Hallelujah. So I won't open up with Romans
chapter 5 verse number 17, Romans chapter 5 verse number 17
and will launch out from this scripture.
Hallelujah. For If by one man's offense
death, reigned by one much more, they, which receive abundance of
grace, and the gift of righteousness, the gift of
righteousness, shall reign in life by one.
Jesus Christ, let me read it again.
For If, by one man's offense, that's Adam death.
Reigned by one much more. They, which receive abundance of
Grace, which comes through Jesus Christ.
And the gift of righteousness, which comes through Jesus.
East shall reign in life. This isn't when you get to
heaven. This is now there's a mandate
within the kingdom of God that we rain.
Now say that we rain now we rain.
Now, the word rain means to exercise kingly, authority to
rule, Metaphorically the word rain means to exercise the
highest influence, so God has called you to be influencers.
Matter of fact, I submit to you this morning that you're, you
are change agents in today's culture.
You are change agents called by the king to Reign and exercise
the highest influence in our culture.
Today, without you nothing changes in our culture.
There are no insignificant members within the body of
Christ and you need to know your god-given purpose in your
god-given role so that you can influence in your sphere, where
God has placed you the word influence from the 1828,
Webster's Dictionary means moral power.
Our moral power. It means power of Truth.
Operating on the mind, it denotes power whose operation is
invisible, but it's only known by the effects.
So influence is invisible to people that literally see on it
on a daily basis, but they can feel the effects of your
presence wherever you're at. They can feel the effects of
your presence. The Latin word for influence
middle. Literally means to flow in into
or on. To flow in into or on think
about what you do, there's 168 hours in 7 days.
And you're influencing somebody within those seven days, whether
you're at work, whether you're at the grocery store, whether at
the gas station, whether you're at home, or wherever you're at
is a place of influence for you to flow in into her on that
moral power, that power of Truth operate on your mind, doesn't
need to stay within you. The reason the dead Sea's dead,
because it has all Inlet and no Outlet. and God didn't design
you to get all this word on a Sunday morning or a Wednesday
night or two Services, during the week that we have an anchor
Faith Church not to do anything with There's an expectation.
You are responsible for what you're listening to you right
now. To whom much is given much is
required. And so what you're getting, you
need to be able to take it and flow in into, or on what
wherever you're at on a daily basis.
God has called us. In the Great Commission.
I'm going to tell you, take you to both locations where the
Great Commission is located in Mark chapter 16 and Matthew 28.
But the vision of anchor Faith Church you can see it on that
wall back there. It says to ignite the city
impact the nation and influence the world.
That is a vision statement of anchor Faith Church.
And if you're a member participating together with
anchor, Faith Church, then you're called to do that
assignment. Ignite, this city impact, the
nation and influence the world. And let me show you how
scripturally accurate this is. In Matthew chapter 28, verses 19
through 20 Matthew chapter 28, verses 19 through 20.
This is one of the great commissions of the Lord Jesus
Christ. This is not a suggestion, this
is not an invitation. But this is a Divine commandment
a Divine Commandment that he wants you to work out in the
Earth. In Matthew chapter 28 verse
number 19. Through 20 verse 19, through 20
says, go you King James version says, ye interpreted means you
go, he go you, that's talking about you The first we're going
Plies action. If you want to influence the way
that God has designed you to influence and you have it a
mentality that I have to take action faith.
Has an action to it. Go, you go, you.
It doesn't say, go the fivefold ministry.
The Apostle Prophet. Pastor events and teacher says,
go you, therefore, and teach All Nations.
We're doing night. The city impact, the nation
impact the nation. Go you?
Therefore and teach All Nations. Now that were nation in the
Greek means ethnos, where we get the term ethnic groups, from
that's all Races. All tribes all colors.
There's nobody excluded from the kingdom of God, God desires,
that all would be saved and come to the knowledge of the true
salvation is part of God's plan, the knowledge of the truth.
Is the other part and we need to, we need to walk and operate
in truth to be great influencers in this age.
He says, so teach all ethnic groups.
All Peoples, all multitudes, all tribes.
Don't leave anybody out. We have a Great Commission
ordained by God. We're anointed by the Holy Ghost
to go out into the nation and teach.
All people teach means that we need instruct them in the way of
righteousness, we need to impart instruction to them.
We need to instill Doctrine into them, we need them really to be
rooted and grounded. There is a lot of flakiness even
in churches. We don't want to be flaky.
We want to be solid in the word of God operating in fully
functional. According to the holy word, the
holy writ of God Almighty, and he has mandated us to go out and
to teach all ethnic groups. So, we need to impart and struct
and, and give them solid Doctrine.
It says, baptizing, them in the name of the Father, the Son, and
the Holy Ghost, baptizing them. That means to cleanse by dipping
or submerging to walk. Wash to make clean with water.
Thank God. We're going to do water baptism
and the second service, that's one action.
But you realize in Hebrews chapter 6, it says there's
baptisms and I submit to you today, that just you listening
to the word right now, it the word is equated to water in the
Bible and there's a refreshing. There's a renewing, there's an
impartation. There's a cleansing that's
taking place right now. By the words that are being
spoken. Do you receive that?
You're going to leave today with Clara thoughts.
And clearer vision because the word is being spoken.
It's not about a man. It's about the message of the
holy word of God. Baptizing them in the name of
the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost.
It goes on to say, teaching them to observe all things
whatsoever. I have commanded you.
So there's a standard within the kingdom of God, that were taken
to the nation's every tribe. Every multitude, every race were
teaching them to observe what God has commanded.
Then he says, lo I Am With You Always even to the end of the
world. The other Great Commission is
found in Mark chapter 16. So we're to impact this nation,
right? Let's say that we are to impact
this nation. In Mark chapter 16 verse number?
15? This is the other part of the
Great Commission, both of these are stated by the Lord Jesus
Christ, at the end of his Earthly Ministry, before he
ascended, and was seated at the right hand of the father and
he's still alive. He's still well, and he still
makes intercession will work the god.
At the right hand of the father commission means this act of
committing or sending the act of entrusting as a charge or Duty.
So when we see a Matthew 28, and what will read in mark, In is
what God has entrusted us. He's given us something to do.
And now we need to be responsible to fulfill the duty
that he's given us. He's authorized us to act on his
behalf. He's authorized us to act on his
behalf if you don't say anything.
Nothing will change. Lack of lack of contact. lack of
influence, lack of the kingdom of God, expanding If nobody
reaches out, nobody gets touched as a church, we need that we
need to be action-oriented with these two commissions that he's
entrusted us with. Mark 16:15, says, he said unto
them, go you into all the world. Now, listen to Matthew 28, he
said to go and teach All Nations where to impact the nation were
to reach every ethnic group, but he uses a different word for the
Great Commission of Mark chapter 16.
He says go ye into all the world and part of the vision statement
of acre-feet church is to influence the word.
Remember, Romans 5:17 were called to reign as kings.
That means to exercise the highest influence.
Hallelujah. Go, ye once again, go ye it's
action. You go you into all the world,
preach, the gospel. The good news to Every Creature.
Now, the word creature in the Greek means the original
formation. The Establishment you realize
back in Genesis chapter 1 and 2, we see the creation of mankind
and God said, when you're preaching the gospel you're
talking to something that was that's dead on the inside of
them because they were born into sin and now you're ministering
to them. You're speaking to their
original formation that God wanted in their life, which is
for his Spirit to be living on the inside of them.
You see when you receive Jesus Christ, as your lord and your
savior, your old Spirit, your dead spirit is gone and you You
receive a brand new nature on the inside of you.
You become the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus.
When you call on the name of Jesus, as your lord, then you're
saved. And the olden of the old nature
goes away. There's a brand new nature.
A second Corinthians 5:17 says that this way, if any man be in
Christ he's a brand new creation.
Going all the world and preach the gospel to Every Creature.
Why? So they could be a brand new
creation in Christ, Jesus. Hallelujah.
Now, the word world is different than the word Nation.
The word world in the Greek is Cosmos and it literally means an
apt and harmonious Arrangement or Constitution.
It means orderly arrangement. It really talks about a
structure or systems are you with me?
This is vitally important, so that you can be connected with
what anchor Faith Church is called to do in this city,
nation and world. So the word world means
structure or systems or Arrangements.
The church fulfills its mandate when it changes Society.
Not when it's confined to the sanctuary and Sunday School
classes. The church is to build the
kingdom of God in the world. The church is to build the
kingdom of God in the cosmos. Listen, I'm going to give to you
about eight different structures or systems when we think about
world that are operating in the Earth right now, there's a
spiritual and social structure that's taken place.
We listen, we there's a lot of social media that goes around
right teens or is every t on social media.
Know how many of you are not on social media.
One, two, three, four. Wow, Hallelujah.
But that's one. That's one factor.
One structure that we have is a spiritual to social.
You could call it the religious, or the social structure of a
society. We need to be impacting things,
listen. I remember Pastor Brian telling
me one time, that some, some pasture typed out, a bunch of
random keys on Facebook, right? And said that she was praying in
the spirit. Now, we laugh, but that's sad.
That's why we need to teach All Nations.
That edifies nobody. This is why we need to have.
We need to be rooted and grounded in the word of God.
We need to take back the airwaves but typing up random
key saying you're praying. The holy spirit is not one way
to impact the social media Outlet.
There's a minister right now in Georgia who goes into high
schools, listen to this. And he's impact in the social
structure and high schools. That's another education is
another sphere of influence in the word world.
All right, we got the spiritual religious social.
The education is another structure in every society, but
this ministry, he goes, and he reads The Message Bible, but he
doesn't say it's the Bible. Why?
Because we need to be wise as serpents and harmless as doves.
And if he goes in and he says, I'm getting ready to preach the
Bible to you in a public setting.
Guess what? They're going to shut him down.
But he's giving biblical principles in the education in
that world and that Arrangement and that structure.
He's bringing the word of God in the public schools and then they
allow him. They know he's a minister.
They allow them to bridge. Those teenagers from the
inspirational speeches that he gives over to a church.
He gives them information to get to church, we need that gift.
We need people and packed in the social.
We need people impacted the religious.
Environment to because we need sound Doctrine in the church.
Another. Area in the word.
World is government and politics.
We need men and women of God anointed to go in these into
these areas. Are you listening Church?
If nobody reaches nobody gets touched, we need people in the
spiritual, the social, the religious Arena.
We need people in the education Arena.
We need people in the government and political politics Arena.
It's not Republican, it's not Democrat.
It's the kingdom of God. The same way that Minister goes
into public schools is the same way.
That some of you in this room are some future members of
anchor, Faith Church can go into the political Arena and preach
The Message Bible with the principles and make golly
legislation based off the word of God with.
Not even saying it's the word of God.
But then you know who gets all the glory when things start
changing and prosperity starts happen and you'll get
testimonies like like Daniel and Isaiah when they went before the
leaders of their day and they started saying there's no God
like the god of Isaiah there's no God.
Like the god of Daniel. Another Factor another area
arena. And the word world is the
business and the economy, business and economy.
I believe, with all of my heart that we should have some of the
sharpest Minds in the kingdom of God, some of the most creative
people. You listen and teenagers.
What has God put on the inside of some of you?
What business has he put? Listen, Josiah was eight years
old when he became king. It is not too early for you to
start following God. You're listen.
I I praise God because you're starting younger than I did.
I got born again at about 22. You you're getting ready to
Embark upon a camp this week that's going to help further
your journey and the kingdom of God.
And you're ahead of me. And I thank God for that because
you're going to be World Changers.
Just continue to follow him and seek him first but what creative
ideas he put on the inside of you, what business?
Are you passionate about business?
Then that's what God's call cheated too.
So do it with all of your heart. He wants you to, he wants you
to, he wants you to go in that world or that sector of society
and take over the kingdom of God does not negotiate.
The kingdom of God takes over. You should be prospering, like
nobody else is prospering. It takes wisdom from God, it
time, it takes time waiting upon him, but a god idea, what
bringing all the provision for your household.
And for the kingdom, Pastor Earle always says, you know,
giving is like water going through a hose once again, the
Dead Sea. If you, if you retain all your
riches to yourself. With no Outlet.
Things are going to start, get stinky when there's all inflow
and no out go. I could talk about your
digestive system. Right now, you'll be in a lot of
pain for anybody's been spiritually, constipated.
It's more blessed to give. Than it is to receive, he
provides seed to the sower. The hose gets wet, is what
Pastor Earle says. So, we just need to be a conduit
of blessing. There's an entertainment factor
in society. We need, thank God for the
movies, like, courage, and Facing the Giants, and the war
room and other Christian films that have gotten in and done.
Well, in the box office, we need to overtake that there's enough
junk. Out there if you know impacting
and really perverting people's minds.
We need to take back that sector of society.
You could still get people's attention with these Godly
movies. I've heard many people say,
wouldn't it be awesome to see to see somebody produce a movie
about the life of David? Forget, 300.
Forget Gladiator. What about the life of David?
That would be an epic adventurous film.
That could be on the big screen that promotes the kingdom of
God. And we need to tell it, right.
Y'all know what I'm talking about?
Of haven't seen some movies but I know some people get
frustrated because when they do produce some of these movies
that The plots just doesn't line up with the word of God, But for
those that are called in that world, we need to make sure that
we get it accurate, there's an anointing upon it.
My wife and I couple of years ago for maybe a year and a half
ago we went out on a date and saw God's Not Dead 2, great
movie at the end, they showed literal schools that were you
know, that teachers are being persecuted for, for name in the
name of Jesus Christ. Great movie.
There's in the so the entertainment sector in the
world. There was a sports arena.
Hallelujah, we need to infiltrate, we need right Role
Models, not men or women that have that are all full of
dysfunction. And that other kids are looking
up to and their life's. In shambles, we need anointed
men and women to go in this the sector.
This this part of the world, the word part of the cosmos and and
to do it to the glory of God, we need more Tim.
Tebow's I heard of Tim Tebow and I want to believe with all my
heart that this is true. I wasn't there.
But I'm I'm quoting something that I heard that when he was a
freshman and he went into the University of Florida and he's
working out in the weight room. There's people cussing all
around him. And the story that I heard is he
started going around saying, please don't use that language
around me. By the time he was a senior
because of the respect. What he stood for the character
that he displayed on a daily basis?
I heard there was very minimal cussing in the weight room.
One man there's 100 and there's 100 and I'm sorry this.
There's 100/10 scholarships given and footballs that right
Tony 110. I think so one man and there's
Walk-Ons to one man changed the course of the weight room with
maybe 120 130 people. We need people in that in that
Sports sector of society. The family is another sector of
society and my Lord we need functional families, the church.
Listen, the church is only as strong as the families that are
in it. So you need to rise up and be
the best man that God created you to be or be the best woman
because God does not get the gender wrong.
He created them male and he created them female.
So you either born a male or you're born a female, and God
never changes his mind about that.
So, be the best man. Listen, just because your mail
doesn't mean that you're a man, though because real manhood is
found in the greatest example of the Lord Jesus Christ. and
really real Womanhood is found in that same example because he
gave the principles, he gave the characteristics, he gave the
anointing so quit being so, fussy with your spouse and do
your roll, So many times, we're looking at what they're not
doing what can you do to influence them?
God is not going to judge you based upon what your husband or
wife did or didn't do. He's going to judge you based
upon what you did or didn't do if you're single and desire to
get married, preparation is the evidence.
You believe, something's coming, you don't wait until we start
pyramidal Council, you start getting ready right now.
Hallelujah. So he wants us in this Great
Commission to go into all the nations and all the world.
The vision of anchor, fetch at churches, to impact the nation
and influence the world. We need to, we need to spread
out our influence everywhere. People should miss you when you
leave the room right, Andrew, because your presence isn't
there because you're a container.
Of the Holy Spirit. And when you leave, something's
missing. Hallelujah.
I want to go to Matthew 13:33. Matthew 13:33.
Glory to God. There's much work to be done
what a journey that we have with him Matthew 13:33.
Jesus, now there's several Several Parables with, in
Matthew 13, but I just want to key in on one of them.
Jesus also use this illustration.
The Kingdom of Heaven is like yeast.
A woman used in making bread, even though she put only a
yeast, a little yeast in three measures of flour.
It permeated every part of the do The Kingdom of Heaven is like
yeast. A woman used in making bread,
even though she put only a little yeast in three measures
of flour. It permitted every part of the
do. Now, we need to understand what
who the woman is in this story. Every time, the female context
is used in the Bible. It's referring to the bride of
Christ. Which is the church.
You're a spirit man in a male or female body, but never less.
You're a spirit man. So there's no gender in the
spirit. But we all are Bride of the
Christ. So he's talking about a woman
that put a little yeast into the do, he's talking about the
church, going into the nation, the church going into the world
and putting yeast into the. Do I want to give you some
characteristics of yeast? Yeast is inactive in the
package. As long as we're just listening
in these four walls and we're not doing anything outside of
these four walls were inactive. We need to have more than just a
yeast convention on Sunday mornings.
This stirs us up to go out go you into all the nations, go you
into all the world and take the yeast that's on the inside of
you and put the principles into the nation and put the
principles into the world yeast as helpless and insignificant in
the package. It does not work unless it's
poured out into a different environment.
You need to take, what God's giving you the gifts, the
callings the grace and pour it out into society.
Society. what yeast does not work until heat supplied some of
us when heat supplied we want to back off But I submit to you
today, God is just galvanizing you to get you stronger for the
greatness that he has on the inside of you.
The way that they used to temper swords in the Old Testament,
they put it in the fire. They would take it out of the
fire. They beat it with a hammer, they
put it on a cold water water to solidify the molecules, and then
he put in the fire. Again, the more they put in the
fire, the more they be the hammer, the more they put under
cold water, the stronger that steel became yeast.
Only works when heat supplied your life, only gets stronger in
Christ. When you passed the test in the
trials, all of us, go through storms, all of us goes through
situations, but we The Grow Up In Christ, you can overcome,
you're a winner, not a loser, in Jesus Christ.
Arise. Get a backbone stand up.
Don't complain don't murmur don't criticize operating the
love of God. Operating the faith of God
operating the anointing of God, put your shoulders back, your
chest out and said I'm a child of God.
And I will overcome. This ain't no devil it.
He'll going to defeat me. Bring the heat call pressure.
Your servant not your master. If you fail in the day of
adversity, the Bible says your strength is small.
God will bring it to you again. Some of you been going around
the same mountain, and God is just waiting for you to pass the
test because it's in you there's different seasons and unlike the
Florida educational system God will not just pass you.
He waits for you to get over the test and get on to the next area
of greatness. I sent my wife.
A text yesterday, says the reverence of the Lord expands
your life. Whoo.
Expands man, just referencing, God walking in his steps.
Walking his authority overcoming the test the trials.
Some of your bent over with the devil on your back, you need to
stand up straight and get them off until you are willing bold
and brave enough to go in a different environment.
You will not maximize your god-given potential.
The story of the Good Samaritan. some wondered what others would
say about them if they went to him, Remember the guy that was
on the street? Broken down busted and
disgusted. The Good Samaritan.
Others passed by thinking. What would others say if I went
into that environment? We need to be bold enough.
We have more than enough of the anointing not to listen that do
never affects the yeast. The yeast always affects the do.
The world shouldn't influence us, we should influence the
world. Yeast is not concerned about the
size of the do yeast. Doesn't shrink back when it sees
a big thing a do and say that's too large for me to get into.
No, we need to have the attitude of the Kingdom that says, the
kingdom of God is advancing, and it's taken over.
And yeast, even though it's small, it can do great things.
Yeast is a hidden Lively Force. Yeast doesn't abandon the dough.
Once you get into the do, the principle should permeate that
do even when you're gone, they should still speak speaking the
principles. You want to have such an
influence into the nation's into the world that they can't get us
out. You know, there's a story.
Matthew 25 there was a five talents given to One Two Towns.
Another one talent to the third one. and in that story, the five
took what he had and he gained five more, he went The second
one he had to, he went the one that only had one.
He went and hid what he had. He never maximizes potential, he
hid it in the ground. Jesus came back and said at
least you could have put it in the bank.
So what a gain, some interest, how hard is that?
To get on your donkey and go to the drive-through teller.
And put it in the bank. At least it will gain interest,
but he makes a principal in this.
He says occupy till I come the word occupying, the brick means
is spread out your influence until everything feels the
impact of your presence. Occupy means to spread out your
influence until everything fills your presence.
Hallelujah. I want to give you three keys to
your life in Christ and fulfilling what God's put on the
inside of you. To reach the nation's and the
world. And I want to say this one thing
before we dive into these three keys.
What angers you when something said on the news, Or what's your
passion? Most likely.
That's one of those Arenas of the world that God has called
you into If you see something and I know just politics in
general, could fuel, a lot of people.
But if you have this passion that I literally would love to
get into that world. And start making an influence.
That's most likely God's pan plan and path for your life.
If you feel gifted like man, God I had this athletic ability and
I just love playing sports that could be God's purpose and
passion for you in life. And he wants you to keep him
first and to go into that world and influence it.
If you love social media not because of how many likes you
got or how many friends you have, but you just have this
anger on the inside that something needs to be done.
There's a lot of junk out there and I want to get some godliness
in the airwaves and are not going to do it by typing out
letters and saying I'm praying other tongues I'm going to find
wisdom and God how to infiltrate the airwaves.
So these are the keys. I want to give you two
scriptures before we launch out into these Proverbs. 13 23 says
this Proverbs 13 23 from the living Bible Proverbs 13:20 3.
This is from the living Bible. It says abundant food is in the
fallow uncultivated ground of the poor.
To get that abundant food is in the fallow uncultivated ground
of the poor. Listen that that means that
there's more in you than you realize.
You think that I'm poor and I'm never going to make it.
You need a break the poverty mentality off and start
cultivating some riches into your life.
And these three keys will help you to get there and help you to
influence the nation and the world.
Number one, you need to organize things.
The word organized Define means this to arranged by systematic
planning and effort effort. Work is not a cuss word.
And work was in God's original plan.
Work is one of the ways that you exercise your god-given Dominion
in the Earth. Your job.
May not be your work. But your work is your purpose.
so deranged by systematic planning and effort to set up an
administrative structure for Listen, there was a Madman at
Galleria, he was confused. He was all over the place in his
mind. Has anybody ever been there?
I mean, thoughts going this way, that way, this way, that way.
But when you have an encounter with the Living God, everything
changes and Luke chapter 8, verse number 35, it says about
this madman who used to cut himself Torture himself.
But he had an encounter with Jesus organization came to him.
It says, people rushed out to see what had happened.
A crown crowd soon, gathered around Jesus.
They saw the man who had been freed from the demons, he was
sitting at Jesus feet fully clothed and perfectly sane.
There was order an organization that came to his mind, where
there used to be confusion, there was purpose.
Where they used to be chaos. A plan started to be formed.
Psalms 37 23 says, this is steps of a good man are ordered by the
Lord. The first key is organization.
The steps of a good man, are ordered by the Lord and God
Delights in his ways. First Corinthians 14, 40 says,
let all things be done decently and in order, if you're going to
impact the nation and influence the word and cultivate, what
God's given you, you need to organize your life and it only
comes The grace of God habakkuk chapter. 2 verses 1 through 3,
amazing scripture that I came across back in 2008.
And it talks about the prophet habakkuk, praying to God asking
him for direction and we get in the second verse and it says
write the vision down and make it plain.
So out of his prayer time, came organization and came order and
came Direction in 2008 was a very pivotal time in my life.
I was working for Enterprise Rent-A-Car.
I had been there since 2006 about when Angie, and I first
moved down to help out with the ministry.
In 2004, we had a job with the st.
Augustine use Services serving as a house parents, wonderful
job. We got to influence 8.
That was a sector of society and we went to that world and once
one psychologist said, you're the best house parents I've ever
seen. It wasn't us.
It was the anointing of God. We had a one kid that was on
crack. Or I'm sorry it's mother was on
crack when he was born. So he had their remnants are the
effects of it. They said his neurons weren't
firing correctly, but under the anointing that kid was sharper
in his thinking and Claire. We use, we had the favor of God
to bring them to church. We fought for it.
I mean they said you can't force him, but we kind of just said
we're going Yeah. But then in 2006, God called us
to adopt three kids and I to leave that job and got a job
with Enterprise Rent-A-Car. Pastor Marcus was there too.
And I tell you what, as I was there for two years and started
away on me, things start to become heavy.
My mind started become clouded. There was wait, there was
anxiety. There was pressure.
In this Rent-A-Car business, you know?
You do, they expect you to run 90 to 92 percent occupancy all
the time and their niche in the market was replacement Vehicles,
which means, on Monday morning when everybody that got in a
wreck is dropping their car off at the body shop, guess what?
Enterprise has a lot of contracts with all the major
insurance companies that we're going to provide rental cars for
you? Well, that's great.
But they want you to run 90 to 92 percent occupancy over the
weekend. And it's a 24-hour billion
cycles. So when people on the on the on
the on the pleasure side are written a car at 4:00 for their
getaway weekend, guess what? They don't have to bring the car
back to a floor clock on Monday, but we got 35 reservations on a
Monday morning at the body shop. On top of all this Enterprise
wants you to have a really 100% on their Esq, either Enterprise
service Quality Index call that goes out to their customers.
So we got 35 reservations on a Monday morning with, you know,
three cars. We got car.
Preps Pastor Marcus can testify. We got car, preps, all of our
employees scattered across st. Augustine, dropping people off
your mind, has no clue how and when you're going to get a car
back, I mean, you're trying to take notes, I gotta go to this
business that business. I got to take two people, just
to deliver a call, your your praying for cars to come back,
right? so, when you're done with work
at noon on Saturday, which was relevant, never really knew
because you always get that phone call at 12:55 from a
customer that just park their RV down at Ocean Grove.
And you think in great, that was my extra car for Monday morning.
You're thinking about it, you know.
So this just weighs on me weighs on me but I the God, you know,
God is so good. I came across a book in 2008
when I was a branch manager at 4355 buh-zard Ford and it
changed my life because my mind was not an organization and I
was not impacting the nation or influence the world.
Because if you're not healthy and strong, how can you pour
out? Are you listening?
You got to get built up first before.
You can give out to others. But I intersected a book man, it
changed my life because it went to this biblical principle and a
back about goal setting. and I remember specifically, It
happened right after one hellacious incident where we had
a corporate customer waiting on a car.
I had no cars and I'm like an hour late and we got to deliver
the car to the corporate account.
I think it was one of those Grand Marquis.
Oh, Lord. That they bought cheap member
but they were like, the old lady car, but we're in them as
premium cars. But nobody wanted them because
they had to call him shifter, that's how old it was.
But we're like, you know, you get excited, we got a premium
car for you. And then you see their face, you
see their face with it. You got anything else but I
think it was that car that came back and nobody's in the branch.
I'm trying to get cars on by myself.
And on top of that, we are responsible to service.
Bozarth Ford customers. I mean, we're in their location,
literally, because if we're not there, guess what hurts will be
there? I'm serious.
So I remember thinking all great A car came.
What am I going to do? Nobody's around.
I'm by myself. There's no car pressed to wash
it. They make you wear a white
shirt. They finally went to some blue
shirts and ties. I got to go out clean the car.
I'm just going to deliver the car by myself.
I'm at their vacuum in the car and it's like happened 100
times, it's always awesome. When you get your vacuum, it
sucked the other. Your target sucked into your
vacuum and sweats rolling down your back because it's like
July, and you're trying to stay cool.
Calm and collected, but your minds just going Crazy thinking,
this is so stupid. This is so stupid.
And I remember, I dropped the car off at the corporate
customer. Nobody to chase me.
I said I'm just going to walk back to the branch.
I'm walking and The Heat Of Summer sweating in my shirt and
tie and my mind is just fried. Finally got ahold of somebody
took me back but like I said, God is so good.
I got a hold of this principle and I started off small, do not
despise the day of Small Beginnings.
I started writing down goals to bring some order to my life and
they were simple. I still have the cash.
Calendars today. In chronological order from
2008. I didn't bring him this morning,
but I got in my house on, on the, on the Bible.
I promise you. I got them to this current day.
I have practiced this biblical principle.
It's expanded though. It's much more in detail now
than it was back then. Back then it was just read your
Bible, pray and drink water. But I didn't despise it.
It started bringing order to my life.
Listen, the second thing is part you need to prioritize
Prioritize that means precedence in place or rank what's really
first place. There's a lot of competing
Alternatives a lot more more now today than ever.
Let's see. Do I get on social media to our
watch? My favorite Netflix?
Or I got Apple TV 2. There's a lot of competing
Alternatives out there but you need to prioritize.
What's most important? Matthew 6:33 from the Amplified
Bible says, but seek a mat and strive.
After first, of all, his kingdom and his righteousness, his way
of doing and being right? Then, all these things taken
together will be given you besides.
But seek first, the kingdom of God, that means above all other
competing alternatives. Are you seeking first the
kingdom of God? It doesn't just say Seek the
Mmm, it says seek first in place, time and rank.
I put the kingdom first live on purpose.
You know, when something hits your life, we usually default
back to a bad habit. If you want to overcome that
test, default to the right habit, The Godly principle and
you will start to accelerate in your journey with Christ.
He to him who is given much much as responsible.
He will expand your sphere of influence.
We see what? Pastor Earle He's just been
faithful to follow The Godly principles and now listen, he's
in one location today. He's going to be another
location next week. Why?
Cuz he just followed God first, he's expanding his influence,
all the way to Virginia, he's in Georgia today, he's going to a
grease later on, in 2018 Albania, he's explained why it's
there is no respecter of persons in the kingdom of God.
It's just you doing your role in your assignment and seeking him
first. Luke chapter 10 verse number. 27
says and he replied you must love the Lord your God with all
your heart, with all your soul and with all your strength and
with all your mind and love your neighbor as yourself.
He compresses The Ten Commandments 22 and the first
priority he gives you is to love the Lord, your God with all of
your heart with all of your soul with all of your strength when
it comes to goal-setting. Listen you need to make goals
organized, putting a system into a structure and then prioritize,
but you need goals and six areas of your life.
Life spirit. Devotional time, prayer time.
God, it could this, this could be a spiritual go.
I'm going to invite one person to church per week.
That could be a spiritual goal. I'm going to go out to the high
schools and I don't care what they say.
The only person I remember from Gahanna, Lincoln High School
that sticks out my mind. The most was one guy on the
football team. That stood up for Jesus Christ.
I used to make fun of that guy. But today still lodged In My
Memory. He didn't cuss, he didn't go out
and try to party. He said a standard and today, I
applaud that gentleman. Because above everything else,
my buddies that I ran with, that, that time, he still has
the greatest impact in my mind. So you need spiritual goals.
So goals that your mind, your will and your emotions what
books has called called you to read.
What scripture says he called you to stand on?
In a to think over in a chew over.
Are you resting in him? Do you practice the Sabbath,
principle? I'm not talking about one day,
I'm reading a book right now and said, actually in the Jewish
tradition, you could take many Sabbath's throughout the day in
your mind reflecting on something good, that God's done
a year ago, two years ago, five years ago you could just take a
Sabbath break during the day that refreshes.
Your so he said he would leave you beside the Still Waters and
restore your soul. You need body goals First
Timothy 4:8 says bodily exercise.
Profiteth little but godliness prophets and all things having
promise for this life and the life to come.
It doesn't say golly. It.
Didn't say that ball exercise doesn't profit.
It says it profits. Little, so there's profit to it.
You need to take care of yourself.
What are you eating? What kind of exercise regimen.
Are you doing now? Listen, I submit to you.
In the soul realm, if you're worrying and you're anxious you
can eat as good as you and clean as organic as you want.
Drink as much water, take your vitamins, but if you're stressed
out, you're going to counteract all that.
Because in the soul realm, you need to be in a position of
rest. The Bible says be anxious for
nothing but in all things through prayer and supplication
with Thanksgiving, let your request be known to God, let the
peace of God that passes, understanding guard your heart
and your mind in Christ Jesus. It could be walking, you can
combine these things. I just want to inspire you to do
something, right? Something down.
I'm gonna walk three times a week and pray in the spirit the
whole time. I do it for 20 minutes, you're
combining a body goal, and a spiritual goal at the same time.
You need family goals. Family night's date nights
praying for your relatives to be redeemed.
Whatever It Is. God lays on your heart, call out
their name before heaven. You know, Uncle Jack and Aunt,
Sue. That could be your relatives or
not. Mine, I don't know.
Pray for him though. Call out their name before
having asked her Labor's to be sent across their path, you need
financial goals. If you aim at nothing, you miss
it every time. And your financial goals expand
from just, this is what we need for our house of Lord.
What can we do to expand the kingdom of God?
You need social goals? In Psalms I think it's 10 16 it
says I'm going to invite The Godly Heroes of the land into my
house. I want to be around some people
that are going to sharpen me. I want to, I want to be around
some people that going to edify me and Build Me Up.
Listen, if you're always reaching down to help people,
but you're never getting any anything poured into eventually.
Those people that are pulling on your going to pull you down to
their level, instead of you pulling them up, you need to get
around other people that help sharpen you.
We still got to have the ability to pour out, but we also have
the ability to any port in to thank God for Sundays and
Wednesdays. The last thing is discipline.
You need organization. You need to prioritize and then
you need discipline. Discipline defined means
education. Instruction cultivation and
Improvement. Listen, discipline means methods
of regulating principles and practices.
Methods of regulating principles and practices were called
Disciples, which means we are disciplined ones.
Discipline means to inform the mind.
I was reading recently in one book and it said that when you
live by principles, it makes everything easy because then you
already have your priorities set.
When I live by the word of God, choices are easy.
When I don't live by it, I'm like the wind I go with whatever
way or wave that it's going. But where to live by principles
listen, Proverbs 13 for says this, the appetite of the
sluggard craves and gets nothing you listen and teenagers, the
appetite of the lazy person. Craves they desire something,
but they get nothing. But the appetite of the
diligently is that they do. The diligent is abundantly
supplied, when you're diligent, you can have abundance in all
these areas of your life. Spirit soul body, family,
financial and social Proverbs 10:4 says this He becomes poor
who works with a slack and idle hand, but the hand of the
diligent makes rich, diligent speaks of this.
You clamping down on something and not letting go.
Be diligent. We live in a world, that's
uncommitted. And really disciplined talks
about commitment. I am bound to a course of
action. I like the way that the Apostle
Paul said it in the later chapter of Acts, he said I'm
Bound in the spirit to go to this place.
Nothing's going to take me off the course the direction, or the
plan that God has for me, forget cell phone contracts that you
can get out of in a month. I'm committed to God, forget
about divorce rates being 50%. I'm committed to God, therefore
I'm committed to my wife. Whatever happened to the time
and there used to be a thing called careers in America where
you started with one company and you stayed with even in free
agency. I want to close with this.
This is by an unknown author. It said I'm the servant of all
great men and alas of all failures as well.
Those who are great. I have made great those who are
failures, I have made failures. I am not a machine though.
I work with the Precision of a machine plus the intelligence of
a man, you may run me for profit or run me for ruin.
It makes no difference to me. Take me, train me.
Be firm with me. And I will place the world at
your feet. Be easy with me.
And I will destroy you. Who am I?
I am a habit. To be a success.
Develop and maintain Godly habits.
Discipline. Organization, prioritize
discipline, father, we thank you for this word.
I pray that it's stirs us up, God that it challenges us.
God Organization, prioritize discipline, father, we thank you
for this word. I pray that it's stirs us up,
God that it challenges us. God