Now get the picture, this is a global thing: fill the earth. Fill the earth. Fill the earth. Fill the earth. God is not into little things. If you've got little things in your mind and have little mentality, you're not connected to God's perspective on things. God is big! He thinks in terms of the world. He thinks in terms of nations, that's why as we'll look in a moment the mandate to the church nations, disciple whole nations, whole nations, whole thousands upon thousands of people. He wants them impacted, because this is the original mandate. It's the earth. Why is it the earth? Because He owns it. Psalm 24, the earth is the Lords and everything inside it. So He owns it all. He wants it filled. What does He want it filled with? He wants it filled with His kingdom. He wants it filled with the nature of His kingdom; the values, the culture of His kingdom. Love and serving, humility, faith, a whole range of things - He's wanting the world filled with those things. When you complain about what's going on in our community you're complaining really about the absence of the kingdom of God.
Now that's a strange thing that we should be complaining about the absence of the kingdom of God when we're the ones called to advance it. So we shouldn't be complainers; we should be motivated by the lacks and needs around us to actually do something, because we're the ones called to do it. And I'll share with you later, I'll share with you a session on the authority that's given to us. You'll find there are about 10 areas God has actually given us authority to speak and act, to actually make things happen and when we know what to do and how to do it, then actually power comes and things happen. That's right, you don't have to be old to cast out demons; you've just got to know what to do and position yourself so you can do it. And then heaven comes into the earth. Oh, that's not my thing. Okay, good for you. [Laughs] It's God's thing though, see? It's God's thing. Healing the sick, that's God's thing see and prospering, that's God's thing. Getting people out of trouble, that's God's thing see? So if you're [in about 00.22.49] God's business then whatever He's on about we're into it. See, the good news! The good news of the kingdom, I love it.
See, so notice here the mandate is global: fill the whole earth. So we're called to occupy the land and I love the word [unclear 00.23.01] used the word colonise. I love that word. Actually I hadn't thought of it that way but I got inspired when I read about that, the word colonise - now colony, I looked in the dictionary, is a group of people who leave their native country to live in a new land and form a settlement there, and they come out and not only form a settlement but they build their culture and their kingdom and their values. So when we think of colonisation we always have these bad ideas. We think of the British coming to make New Zealand a colony, and we think of various [unclear 00.23.30] but actually when you have a look at it colonisation was God's plan. He wanted us to come into the earth and then form a - see a colony is a group of people who came from one country, go to another country and then they begin to develop it and subdue it and bring it under their government. That's a colony.
That's colonisation. So if you were launched or a group of you were launched see, to go into a nation and to form a settlement and to gather up people and bring it under the laws and values of New Zealand, you would be colonising that place. See, you're called to do that here. You're called to do that in the school, colonise the school. What with? People who are born again, spirit-filled lovers of God who live a Godly life and they've got faith in them, and they're [encouraged and live 00.24.13] a clean life. They don't drink, they don't get into this other stuff. You're called to do it. If it's not happening, ha! Don't blame the school. You're the one. You're the colonists. Think about it - you're the ones with the mandate. You're the ones called to do it, so see the problem is as a church, the church tends to complain about how bad things are and forget its mandate; we're the ones called to change it, and if we don't don't complain. It's there because of neglect. You know, if you've got a piece of land and the land's all covered in weeds don't complain. You let it get like that.