So today we're in finding your fit.
The third installment is called the Appointment.
So I want to start over here in Matthew chapter 16 verses 16 to
19 and it says this Simon Peter answered and said you are the
Christ, the Son of the living God.
And Jesus said to him, Blessed are you Simon Barjona, because
flesh and blood did not reveal this to you.
But my Father in heaven, I also say to you that you are Peter,
and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of
Hades, or hell will not overpower it.
I'll give you the keys of the Kingdom of heaven, and whatever
you bind on earth shall have been bound in heaven, and
whatever you loose on earth shall have been loosed in
heaven. This is a key text for us
because Jesus has asked his disciples, who do people say
that we are, or who is talking about me?
And what are they saying about me?
Who are they attributing me as being?
And they obviously communicated Elijah, Jeremiah, one of the
prophets. Then after he says, OK, that's
what everyone else says about me.
Who do you say that I am? And Peter says you are the
Christ. Now Christ is obviously not his
last name. We know here at Anchorage Church
that means it is his title. He is the King.
It is a Greek equivalent to the Hebrew word Messiah is the
anointed one in his anointing. It is the King that Israel is
waiting to come who will set up his Kingdom and have no end.
And so this is the revelation that Peter had, that he is the
Christ, You're the king. You are the long anticipated
prophesied king that we knew was coming.
You're the one. And Jesus says flesh and blood
has not revealed this to you, but my Father in heaven, he's
the one who brought you that revelation.
Then he goes on and says this, that you're blessed.
He's called him Peter. But he said upon the rock or the
revelation that I am the Christ, I'm the King, I will build my
church. And as we have said before here
in this 18th verse, Jesus never delegated the building of the
church to the pastor, the apostle, the prophet, the
evangelist, or the teacher. Jesus right now, seated at the
right hand of the Father, is actively involved in building
his church. Jesus is, I like to say Jesus is
this the greatest micromanager on the planet.
Now, that's not a popular term in corporate world.
Don't micromanage me. Don't be looking over my
shoulder. But the Bible tells us that
every idle word will give an account.
So although Jesus may not be checking in with you every day
about your life per SE, it doesn't mean he doesn't know
exactly what you're doing and why you're doing what you're
doing and with what motive you're doing what you're doing.
He knows it all and he is meticulous.
That is not to scare you, not to intimidate you.
It really, if you understand, Scripture should make you say,
yes, thank you God. Because when the day comes that
you stand before the reward seed of Jesus, the judgment, the seat
of Christ, then God will never miss one ounce of your faith to
reward you for your faithfulness.
There's nothing done to you. Whatever that has happened in
your life that you've done it by faith, you will receive an open
reward. And crowns are credited to your
account eternally. Hallelujah.
But he is managing the building of the church.
He is the chief architect. He is the one that is doing it
all. I as an apostle or pastor within
the body as that gift, my wife as a pastor and functions in the
profit office are a gift in the body.
We also have teachers here. We have evangelists here.
Those that function in those giftings are just doing their
part. It's not our church, it's His
church. And we are functioning as those
gifts in the body to help equip the Saints so that all of us can
come together as a team and accomplish something great
together. We're all just doing our part.
Amen. Of which Jesus is the head of
the church. And we know it's about his
Kingdom because he said, I'll give you the keys of the
Kingdom, that whatever we bind on earth shall have been bound
in heaven. Whatever he loosed on earth
shall have been loosed in heaven.
The Bible's about a king, his Kingdom and his royal offspring.
And we are in the greatest powerful move of God on the
planet today. It's called the dispensation of
His church. This is why you want to eat,
breathe and drink His church even when you're not here.
You want to think about it because it's where you are
assigned. It's where you are appointed,
it's where you're being. It's it's in Him.
We live and move and have our being.
Amen. So as much as when I'm by myself
fellowshipping and worshipping Jesus Christ, it's never without
this mentality that I am worshipping the head of the
church. And I'm thankful for His church,
and I'm thankful for the body of Christ, and I'm thankful for
brothers and sisters. That I'm not in this earth doing
it alone, doing it by myself, having to do it solo.
That there's others that I can lock arms with, that I'm jointed
and fitted with, and that we can take the message of the gospel
of the Kingdom in our community, to our families, to our
workplace, to our government, throughout our community, our
state, our nation, and into the world.
We're going to do our part Hallelujah.
Well, that should just get you excited that God has hand picked
you. And today you'll see you are
hand picked by God. Amen.
In John chapter 6 verse 44, it says no one can come to me
unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him
up on the last day. Now this is really significant
because we know for anyone to be born again, they first have to
be drawn. In fact, the Bible tells us that
all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God.
And no man goes after God. No, not one.
If the Father did not go after us, we would never go after him.
Which means we were on a hopeless path that had no hope
and we weren't even pursuing hope.
We were incapable by our nature to even find hope.
And even if we were trying to get to what we were defining as
a God or God, it was in filthy rags.
It was not of anything holy or righteous and we were running
down the wrong Rd. However, when the Father does
start to speak man, we need to listen because those
opportunities as merciful and as long-suffering as He as He is,
they still have a time frame. Because if you read the book of
Romans chapter one, there is a pursuit that God has with man.
But when man completely and continually rejects him through
the process of him clearly identify himself to them, and
they reject Him and reject Him and reject Him and reject Him
and reject Him, knowing it's Him but choosing not to yield to
Him, it says that He will give them over to their depraved
mind. And at that point God no longer
pursues and there's no longer hope in Romans chapter 1.
So when the Lord is speaking and drawing man, that's the time to
answer. Don't be hoping or thinking
there's another occasion you want to leap at the moment
because the The thing is, is that although we know God's
long-suffering and merciful, it would be more compelling for
people to yield to the opportunity than just think, Oh,
I got more time. Amen.
Now God can't make them, we can't make them, but we do want
them to know. If the Lord's been talking to
you, man, you really need to answer.
In John chapter 6 verse 65, it says this.
And he was saying for this reason I have said to you that
no one can come to me unless it has been granted Him from the
Father. Wow, isn't that amazing?
So again, it is God always pursuing us with his love for us
and through that love he's pursued us.
This is why Jesus said to math to Peter in Matthew 16.
He said flesh and blood has not revealed this to you.
Father's talking to you. And because the Father is
talking to you, Son, you're blessed, and you're hearing from
heaven because it's a big deal that Dad's talking, Amen.
I said, it's a big deal that Dad is talking.
So when God calls, we want to run to him, Amen.
And why is he calling us? Well, we see here in Ephesians
chapter 2 verses 4 to 10, Jesus again said I will build my
church. He says go into all the world
and make disciples that's enlist as pupils.
Those are those that are going to come into the body of Christ
that need to be trained or equipped according to Ephesians
4 for the work of the ministry. Again, Jesus did not say go into
all the world, make converts so that they'll know where they'll
go when they die or they'll know they'll go to heaven when they
die. He said no, make disciples.
Disciples first have to be converted, but they're not the
only stay converted. They are to become discipled and
disciple means you have to bring them to the house, to the family
of God where the training takes place, where a whole new way of
living becomes your reality because you're not of this
world, just like he's not of this world.
But look at here in Ephesians 2. You know it starting in verse 4,
it says, but God being rich in mercy because of his great love
with which he loved us even when we were dead in our
transgressions, made us alive together with Christ.
By grace you have been saved and raised us up with him and seated
us with him in heavenly places in Christ Jesus.
Hallelujah, so that in the ages to come, so that in the ages to
come, ages, not just the next age, but ages to come, He might
show the surpassing riches of his grace in kindness towards us
in Christ Jesus. For by grace you have been
saved. How?
Through faith. It was faith that activated the
grace so that you could become born again.
Then it says that and that not of yourself.
It is a gift of God, not as a result of works, meaning your
independent work of God without Him drawing you.
You were establishing what criteria you could do and God
would accept you as righteous, holy and just.
You cannot do that. So it's not of your own works or
any of your personal works so that you can boast before God.
Verse 10 though, so we are saved by grace through faith.
Why? Verse 10?
For we are His workmanship. Why are we born again or created
in Christ? Because when you're born again,
you've been created in Christ. You are a new creature in Christ
that is born again. OK, so why are we?
We are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for purpose.
That's the purpose for for us to go to heaven, for us to know
that when we die we'll be with him forever, for us to be free
from our guilt. Now you're going to get have all
of those, but it's for good works, say Amen.
It's for good works. OK, which put that back up.
Which God prepared when beforehand.
Now before you were in Christ or created in Christ, He had
something prepared for you. He has something prepared.
You understand the way you living like a hellion doesn't
change what He has prepared for you.
It hasn't changed His opinion about it.
He just needs you to get with Him.
He needs you to see it as He sees it.
He needs you to agree with Him, to yield to Him, to submit to
Him, to let the Creator release all that He has for you to do in
the earth before you ever go. So you were created in Christ
for good works which got prepared beforehand so that you
would what, Walk in them, not hope about them?
Wish one day you could do something significant for God.
When we finally get to the sweet, by and by I'll be able to
do something for God. No, these are now.
This is what comes with being in the church, right?
He wants us to assemble because the architect has a design for
everybody so that he can appoint you to your assignment, so that
you can accomplish what he has prepared for you.
Are you hearing me, man? That ought to get you really
excited. Amen.
So he has prepared something for you, I said.
He has prepared something for you.
Glory to God, He has prepared something for you.
He knows your assignment. He knows you're fit.
He knows what you're destined to do.
Now, if we just go back to Genesis, we can see in the
beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
Pretty two big words, heavens, earth.
There's a lot in the heavens. We started breaking down each
individual thing that is contained within the heavens.
Then just the earth. There's a lot going on in planet
earth. Well, then we start to see that
He starts talking about days and He starts describing some of
these things that He says God said, let there be.
And notice everything that He spoke had purpose.
The giraffes have a purpose, the whales have a purpose, the birds
have a purpose. Are you hearing what I'm saying?
And all of those are to stay within those purposes.
In fact, creation does not argue with God about coming out of the
place that He has appointed it. He even said to the ocean, This
is how far you come, and you don't come any forth.
I have appointed you to come here, but I have not appointed
you to go there. Are you hearing me?
He has appointed trees to live on land.
He has appointed things because the Creator is not is the
Creator by design. He knows how they'll produce the
best fruit and accomplish the purpose by which he has assigned
them. But then we get to Genesis 126
and it says, then God said, let us make man in our image
according to our likeness, and let them have dominion.
Glory to God. We are to have dominion over the
fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, over the cattle, over
every creeping thing that creeps on the earth and over all the
earth. So that was man's purpose.
It's his fit, it's his destiny, it's his God-given right because
God gave him the right with his word.
Amen. Hallelujah.
And so we should aspire to be in the place or the proper domain
or abode by which He has appointed us.
Is where God has appointed you serious?
Who had the first thought then to leave their fit in the
Kingdom of God for another, they were not created to feel.
Isaiah 14, Isaiah 14. There is this anointed cherub.
God has created the angelic realm, He has assigned them you.
We read. Eloise read to us this morning
of the of the Seraphim's that are flying around the throne
right now. It is their purpose, their fit
in the Kingdom. And they do this without ever
growing tired of saying holy, holy, holy is the Lord God
Almighty. They were created for that fit
in the Kingdom. God saw it fitting that they
would do this for eternity. Hallelujah.
And they are prospering in their assignment.
And what they've been appointed to do.
But in Isaiah chapter 14, we read of an anointed cherub that
decided they didn't want to stay where God assigned them or where
he appointed them. And it says you.
It says how you have fallen from heaven, O morn, our star of the
morning, sun of the dawn. You have been cut down to the
earth and you have weakened the nations.
Why? What did this anointed chair?
We know who this is. King James calls him Lucifer,
OK? We call him Satan, it says.
But you said in your heart, I have a different fit.
There's a place I want to fit in instead of what God appointed me
for. Up until this point, Heaven
realm and Earth realm has no problems.
No problems, no issues. No sin has been acted on.
Notice this sin that originated from pride is all because the
one created wanted to define to the creator where I fit in.
He said no, I'm not going to do this.
I know you appointed me here to do this, but you know what?
I got another throne I'm going for.
Come on, it got it's getting quiet.
OK, but this anointed cherub who was without sin beautiful.
The Bible says says though that there the beauty of this
creation that God had made this particular cherub was something
amazing. And they get corrupted for one
reason, because they want to be fitted where they were never
appointed. But you said in your heart, I
will ascend to heaven. I'll raise my throne above the
stars of God. I will sit on the mount of the
assembly in the recesses of the north.
I will ascend above the heights of the clouds.
I will make myself light the most High.
Nevertheless, you will be thrust down to shield in the recesses
of the pit. And because he wanted to be self
appointed instead of God appointed sin, chaos was
created. He's not the only one that had
this issue of staying in his fit.
Look at Jude chapter one verse 6.
In Jude chapter one verse 6 it says in the angels who did not
keep their own domain but abandoned their proper abode.
He has kept an eternal bonds under darkness for the judgement
of the great day. Many scholars believe these are
the angels that came to lie with the sons of men.
They left their proper abode. They ended up moving into a
realm they were never fitted to be nor appointed.
And what is the cost of being in a fit you are never destined to
be in? I'll give you a human being.
So God appointed a man named Moses.
He said, Moses, go set my people free and bring them into the
land flowing with milk and honey.
You do this and so he in obedience to God goes to Egypt
much trials and tribulations and challenges.
However, he accomplishes by the power of God and delivers the
nation of Israel out of Egypt into the wilderness.
While he's in the wilderness, you understand there are others
that are hearing God's voice and a particular individual by the
name of Kora decided that he wanted the position.
Moses had God love Cora, where Cora was fitted, where he was
appointed, where he was designed within the community of the
Israelites. However, Cora had stirred up
some others and said, Nah, I can hear God too.
I'm not going to listen to this guy anymore.
I'm going to do more. In fact, I'm kind of tired of
what how this thing's going down.
Maybe I'll just take a group back to Egypt with me.
So Moses says, 5. Let's see who God has appointed.
So bring you little fire pans out right.
We're going to let God come and show.
And he says the core. Now, if you die a natural death,
all right, guess what? I'm not the guy.
But if you die some crazy way, then everyone's going to know
that God has appointed me for this physician.
And you're trying to fit yourself somewhere God never
intended you to be. Well, we know the next day that
it didn't bode well that it says of these individuals, these are
the only ones recorded that he and his family went alive down
into SHIELD. They did not drop dead the the
ground opened up and swallowed them alive in front of the
congregation. The only reason that they went
alive down into the grave, and I'm not talking into Abraham's
bosom, OK, is because they wanted to be appointed in a
position they were never designed for, never designed.
Are you hearing what I'm saying? So this should cause us when it
comes to the church to really lean in to the Spirit of God and
say, Lord, what's my fit? What's my fit?
Because man, when you're doing what God's called you to do,
man, you're doing the best you. No one can do anything better
than you. The greatest assignment is doing
the assignment, period. John 1516 says it this way.
Jesus said you did not choose me, but I chose you, and I
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, he may give it to you. Now notice not everyone in this
room will be appointed to be a pastor, will be appointed to be
an evangelist, will be appointed to be an apostle, will be
appointed to be a teacher or prophet.
In fact, the majority will not be appointed for those
particular gifts. So there are other assignments
or appointments and if you will be in the place he appoints you,
then you are is just as successful as anyone in any fit
and you should never allow your thinking go to I wish I could do
what because that will not that does not originate from God.
God, when you start out in a church somewhere and you begin a
a particular appointment, it may not be where you ultimately end
up, but it will be God ordained. It will be a blessing to the
body. It will strengthen the church
Every time you are promoted in whatever it is you've been
appointed, it will be a blessing to the body, to the church.
It will not take from the church.
It will only act add to the church.
It will only strengthen the church.
It will only make the church stronger.
Why? Because God is not going to
cause a gap to happen and leave us with a deficiency.
The Lord is appointing us into places so that when we come
together, we're all doing our part.
And yet, you know, the world has been pretty successful at
accomplishing these things, has been pretty successful at
accomplishing these things. And as a result of that, you
know, they are able to accomplish great things.
Businesses are able to accomplish great things because,
you know, somebody may not have this presence on social media
and cannot talk to people. Well, those are not the people
that we're putting in on our public relations, but they may
be great at math, they may be great at structuring.
And so they put people. And the reality is, why do they
all do this? So that the company profits, so
that they all benefit and receive a greater blessing.
And the world does this all the time.
We see this in athletics, period, period.
Tony, stand up. Would you stand up?
Tony is a national champion, national champion with college
football, 1999, Florida State University won the national
championship. He was on that team.
All right, now Tony has slimmed down a little bit since he was
on the team. Tony was not the quarterback.
Now, Can you imagine Tony going to Coach Bowden and saying,
look, how much? What was your playing weight,
285, Man, you were small compared to today, right?
Back then that was something different.
But today that's OK. And what position did you play?
Defensive tackle. OK, 285 defensive tackle.
Can you imagine if he went to Coach Bobby Bowd and he said,
look, coach, I'm feeling like quarterback today.
I'm feeling it now. Coach, Coach Bowd, may, you
know, play along for me and says, well, how you know?
Can you throw the ball? You know, he might play around a
little bit. How many games have you played
quarterback? How many games have you played
quarterback? Yeah, babe.
OK, Now, here's the thing. In the news conference, there's
not a whole lot of conversation happening with the defensive
tackle, but there's a lot of conversation happening with the
quarterback. Are you hearing what I'm saying?
But yet, does he care? What?
Who was yours? Quarterback Chris Winky.
Do you really matter if they're talking to Chris Winky and
you're putting on a ring too? Not at all.
Thank you. You can be seated.
The point is, is that we have allowed the lust of the world or
the lust of Satan try to show up in the organization of the
church and get us out of our appointed position.
Cause again, listen, Jesus says you didn't choose me.
He's like, look now you wouldn't even be in the church if Dad
wouldn't have come talking. If Dad would not have come and
started speaking to you, you wouldn't even be in the family.
He's merciful and he wanted you in the position of dominion and
wanted you in the family and wanted you with the nature of
God. Now Dad's going to tell you
where you sit at the table. Are you hearing me?
And you understand when we begin to look at other positions
within the body or our appointments and we begin to
like man I if you're not destined, do not want and if you
are, then you let God appoint and assign.
I'll never forget when I went on staff at Water Life Fellowship,
Pastor David EMI asked me point blank.
He said, do you believe that you are called to pastor a church?
I said yes Sir, I do, absolutely.
He said, well then I'll train you.
I never once, never once pretended like I pastored Word
of Life Fellowship. Never.
I never once, never because I was not the pastor, I was the
youth pastor. I never once because I was not
appointed for that. So when decisions were being
made, I didn't say, well, if I was never entertained that
thought, I knew that was demonic.
I said no way, not going to do that because I'm not that
person. He is and he has information he
has inside. He has things that I have no
access to and even what extra access I have because I'm on
staff that the Saints in the congregation have no concept of.
I'll never ever say if I was now when I examined his example, I
would say these Lord, when you release me, that is something to
follow. Lord, when you release me, I
don't know what happened there. I'm going to need you to train
me that where I'm at because I was so lost in his vision.
I did not have a vision to pastor.
I was youth pastor. In fact, God had a kind of, hey,
we're done here, it's time to move because that's how focused
I was on the vision of word of life fellowship.
And if it wasn't for God, I'd be there today, the one for God,
I'd be there today, Amen. You understand this in Romans
11, I, they don't have this verse.
It came up in my spirit as I was coming up in Romans 11/29.
It says for the gifts and callings of God are without
repentance. The amplified says it this way.
For God's gifts and His call are irrevocable.
He never withdraws them when once they are given.
And He does not change his mind about those to whom He gives His
grace or to whom He sends His call.
So again, before you came into the Kingdom of God, He already
prepared what He wants you to be appointed to do in His church.
Why? Because God knew you were going
to be born during the church age.
You weren't born during the Old covenant.
You weren't born during Noah's time.
You weren't born prior to know. You weren't born in those
particular dispensations. God always knew you would come
in the church age, and in the church age everyone is to find
their fit where they're jointed and fitted together so that the
community of Christ as a family can take up a vision and do
something really significant together that individually you
just can't carry out by yourself.
God is too big for one person. He's huge and He will expand us
and stretch us and cause us to believe for the impossible, but
it becomes possible because all of us buy in on where we've been
appointed and fitted to come together and do it with great
joy, passion, unity and 1 accord.
Amen. So whether or not you answer the
call doesn't change that God has a call.
Now the only side note to this is if you choose to not finish
the call, he can assign the your work to someone else.
And we've seen that when Moses to Joshua, we've seen that with
Barnabas to Silas when we ministered on the message of
capacity that if you do not stay doing what God's ordained you to
do, unfortunately somebody could get chapters of your book that
never should have left you in the 1st place.
Amen. So First Corinthians 12/18 again
says this, but now God has placed the members, each one of
them in the body, just as he desires.
Again, who desires this? Who is the appointor?
He brings the appointment. Hallelujah.
Miles Monroe said it this way. The greatest, greatest tragedy
in life is life without purpose. And that's even for a believer
to be born again and don't even know why because it's not to go
to heaven when you die. That's not the why.
That is just something that happens.
It's a benefit. OK.
The second thing he said is the greatest challenge in life is
knowing what to do. And that is a challenge.
Many believers are like, Lord, what do you want me to do?
But here's the thing, the Bible tells us that if you seek him,
you'll find him. So if you want to know what he's
asking you to do, he will let you know.
In fact, he's obligated because you are created in Christ Jesus
for good works which will prepare for you beforehand that
you should walk in them. He's obligated to tell you why
you're born again and what your assignment is, why he's
appointed you within the body of Christ.
OK, and so God is the one who desires this.
He is the one who pulled you out of darkness and he's the one
who's doing the placement. Again, a couple of translations
we saw last week was but in fact, God has arranged the
members. This is the Berean standard
Bible of the body, every one of them according to his design,
Young's literal translation said.
And now God did set the members, each one of them in the body
according as he willed. Many times people will come and
say, well, we're coming trying to church out to see if this is
where we need to be. Well, you don't need to try it.
You need that pray. I mean, you know, sometimes
people come across so spiritual. I'm like, well, you should
already have the answer if you're that spiritual because if
you're that in tune with God, he would have told you before you
even showed up. Seeing it shouldn't confirm
whether or not you're supposed to be assigned, because if
you're trying to confirm it through sight.
I'm convinced that some churches within rural areas have God
appointed people that the only reason those churches are are
are not as successful as God intended is because the families
went. But because they didn't see what
they wanted, they went to a larger congregation already
providing when they were the answer to that congregation so
it could provide. Because we've turned the church
in. You serve me well.
The church is not about God. Where do you want me?
I mean, this is the John F Kennedy deal.
Don't ask your country what it can do for you.
Ask your what you can do for your country.
I mean, what can you do for the church, for the Kingdom of God?
He's already laid down his life to give you access and he has a
fit for you, an appointment for you, a place for you, a design
for you so that you can have the the most exciting life on the
planet because you're doing exactly what you're called to do
and why you're breathing. Miles Monroe went on to say the
greatest mistake in life is being busy and not effective.
And I believe there's a lot of Christians in church
congregations they were never appointed to be a part of and
they're being busy but not effective.
And the Bible bears this out, that there will be a day before
the Lord that if you're doing things that he has not appointed
you to do, it is wood, hay and stubble.
I mean I didn't write the scripture.
Jesus puts you in the body where it pleases him.
There is no self appointment. None.
It's where he appointed or you yielded to it and it's the best
place you could ever be. The last thing he said was just
the greatest failure in life is being successful in the wrong
assignment. And if we don't watch out,
especially in the last of the last days because of seducing
spirits and doctrines of demons, the enemy is going to be able to
take believers and put them in places where they really are
fitted in religious moles looking like they're being very
successful because it's become more of a social order and not
necessarily a spirit LED order. And finance is actually
accomplishing tasks, not the Spirit of God.
And they are feeling the success of that, but they have actually
failed because they're not where they're supposed to be.
Psalms 13913 and 16 says it this way.
For you form my inward parts, you woe me in my mother's womb.
You are in the dispensation of the church, not in a place of
individualism. You are an individual, but
you're in the dispensation of the Church, and you're in Christ
for good works connected with others, to do something
significant for it. For you were formed.
You formed my inward parts. You wove me in my mother's womb.
I give thanks to you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made
wonderful all your works, for my soul knows it well.
My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in secret and
skillfully wrought in the depths of the earth.
Look at this powerful Your eyes have seen my unformed substance,
and in your book were written all the days that were ordained
for me, as when yet there were not one of them.
So before you ever came in was created in Christ 4 good works
that were prepared for you out of this book before you were in
your mother's womb. And these callings are whether
or not you accepted or not. He doesn't revoke the book.
He judges you by the book. He says, did you do what I
appointed you to do? And all of us were born in the
earth. When the church is alive, it is
like a phenomenal dispensation. Now the millennial reign will be
even greater than this one. This one's powerful.
I mean, David long for this type of experience.
I mean, he had the Holy Spirit come upon him but leave him.
But none of the Israelites had that ability to touch or have
God touch them. We have the Holy Ghost on the
inside of us. We are the temple of the Holy
Ghost. I can just hear the patriarch
saying, man, God lives in you. Your nature is alive.
You can assemble and walk in love and unity.
You have everything you need. You can renew your mind.
Like, wow, what a dispensation. You're doing the same work Jesus
did, all of you. A bunch of little Jesus is
running around. Can you imagine them standing
over champion us? Like come on guys, if we only
had that when we were alive. Wow, now you know we going to be
talking like this to Saints that are in the flesh during the
millennial reign 'cause we'll be in glorified bodies.
Like, bro, you don't even have the devil on the earth.
Seriously. Right now Jesus is alive, seated
on the throne in Jerusalem. You can go touch him.
And you're telling me you can't do this right?
It's like, and then when he releases the devil at the end
and you're like, you're going to abandon Jesus.
I mean, the church age is amazing, but nothing compared to
the millennial reign. And yet still Saints will fail,
man will fail. We are living at the greatest
moment ever in history of which God is saying to us, look, I'm
telling you right now, I have ordained for you.
I've ordained for you before you ever came, and I've placed you
in the age of the church. And listen, when I said I'll put
you in the body where it pleases me, it's because in that place
that I plant you, it is where you'll grow.
It is where you'll receive instruction.
It's where you'll receive correction so that you maintain
unity and walk in love. And never does He ever want us
to fall back. A righteous man may fall 7
times, but he what? Because we say let's get up.
Let's do this thing. We don't say well it's OK to
stay down, you can still be with us.
No, let's get up, let's move forward because we've been
ordained for something bigger than ourselves because God has
called us. And you know what?
We didn't lose ourselves in the context that we don't exist.
We're still an individual. Our gifts are coming out.
We need thank God for Patricia here in the Holy Ghost today and
coming up and yielding. And look how it ushered in
another wave of the anointing of God.
Now, she didn't do that, but the Spirit of God did that.
But it could have been anyone because again, we're just in our
fit. And you know what, She's not
even serving today. She's just in church.
But God wanted her to serve in that capacity today.
Just like on the worship team, people served in the parking
lot, people served wherever you're serving, you're
releasing. And to think that year after
year after year after year from the middle school to 312 to now
in the mall to now buying the mall, that all of a sudden, all
of that selfish serving and, and, and, and work and tearing
off sheetrock and painting walls and vacuuming and cutting grass
and all kinds of things that we have come to do together.
And feeding the homeless and feeding the National Guard and
and feeding the police officers and firefighters and going to
town meetings and having crusades that all of a sudden a
ministry in Poland is like, we need what they have.
That we didn't realize that your assignment here touched another
nation. And we're just getting started
because it's going to get greater, it's going to be more
magnificent because we are continually allowing ourselves
to grow and not be in competition, but be completing
one another, complementing one another, holding each other up.
But when you see someone struggling in a battle, it's
like, bro, I got you, I got you. I'm a hold your arms up look, we
all can get weary. Moses had the anointing to win
the war with the staff, but he could only hold the staff for so
long. And when that thing dropped, he
wasn't even on the battlefield. It was Joshua down there
stabbing the guys with the rest of them.
But man, they would start coming against them when he dropped the
staff. So Aaron and her said, sit down
Moses, why have you do this by yourself, man, you're just a
human. You're noted of God and your
hands have to hold that staff. But man, we can hold your arms.
And they leaned against him to where now it didn't matter if he
went to muscle failure because now they had the muscles of two
grown men. And they won the battle because
they were at the place they were appointed.
They were sighed, Everybody doing their part.
I mean, there's nothing like getting up and getting around
everyone who's like jacked about their part doing their
assignment. Because when we do, the next
thing you know is we'll look back and say, wow, look what the
Lord has done. 2nd Corinthians 4, seven to 18.
I know it seems long, but this is what I want you to know.
Know for certain that being faithful to the appointed
assignment he has for each of us will be rewarded on that day and
promotion for the Millennium. Look at this in context.
But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, so that the
surpassing greatness of the power of God, the power will be
of God, and not from ourselves. We are afflicted in every way,
but not crushed, perplexed but not destroyed, persecuted but
not forsaken, struck down but not destroyed, always caring
about in the body the dying of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus
may all also may be manifested in our body.
For we who live are constantly being delivered over to death
for Jesus's sake, so that the life of Jesus may also may be
manifested in our mortal bodies. Man, you're having to put down
your will all the time to do that what you've been assigned
to do. So death works in us, but life
in you, but having the same spirit of faith according to
what is written. I believe, therefore I speak.
We also believe, therefore we also speak.
Knowing, say knowing that he who raised the Lord Jesus will raise
us also with Jesus and will present us with him.
For all things are for your sakes, so that the grace which
is spreading to more and more people may cause the giving of
thanks to a bound to the glory of God.
Paul said, I'm going through all kinds of stuff so that I can
impart this grace to you so that you can take that grace and do.
And he's talking to a church, talking to the church in
Corinth. He says, therefore, do not lose
heart. But though our outward man is
decaying, yet our inward man is being renewed day by day.
Notice this for momentarily light affliction is producing
for us and eternal weight of glory far beyond comparison.
Man, when you deny all that the world's trappings to try to
separate you from your appointment within his body, and
you say, no, I'm staying with the king, I'm staying with his
church, I'm staying with the appointment.
I'm staying where he is planting me.
I'm staying where he has assigned me.
I'm staying in the assignment. I'm going to be faithful.
Listen, this momentary light affliction is producing for us
an eternal weight of glory far beyond comparison.
Why we look not at the things which you're seeing, but the
things which are not seen. For the things which are seen or
what temporal, but the things which are seen are eternal.
The greatest thing in life is not having the house, the
retirement, this comfortable cush life, all the cars and
stuff. That's not what it's about.
It's about have you done what you were appointed to do when He
apprehended you and brought you into His Kingdom?
Because you can have things while you're here, but they're
never the object by which we are trying to pursue.
We are trying to only pursue the assignment or the appointment He
has for us within His Church so that when we faithfully carry
that out, when we step over into eternity, then the blessings and
the next assignment abounds. Because to you, this life here
was temporal. This is not the best and I do
not hotly pursue what it has to offer.
I will enjoy it. I will receive from it.
It will give to me because I'm the child of a king.
But at a moment's notice I can give it all away because none of
it has me. Only one person has me.
His name's King Jesus. He is my All in all.
He is the apple of my eye. He is worth living my life for.
He's worth my life selling everything out for.
He's my worth me moving all the way around the world.
Should he assign me to another country, I'll do whatever He
says, because He has done all for me.
And I can be guaranteed that when I do that, there awaits for
me the great prize of well done, that good and faithful servant
of which he wants to tell all of us on that day.
But whatever I'm assigned to do, it'll never be alone, because
it's assigned to the church. His name has been given to the
church, so there's nowhere we can go that the church should
not be there. This is the greatest thing you
do every day is this body. And as we are stronger, tighter
walk in love and unity, One mind 1 accord saying thank God, he's
releasing my gift like this right now.
Then there's no telling. So to the one that couldn't go
to Poland but pulled out and said, Pastor, I'll send you.
You have a reward for what they've not even done yet.
You've started something because you sent the word and now it's
just stirring. So much so that they figured out
how to come to our country and sit in the service.
You have the privilege of Wednesdays and Sundays to hear.
That other pastors are aspiring to see their local bodies
display what they sensed came from us.
And now that they're here, they're experiencing you.
And you give them hope. You strengthen their faith and
it was simply because you did your appointment.
A parking lot team met them today, parked them, they picked
them up. They come to find us.
You just blessed them. You stood up.
You should always stand up when someone that's given their life
in the Fivefold Ministries here, she always honored that because
that's that's not a small assignment.
And none, none of us could ever do those gifts without the the
anointing of a God. None of us.
Hallelujah. Are you ready to commit to the
appointment?