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But if you have your Bibles turn over to Mark chapter 16, verse
15, I want to kind of continue in the vein that Pastor Angie
was on assignment last week. In fact, you know, before I ever
go out of the out of town. I I just don't let our, you
know, I don't have people that I'm thinking of and say, OK if
I'm not here so and so is ministering.
You know, I'm always thinking in fact there's many times we get
in our staff meeting they're like, you know you hadn't
assigned anyone to minister. I said, well I hadn't got
someone yet. It's not because I couldn't just
pick people at random. That's pretty simple.
But you know, sometimes I do. I mean often and always I know
that God wants to utilize the gifts within the body.
And so, you know, you want to be able to pick the ones that God's
saying, I need them to release something.
And so, you know, I pick accordingly to that.
And so and then sometimes they'll ask pastor, what do you
want me to minister on? And you know, sometimes, and
they can do, you know, they can testify sometime, like, man,
whatever's in your heart, you know, because I trust the Holy
Ghost in them. You know, I'm with them day in
and day out and I understand they're going to minister.
A lot of times they'll joke around that, you know, they're
going to reveal the Antichrist while I'm gone and stuff like
that. But you know, obviously they
never do that. But with that being said, you
know, we you give them liberty, but sometimes you just kind of
get it in your heart that I need them to mine out a specific
subject. Because you know the gift that
they are or they're going to tackle that subject different
than I would. And so I give assignments and so
I gave an assignment you know to them this time all of them
actually. It seemed that it was right that
I needed them to administer what they were specifically doing in
the things that we're doing in our community are so
overwhelming. It's almost you almost have to
step back and take your breath and and you're like.
Can we do that? Can we do that Now?
There's a statement that I make in our vision partnership.
And I say this, I said, you know, because you're here, we
can now accomplish some things because the reality is there's
some things we want to accomplish, but it requires the
personnel to accomplish it because it was never my task to
do so. You know, I feel like, you know,
there's a great biblical example of that is that there became a
challenge in the community with feeding widows.
And so they came to the leadership of the church, the
apostle, and said, look, you know, we got some widows here
who's not getting fed, right? And we need to do something
about it. Well, the apostle Peter was
like, look, that's not our assignment.
Not that we can't do it, but at the end of the day, that's not
our assignment. We're bigger than just us.
So here's the candidates that would be qualified in order to
feed widows. And that was a pretty high
standard. They had to be full of the Holy
Ghost and wisdom. They weren't people that just
got into the Kingdom of God. And so they're like, you know,
these are the ones we're looking for.
Well, one person started this ministry of feeding widows.
His name was Stephen and he became a powerhouse.
Just because he answered a call to help the community through
the church. I said through the church and it
developed his gift. And his gift was so powerful
that it made Jesus stand up. Come on, let that sink in, that
at his stoning, Jesus gives him a a standing ovation gets up off
his throne. Wow.
And that ministry started because he met a need in the
community through the church, you know, So what we're doing is
way bigger than all of us. And but it takes every one of us
to accomplish it and to do it selflessly to really start
functioning as the church was designed.
And we're going to have that church here.
Now. You got to ask yourself, are you
going to be a part of that or not?
And that's totally up to you. But it's going to happen here.
It's going to happen on this property.
It's going to happen through this thing called Anchor Fay
Church, not only in this location, but in Valdosta, in
Nicaragua and Dominican Republic and in India.
And every location we have is going to manifest, because Jesus
Christ is coming back for a church without spot or wrinkle.
A place where they grow in love towards one another, where
they're unified around the vision and they do it selflessly
in love with one another. Seeking first the Kingdom.
It's going to happen, and I know it's going to happen because God
said it would happen that there would be a church at the end
that was greater than the former one because the latter rain is
better than the former rain. And we're going to mature and
we're going to be doing the great exploits.
We're going to look like the the world has never seen the church
like it has now. They're going to be
counterfeits. I get it.
There's always a counterfeit because the devil's always
trying to counterfeit God. But the authentic and real will
be here, and we're going to be those people, period.
So just position yourself to be that.
But in Mark chapter 16 verse 15 and said, he said to them go
into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation.
And I love how Pastor Angie communicated once again that
world is not Planet Earth. It is the systems that are
within the world, that is the sectors of society.
And she broke down those sectors of society once again for you.
And if you did not hear that message last week, you need to
go online and listen to it, OK? And so many people have gotten
this completely wrong because they say all we got to go into
all the world, and they're thinking nations only, and
they're not even thinking about the sectors of society.
And you know, and and your Commission to go tomorrow, today
you're to go. And the minute you go to Publix,
you're in a sector of society. It's called business.
Are you hearing me? You're already in a place of the
world, a cosmos, a order arranged way that something
functions that you're the light of Jesus Christ to shine.
Not only you're the light, but you're the righteousness of God
in Christ. Which means if you've been made
righteous by Christ, you ought to reflect that righteousness.
So again, when you're out doing something, it's not your work,
but it is the work that God did in you, so you ought to do it.
Our righteous work should be demonstrated and we are to go
into every sector of society. There's not one that we should
not penetrate, and we are, as a church are not technically
penetrating them all at this juncture.
But God has given us a plethora of opportunities starting to
show up. And so really, you have to start
really shifting your mind through that word.
Repent. Cause repent is not a religious
word. It's not getting born again.
It means change your thinking and you're ready to change your
thinking about how you're engaged in the world.
Because your first number one priority is not your family, it
is your Lord Jesus #1. And he wants you to affect your
family by living God in front of your family and worshipping him
first. Now I can answer Pastor Marcy's
question of why men struggle is because they were given the
mandate. First let us make man in our
image according to our likeness and let him have dominion.
And he took Adam without Eve, placed him in the garden, and
said This is the assignment. Because man fell from dominion,
man always struggles in this system of wanting to fulfill the
higher call. Because Adam was perfect and
failed, we were acquainted with not doing it God's way, so we
can go back to doing it our way a lot easier, especially.
When we have lazy teaching concerning the grace of God and
other things that are basically trying to empower people to not
actually live by faith or follow the voice and command of God, we
don't teach lordship correctly. Where again, lordship is just a
prayer in your heart That's not Lordship.
Lordship is. You have it all.
Are you hearing what I'm saying? And so we are to go into every
part of the world and preach the gospel.
Now we know the gospel. The gospel is not only that
Jesus Christ died on the cross. That is the door.
The gospel is the Kingdom. Jesus preached the gospel of the
Kingdom. And the Kingdom is the good
news. The good news is that all the
jump that's going on in the world today is going to be
fixed. Because a superpower, I said a
superpower is already in the planet.
And it's not China, it's not Russia, and it's sure in the
United States, but it is the Kingdom of God and it's weapons
and warfare are more powerful than the nukes that are in
totality of every nation. We are superpower.
We are supernatural power. And we are a nation that will
live forever. And our King's coming back.
I said Our King's coming back. All right.
So Jesus, in order for us to fulfill the goal, we need to
know why we're going and you know why you're going.
And he kind of lets us in on this in Matthew Chapter 4.
Pretty basic simple teaching I'm going to do today, but it's to
stir you up in Matthew 417 starting Matthew 4 starting
verse 17 'cause I want to set context with that verse and then
we'll go down to verse 22. From that time Jesus began to
preach saying repent for the Kingdom of heaven is at hand.
Are you hearing what I'm saying? Jesus saying change your
thinking. The kingdom's here.
I said the kingdom's here. Now that he's delivered the
message and he is in his ministry on his assignment to
let the world know the Kingdom is back, it is in operation.
And I'm gonna give you access to it.
Yes. Hallelujah.
I'm gonna give you access to it. Why 'cause I'm gonna die so I
can reproduce after my own kind. I'm going to be the seed that
goes in the ground. I'm the seed mentioned in
Genesis Chapter 3. I'm the seed that's coming.
And when I die, I'm going to bring forth the plant that's
going to allow you to become my fruit.
I'll be the vine and you'll be the branches.
And if you'll remain in me, you're going to bear much fruit.
You're going to produce the fruit of the Kingdom.
You're going to operate in the Kingdom.
You're going to be back underneath the rule of God.
You're going to be able to function in the capacity that
the Kingdom offers humanity. And so in order for that to take
place, I'll die, but I'll be raised up.
And when you call on my name and make me Lord, supreme in
authority. Not the confession of where you
go when you die. That's not Jesus.
Jesus is not. Where am I going to go when I
die. God.
Jesus is Lord of my life now and then.
He changes me now and then puts the third person of the Godhead
in me now and makes me like him now and allows me to function
like him now and like he was in the earth.
I get to be like he was. Oh, well, that's better shout
than that, but that's OK. So from there he says, OK, I'm
deployed my message. Now it's time to recruit because
I can't do it alone. I'm going to do my part that
nobody else can do, but what I'm doing was never about me.
Because if it was about Jesus, Jesus like I didn't sin, I
haven't blown it. Jesus could literally be on the
planet today. Literally.
Because Jesus was a man who knew no.
And the wages of sin is so Jesus should never.
And if the devil would have known that, he would have said
don't touch the guy, come on. Because if he doesn't die, he
can't produce after his own kind.
And he has still been here. But he didn't know because he's
stuck in his cycle. He comes to kill.
All right, let me have a water if you don't mind.
Now as Jesus was walking by the sea of Galilee, he saw two
brothers. Simon, OK.
Simon, who was called Peter, and Andrew, his brother, casting the
net into the sea for their for they were fishermen, and he said
to them, follow me and I'll make you fishers of men.
Immediately they had left their Nets, and follow him.
Going a little bit further, he saw two other brothers, James,
the son of Zebedee and his, and John, his brother, in the boat
with Zebedee, their father, mending their Nets.
And he called them, and he said immediate called them.
Immediately they left their boats.
And their father and followed him.
Notice the call to Lordship was they had to leave everything
they left everything. Now you may not have to leave
your job and we'll talk about that here in a minute, but you
do have to leave your way of living.
That has to happen. And so Jesus says, I've got a
message, but I'm not here to do it alone.
Because I'm going to do my part. Because after I do my part,
which means I die and I raised from the dead, then I'm going to
impart this same message into them because they'll be like me.
And then they're going to go everywhere and begin to catch
men, because it's not just about me.
And since it's not about me, it's about.
Everyone to have an opportunity to be what they originally were
created to be, and that is man in the image of God having
dominion, rulership, life with the Father alive to God again,
he says. In order for this to take place,
this organization has to grow and it must be a global one,
which means I'm recruiting, I'm recruiting.
You know, we have so much fallacy in the American church,
OK, which is carrying over into the world because the problem,
the the problem with that is, is we are the greatest senders or
exporters. The United States exports is
greatest export is missionaries. We export, export them to all
kinds of nations. And the problem is, is they're
actually taking some kinds of thinking concerning Jesus that
isn't in its totality, the right lens.
It can. It can get you born of God, but
it doesn't tell you how you are to function as a child of God.
Many are getting saved and waiting to die.
And God never intended for your Christian existence to be
waiting to die, nor to tell people to ask Jesus to come into
the heart and save him and wait to die like you.
Because Jesus wasn't walking around waiting to die.
Jesus was transforming places. And so did the original apostles
as well as the apostle Paul. They were community changers.
I mean, they would go into places and people would
abandoned their way of life, even their livelihood.
In fact, Paul went into one location and the blacksmiths who
made the idols realize what these guys were doing, that
people were abandoning the craft or their their job.
I mean, what they're manufacturing that they're like,
we going to lose all of our money if this guy keeps
preaching. Are you hearing what I'm saying?
And so they started a whole stir because they did not want to
lose their livelihood, which ultimately was not life anyway.
But we need to be changers within our community because
again, we talk about the church without walls.
OK, well, what's that mean? And how do we, how do we deploy
ourselves then? Because, again, it's not because
we don't lack opportunity. Now, there was a season of
Anchorpate Church. That'd be 20 years in April.
April be our 20th year of planning this church.
And there were seasons that God wasn't giving us certain things
because we sure weren't ready. I mean, we just working on us.
Are you hearing me? And he gave us some assignments.
We did a few things, But now we have shown ourselves so faithful
that God has the world coming to us.
And they're saying, what do you, what do you think, What can you
do or could you get involved? How can you help?
Now when they say you, they're not saying pastor Earl, I'm not
the head of the church. I'm just pastor and for this
ministry apostle. Of a work called Anchor Fay
Church. Other than that, and then I'm
still submitted under another organization called Rhema.
Then I'm submitted to that leadership and if they need me
to help do some things, I will. Which Pastor fought Meer and
Pastor Bruna? She said.
Pastor Earl, when you come back to Athens to teach at the
schools, Rhema Bible Training colleges and Thessaloniki and
Athens. And then also we're back in.
When you go to Albania, I want you to preach on Kingdom
economics, cause I've heard that you've the way you minister.
We've not heard this. So that's my assignment when I
go back is that we're going to take Dominionaire.
Are you hearing me into these nations?
Hallelujah. And we're working on that book
right now. It's almost finished.
Glory to God. Amen.
So here we are. We've got to deploy ourselves,
and we all have an assignment in it.
And God, here to get his message out, says, I got to go
recruiting. Now we typically look at the
Matthew 4 and we stay focused on I'll make you fishers or men.
And then we go into what we call evangelism.
OK, Hallelujah. Now, I'm just going to be honest
with you, most of the most of the evangelisms that's within
churches today are religious programs.
I'm just going to be honest. Now, I'm not going to tell you
who that is and what it is. And I'm not asking you to go
figure it out. I'm just telling you that they
have formulized evangelism and it's not even in the model of
the Bible. Because again, the 1st issue
with evangelism is that you can't go talk to anybody you
want to because Jesus is the Lord of the harvest and children
of God are to be led by the Spirit of God.
What you can do at full liberty is live your life in any place.
That means nobody can stop your life from shining.
Which means when you're in line and all of a sudden somebody's
in the express lane and they don't know how to work in the
machine and you start behind them now thinking surely you
should have went to a cash register, you need help and it's
express only 10 and you got 15, so why are you in this line
anyway, right? And you're wanting to be
aggravated, but you don't because you're eating your fruit
and you're being patient and you're even starting to offer
help. Would you like some help?
I could scan that for you. I can help you out and you smile
and you're all nice. Well, you know what?
The person behind you may be aggravated and wondering why you
can keep your calm now. They may never ask, but yet
nobody can stop your life from shining.
Meaning your character of the Kingdom has full display all the
time and should be because somebody's watching you always
you are in a glass house. Just know that, because even
when you think that you're somewhere that nobody knows you,
somebody knows you. I mean, the Lord does for sure,
but you could be that one element in the midst of chaos
that somebody's like something different about you.
Reminds me of the testimony of Joshua Clay when he went into
Dubai or one of our Middle Eastern country.
And he needed to technically have a visa based upon having to
come out of the system and go back in the way he bought
flights. And so he heard he could get one
there. But then they acted like, no,
you couldn't. So they end up taking all the
people who didn't technically have them and shove them in a
room. And man, everybody was going
crazy. But Joshua heard the Lord say
it's going to be all right. So you know what he did?
He just took a step back from everybody else that was crying,
screaming, yelling about not being again on their next
flight. And you understand the Arabs
didn't care. They they are not moved by you.
And in fact, they're a little put out that you're even coming
through, just to be honest with you.
You know, they're like, OK is an infidel.
We got an infidel, We got a Westerner here.
I'm not really excited about you, all right?
I'm just going to let you know they're not excited about you.
So with that being said, he just took a step back, right?
And he got ended up having a conversation with the security
people or whatever, TSA maybe, or whatever.
And you know, he just stayed with the Holy Ghost.
Well, next thing you know, this TSA guy, because Josh is acting
in totally different culture, says you want some coffee?
He said, oh, I love some coffee. So he got him a cup of coffee.
And then people were like, where'd you get coffee from?
He's like, well, TSA guy got it for me.
All right. The next thing you know, he
goes, where you going? He told me.
He says, come on, come with me. They say, you know, he got him
through. Now the guy doesn't know him,
but the culture showed up. Now, he may not know you
personally, but something can, and that's always on.
Now you know what Joshua didn't do?
He didn't say as he was transporting him to get his
visa. Yeah, it's good.
So if you were to die today, do you know where you'd go?
Evangelism 101. I'm going to take you down the
Romans Road. And he'd have took him back to
the room and he'd have missed all of his flights because the
Lord didn't need him to say something that day because the
Lord was already talking another way.
And so evangelism in and of itself has a lot of
complications. And the reason why so many
people are put off of the church today is because we have
obnoxious, not spirit LED, but fear driven, fear messaging.
What if you died today? Well, that's a great message,
right, 'cause it's the kindness of God that leads people to
repentance, not cause them to be afraid of going to hell.
Now, some would say, well, man, I was afraid and I I got well, I
get it, you know, hey, I can't help that.
You know, you came in the wrong way.
Now, I'm not saying you didn't come in, right?
You asked cheese to be a part of your of your life, but again,
you were basically kind of manipulated, OK?
And I'm tell you right now, a lot of people who were afraid to
go to hell, they don't have the same commitment in church, All
right. But Jesus is going a whole
another direction here when he says follow me.
In order to understand this, you need to go over to Luke chapter
5. I'm going to try to wrap this up
in the next 15 minutes because we need to do water baptism in
Luke chapter 5 verses one through 11.
It says this and this is the same context of Matthew chapter
4. And also Mark chapter one,
because another context, Mark. And again we go, you know, we'll
make you Fisher of men, make you Fisher of men.
Now let's go evangelize in Romans Rd.
Let's go and knock on every door.
Let's ask people da da, da, da da da.
And I'm not saying those methods didn't work and that people
weren't generally changed. I'm not saying that.
I'm just saying, if you want the biblical model, the biblical
model is, is that you're just supposed to go into your sector
of society, your community, and live it and hear God on how to
say things. And when you do that, your
success rate will go up. Because you need to understand
that sometimes your conversation is not to win them, it's only to
plant. And some of you is the water,
not drown. You know, you can drown a seed.
Somebody planted a seed about Jesus and they were leaning till
you showed up and you drowned them.
Now they want to undo Jesus, 'cause you're trying to drive it
home. You don't have enough spiritual
sensitivity to know that they're really not taking the bait,
'cause, you know, not everyone who goes fishing catches fish.
Yeah, sometimes, just like you can't keep them off the hook.
But then other times, I mean you're you're wondering, did
they, is there any left in the water?
But sometimes they'll tease you and you'll see them and you're
like, seriously? But you know what?
They ain't hungry for? What you offering at the end of
the day. So there's no catch.
And the reason why we as a church have to be understand the
real evangelism that's in the Bible and why we're saying we
have to mobilize in our community is because you
understand sometimes it may take us years to get some, but if
we're not in the area for years, we'll never reap it because we
only see the work we do is when we come here and we do our
internal stuff and then when the call to, hey, we've got this
opportunity here and you could do this.
Pastor Angie mentioned something about fathers, some program that
the county's doing. And I thought to myself, well,
yeah, we going to find out about that one because again, you
shouldn't be graduating that many people with swords to hang
on a Dang wall. Because at the end of the day,
I'm not going to tell you that the child you going to mentor is
going to come to Christ. But I can't tell you this.
They won't go before the Lord with that, with the excuse that
someone, their community, wasn't giving them the opportunity.
At the end of the day, for some, we're going to be the Jeremiah
too, which means we're going to tell the truth.
We're going to prophecy, we're going to give them it, and
they're not going to repent. It's going to happen.
That's evangelism. Some you don't ever catch, but
they still hear the message. But there are plenty that will
and we would do more because more people are open to receive
when you just keep showing up somewhere because I don't
understand why. Netflix and Hulu.
Hulu. Hulu.
Hulu should get more time than an opportunity because at the
end of the day on December the 12th at 5:00, if you take, if
you're off, instead of going home to watch a segment of Fox
News or CNN, you could come to the Flagler game and make an
impression for an hour and a half and could change somebody's
life for all eternity. And it doesn't mean all of us
have to come, Although that would be really impressive just
to let you know. Because it'd be pandemonium if
we all showed up at once and started cheering for Flagler,
right. That's why they called us on the
1st place because they saw, saw us show up at the Washington
games. They're like, these people are
fanatics. They're these are followers of
these teams. Yes, These are our own Amen and
we are all warriors at heart, right.
OK, so let's go back-to-back. Luke 5 Luke 51 says now it
happened that while a crowd was pressing around him and
listening to the word of God, he was standing by the lake by this
lake. Now notice in Matthew's account
of 4/17, he said he went preaching.
Repent, for the Kingdom of heaven is at hand.
Then it goes on, he says as Jesus walked by.
This is something happening at once.
So Jesus is preaching repent, for the Kingdom of heaven is at
hand. He is literally ministering the
word and he's by his lake and he comes around and he says two men
saw two boats lying on the edge of the lake.
But the fishermen had gotten out of them.
They were washing their Nets. They had gotten into one of the
boats. He had gotten into one of the
boats, which was Simon's, asked Peter and asked him to put out a
little bit from the land that he sat down and began teaching the
people from the boat. So again, Matthew 417 has a lot
more context in Luke chapter 5. So now he's in Peter's boat
preaching repent for the Kingdom of heaven is at hand while Peter
and his brother Andrew and John and James are mending their Nets
on the shore hearing the message.
OK, so then he goes on and it says when he had finished
speaking, he said to Simon, put down to the deep water and let
down your net for catch. Simon answered and said to
Jesus. He said, Master, we worked hard
all night, called nothing, but I will do as you say, and let down
the Nets. And when he had done this, they
enclosed a great quantity of fish, and their Nets began to
break. Now they have been in this same
place all night long, and caught what?
Nothing but at a word from the King.
At a word from the King he goes on it says this, that that they
enclosed so much that their Nets began to break.
So they signal to their what to their partners in the other boat
for them to come and help. And they came and filled both of
the boats so that they began to what they began to sink.
This is how much fish. But when Simon verse 8 Peter
saw, he fell down at Jesus feet. Go away from me, Lord, for I'm a
sinful man. For the amazement had seized him
and all his companions because of the catch of fish which he
had taken. And so also were James and John,
the sons of Zebedee, who were partners with Simon.
And Jesus said to Simon, Do not fear, from now on you will be
what catching men. And when they had brought their
boats to land, they left everything and followed him.
Now I find it interesting that Jesus's call to their call of
apostleship happened in a sector of society.
He met them at their place of business.
He showed up at the business and was preaching to a crowd and
then use one of their boats, fishing boats that they fished
all night in and called nothing. Which means it's not good for
the business or for the family. And Jesus uses this as a type
and shadow of how we are going to catch the community.
Are you hearing me how you catch the community?
Because here's the thing, you can do all that you want to do
all by yourself and you know and do your own programs.
But if you'll do exactly what God says when he says, then you
can maximize the results. Are you hearing me?
So he goes into their sector of society, their business, and he
says, listen, go ahead and launch out.
Go into the deep and put your net down, of which he's taking
the time to clean the whole thing up.
Now in the US society today they'd be like, Nah, we'll do it
tomorrow. Your Grace is sufficient with
me. I'm going to say that again.
Your Grace is sufficient with me.
I'll do it tomorrow. So modern day Christianity is
called laziness because we don't obey God when we hear him.
We want to set the timetable when we going to obey because
His grace, because it's really not what I do.
Well, if you don't do it, when he said to do it because it's
not you doing it anyway, it's you doing it at His word.
But if you can't do it at His word when you want to, just ask
the Israelites when they came back the next day and said OK,
we'll take the promised land. Lord's like, forget about it.
Don't be coming 24 hours later and tell me you ready now?
Forget about it. Forget about it right?
And again we are to obey the voice of the Lord even in this
dispensation. We are to be out and about the
Father's business doing what he says when he says and we will
have the productivity. But here's the thing, he gives a
word to one guy, Simon. So that tells me Simon must have
been the head of the company. Simon go on out there.
So Simon got the word from the Lord on what to do with the
business. He let down his net and it was
so much that he as the CEO of the company, could not pull it
in by himself. And what does God teach him,
Son? What I have for you, you just
can't do alone. So let me just tell you this.
If you're pushing out from the shore and you letting down your
net and you can do everything in your ministry by yourself, well
then it's yourself proclaimed ministry.
Because when God gets involved, he's gonna let you know right
out the gate. This is way bigger than you and
you're gonna need some help and you're gonna need some partners,
bro. You're gonna need some partners
because Jesus is saying this. I just preached this Kingdom.
I'm the one who's going to die on the cross and be raised from
the dead. Nobody could do that but me.
But yet I need me some partners. I need me some partners.
I need some people that are going to the highway and the
byway. They can go ahead of me and pray
in this community. I need somebody to go lay hands
on the sick before I show up so that when I show up they know
what you did is what I bring. And so he proves this out that
it was never about personal, but it was about partnership, It was
about mobilization. And why is it mobilization?
Because the Kingdom is an advancing force that is
constantly moving and it's advancing and it's moving
forward and it has buy in on all on everybody.
God demands buy in. He demands it.
It's not optional. It's not optional.
This is fully committed to the vision you're assigned to, the
place that he's given someone, oversight of your soul and you
were to have total, complete spirit, soul and body buy in.
It should be what you're eating and breathing and drinking every
day of your life. You should wake up and say what
in the world is Anchor Faith Church going to do in Saint
Augustine today? Because I'm a part of a mighty
moving force of God. God handpicked me.
To be a part of a mighty moving force that can't be stopped, the
gates of hell can't prevail against it, and even Chris, even
religion can't stop me. I mean, I'm telling you right
now, 2024, the Nets already been laid out and we are getting a
glimpse of a catch that is so big.
I'm having to say you need to get off the shore and get out
here and help me pull this net in.
You got to help me pull it in for the fatherless, for the
widows, for the disadvantaged, for the businesses.
I mean, God is just opening up so many doors, but you're going
to have to say I'm all in. You eat.
Breathe, shrink it. It's your identity, you say?
Wait a minute. My identity's in Christ.
Well, the last time I checked, Christ is the head of the
church. So if you don't identify with
the church, you don't even identify with Christ.
You have a false religion. There's so much opportunity
because I'm going to tell you right now, as Pastor Angie said
last week, gosh, if you will do God's plan for your life, you're
going to prosper on all fronts. Nothing can stop you.
Nothing got to give you so many
creative ideas to free up your time, and some of your time is
only where it's at because you're stuck in the wrong
system. You're living your life based
upon a world system and not a Kingdom system, and you got to
reevaluate that because the coming to the Kingdom was never
about going to heaven. Although you'll go, coming into
the Kingdom was about you partnering with the head of the
church himself and the vision he gives to the CEO of the church
on earth called the Pastor, and together you changed the world.
Leo, have we not done something in West Augustine already?
And we're just getting started. And the opportunities abound.
I mean, they abound. I'm telling you, if I personally
tried to fill every role, there is not enough time in the day,
but God never intended me to do it, he said.
Just put the net out. And when they start coming in,
make no mistake about it, I'm like, hey, and I'm hollering at
you. I need you to help me pull this
one in. I need you to help me pull this
one in and you need to be sitting on ready.
Are you hearing me not closing up shop?
Because if you're in the closing up shop, that just tells me you
need to go to another church. And there's plenty of them out
there to accommodate your lifestyle.
And it don't bother me because there's only one lifestyle here.
God Kingdom, It's Him and him alone.
It's him and Him first. It's him and him and all that he
does. Because anyone who's genuinely
sought God first has never lost their family, has never lost
their kids. Now when I say that kids are of
their own free will anyway, they can do whatever they want to do
because there's kids that are right here now whose parents are
loving God with all their heart, but the kids ain't loving God at
all. And it's not because the parents
aren't giving them an example. I mean that that that's their
own free will. We can't do anything about that,
but we can do us. And so don't you let somebody
tell you because you did this much with the churches, that's
bogus, That's bunk. Because you know as well as I do
there is no hope unless you're connected with it because this
is where life is. So he calls the partners in and
they helped him pull it in. And it was so much that even
what they had almost sunk them both.
You know what that tells me? Even when we all get involved,
we're going to think like we need more people, we need
another partner. So we'd had another partner with
another boat. You see what I'm saying?
This is why every time I do a vision partner, I said when we
first started Lanka Bay Church, we said, well, we're a beginning
church. We're not a small church because
you know, what God desires at all would repent and come to the
knowledge of him, right? So how do you put a limit on how
large you are, you know, And people, I love small church.
Well, I mean, I love a church that loves God and is growing
and and willing to add people. Are you hearing me?
And we want to constantly add and we want to add more than
what we have. Why?
Because the catch is great and there are more people that are
destined for the prison system of the Kingdom right now than
there are that are going in the planet today.
And if you think this is going to happen just because we get a
YouTube channel and we print some books, that is not going to
do it. It's going to take your personal
effort to get your hand on doing something and getting involved.
And when you do it, I'm telling you, Saint Augustine can never
be the same. It's already transforming right
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