1 00:00:02,240 --> 00:00:04,760 Thanks for checking out the Anchor Faith Message podcast 2 00:00:04,760 --> 00:00:06,160 from St. Augustine, FL. 3 00:00:06,680 --> 00:00:15,600 Now enjoy this message. All right. 4 00:00:15,600 --> 00:00:18,880 But if you have your Bibles turn over to Mark chapter 16, verse 5 00:00:18,880 --> 00:00:22,080 15, I want to kind of continue in the vein that Pastor Angie 6 00:00:22,520 --> 00:00:25,800 was on assignment last week. In fact, you know, before I ever 7 00:00:25,800 --> 00:00:31,280 go out of the out of town. I I just don't let our, you 8 00:00:31,280 --> 00:00:33,760 know, I don't have people that I'm thinking of and say, OK if 9 00:00:33,760 --> 00:00:35,320 I'm not here so and so is ministering. 10 00:00:35,880 --> 00:00:39,200 You know, I'm always thinking in fact there's many times we get 11 00:00:39,200 --> 00:00:40,640 in our staff meeting they're like, you know you hadn't 12 00:00:40,640 --> 00:00:42,720 assigned anyone to minister. I said, well I hadn't got 13 00:00:42,720 --> 00:00:45,480 someone yet. It's not because I couldn't just 14 00:00:45,840 --> 00:00:48,360 pick people at random. That's pretty simple. 15 00:00:48,920 --> 00:00:52,920 But you know, sometimes I do. I mean often and always I know 16 00:00:52,920 --> 00:00:55,440 that God wants to utilize the gifts within the body. 17 00:00:56,000 --> 00:00:58,680 And so, you know, you want to be able to pick the ones that God's 18 00:00:58,680 --> 00:01:00,600 saying, I need them to release something. 19 00:01:01,200 --> 00:01:04,200 And so, you know, I pick accordingly to that. 20 00:01:04,519 --> 00:01:09,000 And so and then sometimes they'll ask pastor, what do you 21 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:12,320 want me to minister on? And you know, sometimes, and 22 00:01:12,320 --> 00:01:15,000 they can do, you know, they can testify sometime, like, man, 23 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:17,760 whatever's in your heart, you know, because I trust the Holy 24 00:01:17,760 --> 00:01:20,480 Ghost in them. You know, I'm with them day in 25 00:01:20,480 --> 00:01:23,080 and day out and I understand they're going to minister. 26 00:01:23,080 --> 00:01:25,160 A lot of times they'll joke around that, you know, they're 27 00:01:25,160 --> 00:01:27,400 going to reveal the Antichrist while I'm gone and stuff like 28 00:01:27,400 --> 00:01:31,640 that. But you know, obviously they 29 00:01:31,640 --> 00:01:36,160 never do that. But with that being said, you 30 00:01:36,160 --> 00:01:38,960 know, we you give them liberty, but sometimes you just kind of 31 00:01:38,960 --> 00:01:42,680 get it in your heart that I need them to mine out a specific 32 00:01:42,680 --> 00:01:45,800 subject. Because you know the gift that 33 00:01:45,800 --> 00:01:50,000 they are or they're going to tackle that subject different 34 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:54,160 than I would. And so I give assignments and so 35 00:01:54,160 --> 00:01:57,520 I gave an assignment you know to them this time all of them 36 00:01:57,520 --> 00:01:59,760 actually. It seemed that it was right that 37 00:01:59,760 --> 00:02:02,760 I needed them to administer what they were specifically doing in 38 00:02:02,760 --> 00:02:05,520 the things that we're doing in our community are so 39 00:02:05,520 --> 00:02:08,639 overwhelming. It's almost you almost have to 40 00:02:08,639 --> 00:02:12,080 step back and take your breath and and you're like. 41 00:02:13,600 --> 00:02:17,120 Can we do that? Can we do that Now? 42 00:02:17,120 --> 00:02:19,520 There's a statement that I make in our vision partnership. 43 00:02:20,040 --> 00:02:23,560 And I say this, I said, you know, because you're here, we 44 00:02:23,560 --> 00:02:27,040 can now accomplish some things because the reality is there's 45 00:02:27,040 --> 00:02:29,760 some things we want to accomplish, but it requires the 46 00:02:29,760 --> 00:02:34,640 personnel to accomplish it because it was never my task to 47 00:02:34,640 --> 00:02:37,600 do so. You know, I feel like, you know, 48 00:02:37,600 --> 00:02:41,360 there's a great biblical example of that is that there became a 49 00:02:41,360 --> 00:02:44,720 challenge in the community with feeding widows. 50 00:02:45,800 --> 00:02:48,480 And so they came to the leadership of the church, the 51 00:02:48,480 --> 00:02:51,280 apostle, and said, look, you know, we got some widows here 52 00:02:51,280 --> 00:02:53,800 who's not getting fed, right? And we need to do something 53 00:02:53,800 --> 00:02:56,840 about it. Well, the apostle Peter was 54 00:02:56,840 --> 00:02:59,600 like, look, that's not our assignment. 55 00:02:59,600 --> 00:03:03,200 Not that we can't do it, but at the end of the day, that's not 56 00:03:03,200 --> 00:03:05,320 our assignment. We're bigger than just us. 57 00:03:05,800 --> 00:03:10,680 So here's the candidates that would be qualified in order to 58 00:03:10,680 --> 00:03:13,240 feed widows. And that was a pretty high 59 00:03:13,240 --> 00:03:16,000 standard. They had to be full of the Holy 60 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:18,920 Ghost and wisdom. They weren't people that just 61 00:03:18,920 --> 00:03:24,760 got into the Kingdom of God. And so they're like, you know, 62 00:03:24,760 --> 00:03:26,360 these are the ones we're looking for. 63 00:03:26,720 --> 00:03:30,960 Well, one person started this ministry of feeding widows. 64 00:03:30,960 --> 00:03:34,160 His name was Stephen and he became a powerhouse. 65 00:03:35,240 --> 00:03:41,440 Just because he answered a call to help the community through 66 00:03:41,440 --> 00:03:44,760 the church. I said through the church and it 67 00:03:44,760 --> 00:03:49,280 developed his gift. And his gift was so powerful 68 00:03:49,480 --> 00:03:55,720 that it made Jesus stand up. Come on, let that sink in, that 69 00:03:55,800 --> 00:04:00,760 at his stoning, Jesus gives him a a standing ovation gets up off 70 00:04:00,760 --> 00:04:03,040 his throne. Wow. 71 00:04:03,800 --> 00:04:07,880 And that ministry started because he met a need in the 72 00:04:07,880 --> 00:04:13,040 community through the church, you know, So what we're doing is 73 00:04:13,280 --> 00:04:17,360 way bigger than all of us. And but it takes every one of us 74 00:04:17,360 --> 00:04:23,760 to accomplish it and to do it selflessly to really start 75 00:04:23,760 --> 00:04:26,680 functioning as the church was designed. 76 00:04:26,920 --> 00:04:28,480 And we're going to have that church here. 77 00:04:29,200 --> 00:04:30,680 Now. You got to ask yourself, are you 78 00:04:30,680 --> 00:04:32,280 going to be a part of that or not? 79 00:04:32,680 --> 00:04:35,920 And that's totally up to you. But it's going to happen here. 80 00:04:35,920 --> 00:04:37,560 It's going to happen on this property. 81 00:04:37,560 --> 00:04:39,600 It's going to happen through this thing called Anchor Fay 82 00:04:39,600 --> 00:04:42,880 Church, not only in this location, but in Valdosta, in 83 00:04:42,880 --> 00:04:46,080 Nicaragua and Dominican Republic and in India. 84 00:04:46,200 --> 00:04:49,920 And every location we have is going to manifest, because Jesus 85 00:04:49,920 --> 00:04:52,800 Christ is coming back for a church without spot or wrinkle. 86 00:04:52,960 --> 00:04:56,080 A place where they grow in love towards one another, where 87 00:04:56,080 --> 00:05:00,480 they're unified around the vision and they do it selflessly 88 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:05,120 in love with one another. Seeking first the Kingdom. 89 00:05:05,120 --> 00:05:11,520 It's going to happen, and I know it's going to happen because God 90 00:05:11,520 --> 00:05:15,240 said it would happen that there would be a church at the end 91 00:05:15,320 --> 00:05:18,640 that was greater than the former one because the latter rain is 92 00:05:18,640 --> 00:05:21,960 better than the former rain. And we're going to mature and 93 00:05:21,960 --> 00:05:24,240 we're going to be doing the great exploits. 94 00:05:25,240 --> 00:05:28,840 We're going to look like the the world has never seen the church 95 00:05:28,840 --> 00:05:31,560 like it has now. They're going to be 96 00:05:31,560 --> 00:05:34,600 counterfeits. I get it. 97 00:05:35,160 --> 00:05:38,880 There's always a counterfeit because the devil's always 98 00:05:38,880 --> 00:05:44,720 trying to counterfeit God. But the authentic and real will 99 00:05:44,720 --> 00:05:49,560 be here, and we're going to be those people, period. 100 00:05:49,560 --> 00:05:51,600 So just position yourself to be that. 101 00:05:51,960 --> 00:05:54,800 But in Mark chapter 16 verse 15 and said, he said to them go 102 00:05:54,800 --> 00:05:58,760 into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation. 103 00:05:58,760 --> 00:06:05,080 And I love how Pastor Angie communicated once again that 104 00:06:05,080 --> 00:06:09,240 world is not Planet Earth. It is the systems that are 105 00:06:09,240 --> 00:06:12,120 within the world, that is the sectors of society. 106 00:06:12,120 --> 00:06:15,800 And she broke down those sectors of society once again for you. 107 00:06:15,800 --> 00:06:18,000 And if you did not hear that message last week, you need to 108 00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:23,680 go online and listen to it, OK? And so many people have gotten 109 00:06:23,680 --> 00:06:26,800 this completely wrong because they say all we got to go into 110 00:06:26,800 --> 00:06:29,880 all the world, and they're thinking nations only, and 111 00:06:29,880 --> 00:06:32,680 they're not even thinking about the sectors of society. 112 00:06:33,400 --> 00:06:38,560 And you know, and and your Commission to go tomorrow, today 113 00:06:39,560 --> 00:06:42,440 you're to go. And the minute you go to Publix, 114 00:06:42,440 --> 00:06:44,760 you're in a sector of society. It's called business. 115 00:06:45,560 --> 00:06:49,720 Are you hearing me? You're already in a place of the 116 00:06:49,720 --> 00:06:54,400 world, a cosmos, a order arranged way that something 117 00:06:54,400 --> 00:06:57,920 functions that you're the light of Jesus Christ to shine. 118 00:06:58,040 --> 00:07:00,720 Not only you're the light, but you're the righteousness of God 119 00:07:00,720 --> 00:07:02,800 in Christ. Which means if you've been made 120 00:07:02,800 --> 00:07:06,040 righteous by Christ, you ought to reflect that righteousness. 121 00:07:07,920 --> 00:07:11,840 So again, when you're out doing something, it's not your work, 122 00:07:11,840 --> 00:07:16,640 but it is the work that God did in you, so you ought to do it. 123 00:07:19,440 --> 00:07:23,840 Our righteous work should be demonstrated and we are to go 124 00:07:23,840 --> 00:07:26,880 into every sector of society. There's not one that we should 125 00:07:26,880 --> 00:07:31,000 not penetrate, and we are, as a church are not technically 126 00:07:31,000 --> 00:07:33,160 penetrating them all at this juncture. 127 00:07:33,400 --> 00:07:37,400 But God has given us a plethora of opportunities starting to 128 00:07:37,400 --> 00:07:41,000 show up. And so really, you have to start 129 00:07:41,000 --> 00:07:43,600 really shifting your mind through that word. 130 00:07:43,600 --> 00:07:46,200 Repent. Cause repent is not a religious 131 00:07:46,200 --> 00:07:47,920 word. It's not getting born again. 132 00:07:48,080 --> 00:07:50,960 It means change your thinking and you're ready to change your 133 00:07:50,960 --> 00:07:54,280 thinking about how you're engaged in the world. 134 00:07:55,520 --> 00:08:00,880 Because your first number one priority is not your family, it 135 00:08:00,880 --> 00:08:08,880 is your Lord Jesus #1. And he wants you to affect your 136 00:08:08,880 --> 00:08:14,080 family by living God in front of your family and worshipping him 137 00:08:14,080 --> 00:08:16,800 first. Now I can answer Pastor Marcy's 138 00:08:16,800 --> 00:08:21,280 question of why men struggle is because they were given the 139 00:08:21,280 --> 00:08:25,640 mandate. First let us make man in our 140 00:08:25,640 --> 00:08:28,080 image according to our likeness and let him have dominion. 141 00:08:28,400 --> 00:08:32,720 And he took Adam without Eve, placed him in the garden, and 142 00:08:32,720 --> 00:08:37,840 said This is the assignment. Because man fell from dominion, 143 00:08:38,480 --> 00:08:43,520 man always struggles in this system of wanting to fulfill the 144 00:08:43,520 --> 00:08:48,120 higher call. Because Adam was perfect and 145 00:08:48,120 --> 00:08:56,480 failed, we were acquainted with not doing it God's way, so we 146 00:08:56,480 --> 00:09:02,520 can go back to doing it our way a lot easier, especially. 147 00:09:02,840 --> 00:09:08,200 When we have lazy teaching concerning the grace of God and 148 00:09:08,200 --> 00:09:12,640 other things that are basically trying to empower people to not 149 00:09:12,640 --> 00:09:19,720 actually live by faith or follow the voice and command of God, we 150 00:09:19,720 --> 00:09:24,800 don't teach lordship correctly. Where again, lordship is just a 151 00:09:24,800 --> 00:09:27,480 prayer in your heart That's not Lordship. 152 00:09:28,400 --> 00:09:30,360 Lordship is. You have it all. 153 00:09:32,680 --> 00:09:36,560 Are you hearing what I'm saying? And so we are to go into every 154 00:09:36,560 --> 00:09:39,080 part of the world and preach the gospel. 155 00:09:39,080 --> 00:09:43,800 Now we know the gospel. The gospel is not only that 156 00:09:43,800 --> 00:09:47,160 Jesus Christ died on the cross. That is the door. 157 00:09:48,040 --> 00:09:53,360 The gospel is the Kingdom. Jesus preached the gospel of the 158 00:09:53,360 --> 00:09:55,480 Kingdom. And the Kingdom is the good 159 00:09:55,480 --> 00:09:58,080 news. The good news is that all the 160 00:09:58,080 --> 00:10:00,760 jump that's going on in the world today is going to be 161 00:10:00,760 --> 00:10:06,040 fixed. Because a superpower, I said a 162 00:10:06,080 --> 00:10:09,560 superpower is already in the planet. 163 00:10:10,160 --> 00:10:13,720 And it's not China, it's not Russia, and it's sure in the 164 00:10:13,720 --> 00:10:17,720 United States, but it is the Kingdom of God and it's weapons 165 00:10:17,720 --> 00:10:21,680 and warfare are more powerful than the nukes that are in 166 00:10:21,680 --> 00:10:27,880 totality of every nation. We are superpower. 167 00:10:28,560 --> 00:10:32,400 We are supernatural power. And we are a nation that will 168 00:10:32,440 --> 00:10:36,440 live forever. And our King's coming back. 169 00:10:36,880 --> 00:10:39,640 I said Our King's coming back. All right. 170 00:10:39,960 --> 00:10:48,800 So Jesus, in order for us to fulfill the goal, we need to 171 00:10:48,800 --> 00:10:54,040 know why we're going and you know why you're going. 172 00:10:55,040 --> 00:10:58,720 And he kind of lets us in on this in Matthew Chapter 4. 173 00:10:59,600 --> 00:11:02,440 Pretty basic simple teaching I'm going to do today, but it's to 174 00:11:02,440 --> 00:11:08,600 stir you up in Matthew 417 starting Matthew 4 starting 175 00:11:08,600 --> 00:11:11,840 verse 17 'cause I want to set context with that verse and then 176 00:11:11,840 --> 00:11:15,040 we'll go down to verse 22. From that time Jesus began to 177 00:11:15,040 --> 00:11:19,840 preach saying repent for the Kingdom of heaven is at hand. 178 00:11:20,960 --> 00:11:24,200 Are you hearing what I'm saying? Jesus saying change your 179 00:11:24,200 --> 00:11:26,120 thinking. The kingdom's here. 180 00:11:27,120 --> 00:11:31,520 I said the kingdom's here. Now that he's delivered the 181 00:11:31,520 --> 00:11:37,240 message and he is in his ministry on his assignment to 182 00:11:37,240 --> 00:11:42,720 let the world know the Kingdom is back, it is in operation. 183 00:11:43,160 --> 00:11:44,680 And I'm gonna give you access to it. 184 00:11:44,680 --> 00:11:45,120 Yes. Hallelujah. 185 00:11:46,640 --> 00:11:49,960 I'm gonna give you access to it. Why 'cause I'm gonna die so I 186 00:11:49,960 --> 00:11:54,440 can reproduce after my own kind. I'm going to be the seed that 187 00:11:54,440 --> 00:11:57,680 goes in the ground. I'm the seed mentioned in 188 00:11:58,280 --> 00:12:01,440 Genesis Chapter 3. I'm the seed that's coming. 189 00:12:01,440 --> 00:12:04,800 And when I die, I'm going to bring forth the plant that's 190 00:12:04,800 --> 00:12:06,600 going to allow you to become my fruit. 191 00:12:07,480 --> 00:12:09,480 I'll be the vine and you'll be the branches. 192 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:12,440 And if you'll remain in me, you're going to bear much fruit. 193 00:12:12,560 --> 00:12:14,480 You're going to produce the fruit of the Kingdom. 194 00:12:14,600 --> 00:12:16,120 You're going to operate in the Kingdom. 195 00:12:16,160 --> 00:12:18,480 You're going to be back underneath the rule of God. 196 00:12:18,600 --> 00:12:22,600 You're going to be able to function in the capacity that 197 00:12:22,600 --> 00:12:29,160 the Kingdom offers humanity. And so in order for that to take 198 00:12:29,160 --> 00:12:31,920 place, I'll die, but I'll be raised up. 199 00:12:32,000 --> 00:12:36,680 And when you call on my name and make me Lord, supreme in 200 00:12:36,680 --> 00:12:40,120 authority. Not the confession of where you 201 00:12:40,120 --> 00:12:43,600 go when you die. That's not Jesus. 202 00:12:44,320 --> 00:12:47,080 Jesus is not. Where am I going to go when I 203 00:12:47,080 --> 00:12:47,800 die. God. 204 00:12:48,680 --> 00:12:55,160 Jesus is Lord of my life now and then. 205 00:12:55,160 --> 00:12:59,280 He changes me now and then puts the third person of the Godhead 206 00:12:59,280 --> 00:13:03,280 in me now and makes me like him now and allows me to function 207 00:13:03,280 --> 00:13:05,600 like him now and like he was in the earth. 208 00:13:05,640 --> 00:13:09,200 I get to be like he was. Oh, well, that's better shout 209 00:13:09,200 --> 00:13:14,000 than that, but that's OK. So from there he says, OK, I'm 210 00:13:14,000 --> 00:13:21,560 deployed my message. Now it's time to recruit because 211 00:13:21,560 --> 00:13:27,280 I can't do it alone. I'm going to do my part that 212 00:13:27,280 --> 00:13:33,440 nobody else can do, but what I'm doing was never about me. 213 00:13:37,600 --> 00:13:41,480 Because if it was about Jesus, Jesus like I didn't sin, I 214 00:13:41,480 --> 00:13:45,000 haven't blown it. Jesus could literally be on the 215 00:13:45,000 --> 00:13:48,600 planet today. Literally. 216 00:13:49,240 --> 00:13:51,200 Because Jesus was a man who knew no. 217 00:13:51,800 --> 00:13:55,480 And the wages of sin is so Jesus should never. 218 00:13:57,720 --> 00:13:59,840 And if the devil would have known that, he would have said 219 00:13:59,840 --> 00:14:07,920 don't touch the guy, come on. Because if he doesn't die, he 220 00:14:07,920 --> 00:14:09,360 can't produce after his own kind. 221 00:14:13,920 --> 00:14:18,880 And he has still been here. But he didn't know because he's 222 00:14:18,880 --> 00:14:21,280 stuck in his cycle. He comes to kill. 223 00:14:24,600 --> 00:14:27,120 All right, let me have a water if you don't mind. 224 00:14:28,240 --> 00:14:31,400 Now as Jesus was walking by the sea of Galilee, he saw two 225 00:14:31,400 --> 00:14:33,280 brothers. Simon, OK. 226 00:14:34,440 --> 00:14:37,120 Simon, who was called Peter, and Andrew, his brother, casting the 227 00:14:37,120 --> 00:14:41,160 net into the sea for their for they were fishermen, and he said 228 00:14:41,160 --> 00:14:44,520 to them, follow me and I'll make you fishers of men. 229 00:14:44,600 --> 00:14:46,440 Immediately they had left their Nets, and follow him. 230 00:14:46,440 --> 00:14:49,120 Going a little bit further, he saw two other brothers, James, 231 00:14:49,120 --> 00:14:53,760 the son of Zebedee and his, and John, his brother, in the boat 232 00:14:53,760 --> 00:14:56,160 with Zebedee, their father, mending their Nets. 233 00:14:56,160 --> 00:14:59,080 And he called them, and he said immediate called them. 234 00:14:59,360 --> 00:15:01,120 Immediately they left their boats. 235 00:15:01,920 --> 00:15:04,200 And their father and followed him. 236 00:15:04,200 --> 00:15:10,480 Notice the call to Lordship was they had to leave everything 237 00:15:13,880 --> 00:15:17,480 they left everything. Now you may not have to leave 238 00:15:17,480 --> 00:15:19,840 your job and we'll talk about that here in a minute, but you 239 00:15:19,840 --> 00:15:22,680 do have to leave your way of living. 240 00:15:23,760 --> 00:15:27,720 That has to happen. And so Jesus says, I've got a 241 00:15:27,720 --> 00:15:29,520 message, but I'm not here to do it alone. 242 00:15:29,520 --> 00:15:32,120 Because I'm going to do my part. Because after I do my part, 243 00:15:32,120 --> 00:15:34,520 which means I die and I raised from the dead, then I'm going to 244 00:15:34,520 --> 00:15:41,080 impart this same message into them because they'll be like me. 245 00:15:41,160 --> 00:15:44,920 And then they're going to go everywhere and begin to catch 246 00:15:44,920 --> 00:15:51,680 men, because it's not just about me. 247 00:15:51,760 --> 00:15:54,800 And since it's not about me, it's about. 248 00:15:55,400 --> 00:15:59,600 Everyone to have an opportunity to be what they originally were 249 00:15:59,840 --> 00:16:04,720 created to be, and that is man in the image of God having 250 00:16:04,720 --> 00:16:10,320 dominion, rulership, life with the Father alive to God again, 251 00:16:10,600 --> 00:16:12,560 he says. In order for this to take place, 252 00:16:12,720 --> 00:16:16,880 this organization has to grow and it must be a global one, 253 00:16:17,120 --> 00:16:21,960 which means I'm recruiting, I'm recruiting. 254 00:16:22,760 --> 00:16:26,240 You know, we have so much fallacy in the American church, 255 00:16:26,560 --> 00:16:31,000 OK, which is carrying over into the world because the problem, 256 00:16:31,280 --> 00:16:35,040 the the problem with that is, is we are the greatest senders or 257 00:16:35,040 --> 00:16:38,040 exporters. The United States exports is 258 00:16:38,040 --> 00:16:44,000 greatest export is missionaries. We export, export them to all 259 00:16:44,000 --> 00:16:46,440 kinds of nations. And the problem is, is they're 260 00:16:46,440 --> 00:16:51,160 actually taking some kinds of thinking concerning Jesus that 261 00:16:51,160 --> 00:16:55,240 isn't in its totality, the right lens. 262 00:16:55,960 --> 00:16:59,440 It can. It can get you born of God, but 263 00:16:59,440 --> 00:17:04,200 it doesn't tell you how you are to function as a child of God. 264 00:17:04,319 --> 00:17:06,720 Many are getting saved and waiting to die. 265 00:17:07,800 --> 00:17:10,760 And God never intended for your Christian existence to be 266 00:17:10,760 --> 00:17:15,640 waiting to die, nor to tell people to ask Jesus to come into 267 00:17:15,640 --> 00:17:17,720 the heart and save him and wait to die like you. 268 00:17:18,920 --> 00:17:21,319 Because Jesus wasn't walking around waiting to die. 269 00:17:22,200 --> 00:17:27,880 Jesus was transforming places. And so did the original apostles 270 00:17:28,680 --> 00:17:33,320 as well as the apostle Paul. They were community changers. 271 00:17:35,480 --> 00:17:37,360 I mean, they would go into places and people would 272 00:17:37,360 --> 00:17:42,360 abandoned their way of life, even their livelihood. 273 00:17:42,760 --> 00:17:47,600 In fact, Paul went into one location and the blacksmiths who 274 00:17:47,600 --> 00:17:52,040 made the idols realize what these guys were doing, that 275 00:17:52,040 --> 00:17:57,560 people were abandoning the craft or their their job. 276 00:17:57,560 --> 00:18:01,120 I mean, what they're manufacturing that they're like, 277 00:18:01,240 --> 00:18:03,200 we going to lose all of our money if this guy keeps 278 00:18:03,200 --> 00:18:07,760 preaching. Are you hearing what I'm saying? 279 00:18:08,920 --> 00:18:13,400 And so they started a whole stir because they did not want to 280 00:18:13,400 --> 00:18:18,520 lose their livelihood, which ultimately was not life anyway. 281 00:18:19,840 --> 00:18:22,880 But we need to be changers within our community because 282 00:18:22,880 --> 00:18:25,040 again, we talk about the church without walls. 283 00:18:26,200 --> 00:18:30,960 OK, well, what's that mean? And how do we, how do we deploy 284 00:18:30,960 --> 00:18:34,680 ourselves then? Because, again, it's not because 285 00:18:34,680 --> 00:18:37,840 we don't lack opportunity. Now, there was a season of 286 00:18:37,840 --> 00:18:40,080 Anchorpate Church. That'd be 20 years in April. 287 00:18:40,800 --> 00:18:44,200 April be our 20th year of planning this church. 288 00:18:44,480 --> 00:18:47,280 And there were seasons that God wasn't giving us certain things 289 00:18:47,280 --> 00:18:51,040 because we sure weren't ready. I mean, we just working on us. 290 00:18:52,640 --> 00:18:55,200 Are you hearing me? And he gave us some assignments. 291 00:18:55,200 --> 00:18:58,800 We did a few things, But now we have shown ourselves so faithful 292 00:18:58,960 --> 00:19:01,680 that God has the world coming to us. 293 00:19:02,800 --> 00:19:06,000 And they're saying, what do you, what do you think, What can you 294 00:19:06,000 --> 00:19:09,800 do or could you get involved? How can you help? 295 00:19:09,800 --> 00:19:14,240 Now when they say you, they're not saying pastor Earl, I'm not 296 00:19:14,240 --> 00:19:18,640 the head of the church. I'm just pastor and for this 297 00:19:18,640 --> 00:19:22,160 ministry apostle. Of a work called Anchor Fay 298 00:19:22,160 --> 00:19:24,040 Church. Other than that, and then I'm 299 00:19:24,040 --> 00:19:26,720 still submitted under another organization called Rhema. 300 00:19:26,960 --> 00:19:30,120 Then I'm submitted to that leadership and if they need me 301 00:19:30,120 --> 00:19:35,240 to help do some things, I will. Which Pastor fought Meer and 302 00:19:35,880 --> 00:19:39,520 Pastor Bruna? She said. 303 00:19:39,800 --> 00:19:43,520 Pastor Earl, when you come back to Athens to teach at the 304 00:19:43,520 --> 00:19:47,600 schools, Rhema Bible Training colleges and Thessaloniki and 305 00:19:47,600 --> 00:19:50,160 Athens. And then also we're back in. 306 00:19:50,160 --> 00:19:53,920 When you go to Albania, I want you to preach on Kingdom 307 00:19:53,920 --> 00:20:02,600 economics, cause I've heard that you've the way you minister. 308 00:20:02,600 --> 00:20:07,640 We've not heard this. So that's my assignment when I 309 00:20:07,640 --> 00:20:10,800 go back is that we're going to take Dominionaire. 310 00:20:12,360 --> 00:20:15,160 Are you hearing me into these nations? 311 00:20:15,320 --> 00:20:17,680 Hallelujah. And we're working on that book 312 00:20:17,680 --> 00:20:19,160 right now. It's almost finished. 313 00:20:19,160 --> 00:20:21,280 Glory to God. Amen. 314 00:20:21,640 --> 00:20:25,440 So here we are. We've got to deploy ourselves, 315 00:20:26,000 --> 00:20:28,560 and we all have an assignment in it. 316 00:20:29,240 --> 00:20:32,480 And God, here to get his message out, says, I got to go 317 00:20:32,480 --> 00:20:35,960 recruiting. Now we typically look at the 318 00:20:35,960 --> 00:20:40,040 Matthew 4 and we stay focused on I'll make you fishers or men. 319 00:20:40,200 --> 00:20:42,640 And then we go into what we call evangelism. 320 00:20:43,480 --> 00:20:47,000 OK, Hallelujah. Now, I'm just going to be honest 321 00:20:47,000 --> 00:20:51,120 with you, most of the most of the evangelisms that's within 322 00:20:51,600 --> 00:20:54,320 churches today are religious programs. 323 00:20:55,200 --> 00:20:57,720 I'm just going to be honest. Now, I'm not going to tell you 324 00:20:57,720 --> 00:21:00,000 who that is and what it is. And I'm not asking you to go 325 00:21:00,000 --> 00:21:02,880 figure it out. I'm just telling you that they 326 00:21:02,880 --> 00:21:07,240 have formulized evangelism and it's not even in the model of 327 00:21:07,240 --> 00:21:10,000 the Bible. Because again, the 1st issue 328 00:21:10,000 --> 00:21:14,040 with evangelism is that you can't go talk to anybody you 329 00:21:14,040 --> 00:21:22,600 want to because Jesus is the Lord of the harvest and children 330 00:21:22,600 --> 00:21:24,920 of God are to be led by the Spirit of God. 331 00:21:26,480 --> 00:21:32,160 What you can do at full liberty is live your life in any place. 332 00:21:33,560 --> 00:21:36,080 That means nobody can stop your life from shining. 333 00:21:36,200 --> 00:21:40,440 Which means when you're in line and all of a sudden somebody's 334 00:21:40,440 --> 00:21:42,880 in the express lane and they don't know how to work in the 335 00:21:42,880 --> 00:21:46,720 machine and you start behind them now thinking surely you 336 00:21:46,720 --> 00:21:53,120 should have went to a cash register, you need help and it's 337 00:21:53,360 --> 00:21:59,160 express only 10 and you got 15, so why are you in this line 338 00:21:59,160 --> 00:22:02,560 anyway, right? And you're wanting to be 339 00:22:02,560 --> 00:22:06,080 aggravated, but you don't because you're eating your fruit 340 00:22:06,920 --> 00:22:09,600 and you're being patient and you're even starting to offer 341 00:22:09,600 --> 00:22:11,160 help. Would you like some help? 342 00:22:12,360 --> 00:22:16,440 I could scan that for you. I can help you out and you smile 343 00:22:16,440 --> 00:22:18,360 and you're all nice. Well, you know what? 344 00:22:18,360 --> 00:22:21,520 The person behind you may be aggravated and wondering why you 345 00:22:21,520 --> 00:22:26,800 can keep your calm now. They may never ask, but yet 346 00:22:26,800 --> 00:22:28,480 nobody can stop your life from shining. 347 00:22:28,480 --> 00:22:33,240 Meaning your character of the Kingdom has full display all the 348 00:22:33,240 --> 00:22:39,920 time and should be because somebody's watching you always 349 00:22:40,960 --> 00:22:45,000 you are in a glass house. Just know that, because even 350 00:22:45,000 --> 00:22:47,560 when you think that you're somewhere that nobody knows you, 351 00:22:48,200 --> 00:22:53,720 somebody knows you. I mean, the Lord does for sure, 352 00:22:54,360 --> 00:22:58,760 but you could be that one element in the midst of chaos 353 00:22:59,720 --> 00:23:02,080 that somebody's like something different about you. 354 00:23:02,080 --> 00:23:04,760 Reminds me of the testimony of Joshua Clay when he went into 355 00:23:04,760 --> 00:23:08,560 Dubai or one of our Middle Eastern country. 356 00:23:08,560 --> 00:23:11,160 And he needed to technically have a visa based upon having to 357 00:23:11,160 --> 00:23:13,000 come out of the system and go back in the way he bought 358 00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:16,120 flights. And so he heard he could get one 359 00:23:16,120 --> 00:23:18,040 there. But then they acted like, no, 360 00:23:18,040 --> 00:23:19,680 you couldn't. So they end up taking all the 361 00:23:19,680 --> 00:23:21,720 people who didn't technically have them and shove them in a 362 00:23:21,720 --> 00:23:23,360 room. And man, everybody was going 363 00:23:23,360 --> 00:23:25,400 crazy. But Joshua heard the Lord say 364 00:23:25,400 --> 00:23:28,080 it's going to be all right. So you know what he did? 365 00:23:28,080 --> 00:23:30,560 He just took a step back from everybody else that was crying, 366 00:23:31,560 --> 00:23:35,160 screaming, yelling about not being again on their next 367 00:23:35,160 --> 00:23:38,920 flight. And you understand the Arabs 368 00:23:38,920 --> 00:23:43,080 didn't care. They they are not moved by you. 369 00:23:44,640 --> 00:23:47,200 And in fact, they're a little put out that you're even coming 370 00:23:47,200 --> 00:23:48,440 through, just to be honest with you. 371 00:23:49,160 --> 00:23:51,920 You know, they're like, OK is an infidel. 372 00:23:52,480 --> 00:23:54,360 We got an infidel, We got a Westerner here. 373 00:23:55,520 --> 00:23:57,880 I'm not really excited about you, all right? 374 00:23:57,880 --> 00:23:59,680 I'm just going to let you know they're not excited about you. 375 00:24:00,320 --> 00:24:03,560 So with that being said, he just took a step back, right? 376 00:24:03,880 --> 00:24:08,200 And he got ended up having a conversation with the security 377 00:24:08,200 --> 00:24:10,960 people or whatever, TSA maybe, or whatever. 378 00:24:11,360 --> 00:24:14,480 And you know, he just stayed with the Holy Ghost. 379 00:24:14,480 --> 00:24:17,360 Well, next thing you know, this TSA guy, because Josh is acting 380 00:24:17,600 --> 00:24:21,880 in totally different culture, says you want some coffee? 381 00:24:22,080 --> 00:24:24,560 He said, oh, I love some coffee. So he got him a cup of coffee. 382 00:24:25,040 --> 00:24:26,440 And then people were like, where'd you get coffee from? 383 00:24:26,440 --> 00:24:28,560 He's like, well, TSA guy got it for me. 384 00:24:28,560 --> 00:24:31,080 All right. The next thing you know, he 385 00:24:31,080 --> 00:24:32,160 goes, where you going? He told me. 386 00:24:32,160 --> 00:24:34,880 He says, come on, come with me. They say, you know, he got him 387 00:24:34,880 --> 00:24:41,560 through. Now the guy doesn't know him, 388 00:24:43,600 --> 00:24:48,080 but the culture showed up. Now, he may not know you 389 00:24:48,080 --> 00:24:51,040 personally, but something can, and that's always on. 390 00:24:51,320 --> 00:24:53,440 Now you know what Joshua didn't do? 391 00:24:54,200 --> 00:24:57,640 He didn't say as he was transporting him to get his 392 00:24:57,640 --> 00:25:01,720 visa. Yeah, it's good. 393 00:25:04,040 --> 00:25:06,720 So if you were to die today, do you know where you'd go? 394 00:25:10,040 --> 00:25:14,320 Evangelism 101. I'm going to take you down the 395 00:25:14,320 --> 00:25:17,960 Romans Road. And he'd have took him back to 396 00:25:17,960 --> 00:25:27,680 the room and he'd have missed all of his flights because the 397 00:25:27,680 --> 00:25:32,160 Lord didn't need him to say something that day because the 398 00:25:32,160 --> 00:25:35,200 Lord was already talking another way. 399 00:25:36,680 --> 00:25:39,000 And so evangelism in and of itself has a lot of 400 00:25:39,000 --> 00:25:40,800 complications. And the reason why so many 401 00:25:40,800 --> 00:25:43,560 people are put off of the church today is because we have 402 00:25:43,560 --> 00:25:49,960 obnoxious, not spirit LED, but fear driven, fear messaging. 403 00:25:50,600 --> 00:25:53,440 What if you died today? Well, that's a great message, 404 00:25:55,840 --> 00:25:59,400 right, 'cause it's the kindness of God that leads people to 405 00:25:59,400 --> 00:26:04,840 repentance, not cause them to be afraid of going to hell. 406 00:26:05,400 --> 00:26:08,280 Now, some would say, well, man, I was afraid and I I got well, I 407 00:26:08,280 --> 00:26:10,440 get it, you know, hey, I can't help that. 408 00:26:10,440 --> 00:26:12,200 You know, you came in the wrong way. 409 00:26:12,760 --> 00:26:14,520 Now, I'm not saying you didn't come in, right? 410 00:26:14,520 --> 00:26:17,440 You asked cheese to be a part of your of your life, but again, 411 00:26:17,440 --> 00:26:23,720 you were basically kind of manipulated, OK? 412 00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:30,960 And I'm tell you right now, a lot of people who were afraid to 413 00:26:30,960 --> 00:26:38,000 go to hell, they don't have the same commitment in church, All 414 00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:41,440 right. But Jesus is going a whole 415 00:26:41,440 --> 00:26:44,040 another direction here when he says follow me. 416 00:26:48,240 --> 00:26:50,520 In order to understand this, you need to go over to Luke chapter 417 00:26:50,520 --> 00:26:52,560 5. I'm going to try to wrap this up 418 00:26:52,560 --> 00:26:57,200 in the next 15 minutes because we need to do water baptism in 419 00:26:57,200 --> 00:26:58,760 Luke chapter 5 verses one through 11. 420 00:26:58,760 --> 00:27:01,600 It says this and this is the same context of Matthew chapter 421 00:27:01,600 --> 00:27:02,840 4. And also Mark chapter one, 422 00:27:02,840 --> 00:27:05,480 because another context, Mark. And again we go, you know, we'll 423 00:27:05,480 --> 00:27:07,240 make you Fisher of men, make you Fisher of men. 424 00:27:07,240 --> 00:27:09,200 Now let's go evangelize in Romans Rd. 425 00:27:09,400 --> 00:27:10,600 Let's go and knock on every door. 426 00:27:10,600 --> 00:27:11,960 Let's ask people da da, da, da da da. 427 00:27:12,120 --> 00:27:14,480 And I'm not saying those methods didn't work and that people 428 00:27:14,480 --> 00:27:16,120 weren't generally changed. I'm not saying that. 429 00:27:16,320 --> 00:27:20,240 I'm just saying, if you want the biblical model, the biblical 430 00:27:20,240 --> 00:27:24,520 model is, is that you're just supposed to go into your sector 431 00:27:24,520 --> 00:27:29,640 of society, your community, and live it and hear God on how to 432 00:27:29,640 --> 00:27:34,520 say things. And when you do that, your 433 00:27:34,520 --> 00:27:38,760 success rate will go up. Because you need to understand 434 00:27:38,760 --> 00:27:43,720 that sometimes your conversation is not to win them, it's only to 435 00:27:43,720 --> 00:27:51,400 plant. And some of you is the water, 436 00:27:51,520 --> 00:27:54,840 not drown. You know, you can drown a seed. 437 00:27:57,360 --> 00:27:59,600 Somebody planted a seed about Jesus and they were leaning till 438 00:27:59,600 --> 00:28:00,920 you showed up and you drowned them. 439 00:28:01,600 --> 00:28:04,880 Now they want to undo Jesus, 'cause you're trying to drive it 440 00:28:04,880 --> 00:28:06,840 home. You don't have enough spiritual 441 00:28:06,840 --> 00:28:11,920 sensitivity to know that they're really not taking the bait, 442 00:28:13,880 --> 00:28:17,560 'cause, you know, not everyone who goes fishing catches fish. 443 00:28:24,640 --> 00:28:29,040 Yeah, sometimes, just like you can't keep them off the hook. 444 00:28:29,840 --> 00:28:33,440 But then other times, I mean you're you're wondering, did 445 00:28:33,440 --> 00:28:35,600 they, is there any left in the water? 446 00:28:37,240 --> 00:28:40,280 But sometimes they'll tease you and you'll see them and you're 447 00:28:40,280 --> 00:28:42,160 like, seriously? But you know what? 448 00:28:42,160 --> 00:28:46,280 They ain't hungry for? What you offering at the end of 449 00:28:46,280 --> 00:28:48,320 the day. So there's no catch. 450 00:28:50,680 --> 00:28:53,800 And the reason why we as a church have to be understand the 451 00:28:53,800 --> 00:28:57,560 real evangelism that's in the Bible and why we're saying we 452 00:28:57,560 --> 00:29:00,240 have to mobilize in our community is because you 453 00:29:00,240 --> 00:29:06,640 understand sometimes it may take us years to get some, but if 454 00:29:06,640 --> 00:29:17,440 we're not in the area for years, we'll never reap it because we 455 00:29:17,440 --> 00:29:21,960 only see the work we do is when we come here and we do our 456 00:29:22,080 --> 00:29:25,040 internal stuff and then when the call to, hey, we've got this 457 00:29:25,040 --> 00:29:26,920 opportunity here and you could do this. 458 00:29:29,200 --> 00:29:33,040 Pastor Angie mentioned something about fathers, some program that 459 00:29:33,040 --> 00:29:34,800 the county's doing. And I thought to myself, well, 460 00:29:34,800 --> 00:29:37,640 yeah, we going to find out about that one because again, you 461 00:29:37,640 --> 00:29:40,360 shouldn't be graduating that many people with swords to hang 462 00:29:40,360 --> 00:29:44,800 on a Dang wall. Because at the end of the day, 463 00:29:44,800 --> 00:29:47,920 I'm not going to tell you that the child you going to mentor is 464 00:29:47,920 --> 00:29:50,320 going to come to Christ. But I can't tell you this. 465 00:29:50,520 --> 00:29:54,440 They won't go before the Lord with that, with the excuse that 466 00:29:54,440 --> 00:29:57,480 someone, their community, wasn't giving them the opportunity. 467 00:30:01,040 --> 00:30:04,720 At the end of the day, for some, we're going to be the Jeremiah 468 00:30:04,720 --> 00:30:06,760 too, which means we're going to tell the truth. 469 00:30:06,920 --> 00:30:09,520 We're going to prophecy, we're going to give them it, and 470 00:30:09,520 --> 00:30:11,920 they're not going to repent. It's going to happen. 471 00:30:12,920 --> 00:30:19,040 That's evangelism. Some you don't ever catch, but 472 00:30:19,040 --> 00:30:24,440 they still hear the message. But there are plenty that will 473 00:30:25,360 --> 00:30:29,400 and we would do more because more people are open to receive 474 00:30:29,920 --> 00:30:35,680 when you just keep showing up somewhere because I don't 475 00:30:35,680 --> 00:30:37,720 understand why. Netflix and Hulu. 476 00:30:37,720 --> 00:30:39,080 Hulu. Hulu. 477 00:30:39,080 --> 00:30:43,640 Hulu should get more time than an opportunity because at the 478 00:30:43,640 --> 00:30:48,720 end of the day on December the 12th at 5:00, if you take, if 479 00:30:48,720 --> 00:30:52,240 you're off, instead of going home to watch a segment of Fox 480 00:30:52,240 --> 00:30:56,480 News or CNN, you could come to the Flagler game and make an 481 00:30:56,480 --> 00:31:04,440 impression for an hour and a half and could change somebody's 482 00:31:04,440 --> 00:31:11,040 life for all eternity. And it doesn't mean all of us 483 00:31:11,040 --> 00:31:13,520 have to come, Although that would be really impressive just 484 00:31:13,520 --> 00:31:16,760 to let you know. Because it'd be pandemonium if 485 00:31:16,760 --> 00:31:18,960 we all showed up at once and started cheering for Flagler, 486 00:31:18,960 --> 00:31:21,400 right. That's why they called us on the 487 00:31:21,400 --> 00:31:24,080 1st place because they saw, saw us show up at the Washington 488 00:31:24,080 --> 00:31:25,640 games. They're like, these people are 489 00:31:25,640 --> 00:31:27,800 fanatics. They're these are followers of 490 00:31:27,800 --> 00:31:31,800 these teams. Yes, These are our own Amen and 491 00:31:31,800 --> 00:31:34,000 we are all warriors at heart, right. 492 00:31:34,640 --> 00:31:37,440 OK, so let's go back-to-back. Luke 5 Luke 51 says now it 493 00:31:37,440 --> 00:31:41,520 happened that while a crowd was pressing around him and 494 00:31:41,520 --> 00:31:46,240 listening to the word of God, he was standing by the lake by this 495 00:31:46,240 --> 00:31:49,200 lake. Now notice in Matthew's account 496 00:31:49,200 --> 00:31:51,240 of 4/17, he said he went preaching. 497 00:31:51,840 --> 00:31:53,600 Repent, for the Kingdom of heaven is at hand. 498 00:31:53,720 --> 00:31:55,920 Then it goes on, he says as Jesus walked by. 499 00:31:56,200 --> 00:31:58,560 This is something happening at once. 500 00:32:00,040 --> 00:32:03,360 So Jesus is preaching repent, for the Kingdom of heaven is at 501 00:32:03,360 --> 00:32:05,680 hand. He is literally ministering the 502 00:32:05,680 --> 00:32:10,400 word and he's by his lake and he comes around and he says two men 503 00:32:10,800 --> 00:32:13,400 saw two boats lying on the edge of the lake. 504 00:32:13,560 --> 00:32:15,400 But the fishermen had gotten out of them. 505 00:32:15,400 --> 00:32:18,480 They were washing their Nets. They had gotten into one of the 506 00:32:18,480 --> 00:32:19,680 boats. He had gotten into one of the 507 00:32:19,680 --> 00:32:22,840 boats, which was Simon's, asked Peter and asked him to put out a 508 00:32:22,840 --> 00:32:25,960 little bit from the land that he sat down and began teaching the 509 00:32:25,960 --> 00:32:31,440 people from the boat. So again, Matthew 417 has a lot 510 00:32:31,440 --> 00:32:36,640 more context in Luke chapter 5. So now he's in Peter's boat 511 00:32:37,200 --> 00:32:42,960 preaching repent for the Kingdom of heaven is at hand while Peter 512 00:32:43,720 --> 00:32:50,200 and his brother Andrew and John and James are mending their Nets 513 00:32:50,200 --> 00:32:52,360 on the shore hearing the message. 514 00:32:56,200 --> 00:32:59,240 OK, so then he goes on and it says when he had finished 515 00:32:59,240 --> 00:33:03,320 speaking, he said to Simon, put down to the deep water and let 516 00:33:03,320 --> 00:33:08,400 down your net for catch. Simon answered and said to 517 00:33:08,440 --> 00:33:11,920 Jesus. He said, Master, we worked hard 518 00:33:11,920 --> 00:33:15,800 all night, called nothing, but I will do as you say, and let down 519 00:33:15,800 --> 00:33:18,840 the Nets. And when he had done this, they 520 00:33:18,840 --> 00:33:23,080 enclosed a great quantity of fish, and their Nets began to 521 00:33:23,080 --> 00:33:25,480 break. Now they have been in this same 522 00:33:25,480 --> 00:33:28,480 place all night long, and caught what? 523 00:33:29,200 --> 00:33:32,360 Nothing but at a word from the King. 524 00:33:37,640 --> 00:33:42,800 At a word from the King he goes on it says this, that that they 525 00:33:42,800 --> 00:33:45,680 enclosed so much that their Nets began to break. 526 00:33:46,160 --> 00:33:50,600 So they signal to their what to their partners in the other boat 527 00:33:50,600 --> 00:33:53,600 for them to come and help. And they came and filled both of 528 00:33:53,600 --> 00:33:57,320 the boats so that they began to what they began to sink. 529 00:33:57,320 --> 00:34:02,360 This is how much fish. But when Simon verse 8 Peter 530 00:34:02,360 --> 00:34:06,600 saw, he fell down at Jesus feet. Go away from me, Lord, for I'm a 531 00:34:06,600 --> 00:34:09,719 sinful man. For the amazement had seized him 532 00:34:09,719 --> 00:34:13,360 and all his companions because of the catch of fish which he 533 00:34:13,360 --> 00:34:17,159 had taken. And so also were James and John, 534 00:34:17,159 --> 00:34:20,239 the sons of Zebedee, who were partners with Simon. 535 00:34:20,360 --> 00:34:24,920 And Jesus said to Simon, Do not fear, from now on you will be 536 00:34:24,920 --> 00:34:30,280 what catching men. And when they had brought their 537 00:34:30,280 --> 00:34:34,520 boats to land, they left everything and followed him. 538 00:34:34,840 --> 00:34:40,880 Now I find it interesting that Jesus's call to their call of 539 00:34:40,880 --> 00:34:45,320 apostleship happened in a sector of society. 540 00:34:48,960 --> 00:34:51,320 He met them at their place of business. 541 00:34:52,159 --> 00:34:57,920 He showed up at the business and was preaching to a crowd and 542 00:34:57,920 --> 00:35:01,640 then use one of their boats, fishing boats that they fished 543 00:35:01,640 --> 00:35:04,400 all night in and called nothing. Which means it's not good for 544 00:35:04,400 --> 00:35:10,120 the business or for the family. And Jesus uses this as a type 545 00:35:10,120 --> 00:35:13,560 and shadow of how we are going to catch the community. 546 00:35:15,040 --> 00:35:18,280 Are you hearing me how you catch the community? 547 00:35:18,640 --> 00:35:21,840 Because here's the thing, you can do all that you want to do 548 00:35:21,840 --> 00:35:24,960 all by yourself and you know and do your own programs. 549 00:35:25,080 --> 00:35:28,920 But if you'll do exactly what God says when he says, then you 550 00:35:28,920 --> 00:35:35,080 can maximize the results. Are you hearing me? 551 00:35:35,520 --> 00:35:39,320 So he goes into their sector of society, their business, and he 552 00:35:39,320 --> 00:35:42,000 says, listen, go ahead and launch out. 553 00:35:43,200 --> 00:35:46,880 Go into the deep and put your net down, of which he's taking 554 00:35:46,880 --> 00:35:48,440 the time to clean the whole thing up. 555 00:35:50,240 --> 00:35:55,120 Now in the US society today they'd be like, Nah, we'll do it 556 00:35:55,120 --> 00:35:58,120 tomorrow. Your Grace is sufficient with 557 00:35:58,120 --> 00:36:00,880 me. I'm going to say that again. 558 00:36:01,200 --> 00:36:02,920 Your Grace is sufficient with me. 559 00:36:02,920 --> 00:36:11,560 I'll do it tomorrow. So modern day Christianity is 560 00:36:11,560 --> 00:36:16,160 called laziness because we don't obey God when we hear him. 561 00:36:16,440 --> 00:36:20,440 We want to set the timetable when we going to obey because 562 00:36:20,440 --> 00:36:23,120 His grace, because it's really not what I do. 563 00:36:23,200 --> 00:36:25,640 Well, if you don't do it, when he said to do it because it's 564 00:36:25,640 --> 00:36:28,520 not you doing it anyway, it's you doing it at His word. 565 00:36:28,560 --> 00:36:31,680 But if you can't do it at His word when you want to, just ask 566 00:36:31,680 --> 00:36:34,960 the Israelites when they came back the next day and said OK, 567 00:36:34,960 --> 00:36:40,280 we'll take the promised land. Lord's like, forget about it. 568 00:36:42,960 --> 00:36:46,160 Don't be coming 24 hours later and tell me you ready now? 569 00:36:50,240 --> 00:36:52,360 Forget about it. Forget about it right? 570 00:36:52,680 --> 00:36:56,960 And again we are to obey the voice of the Lord even in this 571 00:36:56,960 --> 00:37:01,360 dispensation. We are to be out and about the 572 00:37:01,360 --> 00:37:07,920 Father's business doing what he says when he says and we will 573 00:37:07,920 --> 00:37:13,560 have the productivity. But here's the thing, he gives a 574 00:37:13,560 --> 00:37:20,560 word to one guy, Simon. So that tells me Simon must have 575 00:37:20,560 --> 00:37:27,320 been the head of the company. Simon go on out there. 576 00:37:27,560 --> 00:37:31,640 So Simon got the word from the Lord on what to do with the 577 00:37:31,640 --> 00:37:35,320 business. He let down his net and it was 578 00:37:35,320 --> 00:37:43,320 so much that he as the CEO of the company, could not pull it 579 00:37:43,320 --> 00:37:47,040 in by himself. And what does God teach him, 580 00:37:47,440 --> 00:37:50,200 Son? What I have for you, you just 581 00:37:50,200 --> 00:37:57,440 can't do alone. So let me just tell you this. 582 00:37:57,680 --> 00:38:01,480 If you're pushing out from the shore and you letting down your 583 00:38:01,480 --> 00:38:05,960 net and you can do everything in your ministry by yourself, well 584 00:38:05,960 --> 00:38:07,720 then it's yourself proclaimed ministry. 585 00:38:12,520 --> 00:38:15,480 Because when God gets involved, he's gonna let you know right 586 00:38:15,480 --> 00:38:18,080 out the gate. This is way bigger than you and 587 00:38:18,080 --> 00:38:20,440 you're gonna need some help and you're gonna need some partners, 588 00:38:20,440 --> 00:38:23,120 bro. You're gonna need some partners 589 00:38:24,360 --> 00:38:28,200 because Jesus is saying this. I just preached this Kingdom. 590 00:38:29,000 --> 00:38:31,280 I'm the one who's going to die on the cross and be raised from 591 00:38:31,280 --> 00:38:32,960 the dead. Nobody could do that but me. 592 00:38:33,360 --> 00:38:38,360 But yet I need me some partners. I need me some partners. 593 00:38:38,480 --> 00:38:41,520 I need some people that are going to the highway and the 594 00:38:41,520 --> 00:38:43,720 byway. They can go ahead of me and pray 595 00:38:43,720 --> 00:38:46,520 in this community. I need somebody to go lay hands 596 00:38:46,520 --> 00:38:49,720 on the sick before I show up so that when I show up they know 597 00:38:49,720 --> 00:38:55,400 what you did is what I bring. And so he proves this out that 598 00:38:55,400 --> 00:39:00,280 it was never about personal, but it was about partnership, It was 599 00:39:00,280 --> 00:39:03,280 about mobilization. And why is it mobilization? 600 00:39:03,400 --> 00:39:06,920 Because the Kingdom is an advancing force that is 601 00:39:06,920 --> 00:39:10,400 constantly moving and it's advancing and it's moving 602 00:39:10,400 --> 00:39:14,280 forward and it has buy in on all on everybody. 603 00:39:16,160 --> 00:39:21,200 God demands buy in. He demands it. 604 00:39:21,800 --> 00:39:28,040 It's not optional. It's not optional. 605 00:39:30,280 --> 00:39:35,160 This is fully committed to the vision you're assigned to, the 606 00:39:35,160 --> 00:39:39,000 place that he's given someone, oversight of your soul and you 607 00:39:39,000 --> 00:39:43,520 were to have total, complete spirit, soul and body buy in. 608 00:39:45,080 --> 00:39:49,160 It should be what you're eating and breathing and drinking every 609 00:39:49,160 --> 00:39:51,880 day of your life. You should wake up and say what 610 00:39:51,880 --> 00:39:54,960 in the world is Anchor Faith Church going to do in Saint 611 00:39:54,960 --> 00:39:57,720 Augustine today? Because I'm a part of a mighty 612 00:39:57,720 --> 00:40:03,080 moving force of God. God handpicked me. 613 00:40:04,080 --> 00:40:08,280 To be a part of a mighty moving force that can't be stopped, the 614 00:40:08,280 --> 00:40:12,400 gates of hell can't prevail against it, and even Chris, even 615 00:40:12,400 --> 00:40:18,320 religion can't stop me. I mean, I'm telling you right 616 00:40:18,320 --> 00:40:23,200 now, 2024, the Nets already been laid out and we are getting a 617 00:40:23,200 --> 00:40:26,280 glimpse of a catch that is so big. 618 00:40:26,520 --> 00:40:31,360 I'm having to say you need to get off the shore and get out 619 00:40:31,360 --> 00:40:33,400 here and help me pull this net in. 620 00:40:35,680 --> 00:40:40,920 You got to help me pull it in for the fatherless, for the 621 00:40:40,920 --> 00:40:47,880 widows, for the disadvantaged, for the businesses. 622 00:40:48,560 --> 00:40:53,880 I mean, God is just opening up so many doors, but you're going 623 00:40:53,880 --> 00:40:58,480 to have to say I'm all in. You eat. 624 00:40:58,760 --> 00:41:06,280 Breathe, shrink it. It's your identity, you say? 625 00:41:06,280 --> 00:41:08,880 Wait a minute. My identity's in Christ. 626 00:41:09,240 --> 00:41:12,960 Well, the last time I checked, Christ is the head of the 627 00:41:12,960 --> 00:41:16,240 church. So if you don't identify with 628 00:41:16,240 --> 00:41:19,040 the church, you don't even identify with Christ. 629 00:41:22,160 --> 00:41:30,520 You have a false religion. There's so much opportunity 630 00:41:32,320 --> 00:41:36,280 because I'm going to tell you right now, as Pastor Angie said 631 00:41:36,280 --> 00:41:45,920 last week, gosh, if you will do God's plan for your life, you're 632 00:41:45,920 --> 00:41:49,520 going to prosper on all fronts. Nothing can stop you. 633 00:41:51,320 --> 00:41:56,400 Nothing can stop you. Nothing got to give you so many 634 00:41:56,400 --> 00:42:02,400 creative ideas to free up your time, and some of your time is 635 00:42:02,400 --> 00:42:04,760 only where it's at because you're stuck in the wrong 636 00:42:04,760 --> 00:42:10,280 system. You're living your life based 637 00:42:10,280 --> 00:42:15,080 upon a world system and not a Kingdom system, and you got to 638 00:42:15,080 --> 00:42:20,760 reevaluate that because the coming to the Kingdom was never 639 00:42:20,760 --> 00:42:27,120 about going to heaven. Although you'll go, coming into 640 00:42:27,120 --> 00:42:32,360 the Kingdom was about you partnering with the head of the 641 00:42:32,360 --> 00:42:38,400 church himself and the vision he gives to the CEO of the church 642 00:42:39,360 --> 00:42:44,520 on earth called the Pastor, and together you changed the world. 643 00:42:47,800 --> 00:42:52,840 Leo, have we not done something in West Augustine already? 644 00:42:53,800 --> 00:42:59,880 And we're just getting started. And the opportunities abound. 645 00:43:01,040 --> 00:43:05,040 I mean, they abound. I'm telling you, if I personally 646 00:43:05,040 --> 00:43:09,680 tried to fill every role, there is not enough time in the day, 647 00:43:13,720 --> 00:43:17,400 but God never intended me to do it, he said. 648 00:43:17,400 --> 00:43:21,320 Just put the net out. And when they start coming in, 649 00:43:22,400 --> 00:43:27,320 make no mistake about it, I'm like, hey, and I'm hollering at 650 00:43:27,320 --> 00:43:29,400 you. I need you to help me pull this 651 00:43:29,400 --> 00:43:31,680 one in. I need you to help me pull this 652 00:43:31,680 --> 00:43:33,640 one in. I need you to help me pull this 653 00:43:33,640 --> 00:43:35,360 one in. I need you to help me pull this 654 00:43:35,360 --> 00:43:38,000 one in and you need to be sitting on ready. 655 00:43:40,160 --> 00:43:42,640 Are you hearing me not closing up shop? 656 00:43:43,840 --> 00:43:46,480 Because if you're in the closing up shop, that just tells me you 657 00:43:46,480 --> 00:43:48,600 need to go to another church. And there's plenty of them out 658 00:43:48,600 --> 00:43:49,960 there to accommodate your lifestyle. 659 00:43:51,200 --> 00:43:55,040 And it don't bother me because there's only one lifestyle here. 660 00:43:56,520 --> 00:43:59,560 God Kingdom, It's Him and him alone. 661 00:43:59,680 --> 00:44:02,080 It's him and Him first. It's him and him and all that he 662 00:44:02,080 --> 00:44:04,560 does. Because anyone who's genuinely 663 00:44:04,560 --> 00:44:10,600 sought God first has never lost their family, has never lost 664 00:44:10,600 --> 00:44:13,600 their kids. Now when I say that kids are of 665 00:44:13,600 --> 00:44:16,120 their own free will anyway, they can do whatever they want to do 666 00:44:16,680 --> 00:44:19,120 because there's kids that are right here now whose parents are 667 00:44:19,120 --> 00:44:21,840 loving God with all their heart, but the kids ain't loving God at 668 00:44:21,840 --> 00:44:24,560 all. And it's not because the parents 669 00:44:24,560 --> 00:44:30,200 aren't giving them an example. I mean that that that's their 670 00:44:30,200 --> 00:44:33,480 own free will. We can't do anything about that, 671 00:44:34,400 --> 00:44:39,560 but we can do us. And so don't you let somebody 672 00:44:39,920 --> 00:44:43,080 tell you because you did this much with the churches, that's 673 00:44:43,080 --> 00:44:49,120 bogus, That's bunk. Because you know as well as I do 674 00:44:49,120 --> 00:44:52,520 there is no hope unless you're connected with it because this 675 00:44:52,520 --> 00:44:58,360 is where life is. So he calls the partners in and 676 00:44:58,360 --> 00:45:01,920 they helped him pull it in. And it was so much that even 677 00:45:01,920 --> 00:45:05,400 what they had almost sunk them both. 678 00:45:05,400 --> 00:45:10,080 You know what that tells me? Even when we all get involved, 679 00:45:10,400 --> 00:45:15,200 we're going to think like we need more people, we need 680 00:45:15,200 --> 00:45:17,800 another partner. So we'd had another partner with 681 00:45:17,800 --> 00:45:20,560 another boat. You see what I'm saying? 682 00:45:21,280 --> 00:45:23,960 This is why every time I do a vision partner, I said when we 683 00:45:23,960 --> 00:45:28,200 first started Lanka Bay Church, we said, well, we're a beginning 684 00:45:28,200 --> 00:45:30,040 church. We're not a small church because 685 00:45:30,040 --> 00:45:32,800 you know, what God desires at all would repent and come to the 686 00:45:32,800 --> 00:45:34,920 knowledge of him, right? So how do you put a limit on how 687 00:45:34,920 --> 00:45:38,080 large you are, you know, And people, I love small church. 688 00:45:38,080 --> 00:45:40,960 Well, I mean, I love a church that loves God and is growing 689 00:45:41,800 --> 00:45:45,600 and and willing to add people. Are you hearing me? 690 00:45:45,960 --> 00:45:48,680 And we want to constantly add and we want to add more than 691 00:45:48,680 --> 00:45:49,600 what we have. Why? 692 00:45:49,760 --> 00:45:55,720 Because the catch is great and there are more people that are 693 00:45:55,720 --> 00:45:59,720 destined for the prison system of the Kingdom right now than 694 00:45:59,720 --> 00:46:03,080 there are that are going in the planet today. 695 00:46:03,840 --> 00:46:06,320 And if you think this is going to happen just because we get a 696 00:46:06,320 --> 00:46:09,680 YouTube channel and we print some books, that is not going to 697 00:46:09,680 --> 00:46:12,080 do it. It's going to take your personal 698 00:46:12,160 --> 00:46:15,880 effort to get your hand on doing something and getting involved. 699 00:46:15,880 --> 00:46:25,480 And when you do it, I'm telling you, Saint Augustine can never 700 00:46:25,480 --> 00:46:28,960 be the same. 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