1 00:00:13,000 --> 00:00:14,760 Well, good morning. Today I want to talk to you 2 00:00:15,400 --> 00:00:18,560 about what is the catch, All right. 3 00:00:18,560 --> 00:00:21,480 We're talking about Kingdom partnership today, Amen. 4 00:00:21,720 --> 00:00:28,880 Turn over to Psalms 115 versus 15 to 16115 versus 15 to 16. 5 00:00:29,320 --> 00:00:32,600 It says this, May you be blessed of the Lord, Maker of heaven and 6 00:00:32,600 --> 00:00:34,400 earth. The heavens are the heavens of 7 00:00:34,400 --> 00:00:39,400 the Lord, but the earth he has given to the sons of men. 8 00:00:39,840 --> 00:00:44,360 Hallelujah, Hallelujah. He is the Maker of heaven and 9 00:00:44,360 --> 00:00:47,080 earth. The heavens are the Lords, but 10 00:00:47,080 --> 00:00:51,880 the earth He has given to the sons of men. 11 00:00:52,640 --> 00:00:56,280 Psalms chapter 8, verses 4 through 9 says it this way. 12 00:00:56,280 --> 00:00:59,240 What is man that you take fault of him? 13 00:00:59,440 --> 00:01:04,160 The Son of man that you care for him, yet you have made him a 14 00:01:04,160 --> 00:01:07,440 little lower than God. And that is the correct 15 00:01:07,440 --> 00:01:10,200 translation, because that word in the original Hebrew is 16 00:01:10,200 --> 00:01:13,520 Elohim, which is not angels, is actually God. 17 00:01:13,520 --> 00:01:17,080 So you made him a little lower than God, and you crowned him 18 00:01:17,080 --> 00:01:21,520 with glory and majesty. You make him to rule over the 19 00:01:21,520 --> 00:01:24,880 works of your hands. You have put all things under 20 00:01:24,880 --> 00:01:29,280 his feet, all sheep and oxen, and also the beasts of the 21 00:01:29,280 --> 00:01:32,320 field, the birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea. 22 00:01:32,320 --> 00:01:34,960 Whatever passes through the paths of the sea. 23 00:01:34,960 --> 00:01:41,000 Oh Lord our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth. 24 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:45,880 Hallelujah, Hallelujah. So the heavens are the heavens 25 00:01:45,880 --> 00:01:50,920 of the Lord, but the earth he has given, He has entrusted, He 26 00:01:50,920 --> 00:01:54,360 is allowed to rule to the sons of men. 27 00:01:55,000 --> 00:01:57,000 Amen. Who is man that you consider 28 00:01:57,000 --> 00:01:59,000 him? He's a little lower than God. 29 00:01:59,160 --> 00:02:01,920 In essence, God said, I'm creating a partner. 30 00:02:02,280 --> 00:02:05,000 I've created by the words of my mouth. 31 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:09,080 I've created the heavens and the earth and the realm of earth. 32 00:02:09,240 --> 00:02:15,280 I am wanting a partner, someone who will come alongside me and 33 00:02:15,280 --> 00:02:18,680 rule as I rule in the realm of the earth. 34 00:02:18,800 --> 00:02:21,880 Hallelujah. I'm going to create a man in my 35 00:02:21,880 --> 00:02:25,000 image according to our my likeness according to Genesis 36 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:28,120 chapter 1, verses 26 to 28. He said. 37 00:02:28,120 --> 00:02:33,640 God said, let us make man in our image according to our likeness, 38 00:02:33,960 --> 00:02:38,360 and let them have rule over the fish of the sea, over the birds 39 00:02:38,360 --> 00:02:42,200 of the sky, over the cattle, over all the earth, and over 40 00:02:42,320 --> 00:02:45,080 every creeping thing that creeps on the earth. 41 00:02:45,640 --> 00:02:48,120 God created man in his own image, in the image of God. 42 00:02:48,120 --> 00:02:50,720 He created him, male and female, He created them. 43 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:54,560 God bless them. And God said to them, be 44 00:02:54,560 --> 00:02:58,760 fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and 45 00:02:58,760 --> 00:03:01,560 rule over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, over 46 00:03:01,560 --> 00:03:05,760 every living thing that moves on the earth. 47 00:03:05,760 --> 00:03:07,960 Hallelujah. So we see in these three 48 00:03:07,960 --> 00:03:11,360 passages of Scripture that when God created the heavens and the 49 00:03:11,360 --> 00:03:16,560 earth, He had us in mind. He intentionally decided that 50 00:03:16,560 --> 00:03:19,520 I'm not going to do everything alone. 51 00:03:21,280 --> 00:03:27,080 I am going to have those who partner with me and I'll give 52 00:03:27,080 --> 00:03:29,640 them a task. I'll give them an assignment. 53 00:03:29,640 --> 00:03:32,080 I'll give them a purpose, a reason for living. 54 00:03:32,520 --> 00:03:35,760 And he defined our boundaries because the psalmist said in 55 00:03:36,320 --> 00:03:40,320 chapter 8 and then Genesis 1 is that what is man that you care 56 00:03:40,320 --> 00:03:41,680 for him? Now, obviously the psalmist is 57 00:03:41,680 --> 00:03:45,480 saying that because he is taking this from a perspective that he 58 00:03:45,480 --> 00:03:49,640 has fallen out of his position at the time of the psalmist 59 00:03:49,640 --> 00:03:51,640 writing. Man has sinned. 60 00:03:51,760 --> 00:03:56,880 Man has fallen from dominion, Man has been pulled out of their 61 00:03:56,880 --> 00:04:02,000 original intent. Yet God is saying all along, I 62 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:06,200 always intended when I spoke creation into existence, both 63 00:04:06,200 --> 00:04:09,960 the heaven and the earth. I wanted my man to be able to 64 00:04:09,960 --> 00:04:13,560 rule over the earth. He would rule in his realm as I 65 00:04:13,560 --> 00:04:19,519 rule in my realm, and together we would partner over creation. 66 00:04:19,760 --> 00:04:23,800 Hallelujah, that's why the beginning of first Corinthians 67 00:04:23,800 --> 00:04:28,800 chapter 3 verse 9 says for we are God's fellow workers. 68 00:04:30,560 --> 00:04:35,360 We are God's fellow workers. Another translation the the good 69 00:04:35,360 --> 00:04:39,120 News Bible says it this way. We are part we are partners 70 00:04:39,120 --> 00:04:43,120 working together for God. Amen. 71 00:04:43,720 --> 00:04:49,080 You could also say with God, we're working together now. 72 00:04:49,080 --> 00:04:54,400 He's the one who holds the authority ultimately, but He has 73 00:04:54,400 --> 00:04:58,920 delegated authority to his man. And when I say man, I'm not 74 00:04:58,920 --> 00:05:03,800 talking males only. We're talking males and females. 75 00:05:04,160 --> 00:05:09,520 He has delegated to the spirit of man, OK, the ability to rule 76 00:05:09,520 --> 00:05:12,640 as God rules in his realm, we can rule in this realm. 77 00:05:12,920 --> 00:05:17,600 God always intended to have a partnership, not to be doing it 78 00:05:17,840 --> 00:05:24,120 alone, not to be doing it alone. And he never created Adam out of 79 00:05:24,120 --> 00:05:26,600 the dust of the earth when he breathed into his nostrils the 80 00:05:26,600 --> 00:05:31,320 breath of life for him to do it alone, because he said it's not 81 00:05:31,320 --> 00:05:34,520 good for man to be. Now man's not alone. 82 00:05:34,520 --> 00:05:39,640 God was with him. So God's sufficiency is still 83 00:05:39,640 --> 00:05:44,280 not enough. God's sufficiency is still not 84 00:05:44,280 --> 00:05:45,520 enough. We can't take this. 85 00:05:45,520 --> 00:05:52,560 All I need is God. Well, God didn't make man to be 86 00:05:52,560 --> 00:06:00,680 only with him. He created man to not only be 87 00:06:00,680 --> 00:06:04,120 with him, but we be with others like him. 88 00:06:06,320 --> 00:06:12,800 So fellowship and community and partnership across humanity is 89 00:06:12,800 --> 00:06:17,360 God's ordained will. Hallelujah. 90 00:06:17,760 --> 00:06:21,680 Now in humanity today, there's two types, those that are of the 91 00:06:21,680 --> 00:06:25,920 devil and of their father who is the father of lies. 92 00:06:26,000 --> 00:06:29,760 And then there there are those who are of our Father who is in 93 00:06:29,760 --> 00:06:32,040 heaven, hallowed be your name, Amen. 94 00:06:32,400 --> 00:06:35,680 And man, we want to be around those that are in the Kingdom of 95 00:06:35,680 --> 00:06:38,160 God with us. Now, let me just say this. 96 00:06:38,280 --> 00:06:47,560 Not everyone knows Dad like equally because it depends on 97 00:06:47,560 --> 00:06:51,680 when we came out. It depends on what we've set 98 00:06:51,680 --> 00:06:55,800 under to hear. It depends on our own personal 99 00:06:55,800 --> 00:06:59,040 seeking and studying. But I would say the more you 100 00:06:59,040 --> 00:07:02,880 have revelation of your Father, the more patient you can be with 101 00:07:02,880 --> 00:07:10,400 those who do not, the more you can rally to reveal Him to them 102 00:07:10,880 --> 00:07:13,440 and be patient as they're learning. 103 00:07:13,800 --> 00:07:16,640 Because there was a day I didn't know what I know today. 104 00:07:16,640 --> 00:07:20,920 But I love God with all my heart, with all my soul, with 105 00:07:20,920 --> 00:07:22,680 all my mind, and with all my strength. 106 00:07:22,680 --> 00:07:25,720 It's just that my mind didn't know a whole lot yet. 107 00:07:26,160 --> 00:07:29,400 I knew I was saved. I knew that if I died, I would 108 00:07:29,400 --> 00:07:33,120 go and be with Him who's presently in heaven. 109 00:07:33,400 --> 00:07:37,280 But I did not know that I could be baptized in the Spirit, that 110 00:07:37,280 --> 00:07:42,840 I could have this expression of God's power come upon me. 111 00:07:42,960 --> 00:07:45,520 Didn't know that. And I'll never forget. 112 00:07:45,520 --> 00:07:49,240 You know, obviously I met another pastor who brought me 113 00:07:49,240 --> 00:07:52,120 into that truth. And man, I was thankful that he 114 00:07:52,120 --> 00:07:55,800 was patient with me, that he met with me every morning before I 115 00:07:55,800 --> 00:07:57,600 went to work. I'm glad he didn't say I can't 116 00:07:57,600 --> 00:08:00,880 believe you don't know that and was offended of my lack of 117 00:08:00,880 --> 00:08:04,120 knowledge. No, he was patient with me. 118 00:08:04,280 --> 00:08:07,440 He was like man, let me help you out and I said just show me in 119 00:08:07,440 --> 00:08:10,280 the word and man lie about. But ultimately, even though he 120 00:08:10,280 --> 00:08:13,240 was showing me scripturally, I had to get the personal 121 00:08:13,240 --> 00:08:19,720 revelation and faith to receive and man in October of 1995, I 122 00:08:19,720 --> 00:08:23,160 received the baptism of the Holy Ghost man and spoke in the 123 00:08:23,160 --> 00:08:25,760 language of the Kingdom and my life's never been the same. 124 00:08:26,160 --> 00:08:30,440 Yet a few two years later, three years later, I find myself on 125 00:08:30,440 --> 00:08:34,440 the campus of Rhema Bible in college and sit in a class on 126 00:08:34,440 --> 00:08:38,440 the ABC's of Faith. And it was just that, ABC's. 127 00:08:38,600 --> 00:08:40,760 But for me that was even foreign. 128 00:08:41,240 --> 00:08:43,960 I had never heard the stuff they were saying. 129 00:08:44,159 --> 00:08:47,520 And I'm looking at my wife and I'm like, I don't even know the 130 00:08:47,520 --> 00:08:50,040 Bible. But up to that point, I am 131 00:08:50,040 --> 00:08:54,040 loving the Lord my God with all my heart, all my soul, all my 132 00:08:54,040 --> 00:08:59,080 mind and all my strength. I remember being so upset after 133 00:08:59,080 --> 00:09:03,440 the first month of Rhema. Then I'm like, why in the world 134 00:09:03,440 --> 00:09:06,800 did the pastors that I said under as I was growing up never 135 00:09:06,800 --> 00:09:10,840 teach me this stuff? I'm using my childhood Bible. 136 00:09:11,400 --> 00:09:14,960 It was in there the whole time and I'll never forget these 137 00:09:14,960 --> 00:09:19,040 words from the Lord. He said, Son, you can't. 138 00:09:19,320 --> 00:09:22,680 If you get upset with them, then you're going to be in 139 00:09:22,680 --> 00:09:26,320 unforgiveness and I, I cannot train you any further, he said. 140 00:09:26,320 --> 00:09:29,840 But besides, you didn't seek me on your own anyway. 141 00:09:32,520 --> 00:09:36,880 That's why out of that I coined this phrase that I communicate 142 00:09:36,880 --> 00:09:40,440 every time I in any place that I've ministered, and I've said 143 00:09:40,440 --> 00:09:43,080 it here multiple times, do not believe what I'm saying because 144 00:09:43,080 --> 00:09:45,120 I believe it because I'm saying it. 145 00:09:45,440 --> 00:09:48,640 You believe it because you search the Scripture out for 146 00:09:48,640 --> 00:09:51,800 yourself to determine that it's so. 147 00:09:52,080 --> 00:09:54,800 Amen. Don't ever believe because I 148 00:09:54,800 --> 00:09:58,400 believe because the best you'll be is a seventh son of Skiba, 149 00:09:58,400 --> 00:09:59,760 and you'll get yourself in trouble. 150 00:09:59,960 --> 00:10:03,440 You're going to have to have your own personal revelation and 151 00:10:03,440 --> 00:10:05,960 understanding of the things we're talking about. 152 00:10:06,040 --> 00:10:09,720 See it yourself, God reveal it to you, and boom, the lights 153 00:10:09,720 --> 00:10:12,360 come on in the Spirit, renew your mind, and now you can walk 154 00:10:12,360 --> 00:10:15,480 in that truth. But I know this man, I'm not 155 00:10:15,480 --> 00:10:18,840 going backwards. I am not going backwards. 156 00:10:19,160 --> 00:10:24,000 I have gone from faith to faith to faith to faith to glory and I 157 00:10:24,000 --> 00:10:28,120 am not going back. So I'll be patient with those 158 00:10:28,120 --> 00:10:31,600 that may not be where I'm at. And I'm always looking for those 159 00:10:31,600 --> 00:10:36,400 who are beyond me in revelation beyond me and an application of 160 00:10:36,400 --> 00:10:38,520 the knowledge of God. Because if there's something I 161 00:10:38,520 --> 00:10:41,560 don't know, please give me the instructions. 162 00:10:41,560 --> 00:10:44,680 Show me in the word. I just want to be the best that 163 00:10:44,680 --> 00:10:48,120 I can be for the King while I'm in the earth. 164 00:10:48,200 --> 00:10:52,800 Amen. So we are fellow workers with 165 00:10:52,800 --> 00:10:54,200 God. We are partners. 166 00:10:54,200 --> 00:10:58,360 God never intended for us to do this alone. 167 00:10:58,720 --> 00:11:03,360 He didn't want to do it alone, and He doesn't want us to do it 168 00:11:03,520 --> 00:11:08,600 only with him, but with Him and others that are part of his 169 00:11:08,600 --> 00:11:11,520 family. Again, if God only wanted to 170 00:11:11,520 --> 00:11:14,800 have a relationship singularly, he would have made Adam. 171 00:11:17,880 --> 00:11:19,800 But he said, let's make man in our image. 172 00:11:19,800 --> 00:11:21,760 Then he said, here's your purpose, you're going to have to 173 00:11:21,760 --> 00:11:25,120 multiply, which means I want more of you. 174 00:11:25,920 --> 00:11:29,840 I've put it within you that when Adam and Eve, if they had never 175 00:11:29,840 --> 00:11:33,280 sinned, would begin to always produce a seed that would have 176 00:11:33,280 --> 00:11:38,400 constantly been godly, not in sin, not sinful, and it would 177 00:11:38,400 --> 00:11:45,960 have been a generation of only holy godly offspring, that would 178 00:11:45,960 --> 00:11:48,080 have been it. And ultimately, that's all we're 179 00:11:48,080 --> 00:11:51,520 going to have in the end anyway, that when those who have 180 00:11:51,520 --> 00:11:55,080 rejected Jesus as Lord and they're cast into the lake of 181 00:11:55,080 --> 00:11:58,680 fire, which is the prison system of the Kingdom, hell is not the 182 00:11:58,680 --> 00:12:02,800 devil's, OK? The hell is not the devil's 183 00:12:02,800 --> 00:12:05,040 domain. The devil is not in hell. 184 00:12:05,160 --> 00:12:09,600 He's actually in the air, OK? He's one of the principalities 185 00:12:09,600 --> 00:12:13,480 of the air. Hell is a prison place for the 186 00:12:13,480 --> 00:12:16,760 Lord that ultimately would turn over into a lake of fire. 187 00:12:16,840 --> 00:12:21,160 And that's where all the eternal that have rejected him are 188 00:12:21,160 --> 00:12:24,600 judged according to their will of not wanting to be with the 189 00:12:24,600 --> 00:12:25,800 Lord. And he'll give them what they 190 00:12:25,800 --> 00:12:27,920 want. But for us who've called on the 191 00:12:27,920 --> 00:12:32,000 name of the Lord, for us that want to be in his Kingdom, for 192 00:12:32,000 --> 00:12:36,360 us that want to serve him and be with life man, we're going to be 193 00:12:36,360 --> 00:12:38,880 together. And it's not like I'm going to 194 00:12:38,880 --> 00:12:42,840 go up there and, you know, be with the Lord and monopolize his 195 00:12:42,880 --> 00:12:51,480 eternal time. No, we're going to be together 196 00:12:51,920 --> 00:12:55,040 and I'm going to love to be. I love to be around those that 197 00:12:55,040 --> 00:12:57,640 love God like I love God passionate. 198 00:12:57,760 --> 00:12:59,520 I mean, it's the easiest relationship. 199 00:13:00,160 --> 00:13:03,720 I mean, it's so much joy to be around those who are like 200 00:13:03,720 --> 00:13:06,640 minded. Second Corinthians 61 says it 201 00:13:06,640 --> 00:13:10,960 this way, another scripture and working together with him. 202 00:13:11,640 --> 00:13:14,840 We're working together with him. The new Living Translation says 203 00:13:14,840 --> 00:13:19,560 it this way. As God's partners as God's 204 00:13:19,560 --> 00:13:25,880 partners, so we are are always having to rework our minds 205 00:13:25,880 --> 00:13:31,080 because of the of a of a spirit that is in our nation and that 206 00:13:31,080 --> 00:13:36,120 is the spirit of independence. And the spirit of independence 207 00:13:36,120 --> 00:13:41,080 is, is where we kind of want to do our personal thing, our own 208 00:13:41,080 --> 00:13:42,960 thing. Nobody's going to tell me what 209 00:13:42,960 --> 00:13:48,000 to do mentality. However I need the Lord to tell 210 00:13:48,000 --> 00:13:51,600 me what to do and I need the Lord to lead me and guide me by 211 00:13:51,600 --> 00:13:56,360 a spirit because He's life and so I'm fully dependent upon him 212 00:13:56,640 --> 00:13:58,240 and I have to pull. And then I also have to 213 00:13:58,240 --> 00:14:03,760 understand that I'm not in this thing alone and it's not just 214 00:14:03,760 --> 00:14:07,120 about me. That God always envisioned 215 00:14:07,120 --> 00:14:12,840 something larger than us. Never once He did not come for 216 00:14:12,840 --> 00:14:18,160 just one at all. Again, you've heard it said, you 217 00:14:18,160 --> 00:14:22,240 know, well if, if only one would have received the Lord God, 218 00:14:22,320 --> 00:14:25,160 Jesus would have came. And we know that Jesus is 219 00:14:25,160 --> 00:14:28,040 coming, period. Whether any of us would have 220 00:14:28,040 --> 00:14:32,480 accepted him, because God is going to have a pathway back to 221 00:14:32,480 --> 00:14:38,360 dominion so that he can rightly judge all of humanity, no one 222 00:14:38,360 --> 00:14:41,600 will ever be able to say to him, well, you didn't even give us a 223 00:14:41,600 --> 00:14:43,440 chance. You knew we weren't none of us 224 00:14:43,440 --> 00:14:45,000 going to come, so you didn't even try. 225 00:14:45,320 --> 00:14:47,360 That won't happen. He will have. 226 00:14:47,360 --> 00:14:49,040 He would have paid the price anyway. 227 00:14:49,320 --> 00:14:51,000 But he did not come for just one. 228 00:14:51,000 --> 00:14:52,640 He's not thinking about just one. 229 00:14:53,640 --> 00:14:58,400 He's thinking about all of us, even the ones that he'll have to 230 00:14:58,400 --> 00:15:01,760 say depart from me for I never knew you. 231 00:15:01,760 --> 00:15:03,560 He's even thinking about them. Amen. 232 00:15:04,160 --> 00:15:05,600 Because God will fulfill His word. 233 00:15:06,000 --> 00:15:08,600 So partnership is really important, Say partnership. 234 00:15:09,160 --> 00:15:12,240 Partnership is really important. And as the church, if we are 235 00:15:12,240 --> 00:15:16,920 going to become the church mature in the last days, then we 236 00:15:16,920 --> 00:15:21,360 have to know our dependency for each other and our partnership 237 00:15:21,360 --> 00:15:25,240 is necessary. Anyone who owns a business and 238 00:15:25,240 --> 00:15:31,000 has employees are thankful for the partnership because the 239 00:15:31,000 --> 00:15:35,440 reality is even though they're employees, employees can quit, 240 00:15:36,880 --> 00:15:41,760 employees can can transfer to another place, employees can 241 00:15:41,760 --> 00:15:46,640 call out and not show up. Hey, man. 242 00:15:48,320 --> 00:15:51,840 And a lot of times, you know, if you're just the employee side 243 00:15:51,840 --> 00:15:55,760 or, or you think that of only what you're technically doing, 244 00:15:56,000 --> 00:15:59,800 you think that when you don't fulfill part of your partnership 245 00:15:59,800 --> 00:16:02,480 responsibility, it doesn't really matter. 246 00:16:02,880 --> 00:16:07,760 It matters all the time. It always matters because here's 247 00:16:07,760 --> 00:16:11,880 the thing, you're needed. The enemy wants you to think 248 00:16:11,880 --> 00:16:15,840 that you're not and that you're taking off or not being here or 249 00:16:15,840 --> 00:16:20,080 not coming doesn't matter. It does matter because the enemy 250 00:16:20,080 --> 00:16:22,360 always wants to isolate the sheep. 251 00:16:23,120 --> 00:16:29,200 Because if the wolf can isolate the sheep, then the sheep, you 252 00:16:29,200 --> 00:16:38,400 understand a shepherd can leave sheep alone and the sheep have 253 00:16:38,400 --> 00:16:41,600 power to overcome the wolf. You say, how's that? 254 00:16:42,080 --> 00:16:53,080 The 99 shepherd has sheep, one strays off, he leaves, he leaves 255 00:16:53,440 --> 00:17:01,160 the 99 and goes after the one. Which means that pack staying 256 00:17:01,160 --> 00:17:06,680 jointed and fitted together is too intimidating for a wolf. 257 00:17:08,920 --> 00:17:13,720 The wolf is not coming to the to the flock not coming in. 258 00:17:13,839 --> 00:17:19,920 He can leave the 99 and take the time to go search for the one 259 00:17:19,920 --> 00:17:26,839 that is at the most risk. So there's power when you come 260 00:17:26,839 --> 00:17:30,040 to the church, there's power when you connect with the 261 00:17:30,040 --> 00:17:33,600 church, there's power when you stay with the church, because 262 00:17:33,600 --> 00:17:38,120 again, when you're unified and in partnership in his church, 263 00:17:38,280 --> 00:17:42,680 listen, the devil doesn't really want to come around, but he'll 264 00:17:42,680 --> 00:17:46,480 talk, try to talk you out of it. Come over here. 265 00:17:46,880 --> 00:17:52,280 Don't go today, stay here. You're not always trying to get 266 00:17:52,280 --> 00:17:56,200 you to pull out. Come out of partnership, get you 267 00:17:56,200 --> 00:18:00,000 isolated, Amen. The Lord doesn't want you 268 00:18:00,040 --> 00:18:02,560 isolated. The Lord wants you in community, 269 00:18:03,640 --> 00:18:05,880 Amen. Which brings me to Luke chapter 270 00:18:05,880 --> 00:18:07,880 5. Because there's power in 271 00:18:07,880 --> 00:18:11,000 partnership. There's power in partnership, 272 00:18:11,000 --> 00:18:14,040 all right? And so I'm going to read these 273 00:18:14,040 --> 00:18:16,320 first 11 verses and then we're going to break them down. 274 00:18:16,520 --> 00:18:19,840 And so it was as the multitude pressed around him to hear the 275 00:18:19,840 --> 00:18:22,400 word of God, that he stood by the lake. 276 00:18:22,400 --> 00:18:25,560 Now this is the Sea of Galilee. This lake is the same as the Sea 277 00:18:25,560 --> 00:18:29,640 of Galilee. And saw two boats standing by 278 00:18:29,760 --> 00:18:31,480 the lake. That means they were anchored on 279 00:18:31,480 --> 00:18:36,400 shore by the fishermen who had gone from them and were washing 280 00:18:36,400 --> 00:18:39,000 their Nets. Then he got into one of the 281 00:18:39,000 --> 00:18:42,880 boats, which was Simons, and asked him to put out a little 282 00:18:42,880 --> 00:18:46,480 from the land. And he sat down and taught the 283 00:18:46,480 --> 00:18:48,960 multitude from the boat. And when he had stopped 284 00:18:48,960 --> 00:18:52,960 speaking, he said to Simon, Launch out into the deep, let 285 00:18:52,960 --> 00:18:57,280 down your Nets for a catch. But Simon answered and said to 286 00:18:57,280 --> 00:19:00,840 him, Master, we have told all night and called nothing. 287 00:19:00,840 --> 00:19:04,680 Nevertheless, at your word I will let down the net, or one 288 00:19:04,680 --> 00:19:06,560 translator said, I'll let down the Nets. 289 00:19:07,360 --> 00:19:11,120 OK. And when they had done this, 290 00:19:11,120 --> 00:19:20,240 they caught a great number of fish, and their Nets were 291 00:19:20,240 --> 00:19:23,320 breaking. So they signaled to their 292 00:19:23,320 --> 00:19:28,400 partners in the other boat to come and help them. 293 00:19:28,800 --> 00:19:33,080 And they began and came and filled both the boats so that 294 00:19:33,080 --> 00:19:36,600 they began to sink. When Simon Peter saw it, he fell 295 00:19:36,600 --> 00:19:41,400 down at Jesus's knees saying, Depart from me, for I am a 296 00:19:41,400 --> 00:19:45,360 sinful man, oh Lord. And he and all who are with him 297 00:19:45,360 --> 00:19:47,960 were astonished at the catch of fish that they had taken. 298 00:19:48,240 --> 00:19:52,400 And so also were James and John, the sons of 70 who were partners 299 00:19:52,400 --> 00:19:55,160 with Simon. And Jesus said to Simon, do not 300 00:19:55,160 --> 00:19:57,880 be afraid. From now on you will catch men. 301 00:19:58,000 --> 00:20:00,360 One translation said you'll become fishers of men. 302 00:20:00,680 --> 00:20:03,640 And when they had brought their boats to land, they forsake all 303 00:20:03,640 --> 00:20:06,080 and followed him. Amen. 304 00:20:06,280 --> 00:20:09,320 So again the new American standard says that he let down 305 00:20:09,320 --> 00:20:12,600 his Nets. He let down his Nets, unlike the 306 00:20:12,600 --> 00:20:13,800 King James. And if you actually. 307 00:20:14,360 --> 00:20:17,360 Look at in its original context, that's what we're talking about. 308 00:20:17,520 --> 00:20:20,000 We're talking about not just one, but multiple Nets. 309 00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:22,200 In fact, the boats would have not just had one, they would 310 00:20:22,200 --> 00:20:24,560 have had a string of Nets that they would have could have been 311 00:20:24,560 --> 00:20:28,360 connected together so that they could gather in more fish. 312 00:20:28,360 --> 00:20:31,440 So when in one sense, when it says net, it's a string of Nets 313 00:20:31,640 --> 00:20:34,240 together. OK, so with that being said 314 00:20:34,240 --> 00:20:39,120 here, I want to bring up my net because I need you to visually 315 00:20:39,120 --> 00:20:43,320 see that God wants to do something powerful in us as a 316 00:20:43,320 --> 00:20:46,880 church. Because God always intended for 317 00:20:46,880 --> 00:20:49,000 partnership. Are you hearing me? 318 00:20:49,520 --> 00:20:56,040 He never intended us to do things alone, so these words 319 00:20:56,040 --> 00:20:57,640 should have never come out of our mouth. 320 00:20:58,080 --> 00:21:04,560 My ministry, are you hearing me? My ministry? 321 00:21:04,800 --> 00:21:08,600 These should have never come out of our mouth because any 322 00:21:08,600 --> 00:21:12,800 ministry we have, it requires others. 323 00:21:14,480 --> 00:21:18,360 Amen. And Jesus came back for our 324 00:21:18,360 --> 00:21:24,120 Jesus established the church. So anything in ministry must 325 00:21:24,120 --> 00:21:27,680 have a connection to the church. If it does not have a connection 326 00:21:27,680 --> 00:21:36,320 to the church, that can become a problem. 327 00:21:37,200 --> 00:21:41,400 OK, Now, I only say that because, again, Paul referenced 328 00:21:41,400 --> 00:21:45,680 that there were some challenges with those at times that would 329 00:21:45,680 --> 00:21:48,680 seek their own interest. We're not here to cover that. 330 00:21:48,680 --> 00:21:51,720 We're staying with partnership because partnership is where 331 00:21:51,720 --> 00:21:54,200 power exists. Are you hearing me? 332 00:21:54,520 --> 00:21:57,720 So with that being said, let's look at a few things here that 333 00:21:57,720 --> 00:21:59,600 we can learn from this passage of Scripture. 334 00:22:00,520 --> 00:22:08,080 There was a time of Labor that went with Peter, James, John, 335 00:22:08,200 --> 00:22:14,000 and Andrew where there were no results, meaning they labored 336 00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:18,800 with the intent to catch. However, they caught nothing. 337 00:22:19,120 --> 00:22:23,800 Now let me tell you something, if you do not labor you have no 338 00:22:23,800 --> 00:22:32,640 chance of catching again. I Passover the Matanzas Bridge 339 00:22:32,640 --> 00:22:36,840 every day and when I do there are a lot of times people 340 00:22:36,840 --> 00:22:40,360 fishing. They either have rods or some 341 00:22:40,360 --> 00:22:43,280 have Nets and they're casting those Nets. 342 00:22:43,280 --> 00:22:46,240 Not this big though, casting their Nets off the side of the 343 00:22:46,240 --> 00:22:49,760 Matanzas Bridge. All right, why they have to 344 00:22:49,800 --> 00:22:54,080 many, I've never, I've only seen maybe 2 where somebody's pulling 345 00:22:54,080 --> 00:22:56,200 something up. I'm like, do these people catch 346 00:22:56,200 --> 00:22:57,640 anything? Because it's not like I'm always 347 00:22:57,640 --> 00:23:01,240 seeing people reel and stuff in. But again, you have no hope of 348 00:23:01,240 --> 00:23:09,040 catching unless you go labor. So laboring, even when you don't 349 00:23:09,040 --> 00:23:11,480 catch, doesn't mean it's in vain. 350 00:23:11,480 --> 00:23:17,080 I'm going to say that again, laboring, although you may not 351 00:23:17,080 --> 00:23:23,600 catch, doesn't mean it's in vain because you must put forth the 352 00:23:23,600 --> 00:23:26,800 opportunity to labor. Hallelujah. 353 00:23:27,080 --> 00:23:32,600 All right, all the Nets, we're being cleaned at this time when 354 00:23:32,600 --> 00:23:36,840 Jesus shows up in preparation for the next scheduled time for 355 00:23:36,840 --> 00:23:40,200 labor. So in essence, we've done, 356 00:23:41,200 --> 00:23:45,160 obviously it's outside the window of catching. 357 00:23:45,160 --> 00:23:46,360 These are professional fishermen. 358 00:23:46,360 --> 00:23:49,320 Now, again, they're not. They've already done a time 359 00:23:49,320 --> 00:23:53,600 period. They're exhausted, they have 360 00:23:53,600 --> 00:23:56,600 grown weary in their, well doing, so to speak, and have 361 00:23:56,600 --> 00:23:59,160 caught nothing. So they're going to clean up and 362 00:23:59,160 --> 00:24:01,800 we're going to come back at the next appointed time. 363 00:24:02,040 --> 00:24:04,240 We're going to get some rest and go after again. 364 00:24:04,800 --> 00:24:07,040 Just because they didn't catch didn't mean they quit. 365 00:24:08,960 --> 00:24:10,920 It just means they prepare for the next time. 366 00:24:11,960 --> 00:24:14,000 Amen. So everything is clean. 367 00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:19,640 Both the boats are on the shore both of them because here's the 368 00:24:19,640 --> 00:24:23,520 thing, there can be a time of Labor that can be routine. 369 00:24:26,200 --> 00:24:31,680 There's schedule to a particular time of of of Labor. 370 00:24:32,800 --> 00:24:36,400 So Jesus says, Simon, can I use your boat? 371 00:24:36,480 --> 00:24:39,200 I need to do some teaching. And so he launched him out. 372 00:24:39,200 --> 00:24:43,000 Now the the other Gospels account this particular 373 00:24:43,560 --> 00:24:46,320 communicate this particular account would simply Jesus 374 00:24:46,320 --> 00:24:50,800 coming by find us. Some disciples say follow me and 375 00:24:50,800 --> 00:24:52,720 I'll make you fishers or men that said they immediately 376 00:24:52,720 --> 00:24:55,680 dropped their Nets and came and that's all it gives you. 377 00:24:55,680 --> 00:24:58,800 It didn't give you the back story that Jesus came and taught 378 00:25:00,040 --> 00:25:02,920 and that then Jesus was a part of a fishing trip. 379 00:25:03,920 --> 00:25:07,280 You just get he's walking by. He says come and be fishers or 380 00:25:07,280 --> 00:25:08,360 men. They dropped everything. 381 00:25:08,360 --> 00:25:10,120 Now you're going to know why they dropped everything. 382 00:25:12,360 --> 00:25:15,040 Now you're going to know why because it wasn't him just 383 00:25:15,040 --> 00:25:16,680 walking by and like, he's this guy. 384 00:25:18,760 --> 00:25:20,720 So he is speaking to the multitude. 385 00:25:21,360 --> 00:25:24,200 Now imagine Jesus is seated in the boat. 386 00:25:24,520 --> 00:25:26,360 You're the multitude. I'm a little bit out in the 387 00:25:26,360 --> 00:25:29,080 water. Jesus is seated and then he's 388 00:25:29,080 --> 00:25:36,520 finished and he says, Peter, let's go launch out in the deep 389 00:25:36,720 --> 00:25:38,480 and cast your Nets. Now the Nets are not in the 390 00:25:38,480 --> 00:25:42,080 boat, they're on the shore. They're cleaned in preparation 391 00:25:42,800 --> 00:25:46,920 for the next day. So everything he just did, the 392 00:25:46,920 --> 00:25:48,800 Lord saying put it back in the boat. 393 00:25:49,960 --> 00:25:51,560 Jesus doesn't get out of the boat. 394 00:25:54,120 --> 00:25:56,320 Jesus is in the boat as they launch out. 395 00:25:58,000 --> 00:26:01,480 OK, Jesus was a part of the expedition. 396 00:26:05,040 --> 00:26:08,560 He said launch out into the deep and let down your neck. 397 00:26:09,880 --> 00:26:12,880 And so Peter explains as he's loading the Nets. 398 00:26:13,680 --> 00:26:21,240 Now Lord Master, we have labored all night and didn't catch 399 00:26:21,240 --> 00:26:26,120 anything, but at your word we going to do it. 400 00:26:26,120 --> 00:26:30,920 So he's seated in and Peter and Andrew launch out. 401 00:26:31,360 --> 00:26:35,680 Now they only have the Nets assigned to Peter's boat. 402 00:26:38,280 --> 00:26:41,440 They only have the Nets assigned to Peter's boat. 403 00:26:42,160 --> 00:26:47,840 And so they let down the Nets and guess what happens? 404 00:26:48,880 --> 00:26:54,680 Well, we just read it because Jesus operating in the dominion, 405 00:26:54,680 --> 00:26:59,720 the first Adam had, which is dominion over the fish has 406 00:26:59,720 --> 00:27:05,080 communicated through his words. Go put down your net for catch. 407 00:27:05,360 --> 00:27:09,360 The fish now are going to obey the king and they for the last 408 00:27:09,360 --> 00:27:16,120 maybe 12 hours avoided not only Peter's Nets, but their partners 409 00:27:16,120 --> 00:27:22,080 Nets while they went around dragging those Nets all night 410 00:27:22,240 --> 00:27:27,960 long, was able to evade them. But he could put those Nets down 411 00:27:27,960 --> 00:27:33,360 now. And the Lord sent add a word 412 00:27:37,040 --> 00:27:42,320 filled up that boat's Nets. Now here's the thing. 413 00:27:42,320 --> 00:27:49,680 When he begins to pull this bad boy in, it is so heavy with the 414 00:27:49,680 --> 00:27:54,600 number of fish that it begins to reach its capacity. 415 00:27:56,640 --> 00:28:00,080 They begin, they, they break, they start breaking. 416 00:28:01,480 --> 00:28:04,200 As you know, I understand when, when you start to pull the stuff 417 00:28:04,200 --> 00:28:07,040 out of the water, all of a sudden gravity kicks in. 418 00:28:07,160 --> 00:28:10,200 You know, you pick up some things heavy underwater, but the 419 00:28:10,200 --> 00:28:12,800 minute starts getting to air, then the weight shows up. 420 00:28:12,800 --> 00:28:16,440 I was watching an excavation, or it's probably not the right 421 00:28:16,440 --> 00:28:22,200 term, that they were salvaging a, a tugboat that had sunk. 422 00:28:23,200 --> 00:28:26,560 And so, you know, they got these air bladders in there and 423 00:28:26,560 --> 00:28:28,320 they're going to pull it to the surface. 424 00:28:28,320 --> 00:28:30,760 Now what they were having to do is they had to determine what 425 00:28:30,760 --> 00:28:34,160 its weight was because they said the closer we get to the once it 426 00:28:34,160 --> 00:28:37,360 starts getting out, all of a sudden its weight will kick in. 427 00:28:37,520 --> 00:28:41,440 And if the crane cannot hold the IT a break. 428 00:28:42,360 --> 00:28:45,320 This happened with another sailboat that went down in a 429 00:28:45,320 --> 00:28:47,080 hurricane. Same issue. 430 00:28:47,200 --> 00:28:50,400 They brought brought it in, had floated it to the surface. 431 00:28:50,520 --> 00:28:54,560 They had a crane that was rated for £8000 to pull it out onto 432 00:28:54,560 --> 00:28:57,480 the shore, but it was still full of water and when it went to 433 00:28:57,480 --> 00:29:03,320 grab it, it was 12,000 lbs. The crane could not pull it so 434 00:29:03,320 --> 00:29:07,560 they had to run down to a store, get pumps, get all the water 435 00:29:07,560 --> 00:29:10,320 pumped out of it to reduce that weight. 436 00:29:10,480 --> 00:29:12,880 Yet when it was down it was. And so you understand when 437 00:29:12,880 --> 00:29:16,080 they're pulling the fish seems but then once they got it to 438 00:29:16,080 --> 00:29:19,880 here, the Nets cannot support the weight. 439 00:29:20,920 --> 00:29:26,320 At this point, they have to yell back to the shore and what do 440 00:29:26,320 --> 00:29:30,760 they do? James and John, get your boat 441 00:29:30,760 --> 00:29:33,960 out here. They had to call their partner 442 00:29:33,960 --> 00:29:36,560 in. I said they had to call their 443 00:29:36,560 --> 00:29:42,000 partner in. Now a partner doesn't say I'm 444 00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:51,640 already cleaned up, not coming. Are you hearing me? 445 00:29:52,600 --> 00:29:55,320 I mean, you understand partnership is in this 446 00:29:55,320 --> 00:29:58,560 particular business of fishing. We're partnering. 447 00:29:58,560 --> 00:30:01,680 We have more than one boat, which allows us to get more fish 448 00:30:01,880 --> 00:30:06,560 so that we can sell more and provide for our family and our 449 00:30:06,560 --> 00:30:09,320 community. And that's why they had the 450 00:30:09,320 --> 00:30:15,240 boats. When one gets out, the other one 451 00:30:15,880 --> 00:30:18,320 is going to partner and come. Why? 452 00:30:18,320 --> 00:30:24,080 Because this is the purpose. The purpose is not when it's 453 00:30:24,080 --> 00:30:27,760 convenient. The purpose is to accomplish the 454 00:30:27,760 --> 00:30:31,720 task. And so he calls out to the other 455 00:30:31,720 --> 00:30:35,480 boat and says, come on, we have so many we we can't pull them 456 00:30:35,480 --> 00:30:38,560 in. So they have to take the time to 457 00:30:38,560 --> 00:30:42,560 come in and get beside. And then they start unloading 458 00:30:42,560 --> 00:30:46,000 the fish in both boats. Now notice all night they had 459 00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:50,840 their own sets of Nets. Now all of a sudden Peter's Nets 460 00:30:51,520 --> 00:30:56,040 has enough fish in it that not only does it fill his boat, but 461 00:30:56,040 --> 00:31:00,680 it fills their boat. They had less equipment but 462 00:31:00,680 --> 00:31:10,040 caught more fish. God was able to multiply the 463 00:31:10,040 --> 00:31:16,240 amount within the Nets that all the Nets they had were required 464 00:31:16,880 --> 00:31:20,240 to be able to do the same thing in the one. 465 00:31:21,120 --> 00:31:26,720 And they've developed so many fish that it put a strain on 466 00:31:26,720 --> 00:31:30,120 their own boats that they couldn't handle the weight. 467 00:31:30,120 --> 00:31:33,920 It says they began to sink, which means they were taking on 468 00:31:33,920 --> 00:31:39,400 water, which means now we have so many fish in here, if we do 469 00:31:39,400 --> 00:31:45,920 not get to land, we're going to sink and lose what we have. 470 00:31:46,880 --> 00:31:50,720 Are you hearing me? So you can sit that down now, 471 00:31:50,720 --> 00:31:53,480 gentlemen, Thank you. So what do we learn from this? 472 00:31:53,480 --> 00:31:55,720 Let me give you the word of the Lord for real quick. 473 00:31:55,720 --> 00:31:58,800 When I was new, I was going to minister on this today as I was 474 00:31:58,800 --> 00:32:00,680 driving. I don't remember where I was 475 00:32:00,680 --> 00:32:04,400 coming from yesterday, but it came up in my spirit and I heard 476 00:32:04,400 --> 00:32:07,000 the Lord say this. He says what you have done so 477 00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:14,800 far will seem like your work has had no results compared to the 478 00:32:14,800 --> 00:32:18,560 catch you will pull in together in these final days. 479 00:32:23,640 --> 00:32:26,640 I heard this fair Lord say that. He said what you have done so 480 00:32:26,640 --> 00:32:31,360 far will seem like your work has had no results compared to the 481 00:32:31,360 --> 00:32:34,560 catch you will pull in together in these final days. 482 00:32:35,720 --> 00:32:40,440 Hallelujah. Do you understand when you want 483 00:32:40,680 --> 00:32:47,120 God's involvement in the catch? It doesn't matter how much we 484 00:32:47,120 --> 00:32:51,640 plan, we're never going to be able to handle the capacity. 485 00:32:55,320 --> 00:32:58,720 Does God know how much weight the boats can handle? 486 00:32:59,120 --> 00:33:02,120 Does God know how much the Nets can handle? 487 00:33:02,320 --> 00:33:06,160 Yet He still let Nets break, and he still let the boat begin to 488 00:33:06,160 --> 00:33:08,920 sink. Now, it didn't immediately sink. 489 00:33:08,920 --> 00:33:12,360 I understand that he knew enough that you know what, this is 490 00:33:12,360 --> 00:33:14,600 really beyond what you have prepared for. 491 00:33:15,800 --> 00:33:19,840 So that tells me this, with as much preparation as we do, when 492 00:33:19,840 --> 00:33:23,120 God shows up, it's always exceeds our preparation. 493 00:33:25,400 --> 00:33:28,240 Amen. And you understand it'd just get 494 00:33:28,240 --> 00:33:32,080 a little crowded. So let me help everyone that is 495 00:33:32,080 --> 00:33:36,240 my age or older. I want you to get a new 496 00:33:36,240 --> 00:33:41,560 confession of our community, a new confession. 497 00:33:43,520 --> 00:33:46,320 And that I understand we have congestion. 498 00:33:47,040 --> 00:33:50,800 I understand a lot of people have moved in, but the catch is 499 00:33:50,800 --> 00:33:54,520 big. Do you understand what's so 500 00:33:54,520 --> 00:34:00,680 awesome is that their territory, their seas there, they have to 501 00:34:00,680 --> 00:34:03,120 go out and they have to do something. 502 00:34:03,760 --> 00:34:09,360 Notice God did not say, well, I'm going to bring the fish come 503 00:34:09,520 --> 00:34:13,679 and they just started flying out of the water and jumping on the 504 00:34:13,679 --> 00:34:15,000 shore. That didn't happen. 505 00:34:16,159 --> 00:34:18,320 Could it have happened? Sure. 506 00:34:18,639 --> 00:34:20,400 All things are possible with God. 507 00:34:20,639 --> 00:34:22,480 Could he command the fish to come? 508 00:34:22,639 --> 00:34:24,840 Sure, He could have done that and they could have come and 509 00:34:24,840 --> 00:34:26,920 just jumped on the shore. Absolutely. 510 00:34:27,320 --> 00:34:31,719 However, what is God showing? He says it's not about me doing 511 00:34:31,719 --> 00:34:34,600 it. We have such this mindset of God 512 00:34:34,600 --> 00:34:40,159 only when the Lord's like. I love your participation. 513 00:34:41,280 --> 00:34:46,239 God gets pleasure at his children being involved with in 514 00:34:46,239 --> 00:34:50,480 the family business. He gets great joy when he can 515 00:34:50,480 --> 00:34:56,760 give you credit for your part. How do we know this? 516 00:34:56,920 --> 00:35:03,160 Because when Gideon is going to overcome a nation with 300 men, 517 00:35:03,280 --> 00:35:06,440 he sends him down to the camp and he says, hear what they 518 00:35:06,440 --> 00:35:09,160 saying. He could have if it's only about 519 00:35:09,160 --> 00:35:11,360 him. He could have heard them say the 520 00:35:11,360 --> 00:35:16,080 Lord has taken the camp a lot and they never would have known 521 00:35:16,080 --> 00:35:21,200 Gideon's name, but he let them know the name of Gideon. 522 00:35:21,760 --> 00:35:28,280 Because God rejoices to say your name when you are only wanting 523 00:35:28,480 --> 00:35:31,440 to do what He says. Amen. 524 00:35:31,440 --> 00:35:35,080 He rejoices that you represent him clearly. 525 00:35:35,240 --> 00:35:38,120 He's proud to call you his partner. 526 00:35:39,640 --> 00:35:43,520 He loves to be able to put on the front of the building your 527 00:35:43,520 --> 00:35:48,120 name with his in Lord. He wants people to know that you 528 00:35:48,120 --> 00:35:51,440 are a part of the process, although it's not you doing it 529 00:35:51,640 --> 00:35:55,560 yourself, but it's your partnership with him that caused 530 00:35:55,560 --> 00:35:58,280 it to come to pass. He had no problem with them 531 00:35:58,280 --> 00:36:01,240 knowing about a man named Moses. He had no problem with them 532 00:36:01,240 --> 00:36:03,200 knowing about a woman named Esther. 533 00:36:03,240 --> 00:36:05,960 He had no problem with them knowing about a man named King 534 00:36:05,960 --> 00:36:06,720 David. Why? 535 00:36:06,720 --> 00:36:09,960 Because all those people would always tell them about their 536 00:36:09,960 --> 00:36:14,800 father Hallelujah, about his rule, his reign. 537 00:36:14,920 --> 00:36:18,000 He loves the partnerships, he says. 538 00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:20,400 Now listen, I'm going to use you, which will put you in a 539 00:36:20,400 --> 00:36:25,680 vulnerable position sometime and even a sometimes seemingly life 540 00:36:25,680 --> 00:36:29,560 threatening position. Because in this case the 541 00:36:29,560 --> 00:36:37,160 blessing had a life threatening position, meaning they could 542 00:36:37,160 --> 00:36:40,480 have lost it all. Now I'm assuming these guys 543 00:36:40,480 --> 00:36:43,240 weren't so far out that they could have swam back to shore, 544 00:36:43,680 --> 00:36:46,280 but I can't tell you that either. 545 00:36:48,040 --> 00:36:51,240 The point is though is that their ships about to sink 546 00:36:51,360 --> 00:36:54,840 because of the blessing of God, the partnership of God. 547 00:36:54,920 --> 00:36:58,840 Because when we really partner at the word of our King, then 548 00:36:58,840 --> 00:37:01,080 he's always going to bring it to more. 549 00:37:01,960 --> 00:37:05,080 So again, we don't have to wait to build a sanctuary to get 550 00:37:05,080 --> 00:37:07,320 more. We just need people to be 551 00:37:07,320 --> 00:37:10,400 passionate like Brazil and be willing to sit on the floor. 552 00:37:13,080 --> 00:37:16,520 That's it. Instead of saying it's too 553 00:37:16,520 --> 00:37:21,920 crowded, our community is getting so crowded, so many 554 00:37:21,920 --> 00:37:24,400 people. Well, let's turn that confession 555 00:37:24,400 --> 00:37:27,920 to thank you, Lord. That was the partnership of 556 00:37:27,920 --> 00:37:31,080 Anchor Faith Church with you. We're going to reap these 557 00:37:31,080 --> 00:37:33,440 people. I mean, these people that are 558 00:37:33,440 --> 00:37:37,240 cutting you off, these people that definitely need to have 559 00:37:37,240 --> 00:37:41,120 their license revoked. I understand there was one from 560 00:37:41,120 --> 00:37:48,320 Michigan yesterday. I'm like, Jesus, help poor, not 561 00:37:48,320 --> 00:37:54,200 Pure Michigan, poor Michigan. I mean, we were coming back from 562 00:37:54,200 --> 00:37:58,600 the airport from Brazil and, and in Miami, Ernie, you know, this 563 00:37:58,600 --> 00:38:01,520 is true that there's four lanes of traffic and then you have two 564 00:38:01,520 --> 00:38:03,560 lanes that are the express lanes. 565 00:38:03,880 --> 00:38:07,440 And so they were in the lane next to the express lane, the 566 00:38:07,440 --> 00:38:11,680 4th lane to the left, and there's an exit they decided 567 00:38:11,680 --> 00:38:15,120 they wanted to get to. Now, we weren't technically 568 00:38:15,120 --> 00:38:19,040 running 6570 miles an hour. You know, it was, you know, 569 00:38:19,160 --> 00:38:24,920 traffic was pretty backed up, but this person basically did 570 00:38:24,920 --> 00:38:28,720 this. No. 571 00:38:28,720 --> 00:38:30,080 Yeah, they were actually. You're right. 572 00:38:30,080 --> 00:38:31,640 Thank you for correcting that. Pastor Mars. 573 00:38:31,880 --> 00:38:36,720 They were in the express lane, so all the pylons are there. 574 00:38:36,760 --> 00:38:40,400 They drove in a little bitty, like, you know, small car. 575 00:38:40,400 --> 00:38:42,920 I mean, a little one that came. Yeah. 576 00:38:42,920 --> 00:38:46,600 Some kind of like a camera ran over the cones. 577 00:38:49,320 --> 00:38:53,480 You're like, where's police officer when you need them cut 578 00:38:53,480 --> 00:38:57,760 into the foreland and cut off and had to cut back in order to 579 00:38:57,760 --> 00:39:04,200 get into the exit. I'm not going to lie, I had a 580 00:39:04,200 --> 00:39:07,800 thought. I'm not going to lie. 581 00:39:10,160 --> 00:39:15,000 I said, man, if I had a vehicle that had a bumper, the 582 00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:19,560 temptation is really motivating me right now to help move them 583 00:39:19,560 --> 00:39:24,720 along because you're like, what are you thinking? 584 00:39:25,800 --> 00:39:29,240 That is the most self-centered move I've ever seen in my life. 585 00:39:29,240 --> 00:39:33,680 That cares nothing for the safety of anyone else, nothing 586 00:39:33,880 --> 00:39:37,160 for the safe. You miss an exit, Go on. 587 00:39:38,480 --> 00:39:41,800 Please don't be the one that's going to pull over it and back 588 00:39:41,800 --> 00:39:43,680 all the way. Don't do that. 589 00:39:45,280 --> 00:39:48,120 Because if I find out it's you, we're going to have words. 590 00:39:49,200 --> 00:39:53,120 We've trained you better here. God will bless. 591 00:39:53,120 --> 00:39:55,680 There's a reason. Just go ahead and use that that 592 00:39:55,680 --> 00:39:58,600 little you know Christianese well, the Lord had a reason for 593 00:39:58,600 --> 00:40:03,160 me to miss it then and just go on to the next exit, turn around 594 00:40:03,160 --> 00:40:06,120 and come back. Same in anyway all right. 595 00:40:09,000 --> 00:40:12,200 So I believe the Lord wants to do more in these last days it 596 00:40:12,200 --> 00:40:14,320 with us and our partnership together. 597 00:40:14,480 --> 00:40:17,520 Look what it says in Luke 1620 and they went out and preached 598 00:40:17,520 --> 00:40:21,280 everywhere and the Lord working with them and confirming the 599 00:40:21,280 --> 00:40:23,520 word through the accompany signs. 600 00:40:23,600 --> 00:40:26,520 Amen. Jesus Christ who sits on the 601 00:40:26,520 --> 00:40:30,680 throne is not doing this alone. He's not doing this alone. 602 00:40:31,480 --> 00:40:36,720 He has his church. Jesus needs us. 603 00:40:37,360 --> 00:40:39,080 Look to your name and say Jesus needs you. 604 00:40:40,840 --> 00:40:43,160 Never take the thought that you're not needed. 605 00:40:43,400 --> 00:40:45,880 You're needed. You're needed. 606 00:40:45,880 --> 00:40:49,920 Your partnership is needed. And I'm always amazed at the 607 00:40:50,520 --> 00:40:59,280 caliber of of children that God has and their individual skill 608 00:40:59,280 --> 00:41:05,560 sets that can bring such resource to the Kingdom of God. 609 00:41:06,240 --> 00:41:09,960 It's amazing to me that there are those that are able to be at 610 00:41:09,960 --> 00:41:14,920 a get into a trauma situation. Blood can be everywhere. 611 00:41:15,040 --> 00:41:16,960 And they are the calm in the storm. 612 00:41:17,080 --> 00:41:19,920 They're not the ones who's passing out, throwing up knees, 613 00:41:19,920 --> 00:41:24,240 drive on. We need partners like that. 614 00:41:25,160 --> 00:41:29,200 There are others, you know, not afraid of heights, can scale a 615 00:41:29,200 --> 00:41:33,360 tree, cut off a limb, swing out, you know, with a rope, cut that 616 00:41:33,360 --> 00:41:36,840 thing off and come back crazy. It can happen. 617 00:41:36,840 --> 00:41:41,200 I mean, there's there's things that people, everyone who works 618 00:41:41,200 --> 00:41:45,120 with the children, praise the Lord, Amen. 619 00:41:45,320 --> 00:41:48,680 There's a skill set to be able to minister into their little 620 00:41:48,680 --> 00:41:50,120 lives. Some of you, you're not there 621 00:41:50,120 --> 00:41:54,280 and that's why you have no skill set, Amen. 622 00:41:55,320 --> 00:41:58,360 The reason why we don't have men change the diapers is because 623 00:41:58,360 --> 00:42:04,600 most of you gag, Hallelujah. And those are the funniest 624 00:42:04,600 --> 00:42:09,040 videos. But He's working with us. 625 00:42:09,520 --> 00:42:13,880 Matthew 937 to 38. Then he said to his disciples, 626 00:42:14,000 --> 00:42:19,240 the harvest truly is plentiful, but the laborers are therefore 627 00:42:19,240 --> 00:42:24,960 prayed, the Lord of the harvest, to send out laborers into the 628 00:42:24,960 --> 00:42:26,840 harvest. Hallelujah. 629 00:42:27,040 --> 00:42:28,800 You know what God wants to send us. 630 00:42:29,760 --> 00:42:32,160 But here's the thing, you don't go out by yourself. 631 00:42:32,400 --> 00:42:34,320 You're not alone. Meaning even if you're in a 632 00:42:34,320 --> 00:42:37,400 workplace or you're in a store, you're by yourself. 633 00:42:37,480 --> 00:42:40,320 You know that the work you're doing is not alone. 634 00:42:40,400 --> 00:42:42,520 That you have a place to bring them back to. 635 00:42:42,520 --> 00:42:44,880 A place they can connect. A place they can get decipher 636 00:42:44,880 --> 00:42:47,680 the place they'll be loved. A place that they can receive 637 00:42:47,680 --> 00:42:50,960 the word rightly divided. A place where they can be 638 00:42:50,960 --> 00:42:54,440 nurtured and cared for, but ultimately have their gifts 639 00:42:54,440 --> 00:42:57,960 released and the ability for them to thrive in the Kingdom of 640 00:42:57,960 --> 00:43:00,720 God. We're not alone where miracles, 641 00:43:00,720 --> 00:43:04,160 signs and wonders where you can be diagnosed with scoliosis, but 642 00:43:04,160 --> 00:43:06,960 at the word of the King, your spine is made straight 643 00:43:08,360 --> 00:43:11,920 Hallelujah. And miracle after miracle and 644 00:43:11,920 --> 00:43:14,880 testimony after testimony takes place. 645 00:43:15,120 --> 00:43:18,040 And how much more should we be the church that is passionate 646 00:43:18,240 --> 00:43:20,360 about the things of God. Amen. 647 00:43:21,320 --> 00:43:23,720 So I'm going to leave us with this verse here because it 648 00:43:23,720 --> 00:43:26,920 helped me kind of go into next week what I really want to be 649 00:43:26,920 --> 00:43:29,560 able to minister for the next few Sundays. 650 00:43:29,760 --> 00:43:32,880 And it says this in First Thessalonians 512 to 13. 651 00:43:33,040 --> 00:43:37,120 He says we beseech you brethren to know them, which labor among 652 00:43:37,120 --> 00:43:43,000 you and are over you in the Lord and admonish you. 653 00:43:43,560 --> 00:43:47,960 We need to know those who labor among us. 654 00:43:48,320 --> 00:43:54,720 We are to recognize those, which means I should not know you and 655 00:43:54,720 --> 00:43:59,760 I shouldn't. I should know what it is that 656 00:43:59,760 --> 00:44:08,240 you are bringing to the table in the partnership because in the 657 00:44:08,240 --> 00:44:13,280 church you're not an employee, you're a partner. 658 00:44:14,840 --> 00:44:19,160 To have membership is partnership, which means you 659 00:44:19,160 --> 00:44:23,640 have a stake in this thing and God needs you to bring your 660 00:44:23,640 --> 00:44:25,760 gift. It is necessary. 661 00:44:26,400 --> 00:44:30,160 It is necessary and you know, we're adding to the team all the 662 00:44:30,160 --> 00:44:33,720 time and you understand people that are being added to the 663 00:44:33,720 --> 00:44:37,560 team, you're having to renew their minds to this team to how 664 00:44:37,560 --> 00:44:40,160 we're doing things. You know what, we may not be 665 00:44:40,160 --> 00:44:43,640 like that team over there or that team there. 666 00:44:43,720 --> 00:44:46,440 I mean, God's called those teams to do their work. 667 00:44:46,600 --> 00:44:50,240 We're called to do ours. I'm not here to assimilate to a 668 00:44:50,240 --> 00:44:55,440 different style. I'm here to do what God's asked 669 00:44:55,440 --> 00:44:57,160 us to do. And you know what he's going to 670 00:44:57,160 --> 00:45:00,480 send people that can be released in their gifts and do some 671 00:45:00,480 --> 00:45:03,000 amazing things. So you want to know those who 672 00:45:03,000 --> 00:45:05,440 labor among you. You don't want to be the, the, 673 00:45:05,440 --> 00:45:09,520 the partner of anchor faith that comes in, goes out and no one 674 00:45:09,520 --> 00:45:14,520 knows anything about you. That's good. 675 00:45:14,520 --> 00:45:17,400 Good. Because the reality is we are 676 00:45:17,400 --> 00:45:20,280 in. We are victors that are having 677 00:45:20,280 --> 00:45:25,040 to occupy in an earth where an enemy is still trying to kill, 678 00:45:25,040 --> 00:45:28,760 steal and destroy. And I want to know you well 679 00:45:28,760 --> 00:45:33,560 enough that if a scheme of the devil shows up, I know you've 680 00:45:33,560 --> 00:45:36,240 got my back and you'll know I have yours. 681 00:45:37,320 --> 00:45:41,480 Because as an ex soldier, I do not want to be in a foxhole with 682 00:45:41,480 --> 00:45:45,000 someone who's going to abandon their post when the when the 683 00:45:45,000 --> 00:45:51,120 fire comes down range. I want to know that you are 684 00:45:51,120 --> 00:45:53,280 going to stay in the fight. And here's the thing. 685 00:45:53,480 --> 00:45:56,760 At risk of seeming like we're going to die, Yeah, though we 686 00:45:56,760 --> 00:45:59,120 walk through the valley of the shadow of death, we're going to 687 00:45:59,120 --> 00:46:01,200 fear no evil. We going to ultimately win this 688 00:46:01,200 --> 00:46:03,760 fight anyway because Christ has already won. 689 00:46:04,360 --> 00:46:07,200 We're just defending the ground he has already given us. 690 00:46:08,680 --> 00:46:12,240 In fact, we are the ones who'll continue to take more territory. 691 00:46:13,960 --> 00:46:16,280 We're not in a defensive posture. 692 00:46:16,360 --> 00:46:21,080 We're the one on the offensive. We're the one who's going into 693 00:46:21,080 --> 00:46:25,480 the enemy's territory and we're taking the prisoners of war that 694 00:46:25,480 --> 00:46:29,520 he has and and releasing the captives and getting them over 695 00:46:29,520 --> 00:46:32,320 into the Kingdom and they're going to fight on our side. 696 00:46:33,320 --> 00:46:36,480 Hallelujah. So we want to know those who 697 00:46:36,480 --> 00:46:42,600 labor among us and those that are over you in the Lord. 698 00:46:42,680 --> 00:46:46,480 You want to admonish verse 13 and to esteem them very highly 699 00:46:46,480 --> 00:46:51,680 in love for their work's sake and for the P and be at peace 700 00:46:51,720 --> 00:46:55,480 among yourselves. So you understand, in any 701 00:46:55,560 --> 00:46:59,360 partnership, there are those that are going to manage certain 702 00:46:59,360 --> 00:47:03,240 aspects so that the whole organization can move forward. 703 00:47:03,480 --> 00:47:07,040 And they've been given that opportunity because God has put 704 00:47:07,040 --> 00:47:10,240 them in those positions of responsibility. 705 00:47:10,400 --> 00:47:13,560 And for those that are laboring well among you, you want to 706 00:47:13,560 --> 00:47:15,920 steam and say, you know what? Look how they're laboring. 707 00:47:15,920 --> 00:47:17,200 Look how they're staying with it. 708 00:47:17,200 --> 00:47:18,440 Look how they're staying in faith. 709 00:47:18,600 --> 00:47:20,200 Look how their life is modeling that. 710 00:47:20,320 --> 00:47:23,480 Look how they're doing it. Not let me find a crack in their 711 00:47:23,480 --> 00:47:27,240 stuff and see if I can't figure. No thankful Lord, look how they 712 00:47:27,240 --> 00:47:28,840 overcome. Look how they have, because 713 00:47:28,840 --> 00:47:32,520 again, if if a round gets through and they fall, I'm going 714 00:47:32,520 --> 00:47:37,640 to go in there and to gird them. And then among ourselves, we're 715 00:47:37,640 --> 00:47:39,320 at peace with each other. Why? 716 00:47:39,480 --> 00:47:44,600 Because we're in one goal, 1 spirit, 1 faith, one God, one 717 00:47:44,600 --> 00:47:48,200 purpose, one thing. We're moving towards the upward 718 00:47:48,200 --> 00:47:52,440 call of God for all of our lives in this vision called Anchor 719 00:47:52,480 --> 00:47:55,160 Faith Church. And it's not just in this 720 00:47:55,160 --> 00:47:57,840 community. It is gone globally now. 721 00:47:57,960 --> 00:48:04,120 And all of those congregations are united in one purpose, to 722 00:48:04,120 --> 00:48:08,760 pull in a catch that this end time has not yet seen.