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Now, enjoy this message. It's a no.
On each any capacity. No pun intended.
I know that's been the lingo from the pulpit lately but it is
an honor to an any capacity that the Lord gives you gives us.
All of us to be able to minister the word of God.
So earlier ezeli was asking what I was doing home for a little
bit of kind of came and got some stuff prepared and she said, so
you're going to be with the with the, with the big people and I
said yeah, I'm going to be with the big people tonight.
I want to be with the adults in the main service.
So and we've really changed our lingo because I've always
endeavored in my Nautilus team for those that.
Don't know, I'm the children's Pastor here at anchor, Faith
Church. My name is Vanessa, and I
oversee all of children's Minister here at anchor, Faith
Church, and also direct our preschool as well that operates
Monday through Friday. But I don't like to look at
Children's Ministry is as the Adult Services, the main service
we call this, the adult service and the reason for that Because
there are Services going on all over this building.
We have the youth service right now.
We have Nautilus Junior Services.
We have a kingdom kindergarten, first grade service, and then,
right behind us, we have a second through fifth grade
service, so and then we've got our service in here, so we
definitely don't want to ever diminish.
That God is working and moving all throughout this building and
whatever package you come in and this space, the Lord wants to
minister to you. So You know, I'm going to miss
you tonight and for some of you have seen new Minister for a lot
of times I'll have object lessons because I just love
visuals. I love things for you to be able
to grasp hold of and be able to have like it's something
tangible that will remind you of his word.
So tonight I am the object lesson, I am the globe, I am.
The were my Great Commission shirt, so we'll get to that in a
little bit, but I want to ask you the question tonight.
What do you want to know if anybody ever ask you that?
You ever ask, you know, I'm trying to get to know somebody
like what do you want to know? What do you wanna know about me?
What do you want to know? So that's our key text for
tonight. We're going to get into Timothy
a little bit but I want to ask that question to you guys
tonight. What do you want to know?
Because there's a lot to know out there.
There's a lot to know in our everyday life if you can just
think back to where you started at this morning, we're inundated
with information from the moment that we wake up.
Up to the moment, we go to bed tonight and one great source of
that is this great smartphone that we have, right?
Some of you may have a flip phone and that's great.
You don't have to have as many notifications but for most of
you you have a smartphone and you use that smartphone to
navigate your life to take pictures to take notes and I'm
speaking for myself personally, I use my phone and it's a great
tool, it can be a great tool should be used as a great tool
but there can be hindered. It's, is it to it as well.
And so tonight, when I asked the title, what do you want to know?
We're going to talk about being Kingdom teachable because there
is something that can happen. If you choose to no longer allow
yourself to be teachable, It can be very, very dangerous.
Okay. And so we're going to go back to
the very beginning and not Genesis, but we're going to go
to the beginning of what the word says.
So let's go over to John 1:1 because John 1:1 tells us about
the word and, you know, I'm going to reference scripture a
lot. I told the guys back in and
their Booth back there, I should have my big old packet, don't be
alarmed, but I do have a lot of notes that most of it is
scripture. So, Us go again to John 11 and
verse 1. It says, in the beginning was
the word and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Verse 2, he was in the beginning with God.
All things were made through him and without him was not anything
made that was made verse 4. In him, was life.
And the life was the light of men.
And in verse 5 it says the light shines in the darkness and the
Darkness has not overcome, it will go back to the scripture in
a little bit cuz we're going to talk about.
The days that we're living in, but we know right here in the
beginning that the word itself became flesh.
And in the beginning, the Word was God was with God and it's
the light that over shines. The darkness in this world.
Amen. So if you can think back to your
school day some may have had the best experience in life.
Some may not, but I bet you, you can think at least one teacher's
name that made an amazing. Easing investment in your life
right now. I'm sure all of you are thinking
of at least one teacher, at least one, that was your
favorite. And I venture to say that that
teacher probably made you feel safe and loved and cared for and
then made the content that they were teaching you fun and
relatable and wanted you wanted to go back to school.
The next day, anybody can attest to that out there around the
only one because I remember more than Actually one, but there's
something while we are. We come like a child because
the, the, you know, the kingdom of God, the Lord specifically
tells especially his disciples. He says, how should you come
into the king of you should come like a child, right?
And I believe, because I work with children so much children,
just come and they don't have any baggage, they don't have to
think about all the things as adults have to think about bills
bird. Owens.
All the things we've experienced in life, even in A Renewed state
that we've been born again. We're in his kingdom.
We still have a lot of responsibilities is a grown-up
and his child can just come and they can just in Freedom, listen
and glean and they're excited. They're excited about what they
know someone has taught them something and they just kept
their biting at the bit to tell us what they learned.
They have they come. With enthusiasm and passion, you
know what I'm talking about. The kids will they want to come?
They want to be able to tell somebody what they have learned
and recently in fact it was the Easter Service.
I was ministering next door and serving and if you're not part
of children's ministry, you're missing out because it is the
best. Well plug it right now, it's the
best area. I know Ricky ushers are great
and all but children's ministry. It is so fun.
You get to be few, get to have so much fun with them.
And I'm just standing in all with these kids and I hadn't
been in that particular class in a little bit.
And I was just talking about Jesus and, you know, again what
his purpose was, why, you know, he was getting ready to go to
the Crossman and three days later.
And I said, you know, right now your parents are next door and
they're learning about Jesus too.
To their learning about what it, what Jesus was about to go
through and one of them raised their hidden and the little girl
was so excited. She goes my mom's in there right
now. She loves, she loves past her.
She lives here in the preaching and she was just this exuberant.
She just couldn't wait to get it out.
And tell me how much she loved her parents.
Her mom, loved Jesus and loved lives.
Listen to preaching, because she had a knowledge.
That means that she's she's seeing it.
It's being modeled in front of Her a passion for the word.
A love for the word of God and she was excited to tell me.
Well, that's the same excitement.
We need to have all the time and every single truth that God
shares with us. We need to have that passion.
We need to ask the question to others.
What do you need to know? And when they ask that we're not
just, we're not just giving them the answer.
We're showing them that answer in our everyday life because
we're sure, Shining the light to them.
Amen. So let's have that same hunger
as a child tonight. Once you, you've probably heard
many of these scriptures before, but this is how we have to come.
We have to come like a child, ready to ready to learn, ready
to listen. And when I was getting ready to
administer tonight, I was reminded of something I do with
preschoolers. I was like, I'm not gonna have
an object lesson. I'm just gonna, you know, I'm
just gonna preach the word but the Lord reminded me of
something he gave me right on the stage about four years ago,
I was ministering Chapel to our preschoolers and right in the
middle of it, he gave me a phrase to say to them and it's
very basic, but it's profound. And so I'm going to have you
guys do this with me. This is something we do with our
preschoolers, okay? But I want you to concentrate on
what we're doing and then we'll go to the why everybody with me
like this. Stop And you're with your both
hands, you're going to look at your eyes.
Say look. Okay.
So let's do it again. Say stop.
Then you can, then you're going to reach to your both of your
ears and you're going to say the listen.
And then you're going to reach up to your head.
You're going to say here, then, you're going to go down to your
heart, your spirit, man, and you're going to go out to do,
okay? So let's do it together.
So, listen, when you're born again, our spirit man is
recreated in We're new creatures everything that we need is
recreated and new. This this up here though is what
has to be transformed and changed and then because we are
beings that are made in three parts, where a spirit being that
we have a soul. That's how we make decisions.
That's how we process thing in this Grand brain that God's
given us. And that's how we deal with our
emotions make decisions. And then we live in a body that
houses both of those. Well, the spirit and the soul,
Have to work together because we need our brain to be able to
process information that we're learning and we're growing in,
but then it has to line up with God's spirit.
So that day I got it and I thought this is what our kids
have to know. It's not just about them
listening, I don't need them, just to hear information.
I need them to really stop and look.
And so, when we teach this, we tell them, this is something you
do with your teacher. This is something you do with
your Parents. And this is something you do.
When the, when you hear the word of God, that when you hear an
adult, speaking you stop, what you're doing and you turn to
them and you look at them and you listen to them and you hear
what they're saying, so that it can get deep down and that
connection between your heart, and your spirit and your soul,
and then you can go out and you can do it.
What's the same thing for us? Adults, we have to learn to stop
and listen to the voice of the Holy Ghost.
We To stop and learn to listen to what the word of God is
saying. And then from there we stop and
we here, so that we can what process it down in the heart and
we can go in, do it because it's nothing if we just here and
we're going to get into that. So we'll do that maybe just a
little bit again. So tonight, we're going to go on
a little journey with Jesus and his disciples.
You know, I love, I love the connection between the old and
the New Testament tonight. We're going to Stay mainly in
the New Testament though, because Jesus there's so many
lessons, we learned from him in the disciples, he calls them, he
picks them, he knows exactly the one that God has ordained to go
on the journey with him to be disciples, right?
Disciples or pupils, right? The whole premise of them being
disciples, it they were to learn that were to come alongside
Jesus so that they could learn. So that not only That they could
learn a bunch of information, but that they could replicate it
in their own lives that they could.
Then in the new church in the new phase, they could become
what the church. They could be Apostles where
they would this this information in this experience that they
have with Jesus living with him each and every day.
They now can live it out. And so they had to learn to
become teachable. And that's what we have to do in
the word. Teachable means it's a person
who's capable of Being taught a person who's at or willing to
learn. Okay, there's somebody who's
capable of being taught and they're apt or willing to learn.
Now person who teaches or a teacher comes from, a Greek
word. That means Deo to learn, and it
literally means the person that means to call someone to learn.
So, a teacher, their responsibility is to help the
person learning, but they literally cause the person to
learning by them teaching and instruction.
Also in importation or instruction of knowledge and
this word teach died died. ASCO.
If I'm saying that right in the Greek, that means to teach okay.
Another word to learn itself means men than 0.
There is a manthe know it's a cool word, it means to learn or
be. Appraised means to increase
one's knowledge to be increased in knowledge to hear be
informed. And then it goes on to say, Say
that it means to learn by use and practice in and be in habit
of. So these definitions help us to
kind of understand what learning means knowledge means.
And when you learn, it's not that you're just gaining a bunch
of information because we can do that, you know, we any of us in
this room, could go and take a class on how to knit or how to
play an instrument, or how to cook, right?
They have these things on in celebrities, do things called
the a master class and you can learn from someone who has
mastered a specific skill and then you can go take.
You can pay and you can take classes and you can learn,
right? How many of you when you need
it? Question answered.
What's your first thing you might say to what?
Google it YouTube it right earlier today, somebody ask me
something and I said well let's Google it.
I mean we do that there's just kind of a that's a pretty
standard word that we use a phrase that we use to find out
information. And again this is when these
phones can be great tools but they don't ever need to replace
the word of God because ultimately this is the source of
truth that we want to make sure that we're going to.
This is the knowledge that sir. Surpasses, any otherworldly
knowledge that we could get any stats.
We could get from the TV from YouTube, from ESPN, from any
political outlet, from Facebook, from Instagram.
All of those things are fun and cute.
But when it comes down to it, the word of God is where we need
to get our source. That's where we need to be in
the know. Right.
That's where when we're asking the question, what do you want
to know? I want to know what the word
says about something. I want to remain.
So that I don't miss out and I don't go down a path where I
deceive myself. We're gonna talk about that a
little bit. So in our journey with Jesus, he
had his disciples, and there's many phrases, where we have, we
see him, say the word Rabbi, which meant teacher, and you go
through, and they recognized him as a teacher and in John ours,
that might go to, Johnny, let's go to Matthew.
Matthew 4:23 says this, it says, Jesus was going throughout all
Galilee teaching in their synagogues and preaching.
Preaching, the gospel of the Kingdom.
What was he preaching? The gospel of the kingdom and
healing every kind of disease, and every kind of sickness among
the people. So, what was he doing again?
He was teaching the kingdom and then we see the Miracles
miraculous signs come after okay, in John 3, verses 1
through 3, we see that Jesus and we'll read just a little small
snippet of this, but this is when he's teaching about
Nicodemus and he's teaching about the fact that you must be.
Born again and then Nicodemus is confused.
And he's like, well, I can't go back to my mom and start that
process over again. I did that a long time ago and
so then he gives a little bit more clarity.
And so then you know, here it is.
In verse 3, he says 3:2 me first one, it says now there was a
Pharisee, a man named Nicodemus who was a member of the Jewish
Jewish ruling Council. He came to Jesus at night and he
said Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God
for no one. Could perform the signs.
You were doing if God were not With him.
So they recognized who he was and what was coming as a result
of the word that he was bringing, and he used that word
teacher. So the disciples they follow
Jesus. They see the teaching of the
word, the crowds followed him and there are several instances
were healings. Take place in another instance,
happens to be where in John chapter 5 Jesus and his
disciples or returning from Jerusalem and they he goes and
heals a lame, man. So we're going to go go to John.
5:19 and Jesus is explaining to them after this happen.
Again, the religious people of that day.
Always had something to say to Jesus, when he was healing
people and he was doing the work of the father on the Sabbath
day. You know, they had something to
say about it. And so, Jesus, in verse 19 says,
I tell you the truth, the son can do nothing by himself.
He does only what he sees the father, doing whatever.
The father does, the son does also.
And so then he goes on and he tells them and verse 24, I tell
you the truth, so Jesus Continues to tell them the truth
over and over again and every instance he brings the truth
verse 39 of the same chapter. He says you search the
scriptures because you think they give you eternal life but
the scriptures point you to me yet you refuse to come to me and
receive this life. You see they weren't teachable.
although they were the ones who had the most knowledge, the
Pharisees were the scholars, they knew they had studied the
scripture, they knew, they knew all of historical data, but yet
in their heart, they were hearing.
I mean, they were listening. They like what they were hearing
then they didn't they weren't hearing from here.
And, of course, we're dealing with the, with the people before
Jesus, you know, have went to the Cross but still, they were
of a religious spirit. They did.
Want to hear the truth. They didn't want to hear the
real truth because they didn't want to change.
They didn't want to have real knowledge so that they could,
you know, be different. They were set in their ways of
exactly how they have always been operating.
Here we go into John 8 now. Jesus, again, he's dealing with
the heart of a Humanity. They bring him a situation.
There, always Trying to stop Jesus.
And here they are and John. Excuse me, verse 1.
He's here in the Mount of Olives. and, of course, the
crowds Gathering and There's this woman who has made a very
bad mistake. She's been caught in the very
Act of adultery And they're like, well what are you gonna do
with her, right? This is what the law of Moses
says to do. And you know Jesus, what does he
do? Is the answer real quick.
No, he takes his time. He said somebody wise will take
time. They don't have to spread out an
answer. I don't have doesn't have to be
quick right? He's slow to speak quick to
listen and who is he listening to?
The father, he's listening, the Holy Ghost is given him the
words of wisdom and knowledge at that moment, to be able to
impart to the disciples to the people and how to handle with
this woman. And of course, we know Jesus
says, You know, he in this area here who hasn't sin, go ahead
and pick up a stone and you cast the first one?
Well, they were like, well, they start thinking of all their
baggage and all their mistakes and are they, can they do that?
Can they, honestly throw that stone know, they can't.
And so what does Jesus tell the woman?
He says go and sin no more, right?
Go and sin, no more and so Jesus then gets a moment where he gets
to teach his disciples, what's happening and he tells us in
verse 30 says, the many of the Jewish leaders had heard him
saying these things before they begin to believe him, to be the
Messiah. And Jesus said to them, you are
truly my disciples. If you live as I tell you and
you will know the truth. And the truth will set you free.
So not staying in their own mindset, but Ali coming into the
knowledge of his Kingdom and who he is and who his father is so
that they could truly walk in truth and be free.
Amen. You know, we have to be careful
if we want to be in the know. I did bring some statistics
tonight because you know, as great as this device is always
want to make sure we come back to the word of God.
And I wanted just for some information or and we have
information at her fingertips all the time.
I'm, and I've got some sources, I looked up some tech
information, just in general, how much time we use, and we
spend on our phones and it says that 80's it, this is a tech
website, but it says, 86 percent of Americans.
Go online daily. That means you're going on the
internet daily using their phone.
Using a quick source. 86 is pretty, pretty big number.
It says, by the year 2025, which is just around the corner it
says that the The number of smartphone users in the United
States will reach over. 311.50 3 million people.
So a lot of people having phones using finding information,
right? And it says that the average
person has it minimum 63 pickups a day.
That means you've seen something flash across the screen and
you've it's caused you to pick up.
Now, I was studying earlier, just go through.
Scriptures and I had several. And I'm like, see case in point.
It's happening to me right now. So I actually went in and I'm
like, I don't need to know that. So, and so is having a cell
every time they're having a sale?
I just, I went in and literally changed my settings, because if
we don't watch out, we're in bombarded with information all
day long, that's useless. And we can control it.
So I'm like, well, I'm not. I'm going to take the control
back. I'm about to teach about this
tonight. I need to take control of some
of mine. So I went through and change
some of my notifications and put no notifications because I don't
want to be notified about that. I don't want to get too busy
with that, that I don't stop to be able to know what's I really
need to know and that's the word of God.
Amen. But on the things that are
really important but the things that aren't we don't have to
focus on. Amen.
Because what do you want to know?
What do you want to know? We want to be Kingdom teachable.
We want to know what the word says, amen.
Let's open up some more scripture.
Let's get into now. Jesus.
Jesus is with his disciples. We know we, he goes on a journey
with them for three years, we just celebrated Resurrection
Sunday and we know that Jesus is purpose was to fulfill this
right. Fulfill this so that we can be
part of his kingdom. So he's living his Kingdom
Purpose. And after he Risen.
He gives the disciples. A couple of different things.
First of all, he promises them. He before he goes, he even tells
them. Listen, I'm going to send
something that's going to help you even more than me being
here. And of course, they still didn't
understand again. They're still learning growing,
he has to give them several examples sometimes.
But, you know, I don't think Jesus got bothered with his
disciples. You sometimes, we can read that
scripture. We can think gee whiz.
Do you think they would get a clue?
But do you know, Jesus follows the Holy Ghost and felt follow
the Holy Ghost with his disciples and the Holy Ghost
follows patients. So just like our kids that may
come up to us and tug on us and say you know ask us a question.
No question is a wrong question and I don't think the disciples
were coming with dumb questions. I think that they were generally
doing what they were called to do and be in disciples learning
and growing in knowledge. And so Jesus would have to
sometimes spell it out, you know.
And then he Would explain any said, the reason they don't
understand. It's because they don't have
what you have, but let me tell you, when I leave, it's going to
be better. It's going to be better because
I'm going to send something called the Holy Ghost.
The Holy Spirit. When the Holy Spirit comes your,
he's gonna recite reside in you each and every day and you're
going to have him with you to help you and you're going to be
able to do this and you're going to be able to do not just what
you're seeing. Now you're going to be able to
do greater things more things and so they had to understand
this and he he tells us in John 14. 17 is he tells them in the
Amplified classic, it says the spirit of Truth whom the world
cannot receive or welcome or take to its heart because it
does not see him or know and recognize him but you know, and
recognize him for he lives with you constantly and will be in
you. That's us.
So that was the, that was him telling the whole, the
disciples. But that was him getting ready
for us to be able to have the Holy Ghost.
The enemy tells us this way. It says it now and I will ask
the father and he will give you another Advocate who will never
leave you ever. He is the Holy Spirit who leads
us into what truth. So when we need to know
something, what do you want to know truth?
We got the truth teller on the inside the truth teller, that
will bear witness with this word.
We don't have to go search in all over the place.
In fact, if you're part of this body here at anchor, Faith
Church, you don't have to go here and there in fact the word
tells us about that it tells us about making sure that we're
planted firmly in a body. So if you're not and you've been
coming here for a little bit, and the Lord saying, this is my
home than make it come. Be part of.
It will be called Vision Partners here because the Lord
wants you to be planted somewhere so that you can get
strong roots in him. And then You can grow in the
place and you can listen to the shepherd.
That's part of the flock that you part of the body and we're
part of the flock so that we listen and we follow and we work
this together as his church. And so you don't have to go to
this church and that church and this and that if you know that
God's called you, then you get connected, get connected, so
that you don't go astray, right? We don't have to listen to all
this information. God is so simple.
It's although he is so I was thinking about this tune getting
ready, the kingdom is so vast and some of the parts of it are
so unfathomable, but yet our God is so easy.
The Holy Spirit doesn't make it complicated.
He's simplifies things for us and it's crazy.
How many of us, I mean how many is in this room right now
without counting? He tells me something.
He tells you something, he tells You something.
I go down the line. He tells us all he speaks to
every single one of us. How more amazing can we get than
that? That he speaks to us that he
cares about each one of us so much that he talks to us.
That he gives us exactly what we need.
The knowledge that we need. So what do you want to know?
Be Kingdom teachable because he wants to tell you so so much
more about your life and your purpose.
So, Jesus, of course, promises the Holy Spirit and then he
tells his disciples in Matthew 28:16, he says to them, they
verse 16. It says the eleven disciples
went to Galilee to the mountain where Jesus had told him to go,
and when they saw him, they worshiped him, but some doubted.
Then, Jesus came to them and said all authority in heaven and
on Earth has been given to me. Therefore therefore go and make
disciples of all Nations, baptizing them in the name of
the father, and of the son and of the Holy Spirit and teaching
them to obey everything. I have commanded you and surely.
I Am With You Always to the very end of the age, there's a lot in
this scripture, you know, we know this is the Great
Commission, right? That my got my Globe shirt on
and it is my Great Commission shirt.
We are to go. But in this there's so much Yuri
Realize that these disciples 11 because one didn't make it.
But the 11 disciples that have been spending time with Jesus,
have been learning have been growing in the things that they
didn't know what they knew three years previous.
He's saying now You Go Make Disciples.
The one that was learning is now teaching that's us.
We are to learn but yet we are at the same time, we are
learning. We are all So, teaching, and the
greatest way that we all teach is by how we live every single
day, if we're a light or not, because there's only one choice,
you can either be shining the lighter, you can be hiding the
light. And if you're hiding the light,
it's either because you're ashamed or it's because you
don't have the light yet. So only two reasons.
But the Lord has given us the light to shine it boldly so
everyone can see it. So we can truly make disciples.
So we teach we train and then they do the same.
Amen. Because we, you know, the Lord
desires that all men would come to repentance.
That all would be able to come in his kingdom.
It's not just be for a few people.
I mean, this these wall should be busting out with people.
Right. Not just to be here on a
Wednesday night or Sunday. But to be here because this is
the house of God, they won't want to miss.
What, what God has to teach them?
Because what do you want to know the?
Holy Ghost wants to teach. So we got to be ready to listen.
Amen. So the what we learned from God
is deeper than mere intellect. Right?
Because I love education. I mean I love ministering and
teaching young children, I love, I love listening to those who
have gone before me my elders because I love to hear what
they've gone through. I love to hear their testimony.
Right. Not their complaint.
But I love to hear what God's done in their life.
And I love to hear where they could have been and how God's
restored them. So that's amazing, right?
We can glean from somebody. I love to hear from people who
have a knowledge of something that I don't know, right?
Because we don't know what we none in this room, know,
everything and none of us in the room.
In this room could have could ever get to the place where we
know everything in This Bible either because again with the
kingdom, I was talking about being unfathomable.
It's one of those things where you can't grasp everything and I
think there's the Lord was purposeful on that because
there's so much in here. It's so rich he gives it to us
when we need it and if we stay focused to learn it and we grasp
hold of it and we let it get down here, we get down here, we
understand it, then we can apply it and it can come out here and
we can do it. So he gives his just what we
need, right? Some of you in here, may have
just got born again God speaking to you tonight.
He speaking to every time you come in here and you and you get
the word every time you're out your home and you're reading the
word, the Lord, you know, speak to speak out before you read.
Lord, speak to me today, teach me as I read the scripture.
Let it be not just a box that you're checking, but let the
Holy Ghost speak to you believer, who's been doing this
for 20 years, 40 years, 60 years, Ears that God speaking to
you. He's speaking to you.
And in this room tonight he's speaking again he's care so much
about each one of us individually that he's speaking
to each one of us what we need. Right.
What do you want to know? He's gonna speak it to you.
And then from there, what are you going to do with it?
So we're going to spend a little bit of time now, talking more
about what this Deeper truth is that we're not just thinking of
things and intellect and it's not just in our brain but it has
a connection from our brain to our spirit, man and back and
forth so that we can truly understand who we are in Christ
and we can be led by the Holy Spirit and it's a
transformation, not just information.
Right, because we get a lot of information off this phone.
Right targets having a sale. Great love it, but that That's
great, but I need to know something is going to really
transform my life, right? So Romans, 12:2 says this, don't
copy the behavior in the customs of this world, but let God
transform you into a new person by changing the way you think.
Then you will learn to know, God's will for you which is a
good and / pleasing and what perfect will.
Okay. Let's do it.
Let's do a little recap of our our stop.
Look listen ready, I'm going to do the motion.
See, if you remember the parts of it.
Hey you sit nice and Loud. Ready?
Alright, one more time, let's say it again.
Good job, good job. What do you want to know?
You're ready? Now.
You're ready to listen. You're ready.
Okay. And as you learn and grow in,
this is one, I probably have told the story before when I
ministered. You know, I learned I got born
again when I was a child and I got filled with the Holy Ghost
as a child. So it just comes easy.
And I know sometimes if you didn't experience, it didn't
experience as an adult, you know you did, you know, you didn't
know, you don't know what you don't know, but I learned as a
child. Early to hear the voice of the
Holy Ghost. So for those who have young
children, it is possible that your children at a very early
age, Early Elementary age can grasp hold of the Holy Ghost in
here it and the Holy Ghost saved my life several times.
And I was grateful that I was raised in the church and not
only that I hear but I had parents that listen to the Holy
Ghost and spared my life more than one occasion.
Where they said, don't let her go there, don't let her do that.
And at the time, I was mad. I didn't like what my parents
had to say to me. But then I seen the power of
God. And those moments were the Holy
Ghost spoke. He knew more than we, he knows
more than we know. So, what do you want to know?
I want to know what he knows in the moment so that I make the
right decisions so that I do the right things that I don't have
to go down a road, you know, I I've given this testimony when I
was 17 years old, I was driving and I got to a stops or to a red
light and I know vividly it was almost like it was audible
wasn't but the he goes spoke to me and said, don't go.
And the right light turned green and what are you doing?
A green, you go. But the Holy Spirit was so
strong that moment and said don't go that.
I just stayed there didn't care for somebody was behind me but
if I would have went, I would have been head-on with a semi I
would have died. I wouldn't be here standing
today if I wouldn't have obeyed the Holy Ghost and so it's such
a profound and powerful thing. I know that the Holy Ghost spoke
to me. And in the more we listened, the
more we stop. We drown out all the other
noise. Get it out silence.
It the TV and the music even sometimes, it's okay, just to
quiet everything we need that and I'm all for music.
I love to jam in the car, I loved it.
You know, my kids hate that I love to dance and jam, but they
try not to do it unless I'm by myself.
But it's sometimes it's just good to be.
Be quiet in the car and just get along with God and pray.
Just have a moment where you just don't have to be so
inundated with all the noise, because if you can stop and
listen to the Holy Ghost, that's what we need.
That's how we need to be able to be in the know.
That's what we need. Amen.
So the word tells us that if what, that if we hunger and
thirst for righteousness, we will be what.
Phil, that's what it tells us that Matthew 5 6, it says we're
blessed. Right that The Blessed ones that
are, if we're hungry and thirst for righteousness, we will be
filled. So, we're asking the question,
what do you want to know? I don't want to just know,
facts, I don't want to know, just statistics, I don't want to
know reports. Because yes there's things in
our life that are going to come and we're going to know these
things. We're going to need to know
because we're going to need to know how.
Then we take that information and we go to the word of God
with it, right? For example you get a diagnosis,
you've had a symptom in your body and you go to a physician
and Physicians are great. The medical field is a great
tool. You go there and you get a
diagnosis but that's just facts that's not truth in the
knowledge of the words. Of the new line it up with what
God's word says and you you trust and you stay focused on
that alone, right? That's what you're speaking the
Year. This is the year of raining
residents, that's what you're speaking out of your mouth.
That's what you're hearing. If we're hearing anything else
for silence and everything else. So that we can only hear what
God's word says about a situation.
Amen. So we utilize the method of
stopping so we can hear We're not just listening with our ears
but we're truly hearing what he has to say.
And when we do that, we allow the Holy Ghost to lead us and
guide us every single day in every single way of our life.
And again, God cares so much about us.
He cares about every detail of our life, there's not a detail
heat that he's like oh well that's no big deal.
No, we're a big deal to God. He loves us and we got to
sometimes stir ourselves up because if You will get if you
have it, drowned out the world and you have it drowned out what
the enemy because he comes trying to do his little
business. All the time.
He lies. That's all he does.
He comes to kill, steal, and destroy.
And he's a liar and a thief. And so, his main weapon is for
us to, for him, to bring his facts to, for him, to bring his
information. And his information is lies.
It's not the truth. So he'll come tell you how you
don't look a certain way or you don't.
Tad up or you're not enough for you did this and you did that.
You're wrong it. No that's all lies.
So you combat it. You you shut him up by speaking
the word of Truth and only What God Says About You matters,
right? Do you really believe that?
What do you want to know? You want to know what the God's
word says right now, somebody's been dealing with that thought.
Focus on the word, it doesn't matter what you did.
He Jesus came to make it new. And if you've already taken care
of it in the spirit and you've already prayed, it's done the
enemy tries to bring up old stuff all the time.
Shut him up, tell him. We're what about himself?
Don't let don't listen to him. Be in the know of what God's
word says about you because that's all that matters.
That's all that matters is what his word says.
Amen. Well let's go.
We're going to continue. Gnu.
We're going to do something. We're going to go into second
Timothy and I just started reading.
I'm like man in scripture so good.
We had it in our Bible reading plan and it came out.
I believe it was last week or week before we read we were
reading and second Timothy and I were going to go to chapters 1
through 4. We're going to hit some
highlights but my main text of scripture, I would say tonight
is in second, Timothy chapter 3, verse 7 and this is what it says
it says. Learning and never able to
arrive at the knowledge of Truth.
And so this is what I want to make sure we don't do we.
There's a danger that we get all this information that we're
always have it at our fingertips and we're doing we're reading or
hearing. But we want to make sure we're
not just gaining knowledge and not getting to the truth and
church. It could happen even sitting
here service after service. It can as powerful as our
pastors are. As I mean, Pastor early, he's
got enough energy for all of us. I mean, he's amazing.
I mean, I've known him most of my life more than my lifetime.
I've known him. I mean, I've known him for a
long time, and it's amazing to me.
The word of the words that come from our King from him, but the
Lord knows what we all need and the words come and do season.
And if we don't watch out we just hear a scripture in Leo.
I heard him say that before. I've heard that scripture
before, oh, he's going to talk about that in the Kingdom today.
It said, then you check out and you check out, we got Kingdom
rice coming next week. We might have some ministers.
Praise the Lord and bite. Somebody get this place packed
out because they need to hear the word.
They need to be in the know, but we have to be careful that
during that we don't get comfortable with the pastors
that are speaking all the time. Maybe guest, ministers that come
and we've heard heard them before.
Don't be familiar with them. Remember that it's the Holy
Spirit within them speaking out. It's a vessel used by God but
don't ever diminish. You gets to get in front of the
pulpit because it's the word, the rightly dividing, the word
of Truth here. That true.
So it'll set you free. It'll keep you in truth.
Don't don't do what verse 7 says, and just be always
learning but never able to go. This is why it's so so important
that you don't go to church to church and you don't go Ministry
to Ministry and you don't like have our podcast and 15 other
pastors podcast from other places.
Because I will tell you not every Ministry, is preaching
this what we hear in this house they're not and, you know,
February I had a little bit of time off, and there was a couple
services that I wasn't here. And I, you know, pulled up a
couple of other places and because our had our listen, all
of our messages, and we didn't have anything up, and my husband
died. One that we had to turn the
preacher off or like this is, this is trash.
So you think he just took that scripture completely out of top
context, we literally turn it off and it was a Rhema church
and I I was just, wow, this is not even right prayer.
And then I was like, praise God, thank you for where I'm at that.
I'm hearing the word of truth. Thank you.
Holy ghost, that you just told me that that wasn't right and
Lord help that congregation help them to see that truth that,
that that what they're saying right now is not the word, not
the word that should be preached.
Right because they weren't they were going down a old meal by.
It wasn't even a testimony. It was it was rough.
So do that. You are in a good place and the
word is Rich and what do you want to know?
He's going to teach you a men. So let's go into our second
Timothy chapter 1 a little bit. I'm just going to hit some
highlights because again, it's a lot of great scripture.
This I know Pastor, Marcy always gives you guys homework.
This would be a great one for you.
Just to read through again, Paul.
All rights majority of the New Testament.
Jesus is already went on. So in our journey now the Holy
Ghost is come down and acts. They've been filled and now we
have Paula, we have Paul who's traveling the churches are being
established and Paul is the apostle that starts the
Ministries it but then he makes sure everybody is he keeping him
in check. He's making sure that they're on
step and they're not going astray, right?
And he in this journey finds Timothy, o Timothy's.
Great Timothy is the great example for us in the New
Testament. But what it looks like to be
like-minded to be serving alongside someone else and have
the same vision and passion is them.
That's us guys with our pastor. Well we come and we partner Have
and Have The Vision the same vision that we see you know.
God has connected me here. Then we have a passion to come
show up and serve with a smile that we can't wait to get these
doors open so that we can get here and be in our fit that we
feel weird if we're not here because If my arm was outside
right now, I'd look pretty weird, right?
And if my foot, you know I'd be only half of a person the body
has to all be in one place and be connected because the Bible
tells us that that's the way he sees it.
It's like a human body connected with a with the ears in the head
and the face and all the different parts need to be
there. So church we get to partner and
we get to be just like that Timothy that Paul had.
And so Paul is with Timothy and He and then there's times where
they're apart and he's writing letters.
So we go through and second Timothy, he's writing letters to
him, and he is just encouraging him and talking about what he's
going through. And he says, you know, and
chapter one or second Timothy 1 verse 14.
He says, you know, I need you to remind them of some things, he
says, remind them of these things in charge them before the
Lord, not to quarrel About Words, which doesn't do good.
But only ruins the hearers. And then he says, in verse 15,
do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker
who has no need to be ashamed, but rightly handling.
Laying the word of Truth. So it begins to give them some
admonishment and in teaching he says, I need you to go back and
tell them this and see the thing he had it with Timothy is no,
even though Paul wasn't with him at the church's, Timothy would
go and deliver the message he would go and deliver what needed
to be known. And again, Paul was only
speaking what he was getting from God.
He was getting a from God and he was in Imparting it to these
churches. And so he goes on and he said,
you know, they're there you do all this with handling the truth
so that there won't be some irreverent Babble, right?
That would lead people to more ungodliness.
Then he goes on in verse 21. He says, anyone who cleanses
himself from what is dishonorable?
He will be a vessel for honorable use set apart as holy
useful to the Master of the House for every good work.
I don't know about you but I want to be useful to the master
for any and every good work that he'd have me to do.
So I want to be in the know not about the latest and greatest of
this or that or the latest information about.
Other people and what's going on in their lives because we have
to be careful about that, too. He warms us.
Got to be careful. We don't turn into gossips.
Right? If it's not useful for us to
know about what's going on in somebody else's life than we
shouldn't be repeating it to somebody else.
Go to the source, right? You got a question about
something, go to the source that one of my notes I just feel like
I should say that. So alright now we're going to go
to verse 24. It says in the Lord's servant
must not be quarrelsome but kind to everyone able to teach
there's that teach word again patiently enduring evil
correcting his Opponents with gentleness, God, May perhaps
grant them repentance, leading to a knowledge of the truth.
Again, God wants everyone to come into the knowledge of
Truth. So his people that are his work,
that are his hands and his feet, have to be able to take that
information. That's not just information, but
the transformation in their own lives that they've gained, so
they can go out into the world and they can preach it.
Amen. and then this is where we're kind of out and Chapter 3
of second Timothy, Here we are in the last days and I believe
we're in the last days has been understand this that in the last
days, there will come times of difficulty for people.
Will be lovers of themselves. Lovers of money, they'll be
proud, arrogant, abusive disobedient to their parents
ungrateful, Unholy heartless, unappeasable slanderous without
self-control brutal, and not loving good verse for
treacherous Reckless swollen with conceit, Lovers of pleasure
rather than of God having the appearance of godliness.
But denying its power avoid such people for among them are those
who creep into households and capture weak, women burden with
sin and led astray. And this is where the danger is
verse 7, always learning and never able to arrive at a
knowledge of truth. I know that's all grim and
that's all what we we will be around us in the world but we
don't have to be that we are the Opposite of that.
Excuse me. So anything that we just read
we're going to be opposite of in his kingdom.
We're not going to be lovers of money.
We're not going to be proud or arrogant, or abuse.
We're going to be whatever the opposite of those.
We're going to be grateful. Holy appeasable following
self-control. Loving, what's good?
You know, you take all of that and because we've chosen to be
in the right. No.
And to Follow the knowledge that God has given us.
We are not going to fall into the verse 7, where it says
always learning but never able to arrive at the truth, right?
It goes on to talk about the Old Testament with Moses that these
particular verse 8, Janice and jambres opposed Moses.
And these men were opposed the truth and these men became
corrupted. Mine and were disqualified
regarding the faith. But you see in order for us to
continue growing, we have to have a love of the word, a love
of the truth, a love and an importance of it right now.
I believe here at anchor faith. We have that we cuz we Would you
something so profound that many Ministries?
Don't do. And that's that.
We read the Bible. I mean, that was just in me as a
kid. We read the Bible.
I remember, somehow I got it on if it was for Christmas, but I
had this one book that it was a Book of Proverbs and I would
that route was so torn and tattered.
By the time I grew up, I read it, I just sat in, read it, and
I'm grateful that I got that scripture in me now, was that
scripture enough to sustain me now?
No, I got a reading. Read and read and read.
But I remember because those early days, I had a love for the
word. That I believe that's where I
get my being. Now, if I wouldn't have had that
and it doesn't take you having that as a child.
Again, we come with childlike Faith now was the day.
Now, you can start right now making the word priority in your
life right now. As a child of God not in stature
or an age. But in being that you're wanting
to come to, not just get information, not just check off
the box that you came to Wednesday service.
Or you came to Sunday service or you came to a couple of Kingdom
rise conferences, but that you came because you know, the word
is so rich and you want to get it in you so it can come out of
you the truth. Amen.
And so we get to one of my favorite scriptures about the
word in 2nd, Timothy 3:16 that all.
Scripture is breathed out by God and is profitable, what is it?
It's profitable for these things teaching, for reproof, for
correction for training in righteousness.
That the man of God, may be complete equipped again for what
every good work and their Seasons with the word because
sometimes your season in the word might be that God needs to
do some correcting in your life, right?
Then always feel the greatest. Maybe it's just like tonight.
Simple training in righteousness of our righteous living.
What it's going to take for us to be able to get all the we
need and God, so that we can do the good work that he's called
us to do. Amen.
And then, we're going to go to this next key in chapter 4 verse
2. It says preach, the word be
ready in season and out of season, reprove, rebuke, and
exhort and complete patients and teaching.
And that's what we get to do in. The Lord.
You see, we are the ones who are learning and growing, we're
being taught so that we can go and we can teach we can preach
and, and verse 2, the second Timothy 4:2 the work.
Excuse me, it starts with preach the word.
This word preach means to Harold or to Proclaim.
We should be with our life showing others.
What they need to know, what they need to know that.
They don't know that they need to know, which is the word,
heralding and proclaiming the kingdom of God.
And we do that in our life. Amen.
I preaching the word we Harold Harold it as a public crier at
says, and in not just a preacher.
Now, we may not all be called to be preachers, but we all could
go back to that. Matthew 25 where the Lord says
to his disciples in that same word is for us, that we were to
go into what all the world, Great Commission shirt.
This is what we should put on every day and go out and the
light. And the love of God.
And show it to the world. Amen.
So is another scripture. Let's go to James.
It's me, James, 1:22, and 25. Give we want to make sure that
we are in the know and we're not just listening.
It says here do not merely listen to the word as so to
deceive yourselves, do what it says, anyone who listens to the
word but does not do what it says.
Is like someone who looks at his face in the mirror but then
after looking at it goes away and immediately forgets what he
looks like, but whoever looks intently into the perfect law
that gives freedom Mm and continues in it.
Not forgetting what they have heard but doing it they will be
blessed in what they do. You see the Lord wants us to be
able to hear the word. So what was that last part?
So we could do let's do it one more time tonight.
Let's say So we can do. He doesn't want us to just take
in information. He wants a true transformation.
So what do you want to know church?
What do you want to know? We should want to know all that
God has for us all that he has for us in his kingdom.
All right, we're going to go to First, John 2 21st, John 2:20.
And again, we've said we've got the great one living on the
inside and it says in verse 20. But you have been anointed by
the Holy One and you have all the knowledge, I write to you,
not because you do not know the truth.
But because, you know, it and because no lie is of the truth.
We have the truth living on the inside of us.
If we've been born again, amen, that was my final scripture
tonight because I want to leave I want the truth.
Don't want to leave in Al, I want to leave with what the what
the Lord is given and is that he wants us to walk.
In this truth each and every day, he doesn't want us to
desire to have a bunch of facts and a bunch of statistics and a
bunch of things that we can be armed with.
And again I don't diminish higher education, you know, I
personally have had goals in my life that I've achieved and many
things God's blade on my heart to do in the future.
ER, because we, you know, there are things that we need to learn
to be able to grow in whatever God's called us to do, you know,
if he's called us to the medical field, and there's some extra
training, you're going to have to do, if he's called you to be
a teacher, you're going to have to learn certain skills to be
able to hold on to those things and do that.
As an educator yourself, are going to have to learn.
What does it mean to be a teacher, right?
If you're a welder, if your condition Construction, Right,
there's different ways to do different things, but you're
going to have to go and learn those things.
And those things are great, but the greatest thing you can learn
as a Believer, no matter what field God's called you in is
that you Learn to hear the holy ghost that you learn to stop and
listen so that you can truly hear what the Lord is saying in
his word so that you can go and you can do it.
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