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Over up in hilly up near Denali National Park. And so there's a couple peaks that you can take a trail up to and everything like that. And so they opened up a new one. Really nice parking off the side of the road and everything like that. And on the website it says it's a recreational hike. It's not like super hard or anything like that. And it goes up. You take a ridge all the way up and that forms into another trail that takes you all the way to the peak of one.
No, you don't want it that way. So, no. Oh, flip it all the way around. I went with it with some of my friends. And what they don't tell you is that you have about a 40 foot like incline, like this much of an incline you have to go up to start to get onto the ridge to walk the rest of the way up. And I didn't know that. So, it like gassed me.
How far above sea level are you? Um, I'd have to hook it up. I mean, you're not like it wasn't hard breathing or anything like that, but it was just like I wasn't expecting like I'm reading recreational. So, I'm thinking maybe yours might be okay. No, before you actually get to the trail, you have to climb up this incline and I just was not I had been fasting the two days prior. It just it wasn't a good setup.
Yeah. So, when we were in Mexico, I got to do some riding down there with some of them. Let's do this. And uh I can't do that. This is one more time when I ride. See, you know, it's Yeah, that's what I did in Mexico. All one shot. Mexico ours. See, you know, I peaked out about just a little over 2200 feet. That's where I started at. Okay. You know, it's only like, 00t of elevation. Get it to go live at all. So, I had a little bit more here. Yeah. All right. Because, you know, up it measures every time you go up. Even though if you go down, it measures. Every time I go up, it keeps adding to, right? What if I don't want that? Max elevation 2200. Max elevation 51. But we started here, you know, just there you go. I'm not sure. That might be around 3500. Yeah. So it's where there we go more than that. So somewhere in the screen cuz your live is up at the top and I took that. So now I have to turn it. I'm going to turn it. That took a while.
No, you don't want it that way. Yeah, because it has to be at the top. When I sign into the cool part is YouTube. This right here is sideways. Then teaching the guys to do evangelism now. Sorry about that. I know we're live. They don't do that. I'm just going to change for you. Try to turn it around. This doesn't look like me. He's a doctor. So I'm just going to keep you told Doc is it the narrow obviously the word he needed prayer so doc goes over and prays for allows him to pray for him now as that guy there go ask him if he has feel like a heart condition all right he goes over and ask him no he's died now mine's still in I had this other boy pray for Here we go we're back for Acts two. Yeah. With um at the table and radical Christianity. Radical Christianity. Thank you, Jesus. All right. At the table and radical Christianity. Welcome. Welcome back. This is Acts two. different. We are about ready to take you on a journey that is going to change your life. Amen. Squeezing it here. I know on uh the one it's a little sideways, but that's all right. You want to move a little bit or you want Yeah, it just Oh, that's okay. Come visit me. Yeah, we're going to loosen space. I want the whole Holy Spirit. But that way you could be on the screen. Oh yeah, I'm I feel like I'm on screen. No, you are a little better. There you So welcome back. This is Radical Christianity. I am Trina Olsen and At the Table Ministries with Michelle Weidman. And then we have Jeffrey River of Radical Christianity and Ywim Denali with BRADLEY WIDMAN. We got an action pack for you. We're about ready to take you on a journey of a lifetime. So sit back and buckle up because you're about ready to get launched into the arms of God and he's going to catapult you into the world. Get ready cuz the Holy Spirit is about ready to just empower you to do things you never thought you would do or go places you never thought you would dream. Amen. Oh, I'm getting excited. Step out for I should have got some ice water. Oh, tripping over my feet. Um, we'll just put on your Put it on your pocket. Jeff's the one that probably needs I lost my little microphones. No, I gave him one. Oh, the other two. There's a There's two different kinds. Another set. That's all right. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. We heard that a lot in Mexico. All right. Let's go. We got them. All right. And this one's Get me lit. You can stick it on my shirt. I promise it won't go too far this time. All right. Sorry about that. Oh, always having some technical Did I did move my chair back? Oh, thank you, Jeff. technical things, but we're grateful for the technical things because God allows us to share his word in this way. Praise the Lord. Come on. Holy Spirit, we just thank you for showing up and showing off. We thank you that you would just light this house on fire for you. Spiritual fire come down through the ceiling and wake up those that are sleeping. Yeah. Wake up, our sleeper. Little joy infusions. But they're not that kind of sleepers. No, we're just teasing. You know, there's reasons for people sleeping nowadays. Amen. Yeah. Some people have to work. Yes, we're working. We're still working. We're working. We're a work in progress. Oh my goodness. That's true. Until we take our last breath, Jesus is always stirring in our hearts, always growing us. You don't grow too much for Jesus. No. You keep learning. I mean, we were in Acts one and I was just thinking about what I learned in Acts one and how many times I read Acts one and here I am again like just receiving more. Receiving more. So, I just pray that each of you receive as we we go through Acts two and just collaborate um what the word is speaking to us as individuals because we're all come from different walks of life and um we have different perspectives and this is what iron sharpening iron looks like. This is what it is to be in fellowship with one another and just share the good news. It is good news. Yeah, that's what he means to share the good news. This is the good news, right? I know. Like, yeah, you know, I pray that God pours out a revelation in and through you that you will actually go out and it will be like your brand new car like we talked about in Acts one. You got that brand new candy apple red Corvette convertible and you are showing it off to the world. You got Jesus in your pocket and he's in your heart and you are about ready to let him shine and he is going to pour out his glory in and through you in a way that you will bring others to know him.
I have a question. Why do you got Jesus in your pocket? I have him right here outside of me. Not in my pocket. I got him in. We have accountability here at at the table ministry. He's in my heart. He's in your heart. That's right. want. Some people have that little Jesus, you know. Yeah, I have a little Jesus. I was going to say, you were talking about the the sinker in the pocket, you know, to to fill lead. They have the little Jesus now. You put him in your pocket. That's right. You can take little Jesus anywhere, but I got big Jesus. That's right. That's right. Amen. So, all right. Who wants to start with Acts two? I can start with Acts two. Go for it. Yeah. I'll be reading from the Passion Translation. Speak it up. Yes. On the day of Pentecost was being fulfilled, all the disciples were gathered in one place. Suddenly, they heard a sound of a violent blast of wind rushing into the house from out of the heavenly realm. The roar of the winds was so overpowering, it was all anyone could bear. All at once, a pillar of fire appears before their eyes as separated into tongues that engulfed each one of them. Each one of them. Each one. They were filled and equipped with the Holy Spirit and were inspired to speak in tongues, empowered by the spirit to speak in languages that they've never heard learned.
I think we need to There's so much in that. Wow. Yes. Can can you imagine like being in Jerusalem at this time? And it was a festival. It was a huge festival and and thousands if not millions of Jews, God-fearing Jews were in the city, but they weren't in the upper room. Are you going to have your oil filled and be, you know, overflowing and abundantly being used by by the father, son, and holy spirit, you know, or are you going to be hearing it at a distance? Yeah, I think that's my question. So, you had these god-fearing men and women all over the city, but they weren't in the upper room. They weren't in the midst of the 120. I kind of missed the show, you know. Yeah. But but there's more. But there's more. Could you imagine a sudden sound? Yeah. It coming. I think about how windy it is outside and you can hear like the house a little bit like when I was sitting early on the of Acts one and I could hear the wind like just blowing back there and like you hear that sound coming it's a distinctive sound like like when people know about tornadoes and when that sound is coming. Oh man. Yeah. You know I heard that one night. Yeah. Yeah. You don't want the train to come. I prayed my heart is in tongues and prayed that the roof wasn't going to fly off because I was next to the roof. I was in a bunk bed right against the roof of the house and yeah I'd be the first one go flying and I heard it go up over the house and heard uh the next day that a tornado hit about an hour away. Wow. Yeah. It never touched the farm. I pray praise the Lord. Yeah. You know, I didn't pray for anybody else to get devastated though. But yeah, I like that part of the scripture about how it describes like suddenly a sound like a the blowing of the violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting. And that's what I think about when when here in our home that we when we got saved, that's what it was like. It's just like something came through our house and we were radically saved. We read the word and we believed the word and we know there's more to the word than just um I don't know not doing anything. We know there's a we're supposed to do something. That's what we read.
You have no sound on yoursel on mine. Somebody's at the table. Okay. That ain't cool. Thank you, Tina. Thank you. Thank you. Say there's no sound. Okay, that one there is sound. This one there is not sound. Is it on the Facebook or Tik Tok one? It's on the It's on the um YouTube. Sorry about that. I'm just going to fix some sound here, which Oh, I hear I see it right now. Um, hit the what arrow? Yeah, right. No, no, not that. Down. See, there is an air. No, one up. One up. Nope. On the right. Right there. Sorry about that. Um, let me make sure I have the microphones on then. That's on. Can you hear me? Can anybody hear me now? There's still no sound. No sound yet. Okay. Um, technology. Turn it on the side. do your volume on the side. Oh, uh, but that's for me to hear, not for them. Yeah, but it might be. Can you hear now? But that wasn't like that before. Let's see. Um, if anybody has any ideas. There's the mute. It's not muted. Wait, how about now? Can you hear it now, Tina? Can you hear it? No. H camera. All right. So, this is what I'm going to do. I am going to sign off of this and and bring it back. Oh, you can't hear. So, you can't hear anyway. You don't know that that that I did that. But, um All right. I'll try. Can you Can you put a message on that that Michelle's going to do a restart, reboot? I can do it right now. I think I can put a message here. Yeah, here you go. Communication moderation. Live chat on changes you make. I'm sorry. You're good. I want to stop. Can't put a message out there. Okay. Thank you. All right, done. That's so weird. Thank you for being patient. We will be right with you. Yes. Sorry about that. No worries. I can cut it out later. She's gonna cut us out. That one. Oh, redo it. That was really good, though. All right, this is Michelle at the table ministries. We are going to see if you can hear us on this live. I'm not sure. We'll give it a few minutes and try it. Sorry about that. Now wait for everybody to reconnect charger that charges from you could for the ring the ring charger. Yeah, but I just do it on that. I'm not sure why it wouldn't. Can you hear it now? Well, she'd have to check it on the other one. I mean, everything's charged, so we're going to go with this right now. Can you turn? Huh? Can you turn it sideways again? I don't know. That's good right there. Are you gonna go that way, Mar? Yep. There you go. There you'll be. All right, we'll give it another try. People in the bus. If not, I'm so sorry. You have anything, Dina? Thank you for your patience. Yes, thank you. Maybe I don't have the number one. I don't know if there's such thing as a number one. Just put them all on here. We're good. Yeah, this one's for um this one's for uh Tik Tok. And Tik Tok can hear me. So, and these are for YouTube. This is for our YouTube. That's for radical. All right. So, can you hear on the YouTube? It's at the table ministries 2024 under YouTube. All right. Start all over. No. Okay. That's okay. All right. So, we were talking about the rushing wind. The rushing wind. So, that's Is that good? We're in Acts two. Um, verses 1-4. And I was just saying how when uh my family came to know the Lord, that's what it felt like coming through our house is that rushing wind. We received the we received Holy Spirit. We read the word of God. We believe the word of God. And so we just want to encourage you that um in scripture it talks about call no man your teacher, but believe what the word says. Yeah. Yeah. So, I I would like that to um challenge us. Okay. All right. So, in Acts one, we were talking about how Jesus went up into the cloud and it said in Exodus that um that the Lord led them by day in the cloud. So, and Jesus went back up in the cloud. So, did Jesus return back in the fire? the pillar of fire that led them by night. So, and it was on all 120. It was split. It wasn't one pillar. Now, it's tongues of fire on every person, young and old, uh, male and female. And there was no separation between men and women. That's right. Yeah. And God filled the entire house. Not one person that was waiting for the promise was left out. Didn't matter how intelligent they were. Didn't matter what stature they were. That's right. Yeah. Did you know the word all in Hebrew and Greek means all? Really? Yeah. It means all. So verse four, it says all of them. All. So if you if you think like you got to know a little Hebrew and Greek, there you go. That's the extent that I know because I just know the word of God. I like how the TP the passion translation says they are all filled and equipped with the Holy Spirit. Yeah, that's good. And were inspired to speak in tongues. Okay, that's pretty good. Oh man. Oh, so you know when when God filled my car with the baptism of Holy Spirit when I he saved me from suicide and spoke to me audibly that day, I was changed forever. Like I was instantly changed. And I got to share this with some of my family members last night that the person that I am today, I didn't know who I used to be. I can't relate to who they know. I really can't. And so it changed in an instant, in a moment, you know, in a twinkling of an eye. Like we can be transformed into someone we never knew we were called to be. And now we're learning who we were always created to be. Amen. Amen. Creation.
Does the back row have anything to say? I do. Sorry, Jeff. Yeah. So, can you imagine the they're finally receiving the promise? I have no idea what to expect. The anticipation came and you know like we're having a like a something special event coming up but we don't know what the outcome how it's going to look. We can only imagine. But the holy they never experienced the Holy Spirit. So this is something completely different. Yeah. And and you imagine your mind is probably come it probably wasn't even have time to think because the spirit just to consume them all. Yeah. Like fire. Fire consumes. Yeah. Fire. And I think we said it in in Acts one, we were talking about like we have scripture to tell us what's going to happen. They didn't have that. It just what you're saying, it just happened. They didn't have a full warning of like, hey, we can read it and be like, oh, they all of them were filled. We know that we can have it. Do you desire to have it? And this is something completely new for them. Yeah. I can't even imagine the power that they felt, the the presence of God that they felt, you know, so good. Yeah. I just man, you know, and this is the anticipation of what Jesus came in Acts one for 40 days um trying to convince them he was fully alive, you know, and now I bet they felt fully alive. Amen. Yeah. Yes. You want me to read what's the next section? Do you have anything back there, Brad? I was just going to say it reminds me of Elijah when he's waiting to hear the Lord speak and like for for Elijah right he it wasn't in the earthquake it wasn't in the the the fire it wasn't in the wind but now we see the Lord imparting something to them and it was in the wind it was in the fire it was in the earth and it was kind of like a a like a foreshadowing and we were talking about this before going into this one too, but like the the Bible just it's constantly connecting. It's constantly foreshadowing like Old Testament is constantly foreshadowing the events of New Testament. It's constantly the past is constantly foreshadowing the future and how Elijah Elijah was supposed to be the prophet that returns that makes way for the Messiah to come. And we learn later on like John the Baptist was the returning of Elijah. We see that in the Gospels. We hear that hear that. And now the the disciples becoming the apostles are receiving the Holy Spirit. And what like to me it almost sounds like something very very similar as to what Elijah as a prophet got to encounter except it wasn't time yet for him to receive the fullness of the Holy Spirit. And so it's just a foreshadowing of listen it wasn't in that before because it wasn't time but now is the time. Now Jesus says it today is the day of salvation. Yeah it is. Amen. Now the kingdom of heaven is here. Yeah. Right. And so it just just more of that foreshadowing of man that like they experienced the wind, they experienced the fire and it it resided on them and in them and and purified them. Even like I think about Isaiah as well where uh he he says to the Lord like purify my lips, clean my lips. And an angel takes a coal and puts it on his lips and his tongue to purify. And the almost like the same imagery of these tongues of fire come down and encounter them and touch their lips and what's uttered out is a a heavenly language, a a tongues unbeknownst to themsel. Yeah. In Amen. Man, that's so deep. Come on. Let's let's go. Yeah. We want to encourage you. Don't just read the Bible to read it, but to get revelation from the Holy Spirit. Let him breathe on the word and let it come alive in your life. Yeah. I mean, just like we started. I mean, anytime we're opening up the word to read it, we're like, "Holy Spirit, show me what you want me to know today." It doesn't mean you got to understand every single verse in there or every single word in there. He'll just like pop out things for this moment where you are right now in this place. I mark up my Bible with different colors each time I'm reading through it and it'll tell me like how many times like just in this place here um I I have two different oranges. I have a blue and I have a purple and and a black pen. Like so that's how many different times in different areas I've read it. And it's just powerful. He speaks to you for what needs to be spoken right now in this moment. All right. Amen. Amen. All right. So, verse five, is that where we're at? Yes. Now, there they were staying in Jerusalem, God-fearing Jews from every nation under heaven. When they heard the sounds, the crowd came together in bewilderment because each one heard them speaking in their own language. Woo! Utterly amazed, they asked, "Are not all these men who are speaking Galileans? Then how is it that each of us hears them in our own native language? I'm just out there a second, you know. Wow. That's God. That's Holy Spirit. Yeah. And I'm not going to try to name all those names because I'm just going to not give them justice. Yes. So, we're just going to be and the parts of um we're going to go down here to both Jews and converted converts to Judaism. Um, oh, that's creating the wonders of God in our own tongues. Wow. That's new. That's cool. We hear them declaring the wonders of God in our own in tongues. Amazed and perplexed, they asked one another, "What does this mean?" Some however made fun of them and said they have too much too much wine. Stop at that. Wow. There's always TPT says they're drunk on new wine. Oh, the new wine has come. Yeah. Come on. True. I tell you, I haven't personally experienced speaking in tonesues and someone like you're speaking my language, but I I have some friends who were like speaking in tongues and then the other person, let's say it's like Portuguese. What What do they speak? Portuguese. Portuguese. Yeah. The Brazilians in the Portugal. Portugal. Sorry. Uh no offense. Um, but it's like the ladies speaking in in tongues, not knowing what it we don't know what language our tongues is, but the Holy Spirit takes it and turns it into the language that the person needs to receive it in. And that lady's like, I know nothing about Portuguese language, but here they received it. Or like if if it's Spanish or or Italian or what whatever. That's just so amazing. Yes. I was in a service a couple years ago and and they were practicing um interpretation of tongues, which is different than speaking in tongues. Yeah. And and so they were practicing it because if we don't practice it, how do we ever get it, you know, get better at it. That's right. You practice riding a bicycle, right? The first time you ride a bicycle, I think you probably fall off, you know, uh roller skating, you know. I got a message on that. Yeah. Yeah. Come on. So this this um person speaks in tongues in the congregation and I'm like I'm looking at my friend I'm like that's Asian. That has to be Asian. and it sound like Chinese like Mandarin like specifically I didn't even know my Mandarin and and here this guy sitting in the back like that's messages for me and um I speak Mandarin and it was in Mandarin and it was a message about him and a direction. Wow. And I got the goosebump wow she got the Jesus bumps going on all the way up my spine. Jesus. It's good stuff. Just like that, he could show up and give you direction. Yeah. And the guy was from another nation. Yeah. I like that when we um practice activating the gifts that we can have. We You can have all of them if you want. I I like to refer to myself as a selfish child and I want all the gifts. you know, of course, I need to be obedient with the ones that he's given me. And um I remember the first time and and and I like you saying that because I've really never thought about um stretching people in in activating them in hearing um interpretations. Yeah. Because hearing an interpretation is pretty awesome. It's like receiving a word of knowledge or prophetic word. Are you in tune with the Holy Spirit? And it doesn't happen all the time, but every once in a while the interpretation does come when I'm sitting in church and someone's speaking in tongues and I'm like, "What?" And it's awesome. That's so beautiful. I also have a friend who was um on a missions trip with us when we were in Brazil. So, it's Portugal. Portuguese. Yeah. Portugal. Portuguese. And she's speaking in her in her tongue, this regular, you know, her gift of tongues. And the translator here is perfect Portuguese. Wow. And the lady gets healed. That's awesome. Praise the Lord. My friend, she spoke in her tongue. She couldn't speak very well for the next couple of days because she stuttered the rest of the time. That's funny. She got so wrecked by God. Awesome. Love it. What else you got you guys back there? I know uh towards the end there where it talks about like people thinking they were full on on new wine and mocking them. And I think it's such a such a crucial thing, especially for fellow believers, that not to always judge what you see by what you think is right or wrong. Um, and I say that in the sense of all throughout scripture, it talks about how the Lord uses the foolish things to confound the wise things of the world. And that's not saying you can't have godly wisdom, but there is a thing of wisdom of man. The Apostle Paul talks about that in fir first Corinthians and a couple other places in his letters in the in the New Testament. And it's just one of those things of we can be very quick to look at something and want to say that's not of not of God. When really like for for the apostles here, they were conducting themselves in such a way that people were able to say they were drunk. M and I'm not saying that to be like so just do whatever you want and like but don't without asking the Lord without checking with the Holy Spirit first don't be quick to judge what the Lord is doing um my like the the thing that I work in the thing that I do is in discipling people and I have seen the Lord encounter people in ways where they've been blown across the room where they've been slain in the spirit, meaning that the glory of God fell so heavily upon them that their body just falls to the ground. I've seen them shaking. I've seen them like all their like all their limbs cramp up, but I've also seen the Lord speak directly to people as well. Um, like I've seen I've seen it where there's a time of worship going on and I've seen people like a a man standing in the back of the room just with his arms crossed looking like he he's not happy. And in my mind, like this is just something that the Lord Lord had shown me just as an example of I'm looking at him and judging him with my own eyes and not even asking the Lord what he's doing. And I'm just going, "Oh, this guy is clearly he doesn't like to worship the Lord. He doesn't like to freely worship because he's standing in the back of the room with a stern look on his face and his arms crossed." And so in my own arrogance, really in my own pride and thinking I know what is best, I go over to talk to him to find out, hey dude, like why aren't you dancing and shouting and jumping around? And when I go to talk with him, before I can even say anything other than, "Hey, so what's going on?" he says to me, he's like, "The Lord told me he needed to as a father correct me as his son and that they were going to be hard things for me to hear, but that I need to hear them from my father." And so the Lord was actually encountering him in that space. And what it was is it wasn't actually him disconnecting from worship. It was actually him receiving a strong word from his father who loves him. In Hebrews, it talks about how a good father disciplines his children because he loves them. And how quick like I could have just been like, "Oh, this guy clearly like I was already judging him in my own mind of this guy doesn't want to worship. He doesn't want to engage." when really the Lord was actually disciplining his son because he loves him. The Lord was encountering him. Holy Spirit was speaking to him. And so again, I say I say all this like we need to be careful not to be so quick to judge something. Look, if you feel like something is if people are like screaming and shouting and you're like, h that's a little much, okay, that's fine, but don't in your own heart harden it. and go, "That's not a thing for today. That's not Christ at all." Yes, you might be able to say or experience things to be able to say, "No, that's not really it." But that's between them and God. If someone wants to perform, that's between them and God. Jesus is very clear when he talks about the the uh Pharisees when they fast and they put on this whole show of woe is me, I'm fasting. And Jesus says they've already received their reward and gained the the acknowledgement of look how much they're suffering, right? And so it can be a very similar thing of if someone is just putting on a display just to put on a display to gain attention, then you don't have to really worry about correcting them or judging them because the Lord already knows. So for things like that, again, unless it's something that is completely interrupting that you can clearly tell this is a distraction from the what the Lord is doing, you don't need to be the one to step into it. You don't need to be the one to to stop it or correct it or anything like that because ultimately you don't know unless you ask the Lord. Yeah. Hey, is this of you or am I just completely missing or are they actually is this a manifestation of the Holy Spirit or is this the manifestation of themselves or maybe something oppression or a demonic influence in their life? Mhm. And I've seen those things, but if you don't ask Holy Spirit, you can never really know. And then you're caught being an accuser of the brethren instead of a lover of the brethren. And and we need the Holy Spirit, you know. Um I was in a in a class one day and um Roland Baker had an opportunity to teach our class and it was really awesome. and he taught on the manifestations and and he shared a testimony. Um, and the crazy thing is while I'm on the floor that day, he's praying for me. I have no idea what he's praying for me. And I go into an encounter and I encounter hell. Wow. And I am like, it took me forever to talk about it, but I saw hell. I was like behind glass and I'm looking out and I see people chained so they can't even escape from their tormentors. They're continually day and night tormented and and the stench and the smell and the fire like I felt the fire but he protected me by this glass. And so, um, when I was able to peel myself off the floor and get up and, um, um, he gets up there and he starts speaking and he's telling about this manifestation of this young girl who is rolling around on the floor laughing hysterically. And he said, "I I challenge you not to judge what you don't understand what someone else is experiencing because sometimes what you're seeing doesn't it it has no rhyme or reason of the manifestation between the encounter that they may be having and the manifestation might look totally different." And so he he said, "If you want to know, wait till after they're done and go and ask them about the manif." He said, "What did you experience?" Don't judge them. Just ask, "May what did you experience?" And he said, "Here the girl, she started to cry and she's she said, "Can I tell you when I when I'm able to process it enough?" And he said, "Absolutely." So she was just undone in tears. And a couple weeks later, she comes back and talks to him and says, "Hey, um, I just want to let you know I God took me through hell." Wow. And she experienced hell. So, she experienced the fire of God in hell. And yet her manifestation was laughter, holy laughter. So, was it the laughter that was protecting her from the hell that she was experiencing? You know, it didn't. And so he ran into her a few years later and he says I wanted to ask you did the encounter did it still make a difference in your life and she said yes. Wow. So the encounter will make a difference in your life. It will c it will definitely. Yes. That was pretty cool. Just a I thought I would just piggyback on your I love what you just had to say there Brad. Brad. Yeah. You're awesome, Brad. He is. Oh, you got an amazing mom, too. She's all tatted up here with her little microphone. Got them all over. All right. Oh, also on that, you know, out of 120 people's obedience to go and wait on the promise, thousands of people's lives were encountered by God that day. Yeah. You know, actually millions of people probably were encountered. Thousands come to know him. Yeah. It's powerful. Yeah. So, yeah. Come on. And they all got to hear. Yeah. you know, and some judged. Yeah. Yeah. Take it away with 14. 14. 14. 14. Oh, I love this one. Then Peter stood up. Yes. With the 11, raised his voice, and addressed the crowd. Fellow Jews and all of you who live in Jerusalem, let me explain this to you. Listen carefully to what I say. These men are not drunk as you suppose. It's only 9 in the morning. No, this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel. In the last days, God says, "I will pour out my spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy. Your young men will see visions. Your old men will dream dreams. Even on my servant, even on my servants, both men and women, I will pour out my spirit in the those days. And I and they will prophesy. I will show wonders in the heaven above and signs on the earth below, blood and fire and billows of smoke. The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and glorious day of the Lord. And everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved. Everyone. Everyone. Yeah. Everyone. I will pour out my spirit on all people. All people. All the dog's talking over there. He's saying, "Everybody's about ready to fall off the couch." Yeah. Just rolls. He just rolls right off. Wow. This is just amazing. You know, this is what Joel spoke about in Joel 2. You know, and and once again, God used Peter. The bold rose up inside of Peter. Was it, you know, from him Jesus breathing on the disciples in John 20? Throwing the word at my dog. He he breathed on the disciples in in John 20 and he said, "Receive the Holy Spirit." Yeah. And they went back to what they knew. And when when Peter sees Jesus on the shore, he puts on his outer garment. He I think something snapped inside. You know, he put on he put on Christ. He put on what he had taken off when he denied him three times. And he And you know, there's something there's something different about Peter. You know, the other ones, it says that I think it says that the other 11 are standing with him. So, I just want to challenge you. Are you standing with somebody or are you going to allow the boldness of Christ to use you to speak? Yeah. Amen. And sometimes, well, not sometimes, h I don't know. It it can be different for each person. Yeah. I find for myself that sometimes stepping in that boldness, you might have some push back from people, but know that the Lord is calling you to be bold. When you are in your word and you you are becoming surrendered to Jesus, he calls you to do things that a lot of people aren't going to understand. Even people that have been a believer for a long time and they say that they're born again, but they just aren't walking it out. And a when I talk to people, I talk about being a Jesus follower. Not a Christian, but a Jesus follower. Meaning, I'm walking out what the word of God says. I'm not just going to church and sitting there. He calls us to go make disciples, heal the sick, cast out demons, cleanse the lepers. And so that's what we're supposed to do. Yeah. So be bold. It's okay. We're here to encourage you to be in that boldness. And it's going to feel different because other people might not be doing it. I've been I've run into that for 16 years in my walk and I haven't been disappointed any of the times that I have stepped out in boldness for Jesus. Yeah. It's about finding a walk with with the father. Yeah. That is like um a little baby grabbing a hold of daddy's leg. Yeah. wanting to go everywhere because man that kid they get frustrated and mad and cry when daddy leaves for work or go somewhere and they can't go like I want to be like that. I want to grab a hold of him. I want to go anywhere without you. You know like Moses like don't send us if you're not going with us. You know Trina by you saying that about you know like the little children it just takes me back. I have a grandson and when they're here and our my daughter like my grandson's like every time he's doing something he's like mom because he looks to her for affirmation of is this okay is it am I allowed to do this and I just had this vision in my mind of that is what it's supposed to be like he says like little children to have the minds like little children. And I just think like if we could just be like little children and say, "Father, Lord Jesus, Holy Spirit, Holy Spirit, Holy Spirit." Yeah. Childlike faith. Child faith. You know, a child that hasn't been destroyed has faith. Has faith. They believe in the impossible. They don't know where anything's coming from. No food, no clothes. They know nothing. You know, my I remember stories my mom, she would say that my one brother um would say, "Well, just mom, just write a check. The money will just be there." And then the other one would say, "Well, just get it off the tree outside." Yeah. you know, they just had faith. We didn't have money. We didn't But we always never had a need. You know, there was not a need that wasn't provided for. Amen. Amen. All right. All right. We're taking up all the talk time. Hey, how about the bus in the back? You got anything? Hey, Brad, how you doing back there? Jeff, how you doing? I am doing swell. Swell. Swell. Swell. There's a swell coming. It is a swell with my soul. So, you know, yeah, go for it. It's just the intoxication of the Holy Spirit. Amen. And when we hear the word intoxication, a lot of times we refer to, you know, like beer or some form of alcohol. And you know, I see that as the mimic of what the Holy Spirit can bring. You know, when you're intoxicated with the Holy Spirit, you you do lose control of your flesh because the flesh can't handle it. Yeah. And the Holy Spirit comes in and there's different manifestations of what the Holy Spirit does in your body because your flesh doesn't understand it. And it can come out in different ways, you know, through like Brad was saying, shaking and and stuttering and sometimes you fall over and that's that's when the encounters start to come in because your flesh doesn't understand. But when you have the mind of Christ in you, when your mind is renewed, it's what's is communicating with Christ with this with through our Holy Spirit. And and the enemy is like, "Well, I can give you that, too." Yeah. And try to mimic everything that the Holy Spirit has created. But with the enemies, intoxication comes with a cost. Yeah. The Holy Spirit doesn't come with a cost. That's right. It's the only cost is that we're willing to give up. What are we willing to give up to to allow the Holy Spirit to manifest through us to receive the Holy Spirit? Yeah. And sometimes we have to give away our pride sometimes, you know, like the society says your dignity which is pride. Yeah. And David danced naked. Yeah. Are you willing to look? Are you sometimes are you willing? You look foolish.
Yes. You know, I love a friend of ours says, you know, God uses the foolish in her to compound the wise. Come on. Yeah. Like, yeah. My last trip to Kenya, um, we were having like a little on the road service thing and I was out there dancing around. And I was thinking about David because my skirt fell to the ground as I was out there dancing. Praise the Lord. I had a slip on and I was like I felt like something like it just got lighter from my waist down and I looked down and there was my skirt on the ground. Oh no. Down at my ankles. And I'm like I picked it up and ran over. I didn't care though. And we were just having so much fun in the Lord. And that's all that matters. Look at that. Look at that white lady. Yeah, she got a little mazonga. Mazonga slip white lady. That's right. Amen.
All right. You want to read, Brad? Sure. I think 22. I think it's 22. Yes. All righty. Men of Israel, hear these words. Jesus of Nazareth, a man attested by God to you by miracles, wonders, and signs which God did through him in your midst, as you yourselves also know. Him being delivered by the determined purpose and forknowledge of God, you have taken by lawless hands, have crucified and put to death, whom God raised up, having loosed the pains of death, because it was not possible that he should be held by it. For David says concerning him, "I foresaw the Lord always before my face, for he is at my right hand, that I may not be shaken. Therefore, my heart rejoiced and my tongue was glad. Moreover, my flesh also will rest in hope. For you will not leave my soul in Hades, nor will you allow your holy one to see corruption. You have made known to me the ways of life. You will make me full of joy in your presence."
How far down did you go? 20. Uh 28. I think. No, no, no. That's good. Yeah. This is what David says, you know. Um, you know, did the Holy Spirit pour out that information through Peter? You know, he didn't have the Bible to read. Yeah. You know, um, I feel that when we when we really walk in the power of the Holy Spirit, he can give us what we need to speak. Amen. And and he can he can speak all kinds of wise things, you know, and I just I love, you know, what David speaks here. You know, I saw the Lord always before me. because he is at my right hand, I will not be shaken. I will not be shaken. So, David was outside of this covenant. He was in a different covenant. Yeah. And he still was able to see this. He was he reached into the future. Yeah. You know, he saw on the other side of the crucifixion. He saw Jesus setting at the Lord's um, you know, I think it even says, um, it it's also about Psalms one, what is it? Psalms 110, I think it's down here. Psalm 16, 8-11. And and it and I'm pretty sure that it like talks about like your Lord at, um, let me read that. That'd be better. But I feel like it's important. You know, some how many times do we just glance over stuff like this and not really go and figure out why did God put it there? You know, there's a reason for everything. 16, 8 through 11. 16. Psalms is a big chapter. There's quite a few in there. All right. 8 through 11. Yes. It says, "I have set the Lord always before me because he is at my right hand. I will not be shaken. Therefore, my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices. My body also will rest secure." Oh man, he he felt secure. Like he felt secure. Because you will not abandon me to the grave, nor will you let your holy one see decay. It's the same one. Yeah. You have made known to me the path of life. You will fill me with joy in your presence with eternal pleasures at your right hand. There's another. Is it, um, Psalms? Uh, 110. That's maybe that's the one I was thinking. I just love how like you said, this is before the Holy Spirit. This is David directly with God. Yeah. Oh, here it is. It's one. It's 110:1. The Lord says to my Lord, "Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet." Wow. Like he saw in the future. Like let's go after God. That's right. And pull on his heartstrings and see what's going to happen, you know? Yeah. And give us the security in our life now. And you know, it doesn't mean that it's gonna take away bad times, but can you imagine having security when hell on earth is going on around you, but people were like, "Why are you not moved?" Yeah. What's different about you? They don't understand that. Yeah. I had an opportunity. I was in, um, um, really bad section of uh, Columbus, Georgia, and we were doing ministry on the streets and and I got a chance to to speak life into this one young man. And he looked up at me and he says, "I want to know this God." You know, like we're in a place where he needs to see God and he's hearing life instead of hearing mercy. Yeah. You know, when we get to be that, we carry that. We carry him and we get to pour Jesus out into people. Yeah. And we get to lift them to their feet. It's so fun. So much fun. It's amazing. Yeah. Really is. Everywhere you go, like Costco and we just got new phones and I I just like sharing Jesus with people, you know, and it brings them joy regardless of where they are or what's going on, you know. I just tell them that they're loved and because they are loved and then you get into the deeper stuff. The hook. Yeah. We're fishing. Yeah. Going fishing. That's like when you get a word of knowledge for somebody. That's Then you could say, "Hey, do you want to know that Jesus that just healed you?" Yeah. Or, you know, it's not me that knows that. It's my father. Yeah. He just revealed some truth about you that he wants to speak life of you. Yeah. And you had just said that too, like what those signs and I mean, he speaks to you regardless. Even before being a believer, he was speaking to me. I didn't understand what it was. And then once I realized what it was, I was like, "This is great." You know, and, um, you just have to he wants to speak to you. If you if you're right now, if you're sitting here and you're watching and you you have this thought, typically I'm going to say Jesus speaks to you in encouraging, uplifting, and positive things. He can give correction also, but he's going to like tell you things like you're like, "What is that?" Like, "I don't know." Like when you see another person, like maybe you're walking in front of that person and you hear this word or you hear a color. That was one of the first things. It was like purple. I'm like, I don't even like purple, you know. Like, what is that? And then I see this lady walking towards me in purple and I was just like, what is this? This is It can feel weird. Yeah. But I didn't know what the Holy Spirit was and I didn't know what words of knowledge were. And then you find out and you're like, he's speaking to me. Yes. It's He will He will do it for every every single thing. Every single thing. Oh, man. Yeah. Are you willing? Are you willing? Are you ready? You don't have to be ready. He'll just do it. Get ready. Yeah. Just go. I love it. I never get tired of it. It's so much fun. No, it's just fun. You know, and and I love the part that David reached into the future. Yeah. You know, and what what future do you get to reach into? And maybe it's something about someone else's life that can speak life into somebody, you know? I think if you see something devastating, it's an opportunity to pray against it, you know, and and to speak life into somebody, you know, you just never know. But that relationship with God is so powerful that it can take you to the heights of the highest mountains and to the lowest valleys and and see transformation in other people's lives. Amen. Are you willing to go thousands of miles and spend thousands of dollars if God says go? Yeah. Are you willing to just step out your front door and go? Are you willing to be transformed in your own home and be an example of what Christ has created you to be? Are you willing? Because he'll take you. There's a part that you have to do too, and that is to say yes to Jesus. Yeah. So Jeff, what were you willing to do? Well, for me, you know, for me, I had to let go some things that was holding me back, keep me from launching into my destiny. And a lot of it was my my own identity. not my identity in Christ, but my own flesh identity was being an owner of a trucking company and also being a a mountain bike instructor, which I really enjoyed because I got to work with the youth. And by letting go of those things, I was able launched into what I was called to do to help with leadership, help people finding their voice. And even though those passions are still in me, but they're no longer my identity, but God still uses those in that are in me every once in a while, you know, through with the mountain biking, you know, creating what what God helped me create was for dirt church helping mountain bikers to hear God's voice for the people out in the mountain bike trails. And, you know, we don't see a lot of that on the mountain biking trails at all, but that should be the norm where we stop and ask God, "What do you have for this person? Are they struggling? Do they have some pain? Or they just need a word of encouragement?" Yeah. And sharing the love of Jesus to that person, you know, doing it through mountain biking that soon becomes their lifestyle of wherever they go, they're hearing God's voice for somebody. Amen. Amen. And you're breaking down the barriers, Jeff. Breaking down the barriers to say this can be normal. It's okay to talk about Jesus on the bike trail. Yes. It's okay. Yeah. So, what if you weren't created to to be a wife or a husband or a dad or a mom? What if you weren't created to just be a daughter or son? What if you were created for the relationship with the father, son, and Holy Spirit? And out of that, you get to get to be a daughter or son. You get to have a family. You get to have a career. You get to have a be maybe a beautiful house and and a retirement. But you don't get those things just to enjoy them for yourself or your family. It is to proclaim the gospel. It's avenues. So if I get to be an engineer and I get to be an engineer over a large company, it's not just for me to build a nest egg for me and my family and leave a legacy and even be known, you know, that I created a city. It's to know that somewhere in that I let a fingerprint on someone's life or many people's lives, they created, um, an a snowball effect that continued to change culture. And I think, um, I think that's where we're wrong in society. We got it wrong because we we think that we're here to just multiply. But we're actually here to multiply the kingdom. Amen. Amen. It's not about It's not about us. It's about what we were created to do. And back in Genesis, I like going back to Genesis, right? It's so good. Brad started us off in Genesis. Yes, he did. He did an awesome job at it. And, um, when he said to go and multiply, it wasn't like, yeah, it was to like have children, but you're multiplying kingdom life. You're multiplying what he created you to do, not just like having a bunch of kids. And honestly, if you know what scripture talks about, he would rather you be single anyways. When you get married and you get all these other, um, responsibilities, now you have an obstacle in your way. And then he teaches us how we're supposed to live our life if when we're married. But he created us to represent the kingdom here. Yeah. How are you representing the kingdom? Yes. What are you doing for the kingdom? Especially those who are Christians or born again believers, Jesus followers. You know, it says all will prophesy. Yeah. Do you know that prophesying is only hearing God's voice for yourself and others? Yeah. And do you know what the word all means? All. It's in Greek and Hebrew. That's right. All. Arabic. And Arabic. Yeah. That's awesome. All means all. Come on. Yeah. We need to search out this stuff. You know, what do some of these words mean? Yeah. You know, as for men and women, there is no one person in that 120. There was nobody that was not. There was nobody left out. That's right. Not one person who was seeking all heard their language. Yeah. And they were all filled. And they were all filled. Filled. And equipped. I like how. And equipped. I love it. Filled and equipped. Yeah. So, what are you going to do with what God has given you? Doesn't mean you go out and sew everything. It means you go and spend some time with the father, allow Jesus to rise up inside of you, and you let the Holy Spirit guide and direct you and you pour out the new wine. Amen. Everywhere you go, grocery stores, everywhere we go, school, everywhere, man, you take the joy of the Lord. Yeah. It should be common where we see go around the corner and we'll see somebody praying for somebody. Yes, it should be. That needs to be the new common. Yeah. I mean, I don't know about where you guys live, but I know here, like, you know, we probably have about 15 churches right here in a two-mile radius. And so my question is, why were we talking about this earlier? Why is it when I go to the grocery store are we not like running into each other about like, "Hey, can I pray for you?" or just, "Hey, you know, giving words of knowledge to one another?" If we have so many believers in the area, why aren't we encountering other believers? Why are we not being equipped? Why are we not? Yes. Yes. So we're telling you that you have gifts inside of you. And as you allow God to fill you up, allow him to speak to you and allow him to take you places you never thought you would go and do things you never thought you would do. And it may be next door. That's right. It may be just delivering some cookies over the holiday to maybe the someone who's shut in and you just love the hell out of them where they're at. And what if they get healed when they eat your cookie? Yeah. What if that person who is in a wheelchair, you know, and it could be someone even they're in their 80s. You don't know. There's no age requirement. That's right. You know, and what if it's the love that's in your cookie that you took the time to go love the hell out of that person, allow them to feel special for a couple minutes. Yeah. And they get healed because somebody loved them today. Yeah. What are you doing with that talent that God gave you? Are you sharing it? Or are you keeping it for yourself? Because the parable of the talents, the one who kept it hid it didn't end very well. Yeah. And one who shared it and multiplied it got a great reward. Yeah. You know, God gives us these talents and we're supposed to share that and duplicate it. That's right. You know, what good it would be if I have a pastor's anointing and just keep it for myself when I see Brad over here knowing that, yeah, I see a pastor in him, but I don't share it and don't help edify and uplift him to step into that calling. That's good. Yeah. Poor Brad over here be suffering for the rest of his life when I've had him when I have the tools that he needs to to be successful in his life. Yeah. Because God gives you a word to encounter someone else and you know, you're leaving that person in the dark by not encountering them. Sure, God will probably send someone else to, but he's given you the assignment. Yeah. Step out into your assignment. You're a soldier. Yeah. You have a job to do. You have a responsibility. You know, and and I love how you said that you're selfish about going after all the gifts, you know, I love that and I I had this thought, you know, like if if I'm say, just in engineering, you know, there's all kinds of things that tools that I need and I need to take advantage of every one of those tools. That's right. So, we have all these tools inside and maybe we don't know about it, but you know about it today. That's right. And so now you're responsible for what you just heard. And you have the ability to go look for these gifts. And you know, we're all called to do the work of an evangelist. We're all called to prophesy. We're all called to pray unceasingly. And we're all called to go. And isn't about some being apostles, some being prophets, some being evangelists, some being teachers, some being pastors, because we're all called to shepherd. And so I just want to encourage you, go after the gifts and ask God like, "Show me, show me how to use these gifts." If you don't have someone else to help you, um, we have, um, uh, at the table, at the table ministries. I'm sorry, it's getting a little late. And Radical Christianity, and we have. Why am? Come on. You know, we have so many opportunities for you to to check out. And plus, there's there's people all over the internet that if you want to check out the, you know, and and take everything back to scripture. Yes. Like that's the key is stay accountable. Have a group of people that will keep you accountable. And if you need a group of people that are hungry and on fire for God that you know might look a little different, you know, come join us. You know, we're having reach out to us. Yeah. On New Year's Eve. Yeah. Yeah. If you're in the area. If you're not in the area, you can drive to the area. We're not too far from Philly airport. We're in Son, Pennsylvania. So, um, send a message. Yeah. Yeah. There's a train station not too far away. That's right. Let's go. Come on. Come on. Come join us. Let's. You got anything, Brad? Come on. Fire up. Man, I I just I'm feeling the presence of God. I just I really like what what you had said, Jeff, of just the we can be so quick, especially in our culture in America. We can be so quick to look for my interest. Sorry. We can be so quick to look for what's my calling? What's my gifting? What's my? And we we become so self-focused and so self really self-centered in the truest sense because we're we're cultivated. We're we're taught you got to look out for your self. You have to if you want to get, you have to get for your for your, uh, self. And and there's a part in that as well is I what I've witnessed through the years now, um, I've been you're fine or 11. I've been, uh, staff with Youth With A Mission for seven years now. And what I have heard time and time and time and seen time and time again is this focus of self-help. Self-help. The you as a Christian need to get self-help. Listen, I'm I I'm not discounting anything that you've gone through, anything that you've walked through, uh, the the traumas that you may have or whatever it is. I'm not saying those aren't a real thing. But there's another reality that we have someone that has saved us. Amen. We have someone that has paid for everything. We have someone who says, "No longer do self-help because your self-help only got you this far to the point where you need a savior." Wow. Mankind has been trying to do self-help since the fall and it hasn't worked. It's only It's only gotten worse. Amen. Why? Because something has taken place that requires more than man's self-help. It actually requires a loving and caring and just and fair God to step in and give us the power and strength and ability to break free from the powers that are on earth and from the the curse of sin itself. And so I say all that like we're so self-focused and so self I need to feel right in order to do. And the reality of it is is no, it's not about it's not about how I feel at the end of the day. Like in a minute, I can feel 50 different things, but it never walks away from the truth, the reality of what we're actually living, which is I have a savior who did save me. Yes. Who not only saved me but has empowered me with the same spirit that's able to raise dead people, who even raised himself. Yeah. And he's given me authority. Yes. To walk out and to share him and make him known because he desires to be known. Yeah. Not just by me, but by others. And he's chosen us to to go all the way back to Genesis, that go be fruitful and multiply. That multiplying isn't just having a bunch of kids, as Michelle said. It's it's the multiplication of God's image. Yes. When you look at Adam and Eve, what we know, what makes humans different from any other creature on this planet is we were made in God's likeness and image. Both. We were both of those things. When the serpent deceived Eve, what he came after was the likeness and image. He says to her in in Genesis 3, "Oh, God knows that if you were to eat of this fruit that you would be like him." They were already like him. They were already like him. Yeah. They already bore his image. And to me, when I when I read that, when I see it, that that lie has echoed all the way up to this point. Yes. It's the curse of Adam. It's the it's the curse of sin in our life where we're so focused on trying to be like God. And I don't mean that necessarily in a malicious way or in a prideful way, but in our lack of understanding of what truly is good and what truly is evil. And from that curse of we're deciding for ourselves what is good and what is evil. And the Lord says, "No, I I already created those boundaries. You're already in my image. You were already made in my likeness. You can choose to be in that. And with Jesus, I've given you that way. I've given you that ability. But it's never on your own." No. It's always with a brother, always with a sister. It's it's through co-laboring with one another. Yes, I have my own responsibilities for myself to walk with the Lord. But even in walking with the Lord, I'm never carrying anything on my own. When you read the Psalms, David talks about this in every single Psalm. That the Lord, Psalm Psalm 23, the Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want. What does that mean? It doesn't mean I can't desire things. It can't it doesn't mean I can't want something that's good. But what it means is I have someone who's always with me. And he doesn't call us as Christians to be idols. There's very very few points in history where you see a Christian going alone as a missionary. Very very few. And it's very clear that the Lord has called them to go. But you what you see quickly is when they are a single missionary, you see very quickly they build family wherever they're at. Yeah. Wherever God has called them to. And so I say that because even the Trinity isn't alone. They all work together in perfect love. Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. They are constantly in perfect union and love with one another. They are not a lone individual. That's true. But in in doing that, they've given us to be in their likeness and their image to to have a family unit, uh, is really a replication of God and the Trinity, of our tri, of the triune God. It's literally a husband and wife, and God is a carbon copy, a physical copy of what the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit looks like. And that again, that's just echoed all throughout the Old Testament, all throughout time. And you'll see that everything's looking to. I think Dan Mohler says this a lot, everything is looking to reproduce after itself. Everything. Yes. That's the that's the law of the world we live in. But we have a choice of what are we going to reproduce? God likeness and God's image, or are we going to reproduce fallenness and sin and the enemy's image, really, at the end of the day? But that we can't do it on our own. It can't be a self-help type of thing. It can't be a "I'm doing this." It can't be a "I'm taking Jesus here." Who are the we? Who is who is the family? Who is the group that the Lord has brought you with? Even if it's just one other person. Amen. Wow. That was good, Brad. Thank you. Come on. There's like 50 other things up here, too. Yeah. I'm sure you short stuff. So good. I think you're on the low number that which is awesome. Yeah. And, uh, I like how you said how the enemy always with Adam and Eve. How did you say that? That his lie has been the same. Lie is the same. And, you know, Jesus experienced that with the temptation. Yes, he did. Yeah. And, uh, Trina talks about that often. The devil tempts Jesus for what he already has. Yeah. Everything that he was called to step into, he was tempted. Yeah. The bread of life. Yep. You know, to throw yourself down, he was going to give him all the power. Yeah. Because, you know, he had already been given it, you know. And so he was already do given things that he had already had. Yeah. You know, he he is, you know, he has the authority of this world. Yep. You know, and we're here to claim it back. We're here to take it back. And yeah, everything that he, he was he was taken to the temple, the top of the temple. So, he's called to be the head of the body, you know, and it's like everything that he was tempted with. And we wonder why we're struggling so much. What if the reason why you're struggling so much is because the enemy knows that you have a call in your life that is he knows that you know your generation from your parents from both sides and he's like, "Oh no, they can't they cannot understand their identity. If they understand their identity, I'm done." You know, what if God knew you before you were formed in your mother's womb? What if he truly knew you? He walked in the cool of the day with Adam and Eve. He would He won't go against your will here on earth. Why would he go against your will in, you know, in heaven? You know, and if we knew him, what if he said, "Hey, you know, um, hey Michelle, you know, uh, your mom and dad are about ready to have a baby girl. They don't know it yet, but will you be their baby girl?" What if you said yes? Because he didn't go against your will down here. What if he wouldn't go against your will up there? And I don't know what it looks like. You know, I'm not here to pick apart theology. I just know that we were part of him somehow, someway. And in the moment, you're created. You were created in his image. In that moment, when I was created, I was created in his image, you know. And so some way, somewhat, how you, what if you had the opportunity to come in agreement with the father and say, "Yes, I will be that son or daughter?" And and do you believe that you will overcome everything the enemy throws your way to make your way back to God, and he makes his way back to you? Yeah. You have the ability to overcome hell on earth. Yeah. And I believe that because we are created in his image, all the gifts are laying dormant inside of you, waiting to be activated. All of them. Yes. That's what I think. I think because we're created in his image. Why wouldn't we have them? We just don't know how to move in them and use them. Yeah. We're afraid. When you buy a model, you know, like those old car models, you know, it has all the glue and stuff. Not today's version, you know, where everything snaps together. Ones where you had to break them all apart and, you know, got those little plastic nubbies on it and you got to try to get it off so it'll fit together. Yeah. And you had to put it together, you know, um, the old erector set, you know, that kind of stuff. You had to put it together and you didn't know how to put everything together, right? You know, it's called practice.
All right, so we're in Acts two. Yes. Yes. Welcome back. Welcome back for a long time. Um, I think we're at verse 29. 29. That's correct. Yes. So, um, we're still with Peter speaking out. Ah, brothers, I can tell you confidently that the patriarch David died and was buried and his tomb is here to this day. But he was a prophet and knew that God had promised him on oath that he would place one of his descendants on his throne. Seeing what was about, what was ahead, he spoke of the resurrection of Christ, that he was not abandoned to the grave, nor did his holy, his body see decay. Sorry about that. God has raised this Jesus to life. And we are all witnesses of that fact. Exalted to the right hand of God, he has received from the Father the promised Holy Spirit, and has poured out poured out what you now see and hear. For David did not ascend to heaven. And yet he said, "The Lord said to my Lord, sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet." Therefore, let all Israel be assured of this. God has made this Jesus whom you crucified both Lord and Christ. Oh man. When the people heard this, they were cut to the heart and said to Peter and the other apostles, "Brothers, what shall we do?" I think we're going to end on that. What shall we do? Like he wasn't the Holy Spirit that was speaking so brazenly. They cut to their heart. Yes. Wow. Yeah, that's good. Yeah. You guys got anything back here? I still love this part about David. You know, David, David was promised by God that one of his descendants would be on the throne, you know, and we think it's earthly, you know. And and he saw Christ sitting on the throne. It wasn't Solomon or Solomon's son or or, you know, other generations. Yes, that, you know, some of that played out, but, you know, Solomon and Rahab weren't the nicest kings ever, and God ripped a lot of kingdoms from their hands, you know, but God was speaking. So, how many times do we think that God is saying something in the natural when he's really speaking about something that we don't even understand? Yeah. And it's and it's future tense. Yeah. And, you know, and we have that relationship because of this. We have this relationship that David had. Yeah. And because of the Holy Spirit, he gives us things. He gives us visions. He gives us dreams. He gives us words of knowledge. He gives us prophetic words to know, like in the sense of like the direction we need to be walking in. And we may not always understand what he's saying to us, but we know how to be obedient and following what he tells us to do when it makes no sense whatsoever to us. But it's not supposed to because it's his spirit speaking to us and we have the indwelling of the Holy Spirit in us. So it's the spirit talking to our spirit and guiding us. Are we open and obedient to following that out? And that's where the boldness comes in. Can you be so bold to what Jesus is speaking to you right now in this moment and just say, "Holy Spirit, I just receive you right now. I receive you, Holy Spirit. I receive you, Holy Spirit." Let the spirit do a work inside of you, wherever you are and whatever you're doing. You can have it. It's free. Holy Spirit, I just receive you right now. I just receive you right now. Holy Spirit, I ask that the spirit just come upon each person listening tonight, watching tonight, whatever time it is for you. Bring your fire. Let your fire fall. Let your will be done on earth as it is in heaven and pour out your baptism of Holy Spirit on each and every person that calls out your name. Even the ones that don't call out your name, but they profess you that your Lord of their life. I feel like there's someone that they I have this heaviness like in my hands like they want to be pushed down. And you feel like your hands have been pushed down so many times that you're like, "How do I know?" We're here to tell you it's real. Let him hold your hands. He wants to grab a hold of your hands right now. I say just brush it off. Whatever that is, brush it off and grab a hold of him. He loves you. He created you. And even if you don't understand what all that means, it's okay. I didn't either. You will grow and learn. You know, it says here, um, "Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet." Yeah. Your enemies are not flesh and blood. It's the principalities and and it's the demonic and it's, you know, spiritual realm. And so if you think about that, if you spend time with the Lord and you get filled up with God, Jesus said the enemy had nothing on him. So as we're filled up with God and we spend time in the presence, what if that means that the enemy has nothing on you too? When you are in that place where you're hidden, you're under his pinions, enemy can't even see you. That's right. You know what? If that that is a possible place to be. Yeah. And you can walk through craziness in this world and and not see damnation. That's right. Because it doesn't mean you're exempt from the schemes of the enemy. It's how you handle the schemes that come after you, the the what the enemy is trying to bring to you, and how you walk through it. We walk through it with the Lord, with Jesus. And when you can walk through it with Jesus, it's a game changer. It doesn't mean like, you know, I might not be hurt here or there, but I don't live in the hurt. I just say, "Lord, I don't understand what's going on, but continue to make the way for me, and I know that you love those people, too." Yes. Show them an encounter from you. Show them an encounter for you. It's not like, "Oh my gosh, I can't believe that person did that. I can't believe they said." No, he wants them to encounter. He wants you to encounter him. Yeah. That's just a different mindset. Romans 12:2, the renewing of your mind.
So, the next time you have an injury, what if instead of looking to the doctor, like I I had this happen this summer, this honest, um, I injured my ankle, uh, mountain biking and I jumped off the dirt church thing. Yeah, the dirt church. Yeah, this is really cool. So, I injured my ankle. I jammed the ankle. You got experience. And I I'm like, "Oh, hell no. I'm just being real." I jumped off that bike and I grabbed my ankle and I said, "We got some soap for her mouth." I started praying. I'm like, "No, not today, Satan." I said, "No, not today." And because I had three surgeries on that ankle and I'm like, "Oh, no." And it felt very similar. So I could receive, oh man, this is going to be a mess and I'm going to be all, you know, in a cast or whatever surgery because it felt like the tendon gave way and I'm just telling you it hurt. No. Alexa, turn off. See, Alexa's got all. So I jumped off and I prayed and I'm like, no. And I went after it with diligence. And do you know that the pain went away and praise the Lord? And it was a little tight, but I'm like, I'm working it out. I'm walking it out. And, you know, I'm not saying that it's all going to always go away right away. But I'm like, God, I thank you for the word of knowledge. And I ask you, take all this pain away and show me who needs healed. And we weren't even a half a mile up the road. And there was a guy sitting on a big rock and he had his bike leaning against and it didn't look like he had a problem. I said, "Hey, sir, by any chance you have a problem in one of your ankles?" And he said, "Yes, I do." And he says, "Um, it's in his left ankle, my left ankle." And I got to pray for him. And like, you just never know. Like, let's start taking what the enemy means for harm and turning around and flipping it and smacking the enemy and seeing people get pulled out of the pit of hell. Yeah. Amen. You know, because they'll be like, "How do you know?" Like, I don't know, but your daddy knows. Amen. And he's going to heal you today. That builds your faith, too, because you didn't know that they had a problem. Especially when he's sitting. I mean, it doesn't look like he was he wasn't like babying his ankle. Amen. Well, we're going to stop for there. Right there for now. Oh, we're going to I thought you said that's where we're going to end at. We do. Did she say that? That's where she just want to stop reading. There's a difference. All right. We're almost done. This is This is like This is the good part. That's why I was like, maybe you're saving it for the next session. Oh, no. No. There, Jeff. Go. Or or Brad. Peter replied, "Repent and return to God. Each one of you must be baptized in the name of Jesus, the Anointed One, and have your sins removed. Then you may take a hold of the gift of the Holy Spirit. For God's promise of the Holy Spirit is for you and your families, for those who are yet to be born, and for everyone whom the Lord God calls to himself." Peter preached to them and warned them with these words, "Be rescued from the waywardness, the perversion culture of this world." For those who believed the word that day, the day numbered 3,000. Those who believed the word that day were 3,000. Wow. That's right. Oh Jesus. They were all baptized and added to the church. Three. Those who believed in the word were 3,000 people. Wow. From one from one man. From that day. Yeah. Come on. 120, mean 3,000. That's a good number. Yeah. That's good. Uh, multiplication. That's right. Is that it? No, it's the community of believers. I can continue. Yeah, go for it. You know, this is for the church here. Every believer that faithfully devoted to the following of the teachings of the apostles. Their hearts were mutually linked to one another, sharing communion and coming together regularly for prayer. A deep sense of the holy holy awe swept over everyone. The apostles performed many miraculous signs and wonders. All the believers who were in fellowship as one body, and they shared with one another whatever they had. Out of generosity, they even sold their assets to distribute the proceeds to those who were in need among them. Daily they met together in temples courts and one another's homes to celebrate communion. They shared meals together with joyful hearts and tender humility. They were contin Oh, they were continuously filled with praises to God, enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord kept adding to their numbers daily. There's you were coming to the life. Amen. Continually being filled. Yes. Continually. Continually. It's not a once and done. No. It's continuous. Yeah. What's continuous mean in Greek? I don't know. Continuous. That's That's a question for Brad. I'm thinking probably means something. Without limit. Without limit. I'll just I'll take that. Continuous. Yeah. That's that's good. Without limit. Oh, that was my serious causing problem over here. Yeah, there's like the two sections here, the 38 through 41. Um, repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. And you will receive again, will you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. Have you repented? Have you repented? That can be, I think, challenging sometimes for Christians. We I think the repentance is renewing the mind, changing the way we think about things. And and when we say we're sorry and we're changing the way that we live, we then we don't continue to live in habitual sin. Habitual means continuous, the same sin over and over and over again. As a born again believer, a Jesus follower, you should not be staying in habitual sin if you have repented. So if you are in that place, Jesus died on the cross for you so you don't have to stay in that sin. Do you want to believe it? It goes back to the beginning of our our conversation about believing. Do you really believe then? Because if you believe what he came for and died for, which is for you, then he doesn't want you to continue to walk in that sin. If you need someone to help hold you accountable, then we're here for you. Radical Christianity and At the Table Ministries, we can help direct you to a place or to someone to speak to to help you. Um, one on just to be honest, you need deliverance if you're still continuing to walk in sin as a born again believer. You just need that that junk gone. Not that you have to have it, but there's something that's holding you back that has not released you, you know. And sorry, go ahead. Oh, no. Um, I'm an avid believer that the baptism of Holy Spirit is the power to walk out your salvation. And, um, there's two books that are
really good if you want to read. Um, you can listen on Audible. It's um, The Cross and the Switchblade by David Wilkerson. And also, um, Chasing the Dragon by Jackie Pullinger. And they both talk about the importance of the baptism of the Holy Spirit. And they go into hard, hard, I mean, drug areas and see transformation to the point that Jackie Pullinger saw the walled city come down on her watch. On her watch. One person saw a transformation. She was a British girl that didn't know what to do. She heard her heard God say, "Go." And she's like, "Where do I go?" And she had just randomly heard, she had a vision or something about Hong Kong, and it was like an old map or something. And so she had this, uh, vicar, which is a pastor, and she went to him and she said, "What do I do?" He said, "Well," he says, "if you really feel like you're called to go, um," he said, "just get on a on a ship. Back then, you know, and said, get on a ship and just, you know, every get one that has lots of ports on it, you know, one of the journeys. And every time the ship would stop, ask God, 'Is this where you want me to get off?'"
Yeah. Like, that's boldness. A single white woman going into a hard area. And she ended up going to Hong Kong and she ended up going into seeing, um, drug dealers and gang members, hardcore gang members, get baptized in the Holy Spirit. And when, so she didn't have the baptism of the Holy Spirit when she first went.
Um, she went with what she knew. Kind of like Peter went with what she knew. And, you know, just go somewhere, somewhere tomorrow. Go to the store. Yeah. And just ask God to highlight somebody. You know, somebody might pass you by three times like, "Hello." You know, maybe maybe that's...
Yeah. And just say hi to him. Start off there. Simple.
Happy New Year.
Yes.
You could just say tomorrow, "Oh, happy new year." It's a perfect, you know, opportunity.
Have a great day. Happy New Year.
And watch God maybe give you a word for him or something. And this lady, she just started this, you know. And several years into it, she finally gets baptized in the Holy Spirit by another group of missionaries that came to that country. And when she realized the power of the baptism of the Holy Spirit and she saw guys get undone by drugs, like completely come off of drugs without any withdrawal, she was hooked.
Yeah. Like, and and pretty much, I'm pretty sure that the book says that every person that they prayed for for the baptism of the Holy Spirit came off of drugs without any issues when they would pray in tongues. So there's, there's, you know, that person had to play a part. You know, they had to be an avid believer in Christ. And there's such a power. Like, go after the baptism of the Holy Spirit. I had that happen actually, uh, last weekend in, uh, in the area that I'm from in the Philadelphia area. It's called Kensington. And, uh, they openly use drugs there and they're drugged out and stuff. And someone had called me in to to pray for this lady who was all doped up. They're like, slumped over. If you're familiar with any drug places, um, that's just how the life is there. And I come in and that's exactly what I did. I'm speaking in tongues and I'm like, praying for her, um, back and forth between the two of regular words and then praying in tongues. And I just said, "Lord, I want you to come and make her sober in your name right now. Let your fire, let your blood run through these veins and make her completely sober right now in the name of Jesus." And her head pops up. I have a video of it. Her head pops up and she just gives this most beautiful smile and she goes, "That was really weird. I don't feel anything anymore." And I was just like,
"Okay, God." Like, I don't, I'm not a doubting Thomas, but he always shows up. I just go in and I believe he's going to do what he says he's going to do, and I have to be obedient in what I'm supposed to do.
Yeah. And I just go in.
Especially when he highlights something. Yeah. When he gives you a word for somebody.
Yeah. Like, just by faith, just walk it out.
Yeah. You know, and in David Wilkerson's book, in the end, there's a guy that's interviewing them, and he said, "What's the difference between some of the guys that would go back into their old lifestyle and succumb to their old lifestyle and go back into drugs and alcohol, and the other ones would would go back, but they would be a witness even to, you know, being stabbed or shot, you know, you know, because these guys lived in horrible places."
Yeah. Yeah. And but they would stand firm on who they were and they would end up winning over people's hearts.
Yeah. And he said, "What was the difference?" And they all said it was the ones who were truly baptized in the Holy Spirit. There was transformation in their lives.
Yeah. Like the baptism of the Holy Spirit looks like something.
It does. There is a total transformation that starts to be birthed in you.
Yeah. And you're not the same person.
No. You know, there's fruit.
Yeah. I think sometimes deliverance happens. You know, I think, you know, there there's healing that happens.
There's wholeness that starts to take place. You start to like different things because you don't like your own life anymore.
Yeah. He cleans you up. He's the cleaner. And with that comes the Holy Spirit. And the marker, I, I personally believe the marker for the Holy Spirit is that transformation that's happened. And sometimes we don't completely understand what's going on. But that's okay. You don't need to. And in some religious places, they say speaking in tongues, but that is not, it doesn't say you have to speak in tongues and that means you have Holy Spirit. That is not correct. That is not the way it says in scripture.
Again, it comes with the gifts and you walking, you hearing, you you healing, right?
Yeah. Um, you know, and and this is this is also I just saw this tonight. It said, "They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated, separated and came to rest on each of them." It seemed.
Yeah. Like they, I don't think they understood what they experienced and that was the best they knew how to explain it.
Yeah. They didn't know. Yeah. But we have a greater understanding of it.
Yeah. And so down going to 42 about the how they came together, right?
Oh yeah. I love that. I love that part. Um, this is important. This is what we need to walk in. This is where I, you know, again, not to like directly come against churches, the church building churches, okay? Um, because I believe many pastors are trying to do the best that they know how to do in their own way, in their own strength.
Yeah. In their own power. And it's not that they don't believe in the Holy Spirit. They do. But it, it's clear in scripture what it talks about as coming together, right? But, but the church within the building doesn't look anything like what it talks about in Acts.
No, they have systems, you know.
Oh yeah. So if you devote yourself to a teaching, it means you walk it out.
Yeah. You know, they were in fellowship, they broke bread together, and they prayed together.
Yes. Like, so could you imagine walking into a building for church and you're all sitting at a huge, this is what I'm imagining, you're like sitting at big tables and you're just, you just start praying. Maybe everybody grabs hands and prays and then you start eating like everybody brought like a potluck meal and we're sharing food together and praying for one another.
Yeah. So beautiful. And they were filled with awe.
Yeah. The reverential awe of the Lord because he saw the Lord move.
Yeah. And they continued to meet in the temple courts and broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts.
That's what we're doing. God. Yes.
This is so sweet. I love it. What's the back row have to say?
Unit 43. Mine has a deep sense of holy awe swept their reach. One of them. And the apostles performed many miraculous signs and wonders. All the believers were in fellowship as one body, and they shared with one another what they had. Out of generosity, they sold even their assets to distribute the proceeds to those who were in need among them.
Yeah. You know what? If we're out here doing outreach and we get a word for somebody, we don't know who they are.
Yeah. And they get touched with the Holy Spirit.
Yeah. Yeah. And to find out they're a multi-million dollar business.
Yeah. Yeah. And just by giving them that word.
Yeah. And they become a believer, how that money shifts.
Yeah. From the world to the kingdom.
Amen. Yeah. And it's going to be kingdom money to help.
Amen. Amen. That goes out to support followers of Christ in need.
Yeah. You know what? What if the next person you pray for, you and you don't know who they are, has some political power?
You know, or has who, what if they're a significant drug dealer? Okay. And you see them radically get healed. You don't know who they are. You know what? If it's someone from the cartel that's on vacation in America.
Yeah. And you see them get healed. You don't know them from Adam and they get healed and their life is radically changed and their entire group that they are a part of gets changed because they were the hierarchy. What if?
But this is what happens. People are like, "Well, what if they say no?" Well, can I just share with you? In 16 years, I've had three people tell me no.
And it doesn't mean there's only three people I ask. I ask people on a daily.
Yeah. Just kidding. Just kidding.
Yeah. She probably asks me for much a day. But it's most of the time they say yes.
I'm like, "I'm just out here loving on people today."
Yeah. And is there anything I can pray for for you today? Or God will give you a word of knowledge also.
"By any chance, do you have back pain? Can I pray for that?" They're like, "What? How do you know?"
Yeah. To say, "Well, I don't, but God does." Yeah. He knows you that well.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You know what? What if what's it you have? So, what if? So, you you get a word of knowledge for someone that might have back issues and you're afraid to go ask that person. You're pretty sure you know that it's that person that got highlighted, but you're afraid.
But what if that person had a word of knowledge? If you had back issues, they had a word of knowledge to see you get healed and they decide to walk off and you didn't get healed because they walked off.
Yeah. Yeah. Someone else might come along. Maybe, maybe not. But what if God can't find someone else?
Well, and that's where we are today. There, there's a pocket full of us.
And we, we're a part of other groups like us. And, um, and scripture talks about how there's very few workers.
Yeah. The harvest is ripe. The harvest is ripe, but we need more workers.
Yeah. If I'm the only one in, well, I have more than just me. I have my, the four of us, the five of us in my family. But if we're the only ones praying for people out there in our community, then it's, it doesn't work out too well.
It's sad. But you can do it. It's not sad. You still go with it with excitement and joy and just, just do it.
You don't know. And give us feedback of what scripture really touches your heart and why.
Yep. You know, and if you feel felt, um, a touch from God, like share with us and let us know. You know, we're just stepping out and doing this journey ourselves. And you know, yes, some of us have been in ministry for a little longer than others, but we're all out here just trying to hear God's voice.
And you know, and if you, even if you ask somebody if they have like a shoulder problem and they say no, what if you say this? So, it wouldn't be right for me not to ask you if it was you because I do see people get healed. And you're not lying because you're reading the Bible. Or at least read the Bible and read about someone getting healed that way. You saw someone get healed.
Yeah. Amen. Yeah. You're not lying. It happened in there. It happens today.
Yeah. But you would be surprised the amount of people would say, "Yeah, that's right." So now they disagreed that God heals today. They they felt special enough that you stopped and asked and cared.
Yeah. And people need to feel loved.
Amen. Amen. And what if, what if they just kind of were blowing you off and then we're like, you know, "Hey, wait a minute. I do have that problem." We had that happen the other day and the lady, she she backed up a pickup truck and she's like, "Hey, um, I do have that shoulder problem. Can I can I get prayer?"
Yeah. Yep. And Yeah. And so she got partially healed.
You know, I'm believing God to heal all the rest of her. We always believe for the rest.
Amen. So, does the back row have anything to close out in or so we can land the plane? Well, when we were in Portugal last year, wife and I took a team out to do outreach. As soon as I entered in this hamburger restaurant, right away Scott highlighted the guy behind the counter and all I hear him just go, "Talk to him." And and I didn't. I kept on feeling a nudge. "You need to go talk to him." But, you know, fear came over me and I didn't want to.
Yeah. And I go to the bathroom. I come out and I'm washing my hands, looking in the mirror. His reflection's in the mirror. And I hear again, "You need to talk to him." And again, I said, "I don't want to." But I'm not here doing outreach, you know. But the flesh was getting the best of me.
Yeah. Finally, I said, "Okay, give me a word." He goes, "No, just go talk to him." So, all right, I'm doing it. I go up and I approach him and all of a sudden I get focused right on his ear. And I just see the earrings. I said, "Your earrings, do you do you know much? Do you know English?" He goes, "Very a little bit." I said, "Tell me about your earrings." He goes, "Well, the first one's a bird." And the second one, he didn't know the English word for it. It was a wing. So, he was imitating a wing of a bird. Now, the staff in the background starting to laugh. They're starting to focus on us. And now I'm really getting uncomfortable.
But, you know, but I'm persevering. I'm pushing through because the conversation's already started. I knew God's going to show up. And all of a sudden, I seen that wire going into his ear. I said, "What's going on with your ear?" He goes, "I have leukemia."
And I said, "Can I pray for you?" He goes, "Yes." I said, "Hang on. I need to go get my translator." So, I bring the translator over. The translator's praying for him. And, um, as we're leaving the restaurant, we're heading back to go towards our car. We pass the restaurant. He's outside smoking a cigarette and he sees us and he waves at us. I go over, I give him a hug. And the translator, he just starts sharing with him. And I just let them go. They share. And as we're leaving the restaurant, the translator's explaining what the conversation is about.
And this young man behind the counter prayed to God two days ago for your real show up.
Praise the Lord. And it took someone two days to show up.
Yeah. Who was God motivating in the meantime? Yeah. Yeah. Amen. So what if, what if he would have, if you wouldn't have done that?
Exactly. And he would have lost hope and you know, and he would have, you know, left the cancer beating, you know. Or what if he would have died without knowing Jesus?
Yeah. But I think it's important to recognize here, like Jeff has been doing this for a little bit, but we still can feel that.
Yeah. And sometimes it's stronger than other times because there was an urgency here. And that's why the Lord was just like, really poking because there can, there have been times, and don't be so hard, I say give yourself grace, but also when he's poking you, then he's probably touched other people to to step out for that person, but they just didn't do it. Just, just do it for Jesus.
What about you, Brad? Come on, Brad. Ultimately, we don't, we don't, especially when sharing the gospel with people, sharing the good news of Jesus, sharing sharing what Christ has done. Even in repentance, it's repentance is turning away from what you did from your lifestyle that you have now for the complete opposite direction. It's not just a, "Oh, I'm sorry, God," and then you keep going how you were. Repentance means to turn away to have a complete change of mind.
Um, even the word disciple really means to lay down your way of lifestyle to pick up another's. And so like, the world, the world needs to hear Jesus. I mean, the only reason we have missionaries, the only reason we have evangelists, and we're called to evangelize is because we live in a world that doesn't worship God. If we worship God, we wouldn't need any of that. You know, we'd still all be in the garden right now running around naked and not even knowing it. Like,
You know, and and you should do a brief. It's really windy out over here, so it probably won't be the best. But, but Jesus has given us something. And it's not, I think we can so much look at it as a burden. When the reality of it is is no, it's not a burden. It's an opportunity to do something with. Not for us to do for, but we get to do with. Peter in his own ability did not speak in tongues. Peter in his own ability did not share those psalms of David to his fellow Jews. Like that wasn't, yes, Peter was a willing vessel to speak it out, but it was him partnering with God.
Yes. And why did he do this? Well, because Jesus told him, you don't have to worry. I'm going to give you some. This is in John, uh, John 17, I believe 16 or 17, where he says, "Don't worry about what you need to say before judges." The Holy Spirit, the helper, the counselor, he will give you the words you need. Now, that doesn't mean we're not supposed to be in a place of reading our word. Why? Because when we read our word, we're reading the words of God. And it, it puts a storehouse in our hearts as we read it. So that way the Holy Spirit has something to pull out of. All of the disciples, all the apostles had the Torah, had the original, uh, five books of the Bible ingrained into them at a young age. Like for them to become men, they had to recite the whole first five books of the Bible by memory.
I still be there. Right? And and we, so I, I really feel like we, so we're relying on the Holy Spirit to pull out something out of us that we never took the time to sow into us. We're asking the Holy Spirit to do the miraculous and bring forth in us something that we haven't even given him the time to place inside of us. And so to to encourage you, one, read your word. There, there is so much. Like if you, if you think the Bible is boring, my first question is, do you think God is boring? Then why would God have something boring? Why would he write something boring? Why would he have someone write something boring? If God's not boring, then the Bible can't be boring. So the issue probably isn't with the Bible. And I'll let you let that sink in for yourself.
Um, because there's so much, there's so much in it. Uh, but then the other part is we, we're called to go out. You don't know if you're the first person to share Christ with somebody or if you're the fifth person.
Amen. On average, on average, the statistic statistic is usually by the fifth or sixth person, someone gives their life to Christ. By the fifth or sixth time of hearing the gospel, hearing the good news of Jesus, they want to give their life to Christ. You don't know where you're at on that marker. You have no idea. And as we read earlier, we don't need to know the time and season. I believe that was in Acts one. We don't need to know the time and season in which the Lord is coming back and all these different things. We don't need to know how many people have already spoken to this person.
What we do need to know though is we have something that everyone desperately needs.
Amen. Amen. Amen. That's a good word. All right. Well, tomorrow we're going to be going out and praying for people and, um, we will bring back our testimony.
Testimony. Testimony. And, uh, get back into the word and Acts three.
Yeah. Did you know that in John 17:20 it says that others will come to know me be u through your messages? So you have messages that are going to bring others to come to know Jesus. Amen. So bring your message, bring your testimonies.
Yeah. And we'll see you tomorrow. Thank you. All right. Lunch time.
Lunch time. Oh, it was okay. And