Pastor Dwain Wolfe | New Horizon Church | March 15th 2026

First strength in Chapter twelve, verse twelve four. As the

body is one and has many members, but all the

members of that one body, being member, are one body,

so also is Christ. So Christ is one. We are

one with them, we are his body. And of course

this doesn't exist, so I guess because truly the Bible

says he is the head of the body. Right, he's

the head of the body. And so okay, so that's

a transgression. Already we have sin number one. Because he's happy.

He's happy, so we'll go. He's happy. He's so happy

that you're getting your biceps built up. So and soon

you will look like the equippers with these giant biceps

and triceps too. Let's go, let's go, let's go. Triceps

all right. So I mean you're looking so good. Okay.

So he's the head, right, you're the body. Yes, And

there's many parts. The Bible says, there's many parts. For

Scrinthians twelve seventeen. We have it for you too, if

you want to read it. For if the whole body

were an eye, where would the hearing be? If the

whole were the hearing, where would the smelling be? But

now God has set members, the members each one of

them in the body, just as he pleased. So you've

been set in the body. You've been given some kind

of role, some kind of place, some kind of you've

been given ability for for what? What is it for him?

What's it for? It's for serving, it's the title of

the sermon, People of God. It's for it's for serving. Okay,

Verse twenty seven. Now you are the body of Christ

and members individually, members individually. Let's go to Ephesians. I

don't know if you have you have it, Ephesian, you

do have it Ephesians four sixteen. Ephesians four sixteen. We

can go to that one too. I don't know if

I have it. I have it in my pocket wherever

my phone is. From him, the whole body joined and

held together by every supporting ligament. He's calling you. A

ligament now grows and builds itself up in love, grows

and builds itself, grows every as they grows, and then

builds itself up in love as each part does its

does its work. Okay, So that's my other thing over here.

Ephesians four, verses eight all the way to sixteen. We're

not gonna read them all this morning. But Ephesians four

is the passage where it says that he went into

the depths, he descended into hades, he triumphed over darkness.

And then he brought the righteous dead out of captivity

and took them to heaven. And as he was ascending

into heaven, he distributed his grace, his ability, his giftings,

his charisma, his strength. He distributed that to the body.

And when those gifts were distributed to the body, he

ordained that those gifts would build the body up, equipped

the body, strengthen the body for the works of ministry.

Everybody say the works of ministry, and that work of

ministry and the building up of the body would continue

until we all come to the unity of the faith,

of the full stature of the Sun. Crazy enough, there's

going to be a generation. There's going to be a

generation where the church where all churches are going to

look exactly alike. By the way, it won't matter if

it says New Horizon or First Assembly or First Baptist

or Saints of Episcopalian, it won't matter. There's going to

come a day, according to Ephesian chapter four, where every

church is going to be flowing in the fullness of

the sun, the unity of the faith, the fullness of

the sun. Every church is going to be flowing in that,

and it's not just going to be the church, but

it's going to be the people in the church. Because

the people in the church are the church. We are

the body of Christ. And so in every church there's

coming a generation where everybody's going to be building one

another up. And you'll notice what's crazy here. It doesn't

say that the preachers build them up. It doesn't say

the clergy builds them up. It doesn't say that. It

says that they will build one another up in love

by supplying what each part supplies. That's the sign of

a mature church. The sign of a mature church is

where we are all supplying and this is where we're headed.

This is what God's trying to develop ns He's trying

to develop a mature church, and he matured churches where

we come up in faith. Everybody say faith, We grow

up in faith. When you grow up in faith, you

can embrace more responsibility, you can embrace the work of

building one another up because you've grown up in faith.

When you grow up in faith, that means you're a partaker.

Of Him, and so you've realized it's not all about you,

It's about building up one another. Hallelujah, somebody, now here's

what's happening. Sometimes we are growing up in faith and

we don't know it. Sometimes the faith we have is

pretty good and we don't realize it. Sometimes our faith

is already developed a little bit, but we don't know

it because we're being told a lie. And this is

why I want to talk today about digging or redigging

the well of divine service. Redigging the well today, I

want to talk a little bit about uncovering the well

of serving. Could it be that the well of serving

is what many of us in charismatic circles are missing.

You see, we have the fullness of the spirit, we

have the Pentecostal experience, we have the visitation of God,

we have presence, we have anointing, we have goosebumps, we

have the kindness of the spirit in our midst. We

have healings and the gifts and the wonders of God

in our midst. But do we have this one thing?

Do we have this one thing that through it a

grace is released that cannot ends, not must have been

a good word, a grace is released that cannot and

is not released any other way. Now there's a grace

at the altars, there's a grace in receiving, there's a

grace in the anointing. There's a grace in all of

these things. But what if all of what we receive

in the Lord is not for the purpose of soakings,

for the purpose of distribution. And what happens is the

enemy comes along and he tries to clog that well.

Remember what happened with Abraham, the Father of faith. With Abraham,

the Philistines had come along and clogged up the wells.

They threw dirt in the well of provision that was

already dug. But by throwing dirt in it, and by

covering it over, by hiding it, by making it obscure,

by causing it to be unseen and unfound, they couldn't

draw water out of that well. Now, I want to

talk to you a little bit about That's what I

think religion has done in the beginning. In the beginning,

with first atom, we were all we will all image

bearers with first atom. First atom was born of the spirit,

he had a walk with God. First atom was righteous.

It wasn't imputed righteousness before he fell. He had end

dwelling righteousness, he had the glory of God. He had

all this going on. He was one with God. And

so they were given the assignment to go from the

mountain of God. And they even had the Mountain of God.

The Mountain of God or Zion, the mountain of God

was at the center of the garden. And so they

were to go into the world and into what would

be developed as culture, education, economy, family, government, media, entertainment,

whatever it was. They were to go in and they

were to heavenize the planet as anointed ones, as image bearers.

God said, let us make man in our image. They

were image bearers. But then that was entirely lost. Then

God puts a placeholder in if you can entertain this

with me a little bit. In Galatians for because of

transgressions and the increase of transgressions. In Galatians For, it

says that the law was added until the seed, the

promised seed of Abraham would come. And so the law

was added. And when the law was added, then though

we had a placeholder, that placeholder wasn't what God desired.

It was only a placeholder until the seed of Abraham

would come. The seed of Abraham would restore what God

started with. That everyone is an image bearer, that everyone

is anointed, that everyone has the indwelling spirit of God,

that everyone is sent to heavenize, and everyone has an

assignment to build up, to love, to build up, to love,

to build up. Now, here's what's happening, and here's how

dirt has gotten thrown into the well of serving. Is

that during this period the ministry was given to the

livitical community, to erin and to the levitical community. The

ministry was given to that livitical community, and so for

them they watched over the ministry of God to the people.

And under that tabernacle system where they would dispense the sacraments,

they would watch over the sacrifices, and there was atonement

for the people. And the Levites would set up and

break down anybody in the New Testament Church ever done that.

They would set up and break down the tent of meeting.

They would care for the sacrifices. Also, they would watch

over the Torah, the teaching of the law. All of

that was given to the levitical community, and the levitical

community alone. This is where we developed a clergy model.

They also were paid for their service. But God has

shifted everything in the New Testament model. But what happens

is is that this model here, the enemy likes this model.

God didn't like this model. This was only a place.

God didn't like this model. God wanted every person to

be born of the spirit, filled with the spirit, and

to be even a seer. Remember Jeel chapter two, verse

twenty eight, I will pour out my spirit on all

flesh in the last days. And then Acts chapter one,

verse eight. Oh, this is what was prophesied. He's pouring

out his spirit Acts chapter two. So this was just

a placeholder. But the problem is the enemy knows that

this system is not redemptive enough to undo the work

of Satan. But if we keep focused on that system, Hello, somebody,

if we keep focused on this system, and this is

I think in some ways the church is still struggling

with that system. And I think not long after the

birth of the church, it wasn't too many years after

the birth of the church. Then you see what happened

is the church went from wild expressions of new wine.

Jesus said, let's not put what I'm about to do

in an old wine skin. If we put what I'm

about to do in an old wine skin, It's gonna

blow the wine skin up. The only way we can

do what I'm about to do is we have to

put it in a brand new wine skin. But we're

only about three or four or five hundred years into

the new Church, and all at once the enemy is

bringing us back to an old wine skin. And so

you see this in church. You see this, and this

wine skin is that if I'm going to be involved

in ministry, I should get paid. Only the clergy do minister,

and only they have the real power of ministry. My role.

I don't even have a responsibility of ministry. I have

no responsibility for ministry because I'm not a part of

this clergy system. You hear what I'm saying, And so

we were You know, we're only three, four or five

hundred years into the church, and we see a priesthood

being restored. You feel what I'm saying, and we see

this clergy led model being in that influence brought back

into the church and therefore the limitation of it. One

of the things that Martin Luther said in was fifteen eleven,

fifteen twenty one what wasn't you have to talk really loud?

Seventeen So one of the things that Martin Luther said

with the Protestant movement, Martin Luther said that first the

Word of God must be restored to the people, but

then the ministry of God must be restored to the people.

Because the Bible teaches the priesthood of all believers, and

the Bible the New Covenant is teaching that we've all

become kings and priests unto God. So over here, not

only are we restored as sons and daughters of God.

John one twelve says that to us who believe, He

gives us the power to become the sons and daughters

of God. Not only that, but we also are called

of God. We're anointed of God, and we are we're

all called into ministry. And this is God completely reversing

what happened in the garden. God has to completely reverse

the New Creation model and the power of the New

Creation and the power of the people of God and

the Church. It has to be as effective as the

curse was. The curse touched every person, and the restoration

through Jesus restores every person. And that restoration is a

restoration of reimaging. We image God, we heavenize the planet,

and it gives birth again to the truth of the

Kingdom of God. The Kingdom of God is not a small,

little tabernacle thing where just leevites serve in ministry, and

in that environment they would come mainly to receive. The

whole thrust of the tabernacle model was that you come

really as a spectator, you come to receive, You come

under the ministry of the levitical system. That isn't the

New Testament model. The New Testament model is that we

come to build up, we come to serve, we come

to give, We come and over here, over here. In

Ephesians four eight, where it talks about the apostles and

the prophets and the teachers, it just says that they

aren't priests, right, the apostles and the prophets, and the

pastors and the teachers, they aren't priests. They are equippers.

We have nine people on the preaching team right now.

I think that's wonderful. I love it when Roman preaches,

Angela preaches, Joel preaches, Dennis preaches, Rank preaches, Craig preaches,

Joe preaches. I love it. I love it, love it,

love it, love it, love it. But there's no greater

They have no greater anointing than you, They have no

greater calling than you. Hello in the New Testament model.

These are not priests. These are equippers. These are like

trainers if you if you go to the gym. I

don't know, you know, I grew up watching a lot

of boxing. My dad loved boxing, and when we were

literally got us boxing gloves, and and uh he would

teach us how to box, and we'd go out in

the yard and he'd, you know, teach us how to box.

And he'd loved Mohammad Aldi, you know, Cassius Clay, and

he loved George Foreman, and he loved Mike Tyson, and

he loved all these boxers. And he boxed in the Navy,

and you know, and he just he just loved that

boxing thing. And and uh so we'd have friends over,

you know, and once in a while we'd get to

beat him up, and he'd put boxing gloves on our friends.

We'd have boxing gloves, and then he'd be like, okay,

you guys, go ahead, you know. And so I'd watched

a lot of these, you know, I'd set with dad

and watch a lot of these fights, right, and you've

got you've got a trainer that and you've got you know,

and you know they send them out, you know, send

them out. Okay, you go, you go, right, And if

it's George forum Under, you know, Muhammad Ali or whatever

whoever it is, right, Mike Tyson, you know they're out

in the middle and they're out there doing the work. Right,

They're out there doing the work. The trainer isn't doing

the work. The trainer is helping them grow and then

sending them out and when they come back with victories, wow. Right.

Or you go to the gym. You got a personal trainer.

You know, you got a trainer. You go, you go

to the gym. They show you where you don't have biceps,

you know, you know where your legs look like spaghetti.

You know, they're trying to show you how to develop that.

And and a lot of us need that when we

go to the gym. We need a trainer, right, we

need that. Well, the church model is a lot more

like that than it is like this, because we're all

called the ministry, we're all called to be built up

to And if my part is the bicep. I want

to be a really strong one. Right. If my part

in the body of Christ is the abs, then let's

have a six pack. Right, I got a one pack

right now? Well let's you know, let's have a sick pack.

Let's let's if whatever my part is in the body,

let's be strengthened through the equipping, through the trainer, so

that then I can be building the body up so

that I can be engaged. The enemy is trying to

keep this model active because he knows this model is

suppressing to the kingdom and what God knows by restoring

the body to the fullness of what He intended in

the garden, that when we all bear the image and

we build up one another, when we function in this way,

we're tapping into the grace that we couldn't otherwise tap into.

There's a revival in your serving that you won't get

at a Mario Morilla meeting. There's a revival in your

serving that you can't get at a Morris Sorilla meeting.

There's a revival and you're serving that you can't get

at a TBN meeting. There's a revival and you're serving

that you can't get at a Binny hen conference. I'm

just gonna keep talking till you believe me. Yea, let

me prove it to him. First, Peter, Let's go to

first Peter. First, Peter four ten and eleven. First Peter

four ten and eleven. See if I've got to hear

somewhere Hallolia. We get it up there first, Peter four

ten and eleven. Lolory to God, Harlolujah. I don't want

to read it up there. I want to read it

right here, but I can't find it here. It is

maybe as each one of you have received a gift.

This is charisma, a gift, a gracing from God. Grace.

We know it as unmerited favor, but grace is much

more than unmerited favor. Grace is the power to accomplish

God's will, the power to bring forth something out of

Heaven through you that is in alignment with Holy Spirit.

It's in alignment with Jesus, and it's beyond you. When

you were born of the Spirit, you received a grace, gift,

a graceing, a charisma, which is a grace gift from

God that is beyond you and is of Him to

empower you. As each one has received a gift, minister

it to one another, minister it to one another. Now

this means, and this is exhortation. Peter, who's a under shepherd,

a shepherd and elder to the church, He's riding to

the church. And this means proximity is important. Right. I

need to be I need to be with you to

minister to you. I need to be around you to

minister to you. So I esteem you in the body.

And when we come together, I'm coming together not just

to get fed. We can do two things at one time.

I'm not coming together just to get fed. I'm coming

together to feed minister it to one another as good

stewards of the manifold grace of God. So there's this

abundant manifold massive grace of God that's poured out on me,

poured out on you, poured out on each one of us.

And to steward it, I need to minister it. I

need to I need to distribute it, and I distribute

it to you to one another. So in other words,

all of this, I'm the boxer in the ring, and

my boxing to overcome the enemy and to win and

to walk in what God's called me to walk out

comes through serving you. When I serve you, the enemy

is defeated. When I care for you, the enemy is defeated.

When I build you up in the Word. There's a

victory accomplished in God when I love you, when I

care for you, when I when I tune in to you,

when I pay attention to your needs. And this is

the New Testament model. If anyone speaks, if your gift

is a speaking gift, then speak as if it were

the oracles of God. If anyone ministers or serves, if

your gift is a serving gift. So he's saying, there's

two kinds of expressions. He's making it real simple. There's

two primarily two kinds of expressions. There are speaking expressions

and there are hand expressions serving expressions. If your expression

is speaking, or at this moment you're speaking, then do

it as if it were the oracles of God. If

it is a serving expression, then do it with the

ability which God supplies, that in all things God may

be glorified through Jesus Christ. Do it with the ability

that God supplies. So he's saying, there's a grace on you.

And here's one of the big things I want you

to get today. This grace doesn't flow until you use it.

This grace, this grace does not flow when you're sitting

on it. The only thing happening here is I'm feeling

I'm not feeling lead, but I have led lead in

my bottom. Oh yeah, this is this is so many

Christians don't feel lead, but there's something holding them down.

They got to get up off that serving. I got

to get the lead out. We got to get the

lead out because every one of us are lead and deserving.

There is no body in the body of Christ that

is not called to serving. Every one of us are

called deserving. Hello, somebody listen to what the Lord said.

The Lord said, I'm going to bind up the strong man.

He's talking about the New Testament Church. This is our

big passage, our big passage for deliverance, ministry, and freedom,

right Matthew twelve. He says, I'm going to bind up

the strong man. Verse twenty nine. We're again. How can

anyone who enter a strong man's house and carry off

his possessions unless he first ties up the strong man?

This is the Lord. Actually, this is the Lord prophesying

over what would be the New Testament Church. He's saying

I've come first, John three to eight. I've come to

overcome the works of darkness. So this is the beginning

of something great. Right, So first he binds up the

strong man. Then the whole of the New Testament Church

is plundering the strong man's house. But listen to the

next verse. Then he can plunder his house. And verse thirty.

Whoever is not with me is against me. Whoever isn't

in agreement, whoever isn't plundering, whoever isn't partnering with this

assignment is actually against me. And whoever does not gather

with me is actually scattering. Are you hearing that? In

other words, we are anointed, we are called, we are gifted,

we are the new creation in Christ, so that we

can gather with them, so that we can partner with him.

And if we aren't, then the enemy is winning. The

enemy is winning. People are being harmed. It's not happening

because the Lord is calling every one of us to

the forefront in this battle to overcome darkness. I want

to go so far as to say this, you're ready

for this. This is heavy. Everybody say heavy. Excuses to

serving in the New Testament Church are inspired by the

enemy now he is the god of reasoning, though he's

also the father of lives. So we have to really

watch our reasoning. We have to guard our thoughts because

because some of the reasoning that we end up having

is related to helping the enemy plug up the well

of serving. And if the well of serving is plugged

up because of whatever we're looking at. Ministry is not

my responsibility. I don't get paid around here. We have

pastored away. And he shouldn't complain. He's got a whole

host of preachers, he's got a whole staff, he's got

a whole staff. My goodness, gracious, what more would he need?

What more does Jesus need? Jesus needs every one of

us fully engulfed. And it's not either or. But I

thought I was sent to education. I thought I was

meant to sent to entertainment. I thought I was meant. Yes,

you are sent like an arrow to one of those.

But it's not either or. You're still You're still divinely

connected to the House of the Lord. And to the

degree that we build this house and partner with Jesus

to that degree, we transform the mountains of culture. So

reasons for serving, many times they're justified by our view

of religion that is skewed with the old model. Or

we say it's not my gifting, or we say I

need time for me, or we say I'm not prepared,

or we say it's not my calling. You know, I

bet we could go around the room today and come

up with fifty more excuses. But I want you to

think about this today because God already determined that he

brought you into the Kingdom in this time, season, and era,

that every excuse you can come up with for serving

is actually of the devil, it's actually of the enemy.

That God will release a grace through you that will

enable you beyond your understanding. Until you get off of

your hands. You can't even experience it. You can't even

understand it. You just have to believe. And when you

jump up off of your hands and you dive into

something in God, all at once, the grace begins to flow,

a grace that's different than any other grace you've experienced.

And it's also a grace that makes you rejoice because

the Lord said something very true. He said, it's always

better to give than it is to receive. He said,

do you want to attain to something great? Matthew twenty

Then become the servantable, he said in Matthew twenty five.

Do you aspire for more, then invest what I've given you.

Invest what I've given you into others. He said through

Elisha to the little woman, remember that if you need

debts paid, if you need things taken care of, if

you need problems solved in your life, he said to her,

gather as many empty vessels as you can. Why don't

you gather them out of the apartment buildings, Why don't

you get them out of the streets. Why don't you

gether them out of your neighborhood. Gather as many empty

vessels as you can and start pouring your oil into

those vessels. If you'll pour your oil into empty vessels,

every need you have will be met. See this model

makes us forget all of that, and we start thinking

church is all about me. But the new model tells

us that everything he's pouring into us is so we

could pour into others. Everything he's pouring into us is

so we could pour I think we ought to have

a slogan here. I don't know, I just feel like

we ought to have a slogan here. We should have

a slogan, because we have two opportunities every Sunday to

care for this body and to care for the children.

Right now, there's about fifteen people in the back of

the building. They're just serving the children. You know what

this model said. At the end of this model, the

apex of this model, they said, move the children away.

But Jesus said, hey, hey, hey, hang on a second.

Suffer the children to be brought to me. Don't you

dare close out the children's ministry. Jesus said, bring the

children to me and set them right up front. For

such is the Kingdom of Heaven. Jesus. This model esteems

the children. This model despises the children. We got to

be careful what model we're following. We got to be

careful what model we're thinking about. Because this model that

we're called to loves the children and esteems the children.

And that's the new wine skin of the kingdom. Stand

with me this morning. Satan has a plan. This system

was not working redemptively for the nations. This system will

work redemptively for the nations. This system caused the ministers

to wear out. Moses says. Moses cried out for help.

Moses cried out he said, God, the burden is so heavy?

Are you trying to kill me? Exodus eighteen numbers eleven

and Exodus eighteen, Moses is crying out, the burden was

so heavy. This model will always wear the ministers. Whenever

we come under and allow this model to dominate the church,

where a few are doing the ministry, those few will

wear out. But God's ordained that each of us take

a little load. And as we each take a little load,

then what happens is nobody wears out. Everybody rejoices, everybody's

built up, everybody's cared for. Right now, there's about fifteen

adults in the back, teenagers, adults serving. Probably they're serving

many of our families, and in doing so, they're able

to impart the word of God to them with the

dietary acceptance so that they'll be able to receive it.

So they're learning the word of God. They're learning a

Christian worldview. They're learning how to think about gender. They're

learning how to think about perversity and evil. They're learning

how to pray. They're learning how to oppose darkness, learning

how to prophesy over one another. They're learning what dreams are.

They're learning that stuff. But some adult is back there

missing out on church. Now, if we're in here and

we're not serving back there, or we never have, we're thinking, man,

we feel sorry for them. That's a bummer. I'm glad

I never served back That not my responsibility. But what

you don't realize is that you're missing out on a

release of a grace. You're missing out on a different

kind of revival. There's actually a different kind of revival

happening in the hearts of those who serve back there,

a revival that you can't get with an ointing oil

up here, because as they serve, there's a grace being

released over them and through them, and they're participating there,

they're receiving that grace, and that grace is not only

feeding others, but it's feeding them. And so they're not

gonna leave depressed today. They're gonna leave built up. They're

not gonna leave bummed out today. They're gonna leave strengthened

because God was able to pour through them and on

them and through them, and they were able to tap

into the grace of God given to them. They could

only be tapped into by serving. I think the Lords

show showing us something today that part of his plan

and the plan of revival in every one of our lives,

and the plan of anointing, and the plan of increase

and the plan of quickening is to make sure we're

engaged in serving the body of Christ, to make sure

that we have found a place. Tonight, we're going to

talk about that over pizza and salad, and we want

you to come. And if you've never served, if you

haven't been a part of a department, if you haven't

been engaged in some way, we want you to come

and be with us tonight. Have fun with us tonight.

Learn more. Learn about our teams. Find out more about

the teams. Today is your day, believe it or not,

to no longer let anything disqualify you from serving. Today

is your day to tap into an anointing integrace you

didn't even know existed and never received through any other impartation,

because you tap into the grace that is yours for

the purpose of giving. Put up our hands this morning, Father,

we just thank you for this crazy and amazing morning.

We thank you for this revelation of the grace of serving.

And even right now we just dig the dirt off

of that well. We uncover that well. It's been buried,

it's been hidden, it's been unseen, it's been lied about

by the enemy. We dig the dirt off of that thing,

and we embrace our place in the Body of Christ

in this new era, this new season of anointing and grace.

We thank you for it today in Jesus' name, and

everybody shouted God, bless you Church. We love you, love you,

love you.