Thanks for checking out the anchor Faith.
Message podcast from st. Augustine Florida.
Now, enjoy this message. I want to conclude what we
ministered on last week. We chose to call this portion or
this sermon chosen. I guess I need to add D to make
sure they pick us up. I said that's intentional
because at the end of the day when people are searching for
The Chosen that maybe they'll come across the our message and
there's a lot of misunderstanding concerning what
we're talking about in the church today, definitely with
the world. And so we just need to rightly
divide this thing called lordship.
As you turn over to John 6:44, I want to let you know that this
Friday is what they call. Good Friday.
Right today is technically Palm Sunday and I'm not preaching
about palms today. Nor my preaching, what leads up
to that, okay? I'm not obligated to minister
messages. Only based upon u.s. holiday
traditions, okay? And I have found in the past
that when Easter Sunday comes we like to call it Resurrection
Sunday that there are a lot of people who basically come to
service that day. And so they hear these same
message And the Lord's. Like they've heard this preach,
something else because typically they may not show up again until
the following year so we don't want them to be accustomed to
one message, right? Because I found that even
Christmas is not as big of a service as Easter because you
know school break and people traveling but Easter there's
really no holiday. It's just Sunday and it's still
within the fabric of our us culture about going to church.
Some of y'all going to look really nice next week, you're
gonna dress up a little bit more and I understand that's
tradition but you understand I don't think that we're going to
come to Jesus. Ultimately and again the
anointing is not in your clothes.
I'm not saying that but there is an attitude.
I am saying that. And I know when I stand before
the Lord, he's not going to let me show up in blue jeans.
Okay, when we become present with the Lord, there's going to
be a dress code. At the end of the day, we're
going to be wearing some very familiar clothing, meaning your
neighbors, going to look a lot like you.
At the end of the day and the garments are white.
Some of y'all look really good in white, some of us need to tan
more so we look better in white because some of you when you
wear white we can't know where the clothing stops.
Amen. Hallelujah, praise the Lord but
on Good Friday I have been invited again this year to go to
Saint. Paul AME Church.
And Minister for Good Friday. And so they have ministers, come
and do the seven last words of Jesus.
And last year, I think I had the saying where he says, son,
behold your mother. And honestly, I was like, what
am I going to preach out of that but the lord gave me a word and
I had seven minutes to preach it.
And it's the first message I preached with an organ behind
and we blew the house up. It was amazing this year, they
said pastor, we want you to close it.
So I'm going to close it. So I want to encourage you.
If you're around, have lunch available at starts at noon on
Friday, you can come downtown to st.
Paul AME, and we're going to preach the house.
Amen. I'm really excited about being
able to minister there and so I want to encourage you to come
out if you can, all right, we're just you know, joining with the
body. And we're doing our part.
Amen. Okay.
John 6:44, we're talking about chosen says this no one can come
to me. Unless the father who sent me
draws him, I will raise him up on the last day.
John 6:44. This is a couple of key.
Texts we have and Understanding God's kingdom lordship says no
one can come to me. Unless the father who sent me
draws him and I will raise him up.
Up on the last day. So unless a drawing occurs, you
cannot come, which means you must be invited, which means an
invitation is appointed for a Time.
And you need to answer that. Alright?
Now, we know, the scripture says today is the day of salvation,
right? But we could also say it this
way, today is somebody's birthday.
And there's seven point nine billion people in the planet
that there's more than one person born on April.
The second one person who's born today is dr.
GE pay. Anybody know who dr.
Keep a is, he's been minister of us.
Today's his birthday. So you can go find him on your
Facebook, Instagram, or WhatsApp, and wish him a happy
birthday. I've already done.
So today's his day, the day that God released him in the earth,
physically seen from his mother's womb.
Now he was in the earth prior to that, because God knew him
before he was in his mama's womb, but once he got into him,
he was in the earth. We just didn't seem, he was
behind a veil called the woman's womb.
He was alive, he was there, and he was listening, because any
time that I get around any child, that was born in a cafe
Church once they come out of the womb and I walk in to the
hospital or they come to the church.
When I start talking their head starts moving because Mom has
been in in church and that child has heard my voice preach.
No doubt. They know my voice just like
they will know mom's voice. They'll know a dad's voice.
They know that voice are you hearing me?
And so today is somebody's birthday, but it's not
everybody's birthday. So when we say the day is a day
of salvation, why? Because God is inviting someone,
but he's not inviting everybody yet. see, there's this
misconception with us that God's inviting daily Everyone.
But that's not true. He's not inviting everyone daily
for some, he's planting for others.
He's watering And then there comes a day that he begins to
invite. Now, the thing about inviting is
that he will invite but they'll come a point that the invitation
can stop Now we don't talk about this a whole lot because at the
reality is is we ultimately, you know, believe that it just it
will continue forever. But the reality is people can
hardened their heart and God who is all knowing, well know how
many times he offered the invitation, they rejected it and
walk away and not invite anymore.
Well, we understand there are certain denominations because of
that. Then they get into this context,
they get into where they basically, Leave one as scared
the hell out of you and they want to admonish you in such a
way. Basically, to try to say, you
don't know if you'll die today so you need to make sure but you
understand it's not scaring someone that leads them to
repentance. It's not the telling of hell
that leads a person to repentance fact.
The Bible says it is the goodness of God or the kindness
of God that leads people actually Lead to repentance.
And sometimes some of the best things we can do, when we know
we're talking to someone who has not made.
Jesus Lord is to know how to talk and what to say and how far
to carry the conversation and when to let go, because God
knows more than us. And if God says that's enough,
say no more than. I don't want to say anything
else because unfortunately God has sent some of his Labor's by
to plant a seed but some other is have gone by unauthorized and
have watered that seed so much, they've drowned it from being
able to produce What you think gives life can kill it?
Just water a plant too much. Now, water brings life unless
you drown it. And we've got to have enough
wisdom by the Holy Ghost, to be able to say, you know what?
We are, just stop right here, there's no more water necessary.
Let that soak in for a while because at the end of the day, I
don't have to be the one to close the deal.
I'm concerned that many have said with their mouth but their
heart is far from them. And then we disconnected from
people that still needed us to have an influence because we
assumed, they got it that day, we prayed together.
They just prayed with you because they were drowning.
All right, just say, Amen. Anyway, in John chapter 12 verse
31 to 32 assess. Now judgment is upon this world
and now the ruler of this world will be cast out and I if I am
lifted up from the earth will what draw all men to myself?
So no one can come into the kingdom of God unless God
himself is in the process, he's part of the process.
Are you hearing what I'm saying? Now, you can say, well, I'm
doing It for god. Well, you are, if you are led by
the spirit, Amen. Because we know that a Believer
can act outside the authorization of God, this can
happen. This is why Paul wrote in Romans
that those who are children of God, are led by the spirit of
God, and he says, that by unction of the holy spirit,
because the Holy Spirit knew that many come into the kingdom.
But then try to function in the Kingdom, Without the holy
spirit's leading. This is important.
Because then we get the letter to the Galatians Church, where
Paul is writing to them. And he's actually having to
rebuke them. How do we know because we get
into the third chapter verse 1 and he says who so easily
Bewitched you. He's talking to a church now in
essence, another translation says it this way you're born
again, Believers. But why do you have a spell cast
in front of you in That's why did you pick up, witchcraft?
Why are you under the sway of Witchcraft?
Is really what he's saying? Now?
We're talking people who are born again and then he
acknowledges you started this thing in the spirit but now
you're working it out, according to the flesh.
Now the flesh by definition just means doing God my way.
I'm going to say that again doing God my way.
Doing it my way, not his way, my way.
And this is where a lot of times we get in trouble is that we
have knowledge of God, but then we try to do God my way, not
doing God, his way to people can do the same thing that God says
to do. One can be doing it righteously
and another could be doing it, unrighteously.
And the difference is the condition of the heart are the
motive of why they're doing. It was doing God their way, the
other ones doing God. His way.
This was the issue with the Rich Young Ruler.
By All rights, he's doing God's word, but God exposed it, he
said, good teacher. What must I do to inherit
eternal life? And what did Jesus say?
Why do you call me? Good, only ones good.
Now, that's a key just in and of itself because what the Rich
Young Ruler didn't realize is that he was actually being the
Dead. He's defining good and not
letting God to find good. All right, even though he's
doing God's stuff. So he says, you know, the
Commandments and list a few of them he says, keep him.
He says I've done that since my youth.
Notice what Jesus didn't do? Jesus did not rebuke him and say
no, you haven't, you're a liar. He did not say that.
He says, yep, you have done my word according to your standard,
22 to try to live. Holy I get it.
He said but there's one thing, you lack.
The one thing and it's the lordship test the in essence, he
goes at him at his problem. He says, in essence, he's saying
this if you kept the Commandments because I was
saying keep the Commandments, then do what I say now, because
if you're keeping the Commandments, because I'm the
Lord of your life, and that's why you're keeping them.
Because I said it, here's what I say now.
Sell everything you have liquidated.
Date all your wealth give it to the poor and come follow me.
Now this is not a problem if you're doing my Commandments
because I said so but if you're doing my commandments so that I
notice you And you're telling me I'm supposed to let you in My
Kingdom, on your way of doing me.
Well, it's not going to happen. And the Rich Young Ruler,
dropped his head and left and Jesus says it's hard.
It's hard. Now it's not hard for a rich man
who puts his trust in the Lord, and doesn't put his trust in his
riches because Paul deals with that later on, tell the ones
that are rich to not put their trust in their wealth.
So the rich is not the issue, it's the trust.
And that's what Jesus was identifying.
This guy has put more trust in the other God than in me, but
he's using me to try to get my acknowledgement.
Are you hearing me? So again, to live by the flesh,
as a born-again Believer is to do God your way.
And everyone in this room and at the sound of my voice is
subject, still to that type of living.
We have to be conscientious or conscious is the word.
We have to be conscious. That we are not living God our
way, but his way. Amen.
All right. Just shout like a
kindergartener. So just to bring us up to speed
a little bit, so I can close this out.
Jesus said this, because this is really important.
In John chapter 15, a little bit review from last week.
Starting in verse 16. He says, you did not choose me,
but I chose you and appointed you that you would go and bear
fruit, and that your fruit would remain.
So that whatever you ask the father in my name, I'll give it
to you, alright? Then he's to go to verse 17 and
this, I command you that you love one another now.
That's Not a problem to be commanded by God because he's
Lord. So again, you don't have the
option, I mean, you have the option, right?
You have the option to do what you want to do, but God will
hold you accountable to whatever you do because the many he gives
you a command or a word something to follow.
You're obligated and he's obligated which means he will
judge you according to that word now, So if you know that you're
supposed to love one another, then you're going to have to
love one another. I said you're going to have to
love one another. You can't hold a grudge.
You can't walk and unforgiveness.
You can't hold an offense, you can't do it.
If he's Lord. Now you can do it if you want to
walk according to your flesh and you define how you follow God.
But if you're going to follow God, the way he defines he says,
now listen I chose you, you didn't choose me.
So don't think you can sit in church and be upset with one of
your brothers and I'm just going to let it go and not like we
tight because I'm your personal savior, I personally saved you
but I'm not your personal savior.
Are you need to hear that God personally saved you, but he's
not your personal savior. Meaning, he's not obligated to
only spend time with you. Nor is he looking just to spend
time with you? He saying, welcome to the
family. Now, get along with your
brothers and sisters like I do, because I love the whole family,
you're not going to pull me over to the side because you're not
my favorite son. I don't have a special
assignment for you. I mean, if we gonna go there,
everyone special. Amen, I have an assignment for
you, but you're not more special than your brother over here.
Your sister over here, you're welcome to the family.
And again, if you're loving me, you're going to love them.
Because if any loving them, then we got conflict.
This is how I Define living. For me.
This is how we begin to deal with the lordship but again he
said listen I chose you aren't you glad you've been chosen?
Which means he personally, Everyone in this room who have
who have believed in their heart and confess with your mouth,
that Jesus Christ is Lord. That he came as God In the
Flesh, died on the cross. And on the third day, was raised
from the dead. He took his blood that was
without spot or blame poured it on The Mercy Seat in heaven and
gave you an entrance into his kingdom.
That if you would call, he's already made the way, but you
have to do something. I said, love made the way, but
you have to do something. You have to believe you have to
confess and salvation that you receive comes by way of
lordship. Not, by way of, I don't want to
go to hell when I die. This is not a confession of, I
don't want to go to hell when I die.
Jesus, I'll take your blood because I don't want to go to
hell when I die. That's not the salvation
Salvation is your lord. Now, the thing about Lord is
Lord is actually not a religious word.
At all. And as long as we continue to
say Jesus is Lord, but there's religion assigned to it.
Well, then guess what? All religion is you defining
God. If we want to just go ahead and
rip, religion down to its bare truth.
It is you defining God. That's religion.
This is God to me, and this is how I worship, and it gives me
access that's religion. Period.
And Jesus is Lord, and it's not a religious word.
It is position. We could call it title.
It literally means Supreme and Authority.
Now, what is supreme mean? Supreme means first.
It means number one and two. Jesus talked about things like
him being first. Sure.
He says, you're going to love me how with all your heart, and I
would half of it, not with the leftovers.
You're gonna love me with all your heart, but not just your
heart with all your soul, with all your mind, with all your
strength, I want your emotions. I want you intellect.
I want you to yield your, will I even Want your physical
strength. I don't want you giving your
body to work 40 or 50 hours a week and then tell me you're
tired too. Tired to come fellowship with me
on a Sunday because it would be better for you to quit your job
and be in church and have a real relationship with the lordship.
Then it is for you to work outside and become broke having
money in the bank. Because I can tell you if you'll
follow the lord, you'll give position you'll have a job
because you'll realize this is not who I am.
This is where I get to demonstrate the kingdom.
Are you hearing me? And so Supreme is first, what
did he say? He says seek Seek maybe if you
have time, after all of the games you're taking your
children to for practice. Now, I am not against any of
those is long as you keep things in priority, God has nothing
wrong with your children. Playing sport.
Of fact, I get really excited when I see Youth and Young
people in our church that are playing and they have a game on
Wednesday night, it filters into service, but then when I look up
towards the end, they're standing in the back.
They came straight here from the game, their parents had enough
Understanding that, even though we may be late, we're not
missing. That's huge.
Instead of well, we had a game, you know, we'll just pick it up
later I'll because you know, Jesus is our homeboy, it's my
buddy. He's my personal savior.
He understands that my child played a big game today and he's
got homework and you know the school systems more important.
Okay. Y'all doing all right, go and
smile. Anyway I mean I only say it like
this because it does identified lordship.
I mean you know I was praying before service I was over.
I said my Lord you know I'm going to talk about lordship
today and you know I can get really heavy in the room you
know because when you really start revealing true lordship
you know, it identified eyes where people are at.
So help me be anointed to present it in such Such a way so
that people will be passionate about.
That's easy. I want that because I can't
candy coat. God's requirement.
That's the challenge. I can't candy coat.
It again. I'm not saying your kids can't
be and Athletics. I can't.
I'm not saying that. Take your kids out of school and
home school. I'm not saying I'm saying,
always keep the things of God priority that way when it's all
said and done. When you look at your child or
you look at your employer. And you say now, listen, I work
over here but at the end of the day, if this is going to be the
total Assam and I believe God to leave this.
Place because God would not want me to be out of church.
You maybe a season being out, but you can believe God.
And why don't we exercise our faith for that?
Where God can get you into the place.
You're getting fed where you can become an asset more so and
serving. Because if you'll do the things
of the Kingdom first and he'll expand everything you'll ever
do, you can be honest with your children.
Say now listen, I will take you to practice, I have no problem,
but don't ever tell me you're too child for church.
Because if you get tell me, you're too tired for church,
then we'll just quit playing ball.
Because that baseball didn't die for you.
Now, I'ma be all. So I was watching ESPN
commercial yesterday and man, they are selling sports, like,
it's the church. No, seriously.
They're talking about all these coaches, help change character.
I mean, they had great time, and I'm reading that I'm like, geez,
that's the best Church advertisement I've ever heard in
my life. so, one whole sector of society called Athletics is
basically saying, That we can do what the church was supposed to
do now. That doesn't mean coaches are
born again and doing it. I'm not saying that. but if a
coach thinks they can replace a pastor, there's a problem.
It's because we don't know what Jesus has said about the church.
Hallelujah. So with that being said, there's
a principle of lordship and that is all true.
Kings are personally legal owners of property territory or
domain. In other words, they are Lord
because they are owners. Well, that being said, I want to
turn over and take you to this passage of scripture.
First Corinthians 6:19 and 20, First Corinthians chapter 6, 19
and 20 for Jesus to be Lord Supreme.
First in authority, meaning he should be given the right to
determine the results. Number one, he's love anyway and
he always does what he says. So I want to hear what he says
about me because to follow what he says, means my I have life
and life more abundantly period. No weapon formed against me
would be able to prosper. I will be up underneath him.
He's like a mother hen that I get up underneath her.
Her brood, I am he is a strong tower that I run into.
I mean it's So easy for me to say yes Father whatever you say
I'll do it in the name of Jesus. I'm going to do it in the name
of Jesus. Absolutely.
And so, when we call him Lord, because we've made that a
religious term, we made Jesus even a religious figure and we
Define him through our current government.
Although our current government is being communicated in a
direction that it is not originally, but we have in our
psyche democracy and that is freedom of choice, and you do
have a freedom of choice as a free-will moral agent, but God
has things. He said we are to do and to
choose against that as death, but we kind of pick and choose
what we want. We pick and choose how often we
engage God we pick and choose how Often we read the Bible.
We pick and choose. How, how?
We Define regular attendance, how we Define commitment to the
Lord. At the end of the day and then
we argue about. Don't don't you quit?
Don't judge me or I'm not gonna judge you about your
relationship with Jesus, but I will hold your actions and
behavior accountable to the word.
And if you're saying you're something, you're not.
I'm going to say that John, the Baptist was bold enough.
To tell the religious Pharisees keep alive in Repentance.
I mean, you are the key. If you're not keeping a life in
Repentance, then, Then, you've not really repented.
So you tell everybody all day long, how to live for God?
Even Jesus said do what the Pharisees say, but don't do what
they do. They are not your example but
they do have whole words of life.
He did that. Now as a Believer I can judge a
person's fruit that I can do. In fact, I am commissioned as
saints were commissioned to do that, but look what it says here
since he's Lord because the Lord is not a religious word.
It says, or do you not know that your body is the Temple of the
Holy Spirit who is in, is in? How do you get in there?
I said, how do you get in there? Is because you called on the
name of the Lord, he took the old man that was dead and it's
trespasses of sin. Evicted it out of this skin
suit. Then put a new creature in
Christ in the image of God in the image of the king.
A king of the king, then the Holy Ghost moved in and says
you're a child of God. Now let's operate like one less
act like one. Let's behave like one.
Let's live like one and because you are the little King of the
key, you are to do what the king says.
Because you said he was Lord. He goes on whom you have from
God. And that you are not that.
You are what not your say. I'm not my home.
Say I'm not my home, I'm not my home which means you don't have
the right to tell yourself stuff.
Now I'm not talking about putting your clothes on.
Father, what am I to wear today? And now your job calling say
where you at the Holy Ghost, didn't tell me what to wear.
So I went leave, I'm naked in the house.
I have no idea. Are you hearing me?
There are some things that, you know, you are to put clothes on.
We know that right now the Lord may tell you something not to
wear that can be true statement, Sometimes some issues of life
that's not asking him. What to do is being sensitive to
hear him. Not tell us to do not do
something. Okay, at the end of the day so
I'm not trying to get us to be this super you know, wacky
spiritual which is not real spirituality that you can't do.
I call my hair to the side today or do a part it down.
I mean seriously. That's not what we're talking
about here. But we are talking about things
concerning scripture, the word, and being sensitive enough.
Even to the fact that if the Lord did say, don't wear that
today, you would be, or he would say, I want you to put this on
today. You know what, you've never done
that but you know what? At your word, Just like Peter
Peter by All Rise God don't care about you net, your fisherman,
put it out. But in this case, when they did
not get anything. Jesus says, going back out there
and throw your net on the other side of the boat.
Now I'll never forget the one I heard that, I'm like, how is
that even possible in one sense? You know?
I mean, they go out if they're letting down on the right or the
left, they're letting out right there on this side.
Then they turn the ship around. And they're coming back to me.
Technically, the only other side.
So I know he said, let your net on the other side, that's not
the issue. The issue is, but at your word
now Peter had no problem with facts.
He said Lord, we have fished all night seriously.
I mean your dad was a carpenter, you do, good work but we're
fishermen at the end of the day. I mean, Peter has this
discourse. I mean his whole comment was
basically to say at the end of the day, where the professionals
we are the experts Be careful with that word.
We are the experts. And we've done this all night.
so the end of the day, but but at your word and man, if you
just do it at your word, which means sometimes.
God just break up your routine just to test.
Are you listening? And I my Lord.
Am I Lord, amen, I remember one time in my personal life, the
Lord said to me, I was driving, I had a Jeep Wrangler at the
time and I had an IBC root beer. Some of you've heard me say
this, I mean, you haven't had an IBC root beer.
I drank root beer at a time. I do not drink root beer anymore
because honestly, it's just too sweet for me.
But at the time it wasn't as much and so at but I am a glass
bottle junkie, okay, can I just say that I love the glass
bottle, I'm still not happy with Coke and Pepsi to go to plastic,
it's not the same. So So I gravitate to Glass now,
there's, you know certain, you know, liquid substances that are
in glass all the time, but I don't drink those things because
I got to keep my mind sober. I don't let it get off.
Okay, I'm by All rights a Nazarite because I'm born again
and I don't let anything enter my system that messes with my
mind. Okay?
Because I remember, First time I did that, it only took a few
sips. So if anybody is bragging, about
an amount of consumption that tells me they've allowed their
alcohol, blood level to get to a place and by All rights, when
you first started it messed with your mind, then, but now, it
doesn't mess with it, which means you're closer to being an
alcoholic, then you are social drinker.
Anyway, root beer was in glass bottles and so I'd like drinking
out of glass bottles and I was drinking in town.
I remember exactly where I was at, I was at Belle's Outlet, the
light there, on 312 going towards to go over the bridge.
I was stopped at that light and I was drinking this freezing,
cold sweat, going down, the glass bottle, I be serious.
Root beer? Is it?
Just went down the back of my throat, man.
I could just feel it tingle and then I heard the Holy Ghost.
Say don't ever drink root beer in public again.
He told me that it's like, what? I didn't pick it up.
I drove home dumped it out because it wasn't cold by then
dumped it out. What I didn't realize is that
there's a nekkid epidemic with pastors drinking alcohol and
their staffs today. And the Lord didn't want me
associated with that, because now people have videos and they
love to take out of context and unfortunately, that bottle from
a distance can look like a different bottle.
I mean, we're already accused of bringing illegal aliens to arm
all the time. Now song song Yesterday.
Now, they are not illegal, they are immigrant workers that are
working in the field and coming to the bank to cash their
checks. But they just bring them on a
bus. But people are filming and
drying around and saying that apparently we're bringing them
from Mexico guys. It's just not true.
The crazy stuff and the Lord did want me posted on a bunch of
social media somewhere. In fact, we do some stuff when I
do sparkling water because it's in a glass bottle, a lot of
times, the restaurant will want to bring me a glass.
That looks like a wine glass. Why?
Why do I have to have sparkling water in a wine glass?
Now, I can drink out of it as long as you leave the bottle
there, that I always turn the label out.
I'm serious. I don't play, I flee the
appearance of evil. I love my God too much.
I'm gonna be to Holy at the end of the day, but a lot of times
I'm like, you know, what can you can we get some regular glasses
now, then they'll send the little bitty ones, you know that
they put you know, liquor in, you know so you're like how you
know? I'm having sparkling water on
the Rocks. Now with a Twist of lemon, a
lime. Okay.
Anyway you do the best you can. My point is my life's not my own
and I'm not telling you not to drink root beer in public, you
got to do what God tells you to do.
I'm doing what God has told me to do.
Are you hearing what I'm saying? But my point is I'm not my own
and because I'm not my own, my wife joined the best phrase.
Thank you. This was amazing.
I'm telling this I'm trying not to tell stories of my wife, my
life, like nothing safe with you true.
But this is okay. This one's okay.
I said, what do you want to do for vacation this year?
She said I just want to stay home, really?
I mean you don't want to go somewhere Cruise, something, I
mean, let's do something. She goes no, she goes cause we
do a bunch of go case now. You know, what to go k is, go
into all the world we're traveling on a mission.
She said, our travel is on the go.
So we're on the go now, so much that I just want to stay.
And that amazing. I'm like Ugh.
Okay, I like that. I like that.
I'm gonna go on go keishon. Some of y'all need to go on.
Go keishon. Need to go on a mission trip
with us instead of trying to get a vacation going to go caishen
to be amazed what it does. That was so good.
We're gonna make t-shirts Hallelujah.
Amen. But here's the reality.
My life's not my own. there came a day that I looked at my wife
and I says, I got to ask God if we can be off.
Amen. Goes nowhere in scripture that
says the kingdom of God is a nine-to-five job.
I'm meddling now, but it's all right, is a 9 to 5 job with good
health care in a retirement plan, so that once you kind of
get to a particular place, you can retire.
And then you live, whatever, you do, whatever you want to do off
the money, you made during the time, you were working and
somewhere along the line. If God's included, that's great
because at least you've asked him to come to your heart and
save you. Because when you die after
retirement, which most people do very quickly, you'll go to
heaven. That is not why Jesus came.
So you're not your own. Go ahead and look at your
neighbor. Say you're not your own.
And I have found that the more I allow God to actually be Lord,
the greater my life is and the more I discover myself, the more
freedom, I actually have the more power shows up the more
protection manifests. It's amazing.
Then in verse 20, says, for you have been bought With a price.
Now, I understand that it doesn't financially cost us
anything. To be born again.
I understand that the gift is freely given to us.
I understand that. But it still cost.
In fact, it cost Jesus. Now the question is why, let's
answer this question real quick. Why?
Because the father said, in the book of Beginnings, let us make
man in our image Genesis 1:26, let us make man in our image
according to our likeness and let them have ruler dominion
over the fish of the sea. The birds of the sky over all
the cattle over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth
over all the Earth, let male and female both have dominion.
This is God's plan for Man, this is how God wants man to be.
And so man, he takes this man named Adam, right?
Which he puts him in the garden. He breathed, he builds out of
the skin suit or dirt suit. He breathes into this dirt suit
Soul and Spirit and he becomes a living being and he's alive.
He's like God, no sin. Just like the DNA of God, he's
not God himself, but he is in the likeness of God, in essence,
he's the little King of the earth, and God is the king of
Everything. And through that relationship,
atom is ruling here as God rules all creation.
Are you hearing me? So he tells this son of his, he
said now, Adam, you can eat from any tree of the garden but of
the tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil, you shall not eat
for the day. You eat, you will surely die.
Okay, so we are introduced to a Thing Called Death.
Death exists. Only if acted upon it exists in
this realm, only if acted upon death exists because in another
realm, death has occurred, are you hearing me?
Because there's a guy by the name of Lucifer, we call him the
Devil. He's already rebelled against
God's word and when you do not do, God's word, its death.
Adam did not do God's word. It opened up, death death.
Occurred because an action occurred the action.
Romans 5:5 says, that this way through one man's transgression
sin, Now, what is sin? Sin is simply disobeying God at
his word doing the opposite. Are you hearing me Romans tells
us that sin has a wage? A wage.
And again, because we made the Bible religious, we don't think
in these terms. But the reality is, Jesus came
for a financial transaction because a payment was owed
because the father spoke and said, if this occurs death
occurs and death comes because it's actually a Wage of Sin but
I can pay that way. I can pay it now, we can't pay
it, but God can pay it. So God says to his son, son.
I'm going to have to make payment in order for man to be
redeemed. Let's go back.
Except for, in order for man to be born again.
I'll first have to redeem him. I'm going to have to pay a
price. That's why I first Corinthians
6, says that we've been bought with a with a lot with a lot
with the what with the, what if he didn't pay a price for you,
then you're not bought Now, let's think about buying.
Can you bring me your water here?
Buying means I own it. Did you buy this?
I mean it wasn't a trick question.
I needed to know because the Water by Pastor Marcy, I bought
And we distribute water to areas of service.
So I wasn't sure if this came from the ushers closet that
ultimately, I bought But you purchased it.
Thank you. with that being said, Andrew then what storage you go
to. Okay, Costco, he went to Costco,
which means this was not a single serving.
He went to Costco, which it would never be a single serving
at Andrew's house anyway, he has an army there, so in essence,
then let's play this back. Imagine this with a lot of other
bottles that Andrew put on a, you know at the cashier all
these were here, she went through and hit a little bar
code of that case of Water. It has a price at this point.
Costco has Dominion. Of the water they rule it.
They can tell it where to be in the store.
Are you hearing me? The water, doesn't tell the
owner where it goes on. What?
I'll the owner determines where the water goes and the owner
determines its price. Okay, so with that being said
the owner then tells Andrew, this is the price.
Now, if he wants to become lord of the zipper here bottle, he's
going to have to pay a price. Now, the water is paying no
price, the waters just leaving one ruler to an is leaving one
ruler to go to another ruler. It's not paying a price, but a
prices being paid the minute, he pulls out the amount and gives
the exchange. Now that case of water by All
rights is under his authority. And this is what we want Jesus
to do to us. We want Jesus to come to the
store. We want him to come to Devil's
territory. We want him to pick us up out of
the devil's territory come and go through the cross, the blood
and pay the price. And but the many he gets to the
blood, the cross you, we want him to set us down at the cross
where to payments made and he goes on but leaves us there.
In essence. He leaves us just outside the
door of the kingdom of darkness. Oh, you do, the cross is the
door between Darkness and Light. And so what we want is we want
him to buy us but he we want him to leave us at the cross where
we don't actually get used by him.
We don't actually want him telling us what to do.
We want us to leave us there. And then wait for the sweet.
Bye. And bye.
When the reality is Jesus bought and paid for you, he wants to
take you home to his kingdom, where then he has the right to
put you in a refrigerator, put you on a shelf, he has the right
to distribute you to whomever. He wants to, because you are not
the one calling the shot. He is why cuz he paid for you.
So a lot of times when we have guests show up here you go, we
have water that we bring to a particular room that is
available for the the guest ministers and that means all
those waters are saying today. I've been chosen to be used of
God, to be here to quench. Someone's thirst, should they
have need of it. And, you know what?
I've brought bottles and they've sent through a whole service and
a never got open. Never got drank.
And we put them on the shelf and waited for the next time but
some Them say aww. Today's my day, the Lord use me
and they began to refresh somebody.
They didn't say, don't drink me. I want to be used for the next
minister. put me back on the Shelf, I don't ever want to come
out of this water this, this protective layer Of plastic
know. We are to be used and we have to
get Revelation that lordship means dad owns me.
And that's not - that's thank God.
He owns me. Thank God, he purchased it.
He bought me. I'm not my own and I want to be
used of God. And to be used of God, you got
to let him call the shots. Praise the Lord.
Can I close down with a few different things?
And we'll go praise the Lord. He said this First Peter chapter
1, verse 19 and 20, knowing that you were not redeemed with
perishable things like silver and gold but with it, but your
futile way of life inherited from your forefathers, from your
precious blood, as of a lamb, unblemished, and spotless the
blood of Christ. The new living says it this way
for, you know, They God. Paid a ransom to save you from
the empty life you inherited from your ancestors and the
ransom was paid. He paid Was Not Mere gold or
silver. It was the precious blood of
Christ, the sinless Spotless Lamb of God.
The message says that this way, it cost God plenty to get you
out of that dead end empty-headed life, you grew up
in, he paid with Christ sacred blood, you know, he died like an
unblemished sacrificial. Lamb.
When we call him Lord, we can't call him Lord, and then choose
maintain options. We cannot say he's Lord of my
life and then say, I'll do what I want.
Because you don't want Lord you want to savior, you want to get
out of hell free card. You want you want to, I don't
want to go to hell, because I my wrongdoing card, not a, I'm not
hell's, not even my concern. Next week for Easter, I'm going
to show you in the word. Jesus is number one concern.
What he did not actually want a face.
What he didn't want to face. We're going to talk about it
next week. Are you hearing me?
And here we are. We want to just not be in
trouble for all wrongdoing, but we still want to do our own
stuff. And the Lord is going to have
conflict with this because he's commissioned that we live in
such a way to show, for sure that we are, he's Lord Of Our
Lives. First Peter 1, 14 through 16,
says, that this way. As obedient children do not be
conformed to the former lusts, which were in your ignorance but
be like the holy one who called you be holy yourselves.
Also in all your behavior because it is written.
You shall be holy for. I am Holy the word.
Holy just means separated unto God.
It means separated unto God. So you came out of a place to be
with someone to be to come to something to engage.
In an activity, a lifestyle of behavior.
His death burial. And Resurrection was not a.
I don't want you to go to prison.
His death burial and Resurrection was I want you back
in the position. God always intended you to be.
And that was a son who obeyed and maintain life.
And when Jesus becomes really Lord, then Sunday mornings, not
a debate. Sunday morning is a planned,
concentrated action. A intentional moment.
Now you know what this intentional moment looks like
cuz you do it on Monday. You set your alarm.
Okay. So who's really Lord?
Monday morning or Sunday. Because at the end of the day,
all of us have time off. I get it.
We have vacation time, sick, leave.
But you don't have any time you want time off.
But we do this with the Lord. Sometimes I wish the Lord would
actually give you sick. Leave I'm glad you joined my
church. You are allow your authorized
this many absences from service, and I'll still bless your life,
but once you get there is without pay.
But would it like a day without pay without Grace, without
favor, without Mercy, without protection.
Oh, you don't. But he doesn't, we're like that.
Why? Because he's not a negotiator
Jesus. Did not negotiate you?
Oh, Jesus did not go to the devil and say, okay.
You got Dominion? I got it.
I see it, right? Adam gave it to you.
Even, I mean, he admitted to Jesus.
He got it from and he said, look at all this domain, it was given
to me. She's like, yeah, I know Adam
gave it to you. I got it.
He said, I'll give it to you. Okay.
Let's talk about that. Let's negotiate Let's negotiate.
You know, I understand that the wages of sin is death and dad
says it's going to cost me my life.
But can we negotiate? I want to drop this price a
little bit. I don't think these humans are
really worth all that. I was kicking the tires the
other day around. A couple of man ain't worth
that. They beat up beat down.
Come on right. I mean these people are wore
out. I mean I'm really not getting a
good deal here. I mean, because I'm in love
bomb, I gotta put a brand new engine in, I mean, it's the
engines. No good.
I mean, I don't even functioning.
I mean, they're dead, is dead guy?
Mean they're dead? And I got to put something like,
I got to put a brand new engine in them.
Gotta give him some power, and then I got to restore for the
rest of their life, their mind. I mean, I have the overhauling
them their whole existence, so let's talk price.
How about that? No, the father says son, we
going to pay full price. We're not negotiating. full
prices, you Because they're worth it.
This is what not they're worth it.
My word is worth it and it'll give them access.
Now in all I'm coming which means you're going to pour out
your blood for payments for people's lives.
That will still not take it. By All rights, it will seem like
a wasted investment. You will not get the return.
You're not going to get the return on this investment.
Think about that. Now for a moment Jesus.
Pours out his blood For All Mankind yet.
The Bible says, hell's mouth, is ever-widening Jesus himself says
wide. Is the gate that leads to death
and destruction and many are going into it and I'm paying the
price for them and I don't even get up.
But narrow is the gate that leads to life and few find it.
But how do you find it? He bought me.
He paid for me. He laid his life down for me.
He made a financial transaction paid in full for me.
He paid in full for me. How in the world am I going to
go? She ate with my Lord and say can
I give you a couple of Sundays? Can I give you a about five
minutes of prayer? Can I give you a devotion on
Saturday? Can I just have time with you?
Isn't that enough? Seriously, you want me to come
to church? How often you've assigned me to?
What church you? You want me to be where you want
me to do? What?
but if he's Lord, This is what this sounds like, sure I'll do
that. Yeah, I'm gonna do that.
Sure, I'll do that. Yes, I'm getting up.
You by says you tired. Shut up.
I'm getting up because I got blood has been paid for me.
My body is not my own. I'm gonna do this thing.
They called it corporate prayer, Tuesday morning.
I'm there they call corporate prayer.
Thursday morning, I'm there. It doesn't hinder my schedule.
I'm showing up. Yeah, I'm gonna suffer a little
bit in sleep, but my God is able to give me respite.
Beyond my capacity. Sure, he said to get their
corporate prayers at 9:30, then he told me to stay in service,
then he told me to go to Kingdom Institute.
Then he asked me to serve here, which means I got to make that,
but it's okay. Why?
Because this first, its life, its life, he paid for me, he
bought me, he bought paid for me.
He poured his blood out for me. I mean he made a transaction and
I will not be squandered part of my Lord.
I value him. Because the price was great and
I'm going to obey, I'm going to be holy.
I'm gonna do what he says because he's Lord because I'll
never be in the names of Luke 644 I'll never be in the list of
the names of Luke 644 when Jesus says, why do you call me?
Lord, Lord, and do not do what I say.
Why do you call me? Lord, Lord, and do not do what I
say. Why do you call me?
Lord, Lord, and do not do what I say.
Why do you call me Lord and do not do what I say?
He said go and make disciples. Guess what he said to you before
you even came in, you're going to have to study me.
In order to live for me, I'm not just giving you conversion was
never the goal. The next goal is never to be
born again. I must say it again, the goal is
never to be born again. The goal was to become a child
of God who fulfills their Destiny and follow the lord for
eternity. We want God to pay for us.
And leave us in the store. Badger buys that water.
Takes it outside Costco and sets it on the ground.
Two things are going to happen. Although he's the legal owner
either, someone sees him do it, recognize that he purchased it
because he saw him in lung. Hangs out and watches him.
Leave Waits long enough to see if he comes back.
Then picks up the water and takes it and uses it in places.
It was never authorized. Or.
No one touches it. And it's time to close Costco
and an employee steps out and sees and I even go further, he
leaves the receipt on it. Proves that it's been paid for.
And they pick it up and they bring it right back in the store
to be under the authority of the store once again, that it's
already been purchased and not be there.
There's many, who say Jesus saved me but they don't want to
leave the store, they just want to get right outside it. and I'm
telling you, the enemy is going to pick you back up and bring
you back in the store. even though there's a receipt that
says you've been paid for, because if he's only savior,
Then lordship is optional. And you'll figure out how to
tell God how he is supposed to accept you and your behavior
today. I believe were raising up people
in his church that he's building that.
Say I will not be in the line. Where my king says, why do you
call me? Lord, Lord, and do not do what I
say. I'm not getting in that Lon.
Because I'm not my own. Thank you so much for listening
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