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Praise | January 19, 2017

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Matt & Laurie Crouch host Mosaic Conference 2016 with Erwin McManus and Rich Wilkerson Jr. and Brian Houston.

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CONFERENCE. ERWIN, 2 MINUTES, WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO GET THE
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TELEVISION, THE GLOBAL, AUDIENCE TO TAKE AWAY FROM WHAT YOU'RE
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PUTTING TOGETHER HERE? ERWIN MCMANUS: I WANT THE CHURCH TO BE
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THE TIP OF THE SPEAR PIERCING INTO THE FUTURE. AT MOSAIC
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CONFERENCE, OUR ENTIRE INTENTION IS TO PULL THE CHURCH INTO ITS
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PROPER ROLE OF CREATING THE FUTURE THAT THE WORLD
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DESPERATELY NEEDS. I WANT TO HELP THE CHURCH CREATE NEW
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ENVIRONMENTS, NEW LANGUAGE. YOU KNOW, THE MESSAGE OF JESUS IS
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ALWAYS GOING TO BE TRUE. AND I MEAN, I'M A PERSON WHO LOVES THE
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SCRIPTURES AND I LIVE MY LIFE BASED ON THE SCRIPTURES. -A
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VOICE CRYING IN THE WILDERNESS, IT'S MOSAIC ON PRAISE RIGHT NOW.
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[MUSIC]
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IT'S VERY, VERY EASY AT TIMES FOR US TO GET LOST IN
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DOING CHURCH THAT WE FORGET TO BE THE CHURCH. GOD HASN'T CALLED
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US TO DO HARD STUFF; HE'S CALLED US TO DO IMPOSSIBLE STUFF. I
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WANT TO LIVE MY LIFE SO THAT MY CEILING BECOMES ANOTHER
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GENERATION'S FLOOR. IF WE ALL THINK ABOUT BUILDING FOR THE
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FUTURE, THEN THE FUTURE OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST IS IN
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GOOD HANDS.
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[MUSIC]
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[MUSIC]
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YOU ARE THE SONG ON MY LIPS EVERY MORNING
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CAUSE YOU ARE FAITHFUL IN EVERY WAY
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AND I WILL DECLARE THAT YOUR LOVE LASTS FOREVER
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NO NEED TO WORRY, MY EYES FIXED ON YOU
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SEE CAUSE YOU HAVE MY HEART
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YOU HAVE MY HEART
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ALL OF MY LIFE
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I WILL LIFT YOUR NAME ON HIGH
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KING OF ALL
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CAUSE YOU'RE MY STRENGTH
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CAUSE YOU ARE MY STRENGTH
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THE BEGINNING AND THE END
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AND I WILL SEEK YOU EVERY DAY
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KING OF ALL
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[MUSIC]
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[MUSIC]
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[MUSIC]
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AND THROUGH EVERY DESERT YOUR LOVE MAKES A RIVER
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BRINGING NEW LIFE WHEREVER IT FLOWS
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AND I FEEL THE WIND OF YOUR SPIRIT AROUND ME
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AND I'M CHASING AFTER WHEREVER IT GOES
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CAUSE YOU HAVE MY HEART, COME ON!
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CAUSE YOU HAVE MY HEART
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ALL OF MY LIFE
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AND I WILL LIFT YOUR NAME ON HIGH
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KING OF ALL
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CAUSE YOU ARE MY STRENGTH
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THE BEGINNING AND THE END
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AND I WILL SEEK YOU EVERY DAY
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KING OF ALL
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AND LET OUR HEARTS SING TO YOU
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AND WE WILL FOLLOW YOU
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LET OUR HEARTS SING TO YOU
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WE WILL FOLLOW YOU
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AND LET YOUR LOVE SHINE
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AND SHOW US WHO WE ARE
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KING OF ALL
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COME ON! YOU'RE KING OF ALL
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[MUSIC]
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PUT YOUR HANDS TOGETHER!
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[MUSIC]
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COME ON EVERYBODY! LET'S SING THIS TOGETHER!
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HERE WE GO! 1, 2, 3, 4,
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[MUSIC]
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OH, OH, OH, OH, OH
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OH, OH, OH, OH, OH
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YOU HAVE MY HEART
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OH, ALL OF MY LIFE
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AND I WILL LIFT YOUR NAME ON HIGH
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KING OF ALL
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CAUSE YOU ARE MY STRENGTH
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THE BEGINNING AND THE END
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AND I WILL SEEK YOU EVERY DAY
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KING OF ALL
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KING OF ALL
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OH, OH, OH, OH, OH
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OH, OH, OH, OH, OH
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[APPLAUSE]
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[MUSIC]
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MATT CROUCH: EVERY TIME ERWIN HAS
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BEEN ON TELEVISION WITH US, THERE'S BEEN, LITERALLY, JUST A
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CRUSHING ON THE INSIDE OF US BECAUSE HE TAKES WHAT HE DOES
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VERY SERIOUSLY. AND HE'S BEEN RUN THROUGH A CRUSHING HIMSELF
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AND THERE ARE A LOT OF THINGS THAT ERWIN DOESN'T TALK ABOUT.
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YOU MENTIONED RICH WILKERSON, WHY RITCHIE? WHY WAS HE A PART
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OF THIS CONFERENCE? ERWIN MCMANUS: I INVITED RICH FOR A
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VERY SPECIFIC REASON. MY SON WAS RUNNING HARD AND FAST FROM GOD
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BECAUSE HE'D BEEN JUST SO WOUNDED BY CHRISTIANS, AND SAW
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THE WAY THAT PEOPLE RESPONDED TO ME, AND HE CARRIED THOSE WOUNDS.
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AND RICH WAS ONE OF THE PEOPLE THAT REALLY BROUGHT AARON BACK
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IN AND JUST LOVED HIM AND INVESTED IN HIS LIFE. SO, TO ME,
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I'M COMMITTED TO RICH FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE BECAUSE HE WAS
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THERE AND COMMITTED TO MY SON. BECAUSE THAT'S WHERE FAITH IS
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MADE REAL, THAT'S THE PRACTICAL ASPECT OF IT. NOT WHEN
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EVERYONE'S WATCHING. AND SO I INVITED RICH BECAUSE I WANTED
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OUR CONGREGATION TO MEET THE PEOPLE THAT HAVE MADE A
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DIFFERENCE IN OUR LIFE. AND HE TALKED ON THE BODY OF CHRIST AND
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THE CHURCH. AND THAT'S ONE OF THE THINGS, IS THAT HE GOT UP
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THERE AND SAID, HEY, I JUST LOVE THE FACT THAT EVERYONE JUST LETS
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US BE WHO WE ARE. AND THAT'S KIND OF TRUE. YOU KNOW? I LET
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YOU BE WHO YOU ARE. I DON'T NECESSARILY LET YOU STAY THERE
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COMFORTABLY. [CHUCKLES] BECAUSE IF YOU LOVE SOMEONE, YOU ACCEPT
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THEM FROM WHERE THEY ARE, BUT IF YOU SEE GREATER THINGS IN THEM,
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YOU PULL THEM TOWARD THAT AND YOU RISK THE RELATIONSHIP FOR
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THEIR GOOD. IT'S NOT A TRUE FRIENDSHIP IF YOU'RE NOT WILLING
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TO RISK THE RELATIONSHIP FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE OTHER PERSON.
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[MUSIC]
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RICH WILKERSON: I WANT TO TALK, IF I CAN, FOR A FEW
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MOMENTS ON THIS IDEA OF THE CHURCH. THE CHURCH. AND WHAT I
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BELIEVE, IS I BELIEVE THAT THE DEVIL'S NOT AFRAID OF A BIG
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CHURCH, BUT HE IS AFRAID OF A UNITED CHURCH. AND I BELIEVE
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THAT'S WHAT THIS GATHERING IS ABOUT. THIS IS A GATHERING OF
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THE CHURCH; THAT WE'VE GATHERED TOGETHER THAT WE MIGHT LEAVE AND
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WE MIGHT SCATTER AND MAKE AN IMPACT WHEREVER WE ARE, WHATEVER
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SPHERE WE FIND OURSELVES IN. AND I BELIEVE IT'S TIME FOR THE
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CHURCH TO STAND UP, TO RISE UP, BECAUSE WHATEVER WE AVOID, THE
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DEVIL TENDS TO INVADE. AND RATHER THAN CRITICIZE THE WORLD,
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I'D RATHER BE SOMEBODY WHO STEPS IN AND BRINGS LIGHT INTO DARK
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SPACES. AND SO I WANT TO MOBILIZE SOME PEOPLE TODAY. I
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WANT TO CHALLENGE SOME PEOPLE. SOME OF YOU TODAY, YOU'RE A PART
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OF A LOCAL CHURCH. OTHERS OF YOU TODAY, MAYBE YOU'VE LEFT THE
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LOCAL CHURCH. AND I'M HOPING THAT WE'D WALK OUT OF HERE TODAY
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LOVING AND BELIEVING MORE IN WHAT THE CHURCH CAN BE. I WANT
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US TO LOOK AT EPHESIANS 5 FOR A FEW MOMENTS, AND THEN I'M GOING
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TO PREACH MY GUTS OUT. SO HERE WE GO! EPHESIANS 5:25 SAYS THIS,
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IT SAYS HUSBANDS LOVE YOUR WIVES JUST AS CHRIST LOVED THE CHURCH
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AND GAVE HIMSELF UP FOR HER TO MAKE HER HOLY, CLEANSING HER BY
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THE WASHING WITH WATER THROUGH THE WORD. AND TO PRESENT HER TO
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HIMSELF AS A RADIANT CHURCH, WITHOUT STAIN OR WRINKLE OR ANY
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OTHER BLEMISH, BUT HOLY AND BLAMELESS. IN THE SAME WAY,
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HUSBANDS OUGHT TO LOVE THEIR WIVES AS THEIR OWN BODIES. HE
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WHO LOVES HIS WIFE, LOVES HIMSELF. AFTER ALL, NO ONE EVER
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HATED HIS OWN BODY, BUT HE FEEDS AND CARES FOR IT JUST AS CHRIST
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DOES THE CHURCH FOR WE ARE MEMBERS OF THE BODY. VERSE 31,
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FOR THIS REASON A MAN WILL LEAVE HIS FATHER AND MOTHER AND BE
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UNITED TO HIS WIFE AND THE 2 WILL BECOME 1 FLESH. THIS IS A
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PROFOUND MYSTERY, BUT I AM TALKING ABOUT CHRIST AND THE
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CHURCH. BUT I AM TALKING ABOUT CHRIST AND THE CHURCH. I WANT TO
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TAKE A FEW MOMENTS AND I WANT TO PREACH FROM THIS THOUGHT,
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RUNAWAY BRIDE, RUNAWAY BRIDE. AND I WANT US TO PRAY AND LET'S
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INVITE THE HOLY SPIRIT TO DO WHAT I CAN'T DO. JESUS, WE LOVE
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YOU, WE THANK YOU. WE PRAISE YOU. WE MAGNIFY YOUR NAME IN
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THIS PLACE. TODAY, LORD, WE HAVE WALKED INTO THIS PLACE ONE WAY
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BUT IT'S OUR PRAYER THAT WE WOULD ALL LEAVE DIFFERENT. I
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PRAY NOW THAT YOU WOULD SPEAK TO US IN A CRYSTAL CLEAR WAY THAT
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WE MIGHT LOOK, BEHAVE MORE LIKE JESUS. WE HONOR YOU. WE PRAISE
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YOU. AND IF YOU BELIEVE IT THIS MORNING, ALL OF GOD'S PEOPLES
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SAID [AMEN] COME ON, ALL OF GOD'S PEOPLE SAID [AMEN!] COME
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ON, WHY DON'T WE GO AHEAD AND GIVE THE LORD ONE MORE BIG SHOUT
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OF PRAISE ALL OVER THIS PLACE? [SHOUTS/APPLAUSE] THERE IT IS! I
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GREW UP IN CHURCH. I DIDN'T GROW UP AROUND CHURCH. I, LITERALLY,
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GREW UP IN CHURCH. I'M A 4TH GENERATION PASTOR ON BOTH SIDES
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OF MY FAMILY. MY DAD'S DAD WAS A PASTOR, HIS GRANDFATHER WAS A
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PASTOR. MY MOM'S DAD WAS A PASTOR, HER GRANDFATHER WAS A
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PASTOR. AND WE GREW UP IN THIS CHURCH, AND WE GREW UP DOING
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CHRISTIAN THINGS AND 7 DAYS A WEEK I WAS IN CHURCH. AND
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REALLY, I THINK WE ALL GREW UP WITH A WORLDVIEW OR A
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PERSPECTIVE THAT WE SEE THE WORLD FROM, NOT REALLY HOW
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EVERYONE ELSE SEES IT, BUT FROM THE LENSE IN WHICH WE WERE
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BIRTHED INTO OR THAT WE WERE PLANTED INTO. AND SO I GREW UP
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WITH THIS IDEA THAT EVERYBODY WAS DOING CHURCH THINGS. AND
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WHAT I'VE KIND OF LEARNED AS I'VE GOTTEN OLDER IS THAT IT'S
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VERY, VERY EASY AT TIMES FOR US TO GET LOST IN DOING CHURCH THAT
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WE FORGET TO BE THE CHURCH. YOU KNOW, THIS WHOLE IDEA OF CHURCH,
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LIKE, I THINK SOMETIMES WE DON'T HAVE A DEEP ENOUGH REVELATION.
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BECAUSE THE TRUTH IS, IF YOU GO HOME RIGHT NOW AND YOU PUT
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CHURCH INTO DICTIONARY.COM, YOU'RE GOING TO GET THIS
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DEFINITION: THE DEFINITION IS GOING TO SAY, A PUBLIC BUILDING
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FOR WORSHIP. NOW THERE'S NO DOUBT THAT CHURCH INVOLVES AN
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IDEA OF GOING INTO A BUILDING AND WORSHIPING, BUT HOW MANY
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KNOW THAT CHURCH IS SO MUCH MORE THAN A PUBLIC BUILDING FOR
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WORSHIP? SEE, CHURCH COMES FROM THIS GREEK WORD CALLED ECCLESIA.
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ECCLESIA GIVES US A LITTLE BIT MORE DEPTH TO THE IDEA OF
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CHURCH, BECAUSE ECCLESIA MEANS AN ASSEMBLY OR A GATHERING. SEE,
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THE CHURCH WAS NOT A MANMADE IDEA, CHURCH WAS GOD'S IDEA. AND
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THE IDEA OF THE CHURCH, NOT LITTLE C, BUT BIG C, WAS GOD'S
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IDEA. THE CHURCH IS NOT A PLACE. THE CHURCH IS A PEOPLE. THE
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CHURCH IS NOT WHERE. THE CHURCH IS WHO ARE YOU BECOMING? AND GOD
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HAS CALLED US TO BE AN ASSEMBLY, A GATHERING UNDER THE NAME OF
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JESUS. YOU SAY, WELL, WHAT'S THE PURPOSE? THE PURPOSE HAS ALWAYS
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BEEN THE SAME FOR EVERY CHURCH AND FOR ALL CHURCHES. THE
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PURPOSE IS 3 FOLD: IT'S MINISTRY, #1, TO GOD. THAT'S WHY
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WE STARTED THIS MORNING WITH PRAISING AND WORSHIPING GOD. WE
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STARTED, LIKE THE PSALMIST SAID, O MAGNIFY THE LORD WITH ME. LET
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US EXHALT HIS NAME, THAT WHEN WE GATHER, AND WHEN WE ASSEMBLE,
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OUR FIRST PURPOSE IS THAT WE WOULD PRAISE AND UPLIFT THE NAME
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OF JESUS. BUT SECONDLY, IT'S MINISTRY TO BELIEVERS. SO
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WHENEVER WE GATHER AS A CHURCH PREACHING, THAT'S THE WORD THAT
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MEANS PROCLAIMING, IT SHOULD TAKE PLACE. SO WE OPEN UP THE
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WORD OF GOD, AND THE BIBLE SAYS, THE WORD OF GOD IS SHARPER THAN
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A DOUBLE-EDGED SWORD; MEANING AS GOD'S WORD GOES IN, IT
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PENETRATES AND IT DOES SOMETHING. ISN'T IT AMAZING,
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LAST NIGHT AS ERWIN WAS PREACHING, ALL OF US ARE ON
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DIFFERENT PLACES OF THE FAITH JOURNEY, SOME OF US JUST GOT A
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BRAND NEW JOB, OTHERS ARE ABOUT TO GET MARRIED, SOME OF US ARE
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SINGLE, BUT AS ERWIN SPEAKS AND PROCLAIMS, GOD IS SO BIG THAT
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HE'S SMALL ENOUGH TO BE INTIMATELY ACQUAINTED WITH YOU;
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THAT HE CAN SPEAK TO YOU AND CHALLENGE YOU AND TRANSFORM YOU.
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IT'S CALLED PREACHING THE WORD. AND GUESS WHAT? YOU HAVE TO
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GATHER FOR THAT PURPOSE TO TAKE PLACE. BUT IT'S NOT JUST THAT:
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THIRDLY, IT'S THAT WE WOULD MINISTER TO THE WORLD; THAT AS
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WE GATHER, WE MIGHT SCATTER AND IMPACT THE WORLD. THE ONLY THING
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THAT JESUS EVER BUILT WAS THE CHURCH. HE DIDN'T BUILD A T.V.
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MINISTRY. DIDN'T BUILD A CONFERENCE. HE BUILT THE CHURCH.
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AND THIS IS WHAT HE SAID, HE SAID, UPON THIS ROCK I WILL
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BUILD MY HOUSE AND THE GATES OF HELL SHALL NOT PREVAIL. THAT'S
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SOME PROVOCATIVE TALK RIGHT THERE. [LAUGHTER] THE LAST TIME
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I CHECKED, THE GATES OF HELL, THAT'S A DEFENSE MECHANISM. BUT
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JESUS WAS TALKING ABOUT HIS CHURCH AND HE'S SAYING, MY
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CHURCH IS TO BE SO PROGRESSIVE, MY CHURCH IS NEVER TO RETREAT,
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MY CHURCH IS TO INFILTRATE. IT SHOULD INFILTRATE ALL THE WAY TO
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THE GATES OF HELL THAT IT'S RESCUING PEOPLE FROM THE FLAMES
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OF HELL. COME ON, IF YOU BELIEVE THE CHURCH IS IN FRONT OF US
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MEANT TO RESCUE PEOPLE. [APPLAUSE] AND AS YOU STUDY THE
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BIBLE, WHAT YOU'LL FIND OUT IS THERE ARE ALL SORTS OF METAPHOR
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REGARDING GOD'S CHURCH. YOU'LL SEE THINGS LIKE THE CHURCH IS A
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BUILDING. I'M THANKFUL FOR THIS BECAUSE IN MIAMI, WE DON'T HAVE
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A BUILDING, WE'VE GOT A MIDDLE SCHOOL. I'M SO GRATEFUL THAT WE
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ACTUALLY ARE A CHURCH, BECAUSE AS WE GATHER TOGETHER, WE BECOME
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GOD'S BUILDING. BUT YOU'LL ALSO SEE TERMS LIKE THE BODY; THAT
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YOU AND I, WE ARE THE BODY OF CHRIST, THAT WE'RE TO BE THE
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HANDS AND FEET OF JESUS, THAT WHEN JESUS SAID I WANT MY
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REPRESENTATION ON THE EARTH, HE SAYS WHEN YOU GATHER TOGETHER
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YOU'RE MY BODY, YOU'RE DOING MY WORK. BUT ONE OF THE MOST
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PECULAIR METAPHORS IN THE BIBLE ABOUT THE CHURCH IS THIS IDEA,
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THE BRIDE. HOW MANY CHRISTIANS HAVE YOU MET THAT SAY, YO,
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JESUS, I LOVE YOU BUT I'M NOT REALLY SURE IF I LIKE YOUR
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BRIDE? WHEW! SAY, THAT'S FOR MY NEIGHBOR. [LAUGHTER] I HEAR
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CHRISTIANS SAY THIS SOMETIMES, I LIKE CHURCH, BUT I DON'T LIKE
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CHRISTIANS. I LIKE JESUS BUT I DON'T LIKE GOING TO CHURCH. HEY,
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YOU KNOW, YOU DON'T HAVE TO GO TO CHURCH TO BE A CHRISTIAN.
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CHURCH IS BORING. I WOULD GO TO CHURCH, BUT CHURCH IS FULL OF
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HYPOCRITES. FRIEND, I DON'T KNOW, I THINK AT TIMES WE HAVE
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LOST THE DEEP SENSE AND REVELATION OF WHAT THE CHURCH
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ACTUALLY IS. BECAUSE, FRIEND, HOW ON EARTH CAN YOU LOVE JESUS
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BUT YOU DON'T LIKE HIS BRIDE? COME ON. I KNOW YOU DON'T HAVE
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TO GO TO CHURCH TO BE A CHRISTIAN, BUT IF YOU'RE A
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CHRISTIAN, WHY WOULD YOU NOT WANT TO GO TO CHURCH? CHURCH IS
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BORING. DON'T SAY THAT! EVER AGAIN! [LAUGHTER] BECAUSE I'M
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NOT BORING! YOU'RE BORING! [LAUGHTER] AND EVERY TIME YOU
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SAY CHURCH IS BORING, YOU'RE SAYING YOU'RE BORING! CHURCH
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ISN'T DEEP ENOUGH. YOU'RE SAYING YOU'RE NOT DEEP ENOUGH. YOU'VE
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GOT TO BE THE THING THAT YOU WANT TO SEE, MAN! CHURCH IS FULL
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OF HYPOCRITES! EXACTLY! [LAUGHTER] ARE YOU JUST NOW
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DISCOVERING THIS? YES! WE ARE ALL HYPOCRITES! WE ALL SAY ONE
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THING AND TEND TO DO ANOTHER. SOUNDS LIKE THE APOSTLE PAUL.
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WHY IS IT THAT I SAY I WANT TO DO ONE THING, BUT I CAN'T DO IT.
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OR I DON'T DO THE THINGS I SAY I'M GOING TO DO. WE'RE
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HYPOCRITES. BUT THIS IS WHY WE COME TO CHURCH! BECAUSE OUR
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SAVIOR IS NOT A HYPOCRITE. OUR SAVIOR IS ONE WHO CAME AND DID
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WHAT WE COULD NEVER, EVER DO! I NEED TO GO TO CHURCH TO BE
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REMINDED ABOUT MY SAVIOR. COME ON! SOMEBODY GIVE GOD A SHOUT OF
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PRAISE IF YOU BELIEVE IT. [APPLAUSE] I GO TO CHURCH NOT TO
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BE REMINDED OF MY WEAKNESSES. I GO TO CHURCH TO BE REMINDED OF
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HIS STRENGTH. WITHOUT JESUS I'M A HYPOCRITE. THANK GOD FOR
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JESUS! HE FILLS THE GAP. THE CROSS IS THE BRIDGE TO THE OTHER
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SIDE. I THINK TODAY, ESPECIALLY IN AMERICA, EVEN IN THIS GREAT
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CITY OF L.A., WHAT WE HAVE SEEN IS WE SEE A RUNAWAY BRIDE. AND I
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WONDER, I WAS THINKING THIS WEEK, WHY IS IT THAT WE'RE
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RUNNING SO FAST? COULD IT BE THAT MANY OF US, WE DON'T
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UNDERSTAND THE PRIVILEGES OF BEING THE BRIDE OF CHRIST? I
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WANT TO GIVE YOU JUST 3 BASIC THOUGHTS. IT'S A BIT OF A
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DIFFERENT TALK AT A CONFERENCE, BUT I BELIEVE IT'S IMPORTANT FOR
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THIS GATHERING HERE THAT WE WOULD WALK OUT OF HERE WITH A
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FIRM FOUNDATION OF UNDERSTANDING THAT WE'RE NOT JUST SUPPOSED TO
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GATHER, BUT RATHER WE ARE SUPPOSED TO BE THE CHURCH. I
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DON'T WANT TO GET LOST IN JUST DOING CHRISTIAN ACTIVITY AND
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FAIL TO REALIZE THAT JESUS ALREADY GAVE US A PLAN AND A
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STRATEGY, IT'S CALLED THE CHURCH. I BELIEVE THERE ARE 3
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PRIVILEGES, BASICALLY, OF BEING THE BRIDE. #1, AS PAUL BEGINS TO
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WRITE HE SAYS THIS IN EPHESIANS. WE JUST READ IT AT THE BEGINNING
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OF THE TALK, HE SAYS THIS, HE SAYS HUSBANDS LOVE YOUR WIVES
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LIKE CHRIST LOVED THE CHURCH. SEE, THE VERY FIRST PRIVILEGE WE
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HAVE OF BEING THE BRIDE OF CHRIST IS THIS WORD INTIMACY.
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EVERYONE SAY INTIMACY. THIS WORD INTIMACY. OUT OF ALL THINGS THAT
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THE WRITER COULD PULL ON, HE PULLS ON THIS METAPHOR OF A
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HUSBAND AND A WIFE. AND HE'S TRYING TO SHOW YOU AND I THAT
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CHRIST LOVED THE CHURCH LIKE A HUSBAND OUGHT TO LOVE HIS WIFE.
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THIS IS A VERY INTIMATE, DEEP PLACE. WHAT IF GOD IS SAYING TO
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US THAT, HEY, I WANT YOU TO KNOW ME IN A WAY THAT NOBODY ELSE
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KNOWS ME. WHAT IF GOD IS TELLING US, HE'S SAYING I WANT TO KNOW
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YOU IN A WAY THAT NOBODY ELSE KNOWS YOU. IN AN INTIMATE WAY.
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SEE, HOW MANY OF YOU KNOW THAT THIS IS METAPHOR. THIS IS NOT TO
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BE TAKEN LITERAL, BUT THIS IS METAPHOR, MEANING GOD IS TRYING
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TO FIND SOMETHING IN OUR CONTEXT THAT HE CAN USE FOR HIS LOVE FOR
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THE CHURCH TO BRING RESEMBLENCE TO OUR NATURAL LIVES. AND THE
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BEST THING HE CAN FIND IS THE WAY A HUSBAND AND A WIFE LOVE
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EACH OTHER. BECAUSE THE TRUTH OF THE MATTER IS, IS THAT YOU DATE
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THE PROJECTED SELF; YOU MARRY THE ACTUAL SELF. RIGHT? SOME OF
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YOU, YOU FOUND THIS OUT THE HARD WAY BECAUSE, LIKE, DATING WAS
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FUN. YAY! OH MY GOODNESS, GOOSE BUMPS! YAY! THEN IT WAS LIKE DAY
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7 OF MARRIAGE, YOU'RE LIKE, YO, PUT YOUR LIPSTICK BACK ON.
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[LAUGHTER] WHO ARE YOU? WHAT IN THE HECK? [LAUGHTER] BECAUSE
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MANY TIMES WE FALL IN LOVE WITH THE PROJECTED SELF, BUT WE DON'T
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ACTUALLY KNOW THE ACTUAL SELF. INTIMACY FORCES YOU TO KNOW THE
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REAL PERSON. INTIMACY. INTO ME SEE. I PRAY THAT OUR CHURCHES
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ARE NOT THESE PLACES THAT WE HAVE TO PUT MASKS ON. I PRAY
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THAT OUR CHURCHES ARE NOT THESE PLACES WE HAVE TO SUCK IN OUR
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GUT AND SPEAK IN CHRISTIANESE, AND PUT A PROJECTED SELF OUT
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THERE. I PRAY THAT OUR CHURCH IS A PLACE WHERE THE MASK CAN BE
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RIPPED OFF. WHERE WE CAN EXHALE FOR A MOMENT AND WE CAN BE REAL
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ABOUT WHERE WE ARE. WHY? BECAUSE GOD SAYS I WANT TO HAVE INTIMACY
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WITH MY CHURCH. COME ON, IF WE'RE GOING TO CLAP, LET'S JUST
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ALL CLAP TOGETHER. [APPLAUSE] INTO ME SEE. WHEN YOU RECOGNIZE
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THAT YOU'RE CALLED TO BE THE BRIDE OF CHRIST, THAT WE'RE TO
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GATHER FOR A PURPOSE, TO MINISTER TO GOD, MINISTER TO
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BELIEVERS, MINISTER TO THE WORLD, YOU REALIZE MY FIRST
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PRIVILEGE OF BEING A PART OF THE LOCAL CHURCH, BEING A PART OF A
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LOCAL CONGREGATION, IS THAT THERE'S THIS NEW LEVEL OF
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INTIMACY. BUT PAUL'S GOING TO CONTINUE AND PAUL'S GOING TO SAY
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HUSBANDS LOVE YOUR WIVES IN THE WAY THAT CHRIST LOVED THE CHURCH
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AND THAT HE GAVE HIMSELF UP FOR THE CHURCH SO THAT SHE MIGHT BE
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A SPOTLESS, WRINKLE FREE, BLEMISH FREE BRIDE. I THINK #1,
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HE WANTS INTIMACY, I THINK #2, IT'S FOR PROTECTION. BEING THE
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CHURCH IS FOR YOUR PROTECTION. AND SOME OF YOU NEED TO REALIZE
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TODAY IN THIS HOUSE THAT WHEN YOU STEP INTO THIS VOCATION,
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WHEN YOU STEP INTO THIS TITLE AS THE BRIDE OF JESUS CHRIST, I
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HOPE YOU KNOW THAT ONE DAY WHEN WE GET TO HEAVEN, YOU'RE GOING
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TO FIND OUT JUST HOW MANY DIFFERENT TIMES ALL THE SUDDEN
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THE ENEMY CAME TO YOUR HOUSE AND MEANT TO COME AND STEAL FROM YOU
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AND KILL FROM YOU AND DESTROY YOU. BUT ALL THE SUDDEN THE
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BRIDEGROOM, HIS NAME IS JESUS CHRIST, HE STEPPED IN THE GAP
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AND HE SAID I AM READY, I AM PREPARED TO DEFEND, TO PROTECT,
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BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY. MY CHURCH IS MY RESPONSIBILITY.
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[APPLAUSE] YOU SAY, RICH, THIS ISN'T THEOLOGICALLY CORRECT. YES
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IT IS. HOW DO I KNOW? BECAUSE WE SEE IN EPHESIANS 5 HE'S ALREADY
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DONE IT BEFORE. SAY, WHAT'CHA TALKING ABOUT? 2000 YEARS AGO
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THE BRIDEGROOM CAME FOR A BRIDE. AND THE BRIDEGROOM DIED ON A
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CROSS SO THAT YOU WOULDN'T HAVE TO. AND WHEN THE BRIDEGROOM
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DIED, GUESS WHAT? A HEDGE OF PROTECTION WAS PUT AROUND YOU,
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THAT THE WRATH OF GOD WOULD NOT FALL UPON YOU, BUT RATHER ALL OF
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HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS, IT WOULD FALL UPON YOU SO THAT WHEN GOD THE
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FATHER LOOKS AND SEES YOU, HIS BRIDE, HE SEES A WRINKLE,
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BLEMISH FREE BRIDE. WE SERVE A SAVIOR WHO'S ALREADY PROTECTED
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US. WE ARE HIS BRIDE. MAYBE TODAY YOU'RE GOING, YO THAT'S
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SCANDALOUS, AND THAT'S PROVOCATIVE. HOW ON EARTH COULD
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A PERFECT GOD DIE FOR A LOST, IMPERFECT WORLD? IT'S CALLED
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GRACE! AND IT'S SCANDALOUS. YOU EVER SEEN A COUPLE, AND I KNOW
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YOU'RE VERY SPIRITUAL, SO YOU'VE NEVER DONE THIS, BUT YOU EVER
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SEE A COUPLE, THEY WALK IN AND YOU DON'T JUDGE, BUT I DO
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SOMETIMES, [LAUGHTER] THEY WALK IN AND THAT GIRL'S WAY TOO
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PRETTY FOR THAT GUY. [LAUGHTER] YO! HOW'D YOU DO THAT? YOU GOT
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PRETTY FOR THAT GUY. [LAUGHTER] YO! HOW'D YOU DO THAT? YOU GOT
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PRETTY FOR THAT GUY. [LAUGHTER] YO! HOW'D YOU DO THAT? YOU GOT
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SOME MONEY, DON'T YOU? AH, I SEE YOU, PLAYER. [LAUGHTER] OR FLIP
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IT AROUND, THE GUY'S THIS STUD, AND THIS GIRL'S, HOW MANY OF YOU
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KNOW THAT WHEN THE WORLD LOOKS AT THE CHURCH, THAT'S WHAT WE
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LOOK LIKE. WE'RE ON THE ARM OF A SAVIOR, HIS NAME IS JESUS. AND
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WHEN WE WALK IN, GUESS WHAT, THE WORLD ARE DUMBFOUNDED, SAYING I
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KNOW RICH WILKERSON, JR. HE'S NOT THAT TALENTED. HE'S NOT THAT
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QUALIFIED. HE SHOULD NEVER BE ON THAT PLATFORM. BUT WHAT THEY
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HAVE FORGOTTEN IS THIS THING CALLED GRACE; THAT MY SAVIOR
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CAME, PICKED ME, CHOSE ME, PUT ME ON HIS ARM AND SAID, GUESS
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WHAT, I'VE GOT THEM COVERED. THEY ARE PROTECTED. THAT'S MY
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BRIDE. THE CHURCH. COME ON, IF YOU'RE THANKFUL FOR GRACE,
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SOMEBODY GIVE GOD A SHOUT OF PRAISE OVER THIS HOUSE!
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[APPLAUSE] HALLELUJAH! [APPLAUSE] WE'RE NOT JUST CALLED
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TO DO CHURCH THINGS! WE'RE NOT JUST CALLED TO FILL THEATRES AND
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GET EXCITED ABOUT COOL COMMUNICATORS AND COOL MUSIC AND
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GREAT LIGHTS. WE'RE CALLED TO BE THE CHURCH, TO MINISTER TO GOD,
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AND MINISTER TO BELIEVERS AND TAKE LIGHT INTO DARK SPACES. I
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FELT LIKE IT WAS MY MANDATE TO COME INSPIRE SOME PEOPLE THAT
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LOVE JESUS BUT YOU'VE KIND OF BECOME THE RUNAWAY BRIDE, THAT
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YOU'RE KIND OF RETREATING, YOU'RE KIND OF RUNNING. AND YOU
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CAN LISTEN TO THE PODCAST, AND YOU BUY THE BOOK, BUT FOR SOME
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REASON THE COMMUNITY AND THE GATHERING, YOU'VE LOST IT THAT
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WE'RE CALLED TO BE THE CHURCH. THAT ONE DAY WHEN VOUS CHURCH IS
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GONE, AND ONE DAY WHEN MOSAIC IS GONE, IF JESUS HASN'T RETURNED,
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THE CHURCH WILL STILL STAND. YOU NEED TO KNOW YOUR PRIVILEGES,
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THAT YOU HAVE INTIMACY WITH GOD, THAT YOU ARE PROTECTED BY JESUS,
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THAT WHEN THE WORLD LOOKS AT US THEY GO, WOW, HOW ON EARTH DID
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THEY END UP ON THE ARM OF A SAVIOR LIKE JESUS. BECAUSE HE
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PICKED ME. BECAUSE HE CHOSE ME. BECAUSE HIS GRACE IS SUFFICIENT
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FOR ME. [APPLAUSE] BUT THIRDLY, APOSTLE PAUL SAYS THAT A HUSBAND
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TAKES HIS WIFE AND THEY BECOME ONE FLESH. HE SAYS THIS IS A
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PROFOUND MYSTERY, BUT I'M TALKING ABOUT CHRIST AND THE
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CHURCH. I THINK THE THIRD THING THAT YOU HAVE TO UNDERSTAND AS
00:26:02.070 --> 00:26:05.210
WE WALK OUT OF HERE TODAY IS THAT YOU HAVE RIGHTS. YOU HAVE
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RIGHTS. YOU HAVE BEEN UNITED WITH CHRIST. YOU ARE NOW JOINT
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HEIRS WITH JESUS. AND TODAY WHEN YOU BEHAVE AND YOU GATHER AS THE
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CHURCH, WE, TOGETHER, HAVE RIGHTS BECAUSE WE'VE BEEN UNITED
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AS ONE FLESH WITH JESUS. MY FIRST YEAR OF MARRIAGE,
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DAWNCHERE', WE GOT MARRIED YOUNG; THAT'S WHAT CHRISTIANS
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DO-22 & 21. JUST COULDN'T WAIT, YOU KNOW. JUST HAD TO GET THERE.
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[LAUGHTER] PRAISE GOD! I'LL NEVER FORGET IT. WE MOVED INTO
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THIS LITTLE, TINY HOUSE IN TENNESSEE. WE WERE STILL IN
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BIBLE COLLEGE. AND WE WERE MAKING ALL THE TRANSFERS. SHE
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WAS GETTING TRANSFERRED OVER. HER NAME WHEN I MET HER WAS
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DAWNCHERE' LINAY DURON. BUT WHEN I MARRIED HER SHE BECAME
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DAWNCHERE' DURON WILKERSON. I REMEMBER ONE DAY I WAS IN THE
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KITCHEN AND SHE WAS IN THE FAMILY ROOM. SHE WAS ON THE
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PHONE; I THINK SHE WAS TALKING TO COMCAST, THE CABLE CARRIER.
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AND SHE WAS WORKING ON PAYING THE BILL OR UPGRADING THE
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PROVIDER AND AS SHE WAS TALKING THE ACCOUNT WAS UNDER MY NAME.
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AND SO THE PERSON ON THE OTHER END OF THE PHONE WAS DEMANDING
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THAT THEY SPEAK TO ME. AND I COULD HERE DAWNCHERE' IN THE
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ROOM, AND IF YOU MET MY WIFE YOU WOULD LOVE HER, SHE'S, LIKE, GOT
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THIS HIGH, BEAUTIFUL VOICE. HEY, Y'ALL HOW'RE DOING? AND SHE'S
00:27:26.030 --> 00:27:29.020
VERY, VERY GRACIOUS. BUT SOMEWHERE IN THE CONVERSATION,
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I'M JUST KIND OF DOING STUFF IN THE KITCHEN, SHE SAID EXCUSE ME,
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EXCUSE ME, AH, EXCUSE ME, YOU ARE SPEAKING TO MRS. WILKERSON.
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I SAID, DANG, GIRL. [LAUGHTER] I SAID, THAT'LL PREACH! SHE SAID,
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EXCUSE ME, YOU ARE SPEAKING TO MRS. WILKERSON. YOU DON'T NEED
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TO TALK TO MY HUSBAND, YOU'RE TALKING TO ME AND I HAVE EVERY
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RIGHT, AND I HAVE EVERY ABILITY TO UPGRADE THE SERVICE WITH THE
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CABLE COMPANY BECAUSE I CARRY HIS NAME. HOW MANY OF YOU KNOW
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THAT WHEN SHE TOOK ON MY NAME, YES, SHE TOOK ON THE BURDENS OF
00:28:06.260 --> 00:28:09.210
MY NAME, BUT SHE ALSO STEPPED INTO THE PRIVILEGE, SHE STEPPED
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INTO THE BLESSING, SHE STEPPED INTO THE RIGHTS OF CARRYING THE
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NAME WILKERSON. AND I WANT TO TELL SOME PEOPLE TODAY THAT WHEN
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YOU PUT YOUR TRUST IN JESUS, AND WHEN WE COME TOGETHER AND WE SAY
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I KNOW THE CHURCH ISN'T PEFRECT, AND I KNOW THE CHURCH IS FULL OF
00:28:23.010 --> 00:28:26.060
HYPOCRITES. WHY IS IT FULL OF HYPOCRITES? BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE
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HYPOCRITES. AND WHY IS THE CHURCH FULL OF HYPOCRITES?
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BECAUSE CHURCH IS FULL OF PEOPLE. IF YOU WANT A CHURCH
00:28:31.140 --> 00:28:33.220
THAT DOESN'T HAVE HYPOCRITES, YOU'VE GOT TO FIND A CHURCH THAT
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DOESN'T HAVE PEOPLE. IF YOU FIND A CHURCH WITHOUT PEOPLE, YOU
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DON'T HAVE A CHURCH. [LAUGHTER] BUT I'M LOOKING FOR SOME PEOPLE
00:28:37.230 --> 00:28:44.010
WHO RECOGNIZE, WOW, I'VE PUT MY TRUST IN JESUS. I STILL BELIEVE
00:28:44.020 --> 00:28:48.040
IN BEING THE BRIDE. AND WHEN I BELIEVE IN BEING THE BRIDE,
00:28:48.050 --> 00:28:51.290
GUESS WHAT? I TAKE ON A NEW NAME. IT'S THE NAME OF JESUS
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CHRIST. I'VE DIED WITH HIM SO I'VE SHARED IN HIS SUFFERING.
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BUT I HAVE RESURRECTED WITH HIM SO NOW I CAN SHARE IN HIS GLORY.
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I HAVE RIGHTS. I HAVE PRIVILEGES. I CAN COME BOLDLY
00:29:04.060 --> 00:29:07.080
BEFORE THE THRONE OF GOD AND KNOW HE DOESN'T JUST HEAR ME, HE
00:29:07.090 --> 00:29:11.120
ANSWERS ME. COME ON, IF YOU BELIEVE THAT TODAY, SOMEBODY
00:29:11.130 --> 00:29:15.170
GIVE GOD A SHOUT OF PRAISE ALL OVER THIS HOUSE. [APPLAUSE] COME
00:29:15.180 --> 00:29:19.090
ON, GIVE GOD A SHOUT OF PRAISE OVER THIS HOUSE! COME ON, STAND
00:29:19.100 --> 00:29:22.050
TO YOUR FEET! HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU JESUS! LAST NIGHT ERWIN WAS
00:29:22.060 --> 00:29:29.070
TALKING ABOUT SPEAKING TO THE WIND. THE ONLY REASON WHY YOU
00:29:29.080 --> 00:29:31.290
CAN SPEAK TO THE WIND AND THE WIND OBEYS YOU, IS BECAUSE YOU
00:29:32.000 --> 00:29:35.010
HAVE RIGHTS BECAUSE OF JESUS. BECAUSE YOU'RE THE BRIDE OF
00:29:35.020 --> 00:29:38.110
CHRIST. NO MORE REASON TO RUN AWAY. IT'S NOT A SEASON TO
00:29:38.120 --> 00:29:41.200
RETREAT. IT IS A SEASON FOR THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST TO RISE
00:29:41.210 --> 00:29:46.170
UP, TO INFILTRATE, AND RECOGNIZE WE ARE BIEING CALLED TO BE A
00:29:46.180 --> 00:29:49.260
VOICE IN THE WILDERNESS; THAT WE ARE BEACON OF LIGHT IN A DARK,
00:29:49.270 --> 00:29:53.080
DARK WORLD. WE ARE THE CHURCH.
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[MUSIC]
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MATT CROUCH: MOSAIC CONFERENCE 2016 BRIAN HOUSTON.
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WHAT IS THE CONNECTION? HOW DID
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HE FORM AND FIT INTO MOSAIC STYLE? ERWIN MCMANUS: I INVITED
00:30:05.160 --> 00:30:09.260
BRIAN HOUSTON BECAUSE I WANT OUR CHURCH TO UNDERSTAND WE
00:30:09.270 --> 00:30:12.190
CELEBRATE HILLSONG. I WANT THE CHURCH ACROSS THE WORLD TO BE
00:30:12.200 --> 00:30:16.070
ABLE TO SAY WE CAN ADMIRE AND LOVE WHAT GOD'S DOING AT MOSAIC
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AND WE CAN ADMIRE WHAT GOD IS DOING AT HILLSONG. WE ARE NOT IN
00:30:19.160 --> 00:30:22.080
COMPETITION WITH EACH OTHER. WE'RE ON THE SAME TEAM. YOU
00:30:22.090 --> 00:30:25.160
KNOW? IF YOU HAVE A QUARTERBACK AND WIDE RECEIVER AND A RUNNING
00:30:25.170 --> 00:30:28.210
BACK, YOU NEED TO REALIZE YOU'RE WEARING THE SAME JERSEY. THIS IS
00:30:28.220 --> 00:30:33.110
NOT MY TEAM. AND THIS IS NOT BRIAN HOUSTON'S TEAM. IT'S NOT
00:30:33.120 --> 00:30:38.080
JUDAS SMITH'S TEAM. THIS IS JESUS' TEAM. AND WE ARE ALL
00:30:38.090 --> 00:30:41.200
DIFFERENT PLAYERS ON HIS TEAM. AND I WAS HONORED TO HAVE PASTOR
00:30:41.210 --> 00:30:46.090
BRIAN, AND I'M LIKE, IF HE WILL TAKE THE RISK OF INVITING ME. DO
00:30:46.100 --> 00:30:51.050
YOU KNOW HOW RISKY IT IS TO INVITE ME TO SPEAK AT A
00:30:51.060 --> 00:30:53.060
CONFERENCE? AND I MEAN, I KNOW I'M GOING TO SAY SOMETHING THAT
00:30:53.070 --> 00:30:59.070
OFFENDS EVERYONE IN THE ROOM. I DON'T EVEN KNOW IF I WOULD
00:30:59.080 --> 00:31:01.280
INVITE ME. AND I'M GOING IF HILLSONG WOULD BE SO GRACIOUS,
00:31:01.290 --> 00:31:06.070
LET ME TELL YOU, NOONE HAS EVER TREATED ME KINDER THAN HILLSONG,
00:31:06.080 --> 00:31:09.000
NOONE HAS TREATED WITH ME WITH MORE HONOR AND MORE RESPECT.
00:31:09.010 --> 00:31:13.270
THEY ARE SO INCREDIBLY GENEROUS. THERE IS SO MUCH ABOUT HILLSONG
00:31:13.280 --> 00:31:18.250
THAT I WOULD LOVE FOR US TO BECOME MORE LIKE. AND THERE SO
00:31:18.260 --> 00:31:23.000
MUCH ABOUT CITY CHURCH, AND I MEAN, I ALWAYS SAY LATINOS ARE
00:31:23.010 --> 00:31:30.120
UNIQUE BECAUSE WE MARRY PEOPLE OF EVERY ETHNICITY. I ALWAYS SAY
00:31:30.130 --> 00:31:35.060
LATINOS THINK EVERYONE'S BEAUTIFUL. YOU KNOW? THERE ARE
00:31:35.070 --> 00:31:38.070
CERTAIN PEOPLE, THEY ONLY WANT TO MARRY THEIR OWN PEOPLE.
00:31:38.080 --> 00:31:39.280
LATINOS, WE'RE LIKE, BRINGING THE WHOLE WORLD TOGETHER. AND
00:31:39.290 --> 00:31:43.270
THAT'S WHY YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT A HISPANIC IS. [LAUGHTER] AND I
00:31:43.280 --> 00:31:47.130
THINK THE CHURCH SHOULD BE LIKE THAT. WE SHOULD CELEBRATE WHAT
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GOD'S DOING IN OUR PLACE AND CELEBRATE WHAT GOD IS DOING
00:31:50.090 --> 00:31:52.130
EVERYWHERE ELSE. -IT'S MOSAIC CONFERENCE. BACK TO MAINSTAGE.
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[MUSIC]
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BRIAN HOUSTON: CEILINGS AND FLOORS! THAT'S WHAT I WANT
00:31:59.200 --> 00:32:02.140
TO TALK ABOUT, CEILINGS AND FLOORS. I WANT TO TALK ABOUT
00:32:02.150 --> 00:32:05.120
FATHERS AND SONS. YOU SEE, THE SCRIPTURE SAYS INSTEAD OF YOUR
00:32:05.130 --> 00:32:10.160
FATHERS WILL BE THE SONS AND THEY WILL BE PRINCES IN THE
00:32:10.170 --> 00:32:14.090
LAND. IN PSALM 45:16 IT SAYS INSTEAD OF YOUR FATHERS SHALL BE
00:32:14.100 --> 00:32:19.180
YOUR SONS, WHOM YOU SHALL MAKE PRINCES IN ALL THE EARTH. I WILL
00:32:19.190 --> 00:32:24.220
MAKE YOUR NAME TO BE REMEMERED IN ALL GENERATIONS, THEREFORE,
00:32:24.230 --> 00:32:28.240
THE PEOPLE SHALL PRAISE YOU FOREVER AND EVER. IN THE MESSAGE
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TRANSLATION IT SAYS, SET YOUR MIND NOW ON SONS. DON'T DOTE ON
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FATHER AND GRANDFATHER. YOU'LL SET YOUR SONS UP AS PRINCES ALL
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OVER THE EARTH. I'LL MAKE YOU FAMOUS FOR GENERATIONS. YOU'LL
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BE THE TALK OF THE TOWN FOR A LONG, LONG TIME. IT'S A
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MESSIANIC PSALM THAT POINTS TO JESUS, BUT IT'S ALSO A PSALM
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THAT INSPIRES ME AS A FATHER. I ALREADY MENTIONED I'M 62. IF YOU
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WOULD ASK ME, HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE SUCCESS, SEEING
00:33:06.020 --> 00:33:13.190
YOURSELF AS A SUCCESS? I THINK WAY UP THERE WOULD BE THAT I SET
00:33:13.200 --> 00:33:19.030
A PLATFORM FOR ANOTHER GENERATION TO WIN. I WOULD FEEL
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LIKE IF I FAILED TO SET UP ANOTHER GENERATION TO WIN, GIVE
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THEM A PLATFORM, THAT I'VE MISSED MY CALLING. YOU SEE, I
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WANT TO LIVE MY LIFE SO THAT MY CEILING BECOMES ANOTHER
00:33:35.220 --> 00:33:41.190
GENERATION'S FLOOR. I BELIEVE THAT'S WHAT WE'RE HERE FOR.
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[APPLAUSE] THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS GENERATIONAL. YOU KNOW ABRAHAM,
00:33:46.010 --> 00:33:50.070
ISAAC, JACOB. OR ABRAHAM, DAVID, JESUS. THE KINGDOM IS
00:33:50.080 --> 00:33:55.200
GENERATIONAL. I'M WIRED. I GET SO MUCH FULFILLMENT OUT OF
00:33:55.210 --> 00:34:01.180
WATCHING YOUNG LEADERS, YOUNG PASTORS PROSPER AND FLOURISH
00:34:01.190 --> 00:34:06.120
BECAUSE I FEEL LIKE IT'S A CALLING ON MY LIFE. SO I WANT TO
00:34:06.130 --> 00:34:09.280
TALK TO YOU ABOUT MY CEILING BEING ANOTHER GENERATION'S
00:34:09.290 --> 00:34:14.240
FLOOR. WHAT A GREAT WAY TO LIVE OUR LIFE. DO YOU KNOW SOLOMON,
00:34:14.250 --> 00:34:18.100
AT HIS WORST, THE BOOK OF ECCLESIASTES, HE WAS PRETTY WELL
00:34:18.110 --> 00:34:21.270
BACKSLIDDEN. AND AT HIS WORST, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT HE SAW AS
00:34:21.280 --> 00:34:26.100
EMPTINESS AND FUTILITY WAS THAT ALL HIS LABOR, ALL HIS WORK WAS
00:34:26.110 --> 00:34:30.100
JUST GOING TO BE ENJOYED BY SOMEBODY ELSE. WHEREAS TO ME
00:34:30.110 --> 00:34:35.130
THAT'S WHAT SERVING JESUS IS ALL ABOUT; WHO KNOWS WHEN JESUS IS
00:34:35.140 --> 00:34:39.100
COMING AGAIN. BUT THINK ABOUT THE FUTURE, THE THINGS NOT YET
00:34:39.110 --> 00:34:43.230
SEEN. I HAVE NOT SEEN, NOR YET HEARD, NEITHER HAS IT ENTERED
00:34:43.240 --> 00:34:49.220
INTO THE HEART OF MAN JUST EXACTLY WHAT GREAT THINGS GOD
00:34:49.230 --> 00:34:53.290
HAS IN STORE FOR THOSE WHO LOVE HIM. THOSE VERSES GO AND SAY WE
00:34:54.000 --> 00:34:59.060
CAN KNOW BY THE SPIRIT OF GOD. SO WE NOW, YES, WE'RE LOVING
00:34:59.070 --> 00:35:05.030
JESUS, WE'RE ENJOYING LIFE, WE'RE HAVING A GREAT CONFERENCE,
00:35:05.040 --> 00:35:07.260
BUT THINK ABOUT WHAT IT'S ACTUALLY ESTABLISHING FOR DAYS
00:35:07.270 --> 00:35:11.230
TO COME. THINK ABOUT THE FACT THAT AROUND THE WORLD PEOPLE SAY
00:35:11.240 --> 00:35:14.080
THE CHURCH IS DECLINING. BUT CHURCHES LIKE THIS CHURCH ARE
00:35:14.090 --> 00:35:17.080
ABSOLUTELY DEFYING THE ODDS AND MAKING HISTORY AND DOING IN L.A.
00:35:17.090 --> 00:35:24.260
DOWNTOWN IN THE ACE THEATRE WHAT PEOPLE THOUGHT COULD NEVER BE
00:35:24.270 --> 00:35:28.120
DONE. TO ME, THAT'S PRETTY EXCITING. SO YOU KNOW WHAT IT
00:35:28.130 --> 00:35:32.070
SAYS, PSALM 45:4, ONE GENERATION SHALL PRAISE YOUR WORKS TO
00:35:32.080 --> 00:35:36.210
ANOTHER AND DECLARE YOUR MIGHTY ACTS. TO ME, THAT'S WHAT IT'S
00:35:36.220 --> 00:35:40.280
ALL ABOUT. AND SO IT SAYS INSTEAD OF FATHERS SHALL BE YOUR
00:35:40.290 --> 00:35:45.230
SONS. I THINK ABOUT FATHERS, I THINK ABOUT SONS. FATHERS, IF
00:35:45.240 --> 00:35:51.000
YOU LOOK AT IT IN A SPIRITUAL SENSE, I KNOW THERE'S A LOT OF
00:35:51.010 --> 00:35:54.010
UNRELIABLE FATHERS, BUT IF YOU THINK OF IT SPIRITUALLY, FATHERS
00:35:54.020 --> 00:35:57.150
ARE SEASONED, THEY'RE EXPERIENCED. IN THAT SENSE,
00:35:57.160 --> 00:36:02.000
THEY'RE PREDICTABLE. THEY'RE PROVEN. THEY'RE TRIED. THEY'RE
00:36:02.010 --> 00:36:05.250
TESTED. THAT'S FATHERS. THEY, IF YOU LIKE, REPRESENT THE STATUS
00:36:05.260 --> 00:36:11.040
QUO. THEY'RE SAFE. BUT IF YOU THINK OF SONS, AND BY SONS,
00:36:11.050 --> 00:36:15.230
OBVIOUSLY, I MEAN, SONS AND DAUGHTERS. IT JUST TALKS ABOUT
00:36:15.240 --> 00:36:19.050
PRINCES IN THE LAND; PRINCESSES IN THE LAND KIND OF SOUNDS TO ME
00:36:19.060 --> 00:36:22.270
LIKE A DISNEY MOVIE, SO WE'LL USE THE ROYAL SONS. [LAUGHTER]
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SONS, UNPROVEN, UNKNOWING, UNTRIED, UNINITIATED. THEY
00:36:28.010 --> 00:36:32.290
REPRESENT A RISK. BUT VERSE 16 SAYS WE'RE CALLED TO BE PRINCE
00:36:33.000 --> 00:36:38.170
MAKERS AND VERSE 17 SAYS THAT WE'RE TO TAKE JESUS TO THE
00:36:38.180 --> 00:36:43.130
GENERATIONS BY MAKING PRINCES IN THE LAND. AND THAT'S THE
00:36:43.140 --> 00:36:47.080
LIFEBLOOD OF THE FUTURE OF THE CHURCH. Y'ALL GOOD? EVERYONE
00:36:47.090 --> 00:36:51.260
GOOD? UP THERE, YOU GOOD? SO WITH ALL THAT IN MIND, I THINK
00:36:51.270 --> 00:36:57.080
WE MUST HONOR FATHERS, WE LOVE THE FATHERS. WE HONOR FATHERS.
00:36:57.090 --> 00:37:03.140
WE RECOGNIZE FATHERS. I THINK WE NEED SILVER HAIR IN THE CHURCH.
00:37:03.150 --> 00:37:08.080
GODLY WISDOM AND EXPERIENCE AND THAT SEASONED WISDOM THAT
00:37:08.090 --> 00:37:16.180
FATHER'S HAVE. I THINK WE NEED FATHERS. WE DEFINITELY NEED WHAT
00:37:16.190 --> 00:37:22.220
THEY CAN OFFER US, BUT WE'VE GOT TO LIVE FOR TODAY, BUILD FOR
00:37:22.230 --> 00:37:29.160
TOMORROW. WE HONOR THE PAST. WE LIVE FOR TODAY. AND WE BUILD FOR
00:37:29.170 --> 00:37:35.210
TOMORROW. AND THAT, TO ME, IS WHAT THE KINGDOM IS ALL ABOUT.
00:37:35.220 --> 00:37:38.250
AND THAT'S WHAT, ACTUALLY, SWITCHES ME ON AS A LEADER AND
00:37:38.260 --> 00:37:42.110
AS A PASTOR; SETTING UP, BEING INTENTIONAL ABOUT SETTING UP
00:37:42.120 --> 00:37:46.070
ANOTHER GENERATION TO WIN. PEOPLE KNOW HILLSONG FOR THE
00:37:46.080 --> 00:37:49.080
WORSHIP. SO ANYONE WHO KNOWS HILLSONG WOULD KNOW THAT WE'VE
00:37:49.090 --> 00:37:52.190
KIND OF HAD A LONG HISTORY OF PRAISE AND WORSHIP MUSIC THAT'S
00:37:52.200 --> 00:37:56.070
GONE THROUGH VARIOUS GENERATIONS OF PEOPLE. AND SO WHEN MAYBE ONE
00:37:56.080 --> 00:38:01.150
OF THOSE PEOPLE, THAT SEASON CAME TO AN END, PEOPLE THOUGHT
00:38:01.160 --> 00:38:04.190
WELL, MAYBE THIS IS OVER NOW. LIKE, WHAT'S GOING GO HAPPEN
00:38:04.200 --> 00:38:07.210
NOW? AND SO EVEN MORE RECENTLY DARLENE ZSCHECH, SOME OF YOU
00:38:07.220 --> 00:38:11.040
WOULD KNOW, AN AMAZING, AMAZING WORSHIP LEADER AND SINGER AND
00:38:11.050 --> 00:38:13.290
BEAUTIFUL PERSON. SHE AND HER HUSBAND, THEY WENT TO PASTOR
00:38:14.000 --> 00:38:18.140
ANOTHER CHURCH, AND SO WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN NOW? AND THEN
00:38:18.150 --> 00:38:22.240
HILLSONG UNITED AND YOUNG AND FREE AND OTHERS COME, BUT IT'S
00:38:22.250 --> 00:38:26.090
NOT A COINCIDENCE. IT'S NOT A COINCIDENCE THAT TODAY WE'RE
00:38:26.100 --> 00:38:31.290
SELLING MORE PRAISE AND WORSHIP ALBUMS, AND GOT A GREATER
00:38:32.000 --> 00:38:36.130
INFLUENCE, AND REACHING MORE CONTINENTS THAN EVER BEFORE.
00:38:36.140 --> 00:38:39.120
BECAUSE INSTEAD OF YOUR FATHERS SHALL BE YOUR SONS. AND IF WE
00:38:39.130 --> 00:38:43.170
ALL THINK THAT WAY, IF WE ALL THINK ABOUT BUILDING FOR THE
00:38:43.180 --> 00:38:47.130
FUTURE, THEN THE FUTURE OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST IS IN
00:38:47.140 --> 00:38:51.250
GOOD HANDS. AND THAT'S WHY I WANT TO LIVE MY LIFE THAT WAY.
00:38:51.260 --> 00:38:55.280
[APPLAUSE] BUT LISTEN TO WHAT THE VERSE SAYS HERE, IT PSALM
00:38:55.290 --> 00:39:00.240
92:13-14, IT SAYS THOSE WHO ARE PLANTED IN THE HOUSE OF THE LORD
00:39:00.250 --> 00:39:06.180
SHALL FLOURISH IN THE COURST OF OUR GOD. US PASTORS LOVE THAT
00:39:06.190 --> 00:39:10.090
PART; THAT IF YOU PLANT YOURSELF IN GOD'S HOUSE, YOU'RE GOING TO
00:39:10.100 --> 00:39:13.180
FLOURISH. BUT THE NEXT VERSE IS THE ONE I WANT YOU TO THINK
00:39:13.190 --> 00:39:16.260
ABOUT. IT SAYS THEY SHALL STILL BEAR FRUIT IN OLD AGE. THEY
00:39:16.270 --> 00:39:22.020
SHALL BE FRESH AND FLOURISHING. THEY SHALL STILL BEAR FRUIT IN
00:39:22.030 --> 00:39:25.120
OLD AGE. IN OTHER WORDS, YOU NEVER, EVER HAVE TO GRADUATE
00:39:25.130 --> 00:39:29.170
FROM BEING EFFECTIVE; FROM BEING FRESH AND FLOURISHING. BUT ONE
00:39:29.180 --> 00:39:34.060
OF THE THINGS THAT KEEPS YOU FRESH AND FLOURISHING AND
00:39:34.070 --> 00:39:37.130
BEARING FRUIT IS THINKING GENERATIONALLY. AND ALWAYS BEING
00:39:37.140 --> 00:39:42.080
COMMITTED TO PRESSING THINGS YOUNGER; BEING INTENTIONAL ABOUT
00:39:42.090 --> 00:39:45.210
IT. THERE'S NOTHING SADDER THAN SEEING THE GRAYING OF THE
00:39:45.220 --> 00:39:49.230
CHURCH. IN OTHER WORDS, I'VE GOT NO PROBLEM WITH GRAY HAIR, I'M
00:39:49.240 --> 00:39:53.230
ON MY WAY, WELL AND TRULY, BUT WHEN YOU'VE GOT A CHURCH THAT'S
00:39:53.240 --> 00:39:59.240
JUST A MEMORY, OR A REMINDER OF BETTER DAYS, A DIFFERENT TIME,
00:39:59.250 --> 00:40:06.180
THEN, TO ME, THAT IS A TRAGEDY. I REALLY DO. I WANT TO BE THE
00:40:06.190 --> 00:40:11.220
OLD HAPPY GUY. I DON'T WANT TO BE THE OLD CYNICAL GUY. I DON'T
00:40:11.230 --> 00:40:15.210
WANT TO BE THE OLD PASTOR WHO'S LIKE, OH, THE YOUNG PEOPLE OF
00:40:15.220 --> 00:40:18.260
TODAY ARE NOT LIKE MY DAY. AH, THESE NEW SONGS THEY'RE DOING,
00:40:18.270 --> 00:40:23.020
THEY'RE SO FAST YOU CAN'T EVEN SING ALONG. I DON'T WANT TO BE
00:40:23.030 --> 00:40:25.240
THAT GUY. I WANT TO BE TH E HAPPY OLD PASTOR. [LAUGHTER] I
00:40:25.250 --> 00:40:30.030
WANT TO BE THE GUY LIFTING EVERYONE UP, AND BUILDING THEM
00:40:30.040 --> 00:40:32.160
UP, AND ENCOURAGING THEM, AND CLAPPING THEM ON. THAT'S WHAT I
00:40:32.170 --> 00:40:36.070
WANT TO BE! I WANT TO BE STILL BEARING FRUIT IN OLD AGE. I WANT
00:40:36.080 --> 00:40:40.230
TO BE FRESH AND FLOURISHING. AND SO THE WHOLE THING IS, YOU CAN'T
00:40:40.240 --> 00:40:45.050
JUST BOX CHURCH. YOU CAN'T JUST MAKE IT PREDICTABLE AND PROVEN
00:40:45.060 --> 00:40:51.090
AND TRIED AND DISTANT. THE WHOLE THING ABOUT THE KINGDOM IS IT'S
00:40:51.100 --> 00:40:55.270
UNTRIED, IT'S UNPROVEN. GOD'S ALWAYS MOVING. IT'S AN ADVENTURE
00:40:55.280 --> 00:41:00.130
SERVING JESUS. YOU CAN'T BOX IT. YOU CAN'T BOX WHAT GOD'S GOING
00:41:00.140 --> 00:41:05.200
TO DO. TOMORROW HERE AT MOSAIC CHURCH, YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES THE
00:41:05.210 --> 00:41:09.260
PROGRAM IS ONLY GOOD FOR ONE THING, IGNORING. [LAUGHTER]
00:41:09.270 --> 00:41:15.000
JESUS WAS RANDOM. YOU THINK ABOUT THE DISCIPLES WITH JESUS,
00:41:15.010 --> 00:41:19.140
YOU TALK ABOUT NEVER KNOWING WHAT A DAY WILL BRING FORTH, I
00:41:19.150 --> 00:41:23.240
MEAN, JESUS WAS RANDOM, SPONTANEOUS. YOU JUST DIDN'T
00:41:23.250 --> 00:41:27.080
KNOW. I THINK OF ONE STORY I WAS READING, JOHN 4 WHERE JESUS
00:41:27.090 --> 00:41:32.060
TURNS UP AT THE WELL AND THERE'S A WOMAN THERE AND SHE'S GETTING
00:41:32.070 --> 00:41:35.170
WATER, DRAWING WATER. SO HE ASKS FOR WATER AND THEN SHE'S GETTING
00:41:35.180 --> 00:41:39.220
HIM WATER. THEN HE STARTS TALKING ABOUT A DIFFERENT TYPE
00:41:39.230 --> 00:41:42.050
OF WATER. AND THEN HE'S TELLING HER ABOUT HER PERSONAL LIFE;
00:41:42.060 --> 00:41:45.070
THINGS HE COULDN'T POSSIBLY KNOW. AND HER CRAZY WORLD, HE'S
00:41:45.080 --> 00:41:48.200
REVEALING IT TO HER. AND SO THEN HE'S TALKING ABOUT NEVER
00:41:48.210 --> 00:41:51.290
THIRSTING AGAIN, A DIFFERENT TYPE OF WATER. AND SHE'S
00:41:52.000 --> 00:41:54.180
SUDDENLY GETTING TO THE POINT WHERE SHE REALIZES THIS IS THE
00:41:54.190 --> 00:41:57.080
MESSIAH BUT AT THE SAME TIME HIS DISCIPLES COME BACK WITH FOOD,
00:41:57.090 --> 00:42:01.100
BUT HE SAYS MY FOOD. AND THEY'RE THINKING, WELL, WHERE DID YOU
00:42:01.110 --> 00:42:04.220
GET FOOD? BECAUSE HE DIDN'T HAVE FOOD. HE SAYS MY FOOD IS TO DO
00:42:04.230 --> 00:42:07.240
THE WILL OF THE FATHER. SO HE'S TALKING ABOUT AN ENTIRELY
00:42:07.250 --> 00:42:11.030
DIFFERENT TYPE OF FOOD. AND BEFORE YOU KNOW IT, NOW HE
00:42:11.040 --> 00:42:13.260
SWITCHES AND HE'S TALKING ABOUT FIELDS AND HARVESTS. AND HE SAYS
00:42:13.270 --> 00:42:17.010
LIFT UP YOUR EYES, SEE THE HARVEST. I MEAN, JESUS IS
00:42:17.020 --> 00:42:20.170
RANDOM. IF YOU THINK THE DISCIPLES GOT UP IN THE MORNING
00:42:20.180 --> 00:42:23.150
AND THOUGHT, WELL, WE'LL GOT TO THE 9 O'CLOCK SERVICE, THEN THE
00:42:23.160 --> 00:42:26.060
11 O'CLOCK SERVICE; THAT'S NOT THE WAY IT WAS WITH JESUS. I
00:42:26.070 --> 00:42:30.010
MEAN, HE WAS UNPREDICTABLE. AND THAT'S WHY IF WE WANT, TRULY, TO
00:42:30.020 --> 00:42:34.110
SEE YOUNG PEOPLE RELEASED, THEN WE CAN'T PROGRAM THE HOLY SPIRIT
00:42:34.120 --> 00:42:39.030
OUT OF THINGS, AND WE'VE GOT TO TRULY TRUST THE UNTRIED, THE
00:42:39.040 --> 00:42:43.090
UNPROVEN, THE UNTESTED, THE UNPREDICTABLE, THE UNINITIATED.
00:42:43.100 --> 00:42:48.230
THAT'S THE WAY WE HAVE TO LIVE OUR LIVES. YOU KNOW, A LOT OF
00:42:48.240 --> 00:42:52.290
PEOPLE, THEY LOVE BEING SAFE. THEY DON'T LIKE SURPRISES. ARE
00:42:53.000 --> 00:42:57.150
YOU ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE WHO DOESN'T LIKE SURPRISES? THEY
00:42:57.160 --> 00:43:00.130
WANT TO KNOW. THEY DON'T LIKE SURPRISE. THEY WANT TO FEEL
00:43:00.140 --> 00:43:04.030
SAFE. THEY WANT TO FEEL COMFORTABLE. THEY DON'T WANT TO
00:43:04.040 --> 00:43:07.130
BE DISTURBED OR HAVE THEIR COMFORT DISTURBED AND THEY WANT
00:43:07.140 --> 00:43:10.280
TO BE IN CONTROL. AND SO IF YOU'RE IN CONTROL YOU KNOW
00:43:10.290 --> 00:43:14.060
WHAT'S COMING. AND SO WHAT WE DO IS WE KIND OF ALLOW THE CHURCH
00:43:14.070 --> 00:43:19.100
TO BECOME THIS TRIED, PROVEN, PREDICTABLE THING THAT I DON'T
00:43:19.110 --> 00:43:25.040
THINK JESUS EVER INTENDED FOR HIS CHURCH TO BE. AND SO I WOULD
00:43:25.050 --> 00:43:28.150
ENCOURAGE YOU TO UNDERSTAND THAT, FIRSTLY, PEOPLE LOVE THE
00:43:28.160 --> 00:43:33.060
PULL TO THE PREDICTABLE. THINK ABOUT IT: STATUS QUO, COMMON
00:43:33.070 --> 00:43:37.130
THINKING, POPULAR BELIEF, CONVENTIONAL WISDOM, ESTABLISHED
00:43:37.140 --> 00:43:44.220
THOUGHT, PUBLIC OPINION, PEER PRESSURE, MAJORITY THINKING.
00:43:44.230 --> 00:43:50.270
THAT'S KIND OF THE WAY OF THE MAJORITY. I THINK THE KINGDOM OF
00:43:50.280 --> 00:43:54.100
GOD NEEDS A GENERATION WHO ARE PREPARED TO NOT BE RULED BY
00:43:54.110 --> 00:44:00.030
STATUS QUO, ESTABLISHED THOUGHT, CONVENTIONAL WISDOM, POPULAR
00:44:00.040 --> 00:44:04.180
THINKING. I THINK WE NEED A GENERATION WHO SAYS, GOD, I WANT
00:44:04.190 --> 00:44:09.080
TO TRUST YOU. I WANT TO SERVE YOU WITH MY WHOLE LIFE. IF YOU
00:44:09.090 --> 00:44:12.140
TELL ME TO GO, I'M GOING TO GO. IF YOU TELL ME TO STAY, I'M
00:44:12.150 --> 00:44:15.050
GOING TO STAY. I WANT TO LIVE MY LIFE IN A WAY WHERE I UNDERSTAND
00:44:15.060 --> 00:44:18.270
THE IMPORTANCE OF SUBMISSION AND BEING A PART OF A LOCAL CHURCH
00:44:18.280 --> 00:44:22.110
AND LIVING MY LIFE WITH THAT KIND OF STABILITY THAT WILL SET
00:44:22.120 --> 00:44:25.280
ME UP TO WIN, BUT I SURE DON'T WANT MY SERVING JESUS TO ALL BE
00:44:25.290 --> 00:44:31.000
ABOUT THE AFTERLIFE AND ON THIS SIDE OF ETERNITY JUST LIVE MY
00:44:31.010 --> 00:44:34.160
LIFE IN A WAY WHERE IT'S JUST SO. THAT'S NOT WHAT I WANT TO
00:44:34.170 --> 00:44:39.220
BE. I WANT TO BE SOMEBODY, YOU KNOW, I JUST LOVE IT.
00:44:39.230 --> 00:44:43.030
PERSONALLY, I LOVE, IT'S A LITTLE THING THAT IN OUR CHURCH
00:44:43.040 --> 00:44:45.240
WHEN PEOPLE, NO ONE'S WEARING A TIE, I'LL START WEARING A TIE.
00:44:45.250 --> 00:44:50.050
AND THEN IF OTHER PEOPLE START WEARING TIES, I'LL NEVER WEAR A
00:44:50.060 --> 00:44:52.170
TIE CAUSE I JUST LOVE MESSIN' IT UP. I JUST LOVE KEEPING
00:44:52.180 --> 00:44:59.090
PEOPLE ON THE EDGE OF THEIR SEATS. I LOVE IT. SO THERE'S
00:44:59.100 --> 00:45:03.010
SOME TIMES WHEN PREDICTABILITY IS YOUR FRIEND. PREDICTABILITY
00:45:03.020 --> 00:45:09.090
IS YOUR FRIEND WHEN IT COMES TO LOYALTY. PROVERBS 18:24 SAYS
00:45:09.100 --> 00:45:14.000
THERE IS A FRIEND WHO STICKS CLOSER THAN A BROTHER. THERE'S
00:45:14.010 --> 00:45:17.240
ANOTHER VERSE THAT SAYS A FRIEND IS BORN FOR ADVERSITY. YOU DON'T
00:45:17.250 --> 00:45:21.290
GET CREDIBILITY BY BEING UNPREDICTABLE. BEING MARRIED TO
00:45:22.000 --> 00:45:26.050
THIS LADY THIS WEEK BUT ANOTHER LADY NEXT WEEK. YOU DON'T GET
00:45:26.060 --> 00:45:29.050
ANY KIND OF CREDIBILITY THERE. SO THERE'S ANOTHER AREA,
00:45:29.060 --> 00:45:34.290
CREDIBILITY, AN EXAMPLE TAKES A LONG, LONG TIME TO BUILD; A LONG
00:45:35.000 --> 00:45:38.270
TIME OF CONSISTENCY AND PREDICTABILITY. SO I WANT TO BE
00:45:38.280 --> 00:45:42.150
PREDICTABLE THERE. YOU WANT TO BE PREDICTABLE WHEN IT COMES TO
00:45:42.160 --> 00:45:45.190
WHAT YOU BELIEVE. PAUL SAYS I KNOW WHOM I HAVE BELIEVED IN AND
00:45:45.200 --> 00:45:49.130
I'M PERSUADED TO KEEP THAT WHICH I'VE COMMITTED UNTO HIM AGAINST
00:45:49.140 --> 00:45:53.160
THAT DAY. ONE VERSE SAYS I KNOW, I BELIEVE, I'M PERSUADED, I'M
00:45:53.170 --> 00:45:58.210
COMMITTED. I THINK THAT'S AWESOME. NOT DOGMATIC, NOT RIGID
00:45:58.220 --> 00:46:04.080
SO YOU NEVER GROW, YOU NEVER LEARN. WE'VE GOT TO KEEP DIVING
00:46:04.090 --> 00:46:07.140
DEEPER INTO THE THINGS OF GOD. WE'VE GOT TO KEEP ON SEARCHING
00:46:07.150 --> 00:46:12.000
OUT THOSE UNHIDDEN TREASURES. SO I'M CERTAINLY NOT SAYING WE
00:46:12.010 --> 00:46:16.010
SHOULD BE PREDICTABLE IN A WAY THAT RIGID, LEGALISTIC,
00:46:16.020 --> 00:46:19.180
JUDGEMENTAL. BUT I DO BELIEVE WE NEED TO KNOW WHAT WE BELIEVE
00:46:19.190 --> 00:46:23.270
CAUSE IT WILL CERTAINLY BE TESTED. AND IF IT'S TESTED AND
00:46:23.280 --> 00:46:28.020
WE'RE NOT ABSOLUTELY COMMITTED TO OUR FAITH, THEN IT'S GOING TO
00:46:28.030 --> 00:46:31.220
BE HARD TO STAND. I DO THINK WE SHOULD BE PREDICTABLE WHEN IT
00:46:31.230 --> 00:46:34.270
COMES TO OUR COMMITMENT. A LOT OF PEOPLE IN LIFE ARE GOOD
00:46:34.280 --> 00:46:38.220
STARTERS; NOT SO MANY WHO ARE GOOD FINISHERS. COMMITMENT IS AN
00:46:38.230 --> 00:46:43.140
AREA WHERE I THINK PREDICTABILITY IS A GREAT
00:46:43.150 --> 00:46:47.010
STRENGTH IN OUR LIVES. YOUR WORD. LET YOUR YES BE YES, LET
00:46:47.020 --> 00:46:51.260
YOUR NO BE NO. YOUR WORD IS YOUR BOND. THAT'S A GREAT AREA TO BE
00:46:51.270 --> 00:46:55.160
PREDICTABLE. BUT THERE'S OTHER AREAS WHERE PREDICTABILITY IS
00:46:55.170 --> 00:46:59.100
NOT YOUR FRIEND, IT'S YOUR ENEMY. AND SOME OF THOSE AREAS
00:46:59.110 --> 00:47:02.140
ARE THINGS LIKE SPONTANEITY. I LOVE SPONTANEITY. I WANT MY
00:47:02.150 --> 00:47:07.050
MIDDLE NAME TO CHANGE TO BRIAN SPONTANEOUS HOUSTON. I MEAN, I
00:47:07.060 --> 00:47:11.040
LOVE SPONTANEITY. I LOVE MESSING UP THE PROGRAM, LIKE I TOLD YOU.
00:47:11.050 --> 00:47:15.290
I LOVE LIVING MY LIFE IN A WAY WHERE ANYTHING COULD HAPPEN AND
00:47:16.000 --> 00:47:20.260
IT POSSIBLY WILL. I WANT TO HAVE THE KIND OF CHURCH WHERE
00:47:20.270 --> 00:47:24.020
ANYTHING COULD HAPPEN AND IT POSSIBLY WILL.
00:47:24.030 --> 00:47:27.000
WHERE PEOPLE ARE RUSHING FOR THE FRONTS SEATS NOT THE BACK SEATS.
00:47:27.010 --> 00:47:30.280
THERE ARE SOME CHURCHES YOU HAVE TO GET THERE EARLY TO GET A BACK
00:47:30.290 --> 00:47:34.000
SEAT. THAT'S NOT MOSAIC CHURCH. [LAUGHTER] HEY! LET'S LIVE OUR
00:47:34.010 --> 00:47:39.130
LIVES IN A WAY WHERE WE UNDERSTAND THE SPONTANEITY IS
00:47:39.140 --> 00:47:44.080
OUR FRIEND AND PREDICTABILITY ISN'T. THE HOLY SPIRIT, I MEAN,
00:47:44.090 --> 00:47:49.080
FOR YEARS JOB PROPHESIED IT IN THE OLD TESTAMENT, ALL SORTS OF
00:47:49.090 --> 00:47:53.060
PROPHECIES ABOUT JESUS AND THEN THE HOLY SPIRIT. JOSEPH TALKED
00:47:53.070 --> 00:47:58.050
ABOUT IT AND JESUS TALKED ABOUT IT AND EVEN WHEN IT WAS EMINENT
00:47:58.060 --> 00:48:03.120
THE HOLY SPIRIT WOULD COME. JESUS WAS ABOUT TO ASCEND INTO
00:48:03.130 --> 00:48:07.040
HEAVEN AND HE GATHERS HIS CLOSEST; TALKS TO THEM ABOUT,
00:48:07.050 --> 00:48:11.040
HEY, DON'T GO ANYWHERE YET, HE SAYS, I'M ABOUT TO INTRODUCE THE
00:48:11.050 --> 00:48:14.290
HOLY SPIRIT. AND HE TALKS ABOUT HOW THROUGH THE HOLY SPIRIT
00:48:15.000 --> 00:48:17.260
THEIR MESSAGE WILL GO TO THE VERY ENDS OF THE EARTH. BUT
00:48:17.270 --> 00:48:22.020
STILL I DON'T THINK ANYONE EXPECTED WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED
00:48:22.030 --> 00:48:26.060
IN ACTS 2 WHEN 120 PEOPLE WERE UPSTAIRS AND SUDDENLY THERE ARE
00:48:26.070 --> 00:48:31.080
TONGUES OF FIRE AND PEOPLE ARE SPEAKING IN OTHER TONGUES AND
00:48:31.090 --> 00:48:35.040
THEN SUDDENLY PEOPLE CAN HEAR IN THEIR OWN LANGUAGES THE
00:48:35.050 --> 00:48:38.010
WONDERFUL WORKS OF GOD. SO THEY'RE SPEAKING LANGUAGES
00:48:38.020 --> 00:48:40.160
PEOPLE COULD UNDERSTAND AND THERE'S A MIGHTY RUSHING WIND.
00:48:40.170 --> 00:48:44.170
AND PEOPLE THOUGHT THEY WERE DRUNK. I DON'T THINK ANYONE
00:48:44.180 --> 00:48:48.220
EXPECTED WHAT IT ACTUALLY WOULD LOOK LIKE. THAT'S WHY
00:48:48.230 --> 00:48:52.030
SPONTANEITY IS OUR FRIEND WHEN IT COMES TO THE KINGDOM OF GOD.
00:48:52.040 --> 00:48:57.280
I THINK PREDICTABILITY IS YOUR ENEMY WHEN IT COMES TO THE
00:48:57.290 --> 00:49:01.160
ELEMENT OF SURPRISE, WHICH I'VE ALREADY TALKED ABOUT. COLOSSIANS
00:49:01.170 --> 00:49:05.220
1:9 TALKS ABOUT THE MYSTERY OF HIS WILL. THE MYSTERY. IT'S A
00:49:05.230 --> 00:49:11.100
MYSTERY. I LIKE MYSTERIES. I LOVE MYSTERIES. THE MYSTERY OF
00:49:11.110 --> 00:49:16.080
HIS WILL. IMAGINE IF HE SET IT ALL OUT; ALRIGHT, YOU GET SAVED
00:49:16.090 --> 00:49:19.280
ON THIS DAY, HERE'S THE BOOK, HERE'S THE LITTLE ENCYCLOPEDIA,
00:49:19.290 --> 00:49:23.040
THIS IS WHEN YOU'LL MEET YOUR WIFE, THIS IS WHEN THIS WILL
00:49:23.050 --> 00:49:26.020
HAPPEN. NO, NO, NO, IT'S AN ADVENTURE SERVING JESUS. IT'S AN
00:49:26.030 --> 00:49:30.220
ADVENTURE BEING AT A CONFERENCE LIKE THIS. WE JUST DON'T KNOW.
00:49:30.230 --> 00:49:33.120
WE JUST DON'T KNOW. WE JUST DON'T KNOW. WHAT'S GOD GOING TO
00:49:33.130 --> 00:49:38.030
DO TOMORROW? WE JUST DON'T KNOW. WE JUST DON'T KNOW. AMAZING!
00:49:38.040 --> 00:49:45.110
[APPLAUSE] I THINK PREDICTABILITY IS OUR ENEMY WHEN
00:49:45.120 --> 00:49:51.100
IT COMES TO CREATIVITY, OBVIOUSLY. I THINK
00:49:51.110 --> 00:49:54.030
PREDICTABILITY IS AN ENEMY TO INNOVATION. I'D RATHER BE AN
00:49:54.040 --> 00:49:59.030
ARTIST THAN AN ART CRITIC. I'D RATHER BE A MUSICIAN THAN A
00:49:59.040 --> 00:50:04.240
MUSIC CRITIC. I WOULD PERSONALLY RATHER BE A MOVIE MAKER THAN A
00:50:04.250 --> 00:50:09.230
MOVIE CRITIC. I'D RATHER BE A CHEF THAN A FOOD CRITIC. AND I'D
00:50:09.240 --> 00:50:15.210
RATHER BE A CHURCH BUILDER THAN A CHURCH CRITIC. [APPLAUSE]
00:50:15.220 --> 00:50:22.200
THINK ABOUT THAT FOR A MOMENT. BECAUSE BUILDING A CHURCH IS SO
00:50:22.210 --> 00:50:28.070
INNOVATIVE. IT IS SO INNOVATIVE. I WOULD SAY LET'S NOT ALLOW
00:50:28.080 --> 00:50:33.050
INNOVATION TO BE SQUEEZED OUT OF GOD'S HOUSE BECAUSE WE LIVE OUR
00:50:33.060 --> 00:50:38.180
LIVES TOO PREDICTABLE. THESE ARE REASONS WHY WE KEEP PRESSING
00:50:38.190 --> 00:50:42.080
THINGS YOUNGER. BECAUSE YOU KEEP PRESSING THINGS YOUNGER, YOU
00:50:42.090 --> 00:50:46.210
KEEP CREATIVE, YOU KEEP INNOVATIVE, YOU KEEP ON THE
00:50:46.220 --> 00:50:51.000
SHARP EDGE. I THINK PREDICTABILITY IS AN ENEMY WHEN
00:50:51.010 --> 00:50:56.200
IT COMES TO INFLUENCE. IT REALLY IS. YOU NEVER GET INFLUENCE FROM
00:50:56.210 --> 00:51:01.130
DOING THINGS THE WAY THEY'VE ALWAYS BEEN DONE. HILLSONG HAS A
00:51:01.140 --> 00:51:04.260
MEASURE OF INFLUENCE BUT NOT BY COPYING; BY JUST BEING TRUE TO
00:51:04.270 --> 00:51:10.060
WHO GOD CALLED US TO BE. I THINK PREDICTABILITY IS YOUR ENEMY
00:51:10.070 --> 00:51:15.280
WHEN IT COMES TO FRESHNESS AND NEW LIFE AND THAT SENSE THAT
00:51:15.290 --> 00:51:20.220
ANYTHING THAT COULD HAPPEN AND IT PROBABLY WILL. I LOVE BEING
00:51:20.230 --> 00:51:25.140
IN CHURCH LIKE THAT WHERE YOU JUST DON'T KNOW WHAT GOD'S GOING
00:51:25.150 --> 00:51:28.180
TO DO. YOU JUST DON'T KNOW. THERE ARE SOME THINGS THAT ARE
00:51:28.190 --> 00:51:31.280
OUR FRIEND AND NOT OUR ENEMY WHEN IT COMES TO BUILDING
00:51:31.290 --> 00:51:36.180
PRINCES IN THE LAND. YOU KNOW? BOOKS, THEY NEED TO BE OUR
00:51:36.190 --> 00:51:41.230
SERVANT, NOT OUR MASTER. SOME THINGS ARE JUST NOT IN TEXT
00:51:41.240 --> 00:51:45.050
BOOKS. LET'S BUILD THE KINDS OF CHURCHES THAT THEY'RE WRITING
00:51:45.060 --> 00:51:48.070
TEXT BOOKS ABOUT. BUT TRULY, YOU KNOW, LET'S BUILD A GENERATION
00:51:48.080 --> 00:51:57.260
WHERE THEY'RE WRITING BOOKS ABOUT US. LET'S SEE THE CHURCH
00:51:57.270 --> 00:52:01.140
FLOURISH IN A WAY, EXPERIENCE IS SOMETHING THAT ONLY IS BASED ON
00:52:01.150 --> 00:52:06.150
WHAT'S ALREADY BEEN DONE. WHAT IF WE STEPPED OUT BEYOND
00:52:06.160 --> 00:52:11.190
EXPERIENCE? I THINK PROGRAMMING, GET WITH THE PROGRAM.
00:52:11.200 --> 00:52:17.190
PROGRAMMING: IT'S GOT TO BE OUR SERVANT, NOT OUR MASTER. I THINK
00:52:17.200 --> 00:52:23.230
EXPERIENCE, SAME THING; IT'S GOT TO BE OUR SERVANT. SOME PEOPLE
00:52:23.240 --> 00:52:27.190
ARE SO MUCH MORE EXPERIENCED THAN ME. LIKE, BEING MARRIED,
00:52:27.200 --> 00:52:31.250
SOME PEOPLE ARE SO MUCH MORE EXPERIENCED THAN ME. I'VE ONLY
00:52:31.260 --> 00:52:35.140
BEEN MARRIED ONCE. [LAUGHTER] FOR FORTY YEARS ALMOST, BUT ONLY
00:52:35.150 --> 00:52:43.070
ONCE. [APPLAUSE] ELIZABETH TAYLOR, SHE WAS MUCH MORE
00:52:43.080 --> 00:52:49.200
EXPERIENCED THAN ME. [LAUGHTER] WHEN IT COMES TO PASTORING
00:52:49.210 --> 00:52:53.020
CHURCHES, SOME PEOPLE ARE SO MUCH MORE EXPERIENCED THAN ME. I
00:52:53.030 --> 00:52:55.280
MEAN, REALLY, IN MY ADULT LIFE I'VE BASICALLY PASTORED ONE
00:52:55.290 --> 00:53:01.210
CHURCH. SOME PEOPLE HAVE PASTORED MULTIPLE CHURCHES AND,
00:53:01.220 --> 00:53:05.180
BY THE WAY, SOMETIMES IT'S THEIR CALLING AS WELL. ALL I'M SAYING
00:53:05.190 --> 00:53:09.010
IS EXPERIENCE IS NOT THE BE END. EXPERIENCE, IT IS WHAT IT IS.
00:53:09.020 --> 00:53:17.110
THANK GOD FOR IT BUT IT'S GOT TO BE OUR SERVANT NOT OUR MASTER.
00:53:17.120 --> 00:53:21.160
BOOKS CAN'T BE OUR MASTER. EXPERIENCE CAN'T BE OUR MASTER.
00:53:21.170 --> 00:53:24.180
PROGRAMMING CAN'T BE OUR MASTER. I THINK CULTURE, IT CAN'T BE OUR
00:53:24.190 --> 00:53:29.200
MASTER. THIS GUY DOWN HERE, ANDREAS, PASTOR OF HILLSONG, IN
00:53:29.210 --> 00:53:37.190
SCANDINAVIA. THERE'S VERY MUCH A CODE, IF YOU LIKE, OF ETHICS
00:53:37.200 --> 00:53:46.070
WRITTEN BY AN OLD TIME PHILOSOPHER OR WRITER WHO'S
00:53:46.080 --> 00:53:49.250
NAME, I THINK, WAS DANTE, IN DENMARK IN PARTICULAR. AND HE
00:53:49.260 --> 00:53:55.120
HAS, LIKE, THESE 10 RULES THAT HELP FRAME THE CULTURE. ONE OF
00:53:55.130 --> 00:53:59.240
THOSE IS DON'T STAND OUT. DON'T BE DIFFERENT. DON'T STAND OUT. I
00:53:59.250 --> 00:54:03.260
SAY STAND OUT. SO YOU STAND OUT, PUT YOUR SHOULDERS BACK, LIFT
00:54:03.270 --> 00:54:09.110
YOUR HEAD HIGH, STAND OUT. BE WHO GOD CALLED YOU TO BE. BE
00:54:09.120 --> 00:54:14.270
PART OF THE 1%. I DON'T BELIEVE MOSAIC WAS CALLED TO BE JUST
00:54:14.280 --> 00:54:18.190
ANOTHER CHURCH IN DOWNTON L.A. OR HOLLYWOOD. GOD'S CALLED YOU
00:54:18.200 --> 00:54:23.230
TO STAND OUT. STAND OUT. BE YOURSELVES. STEP UP. BE ALL HE'S
00:54:23.240 --> 00:54:28.110
CALLED YOU TO BE. [APPLAUSE] CULTURE, EVEN AMERICAN CULTURE
00:54:28.120 --> 00:54:33.110
HAS TO BE OUR SERVANT, NOT OUR MASTER. I THINK WHEN IT COMES TO
00:54:33.120 --> 00:54:39.140
HERITAGE, I'M GRATEFUL FOR MY HERITAGE, BUT IT'S A SERVANT,
00:54:39.150 --> 00:54:43.260
NOT A MASTER. I DON'T WANT TO BECOME THE OLD GUY, LIVE MY LIFE
00:54:43.270 --> 00:54:48.210
IN A WAY WHERE I'VE SEEN IT ALL, BEEN THERE, DONE THAT, CYNICAL.
00:54:48.220 --> 00:54:54.200
I WAN TO BE FRESH AND FLOURISHING. I WANT TO STILL BE
00:54:54.210 --> 00:54:57.110
BEARING FRUIT IN OLD AGE. SO I WANT TO LIVE MY LIFE AN ENTIRELY
00:54:57.120 --> 00:55:01.160
DIFFERENT WAY THAN THAT. I WANT TO MAKE HISTORY, NOT JUST SERVE
00:55:01.170 --> 00:55:06.140
HISTORY. I'LL HONOR HISTORY, ABSOLUTELY, BUT I DON'T WANT TO
00:55:06.150 --> 00:55:11.160
BE CONTAINED BY HISTORY. I WANT TO LIVE MY LIFE WHERE I LEARN
00:55:11.170 --> 00:55:15.280
FROM HISTORY, BUT I'M NOT GOING TO REPEAT HISTORY. I WANT TO
00:55:15.290 --> 00:55:21.260
LIVE MY LIFE IN A WAY WHERE I DEFY THE ODDS OF HISTORY. THEY
00:55:21.270 --> 00:55:26.210
SAID IT COULDN'T BE DONE. I WANT TO LIVE MY LIFE IN A WAY WHERE
00:55:26.220 --> 00:55:31.070
HISTORY IS THERE FOR MAKING, IT'S THERE FOR CHANGING.
00:55:31.080 --> 00:55:39.280
ULTIMATELY, I WANT TO LIVE MY LIFE SO I CARVE OUT NEW HISTORY
00:55:39.290 --> 00:55:46.030
NOT JUST REMINISCE ABOUT THE GOOD OLD DAYS, ABOUT THE GOOD
00:55:46.040 --> 00:55:50.040
OLD HISTORY. ISAIAH 43, IT'S BEEN OUR THEME FIRST FOR THIS
00:55:50.050 --> 00:55:54.220
YEAR. THE SCRIPTURE SAYS REMEMBER NOT THE FORMER THINGS
00:55:54.230 --> 00:55:57.160
NOR THE THINGS OF OLD, IT GOES ON AND SAYS NOW, IT SAYS BEHOLD
00:55:57.170 --> 00:56:02.070
I WILL DO A NEW THING. THAT WORD BEHOLD MEANS WOW! WOW! I'M GOING
00:56:02.080 --> 00:56:07.270
TO DO SOMETHING NEW. I'M GOING TO DO SOMETHING DIFFERENT NOW!
00:56:07.280 --> 00:56:12.000
IT SHALL SPRING FORTH, NEW ROADS IN THE WILDERNESS. NEW RIVERS IN
00:56:12.010 --> 00:56:16.180
THE DESERT. I WANT TO LIVE MY LIFE CARVING OUT THOSE NEW ROADS
00:56:16.190 --> 00:56:20.040
OF NEW HORIZONS, NEW OPPORTUNITIES, NEW
00:56:20.050 --> 00:56:23.200
POSSIBILITIES. I WANT TO LIVE MY LIFE WITH NEW RIVERS FLOWING
00:56:23.210 --> 00:56:27.090
DOWN WITH GOD'S GREAT FAITHFULNESS AND FRUITFULNESS
00:56:27.100 --> 00:56:30.260
AND SUPPLY. WHAT A GREAT WAY TO LIVE? THERE IS NOTHING
00:56:30.270 --> 00:56:34.130
PREDICTABLE ABOUT SERVING JESUS. IT IS THE GREATEST ADVENTURE
00:56:34.140 --> 00:56:38.210
THAT THERE IS. THERE IS NOTHING PREDICTABLE ABOUT SERVING JESUS.
00:56:38.220 --> 00:56:43.280
IT IS THE GREATEST, THE GREATEST! THE MYSTERY OF HIS
00:56:43.290 --> 00:56:49.000
WILL. LET'S GO OUT AND ENJOY THE MYSTERY OF HIS WILL! CAN ANYONE
00:56:49.010 --> 00:56:55.170
SAY AMEN! [APPLAUSE] COME ON, LET'S STAND TOGETHER! LET'S
00:56:55.180 --> 00:57:00.180
WORSHIP JESUS TOGETHER!
00:57:00.190 --> 00:57:03.040
[MUSIC]
00:57:03.050 --> 00:57:09.100
YOUR NAME IS LIGHT THE SHADOWS CAN'T DENY
00:57:09.110 --> 00:57:15.130
YOUR NAME CANNOT BE OVERCOME
00:57:15.140 --> 00:57:22.010
YOUR NAME IS ALIVE, FOREVER LIFTED HIGH
00:57:22.020 --> 00:57:28.110
YOUR NAME CANNOT BE OVERCOME
00:57:28.120 --> 00:57:32.290
-COME ON, SING IT IF YOU BELIEVE IT!
00:57:33.000 --> 00:57:35.020
YOUR NAME IS LIGHT THE SHADOWS CAN'T DENY
00:57:35.030 --> 00:57:41.150
YOUR NAME CANNOT BE OVERCOME
00:57:41.160 --> 00:57:47.260
YOUR NAME IS ALIVE, FOREVER LIFTED HIGH
00:57:47.270 --> 00:57:54.070
YOUR NAME CANNOT BE OVERCOME
00:57:54.080 --> 00:58:01.200
JESUS, JESUS
00:58:01.210 --> 00:58:04.120
YOU MAKE THE DARKNESS TREMBLE
00:58:04.130 --> 00:58:07.240
JESUS, JESUS
00:58:07.250 --> 00:58:11.150
YOU, SILENCE FEAR
00:58:11.160 --> 00:58:14.120
JESUS, JESUS
00:58:14.130 --> 00:58:17.290
YOU MAKE THE DARKNESS TREMBLE
00:58:18.000 --> 00:58:20.220
JESUS, JESUS
00:58:20.230 --> 00:58:21.230

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