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in progress. First Chronicles chapter 28.
The Bible says the labor is worthy of its hire and and the
honest truth is sometimes we get some of the best in and the Lord
favors us how we get them in here and if I can do more, I
would do more. Let me tell you back when I'm
able to do more, I'll do more. Praise the Lord.
It's not if it's not conditional, it's just a matter
of time. That's a good word.
I don't want that's a good word. I'm I'm a snatch that one for
myself. It's not if it's just when a
matter of time. Yes Lord.
First Chronicles chapter 28 and have you rest upon your feet.
Hallelujah. First Chronicles chapter 28.
I'm going to skip around if you don't mind, just stay with me.
Starting at verse #1 And David assembled all the Princess of
Israel, and the Princess of the tribes, and the captains of the
companies that ministered to the king by course.
And the captains over the thousands, and the captains over
the hundreds, and the stewards, over all the substance and
possession of the king and of his sons, with the officers, and
with the mighty men, and with all the valiant men.
Into Jerusalem. Verse 2.
Then David the king stood up upon his feet, and said, Hear
me, my brother, and my people, As for me, I had in my heart to
build a House of rest for the ark of the covenant of the Lord,
and for the footstool of our God, and had made ready for the
building. But God said unto me, Thou shalt
not build a house for my name, because thou has been a man of
war and has shed blood. Verse 4.
How be it the Lord God of Israel chose me before all, the House
of my father, to be king over Israel forever.
For he had chosen Judah to be the ruler in of the House of
Judah, the House of my father. And among the sons of my father
He likened me to make king, make me king of all Israel.
Verse 5 And of all my sons, for the Lord had given me many sons,
He had chosen Solomon my son, to sit upon the throne of the
Kingdom of the Lord over Israel. And he said unto me, Solomon,
thy son shall build my house and my courts, for I have chosen
them, He to be my son, and I will be his father.
Moreover, I will establish his Kingdom forever if he be
constant to do my commandments and my judgments as at this day.
Verse #12 Let's go to 11 because it's important.
Then David gave to Solomon his son, the pattern of the porch,
and of the houses thereof, and of the treasuries thereof, and
of the upper chambers thereof, and of the inner parlors
thereof, another place of the mercy seat. 12 And the pattern
of all that he had by the Spirit of the courts, of the House of
the Lord, and of all the chambers roundabout, and of the
treasuries of the House of God, and of the treasuries of the
dedicated things. Let's move on down to verse #19
And I think I'll stop there. All this said David, the Lord
made me understand in writing by his hand upon me, even all the
works of this pattern, the word of God for the people of God.
Thanks beyond to God, you take your seat, help me out.
Turn to your neighbor, say hey neighbor, are you OK?
Turn to someone and say hey neighbor, are you OK?
I'm alright. I love it.
I love it for this, this first installment of this again, I'm
going to preach really from the thought of the idea I got my
daddy's blueprints. Well, if, if I had to give a a
subject to this particular message, it would probably be my
three points for you just to help you out.
And it would be the man, the plan and the hand.
Well, and then brothers and sisters, as I approach another
birthday and I sit in another year, I, I, I, I sit in it
almost with this moment of reflection that while I get
older, yet still I thank God for being young.
I believe you are only as old as you think yourself.
And so the Bible says, as a man thinketh, so is he.
How is it then I would change what God's Word says.
So let me think myself young. But as I, as I really went into
this year, this year did not, did not change like the other
years. Yeah, I got up at midnight and I
danced. Yeah.
I praise the Lord and the bedside.
I thank him for letting me come in at midnight.
I'm I got up and I'm and I praise them again that I was
able to close the year out, clears that close that day out.
And but yet still, it wasn't like other years.
It wasn't like when I turned 30 and I made myself a rib eye and
got king crab legs and, and, and we was in COVID.
And I mean, I was just doing, just doing it.
I'm I was eating, I was eating, God knows I was eating.
Dick said yo-yo, I was eating. But this year wasn't one of
those kind of years. It was, it was really sobering.
It was transitory, if I can say that.
It's one of those moments that you feel like you are in between
a lane change, not in a lane, but between the lanes.
That's kind of where we find ourselves in between the black
and white pages of the book before you, my dear brothers and
sister. I believe it almost echoes the
words of Jesus and Luke chapter 14 verse 28 that says which of
you intending to build a tower, sit and knock down 1st and count
if the cost and that sometimes in these moments it's not a
financial strategy. It's really divine sovereignty.
And here in this text we find hand of a father who was
handling or handing over something greater than just
money, greater than just life insurance policies, greater than
just a bank account, greater greater than just a house,
greater than just a car. You're in the room.
I just want to make sure you're here.
Greater, greater, greater, greater.
Greater than just old clothes worn.
A father handing something over that is greater than his books
or CDs. We're here.
A father handing over a framework, a sacred script, and
even a holy design. That's going to be fine. 3
movements in the text I want to quickly, briskly move through.
But #1 the man look in your Bibles first Chronicles chapter
28. I'm going to be in your Bible
for real. Our first Chronicles chapter 28
and verse #6 says, And he said unto me, Solomon, you know what,
let's go back. Let's go back to verse 2.
I think I better dig a little bit.
Verse 2 says Then David the king stood up upon his feet and said,
Hear me, my brethren and my people, As for me, I had in my
heart to build a House of rest for the ark of the covenant of
the Lord, and for the footstool of our God, and he had made you
ready for the building. But God said unto me, Thou shalt
not build a house for my name, because thou has been a man of
war, and thou shed blood. Verse 6 And he said unto me,
Solomon, thy son, he shall build my house and my courts, for I
have chosen him to be my son, and I will be his father. 7
Moreover, I will establish his Kingdom forever if you'd be
constant to do my commandments and my judgments as at this day.
The very first movement of this text is the man.
But check this out. The man recognizes his divine
assignment and his divine secession.
Many brothers and sisters, as we look into this text, we do not
find a young David. We do not find a middle-aged
Davids. We find an old man David.
Some scholars say that David is between the ages of 60 and 80
years old. And here in this moment, David.
Because some of us can can, can empathize with David's physical
frailties. David calls together everyone in
the Kingdom who has a strong connection to him, who has
influence to him. He calls together everyone who's
been ministering to him, who's been serving him, who has some
level of influence with and through him.
He calls them all together. Check this out verse #2 Then he
does not sit. He doesn't lay back.
No, your Bible says he stands up.
It does not say he stands up with the cane.
Look at the text that Seth says he stands up upon his feet,
which suggests that David, in this old age, wants to make a
strong statement without any assistance.
That David realizes that in this moment and this, this moment, I
think I better stay the third time in this moment I've got to
stand on business, he says. Right here we cannot have any
question. We cannot have any doubt.
We can't have any. Chatter.
About what I'm about to say, David here begins to tell
everyone that I've had this strong desire not just to be
king, not just to be important, not, not just to have robes and
garments and servants, but to have this moment to share.
To share that the Lord still has given me something to do.
He's still giving me something else to accomplish that even
though, yeah, I'm old, yeah, I've got wrinkles God's given
me, yet still something else to accomplish.
But he won't quite let me get into the lane.
He won't let me accomplish what he put in my heart, David says.
Essentially, it was in my heart to build for God a house given
I've built me a house, but not just any house, a house for his
presence, a house for God to abide in, a house for God's
power to be seen and felt in. He said I've had this desire,
but the Lord, he wouldn't let me do it.
Many brothers and sisters as I sit here in this moment of
another year, I realize that many in my generation are like,
are like the bridge between former and coming generations.
But many like myself are sitting in this moment of time where we
the adults running the show, but we still the kids to somebody
controlling the purse. Hallelujah, huh.
OK, I just want to make sure we're still in the room and as
as we sit in this moment of tension, yes, the authority may
be with those of my generation, but the influence is still with
the king. The the influence is still with
the former generation. No, no, no, don't take offense
when I say former. Former is a time reference here,
David says. I know what I've got to do, but
I can't do it. But God has given me one to do
it. Notice here in the text that God
selects with specificity. God didn't just remove Saul
because of rebellion. God raised David because of
alignment. Let me say that one more time
because it got stuck in my tongue.
I said God didn't just remove Saul because of rebellion, but
he raised David because of alignments.
So here David is as the second king, realizing the position
he's in now. He can't be like the King before
him and I can't die with the glory to God.
I can't die with a cane in my hand trying to pass it off as a
baton. I, I, I, I cannot sit in this
moment and say I'm called for this moment and not give the
rest of me for the next person in this moment.
He aligns himself, and because he aligns himself, David's
discipline is seen in how he recognizes the need for
alignment, assignment and secession.
I'm going to get there. Give me a second David who was
once the lion slaying shepherd. It's David who's later victories
came, but unnecessary violence. He was still winning, but he had
some casualties. Many brothers and sisters, some
of our previous generations won some great victories, but there
were some casualties. And it's the casualties that are
like David when God looked at her, said you are a man of war
and there's much blood for your hands.
The David says that same discipline and drive to win.
It's got to come through my seas.
It's got to come through my son. But if it's going to come
through, I've got to function in my assignment.
And my assignment is to help align the next one after me.
When we look at this, when we look at this text, when we look
at this text, you find the very first movement is the man.
Notice here, David is the second king, right?
He's giving this strong statement in front of everybody.
And as he's given this strong statement in front of everybody,
we see here a principle that I think needs to surface for all
of us in the room and online. You ready?
Every man is the ceiling to his seed, but every son must break
the floor of his father. And sometimes the hard places to
be in between the lane change because Daddy realizes he's the
ceiling, but Daddy's been comfortable because what's the
ceiling for his, for his son is the floor that gives him
footing. So David in the text stands up
with no assistance to say, I've realized that for me, I've done
all I can do physically. Hallelujah, God.
That now, in this moment, son, I'm ready for you to
breakthrough the ceiling, he says.
I realize breaking through the ceiling means I've got to fall,
he said. That I'm bracing myself for the
fall so that you can breakthrough my them brothers
and sisters. The tragedy is when the Father
refuses to give up the ground he gained.
But David understand. My hands are too bloody to
build, but my heart is full enough to bless.
As I move closer to June, I must stress the importancy of not
just Daddy's words, but Daddy's blessing.
I know that's tough because a lot of us deal with Father
wounds because we've been stuck in that little place where we've
been trying to push through the ceiling.
But Daddy said, aha, you're not going to be bigger than me, aha.
You're not going to be greater than me, Aha.
No, you're not going to have more influence than me, aha.
No, you will not have a bigger business than me.
I know you won't be a better father than me.
For some of us, we've lived in the conundrum of transition and
it has caused a lot of internal frustration under brothers and
sisters. David here shows us and one we
have to deal with the man. And once you deal with the man,
let me move on to the second movement of the text.
So then you realize that there is a plan.
I'm sorry, I'm slow rolling. I'm going to get to my hoop at
the end. Let me build a little bit more
in this cake. Your Bible in First Chronicles
chapter 28, Glory to God verse 11 says then David gave to
Solomon. We, we read the Bible too fast.
I'm going to read it one more time so you can hear it.
Then David gave to Solomon his son.
We really so, so fast, So fast. We do, we really do.
The Bible says First Chronicles, chapter 28.
Verse #11 Then David gave to Solomon his son, the plan.
The pattern of the porch, and of the houses thereof, and of the
treasuries thereof, and of the upper chambers thereof, and of
the inner pilots thereof, and of the place of the mercy seat. 12
And the pattern of all that he had by the spirits of the courts
of the House of the Lord, and of all the chambers roundabout, and
of the treasuries of the House of God, and of the treasuries of
the dedicated things. The second thing.
The second movement is the plan, the plan, the plan, the plan
here, the plan here has divine blueprints and strategies.
David gave Solomon not just instruction, but he gave him a
pattern. And my dear brothers and
sisters, when we look at the word father, the father, the
word father in Latin is pater. PATER.
You know when you go to the hospital and they take a
paternity test, the test, the test, check this out is to see
what pattern is to be established.
I'm sorry. It's as good to me on the
inside. I'm trying to hold it.
And so when we look at the word father or patter that we then we
established that fathers carry a pattern for their families.
That pattern is after it's actually encrypted within their
DNA. That's why you got to be
cautious of the thoughts you think.
God, I want to preach because your thought life can travel
through your DNA, even though you don't say it with your
mouth. The Bible says that a good
father leaves in the hands to his children's children's
children. Men, we trace Scripture and we
look at how fathers and patriarchs had fathered their
families. We see that ideas, thoughts,
words, and actions are transferred from generation to
generation to generation to generate.
Come here, let me, let me give you some more nuance.
Everybody wants to talk about generational curses, but they
forget that you can have generational blessings, that it
is the Father who establishes the blessing of his life.
I'm sorry, I'm sorry, but the text shows us that David here as
the Father realizes that he has to give a pattern.
Hey, glory to God. As a patriot, He has to pass on
the pattern because he's a pattern maker.
God, I'm sorry, my birthday's been a different 1.
And so as I sit in this year, I realize that God's trying to
give a pattern, not just to me, but He's giving a pattern to
others as well. He's giving them praise the
Lord. Fathers don't just generate,
they germinate. And so they plant the pattern.
They plant the pattern in their seed.
They plant the pattern in their daughters.
I know, I know, Mama, we need you too.
But fathers, they plant the pattern.
OK, come here. Because I feel you.
Because mothers nurture the pattern.
Come that that's that's why it's not only important who your
daddy is, but who your Mama is too, because the wrong Mama will
but incorrectly nurture that pattern.
That's why they got so many people who are psychics and
spiritual because you've got a prophetic gift that has not been
nurtured properly. I'm sorry I had to go deep real
quick. We got everybody new age with
crystals and hollering at the moon.
But but they're on the wrong side.
I mean, you go into the spirit realm that it's, it's just a
thin line. It's a spirit.
That's all it is. You are either in the
heavenlies, on God's heavenlies or you over there in the demonic
realm. It's a thin line.
That's why everybody want prophecies and prophetic words.
It's easy to do. It's it is, it's you.
Let me see long enough. I give you a prophetic word.
I give you words of knowledge, dates, numbers, places.
I ain't going to tell them. I fell a story.
Rise. I'm not going to tell that
story, but I'm telling it. The mother nurtures the pattern.
The father plants the pattern, David says.
I realized in my old age I've got to plan a pattern.
OK, let me get in this guy so he has spiritual sensitivity so
that there can be an unlocking of a sacred strategy.
Check this out. David realized he didn't draft
the design. You ready?
David didn't draft the design. But David realized that the
spirit, the spirit is the one who delivered the design.
The in heavy father is a pattern.
I'm sorry. And then the Father, he must
realize that that my job is not to try to make it, try to put it
together. My job is to unlock what God's
given me. So then I can plant it in the
next 1. So David, David, David here,
David here. Make sure that we understand in
the text and verse #12 that this pattern is everything he had by
the Spirit. That this pattern is not a
pattern he has concocted after eating some spare ribs.
This pattern is not a pattern that he's come up with after
having some libations, that this pattern is not a pattern after
sitting around with some other men.
But David says that this is the pattern that God has entrusted
to me from spending time in God's presence.
I've got to get out of here now, but I want to let you know my
dear brothers and sisters, that in God has always used patterned
men in the Word come here Abraham Romans 4 and 11 tells us
that Abraham is the father of faith.
Come here, Genesis 26 and 18, Isaac, reopen generational
wealth and wealth. Come here.
Jacob in Genesis chapter 49 teaches us that fathers give
prophetic blessings over their sons.
You know Moses, don't you? Uh huh.
Moses got a Tabernacle, according to God, giving him a
vision. And then Paul even tells us how
to have sons that didn't come from your own loans.
Paul tells us in Second Timothy chapter 1 and verse #13 that
you've got to pattern yourself at the sound doctrine.
I've got to get out of here now, but I want to let you know that
David was helping us to realize that sometimes in our lives
we're not just inheriting treasures, but we're inheriting
templates. And so that leads me to my Third
Point here, that David, after all of this time I'm sharing
with Solomon. Solomon in front of everybody
comes down now to verse #19 and he tells his son and everybody
around him that all of this, the Lord, he made me to understand
in writing by his hand upon me, even all the works of this
pattern, that this time He makes sure we all understand.
And the third movement of the text, that it's not just me,
your daddy, it's not just me. Can I be real turtle father?
But it's the Lord who's giving all of this.
It's the Lord who's driving all of this.
It's the Lord who who's working all of this.
Your Bible. Shows us here right now that
David tells us that it's the hand of the Lord that's been
wielding here, that's been moving, that's been
orchestrating how long this so he tells tells his son.
That no man up. What you do?
Yeah. When I leave here, remember that
this didn't come from your daddy.
Remember, this didn't come from my.
Words, but this came. From the hand.
Of God. Whatever you do, boy, don't move
from the hand of God. Life may live, but say I'm done.
The hand of God, God's hand will.
Hold you. God's hand will guide you.
God's hand will govern over you. It's the hand of God.
That will conceal you, he says. Boy, don't forget that God's
hand, it communicates, communicates clarity that God's
hand will give you a pattern, a pattern and that pattern will
come. They'll come in writing.
He come on back to the text. He said all of this.
The Lord made me to understand in writing by His.
Hand up on me, he says. I need you to know that God's
hand. Confirms your.
Calling God's hand will be on. You to.
Give the direction even when nobody understands.
God's hand will be right there to catch the words when you
don't know how to say it. God's hand.
But be right there to come this way on your head, boy.
Lay on the his head, stay on the his head, 'cause when you stay
on this head, first you on this head.
Do this for real and be strong. Be a good carrot and do it.
Help me close half. Out two people.
And say do it, do it. I said half out, two people.
Do it, do it, do it, Do it, do it.
It's your time. Do it.
It's your season. Do it.
It's your moment. Do it.
Don't worry. Do it.
Don't friend. Do it.
Be strong. Do it.
Cause courage is the companion of calling.
Do it. No more fear.
Do it. Might not be the favorite.
Do it. It might not have should have
been you do it. You might still feel like you
can't do it. Sew it.
Cause the Lord's hand is sand.
Sand is on you. You got to do it.
You got to start. The business you.
Got to do Hallelujah. He said don't forget God's hand
is on you. He said go do it, look at the
text. So he tells them, fear not nor
be dismayed, for the Lord God, even my God, He will be with
you. He will not fail you nor forsake
you until that has finished. All the work.
Glory to God for the service of the House of the Lord, he says.
He says you got to do it. You got to do it.
You got to do it because this faith that God's given me, it
requires follow through. And you've been assigned to
follow the man, the plan, and the hand.
You may not know Jesus and the free partner of yourself.
I invite you today to get to know for yourself.
I know I said this every week but I'm like I'm for real.
No, no, no jokes, no gimmicks. You do realize that Solomon was
not the oldest son? You do realize that Solomon is
one of about nineteen sons. Solomon ain't even of them.
He ain't even buy the first wife.
Solomon came from a situation that went wrong and he not the
first child out of that situation ship.
He's the second child. Solomon has so many complexities
to his upbringing that he's not perfect.
He's not the ideal candidate. He, he, he doesn't have all the
dots I hate on the I. He don't have all the crosses on
the T's or if you want to say the T's crossing the the i's
dotted. No, no, no, no.
He's not nuanced. Like all of that.
Solomon comes from sticky situations.
The Bible even tells us that Simon wasn't even David's
favorite son. His favorite turned on him.
His favorite was Absalom. But he says, boy, you the one,
Boy, you the one. That's what the Lord is saying
today. You the one.
I know, I know you like your weed.
You the one I I know you like to drink and you like to party.
You the one I I, I know you can't stop eating, you can't put
the food. I know you the one I know you
struggle with time management and with them finances and and
all that. But you, you the 1.
You the 1. Solomon's name means peace.
That's why we got to be careful what we name our babies because
we'll prophecy over their entire lives and not even know it.
That the child that was supposed to bring peace to a mother's
wild situation, you do know his mother's Bathsheba.
God uses peace Solomon for the next place, the next level, the
next era. That's what God's saying today.
God said I'm going to use you. I, I, I want you to get out, get
out your head because you and your own self can't can't do it.
You can't save yourself. You can't fix yourself.
Get get out of that. He says, I want you.
I want you. Listen, this may be the first
time you've ever heard this invitation.
This might be the 272nd time. I'm going to tell you something
that's so true. It doesn't matter what you think
about somebody preaching up here.
I move my tongue. What you think about somebody
with these collars on or these particular titles and seats, We
all mess up. They may not want to tell the
truth, but we all slip up now. OK, I'm sorry.
We all sometimes purposely, hazardously mess up.
The Bible says if you say you have no sin, you deceive
yourself and you're a liar. We lie to don't think for any
second. Now you know, I just did this.
I just did that. I just lied on my income tax.
I just no, no, no, don't worry about that.
God's going to cover all that. I need the blood, and He's going
to send His Spirit to start working on you.
As long as you submit, He's going to start changing you, but
He's going to change you from your mind.
That's what God wants. He wants to save your mind.
So we prayed this short prayer after us today.
We're going to do it together to show you that we're one family.
Repeat after me. Lord Jesus, come into my heart.
Save me. I want to be saved.
Lord Jesus, thank you for dying on the cross for me.
Lord Jesus, thank you for rising out of the grave for me.
Lord Jesus, thank you for soon coming again for me.
In Jesus name, Amen. Come on, put those hands
together, let's celebrate. Hallelujah.
Someone just received Jesus into the heart.
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