1 00:00:20,680 --> 00:00:23,200 Well, we're going to continue on in this. 2 00:00:23,200 --> 00:00:26,520 You know, Pastor ministered to us about the architect, 3 00:00:26,520 --> 00:00:30,200 Hallelujah, that he's the one building his church, Amen. 4 00:00:30,640 --> 00:00:34,200 Glory to God. And then we know that he 5 00:00:34,200 --> 00:00:39,520 ministered on the appointment, that everyone has an appointment 6 00:00:39,560 --> 00:00:42,840 in the Kingdom of God, Amen. Hallelujah. 7 00:00:43,120 --> 00:00:47,000 Well, you know what? Every, each and everyone of us 8 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:51,240 have an assignment in the body of Christ. 9 00:00:51,240 --> 00:00:55,720 We have an assignment, Amen. You know, one of the top 10 00:00:56,080 --> 00:01:01,880 questions that people are constantly asking is what is my 11 00:01:01,880 --> 00:01:07,600 purpose in life? What is my purpose in life? 12 00:01:08,040 --> 00:01:12,840 And one thing that I know is that you will never discover 13 00:01:12,840 --> 00:01:20,160 your ultimate purpose in life outside of you finding your 14 00:01:20,160 --> 00:01:25,840 assignment in the body of Christ, your ultimate purpose, 15 00:01:25,840 --> 00:01:31,200 why you were created in the earth, why God chose you. 16 00:01:31,200 --> 00:01:36,360 Come on, He picked you. He chose you out of darkness and 17 00:01:36,360 --> 00:01:40,840 brought you into His Kingdom, His marvelous light, for a 18 00:01:40,840 --> 00:01:45,000 reason, Amen. And of course, that reason is 19 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:50,680 not just so that when you die, you know where you go, but so 20 00:01:50,680 --> 00:01:56,160 that you can begin to discover why you were created and the 21 00:01:56,160 --> 00:02:00,840 purpose and the plan that God had for your life from the 22 00:02:00,840 --> 00:02:03,760 beginning of the foundations of the earth. 23 00:02:03,880 --> 00:02:07,960 Amen. And it's so important that we as 24 00:02:07,960 --> 00:02:12,680 believers, you know, another thing that the world is pushing 25 00:02:12,680 --> 00:02:17,360 is, you know, one thing they do in high school is what what are 26 00:02:17,360 --> 00:02:21,240 you going to for your career? They have the, you know, pushing 27 00:02:21,240 --> 00:02:24,440 you towards a career, pushing you towards a career. 28 00:02:24,800 --> 00:02:31,840 And we know people that have spent thousands of dollars going 29 00:02:31,840 --> 00:02:38,680 to college, pushing them on a a road come on in a place of what 30 00:02:38,680 --> 00:02:41,680 they think is going to be a career or what they were going 31 00:02:41,680 --> 00:02:45,200 to do with their life. To only look back at their life 32 00:02:45,200 --> 00:02:50,160 and realize they wasted time and money because it was never 33 00:02:50,160 --> 00:02:57,040 satisfying to them. And so the greatest thing we as 34 00:02:57,040 --> 00:03:03,000 believers must set ourselves in a position to do in the body is 35 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:09,960 find out what He has a sign for us to do in the earth while we 36 00:03:09,960 --> 00:03:13,040 are still in the earth. Amen. 37 00:03:13,400 --> 00:03:18,920 So that we will not waste the time that God has given us in 38 00:03:18,920 --> 00:03:22,160 this earth. And we'll know that in every 39 00:03:22,160 --> 00:03:26,960 step we are pursuing after for him and his purposes for our 40 00:03:26,960 --> 00:03:29,640 life, his assignments for our life. 41 00:03:29,920 --> 00:03:35,720 Because we know one of the the quotes that Doctor Miles Monroe 42 00:03:35,720 --> 00:03:40,360 said was what you're, you've been busy in the wrong 43 00:03:40,520 --> 00:03:46,480 assignment. You can be busy and the wrong 44 00:03:46,480 --> 00:03:48,040 assignment. That's what he's saying. 45 00:03:48,040 --> 00:03:51,760 And then you look back on your life and think, what have I been 46 00:03:51,760 --> 00:03:57,360 doing with all my life when I should have been pursuing what 47 00:03:57,360 --> 00:04:00,680 God had for me to do? Amen. 48 00:04:01,240 --> 00:04:07,560 And so we're going to look at finding and discovering our 49 00:04:07,560 --> 00:04:11,600 assignment in the body of Christ and realizing that it is 50 00:04:11,600 --> 00:04:17,800 essential, it's essential and it is necessary that each 51 00:04:17,800 --> 00:04:23,920 individual in the body finds his place, his fit in the body of 52 00:04:23,920 --> 00:04:27,400 Christ. It's essential and it's 53 00:04:27,400 --> 00:04:30,600 necessary. Just as Brian got up here and 54 00:04:30,600 --> 00:04:34,280 encouraged us out of First Corinthians chapter 12, which 55 00:04:34,280 --> 00:04:37,160 was my first scripture that we were going to look at today, 56 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:42,480 which is it's essential and necessary because in First 57 00:04:42,480 --> 00:04:45,880 Corinthians chapter 12, and I encourage every single one of 58 00:04:45,880 --> 00:04:48,960 you to read that chapter this week. 59 00:04:50,720 --> 00:04:56,400 Read it and see how he relates the body of Christ to our human 60 00:04:56,400 --> 00:05:01,720 body, right? And he relates the body of 61 00:05:01,720 --> 00:05:06,840 Christ in the way that the human body functions and how 62 00:05:06,880 --> 00:05:12,480 everything in our human body right now is to be functioning 63 00:05:12,480 --> 00:05:17,040 properly and at high capacity. Because if something is not 64 00:05:17,040 --> 00:05:22,600 working properly, come on, we are not getting all that is 65 00:05:22,600 --> 00:05:26,880 necessary for our body. Amen. 66 00:05:27,920 --> 00:05:33,040 And so every bit of our body working properly is important, 67 00:05:33,440 --> 00:05:38,200 is necessary, and each individual part of our body is 68 00:05:38,200 --> 00:05:44,360 bringing a supply TO1 organ or the next to the joints. 69 00:05:44,360 --> 00:05:48,760 The bones come on from the blood, from the veins, from the 70 00:05:48,760 --> 00:05:51,200 cells that are working in our body. 71 00:05:51,520 --> 00:05:57,200 Everything is necessary for us to be complete and whole. 72 00:05:57,440 --> 00:06:03,000 And how about this for us to grow up and mature properly? 73 00:06:03,320 --> 00:06:06,760 Because if something's out of order and not working and 74 00:06:06,760 --> 00:06:09,400 functioning right, what do we call that? 75 00:06:09,720 --> 00:06:16,080 We call that a disability, and we can't function the way that 76 00:06:16,080 --> 00:06:19,120 God designs us to function, right? 77 00:06:19,560 --> 00:06:24,920 And so again, everything is necessary for us to grow and 78 00:06:24,920 --> 00:06:31,600 mature properly and nothing. I'm so glad that the cells in my 79 00:06:31,600 --> 00:06:38,560 brain are working and I'm not, you know, fried up there, right? 80 00:06:38,760 --> 00:06:43,880 And they don't have any cells. No, I can't see those cells 81 00:06:43,880 --> 00:06:47,280 working and functioning, but I thank God they are. 82 00:06:49,240 --> 00:06:52,440 Amen. And so everything that we are 83 00:06:52,440 --> 00:06:58,560 doing to put our hand to the body of Christ is essential, not 84 00:06:58,560 --> 00:07:04,600 just for me, but for others. It's necessary for others. 85 00:07:04,800 --> 00:07:09,080 And we see that. We can see that in Ephesians 86 00:07:09,080 --> 00:07:16,320 where he tells us that we are here to bring our gifts to build 87 00:07:16,400 --> 00:07:20,400 up the body of Christ. So it's not just about our body 88 00:07:20,400 --> 00:07:25,160 functioning properly, It's about us bringing a supply that's 89 00:07:25,160 --> 00:07:29,200 going to help every single one of you be able to function 90 00:07:29,200 --> 00:07:34,840 properly because we're all fitted together. 91 00:07:36,040 --> 00:07:42,000 We're all fitted together where every joint supplies, it brings 92 00:07:42,000 --> 00:07:44,800 a supply. And so you know what, you can 93 00:07:44,800 --> 00:07:48,720 feel it when somebody is not bringing their supply. 94 00:07:50,960 --> 00:07:54,280 You can feel it when somebody is not bringing their supply. 95 00:07:54,560 --> 00:07:58,240 I'm going to say this, as pastors, we can feel it when 96 00:07:58,240 --> 00:08:04,400 you're not bringing a supply of faith for the service, just just 97 00:08:04,400 --> 00:08:09,200 a supply of faith and expectation and what God has for 98 00:08:09,200 --> 00:08:11,080 you. You can feel it. 99 00:08:11,960 --> 00:08:18,280 You can feel it and so everything is important and not 100 00:08:18,280 --> 00:08:21,880 one thing is not necessary for us. 101 00:08:23,280 --> 00:08:28,400 You know in the body of Christ we need every believer right is 102 00:08:28,400 --> 00:08:33,520 vital for the body and the thing about it is is what we see is 103 00:08:33,520 --> 00:08:39,320 that God designed us in the body of Christ as individual 104 00:08:39,320 --> 00:08:42,520 believers. He designed every single one of 105 00:08:42,520 --> 00:08:48,080 us with as pastor said with the architect it knowing exactly 106 00:08:48,080 --> 00:08:52,760 what it is that you were designed to be able to fit into 107 00:08:52,760 --> 00:08:56,520 the body of Christ. What you are going to be able to 108 00:08:56,520 --> 00:09:02,160 bring what you will be able to produce for the body. 109 00:09:03,040 --> 00:09:06,720 All right and so it's very important that we recognize that 110 00:09:06,920 --> 00:09:13,520 out of first Corinthians 12. I wanted to also I don't guess I 111 00:09:13,520 --> 00:09:16,760 set my thing to where it didn't cut off Anyway. 112 00:09:17,960 --> 00:09:21,400 I also want to talk about today the benefits. 113 00:09:21,400 --> 00:09:25,720 Do you know there are benefits in finding your fit in the body 114 00:09:25,720 --> 00:09:29,360 of Christ? There are benefits to finding 115 00:09:29,360 --> 00:09:32,000 your your fit in the body of Christ. 116 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:38,440 Finding out what God has a sign for you to do #1 it helps you 117 00:09:38,440 --> 00:09:43,160 discover your gifts and talents and purposes that get is given 118 00:09:43,160 --> 00:09:48,360 by God. If you don't begin to serve the 119 00:09:48,360 --> 00:09:53,480 body of Christ, you will never walk into those gifts and those 120 00:09:53,480 --> 00:09:59,720 talents that He had in your life all along, waiting for you to be 121 00:09:59,720 --> 00:10:04,040 able to discover some things about yourself and the purpose 122 00:10:04,240 --> 00:10:07,920 that God has for you. The next thing that helps you 123 00:10:08,480 --> 00:10:12,520 and benefits your life is it helps you be an example by 124 00:10:12,520 --> 00:10:19,280 serving others over yourself, serving others over yourself 125 00:10:19,520 --> 00:10:25,240 just as Christ did because we know in Matthew 20 he said this, 126 00:10:25,400 --> 00:10:31,200 the greatest in the Kingdom is the what is the servant of all? 127 00:10:31,480 --> 00:10:40,360 So he expects and actually desires that every single person 128 00:10:40,360 --> 00:10:43,680 in the body of Christ be a servant. 129 00:10:43,920 --> 00:10:50,760 And listen, if you're a servant, then you'll be able to discover 130 00:10:50,960 --> 00:10:56,640 some leadership abilities within your life outside of serving. 131 00:10:56,840 --> 00:11:02,080 You won't discover some things that God has for you in your 132 00:11:02,160 --> 00:11:06,000 life. He designed it that way. 133 00:11:06,120 --> 00:11:10,600 He created us that way in the body of Christ. 134 00:11:10,880 --> 00:11:16,640 So it's going to help us see the gifts, the talents, be able to 135 00:11:16,640 --> 00:11:21,160 recognize that this is not just about me, but it's about all of 136 00:11:21,160 --> 00:11:23,400 us. One of the other things that we 137 00:11:23,400 --> 00:11:28,680 benefit from finding our fit and serving our assignment in the 138 00:11:28,680 --> 00:11:33,240 body of Christ is that is what helps connect you to other 139 00:11:33,240 --> 00:11:36,920 believers. That's what helps connect you to 140 00:11:36,920 --> 00:11:40,920 other believers. That's what helps you build up 141 00:11:41,120 --> 00:11:46,560 the body of Christ, right? And it helps you then to begin 142 00:11:46,560 --> 00:11:52,000 to bring a supply to the body. Another thing, this is the last 143 00:11:52,000 --> 00:11:56,680 thing that I want to just share here is a benefit of serving and 144 00:11:56,680 --> 00:12:03,520 finding your assignment is that it will glorify God, It will 145 00:12:03,520 --> 00:12:09,120 glorify God. It will glorify God not only in 146 00:12:09,120 --> 00:12:14,000 what we are doing, but it will glorify God to where when people 147 00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:19,480 in this community look upon your life or look upon the church, it 148 00:12:19,480 --> 00:12:22,560 will bring glory to the Kingdom of God. 149 00:12:24,400 --> 00:12:27,320 It brings glory to the Kingdom of God. 150 00:12:28,280 --> 00:12:31,880 Hallelujah. So serving is beneficial. 151 00:12:31,880 --> 00:12:35,680 You know, there's this whole mindset in the world today that, 152 00:12:35,680 --> 00:12:41,400 you know, people don't want you to put any pressure on them to 153 00:12:41,400 --> 00:12:45,080 serve. It's the whole thing, right? 154 00:12:45,880 --> 00:12:51,440 And that, you know, we just as pastors just want all of these 155 00:12:51,440 --> 00:12:55,520 little minions running around doing everything for us. 156 00:12:57,680 --> 00:13:00,040 This is the whole society. I'm telling you, it's a whole. 157 00:13:00,040 --> 00:13:05,080 You can find any kind of blog you want to on it, OK. 158 00:13:05,760 --> 00:13:10,520 And so we're always having to arrest this mentality. 159 00:13:11,640 --> 00:13:17,840 God created us with gifts and abilities and talents, not to 160 00:13:17,840 --> 00:13:24,040 waste in the world, but to bring to the body of Christ, to build 161 00:13:24,040 --> 00:13:28,320 up His Kingdom. Come on so that the world can 162 00:13:28,320 --> 00:13:34,960 see God doing things and manifesting himself in the 163 00:13:34,960 --> 00:13:38,280 world. Amen. 164 00:13:38,800 --> 00:13:43,400 And so it's vitally important that every single one of us find 165 00:13:43,400 --> 00:13:48,800 and discover this gift and these talents that God has for our 166 00:13:48,800 --> 00:13:51,480 lives. One minister said this, You will 167 00:13:51,480 --> 00:13:56,320 never truly feel connected to a church until you begin to serve 168 00:13:56,320 --> 00:14:00,720 in it. Because those that come and 169 00:14:00,720 --> 00:14:06,000 don't serve, they can come and go and they're never really 170 00:14:06,000 --> 00:14:09,880 connected. Come on, they're never really 171 00:14:09,880 --> 00:14:12,280 connected. And you know what? 172 00:14:12,280 --> 00:14:15,840 When you're really connected, it'll be harder for you to just 173 00:14:17,240 --> 00:14:23,280 go because you'll know. This is where I'm fitted. 174 00:14:24,120 --> 00:14:27,520 This is where God has assigned me. 175 00:14:28,400 --> 00:14:33,760 This is what I was created to do Amen. 176 00:14:34,000 --> 00:14:37,000 Hallelujah. So he says you'll never truly 177 00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:40,040 feel connected to a church until you begin to serve in it. 178 00:14:40,280 --> 00:14:45,520 Attending helps you grow spiritually, but serving allows 179 00:14:45,520 --> 00:14:50,120 you to fulfill your God-given purposes. 180 00:14:51,000 --> 00:14:53,680 And did you hear that word? Purposes? 181 00:14:54,040 --> 00:14:58,240 And let me give you this word. It's not just an assignment, 182 00:14:58,240 --> 00:15:04,680 it's assign mints because as long as we are breathing and as 183 00:15:04,680 --> 00:15:08,920 long as you are yielded and following the Holy Spirit and 184 00:15:08,920 --> 00:15:13,600 growing and maturing, there's going to be more and more 185 00:15:13,600 --> 00:15:18,720 assignments that He's going to give you come on to bring to the 186 00:15:18,720 --> 00:15:21,440 body of Christ. And it's through those 187 00:15:21,440 --> 00:15:25,920 assignments that you will only begin to discover the real 188 00:15:25,920 --> 00:15:32,640 purpose that God has for your life through those assignments 189 00:15:32,920 --> 00:15:37,160 every day of being faithful, serving, and just doing the 190 00:15:37,160 --> 00:15:41,120 things that you are hearing the promptings to do by the Spirit 191 00:15:41,120 --> 00:15:44,280 of God putting you in the places, come on. 192 00:15:44,560 --> 00:15:49,160 Because then you'll begin to find out, is this really me? 193 00:15:49,160 --> 00:15:52,600 Is that really something that I'm talented to do? 194 00:15:52,720 --> 00:15:57,520 Or is this a supernatural ability that God has given me? 195 00:15:59,120 --> 00:16:04,200 See, I want to get beyond things that I can do as a talent. 196 00:16:05,440 --> 00:16:09,600 Now He gives us talents, He gives us abilities. 197 00:16:09,600 --> 00:16:13,200 He gives us these things. But I want to get beyond a 198 00:16:13,200 --> 00:16:16,400 talent. I want to get to a place where I 199 00:16:16,400 --> 00:16:20,840 am in an assignment and a purpose that it is supernatural 200 00:16:20,840 --> 00:16:26,880 and supernatural alone that I cannot do it in and of myself. 201 00:16:28,880 --> 00:16:33,520 Hallelujah. That I need His anointing upon 202 00:16:33,520 --> 00:16:37,880 my life. I need His grace upon my life to 203 00:16:37,920 --> 00:16:42,880 be able to accomplish all the things that He is assigning and 204 00:16:42,880 --> 00:16:45,440 a purposing me to do in the earth. 205 00:16:46,080 --> 00:16:49,040 Hallelujah. Hallelujah. 206 00:16:49,480 --> 00:16:53,760 So it's very important that we recognize that it's not the 207 00:16:53,760 --> 00:16:56,680 pastor just begging people to serve. 208 00:16:58,800 --> 00:17:06,119 It's God himself that has ordained for you to serve his 209 00:17:06,119 --> 00:17:08,960 body. Come on. 210 00:17:10,920 --> 00:17:16,960 And what is the most greatest honor of all is that He picked 211 00:17:16,960 --> 00:17:21,280 you. He chose you to be able to help 212 00:17:21,599 --> 00:17:25,920 Co labor with Him. Come on, to build up his body, 213 00:17:26,160 --> 00:17:31,840 to be able to bring a supply, to be able to bring people into the 214 00:17:31,840 --> 00:17:36,840 Kingdom of God so that they can see His glory, so that you can 215 00:17:36,840 --> 00:17:42,880 begin to demonstrate His power. Come on, Hallelujah, glory to 216 00:17:42,880 --> 00:17:45,920 God. So in First Corinthians, I guess 217 00:17:45,920 --> 00:17:50,240 we'll get started here in 12, four and seven, it says this. 218 00:17:50,240 --> 00:17:54,760 There are different kinds of spiritual gifts, but the same 219 00:17:54,760 --> 00:17:57,240 Spirit is the source of them all. 220 00:17:57,520 --> 00:18:01,080 There are different kinds of service, say service. 221 00:18:01,280 --> 00:18:06,920 Why would he put the word service in the Scripture if he 222 00:18:06,920 --> 00:18:10,560 did not expect His body to serve? 223 00:18:16,160 --> 00:18:20,000 So he says, but we serve the same Lord. 224 00:18:20,440 --> 00:18:25,000 God works in different ways, but it's the same God who does the 225 00:18:25,000 --> 00:18:28,880 work in all of us. A spiritual gift is given to 226 00:18:28,880 --> 00:18:33,040 each of us so that we can help each other. 227 00:18:33,680 --> 00:18:36,120 Why is a spiritual gift given to us? 228 00:18:36,120 --> 00:18:40,080 So that we can get up here and prophecy and say, look at me. 229 00:18:40,160 --> 00:18:43,600 Oh, and look at the power and look at the healings that are 230 00:18:43,600 --> 00:18:51,440 being wrought by me. No, it was to be able to help 231 00:18:51,680 --> 00:19:00,840 one another, to help one another, to bring a supply to 232 00:19:00,840 --> 00:19:08,000 one another to the body of Christ, to build up his body, 233 00:19:08,360 --> 00:19:13,440 his church, glory to God, glory to God. 234 00:19:13,840 --> 00:19:17,600 Now let me read real quick out of Ephesians chapter 4 verse 7. 235 00:19:19,240 --> 00:19:25,000 It says, however, he has given each one, Say each one, say it 236 00:19:25,000 --> 00:19:34,880 again, say it again, yes, each one of us a special gift through 237 00:19:34,880 --> 00:19:43,840 the generosity of Christ. He was so generous that he 238 00:19:43,840 --> 00:19:47,080 decided he was going to give us each one a gift. 239 00:19:50,800 --> 00:19:53,000 Hallelujah. And you know that gift was not 240 00:19:53,000 --> 00:19:55,480 just that. When we die, we get to go to 241 00:19:55,480 --> 00:19:58,800 heaven. The gift of salvation. 242 00:20:00,160 --> 00:20:06,000 Hallelujah. Each one he wanted to give a 243 00:20:06,000 --> 00:20:09,200 gift and he was generous about it. 244 00:20:10,520 --> 00:20:13,520 Hallelujah. Now let's drop down and read 245 00:20:13,640 --> 00:20:19,000 verses 11 through 16, 11 through 16, and I'm going to read out of 246 00:20:19,000 --> 00:20:20,480 the amplified. It says this. 247 00:20:20,840 --> 00:20:23,440 And his gifts to the church were varied. 248 00:20:23,800 --> 00:20:29,520 And he himself appointed some as apostles, special messengers and 249 00:20:29,520 --> 00:20:33,480 representatives, some as prophets who speak a new message 250 00:20:33,480 --> 00:20:37,480 from God to the people, some as evangelists who spread the good 251 00:20:37,480 --> 00:20:42,000 news of salvation, and some as pastors and teachers the to 252 00:20:42,000 --> 00:20:47,800 shepherd and guide and instruct. And he did this to fully equip 253 00:20:47,800 --> 00:20:55,520 and perfect the Saints, God's people, for the work of for the 254 00:20:55,520 --> 00:20:59,160 work of. This is not a dirty word. 255 00:21:03,600 --> 00:21:08,320 It's not a dirty word, but you know, it has become one and and 256 00:21:08,320 --> 00:21:16,080 some churches, you know, I mean, and so it says this until we all 257 00:21:16,080 --> 00:21:19,960 reach oneness in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of 258 00:21:19,960 --> 00:21:22,720 God growing spiritually. You see this. 259 00:21:22,720 --> 00:21:27,200 It's all about building up the body of Christ until we all can 260 00:21:27,200 --> 00:21:30,680 reach oneness of the faith in the knowledge of the Son of God, 261 00:21:30,960 --> 00:21:33,840 until we all can grow spiritually. 262 00:21:34,160 --> 00:21:38,840 It's all connected together. My growth is is connected to 263 00:21:38,840 --> 00:21:41,560 your growth. If I'm not growing, guess what? 264 00:21:41,560 --> 00:21:47,000 You're not going to grow. You're not going to grow. 265 00:21:47,000 --> 00:21:49,720 If I'm not growing, you're not going to grow. 266 00:21:49,720 --> 00:21:53,520 If someone else is not growing, that's connected to you in the 267 00:21:53,520 --> 00:21:59,480 body of Christ. And so he says this, Let me see 268 00:21:59,480 --> 00:22:02,680 where I was, OK? To become a mature believer, 269 00:22:02,880 --> 00:22:06,800 reaching to the measure of the fullness of Christ, manifesting 270 00:22:06,800 --> 00:22:12,080 his spiritual completeness and exercising our spiritual gifts 271 00:22:12,080 --> 00:22:14,640 in unity. You see that? 272 00:22:14,920 --> 00:22:19,520 Exercising our spiritual gifts in unity. 273 00:22:19,720 --> 00:22:24,080 And that's what Brian was alluding to, that the hand can't 274 00:22:24,080 --> 00:22:26,240 tell the foot. I don't need you. 275 00:22:26,520 --> 00:22:30,040 Because when you're in unity, you know, you need that hand, 276 00:22:30,040 --> 00:22:32,280 you need that foot, you need that eye. 277 00:22:32,280 --> 00:22:37,440 Come on, you need that ear. You need every part to be in 278 00:22:37,440 --> 00:22:43,080 unison in unity. Oh man, you know, last night 279 00:22:43,080 --> 00:22:50,680 Pastor around a movie and that's all we spent was one hour or 280 00:22:50,800 --> 00:22:54,160 however long it was with TV yesterday. 281 00:22:54,560 --> 00:22:58,080 But anyway, you know, sometimes you just got to take a brain, 282 00:22:58,680 --> 00:23:02,600 you know, and so but he found this movie and it was called 283 00:23:02,600 --> 00:23:08,960 what I don't even know, the heart of champions, Heart of 284 00:23:08,960 --> 00:23:14,960 champions. So it's about a rowing team. 285 00:23:15,800 --> 00:23:17,920 Has anybody seen it lift your hands? 286 00:23:19,000 --> 00:23:27,800 It's about that rowing team, So powerful, so powerful. 287 00:23:28,200 --> 00:23:34,440 The things that this coach was having to do to train this team 288 00:23:34,680 --> 00:23:42,000 to be one in that boat, so much so that the one kid had the idea 289 00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:46,800 of putting it in blindfolded. I'd like to know if we all came 290 00:23:46,800 --> 00:24:02,420 in here blindfolded, would we all be in unison in what we were 291 00:24:02,820 --> 00:24:13,080 doing in a service anyway? So you know, his coaching, you 292 00:24:13,080 --> 00:24:15,000 know, my husband loves sports stuff. 293 00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:22,360 So I'm I'm getting with the TV program, whatever this movie, 294 00:24:22,560 --> 00:24:26,760 but I love because God gives you that correlation of the body of 295 00:24:26,760 --> 00:24:29,040 Christ. So I'm like, man, you know, I 296 00:24:29,040 --> 00:24:31,520 didn't even think I would be using it today, but it just came 297 00:24:31,520 --> 00:24:34,400 up in the spirit. So evidently it was it was being 298 00:24:34,400 --> 00:24:40,200 led by the spirit to watch that movie yesterday anyway, So thank 299 00:24:40,200 --> 00:24:45,600 you. And so, you know, I mean, but 300 00:24:45,600 --> 00:24:51,320 what was so amazing is that when they blindfolded them, it was so 301 00:24:51,320 --> 00:25:01,160 that they could hear, so that the other senses could be able 302 00:25:01,160 --> 00:25:07,000 to be so they everything. And you know why else they put 303 00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:10,640 the blindfold on? So they wouldn't be distracted 304 00:25:10,800 --> 00:25:14,600 at what they were seeing if the team looked like it was getting 305 00:25:14,600 --> 00:25:19,440 ahead. No, they had to set their eyes. 306 00:25:19,680 --> 00:25:23,600 They had to determine, listen. So I'm not going to get 307 00:25:23,600 --> 00:25:29,000 distracted by what I hear, by what I've seen all around me, 308 00:25:29,320 --> 00:25:34,560 but I'm going to stay the course and I'm going to row in rhythm 309 00:25:34,680 --> 00:25:39,440 with the body of Christ. I'm going to row in rhythm with 310 00:25:39,440 --> 00:25:51,000 what I know the Spirit is saying Hallelujah, powerful, powerful. 311 00:25:52,640 --> 00:25:58,200 And how much more they're doing it for a stupid little trophy 312 00:26:02,360 --> 00:26:09,480 and we're doing it for the King of glory and an eternal reward 313 00:26:09,640 --> 00:26:17,960 and eternal crown of glory. Hallelujah, Hallelujah. 314 00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:24,920 So we need to get in unison, setting our eyes on the right 315 00:26:24,920 --> 00:26:30,920 thing set in our ears, to hear the right spirit, so that the 316 00:26:30,920 --> 00:26:36,160 church can reign in the earth like He said it would in these 317 00:26:36,160 --> 00:26:37,440 last days. Amen. 318 00:26:37,720 --> 00:26:40,840 Anyway, so that was good, praise the Lord. 319 00:26:43,800 --> 00:26:49,800 So when we're all exercising, you hear that exercise. 320 00:26:49,800 --> 00:26:51,480 Now, how many don't like that word? 321 00:26:55,080 --> 00:27:02,880 Because serving is exercising, using our gifts, using our 322 00:27:02,880 --> 00:27:08,320 abilities, using our talents, using those divine endowments 323 00:27:08,320 --> 00:27:11,680 that God has given each and every one of us. 324 00:27:12,080 --> 00:27:19,840 And it is exercise, it's stretching, which is the most 325 00:27:19,840 --> 00:27:23,840 important when it comes to exercise when you get older. 326 00:27:25,480 --> 00:27:34,080 You know, Pastor, I'll be 55 Tuesday and then I'll be 55 327 00:27:34,080 --> 00:27:39,040 next. And I still don't like that word 328 00:27:39,040 --> 00:27:42,960 exercise. But every day I'm seeing the 329 00:27:42,960 --> 00:27:46,240 necessity of for it, for my body. 330 00:27:46,840 --> 00:27:52,080 And so anyway, you know how many of you men went out and played 331 00:27:52,080 --> 00:27:55,080 football yesterday and had some good times? 332 00:27:55,480 --> 00:27:59,960 And so he said I was the oldest one on that football team. 333 00:28:01,440 --> 00:28:07,720 And I guarantee you if I just do this next time I can smoke them 334 00:28:07,720 --> 00:28:14,800 all because he said I wasn't the slowest. 335 00:28:15,600 --> 00:28:18,360 So I heard there was a 19 year old in here. 336 00:28:18,360 --> 00:28:20,880 Come on, that was sore. Here he is. 337 00:28:21,120 --> 00:28:24,720 He played ball yesterday and I said, are you sore? 338 00:28:24,720 --> 00:28:26,400 He said, Oh yeah, I'm feeling it. 339 00:28:26,400 --> 00:28:30,520 I said, well, good, I'll let my husband know at 55 he's OK if 340 00:28:30,520 --> 00:28:33,840 he's sore because you're a 19 year old and your body sore. 341 00:28:36,480 --> 00:28:39,000 Hallelujah. Why am I even on this? 342 00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:45,040 But it's funny, it's exercise. Oh yes, we need to laugh at 343 00:28:45,040 --> 00:28:50,880 exercising, don't we? So exercising, that means 344 00:28:50,880 --> 00:28:55,040 there's there's going to be times that in things that God is 345 00:28:55,320 --> 00:28:58,840 desiring for us to do in our assignment, that's going to 346 00:28:58,840 --> 00:29:03,000 stretch us. Come on, that's going to push us 347 00:29:04,280 --> 00:29:09,240 and when we're being pushed and exercised in some things that 348 00:29:09,240 --> 00:29:13,560 God's doing within our lives, come on, this is where those 349 00:29:14,200 --> 00:29:20,400 those honing in of purposes can be discovered and outside of it, 350 00:29:20,400 --> 00:29:23,360 it won't happen. And so I'm going to share a 351 00:29:23,360 --> 00:29:25,400 little bit about that in a minute, but let me finish the 352 00:29:25,400 --> 00:29:28,600 Scripture. Remind me verse 14 so that we 353 00:29:28,600 --> 00:29:32,400 are no longer children. Do you see this the reason why 354 00:29:32,400 --> 00:29:36,360 it's so important that everyone brings a supply and serves the 355 00:29:36,360 --> 00:29:42,480 body of Christ to build them up and help them grow and then why 356 00:29:42,480 --> 00:29:49,040 is it so that will no longer be children tossed what here and 357 00:29:49,040 --> 00:29:51,920 there. Listen to what the amplified 358 00:29:51,920 --> 00:29:56,920 says though, so we'll no longer be children spiritually 359 00:29:56,920 --> 00:30:01,560 immature. And I'm going to say, say this, 360 00:30:01,560 --> 00:30:09,880 that a person that has not discovered that they are to 361 00:30:09,880 --> 00:30:17,040 serve the body of Christ is an immature believer and don't see 362 00:30:17,040 --> 00:30:20,440 the importance of it is an immature believer. 363 00:30:23,800 --> 00:30:28,640 And so he goes on to say, toss back and forth like ships on a 364 00:30:28,640 --> 00:30:32,080 stormy sea carried about by every wind. 365 00:30:32,080 --> 00:30:37,520 Shifting doctrine by the cunning and trickery of unscrupulous 366 00:30:37,520 --> 00:30:43,080 men, by the deceitful scheming of people ready to do anything 367 00:30:43,080 --> 00:30:46,720 for personal profit. But speaking the truth in love 368 00:30:46,720 --> 00:30:50,640 in all things, both our speech and in our lives, expressing His 369 00:30:50,640 --> 00:30:56,240 truth, let us grow up into all things unto the body, following 370 00:30:56,240 --> 00:31:00,800 His example, who is the head? And do you know what His example 371 00:31:00,800 --> 00:31:03,200 was? Is that the greatest in the 372 00:31:03,200 --> 00:31:08,080 Kingdom is the servant of all. Our Lord and Savior served. 373 00:31:08,240 --> 00:31:13,840 He's knelt down and washed His disciples feet. 374 00:31:15,360 --> 00:31:23,000 He served, He served, and so it's very important that we 375 00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:28,080 recognize that each and every one of us should be bringing 376 00:31:28,080 --> 00:31:31,280 that supply. Verse 16 it says from him and 377 00:31:31,280 --> 00:31:35,080 whom the body, the church in all of its various parts. 378 00:31:35,080 --> 00:31:39,400 You see that it brings back First Corinthians 12/12. 379 00:31:39,400 --> 00:31:44,080 There all the various parts joined and knitted firmly 380 00:31:44,080 --> 00:31:47,600 together by what every joint supplies. 381 00:31:47,600 --> 00:31:52,000 When each part is working properly causes the body to grow 382 00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:57,840 and mature, building itself up in unselfish love. 383 00:31:59,680 --> 00:32:03,840 When we determine that we don't have to serve, what is that 384 00:32:03,840 --> 00:32:13,800 saying? So it's very important that we 385 00:32:14,080 --> 00:32:18,640 begin to allow the Spirit of God to deal with our hearts in these 386 00:32:18,640 --> 00:32:23,200 ways so that we can find the fit in the body of Christ and the 387 00:32:23,200 --> 00:32:27,600 things that he needs us to bring our supply to. 388 00:32:27,880 --> 00:32:32,600 So first Peter chapter 4, first Peter chapter 4, verses 10 389 00:32:32,600 --> 00:32:37,440 through 11 says this. Just as each one say, each one 390 00:32:38,560 --> 00:32:45,680 of you has received a special gift, a spiritual talent and 391 00:32:45,680 --> 00:32:52,200 ability graciously given by God. Employ it, and serving one 392 00:32:52,200 --> 00:32:57,240 another, employ it. You know what that means? 393 00:32:57,480 --> 00:33:02,280 Put it to work. Put it to work. 394 00:33:02,720 --> 00:33:06,440 You've all been. Each one of you have been given 395 00:33:06,880 --> 00:33:12,000 a grace for serving. Actually, when you look that up, 396 00:33:12,320 --> 00:33:16,280 for those that you know, you've taken my Ki class on grace, 397 00:33:16,480 --> 00:33:21,400 serving grace. He has given each and every one 398 00:33:21,400 --> 00:33:23,360 of us. When you look that up in the 399 00:33:23,360 --> 00:33:29,120 Greek, this grace, this special endowment, this ability, this 400 00:33:29,120 --> 00:33:35,400 grace for your life, your grace for your life is not the same 401 00:33:35,400 --> 00:33:41,320 grace for my life. And we have to recognize that 402 00:33:41,440 --> 00:33:46,320 we've all been given grace to get us into the Kingdom of God. 403 00:33:46,480 --> 00:33:52,880 But then He gives each and every one of us a certain endowment of 404 00:33:52,880 --> 00:33:57,400 grace and ability to do our assignment that He is asking of 405 00:33:57,400 --> 00:34:04,680 us in the body of Christ. And that word there, that grace 406 00:34:04,680 --> 00:34:07,720 that He's given to us. Let me finish reading it and 407 00:34:07,720 --> 00:34:11,159 then I'll talk about it. It says employ it and serving 408 00:34:11,159 --> 00:34:17,159 one another as is appropriate for a good steward of God's 409 00:34:17,440 --> 00:34:26,080 multi faceted grace, faithfully using the diverse, varied gifts 410 00:34:26,080 --> 00:34:30,639 and abilities granted to Christians by God's unmerited 411 00:34:30,840 --> 00:34:33,480 favor. Whoever speaks to the 412 00:34:33,480 --> 00:34:37,960 congregation is to do so as one who speaks the oracles or 413 00:34:37,960 --> 00:34:40,040 utterances the very words of God. 414 00:34:40,040 --> 00:34:44,679 Whoever serves the congregation is to do it as one who serves by 415 00:34:44,679 --> 00:34:48,800 the strength which God abundantly supplies. 416 00:34:48,800 --> 00:34:54,440 You see that God is the one that gives you the strength to serve. 417 00:34:54,800 --> 00:34:59,760 We get burnt out when we do it on our own, but if we'll tap 418 00:34:59,760 --> 00:35:04,000 into no, this is the grace of God within my life to be able to 419 00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:08,280 serve the body of Christ in whatever capacity He's asking of 420 00:35:08,280 --> 00:35:10,920 me. Then it's His supernatural 421 00:35:10,920 --> 00:35:15,520 divine ability that He has put upon each and every one of our 422 00:35:15,520 --> 00:35:22,360 lives to bring that supply to the body and that word there 423 00:35:22,960 --> 00:35:27,840 multifaceted grace or that grace gift is comes sound kind of 424 00:35:27,840 --> 00:35:32,040 sounds like the Greek word or it kind of sounds like charisma, 425 00:35:33,320 --> 00:35:38,880 but it's charisma spelled like charisma. 426 00:35:39,640 --> 00:35:52,400 So, and it literally means that divine endowment gift ability 427 00:35:52,840 --> 00:35:57,840 that he has given each and every one of us to bring to the body 428 00:35:57,840 --> 00:36:00,680 of Christ. And then he tells us, listen, be 429 00:36:00,680 --> 00:36:04,200 a good steward of it. Are we being good stewards of 430 00:36:04,200 --> 00:36:08,680 what he's given us to do? Or are we, you know, not doing 431 00:36:08,680 --> 00:36:16,520 anything because he's, and you know, there's a whole nother 432 00:36:16,520 --> 00:36:20,920 parable about the talents that we don't even need to get into, 433 00:36:22,120 --> 00:36:25,240 but there's abilities, there's things, there's gifts that God 434 00:36:25,240 --> 00:36:28,680 has graced each and every one of his children, his Saints, those 435 00:36:28,680 --> 00:36:31,800 that have called on the name of the Lord with a grace and an 436 00:36:31,800 --> 00:36:35,200 ability to bring to the body of Christ. 437 00:36:35,360 --> 00:36:40,560 And are we stewarding it or are we not using it for the body? 438 00:36:40,560 --> 00:36:43,800 Or are we actually abusing it in the world? 439 00:36:45,920 --> 00:36:51,160 Because that was God's gift? I know some of the greatest 440 00:36:51,160 --> 00:36:57,920 singers we know today had a beautiful voice and sang in 441 00:36:57,920 --> 00:37:03,280 choirs, in churches. And what did it profit them to 442 00:37:03,280 --> 00:37:08,440 gain the whole world to use their talent and ability for the 443 00:37:08,600 --> 00:37:10,280 Grammy? Come on. 444 00:37:11,040 --> 00:37:18,080 And they're in the grave today, wasted abilities, wasted talent, 445 00:37:18,280 --> 00:37:23,920 not being a good steward of what God put in their life to do to 446 00:37:23,920 --> 00:37:26,360 actually glorify him. Could you? 447 00:37:26,680 --> 00:37:30,320 Well, we know like Whitney Houston and some of all of 448 00:37:30,320 --> 00:37:37,240 these. Come on now, bring the house 449 00:37:37,240 --> 00:37:39,480 down. Could you imagine the glory of 450 00:37:39,480 --> 00:37:42,760 the Lord fallen in this place if Whitney Houston had got up in 451 00:37:42,760 --> 00:37:46,960 here and was sold out to the King of Glory and and used her 452 00:37:46,960 --> 00:37:50,960 voice that she actually discovered by singing in the 453 00:37:50,960 --> 00:38:01,080 choir at the church? See what I'm saying instead? 454 00:38:01,240 --> 00:38:12,520 Died of brokenness, squandering and wasting on the world when 455 00:38:12,520 --> 00:38:21,320 God has put things within you to bring to glorify his Kingdom, to 456 00:38:21,320 --> 00:38:27,080 glorify his Kingdom. So he says this. 457 00:38:29,760 --> 00:38:36,320 Did I finish that scripture? Whoever speaks OK, whoever 458 00:38:36,320 --> 00:38:40,360 serves the congregation, do it as one who serves by the 459 00:38:40,360 --> 00:38:44,920 strength which God abundantly supplies, so that in all things 460 00:38:44,920 --> 00:38:51,040 God may be glorified, he may be honored, he may be magnified 461 00:38:51,040 --> 00:38:54,120 through Jesus Christ. To him belongs the glory and 462 00:38:54,120 --> 00:38:58,040 dominion, forever and ever. Amen. 463 00:38:58,640 --> 00:39:05,080 So again, these things that God has put within our heart, the 464 00:39:05,080 --> 00:39:08,960 assignments and the purposes and the things that He has given 465 00:39:08,960 --> 00:39:12,800 each and every one of us is only going to continue to be 466 00:39:12,800 --> 00:39:18,120 discovered through US serving and using what it is He's given 467 00:39:18,120 --> 00:39:20,280 us to bring to the body of Christ. 468 00:39:21,160 --> 00:39:22,920 That's how they're going to be discovered. 469 00:39:23,560 --> 00:39:29,040 Every believer, we've said this before, has a a general 470 00:39:29,280 --> 00:39:36,080 assignment and a general purpose because assignments lead into 471 00:39:36,080 --> 00:39:38,800 your purpose. Every believer has an assignment 472 00:39:38,800 --> 00:39:44,360 and a purpose from God. Every one of us general and one 473 00:39:44,360 --> 00:39:47,120 of those general assignments are is we are just supposed to live 474 00:39:47,120 --> 00:39:49,800 like the word. If we could just get past this, 475 00:39:51,600 --> 00:39:54,200 not past it, but actually doing it, you understand what I'm 476 00:39:54,200 --> 00:39:58,240 saying? If we could just all live by the 477 00:39:58,240 --> 00:40:04,680 word and do what the word is saying OK, and then it's then we 478 00:40:04,680 --> 00:40:11,120 can see that we will then discover specific purposes for 479 00:40:11,120 --> 00:40:15,960 our life, but it's only discovered in US. 480 00:40:17,000 --> 00:40:23,240 Allowing him to use us in a general assignment and serving 481 00:40:23,240 --> 00:40:27,800 and doing these things every day, and then things can begin 482 00:40:27,800 --> 00:40:30,200 to develop and mature within your life. 483 00:40:30,440 --> 00:40:34,800 And then you know what you're actually going to see where you 484 00:40:34,920 --> 00:40:38,840 actually flow and function best in. 485 00:40:39,280 --> 00:40:41,920 But if you're not doing anything, you're never going to 486 00:40:41,920 --> 00:40:46,240 discover it. You know, I'm going to use this 487 00:40:46,240 --> 00:40:48,240 testimony. I feel like it's already late 488 00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:53,360 with me. Listen, I just got born again 489 00:40:53,360 --> 00:40:55,520 and I just wanted to serve the Lord. 490 00:40:57,040 --> 00:41:00,160 I just start, you know, when Pastor Earl and I got married at 491 00:41:00,160 --> 00:41:08,600 21, this year will be 34 years that we made that decision 492 00:41:09,440 --> 00:41:14,160 before we walked down the aisle that Jesus was going to be our 493 00:41:14,160 --> 00:41:16,720 Lord. He was already our Savior as 494 00:41:16,720 --> 00:41:23,160 children, but he became our Lord the day that we determined 495 00:41:23,160 --> 00:41:29,000 before we got married. And you know, so every since 496 00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:34,440 then for 34 years that's all we have pursued is the Kingdom of 497 00:41:34,440 --> 00:41:38,680 God. And in the beginning I just 498 00:41:38,680 --> 00:41:43,440 wanted to serve the Lord. I didn't have any mindset. 499 00:41:43,440 --> 00:41:46,280 Y'all heard my testimony. I just wanted a happy little 500 00:41:46,280 --> 00:41:51,160 marriage, a house, white picket fence and a husband that would 501 00:41:51,160 --> 00:41:56,640 love me and work 9:00 to 5:00. Working 9:00 to 5:00, right? 502 00:41:56,720 --> 00:42:00,440 That dated me a little bit. Anyway, you already know my 503 00:42:00,440 --> 00:42:02,000 date. So anyway. 504 00:42:07,160 --> 00:42:11,000 Just started serving the Lord. Nobody had to beg me. 505 00:42:11,000 --> 00:42:13,720 When we started going to church and made a commitment that we 506 00:42:13,720 --> 00:42:16,760 were going to raise our family and our kids in church, we just 507 00:42:16,760 --> 00:42:19,920 started serving the Lord. I remember just working in the 508 00:42:19,920 --> 00:42:23,120 nursery because I had children. I knew how to take care of kids. 509 00:42:23,120 --> 00:42:25,960 So just put me in the nursery. I can take care of them all day 510 00:42:25,960 --> 00:42:30,200 long with my eyes closed. OK, and had no problem. 511 00:42:30,200 --> 00:42:36,480 Just started serving. Had no mindset that we were ever 512 00:42:36,600 --> 00:42:41,360 going to be doing what we're doing today at all. 513 00:42:41,360 --> 00:42:45,880 Nowhere ever in my mind, in my body. 514 00:42:48,040 --> 00:42:53,840 Still have to slap myself sometimes multiple times, get it 515 00:42:53,840 --> 00:43:00,160 right anyway. Had no desire, no mindset. 516 00:43:01,000 --> 00:43:04,160 But what I did know is that I was going to serve. 517 00:43:04,920 --> 00:43:09,080 No one had to ask. So I just volunteered in the 518 00:43:09,080 --> 00:43:12,480 nursery and started serving, you know, in the little Bitty 519 00:43:12,480 --> 00:43:16,720 Baptist Church with little bitty room this big and where all the 520 00:43:16,720 --> 00:43:20,880 kids go in, you know, started serving. 521 00:43:21,920 --> 00:43:25,600 And then as we started going to church for a couple of years, 522 00:43:26,600 --> 00:43:32,240 then other things just started, you know, other things, Then we 523 00:43:32,240 --> 00:43:39,960 ended up, you know, ended up in a, in a Assemblies of God church 524 00:43:39,960 --> 00:43:41,800 where we all got filled with the Holy Ghost. 525 00:43:42,480 --> 00:43:45,640 You know, I'm not, I'm skipping a lot, But anyway. 526 00:43:46,800 --> 00:43:55,360 And it was then that the pastor's wife said, hey, you do 527 00:43:55,360 --> 00:43:58,840 such a good job with the kids teaching, you know, taking care 528 00:43:58,840 --> 00:44:01,560 of all the babies, but I want you to teach a Sunday school 529 00:44:01,560 --> 00:44:07,720 class. And I say, well, I've never 530 00:44:07,720 --> 00:44:11,640 taught a Sunday school class. It was actually with AG. 531 00:44:11,760 --> 00:44:15,680 It was Missionettes, Missionettes and Royal Rangers. 532 00:44:16,280 --> 00:44:19,800 And I'm like, I've never taught a Sunday school class. 533 00:44:20,000 --> 00:44:22,240 You know, I've never done this. I've never. 534 00:44:24,200 --> 00:44:28,000 But you know what she was doing stretching me. 535 00:44:29,520 --> 00:44:34,040 You know what she was doing, saying, come on, you can do it. 536 00:44:35,880 --> 00:44:39,880 You can do it. So then I'm like, well, OK, I 537 00:44:39,880 --> 00:44:44,080 guess I'll do it, you know. And so I began to teach this 538 00:44:44,080 --> 00:44:49,320 little Missionette class, little Sunday school class, and had all 539 00:44:49,320 --> 00:44:51,920 these kids and, you know, all these things. 540 00:44:52,160 --> 00:44:56,160 And then, you know, we're doing that for about a year or so. 541 00:44:56,520 --> 00:45:00,760 Then Can you believe this? All of a sudden she comes up and 542 00:45:00,760 --> 00:45:09,520 says I want you to sing a solo and this is when it was back on 543 00:45:09,880 --> 00:45:13,440 tapes. Do y'all know what these things 544 00:45:13,440 --> 00:45:20,560 cassette tapes are? So, you know, it had the 545 00:45:20,560 --> 00:45:25,240 background music on the cassette and you put it in and then you 546 00:45:25,240 --> 00:45:32,400 sing along, you know, and I'm like, I've never sang a solo 547 00:45:32,400 --> 00:45:35,680 before. I've, you know, I think at that 548 00:45:35,680 --> 00:45:39,080 time I was doing maybe she had asked me to be on the worship. 549 00:45:40,440 --> 00:45:43,200 So as I'm like, I Can't Sing. I've never, I don't want to be 550 00:45:43,200 --> 00:45:44,920 up here. Just put me in the room, close 551 00:45:44,920 --> 00:45:49,360 the door with 50 kids. I'll be fine, you know, and, 552 00:45:49,360 --> 00:45:55,040 and, and So what is she doing? She's stretching me and not even 553 00:45:55,040 --> 00:45:59,600 probably in her mindset knowing, but there was something that 554 00:45:59,600 --> 00:46:03,000 needed to be done and she thought you can do it. 555 00:46:05,200 --> 00:46:07,360 And what if I would have resisted? 556 00:46:08,280 --> 00:46:11,040 What if I would have said, well, I got my own kids to take care 557 00:46:11,040 --> 00:46:12,240 of? I don't have time to be on the 558 00:46:12,240 --> 00:46:14,320 worship team. I don't have to tell what you 559 00:46:14,320 --> 00:46:16,800 want me to do a solo. I've never spoken in front of 560 00:46:16,800 --> 00:46:21,600 anybody before and you want me to get up there and like sing a 561 00:46:21,600 --> 00:46:27,640 literal solo and sing and you know what song it was? 562 00:46:27,640 --> 00:46:29,720 I'll never forget. It's because when Brownsville 563 00:46:29,720 --> 00:46:37,000 was happening Revival and I ended up singing Mercy or some 564 00:46:37,000 --> 00:46:47,200 song called No Lord come running, Mercy come running, 565 00:46:48,680 --> 00:46:52,400 mercy come running. Anyway, I remember the name and 566 00:46:52,400 --> 00:46:54,120 I don't remember the words or whatever. 567 00:46:54,120 --> 00:46:58,800 So don't ask me to sing it. And the Holy Ghost isn't going 568 00:46:58,800 --> 00:47:06,320 to remind me either. So anyway, but I'm just saying 569 00:47:06,320 --> 00:47:11,080 all of this, me just serving wherever I could put my hand to 570 00:47:11,080 --> 00:47:14,640 and just doing whatever because I just had a heart to serve the 571 00:47:14,640 --> 00:47:16,400 Lord. I just wanted to do whatever the 572 00:47:16,400 --> 00:47:19,600 Lord wanted me to do. I was just yielded to want to 573 00:47:19,600 --> 00:47:23,200 serve Him in whatever capacity, whatever need, because I loved 574 00:47:23,240 --> 00:47:31,720 Him, I loved him, I loved him. There was no agenda in my mind. 575 00:47:31,720 --> 00:47:36,120 There was no agenda in my heart. Only thing in my heart is that I 576 00:47:36,120 --> 00:47:39,480 love the Lord. I loved his body, I loved the 577 00:47:39,480 --> 00:47:42,760 church. I knew what God had done for me. 578 00:47:42,880 --> 00:47:49,480 And that's all I wanted was just to serve hell with all of my 579 00:47:49,480 --> 00:47:54,280 heart, with all of my heart, with all of my soul, with all of 580 00:47:54,280 --> 00:47:58,200 my strength. But if we don't have that heart 581 00:47:58,200 --> 00:48:02,280 to just serve him, we'll never discover. 582 00:48:02,840 --> 00:48:07,600 We'll never walk into things that you could have never 583 00:48:07,600 --> 00:48:10,320 imagined that you would see yourself doing. 584 00:48:12,960 --> 00:48:19,920 And every day, every day, every day is a day that you have to 585 00:48:19,920 --> 00:48:27,840 say yes because Amen, Hallelujah. 586 00:48:27,840 --> 00:48:32,040 Every day is a day you have to say yes to whatever it is the 587 00:48:32,040 --> 00:48:36,800 Lord is doing because it's producing something within you 588 00:48:38,840 --> 00:48:45,440 to mature you, to grow you, to equip you to discover gifts and 589 00:48:45,440 --> 00:48:50,720 talents and the purpose things that God has had within you all 590 00:48:50,760 --> 00:48:56,800 of your life that He wants to bring out for the body of 591 00:48:56,800 --> 00:49:02,280 Christ. And so it's so important that we 592 00:49:02,280 --> 00:49:07,240 just allow him to use us in whatever capacity because it's 593 00:49:07,240 --> 00:49:10,920 then that we are going to see, Oh, I'm really good at that. 594 00:49:12,720 --> 00:49:16,120 Oh, I could do that. I mean, not like you're good at 595 00:49:16,120 --> 00:49:20,160 it in yourself, but you can see, Oh, I can do that. 596 00:49:21,000 --> 00:49:27,400 Oh yeah, I can, I can, you know, I can teach a class, I can study 597 00:49:27,400 --> 00:49:30,400 the word. I can do this and and be able to 598 00:49:30,400 --> 00:49:34,880 teach children and and share that into the next generation. 599 00:49:36,200 --> 00:49:40,960 And you know, it's so important that we recognize everything 600 00:49:40,960 --> 00:49:45,120 that the Lord is asking us to do in the body of Christ is there 601 00:49:45,120 --> 00:49:51,840 to equip you to be able to do something that He has assigned 602 00:49:51,880 --> 00:49:58,400 and purposed for your life. And we're responsible for it. 603 00:49:58,440 --> 00:50:03,160 We will stand before the Lord because He gives us that in that 604 00:50:03,680 --> 00:50:07,560 the talents He shows us in that parable. 605 00:50:08,600 --> 00:50:13,960 We'll be responsible for us not stewarding the gifts and the 606 00:50:13,960 --> 00:50:17,760 talents that God has given us in the earth while we're here still 607 00:50:17,760 --> 00:50:23,120 in the earth, before He returns to be able to bring that 608 00:50:23,120 --> 00:50:26,120 blessing to the body of Christ. Amen. 609 00:50:27,120 --> 00:50:28,680 Hallelujah. I could give you tons of 610 00:50:28,680 --> 00:50:30,280 examples, but we need to move on. 611 00:50:31,360 --> 00:50:37,080 You know in Romans, Romans chapter 12 talks about these 612 00:50:37,360 --> 00:50:41,560 these giftings as well and how again, here's Romans. 613 00:50:41,560 --> 00:50:45,320 It shows us a picture of the body again and all the different 614 00:50:45,320 --> 00:50:48,920 functions and all. Listen to this in Romans 4 it 615 00:50:48,920 --> 00:50:53,800 says For just as in one body we have many parts, and these parts 616 00:50:53,800 --> 00:50:58,240 do not all have the same function or special use, so we 617 00:50:58,240 --> 00:51:04,320 who are many are nevertheless just one body in Christ and 618 00:51:04,320 --> 00:51:07,400 individually we are parts of one another. 619 00:51:07,960 --> 00:51:10,240 Say I'm a part of one another. This is it. 620 00:51:10,600 --> 00:51:15,880 We're fitted together. We're fitted together and our 621 00:51:15,880 --> 00:51:20,920 assignments are the things that continue to fit us in those 622 00:51:20,920 --> 00:51:24,880 places to where we are together. We're going to run this race 623 00:51:24,880 --> 00:51:26,720 together. We're A-Team. 624 00:51:26,720 --> 00:51:30,000 Someone told my husband an analogy just this week too, 625 00:51:30,200 --> 00:51:32,360 about a team. You know, I am. 626 00:51:32,800 --> 00:51:36,800 When they were in a sport in college, they were a part of a 627 00:51:36,800 --> 00:51:41,080 team, a baseball team. And those baseball team players, 628 00:51:41,240 --> 00:51:45,760 they were best friends. They were practicing together. 629 00:51:45,760 --> 00:51:47,600 They were going to school together. 630 00:51:47,760 --> 00:51:50,760 They were doing all kinds of other events together. 631 00:51:50,760 --> 00:51:53,520 They're a team. And he said. 632 00:51:53,640 --> 00:51:56,000 And I was connected to that team. 633 00:51:56,200 --> 00:51:59,960 And for that season in my life, I ran with that team. 634 00:52:00,360 --> 00:52:04,200 I was a part of them. We didn't do anything outside of 635 00:52:04,200 --> 00:52:08,200 one another, but when we all started going into our own 636 00:52:08,200 --> 00:52:12,400 individual lives after college and stuff, I didn't see that 637 00:52:12,400 --> 00:52:15,440 team member as much. There was nothing wrong with it, 638 00:52:15,720 --> 00:52:18,760 but I was grouped together with a team. 639 00:52:19,000 --> 00:52:22,920 And that's how it is here in this church, in this box body, 640 00:52:22,920 --> 00:52:26,600 in this house. We are of the same team. 641 00:52:26,600 --> 00:52:30,680 We are connected. We are here to run the race 642 00:52:30,680 --> 00:52:33,760 together, to win the prize together. 643 00:52:33,960 --> 00:52:36,880 Come on, we are here. We're going to see each other 644 00:52:36,880 --> 00:52:40,400 day in and day out. And just as I was watching that, 645 00:52:40,400 --> 00:52:45,080 that heart of the champion, they got in fights, they were beating 646 00:52:45,080 --> 00:52:51,720 each other up. Because you know what, to grow, 647 00:52:52,000 --> 00:52:59,520 there is pain to grow. You have to get past people's 648 00:52:59,520 --> 00:53:08,970 weaknesses. So we're not all where we need 649 00:53:08,970 --> 00:53:12,810 to be. But when you're a team, you work 650 00:53:12,810 --> 00:53:17,810 together, you don't abandoned the ship, you don't bail on your 651 00:53:17,810 --> 00:53:19,770 team. You know, couple of them on that 652 00:53:19,770 --> 00:53:25,320 rowing team wanted to not do it, but they made a determination. 653 00:53:25,320 --> 00:53:28,080 I'm not going to abandon the team and they made a 654 00:53:28,080 --> 00:53:31,400 determination. I'm going to give 100%, a 655 00:53:31,400 --> 00:53:34,720 hundred. Do we have any hundreds in here? 656 00:53:35,640 --> 00:53:40,880 Not hunters, but hunter, right? I know we have some hunters in 657 00:53:40,880 --> 00:53:46,640 here too. No, we're going to give 100% for 658 00:53:46,640 --> 00:53:49,560 the team. That means we're all going to 659 00:53:49,560 --> 00:53:53,480 have to day in and day out, bring our supply when it feels 660 00:53:53,480 --> 00:53:57,000 good, when it don't feel good, when you want to cry, when you 661 00:53:57,000 --> 00:53:59,960 want to scream, when you want to bust somebody in the face and 662 00:53:59,960 --> 00:54:04,320 when you don't. And that's why we have 663 00:54:04,320 --> 00:54:11,920 self-control, right? And that's why we have all those 664 00:54:11,920 --> 00:54:16,600 fruits of the Spirit. But I'm telling you what, for 665 00:54:16,600 --> 00:54:21,920 him to be able to build as the architect, what he wants to 666 00:54:21,920 --> 00:54:26,040 build in the church, it's going to take every one of us 667 00:54:26,040 --> 00:54:31,760 realizing that we are here together as a team, working and 668 00:54:31,760 --> 00:54:37,040 serving. Now drop down to verse 7 of 669 00:54:37,040 --> 00:54:40,800 Romans 12. Again, it says if service in the 670 00:54:40,840 --> 00:54:48,280 act of serving, in service, there's an action of serving. 671 00:54:48,480 --> 00:54:51,480 You can't just say, Oh yeah, I serve the body of Christ, Oh 672 00:54:51,480 --> 00:54:54,120 yeah, I'm a Christian. And then you there's no action. 673 00:54:56,080 --> 00:54:59,880 There's no action behind it. No, there has to be action. 674 00:54:59,880 --> 00:55:03,200 That means you're going to be out being one that is actually 675 00:55:03,200 --> 00:55:07,400 bringing service to the body of Christ and serving and actually 676 00:55:07,400 --> 00:55:10,800 doing one who teaches. You're going to actually teach 677 00:55:10,800 --> 00:55:13,160 one who encourages. Man, we need people to be 678 00:55:13,160 --> 00:55:15,760 encouraged today. I need encouragement. 679 00:55:15,760 --> 00:55:22,440 Can somebody please pump me up and tell me I'm not running my 680 00:55:22,440 --> 00:55:26,040 race in vain? Come on, We need encouragement. 681 00:55:26,360 --> 00:55:30,840 We need people to come along inside of a US and say we can do 682 00:55:30,840 --> 00:55:34,360 it together. Come on. 683 00:55:35,120 --> 00:55:39,240 And then you know what? There's a gift to give. 684 00:55:40,320 --> 00:55:43,880 There's a gift to give one with generosity is always able to 685 00:55:43,880 --> 00:55:47,360 just give. You know God will actually give 686 00:55:47,360 --> 00:55:52,840 you the gift to give and be such a blessing upon your life. 687 00:55:53,440 --> 00:55:57,160 Be able to be creative. He'll give you God ideas so that 688 00:55:57,160 --> 00:56:00,120 your business will prosper or your whatever it is that you're 689 00:56:00,120 --> 00:56:02,680 putting your hand to. You're just able to be a 690 00:56:02,680 --> 00:56:08,280 blessing to anybody that comes in your way, then be it, he 691 00:56:08,280 --> 00:56:11,120 says. Give, be, be generous. 692 00:56:11,200 --> 00:56:15,600 One who leads. Not everybody is a leader 693 00:56:16,520 --> 00:56:21,960 because we have to have some followers, but one who leads, 694 00:56:21,960 --> 00:56:25,680 Listen to how you are to be a leader with diligence. 695 00:56:27,120 --> 00:56:29,600 With diligence. If you're going to be a leader, 696 00:56:29,880 --> 00:56:33,520 then you better be diligent about what you are doing. 697 00:56:34,080 --> 00:56:36,800 You see that We're going to be diligent about it. 698 00:56:37,560 --> 00:56:41,320 And then he says, this one who shows mercy, man, we need those 699 00:56:41,320 --> 00:56:44,160 that are very merciful. Please. 700 00:56:44,400 --> 00:56:47,120 We need those that are very merciful, OK? 701 00:56:47,840 --> 00:56:53,080 We need the cheerfulness, right? And then, of course, love being 702 00:56:53,080 --> 00:56:55,600 sincere and go on down, down, down, down. 703 00:56:55,880 --> 00:56:57,480 But this is the point I wanted to make. 704 00:56:57,760 --> 00:57:03,360 Verse 11 or verse 10, be devoted to one another with brotherly 705 00:57:03,360 --> 00:57:07,880 affection as members of one body, a family, give preference 706 00:57:07,880 --> 00:57:13,080 to one another in honor. Verse 11 never lagging behind 707 00:57:13,080 --> 00:57:18,400 and diligent, always a glow in the spirit and enthusiastically 708 00:57:18,400 --> 00:57:23,880 serving the Lord. This is how He tells us we 709 00:57:23,880 --> 00:57:28,040 should be serving enthusiastically on fire, 710 00:57:28,520 --> 00:57:34,040 purposeful, diligent, not lacking behind, not being lazy, 711 00:57:34,160 --> 00:57:37,520 not being a good steward with the things that He's given us to 712 00:57:37,520 --> 00:57:42,360 be, but enthusiastic about actually being able to come in 713 00:57:42,360 --> 00:57:45,520 and serve the body of Christ, Amen. 714 00:57:46,040 --> 00:57:48,040 That's what He tells us that we should be. 715 00:57:48,320 --> 00:57:51,680 And you know what, Revelations? I'm closing with this. 716 00:57:51,680 --> 00:57:57,160 Revelations chapter 2 and verse 19 says this. 717 00:57:57,160 --> 00:58:00,160 I know all the things you do. You know he's talking to the 718 00:58:00,160 --> 00:58:03,080 churches. I know all the things you do. 719 00:58:03,360 --> 00:58:06,440 I've seen your love. Guess what? 720 00:58:06,440 --> 00:58:08,760 You know that's not the only thing he's looking at. 721 00:58:10,840 --> 00:58:14,560 I've seen your love. We all only want to focus on 722 00:58:14,560 --> 00:58:16,240 that. How about this? 723 00:58:16,240 --> 00:58:18,000 It also says I've seen your faith. 724 00:58:19,480 --> 00:58:24,120 But you know what also says? It says he sees your service. 725 00:58:25,040 --> 00:58:28,440 He sees it. He sees it all. 726 00:58:28,640 --> 00:58:32,760 And your patience, endurance, and I can see your constant 727 00:58:32,960 --> 00:58:39,040 improvement, oh, improvement in all these things. 728 00:58:40,600 --> 00:58:44,240 He sees it when he's talking to the churches in the Book of 729 00:58:44,240 --> 00:58:47,200 Revelations, he's letting them know I see it all. 730 00:58:47,520 --> 00:58:51,680 I see your love. I see your faith, but I also see 731 00:58:51,680 --> 00:58:59,000 your service. I also see your service and what 732 00:58:59,000 --> 00:59:02,760 you're doing for the body of Christ, your patience, endurance 733 00:59:02,760 --> 00:59:07,760 through it all. And not only that, He sees the 734 00:59:07,760 --> 00:59:12,640 improvements. You see that isn't that awesome 735 00:59:13,000 --> 00:59:15,360 that He's letting us know. Listen, I see it. 736 00:59:16,480 --> 00:59:23,000 Nothing goes unseen even though I can't see my brain cells. 737 00:59:25,040 --> 00:59:33,640 Nothing goes unseen with Him whose eyes are upon everyone, 738 00:59:34,920 --> 00:59:38,720 looking to see not just how you're walking in love, not just 739 00:59:38,720 --> 00:59:44,560 how you're operating in faith, but also how you're serving the 740 00:59:44,560 --> 00:59:46,640 body of Christ. Amen. 741 00:59:46,960 --> 00:59:51,200 Hallelujah. Glory to God, glory to God, 742 00:59:51,640 --> 00:59:56,040 glory to God. Last Scripture, Matthew 2446. 743 00:59:56,080 --> 01:00:03,360 Blessed is that faithful servant when his master returns and 744 01:00:03,360 --> 01:00:10,680 finds him doing, finds him doing. 745 01:00:12,120 --> 01:00:17,600 Finds him doing so I encourage you if you are not serving in in 746 01:00:17,600 --> 01:00:22,280 some kind of capacity the body of Christ, you need to get 747 01:00:22,280 --> 01:00:24,720 plugged up. You need to get connected. 748 01:00:24,960 --> 01:00:28,920 You need to start putting your hand to something so that you 749 01:00:28,920 --> 01:00:35,320 can continue to improve in discovering your fit your 750 01:00:35,320 --> 01:00:39,520 assignments, your abilities, your talents and the things that 751 01:00:39,520 --> 01:00:43,840 God has for you. There is, there is a grace upon 752 01:00:43,840 --> 01:00:48,280 your life to be able to serve the body of Christ. 753 01:00:48,520 --> 01:00:50,960 Amen. There's a grace upon your life 754 01:00:51,160 --> 01:00:53,640 to be able to serve the body of Christ. 755 01:00:54,000 --> 01:00:57,680 And he tells us that we ought to be good stewards of it. 756 01:00:57,720 --> 01:00:59,360 Amen. Hallelujah. 757 01:00:59,360 --> 01:01:00,080 Let's pray.