I've Got My Daddy's Blueprints (pt.1) | 1 Chronicles 28 | Pastor Matthew D. Long, JR.

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in progress. First Chronicles chapter 28.

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The Bible says the labor is worthy of its hire and and the

honest truth is sometimes we get some of the best in and the Lord

favors us how we get them in here and if I can do more, I

would do more. Let me tell you back when I'm

able to do more, I'll do more. Praise the Lord.

It's not if it's not conditional, it's just a matter

of time. That's a good word.

I don't want that's a good word. I'm I'm a snatch that one for

myself. It's not if it's just when a

matter of time. Yes Lord.

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Hallelujah. First Chronicles chapter 28.

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I'm going to skip around if you don't mind, just stay with me.

Starting at verse #1 And David assembled all the Princess of

Israel, and the Princess of the tribes, and the captains of the

companies that ministered to the king by course.

And the captains over the thousands, and the captains over

the hundreds, and the stewards, over all the substance and

possession of the king and of his sons, with the officers, and

with the mighty men, and with all the valiant men.

Into Jerusalem. Verse 2.

Then David the king stood up upon his feet, and said, Hear

me, my brother, and my people, As for me, I had in my heart to

build a House of rest for the ark of the covenant of the Lord,

and for the footstool of our God, and had made ready for the

building. But God said unto me, Thou shalt

not build a house for my name, because thou has been a man of

war and has shed blood. Verse 4.

How be it the Lord God of Israel chose me before all, the House

of my father, to be king over Israel forever.

For he had chosen Judah to be the ruler in of the House of

Judah, the House of my father. And among the sons of my father

He likened me to make king, make me king of all Israel.

Verse 5 And of all my sons, for the Lord had given me many sons,

He had chosen Solomon my son, to sit upon the throne of the

Kingdom of the Lord over Israel. And he said unto me, Solomon,

thy son shall build my house and my courts, for I have chosen

them, He to be my son, and I will be his father.

Moreover, I will establish his Kingdom forever if he be

constant to do my commandments and my judgments as at this day.

Verse #12 Let's go to 11 because it's important.

Then David gave to Solomon his son, the pattern of the porch,

and of the houses thereof, and of the treasuries thereof, and

of the upper chambers thereof, and of the inner parlors

thereof, another place of the mercy seat. 12 And the pattern

of all that he had by the Spirit of the courts, of the House of

the Lord, and of all the chambers roundabout, and of the

treasuries of the House of God, and of the treasuries of the

dedicated things. Let's move on down to verse #19

And I think I'll stop there. All this said David, the Lord

made me understand in writing by his hand upon me, even all the

works of this pattern, the word of God for the people of God.

Thanks beyond to God, you take your seat, help me out.

Turn to your neighbor, say hey neighbor, are you OK?

Turn to someone and say hey neighbor, are you OK?

I'm alright. I love it.

I love it for this, this first installment of this again, I'm

going to preach really from the thought of the idea I got my

daddy's blueprints. Well, if, if I had to give a a

subject to this particular message, it would probably be my

three points for you just to help you out.

And it would be the man, the plan and the hand.

Well, and then brothers and sisters, as I approach another

birthday and I sit in another year, I, I, I, I sit in it

almost with this moment of reflection that while I get

older, yet still I thank God for being young.

I believe you are only as old as you think yourself.

And so the Bible says, as a man thinketh, so is he.

How is it then I would change what God's Word says.

So let me think myself young. But as I, as I really went into

this year, this year did not, did not change like the other

years. Yeah, I got up at midnight and I

danced. Yeah.

I praise the Lord and the bedside.

I thank him for letting me come in at midnight.

I'm I got up and I'm and I praise them again that I was

able to close the year out, clears that close that day out.

And but yet still, it wasn't like other years.

It wasn't like when I turned 30 and I made myself a rib eye and

got king crab legs and, and, and we was in COVID.

And I mean, I was just doing, just doing it.

I'm I was eating, I was eating, God knows I was eating.

Dick said yo-yo, I was eating. But this year wasn't one of

those kind of years. It was, it was really sobering.

It was transitory, if I can say that.

It's one of those moments that you feel like you are in between

a lane change, not in a lane, but between the lanes.

That's kind of where we find ourselves in between the black

and white pages of the book before you, my dear brothers and

sister. I believe it almost echoes the

words of Jesus and Luke chapter 14 verse 28 that says which of

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you intending to build a tower, sit and knock down 1st and count

if the cost and that sometimes in these moments it's not a

financial strategy. It's really divine sovereignty.

And here in this text we find hand of a father who was

handling or handing over something greater than just

money, greater than just life insurance policies, greater than

just a bank account, greater greater than just a house,

greater than just a car. You're in the room.

I just want to make sure you're here.

Greater, greater, greater, greater.

Greater than just old clothes worn.

A father handing something over that is greater than his books

or CDs. We're here.

A father handing over a framework, a sacred script, and

even a holy design. That's going to be fine. 3

movements in the text I want to quickly, briskly move through.

But #1 the man look in your Bibles first Chronicles chapter

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28. I'm going to be in your Bible

for real. Our first Chronicles chapter 28

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and verse #6 says, And he said unto me, Solomon, you know what,

let's go back. Let's go back to verse 2.

I think I better dig a little bit.

Verse 2 says Then David the king stood up upon his feet and said,

Hear me, my brethren and my people, As for me, I had in my

heart to build a House of rest for the ark of the covenant of

the Lord, and for the footstool of our God, and he had made you

ready for the building. But God said unto me, Thou shalt

not build a house for my name, because thou has been a man of

war, and thou shed blood. Verse 6 And he said unto me,

Solomon, thy son, he shall build my house and my courts, for I

have chosen him to be my son, and I will be his father. 7

Moreover, I will establish his Kingdom forever if you'd be

constant to do my commandments and my judgments as at this day.

The very first movement of this text is the man.

But check this out. The man recognizes his divine

assignment and his divine secession.

Many brothers and sisters, as we look into this text, we do not

find a young David. We do not find a middle-aged

Davids. We find an old man David.

Some scholars say that David is between the ages of 60 and 80

years old. And here in this moment, David.

Because some of us can can, can empathize with David's physical

frailties. David calls together everyone in

the Kingdom who has a strong connection to him, who has

influence to him. He calls together everyone who's

been ministering to him, who's been serving him, who has some

level of influence with and through him.

He calls them all together. Check this out verse #2 Then he

does not sit. He doesn't lay back.

No, your Bible says he stands up.

It does not say he stands up with the cane.

Look at the text that Seth says he stands up upon his feet,

which suggests that David, in this old age, wants to make a

strong statement without any assistance.

That David realizes that in this moment and this, this moment, I

think I better stay the third time in this moment I've got to

stand on business, he says. Right here we cannot have any

question. We cannot have any doubt.

We can't have any. Chatter.

About what I'm about to say, David here begins to tell

everyone that I've had this strong desire not just to be

king, not just to be important, not, not just to have robes and

garments and servants, but to have this moment to share.

To share that the Lord still has given me something to do.

He's still giving me something else to accomplish that even

though, yeah, I'm old, yeah, I've got wrinkles God's given

me, yet still something else to accomplish.

But he won't quite let me get into the lane.

He won't let me accomplish what he put in my heart, David says.

Essentially, it was in my heart to build for God a house given

I've built me a house, but not just any house, a house for his

presence, a house for God to abide in, a house for God's

power to be seen and felt in. He said I've had this desire,

but the Lord, he wouldn't let me do it.

Many brothers and sisters as I sit here in this moment of

another year, I realize that many in my generation are like,

are like the bridge between former and coming generations.

But many like myself are sitting in this moment of time where we

the adults running the show, but we still the kids to somebody

controlling the purse. Hallelujah, huh.

OK, I just want to make sure we're still in the room and as

as we sit in this moment of tension, yes, the authority may

be with those of my generation, but the influence is still with

the king. The the influence is still with

the former generation. No, no, no, don't take offense

when I say former. Former is a time reference here,

David says. I know what I've got to do, but

I can't do it. But God has given me one to do

it. Notice here in the text that God

selects with specificity. God didn't just remove Saul

because of rebellion. God raised David because of

alignment. Let me say that one more time

because it got stuck in my tongue.

I said God didn't just remove Saul because of rebellion, but

he raised David because of alignments.

So here David is as the second king, realizing the position

he's in now. He can't be like the King before

him and I can't die with the glory to God.

I can't die with a cane in my hand trying to pass it off as a

baton. I, I, I, I cannot sit in this

moment and say I'm called for this moment and not give the

rest of me for the next person in this moment.

He aligns himself, and because he aligns himself, David's

discipline is seen in how he recognizes the need for

alignment, assignment and secession.

I'm going to get there. Give me a second David who was

once the lion slaying shepherd. It's David who's later victories

came, but unnecessary violence. He was still winning, but he had

some casualties. Many brothers and sisters, some

of our previous generations won some great victories, but there

were some casualties. And it's the casualties that are

like David when God looked at her, said you are a man of war

and there's much blood for your hands.

The David says that same discipline and drive to win.

It's got to come through my seas.

It's got to come through my son. But if it's going to come

through, I've got to function in my assignment.

And my assignment is to help align the next one after me.

When we look at this, when we look at this text, when we look

at this text, you find the very first movement is the man.

Notice here, David is the second king, right?

He's giving this strong statement in front of everybody.

And as he's given this strong statement in front of everybody,

we see here a principle that I think needs to surface for all

of us in the room and online. You ready?

Every man is the ceiling to his seed, but every son must break

the floor of his father. And sometimes the hard places to

be in between the lane change because Daddy realizes he's the

ceiling, but Daddy's been comfortable because what's the

ceiling for his, for his son is the floor that gives him

footing. So David in the text stands up

with no assistance to say, I've realized that for me, I've done

all I can do physically. Hallelujah, God.

That now, in this moment, son, I'm ready for you to

breakthrough the ceiling, he says.

I realize breaking through the ceiling means I've got to fall,

he said. That I'm bracing myself for the

fall so that you can breakthrough my them brothers

and sisters. The tragedy is when the Father

refuses to give up the ground he gained.

But David understand. My hands are too bloody to

build, but my heart is full enough to bless.

As I move closer to June, I must stress the importancy of not

just Daddy's words, but Daddy's blessing.

I know that's tough because a lot of us deal with Father

wounds because we've been stuck in that little place where we've

been trying to push through the ceiling.

But Daddy said, aha, you're not going to be bigger than me, aha.

You're not going to be greater than me, Aha.

No, you're not going to have more influence than me, aha.

No, you will not have a bigger business than me.

I know you won't be a better father than me.

For some of us, we've lived in the conundrum of transition and

it has caused a lot of internal frustration under brothers and

sisters. David here shows us and one we

have to deal with the man. And once you deal with the man,

let me move on to the second movement of the text.

So then you realize that there is a plan.

I'm sorry, I'm slow rolling. I'm going to get to my hoop at

the end. Let me build a little bit more

in this cake. Your Bible in First Chronicles

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chapter 28, Glory to God verse 11 says then David gave to

Solomon. We, we read the Bible too fast.

I'm going to read it one more time so you can hear it.

Then David gave to Solomon his son.

We really so, so fast, So fast. We do, we really do.

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Verse #11 Then David gave to Solomon his son, the plan.

The pattern of the porch, and of the houses thereof, and of the

treasuries thereof, and of the upper chambers thereof, and of

the inner pilots thereof, and of the place of the mercy seat. 12

And the pattern of all that he had by the spirits of the courts

of the House of the Lord, and of all the chambers roundabout, and

of the treasuries of the House of God, and of the treasuries of

the dedicated things. The second thing.

The second movement is the plan, the plan, the plan, the plan

here, the plan here has divine blueprints and strategies.

David gave Solomon not just instruction, but he gave him a

pattern. And my dear brothers and

sisters, when we look at the word father, the father, the

word father in Latin is pater. PATER.

You know when you go to the hospital and they take a

paternity test, the test, the test, check this out is to see

what pattern is to be established.

I'm sorry. It's as good to me on the

inside. I'm trying to hold it.

And so when we look at the word father or patter that we then we

established that fathers carry a pattern for their families.

That pattern is after it's actually encrypted within their

DNA. That's why you got to be

cautious of the thoughts you think.

God, I want to preach because your thought life can travel

through your DNA, even though you don't say it with your

mouth. The Bible says that a good

father leaves in the hands to his children's children's

children. Men, we trace Scripture and we

look at how fathers and patriarchs had fathered their

families. We see that ideas, thoughts,

words, and actions are transferred from generation to

generation to generation to generate.

Come here, let me, let me give you some more nuance.

Everybody wants to talk about generational curses, but they

forget that you can have generational blessings, that it

is the Father who establishes the blessing of his life.

I'm sorry, I'm sorry, but the text shows us that David here as

the Father realizes that he has to give a pattern.

Hey, glory to God. As a patriot, He has to pass on

the pattern because he's a pattern maker.

God, I'm sorry, my birthday's been a different 1.

And so as I sit in this year, I realize that God's trying to

give a pattern, not just to me, but He's giving a pattern to

others as well. He's giving them praise the

Lord. Fathers don't just generate,

they germinate. And so they plant the pattern.

They plant the pattern in their seed.

They plant the pattern in their daughters.

I know, I know, Mama, we need you too.

But fathers, they plant the pattern.

OK, come here. Because I feel you.

Because mothers nurture the pattern.

Come that that's that's why it's not only important who your

daddy is, but who your Mama is too, because the wrong Mama will

but incorrectly nurture that pattern.

That's why they got so many people who are psychics and

spiritual because you've got a prophetic gift that has not been

nurtured properly. I'm sorry I had to go deep real

quick. We got everybody new age with

crystals and hollering at the moon.

But but they're on the wrong side.

I mean, you go into the spirit realm that it's, it's just a

thin line. It's a spirit.

That's all it is. You are either in the

heavenlies, on God's heavenlies or you over there in the demonic

realm. It's a thin line.

That's why everybody want prophecies and prophetic words.

It's easy to do. It's it is, it's you.

Let me see long enough. I give you a prophetic word.

I give you words of knowledge, dates, numbers, places.

I ain't going to tell them. I fell a story.

Rise. I'm not going to tell that

story, but I'm telling it. The mother nurtures the pattern.

The father plants the pattern, David says.

I realized in my old age I've got to plan a pattern.

OK, let me get in this guy so he has spiritual sensitivity so

that there can be an unlocking of a sacred strategy.

Check this out. David realized he didn't draft

the design. You ready?

David didn't draft the design. But David realized that the

spirit, the spirit is the one who delivered the design.

The in heavy father is a pattern.

I'm sorry. And then the Father, he must

realize that that my job is not to try to make it, try to put it

together. My job is to unlock what God's

given me. So then I can plant it in the

next 1. So David, David, David here,

David here. Make sure that we understand in

the text and verse #12 that this pattern is everything he had by

the Spirit. That this pattern is not a

pattern he has concocted after eating some spare ribs.

This pattern is not a pattern that he's come up with after

having some libations, that this pattern is not a pattern after

sitting around with some other men.

But David says that this is the pattern that God has entrusted

to me from spending time in God's presence.

I've got to get out of here now, but I want to let you know my

dear brothers and sisters, that in God has always used patterned

men in the Word come here Abraham Romans 4 and 11 tells us

that Abraham is the father of faith.

Come here, Genesis 26 and 18, Isaac, reopen generational

wealth and wealth. Come here.

Jacob in Genesis chapter 49 teaches us that fathers give

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prophetic blessings over their sons.

You know Moses, don't you? Uh huh.

Moses got a Tabernacle, according to God, giving him a

vision. And then Paul even tells us how

to have sons that didn't come from your own loans.

Paul tells us in Second Timothy chapter 1 and verse #13 that

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you've got to pattern yourself at the sound doctrine.

I've got to get out of here now, but I want to let you know that

David was helping us to realize that sometimes in our lives

we're not just inheriting treasures, but we're inheriting

templates. And so that leads me to my Third

Point here, that David, after all of this time I'm sharing

with Solomon. Solomon in front of everybody

comes down now to verse #19 and he tells his son and everybody

around him that all of this, the Lord, he made me to understand

in writing by his hand upon me, even all the works of this

pattern, that this time He makes sure we all understand.

And the third movement of the text, that it's not just me,

your daddy, it's not just me. Can I be real turtle father?

But it's the Lord who's giving all of this.

It's the Lord who's driving all of this.

It's the Lord who who's working all of this.

Your Bible. Shows us here right now that

David tells us that it's the hand of the Lord that's been

wielding here, that's been moving, that's been

orchestrating how long this so he tells tells his son.

That no man up. What you do?

Yeah. When I leave here, remember that

this didn't come from your daddy.

Remember, this didn't come from my.

Words, but this came. From the hand.

Of God. Whatever you do, boy, don't move

from the hand of God. Life may live, but say I'm done.

The hand of God, God's hand will.

Hold you. God's hand will guide you.

God's hand will govern over you. It's the hand of God.

That will conceal you, he says. Boy, don't forget that God's

hand, it communicates, communicates clarity that God's

hand will give you a pattern, a pattern and that pattern will

come. They'll come in writing.

He come on back to the text. He said all of this.

The Lord made me to understand in writing by His.

Hand up on me, he says. I need you to know that God's

hand. Confirms your.

Calling God's hand will be on. You to.

Give the direction even when nobody understands.

God's hand will be right there to catch the words when you

don't know how to say it. God's hand.

But be right there to come this way on your head, boy.

Lay on the his head, stay on the his head, 'cause when you stay

on this head, first you on this head.

Do this for real and be strong. Be a good carrot and do it.

Help me close half. Out two people.

And say do it, do it. I said half out, two people.

Do it, do it, do it, Do it, do it.

It's your time. Do it.

It's your season. Do it.

It's your moment. Do it.

Don't worry. Do it.

Don't friend. Do it.

Be strong. Do it.

Cause courage is the companion of calling.

Do it. No more fear.

Do it. No more fear.

Do it. Might not be the favorite.

Do it. It might not have should have

been you do it. You might still feel like you

can't do it. Sew it.

Sew it. Cause the Lord's hand is sand.

Sand is on you. You got to do it.

You got to start. The business you.

Got to do Hallelujah. He said don't forget God's hand

is on you. He said go do it, look at the

text. So he tells them, fear not nor

be dismayed, for the Lord God, even my God, He will be with

you. He will not fail you nor forsake

you until that has finished. All the work.

Glory to God for the service of the House of the Lord, he says.

He says you got to do it. You got to do it.

You got to do it because this faith that God's given me, it

requires follow through. And you've been assigned to

follow the man, the plan, and the hand.

You may not know Jesus and the free partner of yourself.

I invite you today to get to know for yourself.

I know I said this every week but I'm like I'm for real.

No, no, no jokes, no gimmicks. You do realize that Solomon was

not the oldest son? You do realize that Solomon is

one of about nineteen sons. Solomon ain't even of them.

He ain't even buy the first wife.

Solomon came from a situation that went wrong and he not the

first child out of that situation ship.

He's the second child. Solomon has so many complexities

to his upbringing that he's not perfect.

He's not the ideal candidate. He, he, he doesn't have all the

dots I hate on the I. He don't have all the crosses on

the T's or if you want to say the T's crossing the the i's

dotted. No, no, no, no.

He's not nuanced. Like all of that.

Solomon comes from sticky situations.

The Bible even tells us that Simon wasn't even David's

favorite son. His favorite turned on him.

His favorite was Absalom. But he says, boy, you the one,

Boy, you the one. That's what the Lord is saying

today. You the one.

I know, I know you like your weed.

You the one I I know you like to drink and you like to party.

You the one I I, I know you can't stop eating, you can't put

the food. I know you the one I know you

struggle with time management and with them finances and and

all that. But you, you the 1.

You the 1. Solomon's name means peace.

That's why we got to be careful what we name our babies because

we'll prophecy over their entire lives and not even know it.

That the child that was supposed to bring peace to a mother's

wild situation, you do know his mother's Bathsheba.

God uses peace Solomon for the next place, the next level, the

next era. That's what God's saying today.

God said I'm going to use you. I, I, I want you to get out, get

out your head because you and your own self can't can't do it.

You can't save yourself. You can't fix yourself.

Get get out of that. He says, I want you.

I want you. Listen, this may be the first

time you've ever heard this invitation.

This might be the 272nd time. I'm going to tell you something

that's so true. It doesn't matter what you think

about somebody preaching up here.

I move my tongue. What you think about somebody

with these collars on or these particular titles and seats, We

all mess up. They may not want to tell the

truth, but we all slip up now. OK, I'm sorry.

We all sometimes purposely, hazardously mess up.

The Bible says if you say you have no sin, you deceive

yourself and you're a liar. We lie to don't think for any

second. Now you know, I just did this.

I just did that. I just lied on my income tax.

I just no, no, no, don't worry about that.

God's going to cover all that. I need the blood, and He's going

to send His Spirit to start working on you.

As long as you submit, He's going to start changing you, but

He's going to change you from your mind.

That's what God wants. He wants to save your mind.

So we prayed this short prayer after us today.

We're going to do it together to show you that we're one family.

Repeat after me. Lord Jesus, come into my heart.

Save me. I want to be saved.

Lord Jesus, thank you for dying on the cross for me.

Lord Jesus, thank you for rising out of the grave for me.

Lord Jesus, thank you for soon coming again for me.

In Jesus name, Amen. Come on, put those hands

together, let's celebrate. Hallelujah.

Someone just received Jesus into the heart.

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