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Amen. And so, I want to talk to you
about being chosen today, Amen. In John 6:44.
It says this, no one can come to me, unless the father has sent
Who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the
last day. No one say no one.
Say, no one. So that means you're witnessing.
Can't do it. Your admonishing, no matter how
much how passionate you are. And saying, if you died today,
where will you go? All right, let me go over here.
Your Romans road to Salvation does not guarantee salvation.
There's a lot of witnessing happening without the leading of
the Holy Ghost. And a lot of the witnessing that
are happening, the disciple themselves needs to learn a, my
watering and my planting because not every time is Harvest yet,
we will talk to people if we don't watch out about trying to
be born again, in such a way as if this is the only opportunity,
which means if we were true disciples and more connected to
the spirit, then we would know how to discern our conversation
cause no one. Can come to me unless the father
who sent me draws him. So unless the holy spirit is
involved in the process of this conversation, concerning Jesus
death, burial and Resurrection. You can talk till you are red in
the face and veins are popping out and you're doing everything.
You can to convince them, not to be eternally, separated from
God, and go to hell. Does not guarantee.
They'll come to the kingdom until the kingdom of God itself
himself, the spirit of God. Feel it.
It's still going to be blind to them.
So we need to learn how to discern that when we're giving
this message. When we're talking to people,
I'm just planning. It's obvious, they're not ready
to be harvested but the seed is there nonetheless or I see that
they've heard this before, and I'm just reiterating things that
they are accustomed to. I'm watering today but I can
tell they're not Waiting to come in.
So there's no reason for me to give them pressure.
You understand people are not born again because they're so we
scare the hell out of them. In fact, the Bible says, it's
the love of God that draws men to repentance.
Not the fear of going to hell. I would submit to you if people
are confessing Jesus as Lord because of the fear of going to
hell, he may not actually be lured.
In fact, I could almost submit to you that it could be.
That we get a nice all conversation instead of a true
repentance conversation. What do I mean by Esau Esau was
really sorry. That he wasn't getting the
blessing. And he was crying out to the
father to give it to him, but yet there was no repentance a
part of his life. And there are many people that
are sorry, that they are getting caught for their rebellion and
wrongdoing. And when they realize, I will be
eternally thrown into the prison system of the Kingdom.
I don't want that. What can I do to get out?
Well, you must believe that Jesus died.
I'll take that. And it's not because they want
Jesus to be what's required to be born again, they just want to
be saved from. Going to hell and being saved
from going to hell, does not bring a new birth experience.
I'm going to say that again and being being saved from going to
hell. Eternity for eternity is not a
new birth experience, not according to scripture.
So John chapter 12 verse 31 and 32 says this says now judgment
is upon this world. Now the ruler of this world will
be cast out and if I and I, if I am lifted up from the earth will
draw all men to myself. So the word in this Here at have
to function together in order to all three, the father, Son and
the Holy Spirit, they function together that begins to draw,
people until the light comes on until Revelation, until God
himself, makes it known in that moment in that conversation that
this is true that you need to receive and they need he knows
that they know. Until that moment then we're
still planning. We're still watering.
We're still planning, we're still watering.
And there are many times during the watering process that they
have a revelation, it's true, but yet, they're not ready to
yield. They have too many mental things
going on. This is why the Bible says that
Jesus, the Lord of the Harvest, he said, pray to the Lord of the
Harvest, man, if we could get this right in the church so much
anxiousness That happens in the church, concerning the lost that
the father clearly through. Jesus tells us you don't have to
be anxious about this. Just do what I say when I say
because he's the Lord of our, he said pray to the Lord of the
Harvest that he would send forth laborers.
Now, a laborer is one, who's On Assignment from the owner of the
field. And how is it again, we have an
agriculture Society in our County.
How is it that those farmers in Hastings know when it's time to
pick those potatoes? How do they know that?
How do they know when it's time to harvest?
Those collard greens? Are those watermelons are those
cantaloupes? I mean, they are trained to know
how come a farmer can walk out in the film, same.
Okay, we'll get this next week. Well, it looks like it's ready
this week. You understand if you pull the
fruit off the vine before it's fruitful or it's truly Harvest
time than it's no good. You know how many people are
running into supermarkets running into gas stations?
Running into places of business and trying to pull the Harvest
of Salvation from a person's life.
And yet it's not the fruit is not you really ready to be
picked and then that person when they basically pray, Way to get
you off of their back, they are the the the sourest, the most
prune believer on the face of the planet, you get around them
and every time you taste them they taste like they're bitter.
They're upset. I mean my gosh you have God in
you, you're born again and yet you're acting like nothing's
changed. Could we have given them a false
sense of security? Because we're not leaning to the
lord of the Harvest. Are you hearing me?
But, what's important about this is that God drew them.
What I want to key in is on both of these times.
God is doing the drawing. God is the one who says this
door is open. Now listen, I understand today
is the day of salvation. I get that.
I understand that, but you understand their seven point
nine billion people on the planet and there are of those
seven point nine billion. People other than the Ones that
have already confessed. Jesus Christ is Lord which is
very minimal, very minimal still a minority.
Are you hearing me? That there are those that God
has spoken to, that they are absolutely in the watering
stage. They know they need to give
their lives to the Lord but they've yet to do it.
They've yet to do. And God is patient.
The Bible says he's patient. He's patient like a farmer.
What are they? They're patient because he's
like, I'm the fruits coming the fruits coming.
We're going to be at a hot. We're going to get them in.
We're going to get them in.
We're going to get them in and we need to be patient as well.
And then realize this, we're not the only labor out there.
When you have done a portion of watering and they're no longer
want to receive your water, just let it go and let some other
labor come by because you don't want to damage, what God is
trying to do, but he's the one drawing.
Look what it says, in John chapter 15 verse 16 to 19, he
says, you did not choose me. But I chose you.
You did not choose me but I chose you.
You did not choose me, but I chose you.
Jesus, did not accept you, you have to accept him.
There's a difference between being accepted in choosing.
When God chooses you, he's making a choice to give you an
opportunity. He's definitely not accepting
you as you are. He's giving you the choice to
come through the blood and be changed.
This is important because a lot of times we're saying God loves
you. Just the way you are.
God loves and love died and love, Rose and love, made a way
for you. Not to be like you are anymore
and so he chooses to let you know.
You don't have to be like you are anymore, you can't change
it. But if you'll come through me
and let the blood wash you, then you'll be different when you get
on the other side. Can I get an amen?
So Oh, God did not. You did not choose God for the
Bible says, no man comes after God.
No, not one. So, it's important when the Lord
begins to draw a person, you should begin to say, wait a
minute, he's talking to me and I can't get any, can't get in any
other way. If he wasn't talking, I couldn't
come, I might need to listen because he's starting to call my
name. These appointments of time when
God begins to speak forth your day when he begins to Harold
from the the corridors of the Kingdom of Light down into the
depths of darkness and begin, just like he did with Lazarus
telling you to come forth to get you up out of the Grave, you
need to answer that call because you can't choose him.
He's choosing you. And when he begins to choose
you, you need to accept his calling.
You did not choose. Me said, but I chose you and
appointed you that you would go and bear fruit and that your
fruit would remain. So that whatever you ask of the
father in my name, he may give it to you this.
I command you that you want. Not a suggestion.
Amen. This is not a personal
relationship. Whoop.
When God chooses you, he doesn't choose you to have a personal
relationship with you. He chooses you to come to a
family that then he commands you to love one another.
Okay, I'll go over here and preach I think this size a
little more excited. He's not calling you to a life
of isolation with him alone. He's calling you to a family
life. He's calling you into something
bigger than yourself. He's calling you into something
that requires you to give a yourself to others, because
that's what he did. God is not a god of isolation.
God is not a God that maintain Solace.
He didn't in his in his infinite sea of Father, Son.
And Holy Spirit, said I'm good enough.
No, because of love. He said my God.
I must create, I must share. I must expand myself to other
things of creation. I must create.
I'm a giver. I can't help it.
That's my nature. So when you get in his kingdom
and ain't you and God and that's it, he's calling you in to a
larger family where the gifts within you can be, can be
utilized and deployed among the family.
And in the kingdom of God, hallelujah.
He said, listen this I command you that you love one another.
If the world hates you you know that it hated me before it hated
you if you were of the world the world would love its own man.
If you're getting a lot of accolades from the world, you
might want to re-examine your relationship with the Lord.
If you are of this world, if you were of the world, the world
would love its own but because you are not of this world.
But I what chose you out of the world because of this, the world
hates you. A lot of lot of times in the
realm of Christianity and witnessing.
We like to take the humanity life of Jesus and try to make
him like the world as if God was trying to be like us.
But the law was not trying to be like us.
He just came in the form of a man.
He can identify with us because he was in that form.
But never once, was he trying to live like us, he actually lived
like the father wanted him. In fact, he became the example
of how he wants us to live like him.
So he did not come down to identify with Humanity.
He came down because he had the legal responsibility to take
back what Adam lost and only a man could do that.
I'll get to that in a minute. And so Jesus came down in the
form of what could legally bring back to the Earth that which
Adam actually lost that, which causes us to be lost in the
first place. Are you hearing me?
And because of that, the world will hate you because the world
is under the sway of a different ruler.
Of a different father. Jesus himself, acknowledged
there was another dad other than him and they were to religious
people, he said you are of your father the devil The devil now,
you understand all of us. We like to act like everybody on
the planet is made is God's loving people.
When everyone is not God's loving people.
Now man was originally created in the image of God and we in
seeing human life is to see them with their potential.
And that is they can be back in the original design.
God wanted for them but Jesus himself knows, you're not living
like my father. He said, man, if you were living
and loved my father, you would love me and you wouldn't be
trying to kill me. Amen.
But you are of your father, the devil, he is a liar and the
father of Lies. But I'm not of the devil
anymore. Aren't you glad you've been
transferred? Aren't you?
Glad you've come into the kingdom of God, aren't you?
Glad you're reunited with your heavenly father?
Amen. So again with Jesus said, I
didn't shoot, you didn't choose me but I chose you.
He said, I chose you out of this world, meaning I'm not asking
you to look like the world. I'm asking you to come out of
the world and the way it functions, even though you're in
it, When they saw Jesus, they're like, who is this guy?
He doesn't function like everyone else.
He does not, like anyone else he doesn't behave, like anyone
else. He doesn't talk like anyone
else. In fact, when he preaches, he
doesn't pre. He's using the same scripture.
I heard the Pharisees say, in the synagogue last week, but
this guy preaches with authority, and he calls us
things to come to pass. Jesus did not identify with them
by living there. Same example, boozing it up with
the sinners. Constant it up with the Sinners,
joking, it up with the Sinners. No, he lived.
A holy life, separated consecrated unto God, that their
life, who is this guy, and the Lord's.
Like I chose you to come out of that.
Are you hearing me now? When he says, I didn't choose
you, but chose, I chose you didn't choose me, but I chose
you. He said, I appointed you that
you would go and bear fruit and that your fruit would remain.
This is awesome. So what is he called unto
himself? Well, you just have to jump up
in this verse this chapter back to verse 7.
Verse 7, says it this way, if you abide in me and my words
abide in you, ask whatever you wish and it will be done for
you. My father is glorified by this
that you bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples.
Just as the father has loved me. I have also loved you abide in
my love. If you keep my Commandments, you
will abide in my love. Just as I have kept my father's
Commandments and abide in his love.
Now we need to break this down a little bit because there's a lot
of insight here. That will change our thinking,
Matthew, 15 3. I quote this often Jesus says to
religious people. Why do you forsake the
Commandments of God for the sake of your Traditions?
There's a lot of tradition being taught even in the church today
especially among denominations. Because you know, they have
heard things one way without actually examining the reason
why Martin Luther put 95 Theses on the door one day and the
Protestant Reformation took place.
Is because he started to search the scripture for himself and
began to realize, huh, there's some additional things here now
he didn't put that on the door without going to the authorities
of the church. And say, what about this?
The problem was the authorities of the church at the time, chose
to stay with their tradition. Then to say, man, now we need to
look at this. I find it interesting that it's
very difficult for believers to get around.
Together and actually discuss scripture.
I have found that many do not number one because of their
ignorance. Number two, they don't want to
look ignorant. So in turn, they'll just leave
the subject alone. But I am empowered by questions
because this, I'm never intimidated with someone's
thought because if I cannot line it up with scripture, I'll just
cast that down anyway. I won't let a tradition stay in
my mind, even if most of the churches say in it.
Because it is the church that sometimes gets things off, when
I say the church, I'm saying those that start staying in
Tradition. Not the one Jesus is building.
Can I say that? Let me just step back because
the last thing that I want to give the appearance, is that the
church is not doing its job. The church that Jesus is
building is alive and well, and it's functioning with great
Authority and it's in the planet today.
There are just a lot of people assembling that are actually in
the church, he's building. And there's a difference because
if you're in the church, he's building then the pastor is
empowering you to think for yourself and to hear the Holy
Ghost for yourself. And at the end of the day, when
we come around, any patch of scripture, we're going to have
to come to the same conclusion because there is the truth, not
your truth and my true There's his truth and not many are
willing to go long enough to determine his truth because we
don't want to look like we were wrong.
I don't mind being wrong if I'm wrong.
And I'm like, man, that's good. This is why I'm always drawing
on people around me who are in the word speaking.
The word and begin to say, Pastor what do you think about?
That's a good point. Let me look at that.
Let me examine that I don't act like, I know all the answers but
I know who does. Does the Holy Ghost?
And in his word and if I'll seek it I'll find and you won't come
to a different conclusion. We'll have to arrive to the same
conclusion. Are you hearing me?
So let's go back to this passage because I want you to see a
couple of things here that are really important.
He said now if you abide in me and my words abide in you ask
whatever you wish and it shall be done.
My father is glorified by this by what that his words abide in
you. Because he goes on and says and
that you bear much fruit. So prove to be my disciples.
How do you prove that you're a disciple of God?
Is that you abide in his word and it produces in your life?
He said, just as the father has loved me.
I also loved you now Abad, that means remain in my love.
How do we do this verse 10 if conditional statement?
Which means if you're not meeting the condition, you'll be
out. Now, I'm not talking about loss
of Salvation. I'm just saying you're not
abiding in love if you keep my come on, say it out loud.
Commandments you will abide in my love.
If you keep my Commandments, you will abide in my love.
Just as I have, what kept my father's Commandments and abide
in his love? How did Jesus abide in the
Father's Love. Not because he was born of the
father. The fact that Jesus was born of
the Holy Spirit. When he came upon Mary the
virgin What's not proof of his love for the father.
Wow! My mom just because Jesus was
born of the Holy Spirit of the Virgin, Mary Jesus doesn't say
don't you know, the father loves me.
I'm his son. I am born of God.
What qualified the love of the father with the sun?
He kept my word. He kept my word.
Oh, you want me to prove it to you?
Okay, no problem. I didn't think I'd get this much
resistant right now and I ain't even got to the meat of the
matter, but that's okay. It must be what's happening on
YouTube when we release it, okay.
Jesus looks at John the Baptist. He says John you need to baptize
me. He said, you are the lamb that
has come to take away the sins of the world.
I'm not even worthy to untie your sandals.
You are going to baptize with the Holy Spirit and fire.
I just do water for repentance. He said you should baptize me.
What did Jesus say? Permit it at this time.
So that all righteousness can be fulfilled, meaning Just this is
not a religious word, it means right standing with the
governing Authority. It's God's way of doing
something. The father has told me to do
this in essence. He said, I'm being obedient to
Dad, Dad told me to come. And have you baptized me once?
He was baptized in the Jordan, and came up the Heavens opened,
and the Holy Spirit Came Upon Jesus without measure, then, the
voice from Heaven, which was a father says this.
Is my beloved Son in whom. I am not because he was born of
a virgin, but because he's kept my word, he's kept my word.
He's kept it Jesus says now listen, if you going to abide in
my love, like I bought it in my father, you're gonna have to
keep the word that I'm saying. So what he's saying is, I've
chosen you to bear fruit. What I've chosen, you notice.
What it doesn't say my father is glorified by this that you're
born again. Bob metal with religion all the
time. We have put way too much
emphasis on an entrance. Way too much emphasis on an
entrance. Right now, Chelsea and Kirk have
a child. She has come.
I have seen her face. Chelsea and Kirk can pack their
bags with John and Marie's their grandparents.
The grandparents and then come home, they'll show up here and
would be like, hey, Chelsea Kirk?
Let's see the baby. Oh man, we gave birth to a
beautiful baby, she's whatever. It was somebody else's so long.
Let's see her. Oh, we don't have her when you
don't have her. We left her at the hospital.
What? Yeah, all we did was give birth.
She's born. I mean, we labor, Nan.
Mus we got her here. She's here.
Okay. So who's taking care of all?
She's a child. She's everything within hers
enough. Let God handle that.
When you let God, he gave her to you.
We don't want to hear this, because what we do is, we're not
trying to get people to be born again.
And they were like good, you're in heaven.
Now, when you die, you go to heaven, I'm going on to the next
one. We put so much emphasis yet.
The father didn't put emphasis on the door or the entrance in
in fact, Born Again, doesn't even manifest.
As a conversation except to a religious guy at about 2:00 or
3:00 in the morning. And the reason born-again was
even mentioned is because it was about going somewhere.
Jesus said to Nicodemus, unless a man is born again, he will not
see. The kingdom.
And we've turned the life, the death, the burial, and the
resurrection of Jesus. And what we call Salvation into
a confessing Jesus as our savior coming to a heart and save us.
So that when we die, we go to heaven, so that we can just be
born again. And yet Jesus is not emphasizing
born again, he's emphasizing the Kingdom publicly, he preaches
everywhere for the Kingdom of Heaven is like this.
And the kingdom of God is like that.
He never. Once publicly said, you must be
born again, but yet many places. All they preach is you must be
born again. You must be born again now.
Do you need to be born again? Yes.
Because it's the way in but it's to something.
It's not the end, it's got the conclusion.
It's tough to finality. It's not where we stopped.
Well, we Rejoice. Guess, we'll all of Heaven.
Yes. But Heaven won't continue that
praise. If you don't become a disciple,
You want to prove that the father loves you?
And that you love the Father and Jesus, you're going to have to
become a disciple. And the disciple is one who
keeps the word. And the gospel that we carry, is
not a destination gospel, it's a destiny gospel.
I said it's a destiny gospel. So how is it that we must be get
into this Kingdom. Well, Philippians 2 11 said this
and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ, is
this word is the most Aunt underutilized word.
It is skimmed over. It is looked at with know No
value at all. It doesn't have the true meaning
that the scripture has it as we have turned it into something.
Just like when I'm in Latin American countries this word
Lord, that that every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ
is Lord to the glory of the Father.
The word Lord in Spanish can be translated senior senior, but
the problem with senior is it's the same as mister.
So you can look at me and call me, you know, mr.
Earl which they won't say Earl cuz you know Spanish may have a
hard time saying Earl. They'd rather save glisten,
right? Senior glisten, senior senior,
which is mr. Mr. Glisten mr.
Glisten. And you understand, when I
preach in those countries, I always have.
And I say, you must make Jesus. Lord, they'll say hey School.
Chris Cristo has Jesus Cristo as Senior and I'm Gonna Know,
Dwayne, yo. Now, Dwayne yo means Master,
that's different because not everybody's master.
Are you hearing what I'm saying? Because this word Lord is very
important, because if this not for this word, Lord, we can't
even be saved. Let's turn over to Romans
chapter 9. Since we go there, chapter 10,
and most people use the Romans road to Salvation.
It says, is that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as not
savior, not savior. Is Jesus as Savior?
Yes. Has he saved everyone?
Yes, beanie. He's Provision for all to be
safe. Let's put it that way.
Let me say it. This way, has Jesus saved,
everyone? Not everyone saved.
He has made per Vision so that all can be saved.
There's a difference. The Lord saved us.
All not everyone saved. The Lord has made provision for
all to be saved, but Salvation is not the goal.
Salvation is, what gives the ability to get into the kingdom
because in order to get into the kingdom, you must have must
identify Jesus. As someone as Jesus as oh great.
I guess everybody's asleep today, I'm sure preaching.
Way more passionate in your hearing.
I can tell you that. And why is this?
Because we don't value our salvation.
We don't value it. I mean, someone has been in
Christ for so long. We forgot what it means to be in
Christ. We take a so flippantly, he's
Lord, I said he's Lord, I said he's Lord.
I mean when he walks in the room, we Bow Down On Our Knees.
We get on our face. When I like my gosh, Glory
showed up yet. We don't treat it like that in
the shirts because we don't even act.
Like you see here yet. The minute we opened scripture,
it is Jesus himself. He is the word.
All we bowing to it and where we submitted to it.
No, it's just casual That's my homeboy.
Jesus, he's saying this whole when I had to go to hell.
Jesus is not your homeboy, he's not your buddy, he's not your
pal, he's Lord, I said he's Lord, I said he's Lord, he's to
be honored. He's to be respected, he's to be
in awe. I'm concerned that many who have
called Jesus Lord, is it, he's really not.
And we'll get to that next week. We're not gonna be able to
preach that today, but if you confess with your mouth, Jesus
as Lord, this word Lord means Supreme in Authority.
It is not a religious word, it is not a religious word, it
means Master. It means owner of property.
And you know what? This is hard in the u.s. because
you know what You Don't Own Me you better hope God owns you,
you better testify. He owns you.
You better yield and yell it from the rooftop, I'm on by
someone else. They own me.
They own me they have the right to tell me anything because I'll
do exactly what they say whenever they say it because
life That at mouth, they are life.
Where am I gonna go without him? It's in him, we move and
breathe, and have our B. But when he's just your buddy,
he's optional. He just the one who saved you
from going to hell, Kudos? Thanks, Jesus, loved it.
Thanks for saving me. Thanks, I'm not going to hell,
it's just cool. But he's the king.
I said, he's the king. See we love Savior.
Jesus, go, nobody wants to go to hell for their wrongdoing.
But Lord's a whole nother ballgame.
And Jesus says, acknowledging me as your savior will get you in,
don't say that. He said, listen, I've saved you.
I can get you in, but it cost you.
See. Now that's a problem because in
today's church and most Believers today, they act like
you don't cost you nothing and it's just not true.
It's really a lie from the pit of Hell.
Anyone that has truly actively involved with the Lord knows it
did cost me some. Now, it's not a work that you
impress. God, it's not what we're saying.
So go ahead and get that out your mom but you know what?
It did cost me, it cost me my will.
It cost me my flesh. I crucified daily at the expense
of my Lord, I chose to no longer do it my way and I habitually do
it his way. That's what it cost me every
day. It costs me to be able to say
yes, Lord. Yes, Lord, yes, it gave me.
The ultimate cost is I in turn laid my life down to take up the
one, he was going to give me Jesus laid his life down as the
ultimate Sacrifice so that his blood which ran.
So pure have the capacity to forgive me of all my wrongdoing
but the day that I said, Jesus, you are Lord.
I said, I'll equally lay my life down, although it has no value,
not at all, according to you, but I'll lay it down to take up
the life. You'll freely, give me by
acknowledging. You are the Lord of my life.
I am in continual. All submission to your
Authority, whatever you say, I say yes.
Lord. now, that believer, walks different That believer gets
crowned that believer gets raised up and seated in Heavenly
places in Christ Jesus. That believer begins to conquer
because you only conquer what God has conquered.
You only do what God says to do. You begin to live like Jesus?
Did I only do what the father says?
You say I only do what Jesus said.
Oh man. Don't you have a mind on your
own? I got rid of that.
It was destructive. Well man you're so
narrow-minded. Thank God.
I am cuz wide is the gate. That leads to death and
destruction. You might want to close your
eyes down a little bit because you keep opening it up and let
death. Come in, let cancer come in.
Let all kinds of sickness and disease let demons come in but I
keep my focus. I keep it narrow.
I keep it just as the word. I keep it to the source of life.
My God, made it easy for me to get rid of all the cups clutter
of life and say just believe me at my word.
I mean, this is such an easy thing and yet we made it
complicated while could we don't want to offend nobody?
Well, the word offense because the Lord is not taking anything,
you got to offer Ain't taking any of it.
He says, just lay it all down at the cross and I'll resurrect
somebody new. Can I get an amen?
It says that if you confess with your mouth, Jesus is Lord and
believe in your heart, that God raised him from the dead.
You will be saved. So salvation comes as a result
of lordship. Not as a result of
acknowledging, Jesus as Savior. Because he's Lord for with the
heart of person, believes resulting in righteousness, and
with the mouth, he confesses resulting in Salvation.
For the scripture, says, whoever believes in him will not be
disappointed. For there is no distinction
between Jew or Greek. For the same Lord is Lord of all
abounding in riches, for all who call on him, for whoever will
call on the name of the Will be salvation does not come any
other way. Church attendance doesn't make
you right with God, being good to people don't make you right
with God paying people's bills don't make you right with God
because again if you're determining what's good then
you're a God to yourself. If you're judging the situation
without God, you're a God to yourself.
But the minute you say, Lord, what do you want me to do?
How do you want me to handle this situation?
What do you want me to do in this circumstance?
Now, you have the mind of Christ and you can begin to function.
Ian and operate as God always intended you to operate because
you must name him Lord this word here.
When we talk about Lord, it means to make a covenant with
your mouth that Jesus is supreme and authority.
And since Jesus is the word, in the beginning, was the word and
the Word was with God. And the Word was God, and the
word became flesh. John 1:14 says, we could say it
this way that if we make a covenant with our mouth that the
word is supreme authority and that is not a one-time event,
that's my whole life. The word is supreme authority,
the word. I know a Believer is starting to
move towards maturity in discipleship.
When they, when asked a question they would say.
Well what does the word say? Anytime you get cornered in
society? Well, where are you at on
same-sex marriage? Well what does the word say?
What does the word say? Well what do you think should
happen, you know if your boss done your own?
Well what does the word say? What do you think about giving
to the church? Well what does the word say?
What do you think we should do with our child?
He's been acting like this. Well, what does the word say?
Because I've done a lot of things that my feelings and my
mind would not have done, but I do the word and it brings life.
It opens up life. It gives the opportunity of life
and gives the opportunity for repentance.
Even if those, that hear it, don't receive it.
Because if they don't receive it, they're really not rejecting
me, but they're rejecting. The Lord and nothing personal
about it, but we're in a society that we want to go to heaven and
be light. We want the world to love us as
we go to heaven. But the Bible says the world
hates you. So to avoid hatred, we get along
with the world and then say, well, you know, I'm saved.
But Jesus becomes the option of when to follow and how to
follow. That's not lordship.
See in the Kingdom. There's a lordship principle
because all kings are personally legal owners of property
territory, or their domain. Another word for honor is Lord.
And we don't hear this word, a whole lot in our nation because
you understand, you know, we are independent.
We have a different kind of government.
You don't hear of these types of terms much anymore, but the
reality is, you would First and this, if you were renting
because you have a land lord, which means they own the
property that you are in and you can function in that property
based upon the agreement set forth in the terms of the rental
agreement. If the owner allows you to paint
the inside of the property, you can paint the inside of the
property, but if they will not let you, if you paint it, you
are unauthorized. It could be grounds for
eviction. Are you hearing me?
But you understand, we are owners but the reality is, were
really not owners unless we hold title d.
Because even if you're paying for your house as an owner
through a mortgage, the bank actually owns your property.
And if you took the time to actually read all those
documents that you signed word for word, then you'd realize
there are conditions that are set forth by the one holding the
mortgage that if you violate some things, they can read, they
can take access to the property. Just go ahead and tell them you
own it and quit paying. Are you hearing me?
Yeah. Now if you own the land and the
house you have title deed, do you actually own it you only own
the land up to your taxes, okay? Hallelujah.
Because at the end of the day, the government still has a right
to what you possess. Okay, nobody was fun.
Ain't no government. Go on me.
You better hope the kingdom owns you.
I'm just saying in the natural, you're not free of world
governments. You never want to be free of
God's government. So go ahead and not pay your
taxes on the land. You want to have title D because
they'll take possession of it. Then if the city or the county
proves, it's necessary to put a highway through the land that
you pay taxes. They'll take this thing called
eminent domain eminent domain where they'll say, you know, I
know it's yours and you own it, but For the better of the
society. You don't want to hear this.
We're going to pay you a portion.
Fair market value. And we're taking the land, I
don't care. It's been in your family for a
hundred years. I know, when I was traveling
through Gainesville, lateral County, there's a particular
farmer, that owned a piece of property and set I-75 went right
through the middle of it. She means they own cattle over
here and over here. And the state did not see fit to
build a little walkway for his cattle to be able to cross.
And we go through their property every day now.
Well, not us because we don't live over there, but back in the
day, when I lived over there, I went through their property
every day while because the state took access.
Because it was better for the state, it's better for the
nation. That we cut right through here.
Are you hearing me? Jesus is honored.
Lord means supreme authority. It means controller.
Go ahead and look at me. Say God control.
Me please. Now here's the thing.
He can't control you. You have to yield control.
So when you sing Jesus, Take the Wheel.
Why were you driving in the first place?
Right in one sense. Now, I don't mind you driving.
If you're taking instructions from Jesus, the GPS system.
What do you want me to turn? Because I have no idea where I'm
going. Are you hearing me?
Amen, we do participate. But he wants to be able to
dictate because he knows you better than you do.
Lord means he to whom a person or thing belongs about which he
has power. Or of deciding.
You've got to be, you're not in the US, the minute, you get over
into the kingdom, although you live in it.
You got to say, what do you, what do you decide?
How do you want me to handle this?
What do you want to do? Now, it'd be different if this
was actually a foreign concept to all of us and that we didn't
do it all the time because many in this room, go to work and you
have a manager or someone over you and you say, what do you
want us to do? And you do it. you definitely do
it if you like them, if you don't like them you still do it
because you love your job more than you do them, even though
you'll walk away from them and talk bad about them and their
decision, but you won't lead Because of the money.
Which means you serve money. More than it all.
Because the money keeps calling you out of bed, okay.
Don't want to meddle in your lordship.
Jesus said yeah there's only two guys out there on the planet.
I am God. And then there's another one
that people allow to make decisions in their heart who
govern their lives that they determine whether they do
something. They consult their bank account.
Can I go on vacation? Can I buy that present?
Can I go on that mission trip? Hull Pastor.
I'd love to go on that mission trip with you but I can't afford
it. So you let your money tell you.
You never once asked God yeah but I know how much I made.
How much is your daddy make? I mean, if he's Lord, can't he
say, I want you to go when our Lord, there's nothing in my
account to support your words, but at your word, I'll do it.
I'm signing up. Well, you need $100 of sign up.
Okay, well no one's giving me 100.
I'm putting my own hundred in it.
Believe God for the rest. Some of you haven't gone on
mission trips because God wouldn't authorize the person
paying for it to do it because you never got past your own
wallet. Hallelujah, I have had business.
People come to me and say, I want to do this, I say, well, if
somebody comes along, I'll let you know.
Then no one comes along while because they listen to their
wallet instead of the Lord. Because the Lord had already
provided, they just had to take the step of faith.
Not knowing where I was going to come from, but just had a word.
I said, just that a word. I remember the Lord spoke to me
like that one time because he's my Lord.
My wife and I were going into our second year of Bible College
and the Lord spoke to me very clearly.
He says, do not save money for school.
Don't do it. You just take care of your wife
and three kids. And so all summer, the money
went straight to the house except for what was God's the
tithes and offerings. Other than that, we just try and
take care of the house. And it man.
There wasn't a whole lot. I mean, it was just like keeping
us in the house. You know, Bond the $89 Hamburger
Helper meals. We used to buy these little
chicken drumettes, you know, little drumsticks and we tear
them things up, man, cause you get a bunch of chicken
drumsticks for nothing. I mean, we had the cheapest food
processed, I mean, it's probably cardboard box be honest with
you. I mean, it's I don't even know
his real food, but we hate it. Amen.
Well, as we got a little closer, we realized there's no money for
this. So naturally you start carrying
on conversations, you begin to have your own conversation.
Should we both go? Should we just one of us?
Go could we maybe just work it out?
Where one could go in the other? You know?
Because again, you begin. Well, we don't know what God is
doing. Totally he just said, don't say
but I'll never forget when we were having that conversation
about one of us. Going the holy gear goes
reminded me of what Pastor Hagan says.
He said, if the Lord call you to start Raymond, then he's called
you to finish. I looked at her and I said, God
called us to start. We going to start, we started
together. We going to finish together.
Didn't know how that was going to happen at the end of the day,
we're two weeks before school starts for my kids and up and
someone from the state of Florida happened.
To be in Little Rock Arkansas and we were in Oklahoma.
They gave us a call said, we were in the neighborhood.
Now, Little Rock Arkansas is not literally in the neighborhood of
Tulsa, Oklahoma, it's hundreds of miles away, right?
But compared to Florida. Yes, it was.
And so they asked how could they come?
By and see us. And we said sure and in that the
Lord spoke to them to buy our kids clothes for school so it
was awesome. Didn't have to say for that.
Because God cares for me. I just need to be in his will
and my Lord through someone else.
Bought all my kids school clothes and then we ate at a
restaurant. We've not eaten at for over a
year. I mean, we had steak that day,
it was like the best steak ever on the planet.
Not that it really was shit when you been eating hamburger
helpful for so long you know beef stroganoff, it was nice you
know, rice and beans. Ins spaghetti was every week for
sure. Thank you, Lord.
So they bid us farewell and they left and we were like, praise
God. Well, it was enough for us to
say, God knows about us. We're on his radar, look what
he's done for our kids. And if you'll do this for our
kids than surely, he'll do something for us about 30
minutes later, the same couple, the wife calls and speaks to my
wife. And says, where are y'all at
with your tuition? Mission for school.
Well I said well we're believing God and they said we're going to
pay for both of y'all's School this year.
Hallelujah. I said, Hallelujah.
He's Lord. Now to rewind three years
earlier, two years earlier, two years earlier.
The husband slap me in the face at work.
One day. He was my Superior and I was
talking with people on a pallet about the Lord and He himself
wasn't born again and it stirred him up.
And man, he slapped me in the face in front of everybody by
was shocked. About that time.
I had this leather necklace on that he end up putting up
underneath my I was in the military up underneath my shirt
and pulled it out and says what is this?
And I was wearing, because it was fascist buff, a fad back
then. Wwjd I said it's wwjd it stands.
What would Jesus do? And he'd turn the other cheek.
So here's this one. He was shocked by that and
stepped away. But he paid.
For my second year of my wife's second year for rain.
Because Jesus is Lord, and I didn't take Vengeance because I
didn't jump up and say, I'm gonna bust you down right now.
I'm not, you're not going to Bears me in front of all these
people because I didn't lift my fist.
But because I just took it because I had a word from my
king because I was submitted to God, God used a situation where
I control my flesh and my will, And use that individual to pay
for my second year, they showed up here one day.
Walked into the church began to cry.
Both of them were sick had symptoms in their body.
No, healing was happening. Just looking around and was just
in Aunt ears. The man hug my wife and hug me.
He said, I'm so proud of you on what you've done.
I said you did this. I didn't take him back to the
slap. I said you invested in US.
I said because you, you and best in US, you allowed us to finish.
The course God, use you to let us finish.
The course, brought them up on the front row and that night,
Pastor Hagan priest, and he was doing a kingdom or a living
faith conference at the time, and he never lays hands.
On the first night, never does this.
He always does it the last night, but he said in the
Pulpit, I feel that the Lord wants me to lay hands on the
sick tonight. And they were the first to that
he laid hands on. And they both receive their
healing. Aren't you?
Glad Jesus is Lord. You understand lordship is not
about going to heaven. It's about becoming children of
God. It's not a destination, it's a
destiny. Jesus came to restore that which
Adam lost in Genesis 1:26 and 27.
Then God said let us make man in our image, according to our
likeness and let them rule over the fish of the sea over, the
birds of the sky, over the cattle, over every living thing
that creeps on the earth, God created in his own image, in the
image of God, he created them male and female he created them,
he created us to have dominion. Ian.
To have dominion Adam lost the kingdom, not heaven.
Adam did not fall from Heaven so he did not lose Heaven.
Adam lost the kingdom and Jesus came to restore the kingdom.
Back to humanity. He's came to put man back in his
rightful position of dominion and sonship this is why Luke
3:38 the latter. Part says he was in the
genealogy coming from the birth of Jesus back down to Creation
that Adam was the son of God. Jesus was coming as the last
Adam to restore. What?
The first Adam gave away for the Devil Himself in the Luke's
account of the Temptation Of Christ, showed him all the
kingdoms of a moment of time. And he says, all this domain,
all this Authority, all this power, all this rulership, all
this, that you that you could Reign Over has been handed to
me, I'll give it to you, if you'll just Bow Down.
And worship me or make me your God, your king?
And Jesus said it is written. He said in his writing because
he only did the will of the father and when Jesus died on
the cross and said, it was finished and went to the grave
and conquered death, hell and the grave and he received the
keys of the of the of the Grave itself and he bust up out of
there by the power of the Holy Ghost, on the third day.
That he poured out his blood on The Mercy Seat in heaven and he
gave access that those could Back to Dominion back to
rulership back into the kingdom, by being born again or born from
above, this is not about a one-time salvation experience,
it's about becoming a child of the king.
It's about Destiny, it's about sonship, it's about ruling.
That's what the lordship of Jesus Christ is about.
Jesus told pilot and John chapter 18 starting in verse 33
when Pilots saying listen, are you the king of the Jews?
Jesus said are you saying this on your own initiative or did
others tell you about me? Pilate said, I'm not a Jew, am I
your own tree, your nation and your Chief Priests of delivered?
You to me, what have you done? Jesus said, my kingdom is not of
this realm. Meaning, it doesn't operate like
the world, he kingdoms. Because if it did, my service
would not, let me be handed over to the Jews, but my kingdom is
not of this realm. And pilate said so you are King
Jesus. As you say correctly that I'm a
king. For this, I have been born.
And for this, I have come into the world.
He came to restore the King Khan.
Not to save you from planet Earth, but save you for planet
Earth. So that you could rain on an
earth that God himself will redeem that, God himself will
come back to that. God himself will cause the New
Jerusalem to come down, where he'll be the King of Kings, and
the Lord of lords, This is why Jesus said again and nicotine.
Nicodemus in John 3, he sent unless a man is what born again,
he will not see the kingdom of God.
So lordship or calling Jesus, Lord is not about saving your
life. It's about giving you the
Kingdom Life, sonship rulership? Born again is access.
To the Dominion, God had for you the whole time that if you'll
take the sonship, if you'll take the Dominion, if you'll begin to
walk in it. Then you'll begin to exercise
things. Spoken of you that greater is he
that's in you than he? That's in the world.
You'll begin to rejoice when a trial comes for, Jesus said, in
this life you'll have trials and tribulation but be of good
cheer. You'll begin to Rejoice because
you'll know that my God delivers the righteous out of all their
troubles. You'll know that I'm the head
and not the tail. I'm above, and not beneath.
You'll begin to operate in the Kingdom principles of Health
Care and provision. You'll begin to walk in the joy
of the Lord. You'll begin to eat the fruits
of the spirit. You'll begin to rise above
everything. You'll actually rise.
In life because you're not holding on for a destination.
You're like, I'm bringing Heaven to Earth by praying to my
heavenly father, I'm getting his kingdom to come, his will to be
done on Earth, just as it is in heaven because God has saved me
for the Earth. Save me that I would have
dominion here. And while I remain because there
will be a day that you'll be caught up together with him.
I'm not saying you won't But he's coming back, he's not
coming back to catch us up and then we just go hang out and
clouds. So, you're not going to become a
fat naked, baby, angel? See playing hearts?
You'll never turn into an angel. There are different species.
But after 7 years of the Great Tribulation trip tribulation and
after we've done the marriage supper of the Lamb, the king
will return with the Saints will come right back to the Earth.
And we'll begin our rulership with him of Eternity for a
thousand years on a planet that needs us and still has sent in
it and he'll dispersed us. And it in continued Dominion
status. And then ultimately create a new
Heaven and a new Earth. And the New Jerusalem will come
down out of Heaven to the Earth, and Will Rule and reign with him
forever. So, to be born again, means
terrain, and ruling starts today.
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