WEBVTT 00:00:02.790 --> 00:00:06.129 Hello, and welcome to Folly's End Podcast, a 00:00:06.129 --> 00:00:08.310 podcast created to plant the Word of God into 00:00:08.310 --> 00:00:10.730 your heart, giving you the tools you need to 00:00:10.730 --> 00:00:13.050 lead a life full of the abundance Jesus said 00:00:13.050 --> 00:00:15.949 he came to give us all. That's John 10, verse 00:00:15.949 --> 00:00:19.410 10. I'm Gareth Cox, and today we're going into 00:00:19.410 --> 00:00:21.809 the Folly's End archive, and are revisiting part 00:00:21.809 --> 00:00:24.350 two of the message from our founder, David Marquis, 00:00:24.609 --> 00:00:27.079 on the subject of worship. This teaching was 00:00:27.079 --> 00:00:29.820 first recorded live back in 2010 at the Lost 00:00:29.820 --> 00:00:32.640 Glory School of Ministry. Let's continue to listen 00:00:32.640 --> 00:00:37.219 now. Jesus took a lot of chances as he reached 00:00:37.219 --> 00:00:41.500 out to people. He put himself in the most awkward 00:00:41.500 --> 00:00:47.259 situations, allowed himself to go into sinners 00:00:47.259 --> 00:00:49.759 and tax collectors' houses, you know, and eat 00:00:49.759 --> 00:00:52.140 with them. Gosh, I mean, that was absolutely 00:00:52.140 --> 00:00:56.179 forbidden, verboten. in Israel at that time. 00:00:56.359 --> 00:00:58.759 And he just absolutely cut across the whole blooming 00:00:58.759 --> 00:01:02.619 thing. Why? Because he loved people and he wanted 00:01:02.619 --> 00:01:07.439 to reach them. Christianity is not about living 00:01:07.439 --> 00:01:11.620 safely and taking no risks. Okay, it's not about 00:01:11.620 --> 00:01:14.079 that. If that's what you wanted to do, forget 00:01:14.079 --> 00:01:18.700 it, become something else. Christianity is about 00:01:18.700 --> 00:01:25.260 divinity, the spirit of God. becoming flesh in 00:01:25.260 --> 00:01:31.280 us. When Jesus came as a little baby, he took 00:01:31.280 --> 00:01:37.079 on our sinful nature. And he allowed himself 00:01:37.079 --> 00:01:43.480 to come here to this planet, to live amongst 00:01:43.480 --> 00:01:48.700 sinners, even though he was divine and pure. 00:01:50.980 --> 00:01:55.879 He became defiled like no other human being had 00:01:55.879 --> 00:02:01.980 ever been defiled before by the sin of the world 00:02:01.980 --> 00:02:09.639 on the cross. He became so filthy in God's sight 00:02:09.639 --> 00:02:14.219 and God's eyes that God removed his presence, 00:02:14.599 --> 00:02:17.740 which is why he said, why have you forsaken me 00:02:17.740 --> 00:02:24.000 on the cross? Christianity is not, holiness is 00:02:24.000 --> 00:02:27.699 not about being squeaky clean and living righteous 00:02:27.699 --> 00:02:31.960 and never taking any chances. Holiness is about 00:02:31.960 --> 00:02:36.180 hanging on a cross for somebody else. Taking 00:02:36.180 --> 00:02:40.580 that risk, putting yourself on the line for somebody 00:02:40.580 --> 00:02:47.300 else. Why? So that it could rescue us. Somebody 00:02:47.300 --> 00:02:52.099 once said, we put far too much emphasis on Satan's 00:02:52.099 --> 00:02:58.840 ability to deceive us and not enough on God's 00:02:58.840 --> 00:03:03.620 ability to lead us into new things. God's more 00:03:03.620 --> 00:03:07.620 powerful, no question about that. Satan, yes, 00:03:07.800 --> 00:03:10.759 he'll try and mess it up, okay. You don't always 00:03:10.759 --> 00:03:15.639 see what he's doing. When you do, then you just 00:03:15.639 --> 00:03:18.620 change your mind and walk the other way, okay? 00:03:19.050 --> 00:03:22.629 If you suddenly realize that you've been in a 00:03:22.629 --> 00:03:24.889 bit of a battle, well, praise the Lord. At least 00:03:24.889 --> 00:03:27.330 you know it. Some people walk about there in 00:03:27.330 --> 00:03:29.129 the street. I mean, I saw two of them tonight. 00:03:29.969 --> 00:03:34.310 They have the clue that they're being got at 00:03:34.310 --> 00:03:39.050 all the time. Not clue. So we're fortunate because 00:03:39.050 --> 00:03:41.810 we do realize, even though sometimes it's painful 00:03:41.810 --> 00:03:45.030 to realize that, and it's not because you're 00:03:45.030 --> 00:03:48.159 a bad person. that that happens to you, it's 00:03:48.159 --> 00:03:51.039 just because we're in a battle. And the enemy 00:03:51.039 --> 00:03:55.120 is no respect for persons and he takes his opportunity 00:03:55.120 --> 00:03:59.599 wherever he can. Maybe we should just try and 00:03:59.599 --> 00:04:03.300 move. Well, I think the church needs to move 00:04:03.300 --> 00:04:09.439 its lines back a little bit. What's acceptable 00:04:09.439 --> 00:04:11.360 and what's not. Thankfully, we don't have too 00:04:11.360 --> 00:04:14.699 much of a problem here, but don't let's... Pat 00:04:14.699 --> 00:04:16.500 ourselves on the back too soon because we've 00:04:16.500 --> 00:04:20.740 all got a bit of religion. My favorite definition 00:04:20.740 --> 00:04:25.600 of balance comes from the picture of a tightrope 00:04:25.600 --> 00:04:31.339 walker in the circus or the man crossing Niagara 00:04:31.339 --> 00:04:38.279 Falls. The balance comes from walking a tight 00:04:38.279 --> 00:04:45.259 line but embracing as far out as you can. It's 00:04:45.259 --> 00:04:50.480 the ability to embrace all valid extremes. Key 00:04:50.480 --> 00:04:55.860 word being valid. The ability to embrace all 00:04:55.860 --> 00:05:01.620 valid extremes. Okay? That's a good definition 00:05:01.620 --> 00:05:06.040 of balance. In other words, there's nothing that 00:05:06.040 --> 00:05:13.060 is forbidden to us unless it leads us into trouble. 00:05:13.600 --> 00:05:17.639 Some people can handle the most sinful situations, 00:05:18.379 --> 00:05:20.920 and because of the presence of the Lord, they 00:05:20.920 --> 00:05:26.620 can keep themselves pure in that situation. Okay? 00:05:26.959 --> 00:05:30.019 That for them is a valid extreme. But many Christians 00:05:30.019 --> 00:05:31.920 say, oh, you can't go to a strip club and you 00:05:31.920 --> 00:05:34.319 can't do this, you can't, bloody, bloody, bloody. 00:05:34.500 --> 00:05:37.040 Some Christians I know have got a ministry to 00:05:37.040 --> 00:05:41.079 strip clubs. You know? That's a valid extreme. 00:05:41.709 --> 00:05:46.689 The more you're able to embrace these extremes, 00:05:46.949 --> 00:05:50.750 the valid extremes, the more balanced you are 00:05:50.750 --> 00:05:55.529 as a person. Just to let you know, in the couple 00:05:55.529 --> 00:05:58.430 of hundred years ago when we actually invented 00:05:58.430 --> 00:06:01.610 universities, what we didn't actually, it was 00:06:01.610 --> 00:06:06.589 the Czech people. Discovery in this nation was 00:06:06.589 --> 00:06:09.089 all the new things, the new things where people 00:06:09.089 --> 00:06:13.250 took risks to discover New things in medicine 00:06:13.250 --> 00:06:17.350 and engineering and art and you know all the 00:06:17.350 --> 00:06:21.850 rest of it all this new stuff chemistry Medicine 00:06:21.850 --> 00:06:27.189 they took huge risks to do that and they did 00:06:27.189 --> 00:06:31.629 it Because originally the universities I mean 00:06:31.629 --> 00:06:33.910 Newton for instance was I believe is at Cambridge 00:06:33.910 --> 00:06:39.889 They were originally Formed for the children 00:06:39.889 --> 00:06:43.560 of very rich parents And what happened was that 00:06:43.560 --> 00:06:46.180 they'd gone, my mummy and daddy had said, we 00:06:46.180 --> 00:06:48.699 want you to be a lawyer or a doctor or something. 00:06:49.800 --> 00:06:53.100 When they got to the university, if you remember 00:06:53.100 --> 00:06:57.540 the universities like in a quadrangle, there'd 00:06:57.540 --> 00:07:02.439 be a chapel, a library, dormitory, and an eating 00:07:02.439 --> 00:07:06.319 place. And for the very first year, every one 00:07:06.319 --> 00:07:09.660 of these students, they were refused entry into 00:07:09.660 --> 00:07:16.110 the library. They could not study. They had to 00:07:16.110 --> 00:07:20.170 spend their time in the chapel or in the dorms 00:07:20.170 --> 00:07:25.290 or eating. And worship became the part of their 00:07:25.290 --> 00:07:29.189 life so that they got so infused with the spirit 00:07:29.189 --> 00:07:31.889 of God that God was able to then talk to them 00:07:31.889 --> 00:07:36.250 about their destiny. And it's from there that 00:07:36.250 --> 00:07:40.230 a lot of people changed their studies to do what 00:07:40.230 --> 00:07:44.170 they were really made for. Now that's been a 00:07:44.170 --> 00:07:49.350 system that has been totally lost in the nations. 00:07:50.889 --> 00:07:53.949 But that was a wonderful, wonderful thing and 00:07:53.949 --> 00:07:56.670 it was out of those sort of things that things 00:07:56.670 --> 00:07:59.589 like gravity and penicillin and all the rest 00:07:59.589 --> 00:08:02.209 of it were all, you know, in fact because they 00:08:02.209 --> 00:08:06.589 had revelation from the Lord. They'd been built 00:08:06.589 --> 00:08:11.800 up so much to be able to receive revelation from 00:08:11.800 --> 00:08:14.560 the Lord. Isn't that wonderful? Whereas today 00:08:14.560 --> 00:08:18.759 you go to university, I mean, look at it. I mean, 00:08:18.759 --> 00:08:23.860 for goodness sake, it's a big drinking sex club 00:08:23.860 --> 00:08:27.180 in many ways, in many areas. It really is. It 00:08:27.180 --> 00:08:33.379 just totally ruins the kid. It's also anti -faith. 00:08:33.460 --> 00:08:35.120 I've known a lot of students that have gone there 00:08:35.120 --> 00:08:37.700 and actually lost their faith. They've gone there 00:08:37.700 --> 00:08:42.299 as Christians and actually lost their faith. 00:08:43.440 --> 00:08:49.500 Unity in diversity is what God wants. That's 00:08:49.500 --> 00:08:53.399 where the name university came from. Unity in 00:08:53.399 --> 00:09:01.379 diversity. The greatest thing we can do to promote 00:09:01.379 --> 00:09:04.480 that sense of unity amongst us, knowing that 00:09:04.480 --> 00:09:06.559 we're all different. knowing that we all have 00:09:06.559 --> 00:09:08.960 different gifts, we all have different abilities. 00:09:10.659 --> 00:09:14.820 Now, there was a... This is all about worship, 00:09:14.940 --> 00:09:20.980 by the way. That's a worshipful attitude. Let 00:09:20.980 --> 00:09:22.799 me just talk a little bit about inner healing 00:09:22.799 --> 00:09:29.639 that we talk about a lot. When you come into 00:09:29.639 --> 00:09:34.029 the kingdom, your mind is pretty carnal. Okay, 00:09:34.269 --> 00:09:36.529 it thinks on worldly patterns. And the Bible 00:09:36.529 --> 00:09:41.669 urges us to be renewed in the spirit of our minds 00:09:41.669 --> 00:09:45.970 so that we can tell what's good and bad. You 00:09:45.970 --> 00:09:49.450 know, when somebody's gentler and gentled down 00:09:49.450 --> 00:09:52.509 and learned a little bit of wisdom and all the 00:09:52.509 --> 00:09:54.210 rest of it. There could still be fiery people 00:09:54.210 --> 00:09:57.110 because that's their personality, but it makes 00:09:57.110 --> 00:10:01.450 people a lot easier to get on with the more we... 00:10:02.889 --> 00:10:08.330 In fact, the Mennonites, which was a very powerful 00:10:08.330 --> 00:10:12.590 bunch of Christians in Europe said the inner 00:10:12.590 --> 00:10:15.429 healing makes some leaders easier to follow. 00:10:16.470 --> 00:10:21.330 Okay. Let's talk about your time during the week, 00:10:21.909 --> 00:10:24.110 Monday through Saturday. You know what happens 00:10:24.110 --> 00:10:30.789 here on a Sunday? But if you own the biblical 00:10:30.789 --> 00:10:36.870 fact, that we're a priesthood of all believers. 00:10:37.429 --> 00:10:38.950 And doesn't mean to say you walk about with a 00:10:38.950 --> 00:10:43.750 dog collar. Give me a break. But you're a priest. 00:10:44.730 --> 00:10:47.490 The priesthood of all believers were all called 00:10:47.490 --> 00:10:52.870 as Christians to belong to a worldwide body of 00:10:52.870 --> 00:10:56.929 priesthood. And if you own that biblical truth 00:10:56.929 --> 00:11:01.049 in your life, that makes your occupation a ministry. 00:11:03.279 --> 00:11:08.259 If you own that biblical truth of the priesthood 00:11:08.259 --> 00:11:12.299 of all believers, it makes your occupation a 00:11:12.299 --> 00:11:16.340 ministry, not just a job. I don't believe a Christian 00:11:16.340 --> 00:11:24.440 can ever have a secular job. It's a ministry. 00:11:25.419 --> 00:11:31.580 You're there for God and for others. My spiritual 00:11:31.580 --> 00:11:35.700 dad, John Sanford, said this. He said, those 00:11:35.700 --> 00:11:41.100 people who find rest in the Father's love can 00:11:41.100 --> 00:11:46.360 be used by him to work healing throughout the 00:11:46.360 --> 00:11:49.720 nations by one of the most effective forms of 00:11:49.720 --> 00:11:55.820 prayer. That is burden bearing, okay? Burden 00:11:55.820 --> 00:12:02.049 bearing intercession. I know John carried tremendous 00:12:02.049 --> 00:12:09.629 burdens for America. And as a, as a Kree Indian, 00:12:10.029 --> 00:12:15.490 he gets into his cultural deal and he'll, he'll 00:12:15.490 --> 00:12:18.370 woken, holler and dance about and be, oh, he 00:12:18.370 --> 00:12:20.990 got all of that business. But he's, he's interceding 00:12:20.990 --> 00:12:24.350 in his, this is cultural and he does intercede 00:12:24.350 --> 00:12:29.190 for America. He's had some remarkable, remarkable 00:12:29.190 --> 00:12:33.250 answers to prayer. Imagine what could happen, 00:12:33.330 --> 00:12:37.929 he says, in every region, every church and every 00:12:37.929 --> 00:12:41.309 country if the Lord were to raise up an elite 00:12:41.309 --> 00:12:47.649 core of adept burden barriers, intercessory prayer 00:12:47.649 --> 00:12:52.990 warriors. This is worship. How much misery could 00:12:52.990 --> 00:12:58.179 be eased? What changes would take place? among 00:12:58.179 --> 00:13:02.879 religious, political and ethnic groups, how much 00:13:02.879 --> 00:13:06.759 healing of the nations might result from people. 00:13:06.940 --> 00:13:11.200 And where does it start? It starts with worship. 00:13:12.480 --> 00:13:16.379 Here you have the key, the open heaven, the key. 00:13:17.279 --> 00:13:23.220 And so I would encourage you to think a little 00:13:23.220 --> 00:13:28.700 bit more perhaps about this. How can I bless 00:13:28.700 --> 00:13:31.779 the Lord on a Sunday? Instead of looking forward 00:13:31.779 --> 00:13:33.639 to coming to church because I'm seeing my mate, 00:13:34.080 --> 00:13:36.299 there's nothing wrong with that at all and it's 00:13:36.299 --> 00:13:40.940 lovely and God wants you to love your mate. That's 00:13:40.940 --> 00:13:43.860 what he says. He says, love each other as I've 00:13:43.860 --> 00:13:46.700 loved you. How do I know I'm loving you God? 00:13:46.860 --> 00:13:48.879 Well, you're loving me by loving that person. 00:13:49.700 --> 00:13:52.419 That's how you love me. But if we come to church 00:13:52.419 --> 00:13:55.320 with the idea that we're gonna bring ourselves 00:13:56.460 --> 00:14:03.360 to God as a holy and fragrant offering. That's 00:14:03.360 --> 00:14:07.019 the start of our worship. And it goes throughout 00:14:07.019 --> 00:14:10.779 the week. It really does, it just does finish. 00:14:13.600 --> 00:14:19.200 Can you separate prayer from worship? Well, not 00:14:19.200 --> 00:14:23.539 in the Bible you can't. They go hand in hand, 00:14:23.580 --> 00:14:25.460 but they're separated in many of our churches. 00:14:25.980 --> 00:14:27.700 Many of our congregations, I've talked about 00:14:27.700 --> 00:14:34.220 hours in this nation. Worship comes before everything. 00:14:34.480 --> 00:14:41.059 It's our primary purpose. Luther said, it's not 00:14:41.059 --> 00:14:47.080 theology that makes God happy. It's your worship 00:14:47.080 --> 00:14:51.440 that makes him happy. I mean, for instance, do 00:14:51.440 --> 00:14:53.100 you think God's got anything out of this talk 00:14:53.100 --> 00:14:57.269 from me tonight? No. Think he knows a little 00:14:57.269 --> 00:15:02.149 bit more about about it than I do you bet But 00:15:02.149 --> 00:15:06.190 he gets a lot out of out of me worshipping him 00:15:06.190 --> 00:15:11.509 and living this all alone How can we pray without 00:15:11.509 --> 00:15:16.029 being worshipful how can we worship without praying 00:15:16.029 --> 00:15:23.149 we can't He who sings prays twice There was a 00:15:23.149 --> 00:15:30.200 huge revival in Toronto in 1994. And a theologian 00:15:30.200 --> 00:15:33.139 said to the leader of that congregation, he said, 00:15:34.000 --> 00:15:37.519 gosh, you must have prayed a lot for this. He 00:15:37.519 --> 00:15:41.820 said, we haven't prayed at all. He said, oh, 00:15:41.840 --> 00:15:44.399 yes, you have. He said, you've been singing your 00:15:44.399 --> 00:15:50.419 intercession before the Lord. What's the problem? 00:15:50.700 --> 00:15:54.820 Problem is probably a lack of passion. Passion 00:15:54.820 --> 00:15:58.639 being the number one missing component. Why don't 00:15:58.639 --> 00:16:02.360 more people come to church? Because they've been 00:16:02.360 --> 00:16:08.460 once, somewhere. And it's flipping boring. They're 00:16:08.460 --> 00:16:11.799 boring and they're irrelevant. We do not address 00:16:11.799 --> 00:16:14.759 issues. Why would you want to go back there? 00:16:15.659 --> 00:16:20.100 Our meetings in many places in this nation are 00:16:20.100 --> 00:16:25.039 passionless and graceless. Where does that passion 00:16:25.039 --> 00:16:27.779 come from? It comes from the ability to forgive. 00:16:28.159 --> 00:16:30.379 It comes from receiving the Lord's forgiveness 00:16:30.379 --> 00:16:34.700 for me so that I can pass that on to you. He 00:16:34.700 --> 00:16:38.720 who has been forgiven much loves much, the Bible 00:16:38.720 --> 00:16:42.659 says. So if you know you've been forgiven a lot, 00:16:43.139 --> 00:16:47.440 that is gonna produce a lot of love in you. He 00:16:47.440 --> 00:16:51.190 who has been forgiven a lot loves a lot. Where 00:16:51.190 --> 00:16:53.669 does the compassion come from? When Jesus prayed 00:16:53.669 --> 00:16:57.909 for healing He prayed with compassion for the 00:16:57.909 --> 00:17:01.389 person. What's compassion? It's the ability to 00:17:01.389 --> 00:17:04.509 see from the other person's perspective. The 00:17:04.509 --> 00:17:07.609 ability to see from the other person's perspective. 00:17:08.190 --> 00:17:11.950 Jesus never put them down. He always tried to 00:17:11.950 --> 00:17:16.410 find a way to reach that person. For instance 00:17:16.410 --> 00:17:20.269 some people I've been Christians a long time. 00:17:20.470 --> 00:17:22.369 They've been they were brought up. I was talking 00:17:22.369 --> 00:17:27.250 to David today about my youngest daughter who's 00:17:27.250 --> 00:17:33.849 never known a time when she was living In an 00:17:33.849 --> 00:17:37.430 ungodly household Ever since being born she was 00:17:37.430 --> 00:17:40.150 born into a Christian family. She was the only 00:17:40.150 --> 00:17:42.930 one of my daughters actually that had that privilege 00:17:42.930 --> 00:17:48.750 well if you ask her whether she's kept yourself 00:17:48.750 --> 00:17:52.490 together, you'd probably see that by our life. 00:17:52.849 --> 00:17:55.230 But then if you ask her if she's had a lot to 00:17:55.230 --> 00:17:59.690 be forgiven of, she would say yes. Yes, I have. 00:18:00.670 --> 00:18:03.109 Not necessarily what I've done. You know, it's 00:18:03.109 --> 00:18:08.470 probably some of my attitudes. If you haven't 00:18:08.470 --> 00:18:10.970 had a dramatic, some people here have had a dramatic 00:18:10.970 --> 00:18:17.140 conversion to the Lord. I did. But if I hadn't 00:18:17.140 --> 00:18:20.339 have done, how can I gain this compassion? Well, 00:18:20.359 --> 00:18:22.779 go and get involved in somebody else's reality. 00:18:23.460 --> 00:18:27.480 Somebody who's worse off than you are. Get involved 00:18:27.480 --> 00:18:30.420 with somebody else's bad reality, okay? You'll 00:18:30.420 --> 00:18:37.240 soon learn. We are told to come to God as a child. 00:18:37.940 --> 00:18:44.039 That doesn't mean to say childish, because we're 00:18:44.039 --> 00:18:48.339 grown -ups. But as a child, what does a child 00:18:48.339 --> 00:18:51.819 do? What's the thing that a child does before 00:18:51.819 --> 00:18:57.220 it gets messed about with? It trusts. That child 00:18:57.220 --> 00:19:02.000 trusts is the number one attribute of a youngster. 00:19:02.900 --> 00:19:05.259 They trust you for everything they've got to. 00:19:05.859 --> 00:19:11.359 And that openness to learn, the openness to see, 00:19:12.560 --> 00:19:15.680 the openness to experience and the openness to 00:19:15.680 --> 00:19:18.240 trust is what God is talking about when He says 00:19:18.240 --> 00:19:22.119 to you and me, come as a child, come as a child. 00:19:23.039 --> 00:19:26.920 God is more capable of leading us into truth 00:19:26.920 --> 00:19:33.380 than the devil is of leading us into error. So 00:19:33.380 --> 00:19:37.880 don't worry about that. Just keep your focus 00:19:37.880 --> 00:19:42.579 on the Lord. and it'll be okay.