WEBVTT 00:00:04.849 --> 00:00:05.790 Good afternoon. 00:00:05.790 --> 00:00:08.134 Is it afternoon already? 00:00:08.134 --> 00:00:09.135 It's going to be a long one. 00:00:09.135 --> 00:00:10.721 They said I have till three o'clock. 00:00:10.721 --> 00:00:12.603 Did I hear that right? 00:00:12.603 --> 00:00:18.431 Okay, oh, what time we finish Eight. 00:00:18.431 --> 00:00:21.701 Hey, it's good to be with you. 00:00:21.701 --> 00:00:28.231 This is such an awesome time to celebrate and give it up for your pastor and his wife. 00:00:28.231 --> 00:00:31.221 Come on, just give up for them, you guys. 00:00:31.221 --> 00:00:34.930 Yeah, well done. 00:00:34.930 --> 00:00:35.713 This is present. 00:00:35.713 --> 00:00:43.609 We've been applauding the past since last night, but we're in the present moment and we do appreciate you and what you've been through and your family. 00:00:43.609 --> 00:00:57.106 And best days are yet to come and you know so many good friends in the room and got to see some familiar faces I wouldn't say old faces, they're just familiar and we do go back a long ways. 00:00:57.200 --> 00:01:06.415 42 years ago this month, my wife and I stumbled into full faith fellowship in Sheridan, wyoming, just kind of on a whim. 00:01:06.415 --> 00:01:09.290 It was a Wednesday night and we were newlyweds. 00:01:09.290 --> 00:01:13.772 We'd been married just a few weeks and we were trying to look for a church. 00:01:13.772 --> 00:01:30.340 I was on a temporary assignment to open a brand new holiday inn in Sheridan, then moved to Denver and we had a great plan for our lives until the Holy Spirit showed up and that's what happened to us that night. 00:01:30.340 --> 00:01:33.093 We got in and Tyler's dad was preaching on why you need the Holy Spirit and he taught us why we need the Holy Spirit from the Bible. 00:01:33.093 --> 00:01:37.528 And then we responded to an altar call we're the only ones came up, got baptized in the Holy Spirit and totally wrecked our lives. 00:01:37.528 --> 00:01:41.341 We never left the church. 00:01:41.341 --> 00:01:43.025 We kept coming back. 00:01:43.025 --> 00:01:48.834 Then I opened the hotel, quit my job and went on staff for a lucrative 85% pay cut. 00:01:48.834 --> 00:01:49.334 I'll have you know. 00:01:49.334 --> 00:01:51.263 And even then his dad goes. 00:01:51.263 --> 00:01:52.890 Now we don't have the money, but we're going to believe it in. 00:01:52.890 --> 00:01:54.346 It was called full faith fellowship. 00:01:54.346 --> 00:01:58.171 We're going to believe in your $100 a week and I was like I'm in, let's do it. 00:01:58.171 --> 00:02:04.575 We were there a year and a half and then moved to Florida with a few other families. 00:02:04.575 --> 00:02:06.778 Can anything good come out of Cape Coral? 00:02:06.778 --> 00:02:09.426 Neil, we all got delivered from Cape Coral. 00:02:09.426 --> 00:02:11.626 We were there for a while. 00:02:11.626 --> 00:02:15.030 We were in Florida 17 years and then I moved on to some other churches. 00:02:15.030 --> 00:02:18.509 But we stayed in relationship off and on. 00:02:18.509 --> 00:02:23.412 Then Neil moved down and I met Neil at a Lifelink conference in the early 90s and we connected. 00:02:23.412 --> 00:02:24.825 So just a lot of great connection. 00:02:24.825 --> 00:02:25.883 I mean going all the way back. 00:02:25.883 --> 00:02:26.665 Where's Buddy Walker? 00:02:26.665 --> 00:02:28.050 I saw Buddy earlier. 00:02:28.050 --> 00:02:31.531 Buddy's all the way in the back and your dad was a huge influence in all of that. 00:02:31.680 --> 00:02:36.430 So we're here to not only walk down memory lane but say God, what are you saying now? 00:02:36.430 --> 00:02:49.584 What are you saying now, thinking about Neil and thinking about Tyler particularly? 00:02:49.584 --> 00:02:50.888 I had a dream last night and Neil and Tyler were in my dream. 00:02:50.888 --> 00:02:51.490 I dreamt we went to heaven. 00:02:51.490 --> 00:03:13.685 I know that sounds such a stretch, but I dreamt the three of us were in heaven and we're kind of looking around like we're in heaven and then we're getting ready to enter in and there's this long, narrow sludge pit and an angel said before you enter in, you have to walk through the sludge pit to determine how much sin you had in your life before we assign you your spot in heaven. 00:03:13.685 --> 00:03:16.311 And I'm like, oh boy, this doesn't sound good. 00:03:16.311 --> 00:03:20.945 And I thought I'm with Neil and I'm with Tyler and I'm just going to go first. 00:03:20.945 --> 00:03:32.728 So I just kind of started walking in the sludge pit and I started sinking, and I'm sinking quick, just like Jeff said, man, I had lots of sins and I'm sinking quick and I'm up to my chest and barely in and I'm going. 00:03:32.728 --> 00:03:34.231 Oh, what are Neil thinking? 00:03:34.231 --> 00:03:35.441 What's Tyler thinking? 00:03:35.441 --> 00:03:40.266 So I just turned around to look and there's Tyler right behind me and he's just like up to his ankles. 00:03:40.266 --> 00:03:43.151 I'm going how can this be? 00:03:43.151 --> 00:03:46.395 You're not that good, I can't believe. 00:03:46.395 --> 00:03:50.506 And I just said, tyler, why are you hardly sinking? 00:03:50.506 --> 00:04:15.766 And I'm almost up to my chest and he goes oh, it's easy, I'm standing on Neil's shoulders, we're all standing on somebody's shoulders. 00:04:15.766 --> 00:04:23.892 Amen, we didn't get here by ourselves, from Jack and the others that we honored last night to this day. 00:04:23.892 --> 00:04:31.326 And so y'all get ready for another generation to stand on your shoulders, because we're going to go for that tonight. 00:04:31.326 --> 00:04:31.668 Amen. 00:04:31.668 --> 00:04:45.045 I'm going to preach out of a real Bible just to honor Steve Fado Carrying the bones of Joseph. 00:04:46.766 --> 00:04:49.612 It's the message Genesis, chapter 50,. 00:04:49.612 --> 00:05:01.588 At the very end of the great book of Genesis, the very end of it, before we get into the great exodus, of course, is this admonition from Joseph. 00:05:01.588 --> 00:05:11.468 Who, last night, steve just kind of laid out a beautiful picture of generational continuance Abraham, isaac, jacob. 00:05:11.468 --> 00:05:15.074 And now here's one of Jacob's sons, joseph. 00:05:15.074 --> 00:05:19.283 He gives this admonition to the people of Israel. 00:05:19.283 --> 00:05:20.464 Then Joseph made the sons of Israel swear. 00:05:20.464 --> 00:05:22.728 Then Joseph made the sons of Israel swear. 00:05:22.728 --> 00:05:39.021 Genesis 50, 25, saying God will surely visit you and you shall carry up my bones from here. 00:05:39.021 --> 00:05:47.793 Then in Exodus, chapter 13, it says Moses took the bones of Joseph with him, for Joseph had made the sons of Israel solemnly swear, saying God will surely visit you. 00:05:47.793 --> 00:05:58.442 Come on, somebody God's going to keep visiting and you shall carry up my bones with you from here. 00:05:58.442 --> 00:05:59.343 This was 430 years later. 00:05:59.362 --> 00:06:02.348 I don't know about you, but I have to remind myself what I'm going to do tomorrow. 00:06:02.348 --> 00:06:06.615 I have to send myself text messages and emails just to remind myself. 00:06:06.615 --> 00:06:09.625 How did they remember? 00:06:09.625 --> 00:06:12.072 There was something prophetic about this. 00:06:12.072 --> 00:06:19.733 There was something in the destiny of the people of Israel that they had to carry Joseph's bones with them to the promised land. 00:06:19.733 --> 00:06:24.949 So Joseph had a prophetic sense about the future. 00:06:24.949 --> 00:06:40.000 He believed that God would come visit his people time and time again and there would be a moving on of his purposes Trinity. 00:06:40.000 --> 00:06:41.824 Let me tell you we are in the present, but we're moving on. 00:06:41.824 --> 00:06:49.745 There's a moving that's coming that we have to get ready for, and so Joseph made this strange request Take my bones with you when God moves. 00:06:49.745 --> 00:06:49.906 You. 00:06:49.906 --> 00:06:55.314 Take my bones with you when God moves. 00:06:55.314 --> 00:06:57.286 You Are you anticipating the move of God? 00:06:57.286 --> 00:07:00.538 It's happening around the world. 00:07:00.538 --> 00:07:05.471 I've already been in several nations, already got several more to go this year, but already I'm sensing something different. 00:07:05.471 --> 00:07:09.963 There's something different in the world, there's something different in the kingdom. 00:07:09.963 --> 00:07:11.165 There's a move of God. 00:07:11.165 --> 00:07:13.259 We don't even have a label for it, and I'm glad we don't. 00:07:13.259 --> 00:07:17.904 The only thing we can say is God is up to something, god is moving. 00:07:17.904 --> 00:07:19.466 I just want to catch up. 00:07:19.466 --> 00:07:22.129 I want to grab, hold and hang on. 00:07:22.129 --> 00:07:27.896 We want to be a part of carrying the next move of God. 00:07:27.896 --> 00:07:35.677 We have to carry something out of this place today. 00:07:40.725 --> 00:07:42.913 I've been to Romania a number of times and one time a friend told this interesting story. 00:07:42.913 --> 00:07:45.060 I'm just going to quote it the way he told it. 00:07:45.060 --> 00:07:49.170 He says we went around the city of Timisoara and my guide showed me the various sites that were relevant to the Romanian revolution which started there. 00:07:49.170 --> 00:07:59.730 And we landed finally in the Orthodox cathedral where, in the gloom, I saw a man almost doubled over, reaching into a box in a dark corner. 00:07:59.730 --> 00:08:05.831 When I asked what was happening, my guide said he's trying to touch the bones. 00:08:05.831 --> 00:08:18.331 He explained that there was a belief amongst the Orthodox that the bones were those of a holy man and if they would be touched, they could bring healing and life. 00:08:20.877 --> 00:08:31.708 Trinity, you have better bones in your church, but you need to take them with you into the next move of God. 00:08:31.708 --> 00:08:34.100 What about these bones? 00:08:34.100 --> 00:08:39.267 Israel didn't forget the promise that was made to Joseph. 00:08:39.267 --> 00:08:51.207 They took it seriously enough to remember for hundreds of years that when they left on the great exodus, they were to take the bones of Joseph with them. 00:08:51.207 --> 00:09:00.490 Abraham, isaac, jacob and then, as Steve brought out so well, the power of multiplication. 00:09:00.490 --> 00:09:07.229 Abraham had one, isaac had two, jacob had 12, and it multiplied. 00:09:08.975 --> 00:09:10.679 How does this apply to us then, today? 00:09:10.679 --> 00:09:17.182 Well, number one, bones are what's left when all the flesh is rotted away. 00:09:17.182 --> 00:09:17.844 Aren't you glad? 00:09:17.844 --> 00:09:33.985 Amen, trinity, you have inherited great bones from the previous 50 years of God building here, and no doubt you've faced a lot of flesh. 00:09:33.985 --> 00:09:36.980 Don't look left, don't look right. 00:09:36.980 --> 00:09:41.863 You have, you have and presently you still are. 00:09:41.863 --> 00:09:47.381 But every movement does, every movement as powerful as they've been. 00:09:47.381 --> 00:09:49.263 We were rehearsing movements last night. 00:09:49.263 --> 00:09:50.360 We look at church history. 00:09:50.360 --> 00:09:53.543 Every movement suffers flesh. 00:09:53.543 --> 00:10:00.726 Every church has to deal with flesh, but we value the bones and carry them forward. 00:10:02.475 --> 00:10:06.164 You have the bones of the baptism of the Holy Spirit. 00:10:06.164 --> 00:10:07.168 Those are my bones. 00:10:07.168 --> 00:10:09.799 My wife and I got those bones 42 years ago. 00:10:09.799 --> 00:10:13.366 We carry those bones into our future. 00:10:13.366 --> 00:10:16.523 You have the bones of incredible praise and worship. 00:10:16.523 --> 00:10:21.619 We tasted it this morning in the present, but it's because of the bones that were carried. 00:10:21.619 --> 00:10:27.658 You have the bones of the revelation of five-fold ministry man that transformed my life. 00:10:27.658 --> 00:10:32.828 I've been carrying Ephesians 4.11 bones with me for 42 years. 00:10:32.828 --> 00:10:34.597 The best is yet to come. 00:10:35.980 --> 00:10:40.592 You have the bones of dynamic discipleship in small groups. 00:10:40.592 --> 00:10:44.086 I remember when Neil came to that Lifelink's conference you taught on house churches and small groups. 00:10:44.086 --> 00:10:46.134 I remember when Neil came to that Lifelink's conference you taught on house churches and small groups. 00:10:46.134 --> 00:10:55.400 God was transforming the church back then, simply carrying the bones of Acts, chapter 2, back into the 20th century the dynamic of small groups. 00:10:55.400 --> 00:10:56.847 You have those bones here. 00:10:58.014 --> 00:11:02.336 You have the bones of the reappearance and the restoration of apostles and prophets. 00:11:02.336 --> 00:11:07.400 They're so key and they've been so battled, but they're here now. 00:11:07.400 --> 00:11:15.426 We've carried them and a lot of people paid a price for pioneering new truths. 00:11:15.426 --> 00:11:19.043 You pay a price for carrying the bones. 00:11:19.043 --> 00:11:25.225 Sometimes you carry the price of speaking in tongues. 00:11:25.225 --> 00:11:25.716 How many of you know? 00:11:25.716 --> 00:11:26.961 Those are bones that get rattled. 00:11:26.961 --> 00:11:29.259 People don't like that. 00:11:29.259 --> 00:11:30.222 The devil hates it. 00:11:30.222 --> 00:11:35.466 You carried the bones and you paid the price for launching missionaries out of this place. 00:11:35.466 --> 00:11:42.106 You did it in the past, you're doing it now and you will continue to do so because it's the Great Commission. 00:11:42.106 --> 00:11:47.926 You carried the bones and the promises of personal prophecy. 00:11:47.926 --> 00:11:54.339 We already heard testimonies about a prophetic word, how it changed lives, touched Jeff and others that talked about. 00:11:54.339 --> 00:11:56.423 I got a word from Steve or I got a word from somebody. 00:11:56.423 --> 00:11:58.735 You carry those bones. 00:12:01.979 --> 00:12:04.501 Maybe you're sitting here going I didn't realize all that. 00:12:04.501 --> 00:12:08.967 Maybe you're new to the church or recently added to the church. 00:12:08.967 --> 00:12:11.110 Maybe you think, well, isn't this normal? 00:12:11.110 --> 00:12:17.139 Can I tell you, no, aren't you glad not to be normal? 00:12:17.139 --> 00:12:22.028 There's going to be kind of a welcomed weirdness in the days ahead. 00:12:22.028 --> 00:12:29.057 We're going to continue to stand out. 00:12:29.057 --> 00:12:29.538 Get used to it. 00:12:29.538 --> 00:12:36.980 Okay, get used to it because you're carrying some bones that nobody else understands and sometimes the flesh makes it hard to carry bones forward. 00:12:38.241 --> 00:12:55.562 We've had to push past the stinking flesh of the 80s and 90s where we had prominent ministries fail, and we've just been through it again where we kind of get a black mark on our movement and on our churches and all kinds of stuff, and that all happened before social media Now it's like it goes crazy. 00:12:55.562 --> 00:13:04.686 But we have good bones even after the flesh has rotted away and it does. 00:13:04.686 --> 00:13:10.285 That's what's left After the flesh and the works of the flesh rot away. 00:13:10.285 --> 00:13:13.244 What's left are the bones. 00:13:13.244 --> 00:13:15.279 Movements come and go. 00:13:15.279 --> 00:13:22.221 Our challenge not carry a movement, let's carry the bones, what was good in every movement. 00:13:22.221 --> 00:13:32.142 Secondly, all flesh does eventually rot away In every move of the Spirit, and this is the truth. 00:13:32.142 --> 00:13:35.508 The flesh resists. 00:13:35.707 --> 00:13:37.397 Galatians sets it up perfectly for us. 00:13:37.397 --> 00:13:39.442 They're in opposition. 00:13:39.442 --> 00:13:41.827 The flesh and the Spirit are in opposition one to another. 00:13:41.827 --> 00:13:47.119 I love the verses that Jesus said the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak. 00:13:47.119 --> 00:13:53.859 But what a gift weakness is when we realize, like Tyler just spelled out so well, the gospel. 00:13:53.859 --> 00:13:59.716 It's the gospel that transforms our weakness into spiritual strength. 00:13:59.716 --> 00:14:01.918 And I got good news for you. 00:14:01.918 --> 00:14:03.721 God never works with perfect people. 00:14:03.721 --> 00:14:16.884 God calls the most crazy people to do stuff, and every one of you in this room were called Peter had a short time to recover from his flesh attack. 00:14:18.778 --> 00:14:19.701 He denies Christ. 00:14:19.701 --> 00:14:23.043 He does other crazy things Tries to cut off Malchus' ear in the garden. 00:14:23.043 --> 00:14:26.422 Peter's flesh, you know, know, he had some flesh moments. 00:14:26.422 --> 00:14:32.082 But you know what he found himself preaching on the day of Pentecost. 00:14:32.082 --> 00:14:35.981 You can imagine the other disciples like I can't believe that he picked Peter. 00:14:35.981 --> 00:14:36.864 Why is Peter preaching? 00:14:36.864 --> 00:14:37.426 I don't know. 00:14:37.426 --> 00:14:38.408 Don't you remember the garden? 00:14:38.408 --> 00:14:44.220 We're so good at our flesh attacking somebody else's flesh we're really good at that. 00:14:44.220 --> 00:14:47.923 My flesh says this Well, your flesh is stinkier than my flesh. 00:14:47.923 --> 00:14:52.743 It all stinks, but all flesh eventually rots away. 00:14:53.495 --> 00:15:03.784 So Joseph's request was not a remembrance of what he did in the flesh, it wasn't carrying his position in Egypt. 00:15:03.784 --> 00:15:08.505 It was a willingness to carry his bones forward. 00:15:08.505 --> 00:15:18.764 In other words, carry the structures, carry the framework that got us to where we were then, so that we can get to where God wants us to go now. 00:15:18.764 --> 00:15:28.879 The bones are the very substance of what God speaks and what he builds in every move of the spirit and Trinity. 00:15:28.879 --> 00:15:31.884 You are a product of moves of the spirit. 00:15:31.884 --> 00:15:33.248 We heard some about it last night. 00:15:33.248 --> 00:15:34.538 We're living in it now. 00:15:35.501 --> 00:15:40.220 We've all had our share of rotting flesh, but there are precious bones to be carried forward. 00:15:40.220 --> 00:15:40.599 You can't lose them. 00:15:40.599 --> 00:15:40.932 Don't lose track of them. 00:15:40.932 --> 00:15:41.629 Don't say where did we put those bones? 00:15:41.629 --> 00:15:42.452 Hey, we're supposed to bring Joseph's bones. 00:15:42.452 --> 00:15:43.645 Does anybody know where Joseph's bones are carried forward? 00:15:43.645 --> 00:15:43.924 They can't lose them. 00:15:43.924 --> 00:15:45.301 Don't lose track of them, don't say where did we put those bones? 00:15:45.301 --> 00:15:47.024 Hey, we're supposed to bring Joseph's bones. 00:15:47.024 --> 00:15:48.687 Does anybody know where Joseph's bones are? 00:15:48.687 --> 00:15:49.014 And they go. 00:15:49.014 --> 00:15:50.339 Joseph, who it's like? 00:15:50.339 --> 00:15:51.743 No, they had to keep rehearsing. 00:15:51.743 --> 00:15:53.027 It's good to rehearse history. 00:15:53.027 --> 00:15:54.336 Last night was precious. 00:15:54.658 --> 00:15:58.345 God loved to rehearse history in the Bible. 00:15:58.345 --> 00:16:06.515 He was always talking about what was happening, the Exodus it carries into the New Testament, acts, chapter 7, before Stephen was stoned. 00:16:06.515 --> 00:16:08.100 He just constantly rehearsed history. 00:16:08.100 --> 00:16:09.644 God's all about it. 00:16:09.644 --> 00:16:10.004 Why? 00:16:10.004 --> 00:16:12.177 Because God says don't forget the bones. 00:16:12.177 --> 00:16:18.167 Let's carry the bones forward, trinity, because they cost you something. 00:16:18.167 --> 00:16:24.927 We're all standing on someone's shoulders, even though we face issues of the flesh. 00:16:24.927 --> 00:16:27.623 In the past, we've all had our war stories. 00:16:27.623 --> 00:16:32.024 But when the flesh is gone, the bones survive. 00:16:34.115 --> 00:16:37.525 The third thing is there's power in the bones. 00:16:37.525 --> 00:16:40.562 Oh yeah, there's power in the bones. 00:16:40.562 --> 00:16:42.821 I know there's power in the blood. 00:16:42.821 --> 00:16:45.097 We know that one Nobody wrote a song about power in the bones. 00:16:45.097 --> 00:16:48.085 Power in the bones, power in the bones. 00:16:48.085 --> 00:16:49.126 I know there's power in the blood. 00:16:49.126 --> 00:16:50.409 We know that one Nobody wrote a song about power in the bones. 00:16:50.409 --> 00:16:51.211 Power in the bones, power in the bones. 00:16:51.211 --> 00:16:53.437 Maybe we'll get the worship team to come up with a new song. 00:16:53.437 --> 00:16:55.861 There's power in the bones. 00:16:55.902 --> 00:16:58.508 I take you to 2 Kings, chapter 13, verse 21. 00:16:58.508 --> 00:17:00.957 It's a crazy story. 00:17:00.957 --> 00:17:04.506 As a man was being buried, he's dead. 00:17:04.506 --> 00:17:11.018 Behold, a marauding band was seen and the man was thrown into the grave of Elisha. 00:17:11.018 --> 00:17:17.208 And as soon as the man touched the bones of Elisha, he revived and he stood on his feet. 00:17:17.208 --> 00:17:24.138 Wow, all because he touched the bones, all because he touched the bones. 00:17:24.159 --> 00:17:30.905 The body of a dead man came to life when he touched the bones of a dead prophet. 00:17:30.905 --> 00:17:32.027 What's up with that? 00:17:32.027 --> 00:17:34.169 Only God can pull that off. 00:17:34.169 --> 00:17:35.769 He wanted to illustrate for us. 00:17:35.769 --> 00:17:45.474 There's something in the bones, there's power in the right bones. 00:17:45.474 --> 00:17:57.635 If only the body of Christ can continue to touch the bones, I think we'll continue to have an outflow of the power that God wants to demonstrate the presence of his power. 00:17:57.736 --> 00:18:05.237 When we gather as the church, you got to come in with a mentality as we're not just coming in to have a service, we're here to touch the bones. 00:18:05.237 --> 00:18:12.603 And then you can't help but just reference Ezekiel 37. 00:18:12.603 --> 00:18:21.635 I don't have the scripture, but just think about that great passage Speaks about the bones, where God brings the prophet and says to a boneyard. 00:18:21.635 --> 00:18:23.799 So do you see these bones? 00:18:23.799 --> 00:18:25.584 Yeah, you think they can live. 00:18:25.584 --> 00:18:26.933 Only you know God. 00:18:27.916 --> 00:18:29.877 And what was the word Prophesied to the bones? 00:18:29.877 --> 00:18:31.250 Why there was still life in them, but they need the spirit of God. 00:18:31.250 --> 00:18:31.652 And what was the word Prophesied to the bones? 00:18:31.652 --> 00:18:33.353 Why there was still life in them, but they need the spirit of God. 00:18:33.353 --> 00:18:39.453 They needed the prophetic word to activate the structures and the things that hold it all together. 00:18:39.453 --> 00:18:47.578 The bones come together in response to a prophetic word to become something great, an exceeding great army called the church. 00:18:47.578 --> 00:18:52.005 That was a shadow of the church, full of lively bones. 00:18:52.005 --> 00:18:54.953 I know you're lively stones, but that's another good song. 00:18:54.953 --> 00:19:00.144 Lively bones, hand bones connected to the. 00:19:00.144 --> 00:19:03.057 I don't know if we can worship with that, but it's still true. 00:19:03.057 --> 00:19:03.880 We're all connected. 00:19:03.880 --> 00:19:06.614 Right, the bones get connected, they come together. 00:19:06.614 --> 00:19:12.163 So we need to realize the power to resolve. 00:19:12.163 --> 00:19:13.907 We got to carry them. 00:19:13.907 --> 00:19:20.083 If there's power in the bones, then we must carry the bones with us as the church moves forward. 00:19:21.866 --> 00:19:24.653 Don't leave behind what made Trinity great. 00:19:24.653 --> 00:19:26.798 Don't leave those bones behind. 00:19:26.798 --> 00:19:29.291 You got to carry the baptism, the Holy Spirit, into the future. 00:19:29.291 --> 00:19:32.298 You got to carry the healing power of Jesus into the future. 00:19:32.298 --> 00:19:36.652 Carry small groups, carry community, all the things that Tyler was carrying about. 00:19:36.652 --> 00:19:38.855 What makes Trinity Trinity are the bones. 00:19:38.855 --> 00:19:53.942 So maybe, as you leave this wonderful day of celebration today, you can reflect, not only tonight but through the week and your small groups, and think about what are the bones that God wants you to carry forward. 00:19:54.150 --> 00:19:55.516 What are some bones in your life? 00:19:55.516 --> 00:19:59.800 Like I shared, 42 years ago, we got the baptism of the Holy Spirit. 00:19:59.800 --> 00:20:08.569 Those are bones that God put in us, that have carried us all these years in five-fold ministry and understanding ecclesiology and church polity. 00:20:08.569 --> 00:20:11.454 And all these bones and structures that a lot of are invisible. 00:20:11.454 --> 00:20:14.260 You don't see them on any given Sunday, but they're there. 00:20:14.260 --> 00:20:16.590 That's the whole thing about bones. 00:20:16.590 --> 00:20:17.593 They're invisible. 00:20:17.593 --> 00:20:19.457 You don't see them. 00:20:19.457 --> 00:20:21.361 The flesh covers it up. 00:20:21.361 --> 00:20:27.404 Yes, sometimes you have to work through the flesh to remind yourself what are the bones behind the activities. 00:20:27.404 --> 00:20:30.595 This is not a cry for vain traditions. 00:20:30.595 --> 00:20:34.714 It doesn't mean hang on to old, dead things or ineffective methods. 00:20:34.714 --> 00:20:38.623 It's a cry to remember the bones that have cost us something. 00:20:38.623 --> 00:20:45.140 It's to remember the bones and carry them forward because God is moving. 00:20:46.563 --> 00:21:00.517 The last phrase I want to leave with you comes out of the Great Reformation of the 1600s Semper Reformanda, semper Reformanda, always reforming. 00:21:00.517 --> 00:21:05.536 Hebrews 9 and verse 10. 00:21:05.536 --> 00:21:13.563 The writer of Hebrews is contrasting covenants, jeff covenants, old and new covenant. 00:21:13.563 --> 00:21:34.454 And the New Testament is a better covenant, as Neil teaches so well when he teaches Hebrews, and it says all these systems I use the word system all these systems were in place in the covenant to get us into a relationship with God, except there was one flaw it could not perfect the conscience of the worshiper, it couldn't cleanse us. 00:21:34.454 --> 00:21:45.243 There were just formalities, rituals, washings, all these things that were instituted by God until a time of reformation, kairos time. 00:21:45.243 --> 00:21:56.634 That's an ordained time, a superior time, a time set in eternity by God that someday this would happen, a God moment, a kairos time of reformation. 00:21:56.674 --> 00:22:01.503 And this word, diorthesis, is only used here in the New Testament. 00:22:01.503 --> 00:22:15.163 One other form of diorthesis is used in one other scripture, in Acts, and this word diorthesis simply means to straighten wholly, it means to make internal adjustments that bring external change. 00:22:15.163 --> 00:22:18.759 The root word is where we get the word for orthopedic. 00:22:18.759 --> 00:22:21.478 An orthopedic doctor is a bone doctor. 00:22:21.478 --> 00:22:24.637 We need more bone doctors in the body of Christ. 00:22:24.637 --> 00:22:30.076 Right, straighten out the bones when they get a little off, get a little crooked, keep things in alignment. 00:22:31.490 --> 00:22:32.953 We are in a time of reformation. 00:22:32.953 --> 00:22:37.323 We're living in an active apostolic reformation right now. 00:22:37.323 --> 00:22:39.296 You're in it, you're a product of it. 00:22:39.296 --> 00:22:45.315 God is adjusting constantly and we've gone through some amazing things just in the last few years. 00:22:45.315 --> 00:22:47.019 We all referenced COVID. 00:22:47.019 --> 00:22:48.241 It was a COVID time. 00:22:48.241 --> 00:22:52.141 That was a Kairos time of reformation, where God had to reform. 00:22:52.289 --> 00:22:52.972 And now it's like what? 00:22:52.972 --> 00:22:53.634 Online church? 00:22:53.634 --> 00:22:57.211 Yeah, everybody does it, don't they Ten years ago? 00:22:57.211 --> 00:23:00.077 Yeah, someday all churches will be online doing online church. 00:23:00.077 --> 00:23:01.361 No way, there's no way. 00:23:01.361 --> 00:23:02.763 What's it going to take? 00:23:02.763 --> 00:23:04.013 Oh, god's got a plan. 00:23:04.013 --> 00:23:06.180 God's got a plan. 00:23:06.180 --> 00:23:07.653 He'll put a little pressure on the bones. 00:23:07.653 --> 00:23:08.755 He'll put a little pressure on the bones. 00:23:08.755 --> 00:23:09.998 He'll reform some bones. 00:23:09.998 --> 00:23:11.642 He'll reform our thinking. 00:23:11.642 --> 00:23:22.922 It's mental change is the hardest one Making mental adjustments, changing the way we think about church, how we're going to deliver the gospel in this world that we live in now. 00:23:22.922 --> 00:23:24.243 Trinity present. 00:23:24.243 --> 00:23:25.365 You've got the internet. 00:23:25.365 --> 00:23:28.054 Woo-hoo. 00:23:28.054 --> 00:23:32.202 We planted a church in Fort Myers, florida, in 1993, I'll have you know, with no internet. 00:23:32.202 --> 00:23:41.310 How do you do that? 00:23:41.310 --> 00:23:45.218 We had a used overhead projector, a used six-channel PV soundboard and an old, worn-out cassette recorder. 00:23:45.218 --> 00:23:48.063 Welcome to the 90s. 00:23:48.063 --> 00:23:52.571 It's like here you go, here's all the technology you'll need for a successful church plant. 00:23:52.571 --> 00:23:53.192 Thank you very much. 00:23:53.192 --> 00:23:57.823 Oh boy, have we reformed, have we changed. 00:23:59.589 --> 00:24:06.104 Internal technology must now be given the greatest weight in the reformation of the church. 00:24:06.104 --> 00:24:08.515 It's what's going on on the inside. 00:24:08.515 --> 00:24:09.817 It's where the bones are. 00:24:09.817 --> 00:24:12.303 You've heard of the iceberg principle. 00:24:12.303 --> 00:24:16.441 The iceberg principle is you look at an iceberg and only 10% is above the surface. 00:24:16.441 --> 00:24:18.777 90% is below the surface. 00:24:18.777 --> 00:24:19.680 It's what you can't see. 00:24:19.680 --> 00:24:23.601 It was that 90% below the surface that sank the Titanic. 00:24:23.601 --> 00:24:29.838 It wasn't the piece sticking out of the water, that internal technology, the bones. 00:24:31.931 --> 00:24:34.460 Did it ever occur to you as we were reflecting on communion? 00:24:34.460 --> 00:24:39.455 None of Jesus' bones were broken? 00:24:39.455 --> 00:24:42.020 Why? 00:24:42.020 --> 00:24:43.183 They were perfect. 00:24:43.183 --> 00:24:45.316 They couldn't be broken. 00:24:45.316 --> 00:24:51.893 Man could not break the internal strength and technology of the Son of God, break the internal strength and technology of the Son of God. 00:24:51.893 --> 00:24:57.644 Thousands of men were crucified on the streets of Rome and all around, even Jerusalem. 00:24:57.644 --> 00:25:08.284 Thousands of men were hung on crosses, crucified, but only one could save the world. 00:25:08.284 --> 00:25:09.726 Why? 00:25:09.726 --> 00:25:17.319 The bones, the internal structures of one was perfect. 00:25:17.319 --> 00:25:26.996 So, semper Reformanda, tcc, keep reforming. 00:25:27.789 --> 00:25:28.713 You say what's ahead? 00:25:28.713 --> 00:25:35.794 Constant reformation, constantly reforming our structures, our vision, our systems. 00:25:35.794 --> 00:25:36.536 What To reach? 00:25:36.536 --> 00:25:38.961 A lost and dying world that's ever-changing? 00:25:38.961 --> 00:25:42.615 We're not trying to keep up with the world, everybody. 00:25:42.615 --> 00:25:43.920 We're trying to keep up with God. 00:25:43.920 --> 00:25:46.016 I want to keep up with God. 00:25:46.016 --> 00:25:48.124 He's moving at lightning speed. 00:25:48.425 --> 00:25:53.354 I think we're the internet generation and all we're doing is getting a glimpse of how fast God can move. 00:25:53.354 --> 00:25:58.334 Information moves so fast now and we think, wow, aren't we lucky? 00:25:58.334 --> 00:25:59.156 No, we're not lucky. 00:25:59.156 --> 00:26:00.059 We are called. 00:26:00.059 --> 00:26:03.431 You were called to live in this Kairos time. 00:26:03.431 --> 00:26:07.159 Therefore, god says you can do it, you can keep up. 00:26:07.159 --> 00:26:14.083 You're going to have to constantly change out your hard drive, insert new internal drivers to bring transformation. 00:26:14.083 --> 00:26:16.077 I believe we're going to make faster disciples. 00:26:16.077 --> 00:26:21.871 We're going to make them faster, if I can say it that way, not less of a disciple, but you know what Capacity? 00:26:21.871 --> 00:26:24.339 Faster, speed up systems. 00:26:24.339 --> 00:26:29.615 That's what it's all about in the world we live in, because he is coming back and we are moving somewhere. 00:26:29.615 --> 00:26:30.699 It's called the finish. 00:26:30.699 --> 00:26:33.238 We are on our way to the great finish. 00:26:33.238 --> 00:26:44.396 So, therefore, we must always be reforming and carry the bones, because we have, like the children of Israel, we have a promised land to get to. 00:26:44.396 --> 00:26:49.779 We're on our way and it's going to come faster than you can even conceive. 00:26:49.779 --> 00:26:52.455 Hang on and carry the bones. 00:26:52.455 --> 00:26:52.896 Amen. 00:26:52.896 --> 00:26:54.101 God bless you.