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 --> 00:00:49,920 So I'll be sharing these with you over the next couple of weeks, and I hope you really 11 00:00:49,920 --> 00:00:51,040 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 --> 00:01:10,160 and I hope you enjoy them. 16 00:01:10,160 --> 00:01:11,160 God bless. 17 00:01:11,160 --> 00:01:12,160 Thank you. 18 00:01:12,160 --> 00:01:13,160 Thank you, pastor. 19 00:01:13,160 --> 00:01:14,160 Thank you. 20 00:01:14,160 --> 00:01:15,160 I have to admit, I love preaching. 21 00:01:15,160 --> 00:01:27,840 I don't care if it's 10 people, 100 people, I love to preach. 22 00:01:27,840 --> 00:01:29,960 Someone asked me, everybody sees me, how are you? 23 00:01:29,960 --> 00:01:31,760 I say, well, I'm too old to die. 24 00:01:31,760 --> 00:01:33,400 Amen, I'm doing okay. 25 00:01:33,400 --> 00:01:35,840 Praise the Lord. 26 00:01:35,840 --> 00:01:45,640 Tonight, Matthew 28, and my aim tonight is to launch all of you. 27 00:01:45,640 --> 00:01:50,760 I'm going to flip the sanctuary, put you all on the platform Friday night, there's six 28 00:01:50,760 --> 00:01:53,080 people out there watching. 29 00:01:53,080 --> 00:02:06,760 But I have a question, are you living in regions beyond? 30 00:02:06,760 --> 00:02:17,920 Is that your heart, your conversations, your mind? 31 00:02:17,920 --> 00:02:21,920 Does that live in your spirit? 32 00:02:21,920 --> 00:02:30,840 What city, nation? 33 00:02:30,840 --> 00:02:39,560 Maybe you've never seen it, but you've dreamed about it. 34 00:02:39,560 --> 00:02:50,200 Never been there, but God spoke to you or God's stirring you and you don't know where. 35 00:02:50,200 --> 00:02:59,240 In the name of the conference, the great call and the heart of the apostle Paul to preach 36 00:02:59,240 --> 00:03:13,080 the gospel in regions beyond, further and further into the beyond. 37 00:03:13,080 --> 00:03:16,520 But he also said, follow me as I follow Christ. 38 00:03:16,520 --> 00:03:28,720 Can anyone lead you, can anyone inspire you to that place called beyond? 39 00:03:28,720 --> 00:03:35,080 I want to minister tonight in living in the region beyond. 40 00:03:35,080 --> 00:03:40,200 Matthew 28, 19, very, very familiar, Jesus. 41 00:03:40,200 --> 00:03:49,320 So therefore, make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and 42 00:03:49,320 --> 00:03:53,800 of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. 43 00:03:53,800 --> 00:03:57,840 God we come tonight by the Holy Ghost. 44 00:03:57,840 --> 00:04:03,760 Power of your word, God, your spirit permeating, saturating this Bible conference. 45 00:04:03,760 --> 00:04:06,920 I'm asking you, God, tonight. 46 00:04:06,920 --> 00:04:11,560 Give me words, words of spirit and life. 47 00:04:11,560 --> 00:04:15,600 God give me words of inspiration. 48 00:04:15,600 --> 00:04:18,320 Stir the heart of this people, God. 49 00:04:18,320 --> 00:04:25,120 Shake us out of where we are to where you want us to be. 50 00:04:25,120 --> 00:04:29,280 I'm asking you, God, tonight. 51 00:04:29,280 --> 00:04:38,480 Let's get through in a Holy Ghost powerful dimension that will shake regions beyond in 52 00:04:38,480 --> 00:04:41,040 Jesus' name. 53 00:04:41,040 --> 00:04:45,440 Jesus said, go, one of his last words. 54 00:04:45,440 --> 00:04:52,060 It's so small a word and yet so powerful. 55 00:04:52,060 --> 00:04:55,600 It may even seem insignificant to you. 56 00:04:55,600 --> 00:05:00,120 It's a small word, a word I can ignore perhaps. 57 00:05:00,120 --> 00:05:03,760 I can put it on the shelf. 58 00:05:03,760 --> 00:05:05,360 It doesn't apply to me. 59 00:05:05,360 --> 00:05:11,480 Maybe it's for you or you, but not for me. 60 00:05:11,480 --> 00:05:15,360 It's a word we fight against. 61 00:05:15,360 --> 00:05:20,360 We build our case against this little word. 62 00:05:20,360 --> 00:05:22,540 We have all of our excuses. 63 00:05:22,540 --> 00:05:25,340 We hearse them. 64 00:05:25,340 --> 00:05:33,520 We arrange them over and over and over again. 65 00:05:33,520 --> 00:05:37,440 We vote for stay. 66 00:05:37,440 --> 00:05:39,840 There's an old song in the 1960s. 67 00:05:39,840 --> 00:05:42,720 Oh, won't you stay? 68 00:05:42,720 --> 00:05:45,720 Won't you play this while you're at it? 69 00:05:45,720 --> 00:05:52,720 Stay just a little bit longer. 70 00:05:52,720 --> 00:05:59,720 Please, please, please, please, please, tell me you're going to. 71 00:05:59,720 --> 00:06:02,720 One more time. 72 00:06:02,720 --> 00:06:05,720 Oh, won't you stay? 73 00:06:05,720 --> 00:06:10,720 Won't you play this while you're at it? 74 00:06:10,720 --> 00:06:13,720 Stay just a little bit longer. 75 00:06:13,720 --> 00:06:17,720 Won't you play this while you're at it? 76 00:06:17,720 --> 00:06:27,720 Stay just a little bit longer. 77 00:06:27,720 --> 00:06:32,720 Is that your theme song? 78 00:06:32,720 --> 00:06:36,720 Your mama don't mind, your papa don't mind? 79 00:06:36,720 --> 00:06:42,720 Is that your favorite song? 80 00:06:42,720 --> 00:06:49,720 The problem, a little bit longer, becomes a lifetime. 81 00:06:49,720 --> 00:06:53,720 It's the devil's favorite song. 82 00:06:53,720 --> 00:06:58,720 And you can always find someone to sing it to you. 83 00:06:58,720 --> 00:07:06,720 Your wife, your children, parents, friends, 84 00:07:06,720 --> 00:07:14,720 church people, other preachers, your flesh. 85 00:07:14,720 --> 00:07:20,720 I remember them playing it to me in 1987, 46 years old. 86 00:07:20,720 --> 00:07:24,720 Connie and I had made a decision to go to Malaysia. 87 00:07:24,720 --> 00:07:30,720 Pastors said, you'll never have what you have again. 88 00:07:30,720 --> 00:07:32,720 You're 46 years old. 89 00:07:32,720 --> 00:07:35,720 You need to look out for your security. 90 00:07:35,720 --> 00:07:39,720 You're needed where you are. 91 00:07:39,720 --> 00:07:45,720 Malaysia's a Muslim country. 92 00:07:45,720 --> 00:07:49,720 Is that your song? 93 00:07:49,720 --> 00:07:56,720 Because there'll always be someone singing it to you. 94 00:07:56,720 --> 00:07:59,720 But Jesus said, Matthew 28, 19, 95 00:07:59,720 --> 00:08:06,720 Go therefore all the nations, Mark 16, go into all the world. 96 00:08:06,720 --> 00:08:13,720 Does that mean anything to you tonight personally? 97 00:08:13,720 --> 00:08:20,720 Can he still speak to you tonight? 98 00:08:20,720 --> 00:08:22,720 I want you to go. 99 00:08:22,720 --> 00:08:26,720 Mark Olson tells the story years ago over on Roos Street. 100 00:08:26,720 --> 00:08:33,720 God's dealing with him about the Philippines and he's looking at me. 101 00:08:33,720 --> 00:08:36,720 But in the end he said, why can't I go? 102 00:08:36,720 --> 00:08:39,720 And he went. 103 00:08:39,720 --> 00:08:42,720 He went to the Philippines with his family. 104 00:08:42,720 --> 00:08:46,720 I went to Malaysia. 105 00:08:46,720 --> 00:08:51,720 The danger of staying is we build these borders. 106 00:08:51,720 --> 00:08:57,720 And borders in themselves can be a good thing in the right place. 107 00:08:57,720 --> 00:09:05,720 They establish ownership, safety, place of security, 108 00:09:05,720 --> 00:09:13,720 place of structure, order, comfort, normality, familiar. 109 00:09:13,720 --> 00:09:18,720 They're not evil many times, but they're so predictable. 110 00:09:18,720 --> 00:09:21,720 Your borders become your limitations. 111 00:09:21,720 --> 00:09:25,720 I know how to live here. 112 00:09:25,720 --> 00:09:31,720 I know how to function in this place. 113 00:09:31,720 --> 00:09:34,720 I know how to do this. 114 00:09:34,720 --> 00:09:40,720 But the danger many times, there's no demand of faith. 115 00:09:40,720 --> 00:09:47,720 And it becomes boring and empty. 116 00:09:47,720 --> 00:09:50,720 And if you're not careful, you become trapped. 117 00:09:50,720 --> 00:09:53,720 There's no adventure there. 118 00:09:53,720 --> 00:09:55,720 Depression. 119 00:09:55,720 --> 00:09:57,720 No challenge. 120 00:09:57,720 --> 00:10:04,720 You find yourself locked in the same old, same old. 121 00:10:04,720 --> 00:10:09,720 Preach the same old sermon. 122 00:10:09,720 --> 00:10:12,720 Go to the same service. 123 00:10:12,720 --> 00:10:15,720 Live on the same street. 124 00:10:15,720 --> 00:10:19,720 Go to the same grocery store. Eat at the same restaurant. 125 00:10:19,720 --> 00:10:25,720 Drive down the same highway. 126 00:10:25,720 --> 00:10:29,720 Have the same conversations. 127 00:10:29,720 --> 00:10:31,720 But it's not the region beyond. 128 00:10:31,720 --> 00:10:36,720 Your soul is crying out to God, I'm exhausted. 129 00:10:36,720 --> 00:10:41,720 Because you're held hostage to these invisible walls. 130 00:10:41,720 --> 00:10:45,720 Call stay. 131 00:10:45,720 --> 00:10:49,720 And you lose inspiration. 132 00:10:49,720 --> 00:10:59,720 The ministry loses that brightness, that vigor, that spirit, that passion. 133 00:10:59,720 --> 00:11:04,720 Because it becomes normal. 134 00:11:04,720 --> 00:11:07,720 Is that you tonight? 135 00:11:07,720 --> 00:11:12,720 Are you spiritually dying in a land called stay? 136 00:11:12,720 --> 00:11:16,720 Just a little bit longer. 137 00:11:16,720 --> 00:11:21,720 The danger, if you're not careful, that little bit becomes your life. 138 00:11:21,720 --> 00:11:24,720 Think of the woman with the issue of blood. 139 00:11:24,720 --> 00:11:31,720 Twelve long years she spent all she had on physicians. 140 00:11:31,720 --> 00:11:34,720 She's used up, she's exhausted. 141 00:11:34,720 --> 00:11:37,720 She's tried this and that. 142 00:11:37,720 --> 00:11:42,720 Days have become weeks, weeks, months, and months, years. 143 00:11:42,720 --> 00:11:45,720 One day the Bible says in Matthew 921, 144 00:11:45,720 --> 00:11:53,720 she said to herself, oh if I can just touch. 145 00:11:53,720 --> 00:11:57,720 I can't stay here any longer. 146 00:11:57,720 --> 00:12:01,720 If I stay here I'm going to die. 147 00:12:01,720 --> 00:12:06,720 I have to go a place she's never been before. 148 00:12:06,720 --> 00:12:10,720 The answer is out there. 149 00:12:10,720 --> 00:12:12,720 It's not here. 150 00:12:12,720 --> 00:12:18,720 Can you imagine the mind battles of this woman? 151 00:12:18,720 --> 00:12:22,720 Issue of blood, twelve years. 152 00:12:22,720 --> 00:12:25,720 The thought you're crazy lady. 153 00:12:25,720 --> 00:12:27,720 You're too weak to go. 154 00:12:27,720 --> 00:12:30,720 If you go you'll die. 155 00:12:30,720 --> 00:12:34,720 You've never been out there before. 156 00:12:34,720 --> 00:12:39,720 The battle of all the what ifs. 157 00:12:39,720 --> 00:12:43,720 Is that you tonight in the spirit realm? 158 00:12:43,720 --> 00:12:46,720 The Bible said she said to herself, 159 00:12:46,720 --> 00:12:52,720 listen you will always believe the story you tell yourself. 160 00:12:52,720 --> 00:12:55,720 Doesn't matter facts. 161 00:12:55,720 --> 00:12:58,720 Doesn't matter this sermon. 162 00:12:58,720 --> 00:13:03,720 Didn't you hear Pastor Greg's sermon last night? 163 00:13:03,720 --> 00:13:06,720 Doesn't matter truth. 164 00:13:06,720 --> 00:13:11,720 You'll always believe what you tell yourself. 165 00:13:11,720 --> 00:13:16,720 If I can touch the hem of his garment I'll be made whole. 166 00:13:16,720 --> 00:13:21,720 No scripture that I'm aware of to support that. 167 00:13:21,720 --> 00:13:24,720 No encouragement from the disciples. 168 00:13:24,720 --> 00:13:29,720 Jesus doesn't even know she's there. 169 00:13:29,720 --> 00:13:34,720 What story are you telling yourself tonight? 170 00:13:34,720 --> 00:13:38,720 That's the big question. 171 00:13:38,720 --> 00:13:41,720 Oh she said if I can touch the hem of his garment. 172 00:13:41,720 --> 00:13:48,720 I felt for virtue leave my body. 173 00:13:48,720 --> 00:13:59,720 Are you singing the old song stay? 174 00:13:59,720 --> 00:14:03,720 Old Testament four leprous men. 175 00:14:03,720 --> 00:14:09,720 Second Kings 7-3 why are we sitting here until we die? 176 00:14:09,720 --> 00:14:12,720 And they arose at twilight to go. 177 00:14:12,720 --> 00:14:22,720 All the limitations, all the physical problems. 178 00:14:22,720 --> 00:14:28,720 They made a statement to adventure into a place that never been. 179 00:14:28,720 --> 00:14:30,720 Listen to what I'm going to say. 180 00:14:30,720 --> 00:14:37,720 Destiny lives on the ragged edge of regions beyond. 181 00:14:37,720 --> 00:14:43,720 That's where you'll find God in another dimension. 182 00:14:43,720 --> 00:14:50,720 This is where God lives in a personal way with you. 183 00:14:50,720 --> 00:14:53,720 It's where miracles are born. 184 00:14:53,720 --> 00:14:59,720 This is where anointing is magnified. 185 00:14:59,720 --> 00:15:02,720 This is where God's favor is found. 186 00:15:02,720 --> 00:15:08,720 Destiny lives on the ragged edge of regions beyond. 187 00:15:08,720 --> 00:15:13,720 Never thought God what do you have for me? 188 00:15:13,720 --> 00:15:20,720 God I know there's something that you have for me. 189 00:15:20,720 --> 00:15:26,720 God I know there's more. 190 00:15:26,720 --> 00:15:29,720 But I haven't reached it. 191 00:15:29,720 --> 00:15:31,720 Oh I feel it. 192 00:15:31,720 --> 00:15:34,720 I can taste it. 193 00:15:34,720 --> 00:15:42,720 Could the problem be you'll never find it where you are? 194 00:15:42,720 --> 00:15:48,720 It's only found in a region beyond. 195 00:15:48,720 --> 00:15:58,720 I believe God reserves some things that you'll only experience 196 00:15:58,720 --> 00:16:02,720 when by faith you move to these regions beyond. 197 00:16:02,720 --> 00:16:05,720 You'll never find it where you are. 198 00:16:05,720 --> 00:16:10,720 It's only discovered in the goal. 199 00:16:10,720 --> 00:16:20,720 Another city, another ministry, another nation responding to the call of God. 200 00:16:20,720 --> 00:16:25,720 Pastor planting another church when it costs you. 201 00:16:25,720 --> 00:16:33,720 The four lepers men I mentioned when they went, God showed up in a dimension 202 00:16:33,720 --> 00:16:35,720 that they had never seen or experienced. 203 00:16:35,720 --> 00:16:40,720 It sounded like a mighty army. 204 00:16:40,720 --> 00:16:45,720 And the Syrians fled. 205 00:16:45,720 --> 00:16:51,720 When you look at the Bible it's like it's almost built into our DNA 206 00:16:51,720 --> 00:16:56,720 to resist the regions beyond. 207 00:16:56,720 --> 00:17:01,720 That risk factor, that unknown. 208 00:17:01,720 --> 00:17:04,720 Look at Peter in Acts. 209 00:17:04,720 --> 00:17:08,720 He's had these incredible experiences with God. 210 00:17:08,720 --> 00:17:15,720 Mountain of transfiguration, upper room experience. 211 00:17:15,720 --> 00:17:19,720 He comes out and preaches Pentecost. 212 00:17:19,720 --> 00:17:22,720 Three thousand saved. 213 00:17:22,720 --> 00:17:26,720 Gate beautiful, a lame man healed as he challenges him. 214 00:17:26,720 --> 00:17:29,720 Silver and gold have I not such as I have in the name. 215 00:17:29,720 --> 00:17:33,720 Rise and walk. 216 00:17:33,720 --> 00:17:38,720 Powerful experiences. 217 00:17:38,720 --> 00:17:43,720 Ananias, as Pastor Ruby mentioned, speaks these words. 218 00:17:43,720 --> 00:17:48,720 Why has Satan filled your heart to lie, not to men but to God? 219 00:17:48,720 --> 00:17:56,720 All of these powerful experiences, now it's time for regions beyond. 220 00:17:56,720 --> 00:18:05,720 The Gentiles, Cornelius, Peter's on the housetop praying. 221 00:18:05,720 --> 00:18:08,720 Look at his resistance. 222 00:18:08,720 --> 00:18:13,720 A vision, a sheet comes down from heaven. 223 00:18:13,720 --> 00:18:17,720 Heaven opens, God is speaking. 224 00:18:17,720 --> 00:18:20,720 Peter taking eat, not so, not so. 225 00:18:20,720 --> 00:18:26,720 And this took three times. 226 00:18:26,720 --> 00:18:33,720 Spirit said to him, arise therefore and go, I have sent you. 227 00:18:33,720 --> 00:18:37,720 It's amazing he goes with these men to the house of Cornelius. 228 00:18:37,720 --> 00:18:42,720 The first words of his sermon, Acts 10, 28, he said to them, 229 00:18:42,720 --> 00:18:46,720 you know how unlawful it is for a Jewish man to keep company 230 00:18:46,720 --> 00:18:49,720 and go to one of another nation. 231 00:18:49,720 --> 00:18:51,720 What a way to begin a sermon. 232 00:18:51,720 --> 00:18:53,720 Amen. 233 00:18:53,720 --> 00:18:55,720 I really shouldn't be here. 234 00:18:55,720 --> 00:18:58,720 I really didn't want to come here. 235 00:18:58,720 --> 00:19:00,720 We don't like you. 236 00:19:00,720 --> 00:19:03,720 God made me come. 237 00:19:03,720 --> 00:19:08,720 But look what lived in this region beyond. 238 00:19:08,720 --> 00:19:17,720 Beyond race, beyond prejudice, all the world. 239 00:19:17,720 --> 00:19:22,720 I wonder what he was praying for on the housetop. 240 00:19:22,720 --> 00:19:26,720 I wonder was he praying, God, God, do it again. 241 00:19:26,720 --> 00:19:35,720 I've seen it on Pentecost, do it again, God. 242 00:19:35,720 --> 00:19:42,720 And God wanted to do it again, but he couldn't do it where he was. 243 00:19:42,720 --> 00:19:44,720 He had to take him to a region beyond. 244 00:19:44,720 --> 00:19:48,720 While he's speaking these words, 245 00:19:48,720 --> 00:19:53,720 the Spirit of God fell on Cornelius and all his house. 246 00:19:53,720 --> 00:20:00,720 What's waiting for you beyond where you are? 247 00:20:00,720 --> 00:20:05,720 What does God have planned over the horizon? 248 00:20:05,720 --> 00:20:10,720 Pastor Greg mentioned last night, Pastor Mitchell, 249 00:20:10,720 --> 00:20:23,720 broken church, Prescott, 25, 30 people, and then hippies. 250 00:20:23,720 --> 00:20:28,720 What's your prayer? 251 00:20:28,720 --> 00:20:32,720 God, God, I don't want to see you move. 252 00:20:32,720 --> 00:20:36,720 God, I'm hungry, I'm not satisfied. 253 00:20:36,720 --> 00:20:40,720 God, I want you to move in me. 254 00:20:40,720 --> 00:20:43,720 God, I want revelation, I want another dimension. 255 00:20:43,720 --> 00:20:48,720 God, I want to see people saved, I want disciples. 256 00:20:48,720 --> 00:20:51,720 But as God's saying, 257 00:20:51,720 --> 00:20:58,720 will you let me take you to a place you've never been? 258 00:20:58,720 --> 00:21:04,720 Was slavery the only way God could get Joseph to Egypt? 259 00:21:04,720 --> 00:21:08,720 Father's favorite quote of many colors, 260 00:21:08,720 --> 00:21:11,720 life is good. 261 00:21:11,720 --> 00:21:19,720 I'm happy, I'm sad, I mean, I'm, is that your disciple? 262 00:21:19,720 --> 00:21:21,720 Pastor? 263 00:21:21,720 --> 00:21:27,720 Oh, I got a good job, good church. 264 00:21:27,720 --> 00:21:32,720 I got favor, I got ministry. 265 00:21:32,720 --> 00:21:38,720 Life is good. 266 00:21:38,720 --> 00:21:43,720 Joseph saved the nation, 267 00:21:43,720 --> 00:21:52,720 but it took slavery to position him in a region beyond. 268 00:21:52,720 --> 00:21:56,720 What about you? 269 00:21:56,720 --> 00:22:04,720 What does God have to bring to your door to shake you? 270 00:22:04,720 --> 00:22:11,720 Then there's Moses living with a failure 40 years backside of the desert, 271 00:22:11,720 --> 00:22:14,720 80 years old. 272 00:22:14,720 --> 00:22:21,720 God don't bother me, I'm too old or I'm too young. 273 00:22:21,720 --> 00:22:26,720 We have all of our excuses and they sound so reasonable. 274 00:22:26,720 --> 00:22:30,720 I married a wife, I can't come. 275 00:22:30,720 --> 00:22:33,720 Bought a piece of property, I can't come. 276 00:22:33,720 --> 00:22:37,720 Five yoke of oxen. 277 00:22:37,720 --> 00:22:39,720 Lord, let's have some wisdom here. 278 00:22:39,720 --> 00:22:44,720 I tried that 40 years ago. 279 00:22:44,720 --> 00:22:49,720 And the burning bush and God speaking, 280 00:22:49,720 --> 00:22:54,720 those powerful words come now therefore, 281 00:22:54,720 --> 00:22:59,720 I will send you. 282 00:22:59,720 --> 00:23:05,720 Can I say don't die on the backside of God's destiny, 283 00:23:05,720 --> 00:23:10,720 calling it the good life? 284 00:23:10,720 --> 00:23:14,720 Moses gives all of these excuses. 285 00:23:14,720 --> 00:23:18,720 Well, what about this and that and on and on and on? 286 00:23:18,720 --> 00:23:23,720 But what's the dimension of God? 287 00:23:23,720 --> 00:23:27,720 What's in your hand? 288 00:23:27,720 --> 00:23:30,720 It's a rod. 289 00:23:30,720 --> 00:23:33,720 Maybe it's been in Moses' hand for 40 years, 290 00:23:33,720 --> 00:23:36,720 we don't know. 291 00:23:36,720 --> 00:23:39,720 It's a stick. 292 00:23:39,720 --> 00:23:42,720 It's a tool. 293 00:23:42,720 --> 00:23:45,720 Every shepherd had a rod. 294 00:23:45,720 --> 00:23:50,720 It's common, nothing special. 295 00:23:50,720 --> 00:23:54,720 Been in your hand for years. 296 00:23:54,720 --> 00:23:58,720 What's been in your hand maybe? 297 00:23:58,720 --> 00:24:05,720 Ministry, preaching, Word of God. 298 00:24:05,720 --> 00:24:14,720 Something that hasn't maybe been all that impressive. 299 00:24:14,720 --> 00:24:22,720 But now God says, listen, throw it down. 300 00:24:22,720 --> 00:24:28,720 That rod became an instrument of deliverance. 301 00:24:28,720 --> 00:24:33,720 That rod brought plagues, turned water into blood, 302 00:24:33,720 --> 00:24:38,720 parted the Red Sea, water from a rock, 303 00:24:38,720 --> 00:24:42,720 and the list goes on and on. 304 00:24:42,720 --> 00:24:50,720 What's in your hand that will never see the potential of God? 305 00:24:50,720 --> 00:24:54,720 Unless you allow God to call you 306 00:24:54,720 --> 00:25:01,720 and send you to a place and a dimension 307 00:25:01,720 --> 00:25:04,720 you've never lived in. 308 00:25:04,720 --> 00:25:13,720 What's your region beyond? 309 00:25:13,720 --> 00:25:17,720 What about you? 310 00:25:17,720 --> 00:25:21,720 See, when you obey God, 311 00:25:21,720 --> 00:25:28,720 there's dimensions that kick in. 312 00:25:28,720 --> 00:25:31,720 Instruments of deliverance. 313 00:25:31,720 --> 00:25:36,720 Words that maybe you've spoken many times 314 00:25:36,720 --> 00:25:42,720 when you step in obedience and faith to this place. 315 00:25:42,720 --> 00:25:47,720 It's beyond. 316 00:25:47,720 --> 00:25:55,720 Now those same words set people free. 317 00:25:55,720 --> 00:26:00,720 Those same words see people delivered, 318 00:26:00,720 --> 00:26:07,720 see them healed, curses broken. 319 00:26:07,720 --> 00:26:11,720 Think even here tonight. 320 00:26:11,720 --> 00:26:16,720 Tom Paine, would he be where he's at tonight 321 00:26:16,720 --> 00:26:18,720 if years ago he hadn't said, 322 00:26:18,720 --> 00:26:28,720 okay, I'll go to Nairobi, Kenya. 323 00:26:28,720 --> 00:26:33,720 Preaching Thursday evening. 324 00:26:33,720 --> 00:26:37,720 I'll go to Australia. 325 00:26:37,720 --> 00:26:39,720 Mark Olson, the Philippines. 326 00:26:39,720 --> 00:26:42,720 Alvin Smith, Sierra Leone. 327 00:26:42,720 --> 00:26:44,720 And I could go on and on. 328 00:26:44,720 --> 00:26:48,720 Paul Stevens, the Jeff Days. 329 00:26:48,720 --> 00:26:50,720 John McCarthy's. 330 00:26:50,720 --> 00:26:56,720 And Pastor Warner in a wheelchair. 331 00:26:56,720 --> 00:27:00,720 I'll go to a place, Tucson. 332 00:27:00,720 --> 00:27:03,720 My point is you never know what's way. 333 00:27:03,720 --> 00:27:09,720 It's only discovered when you live it. 334 00:27:09,720 --> 00:27:13,720 Would there even be an India 335 00:27:13,720 --> 00:27:20,720 if Connie and I hadn't said we'll go to Malaysia? 336 00:27:20,720 --> 00:27:24,720 Because in Malaysia I had a burden. 337 00:27:24,720 --> 00:27:29,720 Because in Malaysia I meant my quiet. 338 00:27:29,720 --> 00:27:37,720 She was 84 or 94. 339 00:27:37,720 --> 00:27:41,720 Created a business, opened a door. 340 00:27:41,720 --> 00:27:45,720 Today there's 44 churches in India. 341 00:27:45,720 --> 00:27:51,720 My point is what's waiting for you 342 00:27:51,720 --> 00:27:55,720 that you'll never find? 343 00:27:55,720 --> 00:28:04,720 You'll never discover where you are. 344 00:28:04,720 --> 00:28:10,720 There's nothing in all of life like going. 345 00:28:10,720 --> 00:28:13,720 I told Pastor Tory when he and his family went to Barbados, 346 00:28:13,720 --> 00:28:18,720 I said, my experience, Connie and I today, 347 00:28:18,720 --> 00:28:21,720 many years now passed, 348 00:28:21,720 --> 00:28:27,720 but our life is like before Malaysia and after Malaysia. 349 00:28:27,720 --> 00:28:30,720 It's almost like before Christ and after Christ. 350 00:28:30,720 --> 00:28:37,720 A.D., before. 351 00:28:37,720 --> 00:28:43,720 It changed me. 352 00:28:43,720 --> 00:28:46,720 Would I be standing here tonight? 353 00:28:46,720 --> 00:28:51,720 I would be standing here without it. 354 00:28:51,720 --> 00:28:55,720 If there hadn't been that time, 355 00:28:55,720 --> 00:29:00,720 God dealt with me. 356 00:29:00,720 --> 00:29:05,720 And you launched, Connie and I. 357 00:29:05,720 --> 00:29:10,720 Go into all the world and preach the Gospel. 358 00:29:10,720 --> 00:29:17,720 Our text, go therefore and make disciples of all nations. 359 00:29:17,720 --> 00:29:21,720 This is why you're going. 360 00:29:21,720 --> 00:29:26,720 This is what I want you to do when you get there. 361 00:29:26,720 --> 00:29:33,720 I commission you to preach and make disciples. 362 00:29:33,720 --> 00:29:43,720 I'm talking about shaping men, about forming involvement, 363 00:29:43,720 --> 00:29:47,720 hands-on. 364 00:29:47,720 --> 00:29:50,720 Is that your heart? 365 00:29:50,720 --> 00:29:54,720 Is that what you're doing? 366 00:29:54,720 --> 00:29:56,720 Is that what's in your mind? 367 00:29:56,720 --> 00:29:58,720 God, give me men. 368 00:29:58,720 --> 00:30:01,720 Help me, God. 369 00:30:01,720 --> 00:30:07,720 Help me to impart to them who we are. 370 00:30:07,720 --> 00:30:15,720 Help me to impact another generation. 371 00:30:15,720 --> 00:30:16,720 God, give me a word. 372 00:30:16,720 --> 00:30:18,720 Give me, make me an example. 373 00:30:18,720 --> 00:30:24,720 There's something in me that stirs them. 374 00:30:24,720 --> 00:30:29,720 So forsake all and follow you. 375 00:30:29,720 --> 00:30:30,720 Is that your dream? 376 00:30:30,720 --> 00:30:31,720 Is that your vision? 377 00:30:31,720 --> 00:30:32,720 Does it consume you? 378 00:30:32,720 --> 00:30:36,720 Because it'll cost you your life. 379 00:30:36,720 --> 00:30:41,720 Will you sacrifice your own desires, your time? 380 00:30:41,720 --> 00:30:45,720 Time with family. 381 00:30:45,720 --> 00:30:50,720 Time doing things you would enjoy doing. 382 00:30:50,720 --> 00:30:58,720 Because it's possible to pastor, yet not make disciples. 383 00:30:58,720 --> 00:31:04,720 It's more than just a sermon or a class. 384 00:31:04,720 --> 00:31:10,720 It's an impartation of life or something that's communicated 385 00:31:10,720 --> 00:31:16,720 that shakes them beyond who they are and where they are 386 00:31:16,720 --> 00:31:22,720 into a dimension of God where God now, 387 00:31:22,720 --> 00:31:31,720 becomes the most important thing in all of life. 388 00:31:31,720 --> 00:31:34,720 More important than career, more important than security, 389 00:31:34,720 --> 00:31:37,720 more important than money, more important than this and that 390 00:31:37,720 --> 00:31:38,720 and all of it. 391 00:31:38,720 --> 00:31:43,720 God. 392 00:31:43,720 --> 00:31:46,720 You know, I just, I wish I was young again. 393 00:31:46,720 --> 00:31:51,720 I know I feel young right now, but just to go. 394 00:31:51,720 --> 00:31:56,720 Go places. 395 00:31:56,720 --> 00:31:58,720 I go preach in places. 396 00:31:58,720 --> 00:32:00,720 I said, God, God, I would love to live here. 397 00:32:00,720 --> 00:32:04,720 Oh, the people, the masses, the humanity, 398 00:32:04,720 --> 00:32:08,720 the broken lives, the emptiness. 399 00:32:08,720 --> 00:32:15,720 Pastor Greg, the multitudes last night talking about people, 400 00:32:15,720 --> 00:32:21,720 just like you and I. 401 00:32:21,720 --> 00:32:32,720 We heard even today, sheep that have no shepherd. 402 00:32:32,720 --> 00:32:40,720 Problem if it's not in you, how can you put it in them? 403 00:32:40,720 --> 00:32:47,720 Paul said, I'll very gladly spend and be spent for your souls. 404 00:32:47,720 --> 00:32:53,720 I'll mortgage my life for you. 405 00:32:53,720 --> 00:33:01,720 The destiny, the DNA of our fellowship lives here. 406 00:33:01,720 --> 00:33:09,720 Will you allow your pastor to disciple you? 407 00:33:09,720 --> 00:33:11,720 Will you give him that liberty? 408 00:33:11,720 --> 00:33:14,720 I'm not talking about manipulation and all that, 409 00:33:14,720 --> 00:33:20,720 but will you let him speak to you in a real world? 410 00:33:20,720 --> 00:33:23,720 The theme of our conference in a couple months, 411 00:33:23,720 --> 00:33:28,720 Discipling Men in a Virtual World. 412 00:33:28,720 --> 00:33:32,720 I'm talking about a real world. 413 00:33:32,720 --> 00:33:40,720 Not an imagined world, not a fake world, 414 00:33:40,720 --> 00:33:43,720 but a real world where you can have a real conversation 415 00:33:43,720 --> 00:33:49,720 about real issues of life and heart and character, 416 00:33:49,720 --> 00:34:01,720 time and money, marriage, serving, sacrifice. 417 00:34:01,720 --> 00:34:11,720 Discipleship, you watch me, you help me, I help you. 418 00:34:11,720 --> 00:34:20,720 I watch you, then I launch you. 419 00:34:20,720 --> 00:34:27,720 Time I mentioned when Pastor Olson and I was at the altar, 420 00:34:27,720 --> 00:34:33,720 Pastor Greg, I believe alluded to it tonight, maybe Pastor Ruby. 421 00:34:33,720 --> 00:34:35,720 Everybody was going. 422 00:34:35,720 --> 00:34:42,720 Everybody was talking about going. 423 00:34:42,720 --> 00:34:46,720 All this good-sized crowd here tonight, 424 00:34:46,720 --> 00:34:50,720 over 3,000 people probably, 425 00:34:50,720 --> 00:34:57,720 wonder how many hundreds and hundreds and hundreds. 426 00:34:57,720 --> 00:35:02,720 Are you a candidate? 427 00:35:02,720 --> 00:35:13,720 Have you prayed those words, God, hear my sin, me? 428 00:35:13,720 --> 00:35:21,720 There are dimensions of God you'll never experience, 429 00:35:21,720 --> 00:35:24,720 you'll never know. 430 00:35:24,720 --> 00:35:28,720 I don't want to get to eternity and God perhaps show me 431 00:35:28,720 --> 00:35:37,720 what might have been. 432 00:35:37,720 --> 00:35:40,720 I want to get to eternity and Pastor Campbell say camel, 433 00:35:40,720 --> 00:35:42,720 Pastor Mitchell say camel. 434 00:35:42,720 --> 00:35:53,720 What were you doing? 435 00:35:53,720 --> 00:35:56,720 We're living in a time and an hour. 436 00:35:56,720 --> 00:35:58,720 I said this a number of years ago. 437 00:35:58,720 --> 00:36:03,720 I believe God has positioned this fellowship, 438 00:36:03,720 --> 00:36:05,720 Christian Fellowship Ministries, 439 00:36:05,720 --> 00:36:20,720 for a last-day powerful move of God. 440 00:36:20,720 --> 00:36:24,720 Will you live it? 441 00:36:24,720 --> 00:36:27,720 Will you experience it? 442 00:36:27,720 --> 00:36:32,720 Will you be on the thrust of it? 443 00:36:32,720 --> 00:36:39,720 I ask you to bow your head with me this evening. 444 00:36:39,720 --> 00:36:41,720 You're here tonight and you're a visitor, 445 00:36:41,720 --> 00:36:45,720 you've driven up or maybe you're a church kid, 446 00:36:45,720 --> 00:36:47,720 maybe you're sponsored. 447 00:36:47,720 --> 00:36:52,720 Sin, sin is such a horrible thing. 448 00:36:52,720 --> 00:36:59,720 Sin is so wicked and so deceiving. 449 00:36:59,720 --> 00:37:02,720 You're here this evening, you need to be saved, 450 00:37:02,720 --> 00:37:06,720 you need to be born again, you need to have a personal 451 00:37:06,720 --> 00:37:14,720 born again experience where sin is forgiven, 452 00:37:14,720 --> 00:37:25,720 the curse broken, where you can be forgiven and free. 453 00:37:25,720 --> 00:37:32,720 What does God have for you that lives behind a prayer 454 00:37:32,720 --> 00:37:35,720 at this altar? 455 00:37:35,720 --> 00:37:39,720 Prayer, God, I'm sorry. 456 00:37:39,720 --> 00:37:44,720 I have sinned, forgive me. 457 00:37:44,720 --> 00:37:47,720 I'm not right. 458 00:37:47,720 --> 00:37:49,720 Torments me. 459 00:37:49,720 --> 00:37:55,720 Thank you for listening to the P.H.S.A. 460 00:37:55,720 --> 00:37:57,720 Potter's House Salmon Arm Podcast. 461 00:37:57,720 --> 00:37:59,720 Be sure to follow us on Instagram at 462 00:37:59,720 --> 00:38:02,720 pottershouse underscore salmon arm to keep up to date 463 00:38:02,720 --> 00:38:04,720 on what we are doing, join the conversation and 464 00:38:04,720 --> 00:38:19,720 discover how Jesus Christ can revolutionize your life.