new seasons require new systems new seasons require new systems I want you
to see it says in here is that we will seek out from among you seven men of
good reputation full of Holy Spirit and wisdom whom we may appoint over this
business what this means is that you can't go into a new season with an old
thinking with old habits you can't go into a new season with an old way of
doing things for example you can't go into marriage with a bachelor lifestyle
you can't go having children and have the same kind of a schedule as you had
when you were single you can't go into a season of ministry right now where we
are at where we have about four or five hundred people that show up every Sunday
we can't go with the same mindset when we had 50 people when we had 50 people I
had time to mow the lawn twice a week on Monday and on Thursday and
Wednesday I had time to go to jail ministry to do two pods with Ilya and
then after that went to homeless shelter and then in the evening we had the youth
service and still had the time to preach on Sunday morning and on Friday night
prayer today that's not possible and a lot of people who grew up with us
earlier when our church was small who had direct access particularly to me or
to other people who anything that happened they were just quickly dial in
today I had to even sit down with them I say listen I am sorry I know you
babysat me I know that you saw me with my diapers I know that you saw me
at 13 here preaching I know that you saw me at the age of 20 preaching but you
have to understand not that I'm big no no no no it's things have changed I have
to change you have to change we can't go into a new season with an old system
Jesus said you can put new wine in old wine skins and what's going to happen
wine is going to break away from the skins and the wine will be spilled one
of the reasons one of the stress points for us as people is when we don't update
our systems when we reached a new season when people reach this season of
marriage but their thinking has been not been updated that's why classes are so
important for marriage that's why classes and books are so
important when you have children so that you don't jump into something thinking
that just because you can make a kid that you can raise the kid you gotta
update your system just because you know I had to take a class and I'm gonna
continue to take classes of how to go how a pastor should act after 200 people
in church took $600 class had to take the why because I realized that when the
church grew I still stayed as a small pastor right here I still stayed as the
pastor who did everything instead of empowering other people and the pastor
needs to change my system and my structure in here has to change if I
reached a new season come on somebody I just want to challenge each one of you
today learn to change in how you approach things when you step into a new
season some of you your systems are out date and you can have a relationship
with Jesus you can focus on spiritual things but if the system and the
structure of your life does not change you will live in stress and then this
what you're gonna believe for a quick miracle God is not in business of doing
lottery with people He wants to change you He wants to break and sometimes it
takes years to break the mindset to break the habits to break the attitudes
to break the way you spend time the way you spend those things you know it's
easy to just simply go and say God take all of this away that it's not you
didn't get there like that it's that you kept old system in the new season and it
backfired your wine is spilled and your old wine skins are ripped and you are in
the mess even though you're in the best season of your life you told everyone on
Instagram you're having an amazing life except after that post
you literally contemplating whether you should live or not even like the devil
is attacking me the devil is not attacking you at this particular time
what's attacking you is that you got a new wine in an old wineskins and the new
wine is ripping those things up the wine is being spilled the skins are being
ripped and you're devastated you need a new skin for a new wine you need a new
structure and you system a new way of dealing things a new way of
reacting a new way of living with a new season of your life can somebody say
Amen