This morning I want to talk about extending the borders of the kingdom.

And for a while now we've been sharing different ones of us, Bill and the rest of the team.

We've been talking about this transition and Eric was playing in first service that there's a sense that this transition, you know, that you go from one side of the river, you know, the wilderness to the other side of the river, the promised land that you're in this place of transition.

Like there's no sense of settling your, your in a sense of pioneering and Eric kind of shared with us this morning in the first service as he prayed that he felt like that we had actually transition to the, I'm putting this in my own words.

But we actually had transitioned to the other side of the river, sort of speak, and that we were beginning to learn how to settle in this new promised land.

And I believe that's true. And I've been talking about if you have listened to what I've been sharing for the probably actually the last couple of years.

But I'm more intensely in the last year that part of this transition that we're going through is this place where we're moving from a past to a sort of Christianity where pastors,

and I'm talking about, we call everybody pastor, but you know, the five full ministry, the Apostle prophet, evangelist pastor and teacher, you find that in Ephesians 4, we did an extensive study on that for about two or three months ago for two or three sessions.

And pastors gather and you know Jesus talked about shepherds when he said, you know, the shepherd leaves the 99 goes after the one and that's what pastors like to do.

Pastors, five full pastors are called to get the sheep to flock together and to become healthy and happy.

And we've been talking about this transition that we're going through that the structure of the church is moving from being pastoral, and I don't mean moving from in the sense that we're leaving it, but it's moving from being pastoral to an apostolic model because we've come into this new apostolic age.

And an apostolic church is not just a church that has some kind of super leaders or something at the head of it or whatever, but an apostolic church at the very core of what an apostolic church is, it's a cultural transformer.

And I spent two sessions talking about that Apostles transform culture and that and when I use this illustration in John chapter 5 where the pool of Bethesda, it says that member of the angel of the Lord would come down in certain seasons and stir the water and whoever first got into that pool would get healed.

And we talked about how pastorites are like pools like the pool of Bethesda where people come to church to get healed. They come to church to get taught, they come to church to get counsel, they come to church to get delivered and the emphasis on a pastoral model as people is that people actually come to church.

The goal of a pastor is that people flock that they come to church, but then we're talking about this transition that we're going through and it's of course not that we don't want people to come to church so let me be clear there, but we need you to come.

Not to stay home watching IBELFEL TV, okay?

But we caught a bunch of people playing hook tea today and right there.

Okay, so.

But Ezekiel's river is a great example of this apostolic season that we're in because you know the story of that Ezekiel met this angel, the angel took him from the sanctuary a thousand cubits and cubits, not cupid, cubits.

It's a distance, not an angel that makes you love people and a thousand cubits in there and there was water up to their ankles and then 2000 to their knees and 3000 and you you understand we did a whole session on this that and the point was that the in Ezekiel's river illustration, the further you got from the sanctuary, the deeper the river got.

And we talked about in that illustration that or in that kind of like metaphor that parable if you will that that represented the fact that God wanted to go to the deepest darkest places of the planet and the further that you got from the sanctuary, the greater the miracles would be.

So we're going through this transition that we're going from coming to church to becoming the church and that the goal of Sunday mornings and the goal of gatherings isn't just that people would come and get fed.

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