Vision Sunday 2025: A Great House

Amen, and Amen, somebody give the Lord a handclapp.

Listen.

I just because I got the microphone and I get

to do whatever I want to do. I want to

just I want to give a little praise report to

you guys. Some of y'all know that I've just taken

my help a little more consciously and intentionally over the

last several months. And I woke up yesterday morning and

got on the scale and I was under three hundred

pounds for the first time in over a decade. And

I want to thank y'all for the encouragement. Listen. You

just don't know how much it means when you know

somebody's on a journey and you encourage them come on now,

it means so much. It meant so much to me.

So thank y'all for that. Some of y'all, I mean,

are on your own. Y'all got up this morning. Some

of y'all brush your hair for the first time in

a year. So thank y'all for that. Amen, And I

just want to encourage that you look nice and you're

smiling today. Love y'all so much. If you got a Bible,

go to Luke chapter fifteen. Luke chapter fifteen and I'm

going to kind of wrap our Sunday like I try

to do. I don't always do a good job. I

may not today either, but we'll try to wrap it

in a message that the Lord has given me. We've

achieved some amazing things over the last year because of

your commitment, your dedication, your faithfulness, and because Jesus is

who he says he is. And Luke, chapter fifteen, let's

start reading in verse eight Luke fifteen, Verse eight, or

what woman having ten silver coins if she loses one coin,

does not light a lamp, sweep the house and search

carefully until she finds it. And when she has found it,

she calls her friends and neighbors together, saying, rejoice with me,

for I have found the peace which I lost. Father.

Thank you for your word. It's the only change agent

on the face of the planet. And I pray that

right now, in this moment, not later today, but in

this moment, that you plant the seeds of transformation the

fabric of our soul. Lord, that today we leave here

a little more like you and a little less like us, Lord,

and that we do our part to make a difference

in the world around us. In Jesus' name. Amen. You know,

one of the one of the cool things is as

we continue to progress and we continue to try to

fulfill the vision of God and we add different teams

to accomplish that vision, we are we're so blessed to

have people that are are are great leaders and great

workers on these teams. As a matter of fact, we've

launched a couple we launched a couple of three new

teams last year and we have a total of seventeen

teams that operate on a weekly basis right here at Cornerstone.

In addition to that, we also have our food pantry

team which operates twice well, I guess you guys operate

every week too. We just people just don't see it

because y'all are doing something all the time. Uh. There

is a place for you to serve right here at

Cornerstone Tabernacle. There is a place for you to get involved.

And if we don't have the ministry that you're looking for,

if we don't have the team and the place for

you to serve, then let us know what's in your

heart and we'll either find a way to uh to

create that team or find a place where you can

serve and fulfill that mission and that purpose, because let

me tell you something, We're not the only place in

the Kingdom of God. Amen.

And if something's on the inside of you and you

have a.

Burning desire to serve and to accomplish that, we want

to help resource you so that you can serve and

do that thing that God has put on the inside

of you. So so let us know what you're looking for,

because we believe that that the number one principle of

discipleship is service. We're we're not a church where we

think you have to learn something else before you can

do something.

Come on, now, once you.

Learn that Jesus saved you, you are ready to be

activated in service. So we got seventeen teams. Listen, we

baptized thirty four people last year. Thirty four people baptized

last year. That's that's that's pretty cool. I mean, you know,

we're the Bible says that people were added to the

church daily in the Book of Acts, and that's where

we need to move to. So you know, we need

to be getting three hundred and sixty five people baptized

a year. But hey, we had to start somewhere, right,

So that's so we got a tithe. Off of that, amen,

we're almost ten percent there. So so that's that's something

to celebrate. Thirty four people baptized. Your total giving last year?

Your total giving last year was four hundred and six thousand,

three hundred and forty nine dollars. Y'all not as excited

about that as I am. That's that's impressive. I mean,

look around at your neighbors. Did you think they had

that much money?

I didn't.

But listen, when we do things together, we can accomplish

what God has put in our hearts to do. But

out of that, listen to this number. This number absolutely

blows me away. And this is the heart of Cornerstone

and the people of Cornerstone. From that four hundred and six,

three hundred and forty nine dollars, we gave sixty five thousand,

five hundred and sixty eight dollars to missions. That means

that we sowed it away from ourselves in order to

impact people. Now, let me tell you this is when

we say missions, that doesn't mean that we're writing a

check and sending it overseas, and that's all that means.

As a matter of fact, I think that a lot

of churches do that as an excuse not to do anything.

Come on, somebody, but there is more to kingdom work

than just writing a check. That is money that not

just was sent overseas. Now, now listen, this is gonna

and you'll see where the Lord is pointing us and

carrying us. We sent less money overseas this year than

we ever have. So we sent less money overseas than

we ever have in the history of our church. That

money was spent and invested in our community. That money

was invested in feeding people. Now let me hold on, y'all,

won't really clap and just say it. Let me get there, y'all,

get in ahead on me. Let me talk about our

food pantry. Our food pantry served one thousand and seven

hundred and sixty families. You fed one thousand, seven hundred

and sixty families.

In twenty twenty four.

That's eight thousand, two hundred and twenty six individuals. Now,

I want you to just compartmentalize that for just a moment,

over eight thousand people were able to get the basic

need met because of your generosity and the heart of

generosity at this church. That just blows me away. That

people have the opportunity to have those needs met.

And it's what Jesus did.

Jesus found felt needs and and he met felt needs

before he preached everywhere he went. He healed the sick,

and then he preached. He fed the hungry, and he preached.

He delivered the people that were bound, and then he preached.

He earned a right to speak into people's lives. And

every one of those families that we've sewn into, we're

slowly building the right to be able to speak into

their lives. Come on, somebody and listen. It's your faithfulness.

It's your generosity that did that. Your generosity made that possible.

And what wasn't just it wasn't just the food paintry.

We were also able to help families right here that

call Cornerstone their home. We were able to help people

that just found themselves in in tough spots. Come on now, Uh,

you know one of the great things. And uh, as

a matter of fact, if our board members that are here,

if you guys would stand up, go ahead and stand up,

if you're here for real, This is not all of them,

I guess the rest of them laid out.

Uh.

But but uh, but but our board has taken on

an additional role through our Help's portal. Oh yeah, y'all

can sit down. That is by the right hand cloup

for y'all. Uh but uh uh, but they are involved

in the Help's Portal. So when those needs from the

community or inside our congregation come in and listen, the

way you find the helps portal. Listen, everybody, Connye Kathy

just get nervous when I start giving out web addresses

where we give away money.

But it's siman Jesus.

We do the Jesus thing. Uh. But you can find

that by going to seastone dot church slash help, seastone

dash seastone dot church slash help. And that's how you

access the Help's Portal. And when those come in, these

men of God, they pray about it, they discuss it,

and they're able to help meet those needs within the

framework of our budget. And they did an exceptional job

of being able to help and and and really be

able to pour into lives in our community. So I

want to thank you, gentlemen for your leadership and your

friendship and your service. It is an honor to serve

shoulder to shoulder with you, guys. And then in addition

to that money that's not even recorded here. Our pastor

Gary has also been very instrumental in helping people in

the community through a foundation that he has. Uh. So

I love you, brother, and I thank you, thank you

for the generosity that's in your heart. So if you

need money, go see him right after church. Uh. He

carries a pocket full of five hundred dollars bills all

the time. But anyway, so, uh, those are pretty amazing

things that we have been able to do right here

at Cornerstone over the last few years. And there's other

things we did or just over the last year, there's

other things, but listen, I mean, you know, we had

to fixed stuff, and we had to expand stuff, and

we had to improve stuff and declorate stuff and all

those things, and those things are important.

But lives are what's important.

The lives are what's important. And every single number that

I've given you is a life impacted. And we are Listen,

I am unapologetically about numbers because every number has a name,

and every name has a soul. And that's why we

want to continue to see people come into the Kingdom

of God, because Jesus died for people. Amen. Uh, And

that's what it's about. So those are some things that

we did. And you know, when we when we read

this passage of scripture that we just read, this woman

left and she lost a silver coin. It was a

thing of great value. It was one tenth of everything

she had, and she lost it. And the reality was

is she knew where to look because she lost it

in her house, and she began to do some things

in her house. And I wanted to give you just

a picture of the kind of house. We are a

house of generosity, a house that has compassion on the hurting,

broken people of our community. And that is that is

just rabidly on fire and passionate about seeing people have

a grace collision with Jesus. And that's the kind of

house in and when you start looking for things in

the house, you know where to look because that's what

the house looks like. And this woman, when she lost

her coin, she began to try to find that thing

of value. And in this house there are things of

value that have been misplaced. In this house, there are

still things of value that have not yet been uncovered.

There's pieces of value inside you as an individual, gifts

and talents that are on the inside of you that

have yet to be revealed, and you have to continue

to look and looking ahead to this year. There are

some things that I have looked in the house and

I have begun to see some things that we need

to address. Come on, somebody, And one of those things

is that we are we are absolutely less that God

has sent the families to our church that He has sent.

And when we drill down and we take a close

look at at the families that in ourch that that

are in our church, it's very evident and very easy

to see that God has sent us a very large

percentage of families that have children that have special needs.

And you've heard me share my heart about this before,

and you've heard me say we're going to do something,

We're gonna do something, We're going to do something. Well,

I want you to know that now is the time

that we start doing that. So we're going to be

launching a brand new ministry, a brand new team right

here in our church. It's still just it's still probably

four weeks away from coming online. We still have to

do some training and some recruiting and some of those things.

But we're calling it the Buddy's Team, and it is

a ministry that will be able to help support our

special needs families and our special needs children and adults

with the help they need. Because let me tell you something,

if God sends people here, we are responsible for discipling

every single person that God sends here. And just because

somebody learns at a different pace or a different level,

or in a different way, it doesn't mean they're excluded

from us trying to find a way to be able

to help disciple people. For too long, we've just kind

of ignored things that just didn't happen the way we

wanted to do them. And we're going to start doing

the things the way we need to do them. In

order to address everyone that God has sent to us,

I will every single person, regardless of development, regardless of age,

and regardless of need, that when they pull into this

parking lot, that when they pull into this parking lot

and they see that building, that they at least know

that the people inside that building love me and they

protect me. And it's a place I want to be

because that's how Jesus loved people. And we need your

help with this ministry. We need your help with this team.

Now.

Listen, it is something that you need to be called

to because I don't have time to pastor your hurt feelings. Amen,

So you need to be called to this ministry because

it's a hard ministry.

It's a difficult ministry, but.

I know that God has the people right here in

order to make this a successful ministry. We're going to

be meeting with with with all of the families look

that that that that line up in this category and

sitting down and filling out what we call a passport.

So we're going to get some detailed information from every

family to be able to know certain triggers and something

certain comfort measures and all of those things. And then

we're going to pair an individual with every special needs

child that we have in our church so that they

can have the experience they need and that their families

can have a worship experience that they need when they

get here, because it is it is a hard load

that some of our families carry, and they do it

so exceptionally well, and I am so impressed and so

amazed that often I just find myself weeping because of

the incredible parents that God has sent right here to

Cornerstone Tabernacle. And I want to come alongside you and

we want to help you and be everything we can

for you. Amen. Amen. So brand new team we're launching

is the Buddies Team, and I'm excited about that. So

you're going to be hearing about it every week for

the next few weeks as we bring that online. I'm

just wondering right now. Now, don't raise your hand, don't

raise your hand, but I'm just wondering if there's anybody

in here right now that is interested in serving on

a team like that, If that's you and that's just

kind of awakened your heart, if something just kind of

like jumped on the inside of you, I want you

to come find me after service today and have a

conversation with me about that. Because I believe that that

God is speaking to you, and you know who you are.

God is speaking to you. I don't have to point

out your call, your name, but God's speaking to you.

So I want you to come and have a conversation

with me about that. A second brand new team we're

going to be launching this year's called the Legacy Team.

The Legacy Team is about people who have the spiritual

gift of giving. You know, there are a lot of

things we want to accomplish, Uh, there's a there's a

lot of dreams that God has put in our hearts,

and there is what we call the vision gap. In

other words, we have this much come on, somebody, we

have this much money and we want to do this,

and between there and there, there's a gap. A man,

that's why. I mean, you know, I really thought somebody

was gonna win that lottery and pay tithe, but that

didn't happen, So we got to do it the real way. UH,

and just believe God to continue to UH to raise

the lid on people's leadership, ability, skills, and favor in

their workplace so that they can continue to grow and

be more successful as kingdom citizens. But the Legacy Team

is going to be a place where if you have

the gift, the spiritual gift of giving, it's going to

be a place where you can identify that gift and

use that gift by getting some additional information and understanding

where we're headed and what we're doing in a more

detailed way. Because many of you, I can sit here

and talk about the details of some projects and it

bores you out of your mind. But people that have

the spiritual gift of giving want to see the future

they want to see where we're headed because they're interested

in using that spiritual gift to leave a legacy.

See here's the reality.

Some of us, our legacy is through music, like Mary

Lana has a gift of music, and her legacy is

the impact she makes when she sings. Come on, somebody,

you know. Some people their legacy is administration, like Pastor

Clay and he just make He's just so good at

organizing things and he's setting up that legacy. We all

have different areas that we serve, but one area that

the church fails most people is in the area of

giving because we give everybody the exact same opportunity. We

give everybody the exact same opportunity that we're going to

pass an orange bucket and throw some money in there,

and that is how you express that gift. But we

don't do that with any other gift in the church.

We create special paths and special teams for those gifts

to be expressed. And now we're going to do that

in the area of giving as well. So the Legacy

Team is something that's going to be coming on and

we're going to have our very first Legacy Team gathering

in the middle of February. So if you test it, listen,

if you've been through Engage and you tested with the

spiritual gift of giving, you're going to get some information

from me. If I have seen the spiritual gift of

giving in your life, You're going to get some contact

from me if you want to. If you think you're

a giver, if you think that's the team you belong on,

you need to come have a conversation with me, because

it's possible that I've just missed that gift in your life.

So have that conversation with me. Those are a couple

of new teams that we're going to start in twenty

twenty five. And I'm excited about both of those teams

because it gives us an opportunity to do things better. Amen. Amen,

Now I know, y'all, I know that's the sleepy part.

Nobody likes lists and all those things. So let me

get back to this passage of scripture. It says this

woman having ten silver coins, she lost one, and she

little lamp, and she swept the house, and she searched

carefully until she found it. And when she found it,

she called her friends and neighbors together, saying, rejoice with

me for I have found the peace which I lost.

You know, she in the process of working and trying

to find that thing of value, that thing that is

on the inside of you that you don't know where

it is. Either, she didn't have to worry about the

things that people have to worry about when they lose

something in the world. There was nobody else that was

going to get there first, come on somebody, and she

didn't have to worry about someone coming to harmor because

she was in the safety of her home as she

looked for that thing of value. And that's one thing

that we want to do a better job off here

is creating that thing of safety. Now listen, I know

that everybody comes for Vision Sunday to hear about what

we're doing next and what we're gonna do better and

the new things we're gonna do. But the reality is

we only do four things here. That's all we do.

That's all we ever do is four things. We experience God,

we walk in freedom, we find our play so that

we can live with purpose. That's it. So on Vision Sunday,

you're always gonna hear about those things. So buckle up.

I'm going to tell you about some old things. How

many football fans we got in the room. I'm a

huge football fan, and you know I'm a huge Florida

State fan. So it has not been a good twenty

twenty four for me. It was bad. And I watched

that team play a team that did not lose one

regular season game last year, and then we roll into

twenty twenty four and it was like they had never

seen a football game before. But I realized that these

guys didn't forget the game of football in a year,

but what they did forget was the fundamental.

Pieces of football.

I'm pretty sure that if I had played against Florida State,

they couldn't have even tackled me. And I'm an old man.

As a matter of fact, I fell off the sidewalk

this week and hurt my elbow. But we forget sometimes

it's all about what's next, and we forget those fundamental

things that we do. But this woman was able to

search and look for that valuable coin because she was

in the safety of her home. And that's groups.

Listen.

Groups offer the safety for you to dig and to

find that piece of value that you have.

Yet to discover, that thing that you know is there.

We all know there's something more on the inside, that

there's got to be more, that there's something that we

keep striving for and looking for, and that it's out

there somewhere, and groups help you discover that.

Groups help give you the safety so that you can begin.

To explore and try new things, with the accountability to

pull you back when you get too far out, and

the encouragement to go a little further when you have

it go far enough. See, groups are able to give

you that safety so that you can begin to look

for that thing of value. Because I want you to

express and to find the complete value that's in your lives.

And some of you haven't found it yet. As a

matter of fact, some people you've come from such a brutal, hurtful,

traumatic past that people have overlooked the value in you

because of the things that you have done or the

victim that you have made people think you are. But

there is value in you. And God hasn't given up

on you. He hasn't forgotten about you. There's still more

for you to do. Have a purpose and a desk.

God have made me yell this morning. See, it's about

finding that silver that we hadn't found yet, that buried piece,

that thing that's there that we just have to look for.

She was in her house and it says that she

started sweeping. You know, I know that I could probably

find things better if I got.

A broom at my house when I lost something.

Amen, But that's not the first thing that comes to

my mind when I'm looking for something. I never think

that I dropped it on the floor, to be honest

with you, I never think about it being in a

place where, you know, maybe there's some dust bunnies that

have gathered. We got this annoying little dog on, this

little Pomeranian that is like, it's not possible with the

amount of hair she loses, it should not be possible

for her to still have hair. She should be bald.

But there's like balls of hair her size.

That are just all over my house.

And you get the broom and you start sweeping, and

they just fly away and scatter into smaller.

Pieces that are in.

And you just have to sweep and sweep and sweep

and sweep, because in order to find those things that

you lost, you got to move the debris that's gathered

out of the way. And this woman, when she started

looking for her thing of value. The first thing she

did was she started cleaning up the areas that she

has neglected and overlooked, those spiritual disciplines in our lives,

those fundamentals of the faith that many of us are

so busy that those systematic habit things are the first

things to go. Amen. Don't raise your hand. How many

of you you.

Set your New Year's resolution?

Listen, if you were resolute about it, it wouldn't you wouldn't.

Have to do it at the New year.

Amen. So it's not really a resolution, but you decided, Hey,

this year, I'm gonna get up every morning and pray.

This year, I'm gonna read the Bible every day. It's

January the fifth, and I bet, for if I had

a show of hands, you've already you already messed it up.

And here's what we think. Oh, I was gonna read

one chapter a day. Now it's the fifth I'm five

chapters behind. So I'm just gonna catch it up. And

that's great if you do catch it up. But the

reality of a spiritual discipline is that you're disciplined enough

to make it happen every single day or every single

week or whatever. That spiritual discipline is and two of

those spiritual disciplines that I think that we miss the most.

Number one is prayer, because prayer is one of the

most important things we do because it is our communication

method with God. And some of us think we're in

a passionate, loving relationship with Jesus, but we never talk

to him. You have to learn to talk to Jesus.

You have to learn to pray and not just throw

a want list out to him, but have a conversation

with him and spend time listening. So in order to

help facilitate those things, starting in January, and we're gonna

we're gonna launch the very first Sunday in January twenty

one Days of Prayer. We're gonna have a twenty one

day prayer focus that will be guided prayer. We're gonna

have prayer time to we gather and meet and pray

right here in the building. It is going to be

do what I said, Yeah, I mean February. Thank you

for that. Yeah, he usually annoys me, but he actually

was helpful that time. But February, in February, we're gonna

do the twenty one days of Prayer. Now listen, if

you want to accompany the twenty one days of prayer

with twenty one days of fasting.

You can do that as well. That's up to you.

I'm not asking you to do that. But if you

want to take your twenty one days of prayer to

the next level by adding fasting, you absolutely can do that.

But listen, here are the rules.

If you are adding twenty one days of fasting to

your twenty one days of prayer, you cannot correct anybody

over what they choose to fast or what they eat.

Come on, somebody, listen.

Every time I've ever been around a church fast people

do more arguing about what they can and can't eat

than they do praying. Listen, that's not what it's about.

It's not about it's not about the details and the

technicalities of it. It's about getting in alignment with the

Lord and beating back some of those primal desires that

we have that get in front of him in our lives.

So if you're gonna pray, if you want to do

the Daniel fast, just define what that is. If somebody

comes up to you and says, oh, I'm fast in

Facebook for twenty one days, don't say you can't fast Facebook.

You got fast food.

If they want fast Facebook, let them fast Facebook. If

they want to fast talking to you, let them fast

talking to you. If everybody's fast and getting their feelings hurt,

over that twenty one days, amen. And during that twenty

one days of prayer, we're gonna teach on praying, We're

going to pray, we're gonna do some gra And here's

the really cool thing is that right in in the

middle of the twenty one days of Prayer is our

next town hall meeting. That's where we take those live

questions from the stage and we answer those things live.

So Pastor Gary's going to be up here on the

stage with me during that next town hall because listen,

if you need to if you want to find if

you want to know how to pray, talk to him.

That man knows how to talk to Jesus better than

anybody I know. He makes my prayer life look like

I'm an amateur. Well I probably am, but he makes

me look that way too, Amen. But so that's going

to be right in the middle. So start forming your

questions about prayer right now you can. I'm not even

going to attempt to give that web address. Next week

we'll have the web address up where you can submit

your questions. If you want to submit them ahead of time.

Pastor Clau will probably come out here and just whip

it off his head and tell you what that web

address is. I don't know it. So we're going to

go into twenty one days of Prayer in February, and

then we're going to follow that up by the ninety

day Tithe Challenge. Now, the ninety Day Tithe Challenge is

for those of you who have always struggled with giving.

It is an opportunity for you to do exactly what

the Bible says and test God in the area of giving.

When you search through scripture, the only area of our

lives that God says, test me in this is in

the area of giving. He says, test me in this,

and see if I want to open the windows of

heaven and pour out a blessing for you that you

won't have room enough to contain. When we enter into

the spiritual discipline of tithing, it opens our lives up

to receive blessing and to receive god God's out pouring

into our lives in a way that we have never

experienced before. It's not about the money, It's about the heart.

The reason God says test me in this, it's because

he knows, because he created us that where our treasure

is there, our heart is also. So he says, test

me in this, and see if your heart is not

connected to me in a whole deeper another way than

it has ever been through that. And listen, here's the

cool thing, ninety day time challenge. If you get to

the end of that ninety days, we're going to start it.

It'll start in March. If you get to the end

of ninety days and you have faithfully tithed and God

has not blessed you, God has not done anything in

your life, We'll give you your money back. I believe

God is who he says he is. I believe if

he says test me in this and I'll do this,

that he'll do it. And if you get to the

end of the ninety days, just call it, just call

it a savings account. Amen. If you get to the

end of the ninety days and God hasn't blessed you,

God hasn't done anything for you, we will write you

a check and give you your tithe back. Because I

know you can't get to the end of ninety days

without using by using these spiritual disciplines and get to

the end of that ninety days and God hasn't changed

you in some way. It's impossible. Everybody, look at me.

Stop doing whatever you do. Look at me. It's impossible.

It's impossible for you to do what God has asked

you to do when he makes a promise about it

and he doesn't fulfill his promise because God cannot lie.

He cannot lie. So that's why we're doing this for

you to be able to awaken that spiritual gift of

giving and that spiritual discipline of giving in your lives.

And here's the thing. If you don't do it, I

ain't kicking you out of the church. Listen, somebody said,

somebody I heard somebody say the other day. Oh yeah,

I usually have a friend that goes at show. He said,

you talk about money a lot. Me Listen, I tell

you I do talk about money a lot. I talk

about the fact that if you give, God will bless you.

We talk about the needs that are present. But I

don't care if you give or not. I personally don't

care if you're a liar or not. I personally don't

care if you are a thief or a cheat. I

love you anyway. I teach those things, and I care

about those things because Jesus cares about those things. And

if you want to line up in obedience, it changes

your life. If you don't, it's okay. I'm going to

love you anyway. It's not going to change my relationship

with you. I'm not gonna be hurt at you. I'm

just going to continue to share the truth with you. Amen,

that's it. I didn't write any of it. I'm just

the paper boy.

I just deliver it. You're upset with the news, don't

get mad at the paper boy.

He just brought it. He didn't write it. I love you,

and we want to challenge you in the area of

these spiritual disciplines because God has something better for you.

And then she ends Pastor Clay, You guys, come and

get ready. She says, hey, when I find it. When

she looked, she swept. She was in the safety of

her home, she little lamp. She got some revelations. She

knew where it was bad, and when she found it,

she did something amazing. She called all of her friends.

You know, when I find valuable stuff, I usually don't

call y'all because I don't I want to have to

take you to lunch. Amen. But she found it, and

she called them all together and she said, rejoice with

me because I found something that I didn't have. I

found something that I had misplaced. And I want to

tell you, in twenty twenty five, we're gonna help you

find some things you didn't know you.

Had and some things that were misplaced.

You're going to begin to live this life and fall

more passionately in love with Jesus than you ever have.

And you're gonna suddenly wake up one day and you're

gonna say, hey, y'all, come rejoice with me because I

found my peace. They're gonna say, hey, hey, come rejoice

with me because I found my god image.

I don't think I'm disgusting.

I don't think i'm a loser anymore, because God has

showed me who I am. Hey, come and rejoice with me.

Because I've discovered my destiny, that thing that God created

me for, that my purpose.

And I'm gonna live out my purpose.

And now that I found my purpose, I'm alive more

than I've ever been alive before. Come and rejoice with

me because I have found something I didn't know I had.

Come and find and come and rejoice with me, because

you can find it too, and I found it in

this house. And over the next year, we're going to

operate under this theme. We're gonna help you build a

great house in the world where you live, and we're

gonna build a great house where we come to worship.

And in twenty twenty.

Five at Cornerstone Tabernacle, our theme and our mission is

the great House, a great house of honor, where we

learn to honor one another, honor God, and honor the

destiny that's on the inside of us. In Second Timothy

chapter two, verse it says, but in a great house,

I believe this is a great house, and it's gonna

be better. I believe your home where you live, I

believe it's a great house, but it's gonna be better.

I believe you you're good parents, but you're gonna become

great parents. I believe you're good neighbors, but you're gonna

become great neighbors. I believe that the next level from

good is great. And as we learn to come together

and celebrate and worship in this great house, it'll spill

over and it'll help your house become the great house

that you desire for it to be, that your marriage

will be better that y'all y'all not ready for me today.

Second Timothy, Chapter two, verse twenty. It says, but in

a great house there are not only vessels of gold

and silver, but also of wood and clay, some for

honor and some for dishonor. You know, there's some very

honorable people in this house right now, and there's some

dishonorable people in this house right now. Just the fact

of the.

Matter, we're not all where we need to be.

Therefore, if anyone cleanses himself from the ladder, if anyone

gets the broom and starts sweeping, come on, somebody. If

somebody lights the lamp so they can see in the

dark corner, if somebody will will begin to look for

that thing of value, they'll cleansing them. If they'll cleanse

themselves from the ladder, he will be a vessel of honor.

It doesn't matter what you've done, where you've been, who

you've hurt, who you've been hurt by, who you've lied to,

who you've cheated, who you fill in the blank. If

you clean those things up through some spiritual discipline in

your life, get involved in a group, serve on a tea.

If you'll get those things in order, you can become

a vessel of honor, sanctified and useful for the Master,

prepared for every.

Say, every for every good work. How many of you here.

Looks back over the past. If I'm just talking spiritually,

I'm not mean if we at all? If we had

all invested in Google when it went public, Amen, where

would we be.

If we'd done that with Microsoft or IBM?

We all have that point that we look at and said,

only if, only if I had in that moment, only

if I would have done this, or only if I

would have done that.

This is an only if moment.

Because God is going to prepare you for every good

work that you won't miss an opportunity to sow into

someone's life, that you won't miss, an opportunity to have

a conversation. Listen. God gave one to a dream a

week or so ago, and she shared that dream with me.

She wrote that dream about how she took the dream

was that it was after church, not my preaching. Was

after church people were gone, and somebody came up and said, Hey,

I need to be saved. And one that was trying

to have a conversation with her, and it was disruption

after disruption, annoyance, interference, distraction, trying to rob her of

that moment where she was able to help someone have

a grace collision with Jesus. And when I read that,

I thought, oh my goodness, one I didn't even know

what I was preaching today, but she gave me the

perfect illustration. God is setting you up for every good work,

that as you live in your great house, that God

will make it a house for both honorable and dishonorable vessels,

because the dishonorable can be transformed when you talk about

the cleansing power of Jesus and growing your influence in

people's lives. I've never been more excited for you in

my whole life. I shared this morning that I have

often said the best is she had to come.

I am I saying all the time.

A lot of times I'm thinking that because man, I

just got to say something in a faith motion. Amen,

Because there are times when I look and I'm like, man,

am I even the God to lead this church?

Anymore?

Am I the God to preach the next message? Am I? Even?

Am I even a good dad?

Am I?

A good husband.

Am I a and I think those things, and I've

made those statements by faith. The best is yet to come.

But I want to tell you, as I stand here

on this stage right now, that I'm not speaking it

by faith. I'm speaking it with assurance, knowing that God

is working and moving, that the best is yet to come,

that the best for you and the best for Cornerstone

is yet to come. And this is his year, this

is the year of the Lord, if you'll give it

to him. Everybody's staying with me all over the building.

And if you're here Alter team, you don't have to come.

I mean, if you want to respond to the Altra call,

you can come. You don't have to come and get ready.

But if you're here this morning, you say, Pastor, I'm ready.

I'm gonna light the lamp, I'm gonna grab the broom,

I'm gonna start sweeping some areas in my life. I

want to see things that I've never seen before so

that I can have things I've never had before.

I want to embrace what's next.

And I want to live. I want to live in

the atmosphere of the Great House, seeing God build things

around me that I never thought possible, getting over those

things that have handicapped you and held you down, moving

past all of those anxieties, those moments of depression, and

stepping into the fullness of God. If that's you, I'm

gonna count to three. And when I count to three,

if you would say, hey, I'm ready for next. I'm

ready for the next. I'm ready to leave things behind,

clean my life up, grab those spiritual disciplines. I'm ready

to look ahead to the future and be everything God

wants me to be. When I get to three, I

want you to move. Don't look to see if anybody.

Else is moving.

Don't walk into your destiny. Run into your destiny. Don't

look to see if anybody else wants destiny. It doesn't matter.

I ain't come to preach to everybody today. I just

came to preach to somebody. So on the count of three,

if that's you, I want you to make your way

to the front. I want to pray for you. On

the count of three, step out and move one, two, three, Step.

Out and move right now.

If that's you, when you get here, lift your hands

and begin to worship. Lift your hands and begin to worship.

Don't stand right up against the steps so that I

have time to room to walk through there.

Especially y'all, are you all ready?

Let's do it.