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Now enjoy this message. Today I want to talk to you
about Consecrated Kingdom Call. Consecrated Kingdom call.
Hallelujah. I want to rehearse, review and
just remind probably most of the people we have with us today.
But I want to just remind you, it's good to stir our way selves
up by way of remembrance. So this is kind of the appetizer
before we get to the entree. Actually, I think of this is the
appetizer and the dessert because I want to talk to you
about the story and plan of redemption 1st and then I want
to get into consecration to the call, OK.
But just to remind you, by way of remembrance, I'm going to
launch out from Genesis Chapter One.
And verse 26 through 28. So whether you're following
along in a paper Bible or on your electronic phone, it's
important to pay attention at church.
Amen. God has something for you today.
Say God has something for me. Say, I'm not going to get
distracted. All right, So don't text, Don't
answer notifications. Let's pay attention.
Amen. Hallelujah.
Don't be like the dumb husband that's looking at his phone.
Well, his wife's trying to talk to him.
Hallelujah. We help you at Anchor Fay
Church. Speak to the men.
As the men go, so goes the house.
You know it's something when you have eye contact, right?
Was it communicate to God when you're not paying attention?
Right. Do we honor him?
Do we value him? Amen.
Does he? Do you think he wants your
attention this morning? Amen.
Because he's got something to say to you, and the word that's
going to be given to you is. Going to deposit something and
you so that when you leave the building, you're impactful as a
believer, as a child of God. Okay, this equips you when you
come into this house for the work of service out there, all
right? So in Genesis chapter one,
verses 26 through 28, then God said, let us make man in our
image according our likeness. Let them have dominion over the
fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle
and over the air. The earth and over every
creeping thing that creeps on the earth.
So God created man in his own image.
And the image of God He created him male and female.
Male and female. He created them.
Female was not an afterthought in God's mind.
Christianity is the only religion that actually.
Elevates a woman to her rightful place.
Then God bless them, and God said to them, be fruitful and
multiply, fill the earth. Subdue it have dominion over
fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, over every living
thing that moves on the earth. So the original command of God
was five things in Genesis chapter one, verse #28.
This is in the perfect state when there was.
Man was without sin or without stain or without contaminant.
God had to work for man in the earth, and He gave him five
things to do. There's still five things that
are He called us to do today, which is to be fruitful,
multiply, replenish, subdue, and have dominion.
All right, then we go over to Genesis chapter 2, and I want to
go to verse #15 and read verse #15 and verse #16.
Then the Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of
Eden, is to tend it and to keep it in the Lord God commanded the
man, saying, of every tree of the garden You may eat freely,
verse 17 But of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and
evil you shall not eat, for in the day you even eat of it you
shall surely die. So God said to man, be fruitful,
multiply, replenish of do, and have dominion.
Then he actually assigned him or position, and replaced him
somewhere on the earth. Amen.
And he said, I want you to tend and to keep.
That location that I've given you all right.
But then he said, do not eat of one thing.
Everything else is unrestricted. But this one thing's prohibited.
So we know the story. In Genesis chapter 3, it says
verse #1. I'm going to read verse the
number one through verse number. Oh, let's see.
We'll read for a while. This will help you on your Bible
reading plan. Now the serpent starting for
someone, the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the
field which the Lord God had made.
And he said to the woman, has God indeed said, you shall not
eat of every tree of the garden? And the woman said to the
serpent, We may eat at the fruit of the trees of the garden, But
the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden, God
has said, You shall not eat, nor shall you touch it, lest you
die. Then the serpent said of the
woman, You will not surely die, for God does know in the day you
eat of it, your eyes will be opened.
You will be like God, knowing good and evil.
So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it
was pleasant to the eyes, a tree desirable to make one, why she
took of its fruit and ate. She also gave her husband with
her, and he also ate. Then the eyes of both of them
were open, and they knew that they were naked, and they sewed
fig leaves together and made themselves coverings.
And then they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the
garden of the cool the day, and Adam and his wife hid themselves
from the presence of Lord and among the trees of the garden.
Then the Lord God called to Adam and said, where are you?
So Adam said, I heard your voice in the garden, and I was afraid
because I was naked. I hid myself, and God said, Who
told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree of
which I commanded you that you should not eat?
Then the man, said the woman. Whom you gave to be with me, She
gave me of the tree, and I ate. Then the God said, The Lord God
said to the woman, What is this that you have done?
The woman said, The serpent deceived me, and I ate.
Then the Lord God said to the serpent, Because you have done
this, you are cursed more than all the cattle and more than
every beast of the field on the on your belly.
You shall go, and you you shall eat.
Dust all the days of your life. I will put enmity between you
and the woman in between your seed and.
Her seed He shall bruise your head, You shall bruise his heel.
Now in verse 15 I'm reading from the new King James Version, if
you look at that again. It says I will put enmity
between you and the woman. He's talking to the devil,
right? It says between your seed, so
the seed of the enemy, and then it says her seed now.
If in my Bible it's a capital S, is it a capital S in your Bible
on your digital phone? See.
Meaning the Lord Jesus Christ. So God went into action when man
failed because God commanded man and man did what?
He broke the commandment. So when you break the law, guess
what? There's a penalty for breaking
the law if you leave church today and you're doing 75 and a
35 and authority pulls you over. What are they going to say?
You violated the speed limit. You go fast enough, you don't
even get a ticket. You go to jail, right?
Because you have become a menace.
You have positioned yourself to become a menace or very
dangerous in society because you're going too fast.
So God guess. His Kingdom?
There's laws within his Kingdom, and they're there for our.
Benefit, just like the our U.S. government, for the most part.
Tries to create laws. To help mankind, right.
That's why we have stop lights are there are there not to keep
you from having a good time. Yellow does not mean go really
fast. Hey man, they're there.
What? To really preserve, protect and
keep safety. Same thing with the law of God.
Why do you think you said don't commit adultery?
Is that law? Still in effect today.
Why? It's going to keep you from
harm. It's going to keep a family from
falling apart. It's going to keep the devil
from getting his his access or his entry point into your life.
Right now is can there be redemption in that?
Yeah. But there's also consequence
with sin. So God can redeem and restore.
But man, it's better not. To do it, say Amen.
So he said, I'm going to put in between between your seed and.
And he said between your seed and her seed, talking to the
seed of woman, talking about Jesus Christ.
So we find in this verse that Adam and Eve were in the in
these verses that they were in the perfect position, the
perfect place, the perfect, perfect atmosphere with an
assignment. There was a call.
There was a plan. There was a purpose that God had
for them before sin entered the world.
Guess what? There's still a plan.
There's still a call. There's still a design that God
has for us today is born again. Believers, all right.
But in this perfect place, they got removed from the perfect
place because of sin. And it said.
If you eat of the. Tree Then guess what?
Death is going to happen. So there's three types of death
in the Bible. All right, two of those I'm
going to cover. There's a natural death and a
spiritual death. Both of these happen
simultaneously at this point. Now one didn't manifest till
much longer. Are you with me?
Spiritual death happened instantly, which means that God,
if you go to back to Chad verse 7 in Genesis two said he
breathed in that Adam the breath of life.
So the spirit of the living God came into a holy vessel because
God created him holy, and the Spirit of God lived on the
inside of him, and man became a living soul.
So when he when he sinned though, guess what, The Holy
Spirit was taken from Adam. At that point, he would have
lived forever on the earth if he would have never sinned.
But since he did sin, guess what?
The consequence of sin came in and he died both naturally and
physically. Now, naturally, you'll read that
they live for hundreds of years until the flood, right?
But guess what? Natural death did happen later,
but it was always a manifestation of what happened
spiritually. Issues of the flesh are result
of issues of the Spirit. So what's going on spiritually
is going to manifest naturally. But it happened spiritually
first, right? So guess what God did in His
work of redemption? Like I said, this is review
rehearsal reminder for most of you.
But you know what? We need to stir our way.
It serves up every day that we've been redeemed, if you have
been redeemed. The Bible says let the redeem to
the Lord say so. This is the year of reigning
resonance. One of your confessions every
day should be God. I'm redeemed.
What does redeem mean? Well, guess what?
When? Um.
They broke the commandment Adam and Eve.
They gave dominion to the devil. 2nd Corinthians 4 four says the
devil's the God of this world. How did the devil get the right
to be the God of this world? Because Adam and Eve were in
charge or an authority on this earth and when they blew it,
they gave the authority to the one they blew it towards, which
is the devil. But thank God there's a work of
redemption in Jesus Christ. Redemption means this releasing
affected by payment of ransom. Deliverance and liberation.
I'll say that definition again. Released and affected by payment
of ransom. Deliverance and liberation.
So in the work of redemption, when man fell, he need to be
restored to his position or his place with God.
And there's only one person that could do that.
Cuz sent, tainted, sent, contaminated, the spirit of man,
and therefore fellowship was broken.
Spiritually speaking now to God in the Old Testament, he passed
over things through the Tabernacle and the things that
he set up. But guess what He said.
There's going to come up my seed in the earth that's going to
once and for all pay the redemption for mankind.
So let's go to the New Testament Romans, chapter 3, verses 21
through 24. Romans chapter 3 verses 21
through 24. But now the righteousness of God
apart from the laws revealed, being witnessed by the law and
the prophets, even the righteousness of God through
faith in Jesus Christ to all and and all who believe.
For there is no difference all of sin and fallen short of the
glory of God, but being. Justified freely by His grace
through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.
Ephesians chapter one, verse #7. In him Jesus we have redemption
through His blood, the forgiveness of sins according to
the riches of His grace. What Adam lost when you call on
the name of the Lord is restored because of the finished work and
because of the blood of Jesus. Colossians chapter one.
I really like this one verses 13 through 14.
I'm going to read this in the Amplified Bible for He which is
Jesus has rescued us, we could say redeemed us and has drawn us
to himself from the dominion of darkness and has transferred us
into the Kingdom of His beloved Son and whom we have redemption
because of Jesus sacrifice resulting in.
The forgiveness of sin and the cancellation of sins penalty.
Who I like that. Let me say that again.
The last part of that we have because of the work of
redemption, the forgiveness of sins and the cancellation of
sins penalty. Hallelujah.
Romans chapter 5 verses 12 through 17.
Therefore, just as through one man, sin enter the world.
And through death through sin, And thus death spread to all
men, because all sin. For until the law sin was in the
world, but sin is not imputed where there is no law.
Nevertheless, death reign from Adam to Moses, even though even
over those who had not sinned, according to the likeness of the
transgression of Adam, who is a type, who is a type of him who
it was to come. But the free gift is not like
the offense. For if by the one man's offense
many died much more by the grace of God, and the gift by the
grace of the one man, Jesus Christ abounded to many.
And the gift is not like that which came through the one who
sinned. For the judgment which came from
the one offense resulted in condemnation.
But the free gift, which came from many offenses, resulted in
justification for if by one's man offense, death reign through
the one. Much more, those who receive
abundance of grace and the gift of righteousness will reign in
life through the one Jesus Christ.
This just summarized Genesis Two and Three talking about the
transgression of Adam and the restoration through Jesus for.
Those that have made Jesus Lord, I want to go to Romans chapter
10, verses 9 through 10, Romans chapter 10 verses 9 through 10.
This says that if you, you confess.
With your mouth. The Lord Jesus and believe in
your heart that God has raised him from the dead you will be
saved, for with the heart, with the heart one believes under
righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto
salvation. Hebrews Chapter 9, verse 22, the
latter. Part of the verse says without
the. Shedding of blood there's no
remission of. Sins.
So I say this today, Church. Is there anybody in this
sanctuary day that has not made Jesus Lord or experienced the
redemption, the ransom payment that he made for you?
It's a free gift. All you have to do is call.
On the name of the Lord Jesus And guess what?
You will be saved. Anybody in the sanctuary today
want to make Jesus Lord right now?
Anyone. I'm looking.
Left to right. We don't have to have an ultra
call at the end. This is how I thought the Holy
Ghost wanted me to do it today. Anyone.
Well, I'm going to have. We're going to do a confession
together, all right? Just because it's the right
thing to do. Say this with me.
Say Heavenly Father. I believe Jesus is the Lamb of
God that takes away. The sins of the world and the
penalty of sin. I believe that Adam fell because
he disobeyed the word of God. But in Jesus the payment has
been made for me to get back into your Kingdom, and I declare
that Jesus Christ is Lord. I receive His payment.
I receive His finished work. I receive His blood.
That's on the mercy seat. I believe it came this earth.
He walked it. For 33 years he was crucified.
Died, was buried but resurrected on the third day, and now he has
ascended. He's seated at the right hand of
the father. And the word says whoever calls
on his name will be saved. I thank you.
I'm redeemed in Jesus name. Amen.
Hallelujah. So this message is specific then
to those that believe that that have done that.
This message is consecrated Kingdom Coal.
I I want this tile it Now what? Now what?
Meaning that was awesome. What a liberation, what a
freedom, what a work that he did for us.
What a gratefulness. When when we're at PCI.
Just want to relate this real quick.
We are at PCI Putnam Correction Institute.
Well, it's been August now. Last month and we had a Kingdom
rise first, Kingdom rise conference we did in there and I
was able to look at those inmates and it was a powerful
time of ministry that we had to to bring the Kingdom of God to
them. Because the Bible says we're
taken out of 1 Kingdom, the Kingdom of darkness and brought
into the Kingdom of light. And you know what the Kingdom of
light isn't when you die. The Kingdom of light happens
when you give your life to God through Jesus.
And you're when you say Jesus, your Lord, you know what Lord
means in the in the Greek, Greek was the what the new testimony
is written in. It means he's the master.
He's the owner. Let me let me say it this way.
He has the final decision for my life.
I really like this definition. That means he's the possessor
and the dispossessor. Of a thing he possesses me, but
by his ownership he has a right to tell me whatever I need to
do. And whatever God says out of
love is going to be for the greatest benefit for my life and
the others around me. Whatever God says for me to do
is going to be for the greatest benefit for my life and those
around me. Let me say it one more time,
Whatever God, Jesus, the Lord Jesus Christ says for you to do
is going to be for the greatest benefit for your life and for
those that are around you. So we're not PCI, you know?
It was an amazing I I wish I could just summarize everybody
from you know Josh pastor Earl Roth everybody we had some
chance to minister there was is great but I I got to look at
those inmates and I got to say this is all of you're in here
for a reason because you violated or broke the law and
you're guilty as charged. Now, some fight it, some say I'm
not guilty, you know, whatever the circumstances.
But the fact is they had enough evidence.
That a verdict was passed by a judge to say you were guilty,
right. But I I said this to them so
that the payment has to be made. If you did this crime.
There's a duration associated with that time that a judge
ultimately determines. It could be two to four years,
but ultimately it's going to determine this.
This is what satisfies or pays for the crime that you did.
So I got to relate to them and I pray this sticks with you.
Is what Jesus did for the US is we were guilty and there was a
penalty passed and it it was for a lifetime.
If you do not know Jesus, guess what, You are separated from the
Father. Eventually you'll be in hell if
you don't receive him. That's the the final verdict on
it, right? But I told those inmates that,
listen, it's like Jesus coming in here and saying you committed
murder. It's a lifetime penalty.
But I'm actually going in into the cell for you and letting you
walk free. What?
Imagine that that happened in your life.
Would you be? Disrespectful or dishonorable to
the person that traded places with you.
How could you, if you did commit murder, want to go do that again
and get right back into the same place even though he paid the
price for you? No, you would go out a free
person saying I am never thank God for the one what?
Jesus is the one that liberated us.
And I'm telling your life can be honorable and grateful and
thankful consistently what he's done.
And that's why. Consecration.
To his call is so important. There's a purpose of plan of
design that he has for you once you're born again.
That's why I said, now what? Now that now that it's settled,
there's a plan that we go to participate.
If you just read the Bible, say, read the Bible, read the Bible,
say I'm reading the Bible. Now, for some of you that may be
a confession of faith. Some of you that may be a
witness or testimony that I am reading the Bible.
Either way, say read the Bible. There there are stories of great
men and women, the earth. And guess what Their attitude
was never it's settled when I get there.
They, always, the great men and women, always had a relationship
and an assignment. That God gave them I We could
cover so many people. I could go to Hebrews 11 right
now, which is the Hall of Fame of Faith.
There there's sixteen men and women mentioned specifically in
that chapter but but it alludes to many others because it says
time would fail me to tell of all the others that through
actions of faith they subdued kingdoms, worked righteousness.
You know, some somebody want to be resurrected because they they
knew that was going to be a greater glory because they were
martyred for the gospel. But there was always an
assignment with every man and woman of God.
And guess what? God has not changed his mind.
There's a plan for. Today, Matthew, Chapter 22,
verse #14, I'm going to give you this thought.
Then read, What are you going to do with the time you have left
that God's given you? Some of us have more time than
others. Hallelujah.
I don't ever say I'm killing time.
Can we eradicate that from our vocabulary right now?
Church, I'm trying to help you out Now.
You may be resting, but rest on purpose, but you're never
killing time. I'm always investing time.
Everybody has 168 hours in a week.
What are you doing with the time that God's giving you?
Time is really an investment. Time is really more important
than money. God can, let me put this way,
redeem time. Amen.
Matthew 2214 says many are called, but few are chosen.
Where are you at in this verse? Many are called.
That means I heard a call for redemption.
I've submitted and surrender my life to Jesus.
But now what called? But many are called but few.
Are chosen. Listen called means this.
It means that your God has called you to an office.
Or he could put this way, he's when I say office, I'll say a
position or a place. This is your homework
assignment, OK? Because if I give you all the
answers, learning stops. First Corinthians, chapter 12.
Read that whole thing this week. This is a picture of the body of
Christ. OK And and it great.
Read it in the Message Bible. Read it in a couple different
translations. Some of you have over over
achievers. Read in five different
translations. Amen.
Because you need to see yourself in that.
I had Ricky get me a pin, but I'm going to say this now.
Hallelujah. But this goes with some of my
takeaways. At the end of the of the sermon
yesterday, I told you there was some college football games
right now. I could care less about it.
It's it's a fun little thing to watch.
I got my team, but in the grand scheme of life.
Somebody asked me on Friday, they said about Saturday.
And this isn't just just bragged, they said.
I forget what they said they said.
Something about. I hope it goes.
Well, tomorrow night and I'm thinking, what's going on?
That was there. Is there a church thing going
on? I was trying to remember what
was going on. Am I missing?
I was like, I thought Saturday's pretty open, but it was the
Buckeyes are playing Notre Dame and I totally blanked out
because I'm going to root for the Buckeyes.
I'm from Columbus so that but it it just it did.
I knew the game was coming. I wanted to watch it obviously,
but I was not geared thinking about that at that moment.
I was thinking I don't want to miss out was.
Like his Caleb club. Going on or something.
Like but I thought was a church related event.
That I thought I forgot about. I'm like, wow, But it dawned on
me, but the game doesn't mean anything in the grand scheme of
thing. But the the take away does so
that in that game, whether you're a Notre Dame fan or a
Buckeye fan. At the end that game, when it
comes to the amount of players they allow on the field at one
time, how many is that? 11.
So this game was a tight game, is 14 to 10.
There's about 17 seconds left, the Buckeye said third and 19.
And they they throw the quarterback throws.
They're they're about 20 yards. Roughly from from the end zone,
right? So they they need a touchdown to
win the game with about 17 seconds.
They throw a pass. The receiver catches it about
1/2 a yard short of the goal line.
Everybody know what a goal line is.
That's where they scare a touchdown in points.
You get points. GP, are you with me?
Anybody from like early 90s, if you don't pray in the Holy
Ghost, maybe got to reveal who that author is to you.
So anyways there's that they have no timeouts left.
So they the the quarterback runs down, you know and then the
clock is ticking right and so he runs down.
He's when you throw the ball down it stops the clock.
So they they have 3 seconds left, right and they need a
touchdown to win. So I'm like, actually Don's
texting me, but I I don't like to watch the game in its
entirety and I don't like to know the score.
I let it play. And then I can Fast forward
because I don't want to do the commercials, spend 3 hours
watching the game. So even though, you know I'm a
Buckeye fan, don't text me the score.
It ruins the moment. I'll forgive you if you do, but
that's just how I how I'm built. I let the game get way ahead and
then I can just go through in an hour not to spend 3 hours.
So anyways, the Buckeyes punch it in.
They score. They win the game.
But I found out this morning, you know what happened.
Notre Dame, even though you have 11 players on the field, they
went back and they counted the last two players.
They only had ten players on the field.
So that gave them a disadvantage to actually stop, right?
But I got to think about that. The church many are called, but
few are chosen. And if you're missing your
place, it could cost the team. Pastor April said victory.
Well, you know victory means you being in your position.
If we need 11 people and there's only 10 because you fail to
consecrate to the call, we could lose.
Amen. Jeremiah, chapter 29, verse #11.
So God needs you in place. God is faithful.
If you fail to choose to consecrate and let me define
consecration for you. It's a term that the world could
use too. You know, Jesus didn't use terms
that people couldn't understand. He wasn't making up new
language, right. But when I I'm geared, I'll say
this right now, they're going to put quotes up.
Well, I'll get there in a second.
Consecration means you're set apart.
We'll just simply, it means dedicated.
You know what happens every four years When it comes to athletes,
there's the Olympics. That's what consecration is.
Those athletes, guess what? They do what we're not doing,
which is when I say that jokingly, I mean like, I'm not
training to, you know, I always want to do that one little sport
because I wonder how much were they?
They shoved the thing and it. The brush guy, you know, I'm
talking about, what's it called? Yeah, I'm thinking, how much
technique is in that, right? Oh, I pulled a hamstring.
I'm not making fun of the curl either.
But Bradley, you're going to have to edit that yourself.
So, but what do they do? They dedicate themselves.
Are they, you know, just eating, Whatever, whenever.
Do they have a coach, somebody that's maybe been somewhere,
done something that they haven't done, that has knowledge?
Listen guys, there's a there's church.
I'm going to tell you, there's a lot.
We live in a technology age right now and it's great, but
there's a lot of information out there and all information is not
good information. What the church needs is
knowledge. There's a difference between
knowledge and information. You could be an information
junkie, but really, in the Jewish concept, knowledge really
to get to it, the Bible's Adam said he knew his wife, which was
intimacy, right? Right.
Knowledge means you really knows.
I mean it's applied to your life information.
You just got a bunch of facts. Knowledge means you actually
applying truth. So a coach, guess what?
They're going to They're going to challenge you.
They're going to watch your form, your technique.
They're going to keep you accountable.
We'll get some of these other things later.
I'm kind of getting ahead myself, but it's worth
repeating. So, Jeremiah, chapter 29, verse
#11. The whole thing about that
consecration means you're dedicated.
Many are called but fewer chosen.
How do I get from call to chosen?
Chosen means this, your choice your select you're the best of
its kind or class. When you How do you go from
called to chosen? It's called dedication.
How do you go from called to chosen?
It's called dedication. If you want to be choice or
select or of the best kind, It takes dedication.
Now that you're redeemed. Now what?
Now it's a dedicated life unto God.
He paid the price. I should be so grateful every
day to think that he went in that prison for me and release
me. And now I have a liberated life
from the devil. I'm in the Kingdom of God and I
can make an impact and a difference.
I get to tell other people about what he did for me that are in
the Dominion darkness. Rescue them out, get them on
their feet cleaned up and get them in their place because we
don't want anybody falling behind.
If somebody needs redeemed and they're the 11th person on the
team, but we only have 10 players, you could snatch them
out, get them connected with Anchor Faith Church.
Then they get equipped to get in the place that God wanted them
to be. Jeremiah 2911 says.
For I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord.
They are plans, for good and not for disaster, to give you a
future and a hope. Romans chapter 8.
Verse #28 says for we know that God causes everything to work
together for the good of those who love God and are called
according to his purpose. For them, you know it's.
His purpose? It's not my plan.
It's those that love God. How do you know that you love
God? The Bible says if you obey his
commands, that proves or demonstrates that you love him.
If you obey his commands, if God says to forgive, forgive,
forgive, Right. I want to be obedient to his
commands. That shows that I love him.
So if you love God, there's going to be an evidence through
obedience and it says that we are called then according to his
purpose. I want to be in God's purpose,
not my own purpose or plan. I want to give you this verse
where I move on to some other scriptures.
Galatians chapter 2, verse #20. I'm going to read this from two
different translations. Now what?
Now that you've been redeemed, I love what Paul says in these
verses. What are you going to do?
He said I have been crucified with Christ is no longer I that
live, but Christ lives in me. The life that I now live in the
flesh. I live by faith by the Son of
God who loved me and gave himself for me.
Now another translation says it this way.
I consider myself as having died and now enjoying a second
existence, which is simply Jesus using my body.
I have died. The old man, the unregenerate,
the one that was in the Kingdom of darkness, now has been
translated in the Kingdom of light, and now it's just simply
the word of God using my body. Amen.
In Matthew chapter 25. I'm going to start in verse #14,
Matthew 25. This is the parable of the
talents, and the word says this. This is a Kingdom message
starting in verse #14 for the. Kingdom of heaven is like a man
traveling to a far country, called his own servants and
delivered his goods to them. Whose goods were they?
His. The masters?
So guess what? When you get born again, guess
what? He put something on the inside
of you. He places something on the
inside of you and to one he gave 5 talents, to another two and
another one to each according his own ability and immediately
he went on a journey. Then he would receive the final
talents, went and traded with him and made another 5 talents
and likewise he had received 2 talents, made two more.
But he would. Receive one went, dug it in the
ground, and hit his Lord's money.
After a long time the Lord of those servants came and settled
accounts with them, so he. Who had received 5 towns, came
and brought five other towns. Saying Lord, you delivered to me
5 talents. Look, I have gained 5 more
talents besides them his Lord said him well done, good and
faithful servant. You were faithful over a few
things. I will make you roll over many
things. Enter into the joy of the Lord.
Verse 22. He also had he.
He also had received 2 talents, Came and said, Lord, you
delivered to me two talents. Look, I've gained 2 more also.
Verse 23 His Lord said, I'm well done, good and faithful servant.
You have been faithful over a few things.
I'll make you ruler over many things.
Enter into the joy the Lord. Verse 24 Then he had received
the one talent came and said, Lord, I knew you to be a hard
man. Reaping where you have not sewn,
and gathering where you have not scattered seed, I was afraid,
and went hit your town in the ground.
Look, there you have what is yours.
But his Lord answered and said to him, You wicked and lazy
servant, you knew that I reap where I have not sewn together,
where I have not a scattered seed.
You ought to have deposited my money with the bankers, and at
my coming I would have at least received back mine.
With interest, therefore, take the town from him who gave to
it, it to him and and give who had 10 talents.
For everyone who has more will be given, and he will have
abundance, but from him who does not have, even what he has will
be taken away. From him and cast that
unprofitable servant enter the outer darkness of the weeping
and and gnashing of teeth. So God gives everybody goods to
work with. Talents.
I'll say this Giftings. God has put a gift on the inside
of you. Hallelujah.
God has put a gift He's deposited on the inside of you.
A gift. And what are you doing with what
he's put on the inside of you now?
What are you doing? Are you letting Jesus use your
body to the glory of God? There will be a day when there's
going to come and account for what you did with your life. 2nd
Corinthians chapter 5, verse #10, Second Corinthians was
written to the church, right? So there's two judgments that
take place. There's the Great White Throne
judgment. The Great White Throne judgment
is for those that have never made Jesus Lord.
They will at that judgment seat. They will be separated eternally
from God because they never made Jesus Christ Lord.
But then there's also the judgment.
Seat of Christ are you with me? There's the judgment Seat of
Christ and 2nd Corinthians chapter 5, which this is written
to the church at Corinth. So these are born again.
Believers. Verse #10 says we must all
appear before the judgment. Seat of Christ.
That everyone. May receive the things done in
the body according to what he has done, whether good or bad.
So guess what? There's the great white throne
Judgment. But for born again believers,
there's a judgment seat of. Christ is going to be an
evaluation on your life now that you're redeemed.
Now what are you consecrated to the Kingdom call?
That's. Good.
First Corinthians chapter Three First Corinthians chapter 3.
Say I'm listening. I'm listening.
Say, Lord speak. Speak First Corinthians chapter
3, verse #1. We're going to read down through
verse #15 now just to set this up contextually real quick.
Paul wrote this letter from his initial visit.
Within a period of four to seven years, he had three missionary
journeys. Corinth was one of the church
that he founded. He followed up with this letter
upon founding the church to see how they were doing.
He was he was getting communication of what was going
on in their lives. It was really a lot of messed up
church. He had to bring instruction and
correction. Say I love instruction and
correction. You mean that so four to seven
years. But guess what, Paul?
I'm going to read it Expected for them to do from the time
they got redeemed. Was be consecrated to the call.
So I brother, when I came to you to speak to you, I could not do
the spiritual people, but as carnal as to babes in Christ, I
fed you with me milk and not with solid food, for until now
you're not able to receive it, and even now you're still not
able, for you're still carnal. For where there are envy,
strife, divisions among you, are you not carnal, behaving like
just natural men? For one, one says I'm appalled
and another says I'm appalled us.
Are you not carnal or just fleshly?
Who then is Paul? And who is Apollos, but
ministers through whom you believed, as the Lord gave to
each one. I planted Apollos water, but God
gave the increase. So neither he who plants, nor he
who waters is anything but God who gives the increase.
Now he who plants and Hugh waters are one, and each one
will receive his reward according to his own labor.
For we are God's fellow workers. You are God's field.
You are God's building. According to the grace of God
which was given to me as a wise master builder, I have laid the
foundation and another builds on it.
But let each one take heed how he builds on it.
For no other foundation can anyone lay than that which is
laid, which is Jesus Christ. Now, if anyone builds on this
foundation, Jesus. With gold, silver, precious
stones, wood, hay, and straw, each one's work will become
clear, for the day will declare it, because it will be revealed
by fire, and the fire will test each one's work of what sort it
is. If anyone's work which he has
built on it endures, he will receive.
A reward If anyone's work is burned up, he will suffer loss,
but he himself will be saved yet, as through the Fire 6
materials that Paul says things could be built with, their life
could be built with. Right.
He talks about gold, silver, precious stones, but wood, hay
and stubble. So now what?
This is the judgment seat of Christ.
It's going to be a day where God's going to say what did I
do? What did you do with the
minutes, the hours, the weeks, the months, the years that I
gave you? Did you do my assignment?
Now, this isn't overly complicated.
I'm going to simplify this a little bit before we get some
more scriptures. If you're born a man, you are a
man. If you're born a woman, then you
are a. Woman.
Like that. Praise the Lord.
So what are you doing with your manhood?
What are you doing with your womanhood?
Right. You could put those quotes up,
guys. Where purpose is not known,
Abuse is inevitable. Many men and, I could say, many
women, but I I tend to lean. Towards the man stronger.
Not that as it does go for both genders.
Where your purpose is not known, abuse is inevitable, meaning
it's incapable of being avoided. If you don't know your purpose
as a man or a woman, you're going to misuse it.
You're going to put it to a wrong and improper use.
If you don't know your purpose, now your purpose, you can find
it where your passion and your pain intersect.
The reason I start with manhood first is because I have a
passion to be a man. That's why pastorals assign me
to the men's ministry. There's a certain lane or a
certain gifting or certain assignment that God's placed
within me. I don't have so much of A
passion to be an entrepreneurial right.
I don't have so much of A passion to be in politics,
right? But there's certain passions I
have. It pains me to see a man out of
their place. Right.
Because I know if if the the heart of a man is turned to
Lord, then their heart of their children is going to be turned
to the to the man, and there's going to be healing.
But if it's not the Bible says Malka, there's going to be a
curse in the earth. So it pains me to know that.
The what the divorce rate is right now because I know there's
a remedy. I know there's a solution.
I know there's a truth to it. To.
To free and deliberate and to make this successful.
Who created? The marriage concept.
Who perverts it? The devil.
Now he does that in many ways. It could be with pornography, it
could be with confusion. But he tries to break up the
home, right. So it pains me to see a man, but
I got a passion to see have a man be in his place.
I have a. Passion for fitness.
It pains me to watch people at the gym sometimes.
Sometimes I say that's interesting.
Some people would completely misuse a machine.
I mean, like that was for your arms, not your legs.
Seriously, these things happen. So it pains me.
It it pains me and my my wife and I both have a heart for the
family, which you know, in general everybody's a heart for
the family that. It pains us when we're out in
public sometimes. I was just in Walmart, which is
its own Mission field, about a week 1/2 ago.
And little Johnny, they had just built a brand new like.
Fast food restaurant used to be Subway, I think.
Now it's Charlie's and this kid is throwing a fit, screaming at
the top of their lungs. I'm like, Oh my goodness, this
is this is a pain. Like I want to go spank his
bottom. You know, and throwing a fit
because he didn't get what he wanted.
That's what an immature male does.
Now. Our temper chance may be a
little different, but it's still there when we don't get what we.
All right, you can say Amen or me, but it's true.
So your passion is where your pain.
Your purpose, where your passion, your pain intersect.
Some people are passionate it in the political arena, right or
there. Or say the public education
arena. Really.
We're called Let me Let me give this to you, Matthew, Chapter
28. If you're taking notes, you can
write it down. A BCDEFGABCDEFG.
And no, we're not reviewing the alphabet to make sure that you
know it. But it's how it memorizes and
sticks with me. So I pray it sticks with you and
Matthew. Chapter 28.
There's two great commissions in the Bible, ones found in Mark
Chapter 16 and ones found in Matthew, Chapter 28.
Now what? Consecrated to the call, right?
Sorry, that's the wrong Commission.
Matthew 28 is one of them. I want to go to Mark 16.
Yep, so mark 16 verses 14 through 15.
I'm going to read this later. He appeared to them, Jesus to 11
as they sat at the table. He rebuked their unbelief in
hardness and heart because they did not believe those who had
seen him after he had risen. He said to.
Them going to all the world and preach the gospel to every
creature. What are we to do?
Going to all the world now? The word world in the New
Testaments. The word word cosmos.
Where we get arrangement. Systems and I had you write down
a BCDFG because in any society, these sectors of systems or
arrangements can be found in any historically any civilization.
A is arts, B is business, C is congregations, D is what we call
direct media, G is government, E is education, and F is Family.
You got that? A is Arts.
B is business, C is congregations, D is direct
media, E is education, G is government, and F is family.
So when I when he says going all the world, guess what?
Now that you're redeemed, he has an assignment for you.
Start off being the best man or woman you can.
It starts in the home and then it trickles.
As a husband and wife, if you're married, guess what?
Be the best husband or the best wife you can be.
And let me just let me just liberate you in this sense.
If your husband or wife is not living up to what you think they
should be living up to, switch your focus at that bema seat.
God is not going to judge. You based upon what your spouse
did or didn't do. Are you with me?
He's going to judge you on what you did or didn't do.
There's a way to win over a spouse.
The Bible talks about it. The First Peter 3 Ephesians 5.
Just going to give you a few chapters there that you can dive
into to find out how to win over.
But so many times we go to counseling session and.
This is the list of everything they're not doing.
And I got to remind them what? What are you doing now?
Do I condone or permit? Absolutely not.
If they're acting a fool, I'll call them foolish, but it still
don't change your place or your position on your role.
It's quiet now. You could leave and say that
wasn't for me, but you're not going to be liberated because
only truth sets you free. Sermons don't set you free.
Truth set you free. Let me put this way, applied
truth will set you free. So quit looking at your spouse,
getting the word, and say OK, what happens if you start to
change one. You'll know that when God calls
you on that day. Now listen, I know your husband
was Freddie the freak. I'm being very exaggerated, but
you held your place and your position.
Well done, thou good and faithful servant.
Right? At the best though you position
can go. Guess what could win them over?
Hallelujah. I'm going to give you a quick
testimony. I learned this.
From reading Doctor Cole's material, so it's a secondhand
witness to it, but it's true nonetheless.
This is an adult conversation. Some will keep it general, but
there was a lady that was coming to church, coming to church, and
the spouse wasn't the husband. What he liked to do is be not
shave on Sundays, drink alcohol and watch NFL.
So she would come to church, get filled up, go home, and guess
what? She'd be real agitated when she
got home. And have kind of a holier than
thou attitude be frustrated and rightfully so because what he's
not in place or position. But Ed Cole came to town to do a
men's conference and then he admitted and missed her next
Sunday. So she went up and just kind of
unloaded about how much of her husband was a jerk.
And he said, you know what you need to do when you go home
instead of being holier than thou go home and take.
Perform the benefit of being married.
I'm looking this way. I know the voice.
And so you know what? She went home.
I'm keeping this general and performed the benefit and then
told the husband. It's the pastor that told me to
do this. Guess what happened next Sunday?
He said. I want to meet the pastor that
told my wife. To perform the benefit.
Say Amen. So just keep your position.
Hallelujah, Church is. So those quotes put them back
up. You either live by default or
design. Anybody had their clock or their
you, their oven go out when the power goes out.
What's it do? Resets at 12:00, right?
That's living by default. When something traumatic
happens, or something stressful, or an affliction, do you go back
to default or are you pressing on the things of God?
So when the power goes out, so to speak, in your life, are you
are you blinking 12? Did you fall off the turnip
truck or did you realize, God, you're going to get some glory
out of this? I'm consecrated to the call.
I found this out in lifting because I told you have a
passion for fitness for for family, right?
I found this out in lifting though, because there's a lot of
parallels between what Paul ministered that we can take in a
natural but applies spiritually. And you don't get stronger
unless there's some resistance when it comes in the natural,
that's. True.
Go with me to Judges. We're going to go to Judges
Chapter 33. Before we go there, I want to.
I want to give you a few more scriptures.
Hallelujah. I'm going to go First Timothy
414, First through 15, First Timothy chapter 4, verses 14
through 15. Do not neglect the gift that is
in you. Do not neglect the gift that is
in you. Romans chapter one, verse #11.
This is written to the church. I long to see you that I may
impart you some spiritual gift so that you would be
established. I long to see you, Paul said.
Because I want to impart some spiritual gift that you'd be
established. First Corinthians 17, so that
you come short. No gift, eagerly waiting for the
waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ.
First Peter Chapter 4, verse #10, as each one has received a
gift. Minister it to 1 another's good
stewards of the manifold grace of God.
The word gift means this. It denotes extraordinary power.
It distinguishes, distinguishes Christians in their services,
and also says it enables them to serve in the body of Christ.
So what's the gift that God's placed on the inside of us?
It's the extraordinary powers. I'll put it this way.
He puts his supernatural on your natural You're never going to be
the best man, the best woman, the best parent.
You're never going to be best hitting those sectors of society
without the anointing of God. So he takes his supernatural and
puts it on your natural and guess what?
It becomes a God glorifying gift.
Hebrews chapter 12 verses one through 2.
Says this therefore. Now I read earlier Hebrews
Chapter 11 about all the great men and women in the Hall of
Fame of Faith. It says, therefore, since we are
surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside
every weight and sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us
run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking under
Jesus. The author and the finisher for
finisher of our faith, who, for the joy that was set before him,
he endured the cross, despising the shame.
And it sat. Down at the right hand of of the
throne of God, now that that we're in this race, it says it
strip off every weight and sin. What's a weight?
It's a burden. It's a load.
Listen. Unforgiveness could be a wait
that hinders you and your call. I'm.
I'm talking about dedication. Be dedicated to let things go
and walk in love. Forgive.
Forgive means to drop it, release it and let it go.
It could be a wait. You know what cares of this life
could be a wait. Well, you're just thinking about
this world in the world system all the time, right?
That could be a wait. And the Bible says what to put
it aside. Put it off.
Stay focused. Everybody say stay focused.
So put it off, he said. And the sin now sins easy,
right? In the sense that we know what
sin is. It means to wander from the law
of God. It means an offense or to miss
the mark. So he said, in order to run this
race effectively, you got to be dedicated or consecrated.
You got to get rid of weights and sins because both both will
hinder you. In your journey and destination
and design that God has for you, He has a purpose for you in the
earth. And it says that we need to run
with endurance. Endurance means that we say
steadfast no matter what we're we're not swerved or moved by
any trial or suffering. That's what steadfast means.
And it says the race. Now that word race in Hebrews 12
is the same word that the Apostle Paul used to when he
says fight the good fight of faith.
You could literally say and run with endurance the fight because
it's the same word. It means a contest really in
that society. It mean that it meant the Greek
Olympic Games is what Paul was saying.
So I'm. Going to go to 1st Corinthians
Chapter 9. First commitment is Chapter 9.
We'll get to judges in just a second.
First commitment is Chapter 9 versus 24 through 27.
I'm going to read this from two different translations to the
first one being I think it's the new King James, the second one
being the message. Do you not know that those who
run in a race all run, but only one receives the prize?
Run in such a way that you may obtain it.
And everyone who competes for the prizes temperate in all
things. Now they do it to obtain a
perishable crown, but we an empiricable crown.
Therefore I I run thus, not with uncertainty.
Thus I fight not as one that beats there, but I discipline my
body and bring it to subjection less.
When I preach to others, I myself should become
disqualified. The message says it like this.
You've all been to the stadium and you've seen the athletes
race. Everyone.
Everyone runs. One wins.
Run to win. Run to win.
All good athletes train hard.
They do it for a gold medal that tarnishes and fades you after
you after one. That's gold Eternally I don't
know about. But I'm running hard for the
finish line. I'm giving it everything I got.
No lazy living for me. I'm staying alert and in top
condition. I'm not going to get caught
napping telling everyone else about it and then missing out
myself. Second Timothy, Chapter 20
versus second Timothy 20, Chapter 2 versus 20 through 20.
One we're going to bring this all together by help with the
Holy Ghost. But in a great house there's not
only vessels of gold and silver, but also of wooden clay, summer
for honor, some for dishonor. Therefore, if anyone, if anyone,
if anyone, if anyone, cleanses himself from the latter, he will
be a vessel of honor, sanctified, dedicated,
consecrated, and useful for the master, prepared for every good
work. The JB Phillips says that Tran
that verse this way. God's solid foundation still
stands, however, with this double inscription.
The Lord knows those who belong to Him.
Let every true Christian have no dealing with evil.
In any big household there are not there are naturally not only
gold and silver vessels, but wood and earth, and where one
ones as well. Some are used for the highest
purposes, and some for the lowest.
If any man keeps himself from the contaminations of evil, he
will be a vessel used for honorable purposes, clean and
serviceable for the use of the master of of the household.
All already, in fact, for any good purpose.
I went to judge. I said judges, didn't I?
Hallelujah. I meant Numbers 33.
I'm kind of giving you a highlevel.
And we're going to get about 5 takeaways.
Numbers 33 says this. These are the journeys of the
children of Israel that they say journeys, some translation say
stages. So I bring that up because,
listen, now that you redeem, there's a purpose for you.
There's a Kingdom. Call and there's going to be
different stages or different seasons of life if you do what
we're telling today, the word of God, and sanctify yourself or
dedicate yourself. Remove every weight and every
sin. Flee every appearance of evil.
I'll put it this way, Matthew 5/8.
It says Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God.
Blessed are the pure in art. The purer your life, the more
focused the vision. The more purity you have in your
life, the stronger the vision. If you have weights and sin,
guess what? You're going to suffer loss like
that? Wood, hay and stubble because
God's got a plan for you. But sin distorts and confuses
but. A holy life, a sanctified life,
keeps the focus there. So there's different seasons.
When we went to Bible school when it was Kennethy Hagan was.
I have two, what I call historical mentors in my life,
which is Ed Cole and Kennethy Hagan.
I never had any personal contact with him but read a lot of their
material. So there's not what I call
relational mentorship with them, but a historical in the sense
that I really fed on a lot of the material.
It's interesting that both, both of them, both of them say, both
of them 57, say 57. God had a new season, a new
stage for their life. Why?
Because they dedicated their life to God, they consecrated
their life to God. Kennethy Hagan said it this way.
God said now you're getting ready for the third phase of
your ministry at 57. So guess what?
Have you missed any phases or seasons of your life?
Faithfulness and holiness will keep you on track.
Say faithfulness and holiness will keep you on track for God's
seasons for your life. At 57 Ed Cole was was pastor in
A at a prophetic word that he need to leave the pastorate and
step out and do full times men men's ministry.
There was no men's ministry in the 80s.
He was the pioneer in the trailblazer at that time.
Now there's a lot of men's ministry but he he left the full
time pastorate at 57. Just when most people are
thinking about retiring they're refiring.
Because you know what there's no retirement in the Kingdom of
God. There's just new assignments.
Say new assignments. There should be a wealth on the
inside of you that people should be seeking you out in your 80s.
I'm reading the book right now by Lester Summer.
All he sought out Smith Wigglesworth in his 80s.
Smith was in his 80s. Lester was younger.
Why? Because he knew there was
something in him that he wanted. And when he went and sought him
out, Smith Wigglesworth end up praying over him in that
relationship before he passed away.
And they said tears was flowing down his eyes.
He was a taller man. Lester Summerall was smaller.
They were really flow flowing onto his head.
And Lester Summerall got some of what was on Smith Wigglesworth.
And had a very successful ministry and finished strong and
that's what God wants you to do with your life is finish strong.
So let's get 5 takeaways for finishing strong.
Number one, your daily devotional life.
How is that going? Anchor Faith.
Church encourages, prompts, reminds, presides the resources.
Both some of y'all got digital versions and the hard copy ones
of a Bible reading plan out of guest relations, right?
Why do we do that? Because we thank God for church.
But if you don't read your Bible, you're only getting two
meals a week if you come to Wednesday night.
And I don't know about you, but if I lived off of 2.
Meals a week. Maybe that's why you are a
cranky husband. Amen.
Because you're spiritually malnourished and you don't have
energy. Hallelujah on the on the the
great side. If you stay in the word of God
daily and read that Bible, what it what is the Bible?
It's it's fellowshipping with God.
It's taking time. And let me encourage you before
you get it. It's a heavenly Father.
I am listening today. You know, I I like saying this.
You know what's going to happen in the days, the weeks, the
months to come. So give me a word to stand on.
A fresh word, right? In the Old Testament, they had
the mana. But guess what?
That mana was only good for that day.
If they try to take the man into the next day, guess what?
It got stanky. For our good grammar.
Don't be a stanky or a stinky Christian because you're living
off of old mana, right? There's a word for you.
There's nothing like fresh bread, you know, And we're
almost done. That melts the butter when it
comes out the oven. Oh yeah.
And that's what God said. And I got a fresh word for you
every day. You need to be in the word of
God. That's the first take away every
day. Don't let it slip.
Right. Secondly, you need to develop
your your prayer and your meditation life.
Prayer is more than just asking for things.
Prayer is coming in the Prince of God to to fellowship and
commune with him, and in Genesis said they were the hear the
voice of the Lord, the God walking in the cool of the day.
There's a good goal for you. Read Pastor Marcy's book on
prayer, the cool of the day. Stir up your prayer life.
If you really want to get to another dimension, spiritually
stir up your meditation life. All of us are thinking something
all the time. It'd be amazing that to look
into your mind right now and see what you're thinking about.
Some of you could be thinking about bread with butter, because
I just said that and say I wish we could hurry so we can get
some bread with butter. But meditation?
What's that mean? It means to imagine, to revolve
in the mind, to think about it. So you need to develop your
prayer life and your meditation life.
Prayer is fellowshipping with God.
So one way to fellowship is just to chew on his word all the
time, right? I mean, think about it.
When you were engaged, courting, guess what you took the time to
do? You guys are quiet.
You listen right? You put your your best foot
forward, so to speak. You smelled good.
Your car was clean. Glory to God, you'd get the
door. Have you lost some of that good?
He had said he has not. That's good.
But you took How much more with God do you do?
You rush in in prayer out of more religious habit than a
relationship. So we need to develop our daily
devotion. We need to develop our prayer
and our meditation life. And back to the analogy of when
you're recording man, you were thinking about that person all
the time. Guess what?
You need to think about God all the time, right?
If you want to be the being your purpose as a man, as a husband,
as a father, whatever ABCDEFG he's called you to whatever
sector, society, wherever your passion is at you can, you need
to develop that prayer life. Why?
Because the Holy Ghost so quicken you.
That's the that's the next thing that you need.
You need the Holy Spirit. You need the Holy Ghost.
John 16 Seven These are takeaways #1.
Daily Devotion #2 Develop your meditation in your prayer life
#3. You need to realize daily, you
need the Holy Ghost, Jesus said in John 16 Seven.
It's expedient that I go away because if I go away, I'm going
to send another one just like me.
What was he talking about? The Holy Ghost acts. 18 Says you
shall receive power when the Holy Ghost says what come upon
you. I don't want to do everything in
my natural effort. I want to do it through the
anointing. Philippians 413 says I can do
all things through Christ who strengthens me.
What's the Christ, Christos the anointing For the assignment.
I want to do it through the anointing that the fourth thing
you need is church attendance. Church attendance.
You need to be regularly come to church, the Bible says in
Ephesians chapter 4, verse 11. He gave some.
These are some assignments in the body of Christ.
Not all people have the same assignment.
God is way too creative to make everybody do the same thing.
Everybody's fingerprint is different.
Personality wise we have sanguines, melancholy,
flagmatics and calorics. All different personalities.
Why? Because God is way too unique
and way too creative not to. Not to put a gift in you that
won't reach a sector of society. The thing is, don't get
sanguines. Don't get frustrated with the
melancholies. Sanguine's the life of the
party. Melancholies.
All the paperwork's done, I's dotted, t's crossed.
Well, I just want to go out and have fun.
Well, we got to finish the paperwork, right?
The caloric is a type driven visionary, the flag mag says.
Can't we just take a nap? But what?
God's way too creative. He put us all.
What? Because there's a uniqueness
about you. There's a gift in you that
nobody else has. And God one day is going to
judge you on it. And what we're trying to set up
is you want to have him say well done with what I gave you.
Even forgiveness is a well done. You got that.
So you need regular church attendance.
I've had three pastors since 1997, three.
I've been in church regularly. There's probably been only five
times in that time frame that I've probably missed since due
to vacation. Even I'm on vacation.
We typically try to find a church to go to.
I remember one time my wife and I went to Texas.
Early on, we were members of Rema Bible Church, but we were
down in Dallas, and so we went to TD Jakes Church.
Wow. Because that's what we do Sunday
morning. Let's go to the Potter's house,
right. So regular church attendance.
Why? Because in Ephesians 4, it says
if you go to church, that pastor, that apostle, that
prophet, that teacher, that evangelist is going to what?
Equip the Saints. So you could do daily devotion,
develop your prayer, meditation, life, have the help with the
Holy Ghost, but miss out because you don't attend church because
there's an equipping. What it means that there's a
supply in a setting that happens when you come to church, right?
And guess what in church is where you're going to find some
of your giftings. We had a we had a parenting
conference last week past Marcus.
You can come and if you need to get ready for water baptism, if
you signed up for water baptism, you can go and be dismissed
right now and get changed for that okay.
At our parenting conference, I think there was a question that
we may ever verbally answered. It was at least asked or
discussed, and it was about how do I find my my child's call or
purpose right. I want to help get them in it.
And man, the Holy Ghost because we need the Holy Spirit
quickened on the inside of me. You find your gifting through
serving just like that. Now I was getting ready to
answer and John George actually answered it.
Really got the same thing by the Spirit in principle.
But I thought, man, why is church intense important?
Not only you quit, but you find a place to serve, and in serving
you find your gifting and God will say what?
Well done. And guess what is if you're
faithful and you're gifting, he's going to give you more.
In this life, sometimes I reflect.
I don't think about title often I could care less about title.
I I'm not ambitious like that. I just want to say humble.
You know, I think about my journey since 1997.
It was just, I went to church. God said go to Bible school.
I went to Bible school. At Bible school.
I was hoping to meet a spouse. January my second year.
I thought, Lord, this ain't going to happen.
I caramba, I really want to meet somebody at Rama Rama Bridal
Training Center because I know it's not really what it's
called. They have been trained the same
way. And so in January that I just
kind of set my heart. You know God looks at the heart.
Okay. I'm going to go back to apostle
scales because that's the church I came out of in Columbus.
I'm just going to go serve him. When I got my heart right bam.
Heart right bam. I met Angie never end up going
back to Columbus. But guess what we were just
faithful at Rayma. She end up working for the
ministry. I selling cars just faithful.
Faithful faithful connect to a pastor or during that time we
did some jail ministry together with them.
Some youth ministry together with them did we had graduated
the same time just stayed faithful to him.
Stayed faithful to him, 2000 and.
Four, he says, hey, we're starting a church.
Pray about it. You want to come with us?
Angie and I prayed about it. We actually, in our heart we had
just got married. We're going to wait one year.
So we said we're in arrest but we're going to wait.
They actually came to Florida but end up going back and
serving our pastor David EMI for several years before they
actually came in 2004. So then in 2004 they they said
we were going and we had fell right at that time we said we're
going with you. He didn't promise anything.
He just said no. And your heart's supposed to
come. So we came.
No title 1 seeking title. Care less about title.
Just following God, right? State Faith one church, State
faithful knew these other three things.
Prior to that, 2009 was a big moment for me.
I was working for Enterprise Rent a Car.
Enterprise Rent a Car 4321 in the house.
Pastor Marcus work for Enterprise two and I knew
someday, you know, as as probably would go in full time
ministry. I wasn't asking for it, wasn't
trying to manipulate anything. Just let things work out.
Just being faithful, right? 2009 Chloe was born July, but in
that month too, that's the same month Pastor called me, said,
Hey, you want to come off full? I didn't have to pray about
that. I knew, Yes.
You're asking it. You need the help?
Yes. So actually I was.
Chloe was born. I was on paternity leave.
I had an annual evaluation and I met Ty, our manager at the
restaurant, and I said Ty, I said, and I was honest with
Enterprise. I've been with him for several
years. When they hired me in the
interview they said, where do you see yourself in five years?
I said church. They still hired me.
And you know what? Through the anointing though,
through the gift of the grace, I'm telling you, they look for
college degree people. We had Bible school degrees.
But Pastor Marcus, I didn't have college degrees.
You know that the top branches when we were in branch managers
in Northeast Florida, Pastor Marcus and myself, we were
trumping not to put down a degree but we had the anointing
upon us. And we're running to the most
successful branches for Enterprise faithful.
But at that evaluation, I said, Ty, I'm, I'm giving you my two
weeks notice. Boy, he got up real quick and
left. Called his boss is like freak
out mode. But I told him it was coming,
you know, back several years ago.
What am I saying? Because it's no different for
you what God hasn't planned. See, it started with me being
faithful as a man, faithful as a husband, Faithful on parenting
faithful my devotion. Life, faithful my prayer
meditation, life. Faithful to listen to the Holy
Ghost, faithful and church attendance.
And this fifth thing I'm going to give you is accountability.
Mediocre people want authority without accountability.
I want somebody to be able to speak in my life.
My my wife knows this. I have.
I wasn't as close with Kenneth W Hagan, Pastor Kenneth W Hagan,
like obviously Pastor has been able to develop a close
relationship with him. That was a large church.
I really didn't get to know him very well intimately, although
he knows me. But, you know, obviously
pastorize of intimate relationship because they text
and call off. And now I I was able to get a
little closer to apostle scales when I was at his church.
And I've gotten really close to Pastor Earl in my role here.
So listen when I talk about accountability, though.
My wife knows if I ever get Squirrely, she's got two people
she can text Apostle Scales and Pastor Earl, and that'll keep
you on track. When there's no accountability,
guess what? You can get out of your lane or
out of your gifting because you got nobody to speak into your
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