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Now enjoy this message, turn over to Philippians chapter 1
Philippians chapter 1 verses 5 to 6.
It says this is the amplifier classic.
And again if you're doing the Well, reading plan, you just
read this. All right, I like it.
When the Lord gives me messages on things, we're all reading
together. Sometimes that happens,
sometimes, it doesn't. But sometimes, you know, when
you're just going through the Lord begins to give an
impression, you're like, wow, I need to preach on that.
Now, you understand next week, with our Christmas service,
everybody's here. It's only at 10:30.
We have no corporate prayer that morning.
No. Anchor Faith live classes.
No child care at all. So you bring all your kids in
here? All right.
In fact, I may even just have the Come and just sit down here
on the floor. I think I'm gonna do that.
Just have them come and sit down and be down front with me.
Amen. But it says, that's I faked.
My God for your fellowship, your sympathetic cooperation and
contributions in partnership. In vain advancing.
The good news, the gospel from the first day, you heard it
until now. So these people are doers right?
Once they heard they haven't abandoned, aren't you?
Do you need to be a believer that once you hear you don't
abandon If you continue, then he goes on and he says this because
of that, he says I'm convinced and sure of this very thing that
he who began a good work in, you will continue until the day of
Jesus Christ, right up to the time of his return.
Developing that good work and perfecting and bring it to full
completion in. You the Williams translation of
verse 6 says that this way for I am certain of this very thing
that he who began Began the good work in.
You will go on until the day of Jesus Christ to complete it.
So there's going to come a day when a trumpet will sound.
And the dead in Christ will rise first, and then we'll be changed
in a moment in the twinkling of an eye.
And then we'll be caught up together with him in the air.
Until that day takes place, God is doing a work in us, which
means the day he apprehended us, the Holy Ghost came and started
talking to us. And telling us about our need
for Jesus Christ as our Savior and Lord.
And when we answer Heard that call and became children of God.
He began a work in US. I said he began to work in us.
He did not finish something. He started something Now in the
realm of the spirit, he deposited some finished Works
meaning he made us righteous in Christ.
He did that in the realm of the spirit we've been made, right?
But now our thinking is not always righteous and we have to
renew that and it can get in the way of what's happened and
transpired in the spirit. Are you hearing me?
So my spirit man has been made righteous, but my soul realm has
to be renewed so that I can release who I really am now.
Are you hearing me and God is doing a work in us.
If there wasn't a work to be done, there will be no reason
for the Holy Ghost to talk to us after we were born again.
There's no reason for him to carry on any other conversation.
Well, you are a child of God. That's all that matters.
He would not be in the process of trying to renew our minds
because that would be irrelevant.
Okay. No there is a continued thing
happening that we work by faith. I said by faith that God wants
us to be blame us. He actually tells us in first
Thessalonians chapter 5 that we are to be blameless Spirit.
He does that. So we do that and body, we do
that as well. So we participate in the soul
and body realm of perfecting our maturing Ourselves to reflect
what he did to us in the spirit amen.
And when he comes back he wants us to be functioning on all
three levels. Blameless on all three levels.
Are you hearing what I'm saying? So we need to do this.
Now, here's the thing. God whose begun a working us
wants to complete it. So that tells me this, there's
no excuse for anyone to live their whole life and not know
whether they completed the will of God for their lives.
There is literally no excuse for a person to come to the end of
their lives and ask the question.
I wonder if I did God's will That people, you know, as they
get older, I'm just trying to figure out what God wants me to
do. Well, you need to figure it out
because he is going to complete a work in you which means he is
ever ready to tell you exactly why you were born.
Are you hearing me? See, God wants to do something
in us. Let's look at this in Hebrews
chapter 13 verses 20 and 21. It says, now the God of Peace
who brought up from the dead, the great Shepherd of the sheep
through the blood of the Eternal, Covenant.
Even Jesus, our lord, look at verse, One equip you in every
good thing to do his will working in us that which is
pleasing in his sight through Jesus Christ to whom be the
glory forever and ever amen. Now, you know there's only one
way to please. The Lord, Hebrews 11 tells us
without faith. It's impossible to please him.
So we are to live by faith and faith is hearing God's word and
then acting on it. It even though we do not see it.
We are. We have determined that the word
of the king is the final say and we're going to believe it live.
It act it respond to it. Even if we don't see it, even if
we don't feel, it doesn't matter because we're going to be
pleasing to him that in the midst of any situation or
circumstance. We will be trusting in his word
over anything else. We see are filled, are you
hearing me and he actually equips us So that we can stand
that way and believe him for things assigned to us, to be
able to accomplish his will for our lives.
So, when he apprehended us, and says, I'm inviting you into the
family, it was never about a destination.
It was always about Destiny. It was never about going to
heaven. It was about heaven coming to
you. It's about sonship, it's about
purpose. It's about living your fullness.
Light full life now and then it propels you into the life to
come. Are you hearing what I'm saying?
So we see then that God wants to do a work in us.
Look at it says in Ephesians 2:10.
It says this for, we are his what we're we're his
workmanship. Now this comes after the verse
that everybody quotes. It's not by any Works.
Lest any man should A boost salvation is belief that Jesus
Christ stood in the Gap, he became our substitute, he did
what we could not do, he actually lived?
The will of the father, with the right motive, right?
Heart, he fulfilled, all the law, Died blameless.
Without spot. Never sinned.
Are you hearing me never sin
once a man who knew no sin, but he what became our sin.
So what we could not do in and of ourselves, he did.
And then if we will just believe on the work he did, it will
cause us to be made right with God, but right after this, not
of any works, not man saying to God.
If I do this, you have to accept me.
That's the works of man. Here's how I'm going to do it.
Even if it's you you're saying this is what to do.
I can accomplish in the Lord's like you just can't do it.
You just can't do it and we can't do it.
We all fell Jesus did. But when he saved us it was for
purpose. And here it is first 10 for we
are his what workmanship created in Christ now you can t be
creating Christ unless you're born again.
So when we hear this word created in Christ because again,
second second Corinthians 5:17 says that we are a new creature
in Christ. The old has what passed away,
behold. All things have become new so
creative. In Christ as being born again.
But why are we created in Christ?
It tells us for And here we go for good.
And that's a dirty word and most churches for good works.
Well and I say we ain't doing works.
You are doing works. You're doing the work of your
father, which is his will. Jesus said, didn't you know, I'd
be about my father's business which means don't, you know, I'm
doing the work of my daddy. In fact, he says everything I'm
doing is the work of my father. I'm just doing the father's
right? And even said they say, even if
you don't believe me, I am, I work at least believe the works,
leave the works. and the devil has duped whole congregations
from exercising, their sonship and convince them.
This is about a destination when they die, which is what every
other religion believes. But he says that we are created
in Christ for good works, which God prepared when beforehand so
that we would walk. And so before we even did found
out why we were even born, he already had the plan.
I said he already had to plan. He already had the plan
beforehand before you even found out.
God knew the look at this in Hebrews chapter 12, you know,
well versus wanted to. It says, therefore we also since
we are surrounded by so great. A cloud of witnesses.
Let us lay aside every weight and the sin, which so easily
ensnares us and let us run with endurance, the race that is set
before us looking unto Jesus. The author and finisher of our
faith. Okay.
It goes on to say for the joy that was set before him.
He endured the cross, despising, the shame and has sat down at
the right hand of the Throne of God, Thrones are in kingdoms,
not in religions. So we see here.
Jesus was going to do the will of his father, because it
brought him Joy even though that took him by way of a cross.
Okay, so here we see that if we are going to be able to
accomplish the purpose and fulfilled, the work and the
destiny, and come to a place of completion prior to him coming.
Then we're going to have to lay a few things aside.
And I like the order of Hebrews because the order of Hebrews
Associates us more with the only reason you can't accomplish a
purpose because you have weights in your life.
Now, weight is not a sin. Wait, is that which hinders you
from accomplishing? Now, let me go and just pick on
you from the body realm, okay? From the body realm, your body,
you are not where you are. As far as wanting to be in
shape. Only based upon a lack of
discipline. And it's now there can be sins
associated with a body. I'm not talking, but I'm just
saying, if you had a personal goal, I could be here.
Most of the time, the only reason it's called, we don't lay
aside the weight that hinders us from getting there.
For some it's laying aside certain food groups in order to
get there and that's not sitting, that's just a wait.
Because as long as I can participate, then I can't get
that result. Are you hearing me?
So I don't want to understand the same thing is, even with our
spiritual growth and development.
Our soul realm is that sometimes, we're not as far with
Christ, because we won't lay aside the, the weight of
sleeping Sleeping's await, when it hinders you from praying to
the Lord. Or having time to read the word.
Well, I'm just so busy. I can't just well it so you wake
up. Go straight to work.
You never talk with God, you listen to Christian radio and
out like that, you're connected with God.
You listen to someone on the radio, preaching you, you like
you're connected with God. I mean, all that Moon, most
Believers is just White Noise saying, amen?
Are singing a Christian song. Does not connect, you with God,
but that's all you can fit in. Okay.
I mean I'm here. I'm sorry.
You won't even bigger than that. The ones that don't come to
church on a Sunday or Wednesday because they can't lay it aside.
So these are and that and the author of Hebrews is like,
listen, that's really the round that Believers are having to
come to another level in, but he also knows Believers can also
have some Sin Sin can manifest. Now, it shouldn't we have
dominion over it. We've been redeemed from the law
of sin and death. So sin should not have dominance
over us. We should never allow in our
mouth saying I'm just a sinner saved by grace.
No you were a sinner, you've been saved by grace.
Now you are a Believer you're in the likeness of Jesus cry you're
in Christ Christ and say well I'm just a sinner with the grace
of God. All my life He never said that
yet. He had Grace on his life, he was
full of grace. The Bible says, Okay.
So there are things that wanted they do.
They ensnare us, they hinder us from accomplishing.
Our course, because he says, we got to run this thing with what
endurance. The problem Wiz is, most of us
are filtering our Christianity, through our culture.
And I'm not talking Kingdom culture, I'm talking American
culture, and American culture is get it now.
We have express lanes, we have fast food, we have microwaves,
right? We have Amazon Prime.
Right. Many you won't even go to the
store anymore. Well, I'll just order on Amazon.
It'll be here tomorrow. God forbid, you wait 3 days.
And some of you don't even go to store your doordash everything,
right? Because you want it now and you
want somebody to do the work. Cause God forbid, you do it
work, but let me just say you had to work the app to get the
doordash, so you're still not living without works people.
Are you hearing me? Well, we want God to mature us
without us being involved. I'm right with God, you can be
right with God, but that doesn't mean you're, you're, you're
moving at your Peak Performance. You're not functioning as all
the authority, that's been assigned to you.
You've not matured in your walk with God and God created us
because he wanted us to finish. He is the author and finisher of
our faith. Look what it says here in Isaiah
chapter 46, Isaiah 46. And verse 9 through 11, Isaiah
46. Verses 9 through 11.
This is really powerful because God has us in mind.
Isaiah 46 verse 9 and 11. It says remember the former
things long passed? Are you hearing me?
Remember, the former things long passed for, I am God.
And there is no other. I am God, and there was no one
like me. Verse 10, he says, declaring the
end from the beginning. And from ancient times things
which have not been done saying, my purpose will be established
and I will accomplish my good pleasure calling a bird of prey
from the East, the man of my purpose from a far country.
Truly, I have spoken, truly, I will bring it to pass.
I have planned it, surely, I will do it.
God is a finisher. I said God is a finisher and
when the Creator start started, he plans to finish.
And he never fails to finish people, fail to finish and
people fail to get in their purpose, but God's purpose will
come to pass. It's going to happen.
I said it's going to happen so you can look at your neighbor
and say, what's for my life, I will allow it to come to pass.
Now, with that being said, we need to understand that if he
did it for Jesus. He'll do it for us.
Are you hearing me Genesis Chapter 1?
What did God say in the beginning?
Because he knew the end from the beginning, which means you go to
the beginning to determine what the is going to look like.
Are you hearing me? You gotta go to the beginning to
determine what the end is going to look like.
And for most Christian churches, they don't go to the beginning.
They just start at the fall. The fall of Man is not the
beginning. That's not the beginning of man.
So, we have to be able to connect God's beginning to
determine his ending. so it says in Genesis chapter 1, you know,
it verse 26 and 27 but it's good for us to see then God said God
said, has he spoken? Has he spoken?
Okay, so let me say, let me say it in context to keep that up in
Isaiah. 46:9 through 11, then God said, then God declared the
end from the beginning. Then God said, then God said, my
purpose will be established. I will accomplish my good
pleasure. I have spoken, I will truly
bring it to pass. I've planned it.
Surely, I will do it. Let us make man in our image,
according to our likeness and let them have dominion.
Then verse 27, God created, man in his own image in the image of
God. He created him male and female,
he created them. So both of them had dominion
over all the Earth, they had no dominion over heaven.
And Earth, if you read the back of the book, will it will still
be around for all eternity. The Earth is just as Eternal as
Heaven. I said, the Earth is just as
Eternal as Heaven, the difference between the Third
Heaven and Earth is that the Earth has to get renovated.
But so does the first and second heaven.
Because something's going on in the first and second heaven,
that Revelation tells us that there will be a new heavens and
new earth. Now, we know it's not where God
lives because there's no problem there.
When a problem happened, he eliminated the problem.
Jesus said, I saw Satan fall like, lightning from Heaven.
We're not gonna have to redo this deal.
He just gets rid of it and Adam could have gotten rid of it as
well. Are you hearing me?
So let's make man in our image. According In our likeness and
let them rule. So God has said it.
So man is destined to rule. He's destined to rain, it's his
Destiny. I said it's his Destiny is his
reason for living. It's just reason I was talking
to Pastor Jay, I'm not going to go deep into this particular
subject, but he was having some challenges with some statements
because the can't Kingdom will. Jack up religious thoughts and
there are some religious thoughts in the church.
Okay, and he says, now Pastor, I want to ask you some questions
concerning worshiping God. Now, when he says that we're
really meaning in context of singing now worship is not
singing by itself. Singing can be included in
worship. The problem is, we've all gotten
into this little tag of Praise an and typically Praises, the
fast worship is the slow when that has nothing to do, with
singing worship, has nothing to do, with singing, Praise can be
fast or slow. Worship is obeying God.
That's what worship is. And he seeks those who will obey
him in spirit and in truth. That's what he's saying, not
sing to him. So, when people say we were
created to worship, it's correct.
If you Define worship, correct. We were created to obey his
voice and do his bidding. Absolutely.
But people have this thought that we were created worship,
and when we go to heaven, will sing songs all the time to him?
Well, this is kind of depressing to us.
Who can't see? It's not a very good Eternal
assignment, right? Because I'm the Joyful Noise
guy, everybody Heavens going know it and some of you worse
than I am, So, you're either going to have to believe that
God is going to change your voice, right?
But the Bible never indicates that man was created to sing
songs 24/7 or for all eternity to God, you cannot find it in
scripture, can't find it. I said you can't find it.
But yet the religious will constantly say we were created
to worship which is going to sing to him all the time.
No, you're not. No, you're not.
You're going to sing but not all the time.
No, you're going to have dominion.
You're going to rule. Newsflash, you're going to work.
You're not and Chancellor.
Braun has warned us, you are not going to lay around on a puffy
Cloud fat, a naked with a harp and have wings, Hallelujah.
Now I'm not saying we won't be naked in one sense, we're going
to have the glory back. All right, once we won't have
some exposure that man had but Genesis chapter 3.
Look what God said. In Genesis chapter 3, we're
talking about being born to finish it Genesis 3:15.
It says this cuz he comes down. He said, Adam, we're already
talked to the wife, he talks to The Serpent and while he's
talking to the serpent, he says, I'll put enmity between Between
you and the woman between your seed and her seed, he will
bruise you on the head and you will bruise him on the hill now.
Who is he? That's coming.
Who's the see Jesus. Jesus was born to finish.
It's good. Jesus was born to finish.
So if God does it with Jesus, he'll do it for you.
So let's look at God. Begins to speak about Jesus.
Coming to the Earth before Jesus even comes.
He already knows the destiny of Jesus, before Jesus ever shows
up in a virgin's womb. Are you hear me and it press
prophesied about his coming, I'm not talking like a, you know,
five years, I'm talking thousands of years.
This child's Destiny is being recorded.
Are you hearing me being recorded?
And I'm not saying just recorded in in Israel when it's free.
It's being recorded when Israel's in captivity.
I won't show you all examples, but we know Daniel talked about
this child coming because he called him a rock made without
hands, right, that that Kingdom would show up and it would
destroy and Crush every other Kingdom, as he spoke to King
Nebuchadnezzar about his coming, we know that Zakaria said that
this king would show up and wrought.
Walk ride through the streets of Jerusalem on a donkey.
Before he was ever in the womb of his mom.
Isaiah right here, we love to quote.
This one in Isaiah 9:6 again, he is in dealing with captivity
himself. He says, this for a child, will
be born to us, a son, will be given and the government will
rest on his shoulders. He was born to finish and his
name will be called, wonderful, counselor, Mighty God, Eternal
Father, Prince of Peace. There will be no end to the
increase of his government, or a piece on the throne of David or
over his kingdom, Thrones are in kingdoms.
Not religions to establish it to, uphold it with Justice and
righteousness, from then, on and forever.
More the Zeal of the Lord will a copy of hosts will accomplish.
Well, sure, he'll accomplish it because he knows the end from
the beginning. What he declares in speech is
going to happen and the reason why Jesus has to come as a man
is because he gave Man, 2 Min on the Earth, but Adam lost.
The Dominion gave it to the devil and he said in the father
says no a man has Dominion. So, in order for man to have it
back, I'll have to send my son as a man.
I'll legally get him in the Earth.
And he'll do the works. That I tell him to do.
He'll worship me cuz he will obey and do only what I say.
Amen. I mean, he's not, his mom isn't
even thought of When these things are pinned concerning
this child. But once Mary is about to be
pregnant. Look what it said in Luke
chapter 1 again, Christmas is about celebrating the birth of
Jesus and people are going to be celebrating our savior came
only. Recognizing this aspect of him
is that he came so that we could be born again when the reality
is he came so that he could finish.
The reason Humanity was created in the first place.
And Heaven is not that answer. And behold it says this Luke
1:31 233. Behold, you will conceive in
your womb and bear a son and call him.
Jesus, you're going to name him Jesus and he will be what he
had. He's not even in the womb yet.
But what is he? He's great.
He'll be called the son of the most high.
The Lord God will give him the Throne of his father David.
And he will reign over the house of Jacob forever and his
kingdom. And his, what his what his, what
his kingdom will have no end. I have no end which means then
his seed he'll produce after his own kind and he will always be
able to keep Kings on Thrones. Because he's the king of who are
those kings? We are those kings.
So again, it's spoken about this child of his Destiny notes.
Nowhere in there. Does it say he came just to save
us from our sins. So when we die, we go to heaven.
He's coming terrain and he's coming to get a kingdom to
himself. The only way he can get the
kingdom to himself, as he has to be the one who pays the price
for the people. Which gives them the right to
become children of God and then he can position them back as
God. Originally spoke.
Let us make man in our image, according to our likeness and
let them have dominion. Are you hear me?
I was talking with Lola last night.
When did we did the dining with dignity Christmas little, you
know, get together? And she showed me a picture of a
bear and the Ocala National Forest, bear was taller than I
was at least my height, but probably taller.
Okay. And she began to relate to me
that this bear while her and her husband worse camping showed up.
They're in a pop-up, a pop-up with canvas, right?
She said I had to pray for peace every time I went to bed, right?
But this bear would keep showing up every day cuz apparently it
was its territory. Right.
And so the picture she is showing me is the trash cans
that says on the trash can bear proof She said but he's on the
back side so it like Slants you know so if you're looking at the
garbage can can it Slants this way and you would hit this clip
and open it up? Well, he's on the opposite side,
the high side and he opens it up.
Bad advertising. It's not really bear proof.
He's getting the trash out and eating it.
So she says it rose up in my spirit.
Well, if I have dominion over fish and birds, I should have
dominion over bears. Now, it doesn't mention bears
but it talks about cattle right over every creeping thing that
creeps on the earth, people say, what is insects.
Well, you know, bears are pretty creepy when they come up at nine
stand up. It's pretty creepy.
They are still animals of the earth that man had the mean,
overall the so she said in the name of Jesus, I have dominion
over this, you know, campsite and you have no Authority.
I need to come back here as long as I'm here and she never saw
the bear again. The rest of the time they were
there. Now, if she was only thinking,
Jesus is good for going to heaven, then the only hope she
could have it to campsite is if he eats me.
At least, I get to go to heaven. Right.
Honey. Now, I lay me down to sleep.
And we all know that prayer. Now, I lay me down to sleep.
I pray, the Lord, my soul to keep if I die kill that bear
eats us before I wake. People pray this right.
Let's go. They don't know what they've
received, they don't know. The real purpose of the Bible,
they don't know the real reason, why Jesus, came, why he was born
and why we're celebrating this thing called Christmas.
Why all of a sudden we make a national holiday about someone
that most of us at this point, at least, most of the world even
in the United States don't even acknowledge.
Because Santa Claus will be mentioned more than Jesus this
season. Hallelujah.
Okay. Well, it goes on and says this
and Luke 2:10-11 it says, but the angel of the Lord said, do
not be afraid for behold. I bring you good news of great
joy, which will be for all the people for today in the city of
David. There has been born for you, a
savior who is, who is Christ the lord.
Now this is a message to the Shepherds who are watching their
flock by night and the most miss it, because they don't
understand Christ. He's telling them today, notice
the markers here that his focus is, we got great news because in
the city of David now, everybody in Israel knew who David is,
he's the great king and they know that King David is going to
have an heir. Who's going to eventually show
up and be king of the kingdom and redeem all of Israel.
And they're believing this on an ash, a natural scale.
Okay, says, he'd been born a savior meaning the king.
Thus, the saving King has come. How do we know we're talk about
of saving key because he says, who is Christ?
Christ is the Greek equivalent to the Hebrew word Messiah and
the, the Israelite people only know, Messiah as the coming
King, who will establish his kingdom and they'll be no end to
it. So when he says to the
Shepherds, the King has been born.
In the city of David. He's Lord, supreme authority.
He's in the planet. This is why they would leave
their flock. And go looking for him.
And when they got there, they bow down.
And when they were laying the Mary, this is the king.
So this is the king. So this is the king.
So this is the king, the very beginning of Jesus birth is
centered around his kingship Jesus himself knows this about
his kingship. Look what he tells pilot who's
governor before he's crucified. It says, it's in John 18:37.
Therefore pilate said to him, you are the you are so you are
king and Jesus answered, you say correctly, that I am a king.
Now he wasn't wearing a robe and a crown although he eventually
wardrobe in a crowd A different role than a different crowd.
Now, I was a nice robe that they put on him to mocking, okay, the
crown wasn't nice. But he does have a crown.
It's a nice one, and he has a robe and it fills the temple.
Oh my goodness, he said for you say correctly.
I'm a king for this. I have been born.
No, I know that Bible scholars, you know, and Christians are
quick, then go. Well, the Bible tells them first
John, you know, I was born to destroy the works of the devil.
Well, what's the worst of the devil?
Disobedience to God. So he's come to destroy the
life, we lived, which was people opposed to God.
Full of sin are disobedient to God.
He destroyed that work so that it did not it.
No longer had dominion over us, but that we could become a child
of God and have the ability to Now obey.
God by the Holy Spirit, and be led by the spirit proving on
planet Earth, that we are children of God and that we can
rein in this life. Like I said, rain in this life
and that sin would never have dominion over our lives, ever
again. So Jesus is right when he says,
I came for this purpose because the devil has an authority that
he received from Adam because I've already been tempted to get
it his way. He said, I'll give you all these
kingdoms, all this domain in a moment of time, if you'll just
do one thing and it wasn't singing Bow Down and Worship.
Do what I say. I'll let you reign in this realm
because the men of Jesus would have done that.
Then you understand? The devil would have went
straight to the Father in heaven and say aye, that's my throne.
I want to hear that, but Jesus knows about the first Adam.
He's read about him and he says I'm not going to make that
mistake. In fact, what you don't know is
I'm going to take it back. We'll take it all back and I'm
gonna eliminate you from this realm as well.
And I'm gonna throw you in prison.
I'm gonna put you in the Lake of Fire and you'll be there
forever. Are you hearing me?
So he says, for this for this, I have, was I have been born.
I've come into the world to testify to the truth.
You understand, Jesus came into the world, to establish the
kingship. Up of man again.
In the realm of the Earth because he has kingship in
heaven. God does Jesus comes to
establish the kingship of man? Again in the earth, rulership?
So, with that being said, how does this work for us to
understand our lives? Peril, I'll Jesus.
What do I mean by that? God spoke about Jesus before he
was born. Then when he was born, all Jesus
had to do was obey the father's voice to accomplish.
So when he began in the earth, through the virgin woman, he's
born, which again, we understand just for the sake of going ahead
and say in it, you know, we know it's not actually December the
25th. It was a whole nother time
frame. A lot of people believe it's
around more around the month of April, but the reality is, it's
just the day, we celebrate. Great, his birth.
Okay. Okay, the point is is the day he
came in. He was born to finish the
assignment but his finishing, the assignment gave you the
right to be born two finishers. He him being born to finish his
assignment. Didn't just allow you to be
reborn. He was born so that we could
finish. I said, so the we could finish,
we could do all that. God has destined us to do.
So, let's see what it says here in.
Jeremiah. How do we model?
Look with this says, before I formed you in the womb, I knew
you. Now this is not Jesus, this is
about Jeremiah he said before. And before you were born I
consecrated you. And appointed you a prophet to
the nation's, well as Jeremiah, the only one that God knew about
before he came out. No, let's give some others.
He actually told Rebecca or Rachel Isaac's wife, who was
that? Rachel Isaac had, was it?
Rachel Rebecca, thank you. I knew was our lady.
Okay, so Rebecca has some twins. but once he say, you got two
Nations inside you struggling for David came out And on more
than one occasion, the Lord spoke to some women and said how
the order of those children would function.
In fact, even Jacob in prophesying over Joseph's, boys
who were out of the womb, but, yeah, we're still just boys said
and when he went to go bless them instead of blessing, the
firstborn as they normally do with a double portion and then
the younger he crossed hands and just like howay, you got it.
Wrong dad, this one's the when he said, I know some, but the
younger is going to be greater how did he knew know that Bob
the spirit? By the spirit.
So we know then by just some of those examples alone that God
knows what's going on in our lives before our lives come but
just so we can get everybody in context and we won't say, well,
that's really just those people turn over to I Psalms 139.
Psalms 139 verses 13 to 16 to pass.
In Translation, says that this way you form my innermost being
shaping, my delicate insides, my intricate outsides, and wove
them all together in my mother's womb.
I thank you, God, for making me so mysteriously, complex.
Everything you do is marvelous breathtaking.
It amazes me to think about it. How thoroughly, you know, me,
Lord. And that's in the womb.
You even formed every bone in my body and you created me in the
secret place carefully skillfully shaping me from
nothing to something. Save our nation would just read
this. We wouldn't have, we would have
no conversation about abortion anymore.
Call science is not the final Authority science will lie to
you. Before you even in the womb, I
know you well how he knows the person before they even there.
So the minute something starts to form in the womb, it's a
housing mechanism. All right, he says this, you saw
who you created me to be before I became me before, I even seen
the light of day, and the number of days you plan for me, you
already recorded in your book. You know, that tells us that's
house that everybody in this room and everybody hear my voice
right now. When they go on YouTube and
listen to this message, they've God before he even made it to
your mother's womb, had your name in a book and had your
destiny. And says, this is my plan for
them. Now, once you're born, it
becomes your responsibility to discover it.
And get yourself an alignment with his page because you're
writing your own book right now, because he's recording
everything and when judgment comes even to the Saints.
Now what's not judgment to cast you into the Lake of Fire.
You're free from that but it is Judgment.
Nonetheless, to determine are you the workmen?
Are you the workmanship that he created you in Christ to be?
Are you doing the plan and purpose?
He said for you to do, Because he's going to match up the
pages. He gonna run through the
chapters and he's going to determine because here's the
cool thing. The same person who wrote that
book before I got in my mom's womb is the Same Spirit.
That's helping me write the book today so I can node without a
doubt that I'm exactly getting the chapters right now.
Here's the thing, all of us are going to have some chapters that
are outside of that plan. Why?
Because we all sinned and fall short of the glory of God.
But at the end of the day, when we make Jesus, the Lord we can
get on track and we can begin to produce the results.
And let me just tell you how hard is it to know?
The will of God. It's not It's not.
It's not hard. Well, not pass.
That's easy for you, you know? Well, how did I know how?
Did I know how did I know any different than you?
I mean I'm hearing the Lord just like you're having a here
navigate just like you're having navigate now he might have
called me to the ministry of particular way that he didn't
talk to you about your purpose. But the reality is for me to be
where I'm at right now. He didn't open up heaven, and
show me Visions to see myself here.
All he did was speak to me and say go to st.
Augustine. So I followed the voice I mean I
was doing Ministry somewhere else.
Why did I show up here? Cause a voice told me and the
voice was the Holy Ghost and he led me now, I've gone through
some things while I'm here that I didn't imagine.
But he's working it and he's working me.
And I'm being perfected and I'm maturing and I'm becoming
Because he knows us all. And he's a redeemer of time.
Let me just say this. The Bible says here, it can
redeem the time. So don't let anybody tell you
that once Tom's gone, it's gone. That's actually not true
statement. He can redeem even the Tom Which
means the last chapter of my life could be his whole book.
But it's the same requirement that I obey.
See many of them are many Believers right now aren't even
trying to fulfill God's plan because they think it's too
late. I've lost too much time.
He redeems you're talking about the God outside of time.
I mean, seriously outside of time.
He's outside of time. But if you love him with all
your heart, all your mind, all your soul and all the street,
I'ma tell you, this for you to potentially get all that he ever
destined for you to do, you're going to have to have some
really self-abandonment because the people who struggle with
knowing what God wants for their lives.
Let me tell you. The number one reason why they
struggle, I'll give it to you. The number one reason they have
selfish ambitions. You can't hear as long as you
want to do you. You can't hear.
You can't hear as long as you keep seeing you do something.
And God has an authorized it or even authorized it that way.
You're not going to get in and it's not because God's not
talking because you're like, yeah, but I don't really want
to. I mean, I know a minister
graduated from the same Bible College.
I graduated from was in a, it was in a, the church that I
youth pastor that. I mean, it was a Bible teaching
Word of Faith, phenomenal, teacher line upon line, precept,
upon precept. I mean, this guy was getting
phenomenal teaching. Went through their Bible school
then went to Rhema graduate. In fact, before he went to Rome,
I said, listen when you get there there's gonna be a lot of
stuff that you will have already known.
Because you've been in this church here in the truths about
faith and the authority of the believer and healing and all
kinds of stuff, you're going to learn me.
What you got to, you got to find the Nuggets now, because there's
going to be some remembering, some are some things that are
common to your mindset and you already know it.
You just go ahead and press deeper to get something a
little, a little more. That instructor deliver
something beyond what you already know.
Because you've learned here, well, they graduated.
They believe they were called to Ministry, had a wife and a child
and all of a sudden, you know, thought they were going to
pasture believe that God wanted them to pasture.
Well, a pastor down in the southern part of Oklahoma was
having ministers, come to them and saying, our churches are
dying in these rural communities, will you help us?
He had an anointing Apostolic, really, to be able to have them
totally hand, over the whole Ministries.
I mean, the assets, the property everything.
Because again, if you want me to resurrect it, then I have to be
able to want be the one that the Lord is giving the plan to, and
I have to have the authority to operate the plan, and they were
doing it, and he was being successful, but he needed
pastors to be able to Go in those locations and ultimately
Pastor, those churches underneath his oversight.
This guy was given an opportunity to be a pastor in a
particular community. So, he went to interview Came
back. That's so what do you think,
man? You going it's just exciting.
and this is what they said, well, You know, they're not
offering insurance for my child. Insurance.
Yeah, they're just not you know and able to do that.
I said so. so, I mean God, take care of your child.
You already know about healing. What's the problem?
They had a selfish ambition of how something should be
accomplished by God, instead of stepping out and trusting God to
me, I realize more and more. That, that element obviously
couldn't be a part of their call because they had too much
dependency on natural things and God was calling it.
Because again, if you go to Pastor a church, you better get
rid of natural told, you know, being able to depend on just
natural thing. I'm not saying we don't have
them. I'm just saying I'm not
dependent on it. I remember one, I'll come back
to this. I remember one person, you know,
talked about my family because like now they don't even provide
insurance for their kids. Like we were bad parents.
Well, they ain't never been to the doctor.
We don't go to the hospital and when we've had to cause my son
broke his collarbone and football once we pay for it.
What's the problem? They had a fever, we rebuked it.
What's the problem? They barely got sick.
So we're bad parents cause we don't have insurance.
No, I have the greatest Insurance called the blood I
have faith in the blood. The blood is more powerful.
I mean, I could have people stand up right now that have
faith in the blood and in the finished work of Jesus and ever
get more results with the word as medicine.
Daily than anything they could have ever done in the natural
period. Now, I'm not against doctors, I
But if you don't need them, what's the problem?
What's the problem? Anyway, he didn't go.
And in turn divorced his wife. Started running around with
other women. In and out of church,
constantly. I'm not sure if he's in today, I
have to check in with another Pastor.
Find out even where he's at. And why is that?
Because he had a selfish way of doing God.
Can't wait till January 1st. I just had a just had to
restrain myself. I was fixing to do another
example, but the Lord said that's January 1st.
I said, okay, I'll quit, are you hear me?
God knows you as a plan for you. And you can accomplish it.
The only reason why people do not accomplish God's plan for
the lives of big. Number one reason is because
they want to do it their way. They want people to recognize
them their way. They want to get in that
position their way they get offended when people don't see
it their way. Let me tell you where I'm at.
I'm still today trying to run down a minister in Virginia.
Virginia. Because my, my wife and I
graduated from Bible School, okay?
And I came to Gainesville to start a church.
The Lord says you're not ready. And so I he said, you need go
get on staff, there was a staff. I was going to get on but
unfortunately, somebody didn't leave.
So the Lord says, well, they won't do what I say.
So you're going to go somewhere else so the Lord's moving me
somewhere else. Well, there was a particular
pastor and Virginia Virginia Beach actually around the
Virginia Beach area that I put in for to go be this youth
pastor and he called me on the phone.
He says, man, everything about you on paper is exactly what I
want. He said this to me everything,
he said, but for some reason, the Lord will not let me hire
you. You know, that was pretty
disappointing. Beyonce.
I was like, I'm disappointed right now, right?
I'm like, what's the problem? The Lord.
But at the end of day, I can't argue with that.
And the Lord actually a, probably a week later where I
went opened up, and when I heard it, I'm like, I'm going there.
I knew it by the spirit, I'm going and I did Just recently, I
thought I need to find them and give them an offering and thank
them for obeying the Lord for not hiring me.
Yeah, so actually had the RMA office, helping me.
Try to run this person down Trying to find them because I
want to say I called you you didn't let me come you heard God
right? I want to bless you.
Why? Because, you know, I'm not mad
at you. It wasn't your way.
It was God's way for me to become who I am.
He is not there to help my happiness.
It's not his job to fulfill my dream.
So we all need to come to this realization, as we reflect on
the birth of Jesus, my king came and he finished the assignment.
I'll be like my king. I'm going to finish my
assignment May, every Christmas Propel you to say I'm going to
finish. Instead of just looking at the
birth of Jesus see that the birth finish something and that
finishing gave you an opportunity to finish your
without excuse now, to not finish your course, and again,
the majority of you are never never going to be called to
fivefold Ministry. So that's not your purpose.
Your purpose is, whatever it is in, whatever sector of society.
You need to move towards continue to do and as crazy as
it may sound. Who cares?
Trust God? You are created for this time to
be that influence in that realm, in that Sphere, for whatever
time period. Some of you may be doing
something as an employee today. But ultimately, you going to run
a global company, you got to be daring enough to believe the
impossible and take the steps to get to that place because
whatever God calls us to do is really not impossible.
It's possible with him. We just have to believe, amen.
That's why I'm convinced I in this church.
There has to be Gus City commissioners County,
Commissioner? I even believe there will be
state representatives in this church because they'll call
Anchor Faith Church their home. Even though they have to go to
Tallahassee, I even believe that us Congressman will be
associated with anchor Faith Church, even though they'll be
in Washington, they'll call this place their home because they
represent this County. I believe that.
Why? Because none of that is more
important than what my king does, and they need to have what
we have. I believe that there are people
that haven't even started businesses that God wants to
bring such creative ideas through you.
That it will help fund all kinds of missions.
But you got to dare to believe your existence is not just to
take care of your home address. And if you don't see this
through your pastor, who's definitely living beyond his
home address and God is not a respecter of person and why
can't I live this way? Because King Jesus live this
way, he did not come for himself to die for himself to live for
himself to get a blessing for himself, he came for you.
So all of our purposes for us to finish, our course has to be
bigger than our own household and the gifts.
We bring got to be bigger than just our own family but it's got
to be a gift to the world and at the end of our Lives, we going
to talk like Paul in second Timothy 4:7.
He said, I fought the good fight.
I finished the course. Now how does he know he
finished? The course if he didn't know
what the course was. All of us can say, I fought the
good fight, all this. Well, I fought the fight of
Faith and Healing and beat cancer.
I fought the fight. You know?
When we didn't have any money that we have money, anybody can
say that. But have you finished the
course, The course is why you were apprehended in the first
place. Paul said in Philippians chapter
3, he said I I am only trying to apprehend that which I was
apprehended. If you'll go ahead and get big
with your lives, right out the gate, say there's some about my
life, that's bigger than my home address.
I must discover it now it originated out of your house
because your house is a training ground because if you can't do
the house right? You're not going to do the
world, right? But, the reason why you're
training at the house is so you can do something for the world.
In order to finish the course, you're going to have to apply,
you got to be in a beat pressure.
Because when pressure and stress comes, if you can't handle it,
that tells us she'll capacity. Now, I'm not telling you that
everybody's Global because not everybody's Global in the
context that you're going to be a CEO of a Fortune 500 company.
That's not the Pinnacle. Anyway, it's really relevant.
What's relevant is that your influence?
Has to go beyond your household and affect other people's lives.
And I can't tell you how many lives that is, but it must
affect it. Polly.
Would you stand? Yes, I met with her the other
day because this woman right here, God is doing some amazing
things in Cyprus and Italy. She's in your church here in the
same message as your hearing. And God has connected her back
from to the cuts to some countries.
She has been in and she's ministering a message that she
hears from her pastor. Call the kingdom and Revival is
starting to take place and we haven't even showed up yet.
But she told me pastor. One of her acquaintances could
be family member, I can't remember but in Greece and
Crete. Actually, she gave her the
forest. And after she read it of her own
initiative, she said I must translate this in the Greek
language and get it out. Now when the Lord told me to
write the forest, I said, Lord, dr.
Myles Monroe has written a book on the kingdom.
It is so good. Why am I writing a book on the
kingdom? It's like kind of silly and the
Lord says, because I'll get your material to places, his won't go
yours was destined for places that his is not.
So, I just obeyed and now without my knowledge.
This woman, who's the vision partner of this church and is
passionate about the kingdom in her sphere of influence Beyond
her home address. It's touching other people's
lives and then Distributing the message.
She's being impacted with because it's not about a name,
it's about a message. And they're hearing the message
and they're saying, we have to get this in our language and
when I heard, I thought I can help them so they don't have to
translate from a hard copy. We can give them electronic copy
and to be easier and we're going to do that.
Thank you can be seated. There are so many things
happening right now. Because God wants to expand us
and this Christmas season. You've got to catch it even
bigger than before, that this church called anchor.
Faith Church is destined by God before we even showed up.
To profoundly impact the planet. We're going to finish that
course. I said we're going to finish
that course. Jesus said this in Revelation is
22, I got two references and will be closed and it's both of
them are in Revelations, will first go and Revelations. 22
starting in verse 12, verse 13 just to reiterate.
Jesus said, behold I am coming quickly and my reward is with me
to render to every man. To render to every man.
You just because he called me Lord.
To render to every man who called all my name to be saved.
The reward does not come just because you accepted Jesus as
your savior. My reward is coming with me said
to render to every man, according to what he has done,
not what he thought about doing not what he wished, he could do.
Not what he was hoping would take place because God is in
control. No, but what he's done.
And the only thing I'm doing is what he tells me to do, which
then empowers me to do it. The grace activates and happens.
Faith causes it to come to pass and God will say that happened
in your life because you believed He said, I am the Alpha
and the Omega the first and the last, the beginning, and the
end. He was born to finish so that we
could finish. Will close where a revelation is
21. Verses 5 to 7.
Is he coming? I said, is he coming?
Is he coming? Does he have your reward?
I said does he have your reward? If you're a doer he does Glory
to God. Amen!
This thing with Jesus, so powerful, I'm so glad we've got
past the man. Be paying me sissy.
No Purpose Driven, message that where you going to go when you
die. And then we're running around
trying to do our own junk. Not even knowing whether we
doing something great or not, yet God, before we end my
mother's womb, new us had Destiny for us, had greatness
for us and it's talking to us how to accomplish it and all we
have to do is believe and then he's got a reward because we do
it. He says he who sits on the phone
says behold I'm making all things new and he said write for
these words are faithful and true then he said to me, it is
done. I am the Alpha and the Omega,
the beginning and the end, I will give to the one who thirsts
from the spring of the Water of Life without cost, he who
overcomes will inherit these things and I will be his God and
he will be my son. I'm glad I'm an overcomer
because I hear the king speak to me, and I hear what he says by
faith because he's the author of my faith.
I hear that word. I believe that word I stand on
that word, then he brings that word to pass.
I rejoice when it comes to pass and I listen for the next word
and I listen for the next word. And I listen for the next word
and I go from Faith to Faith, glory to glory and anchor.
Faith Church goes from Faith to Faith, glory to glory.
And we keep Branding and we keep touching and we keep growing and
we keep impacting, we keep influencing we keep igniting.
We're Unstoppable. Because our purpose is just that
great. What an exciting life.
We live by faith. Amen.
So we think about a child wrapped in swaddling clothes
lying in a Manger. His beginning met, we could
finish. And finish my rainy.
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