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Now enjoy this message. Well, the Lord is good.
Amen. Say it's.
Say I'm never too tired. Come on, say I'm never too
tired. Say I'm never too tired.
Turn over to Mark chapter 16. Mark chapter 16, y'all, y'all,
are you having an expectation for the word today?
Amen. You know preaching is going to
happen. How it impacts you is determined
on your expectation, Amen. And so I encourage you when we
come through verses you've heard before say, ah, something must
be spoken today that I haven't heard yet, Amen.
In fact, the one of the number one reasons why I love to
minister is to discover what I have not yet studied because I
have come to find out in the corporate anointing, OK, that
there are things that you have going on in your life that I'm
unaware of. But when I begin to minister,
God begins to release it for you.
And in the process, I learn and I love.
That. I love to be able to pull things
up because of your hunger, your desire to know the word that all
that I did not know. Now once I say it, man, I
typically get it. I'm like, now I've learned that
man, and I'll be able to say that again, communicate that
again. God will pull that up to my
remembrance again. But initially in the study, it
wasn't there. It wasn't there.
Amen. And God's not obligated to tell
me everything that you need to hear before you get here.
In fact, today at 9:50, I didn't have a scripture down.
In fact, when I did a leadership lesson with the worship team
today, I said, let me show you my sermon.
I showed him a blank piece of paper.
Now why do I say that many times I have scripture long.
In advance, but at the end of the day this.
Is not my church, this is the one Jesus is building and I have
to yield him. And this morning when I had time
to continue to study, I had this impression I should just go and
pray in the Spirit first. Most of the time God will give
me a word, then I pray in the spirit after.
But today it seemed right with me and the Holy Ghost that I
abandoned comfort and just go pray.
So I took off, went down the road, watched the sunrise this
morning, Amen. And as a result of that, I just
trusted God. And then come here, you know,
and here we are going into it and I'm like, man, Lord.
Well, whatever, Amen. You understand it's easy to be
in peace when you know that He's the one that's responsible
because you just cast your care on the Lord.
Amen. People have a hard enough time,
even when they have points to get up in front of people,
right? But at the end of the day, the
Lord has given me something to say to you today, and I do
believe it is for a time such as this, Amen.
In Mark chapter 16 verse 15 to 20 it says this.
And he said to them, Go into all the world and preach the gospel
to every creature. He who believes and is baptized
will be saved, but he who does not believe will be condemned.
And these signs will follow those who believe in my name.
They will cast out demons, they will speak with new tongues,
they will take up serpents, and if they drink anything deadly,
it will by no means hurt them. They will lay hands on the sick,
and they will recover. So then after the Lord had
spoken to them, he was received up into heaven and set down at
the right hand of God, and they went out and preached
everywhere, and the Lord working what?
What? Working what with them and
confirming the word through the accompany signs.
What signs are we talking about that they would cast out devils?
They would speak with new tongues.
If they took up any deadly serpents, or drink any deadly
thing, it would by by no means hurt them.
They would lay hands on the sick and they would recover.
Amen. These signs were accompanying
them. Now the question though that we
need to ask because it is an assumed thought process and we
have learned here at Anchor Fay Church that is an assumption.
But before I get to that thing, I want to go back to verse 18
and or actually verse 17 it says, and these signs will
follow those who believe. Let me ask this question.
Are you a believer? Then if you are a believer,
these signs should follow you, which tells me these signs did
not disappear after the original apostles, so that that teaching
is an error. When people want to act like
that, the moves of the Spirit, the gifts of the Spirit are not
for the church today. They were only four of the 11
plus Matthias that came in as the 12th one.
However, Paul was not one of the original 12 anyway and he spoke
in tongues more than them all. But then there were tons of
prophets that were actually mentioned in the book of Acts
that were not part of the original 12 that had the ability
to flow in the gifts of the Spirit to the point that even
Agabus tied up and prophesied about a word of wisdom of what
would take place to Paul when he got to Jerusalem.
Not to mention that Paul's letter to the Corinthian church
was on the subject of the gifts of the Spirit of which all the
Saints were functioning in it in such a way that Paul had to
bring it back in order. Are you hearing me?
So are you a believer then? These things are for today,
because the church is still alive today.
I said the church is still alive today.
The church is still alive today. Now why do I stress this?
Because we take verse 15 to preach the gospel as if it's
only a word and not a demonstration.
Because if you accept or if you do not expect the signs to
accompany, then you aren't looking for them to accompany.
All you are doing is releasing a.
Word. God never intended us to go
preach the gospel without a demonstration, at least having
access. Now, what I'm not saying is that
every time you preach the gospel that you have to have a
demonstration. I'm not saying that because
Jesus himself. Preached some things without
demonstrations. Now why did he do that?
Because they wanted just the demonstrations.
So there are people that God knows that he is not there to
give them a demonstration. He's there to give them the word
because they need the word to change their life.
They're looking for the wrong thing.
But for some, they need the accompanying demonstration that
helps them believe so that they can come into the Kingdom.
And God has equipped us to do. This can I get a better Amen
than that? He has equipped us to do this.
We need to have a daily expectation of the supernatural.
Daily, I said. A daily expectation of the
supernatural that there's not a place in life or that we could
encounter in any 24 hour period, that God could not allow an
accompanied sign. In fact, if God is working with
you, then you could have an expectation of an accompany
sign. Because here's the thing, God is
not sending you out without Him. So if you're going out without
Him, then you might want to get out of His.
Field and we'll get to that here in a minute, but verse 15, the
problem is it says go into all the world and preach thee, not a
gospel, but the gospel, the gospel.
Say the gospel. Say the gospel.
The gospel. Not a gospel, not a part of the
gospel, but the gospel. And again we read this and again
you would think that. People would know what the
gospel is. But most people only know part
of it. They only know a door.
They only know an entrance. They don't know the Gospel.
Jesus preached the Gospel and it tells us look at this in Matthew
Chapter 9 and see if Jesus is not doing what Mark 16 tells us
to do. Look at this.
In Matthew Chapter 9, starting in verse 35, it says this.
Then Jesus went about all the cities and villages teaching in
their synagogue, preaching the what?
But what is the gospel of the? Kingdom not just good news.
He actually didn't preach. Believe I'm going to die and
raise for the dead for your sin. Jesus never preached that.
Jesus preached the gospel of the Kingdom.
Now let me just stop right here because you know, I already hear
the religious breaks. Hitting.
Him. Hitting.
Did Jesus die on the cross to make payment for our sin?
Absolutely. He is the only way into the
Kingdom. But Jesus preached the Kingdom,
not just his assignment. And this is very important
because most of the time we're only preaching Jesus's
assignment and people are are looking at an assignment and not
looking at what he brought because he completed the
assignment. So he goes on and says this
teaching in their synagogue, preaching the gospel of the
Kingdom. And because he was preaching the
gospel of the Kingdom, what took place and healing every sickness
and every disease among the people, right?
Jesus said, if I cast out a devil with the finger of God,
then you know the Kingdom is here.
Are you hearing me? Jesus was casting out devils,
healing the sick, raising the dead.
Why? Because he preached the gospel
of the Kingdom, he said the Kingdom of heaven is like this
and the Kingdom of God is like that.
He was always saying to the people, let me talk to you about
God's domain or the King's domain, the King's dominion.
Let me talk to you about what you're waiting for.
Let me tell you about this Messiah that you're looking for.
Let me tell you about this Kingdom that you want to get in.
Let me talk to you about the Kingdom that is ever present in
your midst and what you need to do to become a.
Part of it. Are you hearing me?
See at Anchor Fay Church, if you don't watch out, you can get
numb to Kingdom 'cause once again it becomes a word that has
been preached here so often that the minute it starts we
disconnect. However, it is the only thing
that remains. That's like me getting rid of
the name of Jesus. I remember one time someone came
to me and said you don't talk about Jesus much.
I said I talk about Jesus all the time.
He is the king of the Kingdom. Jesus is the King.
Now why is that? Because everyone loves Savior
Jesus, but Lord Jesus is a whole nother ball game.
Because Savior is what Jesus did.
Lord is who He is in the beginning.
We know the Kingdom is about dominion because the Bible's
only about a king, His Kingdom and His royal offspring.
Listen to me. The day is here and upon us that
we cannot get tired. And not everyone knows the
gospel like you know the gospel. And it's very important for you
to be able to recite it and know it and articulate it in a in a
way that when you're around people, you can begin to divulge
the Kingdom because it's the Kingdom that transforms and
changes people's lives. And it's the Kingdom that the
Jesus is bringing back in the first place.
Are you hearing me? So Jesus says verse 36.
But when he saw the multitude, he was moved with compassion for
them, because they were weary and scattered like sheep without
a shepherd. And he says to his disciples,
The harvest is what? Plentiful, but the laborers are.
What are they? Therefore pray the Lord of the
harvest to send out laborers into his harvest.
So the laborers are the laborers are the laborers are few.
Now, one reason why the laborers are few is not because there's
not a number of them. We've preached this in the past,
but again, just so you can know, as a review, and for those
who've never been here, obviously we have farmland in
our county. And, you know, at one time, I
don't know that is today, but Hastings was the potato capital
of the world, right? And potatoes are like under the
ground, right, Mr. Berry? I mean, they're like a root
right now. I don't see the potato when it's
in the ground. How in the world does a farmer
know without seeing it that it's ready to pick?
That we're not going to get a little scrawny?
1 Are you hearing what I'm saying?
How is it that they know when the cabbage head next week is
ready, but not this week? That if we do it this week, it's
too early. How do they know collard greens
are ready when they're ready? Because to an untrained eyes, we
just get out and say, ah, looks good and we can pick the fruit
before it's actually ripe. And if you pick fruit before
it's ripe, if anyone eats it, it is bitter or it doesn't taste as
it was supposed to. And I'm concerned that there are
a lot of people that are out preaching a gospel and are
pulling things off the Lord's harvest before they're ready to
be picked. In fact, we are rushing them
into the sides of the convenience stores or their cars
or whatever. And we say these things like,
where are you going to go with you?
How do you know if you were to die today, where would you go?
And you, you, how do you know that you don't get hit by a car?
And we're like scaring them to make a confession.
And we're like proud of ourselves.
Now, the Bible's very clear. It is highly possible, in fact
it is doable, to confess with your lips and your heart.
Be far from it. For Jesus himself said about the
Pharisees. They confessed me with their
lips, but their heart, which means their confession isn't
actually. Pulling in the results.
And you can labor over someone that you think needs to be
harvested because you've discovered that they would go to
hell if they die today. And you pound so much that they
say, I'll pray with you. And they're really just
confessing. So you will leave them alone.
Then you give them this false sense of.
Security. And now when you die, you're
going to go to heaven. And yet they're not actually in
the Kingdom at all. In fact, Jesus warned the
disciples concerning the Pharisees.
He says, man, they make a proselyte twice the Son of hell.
Are you hearing what I'm saying? Hallelujah.
So. It's his field.
In Mark 16 it says the Lord's laboring with us.
So again, it's not my responsibility to go tell
everyone about Jesus. It's my responsibility to tell
who God tells me to tell people about.
Jesus and to determine how far I communicate because as Paul
clearly said, Apollos planted. I watered but God calls the
increase so your emotional experience and seemingly
concerned that if they died today they would go to hell.
Well, do you think the Lord knows whether they going to die
today? I mean, we put pressure on
people that even God doesn't put pressure, pressure on.
I mean seriously, how many times has the Lord kept you?
That you could look back in your life as sin and you're like,
man, but God, I should be dead. But God, he was.
He was merciful. I mean, he wasn't like, bro, you
better accept me now. No, He's the Lord of the.
He's like, man, if I didn't step in here, they'd be dead today.
But instead I did, 'cause I'm merciful and I got a laborer
coming. I got one that's actually going
to be able to speak to their heart.
Chip away at this hardest stone. Water a little bit.
Plan a little bit. Because I know it's going to be
on this day, we don't have to pressure.
We just have to represent the Kingdom.
And here's the thing, when you understand the Gospels about the
Kingdom, then there's no more pressure.
And you're harvesting no more, because the gospel's not about
where you're going to go when you die, 'cause every religion
is asking that question. And that's not the gospel.
Jesus preached. Jesus was not preaching.
Where are you going to go when you die?
Jesus was. Let the Kingdom come to you now.
Jesus was not preaching. I need you to come to heaven,
Jesus was saying. Now when you pray, pray this
way, Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be your name,
your Kingdom, your will be on. As it is.
He's prayed in John chapter 17. Father, I'm not even asking you
to take them out of the world. So let me tell you, King Jesus,
who's seated on the throne right now, is not in a rush to get you
to Him. What He wants is you to fulfill
God's plan for your life while you're here, and He doesn't want
you there any sooner. Because at the end of the day,
he's already giving you enough to thrive.
Because salvation is not about heaven.
Salvation is about becoming a child of God and having God.
If we look at the scripture, you guys know that God always came
down. He always came down, which
brings us to this thought that we've said here for years in
Genesis 126. Then God said, let us make man
in our image according to our likeness and let him have what?
Dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky,
over all the cattle, over every creepy thing that creeps on the
earth, over all the earth. He made both male and female,
they both would have dominion. They're on a planet with no sin.
It's perfect. And God says this, Son, I want
to know that you love me. So in order for me to know you
love me, you are going to stay in obedience.
So here's my thing. You can eat from any tree of the
garden. You can have it all, all this
fruit chores, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil,
you shall not eat. For the day you eat, you will
surely die. And every time he passed the
tree and did not eat it, he was demonstrating God's love to him.
For Jesus says, if you love me, you will keep my word.
So if the Lord says to him, Adam, you can eat from any tree
of the garden, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and
evil, for the day you eat that fruit, you die.
If Adam had never eaten the fruit, where would he be today?
So Adam wasn't walking around looking for heaven because
heaven came to earth. I said heaven came to earth.
And you know, if you actually read the Bible back of the book,
guess what? God's coming to planet earth.
He really loves this place way more than we do.
Our religion has tried to get us out of it, and God's kingdom's
about keeping us in. Now, will you go to heaven when
you die? Sure to be absent from the body?
You'll be what? Present with the Lord?
Where is Jesus presently at? He's in heaven, seated at the
right hand of the Father. He's on a throne.
Thrones are in kingdoms, not in religions.
But is Jesus staying there? He is not.
Is he returning? Yes.
The king is coming, I said. The King's coming, and he will
not come as a suffering servant. He will not come as a lamb to be
slain. He's coming as the reigning king
who has conquered the devil and is going to fully establish his
Kingdom on the earth forever, physically.
Hallelujah. And the And we have the
privilege as sons and daughters of God to function in that
Kingdom now, even in a world fallen from dominion.
Amen. So we preach the gospel Jesus
preaches because the gospel is about the Kingdom of God,
because the Bible was. Always about a king, his Kingdom
and his royal offspring. And Adam was not trying to get
somewhere. Somewhere came to him, but when
Adam did eat the fruit, God had to keep his word because God is
not a man that he should lie. And if he said let man have
dominion, now that Adam has abdicated his throne, given it
to the devil, the Lord says I need man to have a pathway back
so my word can be fulfilled. And so he said, son, you'll have
to go be a man that's legal entrance.
I gave it to a man and he lost he he didn't lose it.
He gave it away. It's.
Going to require a man to take it back, but we can't use his
seed because it's corrupt. So I will put you in a woman by
the Holy Ghost, and you're going to empty yourself and you're
going to be all. Man anointed of the Spirit and
function in the planet. And if you study the miracles
that Jesus performed, they are all within the dominion that the
first Adam lost. Every one of them is the
dominion the first Adam had. And if Jesus has conquered the
devil, and he has, and he has been given all authority and he
can give his authority to us, then guess what we can do in the
earth as well? We conquer the enemy, Amen.
We conquer based upon the our knowledge of God.
Look at this in John chapter 4. Why do I bring all this up?
Because we're never too tired. So it came.
So he, this is Jesus, came to the city of Samaria near a
parcel of ground that Jacob had gave to his son Joseph.
And Jacob's well was there. So Jesus, look what it says
about Jesus. Jesus being what wearied by his
journey or from his journey was sitting thus by the well.
It was about the 6th hour. Then came a woman from Samaritan
to draw water. Jesus said to her, give me a
drink. For his disciples had gone away
into the city to buy food. Why are they buying food?
Because Jesus is weary from his journey.
Jesus is the Son of man. He emptied himself of his glory.
He is a man functioning underneath the anointing of God.
And he physically was tired. Jesus got physically tired.
And Jesus was wearied. In essence, he's They know he's
hungry, that's why they're buying him food.
They leave him here. I mean, he's so tired that he
doesn't even go with his. Disciples, you're like y'all, go
ahead. I'm I'm going to stay here.
So it's not just because someone's coming.
In fact, at this point, we don't even know if Jesus technically
knows that she's coming. Yet he could be at the well
simply because he's wearied. I'm tired.
I'm just going to rest. Y'all go get it and I'll be here
when you get. Back then, all of a sudden.
A lady comes, and when this lady shows up, he starts hearing from
heaven. I said.
He starts hearing from heaven. Now what are you going to do
when you start hearing from heaven but you're tired?
I worked all week, I've worked all day, and I have to run down
to the grocery store to get something for our kids.
And now you're in the grocery store and you're tired and all
of a sudden heaven starts talking to you.
You're at the game with your child because he's practicing
and you're like, my gosh, man, I just want to go home.
I mean, seriously, I don't even really know why I have this
child of mine in the soccer because they are horrible.
Come on, parents, just be honest.
You'll get it next week. You're encouraged it.
All right. Maybe you should take piano.
Anyway, the point is, is you're investing in your child there,
and all of a sudden there's another parent and you're weary.
But heaven starts talking. I said Heaven starts talking.
See, I believe most Christians would love for the pastor to
organize the evangelism 'cause then you're only going to be
evangelistic when we have the event.
But this is not how true evangelism works, and this is
not how the harvest works. This is not how God wants to
pull people in the Kingdom. Come on.
Because again, being. Weary.
Is your best moment to be able to get into a place of
sustenance that food cannot do for you?
The problem is if you would take serious laboring in the harvest,
you would find yourself coming out of weariness because many of
us, especially in the realms of Christians, they are going to
vacations. They are taking days off,
they're laying out at the beach, they're going on their boats.
They're disconnecting because I'm tired where I need to.
Yet Jesus will give us insight that you can tap into a place
that those places really won't satisfy you anyway.
I mean, how many people have to have a vacation from your
vacation, especially if you have kids?
We're taking our kids to Disney. Ha, that's fun.
The stand in long lines. Your child's going to want to
cry. You know, you're going to tell
them and you're going to tell the whole you know, Disney
crowd, you know, oh, they're just tired when they're acting
like a crazy one, you know, and screaming and throwing a fit and
pitch off, they're just tired. They're just tired.
Well, then why'd you take them there?
Same in anyway right? I mean we.
Put ourselves in all kinds of things, fun for them.
And that's not even fun for them.
And then you get back here like, wow, that was the most
exhausting vacation we ever had. Amen.
Yeah. You just want to go back to
work. This is why they This is why
during Christmas, they had that one little Christmas song, you
know, where it's like, and. And Mom and Dad are ready for
the kids to go back to school, right?
I mean, we've developed such a society that we're glad when
they're away from us. OK.
Yet these are the times we're supposed to be refreshed.
Well, there's only one place that you can get refreshed.
Truly refreshed. Amen.
I'm not against vacations. Do them.
But as long as you don't vacation from God.
I do more with God on vacation than I do when I'm even here.
Because then I don't have other people pulling on me.
Are you hearing me? So again, he's tired, wearied,
but there here comes a woman and heaven starts talking to him and
he says, would you give me something to drink?
Now this is controversial right out to gay people as you know,
this context of scripture. She's like, wait a minute,
you're a Jew, I'm a Samaritan, You don't even talk to me.
You guys are prejudice, right? You're racist.
Y'all don't talk to me. I mean, here you are going to
carry on. Not only am I Samaritan, I'm a
woman on top of that. Are you hearing me?
Because when the stoppers came back, they're like, he's talking
to a woman, right? So he goes on and and begins to
unveil things. What happens?
Ultimately, Heaven's talking to him.
And in order for her to get over to a place, he has to start
functioning in the gifts. He said, well, go ahead and
bring your husband back. And she's all I don't have a
husband. He says you say correctly, you
don't have have a husband, but you've actually had five.
But the one you would now is definitely not your husband.
And what does she do? I perceive you are a prophet.
Now, let me tell you, this is going to happen guys, the minute
you start talking Kingdom, right?
And what I'm saying is when you let Kingdom influence start
happening in your life. The minute.
They are like, first of all, just debating with you about
just general things. Wow, I can't even believe that
you're asking me for water, you know?
And he's like, man, if you knew who I was and the ghetto was,
you'd be asking me for waters. Like, bro, you don't even have a
bucket. I don't even know what you
talking about right now. Right?
And he said, man, my junk don't never run out.
Well, won't you give me this? So I never had to come to this
well anymore. And it's like a spigot in my
house. You know, we have running water
today. I just turn it on, turn it off,
turn it on, turn it off, right. Anyway, with that being said,
you know, but we're talking about spiritual things.
She didn't understand that. So in order for him, him to kick
her over into spiritual, he had to get personal.
And sometimes in the harvest you got to get personal at the
expense of getting them being offended.
Are you hearing me? She she could have already,
because she understands there's a race issue, there's
discrimination happening between our people and now you, oh, you
going to talk to me about my husband's?
You think I'm trash? You think I'm all this?
I mean, she could have responded that way, right?
Come on now. Oh, you going to talk to me
about my relationships? But what does she do?
She's like, well, I perceive you're a prophet because
obviously there's no way you'd have known that unless you've
are tapping into the throne room.
So at that point, as he unloads who she is, she doesn't believe.
She begins to jump over into spiritual questions.
And you ever got around somebody, when you start getting
personal and then they start to find out that you actually are
believer, then they obviously want to start talking the Bible
and what they know. And she does that.
Well, you know they say. And he says, look, you got it
all wrong, girl. Salvation comes from us.
But you got to understand there's coming a day when he is
seeking those who will worship him in spirit and in truth.
Are you hearing me? And she says, well, I hear the
messiahs coming. And then he lays it out.
First time he ever announces his kingship.
The first time he ever announces it.
And he tells a woman, he says I am the Messiah.
And man, when she hears those words, notice what he didn't
say. I am the one who's going to die
on the cross and be raised from the dead so that your sins will
be forgiven. What he says is I am the
Messiah. The Messiah is the Hebrew word
that the Greek equivalent is the Christ.
Christ is not last name. Messiah is not last name.
Both of those are titles and they literally mean the King.
And when I say literally, they mean the anointed one in his
anointing. OK, but what is that?
Well, God anointed kings, the Lord said, this is my beloved
Son and who I am well pleased. Jesus said the Spirit of the
Lord is upon me, for he has what anointed me.
So when the Father opened up heaven and the Holy Spirit came
upon Jesus, that was His coordination, that was His
crowning, that was His. Anointing as king of the earth,
and his father says this is my son, I'm the king and this is my
son who's king of the earth. He is king of the earth.
He is anointed to be king of all the earth.
Are you hearing me? And Jesus functioned underneath
that anointing. Are you hearing me?
So that anointing is flowing in him.
Then we get down to verse 30. Look at this, everybody doing
all right. Verse 30 say I'm never too
tired. They went out of the city and
we're coming to him. Now she's gone into the town
telling everybody about this guy and saying the Messiah, the
Christ, the one that's been prophesied is at the well guys.
And they're like, he's at the well, He's at the well.
And they're like, well, let's go see what this woman's talking
about now. They believed her and what I
mean, believed her. They were curious.
They wanted to know because if they didn't believe her at all,
they're like, I'm not going out there.
See, true belief has action. So they believed her that he was
there. So they acted on her words and
showed up. But they did not believe in him
till later. They believed for themselves
later as he stayed with them two days and they said we believe.
Now, not because of what this woman said, but we have.
Heard your words ourself. Wow, are you hearing me?
So now they're starting to come out to him.
Meanwhile the disciples were urging him saying Rabbi eat, but
he said to him, look what he says now this is the guy who was
weary journey all day, had a busy day, Say I had a busy day.
He said I have food to eat that you.
Do not know about so the disciples were saying to one
another, no one brought him anything to eat, did he?
And Jesus said my food, say my food, come on, say my food, come
on, say my food. My food is to do the will of him
who sent me and to accomplish his.
Work. If you want to get out of
weariness, then you're going to have to eat the food of His will
for your life. As long as you keep running
around trying to rest, trying to get your own rest, do your own
thing, you're always going to be too tired.
But Jesus, when he's tired, can tap into the will of His Father
and get strength that food can't even bring Him.
Are you hearing me? He says, he says do not say
there is yet four months and then the harvest come now look
how it kicks over. He is saying, listen, I have
food. My food is due to the will of
him who sent me into Compass purpose.
And then he says quit acting like you got more time.
Quit hate. Quit delaying what you're
hearing from heaven because you're tired, he said.
Do not say that there are yet four months and then comes the
harvest. Behold, I say.
To you lift up your eyes and look on the field, for they are
white for harvest already He who reaps is receiving wages and is
gathering fruit for eternal life, so that he who sows and he
who. Reaps may rejoice.
What together, in essence, he's saying, listen, get out there
because some places you're going to sow and someone's going to
come in behind and reap. You do your part.
They do their part and we going to get this thing done.
But don't be sitting around saying I'm too tired.
I mean, Christians are too tired to come to church.
They spend so much time doing their work and kids and get in
the head or whatever the case may be, and then God gets
leftovers. Yet God's will for your life is
to be in church so that you can release your gift.
Now you'd be less weary if you showed up more, because it is
the will of your father to assemble.
It's the will of your father to be jointed and fitted with other
believer. It is the will of your father to
come and release your gift in the local body.
And then it will equip you so that when you're out in the
highway and the byways, you can hear from heaven accurately and
you can pick ripe fruit instead of picking fruit that no, that
ultimately is going to be bitter.
Don't wait for an evangelistic moment.
Be sensitive every day. But in order for you to maintain
your sustenance or your drive, you've got to be eating the food
that will suffice your weariness.
And it is the only thing that will.
My food is to do the will. Of him who sent me and to
accomplish. Do you understand it wasn't just
the Father's assignment for Jesus to preach.
That was one of them. It wasn't just Jesus assignment
to flow in the gifts of the Spirit, although it was one of
them. It wasn't just Jesus's
assignment to raise the dead, heal the sick, cast out devils,
although he did all those. Those were parts of his
assignment. Ultimately his assignment is to
die on the cross for us, stand in the gap that that grain, that
seed, that king kind would go into the earth so it could
produce after its own kind. That we would be raised up to
newness of life and we would be raised up to reign and to rule
again and get back into the dominion that the first Adam
lost. Jesus Christ made the way so
that we could rule and reign in this life and the one to come.
Amen. And so we are ever present to be
hearing the Spirit of God, to do the will of the Father, because
one of the things that we are tasked to do is to reconcile men
to God. And there is this like almost
insatiable appetite, and that is ever learning but never coming
to the knowledge of truth, of people that want tidbits but
don't live what they hear, they don't want to event.
Or if they are evangelizing, they are evangelizing in fear
and not in love, 'cause it is the kindness of God that draws
men to repentance, not scaring the hell out of them.
Are you hearing me? Now with that being said, he
goes on and says in verse 37. For in this case the saying is
true. One sows, another reaps.
I send you to reap that for which you have not labored.
Others have labored and you have entered into their labor.
Do you understand there is a season that is upon us that is
allowing us to reap quicker because of all who have gone
before as laborers? But if we are so consumed with
our life, then we are going to find ourselves too weary to eat
the food we're supposed to eat and opportunities are going to
pass by. Not because heaven's not
talking, it's because you're acknowledging your tiredness.
Are you hearing me? Now, again, I know that many of
you are doing just this. You're taking time at your work.
You're taking time at different places.
You're sharing. You're communicating.
Divine connections are happening.
I just want you to be of good cheer.
You have great reward. Because of that.
And maybe, maybe you don't see them coming to the Kingdom that
day. But make no mistake about it,
God, although the laborers are few, He works.
The laborers work. I mean, you can't be a laborer
and not work, but I'm not working.
I'm a believer. OK, well then you're not a
believer because you're not working.
You're afraid of a four letter word work because you've been
taught wrong about works. Amen.
So John 17 four says this. Jesus said I glorify you on the
earth talking about his Father having accomplished the work
which you have given me to do. You know, when I look at Pastor
Hagan, who's 85 now, 85 and just went to Brazil, he went to
Guatemala, he went to Colombia, just went there, 85.
He's not an assisted living. I'm going to say that he's not
in assisted living. Are you hearing me?
He is out doing the will of his father and it is sustaining him
to do what most people have already checked out.
Why? Because they only built their
Kingdom. They lived their life to serve
their purpose, to have their retirement, to do their stuff.
And yet Pastor Hagan, 85, still driving on.
I mean, he's kind of like Caleb. I'm well able to conquer this
mountain. Let's do another international
trip. Hallelujah, Amen.
That should inspire you, that should give you passion.
You understand? Don't look at the ones who are
tired and quitting. Look at the ones that are saying
my food is to do the will of my father who sent me.
I will not leave this earth with carrying something.
I'm going to do everything he's asked me to do.
Let's finish the course because there's too many people out
there that need what you carry. They need it.
So don't ever let yourself say I'm too tired when heaven's
talking, are you hearing me? Second Timothy chapter 2 verse
six says this. The hard working farmer ought to
be the what first to receive his.
Share of the crops. You know what's crazy in
churches today If you don't watch out.
They are just trying to eliminate older generation
anyway. Which is not the Church of Jesus
Christ. Cause the Church of Jesus Christ
is multi cultural or multi ethnic or of every nation, you
know. No, we shouldn't look the same.
Everybody shouldn't be looking the same.
There is nowhere in scripture where you will find that there's
a black church or a white church.
Or a Hispanic church. That doesn't exist in the
Kingdom is every tongue and tribe.
That's what it looks like. But you know what else?
It's multi generational. It's multi generational and in
it's in it's maturing. The younger are seeking the
wisdom of the older and the older are empowering the younger
because of their energy. But you know, when most churches
like, oh, they're old, we don't even walk them around.
I mean, there's been a whole church movement where they get
rid of older people on the platform and only want younger
people on it. Why is that?
Why have we become so segregated in our?
Thinking, well, it's because a lot of the older ones are tired
of working and they've taken their workplace into the church.
Well, you know, I've served with the children's, you know, 15
years. I think I'm going to retire now.
What are you going to do? Well, I'm just going to sit in
service. So God put all that in you to
deploy and now you going to sit around.
You're not going to invest in another generation.
Hallelujah, Amen. I've determined as I get older,
I'm going to get better. I mean, if the Lord tarries
another 30 years, you better watch out and see what I look
like at 84. I'm telling you, I'm going to be
a runner. I'm going to be like rocking
this thing, man. I'm going to keep the suit
strong. Amen.
Now you may be 30 and benching more than me on the waist, but
at the end of the day, you're going to wish you could do what
I do at 84. Are you hearing me?
I'm telling you right now, I am strong in the Lord and the power
of His mind, and I'm not being pushed out.
I got too much to bring. I got too much to carry.
I got too much to do, but I'm not going to do it alone.
We're not here to do it alone. We're here to raise up.
I mean, I don't despise your youthfulness.
Do not despise my Gray hair. I mean, let's accomplish
something. Let's do something together.
Let's go change and evangelize the world.
Let's not get so tired and bring in our corporate America in how
we do church. Let's do church Jesus's way.
Because I can guarantee you this promise here in Galatians 6, and
we'll close with this one in Galatians chapter 6, starting in
verse nine. Do not lose heart in doing good,
for in due time we will reap if we do not grow weary so.
Then while we have opportunity, say I have opportunity, you know
how you know you have opportunity, 'cause you're
breathing. You're breathing right now.
So then while we have
opportunity, let us do good to all people and especially to
those and especially say especially to those who are of
the household of the faith. Now this verse is really these
two verses are really important that I want to close on today is
this number one don't lose heart because in when it comes to
ministry, when you're in the season between sowing and
reaping of different things, even in vision, even in the
accomplishment of the Willow golf for your life, you're going
to get in seasons where things are going to come against you
attack. There's going to be certain
things, and those things are there to press you to put.
Pressure on you to try to get you tired, to try to get you to
carry the load yourself, to become absorbed only with
yourself and not others. And it's in those moments that
you have to be the most intentional of staying good.
Not retaliating, not seeking revenge, not trying to make sure
that everybody understands about you.
What you do is know what? I'm just going to seek the will
of my father I'm going to do with.
I'm going to keep doing what I've always been doing because
God has always been faithful. And this too shall pass.
And I'll overcome this too. And I'll get through this trial
as well. And I'll come through this
valley of the shadow of death. I'm going to get to the other
side. We're going to, we get to where
we need to be because there's too many lives at stake.
There's too many people that need to be changed.
There's it's too important that I bring my supply and the
opportunity is here because I'm breathing, which means I will
not let my age dictate my performance.
I'm not going to buy the law. I will be sufficient, efficient
and perform at high capacity all my life.
So I do not let the thoughts creep in.
You're getting older. That's some viewpoint that's
irrelevant because I can thrive as long as I'm on purpose.
Are you hearing me? Because you know, some of you,
you wake up a little slower. Now I'm saying this because
we've been here 20 years and I'm look at y'all, some of y'all
been around for a while, right? And at the end of the day, you
got to go. You got to keep moving, you got
to keep doing something. You got to keep performing.
Because again, when I was 34 and started the church, I was
actually in worse shape than I am now.
But you know, I come to find it every year I hit.
It's really not that old because I lied to myself when I was
young and act like it was old till I got here and then I
realized this ain't old. Are you hearing me now?
Why do I say that? Because then I wouldn't have
been so silly when I was young. Because when I was young, I was
silly. I was young thinking, man, if I
don't get this accomplished right now, because when I get, I
won't do it when I'm older. And they didn't realize I'm
moving into bigger and better things than my prom now.
The only reason why people aren't doing it in their older
age is because they start taking on account of their age.
Well, does God talk to you about age?
God just talks to you about purpose.
Caleb didn't say. I wish somebody would take that
mountain for me because, you know, I should have been in here
when I was 40. When I was 40, bro, I mean, I
was I was like tip top. I was rocking this deal.
But now, you know, I had to hang out in the wilderness for 40
years with all of you people. Now I'm 80 and now we've been
fighting for five years, right, because I had to help train all
you guys. And now here I am 85.
You know, I would love to get a retirement home and I need some
help. But what does he say to Joshua?
Son, I'm taking my mountain. Are you?
I am well able. I'm just as strong today at 85
as I was at 40. Because he never lost sight.
Of the purpose. And one of the.
Things we're losing sight is, is the Ministry of Reconciliation
that there's going to be a lot of times in your day-to-day when
that heaven's going to start talking and it's your woman at
the well. And let me tell you, the woman
at the well was just the tip of the iceberg because the woman
represented the city even though she was not a city official,
even though she was not someone of renown, but she was the
encounter that heaven wanted Jesus to speak to and the day he
was weary. And Vermont, don't grow weary in
your well doing son, because if you'll talk to this woman, what
I'm fixing to tell you that's going on in her life, then we
can win that city. But notice what it cost him a
couple of days. Cause instead of going on, they
said would you stay with us? And he intentionally stayed for
two days to share about the Kingdom and revival broke out in
the city. I don't want to hear another St.
Talk to me about revival if you're not willing to do
something different for two days.
Nobody's serious about harvest because we got to click.
Click our little clock, come in, click it.
You don't do it here. I understand that.
I'm preaching online now you click in, click out.
You want your little time frame. You know you want your fan, you
want yours, want yours. And then heaven starts talking
to you and it makes it uncomfortable.
Now you got to have a detour for a couple days.
Jesus was like, This is why I'm here.
I'm not here to build a house. I'm not here to amass wealth.
I own it all anyway. And if we understand, we're the
children. Of the king.
Guess what? I can have a house, but I'm not
here for that purpose. I can have wealth, but I'm not
here for that purpose. I'm here to significantly change
people's lives. And it's going to be in those
days. And I'm like that, he says.
Don't get weary because harvest is right there, son.
Harvest is there. What's another 20 years at
Anchor Faith Church of the Lord? Terry, Fruitful labor.
Fruitful labor. I said fruitful labor because at
the end of the day, what are we doing anyway if we're not
willing to invite others in to our family?
And I say that because Anchor Faith Church is really good at
establishing Dominion, but we need to become even more
equipped and purposeful about day-to-day evangelism, sensitive
for opportunities because what you know and what you experience
and what you can distribute deploy the demonstrations.
How in the world would we not be more full than even this?
So I'm glad you're taking all your kids to the parks and
playing all the sports 'cause there's a world of people out
there that need what you need. You got to get.
Bold listen from heaven. That person's in a wheelchair.
Lord, do I need to go over there and raise them up now he may say
no, but at least ask and if he says yes, then do it without
doubting. But make sure you're here.
Don't go over there and try to snatch somebody out and look
like an. Idiot.
Because you want it to be. And it's not what he said.
Because he's the Lord of the harvest.
It may be that you just need to say, so what's going on?
How are you doing? What took place?
How come you're in that chair anyway?
And it just may be you need to hear some things before the time
comes. That ultimately you're like.
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