1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:10,720 Hello and welcome back to the PHSA podcast. 2 00:00:10,720 --> 00:00:11,720 My name is David Bigford. 3 00:00:11,720 --> 00:00:13,580 I'm the pastor here at SalmonArm. 4 00:00:13,580 --> 00:00:17,760 This is a very special podcast series where I'm going to be sharing with you messages 5 00:00:17,760 --> 00:00:23,280 from our most recent conference in Prescott, Arizona, the Beyond Limits Conference with 6 00:00:23,280 --> 00:00:30,600 a theme of to preach the gospel in the regions beyond from 2 Corinthians 10-16. 7 00:00:30,600 --> 00:00:37,000 I'm going to share all of the sermons from this conference series to include Greg Mitchell, 8 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:44,600 our head pastor, Joe Campbell, Richard Ruby, Tom Payne, and many, many others during this 9 00:00:44,600 --> 00:00:45,600 series. 10 00:00:45,600 --> 00:00:49,280 So I'll be sharing these with you over the next couple of weeks. 11 00:00:49,280 --> 00:00:51,040 And I hope you really enjoy these messages. 12 00:00:51,040 --> 00:00:58,000 If you'd like to see these messages in a video format, you can go to PrescottPottersHouse.com 13 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:04,360 where all of these will be available for you to view in a video format. 14 00:01:04,360 --> 00:01:08,680 So without further ado, I'm going to pass, I'm going to go ahead and move on to the messages 15 00:01:08,680 --> 00:01:10,680 and I hope you enjoy them. 16 00:01:10,680 --> 00:01:12,480 God bless. 17 00:01:12,480 --> 00:01:14,520 Amen. 18 00:01:14,520 --> 00:01:19,560 What a great message that was. 19 00:01:19,560 --> 00:01:24,440 Tremendous privilege for me, tremendous honor to preach. 20 00:01:24,440 --> 00:01:26,320 Thank you, Pastor Greg. 21 00:01:26,320 --> 00:01:30,720 If you have your Bibles with you, please go to Genesis 45. 22 00:01:30,720 --> 00:01:36,560 I'd like to read 23 until 28. 23 00:01:36,560 --> 00:01:43,240 I never really liked Poland at least. 24 00:01:43,240 --> 00:01:46,000 For a long time I didn't like it. 25 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:52,720 One of my first references that I had with Poland is with going with a team on our way 26 00:01:52,720 --> 00:01:54,840 to Brno in Czech Republic. 27 00:01:54,840 --> 00:02:01,680 And we went through Poland and there was this crossroads in Poznan. 28 00:02:01,680 --> 00:02:07,040 We were there with three or four cars and all of a sudden eight young men come out of 29 00:02:07,040 --> 00:02:14,140 the bushes and they, not out of the bushes, but they were there and they were throwing 30 00:02:14,140 --> 00:02:19,640 a lot of foam on our car, washing our car in a way that I could not see nothing through 31 00:02:19,640 --> 00:02:21,720 my windshield anymore. 32 00:02:21,720 --> 00:02:23,920 And I wanted to say, stop, stop, stop. 33 00:02:23,920 --> 00:02:25,440 It's clean already. 34 00:02:25,440 --> 00:02:26,440 Don't do that. 35 00:02:26,440 --> 00:02:27,520 I don't need this. 36 00:02:27,520 --> 00:02:28,520 But you know what they want? 37 00:02:28,520 --> 00:02:30,480 They want to clean the car and then they want the money. 38 00:02:30,480 --> 00:02:38,000 So I put down the windshield and got my wallet and all of a sudden this hand goes in, grabs 39 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:40,320 the wallet. 40 00:02:40,320 --> 00:02:43,160 Money flying everywhere on the street. 41 00:02:43,160 --> 00:02:49,240 Eight guys, they scatter in eight different directions and I see my wallet go. 42 00:02:49,240 --> 00:02:52,280 I did not know which guy had it, but I made a choice. 43 00:02:52,280 --> 00:02:59,040 I went after one of the guys and with the grace of God, it was the guy with the wallet. 44 00:02:59,040 --> 00:03:00,600 I was screaming. 45 00:03:00,600 --> 00:03:05,920 I was using all sorts of words that I could still remember from the past before I got 46 00:03:05,920 --> 00:03:12,080 saved and with God's help, it was the right guy. 47 00:03:12,080 --> 00:03:16,800 All of a sudden he turned around, put up his hands, put the wallet back down and ran off 48 00:03:16,800 --> 00:03:17,800 into the woods. 49 00:03:17,800 --> 00:03:20,040 So I was so happy. 50 00:03:20,040 --> 00:03:29,040 I was so thankful, but I was still shaking and I thought this nation, there's something 51 00:03:29,040 --> 00:03:30,320 the matter with this nation. 52 00:03:30,320 --> 00:03:33,920 I do not like this nation at all. 53 00:03:33,920 --> 00:03:37,200 It was not my first reference as a disciple. 54 00:03:37,200 --> 00:03:42,780 I remember that we had a big city bus in the Church of Swolle and we went to the border 55 00:03:42,780 --> 00:03:48,640 of Russia and Lithuania and we would pick up Russian disciples and drive them through 56 00:03:48,640 --> 00:03:53,320 Lithuania, Czech, Poland, Germany and bring them into Holland. 57 00:03:53,320 --> 00:03:55,160 And so that was a great adventure. 58 00:03:55,160 --> 00:04:01,440 We would do that a few times, but I remember in one of those trips, I was driving the bus. 59 00:04:01,440 --> 00:04:10,440 We were stopped in the middle of the night, this policeman starts yelling at us and he 60 00:04:10,440 --> 00:04:15,040 goes on and on and on and we think what is the problem? 61 00:04:15,040 --> 00:04:16,520 What did we do wrong? 62 00:04:16,520 --> 00:04:21,280 And then we find out the only thing that he wants, he wants to check our papers. 63 00:04:21,280 --> 00:04:31,600 So KGB like assault on our car and that was our meeting with Poland at that moment. 64 00:04:31,600 --> 00:04:33,800 So these were my references. 65 00:04:33,800 --> 00:04:39,240 When later on people would speak to me about Poland and you know pastor, perhaps a church 66 00:04:39,240 --> 00:04:45,720 in Poland, I would say something in the like of perhaps other nations. 67 00:04:45,720 --> 00:04:48,420 There's money-money nations in Europe. 68 00:04:48,420 --> 00:04:53,040 Let's not talk about Poland. 69 00:04:53,040 --> 00:05:02,000 But last year we went into Czech Republic again and we were driving through Poland and 70 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:04,120 it was a whole other situation. 71 00:05:04,120 --> 00:05:09,520 The sun was shining and we were driving on these highways and these highways, they were 72 00:05:09,520 --> 00:05:10,820 beautiful. 73 00:05:10,820 --> 00:05:12,040 They were brand new. 74 00:05:12,040 --> 00:05:13,040 They were long. 75 00:05:13,040 --> 00:05:14,040 They were wide. 76 00:05:14,040 --> 00:05:16,720 They looked even better than the German Autobahn. 77 00:05:16,720 --> 00:05:18,220 I was excited. 78 00:05:18,220 --> 00:05:19,720 We could go fast. 79 00:05:19,720 --> 00:05:23,160 I saw a lot of new industrial development. 80 00:05:23,160 --> 00:05:28,960 I saw shopping malls, brand new, very nice looking. 81 00:05:28,960 --> 00:05:34,760 We went to a gasoline station and people were very friendly. 82 00:05:34,760 --> 00:05:36,340 Actually they were very nice. 83 00:05:36,340 --> 00:05:38,120 They served good coffee. 84 00:05:38,120 --> 00:05:42,040 We were treated very nicely. 85 00:05:42,040 --> 00:05:47,260 And so my whole view about Poland changed. 86 00:05:47,260 --> 00:05:52,000 And I'm thinking perhaps if somebody wants to come now and speak about starting a church 87 00:05:52,000 --> 00:05:55,880 in Poland, I have a whole other opinion. 88 00:05:55,880 --> 00:06:00,380 So this is something that struck me. 89 00:06:00,380 --> 00:06:06,800 I was thinking for many, many years I have this idea and I have this idea because my 90 00:06:06,800 --> 00:06:12,320 last reference was not a good reference and I stay with that reference for many, many 91 00:06:12,320 --> 00:06:17,860 years until I find out the truth which is totally different. 92 00:06:17,860 --> 00:06:22,280 So let's read in Genesis 45 starting at verse 23. 93 00:06:22,280 --> 00:06:30,000 This is the story of Jacob and then he hears that his son Joseph is alive. 94 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:38,920 The Bible says that Joseph sent to his father these things, ten donkeys loaded with the 95 00:06:38,920 --> 00:06:46,240 good things of Egypt and ten female donkeys loaded with grain and bread and food for his 96 00:06:46,240 --> 00:06:47,920 father for the journey. 97 00:06:47,920 --> 00:06:53,880 So he sent his brothers away and they departed and he said to them, see that you do not become 98 00:06:53,880 --> 00:06:55,760 troubled along the way. 99 00:06:55,760 --> 00:07:01,000 Then he went up out of Egypt and came to the land of Canaan to Jacob, their father, and 100 00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:07,480 they told him saying, Joseph is still alive and he is governor over all the land of Egypt 101 00:07:07,480 --> 00:07:12,400 and Jacob's heart stood still because he did not believe them. 102 00:07:12,400 --> 00:07:17,120 But when they told him all the words which Joseph had said to them and when he saw the 103 00:07:17,120 --> 00:07:23,840 cards which Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob, their father, revived. 104 00:07:23,840 --> 00:07:26,400 Then Israel said, it is enough. 105 00:07:26,400 --> 00:07:28,320 Joseph my son is still alive. 106 00:07:28,320 --> 00:07:33,280 I will go and see him before I die. 107 00:07:33,280 --> 00:07:38,000 I'd like to speak for a moment on reviving the spirit. 108 00:07:38,000 --> 00:07:41,180 First I want to look at a formed opinion. 109 00:07:41,180 --> 00:07:48,040 See things we go through, experience we go through, they form our opinions. 110 00:07:48,040 --> 00:07:55,260 What I experienced in Poland, I know it is long ago, but it was my last experience. 111 00:07:55,260 --> 00:07:59,480 They were my last impressions and that stayed with me. 112 00:07:59,480 --> 00:08:05,800 I remember that I was just happy to leave that nation and drive into Germany and then 113 00:08:05,800 --> 00:08:07,720 later into Holland. 114 00:08:07,720 --> 00:08:15,160 Your last experiences, your last thoughts about the situation, they stay with you and 115 00:08:15,160 --> 00:08:17,600 they form your opinion. 116 00:08:17,600 --> 00:08:22,920 Also what forms your opinion are words which are spoken to you. 117 00:08:22,920 --> 00:08:30,320 My wife is from Aruba, the Caribbean and many young people from the Caribbean, from Aruba 118 00:08:30,320 --> 00:08:34,280 at least, they come to Holland to study. 119 00:08:34,280 --> 00:08:39,600 But before she came to Holland she had a conversation with a lady and that lady had some experience 120 00:08:39,600 --> 00:08:45,040 in Holland and she shared her opinion about Holland. 121 00:08:45,040 --> 00:08:51,500 She would say in Holland in the winter time it gets dark very early. 122 00:08:51,500 --> 00:08:56,480 In the winter time and in autumn there is a lot of rain that falls in Holland. 123 00:08:56,480 --> 00:08:59,720 After the rain you get snow and it gets very cold. 124 00:08:59,720 --> 00:09:06,400 It is very grey in Holland and all the leaves fall from the trees. 125 00:09:06,400 --> 00:09:10,920 People in Holland she said, they become very depressed. 126 00:09:10,920 --> 00:09:16,000 Especially in December there is a lot of suicides in Holland because it is a very depressing 127 00:09:16,000 --> 00:09:22,140 moment and a depressing time of the year because of the winter. 128 00:09:22,140 --> 00:09:28,480 She made it sound like the grim reaper has made his home in Holland. 129 00:09:28,480 --> 00:09:35,080 But in reality my wife she came to Holland and you find out, I can advise it to you, 130 00:09:35,080 --> 00:09:37,360 that the winters in Holland are very present. 131 00:09:37,360 --> 00:09:39,840 They are very cosy, they are pleasant. 132 00:09:39,840 --> 00:09:44,940 You have hot chocolate, you have coffee, you have your wood stove and you have your heater 133 00:09:44,940 --> 00:09:48,960 or whatever it is and you have a nice and cosy home. 134 00:09:48,960 --> 00:09:52,180 You eat green pea soup and flapjacks. 135 00:09:52,180 --> 00:10:00,160 So it is a fantastic time to be in the winter in Holland. 136 00:10:00,160 --> 00:10:02,240 My wife is totally convinced about that. 137 00:10:02,240 --> 00:10:09,480 But in the first years she said when winter time would come I remember the words that 138 00:10:09,480 --> 00:10:11,320 were spoken to me. 139 00:10:11,320 --> 00:10:20,920 Now in our story we have Jacob and Jacob had heard Joseph is dead, torn apart by a wild 140 00:10:20,920 --> 00:10:22,360 animal. 141 00:10:22,360 --> 00:10:26,280 And those words they had stuck with him. 142 00:10:26,280 --> 00:10:30,400 That was the last impression that had stayed with him. 143 00:10:30,400 --> 00:10:35,840 All the other sons had told him this and this was fixed in his mind. 144 00:10:35,840 --> 00:10:47,560 See it is possible to hear things about nations, about cities, about situations, about people. 145 00:10:47,560 --> 00:10:54,680 Sometimes people speak a derogative remark about a certain person or about a certain 146 00:10:54,680 --> 00:10:55,800 couple. 147 00:10:55,800 --> 00:10:59,760 And if you are not careful it sticks with you. 148 00:10:59,760 --> 00:11:04,800 These are the last words that you heard about somebody until you meet this couple, until 149 00:11:04,800 --> 00:11:10,560 you meet this person and you spend some time with them and you find out it was totally 150 00:11:10,560 --> 00:11:12,520 untrue what you heard about them. 151 00:11:12,520 --> 00:11:16,180 It was a wrong impression that was given to me. 152 00:11:16,180 --> 00:11:17,180 These are nice people. 153 00:11:17,180 --> 00:11:19,520 This is a nice couple. 154 00:11:19,520 --> 00:11:26,760 And the problem is my memory or my thoughts were formed by some words and those stuck 155 00:11:26,760 --> 00:11:30,560 with me, they influenced me for many years. 156 00:11:30,560 --> 00:11:34,640 And this is exactly what happened also in the life of Jacob. 157 00:11:34,640 --> 00:11:42,440 He heard the words from his other sons and the Bible says this, his heart stood still. 158 00:11:42,440 --> 00:11:45,300 Another translation said his heart was stunned. 159 00:11:45,300 --> 00:11:47,440 It means to almost stop. 160 00:11:47,440 --> 00:11:55,080 The Dutch translation says his heart remained cold or you could say his heart was frozen. 161 00:11:55,080 --> 00:11:58,960 He had a hard time of believing something else. 162 00:11:58,960 --> 00:12:04,540 His heart was frozen in the last impression that was given to him. 163 00:12:04,540 --> 00:12:10,040 If you look at the Hebrew word it's the word po-oke and that means slow. 164 00:12:10,040 --> 00:12:11,360 It means faint. 165 00:12:11,360 --> 00:12:13,360 It means weak. 166 00:12:13,360 --> 00:12:15,360 His heart was weak. 167 00:12:15,360 --> 00:12:17,560 His heart was stopping. 168 00:12:17,560 --> 00:12:18,880 He could not believe. 169 00:12:18,880 --> 00:12:23,520 He was not able, his heart was not able to believe good things. 170 00:12:23,520 --> 00:12:27,520 His heart was not able to receive good things. 171 00:12:27,520 --> 00:12:34,320 So impressions or words have the ability to form our hearts and to do something with our 172 00:12:34,320 --> 00:12:35,400 hearts. 173 00:12:35,400 --> 00:12:37,360 We have the story of Naomi in the Bible. 174 00:12:37,360 --> 00:12:43,000 We know that she came back to the city of Bethlehem and the Bible says that when she 175 00:12:43,000 --> 00:12:46,920 returned all the city was excited. 176 00:12:46,920 --> 00:12:50,020 Apparently she was a known personality. 177 00:12:50,020 --> 00:12:51,480 But she is not happy. 178 00:12:51,480 --> 00:12:58,240 The Bible says that she comes with this remark in Ruth 1.21, I went out full and the Lord 179 00:12:58,240 --> 00:13:01,720 has brought me home again empty. 180 00:13:01,720 --> 00:13:05,040 And the Almighty has afflicted me. 181 00:13:05,040 --> 00:13:08,300 She says I came back empty. 182 00:13:08,300 --> 00:13:14,000 But if you look at the next verse the Bible says that she came together with Ruth from 183 00:13:14,000 --> 00:13:19,880 Moabite the daughter-in-law she came with her and it was at the beginning of the barley 184 00:13:19,880 --> 00:13:21,280 harvest. 185 00:13:21,280 --> 00:13:29,100 So here is Naomi and she says I am empty but right next to her there is Ruth. 186 00:13:29,100 --> 00:13:36,000 The Bible says that the moment that she came back it was the beginning of the barley harvest. 187 00:13:36,000 --> 00:13:41,800 So I am wondering about Ruth what is she thinking here is her mother-in-law and her mother-in-law 188 00:13:41,800 --> 00:13:47,100 makes this remark I came alone empty. 189 00:13:47,100 --> 00:13:48,640 What did Ruth think? 190 00:13:48,640 --> 00:13:49,640 Who am I? 191 00:13:49,640 --> 00:13:51,360 Am I also part of empty? 192 00:13:51,360 --> 00:13:55,240 And that is not really a nice compliment. 193 00:13:55,240 --> 00:14:02,640 But Ruth or sorry Naomi was not capable of seeing another reality. 194 00:14:02,640 --> 00:14:06,140 She was not able to see what God had given to her. 195 00:14:06,140 --> 00:14:09,760 She was not able to see that Ruth was next to her. 196 00:14:09,760 --> 00:14:16,360 She was not able to see that God brought her at the beginning of a barley harvest. 197 00:14:16,360 --> 00:14:17,760 There was a new future. 198 00:14:17,760 --> 00:14:21,160 There was a new season for her life. 199 00:14:21,160 --> 00:14:26,320 She sees life through sorrowful glasses because these were the last impressions that were 200 00:14:26,320 --> 00:14:30,240 made in her life and she says I am empty. 201 00:14:30,240 --> 00:14:38,360 Her heart was stuck with the last experiences that she had had in life. 202 00:14:38,360 --> 00:14:46,040 See looking at Jacob what I also find remarkable that his sons only tell once that his son 203 00:14:46,040 --> 00:14:51,480 Joseph is torn apart by a wild animal and he believes it. 204 00:14:51,480 --> 00:14:58,120 Now his sons come and they say it is not true what we have said a number of years ago. 205 00:14:58,120 --> 00:15:00,360 Your son Joseph is alive. 206 00:15:00,360 --> 00:15:04,640 Now he has great difficulty believing that. 207 00:15:04,640 --> 00:15:12,720 How is it possible that a sad story was brought to him and he takes that he believes that 208 00:15:12,720 --> 00:15:18,800 but now there is a good story and this is the truth he has a hard time believing that. 209 00:15:18,800 --> 00:15:23,600 See the Bible says in Jeremiah 17 verse 9 that the heart is deceitful above all things 210 00:15:23,600 --> 00:15:28,840 and desperately wicked who can know it. 211 00:15:28,840 --> 00:15:36,920 Deceitful in literal translation this means a heart that trips us up. 212 00:15:36,920 --> 00:15:41,480 A deceitful heart is a heart that trips us up. 213 00:15:41,480 --> 00:15:46,680 I was thinking about the birth of my brother. 214 00:15:46,680 --> 00:15:54,560 My younger brother is six years younger than I am and so when this baby is born and after 215 00:15:54,560 --> 00:15:59,600 a few months after a year starts to walk and you have this little boy and he makes his 216 00:15:59,600 --> 00:16:04,920 first paces in life and I am the older brother I am six years older and so there is nothing 217 00:16:04,920 --> 00:16:12,680 more interesting than just to put your leg like this and to see what is happening and 218 00:16:12,680 --> 00:16:14,420 I thought it was great fun. 219 00:16:14,420 --> 00:16:19,360 My mother had another opinion about that but we are not speaking about that this morning 220 00:16:19,360 --> 00:16:24,120 but this is how our heart is. 221 00:16:24,120 --> 00:16:27,160 Our heart trips us up. 222 00:16:27,160 --> 00:16:36,800 It causes us to stumble and it causes us not to go on it causes us that we are limited. 223 00:16:36,800 --> 00:16:40,040 The Bible says that the heart is wicked. 224 00:16:40,040 --> 00:16:43,040 Another translation says the heart is sick. 225 00:16:43,040 --> 00:16:48,060 A literal translation says the heart is incurable. 226 00:16:48,060 --> 00:16:55,920 Another translation says the heart is inclined to melancholy just like songs which are in 227 00:16:55,920 --> 00:16:59,940 minor like I thought so. 228 00:16:59,940 --> 00:17:02,160 This is going to stay like that. 229 00:17:02,160 --> 00:17:04,360 This is the problem with that person. 230 00:17:04,360 --> 00:17:06,440 This is never going to change. 231 00:17:06,440 --> 00:17:09,000 This is the situation in our city. 232 00:17:09,000 --> 00:17:15,080 Other situations other cities other pastors other churches it goes better there but here 233 00:17:15,080 --> 00:17:22,540 we are stuck with this situation this city and it is hard in this place. 234 00:17:22,540 --> 00:17:29,920 See the default faith of the natural man is negative and this was the lie that Jacob believed. 235 00:17:29,920 --> 00:17:31,640 See the devil is a liar. 236 00:17:31,640 --> 00:17:34,200 He did not believe something that was true. 237 00:17:34,200 --> 00:17:42,560 He believed something that was totally untrue but the default faith of a human being is 238 00:17:42,560 --> 00:17:45,840 easily inclined to believe in the negative. 239 00:17:45,840 --> 00:17:50,800 I read about the civilian people in Japan during the second world war and they were 240 00:17:50,800 --> 00:17:56,680 told they were lied to about the American soldiers. 241 00:17:56,680 --> 00:17:58,560 They were lied to about them. 242 00:17:58,560 --> 00:18:02,840 They were told these young men they are extremely cruel. 243 00:18:02,840 --> 00:18:03,980 They will come. 244 00:18:03,980 --> 00:18:12,400 They will horribly abuse you and this was the lie that was brought upon them only to 245 00:18:12,400 --> 00:18:18,400 find out that they were lied to that it was totally untrue that MacArthur and his army 246 00:18:18,400 --> 00:18:24,760 came with grace and compassion and a lot of help and after a few years of the influence 247 00:18:24,760 --> 00:18:31,160 of General MacArthur the Japanese people wept when MacArthur went back to the United States 248 00:18:31,160 --> 00:18:35,720 and they found out they have all been believing in a lie. 249 00:18:35,720 --> 00:18:40,720 So Jacob said I have a hard time believing the good news. 250 00:18:40,720 --> 00:18:46,720 He was stuck for a long time in a lie and that limited his life. 251 00:18:46,720 --> 00:18:56,840 So secondly I'd like to speak about the pool the sudden pool or the yank towards reality 252 00:18:56,840 --> 00:19:03,040 because this is what God is doing in his life and he does that through the words of Joseph. 253 00:19:03,040 --> 00:19:08,720 The Bible says in first 27 when they told him all the words with Joseph had said to 254 00:19:08,720 --> 00:19:09,820 them. 255 00:19:09,820 --> 00:19:15,320 So the brothers brought the words of Joseph to Jacob. 256 00:19:15,320 --> 00:19:18,800 We need words to bring us to other thoughts. 257 00:19:18,800 --> 00:19:22,160 We need words to bring us to another idea. 258 00:19:22,160 --> 00:19:25,440 Here is an image here is a type of Jesus Christ. 259 00:19:25,440 --> 00:19:31,940 He speaks words in the life of his father just like before we got saved somebody needed 260 00:19:31,940 --> 00:19:37,520 to speak to us somebody needed to testify to us to yank us in another direction to hear 261 00:19:37,520 --> 00:19:41,400 about all the possibilities of God for our lives. 262 00:19:41,400 --> 00:19:47,240 Somebody to speak to us and say there's an answer for you there's grace of God to deliver 263 00:19:47,240 --> 00:19:53,320 there's grace of God to change there's a new life for you there's a new start in life for 264 00:19:53,320 --> 00:19:54,320 you. 265 00:19:54,320 --> 00:19:55,760 We needed good words. 266 00:19:55,760 --> 00:19:58,720 That is the reason also that we come to conference. 267 00:19:58,720 --> 00:20:05,560 We need to hear words words that will pull us towards the reality that is in Jesus Christ. 268 00:20:05,560 --> 00:20:11,240 The solutions that he has for us the grace that he has for us the answer that he has 269 00:20:11,240 --> 00:20:13,080 for our situation. 270 00:20:13,080 --> 00:20:14,080 The devil is a liar. 271 00:20:14,080 --> 00:20:20,480 He says situations in your city will always stay like that that person or that pastor 272 00:20:20,480 --> 00:20:25,440 or this problematic situation it's going to stay it's going to remain like this. 273 00:20:25,440 --> 00:20:26,680 It will never change. 274 00:20:26,680 --> 00:20:30,360 We have problems that other people do not have. 275 00:20:30,360 --> 00:20:34,440 That is a lie and we need the words of God to speak in our lives. 276 00:20:34,440 --> 00:20:40,800 That's why we have conference that we hear what God will do and he is willing and he 277 00:20:40,800 --> 00:20:47,400 is dedicated to yank at our hearts to bring a sudden pull to our hearts and to reveal 278 00:20:47,400 --> 00:20:55,680 to us his truth and his answers what he can do and what he wants to do in our city. 279 00:20:55,680 --> 00:21:01,140 So the women in Bethlehem they start to speak to Naomi and they say to Naomi blessed be 280 00:21:01,140 --> 00:21:08,160 the Lord who has not left you this day without a close relative and may he be to you as a 281 00:21:08,160 --> 00:21:15,600 restorer of life and a nourisher of your old age your daughter-in-law who loves you and 282 00:21:15,600 --> 00:21:18,540 she is better than seven sons. 283 00:21:18,540 --> 00:21:25,320 So they speak words and this brings restoration to the life of Naomi. 284 00:21:25,320 --> 00:21:31,520 They tell Naomi what the reality really really is that there is a blessing in her life through 285 00:21:31,520 --> 00:21:36,920 Ruth not only there is a blessing in her life with her daughter-in-law but also there is 286 00:21:36,920 --> 00:21:44,760 a new future there is a new destiny a child is born there is a new season for your life. 287 00:21:44,760 --> 00:21:53,600 So God is dedicated in pulling us towards him just like Jesus Christ he speaks to Thomas 288 00:21:53,600 --> 00:21:59,480 and he says I want you to come here reach your finger here look at my hands reach your 289 00:21:59,480 --> 00:22:02,860 hand here and put it into my side. 290 00:22:02,860 --> 00:22:10,080 So he is dedicated he says I want you to be pulled in reality I want you to know what 291 00:22:10,080 --> 00:22:15,760 the truth really is you did believe the wrong thing you believe that there is no solution 292 00:22:15,760 --> 00:22:20,740 you believe there is no way out you allowed your life to be limited but I am dedicated 293 00:22:20,740 --> 00:22:26,020 to you that I will show you that there is something beyond the limits that you have 294 00:22:26,020 --> 00:22:29,280 now in your life. 295 00:22:29,280 --> 00:22:37,160 Isaiah was a young man he grew up under the reign of King Isaiah and this was a great 296 00:22:37,160 --> 00:22:38,280 king. 297 00:22:38,280 --> 00:22:47,560 The Bible says after 52 years of reign this man died and without doubt Isaiah was affected 298 00:22:47,560 --> 00:22:50,240 heavily because of that. 299 00:22:50,240 --> 00:22:55,920 The Bible says in Isaiah 6 verse 1 that in the year that King Uzziah died I saw the Lord 300 00:22:55,920 --> 00:23:02,720 sitting on a throne high and lifted up and the train of his robe filled the temple. 301 00:23:02,720 --> 00:23:11,320 So the king here lives and dies and Isaiah he must have been struck with grief and now 302 00:23:11,320 --> 00:23:18,600 God reveals himself to him he speaks to him and he says Isaiah don't be discouraged don't 303 00:23:18,600 --> 00:23:24,920 be dismayed I am still sitting on the throne I have power for you I have answers for you 304 00:23:24,920 --> 00:23:31,080 I have a season for you this is the heart of God he is dedicated at pulling at our hearts 305 00:23:31,080 --> 00:23:39,840 and showing us the reality and he wants to take away the last impressions sometimes not 306 00:23:39,840 --> 00:23:41,960 the best impressions. 307 00:23:41,960 --> 00:23:47,720 So let me close with speaking about reviving the spirit the Bible says that the spirit 308 00:23:47,720 --> 00:23:54,880 of Jacob their father revived this is like a sudden wind this is like a gust of fresh 309 00:23:54,880 --> 00:24:03,720 air another translation says he lived a new and fresh life it's like blowing in a smoldering 310 00:24:03,720 --> 00:24:09,120 fire and bring it to a new ignition to bring it to a new fire. 311 00:24:09,120 --> 00:24:18,040 See this is the nature of our God he is dedicated in reviving and changing and reanimating our 312 00:24:18,040 --> 00:24:19,040 hearts. 313 00:24:19,040 --> 00:24:26,640 Isaiah 57 he speaks about his nature and his character he says I am the high and the lofty 314 00:24:26,640 --> 00:24:33,560 one I am the one who inhabits eternity whose name is holy I dwell in the high and the holy 315 00:24:33,560 --> 00:24:39,240 place and with him who has a contrite and humble spirit to revive the spirit of the 316 00:24:39,240 --> 00:24:44,520 humble and to revive the heart of the contrite ones. 317 00:24:44,520 --> 00:24:52,320 The Spanish Bible says here I am dedicated but I reanimate the spirit to bring new life 318 00:24:52,320 --> 00:24:59,240 to resuscitate your heart to make the heart live again he says this is my nature I am 319 00:24:59,240 --> 00:25:08,160 the high and the lofty one he says I live in eternity I am all powerful and I use my 320 00:25:08,160 --> 00:25:18,760 power I put it to use in reanimating in reviving spirit of my people. 321 00:25:18,760 --> 00:25:26,600 So we see how God is working here in the heart of Jacob he is reviving his heart and Jacob 322 00:25:26,600 --> 00:25:37,600 says okay I will see Joseph and I will die it's enough I will see Joseph it's good news 323 00:25:37,600 --> 00:25:38,920 and I will die. 324 00:25:38,920 --> 00:25:47,800 See but God is reviving his heart God is speaking to him not only to give him an emotional fix 325 00:25:47,800 --> 00:25:55,840 he's not speaking to him just to give him a happy moment we are not here in this conference 326 00:25:55,840 --> 00:26:03,840 just to be emotionally touched God has a lot more for us if we look at Jacob the Bible 327 00:26:03,840 --> 00:26:11,480 says at the moment that he hears the word of Joseph he is already 130 years in age. 328 00:26:11,480 --> 00:26:17,080 See for God it was not enough he wanted to do a whole lot more listen what the Bible 329 00:26:17,080 --> 00:26:25,320 says in Genesis 47 verse 27 so Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt in the country of Goshen 330 00:26:25,320 --> 00:26:31,520 and they had possessions there and grew and multiplied exceedingly and Jacob lived in 331 00:26:31,520 --> 00:26:42,360 the land of Egypt 17 years so the length of Jacob's life was 147 years. 332 00:26:42,360 --> 00:26:49,040 So God is saying I did not bring you here and I'm not going to bring you to Egypt just 333 00:26:49,040 --> 00:26:55,280 to give you a happy moment not only to let you know that your son Joseph is alive and 334 00:26:55,280 --> 00:27:02,720 then you can die and then it's over God gave him another 17 years he gave him a whole new 335 00:27:02,720 --> 00:27:11,320 future here is Jacob he sees the prosperity of his people he sees a growth in prosperity 336 00:27:11,320 --> 00:27:18,400 there's a whole part of the land Goshen that has been given to them he sees fruitfulness 337 00:27:18,400 --> 00:27:26,160 he sees his grandchildren he sees his family changing and becoming a nation God says this 338 00:27:26,160 --> 00:27:32,480 is what I do for you I own I'm not only dedicated to change your heart I'm not only dedicated 339 00:27:32,480 --> 00:27:38,120 to give you another view but I'm dedicated to give you another destiny there's something 340 00:27:38,120 --> 00:27:43,720 else beyond the limits that you have thought for yourself there's a whole new season there's 341 00:27:43,720 --> 00:27:52,400 a whole new destiny for you and I want you to enjoy that and I want you to see that. 342 00:27:52,400 --> 00:27:59,880 Jacob said I will just go and I will see but God had a whole lot more the Bible speaks 343 00:27:59,880 --> 00:28:06,440 about Naomi that she came from the land of Moab but she came also in Bethlehem at the 344 00:28:06,440 --> 00:28:13,720 beginning of the barley harvest it was not only that she saw God's kingdom that she saw 345 00:28:13,720 --> 00:28:21,000 the city of Bethlehem but she saw also a whole new harvest a whole new destiny developing 346 00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:30,840 before her eyes so here we have Jacob Jacob allowed God to speak to his heart Jacob allowed 347 00:28:30,840 --> 00:28:42,160 God to revive his spirit and then he said I will go and see we're gonna have a great 348 00:28:42,160 --> 00:28:50,360 week we already had a great start with Pastor Greg with Pastor Lamb and we're gonna have 349 00:28:50,360 --> 00:28:56,720 a great week it's my prayer that God will speak to our hearts that we will be revived 350 00:28:56,720 --> 00:29:02,520 that we will look at the situations in our churches that we will look at the situations 351 00:29:02,520 --> 00:29:08,840 in our cities and some of these situations seems to be stuck and seem to be like well 352 00:29:08,840 --> 00:29:13,280 it will stay like that will it will there be an answer will there be a solution for 353 00:29:13,280 --> 00:29:19,840 that but God wants to change us and he wants to look farther and says to us hey there's 354 00:29:19,840 --> 00:29:25,800 there's something beyond this there is an answer with God there is no impossibilities 355 00:29:25,800 --> 00:29:31,560 I was thinking of a young couple in our church they went out three years ago class and rose 356 00:29:31,560 --> 00:29:40,080 they went to a city near to us with the name of Almalo well Almalo for many many years 357 00:29:40,080 --> 00:29:48,040 we stayed clear or we steered clear of that city somewhere in the past somebody tried 358 00:29:48,040 --> 00:29:55,760 it did not go well and most of the door directors from our church steered clear of Almalo in 359 00:29:55,760 --> 00:30:03,120 it is a city not too big there's not a lot of students there's a lot of unemployment 360 00:30:03,120 --> 00:30:11,160 economic activity doesn't seem to be very strong but class after all these years he 361 00:30:11,160 --> 00:30:17,680 is now a young door director ready to be sent out and he says I want to go to Almalo because 362 00:30:17,680 --> 00:30:23,520 it's near to Zwolle and I want to go to that city and we sent him out in the midst of covid 363 00:30:23,520 --> 00:30:28,640 and that was a bit of a concern to us but they went full of faith they went full of 364 00:30:28,640 --> 00:30:35,160 desire full of the prospects of what God could do in that city and lo and behold he started 365 00:30:35,160 --> 00:30:40,760 he got immediate favor from the city council he got a nice building and because of covid 366 00:30:40,760 --> 00:30:46,640 he had a small group of people in a bigger building that's no problem so he started and 367 00:30:46,640 --> 00:30:52,560 from the beginning it started to take off perhaps not many students in that city but 368 00:30:52,560 --> 00:30:58,600 a lot of young people in that city now he has a lot of couple in his churches it's a 369 00:30:58,600 --> 00:31:06,160 thriving church and he told me a few months ago we have our first marriage retreat or 370 00:31:06,160 --> 00:31:11,960 first marriage weekend so many couples there are so many people and this is in a place 371 00:31:11,960 --> 00:31:19,200 where people thought this is difficult this is not the right place the circumstances all 372 00:31:19,200 --> 00:31:25,120 our impressions all our ideas all the words that were spoken about this city they don't 373 00:31:25,120 --> 00:31:32,640 seem well but he listened to what God spoke in his heart and he believed something else 374 00:31:32,640 --> 00:31:39,440 he believed what God could do in that city the bible says that Jacob listened and then 375 00:31:39,440 --> 00:31:48,240 he went so at the end of this week we all will go back to our cities and I believe this 376 00:31:48,240 --> 00:31:56,520 conference will change us I believe this conference will speak to our hearts I believe this conference 377 00:31:56,520 --> 00:32:02,520 will do something in our hearts I believe it's gonna reanimate our hearts it's gonna 378 00:32:02,520 --> 00:32:09,160 revive our hearts it's gonna do something that we will believe for more perhaps situations 379 00:32:09,160 --> 00:32:14,760 which are difficult and which seems to be stuck we have building problems we have all 380 00:32:14,760 --> 00:32:22,280 sorts of problems situations that seems to be yeah it's it's it's hard but God will 381 00:32:22,280 --> 00:32:28,280 speak to us and on the moment that we will go back I believe God will do something new 382 00:32:28,280 --> 00:32:49,160 he will not only speak. 383 00:32:58,280 --> 00:32:59,280 .