1 00:00:03,040 --> 00:00:05,560 Thanks for checking out the Anchor Faith Message podcast 2 00:00:05,560 --> 00:00:06,960 from St. Augustine, FL. 3 00:00:07,520 --> 00:00:16,800 Now enjoy this message. Well, the Lord is good. 4 00:00:17,600 --> 00:00:19,640 Amen. Say it's. 5 00:00:19,640 --> 00:00:22,440 Say I'm never too tired. Come on, say I'm never too 6 00:00:22,440 --> 00:00:24,960 tired. Say I'm never too tired. 7 00:00:25,400 --> 00:00:31,720 Turn over to Mark chapter 16. Mark chapter 16, y'all, y'all, 8 00:00:31,720 --> 00:00:34,280 are you having an expectation for the word today? 9 00:00:35,080 --> 00:00:38,160 Amen. You know preaching is going to 10 00:00:38,160 --> 00:00:41,240 happen. How it impacts you is determined 11 00:00:41,240 --> 00:00:46,520 on your expectation, Amen. And so I encourage you when we 12 00:00:46,520 --> 00:00:50,040 come through verses you've heard before say, ah, something must 13 00:00:50,040 --> 00:00:53,600 be spoken today that I haven't heard yet, Amen. 14 00:00:54,080 --> 00:00:56,840 In fact, the one of the number one reasons why I love to 15 00:00:56,840 --> 00:01:02,840 minister is to discover what I have not yet studied because I 16 00:01:02,840 --> 00:01:06,920 have come to find out in the corporate anointing, OK, that 17 00:01:06,920 --> 00:01:10,000 there are things that you have going on in your life that I'm 18 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:12,200 unaware of. But when I begin to minister, 19 00:01:12,200 --> 00:01:14,120 God begins to release it for you. 20 00:01:14,120 --> 00:01:17,800 And in the process, I learn and I love. 21 00:01:17,800 --> 00:01:20,440 That. I love to be able to pull things 22 00:01:20,440 --> 00:01:24,680 up because of your hunger, your desire to know the word that all 23 00:01:24,680 --> 00:01:27,080 that I did not know. Now once I say it, man, I 24 00:01:27,080 --> 00:01:29,600 typically get it. I'm like, now I've learned that 25 00:01:29,880 --> 00:01:32,280 man, and I'll be able to say that again, communicate that 26 00:01:32,280 --> 00:01:34,560 again. God will pull that up to my 27 00:01:34,560 --> 00:01:37,920 remembrance again. But initially in the study, it 28 00:01:37,920 --> 00:01:40,480 wasn't there. It wasn't there. 29 00:01:40,600 --> 00:01:42,840 Amen. And God's not obligated to tell 30 00:01:42,840 --> 00:01:45,520 me everything that you need to hear before you get here. 31 00:01:45,680 --> 00:01:49,920 In fact, today at 9:50, I didn't have a scripture down. 32 00:01:50,280 --> 00:01:53,160 In fact, when I did a leadership lesson with the worship team 33 00:01:53,160 --> 00:01:54,880 today, I said, let me show you my sermon. 34 00:01:54,880 --> 00:01:56,320 I showed him a blank piece of paper. 35 00:01:57,280 --> 00:02:02,240 Now why do I say that many times I have scripture long. 36 00:02:02,240 --> 00:02:05,440 In advance, but at the end of the day this. 37 00:02:05,440 --> 00:02:11,600 Is not my church, this is the one Jesus is building and I have 38 00:02:11,600 --> 00:02:14,400 to yield him. And this morning when I had time 39 00:02:14,400 --> 00:02:18,560 to continue to study, I had this impression I should just go and 40 00:02:18,560 --> 00:02:22,880 pray in the Spirit first. Most of the time God will give 41 00:02:22,880 --> 00:02:25,680 me a word, then I pray in the spirit after. 42 00:02:26,280 --> 00:02:30,360 But today it seemed right with me and the Holy Ghost that I 43 00:02:30,360 --> 00:02:34,400 abandoned comfort and just go pray. 44 00:02:36,080 --> 00:02:40,520 So I took off, went down the road, watched the sunrise this 45 00:02:40,520 --> 00:02:44,000 morning, Amen. And as a result of that, I just 46 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:46,800 trusted God. And then come here, you know, 47 00:02:46,800 --> 00:02:49,640 and here we are going into it and I'm like, man, Lord. 48 00:02:50,080 --> 00:02:57,320 Well, whatever, Amen. You understand it's easy to be 49 00:02:57,320 --> 00:03:01,560 in peace when you know that He's the one that's responsible 50 00:03:02,400 --> 00:03:04,240 because you just cast your care on the Lord. 51 00:03:04,920 --> 00:03:06,080 Amen. People have a hard enough time, 52 00:03:06,080 --> 00:03:07,800 even when they have points to get up in front of people, 53 00:03:07,800 --> 00:03:10,440 right? But at the end of the day, the 54 00:03:10,440 --> 00:03:13,520 Lord has given me something to say to you today, and I do 55 00:03:13,520 --> 00:03:17,440 believe it is for a time such as this, Amen. 56 00:03:18,280 --> 00:03:21,880 In Mark chapter 16 verse 15 to 20 it says this. 57 00:03:22,040 --> 00:03:25,720 And he said to them, Go into all the world and preach the gospel 58 00:03:26,200 --> 00:03:29,600 to every creature. He who believes and is baptized 59 00:03:29,600 --> 00:03:34,040 will be saved, but he who does not believe will be condemned. 60 00:03:34,320 --> 00:03:37,120 And these signs will follow those who believe in my name. 61 00:03:37,120 --> 00:03:41,360 They will cast out demons, they will speak with new tongues, 62 00:03:41,560 --> 00:03:45,320 they will take up serpents, and if they drink anything deadly, 63 00:03:45,320 --> 00:03:49,880 it will by no means hurt them. They will lay hands on the sick, 64 00:03:50,080 --> 00:03:54,400 and they will recover. So then after the Lord had 65 00:03:54,400 --> 00:03:59,080 spoken to them, he was received up into heaven and set down at 66 00:03:59,080 --> 00:04:02,480 the right hand of God, and they went out and preached 67 00:04:02,520 --> 00:04:06,040 everywhere, and the Lord working what? 68 00:04:06,600 --> 00:04:09,480 What? Working what with them and 69 00:04:09,480 --> 00:04:14,480 confirming the word through the accompany signs. 70 00:04:14,520 --> 00:04:18,000 What signs are we talking about that they would cast out devils? 71 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:19,320 They would speak with new tongues. 72 00:04:19,320 --> 00:04:22,240 If they took up any deadly serpents, or drink any deadly 73 00:04:22,240 --> 00:04:24,240 thing, it would by by no means hurt them. 74 00:04:24,240 --> 00:04:27,680 They would lay hands on the sick and they would recover. 75 00:04:28,280 --> 00:04:31,080 Amen. These signs were accompanying 76 00:04:31,320 --> 00:04:34,120 them. Now the question though that we 77 00:04:34,120 --> 00:04:37,960 need to ask because it is an assumed thought process and we 78 00:04:37,960 --> 00:04:41,440 have learned here at Anchor Fay Church that is an assumption. 79 00:04:41,600 --> 00:04:45,840 But before I get to that thing, I want to go back to verse 18 80 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:50,160 and or actually verse 17 it says, and these signs will 81 00:04:50,160 --> 00:04:56,280 follow those who believe. Let me ask this question. 82 00:04:56,520 --> 00:05:00,600 Are you a believer? Then if you are a believer, 83 00:05:00,600 --> 00:05:06,160 these signs should follow you, which tells me these signs did 84 00:05:06,160 --> 00:05:15,640 not disappear after the original apostles, so that that teaching 85 00:05:15,640 --> 00:05:19,200 is an error. When people want to act like 86 00:05:19,360 --> 00:05:23,200 that, the moves of the Spirit, the gifts of the Spirit are not 87 00:05:23,200 --> 00:05:26,720 for the church today. They were only four of the 11 88 00:05:26,720 --> 00:05:29,360 plus Matthias that came in as the 12th one. 89 00:05:29,520 --> 00:05:33,160 However, Paul was not one of the original 12 anyway and he spoke 90 00:05:33,160 --> 00:05:36,000 in tongues more than them all. But then there were tons of 91 00:05:36,000 --> 00:05:38,680 prophets that were actually mentioned in the book of Acts 92 00:05:38,840 --> 00:05:42,280 that were not part of the original 12 that had the ability 93 00:05:42,280 --> 00:05:46,120 to flow in the gifts of the Spirit to the point that even 94 00:05:46,120 --> 00:05:52,280 Agabus tied up and prophesied about a word of wisdom of what 95 00:05:52,280 --> 00:05:55,920 would take place to Paul when he got to Jerusalem. 96 00:05:56,400 --> 00:05:59,480 Not to mention that Paul's letter to the Corinthian church 97 00:05:59,600 --> 00:06:03,680 was on the subject of the gifts of the Spirit of which all the 98 00:06:03,680 --> 00:06:07,320 Saints were functioning in it in such a way that Paul had to 99 00:06:07,320 --> 00:06:10,320 bring it back in order. Are you hearing me? 100 00:06:10,960 --> 00:06:15,840 So are you a believer then? These things are for today, 101 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:19,800 because the church is still alive today. 102 00:06:20,920 --> 00:06:23,080 I said the church is still alive today. 103 00:06:23,760 --> 00:06:27,440 The church is still alive today. Now why do I stress this? 104 00:06:27,600 --> 00:06:33,160 Because we take verse 15 to preach the gospel as if it's 105 00:06:33,200 --> 00:06:36,040 only a word and not a demonstration. 106 00:06:40,080 --> 00:06:45,720 Because if you accept or if you do not expect the signs to 107 00:06:45,720 --> 00:06:49,960 accompany, then you aren't looking for them to accompany. 108 00:06:49,960 --> 00:06:51,920 All you are doing is releasing a. 109 00:06:52,400 --> 00:06:56,800 Word. God never intended us to go 110 00:06:56,800 --> 00:07:01,760 preach the gospel without a demonstration, at least having 111 00:07:01,760 --> 00:07:04,040 access. Now, what I'm not saying is that 112 00:07:04,040 --> 00:07:06,920 every time you preach the gospel that you have to have a 113 00:07:06,920 --> 00:07:09,240 demonstration. I'm not saying that because 114 00:07:09,240 --> 00:07:11,880 Jesus himself. Preached some things without 115 00:07:11,880 --> 00:07:15,120 demonstrations. Now why did he do that? 116 00:07:15,240 --> 00:07:18,840 Because they wanted just the demonstrations. 117 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:25,400 So there are people that God knows that he is not there to 118 00:07:25,400 --> 00:07:28,400 give them a demonstration. He's there to give them the word 119 00:07:28,400 --> 00:07:31,640 because they need the word to change their life. 120 00:07:31,760 --> 00:07:33,560 They're looking for the wrong thing. 121 00:07:33,640 --> 00:07:39,120 But for some, they need the accompanying demonstration that 122 00:07:39,120 --> 00:07:44,040 helps them believe so that they can come into the Kingdom. 123 00:07:44,160 --> 00:07:49,680 And God has equipped us to do. This can I get a better Amen 124 00:07:49,680 --> 00:07:53,800 than that? He has equipped us to do this. 125 00:07:54,040 --> 00:07:58,080 We need to have a daily expectation of the supernatural. 126 00:07:59,560 --> 00:08:03,280 Daily, I said. A daily expectation of the 127 00:08:03,280 --> 00:08:08,160 supernatural that there's not a place in life or that we could 128 00:08:08,160 --> 00:08:13,080 encounter in any 24 hour period, that God could not allow an 129 00:08:13,080 --> 00:08:20,520 accompanied sign. In fact, if God is working with 130 00:08:20,520 --> 00:08:26,440 you, then you could have an expectation of an accompany 131 00:08:26,440 --> 00:08:29,960 sign. Because here's the thing, God is 132 00:08:29,960 --> 00:08:35,799 not sending you out without Him. So if you're going out without 133 00:08:35,799 --> 00:08:38,080 Him, then you might want to get out of His. 134 00:08:38,080 --> 00:08:46,360 Field and we'll get to that here in a minute, but verse 15, the 135 00:08:46,360 --> 00:08:50,960 problem is it says go into all the world and preach thee, not a 136 00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:56,680 gospel, but the gospel, the gospel. 137 00:08:56,680 --> 00:08:59,480 Say the gospel. Say the gospel. 138 00:09:00,040 --> 00:09:04,120 The gospel. Not a gospel, not a part of the 139 00:09:04,120 --> 00:09:10,120 gospel, but the gospel. And again we read this and again 140 00:09:10,120 --> 00:09:12,880 you would think that. People would know what the 141 00:09:12,880 --> 00:09:16,920 gospel is. But most people only know part 142 00:09:16,920 --> 00:09:20,720 of it. They only know a door. 143 00:09:22,480 --> 00:09:26,240 They only know an entrance. They don't know the Gospel. 144 00:09:27,280 --> 00:09:32,320 Jesus preached the Gospel and it tells us look at this in Matthew 145 00:09:32,320 --> 00:09:37,040 Chapter 9 and see if Jesus is not doing what Mark 16 tells us 146 00:09:37,040 --> 00:09:38,880 to do. Look at this. 147 00:09:39,000 --> 00:09:42,320 In Matthew Chapter 9, starting in verse 35, it says this. 148 00:09:42,320 --> 00:09:47,000 Then Jesus went about all the cities and villages teaching in 149 00:09:47,000 --> 00:09:49,920 their synagogue, preaching the what? 150 00:09:50,760 --> 00:09:57,680 But what is the gospel of the? Kingdom not just good news. 151 00:09:58,920 --> 00:10:02,280 He actually didn't preach. Believe I'm going to die and 152 00:10:02,280 --> 00:10:08,080 raise for the dead for your sin. Jesus never preached that. 153 00:10:10,480 --> 00:10:13,600 Jesus preached the gospel of the Kingdom. 154 00:10:13,600 --> 00:10:15,920 Now let me just stop right here because you know, I already hear 155 00:10:15,920 --> 00:10:17,240 the religious breaks. Hitting. 156 00:10:17,240 --> 00:10:17,880 Him. Hitting. 157 00:10:18,400 --> 00:10:22,480 Did Jesus die on the cross to make payment for our sin? 158 00:10:22,760 --> 00:10:26,120 Absolutely. He is the only way into the 159 00:10:26,600 --> 00:10:29,960 Kingdom. But Jesus preached the Kingdom, 160 00:10:30,120 --> 00:10:36,000 not just his assignment. And this is very important 161 00:10:36,240 --> 00:10:38,800 because most of the time we're only preaching Jesus's 162 00:10:38,800 --> 00:10:43,120 assignment and people are are looking at an assignment and not 163 00:10:43,120 --> 00:10:47,160 looking at what he brought because he completed the 164 00:10:47,160 --> 00:10:50,520 assignment. So he goes on and says this 165 00:10:50,680 --> 00:10:53,760 teaching in their synagogue, preaching the gospel of the 166 00:10:53,760 --> 00:10:55,760 Kingdom. And because he was preaching the 167 00:10:55,760 --> 00:11:00,880 gospel of the Kingdom, what took place and healing every sickness 168 00:11:01,680 --> 00:11:05,400 and every disease among the people, right? 169 00:11:05,640 --> 00:11:10,200 Jesus said, if I cast out a devil with the finger of God, 170 00:11:10,200 --> 00:11:11,880 then you know the Kingdom is here. 171 00:11:12,480 --> 00:11:15,240 Are you hearing me? Jesus was casting out devils, 172 00:11:15,320 --> 00:11:17,600 healing the sick, raising the dead. 173 00:11:18,600 --> 00:11:21,360 Why? Because he preached the gospel 174 00:11:21,600 --> 00:11:24,200 of the Kingdom, he said the Kingdom of heaven is like this 175 00:11:24,200 --> 00:11:25,720 and the Kingdom of God is like that. 176 00:11:25,960 --> 00:11:29,640 He was always saying to the people, let me talk to you about 177 00:11:29,720 --> 00:11:33,320 God's domain or the King's domain, the King's dominion. 178 00:11:33,440 --> 00:11:35,760 Let me talk to you about what you're waiting for. 179 00:11:35,840 --> 00:11:38,680 Let me tell you about this Messiah that you're looking for. 180 00:11:38,760 --> 00:11:41,200 Let me tell you about this Kingdom that you want to get in. 181 00:11:41,320 --> 00:11:44,960 Let me talk to you about the Kingdom that is ever present in 182 00:11:44,960 --> 00:11:47,680 your midst and what you need to do to become a. 183 00:11:47,680 --> 00:11:52,800 Part of it. Are you hearing me? 184 00:11:53,760 --> 00:11:56,600 See at Anchor Fay Church, if you don't watch out, you can get 185 00:11:56,600 --> 00:12:05,040 numb to Kingdom 'cause once again it becomes a word that has 186 00:12:05,040 --> 00:12:08,800 been preached here so often that the minute it starts we 187 00:12:08,800 --> 00:12:12,600 disconnect. However, it is the only thing 188 00:12:12,600 --> 00:12:15,240 that remains. That's like me getting rid of 189 00:12:15,240 --> 00:12:19,080 the name of Jesus. I remember one time someone came 190 00:12:19,080 --> 00:12:21,200 to me and said you don't talk about Jesus much. 191 00:12:21,200 --> 00:12:22,960 I said I talk about Jesus all the time. 192 00:12:22,960 --> 00:12:28,160 He is the king of the Kingdom. Jesus is the King. 193 00:12:33,240 --> 00:12:36,040 Now why is that? Because everyone loves Savior 194 00:12:36,040 --> 00:12:39,360 Jesus, but Lord Jesus is a whole nother ball game. 195 00:12:41,200 --> 00:12:43,280 Because Savior is what Jesus did. 196 00:12:43,280 --> 00:12:46,400 Lord is who He is in the beginning. 197 00:12:46,400 --> 00:12:50,200 We know the Kingdom is about dominion because the Bible's 198 00:12:50,200 --> 00:12:52,960 only about a king, His Kingdom and His royal offspring. 199 00:12:52,960 --> 00:12:56,320 Listen to me. The day is here and upon us that 200 00:12:56,320 --> 00:13:00,240 we cannot get tired. And not everyone knows the 201 00:13:00,240 --> 00:13:04,320 gospel like you know the gospel. And it's very important for you 202 00:13:04,320 --> 00:13:08,760 to be able to recite it and know it and articulate it in a in a 203 00:13:08,760 --> 00:13:12,720 way that when you're around people, you can begin to divulge 204 00:13:12,720 --> 00:13:16,760 the Kingdom because it's the Kingdom that transforms and 205 00:13:16,760 --> 00:13:21,520 changes people's lives. And it's the Kingdom that the 206 00:13:21,720 --> 00:13:23,760 Jesus is bringing back in the first place. 207 00:13:24,480 --> 00:13:28,400 Are you hearing me? So Jesus says verse 36. 208 00:13:28,400 --> 00:13:30,720 But when he saw the multitude, he was moved with compassion for 209 00:13:30,720 --> 00:13:34,520 them, because they were weary and scattered like sheep without 210 00:13:34,560 --> 00:13:37,280 a shepherd. And he says to his disciples, 211 00:13:37,560 --> 00:13:41,280 The harvest is what? Plentiful, but the laborers are. 212 00:13:41,600 --> 00:13:45,720 What are they? Therefore pray the Lord of the 213 00:13:45,720 --> 00:13:49,800 harvest to send out laborers into his harvest. 214 00:13:50,360 --> 00:13:59,440 So the laborers are the laborers are the laborers are few. 215 00:14:00,240 --> 00:14:03,720 Now, one reason why the laborers are few is not because there's 216 00:14:03,720 --> 00:14:07,640 not a number of them. We've preached this in the past, 217 00:14:07,640 --> 00:14:11,600 but again, just so you can know, as a review, and for those 218 00:14:11,600 --> 00:14:15,360 who've never been here, obviously we have farmland in 219 00:14:15,360 --> 00:14:18,480 our county. And, you know, at one time, I 220 00:14:18,480 --> 00:14:20,960 don't know that is today, but Hastings was the potato capital 221 00:14:20,960 --> 00:14:24,480 of the world, right? And potatoes are like under the 222 00:14:24,480 --> 00:14:26,360 ground, right, Mr. Berry? I mean, they're like a root 223 00:14:26,360 --> 00:14:30,640 right now. I don't see the potato when it's 224 00:14:30,640 --> 00:14:33,040 in the ground. How in the world does a farmer 225 00:14:33,040 --> 00:14:36,760 know without seeing it that it's ready to pick? 226 00:14:38,160 --> 00:14:39,520 That we're not going to get a little scrawny? 227 00:14:39,520 --> 00:14:43,680 1 Are you hearing what I'm saying? 228 00:14:45,040 --> 00:14:49,440 How is it that they know when the cabbage head next week is 229 00:14:49,440 --> 00:14:53,360 ready, but not this week? That if we do it this week, it's 230 00:14:53,360 --> 00:14:57,160 too early. How do they know collard greens 231 00:14:57,440 --> 00:15:03,600 are ready when they're ready? Because to an untrained eyes, we 232 00:15:03,600 --> 00:15:07,960 just get out and say, ah, looks good and we can pick the fruit 233 00:15:07,960 --> 00:15:13,320 before it's actually ripe. And if you pick fruit before 234 00:15:13,320 --> 00:15:19,720 it's ripe, if anyone eats it, it is bitter or it doesn't taste as 235 00:15:19,720 --> 00:15:23,240 it was supposed to. And I'm concerned that there are 236 00:15:23,240 --> 00:15:28,200 a lot of people that are out preaching a gospel and are 237 00:15:28,200 --> 00:15:33,400 pulling things off the Lord's harvest before they're ready to 238 00:15:33,400 --> 00:15:36,520 be picked. In fact, we are rushing them 239 00:15:36,520 --> 00:15:40,000 into the sides of the convenience stores or their cars 240 00:15:40,000 --> 00:15:42,320 or whatever. And we say these things like, 241 00:15:42,440 --> 00:15:43,520 where are you going to go with you? 242 00:15:43,520 --> 00:15:47,040 How do you know if you were to die today, where would you go? 243 00:15:47,240 --> 00:15:49,760 And you, you, how do you know that you don't get hit by a car? 244 00:15:49,840 --> 00:15:53,920 And we're like scaring them to make a confession. 245 00:15:53,920 --> 00:15:55,800 And we're like proud of ourselves. 246 00:16:00,680 --> 00:16:06,480 Now, the Bible's very clear. It is highly possible, in fact 247 00:16:06,720 --> 00:16:11,240 it is doable, to confess with your lips and your heart. 248 00:16:11,240 --> 00:16:16,200 Be far from it. For Jesus himself said about the 249 00:16:16,200 --> 00:16:18,160 Pharisees. They confessed me with their 250 00:16:18,160 --> 00:16:23,760 lips, but their heart, which means their confession isn't 251 00:16:23,760 --> 00:16:26,200 actually. Pulling in the results. 252 00:16:27,000 --> 00:16:31,600 And you can labor over someone that you think needs to be 253 00:16:31,600 --> 00:16:34,560 harvested because you've discovered that they would go to 254 00:16:34,560 --> 00:16:38,480 hell if they die today. And you pound so much that they 255 00:16:38,480 --> 00:16:40,960 say, I'll pray with you. And they're really just 256 00:16:40,960 --> 00:16:45,240 confessing. So you will leave them alone. 257 00:16:46,280 --> 00:16:48,560 Then you give them this false sense of. 258 00:16:48,560 --> 00:16:53,640 Security. And now when you die, you're 259 00:16:53,640 --> 00:16:58,600 going to go to heaven. And yet they're not actually in 260 00:16:58,880 --> 00:17:03,360 the Kingdom at all. In fact, Jesus warned the 261 00:17:03,360 --> 00:17:05,000 disciples concerning the Pharisees. 262 00:17:05,000 --> 00:17:10,040 He says, man, they make a proselyte twice the Son of hell. 263 00:17:11,839 --> 00:17:16,079 Are you hearing what I'm saying? Hallelujah. 264 00:17:18,480 --> 00:17:22,040 So. It's his field. 265 00:17:23,599 --> 00:17:27,720 In Mark 16 it says the Lord's laboring with us. 266 00:17:28,720 --> 00:17:32,160 So again, it's not my responsibility to go tell 267 00:17:32,160 --> 00:17:35,760 everyone about Jesus. It's my responsibility to tell 268 00:17:35,760 --> 00:17:38,520 who God tells me to tell people about. 269 00:17:38,520 --> 00:17:46,280 Jesus and to determine how far I communicate because as Paul 270 00:17:46,280 --> 00:17:52,640 clearly said, Apollos planted. I watered but God calls the 271 00:17:53,960 --> 00:18:01,000 increase so your emotional experience and seemingly 272 00:18:01,000 --> 00:18:04,600 concerned that if they died today they would go to hell. 273 00:18:04,600 --> 00:18:06,680 Well, do you think the Lord knows whether they going to die 274 00:18:06,680 --> 00:18:14,160 today? I mean, we put pressure on 275 00:18:14,160 --> 00:18:16,520 people that even God doesn't put pressure, pressure on. 276 00:18:16,760 --> 00:18:19,840 I mean seriously, how many times has the Lord kept you? 277 00:18:20,840 --> 00:18:23,440 That you could look back in your life as sin and you're like, 278 00:18:23,440 --> 00:18:27,800 man, but God, I should be dead. But God, he was. 279 00:18:27,840 --> 00:18:30,920 He was merciful. I mean, he wasn't like, bro, you 280 00:18:30,920 --> 00:18:38,240 better accept me now. No, He's the Lord of the. 281 00:18:38,960 --> 00:18:43,440 He's like, man, if I didn't step in here, they'd be dead today. 282 00:18:43,800 --> 00:18:47,840 But instead I did, 'cause I'm merciful and I got a laborer 283 00:18:47,840 --> 00:18:49,640 coming. I got one that's actually going 284 00:18:49,640 --> 00:18:51,000 to be able to speak to their heart. 285 00:18:51,160 --> 00:18:53,960 Chip away at this hardest stone. Water a little bit. 286 00:18:54,040 --> 00:18:56,280 Plan a little bit. Because I know it's going to be 287 00:18:56,280 --> 00:19:00,720 on this day, we don't have to pressure. 288 00:19:01,880 --> 00:19:04,840 We just have to represent the Kingdom. 289 00:19:04,840 --> 00:19:07,840 And here's the thing, when you understand the Gospels about the 290 00:19:07,840 --> 00:19:10,800 Kingdom, then there's no more pressure. 291 00:19:12,800 --> 00:19:18,600 And you're harvesting no more, because the gospel's not about 292 00:19:18,600 --> 00:19:22,040 where you're going to go when you die, 'cause every religion 293 00:19:22,040 --> 00:19:26,360 is asking that question. And that's not the gospel. 294 00:19:26,400 --> 00:19:28,680 Jesus preached. Jesus was not preaching. 295 00:19:28,680 --> 00:19:29,880 Where are you going to go when you die? 296 00:19:30,000 --> 00:19:32,520 Jesus was. Let the Kingdom come to you now. 297 00:19:34,160 --> 00:19:38,160 Jesus was not preaching. I need you to come to heaven, 298 00:19:38,960 --> 00:19:40,760 Jesus was saying. Now when you pray, pray this 299 00:19:40,760 --> 00:19:42,680 way, Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be your name, 300 00:19:42,680 --> 00:19:46,720 your Kingdom, your will be on. As it is. 301 00:19:47,000 --> 00:19:50,440 He's prayed in John chapter 17. Father, I'm not even asking you 302 00:19:50,440 --> 00:19:54,600 to take them out of the world. So let me tell you, King Jesus, 303 00:19:54,600 --> 00:19:57,840 who's seated on the throne right now, is not in a rush to get you 304 00:19:57,840 --> 00:20:02,440 to Him. What He wants is you to fulfill 305 00:20:02,440 --> 00:20:06,160 God's plan for your life while you're here, and He doesn't want 306 00:20:06,160 --> 00:20:09,240 you there any sooner. Because at the end of the day, 307 00:20:09,240 --> 00:20:12,440 he's already giving you enough to thrive. 308 00:20:13,640 --> 00:20:16,480 Because salvation is not about heaven. 309 00:20:16,600 --> 00:20:21,600 Salvation is about becoming a child of God and having God. 310 00:20:21,760 --> 00:20:25,400 If we look at the scripture, you guys know that God always came 311 00:20:25,400 --> 00:20:30,480 down. He always came down, which 312 00:20:30,480 --> 00:20:32,880 brings us to this thought that we've said here for years in 313 00:20:32,880 --> 00:20:35,280 Genesis 126. Then God said, let us make man 314 00:20:35,280 --> 00:20:38,040 in our image according to our likeness and let him have what? 315 00:20:38,880 --> 00:20:42,200 Dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, 316 00:20:42,200 --> 00:20:44,360 over all the cattle, over every creepy thing that creeps on the 317 00:20:44,360 --> 00:20:46,880 earth, over all the earth. He made both male and female, 318 00:20:46,880 --> 00:20:49,760 they both would have dominion. They're on a planet with no sin. 319 00:20:49,920 --> 00:20:52,320 It's perfect. And God says this, Son, I want 320 00:20:52,320 --> 00:20:54,720 to know that you love me. So in order for me to know you 321 00:20:54,720 --> 00:20:56,480 love me, you are going to stay in obedience. 322 00:20:56,480 --> 00:20:59,120 So here's my thing. You can eat from any tree of the 323 00:20:59,120 --> 00:21:00,680 garden. You can have it all, all this 324 00:21:00,680 --> 00:21:02,920 fruit chores, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, 325 00:21:02,920 --> 00:21:05,120 you shall not eat. For the day you eat, you will 326 00:21:05,120 --> 00:21:07,520 surely die. And every time he passed the 327 00:21:07,520 --> 00:21:10,360 tree and did not eat it, he was demonstrating God's love to him. 328 00:21:10,360 --> 00:21:12,720 For Jesus says, if you love me, you will keep my word. 329 00:21:13,520 --> 00:21:17,120 So if the Lord says to him, Adam, you can eat from any tree 330 00:21:17,120 --> 00:21:19,120 of the garden, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and 331 00:21:19,120 --> 00:21:21,280 evil, for the day you eat that fruit, you die. 332 00:21:21,280 --> 00:21:24,400 If Adam had never eaten the fruit, where would he be today? 333 00:21:26,960 --> 00:21:30,920 So Adam wasn't walking around looking for heaven because 334 00:21:30,920 --> 00:21:34,200 heaven came to earth. I said heaven came to earth. 335 00:21:34,320 --> 00:21:36,680 And you know, if you actually read the Bible back of the book, 336 00:21:36,680 --> 00:21:40,840 guess what? God's coming to planet earth. 337 00:21:40,840 --> 00:21:43,520 He really loves this place way more than we do. 338 00:21:44,160 --> 00:21:47,040 Our religion has tried to get us out of it, and God's kingdom's 339 00:21:47,040 --> 00:21:50,240 about keeping us in. Now, will you go to heaven when 340 00:21:50,240 --> 00:21:52,480 you die? Sure to be absent from the body? 341 00:21:52,480 --> 00:21:54,400 You'll be what? Present with the Lord? 342 00:21:54,400 --> 00:21:58,240 Where is Jesus presently at? He's in heaven, seated at the 343 00:21:58,240 --> 00:21:59,960 right hand of the Father. He's on a throne. 344 00:21:59,960 --> 00:22:02,600 Thrones are in kingdoms, not in religions. 345 00:22:02,720 --> 00:22:06,160 But is Jesus staying there? He is not. 346 00:22:06,160 --> 00:22:08,200 Is he returning? Yes. 347 00:22:08,200 --> 00:22:13,200 The king is coming, I said. The King's coming, and he will 348 00:22:13,200 --> 00:22:17,720 not come as a suffering servant. He will not come as a lamb to be 349 00:22:17,720 --> 00:22:20,320 slain. He's coming as the reigning king 350 00:22:20,400 --> 00:22:24,080 who has conquered the devil and is going to fully establish his 351 00:22:24,080 --> 00:22:28,560 Kingdom on the earth forever, physically. 352 00:22:29,680 --> 00:22:32,760 Hallelujah. And the And we have the 353 00:22:32,760 --> 00:22:37,120 privilege as sons and daughters of God to function in that 354 00:22:37,120 --> 00:22:42,240 Kingdom now, even in a world fallen from dominion. 355 00:22:43,520 --> 00:22:47,320 Amen. So we preach the gospel Jesus 356 00:22:47,320 --> 00:22:51,160 preaches because the gospel is about the Kingdom of God, 357 00:22:51,320 --> 00:22:54,280 because the Bible was. Always about a king, his Kingdom 358 00:22:54,280 --> 00:22:57,320 and his royal offspring. And Adam was not trying to get 359 00:22:57,320 --> 00:23:01,240 somewhere. Somewhere came to him, but when 360 00:23:01,240 --> 00:23:06,760 Adam did eat the fruit, God had to keep his word because God is 361 00:23:06,760 --> 00:23:09,880 not a man that he should lie. And if he said let man have 362 00:23:09,880 --> 00:23:13,960 dominion, now that Adam has abdicated his throne, given it 363 00:23:13,960 --> 00:23:19,440 to the devil, the Lord says I need man to have a pathway back 364 00:23:19,440 --> 00:23:24,040 so my word can be fulfilled. And so he said, son, you'll have 365 00:23:24,040 --> 00:23:26,440 to go be a man that's legal entrance. 366 00:23:26,640 --> 00:23:30,320 I gave it to a man and he lost he he didn't lose it. 367 00:23:30,320 --> 00:23:32,760 He gave it away. It's. 368 00:23:32,760 --> 00:23:36,320 Going to require a man to take it back, but we can't use his 369 00:23:36,320 --> 00:23:40,960 seed because it's corrupt. So I will put you in a woman by 370 00:23:40,960 --> 00:23:43,800 the Holy Ghost, and you're going to empty yourself and you're 371 00:23:43,800 --> 00:23:47,120 going to be all. Man anointed of the Spirit and 372 00:23:47,120 --> 00:23:50,760 function in the planet. And if you study the miracles 373 00:23:50,760 --> 00:23:55,800 that Jesus performed, they are all within the dominion that the 374 00:23:55,800 --> 00:24:00,640 first Adam lost. Every one of them is the 375 00:24:00,640 --> 00:24:05,600 dominion the first Adam had. And if Jesus has conquered the 376 00:24:05,600 --> 00:24:10,120 devil, and he has, and he has been given all authority and he 377 00:24:10,120 --> 00:24:12,920 can give his authority to us, then guess what we can do in the 378 00:24:12,920 --> 00:24:17,040 earth as well? We conquer the enemy, Amen. 379 00:24:17,480 --> 00:24:21,680 We conquer based upon the our knowledge of God. 380 00:24:21,880 --> 00:24:24,600 Look at this in John chapter 4. Why do I bring all this up? 381 00:24:24,600 --> 00:24:28,160 Because we're never too tired. So it came. 382 00:24:28,560 --> 00:24:33,440 So he, this is Jesus, came to the city of Samaria near a 383 00:24:33,440 --> 00:24:37,880 parcel of ground that Jacob had gave to his son Joseph. 384 00:24:38,120 --> 00:24:41,440 And Jacob's well was there. So Jesus, look what it says 385 00:24:41,440 --> 00:24:49,280 about Jesus. Jesus being what wearied by his 386 00:24:49,280 --> 00:24:54,920 journey or from his journey was sitting thus by the well. 387 00:24:55,160 --> 00:24:58,080 It was about the 6th hour. Then came a woman from Samaritan 388 00:24:58,080 --> 00:25:00,040 to draw water. Jesus said to her, give me a 389 00:25:00,040 --> 00:25:02,760 drink. For his disciples had gone away 390 00:25:02,760 --> 00:25:05,760 into the city to buy food. Why are they buying food? 391 00:25:06,080 --> 00:25:10,640 Because Jesus is weary from his journey. 392 00:25:11,040 --> 00:25:14,280 Jesus is the Son of man. He emptied himself of his glory. 393 00:25:14,280 --> 00:25:18,200 He is a man functioning underneath the anointing of God. 394 00:25:18,880 --> 00:25:25,160 And he physically was tired. Jesus got physically tired. 395 00:25:28,040 --> 00:25:33,600 And Jesus was wearied. In essence, he's They know he's 396 00:25:33,600 --> 00:25:35,200 hungry, that's why they're buying him food. 397 00:25:35,360 --> 00:25:38,080 They leave him here. I mean, he's so tired that he 398 00:25:38,080 --> 00:25:40,000 doesn't even go with his. Disciples, you're like y'all, go 399 00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:42,440 ahead. I'm I'm going to stay here. 400 00:25:43,560 --> 00:25:46,120 So it's not just because someone's coming. 401 00:25:48,040 --> 00:25:51,720 In fact, at this point, we don't even know if Jesus technically 402 00:25:51,720 --> 00:25:58,040 knows that she's coming. Yet he could be at the well 403 00:25:58,040 --> 00:26:04,080 simply because he's wearied. I'm tired. 404 00:26:05,280 --> 00:26:08,240 I'm just going to rest. Y'all go get it and I'll be here 405 00:26:08,240 --> 00:26:10,480 when you get. Back then, all of a sudden. 406 00:26:10,920 --> 00:26:19,640 A lady comes, and when this lady shows up, he starts hearing from 407 00:26:19,640 --> 00:26:21,240 heaven. I said. 408 00:26:21,240 --> 00:26:24,720 He starts hearing from heaven. Now what are you going to do 409 00:26:24,720 --> 00:26:28,640 when you start hearing from heaven but you're tired? 410 00:26:31,680 --> 00:26:36,840 I worked all week, I've worked all day, and I have to run down 411 00:26:36,840 --> 00:26:38,640 to the grocery store to get something for our kids. 412 00:26:38,640 --> 00:26:41,160 And now you're in the grocery store and you're tired and all 413 00:26:41,160 --> 00:26:44,560 of a sudden heaven starts talking to you. 414 00:26:47,040 --> 00:26:49,760 You're at the game with your child because he's practicing 415 00:26:49,760 --> 00:26:53,040 and you're like, my gosh, man, I just want to go home. 416 00:26:53,280 --> 00:26:56,040 I mean, seriously, I don't even really know why I have this 417 00:26:56,040 --> 00:26:59,080 child of mine in the soccer because they are horrible. 418 00:27:03,240 --> 00:27:04,680 Come on, parents, just be honest. 419 00:27:10,610 --> 00:27:13,690 You'll get it next week. You're encouraged it. 420 00:27:13,730 --> 00:27:15,730 All right. Maybe you should take piano. 421 00:27:17,090 --> 00:27:21,130 Anyway, the point is, is you're investing in your child there, 422 00:27:21,210 --> 00:27:29,280 and all of a sudden there's another parent and you're weary. 423 00:27:29,720 --> 00:27:34,400 But heaven starts talking. I said Heaven starts talking. 424 00:27:36,720 --> 00:27:41,160 See, I believe most Christians would love for the pastor to 425 00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:48,280 organize the evangelism 'cause then you're only going to be 426 00:27:48,280 --> 00:27:50,320 evangelistic when we have the event. 427 00:27:53,120 --> 00:27:55,680 But this is not how true evangelism works, and this is 428 00:27:55,680 --> 00:28:00,200 not how the harvest works. This is not how God wants to 429 00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:03,080 pull people in the Kingdom. Come on. 430 00:28:03,080 --> 00:28:05,280 Because again, being. Weary. 431 00:28:06,400 --> 00:28:11,680 Is your best moment to be able to get into a place of 432 00:28:11,680 --> 00:28:14,920 sustenance that food cannot do for you? 433 00:28:17,800 --> 00:28:25,040 The problem is if you would take serious laboring in the harvest, 434 00:28:26,040 --> 00:28:31,800 you would find yourself coming out of weariness because many of 435 00:28:31,800 --> 00:28:35,240 us, especially in the realms of Christians, they are going to 436 00:28:35,240 --> 00:28:38,600 vacations. They are taking days off, 437 00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:42,560 they're laying out at the beach, they're going on their boats. 438 00:28:42,680 --> 00:28:46,760 They're disconnecting because I'm tired where I need to. 439 00:28:48,360 --> 00:28:53,240 Yet Jesus will give us insight that you can tap into a place 440 00:28:56,720 --> 00:29:00,120 that those places really won't satisfy you anyway. 441 00:29:00,800 --> 00:29:03,080 I mean, how many people have to have a vacation from your 442 00:29:03,080 --> 00:29:06,040 vacation, especially if you have kids? 443 00:29:06,040 --> 00:29:11,680 We're taking our kids to Disney. Ha, that's fun. 444 00:29:12,200 --> 00:29:14,440 The stand in long lines. Your child's going to want to 445 00:29:14,440 --> 00:29:15,600 cry. You know, you're going to tell 446 00:29:15,600 --> 00:29:17,880 them and you're going to tell the whole you know, Disney 447 00:29:18,040 --> 00:29:20,720 crowd, you know, oh, they're just tired when they're acting 448 00:29:20,720 --> 00:29:23,880 like a crazy one, you know, and screaming and throwing a fit and 449 00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:25,880 pitch off, they're just tired. They're just tired. 450 00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:27,200 Well, then why'd you take them there? 451 00:29:30,920 --> 00:29:33,440 Same in anyway right? I mean we. 452 00:29:33,440 --> 00:29:35,880 Put ourselves in all kinds of things, fun for them. 453 00:29:35,880 --> 00:29:37,000 And that's not even fun for them. 454 00:29:38,680 --> 00:29:40,560 And then you get back here like, wow, that was the most 455 00:29:40,560 --> 00:29:44,960 exhausting vacation we ever had. Amen. 456 00:29:46,120 --> 00:29:47,800 Yeah. You just want to go back to 457 00:29:47,800 --> 00:29:51,360 work. This is why they This is why 458 00:29:51,360 --> 00:29:54,440 during Christmas, they had that one little Christmas song, you 459 00:29:54,440 --> 00:29:58,080 know, where it's like, and. And Mom and Dad are ready for 460 00:29:58,080 --> 00:30:02,000 the kids to go back to school, right? 461 00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:04,840 I mean, we've developed such a society that we're glad when 462 00:30:04,840 --> 00:30:07,600 they're away from us. OK. 463 00:30:07,960 --> 00:30:10,120 Yet these are the times we're supposed to be refreshed. 464 00:30:10,120 --> 00:30:12,480 Well, there's only one place that you can get refreshed. 465 00:30:14,360 --> 00:30:15,720 Truly refreshed. Amen. 466 00:30:15,720 --> 00:30:17,440 I'm not against vacations. Do them. 467 00:30:17,440 --> 00:30:19,760 But as long as you don't vacation from God. 468 00:30:21,320 --> 00:30:24,840 I do more with God on vacation than I do when I'm even here. 469 00:30:25,640 --> 00:30:27,760 Because then I don't have other people pulling on me. 470 00:30:28,040 --> 00:30:33,000 Are you hearing me? So again, he's tired, wearied, 471 00:30:33,680 --> 00:30:37,120 but there here comes a woman and heaven starts talking to him and 472 00:30:37,120 --> 00:30:39,880 he says, would you give me something to drink? 473 00:30:40,640 --> 00:30:44,440 Now this is controversial right out to gay people as you know, 474 00:30:44,440 --> 00:30:46,720 this context of scripture. She's like, wait a minute, 475 00:30:46,920 --> 00:30:49,840 you're a Jew, I'm a Samaritan, You don't even talk to me. 476 00:30:50,720 --> 00:30:54,160 You guys are prejudice, right? You're racist. 477 00:30:56,240 --> 00:30:59,120 Y'all don't talk to me. I mean, here you are going to 478 00:30:59,160 --> 00:31:01,480 carry on. Not only am I Samaritan, I'm a 479 00:31:01,480 --> 00:31:05,320 woman on top of that. Are you hearing me? 480 00:31:05,440 --> 00:31:07,680 Because when the stoppers came back, they're like, he's talking 481 00:31:07,680 --> 00:31:15,640 to a woman, right? So he goes on and and begins to 482 00:31:15,640 --> 00:31:17,360 unveil things. What happens? 483 00:31:17,360 --> 00:31:19,000 Ultimately, Heaven's talking to him. 484 00:31:19,240 --> 00:31:23,640 And in order for her to get over to a place, he has to start 485 00:31:23,640 --> 00:31:27,520 functioning in the gifts. He said, well, go ahead and 486 00:31:27,520 --> 00:31:30,920 bring your husband back. And she's all I don't have a 487 00:31:30,920 --> 00:31:32,400 husband. He says you say correctly, you 488 00:31:32,400 --> 00:31:34,480 don't have have a husband, but you've actually had five. 489 00:31:35,320 --> 00:31:37,960 But the one you would now is definitely not your husband. 490 00:31:38,480 --> 00:31:41,400 And what does she do? I perceive you are a prophet. 491 00:31:45,680 --> 00:31:48,880 Now, let me tell you, this is going to happen guys, the minute 492 00:31:48,880 --> 00:31:50,920 you start talking Kingdom, right? 493 00:31:51,160 --> 00:31:53,600 And what I'm saying is when you let Kingdom influence start 494 00:31:53,600 --> 00:31:57,120 happening in your life. The minute. 495 00:31:57,120 --> 00:31:59,560 They are like, first of all, just debating with you about 496 00:31:59,560 --> 00:32:01,680 just general things. Wow, I can't even believe that 497 00:32:01,680 --> 00:32:03,320 you're asking me for water, you know? 498 00:32:03,320 --> 00:32:05,480 And he's like, man, if you knew who I was and the ghetto was, 499 00:32:05,720 --> 00:32:08,360 you'd be asking me for waters. Like, bro, you don't even have a 500 00:32:08,360 --> 00:32:10,080 bucket. I don't even know what you 501 00:32:10,080 --> 00:32:11,840 talking about right now. Right? 502 00:32:12,160 --> 00:32:14,160 And he said, man, my junk don't never run out. 503 00:32:14,160 --> 00:32:16,200 Well, won't you give me this? So I never had to come to this 504 00:32:16,200 --> 00:32:17,920 well anymore. And it's like a spigot in my 505 00:32:17,920 --> 00:32:19,160 house. You know, we have running water 506 00:32:19,160 --> 00:32:22,040 today. I just turn it on, turn it off, 507 00:32:22,040 --> 00:32:24,560 turn it on, turn it off, right. Anyway, with that being said, 508 00:32:24,560 --> 00:32:26,080 you know, but we're talking about spiritual things. 509 00:32:26,080 --> 00:32:29,120 She didn't understand that. So in order for him, him to kick 510 00:32:29,120 --> 00:32:33,200 her over into spiritual, he had to get personal. 511 00:32:35,000 --> 00:32:40,280 And sometimes in the harvest you got to get personal at the 512 00:32:40,280 --> 00:32:42,840 expense of getting them being offended. 513 00:32:45,440 --> 00:32:47,880 Are you hearing me? She she could have already, 514 00:32:47,880 --> 00:32:51,800 because she understands there's a race issue, there's 515 00:32:51,800 --> 00:32:56,840 discrimination happening between our people and now you, oh, you 516 00:32:56,840 --> 00:32:58,680 going to talk to me about my husband's? 517 00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:01,360 You think I'm trash? You think I'm all this? 518 00:33:01,600 --> 00:33:04,720 I mean, she could have responded that way, right? 519 00:33:04,720 --> 00:33:06,720 Come on now. Oh, you going to talk to me 520 00:33:06,720 --> 00:33:10,320 about my relationships? But what does she do? 521 00:33:10,320 --> 00:33:13,240 She's like, well, I perceive you're a prophet because 522 00:33:13,240 --> 00:33:17,080 obviously there's no way you'd have known that unless you've 523 00:33:17,520 --> 00:33:19,200 are tapping into the throne room. 524 00:33:20,480 --> 00:33:26,640 So at that point, as he unloads who she is, she doesn't believe. 525 00:33:28,760 --> 00:33:31,960 She begins to jump over into spiritual questions. 526 00:33:32,280 --> 00:33:34,280 And you ever got around somebody, when you start getting 527 00:33:34,280 --> 00:33:37,240 personal and then they start to find out that you actually are 528 00:33:37,240 --> 00:33:40,440 believer, then they obviously want to start talking the Bible 529 00:33:40,440 --> 00:33:44,640 and what they know. And she does that. 530 00:33:44,800 --> 00:33:51,400 Well, you know they say. And he says, look, you got it 531 00:33:51,400 --> 00:33:56,720 all wrong, girl. Salvation comes from us. 532 00:33:57,200 --> 00:34:01,560 But you got to understand there's coming a day when he is 533 00:34:01,560 --> 00:34:04,280 seeking those who will worship him in spirit and in truth. 534 00:34:04,760 --> 00:34:07,520 Are you hearing me? And she says, well, I hear the 535 00:34:07,520 --> 00:34:10,000 messiahs coming. And then he lays it out. 536 00:34:11,120 --> 00:34:13,679 First time he ever announces his kingship. 537 00:34:14,960 --> 00:34:16,600 The first time he ever announces it. 538 00:34:17,520 --> 00:34:21,920 And he tells a woman, he says I am the Messiah. 539 00:34:23,120 --> 00:34:26,280 And man, when she hears those words, notice what he didn't 540 00:34:26,280 --> 00:34:29,239 say. I am the one who's going to die 541 00:34:29,239 --> 00:34:32,480 on the cross and be raised from the dead so that your sins will 542 00:34:32,480 --> 00:34:39,880 be forgiven. What he says is I am the 543 00:34:39,880 --> 00:34:42,159 Messiah. The Messiah is the Hebrew word 544 00:34:42,400 --> 00:34:44,760 that the Greek equivalent is the Christ. 545 00:34:45,159 --> 00:34:47,719 Christ is not last name. Messiah is not last name. 546 00:34:47,719 --> 00:34:51,719 Both of those are titles and they literally mean the King. 547 00:34:51,719 --> 00:34:54,480 And when I say literally, they mean the anointed one in his 548 00:34:54,480 --> 00:34:57,160 anointing. OK, but what is that? 549 00:34:57,320 --> 00:35:01,920 Well, God anointed kings, the Lord said, this is my beloved 550 00:35:01,960 --> 00:35:05,200 Son and who I am well pleased. Jesus said the Spirit of the 551 00:35:05,200 --> 00:35:07,960 Lord is upon me, for he has what anointed me. 552 00:35:07,960 --> 00:35:10,400 So when the Father opened up heaven and the Holy Spirit came 553 00:35:10,400 --> 00:35:13,800 upon Jesus, that was His coordination, that was His 554 00:35:13,800 --> 00:35:16,960 crowning, that was His. Anointing as king of the earth, 555 00:35:17,520 --> 00:35:21,840 and his father says this is my son, I'm the king and this is my 556 00:35:21,840 --> 00:35:25,080 son who's king of the earth. He is king of the earth. 557 00:35:25,200 --> 00:35:28,720 He is anointed to be king of all the earth. 558 00:35:29,600 --> 00:35:32,840 Are you hearing me? And Jesus functioned underneath 559 00:35:32,840 --> 00:35:36,800 that anointing. Are you hearing me? 560 00:35:37,840 --> 00:35:39,680 So that anointing is flowing in him. 561 00:35:39,680 --> 00:35:42,720 Then we get down to verse 30. Look at this, everybody doing 562 00:35:42,720 --> 00:35:46,000 all right. Verse 30 say I'm never too 563 00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:50,120 tired. They went out of the city and 564 00:35:50,120 --> 00:35:53,520 we're coming to him. Now she's gone into the town 565 00:35:54,040 --> 00:35:59,840 telling everybody about this guy and saying the Messiah, the 566 00:35:59,840 --> 00:36:04,080 Christ, the one that's been prophesied is at the well guys. 567 00:36:04,600 --> 00:36:07,600 And they're like, he's at the well, He's at the well. 568 00:36:08,840 --> 00:36:11,840 And they're like, well, let's go see what this woman's talking 569 00:36:11,840 --> 00:36:15,360 about now. They believed her and what I 570 00:36:15,360 --> 00:36:18,000 mean, believed her. They were curious. 571 00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:19,880 They wanted to know because if they didn't believe her at all, 572 00:36:19,880 --> 00:36:21,080 they're like, I'm not going out there. 573 00:36:22,040 --> 00:36:28,960 See, true belief has action. So they believed her that he was 574 00:36:28,960 --> 00:36:31,240 there. So they acted on her words and 575 00:36:31,240 --> 00:36:33,640 showed up. But they did not believe in him 576 00:36:33,840 --> 00:36:37,840 till later. They believed for themselves 577 00:36:37,840 --> 00:36:41,400 later as he stayed with them two days and they said we believe. 578 00:36:41,400 --> 00:36:44,280 Now, not because of what this woman said, but we have. 579 00:36:44,280 --> 00:36:49,280 Heard your words ourself. Wow, are you hearing me? 580 00:36:50,160 --> 00:36:51,920 So now they're starting to come out to him. 581 00:36:51,920 --> 00:36:56,200 Meanwhile the disciples were urging him saying Rabbi eat, but 582 00:36:56,200 --> 00:36:59,240 he said to him, look what he says now this is the guy who was 583 00:36:59,400 --> 00:37:07,240 weary journey all day, had a busy day, Say I had a busy day. 584 00:37:10,040 --> 00:37:12,560 He said I have food to eat that you. 585 00:37:12,560 --> 00:37:18,440 Do not know about so the disciples were saying to one 586 00:37:18,440 --> 00:37:21,000 another, no one brought him anything to eat, did he? 587 00:37:21,320 --> 00:37:25,560 And Jesus said my food, say my food, come on, say my food, come 588 00:37:25,560 --> 00:37:29,280 on, say my food. My food is to do the will of him 589 00:37:29,280 --> 00:37:31,960 who sent me and to accomplish his. 590 00:37:31,960 --> 00:37:37,360 Work. If you want to get out of 591 00:37:37,360 --> 00:37:41,400 weariness, then you're going to have to eat the food of His will 592 00:37:41,400 --> 00:37:45,840 for your life. As long as you keep running 593 00:37:45,840 --> 00:37:49,440 around trying to rest, trying to get your own rest, do your own 594 00:37:49,480 --> 00:37:53,240 thing, you're always going to be too tired. 595 00:37:57,000 --> 00:38:01,960 But Jesus, when he's tired, can tap into the will of His Father 596 00:38:02,160 --> 00:38:06,160 and get strength that food can't even bring Him. 597 00:38:10,280 --> 00:38:15,640 Are you hearing me? He says, he says do not say 598 00:38:15,720 --> 00:38:18,520 there is yet four months and then the harvest come now look 599 00:38:18,520 --> 00:38:22,880 how it kicks over. He is saying, listen, I have 600 00:38:22,880 --> 00:38:26,240 food. My food is due to the will of 601 00:38:26,240 --> 00:38:28,000 him who sent me into Compass purpose. 602 00:38:28,000 --> 00:38:32,560 And then he says quit acting like you got more time. 603 00:38:37,840 --> 00:38:42,200 Quit hate. Quit delaying what you're 604 00:38:42,200 --> 00:38:47,680 hearing from heaven because you're tired, he said. 605 00:38:47,680 --> 00:38:51,160 Do not say that there are yet four months and then comes the 606 00:38:51,160 --> 00:38:52,520 harvest. Behold, I say. 607 00:38:52,520 --> 00:38:55,880 To you lift up your eyes and look on the field, for they are 608 00:38:55,880 --> 00:39:00,560 white for harvest already He who reaps is receiving wages and is 609 00:39:00,560 --> 00:39:04,000 gathering fruit for eternal life, so that he who sows and he 610 00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:05,480 who. Reaps may rejoice. 611 00:39:05,480 --> 00:39:10,000 What together, in essence, he's saying, listen, get out there 612 00:39:10,120 --> 00:39:13,240 because some places you're going to sow and someone's going to 613 00:39:13,240 --> 00:39:16,120 come in behind and reap. You do your part. 614 00:39:16,120 --> 00:39:18,560 They do their part and we going to get this thing done. 615 00:39:18,760 --> 00:39:23,080 But don't be sitting around saying I'm too tired. 616 00:39:24,680 --> 00:39:27,120 I mean, Christians are too tired to come to church. 617 00:39:30,000 --> 00:39:34,760 They spend so much time doing their work and kids and get in 618 00:39:34,760 --> 00:39:38,280 the head or whatever the case may be, and then God gets 619 00:39:38,280 --> 00:39:42,000 leftovers. Yet God's will for your life is 620 00:39:42,000 --> 00:39:45,320 to be in church so that you can release your gift. 621 00:39:46,320 --> 00:39:50,320 Now you'd be less weary if you showed up more, because it is 622 00:39:50,320 --> 00:39:52,480 the will of your father to assemble. 623 00:39:52,600 --> 00:39:56,440 It's the will of your father to be jointed and fitted with other 624 00:39:56,440 --> 00:39:58,760 believer. It is the will of your father to 625 00:39:58,760 --> 00:40:01,760 come and release your gift in the local body. 626 00:40:01,880 --> 00:40:04,440 And then it will equip you so that when you're out in the 627 00:40:04,440 --> 00:40:10,200 highway and the byways, you can hear from heaven accurately and 628 00:40:10,200 --> 00:40:14,560 you can pick ripe fruit instead of picking fruit that no, that 629 00:40:14,600 --> 00:40:16,440 ultimately is going to be bitter. 630 00:40:20,840 --> 00:40:23,360 Don't wait for an evangelistic moment. 631 00:40:24,760 --> 00:40:29,960 Be sensitive every day. But in order for you to maintain 632 00:40:30,080 --> 00:40:35,600 your sustenance or your drive, you've got to be eating the food 633 00:40:35,800 --> 00:40:38,800 that will suffice your weariness. 634 00:40:40,040 --> 00:40:41,640 And it is the only thing that will. 635 00:40:42,680 --> 00:40:48,160 My food is to do the will. Of him who sent me and to 636 00:40:48,160 --> 00:40:51,680 accomplish. Do you understand it wasn't just 637 00:40:51,760 --> 00:40:55,520 the Father's assignment for Jesus to preach. 638 00:40:56,840 --> 00:41:00,760 That was one of them. It wasn't just Jesus assignment 639 00:41:00,920 --> 00:41:03,840 to flow in the gifts of the Spirit, although it was one of 640 00:41:03,840 --> 00:41:05,200 them. It wasn't just Jesus's 641 00:41:05,200 --> 00:41:07,760 assignment to raise the dead, heal the sick, cast out devils, 642 00:41:07,920 --> 00:41:12,200 although he did all those. Those were parts of his 643 00:41:12,200 --> 00:41:15,960 assignment. Ultimately his assignment is to 644 00:41:15,960 --> 00:41:22,760 die on the cross for us, stand in the gap that that grain, that 645 00:41:22,760 --> 00:41:26,120 seed, that king kind would go into the earth so it could 646 00:41:26,120 --> 00:41:29,800 produce after its own kind. That we would be raised up to 647 00:41:29,800 --> 00:41:33,400 newness of life and we would be raised up to reign and to rule 648 00:41:33,400 --> 00:41:36,760 again and get back into the dominion that the first Adam 649 00:41:36,760 --> 00:41:39,400 lost. Jesus Christ made the way so 650 00:41:39,400 --> 00:41:44,240 that we could rule and reign in this life and the one to come. 651 00:41:46,920 --> 00:41:50,880 Amen. And so we are ever present to be 652 00:41:50,880 --> 00:41:54,640 hearing the Spirit of God, to do the will of the Father, because 653 00:41:54,640 --> 00:41:58,360 one of the things that we are tasked to do is to reconcile men 654 00:41:58,360 --> 00:42:02,480 to God. And there is this like almost 655 00:42:02,480 --> 00:42:07,040 insatiable appetite, and that is ever learning but never coming 656 00:42:07,040 --> 00:42:10,360 to the knowledge of truth, of people that want tidbits but 657 00:42:10,360 --> 00:42:16,400 don't live what they hear, they don't want to event. 658 00:42:16,400 --> 00:42:20,720 Or if they are evangelizing, they are evangelizing in fear 659 00:42:20,720 --> 00:42:26,920 and not in love, 'cause it is the kindness of God that draws 660 00:42:26,920 --> 00:42:30,960 men to repentance, not scaring the hell out of them. 661 00:42:33,440 --> 00:42:37,040 Are you hearing me? Now with that being said, he 662 00:42:37,040 --> 00:42:40,560 goes on and says in verse 37. For in this case the saying is 663 00:42:40,560 --> 00:42:42,200 true. One sows, another reaps. 664 00:42:42,360 --> 00:42:47,280 I send you to reap that for which you have not labored. 665 00:42:47,320 --> 00:42:50,160 Others have labored and you have entered into their labor. 666 00:42:50,160 --> 00:42:54,360 Do you understand there is a season that is upon us that is 667 00:42:54,360 --> 00:43:00,240 allowing us to reap quicker because of all who have gone 668 00:43:00,240 --> 00:43:06,320 before as laborers? But if we are so consumed with 669 00:43:06,480 --> 00:43:15,000 our life, then we are going to find ourselves too weary to eat 670 00:43:15,000 --> 00:43:21,240 the food we're supposed to eat and opportunities are going to 671 00:43:21,240 --> 00:43:23,720 pass by. Not because heaven's not 672 00:43:23,720 --> 00:43:29,280 talking, it's because you're acknowledging your tiredness. 673 00:43:34,120 --> 00:43:37,040 Are you hearing me? Now, again, I know that many of 674 00:43:37,040 --> 00:43:42,600 you are doing just this. You're taking time at your work. 675 00:43:42,600 --> 00:43:44,280 You're taking time at different places. 676 00:43:44,280 --> 00:43:46,280 You're sharing. You're communicating. 677 00:43:46,480 --> 00:43:48,200 Divine connections are happening. 678 00:43:48,320 --> 00:43:50,000 I just want you to be of good cheer. 679 00:43:50,040 --> 00:43:52,560 You have great reward. Because of that. 680 00:43:52,800 --> 00:43:55,840 And maybe, maybe you don't see them coming to the Kingdom that 681 00:43:55,840 --> 00:43:57,560 day. But make no mistake about it, 682 00:43:57,720 --> 00:44:00,960 God, although the laborers are few, He works. 683 00:44:00,960 --> 00:44:07,240 The laborers work. I mean, you can't be a laborer 684 00:44:07,640 --> 00:44:11,040 and not work, but I'm not working. 685 00:44:11,040 --> 00:44:14,000 I'm a believer. OK, well then you're not a 686 00:44:14,000 --> 00:44:16,760 believer because you're not working. 687 00:44:18,080 --> 00:44:23,360 You're afraid of a four letter word work because you've been 688 00:44:23,360 --> 00:44:27,400 taught wrong about works. Amen. 689 00:44:29,160 --> 00:44:33,960 So John 17 four says this. Jesus said I glorify you on the 690 00:44:34,000 --> 00:44:37,560 earth talking about his Father having accomplished the work 691 00:44:37,720 --> 00:44:44,080 which you have given me to do. You know, when I look at Pastor 692 00:44:44,080 --> 00:44:51,000 Hagan, who's 85 now, 85 and just went to Brazil, he went to 693 00:44:52,400 --> 00:44:58,160 Guatemala, he went to Colombia, just went there, 85. 694 00:44:59,400 --> 00:45:05,440 He's not an assisted living. I'm going to say that he's not 695 00:45:05,440 --> 00:45:10,920 in assisted living. Are you hearing me? 696 00:45:11,280 --> 00:45:18,840 He is out doing the will of his father and it is sustaining him 697 00:45:19,160 --> 00:45:22,680 to do what most people have already checked out. 698 00:45:23,400 --> 00:45:25,440 Why? Because they only built their 699 00:45:25,440 --> 00:45:28,080 Kingdom. They lived their life to serve 700 00:45:28,080 --> 00:45:31,760 their purpose, to have their retirement, to do their stuff. 701 00:45:34,040 --> 00:45:36,920 And yet Pastor Hagan, 85, still driving on. 702 00:45:37,320 --> 00:45:40,000 I mean, he's kind of like Caleb. I'm well able to conquer this 703 00:45:40,000 --> 00:45:42,080 mountain. Let's do another international 704 00:45:42,080 --> 00:45:45,040 trip. Hallelujah, Amen. 705 00:45:45,040 --> 00:45:48,080 That should inspire you, that should give you passion. 706 00:45:48,200 --> 00:45:50,760 You understand? Don't look at the ones who are 707 00:45:50,760 --> 00:45:53,640 tired and quitting. Look at the ones that are saying 708 00:45:53,640 --> 00:45:57,720 my food is to do the will of my father who sent me. 709 00:45:57,880 --> 00:46:02,000 I will not leave this earth with carrying something. 710 00:46:02,120 --> 00:46:04,640 I'm going to do everything he's asked me to do. 711 00:46:08,640 --> 00:46:13,280 Let's finish the course because there's too many people out 712 00:46:13,280 --> 00:46:21,760 there that need what you carry. They need it. 713 00:46:22,680 --> 00:46:26,800 So don't ever let yourself say I'm too tired when heaven's 714 00:46:26,800 --> 00:46:31,760 talking, are you hearing me? Second Timothy chapter 2 verse 715 00:46:31,760 --> 00:46:35,200 six says this. The hard working farmer ought to 716 00:46:35,200 --> 00:46:39,120 be the what first to receive his. 717 00:46:39,120 --> 00:46:43,000 Share of the crops. You know what's crazy in 718 00:46:43,000 --> 00:46:45,120 churches today If you don't watch out. 719 00:46:45,360 --> 00:46:47,840 They are just trying to eliminate older generation 720 00:46:47,840 --> 00:46:50,600 anyway. Which is not the Church of Jesus 721 00:46:50,600 --> 00:46:52,280 Christ. Cause the Church of Jesus Christ 722 00:46:52,280 --> 00:46:58,040 is multi cultural or multi ethnic or of every nation, you 723 00:46:58,040 --> 00:46:59,720 know. No, we shouldn't look the same. 724 00:47:01,000 --> 00:47:02,720 Everybody shouldn't be looking the same. 725 00:47:03,600 --> 00:47:07,320 There is nowhere in scripture where you will find that there's 726 00:47:07,360 --> 00:47:09,600 a black church or a white church. 727 00:47:09,960 --> 00:47:13,680 Or a Hispanic church. That doesn't exist in the 728 00:47:13,680 --> 00:47:17,160 Kingdom is every tongue and tribe. 729 00:47:17,640 --> 00:47:20,640 That's what it looks like. But you know what else? 730 00:47:23,480 --> 00:47:30,040 It's multi generational. It's multi generational and in 731 00:47:30,040 --> 00:47:35,000 it's in it's maturing. The younger are seeking the 732 00:47:35,000 --> 00:47:38,560 wisdom of the older and the older are empowering the younger 733 00:47:38,560 --> 00:47:41,440 because of their energy. But you know, when most churches 734 00:47:41,440 --> 00:47:43,520 like, oh, they're old, we don't even walk them around. 735 00:47:43,520 --> 00:47:46,160 I mean, there's been a whole church movement where they get 736 00:47:46,160 --> 00:47:50,000 rid of older people on the platform and only want younger 737 00:47:50,000 --> 00:47:53,240 people on it. Why is that? 738 00:47:55,640 --> 00:47:59,040 Why have we become so segregated in our? 739 00:47:59,040 --> 00:48:05,640 Thinking, well, it's because a lot of the older ones are tired 740 00:48:05,640 --> 00:48:11,160 of working and they've taken their workplace into the church. 741 00:48:11,800 --> 00:48:14,600 Well, you know, I've served with the children's, you know, 15 742 00:48:14,600 --> 00:48:16,280 years. I think I'm going to retire now. 743 00:48:16,400 --> 00:48:17,960 What are you going to do? Well, I'm just going to sit in 744 00:48:17,960 --> 00:48:21,560 service. So God put all that in you to 745 00:48:21,560 --> 00:48:23,840 deploy and now you going to sit around. 746 00:48:27,040 --> 00:48:29,160 You're not going to invest in another generation. 747 00:48:32,920 --> 00:48:39,200 Hallelujah, Amen. I've determined as I get older, 748 00:48:39,200 --> 00:48:42,520 I'm going to get better. I mean, if the Lord tarries 749 00:48:42,520 --> 00:48:44,880 another 30 years, you better watch out and see what I look 750 00:48:44,880 --> 00:48:47,600 like at 84. I'm telling you, I'm going to be 751 00:48:47,600 --> 00:48:49,200 a runner. I'm going to be like rocking 752 00:48:49,200 --> 00:48:51,080 this thing, man. I'm going to keep the suit 753 00:48:51,080 --> 00:48:54,280 strong. Amen. 754 00:48:54,640 --> 00:48:58,480 Now you may be 30 and benching more than me on the waist, but 755 00:48:58,480 --> 00:49:00,760 at the end of the day, you're going to wish you could do what 756 00:49:00,760 --> 00:49:04,480 I do at 84. Are you hearing me? 757 00:49:05,040 --> 00:49:08,320 I'm telling you right now, I am strong in the Lord and the power 758 00:49:08,320 --> 00:49:10,680 of His mind, and I'm not being pushed out. 759 00:49:10,800 --> 00:49:13,760 I got too much to bring. I got too much to carry. 760 00:49:13,840 --> 00:49:17,120 I got too much to do, but I'm not going to do it alone. 761 00:49:19,640 --> 00:49:22,240 We're not here to do it alone. We're here to raise up. 762 00:49:22,560 --> 00:49:25,120 I mean, I don't despise your youthfulness. 763 00:49:25,360 --> 00:49:32,680 Do not despise my Gray hair. I mean, let's accomplish 764 00:49:32,680 --> 00:49:34,920 something. Let's do something together. 765 00:49:35,040 --> 00:49:37,600 Let's go change and evangelize the world. 766 00:49:37,760 --> 00:49:42,200 Let's not get so tired and bring in our corporate America in how 767 00:49:42,200 --> 00:49:44,920 we do church. Let's do church Jesus's way. 768 00:49:46,880 --> 00:49:50,280 Because I can guarantee you this promise here in Galatians 6, and 769 00:49:50,280 --> 00:49:54,360 we'll close with this one in Galatians chapter 6, starting in 770 00:49:54,360 --> 00:49:57,600 verse nine. Do not lose heart in doing good, 771 00:49:59,040 --> 00:50:07,080 for in due time we will reap if we do not grow weary so. 772 00:50:07,080 --> 00:50:12,760 Then while we have opportunity, say I have opportunity, you know 773 00:50:12,760 --> 00:50:15,880 how you know you have opportunity, 'cause you're 774 00:50:15,880 --> 00:50:21,080 breathing. You're breathing right now. 775 00:50:23,400 --> 00:50:29,080 You're breathing right now. So then while we have 776 00:50:29,080 --> 00:50:33,160 opportunity, let us do good to all people and especially to 777 00:50:33,160 --> 00:50:38,360 those and especially say especially to those who are of 778 00:50:38,360 --> 00:50:43,680 the household of the faith. Now this verse is really these 779 00:50:43,680 --> 00:50:46,080 two verses are really important that I want to close on today is 780 00:50:46,080 --> 00:50:50,520 this number one don't lose heart because in when it comes to 781 00:50:50,520 --> 00:50:53,240 ministry, when you're in the season between sowing and 782 00:50:53,240 --> 00:50:56,120 reaping of different things, even in vision, even in the 783 00:50:56,120 --> 00:50:58,840 accomplishment of the Willow golf for your life, you're going 784 00:50:58,840 --> 00:51:01,440 to get in seasons where things are going to come against you 785 00:51:01,440 --> 00:51:02,720 attack. There's going to be certain 786 00:51:02,720 --> 00:51:05,680 things, and those things are there to press you to put. 787 00:51:05,680 --> 00:51:09,520 Pressure on you to try to get you tired, to try to get you to 788 00:51:09,520 --> 00:51:13,560 carry the load yourself, to become absorbed only with 789 00:51:13,560 --> 00:51:18,400 yourself and not others. And it's in those moments that 790 00:51:18,400 --> 00:51:22,160 you have to be the most intentional of staying good. 791 00:51:23,200 --> 00:51:27,680 Not retaliating, not seeking revenge, not trying to make sure 792 00:51:27,680 --> 00:51:29,640 that everybody understands about you. 793 00:51:29,720 --> 00:51:32,560 What you do is know what? I'm just going to seek the will 794 00:51:32,560 --> 00:51:33,840 of my father I'm going to do with. 795 00:51:33,960 --> 00:51:36,480 I'm going to keep doing what I've always been doing because 796 00:51:36,480 --> 00:51:39,360 God has always been faithful. And this too shall pass. 797 00:51:39,440 --> 00:51:42,320 And I'll overcome this too. And I'll get through this trial 798 00:51:42,320 --> 00:51:43,560 as well. And I'll come through this 799 00:51:43,560 --> 00:51:46,000 valley of the shadow of death. I'm going to get to the other 800 00:51:46,000 --> 00:51:47,440 side. We're going to, we get to where 801 00:51:47,440 --> 00:51:49,720 we need to be because there's too many lives at stake. 802 00:51:49,840 --> 00:51:51,800 There's too many people that need to be changed. 803 00:51:51,880 --> 00:51:57,200 There's it's too important that I bring my supply and the 804 00:51:57,200 --> 00:52:01,320 opportunity is here because I'm breathing, which means I will 805 00:52:01,320 --> 00:52:04,560 not let my age dictate my performance. 806 00:52:06,080 --> 00:52:12,960 I'm not going to buy the law. I will be sufficient, efficient 807 00:52:13,040 --> 00:52:16,440 and perform at high capacity all my life. 808 00:52:18,560 --> 00:52:20,600 So I do not let the thoughts creep in. 809 00:52:20,600 --> 00:52:25,040 You're getting older. That's some viewpoint that's 810 00:52:25,040 --> 00:52:30,400 irrelevant because I can thrive as long as I'm on purpose. 811 00:52:31,560 --> 00:52:33,760 Are you hearing me? Because you know, some of you, 812 00:52:33,760 --> 00:52:38,040 you wake up a little slower. Now I'm saying this because 813 00:52:38,040 --> 00:52:42,720 we've been here 20 years and I'm look at y'all, some of y'all 814 00:52:42,720 --> 00:52:46,640 been around for a while, right? And at the end of the day, you 815 00:52:46,640 --> 00:52:48,120 got to go. You got to keep moving, you got 816 00:52:48,120 --> 00:52:49,640 to keep doing something. You got to keep performing. 817 00:52:49,640 --> 00:52:53,760 Because again, when I was 34 and started the church, I was 818 00:52:53,760 --> 00:52:56,840 actually in worse shape than I am now. 819 00:53:03,920 --> 00:53:07,440 But you know, I come to find it every year I hit. 820 00:53:07,600 --> 00:53:13,120 It's really not that old because I lied to myself when I was 821 00:53:13,120 --> 00:53:18,560 young and act like it was old till I got here and then I 822 00:53:18,560 --> 00:53:28,080 realized this ain't old. Are you hearing me now? 823 00:53:28,080 --> 00:53:30,240 Why do I say that? Because then I wouldn't have 824 00:53:30,240 --> 00:53:36,360 been so silly when I was young. Because when I was young, I was 825 00:53:36,360 --> 00:53:39,640 silly. I was young thinking, man, if I 826 00:53:39,640 --> 00:53:41,960 don't get this accomplished right now, because when I get, I 827 00:53:41,960 --> 00:53:44,640 won't do it when I'm older. And they didn't realize I'm 828 00:53:44,640 --> 00:53:48,280 moving into bigger and better things than my prom now. 829 00:53:48,280 --> 00:53:50,480 The only reason why people aren't doing it in their older 830 00:53:50,480 --> 00:53:53,480 age is because they start taking on account of their age. 831 00:53:54,120 --> 00:53:55,640 Well, does God talk to you about age? 832 00:53:57,480 --> 00:53:59,120 God just talks to you about purpose. 833 00:53:59,480 --> 00:54:04,400 Caleb didn't say. I wish somebody would take that 834 00:54:04,400 --> 00:54:06,480 mountain for me because, you know, I should have been in here 835 00:54:06,480 --> 00:54:08,520 when I was 40. When I was 40, bro, I mean, I 836 00:54:08,520 --> 00:54:11,840 was I was like tip top. I was rocking this deal. 837 00:54:11,840 --> 00:54:14,000 But now, you know, I had to hang out in the wilderness for 40 838 00:54:14,000 --> 00:54:16,760 years with all of you people. Now I'm 80 and now we've been 839 00:54:16,760 --> 00:54:19,760 fighting for five years, right, because I had to help train all 840 00:54:19,760 --> 00:54:21,640 you guys. And now here I am 85. 841 00:54:21,640 --> 00:54:25,200 You know, I would love to get a retirement home and I need some 842 00:54:25,200 --> 00:54:28,400 help. But what does he say to Joshua? 843 00:54:29,000 --> 00:54:31,400 Son, I'm taking my mountain. Are you? 844 00:54:31,480 --> 00:54:34,000 I am well able. I'm just as strong today at 85 845 00:54:34,000 --> 00:54:38,560 as I was at 40. Because he never lost sight. 846 00:54:39,000 --> 00:54:42,320 Of the purpose. And one of the. 847 00:54:42,320 --> 00:54:47,040 Things we're losing sight is, is the Ministry of Reconciliation 848 00:54:51,640 --> 00:54:57,040 that there's going to be a lot of times in your day-to-day when 849 00:54:59,600 --> 00:55:06,680 that heaven's going to start talking and it's your woman at 850 00:55:06,680 --> 00:55:09,400 the well. And let me tell you, the woman 851 00:55:09,400 --> 00:55:13,760 at the well was just the tip of the iceberg because the woman 852 00:55:13,760 --> 00:55:18,200 represented the city even though she was not a city official, 853 00:55:18,680 --> 00:55:24,680 even though she was not someone of renown, but she was the 854 00:55:24,800 --> 00:55:30,040 encounter that heaven wanted Jesus to speak to and the day he 855 00:55:30,040 --> 00:55:33,760 was weary. And Vermont, don't grow weary in 856 00:55:33,760 --> 00:55:37,720 your well doing son, because if you'll talk to this woman, what 857 00:55:37,720 --> 00:55:41,720 I'm fixing to tell you that's going on in her life, then we 858 00:55:41,720 --> 00:55:46,640 can win that city. But notice what it cost him a 859 00:55:47,440 --> 00:55:56,920 couple of days. Cause instead of going on, they 860 00:55:56,920 --> 00:56:01,920 said would you stay with us? And he intentionally stayed for 861 00:56:01,920 --> 00:56:07,720 two days to share about the Kingdom and revival broke out in 862 00:56:07,720 --> 00:56:11,040 the city. I don't want to hear another St. 863 00:56:11,040 --> 00:56:14,200 Talk to me about revival if you're not willing to do 864 00:56:14,200 --> 00:56:16,080 something different for two days. 865 00:56:23,000 --> 00:56:26,560 Nobody's serious about harvest because we got to click. 866 00:56:26,880 --> 00:56:28,800 Click our little clock, come in, click it. 867 00:56:28,800 --> 00:56:30,200 You don't do it here. I understand that. 868 00:56:30,200 --> 00:56:32,960 I'm preaching online now you click in, click out. 869 00:56:32,960 --> 00:56:36,120 You want your little time frame. You know you want your fan, you 870 00:56:36,120 --> 00:56:38,640 want yours, want yours. And then heaven starts talking 871 00:56:38,640 --> 00:56:39,880 to you and it makes it uncomfortable. 872 00:56:39,880 --> 00:56:41,680 Now you got to have a detour for a couple days. 873 00:56:43,720 --> 00:56:45,600 Jesus was like, This is why I'm here. 874 00:56:46,120 --> 00:56:50,760 I'm not here to build a house. I'm not here to amass wealth. 875 00:56:52,160 --> 00:56:55,240 I own it all anyway. And if we understand, we're the 876 00:56:55,240 --> 00:56:55,880 children. Of the king. 877 00:56:55,880 --> 00:56:58,200 Guess what? I can have a house, but I'm not 878 00:56:58,200 --> 00:57:00,520 here for that purpose. I can have wealth, but I'm not 879 00:57:00,520 --> 00:57:04,680 here for that purpose. I'm here to significantly change 880 00:57:04,680 --> 00:57:07,480 people's lives. And it's going to be in those 881 00:57:07,480 --> 00:57:13,160 days. And I'm like that, he says. 882 00:57:13,160 --> 00:57:19,400 Don't get weary because harvest is right there, son. 883 00:57:20,880 --> 00:57:25,360 Harvest is there. What's another 20 years at 884 00:57:25,360 --> 00:57:28,840 Anchor Faith Church of the Lord? Terry, Fruitful labor. 885 00:57:31,760 --> 00:57:36,320 Fruitful labor. I said fruitful labor because at 886 00:57:36,320 --> 00:57:40,320 the end of the day, what are we doing anyway if we're not 887 00:57:40,320 --> 00:57:42,880 willing to invite others in to our family? 888 00:57:45,120 --> 00:57:48,080 And I say that because Anchor Faith Church is really good at 889 00:57:48,080 --> 00:57:53,240 establishing Dominion, but we need to become even more 890 00:57:53,240 --> 00:58:01,360 equipped and purposeful about day-to-day evangelism, sensitive 891 00:58:01,360 --> 00:58:07,080 for opportunities because what you know and what you experience 892 00:58:07,320 --> 00:58:13,120 and what you can distribute deploy the demonstrations. 893 00:58:14,000 --> 00:58:19,040 How in the world would we not be more full than even this? 894 00:58:27,440 --> 00:58:32,480 So I'm glad you're taking all your kids to the parks and 895 00:58:32,480 --> 00:58:35,480 playing all the sports 'cause there's a world of people out 896 00:58:35,480 --> 00:58:38,240 there that need what you need. You got to get. 897 00:58:38,240 --> 00:58:41,480 Bold listen from heaven. That person's in a wheelchair. 898 00:58:41,600 --> 00:58:44,920 Lord, do I need to go over there and raise them up now he may say 899 00:58:44,920 --> 00:58:51,040 no, but at least ask and if he says yes, then do it without 900 00:58:51,040 --> 00:58:53,320 doubting. But make sure you're here. 901 00:58:53,440 --> 00:58:55,280 Don't go over there and try to snatch somebody out and look 902 00:58:55,280 --> 00:58:56,000 like an. Idiot. 903 00:58:56,760 --> 00:59:00,360 Because you want it to be. And it's not what he said. 904 00:59:01,480 --> 00:59:04,280 Because he's the Lord of the harvest. 905 00:59:05,520 --> 00:59:08,160 It may be that you just need to say, so what's going on? 906 00:59:08,960 --> 00:59:10,960 How are you doing? What took place? 907 00:59:11,080 --> 00:59:12,560 How come you're in that chair anyway? 908 00:59:12,840 --> 00:59:15,920 And it just may be you need to hear some things before the time 909 00:59:15,920 --> 00:59:17,760 comes. That ultimately you're like. 910 00:59:18,080 --> 00:59:27,840 Can I pray with you? Thank you so much for listening 911 00:59:27,840 --> 00:59:30,280 to this message. If you want more, subscribe to 912 00:59:30,280 --> 00:59:33,680 our message podcast on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, and 913 00:59:33,680 --> 00:59:35,680 SoundCloud. Rating and leaving a comment 914 00:59:35,680 --> 00:59:37,840 will go a long way with helping our messages get better 915 00:59:37,840 --> 00:59:40,120 circulation. If you'd enjoy watching our 916 00:59:40,120 --> 00:59:43,400 weekend messages, visit youtube.com/anchorfaith. 917 00:59:44,240 --> 00:59:46,680 We'd love it if you'd subscribe, leave a comment or a like on the 918 00:59:46,680 --> 00:59:48,600 messages. 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