WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:03.900 We're just going to go as deep as he wants us to go, and I don't know where that is yet. 00:10.360 --> 00:14.460 Let me start by sharing this. This happened, I believe, in 2015. 00:15.680 --> 00:20.760 Dr. Thurston was here, and he had a huge layout of the tabernacle. 00:20.760 --> 00:24.260 That was a miniature version of the tabernacle that he had up front here. 00:25.600 --> 00:27.160 Some of you probably remember that. 00:27.160 --> 00:40.420 The key thing to that whole presentation is he felt the Lord had shown him how the tabernacle lays out over America. 00:41.740 --> 00:48.520 And the gates where you enter is New York, because that's where all the immigration by and large came in through. 00:49.760 --> 00:57.220 Which then he laid it out across the nation, which makes California and the West Coast the holy place, 00:57.480 --> 01:01.400 is why it's so under attack with unholiness. 01:02.840 --> 01:06.380 So he laid that all out, and he said, we're right in the middle here. 01:07.320 --> 01:10.560 And this is what happened in the middle of the tabernacle. 01:12.320 --> 01:17.680 He called it the threshing floor, but the element that was there was the labor. 01:18.460 --> 01:26.800 And the labor was on its own stand. It was like a big sink or basin. 01:27.700 --> 01:35.560 And up in the middle it rose up, and it was really polished shiny so you could see yourself. 01:37.060 --> 01:43.920 And the priests, before they could go deeper into the holy place or the holy of holies, 01:43.920 --> 01:55.480 they had to wash in the labor, seeing themselves and cleaning themselves 01:56.520 --> 02:01.900 to be able to withstand the glory of where they were going. 02:02.780 --> 02:06.840 So it was part of the process of moving toward the holy of holies. 02:07.640 --> 02:12.660 That lays right over the center of the country, Minnesota included. 02:14.700 --> 02:20.620 So now you're all aware, I presume if you're not, you'll get a little picture here. 02:21.000 --> 02:24.100 It's been prophesied numerous times, there's even books written, 02:24.680 --> 02:31.540 that there will be a move of God in Canada, and it will come down through the center of the nation. 02:31.540 --> 02:41.860 Specifically the spearhead will be Minnesota, and will go out through this nation and to the world. 02:43.200 --> 02:46.360 But it will enter the United States through Minnesota. 02:47.340 --> 02:53.200 Tie that in with the wash basin, which pictures sanctification. 02:54.900 --> 02:59.440 And seeing yourself for what you really are, and cleaning yourself, 02:59.440 --> 03:12.680 washing yourself with the water of the word, and getting ready to step into the holy place and the holy of holies. 03:15.020 --> 03:16.880 That's the emphasis on Minnesota. 03:18.020 --> 03:21.780 And if you go back to the founding of Minnesota, you find some of these things, 03:21.840 --> 03:27.280 they didn't even know what they were doing, but they're already kind of in the founding documents, 03:27.280 --> 03:29.240 and in the founding, isn't that right Dale? 03:31.200 --> 03:36.480 The early people who founded this state were more led by God than we want to care for sometimes. 03:37.740 --> 03:42.640 And they planted us in this mindset, so to speak. 03:43.240 --> 03:44.920 Could you bring that verse up in Haggai please? 03:44.920 --> 03:49.140 So we started on... 03:49.140 --> 03:56.880 Did you have any clue that we've been talking about offence and persecution and stuff like that? 03:57.040 --> 03:58.160 That's been rattling around you? 03:59.140 --> 03:59.740 Yep. 04:01.180 --> 04:01.340 Yep. 04:02.560 --> 04:03.160 Cool. 04:04.700 --> 04:07.920 Well, it works hand in hand with what... 04:08.500 --> 04:11.580 And the reason is, we're going into that vision book now. 04:12.540 --> 04:17.060 And re-establishing in everybody's... because things are about to change. 04:17.780 --> 04:21.360 Re-establishing what our vision is and what we're here for and what God wants to do through us. 04:22.620 --> 04:26.460 If you go to the... it shows up numerous times, but if you want a summary of it, 04:26.500 --> 04:30.020 if you go to the last two pages of the vision book, 04:30.860 --> 04:35.600 it lays out that we feel... we felt it for years. 04:35.800 --> 04:38.360 We're an end times church. We're a last days church. 04:39.140 --> 04:43.980 Which fits perfectly with Matthew 25 and the stuff that's going to happen, okay? 04:44.800 --> 04:47.560 We're an last days end times church. 04:47.740 --> 04:52.820 A remnant bride church is what he's asking us to strive to be. 04:54.200 --> 05:01.000 Not just be a church, but be the bride church, which there's a difference. 05:01.520 --> 05:03.240 And you touch that briefly. 05:04.900 --> 05:11.620 And how that he wants us to move toward that because of things that he wants to do that he hasn't shown us yet. 05:16.280 --> 05:23.180 We... even through the meetings and after, we put a heavy emphasis on the presence anointing in the glory of God. 05:25.300 --> 05:26.020 It's good. 05:26.320 --> 05:30.740 And it is good. And we tend to look at it excitingly. 05:31.960 --> 05:33.220 And it is exciting. 05:33.400 --> 05:34.040 Very much so. 05:34.620 --> 05:36.340 But I want you to see this verse. 05:39.420 --> 05:42.920 By the way, the author, and I apologize to interrupt your Passover. 05:43.260 --> 05:46.400 By the way, the author in Hebrews quotes this exact same verse. 05:46.540 --> 05:51.740 This is Hebrews 12. He talks about a shaking of God to remove all things that can be shaken. 05:52.540 --> 05:59.140 And I will shake all nations and they shall come to the desire of all nations, which I agree. 05:59.400 --> 06:02.300 I looked up some things while you were saying it, pointing to Jesus. 06:02.580 --> 06:03.060 100%. 06:04.180 --> 06:08.380 And I will fill this temple with glory, says the Lord of hosts. 06:08.960 --> 06:10.800 Now the temple today is us. 06:13.600 --> 06:14.400 We're the temple. 06:14.540 --> 06:17.080 Now, yes, the Israelites are going to reestablish a temple. 06:18.420 --> 06:22.360 And boy, I don't want to get sidetracked because there's some new developments that have just happened there too. 06:22.420 --> 06:23.400 But I don't want to get sidetracked. 06:24.100 --> 06:25.900 We are the temple where God lives in. 06:26.080 --> 06:28.000 We're the spirit of bides. 06:28.000 --> 06:32.940 Says the Lord of hosts at Jehovah's of both, the Lord of war service in the appointed time, 06:33.260 --> 06:38.180 the God of covenant of war service in the appointed time. 06:38.740 --> 06:48.720 So he is calling on his warfare attributes, character, to implement what he's going to do here. 06:50.100 --> 06:54.000 This isn't Abba father that he's talking about. 06:54.260 --> 06:56.000 This is Jehovah's of both. 06:56.000 --> 07:02.060 The covenant God of war service in the right time. 07:02.480 --> 07:03.620 He brings this forth. 07:04.040 --> 07:06.400 Okay, so he's going to shake all nations. 07:08.700 --> 07:15.540 And I will fill this temple, this temple referring to, he wants to fill the whole earth with his glory. 07:15.740 --> 07:18.260 He said that other places, the nations included. 07:19.220 --> 07:21.100 He wants to fill us with his glory. 07:24.840 --> 07:31.460 In that verse, he's telling us, for us to receive the glory he wants us to walk in, 07:32.040 --> 07:37.400 he has to shake the gunk and the crud out of us first. 07:39.300 --> 07:41.000 I'm letting you talk. That's why I'm silent. 07:41.280 --> 07:45.500 No, you go ahead and you can act it out. I'm good with that. 07:45.660 --> 07:47.440 Do you see what I'm saying? 07:47.480 --> 07:50.580 Yep, he's going to turn it upside down so he can get it right side up. 07:50.580 --> 07:52.240 Can I also underline something? 07:52.420 --> 07:52.780 Go ahead. 07:53.000 --> 07:54.300 It's not to hurt us. 07:54.640 --> 07:55.120 No. 07:55.280 --> 07:56.220 It's not to hurt us. 07:56.460 --> 07:58.800 And the spirit hasn't left when he does it. 07:59.480 --> 08:00.900 In fact, he intensifies. 08:02.520 --> 08:05.600 Because in that shaking, hold your thought just for a second. 08:06.240 --> 08:07.520 In that shaking... 08:07.520 --> 08:08.500 You said I can talk so. 08:11.440 --> 08:20.410 In that shaking, he has us... 08:21.330 --> 08:23.410 I'll say a couple of things. I'll try to bring it together. 08:23.930 --> 08:26.990 In that shaking, he has us in front of the labor washing, 08:27.630 --> 08:29.890 getting ready to go into the Holy of Holies. 08:30.250 --> 08:33.510 And if he doesn't shake us by the labor or wash us by the labor, 08:33.830 --> 08:36.850 we will be destroyed and die when we go into the Holy of Holies 08:36.850 --> 08:40.070 because we won't have the capacity to carry what he gives to us. 08:40.170 --> 08:40.750 It'll kill us. 08:42.370 --> 08:42.770 Okay? 08:43.670 --> 08:45.750 So with that thought in mind, 08:48.960 --> 08:51.820 it is a privilege and an honor 08:52.620 --> 08:57.220 for the glory and the presence of God to show up heavily. 08:58.020 --> 09:01.740 But it is also a huge responsibility 09:05.360 --> 09:07.740 because what he wants to do, 09:08.420 --> 09:10.120 and I'm going to just say in Minnesota, 09:10.460 --> 09:13.840 I'm not going to say we want to be part of it. 09:13.880 --> 09:16.040 We want to be in the front edge of it as a church. 09:16.040 --> 09:20.480 But what he wants to do is he sweeps that last day move 09:21.040 --> 09:24.620 in through this state, which it's, to me, it's just funny. 09:25.000 --> 09:26.380 You know, it's just the way God works. 09:28.380 --> 09:30.980 There's many, I just heard this last week, 09:31.100 --> 09:33.260 there's many states around the nation 09:33.260 --> 09:36.340 that are beginning to abhor Minnesota 09:36.920 --> 09:39.340 because of the moral stance we're taking. 09:40.480 --> 09:42.900 And wouldn't it be just like God to say, 09:42.900 --> 09:45.160 let's go after the dirtiest one first. 09:46.900 --> 09:48.160 And we'll clean them up, 09:49.080 --> 09:51.160 and then we can go for the rest of the nation. 09:52.020 --> 09:54.280 I mean, he doesn't pick the easiest job first. 09:54.440 --> 09:55.760 He many times goes for the worst. 09:57.020 --> 09:57.920 He chose me. 09:58.440 --> 10:00.740 Well, I wasn't going to say anything. 10:03.820 --> 10:05.820 But throw some thoughts in and then I'm going to finish. 10:06.120 --> 10:06.780 So watch this. 10:07.440 --> 10:10.000 You were saying we must go through the shaking 10:10.000 --> 10:12.780 and it's a privilege and an honor to have the presence of God 10:13.300 --> 10:14.940 come upon and rest on a church. 10:16.020 --> 10:17.380 But it's all to responsibility. 10:18.060 --> 10:19.420 Yes, so watch this. 10:19.540 --> 10:21.700 I was talking about the way that you can really say 10:21.700 --> 10:22.860 that a church is successful. 10:23.100 --> 10:24.380 And I quoted Proverbs. 10:24.520 --> 10:25.180 Let me read it to you. 10:25.220 --> 10:26.220 I just quickly want to elaborate. 10:26.820 --> 10:28.240 This is Proverbs 31-11. 10:29.080 --> 10:32.860 The heart of her husband safely trusts her. 10:33.620 --> 10:35.860 So he will have no lack of gain. 10:37.100 --> 10:38.980 The reason why I'm reading this verse 10:39.780 --> 10:43.440 when a presence of God comes and rests on a church 10:43.440 --> 10:47.420 to the measure that you guys have been and are experiencing 10:48.040 --> 10:50.380 is one should not be taken lightly. 10:50.700 --> 10:51.600 Like Pastor Werner is saying. 10:51.880 --> 10:53.720 That's why we're experiencing the fear of the Lord. 10:54.280 --> 10:56.700 Can I tell you one of the things that my wife and I 10:56.700 --> 10:58.900 have been experiencing prior to the conference 10:58.900 --> 11:00.560 but even more after the conference 11:00.560 --> 11:02.620 is a spirit of the fear of the Lord. 11:06.500 --> 11:08.420 It sobers you to understand 11:08.420 --> 11:09.380 what's going on. 11:09.980 --> 11:11.220 That this is a rarity. 11:11.460 --> 11:13.180 This is not something that everybody has. 11:13.780 --> 11:14.100 You know what I mean? 11:14.160 --> 11:15.420 And you really begin to be like, 11:15.480 --> 11:16.960 whoa, this is no joke. 11:17.660 --> 11:19.740 God is actually trusting me. 11:20.760 --> 11:22.260 He's trusting me with this. 11:23.120 --> 11:24.780 And if God finds trust in us, 11:24.900 --> 11:26.180 friends, we're doing something right. 11:27.340 --> 11:29.000 I just wanted to kind of quickly share that 11:29.000 --> 11:29.500 when you were saying 11:29.500 --> 11:33.100 to really sober your congregation to... 11:33.100 --> 11:35.200 We were at a church last Sunday. 11:35.300 --> 11:36.420 Can I quickly share this? 11:36.420 --> 11:38.800 We were at a new church last Sunday. 11:38.920 --> 11:41.600 My son, Benjamin, we drove by this church often. 11:41.960 --> 11:42.740 And Benjamin goes, 11:42.820 --> 11:44.420 Papa, Mama, I want to go to that church. 11:44.680 --> 11:45.700 So I'm like, all right, cool. 11:45.840 --> 11:46.780 You know, let's go visit this church. 11:46.900 --> 11:48.820 It's a progressed Catholic church. 11:49.580 --> 11:50.920 They're saying all the right stuff. 11:51.520 --> 11:53.360 They even have the contemporary worship. 11:53.880 --> 11:55.260 And I'm not here to... 11:56.000 --> 11:58.700 I'm not here to speak badly about a church. 11:58.820 --> 12:00.540 I hope that's not how I'm coming off. 12:00.600 --> 12:02.040 I'm not here to speak badly about a church 12:02.040 --> 12:03.720 because truly the church was beautiful. 12:03.840 --> 12:04.620 The worship was beautiful. 12:04.620 --> 12:06.860 The sermon was good. 12:07.160 --> 12:10.080 But there is an absence of the presence of God. 12:10.520 --> 12:13.260 And I want you guys here at Word of Life to understand, 12:13.560 --> 12:14.560 don't take this lightly. 12:15.660 --> 12:16.820 Don't take this lightly. 12:17.900 --> 12:19.620 Let this be something that you really... 12:20.140 --> 12:21.820 you have reverence to this. 12:22.580 --> 12:24.480 Because God has found trust in you. 12:24.660 --> 12:26.780 And I believe that as you're transitioning, 12:27.380 --> 12:29.520 you're going to see a greater level of trust, 12:29.700 --> 12:31.900 which means a greater level of presence 12:31.900 --> 12:33.580 that's going to rest on this house. 12:34.160 --> 12:36.780 I am so honored and privileged that my wife and I 12:36.780 --> 12:38.120 got a chance to meet this house 12:38.120 --> 12:40.560 and to meet Passover and Mary and meet you guys. 12:40.820 --> 12:43.760 It's a great honor for me because I get to be part of this. 12:43.960 --> 12:45.840 I walk in and you guys got it ready here. 12:46.140 --> 12:47.440 You guys think that I'm bringing the presence, 12:47.580 --> 12:49.260 the presence is here and I'm walking into it. 12:51.040 --> 12:52.860 So I'll say this as a jump off point 12:52.860 --> 12:54.380 to where I'm going because it fits perfectly. 12:54.840 --> 12:56.960 When we went out to eat with you and Tanya. 12:57.280 --> 12:57.540 Monday. 12:57.900 --> 12:59.160 The one thing that you said. 12:59.300 --> 12:59.760 Oh Lord Jesus. 13:00.080 --> 13:00.540 Yeah, let's not. 13:04.780 --> 13:05.540 I'm sorry. 13:06.120 --> 13:07.000 I'm sure Mary remembers. 13:07.000 --> 13:08.760 You're going to get my saliva glands going here. 13:11.980 --> 13:16.100 The one thing you said early in the evening 13:18.460 --> 13:21.620 was what is happening here is a rarity. 13:23.020 --> 13:25.420 Almost every speaker that comes through here 13:25.420 --> 13:27.540 who is in touch with the Spirit, 13:27.700 --> 13:29.000 so to speak, flows with the Spirit, 13:29.000 --> 13:29.940 says the same thing. 13:31.740 --> 13:35.640 I say that because we could get in the ditch on this 13:35.640 --> 13:36.740 and get proud and go, 13:36.780 --> 13:37.840 oh yeah, we're a rarity. 13:38.000 --> 13:38.520 We're some of that. 13:38.840 --> 13:39.720 No, no, no, no. 13:39.960 --> 13:41.340 I say that to say this. 13:41.680 --> 13:42.120 Two things. 13:42.640 --> 13:48.480 One is if we as a body don't continue to go together, 13:48.920 --> 13:50.140 the rarity will cease. 13:50.580 --> 13:52.540 Because it's not just Mary and I. 13:52.700 --> 13:53.300 It is us. 13:55.420 --> 13:56.900 When the day of Pentecost, 13:57.160 --> 13:58.780 when the Holy Spirit was poured out 13:58.780 --> 14:00.680 it wasn't because the disciples 14:00.680 --> 14:04.320 or the apostles in the upper room were in unity. 14:05.440 --> 14:07.760 The 120 were as one. 14:08.740 --> 14:10.080 You want to hear something more? 14:13.000 --> 14:15.880 Ephesians 3 talks about the fourfold love of God. 14:17.040 --> 14:19.040 It says the length, the height, the depth, the width. 14:19.300 --> 14:21.080 Now, few verses down. 14:21.500 --> 14:22.080 If you have the... 14:22.080 --> 14:22.960 you can put it up on the screen. 14:23.100 --> 14:23.660 It's Ephesians 3. 14:24.040 --> 14:25.800 It says with all the saints, 14:25.920 --> 14:27.420 meaning that with all the saints, 14:27.420 --> 14:29.560 we are to know the fourfold. 14:29.760 --> 14:31.160 The love of God is the presence of God. 14:31.220 --> 14:32.060 Because that's who God is. 14:32.320 --> 14:33.920 So what I'm saying that literally 14:33.920 --> 14:35.660 to know the presence of God 14:35.660 --> 14:36.960 takes more than just one person. 14:37.340 --> 14:38.560 It's a group of people. 14:38.700 --> 14:39.560 A company of people. 14:40.860 --> 14:41.660 Yeah, that's good. 14:42.740 --> 14:46.160 And when you were talking about Proverbs 31, 14:46.940 --> 14:50.620 my mind went immediately to Revelation 2 and 3, 14:50.720 --> 14:51.500 the seven churches. 14:52.240 --> 14:55.400 And how that two of the seven 14:56.700 --> 14:57.580 Jesus said, 14:58.160 --> 15:01.240 good, he had nothing to say, 15:01.340 --> 15:02.620 change this or improve this. 15:03.420 --> 15:04.660 But five of the seven, 15:05.580 --> 15:07.280 I mean, even threaten some of them. 15:07.700 --> 15:08.880 If you don't get it together, 15:09.020 --> 15:10.680 I'm out of here, kind of thing. 15:12.160 --> 15:14.300 So it is, there is a responsibility 15:14.300 --> 15:16.300 in a holiness that goes with this. 15:16.380 --> 15:17.200 Okay, so we're saying, 15:17.760 --> 15:18.800 yeah, we want the glory. 15:19.000 --> 15:20.620 We want the presence of God to show up. 15:21.080 --> 15:21.820 We do. 15:22.380 --> 15:23.900 And it's awesome and exciting. 15:23.900 --> 15:28.300 But to actually facilitate that, 15:29.300 --> 15:32.520 he's going to require more of us 15:32.520 --> 15:34.160 than he is of other churches. 15:35.540 --> 15:38.760 If we genuinely are a rarity, 15:39.100 --> 15:42.280 he's going to ask more of us 15:42.280 --> 15:48.040 to in house or to carry what he's doing. 15:49.280 --> 15:52.960 He will shake us harder. 15:55.420 --> 15:56.380 Why? 15:56.980 --> 16:00.460 So that the junk that is in our life 16:00.460 --> 16:02.060 that shouldn't be there, 16:02.760 --> 16:04.460 go back to the labor picture, 16:04.580 --> 16:07.640 gets washed off or gets shaken off. 16:08.520 --> 16:09.480 Why? 16:11.040 --> 16:13.300 Because that's the preparation 16:13.300 --> 16:15.500 to go into the holy place 16:15.500 --> 16:17.180 or the holy of holies. 16:17.760 --> 16:20.880 You don't just waltz in. 16:24.580 --> 16:26.460 You say, but we're all bought by the blood 16:26.460 --> 16:27.160 and we're all good enough. 16:28.380 --> 16:29.240 Positionally, yes. 16:30.620 --> 16:32.300 Our spirit man is made perfect. 16:32.540 --> 16:32.700 Yeah. 16:33.240 --> 16:37.240 But when it comes to the deep, 16:37.400 --> 16:38.560 heavy things of God, 16:40.220 --> 16:41.880 to whom much is given, 16:42.480 --> 16:43.740 much is required. 16:44.960 --> 16:46.920 So if we're actually saying, 16:47.060 --> 16:50.040 yeah, we want much, much, much deeper and more, 16:50.840 --> 16:52.120 we're actually saying, 16:52.120 --> 16:55.380 God require much, much, much more of me. 16:57.580 --> 17:00.520 That's the responsibility side to this. 17:00.740 --> 17:01.760 The exciting side is, 17:01.800 --> 17:03.520 you never know what's going to happen. 17:03.880 --> 17:05.520 The responsibility side can be, 17:05.640 --> 17:07.080 oh God, you never know what's going to happen. 17:07.340 --> 17:10.360 He's going to shake some things, 17:11.180 --> 17:12.780 turn us upside down. 17:12.900 --> 17:14.100 To turn us right side up. 17:14.300 --> 17:16.480 So that he can shake all the stuff out of our pockets 17:16.480 --> 17:17.700 and everything we got hidden. 17:20.180 --> 17:20.720 That's right. 17:20.900 --> 17:22.120 So he can turn us around. 17:22.660 --> 17:23.260 I can demonstrate. 17:23.540 --> 17:24.400 No, don't do that. 17:24.600 --> 17:25.300 I got some muscle. 17:25.480 --> 17:26.540 I have things hidden. 17:26.560 --> 17:26.960 Do you? Okay. 17:27.300 --> 17:27.720 All right. 17:29.040 --> 17:29.760 You want a mint? 17:30.380 --> 17:31.440 I actually will, please. 17:31.720 --> 17:32.340 Thank you so much. 17:33.080 --> 17:34.500 I have some of my hidden stuff. 17:35.940 --> 17:37.540 Is this the fresh mana from heaven? 17:37.720 --> 17:37.940 Yeah. 17:38.660 --> 17:39.020 It's... 17:39.580 --> 17:40.680 I'll explain it to you later. 17:40.760 --> 17:41.320 All right. 17:43.020 --> 17:43.380 Anyway... 17:45.220 --> 17:46.960 I've never had a pastor share this with me before. 17:46.960 --> 17:54.180 So when we are pressing deeper into what he wants to do, 17:55.100 --> 17:59.000 what Igor's talking about is absolutely vital, 18:00.280 --> 18:01.540 he will throw... 18:01.540 --> 18:04.980 that the enemy will throw more opportunities 18:05.610 --> 18:07.140 for us to be offended 18:08.670 --> 18:09.840 than other churches. 18:10.580 --> 18:12.180 We will be picked on more. 18:12.440 --> 18:13.780 We will be mocked more. 18:14.000 --> 18:15.640 We will be laughed at more. 18:15.640 --> 18:20.920 He will throw more opportunities for us to pick up offence 18:20.920 --> 18:25.280 while the master of the church is watching and saying, 18:25.360 --> 18:27.200 come on guys, handle that the right way. 18:27.720 --> 18:29.840 Because if you handle that the right way, 18:30.240 --> 18:34.240 you are being shook free of the junk 18:34.240 --> 18:36.300 that will keep you out of the glory. 18:36.960 --> 18:37.860 Watch this. 18:38.220 --> 18:39.120 Hebrews 12 says, 18:39.840 --> 18:42.440 if we are chastised and disciplined by the Lord, 18:42.580 --> 18:43.940 in other words, shaken by him, 18:43.940 --> 18:46.520 then we are legitimate children. 18:47.260 --> 18:49.040 If we are not being shaken by the Lord, 18:49.260 --> 18:50.740 then the Bible tells us in Hebrews 18:50.740 --> 18:52.740 that we are illegitimate children of God. 18:54.940 --> 18:55.820 Yeah, exactly. 18:56.060 --> 18:57.240 Can I say something? 18:57.440 --> 18:57.560 Cool. 18:58.300 --> 19:00.940 The reason why I say that the strategic plan of God 19:00.940 --> 19:01.880 is the greater thing. 19:02.500 --> 19:04.240 See, the devil doesn't have plans. 19:04.680 --> 19:05.740 The devil has schemes. 19:06.220 --> 19:06.860 That's all he has. 19:07.320 --> 19:08.180 God has a plan. 19:09.580 --> 19:10.880 We say, oh, the devil has a plan. 19:10.920 --> 19:12.000 No, no, he has schemes. 19:12.200 --> 19:12.860 He doesn't have plans. 19:12.860 --> 19:15.540 This is why the strategic plan of God 19:15.540 --> 19:17.260 and what's occurring is far greater 19:17.260 --> 19:18.540 than the demonic attack, 19:18.540 --> 19:20.000 because God has a plan orchestrated. 19:21.020 --> 19:23.040 The devil is simply putting pressure, 19:23.640 --> 19:26.020 putting his schemes on these things. 19:26.220 --> 19:27.140 He's not in control. 19:27.600 --> 19:29.420 So that's where I'm saying the two collide. 19:29.520 --> 19:30.780 It's both a demonic attack, 19:30.960 --> 19:33.760 yet more than that, it's a strategic plan of God. 19:34.580 --> 19:35.920 Just wanted to throw that in there. 19:36.300 --> 19:38.200 What he intends for evil, 19:38.740 --> 19:40.440 God is working in that all the time. 19:40.440 --> 19:41.080 Romans 8, 28. 19:41.840 --> 19:41.860 Yeah. 19:41.860 --> 19:44.040 It's not like God's sitting back going, 19:44.120 --> 19:45.260 oh, what are we going to do with this? 19:45.580 --> 19:46.680 No, he's saying, watch me. 19:47.600 --> 19:48.240 You go ahead and play. 19:48.560 --> 19:49.640 I'm going to turn this whole thing. 19:49.920 --> 19:51.380 I'm telling you, in the days ahead, 19:52.320 --> 19:54.840 the unpopular topic of what I said, 19:55.500 --> 19:56.520 beauty and suffering. 19:57.180 --> 19:59.240 Friends, you're going to see sermons on that. 20:00.380 --> 20:01.460 There is beauty and suffering. 20:01.680 --> 20:03.300 Let me just give you a sneak peek of what I say. 20:04.160 --> 20:06.880 When you learn the beauty and suffering, 20:07.260 --> 20:08.660 you're giving the devil a bad day. 20:11.200 --> 20:14.340 Because that's what purifies us, sanctifies us. 20:14.540 --> 20:15.280 You can't reach you. 20:15.520 --> 20:15.720 Yeah. 20:16.880 --> 20:19.280 First Peter 4, the beginning of the chapter, 20:19.480 --> 20:21.460 to die to the flesh, 20:21.800 --> 20:24.020 never happens without suffering. 20:24.780 --> 20:25.640 There's suffering involved. 20:25.780 --> 20:26.660 We have to learn how to do it. 20:27.060 --> 20:28.680 We have to learn how to do it well. 20:29.280 --> 20:32.360 Because as that happens, then the glory comes 20:32.360 --> 20:34.680 and fills those spots. 20:36.120 --> 20:38.120 So, let me go back to my thought. 20:38.600 --> 20:39.040 Sorry. 20:39.540 --> 20:41.480 No, I think it's all weaving together. 20:41.820 --> 20:42.080 It's good. 20:47.180 --> 20:49.220 Numerous people have said what we discussed 20:49.220 --> 20:52.040 on Friday night with the covenant partners. 20:53.740 --> 20:56.180 In a nutshell way, you just... 20:56.180 --> 20:58.520 I came up here and you were right. 20:58.780 --> 21:01.620 When the praise band was done... 21:02.220 --> 21:03.360 Oh, it was shaking like a canary. 21:03.360 --> 21:06.500 It was... my legs were weak standing on this platform. 21:06.700 --> 21:09.080 And I was thinking, boy, they're doing good to stand that long. 21:09.200 --> 21:10.740 Because it was heavy up here. 21:11.320 --> 21:11.980 It was heavy. 21:12.720 --> 21:14.340 But when I came up after the message, 21:16.580 --> 21:19.360 you parroted something that others have been saying. 21:19.740 --> 21:21.600 And I say this again in the fear of the Lord. 21:21.720 --> 21:24.200 Not to say, oh, look at something that God's doing. 21:24.300 --> 21:27.520 No, I'm saying we have to understand 21:27.520 --> 21:30.640 the gravity of the responsibility of this. 21:31.800 --> 21:37.000 You said, I feel like the Lord is about to catapult this church forward. 21:38.140 --> 21:40.860 And there's been numerous people who are saying the same thing. 21:40.980 --> 21:42.580 There's a feeling in the atmosphere. 21:43.680 --> 21:45.000 Don't know how soon or when, 21:45.140 --> 21:48.860 but there's going to be a leap forward in some things. 21:49.240 --> 21:50.140 Can I jump on that? 21:50.560 --> 21:51.000 Okay. 21:52.420 --> 21:53.720 No, on the catapult. 21:53.900 --> 21:55.140 Oh, I thought you were going to explain it. 21:55.360 --> 21:56.900 Sorry, that's Russians we sometimes... 21:56.900 --> 21:58.300 You can get on the catapult with us. 21:58.300 --> 21:58.660 That's fine. 22:01.860 --> 22:03.160 You want any special seat? 22:05.060 --> 22:07.040 I'll go low. I'll go low. 22:07.800 --> 22:09.420 Can I be the guy that's pushing it? 22:09.740 --> 22:11.380 That's a good answer. That was a really good answer. 22:11.860 --> 22:13.600 But I do want to say actually something 22:13.600 --> 22:16.960 because you're saying this and I'm brought back to one of the conference nights. 22:18.200 --> 22:22.160 One of the nights I said that we often ask God for a greater fire. 22:22.800 --> 22:26.200 But a greater fire won't come until a greater sacrifice is laid on the altar. 22:26.200 --> 22:33.360 And the reason for it being that if we do not lay a sacrifice that is to match the fire, 22:33.560 --> 22:34.720 the altar will burn. 22:35.340 --> 22:36.700 And God doesn't want to do that. 22:37.000 --> 22:39.960 So when you're talking about responsibility, here you are as a church. 22:40.320 --> 22:42.000 You're saying God, we want more friends. 22:42.100 --> 22:43.400 You got to get ready to lay down more. 22:44.860 --> 22:48.740 Because when God's going to send down a fire on the sacrifice, 22:49.120 --> 22:50.620 you got to be there. 22:51.120 --> 22:52.560 You can't be doing one of these. 22:52.980 --> 22:53.960 Maybe, maybe not. 22:53.960 --> 22:55.420 What if things get a little weird? 22:55.700 --> 22:56.080 That's okay. 22:57.200 --> 22:58.560 Pastor Vern will deal with it. 22:59.620 --> 23:01.740 Give me Romans 12-1. 23:02.360 --> 23:05.460 And you can't have one foot in the world and one foot in the earth. 23:05.460 --> 23:06.100 No, you can't. 23:07.400 --> 23:10.580 It'll make you get off that neutral spot one way or the other. 23:11.660 --> 23:12.360 Can't do it. 23:13.140 --> 23:17.620 And what you said is exactly what I want to apply here. 23:19.880 --> 23:23.920 Present your bodies a living sacrifice, wholly and acceptable to God. 23:25.120 --> 23:28.600 He's going to require more of us because He wants to give us more. 23:30.040 --> 23:32.720 And we could have a prayer line, but this is not a... 23:32.720 --> 23:35.720 What we're doing that needs to be shook out of our life, 23:35.800 --> 23:37.800 chances are we're not doing it at church. 23:38.640 --> 23:39.980 We're doing it at home. 23:40.500 --> 23:41.240 Behind closed doors. 23:41.400 --> 23:42.780 We're doing it behind closed doors. 23:43.280 --> 23:44.120 Can I say a quick thought? 23:44.160 --> 23:45.760 He's asking, give me just a thought. 23:45.760 --> 23:46.180 Yes, sir. 23:46.240 --> 23:47.020 Just second for a thought. 23:47.280 --> 23:54.440 He's asking us to lay those things down as a sacrifice so they can burn. 23:54.560 --> 23:55.440 Just what you just said. 23:55.880 --> 24:01.560 He is going to shake us to get those things out and off of us. 24:02.120 --> 24:02.640 Why? 24:03.040 --> 24:04.920 Because of the Scripture we read in Haggai, 24:05.040 --> 24:10.600 the reason he's shaking the earth is so he can invade it with his glory. 24:12.720 --> 24:15.680 And this is our little piece of it right here. 24:16.340 --> 24:16.940 Go ahead. 24:17.940 --> 24:22.640 What we do behind closed doors is far more important than what we do in public. 24:25.060 --> 24:26.260 This is the Matthew 6. 24:26.420 --> 24:27.960 I touched on this at the conference as well. 24:28.880 --> 24:33.980 If we do what we do here at church, if we do this at home, 24:34.420 --> 24:36.940 you will experience the presence of God like no other. 24:37.140 --> 24:37.200 Why? 24:37.340 --> 24:40.100 Because God is going to begin to reward not just 10 of you, 24:40.100 --> 24:44.380 not just 15 of you, but the full congregation is going to be rewarded with this presence. 24:44.680 --> 24:45.460 Because he says, 24:45.720 --> 24:48.640 Seek him in private and he will reward you in public. 24:48.840 --> 24:49.200 Openly. 24:49.280 --> 24:49.880 Openly. 24:50.180 --> 24:51.120 With his presence. 24:51.420 --> 24:51.540 Yep. 24:52.340 --> 24:58.440 So my point to everything you said this morning and everything we just kind of wove through 25:00.320 --> 25:05.160 is the areas of our lives where we're messing around. 25:07.460 --> 25:11.240 And God is going to start shaking us to quit, to get us to quit that. 25:13.760 --> 25:16.060 Not because he doesn't want us to have any fun. 25:17.060 --> 25:18.320 Because that's why we mess around. 25:18.600 --> 25:19.420 It's fun for the flesh. 25:20.200 --> 25:25.400 Sin is joyful or if sin is fun, pleasurable for a season, Scripture says. 25:26.080 --> 25:29.500 And that's why Christians mess around in stuff they shouldn't be messing around in, 25:29.540 --> 25:30.420 because they like it. 25:31.180 --> 25:32.080 They didn't like it. 25:32.100 --> 25:32.660 They wouldn't do it. 25:33.300 --> 25:34.120 They like it. 25:34.120 --> 25:35.240 We like it. 25:35.620 --> 25:36.000 It's us. 25:37.900 --> 25:43.440 And what God is saying is where I want to take you and what I want to do in our lives as 25:43.440 --> 25:52.200 individuals, in our families, in this church body, in this area, this region, this state. 25:52.620 --> 25:57.440 What I want to do here is going to require more... 25:57.440 --> 25:59.260 I'll try to use some adjectives. 25:59.400 --> 26:00.600 You jump in and help me if you have to. 26:00.860 --> 26:02.800 It's going to require more commitment. 26:02.800 --> 26:09.100 More willingness to die to the flesh. 26:09.580 --> 26:12.800 And not just the willingness, but doing it. 26:14.320 --> 26:18.500 More of us not messing around. 26:19.440 --> 26:20.480 But getting serious. 26:20.700 --> 26:21.280 It's not a game. 26:21.880 --> 26:22.820 Getting serious. 26:23.440 --> 26:28.400 And offering ourselves a living sacrifice. 26:29.480 --> 26:31.780 Sacrifices are something that are painful. 26:31.780 --> 26:34.760 Especially if you are the sacrifice. 26:36.120 --> 26:39.240 And he's asking us to suffer. 26:40.700 --> 26:42.340 Let him shake us. 26:42.820 --> 26:43.920 Let him clean us. 26:44.460 --> 26:52.520 Let him get us into the position so that, just like it said in that verse, more glory can come. 26:53.660 --> 26:59.400 And the people and the churches who get stubborn on that and are not willing to go there. 27:01.540 --> 27:02.740 The presence leaves. 27:03.740 --> 27:07.060 You're either moving deeper in God or you're going the other way. 27:08.200 --> 27:10.580 From my understanding... 27:10.580 --> 27:12.260 There's no standing still. 27:13.200 --> 27:14.480 You can't stand still long. 27:14.840 --> 27:19.600 Because you'll start sliding backwards or you're focused on moving deeper. 27:20.640 --> 27:26.200 And I include all of us in this because... 27:26.200 --> 27:31.660 If he's going to do something with us as a church, he's going to do something with us as a church. 27:32.500 --> 27:37.620 It's not going to be, oh, let's see how amazing Pastor Mary and whoever else can be. 27:38.300 --> 27:45.500 No, he is going to shake all of us in our personal lives at home saying, I've been after this. 27:45.700 --> 27:47.960 Some things for years, some things are new, whatever. 27:48.380 --> 27:49.320 I've been after this. 27:49.480 --> 27:50.500 Let it go. 27:51.120 --> 27:52.360 Now you know why. 27:53.100 --> 27:55.540 So that more glory can come in your life. 27:55.540 --> 27:57.500 More glory can come here. 27:57.700 --> 28:02.120 We can have a bigger effect on what his kingdom is trying to do. 28:03.020 --> 28:04.540 Do you want to add anything to that? 28:07.280 --> 28:07.860 You're good. 28:08.520 --> 28:11.400 Your wife said you're good, so I'm in agreement with your wife. 28:11.920 --> 28:13.840 You said that you like when people agree with you. 28:13.940 --> 28:16.620 I agree with your wife that you're good, so we're good. 28:18.780 --> 28:21.640 I think that's the message for the day. 28:21.640 --> 28:26.140 And when God gives me grace, I would love to come back and share the other two major things. 28:26.140 --> 28:26.820 Oh, he'll be back. 28:27.520 --> 28:28.560 Are you sure? 28:34.880 --> 28:36.980 All right, be blessed. Have an awesome day. 28:37.400 --> 28:39.520 And don't forget what we ended on.