Last week we talked about the assembly.
Today we're going to talk about the architect.
Amen. Turn over to Matthew, Chapter
16. Can y'all understand me?
OK, I think I sound like. Yeah, I'm trying to think of his
name now. Johnson's Darth Vader.
That's funny. Robert Kennedy Junior, right?
Yeah, I feel like I'm not. Have you noticed that?
I understand. I understand him better now.
At first it was like really difficult, but now I've gotten
used to his voice. So I'm Robert Kennedy junior
today turn over to Matthew chapter 16.
We'll start in verse 16. Simon Peter answered, you are
the Christ, the son of the living God and Jesus said to
him, blessed are you Simon Barjona, because flesh and blood
did not reveal this to you, but my father who was in heaven.
And also I say to you that you are Peter, and upon this rock I
will build my church. And the gates of hell, hell or
Hades will not overpower it. I will give you the keys of the
Kingdom of heaven. And whatever you bind on earth
shall have been bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth
shall have been loosed in heaven.
Hallelujah. Aren't you glad that God built
his church? He's building his church, man.
It's so amazing. And so the church is very
powerful thing. It is the most powerful thing on
the planet. Unfortunately, I do believe that
in many places it's become kind of institutionalized and has
fallen off from its original intent.
But we want to be in the original intent of what the Lord
wanted to do in this particular passage.
Obviously we started in verse 16 because he said you are the
Christ, which is the King, the Messiah, the acknowledgement
that Jesus is this king that was coming.
And he said upon that revelation that I'm king, I'm going to
build my church. So the kingdom's a big deal.
Now, you know, when you get around some people, when you
start talking Kingdom, they see it as a subject.
And so, you know, although we talk about the Kingdom all the
time, you know, it can sometimes seem like, you know, we're only
staying on one subject, but the reality is the whole Bible's
about the Kingdom. It's about a king, his Kingdom
and his royal offspring, and all the subjects are connected to
that. And so the Christ came and he's
going to build his church and it says the gates of hell will not
overpower it. So the one that he's building
the gates of hell will not overpower it.
Now, that doesn't mean that the gates of hell won't won't mount
and attack against it. But you know as well as I do, no
weapon formed against the church is going to prosper, Amen.
So even though things attack His church, they won't prosper.
They'll never take it out. Only way the church will be
taken out is when Jesus comes back and pulls the church.
That's the only way it'll be taken out of the earth, Amen.
And when you function in the church, then you're given the
keys of the Kingdom. Notice that when he builds his
church, he says, now I'll give you keys of the Kingdom because
the church was all about advancing the Kingdom in the
earth. Amen.
Now Psalms 127 verse one says this.
Unless the Lord builds the house, they labor in vain who
build it. And I don't know about you, but
I don't want to be wasting my time.
I don't want to waste my time. And you know, I've grown up in
church my whole life. My mom when she got pregnant
with my older sister, but don't tell my sister that she wants to
act like she's younger than me, OK?
But when she was going to give birth to my sister, she prayed
and said, Lord, if you'll give me a healthy child, you know,
I'll take them to church. Now.
God wanted her to have healthy children.
And so Kim was born healthy and and mom had just gotten born
again not too long before that. And so she started going to
church. And so you know, me and my
sister grew up in church our whole lives.
I remember one time I wasn't feeling great one day and I was
going to stay home with my dad. My dad didn't really go to
church, not till the end, but I was going to stay home and I'm
was telling my mom I wasn't feeling well, but she knew that
I felt good enough. I could have gone to church.
So she said, Earl Wayne, Now listen, if you're going to stay
home with your dad because you're not feeling good this
morning, know this, this afternoon you're going to not be
feeling good either. So don't even be out.
Don't ask me to go outside and play.
Well, you know, I got, I got healed pretty quick and I went
to church that day because playing outside was more
important than hanging out at home.
Amen. The Bible in basic English says
it this way. If the Lord is not helping the
builders, then the building of a house is to no purpose.
You know, through the years when I've been in different churches,
you know, it's caused me to ask a lot of questions.
You know, you want to be able to see His church function as he
designed. And so you're always moving
towards that. The fact that Jesus Christ is
coming back for a church without spot or wrinkle, which means
then there must be one that's going to unify, that's going to
come together and walk in brotherly love, that's going to
be passionate about their fit in the church and do it.
And there'll be no competition, only we'll only be complementing
each other. Amen.
The Good News Bible says it this way.
If the Lord does not build the house, the work of the builders
is useless. And the New Living Translation
says it this way. Unless the Lord builds a house,
the work of the builders is wasted.
So we don't want to have wasted time again, You know, it's not
that there's any, there's nothing wrong with someone
putting, you know, a sign and saying who's the pastor of a
church. I get that.
I don't have a problem with that.
But you know, we've always endeavored to make sure that we
focus that this is not my church.
You know, this is His church. I'm just pastoring and I'm just
the apostle in this local body that's here in Saint Augustine
and, you know, because I don't want to take credit for
something that I'm not doing. Amen.
Plus, you know, I'm just, I love the Lord and I'm fearful.
I have a reverential fear of what he's doing.
And you know, I'm always having to ask, how do you want to do
this, Dad? What, what do you want to do?
How do you want to do it? In this passage of Scripture
between Matthew 16 and then also here in Psalms 127, we see that
we're building something. And then the Matthew 16, when we
take this Greek word, it's where we get this term architect, OK?
So what's really powerful about this is that when God is
building his church, he is the architect, OK?
He's the one who's, in essence, drafting out how the thing's
supposed to be built, OK? And the reason why this is
really powerful is because he knows where things need to go,
OK? And everything that's on the
plans is very important. You know, let's put up the plans
for JC Penney. We've just about finished the JC
Penney part. It's really close.
And all we have to do is deal with the what is it the current?
We don't have that section build out yet.
But when, when we put when we, you know, are sitting around
talking to everyone, we're saying, what do you need?
You know, we got, we got with a pastor Vanessa, when it came to
the children's ministry or, you know, treasure hall preschool,
what did you need? I mean, Brian and I had a
phenomenal looking children's area only to have it moved
because some of the functionality needed to be
adjusted. It seemed to be seemed that we
needed to move some rooms around to make things look a little
better. OK.
And then we were going to have our children's ministry in a
particular area and we're like, man, if we have 1000 seat
auditorium, which right now it's scaled at 1032 and we end up
having kids, we we're going to need a much bigger children's
facility. So you know, we had to end up
taking up most of our storage that's there in JC Penney.
And we're like, we're going to end up just having to build a
warehouse so that we can put our store, our stuff in it.
They'll get it up here in a minute.
We'll, I'll keep going on. But the Lord, he is very
detailed in how he builds a church.
And we are very unique as individuals within his church.
Before you and your mother's womb, God knew you.
OK, OK, God knew you. OK, I'm going to probably walk
over here a little bit. This section down here is our
children's right here. And then you can see the
sanctuary up there. And then this section over here
is what we'll do. Nautilus.
That's about 4000 square feet over here.
This is some live classes. We'll be able to get about 7
classrooms. There's for Kingdom Institute
Faith Christian University and then our Egg Faith live classes
offices are located there. This would be where the
preschool will be at completely got a huge lobby area right here
and then up there in that corner that we all we finished messing
with yesterday, we were able to keep those particular walls and
we'll be able to put bathrooms in that space.
OK, so with that being said, man, God's doing some pretty
awesome things. Now, again, what we want to do
is we want to build the sanctuary 1st, and that's walls.
And then just buying the nicer chairs than these because you'll
sit and listen longer if you're in nice chairs.
Hey man. So we'll get some really nice
chairs there on the backside of the sanctuary.
And then the top corners, those are risers.
So they're going to actually go up.
That way we can get 1032 seats in there.
So that's pretty awesome. So we'll basically double in
size and what we're in here. Amen.
So this word, this word I'll build my church is where we get
this. It comes from a compound Greek
word of which has the the term architect in it.
And what's interesting about this is that this word, when you
break it down, it talks about building a building that is
meant for public, for a public event.
So what's important here is that a lot of times, and we've seen
this through the years, you know, that we're like, we need
that in the beginning was the word and the Word was with God
and the word was God. OK, so God is the author of
words and he has the right to define these words because
through the years we have, you know, redefined words.
We have because of culture, you know, it's we've kind of taken
on our own thought processes by it, you know, and again, but
when you actually start breaking these words down in their
original language, then you realize there was some real
intent concerning that. So when this word church is
there, I'll build my church. He said.
I'll build a building that is to be to have a public event.
This is why even though the church itself is not the
building, OK, but the church meets in a building.
OK, Now there are a lot of people out there that have
written stuff and and try to go back and say, well the original
church was in homes when they were in homes until they outgrew
the homes. OK, so again, God desires that
none would perish, but that all would come to repentance.
So God never intended for us to stay in the house, period.
And so, you know, there's nothing wrong with you building
a building and people collect upon the same place and a symbol
for the purpose of honoring and worshipping the king.
And this is what he meant by this when he said so he said
we're going to build this thing. We're going to put the people in
the place that I need them, but they're going to be in a
building that they publicly come to.
OK. So that's really important for
us to recognize. Now this Greek word church is
ecclesia or ecclesia, and it means legislative, assembly or
selected ones. This is not a religious term at
all, OK, But it's a government term that is used many times in
the classical Greek for a group of people who have been summoned
and gathered together to govern the affairs of a city.
For Jesus to use this term means he is giving the keys of
governmental authority in his Kingdom to the church.
That's powerful. So again, we have a lot to say
about what's going on in communities.
We do when we are functioning as God intended us.
Look what it says here in Zechariah chapter 6 verses 12 to
13. This would gave us let's just
see that the Lord's building something he prophesied.
It says this then say to him, thus says the Lord of hosts,
behold a man whose name is branch, for he will branch out
from where he is, and he will build the temple of the Lord.
Yes, it is he who will build the temple of the Lord, and he will
bear the honor and the and sit and rule on his throne.
Again, Thrones are in kingdoms, not religions.
Thus he will be a priest on his throne, and the council of peace
will be between the two offices. So Matthew Henry said this
concerning this passage of scripture.
He said he speaks by a sign or type which many saw and which as
it was explained, was an illustration prediction of the
Messiah as the priest and king of His church.
So Jesus is the priest and king of His church.
He is the ruler of the Church. And again, we we want to yield
ourselves to listen to the Lord, because the Lord will place you
in His body exactly where He wants you to be, because He
knows why He designed how He designed you and what you are to
accomplish in the earth. He's the only one.
He is the Creator, and he can release all of your potential.
Amen. Colossians chapter one, verse 13
to 18 says it this way. For he rescued us from the
domain of darkness and transferred us to the Kingdom of
his beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of
sin. He is the image of the invisible
God, the first born of all creation.
For by Him all things were created both in the heavens and
on earth, visible and invisible, whether Thrones or dominions or
rulers or authorities. All things have been created
through Him and for Him. He is before all things, and in
Him all things what hold together all right.
He is also Head of the Body, which is the Church, and He is
the beginning, the first born from the dead, so that He
Himself will come to have first place in everything.
So again, Jesus is the head of the body.
So a finger cannot hang out with the head and not have the rest
of the body around. Now, yes.
Can you pray by yourself? Sure.
Can you read the Word by yourself?
But God never intended for us to be born again and then never be
connected with any other believer while we were on the
earth. So when people are saying, well,
we don't need to go to church, you know, we don't have to go
into a building, we don't need to do that.
All that matters is that I've asked Jesus into my heart that
and that he saved me. So when I die, I go to heaven.
That is not scriptural at all. God never intended that.
In fact, if you live that kind of existence, then what it is is
you put yourself to be the one that's off and the wolf is going
to be able to come and pull you and destroy you because you're
alone. God always wanted you in the
body. OK, so when Isaiah 9/6 and
seven, you know this. A child will be born to us, a
son will be given, and the government will rest on his
shoulders, and his name will be called.
Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of Peace.
There will be no end to the increase of his government or of
peace on the throne of David or over his Kingdom, to establish
it, to uphold it with justice and righteousness.
From then on, forever more, the zeal of the Lord of hosts will
accomplish this. It is it the church.
It is at church that you learn the ways of righteousness.
It is being connected to the body that you learn of the
things of the Kingdom and how to function in the earth.
And then it releases who you are, that which God created you
to be. OK Hebrews chapter 4 verse 14
says it this way. Therefore, since we have a great
high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the
Son of God, let us hold fast our confession.
So Jesus has done everything in the earth.
He knows what we're going through.
He knows the challenges that we have, and but yet he never
sinned. So if anyone has the right or
ability to help us overcome, it's the Lord.
Because the Lord was tempted on all accounts to sin, but yet he
did not sin. So that when we come together,
what it does, it helps us maintain this new life in Christ
so that when we are tempted, we are not overcome by the
temptation, but we are to continue to grow up into the
things of God. Second Corinthians chapter 6
verse 16 says it this way. For we are the temple of the
living God. God, just as God said, I will
dwell in them and walk among them.
I will be their God and they shall be my They'll be my
people. Glory to God.
Aren't you glad that you're the people of God?
Man, I am so thankful that I am a people of God.
Praise the Lord, praise the Lord again today.
I'm just showing you that He's the builder.
Again, I don't have the right to do what I want to do at Anchor
Faith Church. I'm always having to ask the
Lord, what do you want to do? How do you want to do this?
What do you want to do? And in doing it, you know, we've
we're doing what we're doing today because we just followed
his voice. Amen.
I'm Ephesians 218 to 22 says this.
For through Him we both have our access in one spirit to the
Father. So then you are no longer
strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the
Saints, and you are God's household, Psalmist's household,
Hallelujah having been built on the foundation of the apostles
and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone in
whom the whole body being fitted together is growing into a holy
temple in the Lord in whom you have been, in whom you also are
being built together into a dwelling of God in the spirit.
Now this is really important that we see that we're being
built together. We're being built together when
we were when we made Jesus, the Lord of our lives, our spirit
man that was dead. We, we, it left and we became a
new creature in Christ. But now we have to renew our
minds. So when you come into the body
of Christ, you have multiple people who have mind renewal
issues. We all have to renew our minds.
And so, you know, we're renewing our minds so that we are more
effective towards one another, so that we can accomplish what
God's called us to do, but also be there for one another.
Because again, God is he's building his church, not so that
we are isolated efforts, but we are coming together to do an
effort that is bigger than if we did things by ourselves.
OK. So it's really important that we
recognize that, you know, your growth.
It doesn't just change you, it affects the ones that are in
this building. Amen.
You know, my wife knows that we know healing and you know,
really I, I don't get symptoms very often, you know, and
they're usually can be gone within 24 hours.
This one's hanging around just a tad more.
But I'll be honest, this morning, man, I was rough.
It was rough. I mean, we're so rough.
I'm like, I call it audible. I got plenty of people who can
preach in 21 years, I've not preached because I stayed home
because I wasn't feeling well. I've never done that.
OK, Not that I couldn't, right.
But, you know, we were talking this morning and she was like,
you're going to have to get up. You're going to have to get up.
Well, I really didn't want to hear that, you know, So we have
one of these beds that adjust, you know, it can sit you up.
So she hits the button and sets me up right.
So she brings me a few things, you know, so I can hydrate and
you know, when I hit the button to get him what they call
rejuvenate. So position where your legs are
a little bit higher than your head, you know, and I was just
going to take a little moment, but she hit that button again
and put me up, you know, have me sitting straight up.
And it's like, OK, so I said, listen, I'm, we're not driving
together anyway, I, I'll come in later.
So after she left, I put it in Rejuvenate and I put my alarm
for an hour and when I woke up I was sweating so I was breaking
some things off. Jesus name Amen.
My point is, is that we are here to champion each other, you
know, because when you don't feel like something, you can go
past what you feel. And I'm thankful that my wife
kept me to the word. You know, I mean, she could have
sympathized with my feelings for sure and said, hey, you know,
we'll figure it out. We got plenty of people.
They can do this, right? But she was like, no, you need
to be there, right? You need to come preach.
You need to step up in faith. And when you get built in the
body, you're thankful for people that won't let you just sit in
the way you feel. Amen.
You know, I was intentional not
to get in here too early and didn't really sing during
worship because I'm trying to hold on to my voice that's
getting stronger every minute in Jesus name.
But you know, people are recognizing and you know,
praying for me. Interesting.
That's what we do, right? When you see someone's in a
state of weakness, you don't. You don't.
You help lift them up. And that's what the body.
You do, right? We're build each other up
together because we're in the same household.
Ephesians chapter 4, verse 11, Ephesians 411.
We'll go to the 16 it says, and he gave some as apostles.
Now if I jump back to verse 8, verse 8 lets us know that God
gave gifts to men. That means everyone in here,
you're a gift, say I'm a gift, you are a gift.
He gave gifts to men and everyone of you are a gift.
You are a gift to the body of Christ.
OK, so then he in verse 11, he says, now some of the gifts that
he gave to the body is this. And he gave some as apostles,
some as prophets, some as evangelists, some as pastors and
some as teachers. Do you know that these five fold
ministries are still in the earth today?
They've not died out, you know, they haven't.
Some people teach that the baptism of the Holy Spirit died
out with the original 12 apostles, you know, and now most
people call people people either a pastor or evangelist or
teacher. But you know, nobody wants to
utilize the. And again, these are gifts.
They're not titles, all right? I think that's where the church
has gotten hurt a little bit is that they turned it and said,
well, you want a title? Well, it's not a title.
God didn't call it title, he said.
He said it was a gift. It's not.
Title it's a gift, you know and who and again, you don't have to
use them, but Paul, obviously I am what I am because of the
grace of God. Right, so.
He was an apostle by the grace of God, and God gave him that
gift, you know, And just because someone may not do it correctly
doesn't mean someone's not doing it correctly.
And we shouldn't just disregard the ministry gifts because we've
been around someone who didn't do it right.
OK. But he gave these five fold
ministry gifts for the purpose, 12 for the equipment of the
Saints, for the work of service. So the gifts that are associated
with these five offices and I'm convinced.
That God always. Intended for all 5 to be in a
church. That he never.
Intended that there would just be a pastor.
He never intended. That.
Because if. We as we read this Psalm, it
says they're equipment of the Saints for the worker service
through the building up of the body of Christ.
You know what's pretty awesome about this?
The Evangelist. Has an assignment.
Inside the church. We typically.
See the evangelist being out, but their first work is inside.
To stir us all. Up in whatever areas of
influence we have that we can win people to the Lord in our
sphere of influence, OK. But.
All of these build up the body of Christ, and if you're missing
one of the gifts, then you're missing what that gift brings to
the body. So that's why we need.
To pray that we have all the gifts and we allow the gifts to
function because it's not the person, it's the gift that God
gave. I said that God gave and.
They're not. Better.
It's just they're. Fit.
God made the. Architectural plans.
And he said this is what you're going to do now.
I've done this before. This pole right here, you know
we never moved it. Just painted it.
Black. This would have cost me $50,000
I think it was at one point to pull this out.
Well, I. Didn't do that.
And we? Were talking about pulling some
poles in JC Penney actually, and we were like, well you know,
we're not going to do that either.
But this pole, although it's on the platform and the other ones
are not, they serve a purpose. OK, the.
Architect designed this building so that these poles could hold
the weight. Of the roof.
If you were. Never designed to be a pole?
Then you're not going to be able to hold the weight of the roof.
So you only. Want to be what God wants you to
be, Because sometimes people want to get in places that God's
not asking them to be. And then when they start.
To cave under the pressure. OK.
Then they can get mad at God. They definitely get mad at the
church. People there in the church was
because you're trying to function in a place that the
architect never designed you to function.
Amen. And so, you know, there are so
many different things that are in this building that is
necessary. I mean, the air conditioned,
thank God for it, right in the heater, thank God for the seats
you're in, allows you to sit there kind of comfortable,
right? You know, they serve their
purpose and none of these things fight against each other.
They're in the room designed to do what they're supposed to do.
We actually have Christ in us. If anyone shouldn't be fighting
amongst themselves is US, and we should just be excited about
what we've been called to do. Amen.
So we go on and. It says for the equipment of the
Saints, for the work of service, building up the body of Christ
until we attain, till we all attain to the unity of the faith
of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a mature man, to the
measure of the statue which belongs to the fullness of
Christ. As a result, we are no longer to
be children tossed here and there.
By waves and carried. About by every wind of doctrine,
by the trickery of men, by craftiness and deceitful
scheming. What's that tell us?
It tells us that first, if you're not, if you're not even
connected to the church, you're going to be tossed.
That's a guarantee, the only way that you keep yourself from
being tossed. And every wind.
Of doctrine and trickery, of men in the craftiness and deceitful
scheming, is that you submit yourself.
To the church. Body and you do your part.
And when you do. That you'll grow.
Verse 15 But speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in
all aspects into Him who was the head, even Christ, from whom the
whole body, being fitted and held together by what every
joint supplies according to the proper working of each
individual part, causes the growth of the body for the
building up of itself in love. So notice verse 16 that we are
fitted and held together again. These are not isolations.
And. Because we are together, we all
bring a supply. And that supply?
Is according to the proper working, which implies there can
be an improper working. But a proper?
Working of each individual part in the Kingdom.
You lose your independence, but you do not lose your
individuality. You are an.
Individual God sees you as you are, however He never wanted you
by yourself. Amen.
He always wanted you connected to somebody else.
Praise the Lord and when you bring your supply, I mean,
really, yesterday they were able to run through the demo so quick
and actually move to another area that we initially weren't
going to deal with because so many people showed up and
brought their supply. And honestly, wasn't it?
The camaraderie was fun. I mean.
Just have a great time with one another.
You know, obviously if we were all professionals, we probably
would do things a little differently, but we don't have
to be. So people were busting sheetrock
off the walls. It was fun.
But. Each person came together doing
their part and nobody was like mad at each other because one
had a hammer and another one didn't.
But we just came to do the assignment.
Put me where you want me. Everybody was working together
and it was accomplished in a lot less time.
Hallelujah. Well, you know, we can do this
in the church as well. All right.
First Corinthians chapter 3 and verse 10, Paul said according to
the grace of God, which was given to me, like a wise master
builder, I lay a foundation and another is building on it.
But. Each man must be careful how he
builds on it. Paul.
Obviously had grace to build. He did his part right.
Obviously he brought doctrine. He was an apostle.
He he also did leadership. He established the church and
then he would write and say, man, I hope I don't come back
and have labored in vain, you know, Are you still doing what
you've been instructed to do? But he was a wise master
builder. Why?
Because he was. How do you want me to do this,
Lord? What do you want me to say?
How do you want me to respond? How do you want me to build your
church? Hallelujah, the Lord is good.
Let's. Go on, let's go to 1st
Corinthians 12. First Corinthians. 12 verses 12
to 14 I mean we've seen multiple scriptures that Christ who sits
at the right hand of the Father is not disconnected, however he
is directly connected to build his church.
OK. And.
If we'll listen to him, then obviously we'll we'll have his
church manifest in the earth. His legislative.
Assembly it says for even as the body is 1 yet has many members,
and all the members of the body, though there are many, are one
body, so also is Christ and that awesome.
He says. For by 1 spirit we were all
baptized into the into one body, whether Jews or Greek, whether
slaves are free, and we were all made to drink of 1 spirit.
For the body is not one member, but many.
So again. The body is all of us collecting
upon the same place. Where?
We bring our supply. To do what?
God has asked us to do in the earth for such a time as this.
I'm. Going to.
Close with this scripture here. First Corinthians chapter 12,
verse 18. First Corinthians chapter. 12
verse 18 says this. But now.
God has placed now God has placed the members, each one of
them. Each one of.
Them in the body, just as he desired.
This verse. Here is a very powerful verse.
It lets us know how much God knows you personally.
However, on the personal level that he knows you, he did not
want you to be alone. Because there are others in.
The household OK. But.
Now God, this may be one of the single missed scriptures.
Where people are not. In faith for.
We have a scripture. That says, but now God has
placed the members, each one of them, in the body, just as he
desired. Do you know that means I can
say, Lord, I believe that you will place me in the body you
want me in? Not.
Well, I'm going to pick the one I like.
Now this is really. Important because in the last of
the last days it tells us that people will heap teachers to
themselves because they'll have tickling ears.
They're only going to want to hear things that they want to
hear. So in essence, they're picking
the ministers, they're picking the content, they're picking
what to do. Not what God.
'S doing. OK.
So you can be in faith that you can know that you know I'm in
the place God has called me. That's amazing.
That you're not just here by accident.
Because when you. Know that you know that God has
placed you somewhere. Well, that changes the way you
function. Hallelujah.
Because. When you know you've been
placed, you would not let a devil in hell take you out of
it. It's amazing.
I mean, you would let nothing you're like, but God placed me
there. Because now that you know.
You've been placed right. He's placing you in the place
that you can grow and thrive. Where your fruit?
Can do stuff. Hallelujah.
Man that's excited that when you wake up and say man, I know I'm
called there. That's the place that God put
me. He spoke to me.
The Berean Standard Bible says it this way, but in fact God has
arranged the members of the body, every one of them,
according to his design. Young's Little.
Translation says it this way. And now God did set the members,
each one of them in the body, according according as he willed
Hallelujah, I said Hallelujah. And the remedy says it.
This way God has built the body with all this parts right where
He wanted them, all perfectly complementing each other and
fulfilling their purposes for the good of the entire body.
When you. Are in the body.
You know you're called to, and you're doing what you know
you're called to do. Then you're helping the whole.
Body Hallelujah. And that's a big deal.
It has eternal ramifications. It has eternal.
Ramifications. Because again.
Jesus is the architect. He's designing the church.
And in his. Design for all Listening to the
Spirit, we can find our fit. We know where we're supposed to
be. We have no desire to be
somewhere we're not. We only want to be in the spot
he's called us. And in doing so, all of us will
hear the same thing one day. Well done.
Well done, 'cause he knows. What you're designed to do.
He knows what you're designed. To do.
Amen. Let's pray.