1 00:00:21,190 --> 00:00:23,430 Last week we talked about the assembly. 2 00:00:24,270 --> 00:00:26,110 Today we're going to talk about the architect. 3 00:00:26,470 --> 00:00:29,910 Amen. Turn over to Matthew, Chapter 4 00:00:29,910 --> 00:00:32,470 16. Can y'all understand me? 5 00:00:33,070 --> 00:00:43,360 OK, I think I sound like. Yeah, I'm trying to think of his 6 00:00:43,360 --> 00:00:46,040 name now. Johnson's Darth Vader. 7 00:00:46,040 --> 00:00:51,560 That's funny. Robert Kennedy Junior, right? 8 00:00:53,160 --> 00:00:56,480 Yeah, I feel like I'm not. Have you noticed that? 9 00:00:56,480 --> 00:00:58,560 I understand. I understand him better now. 10 00:00:58,560 --> 00:01:01,680 At first it was like really difficult, but now I've gotten 11 00:01:01,680 --> 00:01:05,920 used to his voice. So I'm Robert Kennedy junior 12 00:01:05,920 --> 00:01:11,840 today turn over to Matthew chapter 16. 13 00:01:11,840 --> 00:01:16,200 We'll start in verse 16. Simon Peter answered, you are 14 00:01:16,200 --> 00:01:18,440 the Christ, the son of the living God and Jesus said to 15 00:01:18,440 --> 00:01:22,120 him, blessed are you Simon Barjona, because flesh and blood 16 00:01:22,120 --> 00:01:25,200 did not reveal this to you, but my father who was in heaven. 17 00:01:25,880 --> 00:01:28,360 And also I say to you that you are Peter, and upon this rock I 18 00:01:28,360 --> 00:01:31,560 will build my church. And the gates of hell, hell or 19 00:01:31,560 --> 00:01:35,520 Hades will not overpower it. I will give you the keys of the 20 00:01:35,520 --> 00:01:38,040 Kingdom of heaven. And whatever you bind on earth 21 00:01:38,040 --> 00:01:41,320 shall have been bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth 22 00:01:41,320 --> 00:01:43,680 shall have been loosed in heaven. 23 00:01:44,120 --> 00:01:48,160 Hallelujah. Aren't you glad that God built 24 00:01:48,160 --> 00:01:51,320 his church? He's building his church, man. 25 00:01:51,320 --> 00:01:57,000 It's so amazing. And so the church is very 26 00:01:57,000 --> 00:01:59,640 powerful thing. It is the most powerful thing on 27 00:01:59,640 --> 00:02:03,280 the planet. Unfortunately, I do believe that 28 00:02:03,280 --> 00:02:08,400 in many places it's become kind of institutionalized and has 29 00:02:08,400 --> 00:02:10,320 fallen off from its original intent. 30 00:02:10,320 --> 00:02:13,640 But we want to be in the original intent of what the Lord 31 00:02:13,640 --> 00:02:16,560 wanted to do in this particular passage. 32 00:02:16,560 --> 00:02:19,440 Obviously we started in verse 16 because he said you are the 33 00:02:19,440 --> 00:02:24,680 Christ, which is the King, the Messiah, the acknowledgement 34 00:02:24,680 --> 00:02:26,880 that Jesus is this king that was coming. 35 00:02:28,040 --> 00:02:31,680 And he said upon that revelation that I'm king, I'm going to 36 00:02:31,680 --> 00:02:34,640 build my church. So the kingdom's a big deal. 37 00:02:35,640 --> 00:02:37,800 Now, you know, when you get around some people, when you 38 00:02:37,800 --> 00:02:40,240 start talking Kingdom, they see it as a subject. 39 00:02:41,240 --> 00:02:45,240 And so, you know, although we talk about the Kingdom all the 40 00:02:45,240 --> 00:02:49,360 time, you know, it can sometimes seem like, you know, we're only 41 00:02:49,360 --> 00:02:52,280 staying on one subject, but the reality is the whole Bible's 42 00:02:52,280 --> 00:02:55,160 about the Kingdom. It's about a king, his Kingdom 43 00:02:55,160 --> 00:02:59,280 and his royal offspring, and all the subjects are connected to 44 00:02:59,280 --> 00:03:01,720 that. And so the Christ came and he's 45 00:03:01,720 --> 00:03:05,000 going to build his church and it says the gates of hell will not 46 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:07,160 overpower it. So the one that he's building 47 00:03:07,160 --> 00:03:08,720 the gates of hell will not overpower it. 48 00:03:09,160 --> 00:03:15,000 Now, that doesn't mean that the gates of hell won't won't mount 49 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:19,360 and attack against it. But you know as well as I do, no 50 00:03:19,360 --> 00:03:23,920 weapon formed against the church is going to prosper, Amen. 51 00:03:24,760 --> 00:03:30,320 So even though things attack His church, they won't prosper. 52 00:03:30,360 --> 00:03:33,000 They'll never take it out. Only way the church will be 53 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:37,200 taken out is when Jesus comes back and pulls the church. 54 00:03:38,640 --> 00:03:41,200 That's the only way it'll be taken out of the earth, Amen. 55 00:03:42,520 --> 00:03:45,360 And when you function in the church, then you're given the 56 00:03:45,360 --> 00:03:49,840 keys of the Kingdom. Notice that when he builds his 57 00:03:49,840 --> 00:03:52,520 church, he says, now I'll give you keys of the Kingdom because 58 00:03:52,520 --> 00:03:57,000 the church was all about advancing the Kingdom in the 59 00:03:57,000 --> 00:03:58,400 earth. Amen. 60 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:02,480 Now Psalms 127 verse one says this. 61 00:04:02,480 --> 00:04:06,920 Unless the Lord builds the house, they labor in vain who 62 00:04:06,920 --> 00:04:09,160 build it. And I don't know about you, but 63 00:04:09,240 --> 00:04:11,200 I don't want to be wasting my time. 64 00:04:13,120 --> 00:04:17,320 I don't want to waste my time. And you know, I've grown up in 65 00:04:17,320 --> 00:04:22,640 church my whole life. My mom when she got pregnant 66 00:04:22,640 --> 00:04:26,560 with my older sister, but don't tell my sister that she wants to 67 00:04:26,560 --> 00:04:27,880 act like she's younger than me, OK? 68 00:04:28,880 --> 00:04:32,960 But when she was going to give birth to my sister, she prayed 69 00:04:32,960 --> 00:04:36,920 and said, Lord, if you'll give me a healthy child, you know, 70 00:04:36,920 --> 00:04:39,560 I'll take them to church. Now. 71 00:04:39,560 --> 00:04:41,200 God wanted her to have healthy children. 72 00:04:41,640 --> 00:04:46,840 And so Kim was born healthy and and mom had just gotten born 73 00:04:46,840 --> 00:04:50,960 again not too long before that. And so she started going to 74 00:04:50,960 --> 00:04:53,640 church. And so you know, me and my 75 00:04:53,640 --> 00:04:55,760 sister grew up in church our whole lives. 76 00:04:56,080 --> 00:05:00,840 I remember one time I wasn't feeling great one day and I was 77 00:05:00,840 --> 00:05:03,160 going to stay home with my dad. My dad didn't really go to 78 00:05:03,160 --> 00:05:08,040 church, not till the end, but I was going to stay home and I'm 79 00:05:08,160 --> 00:05:11,000 was telling my mom I wasn't feeling well, but she knew that 80 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:13,080 I felt good enough. I could have gone to church. 81 00:05:13,400 --> 00:05:16,440 So she said, Earl Wayne, Now listen, if you're going to stay 82 00:05:16,440 --> 00:05:18,600 home with your dad because you're not feeling good this 83 00:05:18,600 --> 00:05:20,760 morning, know this, this afternoon you're going to not be 84 00:05:20,760 --> 00:05:22,320 feeling good either. So don't even be out. 85 00:05:22,320 --> 00:05:23,880 Don't ask me to go outside and play. 86 00:05:25,120 --> 00:05:29,400 Well, you know, I got, I got healed pretty quick and I went 87 00:05:29,400 --> 00:05:34,280 to church that day because playing outside was more 88 00:05:34,280 --> 00:05:37,720 important than hanging out at home. 89 00:05:38,040 --> 00:05:41,920 Amen. The Bible in basic English says 90 00:05:41,920 --> 00:05:44,600 it this way. If the Lord is not helping the 91 00:05:44,600 --> 00:05:49,040 builders, then the building of a house is to no purpose. 92 00:05:49,480 --> 00:05:53,280 You know, through the years when I've been in different churches, 93 00:05:53,280 --> 00:05:55,520 you know, it's caused me to ask a lot of questions. 94 00:05:56,440 --> 00:05:59,680 You know, you want to be able to see His church function as he 95 00:05:59,680 --> 00:06:02,760 designed. And so you're always moving 96 00:06:02,760 --> 00:06:05,840 towards that. The fact that Jesus Christ is 97 00:06:05,840 --> 00:06:09,840 coming back for a church without spot or wrinkle, which means 98 00:06:09,840 --> 00:06:12,800 then there must be one that's going to unify, that's going to 99 00:06:12,800 --> 00:06:16,520 come together and walk in brotherly love, that's going to 100 00:06:16,640 --> 00:06:21,000 be passionate about their fit in the church and do it. 101 00:06:21,240 --> 00:06:24,960 And there'll be no competition, only we'll only be complementing 102 00:06:24,960 --> 00:06:25,920 each other. Amen. 103 00:06:27,000 --> 00:06:28,720 The Good News Bible says it this way. 104 00:06:29,040 --> 00:06:32,600 If the Lord does not build the house, the work of the builders 105 00:06:32,600 --> 00:06:35,280 is useless. And the New Living Translation 106 00:06:35,280 --> 00:06:37,520 says it this way. Unless the Lord builds a house, 107 00:06:37,520 --> 00:06:39,840 the work of the builders is wasted. 108 00:06:40,120 --> 00:06:44,000 So we don't want to have wasted time again, You know, it's not 109 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:46,040 that there's any, there's nothing wrong with someone 110 00:06:46,360 --> 00:06:49,080 putting, you know, a sign and saying who's the pastor of a 111 00:06:49,080 --> 00:06:50,240 church. I get that. 112 00:06:52,040 --> 00:06:53,360 I don't have a problem with that. 113 00:06:54,320 --> 00:06:58,680 But you know, we've always endeavored to make sure that we 114 00:06:58,680 --> 00:07:00,520 focus that this is not my church. 115 00:07:01,160 --> 00:07:04,360 You know, this is His church. I'm just pastoring and I'm just 116 00:07:04,360 --> 00:07:09,760 the apostle in this local body that's here in Saint Augustine 117 00:07:10,640 --> 00:07:13,680 and, you know, because I don't want to take credit for 118 00:07:13,680 --> 00:07:16,560 something that I'm not doing. Amen. 119 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:23,080 Plus, you know, I'm just, I love the Lord and I'm fearful. 120 00:07:24,200 --> 00:07:27,080 I have a reverential fear of what he's doing. 121 00:07:27,520 --> 00:07:30,680 And you know, I'm always having to ask, how do you want to do 122 00:07:30,680 --> 00:07:33,000 this, Dad? What, what do you want to do? 123 00:07:33,200 --> 00:07:36,200 How do you want to do it? In this passage of Scripture 124 00:07:36,200 --> 00:07:42,640 between Matthew 16 and then also here in Psalms 127, we see that 125 00:07:42,640 --> 00:07:46,840 we're building something. And then the Matthew 16, when we 126 00:07:46,840 --> 00:07:52,200 take this Greek word, it's where we get this term architect, OK? 127 00:07:53,120 --> 00:07:55,960 So what's really powerful about this is that when God is 128 00:07:55,960 --> 00:07:59,440 building his church, he is the architect, OK? 129 00:07:59,440 --> 00:08:03,120 He's the one who's, in essence, drafting out how the thing's 130 00:08:03,120 --> 00:08:06,760 supposed to be built, OK? And the reason why this is 131 00:08:06,760 --> 00:08:10,160 really powerful is because he knows where things need to go, 132 00:08:11,600 --> 00:08:14,880 OK? And everything that's on the 133 00:08:14,880 --> 00:08:20,600 plans is very important. You know, let's put up the plans 134 00:08:20,600 --> 00:08:25,320 for JC Penney. We've just about finished the JC 135 00:08:25,320 --> 00:08:27,280 Penney part. It's really close. 136 00:08:27,880 --> 00:08:32,919 And all we have to do is deal with the what is it the current? 137 00:08:33,280 --> 00:08:35,280 We don't have that section build out yet. 138 00:08:35,799 --> 00:08:40,640 But when, when we put when we, you know, are sitting around 139 00:08:40,640 --> 00:08:43,480 talking to everyone, we're saying, what do you need? 140 00:08:43,480 --> 00:08:46,920 You know, we got, we got with a pastor Vanessa, when it came to 141 00:08:46,920 --> 00:08:52,200 the children's ministry or, you know, treasure hall preschool, 142 00:08:52,320 --> 00:08:55,520 what did you need? I mean, Brian and I had a 143 00:08:55,520 --> 00:09:00,040 phenomenal looking children's area only to have it moved 144 00:09:03,000 --> 00:09:06,600 because some of the functionality needed to be 145 00:09:06,600 --> 00:09:09,560 adjusted. It seemed to be seemed that we 146 00:09:09,560 --> 00:09:12,040 needed to move some rooms around to make things look a little 147 00:09:12,040 --> 00:09:13,040 better. OK. 148 00:09:14,400 --> 00:09:17,520 And then we were going to have our children's ministry in a 149 00:09:17,520 --> 00:09:21,880 particular area and we're like, man, if we have 1000 seat 150 00:09:21,880 --> 00:09:27,280 auditorium, which right now it's scaled at 1032 and we end up 151 00:09:27,280 --> 00:09:29,920 having kids, we we're going to need a much bigger children's 152 00:09:29,920 --> 00:09:32,680 facility. So you know, we had to end up 153 00:09:32,680 --> 00:09:36,160 taking up most of our storage that's there in JC Penney. 154 00:09:36,400 --> 00:09:38,200 And we're like, we're going to end up just having to build a 155 00:09:38,200 --> 00:09:41,280 warehouse so that we can put our store, our stuff in it. 156 00:09:42,440 --> 00:09:43,640 They'll get it up here in a minute. 157 00:09:43,640 --> 00:09:49,000 We'll, I'll keep going on. But the Lord, he is very 158 00:09:49,000 --> 00:09:51,000 detailed in how he builds a church. 159 00:09:52,040 --> 00:09:58,920 And we are very unique as individuals within his church. 160 00:09:59,760 --> 00:10:03,080 Before you and your mother's womb, God knew you. 161 00:10:03,080 --> 00:10:10,200 OK, OK, God knew you. OK, I'm going to probably walk 162 00:10:10,200 --> 00:10:16,560 over here a little bit. This section down here is our 163 00:10:16,560 --> 00:10:20,760 children's right here. And then you can see the 164 00:10:20,760 --> 00:10:23,520 sanctuary up there. And then this section over here 165 00:10:23,520 --> 00:10:24,720 is what we'll do. Nautilus. 166 00:10:25,320 --> 00:10:27,400 That's about 4000 square feet over here. 167 00:10:29,240 --> 00:10:32,560 This is some live classes. We'll be able to get about 7 168 00:10:32,560 --> 00:10:34,920 classrooms. There's for Kingdom Institute 169 00:10:34,920 --> 00:10:38,960 Faith Christian University and then our Egg Faith live classes 170 00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:42,280 offices are located there. This would be where the 171 00:10:42,280 --> 00:10:46,680 preschool will be at completely got a huge lobby area right here 172 00:10:47,520 --> 00:10:51,040 and then up there in that corner that we all we finished messing 173 00:10:51,040 --> 00:10:54,800 with yesterday, we were able to keep those particular walls and 174 00:10:54,800 --> 00:10:56,920 we'll be able to put bathrooms in that space. 175 00:10:56,920 --> 00:11:01,960 OK, so with that being said, man, God's doing some pretty 176 00:11:01,960 --> 00:11:06,480 awesome things. Now, again, what we want to do 177 00:11:06,480 --> 00:11:12,600 is we want to build the sanctuary 1st, and that's walls. 178 00:11:13,800 --> 00:11:19,360 And then just buying the nicer chairs than these because you'll 179 00:11:19,360 --> 00:11:21,440 sit and listen longer if you're in nice chairs. 180 00:11:23,160 --> 00:11:26,760 Hey man. So we'll get some really nice 181 00:11:26,760 --> 00:11:29,240 chairs there on the backside of the sanctuary. 182 00:11:29,240 --> 00:11:31,960 And then the top corners, those are risers. 183 00:11:32,400 --> 00:11:33,880 So they're going to actually go up. 184 00:11:34,400 --> 00:11:37,440 That way we can get 1032 seats in there. 185 00:11:38,160 --> 00:11:40,480 So that's pretty awesome. So we'll basically double in 186 00:11:40,480 --> 00:11:43,600 size and what we're in here. Amen. 187 00:11:48,200 --> 00:11:52,160 So this word, this word I'll build my church is where we get 188 00:11:52,160 --> 00:11:55,720 this. It comes from a compound Greek 189 00:11:55,720 --> 00:11:59,520 word of which has the the term architect in it. 190 00:11:59,840 --> 00:12:03,480 And what's interesting about this is that this word, when you 191 00:12:03,480 --> 00:12:08,320 break it down, it talks about building a building that is 192 00:12:08,400 --> 00:12:11,200 meant for public, for a public event. 193 00:12:13,240 --> 00:12:17,520 So what's important here is that a lot of times, and we've seen 194 00:12:17,520 --> 00:12:19,560 this through the years, you know, that we're like, we need 195 00:12:19,560 --> 00:12:22,160 that in the beginning was the word and the Word was with God 196 00:12:22,160 --> 00:12:25,640 and the word was God. OK, so God is the author of 197 00:12:25,640 --> 00:12:29,160 words and he has the right to define these words because 198 00:12:29,160 --> 00:12:32,160 through the years we have, you know, redefined words. 199 00:12:32,400 --> 00:12:36,440 We have because of culture, you know, it's we've kind of taken 200 00:12:36,440 --> 00:12:41,080 on our own thought processes by it, you know, and again, but 201 00:12:41,080 --> 00:12:43,400 when you actually start breaking these words down in their 202 00:12:43,400 --> 00:12:46,320 original language, then you realize there was some real 203 00:12:46,320 --> 00:12:49,640 intent concerning that. So when this word church is 204 00:12:49,640 --> 00:12:52,240 there, I'll build my church. He said. 205 00:12:52,240 --> 00:12:57,640 I'll build a building that is to be to have a public event. 206 00:12:58,400 --> 00:13:03,840 This is why even though the church itself is not the 207 00:13:03,840 --> 00:13:10,480 building, OK, but the church meets in a building. 208 00:13:12,200 --> 00:13:17,280 OK, Now there are a lot of people out there that have 209 00:13:17,280 --> 00:13:21,240 written stuff and and try to go back and say, well the original 210 00:13:21,240 --> 00:13:23,720 church was in homes when they were in homes until they outgrew 211 00:13:23,720 --> 00:13:29,120 the homes. OK, so again, God desires that 212 00:13:29,120 --> 00:13:31,200 none would perish, but that all would come to repentance. 213 00:13:31,200 --> 00:13:35,240 So God never intended for us to stay in the house, period. 214 00:13:35,560 --> 00:13:38,400 And so, you know, there's nothing wrong with you building 215 00:13:38,400 --> 00:13:41,920 a building and people collect upon the same place and a symbol 216 00:13:42,080 --> 00:13:44,640 for the purpose of honoring and worshipping the king. 217 00:13:45,040 --> 00:13:48,200 And this is what he meant by this when he said so he said 218 00:13:48,200 --> 00:13:51,320 we're going to build this thing. We're going to put the people in 219 00:13:51,320 --> 00:13:53,760 the place that I need them, but they're going to be in a 220 00:13:53,760 --> 00:13:55,960 building that they publicly come to. 221 00:13:56,520 --> 00:13:59,560 OK. So that's really important for 222 00:13:59,560 --> 00:14:02,440 us to recognize. Now this Greek word church is 223 00:14:02,440 --> 00:14:07,640 ecclesia or ecclesia, and it means legislative, assembly or 224 00:14:07,640 --> 00:14:10,640 selected ones. This is not a religious term at 225 00:14:10,640 --> 00:14:15,800 all, OK, But it's a government term that is used many times in 226 00:14:15,800 --> 00:14:20,400 the classical Greek for a group of people who have been summoned 227 00:14:20,400 --> 00:14:24,160 and gathered together to govern the affairs of a city. 228 00:14:24,400 --> 00:14:28,200 For Jesus to use this term means he is giving the keys of 229 00:14:28,200 --> 00:14:31,920 governmental authority in his Kingdom to the church. 230 00:14:34,720 --> 00:14:39,360 That's powerful. So again, we have a lot to say 231 00:14:39,360 --> 00:14:41,560 about what's going on in communities. 232 00:14:42,840 --> 00:14:47,160 We do when we are functioning as God intended us. 233 00:14:47,160 --> 00:14:52,520 Look what it says here in Zechariah chapter 6 verses 12 to 234 00:14:52,520 --> 00:14:56,560 13. This would gave us let's just 235 00:14:56,560 --> 00:14:59,880 see that the Lord's building something he prophesied. 236 00:14:59,880 --> 00:15:04,040 It says this then say to him, thus says the Lord of hosts, 237 00:15:04,040 --> 00:15:08,320 behold a man whose name is branch, for he will branch out 238 00:15:08,320 --> 00:15:11,080 from where he is, and he will build the temple of the Lord. 239 00:15:11,080 --> 00:15:14,840 Yes, it is he who will build the temple of the Lord, and he will 240 00:15:14,840 --> 00:15:19,480 bear the honor and the and sit and rule on his throne. 241 00:15:19,760 --> 00:15:22,000 Again, Thrones are in kingdoms, not religions. 242 00:15:22,520 --> 00:15:27,520 Thus he will be a priest on his throne, and the council of peace 243 00:15:27,520 --> 00:15:32,600 will be between the two offices. So Matthew Henry said this 244 00:15:32,600 --> 00:15:34,240 concerning this passage of scripture. 245 00:15:34,240 --> 00:15:40,920 He said he speaks by a sign or type which many saw and which as 246 00:15:40,920 --> 00:15:45,440 it was explained, was an illustration prediction of the 247 00:15:45,440 --> 00:15:49,000 Messiah as the priest and king of His church. 248 00:15:50,120 --> 00:15:52,880 So Jesus is the priest and king of His church. 249 00:15:53,160 --> 00:15:59,280 He is the ruler of the Church. And again, we we want to yield 250 00:15:59,280 --> 00:16:03,720 ourselves to listen to the Lord, because the Lord will place you 251 00:16:03,720 --> 00:16:08,360 in His body exactly where He wants you to be, because He 252 00:16:08,360 --> 00:16:13,040 knows why He designed how He designed you and what you are to 253 00:16:13,040 --> 00:16:17,160 accomplish in the earth. He's the only one. 254 00:16:17,360 --> 00:16:20,960 He is the Creator, and he can release all of your potential. 255 00:16:21,120 --> 00:16:24,240 Amen. Colossians chapter one, verse 13 256 00:16:24,240 --> 00:16:27,480 to 18 says it this way. For he rescued us from the 257 00:16:27,480 --> 00:16:30,640 domain of darkness and transferred us to the Kingdom of 258 00:16:30,640 --> 00:16:34,800 his beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of 259 00:16:34,800 --> 00:16:37,040 sin. He is the image of the invisible 260 00:16:37,040 --> 00:16:38,880 God, the first born of all creation. 261 00:16:39,120 --> 00:16:42,640 For by Him all things were created both in the heavens and 262 00:16:42,640 --> 00:16:47,400 on earth, visible and invisible, whether Thrones or dominions or 263 00:16:47,400 --> 00:16:50,000 rulers or authorities. All things have been created 264 00:16:50,000 --> 00:16:52,760 through Him and for Him. He is before all things, and in 265 00:16:52,760 --> 00:16:57,360 Him all things what hold together all right. 266 00:16:57,640 --> 00:17:05,400 He is also Head of the Body, which is the Church, and He is 267 00:17:05,400 --> 00:17:09,000 the beginning, the first born from the dead, so that He 268 00:17:09,000 --> 00:17:12,240 Himself will come to have first place in everything. 269 00:17:12,720 --> 00:17:15,680 So again, Jesus is the head of the body. 270 00:17:16,960 --> 00:17:21,160 So a finger cannot hang out with the head and not have the rest 271 00:17:21,160 --> 00:17:26,520 of the body around. Now, yes. 272 00:17:26,520 --> 00:17:29,080 Can you pray by yourself? Sure. 273 00:17:29,480 --> 00:17:30,800 Can you read the Word by yourself? 274 00:17:30,800 --> 00:17:36,160 But God never intended for us to be born again and then never be 275 00:17:36,160 --> 00:17:39,120 connected with any other believer while we were on the 276 00:17:39,120 --> 00:17:42,120 earth. So when people are saying, well, 277 00:17:42,120 --> 00:17:44,520 we don't need to go to church, you know, we don't have to go 278 00:17:44,520 --> 00:17:46,560 into a building, we don't need to do that. 279 00:17:46,680 --> 00:17:50,120 All that matters is that I've asked Jesus into my heart that 280 00:17:50,120 --> 00:17:52,680 and that he saved me. So when I die, I go to heaven. 281 00:17:52,880 --> 00:17:55,920 That is not scriptural at all. God never intended that. 282 00:17:56,360 --> 00:17:59,520 In fact, if you live that kind of existence, then what it is is 283 00:17:59,520 --> 00:18:04,040 you put yourself to be the one that's off and the wolf is going 284 00:18:04,040 --> 00:18:06,960 to be able to come and pull you and destroy you because you're 285 00:18:06,960 --> 00:18:10,440 alone. God always wanted you in the 286 00:18:10,440 --> 00:18:15,680 body. OK, so when Isaiah 9/6 and 287 00:18:15,680 --> 00:18:17,840 seven, you know this. A child will be born to us, a 288 00:18:17,840 --> 00:18:23,600 son will be given, and the government will rest on his 289 00:18:23,600 --> 00:18:25,080 shoulders, and his name will be called. 290 00:18:25,080 --> 00:18:30,120 Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of Peace. 291 00:18:30,120 --> 00:18:32,480 There will be no end to the increase of his government or of 292 00:18:32,480 --> 00:18:36,320 peace on the throne of David or over his Kingdom, to establish 293 00:18:36,320 --> 00:18:38,400 it, to uphold it with justice and righteousness. 294 00:18:38,400 --> 00:18:42,160 From then on, forever more, the zeal of the Lord of hosts will 295 00:18:42,160 --> 00:18:44,880 accomplish this. It is it the church. 296 00:18:45,200 --> 00:18:49,640 It is at church that you learn the ways of righteousness. 297 00:18:52,440 --> 00:18:55,880 It is being connected to the body that you learn of the 298 00:18:55,880 --> 00:18:58,600 things of the Kingdom and how to function in the earth. 299 00:18:59,960 --> 00:19:05,520 And then it releases who you are, that which God created you 300 00:19:05,520 --> 00:19:09,440 to be. OK Hebrews chapter 4 verse 14 301 00:19:09,440 --> 00:19:12,560 says it this way. Therefore, since we have a great 302 00:19:12,560 --> 00:19:15,120 high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the 303 00:19:15,120 --> 00:19:18,560 Son of God, let us hold fast our confession. 304 00:19:18,880 --> 00:19:22,400 So Jesus has done everything in the earth. 305 00:19:23,320 --> 00:19:25,040 He knows what we're going through. 306 00:19:25,040 --> 00:19:30,600 He knows the challenges that we have, and but yet he never 307 00:19:30,600 --> 00:19:37,440 sinned. So if anyone has the right or 308 00:19:37,440 --> 00:19:41,080 ability to help us overcome, it's the Lord. 309 00:19:42,360 --> 00:19:46,640 Because the Lord was tempted on all accounts to sin, but yet he 310 00:19:46,640 --> 00:19:50,400 did not sin. So that when we come together, 311 00:19:50,400 --> 00:19:54,600 what it does, it helps us maintain this new life in Christ 312 00:19:55,080 --> 00:19:58,280 so that when we are tempted, we are not overcome by the 313 00:19:58,280 --> 00:20:02,600 temptation, but we are to continue to grow up into the 314 00:20:02,600 --> 00:20:06,280 things of God. Second Corinthians chapter 6 315 00:20:06,280 --> 00:20:12,200 verse 16 says it this way. For we are the temple of the 316 00:20:12,200 --> 00:20:16,560 living God. God, just as God said, I will 317 00:20:16,560 --> 00:20:18,640 dwell in them and walk among them. 318 00:20:18,640 --> 00:20:22,760 I will be their God and they shall be my They'll be my 319 00:20:22,760 --> 00:20:24,360 people. Glory to God. 320 00:20:26,000 --> 00:20:28,040 Aren't you glad that you're the people of God? 321 00:20:30,320 --> 00:20:34,720 Man, I am so thankful that I am a people of God. 322 00:20:36,040 --> 00:20:41,080 Praise the Lord, praise the Lord again today. 323 00:20:41,080 --> 00:20:42,960 I'm just showing you that He's the builder. 324 00:20:44,160 --> 00:20:51,560 Again, I don't have the right to do what I want to do at Anchor 325 00:20:51,560 --> 00:20:56,160 Faith Church. I'm always having to ask the 326 00:20:56,160 --> 00:20:59,880 Lord, what do you want to do? How do you want to do this? 327 00:21:00,960 --> 00:21:05,920 What do you want to do? And in doing it, you know, we've 328 00:21:06,080 --> 00:21:08,480 we're doing what we're doing today because we just followed 329 00:21:08,480 --> 00:21:11,320 his voice. Amen. 330 00:21:12,840 --> 00:21:15,440 I'm Ephesians 218 to 22 says this. 331 00:21:15,440 --> 00:21:21,680 For through Him we both have our access in one spirit to the 332 00:21:21,680 --> 00:21:25,840 Father. So then you are no longer 333 00:21:25,840 --> 00:21:29,280 strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the 334 00:21:29,280 --> 00:21:32,640 Saints, and you are God's household, Psalmist's household, 335 00:21:34,440 --> 00:21:39,120 Hallelujah having been built on the foundation of the apostles 336 00:21:39,120 --> 00:21:43,960 and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone in 337 00:21:43,960 --> 00:21:48,360 whom the whole body being fitted together is growing into a holy 338 00:21:48,360 --> 00:21:55,560 temple in the Lord in whom you have been, in whom you also are 339 00:21:55,560 --> 00:22:00,720 being built together into a dwelling of God in the spirit. 340 00:22:01,280 --> 00:22:04,840 Now this is really important that we see that we're being 341 00:22:04,840 --> 00:22:13,000 built together. We're being built together when 342 00:22:13,000 --> 00:22:16,160 we were when we made Jesus, the Lord of our lives, our spirit 343 00:22:16,160 --> 00:22:22,040 man that was dead. We, we, it left and we became a 344 00:22:22,040 --> 00:22:25,600 new creature in Christ. But now we have to renew our 345 00:22:25,600 --> 00:22:28,680 minds. So when you come into the body 346 00:22:28,680 --> 00:22:32,920 of Christ, you have multiple people who have mind renewal 347 00:22:32,920 --> 00:22:35,560 issues. We all have to renew our minds. 348 00:22:36,920 --> 00:22:42,400 And so, you know, we're renewing our minds so that we are more 349 00:22:42,400 --> 00:22:46,640 effective towards one another, so that we can accomplish what 350 00:22:46,640 --> 00:22:50,760 God's called us to do, but also be there for one another. 351 00:22:51,640 --> 00:22:56,400 Because again, God is he's building his church, not so that 352 00:22:56,400 --> 00:23:01,360 we are isolated efforts, but we are coming together to do an 353 00:23:01,360 --> 00:23:04,960 effort that is bigger than if we did things by ourselves. 354 00:23:07,440 --> 00:23:10,040 OK. So it's really important that we 355 00:23:10,040 --> 00:23:12,560 recognize that, you know, your growth. 356 00:23:12,600 --> 00:23:16,440 It doesn't just change you, it affects the ones that are in 357 00:23:16,440 --> 00:23:21,880 this building. Amen. 358 00:23:23,000 --> 00:23:28,800 You know, my wife knows that we know healing and you know, 359 00:23:28,800 --> 00:23:35,760 really I, I don't get symptoms very often, you know, and 360 00:23:35,760 --> 00:23:38,320 they're usually can be gone within 24 hours. 361 00:23:38,360 --> 00:23:40,280 This one's hanging around just a tad more. 362 00:23:41,800 --> 00:23:44,080 But I'll be honest, this morning, man, I was rough. 363 00:23:46,000 --> 00:23:48,520 It was rough. I mean, we're so rough. 364 00:23:48,520 --> 00:23:51,720 I'm like, I call it audible. I got plenty of people who can 365 00:23:51,720 --> 00:23:58,320 preach in 21 years, I've not preached because I stayed home 366 00:23:58,320 --> 00:24:00,800 because I wasn't feeling well. I've never done that. 367 00:24:02,520 --> 00:24:09,120 I've never done that. OK, Not that I couldn't, right. 368 00:24:10,400 --> 00:24:14,280 But, you know, we were talking this morning and she was like, 369 00:24:14,760 --> 00:24:25,500 you're going to have to get up. You're going to have to get up. 370 00:24:27,340 --> 00:24:32,140 Well, I really didn't want to hear that, you know, So we have 371 00:24:32,140 --> 00:24:36,140 one of these beds that adjust, you know, it can sit you up. 372 00:24:38,160 --> 00:24:48,360 So she hits the button and sets me up right. 373 00:24:51,480 --> 00:24:57,040 So she brings me a few things, you know, so I can hydrate and 374 00:24:58,120 --> 00:25:00,680 you know, when I hit the button to get him what they call 375 00:25:00,680 --> 00:25:03,640 rejuvenate. So position where your legs are 376 00:25:03,640 --> 00:25:06,440 a little bit higher than your head, you know, and I was just 377 00:25:06,440 --> 00:25:11,240 going to take a little moment, but she hit that button again 378 00:25:11,240 --> 00:25:15,000 and put me up, you know, have me sitting straight up. 379 00:25:15,040 --> 00:25:22,200 And it's like, OK, so I said, listen, I'm, we're not driving 380 00:25:22,200 --> 00:25:25,280 together anyway, I, I'll come in later. 381 00:25:27,480 --> 00:25:37,000 So after she left, I put it in Rejuvenate and I put my alarm 382 00:25:37,040 --> 00:25:43,200 for an hour and when I woke up I was sweating so I was breaking 383 00:25:43,200 --> 00:25:46,200 some things off. Jesus name Amen. 384 00:25:48,080 --> 00:25:54,920 My point is, is that we are here to champion each other, you 385 00:25:54,920 --> 00:25:57,920 know, because when you don't feel like something, you can go 386 00:25:57,920 --> 00:26:02,400 past what you feel. And I'm thankful that my wife 387 00:26:02,400 --> 00:26:06,080 kept me to the word. You know, I mean, she could have 388 00:26:06,080 --> 00:26:10,760 sympathized with my feelings for sure and said, hey, you know, 389 00:26:11,640 --> 00:26:14,160 we'll figure it out. We got plenty of people. 390 00:26:14,160 --> 00:26:19,560 They can do this, right? But she was like, no, you need 391 00:26:19,560 --> 00:26:22,240 to be there, right? You need to come preach. 392 00:26:22,240 --> 00:26:29,080 You need to step up in faith. And when you get built in the 393 00:26:29,080 --> 00:26:34,720 body, you're thankful for people that won't let you just sit in 394 00:26:34,720 --> 00:26:38,680 the way you feel. Amen. 395 00:26:40,320 --> 00:26:42,960 Amen. You know, I was intentional not 396 00:26:42,960 --> 00:26:45,560 to get in here too early and didn't really sing during 397 00:26:45,560 --> 00:26:47,640 worship because I'm trying to hold on to my voice that's 398 00:26:47,640 --> 00:26:49,880 getting stronger every minute in Jesus name. 399 00:26:51,400 --> 00:26:54,480 But you know, people are recognizing and you know, 400 00:26:54,520 --> 00:26:56,640 praying for me. Interesting. 401 00:26:56,640 --> 00:27:00,280 That's what we do, right? When you see someone's in a 402 00:27:00,280 --> 00:27:02,640 state of weakness, you don't. You don't. 403 00:27:03,080 --> 00:27:06,640 You help lift them up. And that's what the body. 404 00:27:06,640 --> 00:27:08,480 You do, right? We're build each other up 405 00:27:08,480 --> 00:27:10,520 together because we're in the same household. 406 00:27:11,040 --> 00:27:15,840 Ephesians chapter 4, verse 11, Ephesians 411. 407 00:27:15,840 --> 00:27:18,880 We'll go to the 16 it says, and he gave some as apostles. 408 00:27:19,160 --> 00:27:25,320 Now if I jump back to verse 8, verse 8 lets us know that God 409 00:27:25,320 --> 00:27:29,160 gave gifts to men. That means everyone in here, 410 00:27:29,280 --> 00:27:32,920 you're a gift, say I'm a gift, you are a gift. 411 00:27:33,200 --> 00:27:36,400 He gave gifts to men and everyone of you are a gift. 412 00:27:36,520 --> 00:27:38,760 You are a gift to the body of Christ. 413 00:27:39,080 --> 00:27:44,440 OK, so then he in verse 11, he says, now some of the gifts that 414 00:27:44,440 --> 00:27:48,560 he gave to the body is this. And he gave some as apostles, 415 00:27:48,800 --> 00:27:51,760 some as prophets, some as evangelists, some as pastors and 416 00:27:51,760 --> 00:27:54,640 some as teachers. Do you know that these five fold 417 00:27:54,640 --> 00:27:57,080 ministries are still in the earth today? 418 00:27:58,080 --> 00:28:00,800 They've not died out, you know, they haven't. 419 00:28:00,920 --> 00:28:04,000 Some people teach that the baptism of the Holy Spirit died 420 00:28:04,000 --> 00:28:10,080 out with the original 12 apostles, you know, and now most 421 00:28:10,080 --> 00:28:13,840 people call people people either a pastor or evangelist or 422 00:28:13,840 --> 00:28:16,440 teacher. But you know, nobody wants to 423 00:28:17,200 --> 00:28:19,280 utilize the. And again, these are gifts. 424 00:28:19,280 --> 00:28:25,080 They're not titles, all right? I think that's where the church 425 00:28:25,080 --> 00:28:29,240 has gotten hurt a little bit is that they turned it and said, 426 00:28:29,240 --> 00:28:31,680 well, you want a title? Well, it's not a title. 427 00:28:31,920 --> 00:28:33,400 God didn't call it title, he said. 428 00:28:33,400 --> 00:28:37,200 He said it was a gift. It's not. 429 00:28:37,200 --> 00:28:42,240 Title it's a gift, you know and who and again, you don't have to 430 00:28:42,240 --> 00:28:47,040 use them, but Paul, obviously I am what I am because of the 431 00:28:47,040 --> 00:28:50,360 grace of God. Right, so. 432 00:28:50,360 --> 00:28:55,560 He was an apostle by the grace of God, and God gave him that 433 00:28:55,560 --> 00:29:00,520 gift, you know, And just because someone may not do it correctly 434 00:29:00,800 --> 00:29:03,360 doesn't mean someone's not doing it correctly. 435 00:29:04,080 --> 00:29:08,080 And we shouldn't just disregard the ministry gifts because we've 436 00:29:08,080 --> 00:29:09,960 been around someone who didn't do it right. 437 00:29:11,600 --> 00:29:15,600 OK. But he gave these five fold 438 00:29:15,600 --> 00:29:18,920 ministry gifts for the purpose, 12 for the equipment of the 439 00:29:18,920 --> 00:29:23,960 Saints, for the work of service. So the gifts that are associated 440 00:29:23,960 --> 00:29:27,480 with these five offices and I'm convinced. 441 00:29:28,600 --> 00:29:32,040 That God always. Intended for all 5 to be in a 442 00:29:32,200 --> 00:29:41,440 church. That he never. 443 00:29:41,440 --> 00:29:44,960 Intended that there would just be a pastor. 444 00:29:53,840 --> 00:29:55,000 He never intended. That. 445 00:29:58,360 --> 00:30:00,560 Because if. We as we read this Psalm, it 446 00:30:00,560 --> 00:30:02,360 says they're equipment of the Saints for the worker service 447 00:30:02,360 --> 00:30:03,920 through the building up of the body of Christ. 448 00:30:03,920 --> 00:30:06,480 You know what's pretty awesome about this? 449 00:30:07,080 --> 00:30:10,200 The Evangelist. Has an assignment. 450 00:30:10,200 --> 00:30:15,880 Inside the church. We typically. 451 00:30:15,880 --> 00:30:19,760 See the evangelist being out, but their first work is inside. 452 00:30:21,680 --> 00:30:24,600 To stir us all. Up in whatever areas of 453 00:30:24,600 --> 00:30:29,280 influence we have that we can win people to the Lord in our 454 00:30:29,440 --> 00:30:34,480 sphere of influence, OK. But. 455 00:30:34,600 --> 00:30:39,120 All of these build up the body of Christ, and if you're missing 456 00:30:39,120 --> 00:30:42,400 one of the gifts, then you're missing what that gift brings to 457 00:30:42,400 --> 00:30:46,440 the body. So that's why we need. 458 00:30:46,440 --> 00:30:50,720 To pray that we have all the gifts and we allow the gifts to 459 00:30:50,720 --> 00:30:56,640 function because it's not the person, it's the gift that God 460 00:30:56,640 --> 00:31:00,400 gave. I said that God gave and. 461 00:31:00,400 --> 00:31:01,440 They're not. Better. 462 00:31:03,080 --> 00:31:04,320 It's just they're. Fit. 463 00:31:06,400 --> 00:31:08,680 God made the. Architectural plans. 464 00:31:08,800 --> 00:31:12,040 And he said this is what you're going to do now. 465 00:31:12,040 --> 00:31:15,120 I've done this before. This pole right here, you know 466 00:31:15,120 --> 00:31:18,360 we never moved it. Just painted it. 467 00:31:18,360 --> 00:31:26,560 Black. This would have cost me $50,000 468 00:31:26,560 --> 00:31:29,200 I think it was at one point to pull this out. 469 00:31:31,440 --> 00:31:33,080 Well, I. Didn't do that. 470 00:31:35,600 --> 00:31:37,120 And we? Were talking about pulling some 471 00:31:37,120 --> 00:31:40,400 poles in JC Penney actually, and we were like, well you know, 472 00:31:40,400 --> 00:31:41,560 we're not going to do that either. 473 00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:50,080 But this pole, although it's on the platform and the other ones 474 00:31:50,080 --> 00:31:55,360 are not, they serve a purpose. OK, the. 475 00:31:55,360 --> 00:32:02,200 Architect designed this building so that these poles could hold 476 00:32:02,200 --> 00:32:04,880 the weight. Of the roof. 477 00:32:07,360 --> 00:32:09,600 If you were. Never designed to be a pole? 478 00:32:10,240 --> 00:32:12,960 Then you're not going to be able to hold the weight of the roof. 479 00:32:16,640 --> 00:32:18,880 So you only. Want to be what God wants you to 480 00:32:18,880 --> 00:32:22,120 be, Because sometimes people want to get in places that God's 481 00:32:22,120 --> 00:32:25,920 not asking them to be. And then when they start. 482 00:32:25,920 --> 00:32:31,440 To cave under the pressure. OK. 483 00:32:32,080 --> 00:32:34,720 Then they can get mad at God. They definitely get mad at the 484 00:32:34,720 --> 00:32:38,480 church. People there in the church was 485 00:32:38,480 --> 00:32:41,000 because you're trying to function in a place that the 486 00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:43,200 architect never designed you to function. 487 00:32:45,800 --> 00:32:49,400 Amen. And so, you know, there are so 488 00:32:49,400 --> 00:32:52,480 many different things that are in this building that is 489 00:32:52,480 --> 00:32:54,320 necessary. I mean, the air conditioned, 490 00:32:54,320 --> 00:32:57,520 thank God for it, right in the heater, thank God for the seats 491 00:32:57,520 --> 00:33:00,160 you're in, allows you to sit there kind of comfortable, 492 00:33:00,160 --> 00:33:03,200 right? You know, they serve their 493 00:33:03,200 --> 00:33:07,200 purpose and none of these things fight against each other. 494 00:33:07,280 --> 00:33:10,520 They're in the room designed to do what they're supposed to do. 495 00:33:11,120 --> 00:33:17,440 We actually have Christ in us. If anyone shouldn't be fighting 496 00:33:17,440 --> 00:33:20,960 amongst themselves is US, and we should just be excited about 497 00:33:20,960 --> 00:33:24,560 what we've been called to do. Amen. 498 00:33:25,800 --> 00:33:27,960 So we go on and. It says for the equipment of the 499 00:33:27,960 --> 00:33:30,040 Saints, for the work of service, building up the body of Christ 500 00:33:30,040 --> 00:33:34,120 until we attain, till we all attain to the unity of the faith 501 00:33:35,040 --> 00:33:37,440 of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a mature man, to the 502 00:33:37,440 --> 00:33:39,560 measure of the statue which belongs to the fullness of 503 00:33:39,560 --> 00:33:43,440 Christ. As a result, we are no longer to 504 00:33:43,440 --> 00:33:45,120 be children tossed here and there. 505 00:33:46,240 --> 00:33:48,920 By waves and carried. About by every wind of doctrine, 506 00:33:48,920 --> 00:33:52,120 by the trickery of men, by craftiness and deceitful 507 00:33:52,120 --> 00:33:54,400 scheming. What's that tell us? 508 00:33:55,400 --> 00:33:59,440 It tells us that first, if you're not, if you're not even 509 00:33:59,440 --> 00:34:01,720 connected to the church, you're going to be tossed. 510 00:34:02,880 --> 00:34:06,760 That's a guarantee, the only way that you keep yourself from 511 00:34:06,760 --> 00:34:09,800 being tossed. And every wind. 512 00:34:09,800 --> 00:34:12,400 Of doctrine and trickery, of men in the craftiness and deceitful 513 00:34:12,400 --> 00:34:15,159 scheming, is that you submit yourself. 514 00:34:16,159 --> 00:34:19,440 To the church. Body and you do your part. 515 00:34:21,320 --> 00:34:23,639 And when you do. That you'll grow. 516 00:34:25,080 --> 00:34:28,760 Verse 15 But speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in 517 00:34:28,760 --> 00:34:33,159 all aspects into Him who was the head, even Christ, from whom the 518 00:34:33,159 --> 00:34:37,080 whole body, being fitted and held together by what every 519 00:34:37,080 --> 00:34:40,360 joint supplies according to the proper working of each 520 00:34:40,360 --> 00:34:44,239 individual part, causes the growth of the body for the 521 00:34:44,239 --> 00:34:49,480 building up of itself in love. So notice verse 16 that we are 522 00:34:49,480 --> 00:34:54,520 fitted and held together again. These are not isolations. 523 00:34:58,120 --> 00:35:01,320 And. Because we are together, we all 524 00:35:01,320 --> 00:35:06,600 bring a supply. And that supply? 525 00:35:06,600 --> 00:35:10,080 Is according to the proper working, which implies there can 526 00:35:10,080 --> 00:35:13,560 be an improper working. But a proper? 527 00:35:13,560 --> 00:35:17,680 Working of each individual part in the Kingdom. 528 00:35:17,720 --> 00:35:21,160 You lose your independence, but you do not lose your 529 00:35:21,160 --> 00:35:24,280 individuality. You are an. 530 00:35:24,280 --> 00:35:30,440 Individual God sees you as you are, however He never wanted you 531 00:35:30,440 --> 00:35:33,200 by yourself. Amen. 532 00:35:34,280 --> 00:35:36,880 He always wanted you connected to somebody else. 533 00:35:38,040 --> 00:35:42,520 Praise the Lord and when you bring your supply, I mean, 534 00:35:42,520 --> 00:35:47,360 really, yesterday they were able to run through the demo so quick 535 00:35:47,560 --> 00:35:50,760 and actually move to another area that we initially weren't 536 00:35:50,760 --> 00:35:55,800 going to deal with because so many people showed up and 537 00:35:55,800 --> 00:36:00,280 brought their supply. And honestly, wasn't it? 538 00:36:00,600 --> 00:36:04,080 The camaraderie was fun. I mean. 539 00:36:04,080 --> 00:36:06,120 Just have a great time with one another. 540 00:36:07,360 --> 00:36:10,880 You know, obviously if we were all professionals, we probably 541 00:36:10,880 --> 00:36:13,280 would do things a little differently, but we don't have 542 00:36:13,280 --> 00:36:18,320 to be. So people were busting sheetrock 543 00:36:18,320 --> 00:36:19,680 off the walls. It was fun. 544 00:36:21,240 --> 00:36:23,360 But. Each person came together doing 545 00:36:23,360 --> 00:36:27,440 their part and nobody was like mad at each other because one 546 00:36:27,440 --> 00:36:29,160 had a hammer and another one didn't. 547 00:36:30,520 --> 00:36:32,160 But we just came to do the assignment. 548 00:36:32,160 --> 00:36:35,440 Put me where you want me. Everybody was working together 549 00:36:35,440 --> 00:36:39,000 and it was accomplished in a lot less time. 550 00:36:40,040 --> 00:36:41,800 Hallelujah. Well, you know, we can do this 551 00:36:41,800 --> 00:36:43,920 in the church as well. All right. 552 00:36:43,920 --> 00:36:52,440 First Corinthians chapter 3 and verse 10, Paul said according to 553 00:36:52,440 --> 00:36:56,720 the grace of God, which was given to me, like a wise master 554 00:36:56,720 --> 00:36:59,720 builder, I lay a foundation and another is building on it. 555 00:37:02,560 --> 00:37:04,680 But. Each man must be careful how he 556 00:37:04,680 --> 00:37:08,160 builds on it. Paul. 557 00:37:08,160 --> 00:37:13,680 Obviously had grace to build. He did his part right. 558 00:37:14,880 --> 00:37:17,400 Obviously he brought doctrine. He was an apostle. 559 00:37:18,240 --> 00:37:23,320 He he also did leadership. He established the church and 560 00:37:23,320 --> 00:37:25,680 then he would write and say, man, I hope I don't come back 561 00:37:25,680 --> 00:37:29,720 and have labored in vain, you know, Are you still doing what 562 00:37:29,720 --> 00:37:34,520 you've been instructed to do? But he was a wise master 563 00:37:34,520 --> 00:37:35,080 builder. Why? 564 00:37:35,080 --> 00:37:37,960 Because he was. How do you want me to do this, 565 00:37:37,960 --> 00:37:39,720 Lord? What do you want me to say? 566 00:37:39,720 --> 00:37:43,880 How do you want me to respond? How do you want me to build your 567 00:37:43,880 --> 00:37:50,640 church? Hallelujah, the Lord is good. 568 00:37:54,480 --> 00:37:56,440 Let's. Go on, let's go to 1st 569 00:37:56,440 --> 00:38:04,520 Corinthians 12. First Corinthians. 12 verses 12 570 00:38:04,520 --> 00:38:11,200 to 14 I mean we've seen multiple scriptures that Christ who sits 571 00:38:11,200 --> 00:38:15,680 at the right hand of the Father is not disconnected, however he 572 00:38:15,680 --> 00:38:18,520 is directly connected to build his church. 573 00:38:20,160 --> 00:38:22,680 OK. And. 574 00:38:23,600 --> 00:38:27,440 If we'll listen to him, then obviously we'll we'll have his 575 00:38:27,440 --> 00:38:31,600 church manifest in the earth. His legislative. 576 00:38:31,600 --> 00:38:37,680 Assembly it says for even as the body is 1 yet has many members, 577 00:38:38,400 --> 00:38:42,840 and all the members of the body, though there are many, are one 578 00:38:42,840 --> 00:38:46,680 body, so also is Christ and that awesome. 579 00:38:48,560 --> 00:38:53,320 He says. For by 1 spirit we were all 580 00:38:53,320 --> 00:38:57,480 baptized into the into one body, whether Jews or Greek, whether 581 00:38:57,480 --> 00:39:02,720 slaves are free, and we were all made to drink of 1 spirit. 582 00:39:02,960 --> 00:39:05,760 For the body is not one member, but many. 583 00:39:07,520 --> 00:39:11,720 So again. The body is all of us collecting 584 00:39:11,720 --> 00:39:15,080 upon the same place. Where? 585 00:39:15,280 --> 00:39:19,480 We bring our supply. To do what? 586 00:39:19,480 --> 00:39:22,600 God has asked us to do in the earth for such a time as this. 587 00:39:22,600 --> 00:39:24,920 I'm. Going to. 588 00:39:24,920 --> 00:39:27,400 Close with this scripture here. First Corinthians chapter 12, 589 00:39:27,400 --> 00:39:31,120 verse 18. First Corinthians chapter. 12 590 00:39:31,120 --> 00:39:35,520 verse 18 says this. But now. 591 00:39:35,520 --> 00:39:46,640 God has placed now God has placed the members, each one of 592 00:39:46,640 --> 00:39:49,600 them. Each one of. 593 00:39:49,600 --> 00:39:54,440 Them in the body, just as he desired. 594 00:40:01,990 --> 00:40:05,470 This verse. Here is a very powerful verse. 595 00:40:09,070 --> 00:40:12,750 It lets us know how much God knows you personally. 596 00:40:15,310 --> 00:40:22,400 However, on the personal level that he knows you, he did not 597 00:40:22,400 --> 00:40:27,360 want you to be alone. Because there are others in. 598 00:40:27,360 --> 00:40:31,320 The household OK. But. 599 00:40:31,320 --> 00:40:41,640 Now God, this may be one of the single missed scriptures. 600 00:40:44,920 --> 00:40:46,920 Where people are not. In faith for. 601 00:40:50,680 --> 00:40:53,000 We have a scripture. That says, but now God has 602 00:40:53,000 --> 00:40:57,680 placed the members, each one of them, in the body, just as he 603 00:40:57,680 --> 00:40:59,520 desired. Do you know that means I can 604 00:40:59,520 --> 00:41:03,480 say, Lord, I believe that you will place me in the body you 605 00:41:03,480 --> 00:41:09,280 want me in? Not. 606 00:41:09,680 --> 00:41:11,240 Well, I'm going to pick the one I like. 607 00:41:14,240 --> 00:41:16,720 Now this is really. Important because in the last of 608 00:41:16,720 --> 00:41:21,920 the last days it tells us that people will heap teachers to 609 00:41:21,920 --> 00:41:24,000 themselves because they'll have tickling ears. 610 00:41:25,080 --> 00:41:27,280 They're only going to want to hear things that they want to 611 00:41:27,280 --> 00:41:29,200 hear. So in essence, they're picking 612 00:41:29,800 --> 00:41:33,520 the ministers, they're picking the content, they're picking 613 00:41:33,520 --> 00:41:36,480 what to do. Not what God. 614 00:41:36,480 --> 00:41:38,920 'S doing. OK. 615 00:41:39,960 --> 00:41:42,960 So you can be in faith that you can know that you know I'm in 616 00:41:42,960 --> 00:41:50,000 the place God has called me. That's amazing. 617 00:41:51,880 --> 00:41:54,320 That you're not just here by accident. 618 00:41:57,720 --> 00:42:00,920 Because when you. Know that you know that God has 619 00:42:00,920 --> 00:42:05,160 placed you somewhere. Well, that changes the way you 620 00:42:05,160 --> 00:42:09,320 function. Hallelujah. 621 00:42:10,920 --> 00:42:12,240 Because. When you know you've been 622 00:42:12,240 --> 00:42:16,080 placed, you would not let a devil in hell take you out of 623 00:42:16,080 --> 00:42:18,960 it. It's amazing. 624 00:42:22,080 --> 00:42:25,040 I mean, you would let nothing you're like, but God placed me 625 00:42:25,040 --> 00:42:33,500 there. Because now that you know. 626 00:42:33,500 --> 00:42:39,380 You've been placed right. He's placing you in the place 627 00:42:39,380 --> 00:42:45,320 that you can grow and thrive. Where your fruit? 628 00:42:45,320 --> 00:42:48,360 Can do stuff. Hallelujah. 629 00:42:49,120 --> 00:42:54,040 Man that's excited that when you wake up and say man, I know I'm 630 00:42:54,040 --> 00:42:57,840 called there. That's the place that God put 631 00:42:57,840 --> 00:43:00,560 me. He spoke to me. 632 00:43:03,040 --> 00:43:09,040 The Berean Standard Bible says it this way, but in fact God has 633 00:43:09,040 --> 00:43:12,000 arranged the members of the body, every one of them, 634 00:43:12,480 --> 00:43:18,480 according to his design. Young's Little. 635 00:43:18,480 --> 00:43:21,960 Translation says it this way. And now God did set the members, 636 00:43:21,960 --> 00:43:26,520 each one of them in the body, according according as he willed 637 00:43:28,560 --> 00:43:37,120 Hallelujah, I said Hallelujah. And the remedy says it. 638 00:43:37,120 --> 00:43:42,360 This way God has built the body with all this parts right where 639 00:43:42,360 --> 00:43:47,400 He wanted them, all perfectly complementing each other and 640 00:43:47,400 --> 00:43:51,480 fulfilling their purposes for the good of the entire body. 641 00:43:53,160 --> 00:43:57,000 When you. Are in the body. 642 00:43:57,000 --> 00:44:01,200 You know you're called to, and you're doing what you know 643 00:44:01,200 --> 00:44:04,440 you're called to do. Then you're helping the whole. 644 00:44:04,440 --> 00:44:11,720 Body Hallelujah. And that's a big deal. 645 00:44:12,840 --> 00:44:17,960 It has eternal ramifications. It has eternal. 646 00:44:17,960 --> 00:44:21,360 Ramifications. Because again. 647 00:44:21,640 --> 00:44:24,760 Jesus is the architect. He's designing the church. 648 00:44:26,880 --> 00:44:30,200 And in his. Design for all Listening to the 649 00:44:30,200 --> 00:44:33,040 Spirit, we can find our fit. We know where we're supposed to 650 00:44:33,040 --> 00:44:35,640 be. We have no desire to be 651 00:44:35,640 --> 00:44:38,760 somewhere we're not. We only want to be in the spot 652 00:44:38,760 --> 00:44:43,560 he's called us. And in doing so, all of us will 653 00:44:43,560 --> 00:44:46,360 hear the same thing one day. Well done. 654 00:44:51,320 --> 00:44:58,960 Well done, 'cause he knows. What you're designed to do. 655 00:45:01,360 --> 00:45:02,640 He knows what you're designed. To do. 656 00:45:02,640 --> 00:45:04,440 Amen. Let's pray.