thank you worship team don't I look like
a boyband from career or something like
that
he's awesome look at them you guys we're
gonna I'm gonna take him to Asia and
we're gonna clean up mate it's gonna be
amazing so awesome how some of these
guys thank you so much guys you guys are
brilliant and love your heaps and sorry
for teasing you and praise God
hey Lord everyone for to see you and so
good to be here tonight and we had some
phenomenal services this morning and
pimp from our was awesome and it was
awesome here this morning as well and
looking forward to tonight and thank you
for coming out before I share I actually
want to welcome some extra special
visitors everybody who's visiting is
special but I want to give an extra
special welcome to pass the ellen and
pacify me from the church at Pottsville
and so could you welcome them and it's
just awesome and imagine that Jesus
called you to Pottsville it was like you
know it's like heaven on earth when you
get to heaven you've got to be further
away from the throne because you live in
heaven on earth right now
and so awesome so thank you for coming
and it's just wonderful and I hope you
enjoy yourselves and everyone make sure
you say g'day I also am very fully aware
about the popcorn bar that is set up it
is very distracting for me tonight
actually
and it's wafting over here so I won't
share too long tonight in preparation
for that and just want to reiterate
about Hot August Nights what we're also
going to do in that so the night
meetings will be a pimple mark the young
adult summit will be a pimple mile the
last night meeting will actually be here
at our regular 5 o'clock service and
what we're going to do is we're going to
do a thing called worship in the round
and so we're gonna have a worship set
down here on the floor we're going to be
kind of in the round if you don't know
what that means come and check it out
it's going to be a great worship
experience God's going to do all some
things and also to just let you know
next week here at the night service a
squaddie black board will be sharing
which will be absolutely awesome and so
now you know Scotty and so that will be
that will be really awesome if you want
your Bibles so and me to the book of 2nd
Timothy
second Timothy chapter 3 second Timothy
chapter 300 verse 16
second Timothy 3 verse 16 says this all
Scripture is given by inspiration of God
and is profitable for doctrine for
reproof for correction for instruction
in righteousness now I'm going to read
from 1 Timothy chapter 2 verses 3 to 15
says for sorry 13 15 for Adam was formed
first then Eve and Adam was not deceived
but the woman being deceived fell into
transgression nevertheless she will be
saved in childbearing if they continue
in faith love and holiness with
self-control let's pray dear lord help
amen praise God that should just about
do it for those of you that are visiting
tonight we're not one of those weird
left-field churches that just preach on
random fragments of the Bible even
though that is what I'm doing tonight
but we're actually doing a series called
tough text of the Bible second Timothy
chapter 3 verse 16 says all scripture is
useful all Scripture and so what that
means is more than just your favorite
scriptures that you got on a fridge
magnet more than ones that you have on
your Bible cover God actually can speak
to us through the entirety of the Bible
so to prove that what we're doing this
term will I'm doing and if the other
guys have want to they can we're going
to talk about some use some passages of
Scripture which on face value look a bit
strange which may not make any sense
that naturally we might just skim over
but look at it a little bit more deeply
to see that God has richness in his word
an application from every passage of
Scripture the first week that I shared
you might remember I taught on that
passage of Scripture where it talked
about Moses God had sent him to go over
into Egypt to deliver his people but on
the way there God came to meet him to
kill him and so then his wife grabbed
their son circumsized him on the spot
threw that at these feet of her husband
and said you're a husband of blood to me
and God let him go and we did that
message called cut that out
and basically that was a story about
obedience that was basically telling us
and showing us how obedience actually
matters to God and can affect our
destiny tonight I'm using another
passage of Scripture and the
I love them
you've asked a round of applause awesome
where was I oh yeah and so I love this
passage of Scripture and that was like
the devil stopping me from trying to
talk about it excuse I was just snorted
and it said nevertheless she will be
saved in childbearing they continue in
faith I'll be honest with him when I was
young and I read that I thought does
that mean that a woman is only saved
when she has a baby but until she has a
baby she's not actually saved because I
remember reading that and thinking how
can a woman be saved in childbearing
but then in studying it I realized
that's not what that's actually talking
about if you think of those times
childbearing was actually quite
dangerous but in those days giving birth
was something that was not necessary
that was something that was fraught with
danger it wasn't uncommon for people to
act for women to actually die in the
midst of childbirth number of years ago
Trish was eight months pregnant what was
at seven months darling eight months I
think it was and and I remember I was I
was playing tennis with a friend of mine
and Trish was still that you know she
was still had about four or six more
weeks till their second son Joshua was
due and so we were I was playing with
the tennis with a maid of mine and all
of a sudden his wife came running up to
us
and she said Ben Trish has been rushed
to the hospital and so what happened was
that when Trisha was at home and you
know still like four you know still over
four weeks until Josh was actually Jew
all of a sudden out of nowhere she
started passing all this blood and there
was a lot of it and she had a thing
called an abruption so what that means
is that the placenta actually pulls away
from the woman pulls away from the wall
and you sexually start start
hemorrhaging and bleeding right there
and then and so I went and so I realized
that my phone had been ringing but I did
an answer because I was in the middle of
a tennis game but it was actually Trish
trying to get hold of me and what
actually happened was that right at that
time she was at home and she picked up
the phone and right at that time Noah
philau actually rang rang
place and she said no I can't get a hold
of being can you come and get me
so now I sped around in his was it a
Commodore sv6 I think it was and I was
Michelle was driving okay and came over
and actually picked up Trish and they
took her to the hospital and so then I
heard what they were going to the Mater
Hospital in Brisbane
so I met them there now I didn't realize
the gravity of the situation all I heard
was that she was going into going into
hospital I walked inside to talk to the
doctor and the doctor was there and they
got Trish and they and they got and they
took the you know took the pulse of the
baby of Josh and said oh he's oh and I
said I'll look he's his pulse is okay
and so right at that moment I was like I
can't did going up and make some phone
calls because the Bible College I was
starting was starting that week and so
there was all these things that were
happening with that as well and so when
apparently when I went outside
all of a sudden Joshua's heartbeat went
like this and so they took it took Trish
straight into the theater when they when
I walked in they were taking Trish I
said were you going and he said we hope
they're having the baby right now and I
said well can I be in there can I be in
that now I didn't realize because they
were going to put on a general
anaesthetic that I'm actually not
supposed to be in there but because I
didn't want this random husband freaking
out they said all this and just put on
these clothes and sit over here in this
room so I put on the clothes sat in the
room waiting for them to come and get me
to take me into the operation but what
they were doing was they were harming me
off and putting me in this room until
the baby was born and literally about 15
minutes later the doctor came in and saw
me and c-congratulations
and he said you've got a baby boy and so
right there and then I remember I they
Trish was you know Trish was had been
knocked out and so I couldn't see her
and so I went into you know the nursery
where they had him in that nursery where
they had to assist preventional children
and I was there with him and and I
remember I was standing there the next
day and I was feeling guilt ridden
because I hadn't been there for
traditional felt and and when I got and
the next I'm standing there with him and
and I'd hardly hardly spoken to Trisha
at all cause she was still recovering
from this major surgery and then all of
a sudden the doctor came in to me and he
said to me they looked at me goes and he
goes what are you gonna call him
said I don't know yet I'm not sure and
he goes well you should call him lucky I
said why is that and he said well
basically I've had about six of these
this year and none of them survived and
he said your wife your your son was 15
minutes away from passing away and he
said and then also to the anisa terse
actually said to Trish he said he wasn't
sure she lost so much blood friends of
mine when I went back to our house and
what I didn't realize other friends of
ours who are now pastors up in Mary
Barra had come on and completely cleaned
up my house because the parent that
looked like a murder site in there and
that sort of thing and I was completely
I had no idea about any of that trauma
and they actually said to me and the
doctor said you better call it you
should call in lucky because he was this
close it's actually passing away imagine
if I had have lived in a time like that
without the medical help aside from all
the little miracles we actually had in
that circumstance it would have very
been likely that actually both of them
would have actually passed away same
story with my oldest son Amos Amos had a
very traumatic birth and if we had have
been back in those days then actually it
would have been actually very trauma
this is likelihood that he would have
actually passed away as well so if
you're in that framework you in those
times where they don't have the mater
mother's hospital they don't have
ambulances to speed you everywhere think
about what he's saying to them now he
says nevertheless you'll be saved in
childbearing they continue in faith it's
actually a promise that women back then
would actually lay a hold of it's a big
deal
not I that there's a greater theological
implication behind it and the greater
theological implication is because
because of the fall of man one of the
curses upon women would be pain in
childbirth so because of the fall of man
because of men sinfulness God cursed the
snot the serpent he cursed the man and
he cursed the woman and he said to the
serpent he said you're going to slither
around on your Betty belly and you'll
snap at the man's heels and you'll crush
you with his feet so that's a prophetic
word for us as well and that means
Satan's under our feet amen that we can
crush him no matter what he does or no
matter how he tries to snap at you he's
under our feet he said to the man he
said now your work is going to be more
futile you're going to work hard
and actually it's going to be a lot
harder to actually get the same amount
so what he's saying your work your work
now is not going to be as fruitful and
then the other thing he said to the
woman is this he said you're going to
have a lot of pain in childbirth and
notice this here in 1 Timothy then the
Apostle Paul says to the women he says
nevertheless she will be saved in
childbearing if they so that's funny
isn't it he says she will be saved if
they so he's not just talking to an
individual woman he's talking to all the
women in the church that he's writing to
and he says they will be saved in their
childbearing what is he saying the curse
that the enemy had spoken off he was
broken through Christ Jesus amen what
are you saying is that any curse that
you might be under God has broken in
Jesus name that is what are you saying
and so right here there's three things
and I want to talk to you about a
blessed life because women were actually
cursed in the beginning but now he's out
kind of indicating no no no we're
blessed and I want to talk to you about
the anatomy of a blessed life the first
part of the anatomy of the births life
is number 1 a promise it's a promise
and that is he says for them
nevertheless she will be saved in her
childbearing what that means is that God
is giving a promise what womankind had
been cursed with he's now actually
reversing that curse through Christ it
doesn't matter what is happening on in
the world it doesn't matter what other
people are under through Christ we have
carriers of the blessing of God that
wherever we go we are blessed and that's
a promise for every single one of us
some of you come from a genealogical
line where it seems like the same
ailment or Marmalade malady is actually
upon your family line and you might feel
like our family is cursed no one in our
family has ever owned a house no one in
our family has ever had an education all
through our family people get divorced
and you might have been raised up in a
family that thinks that way because you
feel like you're under some kind of
curse but I'm here to let you know that
through Jesus Christ you are not cursed
you're blessed God is a promise keeper
and a promise maker and it doesn't
matter what's happened in the past
you are blessed some of you pasta some
people might say to you will Pottsville
well that's a hard place that's a hard
place to build a church everyone there
on holiday this has happened other
people in the past I'm here to let you
know that that's not under you you are
blessed and God wants to do something
great and mighty through your ministry
in that place some of you are in a
family and it feels like there's a sense
going on it's always happen in your
family and it feels like our family is
cursed I'm here to let you know your
family is not cursed you are blessed he
reverses those things even if there's
something you've suffered for a long
time he can reverse those things he
makes promises he can undo the curses of
the past for the man also - what that
tells me is that God does want us to
have prosperous and fruitful work
because the curse for them was that they
would actually have to struggle and reap
very little but the promise to us can be
the reverse there are some of you
believing for a breakthrough in your
finances there are some of you believing
for a breakthrough in your career there
are some of you believing for a
breakthrough in your occupation I'm here
to let you know that you are blessed and
you are not cursed
and God can provide that for you because
you are a carrier the blessing of God
those curses that were spoken over
mankind we are now coming we're now are
no longer need to be under through it
because of Jesus Christ amen the second
thing is that's the second part of
anatomy have been living a blessed life
he says 1 Timothy 2:15 says nevertheless
she'll be saved in childbearing if they
continue in faith love and holiness was
self-control the second P I put up there
is purity but I guess you could exchange
it for pattern he's basically saying
there he says you will receive this
promise if you do this if you continue
as he says there he says if you continue
in faith love and holiness with
self-control so the faith love and the
holiness was the criteria but which they
could access that blessing the Bible
says that God has blessed us with every
spiritual blessing in the heavenly
realms the Bible says that the promises
of God are yes in Christ so what that
means is the promises and blessings of
God are available to us but also to
there are many promises in
God's Word that we actually to draw down
into our life we actually have to obey
that through Christ's are available but
there are things that we need to do to
actually access that that's why the
Bible says the promises of God in Christ
are yes but the Amen is spoken by us to
the glory of God so what that means is
that God's promises are available but
there is contingent behavior for some of
them that we actually need to do to draw
down into our world some people say well
I need I've got no friends you know I've
got no friends well the scripture tells
us if you're friendly then you'll get
friends if you're not friendly you don't
get it that's the behavior does that
make sense
and so there are many promises in God's
Word some people they actually change
their theology around their experience
because they're unwilling to do what the
scripture tells us we is required in
order for us to access the promises he's
got for us God the Bible says that God
has Christ has died for all that God so
loved the world that He gave His only
Son and so some people say ok well he
died for everyone so that automatically
saved but that's but the scripture says
for God so loved the world that He gave
His only Son that whosoever believes in
Him should not perish so if you don't
believe you don't get the promise and so
there's all these passages all through
the scripture about promises that are
available but very often there's some
kind of thing that we need to do to step
into to actually access some of those
and for some people here I believe that
I had this prophetic picture where I saw
that for some of you there was literally
a blessing that God had out in front of
you and you're wanting God to bring that
blessing to you but in this instance he
was requiring you to do something to
step out and actually receive it that's
so often we have to take a step of faith
you may have heard this morning when I
preached out of James and I talked about
faith without works is dead if we have
faith it's more than just believing it's
more than just listening faith is
actually action and works and there are
things that we need to do to access some
of the promises that God actually has
for every single one of our lives we
serve a God who can open up the windows
of heaven over our lives but we need to
do that but very often we need to do the
things required
in order to access them I remember one
time I was talking to this family and
they were talking about receiving some
kind of particular breakthrough in their
life in the realm of finances and and
they've got this revelation you know and
I'm saying you know I'm believing God
and praying and you know and I'm
believing God for this breakthrough and
and I just wrote to speak to them I said
listen have you ever done
have you ever yourself been a giver have
you ever yourself mainly because the
scripture tells us that as we sow so we
shall reap and the reality is that when
you you know that you know when you're a
farmer you actually have to sew first
before you actually reap and the measure
we use the scripture says will be
measured back to us so what that means
is we sow so we shall also reap and I
was talking to someone about that and
they were saying yeah yeah yeah and they
couldn't get it they just thought that
the reaping would come first
but that's not actually how it works
that you so first and then you actually
have to reap I've actually put this into
place in my life many times I remember
one year that just so happened cause I
used to give you notice they actually
give to church with cash
you remember that cash and you know and
some even used to do it with the thing
called cheques have you ever seen them
checks and so and I used to go to the
ATM and and I used to take out money to
go and bring the church and and the
thing is you can't take change of an ATM
and and it's been it's kind of rude to
do it as the bucket comes past you know
and so I just want to put the money and
then take the change out and that sort
of thing but I thought people thought I
might be stealing from it and so I just
want to do that I would just you know
just put round the rounded up amount and
then I noticed that the next year my
income went up to the amount that I
actually had been given that year and I
thought well there's a principle here
but it's actually found in the Word of
God the measure we use will be measured
back to us we step out in the sewing and
then we receive the reaping there's a
friend of mine pastor Steve Kennedy that
a number of the guys who went on
emerging leaders actually went and heard
speak and and he is he told me that
basically for the last 20 years he has
also given in accordance to what he's
believing to earn not necessarily what
he's earning and what happens is that
over time always
his income starts rising too actually
what he's been sewing and some people
say well that's amazing but it's
actually all through the scripture as
you sew first then we'll reap Bible says
proverbs 3:9 attend honor the Lord with
your wealth with the firstfruits of all
your crops then your barns will be
filled overflowing your vats will brim
over when you want here and the Apostle
Paul is actually saying that you will
receive this promise if you continue in
faith love and holiness with
self-control action can open up and
access the blessing that God has made
available to us amen
the third thing is this the third
anatomy of a blessing it says 1 Timothy
2:15 nevertheless she'll be saved in
childbearing if they continue in faith
love and holiness with self-control
it doesn't say nevertheless she'll be
saved in childbearing if she tries once
faith love and holiness with
self-control it actually says if they
continue in faith love and holiness and
self-control what does that mean the
third key to actually live in a blessed
life the third key to drawing down on
the promises of God into our world is
actually persistence it's actually
persistence as we persist we will find
that those things will eventually start
dropping into our world you know some 37
I preached on it at our church last year
and there's a number of times where it
says that if you do something you'll
inherit the earth
and that's actually talking about this
life here and now God has blessings for
you in and for me in this life right
here right now and it says that and one
of the points where he says you will do
something inherit the earth he says he
says that if you keep his way he will
exalt you to inherit the earth so notice
this he says if you obey Him and keep
his way keep doing what he's called you
to do don't stop don't quit don't give
up eventually you'll inherit the earth
what that means is it's not always easy
could you imagine he saying it to these
women and he sang to them if he
continued in faith love and holiness
with self-control I can imagine some of
them thinking all you ever met my hubby
it's not very easy for me to continue
that way you don't know what he said to
me recently you don't know what I've
sometimes got to put up with it's not
always easy
and who knows that when you're obeying
God and you're walking in his way it's
not always easy there are sometimes
there's temptations to stray away from
God
sometimes there's temptations to step
out and do things that you know God
hasn't called you or doesn't want you to
do but I'm here to let you know if you
will be consistent if you will be
persistent in Him in obedience to him
and his promises you'll be amazed at how
those things start dropping in your
world there's some people here and
literally you were you had tried or you
had you had you had tried and tasted or
just briefly done something and tested
out and dipped your toe in the water in
a direction that God wanted you to go
and when you did that nothing happened
and so you backed off and it was like I
will see you know that doesn't apply to
me or you know maybe I heard wrong you
need to understand if you would just
persist and continue on
you will start stepping in to some of
the things that God has called you to do
if you will persist and continue on in
those things persistence is one of the
greatest keys to actually living the
fulfilled Christian life the Bible says
in Romans chapter 5 verses 3 to 5 it
says we glory in tribulation what kind
of fool glories in tribulation because
tribulation produces perseverance and
perseverance so what that means is that
even as a Christian there are tires we
go through a tough time we don't feel
like doing the right thing or we don't
feel like doing what God's Word says but
if we persist but we're supposed to
persist and then in persistence produces
character so what that means is
character is produce Christian character
is produced by persistence through a
difficult time persistence and
trial and then it says character
produces hope and then it says hope does
not disappoint that phrase does not
disappoint does not this a point it's a
double negative
it actually means hope appoints so what
that means is this the divine purpose
for why you're here the three zijn why
God had put you on this earth the plan
and purpose that he has for your life is
only accessed by persisting through
tough times so if we allow tough times
to stop us or dissuade us from
persisting in the things that God has
called us to do and wants us to do we'll
never step into that place of divine
purpose and fulfillment for our lives
God has a plan and purpose for every
single life here God has a plan and
purpose for your life before you were
even born he had numbered your days he
actually knows what he wants to do in
and through your life here's a plan and
purpose the Bible says that God has a
race set before us so what that means is
our life is like a race and it's set
before us and we actually have to run it
and if we stop running then we don't
continue on in what God actually has for
our lives persistence is one of the keys
and I don't know why I'm hammering on
this point but I feel there's a couple
of people here that you feel like
quitting on something that God has
called you to do you feel like quitting
there's even one person here you're
tempted to willingly go against what you
know God's Word says about a subject
because you just feel you just feel
pulled in another direction and I'm here
to let you know if you will just keep
persisting if you would just continue on
not only will that produce a
transforming work in your life and in
your character but it will position you
to fulfill the destiny God has for you
and will position you to fulfill all the
blessings that God has for your life he
says if he continue on in this don't
just test it don't just try if you
continue on that's why the Bible says we
walk by faith and not by sight we don't
just dip in the walk toe in the water
we just consistently
walk by faith be persistent and when you
do that you'll be starting to walk in
the promises of God I'm here to tell you
if you need everything to go your way in
this life then I'm here to let you know
that we won't be able to fulfill the
life that God has for us there are times
when there's trials and there's times
when there's testings and there's
difficulty but the promise here is to
but the promise here is this if you will
continue and persist you'll be able to
see blessings come into your life amen
I believe there's some people here that
God has got some blessings for you that
are just waiting to drop into your world
there's some people here and I don't
like using this phrase because
theologically people got a bit funny
with it but I'll say it anyway there's
some people here it's kind of like
you're under like this generational
curse and what that means is the same
ailment that runs through your family
line you're expecting to come to pass in
your life I had a friend a well-known
pastor who was petrified about reaching
the age of 55 because all of his you
know his dad and his grandfather and
that they all dropped dead at that age
and deep down in his subconscious he
just thought well that's what's going to
actually happen to me but I'm here to
let you know that in Christ you're
blessed and what happened to them
doesn't necessarily have to happen to
you and there's some people here there's
some kind of ailment all of this always
happens in our family this is what runs
in our family our whole family is like
this I'm here to let you know that
through Christ it doesn't have to be
there's also someone else here as I said
that you actually feel like walking away
from something that you know God wants
you to hang fast in that you feel like
I'm done I'm finished I don't want to
continue on in this and God wants you to
know if he would just keep persisting
you will actually step into the
breakthrough that God actually has for
your life you know I love the story
about name in the Syrian name in the
Syrian was a man with leprosy and he
goes to see the Prophet Elisha because
he was told that the Prophet Elisha
could actually heal him so he goes to
the Prophet Elisha and he's got all this
flaky lipra sickness skin doesn't cease
Elijah and Elisha gives him his command
this is how you're going to get healed
go into the River Jordan
and dip seven times he's just like is
ridiculous the rivers are better nicer
back home why would I even bother
and then his servant said to him listen
he said you were going to come and
listen to the Prophet why don't you just
do what he says so he got the promise
the healing was available but he
actually needed to obey in order to get
it and he was tempted not to obey Him
not only that he had to obey more than
once
don't just dip yourself and then just
come up and you'll be clean seven times
could you imagine the first time that
thought so nothing happened second time
third time three times is enough surely
fourth time fifth time this is
ridiculous I could have done this at
home
sixth time six times surely when zircon
at some point he said seven seventh time
came up healed skin like a newborn baby
promise was made available obedience
required to access it and even in that
obedience he needed to be persistent and
he eventually he got and drew down Oh
anyways were into his world what God had
promised they men
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