In the words of Peter, where would I go?
They have words of life. Hey man, First Timothy, chapter
3, verse 14 to 15, it says this, and I'm writing these things to
you, Paul, writing to Timothy, hoping to come to you before
long. But in case I am delayed, I
write so that you will know how one ought to conduct himself in
the household of God, which is the Church of the living God,
the pillar and support of the truth.
Father, in the name of Jesus, we thank you for the engrafted word
of God which is able to save our soul.
Holy Spirit, breathe on us now that we may receive this word it
and apply it to our lives. Father, we thank you that the
Church of Jesus Christ is alive and well and will be an
immovable force on your planet. And so, Father, we thank you
that we will be encouraged, strengthened, and to know that
you have given us a Kingdom that cannot be shaken, that the
church is the most powerful thing on the planet and you are
coming back for the reigning church in Jesus name, Amen.
Doctor Miles Monroe said. We're purpose is not known,
abuses are inevitable. We're a purpose is not known.
Abuses are inevitable. Do you understand just because
an organization is called something or is something
doesn't mean it stays in its original purpose.
We could even say this with the planet.
Planet Earth is not as God originally designed.
It's not functioning as he originally designed it.
Now that's not God's fault. It's the one who whom he gave
authority to, to keep the earth in this particular state that he
originally. But Adam fell from dominion.
He let go of that rulership. He gave it over to the enemy or
the devil, the one who comes to kill, steal and destroy.
And the systems that we have in the earth are not operating by
God because God is not in control of those systems.
God is in control of His Word and so the earth itself is not
functioning. However, we have, if you have
read the back of the book, as many of us here at Anchor Fade
Church has done, because when you get to the last chapter,
last verse, Revelation 2221, you'll see that there's a new
heaven and a new earth. And the earth got originally
designed and how he wanted it to function will function again,
except this time it will function in another way, meaning
that God will be just a little bit closer.
Instead of him just residing in heaven, He brings the city down
and moves on the planet. Hallelujah.
Amen. Because he always wanted heaven
and earth to be be the exact same environment.
You understand this happens in companies all the time.
Companies will start with a particular purpose, have a
vision go through and then through US growth and
development. All of a sudden it's models will
change and they'll find themselves saying, you know
what? We're not doing things like we
originally intended and had to go back and do a refocus of how
they've done things. We understand the church is not,
how can I say it? It's subject to the same
challenges because in the earth traditions come, things can
happen, and all of a sudden we can pick up ideas that the
church is because we're not intent in the Word to maintain
what God says about a thing. And all of a sudden we develop
traditions about things and then we change the model of stuff.
Yet we keep the same title. Well, this is church, however,
doesn't match the Church of the Bible.
Amen. Doesn't match the Church of the
Bible. And there are a lot of truths
out in that are within the Scripture, but God never
intended for the church to focus solely on one, right?
That's true on a truth, a truth. Now, one truth we know for sure
is that unless you accept Jesus Christ as your Lord, you cannot
be born again. In essence, the lost, we would
say, needs to be saved. And I have probably heard this
statement so many times, you know, and again, it didn't
technically bother me until I kept going to Scripture.
And when you go to Scripture, you can't help but say, is that
so? So when I hear the only thing
that matters and the the the purpose of the church or the
role of the church is to win the lost, well, does the Bible say
that should the church win the lost?
Yes. But is it the only thing it
should do? Because if it's the only thing
it does, well, then a lot of people are not going to be
discipled and a lot of things concerning God are not going to
be spoken about. And I've heard even minister say
this many times, you know, well, you know that all be figured out
in the end. Well, God sent the church to
disciple Saints so that they could grow in the Word, which
means, what are the other truths out there?
But Paul who had the revelation of the church, OK, says to
Timothy, who is pastoring a very large church in Ephesus, he says
to him, the one that Paul himself planted in Ephesus, he
says, now listen, if I delay, I want you, I'm writing to you so
you'll know. Put that verse back up.
First Timothy chapter 3, verse 15.
Know how one ought to conduct himself in the household of God,
which is the Church of the living God.
And here it is the pillar and support of the truth.
Now this word pillar is a column.
It means it it, it can symbolize a person of authority.
Paul himself said, I went to the pillars of the church.
He talked about a some of the apostles, the apostle James, the
apostle Peter. He said they were pillars,
meaning they were people of authority.
Why were they pillars? Because they had a firm
foundation of the things the king has said, spoken his
character, his way of conducting the Kingdom on the earth.
So they were considered pillars. But a pillar also is the support
of true doctrine. And when we say doctrine, a lot
of times when we think we're the pillar on support of truth, a
lot of times we fall back into this idea of just truth
concerning things of God or things concerning his church.
It's just God based. It's not world based.
We understand God can tell you the truth about what happened
back in, you know, 2020 money or what happened with, you know,
World War 2 or what happened with someone's life because a
word of knowledge can manifest so that you can know exactly
what took place and what's the truth about a situation.
So truth is not limited in one sense to just biblical things.
You know, you can have the factual truth concerning
situations. I know a lot of times there are
things that happen. I'm like, Lord, why in the world
I'm what I'm doing is I'm looking for truth.
Now, that doesn't mean he's going to give me the authority
to communicate why someone died. And anybody ever had that
thought? Well, why did they die?
You know what, there can be a reason for that.
And you know what? God actually knows that reason
and if we now God may not be God's not obligated to tell you
all the time, but if he if you see Kim, you're going to have a
better chance of the opportunity for him to say let me tell you
the truth about this matter. Are you hearing me?
But the Bible talks about the church being the pillar in
support of truth. So we are a column.
We are support of true things. In fact, the world should be
coming to the church for answers, not the church going to
the world for answers. But the minute the world, the
church decides that we don't care about the world.
Now we say we do well, we want to win the law, but we really
don't care because we don't want to know truth.
In order to know truth, you're going to have to change your
thinking. You're going to have to change
the way you think because God's ways are higher than our ways.
His thoughts are higher than our thoughts, and God will start
talking to you about some things of truth.
Let me ask this question. Is the word truth OK?
Jesus said you are to love me. Is that true with all your
you're finishing it for me. Great.
Most people stop there. Lord, I've given you my heart,
but does he stop there? He says you are to love the Lord
thy God with all your heart, all your soul, all your mind, all
your you know what? That's your whole being, that
spirit, soul and body, which means the truth of God's word
is, is that as a believer, the the 4050 sixty hours during the
week that you are out being a light to the world should not
get your physical exertion so much that you cannot make it to
church on Sunday. Because if you would say, well,
I'm too tired, then you have given your physical body to the
world and not to the Lord. Amen.
Same in anyway. OK.
And parents, you know, I know how parents are.
I was a parent as well. You know, our children would go
to school all day long and then we would after they've gotten up
early, been in class all day, studied, you know, mentally
they're exhausted. And we'll say, well, you're
going to practice now and then we'll put them through a
physical practice routine. Because if you're going to be a
part of the team, you're going to do extra travel hours to a
game on a weekend. They don't get off.
But then sometimes, you know, as parents, they'll be like, well,
I worked all week. Surely you understand.
OK, so a pillar is that which supports or has authority.
The word support means foundation or ground.
So I'm going to read verse 5 again because we're going to
kind of backtrack because it says, he said, now in case I'm
delayed, I'm writing to you so you'll know how one ought to,
which tells us you may not. This is how you ought to.
There's a way you ought to. That doesn't mean everyone going
to church is doing it that way, but this is how it ought to be.
Which tells us that the Bible has an expectation.
God has an expectation for how you live after you're born
again. So this is how you ought to
conduct himself in the household of God, which is the Church of
the living God, the pillar and support of truth.
If you do not have the pillar and the support of truth as the
part of the church, then God, the living God, is not going to
be obligated to be at your assembly, nor are you
technically going to be functioning as the household of
God. Now, I'm going to prove that out
here in the next 20 minutes. The pillar in support of truth
is a big deal when it comes to the church.
And I'm going to be honest with you, as John George says,
listen, we are living in the last of the last days.
And this is not hypothetical hype.
This is not trying to get you afraid.
I'm not here to get you afraid. I'm here to get you pumped up,
excited, because the greatest days of the church are ahead of
us. It's an amazing time.
Do you understand this amazing time?
I mean, this is like the Super Bowl.
This is a championship for the church.
I mean, the whole season started on the book of Acts and it's
been the season of the church aid to where now we're getting
to the championship, to where the church is going to mature.
It's going to be full of power. It's going to have the greatest
demonstrations of God. But again, we have to make sure
that we are right in line with what God's saying in his plan
because he warns now in the last of the last days, there's going
to be issues. People are going to fall away.
Why? Because they have failed to
recognize through my word exactly what I intended from the
beginning. And you cannot win a
championship if you don't get back to the fundamentals or the
foundation. Which means then as we have
grown as a church, we kept saying, well, I know people are
or I've heard that, but what does the Bible say?
My bedrock belief is not on the traditions of man, but on what
does the Word say? And if Jesus Christ is building
his church, which he is, then we must say what is the church he's
building and the church he's building is built on the as a
pillar and support of the truth and truth.
There are a lot of truths within scripture.
Jesus said this in John chapter 18 verse 38.
It said Pilate said therefore answered him.
Then then you are king and Jesus answered.
Now I'm reading out of the a oh what is this version AFVI can't
remember what be a faithful version says this.
Then you are king. Jesus said as you say, I am king
for this purpose, say for this purpose, for this purpose I was
born and for this reason I came into the world that I may bear
witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth
hears my voice. You know, the only reason, just
to come off what Reverend John George said, the only reason why
a person would listen to another voice is because they don't want
to hear truth anymore. They want to hear a lie.
And let me tell you, in our society today, people want to
hear a lie. Now, I can tell you first hand,
when we had the governor, there was a particular situation that
occurred that I, I was not personally present, but I could
bring the people who were personally present of how they
addressed an individual that showed up and the meeting.
OK, didn't, didn't, could not continue to attend the meeting.
So they got on social media and communicated why they were not
allowed to be at the meeting. And I'm here to tell you it is
an utter lie. What they put out an utter lie.
Every word spoken is not reality, right?
That's right, But their audience, who has an ear to
them? One asked the question, well,
why did they put you out? And the next answer was a
complete lie Completely. That is not how the situation
went down at all. 0 did not happen.
So what takes place here is that individuals following has
created something that they say had occurred in the meeting that
I was at, that never happened and at Anchor Fate Church, the
ones who attended, they could all bear witness.
That never occurred. That never occurred.
So I can tell you the truth about that situation literally.
Do you understand? God is in every situation.
There's nowhere God is not Hallelujah.
He's everywhere. So you post what you want to
post. God was there.
God knows exactly what went down, what was spoken, how it
was handled, what took place, and God ultimately is going to
judge those situations. I said he is going to judge
because I can tell you when the when you stand before Christ,
he'll pull up all your social media stuff and that's not being
funny. That's real because those that
are go before the great White Throne judgment.
He opens up books. What do you think are in those
books? It's every posting, it's every
word. It's every idle word.
Even with a believer, when you stand before the Bema seat of
Christ, you're going to be judged on every idle word.
Now not to get into heaven or to be in in in eternally with God,
but for the rewards associated with how you function as a
believer once you became in Christ.
OK, so Jesus's purpose was because he was a king.
Because again, the original function of the planet was that
man would operate in dominion like God.
Let us make man in our image according to our likeness, and
let him have what dominion he was to rule over the earth.
God never intended or never wanted the devil to rule over
the planet or to be the God of this world.
Adam gave it away because God gave it to Adam.
So in order for God to receive it back, he must come as a man
because it's man's right to have dominion on the earth.
Hallelujah. And so Jesus says, I come back
as a king because Adam was to rule the first one he fell.
I'm the second or last Adam, I will rule.
I'll take back from the devil what he took from when he says
took was given to him by Adam. I will take it back.
And he did. I said Annie did.
And Jesus bears witness to truth.
Matthew chapter 16, verse 18. The Passion says it this way.
And I will give you the name Peter a stone.
And this truth of who I am, say who I am will be the bedrock
foundation on which I build my church, my legislative assembly.
And the power of death will not be able to overpower it.
You know, we are learning some really amazing things by the
unction of the Holy Ghost of how the Bible's about a king, his
Kingdom and his royal offspring. Because you understand the
suffering servant is not coming back to the earth.
The the lamb that was slain has been slain, but the king is
returning and the King's going to return with an iron rod.
The King's going to come back and put down his Kingdom on the
earth. There is a government that he
has and and Christianity church does not fit his government
Kingdom. And so it's very important for
us to say, God, what are you saying about these things and
how does the church supposed to function and operate?
Because when you dive into actual Scripture.
As the Passion translated it accurately, it says legislative
Assembly calls the church and are we the reigning church?
Come on, are we the reigning church is a legislative assembly
of called out ones. We are all ambassadors for
Christ. We come into what is like an an
embassy where we hear from the home country in order to
communicate the policies of the Kingdom of God out into the
world. Hallelujah, we are now citizens
of God's Kingdom and so Jesus said now on this revelation or
the truth of who I am, I will build my church.
Well if we jumped up a verse or so and we will hear in a minute.
He asked them to question in the verse 15th verse, he said, but
who do you say that I am now God named himself I am.
Remember when Moses said, well, who do I tell him that you know
sent me? He said tell him I am sent you.
You know when Jesus said when he was being brought before the
high priest, He said I am man. When he said that remember when
they came to him at the garden and they said, you know, are you
that? He said I am many.
I mean, he was that was God and they fell to the ground under
under the power of him saying I am Hallelujah because the Son of
man is the Son of God. So then if Jesus is saying, but
who do you say that I am? And Peter says you're the
Christ. Jesus says upon this truth that
I am the Christ, I'll build my church.
That is the bedrock of this legislative assembly, and the
Christ is the King of the Kingdom.
So the church was always intended to be built on a
government, not a religion. And there are truths within this
government that we are to learn from, not just how.
Where do we go when we die? That was never the message of
Jesus, never the message of Jesus.
In John chapter 14 verse 6, we alluded to it here earlier.
Jesus said I am the way, the truth, the life and no one comes
to the Father but but through me.
Well, if I if he says who do, who do you say I am?
And Peter says you are the Christ.
We could say I am is the Christ. Well if I am is the Christ, it
would read this way. The Christ is the way, the
Christ is the truth. The Christ is the life and that
is the King because Jesus is the truth.
Hallelujah, Jesus. So how can you build a church
and not preach the Word? How can the Word not take center
stage of everything we do in life?
If he says this is how you ought to conduct yourself in the
household of God, which is the the Church of the living God,
the pillar and support of truth. The pillar, support of truth is
built on the Christ the King in the beginning was the Word and
the Word was with God and then the Word was God.
So the church has to be built solely on the Word, which means
we are looking to it, not to the commentaries.
We are looking to to, to rightly dividing it from Genesis 11 to
Revelations 2221. We are to be asking questions.
Are there things inside our church, our household, that is a
tradition and not a foundation of truth?
Because in his church you do not act any way you want to.
He defines the behavior because the behavior is a result of the
righteousness. And if you are a child of God,
then this is how you act. All the epistles that that Paul
were writing was the conduct around the believer.
Now this is how you want to do now this is a bit you used to
live this way, act this way, but now we live this way.
Why? Because there's a way to live
now that you're in the Kingdom of God and what you could never
have done by your spirit because it was dead and separated from
God. Christ did when he died on the
cross, rose from the grave, poured out his blood on the
mercy seat, covered all of your transgression so that when you
ask, when you repent and ask for God's forgiveness, he will
remove that spirit. Man put a new spirit in you
that's created in the likeness of God.
And then the counselor, the teacher will come and live in
you. Bear witness to your spirit.
You're a child of God. And then it's time to go to
class because that's now you're a pupil in the Kingdom of God to
learn your sonship, your daughtership, on who you are now
in Christ, in the King. And the foundation of all you do
has to say. What does the word say?
How I feel about this doesn't matter.
What's the word say? What's the word say?
And so for me to train you as a
pastor, if I am not caught, if our interactions do not get
centered around when there's things saying, well, what's the
word say about that, then I'm destroying the foundation by
which the church is built. I can't sympathize with you.
Meaning, man, that's really bad deal.
How do you feel about it? What do you think you should do?
But don't you see what happened? But what does the word say?
And that's not for the faint of
heart. I get it.
But that's who you are in Christ.
And so when you establish that the church is the pillar in
support of truth, meaning we are going to go into this thing and
learn what is God saying about everything, about how to live,
how to move. And Paul said in him, we live
and move and have our being. You understand church is not
something you do, it's who you are.
This is not a time in your life, it is your life and until you
get that, then you know what church is just a tradition and
the foundation you're living on is your truth mixed with his
truth, which at the end of the day is not going to get the
results that God wants. And, and he'll also be
constantly pointing back to you to get to the word Hallelu
rightly divided by the Spirit of God.
When you allow the word of God to be the pillar and support of
all of your life, then what you, what you have done is you've
allowed yourself to be in the place where the living God is.
Yeah, that's right. Now, why do I say that?
Because in the beginning was the and the word was with God in the
word. So the living God is in the
word. And I'm not talking a word
preached by a religious person. I'm talking about The Word Alive
on those who act on it. So Matthew 1616 again Peter
answer says you are the Christ, the Son of the living God.
So notice because he recognized he was the Christ, the King, the
word, the foundation, that of which Jesus goes on and said,
now this is the bedrock of belief that I'm the king.
Do you understand? Most of us believe that Jesus is
just Savior. Savior is what he did.
King is who he is. He is Lord, supreme authority.
If Adam had never eaten the fruit, Jesus would never have
had to save us. That's right.
We never would have known him as
the lamb slain. There would have been no need
for blood. But he still would rule.
Amen. He would still be ruling.
He would still be the Lord, He would still be the Lord of all.
Hallelujah, Hallelujah. So when you recognize that the
Christ is connected to the living God, look at what it says
in John 669. It says also, we have come to
believe and to know that you are the Christ again, the Son of the
living God. So understanding God's kingship
is synonymous, yes, with recognizing the living God.
It's synonymous. And we see this because if you
if you went over to the book of Acts chapter 19 and this is
verse 21 to 20 to 41, we are not going to read them.
I'm just going to communicate. And the reason I'm going to use
Acts chapter 19 is because Paul in his writing to Timothy is
about the church at Ephesus. And Paul has been to assistant
had a little challenge once. And you can read about in Acts
chapter 19 verses 21 to 41 that there was a particular
blacksmith that was highly upset that Paul was in town because
every town he ever went to, the idols of those towns started to
become destroyed. And the manufacturing industry
of those idols went from money to nothing.
And so his economics was in play and so he assembled.
Acts 19 says, and if you looked up that word assembly in Acts
19, it is the same word as Matthew 1618 that we define
church is ekklesia. 19 does not communicate it as the church.
They communicate it as an assembly, but it's the exact
same Greek word. See, we've made church like it's
only religion. But church in its original
intent, which is ekklesia, is legislative assembly.
It is a group of people coming together to discuss legal
affairs concerning the country they represent.
And so they this guy pulls in an assembly to discuss with all
those in town concerning the trade of an idol called Diana
one translation Artemis the another.
And so they getting a huge uproar about this thing
concerning Here's the thing. And if you if you take it for
context in Acts 19 when they assemble for two hours, they
shouted great is the goddess Diana for two out.
I've never come to Anchor Faith Church.
I have never in 21 years come to Anchor Faith Church.
And praise took off to where we shouted for two hours.
Jesus Christ is Lord. That has never happened, but a
group of people that are separated from God but had more
loyalty to the God of Mammon shouted for two hours straight
concerning a God that is dead. The point of this is, is that
when truth, because their whole religion is built on a lie and
you can assemble and worship your God, but it was a dead God.
It was not the living God. Acts chapter 1921 to 41 is a
church service. It is another church in Ephesus
beside the one Paul planted and they had a worship session for
two hours for a God that was dead.
But when you have the pillar in support of truth, that is the
Christ, you begin to pray. Well, then you'll, you'll move
into the, the, the, the church that has the living God, the
living God, where he will be present among you, the living
God. Now you can take the Diana, but
I'm going to tell you right now. Look at this and second Timothy
35. The amplifier says it this way.
Holding to a form of outward godliness or religion, although
they have denied its power for their conduct, nullifies their
claim of faith. Avoid such people and keep far
away from them. Put that back up there again.
Holding to a form of God, outward godliness.
So from the outside, oh man, they're right with God just by
how they talk. But they're denying the power of
the Holy Ghost because their actual conducts nullifies their
claims of faith. They are not handling situations
as it is written. They're not walking through life
as as it is written. They're making an excuse of why
they can continue to do what they do, how they do, yet then
they'll get a USA. Don't talk about.
I know God, God knows my man. They always say that.
And you know what I like to say? Yes, he does because he knows
what spirit you're of right now. He knows why you're doing what
you're doing. He knows what's going on in your
heart. He knows what he's talked to you
about about repenting. He knows the mercy he's extended
towards you because if you don't allow the transfer me forming
power of his word through the Spirit to renew your mind, then
you're the all you're going to be is religious, which means you
can even say Jesus and not be in a church with the living God.
You say, how can that be pastor? Well, what did Jesus say on that
day? They'll say, Lord, Lord didn't
we? And he'll say, depart from me.
I never knew you, I never knew you.
So how do you know you're functioning in a church where
the living God is #1 the word is being preached there.
The reigning church is going to have the word rightly divided
and it's constantly going to be looking into the Scripture on
every aspect of life. From there it is the atmosphere
by which the living God will inhabit and then it will produce
the household of God. In Hebrews chapter 3 verse six
that says this, but Christ was faithful as a son over His
house, whose house we are. If we hold fast our confidence
and the boast of our hope firm until the end.
If conditional statement, we hold fast our confidence and the
boast of our hope firm until the end.
You understand you can be in his house and leave his house.
That is the prodigal son. The prodigal son was in the
house but left the house. And whose responsibility was it
to come back to the house? It was the son's responsibility
because the father did not leave the house.
All right, So just because you've been in church and then
you get out of church doesn't mean you're still in it.
OK. Matthew chapter 12 verse 46 to
48 or 50 says this. He said while he was still
speaking to the crowds, because again we're talking a household.
Jesus is the best over his own household over his own house.
He says this while he was still speaking to the crowds.
Behold his mother and brothers and and were standing outside
seeking to speak to him. Now this is his literal mother
and his literal half brothers and sisters and with our half,
because Mary was the only one who conceived by the Holy Ghost,
Jesus, Joseph help with the rest of the family that was in the
house. OK, verse 47, someone said to
him, behold, your mother and your brothers are standing
outside seeking to speak with you.
So what's Jesus his response? But Jesus answered the one who
was telling him and he said, who is my mother and who are my
brothers? Now was Jesus having an amnesia
moment right? Do you think he forgot about
Mary? Do you think he forgot about
James? No, but he's here to make a
point because again, one of the the things within the church is
that God never intended for the people who came from my personal
household to be my only household.
That was never God's intent. And it says in stretching out
his hand towards his, his what? Come on, we're almost done.
His what? Disciples, He said, Behold my
mother and my brothers. Now I can say you are my mother,
my brothers, my sisters, right? I can say that.
But it isn't just 'cause you're with me that makes you my
family. Let's keep going, He said.
Whoever for whoever does the will of my father.
Now that tells me that if you are a disciple, then you must be
a doer of the will of the Father.
If you are not doing the will of the Father, then you are not a
disciple because again, the Bible defines these terms.
We don't get to define these terms.
Having a class doesn't make you a disciple.
Going to a church, taking a class does not make you a
disciple. That's not what makes you a
disciple. A disciple is someone who will
be a doer of His word. Well, if you're going to be a
doer of His word and understand all the truths that are
associated in His Kingdom, then you're going to have to study
the Word. And when He, when you hear it,
you've got to let it change your thinking and then you act on it
every time. Not sometimes, not 90% of the
time, not 40% of the time, 100% of the time.
If you fail to act on it, you repent and then you get back on
acting on it. So Jesus is defining, if you're
a disciple, then you're going to do the will of my Father.
Well, is it the will of the Father that we assemble today?
OK, that's just one truth. Whoever does the will of my
Father who is in heaven, he is my brother and sister and.
Mother for whoever, again, whoever, whoever.
So he's looking at disciples. He's saying this family's bigger
than this. So again, my family is not from
my DNA as far as natural blood, but it is from the DNA of God.
Hallelujah. And my brothers and sisters who
love to do the will of God, it's easy to be around them.
I mean, it's so fun to be around them.
It is amazing to be around them because even if I do something
wrong towards them, then they will forgive me, restore me, and
we'll go on and vice versa. Because we never get offended,
get hung up, never get into strife and those things that we
allow it to stay. Why?
Because we're too committed to doing the will of the Father.
We're too passionate about doing His purpose and intent.
We're too excited about waking up every day and saying, what
does God want to do with me today?
I can't wait to be around all these other people who just love
to please the Father and live by faith that we eat, breathe and
drink it. And it's not contained in the
building, but it comes from this building because we assemble to
do our part of what Dad asks us to do, and we passionately run
and do it. Yeah, that is who Jesus is
talking about. And you can have this household
when you have the living God in your church, because the church
is the pillar and supportive truth, not the place where
opinions and cultural ideas are explored.
One person said it this way. A household is a society marked
by diversity in unity. Yeah, that's powerful.
A household is a society marked by diversity in unity.
And when I look out here and just in this sanctuary, I'm
thankful. We're not the same, but our
unity makes us unstoppable. What are we unified around doing
The will of our father. Nothing personal.
I got to do the will of my father.
I love him so much. You know what?
I'm going to love you through his eyes.
And we're going to handle situations according to how Dad
says to handle them. Because we love Dad and there's
nothing that Dad hasn't can't help us overcome, nor has he not
conquered. So it's easy for us.
It's really easy for us. Then we're not like, OK Dad,
let's do it your way. And I died a self and do his
will is easy. And man, those people are the
funnest to be around. And I just want you to know
they're the only ones you're going to be around in eternity.
No one is in the new Jerusalem and the new heaven and new
earth. That's like, you know, this is
pretty cool. I kind of miss.
No, not at all. Not at all.
Let's close with this passage in
Ephesians chapter 2. We're going to do water baptism.
If you're going to be water baptized, I'm going to encourage
you to step out now. Go ahead and change and then
come back and get ready and we'll baptize you.
Ephesians 218 to 22. It says For through Him we both
have our access in one Spirit to the Father.
So then we are no longer strangers and aliens, but you
are fellow citizens with the Saints and you and are of God's
household having been built on the on the foundation of the
apostles and prophets, Christ himself being the cornerstone
Christ Jesus himself. Christ is the Greek equivalent
to the Hebrew word Messiah. What was the what was the church
built on? That Jesus Christ is King, He's
the King of the Kingdom, and we are a part of his Kingdom.
We are citizens, fellow citizens, this one says in his
Kingdom, and it makes us part of his household, in whom the whole
body being fitted together is growing into a holy temple in
the Lord, in whom also are being built together into a dwelling
of God in the Spirit. And so we see here that who is
in our household is those who do the will of the Father, your
family. And there's nothing better than
to be around. It's tough to be around someone
who wants to rebel. And I'm going to do a little bit
of a study on this because Reverend John George, I love
being around people who like to talk the word right now, I can
talk other stuff. Don't get me wrong.
I can talk about football. I can talk about, you know,
hockey. I can talk about, you know,
other things. But I love to talk about the
word. Word.
And he said this, and he said, you know, there's a big
difference between disobedience and rebellion.
I'm like, oh, I need to preach that.
That's good. Because I think some people
think they're just disobeying when they're in downright
rebellion. Those disobedience will lead you
to the road of rebellion. But there's nothing.
It's tough being around a believer that just doesn't want
to do a word. Because it's like, I don't
understand why are you not doing the work?
I don't understand what's what's the problem?
Why are you allowing your flesh to dominate, right?
I don't understand you. You've been crucified with, I
don't understand, but man, you get around those who have no
problem. They're the funnest people to be
with. You just love to hang out with
them. You want to and you love the
fact that they're not like you. They see things differently, but
yet you're unified around that. We going to do what God says.
We're going to fulfill God's plan.
Now how are we going to do that? We say, what's the Bible say?
What's the Bible say? I'm going to close with this
again. John's been with us, Reverend
John, for a little bit. And we talked about many things.
And he would say, hey, in this situation, would you do this?
And he gives me the word. I said, yeah, I know that's in
the Word. I said I talked to the Lord
about that. Is that your word for me in this
situation? But He gave me this word
instead, and according to this word, I'm doing this.
Do you understand? Doing the will of the Father is
not grabbing His word and deciding which one you want to
apply, but it's seeking Him to find out which word He wants you
to apply. Because when you apply the word
He gives you, then you have the anointing of that word.
You have the anointing of that word and situations.
There are different applications by which the Father knows which
to apply. He knows which to apply.
For some, there's still more mercy, so he says stay here.
But for others, he's like, you're going to say this, you're
going to cut that off, but you have to have an ear to hear
that, not you pick based upon how you feel about that
situation. And now you're going to throw
Scripture out there because God's living presence comes from
the foundation that he's the pillar in support of truth.
And he's like, the truth is about this situation.
This is what I need you to do to get the best result.
And sometimes the best result doesn't resolve it, but it's the
best result for you. And then God moves on so he can
do what He needs to do because you did what you did.
Amen.