1 00:00:14,440 --> 00:00:19,360 Music Today I'm going to talk to you about the weight. 2 00:00:19,680 --> 00:00:23,120 No one sees the weight no one sees, right. 3 00:00:23,120 --> 00:00:26,400 We, we talk a lot about David and we love David the 4 00:00:26,400 --> 00:00:30,280 worshipper. We love David the giant Slayer. 5 00:00:30,280 --> 00:00:35,880 We love David the king, but we often ignore David the servant, 6 00:00:37,200 --> 00:00:39,600 right? We often overlook David the 7 00:00:39,600 --> 00:00:41,400 servant. It's not one of his most like 8 00:00:41,840 --> 00:00:44,120 well known features. I feel like when it comes to 9 00:00:44,120 --> 00:00:46,840 serving and when it comes to like someone who was just 10 00:00:46,840 --> 00:00:49,760 faithful, we tend to find potentially other people to kind 11 00:00:49,760 --> 00:00:51,960 of pull from. But when I was going over my 12 00:00:51,960 --> 00:00:55,480 notes, I realized, man, there's one thing I, I, I really noticed 13 00:00:55,480 --> 00:00:57,280 that stuck out to me about David. 14 00:00:57,280 --> 00:01:01,600 And that was his servanthood. That was the way he served in 15 00:01:01,600 --> 00:01:03,600 every position, right? Because everybody wants, you 16 00:01:03,600 --> 00:01:06,560 know, everybody loves a song. Everybody wants the victory, 17 00:01:06,560 --> 00:01:08,160 right? Everybody wants authority. 18 00:01:08,760 --> 00:01:12,400 But few want to look at the assignment that David had to get 19 00:01:12,400 --> 00:01:16,000 there, right? A lot of times we like to think, 20 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:19,040 man, I'm a worshiper like David or I'm, I'm dislike David. 21 00:01:19,040 --> 00:01:23,080 I want to be this like David, but we overlook what got David 22 00:01:23,080 --> 00:01:27,520 to those positions. We overlook the the one 23 00:01:27,520 --> 00:01:29,640 character thing that really can't. 24 00:01:29,640 --> 00:01:33,480 We celebrate the crowns, right? We celebrate the victories, we 25 00:01:33,480 --> 00:01:36,800 celebrate all that does, but God measures the faithfulness, 26 00:01:38,360 --> 00:01:40,040 right? God's looking at the 27 00:01:40,040 --> 00:01:42,800 faithfulness. So today what I want to do is I 28 00:01:42,800 --> 00:01:46,120 want to talk about David a little bit and, and just to help 29 00:01:46,360 --> 00:01:51,160 it flow, I'm going to kind of break it down into three key 30 00:01:51,160 --> 00:01:54,120 sections, right? I want to talk about three key 31 00:01:54,120 --> 00:01:58,160 portions of David's life that I believe as we get into really 32 00:01:58,160 --> 00:02:02,000 breakdown the way he served because before he ever ruled a 33 00:02:02,000 --> 00:02:05,480 Kingdom, he served in a Kingdom, right? 34 00:02:05,480 --> 00:02:08,240 Before David ever ruled the Kingdom, he served in the 35 00:02:08,240 --> 00:02:11,640 Kingdom, right? And so the four first session or 36 00:02:11,640 --> 00:02:13,160 moment of his life I want to look at. 37 00:02:13,360 --> 00:02:16,160 I'm going to call the staff season, right? 38 00:02:16,160 --> 00:02:20,080 Is the staff, right? This is David's moments in the 39 00:02:20,080 --> 00:02:22,120 field. This was David, the shepherd. 40 00:02:22,120 --> 00:02:25,760 This was David that we all know and love, the one who killed the 41 00:02:25,760 --> 00:02:28,240 lion and the bear, right? This is David's staff season. 42 00:02:28,240 --> 00:02:34,040 We're going to start in first Samuel 1611, First Samuel 1611 43 00:02:34,040 --> 00:02:38,080 and says, and Samuel said to the to Jesse, are these all the 44 00:02:38,080 --> 00:02:41,560 children? And he said there remains yet 45 00:02:41,560 --> 00:02:44,800 the youngest. And behold, he is tending the 46 00:02:44,800 --> 00:02:48,760 sheep. Then Samuel said to Jesse, send 47 00:02:48,760 --> 00:02:53,400 and bring him, for we will not sit down until he comes. 48 00:02:54,320 --> 00:02:58,720 So he sent and brought him in. Now he was Ruddy with beautiful 49 00:02:58,720 --> 00:03:01,800 eyes and handsome in appearance. Side note, a lot of people kind 50 00:03:01,800 --> 00:03:03,960 of think that maybe that Ruddy means he was a redhead. 51 00:03:04,040 --> 00:03:07,400 And so that's one of the reasons that I think David speaks to me 52 00:03:07,400 --> 00:03:10,840 so much. It's pretty easy for me to put 53 00:03:10,840 --> 00:03:14,320 my, my, myself in those shoes and we're just going to keep 54 00:03:14,320 --> 00:03:16,040 rolling with that. So for the rest of the sermon, 55 00:03:16,040 --> 00:03:17,960 just imagine David with red hair. 56 00:03:19,400 --> 00:03:21,560 He had beautiful eyes and was handsome in appearance. 57 00:03:21,960 --> 00:03:25,880 And the Lord said, arise, anoint him for this. 58 00:03:26,320 --> 00:03:32,040 Is he right? One great thing that we see 59 00:03:32,040 --> 00:03:37,640 right here, right out the gate in David's life is David is 60 00:03:37,640 --> 00:03:45,440 anointed to be king, but was not in the room to be chosen. 61 00:03:47,120 --> 00:03:53,680 David was anointed to be king, but where was he serving out in 62 00:03:53,680 --> 00:03:57,960 the field? David's first moment of God 63 00:03:57,960 --> 00:04:02,760 moving on his life came while he was out serving somewhere else. 64 00:04:05,600 --> 00:04:10,360 Then he becomes anointed and sent right back out into the 65 00:04:10,360 --> 00:04:16,120 field. God crowned him privately. 66 00:04:17,560 --> 00:04:21,920 God took him with Samuel and his family and anointed him as king. 67 00:04:21,920 --> 00:04:26,840 No one else knows this. A private anointing of private 68 00:04:26,840 --> 00:04:32,080 crowning then sent him back out into the field publicly and said 69 00:04:32,120 --> 00:04:40,480 continue to do what you were doing privately. 70 00:04:40,480 --> 00:04:43,200 He was crowned. So the staff season, right it 71 00:04:43,200 --> 00:04:45,400 represents and what we're going to continue to break down as it 72 00:04:45,400 --> 00:04:51,120 represents unseen obedience. It represents repetitive 73 00:04:51,440 --> 00:04:56,520 faithfulness. It represents serving without 74 00:04:56,520 --> 00:05:01,680 applause. See, David learned God's voice 75 00:05:01,680 --> 00:05:08,520 while no one was watching. Revelation was formed in his 76 00:05:08,520 --> 00:05:14,880 isolation in the field. David learned the still small 77 00:05:14,880 --> 00:05:19,880 voice of God while he was serving alone privately in a 78 00:05:19,880 --> 00:05:25,160 field. Because in these moments, right 79 00:05:25,400 --> 00:05:29,000 of isolation, in these moments of when we're alone and we, we 80 00:05:29,000 --> 00:05:32,160 take time in our serving, that we're just by ourselves where no 81 00:05:32,160 --> 00:05:34,480 one knows, no one's seen everything we're doing, but 82 00:05:34,480 --> 00:05:38,400 we're just alone serving and loving God. 83 00:05:39,720 --> 00:05:43,200 And then God can speak so much into our lives. 84 00:05:45,320 --> 00:05:51,600 It was in David's quiet service that God called him, anointed 85 00:05:51,600 --> 00:05:54,960 him, but then said you're still not ready for anything else yet. 86 00:05:54,960 --> 00:05:59,680 Go back to your quiet service. How many times in our own life 87 00:05:59,680 --> 00:06:03,880 do we feel God call us to something and then think that 88 00:06:03,880 --> 00:06:13,160 something has to manifest? Now David, anointed king, goes 89 00:06:13,160 --> 00:06:18,080 back to shepherd. That doesn't feel like much of a 90 00:06:18,080 --> 00:06:23,640 promotion, right? That feels like that feels like 91 00:06:23,640 --> 00:06:29,320 more responsibility, but yet you still get everything you already 92 00:06:29,320 --> 00:06:34,200 had. David didn't relinquish his 93 00:06:34,200 --> 00:06:35,800 field duties. David didn't see Dave, didn't 94 00:06:35,800 --> 00:06:37,680 look at his brother and go, hey man, I can't deal with sheep 95 00:06:37,680 --> 00:06:39,120 poop anymore. I'm king, bro. 96 00:06:41,640 --> 00:06:45,960 I can't be doing this no more. Like God chose me, not you guys. 97 00:06:46,960 --> 00:06:51,760 So I got to start studying up on king stuff, right? 98 00:06:51,760 --> 00:06:53,280 I got to start getting ready for the Kingdom. 99 00:06:53,280 --> 00:06:54,760 So you're going to need to go tend all these. 100 00:06:56,440 --> 00:07:00,840 No, he went back out and continue to serve exactly where 101 00:07:00,840 --> 00:07:02,640 he was. Psalm 7870. 102 00:07:03,920 --> 00:07:08,960 Psalm 7870 says he also chose David his servant, and took him 103 00:07:09,440 --> 00:07:12,640 from the sheepfolds, from the care of the ooze and the 104 00:07:12,640 --> 00:07:14,800 suckling lamb. He brought him to shepherd Jacob 105 00:07:14,800 --> 00:07:17,040 his people, and Israel his inheritance. 106 00:07:17,160 --> 00:07:24,960 So he shepherded them according to the integrity of his heart, 107 00:07:26,560 --> 00:07:29,840 and guided them with skillful hands. 108 00:07:30,600 --> 00:07:36,560 Before David LED people, he led sheep, and before he sang 109 00:07:36,560 --> 00:07:40,720 publicly, he learned obedience privately. 110 00:07:44,080 --> 00:07:49,680 Before we ever hear the songs of David, he is serving and obeying 111 00:07:49,720 --> 00:07:55,400 privately. Some of the greatest psalms we 112 00:07:55,400 --> 00:07:58,760 get in the season of the staff are from his lessons of 113 00:07:58,760 --> 00:08:01,840 obedience and service. When he's by himself. 114 00:08:05,200 --> 00:08:07,520 What what it's kind of crazy. We, we do this with artists a 115 00:08:07,520 --> 00:08:08,760 lot. I believe it was like Van Gogh, 116 00:08:08,760 --> 00:08:11,160 who was an artist that ultimately had all these kind of 117 00:08:11,160 --> 00:08:13,960 paintings and no one thought he was a good painter. 118 00:08:13,960 --> 00:08:16,280 Everyone thought he was crazy. Then he died and all of a sudden 119 00:08:16,280 --> 00:08:19,880 his paintings became something which means he never saw the 120 00:08:19,880 --> 00:08:23,480 success of his work during his lifetime. 121 00:08:25,200 --> 00:08:28,120 But he didn't give up. He continued to paint, continue 122 00:08:28,120 --> 00:08:30,040 to do it during his private this. 123 00:08:30,400 --> 00:08:33,720 So by all accounts, you would have to assume he painted for 124 00:08:33,720 --> 00:08:36,720 himself because nobody wanted it. 125 00:08:37,320 --> 00:08:40,360 But he believed in his own art and did this for himself 126 00:08:40,360 --> 00:08:43,400 privately. David went back into the field 127 00:08:43,400 --> 00:08:46,880 privately and just said, I just want to love, serve and obey 128 00:08:46,880 --> 00:08:49,800 God. And then he shows up anointing. 129 00:08:49,800 --> 00:08:52,360 He goes, that's great. I just want to love, serve, and 130 00:08:52,360 --> 00:08:56,880 obey God, which means I don't need anything to change. 131 00:08:56,880 --> 00:09:00,240 I just need to continue to love, serve, and obey God. 132 00:09:02,600 --> 00:09:08,360 So God forms worshippers in obscurity before he trusts them 133 00:09:08,560 --> 00:09:14,360 with influence. God forms worshippers in 134 00:09:14,360 --> 00:09:17,960 obscurity before he trusts them with influence. 135 00:09:20,920 --> 00:09:24,920 In your moments where no one knows how much you're giving, 136 00:09:24,920 --> 00:09:28,600 how much you're pouring out, how much you're invested in, those 137 00:09:28,600 --> 00:09:34,640 are the moments God is forming you and He's building you for 138 00:09:34,640 --> 00:09:39,080 what's to come. Because if God can't trust you 139 00:09:39,080 --> 00:09:41,600 unseen, he won't elevate you seen. 140 00:09:44,240 --> 00:09:48,000 If God can't trust you unseen, then he won't elevate you. 141 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:53,040 Seen, we have to live a life that says it doesn't matter 142 00:09:53,040 --> 00:09:55,840 what's going on because I love God. 143 00:09:55,840 --> 00:10:01,280 I will obey his word and I will continue to serve him right. 144 00:10:01,280 --> 00:10:04,760 Because like I said, we love the stories of David's victories. 145 00:10:04,760 --> 00:10:06,760 We love the stories of David becoming king. 146 00:10:06,760 --> 00:10:09,440 We love the stories of all that David did, all the great stuff 147 00:10:09,440 --> 00:10:12,040 he did. And his influence was loud, but 148 00:10:12,040 --> 00:10:19,120 his formation was quiet. And God moves in the quiet. 149 00:10:20,720 --> 00:10:23,680 He starts with the crock quiet. Why? 150 00:10:23,680 --> 00:10:25,360 Because it lets us know so much about the Bible. 151 00:10:25,360 --> 00:10:27,680 God speaks in a still small voice. 152 00:10:28,040 --> 00:10:32,400 It's a gentle nudging. It is all small little. 153 00:10:32,400 --> 00:10:34,360 Why? Because he says, if you break 154 00:10:34,360 --> 00:10:38,600 away and get with me, I can lead you. 155 00:10:39,800 --> 00:10:42,480 The only times in the Bible we get those crazy like those 156 00:10:42,480 --> 00:10:46,520 sayeth the Lord moments are when people are so far gone. 157 00:10:47,640 --> 00:10:51,560 That guy's like I got to get their attention, which is why 158 00:10:51,560 --> 00:10:54,080 I'm like, I don't brag about I heard God's voice when it's like 159 00:10:54,440 --> 00:10:59,320 I hear God still small leadings. I don't need big booming voice, 160 00:11:02,320 --> 00:11:04,080 right? All I need to know is if I get 161 00:11:04,160 --> 00:11:11,120 quiet, God can work on my heart. If I get quiet, God can move in 162 00:11:11,120 --> 00:11:15,280 my life. Elevation reveals what obscurity 163 00:11:15,280 --> 00:11:19,840 already formed. When God elevates you in your 164 00:11:19,840 --> 00:11:24,880 life, all it does is show all of the formation in the quiet time 165 00:11:27,640 --> 00:11:32,760 it is pulled out from from. This guy has loved me and obeyed 166 00:11:32,760 --> 00:11:35,160 me and served me. Because of that, now I can place 167 00:11:35,160 --> 00:11:39,680 him somewhere. Now I can put him where he needs 168 00:11:39,680 --> 00:11:42,320 to be because I've seen his faithfulness. 169 00:11:42,320 --> 00:11:47,280 Luke 1610. Luke 1610 says he who is 170 00:11:47,280 --> 00:11:54,080 faithful in a very little thing is faithful also in much, and he 171 00:11:54,200 --> 00:12:00,880 who is unrighteous in a very little thing is unrighteous also 172 00:12:01,200 --> 00:12:05,560 in much. God is looking for your 173 00:12:05,560 --> 00:12:10,320 faithfulness in the quiet season because God doesn't promote 174 00:12:10,840 --> 00:12:16,880 potential, He looks for proven faithfulness. 175 00:12:20,040 --> 00:12:22,480 He's saying no. I've seen his faithful in 176 00:12:22,480 --> 00:12:25,680 little. Now I can give him faithful and 177 00:12:25,680 --> 00:12:27,880 much not man. Maybe if I just give him this 178 00:12:27,880 --> 00:12:32,160 big thing, he'll run hard. Maybe if I just go ahead and 179 00:12:32,160 --> 00:12:34,280 give him this title, then he'll he'll form it together. 180 00:12:36,320 --> 00:12:39,840 No, God isn't giving out things hoping that you'll finally live 181 00:12:39,840 --> 00:12:41,560 to the potential He knows you have. 182 00:12:44,720 --> 00:12:47,920 He's looking for your faithfulness in every season so 183 00:12:47,920 --> 00:12:49,760 that you can say no. I've seen it here. 184 00:12:51,240 --> 00:12:54,000 I've seen the quiet alone time. I've seen Him separate. 185 00:12:54,160 --> 00:12:55,960 I've seen him deal with these situations. 186 00:12:56,080 --> 00:12:58,960 I've seen Him lean on me. I've seen Him put me first. 187 00:12:58,960 --> 00:13:01,240 I've seen what happens when pressure comes to His life. 188 00:13:01,400 --> 00:13:06,160 I see how He handles the little. So now I can trust Him to handle 189 00:13:06,280 --> 00:13:12,920 so much more, right. We we look at David's time in 190 00:13:12,920 --> 00:13:16,160 the field and all the times we talk about, oh, we have the 191 00:13:16,160 --> 00:13:22,040 lion, we got the bear and then we build to Goliath and we 192 00:13:22,040 --> 00:13:25,640 always try to tackle this from just like, well, he was faithful 193 00:13:25,640 --> 00:13:26,640 with little the lion and the bear. 194 00:13:26,640 --> 00:13:28,880 And so then he saw God move and now he can handle Goliath. 195 00:13:29,120 --> 00:13:32,160 But what's interesting about Goliath story is why was he 196 00:13:32,160 --> 00:13:36,560 there? The only reason David was even 197 00:13:36,560 --> 00:13:41,680 around Goliath is because he went to serve his brothers, 198 00:13:42,840 --> 00:13:47,760 which means David's greatest moment of victory with Goliath 199 00:13:47,760 --> 00:13:54,880 came from a moment of serving. How many moments in victories 200 00:13:54,880 --> 00:13:57,680 are we missing out of because we're not serving where we're 201 00:13:57,680 --> 00:14:02,680 supposed to be? We passed on serving, therefore 202 00:14:02,680 --> 00:14:09,600 we lost an opportunity to win. We say God use me, God use me. 203 00:14:09,600 --> 00:14:12,240 Then we decline the opportunities to be used. 204 00:14:14,880 --> 00:14:20,760 God's looking for your service. David had no intention of 205 00:14:20,760 --> 00:14:23,760 fighting Goliath. David had no intention of being 206 00:14:23,760 --> 00:14:26,280 in a battle. David had no intention of doing 207 00:14:26,280 --> 00:14:30,280 any of anything but serving his family and serving his brother. 208 00:14:31,160 --> 00:14:40,600 Then how dare you insult my God? How many of us have missed out 209 00:14:40,760 --> 00:14:44,480 on something God has wanted from us because we weren't willing to 210 00:14:44,480 --> 00:14:49,440 serve somewhere? Come on. 211 00:14:49,440 --> 00:14:52,040 Because we didn't step out? Because David could have been 212 00:14:52,040 --> 00:14:53,760 like, man, that's a long walk, dad. 213 00:14:55,120 --> 00:14:56,640 Like, you know how long it's going to take to get there. 214 00:14:57,560 --> 00:14:59,880 This food's like, not even going to be good by the time I get 215 00:14:59,880 --> 00:15:05,560 there, right? He ain't calling an Uber, but 216 00:15:05,560 --> 00:15:08,160 he's not like he ain't jumping on the sheep and riding him down 217 00:15:08,160 --> 00:15:11,680 there. Maybe he lassoed a bear or 218 00:15:11,680 --> 00:15:13,520 something, like, I don't know. But at the end of the day, like 219 00:15:13,520 --> 00:15:16,200 he had to work that he could have had so many other reasons. 220 00:15:16,200 --> 00:15:19,440 Like Dad, the army feeds them. What are we talk? 221 00:15:19,440 --> 00:15:21,360 Like, why? They're already fed. 222 00:15:22,400 --> 00:15:24,400 Who's going to watch the sheep while I'm gone? 223 00:15:27,360 --> 00:15:30,880 It's easy to come up with excuses to not be somewhere. 224 00:15:34,760 --> 00:15:38,080 But are we letting excuses keep us from the victory? 225 00:15:38,080 --> 00:15:44,040 God wants us. And so here's the thing. 226 00:15:44,560 --> 00:15:47,600 You don't graduate from the staff season. 227 00:15:49,040 --> 00:15:54,760 You're shaped by it. David never left the staff 228 00:15:54,760 --> 00:15:58,920 season. It shaped him and then it 229 00:15:58,920 --> 00:16:01,320 started to look different in the rest of his life. 230 00:16:02,600 --> 00:16:05,440 Because after we have the staff season, we have the sword 231 00:16:05,440 --> 00:16:12,240 season, David kills Goliath, who got First Samuel 18 to 23 is 232 00:16:12,240 --> 00:16:13,720 like the chapters. I'm obviously not going to read 233 00:16:13,720 --> 00:16:14,760 them. I'm going to kind of paraphrase. 234 00:16:16,200 --> 00:16:21,960 But after Goliath, this major victory, we have David, who's 235 00:16:21,960 --> 00:16:25,760 already been anointed to be king, kills Goliath. 236 00:16:25,760 --> 00:16:27,920 Everyone now knows this. Everyone's seen this. 237 00:16:29,160 --> 00:16:31,400 He doesn't. He still does not step into the 238 00:16:31,400 --> 00:16:35,840 throne. David's next step after this big 239 00:16:35,840 --> 00:16:38,840 glorious battle is not the throne. 240 00:16:38,880 --> 00:16:41,680 It's just a deeper level of service. 241 00:16:46,040 --> 00:16:53,200 The closer, the closer David got to the throne, the more David 242 00:16:53,200 --> 00:16:59,880 served. The closer he got to his 243 00:16:59,880 --> 00:17:03,440 ultimate calling, the more he served. 244 00:17:06,240 --> 00:17:10,720 He's placed in this Kingdom long before he takes it over serving 245 00:17:10,720 --> 00:17:18,599 First Samuel 18 five, it says. So David went out wherever Saul 246 00:17:18,599 --> 00:17:24,319 sent him, wherever Saul sent him, and prospered. 247 00:17:25,040 --> 00:17:27,880 And Saul set him over the men of war. 248 00:17:28,040 --> 00:17:31,600 And it was pleasing in the sight of all the people, and also in 249 00:17:31,600 --> 00:17:36,680 the sight of Saul's servants. David did not choose his 250 00:17:36,680 --> 00:17:43,360 assignment, he honored it. It says he went out wherever 251 00:17:43,360 --> 00:17:47,960 Saul sent him. David, the one anointed king who 252 00:17:47,960 --> 00:17:51,960 knows one day it will be king serving in the Kingdom. 253 00:17:55,920 --> 00:17:59,640 David knows, man, I'm going to. One day I will get this Kingdom, 254 00:17:59,640 --> 00:18:03,440 but now it's not mine. And I will honor this service. 255 00:18:04,840 --> 00:18:11,640 I will honor every step during this season. 256 00:18:11,960 --> 00:18:16,280 He led Israel's armies, and with wisdom he protected the borders 257 00:18:16,280 --> 00:18:20,240 of a nation he did not yet rule. He strengthened a Kingdom he 258 00:18:20,240 --> 00:18:25,280 would one day inherit. He carried authority without 259 00:18:25,520 --> 00:18:30,320 entitlement. He fought battles for a throne 260 00:18:30,320 --> 00:18:39,960 he would not yet sit on. See, this is where most people 261 00:18:39,960 --> 00:18:46,760 quit. You get you born again. 262 00:18:46,760 --> 00:18:48,960 We love God. Or maybe we we get rededicated, 263 00:18:48,960 --> 00:18:51,920 we're back on fire. And then we we attack our Bible 264 00:18:51,920 --> 00:18:54,160 reading plan, we attack our personal worship. 265 00:18:54,160 --> 00:18:56,000 We start making shifts. We're like, I'm not listening to 266 00:18:56,000 --> 00:18:57,640 this junk anymore. Now I'm putting on worship in 267 00:18:57,640 --> 00:19:00,040 the car, man, I'm waking up an extra 10 minutes earlier and I'm 268 00:19:00,040 --> 00:19:01,320 praying, man, I'm praying in the shower. 269 00:19:01,440 --> 00:19:04,760 We start getting this hunger and thirst like we should have for 270 00:19:04,760 --> 00:19:07,080 this personal devotion. And we start growing and God's 271 00:19:07,080 --> 00:19:08,880 like, yes, that's it. You've got it. 272 00:19:08,880 --> 00:19:11,520 So he starts to pull us out and says, man, I'm getting ready to 273 00:19:11,520 --> 00:19:13,400 put you to something else. I'm going to put your hand to 274 00:19:13,400 --> 00:19:15,040 work. Then they start working for 275 00:19:15,040 --> 00:19:18,320 someone else. They start serving even deeper. 276 00:19:20,000 --> 00:19:23,720 And see, by all rights, David could have said, I'm anointed, 277 00:19:25,480 --> 00:19:27,480 like I'm anointed. Why am I still serving? 278 00:19:28,960 --> 00:19:33,200 Like I'm supposed to be king? Why am I doing whatever he says? 279 00:19:35,680 --> 00:19:39,440 I killed Goliath. I've won these battles. 280 00:19:40,080 --> 00:19:42,520 I fought these things. I'm gifted. 281 00:19:43,200 --> 00:19:45,680 It's my sword that's slaying your enemies. 282 00:19:47,320 --> 00:19:50,160 I'm the one that's called. Why am I still waiting? 283 00:19:51,840 --> 00:19:55,680 I'm in the throne room, but yet I have none of the power of the 284 00:19:55,680 --> 00:20:01,840 king. If we're not careful, we find 285 00:20:01,840 --> 00:20:06,160 ourselves who get called into deeper service then lose sight. 286 00:20:07,120 --> 00:20:09,560 Of why we are here in the first place. 287 00:20:12,760 --> 00:20:18,120 But calling doesn't cancel serving, it deepens it. 288 00:20:20,840 --> 00:20:23,920 Your calling does not cancel serving. 289 00:20:24,360 --> 00:20:28,960 It should only deepen it. It should only set you in more. 290 00:20:29,280 --> 00:20:31,880 It should only have you looking for even more that you can do. 291 00:20:32,000 --> 00:20:34,000 It should only have you looking for more opportunities. 292 00:20:34,000 --> 00:20:36,160 Why? Because if we know from David's 293 00:20:36,160 --> 00:20:39,400 life we see his serving led to his victories, then man, I'm 294 00:20:39,400 --> 00:20:43,720 going to serve even more. How do I have chances to win? 295 00:20:43,800 --> 00:20:45,880 Maybe like man, I want to be used by God. 296 00:20:46,120 --> 00:20:49,080 Then get serving somewhere to be used by God. 297 00:20:50,320 --> 00:20:53,600 I love our youth, man. I'm, I'm the, I speak to youth 298 00:20:53,600 --> 00:20:56,720 every Wednesday night, right? And I've had a couple moments 299 00:20:56,720 --> 00:20:59,200 now where some of them have come and be like, Hey, my friend 300 00:20:59,200 --> 00:21:01,200 wants you to pray for him. And I always ask this question 301 00:21:01,200 --> 00:21:02,760 for I love praying for youth. I have no problem. 302 00:21:02,760 --> 00:21:05,440 But I always ask this question. Do you want to pray with them? 303 00:21:06,600 --> 00:21:12,560 Because I want to give my youth an opportunity to step in to 304 00:21:12,560 --> 00:21:14,680 something more. Not that if they don't, it's 305 00:21:14,680 --> 00:21:17,600 wrong, but if they want to, if they're ready, then it's there. 306 00:21:20,240 --> 00:21:22,680 Why? Because I want to train and show 307 00:21:22,680 --> 00:21:26,480 you that you being here, you invited them, you got them here. 308 00:21:26,640 --> 00:21:30,480 God used you to set this thing. I can finish it or you can. 309 00:21:30,480 --> 00:21:34,040 It's up to you. Your serving got you here. 310 00:21:35,640 --> 00:21:38,960 How many of you are missing out of opportunities to lead people 311 00:21:38,960 --> 00:21:43,000 to Christ because you think, Oh well a pastor has to no get 312 00:21:43,000 --> 00:21:44,920 serving and look for the opportunity. 313 00:21:47,680 --> 00:21:50,240 Calling doesn't cancel serving, it deepens it. 314 00:21:50,960 --> 00:21:55,280 See all of First Samuel 18 to 23 is not about waiting. 315 00:21:55,520 --> 00:21:58,360 It's not David waiting to be king. 316 00:21:58,360 --> 00:22:00,360 It's not David waiting to get the crown. 317 00:22:00,480 --> 00:22:03,400 It's not David waiting for something to take place. 318 00:22:03,400 --> 00:22:11,560 It's David working all of this journey. 319 00:22:11,560 --> 00:22:17,560 He goes through serving underneath Saul, fighting all 320 00:22:17,560 --> 00:22:22,560 these battles, hiding in caves. All of this stuff deepened his 321 00:22:22,560 --> 00:22:24,880 service. And in no place did he lose 322 00:22:24,960 --> 00:22:30,520 honor for what he was serving because he realized, I'm not 323 00:22:30,520 --> 00:22:38,080 serving Saul, I'm serving God. And my service goes far beyond 324 00:22:38,200 --> 00:22:45,680 this one moment. So he wasn't being passive in 325 00:22:45,680 --> 00:22:48,480 waiting. He was faithfully participating. 326 00:22:50,840 --> 00:22:53,960 He wasn't passively waiting for something that happened to Saul 327 00:22:53,960 --> 00:22:58,280 so that he could step in. He was actively participating 328 00:22:58,400 --> 00:23:01,760 and showing faithfulness and serving and putting himself in a 329 00:23:01,760 --> 00:23:04,640 position that knows when I'm fully ready to step into all 330 00:23:04,640 --> 00:23:06,960 God's place, me will I will be ready. 331 00:23:09,760 --> 00:23:15,320 It was the dedication to the service the sword season 332 00:23:15,320 --> 00:23:19,240 represents, serving under authority without demanding 333 00:23:19,240 --> 00:23:23,760 recognition. It's fighting for God's purpose 334 00:23:24,200 --> 00:23:35,000 before receiving God's promise. It's obedience that cost energy, 335 00:23:35,840 --> 00:23:43,920 time, and personal advancement. It's obedience that cost your 336 00:23:43,920 --> 00:23:48,000 energy, your time, and your personal advancement. 337 00:23:49,280 --> 00:23:53,120 Dave is served under Saul and said, man, I'm serving the 338 00:23:53,120 --> 00:23:57,480 Kingdom, I'm serving God. I'm going to bleed this Kingdom. 339 00:23:57,480 --> 00:24:00,440 I'm going to bleed this vision. I'm going to bleed everything 340 00:24:00,440 --> 00:24:02,880 God's told me. I'm going to give it everything 341 00:24:02,880 --> 00:24:06,160 I have. Every moment I'm consumed with 342 00:24:06,400 --> 00:24:09,080 God's plan and purpose for my life. 343 00:24:09,080 --> 00:24:12,120 Every moment I will feel serving this Kingdom. 344 00:24:12,200 --> 00:24:27,940 Kingdom I will serve. He learned how to yield, how to 345 00:24:27,940 --> 00:24:30,100 wield authority by first submitting to it. 346 00:24:32,620 --> 00:24:40,860 See, David didn't wait for the crown to act like king. 347 00:24:45,020 --> 00:24:48,840 He served like a king long before he had the crown. 348 00:24:53,480 --> 00:24:58,360 If you're waiting for a position to act like what the position is 349 00:24:58,360 --> 00:25:01,920 required, the position will never come. 350 00:25:06,760 --> 00:25:09,360 This isn't this is even into your worldly jobs. 351 00:25:09,360 --> 00:25:13,400 If you're waiting for a position, man, I should have 352 00:25:13,400 --> 00:25:16,120 that promotion. Am I acting like that promotion 353 00:25:16,120 --> 00:25:21,800 is going to require, am I doing all that's required so that when 354 00:25:21,800 --> 00:25:24,760 it comes, my faithfulness will show? 355 00:25:24,760 --> 00:25:27,880 Because see, here's the thing. I I tell my kids this all the 356 00:25:27,880 --> 00:25:29,680 time, right? They study for spelling words. 357 00:25:29,680 --> 00:25:30,720 They study for all this kind of stuff. 358 00:25:30,720 --> 00:25:31,840 And they're like, you know, they want to pray. 359 00:25:31,840 --> 00:25:33,480 We pray over my spelling. I'm like, yeah, did you study 360 00:25:33,480 --> 00:25:34,480 like, well, I didn't get to study? 361 00:25:34,480 --> 00:25:36,560 Well, here's the thing. God can only bring back to your 362 00:25:36,560 --> 00:25:40,480 remembrance what you put in your memory, which means God cannot 363 00:25:40,600 --> 00:25:44,240 show your boss your faithfulness with no faithfulness to show. 364 00:25:47,240 --> 00:25:51,560 So we're like, God work for me by making something up. 365 00:25:55,160 --> 00:25:57,920 No, God needs you to do some work so that he can then be 366 00:25:57,920 --> 00:25:59,880 like, look at the work that was done. 367 00:26:02,280 --> 00:26:06,080 He's waiting for you to show yourself faithful so that then 368 00:26:06,080 --> 00:26:09,120 he can remind everyone of your faithfulness. 369 00:26:11,800 --> 00:26:17,320 I'm not passively waiting. I'm being a faithful 370 00:26:17,320 --> 00:26:25,120 participant. So serving isn't punishment, 371 00:26:25,160 --> 00:26:29,360 it's preparation. Like I said, David anointed 372 00:26:29,360 --> 00:26:31,960 king, then sent out to the to the back out to the field. 373 00:26:31,960 --> 00:26:36,840 And I'm like, oh, poor David, like no, David continued to 374 00:26:36,840 --> 00:26:41,200 build and grow kills Goliath and you're like, oh, he's still just 375 00:26:41,200 --> 00:26:43,080 around Saul. Now he's got to play harp for 376 00:26:43,240 --> 00:26:45,160 the king all the time. That's sitting in his throne. 377 00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:51,440 He served faithfully. I guarantee you David isn't in 378 00:26:51,440 --> 00:26:53,560 there thinking, man, I can't. We know it. 379 00:26:53,560 --> 00:26:55,960 We know it from Scripture. David isn't in there playing 380 00:26:55,960 --> 00:27:02,400 that harp, being like this guy. You know what? 381 00:27:02,480 --> 00:27:08,440 He doesn't even like this song. You think he, he doesn't even 382 00:27:08,520 --> 00:27:09,920 he, he doesn't. He's not even a musician. 383 00:27:10,360 --> 00:27:11,840 Wrong note. Like he, he can't. 384 00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:18,160 Dave is serving him and he's sitting there pouring his heart 385 00:27:18,560 --> 00:27:22,000 into everything he does because it's not about this moment. 386 00:27:23,520 --> 00:27:27,960 It's about all of his faithfulness, all of his 387 00:27:27,960 --> 00:27:30,800 faithfulness. Philippians 2, five through 9 388 00:27:32,800 --> 00:27:38,720 says have this attitude in yourselves, which also in Christ 389 00:27:38,760 --> 00:27:42,360 Jesus, who, although he existed in the form of God, did not 390 00:27:42,360 --> 00:27:48,320 regard equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied 391 00:27:48,320 --> 00:27:51,560 himself, taking the form of a bondservant and being made in 392 00:27:51,560 --> 00:27:56,120 the likeness of men, being found in appearance as a man, He 393 00:27:56,120 --> 00:28:06,680 humbled himself by becoming what obedient to the point of death, 394 00:28:08,080 --> 00:28:14,160 even death on the cross. For this reason, God highly 395 00:28:14,920 --> 00:28:20,960 exalted him. He humbled himself, becoming 396 00:28:20,960 --> 00:28:25,440 obedient even to the point of death. 397 00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:33,480 And it says for this reason, God is looking for your obedience. 398 00:28:34,240 --> 00:28:39,320 And we saw this in David because David playing that heart don't 399 00:28:39,320 --> 00:28:44,520 even know what sound a heart makes, but like dodge and 400 00:28:44,520 --> 00:28:58,600 Spears, obedient to the point of death. 401 00:29:01,960 --> 00:29:06,240 At no point was he wavered by what was going on around him. 402 00:29:06,240 --> 00:29:12,760 He was just serving God, loving God, obeying God. 403 00:29:12,880 --> 00:29:17,560 And obedience always comes before exaltation. 404 00:29:20,400 --> 00:29:24,000 God is not crowning your ambition, He's honoring your 405 00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:29,960 obedience. David wasn't worried about 406 00:29:29,960 --> 00:29:34,400 getting to the throne because he knew if I'm faithful and I 407 00:29:34,400 --> 00:29:37,280 serve, God will place me where I'm supposed to be. 408 00:29:38,320 --> 00:29:43,640 Which means when it comes, it'll come and I'll be ready. 409 00:29:47,640 --> 00:29:49,360 So David didn't chase the throne. 410 00:29:50,040 --> 00:29:53,640 He carried the sword faithfully until God moved him. 411 00:29:56,120 --> 00:30:00,640 And what's crazy is in all this we see even through all these 412 00:30:00,640 --> 00:30:05,760 moments, David's worship stayed alive and active. 413 00:30:07,960 --> 00:30:12,320 We have so many Psalms written during his season in the field 414 00:30:12,320 --> 00:30:15,120 and during his season serving Saul. 415 00:30:15,240 --> 00:30:18,320 He kept serving, he kept showing up, He kept advancing the 416 00:30:18,320 --> 00:30:22,120 Kingdom. And his worship was alive and 417 00:30:22,120 --> 00:30:25,000 strong and active in his writing was strong. 418 00:30:26,080 --> 00:30:29,000 And he continued to serve and fight someone else's battle. 419 00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:31,080 And that's why the sword always comes. 420 00:30:31,080 --> 00:30:33,880 Before the third season. I want to get into which is the 421 00:30:33,880 --> 00:30:39,640 scepter. And this is when David becomes 422 00:30:39,640 --> 00:30:46,960 king, David's king. The crown is real, the authority 423 00:30:47,240 --> 00:30:52,560 is heavy. And David has a lot of great 424 00:30:52,560 --> 00:30:57,040 moments as king. He's got a lot of great moments 425 00:30:57,040 --> 00:31:00,680 as king. But I'm, I'm going to focus on 426 00:31:00,680 --> 00:31:06,960 this other moment that I saw when I was studying for the 427 00:31:06,960 --> 00:31:14,240 second Samuel 11/1, it said. Then it happened in the spring, 428 00:31:15,120 --> 00:31:23,800 at the time when kings go out to battle, that David sent Joab and 429 00:31:23,800 --> 00:31:26,960 his servants with them and all of Israel, and they destroyed 430 00:31:27,640 --> 00:31:33,520 the sons of Ammon. And then it says, but David 431 00:31:34,240 --> 00:31:43,640 stayed at Jerusalem. This is the season when kings go 432 00:31:43,640 --> 00:31:50,360 out to battle, but David stayed at Jerusalem. 433 00:31:51,600 --> 00:31:58,600 The weight of the crown replaced the posture of the servant. 434 00:32:02,520 --> 00:32:07,120 This is one of the first moments we see David step out of his 435 00:32:07,120 --> 00:32:12,840 servanthood in the comfort of the Kingdom when he finally 436 00:32:12,840 --> 00:32:18,080 attained the calling. This is one of the first moments 437 00:32:18,080 --> 00:32:23,680 we see David has now not done what's required of him in 438 00:32:23,680 --> 00:32:27,520 service. And this is important. 439 00:32:29,720 --> 00:32:32,520 This is the moment David stayed back from serving. 440 00:32:32,800 --> 00:32:36,360 This was also the moment his fall began. 441 00:32:36,360 --> 00:32:41,160 Now listen. David didn't stop loving God, 442 00:32:42,560 --> 00:32:49,720 but his serving narrowed. This wasn't a question of David 443 00:32:49,720 --> 00:32:57,000 no longer loving God, but his service of the Kingdom narrowed. 444 00:32:58,200 --> 00:33:02,040 And this is when David sees Bathsheba. 445 00:33:04,560 --> 00:33:08,840 When he abandoned his assignment, he drifted into 446 00:33:08,840 --> 00:33:11,440 spaces he was never meant to occupy. 447 00:33:14,760 --> 00:33:18,800 When he abandoned his assignment, he drifted into 448 00:33:18,800 --> 00:33:21,320 spaces he was never meant to occupy. 449 00:33:22,440 --> 00:33:27,800 He stepped away from his responsibility and stepped into 450 00:33:27,800 --> 00:33:33,400 vulnerability. This is a very important 451 00:33:33,400 --> 00:33:37,800 correlation because we see as his service of the Kingdom 452 00:33:38,080 --> 00:33:44,960 stopped, he opened himself up to see, be around and do things he 453 00:33:44,960 --> 00:33:51,440 was never meant to handle. He was never meant to see he was 454 00:33:51,440 --> 00:33:57,280 never meant to be with. Disengaging from his calling 455 00:33:57,280 --> 00:34:01,520 positioned him where compromise became possible. 456 00:34:07,380 --> 00:34:13,060 His moment of not serving put him in such a vulnerable state. 457 00:34:15,699 --> 00:34:19,340 So see, David is traditionally credited for around writing 458 00:34:19,340 --> 00:34:24,960 around 73 Psalms. Most of them rise from seasons 459 00:34:24,960 --> 00:34:29,000 of like pursuit, obedience, compromise or not compromise, 460 00:34:29,080 --> 00:34:32,480 dependence. They come from the fields that 461 00:34:32,480 --> 00:34:37,199 he was in the caves, battles, his exile from the Kingdom when 462 00:34:37,199 --> 00:34:40,400 Saul kicked him out, and then obviously his service of the 463 00:34:40,400 --> 00:34:43,320 Kingdom. But what I find interesting is 464 00:34:43,320 --> 00:34:47,000 like his early Psalms, they overflow with trust, 465 00:34:47,560 --> 00:34:53,360 faithfulness, wander, and this intimacy with God. 466 00:34:54,000 --> 00:35:00,520 But his later psalms shift to repentance, defense, and 467 00:35:00,520 --> 00:35:06,360 survival. He goes from overflow to 468 00:35:06,360 --> 00:35:10,920 maintenance. His psalms shift from songs to 469 00:35:10,920 --> 00:35:16,920 survival and they can. Obviously all the psalms are not 470 00:35:16,920 --> 00:35:19,920 put in chronological order and not all of them can be placed 471 00:35:19,920 --> 00:35:23,680 exactly where they go, But the only two that they really know 472 00:35:23,680 --> 00:35:27,680 for sure that most theologians agree are accredited during 473 00:35:27,680 --> 00:35:32,120 David's season of non serving and during his sin of Bathsheba 474 00:35:32,120 --> 00:35:37,600 are Psalms 51 and Psalms 32. And Psalms 51 is all about 475 00:35:37,600 --> 00:35:43,960 repentance, and Psalms 32 is his reflection after forgiveness. 476 00:35:45,960 --> 00:35:54,360 So we have 73 psalms written, but only two during David's time 477 00:35:54,600 --> 00:35:56,600 of not serving his Kingdom properly. 478 00:35:59,600 --> 00:36:09,000 So worship dries up where obedience dries up, not because 479 00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:12,680 God withdraws, but because our heart closes. 480 00:36:16,520 --> 00:36:19,520 David's writing shifted in this season. 481 00:36:20,040 --> 00:36:24,400 A tone went from all these victories, this intimacy, this 482 00:36:24,400 --> 00:36:26,600 love. They were no longer triumphant. 483 00:36:26,600 --> 00:36:30,120 They were survival related. They were based on I need to get 484 00:36:30,120 --> 00:36:32,160 somewhere. And then during his season of 485 00:36:32,160 --> 00:36:36,200 sin, during his season of lack of service, he only even wrote 2 486 00:36:37,440 --> 00:36:40,280 out of 73. Most of them come before. 487 00:36:40,480 --> 00:36:42,280 And then he repents. He gets right. 488 00:36:42,280 --> 00:36:44,840 This is why we know this is the David was a man after God's own 489 00:36:44,840 --> 00:36:46,160 heart. He sets his life. 490 00:36:46,160 --> 00:36:49,320 And of course, the tone shifts, but the writing comes back, 491 00:36:51,400 --> 00:36:56,440 which lets us know our worship is connected to our service and 492 00:36:56,440 --> 00:37:17,480 obedience. Amos 521 says I hate, I reject 493 00:37:18,160 --> 00:37:23,920 your festivals, nor do I delight in your solemn assemblies. 494 00:37:23,920 --> 00:37:26,880 Even though you OfferUp to me burnt offerings in your grain 495 00:37:26,880 --> 00:37:32,440 offerings, I will not accept them and I will not even look at 496 00:37:32,440 --> 00:37:35,160 the peace offering of your fatlings. 497 00:37:35,160 --> 00:37:41,960 Take away from me the noise of your songs, I will not even 498 00:37:41,960 --> 00:37:44,880 listen to the sound of your harps. 499 00:37:45,640 --> 00:37:50,640 But let justice roll down like waters and righteousness like an 500 00:37:50,640 --> 00:37:56,840 ever flowing stream. God rejects the worship 501 00:37:57,560 --> 00:38:06,680 disconnected from obedience. They are giving and doing 502 00:38:06,680 --> 00:38:09,640 exactly what they should be doing, but they weren't being 503 00:38:09,640 --> 00:38:13,240 obedient in their offering. And God said I don't want your 504 00:38:13,240 --> 00:38:18,800 worship. He rejected it. 505 00:38:18,880 --> 00:38:30,040 He said it's like noise worship served from disobedience or 506 00:38:30,240 --> 00:38:35,280 worship severed from obedience becomes an empty sound. 507 00:38:39,360 --> 00:38:43,120 When we step out of our alignment, we step out of our 508 00:38:43,120 --> 00:38:47,960 serving, we step out of our obedience, our worship becomes 509 00:38:47,960 --> 00:38:53,520 empty to God. This is the prophets warning. 510 00:38:55,920 --> 00:39:05,200 See, it's not that David stopped worshipping, but the source of 511 00:39:05,200 --> 00:39:12,760 it changed. The source of it changed because 512 00:39:12,760 --> 00:39:16,840 here's the thing, we never leave the staff. 513 00:39:17,560 --> 00:39:21,920 We never leave the sword just because we have the scepter. 514 00:39:24,760 --> 00:39:28,240 The staff season comes with you. The sword season comes with you. 515 00:39:28,400 --> 00:39:31,440 These seasons stay with you. Because if you don't keep your 516 00:39:31,440 --> 00:39:36,000 private worship, your quiet moments, if you don't keep your 517 00:39:36,000 --> 00:39:39,800 passionate service, then the weight of the crown will crush 518 00:39:39,800 --> 00:39:46,800 you. If I don't stay in the field, If 519 00:39:46,800 --> 00:39:51,000 I don't have my field moments, even though I'm no longer in the 520 00:39:51,000 --> 00:39:58,160 field, I find a new field to quietly be with him. 521 00:40:00,160 --> 00:40:05,520 When I've got my sword, I'm serving passionately so that 522 00:40:05,520 --> 00:40:08,080 when my calling comes, it doesn't crush me. 523 00:40:10,920 --> 00:40:15,920 See, David stepped out of a season because he had attained a 524 00:40:15,920 --> 00:40:18,200 new one and thought I could just let it go. 525 00:40:19,240 --> 00:40:27,120 I can set my sword down. They won that battle, by the 526 00:40:27,120 --> 00:40:35,440 way, David's team still won. But God didn't ask for just a 527 00:40:35,440 --> 00:40:39,280 victory. He asked for David's service. 528 00:40:42,600 --> 00:40:46,920 He asked for David's heart. He asked for David's obedience. 529 00:40:48,160 --> 00:40:50,800 We cannot set down what we're going. 530 00:40:50,800 --> 00:40:53,920 We don't ever graduate from the staff, and we don't ever outgrow 531 00:40:54,200 --> 00:40:58,560 the sword, the scepter season, doesn't it? 532 00:40:59,560 --> 00:41:02,840 It doesn't take away, it doesn't replace them. 533 00:41:03,240 --> 00:41:12,560 It rests on them. When serving becomes optional, 534 00:41:13,640 --> 00:41:20,480 obedience becomes selective and worship becomes hollow. 535 00:41:23,960 --> 00:41:31,000 When service becomes optional, obedience becomes selective and 536 00:41:31,000 --> 00:41:41,640 your worship becomes hollow. This is the weight no one sees. 537 00:41:44,640 --> 00:41:50,840 The greatest weight in. Leadership isn't authority, it's 538 00:41:50,840 --> 00:41:58,440 faithfulness. It's not about having authority, 539 00:41:58,440 --> 00:42:04,800 it's about staying faithful. God never asked David to stop 540 00:42:04,800 --> 00:42:08,360 serving. He asked Him to lead from His 541 00:42:08,360 --> 00:42:15,160 service at no position where you ever gain. 542 00:42:15,240 --> 00:42:19,920 That doesn't just require you serving even more. 543 00:42:22,640 --> 00:42:25,200 God never elevates you out of serving. 544 00:42:25,880 --> 00:42:28,640 He elevates you to deeper, deeper levels of it. 545 00:42:31,400 --> 00:42:34,280 He puts you in places that require even more intense 546 00:42:34,280 --> 00:42:42,280 serving. See, some of us in this moment, 547 00:42:43,120 --> 00:42:49,920 we haven't lost our worship, but maybe you've released your 548 00:42:49,920 --> 00:42:54,760 obedience. Maybe in this season of life, 549 00:42:55,520 --> 00:43:02,520 you've put away your staff and you've lost your quiet times. 550 00:43:05,360 --> 00:43:11,560 Maybe some of you have never had quiet times, those daily 551 00:43:11,560 --> 00:43:14,000 devotions, those moments that were with him. 552 00:43:14,000 --> 00:43:17,040 And see what I love about David's season in the field is 553 00:43:17,040 --> 00:43:22,920 it was his filled season, was always quiet in service. 554 00:43:25,160 --> 00:43:29,360 Quiet time wasn't I cannot do anything, I must get away from 555 00:43:29,360 --> 00:43:36,360 everyone and be alone. No, while David served, he was 556 00:43:36,360 --> 00:43:41,520 mindful because God honors your service. 557 00:43:45,040 --> 00:43:53,040 Maybe we've set the sword down. Maybe we have kept our devotion, 558 00:43:54,000 --> 00:43:58,800 but we've let go of the service intensity that we should have. 559 00:44:00,640 --> 00:44:04,280 We've gotten like David will. I've become comfortable in what 560 00:44:04,280 --> 00:44:10,240 I'm doing, and I'm no longer looking up to pick up my sword 561 00:44:10,240 --> 00:44:14,400 and fight a battle. That's not my fight, that's not 562 00:44:14,400 --> 00:44:16,400 my area, that's not my job, that's not my calling. 563 00:44:16,400 --> 00:44:17,600 That's not what I should be doing. 564 00:44:19,680 --> 00:44:23,600 David was anointed king. He should have only been doing 565 00:44:23,600 --> 00:44:31,440 what kings do, but yet he served wholeheartedly wherever Saul 566 00:44:31,440 --> 00:44:34,880 sent him. The missing component component 567 00:44:34,880 --> 00:44:39,360 in your life might just be serving like you've never served 568 00:44:39,360 --> 00:44:45,400 before. David's victories were burst 569 00:44:45,720 --> 00:44:50,320 from the servant's heart. Every moment that we love to 570 00:44:50,320 --> 00:44:54,040 talk about, every Psalm we love to sing, every victory that he's 571 00:44:54,040 --> 00:44:58,000 had that we love to chant, every story, every kid story we tell 572 00:44:58,640 --> 00:45:07,000 was David's serving. If I need victory in my life, 573 00:45:07,160 --> 00:45:09,720 maybe I need a little more service in my life. 574 00:45:12,560 --> 00:45:19,480 Maybe my disconnection from my serving has called me to be 575 00:45:19,480 --> 00:45:26,760 disconnected from my worship. And this, like I said, this 576 00:45:26,760 --> 00:45:28,720 isn't a matter of, oh, you've stopped loving God. 577 00:45:29,360 --> 00:45:34,440 David never stopped loving God. He just stopped serving like he 578 00:45:34,440 --> 00:45:40,000 was supposed to. He just stopped serving at the 579 00:45:40,000 --> 00:45:42,600 capacity he was meant to serve with. 580 00:45:42,800 --> 00:45:47,240 And, and what I'm wanting to get across to you guys today is 581 00:45:47,240 --> 00:45:50,200 we're moving into a new year and I know everyone looks at New 582 00:45:50,200 --> 00:45:52,880 Year's revolutions, everyone's resolutions, everyone's looking 583 00:45:52,880 --> 00:45:54,920 into what am I going to do? What, how am I going to diet? 584 00:45:54,960 --> 00:45:56,600 What am I going to, what's my fitness goals? 585 00:45:56,600 --> 00:45:58,880 What's this goal? And it's easy for us to get in. 586 00:45:58,920 --> 00:46:01,880 You know, I go to the gym at like 6:00 every day and I get 587 00:46:01,880 --> 00:46:04,680 there and January's the worse because it's going to be just 588 00:46:04,680 --> 00:46:09,120 the most full of people for like a solid month that, you know, 589 00:46:09,120 --> 00:46:14,040 aren't going to be here in February, right? 590 00:46:14,040 --> 00:46:15,600 Like, you know, they're not going to make it. 591 00:46:17,640 --> 00:46:20,920 Maybe one out of the 100 sign ups, which I'm sure is great for 592 00:46:20,920 --> 00:46:24,160 the fitness industry as a whole. But for those of us who want to 593 00:46:24,160 --> 00:46:27,080 continue to work out, we're like moving our stuff around, trying 594 00:46:27,080 --> 00:46:30,320 to find a machine. And since there's only like one 595 00:46:30,320 --> 00:46:33,080 leg extension in there, you're kind of stuck on leg day just 596 00:46:33,080 --> 00:46:36,240 waiting for people to get off, right? 597 00:46:36,400 --> 00:46:42,200 And we, we start to assess all of these natural things. 598 00:46:42,200 --> 00:46:48,120 We want to adjust. This is one thing I love about 599 00:46:48,120 --> 00:46:49,760 Anchor Faith Church. They challenge us not just to 600 00:46:49,760 --> 00:46:52,280 set goals physically, but to set goals spiritually. 601 00:46:52,920 --> 00:46:56,080 Our spirit, soul, body goals, right? 602 00:46:56,080 --> 00:46:59,280 We set goals not only for our body, but where do I want to be 603 00:46:59,280 --> 00:47:04,320 spiritually this year? What are some spiritual 604 00:47:04,440 --> 00:47:07,040 aspirations you have to accomplish this year? 605 00:47:07,280 --> 00:47:09,680 Maybe some of you have never made it through the full Bible 606 00:47:09,680 --> 00:47:11,880 reading plan without missing months at a time. 607 00:47:12,080 --> 00:47:16,400 Make that your goal. Maybe some of you do the Bible 608 00:47:16,400 --> 00:47:19,640 reading plan every single year, but you've never gone deeper 609 00:47:19,640 --> 00:47:25,920 into study outside of that. Add some time going into 2026, 610 00:47:25,920 --> 00:47:29,560 what I want to challenge us to do is to pick the staff back up, 611 00:47:30,240 --> 00:47:34,280 pick the sword back up. Start serving again like we've 612 00:47:34,280 --> 00:47:36,520 never served before. Start showing up again like 613 00:47:36,520 --> 00:47:39,200 we've never showed up before. Start submitting again. 614 00:47:39,280 --> 00:47:42,280 Start obeying again. Not for a title, not for 615 00:47:42,280 --> 00:47:46,960 recognition, but because faithfulness is what matters to 616 00:47:46,960 --> 00:47:52,120 God. Faithfulness is what he's 617 00:47:52,120 --> 00:47:55,920 looking for. My 2026 resolution is to be more 618 00:47:55,920 --> 00:48:02,760 faithful than I've ever been in all those little things. 619 00:48:07,040 --> 00:48:09,120 I've always said this. I've told my wife all the time, 620 00:48:09,160 --> 00:48:11,160 she's like, what do you want? And I'm like, I want to be 621 00:48:11,160 --> 00:48:17,400 someone that when Apostle Earl calls on, he says, I know I can 622 00:48:17,400 --> 00:48:21,400 give this to Chase because Chase will do it like I did it and 623 00:48:21,400 --> 00:48:23,200 he'll make sure that it gets done. 624 00:48:24,200 --> 00:48:27,040 There would be no greater compliment in my life than to 625 00:48:27,040 --> 00:48:30,760 know I can be called upon because they know I will see it 626 00:48:30,800 --> 00:48:34,920 through. Our goal should be, man. 627 00:48:34,920 --> 00:48:38,120 I want to be someone that God says I'm ready to give them 628 00:48:38,120 --> 00:48:40,240 their next step. Because they've shown their 629 00:48:40,240 --> 00:48:42,760 faithfulness all year. They've shown they're ready to 630 00:48:42,760 --> 00:48:44,520 step out. They've shown that they can 631 00:48:44,520 --> 00:48:46,880 stick through thick or thin. They've shown that it doesn't 632 00:48:46,880 --> 00:48:48,840 matter what season they're in, they're going to be faithful. 633 00:48:48,960 --> 00:48:51,200 They've shown that they won't put down their staff, that they 634 00:48:51,200 --> 00:48:53,680 won't put down their sword, that the scepter won't crush them. 635 00:48:53,880 --> 00:48:57,080 That in any season I finally call them up to, they're going 636 00:48:57,080 --> 00:48:59,920 to rise up to. And they're going to rise up to 637 00:48:59,920 --> 00:49:01,280 something they've never done before. 638 00:49:01,280 --> 00:49:04,760 Because 2026 doesn't have to just be a year where that I'm 639 00:49:04,760 --> 00:49:07,880 looking forward to is the year of faithfulness that I continue 640 00:49:07,880 --> 00:49:10,640 to press on in and I continue to press forward to. 641 00:49:10,640 --> 00:49:14,120 So that I look back one day and say, look where God got me. 642 00:49:14,280 --> 00:49:17,480 Look where I was then and look where I've gotten now. 643 00:49:17,640 --> 00:49:21,680 Because of faithfulness, because of one small step every single 644 00:49:21,680 --> 00:49:24,680 day to continue to serve like I've never served. 645 00:49:24,880 --> 00:49:28,680 I'm not looking for my time. I'm looking for time that I can 646 00:49:28,680 --> 00:49:31,720 sow into the Kingdom. I don't need anything more than 647 00:49:31,720 --> 00:49:34,040 to look back and say God was with me. 648 00:49:34,200 --> 00:49:38,200 If God needs it, I'm ready. If God's there, I'm there. 649 00:49:38,240 --> 00:49:41,000 When someone needs someone to show up, I'm going to be in the 650 00:49:41,000 --> 00:49:42,680 room. I'm going to be ready with 651 00:49:42,680 --> 00:49:47,280 expectation that the Kingdom of God will advance, and it will 652 00:49:47,280 --> 00:49:58,960 advance through my faithfulness. The crown never replaces the 653 00:49:58,960 --> 00:50:02,240 calling. It reveals whether you are 654 00:50:02,240 --> 00:50:09,760 faithful before it. This is the weight no one sees. 655 00:50:12,560 --> 00:50:14,840 It's the weight that keeps your worship alive. 656 00:50:15,600 --> 00:50:21,600 Because the Kingdom is built by people carrying the weight no 657 00:50:21,600 --> 00:50:26,600 one sees. Carrying the weight no one sees.