1 00:00:13,360 --> 00:00:15,960 Today I want to talk to you about the royal choice. 2 00:00:16,920 --> 00:00:22,640 A royal choice. Say I have a destiny with the 3 00:00:22,640 --> 00:00:27,320 king. Say I have a destiny with the 4 00:00:27,320 --> 00:00:30,040 King. Aren't you glad Jesus is the 5 00:00:30,040 --> 00:00:32,520 king? Aren't you glad he's on the 6 00:00:32,520 --> 00:00:34,840 throne? Aren't you glad we don't have to 7 00:00:34,840 --> 00:00:37,680 vote him there? He's the Conqueror. 8 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:41,560 He's always been Lord. He's always been supreme in 9 00:00:41,560 --> 00:00:44,320 authority. God has never been defeated. 10 00:00:44,440 --> 00:00:48,200 He's never lost a battle. He's never been overcome. 11 00:00:48,280 --> 00:00:52,120 He never will be overcome. His Kingdom will never be 12 00:00:52,120 --> 00:00:55,480 shaken. Hallelujah. 13 00:00:56,160 --> 00:00:59,680 That is the God we serve. Amen. 14 00:01:00,160 --> 00:01:02,520 And that should give us great confidence. 15 00:01:02,880 --> 00:01:06,240 I said great confidence. We said this in First 16 00:01:06,240 --> 00:01:10,080 Corinthians chapter 12, verse 18, to bring our attention to 17 00:01:10,080 --> 00:01:12,120 this particular passage of Scripture. 18 00:01:12,400 --> 00:01:16,400 It's a very powerful passage of Scripture because it 19 00:01:16,400 --> 00:01:21,080 communicates God's involvement in our lives. 20 00:01:21,600 --> 00:01:27,360 And it says this, But now God has placed the members, each one 21 00:01:27,360 --> 00:01:32,400 of them, in the body just as he desires. 22 00:01:32,920 --> 00:01:37,200 What a personal connection we have with a personal God. 23 00:01:37,720 --> 00:01:42,440 However, this verse also lets us know there's a duality in your 24 00:01:42,440 --> 00:01:46,880 relationship with God, the one who sits on the throne. 25 00:01:47,160 --> 00:01:50,400 And that is. He knows you personally, but He 26 00:01:50,400 --> 00:01:55,680 never wanted you isolated. He never intended to only do a 27 00:01:55,720 --> 00:02:00,520 one-on-one relationship. He brought you in so that you 28 00:02:00,520 --> 00:02:06,240 can be empowered with others. He always had you in mind to be 29 00:02:06,240 --> 00:02:11,480 connected with others like you. I said others like you. 30 00:02:11,720 --> 00:02:18,320 Now when I say like you, I mean in loyalty, in love, in service, 31 00:02:18,560 --> 00:02:23,440 in identity, in Christ. But you maintain your uniqueness 32 00:02:23,440 --> 00:02:27,560 and your individuality. God is way too creative to have 33 00:02:27,560 --> 00:02:31,080 made us the same. I'm the kind of person that's 34 00:02:31,080 --> 00:02:36,680 not as as excited about some of the neighborhoods that have that 35 00:02:36,680 --> 00:02:41,800 come up in our Nation Today. You know, builders basically go 36 00:02:41,800 --> 00:02:45,920 into places, purchase property, and then have at least two or 37 00:02:45,920 --> 00:02:48,200 three variations of the same model. 38 00:02:48,720 --> 00:02:52,760 And so, you know, I call them cookie cutter neighborhoods and 39 00:02:52,760 --> 00:02:56,320 you go in and basically everyone's house is almost the 40 00:02:56,320 --> 00:02:58,640 same. You, you know, what's in 41 00:02:58,640 --> 00:03:01,880 someone's home if you buy into one of those neighborhoods 42 00:03:01,880 --> 00:03:03,760 because they're basically the same. 43 00:03:04,080 --> 00:03:05,920 God is way too creative for that. 44 00:03:06,960 --> 00:03:10,280 He is way too creative for that. When you just look at the DNA 45 00:03:10,280 --> 00:03:16,800 strand and the complexities of that and how it can develop so 46 00:03:16,800 --> 00:03:22,040 many variations in humans, the Lord never would have been a 47 00:03:22,040 --> 00:03:25,760 builder that would have gone in and had three models. 48 00:03:27,040 --> 00:03:31,600 It never would have happened. He is way too more involved and 49 00:03:31,600 --> 00:03:33,600 and detailed. That's why, you know, I like 50 00:03:33,600 --> 00:03:37,080 going into those neighborhoods where each home is a little bit 51 00:03:37,080 --> 00:03:41,280 unique, little bit different design looks a little different, 52 00:03:41,280 --> 00:03:43,560 you know, and again, I understand why builders do that 53 00:03:43,560 --> 00:03:45,560 today. It has to do with cost. 54 00:03:45,560 --> 00:03:48,360 It has to do with them making more on their bottom line. 55 00:03:48,520 --> 00:03:52,600 But the reality is, is I like the individuality, the 56 00:03:52,600 --> 00:03:56,920 uniqueness of homes, yet we're still in the same community. 57 00:03:57,680 --> 00:03:59,640 I said we're still in the same community. 58 00:04:00,040 --> 00:04:02,840 And God is this way when it comes to the body of Christ. 59 00:04:02,960 --> 00:04:05,520 He's like, I'm way too creative to make you all the same. 60 00:04:06,320 --> 00:04:08,080 Now there are going to be similarities. 61 00:04:08,200 --> 00:04:10,800 Why? Because all of us have equal 62 00:04:10,800 --> 00:04:14,360 access to God. I said we all have equal access 63 00:04:14,360 --> 00:04:16,440 to God. So when we talk about equality 64 00:04:16,440 --> 00:04:22,760 in God's Kingdom, we all have equal access to the throne, but 65 00:04:22,760 --> 00:04:27,520 we do not all live an equal life because that is predicated on 66 00:04:27,520 --> 00:04:32,680 your ability to believe. God will do for you all that He 67 00:04:32,680 --> 00:04:37,960 designed for you to do. You have to find that place and 68 00:04:37,960 --> 00:04:39,800 you, we all have equal access to that. 69 00:04:39,920 --> 00:04:43,240 However, not everyone wants to be there. 70 00:04:44,280 --> 00:04:47,320 But in this verse again, there's another translation. 71 00:04:47,320 --> 00:04:49,400 It's the remedy, and I'm just going to read it for you. 72 00:04:49,400 --> 00:04:53,320 It says God has built the body with all its parts right where 73 00:04:53,320 --> 00:04:56,960 He wanted them, all perfectly complementing each other and 74 00:04:56,960 --> 00:05:00,960 fulfilling their purposes for the good of the entire body. 75 00:05:01,120 --> 00:05:06,040 Again, we come together not to compete with one another, but to 76 00:05:06,040 --> 00:05:08,920 complete and to complement one another. 77 00:05:09,560 --> 00:05:13,960 So instead of us technically taking time to determine our 78 00:05:13,960 --> 00:05:18,320 weaknesses, we should always maximize in our strengths. 79 00:05:18,640 --> 00:05:21,280 Meaning if I find someone that you know what, they're not 80 00:05:21,280 --> 00:05:25,480 really strongly suited there, that's OK because God brought 81 00:05:25,480 --> 00:05:29,160 this one into the body who is really strong in that area. 82 00:05:29,280 --> 00:05:32,360 And that's why God didn't have all of us being able to do it 83 00:05:32,360 --> 00:05:35,520 all by ourselves. We need each other. 84 00:05:35,800 --> 00:05:38,880 And you know what, instead of saying, wow, they can't do this, 85 00:05:38,880 --> 00:05:42,240 can't do that, can't do this, we should say, look what they can 86 00:05:42,240 --> 00:05:44,200 do, what they can do, what they can do. 87 00:05:44,960 --> 00:05:46,720 Now, that doesn't mean we can't identify. 88 00:05:46,720 --> 00:05:49,960 Hey, I'm not picking that person to do this task because you know 89 00:05:49,960 --> 00:05:52,000 what, it's really not in their will house. 90 00:05:52,080 --> 00:05:55,800 It's not a part of their makeup. That's why God gave us this 91 00:05:55,800 --> 00:05:58,440 individual. That's why this person is a part 92 00:05:58,440 --> 00:06:00,160 of the body. And we want to celebrate 93 00:06:00,160 --> 00:06:04,120 everyone's gifts because God wants to celebrate everyone's 94 00:06:04,320 --> 00:06:06,680 giftings. Isn't that amazing? 95 00:06:07,440 --> 00:06:10,960 And The thing is, is that in this verse you have to ask this 96 00:06:10,960 --> 00:06:14,480 question. If God is placing you in the 97 00:06:14,480 --> 00:06:20,040 body, each one of us where He desires, then he must had a 98 00:06:20,040 --> 00:06:24,960 meditated thought about you before you moved into the body, 99 00:06:26,680 --> 00:06:31,120 which means he had to have imagined you prior to coming in 100 00:06:33,080 --> 00:06:37,360 for you to put somewhere on someone somewhere. 101 00:06:37,600 --> 00:06:42,240 It's because you already had in mind where they would fit. 102 00:06:43,880 --> 00:06:47,320 Amen. And so God is very detailed in 103 00:06:47,320 --> 00:06:49,600 essence. Look at John chapter 15 verse 104 00:06:49,600 --> 00:06:52,960 16. The Lord Jesus says this. 105 00:06:52,960 --> 00:07:03,560 You did not choose me but I man, but I chose. 106 00:07:03,880 --> 00:07:10,480 You are a royal choice. You have been chosen for 107 00:07:10,480 --> 00:07:14,360 royalty. You did not choose him but he 108 00:07:14,360 --> 00:07:19,320 chose you. Now notice it doesn't say period 109 00:07:19,920 --> 00:07:23,760 nor does the verse go on and say you didn't choose me but I chose 110 00:07:23,760 --> 00:07:26,240 you so that when you died you can come to heaven and live with 111 00:07:26,240 --> 00:07:29,440 me. No, it goes on and says you 112 00:07:29,440 --> 00:07:31,080 didn't choose me, but I chose you. 113 00:07:31,080 --> 00:07:37,720 Why Lord, and appointed you that you would go and what bear 114 00:07:37,840 --> 00:07:43,160 fruit, and that your fruit what would remain, so that whatever 115 00:07:43,160 --> 00:07:47,280 you ask, the Father in my name he may give to you. 116 00:07:47,280 --> 00:07:50,160 Do you understand? You can arrive at a place in the 117 00:07:50,160 --> 00:07:54,560 planet that when you talk to your Father in heaven all that 118 00:07:54,560 --> 00:08:00,240 you're asking, He will do it. Oh my goodness, I don't think we 119 00:08:00,240 --> 00:08:02,240 have the revelation of that. Let me try that over here. 120 00:08:03,120 --> 00:08:07,800 You can arrive to a place in the earth that you can ask of your 121 00:08:07,800 --> 00:08:12,600 heavenly Father who sits on the throne and everything you ask 122 00:08:12,600 --> 00:08:19,800 for, He will do it. Wow. 123 00:08:19,960 --> 00:08:23,520 Now you understand in some believers lives that can be a 124 00:08:23,520 --> 00:08:27,040 very challenging statement because there's a lot of times 125 00:08:27,040 --> 00:08:30,920 we're asking the Father of things and it seems as though 126 00:08:30,920 --> 00:08:34,559 we're not receiving them or we're not getting them or 127 00:08:34,559 --> 00:08:37,200 they're not coming to pass. Well, there's a reason why and 128 00:08:37,200 --> 00:08:39,200 we're going to see that here today. 129 00:08:39,400 --> 00:08:43,159 But the Bible tells us because Jesus is not a liar, Jesus can't 130 00:08:43,159 --> 00:08:46,680 lie. So he says whatever you ask the 131 00:08:46,680 --> 00:08:49,640 Father in my name, he may give it to you. 132 00:08:49,640 --> 00:08:53,240 So he says, listen, you didn't choose me, but I so there's 133 00:08:53,240 --> 00:08:57,960 something about his choice of you that has a responsibility. 134 00:08:58,840 --> 00:09:07,080 You have to ask Jesus, why did you choose me and why have you 135 00:09:07,080 --> 00:09:09,880 appointed me? What is the appointment? 136 00:09:11,160 --> 00:09:14,480 Appointment means I've appointed you to go and bear. 137 00:09:14,840 --> 00:09:17,440 Well, what's the fruit I'm supposed to bear? 138 00:09:18,800 --> 00:09:21,960 Now we know right out the gate that's going to be the fruits of 139 00:09:21,960 --> 00:09:25,960 the Spirit, because we have the Spirit within us, and you can 140 00:09:25,960 --> 00:09:28,920 have the Spirit upon you which induce you with power, and you 141 00:09:28,920 --> 00:09:33,040 should be able to operate in the 9 fruits of the Spirit, and you 142 00:09:33,040 --> 00:09:37,640 should bear those fruits, Amen? But there is other fruit you are 143 00:09:37,640 --> 00:09:41,400 to bear, which is why you are in the earth in the 1st place, 144 00:09:42,000 --> 00:09:43,120 Amen. Are you hearing me? 145 00:09:43,720 --> 00:09:47,640 Because when Jesus is choosing you, there's a reason why. 146 00:09:48,840 --> 00:09:52,880 And can I say it this way? He didn't choose you just 147 00:09:52,880 --> 00:10:00,200 because you were a Sinner. That was not his reason for 148 00:10:00,200 --> 00:10:03,600 choosing you. There was something long before 149 00:10:03,600 --> 00:10:07,760 the in God's thought process of choice prior to sin. 150 00:10:09,520 --> 00:10:13,040 Amen. So Jesus's assignment on the 151 00:10:13,040 --> 00:10:17,560 planet to forgive us of sin is not the only reason why you were 152 00:10:17,560 --> 00:10:25,440 chosen They Amen. Look at Luke chapter 6 verse 13. 153 00:10:26,360 --> 00:10:28,680 He says this. He says and when the day came, 154 00:10:28,680 --> 00:10:34,120 he called his disciples to him and chose what 12 of them, whom 155 00:10:34,120 --> 00:10:40,640 he also named as apostles. Now notice he pulls 12 people 156 00:10:40,880 --> 00:10:44,040 out of the disciples that are following, which were a lot more 157 00:10:44,040 --> 00:10:49,000 than 12, but of those that were there, he pulls out specifically 158 00:10:49,000 --> 00:10:53,240 12. And then he places the ministry 159 00:10:53,240 --> 00:10:56,080 gift mantle on them. Of apostle. 160 00:10:57,600 --> 00:11:00,600 I said of apostle. And they were going to, they 161 00:11:00,600 --> 00:11:03,320 were functioning in that capacity. 162 00:11:03,480 --> 00:11:07,120 Why are they apostles? Because they wanted it. 163 00:11:08,640 --> 00:11:13,440 No, he did. Because if God is choosing you, 164 00:11:14,000 --> 00:11:18,160 and when God does choose you and when God places you, He has 165 00:11:18,160 --> 00:11:22,880 something about you in mind. I said He has something about 166 00:11:22,880 --> 00:11:24,240 you in mind. Now. 167 00:11:24,240 --> 00:11:27,720 I just want you to say this with me or say this after me. 168 00:11:28,040 --> 00:11:31,360 Say my father has not made a mistake. 169 00:11:32,360 --> 00:11:36,480 He knows exactly what he destined me to do. 170 00:11:38,000 --> 00:11:40,280 And you need to believe that with your whole heart. 171 00:11:41,480 --> 00:11:47,240 Do not let the devils tell you that you are too far gone. 172 00:11:51,680 --> 00:11:55,920 You're too far gone because if you're far gone, you're choosing 173 00:11:55,920 --> 00:12:01,480 to be far gone because it's not with the Lord, because the Lord, 174 00:12:01,960 --> 00:12:08,320 he wants to choose you. You just have to accept it when 175 00:12:08,320 --> 00:12:12,720 he says, hey, I want you on my team, I want you in my family. 176 00:12:13,200 --> 00:12:17,600 But there's a reason I said there's a reason why He wants 177 00:12:17,600 --> 00:12:19,680 you there. So I want to encourage you 178 00:12:19,680 --> 00:12:22,800 today. Listen, know that God can do 179 00:12:22,800 --> 00:12:26,320 something amazing in your life because He's been thinking about 180 00:12:26,320 --> 00:12:31,880 you long before today, long before today. 181 00:12:32,000 --> 00:12:35,640 See, the new birth experience is not about a destination. 182 00:12:36,080 --> 00:12:37,960 It was never about a destination. 183 00:12:38,120 --> 00:12:40,560 It was not about where you're going to go when you die. 184 00:12:40,720 --> 00:12:45,600 That was never God's intent, nor the reason His church is in 185 00:12:45,600 --> 00:12:49,200 existence. His church is in existence so 186 00:12:49,200 --> 00:12:51,240 that you could discover your destiny. 187 00:12:51,680 --> 00:12:55,880 The Gospel is about destiny. It's about sonship. 188 00:12:56,000 --> 00:12:58,640 It's about being sons and daughters of God. 189 00:12:58,720 --> 00:13:02,920 It's about reaching the destiny God has for you in the 190 00:13:02,920 --> 00:13:05,840 appointment. The reason He's choosing you out 191 00:13:05,840 --> 00:13:08,400 of the world and placing you into His Kingdom. 192 00:13:10,600 --> 00:13:16,320 And God is doing this by choice. And here's the thing, God knows 193 00:13:16,320 --> 00:13:19,600 what's going on with you. God knew about you. 194 00:13:19,720 --> 00:13:24,120 But the problem is, is you only know you based upon your 195 00:13:24,120 --> 00:13:25,800 existence here. What do I mean by that? 196 00:13:26,080 --> 00:13:28,880 You know you based upon your experience. 197 00:13:29,200 --> 00:13:37,320 God knew you before then. Amen, Man, I pray that sinks in 198 00:13:37,400 --> 00:13:40,760 because a lot of times you understand, we, we, we kind of 199 00:13:40,760 --> 00:13:45,360 say these things because we've been a little religiously taught 200 00:13:45,680 --> 00:13:48,480 that, you know, humility sounds like this. 201 00:13:48,480 --> 00:13:50,920 Well, you know, I don't deserve it, man. 202 00:13:50,920 --> 00:13:55,000 I just don't. Now in sin you do not deserve 203 00:13:56,600 --> 00:14:02,320 because you are making choices that God's obligated to fulfill 204 00:14:02,320 --> 00:14:05,240 his word and keep you outside of his Kingdom. 205 00:14:06,080 --> 00:14:08,920 Your unrighteousness separates you from him. 206 00:14:09,520 --> 00:14:11,520 But God has a thing called mercy. 207 00:14:12,120 --> 00:14:14,120 I'm telling you, mercy's a powerful thing. 208 00:14:14,600 --> 00:14:19,240 He has this thing called mercy that comes out of the heart of 209 00:14:19,240 --> 00:14:22,200 compassion. That then gives you options 210 00:14:22,200 --> 00:14:25,000 because He has another obligation to His word 211 00:14:25,000 --> 00:14:29,560 concerning you, which means you need to quit identifying 212 00:14:29,560 --> 00:14:31,520 yourself with where you went wrong. 213 00:14:31,680 --> 00:14:34,440 And you need to start finding yourself where God knew you 214 00:14:34,440 --> 00:14:39,080 before you failed. He said now how can He know me 215 00:14:39,080 --> 00:14:41,400 before I failed? Well, we're going to see that 216 00:14:41,400 --> 00:14:46,320 here because most of the time we always go back to our sin life. 217 00:14:47,280 --> 00:14:49,720 I was just this, I did this, I did this. 218 00:14:49,720 --> 00:14:55,840 You know what God knew you before that sin came they Amen. 219 00:14:57,440 --> 00:15:00,880 In Acts chapter one verse 24 just to let you know God is is 220 00:15:00,880 --> 00:15:04,440 in the choosing business and choosing is not just so that you 221 00:15:04,800 --> 00:15:08,040 can be with him when you die. It's for assignment while on the 222 00:15:08,040 --> 00:15:09,720 earth. He says, and they prayed and 223 00:15:09,720 --> 00:15:15,000 said, you Lord, know, you Lord, who know the hearts of all men, 224 00:15:15,200 --> 00:15:19,160 show which one of these two you have chosen. 225 00:15:19,800 --> 00:15:22,600 Now notice God, Jesus comes on the planet. 226 00:15:22,680 --> 00:15:25,320 He has a group of disciples that are following him. 227 00:15:25,320 --> 00:15:29,200 Now you know John the Baptist had disciples and was talking 228 00:15:29,200 --> 00:15:32,240 about this one who would come, who would come that he, John 229 00:15:32,240 --> 00:15:35,280 baptized with water, but that this Messiah would come and 230 00:15:35,280 --> 00:15:37,040 baptized with the Holy Ghost and fire. 231 00:15:37,120 --> 00:15:40,560 And he recognized Jesus as that because the Spirit of God had 232 00:15:40,560 --> 00:15:42,680 told John who was the greatest prophet. 233 00:15:42,760 --> 00:15:45,120 He said, now when you see the one whom the Holy Spirit will 234 00:15:45,120 --> 00:15:47,880 come upon without measure, He's the Messiah. 235 00:15:49,280 --> 00:15:53,600 And so he testified, this is the Lamb that was slain before the 236 00:15:53,600 --> 00:15:55,480 foundation. He'll take away the sins of the 237 00:15:55,480 --> 00:15:58,400 world. This is the anointed one, this 238 00:15:58,400 --> 00:16:02,200 is the King, Amen. And so when his disciples are 239 00:16:02,200 --> 00:16:04,440 leaving and they're saying, hey, all your disciples are leaving 240 00:16:04,440 --> 00:16:06,320 and going to Jesus, John, how's that make you feel? 241 00:16:06,480 --> 00:16:10,200 He said I must decrease and he must because my whole ministry 242 00:16:10,200 --> 00:16:13,280 was just to announce He'll, it was not about me. 243 00:16:13,360 --> 00:16:16,280 And if we lose everybody, that's great because they should be 244 00:16:16,280 --> 00:16:18,280 falling. He's the one we're supposed to 245 00:16:18,280 --> 00:16:20,720 follow anyway. I'm not even worthy to untie the 246 00:16:20,720 --> 00:16:26,000 man's sandals, right? And so Jesus has these 247 00:16:26,000 --> 00:16:29,920 disciples, but he hand picks 12 of the 12. 248 00:16:29,920 --> 00:16:37,760 He has one that he knows will betray him, will betray him. 249 00:16:38,480 --> 00:16:42,240 And here we are in Acts chapter 1 looking for his replacement. 250 00:16:42,600 --> 00:16:47,640 But notice the 12, the 11 or the 11 that are left are asking the 251 00:16:47,640 --> 00:16:51,480 Lord who's your pick? Notice what they didn't do. 252 00:16:51,480 --> 00:16:53,840 Well, I like so and so. I like such and such. 253 00:16:54,000 --> 00:16:55,920 You know what? This person here, this is my 254 00:16:55,920 --> 00:16:59,240 boat. Let me fill this position. 255 00:17:00,720 --> 00:17:04,319 Amen. No, it's like, Lord, who do you 256 00:17:04,319 --> 00:17:07,720 want in this position? Who is your choice? 257 00:17:07,880 --> 00:17:11,920 And it says that they cast lots for him and, and ultimately it 258 00:17:11,920 --> 00:17:15,880 fell to one that took the place of Judas. 259 00:17:15,880 --> 00:17:17,599 Now, there were some qualifications that were 260 00:17:17,599 --> 00:17:21,720 required there, but ultimately it was God who handpicked the 261 00:17:21,720 --> 00:17:25,560 replacement for Judas Iscariot. Are you hearing me? 262 00:17:26,680 --> 00:17:31,160 So God is in the business of choosing you and placing you. 263 00:17:32,960 --> 00:17:35,280 You are a royal choice. Come on, look to your neighbor 264 00:17:35,280 --> 00:17:38,760 say I'm a royal choice. In Acts Chapter 9 verse 15, it 265 00:17:38,760 --> 00:17:44,080 says, but the Lord said to him, go, for he is a chosen, he's a 266 00:17:44,080 --> 00:17:50,120 lot chosen instrument of mine to bear my name before the Gentiles 267 00:17:50,280 --> 00:17:52,840 and kings and the sons of Israel. 268 00:17:53,120 --> 00:17:56,680 Now who's this person? Well, this person is Saul of 269 00:17:56,680 --> 00:18:02,120 Tarsus and Saul of Tarsus is a wicked religious man. 270 00:18:03,720 --> 00:18:11,160 He is a wicked religious man. He is trying to single handedly 271 00:18:11,320 --> 00:18:17,400 destroy the church to capture those who confess Christ as 272 00:18:17,400 --> 00:18:19,920 Lord. He believes he's doing the 273 00:18:19,920 --> 00:18:25,360 Lord's work and as a result of that he is crushing it. 274 00:18:25,800 --> 00:18:28,880 Let me say this for a quick side thought again. 275 00:18:30,640 --> 00:18:33,640 Political people who use scripture does not mean they're 276 00:18:33,640 --> 00:18:40,360 rightly dividing it. The number one misuse scripture 277 00:18:40,360 --> 00:18:45,520 among politicians is Matthew 25, for they say unless you do it to 278 00:18:45,520 --> 00:18:48,680 the least of these, but it doesn't say the least of these 279 00:18:48,680 --> 00:18:51,160 meaning the world. It says the least of these who 280 00:18:51,160 --> 00:18:56,120 are mine. Any platform that does not have 281 00:18:56,120 --> 00:18:59,320 the church in mind is not doing it to the least of his. 282 00:19:02,800 --> 00:19:06,000 And there are many believers who are following politicians using 283 00:19:06,000 --> 00:19:08,960 Matthew 25 that have no right to interpret it. 284 00:19:13,160 --> 00:19:17,800 Why do I say that? Because Paul is a religious man 285 00:19:17,920 --> 00:19:22,720 who had power with the governments of his time to be 286 00:19:22,720 --> 00:19:29,400 able to go into Israel. And he used scripture to 287 00:19:29,400 --> 00:19:32,560 persecute, to set up his own agenda. 288 00:19:32,560 --> 00:19:36,800 And man, when he does his resume, I mean, if this guy was 289 00:19:36,800 --> 00:19:39,320 running for political office, this guy would have a resume of 290 00:19:40,280 --> 00:19:43,760 what he did. And he even gives us his resume 291 00:19:43,840 --> 00:19:46,880 at one particular time of his life prior to Christ. 292 00:19:46,960 --> 00:19:49,160 But then he summed it all up with this statement. 293 00:19:49,160 --> 00:19:53,200 He said everything I did that I thought I was doing for the Lord 294 00:19:53,200 --> 00:19:55,760 and all of His scripture I was using thinking I was. 295 00:19:55,960 --> 00:19:59,840 It is dung. It is like one big pile of 296 00:19:59,840 --> 00:20:07,560 manure, 'cause once I really found Christ my Mama. 297 00:20:08,000 --> 00:20:11,760 And if you are Spirit filled and a studier of the Word at all, 298 00:20:11,760 --> 00:20:14,520 you would not be deceived by Matthew 25. 299 00:20:17,240 --> 00:20:21,280 Hallelujah. And here's Paul on the road to 300 00:20:21,280 --> 00:20:24,360 Damascus. God stops him dead in his tracks 301 00:20:24,560 --> 00:20:28,880 because men have testified to Paul or Saul at the time 302 00:20:29,280 --> 00:20:31,360 concerning the way how to be born again. 303 00:20:31,360 --> 00:20:36,040 He's just rejecting it. But notice the Lord had a plan. 304 00:20:37,640 --> 00:20:44,840 I said he had a plan and it says that talking to starts with an A 305 00:20:44,840 --> 00:20:48,080 come on, help me out and I and an eyes. 306 00:20:48,080 --> 00:20:50,600 He said you go pray for this guy and he's like, man, don't you 307 00:20:50,600 --> 00:20:52,880 know he's got papers that arrest all of us that are saying you're 308 00:20:52,880 --> 00:20:57,160 the Lord. He said he is my what chosen, oh 309 00:20:57,840 --> 00:21:02,200 instrument. Now Paul goes on later in 310 00:21:02,200 --> 00:21:06,520 Galatians and he testifies concerning this apostleship that 311 00:21:06,520 --> 00:21:08,520 he's been called into this thing. 312 00:21:08,520 --> 00:21:10,280 He was apprehended, you know, in Philippians. 313 00:21:10,280 --> 00:21:13,320 He said, I'm, I'm strived. I'm trying to apprehend that 314 00:21:13,320 --> 00:21:17,440 which I was apprehended, meaning I was going my own course and 315 00:21:17,440 --> 00:21:19,960 direction. I mean, I had a life planned out 316 00:21:20,080 --> 00:21:23,840 that was wealth, riches, honor, but it was garbage. 317 00:21:23,840 --> 00:21:27,320 It was outside of God's destiny and will for my life, even 318 00:21:27,320 --> 00:21:29,480 though I was using his scripture to try to get there. 319 00:21:29,880 --> 00:21:33,560 And yet he apprehends me with a calling greater than I can even 320 00:21:33,560 --> 00:21:37,360 imagine. He chose me the least of them 321 00:21:37,360 --> 00:21:40,720 all, the one that shouldn't, he said, but by the grace of God, I 322 00:21:40,720 --> 00:21:45,360 am what I am. I am what I am by the grace of 323 00:21:45,360 --> 00:21:48,480 God. And so he said, I'm trying to 324 00:21:48,480 --> 00:21:51,520 pursue this. And in Galatians 1, He has even 325 00:21:51,520 --> 00:21:55,320 further revelation concerning this revelation or Galatians 326 00:21:55,320 --> 00:21:59,800 115, he said. But when God, who had set me 327 00:21:59,800 --> 00:22:14,840 apart even from my mother's, there is a place that God knows 328 00:22:14,840 --> 00:22:24,680 you before you ever sinned. It's all of Tarsus by all 329 00:22:24,680 --> 00:22:27,640 rights, and he emits him to himself. 330 00:22:27,840 --> 00:22:32,760 I was a blasphemer. If anyone should be cursed and 331 00:22:32,760 --> 00:22:36,200 cast into the Lake of Fire, it is when it came to sin. 332 00:22:36,400 --> 00:22:40,880 I was chief. I did it better than anybody. 333 00:22:41,560 --> 00:22:46,280 Yet Paul had revelation. There was a place in Christ, 334 00:22:46,280 --> 00:22:50,800 There was a place in my father's eye that he knew about me. 335 00:22:50,920 --> 00:22:55,600 And he already set me apart before I even did anything, 336 00:22:56,880 --> 00:23:03,040 before I even made a choice. He chose me. 337 00:23:08,560 --> 00:23:12,720 So many believers live their whole existence only identifying 338 00:23:12,720 --> 00:23:15,640 with their sin, their troubles, their issues, their faith, and 339 00:23:15,640 --> 00:23:20,080 it keeps them squandered and handicapped from accomplishing 340 00:23:20,080 --> 00:23:21,880 all the gods. When if you would just go back 341 00:23:21,880 --> 00:23:24,000 and say, what did you think about me? 342 00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:34,120 But but when I was in my mom's womb, how did you see me there? 343 00:23:36,920 --> 00:23:39,440 Man, when you get that revelation, then you won't let 344 00:23:39,440 --> 00:23:43,800 anybody tell you who you are. Because before I ever blew it, 345 00:23:44,040 --> 00:23:46,560 God knew me. Before I made a choice. 346 00:23:46,760 --> 00:23:50,640 God chose me before I ever did something to disappoint Him. 347 00:23:50,880 --> 00:23:53,960 He saw me. He had a plan for me He wanted 348 00:23:53,960 --> 00:23:56,640 to do. I was royally chosen. 349 00:23:58,280 --> 00:24:01,080 I'm in a royal bloodline before I even get out of the womb. 350 00:24:02,960 --> 00:24:05,080 Wow. Now I know the Bible says that 351 00:24:05,080 --> 00:24:07,440 all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. 352 00:24:07,640 --> 00:24:11,720 The reality is we were born into the household of the King and 353 00:24:11,720 --> 00:24:15,000 then we chose to rebel against our family lineage. 354 00:24:17,640 --> 00:24:22,760 But he was compassionate, full of mercy, because he saw us 355 00:24:22,760 --> 00:24:28,600 before we ever made the mistake, Paul said. 356 00:24:29,120 --> 00:24:34,960 But when God, who set me apart even from my mother's womb, and 357 00:24:34,960 --> 00:24:42,520 called me through his grace, was pleased, was pleased, was 358 00:24:42,520 --> 00:24:48,600 pleased, was what was pleased. Do you understand that you were 359 00:24:48,600 --> 00:24:52,360 in a place in God that was pleasing? 360 00:24:52,360 --> 00:24:59,400 Before you became displeasing to Him, God first knew you under 361 00:24:59,400 --> 00:25:03,920 favor. God first knew you as the one 362 00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:07,320 who would be all that He ordained you to be. 363 00:25:08,200 --> 00:25:10,640 He knew you there first. I mean, if we're going to go 364 00:25:10,640 --> 00:25:14,200 back to remember, let's go ahead and go all the way back because 365 00:25:14,200 --> 00:25:17,600 too many times we're going back. It's like we need to know our 366 00:25:17,600 --> 00:25:22,000 sin to keep us holy. No, when I go back and say I'm 367 00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:27,760 holy because He knew me before I blew it, He always saw me in a 368 00:25:27,760 --> 00:25:31,400 place that I could be holy, that I could live holy, that I could 369 00:25:31,400 --> 00:25:34,480 accomplish His task. I made mistakes along the way, 370 00:25:34,600 --> 00:25:39,080 but God being rich in his mercy, ma'am, when when I had rebelled 371 00:25:39,080 --> 00:25:43,440 against my own destiny and purpose for living, He found a 372 00:25:43,440 --> 00:25:47,120 way of choosing me again. And when I made the choice to go 373 00:25:47,120 --> 00:25:51,240 to Him because He chose me, then I can get to the place that was 374 00:25:51,240 --> 00:25:53,280 there. But while I was being in my 375 00:25:53,280 --> 00:25:57,600 mom's womb. Wow. 376 00:25:58,600 --> 00:26:09,080 Jeremiah 1 five to seven says this before Paul says he set me 377 00:26:09,080 --> 00:26:10,600 apart while I was in my mother's womb. 378 00:26:10,600 --> 00:26:16,200 Jeremiah says it's close, but let me tell you, there's a place 379 00:26:16,200 --> 00:26:21,560 before you even got there. He said before you form me in 380 00:26:21,560 --> 00:26:30,120 the womb you knew me, and before you were born and before you 381 00:26:30,160 --> 00:26:33,680 were born I consecrated you God. Talking to Jeremiah, he said I 382 00:26:33,680 --> 00:26:35,880 have a point. Now notice you're not even in 383 00:26:35,880 --> 00:26:42,160 the womb yet and he's already chosen your destiny. 384 00:26:45,640 --> 00:26:50,640 He's chosen you. You are always a royal choice 385 00:26:52,000 --> 00:26:55,000 before you even get into your mother's womb, He's already 386 00:26:55,640 --> 00:27:00,000 chosen you and appointed you. For Jeremiah was to be a prophet 387 00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:03,320 to the nations. Then I then I said at last, Lord 388 00:27:03,320 --> 00:27:06,040 God, behold, I do not know how to speak because I'm a youth. 389 00:27:06,040 --> 00:27:08,440 But the Lord said to me, do not say I'm a youth because 390 00:27:08,640 --> 00:27:12,280 everywhere I send you, you shall go and all that I command you, 391 00:27:12,280 --> 00:27:17,280 you shall what speak. Meaning, son, I have this all 392 00:27:17,280 --> 00:27:20,040 written out before you even got into mom. 393 00:27:21,520 --> 00:27:26,280 I just need you to echo what you hear from me. 394 00:27:26,400 --> 00:27:29,320 I just need you to decree what I decree. 395 00:27:29,480 --> 00:27:33,200 I just need you to do what I've already said in motion before 396 00:27:33,200 --> 00:27:38,880 you ever got into mom. I mean, when we're talking about 397 00:27:38,880 --> 00:27:41,520 choice, he chose you before you got to your mom. 398 00:27:42,520 --> 00:27:46,160 That's not a mistake. You know how we talk about 399 00:27:46,160 --> 00:27:48,280 pregnancies like there's mistakes? 400 00:27:51,160 --> 00:27:54,000 You understand the enemy does all kind of things to kill, 401 00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:57,400 steal and destroy, but you understand any child forming in 402 00:27:57,400 --> 00:27:59,880 a womb didn't choose how they got there. 403 00:28:00,440 --> 00:28:03,600 Y'all don't want to hear this yet? 404 00:28:04,840 --> 00:28:07,720 God has already chosen them before they got there. 405 00:28:07,840 --> 00:28:11,440 The way they got there is irrelevant to God, because how 406 00:28:11,440 --> 00:28:15,120 can you get somewhere that God cannot deliver you? 407 00:28:21,640 --> 00:28:28,680 I am convinced that there are things in this planet today that 408 00:28:28,680 --> 00:28:34,080 you and I are having to do because someone chose to not let 409 00:28:34,080 --> 00:28:44,840 one of them come into the earth. Because this isn't God saying I 410 00:28:44,840 --> 00:28:55,560 knew only those who made it in. Hallelujah. 411 00:28:56,040 --> 00:28:59,480 I said Hallelujah. I said Hallelujah. 412 00:29:00,240 --> 00:29:04,960 I said Hallelujah. I mean, for every horrific story 413 00:29:05,120 --> 00:29:09,920 of sin in someone's life that it is shipwrecked, bankrupt, it has 414 00:29:09,920 --> 00:29:12,240 fallen apart. Their whole lives are in 415 00:29:12,240 --> 00:29:16,360 shambles because of sin and they never get out ever. 416 00:29:16,560 --> 00:29:20,360 There's someone who had the same experience and by the grace of 417 00:29:20,360 --> 00:29:24,360 God and the mercy of God came out, became different, became a 418 00:29:24,360 --> 00:29:28,360 child of God overcame, did the destiny because the devil cannot 419 00:29:28,360 --> 00:29:31,720 stop what God has already thought about you before you 420 00:29:31,720 --> 00:29:41,480 ever got into your mom can't do it, can't do it. 421 00:29:43,160 --> 00:29:47,680 Nick came up during worship today and had a unction in a 422 00:29:47,680 --> 00:29:51,680 spirit concerning something you know and again, as we have the 423 00:29:51,680 --> 00:29:53,720 gifts of the spirit and operation and moving. 424 00:29:53,720 --> 00:29:55,320 You know, you're always looking for the right time. 425 00:29:55,320 --> 00:29:58,000 And when he communicated to me what he had in his spirit, I 426 00:29:58,000 --> 00:30:02,760 said that fits in the message. So the spirit of the Lord would 427 00:30:02,760 --> 00:30:07,640 say that there's some youth in here and that you're making 428 00:30:07,640 --> 00:30:11,080 choices that are outside your destiny. 429 00:30:14,080 --> 00:30:17,960 Because later on in Jeremiah, he says that I know the plans that 430 00:30:17,960 --> 00:30:22,400 I have for you and you need to get into the plans he has for 431 00:30:22,400 --> 00:30:24,640 you. Because you're squandering 432 00:30:24,640 --> 00:30:29,360 precious time to try to experience a world you're not of 433 00:30:30,440 --> 00:30:34,040 and that God has given through compassion, mercy, and good 434 00:30:34,040 --> 00:30:37,080 parenting. Not perfect parenting, but good 435 00:30:37,080 --> 00:30:41,120 parenting to have you in the household of God so that you can 436 00:30:41,120 --> 00:30:44,280 hear truths from the and you can discover yourself. 437 00:30:44,360 --> 00:30:47,840 Why don't you become a David that didn't wait till he became 438 00:30:47,840 --> 00:30:49,680 an adult, but did it as a teenager? 439 00:30:49,880 --> 00:30:54,000 In fact, the majority of the people used within Scripture, 440 00:30:54,600 --> 00:30:59,400 Daniel, they were teenagers. Some scholars believe that even 441 00:30:59,400 --> 00:31:03,320 the apostles were teenagers because when we talk about work, 442 00:31:03,320 --> 00:31:06,200 we think about, you know, the US society, you know, and when 443 00:31:06,200 --> 00:31:09,600 you're 18, you're an adult. No, back then you working when 444 00:31:09,600 --> 00:31:12,280 you're young, Are you hearing me? 445 00:31:12,720 --> 00:31:16,880 So these could have been easily teenage boys that were running 446 00:31:16,880 --> 00:31:20,240 with Jesus. We know that David was just a 447 00:31:20,240 --> 00:31:24,280 teenager. We know that Joseph was 17 years 448 00:31:24,280 --> 00:31:27,160 old when God told him his destiny. 449 00:31:29,720 --> 00:31:35,160 So you don't want to squander precious years to experience the 450 00:31:35,160 --> 00:31:41,760 world you're not of because I can tell you from plenty, adults 451 00:31:41,760 --> 00:31:44,320 hear it and go ahead and help the youth and testify. 452 00:31:45,680 --> 00:31:49,800 Did the world give you everything you needed and you're 453 00:31:49,800 --> 00:31:52,280 glad you ran to it? Anyone want to testify and say 454 00:31:52,280 --> 00:31:55,120 I'm glad I ran to it? I'm glad the world was mine? 455 00:31:55,320 --> 00:31:57,760 OK, let me ask this question. How many of you ran to the world 456 00:31:57,920 --> 00:32:01,240 you knew you wanted it to answer and it would left you bankrupt 457 00:32:01,240 --> 00:32:04,600 and hurt? How many of that learn? 458 00:32:05,640 --> 00:32:07,400 You don't have to experience it yourself, because here's the 459 00:32:07,400 --> 00:32:12,120 thing, you can't conquer God in your sin. 460 00:32:16,720 --> 00:32:21,840 Hallelujah. Psalms 139 verses 13 to 16. 461 00:32:21,840 --> 00:32:25,320 He says you for you form my inward parts. 462 00:32:25,920 --> 00:32:30,000 You wove me in my mother's womb, and I will give thanks to you. 463 00:32:30,040 --> 00:32:39,600 I am fearfully and wonderfully made wonderful all your works, 464 00:32:39,600 --> 00:32:43,680 and my soul knows it well. My frame was not hidden from you 465 00:32:44,120 --> 00:32:48,680 when I was made in secret and skillfully wrought in the depths 466 00:32:48,680 --> 00:32:51,600 of the earth. Your eyes have seen my unformed 467 00:32:51,600 --> 00:32:57,760 substance, and in your book, and in your book, and in your book, 468 00:32:58,280 --> 00:33:04,360 and in your book were all say all were all say all, all 469 00:33:04,360 --> 00:33:07,480 written. The days that were ordained for 470 00:33:07,480 --> 00:33:12,120 me, when as yet there was not one of them. 471 00:33:16,240 --> 00:33:24,720 Before you even came out of the mother's womb, God made a royal 472 00:33:24,720 --> 00:33:35,040 choice to pick you. Pick you to pick you to do, to 473 00:33:35,040 --> 00:33:41,880 be, to become, to release, to be connected, to be jointed and 474 00:33:41,880 --> 00:33:48,480 fitted, to come alongside, to run with another group of chosen 475 00:33:49,680 --> 00:33:51,800 chosen ones. Set apart. 476 00:33:52,080 --> 00:33:53,680 And I'm not saying set apart from sin. 477 00:33:53,680 --> 00:33:55,760 I'm talking about set apart before you even made the first 478 00:33:55,760 --> 00:34:01,320 sin. Isn't that amazing, how our God 479 00:34:01,320 --> 00:34:04,320 is this way? How our God is so powerful and 480 00:34:04,320 --> 00:34:09,800 he leaves no details unturned? In fact, Matthew 1030 says this 481 00:34:09,800 --> 00:34:13,840 concerning you, he said. But the very hairs of your head 482 00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:18,639 are all numbered. I mean, we're talking detail, 483 00:34:18,679 --> 00:34:22,520 you understand? God knows everything about you 484 00:34:22,760 --> 00:34:30,280 more than you know about you. The detail of our Heavenly 485 00:34:30,280 --> 00:34:33,760 Father. He's left nothing to chance. 486 00:34:37,199 --> 00:34:39,120 All we have to do is reciprocate. 487 00:34:39,560 --> 00:34:45,800 Following after being chosen and discovering you had a plan for 488 00:34:45,800 --> 00:34:48,320 me before I even got into my mom. 489 00:34:50,120 --> 00:34:53,840 You have a book with my name on it, and all I have to do is 490 00:34:53,840 --> 00:34:58,120 discover what you've written. And This is why Jesus said you 491 00:34:58,120 --> 00:35:01,440 didn't choose me, but I chose you and appointed you to go bear 492 00:35:01,440 --> 00:35:04,440 fruit. And if you ask anything to my 493 00:35:04,440 --> 00:35:07,200 father in my name, he'll do it. Because when you're asking, 494 00:35:07,200 --> 00:35:09,320 you're saying, Dad, what's in your book about me? 495 00:35:12,480 --> 00:35:14,000 What's in what's in your book about? 496 00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:18,680 What does that book say? Before I came into my mother's 497 00:35:18,680 --> 00:35:21,720 womb? You've written them all out. 498 00:35:22,480 --> 00:35:25,920 What does it say? And he'll say, you'll do this, 499 00:35:26,120 --> 00:35:28,280 you'll say that. And This is why you'll always 500 00:35:28,280 --> 00:35:31,200 have whatever you ask of the Father in the name of Jesus. 501 00:35:31,200 --> 00:35:33,480 Because you're only fulfilling written pages. 502 00:35:35,560 --> 00:35:40,080 You are fulfilling written pages concerning you before you were 503 00:35:40,080 --> 00:35:47,400 ever born. God is obligated, meaning if you 504 00:35:47,400 --> 00:35:52,600 tap into the book He has your name on, then He will fulfill 505 00:35:52,600 --> 00:35:55,960 all those things. But if you want to have your own 506 00:35:56,040 --> 00:36:02,840 autobiography, God will allow you to write your own pages, but 507 00:36:02,840 --> 00:36:06,480 He'll judge you according to His book that He wrote concerning 508 00:36:06,480 --> 00:36:08,720 you. This is why when you stand 509 00:36:08,720 --> 00:36:12,800 before the judgment seat of Christ, the books He pulls out, 510 00:36:12,800 --> 00:36:15,720 the first one is the Lamb's book of life, and He verifies your 511 00:36:15,720 --> 00:36:18,640 names in there. He never gets that wrong. 512 00:36:19,080 --> 00:36:23,400 I said He never gets that wrong. Once you qualify there, he shuts 513 00:36:23,400 --> 00:36:25,360 that book. Then he opens up another book. 514 00:36:25,960 --> 00:36:29,120 It's called the book he wrote about you before you ever got 515 00:36:29,120 --> 00:36:32,400 into mom's womb. And then he pulls your book out, 516 00:36:33,360 --> 00:36:39,520 the one you actually wrote. And when he goes page by page, 517 00:36:40,000 --> 00:36:47,360 every cross T, every dotted I, he is very detailed. 518 00:36:47,840 --> 00:36:54,720 He says this that he will judge us not an idle word that we will 519 00:36:54,720 --> 00:36:58,000 not have to give an account to do you understand you could live 520 00:36:58,000 --> 00:37:04,200 it to every grammar punctuation. I'm I'm using natural thought 521 00:37:04,200 --> 00:37:07,480 processes here. OK, meaning you can be so in 522 00:37:07,480 --> 00:37:12,400 tune with the Spirit that God when he starts to flip through, 523 00:37:12,400 --> 00:37:16,520 because here's the thing, you started a book and then all of a 524 00:37:16,520 --> 00:37:23,080 sudden chapters got into that book that sinned the rebellion. 525 00:37:24,840 --> 00:37:27,480 But here's the good thing. When you made Jesus Lord, he 526 00:37:27,480 --> 00:37:33,400 ripped those papers. He ripped those pages out. 527 00:37:33,520 --> 00:37:35,920 You keep referring to chapters that he doesn't have in that 528 00:37:35,920 --> 00:37:37,760 book anymore because you're in Christ. 529 00:37:38,920 --> 00:37:42,360 I understand it is possible for you to be at a stand before the 530 00:37:42,360 --> 00:37:46,240 Lord and his book and your book match and you're like, but wait 531 00:37:46,240 --> 00:37:50,120 a minute, where is the failure? Where's the drunkenness for 532 00:37:50,120 --> 00:37:51,680 years? Where's the fornication? 533 00:37:51,680 --> 00:37:53,840 Where's the adultery? Where's the lying? 534 00:37:53,920 --> 00:37:57,200 He said, well, that's under the blood that's been removed. 535 00:37:57,520 --> 00:37:59,800 That's not even in the book anymore. 536 00:38:02,120 --> 00:38:06,480 No, those books only are showing up on the day of the Great White 537 00:38:06,480 --> 00:38:13,200 Throne judgement. So it's possible for you to make 538 00:38:13,200 --> 00:38:20,360 a choice today and He can RIP out every personal decision that 539 00:38:20,360 --> 00:38:25,120 you made without him so that you now can follow him the rest of 540 00:38:25,120 --> 00:38:27,560 your life according to his design. 541 00:38:29,400 --> 00:38:32,880 The royal choice. I said it's a royal choice. 542 00:38:33,160 --> 00:38:36,160 Look what it says here in Ephesians chapter 2 verse 10, 543 00:38:37,120 --> 00:38:39,640 Paul writing to the church at Ephesus, he says, for we are his 544 00:38:39,640 --> 00:38:47,160 workmanship created in Christ. Or notice what it does not say. 545 00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:53,520 It does not say for heaven. It does not say for heaven. 546 00:38:55,280 --> 00:38:59,320 Now again, this is the verse after the one that everyone 547 00:38:59,320 --> 00:39:05,000 stops at, that you were saved, not of any works, lest any man 548 00:39:05,000 --> 00:39:08,400 shall boast, but by grace through faith. 549 00:39:09,120 --> 00:39:12,520 And we stopped there. I didn't do anything to deserve 550 00:39:12,520 --> 00:39:13,720 it. Don't have to do anything now 551 00:39:13,720 --> 00:39:16,120 that I'm here. But if you read the next verse, 552 00:39:16,280 --> 00:39:20,680 he says now you are his workmanship, meaning He has 553 00:39:20,680 --> 00:39:24,760 written about you before you. You encountered sin in the 1st 554 00:39:24,760 --> 00:39:29,760 place, and now that you are back in Christ, in the King, you're 555 00:39:29,760 --> 00:39:34,120 part of the family again. There are some good come on, say 556 00:39:34,120 --> 00:39:36,960 it good. What good? 557 00:39:36,960 --> 00:39:42,320 What works now? These are not works that earn 558 00:39:42,320 --> 00:39:45,480 salvation. These are works of faith. 559 00:39:46,120 --> 00:39:49,960 These are, I'm doing the pages that you wrote about me. 560 00:39:50,080 --> 00:39:53,520 I am going to walk them out. I'm going to hear you by the 561 00:39:53,520 --> 00:39:55,160 Spirit. I'm going to step where you tell 562 00:39:55,160 --> 00:39:56,960 me to step. I'm going to stop where you tell 563 00:39:56,960 --> 00:39:58,840 me to stop. I'm going to say what you tell 564 00:39:58,840 --> 00:40:00,840 me to say. I'm going to hold my tongue when 565 00:40:00,840 --> 00:40:05,920 you tell me to hold it. Amen. 566 00:40:07,120 --> 00:40:10,880 I'm going to release the fruits of the Spirit and not the fruits 567 00:40:10,880 --> 00:40:14,160 of the flesh. Hallelujah. 568 00:40:15,680 --> 00:40:18,280 Amen. So there are some good works 569 00:40:18,280 --> 00:40:23,240 which God what prepared when beforehand. 570 00:40:23,840 --> 00:40:26,880 So before we were going to walk in them, He's already prepared 571 00:40:26,880 --> 00:40:28,800 them. But in order for us to walk in 572 00:40:28,800 --> 00:40:35,800 them, we have to obey by faith under the grace of God. 573 00:40:35,960 --> 00:40:40,200 That actually causes the good works to show up now because we 574 00:40:40,200 --> 00:40:43,240 are in Christ. Man, isn't that amazing? 575 00:40:43,680 --> 00:40:46,920 I said, isn't that amazing? So when God says, listen, now 576 00:40:46,920 --> 00:40:50,080 God has placed you in the body, each one of them where he 577 00:40:50,080 --> 00:40:57,720 desires, it's because he always had in mind the original place 578 00:40:57,840 --> 00:41:02,320 of man. Come on, you know where it's at 579 00:41:02,320 --> 00:41:05,440 in Genesis chapter one verse 26 through 28. 580 00:41:06,000 --> 00:41:11,240 Then God said, and when God says he's obligated to have a pathway 581 00:41:11,400 --> 00:41:17,160 to fulfill his word. Now I say that because God will 582 00:41:17,160 --> 00:41:21,640 always do what He says, but what has what He has instructed to 583 00:41:21,680 --> 00:41:28,400 other free will creatures, those that have been created with free 584 00:41:28,400 --> 00:41:32,720 will, they can make their own choice. 585 00:41:33,920 --> 00:41:39,240 So God will fulfill His side and give you the opportunity to be 586 00:41:39,240 --> 00:41:44,000 back in alignment with His side, but you could choose to not be 587 00:41:44,000 --> 00:41:47,800 there and that's your choice, which then reciprocates to what 588 00:41:47,800 --> 00:41:51,800 He has said about those who choose to be against Him, and He 589 00:41:51,800 --> 00:41:53,920 fulfills that portion of His word. 590 00:41:54,360 --> 00:41:57,600 OK, but it says then God said let us make man in our image 591 00:41:57,840 --> 00:42:01,560 according to our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of 592 00:42:01,560 --> 00:42:04,000 the sea, over the birds of the sky, over the cattle, over all 593 00:42:04,000 --> 00:42:06,560 the earth, over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, 594 00:42:07,400 --> 00:42:10,600 right? God created man in his own 595 00:42:10,600 --> 00:42:15,000 image, in the image of God. He created and met him, male and 596 00:42:15,720 --> 00:42:19,560 female. You ready? 597 00:42:20,760 --> 00:42:28,080 Before you formed me in my mother's womb, I knew you. 598 00:42:28,080 --> 00:42:33,880 So He knew who you were and what gender you would take prior to 599 00:42:33,880 --> 00:42:40,920 getting in, which means he never misses that God never makes that 600 00:42:40,920 --> 00:42:45,240 mistake. So He knows that when you get 601 00:42:45,240 --> 00:42:47,520 into the womb, you'll be a female. 602 00:42:48,400 --> 00:42:51,960 And He knows when you get into the womb you'll be a male 603 00:42:52,560 --> 00:42:58,360 because He knew you prior. Hallelujah. 604 00:42:59,600 --> 00:43:03,040 So God created him, male and female, He created them. 605 00:43:03,040 --> 00:43:06,600 God bless them. And God said to them, guess 606 00:43:06,600 --> 00:43:09,240 what? He said He didn't say I made 607 00:43:09,280 --> 00:43:10,760 you. I do it all. 608 00:43:10,800 --> 00:43:12,960 You can do nothing now that I've made you. 609 00:43:13,120 --> 00:43:14,440 Come on up here and live with me. 610 00:43:15,080 --> 00:43:20,160 No, he said, This is why you're here, Terrain. 611 00:43:22,240 --> 00:43:26,600 This is your purpose. This is your royal destiny. 612 00:43:27,800 --> 00:43:30,960 So be fruitful. Multiply, fill the earth and 613 00:43:30,960 --> 00:43:33,120 subdue it. Rule over the efficiency, over 614 00:43:33,120 --> 00:43:36,880 the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on 615 00:43:36,880 --> 00:43:40,840 the earth. Aren't you glad that Jesus prior 616 00:43:40,840 --> 00:43:45,360 to saying what God said, God created the heavens and the 617 00:43:45,400 --> 00:43:52,360 earth, that He saw us prior as ones who will rule and reign 618 00:43:52,480 --> 00:43:55,160 with him. He made a conscious choice 619 00:43:55,280 --> 00:43:59,320 before we ever came into the planet at whatever age, whatever 620 00:43:59,320 --> 00:44:03,120 time frame that he appointed us for a purpose. 621 00:44:05,280 --> 00:44:09,080 And he has a book of your assignment that all you have to 622 00:44:09,080 --> 00:44:14,080 do is choose to believe it, see yourself past your sin state and 623 00:44:14,080 --> 00:44:17,520 see you in the prior to womb position. 624 00:44:18,080 --> 00:44:23,000 Man, God's got a plan for me. Hallelujah. 625 00:44:23,800 --> 00:44:28,800 With that being said, let's look at first Peter 2 and verse 9. 626 00:44:29,360 --> 00:44:33,760 But you are a chosen lineage. I like that. 627 00:44:34,320 --> 00:44:36,400 I like that. Say I'm a chosen lineage. 628 00:44:37,040 --> 00:44:41,280 Say I'm a chosen lineage. Listen, you are royalty. 629 00:44:43,800 --> 00:44:48,720 You're kings of the king. He always saw you as royalty 630 00:44:48,720 --> 00:44:51,120 first. He never wanted you outside of 631 00:44:51,120 --> 00:44:53,920 that royal assignment. He never wanted you outside of 632 00:44:53,920 --> 00:44:56,840 that family position. He never wanted you outside of 633 00:44:57,000 --> 00:45:02,520 your God design, purpose and destiny for living, breathing 634 00:45:02,600 --> 00:45:07,160 and existing for all eternity. He never wanted you to exist 635 00:45:07,160 --> 00:45:09,160 beyond that. But we did all fall. 636 00:45:09,240 --> 00:45:12,840 We did fail. We did mess up, but God keeping 637 00:45:12,840 --> 00:45:18,360 his word says I'll send my own son to redeem, restore, allow 638 00:45:18,360 --> 00:45:22,600 man to get back in his original position of rulership. 639 00:45:22,880 --> 00:45:27,960 I will take on their sin so they can take on my righteousness. 640 00:45:28,080 --> 00:45:32,040 Then I can put them right back in the position that I always 641 00:45:32,040 --> 00:45:35,080 ordained for them, and that is to rule and reign, and they will 642 00:45:35,080 --> 00:45:39,160 be a chosen lineage. We are a chosen lineage, a royal 643 00:45:39,160 --> 00:45:43,320 priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God's own possession, 644 00:45:43,320 --> 00:45:46,920 so that we may proclaim the excellencies of him who called 645 00:45:46,920 --> 00:45:50,120 you out of darkness into his marvelous like. 646 00:45:50,120 --> 00:45:52,040 The easy read version says it this way. 647 00:45:52,360 --> 00:45:58,760 But you are his chosen people, the King's priest. 648 00:46:00,560 --> 00:46:04,080 You are a holy nation, people who belong to God. 649 00:46:04,200 --> 00:46:08,280 He chose you to tell about the wonderful things He has done. 650 00:46:08,600 --> 00:46:11,520 He brought you out of the darkness of sin into His 651 00:46:11,520 --> 00:46:15,600 marvelous light. Hallelujah, I said Hallelujah. 652 00:46:16,040 --> 00:46:19,040 And not only should we testify of what he brought us out of, 653 00:46:19,160 --> 00:46:23,040 but we should also testify of what His Kingdom is and what His 654 00:46:23,040 --> 00:46:26,720 Kingdom represents. Because as chosen ones, not only 655 00:46:26,720 --> 00:46:31,720 are we King's priests, which means we have authority on earth 656 00:46:31,920 --> 00:46:38,160 to communicate God's righteousness, and righteousness 657 00:46:38,160 --> 00:46:41,440 is God's way of doing things, which then gives us the 658 00:46:41,440 --> 00:46:46,280 assignment of ambassadors. And ambassadors do not speak on 659 00:46:46,280 --> 00:46:52,960 their own accord. You understand, in election 660 00:46:52,960 --> 00:47:03,680 cycles, I don't actually choose. The Lord instructs me who to 661 00:47:03,720 --> 00:47:10,080 pick. Hallelujah. 662 00:47:11,200 --> 00:47:18,120 I said Hallelujah, because God knows the choice, This is why, 663 00:47:18,320 --> 00:47:21,560 and he has to deal with man when man's trying to pick. 664 00:47:22,840 --> 00:47:26,880 The prophet Samuel is a man of God, loves God, anointed of God. 665 00:47:26,880 --> 00:47:31,000 In fact, every word that the prophet ever said came to pass. 666 00:47:32,040 --> 00:47:38,200 Yet the anointed king Saul has been stripped of the anointing. 667 00:47:38,800 --> 00:47:43,320 And the Lord says to his prophet, go pick the king, the 668 00:47:43,320 --> 00:47:46,120 next king, which is a man after my own heart. 669 00:47:46,840 --> 00:47:51,120 He said, OK, you know, if the king knows I'm going, he'll kill 670 00:47:51,120 --> 00:47:52,680 me. He said, this is how you're 671 00:47:52,680 --> 00:47:54,680 going to go. So he shows up at a man's house 672 00:47:54,680 --> 00:47:59,600 by the name of Jesse, who has some sons, and the first one he 673 00:47:59,600 --> 00:48:05,840 sees, the first one he what sees reminds him of the king, 674 00:48:05,840 --> 00:48:10,240 qualities of the king who just had the anointing stripped. 675 00:48:11,640 --> 00:48:17,040 And he says surely this is God's anointed. 676 00:48:17,880 --> 00:48:22,880 But the Lord speaks to him in his spirit and says this is not 677 00:48:22,880 --> 00:48:27,320 the guy and this is the problem. Man looks at the outward 678 00:48:27,320 --> 00:48:31,080 appearance, but God looks at the heart. 679 00:48:32,800 --> 00:48:34,960 Are you hearing me? Amen. 680 00:48:35,880 --> 00:48:39,120 So he says the one who I'm picking is not even in the 681 00:48:39,120 --> 00:48:40,000 house. Ultimate. 682 00:48:40,000 --> 00:48:41,920 Now, he didn't tell him that he got to the end. 683 00:48:41,920 --> 00:48:44,680 He's like, nobody's it, so there must be another one. 684 00:48:44,920 --> 00:48:47,800 You got another boy somewhere. Because I'm nothing's going off 685 00:48:47,800 --> 00:48:49,520 in my spirit saying we got somebody. 686 00:48:49,640 --> 00:48:51,160 Oh, yeah, I got one more. He's out in the field. 687 00:48:51,160 --> 00:48:54,840 He's the youngest. He's the what? 688 00:48:55,280 --> 00:48:59,880 I'm so glad that David as a teenager didn't squander his 689 00:48:59,880 --> 00:49:06,760 time in the pasture. I'm so glad he didn't do it. 690 00:49:07,800 --> 00:49:09,440 I said, I'm so glad he didn't do it. 691 00:49:10,200 --> 00:49:13,160 Amen. Now you could say, well, we have 692 00:49:13,160 --> 00:49:16,040 to let people today, you know, all their hearts are on, then go 693 00:49:16,040 --> 00:49:21,640 to their platforms. At that point you got to go to 694 00:49:21,640 --> 00:49:24,760 the platforms. What does the platforms reveal? 695 00:49:26,200 --> 00:49:28,640 And when you go to the platforms, then it reveals 696 00:49:28,880 --> 00:49:32,160 policies or the direction they want to carry because, you know, 697 00:49:32,160 --> 00:49:35,720 an unrighteous person can carry out a righteous policy. 698 00:49:45,680 --> 00:49:49,240 But a righteous person who carries out unrighteous policy 699 00:49:49,680 --> 00:49:53,160 is called a Pharisee and are wicked. 700 00:49:56,560 --> 00:50:04,560 They compromise their character. All right, Revelations 5, we'll 701 00:50:04,560 --> 00:50:08,440 close with this verse. In Revelations, it says this. 702 00:50:08,880 --> 00:50:12,640 And they sang a new song saying, you are worthy to take the 703 00:50:12,640 --> 00:50:16,800 scroll and to open its seals, for you were slain and have 704 00:50:16,800 --> 00:50:22,080 redeemed us to God by your blood, out of every tribe and 705 00:50:22,080 --> 00:50:27,400 tongue and people and nation. Man, that verse there gets me so 706 00:50:27,400 --> 00:50:29,680 jacked. This is why when I look out at 707 00:50:29,680 --> 00:50:32,720 Anchor Faith Church in Saint Augustine, I get excited. 708 00:50:36,320 --> 00:50:37,960 This is why we're a Kingdom church. 709 00:50:38,800 --> 00:50:41,240 I'm not a white church. I'm not a black church. 710 00:50:41,360 --> 00:50:44,360 I'm not a Hispanic church. I'm not a brown, I'm a Kingdom 711 00:50:44,360 --> 00:50:45,880 church. And it's evident. 712 00:50:46,440 --> 00:50:49,520 I mean, we have so many nationalities sitting here 713 00:50:50,760 --> 00:50:55,280 because it's being God is too creative to make us that boring. 714 00:50:56,320 --> 00:50:59,640 And I'm telling you as a pastor, if I looked out at the 715 00:50:59,640 --> 00:51:02,920 congregation and they look too much like me, I would have to 716 00:51:02,920 --> 00:51:05,880 get a little upset and say, what is the problem? 717 00:51:06,760 --> 00:51:11,160 What are we doing wrong? How come somebody that doesn't 718 00:51:11,160 --> 00:51:15,520 look like me but identifies with me and cries can't fellowship 719 00:51:15,520 --> 00:51:19,280 with me? What's the problem that's got to 720 00:51:19,280 --> 00:51:22,200 be fixed? We don't have to fix it here 721 00:51:22,200 --> 00:51:24,320 because we have it. Glory to God. 722 00:51:24,560 --> 00:51:27,480 This is what why? Because of out of every tribe 723 00:51:27,600 --> 00:51:30,600 and tongue and people and nation, we've all been redeemed 724 00:51:30,600 --> 00:51:33,400 because of the blood. And we are not identifying 725 00:51:33,400 --> 00:51:36,840 ourselves with the way we look. We identify ourselves with who 726 00:51:36,840 --> 00:51:40,680 we are in Christ, with what the Bible says, with what our king 727 00:51:40,680 --> 00:51:43,480 said. We are brothers and sisters in 728 00:51:43,480 --> 00:51:46,480 Christ. We have the blood of the king. 729 00:51:47,200 --> 00:51:50,240 Come on, we had the blood of the King then. 730 00:51:50,240 --> 00:51:52,480 He says this because of redemption. 731 00:51:52,560 --> 00:51:56,960 Guess what? You have made us kings and 732 00:51:56,960 --> 00:52:02,040 priests to our God, and we shall reign. 733 00:52:02,600 --> 00:52:07,600 Reign on the earth, man. It's time to reign now. 734 00:52:08,840 --> 00:52:12,000 We don't have to reign during the millennial reign. 735 00:52:12,080 --> 00:52:15,040 We don't have to wait to reign with the new heaven and new 736 00:52:15,040 --> 00:52:17,440 earth and Jerusalem comes down out of heaven. 737 00:52:17,560 --> 00:52:20,600 No, we get to reign in this life. 738 00:52:20,840 --> 00:52:26,400 And the pages of your book are available for you to accomplish 739 00:52:26,400 --> 00:52:31,160 now because you didn't choose Him, but He chose you before you 740 00:52:31,160 --> 00:52:35,280 ever got in your mother's womb. And He is faithful to get that 741 00:52:35,280 --> 00:52:37,000 book to come to pass in your life. 742 00:52:38,120 --> 00:52:39,840 All stand to your faith. Say Hallelujah. 743 00:52:40,880 --> 00:52:46,480 He is faithful to cause the pages of his book that he wrote 744 00:52:46,480 --> 00:52:49,960 about you before you ever got in your mother's womb to come to 745 00:52:49,960 --> 00:52:52,360 pass. He's faithful. 746 00:52:52,880 --> 00:52:55,760 I said he's faithful. And you know what I love the 747 00:52:55,760 --> 00:53:01,160 most about it is that your book is on the same shelf with my 748 00:53:01,160 --> 00:53:06,600 book that I get to watch you fulfill your book as you watch 749 00:53:06,600 --> 00:53:09,080 me fulfill my book. And you know what? 750 00:53:09,280 --> 00:53:13,320 It's interesting how we'll be able to flip over Chapter 4 751 00:53:15,680 --> 00:53:23,400 Pastor Earl and to Tyus went on a missionary trip. 752 00:53:26,200 --> 00:53:32,440 Pastor Earl in LG all of a sudden, your names are in my 753 00:53:32,440 --> 00:53:35,000 book, my band. Don't erase me out of your book. 754 00:53:36,400 --> 00:53:40,000 You don't want to erase me out of your book because because the 755 00:53:40,000 --> 00:53:43,320 things that I that's in your book about me is to help release 756 00:53:43,360 --> 00:53:47,960 your destiny and the things in your book help us release my 757 00:53:47,960 --> 00:53:50,120 destiny and fulfill a bigger vision. 758 00:53:50,520 --> 00:53:52,600 I don't want to have a character change. 759 00:53:53,520 --> 00:53:56,560 I don't want. I want you to be in chapters 345 760 00:53:56,560 --> 00:54:00,600 and 6:00 and all of a sudden you're nowhere else in my book. 761 00:54:01,520 --> 00:54:06,000 Because like Barnabas, that didn't go on with Paul. 762 00:54:06,120 --> 00:54:08,680 All of a sudden Silas's name shows up. 763 00:54:10,160 --> 00:54:13,080 Come on, let's stay in the book together. 764 00:54:13,680 --> 00:54:17,560 Let's do a God's account because there's 8 billion plus people on 765 00:54:17,560 --> 00:54:20,120 the planet. Nobody's going to reach them all 766 00:54:20,120 --> 00:54:22,560 by themselves. Let's reach the ones we're 767 00:54:22,560 --> 00:54:24,000 destined to do together.