1 00:00:20,550 --> 00:00:22,630 So today we're in finding your fit. 2 00:00:22,630 --> 00:00:24,950 The third installment is called the Appointment. 3 00:00:25,680 --> 00:00:29,800 So I want to start over here in Matthew chapter 16 verses 16 to 4 00:00:29,800 --> 00:00:35,000 19 and it says this Simon Peter answered and said you are the 5 00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:36,480 Christ, the Son of the living God. 6 00:00:36,480 --> 00:00:39,560 And Jesus said to him, Blessed are you Simon Barjona, because 7 00:00:39,560 --> 00:00:41,400 flesh and blood did not reveal this to you. 8 00:00:41,680 --> 00:00:44,840 But my Father in heaven, I also say to you that you are Peter, 9 00:00:44,840 --> 00:00:47,520 and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of 10 00:00:47,720 --> 00:00:49,960 Hades, or hell will not overpower it. 11 00:00:50,280 --> 00:00:53,000 I'll give you the keys of the Kingdom of heaven, and whatever 12 00:00:53,000 --> 00:00:54,920 you bind on earth shall have been bound in heaven, and 13 00:00:54,920 --> 00:00:59,280 whatever you loose on earth shall have been loosed in 14 00:00:59,280 --> 00:01:01,480 heaven. This is a key text for us 15 00:01:01,680 --> 00:01:04,800 because Jesus has asked his disciples, who do people say 16 00:01:04,800 --> 00:01:07,840 that we are, or who is talking about me? 17 00:01:07,840 --> 00:01:09,760 And what are they saying about me? 18 00:01:10,080 --> 00:01:12,560 Who are they attributing me as being? 19 00:01:13,160 --> 00:01:17,120 And they obviously communicated Elijah, Jeremiah, one of the 20 00:01:17,120 --> 00:01:19,400 prophets. Then after he says, OK, that's 21 00:01:19,400 --> 00:01:21,120 what everyone else says about me. 22 00:01:21,240 --> 00:01:24,760 Who do you say that I am? And Peter says you are the 23 00:01:24,760 --> 00:01:27,120 Christ. Now Christ is obviously not his 24 00:01:27,120 --> 00:01:29,080 last name. We know here at Anchorage Church 25 00:01:29,080 --> 00:01:32,840 that means it is his title. He is the King. 26 00:01:32,960 --> 00:01:36,000 It is a Greek equivalent to the Hebrew word Messiah is the 27 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:39,560 anointed one in his anointing. It is the King that Israel is 28 00:01:39,560 --> 00:01:43,360 waiting to come who will set up his Kingdom and have no end. 29 00:01:43,920 --> 00:01:48,160 And so this is the revelation that Peter had, that he is the 30 00:01:48,160 --> 00:01:52,480 Christ, You're the king. You are the long anticipated 31 00:01:52,600 --> 00:01:56,120 prophesied king that we knew was coming. 32 00:01:56,200 --> 00:02:00,160 You're the one. And Jesus says flesh and blood 33 00:02:00,160 --> 00:02:03,840 has not revealed this to you, but my Father in heaven, he's 34 00:02:03,840 --> 00:02:05,800 the one who brought you that revelation. 35 00:02:05,960 --> 00:02:08,960 Then he goes on and says this, that you're blessed. 36 00:02:09,400 --> 00:02:12,920 He's called him Peter. But he said upon the rock or the 37 00:02:12,920 --> 00:02:18,240 revelation that I am the Christ, I'm the King, I will build my 38 00:02:18,240 --> 00:02:21,640 church. And as we have said before here 39 00:02:21,640 --> 00:02:25,760 in this 18th verse, Jesus never delegated the building of the 40 00:02:25,760 --> 00:02:29,560 church to the pastor, the apostle, the prophet, the 41 00:02:29,560 --> 00:02:33,920 evangelist, or the teacher. Jesus right now, seated at the 42 00:02:33,920 --> 00:02:38,160 right hand of the Father, is actively involved in building 43 00:02:38,160 --> 00:02:43,040 his church. Jesus is, I like to say Jesus is 44 00:02:43,040 --> 00:02:46,040 this the greatest micromanager on the planet. 45 00:02:47,400 --> 00:02:50,080 Now, that's not a popular term in corporate world. 46 00:02:50,240 --> 00:02:52,400 Don't micromanage me. Don't be looking over my 47 00:02:52,400 --> 00:02:54,560 shoulder. But the Bible tells us that 48 00:02:54,680 --> 00:02:57,760 every idle word will give an account. 49 00:02:59,240 --> 00:03:03,400 So although Jesus may not be checking in with you every day 50 00:03:03,400 --> 00:03:06,840 about your life per SE, it doesn't mean he doesn't know 51 00:03:06,840 --> 00:03:09,840 exactly what you're doing and why you're doing what you're 52 00:03:09,840 --> 00:03:12,760 doing and with what motive you're doing what you're doing. 53 00:03:12,920 --> 00:03:15,960 He knows it all and he is meticulous. 54 00:03:16,080 --> 00:03:18,680 That is not to scare you, not to intimidate you. 55 00:03:18,800 --> 00:03:21,520 It really, if you understand, Scripture should make you say, 56 00:03:21,920 --> 00:03:25,760 yes, thank you God. Because when the day comes that 57 00:03:25,760 --> 00:03:29,440 you stand before the reward seed of Jesus, the judgment, the seat 58 00:03:29,440 --> 00:03:33,400 of Christ, then God will never miss one ounce of your faith to 59 00:03:33,400 --> 00:03:35,240 reward you for your faithfulness. 60 00:03:35,480 --> 00:03:39,600 There's nothing done to you. Whatever that has happened in 61 00:03:39,600 --> 00:03:44,160 your life that you've done it by faith, you will receive an open 62 00:03:44,160 --> 00:03:47,600 reward. And crowns are credited to your 63 00:03:47,600 --> 00:03:49,880 account eternally. Hallelujah. 64 00:03:50,520 --> 00:03:55,480 But he is managing the building of the church. 65 00:03:55,920 --> 00:04:00,920 He is the chief architect. He is the one that is doing it 66 00:04:00,920 --> 00:04:04,480 all. I as an apostle or pastor within 67 00:04:04,480 --> 00:04:09,120 the body as that gift, my wife as a pastor and functions in the 68 00:04:09,720 --> 00:04:13,480 profit office are a gift in the body. 69 00:04:13,520 --> 00:04:17,079 We also have teachers here. We have evangelists here. 70 00:04:17,240 --> 00:04:20,760 Those that function in those giftings are just doing their 71 00:04:20,760 --> 00:04:23,480 part. It's not our church, it's His 72 00:04:23,480 --> 00:04:26,040 church. And we are functioning as those 73 00:04:26,040 --> 00:04:30,800 gifts in the body to help equip the Saints so that all of us can 74 00:04:30,800 --> 00:04:34,320 come together as a team and accomplish something great 75 00:04:34,320 --> 00:04:36,880 together. We're all just doing our part. 76 00:04:37,240 --> 00:04:40,520 Amen. Of which Jesus is the head of 77 00:04:40,520 --> 00:04:42,360 the church. And we know it's about his 78 00:04:42,360 --> 00:04:44,880 Kingdom because he said, I'll give you the keys of the 79 00:04:44,880 --> 00:04:48,920 Kingdom, that whatever we bind on earth shall have been bound 80 00:04:48,920 --> 00:04:50,360 in heaven. Whatever he loosed on earth 81 00:04:50,360 --> 00:04:52,120 shall have been loosed in heaven. 82 00:04:52,200 --> 00:04:55,720 The Bible's about a king, his Kingdom and his royal offspring. 83 00:04:55,840 --> 00:05:00,840 And we are in the greatest powerful move of God on the 84 00:05:00,840 --> 00:05:03,880 planet today. It's called the dispensation of 85 00:05:03,880 --> 00:05:07,680 His church. This is why you want to eat, 86 00:05:07,680 --> 00:05:11,000 breathe and drink His church even when you're not here. 87 00:05:11,080 --> 00:05:14,960 You want to think about it because it's where you are 88 00:05:15,120 --> 00:05:17,960 assigned. It's where you are appointed, 89 00:05:18,120 --> 00:05:20,960 it's where you're being. It's it's in Him. 90 00:05:20,960 --> 00:05:25,360 We live and move and have our being. 91 00:05:26,520 --> 00:05:30,200 Amen. So as much as when I'm by myself 92 00:05:30,320 --> 00:05:34,880 fellowshipping and worshipping Jesus Christ, it's never without 93 00:05:34,880 --> 00:05:39,400 this mentality that I am worshipping the head of the 94 00:05:39,400 --> 00:05:42,480 church. And I'm thankful for His church, 95 00:05:42,720 --> 00:05:45,920 and I'm thankful for the body of Christ, and I'm thankful for 96 00:05:45,920 --> 00:05:49,320 brothers and sisters. That I'm not in this earth doing 97 00:05:49,320 --> 00:05:52,920 it alone, doing it by myself, having to do it solo. 98 00:05:53,040 --> 00:05:56,320 That there's others that I can lock arms with, that I'm jointed 99 00:05:56,400 --> 00:06:00,680 and fitted with, and that we can take the message of the gospel 100 00:06:00,680 --> 00:06:04,040 of the Kingdom in our community, to our families, to our 101 00:06:04,040 --> 00:06:07,400 workplace, to our government, throughout our community, our 102 00:06:07,400 --> 00:06:09,800 state, our nation, and into the world. 103 00:06:09,840 --> 00:06:13,080 We're going to do our part Hallelujah. 104 00:06:13,240 --> 00:06:17,400 Well, that should just get you excited that God has hand picked 105 00:06:17,400 --> 00:06:19,720 you. And today you'll see you are 106 00:06:19,720 --> 00:06:23,160 hand picked by God. Amen. 107 00:06:24,040 --> 00:06:28,040 In John chapter 6 verse 44, it says no one can come to me 108 00:06:28,040 --> 00:06:34,840 unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him 109 00:06:34,840 --> 00:06:39,720 up on the last day. Now this is really significant 110 00:06:40,040 --> 00:06:45,920 because we know for anyone to be born again, they first have to 111 00:06:45,920 --> 00:06:49,920 be drawn. In fact, the Bible tells us that 112 00:06:49,920 --> 00:06:52,440 all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. 113 00:06:52,640 --> 00:06:55,520 And no man goes after God. No, not one. 114 00:06:55,800 --> 00:07:02,680 If the Father did not go after us, we would never go after him. 115 00:07:03,800 --> 00:07:08,200 Which means we were on a hopeless path that had no hope 116 00:07:08,360 --> 00:07:10,400 and we weren't even pursuing hope. 117 00:07:11,840 --> 00:07:16,560 We were incapable by our nature to even find hope. 118 00:07:16,760 --> 00:07:21,240 And even if we were trying to get to what we were defining as 119 00:07:21,240 --> 00:07:25,800 a God or God, it was in filthy rags. 120 00:07:26,120 --> 00:07:30,840 It was not of anything holy or righteous and we were running 121 00:07:30,840 --> 00:07:35,440 down the wrong Rd. However, when the Father does 122 00:07:35,440 --> 00:07:40,920 start to speak man, we need to listen because those 123 00:07:40,920 --> 00:07:47,840 opportunities as merciful and as long-suffering as He as He is, 124 00:07:48,040 --> 00:07:53,960 they still have a time frame. Because if you read the book of 125 00:07:53,960 --> 00:07:59,480 Romans chapter one, there is a pursuit that God has with man. 126 00:07:59,800 --> 00:08:04,560 But when man completely and continually rejects him through 127 00:08:04,560 --> 00:08:08,880 the process of him clearly identify himself to them, and 128 00:08:08,880 --> 00:08:12,640 they reject Him and reject Him and reject Him and reject Him 129 00:08:12,800 --> 00:08:17,320 and reject Him, knowing it's Him but choosing not to yield to 130 00:08:17,320 --> 00:08:21,160 Him, it says that He will give them over to their depraved 131 00:08:21,160 --> 00:08:26,560 mind. And at that point God no longer 132 00:08:26,560 --> 00:08:33,640 pursues and there's no longer hope in Romans chapter 1. 133 00:08:34,760 --> 00:08:38,919 So when the Lord is speaking and drawing man, that's the time to 134 00:08:38,919 --> 00:08:43,080 answer. Don't be hoping or thinking 135 00:08:43,080 --> 00:08:46,520 there's another occasion you want to leap at the moment 136 00:08:46,840 --> 00:08:50,080 because the The thing is, is that although we know God's 137 00:08:50,080 --> 00:08:53,720 long-suffering and merciful, it would be more compelling for 138 00:08:53,720 --> 00:08:59,120 people to yield to the opportunity than just think, Oh, 139 00:08:59,120 --> 00:09:02,520 I got more time. Amen. 140 00:09:03,400 --> 00:09:06,760 Now God can't make them, we can't make them, but we do want 141 00:09:06,760 --> 00:09:08,640 them to know. If the Lord's been talking to 142 00:09:08,640 --> 00:09:10,600 you, man, you really need to answer. 143 00:09:11,200 --> 00:09:13,720 In John chapter 6 verse 65, it says this. 144 00:09:13,840 --> 00:09:17,560 And he was saying for this reason I have said to you that 145 00:09:17,560 --> 00:09:23,320 no one can come to me unless it has been granted Him from the 146 00:09:23,320 --> 00:09:26,920 Father. Wow, isn't that amazing? 147 00:09:27,760 --> 00:09:36,720 So again, it is God always pursuing us with his love for us 148 00:09:37,400 --> 00:09:39,920 and through that love he's pursued us. 149 00:09:40,120 --> 00:09:44,600 This is why Jesus said to math to Peter in Matthew 16. 150 00:09:44,720 --> 00:09:47,920 He said flesh and blood has not revealed this to you. 151 00:09:49,560 --> 00:09:56,840 Father's talking to you. And because the Father is 152 00:09:56,840 --> 00:10:01,200 talking to you, Son, you're blessed, and you're hearing from 153 00:10:01,200 --> 00:10:08,160 heaven because it's a big deal that Dad's talking, Amen. 154 00:10:08,240 --> 00:10:12,600 I said, it's a big deal that Dad is talking. 155 00:10:13,160 --> 00:10:17,720 So when God calls, we want to run to him, Amen. 156 00:10:18,960 --> 00:10:22,040 And why is he calling us? Well, we see here in Ephesians 157 00:10:22,040 --> 00:10:27,680 chapter 2 verses 4 to 10, Jesus again said I will build my 158 00:10:27,680 --> 00:10:30,920 church. He says go into all the world 159 00:10:30,920 --> 00:10:34,880 and make disciples that's enlist as pupils. 160 00:10:35,000 --> 00:10:38,440 Those are those that are going to come into the body of Christ 161 00:10:38,440 --> 00:10:42,280 that need to be trained or equipped according to Ephesians 162 00:10:42,280 --> 00:10:46,640 4 for the work of the ministry. Again, Jesus did not say go into 163 00:10:46,640 --> 00:10:49,840 all the world, make converts so that they'll know where they'll 164 00:10:49,840 --> 00:10:53,920 go when they die or they'll know they'll go to heaven when they 165 00:10:53,920 --> 00:10:55,960 die. He said no, make disciples. 166 00:10:55,960 --> 00:10:59,120 Disciples first have to be converted, but they're not the 167 00:10:59,120 --> 00:11:03,480 only stay converted. They are to become discipled and 168 00:11:03,480 --> 00:11:07,720 disciple means you have to bring them to the house, to the family 169 00:11:07,720 --> 00:11:13,200 of God where the training takes place, where a whole new way of 170 00:11:13,200 --> 00:11:17,880 living becomes your reality because you're not of this 171 00:11:17,880 --> 00:11:20,080 world, just like he's not of this world. 172 00:11:20,080 --> 00:11:23,320 But look at here in Ephesians 2. You know it starting in verse 4, 173 00:11:23,400 --> 00:11:27,680 it says, but God being rich in mercy because of his great love 174 00:11:27,680 --> 00:11:30,240 with which he loved us even when we were dead in our 175 00:11:30,240 --> 00:11:32,960 transgressions, made us alive together with Christ. 176 00:11:33,120 --> 00:11:37,680 By grace you have been saved and raised us up with him and seated 177 00:11:37,680 --> 00:11:42,160 us with him in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. 178 00:11:42,320 --> 00:11:49,520 Hallelujah, so that in the ages to come, so that in the ages to 179 00:11:49,520 --> 00:11:55,320 come, ages, not just the next age, but ages to come, He might 180 00:11:55,320 --> 00:12:01,200 show the surpassing riches of his grace in kindness towards us 181 00:12:01,600 --> 00:12:05,640 in Christ Jesus. For by grace you have been 182 00:12:05,640 --> 00:12:06,560 saved. How? 183 00:12:06,880 --> 00:12:10,680 Through faith. It was faith that activated the 184 00:12:10,680 --> 00:12:13,800 grace so that you could become born again. 185 00:12:14,520 --> 00:12:17,240 Then it says that and that not of yourself. 186 00:12:17,240 --> 00:12:22,720 It is a gift of God, not as a result of works, meaning your 187 00:12:22,720 --> 00:12:26,600 independent work of God without Him drawing you. 188 00:12:26,840 --> 00:12:31,960 You were establishing what criteria you could do and God 189 00:12:31,960 --> 00:12:35,440 would accept you as righteous, holy and just. 190 00:12:35,720 --> 00:12:41,080 You cannot do that. So it's not of your own works or 191 00:12:41,080 --> 00:12:44,640 any of your personal works so that you can boast before God. 192 00:12:45,040 --> 00:12:50,880 Verse 10 though, so we are saved by grace through faith. 193 00:12:52,320 --> 00:12:54,360 Why? Verse 10? 194 00:12:55,440 --> 00:13:02,640 For we are His workmanship. Why are we born again or created 195 00:13:02,640 --> 00:13:05,920 in Christ? Because when you're born again, 196 00:13:05,920 --> 00:13:12,720 you've been created in Christ. You are a new creature in Christ 197 00:13:12,720 --> 00:13:18,920 that is born again. OK, so why are we? 198 00:13:19,120 --> 00:13:25,160 We are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for purpose. 199 00:13:25,320 --> 00:13:34,000 That's the purpose for for us to go to heaven, for us to know 200 00:13:34,120 --> 00:13:40,280 that when we die we'll be with him forever, for us to be free 201 00:13:40,280 --> 00:13:44,320 from our guilt. Now you're going to get have all 202 00:13:44,320 --> 00:13:52,160 of those, but it's for good works, say Amen. 203 00:13:52,920 --> 00:13:58,040 It's for good works. OK, which put that back up. 204 00:13:58,480 --> 00:14:06,080 Which God prepared when beforehand. 205 00:14:06,480 --> 00:14:12,840 Now before you were in Christ or created in Christ, He had 206 00:14:12,840 --> 00:14:19,480 something prepared for you. He has something prepared. 207 00:14:21,000 --> 00:14:24,920 You understand the way you living like a hellion doesn't 208 00:14:24,920 --> 00:14:27,120 change what He has prepared for you. 209 00:14:28,720 --> 00:14:31,040 It hasn't changed His opinion about it. 210 00:14:31,600 --> 00:14:34,840 He just needs you to get with Him. 211 00:14:35,760 --> 00:14:38,640 He needs you to see it as He sees it. 212 00:14:38,760 --> 00:14:44,520 He needs you to agree with Him, to yield to Him, to submit to 213 00:14:44,520 --> 00:14:51,200 Him, to let the Creator release all that He has for you to do in 214 00:14:51,200 --> 00:14:56,560 the earth before you ever go. So you were created in Christ 215 00:14:56,560 --> 00:15:00,800 for good works which got prepared beforehand so that you 216 00:15:00,800 --> 00:15:05,360 would what, Walk in them, not hope about them? 217 00:15:05,520 --> 00:15:09,320 Wish one day you could do something significant for God. 218 00:15:11,480 --> 00:15:14,800 When we finally get to the sweet, by and by I'll be able to 219 00:15:14,800 --> 00:15:19,000 do something for God. No, these are now. 220 00:15:19,480 --> 00:15:25,120 This is what comes with being in the church, right? 221 00:15:25,200 --> 00:15:30,280 He wants us to assemble because the architect has a design for 222 00:15:30,280 --> 00:15:36,280 everybody so that he can appoint you to your assignment, so that 223 00:15:36,280 --> 00:15:39,520 you can accomplish what he has prepared for you. 224 00:15:40,840 --> 00:15:43,560 Are you hearing me, man? That ought to get you really 225 00:15:43,560 --> 00:15:45,880 excited. Amen. 226 00:15:46,760 --> 00:15:59,360 So he has prepared something for you, I said. 227 00:15:59,360 --> 00:16:01,480 He has prepared something for you. 228 00:16:02,840 --> 00:16:10,240 Glory to God, He has prepared something for you. 229 00:16:14,080 --> 00:16:17,360 He knows your assignment. He knows you're fit. 230 00:16:17,520 --> 00:16:19,560 He knows what you're destined to do. 231 00:16:21,160 --> 00:16:26,480 Now, if we just go back to Genesis, we can see in the 232 00:16:26,480 --> 00:16:28,560 beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 233 00:16:28,560 --> 00:16:31,800 Pretty two big words, heavens, earth. 234 00:16:32,480 --> 00:16:38,120 There's a lot in the heavens. We started breaking down each 235 00:16:38,160 --> 00:16:41,480 individual thing that is contained within the heavens. 236 00:16:42,160 --> 00:16:45,920 Then just the earth. There's a lot going on in planet 237 00:16:45,920 --> 00:16:49,160 earth. Well, then we start to see that 238 00:16:49,160 --> 00:16:52,080 He starts talking about days and He starts describing some of 239 00:16:52,080 --> 00:16:56,400 these things that He says God said, let there be. 240 00:16:57,400 --> 00:17:01,600 And notice everything that He spoke had purpose. 241 00:17:03,040 --> 00:17:07,480 The giraffes have a purpose, the whales have a purpose, the birds 242 00:17:07,480 --> 00:17:09,240 have a purpose. Are you hearing what I'm saying? 243 00:17:10,040 --> 00:17:13,680 And all of those are to stay within those purposes. 244 00:17:14,280 --> 00:17:20,160 In fact, creation does not argue with God about coming out of the 245 00:17:20,160 --> 00:17:26,480 place that He has appointed it. He even said to the ocean, This 246 00:17:26,480 --> 00:17:29,440 is how far you come, and you don't come any forth. 247 00:17:29,600 --> 00:17:32,840 I have appointed you to come here, but I have not appointed 248 00:17:32,840 --> 00:17:35,240 you to go there. Are you hearing me? 249 00:17:35,480 --> 00:17:38,360 He has appointed trees to live on land. 250 00:17:39,520 --> 00:17:44,920 He has appointed things because the Creator is not is the 251 00:17:44,920 --> 00:17:49,680 Creator by design. He knows how they'll produce the 252 00:17:49,680 --> 00:17:53,880 best fruit and accomplish the purpose by which he has assigned 253 00:17:53,880 --> 00:17:57,160 them. But then we get to Genesis 126 254 00:17:57,680 --> 00:18:02,400 and it says, then God said, let us make man in our image 255 00:18:02,720 --> 00:18:08,560 according to our likeness, and let them have dominion. 256 00:18:09,120 --> 00:18:13,400 Glory to God. We are to have dominion over the 257 00:18:13,400 --> 00:18:16,320 fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, over the cattle, over 258 00:18:16,320 --> 00:18:18,480 every creeping thing that creeps on the earth and over all the 259 00:18:18,520 --> 00:18:21,600 earth. So that was man's purpose. 260 00:18:21,800 --> 00:18:30,400 It's his fit, it's his destiny, it's his God-given right because 261 00:18:30,400 --> 00:18:33,840 God gave him the right with his word. 262 00:18:34,840 --> 00:18:36,760 Amen. Hallelujah. 263 00:18:37,760 --> 00:18:46,480 And so we should aspire to be in the place or the proper domain 264 00:18:46,520 --> 00:18:50,400 or abode by which He has appointed us. 265 00:18:53,680 --> 00:18:59,120 Is where God has appointed you serious? 266 00:19:03,160 --> 00:19:07,040 Who had the first thought then to leave their fit in the 267 00:19:07,040 --> 00:19:11,760 Kingdom of God for another, they were not created to feel. 268 00:19:18,430 --> 00:19:24,870 Isaiah 14, Isaiah 14. There is this anointed cherub. 269 00:19:26,790 --> 00:19:32,080 God has created the angelic realm, He has assigned them you. 270 00:19:32,080 --> 00:19:35,400 We read. Eloise read to us this morning 271 00:19:35,520 --> 00:19:41,320 of the of the Seraphim's that are flying around the throne 272 00:19:41,320 --> 00:19:45,600 right now. It is their purpose, their fit 273 00:19:45,600 --> 00:19:50,520 in the Kingdom. And they do this without ever 274 00:19:50,520 --> 00:19:57,760 growing tired of saying holy, holy, holy is the Lord God 275 00:19:57,760 --> 00:20:02,640 Almighty. They were created for that fit 276 00:20:03,000 --> 00:20:07,680 in the Kingdom. God saw it fitting that they 277 00:20:07,680 --> 00:20:10,160 would do this for eternity. Hallelujah. 278 00:20:13,520 --> 00:20:17,480 And they are prospering in their assignment. 279 00:20:18,200 --> 00:20:20,400 And what they've been appointed to do. 280 00:20:20,720 --> 00:20:25,400 But in Isaiah chapter 14, we read of an anointed cherub that 281 00:20:25,400 --> 00:20:30,640 decided they didn't want to stay where God assigned them or where 282 00:20:30,640 --> 00:20:34,320 he appointed them. And it says you. 283 00:20:35,440 --> 00:20:40,320 It says how you have fallen from heaven, O morn, our star of the 284 00:20:40,320 --> 00:20:43,440 morning, sun of the dawn. You have been cut down to the 285 00:20:43,440 --> 00:20:46,000 earth and you have weakened the nations. 286 00:20:46,320 --> 00:20:47,960 Why? What did this anointed chair? 287 00:20:47,960 --> 00:20:50,480 We know who this is. King James calls him Lucifer, 288 00:20:50,920 --> 00:20:53,760 OK? We call him Satan, it says. 289 00:20:53,760 --> 00:20:59,560 But you said in your heart, I have a different fit. 290 00:21:02,800 --> 00:21:08,920 There's a place I want to fit in instead of what God appointed me 291 00:21:08,920 --> 00:21:15,320 for. Up until this point, Heaven 292 00:21:15,320 --> 00:21:19,440 realm and Earth realm has no problems. 293 00:21:24,320 --> 00:21:30,960 No problems, no issues. No sin has been acted on. 294 00:21:32,760 --> 00:21:38,840 Notice this sin that originated from pride is all because the 295 00:21:38,840 --> 00:21:48,080 one created wanted to define to the creator where I fit in. 296 00:21:53,540 --> 00:21:56,180 He said no, I'm not going to do this. 297 00:21:57,700 --> 00:22:00,780 I know you appointed me here to do this, but you know what? 298 00:22:01,220 --> 00:22:03,420 I got another throne I'm going for. 299 00:22:06,220 --> 00:22:07,860 Come on, it got it's getting quiet. 300 00:22:08,100 --> 00:22:14,320 OK, but this anointed cherub who was without sin beautiful. 301 00:22:14,320 --> 00:22:17,760 The Bible says says though that there the beauty of this 302 00:22:17,760 --> 00:22:22,520 creation that God had made this particular cherub was something 303 00:22:22,520 --> 00:22:27,280 amazing. And they get corrupted for one 304 00:22:27,280 --> 00:22:33,240 reason, because they want to be fitted where they were never 305 00:22:33,360 --> 00:22:38,200 appointed. But you said in your heart, I 306 00:22:38,200 --> 00:22:41,040 will ascend to heaven. I'll raise my throne above the 307 00:22:41,040 --> 00:22:44,480 stars of God. I will sit on the mount of the 308 00:22:44,480 --> 00:22:48,840 assembly in the recesses of the north. 309 00:22:49,040 --> 00:22:51,640 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds. 310 00:22:51,800 --> 00:22:54,600 I will make myself light the most High. 311 00:22:54,760 --> 00:23:00,120 Nevertheless, you will be thrust down to shield in the recesses 312 00:23:01,440 --> 00:23:06,280 of the pit. And because he wanted to be self 313 00:23:06,280 --> 00:23:15,520 appointed instead of God appointed sin, chaos was 314 00:23:15,520 --> 00:23:19,000 created. He's not the only one that had 315 00:23:19,000 --> 00:23:20,640 this issue of staying in his fit. 316 00:23:20,640 --> 00:23:22,680 Look at Jude chapter one verse 6. 317 00:23:22,920 --> 00:23:26,320 In Jude chapter one verse 6 it says in the angels who did not 318 00:23:26,320 --> 00:23:31,640 keep their own domain but abandoned their proper abode. 319 00:23:32,160 --> 00:23:37,080 He has kept an eternal bonds under darkness for the judgement 320 00:23:37,200 --> 00:23:41,960 of the great day. Many scholars believe these are 321 00:23:41,960 --> 00:23:45,040 the angels that came to lie with the sons of men. 322 00:23:45,480 --> 00:23:49,840 They left their proper abode. They ended up moving into a 323 00:23:49,840 --> 00:23:54,920 realm they were never fitted to be nor appointed. 324 00:23:56,600 --> 00:24:02,000 And what is the cost of being in a fit you are never destined to 325 00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:07,840 be in? I'll give you a human being. 326 00:24:09,120 --> 00:24:12,240 So God appointed a man named Moses. 327 00:24:14,120 --> 00:24:21,360 He said, Moses, go set my people free and bring them into the 328 00:24:21,360 --> 00:24:22,800 land flowing with milk and honey. 329 00:24:23,840 --> 00:24:29,680 You do this and so he in obedience to God goes to Egypt 330 00:24:29,760 --> 00:24:32,280 much trials and tribulations and challenges. 331 00:24:32,400 --> 00:24:36,960 However, he accomplishes by the power of God and delivers the 332 00:24:36,960 --> 00:24:40,360 nation of Israel out of Egypt into the wilderness. 333 00:24:41,200 --> 00:24:46,120 While he's in the wilderness, you understand there are others 334 00:24:46,440 --> 00:24:54,200 that are hearing God's voice and a particular individual by the 335 00:24:54,200 --> 00:25:01,560 name of Kora decided that he wanted the position. 336 00:25:01,560 --> 00:25:09,840 Moses had God love Cora, where Cora was fitted, where he was 337 00:25:09,840 --> 00:25:14,680 appointed, where he was designed within the community of the 338 00:25:14,680 --> 00:25:18,200 Israelites. However, Cora had stirred up 339 00:25:18,200 --> 00:25:21,640 some others and said, Nah, I can hear God too. 340 00:25:22,240 --> 00:25:24,560 I'm not going to listen to this guy anymore. 341 00:25:24,840 --> 00:25:27,520 I'm going to do more. In fact, I'm kind of tired of 342 00:25:27,520 --> 00:25:29,080 what how this thing's going down. 343 00:25:29,200 --> 00:25:31,960 Maybe I'll just take a group back to Egypt with me. 344 00:25:33,600 --> 00:25:40,080 So Moses says, 5. Let's see who God has appointed. 345 00:25:41,920 --> 00:25:45,400 So bring you little fire pans out right. 346 00:25:45,760 --> 00:25:47,440 We're going to let God come and show. 347 00:25:47,600 --> 00:25:50,480 And he says the core. Now, if you die a natural death, 348 00:25:53,200 --> 00:25:56,120 all right, guess what? I'm not the guy. 349 00:25:56,440 --> 00:26:03,040 But if you die some crazy way, then everyone's going to know 350 00:26:03,240 --> 00:26:08,000 that God has appointed me for this physician. 351 00:26:08,360 --> 00:26:11,720 And you're trying to fit yourself somewhere God never 352 00:26:11,720 --> 00:26:17,280 intended you to be. Well, we know the next day that 353 00:26:17,280 --> 00:26:21,640 it didn't bode well that it says of these individuals, these are 354 00:26:21,640 --> 00:26:26,720 the only ones recorded that he and his family went alive down 355 00:26:26,720 --> 00:26:31,960 into SHIELD. They did not drop dead the the 356 00:26:31,960 --> 00:26:36,800 ground opened up and swallowed them alive in front of the 357 00:26:36,800 --> 00:26:41,360 congregation. The only reason that they went 358 00:26:41,360 --> 00:26:44,560 alive down into the grave, and I'm not talking into Abraham's 359 00:26:44,560 --> 00:26:54,520 bosom, OK, is because they wanted to be appointed in a 360 00:26:54,520 --> 00:27:01,800 position they were never designed for, never designed. 361 00:27:02,600 --> 00:27:07,720 Are you hearing what I'm saying? So this should cause us when it 362 00:27:07,720 --> 00:27:12,440 comes to the church to really lean in to the Spirit of God and 363 00:27:12,440 --> 00:27:16,040 say, Lord, what's my fit? What's my fit? 364 00:27:17,040 --> 00:27:19,920 Because man, when you're doing what God's called you to do, 365 00:27:20,200 --> 00:27:24,560 man, you're doing the best you. No one can do anything better 366 00:27:24,560 --> 00:27:27,800 than you. The greatest assignment is doing 367 00:27:27,800 --> 00:27:33,960 the assignment, period. John 1516 says it this way. 368 00:27:34,400 --> 00:27:40,720 Jesus said you did not choose me, but I chose you, and I 369 00:27:40,720 --> 00:27:44,800 appointed you that you would go and bear fruit, and that your 370 00:27:44,800 --> 00:27:48,400 fruit would remain so that whatever you ask the Father in 371 00:27:48,400 --> 00:27:53,040 my name, he may give it to you. Now notice not everyone in this 372 00:27:53,040 --> 00:27:57,520 room will be appointed to be a pastor, will be appointed to be 373 00:27:57,520 --> 00:28:01,240 an evangelist, will be appointed to be an apostle, will be 374 00:28:01,240 --> 00:28:03,840 appointed to be a teacher or prophet. 375 00:28:04,840 --> 00:28:09,600 In fact, the majority will not be appointed for those 376 00:28:09,600 --> 00:28:13,160 particular gifts. So there are other assignments 377 00:28:13,160 --> 00:28:18,240 or appointments and if you will be in the place he appoints you, 378 00:28:18,640 --> 00:28:24,600 then you are is just as successful as anyone in any fit 379 00:28:26,280 --> 00:28:32,280 and you should never allow your thinking go to I wish I could do 380 00:28:32,280 --> 00:28:39,480 what because that will not that does not originate from God. 381 00:28:40,800 --> 00:28:45,080 God, when you start out in a church somewhere and you begin a 382 00:28:45,080 --> 00:28:49,320 a particular appointment, it may not be where you ultimately end 383 00:28:49,320 --> 00:28:55,200 up, but it will be God ordained. It will be a blessing to the 384 00:28:55,200 --> 00:28:57,920 body. It will strengthen the church 385 00:28:58,160 --> 00:29:02,640 Every time you are promoted in whatever it is you've been 386 00:29:02,640 --> 00:29:07,760 appointed, it will be a blessing to the body, to the church. 387 00:29:07,880 --> 00:29:09,720 It will not take from the church. 388 00:29:09,720 --> 00:29:11,880 It will only act add to the church. 389 00:29:12,640 --> 00:29:14,520 It will only strengthen the church. 390 00:29:14,680 --> 00:29:16,640 It will only make the church stronger. 391 00:29:16,640 --> 00:29:18,680 Why? Because God is not going to 392 00:29:18,680 --> 00:29:26,240 cause a gap to happen and leave us with a deficiency. 393 00:29:27,120 --> 00:29:31,280 The Lord is appointing us into places so that when we come 394 00:29:31,280 --> 00:29:33,520 together, we're all doing our part. 395 00:29:33,840 --> 00:29:37,480 And yet, you know, the world has been pretty successful at 396 00:29:37,480 --> 00:29:41,880 accomplishing these things, has been pretty successful at 397 00:29:41,880 --> 00:29:45,480 accomplishing these things. And as a result of that, you 398 00:29:45,480 --> 00:29:48,760 know, they are able to accomplish great things. 399 00:29:48,760 --> 00:29:52,200 Businesses are able to accomplish great things because, 400 00:29:52,360 --> 00:29:56,360 you know, somebody may not have this presence on social media 401 00:29:56,480 --> 00:29:59,360 and cannot talk to people. Well, those are not the people 402 00:29:59,360 --> 00:30:03,280 that we're putting in on our public relations, but they may 403 00:30:03,280 --> 00:30:06,960 be great at math, they may be great at structuring. 404 00:30:07,200 --> 00:30:10,240 And so they put people. And the reality is, why do they 405 00:30:10,240 --> 00:30:13,120 all do this? So that the company profits, so 406 00:30:13,120 --> 00:30:16,440 that they all benefit and receive a greater blessing. 407 00:30:16,600 --> 00:30:19,720 And the world does this all the time. 408 00:30:20,560 --> 00:30:24,800 We see this in athletics, period, period. 409 00:30:25,400 --> 00:30:27,040 Tony, stand up. Would you stand up? 410 00:30:27,200 --> 00:30:32,400 Tony is a national champion, national champion with college 411 00:30:32,400 --> 00:30:37,480 football, 1999, Florida State University won the national 412 00:30:37,480 --> 00:30:39,080 championship. He was on that team. 413 00:30:39,720 --> 00:30:44,080 All right, now Tony has slimmed down a little bit since he was 414 00:30:44,080 --> 00:30:48,720 on the team. Tony was not the quarterback. 415 00:30:50,960 --> 00:30:54,120 Now, Can you imagine Tony going to Coach Bowden and saying, 416 00:30:54,120 --> 00:30:56,360 look, how much? What was your playing weight, 417 00:30:58,840 --> 00:31:02,320 285, Man, you were small compared to today, right? 418 00:31:02,840 --> 00:31:04,040 Back then that was something different. 419 00:31:04,040 --> 00:31:07,000 But today that's OK. And what position did you play? 420 00:31:07,920 --> 00:31:10,880 Defensive tackle. OK, 285 defensive tackle. 421 00:31:11,080 --> 00:31:13,320 Can you imagine if he went to Coach Bobby Bowd and he said, 422 00:31:13,320 --> 00:31:16,240 look, coach, I'm feeling like quarterback today. 423 00:31:19,040 --> 00:31:22,520 I'm feeling it now. Coach, Coach Bowd, may, you 424 00:31:22,520 --> 00:31:24,880 know, play along for me and says, well, how you know? 425 00:31:24,880 --> 00:31:27,560 Can you throw the ball? You know, he might play around a 426 00:31:27,560 --> 00:31:29,680 little bit. How many games have you played 427 00:31:29,680 --> 00:31:31,040 quarterback? How many games have you played 428 00:31:31,040 --> 00:31:34,040 quarterback? Yeah, babe. 429 00:31:34,160 --> 00:31:40,760 OK, Now, here's the thing. In the news conference, there's 430 00:31:40,760 --> 00:31:43,520 not a whole lot of conversation happening with the defensive 431 00:31:43,520 --> 00:31:48,040 tackle, but there's a lot of conversation happening with the 432 00:31:48,040 --> 00:31:50,520 quarterback. Are you hearing what I'm saying? 433 00:31:51,440 --> 00:31:54,160 But yet, does he care? What? 434 00:31:54,160 --> 00:31:56,800 Who was yours? Quarterback Chris Winky. 435 00:31:57,160 --> 00:31:59,480 Do you really matter if they're talking to Chris Winky and 436 00:31:59,480 --> 00:32:01,800 you're putting on a ring too? Not at all. 437 00:32:02,800 --> 00:32:03,840 Thank you. You can be seated. 438 00:32:04,840 --> 00:32:10,400 The point is, is that we have allowed the lust of the world or 439 00:32:10,400 --> 00:32:14,560 the lust of Satan try to show up in the organization of the 440 00:32:14,560 --> 00:32:20,600 church and get us out of our appointed position. 441 00:32:21,680 --> 00:32:25,280 Cause again, listen, Jesus says you didn't choose me. 442 00:32:27,240 --> 00:32:30,960 He's like, look now you wouldn't even be in the church if Dad 443 00:32:30,960 --> 00:32:36,160 wouldn't have come talking. If Dad would not have come and 444 00:32:36,160 --> 00:32:40,360 started speaking to you, you wouldn't even be in the family. 445 00:32:43,400 --> 00:32:47,640 He's merciful and he wanted you in the position of dominion and 446 00:32:47,640 --> 00:32:50,600 wanted you in the family and wanted you with the nature of 447 00:32:50,600 --> 00:32:53,080 God. Now Dad's going to tell you 448 00:32:53,080 --> 00:32:57,120 where you sit at the table. Are you hearing me? 449 00:32:58,080 --> 00:33:02,240 And you understand when we begin to look at other positions 450 00:33:02,240 --> 00:33:05,320 within the body or our appointments and we begin to 451 00:33:05,320 --> 00:33:11,640 like man I if you're not destined, do not want and if you 452 00:33:11,680 --> 00:33:15,640 are, then you let God appoint and assign. 453 00:33:16,880 --> 00:33:19,960 I'll never forget when I went on staff at Water Life Fellowship, 454 00:33:20,160 --> 00:33:22,680 Pastor David EMI asked me point blank. 455 00:33:23,840 --> 00:33:27,720 He said, do you believe that you are called to pastor a church? 456 00:33:27,920 --> 00:33:31,760 I said yes Sir, I do, absolutely. 457 00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:33,240 He said, well then I'll train you. 458 00:33:33,440 --> 00:33:41,400 I never once, never once pretended like I pastored Word 459 00:33:41,400 --> 00:33:44,960 of Life Fellowship. Never. 460 00:33:47,560 --> 00:33:53,800 I never once, never because I was not the pastor, I was the 461 00:33:53,800 --> 00:34:00,280 youth pastor. I never once because I was not 462 00:34:00,520 --> 00:34:04,160 appointed for that. So when decisions were being 463 00:34:04,160 --> 00:34:09,679 made, I didn't say, well, if I was never entertained that 464 00:34:09,679 --> 00:34:11,960 thought, I knew that was demonic. 465 00:34:12,320 --> 00:34:16,520 I said no way, not going to do that because I'm not that 466 00:34:16,520 --> 00:34:20,760 person. He is and he has information he 467 00:34:20,760 --> 00:34:23,520 has inside. He has things that I have no 468 00:34:23,520 --> 00:34:28,040 access to and even what extra access I have because I'm on 469 00:34:28,040 --> 00:34:32,679 staff that the Saints in the congregation have no concept of. 470 00:34:32,880 --> 00:34:44,120 I'll never ever say if I was now when I examined his example, I 471 00:34:44,120 --> 00:34:49,840 would say these Lord, when you release me, that is something to 472 00:34:49,840 --> 00:34:56,040 follow. Lord, when you release me, I 473 00:34:56,040 --> 00:34:58,920 don't know what happened there. I'm going to need you to train 474 00:34:58,920 --> 00:35:05,440 me that where I'm at because I was so lost in his vision. 475 00:35:05,520 --> 00:35:07,800 I did not have a vision to pastor. 476 00:35:08,240 --> 00:35:11,560 I was youth pastor. In fact, God had a kind of, hey, 477 00:35:12,080 --> 00:35:18,560 we're done here, it's time to move because that's how focused 478 00:35:18,800 --> 00:35:21,440 I was on the vision of word of life fellowship. 479 00:35:22,120 --> 00:35:26,920 And if it wasn't for God, I'd be there today, the one for God, 480 00:35:26,920 --> 00:35:32,120 I'd be there today, Amen. You understand this in Romans 481 00:35:32,120 --> 00:35:33,640 11, I, they don't have this verse. 482 00:35:33,640 --> 00:35:37,520 It came up in my spirit as I was coming up in Romans 11/29. 483 00:35:37,520 --> 00:35:39,680 It says for the gifts and callings of God are without 484 00:35:39,680 --> 00:35:42,240 repentance. The amplified says it this way. 485 00:35:42,360 --> 00:35:45,040 For God's gifts and His call are irrevocable. 486 00:35:45,040 --> 00:35:48,920 He never withdraws them when once they are given. 487 00:35:48,920 --> 00:35:52,800 And He does not change his mind about those to whom He gives His 488 00:35:52,800 --> 00:35:56,720 grace or to whom He sends His call. 489 00:35:57,040 --> 00:36:00,840 So again, before you came into the Kingdom of God, He already 490 00:36:00,840 --> 00:36:04,440 prepared what He wants you to be appointed to do in His church. 491 00:36:04,840 --> 00:36:06,400 Why? Because God knew you were going 492 00:36:06,400 --> 00:36:08,240 to be born during the church age. 493 00:36:09,120 --> 00:36:11,120 You weren't born during the Old covenant. 494 00:36:11,360 --> 00:36:13,280 You weren't born during Noah's time. 495 00:36:13,400 --> 00:36:17,280 You weren't born prior to know. You weren't born in those 496 00:36:17,280 --> 00:36:20,240 particular dispensations. God always knew you would come 497 00:36:20,360 --> 00:36:25,000 in the church age, and in the church age everyone is to find 498 00:36:25,000 --> 00:36:28,320 their fit where they're jointed and fitted together so that the 499 00:36:28,320 --> 00:36:33,440 community of Christ as a family can take up a vision and do 500 00:36:33,440 --> 00:36:37,240 something really significant together that individually you 501 00:36:37,240 --> 00:36:39,040 just can't carry out by yourself. 502 00:36:39,240 --> 00:36:46,120 God is too big for one person. He's huge and He will expand us 503 00:36:46,240 --> 00:36:51,400 and stretch us and cause us to believe for the impossible, but 504 00:36:51,400 --> 00:36:56,600 it becomes possible because all of us buy in on where we've been 505 00:36:56,600 --> 00:36:59,960 appointed and fitted to come together and do it with great 506 00:36:59,960 --> 00:37:02,760 joy, passion, unity and 1 accord. 507 00:37:03,600 --> 00:37:07,080 Amen. So whether or not you answer the 508 00:37:07,080 --> 00:37:09,640 call doesn't change that God has a call. 509 00:37:10,560 --> 00:37:15,640 Now the only side note to this is if you choose to not finish 510 00:37:15,640 --> 00:37:21,640 the call, he can assign the your work to someone else. 511 00:37:22,040 --> 00:37:25,880 And we've seen that when Moses to Joshua, we've seen that with 512 00:37:26,240 --> 00:37:30,720 Barnabas to Silas when we ministered on the message of 513 00:37:30,720 --> 00:37:35,760 capacity that if you do not stay doing what God's ordained you to 514 00:37:35,760 --> 00:37:39,000 do, unfortunately somebody could get chapters of your book that 515 00:37:39,000 --> 00:37:41,200 never should have left you in the 1st place. 516 00:37:41,400 --> 00:37:44,640 Amen. So First Corinthians 12/18 again 517 00:37:44,640 --> 00:37:48,360 says this, but now God has placed the members, each one of 518 00:37:48,360 --> 00:37:50,440 them in the body, just as he desires. 519 00:37:50,800 --> 00:37:55,720 Again, who desires this? Who is the appointor? 520 00:37:56,760 --> 00:38:01,680 He brings the appointment. Hallelujah. 521 00:38:02,720 --> 00:38:06,800 Miles Monroe said it this way. The greatest, greatest tragedy 522 00:38:06,800 --> 00:38:11,800 in life is life without purpose. And that's even for a believer 523 00:38:11,800 --> 00:38:15,200 to be born again and don't even know why because it's not to go 524 00:38:15,200 --> 00:38:19,160 to heaven when you die. That's not the why. 525 00:38:20,120 --> 00:38:22,760 That is just something that happens. 526 00:38:23,600 --> 00:38:26,360 It's a benefit. OK. 527 00:38:26,680 --> 00:38:29,360 The second thing he said is the greatest challenge in life is 528 00:38:29,360 --> 00:38:31,160 knowing what to do. And that is a challenge. 529 00:38:31,160 --> 00:38:33,200 Many believers are like, Lord, what do you want me to do? 530 00:38:33,440 --> 00:38:37,360 But here's the thing, the Bible tells us that if you seek him, 531 00:38:37,360 --> 00:38:40,440 you'll find him. So if you want to know what he's 532 00:38:40,440 --> 00:38:42,920 asking you to do, he will let you know. 533 00:38:43,560 --> 00:38:47,800 In fact, he's obligated because you are created in Christ Jesus 534 00:38:48,040 --> 00:38:52,760 for good works which will prepare for you beforehand that 535 00:38:52,760 --> 00:38:57,160 you should walk in them. He's obligated to tell you why 536 00:38:57,160 --> 00:39:01,080 you're born again and what your assignment is, why he's 537 00:39:01,080 --> 00:39:03,120 appointed you within the body of Christ. 538 00:39:03,360 --> 00:39:09,600 OK, and so God is the one who desires this. 539 00:39:09,600 --> 00:39:13,680 He is the one who pulled you out of darkness and he's the one 540 00:39:13,680 --> 00:39:16,680 who's doing the placement. Again, a couple of translations 541 00:39:16,680 --> 00:39:19,720 we saw last week was but in fact, God has arranged the 542 00:39:19,720 --> 00:39:21,720 members. This is the Berean standard 543 00:39:21,720 --> 00:39:25,560 Bible of the body, every one of them according to his design, 544 00:39:25,560 --> 00:39:27,000 Young's literal translation said. 545 00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:30,800 And now God did set the members, each one of them in the body 546 00:39:30,920 --> 00:39:35,200 according as he willed. Many times people will come and 547 00:39:35,200 --> 00:39:37,680 say, well, we're coming trying to church out to see if this is 548 00:39:37,680 --> 00:39:39,840 where we need to be. Well, you don't need to try it. 549 00:39:39,840 --> 00:39:44,720 You need that pray. I mean, you know, sometimes 550 00:39:44,720 --> 00:39:46,880 people come across so spiritual. I'm like, well, you should 551 00:39:46,880 --> 00:39:50,120 already have the answer if you're that spiritual because if 552 00:39:50,120 --> 00:39:52,120 you're that in tune with God, he would have told you before you 553 00:39:52,120 --> 00:39:54,840 even showed up. Seeing it shouldn't confirm 554 00:39:54,840 --> 00:40:00,520 whether or not you're supposed to be assigned, because if 555 00:40:00,520 --> 00:40:02,920 you're trying to confirm it through sight. 556 00:40:07,120 --> 00:40:13,200 I'm convinced that some churches within rural areas have God 557 00:40:13,200 --> 00:40:18,000 appointed people that the only reason those churches are are 558 00:40:18,000 --> 00:40:24,320 are not as successful as God intended is because the families 559 00:40:24,320 --> 00:40:27,040 went. But because they didn't see what 560 00:40:27,040 --> 00:40:30,480 they wanted, they went to a larger congregation already 561 00:40:30,480 --> 00:40:34,320 providing when they were the answer to that congregation so 562 00:40:34,320 --> 00:40:39,040 it could provide. Because we've turned the church 563 00:40:39,040 --> 00:40:43,200 in. You serve me well. 564 00:40:43,200 --> 00:40:46,040 The church is not about God. Where do you want me? 565 00:40:46,080 --> 00:40:48,360 I mean, this is the John F Kennedy deal. 566 00:40:48,680 --> 00:40:51,240 Don't ask your country what it can do for you. 567 00:40:51,240 --> 00:40:54,320 Ask your what you can do for your country. 568 00:40:55,280 --> 00:40:58,720 I mean, what can you do for the church, for the Kingdom of God? 569 00:40:58,800 --> 00:41:04,000 He's already laid down his life to give you access and he has a 570 00:41:04,000 --> 00:41:07,400 fit for you, an appointment for you, a place for you, a design 571 00:41:07,400 --> 00:41:11,760 for you so that you can have the the most exciting life on the 572 00:41:11,760 --> 00:41:15,040 planet because you're doing exactly what you're called to do 573 00:41:15,320 --> 00:41:18,360 and why you're breathing. Miles Monroe went on to say the 574 00:41:18,360 --> 00:41:22,160 greatest mistake in life is being busy and not effective. 575 00:41:22,240 --> 00:41:24,840 And I believe there's a lot of Christians in church 576 00:41:24,840 --> 00:41:29,880 congregations they were never appointed to be a part of and 577 00:41:29,880 --> 00:41:33,080 they're being busy but not effective. 578 00:41:33,720 --> 00:41:37,520 And the Bible bears this out, that there will be a day before 579 00:41:37,520 --> 00:41:41,640 the Lord that if you're doing things that he has not appointed 580 00:41:41,640 --> 00:41:44,240 you to do, it is wood, hay and stubble. 581 00:41:49,960 --> 00:41:51,720 I mean I didn't write the scripture. 582 00:41:52,080 --> 00:41:56,920 Jesus puts you in the body where it pleases him. 583 00:41:57,880 --> 00:42:03,520 There is no self appointment. None. 584 00:42:04,440 --> 00:42:08,440 It's where he appointed or you yielded to it and it's the best 585 00:42:08,440 --> 00:42:11,280 place you could ever be. The last thing he said was just 586 00:42:11,280 --> 00:42:15,320 the greatest failure in life is being successful in the wrong 587 00:42:15,320 --> 00:42:17,960 assignment. And if we don't watch out, 588 00:42:17,960 --> 00:42:20,600 especially in the last of the last days because of seducing 589 00:42:20,600 --> 00:42:23,560 spirits and doctrines of demons, the enemy is going to be able to 590 00:42:23,560 --> 00:42:27,240 take believers and put them in places where they really are 591 00:42:27,240 --> 00:42:30,480 fitted in religious moles looking like they're being very 592 00:42:30,480 --> 00:42:33,960 successful because it's become more of a social order and not 593 00:42:33,960 --> 00:42:37,680 necessarily a spirit LED order. And finance is actually 594 00:42:37,680 --> 00:42:41,160 accomplishing tasks, not the Spirit of God. 595 00:42:41,400 --> 00:42:46,480 And they are feeling the success of that, but they have actually 596 00:42:46,480 --> 00:42:49,360 failed because they're not where they're supposed to be. 597 00:42:53,520 --> 00:42:56,680 Psalms 13913 and 16 says it this way. 598 00:42:57,080 --> 00:43:01,200 For you form my inward parts, you woe me in my mother's womb. 599 00:43:02,280 --> 00:43:06,520 You are in the dispensation of the church, not in a place of 600 00:43:06,520 --> 00:43:10,920 individualism. You are an individual, but 601 00:43:10,920 --> 00:43:14,760 you're in the dispensation of the Church, and you're in Christ 602 00:43:14,840 --> 00:43:18,360 for good works connected with others, to do something 603 00:43:18,360 --> 00:43:21,560 significant for it. For you were formed. 604 00:43:21,720 --> 00:43:24,320 You formed my inward parts. You wove me in my mother's womb. 605 00:43:24,960 --> 00:43:27,640 I give thanks to you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made 606 00:43:27,640 --> 00:43:30,160 wonderful all your works, for my soul knows it well. 607 00:43:30,200 --> 00:43:33,880 My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in secret and 608 00:43:33,880 --> 00:43:35,520 skillfully wrought in the depths of the earth. 609 00:43:35,520 --> 00:43:39,840 Look at this powerful Your eyes have seen my unformed substance, 610 00:43:39,840 --> 00:43:43,880 and in your book were written all the days that were ordained 611 00:43:43,880 --> 00:43:47,600 for me, as when yet there were not one of them. 612 00:43:48,000 --> 00:43:55,040 So before you ever came in was created in Christ 4 good works 613 00:43:55,040 --> 00:43:57,680 that were prepared for you out of this book before you were in 614 00:43:57,680 --> 00:44:04,320 your mother's womb. And these callings are whether 615 00:44:04,320 --> 00:44:09,760 or not you accepted or not. He doesn't revoke the book. 616 00:44:09,880 --> 00:44:16,040 He judges you by the book. He says, did you do what I 617 00:44:16,040 --> 00:44:19,320 appointed you to do? And all of us were born in the 618 00:44:19,360 --> 00:44:21,920 earth. When the church is alive, it is 619 00:44:21,920 --> 00:44:25,640 like a phenomenal dispensation. Now the millennial reign will be 620 00:44:25,640 --> 00:44:30,760 even greater than this one. This one's powerful. 621 00:44:30,880 --> 00:44:35,800 I mean, David long for this type of experience. 622 00:44:35,880 --> 00:44:38,520 I mean, he had the Holy Spirit come upon him but leave him. 623 00:44:38,640 --> 00:44:43,160 But none of the Israelites had that ability to touch or have 624 00:44:43,160 --> 00:44:47,080 God touch them. We have the Holy Ghost on the 625 00:44:47,120 --> 00:44:50,080 inside of us. We are the temple of the Holy 626 00:44:50,080 --> 00:44:52,520 Ghost. I can just hear the patriarch 627 00:44:52,520 --> 00:44:58,080 saying, man, God lives in you. Your nature is alive. 628 00:44:58,880 --> 00:45:02,160 You can assemble and walk in love and unity. 629 00:45:02,280 --> 00:45:06,640 You have everything you need. You can renew your mind. 630 00:45:08,480 --> 00:45:13,320 Like, wow, what a dispensation. You're doing the same work Jesus 631 00:45:13,320 --> 00:45:17,400 did, all of you. A bunch of little Jesus is 632 00:45:17,400 --> 00:45:21,480 running around. Can you imagine them standing 633 00:45:21,480 --> 00:45:25,680 over champion us? Like come on guys, if we only 634 00:45:25,680 --> 00:45:32,240 had that when we were alive. Wow, now you know we going to be 635 00:45:32,240 --> 00:45:36,200 talking like this to Saints that are in the flesh during the 636 00:45:36,200 --> 00:45:38,280 millennial reign 'cause we'll be in glorified bodies. 637 00:45:38,280 --> 00:45:42,960 Like, bro, you don't even have the devil on the earth. 638 00:45:46,560 --> 00:45:52,160 Seriously. Right now Jesus is alive, seated 639 00:45:52,160 --> 00:45:55,360 on the throne in Jerusalem. You can go touch him. 640 00:45:55,560 --> 00:46:03,720 And you're telling me you can't do this right? 641 00:46:03,720 --> 00:46:09,640 It's like, and then when he releases the devil at the end 642 00:46:10,400 --> 00:46:13,800 and you're like, you're going to abandon Jesus. 643 00:46:18,120 --> 00:46:21,720 I mean, the church age is amazing, but nothing compared to 644 00:46:21,720 --> 00:46:26,840 the millennial reign. And yet still Saints will fail, 645 00:46:30,240 --> 00:46:34,440 man will fail. We are living at the greatest 646 00:46:34,440 --> 00:46:39,640 moment ever in history of which God is saying to us, look, I'm 647 00:46:39,640 --> 00:46:42,000 telling you right now, I have ordained for you. 648 00:46:42,960 --> 00:46:45,720 I've ordained for you before you ever came, and I've placed you 649 00:46:45,720 --> 00:46:48,960 in the age of the church. And listen, when I said I'll put 650 00:46:48,960 --> 00:46:52,320 you in the body where it pleases me, it's because in that place 651 00:46:52,320 --> 00:46:55,040 that I plant you, it is where you'll grow. 652 00:46:55,040 --> 00:46:57,560 It is where you'll receive instruction. 653 00:46:57,800 --> 00:47:01,240 It's where you'll receive correction so that you maintain 654 00:47:01,240 --> 00:47:04,880 unity and walk in love. And never does He ever want us 655 00:47:04,880 --> 00:47:11,240 to fall back. A righteous man may fall 7 656 00:47:11,240 --> 00:47:14,200 times, but he what? Because we say let's get up. 657 00:47:14,800 --> 00:47:17,440 Let's do this thing. We don't say well it's OK to 658 00:47:17,440 --> 00:47:19,320 stay down, you can still be with us. 659 00:47:19,600 --> 00:47:23,040 No, let's get up, let's move forward because we've been 660 00:47:23,040 --> 00:47:26,400 ordained for something bigger than ourselves because God has 661 00:47:26,400 --> 00:47:27,640 called us. And you know what? 662 00:47:27,800 --> 00:47:31,760 We didn't lose ourselves in the context that we don't exist. 663 00:47:31,840 --> 00:47:34,880 We're still an individual. Our gifts are coming out. 664 00:47:35,040 --> 00:47:38,880 We need thank God for Patricia here in the Holy Ghost today and 665 00:47:38,880 --> 00:47:41,480 coming up and yielding. And look how it ushered in 666 00:47:41,480 --> 00:47:44,680 another wave of the anointing of God. 667 00:47:45,760 --> 00:47:49,480 Now, she didn't do that, but the Spirit of God did that. 668 00:47:50,280 --> 00:47:54,280 But it could have been anyone because again, we're just in our 669 00:47:54,280 --> 00:47:55,640 fit. And you know what, She's not 670 00:47:55,640 --> 00:47:58,480 even serving today. She's just in church. 671 00:47:59,840 --> 00:48:02,920 But God wanted her to serve in that capacity today. 672 00:48:03,080 --> 00:48:05,680 Just like on the worship team, people served in the parking 673 00:48:05,680 --> 00:48:08,320 lot, people served wherever you're serving, you're 674 00:48:08,320 --> 00:48:11,000 releasing. And to think that year after 675 00:48:11,000 --> 00:48:15,640 year after year after year from the middle school to 312 to now 676 00:48:15,640 --> 00:48:19,160 in the mall to now buying the mall, that all of a sudden, all 677 00:48:19,160 --> 00:48:24,280 of that selfish serving and, and, and, and work and tearing 678 00:48:24,280 --> 00:48:27,880 off sheetrock and painting walls and vacuuming and cutting grass 679 00:48:27,880 --> 00:48:31,040 and all kinds of things that we have come to do together. 680 00:48:31,040 --> 00:48:34,360 And feeding the homeless and feeding the National Guard and 681 00:48:34,480 --> 00:48:39,760 and feeding the police officers and firefighters and going to 682 00:48:39,760 --> 00:48:43,440 town meetings and having crusades that all of a sudden a 683 00:48:43,440 --> 00:48:47,000 ministry in Poland is like, we need what they have. 684 00:48:50,360 --> 00:48:54,560 That we didn't realize that your assignment here touched another 685 00:48:54,560 --> 00:48:59,600 nation. And we're just getting started 686 00:49:00,800 --> 00:49:04,240 because it's going to get greater, it's going to be more 687 00:49:04,240 --> 00:49:08,680 magnificent because we are continually allowing ourselves 688 00:49:08,680 --> 00:49:13,360 to grow and not be in competition, but be completing 689 00:49:13,360 --> 00:49:18,320 one another, complementing one another, holding each other up. 690 00:49:18,560 --> 00:49:21,440 But when you see someone struggling in a battle, it's 691 00:49:21,440 --> 00:49:28,560 like, bro, I got you, I got you. I'm a hold your arms up look, we 692 00:49:28,560 --> 00:49:32,520 all can get weary. Moses had the anointing to win 693 00:49:32,520 --> 00:49:36,240 the war with the staff, but he could only hold the staff for so 694 00:49:36,240 --> 00:49:39,960 long. And when that thing dropped, he 695 00:49:39,960 --> 00:49:43,320 wasn't even on the battlefield. It was Joshua down there 696 00:49:43,400 --> 00:49:46,640 stabbing the guys with the rest of them. 697 00:49:46,800 --> 00:49:50,320 But man, they would start coming against them when he dropped the 698 00:49:50,320 --> 00:49:52,960 staff. So Aaron and her said, sit down 699 00:49:52,960 --> 00:50:01,560 Moses, why have you do this by yourself, man, you're just a 700 00:50:01,560 --> 00:50:05,240 human. You're noted of God and your 701 00:50:05,240 --> 00:50:09,120 hands have to hold that staff. But man, we can hold your arms. 702 00:50:09,120 --> 00:50:13,640 And they leaned against him to where now it didn't matter if he 703 00:50:13,640 --> 00:50:17,800 went to muscle failure because now they had the muscles of two 704 00:50:17,800 --> 00:50:26,000 grown men. And they won the battle because 705 00:50:26,000 --> 00:50:29,040 they were at the place they were appointed. 706 00:50:29,960 --> 00:50:33,320 They were sighed, Everybody doing their part. 707 00:50:34,240 --> 00:50:37,120 I mean, there's nothing like getting up and getting around 708 00:50:37,120 --> 00:50:43,400 everyone who's like jacked about their part doing their 709 00:50:43,400 --> 00:50:46,440 assignment. Because when we do, the next 710 00:50:46,440 --> 00:50:51,160 thing you know is we'll look back and say, wow, look what the 711 00:50:51,160 --> 00:50:55,560 Lord has done. 2nd Corinthians 4, seven to 18. 712 00:50:55,560 --> 00:50:58,040 I know it seems long, but this is what I want you to know. 713 00:50:58,480 --> 00:51:02,000 Know for certain that being faithful to the appointed 714 00:51:02,000 --> 00:51:07,480 assignment he has for each of us will be rewarded on that day and 715 00:51:07,480 --> 00:51:11,720 promotion for the Millennium. Look at this in context. 716 00:51:12,680 --> 00:51:18,080 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, so that the 717 00:51:18,080 --> 00:51:23,200 surpassing greatness of the power of God, the power will be 718 00:51:23,200 --> 00:51:28,280 of God, and not from ourselves. We are afflicted in every way, 719 00:51:28,480 --> 00:51:33,480 but not crushed, perplexed but not destroyed, persecuted but 720 00:51:33,480 --> 00:51:37,960 not forsaken, struck down but not destroyed, always caring 721 00:51:37,960 --> 00:51:43,000 about in the body the dying of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus 722 00:51:43,000 --> 00:51:46,400 may all also may be manifested in our body. 723 00:51:47,360 --> 00:51:53,000 For we who live are constantly being delivered over to death 724 00:51:53,000 --> 00:51:58,000 for Jesus's sake, so that the life of Jesus may also may be 725 00:51:58,000 --> 00:52:01,440 manifested in our mortal bodies. Man, you're having to put down 726 00:52:01,440 --> 00:52:04,320 your will all the time to do that what you've been assigned 727 00:52:04,320 --> 00:52:07,120 to do. So death works in us, but life 728 00:52:07,120 --> 00:52:12,400 in you, but having the same spirit of faith according to 729 00:52:12,400 --> 00:52:14,320 what is written. I believe, therefore I speak. 730 00:52:14,440 --> 00:52:17,040 We also believe, therefore we also speak. 731 00:52:17,040 --> 00:52:22,760 Knowing, say knowing that he who raised the Lord Jesus will raise 732 00:52:22,760 --> 00:52:27,400 us also with Jesus and will present us with him. 733 00:52:27,920 --> 00:52:33,200 For all things are for your sakes, so that the grace which 734 00:52:33,200 --> 00:52:41,320 is spreading to more and more people may cause the giving of 735 00:52:41,320 --> 00:52:43,520 thanks to a bound to the glory of God. 736 00:52:43,760 --> 00:52:47,560 Paul said, I'm going through all kinds of stuff so that I can 737 00:52:47,560 --> 00:52:52,360 impart this grace to you so that you can take that grace and do. 738 00:52:52,400 --> 00:52:58,200 And he's talking to a church, talking to the church in 739 00:52:58,200 --> 00:53:02,680 Corinth. He says, therefore, do not lose 740 00:53:02,680 --> 00:53:05,640 heart. But though our outward man is 741 00:53:05,640 --> 00:53:08,680 decaying, yet our inward man is being renewed day by day. 742 00:53:09,000 --> 00:53:15,120 Notice this for momentarily light affliction is producing 743 00:53:15,120 --> 00:53:20,360 for us and eternal weight of glory far beyond comparison. 744 00:53:21,200 --> 00:53:26,080 Man, when you deny all that the world's trappings to try to 745 00:53:26,080 --> 00:53:31,080 separate you from your appointment within his body, and 746 00:53:31,080 --> 00:53:35,080 you say, no, I'm staying with the king, I'm staying with his 747 00:53:35,080 --> 00:53:37,760 church, I'm staying with the appointment. 748 00:53:37,840 --> 00:53:39,800 I'm staying where he is planting me. 749 00:53:39,920 --> 00:53:42,320 I'm staying where he has assigned me. 750 00:53:42,440 --> 00:53:45,480 I'm staying in the assignment. I'm going to be faithful. 751 00:53:45,480 --> 00:53:50,120 Listen, this momentary light affliction is producing for us 752 00:53:50,280 --> 00:53:52,880 an eternal weight of glory far beyond comparison. 753 00:53:53,040 --> 00:53:58,240 Why we look not at the things which you're seeing, but the 754 00:53:58,240 --> 00:54:01,000 things which are not seen. For the things which are seen or 755 00:54:01,000 --> 00:54:04,200 what temporal, but the things which are seen are eternal. 756 00:54:04,520 --> 00:54:07,760 The greatest thing in life is not having the house, the 757 00:54:07,760 --> 00:54:11,760 retirement, this comfortable cush life, all the cars and 758 00:54:11,760 --> 00:54:14,000 stuff. That's not what it's about. 759 00:54:14,120 --> 00:54:18,560 It's about have you done what you were appointed to do when He 760 00:54:18,560 --> 00:54:21,880 apprehended you and brought you into His Kingdom? 761 00:54:22,400 --> 00:54:25,480 Because you can have things while you're here, but they're 762 00:54:25,480 --> 00:54:29,640 never the object by which we are trying to pursue. 763 00:54:29,760 --> 00:54:33,720 We are trying to only pursue the assignment or the appointment He 764 00:54:33,720 --> 00:54:37,720 has for us within His Church so that when we faithfully carry 765 00:54:37,720 --> 00:54:48,960 that out, when we step over into eternity, then the blessings and 766 00:54:48,960 --> 00:54:58,880 the next assignment abounds. Because to you, this life here 767 00:54:59,400 --> 00:55:05,280 was temporal. This is not the best and I do 768 00:55:05,280 --> 00:55:09,640 not hotly pursue what it has to offer. 769 00:55:10,320 --> 00:55:13,400 I will enjoy it. I will receive from it. 770 00:55:13,680 --> 00:55:16,760 It will give to me because I'm the child of a king. 771 00:55:17,400 --> 00:55:21,120 But at a moment's notice I can give it all away because none of 772 00:55:21,120 --> 00:55:24,200 it has me. Only one person has me. 773 00:55:24,280 --> 00:55:27,600 His name's King Jesus. He is my All in all. 774 00:55:27,640 --> 00:55:31,280 He is the apple of my eye. He is worth living my life for. 775 00:55:31,320 --> 00:55:33,840 He's worth my life selling everything out for. 776 00:55:33,920 --> 00:55:37,440 He's my worth me moving all the way around the world. 777 00:55:37,520 --> 00:55:41,200 Should he assign me to another country, I'll do whatever He 778 00:55:41,200 --> 00:55:44,200 says, because He has done all for me. 779 00:55:45,280 --> 00:55:49,200 And I can be guaranteed that when I do that, there awaits for 780 00:55:49,200 --> 00:55:54,840 me the great prize of well done, that good and faithful servant 781 00:55:54,840 --> 00:55:57,800 of which he wants to tell all of us on that day. 782 00:56:00,080 --> 00:56:04,560 But whatever I'm assigned to do, it'll never be alone, because 783 00:56:04,560 --> 00:56:09,760 it's assigned to the church. His name has been given to the 784 00:56:09,760 --> 00:56:17,000 church, so there's nowhere we can go that the church should 785 00:56:17,000 --> 00:56:26,120 not be there. This is the greatest thing you 786 00:56:26,120 --> 00:56:36,320 do every day is this body. And as we are stronger, tighter 787 00:56:36,480 --> 00:56:42,200 walk in love and unity, One mind 1 accord saying thank God, he's 788 00:56:42,200 --> 00:56:44,080 releasing my gift like this right now. 789 00:56:46,160 --> 00:56:53,680 Then there's no telling. So to the one that couldn't go 790 00:56:53,680 --> 00:56:58,520 to Poland but pulled out and said, Pastor, I'll send you. 791 00:57:00,880 --> 00:57:05,520 You have a reward for what they've not even done yet. 792 00:57:10,560 --> 00:57:19,400 You've started something because you sent the word and now it's 793 00:57:19,400 --> 00:57:23,160 just stirring. So much so that they figured out 794 00:57:23,160 --> 00:57:26,960 how to come to our country and sit in the service. 795 00:57:26,960 --> 00:57:32,080 You have the privilege of Wednesdays and Sundays to hear. 796 00:57:38,800 --> 00:57:44,640 That other pastors are aspiring to see their local bodies 797 00:57:45,320 --> 00:57:51,200 display what they sensed came from us. 798 00:57:53,960 --> 00:57:56,360 And now that they're here, they're experiencing you. 799 00:57:58,520 --> 00:58:07,000 And you give them hope. You strengthen their faith and 800 00:58:07,000 --> 00:58:09,760 it was simply because you did your appointment. 801 00:58:13,320 --> 00:58:20,120 A parking lot team met them today, parked them, they picked 802 00:58:20,120 --> 00:58:21,680 them up. They come to find us. 803 00:58:23,320 --> 00:58:25,320 You just blessed them. You stood up. 804 00:58:25,600 --> 00:58:28,920 You should always stand up when someone that's given their life 805 00:58:28,920 --> 00:58:31,800 in the Fivefold Ministries here, she always honored that because 806 00:58:31,800 --> 00:58:34,400 that's that's not a small assignment. 807 00:58:36,080 --> 00:58:39,480 And none, none of us could ever do those gifts without the the 808 00:58:39,480 --> 00:58:44,680 anointing of a God. None of us. 809 00:58:46,040 --> 00:58:54,320 Hallelujah. Are you ready to commit to the 810 00:58:54,320 --> 00:58:54,920 appointment?