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this message. Alright well let's get right
into it. To turn over to James chapter 3
you know I heard a minister by the name of dr.
Myles Munroe and he's gone on to be with the Lord, but he made
this statement. Said, it's not enough that you
know, that you were born. It's not enough.
You need to know why. But no one why you were born
isn't enough either. You didn't know why you do what
you do because you can know why you're born and still blow it
because why you're doing why you were born?
Has great implications. Why you do?
Why you were born? Do you understand what I'm
saying? It will become very clear.
So in James chapter 3, James says this and he's talking to
the church now. He says he says, but if you have
bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, do not
be arrogant. So lie against the truth.
This wisdom is not that which comes down from above but is
Earthly natural demonic verse 16 for jealousy.
And here it is. Selfish ambition exist.
There is disorder and every evil thing.
So the ambition that we have will determine our quality of
life. Whether we are receiving from a
natural Earthly or demonic realm, or whether we're
receiving from God. Are you hearing me?
So here James is talking to the church.
He not talking to the lost to those outside of God's kingdom.
He's talking to those inside his kingdom.
He says, now, why you do what you do is very important because
if you have selfish ambition, see jealousy, only can manifest
if selfish ambition is there Are you hearing me when there's a
selfish ambition? I'm doing this because of me.
How does it help me? How does it benefit me?
What about me? Well, at that point.
It will put you in a place where you'll begin to lie against the
truth. You lie against the truth and
then the wisdom that you begin to demonstrate the, the plans
that start coming to your mod of how to accomplish something.
Will not come from heaven, but it had come from another Realm.
I said another realm, then it means anything.
You actually accomplished actually has around it disorder
and every evil thing, every evil thing.
You say Pastor, are we talking about this?
Why? Because the Bible tells us in
the last of the last days, many will be deceived.
Many will be deceived. Now we would think you know
because again when you just gloss over the Bible you think.
Well that's that's those that are outside of God kingdom.
It's obvious, they're going to be deceived.
Well, they're already deceived, they're not going to be they are
the veils already over their eyes.
Their father is the father of lie.
So this ain't about, they're going to be deceived.
So when the when the the scripture tells when Paul's
admonishing in the last days there will be many who will go
into deception. That will be He's not talking
about those that are already in deception.
He's talking about those who have the capacity to not be
deceived, but what would cause a person to be deceived?
Well, as long as you have some kind of selfish ambition about
yourself, you will be deceived. Not you might You will as long
as something within you has this.
What about me when you going to recognize me?
When they going to talk about me?
Where am I gonna get my, what about me?
Don't they appreciate that individual will be deceived
period. How do we know this?
Well, all we have to do is Trace where the first layer of
deception, man. Tested.
And it's recorded in Isaiah. Chapter 14 and Isaiah chapter.
14. God had created a perfect
creation and he had Angels assigned to help him do things
in his creation. He had one particular, one is
called the Morning Star, the King James calls him, Lucifer,
he was anointed cherub, but yet he developed a selfish ambition,
Within him because Ezekiel Khan explains how he got lifted up in
Pride. He saw his own Beauty and fat
Ezekiel, even talks about how he spent time in the garden.
And the time in the garden, was it the time that he showed up
with Eve, okay, at the end of the day, he decided that he had
an ambition that lied against the truth.
And it's recorded here in Isaiah, 14 verses 12 to 16.
He says, all he said, how you have fallen from Heaven, All
Star of the morning. Son of the Dawn.
You have been cut down to the Earth.
You have weakened the nation's but you said in your heart, I
will Ascend to Heaven. I will raise my throne above the
stars of God. I will sit on the Mount of the
assembly in the recesses of the north ah, will Ascend above the
heights of the clouds ah will make myself like The most high
selfish ambition. But it God says nevertheless,
you will be thrust down the shield to the recesses of the
pit, those who see you will gaze at you.
They will ponder over you saying is this not is this the man who
made the Earth tremble? Who shook kingdoms?
I love what Pastor John George said to our men this weekend.
He says it's not like the devil is, is choosing in the context
of well, you know, No, maybe today I'll be good.
He chooses and he desires to be the opposite of God.
And there's no Redemption for him.
We should never feel sorry for the devil ever, because he
chooses to be rebellious from the things of God.
Why? Because he looked to himself and
says, I can do it better than God.
I want my name better. I want mine and let me why we
saying this this morning because we live in a society full of
selfish ambition. Selfish ambition, what man
people want to be known. Yeah.
I mean that's why there's so many YouTube videos and so many
YouTube influencers. Everybody wants to be known,
they are jockeying for position and they don't realize that that
particular attitude subjects. Them to deception.
Are you hearing what I'm saying? And so here, this anointed
cherub the Bible says in Ezekiel he fell because he had a selfish
ambition that you know what? But I'm gonna take over the seat
of God, I want to place, I was never created to be in.
Are you hearing me? Well, did this happen in the
book of Beginnings? If we go back to the Garden, we
can see in Genesis 3:1. That now this anointed cherub
that has been thrown down influences a serpent and shows
up in the guard. Look what it says.
Now, the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field,
which the Lord God had made, and he said to the woman, indeed has
God said, You shall not eat from any tree of the garden now.
Why does he want to know what God said?
Because he wants to lie against the truth.
Because when you have selfish ambition, you will lie against
the truth. Jesus said, I am the way, the so
he needs to know God's word in order for Allah to manifest and
the woman said to the serpent from the fruit of the Trees of
the garden. We may eat of the fruit of the
tree which is in the middle of the garden.
That is the tree of knowledge of Good and Evil.
God said You shall not eat from it or touch or you'll die in The
Serpent says to her, you surely will not die.
Die for God knows that in the day.
You eat it, you from it. Your eyes will be open.
And you'll be like, God knowing good and evil.
He's trying to create in her a selfish ambition, to be able to
now, Noah truth but then get arrogant for the Bible tells us
that this anointed cherub got lifted up in his pride.
He became arrogant because of selfish ambition.
And then in turn began to reason that God's word is not going to
be the final in my life. That there's something Beyond
it. There exists a power beyond it,
in fact, I'll no longer be subject to it all.
But Jesus testify to that day that he decided he would make a,
he would storm the Throne of Heaven.
Jesus said, I saw Satan fall like, lightning from Heaven.
Are you hearing me because his Amounted to nothing but a swift
kick out and there's coming a day that he's going to be thrown
into the Lake of Fire forever and be tormented, which is the
prison system of the kingdom. Are you hearing me?
But here we see that he asked her concerning these things and
when the woman saw that the tree was good for food and that was a
delight to the eyes and that the tree was desirable to make one
wise, but the woman was already why she was made in the image of
God. Notice she wanted to have a
wisdom beyond God, but James warns us.
If you start walking in a wisdom, that is against the
truth. It is Earthly natural and
demonic And disorder and every evil thing exists there and so
it says she took from its fruit eight and she gave also to her
husband with her. And what did he do?
He ain't Adam and Eve chose to have a selfish ambition that I
will rule this Earth without God.
I'll no longer be subject to him.
We know in Genesis 1, God's plan for man, according to Genesis
1:26. It said let us make man in our
image according to our likeness and let them rule, have dominion
over the fish of the sea, birds of the sky over all the cattle
over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth over all the
Earth. So man had Dominion on the
earth, he already had rulership but all of a sudden the selfish
ambition was is that I want to be able to rule without God, I
want to have the Say this is the problem with Satan he himself
was given rulership. He had a form of rulership in
his created position but a selfish ambition took over and
as a result of that evil manifests now God dealt with the
evil in his room, he kicked him out.
Adam should have dealt with the same evil in his realm and
kicked it out. But instead, he took the selfish
ambition. And because of that, the Bible
tells us in entered the world. Now unfortunately, we are
subject now to this father who was the father of lies because
all of us, have sinned and fallen short of the glory of
God. We are of the nature of man.
Now, the Fallen nature of man. And you know what we all want.
We want to be known. Before we ever came into the
kingdom, it was all about self-preservation.
It's all about me. What about me?
What about in our relationships? What about me in our jobs?
What about me? In our community.
What about me among our peers, but what about me?
Our family members, what about me, everything we did was all
about getting things so that it benefits our own interests are
business decisions. The people that we decided to
have relations. How will this help me out in the
end? Even when we go into - places
meaning were hurt and instead, we're like, what about me?
I want to release the I'm feeling pain, so we don't want
nobody to help us. So we'll go in our own Direction
and Medicaid ourselves, or drink alcohol, or do stuff that puts
us in a position to try to forget.
And then, what about me? What about my heartache?
What about what I went through? What about what I'm when am I
gonna get mine? Now it's Sounds like wow, we
should have compassion now. We do have compassion.
Why? Because we want people to come
out of selfish ambition. But we shouldn't be working.
Passion is not to feed their selfish ambition but to deliver
them from it. Come on.
Are you hearing what I'm saying? In fact Philippians 2:3 says it
this way do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit.
But with humility of Mind, regard one another, as more
important than yourselves. Now, why am I bringing this out?
Why? Because we are in a society
like, never before Of where we are pulling out personalities.
I lived and I'm 52 years old. So it wasn't that long ago, I
mean things have really progressed.
It wasn't so long ago that when you talked about a team, you
only talked about the name of the team.
That's all you talked about, you talked about, you know, whatever
that team name was. But now when it comes to teams
it, Tha he talked about the star and the team, their name and the
team's name. Well, wait a minute, they're
part of the team. Why are we talking only about
them? Why are we only talking about
what they're doing now today? We have gotten it to the sports
side. Were athletes.
Go into places only saying, How does this benefit?
Me. How does this benefit me?
How's this gonna make me look good?
I mean, right now, we have quarterbacks all through the
college realm that are jumping from school to school.
Why? Because what about it ain't
about a tea. It's about.
When am I gonna get my shot? They're not gonna give me one
here. When I this one, I loved about
Kyle Trask. When he played for the
University of Florida, the guy never played.
But never left. He could have gone to plenty of
schools but at the end of the day, and what's he doing today?
Not playing. He is playing NFL football
without playing. He's getting paid to back up the
greatest quarterback that's ever played the game at the end of
the day, but you think he's learning something.
See we have lost team, concept or Oneness in the sense that
we're all individuals, but coming together, we're one and
I'm while the we can celebrate each other's positions and each.
There's abilities of what we bring to the team.
The reality is we're a team. I mean at this point you can't
even talk about college football without knowing the quarterbacks
name. But what is the center's name?
You know, the center holds the ball more than the quarterback.
The center will touch the ball more than the quarterback.
Kyle, sometimes the quarterback will line up I'll as a receiver
or come up at the center will give it to a back you know,
could be a wildcat formation. He'll touch the ball more than
anybody but we have no idea what he is.
Let me ask you this question. How many NFL quarterbacks could
do what they do without that line?
But we don't call that the line are those names and the team.
You know, what happens in politics, it's happening in
music talking about, you know, used to be a band's name, but
then they start pulling out the lead singer and it's there.
And here's the thing it's crept into the church because now it's
not the church's worship is the church's worship.
Featuring Featuring got to have their name.
It's good to have their name now.
And it even happens with pastors.
This is now this is a personal conviction.
So by no means, if somebody's pastors name is out on a church,
am I saying they have selfish ambition?
I'm just saying. Jesus Christ is the head of the
church. I'm just Pastor in it.
I have God will establish my name, but at the end of the day,
it's not about my name. It's about his name.
Because if we would take John, the Baptist call to this thing
called the body of Christ. I must decrease.
He must increase, but have you noticed that everybody wants to
make a name for themselves? What about me?
What about my name? What about what I'm doing?
And if selfish ambition exists, every evil exists, and if
selfish ambition exists, you will deceive be deceived and lie
against the truth. Meaning, you will do things.
Contrary to the word of God. Thinking you're getting ahead.
Adam thought I'll get ahead. If I disobey and eat this fruit,
the anointed cherub the King James calls him, Lucifer, he
said, I'll get ahead, I can go higher, you can't go higher than
what God has made you to be and here's the crazy thing so many
people are so busy trying to make a name for themselves
instead of knowing god knows my name.
I mean how can you arrive more when Jesus knows your name?
When he sent his Spirit to call you out of Darkness into His
Marvelous Light, when he personally called you to come
out of that thing and it all of a sudden, now you're a child of
the king and you want somebody else to know you.
I mean, all I care about is does Jesus know who I am.
That's all that matters and all that matters is whatever I'm
doing. It makes you think of his name
thinking of his name who he is now.
Don't you think Jesus was a great example because the
Philippian let the Paul's letter to the Philippians Church tells
them to do nothing from selfishness which tells us in if
he's telling a church you could live a selfless life.
Then it must be obtainable. Hallelujah.
I said it must be obtainable. It must be obtainable.
Do you know how many musicians today started their musical
career in church? But then someone told them, I'll
make your name great. And now they sing stuff.
That doesn't glorify God and do you really think?
Just cause they put out a gospel album?
They're loving the Lord. No, cuz they know if I put out a
gospel album, the church is so gullible they'll buy it.
It's just another stream of income.
Oh my goodness. No, guys, looking for character.
And then here's the thing, God knows, our heart.
Today's message is a liberating message.
Why? Because, you can get free from
selfish ambition. Give free from it.
Give free from it, just be absolutely free.
I have no selfish ambition. All I want to do is the will of
God for my life go. See when you don't have a
selfish ambition than anything. Anyone else is doing?
You won't ever be jealous of it? I can't believe they're letting
Minister, they haven't asked me yet.
What? Oh, I'm preaching way better.
I mean, I'll deal with the household of God.
Why? Because many people have been
hurt by the church only because there have been believers.
Who did not eradicate their selfish ambition.
And they created an atmosphere of every evil thing.
I mean, I don't mom when the church honors and weights and
wants to serve the role of the pastor, but make no mistake
about it. You're gonna see me serve you.
Because at the end of the day, it's about us doing something
together. I want to be known as.
Oh, that's the pastor of anchor faith.
I want to be lost in a vision that when they see me they see
Vision more than they see my name.
Now, that doesn't mean you can't have a name, you won't be
established or name because God has no problem to establish
someone's name when he knows, they always point you back to
him and I'm not talking to fake stuff just because someone gets
an award On a stage for their acting.
And then they say, I just want to thank the Lord means they're
serving or you don't want to hear it.
Judas could not assimilate to be a true follower of Jesus.
Because he had a selfish ambition.
His ambition was that I'll get close to the Messiah, everybody
knows the messiah's coming, the Kings coming, the Kings coming,
the Kings coming, he's the king, they're saying he's the king.
Look at the miracles signs and wonders that are happening.
With this guy, the king, this must be him.
And I'm gonna get close because we, you know what he is going to
establish my name. He picked me. but when he
started to think this guy's not trying to get on the throne, I
don't know how this is going to start, he's denying himself all
the time. I mean, I've never walked around
someone so selfless in my life. I mean he's not making a demand
on the throne. And at this point, I'm here and
there's too many people against. I need a side with a different
party again. Oh, you don't want it.
So, uh, what can I do to sell this?
How can I profit from this relationship?
It's amazing. How many Believers come to me as
a pastor, if you would just do this.
And basically take pieces of the world, bring it into the church,
so we can be known. I'm no and how big that
influence is really relevant to me.
That's up to God. He's the one who calls the
increase. I refuse to do anything.
He's not giving me instruction to, but look what it says here
in 1st Corinthians. Just to let you know.
We're talking about Believers here.
First Corinthians chapter 13 starting in verse 1.
Actually, it says, if I speak with the tongues of men or of
angels, but do not have love. I have become a noisy, gong and
a clanging cymbal. Have you ever been in a church
where it just sounds like a bunch of noise?
And they're doing super natural or Supernatural things.
They're tapping in to Supernatural benefits of God but
the atmosphere See, this is what we don't understand is how our
ambition is an atmosphere carrier.
You can speak with the tongues of men or the tongues of angels,
meaning, you can be eloquent in your speech among men that
they're drawn and captivated by how you speak, or you can even
speak the language of God, but if your ambition is selfish,
then love is not there. I'm going to show you.
Why love's not there and that means you are just noise.
Although you can emotionally move people, let's go on.
He said, if you have the gift of Prophecy and know, all
Mysteries, and all knowledge and if I have all Faith so as to
remove mountains, that's a god kind of Faith, but do not have I
am how many people want to prophesy just so that you'll
know they prophesied so they use, hey Whoa man.
God use them. They're like, yeah God uses me.
God uses me. Sometimes when you come to me
and say, hey, I believe I got some from the lord.
Well, we gonna find out what she got because you may actually
have the gift of Prophecy from God.
That needs to be delivered. You may actually be tapping in
by faith, but your life is fixing to be exposed the men and
I credit God use you Oh, you don't want to hear that, okay?
Because then it will expose why? Or maybe your initial was I'm
here in God. But then all of a sudden, the
accolades of you hearing God starts showing up.
And it will expose your true ambition.
And unless you cut that off and say not, it's not about me, it's
not about me and I'm not talking false humility.
I'm talking, it is not about me. I've asked myself often if I do
nothing else, would it is it? Okay?
I mean, people want to be Isaiah or Elijah but they don't want to
be Obadiah. Obadiah one.
Chap couple chapter know, very little book.
I mean what is God? Only used you one time publicly.
Could you be okay with that? Because here's the problem.
If you're like I just I know God wants to you.
That's that's silliness. God wants to use everyone.
The fact you're even meditating. I know God wants to use me.
And if you're consumed with wind, will he?
And when am I going? You're going to have a harder
time because really you're tapping into a selfish ambition,
you're trying to be known. I said you're trying to be known
verse 3 and if I give all my possessions to feed the poor and
if I Surrender my body right that it may be burned.
It says this but do not have love.
What's it? Do you know how many people are
giving to organization? I tell you right now.
Coach Bo could testify to this to I guarantee you people are To
West oxton not because they care about the community.
It's because they want to be known that they gave to a
community, although they really are caring about it.
You know, there's a lot of wealthy people that will give to
causes not because they care about it, but because they care
about the tax return. But they stand in front of the
newspapers. They have the big checks out
there aren't there like posting everywhere.
Look what we did. Look how much we gave look how
we did this look. We want to get coverage so
everybody knows. Selfish ambition.
Are you hearing what I'm saying?
Let's go on but he goes on and says this.
Then starting to Define love, love is its patient lovers con.
It's not jealous. Which means in if jealousies
manifesting How come they get to sing?
That lead? How come Pastor?
Put them in that position. How come they got promoted at
work? You might as well go ahead and
MIT. You got a selfish ambition, you
need to crucify. You need to cut it off because
the devil wants to deceive you. Well, I would do better in that
position. They'll I mean, I love God, I'd
be a gretter influencer whether you're in a position.
Not doesn't stop you from influencing with God, josef's
greatest influence was when he was in prison.
Oh, you don't want to hear that. His greatest influence was when
he was thrown in prison because it was his encounter with other
inmates that ultimately got him an invitation, before the king,
it was not. His encounter with his parents,
it was not his encounter with the oh what was the name man?
The, the he was sold to as a slave.
Potiphar wasn't Potiphar's house.
Potiphar sure. Didn't say nothing about him far
as Potiphar's concern. I can't believe the Kings got a
rapist up there. There's no indication Potter
forever believe that Joseph did not rape his wife, or try to So
none of those relationships propelled him.
What propelled him was he was always knowing there's a word
from, you know, how many to Opportunities he let go.
And even when he stands before Pharaoh that day, no selfish
ambition. As you've heard me preach
before. He stands before the king, the
king tells him the dream, he knows the interpretation, and at
this point he could say, okay, the Lord has given me the
interpretation of the dream. I got it.
But this is what I like to do. I would like to secure my
release because I'm innocent, and you know what?
He was innocent and that this point, this is my opportunity,
God has given me. My opportunity to secure my
release. He did not negotiate the safety
of his own life selflessness. He had no guarantee the Pharaoh
Pharaoh wasn't saved, man. That's good.
All right. Now, you understand the charges
are attempted rape. You're a Hebrew, which means
they were prejudiced against them and that policy never
changed. Even when he was made Prince,
the Egyptians would not eat. With Joseph cuz they saw them as
low. Some he was the man in charge
unless the King was on the throne and he could not change
the policy of the land. Yet, he still served because it
was not about that. It was bigger and in a selfish
response, he gives him an answer and then crazy.
He, he tells him his dream but then he gives him the answer on
how to overcome Really. You know why?
A person can do that? Because they already know.
Well, God promotes me anyway. So you thought me back in
prison? I'm this.
He gonna have to come out that the end of day, I'm coming out,
I had a dream and he showed me what I would be and whether this
is that moment or not, I do not know.
All I know is when the moment comes it would be that God did
it. And I didn't manipulate, I will
give you an answer if well, we're manipulating I said we're
manipulating now, honey. I'll do that.
If okay, one manipulating. We start to manipulate while
selfish ambition Joseph didn't do it.
Love is patient. Love is kind is not jealous.
Love does not brag is not. Arrogant does not act
unbecomingly. It does not.
Seek its own. Now we're going to Camp right
there on that one spot. Love does not keep secrets on
here's the thing the Rick Renner interpretive version defines.
It does not seek its own this way.
Love is not ambitious. Self-centered are so consumed
with itself that it never thinks of the needs or desires that
others possess Now, why do I say that?
Because John the Gospel of John? Our first John tells us that God
is love, which means? Then God, if God is love and God
is the word in the beginning was the word, the word was with God,
the word that means the word is love and the word is Jesus,
which means Jesus is Love and love, doesn't seek its own.
It's always thinking about the needs of others first.
It's not about its ambition, it's about the reason why I'm
here. Jesus knew I was here, he was
sent by the father. So how did love, who doesn't
seek his own operate? The scripture tells us in John
Chapter 5 Verse 30. He says, I can do nothing on my
own initiative as I hear I judge and my judgment is just because
I, I do, not seek my own will, but the will of him who sent me.
I don't do it. I don't think Mom.
It's not that he couldn't he chose not to why.
Because love is not selfish. In many relationships.
People are saying I love you and that's a lie.
They really should say I'm lusting for you because I want
what I can get out of you. I want what, what you, how you
can meet my need and give me pleasure.
I'm talking about people who said, I do still, Even saying I
do. Lusting.
Now operating in love because when you go do something for me,
when you going to do something
for me, Well, the husband is the head of the house he is, which
means he should be the head servant.
The one who heads in servine because the greatest in the
kingdom of God, is the servant all that mean.
Your wife runs over you. That means you run to your wife
to serve her and you don't have to expect that you'll get
anything, although it will happen.
Hallelujah. Because they'll discover who
they are. My wife text me while we were
gone and she said thank you for all those years calling me a
woman of God. Wow she said that I was blown
away by it honest I was blown away, not that she's not done.
Give me a cue late. And I'm not saying it's just
that something happened in the meeting or there that she just
had a realization again, when she's fixing to minister to
women and know all the junk, these women have gone through
And she's having a talking about being bold and don't live in
your past. And somewhere along the line.
The Lord reflecting says, remember how I used to call you
before you thought you were amen.
But she always was, I said she always was and out of that.
It pulled greatness. Why?
Because she's not there for her. Now, she's there because she's
on assignment and she realizes, you know what?
There was a time. I didn't believe, and I know
there's women today based on what she's going to minister.
No, they won't believe what I'm going to say about them because
I've been there, but I know it's true and then out of Honor.
She thanked me of that moment. She thanked me of that moment.
I mean, she's been so good to
me. So get she better silver and
gold. It's amazing, it's amazing.
And how would I not want to serve?
I mean, I was running around doing all kind of stuff, because
I love my house and I want to get things done because I want
to do other things that just projects, right people call them
honeydews. They are my dues, I mean,
because it's my house too. I quit at like it's just hers.
I mean I don't want her to walk around thinking that I would
live in a dump. I wouldn't live in a dump.
Amen. I refuse to live in a dump,
Hallelujah. So we just go and I heard my mom
was walk around saying, man, she's gonna love that.
Oh, she's gonna be so excited. I'm like she's gonna be excited
and it's worth doing it and as much as we can get done before
and I was trying to figure out how I could accomplish more
again. Why cause it's my house.
I want to see it done but man, I know it takes pleasure in her so
I mean left lights on when she got there at like 1:30 1:45,
whatever was at am. Now I say I was up.
I Wait up. I mean when I say that I did
kind of doze off. I text her.
She didn't respond that. They were leaving the airport
yet. I set my little watch here for
30 minutes. I'll get a 30 minute, you know,
in to sleep. Let it go off and it did no one
was there. So I did another 15 minutes and
they see, you know, there she is, something like I didn't know
you were leaving, you know, I wanted to greet you at the
garage, right? Because you're worth waiting not
for being in your bag in. And then look at this kitchen.
Right. This is what you've been
dreaming of. Hi, doctor said Marcia, it's
exactly as you imagined it. I mean, it's functioning just
like you thought your idea was phenomenal?
Yeah, I mean I didn't put the chairs on my couch because my
dog's a little rebellious, I got them their own bed, but if I
don't put a chair on the couch, she'll rebell.
Many times, I wanted to kick her out like the Lord did Satan, but
she has an advocate with the mother stay off my couch,
Alleluia John chapter, 8, verse 28.
Jesus said this, he says. So Jesus said when you lift up
the son of man then you will know that I am.
He and that I can do nothing on my own initiative but I speak
these things. Paul as the father, taught me,
what I love about Jesus is that Jesus?
When he calls us to himself, he's including us.
He's given us assignment purpose.
He's allowing us to find ourselves and release our gifts,
but since Jesus is known as love, that became flesh and an
attribute of Love, is it doesn't seek its own.
Let's look how Jesus had responses.
Look at Matthew, chapter 4 verse 23.
Jesus was a lot different than most ministers today.
Indefinitely most Christians in general look, what it says when
Jesus went about all Galilee teaching in their synagogues and
preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and what was he doing?
Healing all manner of sickness has and all manner of disease.
Among the people look what it says his Fame.
What did he do? His Fame went out through also
Syria and they brought unto him. All sick people that were taken
with divers diseases and torments and those who are
oppressed of the devil. Levels with Devils, right?
Look at this, Jesus was doing these things.
And with those who were the King James says lunatic and those who
had the palsy, he healed them and they're followed him.
Great multitudes of people from Galilee, from decapolis, from
Jerusalem, from Judea. And from Beyond the Jordan, just
because he says, I'm not seeking my own, I'm doing the will of
the father. Notice Fame came.
It's amazing. How many people want to
establish their own Fame? Yet, if you're actually just do
God, there's a Fame in and of itself.
And the devil deceives us in our fruits and our rewards by trying
to get us to take his path to fame.
Instead of the Lord's path to fame.
Come on. Look at Luke Chapter 5, Luke
chapter 5 verse 14 and 15, and he chars him to tell, no man,
but go and show thyself to the priest and offer for thy
cleansing, according to Moses commanded as a testimony, but so
much. The more went there, a Fame
abroad and great multitudes came together to hear and to be
healed by him of their infirmities.
In Matthew 4, he healed. He cast out Devils.
He's performing Miracles, Fame came, but in the midst of
Performing Miracles, look what he said to people in verse 14,
he charged hymns to tell. No, he said now, listen, I know
we just finished a meeting and you just got healed and this
never happened, but I want you talking to people.
But what do we do? We posted on social media, We
need everybody to know. Okay, this is the society.
Listen. It's in the atmosphere.
Now, let's I'm not against you posting things that people say,
I'm not saying that, you gotta ask.
Why? I mean, don't think I ain't
gonna talk to my creative team is saying I might make an
adjustment. Don't be talking about the
Miracles here. They need to get out of
different way. You can talk about the church
and talk about the messaging talk about the word, but don't
be saying so many people got healed.
Don't be talking about that because of Jesus Christ.
The King says, don't tell nobody.
But now Pastor, if they know well, don't you think the Lord
knows? And at the end of the day, let
the one who got healed, take care, because here's the real
issue. I love being under the radar In
fact, same to Jesus, hindered him.
We want to become so famous that it can actually hinder your gift
Jesus became so famous. The Bible says, he could even go
into the metropolitan areas anymore.
In fact, his Fame cause people to not hunger for him but they
wanted him to just perform that at the end of his three years.
He had to take people out of cities because they were talking
too much. You would think.
Don't you want to testify? We should testify sometimes.
Oh, you don't want to hear, but we want people to testify about
how God used us. Oh, there's so many ministers
today. Pastor, John can tell you so
many ministers today. So many ministers today, right?
So many the private families here.
So many men, as you all know, so many ministers today, are
looking for the Accolade. Now, it's one thing for us as
ministers to share things that are happening, but I again,
we're already famous as far as we're concerned in the eyes of
our King, we're just doing the works of God and we're giving
him glory man went to me man. And it was powerful, what God
did he did this, this this. I'm not saying that's for that,
you know, God and do nothing. Anyway, I just Obedient to him
and he did it. And when you actually have that
motive, it will promote you, but if you actually have the other
one, you're wondering why you're not get more invites.
Okay because here's the thing you know but here's the thing
you don't always know because the minute you let that selfish
ambition get to deception. Then you'll deceive yourself
that you're not selfish. That you're actually doing it
for others, but yet there's attitudes and there's actions
about your life that are contrary to the love.
In general, like being jealous being envious, being short,
tempered with other people again, Todd stand up back there
in the back. He's in think sticky little head
as far as leave your hands, you know, he's there and right.
He's young guy. I've had a minister on Wednesday
night. There may have been people say,
well, how come he's let him preach.
Why you have that problem? You should rejoice.
They got juice and Gifts. Talents, amen.
Well these people just got you, the church.
How come Pastor use them? Well, they may be 11th Hour
people. I'm going to use them just cause
you've been here, 18 years to me and I'm obligated.
Keep using you. Oh, you don't, maybe we've use
you. And you don't need any more
public use. Maybe that's what God wants you
to do. Now, Tinker faith is just be the
one behind the scenes, praying interceding.
I I used to be in that position. I used to do this.
I was there how come they won't? Let maybe it's time for someone
else. Cuz this ain't about you.
It's about the vision. It's about the team.
I mean at the end of the day, if the starting quarterback loses
his spot in practice, he doesn't get kicked off the team and if
the new quarterback wins the championship, the one who used
to be gets the ring as well. But what it is.
The ring ain't good enough now. Oh And we're willing to Forfeit
rewards for akyol AIDS, but I have to be known as the one who
took the team. See now west Augustine.
Y'all know this more than we in our league.
We have to fight against that with our young men.
That they don't cause now we got recruitment in college.
Will make a name for you here. Now put their pictures up on the
stadium. And they will have to learn how
to navigate in that kind of society where they won't take
credit. To where they'll be able to say.
This isn't about me. It's about my team and always
talked about the team told about the team talking about the team.
Now, I have nothing to say about the quarterback for Tampa.
Other than that individual has proven through his career, that
he's willing to take less financially to get more people
around for the purpose of a team, winning a championship,
which tells me there's something about a team concept.
They still have that they're willing to take less to bring
more on so that after Something can be accomplished because
getting the reward together is more important than having a
stat and being known as the most.
I mean, seriously does anyone think that somebody else and the
32 teams, which would be 31 now deserve more money.
But yes, some are more are higher paid.
And don't you have it and they have less rings.
And that's just one aspect. How much more us, who has the
love of God shed abroad in our hearts?
How much more look what else? Jesus said this, he said this
in. Mark chapter 1.
Again, how did Jesus deal with people?
When the miraculous was taken place?
In Mark chapter 1, verse 23 to 27 modern.
King James says it this way in their synagogue, was a man with
an unclean spirit and he cried out saying, what is to do, what
is too. Us and to you.
Jesus of Nazareth. Have you come to destroy us?
I know who you are. The Holy One of God.
And Jesus rebuked saying be quiet and come out of him and
the unclean Spirit convulsing him and crying with a loud
voice. He came out and they were all
amazed as to question among themselves saying, what is this,
what new doctrine is this that even that he even commands, the
unclean spirits with authority and they obey him notice?
He said he don't want the devil advertising for him.
Like shut up, don't talk about me.
I don't need you to advertise for me.
Not only did Jesus deal with people who were healed and said
don't talk about this. Don't tell nobody.
But then when the demons try to start talking, he says shut up,
don't talk about it. Don't mess up, what I'm doing.
But if we don't watch out, we want people to know.
See, Jesus is greatest selfless moment, we find in Luke 22, Luke
22. All this brings us to this
moment in Luke. 22. Jesus is in the garden.
The night. He's going to be portrayed by
the disciple. He picked, who would not would
not eradicate selfish ambition and how many churches are split
or damaged because a saint has a selfish ambition.
Anytime a Saints talking about a pastor behind their back.
Guess what? Selfish ambition.
Selfish ambition exist. They're jealous RMB me.
Why would you tell bad? Because at the end of the day,
do you know God has the ability to remove?
This means they don't trust God. David is actually anointed of
God and he waits for God to remove salt even though he has
literal evidence. and then, when the Certain members of the
congregation sympathize with him.
And says, let's overthrow the pastor.
Hallelujah. There's no such thing as a
church split among Saints. Who are selfless?
There's no such thing as gossip backbiting, among the saints,
who are selfless. It can't exist because you
eradicate it with love, but if you have it, I don't care.
Whatever are your life. You may be the most selfless in
your marriage, the most selfless among church members, but you
have this desire to be known as the greatest business ever,
We're going to have a problem. Anything I want to be the
greatest athlete. I want to be the if you're the
greatest athlete, great, why do we debate on who the goat is?
Why do we have these debates? I personally think the goat may
have never showed up. Because there's a lot of young
men and women who didn't have enough self-discipline and they
were far better athletes. And one reason why is because in
fact some of the greatest athletes we talked about today
you'll see a time in their life where they began to put the team
now that didn't mean they didn't know if you get it in my hands I
can do something but they had to include the rest. and that's
just on a marginal level, how about in the body of Christ, And
he says to his father, his father.
If you're willing to remove this cup from me yet, Jesus would be
selfless, even to the point of death, he had no self
preservation. Jesus says, I'm going to go and
be considered a murderer. They are going to slander me.
I'm fixing getting a meeting where they going all slander me.
They going to lie about me, they going to talk wrong about me,
you know, that ain't true. Member wanted to high priests a,
what do you got to say about yourself?
Because he knows I don't really care about what you think about
my reputation only care about one person thinking about me
right now, and that's my daddy. So in the world's I they
believed that they eliminated a problem, someone unworthy to
even be on the planet. But in the father's eye, he said
this one's going to be given the name above every name.
This one is going to be given the name above every name, but
you're so cool because we have a name, too.
It's amazing how the devil dupes us.
And we are living in a culture. Now that is all about me.
And don't think it's not around you.
But today, you could pray this prayer.
Today could be your day of Liberation.
Today you could recognize I know my wife.
And I want to, I want my why to be the love of God with no
selfish ambition and Lord, no matter what you ask me to do.
I have a response. Yes.
Lord. Well, how's that going to make
you look done? My, this is not about what it
makes me look. This is not about my look you
know, people name-drop. Been around name droppers.
I've been with so-and-so so-and-so and so-and-so.
Are you name-dropping? He's trying to get your name
associated with. You want your name to be in the
room with those names? It creeps in so many ways.
It's there. I'm all I'm saying is it can be
there and you know why we have to deal with us.
Let me tell you why, because we lived only a selfish ambitious
life prior to Christ and he has to renew our minds, which means
he has in our spirit. We are selfless.
But in our mind, we have the residue.
Of wanting to be known and be the greatest. and it seems
Innocent, but every evil, I may try to develop myself to be the
best. I can be according to what God's
given me. I want to maximize, but at the
end of the day, it's amazing what God can do to very
undeveloped things. That doesn't mean we shouldn't
grow and improve. Because anything he's telling me
to tear off breakdown get off my life is so that I'm less and
less selfish and more and more selfless.
And then when I hear about something, someone says or
something, didn't go the way I thought I can say my God.
What you gonna do pastor? But God we're going to do,
honey. But God.
Doesn't matter. They're lying about you doesn't
matter. Welcome to the life of Jesus.
Who has the name? Of every day.
I just thought I'd be doing more.
There's too much of you, that's why you can't. because, when you
begin to live selfless or selfish selfless, It's amazing.
What God has start talking to you about believing you be like
I can't do that. I cannot do that in love myself
and you almost like, why are you asking me?
Somebody else do that. But as Pastor, John George says,
the Lord is moving through the Earth.
Looking whom he may show himself Mighty and strong again and he's
only going to show himself strong and those who are after
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