father we're overwhelmed with your grace that has reached us change the saved has brought us into your family we thank you that you are the one who is in control we open our hearts over these few days lord yes that you would shift us move us changes and have us jesus amen amen amen come on give the lord a round of applause it's just beautiful being together i so appreciate getting to know you guys i'm amazed what pasta carlito is doing around here and around the world incredible and it's such a privilege to be part
of gqp and with dr elias and all that's happening so maybe for a few moments tonight we're going to go on a walk together i told you about a miracle building that we've acquired that building was built in 1990 so it's not so old an event which had kind of been neglected and some bushes had overgrown it and you couldn't really see it it just seemed stands is pakistan on this spot 700 years ago the first christian martyr in glasgow died and the truth is we think everything depends upon us so we've got to make
it all happen some of us are reaping where blood has been shed but god is working out his purposes that should give us great confidence on a saturday night he took a very large meeting and he was the keynote speaker 100 that jesus christ is not coming back tonight and moved on with his message the next morning sunday morning he's now preaching in the church that's hosted this big event and a woman came up to him extremely close and she said how dare you say this he said how dare i walk how dare you say
last night that you could guarantee that jesus isn't coming back the bible says nobody knows the time of the hour he said did he did he come back last night the reason he said that he's unparalleled because he had in mind a verse i want to use to speak for a few moments tonight in acts 3 21 ato stressing the heavens must hold the christ until there is a restoration of all things so my mentor realized there hasn't been a restoration of all things god is still doing some stuff but what exactly does the bible
mean by restoration see i often hear people say i'm wanting to see a new testament church built their migration of testimony last night we looked at a verse that was everywhere in the new testament you can read about its concept its principles and its functions in places like exodus 22. you see in those days there were no prisons right there was a concept of restitution and restoration so exodus 22 tells us that if a man stole an ox it is ox back if he stole a ship he had to give four sheep back check it
out and the list goes on in other words in other words the person who had lost something was in the end he's going to be far better off than at the beginning well it seems to me that as we look back over history the law the church lost some stuff we find it amazing that the first 300 years of that church journey in that church history the entire known world was impacted by the power of the gospel agency and then around 300 a.d constantine becomes a christian and it becomes cool to be a christian and
then we enter into the dark ages but god has been at work but i think the process of restoration well around the 1400s the first thing that happens is the bible comes back and we have the tyndales and the witcliffe translators and they make the bible available the word of god becomes available and the printing press is created and the bible starts to move the light is turned on in the dark ages foreign by reading the book of romans we're not saved by our works but by the awesome and incredible grace of god by faith
we come into his righteousness and a reformation is satellite well not long after him comes a guy called swingly might and the lutherans persecuted the baptists then we discover discovery some other things begin to happen we can talk about people like wesley or whitfield wesley or whitfield they did a radical thing especially they preached in the street instead of a building well if you can preach in this street you can preach in that street and you can go to the ends of the earth and so this world is my parish concept began to come back
in in tongues is back idea linguist people are filled with the holy ghost this is the spirit center been missing for 2 000 years god restored [Music] and waves of god begin to move when i became a christian in my early teenage years i became very hungry for god [Music] i couldn't find anyone anywhere to pray for me to be baptized in the holy spirit containing a god supernaturally sent a woman from london to my tiny village but the restoration is still happening it's now kind of coming into our era into our generation so over
the last 40 or 50 years and from that point forward what do you think god has now been restoring history and if the principle of restoration is true this generation and the end time church is going to be far better than the new testament is your principle is [Applause] it might take a few years first live organizations what starts the ends up here that's the way it goes if it's god it's restoring to the church to his people was supervised in the community the church like jesus christ is alive and well established and a living
thriving community of believers that god is amongst them and in them and when people want to find god and they ask for his address his address is the local church a great to of apostles and apostolic ministry g apostles apostolicus when i got saved the only person who's got all fivefold ministries is like prophet like moses which was lost so this is how i see it now i think ephesians 4 says that the ascended christ is each one of those colors represents all the others show another prophet together have an evangelist lead a church you
have a huge front door um have a pastor only lead the church we can't do it on our own there's a particular denomination in the uk and i've got some friends in that denomination and i say to them that's not just a good idea it's a restoration principle that god is putting back in the house why why are those relationships so important well because two are better than one but i need accountability i need somebody keeping an eye for me sister again it's one thing i'm telling everyone in the church you need to listen to
what i say but where does our accountability actually sit and live my own mind and so what we find is too many ministries falling around the earth god is not only restoring relationships he's restoring holiness and integrity to that house is i thank god i've been married 41 years this year and i know many of you be married more than that completely but we made a decision earlier on how we were i once arrived at a very large church to preach in europe but relationships and accountability is so important we could talk so much about
all of these points what else is god putting into the house by way of restoration when god is wanting us to move in the perfect partnership of word and spirit together my old pastor used to say to me the supernatural should be commonplace in our gatherings and our people growing in the depths of god's word i think that's what god's doing nowadays so that the purpose of those ephesians 4 ministries is fulfilled it's to prepare god's people for ministry and to bring them to maturity preparations i actually believe that god is bringing a proper correct
emphasis back to the gospel we preach i don't know too much about brazil it's my first time here and i love it but up and down the uk the gospel isn't actually preached amen you amen so we get saved but then from that point forward it's up to you it's up to you now to work really hard and this is how it was portrayed to me and this is how it's often preached i come to jesus in my dirty sinful suit i got saved every sunday for the next six months my pastor loved me because
i responded in every altar call today and then one day he realized you need to tell me god heard you the first time once wrote a book called the happiest people on the face of the earth demons but the tragedy was i kept living in the spiritual dry cleaners i didn't give you a white suit to look after you i am your white suit i am your white shirt one of the names for god from the old testament jehovah said can you the lord my righteousness and as that is preached and as people realize it
you know what happens is no condemnation to those who are in christ jesus christ jesus christ the church starts walking condemnation free i ign 211 times the new testament says in christ that god can i know god said jesus said go to the ends of the earth and it always starts at our end we've had a whole bunch of retired doctors in their 50s and 60s come to our bible colleges i've had one career i'm fitting well what's next thank you
