Compassion Sunday 2025

Compassion Sunday 2025 - The Five Unities. Message by Steve Scrimgeour at The Red Door Community Church.

Episode Transcript

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It's Compassion Sunday.

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Everyone say compassion.
That's right.
Now, it's an interesting CompassionSunday because we've done many
of these over the last four,eleven years would you believe?
And, but, the reason why this one'sexceptional is because someone who calls
Red Door home is going to be presenting.
Steve and Ros Scrimgeour arepart of our Red Dwarf family

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and have been for some time.
We love them very, very dearly.
And so what you're getting today is notjust a heart for compassion and what
the organization and the Lord is doingthrough compassion, but also, such a
strong connection with how does thatconnect with us as a community here.
And so I'm really excited toinvite Steve to come and share.
And so why don't youwelcome him as he comes.

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And potentially put your seatbelts on.
Thanks, Adam.
Love ya.
Let's pray.
Father, this word fromZephaniah for us today.
The Lord your God is with you.
The mighty warrior who saves, hewill take great delight in you.

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Men.
You are strong enough, women.
You are beautiful in his love.
He will no longer rebuke, but we'llrejoice over you with singing.
Here we are together in yourrejoicing, in your singing.
In your life before our mighty warrior,the hosts and the angelic amongst us.

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And together we say,King Jesus be lifted up.
Beloved Father, we're yours.
Holy Spirit move throughthis room and have your way.
Amen.
Love to be here.
Like Adam said, married to Roz.
We love Red Door.
Been here for five years.
Love every second of it.

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It's like every, every sermon.
Do we get Luke?
Do we get Adam?
Do we get Dale?
It doesn't matter!
They're all amazing!
That's what Rozzy and I have saidto each other about a hundred times.
We love being here.
We love the community.
All our best friends came here.
We just have so many dear friends.
We love it.

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My kids said to me this week, Iwon't say which one, they said, Oh,
our pastor's names, Adam and Eve.
The Lord delights in you.
But our family, we're passionateabout a couple of things.
We're passionate aboutthe church and unity.

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We're passionate aboutJesus reaching young people.
Young people in poverty locally,young people in poverty globally,
we're passionate about young peoplecoming into their fullness in Christ.
We know this is the heartbeat ofRed Door and this is why God has
brought us to this church and I wantto honor you Red Door, my Red Door.

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Because check this out.
You are sponsoring or releasingfrom poverty with compassion.
378 children.
That's like three schools.
Three small schools.
Incredible.
This is what that means.

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These are children whoare surrounded by poverty.
And if you didn't sponsor that child, wewouldn't be bringing another child in.
Every child that's sponsored,we bring another one in
because that one was sponsored.
This is 378 more children who arenow gone from covered in poverty to
connected to a gospel focused church.
That church has a mentor disciplein that church who comes with,

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who comes beside that child andwalks with them their whole life.
Just like in our youth group.
We have, we have youth leaders who walkwith the kids through all of high school.
We have leaders who walk with his kids allthe way till they finish their studies.
378 all glory To Jesus and he's theone who gets to take them for himself.

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Why?
Because he wants them to know thathe is the mighty warrior who delights
in them, who saves them, who seesthem and says you are beautiful and
you're man enough, I'm with you.
So I celebrate this incredible 378.
Red Door is focused in two regions.

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The first region isKabakalan in the Philippines.
Red Door has been tothis island many times.
In fact, Red Door has launched two newcompassion projects in the Philippines.
The other area where Red Door is focused,where we are focused, is Thailand.

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Mae Sot, right on the border of Myanmar.
And the churches across Cockburn,Fremantle, and Malville together.
together, are focused on this area.
Red Door has also launched a project justnorth of Maysot in an area called Atum.
So, 378 kids, but also three newchurches are now running the Compassion

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Project because of compassion.
It is wonderful to let you know that weare going to be running a trip to Maysot.
Adam will share more aboutthat with the other churches
in Coburn, Melville, Fremantle.
Let me share a story.
And when you hear this story,I want you to see two things.
How the world sees youngpeople and sees you and how

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the world wants to despise you.
And I want you to see Zephaniah 3.
17. This is Michelle.
She shared a story with me.
Actually in Fremantle.
My wife and I were with her andshe shared it all in details.
She said this, my parents said this to me.

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You're ugly.
The opposite of what was prayed today.
You're gonna be a thief, a drug addict,or you're gonna be a prostitute.
This is the thinking ofthe slum where she was.
This is the culture.
This was the normal thinking.

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But her uncle told her parentsabout the compassion project,
the local church running it.
She was sponsored.
This means she receivedhealth care, nutritious food,
education, mentoring, discipling.
She was one of the first todo our leadership training.
All of our children from 12 to 20 do ourtransformational leadership training.

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This is what we call inPhilippines so they can be agents
of change in their communities.
This is what we say.
I believe what I'm about to say.
Every child a disciple.
Every disciple a disciple.
We're raising up a hundred thousanddisciples in the Philippines.

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Michelle said this.
She said her sponsor wrote to her.
Instead of hearing this, this is what hersponsor said, Michelle, you're beautiful.
I love you.
And Jesus loves you.
Michelle said these wordswent right into her heart and

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started changing how she thinks.
And I think this is exactlywhat God's saying to us today.
Change how you think you're beautifulin Christ, you're wonderful.
I said, Michelle, what do you do now?
And I couldn't believe what she said.
She said, I now work withgirls in prostitution.

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I take them off the streets and I disciplethem and give them their own businesses.
I said, that's incredible.
Your parents said you'd be a prostitute.
Now you're releasing them from it.
I said, how many of you helped?
And she put her headdown like this, ashamed.
And she said to me, Only 115.
I said, what?

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That's incredible.
She said this to me.
And what I'm about to say, you can'tcomprehend what I'm about to say,
but we must try and comprehend this.
She said in my city alone, there's another100, 000 girls stuck in prostitution.

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The church must awaken.
The church of Acts 2 must arise inits fullness because there's children
and women trapped and saying, am Iugly, am I only worth prostitution,

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but the father is calling outthrough his church, I delight in you.
I see you in me.
I can make you all you were made to be.
She gets the local pastors kids.
She gets them on a radio station and theyshare the gospel to 500, 000 children.

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Every Saturday.
Because one girl said, one sponsor said,You're beautiful Michelle, I see you.
I saw her recently at Lausanne.
Red Door sent Amit and I tothe fourth Lausanne Congress.
Billy Graham started thefirst one 50 years ago.
Now every 15 years, the church has aglobal congress for the Great Commission.

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And, it said to me, I'm sittingon Michelle's table, she wants to
see you, I said, I want to see her!
So we went and caught up with each other,I'm like, how you going, how's it going
with the girls you're working with?
She said, Steve, you wouldn't believe it,now we've helped 150 girls, and I said,
and that was incredible, but this nextthing was just what we need to catch.

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She said to me And I'm so excited that in2025, some of the girls who were rescued
are now going to take over running it fromme, and they are going to be running it.
Such is the transformationof the kingdom of God.
Let's pray.
Father, as we come into Acts 2 right now,I pray these words, the story of Michelle.

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would be our story.
The story of Acts 2 would beour story, would be our city's
story, would be Asia's story.
Father, anything you want to doin us today, Lord, we repent from
our distractions, from belittlingourselves, from saying we're not
this, we're not in Zephaniah 317,we're not the pleasure of God.

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We repent.
We come into the pleasure ofGod together in this room with
you from Shalom or Red Door.
We are one in Christ, and we say,Lord, in your pleasure, birth
in this room what you want to dotoday in the mighty name of Jesus.

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Acts 2 is what I want to preach on today.
I wrote this message overthe last couple of days.
I feel God is all over this.
I'm so excited to bringit to us, Red Door.
In Acts 2, the context is verysimilar to Michelle's story.

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Michelle's origin story isthe opposite of Zephaniah 3.
17 to coming into the fullness of it.
And I want to share today the originstory of the church of Jesus Christ.
And I want to share theorigin story of compassion.
I want to see then what isGod calling us to in this.
In Acts 2, this is the context.

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The head of the church has just beencrucified, and his name is Jesus.
He was resurrected.
But the context is the empire ofthe day, the religious system of the
day, had just destroyed their leader.
Had killed him, had put him on thecross, but he had rose from the dead.
It is the Acts 2 story, the birthingof the church, the conception

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of the church, is in a city offoreign military oppression.
And 40 years later, what's going to happento Jerusalem is Rome is going to devastate
and destroy Jerusalem and its temple.
This is the context.
In the middle of this, Acts 2, wesee the birthing of another army.

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Not an army like the Romansor the religious system that
also had their military.
This is an army not of the world system.
This is the army of Zephaniah 3.
17. This is the army led bythe mighty warrior in some
translations of Zephaniah 3.
17. It says, the Lord is amighty warrior who saves.

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But it is, it is, it is An armythat comes with great compassion
and love and humility and, andthrough meekness inherits the earth.
It brings the opposite spirit.
In the middle of oppression, itbrings salvation and healing.

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It brings the kingdom of God andit looks like the garden of Eden.
And the opposite spirit is this.
I'm going to stand here for thisone because I saw Adam stand and
speak, I thought, I like that.
The opposite spirit is the Holy Spirit.

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The opposite spirit to theworld which says you're ugly.
Is the Holy Spirit who comes in us, uponus, between us and Christ, amongst us, and
says, I will hover with you and tell you,you are the child, you're a child of God.
You're a beloved child of God.

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I delight in you.
I sing over you.
This is who you are.
I believe we're not just goingto come into Zephaniah 3.
17. Individually, I truly believe we'regoing to come into Zephaniah 3 in 317
as the church of Jesus Christ, belovedtogether of God, beloved together.
I believe the unity that Godis bringing the church into.

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It's so much more than what we've seen.
It is the unity and the oneness of theTrinity, the way they love each other.
We would know we are loved like this.
And then.
We would love each other like thisand then We would love the world like
this and they would see the oppositespirit They would see the Holy Spirit

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Acts 2 is the awesomeArrival of the Holy Spirit.
It is the creation of us the churchand it is the church's first great
harvest of souls I want to look atActs 2 today through the great unity
it expresses through the Trinity.
Then the great unity itexpresses through the Church.

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And then how these two thingsconceive a great harvest.
I want to share the great unity of theTrinity, the oneness of the Trinity,
how that with the oneness of theChurch conceives a great harvest.
Acts 3 verse 1 When the day of Pentecostcame, they were all together in one place.

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Suddenly, a sound like the blowing of aviolent wind came from heaven and filled
the whole house where they were sitting.
They saw what seemed to betongues of fire that separated
and came to rest on each of them.
All of them.
Not just the leaders, not just the males,not just the Jews or the most pure Jews.

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No, all of them.
were filled with the Holy Spiritand began to speak in other
tongues as the Spirit enabled them.
Now normally when we read Acts 2,
we think of these few verses as thisis the conceiving of the church.

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This little section here, this isthe launch, but I want to bring
it back to something a bit wider.
Later on in this chapter, Paulsays, sorry, Peter says in Acts 2.
32, look at this.
Look how the church was notjust a work of the Holy Spirit,

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it was a work of the Father.
The Son and the Holy Spirit.
The way the Trinity work is not Jesusgoes out and says what he wants to
say and does what he wants to do.
When Jesus goes out he sayswhat the Father is saying and
does what the Father is doing.
When the Holy Spirit goes out it'sbecause he's come through Jesus,
from the Father sent him throughJesus and Jesus has released him.

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There is such a oneness.
There's a dance, there's a singing,there's an entwining of the Trinity,
which is so intimate, which is evenZephaniah 3, 17, the Lord singing
over us, it's only because theLord is singing over each other.
The Father, Son, and the HolySpirit are in that beautiful
song, that dance, that table.

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They are in this onenessand they're welcoming us.
Into this together.
The challenge of Acts 2 today isto come deeper and more full into
who we are as the church and who weare as the church in the Trinity.

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Verse 32.
Peter is preaching to the Jews inthe same chapter and he says this,
and look at the Trinity in this, lookhow they serve and love each other.
God has raised this Jesus to life.
We are all witnesses of it,exalted to the right hand of God.
Now they are together.
He has received from theFather, the Holy Spirit.

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It's this beautiful giving and receiving.
And the Spirit has poured outwhat you now see and hear.
For David did not ascend to heaven.
And yet he said, the Lord said to my Lord.
The father saying to the son, sit atmy right hand until I make all your
enemies a footstool for your feet.

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What does this mean?
This is harkening back toa military psalm of David.
In fact, two of the great ofthe three prophecies in Acts 2
harken back to military passages.
Amos.
And this psalm are both militarypassages because God is revealing a
church that is the most opposite spirithumble army to ever walk the earth.

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Therefore, let all Israelbe assured of this.
God has made this Jesus whom youcrucified, both Lord and Messiah.
And then it goes on aboutmore about receiving the gift
of the Holy Spirit in Jesus.
This is what I want you to see.
That the conception of thechurch was the Holy Spirit coming

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down on the body of Christ.
It was that descending.
But behind that was the Father and the Sonand the Holy Spirit in perfect oneness.
And the Spirit was theone who came forward.
But they were all together.
Even Jesus, when he was baptized,it was, it was the Father.
Father and the Son and the HolySpirit together in union ministering,

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such is the oneness of the Trinitythat we are going to come into.
I believe this, the blueprints for atransformed globe, for a transformed
nation, a transformed city, a transformedcommunity, a transformed family.
What does that look like?
It looks like this.

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This is what I truly believe.
It just looks like the Trinity in oneness.
It looks like beloved family.
I love saying goodnight to my kids andsaying goodnight, my beloved son, Peter.
Goodnight, my beloved daughter, Charlotte.
Goodnight, my beloved daughter, Lily.
Why?
Because in the beloved, which is abeautiful expression of the Trinity,

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God is bringing us into this as family.
What really does heavenon earth look like?
I'll tell you what it looks like.
Heaven looks like the Trinity.
The Trinity is what the church willlook like as we come deeper into
the five unities expressed in thispassage, which reflect the Trinity.
What I want to share now is as I've gonethrough Acts 2, there's five different

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unities that the church is expressed at.
And this is what I want to askyou as we go through these five,
please don't gloss over them.
Which is the ones you need to come deeperinto, at least come deeper into three.
You can't have one ortwo you can glass over.

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But I want three, not one, Iwant three that you're like, yes,
Lord, take me deeper into this.
Why?
So the church of Jesus Christwould become more and more like the
glorious trinity so we can producea harvest that looks like them.
The first of these great unities.

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is expressed in verse five.
It says in verse five, now they werestaying in Jerusalem, God fearing
Jews from every nation under heaven.
And if you go down, it talks about howthey're all there together and they
start hearing the Spirit of God in theirown language, the hearing, the speaking
in tongues in their own language.
Then at the end, I love this.

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Look at what it says.
I'll put it in yellow.
We hear them declaring the wondersof God in our own language, in our
own tongues in some translations.
What does this mean if theystart seeing the wonder of God?

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I believe they're seeing theTrinity's dance, the Zephaniah 317,
the pleasure of the Father to theSon, the Son to the Spirit, the
Spirit searching the Father's heart.
The Father saying, Jesus, goto the cross and Jesus saying,
yes, I will go to the cross.
And then Jesus going to the cross andJesus coming back and the Father saying,

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now I will give you nations, my son.
And I will give them to you.
Holy Spirit, go awaken the church.
Jesus deserves nations.
It's in this beautifulexpression of who the Trinity is.
The glory of God.
This oneness.
That I believe the nations are goingto go, Whoa, behold the glory of God.

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Behold His wonder.
What does it look like?
It looks like oneness.
Not brokenness, oneness, delight,deeper joy, deeper oneness.
And so the five great unities in this,the first one is, the first great unity
is ethnic unity, nation to nation unity.

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The world system saysnation versus nation.
What can I get from you?
My nation is greater.
God's system says, every nation,one in Christ on their knees, giving
glory to the lamb that was slain.
This is the oneness God iscalling the church into.

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into.
I believe because of technologiesthat have been released.
This is the season for the greatestoneness of nations ever on the earth.
We are going to accelerate in this lastyear, Rosie, I met myself, a few friends.
We put on a 12 hour prayer meetingfor students to pray for 12 hours
and, and sovereignly six othercities in Asia joined us to pray.

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Our prayer was.
Students praying in every schoolacross Asia, students coming
together in unity, every school inAsia, Oceania, kids on their knees
saying, Jesus, come visit the school.
After this prayer meeting, which God hasso graced, something stuck in our hearts
that those in Hong Kong and those inPhilippines said to us, they both prayer

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walked their schools and the universities.
In June.
They didn't realize that.
There was no communication.
They just did it.
And then we caught that here in Perth.
So one of our team made a website.
We launched it last Friday.
And then we get a message when welaunch this website to get every
prayer, every school documented andrecorded at every school, university.

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We can, you can log whenyou, when you walk a school.
And our heart is that we'vehad every school logged.
This guy in Nepal messages meon Messenger and goes, Hey, I
saw what you guys are doing.
We're prayer walking.
So I zoom in with him and it's like,Whoa, this guy is speaking the same
language as what we're speaking.
We've never met before.
God is teaching him the same thingas God's teaching us about students.

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He's already done a prayer walk.
He gave us a whole like five page documentthat he's going to use to get schools
involved, which we can now use in Perth.
We've gone back to Hong Kongand Philippines and said,
Hey, we caught this from you.
Now we give it back to you.
This is the unity of thenations collaborating.
It's so simple these daysfrom what it was in the past.
What is God going to do with us?

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So this is my question for this first one.
How can you be united with thedifferent ethnicities in the
church locally and globally?
What does it look like?
Even sponsoring children, right?
We are united with the churchin Philippines and Maysot.
What does it look like?

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That every barrier and every wallthat the world puts on, gone.
One in Christ.
Like the Trinity.
Like the Father and the Son are one.
We are one.
The second great unity is this.
Verse 14.
I'm going to read this.
Male and female unity.

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Then Peter stood up with the eleven,raised his voice, and addressed the crowd,
fellow Jews and all who live in Jerusalem.
Let me explain this to you.
Listen carefully to what I say.
These people are not drunk as you suppose.
It's only nine in the morning.
No, this is what wasspoken by the prophet Joel.
In the last days, God says, I will pourout my spirit on all people, your sons.

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And your daughters.
will prophesy.
Your young men will see visions,your old men will dream dreams.
Even on my servants, both men andwomen, I will pour out my spirit in
those days and they will prophesy.
Both sons and daughters,both men and women.
I love at Red Door,you've got Luke and Beck.

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You've got Adam and Dael, you've gotCleon and Jodie, you've got husbands
and wives who are both moving withGod boldly, that we can see and
go, yes, that's what it looks like.
But wait, Steve, what about what Paul saidin, in effort to the church in Ephesus and
the church in Corinth when he said, womencan't teach and women must be silent.

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In the context of those cities,they were coming out of pagan cults
where the woman would teach verydeceptive, very deceptive things.
And Paul's like, no, don't let thesewomen who haven't learnt, who've been
unlearnt, don't let them teach, they'regoing to teach the wrong things.
But in other areas, Paul's like, thisis my apostle, and she's a female, this

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is my preacher, and she's a female, thisis a leader, she's a female, honour her.
Both are true.
Don't let a woman teach youshe's untrained, but if she
is and the Holy Spirit is uponher, let it be fully released.
Nothing held back.
This broke me once.
I was in Dallas, and this was like asword into my stomach, and I prayed

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to the sword into your stomach.
If this is an issue for you.
This girl stood up in front of us, itwas 120 litres from across the globe,
10 from each region of the world.
And she said this quote, she said, thereason why we never finished the Great
Commission in the 20th century, when theSpirit of God poured out so strongly.
She said this, and it was like theLord just put the sword into me.

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She said, we were likea plane with one wing.
The men were released,but the women weren't.
The men were prophesying.
The men were leading.
The men was moving with the spirit,but the women were always oppressed.
What happens when the Church of JesusChrist takes off with two wings?

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The male and the female in oneness.
My question for you when it comes tothis one is, How can you be part of
that plane having two strong wings?
I love that analogy.
Unity three in the same passage,we can see three or four age groups

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functioning in the Holy Spirit.
Look at this in the yellow, yoursons and daughters, your young men.
Your men and women and your old men,four generations, all functioning
in the Holy Spirit together.
Recently, when we wanted to launchthese, this prayer in all the schools

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and this prayer walk strategy, weinvited 13 families over to our home.
And, five years earlier, we'dorganized all the GeoNetwork leaders.
Listen to what a GeoNetwork is.
I love this.
Is this not an expressionof what I'm sharing?
And our city.
Across all of Perth and WA,there are 31 geo networks.
It's where the pastors and the leaderscome together in the same local area

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and meet regularly to pray, disciple,and serve their city together,
to do their assignment together.
So we invited these leaders over to myhome, Ahmet, myself, and a few others,
invite them over to our home, and said,bring one young person each so we can
bring the next generation into what Godis doing amongst the pastors in our city.
They come over, and Nick Scott, who'slike the, a great father in our city, he

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says, on the way here, God showed me this.
And he grabbed me by the side,and he said, in the past, we've
passed the baton on, and leftthe next generation to go alone.
And he grabbed me, and he said, nowit's like a three legged race, and he
put imaginary tape around my leg andwe started walking together and then I
grabbed my wife Rosie and I said and Rosietoo and I brought her by my side and I

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wrapped her leg and so me, Nick and Rosieand Nick's older than me so it's like this
generational oneness are walking together.
The Spirit of God fell in the room.
The Holy Spirit fell in the room.
For the next hour, these leadersin our city spoke about how we're
going to win our city as one family.
When we come into family, when wecome into oneness of the Trinity,

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when we reflect the authenticity ofthe Trinity, the humility, the moving
together of the Trinity, when we reflectthat, that is the blueprint for Perth.
So let's do it.
Sorry.
A month later, sorry, a monthago, five years later, we've got
these 13 families in my home.

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And we want to talk about how we're goingto mobilise all the Gen Z's in our city.
Slowly but moving boldly.
And one guy says this, and we're goingaround the room and he starts crying.
And he says, I had a dream two weeksago, and I didn't know what it meant,
but I think I know what it means.
And he's weeping in front of us.
And he didn't realize this, but ashe shares his story, he's one meter

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away from where Nick shared thestory about the three legged race.
And now he stands there and says, theLord spoke to me about the third leg.
We're like, what's the third leg?
He said, when you have a batonrace, there's four in the race.
There's four people in the race, andonly one person crosses the line, and

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only one person starts, but he saidthis, The Lord was telling me the
dream, just keep running the third leg.
He was like, that means I don'tget to run the fourth leg.
No, I want you to run the third legto set up Gen Z, to set up Gen Alpha.
Look at these fourgenerations in this verse.
The Lord is like, it'slike the first generation.
We honor the fathersand mothers in our city.

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We come off your shoulders.
We honor the Gen X's and the Gen Y's,but like Gen Z and Alpha coming after us.
See them in Christ.
Because we're passing the baton,not to run alone, but to tie our
legs to theirs and say, let's winthis city together as one family.
My question for this unity is this,

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what is your role in the four baton race?
The next unity is unity by location.
Verse 44 says, all the believers.
We're together.
Verse 46, Every day they continued tomeet together in the temple courts.

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They broke bread in their homes and atetogether with glad and sincere hearts.
This is a unity of we'rein the same location.
We're in Christ.
Let's be one.
God's bringing the global church together.
He's also bringing the localchurch together around tables

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to eat together like family.
This is so precious.
We were walking at school.
We just walk this prayer walk toschool on Thursday, me and my mate.
We go around the school and we get to theend of the school and I see a teacher.
I'm like, hey, how you going?
She's like, yeah, good.
And like, hey, we justprayer walk to your school.
She's like, oh, she comesover to us as she goes.

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We have had the toughest day.
Can I take a photo andsend it to our principal?
I was like, does she wantto, like, complain to us?
She goes, what's your names?
What churches are you from?
She sends a photo of us to her principal.
We pray for her.
She's so moved.
My mate goes back to his youngadult's church, sits down next

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to a friend, and he's like,guess what just happened to us?
We just prayer walked to school andthis teacher was like, oh mate, you
don't know we had this hardest day.
And his friend says, oh, I'ma teacher at that school.
We were robbed today.
That means so much.
And she sent it to allher teacher friends.
These guys prayer walked our school.

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What is that?
We're not from the sameschool, but we're locally one.
They needed an armyand the army rocked up.
The army rocked up at their time of need.
God is mobilizing an army thatlooks like family, but comes
with the opposite spirit.
It comes with the Holy Spiritand you can't orchestrate that.
But when the Holy Spirit is birthinga church, it's divine appointment.

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After Divine Appointment, Adam and I werein Mae Sot and we sat down with these
different pastors in Thailand and we took10 pastors here in Perth from the same
local area and we sat down with 10 pastorsfrom Thailand and we had this unity table
and this pastor said to me afterwards, hesaid this, and this is exactly what God's

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doing amongst us, he said, when we cametogether it was like the walls came down.
It felt like we were one.
It felt like we were family.
He said to me, for 20 years I've hadpastors visiting me from across the world.
He said they never looked me in the eye.
This is a man of God who's ina sl serving 200 kids, running

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a church, a compassion program.
It's a Muslim slum.
It's 80 percent refugees.
He's right on the front line.
But pastors wouldn't look him in the eye.
But that day, when we sat aroundthe table, this warrior of God,
in this most front line placein the globe, felt like family.
This is how God is arising an armythat doesn't come and destroy,

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but comes and brings life.
What.
Does.
What does unity look like for you withthose who have the same locality as you?
If you're called to a school, are youin union with the other Christians?
If you're called to a workplace, are youpraying with those in your workplace?

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Are you sitting around a tablewith them on your street?
Are you one with theChristians or have you divided?
Divided.
I bet you're a little bit different.
You don't believe this.
No, we are one in Christ.
We reflect the Trinity.
And the last great unity in this passageof God launching his church for us is
the unity of united in possessions.

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And I think this is thehardest for Australia.
I think the developingworld, they get this.
We need to learn from them.
This is so hard, but what happens,it says in verse 44, and we've got to
come into this, even though it's theopposite spirit of what Australia thinks.

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All the believers were togetherand had everything in common.
They sold property and possessionsto give to anyone who had need.
Wow.
What does deep faithfulness togiving to those around you look like?
How can you do it in unity?

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What does it mean to the church in thedeveloping world who are on the front
line of a sl a pastor who's amongst thistough area, and we say, you're not alone.
We're going to sponsor more kids.
We're going to get more kids soyour church can be mobilized.
I'm going to finish with this story.
Compassion started in a war.
Two nations fighting each other.

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It was right in this war wherecompassion was conceived, just like
the church in Revelations, in Acts 2.
Right in this war, the Korean War, aminister from America goes over to preach
to the troops, and he sees this truckcoming towards him, and he thinks they're
just picking up rags off the ground,but as he gets closer, he goes up to
it, and he sees what they're picking upoff the ground and putting in the trash.

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Is children Who had frozen todeath overnight Because no one
was looking after them Where wasthe Acts 2 church that shares
possession so children don't freeze?
It's crazy that Joel 2 that harkensin Acts 2 harkens back to trafficking.

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The book of Joel mentionstrafficking of children twice.
Mesa and Philippines where we are focusingare two of the most prevalent trafficking
areas in the globe, but red door andcompassion with the local churches saying.
Not on our watch.
Children be protected.
Church of God arise.
We resource you.
We sponsor.

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We love you.
We're with you.
We church plant there with you.
50 years later.
We had left Korea because povertywas broken there, and our CEO
is standing amongst all theleaders of the church in Korea.
Because now he wants to come back,and just as we launched Compassion
in Korea amongst Great Poverty,now he wants Compassion to give.

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All your possessions shared.
And he's speaking to all theseministers across and they're talking
through him and he's like this is sorude So he says to his translator.
Why are they talking throughme and the translator?
He jumps off the stage and he walksup to the crowd and he's like,
why are you talking through him?
And this man stands up and he saysyou don't need to tell us about

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compassion I'm a compassion child,now I lead this denomination.
She's a compassion child, andshe leads that denomination.
He's a compassion child, and he leads thiscompassion child, this, this denomination.
And so our CEO stood up and he said,If you're a compassion child in
this room, I want you to stand up.

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And 70 80 percent of the leadersin the room stood up, looked at
each other and started clapping.
Because they realized that Godhad birthed His church through
children who were freezing to death.
That the global church has said, wesee you, we're coming beside you.
And that God had raised up these leaders.

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I don't just see 378children, I see 378 disciples.
Agents of change and a purpose.
I pray every letter you write, you writethat to the child that you're sponsoring.
I pray as you walk out and youthink, am I going to sponsor a child?
You think, Oh, I see not just a child inpoverty, but I see the church in Mesut.

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I see the church in Philippines.
If you want to sponsor a child,another child, I ask you boldly,
I ask you as the army of Godthat doesn't look like the world.
To say, Jesus, if that's what you'recalling me to do, yes, how many?
Yes, how many I'm in, but I'm alreadyone child came out to a dad today and

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said, dad, can we sponsor another chart?
He's like, we're already sponsoring five.
I love that.
I love that the dad wasalready sponsoring five.
I loved it.
The girl who was like10 or 12 was like 13.
I don't know.
We're kids.
These days was like, Oh, there's more.
Let's pray.
I'll ask Adam to come up.
Lord, God, it's these five great unities,

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multicultural unity, male female unity,
intergenerational unity, unity whereveryou've placed us in our location
and all our possessions shared.
Lord, there's pain for us to repent intothe fullness of all of these, but Lord,

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what are you calling us to do today?
If it's to give up 55 a month tosponsor a child, if it's to start
a prayer, if it's to prayer walk aschool, if it's to, when we have the
Fremantle, outreach
over Easter, it's to go, I'm all in forthe outreach, Holy Spirit, have your way.
Lord, I'm asking for two things, Lord,that where we have said no to oneness
of the church, today we would say yes.

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And whatever that looks like practically.
I pray we would say yes tothat, in Jesus name, Amen.
Give Steve a hand everybody.
So he wrote those thoughts about thefive unities, like, how long ago?
Two days ago?

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And he's, I'm standing at theback and he's telling me about it.
And I'm, I'm planned to speak at NewLife Church on the 30th of March,
in a couple, couple weeks is it?
Yep.
And I felt God Give me a titleof the message and the message
was entitled The Five Unities.
And then Steve gets up there and says,today, he says, oh, it's the Five Unities.

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What do you think about that?
I said, yeah, that sounds really good.
I'll probably just steal your message.
Is that okay?
No, no.
Because there's, I just want youto know, as we, what we've heard
today, this is just, becauseSteve's very passionate, okay?
And the reason why he's passionatetoday, is not just because the Lord's
upon him, and his whole family, buthe's, God's given him a message.

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And as I'm telling him, I've got this sametitle, do you hear what I'm saying here?
There's something about thisspace right now for us as a church
family, to recognize that theLord is trying to bring oneness and
wholeness and family to a new level.
Right?
So it's like, it's like there's levelsin unity in some ways, you know,

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like you sort of, you know, like ifyou can't have unity in your local
church, you've got a problem, right?
It should be, should be able to, likefor instance, if you can't have unity in
your own family, like your own biologicalfamily, you've got a problem, if you can't
have unity in your own church, you'vegot a problem, if you can't have unity
in your own suburb, the body of Christin the city of Coburn, maybe we've got
a problem, because isn't Jesus bigger?

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And so these are, these are, these aresuch important points to ponder around
how we continue to grow in unity towardsthat family, towards that oneness.
One of the things
Compassion, don't realize
that they're doing, even though Steverealizes it, is actually, Compassion
is building unity in the body ofChrist, you know, in a very gentle way.

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And so what's happening isall the churches who love
compassion, guess what they do?
They're really close.
They're like best friends, right?
Because why?
Compassion is actuallycultivating unity in
this space, which is
so encouraging and which is why,you know, we've been partnering
with Compassion for 11 years now.
And as Steve said, we've beenon a few trips to Thailand.
We've actually been on five trips.

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And, we've done them usually in themonth of November, like early December.
And we've had a bit of a hiatus on trips.
Everyone usually asks me, whenare the Compassionate Trips
starting again?
Guess what?
They're starting again.
And so hopefully, don't quote me on this,but we're 80 percent sure that in January
of 2026, we're late January, 2026, we'regoing to be having a new, a new trip.

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But it's going to be slightlydifferent, look, different.
It's not just Red Door doing the trip.
It's actually different churches, schoolgroups, anyone who's connected to the
region of, on the border
of northern Thailand, which is thatMae Sot area, they're going to be
invited to be a part of that trip.
Why?
Because this is not just aboutcreating unity in a singular church

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community, it's about creatingunity in the body of Christ.
So if you're interested in findingout more about that coming trip, it's
not going to be in the Philippinesthis year, it's going to be, or next
year, it's going to be in Thailand.
And so if you are interested in findingout more about that, please send me an
email, like an expression of interest.
And I'd love to begin to collatethat as we work towards January 2026.

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Is that okay?
I had a video to show you, but what Imight do is play it after the service,
because things are tricking away.
We've got sausages to eat, yeah?
The last thing I just wantedAnd children's sponsor!
We just want to pray forthe work of compassion.
So why don't you standwith me this morning?

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We're going to end
this way.
And if you, sponsor a
child, you can just raiseyour hand right now.
Awesome.
Father, in the name of Jesus, werecognize that it takes a village,
it takes a family, it takes thebody of Christ together in unity

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to see the kingdom of God come.
As it is in heaven, soshall it be on earth.
Father, we ask God for every childrepresented in this place that they would
have downloads from heaven about who theyreally are, that they are beautiful and
they are worth fighting for, that they'rea man and they've got what it takes.

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Holy Spirit, please comeinto every child's heart.
heart represented here today, thatthey would see themselves growing as
fully devoted followers of Christ,being weapons for the kingdom of God.
Father, we ask your blessingupon that very work.
Father, for the work of compassion,for those children who are yet to be

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sponsored, for the hurting, for thevulnerable, for the, those who are.
Where poverty is more speakinginto their lives than you are.
God, we pray, rescue theirhearts today and use your
church globally to do just that.
We pray for every single church leaderin, in countries where there's the
church centers in, especially inThailand and in, in, in Philippines.

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Father, we ask God for thosechurch leaders, the workers, the
teachers, the support workers.
Father, we ask for your anointing tobe upon them, protect them, keep them
safe, that they would see the goodnessof God in the land of the living.
that they would see your very power atwork through them to make a difference.
Father, sustain them,keep them safe we pray.

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And Father, thank you for allowingus to participate in this work.
And Father, We, we thank you God thatyou would lead us to know how do we
participate in the all growing pictureof family, this growing picture of
unity across the planet, but also inmy backyard, in Jesus mighty name.

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And everybody said, Amen, Amen.