01:36:19:05 – 01:36:52:16
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All right. Oh, look at this. Be bold. Be bold. There we go. I love it, Patrick. I agree with all those words. That was really epic. It’s always awesome to be here. I was called to preach in the middle of the week, and it was really, Thanks, Patrick. It was a blessing for me because I preached a couple of weeks ago, and I spoke about the finished work of Jesus and about the rest that he brings, about how he brings us to salvation, not probation, about how he sets our soul at rest, about how he purifies our motivations.

01:36:52:17 – 01:37:13:06
Unknown
So it’s not about condemnation and shame and fear and oh, let me compete with other people, blah, blah, blah. That’s our motivation is love. Okay. But at the end of it, I didn’t get a chance to go into well, now what? Because we’re saved. And for what? I mean, we can ask the question, you know, what did Christ save us from?

01:37:13:08 – 01:37:33:13
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And we know he saved us from death. He saved us from sin. He didn’t save us from God, contrary to other opinions. Okay. God actually was the one who had the idea to save us. God the father. He saved us from sin, death, fear. He saved us from loneliness. I was just powerfully moved by how and what he wrote that he saw.

01:37:33:15 – 01:38:07:06
Unknown
What happens to the human soul when it’s abandoned. And I want us to hear that word. And the father. It’s near and dear to his heart. You heard the prophetic word from from Tim Morton where he said, I’ll not leave you as orphans. I’ll not leave you as an orphan. And the scripture the Lord had put on my heart before worship was the very next verse after Tim quoted John 1420, where Jesus said, on the day of the Holy Spirit comes, you will know that I am in the father, and you are in me, and I am in you.

01:38:07:08 – 01:38:20:12
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And it’s a plural you. It’s a y’all on the on that day y’all’s going to know I’m in the father. The fathers of me in y’alls and me and I’m in y’all.

01:38:20:15 – 01:38:43:23
Unknown
Makes me want some barbecue. Okay. And some firearms. Okay. Cool. All right. Sorry. Okay. I’m actually going to the south tomorrow, so I’m gonna have to get. Getting ready. Getting ready for that. Okay. But that’s so important that the father’s heart is for Union. His heart is for reconciliation. His heart is for us to be incorporated into his son.

01:38:43:25 – 01:39:05:04
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He has one heir. He has one son. And you get grafted in. You get incorporated in. You’re not divided from Jesus Christ. This is the gospel. There’s no longer Jew or Greek, slave or free, male or female. You are all one in Christ Jesus. As many of you has been have been baptized into Christ Jesus, have put on Christ.

01:39:05:06 – 01:39:27:25
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You cannot get shredded away from Jesus Christ. You’re in. That’s your identity. You’re in. As a Christian, you are kept. You are loved. And you’re drawn into this dance where you’re connected with the father and everyone else who’s connected with the father. It’s really good. Just dance. Just dance. Wasn’t that amazing? We’re drawn into the dance of the Trinity.

01:39:27:26 – 01:39:51:02
Unknown
Okay, let’s play that again. Okay. And it’s a great place to be. We’re drawn into a community, into a oneness. That was God’s plan. It was his purpose. He wants a zero distance from you. And as a Christian, there is zero distance between you and the father. If there’s distance between Jesus and the father, maybe there could be distance for you.

01:39:51:03 – 01:40:11:05
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But you’re in Christ. You’re in Christ. And when we were worshiping, I had a moment where I just thought, this is what I was created for. And I was up there just I was sitting before the Lord, along with a lot of you guys. And when we’re in worship, when we’re in oneness, I’m not thinking about I’m a parent.

01:40:11:08 – 01:40:32:00
Unknown
I’m a husband. I’m a pastor. I’m a preacher. I need to make more money. You know, I’m not thinking. I’m not thinking about that. That type of stuff. What’s on Netflix? You know, I’m not. I’m not thinking about that. I’m completely absorbed single mindedly in my Lord, in his love and in who I am in him and who you are in me and I in you.

01:40:32:02 – 01:40:57:13
Unknown
You know, when it was saying, when George was singing, I am yours, you are mine, I am yours, you are mine. Was that just between us and God? Was it only vertical? We look at one another. We could say, you are mine, I am yours. This is the body of Jesus Christ. Whereas connected to Christ as a head is to a liver, to guts, to to a finger.

01:40:57:14 – 01:41:20:00
Unknown
Right to to an arm. We’re connected. We’re one body. We’re one entity. And this is something our house knows very well. So I want to speak into this. The message title today is going to be Unhindered Circulation. Yeah. So the blood is the life. Okay. When you when you hear about blood, the blood of Jesus given for you, I want you to think of the life of God.

01:41:20:02 – 01:41:39:06
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And the life of God is a living flow of love. It’s a living flow of love. His life is given to you. His life binds us together. We all have the same head. Jesus. We all have the same DNA. The divine nature has been placed in us. We have a new spirit. We’re partakers of the divine nature. We have the same blood running through all of us.

01:41:39:08 – 01:42:05:28
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It’s God’s life. We have the same mission to be ambassadors of reconciliation, to draw all until God is all in all. First Corinthians 1528. That’s the end of the story, the restoration of all things. God drawing his people fully into one, drawing the whole creation fully into one. If you read the context, okay. And this is what we’ve been sent to do, and I want to summarize what I’m going to talk about like this.

01:42:06:01 – 01:42:34:17
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As organs in the body of Christ, we grow by blood circulation, not self modification. So we’re not you don’t need to become a new self. You need to grow into the new self. Everything you need is in you. Just like everything. My daughter, who’s six. Everything she needs to become a 30 year old is in her. Everything your tomato plant needs to produce tomatoes is in it.

01:42:34:19 – 01:42:51:21
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Everything you need for an oak forest is in one acorn. Does this make sense to everybody? This is in you already. The life of God is in you. But it must come to maturity. We’re not adding increments. I thought about bringing a stapler up here and being like and having a piece of paper that said good prayer life.

01:42:51:21 – 01:43:10:16
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And then I was going to be like, I come here and staple this onto me. I need a better prayer life. Come staple it onto me. But it doesn’t. It doesn’t work that way. Our prayer life comes from the inside out. When we’re in the Holy Spirit, we’re hearing what God says, and we’re praying into the things that that God brings to our mind.

01:43:10:18 – 01:43:29:27
Unknown
Does this make sense? Okay, so he’s he’s given us all things that pertain to life and godliness. We’re not going to be changed by saying, I suck and I need to become a better me. Jesus took care of that by burying you and raising you from the dead. You are a new you. If anyone’s in Christ, he or she is a new creation.

01:43:30:00 – 01:43:35:25
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The new has come. The old has passed away. Now we need to grow up.

01:43:35:27 – 01:43:39:21
Unknown
And can we avoid growing up?

01:43:39:23 – 01:43:58:07
Unknown
Yeah. I mean, it’s your choice, right? You know that song we were saying? I’m going to reference almost everything that happened in this service, because I think it’s all directly related to what I’m talking about, that the song where he said, I am nothing, I am nothing without you, but you make me something when I surrender. You know, I’m very wary of legalism.

01:43:58:07 – 01:44:14:03
Unknown
I don’t know if you know this about me. I was like, oh, I don’t know if I agree with that. You know, I think God made made me as something that’s worthy. I think he wanted to redeem me. I think I had value, but what that is really saying is I’m nothing. When I’m all potential, every door is open to me.

01:44:14:05 – 01:44:39:02
Unknown
Everything I could possibly do is open to me and I’m not going to choose a single one. I’m leaving it open. This was my experience when I lived in Santa Barbara, and I didn’t know what I wanted to do with my life, and I played video games all the time. I’m not against video games if you play them, whatever, but I wouldn’t choose a path I had to know, like what the perfect thing was and what the right thing was for me to do before I would start doing anything.

01:44:39:05 – 01:45:04:11
Unknown
And I was nothing. Even though I had unlimited potential. But what the Lord wants us to move from is potential to actual. He wants us to close every door but what he has called us into. Okay. Jesus said, if you’re going to come after me, take your cross and follow me. He meant, close the door on every other savior, every other calling.

01:45:04:14 – 01:45:25:01
Unknown
It doesn’t mean you can’t. You can only pray, and you’re only called to just pray like a monk. That’s not what I’m talking about. It means go from potential. And. Oh, I haven’t committed to anything. So everything’s still possible. And I’m. I’m Peter Pan and, you know, I’m a I’m a forever kid. I’m a forever youth sprinkling pixie dust on everybody know that’s nice for like a six year old.

01:45:25:03 – 01:45:50:15
Unknown
Okay. But you have to grow up at some point. You have to choose become actual at something. When you become actual at something, the Lord’s going to direct. You join something. Okay, so God has given you this new self that has to grow up. It has to grow up. And let me just read some scriptures here. We’re going to look at Colossians 218 through 19.

01:45:50:17 – 01:46:11:28
Unknown
We grow up, by the way, when we participate in the life of God, when we’re circulating in the bloodstream of God, when we have said, I’m going to receive God’s life and I’m going to transmit God’s life. Think about the body of Christ having a circulatory system, arteries, veins, a heart. Have we had any experiences with this in real life?

01:46:12:01 – 01:46:26:11
Unknown
Okay, so the Lord’s been speaking to us about this. His body has a circulation, right? And what would happen if a blood vessel or an artery only received blood and it didn’t transmit?

01:46:26:13 – 01:46:29:17
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Death?

01:46:29:19 – 01:46:47:15
Unknown
So it’s just as important for you to transmit the life of God as to receive the life of God. It’s just as important for you to say I’m in the body. It’s also important to function as part of the body. A lot of times people talk about the body of Christ, and then somebody goes, even if you’re just a little pinky, it really hurts.

01:46:47:15 – 01:47:07:22
Unknown
If I miss my if I hammer my pinky. That’s true. If somebody here is a pinky, that’s true. We still need you. I do a lot with my pinky. I’m not going to tell you what I do with it. I gesture in sermons. You over there need to repent. No, I’m just kidding. It doesn’t really have the power of the of the index finger, you know, let alone the middle finger.

01:47:07:28 – 01:47:35:13
Unknown
Anyways, do you know the body of Christ does have a middle finger? All right, I’m going to leave you to guess who the middle finger is in our in our house. Okay, let’s get specific. Oh. Very good. Okay. The point I’m trying to make is sometimes we’re like, oh, Pastor Jonathan is like an I, and I am a pinky, and I am maybe a shaving of a pinky fingernail.

01:47:35:15 – 01:47:55:18
Unknown
You know, I’m I’m not important. And, you know, maybe if I got a calling or I got a prophetic word, then I would all of a sudden, maybe I could be an arm. Maybe I could be a, You know, I won’t say what other body part, you know? Take your pick. But I want you to imagine, for the sake of this message, that you are a vital organ.

01:47:55:20 – 01:48:07:12
Unknown
You’re not a pinky, you’re a liver. You’re the guts. Okay? You’re you’re the kidneys. What happens if you’re not in the flow?

01:48:07:14 – 01:48:30:25
Unknown
Bad things happen. Why do we want to grow? What is the need to grow? Is it so I can become new and I can be accepted by God and I can finally be forgiven. I should hear a resounding no. I don’t need my son Samson to grow up before I love him with all my heart. I will never consider banishing him from my family.

01:48:30:28 – 01:48:52:00
Unknown
He could disown me. I will never disown him. That’s how your father feels about you. He should grow up for different reasons. When you grow up, you get more capabilities when you like. Does anybody here want to walk like Jesus? Heal the sick, cast out demons. Bring change, feed the poor. That would be amazing to have that capability.

01:48:52:02 – 01:49:10:25
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When you grow up, you start to gain those capabilities, start to manifest. When you grow up, you get more responsibility. You can be trusted with stuff. And that’s what we’re made to do as humans. We’re not just made to to drift along. We’re meant to have something that we are stewarding that gives us value. It gives us worth.

01:49:10:27 – 01:49:38:01
Unknown
God. God made us for that. Oh, yeah. It’s it’s a great thing to cry and that babies loved. But that baby will grow up. Okay. We get capabilities, we get responsibilities. And more than that, we get the ability to love others better. Okay. You’re growing up for the sake. Not of yourself, but of other people. When you get more capability and you get more responsibility, you have more ability to help others.

01:49:38:07 – 01:49:58:23
Unknown
You have more ability to supply. You have more ability to advance the kingdom. You can live not for yourself, but for somebody else. Do you guys understand this? That when you grow, you get more responsibility? This is what it means to grow up. We need people in this body to take roles and to be trusted. You are needed.

01:49:58:23 – 01:50:16:22
Unknown
The people that join the church, you’re so needed. You’re not a little pinky, especially Hal. He’s like a megaphone, right? He’s like a I can’t wait till he writes something, man, because it’s, It’s powerful. Dude. And and Andrew, man, I could go on about him. He’s awesome. Daniel. What a heart. You know, he’s a man of so much love and integrity.

01:50:16:25 – 01:50:39:06
Unknown
These are incredible people in this room. Like, since I’ve moved here, I’ve been. I’ve been shaped by the people in this room. I hope I’ve done something to shape you as well. Okay. Because we are shaping one another. We’re mutually defined. I don’t say, let me tell you who I am divorced from my mom, my dad, my community, my church, where I live, my wife, my kids.

01:50:39:11 – 01:51:02:10
Unknown
I’m something else. Know who I am is who I am. In union with all of these people, in union with Christ and union with other relationships that I have. Who you are is not a solitary monad. That’s a little. It’s a short word, but it’s weird. Okay? It doesn’t mean you’re not like a unity. You’re a union. You’re a community.

01:51:02:12 – 01:51:24:27
Unknown
Does this make sense? Like you are absorbed in this life of God. You’re swirled into this bloodstream. Okay. Remember when Jesus had his parables? He taught about people who were faithful being said over more. Is this like, oh, they’re going to become a first class kingdom citizen. And everyone else that doesn’t do it is is back to orphan.

01:51:25:00 – 01:51:39:26
Unknown
God hates orphan hood. Unless you don’t really do. Well, then he’s going to kick you back outside. You’re only an investment. You’re not his heir. If his investment doesn’t pan out, he’ll kick you to the curb.

01:51:39:28 – 01:52:02:00
Unknown
You’ve got to confront that thinking. You’re his son. You’re his heir. He’s not. The rewards are not based on your belonging. They’re based on your responsibility, your trustworthiness. The kingdom of God does not have degrees of belonging. You’re in. It does have degrees of maturity and responsibility.

01:52:02:02 – 01:52:24:29
Unknown
Is that something you’re interested in? Growing? In responsibility? I’m not. You guys are like better people than me. I need the Holy Spirit to wake me up. I need other people to say, hey, look, I see this in you. You know, I like to avoid responsibility. I’m really good at avoidance. If that’s you, you’re not alone. We can help you.

01:52:25:02 – 01:52:44:05
Unknown
Like there’s something for you to do that’s going to fulfill you. And we’ll find it. Okay. But think about these parables of rewards, okay? Jesus said to the one who has, more will be given and he will have an abundance. He said, the one who’s faithful and a little. I’ll set him over much. He said to a one one servant who served him well.

01:52:44:06 – 01:53:10:03
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I’ll set you over two cities, and one that served him even even better, he said, I’ll set you over five cities. There was one that was that had talents given to them, a sum of money to invest. This is a Matthew 25. One did really well and he was given two talents more to reinvest. Yes, another did really well and he was given five talents more to reinvest, not to keep.

01:53:10:05 – 01:53:34:05
Unknown
Not that there is now to reinvest. What Jesus is talking about is responsibility in the Kingdom of God. And what we have done in theology and eschatology is we’ve just punted that 80 yards down the field. Someday the Lord’s going to make me the Lord of Tokyo. You’re only going to roll Arroyo Grande. Sorry. You know, maybe you’ll get Temecula.

01:53:34:08 – 01:53:52:22
Unknown
Sorry about that. But, you know, your reward isn’t how many people you’re going to be able to dominate in the future. That’s not the kingdom of God. What he’s talking about is when you show that you’re willing to obey God, you hear his voice and you act on it. He says, I’m going to show you something else.

01:53:52:24 – 01:54:13:07
Unknown
I can trust you. I can have you shepherd people. I can have you lead people. I can have you speak to people because you’re hearing my voice and you’re willing to do it, even if it makes you look stupid sometimes, even if it makes you uncomfortable. Even if you join up with people that you don’t automatically, they’re not automatically your soul mates, but you still show up.

01:54:13:09 – 01:54:19:22
Unknown
You forge soulmates. You don’t find them.

01:54:19:24 – 01:54:40:29
Unknown
You have to show up. You got to join stuff. Okay, so the people that joined this church, they stepped into the circulation of the body of Christ. They joined. I don’t know about you, but I’ve I’ve grown the most in my life when I’ve joined something, when I’ve committed to something that I didn’t want to commit to, maybe a lot of times I did, but I knew I wasn’t equal to the task.

01:54:41:01 – 01:55:04:06
Unknown
But the Lord will supply the grace. So I’ve grown more. You know, before I got married, I used to think I was a really good person. And before I had kids, I thought maybe I still had a few illusions. Now I don’t. So, my friend Billy, he was like, you’re like the only person I can see the Lord visibly refining you because everything you’re doing is so hard for your personality.

01:55:04:08 – 01:55:23:05
Unknown
I’m like, yeah, because he knows me pretty well. I would rather just sit in a room and read. And for some reason I joined things, but I don’t regret joining it. I was living in an illusion that I was doing great. I had no more, that I could grow in responsibility. I had no more that I could contribute.

01:55:23:08 – 01:55:46:26
Unknown
I was limited, you know, because I hadn’t. I still had all the world of possibilities in front of me. But the time, you know, that we have on earth was ticking a little bit, and I had not. I was driven by it in a weird way, but I wouldn’t make a choice. Okay. And so what is the Lord speaking to you now as I’m talking like, what is he calling you towards?

01:55:46:28 – 01:55:55:19
Unknown
How are you going to show up to things? Okay, it’s not in the kingdom of God whether you’re in or out, it’s how you show up.

01:55:55:21 – 01:56:18:23
Unknown
If you show up and how you show up. Because belonging precedes transformation. But belonging also triggers transformation. When you know that you belong, that that you’re not. You’ve received a jubilee, not a jeopardy. You are not on probation anymore. This is your home. This is your family. You are a liver. You are an arm. You are a tricep.

01:56:18:24 – 01:56:21:21
Unknown
Yeah, okay.

01:56:21:24 – 01:56:41:11
Unknown
You’re like Schwarzenegger’s tries like Logan. He like he has a strength to his arm, man. Okay, good. But that’s your important in this body. You belong here. That is what’s going to allow you to grow. Think about a baby’s hand, okay? Like you think about a little baby. It has a hand. Most of them. Okay. Has a hand.

01:56:41:14 – 01:57:15:26
Unknown
And you know the baby’s hand. How does the baby’s hand grow? How does this member of the body grow? It attends a seminar that says seven Steps to Becoming a Bigger Hand. It gets impartation. It gets a prophetic word. No, but it’s parents read the Bible over it. No, it has connection. It has circulation. It has nutrients. That’s how it grows.

01:57:15:29 – 01:57:41:06
Unknown
Did you know that you are organic? You’re not mechanic, okay. The growth in the Kingdom of God is organic growth. You are a vineyard church. You are not a factory. We’re not a factory. Okay? Relationship is is what we’re in. Connection is where the growth is going to come from. I should probably read my scriptures. All right. Colossians 218 through 19.

01:57:41:10 – 01:57:56:18
Unknown
And then I’m going to read Ephesians 413 through 16. And these are these are familiar scriptures to us, but I want us to hear them. Holy spirit, help us. Colossians 218. Let no one disqualify you.

01:57:56:20 – 01:58:28:26
Unknown
Let no one disqualify you. What about if they yell loud like David and it’s like you, you’re you’re still out. You know I’m not supposed to let you disqualify me. ABBA. ABBA qualified me. You don’t have anything to do with it. The blood of Jesus brings me in, not you. Let no one disqualify you. Insisting on asceticism. That means like you must fast three days a week.

01:58:28:28 – 01:58:54:06
Unknown
You must whip yourself when you sin. Recite many prayers to focus your mind. Bow on your face, not on your knees. Where? Ill fitting clothing to show you that the poor are blessed. That’s. That’s asceticism. Okay, he goes on at the end of that chapter, Colossians two, to say it’s self-made religion. It’s rituals that you think up or that a person, not God.

01:58:54:06 – 01:59:07:27
Unknown
A person thinks up and tells you that they’re going to get you closer to God. They’re going to make you more special to God. They’re going to overcome God’s resistance to your prayers.

01:59:08:00 – 01:59:36:19
Unknown
Jesus is like, just ask him and he’ll give it to you. Jesus wasn’t like, here’s how you will that her down the father’s ill will. No, no, God’s on our side in this word. I don’t know if anybody knows that. Maybe that should change how we pray. Okay? Insisting on asceticism and worship of angels going on in details about visions puffed up without reason by his sensuous mind.

01:59:36:22 – 02:00:05:22
Unknown
That means the five senses not holding fast to the head. Jesus, from whom the whole body nourished and knit together through its joints and ligaments, grows with a growth that is from what? I thought it was up to me. I thought I needed staple more stuff onto myself. I thought I needed to jump back on the conveyor belt in the in the factory.

02:00:05:24 – 02:00:27:27
Unknown
No, I need to stay connected, stay nourished, stay with my attention on my Rabbi Jesus. I’m going to grow. There’s nothing you can do to stop it. If I don’t show up, though, or I show up, checked out. I’m like, when I. When I every night I fall asleep like this. Just so you guys know, this is how.

02:00:27:28 – 02:00:35:25
Unknown
That’s how my life is. And like three times during the night I wake up and I’m like, oh, I can’t feel my hand at all.

02:00:35:27 – 02:00:57:04
Unknown
You know? It’s still attached to me, but it’s numb. And by the way, my hand cannot make itself feel again. I have to tell some other part of my body to move. I have to go. I have to tell my shoulder, my back, my hips, my legs flop over and I’m like, oh. And then I go over to my other side and I start to feel the pins and needles.

02:00:57:06 – 02:01:05:13
Unknown
I start to feel the pain. Okay? Because my circulation is restoring.

02:01:05:15 – 02:01:12:19
Unknown
If there’s a body member that’s like fallen asleep, they’re not getting them back in.

02:01:12:21 – 02:01:39:18
Unknown
It’s not by self effort. Some other member of the body is going to have to shift pull that sucker in, okay. And when they get back in, by the way, they’re not going to be numb anymore. It’s going to start to hurt when you reengage with your marriage, when you reengage with your parenting, when I when you reengage with your church, you reengage with the ministry, you reengage with the community.

02:01:39:20 – 02:01:48:26
Unknown
It’s going to hurt. There’s going to be pins and needles, there’s going to be fruit in that garden, but there’s also going to be thorns.

02:01:48:28 – 02:02:11:09
Unknown
You’re going to be dealing with human beings. You yourself as a human being will be there wherever you run. There you are. Okay, that’s like my favorite aphorism. Okay, but just expect it. But, but should you leave your hand asleep because you don’t. You don’t want that pain? No. Should you leave that person out in the cold because you don’t want to deal with them?

02:02:11:11 – 02:02:31:01
Unknown
No. They’re bone of your bone. Flesh of your flesh. They’re a member of the body. What if they’re the liver? You got to plug them back in. Okay? Get that blood flowing. The heart, I believe, is the Holy Spirit. I’m just going to throw that in there. Jesus is the head of the body. The Holy Spirit is the heart pumping the life, pumping the blood through the whole body.

02:02:31:03 – 02:02:55:18
Unknown
And and what it says is we’re connected through the joints and the ligaments. The growth is coming from God, but it’s transmitting through us. Does everybody see that? You are absolutely essential. I am absolutely essential. I hate saying that. That sounds like a false humility just coming out of my mouth. However, we get wired, but you have to be able to say it.

02:02:55:20 – 02:03:14:08
Unknown
If you’re not able to say, I’m essential to this church, you’re going to drift away, you’re going to fall asleep, you’re going to go numb. Somebody else is going to have to pull you back in. And we will. We love to do that. I mean, I hope that maybe even now some people are coming to your minds of like, oh, that person’s a little bit on the fringe.

02:03:14:10 – 02:03:35:28
Unknown
I haven’t seen them for a while. They’re not taking the ministry. They don’t have the passion they used to have. Instead of being like, I have the passion and they don’t anymore, it’d be like, hey, why don’t I believe in this person? Intercede for them, text them, meet up with them and pursue them. How many here, if you were drifting, would want me to get in your bidness?

02:03:36:00 – 02:03:58:15
Unknown
Wow, you have just given me blanket access to you. All right. It’s on video to. All right, but isn’t that true? It’s like, this is like, we want connection. We want people to pursue us. We would be probably willing to do that for someone. Would anyone here be willing to pursue me if I was drifting? That’s pretty comforting.

02:03:58:15 – 02:04:25:01
Unknown
I don’t know if anyone’s going to say yes. Okay, I know Jeremiah, he has, But how come? We’re all starving for something that everyone here is willing to do. What’s that? It’s hard to ask. Yeah. Amen. So it’s on us as people in the circulation, hearing from God connected to pursue the people that will not ask.

02:04:25:03 – 02:04:34:05
Unknown
Would this also apply to people that don’t yet believe in Jesus? They probably won’t connect themselves to the body of Christ.

02:04:34:08 – 02:04:52:22
Unknown
You know, the Lord has died for them and he’s like, why don’t you tell them, be reconciled to God? Why don’t you tell them it’s okay to come home? You have to do that. I’m I’m encouraging you. This is what to do. This is the message about what to do and the reason I can say it. I’ll say it.

02:04:52:24 – 02:05:17:28
Unknown
I’ll put it like this. God is never going to tell you what to do until you know that it is done. We’re ready to hear what to do because we know that it is done. Who accomplish the work to save the world? Oh, so I don’t have to do that. I have to love people. I have to preach the gospel.

02:05:18:00 – 02:05:36:09
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I have to take responsibility. I have to love my neighbor. This is our privilege of growing up. We can stay childish and we will have no capability to help the people around us. We won’t be where people are who need help, who need restoration. We won’t be in church. By the way, there’s a lot of hurting people in church.

02:05:36:09 – 02:05:44:14
Unknown
I don’t know if anybody has ever come to church like that. I have, you know.

02:05:44:16 – 02:06:09:21
Unknown
If a limb is out of circulation, it has to be pulled back into circulation and we grow from that circulation. It’s like the sap in a vine, the bloodstream in a body. That’s what brings oxygen, what brings nutrients to us, the flow of life from the connection between the members that are that are joined together. Let’s read Ephesians 413 through 16.

02:06:09:24 – 02:06:37:02
Unknown
We have that one, okay. He’s talking about the ministry that’s equipping the saints to become one the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the pastors, the teachers equipping us to all be like Jesus. Okay. Remember, apostle is a consolation prize. If I become an apostle, but I don’t become fully like Jesus, I got the consolation prize. Your pastors, your leaders, your teachers.

02:06:37:05 – 02:07:04:27
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We want everyone to become Christ, the expression of Christ on the earth. That’s our hope. Christ in all of us. The hope of glory. We want everyone mature. Christ like. Everyone gets in on this. No one is disqualified here. Everyone belongs and everyone has the same final goal. Being filled with the fullness of God. Being the expression of Christ on the earth.

02:07:05:02 – 02:07:31:03
Unknown
Okay. And this is what it says there. Ministering until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, so that we may no longer be children tossed to and fro by the waves, carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness and deceitful schemes, but rather speaking the truth and love.

02:07:31:08 – 02:07:53:16
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We are to grow up in every way into him who is the head into Christ, from whom the whole body joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love.

02:07:53:19 – 02:08:00:22
Unknown
Did you see yourself in that scripture and did you see that it’s all from God?

02:08:00:25 – 02:08:32:27
Unknown
We need everybody here. We need all of us joining. Okay, this isn’t just a go to church more message. It’s show up as the church show up as the church at church. Show up as the church at your job. David. Show up like that in your house, okay? This is what we can. We can’t do this alone. I was going to say we can do it, but we cannot do it alone.

02:08:33:00 – 02:08:55:29
Unknown
I mean, we have to be open. An artery that’s closed is not receiving blood, and it’s not transmitting blood. We’ve had a lot of sermons in this series. You can go back to them about things that can clotted up, you know, isolation, bitterness, religious patterns, wounds, all that stuff can be healed. Jesus wants to set you free from that.

02:08:55:29 – 02:09:23:03
Unknown
It’s not as will that you live like that. He has a purpose for you. He has a place for you. His place is to be one in him. Okay. Yeah. So we have organic growth. We don’t have a mechanical growth. We can’t accelerate this this process. It’s a relational growth. I can’t make a carrot grow in a day.

02:09:23:06 – 02:09:36:10
Unknown
Be interesting to try that. I’m stupid to try it. You know, we can fertilize, we can water. We can. We can connect. We can make sure it’s rooted, but we can’t accelerate it. It’s organic.

02:09:36:13 – 02:10:03:02
Unknown
The speed of growth is the speed of leaven. It’s the speed of the seed. It’s the speed of wine fermentation. Does anybody remember these metaphors from Jesus’s teaching? This is how we grow. This is how the kingdom expands. There’s an enlargement of the kingdom of God that’s coming. There’s a breaking of barriers in your life and in this community and in this world.

02:10:03:05 – 02:10:13:13
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The church will begin to grow when we have the pure 11 of the gospel of the Kingdom, when we have the pure leaven of the finished work of Jesus Christ.

02:10:13:15 – 02:10:36:17
Unknown
But how is it going to expand? Not by us having a good franchise model, not by us thinking like entrepreneurs, but by us thinking like gardeners. How to plants grow. Well, like I said, they have to have connection. They have to have sunlight. They have to have water. They got to have roots. They can’t be uprooted every ten minutes.

02:10:36:19 – 02:10:40:28
Unknown
You got to pick your dirt and take root.

02:10:41:00 – 02:11:07:18
Unknown
Okay. Pick your dirt. You can stay as an eternal Peter Pan. Or you could pick something. I would pick where the Lord is rooting you. Let the church be your hub. People that care about you unconditionally. Some of us. Right? But anyway, on our best day. Okay, there’s at least some good people here. We’re all growing into what is in us.

02:11:07:20 – 02:11:32:18
Unknown
Okay? But we have to pick some dirt. And, yes, it looks dirty. So does your job. So does the gym. So does your hobby. Whatever other hub you could be picking whatever other dirt you could be picking. But this is the place where life is promised. The unity of the faith, the church of the Living God. This is where we should go all in.

02:11:32:20 – 02:11:59:06
Unknown
This is where we lock ourselves in, you know. And there’s times that it’s difficult. There’s times that there’s thorns, there’s tingling, there’s pins and needles. There’s. Oh, yeah, why am I here? Is it there’s thorns in this garden. Oh, but this is where life is happening. This is where eternal life is happening. The mortal life is happening. This is where we’re going to break barriers and reach our community.

02:11:59:08 – 02:12:08:13
Unknown
We’re going to reach the cities around us. We’re going to reach this country. But we cannot rush it.

02:12:08:15 – 02:12:28:13
Unknown
Our connection is primary. I want to leap ahead to the great things that we’re going to do. But the Lord wants us to know that it’s done. He made the sacrifice. He rose from the dead. He spoke the prophetic words. He gave the assurances. Is it done or not?

02:12:28:16 – 02:12:50:14
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That’s the decision that we have to make. Jesus said, when you’re praying, this is in Mark 11 and you’re praying for things, believe you have received them and they will be yours. Overcome God’s resistance. No storm the gates of heaven. You’re already seated on the throne of heaven. It’s done.

02:12:50:16 – 02:13:09:24
Unknown
This seems good. I don’t know, this seems like too good. Almost as if God wanted you to have it. Almost as if he made it based on inheritance, not the merit system. So you can miss out on it. All you can do is avoid it. All you can do is thrust it aside. All you can do is prioritize everything else.

02:13:09:27 – 02:13:37:02
Unknown
All you can do is keep your other options open. Or you can pick the dirt and plant. Jesus said, unless a seed goes into the ground and dies, it remains alone. But if it dies, it produces much fruit. That means you go from potentiality to actual. This is my life. This is my city. This is my wife. These are my kids.

02:13:37:02 – 02:14:08:24
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These are my people. And praise God, they’re beautiful. He’s blessed us. We are rich. And he’s only got more riches coming in ages to come. He will show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness to us in Jesus Christ. Ephesians two seven. He’s just getting started. Everything I prayed for ten years ago, I have. I didn’t earn one bit of it.

02:14:08:26 – 02:14:39:22
Unknown
You just stay. You plant where he said. Even though it feels like death sometimes. But life comes out. The circulation does not fail to sustain you, and the DNA that’s in you is pretty powerful. It’s in it’s actually the life of Jesus. And in Hebrews seven it says he lives by the power of an indestructible life. So does the indestructible life that he’s placed in you through his gift.

02:14:39:28 – 02:15:06:20
Unknown
Does that indestructible gift get to have the final word, or do you give in to despair? I’ll never be anything. I’ll never have anything good. I’ll never be as good as them. No. There’s an indestructible gift that he’s giving you. And your life is a gift to be received. It is not just a assignment to complete. It is a gift to be received, not an assignment to be completed.

02:15:06:26 – 02:15:28:27
Unknown
When you know that it is done, he’s like, let’s do this. Here’s what we’re doing. You’re not coming to God and being like, hey, here’s my agenda. You go, Lord, what what are we doing today? He has plenty of things for us to do. I don’t know if we’ve checked our prophetic words, but there’s plenty of stuff for us to do.

02:15:28:29 – 02:15:39:07
Unknown
But our connection is primary. I’m going to say it again. One of our core values in spirit school of ministry is relationship before mission.

02:15:39:10 – 02:15:56:14
Unknown
That’s a hard one for me. Like maybe, you know, Bob or Athena, or I could be like, I hope they would say David’s come a while, come pretty far in the last 3 or 4 years. But I don’t know. I’m just I’m not wired to that. I’m like, hey, what are we doing? Like, what’s the most important thing that how can we say this?

02:15:56:14 – 02:16:20:10
Unknown
Good. You know, I’m very motivated by the impact and the significance. And pastor Bob leads in such a beautiful way. And, and he’s like, look, we need to spend time together. We need to know how everyone’s doing. We matter. We’re not just a franchise model. We’re not just the church isn’t a business. It has business things that have to be taken care of.

02:16:20:12 – 02:16:56:11
Unknown
But primarily it’s a body. It’s a life. It’s one life. It’s not a whole bunch of lives. A constellation of lives. There’s a constellation of influence that we have. There’s a constellation of influence in many different businesses, many different schools, many different areas of the world. But we are one life. So we should wait together for the leading of the Lord.

02:16:56:14 – 02:17:26:07
Unknown
We should let the head direct us. We should let the heart supply us, Holy Spirit. But when we receive that directive, as we’re waking up, as we’re going from numbness to pins and needles to full functionality, we become dexterous. We become responsive. We become sensitive in the right way. And like I said, it’s not by seminars, it’s not by impartation.

02:17:26:09 – 02:17:53:06
Unknown
It’s by being connected to the head. It’s by the fact that we’re connected to Jesus and we’re connected to one of us. Are we going to root into that? That’s really the question, right? Our growth will be that of a vineyard that’s expanding. It will not be a smoky chuckle factory. Okay. It’s not going to be that. If it is, we’re getting something wrong.

02:17:53:09 – 02:18:11:29
Unknown
We cannot fall prey to that false growth. Did you hear him say, don’t let anyone disqualify you. Don’t let anyone come and say, you know, this is what I used to think. Like I said, when I was maybe, you know, 25 I didn’t really like and got married. I hadn’t really joined anything fully, but I thought I was like, really spiritual.

02:18:12:02 – 02:18:28:05
Unknown
I’m like, I read my Bible three hours a day. I work at a church. The other, you know, eight more hours a day. I have spiritual disciplines. I share the gospel where other people don’t want to share the gospel out there. And, you know, I was puffed up, you know, you could start to get the prophetic thrown in there.

02:18:28:06 – 02:18:36:25
Unknown
Like he says, there’s dreams, there’s visions, there’s things that I can experience and I can see and I go, I’m doing really well.

02:18:36:28 – 02:18:59:20
Unknown
But get in connection with other people, be challenged in your love, be challenged in what is actually in you that’s flowing out, not what is in the sensuous mind, not the childishness where he says, you know, you’re being thrown to and fro by every wind of doctrine. You haven’t rooted into anything. You’re still a child. You still have so much potential.

02:18:59:25 – 02:19:22:04
Unknown
You’re not life on life. You haven’t picked a spot. Now, could the Lord direct you to another spot at some point? Yeah. We’re not saying you are now bound. You’re enslaved to your job, you’re enslaved to whatever. But you’re abiding. You’re rooted. You’re waiting. You made a choice.

02:19:22:06 – 02:19:33:28
Unknown
You married the girl, right? You. You had the kid like you weren’t like, I don’t know. Once you have them, they’re hard to have them, you know?

02:19:34:01 – 02:19:56:05
Unknown
But it’s good, it’s good. It brings something out of you that was always there. And we were going to bring things out of each other. That was always there, good or bad. Okay, the bads got to come out as well as the good. A lot of times we think I’m going backwards. I’m regressing. But you’re being pruned for a long time.

02:19:56:06 – 02:20:19:29
Unknown
Like I said, I lost my illusions of my own goodness. My God, I’m not really that good. And I thought, you know, I’m totally lost. I’m going backwards right now. I’m shrinking. And that will always happen when you’re being pruned. The branches that worked in the previous season are being cut back. It looks visibly like you’re going backwards.

02:20:20:02 – 02:20:45:29
Unknown
It may feel like you’re being cut back, but you’re being prepared for the greater growth. You’re being prepared to be fruitful for the vineyard around you. It is not fun, but there is a need for perseverance. Through faith and patience, you will inherit the promises of God. So I want to encourage us to be patient and well doing today, to stay connected to the Body of Christ and to have faith in his circulation.

02:20:46:01 – 02:21:13:19
Unknown
If you’re if you’re really struggling, cry out for help. Like I said, you might not be able to reattach yourself. I’ve never seen a dislocated kneecap reattach itself. I’ve never seen an amputated finger on ice reattach itself. But we’re more than just that. That finger. We’re a human. The metaphor only goes so far. You’re a human being. You can say, I need help.

02:21:13:22 – 02:21:25:05
Unknown
I need somebody to to put me back in place. I need a friend, I need a pastor. I need a mentor, I need prayer.

02:21:25:07 – 02:21:45:18
Unknown
Jesus lived like this. By the way, rose made a great point in our spirit classes that Jesus lived with needs. He lived with people. He allowed people to supply for him financially. He asked his disciples for prayer when he was suffering. He said, stay up with me through the night, I’m afraid.

02:21:45:21 – 02:21:51:05
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We’re growing into him. We’re growing into likeness of him.

02:21:51:07 – 02:22:12:24
Unknown
How we show up is weakness and vulnerability and openness. Not having a mask of perfection. Because you belong here 100%. You belong here 100%. This is your spot. Take root. We’re going to walk with you. If you stay in the circulation, there’s no way you’re not going to grow. There’s no way he won’t trust you. With more and more and more.

02:22:12:28 – 02:22:28:18
Unknown
There’s no way you won’t become more useful in bringing healing and bringing truth and bringing transformation to the areas that God has put on your heart. And I want to help you do that. I might not have the same dream or call as you, but I want to help you. So does Pastor Shelly, Pastor John, all our team here.

02:22:28:21 – 02:22:49:13
Unknown
I don’t think there’d be anybody here that said, oh, you know, I’m not interested in helping anybody. I don’t want to help anybody reach their potential. Since we’re all willing to do that, let’s begin to offer it. And like Ben said, it’s hard to ask sometimes. So take a step. You’re not being rude. This is your family. This is your body.

02:22:49:15 – 02:23:11:16
Unknown
You know, it’s like when my hand is asleep. My other hand. Sometimes I’m like, I poked my finger. Anybody anything going on in there? You know, we can check on each other. We have to start doing that. Does anybody checked on Pastor John recently? I’m just kidding. I know it’d be good to do that. Right you have. I know Alan does.

02:23:11:18 – 02:23:28:09
Unknown
Alan’s good at checking in on people. He’s a great example. But let’s do that. Let’s do that for one another. This is how we’re going to grow. This is how we’re going to expand. This is how we’re going to begin to do the stuff. The miraculous life of Jesus. We’re coming from a place where we already know we’re home.

02:23:28:12 – 02:23:47:15
Unknown
We’re already know. We already know we’re connected. We already know that I need Casey, I need my I, I need all of you guys. I have to open myself in the right way when I’m willing to do that, and I’m willing to pick this spot, I can’t help but grow. It’s the same thing with with with all of us.

02:23:47:17 – 02:24:12:27
Unknown
Okay. So I just want to encourage you to take certain steps, make certain decisions, close the doors that you’re just leaving open. Oh, well, maybe your grass is greener. You know, speaking for myself, just slam that sucker and live the life that you actually have. Live it to the fullest. Show up 100%. Be present. Look someone in the I like it was prophesied.

02:24:13:01 – 02:24:37:02
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Look him in the eye. Put the phone away. Show up and show up right when we’re doing that. What a place to be. We’re already doing great. I mean, how mentioned it? Like, this is a place that we’re carrying the life of God, but we can grow more. Are we? You know, even if we’re 15, even if we’re 20, we can grow more.

02:24:37:05 – 02:24:57:23
Unknown
Even if we’re 60, you could probably grow more. It’s kind of interesting, right? We can grow in our spirit, our soul, our mind, our love, our empathy. No, empathy is not toxic. Sorry to throw that one in at the end. Empathy is really good. Mercy is really good to have on people. You could take that or leave it whatever you want.

02:24:57:25 – 02:25:09:14
Unknown
Okay. Does everyone understand what I’m getting at here? We need each other. We’re circulating. That is life. If you’re alone, that’s not life.

02:25:09:16 – 02:25:15:22
Unknown
If you’ve bought the narrative that you’re abandoned, you believe a lie.

02:25:15:25 – 02:25:30:22
Unknown
If you believe. Oh, they don’t want me at this church. You believe a lie if you believe. Oh, David or Shelly. Significant Levi definitely is, but I’m not. You believe a lie.

02:25:30:24 – 02:25:55:01
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You are robbing yourself. You’re cheating yourself of blood supply. You are numb. I wonder why. Oh, I’m numb. I wonder why there’s no circulation. Yeah, well, when I tried to go to church, it hurt. Yeah, it’s called pins and needles. Keep going. When I the time that I began to grow, I joined youth ministry. I had never been part of a church before.

02:25:55:03 – 02:26:12:06
Unknown
I never had had close friends before. I was a total introvert. I sat alone by myself every single day at high school. The only people I talked to was in football practice of just what player we were running. Okay, 34 power pop. Okay, that was all I did. And I played video games and I hid in my room and I joined a church ministry.

02:26:12:06 – 02:26:34:07
Unknown
It was a junior high ministry when I was 19 or 20 years old. And just by joining in the ministry, by joining in with other people that love Jesus, by doing something in common, I grew, I felt accepted, I gained inside of my purpose, and I knew that I was making a difference in God’s church. We have would cruise here.

02:26:34:07 – 02:26:53:03
Unknown
We have word cruise. They’re not just for guys, they’re for women and men. Okay, there for anybody that wants to come and join in. Our church has such a culture of participation and living the life of God, the life of God. We have this art thing going on. We’ve got musical coming up. We have so many things we have.

02:26:53:04 – 02:27:16:04
Unknown
We have ways to volunteer. And it’s like, this is not just we need you to do these things because we’ll get it done. The point is not the event getting done. The point is the people that you partner with and you are cheating yourself. Man, if I’m cheating myself, if I do not invest in what is happening, the life that is happening right here, we are cheating ourselves.

02:27:16:04 – 02:27:37:28
Unknown
We’re going numb. We’re staying on the sidelines. We’re watching another episode of Reacher, which is too violent, and you probably shouldn’t even be watching it when you could be participating. I watched it, all right. We could be, you know, participating in something that will, you know, really make a difference and will bring life into our experience. Why do we want it to be here?

02:27:38:00 – 02:27:45:07
Unknown
Religion goes like this. Pump the blood in the heart. Pump harder, pump harder. High blood pressure.

02:27:45:09 – 02:28:08:05
Unknown
Consumer Christianity goes. I get to receive and close off. But the gospel says I receive everything for free and I get to be part of something. Now I’m home. I’m in my family. I’m in a project. We’re changing the world here. We’re ministers of reconciliation. Miracles are starting to happen. Get excited about it. Get all in on it.

02:28:08:05 – 02:28:32:10
Unknown
Begin preaching the gospel to people. Make a disciple get excited. Like I said, get into this thing. Begin transmitting. When you pour out. We have everything, Lord. We have everything. So we pour it out. We pour it out. We want more of you. We have everything of you and we want more. So how do we get more? We pour out what we have and that blood flows and that gushes and that storm begins to surge.

02:28:32:13 – 02:28:59:13
Unknown
Okay, this is what I’m saying to you guys. The resurrection of Jesus was not the end of the story. It was the beginning. It was the dawn of the new creation. His resurrection life is in you. His cross was the end of the old world and his resurrection and the outpouring of his spirit says, go fill this earth with indestructible life.

02:28:59:15 – 02:29:22:14
Unknown
That sounds very theological, but it means you get to be part of something that’s really fun, that’s nourishing. You get to share what’s going on inside you. You get to have support. You get to have a place to cry. You get to have a place to rage. Don’t do it too much. I’m just kidding. But you get to have a place to come and be who you really are, and have the Lord direct you to something that’s eternally meaningful.

02:29:22:17 – 02:29:52:20
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This is the church. We have a heartbeat. We have lungs. We have organs. We have sinews. We have arteries. We are one. We have to understand you are part of this. You’re one. You’re important. Don’t believe a lie. Let no one disqualify you. So, father, we just thank you that you wanted us.

02:29:52:22 – 02:29:56:02
Unknown
Father.

02:29:56:04 – 02:30:17:25
Unknown
You decided in advance to predestined us for adoption as sons. You qualified us to share the inheritance of the saints in light. We pray that you would surge through us by your Holy Spirit. Get us more connected than ever before. Let us prize relationship above mission. Let us enjoy our life as a gift, not a checklist.

02:30:17:28 – 02:30:27:15
Unknown
Father, bring peace and bring inspiration. In Jesus name, Amen.

02:30:27:18 – 02:30:51:21
Unknown
Amen. Thank you everyone. Just want to invite you over. We have fellowship Hall across the way. We have lunch. If you’re new here, we have people that have made food for you, so please come and join us. See you next week.