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Now, enjoy this message. Turn over to Romans 11:29.
I'm sure some of you are already hitting the stores because
Christmas is coming. All right, and I'm not a -
Christmas guy, right? I mean I love Jesus.
I'm not a big fan of the commercialization that has that
occurs and I'm not a fan of the pressure that is put on
households to purchase gifts and to help get companies out of
their deficit, you know? So all the real cells show up on
the 26th, you know, so if you can handle a little, you know,
not Feeling bad about yourself, you know, you should.
If you're if you need to budget yourself better, you should just
get your kids cards and say tomorrow.
You get to pick your stuff out. I'm taking you to the Big Box
store and we're going to unwrap it together and go find the Real
Deals, right? Because if I get you something
now it would be less, right? So at the end of the day, you
know, all of that takes place and you know, some people
households, you know, they celebrate another guy and you
know and they don't want us to talk about that guy but at the
end of the day, most of them don't treat their children.
Like the guy would treat their kids.
AIDS because he checks lists twice to determine and some of
your kids should not get presents.
Let's just be honest, we are rewarding not Enos and that God
doesn't is not supposed to do that.
So even though I'm looking around making sure I'll handle
because if I'm looking for kids, really, I got one.
Okay, so the bottom line is, make sure you represent
correctly because I'm just thinking of all the kids.
Now, says, it doesn't matter. I be bad.
He's still showing up. Well, I'm glad Jesus is
different. Amen.
So I'll stop there. Amen, the Lord's good.
All right, Romans 11:29 on. Talk about some gifts tonight.
I have some presence here. I'll give them away, actually.
So Romans 11. I'm feeling generous for the
gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.
Romans 11:29, the gifts for the gifts, and the calling of God
are irrevocable now. SRI, this in the Amplified.
So we understand what this being said, here.
A little bit better since for God's.
Gifts, and his call are irrevocable.
He never withdrawals them. When once they are given and he
does not change his mind about those to whom.
He has given his grace, or to whom he sends his call in
essence. What this means is before, you
were in your mother's womb, God knew you and knew your purpose
and knew why he was placing you in the planet.
So the manufacturer of your life.
Knows why you're here and what you should be doing, how you
should be functioning and he's not changed his mind about that.
Now, when it says the gifts and callings are God, are
irrevocable or one translation says without repentance
repentance, which is not a religious word, it just means
change your thinking. If you, if you refuse to learn
who you are, it doesn't change who God wants you to be.
And at the end of the day, we don't have time to exhaust this
truth. But there is a book, Psalm says
that he has pinned, my life in the book, every day.
Before it was ever I ever arrived, was tells me, God has a
plan for you. He has this autobiography of
your life that if you would obey his voice in a match his pages,
but you will write your own book.
And in turn when you stand before the Lord, he's going to
compare your written book to his.
Because if you get the pages, he's written they match.
The rewards are amazing. But if they don't match up,
that's the problem. I said that's a problem and it
cannot match up so much so that you don't even get in the
Kingdom. Now, what do I mean by that
you've never made Jesus the Lord of your life, you can write a
whole book of your life and it be nothing.
In the realm of God. In fact, the Bible even says,
there are many autobiographies written in the earth of great
success. But every books of failure, why
cause what good is it a man to gain the whole world and what
forfeit his soul? so, the world sees them as
bestselling novels, but the Lord sees them as loss because they
never became the gift they were They never were.
Alright, so the most important thing you can do is discover
yourself. Now, it can't become a
self-discovery. Meaning you try to figure it out
on your own. Got to?
Let me go find myself. Okay, there's only one way to
really find you and that is to get lost in him.
So if you're going to get found, you got to get lost.
Right, that's Kingdom. It's a paradox.
So in order to find yourself, you're gonna have to lose
yourself. Because when you lose yourself,
you'll find yourself because you must be lost in Christ because
you were always destined to be a child of God.
And the only way to be a child of God is to become, is to
believe that. Jesus Christ came died.
On the cross, Rose from the grave.
You recognize that you cannot live up to the standard of Godly
living because you're incapable base.
It upon sin, all right, things against what God is saying, but
when you repent, when you accept the sacrifice of Jesus blood,
then you become a new creature in Christ.
Now, you the old you has died, has is separated that Spirit on
the inside. That's dead to God.
And can't hear him leaves this Earth suit and a new one comes
and takes residents. Then the holy spirit will come
and bear witness with your spirit.
You are a child of God. And Then take you on a path of
Discovery. This is why you were born in the
first place. Now, if you're a little older
right now, you're thinking, wow, I've lost a lot of times, it's
amazing how the Holy Spirit can speed things up.
If you'll listen, he can get you back on track that the first,
you know, ten chapters of your life, can become null and void.
Because, see, when you get in Christ, then those chapters are
erased and we start a new chapter.
Chapter 1, and if we can finish the book of your life, if we'll
follow the Holy Ghost. Amen.
So gifts are directly connected to the call or your purpose.
So at the end of the day not everybody has the same gift.
Now, let me give some analogies here.
It's Christmas morning. You just finished service at
anchor, Faith Church. And now you go back home to
unwrap the gifts. Right.
And so you begin to unwrap one and it is, let me give me a
coffee mug. Give me that coffee mug right
there. Bring that to me.
Okay. You receive a thermos mug?
This one exact model. Okay.
You open up the next one. You get the exact same present
you open the next one. Same thing.
How are we smiling right now? You see the front?
Wow, this is awesome. All, thank you honey.
And then you know, your kiss. Ah, you got the same person has
by wife. That's awesome.
Thanks. And then all of a sudden, your
grandkid. Hmm, you go to work.
This is the fifth thermos, I've gotten now all of a sudden you
were excited about the first one.
Oh, you don't want to hear this. Well, we are so unique.
That we're different gifts. This is what's so awesome about
God because the cool thing about all the gifts under the tree is
that there's a variety As opposed to, I got another pair
of socks. My mom was really good about
getting me socks. And I knew that package because
she didn't put in a box it was soft.
You know, you're like this, that's the socks right?
I mean you need socks, okay? At the end of the day so it just
made for another present. Okay.
And I appreciate that because it gave me something else to unwrap
and at the end of the day they probably I use that gift
probably more than any gift because the other ones I wore
out our forgot about them or they were only good that day.
Come on Paris. You know what I'm talking about,
the ones you buy for your kids and their great that day.
And then it's like, why did I spend that much on that?
They spend more in the box that it was in?
Okay. So gifts are different and the
called are the purpose of your life.
Determines the get this. Why don't lust after somebody
else's gift, because that's that gift.
And man, when that gives shows up somewhere, people get that
gift. I don't want to be that gift.
I want to be my gift because I want to be the different gift.
That someone unwraps. I don't want to show me the
exactly the same way. You're just like where you're
just like but you're just nothing.
No, we are too diverse in our Auction in the body of Christ.
This is what makes us so awesome.
Is that we're not carbon copies of each other.
We are in Christ and then we all have a gift associated with our
purpose. And when it manifests whoo man,
everyone gets excited because it's what's needed at the time.
Turn over to Romans, chapter 12, verse 6, Romans chapter 12 verse
6 says this for since, since we have gifts That differ,
according to the grace given to us.
Each of us is to exercise them accordingly.
Okay, we are to exercise them accordingly.
So, here we have different gifts, right?
According to the grace, that is God's empowerment.
Okay? The unmerited favor Grace, we
received as once we got in the Kingdom.
After that, we get another Grace called an empowering Grace.
The empowering Grace is what allows us to do the gift, our
release the gift that we are Okay, you don't release your
gift, under unmerited favor, you release your gift under
empowerment. Okay, so I'm releasing that.
So each of us did you use them? Properly are, as this
translation here, this is the 1995 translation.
We are to exercise them. Here's the point that get a
failure to fulfill. The call is a results in the
gift never being given Okay. I mean, how many of you have
hidden gifts? And in forgot where they were
and then later on, you saw them. You la.
There's that gift. Which means it was no good
because it was never given, but it exists.
Are you hearing me? So with that being said, you
know, we need to release the gift that we are.
Because if we fail to exercise, our allow the gift that we are
because you just go and look at your name.
So I'm a gift now. The problem is some of you don't
even believe that, but that's, you need to learn to believe
that you are a gift because God's made you that way, and
you're a gift to someone. And when I say someone, I'm not
talking one person, like I'm a gift to my wife, my wife is a
gift to me. So we're gift to one another and
we are, but we're more than that, we're a gift to a lot of
people because the the call in our life and when we release
that gift under the grace of God, now under God's grace, then
in turn, we bring joy to people's lives because they can
then use that gift or that gift gets in and you Use that helps
them go to another level, right? Because at the end of the day,
there are some gifts that help us along the way, right?
This is why I, you know, traditionally when I did a
wedding and I gave gifts, I would give the plunger Yeah.
Because at the end of the day, when that newlywed couple needs
it. I mean I unclog a lot of stuff
spiritually right now. Anyway, you know, I'm trying to
get things moving along in your life.
Correct. Okay, in fact, Eric Brady and
his wife Sam, please stand up, they appreciated my gift so much
that they gave me a gift in return.
Not a plunger, but a little stool that you can put in front
of your toilet because they say that when your feet are elevated
more, it is easier to move things along.
Thank you. Why did I enjoy this gift?
So much, is because it was in connection with the gift.
I gave them at their wedding, right?
Okay. Now you may say pile, you give a
plunger again when you need it. I praise God.
Pastor all gave us that plunger. Are you hearing me?
Have you ever been in a bathroom and you can't find a plunger?
Right. I mean you are at somebody's
house. But you know what?
I'm talking about your life And you gotta come out because
there's not one in there because if you're coming to my house,
there's not one in. There goes, my wife has not
letting a plunger hang out in the bathroom.
God forbid, it's where it should be for use that.
We actually put in a closet somewhere out of everyone's
eyesight. And make our guests have to come
to us and say it's cuse me. Excuse me.
Yeah, what's up? How do you have a?
You have a, you have a plunger what happened, right?
I mean you if you're asking for it, We know you're the problem.
Right? Because you just let the whole
house. No, I didn't.
Number two in your home, right? Good.
Wait, could you good? Well, I know that I got some
staff though. They would wait, they do they
want to do it in the privacy of our own home?
I mean they will take cramps in their gut before they will do
that. So funny.
It's all right, it's just being a human, it happens, right?
Amen. But we liked it.
Then make fun of Up and go. Oh my gosh, I can't believe.
No, I'm kidding, we don't do that.
Here you go. You need to clean up your mess a
failure, okay? For you to allow the call of God
in your life, into operation, means the gift.
Can't get out. You know, how many believers do?
Never discover their purpose? Because the Believers purpose is
not the die and go to heaven. It's not your purpose.
It's something that occurs when you leave your body but that's
not your purpose. Your purpose is not the exit
strategy of planet Earth when I die, that's not why.
Jesus came To be absent from the body is to be present with the
Lord, and he's presently in heaven, but the reason Jesus
came was to empower us now, to put his Spirit back in us now to
give us Authority. Now to allow us to overcome,
give us our kingship back. Give us hard Dominion back,
okay? And as a result of that, then to
release Us in the earth's for the rest of the world, can see
our light be drawn to the kingdom, because of how we live.
Because they see our gift. Because at the end of the day,
the world is, is looking at your gifts naturally speak.
Well, what you get for your birthday, why do you care?
Because they may want what you have.
That's good. That's good.
To the point, they get jealous for it.
Now we understand jealousy in and of itself.
No good. Unless, you know, it's a proper
type of jealousy, like the Lord says, I'm a jealous God, meaning
I'm not going to share, I'm the Lord.
And you're not going to be going around worshipping other stuff
and then come to me. I'm hit IM alone the rest of
that's made up. I am, I am, I am.
Okay, so we have to release our gift in the earth.
We discover why we are doing what we're doing and why God's
made us and, and what God wants to do through our lives.
Look at this. In First, Peter 4:10 says, as
each one has received a special no gift as each one.
Again, every one of you are a gift, now you're going to go buy
presents for your family, right? Friends employees employers,
you're going to do the Christmas parties, all those particular
things. Some you're going to do is gag
gifts, right? You know, at the end of the day
you're still doing something because you know some you know,
you do it because you want to give something to someone and
each of us are participating in this yet.
The Lord says Each of you are a gift.
All right, so as each one has received a special gift, it
says, employ it in serving one another as good stewards of the
manifold grace of God. Now look at this, in the
Amplified it says that this way as each of you have received a
gift a particular spiritual Talent, a gracious Divine mm
endowment employee it for one another as befits.
Good Trustees of God's many-sided, grace faithful
stewards of the Stream diverse powers and Gifts.
Granted to Christians by this says, unmerited favor.
But unfortunately, that's not a good translation of how Grace
is. Okay.
In this context the unmerited favor come through the Salvation
at this point, it's the multi-faceted.
So this is empowering Grace specifically.
Okay, so what I'm saying is that everyone of us is a gift All
right. Now on the platform are a couple
gifts. Correct.
Now here's the thing about gifts, in order for us to
understand what the gift is, we're going to have to go a
little deeper. All right.
So, look at this in Matthew. 24:14 for, I jump over into
that, it says, just like a man was about to go on a journey, he
called his own slaves, and trusted his possessions of them,
to one, he gave five to one, he gave two to another, he gave one
according to his own ability and he went on his journey.
So, all three of these individuals had the grace, To be
able to exercise the gift, they were giving and they were
required expected. To distribute the gift.
To work it. So obviously, the master comes
back, the one who had five had five more, and he said, what?
Well, done the to develop two more.
And what do you say to that one? Well done, the one gave him back
the one. And what did he say to him?
You're Wicked and lazy because at the end of the day, the gift
was never intended for you to keep it.
And when most Believers because of how they see, Christianity is
that I have the gift of eternal life.
So I keep it to myself until I die and then we release it by
being in heaven. I've got mine.
That's not Christianity. Real Christianity is that I've
received the life of God. I know that when I pass from
here I'll be present with him that's coming and that's going
to be an awesome day when it does.
But that's not the Pinnacle, I received the Pinnacle, I am a
child of God. Now, And I'm going to discover
more and more who I am as a child.
And then I'm going to operate and function as it and I'm going
to release this gift in the earth, so that we can produce
more that are like me. So, I'm not the only one going
or will live with him. Forever is what we would say,
right? So, again, you have to release
your gift calls when gifts are given, then it increases
ability. The more you allow, who you are
to be distributed. muted among yourselves towards someone else,
then you actually your gift becomes more valuable Who you
are as a gift, becomes more valuable.
If you let it lay dormant, there's no increase in your life
but the minute you get it into exercise.
Meaning, you're serving other people, you're allowing who you
are to show up. And you're going to find
yourself in situations that who you are, as a gift is a gift and
gods going to have you cross someone's path.
Some of you are or if phenomenal encouragers, I mean, man, you
can encourage people. Make them feel like they're on
top of the world, because It's a gift.
And people get around you, they feel bubbly and you walk in a
room and they're like, wow, because it's a gift from God and
you're going to run across people that seem to be tired.
Depressed beat down and you come it.
But if you don't engage You've got to use your gift.
Whatever it, maybe some of you have natural talents that are
really gifted from God, you know, just because you can do
something good with your hands. Does it mean us you?
I mean, we can show you in scripture were, especially with
the building of the Tabernacle. He said, I have put this in
these individuals, they are now gifted by me to give instruction
on this project and to build it according to my plan.
So again, you're like well I've developed this on my God, gave
it to you, right out the gate. Now if you don't start releasing
that now, what do I mean by release?
I'm not talking about just making money off of it.
Though you can prosper with it and God will allow you
personally to prosper but you use the gift by exercising it
towards other. What do you need?
I'll come help do that. Well, how much it's nothing.
I mean God gave me the gift anyway and you have the need So
you understand, when they unwrapped your gift, you'll say
what joy that brings to their life.
Amen. And there's many in this room
that I've had to call on, especially in the natural.
You know, construction aspect we're like, hey, I need this and
that gift shows up and I'm like, thank God, I got to unwrap that
gift today. Needed that gift because at the
end of the day I couldn't have done that.
If I'm not gifted there like they are you know, I don't have
to do everything. And God doesn't want us to do
everything. That's why he gave me you.
Amen. I mean who are Christmas unwraps
one? It says yeah.
I'll just leave the rest of them under there.
Who does this? Amen, right, but some of you
want me to leave you under the tree.
But I'm coming after you. I said I'm coming after you look
what it says in Proverbs 18. 16, it says this, a man's gift makes
room for him and brings him before.
Great people. Now, literally this means in
context is that the king would ask who's out in my Courtyard
and then would begin to ask, what are they / bringing me and
the ones who had gifts came in because you don't come to the
king without gift. So, when you allow your gift
that God Made You to humanity, first to the church, must be
honest. Now, you're gifting first is for
the church. Because it's a church gift.
Okay, your gift is for the church first, then you can use
it for the world to help. Draw them into the church.
It's amazing how many Believers only want to give themselves to
the world but disdain the church.
Amen. The gift is for the church first
and foremost because we serve one another.
Then we can utilize that gift tool to show the world that
there's a way better. There's something more And you
could have the benefit of all gifts once you get in.
Because not only do you get the gifts of humans, the body of
Christ, then you get gifts from the Holy Ghost and he has some
gifts. He brings those are some
powerful gifts. Are you hearing me?
And the Bible says, we should earnestly desire, those?
Well, Lord, I don't want you to do nothing for me.
He said, really, I want you to earnestly desire spiritual
gifts, which means you should be saying, I want this Lord.
Well, I'm just not selfish, you're not being selfish.
When you say, holy spirit, I want your gifts to manifest in
my life and through my life because those gifts are for
someone else. Okay, amen.
So, when we distribute gifts, it increases our influence
opportunities because your gift makes room for you.
They are people and I've been using this recently in Anchor
Faith Church. Are you here for vision or
position? because if you're here for a
position, you're probably not going to stay because once you
get moved out of the position, Because what if the vision got
so big that we needed to put you in a different position for the
sake of the vision? It's like taking a starting
pitcher and saying tonight, I'm gonna have you do relief.
Well, I'm a starter. Well, so and so starting tonight
is game seven in the series. You played two nights ago, this
their start, but instead of me just going to the bullpen.
I want a starter as a closer, so we can win this game tonight.
Oh no, I'm a starter. I'm not a closer.
Why are you here for the vision? Are you here for position?
Because if you here for vision your life put me in coach, I'm
ready to play. And I don't care where whatever,
I just want to get off this field with a win.
I want to be a champion, and I don't care who has the walk-off
home run. It's my turn off the bat.
Yeah, but we're going to put the da chin.
What? Well, statistically understand
when the bases are loading, you get up, you strike out
statistically. We're going go with RDH.
But it's my turn to bat or y'all hear what I'm saying?
That's the position person not a vision person, Because the
vision persons like you need to do.
What's best for the for the team for the vision?
Are you hearing me? So again, a gift makes room for
you, but it also can make room for you somewhere else that
you're not currently occupying or someone else's gift could
come in and it's necessary at this season and you need to take
a different seat. But it doesn't mean you're still
not using your gift. Oh, y'all want to hear at the
end of the day. It's like this, you give me a
car, right? You give me a car off?
This is awesome, right? And it's a used car, okay.
It's about twelve thousand dollars.
No looks clean. Nice got about, you know, 75,000
miles on it. You know, let's give a little
bit more. 90,000 miles, good tires.
Also. And I'm using that thing, this
is great. Well, then all of a sudden,
someone gives me a brand new car.
What? It doesn't devalue?
The other car. It just means I might be driving
this new one. Cross-country and saving this
one. Yeah.
Or at the end of the day, they're both new.
But one is an electric Prius. If you drive a Prius, do the
speed limit, please. I don't know what Liz, but seems
like Prius drivers. Don't do the speed limit.
Whoever got behind a Prius. I mean this could just be my own
personal phenomenon but I'm like why is it seemed like people
driving Priuses? Don't do the speed limit, I
called my daughter because her husband I have a Prius.
I said, tell me you do the speed limit Because I am right on A1A,
right now, I am behind a Prius. I can't get around them and I
don't know why they can't go 55. Well, now dad, she told me.
Damn. So for you for your battery, you
know, for you to like have the best energy capacity, it had
like keep you in this thing called green and they could just
be driving in the green. So what I need to get out of the
green and get up to the speed limit.
Just don't worry, dad, I drive the speed limit.
Okay. Because the Priuses are not
driving the speed limit, they're staying in the green to make
their battery life. He fishing apparently,
Hallelujah. So I have a Prius now.
Not really, but you understand and you know it's got great gas
mileage. But you know, then I have this
Corvette. Okay, well I need to get
somewhere fast. What am I taking?
Can somebody tell me what I'm taking you bet.
It's not the Prius. Now, it doesn't devalue the
Prius cuz the Prius has the gift of longevity.
Good, gas mileage. But in this case, I'm not
driving you. And it's time for me to be in
the Corvette. Are you hear what I'm saying?
So, you got to understand, God will bring gifts to this body,
okay? And all of a sudden, you can't
say, well, I'm the Prius thank you that you are because when we
need a lot of mileage, you are the person we are coming and
thank God for you because the Corvette leaves us on the side
of the road in that context. Are you hearing me?
But at the end of the day, let's just let our gifts come out.
Look what it says in Philippians 2:12 to 18.
So then my beloved just as you have always obeyed, not a not as
in my presence only but now much more in my absence work out your
salvation with fear and trembling now that doesn't mean
you work salvation, this is not of your works but it does mean
now that you're saved you are to work by obeying God's word,
there's a few things you're working out.
The first thing you're working out is your mind because your
mind is saved through. Renewing, it your mom, Mind does
not get saved the day you're born.
Again, you save it because you commit yourself to the study of
the word and the Holy Ghost In. You begins to renew your mind.
So that you begin to think like a child of God royalty, the
child of a king and and make decisions based upon this new
reality of who you are. All right?
So you've got to work those things out with fear and
trembling for, it is God, who is at work in you both to Will and
to I work in his good pleasure. So guess why God's in you to
work? Well I have Grace to work.
To work. Okay?
To do the Kingdom Business is to do all things without grumbling
are disputing. So that you will prove yourself
to be blameless and innocent children of God, above reproach
in a, in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation among
whom you appear as lights in the world.
You're a gift holding fast the word of life, so that in the day
of Christ, I will have reason to Glory, because I did not run in
vain nor toil in vain. But even if I'm being poured out
as a drink, Kaufering upon the sacrifice and service of your
faith. I rejoice and share my joy with
you, all you to, I urge rejoice in the same way and share your
joy with me and Essence. Paul saying I gave you me as a
gift and the gift that God put in me, he made me an apostle.
I came to you and by the Revelation that God had given
me. And when I preach, it changed
your life because I came industry employed.
My gift in your company, you came into the kingdom.
Now, I continue to Deploy my gift, wherever God calls me.
And I even write back to you to see how you're doing.
Because at the end of the day, I don't want to have given have
given my gift and Alice, a vein gift.
Has them. No value, but I'm hearing that
you're doing the same thing, you're giving your gift as well,
right? So, we're all supposed to be
this constant exchange of the gift.
We are to manifest in our lives towards one another, where it
basically puts us in a position where were always able to walk
enjoy because you have something I need at a time that I needed
and vice versa, okay, we can call on it.
Now let's just do a couple now. Natural things so we can give
some spiritual principles. Okay?
God is not looking for you to be a pretty rat gift on display
under his tree. Now, you know, the tree I'm
talking about the cross, he's not looking for you to come to
the cross. be born again because of his death burial resurrection
and you just lay there Now let's try it.
I'll give you a challenge. Parents wrap, the gifts, put
them under your Christmas tree. And When Christmas Comes says
no, no, I know, has your name on it but they're staying under the
tree. And in New Year's Eve comes
around. Can we open them know?
They're yours but they're going to stay on the tree, aren't
they? Pretty look how beautiful that
is. Is that my it is yours.
Can I open it? No is staying under the tree.
Oh, you don't want it. Okay, you know how many
Believers are just hugging a cross?
Okay, to me, give me another one.
A wrapped gift is is a wrapped gift.
That is never unwrapped. Is worse than no gift at all.
I had to rewrite that because I'm my initial was a wrap gift.
Never unwrapped is the same as no gift, and then I realized
that's not true, it's worse. You know why?
It's worse? Because there's really something
in here of some value of use and I can't use it.
So the potential of use is in my presence, but because it's
wrapped and I don't have it out, I can't even use it.
Where if I have no gift at all, then I have no hope.
So can you imagine the church and the world?
But let me go back to the church because the gift was for the
church. First can imagine your church
that the church says, hey, here's our vision and this is
what we need and you are sitting under the tree and we're like
asking and saying, hey God, and all of a sudden, you know, on
the inside of you, you're the gift that you're unwilling to be
unwrapped. Well, I'm busy.
I'll carry my gift around. Look how pretty I am.
Then you go to work and the loss.
I mean, people out there that need Jesus and they come in sick
and found out, you know, they got something that's
life-threatening and they didn't have no hope about it.
And there's, and then on the inside of you, you know, you can
lay hands on the sick and they shall recover, but you're not
gonna do it God for a bit, you unwrap the gift, and use the
name of Jesus. Hallelujah.
Amen. But when you know, you're a
gift, the gift like I got to get out of this box.
Right. I mean you know the anticipation
for you on you know as a child and maybe you as an adult at
this point, you know you're like man you know, my wife knows I
want this, you know who that box looks kind of like the size, you
know, you know, you're all excited.
Like look look at that laughs. That's probably what I was
asking for now, you don't know, but yours, you know.
And as a kid you know what you do.
Why are you doing that? Cuz you won't want song thee?
Okay. A wrap gift is now a wrap gift.
That's never used is will never be.
Excuse me, a wrap gift is never used for its intended purpose
because if I don't know what sin, how can I use it properly?
Which means then now this gift runs the risk of abuse.
Because I may use this as a doorstop.
Are something else because I've not actually released what's on
the inside. So let me go ahead and help the
people who use this term Church hurt.
First of all, there's no such thing as Church hurt.
Because the Church of Jesus Christ can't hurt you.
People can hurt each other. It's just like guns, don't kill
people. People kill people using a
weapon. I've never seen a gun go off,
get up by myself and go off by itself.
Run down the street by itself. Are you hearing me?
Well, it went off. Accidentally.
No. It went off because you were
touching it. The chances and I understand
there's a chance based upon atmosphere and temperatures and
stuff a loaded weapon. Could scenario happen that a
round goes off and something that sure.
But you understand the percentage of that it is like
very rare. Extremely rare.
I mean, we're not we're not trying to Deal with weapons
based upon that statistic. My point is that, unless the
gift comes out. Then the chance of abuse.
So again, people are saying their Church hurt the majority.
Won't let their gift come out. And abuses are inevitable now
because you're getting tossed around because nobody knows what
you are. So you go to ministers, like,
well, how can we and you won't let you gift out.
So the next thing you know, to pastors trying to use you based
upon what he can see. Oh, you don't want to hear this.
Well, okay, I'm gonna, you know, let me try to.
I'll try to, you know, put you here, you know, can you hold
this up on me, but you're not designed to hold this up.
Because if he knew what was on the inside, that you won't let
on the outside, then they never would have put that kind of
weight on you. Oh, yeah.
Because if you want to see on pretty box and let me I can hold
that up. You know what you are on the
inside? And you trying to be some other
gift. That's watching another gift in
operation like who I want to be that gift but you know you're
not a gift. But if I stay in the Box they
won't know that. I'm not that gift then when they
try to put you in the use of that other gift because you're
saying you're that gift. But you still wrapped up then
abuse comes. And so the hurt that comes is
not because the church is because you hurt yourself by not
being honest, Alleluia, probably good.
We're not recording video tonight, but it will be on
podcast. Amen.
I mean, I hear these terminologies all the time,
creeping in creeping in people's heads.
And if you actually stay with scripture, then you'll you'll
get rid of that kind of stupidity stupidity.
The devil will give you religious terminology, it's like
a pastor telling me, they're burn out your burn out, how can
the light of God burn out. So if there's burnout you did
not take personal responsibility to keep the light lit.
Amen. Why are you overwork your not
overworked. You're under feeding the word.
You're under fueled. Let's put it that way.
You're not staying in the word and staying full of the spirit
because the Holy Ghost. Number one won't make you get
saved, you have to yield, nor will the Holy Spirit, make you
receive his power. You have to yield.
Neither will God. I'd make you renew your mind,
you have to yield. So when they're burnout I'm just
it's because they are not yielding to us necessary.
Listen, I know when my tank starts to get super empty, I'll
be like, I've got to go, my wife and I were talking about a
particular situation that I'm dealing with right now.
And I looked at her tonight and I said, but I talk about this, I
cannot, I have to preach this, this would cause this too much
emotion to try to show. Oh up and I'm not going to deal
with that. I know where this conversation
will take me. And I'm not going to do the eye.
I'm keeping it under. I'm going to keep it under.
I've refused to walk in the flesh about it. but if I keep
loughing the conversation and I'm feeling the emotion, Now, I
do this in another way, that's not, you know, a trial and
that's Florida football. So I start watching the game and
I'm getting a little too emotionally attached.
I'll just turn it off and walk out the room.
I'm not going to let them have my emotions.
I'm not gonna get all upset over that.
I mean, I can't even control this anyway.
So my fandom means nothing. Why am I getting my stuff?
So, worked up over something that even know I exist.
They didn't die for me, don't care for me.
It's just a personal. I like the Gators.
Okay, big deal, baby know, who I am.
So why am I yelling at the TV? While I'm upset that they're not
performing, why am I mad that they lost a Florida State?
Whatever. Turn it off.
You don't have my heart. You're not going to have my
emotions, but I'm feeling it's like You Don't Own Me.
I'll turn you off, right? We all know this.
So again, well, they work me too.
Hard. Did they?
Or did you just not stay fueled up enough?
I mean, if you're a go-kart run with go-karts, but if your top
fuel, Come get on the track, right?
Yeah, I mean what do we do? You want me to say?
I mean, we got things to do places to go but when you allow
your gift to manifest, so let's go on to the next one.
Ready? The gift is what's on the
inside. Not how its wrapped up, why are
they wrapped any way to bring appeal to want to know what's on
the inside? But many of us have gotten duped
into value in the outside. But that's not how God looks.
God damn. Look at the outward appearance.
He looks at the heart and the Heart Will manifest through an
outward appearance. Now, I'm not saying you
shouldn't take care of your house, I'm not saying that in a
natural sense. What I'm saying is is that you
can't come in and sing? Hallelujah, but have depression,
you know, praise the Lord but yet you're complaining about
everything, you're selling your wrapped up like you're all
Christian and you got it all together and everything's going
to praise the Lord. All he's so good and you're so
smile. But your beat the Death when you
walk off the parking lot. and instead of having humility, And
saying man, I'm in a bad spot. Because when you say that and
come to an altar or get what someone that you can say, man
I'm in a tough spot. God has this way of
supernaturally bringing gifts by you.
I hear testimonies all the time from you do and other people
were supernaturally. Engaging guys.
It's amazing, you know, you know how many people you're
encountering on a day-to-day basis and they don't realize you
are the gift they need and you're already giving them
answers. Well, you ought to come to
church. Well, they don't, that is such a
big deal. Such a big deal being here.
Will it solve all of your problems immediately?
No. No.
But will it solve all your problems?
Yes, because the minute you get with the Lord, if the God be for
you, who can be against you? And you get him in the ring with
you. My gosh, man but then you've got
to be transparent enough because here's the thing ready in order
In order for your gift to be used for its intended purpose,
you're going to have to have some layers removed.
If you want to know what's in here, we got to take some stuff
off. Do you want to know what's in
here? We're going to take some stuff
off. Bob, where's Bob Bob Bob, would
you stand up in the back bomb? I love Bob's wife because Bob's
wife, she is a doer. Miss Linda is doer of the word
now, what do I mean by that? Not only she does the word but
she does think she hears. She heard one time that I love
presents wrapped. I'm not the put it in a bag and
due to tissue paper that I should blow my nose on because
you're too lazy to actually wrap a present.
That's personal opinion, so please don't be offended.
So, Miss Linda. When she gets me gifts.
They show up in boxes, like this.
And so, I open up a box, unwrap it.
And then I opened the box and guess what?
A wrapped boxes in the Box. It's a gift and a gift surprise.
So I pull it out. I get to unwrap it because I'm
so excited. What's in the box?
Another wrapped gift. It's like the gift that keeps on
giving and it gives me this like I just want to find it to find
it now, you know, it's like whoo, I just get so goddamn rat
on and and what she's done sometimes.
She's late gifts within you, unwrap, and it, there's one
there but then there's more More.
So I get one of the gifts but then I keep going all.
Here's another one but there's another one.
So the box is big enough to hold a gift.
I can see but then have another one.
I can't see. And I have to unwrap Oh, this is
great. It teaches me that if I just
keep tearing layers off and keep going deeper, I can get into
some great treasure. Oh, are you hearing me, man?
I'm preaching a such a way so on Christmas morning.
I hope the Holy Ghost says, where's your gift at?
Every time you see a present. Now, the Holy Ghost says, you
know, your gift. You need to unwrap a few things
today. When we get one of those sermons
where I'm saying, hey, the Lord says you're like, oh, that's
touching me up. Oh, that's tight.
The Lord's gonna say. Can I unwrap that?
I want to unwrap down and go a little bit deeper.
I want to get too close. You understand?
Some of the most precious gifts are the smallest gifts, some of
those valuable ones. Are you hear me?
Like diamonds. They're not big.
You put them in little bitty packages.
Right. Which means you can hide a
diamond in a lot of big boxes that all of a sudden there was a
dominant there the whole time the problem is some of you allow
us to unwrap a couple layers. Hold on time at some please.
Stop. Stop.
Stop, man. We ain't even got to the good
stuff yet. We never got to the good stuff
yet, and God is so great. He's like, let me unwrap this
man. I look at this and everybody's
like, whoa, you're like, whoa! And it was like, wow, you're so
awesome. Like thank you, ma'am, free, I'm
out of the box. You're a gift.
Thank God you let God peel that off.
You look how awesome you are. And then the next season guy
comes around says, hey, there's another gift in you that you
didn't know. Let me unwrap that this would be
your whole life. Hey men, just go ahead and
smile. Anyway.
All right, so understand this repentance unwraps, the gift
Repentance is was unwrapping, the gift. because man, when you
change your thinking, You'll Release Yourself.
It's amazing how much the fruits of the spirit.
Okay, are given by the Holy Ghost, they come by him, we call
them fruits, but it by All rights, they are a form of a
gift, you know, I understand him saying there are the gifts of
the Spirit. I do not want to confuse it with
the gifts of the Spirit, but again, a fruit comes because
you're allowing the word to bear and produce in your life.
Okay, that you couldn't have done it without the spirit
because it comes from the spirit.
It's amazing how much patients can manifest with me in some
crazy moments. But it's because I allow God to
unwrap. The frustration.
Patience is in me frustrations, wrapping paper.
And he'll unwrap frustration, so that patients can manifest.
He'll unwrap anger so self-control can manifest.
He'll unwrap depression, so that Joy can show up and how do I
know he's doing it? Because he'll come up.
He'll say no. There's a gift in you.
What do you mean? There's joy.
Well, I feel pretty bad. Let me unwrap that.
Just Shield to me. I'll unwrap that right now.
Let me unwrap it. But if you don't let him unwrap,
then guess, what does it come out?
Your joy can't come out, and it's not God's problem because
your top again, whatever's in here is in here, the whole time.
Been here all night. It's not changing.
There's gonna be no magic sleight of hands.
Whatever this gift is is still this gift until somebody unwraps
it tonight. It was always this gift, it will
always be this gift, it will never not be this gift.
Even if I got my other wrapping paper and put more layers on it.
What it is is what it is. What was created in this, that
box here is what it is and the only way we gonna Discover it is
to unwrap it. The only ever going to be able
to participate with it and use it and employee.
It is to get it out. Right?
So you need to understand this, The Giver has hand-picked the
gift to meet the needs or wants of the recipient.
So, you understand what the reason why God put you in front
of people's? Because he cares that much about
the person You are actually an expression that tells people God
cares about them. God cares about you.
I mean, has anyone have you ever had anyone say, man, you're like
a gift from God. Even the world are other
believers recognize when you showed up and You released and
unwrapped your gift in their life, they even acknowledge and
your gift from God. Now, some of them, get it wrong,
to say, you're an angel, not an angel, never be an angel.
Never will ever be an angel, not going to be an angel.
That's a totally separate created being I'll always be a
child of God. Hallelujah.
Amen. So now the gifts are given
because the giver loves the one. They're gifting, God loves the
world that he gave his son, his son died on the cross Rose from
the grave, then we become like his son, we become in Christ and
then God gave the world us. So that then we can give him.
Because he loves them. So, you got to understand.
God's trying to demonstrate his love to the world, and to
Believers because he commanded us as Believers to love one
another. He's trying to demonstrate that
through you. This is why I understand why
gift stay home. What Good's a gift if it never
shows up to the party? I'ma gift big deal.
You're not at the party. You're not at the party and you
were invited every party. Every celebration you've been
invited. Please come to the party.
Okay, so when you receive a gift that means someone is thinking
of you, it affirms that someone cares about you.
Now let me leave this little thought process again because
you know it comes when it comes around gift time.
If money were not an issue, Money were not an issue.
Would you not always give a gift?
If money was never an issue because you understand God, it's
not an issue. It's never an issue with God.
If then, if money were never issue and you admit that I would
always give a gift. Then the statement is the
thought that counts is a statement of the poor.
It's a statement of someone who don't know who they are.
I'm glad the father didn't say, well, I was going to send you my
son. Let me tell you what was going
to happen. I was going to sending the form
of the flesh. Like a man.
Like the first Adam, he beat his second atom or the last Adam,
and he would live sinless so much so that he could get your
pardon, he would take care of all your debt.
It just would cost him his life and he's willing to do that
willing to do it. He would then take his blood.
Bring it to The Mercy Seat, I would open up the door so that
all of you could come into the household.
I have it. No problem.
I can do it. I raise him up on the third day
and we'll in, you can all come in the house now.
I'm not going to do it but hey, it is the thought that counts,
right? And we all go to hell because
God just thought about it. Well, I thought about going to
church. You know, I thought about
talking to them today. I thought about paying for that.
Well, you know it's the thought that counts.
Know, your gift. You are a gift.
I got your gift. You don't even know how value
you are. I mean, really majority of
Believers have no idea of how he the immense treasure.
They are If you could only see yourself like crises, you, you'd
never have a down day. You never would, you would never
have a down day. It'd be light when it tried to
show up. You like, we know how to unwrap
this because on the inside is worth.
Because you made me worthy. Come on.
Are you hearing what I'm saying? I don't have time to get down on
myself and beat myself up. I am a gift from God.
Rob, because God made me a gift. He employed me as a special
gift. He's the one who put this on
there, he before I even showed up my mom's womb.
Had a purpose Destiny for my life.
He called me a gift and he said I'm gonna unwrap you for the
world. Now, here's the thing about a
gift. All right.
Need lady. Thank you.
Come on. Thank you.
It's fine. So my be bold.
All right. Now here's the thing about a
gift. I have a gift refuse it though.
Okay swear. Hey, I want to give this to you.
Listen, I want to give this gift to you know, you really need
this. Seriously, take the gift.
Yeah, supposed to stay in character.
Lady. What's wrong with you?
I'll give it to you. Hold on.
Got an example, Jesus would never take it back.
She got out of character. All right, listen, most
Believers, most Believers. We know the world's already in a
bad spot, but most Believers won't receive the gift even
though God's trying to give it. Oh no, I don't need it.
I don't deserve that. At.
Oh, you shouldn't have Michelle's.
We said that night now. You shouldn't have gotten.
What is that? Basically, you're saying I don't
value that. You think about me?
That's good. That's called it's called Pride.
Really, why did you burn yourself and get me a gift?
I don't care if it was a burden to them, you understand.
They're releasing a gift by giving and they're sewing and
they're bringing creamed impressed.
I mean we let I man so glad you thought about me, my God, I am.
Wow, you are. Wow, that's awesome.
You are such a blessing to my life, right, let's just go ahead
and lavish their gift that they gave us a gift instead of having
this false humility. All, you know, you should.
I can't I can't. Oh yeah, you can.
And you do with other. Sometimes we don't want gifts
when the ones giving us the gift look less than us.
Because we think they need it more than us.
I'll never forget the lesson. The lord gave me when I went and
preached in Nicaragua went to a church 10 Walton I'm talking
just laid up, 10 corrugated metal, Lay it on, you know, some
little Shanty would dirt floor. Had a concrete slab for the
platform plastic, chairs on the dirt floor and I preached I
preached, and I preached in many churches in Nicaragua.
Okay. It was in the it was in the
earthquake area downtown around the capital actually but it was
a slum city. So to speak, it was like a
pop-up City or, you know, residents so he's there.
I've been in nicer churches. This guy gives me an offering.
After I preached. Gave me the offering.
Now, it wasn't a whole lot and Cordova's.
But I'm like man I'm not taking this, I mean I'm on dirt floors
right now. I am not.
I am giving this back to this pasture and I'll never forget
the Lord says are you? He says if you give it back to
him it does nothing for him because it can't do nothing for
him now. But if you get it in your hands,
I can multiply that seated does more.
If you'll take that thing, then you give it back and thinking
bad about him or feeling bad for him because he got dirt floors.
I'll get rid of his dirt floors. You can take the dog on gift.
I said I got it. And I thanked him for,
appreciate it. It's all the real value in the
gift and quit, living by sight. Because you know what, it was a
sacrifice but that sacrifice brought great dividends.
Now I'm not seeing that I've not gone back to that place.
I'm not seen anything dick but I know my I know the word of God.
It has to happen that way. So somebody comes you're
thinking Hub, you know, I have so much and you're giving me, I
can't, but you better take it smile and thank them and lavish
them. And say my gosh is awesome.
So you can take it now. Okay, hold on, just stay right
here. Now what good is?
This gift? If she never unwraps it, And
I've given it to her. It's hers.
Now, it's hers. She's going to keep this gift.
I am not taking this thing to the house, right?
Cuz once got this irrevocable, are you hear me?
All right. I need a guy.
Come on somebody. Look at y'all.
Listen. Y'all got to learn how to
receive gifts. That's your problem.
I mean, that the church has gotten religious I mean if Jesus
said I Gotta Give well I just I'll be humble.
I mean I'm like running down there, come on Jihad, take the
gift whatever. I mean it's a get boom run out
of said I got a hundred million dollars right here.
All y'all been beating each other to death and get down
here. Right.
So once again, we move based upon site, Because you don't
know, this could be a three bars of gold.
It's not But you don't know what's in it, right?
Not only get your hopes up lies going to be some that's not it's
just token, but it's fun. Okay.
My point is, is most of the time because, again, the whole thing
about gifts is you're still having to live by faith because
you really don't know what's in. But even if you know, what's in
it, you still have to unwrap it to use it.
You hear what I'm saying? So Paul blast scripture says
this and I'll let y'all unwrap them.
Second, Timothy chapter 4 verse 6.
And 8 he says this and this should all be our lives guys.
He said for I am already being poured out as a drink offering.
What's he saying? I am unwrapped man.
I have unwrap my whole life. In this planet, his last letter
to Timothy. This is just before Paul get
some martyred and he's going on to be a little.
He knows his time is going. He says this and the time of my
departure has come. Look what.
He says. He said I fought the good fight.
Fight. I have finished the course.
I have let God unwrap every bit of my life.
So at the end of the day, every gift that was in me.
I'd love to have your Earth and he left it in the Earth because
we're reading his gift still. Today, we're still unwrapping,
Paul's presents. That when the Holy Ghost moved
on him to pin these letters to the churches over half of the
New Testament. We're reading them now.
Thank God Paul release his gift in the earth.
So that we 2,000 years later, our unwrapping spiritual truths
from one man's writings. That when they be left him for
dead shipwreck, all the tragedies of his life.
He said I count my life as nothing.
I gotta leave it out here, man. I gotta release this gift.
God forbid, I don't do this thing.
I can't be offended. Now, can't take him in a fist
for my own countrymen, who don't want nothing to do.
I can't get offended by this stuff.
I can't live bitter. I got to unwrap that junk in
just Walking love live this life.
Here he is saying, man, I fought it.
I've come to the end. I finished my course, I have
kept the faith. And in the future, there is laid
up for me, the crown of righteousness, which the Lord,
the righteous judge will award me on that day.
And not only me but also to all, to all, to all who loved his
appearing. How do I know?
Do you love his appearing because you can't help but give
your gift away constantly. I am who I am, because God made
me who I am. And who am I to keep that for
myself? It was for the world.
It was for the church, it was for the world, it's for anyone.
I came in contact with, I'm not going to keep this thing wrapped
up. I am Stoli gonna release this
thing. And can it happen in?
Modern-day sure, many people on the planet.
Right now are still unwrapping. The gift of Kenneth E Hagin.
And all the books, he wrote, he went on to be with the Lord in
2003 still to this day. People are unwrapping.
That gift, Billy Graham. Unwrapping that gift.
Smith Wigglesworth. Unwrapping that gift.
But we could talk about not fivefold, ministers.
There are people in the planet that are just were godly people
in business and education. There is, people are still
unwrapping their gifts today, even though they've left plant.
Why, cause they left their lives poured out.
They let the world unwrapped them so they could be seen for
who they were what they were always destined to be.
Go ahead and unwrap your gifts. Because I don't you want to know
right at the end the day. Don't you want to know?
Okay, this is good. I'm the messy on rapper, I like
this one here. This one.
See the neat, you know, she's trying to Value the wrapper
which are saying about the rapper.
People it's about what's on the inside.
Yeah, so she's got some little travel stuff.
This one here though. As the tennis ball gun, right?
I'll look see guys and that right?
You'll enjoy that cup. I know you will and probably
some of that other stuff too. All right.
Love you guys, right? Thank you, Jesus.
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