WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.720 --> 00:00:07.360 Amen, Father, we just thank you for the bread of life. 2 00:00:09.560 --> 00:00:12.560 It's good to be in the kitchen, good to get 3 00:00:12.599 --> 00:00:15.519 the bread of life, good to get the nutrition from above. 4 00:00:15.599 --> 00:00:22.280 We welcome your word to feed us today, sustain us, 5 00:00:22.480 --> 00:00:26.160 lead us, shift us internally. We give you the praise 6 00:00:26.199 --> 00:00:32.039 for it in Jesus' name. And everybody said, I want 7 00:00:32.039 --> 00:00:34.880 to talk to you about the blessed risk of Yeah, 8 00:00:34.920 --> 00:00:37.320 the blessed risk of ministry really is what I want 9 00:00:37.320 --> 00:00:43.759 to talk to you about, and how good it is 10 00:00:44.079 --> 00:00:47.520 to lean into the blessed risk of ministry. And then 11 00:00:47.799 --> 00:00:50.159 there's going to be a clipboard coming at the end 12 00:00:50.359 --> 00:00:55.520 of this. The clipboard is for you to get involved 13 00:00:55.520 --> 00:01:00.960 a little bit. So there's a caveat to my message. 14 00:01:01.479 --> 00:01:07.760 There's a level one involvement, and then there's a level 15 00:01:07.799 --> 00:01:12.319 two involvement, and then there's a level three. Now the 16 00:01:12.319 --> 00:01:15.959 clipboard doesn't say that, so when the clipboard comes, you 17 00:01:16.319 --> 00:01:19.079 have to kind of, you know, let us know. 18 00:01:19.519 --> 00:01:22.879 Level one is supporting. 19 00:01:22.680 --> 00:01:28.959 Undergirding, getting engaged in small groups more so small groups support. 20 00:01:29.400 --> 00:01:35.200 Everybody's saying small group support. Level two would be hosting 21 00:01:35.239 --> 00:01:39.920 a small group so somehow engaging in opening up your 22 00:01:39.920 --> 00:01:43.400 home and hosting a small group, even if you don't 23 00:01:43.439 --> 00:01:48.480 want to lead it or don't feel enabled qualified. And 24 00:01:48.480 --> 00:01:51.879 this could be a monthly meeting, a weekly meeting, just 25 00:01:52.000 --> 00:01:54.799 any kind of meeting at all. But if you want 26 00:01:54.840 --> 00:01:58.359 to help host, if you're even interested in having the 27 00:01:58.480 --> 00:02:03.159 discussion of hosting, then put that on the clipboard. Level 28 00:02:03.159 --> 00:02:06.359 two and so that pastor Frank will reach out and 29 00:02:06.400 --> 00:02:08.240 just kind of talk things through with you and explained. 30 00:02:08.560 --> 00:02:10.840 Level three would be you want to lead a small group. 31 00:02:12.800 --> 00:02:16.439 And I'm guessing in a group this size, probably half 32 00:02:16.439 --> 00:02:20.919 of you want to lead a small group, So lead 33 00:02:20.919 --> 00:02:24.120 a small group. So all right, everybody say lead a 34 00:02:24.120 --> 00:02:27.240 small group. Thank you for volunteering. We got that on 35 00:02:27.360 --> 00:02:31.719 the record right now, and so yes, you'll be getting 36 00:02:31.759 --> 00:02:32.400 that phone. 37 00:02:32.199 --> 00:02:33.080 Call leader this week. 38 00:02:34.000 --> 00:02:37.159 Let's let's jump into the word and I want to 39 00:02:37.199 --> 00:02:43.039 start with Acts thirteen thirty six. Acts thirteen thirty six, 40 00:02:45.639 --> 00:02:46.719 And I'm going to talk to you a little bit 41 00:02:46.719 --> 00:02:52.759 about purpose. What's our purpose, what's your what's your divine purpose? 42 00:02:52.800 --> 00:02:54.319 How do you walk that out right? 43 00:02:55.560 --> 00:02:59.319 Acts thirteen thirty six says now David, when he had 44 00:02:59.439 --> 00:03:06.919 served God's purpose in his own generation. So this is 45 00:03:06.960 --> 00:03:10.080 interesting when we think about the life of David with 46 00:03:10.120 --> 00:03:14.680 a great warrior, he expanded the territory, the promised territory, 47 00:03:15.039 --> 00:03:19.639 further than any other leader. David took out Goliath. It 48 00:03:19.759 --> 00:03:27.599 was a symbol spiritually of a victory over darkness. David 49 00:03:27.719 --> 00:03:32.840 instituted worship in a tent, a large tent, probably a tent, 50 00:03:33.039 --> 00:03:36.759 you know, bigger than this building called Zion, on the 51 00:03:36.840 --> 00:03:41.199 highest point in Jerusalem. And Zion means the mountain of 52 00:03:41.240 --> 00:03:45.599 God's pleasure, or the mountain of sunshine, or the mountain 53 00:03:45.759 --> 00:03:52.479 of his brightness. For forty years, the arc of the Covenant, 54 00:03:52.520 --> 00:03:57.159 the tabernacle didn't have the ark. The tabernacle continued in Gibbeon, 55 00:03:58.439 --> 00:04:03.080 and they had sacrifices in Gibeon with no arc. David 56 00:04:03.080 --> 00:04:06.400 had the arc, and for forty years the arc existed 57 00:04:06.520 --> 00:04:11.840 in Zion, in this tabernacle on this highest peak in Jerusalem, 58 00:04:12.400 --> 00:04:15.639 with only the sacrifice of twenty four to seven worship 59 00:04:16.680 --> 00:04:20.560 twenty four to seven prayer twenty four to seven instruments 60 00:04:20.959 --> 00:04:25.360 and prophetic word, and the bowing and the dancing and 61 00:04:25.439 --> 00:04:30.759 the singing of God's people. So David did a lot 62 00:04:30.800 --> 00:04:32.519 of crazy stuff. We could go on and on about. 63 00:04:33.199 --> 00:04:38.199 David also failed. David was also frail. David also messed up. 64 00:04:38.439 --> 00:04:45.759 David also made mistakes. David also had sexual issues. Any 65 00:04:45.839 --> 00:04:50.800 men in the house, David had sexual issues. Your sexual 66 00:04:50.839 --> 00:04:55.519 issues aren't qualifying you from God's ministry. Your sexual issues 67 00:04:55.560 --> 00:04:59.199 are driving you to the cross, Ladies and gentlemen. 68 00:04:59.240 --> 00:05:00.319 Your sexual issues. 69 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:03.920 Shoes drive you to the cross where you stay humble 70 00:05:04.079 --> 00:05:06.759 and where you stay before the Lord and when you 71 00:05:07.079 --> 00:05:11.439 and where you learn to walk out your deliverance. But 72 00:05:11.480 --> 00:05:14.959 they don't keep you from ministry. Sorry, nothing disqualifies you 73 00:05:15.000 --> 00:05:20.199 from ministry. It didn't for David. Even Jesus is called 74 00:05:20.240 --> 00:05:25.879 the son of David, the son of somebody who had 75 00:05:25.920 --> 00:05:32.680 sexual issues. Hello, somebody, you're quieting here. I know you 76 00:05:32.800 --> 00:05:37.120 thought that something that you're doing disqualified you, but it 77 00:05:37.160 --> 00:05:40.839 doesn't disqualify you. You need to quit letting something you're 78 00:05:40.839 --> 00:05:44.240 doing or have allowed, disqualify you. That's a trick of 79 00:05:44.319 --> 00:05:48.480 the enemy. You need to let that drive you, that problem, 80 00:05:48.600 --> 00:05:49.680 that harm. 81 00:05:49.560 --> 00:05:51.720 That addiction, that issue. 82 00:05:52.240 --> 00:05:54.600 You need to let it drive you to the cross, 83 00:05:55.160 --> 00:05:57.199 drive you to deliverance, and just keep you in a 84 00:05:57.199 --> 00:06:02.560 place of humility. I got news for you. I can't 85 00:06:02.639 --> 00:06:05.120 let one issue keep me from ministry. I don't have 86 00:06:05.120 --> 00:06:07.600 a choice. 87 00:06:08.680 --> 00:06:09.480 Why do I not. 88 00:06:09.519 --> 00:06:13.800 Have a choice and you do? Why does that work? 89 00:06:14.560 --> 00:06:16.959 Why does that make sense? No, you don't have a 90 00:06:17.040 --> 00:06:21.959 choice either. You're on board. You're on twenty four to seven. 91 00:06:23.959 --> 00:06:26.279 You think I'm on twenty four to seven because you 92 00:06:26.319 --> 00:06:29.439 think I'm called to the ministry. The news is you're 93 00:06:29.439 --> 00:06:33.439 called to the ministry. I'm only the equipper of ministers. 94 00:06:35.720 --> 00:06:39.639 You're called to the ministry, and that's really your highest 95 00:06:39.680 --> 00:06:43.639 calling in your generation. Your highest calling in your generation 96 00:06:44.480 --> 00:06:48.079 is not what you're doing every day to make a living. 97 00:06:51.519 --> 00:06:56.360 It's not even parenting that'll mess up. Yeah, I just 98 00:06:56.360 --> 00:06:57.240 want to tell you something. 99 00:06:57.279 --> 00:06:57.480 You know. 100 00:06:57.519 --> 00:07:01.800 You can't let parenting get in the way of your ministry. Wow. Wow, 101 00:07:02.519 --> 00:07:06.680 that's called idolatry. If you're letting your children and your 102 00:07:06.720 --> 00:07:09.160 household get in the way of what you're called to 103 00:07:09.360 --> 00:07:12.800 in the Lord, that's called idolatry. Now you've placed your 104 00:07:12.920 --> 00:07:15.519 children above the call of the Lord on your life, 105 00:07:16.240 --> 00:07:21.079 you'll probably end up with mess up children. Wow. No, 106 00:07:21.199 --> 00:07:23.639 the call of the Lord on your life is supreme. 107 00:07:23.680 --> 00:07:30.079 There's nothing more important. There's nothing more important. And this 108 00:07:30.079 --> 00:07:32.240 this is you know, the Lord said, this is I 109 00:07:32.279 --> 00:07:38.240 think it's Matthew eleven twenty nine somewhere in there. He said, 110 00:07:38.279 --> 00:07:40.759 take my yoke upon you, and then he said something 111 00:07:40.800 --> 00:07:43.000 about my yoke, and a yoke. 112 00:07:42.879 --> 00:07:44.319 Means a burden. 113 00:07:44.399 --> 00:07:49.360 It means get into this thing and poll with me, like, 114 00:07:49.519 --> 00:07:52.120 get under this burden and poll with me. 115 00:07:52.720 --> 00:07:55.120 Take my yoke, like what I'm yoke? 116 00:07:55.399 --> 00:07:55.480 Like? 117 00:07:55.959 --> 00:07:58.920 What's what's my burden? Because I'm not going to be 118 00:07:59.000 --> 00:08:00.639 with you forever, but. 119 00:08:00.600 --> 00:08:02.759 I'm going to send my spirit to live in you. 120 00:08:03.639 --> 00:08:05.879 And when I send my spirit to live in you, 121 00:08:06.639 --> 00:08:11.279 take my yoke. What my burden has been. Take my 122 00:08:11.439 --> 00:08:17.160 yoke upon you, upon you, upon the way you're wired, 123 00:08:17.800 --> 00:08:21.519 upon the way I created you, upon your talents, upon 124 00:08:21.560 --> 00:08:26.040 your skills, upon your joy, upon your laughter, upon your silliness, 125 00:08:26.079 --> 00:08:30.199 upon your personality. Take my joy up. I mean, take 126 00:08:30.279 --> 00:08:34.039 my burden, my yoke upon you. And then he says, 127 00:08:34.639 --> 00:08:38.360 and learn of me, Learn of me, for my. 128 00:08:39.879 --> 00:08:50.039 Yoke is easy and my burden is now. 129 00:08:50.120 --> 00:08:54.080 I personally think that we have perverted the word, or 130 00:08:54.080 --> 00:08:56.559 we've allowed Satan to lie to us. I think most 131 00:08:56.559 --> 00:08:59.240 of us think anything to do with ministry is actually 132 00:08:59.679 --> 00:09:05.000 hard and heavy, not easy and light. And since that's 133 00:09:05.039 --> 00:09:08.720 our faith that's what we get, since that's our confession. 134 00:09:09.080 --> 00:09:17.559 That's what happens because you get what you believe. You 135 00:09:18.240 --> 00:09:20.919 don't get what he said unless you agree. 136 00:09:20.639 --> 00:09:21.320 With what he said. 137 00:09:21.679 --> 00:09:23.840 You have to agree with what he said to get 138 00:09:23.879 --> 00:09:27.200 what he said if you disagree with these So you know, 139 00:09:27.559 --> 00:09:32.559 I've been around Christians all of my life who that's. 140 00:09:32.399 --> 00:09:33.360 Part of their brag. 141 00:09:33.519 --> 00:09:37.600 Actually, part of their Christian brag is how hard it 142 00:09:37.759 --> 00:09:43.600 is and how heavy it is. They brag about that. 143 00:09:46.000 --> 00:09:49.320 Do you understand what I'm saying. Christians brag about contradicting 144 00:09:49.360 --> 00:09:55.000 the words of Jesus. But their bag becomes the fulfillment 145 00:09:59.440 --> 00:10:02.080 but the and they justify it by by you know, 146 00:10:02.360 --> 00:10:04.960 by saying, body, it'll all be worth it when we 147 00:10:05.080 --> 00:10:08.759 make it the glory. 148 00:10:09.679 --> 00:10:15.720 Oh, it'll be worth it, Mildred. Oh, life is hell 149 00:10:15.799 --> 00:10:19.720 on earth. But it's you know, it's but where it's 150 00:10:19.759 --> 00:10:26.840 going to be worth No, we're in disagreement. We're in 151 00:10:26.919 --> 00:10:34.440 disagreement with Jesus. Getting ahead of myself. 152 00:10:34.480 --> 00:10:39.799 But what I'm trying to say is David understood that 153 00:10:40.159 --> 00:10:46.200 he was in his generation for divine purpose. These things 154 00:10:46.240 --> 00:10:49.879 are in scripture because we also are being called to 155 00:10:50.039 --> 00:10:54.200 understand that we're living in our generation for divine purpose. 156 00:10:56.639 --> 00:11:01.039 And the supreme expression of our purpose is found when 157 00:11:01.080 --> 00:11:08.639 we take his joke upon us and we learn of him. 158 00:11:10.480 --> 00:11:17.120 That's the supreme expression of our purpose. Now, so we 159 00:11:17.200 --> 00:11:19.919 have to think about you know, what was his joke? 160 00:11:19.960 --> 00:11:20.679 What is his joke? 161 00:11:20.799 --> 00:11:24.279 Right somewhere he said, I've come for this purpose to 162 00:11:24.480 --> 00:11:31.960 seek and to save the lost. Remember that, so that 163 00:11:32.200 --> 00:11:34.600 how many of you knew that one already? 164 00:11:36.039 --> 00:11:36.840 I got four. 165 00:11:36.679 --> 00:11:40.080 Yups and no hands. How many of you knew that already? 166 00:11:40.639 --> 00:11:44.919 All right, that's better, hallelujah. Another place he said that 167 00:11:45.039 --> 00:11:50.840 his purpose was to destroy the works of Satan. Right, 168 00:11:51.960 --> 00:12:01.440 destroy the works of Satan. Another place, and this is 169 00:12:01.440 --> 00:12:04.600 when he quoted Isaiah sixty one one through three. You 170 00:12:04.600 --> 00:12:07.240 remember when he quoted Isaiah sixty one one through three. 171 00:12:08.120 --> 00:12:10.600 It was his first sermon in Luke for and Mark 172 00:12:11.000 --> 00:12:15.080 Matthew for right after his baptism. And he said there 173 00:12:15.399 --> 00:12:23.279 that he came to heal the broken heart, he came 174 00:12:23.399 --> 00:12:30.559 to set captives free, he came to bring good news 175 00:12:30.720 --> 00:12:34.440 to the poor. He came to take out vengeance on 176 00:12:34.559 --> 00:12:38.279 the sons, on the enemies of the sons of Adam. 177 00:12:39.600 --> 00:12:43.039 So he's a vengeance takeer router, like, wherever he finds 178 00:12:43.120 --> 00:12:46.240 somebody beating up the sons of Adam, he's going to 179 00:12:46.279 --> 00:12:47.840 take out vengeance on them. 180 00:12:48.320 --> 00:12:48.480 Right. 181 00:12:49.120 --> 00:12:52.440 He also said he came to announce jubilee over every person, 182 00:12:53.039 --> 00:12:55.200 that this is the year of jubilee for every person. 183 00:12:56.080 --> 00:12:57.000 So these are. 184 00:12:56.879 --> 00:13:02.080 Things that he said in Isaiah sixty one one through three. 185 00:13:02.480 --> 00:13:06.679 It would be good for us to memorize this, because 186 00:13:06.759 --> 00:13:09.320 here's what you have to understand is that when he left, 187 00:13:10.480 --> 00:13:18.159 he gave you his assignment. He handed you the baton 188 00:13:18.720 --> 00:13:22.679 as he was going up in the clouds in Luke 189 00:13:23.320 --> 00:13:26.559 twenty four, as he was going up in the clouds, 190 00:13:26.919 --> 00:13:31.039 he was handing you in your generation, the baton of 191 00:13:31.080 --> 00:13:34.840 his ministry. So, if you don't know what your purpose 192 00:13:34.960 --> 00:13:37.519 is in the Lord, if you don't know what in 193 00:13:37.559 --> 00:13:41.159 the world you're called to in your generation, you're going 194 00:13:41.240 --> 00:13:44.480 to get up to the pearly gates and Saint Peter 195 00:13:45.000 --> 00:13:48.919 is going to be standing there to open the pearly gates, 196 00:13:48.960 --> 00:13:52.120 and Father is going to be there with a well 197 00:13:52.159 --> 00:13:58.399 done expression. But instead you're going to get the Pillsbury domain. 198 00:14:01.279 --> 00:14:05.679 You with me, No, you're not. Let's talk about this. 199 00:14:05.799 --> 00:14:08.120 How many of you have bought Pop Murphy's pizza before? 200 00:14:09.440 --> 00:14:11.679 How many have you bought Pop Murphy's pizza? 201 00:14:11.720 --> 00:14:12.080 Put? 202 00:14:12.080 --> 00:14:13.960 I want to see every hands bought a Pop and 203 00:14:14.039 --> 00:14:17.000 Murphy's pizza. Okay, good, you know what I'm talking about. 204 00:14:18.000 --> 00:14:19.759 You take it home and you bake it. You know 205 00:14:19.799 --> 00:14:22.799 what I'm talking about. And there's instructions on top and 206 00:14:23.399 --> 00:14:27.480 the little ones. You heat the oven to four twenty five. 207 00:14:28.799 --> 00:14:34.000 But the Chicago stuffed three seventy five, Chicago stuffed longer 208 00:14:34.600 --> 00:14:40.360 twenty minutes, right, but the normal crust right four twenty five. 209 00:14:41.159 --> 00:14:44.120 And it's not good if you put more than one 210 00:14:44.159 --> 00:14:46.480 in the same oven. Now, how many of you have 211 00:14:46.600 --> 00:14:50.159 cooked that Pop Murphy's pizza? How many of you have 212 00:14:50.200 --> 00:14:53.240 cooked that? And you ended up messing up the cooking 213 00:14:53.440 --> 00:14:57.840 and it was dewey in the middle. I see a hand, 214 00:14:58.360 --> 00:15:00.679 dewie in the middle. Dewie in the middle. One two, 215 00:15:01.399 --> 00:15:07.960 three admitted, even if your spouse is here, four, five, six, seven, eight, 216 00:15:09.120 --> 00:15:12.600 We had twenty in the first service, nine, ten, eleven. 217 00:15:16.120 --> 00:15:22.600 I recounted you twelve, okay, twelve thirteen too young to cook, 218 00:15:22.639 --> 00:15:25.480 though I don't know about that. One thirteen okay, So 219 00:15:25.559 --> 00:15:29.519 we got thirteen twenty bad cooks in first service. What 220 00:15:29.559 --> 00:15:33.200 do you think of that? Okay, only thirteen bad cooks 221 00:15:33.200 --> 00:15:36.000 in this service. So what happens is and I just 222 00:15:36.120 --> 00:15:38.679 I hate this, right, and so I try to control 223 00:15:38.720 --> 00:15:41.759 the cooking. I try to control the and last time, 224 00:15:42.080 --> 00:15:45.559 you know, we've had two or three like sparring matches, 225 00:15:45.639 --> 00:15:48.480 Missus Wolf and mister Wolf because I'm trying to I'm 226 00:15:48.559 --> 00:15:51.240 kind of watch over the cooking because here's what here's 227 00:15:51.279 --> 00:15:54.799 what I hate. And Papa hates it too, that dewy middle. 228 00:15:56.840 --> 00:15:58.720 They bring you the pizza, you cut it with the 229 00:15:58.720 --> 00:16:02.559 pizza cutter, right, and then you get it and you're 230 00:16:02.600 --> 00:16:05.360 just so excited to have that, you know, Canadian bacon 231 00:16:05.399 --> 00:16:07.559 and pineapple or the meat lovers whatever it is. And 232 00:16:07.600 --> 00:16:11.360 then you bite in and the middle is dough. They 233 00:16:11.360 --> 00:16:13.159 pulled it from the oven too quick. And let me 234 00:16:13.200 --> 00:16:15.320 tell you something, when you pull it from the oven 235 00:16:15.360 --> 00:16:21.159 too quick, it's like it's just you messed it. It's 236 00:16:21.200 --> 00:16:29.720 dowie in the middle. Okay, it's not well done. It's 237 00:16:29.759 --> 00:16:34.159 not well done. What are we looking for when we appear? Listen, listen. 238 00:16:34.240 --> 00:16:36.000 You can make all the money you want to. You 239 00:16:36.000 --> 00:16:37.960 can have all of the cars, you'd like to have. 240 00:16:38.440 --> 00:16:40.679 You can have boats, you can have lake houses, you 241 00:16:40.720 --> 00:16:44.399 can have multiple houses. I know in Orthodontis with twelve houses. 242 00:16:44.679 --> 00:16:47.080 You can have all sorts of stuff. But if you 243 00:16:47.120 --> 00:16:49.200 get up there and you don't get it well done, 244 00:16:50.919 --> 00:16:54.600 if you're still dowe in the middle, then what in 245 00:16:54.639 --> 00:16:57.039 the world were you doing? If you didn't even know 246 00:16:57.120 --> 00:17:04.759 the purpose for which you were living. You have a purpose. 247 00:17:06.359 --> 00:17:10.880 God rescued you in your generation for a purpose, and 248 00:17:11.000 --> 00:17:14.319 he saw you in the ministry. 249 00:17:15.160 --> 00:17:16.480 You're called to the ministry. 250 00:17:16.960 --> 00:17:21.680 Yeah, Now in America we still have problems. 251 00:17:21.680 --> 00:17:23.359 Probably worldwide, we still have problems. 252 00:17:23.599 --> 00:17:27.640 We have problems in that we still have this clergy 253 00:17:27.680 --> 00:17:29.920 thing going on. We still have a little bit of 254 00:17:30.000 --> 00:17:35.880 a leftover from Catholicism because we all came out of Catholicism. 255 00:17:36.200 --> 00:17:42.880 All of us came out of Catholicism, and Catholicism was 256 00:17:42.960 --> 00:17:50.359 really a reach back to the old Mosaic system with 257 00:17:50.480 --> 00:17:55.640 the priesthood, with Aaron and the Levites and the priest 258 00:17:56.559 --> 00:18:01.160 and the other eleven tribes. The other eleven tribes they 259 00:18:01.160 --> 00:18:05.680 were spectators, they weren't ministers. We had one tribe that 260 00:18:05.759 --> 00:18:08.759 was the ministering tribe. The tribe of Levi, and Aaron 261 00:18:08.920 --> 00:18:11.279 was the high priest, and Aaron watched over that, and 262 00:18:11.359 --> 00:18:15.279 so all the other tribes, the other eleven tribes. They 263 00:18:15.319 --> 00:18:19.519 had other assignments. They had vocational assignments, they had money 264 00:18:19.519 --> 00:18:23.799 making assignments, they had provisionary assignments, they had warrior assignments, 265 00:18:24.119 --> 00:18:27.519 they had building assignments. But they had nothing to do 266 00:18:27.599 --> 00:18:31.519 with the ministry. Their job was just to bring their tithe. 267 00:18:32.519 --> 00:18:37.640 Catholicism is a reach back into that formality where the 268 00:18:37.759 --> 00:18:43.359 clergy holds all the keys to the ministry, and the 269 00:18:43.359 --> 00:18:48.039 clergy does the ministry. The clergy does the deliverance. Clergy 270 00:18:48.079 --> 00:18:51.680 does the salvation. The clergy does the absolving of sin. 271 00:18:52.039 --> 00:18:55.200 The clergy makes sure you're going to heaven. The clergy 272 00:18:55.279 --> 00:19:01.519 does your prayers. The clergy does everything. Everything's about the clergy. 273 00:19:01.799 --> 00:19:10.200 That system, that system is done. That system was done 274 00:19:10.440 --> 00:19:14.559 with the Resurrection. That system was done two thousand years ago, 275 00:19:14.720 --> 00:19:21.920 done over. Father replaced that system with a brand new system. 276 00:19:22.759 --> 00:19:28.200 Today's ministers are not your priest. The Bible, the New 277 00:19:28.240 --> 00:19:30.559 Testament is the priesthood. 278 00:19:29.920 --> 00:19:31.079 Of every believer. 279 00:19:31.359 --> 00:19:37.839 You are a priest and a king unto God. Your 280 00:19:37.920 --> 00:19:41.079 intercession is as good as mine on Monday, Tuesday, and 281 00:19:41.640 --> 00:19:46.680 usually on Wednesday. No, every day, your intercession is as 282 00:19:46.720 --> 00:19:49.400 good as my intercession. I can't pray better than you. 283 00:19:51.559 --> 00:19:54.160 I can't decree better than you. I can't prophesy better 284 00:19:54.279 --> 00:19:56.759 than you. I can't heal better than you. I can't 285 00:19:56.759 --> 00:19:59.720 forgive better than you. I can't absolve better than you. 286 00:19:59.759 --> 00:20:02.599 I can get somebody assurance of salvation better than you. 287 00:20:03.079 --> 00:20:05.160 I can't be an ultra worker better than you. That's 288 00:20:05.200 --> 00:20:07.519 why we don't have me being the sole altar worker. 289 00:20:08.279 --> 00:20:12.559 I'm not king ultra worker. It's the priesthood of every believer. 290 00:20:13.960 --> 00:20:16.519 We're all in the ministry. Did you know you were 291 00:20:16.519 --> 00:20:21.599 in the ministry? You're in full time ministry. You're in 292 00:20:21.680 --> 00:20:26.559 full time ministry. That means you better know what it 293 00:20:26.759 --> 00:20:31.319 is that the yoke kids, that you better know what 294 00:20:31.359 --> 00:20:36.720 your assignment is. Because this is supreme. Everything bows to this. 295 00:20:38.240 --> 00:20:43.200 Even my vocation is just my bi vocational support for 296 00:20:43.319 --> 00:20:47.480 my ministry. I might be good at it, I might 297 00:20:47.519 --> 00:20:50.039 be talented at it. People might want to pay me 298 00:20:50.160 --> 00:20:55.720 for what I do vocationally. You know, in America, seventy 299 00:20:55.720 --> 00:21:00.279 five percent of the churches are pastored by bi vocational pastors. 300 00:21:01.480 --> 00:21:04.400 The church doesn't pay them a salary. They have to work. 301 00:21:05.960 --> 00:21:09.799 Guess what, that's just like every other Christian in America. 302 00:21:11.599 --> 00:21:15.880 You're a bivocational pastor, You're a bivocational ministry. That's what 303 00:21:15.920 --> 00:21:21.039 I'm trying to say. You are called to the ministry. 304 00:21:21.160 --> 00:21:26.880 You are called to the ministry. We still have this 305 00:21:27.000 --> 00:21:31.279 mindset that only seminary graduates are called to the ministry, 306 00:21:31.680 --> 00:21:34.359 Only people that hold a position at the church are 307 00:21:34.400 --> 00:21:38.559 called to the ministry. Only people who get paid to 308 00:21:38.680 --> 00:21:42.119 do this are called to the ministry. Think about the 309 00:21:42.160 --> 00:21:45.680 implication of that contradiction to the words of Jesus. Think 310 00:21:45.720 --> 00:21:51.400 about that implication. Number One, You're going to be Pillsbury 311 00:21:51.440 --> 00:21:54.359 when you get to the pearly gates. He's going to 312 00:21:54.359 --> 00:21:57.359 poke a finger in you and just hit dough. You're 313 00:21:57.359 --> 00:22:00.359 going to have to come back because you're not well done. 314 00:22:00.680 --> 00:22:02.799 You're not going to get it well done. You're going 315 00:22:02.880 --> 00:22:07.359 to get a partial done, partial done. My good and 316 00:22:07.400 --> 00:22:16.200 partially faithful servant, Enter into a mobile home. Enter into 317 00:22:16.200 --> 00:22:22.720 a mobile home on the backside of Heaven's dump. You 318 00:22:22.720 --> 00:22:26.400 think I'm joking. The Bible says that our works are 319 00:22:26.440 --> 00:22:30.200 going to be tried by fire, and if our works 320 00:22:30.240 --> 00:22:33.079 have not measured up to our calling, we're going to 321 00:22:33.119 --> 00:22:35.359 make it into glory only by the skin of our teeth, 322 00:22:40.400 --> 00:22:45.039 and there will be no crowns for us. This has 323 00:22:45.079 --> 00:22:51.599 eternal implications. Your car has a five year implication, your 324 00:22:51.680 --> 00:22:57.400 stuff has a seventy eighty ninety year implication. But your 325 00:22:57.440 --> 00:23:02.640 works before the Lord have an implication. You're gonna you 326 00:23:02.960 --> 00:23:06.480 never will have another chance to be a minister again. 327 00:23:07.319 --> 00:23:11.200 On the other side of this, like you have now, 328 00:23:11.359 --> 00:23:17.039 is what I'm saying. Do you understand. Let's read it 329 00:23:17.079 --> 00:23:21.400 Ephesian chapter four, just for phone, and then I want 330 00:23:21.400 --> 00:23:23.200 to I want to tell you, though this sounds heavy. 331 00:23:23.279 --> 00:23:27.960 Everybody say heavy, Oh he's being heavy, but I want to. 332 00:23:28.000 --> 00:23:30.640 I want to tell you that your joy is connected 333 00:23:30.680 --> 00:23:32.599 to this. I want to tell you that your wealth 334 00:23:32.680 --> 00:23:35.599 is connected to this. I mean what doctor Craig was 335 00:23:35.599 --> 00:23:39.240 talking on right now. Your wealth is for the offering. 336 00:23:39.279 --> 00:23:41.400 It's true. Your wealth is even connected to. 337 00:23:41.359 --> 00:23:50.000 This right because it because because the Lord makes it 338 00:23:50.039 --> 00:23:53.839 easy and he makes it light. But if we disassociate 339 00:23:54.160 --> 00:23:56.839 from our primary purpose and what we're called to, if 340 00:23:56.839 --> 00:24:00.839 we disassociate it from it, then we end up and 341 00:24:00.920 --> 00:24:04.200 our life is still hard. Even though we're a believer. 342 00:24:04.680 --> 00:24:09.359 Our life is hard, even though we've matured a little 343 00:24:09.359 --> 00:24:11.519 bit in the Lord. Our life is hard because we're 344 00:24:11.559 --> 00:24:18.799 not embracing the yoke of ministry Ephesians four. So Christ 345 00:24:18.880 --> 00:24:20.200 himself gave the apostles. 346 00:24:20.440 --> 00:24:23.200 Who did it? Who did it? 347 00:24:24.119 --> 00:24:27.480 Christ himself gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, of pastors, 348 00:24:27.480 --> 00:24:33.119 and the teachers to equip his people for works of service. 349 00:24:33.960 --> 00:24:38.039 To do what to equip his people for works of service? 350 00:24:38.240 --> 00:24:42.440 The word service in the Greek is doma. Everybody say domama. 351 00:24:42.599 --> 00:24:45.799 It's not hard. The word doma. It's translated in the 352 00:24:45.880 --> 00:24:51.400 King James appropriately the work for works of ministry, works 353 00:24:51.440 --> 00:25:00.759 of ministry. Christ gave these five offices to the church 354 00:25:01.359 --> 00:25:08.400 to equip all of God's people for the ministry, for 355 00:25:08.480 --> 00:25:12.039 the ministry. We're all called to the ministry. You're called 356 00:25:12.039 --> 00:25:16.799 to the ministry, not fun. You've been wanting all your 357 00:25:16.799 --> 00:25:18.960 life to be called the ministry. Now you know that 358 00:25:19.000 --> 00:25:24.440 you are, so that the Body of Christ may be 359 00:25:24.559 --> 00:25:29.440 built up until we all reach unity in the faith 360 00:25:29.960 --> 00:25:31.880 and the knowledge of the Son of God. This is 361 00:25:31.880 --> 00:25:33.880 so the body will be built up. Now listen, He's 362 00:25:33.880 --> 00:25:35.799 going to tell you how that happens in a minute, 363 00:25:36.519 --> 00:25:38.240 is that the building of the body is not just 364 00:25:38.279 --> 00:25:41.759 through the equippers. The building of the body actually happens 365 00:25:42.160 --> 00:25:47.160 also through the ministers. So the body of Christ will 366 00:25:47.200 --> 00:25:49.240 be built up and come into the measure of the 367 00:25:49.240 --> 00:25:54.160 fullness of Christ. Did you know that holding Satan wants 368 00:25:54.240 --> 00:25:57.839 us to hang on to this old mindset, the clergy mindset. 369 00:25:58.480 --> 00:25:59.119 Woe is me. 370 00:25:59.279 --> 00:26:02.720 I'm just a little layperson. I don't know nothing. I 371 00:26:02.720 --> 00:26:05.599 can't lead anybody. I'm just a dummy head. I can't 372 00:26:05.599 --> 00:26:07.960 have a small group. I can't lead a soul. I 373 00:26:08.000 --> 00:26:11.200 don't have anything to say. I can't prophesy, I can't pray. 374 00:26:12.079 --> 00:26:17.119 Go see pastor Dwyane, have you called the office? Satan 375 00:26:17.319 --> 00:26:23.039 is so thrilled with that thinking, that thinking that reaches 376 00:26:23.119 --> 00:26:27.759 back into the days that God already canceled and said, no, 377 00:26:27.880 --> 00:26:31.799 that's not what I want. And then the church isn't 378 00:26:31.799 --> 00:26:35.519 coming into maturity. The church isn't coming into maturity because 379 00:26:35.519 --> 00:26:39.720 I won't embrace my calling. See until I embrace my calling, 380 00:26:40.359 --> 00:26:44.519 do you know how much answering my calling has caused 381 00:26:44.519 --> 00:26:51.400 me to mature. I've been doing this for forty two years. 382 00:26:52.519 --> 00:26:57.519 Actually forty four years. I started doing this before Bible College. 383 00:26:57.559 --> 00:27:01.240 I started doing this at nineteen youth pastor at nineteen 384 00:27:03.000 --> 00:27:05.920 So I've been doing this a long time, right, So 385 00:27:06.119 --> 00:27:11.920 just by accident, I've grown, I've matured a little bit, 386 00:27:12.039 --> 00:27:15.119 just you know, just by accident this because you know. 387 00:27:15.640 --> 00:27:16.519 But well, here's what. 388 00:27:16.440 --> 00:27:20.519 I'm saying is that when you embrace responsibility, that's when 389 00:27:20.519 --> 00:27:27.960 you grow. Hey, only, let's have sex. Okay, Oh whoops, 390 00:27:28.640 --> 00:27:34.359 I think something's in my tummy. Oh well, praise God, 391 00:27:35.640 --> 00:27:38.799 we're gonna be parents. Do you know how much that 392 00:27:38.960 --> 00:27:42.279 caused you to grow? You talk about mature. What if 393 00:27:42.319 --> 00:27:45.000 you would have never popped that seed in there? You know, 394 00:27:45.039 --> 00:27:49.000 what if you would being too frank, being too honest. 395 00:27:49.680 --> 00:27:54.039 What if you would have never had a little fun, Right, Well, 396 00:27:54.079 --> 00:27:56.880 you wouldn't have had that child, and you'd still be stupid. 397 00:27:57.720 --> 00:28:00.759 You'd still be just a big boy, you still be 398 00:28:00.759 --> 00:28:03.680 a retard, you still be messing around and doing stupid 399 00:28:03.720 --> 00:28:06.839 stuff with your money. But now all at once you 400 00:28:06.960 --> 00:28:11.559 got a responsibility. That responsibility has actually produced maturity in you. 401 00:28:12.799 --> 00:28:13.960