- Could i get the plan?
- 01:07:31.670 --> 01:07:34.773
- He's like, no, just hold the hand
- 01:07:35.474 --> 01:07:38.777
- And you'll i'll walk you into all the plans.
- 01:07:38.777 --> 01:07:42.114
- If you just hold the hand.
- 01:07:42.114 --> 01:07:44.116
- I think we get preoccupied.
- 01:07:44.116 --> 01:07:45.718
- These guys are going to come out and help me real fast.
- 01:07:45.718 --> 01:07:47.586
- As we close, we get preoccupied by asking this question.
- 01:07:47.586 --> 01:07:51.690
- If you as a as a pastor, speaker, preacher,
- 01:07:51.690 --> 01:07:54.293
- When a lot of people to show up,
- 01:07:54.293 --> 01:07:56.428
- Do a sermon series on how to find god's
- 01:07:56.428 --> 01:07:59.598
- Will for your life, people will come for that.
- 01:07:59.598 --> 01:08:02.902
- And we always ask the question, what is over here?
- 01:08:02.902 --> 01:08:06.372
- What is see you guys, what is god's will
- 01:08:06.372 --> 01:08:10.809
- For my life?
- 01:08:11.143 --> 01:08:14.313
- And i'm the for
- 01:08:14.313 --> 01:08:16.615
- God's will for my life question.
- 01:08:16.615 --> 01:08:18.284
- What is god's will for my life?
- 01:08:18.284 --> 01:08:21.987
- But the emphasis might become
- 01:08:21.987 --> 01:08:25.191
- God's will for my life.
- 01:08:25.191 --> 01:08:29.728
- God's will for my life.
- 01:08:30.229 --> 01:08:33.332
- In other words, how does god fit into my life?
- 01:08:34.233 --> 01:08:37.703
- But i want to show you something revolutionary.
- 01:08:38.604 --> 01:08:40.439
- You talk about surrender
- 01:08:40.439 --> 01:08:42.341
- And getting on a whole new wavelength with god.
- 01:08:42.341 --> 01:08:44.910
- Watch these guys as, say, switch around right here.
- 01:08:44.910 --> 01:08:47.646
- What if we change today from what is god's will
- 01:08:47.646 --> 01:08:51.483
- For my life to i'm at the hand of god right now.
- 01:08:51.483 --> 01:08:54.787
- So now it is my life
- 01:08:55.254 --> 01:08:58.657
- For god's will,
- 01:08:59.024 --> 01:09:01.994
- My life for god's will.
- 01:09:01.994 --> 01:09:04.330
- So i'm not asking, how does god fit into my life?
- 01:09:04.330 --> 01:09:07.099
- I'm asking how do i fit in to god's will?
- 01:09:07.099 --> 01:09:10.502
- Oh, is that not what jesus was saying?
- 01:09:11.270 --> 01:09:15.007
- Not my will, but
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- Your will be done.
- 01:09:17.776 --> 01:09:21.814
- You guys
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- Can just stay right there because that looks beautiful.
- 01:09:23.282 --> 01:09:25.818
- 35 years have passed
- 01:09:25.818 --> 01:09:28.954
- Since i came to cluj, romania.
- 01:09:28.954 --> 01:09:31.323
- I was 31 years old and i'm 66 right now.
- 01:09:31.323 --> 01:09:34.627
- By the grace of god.
- 01:09:34.627 --> 01:09:36.629
- Oh no, oh no.
- 01:09:36.629 --> 01:09:40.065
- I know a sympathy clap.
- 01:09:40.065 --> 01:09:42.368
- I get it.
- 01:09:42.368 --> 01:09:46.639
- If you had told me
- 01:09:47.072 --> 01:09:49.808
- When i drove this town
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- As a 31 year old
- 01:09:52.711 --> 01:09:55.781
- Leading a campus ministry
- 01:09:55.781 --> 01:09:57.449
- At a university in texas with my wife.
- 01:09:57.449 --> 01:10:01.053
- That i was going to be standing
- 01:10:01.687 --> 01:10:03.055
- In bty arena.
- 01:10:03.055 --> 01:10:06.325
- Today,
- 01:10:06.525 --> 01:10:08.894
- And it in between,
- 01:10:08.894 --> 01:10:11.096
- I would have gotten to witness
- 01:10:11.096 --> 01:10:13.666
- The supernatural work of god.
- 01:10:13.666 --> 01:10:16.935
- Has lows.
- 01:10:16.935 --> 01:10:19.505
- The best of days, the worst of days.
- 01:10:19.505 --> 01:10:22.007
- That miracle days.
- 01:10:22.007 --> 01:10:26.111
- His plan
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- Was better than my plan.
- 01:10:28.947 --> 01:10:32.017
- His plans are better than your plans.
- 01:10:32.017 --> 01:10:35.954
- His plans are better than your best plan.
- 01:10:36.822 --> 01:10:41.093
- Does anybody want revival anywhere in the world
- 01:10:42.094 --> 01:10:44.096
- Today?
- 01:10:44.096 --> 01:10:47.232
- He said, if you want revival, go home,
- 01:10:47.232 --> 01:10:49.935
- Go in your bedroom and lock the door
- 01:10:49.935 --> 01:10:52.838
- And take a piece of chalk
- 01:10:52.838 --> 01:10:54.940
- And draw a circle on the floor.
- 01:10:54.940 --> 01:10:58.177
- He said, kneel down inside that circle
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- And pray with all your heart.
- 01:11:02.348 --> 01:11:04.550
- Dear god,
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- We need a revival.
- 01:11:07.219 --> 01:11:10.556
- And i pray that it will start
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- Inside this circle.
- 01:11:14.026 --> 01:11:18.030
- So the prayer today isn't god.
- 01:11:18.630 --> 01:11:19.998
- Start a revival and clues.
- 01:11:19.998 --> 01:11:21.667
- And i used and a rod.
- 01:11:21.667 --> 01:11:24.002
- And somewhere in romania, in the countryside,
- 01:11:24.002 --> 01:11:26.739
- In the mountains start a revival.
- 01:11:26.739 --> 01:11:28.140
- And hungrier
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- In bulgaria and moldova.
- 01:11:31.110 --> 01:11:33.312
- Ukraine start a revival. god.
- 01:11:33.312 --> 01:11:35.247
- Now the prayer is god, start the revival in here.
- 01:11:35.247 --> 01:11:39.351
- I am fully
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- Surrendered
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- And my yes is on the table.
- 01:11:44.823 --> 01:11:47.893
- I got the hand of yahweh
- 01:11:48.427 --> 01:11:51.830
- And he said, don't fear,
- 01:11:51.830 --> 01:11:54.099
- I'll help you.
- 01:11:54.099 --> 01:11:57.503
- Dear god almighty,
- 01:11:57.503 --> 01:12:00.072
- Thank you for the grace that you have showed us.
- 01:12:00.072 --> 01:12:04.076
- Thank you for the invitation today, which is where freedom is
- 01:12:04.076 --> 01:12:06.945
- To come and die to ourselves.
- 01:12:06.945 --> 01:12:11.083
- To surrender our way.
- 01:12:11.583 --> 01:12:14.853
- To say like our savior.
- 01:12:15.354 --> 01:12:17.589
- It's not about me.
- 01:12:17.589 --> 01:12:18.424
- It's about you.
- 01:12:18.424 --> 01:12:20.926
- It's not about mine.
- 01:12:20.926 --> 01:12:23.095
- It's about yours.
- 01:12:23.095 --> 01:12:25.164
- I pray today that in this arena and all over the world
- 01:12:25.164 --> 01:12:28.467
- Right now, you will find people in a circle
- 01:12:28.467 --> 01:12:32.204
- Of desperation.
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- Saying, let it begin with me.
- 01:12:37.176 --> 01:12:40.479
- That's our prayer.
- 01:12:40.479 --> 01:12:43.348
- In jesus name.
- 01:12:43.348 --> 01:12:46.852
- This is gather 25
- 01:12:47.286 --> 01:12:50.522
- And we are headed to africa.
- 01:12:51.123 --> 01:12:54.293
- I'm, from victoria falls of zimbabwe
- 01:12:54.293 --> 01:12:58.530
- To the niger river in the west, across the vast
- 01:12:58.530 --> 01:13:01.967
- Sahara desert to the great rift valley of the east.
- 01:13:01.967 --> 01:13:06.738
- This is the
- 01:13:07.072 --> 01:13:08.040
- Home of the lion, the birthplace of coffee,
- 01:13:08.040 --> 01:13:11.910
- A land of more than 2000 languages.
- 01:13:11.910 --> 01:13:15.214
- This is africa.
- 01:13:15.214 --> 01:13:17.883
- In the last 100 years, the growth of christianity
- 01:13:17.883 --> 01:13:21.587
- Has exploded across the continent.
- 01:13:21.587 --> 01:13:24.122
- What's began is only 10 million christians in the 1920s
- 01:13:24.122 --> 01:13:28.360
- Became 143 million christians by the 1970s, and today,
- 01:13:28.360 --> 01:13:34.366
- Africa is home to more than 600 million jesus
- 01:13:34.366 --> 01:13:37.936
- Followers, and the revival continues.
- 01:13:37.936 --> 01:13:41.273
- God is moving in the three by three km church in nigeria,
- 01:13:42.374 --> 01:13:47.179
- And he's moving in the charge of every small village
- 01:13:47.179 --> 01:13:50.782
- To give you a glimpse of what's happening across the continent
- 01:13:50.782 --> 01:13:54.219
- Right now.
- 01:13:54.520 --> 01:13:55.754
- There are other groups meeting live in mozambique, in senegal,
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- In south sudan,
- 01:13:59.458 --> 01:14:00.993
- Other groups in botswana, in algeria and cameroon.
- 01:14:00.993 --> 01:14:05.197
- As we continue, we are drawn into the
- 01:14:05.197 --> 01:14:08.066
- Central region of africa, to rwanda,
- 01:14:08.066 --> 01:14:12.070
- The land of a thousand hills, to the capital city of kigali,
- 01:14:12.070 --> 01:14:17.175
- Where 25 is coming from bc arena.
- 01:14:17.175 --> 01:14:26.184
- Hey, hey, hey, do i have
- 01:14:26.718 --> 01:14:28.120
- Some africans in this room?
- 01:14:28.120 --> 01:14:31.990
- If you are an african,
- 01:14:32.457 --> 01:14:33.625
- Get up on your feet.
- 01:14:33.625 --> 01:14:36.695
- Come on.
- 01:14:36.962 --> 01:14:37.629
- We've seen god over the years.
- 01:14:37.629 --> 01:14:39.932
- We've seen troubles and pains.
- 01:14:39.932 --> 01:14:42.301
- We've seen all sorts of things that have broken our hearts.
- 01:14:42.301 --> 01:14:45.604
- We've seen trials and tribulations.
- 01:14:45.604 --> 01:14:48.040
- We've seen governments come in and go out.
- 01:14:48.040 --> 01:14:50.976
- We've seen resources come and go out.
- 01:14:50.976 --> 01:14:54.179
- But one thing we can all agree on that at no point did
- 01:14:54.179 --> 01:14:57.816
- God's hand move over our lives.
- 01:14:57.816 --> 01:15:00.919
- We've seen his goodness.
- 01:15:00.919 --> 01:15:02.754
- We've seen his mercy.
- 01:15:02.754 --> 01:15:04.623
- We've seen his kindness.
- 01:15:04.623 --> 01:15:06.525
- Do i have africans who know that jesus
- 01:15:06.525 --> 01:15:10.295
- Is the way, the truth, and the life?
- 01:15:10.295 --> 01:15:14.299
- Back where i come from? yes.
- 01:15:14.900 --> 01:15:17.235
- So what do you call him here?
- 01:15:17.235 --> 01:15:18.937
- I just want us for 30s to lift up a sound in this place.
- 01:15:18.937 --> 01:15:23.342
- And just say.
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- Jesus. jess.
- 01:15:24.109 --> 01:15:40.058
- In the mighty name of jesus.
- 01:15:40.659 --> 01:15:42.227
- We submit this time to you.
- 01:15:42.227 --> 01:15:43.695
- Lord god, i call you holy and above all things.
- 01:15:43.695 --> 01:15:47.633
- And father, as we gather sounding this name,
- 01:15:47.633 --> 01:15:50.602
- We want to remember that you're holy.
- 01:15:50.602 --> 01:15:52.471
- Let me hear a few in the room.
- 01:15:52.471 --> 01:15:53.872
- Holy.
- 01:15:53.872 --> 01:15:57.442
- Holy.
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- Oh, god.
- 01:16:03.248 --> 01:16:04.750
- Yeah.
- 01:16:04.750 --> 01:16:08.587
- Thank you.
- 01:16:08.887 --> 01:16:09.221
- Jesus.
- 01:16:09.221 --> 01:16:10.622
- Oh, come on, i know you're watching
- 01:16:10.622 --> 01:16:13.358
- From other groups across the world.
- 01:16:13.358 --> 01:16:16.395
- You may be in europe, europe and asia.
- 01:16:16.395 --> 01:16:18.330
- You and africa, right where you are.
- 01:16:18.330 --> 01:16:20.165
- Take this opportunity to say there really is none like him.
- 01:16:20.165 --> 01:16:24.036
- He's incomparable.
- 01:16:24.036 --> 01:16:25.570
- He's majestic.
- 01:16:25.570 --> 01:16:26.605
- He's splendor is mind blowing.
- 01:16:26.605 --> 01:16:28.473
- We're in awe of this
- 01:16:28.473 --> 01:16:29.775
- Holy god today, rwanda, if you can kindly lift it up
- 01:16:29.775 --> 01:16:33.812
- Like you've never done it before, he's worthy.
- 01:16:33.812 --> 01:16:38.350
- Worthy is the lamb.
- 01:16:38.817 --> 01:16:47.359
- What?
- 01:16:47.592 --> 01:16:48.326
- Got to get into this word today.
- 01:16:48.326 --> 01:16:50.595
- Hallelujah.
- 01:16:50.595 --> 01:16:52.030
- Come on.
- 01:16:52.030 --> 01:16:53.031
- Give somebody a high five on your way down.
- 01:16:53.031 --> 01:16:56.001
- I thought we're in africa tonight.
- 01:16:56.768 --> 01:16:58.303
- In africa. back where i come from. home in south africa.
- 01:16:58.303 --> 01:17:00.906
- When we're really happy, we go. i'm lily.
- 01:17:00.906 --> 01:17:02.874
- Lily, lily, lily, lily, lily, lily!
- 01:17:02.874 --> 01:17:04.776
- Haha! ha!
- 01:17:04.776 --> 01:17:08.013
- Ha ha ha!
- 01:17:08.013 --> 01:17:11.750
- Woohoo!
- 01:17:11.983 --> 01:17:13.118
- I've got a few minutes, but i got to tell you this word
- 01:17:13.118 --> 01:17:15.187
- And i love that you're making the sound
- 01:17:15.187 --> 01:17:16.855
- Because the sound will sound kind of familiar.
- 01:17:16.855 --> 01:17:19.091
- I come from a beautiful country they call south africa.
- 01:17:19.091 --> 01:17:22.160
- It's a beautiful place
- 01:17:22.160 --> 01:17:24.062
- And it's found on a beautiful continent,
- 01:17:24.062 --> 01:17:26.431
- But a lot like many africans.
- 01:17:26.431 --> 01:17:28.166
- When there's a gathering.
- 01:17:28.166 --> 01:17:31.603
- You hear us?
- 01:17:31.937 --> 01:17:33.071
- Even before we get into the place, there's a ululating.
- 01:17:33.071 --> 01:17:36.341
- There's a joy that fills the place.
- 01:17:36.341 --> 01:17:39.945
- Today i'm speaking about coming to a banquet.
- 01:17:40.879 --> 01:17:43.548
- Now to other people
- 01:17:43.548 --> 01:17:44.616
- Who are not africans and haven't had the pleasure
- 01:17:44.616 --> 01:17:46.985
- Of coming to a gathering in africa.
- 01:17:46.985 --> 01:17:49.020
- The food is great.
- 01:17:49.020 --> 01:17:53.391
- We wear the right clothes.
- 01:17:53.959 --> 01:17:57.028
- The music is loud and clear.
- 01:17:57.629 --> 01:18:01.099
- But even if you switched off the music, you would hear us,
- 01:18:01.099 --> 01:18:04.302
- You know, celebrating.
- 01:18:04.302 --> 01:18:07.672
- The bible tells us of one such a gathering.
- 01:18:08.607 --> 01:18:11.076
- It says that a master sends out invitations.
- 01:18:11.076 --> 01:18:13.779
- We're looking at luke 14.
- 01:18:13.779 --> 01:18:15.547
- I'll take it from about 15 to 24.
- 01:18:15.547 --> 01:18:17.916
- Don't have much time today.
- 01:18:17.916 --> 01:18:19.518
- I want you to picture this banquet.
- 01:18:19.518 --> 01:18:21.453
- I want you to picture this gathering.
- 01:18:21.453 --> 01:18:23.221
- How? the master takes time to put everything in place.
- 01:18:23.221 --> 01:18:26.191
- Back where i come from, we love theme. so
- 01:18:26.191 --> 01:18:29.494
- Is it the same in rwanda?
- 01:18:30.061 --> 01:18:32.297
- Tina's color
- 01:18:32.631 --> 01:18:33.698
- All white, meaning we dress all white sometimes.
- 01:18:33.698 --> 01:18:36.902
- Sometimes we'll say pink with the touch of gold.
- 01:18:36.902 --> 01:18:42.774
- But when we get there, if we've been given a theme,
- 01:18:43.775 --> 01:18:46.444
- Usually what happens at the banquet
- 01:18:46.444 --> 01:18:48.313
- That the theme will correspond with what we were told.
- 01:18:48.313 --> 01:18:52.417
- The master would put it all together,
- 01:18:53.218 --> 01:18:54.753
- Make sure that your name is on the table
- 01:18:54.753 --> 01:18:56.955
- So you know where you sit, that your glasses will be there.
- 01:18:56.955 --> 01:18:59.558
- Your fork and knife. your place will be seated.
- 01:18:59.558 --> 01:19:01.760
- He takes time to get ready for you.
- 01:19:01.760 --> 01:19:05.330
- Today i'm speaking about coming to the banquet.
- 01:19:06.264 --> 01:19:08.433
- See, there's an invitation that was sent out.
- 01:19:08.433 --> 01:19:11.002
- It sounds a little like john 316.
- 01:19:11.002 --> 01:19:14.906
- For god so loved the world that he gave his one and only son,
- 01:19:14.906 --> 01:19:19.077
- That whosoever shall
- 01:19:19.544 --> 01:19:20.712
- Believe in the son, well, not only just get blessings.
- 01:19:20.712 --> 01:19:23.682
- I hope i have a room today.
- 01:19:23.682 --> 01:19:25.684
- Well, not just get a house and a car.
- 01:19:25.684 --> 01:19:28.386
- I will not just get a child and a husband or a wife.
- 01:19:28.386 --> 01:19:30.722
- No, this one will get more.
- 01:19:30.722 --> 01:19:34.893
- The bible says eternity is the gift.
- 01:19:35.660 --> 01:19:38.330
- And the reward.
- 01:19:38.330 --> 01:19:41.867
- And most of us have love this, this, this, this invitation.
- 01:19:41.867 --> 01:19:45.203
- And we've received it.
- 01:19:45.203 --> 01:19:46.972
- That's why many of us across the world are scattered.
- 01:19:46.972 --> 01:19:49.107
- And we say the name jesus.
- 01:19:49.107 --> 01:19:50.408
- We receive the invitation.
- 01:19:50.408 --> 01:19:52.210
- I take you back to luke 14.
- 01:19:52.210 --> 01:19:55.447
- The master says it's time,
- 01:19:56.014 --> 01:19:57.182
- Sends out the servants and says, go
- 01:19:57.182 --> 01:20:00.318
- Tell them that the banquet is ready.
- 01:20:00.318 --> 01:20:04.256
- It reads the same as my bible.
- 01:20:04.856 --> 01:20:06.224
- It says, come,
- 01:20:06.224 --> 01:20:07.592
- The banquet is ready.
- 01:20:08.093 --> 01:20:10.795
- If you read it.
- 01:20:10.795 --> 01:20:11.963
- It goes on to tell us that these people who once agreed
- 01:20:11.963 --> 01:20:14.599
- And accepted an invitation all of a sudden have excuses.
- 01:20:14.599 --> 01:20:18.803
- One says, hey, i just got married, i can't come.
- 01:20:18.803 --> 01:20:22.407
- Another says, i've just bought field and land.
- 01:20:22.407 --> 01:20:24.376
- I've got to inspect it. i'm busy.
- 01:20:24.376 --> 01:20:26.845
- Another says, hey, i've just bought five oxen,
- 01:20:26.845 --> 01:20:28.713
- I've got to go check it out.
- 01:20:28.713 --> 01:20:30.015
- Listen, we have excuses.
- 01:20:30.015 --> 01:20:31.783
- I remember you
- 01:20:31.783 --> 01:20:32.884
- After you got saved, the fire that was in your eyes.
- 01:20:32.884 --> 01:20:35.787
- You're eagerness to study the word of god, your eagerness
- 01:20:35.787 --> 01:20:38.890
- To tell others about jesus.
- 01:20:38.890 --> 01:20:40.425
- Now you've bought five oxen.
- 01:20:40.425 --> 01:20:44.029
- I remember when you got saved,
- 01:20:44.029 --> 01:20:45.597
- When you took every opportunity to be in the house of god.
- 01:20:45.597 --> 01:20:48.833
- I remember the way you would
- 01:20:48.833 --> 01:20:50.268
- Sing out songs, whether you were on key or off key.
- 01:20:50.268 --> 01:20:53.138
- I remember how you would lay hands and tell people
- 01:20:53.138 --> 01:20:56.007
- That jesus works.
- 01:20:56.007 --> 01:20:57.309
- But, but, but now you're married.
- 01:20:57.309 --> 01:21:01.680
- There's an
- 01:21:01.980 --> 01:21:03.181
- Invitation, and most of us in the room have accepted it.
- 01:21:03.181 --> 01:21:05.383
- But now that the banquet is ready,
- 01:21:05.383 --> 01:21:08.820
- We filled with excuses.
- 01:21:08.820 --> 01:21:10.221
- The invitation doesn't change.
- 01:21:10.221 --> 01:21:11.523
- Come.
- 01:21:11.523 --> 01:21:13.525
- In fact,
- 01:21:13.525 --> 01:21:14.426
- If you read the rest of that passage,
- 01:21:14.426 --> 01:21:15.393
- You realize that the master's heartbroken
- 01:21:15.393 --> 01:21:17.295
- When he begins to receive these excuses.
- 01:21:17.295 --> 01:21:20.865
- And because his heart is about the banquet
- 01:21:20.865 --> 01:21:23.335
- Taking place and carrying on, maybe let me sneak this in.
- 01:21:23.335 --> 01:21:26.671
- Whether or not we show up for the things of god,
- 01:21:26.671 --> 01:21:29.274
- The mandate of god still continues.
- 01:21:29.274 --> 01:21:32.177
- Whether you choose to follow him today
- 01:21:32.177 --> 01:21:34.245
- Or you choose to take a backseat,
- 01:21:34.245 --> 01:21:36.214
- The kingdom is at bay.
- 01:21:36.214 --> 01:21:39.017
- What are you waiting to get set to get married
- 01:21:39.017 --> 01:21:41.386
- Before you do the things that god has called you?
- 01:21:41.386 --> 01:21:43.888
- No, no, i just came to tell you whether you agree or not.
- 01:21:43.888 --> 01:21:47.158
- It prevails.
- 01:21:47.158 --> 01:21:49.327
- Whether you're waiting to have enough money
- 01:21:50.195 --> 01:21:52.230
- Or enough status, and to be known and qualified
- 01:21:52.230 --> 01:21:55.433
- In ways that men qualified, but not in the way
- 01:21:55.433 --> 01:21:57.802
- Where god puts us in right standing with him.
- 01:21:57.802 --> 01:22:00.605
- Whether we join in the kingdom
- 01:22:00.605 --> 01:22:03.441
- Prevails.
- 01:22:03.441 --> 01:22:06.644
- Yes jesus loves me
- 01:22:06.644 --> 01:22:13.118
- Jesus loves.
- 01:22:13.451 --> 01:22:19.190
- Both the bible
- 01:22:19.524 --> 01:22:22.660
- Tells me so.
- 01:22:22.660 --> 01:22:34.439
- Hello,
- 01:22:34.639 --> 01:22:36.841
- My name is asia
- 01:22:36.841 --> 01:22:42.147
- Church in uganda.
- 01:22:42.580 --> 01:22:48.286
- Most of us on this stage
- 01:22:48.820 --> 01:22:51.956
- Were abandoned as babies.
- 01:22:51.956 --> 01:22:55.827
- My name.
- 01:22:56.094 --> 01:23:10.542
- And this is my story.
- 01:23:11.042 --> 01:23:14.979
- Shortly after i was born.
- 01:23:15.547 --> 01:23:19.017
- My parents left me in a local
- 01:23:19.651 --> 01:23:21.519
- Hospital.
- 01:23:21.519 --> 01:23:24.622
- The local authorities tried to look for them,
- 01:23:24.622 --> 01:23:27.759
- But could not find them.
- 01:23:28.293 --> 01:23:32.063
- We all have things we have been living for.
- 01:23:32.063 --> 01:23:35.166
- Dreams you hope will come to us.
- 01:23:35.800 --> 01:23:40.505
- But sometimes in life,
- 01:23:40.972 --> 01:23:44.342
- Our dreams get shattered or delayed.
- 01:23:44.342 --> 01:23:47.846
- Don't give up.
- 01:23:48.179 --> 01:23:49.681
- In jesus there is hope.
- 01:23:49.681 --> 01:23:55.553
- Today i do.
- 01:23:55.887 --> 01:23:56.988
- Inviting every man, every woman, every child on us
- 01:23:56.988 --> 01:24:02.127
- To follow and walk with jesus in repentance.
- 01:24:02.127 --> 01:24:06.064
- Father, i pray that you will raise up
- 01:24:06.064 --> 01:24:09.000
- A generation, a generation who think differently.
- 01:24:09.000 --> 01:24:13.171
- I wonder
- 01:24:13.171 --> 01:24:14.405
- At what point do we move from the ones that are receiving
- 01:24:14.405 --> 01:24:16.608
- The invitations
- 01:24:16.608 --> 01:24:17.709
- To being the ones in the narrative to be the servants
- 01:24:17.709 --> 01:24:20.612
- Who go out to go fetch those who are poor, lame, and blind,
- 01:24:20.612 --> 01:24:25.049
- To bring them to the house that has room for.
- 01:24:25.049 --> 01:24:32.924
- This is gather 25
- 01:24:33.358 --> 01:24:36.094
- And we are returning to europe from the holy sea of rome,
- 01:24:36.094 --> 01:24:40.565
- To the reformers of luther and calvin.
- 01:24:40.565 --> 01:24:43.268
- The history of the european church is uniquely robust
- 01:24:43.268 --> 01:24:46.604
- And layered, despite the effects of secularization
- 01:24:46.604 --> 01:24:50.108
- In the 20th century.
- 01:24:50.108 --> 01:24:51.843
- A new generation of jesus followers is rising up.
- 01:24:51.843 --> 01:24:55.547
- In 2024, adult baptisms in
- 01:24:56.114 --> 01:24:58.416
- France increased by a remarkable 30%.
- 01:24:58.416 --> 01:25:01.553
- A fresh wind of faith is awakening the nations.
- 01:25:02.554 --> 01:25:05.890
- To give you a glimpse of what's happening across the continent
- 01:25:05.890 --> 01:25:08.826
- Right now.
- 01:25:08.826 --> 01:25:09.727
- There are gathered groups meeting
- 01:25:09.727 --> 01:25:11.162
- Live in ireland, in portugal and germany.
- 01:25:11.162 --> 01:25:14.966
- Gather groups in belgium, france and the netherlands.
- 01:25:14.966 --> 01:25:18.570
- As we continue, we are journeying
- 01:25:19.304 --> 01:25:21.573
- Into the western region to the united kingdom,
- 01:25:21.573 --> 01:25:24.909
- Where gather 25 is joining together
- 01:25:25.710 --> 01:25:28.079
- Live in the capital city of london.
- 01:25:28.079 --> 01:25:33.785
- This is a mobilization unit.
- 01:25:34.385 --> 01:25:36.788
- I don't know if you've been watching.
- 01:25:36.788 --> 01:25:38.523
- You can't make this stuff up.
- 01:25:38.523 --> 01:25:40.058
- I am just watching it constantly going, you can't make this up.
- 01:25:40.058 --> 01:25:43.194
- All of the awesome testimonies
- 01:25:43.194 --> 01:25:45.063
- And the stories coming out of what god's done
- 01:25:45.063 --> 01:25:47.732
- In the persecuted church and is doing.
- 01:25:47.732 --> 01:25:49.834
- We are inspired by you.
- 01:25:49.834 --> 01:25:51.669
- We thank god for you, and we are believing
- 01:25:51.669 --> 01:25:54.339
- This is going to be the greatest activation
- 01:25:54.339 --> 01:25:57.842
- Of the body of christ to see everyone reached
- 01:25:57.842 --> 01:26:01.279
- Everywhere with the gospel of the lord jesus christ,
- 01:26:01.279 --> 01:26:04.449
- And you are part of it.
- 01:26:04.449 --> 01:26:06.117
- If you are under the sound of my voice, or you are watching me
- 01:26:06.117 --> 01:26:09.287
- Wherever you are in the world, you are part of it.
- 01:26:09.287 --> 01:26:11.923
- Whether you are in a township watching this in a village,
- 01:26:11.923 --> 01:26:15.260
- Watching this in a city, apartment, watching this,
- 01:26:15.260 --> 01:26:19.230
- Whether you're
- 01:26:19.230 --> 01:26:20.298
- In a church building, watching this in an office
- 01:26:20.298 --> 01:26:21.966
- Building, watching this, wherever you are.
- 01:26:21.966 --> 01:26:23.901
- I thank god
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- That the spirit of god is not limited by time or space,
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- But where the spirit of the lord is, there is liberty
- 01:26:27.905 --> 01:26:30.541
- And when the body of christ dwells together in unity,
- 01:26:30.541 --> 01:26:33.678
- God commands a blessing i believe is blessing.
- 01:26:33.678 --> 01:26:36.547
- Gather 25.
- 01:26:36.547 --> 01:26:37.882
- And, i am so excited.
- 01:26:37.882 --> 01:26:40.218
- I, i you can tell.
- 01:26:40.218 --> 01:26:41.452
- Just in case you are wondering, this is the greek passion. so,
- 01:26:41.452 --> 01:26:44.922
- I want us to turn to
- 01:26:45.390 --> 01:26:46.958
- Luke chapter seven, you know, on both greek and a woman.
- 01:26:46.958 --> 01:26:50.161
- So i only speak three ways hard, fast and continuously.
- 01:26:50.161 --> 01:26:52.864
- So you will not fall asleep.
- 01:26:52.864 --> 01:26:55.133
- And we're going to dive into god's word.
- 01:26:55.133 --> 01:26:57.602
- I've been inspired by so many of the messages
- 01:26:57.602 --> 01:27:01.372
- That have come through.
- 01:27:01.372 --> 01:27:02.006
- And you see a common theme
- 01:27:02.006 --> 01:27:03.341
- Because god's word speaks to us all,
- 01:27:03.341 --> 01:27:05.677
- And there is something that the
- 01:27:05.677 --> 01:27:06.644
- Spirit is saying to his church in this hour.
- 01:27:06.644 --> 01:27:08.413
- We heard it out of the gate in the us,
- 01:27:08.413 --> 01:27:10.648
- And it has just resounded
- 01:27:10.648 --> 01:27:11.883
- Around the world, and it's going to continue.
- 01:27:11.883 --> 01:27:14.018
- And in luke chapter seven, verse 36,
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- This is the word of the lord. it says,
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- Then one of the pharisees invited him to eat with him.
- 01:27:19.724 --> 01:27:22.327
- He entered the pharisees house and reclined at the table.
- 01:27:22.327 --> 01:27:25.663
- And a woman in the town, who was a sinner, not quite sure
- 01:27:25.663 --> 01:27:29.434
- What kind of people they're at, but anyway, who was a sinner?
- 01:27:29.434 --> 01:27:32.170
- Found out that jesus was reclining at the table
- 01:27:32.170 --> 01:27:34.872
- In the pharisees house.
- 01:27:34.872 --> 01:27:36.474
- She brought an alabaster jar of perfume
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- And stood behind him at his feet,
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- Weeping, and began to wash his feet with the tears.
- 01:27:39.744 --> 01:27:42.413
- She wiped his feet with her hair, kissing them
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- And anointing them with the perfume.
- 01:27:45.183 --> 01:27:48.252
- When the pharisee
- 01:27:48.686 --> 01:27:49.954
- Who had invited him saw this, he said to himself, this man,
- 01:27:49.954 --> 01:27:53.291
- If he were a prophet, would know who
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- And what kind of woman this is who touched him.
- 01:27:55.827 --> 01:27:58.663
- She's a sinner.
- 01:27:58.663 --> 01:28:00.164
- Jesus replied to him, simon, i have something to say to you.
- 01:28:00.164 --> 01:28:04.635
- He said, say it, teacher.
- 01:28:04.635 --> 01:28:06.504
- A creditor to debtors one owed 500 denarii and the other 50.
- 01:28:06.504 --> 01:28:10.875
- Since they could not pay it back,
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- He graciously forgave them both.
- 01:28:12.477 --> 01:28:14.245
- So which of them will love him more?
- 01:28:14.245 --> 01:28:16.981
- Simon answered, i suppose the one he forgave more.
- 01:28:16.981 --> 01:28:20.084
- You have judged correctly, he told him,
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- Turning to the
- 01:28:22.720 --> 01:28:23.521
- Woman, he said to simon,
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- Do you see this woman?
- 01:28:26.924 --> 01:28:30.395
- I entered your house, and you gave me no water for my feet.
- 01:28:30.395 --> 01:28:32.764
- But she with her tears, has washed my feet
- 01:28:32.764 --> 01:28:34.999
- And wiped them with the hair.
- 01:28:34.999 --> 01:28:36.467
- You gave me no kiss,
- 01:28:36.467 --> 01:28:37.602
- But she hasn't stopped kissing my feet since i came in.
- 01:28:37.602 --> 01:28:41.038
- You didn't anoint my head with olive oil,
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- But she has anointed my feet with perfume.
- 01:28:42.874 --> 01:28:45.143
- Therefore i tell you how many sins have been forgiven.
- 01:28:45.143 --> 01:28:48.045
- That's why she loved much.
- 01:28:48.045 --> 01:28:49.947
- But the one who has forgiven little, loves little.
- 01:28:49.947 --> 01:28:52.884
- Then he said to her, your sins are forgiven.
- 01:28:52.884 --> 01:28:55.353
- Those who are at the table with him
- 01:28:55.353 --> 01:28:56.754
- Began to say among themselves, who is this man
- 01:28:56.754 --> 01:29:00.291
- Who even forgives sins?
- 01:29:00.291 --> 01:29:03.361
- And he said to the woman, your faith has saved you.
- 01:29:03.361 --> 01:29:07.365
- Go in peace.
- 01:29:07.698 --> 01:29:09.500
- I know you think it's over, but we're going to keep going.
- 01:29:09.500 --> 01:29:12.303
- Some of you, this is more bible
- 01:29:12.303 --> 01:29:13.438
- Reading than you've done all year.
- 01:29:13.438 --> 01:29:14.639
- I'm about to catch you up
- 01:29:14.639 --> 01:29:15.907
- In your one year bible reading plan right there.
- 01:29:15.907 --> 01:29:18.509
- This is after what he was traveling from
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- One town
- 01:29:20.011 --> 01:29:20.812
- And village to another, preaching
- 01:29:20.812 --> 01:29:22.180
- And telling the good news of the kingdom of god.
- 01:29:22.180 --> 01:29:24.415
- The 12 were with him and also some women
- 01:29:24.415 --> 01:29:29.754
- Who had been healed of evil spirits and sicknesses.
- 01:29:29.754 --> 01:29:31.989
- Mary magdalene seven demons that come out of her,
- 01:29:31.989 --> 01:29:34.392
- Joanna, the wife of chooser
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- Herod, steward susanna, and many others
- 01:29:35.760 --> 01:29:38.262
- Who was supporting them from their positions.
- 01:29:38.262 --> 01:29:42.700
- You know, this is such a
- 01:29:43.234 --> 01:29:45.603
- Inspiring story and my prayer for us together
- 01:29:45.603 --> 01:29:49.340
- 25 all across the world from north america down
- 01:29:49.340 --> 01:29:53.411
- To oceana, up to asia, across through eastern
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- Europe, over to africa, we're coming into western europe.
- 01:29:57.048 --> 01:30:00.284
- And then as we go down into south america,
- 01:30:00.284 --> 01:30:03.087
- My prayer is that god would open every single one of our eyes.
- 01:30:03.087 --> 01:30:06.757
- See, jesus had been invited
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- To dinner at a religious leaders home,
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- And he came
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- And he wasn't really received very hospitably by simon
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- The pharisee.
- 01:30:16.901 --> 01:30:17.902
- And there was a woman that came,
- 01:30:17.902 --> 01:30:19.170
- And it says that she was a sinner.
- 01:30:19.170 --> 01:30:20.638
- And i always think that's really
- 01:30:20.638 --> 01:30:21.806
- What most of us at some point were or are.
- 01:30:21.806 --> 01:30:25.743
- But she came into the house
- 01:30:25.743 --> 01:30:28.379
- And simon looked at her, and he began to objectify her.
- 01:30:28.379 --> 01:30:31.749
- He began to judge her.
- 01:30:31.749 --> 01:30:33.684
- He was thinking to himself, man, if this
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- Jesus was really a prophet,
- 01:30:35.586 --> 01:30:37.021
- He would have known this chick was a sinner.
- 01:30:37.021 --> 01:30:39.323
- I'm wondering why
- 01:30:39.757 --> 01:30:40.725
- Simon knew that she was a sinner
- 01:30:40.725 --> 01:30:42.326
- And why he knew so much about her.
- 01:30:42.326 --> 01:30:43.961
- And i'm wondering what she was doing at simon's house,
- 01:30:43.961 --> 01:30:47.265
- Because no person that i don't know doesn't normally
- 01:30:47.265 --> 01:30:50.167
- Just drop into my place for dinner
- 01:30:50.167 --> 01:30:51.736
- Without getting kicked out.
- 01:30:51.736 --> 01:30:52.770
- I'm just wondering, had she been there before?
- 01:30:52.770 --> 01:30:54.071
- But that's for another time.
- 01:30:54.071 --> 01:30:55.439
- And so the issue is that this woman is in the house.
- 01:30:55.439 --> 01:31:00.111
- Simon is objectifying her,
- 01:31:00.111 --> 01:31:02.446
- And she is giving her most lavish worship to jesus,
- 01:31:02.446 --> 01:31:06.417
- Pouring out the perfume, letting down her hair,
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- Washing his feet.
- 01:31:09.720 --> 01:31:10.788
- Which in those days to have done that
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- Is would have been grounds for divorce
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- If you let down your hair if you were married.
- 01:31:16.227 --> 01:31:18.796
- She does the unthinkable lavishly pours out worship
- 01:31:18.796 --> 01:31:22.466
- Upon him, and simon's looking and judging,
- 01:31:22.466 --> 01:31:26.370
- Pointing a finger, othering her, objectifying her,
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- Thinking of her as anything but a woman.
- 01:31:29.640 --> 01:31:32.043
- She's just like a sinner. jesus. then
- 01:31:32.043 --> 01:31:35.112
- Has a parable that he
- 01:31:35.613 --> 01:31:37.782
- Tells simon, like, like, look who is going to be loved more.
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- The person
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- That has been forgiven
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- More of the person has been forgiven, less,
- 01:31:42.286 --> 01:31:45.723
- Because what simon had done is as he objectified
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- And as he devalued this woman and dehumanized this,
- 01:31:48.960 --> 01:31:53.030
- He did everything but love.
- 01:31:53.030 --> 01:31:54.165
- This woman, everything but that.
- 01:31:54.165 --> 01:31:57.868
- And he says, well, i guess the one that's been forgiven
- 01:31:57.868 --> 01:31:59.670
- The most would love the most.
- 01:31:59.670 --> 01:32:02.073
- And jesus does something so fascinating in verse 44,
- 01:32:02.073 --> 01:32:06.911
- And this is my prayer,
- 01:32:06.911 --> 01:32:08.212
- This verse for gather 25 all around the world
- 01:32:08.212 --> 01:32:11.816
- It says, jesus
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- Talking to simon, he turned and looked at the woman.
- 01:32:13.784 --> 01:32:17.321
- So he's looking this way
- 01:32:17.321 --> 01:32:19.991
- Because jesus sees everybody.
- 01:32:19.991 --> 01:32:23.527
- He's looking at this woman that's been objectified.
- 01:32:23.527 --> 01:32:26.030
- He's looking at this woman that's been dehumanized,
- 01:32:26.030 --> 01:32:28.232
- Is looking at this woman that's been devalued
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- With love and compassion and grace and mercy.
- 01:32:30.835 --> 01:32:33.604
- And as he's looking at the woman,
- 01:32:33.604 --> 01:32:35.640
- He says to the religious man, simon, do you see
- 01:32:35.640 --> 01:32:39.477
- This woman?
- 01:32:39.810 --> 01:32:41.412
- And my question to all of us around the globe
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- Is, do we see others or do we objectify others?
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- Do we judge others?
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- Do we condemn others?
- 01:32:47.985 --> 01:32:49.020
- Do we ignore others?
- 01:32:49.020 --> 01:32:50.588
- Are we too busy seeing ourselves in our selfies?
- 01:32:50.588 --> 01:32:54.091
- Are we too busy swiping and scrolling
- 01:32:54.091 --> 01:32:57.528
- That we're not seeing?
- 01:32:57.528 --> 01:33:00.197
- Oh, we're objectifying,
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- We're devaluing, we're dismissing, we're ignoring.
- 01:33:02.500 --> 01:33:06.070
- But are we seeing the person next door to us in the cubicle?
- 01:33:06.070 --> 01:33:10.441
- Are we seeing the person in the row in front of us,
- 01:33:10.441 --> 01:33:13.778
- In our universities, in our colleges, in our schools?
- 01:33:13.778 --> 01:33:17.481
- Are we seeing the lost and the marginalized
- 01:33:17.481 --> 01:33:21.052
- And the poor and the needy?
- 01:33:21.052 --> 01:33:22.219
- Are we seeing
- 01:33:22.219 --> 01:33:23.454
- Because there's a big difference between looking and seeing?
- 01:33:23.454 --> 01:33:27.191
- When i first became aware of the issue of human trafficking,
- 01:33:27.191 --> 01:33:30.628
- I was at an airport in thessaloniki, greece,
- 01:33:30.628 --> 01:33:32.663
- And there was
- 01:33:32.663 --> 01:33:33.731
- All of these posters of missing women and children.
- 01:33:33.731 --> 01:33:36.000
- And i remember
- 01:33:36.000 --> 01:33:37.234
- I was i was looking at the bill and i was 40, and i had just
- 01:33:37.234 --> 01:33:40.471
- I had my second daughter, sophia.
- 01:33:40.471 --> 01:33:42.740
- Listen, when you pop out a kid of 40,
- 01:33:42.740 --> 01:33:44.375
- You are not asking the lord for your ministry.
- 01:33:44.375 --> 01:33:46.677
- You are here. i am lord, send everybody else.
- 01:33:46.677 --> 01:33:49.246
- I was not asking the lord to do anything in my life.
- 01:33:49.246 --> 01:33:52.550
- And so as i was standing there,
- 01:33:53.184 --> 01:33:55.886
- My little sophia, i'm 40, i look at the missing posters
- 01:33:55.886 --> 01:34:01.025
- And as i went into look closely, i saw this little girl
- 01:34:01.025 --> 01:34:06.864
- Missing had been the victim of human trafficking
- 01:34:06.864 --> 01:34:10.701
- And her name was sophia.
- 01:34:11.235 --> 01:34:13.571
- And in that moment, i went from looking at someone
- 01:34:13.571 --> 01:34:17.074
- Else's missing child to seeing my own daughter.
- 01:34:17.074 --> 01:34:21.145
- When you look, you can look away.
- 01:34:21.846 --> 01:34:23.581
- But when you see, you can never unsee.
- 01:34:23.581 --> 01:34:26.751
- And it changed everything for me two decades ago.
- 01:34:26.751 --> 01:34:29.954
- And i would wonder whether jesus is asking all of us
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- Church, do you see lust?
- 01:34:35.192 --> 01:34:37.294
- People?
- 01:34:37.294 --> 01:34:39.163
- Church?
- 01:34:39.163 --> 01:34:40.064
- Do you see those that have got no heart,
- 01:34:40.064 --> 01:34:43.000
- That are anxious, that are addicted, that are broken,
- 01:34:43.000 --> 01:34:46.837
- That are hopeless, that are helpless?
- 01:34:46.837 --> 01:34:49.006
- Or are you scrolling straight
- 01:34:49.006 --> 01:34:50.508
- Past by you, swiping straight past them?
- 01:34:50.508 --> 01:34:52.710
- Are you walking straight past them,
- 01:34:52.710 --> 01:34:54.512
- Or are you so busy posting your next selfie you're not seeing
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- Jesus as the
- 01:34:59.917 --> 01:35:00.785
- Most poignant question of simon,
- 01:35:00.785 --> 01:35:04.622
- And i believe he's asking it to the whole church today.
- 01:35:04.622 --> 01:35:07.591
- Church? do you see
- 01:35:07.591 --> 01:35:09.860
- There are billions that do not know jesus?
- 01:35:09.860 --> 01:35:13.164
- And if we are, the whole point
- 01:35:13.164 --> 01:35:15.132
- Of gather 25 is that we would mobilize the 2.5 billion
- 01:35:15.132 --> 01:35:18.903
- That profess to know jesus, so that
- 01:35:18.903 --> 01:35:20.771
- We can reach the billions that don't know jesus.
- 01:35:20.771 --> 01:35:23.240
- And it starts with seeing
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- Simon.
- 01:35:26.844 --> 01:35:27.378
- Do you see?
- 01:35:27.378 --> 01:35:29.880
- But it doesn't just stop with seeing the one.
- 01:35:29.880 --> 01:35:32.283
- Why are we mobilizing the whole church globally?
- 01:35:32.283 --> 01:35:35.686
- Because jesus didn't just stop.
- 01:35:35.686 --> 01:35:37.488
- He saw the woman and forgave the woman and healed the woman.
- 01:35:37.488 --> 01:35:41.759
- But then it goes on and in luke eight and says, afterward
- 01:35:41.759 --> 01:35:46.163
- He traveled from there and continued his
- 01:35:46.163 --> 01:35:49.333
- Missionary journey throughout galilee.
- 01:35:49.333 --> 01:35:52.336
- He didn't just stop.
- 01:35:52.336 --> 01:35:54.572
- Oh, i saw one, and it's over now.
- 01:35:54.572 --> 01:35:56.941
- He kept going to every village and every town.
- 01:35:56.941 --> 01:35:59.143
- And guess who were with him?
- 01:35:59.143 --> 01:36:00.377
- Yes, i expected the 12, but there were also women with him.
- 01:36:00.377 --> 01:36:04.148
- Right from the outset,
- 01:36:04.148 --> 01:36:05.649
- Jesus included everyone in his global mission
- 01:36:05.649 --> 01:36:09.119
- To reach the world with the good news
- 01:36:09.119 --> 01:36:11.255
- That he has to give to a generation.
- 01:36:11.255 --> 01:36:13.490
- He had the women with him.
- 01:36:13.490 --> 01:36:15.926
- So what are we doing again?
- 01:36:16.527 --> 01:36:17.695
- The 25 all across the globe saying, wherever you are,
- 01:36:17.695 --> 01:36:21.332
- If you're a student, if you're a young person,
- 01:36:21.332 --> 01:36:24.301
- If you are working, if you're at home,
- 01:36:24.301 --> 01:36:26.737
- If you're a town,
- 01:36:26.737 --> 01:36:27.738
- If you're in a village, if you're in a house,
- 01:36:27.738 --> 01:36:29.173
- If you're in a corporation,
- 01:36:29.173 --> 01:36:30.241
- If you're a doctor, if you're a lawyer,
- 01:36:30.241 --> 01:36:31.876
- If you're a nurse, if you're a teacher,
- 01:36:31.876 --> 01:36:33.811
- If you're in technology, if you're in science,
- 01:36:33.811 --> 01:36:35.913
- Wherever your sphere of influence is, would you see?
- 01:36:35.913 --> 01:36:40.751
- Young, old, male, female.
- 01:36:41.318 --> 01:36:43.420
- Would you see?
- 01:36:43.420 --> 01:36:46.223
- It all starts with seeing.
- 01:36:46.223 --> 01:36:49.393
- Jesus says that you and i are the light of the world
- 01:36:50.461 --> 01:36:53.631
- In matthew five. and what?
- 01:36:53.631 --> 01:36:55.699
- What's the point of light if we're not prepared
- 01:36:55.699 --> 01:37:00.671
- To go into the darkness and illuminate the darkness?
- 01:37:00.671 --> 01:37:03.874
- You're wondering why our world is so broken
- 01:37:03.874 --> 01:37:06.210
- And so messed up in every sphere. it doesn't matter.
- 01:37:06.210 --> 01:37:08.812
- All i do is lapse of the world
- 01:37:08.812 --> 01:37:10.648
- And on every continent there is brokenness.
- 01:37:10.648 --> 01:37:12.783
- There is pain,
- 01:37:12.783 --> 01:37:13.717
- There is suffering, there is depression,
- 01:37:13.717 --> 01:37:15.152
- There is anxiety, there is sorrow, there is loss.
- 01:37:15.152 --> 01:37:17.321
- There is grief.
- 01:37:17.321 --> 01:37:18.022
- We need to turn the lights on
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- That there is good news in a hopeless world
- 01:37:19.490 --> 01:37:22.326
- There is a hope.
- 01:37:22.326 --> 01:37:23.227
- And his name is king jesus.
- 01:37:23.227 --> 01:37:25.329
- He is the hope of the world.
- 01:37:25.329 --> 01:37:27.064
- The gospel is still good news for this world.
- 01:37:27.064 --> 01:37:31.068
- I remember when
- 01:37:31.435 --> 01:37:32.770
- We had first moved to america, you know where australia.
- 01:37:32.770 --> 01:37:36.607
- And this is how king charles wishes he could speak
- 01:37:36.607 --> 01:37:38.676
- The english language with this kind of accent.
- 01:37:38.676 --> 01:37:40.678
- We refined it down under.
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- And so what happened was that, my daughter
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- Sophia was very much
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- Into flashlights, and she was really into barbie dolls.
- 01:37:47.651 --> 01:37:51.855
- And so i would say to her, you know, sophia, where is jesus?
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- She goes, i go, is jesus in your heart?
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- She goes, no, mommy, jesus is not in my heart.
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- Because daddy said, we're not allowed to have any boys.
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- And so she said, bobby is in my heart
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- And jesus is in my tummy.
- 01:38:06.704 --> 01:38:08.339
- Anyway, she's increased her theology since then,
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- But i bought her a little barbie flashlight because she really
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- Wanted a flashlight.
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- And as i was standing ready to pay for the flashlight
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- At the supermarket, you know there was all of these,
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- Fluorescent lights all around the supermarket that were on.
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- So sophia
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- Was turning on her flashlight, but she couldn't see the light
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- Because there was so much light.
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- And i'll never forget us.
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- I was praying
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- She was so frustrated because she couldn't
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- See the light, because there were all of these
- 01:38:37.201 --> 01:38:39.703
- Illuminated fluorescent lights, and she yelled, mommy,
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- Can we please go and find some darkness?
- 01:38:44.241 --> 01:38:48.245
- And my prayer for the church is that we wouldn't
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- Fear the darkness, but we would understand.
- 01:38:50.881 --> 01:38:53.050
- Greater is he that is in us, that he that is in the world.
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- In the same spirit that raised jesus christ from the dead,
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- Lives on the inside of you and lives
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- On the inside of me.
- 01:39:02.726 --> 01:39:05.763
- So we had to go into all the world
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- And make disciples of all nations.
- 01:39:07.431 --> 01:39:08.932
- And the way you can only do that is if you see people.
- 01:39:08.932 --> 01:39:12.636
- So church gather 25 all around the globe.
- 01:39:12.636 --> 01:39:17.074
- Let us make a covenant that we will make jesus's last
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- Commandment our first priority in our generation.
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- In jesus name, amen and amen and amen.
- 01:39:25.382 --> 01:39:29.586
- Keep teaching the word, proclaiming the word.
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- Go out and teach the scripture of the word.
- 01:39:33.390 --> 01:39:35.993
- When you walk in the spirit of god,
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- It will set an example to those who look at you.
- 01:39:37.428 --> 01:39:40.497
- They're not looking down.
- 01:39:40.497 --> 01:39:41.698
- They're looking at you, god, what happened to you?
- 01:39:41.698 --> 01:39:44.101
- And you get to say, i heard the word right now
- 01:39:44.101 --> 01:39:47.471
- In churches and cities, right across this nation
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- And right across europe, we're seeing sudden and surprising
- 01:39:50.407 --> 01:39:54.578
- And spontaneous and significant salvations.
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- This is gather 25 and we are coming
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- To our final destination in south america.
- 01:40:02.886 --> 01:40:10.894
- This is the land of the mighty amazon
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- And the snowcapped andes mountains,
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- The green pampas plain and the thundering iguazu falls.
- 01:40:17.568 --> 01:40:22.339
- It's the birthplace of a tangle on the samba egypt and
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- An endless tapestry of vibrant hues and beautiful
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- Design, from cities and villages and homes.
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- This is south america.
- 01:40:35.052 --> 01:40:38.288
- Currently, over 85% of the continent's
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- Population identify as christians,
- 01:40:42.159 --> 01:40:45.863
- And brazil is a global leader in sending out missionaries
- 01:40:45.863 --> 01:40:50.400
- To the world from the small, faithful catchment churches
- 01:40:50.400 --> 01:40:54.438
- Of colombia down to bolivia, to the brazilian stadiums
- 01:40:54.438 --> 01:40:59.409
- Filled with 140,000 young people, south america has raised
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- High the banner of jesus for all to see.
- 01:41:05.048 --> 01:41:10.587
- To give you a glimpse of what's happening across the continent
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- Right now that are gather groups meeting live in ecuador,
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- In paraguay and chile.
- 01:41:18.362 --> 01:41:21.031
- Gather groups from colombia in the north
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- To argentina in the south.
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- Now we head
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- To the western shores of peru are gathered.
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- 25 is coming to you live
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- From the capital city of lima
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- In the midst
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- Of a situation where there was a world in fear.
- 01:46:33.643 --> 01:46:37.180
- That world needed a church full of faith and courage.
- 01:46:37.180 --> 01:46:41.151
- And that is what we did.
- 01:46:41.685 --> 01:46:43.487
- We took courage in the name of jesus.
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- We up the team.
- 01:48:30.627 --> 01:48:38.401
- Wherever you are in the world,
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- You're a part of a really beautiful body.
- 01:48:41.438 --> 01:48:45.976
- One that is surprisingly beautiful
- 01:48:46.743 --> 01:48:51.281
- All across the earth, diverse, and yet
- 01:48:52.048 --> 01:48:55.018
- Somehow feels exactly like home and exactly like family.
- 01:48:55.018 --> 01:49:00.156
- We are not alone.
- 01:49:00.590 --> 01:49:02.192
- To my friend in turkey
- 01:49:02.659 --> 01:49:04.761
- Who i heard your story and i program this entire
- 01:49:04.761 --> 01:49:07.297
- We program
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- This entire event for
- 01:49:07.897 --> 01:49:09.833
- Because you are the only believer in your village.
- 01:49:09.833 --> 01:49:12.902
- And i hoped that you would know just you,
- 01:49:12.902 --> 01:49:16.373
- That you are not alone
- 01:49:16.840 --> 01:49:19.442
- And that god is moving
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- And that it is worth persevering.
- 01:49:22.879 --> 01:49:26.016
- But i think
- 01:49:26.349 --> 01:49:28.952
- In trying to encourage you,
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- You encouraged all of us, right?
- 01:49:31.988 --> 01:49:35.425
- So thank you.
- 01:49:35.792 --> 01:49:40.196
- To those suffering for the gospel,
- 01:49:40.930 --> 01:49:44.367
- We want to be like you.
- 01:49:44.868 --> 01:49:47.504
- We want to be brave like you.
- 01:49:47.504 --> 01:49:49.839
- We want to take the freedom that we've been given and use it
- 01:49:49.839 --> 01:49:53.643
- To take the gospel to everybody, everywhere.
- 01:49:54.544 --> 01:49:59.215
- Millions of you have been out there.
- 01:49:59.983 --> 01:50:03.286
- It's kind of wild to think about.
- 01:50:04.020 --> 01:50:05.655
- And yet in this moment,
- 01:50:05.655 --> 01:50:08.024
- I'm actually just
- 01:50:08.458 --> 01:50:09.392
- Thinking of one of you.
- 01:50:09.392 --> 01:50:12.462
- How one of you could change the world
- 01:50:12.462 --> 01:50:14.964
- In your place, in your town.
- 01:50:14.964 --> 01:50:18.034
- He gave us a simple goal.
- 01:50:18.601 --> 01:50:20.804
- All of us are looking for a big purpose.
- 01:50:20.804 --> 01:50:22.539
- But if you know jesus, you already have one.
- 01:50:22.539 --> 01:50:26.309
- Go make disciples.
- 01:50:26.743 --> 01:50:27.811
- This isn't complicated.
- 01:50:27.811 --> 01:50:29.679
- We don't have to be clever.
- 01:50:29.679 --> 01:50:30.980
- We just need to do what he said as he was, you know, raising up
- 01:50:30.980 --> 01:50:33.983
- Into the sky before going back to heaven.
- 01:50:33.983 --> 01:50:37.554
- I think we should listen to words like that.
- 01:50:38.488 --> 01:50:41.091
- So romans 13 says this.
- 01:50:41.091 --> 01:50:44.127
- Hey, this is all the more urgent
- 01:50:44.761 --> 01:50:49.532
- For you know, how late it is.
- 01:50:50.166 --> 01:50:52.802
- Time is running out.
- 01:50:52.802 --> 01:50:55.205
- Wake up,
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- For our salvation is nearer now
- 01:50:56.940 --> 01:51:00.276
- Than when we first believed.
- 01:51:00.276 --> 01:51:02.912
- The night is almost gone.
- 01:51:02.912 --> 01:51:07.117
- Some of
- 01:51:07.350 --> 01:51:08.585
- You need to stop right there and remember and believe again.
- 01:51:08.585 --> 01:51:11.654
- The night is almost gone.
- 01:51:11.654 --> 01:51:14.624
- The day of salvation will soon be here.
- 01:51:14.624 --> 01:51:18.394
- So remove your dark deeds like dirty clothes.
- 01:51:18.394 --> 01:51:21.498
- And put on the shining armor of right living.
- 01:51:22.432 --> 01:51:26.703
- Because we
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- Listen to this.
- 01:51:29.539 --> 01:51:30.440
- This is so good.
- 01:51:30.440 --> 01:51:31.975
- We belong to the day.
- 01:51:31.975 --> 01:51:35.879
- We are not people that belong
- 01:51:36.513 --> 01:51:38.915
- To the darkness, to death, to suffering.
- 01:51:38.915 --> 01:51:42.452
- We are people who belong to the day.
- 01:51:42.452 --> 01:51:47.690
- We're at war, team.
- 01:51:48.158 --> 01:51:50.326
- We're not home yet.
- 01:51:50.326 --> 01:51:56.132
- But i think
- 01:51:56.466 --> 01:51:59.002
- A few million of us
- 01:51:59.002 --> 01:52:01.237
- Loving god like this, remembering how worth it he is.
- 01:52:01.237 --> 01:52:04.841
- Tasting heaven like we've just tasted.
- 01:52:04.841 --> 01:52:07.944
- Heaven could cause trouble to hell and.
- 01:52:07.944 --> 01:52:15.885
- And the good news is
- 01:52:16.352 --> 01:52:19.155
- The good news about heaven not being here quite yet
- 01:52:19.155 --> 01:52:22.525
- Is we do still
- 01:52:22.859 --> 01:52:23.626
- Have some work to do.
- 01:52:23.626 --> 01:52:26.896
- So let's go team.
- 01:52:26.896 --> 01:52:29.732
- Let's watch god
- 01:52:29.732 --> 01:52:31.501
- Move wildly through us in our places.
- 01:52:31.501 --> 01:52:34.604
- Let's love people to god.
- 01:52:34.604 --> 01:52:36.639
- The storyline goes like this.
- 01:52:36.639 --> 01:52:39.843
- We get god, let's go.
- 01:52:39.843 --> 01:52:41.945
- Give him away.
- 01:52:41.945 --> 01:52:42.912
- Let's pray wherever you are.
- 01:52:42.912 --> 01:52:45.415
- I'd love it if you got on your knees with me.
- 01:52:45.415 --> 01:52:47.250
- Just out of respect for this moment,
- 01:52:47.250 --> 01:52:50.453
- The global church is just sing a song together.
- 01:52:50.453 --> 01:52:53.823
- The whole earth is singing to god.
- 01:52:54.557 --> 01:52:58.328
- I can't quite take that in.
- 01:52:58.928 --> 01:53:02.098
- Let's go to him now and pray together.
- 01:53:02.098 --> 01:53:05.368
- God, we are yours.
- 01:53:05.802 --> 01:53:09.239
- Take us.
- 01:53:09.505 --> 01:53:11.040
- Pour us out.
- 01:53:11.040 --> 01:53:12.775
- Make us a love offering
- 01:53:12.775 --> 01:53:14.911
- To the world that you so love.
- 01:53:14.911 --> 01:53:17.947
- Where we have been us would we repent?
- 01:53:17.947 --> 01:53:22.252
- Where we god, have loved other things more than you?
- 01:53:23.319 --> 01:53:26.256
- Would we stop?
- 01:53:26.256 --> 01:53:27.724
- But we have forgotten our mission.
- 01:53:28.458 --> 01:53:30.560
- Would we come back?
- 01:53:30.560 --> 01:53:32.528
- Help us, use us.
- 01:53:32.528 --> 01:53:36.499
- God, thank you.
- 01:53:36.866 --> 01:53:39.269
- Thanks for being so great.
- 01:53:39.269 --> 01:53:42.972
- Thanks for being so worthy of our lives.
- 01:53:42.972 --> 01:53:47.710
- Thank you
- 01:53:48.011 --> 01:53:50.013
- All. glory or honor
- 01:53:50.013 --> 01:53:53.116
- To you alone in jesus beautiful,
- 01:53:53.116 --> 01:53:57.086
- Beautiful name, amen.
- 01:53:57.587 --> 01:54:03.960
- Across
- 01:54:04.160 --> 01:54:05.328
- Continents and time zones, we have witnessed the global
- 01:54:05.328 --> 01:54:08.364
- Church come together in an unprecedented way.
- 01:54:08.364 --> 01:54:12.568
- Gather 25 has been more than just a broadcast.
- 01:54:12.568 --> 01:54:16.639
- It's been a powerful reminder that god is moving
- 01:54:16.639 --> 01:54:20.276
- Across the earth, uniting his people like never before.
- 01:54:20.276 --> 01:54:24.247
- As we close this special global gathering,
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- We pray that you leave inspired.
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- Ready to take the message of christ
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- To your communities and beyond.
- 01:54:33.122 --> 01:54:36.859
- Thank you for joining us for gather 25 here on tbn.
- 01:54:36.859 --> 01:54:41.297
- If you missed any of the event coverage or tonight's
- 01:54:41.297 --> 01:54:44.100
- Full recap, you can find all on tbn plus.
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- Thank you for watching.
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