1 00:00:19,720 --> 00:00:22,480 Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Love Quest International 2 00:00:22,480 --> 00:00:25,600 Church Podcast where we seek to love all nations, equip the 3 00:00:25,600 --> 00:00:28,560 church, mobilize the equipped, and serve all. 4 00:00:28,880 --> 00:00:32,080 We're super glad you're joining us from whenever and wherever 5 00:00:32,080 --> 00:00:34,760 you're at in the world. Welcome to the family to get 6 00:00:34,760 --> 00:00:37,440 your Bibles ready, get some water, get some coffee, maybe 7 00:00:37,480 --> 00:00:39,720 some tea, and get ready to receive. 8 00:00:39,880 --> 00:00:41,720 It's go time. Let's get into it. 9 00:00:46,480 --> 00:00:51,600 I'd love to be a part of a house that is spirit filled, faith 10 00:00:51,600 --> 00:01:01,000 filled, fruit filled, love filled in Jesus name. 11 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:04,160 I'm going to say that again, you don't got to you don't got to 12 00:01:04,160 --> 00:01:06,560 really holler back. I just love to be a part of a 13 00:01:07,160 --> 00:01:10,680 house that is spirit filled. Anybody ever been a? 14 00:01:10,680 --> 00:01:12,760 Part of a. Place that's not spirit filled. 15 00:01:13,440 --> 00:01:17,880 It's OK to say that you've been to some places that's not spirit 16 00:01:17,880 --> 00:01:26,200 filled. But I am happy beyond words can 17 00:01:26,200 --> 00:01:37,080 explain to be in a place where the spirit is alive and he has 18 00:01:37,080 --> 00:01:40,120 his way. Amen. 19 00:01:40,480 --> 00:01:42,840 You can I you know, I I want to activate you right now. 20 00:01:42,840 --> 00:01:46,080 You can play some guitar that sounds beautiful during this 21 00:01:46,080 --> 00:01:46,800 time. You don't. 22 00:01:46,800 --> 00:01:50,480 You ain't got to let them dominate the sound. 23 00:01:51,640 --> 00:01:53,320 Starting beef on the worship team. 24 00:01:57,640 --> 00:02:02,240 Stringed instruments are anointed when you know how to 25 00:02:02,240 --> 00:02:06,880 play them. I appeal to you, therefore don't 26 00:02:06,880 --> 00:02:10,080 put up the slides yet. I appeal to you, therefore, 27 00:02:10,080 --> 00:02:20,560 brethren, and beg of you in view of all. 28 00:02:20,800 --> 00:02:22,560 You you 'cause you still got to direct. 29 00:02:23,680 --> 00:02:24,760 Oh. Amen. 30 00:02:25,440 --> 00:02:32,840 Beg of you, in view of all the mercies of God, watch this, We 31 00:02:32,840 --> 00:02:38,440 just say finished singing the song and I, I love it and we 32 00:02:38,440 --> 00:02:41,240 sing a lot of songs about making us a sacrifice. 33 00:02:45,680 --> 00:02:50,320 He says that you make a decisive dedication. 34 00:02:52,040 --> 00:02:55,360 Romans 12/1. Amplified Classic. 35 00:02:56,120 --> 00:03:01,240 You. Make a decisive dedication of 36 00:03:01,240 --> 00:03:08,840 your bodies. You make a decisive dedication 37 00:03:11,760 --> 00:03:20,040 of your bodies presenting all. Of your members and faculties as 38 00:03:20,360 --> 00:03:31,920 a living sacrifice, Holy. Devoted, consecrated, well 39 00:03:31,920 --> 00:03:39,760 pleasing to God, watch this. That's at least what you can do 40 00:03:40,960 --> 00:03:49,200 your reasonable rational intelligence service and. 41 00:03:49,200 --> 00:03:56,400 Spiritual worship. What's spiritual about 42 00:03:56,400 --> 00:04:00,840 dedicating my body? Ain't that physical? 43 00:04:01,840 --> 00:04:05,520 How was dedicating my physical spiritual? 44 00:04:07,600 --> 00:04:12,800 Here's what we do understand is that we are spirit. 45 00:04:13,720 --> 00:04:17,160 We possess a soul. We live in a body. 46 00:04:17,959 --> 00:04:20,120 I'll say it like. This because I don't want to get 47 00:04:20,120 --> 00:04:21,720 off track for the message tonight. 48 00:04:22,480 --> 00:04:26,200 But all three work together, just like Father, Son, and Holy 49 00:04:26,200 --> 00:04:37,360 Ghost. If we are going to truly live as 50 00:04:37,360 --> 00:04:42,400 a living sacrifice, He's come for all three parts of us. 51 00:04:45,720 --> 00:04:53,560 Amen. I am the true Vine and my father 52 00:04:53,560 --> 00:04:59,800 is the vine dresser. We have begun day. 53 00:05:01,280 --> 00:05:05,760 I am the true Vine and my father is the vine. 54 00:05:05,760 --> 00:05:14,240 Dresser every branch in me that does not bear fruit. 55 00:05:17,320 --> 00:05:26,280 I just, I just encourage you to go to the Lord about what fruits 56 00:05:26,280 --> 00:05:30,840 He's talking about. So you don't think you're 57 00:05:30,840 --> 00:05:39,960 fruitful when you're not because all fruit ain't good fruit. 58 00:05:41,480 --> 00:05:47,520 And as I've learned from my beautiful wife, all fruit ain't 59 00:05:47,520 --> 00:05:50,040 in season. Just because it's on sale. 60 00:05:53,920 --> 00:05:58,400 Got a bag of grapes the other day and they taste like they in 61 00:05:58,400 --> 00:06:02,040 season. I have had grapes out of season 62 00:06:02,200 --> 00:06:04,040 or different fruit out of season. 63 00:06:04,040 --> 00:06:09,920 It is missing its sweetness. It's an inconsistent batch and 64 00:06:09,920 --> 00:06:14,360 So what you have to understand is if you are going to live as a 65 00:06:14,360 --> 00:06:20,280 living sacrifice, you have to also reason efficiently, or 66 00:06:20,280 --> 00:06:24,680 shall I say diagnose yourself efficiently. 67 00:06:25,080 --> 00:06:31,160 I will tell believers you cannot diagnose yourself efficiently 68 00:06:31,440 --> 00:06:35,680 without letting the Holy Spirit be the doctor and do the X-ray. 69 00:06:40,120 --> 00:06:44,240 Self checks alone are dangerous, especially when you're not 70 00:06:44,240 --> 00:06:51,040 honest with yourself. Every branch. 71 00:06:52,360 --> 00:06:56,720 Last week we had an A. Let's pick up where we left off. 72 00:06:56,960 --> 00:07:01,160 What does every mean? You still have an A? 73 00:07:02,480 --> 00:07:14,240 Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and 74 00:07:14,240 --> 00:07:20,800 every what does every mean? Every branch that continues to 75 00:07:20,880 --> 00:07:30,280 bear fruit he repeatedly prunes. He don't let up on pruning. 76 00:07:30,680 --> 00:07:43,720 He is consistently pruning. I love this because an 77 00:07:43,720 --> 00:07:47,880 unfruitful branch lose connection with God. 78 00:07:49,520 --> 00:07:54,240 A fruitful branch, although being pruned repeatedly, is 79 00:07:54,240 --> 00:07:57,680 always engaged with God. Watch this. 80 00:07:57,880 --> 00:08:01,400 They always experience the hand of God. 81 00:08:04,480 --> 00:08:09,760 Here, here, last one, last one. If God is repeatedly pruning, 82 00:08:10,080 --> 00:08:15,120 He's always repeatedly tending to me. 83 00:08:18,800 --> 00:08:20,600 Oh, God's going to help some people tonight. 84 00:08:21,760 --> 00:08:24,520 He man, it feels. Can I just pause for a minute 85 00:08:24,520 --> 00:08:27,760 and tell you how good it feels to have the revelation that He's 86 00:08:27,760 --> 00:08:40,919 always tending to me? So that it will bear more fruit. 87 00:08:41,880 --> 00:08:45,640 Who or what is it? Huh? 88 00:08:47,520 --> 00:08:50,920 Huh. No, not every branch. 89 00:08:50,920 --> 00:08:53,640 What are y'all reading or? Come on, Come on, we got clergy 90 00:08:53,640 --> 00:08:55,520 just yelling stuff out. What y'all doing? 91 00:08:57,920 --> 00:08:59,000 There we go. The. 92 00:08:59,000 --> 00:09:04,080 It will bear more fruit is not every branch, but that's what 93 00:09:04,080 --> 00:09:10,120 people think because I'm saying right here it is the one that 94 00:09:10,120 --> 00:09:13,520 does not bear fruit is connected. 95 00:09:14,880 --> 00:09:17,480 That's what you think you you don't read this. 96 00:09:17,480 --> 00:09:20,040 You read this as I'm disconnected to God. 97 00:09:21,000 --> 00:09:25,040 I think what's worse is that you connected to the body, but you 98 00:09:25,040 --> 00:09:27,200 don't. Got no blood flow into that part 99 00:09:27,200 --> 00:09:30,920 of the body because you ain't functioning in your joints like 100 00:09:30,920 --> 00:09:33,920 you're not you're you're you're here all the time, but your 101 00:09:33,920 --> 00:09:36,600 motives is different. Your hearing is different, 102 00:09:37,280 --> 00:09:40,160 right? You're at a distance, you're not 103 00:09:40,160 --> 00:09:42,600 rooted. Bible says that one kind of 104 00:09:42,600 --> 00:09:46,400 ground they fall away after a while after a while can be 3 105 00:09:46,400 --> 00:09:48,640 years. Why do they fall away? 106 00:09:48,640 --> 00:09:53,200 Because they had no real roots. So if they didn't have real 107 00:09:53,200 --> 00:10:01,000 roots, they must have had not real roots or shallow roots, 108 00:10:03,320 --> 00:10:05,560 right? Or convince themselves they were 109 00:10:05,560 --> 00:10:10,840 rooted because they were serving, right? 110 00:10:10,840 --> 00:10:15,280 Doing church things, right? Watch this, watch this, watch 111 00:10:15,280 --> 00:10:16,720 this. I'm about to shake up the tree a 112 00:10:16,720 --> 00:10:18,000 little bit. I'm about to shake up the tree a 113 00:10:18,000 --> 00:10:22,600 little bit, right? Connected, let me, let me do it 114 00:10:22,600 --> 00:10:24,120 this way. I'm going to testify so nobody 115 00:10:24,120 --> 00:10:26,800 feel attacked. Somebody came to me today and I 116 00:10:26,800 --> 00:10:30,880 had a very great conversation with one of the ways they, they 117 00:10:30,880 --> 00:10:33,680 were in the midst of repentance for some things and doing some 118 00:10:33,680 --> 00:10:36,120 blessing and all these things. And one of the things they said, 119 00:10:36,280 --> 00:10:39,680 I realized that I, you know, I, I rebelled a bit. 120 00:10:39,680 --> 00:10:41,760 I got to rebuild your spirit a little bit, blah, blah, blah. 121 00:10:41,880 --> 00:10:47,040 But I'm faithful, always been faithful, right? 122 00:10:47,040 --> 00:10:53,280 Faithful people use their faithfulness as an excuse for 123 00:10:53,280 --> 00:10:57,120 many ungodly things. Watch this, watch this. 124 00:10:58,280 --> 00:11:07,040 And that person said, I bought a notebook because one of the ways 125 00:11:07,040 --> 00:11:10,320 I want to honor you as my pastor is you've asked us to take 126 00:11:10,320 --> 00:11:16,880 notes. The small. 127 00:11:17,120 --> 00:11:20,400 Fox spoiled the vine. You got this. 128 00:11:22,080 --> 00:11:24,000 Why? And I've asked people to take 129 00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:32,440 notes multiple times. Maybe if this is my pastor, if I 130 00:11:32,440 --> 00:11:36,440 believe he's after my good, if I believe the, the, the the Spirit 131 00:11:36,440 --> 00:11:42,520 speaks to him, then if he says take notes, I should be like I 132 00:11:42,520 --> 00:11:46,400 received that, like I receive a prophetic word about my family. 133 00:11:47,680 --> 00:11:50,360 What if God was saying your breakthrough was going to come 134 00:11:50,360 --> 00:11:52,040 through your obedience to note taking? 135 00:11:53,240 --> 00:11:55,080 I I was it was it was it Kenneth Hagan? 136 00:11:55,080 --> 00:11:57,120 I forget who it was. Somebody came and they. 137 00:11:57,800 --> 00:11:59,320 There was rival night and he asked. 138 00:11:59,560 --> 00:12:01,600 It was the point in the service where he asked everybody to 139 00:12:01,600 --> 00:12:07,120 stand up and do something, turn around and turn around. 140 00:12:10,720 --> 00:12:13,080 End of the night came somebody I believe, correct me if I'm 141 00:12:13,080 --> 00:12:15,800 wrong. End of the night came and 142 00:12:15,800 --> 00:12:23,320 somebody asked him to pray for healing and he said, well God 143 00:12:23,320 --> 00:12:25,920 gave me the instructions that everybody that was here for 144 00:12:25,920 --> 00:12:30,320 healing tonight to tell them to stand up and turn around. 145 00:12:36,970 --> 00:12:41,640 Here's the self entitlement. Well if God is God, he should 146 00:12:41,640 --> 00:12:43,560 heal me whenever I want healing. It shouldn't. 147 00:12:43,640 --> 00:12:46,480 It shouldn't come upon. You mean to tell me no, you 148 00:12:46,480 --> 00:12:49,640 didn't miss your healing, but you can miss a moment. 149 00:12:52,400 --> 00:12:53,760 Right. Have you ever missed the bus? 150 00:12:54,640 --> 00:12:56,440 It didn't mean what? No more buses coming? 151 00:12:56,440 --> 00:13:04,720 You just missed that one. Simple instructions, he didn't 152 00:13:04,720 --> 00:13:07,320 say. Take notes and write every word. 153 00:13:09,840 --> 00:13:14,280 Connected to the vine and some of us may think connected to 154 00:13:14,280 --> 00:13:22,400 Jesus, but not his body. But why would God gives give us? 155 00:13:22,400 --> 00:13:26,360 Instruction how? Why would God give us like like 156 00:13:26,360 --> 00:13:28,520 something as intricate as the body? 157 00:13:29,360 --> 00:13:32,000 Hey, hey, can you help me, Pastor Daniela, that the body 158 00:13:32,000 --> 00:13:35,320 actually has systems that make it work proper. 159 00:13:35,880 --> 00:13:38,760 And if certain things ain't working proper, you ain't 160 00:13:38,760 --> 00:13:41,480 healthy. Even if you feel good 161 00:13:53,210 --> 00:13:58,130 every branch in me that does not bear fruit, what does that say? 162 00:13:58,130 --> 00:14:00,730 Every branch in me you didn't say. 163 00:14:00,730 --> 00:14:02,770 Every branch disconnected from me. 164 00:14:06,570 --> 00:14:15,810 Every branch in me that's not bearing fruit, he takes away. 165 00:14:19,320 --> 00:14:24,520 In every branch that continues to bear fruit, he repeatedly 166 00:14:24,520 --> 00:14:37,720 prunes or he repeatedly perfects, so that it will bear 167 00:14:37,720 --> 00:14:44,400 more fruit, even richer and finer fruit. 168 00:14:47,480 --> 00:14:55,160 You are already clean because of the word which I have given you, 169 00:14:56,120 --> 00:15:00,840 the teachings which I have discussed with you. 170 00:15:00,840 --> 00:15:09,040 Watch this. You are already washed, just 171 00:15:09,040 --> 00:15:15,920 like you are already holy. You are already consecrated. 172 00:15:16,280 --> 00:15:22,600 You are already set apart. Well, if I'm already, then why 173 00:15:22,600 --> 00:15:26,560 do I need to keep on doing the the things? 174 00:15:29,840 --> 00:15:33,080 The fact that we don't do the things shows we don't have a 175 00:15:33,080 --> 00:15:39,960 revelation that we already. If I'm already holy, all I do 176 00:15:39,960 --> 00:15:46,480 need to do is learn how to be. Who I am is already set. 177 00:15:46,480 --> 00:15:51,400 The standard is set. I was born fruitful in Him, but 178 00:15:51,400 --> 00:15:55,000 I have to do these things so fruitful can come out of me. 179 00:15:57,360 --> 00:16:05,440 Hidden fruit is not a witness. I'm trying. 180 00:16:08,720 --> 00:16:09,400 Come on, you. Come on. 181 00:16:09,400 --> 00:16:16,360 Just tell yourself you already washed we. 182 00:16:16,360 --> 00:16:20,440 Start this conversation lust. I don't know about you, but I've 183 00:16:20,440 --> 00:16:23,240 been super blessed, Elder John. I was I was look, I was I was 184 00:16:23,240 --> 00:16:28,600 thinking about this today and and from Genesis. 185 00:16:30,600 --> 00:16:37,800 OK, I don't want to rush over the fact that perfection and 186 00:16:37,800 --> 00:16:42,080 perfected and perfecting and perfect are all a part of the 187 00:16:42,080 --> 00:16:47,640 same family. Can't say that I'm going back to 188 00:16:47,640 --> 00:16:50,680 the garden, but I'm going to show up imperfected. 189 00:16:52,040 --> 00:16:54,640 The goal of getting back to the garden is getting back to the 190 00:16:54,640 --> 00:16:58,320 status in which Adam was before he got dirty, before he fell. 191 00:16:59,160 --> 00:17:01,440 I would like to say that when we. 192 00:17:01,680 --> 00:17:04,880 When it's all said and done, heaven sounds like it's going to 193 00:17:04,880 --> 00:17:08,160 be a perfect place. No talk to me. 194 00:17:08,160 --> 00:17:10,319 No think about it. Go ahead, think about it. 195 00:17:15,319 --> 00:17:24,839 Adam no sin sound sound perfect unless God created imperfect 196 00:17:24,839 --> 00:17:29,560 because the Bible I read it says that he looked at it and it was 197 00:17:29,560 --> 00:17:32,680 very good. Yeah. 198 00:17:33,320 --> 00:17:36,480 And then it says that the that that that why did Jesus have to 199 00:17:36,480 --> 00:17:38,440 be? Why did the sacrifice have to be 200 00:17:38,440 --> 00:17:42,560 perfect if imperfect was sufficient? 201 00:17:44,640 --> 00:17:48,080 So I'm also not going to so when Jesus says tells that woman to 202 00:17:48,080 --> 00:17:52,400 walk away and don't sin no more. Wait a minute, Jesus. 203 00:17:53,120 --> 00:17:57,880 Jesus only lived that life. He's pointing to something. 204 00:17:58,720 --> 00:18:01,080 No, in this world we will not be perfect. 205 00:18:02,120 --> 00:18:05,520 Where we're heading back to it will be perfect. 206 00:18:06,360 --> 00:18:09,000 It won't have no darkness. It will be no, no sin. 207 00:18:09,000 --> 00:18:10,960 It will be no death. It will be no tears. 208 00:18:10,960 --> 00:18:12,400 It will it won't be none of that. 209 00:18:14,040 --> 00:18:18,560 It will be nothing but good. We will be in the presence of 210 00:18:18,560 --> 00:18:20,760 the perfect one in our perfect bodies. 211 00:18:22,040 --> 00:18:24,280 That's what the Bibles are, glorified bodies. 212 00:18:26,520 --> 00:18:30,520 And then the perfect one now lives in this body, the perfect 213 00:18:30,520 --> 00:18:32,240 one. Anybody want to argue right now, 214 00:18:32,240 --> 00:18:34,440 is Jesus perfect or he's not what you think? 215 00:18:36,360 --> 00:18:40,640 What makes him perfect? He was without sin. 216 00:18:41,040 --> 00:18:48,080 So if if sin imperfected us, then what happens when sin is 217 00:18:48,080 --> 00:18:52,600 dealt with? We're what we're made perfect. 218 00:18:52,600 --> 00:18:55,880 OK, well, what do we believe our whole faith is built on what 219 00:18:55,880 --> 00:19:02,240 happened to sin? It was handled OK. 220 00:19:02,240 --> 00:19:05,240 So as long as we're here, we that's why we got to cross back 221 00:19:05,240 --> 00:19:08,040 over. If we believe death was 222 00:19:08,040 --> 00:19:13,560 defeated, if you believe that sin was handled, then then 223 00:19:13,560 --> 00:19:15,680 perfect is in you through the perfect one. 224 00:19:22,000 --> 00:19:27,120 So the things that God is asking us to do is actually really. 225 00:19:27,120 --> 00:19:30,560 Fair. It's just impossible without 226 00:19:30,560 --> 00:19:37,040 him, because if if if, if I'm if I'm tracking right. 227 00:19:37,680 --> 00:19:41,400 Adam perfect man, Eve, perfect man. 228 00:19:41,640 --> 00:19:47,600 Sin came, they fell imperfect. Now watch this. 229 00:19:47,960 --> 00:19:52,520 Watch this. If you was to sum up the whole 230 00:19:52,520 --> 00:19:58,640 Bible in one statement, word, or motive by God, here's what it is 231 00:19:59,200 --> 00:20:03,120 the entire journey. From beginning to end, God has 232 00:20:03,120 --> 00:20:07,800 been perfecting His people, and to do it once and for all, the 233 00:20:07,800 --> 00:20:11,360 perfect one came. OK. 234 00:20:11,360 --> 00:20:15,800 All right. What what's all this for? 235 00:20:15,800 --> 00:20:18,600 PT 'cause I just found me another key. 236 00:20:19,840 --> 00:20:23,000 I just simplified the Bible in one word. 237 00:20:23,000 --> 00:20:29,120 This all he up to, this what your Valley's for, this what you 238 00:20:29,120 --> 00:20:33,280 going through hard times for. This this what you got to 239 00:20:33,280 --> 00:20:39,240 experience the cross for because from the day man fail, he's been 240 00:20:39,240 --> 00:20:42,320 trying to perfect us to get us back to perfect. 241 00:20:45,200 --> 00:20:49,560 So there are some things that you can overcome and just be, 242 00:20:50,520 --> 00:20:53,680 and there's some stuff you you can stop trying to overcome 243 00:20:53,880 --> 00:20:57,160 because you're more than a what does more than a conqueror mean 244 00:20:57,320 --> 00:20:59,600 is that thing don't bother me no more. 245 00:20:59,800 --> 00:21:02,960 I am so far from even being tempted by more than a 246 00:21:02,960 --> 00:21:05,920 conqueror. I'm not even tempted by it no 247 00:21:05,920 --> 00:21:09,000 more. I'm going to say I'm not tempted 248 00:21:09,000 --> 00:21:13,880 by it no more. I have more than conquered 249 00:21:14,120 --> 00:21:18,440 partying, smoking and drinking. I I'm not tempted no more. 250 00:21:18,680 --> 00:21:22,120 I don't look at it and it's beneath me. 251 00:21:23,120 --> 00:21:27,320 I don't need counsel about it. I don't need hey hey, hey, 252 00:21:27,320 --> 00:21:31,480 please help me because I came so close to you, not in your more 253 00:21:31,480 --> 00:21:41,240 than conqueror yet. As I was preparing, I was like, 254 00:21:41,920 --> 00:21:45,360 man, we're in a world where, man, it could be so much more 255 00:21:45,360 --> 00:21:48,440 popular to talk about like relationships and talk about, 256 00:21:50,760 --> 00:21:55,000 you know, financial increase and, you know, all the things 257 00:21:55,000 --> 00:21:58,280 that we want and desire to help you on your day-to-day life and, 258 00:21:58,960 --> 00:22:01,240 you know. Like very practical things about 259 00:22:01,240 --> 00:22:05,280 family and and then he, he's like son. 260 00:22:07,720 --> 00:22:18,080 The Apostolic grace will always 'cause people to focus on me, 261 00:22:19,080 --> 00:22:21,840 period. Watch this. 262 00:22:22,400 --> 00:22:31,200 We've read that he said the high calling, the perfecting only 263 00:22:31,200 --> 00:22:34,440 comes to equip you for high calling. 264 00:22:35,040 --> 00:22:37,520 It doesn't come for relationship goals. 265 00:22:40,800 --> 00:22:49,280 The high calling watch it, he tells us in Isaiah 60 to get up, 266 00:22:49,280 --> 00:22:54,760 arise shine from get up from that prostrated, prostrated 267 00:22:54,760 --> 00:22:57,960 means face down. In other words, get up from 268 00:22:57,960 --> 00:23:02,800 looking at low living, get up from being focused on this 269 00:23:02,800 --> 00:23:08,280 lowlife, get up from being being get up from the the lesser life 270 00:23:08,760 --> 00:23:11,600 and begin to live a never. The high calling is the 271 00:23:11,600 --> 00:23:16,280 nevertheless life. Stop worried about this and 272 00:23:16,280 --> 00:23:18,680 worried about that and worried about them and worried about 273 00:23:18,680 --> 00:23:20,800 that. Then he says. 274 00:23:21,760 --> 00:23:25,840 Fix your eyes on me and I'll give you perfect What peace you 275 00:23:25,840 --> 00:23:29,120 look at the perfect 1 to get perfect peace. 276 00:23:34,000 --> 00:23:37,360 Ephesians one I always pray that the God of our Lord Jesus 277 00:23:37,360 --> 00:23:41,040 Christ, the Father of glory, may grant you a spirit of wisdom and 278 00:23:41,040 --> 00:23:45,440 revelation that gives you a deep and personal and intimate 279 00:23:45,440 --> 00:23:49,240 insight into the true knowledge of him. 280 00:23:49,400 --> 00:23:53,040 For we know the Father through the Son. 281 00:23:53,320 --> 00:23:56,640 We know the Father through the Son. 282 00:23:56,840 --> 00:23:58,920 We know the Father through the Son. 283 00:23:58,960 --> 00:24:05,640 And I pray that the eyes of your heart, the very center and core 284 00:24:05,640 --> 00:24:09,880 of your being, May. Be enlightened and flooded with 285 00:24:09,880 --> 00:24:14,480 light by the Holy Spirit, so that you. 286 00:24:14,480 --> 00:24:21,840 Will know and cherish I don't want to run over no right here's 287 00:24:21,840 --> 00:24:30,320 what no is like you didn't even think about your chair might be 288 00:24:30,320 --> 00:24:33,560 broke. You just knew it was going to 289 00:24:33,560 --> 00:24:39,760 hold you up see you ready for this when you enter into this 290 00:24:39,760 --> 00:24:42,320 place. I actually don't even have to 291 00:24:42,320 --> 00:24:46,760 think about obedience. I don't have to think about who 292 00:24:46,760 --> 00:24:50,720 I am I don't have to think about if this will work I don't have 293 00:24:50,720 --> 00:24:53,520 to think about will God come through. 294 00:24:53,720 --> 00:24:57,120 I don't have to think about if I'm called I don't have to think 295 00:24:57,120 --> 00:25:00,440 about if I'm anointed I don't have to think about if God is 296 00:25:00,440 --> 00:25:03,200 thinking of me. I don't have to think about if I 297 00:25:03,200 --> 00:25:05,240 can make it. I don't have to think about it 298 00:25:05,400 --> 00:25:07,480 because my I have been enlightened. 299 00:25:07,480 --> 00:25:10,680 I have been. Flooded with light by the Holy 300 00:25:10,680 --> 00:25:12,320 Spirit. I love this image. 301 00:25:12,320 --> 00:25:14,880 It's because when someone is, Have you ever looked at a 302 00:25:14,880 --> 00:25:18,840 floodlight for how long? Not long. 303 00:25:18,840 --> 00:25:24,480 So what he's telling you is there's a measure of depth in 304 00:25:24,480 --> 00:25:29,120 Him that will cause you to not be able to have to see. 305 00:25:32,640 --> 00:25:36,400 It is some stuff. I'm just walking with Jesus and 306 00:25:36,400 --> 00:25:43,960 he's just doing it. I just believe you, God, because 307 00:25:43,960 --> 00:25:48,480 I know that I know that I know that I know that I know that I 308 00:25:48,480 --> 00:25:52,800 know that I know that I know that I know. 309 00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:58,000 And this knowing goes beyond knowing the Greek and Hebrew 310 00:26:00,760 --> 00:26:04,440 'cause there's a whole lot of scholars, biblical scholars, 311 00:26:04,680 --> 00:26:09,480 that don't know. They've been enlightened, but 312 00:26:09,480 --> 00:26:16,200 not enlightened. And cherish the hope, the divine 313 00:26:16,200 --> 00:26:21,200 guarantee, somebody say guarantee the confident 314 00:26:21,200 --> 00:26:23,400 expectation. Somebody say confident 315 00:26:23,400 --> 00:26:28,120 expectation, not a shaken expectation. 316 00:26:28,840 --> 00:26:33,240 It is a confident expectation to which he has somebody say called 317 00:26:33,240 --> 00:26:35,680 you. So everything we just read right 318 00:26:35,680 --> 00:26:49,720 there, he called you to. He called you to He called you 319 00:26:49,720 --> 00:26:54,360 to walk in his life, knowing him on earth as it is in heaven, 320 00:26:54,440 --> 00:27:01,120 knowing unshakeable, unshakeable to reign the riches of his 321 00:27:01,120 --> 00:27:04,560 glorious inheritance. Watch this so that. 322 00:27:04,560 --> 00:27:05,480 You. You. 323 00:27:05,560 --> 00:27:05,960 You. You. 324 00:27:05,960 --> 00:27:09,080 Will know without a shadow of doubt. 325 00:27:09,280 --> 00:27:16,080 Walk in, embrace the riches of his glorious inheritance in the 326 00:27:16,080 --> 00:27:21,680 Saints, God's people, and so that you will begin to know what 327 00:27:21,680 --> 00:27:26,960 the immeasurable and unlimited and surpassing greatness of his 328 00:27:26,960 --> 00:27:30,880 active, active, active spiritual power watch. 329 00:27:30,960 --> 00:27:40,960 This is in US. Oh, there, there, there that 330 00:27:40,960 --> 00:27:48,960 buck go though. Who believe, who believe, they 331 00:27:48,960 --> 00:27:51,920 say, who wondering who's wondering who believe? 332 00:27:53,720 --> 00:27:59,080 These are in accordance with the working of his mighty strength. 333 00:28:01,840 --> 00:28:04,400 Watch this enlightened, enlightened. 334 00:28:04,400 --> 00:28:08,480 Somebody say enlightened. It implies a total shift. 335 00:28:10,920 --> 00:28:12,680 I I, I like this. I like this. 336 00:28:12,720 --> 00:28:26,220 I like this, I like this. I got this older Bible that I 337 00:28:26,220 --> 00:28:31,100 got when I in that 2007 period in my life and I was looking 338 00:28:31,100 --> 00:28:33,780 through it today and it's tore up. 339 00:28:35,180 --> 00:28:39,180 It's tore up. And it just took. 340 00:28:39,180 --> 00:28:40,940 Me. Back to that time in my life 341 00:28:40,940 --> 00:28:43,380 where I made the decision. Decisive dedication. 342 00:28:44,760 --> 00:28:47,000 And I got a wife over there that's a great witness. 343 00:28:47,360 --> 00:28:49,520 You can bring her to the stand anytime you want. 344 00:28:51,920 --> 00:28:54,520 But it was a play, that moment in 2007. 345 00:28:54,520 --> 00:29:04,800 Remember, I was already in him. I grew up in church, went to 346 00:29:04,800 --> 00:29:12,440 church a bunch. And then 2007, I could not 347 00:29:12,440 --> 00:29:15,360 resist anymore answering the call. 348 00:29:21,080 --> 00:29:23,920 Some of you think you answered the call because you serve. 349 00:29:27,320 --> 00:29:36,840 Serving a position in church isn't necessarily. 350 00:29:37,040 --> 00:29:41,720 The call, you're fulfilling a need. 351 00:29:43,840 --> 00:29:47,440 Rather, I pastor at this church or somewhere else. 352 00:29:47,440 --> 00:29:52,240 Or if I don't pastor, I'm called. 353 00:29:53,400 --> 00:29:57,280 If if I don't pastor, I'm not out of my call. 354 00:30:01,280 --> 00:30:06,440 And so much of our understanding of call is connected to our 355 00:30:06,440 --> 00:30:13,960 ability, and then your ability is wrapped up in your identity. 356 00:30:18,320 --> 00:30:25,440 And to be enlightened means a total shift from minimized, 357 00:30:25,760 --> 00:30:31,320 capped out earthly perspective to a broader heavenly 358 00:30:31,320 --> 00:30:35,800 perspective, allowing one to grasp the profound implications 359 00:30:35,800 --> 00:30:40,800 of faith and God's promises. It's about seeing beyond the 360 00:30:40,800 --> 00:30:46,120 surface and understanding the deeper spiritual realities of 361 00:30:46,120 --> 00:30:48,320 light Man. This is all we talk about. 362 00:30:49,800 --> 00:30:53,000 Watch this. Anybody remember heavenly 363 00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:57,040 realities? These are all scriptures we talk 364 00:30:57,040 --> 00:31:03,880 about and now we're here, and the perfect thing is to lead us 365 00:31:03,880 --> 00:31:06,400 to live in this heavenly reality. 366 00:31:06,400 --> 00:31:16,440 Watch this daily. It's about putting the mantle on 367 00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:21,240 and wearing and owning everything that comes with the 368 00:31:21,240 --> 00:31:24,480 mantle. Get your hands off the mantle. 369 00:31:26,080 --> 00:31:28,400 Stop trying to control the mantle. 370 00:31:31,800 --> 00:31:34,680 And I'm talking about there's some of you in here that, that, 371 00:31:34,680 --> 00:31:38,480 that you, you, you ain't even afraid to to dig into what the 372 00:31:38,480 --> 00:31:42,520 call on your life is. Yeah, some of you as pastor, 373 00:31:42,520 --> 00:31:46,320 Yeah, yeah, some of you, God put a word in you and you are called 374 00:31:46,480 --> 00:31:49,160 to be a minister of the gospel, which everybody is. 375 00:31:49,160 --> 00:31:53,080 But you are called to preach the gospel in more than just on your 376 00:31:53,080 --> 00:31:56,400 everyday life. You are called to be a part of 377 00:31:56,400 --> 00:32:01,080 the clergy, called to be a part of an Apostolic team where you 378 00:32:01,080 --> 00:32:03,280 teach, where you preach the gospel. 379 00:32:04,200 --> 00:32:06,240 Some of you need to be, you know, No, no. 380 00:32:06,240 --> 00:32:08,360 Everybody should do the work of an evangelist. 381 00:32:08,640 --> 00:32:13,080 Everybody should win souls. But there are some people who 382 00:32:13,080 --> 00:32:15,880 are called. To be an evangelist. 383 00:32:17,920 --> 00:32:21,880 The way you talk, the way you inspire people, the way you care 384 00:32:21,880 --> 00:32:27,240 about the fish, the way you care about being strategic about 385 00:32:27,240 --> 00:32:32,880 catching you. You go to God and say, God give 386 00:32:32,880 --> 00:32:35,400 me. Wisdom on how to reach that soul 387 00:32:41,440 --> 00:32:46,320 pastor, you care about the people so much and when you're 388 00:32:46,720 --> 00:32:53,240 When that gift is not used in context, you can have unhealthy 389 00:32:55,360 --> 00:32:59,760 pastoral habits and it comes strictly the way reason you love 390 00:32:59,760 --> 00:33:02,440 so hard or even maybe you are codependent. 391 00:33:02,440 --> 00:33:06,680 Some of that is because you got a pastoral call, but the devil 392 00:33:06,680 --> 00:33:13,800 turns it into something else. And it's OK, you care about 393 00:33:13,800 --> 00:33:18,600 those people, but as long. As you are pastoring outside of 394 00:33:18,600 --> 00:33:24,240 putting on the cloak, then it can be manipulated and you can 395 00:33:24,240 --> 00:33:28,120 do more damage to the body and in the world than you can for 396 00:33:28,120 --> 00:33:29,920 good. Let me let me help you. 397 00:33:30,160 --> 00:33:34,000 There is no just general call where you could just treat the 398 00:33:34,000 --> 00:33:38,600 call of God casual. You can't just walk around, be 399 00:33:38,600 --> 00:33:41,960 carrying something and don't have no aim, don't have no 400 00:33:41,960 --> 00:33:44,840 teaching, don't have no accountability, don't have no 401 00:33:44,840 --> 00:34:01,720 mentorship. Then we had a prophet come up in 402 00:34:01,720 --> 00:34:05,240 here, a prophet S and one of the questions before I don't mind 403 00:34:05,240 --> 00:34:08,400 God sending a prophet to our house that ain't a member of our 404 00:34:08,400 --> 00:34:10,360 house. And he, He or she. 405 00:34:10,360 --> 00:34:13,639 Comes to this house and say they have a word from God, but you 406 00:34:13,639 --> 00:34:15,000 ain't about to get no microphone. 407 00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:16,560 Before we asked a couple questions. 408 00:34:16,560 --> 00:34:18,000 Number one, what church you go to? 409 00:34:19,880 --> 00:34:22,040 It was like, you know, I don't got no church. 410 00:34:22,040 --> 00:34:26,239 God got me out on the road. Will you just stay on the road 411 00:34:26,239 --> 00:34:29,639 or you just come get rooted before you just start releasing 412 00:34:29,639 --> 00:34:33,320 words? It's not control when we asking 413 00:34:33,320 --> 00:34:36,400 people to do things in order, it's order. 414 00:34:37,520 --> 00:34:40,800 Show me a Bible with no order and it ain't the Bible. 415 00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:51,159 Jesus was all about order. So you got people that want to 416 00:34:51,159 --> 00:34:54,880 walk around and give people a word in the house but don't want 417 00:34:54,880 --> 00:35:00,480 to be submitted in the house. So so so oh so the Holy Ghost 418 00:35:00,480 --> 00:35:04,360 using you, but you don't want to fall in the line the Holy Ghost 419 00:35:04,360 --> 00:35:07,160 put in place. Talk to me about how that it 420 00:35:07,160 --> 00:35:09,240 don't it don't mean you might have a word. 421 00:35:12,200 --> 00:35:15,440 But what's that thing inside of you that don't want to lay your 422 00:35:15,440 --> 00:35:24,480 gift down for the body? That's why we went over last 423 00:35:24,480 --> 00:35:25,600 week, and we'll keep this before you. 424 00:35:25,600 --> 00:35:32,560 Apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers govern, 425 00:35:33,480 --> 00:35:37,440 guide, gather, guard, and ground. 426 00:35:44,280 --> 00:35:46,520 How many people understand everything about the government 427 00:35:46,680 --> 00:35:47,720 like the. World's government. 428 00:35:48,040 --> 00:35:51,000 Does anybody ever understood everything about the government? 429 00:35:51,560 --> 00:35:52,600 No. Come talk to me. 430 00:35:52,600 --> 00:35:54,840 Anybody ever understood everything about the government? 431 00:35:54,920 --> 00:35:56,440 So how you going to? Understand everything about 432 00:35:56,440 --> 00:35:59,680 God's government then, right, Right. 433 00:35:59,800 --> 00:36:04,080 So when we looking at a governing house or a governing 434 00:36:04,080 --> 00:36:10,640 body, OK, you're not necessarily going to understand how God 435 00:36:10,640 --> 00:36:14,920 moves because he's governing. He he's governing. 436 00:36:14,920 --> 00:36:16,920 Governing looks different than guarding. 437 00:36:17,440 --> 00:36:20,360 Most of the time when I see guarding, I know what I'm 438 00:36:20,360 --> 00:36:24,000 guarding people from and what I'm guarding for. 439 00:36:24,080 --> 00:36:26,640 When I'm teaching, there's very, there's specifics. 440 00:36:26,640 --> 00:36:29,480 I'm grounding you. So there has to be understanding 441 00:36:29,480 --> 00:36:36,480 or there's no grounding, right? If we're in the last days, then 442 00:36:36,480 --> 00:36:47,000 the first is being restored. Bible says in first Corinthians, 443 00:36:47,160 --> 00:36:55,960 first apostles first, second prophets, third teachers, then 444 00:36:55,960 --> 00:36:58,800 workers of miracles. You want to see why we don't see 445 00:36:58,800 --> 00:37:04,000 miracles in a way that we should, but we see them overseas 446 00:37:04,000 --> 00:37:05,600 and stuff, man overseas. Go over there. 447 00:37:05,600 --> 00:37:11,160 There's a lot more churches set up, more like Kingdom, a lot of 448 00:37:11,160 --> 00:37:18,680 honor, lot of order and they doing it with 10s of thousands 449 00:37:18,680 --> 00:37:21,200 of people. Why are we not saying miracles 450 00:37:21,200 --> 00:37:22,760 like that? Like Miracles is supposed to be 451 00:37:22,760 --> 00:37:25,040 for revival nights and even those don't have miracles. 452 00:37:25,240 --> 00:37:30,240 We just, we just fell out in the spirit Christians that are super 453 00:37:30,240 --> 00:37:34,440 healthy and don't need too much material and we and we just fell 454 00:37:34,440 --> 00:37:35,760 out. Whoa. 455 00:37:36,800 --> 00:37:41,960 And we just high Christians you chasing encounters. 456 00:37:43,840 --> 00:37:46,200 But but that ain't even how the church was birthed. 457 00:37:46,800 --> 00:37:49,440 The church was birthed ministering to those that was 458 00:37:49,440 --> 00:37:54,640 not following Jesus through signs and wonders. 459 00:37:58,760 --> 00:38:03,200 When you find a region where all 5 gifts are activated, they are 460 00:38:03,200 --> 00:38:07,120 acknowledged and they are honored, you will see a region 461 00:38:07,120 --> 00:38:12,640 that is unstoppable. He gave these gifts. 462 00:38:12,640 --> 00:38:14,600 Why? We learned his intention was the 463 00:38:14,600 --> 00:38:17,720 perfecting. Somebody say perfecting and the 464 00:38:17,720 --> 00:38:19,920 full equals Somebody say well what does fool mean? 465 00:38:21,360 --> 00:38:22,720 Right. If you ever rented, have you 466 00:38:22,720 --> 00:38:25,960 ever rented a car before? You ever rented a car and you 467 00:38:25,960 --> 00:38:29,160 supposed to return it on what full have you ever returned it 468 00:38:29,160 --> 00:38:29,880 under? Full. 469 00:38:30,360 --> 00:38:35,480 It cost you. It cost you more than if you 470 00:38:35,480 --> 00:38:37,280 would have just stopped and got it filled up. 471 00:38:38,000 --> 00:38:40,920 It costs you because when you don't return the field, part of 472 00:38:40,920 --> 00:38:44,000 you paying for the fuel, but also you're paying for somebody 473 00:38:44,000 --> 00:38:48,000 that have to go do something that's unnecessary if you would 474 00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:53,640 have did your. Part the perfecting, the 475 00:38:53,640 --> 00:38:58,880 maturing, the growing up and the full equipping of the Saints. 476 00:38:58,880 --> 00:39:01,280 We found this out. You guys all got a a last week. 477 00:39:01,720 --> 00:39:05,040 Who who's the Saints? Us. 478 00:39:05,040 --> 00:39:08,200 Me. His consecrated people that that 479 00:39:08,200 --> 00:39:10,520 they here it is here. It is that they who is they? 480 00:39:11,560 --> 00:39:14,880 The Saints and who's the Saints, Right, right, right. 481 00:39:14,920 --> 00:39:16,640 I'm up here, right. I'm one of the five. 482 00:39:16,640 --> 00:39:18,640 I'm one of the five, OK? I'm one of the five. 483 00:39:18,640 --> 00:39:20,240 Go back, go back, go back, go back, go back. 484 00:39:21,040 --> 00:39:24,400 I'm, I'm up in here, OK, I'm up in here. 485 00:39:24,400 --> 00:39:27,040 So up in here, everybody up in here. 486 00:39:27,360 --> 00:39:30,560 Was he is called to do what go, go, go, go, go. 487 00:39:30,800 --> 00:39:35,280 He gave those gifts to do what the maturing and full equipping 488 00:39:35,560 --> 00:39:43,720 of the US's and me's right, and who's the US's and me's Now I 489 00:39:43,720 --> 00:39:46,240 know somebody's going to be like PT you're a St. too. 490 00:39:46,240 --> 00:39:47,720 I am. But go back, go back, go back, 491 00:39:47,720 --> 00:39:49,680 go back, go back. But in this house, God is 492 00:39:49,680 --> 00:39:55,080 ordained me and other people to do it up in here, up in here, we 493 00:39:55,080 --> 00:40:02,320 up in here, we up in here, right? 494 00:40:02,320 --> 00:40:07,120 That's I, I didn't ask for it. I just obeyed, OK. 495 00:40:07,120 --> 00:40:13,440 And I love it it it has an S. So this house ain't just going 496 00:40:13,440 --> 00:40:17,400 to be 1 pastor, 1 evangelist, 1 teacher. 497 00:40:17,400 --> 00:40:19,640 No, God is going to send an equipping. 498 00:40:19,840 --> 00:40:22,480 Let me tell you something. This is, this is, look, I, I 499 00:40:22,480 --> 00:40:25,800 love, I love movie church. I love, I love showing up. 500 00:40:26,040 --> 00:40:28,320 I, I get the idea. But that's evangelism. 501 00:40:31,160 --> 00:40:35,000 That's evangelism. But you can't tell me if you, I 502 00:40:35,000 --> 00:40:37,120 don't care if you got 300 people in your church. 503 00:40:37,320 --> 00:40:39,520 That ain't another teacher. It ain't another pastor. 504 00:40:39,520 --> 00:40:42,840 It ain't somebody else that can go go up on that platform and do 505 00:40:42,840 --> 00:40:47,560 the thing, huh? But there's because the house, 506 00:40:47,760 --> 00:40:52,080 the the the lead gift is not there. 507 00:40:52,840 --> 00:40:55,360 Then there's no activation of the rest. 508 00:41:00,280 --> 00:41:01,920 Watch what? Watch this Watch this Watch this 509 00:41:01,920 --> 00:41:04,200 Watch this. And his intention? 510 00:41:04,200 --> 00:41:10,000 Was to mature, mature mature, mature, grow up, challenge, 511 00:41:12,080 --> 00:41:16,720 shake up. Fully equipping other Saints. 512 00:41:16,720 --> 00:41:18,880 Who's the Saints? One more time, Extra credit. 513 00:41:18,880 --> 00:41:20,960 Extra credit. Who's you? 514 00:41:21,000 --> 00:41:21,800 Me. Us. 515 00:41:21,800 --> 00:41:23,400 Them. Y'all, My neighbor. 516 00:41:24,200 --> 00:41:25,720 Watch this, Watch this, watch this. 517 00:41:26,000 --> 00:41:44,440 Equip you that they, they, they, they should do the work. 518 00:41:45,800 --> 00:41:49,640 Now watch this, watch this, watch this, watch this, watch 519 00:41:49,680 --> 00:41:52,880 this. Good grounds might think their 520 00:41:53,080 --> 00:42:00,120 job is to make coffee and pastries, but depending on who 521 00:42:00,120 --> 00:42:05,600 barista in and who's serving the coffee, if they're not aware of 522 00:42:05,600 --> 00:42:09,160 the call on a life, they stop at making coffee. 523 00:42:10,840 --> 00:42:17,560 Versus understanding that as I am dealing with customers, I can 524 00:42:17,560 --> 00:42:19,880 do the work. I'm anointed to do the work of 525 00:42:19,880 --> 00:42:22,720 the ministry. So there might be a word up on 526 00:42:22,720 --> 00:42:26,000 me to share. There might be a creative way I 527 00:42:26,000 --> 00:42:32,240 could teach something, right? The work is not necessarily the 528 00:42:32,240 --> 00:42:39,720 position. OK, why did I have to call Elder 529 00:42:39,720 --> 00:42:42,520 John out? Ain't he an elder? 530 00:42:42,840 --> 00:42:46,160 Ain't that enough? No, he's an elder in this house 531 00:42:46,360 --> 00:42:52,920 for a specific reason. But I would make a huge mistake 532 00:42:54,080 --> 00:43:02,040 not setting the mantle of profit that is on his life through God, 533 00:43:02,240 --> 00:43:07,360 through Jesus, through the Holy Spirit revealing to me and 534 00:43:07,840 --> 00:43:15,760 acknowledging it, activating it and honoring it and coming 535 00:43:15,760 --> 00:43:19,080 before the people, no matter what you think. 536 00:43:19,360 --> 00:43:23,360 And we are setting a prophet in this house because that's what 537 00:43:23,360 --> 00:43:26,320 he said. He set these gifts. 538 00:43:30,760 --> 00:43:32,200 But he can be like, man, I'm not no prophet. 539 00:43:32,200 --> 00:43:35,120 I'm an elder. Well, you're not an elder, 540 00:43:35,120 --> 00:43:38,320 you're John. Well, you're not John, you're a 541 00:43:38,320 --> 00:43:41,440 son want more than a son? I'm a husband. 542 00:43:42,600 --> 00:43:47,280 See how that work? Which one he male he son he 543 00:43:47,280 --> 00:43:51,960 profit. What is he he light skinned. 544 00:43:52,240 --> 00:43:56,040 What right? What is he right? 545 00:43:56,040 --> 00:44:00,480 When we get down to it, What is he see all these things are 546 00:44:00,480 --> 00:44:02,760 things that God. Fearfully and wonderfully made 547 00:44:02,760 --> 00:44:10,120 him as to assist the call. Right, you, you cute, but you're 548 00:44:10,120 --> 00:44:16,240 not called to be sexy, right? Right. 549 00:44:16,240 --> 00:44:18,880 You're not called to be sexy, but God could use your cute for 550 00:44:18,880 --> 00:44:26,880 the sake of the ministry. OK, God can use my tall God. 551 00:44:26,880 --> 00:44:29,640 God uses intentionally my skin. I'm not, I don't. 552 00:44:29,760 --> 00:44:33,000 I don't look at all man. I was just I was born in the 553 00:44:33,000 --> 00:44:35,560 black community. No, no, no, no, Everybody was 554 00:44:35,560 --> 00:44:39,400 born at the specific time that God ordained in the family he 555 00:44:39,400 --> 00:44:42,000 ordained. That's in the book of Acts in 556 00:44:42,000 --> 00:44:45,800 the region you was you are in. You can call it a mistake all 557 00:44:45,800 --> 00:44:49,720 you want, but God makes none for the perfecting. 558 00:44:51,680 --> 00:44:56,120 So if God decided to make me and put me in this body, well, he 559 00:44:56,120 --> 00:44:59,760 going to use this skin. What the enemy want to do is to 560 00:44:59,760 --> 00:45:06,040 get me ashamed of it. If God gave me a sense of humor, 561 00:45:11,990 --> 00:45:15,470 I can't let you mute. Me because God's going to use 562 00:45:15,470 --> 00:45:17,190 that, but I'm going to get to that in a minute. 563 00:45:17,190 --> 00:45:18,750 Gifts, talents and all that cool stuff. 564 00:45:18,750 --> 00:45:19,950 It's going to bless you. It's going to bless you. 565 00:45:19,950 --> 00:45:21,790 Watch this that it might develop. 566 00:45:22,350 --> 00:45:27,590 Some of you in here, you have stopped at showing up and 567 00:45:27,590 --> 00:45:33,590 serving in a ministry and then when somebody come your way. 568 00:45:34,040 --> 00:45:44,560 And start that maturing. You're like, I don't really have 569 00:45:44,560 --> 00:45:49,040 no time. I don't really, no, you don't 570 00:45:49,040 --> 00:45:55,160 have time to do stuff and do more stuff and do more stuff. 571 00:45:55,840 --> 00:45:59,800 You don't have time for more task and you think someone's 572 00:45:59,800 --> 00:46:06,280 calling you for more task, not understanding that the task 573 00:46:06,960 --> 00:46:14,080 creates proximity. Proximity creates time and time 574 00:46:14,080 --> 00:46:18,560 around the anointing that needs to be imparted is what? 575 00:46:18,720 --> 00:46:24,320 OK, Ask Elisha. Ask Naomi and Ruth. 576 00:46:24,320 --> 00:46:25,320 Why? Why Elisha? 577 00:46:25,320 --> 00:46:27,200 Like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. 578 00:46:27,680 --> 00:46:30,680 Yeah, I could go back over here and I could go back over there. 579 00:46:30,840 --> 00:46:33,320 But there's something on your life that I need to be around. 580 00:46:33,320 --> 00:46:34,880 So I ain't going nowhere. Wherever you go, I'm going. 581 00:46:34,880 --> 00:46:38,360 No, no, no, I'm here. You stopping? 582 00:46:38,360 --> 00:46:41,040 I'm stopping. You start running. 583 00:46:41,040 --> 00:46:44,400 I'm running. And today, man, ain't nobody 584 00:46:44,400 --> 00:46:50,880 chasing after no man. Sure, OK, if you're a Bible 585 00:46:50,880 --> 00:46:55,200 reader, show me where God didn't use nobody. 586 00:47:01,160 --> 00:47:05,280 He had to use somebody so much that he had to send his son to 587 00:47:05,280 --> 00:47:08,400 be a body. So some can be saved. 588 00:47:09,120 --> 00:47:12,160 Somebody. Somebody saved you. 589 00:47:13,880 --> 00:47:17,040 Some human saved you. Yeah. 590 00:47:17,680 --> 00:47:20,600 And to this day, God is still sending men and women with 591 00:47:20,600 --> 00:47:23,480 something that He has put inside of them just for you. 592 00:47:27,920 --> 00:47:29,560 No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. 593 00:47:29,560 --> 00:47:34,560 No, no, no, no, no, no, follow me as I follow Christ. 594 00:47:35,600 --> 00:47:38,880 And the moment you discover I'm not following Christ, stop 595 00:47:38,880 --> 00:47:41,680 following me. Find somebody that's following 596 00:47:41,680 --> 00:47:48,000 Christ, he says. Real, really mature 597 00:47:49,480 --> 00:47:56,600 completeness. Y'all remember Ephesians 4? 598 00:47:56,600 --> 00:47:58,680 Read on Sunday. And you do. 599 00:47:58,680 --> 00:48:00,160 I got 10 people, if you remember that. 600 00:48:00,640 --> 00:48:01,720 Cool. The rest of y'all that wasn't 601 00:48:01,720 --> 00:48:03,320 here. You just got to go listen to the 602 00:48:03,520 --> 00:48:05,120 message. I got to move right along. 603 00:48:07,840 --> 00:48:08,480 Watch. This. 604 00:48:09,600 --> 00:48:12,120 We did, yeah. We read all the Ephesians and we 605 00:48:12,120 --> 00:48:14,960 talked about apathy, right? Then we talked about spiritual 606 00:48:14,960 --> 00:48:23,040 apathy, Lukewarmness. You remember that, right? 607 00:48:23,360 --> 00:48:26,240 Lukewarmness. Has always been in and and it's 608 00:48:26,240 --> 00:48:27,960 a part. It has been a part of the church 609 00:48:27,960 --> 00:48:33,880 revelations. We see the church in Laodicea, 610 00:48:35,080 --> 00:48:40,560 they're rebuked because they were neither hot or cold, but 611 00:48:40,560 --> 00:48:42,400 they were what? Lukewarm? 612 00:48:44,320 --> 00:48:47,560 The Church of Ephesus neglected. They'll get it, They'll get it. 613 00:48:47,800 --> 00:48:52,400 The Church of Ephesus is warned about losing their first love 614 00:48:53,080 --> 00:48:57,120 and needing to repent and return to their initial passion for 615 00:48:57,120 --> 00:48:59,360 God. Here we are. 616 00:48:59,360 --> 00:49:05,120 This has always been in the DNA of the church and in the book of 617 00:49:05,120 --> 00:49:07,880 Hebrews highlights the importance of not neglecting 618 00:49:07,880 --> 00:49:11,000 spiritual growth and actively pursuing a deeper relationship 619 00:49:11,000 --> 00:49:19,520 with God. God warns us of being lukewarm. 620 00:49:19,520 --> 00:49:25,960 He warns us of making our love or or making idols out of 621 00:49:25,960 --> 00:49:29,120 others. And neglecting our first love 622 00:49:29,120 --> 00:49:35,160 and keeping Him first. And then he warns us to not 623 00:49:35,160 --> 00:49:41,160 abandon spiritual growth and actively pursue a deeper 624 00:49:41,160 --> 00:49:45,680 relationship with God. He tells the body to get 625 00:49:45,680 --> 00:49:48,440 creative about spurring each other on. 626 00:49:49,600 --> 00:49:51,360 Right. We are supposed to be active. 627 00:49:51,360 --> 00:49:55,720 That's why I can't hang out with lukewarm people, at least by 628 00:49:55,720 --> 00:50:00,400 myself. I need people hot around me and 629 00:50:00,400 --> 00:50:04,400 lukewarm people because I got to, I got to, I got to make sure 630 00:50:04,480 --> 00:50:09,200 I don't fall into any of this and to act like you are exempt 631 00:50:09,200 --> 00:50:17,280 from this or to ignore when God is sending a warning to this. 632 00:50:20,920 --> 00:50:31,680 We can't be lukewarm, spew you out or fruitlessness, he says. 633 00:50:31,680 --> 00:50:36,240 I'll take it away. So whether you're spewed out or 634 00:50:36,240 --> 00:50:41,560 pruned off, whether you're lukewarm or you're not fruitful, 635 00:50:42,120 --> 00:50:46,880 and what the enemy wants you to do is be so busy focused on 636 00:50:46,880 --> 00:50:52,440 monetary fruitfulness and achievements to show men so you 637 00:50:52,440 --> 00:50:56,200 can get men's approval. And many of us make decisions 638 00:50:56,200 --> 00:50:59,680 based on somebody approving us, not God. 639 00:51:06,200 --> 00:51:10,120 We want accolades that, well, if my name is connected to this and 640 00:51:10,120 --> 00:51:14,920 this and this person and it's this whole the world is, we can 641 00:51:14,920 --> 00:51:18,920 get the same shirt. No, probably not from Walmart, 642 00:51:18,920 --> 00:51:23,000 but you throw a little polo on the shirt. 643 00:51:24,560 --> 00:51:28,000 And automatically people think you got something in your pocket 644 00:51:29,160 --> 00:51:34,880 because you're wearing polo. So you got a whole world that 645 00:51:34,880 --> 00:51:39,320 want name brand. And I'm like, I can't spend 500 646 00:51:39,320 --> 00:51:43,920 on a plain T-shirt because the tag got Gucci on it. 647 00:51:46,120 --> 00:51:48,800 I'll spend, you know, a little something that reigning champ. 648 00:51:50,080 --> 00:51:55,280 $40.50 dollars, 60 bucks, maybe 70 bucks for a nice you know, I 649 00:51:55,280 --> 00:51:57,720 can see color again T-shirt. They'd be selling them in, in, 650 00:51:57,720 --> 00:52:11,220 in, over, in, in Surrey. Watch this Ephesians 420. 651 00:52:11,500 --> 00:52:14,860 But you did not so learn Christ. In other words, you didn't learn 652 00:52:14,860 --> 00:52:18,300 this from T If you really heard the word, assuming that you have 653 00:52:18,300 --> 00:52:22,260 really heard the word, assuming that you have really heard from 654 00:52:22,260 --> 00:52:30,520 the Holy Ghost, you ain't learned that lukewarm stuff from 655 00:52:30,720 --> 00:52:33,160 anointed teaching. You ain't learned that from 656 00:52:33,360 --> 00:52:35,520 anointed leadership. You ain't learned that from 657 00:52:35,520 --> 00:52:37,880 Jesus. You ain't learned complacency. 658 00:52:38,920 --> 00:52:41,240 You ain't learned fear, for God did not give us the spirit of 659 00:52:41,240 --> 00:52:42,640 fear. Where did you learn? 660 00:52:42,640 --> 00:52:45,480 Where did we learn this lukewarm, complacent, passive 661 00:52:45,480 --> 00:52:48,320 church? Where did we learn? 662 00:52:48,320 --> 00:52:50,960 In the Bible? Show me in the Bible, even the 663 00:52:50,960 --> 00:52:57,320 apostle said it is not fair that I should be studying so I can 664 00:52:57,320 --> 00:53:01,480 preach, so I can come serve food. 665 00:53:02,960 --> 00:53:07,600 So we going activate some people to do that so we can do what we 666 00:53:07,600 --> 00:53:10,280 call to do. And when everybody is doing what 667 00:53:10,280 --> 00:53:14,400 they call to do, as faithful as they call to do it, then the 668 00:53:14,400 --> 00:53:18,200 body grows and is strengthened and nobody gets missed. 669 00:53:26,520 --> 00:53:28,440 Yeah, yeah. Burnout ain't going to happen. 670 00:53:28,720 --> 00:53:31,600 Burnout happens a lot because the toe ain't getting the the 671 00:53:31,600 --> 00:53:36,080 toe tired because the the toe tired of carrying the weight. 672 00:53:36,080 --> 00:53:41,280 The big toe should carry, right? The big toe would go out and eat 673 00:53:41,280 --> 00:53:44,440 burgers with the baby toe. We don't want to carry no 674 00:53:44,440 --> 00:53:48,280 weight, right? We will socialize. 675 00:53:49,680 --> 00:53:57,160 We will do community groups way quicker then we'll pick up that 676 00:53:57,160 --> 00:54:01,280 cross of our neighbors. We we'll we'll community group 677 00:54:01,280 --> 00:54:05,640 all day. We'll minister to people all day 678 00:54:05,640 --> 00:54:09,600 on our own, but we won't come up under the equipping in a humble 679 00:54:09,600 --> 00:54:14,040 manner. We won't ask questions that 680 00:54:14,040 --> 00:54:16,960 reveal right. We'll sit and get fed, but we 681 00:54:16,960 --> 00:54:20,240 won't come and ask questions and humble ourselves and say, I 682 00:54:20,240 --> 00:54:23,840 really don't know this, but this is a new way of me doing things. 683 00:54:24,360 --> 00:54:26,200 Can you can you give me understanding? 684 00:54:29,920 --> 00:54:31,120 Right. It's like I'm about to, I'm 685 00:54:31,120 --> 00:54:34,920 about to go get this word. Please go home and make sure 686 00:54:34,920 --> 00:54:42,560 what we preach in is sound based on the word, not based on your 687 00:54:42,560 --> 00:54:47,120 opinion, not based on your. Fear not based on your church 688 00:54:47,120 --> 00:54:53,920 hurt based on the. The the, the word, go, go check 689 00:54:53,920 --> 00:54:58,000 it out. But a lot of time we get fed, we 690 00:54:58,000 --> 00:55:01,560 interpret what we need and we use it for our ministry. 691 00:55:02,080 --> 00:55:07,600 It's great. But when I look at the word, 692 00:55:09,280 --> 00:55:13,320 there's a connection that the church has and there's an order. 693 00:55:15,120 --> 00:55:19,680 And here's the thing, you are not always them. 694 00:55:22,320 --> 00:55:27,320 What I mean by that, our job is to equip you so that you're 695 00:55:27,320 --> 00:55:30,360 equipping them and then when they're equipped, they're going 696 00:55:30,360 --> 00:55:34,560 to have them, they're equipping. So don't think that you always 697 00:55:34,880 --> 00:55:38,200 are here. It is a student you technically. 698 00:55:38,200 --> 00:55:42,640 Are but it's this fear of you're not just going to put me in 699 00:55:42,640 --> 00:55:44,960 student mode all the time. Well, I'm in student mode all 700 00:55:44,960 --> 00:55:49,680 the time. Jesus was in student mode. 701 00:55:51,920 --> 00:55:56,520 It's a healthy system. As much as we stay student, we 702 00:55:56,520 --> 00:56:02,160 also remain teacher. We're all called to make 703 00:56:02,160 --> 00:56:08,560 disciples. The Perfecting Based on 704 00:56:08,560 --> 00:56:12,160 Ephesians 2423. The perfecting starts with the 705 00:56:12,160 --> 00:56:19,480 stripping. Strip yourself. 706 00:56:23,840 --> 00:56:25,240 I love that word. It's aggressive. 707 00:56:26,480 --> 00:56:29,280 It speaks to urgency. There's some of you in right 708 00:56:29,280 --> 00:56:30,000 now. You. 709 00:56:30,000 --> 00:56:32,200 You don't need another meeting. You don't need another 710 00:56:32,200 --> 00:56:33,480 conversation. Strip yourself. 711 00:56:35,040 --> 00:56:39,400 You know how powerful walking with God is, is you can actually 712 00:56:39,400 --> 00:56:43,400 make a decisive decision tonight and actually walk in it like 713 00:56:43,560 --> 00:56:47,200 like like in in June 2007, you asked the greatest, one of the 714 00:56:47,200 --> 00:56:50,000 greatest witnesses in my life, like when I made that decision 715 00:56:50,240 --> 00:56:54,920 like, like I made the decision in June of 2007 and I haven't 716 00:56:54,920 --> 00:56:58,680 turned back ever since in that moment, right, I believe, I 717 00:56:58,680 --> 00:57:02,760 believe, I believe the Lord has told me to tell you guys that 718 00:57:02,760 --> 00:57:06,640 even if you make a date tonight, when you going to make a 719 00:57:06,640 --> 00:57:10,600 decision to walk away from whatever, at least make the 720 00:57:10,600 --> 00:57:12,840 date. But when the date show up, honor 721 00:57:12,840 --> 00:57:15,920 it. You know how people make dates 722 00:57:15,920 --> 00:57:18,560 to get married. You can make a date tonight, 723 00:57:19,040 --> 00:57:21,120 right now. Now, let me tell you, I made a 724 00:57:21,120 --> 00:57:25,560 date and then I almost didn't make it to that date. 725 00:57:26,480 --> 00:57:29,040 It was a close call. I had the audacity to make a 726 00:57:29,040 --> 00:57:32,120 deal with God when he said now, when God say now, he mean now. 727 00:57:33,040 --> 00:57:36,480 And I had some shows booked and I was like, Lord, I got a band. 728 00:57:36,640 --> 00:57:39,960 I don't want to take money off the table because I take money 729 00:57:39,960 --> 00:57:41,560 off the table. I'll take food off the table. 730 00:57:41,720 --> 00:57:46,040 So these last three shows, man car broke down. 731 00:57:46,040 --> 00:57:47,480 All kind of crazy stuff happened. 732 00:57:47,480 --> 00:57:49,680 I barely, barely made it, but I made it. 733 00:57:52,160 --> 00:57:55,040 But I made a date. I heard the call. 734 00:57:55,920 --> 00:57:56,880 And I didn't. Play with it. 735 00:57:58,280 --> 00:58:01,520 And from that month, here's what Here's what happened. 736 00:58:02,040 --> 00:58:08,480 Answering the call, the first step was I dove head first into 737 00:58:08,480 --> 00:58:13,480 discovering what walking in that call meant for my life. 738 00:58:14,040 --> 00:58:17,480 Out of that obedience, God took me to a man of God that rooted 739 00:58:17,480 --> 00:58:20,600 me in faith, taught me all about faith like I've never known 740 00:58:20,600 --> 00:58:23,440 before, and He taught me all about soul winning. 741 00:58:24,160 --> 00:58:27,760 Doctor Godot, I owe him everything when it comes to the 742 00:58:27,760 --> 00:58:30,760 importance of soul winning and the importance of faith 743 00:58:31,840 --> 00:58:35,320 teaching. Part of my Bible being so jacked 744 00:58:35,320 --> 00:58:38,640 up is because the way he taught back then, you know, iPad, he 745 00:58:38,640 --> 00:58:41,360 got iPad now. But man, man, you had your Bible 746 00:58:41,360 --> 00:58:42,520 out. He was a Word of Faith. 747 00:58:42,680 --> 00:58:44,880 You had your Bible out. You had your highlighter out. 748 00:58:45,040 --> 00:58:47,120 He turned with me to you hear number pages. 749 00:58:47,120 --> 00:58:56,600 Turning in the church students. And I said under my wife said 750 00:58:56,600 --> 00:58:58,920 under that word, under that ministry, my wife got filled 751 00:58:58,920 --> 00:59:01,160 with the Holy Ghost. I mean, remember, remember, I 752 00:59:01,320 --> 00:59:03,880 grew up in church. I got filled with the Holy Ghost 753 00:59:03,880 --> 00:59:07,400 in 2007. I got my heavenly prayer 754 00:59:07,400 --> 00:59:09,720 language. I had an encounter and got some 755 00:59:09,720 --> 00:59:12,040 deliverance. And I dove in that word. 756 00:59:12,040 --> 00:59:13,360 I dove in that word. And I was. 757 00:59:13,360 --> 00:59:16,000 Willing to sit in that church under that word, under that 758 00:59:16,000 --> 00:59:20,080 leadership until he had the man of God that was designed to, 759 00:59:20,200 --> 00:59:22,160 that had something that I needed. 760 00:59:23,200 --> 00:59:26,440 I had to be perfected. He said, hey, we need you over 761 00:59:26,440 --> 00:59:28,680 here in the youth ministry. I didn't go to that church to be 762 00:59:28,680 --> 00:59:31,440 a youth pastor. We need you over there in the 763 00:59:31,440 --> 00:59:32,920 youth ministry. Absolutely, Sir. 764 00:59:33,200 --> 00:59:35,520 Not one time did he ever have to check on me. 765 00:59:35,840 --> 00:59:39,520 Once we took it like it was our own. 766 00:59:40,160 --> 00:59:48,040 Was it hard? Yeah, But I I didn't have no say 767 00:59:48,040 --> 00:59:50,720 of what my call was. I said yes. 768 00:59:52,400 --> 00:59:55,840 And I understood that that man, that woman, that family, those 769 00:59:55,840 --> 00:59:59,160 leaders had something in them that I needed or God wouldn't 770 00:59:59,160 --> 01:00:02,000 have brought me there. And so I. 771 01:00:02,000 --> 01:00:04,200 Surrendered under that and I submitted under that. 772 01:00:04,200 --> 01:00:07,200 My wife did and he taught me how to be a husband and he talked. 773 01:00:07,360 --> 01:00:10,400 And a part of my servant is what gave me proximity, because a 774 01:00:10,400 --> 01:00:13,680 part of that servant got me to sit at the table and get 775 01:00:13,680 --> 01:00:18,120 intricate wisdom from the man, not knowing I'll be in Canada 776 01:00:18,120 --> 01:00:19,520 building from the ground. Up. 777 01:00:20,200 --> 01:00:22,800 I saw how he dealt with people. I saw how he dealt with 778 01:00:22,800 --> 01:00:25,320 persecution. I saw how he dealt with people 779 01:00:25,320 --> 01:00:27,560 lying. I saw how he dealt with a man 780 01:00:27,560 --> 01:00:32,680 stealing $1,000,000 from him. I saw how he sold into his 781 01:00:32,680 --> 01:00:34,840 enemies. I saw how he loved his children, 782 01:00:35,000 --> 01:00:37,920 saw how he loved his wife. I saw how he climbed. 783 01:00:38,040 --> 01:00:43,080 Help this church climb out of crazy debt when the economy. 784 01:00:43,080 --> 01:00:46,920 Shifted. I watched and I watched and then 785 01:00:46,920 --> 01:00:49,520 I got the audacity to think I was ready for my own ministry 786 01:00:50,160 --> 01:00:53,760 and boy was that a hard lesson. But the grace of God took me to 787 01:00:53,760 --> 01:00:55,560 another house. I wasn't. 788 01:00:55,760 --> 01:00:59,400 I was OK with walking away from the church that we planted. 789 01:01:00,400 --> 01:01:03,640 That church had my Mama in it. That church had my auntie in it. 790 01:01:03,840 --> 01:01:05,600 That church had my best friend in it. 791 01:01:05,840 --> 01:01:07,560 That church had some other folks in it. 792 01:01:08,120 --> 01:01:10,720 And then I noticed that the church was being. 793 01:01:10,720 --> 01:01:14,680 Purged. I said God, what is this? 794 01:01:17,040 --> 01:01:21,280 He said. Now I know, and immediately we 795 01:01:21,280 --> 01:01:25,160 got up about that YMCA, but before I left, I remember a lady 796 01:01:25,160 --> 01:01:28,280 in our church, Miss Paley, she said when you go to Oakland, you 797 01:01:28,280 --> 01:01:32,400 go visit Bishop Carl Smith. I didn't do it the whole year, 798 01:01:32,400 --> 01:01:35,040 but at that moment when things got purged, I went to the house 799 01:01:35,280 --> 01:01:38,400 and I sat hungry by myself. Hungry. 800 01:01:39,320 --> 01:01:40,880 And I was sitting there and I was doing what? 801 01:01:41,000 --> 01:01:43,600 Taking notes. The Bishop looked over in the 802 01:01:43,600 --> 01:01:46,400 middle of his in his message said Hey son. 803 01:01:47,640 --> 01:01:52,200 You a pastor? I said yes, Sir. 804 01:01:52,240 --> 01:01:55,600 He said I knew it. He said come see me after 805 01:01:55,600 --> 01:01:58,760 church. Went up to him After church. 806 01:01:59,080 --> 01:02:03,080 He came out of his office. I waited on him, came up, shook 807 01:02:03,080 --> 01:02:05,280 my hand. He said where you from? 808 01:02:05,280 --> 01:02:07,240 Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. No, I went to the doctor. 809 01:02:07,240 --> 01:02:09,240 G's church. I'm out of here, man. 810 01:02:09,240 --> 01:02:11,680 I know you're down there. Come see me at our other campus 811 01:02:11,680 --> 01:02:14,200 on Monday. I go to the campus. 812 01:02:14,200 --> 01:02:16,560 First thing he did was walk me to the church bookstore. 813 01:02:17,480 --> 01:02:21,040 First book he put in my hand he had the book was called The 814 01:02:21,040 --> 01:02:25,200 shift from from Pastoral to Apostolic. 815 01:02:25,640 --> 01:02:30,120 God had me sitting for a season to understand faith, understand 816 01:02:30,120 --> 01:02:34,160 who I was in God, understand the promises of God, understand that 817 01:02:34,160 --> 01:02:36,560 whole world, understand teaching the gospel. 818 01:02:37,200 --> 01:02:40,960 Then he took me under another anointing and I sat there for 819 01:02:40,960 --> 01:02:44,360 four years and he had He ordained me to be an elder. 820 01:02:44,520 --> 01:02:46,560 He asked me to be over the youth ministry. 821 01:02:48,360 --> 01:02:52,440 And we served and I'll tell you this, in that time, my wife 822 01:02:52,440 --> 01:02:54,000 wasn't even feeling that church like that. 823 01:02:54,000 --> 01:02:56,400 She loved it. But but but there was something 824 01:02:56,400 --> 01:03:02,640 God had there for me. He gave me that book by by John 825 01:03:02,640 --> 01:03:09,040 Eckhart. And I was like, and that season 826 01:03:09,040 --> 01:03:15,960 God was showing me the mantle and I dove so deep in that 827 01:03:15,960 --> 01:03:19,520 thing. And then I remember reading 828 01:03:19,520 --> 01:03:22,360 because I was hungry for a spiritual father. 829 01:03:22,920 --> 01:03:29,120 I was hungry for covering. I was hungry and my soul began 830 01:03:29,120 --> 01:03:34,680 to long for the relationship I had with Doctor G. 831 01:03:35,040 --> 01:03:37,560 And I remember sending them in, seeing them in a conference. 832 01:03:37,560 --> 01:03:41,360 I remember my friends I had to I wasn't even able to go back and 833 01:03:41,360 --> 01:03:44,560 do certain things because we walked away prematurely. 834 01:03:45,760 --> 01:03:52,640 We thought that the anointing we said under I was ready now 835 01:03:52,640 --> 01:03:55,200 didn't understand the power of what was going on because of 836 01:03:55,200 --> 01:03:58,640 what I was under. That's Bible to go look at it 837 01:04:00,840 --> 01:04:05,720 and I remember I was reading this book like Lord and I. 838 01:04:05,720 --> 01:04:07,880 Understood. I had some unhealthy 839 01:04:08,040 --> 01:04:10,960 expectations from these pastors in my life. 840 01:04:11,480 --> 01:04:15,120 And for once I understood I was expecting them to respond to me 841 01:04:15,120 --> 01:04:19,480 how long my biological father to and I didn't realize that they 842 01:04:19,480 --> 01:04:23,560 were there for my spiritual journey, not my biological 843 01:04:23,560 --> 01:04:28,720 trauma. And once I got context right, I 844 01:04:28,720 --> 01:04:34,000 could receive right. And I remember reading this book 845 01:04:34,000 --> 01:04:39,400 called rooted. I think it was by Pastor Banning 846 01:04:39,400 --> 01:04:42,480 from Jesus culture and man, I read through that book and I'm 847 01:04:42,480 --> 01:04:44,600 glad I don't read books from front to back all the time. 848 01:04:44,600 --> 01:04:47,080 I read the chapters where I need, I need, I need to read the 849 01:04:47,080 --> 01:04:50,160 season man. OK, I don't have no pride like 850 01:04:50,160 --> 01:04:52,520 well, I just finished. The mother book, Nah, give me 851 01:04:52,520 --> 01:04:56,040 the chapter that's going to help me today and went to this 852 01:04:56,040 --> 01:04:58,680 chapter and out of all that, that book wasn't even talking 853 01:04:58,680 --> 01:05:02,320 about spiritual fathers. But I found this spot my wife 854 01:05:02,320 --> 01:05:07,200 had went to the store, pick up the kids and it talked about 855 01:05:07,200 --> 01:05:08,760 covering. I remember being in the living 856 01:05:08,760 --> 01:05:13,080 room and I fell on my face and repented to God. 857 01:05:16,000 --> 01:05:22,000 Doctor G blessed us to go. He would never tell us not to 858 01:05:22,000 --> 01:05:30,560 go. But I had to repent for pride, 859 01:05:31,440 --> 01:05:39,880 orphan spirit, rebellion, and that whole time that I was gone 860 01:05:39,880 --> 01:05:43,160 from Calvary, I was coming to Canada. 861 01:05:46,000 --> 01:05:49,600 After four years of being at this church, this other church 862 01:05:50,320 --> 01:05:53,440 being equipped, the Lord said it's time to go back. 863 01:05:54,160 --> 01:05:58,720 What? Go back and long story. 864 01:05:58,720 --> 01:06:03,640 Short I went back and I remember seeing Doctor G at a conference 865 01:06:03,640 --> 01:06:05,960 and I said, Sir, I'm coming back home. 866 01:06:06,560 --> 01:06:12,800 He's like, good. He's a little bitter because of 867 01:06:12,800 --> 01:06:17,160 what we meant to that house and all that He shared in our lives. 868 01:06:17,800 --> 01:06:20,480 I thought I was called to go and save Oakland. 869 01:06:22,280 --> 01:06:25,760 God used it. God honored it. 870 01:06:26,560 --> 01:06:29,840 That's how I know you can still be out of order, and God will 871 01:06:29,840 --> 01:06:34,320 use it and He will teach you, and He will equip you in your 872 01:06:34,320 --> 01:06:40,040 rebellion. Right, God has a way to make 873 01:06:40,040 --> 01:06:46,840 what your rebellion look like. You hurting and I swore I did. 874 01:06:47,600 --> 01:06:51,080 I had all the reasons. And I remember going back to 875 01:06:51,080 --> 01:06:55,080 Calvary and I remember he was like, I'm not going to let you 876 01:06:55,080 --> 01:06:57,040 be over youth, but you can help my son out. 877 01:06:57,960 --> 01:07:03,000 I was like man, I remember about 10 months in, it was time me and 878 01:07:03,000 --> 01:07:07,280 my wife made the decision because we were made to offer 879 01:07:07,280 --> 01:07:12,320 come to Canada and I'll tell you we struggled in that season of 880 01:07:12,320 --> 01:07:15,320 our lives because of a decision I was making. 881 01:07:15,320 --> 01:07:19,360 But one thing that always is and always will be is I wasn't 882 01:07:19,360 --> 01:07:23,840 afraid to miss God. Trying to find. 883 01:07:23,840 --> 01:07:27,760 God I made quick. U turns quick. 884 01:07:29,320 --> 01:07:31,720 And I remember we talked and it was like, yeah, we feel called 885 01:07:31,720 --> 01:07:33,520 to Canada. We prayed. 886 01:07:34,640 --> 01:07:40,640 And we both agreed if we go to Doctor G and he says, Nope, we 887 01:07:40,640 --> 01:07:44,080 ain't going. I know that's that's just not 888 01:07:44,080 --> 01:07:45,720 this generation, right? We hear from God. 889 01:07:45,720 --> 01:07:47,360 Ain't nobody going to tell me I ain't heard from God. 890 01:07:47,360 --> 01:07:49,840 He didn't tell me and he wasn't telling us. 891 01:07:49,840 --> 01:07:55,640 We didn't hear from God. But we had entrusted him with 892 01:07:55,640 --> 01:08:01,560 our lives in leadership and we went and he was like, it is 893 01:08:01,560 --> 01:08:09,720 time. It is time you guys are ready. 894 01:08:10,360 --> 01:08:14,520 That country needs you guys and I'm proud to see you guys. 895 01:08:19,399 --> 01:08:28,080 Off to Canada, few months in, everything changed. 896 01:08:32,560 --> 01:08:33,600 God, what do you want? Us. 897 01:08:33,600 --> 01:08:37,800 We met the Swains. Elder John. 898 01:08:37,800 --> 01:08:40,520 Don't know. I'm weary because I've been. 899 01:08:40,680 --> 01:08:44,160 I've been searching for a while and now I'm in another country 900 01:08:44,160 --> 01:08:46,160 with my family. My one year old, my 8 year old, 901 01:08:46,160 --> 01:08:52,399 my 10 year old. Elder John, his answer when I'm 902 01:08:52,399 --> 01:08:56,000 asking him for guidance. You should do. 903 01:08:57,840 --> 01:09:00,680 Whatever you think going to lead you to know the Lord the most. 904 01:09:01,640 --> 01:09:07,520 Thanks buddy. Because it wasn't just love 905 01:09:07,520 --> 01:09:12,319 Quest in our mind, it was also being pastor of another church 906 01:09:13,439 --> 01:09:17,399 potentially. We applied. 907 01:09:20,680 --> 01:09:22,920 It was in Dawson Creek. Hallelujah. 908 01:09:27,120 --> 01:09:30,200 And I got bits of bits of wisdom and I do music and things. 909 01:09:30,200 --> 01:09:32,000 I remember getting a piece of wisdom from someone and they 910 01:09:32,000 --> 01:09:34,120 were like, culture goes from the inner city out. 911 01:09:34,720 --> 01:09:38,319 You'll have more impact on British Columbia by being where 912 01:09:38,319 --> 01:09:42,120 culture is derived from than going out and trying to 913 01:09:42,160 --> 01:09:46,000 establish it there. These little pieces, I'm leaning 914 01:09:46,000 --> 01:09:49,680 in, I'm listening, and we decided to start a love quest. 915 01:09:49,680 --> 01:09:51,680 And many of you heard that story. 916 01:09:52,520 --> 01:09:54,000 Few people. And here we are. 917 01:09:54,840 --> 01:09:59,520 We go to New West, Elder said. They're going to give us a try, 918 01:09:59,520 --> 01:10:04,760 they're going to help us out, and we go to Strathcona and 919 01:10:04,760 --> 01:10:12,680 we're still pursuing God and we go now we're here. 920 01:10:13,360 --> 01:10:17,240 The last four years, almost half of our existence in this country 921 01:10:17,480 --> 01:10:23,080 has been waiting on this building, but this building, 922 01:10:23,800 --> 01:10:32,920 Strathcona. Closed doors, the coldness of 923 01:10:32,920 --> 01:10:37,200 some of the church folks in this country, all none of that 924 01:10:37,200 --> 01:10:42,160 determines my call. But all of it perfects me. 925 01:10:45,040 --> 01:10:49,960 And the moment that any one of these journeys stops, I could 926 01:10:49,960 --> 01:10:52,120 have walked through it. COVID was the perfect time. 927 01:10:54,160 --> 01:10:59,360 Perfect. Perfect time to go back home. 928 01:11:00,480 --> 01:11:02,160 It's. Two years in man, let's go back 929 01:11:02,160 --> 01:11:14,080 to Cali, right? And every now and then God will 930 01:11:17,200 --> 01:11:20,920 call again. Not like call again, but remind 931 01:11:20,920 --> 01:11:24,880 you, you called. I haven't forgotten your call. 932 01:11:25,240 --> 01:11:27,640 You would see him with Moses. You would see him with Abraham, 933 01:11:27,680 --> 01:11:31,320 and he'll send an Angel. He'll send signs, and then he'll 934 01:11:31,320 --> 01:11:34,120 pop up and say something and he'll go away. 935 01:11:36,280 --> 01:11:39,240 And I believe this is a moment where some of you have heard the 936 01:11:39,240 --> 01:11:42,480 call on your life. You know, it's a call on your 937 01:11:42,480 --> 01:11:46,640 life beyond just being a Christian, beyond just setting 938 01:11:46,640 --> 01:11:51,160 up chairs. Some of you were born into it, 939 01:11:53,760 --> 01:11:58,840 and the enemy has done so much to discourage you, to water down 940 01:11:58,840 --> 01:12:01,840 the call. No, the call is a thing. 941 01:12:02,640 --> 01:12:08,360 It's not this passive thing. Somebody needs your. 942 01:12:08,360 --> 01:12:12,880 I do. I don't know why I spent time 943 01:12:12,880 --> 01:12:18,200 telling you that long story, but I just know. 944 01:12:22,280 --> 01:12:27,960 I knew when I was a young boy, the way I would look at the 945 01:12:27,960 --> 01:12:31,200 pastors and the preachers and my friends would look at Michael 946 01:12:31,200 --> 01:12:33,200 Jordan. I was looking at Bishop such and 947 01:12:33,200 --> 01:12:36,160 such. And I loved Doctor King and I 948 01:12:36,160 --> 01:12:39,880 loved how how how social leaders brought people together and 949 01:12:39,880 --> 01:12:43,440 advocates and spoke for people. And so when I got to college, I 950 01:12:43,440 --> 01:12:45,560 was like, I want to be a psychologist and a public 951 01:12:45,560 --> 01:12:48,800 speaker. And I found out that's pretty 952 01:12:48,800 --> 01:12:53,880 much a pastor, right? You start putting, you start, 953 01:12:54,160 --> 01:12:56,040 you start making your call secular. 954 01:12:58,920 --> 01:13:02,720 And I think it's very dangerous to not identify call first so 955 01:13:02,720 --> 01:13:05,240 that you can pick major and minor. 956 01:13:08,360 --> 01:13:14,480 You might not discover call in major and minor, but you could 957 01:13:14,480 --> 01:13:19,240 probably save money if you understood call and then picked 958 01:13:22,480 --> 01:13:23,840 the last part of my little story. 959 01:13:23,840 --> 01:13:25,680 I remember that. I think this is to help a couple 960 01:13:25,680 --> 01:13:30,600 people. I remember I was frustrated. 961 01:13:32,080 --> 01:13:35,360 Assigned to play professional baseball out of high school. 962 01:13:40,320 --> 01:13:43,160 Spent some time being an assistant mascot for the 963 01:13:43,160 --> 01:13:45,600 Warriors for one for a partial year. 964 01:13:46,560 --> 01:13:48,280 I worked out in their facilities. 965 01:13:48,280 --> 01:13:51,400 I was around pro ball players. I played against pro ball 966 01:13:51,400 --> 01:13:55,840 players and did very well. And I'm like, God, why didn't 967 01:13:55,840 --> 01:13:59,360 you send me the help to lead me and guide me? 968 01:13:59,360 --> 01:14:03,280 Why was I always on these journeys by myself? 969 01:14:03,480 --> 01:14:05,480 My mom, my grandmother supported me. 970 01:14:06,160 --> 01:14:10,400 They were in the stands. But I'm sitting here fathering 971 01:14:10,400 --> 01:14:14,320 this guy's fathering these kids and I'm like, man, if I had half 972 01:14:14,320 --> 01:14:19,080 of this to have someone pay attention to me and protect me. 973 01:14:19,280 --> 01:14:21,880 And when I'm getting ready to make a dumb decision, they're 974 01:14:21,880 --> 01:14:25,920 there to give me wisdom every day without me running them away 975 01:14:25,920 --> 01:14:28,160 because I'm huffing and puffing because I don't want to hear it 976 01:14:28,160 --> 01:14:32,440 no more. And I remember I almost worked 977 01:14:32,440 --> 01:14:35,720 myself up to be mad at God because I was, you know, I 978 01:14:35,720 --> 01:14:37,760 worked that gap. I worked at Foot Locker, I 979 01:14:37,760 --> 01:14:40,120 worked at the movies, I worked at Taco Bell. 980 01:14:40,280 --> 01:14:46,880 I was just searching for purpose and I remember God so kindly 981 01:14:46,880 --> 01:14:54,720 said what did you were you naturally in, tuned in, engaged 982 01:14:54,720 --> 01:14:58,800 with, passionate about? And loved when you were little. 983 01:14:58,800 --> 01:15:02,360 Like what did you look up to? And I remember. 984 01:15:02,360 --> 01:15:05,400 Sitting there on my own watching Martin Luther King 985 01:15:05,400 --> 01:15:08,720 documentaries. Micah's age, I remember saying. 986 01:15:08,720 --> 01:15:12,080 Doctor Martin Luther King writing my own speech, my own 987 01:15:12,080 --> 01:15:17,800 little freestyle rap for the citywide Black History Month 988 01:15:17,800 --> 01:15:21,000 thing. I remember watching these shows 989 01:15:21,640 --> 01:15:23,400 about leaders. I remember sitting there as a 990 01:15:23,400 --> 01:15:26,960 little boy. I made my Mama stay at church 991 01:15:27,240 --> 01:15:34,040 until the pastor was leaving. That's where I've learned after 992 01:15:34,040 --> 01:15:36,880 church, having meetings with people in the office and when I 993 01:15:36,880 --> 01:15:38,560 walk out, nobody. Else is here. 994 01:15:39,160 --> 01:15:42,080 I grew up seeing it and I remember in that moment God 995 01:15:42,080 --> 01:15:47,920 said, remember your heart used to burn when you saw the pastor 996 01:15:47,920 --> 01:15:50,560 walk out the his office and walk up to the pulpit. 997 01:15:51,200 --> 01:15:53,960 So that's why I understand when the little kids come up and run 998 01:15:53,960 --> 01:15:57,680 up to me and shake my hand and, and, and they come in here with 999 01:15:57,680 --> 01:15:59,600 a, with a suit jacket on with a tie. 1000 01:15:59,800 --> 01:16:02,240 And they and they parents tell me they want to be a pastor. 1001 01:16:03,120 --> 01:16:07,000 I understand that and when you as a parent see. 1002 01:16:07,000 --> 01:16:11,640 That that's God because they can look up, they can come here with 1003 01:16:11,640 --> 01:16:13,720 a baseball bat and be like, I want to be a baseball player. 1004 01:16:16,480 --> 01:16:21,640 And in that moment, Lord says. Son, you were called to do this, 1005 01:16:23,440 --> 01:16:26,280 and ever since that moment, I had clarity and peace that I was 1006 01:16:26,280 --> 01:16:29,040 called. I wasn't striving to do. 1007 01:16:32,800 --> 01:16:38,200 And there's some of you in here. I was about to take you to Noah. 1008 01:16:41,680 --> 01:16:44,840 Noah was called to make an ark because he was the one found 1009 01:16:44,840 --> 01:16:49,960 righteous. Noah had a call, but Noah also 1010 01:16:50,920 --> 01:16:55,160 had a few people that was permitted to go with them. 1011 01:17:00,280 --> 01:17:04,880 Noah was anointed for a purpose, Noah was gifted for a purpose, 1012 01:17:05,760 --> 01:17:07,760 and Noah was talented for a purpose. 1013 01:17:09,760 --> 01:17:12,600 And there's people in here you have lost your way because the 1014 01:17:12,600 --> 01:17:15,880 world through life, you just kind of, I've had to work 1015 01:17:15,880 --> 01:17:17,360 because I have to make ends meet. 1016 01:17:17,840 --> 01:17:19,840 Oh, I got hurt, so I went this way. 1017 01:17:20,440 --> 01:17:22,880 Or when I went to school, I was influenced by this, so I went 1018 01:17:22,880 --> 01:17:24,920 that way. I did drugs, so I went that way. 1019 01:17:25,160 --> 01:17:30,440 Can you get back to when you were pure and innocent and not 1020 01:17:30,440 --> 01:17:32,160 fearful? What? 1021 01:17:32,160 --> 01:17:38,720 What was that thing? What was that thing? 1022 01:17:42,320 --> 01:17:45,960 I remember sitting in Taco Bell or a restaurant and my stomach 1023 01:17:45,960 --> 01:17:49,840 used to turn as a little kid watching humans eat. 1024 01:17:50,200 --> 01:17:53,120 That were by themselves. There was this compassion I had 1025 01:17:53,120 --> 01:17:55,160 for humanity as a little boy and. 1026 01:17:56,320 --> 01:18:00,200 If you pay close enough tension, you see it in different types of 1027 01:18:00,200 --> 01:18:03,080 kids when they're little in their pure state. 1028 01:18:09,160 --> 01:18:12,560 What is it? What have you gotten away from? 1029 01:18:14,080 --> 01:18:18,680 Where in your life were you functioning in call but you 1030 01:18:18,680 --> 01:18:21,400 fail, or you got discouraged or you got disappointed? 1031 01:18:21,400 --> 01:18:25,320 Where was that? You need to repent tonight and 1032 01:18:25,320 --> 01:18:29,240 return because the body needs you. 1033 01:18:30,080 --> 01:18:31,600 So what? You didn't get attention? 1034 01:18:32,240 --> 01:18:33,880 So what? You didn't get paid for it? 1035 01:18:34,600 --> 01:18:36,440 So what? They, they, they didn't like 1036 01:18:36,440 --> 01:18:37,280 you. So what? 1037 01:18:37,280 --> 01:18:39,760 They teased you. So what? 1038 01:18:39,760 --> 01:18:42,080 They didn't value your gift? So what? 1039 01:18:42,080 --> 01:18:44,280 They fired you? So what? 1040 01:18:45,240 --> 01:18:51,080 The call is still on you. Oh, I got married and and my 1041 01:18:51,080 --> 01:18:54,200 spouse don't. It's hard having kids and it's 1042 01:18:54,480 --> 01:19:02,200 stop making family an excuse. God ain't put your call on pause 1043 01:19:02,200 --> 01:19:08,480 till your kids move out. Yeah. 1044 01:19:12,280 --> 01:19:14,680 Who are you? You could put those questions 1045 01:19:14,680 --> 01:19:18,480 up, please. You start with the gifts really 1046 01:19:18,480 --> 01:19:19,920 quickly and I want you to take pictures. 1047 01:19:19,920 --> 01:19:24,760 I mentioned this Sunday and even now be praying there's some of 1048 01:19:24,760 --> 01:19:27,720 you, man, you, you here it is. Some of you are functioning your 1049 01:19:27,720 --> 01:19:29,640 gifts ready for this. Watch this, watch this. 1050 01:19:30,000 --> 01:19:31,320 Now I want everybody stop writing. 1051 01:19:31,320 --> 01:19:32,640 Stop writing. And then we go right. 1052 01:19:32,840 --> 01:19:40,560 Some of you Your insecurity kills your gift. 1053 01:19:45,280 --> 01:19:50,600 You hide. You've hidden, you make excuses, 1054 01:19:52,200 --> 01:19:54,720 you don't mind serving wherever you need me, I'm there. 1055 01:19:55,840 --> 01:19:59,600 But the way you look at your gift, the way you have allowed 1056 01:19:59,600 --> 01:20:02,680 your insecurity to make you see yourself. 1057 01:20:09,240 --> 01:20:10,600 That's. Something you've allowed, and 1058 01:20:10,600 --> 01:20:14,520 maybe it started somewhere where somebody hurt you or didn't 1059 01:20:14,520 --> 01:20:19,760 accept you, but the day of putting your call in somebody 1060 01:20:19,760 --> 01:20:23,400 else's hands that have moved on and probably don't even know 1061 01:20:23,400 --> 01:20:28,600 they hurt you. Like your your gift? 1062 01:20:28,600 --> 01:20:31,560 Should cause you your call should cause you a little bit to 1063 01:20:31,560 --> 01:20:36,240 be shook in your boots like I can't do this exactly getting in 1064 01:20:36,240 --> 01:20:50,750 you don't need it's before that is gift talent. 1065 01:20:53,360 --> 01:20:56,200 And I'm really trying to talk to the depths of some of your soul 1066 01:20:56,200 --> 01:20:57,840 because some of us are so calloused. 1067 01:20:59,880 --> 01:21:03,240 Like you hear me, but you don't hear me because you have 1068 01:21:03,240 --> 01:21:09,200 operated for so long just serving, but not from call. 1069 01:21:09,440 --> 01:21:13,520 Just it's what you do. I grew up in church, man. 1070 01:21:16,040 --> 01:21:19,800 I grew up in church and I've seen it. 1071 01:21:20,960 --> 01:21:22,760 It's so many faithful people in here. 1072 01:21:29,380 --> 01:21:31,300 What are no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no? 1073 01:21:31,580 --> 01:21:35,780 No, no, Before that it's it's the definition of gifts, 1074 01:21:35,780 --> 01:21:49,350 talents, anointing, da da da da. Come on. 1075 01:21:51,550 --> 01:22:01,680 Come on. That boy Noah was given orders. 1076 01:22:04,480 --> 01:22:06,160 Yep, start at what? What? 1077 01:22:06,160 --> 01:22:10,480 One thing that boy Noah was given orders. 1078 01:22:10,640 --> 01:22:16,000 EJ at 500. He had kids. 1079 01:22:17,640 --> 01:22:20,360 The Bible says that the flood came around 600. 1080 01:22:21,760 --> 01:22:25,360 It is recorded that it took about 70, almost 75 or so years 1081 01:22:25,360 --> 01:22:30,040 for him to build. 5075 years somewhere in there one say 100 1082 01:22:30,040 --> 01:22:35,360 year to build this ark. He's building with no rain 1083 01:22:35,360 --> 01:22:39,160 insight. He's building with people 1084 01:22:39,160 --> 01:22:41,480 doubting him and thinking he crazy what's happening. 1085 01:22:42,040 --> 01:22:44,280 He's building family, walking away. 1086 01:22:44,360 --> 01:22:49,160 He's being perfected right? What's the one thing God has 1087 01:22:49,160 --> 01:22:51,640 called you to? And it's OK to write it down and 1088 01:22:51,640 --> 01:22:53,720 say I don't know. But what I warn you of is do not 1089 01:22:53,720 --> 01:22:59,600 play stupid. What's the one thing God has 1090 01:22:59,600 --> 01:23:09,400 called you to #2 what are three gifts and talents you have to 1091 01:23:09,400 --> 01:23:11,160 use? OK. 1092 01:23:15,160 --> 01:23:22,080 I'll explain next slide. Who's the tribe he's gave you to 1093 01:23:22,440 --> 01:23:27,840 trip with? Noah. 1094 01:23:28,760 --> 01:23:33,640 You are the one righteous man. I have called you to be a savior 1095 01:23:33,640 --> 01:23:40,200 to humanity. And here's a gift, a talent, and 1096 01:23:40,200 --> 01:23:41,560 an anointing I'm going to give you. 1097 01:23:41,560 --> 01:23:45,120 You're going to build an ark. I'm going to anoint you to 1098 01:23:45,120 --> 01:23:48,480 preach the gospel or preach. I'm going to anoint you to 1099 01:23:48,480 --> 01:23:51,840 prophecy you. Are going to preach every day on 1100 01:23:51,840 --> 01:23:54,200 that while you're building you're going to tell people what 1101 01:23:54,200 --> 01:23:58,400 I said you're going to tell people that I'm coming you're 1102 01:23:58,400 --> 01:24:00,760 going to tell people that one day God is going to. 1103 01:24:00,760 --> 01:24:05,080 Clean this mess up. Sin has entered the earth and 1104 01:24:05,080 --> 01:24:06,840 God is about to preserve the earth. 1105 01:24:06,840 --> 01:24:10,880 Watch this. And God says you're going to 1106 01:24:10,880 --> 01:24:14,080 build it like this. He gave them days. 1107 01:24:14,080 --> 01:24:16,320 He gave them time. And he said the only people you 1108 01:24:16,320 --> 01:24:21,720 are to take is your wife, your sons, their wives. 1109 01:24:25,680 --> 01:24:29,640 The people who you not call to is a danger to the call. 1110 01:24:30,680 --> 01:24:32,600 Watch this. I told somebody this the other 1111 01:24:32,600 --> 01:24:36,080 day, a friend. And your tribe is two different 1112 01:24:36,080 --> 01:24:38,640 things. I got friends back home that I 1113 01:24:38,640 --> 01:24:42,800 don't talk to all the time. But when we pick up the phone 1114 01:24:42,800 --> 01:24:45,120 and talk, we pick up right where we left off. 1115 01:24:45,920 --> 01:24:52,440 My tribe, Yeah. I miss you if you're not at the 1116 01:24:52,440 --> 01:24:54,240 game. My tribe from the tribe. 1117 01:24:54,560 --> 01:24:56,880 If I can't be in Calgary, I'll say, hey, can you go be with my 1118 01:24:56,880 --> 01:25:00,360 son? My tribe is something different. 1119 01:25:05,240 --> 01:25:07,880 There might be some friends that in a season God will cause me to 1120 01:25:07,880 --> 01:25:10,840 walk away from, but my tribe, God might be calling me to fight 1121 01:25:10,840 --> 01:25:12,960 with and contend for a relationship. 1122 01:25:13,760 --> 01:25:16,520 Who's the tribe he's gave you the trip with? 1123 01:25:17,280 --> 01:25:18,760 He gave them a boarding strategy. 1124 01:25:19,720 --> 01:25:21,160 OK. And then next. 1125 01:25:22,720 --> 01:25:28,360 Where are you graced to stand? What I've come to find out is 1126 01:25:28,360 --> 01:25:32,240 the anointing is to help me exist in the impossible. 1127 01:25:33,720 --> 01:25:38,800 I'm going to say it again. The anointing is given to help 1128 01:25:38,800 --> 01:25:43,840 me exist in the impossible. Because what's impossible with 1129 01:25:43,840 --> 01:25:45,960 God? I mean, what's impossible to 1130 01:25:45,960 --> 01:25:48,920 man, it is possible with the anointing. 1131 01:25:50,640 --> 01:25:56,360 Watch this, watch this, Here you go. 1132 01:25:57,480 --> 01:26:03,200 The calling imparts identity and confidence to operate in the 1133 01:26:03,200 --> 01:26:06,920 anointing that God places upon us. 1134 01:26:06,920 --> 01:26:11,240 Somebody say the calling, it imparts identity. 1135 01:26:11,720 --> 01:26:15,640 When I left the church I grew up in, God took me to a church to 1136 01:26:15,640 --> 01:26:19,040 impart identity at the church I grew up in. 1137 01:26:19,040 --> 01:26:21,880 It was phenomenal. But all I knew was I was saved. 1138 01:26:24,080 --> 01:26:26,560 I knew I was a Christian. It was it was my salvation 1139 01:26:26,560 --> 01:26:32,040 Church. The next church God took me to, 1140 01:26:32,240 --> 01:26:33,680 it was my calling. Church. 1141 01:26:35,440 --> 01:26:42,000 It's where identity was imparted and confidence to operate in the 1142 01:26:42,000 --> 01:26:48,200 anointing that God placed upon my life, right? 1143 01:26:48,200 --> 01:26:50,920 God says, hey, go find the prophets. 1144 01:26:51,440 --> 01:26:53,680 When you get around the prophets, you'll begin to 1145 01:26:53,680 --> 01:26:59,600 prophecy. So here's a hint on some of your 1146 01:26:59,600 --> 01:27:04,360 calls where He sent you to hang out. 1147 01:27:05,440 --> 01:27:08,640 That's what I understood. I don't come with an independent 1148 01:27:08,640 --> 01:27:10,000 spirit. I understand where God is 1149 01:27:10,000 --> 01:27:12,880 calling me. There's an anointing there 1150 01:27:12,880 --> 01:27:17,680 that's called to fall on me. Well, I looked this for example, 1151 01:27:17,680 --> 01:27:20,600 right, for example, right. This young lady right here at a 1152 01:27:20,600 --> 01:27:23,360 Beth, she came here first time she ever came to church in 1153 01:27:23,360 --> 01:27:27,960 language. She tried to act like she she 1154 01:27:27,960 --> 01:27:29,160 walked. She walked like this. 1155 01:27:31,400 --> 01:27:40,920 Now she walked like this. What happened? 1156 01:27:43,040 --> 01:27:47,560 There was something in her from birth, but it wasn't until she 1157 01:27:47,560 --> 01:27:51,360 got in a certain atmosphere around a certain tribe that she 1158 01:27:51,360 --> 01:27:54,920 allowed to activate that we we didn't. 1159 01:27:55,320 --> 01:27:59,160 We've had conversations. PT does it really take all of 1160 01:27:59,160 --> 01:28:01,840 that? No, it's not about taking all of 1161 01:28:01,840 --> 01:28:04,320 that, right? He takes you from this smaller 1162 01:28:04,320 --> 01:28:06,440 place and one way of doing things. 1163 01:28:06,440 --> 01:28:09,680 He puts you in a different atmosphere and you're really 1164 01:28:09,680 --> 01:28:14,160 trying to hold on to what you know, but you don't know the new 1165 01:28:14,160 --> 01:28:17,360 you, right? So he puts you around these 1166 01:28:17,360 --> 01:28:21,680 people because there's something wrong your tribe that once you 1167 01:28:21,680 --> 01:28:27,160 get around them, well, you prophesied courageous, bold, 1168 01:28:27,160 --> 01:28:30,040 unapologetic. Oh, I didn't know. 1169 01:28:30,040 --> 01:28:31,160 I can do. All of this. 1170 01:28:31,360 --> 01:28:36,960 Oh my God, is she doing all the stuff you activated? 1171 01:28:37,560 --> 01:28:40,000 She's teaching people, she's pushing past fears. 1172 01:28:40,120 --> 01:28:42,880 She's holding people accountable, learning how to 1173 01:28:42,880 --> 01:28:47,480 walk that line between love and and and irritation and a 1174 01:28:47,480 --> 01:28:54,840 counterfeit man. It's a beautiful thing, but her 1175 01:28:54,840 --> 01:28:59,480 hunger and what she sacrificed and what she laid down and some 1176 01:28:59,480 --> 01:29:02,520 of the dreams she thought she had, and then she got a new 1177 01:29:02,640 --> 01:29:11,920 desire transplant in our church. This body would not be the same 1178 01:29:12,400 --> 01:29:14,440 without her functioning properly. 1179 01:29:21,730 --> 01:29:23,690 And I can go on and on down the line. 1180 01:29:23,690 --> 01:29:26,610 And you see the enemy try to pick people off and Nah, the 1181 01:29:26,610 --> 01:29:35,210 race is is is is not given to the swift, those who endure next 1182 01:29:35,210 --> 01:29:40,680 slide. The anointing is a special 1183 01:29:40,680 --> 01:29:48,360 endowment of enabling power that gives you the ability to 1184 01:29:48,360 --> 01:29:51,240 complete your assignment. The anointing is to complete the 1185 01:29:51,240 --> 01:29:56,000 assignment. I can't wait to talk about this 1186 01:29:56,000 --> 01:29:58,400 building next door. I cannot wait to talk about what 1187 01:29:58,400 --> 01:29:59,840 these last four years have been about. 1188 01:30:00,040 --> 01:30:03,640 I cannot wait to. Share. 1189 01:30:07,080 --> 01:30:09,280 The stuff that God is saying stand son. 1190 01:30:09,880 --> 01:30:13,240 I know it don't make sense to most of the people but stand. 1191 01:30:14,120 --> 01:30:16,280 I know you look silly, but. Stand. 1192 01:30:17,280 --> 01:30:19,480 I know it don't make no sense. It's better off to tear the 1193 01:30:19,480 --> 01:30:21,280 building down and start from scratch. 1194 01:30:21,600 --> 01:30:24,120 Don't make no sense. You don't own the building where 1195 01:30:24,120 --> 01:30:25,720 you put all that money in there for what are you? 1196 01:30:25,920 --> 01:30:27,560 The people are not going to understand. 1197 01:30:27,560 --> 01:30:31,120 It's OK Stand. What is he doing perfecting? 1198 01:30:34,440 --> 01:30:36,360 I'm anointed to stand in the silly. 1199 01:30:39,640 --> 01:30:43,080 It gives you the ability to complete the assignment once you 1200 01:30:43,080 --> 01:30:48,160 are in front of these great men. I'm anointed to stand in front 1201 01:30:48,160 --> 01:30:51,680 of people who build big buildings for a living. 1202 01:30:51,680 --> 01:30:53,640 And I ain't. I barely even built a Lego 1203 01:30:53,640 --> 01:30:54,520 building. I ain't built. 1204 01:30:54,520 --> 01:30:59,520 I built nothing. But I'm anointed and the 1205 01:30:59,520 --> 01:31:02,320 anointing can take you way further than education can. 1206 01:31:02,680 --> 01:31:06,120 The anointing will allow you to get educated in areas that you 1207 01:31:07,280 --> 01:31:11,960 because the anointing comes to educate you for call not not for 1208 01:31:11,960 --> 01:31:17,080 mere intellect. Next slide, the anointing Watch 1209 01:31:17,080 --> 01:31:18,120 this. Is to help. 1210 01:31:18,120 --> 01:31:22,680 Some of you, a gift is a key that opens doors to bring us 1211 01:31:22,680 --> 01:31:25,560 into the presence of great men. Watch this. 1212 01:31:26,120 --> 01:31:33,200 This brother right here is gifted at the keys. 1213 01:31:35,240 --> 01:31:38,000 Play other stuff he might be gifted to, right? 1214 01:31:38,640 --> 01:31:43,440 Gifted Somebody say gifted. Every definition I'm giving you 1215 01:31:43,440 --> 01:31:51,240 are different, OK? The gift is a key that will 1216 01:31:51,240 --> 01:31:55,480 bring him before great men. The danger is when you get 1217 01:31:55,480 --> 01:31:57,560 before great men, you don't know the call. 1218 01:32:00,040 --> 01:32:05,680 And that's why we often get led to idolizing great men versus 1219 01:32:06,160 --> 01:32:10,080 serving great men and women through the call of on our 1220 01:32:10,080 --> 01:32:13,960 lives. So a gift is a key. 1221 01:32:14,280 --> 01:32:20,040 It opens. And then lastly, the talent, 1222 01:32:20,040 --> 01:32:24,600 watch this. The talent is lower level or 1223 01:32:24,600 --> 01:32:31,400 lower dimensional gifts that undergird our dominant gift to 1224 01:32:31,400 --> 01:32:40,360 bring support and balance. You see the slide, take a 1225 01:32:40,360 --> 01:32:41,680 picture of this one, not this one. 1226 01:32:41,680 --> 01:32:46,000 Watch this talent. This is very important, Troy. 1227 01:32:46,000 --> 01:32:48,760 This is very important, Dylan. This is very important. 1228 01:32:48,760 --> 01:32:52,280 You guys, your talents are not the same as your spiritual 1229 01:32:52,280 --> 01:32:56,240 gifts. Skills are usually inherited, 1230 01:32:56,600 --> 01:33:01,320 passed down from generations to generation. 1231 01:33:02,520 --> 01:33:05,320 Natural talents can develop with practice. 1232 01:33:05,320 --> 01:33:08,440 Spiritual gifts are received, not developed. 1233 01:33:15,280 --> 01:33:17,880 Right. My children, all of them are 1234 01:33:17,880 --> 01:33:24,560 athletic by DNA, and then they're around family and 1235 01:33:24,560 --> 01:33:27,560 culture that's athletic and talented. 1236 01:33:27,560 --> 01:33:31,840 And that's why you see some cultures more talented, 1237 01:33:31,840 --> 01:33:36,160 stronger, taller, shorter, healthier than others. 1238 01:33:36,160 --> 01:33:42,200 You inherit talents, you inherit gifts sometimes, but. 1239 01:33:42,200 --> 01:33:45,440 Natural talents can be developed with practice with spiritual 1240 01:33:45,440 --> 01:33:48,400 gifts are received, not developed complete gifts. 1241 01:33:48,840 --> 01:33:52,560 Batteries included unexpected surprises. 1242 01:33:52,560 --> 01:33:58,600 You can't earn or deserve. God chooses when God places His 1243 01:33:58,600 --> 01:34:02,120 gifts on you. Batteries are included. 1244 01:34:02,240 --> 01:34:04,040 His gifts come with the anointing. 1245 01:34:04,040 --> 01:34:08,960 His gifts come with power. I wasn't a preacher or a 1246 01:34:09,040 --> 01:34:12,440 teacher, but. When I said yes to the call, he 1247 01:34:12,440 --> 01:34:16,440 is put a gift. I was not a a building builder. 1248 01:34:17,280 --> 01:34:22,680 I was not a project manager. There's projects in my life I 1249 01:34:22,680 --> 01:34:27,600 can barely manage my album like, but when it comes to managing 1250 01:34:27,600 --> 01:34:31,000 God's house and he's teaching, there's an anointing. 1251 01:34:31,960 --> 01:34:35,280 I'm sitting there and I'm like, I got to go meet with the 1252 01:34:35,280 --> 01:34:38,000 engineer. I don't know nothing the 1253 01:34:38,000 --> 01:34:41,600 engineer like, but I'm going to go meet with him because what I 1254 01:34:41,600 --> 01:34:48,000 got on me can be the difference with him signing the papers or 1255 01:34:48,000 --> 01:34:50,720 not. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 1256 01:34:50,840 --> 01:34:54,880 The contractor knows more about the process than I do. 1257 01:34:55,120 --> 01:34:58,600 But if the contractor was good enough based on his gifts and 1258 01:34:58,600 --> 01:35:01,480 talents and skills, it would have got the paper signed. 1259 01:35:01,640 --> 01:35:05,840 So I need to show up to the contractor and to the engineer, 1260 01:35:05,920 --> 01:35:08,160 and I'm going to show my smile, my anointing. 1261 01:35:08,320 --> 01:35:10,360 I'm going to talk to you. And I'm going to say, man, come 1262 01:35:10,360 --> 01:35:11,480 on, you're going to have to sign this. 1263 01:35:11,480 --> 01:35:14,520 We've been waiting four years and God's people is ready. 1264 01:35:15,040 --> 01:35:16,480 He's like, OK, don't work, don't work. 1265 01:35:16,480 --> 01:35:17,840 Don't worry. We gonna sign it. 1266 01:35:17,840 --> 01:35:20,400 This sign, we gonna sign it. And that's why the engineer 1267 01:35:20,400 --> 01:35:22,120 signed off on the paper the other day. 1268 01:35:47,040 --> 01:35:49,200 I don't I don't I don't know what the some of this stuff. 1269 01:35:49,200 --> 01:35:50,520 I don't know what it what that mean. 1270 01:35:51,120 --> 01:35:54,080 I don't know what it mean, but I but God then puts here is I'm 1271 01:35:54,080 --> 01:35:57,200 anointed to lead people. So then he knows I'm a builder. 1272 01:35:57,200 --> 01:35:59,880 Look some some folks don't even know this EE role EJ. 1273 01:36:00,200 --> 01:36:04,400 Norbert's not here, right? Norbert's next door right now. 1274 01:36:04,800 --> 01:36:09,320 Nice Norbert, Before Norbert ever came to this church with 1275 01:36:09,320 --> 01:36:12,720 his family, Norbert and our current contractors was the two 1276 01:36:12,720 --> 01:36:15,120 people we were choosing from to do our project. 1277 01:36:15,960 --> 01:36:18,960 God told me to other people, take the other people and they 1278 01:36:18,960 --> 01:36:23,040 have been the blessing we need. Norbert ends up coming by later 1279 01:36:24,080 --> 01:36:26,920 and making this church his church home and bringing his old 1280 01:36:26,920 --> 01:36:33,920 family. Watch this, watch this, watch 1281 01:36:33,920 --> 01:36:38,000 this, watch this, watch this, watch this. 1282 01:36:38,360 --> 01:36:43,760 If Norberg, sure God could do whatever, but Norbert, God said 1283 01:36:43,760 --> 01:36:47,080 no, I need Norbert's soul first Watch this, watch this. 1284 01:36:47,400 --> 01:36:52,560 And now Norbert and his team is a part of the through the ribbon 1285 01:36:52,560 --> 01:36:55,600 part. So he didn't start with us, but 1286 01:36:55,600 --> 01:36:58,480 he got a church home and he got family saved and now he going to 1287 01:36:58,480 --> 01:37:00,080 be a part of the finishing God's house. 1288 01:37:10,040 --> 01:37:12,360 And now he over there right now because we get we doing some 1289 01:37:12,360 --> 01:37:14,400 stuff, we doing some stuff and he over there right now and he 1290 01:37:14,400 --> 01:37:16,960 got his team and God is building his house. 1291 01:37:17,840 --> 01:37:19,120 You don't got to know everything. 1292 01:37:19,520 --> 01:37:22,600 You don't got to make sense. I, I don't know how the kids 1293 01:37:22,600 --> 01:37:26,080 going to do this. I don't, I don't know how in 3 1294 01:37:26,080 --> 01:37:29,400 1/2 weeks. My kid about to go back to 1295 01:37:29,400 --> 01:37:31,920 school and my wife going to go here and then we, it's an 1296 01:37:31,920 --> 01:37:34,000 important year and we got to be here and we got to be there. 1297 01:37:34,000 --> 01:37:36,520 But the church supposed to open and we get in the building in 1298 01:37:36,520 --> 01:37:38,080 October and I need to be here for this. 1299 01:37:38,200 --> 01:37:41,200 I don't know how it's going to be, but he didn't tell me to 1300 01:37:41,200 --> 01:37:43,080 pray about like that. He told me to pray for daily 1301 01:37:43,080 --> 01:37:46,280 bread. Lord, what do you need me to do 1302 01:37:46,280 --> 01:37:48,120 today? There's an anointing for today's 1303 01:37:48,120 --> 01:37:53,640 task, right? And there's rest in that. 1304 01:37:55,840 --> 01:38:00,080 Who are you? Sabotaging your call with full 1305 01:38:00,080 --> 01:38:03,720 of excuses. You busy working? 1306 01:38:03,720 --> 01:38:12,560 Awesome, you still got a call. You don't just love people, you 1307 01:38:12,560 --> 01:38:15,680 don't just care for people. You don't. 1308 01:38:15,680 --> 01:38:18,080 You don't just have people calling you for wisdom and you 1309 01:38:18,080 --> 01:38:21,120 always helping people. What is that? 1310 01:38:23,360 --> 01:38:30,320 God has put a gift up on you. His gift, His person, special 1311 01:38:30,320 --> 01:38:32,920 endowment. Get serious about your call 1312 01:38:33,960 --> 01:38:37,440 because there's pastors in this house, there's teachers in this 1313 01:38:37,440 --> 01:38:40,320 house, God's sending apostles to this house. 1314 01:38:40,560 --> 01:38:44,040 There's evangelists in this house, there's teachers, 1315 01:38:44,800 --> 01:38:47,440 there's, there's, there's, there's, there's so many gifts 1316 01:38:47,440 --> 01:38:49,120 in this house. And when we have the gifts set 1317 01:38:49,120 --> 01:38:52,000 in the house, we're going to see the working of miracles. 1318 01:38:56,360 --> 01:38:59,320 Who are you? If that's you, you don't need to 1319 01:38:59,320 --> 01:39:00,640 stand. You don't need to raise your 1320 01:39:00,640 --> 01:39:03,320 hand, but we're going to take the next two minutes for you. 1321 01:39:04,200 --> 01:39:06,080 First of all, there's some people in here that need to 1322 01:39:06,080 --> 01:39:08,880 repent. I will say it the way it is 1323 01:39:08,880 --> 01:39:12,360 because God said I will throw up if you lukewarm, I'll throw up. 1324 01:39:12,520 --> 01:39:14,760 So he already using gross stuff, right? 1325 01:39:15,240 --> 01:39:23,720 I am saying because I have to. It is disgusting how you have 1326 01:39:23,720 --> 01:39:31,560 let hurt calls you to minimize the anointing on your life. 1327 01:39:34,000 --> 01:39:37,200 It is disgusting how you have allowed family members who have 1328 01:39:37,200 --> 01:39:40,000 walked in a call you might be called to or just say the 1329 01:39:40,000 --> 01:39:45,360 ministry in general and you've allowed that or the enemy to 1330 01:39:45,360 --> 01:39:49,000 cause you to be like God. And some of you in here, I hear 1331 01:39:49,000 --> 01:39:51,600 it so clearly. You've said God, you don't even 1332 01:39:51,600 --> 01:39:54,400 need to use me. That is disgusting to your 1333 01:39:54,400 --> 01:39:57,840 father that he would call his child and you would look at him 1334 01:39:57,840 --> 01:40:00,000 and say I'm cool if you don't use me. 1335 01:40:07,830 --> 01:40:10,630 It's been frustrating. It don't look how you think it 1336 01:40:10,630 --> 01:40:17,190 should look, but where we're heading, you got to grow up. 1337 01:40:18,360 --> 01:40:21,320 There's a call on your life, stop making excuses. 1338 01:40:21,680 --> 01:40:25,520 And you got to be skillful if he's blessed you to be in a 1339 01:40:25,520 --> 01:40:28,920 family and grow up in a community and a culture with 1340 01:40:28,920 --> 01:40:32,480 natural gifts and talents. How dare you sit on your gift 1341 01:40:32,920 --> 01:40:37,560 and just oh, I can hear music, or I could just play music or I, 1342 01:40:38,400 --> 01:40:40,200 I just naturally love to do this. 1343 01:40:40,200 --> 01:40:42,880 Or I, I can write. I'm a good writer. 1344 01:40:42,880 --> 01:40:44,120 I did good in. English. 1345 01:40:46,920 --> 01:40:56,320 Maybe you're a prophet and God's called you to write books, not 1346 01:40:56,320 --> 01:41:01,000 stand on a platform. Maybe you got to write books 1347 01:41:01,000 --> 01:41:05,080 about what God is saying today. Maybe, maybe maybe maybe your 1348 01:41:05,080 --> 01:41:11,960 teacher. I don't know what it is, but 1349 01:41:11,960 --> 01:41:15,360 where I started, I didn't have a definition. 1350 01:41:16,240 --> 01:41:19,600 I just had a call and I said yes. 1351 01:41:21,480 --> 01:41:29,160 And when I do, and I don't know who you are tonight, but I felt 1352 01:41:29,160 --> 01:41:31,880 it when Annabeth was singing earlier, right before I came up, 1353 01:41:32,160 --> 01:41:35,680 that there's some people we need to repent and take this moment 1354 01:41:35,680 --> 01:41:39,720 seriously because there's some people not being helped because 1355 01:41:39,720 --> 01:41:47,760 you have watered down your call. And you gifted and you talented, 1356 01:41:48,680 --> 01:41:50,040 and you just take it for granted. 1357 01:41:51,720 --> 01:41:54,480 What if God? Took it and gave it to somebody 1358 01:41:54,480 --> 01:41:58,240 else. You know how it is. 1359 01:41:59,360 --> 01:42:01,360 You give away something that you thought you didn't want. 1360 01:42:01,360 --> 01:42:05,040 When you see them wear it, you like, wait a minute, give me 1361 01:42:05,040 --> 01:42:13,720 that shirt back. You take the next two minutes. 1362 01:42:14,520 --> 01:42:20,120 And between you and God, you start with repenting. 1363 01:42:20,120 --> 01:42:22,440 And if you need to write stuff down, whatever. 1364 01:42:23,080 --> 01:42:29,360 But I'm here to tell you that if you can hear today, it is your. 1365 01:42:29,360 --> 01:42:34,680 Time God is calling his sons and daughters home. 1366 01:42:37,760 --> 01:42:42,480 The prodigal son did not go home just to go home. 1367 01:42:43,800 --> 01:42:46,400 The prodigal son said I'm about to go back home in my father's 1368 01:42:46,400 --> 01:42:51,200 house and I'm about to serve. Sons and daughters coming home 1369 01:42:51,200 --> 01:42:54,800 is not just people missing from church, it's also some of you 1370 01:42:55,160 --> 01:42:58,600 getting back in your rightful position and just. 1371 01:42:58,600 --> 01:43:00,880 Start with total surrender. Lord, here I am. 1372 01:43:02,080 --> 01:43:07,800 I don't know what it looks like, I forgot, but Lord, shine your 1373 01:43:07,800 --> 01:43:12,880 light. On the mantels that you put on 1374 01:43:12,880 --> 01:43:18,240 me, here it is, Timothy. Stir up the gift. 1375 01:43:21,960 --> 01:43:27,760 Take these next few moments and allow the Holy Spirit to stir up 1376 01:43:27,760 --> 01:43:32,240 the gift. He'll bring definition as you 1377 01:43:32,240 --> 01:43:33,960 go. I'm still learning. 1378 01:44:05,640 --> 01:44:11,760 Ero Noah was doing the same thing every day for over 50 1379 01:44:11,760 --> 01:44:14,240 years. Some of you are frustrated 1380 01:44:14,240 --> 01:44:16,240 because you've been doing the same thing. 1381 01:44:20,600 --> 01:44:26,880 It all sound crazy until the flood comes and when people 1382 01:44:26,880 --> 01:44:30,960 around you see that ark get lifted up and you start selling 1383 01:44:30,960 --> 01:44:57,640 away. No need to be confused about the 1384 01:44:57,640 --> 01:45:22,160 call anymore. Yes, Lord. 1385 01:45:34,320 --> 01:45:41,240 Yes, Lord. Yes, Lord. 1386 01:45:45,760 --> 01:45:54,000 Yes, Lord. Yes, Lord. 1387 01:46:05,160 --> 01:46:08,520 Stop running. Stop running. 1388 01:46:08,520 --> 01:46:09,920 Stop running. Stop running. 1389 01:46:12,480 --> 01:46:15,040 Surrender. Yes, Lord. 1390 01:46:17,440 --> 01:46:21,920 Yes Lord. Yes Lord. 1391 01:46:28,000 --> 01:46:34,120 Yes, Lord. Yes, Lord. 1392 01:46:41,200 --> 01:46:47,920 Yes, Lord. Yes, Lord. 1393 01:46:51,720 --> 01:47:07,680 Yes, Lord. Yes, Lord. 1394 01:47:16,400 --> 01:47:26,770 Yes, Lord. Yes, Lord. 1395 01:47:41,080 --> 01:48:04,150 Yes, Lord. Whoever this is for you can the 1396 01:48:04,150 --> 01:48:07,910 anointing is capacity. It gives you capacity. 1397 01:48:11,360 --> 01:48:13,320 What is God purging out of your life? 1398 01:48:16,080 --> 01:48:19,920 What is God calling you to? Just take the next step. 1399 01:48:20,480 --> 01:48:24,800 Just take the next step. You're yes today. 1400 01:48:24,800 --> 01:48:27,680 God's next step for you could be man, I need you to clean up your 1401 01:48:27,680 --> 01:48:29,960 diet. Yeah, that's a part of call 1402 01:48:33,000 --> 01:48:35,600 'cause he needs you to be healthy, serving his people. 1403 01:48:42,120 --> 01:49:04,630 Yes, Lord. Well, PJ and I, we love you guys 1404 01:49:04,630 --> 01:49:13,110 to the bottom of our hearts. And we want to see you and God's 1405 01:49:13,110 --> 01:49:22,920 people perfected, complete. And I'll tell you this when 1406 01:49:22,920 --> 01:49:29,880 talent and gifts, anointing and call are all working together, 1407 01:49:30,680 --> 01:50:09,520 there's no greater fulfillment. Yes, Lord, that's what he's been 1408 01:50:09,520 --> 01:50:17,320 maturing you for. So he can get you to the Yes 1409 01:50:17,320 --> 01:50:20,840 Lord. The perfecting is when He takes 1410 01:50:20,840 --> 01:50:30,480 you from yes to I Do be careful in this season how you are 1411 01:50:30,480 --> 01:50:35,360 hearing. God the devil wants to take you 1412 01:50:35,360 --> 01:50:39,280 out of environments that are perfecting you and put you in 1413 01:50:39,280 --> 01:50:42,680 environments that are going to make you dull. 1414 01:50:43,960 --> 01:50:46,760 I've been there when I've been excited and I've been new and 1415 01:50:46,760 --> 01:50:48,760 I'm coming alive and I love my church. 1416 01:50:48,760 --> 01:50:53,280 And then I hear this call and I thought it was and. 1417 01:50:55,040 --> 01:50:59,200 A lot of times God could be calling you today for later. 1418 01:51:02,440 --> 01:51:06,560 He could show you a promise today that's we're down there 1419 01:51:07,440 --> 01:51:08,160 be. Careful. 1420 01:51:08,160 --> 01:51:14,480 How you hear in this season because the worst thing you 1421 01:51:14,480 --> 01:51:17,840 could do. Is press pause on the perfecting 1422 01:51:22,200 --> 01:51:27,040 thank you Lord thank you Lord thank you Jesus. 1423 01:51:40,840 --> 01:51:46,400 I want every keyboard player to play under the anointing every 1424 01:51:46,480 --> 01:51:51,680 single singer play under the anointing every musician to play 1425 01:51:51,680 --> 01:51:55,400 under the anointing every. Usher to serve under the 1426 01:51:55,440 --> 01:51:58,520 anointing. Hospitality under the anointing. 1427 01:51:58,520 --> 01:52:01,760 I don't want us to be so position oriented that we don't 1428 01:52:01,760 --> 01:52:04,400 understand the call. The purpose. 1429 01:52:04,640 --> 01:52:06,920 Why do we endure? Because of the call? 1430 01:52:06,920 --> 01:52:09,480 Why do we persevere? Because of the call? 1431 01:52:09,640 --> 01:52:11,960 Why do we love people because of the call? 1432 01:52:11,960 --> 01:52:14,400 Why do we forgive because of the call? 1433 01:52:14,600 --> 01:52:18,280 Why would we take the the unpopular route because of the 1434 01:52:18,280 --> 01:52:19,640 call? Why do we go through the 1435 01:52:19,640 --> 01:52:21,440 wilderness instead of the short route? 1436 01:52:21,680 --> 01:52:23,680 Because of the call. The call. 1437 01:52:23,960 --> 01:52:25,840 The call is where the anointing is. 1438 01:52:25,840 --> 01:52:31,200 The call is where provision is the call is where peace is the 1439 01:52:31,200 --> 01:52:37,960 call. Say yes, children of God, yes 1440 01:52:37,960 --> 01:52:40,640 Lord. Gideon was perfected. 1441 01:52:40,640 --> 01:52:43,040 Mary was perfected. Elijah was perfected. 1442 01:52:43,040 --> 01:52:45,960 Elijah was perfected. Ruth was perfected. 1443 01:52:45,960 --> 01:52:48,360 Naomi was perfected. Paul was perfected. 1444 01:52:48,360 --> 01:52:53,080 Timothy was perfected. Matthew, Mark, Luke, John 1445 01:52:53,080 --> 01:52:57,680 perfected, James perfected. Stephen was perfected. 1446 01:52:57,680 --> 01:53:02,640 Mary was perfected, Moses was perfected from the front to the 1447 01:53:02,640 --> 01:53:06,840 back. Let us make men in our image and 1448 01:53:06,840 --> 01:53:10,240 in our likeness. Pick up your cross, carry it 1449 01:53:10,240 --> 01:53:15,320 daily. Ambassadors of Christ call to 1450 01:53:15,320 --> 01:53:19,960 the ministry of reconciliation. How can they hear the gospel 1451 01:53:19,960 --> 01:53:24,560 unless someone be sent? How can they be saved? 1452 01:53:25,480 --> 01:53:31,600 Preach the gospel, teach the gospel, share the gospel, win 1453 01:53:31,600 --> 01:53:41,920 souls, make disciples. Heal the sick. 1454 01:53:42,880 --> 01:53:46,840 The work of the ministry cast out demons. 1455 01:53:46,840 --> 01:53:51,320 The work of the ministry prophesied the work of the 1456 01:53:51,320 --> 01:53:59,920 ministry the work. It's not merely the work of 1457 01:53:59,920 --> 01:54:04,360 programs for Sunday, but it's the work of day-to-day ministry. 1458 01:54:04,360 --> 01:54:06,840 Marriage, the work of the ministry. 1459 01:54:06,880 --> 01:54:09,240 Parenting, the work of the ministry. 1460 01:54:10,240 --> 01:54:16,640 Kings, the work of the ministry. Athletes, you have the work of 1461 01:54:16,640 --> 01:54:19,240 the ministry. Baristas, there's the work of 1462 01:54:19,240 --> 01:54:22,200 the ministry. Wherever God calls you, there's 1463 01:54:22,200 --> 01:54:28,480 the work of the ministry. Rise up, soldiers, rise up. 1464 01:54:28,480 --> 01:54:37,800 Saints. Be perfected, be equipped, be 1465 01:54:37,800 --> 01:54:42,800 complete in him that you may know, be rooted in. 1466 01:54:42,800 --> 01:54:50,920 Love that you may know. May your inner man be 1467 01:54:50,920 --> 01:54:58,400 enlightened that you may know. This is your time, This is your 1468 01:54:58,400 --> 01:55:05,360 season to carry the image and the likeness of your Savior, to 1469 01:55:05,360 --> 01:55:11,000 walk in the power of the Holy Ghost, to rise up as sons and 1470 01:55:11,000 --> 01:55:13,920 daughters. This is your time and this is 1471 01:55:13,920 --> 01:55:18,880 our season. Sure, the bumper crop is coming, 1472 01:55:19,840 --> 01:55:23,920 but even greater than the bumper crop is the fruit of the Spirit 1473 01:55:23,920 --> 01:55:27,240 being up on your life. You will have joy. 1474 01:55:27,240 --> 01:55:30,160 You will have peace. You will know how to have 1475 01:55:30,160 --> 01:55:32,400 long-suffering. You know you will know how to 1476 01:55:32,400 --> 01:55:35,480 stand in the midst of adversity and persecution. 1477 01:55:35,840 --> 01:55:37,800 You can make it through that rough thing. 1478 01:55:38,400 --> 01:55:42,760 You can. You can that very thing you're 1479 01:55:42,760 --> 01:55:45,120 going through right now. God is saying, can you let my 1480 01:55:45,120 --> 01:55:47,600 life shine? That's the work of the ministry. 1481 01:55:48,320 --> 01:55:51,200 Can you love your enemies? That's the work of the ministry. 1482 01:55:53,080 --> 01:55:57,000 Can you skillfully win someone, lead someone to me? 1483 01:55:57,000 --> 01:56:09,480 That's the work of the ministry. And God is restoring mantels in 1484 01:56:09,480 --> 01:56:12,560 your bloodline. I'll say it one more time. 1485 01:56:13,640 --> 01:56:17,960 God is restoring mantels in your bloodline. 1486 01:56:23,680 --> 01:56:26,760 So I declare double for your trouble. 1487 01:56:30,840 --> 01:56:34,640 The mantle your father laid down you are anointed to pick up. 1488 01:56:35,600 --> 01:56:38,280 God has a finishing assignment for your father. 1489 01:56:39,040 --> 01:56:41,440 He has a finishing assignment for your father. 1490 01:56:42,680 --> 01:56:45,440 But you are going to carry that mantle through the ribbon for 1491 01:56:45,440 --> 01:56:47,880 your family. Hallelujah. 1492 01:56:50,680 --> 01:56:54,640 There is no mantle in your bloodline that will be lost. 1493 01:56:55,040 --> 01:56:57,600 You will raise children to carry their mantle. 1494 01:56:57,960 --> 01:57:01,000 You will raise your children to raise their children to carry 1495 01:57:01,240 --> 01:57:11,280 their mantle. Before Jesus returns, your 1496 01:57:11,280 --> 01:57:15,960 bloodline will be completely restored. 1497 01:57:21,000 --> 01:57:22,920 Run your. Leg of the race. 1498 01:57:25,320 --> 01:57:29,520 I cannot wait to hear the testimonies. 1499 01:57:30,040 --> 01:57:33,720 I cannot wait to hear from some of you eager people as God has 1500 01:57:33,720 --> 01:57:41,240 stirred you up saying I'm ready. I can't wait till you go Bug. 1501 01:57:41,240 --> 01:57:49,120 Elder Roseanne and Elder John, Elder Brett, Elder Stacy, you 1502 01:57:49,120 --> 01:57:53,320 just whoever you talk to. I cannot wait to hear the I'm 1503 01:57:53,320 --> 01:57:59,560 readies, but even more than hear it, I cannot wait to see the 1504 01:57:59,560 --> 01:58:04,640 soldiers marching, cannot wait to hear the stories of what God 1505 01:58:04,640 --> 01:58:08,720 is doing in people's hearts. And This is why the temptation 1506 01:58:08,720 --> 01:58:12,080 to take your talent to wherever you can get big time paychecks 1507 01:58:12,080 --> 01:58:15,360 and you can get on bigger platforms and we prostitute our 1508 01:58:15,360 --> 01:58:17,880 gifts and that's not what it's called to do. 1509 01:58:19,240 --> 01:58:22,960 You are gifts in God's hands that He uses to build His 1510 01:58:22,960 --> 01:58:27,680 church. So I come against manipulation. 1511 01:58:31,880 --> 01:58:41,360 I come against the devourer of gifts and talents and calls that 1512 01:58:41,360 --> 01:58:46,080 you will not be moved by greener grass. 1513 01:58:53,840 --> 01:58:56,480 But you will hear clear who's meant to go in the ark with you, 1514 01:58:58,440 --> 01:59:01,440 and you won't add and you won't take away. 1515 01:59:06,320 --> 01:59:13,560 But it's time. It's urgent. 1516 01:59:21,120 --> 01:59:24,960 Not only the body, but the world needs you. 1517 01:59:26,680 --> 01:59:33,360 They need you all of creation, standing on tiptoe waiting for 1518 01:59:33,360 --> 01:59:39,320 you to grow up, waiting for your coming out party. 1519 01:59:42,240 --> 01:59:47,280 And I declare before this year is out, you will be rooted in 1520 01:59:47,280 --> 01:59:48,040 your. I do. 1521 01:59:52,080 --> 02:00:00,480 May the wavering cease and the fruitfulness increase. 1522 02:00:06,400 --> 02:00:10,280 Let your yes be yes, yeah, no be no. 1523 02:00:12,920 --> 02:00:18,120 And Lord, your servant submits to you, your children. 1524 02:00:19,360 --> 02:00:28,920 Ready standing at attention to hear what the Father has for 1525 02:00:28,920 --> 02:00:36,360 them. Lord, impart your heart, impart 1526 02:00:36,360 --> 02:00:48,480 your burdens, and the one thing we ask, just as Moses, if you do 1527 02:00:48,480 --> 02:00:58,040 not go with us, we not going. We need your presence, so we 1528 02:00:58,040 --> 02:01:05,600 submit our lives to you, our gifts to you, our talents. 1529 02:01:05,600 --> 02:01:13,480 We cast our crowns at your feet and we say Lord use whatever and 1530 02:01:13,480 --> 02:01:24,520 whenever we just want you, nothing else in Jesus name, 1531 02:01:25,840 --> 02:01:33,000 Amen. Look at your neighbor and just 1532 02:01:33,000 --> 02:01:34,120 say don't play with this. We need. 1533 02:01:36,280 --> 02:01:46,800 The fear of the Lord. Thank you so much for tuning 1534 02:01:46,800 --> 02:01:49,320 into this week's sermon. We pray you were challenged, 1535 02:01:49,320 --> 02:01:52,880 equipped and encouraged. Make sure to follow us on all 1536 02:01:52,880 --> 02:01:56,080 platforms. That's love quest Intl church. 1537 02:01:56,320 --> 02:01:58,560 We out here for real. We're really doing it. 1538 02:01:58,560 --> 02:02:01,520 That's Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and TikTok. 1539 02:02:01,880 --> 02:02:04,000 You can find us anywhere you need to find us. 1540 02:02:04,160 --> 02:02:06,040 But until next time, you know the drill. 1541 02:02:06,040 --> 02:02:09,280 You know the motto, get your love fixed man and we'll see 1542 02:02:09,280 --> 02:02:09,960 y'all real soon.