1 00:00:03,040 --> 00:00:05,560 Thanks for checking out the Anchor Faith Message podcast 2 00:00:05,560 --> 00:00:06,960 from St. Augustine, FL. 3 00:00:07,520 --> 00:00:16,840 Now enjoy this message. So I'm going to ask some 4 00:00:16,840 --> 00:00:19,600 questions probably 100 times as we get into this. 5 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:22,480 OK. I'm going to ask some questions 6 00:00:22,480 --> 00:00:24,320 a whole bunch. How have you been living the 7 00:00:24,320 --> 00:00:27,840 last few months? What have you been saying the 8 00:00:27,840 --> 00:00:32,400 last few months? Have you been reigning or have 9 00:00:32,400 --> 00:00:35,520 you been blaming? And so tonight I want to talk 10 00:00:35,520 --> 00:00:40,120 about the blaming spirit. So if you will turn over to 11 00:00:40,120 --> 00:00:43,640 Philippians Chapter 2, verse 14, that's where we're going to 12 00:00:43,640 --> 00:00:46,160 start tonight. Philippians chapter 2, verse 14 13 00:00:46,640 --> 00:00:52,640 and it says here do all things without grumbling or disputing. 14 00:00:52,640 --> 00:00:56,480 The New Living Translation says complaining or arguing, do all 15 00:00:56,480 --> 00:00:58,200 things without complaining or arguing. 16 00:00:58,200 --> 00:01:00,960 Pastor Marcus stole my line. We could stop right here and I 17 00:01:00,960 --> 00:01:04,360 could probably talk for an hour about this. 18 00:01:04,680 --> 00:01:10,120 Do all things without grumbling or complaining. 19 00:01:11,560 --> 00:01:16,080 Do all things without without grumbling or complaining without 20 00:01:16,080 --> 00:01:21,200 disputing, without arguing. That means when Pastor Earl asks 21 00:01:21,200 --> 00:01:25,080 you to do something or when Pastor Earl says gets up here 22 00:01:25,080 --> 00:01:27,840 and he's cast a vision for the year and he says we're going to 23 00:01:27,840 --> 00:01:31,680 do a Christmas float in the Christmas parade again, We need 24 00:01:31,680 --> 00:01:34,560 to rally around that and we need to be excited for that Christmas 25 00:01:34,560 --> 00:01:35,960 float because you know what? Some people could see that 26 00:01:35,960 --> 00:01:37,960 Christmas float and be like, hey, wait a second, what in the 27 00:01:37,960 --> 00:01:39,480 world are they doing? Come to Anchor Faith Church and 28 00:01:39,480 --> 00:01:41,880 they receive the Kingdom message in their life would be forever 29 00:01:41,880 --> 00:01:44,960 changed. What Pastor Earl does not need 30 00:01:44,960 --> 00:01:48,520 from us is, ah, man, we've done Christmas parades before. 31 00:01:48,520 --> 00:01:50,200 I I think that's a waste of time. 32 00:01:52,720 --> 00:01:57,320 No. Do all things without grumbling 33 00:01:57,640 --> 00:02:02,480 or complaining. Do all things without grumbling 34 00:02:02,840 --> 00:02:07,160 or complaining. You know, I've had these 35 00:02:07,160 --> 00:02:09,000 thoughts plenty of times. Pastor Marcus he. 36 00:02:09,240 --> 00:02:10,720 He's our worship pastor. You guys know him. 37 00:02:13,920 --> 00:02:17,640 He asks me every once in a while to play keyboard, and there are 38 00:02:17,640 --> 00:02:21,560 prevailing thoughts that will hit my brain as he requests that 39 00:02:21,560 --> 00:02:23,600 on planning center or we'll be having a conversation in the 40 00:02:23,600 --> 00:02:26,720 office and there will be thoughts and you know it. 41 00:02:26,720 --> 00:02:29,640 It hasn't happened a whole lot recently, thank God. 42 00:02:29,640 --> 00:02:33,640 But I'll have thoughts of like I'm going to be stuck behind a 43 00:02:33,640 --> 00:02:35,480 keyboard. All worship. 44 00:02:36,080 --> 00:02:38,400 I can't move. Around over there, I can't move 45 00:02:38,400 --> 00:02:39,640 around behind the keyboard. I'm just like. 46 00:02:39,960 --> 00:02:44,800 My hands out. What am I supposed to do? 47 00:02:44,800 --> 00:02:47,000 I want to have a guitar in my hand. 48 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:48,280 I I don't want to be tied to something. 49 00:02:48,280 --> 00:02:50,920 I want to be able to move around the head bang, 'cause I'm 50 00:02:50,920 --> 00:02:52,280 passionate when it comes to worship. 51 00:02:52,280 --> 00:02:56,800 I want to get into it or I'll have thoughts of inadequacy that 52 00:02:56,800 --> 00:02:58,520 might come up. And I'm thinking, man, I'm not 53 00:02:58,520 --> 00:03:01,760 as good as Tabitha. Tabitha's amazing. 54 00:03:01,960 --> 00:03:04,320 What if the Holy Spirit's like, hey, we need to go to this old 55 00:03:04,320 --> 00:03:09,240 hymn and Tabitha has this amazing anointing and gifting to 56 00:03:09,240 --> 00:03:10,920 just pull this song out of nowhere? 57 00:03:11,040 --> 00:03:12,640 And she plays it perfectly every time. 58 00:03:14,200 --> 00:03:16,560 And you know, it's funny because every time that I'm playing 59 00:03:16,560 --> 00:03:19,800 keyboard, the Holy Spirit doesn't move that way. 60 00:03:21,640 --> 00:03:24,880 Because the Holy Spirit knows, hey, Todd. 61 00:03:25,840 --> 00:03:27,920 You don't know the courts to this old hymn that was written 62 00:03:27,920 --> 00:03:30,680 in the 1800s. And that's OK because I'm not 63 00:03:30,680 --> 00:03:35,080 going to move that way today. But it is a waste of my time. 64 00:03:35,080 --> 00:03:36,520 It's a waste of Pastor Marcus's time. 65 00:03:36,520 --> 00:03:40,400 It is a waste of the worship team's time for me to try to 66 00:03:40,560 --> 00:03:43,400 fire back and argue I can't be on the keyboard. 67 00:03:43,960 --> 00:03:50,000 Come on, let me move. Let me display my passion as an 68 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:55,240 example. Let me display my passion. 69 00:03:55,240 --> 00:03:56,760 But you know what? We have depth. 70 00:03:56,760 --> 00:04:00,960 We have flexibility as a team. Come on, say that. 71 00:04:00,960 --> 00:04:03,120 Say I am flexible in Jesus. Name I am. 72 00:04:03,640 --> 00:04:08,800 Flexible in Jesus name, but we are supposed to do all things. 73 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:13,280 Without grumbling or complaining, I decided to look 74 00:04:13,280 --> 00:04:17,079 up that word in the Greek all just for fun. 75 00:04:17,480 --> 00:04:20,360 I usually teach in our Kingdom Institute, so I I'm looking up 76 00:04:20,360 --> 00:04:23,800 Greek words all the time. The Greek word for all is the 77 00:04:23,800 --> 00:04:25,880 word pass. I'm probably not saying that 78 00:04:25,880 --> 00:04:26,320 right. I don't know. 79 00:04:26,320 --> 00:04:27,800 Reverend Randy can correct me later. 80 00:04:28,960 --> 00:04:30,320 But the Greek word there is pass. 81 00:04:30,320 --> 00:04:34,200 And guess what it means? Bingo. 82 00:04:36,040 --> 00:04:43,920 You guys are so sharp. It also means any or each, every 83 00:04:43,960 --> 00:04:47,160 the whole, collectively. It doesn't matter what it is, 84 00:04:47,920 --> 00:04:49,480 Paul saying. It doesn't matter what it is. 85 00:04:49,960 --> 00:04:53,560 It doesn't matter what it is. Do all things without grumbling 86 00:04:53,880 --> 00:04:56,960 or complaining. Do all things without arguing, 87 00:04:57,080 --> 00:04:59,360 without disputing. Because we're sons of God, 88 00:04:59,360 --> 00:05:04,160 according to Romans 517, and we're supposed to be reigning in 89 00:05:04,160 --> 00:05:08,560 life, right? Well, when we decide to complain 90 00:05:08,560 --> 00:05:11,200 and we decide to grumble, we decide to blame stuff. 91 00:05:11,200 --> 00:05:13,880 We're not raining. That's not what raining looks 92 00:05:13,880 --> 00:05:17,200 like. And man, I've been there. 93 00:05:17,640 --> 00:05:20,960 There was a period of time that we were working 12 hour shifts, 94 00:05:21,280 --> 00:05:23,800 six days a week. There was a month that we 95 00:05:23,800 --> 00:05:26,120 literally are staff. We were working 6:00 AM to 6:00 96 00:05:26,120 --> 00:05:28,400 PM Monday to Saturday for a little bit. 97 00:05:28,960 --> 00:05:30,960 Pastoral had gave us, had prefaced us. 98 00:05:31,240 --> 00:05:36,320 He had said, hey guys, we're going to have a crazy season for 99 00:05:36,320 --> 00:05:41,280 the next 30 days that we worked Monday through Saturday, 6:00 AM 100 00:05:41,280 --> 00:05:42,600 to 6:00 PM. But you know what we did as a 101 00:05:42,600 --> 00:05:46,000 staff? We said yes, Sir, because the 102 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:49,960 vision is bigger than our own comfort, our own time. 103 00:05:50,280 --> 00:05:52,760 It's no big deal because you guys have heard this. 104 00:05:52,880 --> 00:05:55,880 Chase has been up here talking about the testimony that with 105 00:05:56,080 --> 00:05:59,360 Scotty was just born and he's. And he had the confession. 106 00:05:59,360 --> 00:06:02,280 He said, you know what, No. Even though we're gonna be 107 00:06:02,280 --> 00:06:06,000 working more hours, Lord, I pray that the time that I would have 108 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:08,800 with with this brand new daughter wouldn't multiply. 109 00:06:09,000 --> 00:06:12,000 And he's testified that that bond that he has with Scotty, 110 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:15,600 it's like nothing. Else from his other kids, 'cause 111 00:06:15,600 --> 00:06:18,160 the Lord was able to work because we were all, we all 112 00:06:18,160 --> 00:06:20,000 decided, you know what? It's not my own comfort. 113 00:06:20,760 --> 00:06:22,640 I'm not gonna complain. I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna 114 00:06:22,640 --> 00:06:26,600 argue about this 'cause it's not like when Pastor Earl came to us 115 00:06:26,800 --> 00:06:27,640 telling us about. This. 116 00:06:27,640 --> 00:06:30,520 That he was like, way crazy excited that we were gonna be 117 00:06:30,520 --> 00:06:32,720 doing this. But you know what we did? 118 00:06:32,720 --> 00:06:37,440 We we picked up that burden, we picked up that mantle and we ran 119 00:06:37,440 --> 00:06:40,040 with. It, you know, and we, we all 120 00:06:40,040 --> 00:06:41,960 learned a whole bunch of crazy things. 121 00:06:42,320 --> 00:06:43,920 We all learned a whole bunch of goofy stuff. 122 00:06:43,920 --> 00:06:45,480 But I get it. I've been there. 123 00:06:46,040 --> 00:06:49,240 I'm having a, you know, 12 hour shift, a 13 hour shift. 124 00:06:50,000 --> 00:06:51,640 You know what, man? You show up. 125 00:06:51,640 --> 00:06:53,320 You've just worked 14 straight hours. 126 00:06:53,320 --> 00:06:55,640 You've been building walls and putting sheetrock on stuff. 127 00:06:55,640 --> 00:06:58,320 You've been running reports of every which way. 128 00:06:58,320 --> 00:07:02,040 You've been purchasing all kinds of stuff to make the company run 129 00:07:02,040 --> 00:07:03,160 around. You get home and you're 130 00:07:03,160 --> 00:07:04,200 thinking, I'm going to eat some dinner. 131 00:07:04,200 --> 00:07:07,520 I'm going to take a shower and I'm going to just chill. 132 00:07:08,800 --> 00:07:11,280 But you walk in your wife who's staying at home. 133 00:07:11,280 --> 00:07:12,960 Mom, you've got two kids under 2. 134 00:07:13,960 --> 00:07:15,680 She's got dinner all prepared on the table. 135 00:07:15,680 --> 00:07:17,440 You're so excited. You're playing with the kids, 136 00:07:17,440 --> 00:07:19,680 you're eating, and while you're eating your wife looks at you 137 00:07:19,680 --> 00:07:23,240 and she says, I'm so sorry, but I couldn't get the kids to nap 138 00:07:23,240 --> 00:07:25,320 at the same time. So I wasn't able to nap. 139 00:07:25,320 --> 00:07:28,720 And you know that last night because of the feeding schedule 140 00:07:28,720 --> 00:07:31,560 and the crying schedule, because let's be real with with kids 141 00:07:31,560 --> 00:07:33,600 under 2, sometimes you have a crying schedule in the middle of 142 00:07:33,600 --> 00:07:36,000 the night. I wasn't able to sleep at all, 143 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:37,720 so I already gave the kids a bath. 144 00:07:37,720 --> 00:07:41,320 Can you just put into bed and do the dishes and clean up the 145 00:07:41,320 --> 00:07:43,120 kitchen and stuff so I can go to bed early? 146 00:07:45,240 --> 00:07:47,640 And you know what? In those situations, if you as a 147 00:07:47,640 --> 00:07:52,560 man, you're looking at your wife and you're thinking, woman, I 148 00:07:52,560 --> 00:07:57,880 have just worked 13 hours. I have just slaved for our 149 00:07:57,880 --> 00:07:59,680 family. I'm going to eat, I'm going to 150 00:07:59,680 --> 00:08:00,880 shower and I'm going to just kick my feet up. 151 00:08:00,880 --> 00:08:03,320 I'm going to play Xbox. I'm going to watch Netflix. 152 00:08:03,840 --> 00:08:07,440 That is the most selfish. Awful. 153 00:08:07,440 --> 00:08:09,480 Thing and if I ever hear about somebody that has gone through 154 00:08:09,480 --> 00:08:12,600 318 doing something like that. Oh man, I'm gonna take your 155 00:08:12,600 --> 00:08:14,600 sword and somehow I'm gonna break that thing in half. 156 00:08:14,600 --> 00:08:18,240 I'm. Gonna break it in half because 157 00:08:18,240 --> 00:08:21,080 we're supposed to do all things it says here. 158 00:08:21,080 --> 00:08:23,920 This was not some suggestion. Come on. 159 00:08:24,440 --> 00:08:29,280 It says do all things. That means if it's the dishes at 160 00:08:29,280 --> 00:08:30,360 night. If it's some. 161 00:08:30,360 --> 00:08:33,400 Brand new project Pastor Rose asked us to rally around doing 162 00:08:33,760 --> 00:08:37,520 Dining with Dignity or Rick's family Christmas or West 163 00:08:37,520 --> 00:08:39,600 Augustine. All these outreaches, whether 164 00:08:39,600 --> 00:08:42,280 you get scheduled to Nautilus again for the third week in a 165 00:08:42,280 --> 00:08:46,800 row because those kids need examples. 166 00:08:47,760 --> 00:08:50,280 Whether you're waking up early for the gym or you're working on 167 00:08:50,280 --> 00:08:52,880 Kingdom Institute essays, you need to do all of it. 168 00:08:54,000 --> 00:08:56,920 Without complaining or arguing that, the New Living Translation 169 00:08:56,920 --> 00:08:58,720 says. And you know what, guys? 170 00:08:58,720 --> 00:09:02,320 Look, I'm not saying we all need to be a bunch of yes men, but 171 00:09:02,320 --> 00:09:04,520 you know what we need to be? We need to be people passionate 172 00:09:04,520 --> 00:09:06,960 about the vision. That Pastor Earl has given to 173 00:09:06,960 --> 00:09:09,960 that he's he's given to us that God has given him for this 174 00:09:09,960 --> 00:09:13,200 house, 'cause it's not just what he wants to do, 'cause there's 175 00:09:13,200 --> 00:09:15,520 been plenty of stuff that we've done that he's like, I never 176 00:09:15,520 --> 00:09:20,800 wanted to do this, but here we are, 20 years later, doing more 177 00:09:20,800 --> 00:09:22,120 than we ever thought we would do. 178 00:09:25,240 --> 00:09:29,120 Let's continue on Philippians Chapter 2, verse 15. 179 00:09:30,560 --> 00:09:33,200 Why are we supposed to be doing this without complaining or 180 00:09:33,200 --> 00:09:35,640 grumbling? It says right here, so that you 181 00:09:35,640 --> 00:09:41,920 will prove yourselves to be blameless and innocent children 182 00:09:41,920 --> 00:09:45,000 of God above reproach, in the midst of a crooked and perverse 183 00:09:45,200 --> 00:09:50,240 generation, among whom you appear as lights in the world, 184 00:09:50,800 --> 00:09:53,080 holding fast to the word of life, so that in the day of 185 00:09:53,080 --> 00:09:56,320 Christ I will have reason to glory, because I did not run in 186 00:09:56,320 --> 00:10:00,200 vain, nor toil in vain. The message says it this way, 187 00:10:01,240 --> 00:10:04,920 starting in verse 14. No bickering or second guessing. 188 00:10:06,600 --> 00:10:08,440 No second guessing. Oh allowed. 189 00:10:09,240 --> 00:10:11,760 I love that. No second guessing allowed. 190 00:10:11,760 --> 00:10:13,920 Go out into this corrupted world. 191 00:10:14,440 --> 00:10:18,400 A breath of fresh air in this squalid and polluted society 192 00:10:19,600 --> 00:10:24,760 provide people with a glimpse of good living and of the living 193 00:10:24,960 --> 00:10:28,080 God. The word squalid there means 194 00:10:28,080 --> 00:10:33,080 filthy or degraded because of neglect or a lack of money. 195 00:10:34,000 --> 00:10:36,720 We know what this looks like. You all have probably seen those 196 00:10:36,720 --> 00:10:40,560 nasty gross videos on Instagram, on Facebook, TikTok. 197 00:10:40,560 --> 00:10:43,840 I'm not on TikTok, but I'm sure they're on there of those crazy 198 00:10:44,040 --> 00:10:48,600 nice people that show up and clean an entire hoarders house 199 00:10:48,600 --> 00:10:52,080 for free. And you see the videos where 200 00:10:52,080 --> 00:10:55,280 there's trash and garbage and waste just piled up over the 201 00:10:55,280 --> 00:10:57,480 windows and there's no daylight in the house and they have to 202 00:10:57,480 --> 00:11:00,680 Burrow through garbage to get anywhere in their house. 203 00:11:00,960 --> 00:11:02,520 You've all seen the videos. I know you have. 204 00:11:02,920 --> 00:11:04,760 Don't be shaking your heads at me like I'm crazy up here 205 00:11:04,760 --> 00:11:09,440 talking about this. But we see those videos and you, 206 00:11:09,440 --> 00:11:11,800 you can just smell it through your screen. 207 00:11:12,360 --> 00:11:13,720 You can smell it through your screen. 208 00:11:13,720 --> 00:11:16,520 I've smelled stuff like that before because I've been to 209 00:11:16,520 --> 00:11:19,480 slums in Haiti. I've been to slums in in India. 210 00:11:20,520 --> 00:11:23,440 But this is that picture that Paul's trying to paint here, 211 00:11:24,040 --> 00:11:28,400 that we're supposed to do all things without complaining, that 212 00:11:28,400 --> 00:11:29,760 we're not putting blame on something. 213 00:11:29,760 --> 00:11:33,640 We're not arguing because we're to be a breath of fresh air out 214 00:11:33,640 --> 00:11:38,360 in the midst of this filth that is beyond these four walls, 215 00:11:38,520 --> 00:11:42,600 because it's no surprise to walk downtown and you start to hear 216 00:11:42,600 --> 00:11:45,720 some conversations. I mean, it's nasty. 217 00:11:46,560 --> 00:11:49,360 The things that people talk about, the things that prevails 218 00:11:49,360 --> 00:11:52,240 all over social media, It's nasty. 219 00:11:53,400 --> 00:11:57,240 It's awful, the propaganda that is just all over our television 220 00:11:57,240 --> 00:11:58,520 screens. I don't care what channel you're 221 00:11:58,520 --> 00:12:01,520 watching, so much of it is just propaganda. 222 00:12:01,520 --> 00:12:06,320 We are to be a breath of fresh air in the midst of all of this. 223 00:12:06,560 --> 00:12:10,920 A breath of fresh mountain air, if you will. 224 00:12:13,600 --> 00:12:17,560 When we aren't complaining about this life that God is trying so 225 00:12:17,560 --> 00:12:21,160 desperately for us to see is an absolute blessing, there's 226 00:12:21,160 --> 00:12:22,840 opportunities of purpose abounding. 227 00:12:23,080 --> 00:12:26,680 When we aren't complaining about this life, we become a breath of 228 00:12:26,680 --> 00:12:28,320 fresh air in the midst. Of a slum. 229 00:12:29,240 --> 00:12:30,840 You know, I love going to the beach with my family. 230 00:12:30,840 --> 00:12:32,160 My wife, she loves going to the beach. 231 00:12:32,160 --> 00:12:34,680 That's like her happy place. You know, it's funny. 232 00:12:34,680 --> 00:12:37,400 We don't get to go to the beach nearly as often anymore, as you 233 00:12:37,400 --> 00:12:39,400 know, we always did when we didn't have kids. 234 00:12:40,200 --> 00:12:43,680 It's funny how that happens, but we always have a good time every 235 00:12:43,680 --> 00:12:46,760 time we go to the beach. But one thing I really love is 236 00:12:46,880 --> 00:12:49,480 during those certain months of the year that 'cause we like to 237 00:12:49,480 --> 00:12:52,240 go down to Saint Augustine Beach, everything that's, you 238 00:12:52,240 --> 00:12:55,120 know, they're down A1A. Because as you walk up the 239 00:12:55,120 --> 00:12:59,040 boardwalks or there's dunes and stuff, they have all those dunes 240 00:12:59,040 --> 00:13:00,760 and you can't quite see the ocean yet. 241 00:13:01,480 --> 00:13:03,640 But it's like once you get to the top of it, you all of a 242 00:13:03,640 --> 00:13:06,200 sudden just get hit with a breeze. 243 00:13:06,600 --> 00:13:10,480 And if it's the right time of year, it's like the best salt 244 00:13:10,480 --> 00:13:13,840 smelling, ocean smelling, sand smelling and it just hits you 245 00:13:13,840 --> 00:13:19,880 and you're like, Oh yeah, it's beach time and it's just a 246 00:13:19,920 --> 00:13:22,720 wonderful aroma. But the problem is, certain 247 00:13:22,720 --> 00:13:27,080 months out of the year when seaweed gets washed up and it 248 00:13:27,080 --> 00:13:31,280 just sits there and sits there for days and weeks and it starts 249 00:13:31,280 --> 00:13:34,240 to rot. You get up to that dune and all 250 00:13:34,240 --> 00:13:36,800 of a sudden you just get hit in the face with just this putrid, 251 00:13:36,880 --> 00:13:41,560 awful rotting smell. And guess what? 252 00:13:41,560 --> 00:13:46,880 That's what the world is like. And we are meant to be that 253 00:13:46,880 --> 00:13:51,000 fresh, clean ocean air, that we're not supposed to do things 254 00:13:51,000 --> 00:13:54,600 without complaining or arguing. So after you've worked that 1516 255 00:13:54,600 --> 00:14:02,320 hour shift that you would serve your spouse, that you would let 256 00:14:02,320 --> 00:14:06,120 God shape you in those times of you just wanting to do what your 257 00:14:06,120 --> 00:14:08,920 flesh wants to do. But we're called to reign. 258 00:14:09,080 --> 00:14:12,440 That we're called to reign over our thoughts of selfishness. 259 00:14:15,120 --> 00:14:18,000 Because when we reign over those thoughts of selfishness, our 260 00:14:18,000 --> 00:14:20,760 spouse is going to see that, and we're they're going to see the 261 00:14:20,760 --> 00:14:24,280 light in the darkness. They're going to see living 262 00:14:24,280 --> 00:14:27,080 proof of God. They're going to see that 263 00:14:27,080 --> 00:14:31,320 glimpse of godly living. Your kids are going to see that 264 00:14:31,320 --> 00:14:33,520 in you. Your friends will recognize it 265 00:14:33,520 --> 00:14:38,480 in you, your fellow employees, wherever you work, because we 266 00:14:38,480 --> 00:14:41,560 just need to have. Like a supernatural tenacity and 267 00:14:41,560 --> 00:14:44,360 work ethic. When it comes to this, whether 268 00:14:44,360 --> 00:14:47,720 we're serving here at Anchor Faith Church or we're at our 269 00:14:47,720 --> 00:14:50,800 workplace because we've talked about it before, you know, 270 00:14:50,800 --> 00:14:53,800 obviously we're not. You know, if you work a secular 271 00:14:53,800 --> 00:14:56,920 job, which I'm every single one of you, I'm sure does, besides 272 00:14:56,920 --> 00:14:59,280 those that are employed here by Anchor Faith Church or Treasure 273 00:14:59,280 --> 00:15:01,880 Harbor Preschool or Washington Classical Christian School or 274 00:15:01,880 --> 00:15:04,960 Dexios or King's Development. Group who? 275 00:15:04,960 --> 00:15:08,520 That list gets along because the vision's big and it needs every 276 00:15:08,520 --> 00:15:11,000 single one of us. But when? 277 00:15:11,440 --> 00:15:14,560 You're working. You're obviously, you know, not 278 00:15:14,560 --> 00:15:18,000 there to be an evangelist 24/7. What you're called to be is an 279 00:15:18,000 --> 00:15:20,000 example that you would honor your employer. 280 00:15:20,120 --> 00:15:21,920 That you would honor your boss. That you would honor your fellow 281 00:15:21,920 --> 00:15:27,240 employees. That through you doing things, 282 00:15:27,360 --> 00:15:29,600 that is asked of you, that is commanded of you, that is 283 00:15:29,800 --> 00:15:32,120 required of you. That you wouldn't bicker, You 284 00:15:32,120 --> 00:15:33,560 wouldn't complain. You wouldn't be talking about 285 00:15:33,560 --> 00:15:38,600 the boss behind his back. That you would say? 286 00:15:38,800 --> 00:15:40,320 Yes, Sir. I'm going to do that right away. 287 00:15:41,040 --> 00:15:42,520 Yes Sir. I'm going to do that as soon as 288 00:15:42,520 --> 00:15:44,160 I have accomplished these other two things. 289 00:15:44,160 --> 00:15:45,920 Cause hey guys, guess what? I get it. 290 00:15:45,920 --> 00:15:52,840 I have 156 to Do's right now on our project management software. 291 00:15:52,840 --> 00:15:56,440 I have 156 things list items. And you know what? 292 00:15:56,440 --> 00:15:59,400 They're not all just one singular thing, 'cause, you 293 00:15:59,400 --> 00:16:04,400 know, making a slide for an event that could take an hour or 294 00:16:04,400 --> 00:16:08,600 that could take. 40 hours. But that also doesn't equate to 295 00:16:08,600 --> 00:16:11,600 the same thing as making a booklet for something like our 296 00:16:11,600 --> 00:16:14,120 Building the Believer class, which you should absolutely be 297 00:16:14,120 --> 00:16:16,080 attending with Reverend Rainey on Sunday mornings. 298 00:16:17,400 --> 00:16:22,320 That. 60 page booklet is a lot more involved, but you know 299 00:16:22,320 --> 00:16:26,640 what? That 156 To Do List doesn't stop 300 00:16:26,640 --> 00:16:30,240 from happening either. Chase, who is our creative 301 00:16:30,240 --> 00:16:32,280 director because I work for the creative team, I don't think I 302 00:16:32,280 --> 00:16:35,080 said that earlier. That doesn't stop. 303 00:16:35,080 --> 00:16:37,200 Chase, who's our creative director, coming to me and 304 00:16:37,200 --> 00:16:41,360 saying, hey man, we really need to do this additional thing real 305 00:16:41,360 --> 00:16:45,080 quick, can you fit that in some way? 306 00:16:45,440 --> 00:16:49,160 Or Pastor Earl coming to me and saying, hey, I've already talked 307 00:16:49,160 --> 00:16:52,280 with Chase, I need to talk to you, Can you make this happen? 308 00:16:54,360 --> 00:16:57,440 And there's plenty of times that I'm thinking, I'm a brain. 309 00:16:58,000 --> 00:17:02,280 I have this ongoing list of things that the Ministry is 310 00:17:02,280 --> 00:17:05,920 requiring to happen. So that we can continue to 311 00:17:05,920 --> 00:17:08,400 function at fullness. There's those thoughts could 312 00:17:08,400 --> 00:17:10,680 totally come into my brain, and I'm sure they do. 313 00:17:10,680 --> 00:17:14,920 And you know, what needs to stop is I don't need to say I can't 314 00:17:14,920 --> 00:17:17,880 do that. That's not what Chase That's not 315 00:17:17,880 --> 00:17:20,800 what Pastor Earl needs. In those moments when Pastor Tim 316 00:17:20,800 --> 00:17:23,920 comes and says, hey, can you serve this Sunday in Nautilus? 317 00:17:24,760 --> 00:17:28,640 He doesn't need you to say ah, and I'm too busy, 'cause I just 318 00:17:28,640 --> 00:17:30,200 want to come. Sit in service and listen. 319 00:17:31,640 --> 00:17:34,280 'Cause I don't want to miss out on service that gets. 320 00:17:34,520 --> 00:17:37,840 That's like the biggest thing that people will say is I don't 321 00:17:37,840 --> 00:17:39,320 want to miss out on service. And you know what? 322 00:17:39,320 --> 00:17:41,600 Melanie Clay has a phenomenal revelation on this that you need 323 00:17:41,600 --> 00:17:44,160 to get when you're serving in another area. 324 00:17:44,160 --> 00:17:46,320 You're not missing out on what God's doing in here. 325 00:17:47,160 --> 00:17:49,520 Because you're exactly where God needs you to be in this 326 00:17:49,520 --> 00:17:52,680 building, so you're not missing out on something. 327 00:17:52,840 --> 00:17:55,120 So when Pastor Tim comes to you and says, hey, can you serve 328 00:17:55,120 --> 00:17:58,800 this Sunday, 'cause we had a couple call outs, unfortunately, 329 00:17:59,520 --> 00:18:01,880 and you're available, you're not scheduled anywhere else. 330 00:18:01,880 --> 00:18:03,040 You don't have anything else going on. 331 00:18:05,000 --> 00:18:07,040 You need to say yes, I'm going to do that because you know 332 00:18:07,040 --> 00:18:10,080 what? The vision is bigger than us in 333 00:18:10,080 --> 00:18:14,960 our own time and the our own desires, the own things, our own 334 00:18:14,960 --> 00:18:19,160 things that we want to do. But we need to have a 335 00:18:19,160 --> 00:18:22,200 supernatural tenacity to do what's asked, to do what's told, 336 00:18:22,200 --> 00:18:26,000 to do what's commanded in God's word, but then also to go above 337 00:18:26,000 --> 00:18:30,520 and beyond 'cause there's plenty of times that pastoral comes, 338 00:18:30,520 --> 00:18:31,840 and he says, hey, we need to do this. 339 00:18:31,840 --> 00:18:33,840 Chase comes and says, hey, we need to do this. 340 00:18:34,320 --> 00:18:37,440 And I have to say, OK, there are priorities that are already in 341 00:18:37,440 --> 00:18:39,160 the queue. How do you want me to fit this 342 00:18:39,160 --> 00:18:41,040 in? That is the better conversation 343 00:18:41,040 --> 00:18:46,040 than saying, Nah, I can't do that because then we're finding 344 00:18:47,160 --> 00:18:51,200 we can do it, we're going to do it, we're going to accomplish it 345 00:18:51,200 --> 00:18:54,240 one way or the other, and we're going to figure out how can we 346 00:18:54,240 --> 00:18:56,960 fit this in, what things are actually not priority coming up 347 00:18:56,960 --> 00:18:58,920 that's due. Within the next few weeks that 348 00:18:58,920 --> 00:19:01,400 we can just bump, we can move things around, We can have 349 00:19:01,400 --> 00:19:04,080 conversations. That's what your employer's 350 00:19:04,080 --> 00:19:06,440 looking for you to do. That's what our ministry 351 00:19:06,440 --> 00:19:08,800 coordinators are looking for you to do when they're asking you to 352 00:19:08,800 --> 00:19:11,120 serve. When your your employer's asking 353 00:19:11,120 --> 00:19:13,920 you to work more hours, he's not looking for you to complain and 354 00:19:13,920 --> 00:19:15,880 say that's me. Time. 355 00:19:17,440 --> 00:19:19,680 He's looking for you. Or or she's looking for you to 356 00:19:19,680 --> 00:19:22,240 say, OK, sure, I can absolutely do that. 357 00:19:22,240 --> 00:19:24,240 I'd be happy to help. I'd. 358 00:19:24,400 --> 00:19:25,840 I'd be happy to pick up this deficit. 359 00:19:28,080 --> 00:19:30,600 Because we're supposed to do all things. 360 00:19:30,600 --> 00:19:35,120 I told you we could camp on this for an hour, do all things 361 00:19:35,800 --> 00:19:37,200 without grumbling or complaining. 362 00:19:39,160 --> 00:19:42,240 Verse 17 in Philippians 2 continues on. 363 00:19:45,040 --> 00:19:48,280 But even if I am being poured out as a drink offering upon the 364 00:19:48,280 --> 00:19:54,000 sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice and I share my 365 00:19:54,000 --> 00:19:57,480 joy with you all. Paul's saying here, even if he 366 00:19:57,480 --> 00:20:03,120 is to die, even if he's going to die, he's going to rejoice 367 00:20:03,760 --> 00:20:05,280 because he poured it all out to him. 368 00:20:05,600 --> 00:20:08,880 He poured it all out to him. Do you have that kind of 369 00:20:08,880 --> 00:20:14,760 contentment? At the end of the day, do you 370 00:20:14,760 --> 00:20:16,520 have that kind of contentment that your head would hit the 371 00:20:16,520 --> 00:20:17,960 pillow? And you're like, I did 372 00:20:17,960 --> 00:20:21,520 everything I needed to do today? I poured it all out today. 373 00:20:22,440 --> 00:20:24,480 I did all things without grumbling, complaining. 374 00:20:24,480 --> 00:20:28,040 I did all things exactly the way that I needed to do them today. 375 00:20:28,040 --> 00:20:30,080 I gave it all out. I was the influence I needed to 376 00:20:30,080 --> 00:20:31,680 be. Do you have that kind of 377 00:20:31,680 --> 00:20:34,440 contentment? Because apparently we can have 378 00:20:34,440 --> 00:20:38,640 that kind of contentment because the Apostle Paul did. 379 00:20:41,280 --> 00:20:42,880 You didn't. Complain to those in authority 380 00:20:42,880 --> 00:20:45,280 over you. You didn't bicker when Pastor 381 00:20:45,280 --> 00:20:50,480 had to correct you in a meeting. Because Pastor corrects us. 382 00:20:50,720 --> 00:20:53,680 Because he loves us. Because the Bible says that God 383 00:20:53,680 --> 00:20:56,680 corrects those that he loves. And if you don't like 384 00:20:56,680 --> 00:20:59,560 correction, the book of Proverbs says you're stupid. 385 00:21:02,320 --> 00:21:05,320 So when you don't want to be corrected, you're being stupid. 386 00:21:05,360 --> 00:21:08,720 Don't be stupid. Do all things without 387 00:21:08,720 --> 00:21:11,720 complaining, without grumbling. Don't be blaming pastor saying, 388 00:21:11,720 --> 00:21:14,800 oh, he's not using me, he's not letting my gift come out. 389 00:21:15,320 --> 00:21:16,840 You probably just need to be faithful. 390 00:21:17,840 --> 00:21:21,040 You probably just need to be faithful to the vision and wait, 391 00:21:21,920 --> 00:21:24,760 guys, I've been here since 2012. This is my second time ever on 392 00:21:24,760 --> 00:21:27,280 this platform speaking to Y'all. I get to teach in Kingdom 393 00:21:27,280 --> 00:21:29,600 Institute all the time. I get to teach in life class all 394 00:21:29,600 --> 00:21:31,000 the time. And you know what? 395 00:21:31,360 --> 00:21:33,480 I probably wasn't ever ready to be up here. 396 00:21:33,880 --> 00:21:35,080 And that's. OK, because you know what? 397 00:21:35,080 --> 00:21:37,920 I There was a time I was telling Alyssa and Bradley upstairs. 398 00:21:38,680 --> 00:21:40,400 There was a time that I was like, yeah, man, I would love to 399 00:21:40,440 --> 00:21:43,760 minister, I'd love to preach. But, you know, after a while I 400 00:21:43,760 --> 00:21:46,880 was just like, whatever pastor's going to ask me when he asks me, 401 00:21:46,880 --> 00:21:49,000 it's not a big deal. I'm going to just do my part 402 00:21:49,000 --> 00:21:51,320 with the vision. I'm gonna do my part with the 403 00:21:51,320 --> 00:21:54,640 vision because I have this somewhere later in my notes. 404 00:21:54,880 --> 00:21:59,720 Our staff, as I was talking about Pastoral having to come to 405 00:21:59,720 --> 00:22:01,680 us and say, hey, we're gonna have to work 12 hour days. 406 00:22:02,800 --> 00:22:05,240 You know, it's gonna be crazy. But it's just a season. 407 00:22:06,920 --> 00:22:10,400 All of us on staff, all of our Pastoral staff, our leadership 408 00:22:10,400 --> 00:22:14,240 staff, we're really just the whatever team. 409 00:22:15,680 --> 00:22:18,040 We've got, our youth ministry team, we've got our Treasure 410 00:22:18,040 --> 00:22:20,720 Harbor preschool team, we've got our creative team. 411 00:22:21,640 --> 00:22:25,760 But we're all really just the whatever team that whatever the 412 00:22:25,760 --> 00:22:29,400 vision requires, we're just going to shut up. 413 00:22:29,400 --> 00:22:31,520 We're going to do it and we're going to see the vision come to 414 00:22:31,520 --> 00:22:34,920 pass. Because it's not my time. 415 00:22:37,280 --> 00:22:41,360 It's not my time. It's not Pastor Earl's time. 416 00:22:41,960 --> 00:22:43,960 Because he said it. All the time. 417 00:22:44,480 --> 00:22:46,880 This is not his church. His name is not out on the sign. 418 00:22:48,520 --> 00:22:52,240 If he had to step away a senior pastor tomorrow because the Lord 419 00:22:52,240 --> 00:22:54,720 told him to, he would do it in a heartbeat and hand it off to 420 00:22:54,720 --> 00:22:57,760 whoever the Lord told him to. Because it's not his church, 421 00:22:57,760 --> 00:23:03,760 it's the Lord's. And if we all would rally around 422 00:23:04,040 --> 00:23:08,640 this scripture, this commandment to do all things, what would 423 00:23:08,640 --> 00:23:10,440 anchor Faith Church look like in six months? 424 00:23:11,960 --> 00:23:14,440 What would anchor Faith Church look like in 12 months? 425 00:23:16,240 --> 00:23:18,560 But do all. Things, and I'm not saying that 426 00:23:19,360 --> 00:23:21,360 you're not going to have to do's to do 'cause, man, there ain't 427 00:23:21,360 --> 00:23:24,200 no way I'm going to accomplish 156 to do's in one single day. 428 00:23:24,800 --> 00:23:26,120 There ain't enough hours in the day. 429 00:23:28,400 --> 00:23:30,920 I have dreams I have. There's other purposes that I 430 00:23:30,920 --> 00:23:32,800 ain't going to accomplish that in 24 hours. 431 00:23:33,960 --> 00:23:37,920 But if by some horrible, awful, terrible, no good, very bad 432 00:23:37,920 --> 00:23:42,880 reason I were to die tomorrow, do I feel contentment that I 433 00:23:42,880 --> 00:23:45,960 have poured it all out in the last 24 hours? 434 00:23:46,400 --> 00:23:50,000 Do I have contentment that the last week I have poured it all 435 00:23:50,000 --> 00:23:54,880 out? Where was I at? 436 00:23:55,240 --> 00:23:58,520 Oh my gosh. When we aren't arguing, when we 437 00:23:58,520 --> 00:24:04,160 aren't complaining, we show people who God literally is. 438 00:24:05,400 --> 00:24:07,760 We show God. We show people who God literally 439 00:24:07,760 --> 00:24:09,920 is. We show people that there's a 440 00:24:09,920 --> 00:24:12,920 better way to do life. We show people that, hey, you 441 00:24:12,920 --> 00:24:15,120 don't have to just be a United States citizen. 442 00:24:16,680 --> 00:24:19,040 I represent a Kingdom. I represent a whole other 443 00:24:19,040 --> 00:24:21,560 government that is functioning right now in the world. 444 00:24:21,560 --> 00:24:23,120 It's got a better healthcare system. 445 00:24:23,320 --> 00:24:25,600 It's got a better financial system. 446 00:24:27,720 --> 00:24:34,160 It's got better currency 'cause there's no inflation, there's no 447 00:24:34,160 --> 00:24:42,000 exchange rates. But the the passion says they're 448 00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:47,000 to live a cheerful life. Live a cheerful life. 449 00:24:47,720 --> 00:24:52,400 But don't just be happy. Get joy, 'cause it's the fruit 450 00:24:52,400 --> 00:24:56,160 of the spirit, right? Joy supersedes happiness and 451 00:24:56,160 --> 00:24:58,600 cheerfulness. And that sounds a lot like 452 00:24:58,600 --> 00:25:01,960 Philippians Chapter 4, verse 4. You guys all know this. 453 00:25:01,960 --> 00:25:05,720 It's King James Version. Rejoice in the Lord always and 454 00:25:05,720 --> 00:25:06,760 again. I say rejoice. 455 00:25:07,080 --> 00:25:10,600 Rejoice in the Lord Always, man. Pastor Marcus was all over this 456 00:25:11,240 --> 00:25:15,080 earlier. You have to choose to rejoice. 457 00:25:15,080 --> 00:25:18,080 We have to choose not to bicker. We have to choose not to 458 00:25:18,080 --> 00:25:19,600 complain. We have to choose instead to 459 00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:24,320 rise up in joy and rejoice and say thank you, Lord. 460 00:25:25,280 --> 00:25:27,760 Then I was walking up in the middle of the night because my 461 00:25:27,760 --> 00:25:30,480 daughter came to the side of the bed having peed her bed. 462 00:25:30,480 --> 00:25:31,960 And then she threw up because she was sick. 463 00:25:32,120 --> 00:25:34,840 And I got up to clean and I realized that my cat threw up in 464 00:25:34,840 --> 00:25:36,880 the middle of the hallway. And then I go to get towels and 465 00:25:36,880 --> 00:25:39,840 cleaning supplies and my dog threw up by the back door and 466 00:25:39,840 --> 00:25:41,560 the other dog pooped all over the living room. 467 00:25:41,840 --> 00:25:44,680 Thank you, Lord. Then I get to clean all this up, 468 00:25:45,760 --> 00:25:48,120 rejoice in the Lord always. Just laugh about it. 469 00:25:49,480 --> 00:25:51,400 We talk about that often, that you just have to have joy, 470 00:25:51,400 --> 00:25:53,200 because you know what? It's not going to help my wife 471 00:25:53,200 --> 00:25:54,880 out. So I can help my kids out to 472 00:25:54,880 --> 00:25:58,200 just get frustrated and be angry, turn all the lights on. 473 00:25:58,200 --> 00:25:59,400 You're screaming. Yelling. 474 00:26:01,160 --> 00:26:03,840 Thankfully something quite to that magnitude has never 475 00:26:03,840 --> 00:26:07,640 happened in our home. It's come very close at one 476 00:26:07,640 --> 00:26:10,240 point. I know some people that actually 477 00:26:10,240 --> 00:26:12,040 aren't in this room. Unfortunately, that it has 478 00:26:12,120 --> 00:26:14,760 almost happened too. And it's rough. 479 00:26:15,440 --> 00:26:18,320 But in those moments, you have to rejoice when you're getting 480 00:26:18,320 --> 00:26:19,880 ready for work. You walk outside and all of a 481 00:26:19,880 --> 00:26:23,360 sudden you realize that your vehicle has four flat tires. 482 00:26:24,320 --> 00:26:26,680 What are you going to do? Are you going to go yell at 483 00:26:26,680 --> 00:26:30,000 somebody? You're going to go be. 484 00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:31,400 Mad about it. You know what? 485 00:26:31,400 --> 00:26:32,520 You can be mad, but you know what? 486 00:26:32,760 --> 00:26:37,280 Rejoice and say thank you Lord. You have to buy me 4 new tires 487 00:26:37,280 --> 00:26:41,120 Now. You got a bill that just showed 488 00:26:41,120 --> 00:26:44,000 up. This wasn't a suggestion, guys. 489 00:26:44,600 --> 00:26:47,760 Rejoice. What's coming out of your mouth? 490 00:26:48,160 --> 00:26:51,320 Are you blaming your situations and circumstances or are you 491 00:26:51,320 --> 00:26:54,920 reigning over them? Are you blaming them or are you 492 00:26:54,920 --> 00:26:58,680 reigning over them? This isn't a suggestion. 493 00:26:58,680 --> 00:27:02,160 Just like Philippians 214, it's a commandment to us. 494 00:27:02,160 --> 00:27:06,040 Rejoice when you get asked to work more hours, 'cause you know 495 00:27:06,040 --> 00:27:07,400 what that means. That's more finance in your 496 00:27:07,400 --> 00:27:08,840 pocket so you can give more money. 497 00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:11,160 There's more opportunities to give and you're also at your 498 00:27:11,160 --> 00:27:14,120 job. More to be a light to the those 499 00:27:14,120 --> 00:27:19,320 fellow employees. More rejoice when extended 500 00:27:19,320 --> 00:27:21,320 family comes to town for the holidays. 501 00:27:23,360 --> 00:27:26,400 And you're thinking to yourself, uh, oh, there might be a whole 502 00:27:26,400 --> 00:27:29,520 bunch of bickering and planning going on, But don't jump right 503 00:27:29,520 --> 00:27:31,720 in with them. Don't jump right in with them. 504 00:27:34,120 --> 00:27:37,640 Rejoice. When your child comes to you at 505 00:27:37,640 --> 00:27:42,320 8:00 PM and says I have a giant project that's due tomorrow and 506 00:27:42,320 --> 00:27:45,200 it's worth 75% of my entire yearly grade, and I haven't done 507 00:27:45,200 --> 00:27:47,000 any of it, but I've known about it since the very beginning of 508 00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:49,320 the year. But I didn't tell you and I 509 00:27:49,560 --> 00:27:51,960 never gave you the slips that they sent home with me that 510 00:27:51,960 --> 00:27:54,440 notified you. I'm so sorry. 511 00:27:55,280 --> 00:27:59,600 Rejoice. Because you know what? 512 00:28:00,080 --> 00:28:03,240 You're gonna be pulling an all nighter with your kid relish in 513 00:28:03,240 --> 00:28:04,320 that crazy time, 'cause you know what? 514 00:28:04,320 --> 00:28:07,160 That's gonna build a crazy, goofy, silly memory that you're 515 00:28:07,160 --> 00:28:09,800 gonna be able to laugh on at in years to come. 516 00:28:10,160 --> 00:28:14,320 Rejoice when something like that happens because you ain't gonna 517 00:28:14,320 --> 00:28:17,400 help your child out by getting mad and frustrated at him. 518 00:28:18,600 --> 00:28:21,160 You're not helping nobody out. Rejoice. 519 00:28:22,160 --> 00:28:26,040 Like Pastor Marcus was saying, we have to choose to rejoice. 520 00:28:26,840 --> 00:28:28,920 Are you reigning over those thoughts that are gonna come to 521 00:28:28,920 --> 00:28:30,320 your mind? Because, man, it's like, oh, 522 00:28:30,320 --> 00:28:33,320 it's 8:00 PM. Well, target's open for another 523 00:28:33,320 --> 00:28:36,040 two hours. Walmart's open maybe until 11. 524 00:28:36,240 --> 00:28:37,680 We gotta go right now. We gotta go. 525 00:28:37,880 --> 00:28:39,360 You got a shopping list? We're gonna make a shopping 526 00:28:39,360 --> 00:28:40,160 list. OK, What are we getting? 527 00:28:40,160 --> 00:28:41,680 We're getting poster boards. We're getting construction 528 00:28:41,680 --> 00:28:43,440 paper. We need more glue 'cause we 529 00:28:43,440 --> 00:28:49,000 ain't got anything. We have to rejoice, 'cause we're 530 00:28:49,000 --> 00:28:54,200 Kingdom citizens. We don't blame reigning kings. 531 00:28:54,720 --> 00:28:58,640 Don't blame circumstances. They see those circumstances and 532 00:28:58,640 --> 00:29:00,760 they say no, I'm going to fix that with the word of God. 533 00:29:02,200 --> 00:29:05,080 They see those bad situations and they say no. 534 00:29:05,080 --> 00:29:06,920 You have to line up with the word of my king. 535 00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:12,160 So when you get a bad diagnosis, are you instead saying, ah, the 536 00:29:12,160 --> 00:29:14,720 word of my king? Actually says by his stripes I 537 00:29:14,720 --> 00:29:18,040 was healed. When you have those four flat 538 00:29:18,040 --> 00:29:20,520 tires, are you saying the Lord supplies all my needs according 539 00:29:20,520 --> 00:29:22,080 to his riches and glory in Christ Jesus? 540 00:29:24,120 --> 00:29:26,040 When you get asked to teach a life class and you've never 541 00:29:26,040 --> 00:29:30,320 taught a life class before, are you rejoicing and saying, Lord, 542 00:29:30,320 --> 00:29:31,800 I thank you that I am apartment to teach? 543 00:29:31,800 --> 00:29:34,120 I'm well able. You're going to speak through me 544 00:29:34,840 --> 00:29:36,680 that it's not going to be my own words, but it's going to be the 545 00:29:36,680 --> 00:29:38,280 word of the Holy Spirit speaking through me. 546 00:29:38,800 --> 00:29:43,040 That's my prayer every time I get up to speak in life Class or 547 00:29:43,040 --> 00:29:46,040 Kingdom Institute because I, you guys don't need the words of 548 00:29:46,040 --> 00:29:49,760 Todd Fouchet. The words of Todd Fouchet are 549 00:29:50,520 --> 00:29:55,960 gonna be empty and dumb and just really stupid if I'm being 550 00:29:55,960 --> 00:29:57,840 honest. I have a college education, but 551 00:29:57,840 --> 00:29:58,960 you know what? Like, who cares? 552 00:29:59,960 --> 00:30:03,520 I had to make that joke just for Josh and Chase, and they're not 553 00:30:03,520 --> 00:30:11,680 even here. But rejoice when you get asked 554 00:30:11,680 --> 00:30:14,840 to speak to our teenagers. Oh, and you need to pray for 555 00:30:14,840 --> 00:30:18,200 Pastor Brandon in April. I've smelled your teenagers. 556 00:30:18,200 --> 00:30:22,000 Y'all. I have seen the angst that just 557 00:30:22,520 --> 00:30:27,800 pours off of them. I've gone to camp with them and 558 00:30:27,800 --> 00:30:30,160 smelled them after they haven't showered for five days. 559 00:30:31,040 --> 00:30:32,720 You need to pray for Pastor Brandon and April. 560 00:30:32,720 --> 00:30:35,520 You need to pray for their their leaders back there. 561 00:30:37,440 --> 00:30:39,680 But if you get asked to speak to them, you need to pour it all 562 00:30:39,680 --> 00:30:41,480 out. You don't need to. 563 00:30:41,480 --> 00:30:43,920 You don't need to beat around the Bush. 564 00:30:44,640 --> 00:30:46,640 You need to tell them like it is because Pastor Brandon in April. 565 00:30:46,640 --> 00:30:47,800 I mean, you heard Pastor April last week. 566 00:30:47,800 --> 00:30:50,040 That's exactly what she and Pastor Brandon administer every 567 00:30:50,040 --> 00:30:52,000 single Wednesday to your teenagers. 568 00:30:52,640 --> 00:30:54,360 I make their life class booklets. 569 00:30:55,080 --> 00:30:58,880 We see the material that they're teaching our teenagers and it's 570 00:30:58,880 --> 00:31:02,040 great stuff. It's the word of God. 571 00:31:02,440 --> 00:31:05,240 You need to pray for them 'cause those teenagers, they need the 572 00:31:05,240 --> 00:31:07,560 fire of the Holy Ghost more than they need a fire emoji on their 573 00:31:07,560 --> 00:31:13,000 latest TikTok. But you need to rejoice because 574 00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:15,920 Paul rejoiced and guess what? He wrote this letter to the 575 00:31:15,920 --> 00:31:18,920 Church of Philippi from a prison with his arms chained above his 576 00:31:18,920 --> 00:31:23,920 head and he was waist deep in human fecal matter and sewage 577 00:31:24,080 --> 00:31:28,240 and waste and gross stuff that rats would run around the on top 578 00:31:28,240 --> 00:31:31,160 of it and run all over the arms and the chains and they would 579 00:31:31,160 --> 00:31:32,440 eat at the flesh of the prisoners. 580 00:31:33,440 --> 00:31:36,000 That's where Paul is having to dictate this to someone, to 581 00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:40,880 write it down, saying rejoice. And again I say rejoice where 582 00:31:40,880 --> 00:31:45,920 he's saying do all things without bickering or complaining 583 00:31:45,920 --> 00:31:51,280 he's waist deep in sewage. Guys, if anybody had an 584 00:31:51,280 --> 00:31:54,280 opportunity to complain, to blame his circumstances, to 585 00:31:54,280 --> 00:31:56,000 blame God. God, you sent me here. 586 00:31:56,000 --> 00:32:00,240 But he didn't do it. He didn't do it. 587 00:32:01,280 --> 00:32:02,560 He instead decided, you know what? 588 00:32:02,560 --> 00:32:04,840 No, I'm a king. I'm gonna rejoice. 589 00:32:06,240 --> 00:32:08,960 I'm gonna rejoice. Because Paul was content with 590 00:32:08,960 --> 00:32:12,560 little, he was content with much, and he had. 591 00:32:12,560 --> 00:32:14,000 Every right to complain. But he didn't. 592 00:32:14,200 --> 00:32:15,680 Come on, Look at the life of Joseph. 593 00:32:15,960 --> 00:32:18,960 Pesaro wrote a whole book on this, and it's powerful. 594 00:32:18,960 --> 00:32:20,080 It's amazing. You need to go buy it. 595 00:32:20,080 --> 00:32:21,160 You need to read it cover to cover. 596 00:32:21,160 --> 00:32:22,720 It's called Cows, Crows and Constellations. 597 00:32:23,640 --> 00:32:28,480 Joseph had every right to complain, to blame his brothers, 598 00:32:29,280 --> 00:32:32,040 to blame his father for showing way too much favor on him, 599 00:32:34,040 --> 00:32:36,440 'cause guess what he was. Left for dead, he was sold into 600 00:32:36,440 --> 00:32:42,320 slavery. Then he was servant to a master 601 00:32:42,320 --> 00:32:44,600 that he tried his best to honor that guy. 602 00:32:44,600 --> 00:32:48,200 And then guess what happens? He got falsely accused and 603 00:32:48,200 --> 00:32:52,840 thrown in prison. He's forgotten about, and I'm 604 00:32:52,840 --> 00:32:58,520 sure he probably had plenty of thoughts at every turn, every 605 00:32:58,520 --> 00:33:00,560 turn. Man, what is happening? 606 00:33:01,280 --> 00:33:05,760 But he put those thoughts away. He He shut them up and instead 607 00:33:05,760 --> 00:33:08,120 he held on to the dream. He held on to the purpose. 608 00:33:08,280 --> 00:33:11,360 He held on to the vision that God had given him all those 609 00:33:11,360 --> 00:33:14,240 years prior. He chose to not bicker or 610 00:33:14,240 --> 00:33:19,280 complain. Are you blaming or are you? 611 00:33:19,280 --> 00:33:25,600 Reigning the passion of Philippians 4 Four there says in 612 00:33:25,600 --> 00:33:29,920 every season of life. Be cheerful with joyous 613 00:33:29,920 --> 00:33:33,880 celebration in every season of life. 614 00:33:35,480 --> 00:33:38,120 So that means no matter if you have a little, no matter if you 615 00:33:38,200 --> 00:33:41,400 if you have a lot. And every season of life, 616 00:33:41,400 --> 00:33:45,280 rejoice when you're having to work more hours, when you when 617 00:33:45,280 --> 00:33:47,160 it feels like all chaos is coming at you. 618 00:33:47,480 --> 00:33:50,680 And your kids have 17 things due in the next two weeks with 619 00:33:50,680 --> 00:33:54,400 school, and you have to take them to every sporting event and 620 00:33:54,400 --> 00:33:56,560 every activity that you signed them up for. 621 00:34:00,120 --> 00:34:03,160 You did this yourself. Don't complain. 622 00:34:05,240 --> 00:34:07,800 Don't start complaining about the very promise that God has 623 00:34:07,800 --> 00:34:09,120 given you, because I bet you every. 624 00:34:09,120 --> 00:34:11,600 Single one of y'all. Believe God for kids in here. 625 00:34:12,320 --> 00:34:14,239 Don't start complaining about those kids now because of the 626 00:34:14,239 --> 00:34:18,840 choices you made to sign them up for yet another sports events, 627 00:34:18,840 --> 00:34:23,360 another sports event, another sports team, another activity to 628 00:34:23,360 --> 00:34:31,320 do. Holy moly and the apostle Paul, 629 00:34:31,320 --> 00:34:35,960 he had every right guys. Especially early in ministry, 630 00:34:36,080 --> 00:34:39,440 right? Because Paul was unacclaimed 631 00:34:39,639 --> 00:34:47,000 Christian killer, he said. I was a Pharisee of Pharisees. 632 00:34:47,639 --> 00:34:50,199 Paul was present at the stoning of Stephen. 633 00:34:50,920 --> 00:34:54,920 They all laid their cloaks at the feet of of Saul. 634 00:34:54,960 --> 00:34:58,720 At the time. The guy literally haunted down 635 00:34:58,720 --> 00:35:00,960 Christians. So what kind of thoughts? 636 00:35:00,960 --> 00:35:03,920 Do you think was coming into his brain whenever he was having to 637 00:35:03,920 --> 00:35:07,520 go and talk to the disciples, whenever he's having to seek out 638 00:35:07,520 --> 00:35:11,480 James and seek out Peter to talk to them about what Jesus had 639 00:35:11,480 --> 00:35:14,640 said to him on the road to Damascus? 640 00:35:16,920 --> 00:35:19,200 What kind of thoughts were having to come to him? 641 00:35:21,920 --> 00:35:26,720 Are you complaining or are you reigning and the enemy's crafty 642 00:35:26,720 --> 00:35:31,000 about this too, guys? He'll wrap up thoughts in 643 00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:35,000 beautiful wrapping paper with silver ribbon with beautiful 644 00:35:35,120 --> 00:35:38,960 ornate bows on top. Thoughts that sound like this. 645 00:35:39,320 --> 00:35:41,200 Ah, Pastor Tam. Pastor Vanessa, I'm so sorry. 646 00:35:41,200 --> 00:35:44,080 I'm not gonna be able to come do the blitz on Saturday. 647 00:35:44,720 --> 00:35:49,360 I really just have to spend time with my family that day, 'cause 648 00:35:49,360 --> 00:35:51,920 that's that thought can sound so noble. 649 00:35:54,200 --> 00:35:56,840 That can sound so noble, guys. But. 650 00:35:57,640 --> 00:36:00,600 Why all of a sudden would we think that it's just the kids 651 00:36:00,600 --> 00:36:02,240 ministry. We can we can neglect it. 652 00:36:02,560 --> 00:36:06,600 They don't need my gift. If you're serving in there, if 653 00:36:06,600 --> 00:36:08,760 you're a part of that team, they need your gift. 654 00:36:11,280 --> 00:36:16,600 You're needed there. Rick's family Christmas. 655 00:36:16,800 --> 00:36:18,120 We did this past. Christmas. 656 00:36:18,600 --> 00:36:20,720 It's the first year we did it. We were asked to do it. 657 00:36:22,120 --> 00:36:24,720 We had like a few months of preparation and stuff, and I 658 00:36:24,720 --> 00:36:26,800 remember there was something that was happening. 659 00:36:28,560 --> 00:36:31,440 Somebody was supposed to be there to get coverage for photos 660 00:36:31,440 --> 00:36:32,800 and videos. I don't remember exactly what 661 00:36:32,800 --> 00:36:34,120 was happening, but something fell through. 662 00:36:34,120 --> 00:36:38,560 That chase came to me and Josh and Connor at the time and was 663 00:36:38,560 --> 00:36:43,320 like, hey, so sorry. One of us is going to have to 664 00:36:43,320 --> 00:36:47,560 get scheduled for this and it's on Christmas Day and I remember 665 00:36:47,760 --> 00:36:50,880 in my in my brain thinking Christmas. 666 00:36:51,080 --> 00:36:59,080 Day we're going to have to work. On Christmas Day, those were 667 00:36:59,080 --> 00:37:01,960 thoughts that immediately came in my brain, and I let that sit 668 00:37:01,960 --> 00:37:06,120 for probably about 24 hours. But I finally said to my wife, I 669 00:37:06,120 --> 00:37:10,520 was like. How dare I think to myself that 670 00:37:10,520 --> 00:37:15,680 my own personal time is worth more than what God would want to 671 00:37:15,680 --> 00:37:19,800 be doing through our people. How dare I have that attitude 672 00:37:20,640 --> 00:37:24,400 that I would think that my own personal time is worth more than 673 00:37:24,400 --> 00:37:31,320 that. Cause man, I was so excited to 674 00:37:31,320 --> 00:37:34,880 see everybody that showed up, that families that made it their 675 00:37:34,880 --> 00:37:37,360 morning, that made it their Christmas celebration. 676 00:37:38,160 --> 00:37:41,160 And I thought that's exactly what I would have done. 677 00:37:41,160 --> 00:37:43,440 I would have carted my entire. Family with me so that I could 678 00:37:43,440 --> 00:37:46,680 take photos, take videos, and everybody that was there had an 679 00:37:46,680 --> 00:37:49,000 absolute blast serving those people. 680 00:37:50,560 --> 00:37:54,760 And I was just so ecstatic that I was able to just be like, no, 681 00:37:54,920 --> 00:37:58,840 if Chase needs somebody, if Pastor Earl needs somebody to be 682 00:37:58,840 --> 00:38:00,920 there, I'll be the one that needs to. 683 00:38:00,920 --> 00:38:04,000 Be there if it's asked, and I'm gonna be fine with it, I'm gonna 684 00:38:04,000 --> 00:38:06,280 be excited to be there, 'cause you know what? 685 00:38:06,280 --> 00:38:10,160 My kids wake up at like 5:00 AM anyway, it's later on in the 686 00:38:10,160 --> 00:38:11,240 morning. No big deal. 687 00:38:11,600 --> 00:38:13,120 We will have opened all of our presents. 688 00:38:13,120 --> 00:38:16,160 We will have ate breakfast and then we could have gone there 689 00:38:16,400 --> 00:38:17,600 and it would have been no big deal. 690 00:38:19,040 --> 00:38:21,920 But these are the thoughts that they can sound so noble guys 691 00:38:22,280 --> 00:38:25,040 that you're thinking, man, that's my vacation day, that's 692 00:38:25,040 --> 00:38:30,000 my personal time. But all of that is just rooted 693 00:38:30,760 --> 00:38:35,200 in selfishness. Are you blaming or are you 694 00:38:35,200 --> 00:38:39,640 reigning 'cause our life's not our own guys if we're kings of 695 00:38:39,640 --> 00:38:43,920 God's Kingdom. That means he owns us. 696 00:38:44,320 --> 00:38:47,240 If he's our Lord, that means he owns us. 697 00:38:48,880 --> 00:38:51,880 James, chapter One, verses 2 through 4. 698 00:38:53,960 --> 00:38:57,920 Consider it all joy, my brethren, my brothers. 699 00:38:58,880 --> 00:39:01,360 When you encounter various trials, consider it all joy, 700 00:39:01,640 --> 00:39:05,160 knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. 701 00:39:05,440 --> 00:39:07,680 And let endurance have its perfect results so that you may 702 00:39:07,680 --> 00:39:10,240 be perfect and complete, lacking and nothing. 703 00:39:11,560 --> 00:39:15,400 Tough situations show up. They create the perfect 704 00:39:15,480 --> 00:39:18,520 opportunity for you to be made perfect. 705 00:39:18,880 --> 00:39:22,640 For you to be made lacking in nothing. 706 00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:25,880 It says here. Lacking in nothing, count it all 707 00:39:25,880 --> 00:39:28,520 joy because faith means endurance. 708 00:39:30,120 --> 00:39:31,800 We can't be like the children of Israel. 709 00:39:32,840 --> 00:39:34,680 We can't be like the children of Israel. 710 00:39:34,920 --> 00:39:36,880 Heading out of Egypt, coming into the promised land. 711 00:39:37,440 --> 00:39:40,160 First John, Chapter 5 verses 3 through 4. 712 00:39:40,520 --> 00:39:42,040 Pastor Andrew read this on Sunday. 713 00:39:43,120 --> 00:39:45,120 First, John, chapter 5, verses 3 through 4. 714 00:39:45,120 --> 00:39:47,800 For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. 715 00:39:48,080 --> 00:39:52,440 And his commandments are not burdensome because we've been 716 00:39:52,440 --> 00:39:56,400 empowered by grace. For whatever is born of God 717 00:39:56,400 --> 00:39:59,400 overcomes the world, and this is the victory that overcomes the 718 00:39:59,400 --> 00:40:04,160 world, our faith. So when we aren't doing, when 719 00:40:04,280 --> 00:40:07,800 we're doing things without bickering and complaining, when 720 00:40:07,800 --> 00:40:08,840 we're deciding to let these tough. 721 00:40:08,840 --> 00:40:10,960 Situations perfect us and mold us and shape us. 722 00:40:11,320 --> 00:40:14,840 When it's we're letting those times build our faith, it's 723 00:40:14,840 --> 00:40:17,600 helping us overcome the world. It's helping us overcome 724 00:40:17,600 --> 00:40:21,040 adversity. Don't give in to thoughts of. 725 00:40:21,040 --> 00:40:23,120 Defeat. Don't give in to thoughts of 726 00:40:23,120 --> 00:40:27,720 lack and chaos and distractions, 'cause they're everywhere. 727 00:40:27,720 --> 00:40:29,720 They're on our phones, they're on our tablets. 728 00:40:30,240 --> 00:40:34,000 I I work on it on a. Computer screens are everywhere. 729 00:40:34,000 --> 00:40:36,080 You go to Bailey's gym and there's TV's everywhere with 730 00:40:36,080 --> 00:40:39,200 every single news station and like other channel just playing 731 00:40:39,200 --> 00:40:42,480 stuff and it's just all a distraction. 732 00:40:44,800 --> 00:40:52,080 Count it all joy. Are you blaming or are you 733 00:40:52,080 --> 00:40:57,800 reigning? We're in a new and better 734 00:40:57,800 --> 00:41:00,080 covenant when we stoop to this level, guys. 735 00:41:00,520 --> 00:41:02,320 When we stoop to this level, we're no better than the 736 00:41:02,320 --> 00:41:04,760 children of Israel and we're in a new and better covenant. 737 00:41:04,760 --> 00:41:09,440 Romans 1513 it says Now may the God of hope fill you with all 738 00:41:09,440 --> 00:41:12,920 joy and peace and believing so that you will abound and hope by 739 00:41:12,920 --> 00:41:16,120 the power of the Holy Spirit. We've been learning how to 740 00:41:16,120 --> 00:41:18,600 control our willpower, how to control our thoughts. 741 00:41:18,960 --> 00:41:21,240 But what good is it being filled with joy, being filled with 742 00:41:21,240 --> 00:41:23,400 peace if you're not speaking it out? 743 00:41:24,240 --> 00:41:26,320 That's why I asked you, what are the things you've been saying 744 00:41:26,320 --> 00:41:30,360 the last few months? Are you blaming circumstances? 745 00:41:30,360 --> 00:41:33,880 Are you blaming situations? What are you saying to yourself 746 00:41:33,880 --> 00:41:35,720 when you're all alone at the end of the day? 747 00:41:36,800 --> 00:41:38,840 What are you saying to yourself after you leave a meeting? 748 00:41:39,480 --> 00:41:40,880 After you and your spouse have made-up? 749 00:41:40,880 --> 00:41:43,480 After an argument? What are you saying after that 750 00:41:44,120 --> 00:41:45,920 'cause we always have said that it's the meeting after the 751 00:41:45,920 --> 00:41:47,400 meeting that is really important. 752 00:41:47,600 --> 00:41:50,040 What are you saying to yourself? Are you Are you having thoughts, 753 00:41:50,040 --> 00:41:51,480 prevailing thoughts of bickering? 754 00:41:51,480 --> 00:41:54,040 Complaining you're having prevailing thoughts of It's 755 00:41:55,160 --> 00:41:56,480 terrible. I can't believe the outcome of 756 00:41:56,480 --> 00:42:00,560 this meeting. Or are you choosing to reign 757 00:42:00,560 --> 00:42:03,640 over those thoughts, Shove them out of your your brain? 758 00:42:04,680 --> 00:42:05,840 Say no. I have the peace of God. 759 00:42:05,840 --> 00:42:10,760 I have the joy of God. Are you choosing to operate in 760 00:42:10,760 --> 00:42:14,480 joy, 'cause when we complain about the very thing we believed 761 00:42:14,480 --> 00:42:16,840 God for, we look like defeated people. 762 00:42:17,680 --> 00:42:19,960 When we complain about the very thing that we believed God for, 763 00:42:19,960 --> 00:42:24,040 we look like the people God wanted to destroy and utterly 764 00:42:24,040 --> 00:42:28,040 wipe out. Go to Romans chapter. 13 765 00:42:28,040 --> 00:42:31,440 Hopefully I can end this year. I have so much more scripture 766 00:42:31,440 --> 00:42:33,120 right now. We're gonna see what happens. 767 00:42:35,280 --> 00:42:40,160 Numbers, Chapter 13, Numbers Chapter 13. 768 00:42:40,160 --> 00:42:44,520 Starting verse 25. They've got it. 769 00:42:45,360 --> 00:42:47,960 When they returned from spying out the land at the end of the 770 00:42:48,280 --> 00:42:50,520 at the end of the 40 days, they proceeded to come to Moses and 771 00:42:50,520 --> 00:42:53,080 Aaron, to all the congregation of the sons of Israel in the 772 00:42:53,080 --> 00:42:54,680 wilderness. Paranic Kadesh. 773 00:42:55,400 --> 00:42:58,600 They brought back word to them and to all the congregation, and 774 00:42:58,600 --> 00:43:00,120 showed them the fruit of the land. 775 00:43:00,560 --> 00:43:03,120 And thus they told him and said, We went into the land where you 776 00:43:03,120 --> 00:43:07,160 sent us, and it certainly does flow with milk and honey, and 777 00:43:07,160 --> 00:43:09,760 this is its fruit. Nevertheless, the people who 778 00:43:09,760 --> 00:43:11,080 live in the land are strong and the. 779 00:43:11,080 --> 00:43:12,880 Cities are fortified and very large and moreover. 780 00:43:12,880 --> 00:43:14,360 We saw the descendants of Enoch there. 781 00:43:15,000 --> 00:43:17,560 They saw giants skip down to verse 30. 782 00:43:18,360 --> 00:43:22,640 Then Caleb quieted the people before Moses and said we should 783 00:43:22,640 --> 00:43:27,760 by all means go up and take possession of it, for we are 784 00:43:27,760 --> 00:43:32,600 sure we will surely overcome it. But the men who had gone up with 785 00:43:32,600 --> 00:43:37,520 him said, we're not able to go up against the people, for they 786 00:43:37,520 --> 00:43:40,280 are too strong for us. So they gave out to the sons of 787 00:43:40,280 --> 00:43:43,280 Israel on a a bad report of the land which they had spied out 788 00:43:43,280 --> 00:43:45,040 saying. The land through which we have 789 00:43:45,040 --> 00:43:48,200 gone and spying out is a land that devours its inhabitants, 790 00:43:48,440 --> 00:43:51,040 and all the people whom we saw in it are men of great size. 791 00:43:51,240 --> 00:43:53,000 There are there. We also saw the Nephilim, the 792 00:43:53,000 --> 00:43:55,280 sons of Anac. We became like grasshoppers in 793 00:43:55,280 --> 00:43:57,840 our own sight and we were in their sight. 794 00:43:58,400 --> 00:44:00,880 So wait a second, So they just told all the people that it's a 795 00:44:00,880 --> 00:44:04,080 land flowing with milk and honey and here's this fruit, this 796 00:44:04,080 --> 00:44:07,320 great fruit. And Caleb has said we're able to 797 00:44:07,320 --> 00:44:11,120 take this land. But then they decided to go out 798 00:44:11,120 --> 00:44:14,040 from saying all of this stuff and they decided to twist. 799 00:44:15,360 --> 00:44:18,120 They decided to twist this word and they said no, we can't take 800 00:44:18,120 --> 00:44:20,240 these people. There's giants there. 801 00:44:20,240 --> 00:44:21,640 We can't defeat them. Their cities. 802 00:44:21,640 --> 00:44:24,760 Are heavily fortified. But this was the same word that 803 00:44:24,760 --> 00:44:27,360 God gave to Moses in Exodus chapter 3, verse 17. 804 00:44:27,600 --> 00:44:30,080 He said, I will bring you out of the affliction of Egypt, to the 805 00:44:30,080 --> 00:44:32,000 land of all these people, to a land flowing with milk and 806 00:44:32,000 --> 00:44:33,600 honey. It's the same word that God had 807 00:44:33,600 --> 00:44:37,880 gave Abram in Genesis 15. The Israelites were very 808 00:44:37,880 --> 00:44:41,400 familiar with this word that this was a land flowing with 809 00:44:41,400 --> 00:44:43,000 milk and honey, that they were able to take it. 810 00:44:43,000 --> 00:44:44,880 God was bringing them to this land. 811 00:44:46,960 --> 00:44:48,680 But the spies, they twisted this report. 812 00:44:48,680 --> 00:44:51,120 And Caleb there in verse 30, he's trying to rally the troops. 813 00:44:51,120 --> 00:44:54,680 He's like guys we can do this but let's read on. 814 00:44:54,680 --> 00:44:56,120 This story continues in chapter 14. 815 00:44:56,120 --> 00:44:57,920 Cause the Bible's not written in chapter and verse. 816 00:44:58,520 --> 00:45:00,120 We just split it up for referencing. 817 00:45:00,560 --> 00:45:03,600 It says in chapter 14 numbers chapter 14, verse one. 818 00:45:04,320 --> 00:45:07,400 Then all the congregation lifted up their voices and cried and 819 00:45:07,400 --> 00:45:09,400 the people wept. That night all the sons of 820 00:45:09,400 --> 00:45:12,240 Israel grumbled against Moses and. 821 00:45:12,280 --> 00:45:17,120 Aaron and the whole congregation said to them, would that we had 822 00:45:17,120 --> 00:45:21,760 died in the land of Egypt. Or would that we had died in 823 00:45:21,760 --> 00:45:24,240 this wilderness? Why is the Lord bringing us into 824 00:45:24,240 --> 00:45:26,960 this land? To fall by the sword? 825 00:45:27,120 --> 00:45:29,200 Our wives and our little ones will become plunder. 826 00:45:29,200 --> 00:45:31,680 Would it not be better for us to return to Egypt? 827 00:45:31,680 --> 00:45:34,440 So they said to one another, let us appoint a leader and return 828 00:45:34,440 --> 00:45:37,760 to Egypt. They let the. 829 00:45:37,760 --> 00:45:41,720 Spy's false witness resonate within them. 830 00:45:42,680 --> 00:45:44,520 All night they cried out their voices. 831 00:45:44,520 --> 00:45:48,600 All night they were grumbling against their leaders. 832 00:45:49,800 --> 00:45:53,600 You better watch out if you start to grumble against those 833 00:45:53,600 --> 00:45:59,320 that God has placed you under. You better watch out when you're 834 00:45:59,440 --> 00:46:04,600 second guessing the words, especially the word that is 835 00:46:04,600 --> 00:46:06,440 preached from this platform because pastor says that all the 836 00:46:06,440 --> 00:46:08,600 time. Study the scripture, study it 837 00:46:08,640 --> 00:46:11,320 out yourself, he says. If I'm wrong, show me in 838 00:46:11,320 --> 00:46:14,040 scripture. He says that all the time 839 00:46:16,120 --> 00:46:19,480 because pastor loves having conversations about the word. 840 00:46:20,080 --> 00:46:22,040 If you have a question about something, schedule a meeting. 841 00:46:22,040 --> 00:46:25,640 He loves to dissect it. He loves to just let's talk 842 00:46:25,640 --> 00:46:27,520 about this thing. We do it in staff meeting all 843 00:46:27,520 --> 00:46:28,680 the time. It's called iron sharpen iron. 844 00:46:28,680 --> 00:46:32,000 It's awesome, 'cause we'll bring up the craziest stuff and we'll 845 00:46:32,000 --> 00:46:34,120 just talk about it from scripture. 846 00:46:36,360 --> 00:46:38,920 But oh, you better watch out if you're grumbling, saying, saying 847 00:46:38,920 --> 00:46:41,040 like I said earlier, pastor's not using me. 848 00:46:41,760 --> 00:46:45,040 He's not using my gift. When's my time? 849 00:46:46,120 --> 00:46:49,520 When's my time? Be faithful? 850 00:46:50,200 --> 00:46:53,200 Just serve with the babies and Nautilus Junior. 851 00:46:53,960 --> 00:46:57,360 Just serve with those smelly teenagers in the current. 852 00:46:59,160 --> 00:47:02,600 Just serve faithfully. As a part of our worship team. 853 00:47:04,440 --> 00:47:06,960 Because all of that just it just sounds so selfish. 854 00:47:06,960 --> 00:47:10,600 When's when's my time. Why won't pastor use me? 855 00:47:11,400 --> 00:47:13,240 And pastors are just gonna he's gonna give you the same answer. 856 00:47:13,240 --> 00:47:16,480 Be faithful, be faithful. Cause the Bible says be faithful 857 00:47:16,480 --> 00:47:18,920 with little. And then you can be faithful 858 00:47:18,920 --> 00:47:22,560 with much, But we'll try to justify things with our own 859 00:47:22,560 --> 00:47:24,560 opinion. Don't be justifying. 860 00:47:24,560 --> 00:47:30,120 Don't be trying to justify your opinion, especially if your 861 00:47:30,120 --> 00:47:32,680 opinion is. It ought with the word that is 862 00:47:32,680 --> 00:47:37,320 coming from our pastor. The lies of these spies cost 863 00:47:37,320 --> 00:47:42,360 them the purpose of God, this entire generation that was 864 00:47:42,360 --> 00:47:45,760 rescued out of Egypt. This purpose of God, that he 865 00:47:45,760 --> 00:47:48,960 said I'm calling you out of the affliction of Egypt into a land 866 00:47:48,960 --> 00:47:51,840 that I promised you, that I promised your father's, that I 867 00:47:51,840 --> 00:47:53,640 promised Abraham, that I promised Isaac, that I promised 868 00:47:53,640 --> 00:47:59,920 Jacob. And they let this focus of 869 00:47:59,920 --> 00:48:04,880 sight, this lie about we were like grasshoppers. 870 00:48:04,880 --> 00:48:07,280 We were like grasshoppers in their sight. 871 00:48:08,520 --> 00:48:10,320 Man, they don't know. They didn't talk with them. 872 00:48:10,680 --> 00:48:12,680 They had no idea. You could be having thoughts of 873 00:48:12,680 --> 00:48:15,440 inadequacy, thinking, man, I'm just not good enough for this 874 00:48:15,440 --> 00:48:17,240 promotion at work, but I really want it. 875 00:48:17,800 --> 00:48:19,880 I'm just not good enough. And all the while you're you're 876 00:48:19,880 --> 00:48:22,760 superiors thinking, man, I really wish they would just kind 877 00:48:22,760 --> 00:48:25,480 of get a little more confidence because by all accounts, they're 878 00:48:25,480 --> 00:48:29,320 qualified. And all the while you're just 879 00:48:29,320 --> 00:48:31,040 thinking, oh, I'm just not good enough for it. 880 00:48:32,680 --> 00:48:34,680 And the Holy Spirit's saying, come on. 881 00:48:35,280 --> 00:48:37,520 You're a king. You're a queen. 882 00:48:38,440 --> 00:48:42,600 Rise up in boldness. Just stick with the word. 883 00:48:42,880 --> 00:48:44,520 That's what the Israelites should have done. 884 00:48:46,040 --> 00:48:50,680 But they let these lies, they let this discord sow doubt. 885 00:48:51,120 --> 00:48:55,040 They let this discord sow unbelief in what God's word was 886 00:48:55,040 --> 00:48:58,720 for them. Let them this discord sow doubt 887 00:48:58,720 --> 00:49:02,160 and unbelief in their leaders that their leaders, they're 888 00:49:02,160 --> 00:49:04,040 they're complaining against their leaders saying why would 889 00:49:04,040 --> 00:49:10,920 you lead us here just to die? Why would Pastor Earl lead us to 890 00:49:11,920 --> 00:49:15,680 outreach at West Augustine just to sweat all day long? 891 00:49:17,360 --> 00:49:21,000 In the hot. Florida Sun, because families 892 00:49:21,080 --> 00:49:25,680 lives matter. Because those young boys that 893 00:49:25,680 --> 00:49:27,560 are playing football, those young girls that are part of 894 00:49:27,560 --> 00:49:30,560 their cheerleading teams, the parents of all of those kids, 895 00:49:31,160 --> 00:49:34,520 they matter to our king because they have a purpose. 896 00:49:34,520 --> 00:49:37,440 They have a destiny that they would just grab a hold of what 897 00:49:37,440 --> 00:49:39,720 the Kingdom says about them, what the Kingdom says is 898 00:49:39,720 --> 00:49:43,680 possible with their life. They would shake their families. 899 00:49:43,680 --> 00:49:44,800 They would shake their communities. 900 00:49:44,800 --> 00:49:46,080 They would shake Saint Augustine. 901 00:49:46,080 --> 00:49:50,840 And Saint Johns County. We just have to stick with the 902 00:49:50,840 --> 00:49:53,800 word. Don't believe the lie. 903 00:49:54,680 --> 00:49:56,320 Continuing on in verse five, it says. 904 00:49:56,320 --> 00:49:58,840 Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces in the presence of 905 00:49:58,840 --> 00:50:00,600 all the assembly, and the congregation of the sons of 906 00:50:00,600 --> 00:50:06,520 Israel, Joshua the son of Anon, and Caleb the son of Jebna, of 907 00:50:06,520 --> 00:50:08,360 those who had spied out the land, they tore their clothes, 908 00:50:08,360 --> 00:50:10,600 and they spoke to all of the congregation of the sons of 909 00:50:10,600 --> 00:50:13,200 Israel, saying, the land which we pass through to. 910 00:50:13,200 --> 00:50:16,480 Spy out is an. Exceedingly good land. 911 00:50:16,880 --> 00:50:19,160 If the Lord is pleased with us, then He will bring us into this 912 00:50:19,160 --> 00:50:20,960 land and give it to us. A land flowing with mocha and 913 00:50:20,960 --> 00:50:24,000 honey only. Do not rebel against the Lord. 914 00:50:24,000 --> 00:50:28,800 Do not fear the people of the land, for they will be our prey. 915 00:50:29,440 --> 00:50:31,160 I love that they will be our prey. 916 00:50:31,400 --> 00:50:36,680 Their protection has been removed from them, and the Lord 917 00:50:37,000 --> 00:50:39,000 is with us. The Lord's not with all these 918 00:50:39,000 --> 00:50:41,200 other people. The Lord's not with those that 919 00:50:41,200 --> 00:50:45,000 are lost in your workplace. The the Lord is not with all of 920 00:50:45,000 --> 00:50:47,160 these people that try to come against the Church. 921 00:50:47,360 --> 00:50:53,400 The Lord is with us. The Lord is with us. 922 00:50:53,400 --> 00:50:55,680 Do not fear them. But all the congregation said to 923 00:50:55,680 --> 00:50:59,960 the Said to stone them with stones, stone them with stones. 924 00:51:00,440 --> 00:51:02,480 Then the glory of the Lord appeared in the the tent of 925 00:51:02,480 --> 00:51:04,360 meaning to all the sons of of Israel. 926 00:51:05,160 --> 00:51:09,160 God's word is true. It's what Joshua and Caleb are 927 00:51:09,160 --> 00:51:11,360 trying to tell them. Guys. 928 00:51:12,040 --> 00:51:15,000 It's exactly what God promised us, guys. 929 00:51:15,000 --> 00:51:20,600 It's exactly what we have heard. It's exactly what God has 930 00:51:20,600 --> 00:51:22,480 promised us. God has promised you something. 931 00:51:23,840 --> 00:51:25,440 God wants to take you to another level. 932 00:51:25,600 --> 00:51:28,120 There might be a new promotion at work, a new house 'cause you 933 00:51:28,120 --> 00:51:30,880 need to expand your family. You find out there's a new 934 00:51:30,880 --> 00:51:33,400 private school in town called Washington Classical Christian 935 00:51:33,400 --> 00:51:36,920 School and the Holy Spirit's. Leading you to these things, the 936 00:51:36,920 --> 00:51:39,800 Holy Spirit's nudging you saying, hey, this promotion for 937 00:51:39,800 --> 00:51:41,560 you at work, it's gonna, it's gonna open up whole new 938 00:51:41,560 --> 00:51:46,280 opportunities for you with this company if you just will 939 00:51:46,280 --> 00:51:48,320 continue to apply these leadership principles that 940 00:51:48,320 --> 00:51:50,360 you've learned. We've got people in our church 941 00:51:50,360 --> 00:51:53,040 that have done these things and they've been promoted crazy 942 00:51:53,040 --> 00:51:56,000 amounts. A new house because you need to 943 00:51:56,000 --> 00:51:58,160 expand. You realize, man, this is 944 00:51:58,160 --> 00:52:01,120 exactly what God. What God put on our heart. 945 00:52:01,800 --> 00:52:03,640 This new private school, you find out, Oh my gosh, this 946 00:52:03,640 --> 00:52:05,480 classical Christian. Oh, they're spirit filled. 947 00:52:05,480 --> 00:52:07,840 Oh, they're associated with Rhema. 948 00:52:08,400 --> 00:52:11,320 And this the spirit of faith. Oh, they preach the. 949 00:52:11,320 --> 00:52:14,400 Kingdom of God. But all of a sudden you hear a 950 00:52:14,400 --> 00:52:17,040 different report. That promotion's not all it's 951 00:52:17,040 --> 00:52:20,600 cracked up to be. The neighborhood the house is 952 00:52:20,600 --> 00:52:22,840 in. There's some really sketchy 953 00:52:22,840 --> 00:52:27,800 people, some sketchy stuff that goes on the private school. 954 00:52:29,120 --> 00:52:39,200 They correct their students, no. And you begin to meditate on 955 00:52:39,200 --> 00:52:42,040 these, these reports, these murmurings, these complaints, 956 00:52:42,040 --> 00:52:46,120 these excuses, these blames. And all of a sudden you get 957 00:52:46,120 --> 00:52:50,280 passed by on that promotion, that housing contract you had 958 00:52:50,280 --> 00:52:53,400 falls through. You put your kid in public 959 00:52:53,400 --> 00:52:57,560 school much to your demise. Not demise. 960 00:52:58,240 --> 00:52:59,600 Not the word I'm looking for there. 961 00:53:01,200 --> 00:53:03,880 But all the while the Holy Spirit was saying this is what I 962 00:53:03,880 --> 00:53:07,200 promised for this next level. This is what I promised for this 963 00:53:07,200 --> 00:53:11,400 next level, and instead you you let grumblings, you let 964 00:53:11,400 --> 00:53:14,280 complaining, you let blame get in the way for you. 965 00:53:16,200 --> 00:53:18,240 It's like Romans chapter 6, verse 15. 966 00:53:18,400 --> 00:53:20,480 What then? Shall we sin because we are not 967 00:53:20,480 --> 00:53:23,640 under the law but under grace? May it never be. 968 00:53:24,240 --> 00:53:26,520 That's like saying, being under grace, should we keep listening 969 00:53:26,520 --> 00:53:29,360 to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons 'cause 970 00:53:29,360 --> 00:53:31,520 that's exactly what that kind of that kind of stuff is, guys. 971 00:53:32,800 --> 00:53:36,080 When discord and arguing, complaining, grumbling is being 972 00:53:36,080 --> 00:53:38,360 sown, that's deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons. 973 00:53:39,200 --> 00:53:41,600 Should we complain about our children, our work, our leaders? 974 00:53:41,600 --> 00:53:45,440 May it never be, may it never be. 975 00:53:46,760 --> 00:53:50,200 We should do all things without grumbling or complaining. 976 00:53:50,200 --> 00:53:52,880 Romans 10/17 says so. Then faith comes by hearing and 977 00:53:52,880 --> 00:53:55,520 hearing by the word of God. So the opposite must be true. 978 00:53:57,320 --> 00:54:02,120 So then fear comes from hearing and hearing the word of the 979 00:54:02,280 --> 00:54:06,760 enemy. This is what we see in Numbers 980 00:54:06,760 --> 00:54:08,360 13 and 14. They're bickering, they're 981 00:54:08,360 --> 00:54:10,240 complaining, they're second guessing. 982 00:54:11,800 --> 00:54:13,440 They're arguing against their leaders. 983 00:54:13,440 --> 00:54:15,400 It produced fear in their hearts. 984 00:54:16,720 --> 00:54:18,680 It's so doubt and unbelief in their leaders. 985 00:54:18,680 --> 00:54:21,560 It's so doubt and unbelief for God's promises, for their very 986 00:54:21,560 --> 00:54:24,560 lives. And an entire generation missed 987 00:54:24,560 --> 00:54:29,680 out on what God had promised. Them they went parading and 988 00:54:29,680 --> 00:54:36,680 plundering out of Egypt, excited to be free of slavery, slavery. 989 00:54:37,720 --> 00:54:38,640 And they're sitting there on the. 990 00:54:38,640 --> 00:54:42,240 Precipice of God's promises, saying it would have been better 991 00:54:42,240 --> 00:54:47,040 if we had died in Egypt. What? 992 00:54:49,480 --> 00:54:53,600 You're on the precipice of another level with God on 993 00:54:53,600 --> 00:54:57,360 another level in life. And God's saying, just apply my 994 00:54:57,360 --> 00:54:59,480 word to it. Just apply my word to it. 995 00:54:59,480 --> 00:55:02,400 Just apply my word to it. But then you just decide. 996 00:55:03,600 --> 00:55:05,920 But what about all this other stuff I've been hearing? 997 00:55:05,920 --> 00:55:07,720 I don't. I'm not. 998 00:55:08,000 --> 00:55:11,680 I'm not. OK, I don't need that additional 999 00:55:11,680 --> 00:55:16,040 responsibility at work. I don't need that additional 1000 00:55:16,040 --> 00:55:19,360 influence over people's lives to be an example of God's Kingdom. 1001 00:55:20,800 --> 00:55:23,240 Are you blaming or are you reigning? 1002 00:55:23,880 --> 00:55:25,480 What are you saying when you're leaving these four? 1003 00:55:25,480 --> 00:55:28,800 Walls, What are you saying when symptoms show up in your life? 1004 00:55:28,800 --> 00:55:32,720 Because if you're constantly saying, man, I'm sick, I'm 1005 00:55:32,760 --> 00:55:35,160 always getting sick. I'm always getting sick. 1006 00:55:35,240 --> 00:55:37,560 I always have a cough. I'm always sneezing. 1007 00:55:38,720 --> 00:55:41,360 Well, guess what first, Peter 224 and Isaiah 53. 1008 00:55:41,360 --> 00:55:43,200 Five. Those aren't gonna work in your 1009 00:55:43,200 --> 00:55:46,920 life because there's no faith to work in your life. 1010 00:55:48,080 --> 00:55:50,200 There's no faith that can be attached to God's word. 1011 00:55:52,240 --> 00:55:54,280 We've been given this Kingdom that cannot be shaken. 1012 00:55:54,280 --> 00:55:57,080 We've been given the very word of the King of Kings. 1013 00:55:57,280 --> 00:56:00,560 To equip us, to give us faith, to overcome the world. 1014 00:56:00,560 --> 00:56:03,640 But we have to choose. We have to be the ones that 1015 00:56:03,640 --> 00:56:05,200 decide. I'm not going to bicker. 1016 00:56:06,040 --> 00:56:09,360 I'm not going to complain. I'm not going to whine. 1017 00:56:09,360 --> 00:56:15,360 And my kids, they whine. Isley needs to hear this message 1018 00:56:15,360 --> 00:56:18,360 tonight because me and Brianna, we're having to tell her all the 1019 00:56:18,360 --> 00:56:21,520 time when we put food on the table and she's like, I don't 1020 00:56:21,640 --> 00:56:24,680 want to eat this. Too bad. 1021 00:56:24,680 --> 00:56:28,960 It's what's for dinner. We had to finally tell her. 1022 00:56:29,000 --> 00:56:30,240 You know what? If you're going to whine about 1023 00:56:30,240 --> 00:56:32,920 food, you're going to immediately get a spanking. 1024 00:56:32,920 --> 00:56:34,120 Cause guess what? We spank our kids. 1025 00:56:35,160 --> 00:56:38,080 Sorry if you don't spank your kids, but it's in the word of 1026 00:56:38,080 --> 00:56:41,800 God and the people that are trying to prevail, deceiving 1027 00:56:41,800 --> 00:56:44,960 spirits and doctrines of demons, of saying it's not our false 1028 00:56:44,960 --> 00:56:46,880 teachers. I'm gonna say it right now. 1029 00:56:47,440 --> 00:56:50,480 We call it like it is. We tell her you're gonna get a 1030 00:56:50,480 --> 00:56:52,760 spanking. So put on a happy face and eat 1031 00:56:52,760 --> 00:56:53,920 the food. And you know what? 1032 00:56:53,920 --> 00:56:55,160 Happens. She starts to eat the food and 1033 00:56:55,160 --> 00:56:57,360 then she's like oh mommy, daddy, I like this food. 1034 00:56:57,360 --> 00:56:58,920 It's so delicious. And then she eats the entire 1035 00:56:58,960 --> 00:57:01,680 plate and we're like Oh my God, if you would just eat the food, 1036 00:57:03,920 --> 00:57:06,160 don't whine and cry to us 'cause that's it. 1037 00:57:06,240 --> 00:57:10,440 We look like little 4 year old children to God when we we say 1038 00:57:11,000 --> 00:57:15,720 God, why did you do this to me? Why did you say that I need to 1039 00:57:15,720 --> 00:57:17,320 have this promotion? They gave me all this other 1040 00:57:17,320 --> 00:57:19,120 responsibility and I have to work more. 1041 00:57:21,840 --> 00:57:25,080 All the while God's saying I'm setting you up so that this 1042 00:57:25,080 --> 00:57:28,920 entire department is going to be handed over to you so that 1043 00:57:28,920 --> 00:57:31,600 you're the one calling the shots for all this stuff, so that all 1044 00:57:31,600 --> 00:57:33,480 of that finance. Then you can start to funnel 1045 00:57:33,480 --> 00:57:35,480 things to those employees so that you can start giving those 1046 00:57:35,480 --> 00:57:38,240 other employees raises. So then you can start to make 1047 00:57:38,240 --> 00:57:40,440 more money so that you can help to sow into the things that 1048 00:57:40,440 --> 00:57:47,240 we're doing around the world. Are you blaming or are you 1049 00:57:47,240 --> 00:57:51,640 reigning? I'm gonna close with this verse. 1050 00:57:53,880 --> 00:57:57,920 Proverbs Chapter 18, verse 21. You guys should all know this. 1051 00:57:58,920 --> 00:58:02,040 Death and life are in the power of the tongue. 1052 00:58:03,240 --> 00:58:06,480 And those who love it will eat its fruit. 1053 00:58:08,600 --> 00:58:10,240 Our lives are not our own anymore. 1054 00:58:11,800 --> 00:58:14,880 Well, pastor La Mercier away. We need to be diligent. 1055 00:58:15,760 --> 00:58:19,360 We need to be diligent to do everything to pick up any slack. 1056 00:58:19,360 --> 00:58:23,040 That's that. That gets let out, that we would 1057 00:58:23,520 --> 00:58:26,400 pick up any batons that get laid to the side. 1058 00:58:26,400 --> 00:58:29,920 And we need to do all things without grumbling or 1059 00:58:29,920 --> 00:58:32,920 complaining. We need to serve one another. 1060 00:58:35,840 --> 00:58:40,560 And when we do, we reign and we exemplify the Kingdom of God. 1061 00:58:42,400 --> 00:58:50,480 Let's pray Thank you so much for listening to this message. 1062 00:58:50,600 --> 00:58:53,960 If you want more, subscribe to our Message podcast on iTunes, 1063 00:58:54,080 --> 00:58:56,120 Google Play, Spotify, and SoundCloud. 1064 00:58:56,280 --> 00:58:58,720 Rating and leaving a comment will go a long way with helping 1065 00:58:58,720 --> 00:59:00,440 our messages get better circulation. 1066 00:59:00,960 --> 00:59:03,240 If you'd enjoy watching our weekend messages, visit 1067 00:59:03,240 --> 00:59:06,480 youtube.com/anchorfaith. We'd love it. 1068 00:59:06,480 --> 00:59:08,640 If you'd subscribe, leave a comment or a like on the 1069 00:59:08,640 --> 00:59:10,520 messages. 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