WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.400 --> 00:00:02.960 First strength in Chapter twelve, verse twelve four. As the 2 00:00:03.000 --> 00:00:07.960 body is one and has many members, but all the 3 00:00:07.960 --> 00:00:11.039 members of that one body, being member, are one body, 4 00:00:11.160 --> 00:00:15.720 so also is Christ. So Christ is one. We are 5 00:00:15.800 --> 00:00:19.239 one with them, we are his body. And of course 6 00:00:19.559 --> 00:00:25.160 this doesn't exist, so I guess because truly the Bible 7 00:00:25.160 --> 00:00:29.160 says he is the head of the body. Right, he's 8 00:00:29.199 --> 00:00:31.640 the head of the body. And so okay, so that's 9 00:00:31.640 --> 00:00:36.520 a transgression. Already we have sin number one. Because he's happy. 10 00:00:37.320 --> 00:00:41.920 He's happy, so we'll go. He's happy. He's so happy 11 00:00:42.000 --> 00:00:46.079 that you're getting your biceps built up. So and soon 12 00:00:46.200 --> 00:00:51.640 you will look like the equippers with these giant biceps 13 00:00:52.320 --> 00:00:55.960 and triceps too. Let's go, let's go, let's go. Triceps 14 00:00:56.000 --> 00:00:59.119 all right. So I mean you're looking so good. Okay. 15 00:00:59.159 --> 00:01:04.519 So he's the head, right, you're the body. Yes, And 16 00:01:04.560 --> 00:01:07.359 there's many parts. The Bible says, there's many parts. For 17 00:01:07.480 --> 00:01:09.560 Scrinthians twelve seventeen. We have it for you too, if 18 00:01:09.599 --> 00:01:11.760 you want to read it. For if the whole body 19 00:01:11.799 --> 00:01:15.359 were an eye, where would the hearing be? If the 20 00:01:15.400 --> 00:01:18.200 whole were the hearing, where would the smelling be? But 21 00:01:18.239 --> 00:01:21.799 now God has set members, the members each one of 22 00:01:21.840 --> 00:01:25.560 them in the body, just as he pleased. So you've 23 00:01:25.599 --> 00:01:29.040 been set in the body. You've been given some kind 24 00:01:29.079 --> 00:01:32.719 of role, some kind of place, some kind of you've 25 00:01:32.760 --> 00:01:39.879 been given ability for for what? What is it for him? 26 00:01:40.040 --> 00:01:43.719 What's it for? It's for serving, it's the title of 27 00:01:43.760 --> 00:01:50.079 the sermon, People of God. It's for it's for serving. Okay, 28 00:01:51.319 --> 00:01:53.799 Verse twenty seven. Now you are the body of Christ 29 00:01:53.879 --> 00:01:59.359 and members individually, members individually. Let's go to Ephesians. I 30 00:01:59.400 --> 00:02:01.159 don't know if you have you have it, Ephesian, you 31 00:02:01.200 --> 00:02:05.719 do have it Ephesians four sixteen. Ephesians four sixteen. We 32 00:02:05.799 --> 00:02:07.480 can go to that one too. I don't know if 33 00:02:07.480 --> 00:02:09.599 I have it. I have it in my pocket wherever 34 00:02:09.680 --> 00:02:12.759 my phone is. From him, the whole body joined and 35 00:02:12.800 --> 00:02:17.400 held together by every supporting ligament. He's calling you. A 36 00:02:17.439 --> 00:02:22.280 ligament now grows and builds itself up in love, grows 37 00:02:22.319 --> 00:02:25.400 and builds itself, grows every as they grows, and then 38 00:02:25.439 --> 00:02:30.639 builds itself up in love as each part does its 39 00:02:30.199 --> 00:02:35.000 does its work. Okay, So that's my other thing over here. 40 00:02:35.439 --> 00:02:40.120 Ephesians four, verses eight all the way to sixteen. We're 41 00:02:40.159 --> 00:02:43.039 not gonna read them all this morning. But Ephesians four 42 00:02:43.360 --> 00:02:46.759 is the passage where it says that he went into 43 00:02:46.840 --> 00:02:51.439 the depths, he descended into hades, he triumphed over darkness. 44 00:02:51.439 --> 00:02:55.800 And then he brought the righteous dead out of captivity 45 00:02:55.840 --> 00:02:58.719 and took them to heaven. And as he was ascending 46 00:02:58.840 --> 00:03:05.400 into heaven, he distributed his grace, his ability, his giftings, 47 00:03:05.759 --> 00:03:12.199 his charisma, his strength. He distributed that to the body. 48 00:03:13.759 --> 00:03:16.680 And when those gifts were distributed to the body, he 49 00:03:16.919 --> 00:03:22.599 ordained that those gifts would build the body up, equipped 50 00:03:22.599 --> 00:03:25.439 the body, strengthen the body for the works of ministry. 51 00:03:25.680 --> 00:03:30.840 Everybody say the works of ministry, and that work of 52 00:03:31.120 --> 00:03:34.680 ministry and the building up of the body would continue 53 00:03:35.199 --> 00:03:37.919 until we all come to the unity of the faith, 54 00:03:38.759 --> 00:03:44.479 of the full stature of the Sun. Crazy enough, there's 55 00:03:44.520 --> 00:03:47.599 going to be a generation. There's going to be a 56 00:03:47.639 --> 00:03:51.319 generation where the church where all churches are going to 57 00:03:51.319 --> 00:03:54.319 look exactly alike. By the way, it won't matter if 58 00:03:54.360 --> 00:03:57.719 it says New Horizon or First Assembly or First Baptist 59 00:03:58.360 --> 00:04:02.960 or Saints of Episcopalian, it won't matter. There's going to 60 00:04:03.000 --> 00:04:07.120 come a day, according to Ephesian chapter four, where every 61 00:04:07.240 --> 00:04:09.639 church is going to be flowing in the fullness of 62 00:04:09.719 --> 00:04:12.599 the sun, the unity of the faith, the fullness of 63 00:04:12.639 --> 00:04:15.120 the sun. Every church is going to be flowing in that, 64 00:04:15.560 --> 00:04:17.240 and it's not just going to be the church, but 65 00:04:17.279 --> 00:04:20.000 it's going to be the people in the church. Because 66 00:04:20.040 --> 00:04:22.319 the people in the church are the church. We are 67 00:04:22.360 --> 00:04:25.439 the body of Christ. And so in every church there's 68 00:04:25.480 --> 00:04:28.800 coming a generation where everybody's going to be building one 69 00:04:28.839 --> 00:04:32.439 another up. And you'll notice what's crazy here. It doesn't 70 00:04:32.480 --> 00:04:35.800 say that the preachers build them up. It doesn't say 71 00:04:35.839 --> 00:04:38.399 the clergy builds them up. It doesn't say that. It 72 00:04:38.480 --> 00:04:42.199 says that they will build one another up in love 73 00:04:42.839 --> 00:04:49.040 by supplying what each part supplies. That's the sign of 74 00:04:49.040 --> 00:04:52.759 a mature church. The sign of a mature church is 75 00:04:52.800 --> 00:04:55.759 where we are all supplying and this is where we're headed. 76 00:04:56.240 --> 00:04:58.759 This is what God's trying to develop ns He's trying 77 00:04:58.839 --> 00:05:01.959 to develop a mature church, and he matured churches where 78 00:05:01.959 --> 00:05:05.360 we come up in faith. Everybody say faith, We grow 79 00:05:05.439 --> 00:05:07.800 up in faith. When you grow up in faith, you 80 00:05:07.839 --> 00:05:11.519 can embrace more responsibility, you can embrace the work of 81 00:05:11.560 --> 00:05:14.759 building one another up because you've grown up in faith. 82 00:05:17.399 --> 00:05:20.360 When you grow up in faith, that means you're a partaker. 83 00:05:21.120 --> 00:05:24.879 Of Him, and so you've realized it's not all about you, 84 00:05:26.959 --> 00:05:35.480 It's about building up one another. Hallelujah, somebody, now here's 85 00:05:35.519 --> 00:05:38.639 what's happening. Sometimes we are growing up in faith and 86 00:05:38.720 --> 00:05:42.319 we don't know it. Sometimes the faith we have is 87 00:05:42.360 --> 00:05:46.120 pretty good and we don't realize it. Sometimes our faith 88 00:05:46.199 --> 00:05:51.120 is already developed a little bit, but we don't know 89 00:05:51.160 --> 00:06:02.279 it because we're being told a lie. And this is 90 00:06:02.279 --> 00:06:06.040 why I want to talk today about digging or redigging 91 00:06:06.279 --> 00:06:12.120 the well of divine service. Redigging the well today, I 92 00:06:12.199 --> 00:06:15.959 want to talk a little bit about uncovering the well 93 00:06:16.079 --> 00:06:24.240 of serving. Could it be that the well of serving 94 00:06:24.560 --> 00:06:28.199 is what many of us in charismatic circles are missing. 95 00:06:28.600 --> 00:06:30.360 You see, we have the fullness of the spirit, we 96 00:06:30.399 --> 00:06:33.279 have the Pentecostal experience, we have the visitation of God, 97 00:06:33.680 --> 00:06:37.199 we have presence, we have anointing, we have goosebumps, we 98 00:06:37.319 --> 00:06:39.480 have the kindness of the spirit in our midst. We 99 00:06:39.519 --> 00:06:42.879 have healings and the gifts and the wonders of God 100 00:06:43.319 --> 00:06:47.480 in our midst. But do we have this one thing? 101 00:06:49.160 --> 00:06:52.680 Do we have this one thing that through it a 102 00:06:52.839 --> 00:07:01.759 grace is released that cannot ends, not must have been 103 00:07:01.759 --> 00:07:06.079 a good word, a grace is released that cannot and 104 00:07:06.279 --> 00:07:11.680 is not released any other way. Now there's a grace 105 00:07:11.720 --> 00:07:14.519 at the altars, there's a grace in receiving, there's a 106 00:07:14.560 --> 00:07:17.000 grace in the anointing. There's a grace in all of 107 00:07:17.040 --> 00:07:21.360 these things. But what if all of what we receive 108 00:07:21.600 --> 00:07:25.000 in the Lord is not for the purpose of soakings, 109 00:07:25.040 --> 00:07:34.079 for the purpose of distribution. And what happens is the 110 00:07:34.240 --> 00:07:37.800 enemy comes along and he tries to clog that well. 111 00:07:38.879 --> 00:07:42.480 Remember what happened with Abraham, the Father of faith. With Abraham, 112 00:07:43.959 --> 00:07:47.240 the Philistines had come along and clogged up the wells. 113 00:07:47.279 --> 00:07:51.199 They threw dirt in the well of provision that was 114 00:07:51.319 --> 00:07:55.040 already dug. But by throwing dirt in it, and by 115 00:07:55.079 --> 00:07:58.759 covering it over, by hiding it, by making it obscure, 116 00:07:59.319 --> 00:08:04.079 by causing it to be unseen and unfound, they couldn't 117 00:08:04.120 --> 00:08:08.040 draw water out of that well. Now, I want to 118 00:08:08.079 --> 00:08:09.720 talk to you a little bit about That's what I 119 00:08:09.759 --> 00:08:16.560 think religion has done in the beginning. In the beginning, 120 00:08:16.759 --> 00:08:21.160 with first atom, we were all we will all image 121 00:08:21.360 --> 00:08:26.839 bearers with first atom. First atom was born of the spirit, 122 00:08:27.519 --> 00:08:31.720 he had a walk with God. First atom was righteous. 123 00:08:32.159 --> 00:08:37.320 It wasn't imputed righteousness before he fell. He had end 124 00:08:37.399 --> 00:08:40.440 dwelling righteousness, he had the glory of God. He had 125 00:08:40.440 --> 00:08:42.960 all this going on. He was one with God. And 126 00:08:43.039 --> 00:08:46.559 so they were given the assignment to go from the 127 00:08:46.639 --> 00:08:50.399 mountain of God. And they even had the Mountain of God. 128 00:08:50.679 --> 00:08:54.000 The Mountain of God or Zion, the mountain of God 129 00:08:54.440 --> 00:08:58.440 was at the center of the garden. And so they 130 00:08:58.480 --> 00:09:03.559 were to go into the world and into what would 131 00:09:03.639 --> 00:09:08.600 be developed as culture, education, economy, family, government, media, entertainment, 132 00:09:08.960 --> 00:09:12.039 whatever it was. They were to go in and they 133 00:09:12.039 --> 00:09:17.480 were to heavenize the planet as anointed ones, as image bearers. 134 00:09:17.519 --> 00:09:21.360 God said, let us make man in our image. They 135 00:09:21.360 --> 00:09:27.039 were image bearers. But then that was entirely lost. Then 136 00:09:27.080 --> 00:09:29.600 God puts a placeholder in if you can entertain this 137 00:09:29.679 --> 00:09:33.279 with me a little bit. In Galatians for because of 138 00:09:33.360 --> 00:09:38.399 transgressions and the increase of transgressions. In Galatians For, it 139 00:09:38.440 --> 00:09:45.639 says that the law was added until the seed, the 140 00:09:45.679 --> 00:09:49.600 promised seed of Abraham would come. And so the law 141 00:09:49.720 --> 00:09:54.320 was added. And when the law was added, then though 142 00:09:54.360 --> 00:09:59.039 we had a placeholder, that placeholder wasn't what God desired. 143 00:10:00.159 --> 00:10:05.320 It was only a placeholder until the seed of Abraham 144 00:10:05.360 --> 00:10:08.919 would come. The seed of Abraham would restore what God 145 00:10:08.960 --> 00:10:13.320 started with. That everyone is an image bearer, that everyone 146 00:10:13.399 --> 00:10:16.840 is anointed, that everyone has the indwelling spirit of God, 147 00:10:17.240 --> 00:10:22.960 that everyone is sent to heavenize, and everyone has an 148 00:10:23.000 --> 00:10:27.440 assignment to build up, to love, to build up, to love, 149 00:10:27.759 --> 00:10:36.279 to build up. Now, here's what's happening, and here's how 150 00:10:36.399 --> 00:10:40.679 dirt has gotten thrown into the well of serving. Is 151 00:10:40.720 --> 00:10:44.559 that during this period the ministry was given to the 152 00:10:44.600 --> 00:10:49.240 livitical community, to erin and to the levitical community. The 153 00:10:49.320 --> 00:10:53.600 ministry was given to that livitical community, and so for 154 00:10:53.759 --> 00:10:59.320 them they watched over the ministry of God to the people. 155 00:11:00.600 --> 00:11:06.399 And under that tabernacle system where they would dispense the sacraments, 156 00:11:06.840 --> 00:11:12.120 they would watch over the sacrifices, and there was atonement 157 00:11:12.159 --> 00:11:15.159 for the people. And the Levites would set up and 158 00:11:15.159 --> 00:11:18.960 break down anybody in the New Testament Church ever done that. 159 00:11:20.799 --> 00:11:23.440 They would set up and break down the tent of meeting. 160 00:11:24.360 --> 00:11:28.039 They would care for the sacrifices. Also, they would watch 161 00:11:28.080 --> 00:11:31.120 over the Torah, the teaching of the law. All of 162 00:11:31.120 --> 00:11:34.399 that was given to the levitical community, and the levitical 163 00:11:34.399 --> 00:11:38.639 community alone. This is where we developed a clergy model. 164 00:11:41.879 --> 00:11:47.639 They also were paid for their service. But God has 165 00:11:47.679 --> 00:11:52.159 shifted everything in the New Testament model. But what happens 166 00:11:52.320 --> 00:11:56.600 is is that this model here, the enemy likes this model. 167 00:11:57.440 --> 00:11:59.840 God didn't like this model. This was only a place. 168 00:12:01.159 --> 00:12:07.000 God didn't like this model. God wanted every person to 169 00:12:07.039 --> 00:12:09.399 be born of the spirit, filled with the spirit, and 170 00:12:09.679 --> 00:12:13.039 to be even a seer. Remember Jeel chapter two, verse 171 00:12:13.080 --> 00:12:17.080 twenty eight, I will pour out my spirit on all 172 00:12:17.159 --> 00:12:20.039 flesh in the last days. And then Acts chapter one, 173 00:12:20.159 --> 00:12:24.559 verse eight. Oh, this is what was prophesied. He's pouring 174 00:12:24.559 --> 00:12:28.679 out his spirit Acts chapter two. So this was just 175 00:12:28.720 --> 00:12:33.759 a placeholder. But the problem is the enemy knows that 176 00:12:33.960 --> 00:12:40.840 this system is not redemptive enough to undo the work 177 00:12:40.879 --> 00:12:48.960 of Satan. But if we keep focused on that system, Hello, somebody, 178 00:12:49.080 --> 00:12:51.519 if we keep focused on this system, and this is 179 00:12:51.919 --> 00:12:55.159 I think in some ways the church is still struggling 180 00:12:55.240 --> 00:12:58.759 with that system. And I think not long after the 181 00:12:58.799 --> 00:13:01.879 birth of the church, it wasn't too many years after 182 00:13:01.919 --> 00:13:04.480 the birth of the church. Then you see what happened 183 00:13:04.559 --> 00:13:09.720 is the church went from wild expressions of new wine. 184 00:13:10.039 --> 00:13:14.320 Jesus said, let's not put what I'm about to do 185 00:13:14.559 --> 00:13:17.919 in an old wine skin. If we put what I'm 186 00:13:17.960 --> 00:13:21.279 about to do in an old wine skin, It's gonna 187 00:13:21.279 --> 00:13:24.279 blow the wine skin up. The only way we can 188 00:13:24.320 --> 00:13:26.000 do what I'm about to do is we have to 189 00:13:26.000 --> 00:13:31.000 put it in a brand new wine skin. But we're 190 00:13:31.039 --> 00:13:33.679 only about three or four or five hundred years into 191 00:13:33.840 --> 00:13:38.799 the new Church, and all at once the enemy is 192 00:13:39.600 --> 00:13:44.519 bringing us back to an old wine skin. And so 193 00:13:44.600 --> 00:13:48.440 you see this in church. You see this, and this 194 00:13:49.279 --> 00:13:52.519 wine skin is that if I'm going to be involved 195 00:13:52.559 --> 00:13:59.919 in ministry, I should get paid. Only the clergy do minister, 196 00:14:00.279 --> 00:14:05.720 and only they have the real power of ministry. My role. 197 00:14:05.799 --> 00:14:09.919 I don't even have a responsibility of ministry. I have 198 00:14:09.960 --> 00:14:15.720 no responsibility for ministry because I'm not a part of 199 00:14:15.759 --> 00:14:21.120 this clergy system. You hear what I'm saying, And so 200 00:14:21.240 --> 00:14:22.879 we were You know, we're only three, four or five 201 00:14:22.919 --> 00:14:26.919 hundred years into the church, and we see a priesthood 202 00:14:26.960 --> 00:14:35.399 being restored. You feel what I'm saying, and we see 203 00:14:36.559 --> 00:14:43.679 this clergy led model being in that influence brought back 204 00:14:43.840 --> 00:14:51.039 into the church and therefore the limitation of it. One 205 00:14:51.080 --> 00:14:54.519 of the things that Martin Luther said in was fifteen eleven, 206 00:14:54.879 --> 00:14:58.759 fifteen twenty one what wasn't you have to talk really loud? 207 00:15:00.120 --> 00:15:03.840 Seventeen So one of the things that Martin Luther said 208 00:15:04.320 --> 00:15:09.799 with the Protestant movement, Martin Luther said that first the 209 00:15:09.879 --> 00:15:12.000 Word of God must be restored to the people, but 210 00:15:12.039 --> 00:15:14.799 then the ministry of God must be restored to the people. 211 00:15:15.200 --> 00:15:20.080 Because the Bible teaches the priesthood of all believers, and 212 00:15:20.159 --> 00:15:23.879 the Bible the New Covenant is teaching that we've all 213 00:15:23.919 --> 00:15:29.559 become kings and priests unto God. So over here, not 214 00:15:29.600 --> 00:15:32.879 only are we restored as sons and daughters of God. 215 00:15:33.399 --> 00:15:37.080 John one twelve says that to us who believe, He 216 00:15:37.120 --> 00:15:40.519 gives us the power to become the sons and daughters 217 00:15:40.519 --> 00:15:44.120 of God. Not only that, but we also are called 218 00:15:44.120 --> 00:15:48.759 of God. We're anointed of God, and we are we're 219 00:15:48.840 --> 00:15:55.519 all called into ministry. And this is God completely reversing 220 00:15:55.639 --> 00:15:59.960 what happened in the garden. God has to completely reverse 221 00:16:00.559 --> 00:16:03.960 the New Creation model and the power of the New 222 00:16:03.960 --> 00:16:06.720 Creation and the power of the people of God and 223 00:16:06.759 --> 00:16:11.399 the Church. It has to be as effective as the 224 00:16:11.480 --> 00:16:16.759 curse was. The curse touched every person, and the restoration 225 00:16:16.919 --> 00:16:21.399 through Jesus restores every person. And that restoration is a 226 00:16:21.519 --> 00:16:27.080 restoration of reimaging. We image God, we heavenize the planet, 227 00:16:27.440 --> 00:16:32.639 and it gives birth again to the truth of the 228 00:16:32.720 --> 00:16:35.840 Kingdom of God. The Kingdom of God is not a small, 229 00:16:36.320 --> 00:16:44.000 little tabernacle thing where just leevites serve in ministry, and 230 00:16:44.039 --> 00:16:47.559 in that environment they would come mainly to receive. The 231 00:16:47.600 --> 00:16:52.120 whole thrust of the tabernacle model was that you come 232 00:16:52.279 --> 00:16:57.879 really as a spectator, you come to receive, You come 233 00:16:59.679 --> 00:17:04.640 under the ministry of the levitical system. That isn't the 234 00:17:04.680 --> 00:17:07.160 New Testament model. The New Testament model is that we 235 00:17:07.240 --> 00:17:10.720 come to build up, we come to serve, we come 236 00:17:10.759 --> 00:17:14.920 to give, We come and over here, over here. In 237 00:17:15.000 --> 00:17:18.319 Ephesians four eight, where it talks about the apostles and 238 00:17:18.319 --> 00:17:21.160 the prophets and the teachers, it just says that they 239 00:17:21.200 --> 00:17:25.880 aren't priests, right, the apostles and the prophets, and the 240 00:17:25.920 --> 00:17:29.680 pastors and the teachers, they aren't priests. They are equippers. 241 00:17:36.599 --> 00:17:38.559 We have nine people on the preaching team right now. 242 00:17:38.599 --> 00:17:41.519 I think that's wonderful. I love it when Roman preaches, 243 00:17:41.599 --> 00:17:45.880 Angela preaches, Joel preaches, Dennis preaches, Rank preaches, Craig preaches, 244 00:17:45.960 --> 00:17:47.839 Joe preaches. I love it. I love it, love it, 245 00:17:47.880 --> 00:17:51.920 love it, love it, love it. But there's no greater 246 00:17:52.039 --> 00:17:55.960 They have no greater anointing than you, They have no 247 00:17:56.039 --> 00:18:05.519 greater calling than you. Hello in the New Testament model. 248 00:18:05.599 --> 00:18:09.119 These are not priests. These are equippers. These are like 249 00:18:09.160 --> 00:18:11.440 trainers if you if you go to the gym. I 250 00:18:11.440 --> 00:18:13.039 don't know, you know, I grew up watching a lot 251 00:18:13.039 --> 00:18:15.920 of boxing. My dad loved boxing, and when we were 252 00:18:15.920 --> 00:18:19.000 literally got us boxing gloves, and and uh he would 253 00:18:19.000 --> 00:18:20.440 teach us how to box, and we'd go out in 254 00:18:20.519 --> 00:18:22.759 the yard and he'd, you know, teach us how to box. 255 00:18:22.799 --> 00:18:26.000 And he'd loved Mohammad Aldi, you know, Cassius Clay, and 256 00:18:26.039 --> 00:18:29.200 he loved George Foreman, and he loved Mike Tyson, and 257 00:18:29.240 --> 00:18:32.440 he loved all these boxers. And he boxed in the Navy, 258 00:18:32.519 --> 00:18:34.680 and you know, and he just he just loved that 259 00:18:34.799 --> 00:18:38.200 boxing thing. And and uh so we'd have friends over, 260 00:18:38.319 --> 00:18:39.960 you know, and once in a while we'd get to 261 00:18:39.960 --> 00:18:44.440 beat him up, and he'd put boxing gloves on our friends. 262 00:18:44.480 --> 00:18:47.079 We'd have boxing gloves, and then he'd be like, okay, 263 00:18:47.160 --> 00:18:55.000 you guys, go ahead, you know. And so I'd watched 264 00:18:55.039 --> 00:18:56.680 a lot of these, you know, I'd set with dad 265 00:18:56.680 --> 00:18:58.759 and watch a lot of these fights, right, and you've 266 00:18:58.759 --> 00:19:01.279 got you've got a trainer that and you've got you know, 267 00:19:01.400 --> 00:19:04.440 and you know they send them out, you know, send 268 00:19:04.440 --> 00:19:06.799 them out. Okay, you go, you go, right, And if 269 00:19:06.799 --> 00:19:09.839 it's George forum Under, you know, Muhammad Ali or whatever 270 00:19:09.839 --> 00:19:12.680 whoever it is, right, Mike Tyson, you know they're out 271 00:19:12.680 --> 00:19:16.680 in the middle and they're out there doing the work. Right, 272 00:19:16.720 --> 00:19:19.680 They're out there doing the work. The trainer isn't doing 273 00:19:19.680 --> 00:19:27.640 the work. The trainer is helping them grow and then 274 00:19:27.799 --> 00:19:35.319 sending them out and when they come back with victories, wow. Right. 275 00:19:36.119 --> 00:19:38.039 Or you go to the gym. You got a personal trainer. 276 00:19:38.079 --> 00:19:40.359 You know, you got a trainer. You go, you go 277 00:19:40.440 --> 00:19:42.799 to the gym. They show you where you don't have biceps, 278 00:19:42.799 --> 00:19:46.200 you know, you know where your legs look like spaghetti. 279 00:19:46.240 --> 00:19:49.680 You know, they're trying to show you how to develop that. 280 00:19:49.920 --> 00:19:52.160 And and a lot of us need that when we 281 00:19:52.160 --> 00:19:54.759 go to the gym. We need a trainer, right, we 282 00:19:54.839 --> 00:19:58.200 need that. Well, the church model is a lot more 283 00:19:58.240 --> 00:20:01.720 like that than it is like this, because we're all 284 00:20:01.759 --> 00:20:05.960 called the ministry, we're all called to be built up 285 00:20:06.279 --> 00:20:09.319 to And if my part is the bicep. I want 286 00:20:09.319 --> 00:20:11.720 to be a really strong one. Right. If my part 287 00:20:11.839 --> 00:20:14.799 in the body of Christ is the abs, then let's 288 00:20:14.799 --> 00:20:18.720 have a six pack. Right, I got a one pack 289 00:20:18.799 --> 00:20:21.640 right now? Well let's you know, let's have a sick pack. 290 00:20:21.759 --> 00:20:25.720 Let's let's if whatever my part is in the body, 291 00:20:26.279 --> 00:20:31.119 let's be strengthened through the equipping, through the trainer, so 292 00:20:31.160 --> 00:20:34.240 that then I can be building the body up so 293 00:20:34.279 --> 00:20:38.079 that I can be engaged. The enemy is trying to 294 00:20:38.200 --> 00:20:42.359 keep this model active because he knows this model is 295 00:20:42.440 --> 00:20:50.880 suppressing to the kingdom and what God knows by restoring 296 00:20:50.920 --> 00:20:52.880 the body to the fullness of what He intended in 297 00:20:52.920 --> 00:20:56.200 the garden, that when we all bear the image and 298 00:20:56.240 --> 00:20:58.559 we build up one another, when we function in this way, 299 00:20:58.880 --> 00:21:03.039 we're tapping into the grace that we couldn't otherwise tap into. 300 00:21:05.759 --> 00:21:08.240 There's a revival in your serving that you won't get 301 00:21:08.319 --> 00:21:16.880 at a Mario Morilla meeting. There's a revival in your 302 00:21:17.000 --> 00:21:19.880 serving that you can't get at a Morris Sorilla meeting. 303 00:21:20.480 --> 00:21:23.359 There's a revival and you're serving that you can't get 304 00:21:23.480 --> 00:21:26.759 at a TBN meeting. There's a revival and you're serving 305 00:21:26.799 --> 00:21:30.960 that you can't get at a Binny hen conference. I'm 306 00:21:31.000 --> 00:21:38.519 just gonna keep talking till you believe me. Yea, let 307 00:21:38.599 --> 00:21:42.799 me prove it to him. First, Peter, Let's go to 308 00:21:42.839 --> 00:21:45.920 first Peter. First, Peter four ten and eleven. First Peter 309 00:21:45.960 --> 00:21:47.759 four ten and eleven. See if I've got to hear 310 00:21:47.799 --> 00:21:52.720 somewhere Hallolia. We get it up there first, Peter four 311 00:21:52.799 --> 00:22:02.839 ten and eleven. Lolory to God, Harlolujah. I don't want 312 00:22:02.839 --> 00:22:05.640 to read it up there. I want to read it 313 00:22:05.720 --> 00:22:10.000 right here, but I can't find it here. It is 314 00:22:10.920 --> 00:22:15.319 maybe as each one of you have received a gift. 315 00:22:15.359 --> 00:22:22.880 This is charisma, a gift, a gracing from God. Grace. 316 00:22:22.960 --> 00:22:27.119 We know it as unmerited favor, but grace is much 317 00:22:27.160 --> 00:22:33.359 more than unmerited favor. Grace is the power to accomplish 318 00:22:33.359 --> 00:22:38.000 God's will, the power to bring forth something out of 319 00:22:38.039 --> 00:22:43.400 Heaven through you that is in alignment with Holy Spirit. 320 00:22:43.400 --> 00:22:49.160 It's in alignment with Jesus, and it's beyond you. When 321 00:22:49.160 --> 00:22:53.759 you were born of the Spirit, you received a grace, gift, 322 00:22:53.880 --> 00:22:59.480 a graceing, a charisma, which is a grace gift from 323 00:22:59.519 --> 00:23:05.960 God that is beyond you and is of Him to 324 00:23:06.160 --> 00:23:12.079 empower you. As each one has received a gift, minister 325 00:23:12.400 --> 00:23:18.640 it to one another, minister it to one another. Now 326 00:23:18.640 --> 00:23:23.000 this means, and this is exhortation. Peter, who's a under shepherd, 327 00:23:23.039 --> 00:23:25.400 a shepherd and elder to the church, He's riding to 328 00:23:25.440 --> 00:23:28.920 the church. And this means proximity is important. Right. I 329 00:23:28.960 --> 00:23:30.880 need to be I need to be with you to 330 00:23:30.960 --> 00:23:32.920 minister to you. I need to be around you to 331 00:23:32.960 --> 00:23:35.759 minister to you. So I esteem you in the body. 332 00:23:36.039 --> 00:23:39.519 And when we come together, I'm coming together not just 333 00:23:39.559 --> 00:23:41.240 to get fed. We can do two things at one time. 334 00:23:41.440 --> 00:23:43.640 I'm not coming together just to get fed. I'm coming 335 00:23:43.640 --> 00:23:51.799 together to feed minister it to one another as good 336 00:23:52.079 --> 00:23:56.559 stewards of the manifold grace of God. So there's this 337 00:23:56.720 --> 00:24:02.039 abundant manifold massive grace of God that's poured out on me, 338 00:24:02.240 --> 00:24:06.480 poured out on you, poured out on each one of us. 339 00:24:06.559 --> 00:24:11.839 And to steward it, I need to minister it. I 340 00:24:12.000 --> 00:24:16.200 need to I need to distribute it, and I distribute 341 00:24:16.240 --> 00:24:21.759 it to you to one another. So in other words, 342 00:24:21.839 --> 00:24:25.640 all of this, I'm the boxer in the ring, and 343 00:24:25.799 --> 00:24:30.000 my boxing to overcome the enemy and to win and 344 00:24:30.079 --> 00:24:35.119 to walk in what God's called me to walk out 345 00:24:36.559 --> 00:24:42.079 comes through serving you. When I serve you, the enemy 346 00:24:42.160 --> 00:24:45.160 is defeated. When I care for you, the enemy is defeated. 347 00:24:45.440 --> 00:24:48.440 When I build you up in the Word. There's a 348 00:24:48.599 --> 00:24:52.400 victory accomplished in God when I love you, when I 349 00:24:52.440 --> 00:24:55.960 care for you, when I when I tune in to you, 350 00:24:56.480 --> 00:25:04.480 when I pay attention to your needs. And this is 351 00:25:04.519 --> 00:25:08.359 the New Testament model. If anyone speaks, if your gift 352 00:25:08.480 --> 00:25:12.720 is a speaking gift, then speak as if it were 353 00:25:12.799 --> 00:25:17.640 the oracles of God. If anyone ministers or serves, if 354 00:25:17.680 --> 00:25:20.440 your gift is a serving gift. So he's saying, there's 355 00:25:20.480 --> 00:25:24.039 two kinds of expressions. He's making it real simple. There's 356 00:25:24.079 --> 00:25:30.039 two primarily two kinds of expressions. There are speaking expressions 357 00:25:30.440 --> 00:25:36.160 and there are hand expressions serving expressions. If your expression 358 00:25:36.359 --> 00:25:39.640 is speaking, or at this moment you're speaking, then do 359 00:25:39.720 --> 00:25:42.319 it as if it were the oracles of God. If 360 00:25:42.359 --> 00:25:48.200 it is a serving expression, then do it with the 361 00:25:48.279 --> 00:25:51.759 ability which God supplies, that in all things God may 362 00:25:51.799 --> 00:25:55.079 be glorified through Jesus Christ. Do it with the ability 363 00:25:55.119 --> 00:25:58.160 that God supplies. So he's saying, there's a grace on you. 364 00:25:58.759 --> 00:26:01.240 And here's one of the big things I want you 365 00:26:01.279 --> 00:26:05.000 to get today. This grace doesn't flow until you use it. 366 00:26:08.880 --> 00:26:12.200 This grace, this grace does not flow when you're sitting 367 00:26:12.240 --> 00:26:19.680 on it. The only thing happening here is I'm feeling 368 00:26:19.720 --> 00:26:26.759 I'm not feeling lead, but I have led lead in 369 00:26:26.839 --> 00:26:31.400 my bottom. Oh yeah, this is this is so many 370 00:26:31.480 --> 00:26:35.799 Christians don't feel lead, but there's something holding them down. 371 00:26:35.839 --> 00:26:38.160 They got to get up off that serving. I got 372 00:26:38.160 --> 00:26:42.680 to get the lead out. We got to get the 373 00:26:42.759 --> 00:26:48.559 lead out because every one of us are lead and deserving. 374 00:26:48.920 --> 00:26:52.200 There is no body in the body of Christ that 375 00:26:52.319 --> 00:26:56.319 is not called to serving. Every one of us are 376 00:26:56.319 --> 00:27:02.200 called deserving. Hello, somebody listen to what the Lord said. 377 00:27:02.240 --> 00:27:04.680 The Lord said, I'm going to bind up the strong man. 378 00:27:04.799 --> 00:27:08.880 He's talking about the New Testament Church. This is our 379 00:27:08.960 --> 00:27:16.039 big passage, our big passage for deliverance, ministry, and freedom, 380 00:27:16.119 --> 00:27:19.880 right Matthew twelve. He says, I'm going to bind up 381 00:27:19.880 --> 00:27:23.519 the strong man. Verse twenty nine. We're again. How can 382 00:27:23.559 --> 00:27:26.480 anyone who enter a strong man's house and carry off 383 00:27:26.759 --> 00:27:29.799 his possessions unless he first ties up the strong man? 384 00:27:32.319 --> 00:27:36.240 This is the Lord. Actually, this is the Lord prophesying 385 00:27:36.920 --> 00:27:40.359 over what would be the New Testament Church. He's saying 386 00:27:40.440 --> 00:27:45.039 I've come first, John three to eight. I've come to 387 00:27:45.279 --> 00:27:51.480 overcome the works of darkness. So this is the beginning 388 00:27:51.480 --> 00:27:55.599 of something great. Right, So first he binds up the 389 00:27:55.640 --> 00:27:59.880 strong man. Then the whole of the New Testament Church 390 00:28:00.279 --> 00:28:05.160 is plundering the strong man's house. But listen to the 391 00:28:05.160 --> 00:28:12.359 next verse. Then he can plunder his house. And verse thirty. 392 00:28:12.680 --> 00:28:20.079 Whoever is not with me is against me. Whoever isn't 393 00:28:20.160 --> 00:28:26.440 in agreement, whoever isn't plundering, whoever isn't partnering with this 394 00:28:26.519 --> 00:28:31.839 assignment is actually against me. And whoever does not gather 395 00:28:32.119 --> 00:28:42.160 with me is actually scattering. Are you hearing that? In 396 00:28:42.200 --> 00:28:46.920 other words, we are anointed, we are called, we are gifted, 397 00:28:47.839 --> 00:28:53.599 we are the new creation in Christ, so that we 398 00:28:53.680 --> 00:28:58.240 can gather with them, so that we can partner with him. 399 00:28:58.279 --> 00:29:06.119 And if we aren't, then the enemy is winning. The 400 00:29:06.240 --> 00:29:11.839 enemy is winning. People are being harmed. It's not happening 401 00:29:13.119 --> 00:29:16.119