1 00:00:01,040 --> 00:00:04,000 Welcome to the First Apostolic Church podcast. 2 00:00:04,520 --> 00:00:07,960 Our church mission is to love as God loves showing compassion 3 00:00:07,960 --> 00:00:11,440 every soul, thus winning those souls and equipping them to be 4 00:00:11,440 --> 00:00:13,640 sent out to plant and to harvest. 5 00:00:14,080 --> 00:00:17,000 Thank you for joining us today and we hope that you are blessed 6 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:25,960 by today's podcast. Brother Malone was giving 7 00:00:25,960 --> 00:00:31,320 himself a high 5. Well, high is subjective I 8 00:00:31,320 --> 00:00:33,960 guess. Amen. 9 00:00:35,240 --> 00:00:38,040 First Samuel chapter #20 tonight. 10 00:00:38,040 --> 00:00:40,600 First Samuel chapter #20 Glad to see you all. 11 00:00:40,600 --> 00:00:43,000 Have you all our guests with this as well tonight. 12 00:00:43,560 --> 00:00:46,960 Amen, Each one of you. First Samuel chapter #20 Going 13 00:00:46,960 --> 00:00:50,000 to start reading verse #35 again. 14 00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:54,000 Kind of diving in the midst of a story here, but that would, I 15 00:00:54,000 --> 00:00:57,480 suppose, would be the case if you took a text anywhere to a 16 00:00:57,480 --> 00:01:00,200 degree. First Samuel chapter 20 and 17 00:01:00,200 --> 00:01:06,360 verse #35 The Bible says, and it came to pass in the morning that 18 00:01:06,360 --> 00:01:09,640 Jonathan went out into the field at the time appointed with 19 00:01:09,640 --> 00:01:12,880 David, and a little lad with him. 20 00:01:13,960 --> 00:01:18,520 He said unto his lad, run, find out now the arrows which I 21 00:01:18,520 --> 00:01:22,040 shoot. And as the lad ran, he shot an 22 00:01:22,040 --> 00:01:25,600 arrow beyond him. And when the lad was come to the 23 00:01:25,600 --> 00:01:29,400 place of the arrow which Jonathan had shot, Jonathan 24 00:01:29,400 --> 00:01:34,520 cried after the lad and said, Is not the arrow beyond thee? 25 00:01:35,120 --> 00:01:40,280 Jonathan cried after the lad. Make speed haste, stay not. 26 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:44,960 Jonathan's lad gathered up the arrows and came to his master. 27 00:01:44,960 --> 00:01:50,840 But the lad knew not anything. Only Jonathan and David knew the 28 00:01:50,840 --> 00:01:54,800 matter. Jonathan gave his artillery unto 29 00:01:54,800 --> 00:02:00,120 his lad and said unto him, go carry them to the city. 30 00:02:01,320 --> 00:02:05,400 Just a little piece there. We're not really told how many 31 00:02:05,400 --> 00:02:09,720 arrows were shot, but it seems like just a really brief moment 32 00:02:09,720 --> 00:02:13,080 of time honestly. Some arrows are shot, lad goes 33 00:02:13,080 --> 00:02:17,520 out there, grabs and brings them back and then go on Betty back 34 00:02:17,520 --> 00:02:19,240 to town. Thanks, appreciate it. 35 00:02:20,640 --> 00:02:23,760 Great job. I want to talk about tonight. 36 00:02:23,760 --> 00:02:29,200 This chosen for the chase, chosen for the chase and our 37 00:02:29,200 --> 00:02:33,000 focal point tonight isn't what we would maybe typically call 38 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:36,360 the stars of the the story of Jonathan David. 39 00:02:36,760 --> 00:02:38,800 But I want to talk about this lad tonight. 40 00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:42,280 This lad, Lord Jesus, I come to you tonight. 41 00:02:42,280 --> 00:02:45,360 We're thankful God for another opportunity to be here. 42 00:02:45,640 --> 00:02:48,200 We're thankful, Lord Jesus, tonight that we can worship and 43 00:02:48,200 --> 00:02:50,160 praise you. I pray Lord, you would speak to 44 00:02:50,160 --> 00:02:52,920 us through your word. God, it is the word of life, 45 00:02:52,920 --> 00:02:54,560 God. It's for the instruction of our 46 00:02:54,560 --> 00:02:57,520 own lives and own hearts. God will not fail to thank you 47 00:02:57,520 --> 00:02:59,800 Lord, for what you accomplish in this place. 48 00:03:00,080 --> 00:03:04,040 In the lovely name of Jesus Christ that I pray Amen and Amen 49 00:03:04,040 --> 00:03:08,520 or by say Amen, Hallelujah may be seated tonight in Jesus name. 50 00:03:10,040 --> 00:03:14,840 Sometimes critically and at times maybe even whimsically, we 51 00:03:15,160 --> 00:03:19,120 we value rows and functions in the body of Christ. 52 00:03:19,360 --> 00:03:25,040 We place value or importance on them and sometimes errantly, we 53 00:03:25,240 --> 00:03:30,880 superimpose some importance on the seen ministries more than 54 00:03:30,880 --> 00:03:35,160 the unseen ministries that can take place in the body of 55 00:03:35,160 --> 00:03:38,200 Christ. We deem at times pastors and 56 00:03:38,200 --> 00:03:42,400 teachers and those that we see musicians and singers that no 57 00:03:42,400 --> 00:03:45,680 doubt these people are the ones that are essential to the church 58 00:03:45,680 --> 00:03:48,840 and essential to the moving forward of the body of Christ. 59 00:03:48,960 --> 00:03:53,280 But the Bible tells us in the New Testament that that as many 60 00:03:53,560 --> 00:03:57,600 of members that the body does have, it is all members of one 61 00:03:57,600 --> 00:04:01,320 solitary body. The they are comprised of one 62 00:04:01,320 --> 00:04:03,720 body. They they may be many and are 63 00:04:03,720 --> 00:04:06,280 indeed many, but they are one body. 64 00:04:06,600 --> 00:04:10,680 And we know God is using people who serve in positions that I 65 00:04:10,680 --> 00:04:13,840 mentioned, pastors, teachers, musicians, singers. 66 00:04:14,160 --> 00:04:17,640 And it seems like anybody can draw the Direct Line, you know, 67 00:04:17,640 --> 00:04:21,680 between them and, and their function and how they seem to 68 00:04:21,680 --> 00:04:25,680 benefit the Kingdom of God. I mean, pastors and teachers, 69 00:04:25,680 --> 00:04:29,600 understandably, they're sharing the word of God in some way, 70 00:04:29,840 --> 00:04:33,480 enabling people to progress in the relationship with God. 71 00:04:33,480 --> 00:04:36,240 And then you have the musicians and the singers. 72 00:04:36,240 --> 00:04:40,600 They no doubt help foster a sense of an atmosphere of praise 73 00:04:40,600 --> 00:04:43,920 and worship that would take place in a gathering like this. 74 00:04:43,920 --> 00:04:47,200 And they invite heaven and earth to come down and connect for a 75 00:04:47,200 --> 00:04:51,080 divine intersection. A man among us that enjoy a time 76 00:04:51,080 --> 00:04:53,720 in God's presence. But a person in these 77 00:04:53,720 --> 00:04:56,480 capacities, we think man, they're they're just making 78 00:04:56,480 --> 00:05:00,200 great strides and advancing God's presence, just great 79 00:05:00,200 --> 00:05:04,400 strides in in involving our lives of humanity in the 80 00:05:04,400 --> 00:05:07,400 presence of God because of their participation. 81 00:05:07,840 --> 00:05:12,280 But the apostle Paul said that it was the feebler members or 82 00:05:12,280 --> 00:05:16,560 the more feeble members that are the necessary members. 83 00:05:16,800 --> 00:05:20,640 He says what we think is less honorable in the body. 84 00:05:20,640 --> 00:05:25,280 Are those really that more abundant honor is placed upon 85 00:05:25,280 --> 00:05:28,560 them, He said. It's the uncomely parts of the 86 00:05:28,560 --> 00:05:31,280 body or those that doesn't seem real attractive. 87 00:05:31,280 --> 00:05:34,440 If we were to think of it in a very natural sense as to Jen 88 00:05:34,440 --> 00:05:37,800 Cruz, it would be, you know, no one's just looking at her brain 89 00:05:37,800 --> 00:05:39,800 thinking, man, that is such a pretty brain. 90 00:05:41,800 --> 00:05:44,160 Look at that heart. Look at the finesse of that 91 00:05:44,160 --> 00:05:46,680 heart. Look at those lungs. 92 00:05:46,680 --> 00:05:50,080 I've never seen a pair of lungs like that before, but they are 93 00:05:50,080 --> 00:05:53,280 the uncomely parts or members of the body. 94 00:05:53,280 --> 00:05:56,840 Yet Paul even says that it's these parts that have even a 95 00:05:56,920 --> 00:06:01,200 more abundant attractiveness about them because of some of 96 00:06:01,200 --> 00:06:04,240 the purposes that they serve in the body. 97 00:06:04,480 --> 00:06:08,040 For years, science and I, I just kind of tapped into this a 98 00:06:08,040 --> 00:06:11,280 little bit today because I knew what we've been conditioned for, 99 00:06:11,280 --> 00:06:14,000 for years. For years, science regarded the 100 00:06:14,120 --> 00:06:17,800 appendix as unnecessary, right? So now I have my appendix out. 101 00:06:17,800 --> 00:06:19,760 Well, what, what's the big deal? What does it do anyway? 102 00:06:19,760 --> 00:06:21,840 Right? That's the been the mode for 103 00:06:21,840 --> 00:06:24,040 years. That little, that little, it's a 104 00:06:24,040 --> 00:06:26,760 little tube that's attached to your large intestine. 105 00:06:27,040 --> 00:06:29,280 They the apparently for years we've always said it doesn't 106 00:06:29,280 --> 00:06:33,040 necessarily have any function by science in their estimation. 107 00:06:33,040 --> 00:06:37,280 However, some more recent research has shown that your 108 00:06:37,280 --> 00:06:40,920 appendix may affect your immune system and your gut health. 109 00:06:43,680 --> 00:06:48,280 So every part, even those that sometimes we had once thought 110 00:06:48,400 --> 00:06:53,600 had no influence, no function, they really do have some type of 111 00:06:53,600 --> 00:06:56,960 bearing upon our lives. There is no argument tonight 112 00:06:57,200 --> 00:07:00,680 that in our text that Jonathan and David are some of the 113 00:07:00,680 --> 00:07:04,000 significant characters of this event that takes place. 114 00:07:04,280 --> 00:07:08,000 Jonathan is the King's son. I mean, that's a notable 115 00:07:08,200 --> 00:07:12,800 individual here in our story. David has been a warrior, a 116 00:07:12,800 --> 00:07:17,240 commander of the army of the king fearlessly for years now. 117 00:07:17,240 --> 00:07:21,760 He has repetitively taken the nation of Israel into the 118 00:07:21,760 --> 00:07:24,280 battlefield and off of the battlefield. 119 00:07:24,520 --> 00:07:26,720 He has secured victory after victory. 120 00:07:26,720 --> 00:07:29,720 He's he's a big deal. If I could say it like that, for 121 00:07:29,720 --> 00:07:33,840 that matter, both of these individuals, Jonathan and David, 122 00:07:34,040 --> 00:07:37,880 regularly have an audience with the king that would seem like 123 00:07:38,120 --> 00:07:41,520 they're pretty important people. They sit at his table. 124 00:07:41,520 --> 00:07:44,200 According to scripture, by his choosing. 125 00:07:44,200 --> 00:07:47,880 He has invited them, allow them to sit at the same table that 126 00:07:47,880 --> 00:07:50,320 the king sits at. That's pretty notable. 127 00:07:50,520 --> 00:07:52,840 Again, they they seem to be big deals. 128 00:07:52,840 --> 00:07:55,040 They seem to be, if you will, the big dogs. 129 00:07:55,040 --> 00:07:59,160 They're they're very meaningful to the nation of Israel, even 130 00:07:59,160 --> 00:08:02,960 just a short time earlier in our text tonight, the Bible 131 00:08:02,960 --> 00:08:05,600 describes that David wasn't at the table. 132 00:08:05,840 --> 00:08:09,000 He had been absent from the King's table for a couple of 133 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:11,880 days. And the king starts to inquire 134 00:08:12,120 --> 00:08:14,920 and recognize that David had not been there. 135 00:08:14,920 --> 00:08:17,880 It caught the King's attention. You know, you're important if 136 00:08:17,880 --> 00:08:20,240 you get the attention of the king when you're not there. 137 00:08:20,480 --> 00:08:24,840 And so the David's a big deal. His his value was enough that 138 00:08:24,920 --> 00:08:28,080 the king acknowledged his absence when he wasn't at the 139 00:08:28,080 --> 00:08:31,040 table. And unlike some even of us that 140 00:08:31,040 --> 00:08:34,799 perhaps think at times and others, you know, we sometimes 141 00:08:35,280 --> 00:08:39,400 assume that position that I wouldn't even be noticed if I, 142 00:08:39,400 --> 00:08:42,240 if I wasn't here, I wouldn't even be noticed. 143 00:08:42,240 --> 00:08:44,240 No one would know if I was there or not. 144 00:08:44,400 --> 00:08:47,080 It's not like I add anything to the service. 145 00:08:47,080 --> 00:08:49,560 It's not like I have anything to offer. 146 00:08:49,760 --> 00:08:53,160 It's not as though the Kingdom of God hinges upon me. 147 00:08:53,360 --> 00:08:56,440 If I don't participate, then it's really not going to matter 148 00:08:56,600 --> 00:08:59,640 because in the grand, grand scheme of things, I, I just have 149 00:08:59,640 --> 00:09:02,160 a minor row. I I'm just, if you will, the 150 00:09:02,160 --> 00:09:04,480 little toe on the body, it doesn't really matter. 151 00:09:04,560 --> 00:09:07,120 What I do I. I don't have the same type of 152 00:09:07,120 --> 00:09:10,800 platform that others have of, of some of these glorious positions 153 00:09:11,360 --> 00:09:14,920 of leadership around me. I, I just do the things that I 154 00:09:14,920 --> 00:09:18,000 do, but they're not really vital to the Kingdom of God. 155 00:09:18,280 --> 00:09:22,920 I suspect tonight that that is the very same type of attitude 156 00:09:23,280 --> 00:09:27,040 our little lad had that accompanied Jonathan. 157 00:09:27,280 --> 00:09:29,240 Just imagine for a moment, Jonathan. 158 00:09:29,440 --> 00:09:32,240 Is leaving that morning. And he says, hey guy, could 159 00:09:32,240 --> 00:09:34,120 could you go along with me today? 160 00:09:34,360 --> 00:09:36,080 I have something I need. To do to your. 161 00:09:36,080 --> 00:09:40,440 Mind accompanying me on this trip and perhaps in the back of 162 00:09:40,440 --> 00:09:43,680 that little that's mine, in whatever capacity that he 163 00:09:43,680 --> 00:09:47,080 normally served in around the Kingdom, perhaps, he thought. 164 00:09:47,400 --> 00:09:55,440 This is the day the King's. Son has invited me to go 165 00:09:55,440 --> 00:09:58,320 alongside him. I've been waiting for this 166 00:09:58,320 --> 00:10:03,240 moment. My whole life, this is the day. 167 00:10:03,400 --> 00:10:05,440 I get to go along with the King's son. 168 00:10:05,760 --> 00:10:09,880 I'm used to shining, you know, the saddles of horses, and I'm 169 00:10:09,880 --> 00:10:13,360 used to scrubbing the floor with a toothbrush and doing all these 170 00:10:13,360 --> 00:10:15,280 menial tasks. But today? 171 00:10:16,760 --> 00:10:19,800 The King's son. Wants me to join him on this 172 00:10:19,800 --> 00:10:20,720 day. I wonder. 173 00:10:20,720 --> 00:10:23,920 I wonder what we're going to do. I wonder what type of venture 174 00:10:23,920 --> 00:10:25,640 we're going to go on. I wonder. 175 00:10:25,640 --> 00:10:27,960 I wonder what? Type of confidence he has in me. 176 00:10:28,200 --> 00:10:30,120 Are we going to go out on the field and? 177 00:10:30,280 --> 00:10:32,840 Are we going to battle? Some foe and take out. 178 00:10:32,840 --> 00:10:34,880 Some enemies and some adversaries. 179 00:10:35,360 --> 00:10:37,480 I wonder I. Wonder if I'm going to. 180 00:10:37,480 --> 00:10:40,560 Hear a message that he's. Going to give to somebody else 181 00:10:40,560 --> 00:10:44,440 that nobody else will be able to say they heard, but I will 182 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:47,400 because I'll be there. I wonder if there's going to be 183 00:10:47,400 --> 00:10:49,680 some type of message to a dignitary or. 184 00:10:49,880 --> 00:10:54,560 It's going to be like, you know, classified stuff and I'm going 185 00:10:54,560 --> 00:10:55,320 to be. There for it. 186 00:10:55,600 --> 00:10:57,320 I'm going to hear it. I'm going to participate. 187 00:10:57,560 --> 00:10:59,880 I wonder if we're going to go to another city and. 188 00:10:59,880 --> 00:11:03,280 He's going to allow me to walk before him and say yay, yay of 189 00:11:03,280 --> 00:11:06,240 wherever. Behold, the King's son. 190 00:11:07,640 --> 00:11:10,160 It's my day. I'd finally come, but it's my 191 00:11:10,160 --> 00:11:11,920 moment. To shine, this is it. 192 00:11:12,080 --> 00:11:15,320 I'm finally going to be recognized today all the. 193 00:11:15,400 --> 00:11:18,840 Years of my life of. Service today, they're going to 194 00:11:18,840 --> 00:11:22,280 pay off. And as he's walking along 195 00:11:22,280 --> 00:11:27,240 Jonathan, the King's son, they come to a little field out. 196 00:11:27,240 --> 00:11:30,480 There's just a solitary stone setting in that field. 197 00:11:30,880 --> 00:11:33,360 Nothing. Nothing out of the ordinary. 198 00:11:33,360 --> 00:11:35,440 It doesn't. Seem to be anything. 199 00:11:35,440 --> 00:11:39,960 Really special, just a field. And then Jonathan says to him, 200 00:11:39,960 --> 00:11:41,320 he says here's what we're going to do. 201 00:11:41,480 --> 00:11:43,880 He's like, yeah, yeah, yeah. What's going to what are we 202 00:11:43,880 --> 00:11:45,880 going to do? He says, here's what we're going 203 00:11:45,880 --> 00:11:48,360 to do. I'm going to shoot some arrows 204 00:11:50,240 --> 00:11:54,120 and I want you to go chase after him and bring him back to me. 205 00:11:56,440 --> 00:12:00,360 Excuse me, Could you say that again, but more slowly? 206 00:12:00,600 --> 00:12:03,920 Yeah, I'm going to shoot some arrows and I want you to go 207 00:12:03,920 --> 00:12:06,360 chase after them and bring them back to me. 208 00:12:06,800 --> 00:12:09,640 I'm thinking in the mind of this lad, in the back of his head, 209 00:12:10,200 --> 00:12:15,560 what you brought me out here this morning to chase your 210 00:12:15,880 --> 00:12:17,840 arrows. Why don't? 211 00:12:17,840 --> 00:12:23,160 You go chase your own arrows. I mean these royal types, you 212 00:12:23,160 --> 00:12:26,040 can never trust them. They have the nerve to ask you 213 00:12:26,040 --> 00:12:27,600 to come along with them to chase. 214 00:12:27,600 --> 00:12:31,360 Their arrows pompous. Guy he must have be. 215 00:12:31,840 --> 00:12:33,400 I might as well. Just stayed at home. 216 00:12:33,520 --> 00:12:35,360 I would have been better. Off if I just. 217 00:12:35,360 --> 00:12:37,680 Polished the saddles and seen them glimmer there. 218 00:12:37,920 --> 00:12:39,320 At least be able to. Take us A. 219 00:12:39,360 --> 00:12:41,680 Little bit of pride. In that but just. 220 00:12:41,680 --> 00:12:45,560 Chasing somebody else's arrows. I I would rather scrub the 221 00:12:45,560 --> 00:12:50,680 floors instead of chasing somebody else's arrows because 222 00:12:50,680 --> 00:12:52,840 see. I, I thought this was my moment. 223 00:12:54,440 --> 00:12:57,560 I, I thought I had arrived. I I thought I was going to be 224 00:12:57,560 --> 00:13:00,000 used in the Kingdom here. In a. 225 00:13:00,000 --> 00:13:04,400 Big way with Kingdom purpose and now I got this higher up that's 226 00:13:04,400 --> 00:13:10,320 humiliating me with chasing arrows tell you. 227 00:13:10,320 --> 00:13:12,480 What? Jonathan, next time why don't 228 00:13:12,480 --> 00:13:15,240 you just have somebody else come and don't worry about? 229 00:13:15,640 --> 00:13:18,880 Asking me. By the way, said the sun's just 230 00:13:18,880 --> 00:13:20,760 a blazing. Heat out here, I got. 231 00:13:21,000 --> 00:13:23,320 Sweat. Coming on my forehead and you 232 00:13:23,320 --> 00:13:25,920 want me to chase? Some practice shots out here in 233 00:13:25,920 --> 00:13:31,720 a no man's field. These arrows, they have no 234 00:13:31,720 --> 00:13:36,040 target. Jonathan might as well be just a 235 00:13:36,040 --> 00:13:38,440 little boy playing around with a little bow and arrows. 236 00:13:42,080 --> 00:13:44,400 He no doubt could have found something better. 237 00:13:44,400 --> 00:13:46,600 It would seem to do with his time. 238 00:13:46,760 --> 00:13:50,240 Yet here he's involved this young boy, this young lad in 239 00:13:50,240 --> 00:13:53,480 this ridiculous, what? It seems to be a ridiculous 240 00:13:53,880 --> 00:13:57,160 escapade. And as the lad ran, the 241 00:13:57,160 --> 00:13:59,800 scripture says, picturing now, he's running. 242 00:14:00,080 --> 00:14:05,000 As the lad ran, Jonathan shot an arrow beyond him. 243 00:14:05,720 --> 00:14:07,880 He's probably thinking, well, at least I'm glad he didn't shoot 244 00:14:07,880 --> 00:14:09,840 me, you know? But he could have not. 245 00:14:09,840 --> 00:14:12,600 Shot it so far in. Front of me, I mean, you see 246 00:14:12,600 --> 00:14:14,240 where I'm at, Jonathan, you wouldn't be very. 247 00:14:14,240 --> 00:14:15,960 Good at football. You wouldn't hit your target 248 00:14:15,960 --> 00:14:17,800 you. Here I why did it? 249 00:14:17,800 --> 00:14:21,560 Have to be so far. In front of me, you shot it so 250 00:14:21,560 --> 00:14:24,200 far ahead and that just. Means I'm going to have to run. 251 00:14:24,200 --> 00:14:26,040 Further and I'm going. To have to come. 252 00:14:26,040 --> 00:14:29,160 Back farther in order to return your arrow. 253 00:14:29,440 --> 00:14:32,400 I hide this, retrieve, take, chase, all this stuff. 254 00:14:32,640 --> 00:14:34,200 This this. Is getting on my nerves. 255 00:14:34,200 --> 00:14:36,840 Jonathan. And then you have the audacity 256 00:14:36,840 --> 00:14:39,040 to ask. The Bible says Jonathan asked 257 00:14:39,040 --> 00:14:42,440 whenever the servant got to where the arrow there was, he 258 00:14:42,440 --> 00:14:44,920 said is. Not the arrow beyond me. 259 00:14:46,640 --> 00:14:49,640 I'm the lad. I'm like, seriously. 260 00:14:51,440 --> 00:14:53,800 It's not the arrow, of course. It is beyond. 261 00:14:53,800 --> 00:14:55,760 Me. You saw how far? 262 00:14:55,760 --> 00:14:59,480 I had to run you. You saw how swift I had to be. 263 00:14:59,720 --> 00:15:02,920 And as I was running, you're the one that shot the arrow way 264 00:15:02,920 --> 00:15:04,920 beyond me. You know the arrow. 265 00:15:04,920 --> 00:15:08,440 Are you trying to? Mock me Jonathan, are you trying 266 00:15:08,440 --> 00:15:09,080 to mock? Me. 267 00:15:09,240 --> 00:15:10,920 Are you trying to? Degrade me? 268 00:15:11,080 --> 00:15:14,360 Yes. The arrow is beyond me. 269 00:15:14,800 --> 00:15:23,520 And then Jonathan says make speed, haste, stay not. 270 00:15:23,680 --> 00:15:24,960 You know what he's saying. Hurry up. 271 00:15:26,320 --> 00:15:29,640 I just got out here. I'm bending down to get your. 272 00:15:29,640 --> 00:15:31,280 Arrow and you're saying, come on, let's go. 273 00:15:31,400 --> 00:15:32,840 Bring it back. Woo Hoo. 274 00:15:34,320 --> 00:15:36,360 Come on, lad. Come on, servant, come. 275 00:15:36,360 --> 00:15:39,120 On back, Jonathan. He's not allowing him a a 276 00:15:39,120 --> 00:15:41,160 chance, this lad to catch his breath. 277 00:15:41,400 --> 00:15:44,160 He meant he's eager for him to bring the arrows back. 278 00:15:44,400 --> 00:15:46,880 He doesn't want him fiddling around getting. 279 00:15:46,880 --> 00:15:49,720 Distracted and as soon as. He sent him out. 280 00:15:49,920 --> 00:15:52,760 He has him come back. And then the Bible says. 281 00:15:52,920 --> 00:15:57,120 He tells him to go back to the city with the bow and with the 282 00:15:57,120 --> 00:16:02,640 arrows. Jonathan, we've been out here. 283 00:16:02,640 --> 00:16:06,840 It feels like a nanosecond. You've shot a few arrows, I've 284 00:16:06,840 --> 00:16:09,200 chased them, I brought them back to you. 285 00:16:09,840 --> 00:16:12,560 And it seems like there needed to be something a little bit 286 00:16:12,560 --> 00:16:16,160 more important if I'm ever going to accept the invitation to go 287 00:16:16,160 --> 00:16:21,000 with you again, because I thought something spectacular 288 00:16:21,640 --> 00:16:26,440 was going to take place today. We've not even been out here 289 00:16:26,440 --> 00:16:28,240 long. Enough to accomplish anything 290 00:16:30,360 --> 00:16:32,520 tell in the world. Jonathan, do you even know that 291 00:16:32,520 --> 00:16:35,520 there's any improvement in your shop when you shot so few 292 00:16:35,520 --> 00:16:38,400 arrows? Jonathan? 293 00:16:38,400 --> 00:16:43,280 It's taken us longer to get to the field and for me to run and 294 00:16:43,280 --> 00:16:45,320 get the arrows. Amen. 295 00:16:45,320 --> 00:16:47,000 And all this stuff. Amen. 296 00:16:47,000 --> 00:16:49,560 Then for some purpose to be served right here. 297 00:16:49,760 --> 00:16:55,120 This has been a useless venture, Jonathan, and I've not become 298 00:16:55,120 --> 00:16:59,400 any more valuable than. I would have been if I didn't 299 00:16:59,400 --> 00:17:02,840 make. The trip the. 300 00:17:02,840 --> 00:17:05,480 Bible. Says in verse 39 I draw your 301 00:17:05,480 --> 00:17:10,599 attention to again the Bible says but the lad knew not 302 00:17:10,880 --> 00:17:16,400 anything, only Jonathan and David knew the matter. 303 00:17:16,880 --> 00:17:21,440 Another translation Speaking of the lad says he did not know 304 00:17:21,920 --> 00:17:27,359 anything but Jonathan and David knew the arrangement but the boy 305 00:17:27,359 --> 00:17:31,960 that was chasing the arrows didn't know the arrangement. 306 00:17:32,320 --> 00:17:37,920 Some might have called him upon, but I choose to call him tonight 307 00:17:38,160 --> 00:17:43,240 the chosen because I realize in this journey called life and 308 00:17:43,240 --> 00:17:47,680 even in our Christian journey, that often times we operate on 309 00:17:47,680 --> 00:17:52,920 levels that are more meaningful than what the surface reveals. 310 00:17:54,560 --> 00:17:57,360 We are used, sometimes imperceptible. 311 00:17:57,360 --> 00:18:02,240 In other words, we're not really aware of how we are being used, 312 00:18:02,480 --> 00:18:06,560 when we are being used, or. Even if we are really being 313 00:18:06,560 --> 00:18:09,520 used. And it feels like sometimes that 314 00:18:09,680 --> 00:18:11,880 the lack. Of value of our life. 315 00:18:11,880 --> 00:18:14,400 In these episodes are being exploited. 316 00:18:14,640 --> 00:18:18,000 Why in the world would I or should I be doing this? 317 00:18:18,320 --> 00:18:22,320 At this moment of time, in this particular place, we feel to a 318 00:18:22,320 --> 00:18:25,720 certain degree almost taken advantage of. 319 00:18:26,080 --> 00:18:28,480 Amen. But our desire has been. 320 00:18:28,480 --> 00:18:32,560 Harnessed really by the Lord, There's only a few people. 321 00:18:32,560 --> 00:18:36,720 Only some people will chase arrows, but the people who 322 00:18:36,720 --> 00:18:39,920 desire. To be used with zeal. 323 00:18:40,200 --> 00:18:42,440 Amen. And with the tenacity, they will 324 00:18:42,440 --> 00:18:45,880 do something. Yes, even if necessary, they 325 00:18:45,880 --> 00:18:50,000 will chase arrows. Someone's Amen. 326 00:18:50,520 --> 00:18:52,200 Bring this all home to us tonight. 327 00:18:52,440 --> 00:18:56,200 Things have not been as they should have been for David. 328 00:18:56,200 --> 00:18:58,560 At this moment. It was a little edgy. 329 00:18:59,040 --> 00:19:00,360 Amen. There have been numerous 330 00:19:00,360 --> 00:19:03,160 attempts upon his life. Amen. 331 00:19:03,160 --> 00:19:07,280 Javelin after Javelin has been thrown in his direction to 332 00:19:07,280 --> 00:19:08,920 murder him. David. 333 00:19:08,960 --> 00:19:10,880 Even. Wondered whether or not he 334 00:19:10,880 --> 00:19:14,560 needed to stay where he was or whether he needed to flee. 335 00:19:14,760 --> 00:19:19,040 And so Jonathan, his friend assured David, he said, I'll let 336 00:19:19,040 --> 00:19:22,920 you know what you need to do based upon the conversation that 337 00:19:22,920 --> 00:19:26,640 I have with my father saw. I'll talk to him and see if his 338 00:19:26,640 --> 00:19:29,360 intent is true about murdering you. 339 00:19:29,640 --> 00:19:33,800 If his intent has, if it's grown more or if it's faded away, 340 00:19:34,000 --> 00:19:35,480 I'll. Find out really what the. 341 00:19:35,480 --> 00:19:40,480 Scenario is and if it is for the purpose of killing or if he's. 342 00:19:40,480 --> 00:19:44,280 Let up on that, I'll let you. Know and the way that I'll let 343 00:19:44,280 --> 00:19:47,360 you know let's make a little pact here right now let's. 344 00:19:47,360 --> 00:19:50,040 Go out. To such and such field and 345 00:19:50,040 --> 00:19:51,880 you'll be hiding. There, out there by a. 346 00:19:51,880 --> 00:19:54,480 Solitary rock out there and he says. 347 00:19:54,480 --> 00:19:56,200 I'm going to. Shoot some arrows. 348 00:19:56,440 --> 00:19:59,640 And if I shoot some? Arrows and I tell the young man 349 00:19:59,880 --> 00:20:03,440 Amen that is with me to go after them if I tell him that the 350 00:20:03,480 --> 00:20:07,440 arrows are beyond. You, David, you will know that 351 00:20:07,440 --> 00:20:10,360 things are not well here. At the house and that. 352 00:20:10,360 --> 00:20:15,760 You should leave that day. Jonathan's call to that little 353 00:20:15,760 --> 00:20:21,080 lad to accompany him and go alongside him was indeed a 354 00:20:21,160 --> 00:20:24,680 invitation to be a part of something great. 355 00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:30,960 By chasing arrows, Jonathan used that young man to send a message 356 00:20:30,960 --> 00:20:33,560 of help to. Send a message that would. 357 00:20:33,560 --> 00:20:38,080 Save the life of the future king that was hunkered down by a 358 00:20:38,080 --> 00:20:40,480 rock. To that little boy, he didn't 359 00:20:40,480 --> 00:20:43,400 think much of it. To that little boy it seemed 360 00:20:43,400 --> 00:20:46,800 like nothing, but those that knew the bigger picture 361 00:20:46,800 --> 00:20:51,600 understood that boy had a placement and A use in something 362 00:20:51,600 --> 00:20:53,680 that was greater than what it seemed. 363 00:20:57,680 --> 00:20:59,440 What are you? Saying tonight, Pastor McGee, 364 00:20:59,440 --> 00:21:02,880 I'm saying this. We need not underestimate what 365 00:21:02,880 --> 00:21:06,760 we may call trivial or menial or mundane. 366 00:21:07,200 --> 00:21:10,400 Amen. Are not the arrows be on you? 367 00:21:10,760 --> 00:21:15,640 Those words meant nothing to that ladder, but they were the 368 00:21:15,640 --> 00:21:20,320 message that needed to be sent to King David hiding behind a 369 00:21:20,320 --> 00:21:22,640 rock. To the young man, it was a 370 00:21:22,640 --> 00:21:25,760 literal scenario, so arrows are beyond me. 371 00:21:25,880 --> 00:21:30,880 But he didn't realize he was incense, a helder of a message, 372 00:21:36,600 --> 00:21:41,920 his participation. And his response to what seemed 373 00:21:41,920 --> 00:21:50,000 like a very ordinary moment resulted in his use, his 374 00:21:50,000 --> 00:21:53,760 willingness sister Brenda to. Chase arrows. 375 00:21:55,000 --> 00:21:56,880 Then. Created a space. 376 00:21:57,440 --> 00:22:01,560 For his involvement in a meaningful moment. 377 00:22:01,560 --> 00:22:07,120 He was not aware of. Sometimes, ladies and gentlemen, 378 00:22:07,760 --> 00:22:11,480 the Kingdom boils down to whether or not you're willing to 379 00:22:11,480 --> 00:22:17,000 chase some arrows. As he chased and retrieved 380 00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:21,240 arrows, he was being used by Jonathan, but more importantly, 381 00:22:21,440 --> 00:22:25,000 he was being used by God. While he was chasing and 382 00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:29,480 retrieving arrows, God was sending and preserving not just 383 00:22:29,480 --> 00:22:32,840 a king, but also a Kingdom. Note you, a king through which 384 00:22:32,840 --> 00:22:36,240 Christ Jesus would be born. He was preserving, Amen. 385 00:22:36,240 --> 00:22:37,920 And he was protecting. A. 386 00:22:37,960 --> 00:22:42,120 King and a Kingdom. David had already been anointed 387 00:22:42,120 --> 00:22:45,320 king at this. Point in Time and Jonathan. 388 00:22:45,320 --> 00:22:49,160 Knew from his conversation with his father other that his. 389 00:22:49,160 --> 00:22:51,280 Attempts on David's life. They were. 390 00:22:51,280 --> 00:22:53,800 Not going to relent. They were not going to let up 391 00:22:53,920 --> 00:22:56,440 and so. The message was clear, David. 392 00:22:56,440 --> 00:22:59,080 You need to leave, David. You need to go. 393 00:22:59,400 --> 00:23:03,440 But it had to be relayed in a unnoticed fashion, in a 394 00:23:03,440 --> 00:23:06,720 unnoticed way. They needed someone who didn't 395 00:23:06,720 --> 00:23:11,280 think chasing arrows was below them, that chasing arrows was 396 00:23:11,280 --> 00:23:14,600 lower than they could Stew. They needed someone who had a 397 00:23:14,600 --> 00:23:19,080 desire to do something, be something, even if it was 398 00:23:19,080 --> 00:23:26,920 chasing arrows perhaps seemed like a waste of time in the 399 00:23:26,920 --> 00:23:30,560 moment. But it provided a life altering 400 00:23:30,560 --> 00:23:35,040 guidance for somebody else. Kingdom. 401 00:23:35,040 --> 00:23:41,280 Programs were safeguarded by a man's interest to be used. 402 00:23:43,120 --> 00:23:49,000 He had no idea about the genuine and the specific impact of what 403 00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:55,040 he was doing was having. He understood perhaps that if 404 00:23:55,040 --> 00:23:59,320 this, if this involves Jonathan, surely this must be Kingdom 405 00:23:59,320 --> 00:24:02,360 work. And he might have went back home 406 00:24:02,360 --> 00:24:04,720 with the arrows in the bow, brother Fred and was second 407 00:24:04,760 --> 00:24:07,120 guessing, thinking maybe I was fooled. 408 00:24:09,560 --> 00:24:13,000 And the answer is he was right. He was fooled because it was 409 00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:19,120 Kingdom work. So what are you saying tonight? 410 00:24:19,160 --> 00:24:26,520 I'm saying this congregation, go ahead and do those things that 411 00:24:26,520 --> 00:24:31,240 occupy your time that even sometimes seem fruitless. 412 00:24:33,480 --> 00:24:38,280 Go on and let the arrows be shot and with a Clarion cry, say 413 00:24:38,440 --> 00:24:44,080 don't worry, I'll go get them while everybody else is setting 414 00:24:44,080 --> 00:24:47,160 by on the surface that's not Privy to the matter, we'll say 415 00:24:47,760 --> 00:24:52,000 look at them chasing arrows, those that know the matter. 416 00:24:53,400 --> 00:24:57,680 Those that know the matter are not saying look at them chasing. 417 00:24:57,720 --> 00:25:00,840 Those that know the matter know that kingdoms are being 418 00:25:00,840 --> 00:25:03,720 preserved. Those that know the matter know 419 00:25:03,720 --> 00:25:09,600 that life is being preserved. Those that know I believe in 420 00:25:09,600 --> 00:25:11,600 this sanctuary tonight that God is. 421 00:25:11,600 --> 00:25:14,560 Choosing some individuals. To chase some arrows. 422 00:25:14,760 --> 00:25:18,280 What that means is this. You may never know your 423 00:25:18,280 --> 00:25:21,200 influence on what's going on because you don't know what's 424 00:25:21,200 --> 00:25:22,720 going on. But if you'll. 425 00:25:22,720 --> 00:25:25,920 Trust the coal and you'll. Follow the heart to be used. 426 00:25:26,280 --> 00:25:30,920 God will position you and place you in an atmosphere you will 427 00:25:30,920 --> 00:25:34,640 never been before. To be used of Him and yet not 428 00:25:34,640 --> 00:25:39,800 know you've been used by Him, you got to be willing to chase 429 00:25:40,320 --> 00:25:49,400 even some arrows in doing this this. 430 00:25:49,400 --> 00:25:59,680 Young man was used by God, Do you realize, in doing what he 431 00:25:59,680 --> 00:26:06,960 did on this particular day that he may have been as close as he 432 00:26:06,960 --> 00:26:11,480 would have ever been to Israel's most incredible future, King 433 00:26:11,480 --> 00:26:15,320 David? I don't have nothing to be able 434 00:26:15,320 --> 00:26:18,560 to go off of, but there is a chance that he may have never 435 00:26:18,560 --> 00:26:25,360 been any closer to Israel's future renowning than he was the 436 00:26:25,360 --> 00:26:35,980 day he opted for chasing arrows because he was willing to do it. 437 00:26:36,540 --> 00:26:39,820 Folks, I am a true believer that God positions us in specific 438 00:26:39,820 --> 00:26:44,760 places at specific times for specific reasons and even though 439 00:26:44,760 --> 00:26:49,280 he knew nothing, the lad was in the right place to serve a very 440 00:26:49,280 --> 00:26:52,200 critical role. What do I say? 441 00:26:52,200 --> 00:26:57,600 I say it around here all time. God keeps good records to you. 442 00:26:57,600 --> 00:27:01,320 It looks insignificant to you. It looks like nothing but 443 00:27:01,320 --> 00:27:03,080 according. To the records of heaven. 444 00:27:03,240 --> 00:27:06,240 It is somebody at the right place at the right. 445 00:27:06,240 --> 00:27:10,400 Time with a willing heart to be. Used of God he knows. 446 00:27:10,400 --> 00:27:12,680 Everything. Every arrow you've chased, he 447 00:27:12,680 --> 00:27:15,120 knows every arrow out in a. Desolate. 448 00:27:15,120 --> 00:27:18,760 Field that you've chased and he also knows every purpose. 449 00:27:19,200 --> 00:27:21,120 Amen. That is served that you're 450 00:27:21,120 --> 00:27:23,720 oblivious to because you were involved. 451 00:27:24,040 --> 00:27:27,560 In the work you were. Involved in the task, you were 452 00:27:27,560 --> 00:27:35,360 involved in the scenario. Someone needs to ask themselves 453 00:27:35,360 --> 00:27:37,640 this question tonight. How? 454 00:27:38,600 --> 00:27:47,200 Is God trying to use? You has a Jonathan waltzed by, 455 00:27:47,200 --> 00:27:50,320 perhaps, and asked you to come along for the day. 456 00:27:52,080 --> 00:27:54,280 And. When you found out it was arrow 457 00:27:54,280 --> 00:27:57,720 chasing time, did you stay committed to what you signed up 458 00:27:57,720 --> 00:28:02,480 for in the morning or did you say no thanks, I got some things 459 00:28:02,480 --> 00:28:05,960 back at the house. I'd. 460 00:28:05,960 --> 00:28:09,280 Rather attend to then chase some arrows. 461 00:28:10,160 --> 00:28:12,040 Are there some things that seem below you? 462 00:28:17,390 --> 00:28:21,950 Watch it because that may be the very thing where God is using 463 00:28:21,950 --> 00:28:29,590 you the greatest. You might not realize it. 464 00:28:30,270 --> 00:28:32,030 Don't don't don't fight against the trivial. 465 00:28:32,030 --> 00:28:34,310 Don't don't fight against the mundane. 466 00:28:35,470 --> 00:28:38,190 Because God could be facilitating a very major 467 00:28:38,190 --> 00:28:40,720 occasion with, with your participation, with your 468 00:28:40,720 --> 00:28:43,800 engagement. Boy, he leaves his house has 469 00:28:44,080 --> 00:28:46,240 five loaves of bread and two fishes. 470 00:28:49,640 --> 00:28:51,560 Disciples, we need to feed this multitude. 471 00:28:51,560 --> 00:28:54,040 We don't want them to leave. We they've been here, they've 472 00:28:54,040 --> 00:28:56,600 listened to me teach all day. We're we need to feed this 473 00:28:56,600 --> 00:28:58,440 multitude. And they're like, well, we don't 474 00:28:58,440 --> 00:29:01,520 even have enough money in order to buy enough bread in order to 475 00:29:01,520 --> 00:29:06,520 feed this multitude. But we do have this lad that has 476 00:29:06,520 --> 00:29:08,960 five loaves of bread and two fishes. 477 00:29:10,160 --> 00:29:13,520 Don't seem like much and maybe his placement and timing didn't 478 00:29:13,520 --> 00:29:17,280 seem like much. But at the Days Inn after 5000, 479 00:29:17,280 --> 00:29:21,680 people besides women and children were fed and fragments 480 00:29:21,720 --> 00:29:25,120 were taken up after the fact. He was just a young boy you 481 00:29:25,120 --> 00:29:28,040 might say. Chasing arrows didn't understand 482 00:29:28,040 --> 00:29:32,000 the full impact of what he took that day as he left the house. 483 00:29:34,360 --> 00:29:37,160 Someone say Amen to another individual. 484 00:29:37,160 --> 00:29:40,600 Real history for you today To Rosalind Franklin. 485 00:29:41,000 --> 00:29:45,520 To Rosalind Franklin. It was photo 51. 486 00:29:46,720 --> 00:29:50,320 It was photo 51. She was an X-ray 487 00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:55,280 crystallographer taking photographs of molecular 488 00:29:55,280 --> 00:29:58,480 structures. Doesn't that sound fantastic? 489 00:29:59,720 --> 00:30:01,240 Molecular structures. Click. 490 00:30:03,560 --> 00:30:07,960 It was photo 51. That's what it was to her. 491 00:30:09,160 --> 00:30:15,240 But photo 51 was also a critical link for Watson and Crick and 492 00:30:15,240 --> 00:30:17,920 the deduction of what we know today is the double Helix 493 00:30:17,920 --> 00:30:24,520 structure of DNA because of what was photo 51 to her on the 494 00:30:24,520 --> 00:30:28,640 bigger scheme of things fundamentally change all of 495 00:30:28,640 --> 00:30:35,160 biology and genetics that we know today because of photo 51. 496 00:30:38,320 --> 00:30:44,600 That young lad was chosen for the chase at Jonathan's behest. 497 00:30:46,720 --> 00:30:52,880 He had no inkling that each step was part of a grander plan to 498 00:30:52,880 --> 00:30:57,280 save a future king. And those small and seemingly 499 00:30:57,280 --> 00:30:59,640 trivial. His actions were monumental, of 500 00:30:59,640 --> 00:31:03,440 course, for the Kingdom of God. What I say in that is this is 501 00:31:03,440 --> 00:31:08,240 that at times we might feel that some of our daily tasks, our 502 00:31:08,240 --> 00:31:12,920 routines, our little acts of service are just insignificant 503 00:31:12,920 --> 00:31:15,480 as chasing arrows across the field. 504 00:31:16,280 --> 00:31:21,800 Yet what we must hold on to and what we must believe tonight is 505 00:31:21,800 --> 00:31:26,640 this is that nothing ordained by God is insignificant. 506 00:31:30,600 --> 00:31:35,160 Every act of kindness, every moment of service, every 507 00:31:35,160 --> 00:31:39,760 seemingly mundane task has eternal implications when it's 508 00:31:39,760 --> 00:31:42,800 ordained by God. I've heard it from my wife, the 509 00:31:42,800 --> 00:31:44,600 story she's told me from coming home. 510 00:31:44,960 --> 00:31:47,480 She works course as a secretary on the front of her desk. 511 00:31:47,480 --> 00:31:50,520 She has magneted there under magnets. 512 00:31:50,520 --> 00:31:53,520 She has words of encouragement. It's pieces of paper that's 513 00:31:53,520 --> 00:31:56,000 folded over. You can buy them dollar store, 514 00:31:56,000 --> 00:31:57,680 something like that. It's a prayer in the Scripture 515 00:31:57,680 --> 00:31:59,160 basically, and some words of encouragement. 516 00:31:59,360 --> 00:32:01,760 They're they're magneted to her desk. 517 00:32:02,080 --> 00:32:04,440 Anybody ever comes in having a rough day or something like 518 00:32:04,440 --> 00:32:05,440 that. She says, well, maybe you should 519 00:32:05,440 --> 00:32:08,400 grab a, a word of encouragement for anybody for the taking. 520 00:32:08,800 --> 00:32:10,160 Amen. They can take that, take that 521 00:32:10,160 --> 00:32:11,640 home. They can read it, whatever. 522 00:32:11,920 --> 00:32:14,680 She has told me too many stories of people that have come in 523 00:32:14,920 --> 00:32:16,360 going through struggles or hard time. 524 00:32:16,360 --> 00:32:18,920 She just say, why don't you just grab a word of encouragement? 525 00:32:19,200 --> 00:32:22,080 She she prays whenever she puts them up that they'll land in the 526 00:32:22,080 --> 00:32:24,800 right hands. Many people have read those at 527 00:32:24,800 --> 00:32:26,840 her desk. Tears start to flow down their 528 00:32:26,840 --> 00:32:30,800 cheeks because something in just that little minuscule thing of a 529 00:32:30,800 --> 00:32:34,520 piece of paper with a scripture and a few words touches them at 530 00:32:34,520 --> 00:32:36,520 a divine intersection. What are you saying? 531 00:32:36,800 --> 00:32:40,120 I'm saying you can't look over your daily task or routines and 532 00:32:40,120 --> 00:32:41,920 say, well, it's just insignificant. 533 00:32:41,920 --> 00:32:43,680 It's just chasing arrows. It's not much. 534 00:32:43,680 --> 00:32:45,200 No, ladies. And gentlemen. 535 00:32:45,200 --> 00:32:48,120 What you are oblivious to, It could be a. 536 00:32:48,120 --> 00:32:50,320 Message. It could be the word. 537 00:32:50,520 --> 00:32:55,520 Exactly of somebody that's behind what they need to hear 538 00:32:55,640 --> 00:33:00,560 and it got to them because you participated and was a part of a 539 00:33:00,560 --> 00:33:08,640 runner of chasing after arrows. You've been chosen for the chase 540 00:33:08,640 --> 00:33:17,840 tonight. Oh yes, someone say man, So what 541 00:33:17,840 --> 00:33:19,560 are you doing? And I, I, I'm hastening to 542 00:33:19,560 --> 00:33:20,440 close. I really AM. 543 00:33:20,800 --> 00:33:22,480 He came in and someone said I'm glad about that. 544 00:33:22,480 --> 00:33:24,040 And you know, I was long this morning. 545 00:33:24,040 --> 00:33:25,360 So we got to balance everything out. 546 00:33:25,960 --> 00:33:31,840 So I call you today not just to action, but more so too, a 547 00:33:31,840 --> 00:33:37,920 transformation of perspective. A transformation of perspective. 548 00:33:38,520 --> 00:33:42,200 You need to view your roles. You need to view your jobs. 549 00:33:42,320 --> 00:33:45,280 You need to view your contributions to your community 550 00:33:45,480 --> 00:33:49,560 and to your church and to your family and to your place of work 551 00:33:49,720 --> 00:33:51,160 as vital. Pieces. 552 00:33:51,160 --> 00:33:57,560 All of God's design. It's not that just however many 553 00:33:57,560 --> 00:34:01,480 months ago God put James Malone on the night shift because he's 554 00:34:01,480 --> 00:34:03,520 trying to get things in order for later in life. 555 00:34:03,840 --> 00:34:05,080 No. There's a. 556 00:34:05,080 --> 00:34:07,000 Design there that we need to seek out. 557 00:34:07,160 --> 00:34:09,000 God's had me chase. Arrows right here. 558 00:34:09,159 --> 00:34:12,159 There's a purpose I don't realize right now I'm not aware 559 00:34:12,159 --> 00:34:14,679 of right now. There's a purpose for the Mason, 560 00:34:14,679 --> 00:34:17,040 more so for that. Doctrine that you just. 561 00:34:17,040 --> 00:34:19,719 Received and what you even realize there's something. 562 00:34:19,760 --> 00:34:23,000 There it feels like a arrow. I know for years that was far 563 00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:25,639 reaching. It was beyond you, but your hand 564 00:34:25,639 --> 00:34:28,199 is on it now. And God said I'm doing 565 00:34:28,199 --> 00:34:30,679 something, I'm working something, I'm going to 566 00:34:30,679 --> 00:34:34,480 accomplish something. I chosen you for it, Chase. 567 00:34:41,600 --> 00:34:46,880 Oh God, Hallelujah, someone say Hallelujah. 568 00:34:48,520 --> 00:34:51,639 What that means is this. It matters not what it may be, 569 00:34:51,760 --> 00:34:53,760 but whenever you're tempted to belittle. 570 00:34:53,880 --> 00:34:56,760 Your importance or question the. Value. 571 00:34:56,920 --> 00:35:01,640 Of your work, remember a lad who chased arrows, unknowingly 572 00:35:01,640 --> 00:35:06,360 participating in God's rescue plan for a future king. 573 00:35:08,480 --> 00:35:17,300 You stand with me, I'll close. So as a congregation, you know 574 00:35:17,300 --> 00:35:21,240 what we must do? We must chase our arrows with 575 00:35:21,240 --> 00:35:25,400 gusto. Whether you teach a class here, 576 00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:34,480 sing a song, serve in the church kitchen, offer a prayer, you 577 00:35:34,480 --> 00:35:37,920 need to do it with this knowledge that you're a part of 578 00:35:37,920 --> 00:35:41,680 something that's bigger than yourself and you're doing 579 00:35:41,680 --> 00:35:49,080 something more impactful than what it seems like saying is God 580 00:35:49,080 --> 00:35:52,600 doesn't call the equipped, He equips the called. 581 00:35:53,160 --> 00:35:56,640 And I'm telling you today, you've been called and chosen 582 00:35:57,000 --> 00:36:01,840 for the chase. So as we gather our things 583 00:36:01,840 --> 00:36:06,120 tonight and we pack up and we leave here, you might even 584 00:36:06,120 --> 00:36:08,600 consider this very weak. Some of the arrows that you 585 00:36:08,600 --> 00:36:11,400 might chase and you need to get your hand on them. 586 00:36:11,400 --> 00:36:14,400 You need to embrace them, no matter how insignificant they 587 00:36:14,400 --> 00:36:18,480 may seem, because you never know which arrow's carrying a message 588 00:36:18,480 --> 00:36:21,320 of deliverance. You never know which arrow's 589 00:36:21,320 --> 00:36:24,720 carrying a message of salvation. You never know which arrow's 590 00:36:24,720 --> 00:36:27,200 carrying a message of encouragement. 591 00:36:27,480 --> 00:36:29,640 Hey, man, you just never know when it's the hope or the 592 00:36:29,640 --> 00:36:30,640 healing. Amen. 593 00:36:30,640 --> 00:36:33,960 For somebody else that you're chasing after and with God's. 594 00:36:33,960 --> 00:36:35,960 Blessing and with God's. Guidance. 595 00:36:35,960 --> 00:36:39,280 I'm confident tonight that we can go forth and we can chase 596 00:36:39,280 --> 00:36:43,040 diligently and we can love fiercely in our community and we 597 00:36:43,040 --> 00:36:45,360 can serve. Faithfully here and around this. 598 00:36:45,360 --> 00:36:48,520 Place you know what the Bible says, grow not weary in well 599 00:36:48,520 --> 00:36:50,840 doing. And thank not because. 600 00:36:50,840 --> 00:36:52,800 If you do so. You are. 601 00:36:52,800 --> 00:36:55,840 Going to reap. Hey man, if you think not, 602 00:36:56,040 --> 00:36:58,920 there's a proper time for that. There's a proper place. 603 00:36:58,920 --> 00:37:01,240 For that, there's a proper reason for that. 604 00:37:01,520 --> 00:37:02,520 Amen. Don't give. 605 00:37:02,520 --> 00:37:04,000 Up. Don't give up. 606 00:37:04,320 --> 00:37:08,080 God is with every chase. He's with every. 607 00:37:08,080 --> 00:37:10,440 Task. He's with every moment. 608 00:37:10,640 --> 00:37:14,480 You've. Been chosen for the chase. 609 00:37:16,600 --> 00:37:18,440 We bow our heads in this place tonight. 610 00:37:18,920 --> 00:37:21,680 There might be someone here. Oh, brother McGee, that that's. 611 00:37:21,680 --> 00:37:25,560 I've been that lad. I feel like I've been over on 612 00:37:25,560 --> 00:37:26,840 the. The the left. 613 00:37:26,840 --> 00:37:29,960 Field part, if you will, of the, of the ball diamond. 614 00:37:29,960 --> 00:37:32,880 I've, I've been in left field and I'm out there isolated. 615 00:37:32,880 --> 00:37:37,600 I'm, I'm alone or I've, I've been over here and I've been 616 00:37:37,600 --> 00:37:41,600 doing the work for the Lord and it seems like just a, a 617 00:37:41,600 --> 00:37:44,440 thankless task. And it's, it's just a thankless 618 00:37:44,440 --> 00:37:48,960 thing that I'm a part of chasing arrows and they're not even my 619 00:37:48,960 --> 00:37:51,120 arrows. It's somebody else's and I'm 620 00:37:51,120 --> 00:37:54,400 chasing after me. It just doesn't seem to reason. 621 00:37:54,840 --> 00:37:57,880 It don't make sense. It don't have no fan flare. 622 00:37:57,880 --> 00:38:00,960 There's no limelight with it. I'm just out there chasing it, 623 00:38:01,120 --> 00:38:03,200 retrieving it and bringing it back. 624 00:38:04,280 --> 00:38:08,200 But sure. Oh ma'am, there's somebody out 625 00:38:08,200 --> 00:38:11,680 of you. There's somebody tucked behind a 626 00:38:11,680 --> 00:38:18,760 rock that just needs to hear the voice that's telling you. 627 00:38:19,400 --> 00:38:24,680 Go a little further, go a little beyond, get the arrow and bring 628 00:38:24,680 --> 00:38:30,600 it back because that's hope to them, that's salvation to them. 629 00:38:31,840 --> 00:38:35,840 That's an answer for them. I'm asking tonight if there's 630 00:38:35,840 --> 00:38:39,560 anybody in this place, if we could gather up here front that 631 00:38:39,560 --> 00:38:44,000 can say God, I'll answer the call for the chasing of the 632 00:38:44,040 --> 00:38:49,720 arrows and God, I'll go this far that I don't even have to really 633 00:38:49,720 --> 00:38:51,880 know what I'm being involved in. In the moment. 634 00:38:52,520 --> 00:38:54,280 I don't know. I don't have to know how it all 635 00:38:54,280 --> 00:38:57,320 plays out. I don't have to know that in the 636 00:38:57,320 --> 00:38:59,760 moment that I'm doing what I'm doing that I'm actually being 637 00:38:59,760 --> 00:39:02,760 used of God. I'm just going to make myself 638 00:39:02,760 --> 00:39:04,600 open. I'm going to make myself 639 00:39:04,600 --> 00:39:06,640 available. I'm going to make myself 640 00:39:06,640 --> 00:39:08,480 willing. That. 641 00:39:08,480 --> 00:39:13,000 Pre adventure, if I participate, perhaps I'm participating in 642 00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:15,040 something bigger than what I realize. 643 00:39:15,600 --> 00:39:18,880 Perhaps I'm involved in myself, in something grander than what 644 00:39:18,880 --> 00:39:23,200 my eye can pick up on in my mind can even comprehend. 645 00:39:23,640 --> 00:39:26,040 Ladies and gentlemen, we are involved in that type of work. 646 00:39:26,400 --> 00:39:28,840 Amen. Here each and every day on your 647 00:39:28,840 --> 00:39:31,920 job and your place where you get your groceries, where you 648 00:39:31,920 --> 00:39:34,920 frequent for going out to eat and those shoulders that you rub 649 00:39:34,920 --> 00:39:37,080 with. Who knows that in your moment of 650 00:39:37,080 --> 00:39:40,040 chasing arrows, what's happening in the life of another 651 00:39:40,040 --> 00:39:43,840 individual, what message they are hearing, what hope is being 652 00:39:43,840 --> 00:39:47,160 Lord, poured out upon them? Because you said I'll do it. 653 00:39:47,400 --> 00:39:49,760 If nobody else wants to, I'll do it. 654 00:39:50,240 --> 00:39:53,400 I know it don't seem like much, but it is much. 655 00:39:53,680 --> 00:39:56,480 You're just not Privy to it. You don't know it. 656 00:39:56,880 --> 00:40:01,040 But God says I'm using them in a way they do not even understand. 657 00:40:04,040 --> 00:40:06,800 I'm using them in a way they don't even understand. 658 00:40:08,480 --> 00:40:12,760 Come on, Sir. Come on ma'am, what you do is 659 00:40:12,760 --> 00:40:15,800 important. Your. 660 00:40:15,800 --> 00:40:18,360 Participation. Hey, man, in your community, 661 00:40:18,360 --> 00:40:22,760 it's significant. Yes, yes, yes, yes. 662 00:40:24,480 --> 00:40:29,400 Keep chasing, keep retrieving. Somebody's getting a message. 663 00:40:29,840 --> 00:40:34,760 Keep chasing, keep retrieving. Deliverance has come to someone. 664 00:40:35,120 --> 00:40:37,920 Keep chasing. Keep, keep, keep, keep. 665 00:40:37,920 --> 00:40:41,320 Keep retrieving. Salvation is coming to someone 666 00:40:41,720 --> 00:40:44,400 because you said I'll be a part. I'll do it. 667 00:40:44,920 --> 00:40:47,360 You've been chosen for the chase. 668 00:40:47,360 --> 00:40:49,560 Let's talk to the Lord right now in the closure. 669 00:40:49,880 --> 00:40:52,160 Amen of this service. Brother and sister Mason, I love 670 00:40:52,160 --> 00:40:54,320 you God. Thank you for listening. 671 00:40:54,640 --> 00:40:56,960 If you would like more information about our services 672 00:40:56,960 --> 00:41:00,240 and activities, you can find us on Facebook, Instagram, and 673 00:41:00,240 --> 00:41:05,960 Twitter with the username FACMC. Again, that's FACMC. 674 00:41:06,320 --> 00:41:08,080 Thank you and have a blessed day.