1 00:00:11,320 --> 00:00:15,120 Turn over to Matthew chapter 21, starting in verse 28. 2 00:00:15,880 --> 00:00:18,640 Matthew chapter 21, we'll start in verse 28. 3 00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:21,880 And today I would call this message Take the Field. 4 00:00:22,440 --> 00:00:25,160 Now you know, you understand in a, in a baseball term, you know, 5 00:00:25,160 --> 00:00:27,520 a lot of times they go now y'all need to go take the field. 6 00:00:27,800 --> 00:00:30,720 And so that means the players come out of the dugout, they get 7 00:00:30,720 --> 00:00:34,080 in the field, they're there to play ball, OK. 8 00:00:34,360 --> 00:00:39,240 And you know, we are to be in the game, all right, for the 9 00:00:39,240 --> 00:00:43,080 Kingdom of God. We need to take the field, all 10 00:00:43,080 --> 00:00:45,000 right. And if we if there's ever been a 11 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:51,440 time to take the field, it's now as the day approaches the return 12 00:00:51,440 --> 00:00:54,640 of Jesus. I like what one minister says 13 00:00:54,640 --> 00:00:56,520 who ministers a lot on end times. 14 00:00:56,680 --> 00:01:00,400 He said it is a it's not an escape theology. 15 00:01:00,520 --> 00:01:04,840 It is a hustle theology. And he anytime he's talking 16 00:01:04,840 --> 00:01:08,400 about all the world events, he says so much is going on. 17 00:01:08,640 --> 00:01:10,880 He said there's so much happening right now. 18 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:16,440 He said every day is another thing closer to it's it seems 19 00:01:16,440 --> 00:01:21,000 imminent that we could look up and and the trumpet could sound. 20 00:01:21,520 --> 00:01:25,800 And I'm telling you, you really should live at a time in this 21 00:01:25,800 --> 00:01:28,880 time that it could be that way. I mean, let's just I mean, I'll 22 00:01:28,880 --> 00:01:30,040 give you my age. I have no problem. 23 00:01:30,040 --> 00:01:32,280 Next, next Wednesday, I'll be 56. 24 00:01:32,520 --> 00:01:38,280 So I'm 55 years old, OK. And in my 55 short years on the 25 00:01:38,280 --> 00:01:47,880 planet, man, has things changed. I mean, things have like crazy 26 00:01:47,880 --> 00:01:52,840 increased how fast things are and if this happens for another 27 00:01:52,840 --> 00:01:58,760 55 years. If it did, I mean at the at the 28 00:01:58,760 --> 00:02:03,720 rate now, I don't see how you couldn't be a believer saying 29 00:02:04,040 --> 00:02:07,400 he's coming in my lifetime. Now, at the end of the day, I'm 30 00:02:07,400 --> 00:02:10,000 not giving you a day or an hour. No one can do that. 31 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:12,600 Only the father knows that. But we can definitely know the 32 00:02:12,600 --> 00:02:16,720 season and we should not live right now on planet Earth. 33 00:02:16,880 --> 00:02:21,040 Like, you know, I'm probably going to go on and I'm talking 34 00:02:21,040 --> 00:02:24,520 to everyone in the room, even the oldest ones in the room. 35 00:02:25,760 --> 00:02:30,520 You shouldn't live like it'd go past you because Jesus could 36 00:02:30,520 --> 00:02:33,760 come back. I said he could come back in the 37 00:02:33,760 --> 00:02:36,920 next 10 years. Surely you could get another 10 38 00:02:36,920 --> 00:02:39,680 years. I mean, think about that. 39 00:02:39,680 --> 00:02:42,840 Wouldn't you want if you knew, if you knew that you knew that 40 00:02:42,840 --> 00:02:45,400 he was coming in 10 years, wouldn't you rather change 41 00:02:47,040 --> 00:02:52,920 instead of picking out a coffin? Nah, just change, right? 42 00:02:52,920 --> 00:02:57,920 Just like watch this man and I I was praying in the in my or 43 00:02:57,920 --> 00:03:02,800 preserve today and I'm like Lord, I believe God that I am 44 00:03:02,800 --> 00:03:06,560 that generation. I can be wrong, but man, I will 45 00:03:06,560 --> 00:03:09,560 not come to you and you won't be able to look at me and say yeah, 46 00:03:09,600 --> 00:03:11,120 you, you really didn't think I was coming. 47 00:03:12,480 --> 00:03:16,320 Here's no way. I am firmly persuaded that it 48 00:03:16,320 --> 00:03:19,880 can be my generation. I want to live every day like it 49 00:03:19,880 --> 00:03:22,360 is my generation that'd be changed in the moment, the 50 00:03:22,360 --> 00:03:28,280 twinkling of an eye, which means there's a lot to do still on the 51 00:03:28,280 --> 00:03:31,040 planet. And if he does come in my 52 00:03:31,040 --> 00:03:35,920 lifetime, that gives me the privilege to be in the game and 53 00:03:35,920 --> 00:03:41,560 to do some really miraculous stuff in a shorter amount of 54 00:03:41,560 --> 00:03:42,640 time. And I'm going to show you that 55 00:03:42,640 --> 00:03:44,360 tonight. Whoo, glory to God. 56 00:03:44,360 --> 00:03:47,800 I'm so excited. I wanted to preach last night's 57 00:03:47,800 --> 00:03:50,440 message that I preached to the Kingdom First Business Alliance 58 00:03:50,440 --> 00:03:54,160 tonight so bad. Oh my gosh, it was so amazing. 59 00:03:54,640 --> 00:03:57,840 Oh, there was such an anointing to minister in the realm of 60 00:03:57,840 --> 00:03:59,680 finance last night. It was crazy. 61 00:04:00,520 --> 00:04:02,960 The Lord is so good. You should come to king, the 62 00:04:02,960 --> 00:04:04,480 first business alliance. It's amazing. 63 00:04:05,200 --> 00:04:08,120 Anyway, Matthew chapter 21, verse 28, let me stay focused 64 00:04:08,120 --> 00:04:09,520 for tonight. Take the field. 65 00:04:09,520 --> 00:04:12,520 OK? What do you think a man had how 66 00:04:12,520 --> 00:04:15,920 many sons? Two sons and he came to the 1st 67 00:04:15,920 --> 00:04:19,920 and said, son, go work today in the vineyard. 68 00:04:20,959 --> 00:04:25,360 And he answered, I will not. But afterward he what? 69 00:04:25,800 --> 00:04:29,640 He regretted it and went, The man came to the second son. 70 00:04:29,720 --> 00:04:31,480 Why? Because the first one said, I'm 71 00:04:31,480 --> 00:04:34,520 not doing it. So he comes to the second son 72 00:04:34,520 --> 00:04:37,200 and he said the same thing. And he answered, I will, Sir. 73 00:04:37,760 --> 00:04:44,920 But he did not go. Which of the two did the will of 74 00:04:44,920 --> 00:04:48,600 his father and they said the first Jesus said truly I say to 75 00:04:48,600 --> 00:04:52,880 you that the tax collectors and prostitutes will get into the 76 00:04:52,880 --> 00:04:56,360 Kingdom of God before you. Wow. 77 00:04:56,840 --> 00:05:02,160 Now he was speaking to a bunch of church folk when he was 78 00:05:02,160 --> 00:05:05,320 making that statement. People who now when I say 79 00:05:05,320 --> 00:05:06,920 church, it isn't the church he's building. 80 00:05:06,920 --> 00:05:11,960 It was the the Jewish religious leaders that were a part of the 81 00:05:11,960 --> 00:05:14,520 synagogue. And he was basically letting 82 00:05:14,520 --> 00:05:17,560 them know that there's a group coming into the Kingdom before 83 00:05:17,560 --> 00:05:21,240 you're coming because you're saying I'll do it, but you don't 84 00:05:21,240 --> 00:05:24,840 do it. But there's a group that's like, 85 00:05:24,840 --> 00:05:26,080 we don't want nothing to do with it. 86 00:05:26,080 --> 00:05:30,200 And then realize, man, we need to do that. 87 00:05:31,200 --> 00:05:34,800 And he says there are going to be these prostitutes and others, 88 00:05:34,880 --> 00:05:39,000 tax collectors, these people that you have that you see as 89 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:42,360 loathsome and they are outside of God's Kingdom. 90 00:05:42,520 --> 00:05:46,640 They are deserving, you know, of the Lake of Fire. 91 00:05:46,720 --> 00:05:51,240 But they're going to come and do the will of the Father and 92 00:05:51,240 --> 00:05:55,040 they're getting him first. So we see here, he says again at 93 00:05:55,040 --> 00:05:58,280 the beginning of this passage, he's telling them, he says, 94 00:05:58,280 --> 00:06:02,480 look, there's a vineyard, sons, that I need you to work. 95 00:06:02,880 --> 00:06:06,920 OK, Now I want to say something here before I get to this other 96 00:06:06,920 --> 00:06:12,560 passage here in a second. This does not mean harvest only 97 00:06:17,240 --> 00:06:21,000 a vineyard has to be worked before harvest can come. 98 00:06:23,760 --> 00:06:28,000 Everyone wants to see harvest without first working the field. 99 00:06:30,240 --> 00:06:35,880 If all you're going to do is sit and say where's the harvest, 100 00:06:39,520 --> 00:06:42,520 then no harvest is coming because you're not in the 101 00:06:42,520 --> 00:06:48,160 vineyard working it. You have to work the vineyard, 102 00:06:49,320 --> 00:06:52,040 you have to work the field. Now let's look at this First 103 00:06:52,040 --> 00:06:55,520 Corinthians chapter 3 verses 6 to 9 says this. 104 00:06:55,680 --> 00:06:59,800 He said I planted Paul talking Apollo's watered, but God caught 105 00:06:59,800 --> 00:07:03,200 was causing the growth. So then neither the one who 106 00:07:03,200 --> 00:07:07,360 plants nor the one who waters is anything but God who causes the 107 00:07:07,360 --> 00:07:10,600 growth. Now he who plants and he who 108 00:07:10,600 --> 00:07:15,760 waters are one, but each one will receive his own reward 109 00:07:15,760 --> 00:07:20,560 according to his own labor. For we are God's fellow workers. 110 00:07:20,560 --> 00:07:23,560 You are God's field, God's building. 111 00:07:23,560 --> 00:07:27,040 So what's Paul saying here? Paul's saying is that God said 112 00:07:27,040 --> 00:07:30,600 to me, my father said, Son, get in the vineyard, go work it. 113 00:07:30,920 --> 00:07:33,880 And one thing that I needed to do to work in order for us to 114 00:07:33,880 --> 00:07:37,440 have the fruit of a vineyard is I needed to plant seeds. 115 00:07:37,720 --> 00:07:41,000 But guess what? Seeds in a field without water 116 00:07:41,000 --> 00:07:44,360 will not produce. So Apollos came in behind and he 117 00:07:44,360 --> 00:07:46,960 watered. Now the power of the seed and 118 00:07:46,960 --> 00:07:50,760 the power of the water over the seed only increase because of 119 00:07:50,760 --> 00:07:53,960 the power of God. I don't give power to the seed, 120 00:07:54,000 --> 00:07:57,320 nor does Apollos give power to the seed through water. 121 00:07:57,480 --> 00:08:04,120 God's the one working the increase, but God's using US in 122 00:08:04,120 --> 00:08:09,960 the field so that fruit can show up and a harvest can be there. 123 00:08:10,480 --> 00:08:15,040 And guess what? As I'm planting and he's 124 00:08:15,040 --> 00:08:19,680 watering, and I'm planting and he's watering, or he plants and 125 00:08:19,680 --> 00:08:24,760 I water, whatever takes place, each of us are going to receive 126 00:08:24,760 --> 00:08:29,560 our own reward according to our own labor. 127 00:08:29,560 --> 00:08:32,520 Now this labor is not a labor of salvation. 128 00:08:33,520 --> 00:08:36,400 This is not I'm working here, Lord, so you can recognize me. 129 00:08:36,400 --> 00:08:39,159 Look, all the good things I do so I can be with you forever. 130 00:08:39,159 --> 00:08:42,320 No, you're not even in. He's asking you to get into the 131 00:08:42,320 --> 00:08:44,480 field because you are part of His house. 132 00:08:46,120 --> 00:08:51,160 So this is not sonship issue. This is the Father's business. 133 00:08:52,440 --> 00:08:55,040 It's His business. And His business is that His 134 00:08:55,040 --> 00:08:59,440 disciples would go and bear fruit and that their fruit would 135 00:08:59,440 --> 00:09:01,880 remain. And He wants His disciples in 136 00:09:01,880 --> 00:09:05,800 the field, planting, watering, so God can cause the increase. 137 00:09:06,000 --> 00:09:13,360 Guess what? Right here is no planting in 138 00:09:13,360 --> 00:09:18,720 here, no watering. Now there's watering of the word 139 00:09:18,720 --> 00:09:20,960 you're growing yourself, don't get me wrong. 140 00:09:21,400 --> 00:09:25,080 But the field is outside the building. 141 00:09:27,520 --> 00:09:31,960 In essence, really when you come here, it's me saying, hey, we 142 00:09:31,960 --> 00:09:38,120 have a field available to plant water in this Saturday. 143 00:09:38,280 --> 00:09:44,160 It's called Osceola. I have a field called Osceola on 144 00:09:44,160 --> 00:09:48,120 March 7th and we need some people to go plant and water. 145 00:09:48,160 --> 00:09:49,560 Pastor Angie, would you stand up? 146 00:09:49,560 --> 00:09:52,080 She's going to she overseas US make a difference day. 147 00:09:52,240 --> 00:09:55,560 So if you're interested, we have 13 people signed up. 148 00:09:55,720 --> 00:09:58,440 But if you're interested, you can pop by, see her, let her 149 00:09:58,440 --> 00:10:00,440 know you're coming. She can tell you how you can 150 00:10:00,600 --> 00:10:02,080 register so we get people's name. 151 00:10:02,080 --> 00:10:05,120 But listen, there's the field now. 152 00:10:06,720 --> 00:10:11,040 Are you going to be the child that says, well, I come, OK, 153 00:10:12,960 --> 00:10:15,800 maybe I'm just being too bold tonight, but maybe I'm just 154 00:10:15,800 --> 00:10:19,240 going to keep being this bold because we cannot produce a 155 00:10:19,240 --> 00:10:23,600 church that is lazy, lethargic, and not committed to the 156 00:10:23,600 --> 00:10:25,720 community or to the work of the Father. 157 00:10:26,200 --> 00:10:27,760 You want to retire, go to heaven. 158 00:10:28,360 --> 00:10:31,000 Until then, it's time to be fruitful. 159 00:10:31,920 --> 00:10:34,840 It's time to be fruitful. I said it's time to be fruitful. 160 00:10:35,040 --> 00:10:40,280 And even if you just do with 30 minutes, I mean, or find 161 00:10:40,280 --> 00:10:43,960 yourself out of all the things that we do in the community and 162 00:10:43,960 --> 00:10:46,400 have fields out there, it you should be at you. 163 00:10:46,480 --> 00:10:49,480 We should go through a year and you should say, man, I've been 164 00:10:49,480 --> 00:10:53,680 in a couple of fields. This is not the only place you 165 00:10:53,680 --> 00:10:57,560 should be. Now, that doesn't mean your own 166 00:10:57,720 --> 00:10:59,720 sectors of society are not fields. 167 00:10:59,720 --> 00:11:01,680 And I know they are. So don't get me wrong. 168 00:11:01,840 --> 00:11:04,560 I'm not saying if you don't do something with Anchor Faith 169 00:11:04,560 --> 00:11:06,560 Church, that you're not in the field. 170 00:11:06,560 --> 00:11:09,760 If when you go to work tomorrow, guess what, welcome to the 171 00:11:09,760 --> 00:11:11,080 field. I get that. 172 00:11:11,480 --> 00:11:15,480 However, there is some things that we need to do as a body 173 00:11:16,040 --> 00:11:20,280 within our community that begins to demonstrate that there are 174 00:11:20,280 --> 00:11:28,640 people that are connected to the Kingdom of God that wants to see 175 00:11:28,640 --> 00:11:31,800 our community change. So much so that those sectors of 176 00:11:31,800 --> 00:11:37,280 society would call on us and say, can you help us? 177 00:11:38,200 --> 00:11:43,480 And man, when the world starts to call on you, what do you do? 178 00:11:44,840 --> 00:11:48,320 Do you answer or do you say, you know what? 179 00:11:48,320 --> 00:11:52,280 I'm busy. I got something else to do. 180 00:11:53,120 --> 00:11:55,360 I'm 'cause I'm telling you, if you want to harvest and when 181 00:11:55,360 --> 00:11:58,280 harvest hits, you can't stay home. 182 00:11:58,280 --> 00:12:02,880 When, when the when the fruit is ripe or it will die on the vine 183 00:12:02,880 --> 00:12:06,920 and all of your labor to get fruit will have been wasted 184 00:12:08,040 --> 00:12:12,120 'cause it can rot in a field. And we don't want that. 185 00:12:12,120 --> 00:12:15,640 I do not want people to rot in our community because we were 186 00:12:15,640 --> 00:12:17,920 unwilling to get up and go to a field. 187 00:12:18,880 --> 00:12:21,480 Are you hearing what I'm saying? OK, so we're going to take the 188 00:12:21,480 --> 00:12:22,960 field tonight. All right? 189 00:12:22,960 --> 00:12:25,200 Now look at this over here in Matthew chapter 20. 190 00:12:25,520 --> 00:12:27,560 Matthew chapter 20. We'll start in verse 1. 191 00:12:27,800 --> 00:12:30,680 I feel like Apostle Marcy, I'm going to throw out a whole lot 192 00:12:30,680 --> 00:12:34,200 of scripture tonight, OK. And and Pastor Mike, who's a 193 00:12:34,200 --> 00:12:36,240 great teacher. Aren't you glad that we have 194 00:12:36,240 --> 00:12:37,960 gifts in the body? And there's different 195 00:12:37,960 --> 00:12:40,800 expressions how we how we minister the words. 196 00:12:40,800 --> 00:12:42,880 So they're not everybody's cookie cutter doing the exact 197 00:12:42,880 --> 00:12:44,240 same thing. Let me tell you something. 198 00:12:44,240 --> 00:12:48,200 We, our staff are not echoes. They do not pair it. 199 00:12:50,120 --> 00:12:53,200 They get the word, they hear the word and they deliver it in the 200 00:12:53,200 --> 00:12:55,960 giftings that they are, they've been assigned. 201 00:12:57,720 --> 00:12:59,840 I'm not a parrot. I'm not an echo. 202 00:13:00,680 --> 00:13:05,000 I'm hearing the voice of God and sending it out in the gift that 203 00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:08,520 God's called me to do. And all the gifts are necessary. 204 00:13:08,840 --> 00:13:12,360 Look for the Kingdom of heaven is what for the Kingdom of 205 00:13:12,360 --> 00:13:15,440 heaven is. For the Kingdom of heaven is for 206 00:13:15,440 --> 00:13:18,120 the Kingdom of heaven is for the Kingdom of heaven is. 207 00:13:18,520 --> 00:13:23,200 This is teaching us how the Kingdom functions and the 208 00:13:23,200 --> 00:13:27,800 Kingdom of heaven is not stuck in heaven. 209 00:13:29,320 --> 00:13:32,280 Heaven is a place, earth is a place, and the Kingdom can be in 210 00:13:32,280 --> 00:13:34,280 both. And Jesus when he says the 211 00:13:34,280 --> 00:13:36,880 Kingdom of heaven is like or the Kingdom of God is like, what 212 00:13:36,880 --> 00:13:39,760 he's saying is here's a principle that you can function 213 00:13:39,760 --> 00:13:42,920 in right now because Jesus said repent for the Kingdom of heaven 214 00:13:42,920 --> 00:13:45,400 is at hand. It's within your midst. 215 00:13:46,440 --> 00:13:49,040 So he's like, do you want the Kingdom of heaven to be within 216 00:13:49,040 --> 00:13:50,440 your midst? Let me give you an example. 217 00:13:50,440 --> 00:13:53,960 Here's a parable. It's like this, a landowner who 218 00:13:53,960 --> 00:13:55,840 went out early in the morning to what? 219 00:13:56,560 --> 00:14:00,480 Hire laborers for his, for his what? 220 00:14:01,120 --> 00:14:03,880 And when I read that today because I had another scripture 221 00:14:03,880 --> 00:14:06,880 I was going to start with, and but I'll end with it. 222 00:14:07,200 --> 00:14:09,760 I was going to start with it. And I read it to myself. 223 00:14:09,760 --> 00:14:14,120 And then I went over here and I said, oh, this is a problem. 224 00:14:17,760 --> 00:14:22,880 I hadn't seen that all this time. 225 00:14:24,760 --> 00:14:28,640 I'm assuming I'm thinking because harvest, harvest, 226 00:14:28,640 --> 00:14:32,160 harvest, harvest is in our minds so much harvest, harvest, 227 00:14:32,160 --> 00:14:36,960 harvest that the landowner is hiring these people to get a 228 00:14:36,960 --> 00:14:39,520 harvest in. But it doesn't say that. 229 00:14:41,520 --> 00:14:43,200 It just says to work the vineyard. 230 00:14:47,240 --> 00:14:51,200 And vineyards are worked not only at harvest time. 231 00:14:55,680 --> 00:15:02,840 You've got to trim vines. You've got to prune, fertilize, 232 00:15:03,120 --> 00:15:10,880 water, pluck things out. In fact, vineyards, because 233 00:15:10,880 --> 00:15:13,200 they're vines, you have to help, you know, bond some of their 234 00:15:13,200 --> 00:15:15,200 vines up. So because they droop too long. 235 00:15:15,200 --> 00:15:21,560 I mean, you know, I'm not a great guy and I do not study 236 00:15:21,840 --> 00:15:26,560 wineries, OK? I've seen them. 237 00:15:27,400 --> 00:15:32,040 I've been in their vineyards. I've even gone to some wineries 238 00:15:32,040 --> 00:15:35,880 without ever tasting it. And that's true 'cause I don't 239 00:15:35,880 --> 00:15:38,880 drink wine. But with that being said, 240 00:15:39,000 --> 00:15:47,320 there's more of a process and he's just asking for laborers to 241 00:15:47,320 --> 00:15:51,360 work his vineyard. This may not be Harvest, Tom. 242 00:15:53,600 --> 00:15:56,720 So verse 2. And when they had agreed with a 243 00:15:56,720 --> 00:16:01,560 laborer for a denarius, for a denarius for the day, he sent 244 00:16:01,560 --> 00:16:04,400 them into the vineyard. And he went about the third hour 245 00:16:04,400 --> 00:16:08,000 and saw others standing idle in the marketplace. 246 00:16:08,760 --> 00:16:13,000 And to those he said, you also go to the vineyard, and whatever 247 00:16:13,000 --> 00:16:16,040 is right, I'll give you. And so they went. 248 00:16:16,080 --> 00:16:19,120 And again he went about the 6th hour and the 9th hour and did 249 00:16:19,120 --> 00:16:21,600 the same thing. And about the 11th hour he went 250 00:16:21,600 --> 00:16:26,000 out and found others standing around and he said to them, why 251 00:16:26,000 --> 00:16:29,040 have you been standing here idle all day long? 252 00:16:29,080 --> 00:16:32,680 Now look at their answer. He said, be he, They said to 253 00:16:32,680 --> 00:16:34,400 him, because no one has hired us. 254 00:16:34,560 --> 00:16:38,040 He said to them, go, you go into the vineyard too. 255 00:16:38,040 --> 00:16:42,200 Now before I go on to this, other parts of Scripture, they 256 00:16:42,200 --> 00:16:46,520 answer him about idleness, that we aren't idle, we just haven't 257 00:16:46,520 --> 00:16:51,000 been hired. So these weren't people who were 258 00:16:51,000 --> 00:16:54,880 lazy. These weren't people who showed 259 00:16:54,880 --> 00:17:04,560 up after lunch because he said why you been hanging out idle 260 00:17:04,560 --> 00:17:08,440 all day. Because when the landowner came, 261 00:17:08,560 --> 00:17:12,280 he had in his mind how many laborers he thought he would 262 00:17:12,280 --> 00:17:16,800 need for his vineyard. So he hires right out the 263 00:17:16,800 --> 00:17:19,680 beginning of the day, which means there were more there than 264 00:17:19,680 --> 00:17:23,520 just the ones he hired. And he took them and they 265 00:17:23,520 --> 00:17:27,680 started to work. And he began to realize, huh, we 266 00:17:27,680 --> 00:17:31,240 might need some more. So he goes back to the same 267 00:17:31,240 --> 00:17:35,520 place, and there are still people there that maybe to his 268 00:17:35,520 --> 00:17:38,800 surprise, well, not every landowner needed everybody 269 00:17:38,800 --> 00:17:40,600 today. And there's still some good 270 00:17:40,600 --> 00:17:42,560 news. Come work with me in the third 271 00:17:42,560 --> 00:17:44,520 hour. Come work with me in the sixth 272 00:17:44,520 --> 00:17:46,200 hour. Come work with me in the ninth 273 00:17:46,200 --> 00:17:48,080 hour. And there's only one hour left. 274 00:17:48,680 --> 00:17:50,600 And he's like, we could use some more. 275 00:17:51,720 --> 00:17:53,920 Why is he going back into town for an hour? 276 00:17:56,080 --> 00:17:59,040 I mean, seriously, why could this landowner say, I have been 277 00:17:59,040 --> 00:18:02,600 to the marketplace at the beginning of the day, the third 278 00:18:02,600 --> 00:18:06,720 hour, the 6th hour, the night there I have had four rounds of 279 00:18:06,720 --> 00:18:10,200 hiring. I have one hour left. 280 00:18:11,040 --> 00:18:16,600 Why would I waste my time to leave the field and go back to 281 00:18:16,600 --> 00:18:19,680 the marketplace to see if anyone else is there? 282 00:18:22,880 --> 00:18:28,600 But he does, I said, but he does and he sees some and he's like, 283 00:18:28,720 --> 00:18:30,160 y'all been just hanging out all day. 284 00:18:30,160 --> 00:18:33,040 What y'all idle for? And they go, no Sir, not us. 285 00:18:33,720 --> 00:18:38,240 We've been here all day just looking for the opportunity. 286 00:18:39,200 --> 00:18:43,840 And he says, go get my field. Now here's the thing that Bishop 287 00:18:43,840 --> 00:18:47,880 Tony from India, when he came here and informed us because 288 00:18:47,880 --> 00:18:52,680 again this is Eastern things, they had a Daenerys today. 289 00:18:52,680 --> 00:18:56,440 But what he was saying to them was you go to my field, which 290 00:18:56,440 --> 00:18:59,200 means what? Tomorrow you're in my field and 291 00:18:59,200 --> 00:19:01,560 the next day you're in my field and you'll be in my field till 292 00:19:01,560 --> 00:19:05,800 harvest comes. That's why they would wait all 293 00:19:05,800 --> 00:19:10,200 day because if they were able to get in anyone's field, it was 294 00:19:10,200 --> 00:19:15,760 work till the harvest came in. Now the Bible doesn't tell us 295 00:19:15,760 --> 00:19:19,120 when harvest is coming. It's just go work the vineyard. 296 00:19:19,480 --> 00:19:23,040 But now they have been hired and the only way they're not going 297 00:19:23,040 --> 00:19:30,080 to stay in this field is if they fail to perform in the field 298 00:19:30,080 --> 00:19:32,520 they've been assigned. Oh y'all should write that down. 299 00:19:33,040 --> 00:19:36,200 The only reason why they are not going to be in this field is if 300 00:19:36,200 --> 00:19:41,600 they fail to perform in the field they have been hired or 301 00:19:41,600 --> 00:19:45,800 assigned to. Are you hearing what I'm saying? 302 00:19:46,760 --> 00:19:50,760 So it says when evening came, because obviously they did day 303 00:19:50,760 --> 00:19:53,520 wage there. And it says this when evening 304 00:19:53,520 --> 00:19:55,800 came, the owner of the vineyard said to the foreman, call the 305 00:19:55,800 --> 00:19:59,480 laborers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last 306 00:19:59,480 --> 00:20:04,440 group to the 1st. And when those hired about the 307 00:20:04,440 --> 00:20:09,960 11th hour came, each one received what he paid them, not 308 00:20:09,960 --> 00:20:15,960 for their idleness, but for their patient endurance. 309 00:20:22,200 --> 00:20:24,640 Come on. Right, 'cause he asked them. 310 00:20:24,640 --> 00:20:27,400 Y'all idle all day. Someone just said, yeah. 311 00:20:27,400 --> 00:20:29,960 I mean, I, I, I got up late. It was a long night. 312 00:20:29,960 --> 00:20:34,680 I just thought I'd show up here. You know, it's kind of hoping 313 00:20:34,680 --> 00:20:36,320 nobody was coming. I'm really surprised you're 314 00:20:36,320 --> 00:20:38,920 here, you know, 'cause then I could go sneak back home to my 315 00:20:38,920 --> 00:20:41,880 wife and say, you know, didn't get hired today, 'cause I've 316 00:20:41,880 --> 00:20:44,880 been boozing it up in a bar or I was hanging out with some guys 317 00:20:44,880 --> 00:20:47,040 and now I show up in the last hour to make it look like I'm 318 00:20:47,040 --> 00:20:52,720 trying to get a job, right? You know, I'll get to service a 319 00:20:52,720 --> 00:20:55,120 little bit later. I'll leave a little bit earlier. 320 00:20:55,640 --> 00:21:00,720 OK. So when the first came, they 321 00:21:00,720 --> 00:21:03,840 gave him a Daenerys. Now when they receipt it says 322 00:21:03,840 --> 00:21:07,800 and when those first came they thought that they will receive 323 00:21:07,800 --> 00:21:10,560 more. But each of them also received a 324 00:21:10,560 --> 00:21:12,040 denarius. And when they received it they 325 00:21:12,040 --> 00:21:17,440 grumbled at the landowner saying the last men have only worked 326 00:21:17,520 --> 00:21:22,120 one hour and you have made them equal to us who have bore the 327 00:21:22,120 --> 00:21:24,240 burden in the scorching heat of the day. 328 00:21:25,160 --> 00:21:29,040 But he answered and said to them, Friend, I am doing you no 329 00:21:29,040 --> 00:21:32,200 wrong. Did you not agree with me for 330 00:21:32,200 --> 00:21:34,920 denarius? Take what is yours. 331 00:21:35,040 --> 00:21:38,640 Go. But I wish to give to the last 332 00:21:38,640 --> 00:21:43,480 man the same as you. Is it not lawful for me to do 333 00:21:43,480 --> 00:21:47,960 what I wish with my own, with what is my own? 334 00:21:48,720 --> 00:21:55,200 He said, Is your I envious because I am generous? 335 00:21:56,760 --> 00:22:02,480 So the last shall be first and the first shall be last. 336 00:22:02,520 --> 00:22:05,760 So here is a group of people that he is saying, listen, I 337 00:22:05,760 --> 00:22:09,200 need you to get in the field. They're getting into the field 338 00:22:09,200 --> 00:22:13,400 based upon the the very first one is the only ones that he 339 00:22:13,400 --> 00:22:19,720 negotiated a clear expectation of what they will receive. 340 00:22:20,800 --> 00:22:24,480 The rest he said I'll give what's right will give us right, 341 00:22:24,600 --> 00:22:27,520 will give us right because it says and he did this the 6th and 342 00:22:27,520 --> 00:22:29,200 the 9th. But the next group he said y'all 343 00:22:29,200 --> 00:22:31,640 go in the field and they did. They didn't even ask. 344 00:22:31,640 --> 00:22:34,520 They didn't say what are we going to give for an hour. 345 00:22:36,360 --> 00:22:40,960 They were just thankful to be in the field. 346 00:22:42,360 --> 00:22:48,440 They were just thankful that the owner was willing to call them 347 00:22:48,440 --> 00:22:53,600 to call them out and move them into purpose. 348 00:22:54,800 --> 00:22:57,440 Are you hearing me? Well, there's a few things we 349 00:22:57,440 --> 00:23:00,360 can learn from this. The first thing is all hands 350 00:23:00,360 --> 00:23:03,120 need to be on deck in the last of the last days. 351 00:23:03,120 --> 00:23:10,080 It is not a time for us to idly let the world go by and just go 352 00:23:10,080 --> 00:23:17,120 and let the fields go by without us saying, Lord, what field You 353 00:23:17,120 --> 00:23:21,640 need me working today because every day is a day you can work 354 00:23:21,640 --> 00:23:24,600 a field. The next thing we need to know 355 00:23:24,600 --> 00:23:26,720 is this. If you are receiving what has 356 00:23:26,720 --> 00:23:29,480 been spoken and agreed upon, then rejoice. 357 00:23:30,400 --> 00:23:33,560 And here's the thing about when you when God asks you to do 358 00:23:33,560 --> 00:23:36,680 something for him, come serve me, come follow me. 359 00:23:36,800 --> 00:23:41,200 He will let you know what is available to you because he's a 360 00:23:41,200 --> 00:23:44,240 good Father. Jesus will let you know what's 361 00:23:44,240 --> 00:23:48,040 your covenant right? What you have access to, what He 362 00:23:48,040 --> 00:23:51,560 wants to be at your disposal so that you can accomplish what 363 00:23:51,560 --> 00:23:54,840 He's asking you to accomplish in the field He's assigned to you. 364 00:23:55,080 --> 00:23:57,880 And when it comes in, you should rejoice. 365 00:23:58,680 --> 00:24:03,240 Glory to God, not look at what someone else is doing in a field 366 00:24:05,440 --> 00:24:13,720 and become envious, right? Rejoice. 367 00:24:15,760 --> 00:24:21,400 Each receives their reward regardless the time, which just 368 00:24:21,400 --> 00:24:24,440 tells me about God. God is God is not concerned 369 00:24:24,440 --> 00:24:30,440 about unions. But God does want you faithful 370 00:24:30,880 --> 00:24:32,800 once you put your hand to the plow. 371 00:24:34,160 --> 00:24:36,200 See, when you put your hand to the plow, God wants you 372 00:24:36,200 --> 00:24:40,640 faithful, and he doesn't want you looking back, taking breaks, 373 00:24:43,520 --> 00:24:47,320 burying your talent so you can go do your own deal. 374 00:24:47,480 --> 00:24:50,280 And then when he comes later, say I gave you back exactly what 375 00:24:50,280 --> 00:24:54,840 you gave me, say Hallelujah. Hallelujah. 376 00:24:55,400 --> 00:25:01,360 Because again, Christ has paid too big of a price for us and 377 00:25:01,360 --> 00:25:05,720 has given us His nature. And out of that nature it's easy 378 00:25:05,720 --> 00:25:09,680 for us. Again, I am not working fields 379 00:25:09,680 --> 00:25:13,240 because I have to. I work fields because I am 380 00:25:13,240 --> 00:25:17,960 excited through my nature 'cause it's in the nature of my King. 381 00:25:18,120 --> 00:25:20,840 And my King only had one awesome desire. 382 00:25:21,080 --> 00:25:24,120 Didn't you know I'd be about my Father's business? 383 00:25:24,720 --> 00:25:29,280 It is just natural for me to want to be about my father's 384 00:25:29,280 --> 00:25:32,280 business because it was about my King's business. 385 00:25:32,440 --> 00:25:37,240 And my King's nature is in me. And I'm not doing this to 386 00:25:37,240 --> 00:25:40,200 impress Dad. I'm doing this because I love 387 00:25:40,200 --> 00:25:46,240 Dad, because I want to be the son that and and as his son, I 388 00:25:46,240 --> 00:25:49,120 have said to Dad, man, I don't want to do that. 389 00:25:52,040 --> 00:25:55,640 Just like Jesus said to dad, I really don't want to do that, 390 00:25:56,080 --> 00:26:02,040 but not my will, but your will be done. 391 00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:07,200 So we'll do it anyway, right. There's been many a Sunday 392 00:26:07,200 --> 00:26:08,800 mornings like you, I didn't want to come. 393 00:26:11,640 --> 00:26:14,840 There's been many things that you know, somebody calls and 394 00:26:14,840 --> 00:26:16,640 there's something you're like, I really don't want to go. 395 00:26:18,040 --> 00:26:19,800 I really don't want to have this conversation. 396 00:26:20,960 --> 00:26:22,840 I don't really want to deal with that conflict. 397 00:26:23,920 --> 00:26:28,840 But not my will. His will be done and the great 398 00:26:28,840 --> 00:26:34,120 shows up and He's pleased with me because my life's not my own. 399 00:26:34,400 --> 00:26:37,280 And I want to get in the field and affect the field. 400 00:26:37,280 --> 00:26:41,120 I want to plant water wherever I need to, to be effective for my 401 00:26:41,120 --> 00:26:44,800 God, my King, my Lord, my Savior, and my Father who is in 402 00:26:44,800 --> 00:26:46,520 heaven. That's good. 403 00:26:46,520 --> 00:26:50,400 See, in the end, we need everyone in their gift doing 404 00:26:50,400 --> 00:26:52,320 their part to bring in the harvest. 405 00:26:52,840 --> 00:26:56,960 And harvest comes in only after you've taken time to actually 406 00:26:56,960 --> 00:27:00,080 work the field and prepare it to be a harvest. 407 00:27:03,560 --> 00:27:06,760 You understand, people who come into the Kingdom do not come 408 00:27:07,400 --> 00:27:09,560 just because we say something once. 409 00:27:11,920 --> 00:27:14,480 Many of you did not get born again the first time you heard 410 00:27:14,480 --> 00:27:16,480 about Jesus. In fact, the first time you 411 00:27:16,480 --> 00:27:18,400 heard about Jesus, like, whatever. 412 00:27:20,240 --> 00:27:24,960 Shut up. You know, religious junk, right? 413 00:27:24,960 --> 00:27:27,120 You drank a little bit more, slept a little bit more, do a 414 00:27:27,120 --> 00:27:28,800 few more drugs, all kinds of stuff. 415 00:27:29,440 --> 00:27:32,480 You're like, forget that. That's stupid, right? 416 00:27:32,840 --> 00:27:36,880 I mean, Evelyn, stand up. I mean her, her, her, her 417 00:27:37,800 --> 00:27:40,840 coworker asked you how many, how many times? 418 00:27:42,800 --> 00:27:45,880 Over 60 invitations. Come to church with me. 419 00:27:46,120 --> 00:27:53,680 No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. No. 420 00:27:53,680 --> 00:27:57,440 But what was he doing? Planting, watering, planting, 421 00:27:57,520 --> 00:28:01,600 watering, planting, watering. He kept going to work in that 422 00:28:01,600 --> 00:28:05,120 field and she kept showing up because she loved the money. 423 00:28:07,920 --> 00:28:12,120 The money that was helping her with her family and he was 424 00:28:12,120 --> 00:28:15,040 saying there's something bigger than the money and and there's 425 00:28:15,040 --> 00:28:17,200 someone who can help you with your problems and the stuff 426 00:28:17,200 --> 00:28:18,760 you're going. Why don't you just come to 427 00:28:19,040 --> 00:28:25,400 church with me? I'm thankful he worked the field 428 00:28:25,400 --> 00:28:29,520 because this woman has been a blessing and and she's just one 429 00:28:29,520 --> 00:28:31,920 of it. Many in this room that you could 430 00:28:31,920 --> 00:28:35,240 say, I can look at all of you and say how much of A blessing 431 00:28:35,240 --> 00:28:39,360 you've been to our lives because somebody was in your field 432 00:28:39,840 --> 00:28:44,800 planting it, the word in your heart, watering that thing. 433 00:28:44,800 --> 00:28:47,080 And God all the while was bringing the increase. 434 00:28:47,240 --> 00:28:50,520 And when you were in your bed sleeping, God was talking to 435 00:28:50,520 --> 00:28:56,080 you, reminding you there was something better. 436 00:28:56,800 --> 00:29:01,960 And then on the 60th time and and it could be tell me if I'm 437 00:29:01,960 --> 00:29:04,120 right. Yes. 438 00:29:04,280 --> 00:29:09,640 So you'll quit talking to me? I found out last night that 439 00:29:09,640 --> 00:29:16,640 Evelyn came to church on June the 7th, 2009. 440 00:29:16,920 --> 00:29:20,800 Anchor Fete Church when we were over in Cobblestone and it was 441 00:29:20,800 --> 00:29:26,400 her official last service. She came with her husband and 442 00:29:26,400 --> 00:29:28,440 she all intentions. She told me this last time. 443 00:29:28,440 --> 00:29:31,520 I'm like I didn't know this. She came to church on June the 444 00:29:31,520 --> 00:29:36,920 7th, 2009. It was her fifth time she has 445 00:29:36,920 --> 00:29:41,200 met the obligation that she put in her own mind. 446 00:29:41,200 --> 00:29:42,960 So I said you can't experience us in one service. 447 00:29:42,960 --> 00:29:45,360 You got to come back. At least she's like, oh, I'm 448 00:29:45,440 --> 00:29:50,800 obligated now, fine, I'll come. So she's at her fifth time and 449 00:29:50,800 --> 00:29:53,880 she's like, I'm when I leave today, I'm telling Ernie I'm 450 00:29:53,880 --> 00:29:55,560 never coming back. We're done. 451 00:29:56,200 --> 00:29:59,760 But guess what happened? On June 7th, 2009, we preached 452 00:29:59,760 --> 00:30:02,120 the Kingdom of God for the very first time. 453 00:30:02,760 --> 00:30:08,200 And Evelyn said it changed my life and I'm like, where else am 454 00:30:08,200 --> 00:30:13,080 I going to go? And now it's 2026. 455 00:30:13,240 --> 00:30:16,760 Evelyn's on the back row. Got a little Baptist roots in 456 00:30:16,760 --> 00:30:21,600 her. But other than that, are you 457 00:30:21,600 --> 00:30:24,680 hearing me? Aren't you glad somebody was 458 00:30:24,680 --> 00:30:28,880 working your field? They didn't get tired, they 459 00:30:28,880 --> 00:30:34,240 didn't give up. I shudder to think of the fields 460 00:30:34,240 --> 00:30:40,320 that have been abandoned because the believer quit going about 461 00:30:40,320 --> 00:30:49,680 the father's business because at 58 times decided I'm done with 462 00:30:49,680 --> 00:30:56,920 her, she's never coming. And he was 2 asks away. 463 00:30:56,920 --> 00:31:02,400 Hallelujah. Are you hearing me? 464 00:31:03,160 --> 00:31:05,720 Oh, this is good stuff. So we all need to come in. 465 00:31:05,720 --> 00:31:07,960 So do not. Now, you understand, there's a 466 00:31:07,960 --> 00:31:09,920 type and shadow here that I need us to get. 467 00:31:09,920 --> 00:31:13,320 And I have used this in our leadership teaching with the 468 00:31:13,320 --> 00:31:18,680 church because we've been here 22 years come April since we 469 00:31:18,680 --> 00:31:21,200 lost the church. And there are some people who've 470 00:31:21,200 --> 00:31:24,200 been here the whole time and we've had tears of people that 471 00:31:24,200 --> 00:31:25,600 have been here that different times. 472 00:31:26,360 --> 00:31:28,320 And I have to let you know, if you've been here for a while, 473 00:31:29,160 --> 00:31:34,240 you have labored, you have you have shared the burden and the 474 00:31:34,240 --> 00:31:36,760 scorching heap of different trials. 475 00:31:37,640 --> 00:31:44,120 But make no mistake, somebody can show up here and I've only 476 00:31:44,120 --> 00:31:48,320 been here a year and they can get a word from God, get up on 477 00:31:48,320 --> 00:31:51,640 this platform and be being used by the gifts of the Spirit. 478 00:31:56,840 --> 00:32:01,240 So we don't want to be envious because it seems like, wow, this 479 00:32:01,240 --> 00:32:04,600 person is functioning in a way that I've been here so long, how 480 00:32:04,600 --> 00:32:10,120 come I don't do that? Because in the end, God needs 481 00:32:10,120 --> 00:32:14,640 all of us on deck in the field. What you need to do is you need 482 00:32:14,640 --> 00:32:20,320 to rejoice that they are being used and that God in this small 483 00:32:20,320 --> 00:32:25,400 sliver of time wants to pour out on them the the measure that 484 00:32:25,400 --> 00:32:28,400 you're receiving yourself. Because if we look at the 485 00:32:28,400 --> 00:32:33,080 denarius as the reward of the Kingdom, wouldn't you want 486 00:32:33,080 --> 00:32:36,840 anyone to get the reward, whether it was 20 years in the 487 00:32:36,840 --> 00:32:42,120 faith or three months? And in these last days, we don't 488 00:32:42,120 --> 00:32:45,920 have the time. If He's coming, we don't have 489 00:32:45,920 --> 00:32:50,080 the time anymore to be able to raise them up through certain 490 00:32:50,080 --> 00:32:52,280 trials and tribulations that took you. 491 00:32:52,800 --> 00:32:55,480 We are going to have to. God's going to accelerate those 492 00:32:55,480 --> 00:32:58,960 purposes. That way we all can be fit to 493 00:32:58,960 --> 00:33:03,240 work the field and bring in that harvest before the trumpet 494 00:33:03,240 --> 00:33:04,840 sounds, whatever that looks like. 495 00:33:05,520 --> 00:33:08,240 Hallelujah. So you know, you should rejoice 496 00:33:08,240 --> 00:33:11,040 when you see new people and they're like excited and they 497 00:33:11,040 --> 00:33:14,240 want to get working. What you shouldn't do is say, 498 00:33:14,240 --> 00:33:17,320 well, I've done Osceola the last five or six years, Let the young 499 00:33:17,320 --> 00:33:24,040 people do it. That shouldn't be your thought. 500 00:33:24,040 --> 00:33:28,080 Whether you go or not is not predicated on let the new 501 00:33:28,080 --> 00:33:32,720 people. That's not why we do something. 502 00:33:33,400 --> 00:33:37,040 It could be that, you know, you're doing something else with 503 00:33:37,040 --> 00:33:39,640 the ministry. You're in another field, pretty 504 00:33:39,640 --> 00:33:41,960 consistent, and now you can't do that. 505 00:33:41,960 --> 00:33:44,960 I mean, I remember when I went to PCI, Putnam Correction 506 00:33:44,960 --> 00:33:47,960 Institute, what time is it? Putnam Correction Institute. 507 00:33:48,960 --> 00:33:52,320 And I was there every month and then we went to twice a month, 508 00:33:52,320 --> 00:33:55,000 right, Ernie? And then we're there and I'm 509 00:33:55,000 --> 00:33:58,280 like, I mean, I went every month pastoring the church. 510 00:33:58,280 --> 00:34:01,200 I mean, I'm doing all kinds of stuff, but I'm going there and 511 00:34:01,200 --> 00:34:02,920 I'm rocking. Well, then we're building teams 512 00:34:02,920 --> 00:34:05,960 and other people are gone and now I'm not going as often. 513 00:34:06,240 --> 00:34:09,960 And then I found out I didn't even go for three years once 514 00:34:11,239 --> 00:34:15,639 because we have a member in our church that was there and then 515 00:34:15,880 --> 00:34:21,120 got out, came here new people, but had never met me. 516 00:34:21,960 --> 00:34:25,239 And I was shocked. I'm like, has it been three 517 00:34:25,239 --> 00:34:28,120 years? Oh my gosh. 518 00:34:30,159 --> 00:34:33,480 It's not because I was like, well, I'm done with that. 519 00:34:33,480 --> 00:34:35,360 I'm retiring. I will never go to prison. 520 00:34:35,360 --> 00:34:37,199 No, it's a mandate from Scripture. 521 00:34:37,639 --> 00:34:39,440 I was in prison and you visited me. 522 00:34:39,639 --> 00:34:44,760 I still go. I still get opportunities to go. 523 00:34:46,679 --> 00:34:50,080 And man, I want to go. I want to get up in there and 524 00:34:50,080 --> 00:34:51,840 see them. Just like I want to go see a 525 00:34:51,840 --> 00:34:53,239 widow. I want to go see orphans. 526 00:34:53,239 --> 00:34:55,880 I want to go feed. I haven't been to Dynamo Dignity 527 00:34:55,880 --> 00:35:00,560 in a while, but guess what, dining with dignity, you know, 528 00:35:00,560 --> 00:35:02,880 we started that. I've been a few times, but man, 529 00:35:02,880 --> 00:35:05,000 people were out there in that field working it. 530 00:35:05,160 --> 00:35:08,000 I got this testimony for mom Don this week. 531 00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:09,800 This is powerful. Let me read this to you because 532 00:35:09,800 --> 00:35:12,520 this is what happened when when you're working the field and you 533 00:35:12,520 --> 00:35:15,880 are a faithful laborer. I got to put on my bionic eyes 534 00:35:15,880 --> 00:35:21,680 real quick says this. I might read the whole whole 535 00:35:21,680 --> 00:35:25,320 thing, but we there were 59 people that were that they fed 536 00:35:25,320 --> 00:35:27,840 on this past Monday. OK. 537 00:35:28,200 --> 00:35:33,000 And so Joe Patron who overseas Dining with Dignity, that's not 538 00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:34,320 Anchor Faith Church. It's a whole different 539 00:35:34,320 --> 00:35:37,840 organization. We just do the first Monday of 540 00:35:37,840 --> 00:35:42,640 the month. OK, So Joe Patron contacted Don 541 00:35:43,200 --> 00:35:49,720 and asked if our Monday night Dining with dignity team could 542 00:35:50,640 --> 00:35:55,880 train a new team. In essence, they shadow us. 543 00:35:56,680 --> 00:36:00,640 OK. And so obviously he said sure, 544 00:36:00,640 --> 00:36:05,680 no problem. And so there were there are 25 545 00:36:05,680 --> 00:36:08,760 teams total. So this is a new church within 546 00:36:08,760 --> 00:36:12,360 Saint Johns County and Anchor Faith Church. 547 00:36:12,520 --> 00:36:17,400 Joe was said was chosen as the best dining with dignity model 548 00:36:17,400 --> 00:36:19,360 in our community to train another team. 549 00:36:22,560 --> 00:36:26,280 Now, when I say that that has nothing to do with me, that has 550 00:36:26,280 --> 00:36:34,640 to do with us. I mean, what parent, what parent 551 00:36:34,800 --> 00:36:38,520 would not when their child wins a game or spelling bee or 552 00:36:38,520 --> 00:36:41,520 something like you're awesome. How awesome is that? 553 00:36:42,080 --> 00:36:44,200 That doesn't mean the parents like, yeah, I'm the best parent 554 00:36:44,200 --> 00:36:47,440 in the world. Look at my child, when I'm 555 00:36:47,440 --> 00:36:49,960 talking about Don, I'm talking about the leadership, I'm 556 00:36:49,960 --> 00:36:51,600 talking about those who are overseeing it. 557 00:36:51,680 --> 00:36:53,800 I'm talking about the group that's running with that. 558 00:36:53,880 --> 00:36:57,080 I'm not even there, but they are running this thing so awesome 559 00:36:57,200 --> 00:37:01,640 that Joe's like, listen, they are really a great team to to 560 00:37:01,640 --> 00:37:04,600 flow with and they shadowed us and they worked and then they 561 00:37:04,600 --> 00:37:06,800 got to pray with them and all kinds of stuff. 562 00:37:06,800 --> 00:37:10,160 They laid out the standard of how we did it and they, the 563 00:37:10,160 --> 00:37:14,200 pastor said to Don and Michelle said Joe told us that Anchor 564 00:37:14,200 --> 00:37:16,560 Faith Church runs like a well oiled machine. 565 00:37:19,320 --> 00:37:21,400 Well, I'm rejoicing the Lord for that. 566 00:37:21,840 --> 00:37:24,960 And as a church we should rejoice in the word Lord for 567 00:37:24,960 --> 00:37:27,120 that. Because you want to run at such 568 00:37:27,120 --> 00:37:31,560 a place in such a way that you can be bold enough like Paul and 569 00:37:31,560 --> 00:37:35,560 say you want to imitate you imitate me as I imitate Christ. 570 00:37:36,120 --> 00:37:39,800 We want to raise up teams that become such a standard that 571 00:37:39,800 --> 00:37:43,200 other churches would say these people exhibit the Kingdom 572 00:37:43,200 --> 00:37:46,920 culture and man, we want to go and learn from that, grow from 573 00:37:46,920 --> 00:37:48,800 that, and then let's replicate it. 574 00:37:48,880 --> 00:37:52,000 Because I would suspect that these guys could get so awesome 575 00:37:52,120 --> 00:37:54,560 that Joe then says, man, I got a couple of groups you could 576 00:37:54,560 --> 00:37:57,120 shadow. Because what anchor faith train 577 00:37:57,200 --> 00:38:02,480 those people are reciprocating. And in that what God wants is 578 00:38:02,480 --> 00:38:06,600 that he can train us by the Holy Ghost so that we reciprocate him 579 00:38:06,640 --> 00:38:12,040 in the earth at such a level that it's like little Jesus is 580 00:38:12,040 --> 00:38:15,040 all over the place, right? It's Christ in us. 581 00:38:15,160 --> 00:38:17,640 The work that he did we get to do. 582 00:38:19,120 --> 00:38:23,560 And this is wreaking havoc on the devil. 583 00:38:24,640 --> 00:38:29,040 It's wreaking havoc havoc. We're not afraid of the field. 584 00:38:29,760 --> 00:38:31,280 I said we're not afraid of the field. 585 00:38:32,640 --> 00:38:34,880 And so I'm thankful for those who are going in the field. 586 00:38:35,120 --> 00:38:38,480 Now with that being said, turn to Isaiah chapter 5. 587 00:38:41,800 --> 00:38:46,000 Say Amen. In Isaiah chapter 5, we'll start 588 00:38:46,000 --> 00:38:50,600 in verse one. God takes His field seriously. 589 00:38:52,200 --> 00:38:57,240 OK, in Isaiah 5, one through 7, this is the Old Testament con 590 00:38:57,760 --> 00:39:02,200 Old Testament passage, but it has New Testament impact. 591 00:39:03,480 --> 00:39:06,440 Can you always interpret the Old Testament in light of the new? 592 00:39:07,000 --> 00:39:09,720 We're in a new and better covenant, which really means 593 00:39:09,720 --> 00:39:14,800 we're in a more responsible covenant with less excuses. 594 00:39:15,160 --> 00:39:17,960 And I might have to teach on that a little bit later because 595 00:39:17,960 --> 00:39:21,160 we say new and better people act like it's easier and do less, 596 00:39:23,600 --> 00:39:28,360 and that's not the new covenant. The new covenant is I have less, 597 00:39:28,360 --> 00:39:31,000 I have less excuse in this covenant than the old covenant 598 00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:35,600 people did because I am born of God and the Holy Ghost does live 599 00:39:35,600 --> 00:39:41,240 in me and God speaks to me himself and confirms the things 600 00:39:41,240 --> 00:39:44,760 that are being. I'm being instructed my nature's 601 00:39:44,760 --> 00:39:46,840 different. Unlike the old covenant people, 602 00:39:47,080 --> 00:39:51,920 They're trying to earn identity. We function from identity, 603 00:39:52,760 --> 00:39:55,320 totally different. Which means the Lord's like, 604 00:39:55,680 --> 00:39:58,320 what's your excuse? You're one of my children. 605 00:39:58,880 --> 00:40:01,720 You have my nature. I've given you my spirit. 606 00:40:01,720 --> 00:40:03,920 It's not stuck up in a box or a temple. 607 00:40:05,280 --> 00:40:08,360 He's in you. Oh, all right. 608 00:40:08,360 --> 00:40:14,400 Let me sing now for my well beloved, a song of my beloved 609 00:40:14,760 --> 00:40:20,720 concerning my his vineyard. My well beloved had a vineyard 610 00:40:20,720 --> 00:40:25,680 on a fertile hill. Isaiah the prophet saying he dug 611 00:40:26,280 --> 00:40:29,600 it all around, removed its stones and planted it with the 612 00:40:29,600 --> 00:40:32,880 choicest bonds. What kind of bonds? 613 00:40:33,440 --> 00:40:35,720 The best of the best of the best. 614 00:40:37,560 --> 00:40:39,840 And he built a tower in the middle of it. 615 00:40:40,760 --> 00:40:43,240 And he also hewed out a wine bat in it. 616 00:40:43,720 --> 00:40:51,040 Then he expected it to produce good grapes, but it produced 617 00:40:51,040 --> 00:40:56,080 only worthless ones, he says. And now all inhabitants of 618 00:40:56,080 --> 00:41:01,480 Jerusalem, men of Judah, judge between me and my vineyard, what 619 00:41:01,480 --> 00:41:06,080 more was there to do for my vineyard that I have not done in 620 00:41:06,080 --> 00:41:10,800 it? Why then I why, when I expected 621 00:41:10,800 --> 00:41:14,240 it to produce good grapes, did I did it produce worthless ones? 622 00:41:15,200 --> 00:41:16,000 Oh, yeah. Wow. 623 00:41:16,440 --> 00:41:20,880 So now let me tell you what I'm going to do to my vineyard. 624 00:41:21,840 --> 00:41:24,960 I will remove its heads and it will be consumed. 625 00:41:25,200 --> 00:41:29,640 I will break down its walls and it will become trampled ground. 626 00:41:30,360 --> 00:41:34,200 I will lay it waste. It will not be pruned or hoed, 627 00:41:34,360 --> 00:41:36,400 but briars and thorns will come up. 628 00:41:36,640 --> 00:41:39,760 I will also charge the clouds to rain. 629 00:41:39,920 --> 00:41:44,800 No rain on it. He's talking about his nation, 630 00:41:44,800 --> 00:41:48,600 Israel, specifically Jerusalem and Judea. 631 00:41:49,120 --> 00:41:51,560 Judah here. He had that. 632 00:41:51,560 --> 00:41:54,880 He's given them everything to produce the culture of the 633 00:41:54,880 --> 00:41:59,440 Kingdom and yet they only wanted to produce the cultures around 634 00:41:59,440 --> 00:42:04,880 them. In essence, in my vineyard I 635 00:42:04,880 --> 00:42:16,200 expect my culture. Cause Israel had the Creator as 636 00:42:16,200 --> 00:42:22,120 their king. There was no excuse for them to 637 00:42:22,120 --> 00:42:23,720 live like the rest of the nations. 638 00:42:25,880 --> 00:42:30,480 In fact, if you read Deuteronomy 28, he tells us that you'll be 639 00:42:30,480 --> 00:42:33,760 such an example that the nations will look to you. 640 00:42:34,920 --> 00:42:38,280 So when he planted this vineyard and he put his people in it, His 641 00:42:38,280 --> 00:42:40,680 covenant people, he expected it to produce. 642 00:42:40,680 --> 00:42:45,040 It's the culture, so much so that the other nations would be 643 00:42:45,040 --> 00:42:53,520 drawn to its light. So God is serious about what is 644 00:42:53,520 --> 00:42:56,040 being produced within His vineyard. 645 00:42:57,720 --> 00:43:01,560 Are you hearing what I'm saying? Now look at this passage in 646 00:43:03,600 --> 00:43:08,200 Matthew 2133 to 46. Here's the thing. 647 00:43:08,200 --> 00:43:13,880 If we do not take the field for Him, He will take the field from 648 00:43:13,880 --> 00:43:18,840 us. If we do not take the field for 649 00:43:18,840 --> 00:43:21,600 him, he will take the field from us. 650 00:43:23,520 --> 00:43:25,200 He said listen to another parable. 651 00:43:25,480 --> 00:43:27,880 There was a landowner who planted a vineyard and put a 652 00:43:27,880 --> 00:43:30,520 wall around it and dug a wine press in it and build a tower. 653 00:43:30,520 --> 00:43:35,720 Sounds a lot like Isaiah and rented it out to vine growers 654 00:43:36,400 --> 00:43:38,800 and went on a journey. In essence, he said, I need you 655 00:43:38,800 --> 00:43:44,160 to labor in my vineyard, it says, and when the harvest time 656 00:43:44,160 --> 00:43:46,880 approached, which means they were in the vineyard before 657 00:43:46,880 --> 00:43:50,880 harvest came, they were responsible to work it. 658 00:43:52,120 --> 00:43:55,560 When the harvest time approached, he sent his slave to 659 00:43:55,640 --> 00:43:58,160 the vine growers to receive its produce. 660 00:43:58,680 --> 00:44:02,280 The vine growers looked to his slaves and beat 1 and killed 661 00:44:02,280 --> 00:44:07,000 another and stoned the third. Oh, again, he sent another group 662 00:44:07,000 --> 00:44:10,120 of slaves larger than the first, and they did the same thing to 663 00:44:10,120 --> 00:44:12,640 him. But afterwards he sent his son 664 00:44:12,640 --> 00:44:16,440 to them, saying, they will what? Respect my son? 665 00:44:17,800 --> 00:44:20,120 And when the vine growers saw the son, they said among 666 00:44:20,120 --> 00:44:24,040 themselves, this is the air. Come, let us kill him and seize 667 00:44:24,040 --> 00:44:28,880 his inheritance. Oh my gosh, whose vineyard is 668 00:44:28,880 --> 00:44:31,240 it? The landowner, the master? 669 00:44:31,560 --> 00:44:33,960 Again, we just saw this with Isaiah. 670 00:44:33,960 --> 00:44:37,080 And in essence, this parable, the Lord is basically saying, 671 00:44:37,160 --> 00:44:39,160 the slaves I sent were my prophets. 672 00:44:40,840 --> 00:44:44,480 I sent my prophets. They came to talk to you and you 673 00:44:44,480 --> 00:44:47,880 just killed them. And now here's my son, which 674 00:44:47,880 --> 00:44:50,160 Jesus is, that's me. And he's just telling his 675 00:44:50,160 --> 00:44:52,320 disciples what's going to happen, right? 676 00:44:52,840 --> 00:44:56,240 So Jesus is talking about himself and they took him, threw 677 00:44:56,240 --> 00:44:57,720 him out of the vineyard and killed him. 678 00:44:58,160 --> 00:45:00,880 Now verse 40 Therefore, when the owner of the vineyard comes, 679 00:45:00,880 --> 00:45:03,560 what will he do to those vine growers? 680 00:45:06,240 --> 00:45:10,960 And they said to him, he will bring those wretched wretcheds 681 00:45:11,200 --> 00:45:16,200 to a wretched end and will rent out the vineyard to A to other 682 00:45:16,200 --> 00:45:20,560 vine growers who will pay him the proceeds at the proper 683 00:45:20,560 --> 00:45:23,480 season. When we're working the field, 684 00:45:23,720 --> 00:45:35,040 it's not for us, it's for him. All fruit is his and if we don't 685 00:45:35,040 --> 00:45:37,680 understand, we're having the responsibility to go in these 686 00:45:37,680 --> 00:45:43,560 different sectors of society and fields to be a example, knowing 687 00:45:43,560 --> 00:45:46,640 we're not representing us, we're representing the owner of the 688 00:45:46,640 --> 00:45:52,280 field and how we work. This field represents him and we 689 00:45:52,280 --> 00:45:56,000 want this field to look amazing. You want, we want Saint 690 00:45:56,000 --> 00:46:01,000 Augustine to look so amazing that if we left, they would feel 691 00:46:01,000 --> 00:46:04,200 we were gone. They would regret this church 692 00:46:04,200 --> 00:46:09,200 wasn't here. They'd regret it because of how 693 00:46:09,200 --> 00:46:13,440 we work those fields, our attitude, our actions, our 694 00:46:13,440 --> 00:46:18,480 behavior, our attention to detail, all of this. 695 00:46:19,360 --> 00:46:22,200 I mean, I was just recently at a particular restaurant. 696 00:46:22,360 --> 00:46:27,800 There are quite a few waitresses and waiters that I have been 697 00:46:27,800 --> 00:46:30,720 influencing with the Kingdom for quite some time. 698 00:46:31,640 --> 00:46:36,280 Well, there's this one particular one that I went was 699 00:46:36,680 --> 00:46:40,320 going to the restroom and stopped and was talking to him a 700 00:46:40,320 --> 00:46:44,080 little bit and they were saying how they weren't feeling well. 701 00:46:44,080 --> 00:46:46,120 And in my spirit the Lord said pray for him. 702 00:46:46,120 --> 00:46:51,320 Now I have not prayed for him up to this point all this time. 703 00:46:53,320 --> 00:46:58,480 I've demonstrated the Kingdom in multiple other ways, but the 704 00:46:58,480 --> 00:47:02,920 Lord gave me an in route with his name, meaning for his name's 705 00:47:02,920 --> 00:47:05,920 sake to invoke the name of Jesus. 706 00:47:07,240 --> 00:47:11,440 So I looked down and said, hey, and they all know that I'm the 707 00:47:11,440 --> 00:47:20,290 pastor here and they go online. I know. 708 00:47:25,210 --> 00:47:29,290 And many of their lifestyles are not conducive to the culture of 709 00:47:29,290 --> 00:47:34,360 the Kingdom, but they're drawn. I get it. 710 00:47:35,320 --> 00:47:37,160 And I said, hey, can I pray for you? 711 00:47:37,160 --> 00:47:41,640 And they said, yeah. And so I prayed with them right 712 00:47:41,640 --> 00:47:45,720 there in the restaurant, right there in the restaurant. 713 00:47:47,520 --> 00:47:50,720 Didn't belabor, didn't go long. Because I know our authority. 714 00:47:51,720 --> 00:47:55,360 I know the authority of the name of Jesus said in the name of 715 00:47:55,400 --> 00:47:59,760 Jesus, Amen. Now I've not honestly, I went 716 00:47:59,760 --> 00:48:02,000 out of town after that, so I technically I haven't even seen 717 00:48:02,000 --> 00:48:05,000 the individual after that. I can't wait to see him and say, 718 00:48:05,000 --> 00:48:07,240 hey, remember the other day when I prayed with you? 719 00:48:08,640 --> 00:48:13,720 How'd that go, 'cause I expect him to say, you know, that night 720 00:48:13,720 --> 00:48:17,920 I was better 'cause I said, Lord, you let him know the name 721 00:48:17,920 --> 00:48:22,360 of Jesus is the healer. I'm working that field. 722 00:48:23,640 --> 00:48:26,880 Nice guy, but I know things are going on in his life. 723 00:48:27,120 --> 00:48:29,560 Why 'cause it's amazing how people just talk to you. 724 00:48:32,880 --> 00:48:42,480 I have many confessional times while ordering unsweet teeth and 725 00:48:42,480 --> 00:48:44,800 I don't mind it. Look, I don't mind it. 726 00:48:45,120 --> 00:48:48,000 Why 'cause I'm in the field, 'cause when I'm here, I'm not in 727 00:48:48,000 --> 00:48:50,440 the field. When I'm here, I'm empowering 728 00:48:50,440 --> 00:48:53,080 you to be in the field. We're hearing from heaven so 729 00:48:53,080 --> 00:48:54,720 that we can go out into the field. 730 00:48:55,760 --> 00:48:58,920 So these are the few places that I get to go because most of the 731 00:48:58,920 --> 00:49:05,520 time I'm training and equipping Saints more so than I'm out and 732 00:49:05,520 --> 00:49:09,680 about. OK, But he goes on and says this 733 00:49:11,000 --> 00:49:14,240 Jesus says, did you ever read the Scripture? 734 00:49:14,240 --> 00:49:17,320 The stone which the builders rejected, they became the chief 735 00:49:17,320 --> 00:49:19,720 cornerstone, and this came from the Lord. 736 00:49:19,880 --> 00:49:24,400 And it is marvelous in our eyes. Therefore I say to you that the 737 00:49:24,400 --> 00:49:27,400 Kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a 738 00:49:27,400 --> 00:49:30,560 people producing the fruit of it now. 739 00:49:30,920 --> 00:49:35,320 And he who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, but 740 00:49:35,320 --> 00:49:38,440 whomever it falls, it will scatter him like dust. 741 00:49:38,680 --> 00:49:44,360 Let's keep reading then the chief that's the religious, the 742 00:49:44,360 --> 00:49:47,040 chief priests and the Pharisees heard this parable. 743 00:49:47,160 --> 00:49:51,760 They what what they do. They understood that he was 744 00:49:51,760 --> 00:49:55,680 speaking about them. So you know what somebody come 745 00:49:55,680 --> 00:49:57,280 to me and say, well, I think you're preaching about me. 746 00:49:57,280 --> 00:50:02,520 Maybe I am. Maybe the Lord wants it that 747 00:50:02,520 --> 00:50:04,800 pointed without us actually calling your name out. 748 00:50:08,240 --> 00:50:10,600 And if you understand it is what should you do? 749 00:50:11,360 --> 00:50:18,360 Repent 'cause if you don't, then you'll be like the Pharisees. 750 00:50:18,640 --> 00:50:22,480 And what's the next thing when they then when they thought he's 751 00:50:22,480 --> 00:50:25,240 speaking, when they knew he's speaking about him, when they 752 00:50:25,240 --> 00:50:28,960 sought to seize him, they feared the people because they 753 00:50:28,960 --> 00:50:31,040 considered him. So they were like, let's kill 754 00:50:31,040 --> 00:50:34,280 this guy now. And I'm sure people have walked 755 00:50:34,280 --> 00:50:36,600 out of here not wanting me to continue to live. 756 00:50:40,080 --> 00:50:46,320 That's not I'm serious. Because the Word is going to do 757 00:50:46,320 --> 00:50:50,600 something in your life. Because a life outside of the 758 00:50:50,600 --> 00:50:53,480 Kingdom of God is not conducive to the Kingdom of God. 759 00:50:54,560 --> 00:50:57,360 If it was, then really there'd be really no reason for God to 760 00:50:57,360 --> 00:51:00,640 have to have anyone saved. Just come like you are. 761 00:51:00,840 --> 00:51:05,720 Salvation is irrelevant, but it's a change of being. 762 00:51:05,880 --> 00:51:07,400 What do we learn from this passage? 763 00:51:07,720 --> 00:51:21,600 We cannot become a church that is in a community that is doing 764 00:51:21,600 --> 00:51:27,040 everything to get guests to show up, but really have no heart for 765 00:51:27,040 --> 00:51:31,600 our community. If this is the only place people 766 00:51:31,600 --> 00:51:38,800 are being saved, we are failing. And I would even say this, if 767 00:51:38,800 --> 00:51:41,320 this is the only place that people are making a confession, 768 00:51:41,400 --> 00:51:43,280 they may just be being converted. 769 00:51:43,280 --> 00:51:45,160 They could be saying something with their mouth and their 770 00:51:45,160 --> 00:51:46,000 hearts. Far from it. 771 00:51:49,840 --> 00:51:52,040 God never designed us just to win loss. 772 00:51:52,040 --> 00:51:55,760 God designed us to change, transform, and then go into our 773 00:51:55,760 --> 00:52:00,000 world and be the light that shines on a consistent basis. 774 00:52:01,720 --> 00:52:07,040 Honestly, people, you should be bringing people to church that 775 00:52:07,040 --> 00:52:09,440 when the altar call comes, you're say, I know you're 776 00:52:09,440 --> 00:52:11,760 already saved, but let's let everybody know this happened 777 00:52:11,760 --> 00:52:17,760 today, this week at work and you just come down with them that we 778 00:52:17,760 --> 00:52:19,760 can testify. So and so got born again this 779 00:52:19,760 --> 00:52:21,960 week at work. So and so got born again and 780 00:52:21,960 --> 00:52:24,520 then our water baptism should be overflowing with people. 781 00:52:26,200 --> 00:52:29,880 Last scripture is this, which I thought I was going to start 782 00:52:29,880 --> 00:52:34,800 with, but we'll end Matthew 9. Hallelujah. 783 00:52:34,800 --> 00:52:37,240 My watch just said it looks like you fell. 784 00:52:37,240 --> 00:52:45,160 Is there an emergency? I'm OK, I did not fall. 785 00:52:49,760 --> 00:52:53,400 Hallelujah. Probably shouldn't wear the 786 00:52:53,400 --> 00:52:56,720 Apple Watch anymore. I wish it would make this a 787 00:52:56,720 --> 00:52:59,160 workout. You know, I tried that one time. 788 00:52:59,160 --> 00:53:01,040 I'm like, I move so much. I should get a workout out of 789 00:53:01,040 --> 00:53:03,120 this. So I hit it as a workout, you 790 00:53:03,120 --> 00:53:05,200 know, but then I would slow enough this like, do you want to 791 00:53:05,200 --> 00:53:08,640 pause your workout? I'm like, so I quit doing that. 792 00:53:09,480 --> 00:53:11,800 Hallelujah. Matthew 9 here we go. 793 00:53:11,800 --> 00:53:15,080 We're closing Matthew 93738. And he said to him. 794 00:53:16,600 --> 00:53:19,760 Then he said to his disciples, are you his disciple? 795 00:53:20,880 --> 00:53:23,480 Are you? Then you better listen to this. 796 00:53:24,920 --> 00:53:31,000 Then, he said to his disciples. The harvest is plentiful, but 797 00:53:31,000 --> 00:53:36,680 the workers are few. Therefore beseech the Lord of 798 00:53:36,680 --> 00:53:39,520 the harvest to send out workers into his field. 799 00:53:44,240 --> 00:53:59,200 Coach Hurley, Coach Taylor with SJA or in the field of 800 00:53:59,200 --> 00:54:06,280 cultivating young men in athletics, and our youth pastor. 801 00:54:06,280 --> 00:54:13,880 Pastor Chase wanted to be a part of the planting and watering and 802 00:54:13,880 --> 00:54:20,360 gained permission to put a box in the dugout and he put a 803 00:54:20,360 --> 00:54:24,520 sticker, the current put a sticker anchor Faith Church, a 804 00:54:25,680 --> 00:54:33,080 little lock on it with a code and filled it with sour gummies, 805 00:54:36,240 --> 00:54:41,280 seeds, you know, things that baseball people. 806 00:54:42,920 --> 00:54:48,240 And he said, the coach told me today, he said the all the sour 807 00:54:48,280 --> 00:54:51,080 candy's gone. He said it made it to the third 808 00:54:51,080 --> 00:54:55,520 inning, he said, But we scored more runs that game. 809 00:54:55,520 --> 00:54:57,520 I said we'll make sure we get a lot of gummies up in there. 810 00:54:58,480 --> 00:55:02,600 Don't think something that simple, though, demonstrates the 811 00:55:02,600 --> 00:55:05,480 Kingdom. We care about you. 812 00:55:06,120 --> 00:55:15,080 We'll bring provision to you. We notice you, but you have to 813 00:55:15,080 --> 00:55:21,840 be thinking about the field. And Pastor Chase first started 814 00:55:21,840 --> 00:55:27,040 over there by just taking photos and then posting them. 815 00:55:27,040 --> 00:55:30,480 And they would see themselves and like it and open the door 816 00:55:30,480 --> 00:55:32,120 that they would start coming to service. 817 00:55:33,920 --> 00:55:36,720 But what's he doing? He's taking the field as they 818 00:55:36,720 --> 00:55:41,480 take the field champion their lives because at the end of the 819 00:55:41,480 --> 00:55:45,880 day, they may go through multiple seasons, graduate and 820 00:55:45,880 --> 00:55:49,760 go on, and we don't see that they came to the Lord. 821 00:55:50,280 --> 00:55:58,920 But one day, one day that person to come by as a laborer for 822 00:55:58,920 --> 00:56:01,920 Jesus and they'll come into the Kingdom. 823 00:56:02,520 --> 00:56:05,880 When they come into the Kingdom, God will remind them of every 824 00:56:05,880 --> 00:56:09,720 one of those opportunities and they'll say I'll remember When 825 00:56:15,120 --> 00:56:25,600 work in the field, every day is monotonous, it can be tiring, it 826 00:56:25,600 --> 00:56:30,040 can be full of trouble, it's sweat. 827 00:56:31,960 --> 00:56:35,200 But the day's coming that there's harvest. 828 00:56:35,200 --> 00:56:38,440 And I do not want Anchor Faith Church to miss out on a harvest 829 00:56:38,880 --> 00:56:42,520 because we were sitting here waiting for a harvest and not in 830 00:56:42,520 --> 00:56:47,920 a field working for a harvest. When I say working, we were Co 831 00:56:47,920 --> 00:56:51,440 laboring with Christ to touch people's lives.