WEBVTT 00:00:00.800 --> 00:00:01.600 Hello, friends. 00:00:01.679 --> 00:00:02.879 This is Pastor Creighton. 00:00:02.959 --> 00:00:06.080 Thank you for tuning in to Newsong Church's Sermon Podcast. 00:00:06.320 --> 00:00:13.279 At Newsong Church, we want to see Jesus lifted high in Port Perry, Ontario, as we worship, grow, and serve. 00:00:13.519 --> 00:00:18.800 You can learn more about us and find contact info at newsongportperry.ca. 00:00:20.399 --> 00:00:24.480 Friends, this is the holy gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Luke. 00:00:24.800 --> 00:00:27.120 Glory to you, Lord Christ. 00:00:28.320 --> 00:00:39.520 What good does it do uh what good does it do for you to say I am your Lord and Master if you don't put into practice what I teach you? 00:00:39.840 --> 00:00:44.159 Let me describe the one who truly follows me and does what I say. 00:00:44.560 --> 00:00:52.880 He is like a man who chooses the right place to build a house, and then lays a deep and secure foundation. 00:00:53.280 --> 00:01:03.039 When the storms and floods rage against the house, it continues to stand strong and unshaken through the tempest. 00:01:03.200 --> 00:01:06.719 For he built it wisely on the right foundation. 00:01:07.599 --> 00:01:16.079 But the one who has heard my teaching and does not obey it is like a man who builds his house without laying any foundation at all. 00:01:16.319 --> 00:01:24.640 When the storms and floods rage against that house, it will immediately collapse and become a total loss. 00:01:25.280 --> 00:01:28.719 Which of these two builders will you be? 00:01:29.200 --> 00:01:31.359 This is the gospel of the Lord. 00:01:31.680 --> 00:01:34.079 Praise to you, Lord Christ. 00:01:34.319 --> 00:01:37.280 And I want to invite uh Patty to come to share with us. 00:01:37.359 --> 00:01:41.040 Patty is uh an artist based right here in Durham Region. 00:01:41.120 --> 00:01:43.040 She's a dear friend of the parish, as I mentioned. 00:01:43.200 --> 00:01:45.760 She needs no introduction, but I'm giving her one anyway. 00:01:46.079 --> 00:01:50.400 And uh let me pray for you, Patty, and we'll uh we'll dive into God's word together. 00:01:50.560 --> 00:01:56.239 Heavenly Father, thank you for the gift of Patty and for uh the gift of Patty to our parish. 00:01:56.319 --> 00:02:01.840 Thank you, Lord, for the gift of creation that you have blessed us with, that you've entrusted to us. 00:02:01.920 --> 00:02:09.360 Uh, Lord, shine your beauty uh through it to us this morning and uh illumine your word to our hearts by your Holy Spirit. 00:02:09.439 --> 00:02:10.879 In Jesus' name we pray. 00:02:11.120 --> 00:02:11.520 Amen. 00:02:12.319 --> 00:02:12.719 Bless you. 00:02:12.879 --> 00:02:13.439 Of course you can. 00:02:13.680 --> 00:02:14.639 Thank you so much. 00:02:24.800 --> 00:02:42.080 For about 23 minutes through the Old and New Testament to establish the relevancy and the intentionality of God to have artists creating in all manner throughout history so that we could display his glory and that we could be a reflection of who he was upon the earth. 00:02:42.400 --> 00:02:47.360 And now this year, we're going to run through what it means to be storm ready. 00:02:47.520 --> 00:02:50.560 Whoops, I'm actually going to wow, look at that. 00:02:50.800 --> 00:02:52.319 We have no slides. 00:02:52.479 --> 00:02:57.439 We have my children sitting here in a wonderful um place. 00:02:57.680 --> 00:03:01.199 Yes, let me just try and see if I can set this up again. 00:03:02.240 --> 00:03:03.919 Those are my daughters. 00:03:04.240 --> 00:03:11.360 And I don't know about you, but since we're talking about being storm ready, you can keep those in mind because they are my focus. 00:03:11.520 --> 00:03:16.159 I believe the first church we ever lead is the one that's in our four walls at home. 00:03:16.400 --> 00:03:18.960 And from there we move into the community. 00:03:19.120 --> 00:03:22.400 From there we come and we gather together to display his glory. 00:03:22.639 --> 00:03:27.199 So my passion, if those of you who don't know me really well, is applied Christianity. 00:03:27.439 --> 00:03:36.080 I believe that God works and he works every day in working out his work in our lives and in working every day in the lives of those around us. 00:03:36.319 --> 00:03:42.080 So today we're going to look at what it means, and I'll see if I can do this properly, what it means to be storm ready. 00:03:42.159 --> 00:03:44.240 And that did not change, so give me one moment. 00:03:44.400 --> 00:03:45.120 There we go. 00:03:45.360 --> 00:03:47.759 We're going to look at the commission of God historically. 00:03:47.840 --> 00:03:55.520 We looked at the commission of God through Moses to Bezel and Aholiab, his assistant, to build a tentative meeting for the glory of God to be displayed. 00:03:55.680 --> 00:04:00.000 As I've already mentioned, I believe that we display the glory of God in the earth. 00:04:00.159 --> 00:04:07.759 And collectively, together, we are commissioned by God to see his kingdom come and to see his glory established in our lives and in our communities. 00:04:08.000 --> 00:04:17.439 We're going to look, as you've heard already, at Hebrews 12, Luke 6, Ephesians 2, and we might touch on the psalm, in the hope that we can be inspired to follow hard after him. 00:04:17.759 --> 00:04:33.439 If you get nothing from this whole time together, I just hope you will be inspired to follow hard after him, to run after him with abandon, with everything you have in your heart, with every intentionality of your mind, with every breath you take. 00:04:33.519 --> 00:04:35.759 Every time you wake up in the morning, you know what people say to me? 00:04:35.839 --> 00:04:37.519 I say it's a good day, I woke up. 00:04:37.839 --> 00:04:39.120 What do you say? 00:04:39.519 --> 00:04:43.759 Honestly, at my age, every day is a good day if I wake up. 00:04:44.879 --> 00:04:56.560 You may wonder why I use this illustration, why I would look at something so dramatic as a vortexing wave with the tip of it hanging over top of a hole that we don't know what will happen next. 00:04:56.800 --> 00:05:01.040 Again, I don't know about you, but these last couple years have been a bit like this for me. 00:05:01.439 --> 00:05:14.480 And again, I actually really love being at the tip of that wave without a surfboard, only hanging in the balance by the grace of God. 00:05:14.639 --> 00:05:16.399 I call it free falling. 00:05:16.720 --> 00:05:19.199 I love having a free fall life. 00:05:19.519 --> 00:05:26.000 I really don't know what today in its fullness will bring, but I know I showed up, and so did you. 00:05:30.079 --> 00:05:36.639 So with our one spectacular artful life, what is it that we're going to do? 00:05:36.879 --> 00:05:42.560 Life for me, you may have heard me say before, I got this from McLaughlin Collegiate years ago from their life group. 00:05:42.800 --> 00:05:46.160 It's a living investment for eternity. 00:05:46.399 --> 00:05:54.480 Every time you see the word life written into paintings I've painted, into posts I put on Facebook or Instagram or TikTok or anywhere else you see it. 00:05:54.720 --> 00:05:58.480 It really is my code for living investment for eternity. 00:05:58.639 --> 00:06:03.519 My friends know this who know me well in the community and do not share my belief in Jesus. 00:06:03.759 --> 00:06:08.800 And they also know it who do know or do share my faith in Christ. 00:06:08.959 --> 00:06:22.720 I just know that for my life, for this one extraordinary, exceptional, magical opportunity we have to breathe for all the years we've been given, that we are making a living investment for eternity and we are giving our lives away. 00:06:22.879 --> 00:06:28.560 We are exchanging our life with intentionality into everything we do each day. 00:06:28.879 --> 00:06:30.240 Does that sound heavy? 00:06:30.639 --> 00:06:31.759 You know, I'm serious. 00:06:31.920 --> 00:06:39.439 Whether you're making a pie for the neighbor next door or you're putting on really good coffee because that attracts the neighbors to come to your house. 00:06:39.680 --> 00:06:52.240 Whether or not you're stopping at the edge of the road to help someone, or whether or not you built a massive business or an extraordinary organization, it doesn't really matter the stacking part of it. 00:06:52.399 --> 00:06:55.360 What matters is what's happening inside of us. 00:06:55.519 --> 00:07:03.759 And yes, we know that your one irrepressible, exceptional life will will connect with hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people. 00:07:04.160 --> 00:07:08.800 And maybe God will give you an organization that reaches around the globe. 00:07:08.959 --> 00:07:17.120 Maybe He'll give you a thin line of His Holy Spirit that's woven through every single member of your community. 00:07:17.600 --> 00:07:32.480 And the legacy you leave when you leave heaven, God or for heaven will literally just pull on that golden thread and draw every single heart just a little bit closer to his presence and his reality in the earth. 00:07:32.720 --> 00:07:46.720 So when we look at the scripture today, pursue peace, Hebrews 12 says, work at living in peace with everyone, with all people, look after each other, see to it that no one misses the grace of God. 00:07:48.160 --> 00:07:56.560 How can we be positioned from the tip of that wave, positioned for the storm and positioned in the storm to live this scripture? 00:07:56.800 --> 00:07:58.720 It calls us to pursue peace. 00:07:58.800 --> 00:08:03.279 What that means if you unpack it a bit is to aggressively chase it. 00:08:03.519 --> 00:08:09.680 Now, some people would say, all we need to do is love people, all we need to do is love people, all we need to do is let people see the love of God. 00:08:09.839 --> 00:08:10.720 I believe that. 00:08:10.879 --> 00:08:13.199 But I don't believe it's all we need to do. 00:08:15.040 --> 00:08:20.399 I believe that we need to pursue peace because this scripture tells me that what's what we need to do. 00:08:20.480 --> 00:08:22.399 That's what a wise builder does. 00:08:22.720 --> 00:08:27.839 The wise builder builds their house in a place where they bring peace to others, and we'll get to that. 00:08:28.000 --> 00:08:30.399 But in Hebrews it says pursue peace. 00:08:30.480 --> 00:08:37.120 This is a command to us, it's an exhortation to us that we're supposed to earnestly desire to overtake it. 00:08:37.360 --> 00:08:40.639 Do you realize how hard you have to run to keep up with eternal peace? 00:08:41.519 --> 00:08:53.200 Like we're not talking about sitting back in a lounge chair, we're talking about our hearts while we're sitting in the lounge chair, aggressively, intentionally pursuing and running hard after the peace of God. 00:08:53.440 --> 00:08:54.080 Why? 00:08:55.039 --> 00:08:56.879 Because it's not for us alone. 00:08:57.440 --> 00:09:01.519 When we walk into the grocery store, we need to broker peace. 00:09:02.320 --> 00:09:05.200 We need to shift the atmosphere by our presence. 00:09:05.440 --> 00:09:09.200 I hang paintings up around the community, and some of them are in your homes. 00:09:09.360 --> 00:09:14.559 I believe they shift the atmosphere of your home because they're a living witness. 00:09:14.720 --> 00:09:15.759 Are they inanimate? 00:09:15.919 --> 00:09:16.559 Absolutely. 00:09:16.720 --> 00:09:22.480 I have no idea whether I'll ever see these in heaven, but I sure hope I see the work of what they've done because they're my tracks. 00:09:23.200 --> 00:09:25.759 That's a bait on the end of my fishing hook. 00:09:26.559 --> 00:09:26.960 Right? 00:09:27.120 --> 00:09:28.559 I go fishing in the community. 00:09:29.679 --> 00:09:30.720 I got a little nibble. 00:09:30.879 --> 00:09:31.279 Yeah. 00:09:31.519 --> 00:09:32.879 Hey, let's have a conversation. 00:09:33.039 --> 00:09:34.559 They're conversation starters. 00:09:34.720 --> 00:09:36.879 The end game is never paintings. 00:09:37.840 --> 00:09:39.759 Painting is only a tool. 00:09:40.000 --> 00:09:43.039 So, what is a tool God's put in your hand today? 00:09:43.279 --> 00:09:45.840 That you have been created for his workmanship. 00:09:46.000 --> 00:09:48.399 You have been created as his poem. 00:09:48.879 --> 00:09:55.919 What is what poetry has he put in your heart and in your hands so that you would toil to do good works? 00:09:56.240 --> 00:09:57.919 Oh, that's what we're after today. 00:09:58.159 --> 00:10:00.080 I forgot to look at the timer when we started. 00:10:00.159 --> 00:10:01.360 Oh, yay, there's a clock. 00:10:03.279 --> 00:10:09.360 So we are looking at this passage and we're seeing that we don't just pursue peace for ourselves. 00:10:09.519 --> 00:10:12.879 It's not just to pursue peace for the Christian club. 00:10:13.200 --> 00:10:14.159 Do you ever notice that? 00:10:14.320 --> 00:10:15.200 We have one community. 00:10:15.360 --> 00:10:17.759 Did you know the word secular is never used in scripture? 00:10:17.919 --> 00:10:18.879 Not once. 00:10:19.360 --> 00:10:20.159 Not once. 00:10:20.399 --> 00:10:21.200 Not ever. 00:10:21.679 --> 00:10:23.519 We divide ourselves. 00:10:24.000 --> 00:10:24.559 Right? 00:10:24.720 --> 00:10:26.159 It's us who does that. 00:10:26.639 --> 00:10:31.759 Maybe we could just this morning crack open our hearts to say we have one community. 00:10:32.000 --> 00:10:33.440 We have one father. 00:10:34.080 --> 00:10:37.360 We have one God of gods who loves everyone. 00:10:37.679 --> 00:10:41.120 We are responsible to pursue peace. 00:10:41.360 --> 00:10:42.000 For who? 00:10:42.240 --> 00:10:43.120 The Christian Club. 00:10:43.360 --> 00:10:43.679 No. 00:10:44.399 --> 00:10:45.519 Just our family. 00:10:45.759 --> 00:10:46.080 No. 00:10:46.639 --> 00:10:54.399 We are called to pursue peace for a whole community, for people who do not believe in Jesus, for people who say to you, I do not believe. 00:10:54.639 --> 00:10:55.600 That's okay. 00:10:55.840 --> 00:10:57.039 Thanks for the pleasure. 00:10:57.200 --> 00:10:58.639 Thanks for the privilege. 00:10:58.879 --> 00:11:06.159 For those who are listening online and might not attend church at all, thank you, because you let me be who I am, and I want you to be who you are. 00:11:06.399 --> 00:11:08.559 So let's compare our peace. 00:11:10.080 --> 00:11:12.720 Let's have something to share together. 00:11:13.039 --> 00:11:15.039 Would you like to taste some of that? 00:11:15.279 --> 00:11:17.120 Would you like to borrow some? 00:11:17.600 --> 00:11:19.840 Can we lend our peace to other people? 00:11:20.000 --> 00:11:21.279 I believe we can. 00:11:21.759 --> 00:11:23.039 Now, why do we do this? 00:11:23.279 --> 00:11:25.279 Because we're to look after each other. 00:11:26.399 --> 00:11:27.919 The scripture's clear for us. 00:11:28.000 --> 00:11:31.679 It says no one, no one is to miss the grace of God. 00:11:31.840 --> 00:11:34.240 No one is to miss the blessing of God. 00:11:34.639 --> 00:11:35.279 No one. 00:11:36.080 --> 00:11:48.799 Do I can I mean this is such a simple scripture, but I live my life to see, to endeavor, to purpose that no one misses the grace of God. 00:11:49.120 --> 00:11:51.840 Now, does that mean everyone around my life catches it? 00:11:52.000 --> 00:11:55.120 No, sometimes they catch other things that are really not very pleasant. 00:11:56.879 --> 00:11:58.000 Truth be told. 00:11:58.480 --> 00:12:00.240 My family's my first church. 00:12:01.200 --> 00:12:04.000 But what happens when they do catch the grace of God? 00:12:04.159 --> 00:12:07.919 When they feel God's favor, when they feel his blessings. 00:12:08.000 --> 00:12:10.720 It's actually this church in this place where I learned how to pray. 00:12:10.960 --> 00:12:17.279 God bless you with everything you know you need from God, and God bless you with everything you do not yet know you need. 00:12:18.080 --> 00:12:22.639 And first, of course, I learned to ask permission to see if I could bless someone like that. 00:12:23.200 --> 00:12:26.960 It's not rocket science for me, it's scripture. 00:12:27.759 --> 00:12:32.080 It's more powerful than anything we will see anywhere else. 00:12:32.480 --> 00:12:36.480 The Living Bible puts it this way: try to stay out of quarrels. 00:12:36.720 --> 00:12:37.679 Oops. 00:12:39.039 --> 00:12:39.519 Yeah. 00:12:39.759 --> 00:12:40.480 Oh wow. 00:12:40.720 --> 00:12:47.120 Okay, with this mouth, try to stay out of quarrels and seek to live a clean and holy life. 00:12:47.360 --> 00:12:51.600 For no one, for one who is not holy will not see the Lord. 00:12:51.840 --> 00:12:57.679 Then it says, look after each other, so that not one of you will fail to find God's best blessings. 00:12:59.039 --> 00:13:02.080 So this wholeness and holiness peace, I'm gonna leave that with you. 00:13:02.159 --> 00:13:03.440 You can preach on that, okay? 00:13:05.360 --> 00:13:14.799 But we don't get to see the see, no one misses the grace of God unless we've got the holiness and the wholeness peace activated, the sanctifying work of the cross in our lives. 00:13:16.559 --> 00:13:22.799 But without it, without that sanctification, no one will ever see God. 00:13:23.039 --> 00:13:24.000 Do you hear that? 00:13:24.320 --> 00:13:29.679 Without us being whole and holy, no one will ever see God. 00:13:29.840 --> 00:13:31.200 Doesn't matter all the good works we do. 00:13:31.360 --> 00:13:36.799 We're great humanitarians, we'd be awesome in any in any club. 00:13:36.960 --> 00:13:38.399 It'd be a great blessing. 00:13:38.720 --> 00:13:51.440 But if there's no sanctification in us, the scripture says, without continually pursue peace with everyone and the sanctification without which no one will ever see the Lord. 00:13:51.840 --> 00:13:56.080 Now I mean I know we can't build a whole theology on one verse, but that one's a pretty good one. 00:14:01.759 --> 00:14:05.600 So what are we supposed to do to reveal God's blessing in the earth? 00:14:06.000 --> 00:14:08.720 I don't know if you can see that little pink dot right here. 00:14:08.960 --> 00:14:11.200 See that that's about where we are on the planet. 00:14:11.519 --> 00:14:13.759 This is just from uh an illustration. 00:14:13.919 --> 00:14:21.600 I could do better with a photograph to show you where you are, but given that I'm a painter, I decided to show you my reasonable facsimile of the cosmos and the universe. 00:14:21.759 --> 00:14:24.639 Well, not the whole universe, just a little section of the planet. 00:14:24.960 --> 00:14:33.440 If we're here with our one artful life, a little speck on the planet, how is it we're supposed to impact anyone? 00:14:33.919 --> 00:14:37.120 Yet when we were born, we were designed to live forever. 00:14:37.919 --> 00:14:42.159 When you were conceived, you were designed to live forever. 00:14:42.480 --> 00:14:48.559 So was your neighbor, so was the person I cut off when I traveled on the road, or tailgated. 00:14:50.399 --> 00:14:52.480 God may you renew me. 00:14:55.360 --> 00:15:06.639 Okay, so so I know it's spiritually important that I impact the whole globe, but do you see that when I can actually enlarge us to a point where I can see the pink X, I can't see the rest of the world? 00:15:08.240 --> 00:15:12.159 How do I know that my life is going to impact them when I can't even see the other side of the globe? 00:15:12.320 --> 00:15:13.519 I can't go up high and see it. 00:15:13.600 --> 00:15:14.080 I can't. 00:15:14.159 --> 00:15:20.960 There's no there's no looking glass other than the Hubble telescope for me to see what's happening on the planet. 00:15:21.120 --> 00:15:26.879 And yet he said that when I was conceived, I was made to live forever, my summary of all of scripture, of course. 00:15:27.200 --> 00:15:40.480 And it is an important war, that there is a contention for us to live holy and whole and and to be whole, and to make sure that no one misses the grace of God. 00:15:40.720 --> 00:15:44.639 So, how on earth and in heaven do we do this? 00:15:45.519 --> 00:15:50.559 Well, our Father, and now we'll look at Luke 6. 00:15:51.679 --> 00:15:55.360 Let me describe the one who truly follows me and does what I say. 00:15:58.960 --> 00:16:04.960 Today I've chosen the image of a lighthouse to show this kind of a house that we're about to build. 00:16:06.320 --> 00:16:15.039 It says he is like a man, a person, member of the human race, who chooses the right place to build a house and then to lay a deep foundation. 00:16:15.279 --> 00:16:18.639 The reason I chose a lighthouse is because people do live there. 00:16:18.879 --> 00:16:20.879 And there's good music about it. 00:16:21.039 --> 00:16:30.960 But more importantly, if we liken it as a metaphor for ourselves, I've chosen this image because it doesn't just appear on a landscape. 00:16:31.279 --> 00:16:34.240 You know, if God wanted lighthouses everywhere, why didn't he just build them? 00:16:34.399 --> 00:16:36.000 Like, why weren't they part of creation? 00:16:36.080 --> 00:16:38.320 And then we would just go in and hang out there. 00:16:39.039 --> 00:16:46.799 It requires craftsmen, engineers, architects, artificers, if we go back to the Old Testament scripture from last year. 00:16:47.039 --> 00:16:57.120 It requires skill and it requires labor and it requires intentionality for you to build your lighthouse in the location where the storm is coming. 00:16:57.679 --> 00:17:00.720 Okay, how many of you just want to welcome the wind every day? 00:17:00.960 --> 00:17:04.480 Like you just wake up waiting for the wind to blow everything over? 00:17:04.799 --> 00:17:07.200 Oh well, that is what we are to do, right? 00:17:07.359 --> 00:17:10.720 We're supposed to build our house in a place where the storm's coming. 00:17:10.880 --> 00:17:16.160 I'm sorry, did like do you think we're through these storms we're having in the globe? 00:17:16.559 --> 00:17:18.880 Because I'm thinking we're just getting started. 00:17:19.759 --> 00:17:26.799 So many of you in this room, I know some of your stories, and I know that you have welcomed the wind. 00:17:27.119 --> 00:17:32.400 I have heard the sounds of your home and your hearts come out. 00:17:32.640 --> 00:17:33.920 I've heard them. 00:17:34.319 --> 00:17:36.960 I see them come out your hands in paint. 00:17:37.039 --> 00:17:41.440 I hear them in your hearts when you have helped me, when you've helped others. 00:17:41.759 --> 00:17:43.039 I want to encourage you today. 00:17:43.200 --> 00:17:44.559 Let's welcome the wind. 00:17:44.799 --> 00:17:52.799 But let's make sure that we are built in a place where there is the greatest risk and the greatest reward possible. 00:17:58.240 --> 00:18:03.039 Again, we go back to the fact that this particular scripture doesn't talk about. 00:18:03.359 --> 00:18:05.039 Oops, did I go ahead of myself? 00:18:05.200 --> 00:18:06.000 I did so. 00:18:06.400 --> 00:18:09.920 This scripture doesn't talk about uh an organization. 00:18:10.160 --> 00:18:18.559 When it says the wise person builds their house upon a sure foundation, upon the rock, that's not talking about a church. 00:18:18.720 --> 00:18:21.839 If you look up the word, it actually means a personal dwelling place. 00:18:22.319 --> 00:18:27.599 Now, I'll segue just for a second because this is a piece I've recently done through the story of glory. 00:18:27.839 --> 00:18:32.160 Thank you, Fosters, for your work in the kingdom to inspire this. 00:18:32.480 --> 00:18:37.119 But each one of these squares would represent a small patch of the glory of God. 00:18:37.200 --> 00:18:39.519 Each one of these would represent our individual lives. 00:18:39.599 --> 00:18:43.920 There's 60 squares on here, but there's only one panel of gold, right? 00:18:44.160 --> 00:18:46.960 If I was a house of four, I might look like this. 00:18:47.119 --> 00:18:51.359 So if I catch a light, I might reflect some glory in the earth, right? 00:18:51.759 --> 00:18:57.680 I tell you, when you catch this panel under some stage lights, all the seam lines disappear. 00:18:58.000 --> 00:19:00.559 And we demonstrate the glory of God in the earth. 00:19:00.640 --> 00:19:01.759 And what happens with people? 00:19:01.920 --> 00:19:02.960 They're impacted by that. 00:19:03.039 --> 00:19:06.960 They're impacted by the peace, the wholeness, the holiness, the righteousness. 00:19:07.119 --> 00:19:10.319 And when the storm comes to their life, what happens? 00:19:10.559 --> 00:19:12.240 They can see the glory of God. 00:19:12.400 --> 00:19:16.720 They can see the light, and they can see the life of his truth and peace in us. 00:19:17.440 --> 00:19:28.240 Because we anticipate anticipated the tempest, and the glory of the Holy Spirit is recognized and reflected through our residential complex into the earth. 00:19:28.480 --> 00:19:32.400 I do call it a residential complex because I'm a bit of a business junkie. 00:19:32.559 --> 00:19:35.759 And I go back to saying to you, I want to know that things work. 00:19:36.000 --> 00:19:37.680 Does the Holy Spirit work? 00:19:37.920 --> 00:19:39.519 Does Christianity work? 00:19:39.680 --> 00:19:41.440 Or is it just a good idea? 00:19:41.680 --> 00:19:43.279 Is it just good principles? 00:19:43.440 --> 00:19:45.599 People will say, Well, Christ, he was a good person. 00:19:45.680 --> 00:19:47.920 I recognize he walked the globe. 00:19:48.319 --> 00:19:52.240 But he's not necessarily my God and my savior. 00:19:52.480 --> 00:19:57.519 And I would say to you, okay, you have a will, you have a choice. 00:19:57.680 --> 00:19:58.720 It's up to you. 00:19:58.880 --> 00:20:00.880 I believe he's more than that for me. 00:20:01.039 --> 00:20:04.559 I believe he is my savior personally, Patty Kingsley. 00:20:04.720 --> 00:20:07.519 And I believe I'm one square on this panel. 00:20:07.759 --> 00:20:11.359 And that all of us collectively reflect his glory in the earth. 00:20:11.599 --> 00:20:16.319 We are his workmanship, created for good works in Christ. 00:20:16.559 --> 00:20:22.000 Last time we were together, we talked about the fact that we were his workmanship, meaning we were his poem. 00:20:23.200 --> 00:20:23.839 Right? 00:20:25.279 --> 00:20:29.200 And how do we get a dwelling that looks somewhat like him? 00:20:29.839 --> 00:20:36.799 Well, you know, we talk about building the, we talk about building the lighthouse onto the place of rock. 00:20:37.279 --> 00:20:48.240 And Isaiah talks about laying in us in Zion, which represents the worshiping church, or a people whose destiny depends upon him, even a place where there's still people grieving. 00:20:48.400 --> 00:20:53.119 Have you ever noticed that when you shove a rock into a sock, it kind of takes and reshapes it? 00:20:54.079 --> 00:20:57.440 That's a bit what I feel like most every day of my life. 00:20:57.759 --> 00:21:10.880 And if there might be some essence of who he is on this rock, there might be a reasonable and probable chance that people will ask about who is living, who put the rock in my sock. 00:21:11.119 --> 00:21:12.799 It gets a bit uncomfortable. 00:21:13.039 --> 00:21:21.759 But scripture literally it literally means if you look at Eileen Zion for a foundation of stone, Eile and Zion for a foundation of stone, a tried stone, a tested corner stone. 00:21:21.839 --> 00:21:26.160 He who believes in him will not make haste, will not have to worry or hurry. 00:21:26.400 --> 00:21:28.160 Well, I need that scripture too. 00:21:28.319 --> 00:21:30.400 But I just wanted to just throw that in. 00:21:30.480 --> 00:21:40.720 This is a freebie, just to show you what it's like to be uncomfortably shaped into the image of the rock, of the foundation. 00:21:41.200 --> 00:21:48.000 This is not a comforting message, other than those of you who have already been reshaped, shattered, and dragged back and forth through the knothole numerous times. 00:21:48.160 --> 00:21:55.119 There's a possibility that God's grace is already evident in your life, and I would just encourage you that you didn't do anything wrong. 00:21:56.160 --> 00:22:02.000 Your faith is not in suspect because things Have gone sideways in your life. 00:22:02.240 --> 00:22:03.759 Because I don't believe in plan B. 00:22:03.920 --> 00:22:05.279 I only believe in plan A. 00:22:05.519 --> 00:22:06.960 Whoops, there we go. 00:22:07.759 --> 00:22:08.400 Right? 00:22:08.640 --> 00:22:10.720 So, what do you do when life blows up? 00:22:10.880 --> 00:22:13.759 Okay, so let's zoom through some practical applications. 00:22:13.920 --> 00:22:17.359 You might see people actually painting here like on walls. 00:22:17.440 --> 00:22:18.720 You think they're doing a mural or something? 00:22:18.880 --> 00:22:19.200 I don't. 00:22:19.279 --> 00:22:21.200 This is actually poetry class. 00:22:21.839 --> 00:22:24.480 So we had been created as his workmanship. 00:22:24.559 --> 00:22:26.400 We've been created as his poema. 00:22:26.559 --> 00:22:29.279 We are his poem in the earth. 00:22:29.680 --> 00:22:33.519 I'm really happy because what happens is it's kind of contagious. 00:22:33.680 --> 00:22:36.960 And other people start singing and saying the poem. 00:22:37.039 --> 00:22:45.599 They start celebrating the poetry when we leave these deposits all over the region, all over the nation, all across the globe. 00:22:50.000 --> 00:22:53.839 It's like the poet's society is gathered. 00:22:55.519 --> 00:23:01.680 When we see images like this, which, you know, we use these images on social media because they just happen to be part of our life story. 00:23:01.920 --> 00:23:08.400 I wanted to share a tiny bit about what happened with some of these pictures because, again, I believe in applied Christianity. 00:23:08.720 --> 00:23:14.160 Do I have a lot of people who've come to say to me, Patty, I believe in your Jesus and I want to go to church? 00:23:14.319 --> 00:23:16.319 You know, I actually haven't. 00:23:16.720 --> 00:23:17.759 I truly haven't. 00:23:17.839 --> 00:23:23.599 I grieve, I weep, I cry out that he would teach me better how to close the deal. 00:23:23.920 --> 00:23:28.960 How to, I'm not, I'm not, I love business frameworks, but I'm not the best in business. 00:23:29.119 --> 00:23:34.079 But in kingdom currency, I do know that I carry a lot of pixie dust in my pocket. 00:23:34.480 --> 00:23:37.920 And I know I broke her hope, and I know I broke her joy. 00:23:38.000 --> 00:23:49.119 And I'm trusting that you're coming with me somehow in this great kingdom of God that we have, so that you can help close that deal when someone says, I actually really need a savior. 00:23:49.440 --> 00:23:51.599 I need more than good thinking. 00:23:51.680 --> 00:23:54.720 I need more than good principles, because you know what, they'll get you far. 00:23:55.200 --> 00:23:57.839 But only Jesus gives us eternity. 00:23:58.880 --> 00:24:13.039 Okay, so in this particular setting, this picture represents for me not a great unified uh uh connection between skin color, even though that's what literally it is. 00:24:13.279 --> 00:24:22.720 This represents to me a young woman walking through a conference where I was painting in my booth, and her and her posse of young people said to me, Can I paint on your canvas? 00:24:22.960 --> 00:24:24.400 And at first I was aghast. 00:24:24.480 --> 00:24:27.759 It was like the first time anyone had asked to put their paintbrush on my canvas. 00:24:27.839 --> 00:24:29.920 Do they not know that I'm the artist? 00:24:32.160 --> 00:24:37.440 And I'm sitting here having a conversation with the Lord saying, uh, seriously, okay. 00:24:37.680 --> 00:24:38.960 Oh, what's wrong with my mouth? 00:24:39.039 --> 00:24:40.319 I just said okay. 00:24:40.799 --> 00:24:44.640 And so this young person comes over and I said, Which paintbrush do you want to use? 00:24:44.720 --> 00:24:45.759 You know what I'm like. 00:24:45.839 --> 00:24:53.599 And she picks up a paintbrush and I said, Now, okay, so pick whichever color you want to use and start just start painting wherever you want then. 00:24:53.759 --> 00:24:55.519 I didn't know she had any skills. 00:24:55.839 --> 00:24:59.359 And she goes to put her hand on a painting and it retracts automatically. 00:24:59.440 --> 00:25:01.920 It's kind of like me when I write with markers on a balloon. 00:25:02.000 --> 00:25:05.279 I k it's I don't have many fears in life, but that's one. 00:25:05.359 --> 00:25:09.359 I just involuntarily, I cannot keep my hand on a balloon and write on it. 00:25:09.440 --> 00:25:10.079 There you go. 00:25:10.319 --> 00:25:13.039 If you want to drive me crazy, pop balloons. 00:25:15.279 --> 00:25:18.960 So I said to this young woman, do you want to do hand over hand learning? 00:25:19.039 --> 00:25:19.920 And she looks at me. 00:25:20.079 --> 00:25:22.640 I said, Your hand on mine or mine on yours. 00:25:22.880 --> 00:25:24.000 Which would you like to do? 00:25:24.160 --> 00:25:25.759 Do you want to still touch the canvas? 00:25:25.920 --> 00:25:29.119 Because clearly she tried several times and she just couldn't do it. 00:25:29.599 --> 00:25:32.480 So she said, she said, My hand on yours. 00:25:32.880 --> 00:25:34.400 And we snapped the picture. 00:25:34.559 --> 00:25:35.599 That's what this means. 00:25:35.759 --> 00:25:45.279 This means poetry just transferred into this young woman who wanted to risk right on the edge of something she'd never done before. 00:25:45.519 --> 00:25:52.480 Even asking this adult stranger if she could paint on her canvas caused me to risk and do something I'd never done before. 00:25:52.640 --> 00:25:54.799 Now I do all this collaborative painting with all of you. 00:25:55.119 --> 00:25:58.000 Goodness sakes, you'd almost think God started something. 00:25:58.640 --> 00:26:07.519 And across this region, whether it's for school boards or tourism, culture days, we are culture making and we are culture marking. 00:26:07.759 --> 00:26:09.440 I'm doing it, you're doing it. 00:26:09.680 --> 00:26:14.319 Whether you're doing it with paint or you're doing it with your presence, we are all doing it. 00:26:14.720 --> 00:26:27.039 In this case, this administrator decided she's looking at me with these longing eyes, going, I said, you we were gonna have like 18 kids maybe paint this painting for the 25th anniversary of a school. 00:26:27.279 --> 00:26:30.960 I said, You're looking at me like you want everyone to paint it. 00:26:31.200 --> 00:26:32.799 I said, How many is everyone? 00:26:32.880 --> 00:26:34.960 She's like 378. 00:26:36.160 --> 00:26:38.400 I said, if you can timetable it, we'll do it. 00:26:38.480 --> 00:26:41.920 Did you notice these things don't happen just because of one person? 00:26:42.960 --> 00:26:45.920 Someone said Patty Kingsley can paint in the schools. 00:26:46.160 --> 00:26:48.640 Great, in order to encourage life. 00:26:48.960 --> 00:26:59.680 The principal who was one of the first principals in this school, who's actually literally now just getting ready to leave this planet, is the reason I was doing this. 00:26:59.920 --> 00:27:14.640 The reason that painting got done, and these little young humans were able, and this brand new teacher whose first day of school was that day, the reason that happened was because an administrator could timetable it and had a dream in her heart for more than just herself. 00:27:16.480 --> 00:27:23.359 This piece, we go from Whitby, now we go over to South Oshawa, 100 Hearts. 00:27:23.519 --> 00:27:26.319 I'm working with young people for a few weeks, but you know what? 00:27:26.400 --> 00:27:27.839 The magic here's the magic. 00:27:28.079 --> 00:27:33.920 I come in one day to work on this canvas or this big board with these young people, and what do I see? 00:27:34.160 --> 00:27:42.880 I see a teacher putting her hand in the morning light into the space of another child's hand on the board. 00:27:43.200 --> 00:27:47.440 And I said, would it be okay if I just take a picture of what you're doing right now? 00:27:48.480 --> 00:27:49.519 Because you know what? 00:27:49.599 --> 00:27:50.319 That's it. 00:27:50.640 --> 00:27:51.599 Poetry. 00:27:52.319 --> 00:27:56.160 Poetry, transforming, linking, connecting. 00:27:56.559 --> 00:27:58.480 Is it my job to make the connections? 00:27:58.720 --> 00:27:58.960 No. 00:27:59.119 --> 00:28:00.559 But this is success for me. 00:28:00.799 --> 00:28:11.680 100 children signing the back of a piece of work they did in a school where everyone was represented according to their individual heritage, yet there didn't seem to be anything that brought them together as a collective. 00:28:11.839 --> 00:28:12.880 What's my job? 00:28:13.200 --> 00:28:22.720 To see what it is God might want to do in a school that would make a magical impact upon the well-being of young humans in that school. 00:28:23.119 --> 00:28:24.319 That's my job. 00:28:24.480 --> 00:28:26.799 I did my job because I listened. 00:28:26.960 --> 00:28:27.839 Whoops. 00:28:28.240 --> 00:28:28.880 This one. 00:28:29.200 --> 00:28:30.799 Let's go to Clarington. 00:28:31.359 --> 00:28:34.880 Five panels long on lockers that aren't being used. 00:28:35.119 --> 00:28:38.000 And a teacher there says, I want this to happen. 00:28:38.240 --> 00:28:41.519 I want something amazing for my young people to experience. 00:28:41.599 --> 00:28:46.160 And I want them to experience metal and sculpture, and I want them to experience in paint. 00:28:46.319 --> 00:28:46.799 Can we do that? 00:28:46.880 --> 00:28:48.400 So I ring up Geordie Lishman. 00:28:48.640 --> 00:28:50.319 Say, Geordie, can you help me, man? 00:28:50.480 --> 00:28:52.480 He's like, Yeah, I can help you. 00:28:52.640 --> 00:28:56.000 So Geordie and I get together for five, six days in a school. 00:28:56.160 --> 00:29:00.480 And what happens is we produce this now on the back of this particular character. 00:29:00.720 --> 00:29:16.960 You might not think this is very spiritual, but these are thumbprints of all the participants in the school who have laid their DNA and their mark on the back of a young person who's reaching toward heaven to pull down what is their destiny or to climb up into it. 00:29:17.119 --> 00:29:21.759 Now, whichever way you run, run with that, I don't know which way you want to go. 00:29:21.920 --> 00:29:29.759 All I know is that it's my job to co-create with people, to see his poetry, to see his work established in the planet. 00:29:30.240 --> 00:29:33.359 Your job's the same, different tools. 00:29:33.599 --> 00:29:41.119 Doesn't matter whether you're under the car or you're selling the car, same God, same tools, same call. 00:29:41.359 --> 00:29:43.599 Let's release poetry. 00:29:45.119 --> 00:29:52.079 What was cool about this particular school was the administrator said to me, you know, I changed my walk path in the school now. 00:29:52.319 --> 00:29:55.440 The other thing is, she said, I think we need to call the project Believe. 00:29:55.599 --> 00:29:58.640 I'm just going, Oh, imagine that. 00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:01.519