Today I want to talk to you about the royal choice.
A royal choice. Say I have a destiny with the
king. Say I have a destiny with the
King. Aren't you glad Jesus is the
king? Aren't you glad he's on the
throne? Aren't you glad we don't have to
vote him there? He's the Conqueror.
He's always been Lord. He's always been supreme in
authority. God has never been defeated.
He's never lost a battle. He's never been overcome.
He never will be overcome. His Kingdom will never be
shaken. Hallelujah.
That is the God we serve. Amen.
And that should give us great confidence.
I said great confidence. We said this in First
Corinthians chapter 12, verse 18, to bring our attention to
this particular passage of Scripture.
It's a very powerful passage of Scripture because it
communicates God's involvement in our lives.
And it says this, But now God has placed the members, each one
of them, in the body just as he desires.
What a personal connection we have with a personal God.
However, this verse also lets us know there's a duality in your
relationship with God, the one who sits on the throne.
And that is. He knows you personally, but He
never wanted you isolated. He never intended to only do a
one-on-one relationship. He brought you in so that you
can be empowered with others. He always had you in mind to be
connected with others like you. I said others like you.
Now when I say like you, I mean in loyalty, in love, in service,
in identity, in Christ. But you maintain your uniqueness
and your individuality. God is way too creative to have
made us the same. I'm the kind of person that's
not as as excited about some of the neighborhoods that have that
come up in our Nation Today. You know, builders basically go
into places, purchase property, and then have at least two or
three variations of the same model.
And so, you know, I call them cookie cutter neighborhoods and
you go in and basically everyone's house is almost the
same. You, you know, what's in
someone's home if you buy into one of those neighborhoods
because they're basically the same.
God is way too creative for that.
He is way too creative for that. When you just look at the DNA
strand and the complexities of that and how it can develop so
many variations in humans, the Lord never would have been a
builder that would have gone in and had three models.
It never would have happened. He is way too more involved and
and detailed. That's why, you know, I like
going into those neighborhoods where each home is a little bit
unique, little bit different design looks a little different,
you know, and again, I understand why builders do that
today. It has to do with cost.
It has to do with them making more on their bottom line.
But the reality is, is I like the individuality, the
uniqueness of homes, yet we're still in the same community.
I said we're still in the same community.
And God is this way when it comes to the body of Christ.
He's like, I'm way too creative to make you all the same.
Now there are going to be similarities.
Why? Because all of us have equal
access to God. I said we all have equal access
to God. So when we talk about equality
in God's Kingdom, we all have equal access to the throne, but
we do not all live an equal life because that is predicated on
your ability to believe. God will do for you all that He
designed for you to do. You have to find that place and
you, we all have equal access to that.
However, not everyone wants to be there.
But in this verse again, there's another translation.
It's the remedy, and I'm just going to read it for you.
It says God has built the body with all its parts right where
He wanted them, all perfectly complementing each other and
fulfilling their purposes for the good of the entire body.
Again, we come together not to compete with one another, but to
complete and to complement one another.
So instead of us technically taking time to determine our
weaknesses, we should always maximize in our strengths.
Meaning if I find someone that you know what, they're not
really strongly suited there, that's OK because God brought
this one into the body who is really strong in that area.
And that's why God didn't have all of us being able to do it
all by ourselves. We need each other.
And you know what, instead of saying, wow, they can't do this,
can't do that, can't do this, we should say, look what they can
do, what they can do, what they can do.
Now, that doesn't mean we can't identify.
Hey, I'm not picking that person to do this task because you know
what, it's really not in their will house.
It's not a part of their makeup. That's why God gave us this
individual. That's why this person is a part
of the body. And we want to celebrate
everyone's gifts because God wants to celebrate everyone's
giftings. Isn't that amazing?
And The thing is, is that in this verse you have to ask this
question. If God is placing you in the
body, each one of us where He desires, then he must had a
meditated thought about you before you moved into the body,
which means he had to have imagined you prior to coming in
for you to put somewhere on someone somewhere.
It's because you already had in mind where they would fit.
Amen. And so God is very detailed in
essence. Look at John chapter 15 verse
16. The Lord Jesus says this.
You did not choose me but I man, but I chose.
You are a royal choice. You have been chosen for
royalty. You did not choose him but he
chose you. Now notice it doesn't say period
nor does the verse go on and say you didn't choose me but I chose
you so that when you died you can come to heaven and live with
me. No, it goes on and says you
didn't choose me, but I chose you.
Why Lord, and appointed you that you would go and what bear
fruit, and that your fruit what would remain, so that whatever
you ask, the Father in my name he may give to you.
Do you understand? You can arrive at a place in the
planet that when you talk to your Father in heaven all that
you're asking, He will do it. Oh my goodness, I don't think we
have the revelation of that. Let me try that over here.
You can arrive to a place in the earth that you can ask of your
heavenly Father who sits on the throne and everything you ask
for, He will do it. Wow.
Now you understand in some believers lives that can be a
very challenging statement because there's a lot of times
we're asking the Father of things and it seems as though
we're not receiving them or we're not getting them or
they're not coming to pass. Well, there's a reason why and
we're going to see that here today.
But the Bible tells us because Jesus is not a liar, Jesus can't
lie. So he says whatever you ask the
Father in my name, he may give it to you.
So he says, listen, you didn't choose me, but I so there's
something about his choice of you that has a responsibility.
You have to ask Jesus, why did you choose me and why have you
appointed me? What is the appointment?
Appointment means I've appointed you to go and bear.
Well, what's the fruit I'm supposed to bear?
Now we know right out the gate that's going to be the fruits of
the Spirit, because we have the Spirit within us, and you can
have the Spirit upon you which induce you with power, and you
should be able to operate in the 9 fruits of the Spirit, and you
should bear those fruits, Amen? But there is other fruit you are
to bear, which is why you are in the earth in the 1st place,
Amen. Are you hearing me?
Because when Jesus is choosing you, there's a reason why.
And can I say it this way? He didn't choose you just
because you were a Sinner. That was not his reason for
choosing you. There was something long before
the in God's thought process of choice prior to sin.
Amen. So Jesus's assignment on the
planet to forgive us of sin is not the only reason why you were
chosen They Amen. Look at Luke chapter 6 verse 13.
He says this. He says and when the day came,
he called his disciples to him and chose what 12 of them, whom
he also named as apostles. Now notice he pulls 12 people
out of the disciples that are following, which were a lot more
than 12, but of those that were there, he pulls out specifically
12. And then he places the ministry
gift mantle on them. Of apostle.
I said of apostle. And they were going to, they
were functioning in that capacity.
Why are they apostles? Because they wanted it.
No, he did. Because if God is choosing you,
and when God does choose you and when God places you, He has
something about you in mind. I said He has something about
you in mind. Now.
I just want you to say this with me or say this after me.
Say my father has not made a mistake.
He knows exactly what he destined me to do.
And you need to believe that with your whole heart.
Do not let the devils tell you that you are too far gone.
You're too far gone because if you're far gone, you're choosing
to be far gone because it's not with the Lord, because the Lord,
he wants to choose you. You just have to accept it when
he says, hey, I want you on my team, I want you in my family.
But there's a reason I said there's a reason why He wants
you there. So I want to encourage you
today. Listen, know that God can do
something amazing in your life because He's been thinking about
you long before today, long before today.
See, the new birth experience is not about a destination.
It was never about a destination.
It was not about where you're going to go when you die.
That was never God's intent, nor the reason His church is in
existence. His church is in existence so
that you could discover your destiny.
The Gospel is about destiny. It's about sonship.
It's about being sons and daughters of God.
It's about reaching the destiny God has for you in the
appointment. The reason He's choosing you out
of the world and placing you into His Kingdom.
And God is doing this by choice. And here's the thing, God knows
what's going on with you. God knew about you.
But the problem is, is you only know you based upon your
existence here. What do I mean by that?
You know you based upon your experience.
God knew you before then. Amen, Man, I pray that sinks in
because a lot of times you understand, we, we, we kind of
say these things because we've been a little religiously taught
that, you know, humility sounds like this.
Well, you know, I don't deserve it, man.
I just don't. Now in sin you do not deserve
because you are making choices that God's obligated to fulfill
his word and keep you outside of his Kingdom.
Your unrighteousness separates you from him.
But God has a thing called mercy.
I'm telling you, mercy's a powerful thing.
He has this thing called mercy that comes out of the heart of
compassion. That then gives you options
because He has another obligation to His word
concerning you, which means you need to quit identifying
yourself with where you went wrong.
And you need to start finding yourself where God knew you
before you failed. He said now how can He know me
before I failed? Well, we're going to see that
here because most of the time we always go back to our sin life.
I was just this, I did this, I did this.
You know what God knew you before that sin came they Amen.
In Acts chapter one verse 24 just to let you know God is is
in the choosing business and choosing is not just so that you
can be with him when you die. It's for assignment while on the
earth. He says, and they prayed and
said, you Lord, know, you Lord, who know the hearts of all men,
show which one of these two you have chosen.
Now notice God, Jesus comes on the planet.
He has a group of disciples that are following him.
Now you know John the Baptist had disciples and was talking
about this one who would come, who would come that he, John
baptized with water, but that this Messiah would come and
baptized with the Holy Ghost and fire.
And he recognized Jesus as that because the Spirit of God had
told John who was the greatest prophet.
He said, now when you see the one whom the Holy Spirit will
come upon without measure, He's the Messiah.
And so he testified, this is the Lamb that was slain before the
foundation. He'll take away the sins of the
world. This is the anointed one, this
is the King, Amen. And so when his disciples are
leaving and they're saying, hey, all your disciples are leaving
and going to Jesus, John, how's that make you feel?
He said I must decrease and he must because my whole ministry
was just to announce He'll, it was not about me.
And if we lose everybody, that's great because they should be
falling. He's the one we're supposed to
follow anyway. I'm not even worthy to untie the
man's sandals, right? And so Jesus has these
disciples, but he hand picks 12 of the 12.
He has one that he knows will betray him, will betray him.
And here we are in Acts chapter 1 looking for his replacement.
But notice the 12, the 11 or the 11 that are left are asking the
Lord who's your pick? Notice what they didn't do.
Well, I like so and so. I like such and such.
You know what? This person here, this is my
boat. Let me fill this position.
Amen. No, it's like, Lord, who do you
want in this position? Who is your choice?
And it says that they cast lots for him and, and ultimately it
fell to one that took the place of Judas.
Now, there were some qualifications that were
required there, but ultimately it was God who handpicked the
replacement for Judas Iscariot. Are you hearing me?
So God is in the business of choosing you and placing you.
You are a royal choice. Come on, look to your neighbor
say I'm a royal choice. In Acts Chapter 9 verse 15, it
says, but the Lord said to him, go, for he is a chosen, he's a
lot chosen instrument of mine to bear my name before the Gentiles
and kings and the sons of Israel.
Now who's this person? Well, this person is Saul of
Tarsus and Saul of Tarsus is a wicked religious man.
He is a wicked religious man. He is trying to single handedly
destroy the church to capture those who confess Christ as
Lord. He believes he's doing the
Lord's work and as a result of that he is crushing it.
Let me say this for a quick side thought again.
Political people who use scripture does not mean they're
rightly dividing it. The number one misuse scripture
among politicians is Matthew 25, for they say unless you do it to
the least of these, but it doesn't say the least of these
meaning the world. It says the least of these who
are mine. Any platform that does not have
the church in mind is not doing it to the least of his.
And there are many believers who are following politicians using
Matthew 25 that have no right to interpret it.
Why do I say that? Because Paul is a religious man
who had power with the governments of his time to be
able to go into Israel. And he used scripture to
persecute, to set up his own agenda.
And man, when he does his resume, I mean, if this guy was
running for political office, this guy would have a resume of
what he did. And he even gives us his resume
at one particular time of his life prior to Christ.
But then he summed it all up with this statement.
He said everything I did that I thought I was doing for the Lord
and all of His scripture I was using thinking I was.
It is dung. It is like one big pile of
manure, 'cause once I really found Christ my Mama.
And if you are Spirit filled and a studier of the Word at all,
you would not be deceived by Matthew 25.
Hallelujah. And here's Paul on the road to
Damascus. God stops him dead in his tracks
because men have testified to Paul or Saul at the time
concerning the way how to be born again.
He's just rejecting it. But notice the Lord had a plan.
I said he had a plan and it says that talking to starts with an A
come on, help me out and I and an eyes.
He said you go pray for this guy and he's like, man, don't you
know he's got papers that arrest all of us that are saying you're
the Lord. He said he is my what chosen, oh
instrument. Now Paul goes on later in
Galatians and he testifies concerning this apostleship that
he's been called into this thing.
He was apprehended, you know, in Philippians.
He said, I'm, I'm strived. I'm trying to apprehend that
which I was apprehended, meaning I was going my own course and
direction. I mean, I had a life planned out
that was wealth, riches, honor, but it was garbage.
It was outside of God's destiny and will for my life, even
though I was using his scripture to try to get there.
And yet he apprehends me with a calling greater than I can even
imagine. He chose me the least of them
all, the one that shouldn't, he said, but by the grace of God, I
am what I am. I am what I am by the grace of
God. And so he said, I'm trying to
pursue this. And in Galatians 1, He has even
further revelation concerning this revelation or Galatians
115, he said. But when God, who had set me
apart even from my mother's, there is a place that God knows
you before you ever sinned. It's all of Tarsus by all
rights, and he emits him to himself.
I was a blasphemer. If anyone should be cursed and
cast into the Lake of Fire, it is when it came to sin.
I was chief. I did it better than anybody.
Yet Paul had revelation. There was a place in Christ,
There was a place in my father's eye that he knew about me.
And he already set me apart before I even did anything,
before I even made a choice. He chose me.
So many believers live their whole existence only identifying
with their sin, their troubles, their issues, their faith, and
it keeps them squandered and handicapped from accomplishing
all the gods. When if you would just go back
and say, what did you think about me?
But but when I was in my mom's womb, how did you see me there?
Man, when you get that revelation, then you won't let
anybody tell you who you are. Because before I ever blew it,
God knew me. Before I made a choice.
God chose me before I ever did something to disappoint Him.
He saw me. He had a plan for me He wanted
to do. I was royally chosen.
I'm in a royal bloodline before I even get out of the womb.
Wow. Now I know the Bible says that
all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God.
The reality is we were born into the household of the King and
then we chose to rebel against our family lineage.
But he was compassionate, full of mercy, because he saw us
before we ever made the mistake, Paul said.
But when God, who set me apart even from my mother's womb, and
called me through his grace, was pleased, was pleased, was
pleased, was what was pleased. Do you understand that you were
in a place in God that was pleasing?
Before you became displeasing to Him, God first knew you under
favor. God first knew you as the one
who would be all that He ordained you to be.
He knew you there first. I mean, if we're going to go
back to remember, let's go ahead and go all the way back because
too many times we're going back. It's like we need to know our
sin to keep us holy. No, when I go back and say I'm
holy because He knew me before I blew it, He always saw me in a
place that I could be holy, that I could live holy, that I could
accomplish His task. I made mistakes along the way,
but God being rich in his mercy, ma'am, when when I had rebelled
against my own destiny and purpose for living, He found a
way of choosing me again. And when I made the choice to go
to Him because He chose me, then I can get to the place that was
there. But while I was being in my
mom's womb. Wow.
Jeremiah 1 five to seven says this before Paul says he set me
apart while I was in my mother's womb.
Jeremiah says it's close, but let me tell you, there's a place
before you even got there. He said before you form me in
the womb you knew me, and before you were born and before you
were born I consecrated you God. Talking to Jeremiah, he said I
have a point. Now notice you're not even in
the womb yet and he's already chosen your destiny.
He's chosen you. You are always a royal choice
before you even get into your mother's womb, He's already
chosen you and appointed you. For Jeremiah was to be a prophet
to the nations. Then I then I said at last, Lord
God, behold, I do not know how to speak because I'm a youth.
But the Lord said to me, do not say I'm a youth because
everywhere I send you, you shall go and all that I command you,
you shall what speak. Meaning, son, I have this all
written out before you even got into mom.
I just need you to echo what you hear from me.
I just need you to decree what I decree.
I just need you to do what I've already said in motion before
you ever got into mom. I mean, when we're talking about
choice, he chose you before you got to your mom.
That's not a mistake. You know how we talk about
pregnancies like there's mistakes?
You understand the enemy does all kind of things to kill,
steal and destroy, but you understand any child forming in
a womb didn't choose how they got there.
Y'all don't want to hear this yet?
God has already chosen them before they got there.
The way they got there is irrelevant to God, because how
can you get somewhere that God cannot deliver you?
I am convinced that there are things in this planet today that
you and I are having to do because someone chose to not let
one of them come into the earth. Because this isn't God saying I
knew only those who made it in. Hallelujah.
I said Hallelujah. I said Hallelujah.
I mean, for every horrific story
of sin in someone's life that it is shipwrecked, bankrupt, it has
fallen apart. Their whole lives are in
shambles because of sin and they never get out ever.
There's someone who had the same experience and by the grace of
God and the mercy of God came out, became different, became a
child of God overcame, did the destiny because the devil cannot
stop what God has already thought about you before you
ever got into your mom can't do it, can't do it.
Nick came up during worship today and had a unction in a
spirit concerning something you know and again, as we have the
gifts of the spirit and operation and moving.
You know, you're always looking for the right time.
And when he communicated to me what he had in his spirit, I
said that fits in the message. So the spirit of the Lord would
say that there's some youth in here and that you're making
choices that are outside your destiny.
Because later on in Jeremiah, he says that I know the plans that
I have for you and you need to get into the plans he has for
you. Because you're squandering
precious time to try to experience a world you're not of
and that God has given through compassion, mercy, and good
parenting. Not perfect parenting, but good
parenting to have you in the household of God so that you can
hear truths from the and you can discover yourself.
Why don't you become a David that didn't wait till he became
an adult, but did it as a teenager?
In fact, the majority of the people used within Scripture,
Daniel, they were teenagers. Some scholars believe that even
the apostles were teenagers because when we talk about work,
we think about, you know, the US society, you know, and when
you're 18, you're an adult. No, back then you working when
you're young, Are you hearing me?
So these could have been easily teenage boys that were running
with Jesus. We know that David was just a
teenager. We know that Joseph was 17 years
old when God told him his destiny.
So you don't want to squander precious years to experience the
world you're not of because I can tell you from plenty, adults
hear it and go ahead and help the youth and testify.
Did the world give you everything you needed and you're
glad you ran to it? Anyone want to testify and say
I'm glad I ran to it? I'm glad the world was mine?
OK, let me ask this question. How many of you ran to the world
you knew you wanted it to answer and it would left you bankrupt
and hurt? How many of that learn?
You don't have to experience it yourself, because here's the
thing, you can't conquer God in your sin.
Hallelujah. Psalms 139 verses 13 to 16.
He says you for you form my inward parts.
You wove me in my mother's womb, and I will give thanks to you.
I am fearfully and wonderfully made wonderful all your works,
and my soul knows it well. My frame was not hidden from you
when I was made in secret and skillfully wrought in the depths
of the earth. Your eyes have seen my unformed
substance, and in your book, and in your book, and in your book,
and in your book were all say all were all say all, all
written. The days that were ordained for
me, when as yet there was not one of them.
Before you even came out of the mother's womb, God made a royal
choice to pick you. Pick you to pick you to do, to
be, to become, to release, to be connected, to be jointed and
fitted, to come alongside, to run with another group of chosen
chosen ones. Set apart.
And I'm not saying set apart from sin.
I'm talking about set apart before you even made the first
sin. Isn't that amazing, how our God
is this way? How our God is so powerful and
he leaves no details unturned? In fact, Matthew 1030 says this
concerning you, he said. But the very hairs of your head
are all numbered. I mean, we're talking detail,
you understand? God knows everything about you
more than you know about you. The detail of our Heavenly
Father. He's left nothing to chance.
All we have to do is reciprocate.
Following after being chosen and discovering you had a plan for
me before I even got into my mom.
You have a book with my name on it, and all I have to do is
discover what you've written. And This is why Jesus said you
didn't choose me, but I chose you and appointed you to go bear
fruit. And if you ask anything to my
father in my name, he'll do it. Because when you're asking,
you're saying, Dad, what's in your book about me?
What's in what's in your book about?
What does that book say? Before I came into my mother's
womb? You've written them all out.
What does it say? And he'll say, you'll do this,
you'll say that. And This is why you'll always
have whatever you ask of the Father in the name of Jesus.
Because you're only fulfilling written pages.
You are fulfilling written pages concerning you before you were
ever born. God is obligated, meaning if you
tap into the book He has your name on, then He will fulfill
all those things. But if you want to have your own
autobiography, God will allow you to write your own pages, but
He'll judge you according to His book that He wrote concerning
you. This is why when you stand
before the judgment seat of Christ, the books He pulls out,
the first one is the Lamb's book of life, and He verifies your
names in there. He never gets that wrong.
I said He never gets that wrong. Once you qualify there, he shuts
that book. Then he opens up another book.
It's called the book he wrote about you before you ever got
into mom's womb. And then he pulls your book out,
the one you actually wrote. And when he goes page by page,
every cross T, every dotted I, he is very detailed.
He says this that he will judge us not an idle word that we will
not have to give an account to do you understand you could live
it to every grammar punctuation. I'm I'm using natural thought
processes here. OK, meaning you can be so in
tune with the Spirit that God when he starts to flip through,
because here's the thing, you started a book and then all of a
sudden chapters got into that book that sinned the rebellion.
But here's the good thing. When you made Jesus Lord, he
ripped those papers. He ripped those pages out.
You keep referring to chapters that he doesn't have in that
book anymore because you're in Christ.
I understand it is possible for you to be at a stand before the
Lord and his book and your book match and you're like, but wait
a minute, where is the failure? Where's the drunkenness for
years? Where's the fornication?
Where's the adultery? Where's the lying?
He said, well, that's under the blood that's been removed.
That's not even in the book anymore.
No, those books only are showing up on the day of the Great White
Throne judgement. So it's possible for you to make
a choice today and He can RIP out every personal decision that
you made without him so that you now can follow him the rest of
your life according to his design.
The royal choice. I said it's a royal choice.
Look what it says here in Ephesians chapter 2 verse 10,
Paul writing to the church at Ephesus, he says, for we are his
workmanship created in Christ. Or notice what it does not say.
It does not say for heaven. It does not say for heaven.
Now again, this is the verse after the one that everyone
stops at, that you were saved, not of any works, lest any man
shall boast, but by grace through faith.
And we stopped there. I didn't do anything to deserve
it. Don't have to do anything now
that I'm here. But if you read the next verse,
he says now you are his workmanship, meaning He has
written about you before you. You encountered sin in the 1st
place, and now that you are back in Christ, in the King, you're
part of the family again. There are some good come on, say
it good. What good?
What works now? These are not works that earn
salvation. These are works of faith.
These are, I'm doing the pages that you wrote about me.
I am going to walk them out. I'm going to hear you by the
Spirit. I'm going to step where you tell
me to step. I'm going to stop where you tell
me to stop. I'm going to say what you tell
me to say. I'm going to hold my tongue when
you tell me to hold it. Amen.
I'm going to release the fruits of the Spirit and not the fruits
of the flesh. Hallelujah.
Amen. So there are some good works
which God what prepared when beforehand.
So before we were going to walk in them, He's already prepared
them. But in order for us to walk in
them, we have to obey by faith under the grace of God.
That actually causes the good works to show up now because we
are in Christ. Man, isn't that amazing?
I said, isn't that amazing? So when God says, listen, now
God has placed you in the body, each one of them where he
desires, it's because he always had in mind the original place
of man. Come on, you know where it's at
in Genesis chapter one verse 26 through 28.
Then God said, and when God says he's obligated to have a pathway
to fulfill his word. Now I say that because God will
always do what He says, but what has what He has instructed to
other free will creatures, those that have been created with free
will, they can make their own choice.
So God will fulfill His side and give you the opportunity to be
back in alignment with His side, but you could choose to not be
there and that's your choice, which then reciprocates to what
He has said about those who choose to be against Him, and He
fulfills that portion of His word.
OK, but it says then God said let us make man in our image
according to our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of
the sea, over the birds of the sky, over the cattle, over all
the earth, over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth,
right? God created man in his own
image, in the image of God. He created and met him, male and
female. You ready?
Before you formed me in my mother's womb, I knew you.
So He knew who you were and what gender you would take prior to
getting in, which means he never misses that God never makes that
mistake. So He knows that when you get
into the womb, you'll be a female.
And He knows when you get into the womb you'll be a male
because He knew you prior. Hallelujah.
So God created him, male and female, He created them.
God bless them. And God said to them, guess
what? He said He didn't say I made
you. I do it all.
You can do nothing now that I've made you.
Come on up here and live with me.
No, he said, This is why you're here, Terrain.
This is your purpose. This is your royal destiny.
So be fruitful. Multiply, fill the earth and
subdue it. Rule over the efficiency, over
the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on
the earth. Aren't you glad that Jesus prior
to saying what God said, God created the heavens and the
earth, that He saw us prior as ones who will rule and reign
with him. He made a conscious choice
before we ever came into the planet at whatever age, whatever
time frame that he appointed us for a purpose.
And he has a book of your assignment that all you have to
do is choose to believe it, see yourself past your sin state and
see you in the prior to womb position.
Man, God's got a plan for me. Hallelujah.
With that being said, let's look at first Peter 2 and verse 9.
But you are a chosen lineage. I like that.
Say I'm a chosen lineage.
Listen, you are royalty.
You're kings of the king. He always saw you as royalty
first. He never wanted you outside of
that royal assignment. He never wanted you outside of
that family position. He never wanted you outside of
your God design, purpose and destiny for living, breathing
and existing for all eternity. He never wanted you to exist
beyond that. But we did all fall.
We did fail. We did mess up, but God keeping
his word says I'll send my own son to redeem, restore, allow
man to get back in his original position of rulership.
I will take on their sin so they can take on my righteousness.
Then I can put them right back in the position that I always
ordained for them, and that is to rule and reign, and they will
be a chosen lineage. We are a chosen lineage, a royal
priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God's own possession,
so that we may proclaim the excellencies of him who called
you out of darkness into his marvelous like.
The easy read version says it this way.
But you are his chosen people, the King's priest.
You are a holy nation, people who belong to God.
He chose you to tell about the wonderful things He has done.
He brought you out of the darkness of sin into His
marvelous light. Hallelujah, I said Hallelujah.
And not only should we testify of what he brought us out of,
but we should also testify of what His Kingdom is and what His
Kingdom represents. Because as chosen ones, not only
are we King's priests, which means we have authority on earth
to communicate God's righteousness, and righteousness
is God's way of doing things, which then gives us the
assignment of ambassadors. And ambassadors do not speak on
their own accord. You understand, in election
cycles, I don't actually choose. The Lord instructs me who to
pick. Hallelujah.
I said Hallelujah, because God knows the choice, This is why,
and he has to deal with man when man's trying to pick.
The prophet Samuel is a man of God, loves God, anointed of God.
In fact, every word that the prophet ever said came to pass.
Yet the anointed king Saul has been stripped of the anointing.
And the Lord says to his prophet, go pick the king, the
next king, which is a man after my own heart.
He said, OK, you know, if the king knows I'm going, he'll kill
me. He said, this is how you're
going to go. So he shows up at a man's house
by the name of Jesse, who has some sons, and the first one he
sees, the first one he what sees reminds him of the king,
qualities of the king who just had the anointing stripped.
And he says surely this is God's anointed.
But the Lord speaks to him in his spirit and says this is not
the guy and this is the problem. Man looks at the outward
appearance, but God looks at the heart.
Are you hearing me? Amen.
So he says the one who I'm picking is not even in the
house. Ultimate.
Now, he didn't tell him that he got to the end.
He's like, nobody's it, so there must be another one.
You got another boy somewhere. Because I'm nothing's going off
in my spirit saying we got somebody.
Oh, yeah, I got one more. He's out in the field.
He's the youngest. He's the what?
I'm so glad that David as a teenager didn't squander his
time in the pasture. I'm so glad he didn't do it.
I said, I'm so glad he didn't do it.
Amen. Now you could say, well, we have
to let people today, you know, all their hearts are on, then go
to their platforms. At that point you got to go to
the platforms. What does the platforms reveal?
And when you go to the platforms, then it reveals
policies or the direction they want to carry because, you know,
an unrighteous person can carry out a righteous policy.
But a righteous person who carries out unrighteous policy
is called a Pharisee and are wicked.
They compromise their character. All right, Revelations 5, we'll
close with this verse. In Revelations, it says this.
And they sang a new song saying, you are worthy to take the
scroll and to open its seals, for you were slain and have
redeemed us to God by your blood, out of every tribe and
tongue and people and nation. Man, that verse there gets me so
jacked. This is why when I look out at
Anchor Faith Church in Saint Augustine, I get excited.
This is why we're a Kingdom church.
I'm not a white church. I'm not a black church.
I'm not a Hispanic church. I'm not a brown, I'm a Kingdom
church. And it's evident.
I mean, we have so many nationalities sitting here
because it's being God is too creative to make us that boring.
And I'm telling you as a pastor, if I looked out at the
congregation and they look too much like me, I would have to
get a little upset and say, what is the problem?
What are we doing wrong? How come somebody that doesn't
look like me but identifies with me and cries can't fellowship
with me? What's the problem that's got to
be fixed? We don't have to fix it here
because we have it. Glory to God.
This is what why? Because of out of every tribe
and tongue and people and nation, we've all been redeemed
because of the blood. And we are not identifying
ourselves with the way we look. We identify ourselves with who
we are in Christ, with what the Bible says, with what our king
said. We are brothers and sisters in
Christ. We have the blood of the king.
Come on, we had the blood of the King then.
He says this because of redemption.
Guess what? You have made us kings and
priests to our God, and we shall reign.
Reign on the earth, man. It's time to reign now.
We don't have to reign during the millennial reign.
We don't have to wait to reign with the new heaven and new
earth and Jerusalem comes down out of heaven.
No, we get to reign in this life.
And the pages of your book are available for you to accomplish
now because you didn't choose Him, but He chose you before you
ever got in your mother's womb. And He is faithful to get that
book to come to pass in your life.
All stand to your faith. Say Hallelujah.
He is faithful to cause the pages of his book that he wrote
about you before you ever got in your mother's womb to come to
pass. He's faithful.
I said he's faithful. And you know what I love the
most about it is that your book is on the same shelf with my
book that I get to watch you fulfill your book as you watch
me fulfill my book. And you know what?
It's interesting how we'll be able to flip over Chapter 4
Pastor Earl and to Tyus went on a missionary trip.
Pastor Earl in LG all of a sudden, your names are in my
book, my band. Don't erase me out of your book.
You don't want to erase me out of your book because because the
things that I that's in your book about me is to help release
your destiny and the things in your book help us release my
destiny and fulfill a bigger vision.
I don't want to have a character change.
I don't want. I want you to be in chapters 345
and 6:00 and all of a sudden you're nowhere else in my book.
Because like Barnabas, that didn't go on with Paul.
All of a sudden Silas's name shows up.
Come on, let's stay in the book together.
Let's do a God's account because there's 8 billion plus people on
the planet. Nobody's going to reach them all
by themselves. Let's reach the ones we're
destined to do together.