Take the Field - Kingdom Labor

Turn over to Matthew chapter 21, starting in verse 28.

Matthew 21 · chapter mention

Matthew chapter 21, we'll start in verse 28.

Matthew 21 · chapter mention

And today I would call this message Take the Field.

Now you know, you understand in a, in a baseball term, you know,

a lot of times they go now y'all need to go take the field.

And so that means the players come out of the dugout, they get

in the field, they're there to play ball, OK.

And you know, we are to be in the game, all right, for the

Kingdom of God. We need to take the field, all

right. And if we if there's ever been a

time to take the field, it's now as the day approaches the return

of Jesus. I like what one minister says

who ministers a lot on end times.

He said it is a it's not an escape theology.

It is a hustle theology. And he anytime he's talking

about all the world events, he says so much is going on.

He said there's so much happening right now.

He said every day is another thing closer to it's it seems

imminent that we could look up and and the trumpet could sound.

And I'm telling you, you really should live at a time in this

time that it could be that way. I mean, let's just I mean, I'll

give you my age. I have no problem.

Next, next Wednesday, I'll be 56.

So I'm 55 years old, OK. And in my 55 short years on the

planet, man, has things changed. I mean, things have like crazy

increased how fast things are and if this happens for another

55 years. If it did, I mean at the at the

rate now, I don't see how you couldn't be a believer saying

he's coming in my lifetime. Now, at the end of the day, I'm

not giving you a day or an hour. No one can do that.

Only the father knows that. But we can definitely know the

season and we should not live right now on planet Earth.

Like, you know, I'm probably going to go on and I'm talking

to everyone in the room, even the oldest ones in the room.

You shouldn't live like it'd go past you because Jesus could

come back. I said he could come back in the

next 10 years. Surely you could get another 10

years. I mean, think about that.

Wouldn't you want if you knew, if you knew that you knew that

he was coming in 10 years, wouldn't you rather change

instead of picking out a coffin? Nah, just change, right?

Just like watch this man and I I was praying in the in my or

preserve today and I'm like Lord, I believe God that I am

that generation. I can be wrong, but man, I will

not come to you and you won't be able to look at me and say yeah,

you, you really didn't think I was coming.

Here's no way. I am firmly persuaded that it

can be my generation. I want to live every day like it

is my generation that'd be changed in the moment, the

twinkling of an eye, which means there's a lot to do still on the

planet. And if he does come in my

lifetime, that gives me the privilege to be in the game and

to do some really miraculous stuff in a shorter amount of

time. And I'm going to show you that

tonight. Whoo, glory to God.

I'm so excited. I wanted to preach last night's

message that I preached to the Kingdom First Business Alliance

tonight so bad. Oh my gosh, it was so amazing.

Oh, there was such an anointing to minister in the realm of

finance last night. It was crazy.

The Lord is so good. You should come to king, the

first business alliance. It's amazing.

Anyway, Matthew chapter 21, verse 28, let me stay focused

Matthew 21:28

for tonight. Take the field.

OK? What do you think a man had how

many sons? Two sons and he came to the 1st

and said, son, go work today in the vineyard.

And he answered, I will not. But afterward he what?

He regretted it and went, The man came to the second son.

Why? Because the first one said, I'm

not doing it. So he comes to the second son

and he said the same thing. And he answered, I will, Sir.

But he did not go. Which of the two did the will of

his father and they said the first Jesus said truly I say to

you that the tax collectors and prostitutes will get into the

Kingdom of God before you. Wow.

Now he was speaking to a bunch of church folk when he was

making that statement. People who now when I say

church, it isn't the church he's building.

It was the the Jewish religious leaders that were a part of the

synagogue. And he was basically letting

them know that there's a group coming into the Kingdom before

you're coming because you're saying I'll do it, but you don't

do it. But there's a group that's like,

we don't want nothing to do with it.

And then realize, man, we need to do that.

And he says there are going to be these prostitutes and others,

tax collectors, these people that you have that you see as

loathsome and they are outside of God's Kingdom.

They are deserving, you know, of the Lake of Fire.

But they're going to come and do the will of the Father and

they're getting him first. So we see here, he says again at

the beginning of this passage, he's telling them, he says,

look, there's a vineyard, sons, that I need you to work.

OK, Now I want to say something here before I get to this other

passage here in a second. This does not mean harvest only

a vineyard has to be worked before harvest can come.

Everyone wants to see harvest without first working the field.

If all you're going to do is sit and say where's the harvest,

then no harvest is coming because you're not in the

vineyard working it. You have to work the vineyard,

you have to work the field. Now let's look at this First

1 Corinthians 3:6–9

Corinthians chapter 3 verses 6 to 9 says this.

He said I planted Paul talking Apollo's watered, but God caught

was causing the growth. So then neither the one who

plants nor the one who waters is anything but God who causes the

growth. Now he who plants and he who

waters are one, but each one will receive his own reward

according to his own labor. For we are God's fellow workers.

You are God's field, God's building.

So what's Paul saying here? Paul's saying is that God said

to me, my father said, Son, get in the vineyard, go work it.

And one thing that I needed to do to work in order for us to

have the fruit of a vineyard is I needed to plant seeds.

But guess what? Seeds in a field without water

will not produce. So Apollos came in behind and he

watered. Now the power of the seed and

the power of the water over the seed only increase because of

the power of God. I don't give power to the seed,

nor does Apollos give power to the seed through water.

God's the one working the increase, but God's using US in

the field so that fruit can show up and a harvest can be there.

And guess what? As I'm planting and he's

watering, and I'm planting and he's watering, or he plants and

I water, whatever takes place, each of us are going to receive

our own reward according to our own labor.

Now this labor is not a labor of salvation.

This is not I'm working here, Lord, so you can recognize me.

Look, all the good things I do so I can be with you forever.

No, you're not even in. He's asking you to get into the

field because you are part of His house.

So this is not sonship issue. This is the Father's business.

It's His business. And His business is that His

disciples would go and bear fruit and that their fruit would

remain. And He wants His disciples in

the field, planting, watering, so God can cause the increase.

Guess what? Right here is no planting in

here, no watering. Now there's watering of the word

you're growing yourself, don't get me wrong.

But the field is outside the building.

In essence, really when you come here, it's me saying, hey, we

have a field available to plant water in this Saturday.

It's called Osceola. I have a field called Osceola on

March 7th and we need some people to go plant and water.

Pastor Angie, would you stand up?

She's going to she overseas US make a difference day.

So if you're interested, we have 13 people signed up.

But if you're interested, you can pop by, see her, let her

know you're coming. She can tell you how you can

register so we get people's name.

But listen, there's the field now.

Are you going to be the child that says, well, I come, OK,

maybe I'm just being too bold tonight, but maybe I'm just

going to keep being this bold because we cannot produce a

church that is lazy, lethargic, and not committed to the

community or to the work of the Father.

You want to retire, go to heaven.

Until then, it's time to be fruitful.

It's time to be fruitful. I said it's time to be fruitful.

And even if you just do with 30 minutes, I mean, or find

yourself out of all the things that we do in the community and

have fields out there, it you should be at you.

We should go through a year and you should say, man, I've been

in a couple of fields. This is not the only place you

should be. Now, that doesn't mean your own

sectors of society are not fields.

And I know they are. So don't get me wrong.

I'm not saying if you don't do something with Anchor Faith

Church, that you're not in the field.

If when you go to work tomorrow, guess what, welcome to the

field. I get that.

However, there is some things that we need to do as a body

within our community that begins to demonstrate that there are

people that are connected to the Kingdom of God that wants to see

our community change. So much so that those sectors of

society would call on us and say, can you help us?

And man, when the world starts to call on you, what do you do?

Do you answer or do you say, you know what?

I'm busy. I got something else to do.

I'm 'cause I'm telling you, if you want to harvest and when

harvest hits, you can't stay home.

When, when the when the fruit is ripe or it will die on the vine

and all of your labor to get fruit will have been wasted

'cause it can rot in a field. And we don't want that.

I do not want people to rot in our community because we were

unwilling to get up and go to a field.

Are you hearing what I'm saying? OK, so we're going to take the

field tonight. All right?

Now look at this over here in Matthew chapter 20.

Matthew 20 · chapter mention

Matthew chapter 20. We'll start in verse 1.

Matthew 20 · chapter mention

I feel like Apostle Marcy, I'm going to throw out a whole lot

of scripture tonight, OK. And and Pastor Mike, who's a

great teacher. Aren't you glad that we have

gifts in the body? And there's different

expressions how we how we minister the words.

So they're not everybody's cookie cutter doing the exact

same thing. Let me tell you something.

We, our staff are not echoes. They do not pair it.

They get the word, they hear the word and they deliver it in the

giftings that they are, they've been assigned.

I'm not a parrot. I'm not an echo.

I'm hearing the voice of God and sending it out in the gift that

God's called me to do. And all the gifts are necessary.

Look for the Kingdom of heaven is what for the Kingdom of

heaven is. For the Kingdom of heaven is for

the Kingdom of heaven is for the Kingdom of heaven is.

This is teaching us how the Kingdom functions and the

Kingdom of heaven is not stuck in heaven.

Heaven is a place, earth is a place, and the Kingdom can be in

both. And Jesus when he says the

Kingdom of heaven is like or the Kingdom of God is like, what

he's saying is here's a principle that you can function

in right now because Jesus said repent for the Kingdom of heaven

is at hand. It's within your midst.

So he's like, do you want the Kingdom of heaven to be within

your midst? Let me give you an example.

Here's a parable. It's like this, a landowner who

went out early in the morning to what?

Hire laborers for his, for his what?

And when I read that today because I had another scripture

I was going to start with, and but I'll end with it.

I was going to start with it. And I read it to myself.

And then I went over here and I said, oh, this is a problem.

I hadn't seen that all this time.

I'm assuming I'm thinking because harvest, harvest,

harvest, harvest is in our minds so much harvest, harvest,

harvest that the landowner is hiring these people to get a

harvest in. But it doesn't say that.

It just says to work the vineyard.

And vineyards are worked not only at harvest time.

You've got to trim vines. You've got to prune, fertilize,

water, pluck things out. In fact, vineyards, because

they're vines, you have to help, you know, bond some of their

vines up. So because they droop too long.

I mean, you know, I'm not a great guy and I do not study

wineries, OK? I've seen them.

I've been in their vineyards. I've even gone to some wineries

without ever tasting it. And that's true 'cause I don't

drink wine. But with that being said,

there's more of a process and he's just asking for laborers to

work his vineyard. This may not be Harvest, Tom.

So verse 2. And when they had agreed with a

laborer for a denarius, for a denarius for the day, he sent

them into the vineyard. And he went about the third hour

and saw others standing idle in the marketplace.

And to those he said, you also go to the vineyard, and whatever

is right, I'll give you. And so they went.

And again he went about the 6th hour and the 9th hour and did

the same thing. And about the 11th hour he went

out and found others standing around and he said to them, why

have you been standing here idle all day long?

Now look at their answer. He said, be he, They said to

him, because no one has hired us.

He said to them, go, you go into the vineyard too.

Now before I go on to this, other parts of Scripture, they

answer him about idleness, that we aren't idle, we just haven't

been hired. So these weren't people who were

lazy. These weren't people who showed

up after lunch because he said why you been hanging out idle

all day. Because when the landowner came,

he had in his mind how many laborers he thought he would

need for his vineyard. So he hires right out the

beginning of the day, which means there were more there than

just the ones he hired. And he took them and they

started to work. And he began to realize, huh, we

might need some more. So he goes back to the same

place, and there are still people there that maybe to his

surprise, well, not every landowner needed everybody

today. And there's still some good

news. Come work with me in the third

hour. Come work with me in the sixth

hour. Come work with me in the ninth

hour. And there's only one hour left.

And he's like, we could use some more.

Why is he going back into town for an hour?

I mean, seriously, why could this landowner say, I have been

to the marketplace at the beginning of the day, the third

hour, the 6th hour, the night there I have had four rounds of

hiring. I have one hour left.

Why would I waste my time to leave the field and go back to

the marketplace to see if anyone else is there?

But he does, I said, but he does and he sees some and he's like,

y'all been just hanging out all day.

What y'all idle for? And they go, no Sir, not us.

We've been here all day just looking for the opportunity.

And he says, go get my field. Now here's the thing that Bishop

Tony from India, when he came here and informed us because

again this is Eastern things, they had a Daenerys today.

But what he was saying to them was you go to my field, which

means what? Tomorrow you're in my field and

the next day you're in my field and you'll be in my field till

harvest comes. That's why they would wait all

day because if they were able to get in anyone's field, it was

work till the harvest came in. Now the Bible doesn't tell us

when harvest is coming. It's just go work the vineyard.

But now they have been hired and the only way they're not going

to stay in this field is if they fail to perform in the field

they've been assigned. Oh y'all should write that down.

The only reason why they are not going to be in this field is if

they fail to perform in the field they have been hired or

assigned to. Are you hearing what I'm saying?

So it says when evening came, because obviously they did day

wage there. And it says this when evening

came, the owner of the vineyard said to the foreman, call the

laborers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last

group to the 1st. And when those hired about the

11th hour came, each one received what he paid them, not

for their idleness, but for their patient endurance.

Come on. Right, 'cause he asked them.

Y'all idle all day. Someone just said, yeah.

I mean, I, I, I got up late. It was a long night.

I just thought I'd show up here. You know, it's kind of hoping

nobody was coming. I'm really surprised you're

here, you know, 'cause then I could go sneak back home to my

wife and say, you know, didn't get hired today, 'cause I've

been boozing it up in a bar or I was hanging out with some guys

and now I show up in the last hour to make it look like I'm

trying to get a job, right? You know, I'll get to service a

little bit later. I'll leave a little bit earlier.

OK. So when the first came, they

gave him a Daenerys. Now when they receipt it says

and when those first came they thought that they will receive

more. But each of them also received a

denarius. And when they received it they

grumbled at the landowner saying the last men have only worked

one hour and you have made them equal to us who have bore the

burden in the scorching heat of the day.

But he answered and said to them, Friend, I am doing you no

wrong. Did you not agree with me for

denarius? Take what is yours.

Go. But I wish to give to the last

man the same as you. Is it not lawful for me to do

what I wish with my own, with what is my own?

He said, Is your I envious because I am generous?

So the last shall be first and the first shall be last.

So here is a group of people that he is saying, listen, I

need you to get in the field. They're getting into the field

based upon the the very first one is the only ones that he

negotiated a clear expectation of what they will receive.

The rest he said I'll give what's right will give us right,

will give us right because it says and he did this the 6th and

the 9th. But the next group he said y'all

go in the field and they did. They didn't even ask.

They didn't say what are we going to give for an hour.

They were just thankful to be in the field.

They were just thankful that the owner was willing to call them

to call them out and move them into purpose.

Are you hearing me? Well, there's a few things we

can learn from this. The first thing is all hands

need to be on deck in the last of the last days.

It is not a time for us to idly let the world go by and just go

and let the fields go by without us saying, Lord, what field You

need me working today because every day is a day you can work

a field. The next thing we need to know

is this. If you are receiving what has

been spoken and agreed upon, then rejoice.

And here's the thing about when you when God asks you to do

something for him, come serve me, come follow me.

He will let you know what is available to you because he's a

good Father. Jesus will let you know what's

your covenant right? What you have access to, what He

wants to be at your disposal so that you can accomplish what

He's asking you to accomplish in the field He's assigned to you.

And when it comes in, you should rejoice.

Glory to God, not look at what someone else is doing in a field

and become envious, right? Rejoice.

Each receives their reward regardless the time, which just

tells me about God. God is God is not concerned

about unions. But God does want you faithful

once you put your hand to the plow.

See, when you put your hand to the plow, God wants you

faithful, and he doesn't want you looking back, taking breaks,

burying your talent so you can go do your own deal.

And then when he comes later, say I gave you back exactly what

you gave me, say Hallelujah. Hallelujah.

Because again, Christ has paid too big of a price for us and

has given us His nature. And out of that nature it's easy

for us. Again, I am not working fields

because I have to. I work fields because I am

excited through my nature 'cause it's in the nature of my King.

And my King only had one awesome desire.

Didn't you know I'd be about my Father's business?

It is just natural for me to want to be about my father's

business because it was about my King's business.

And my King's nature is in me. And I'm not doing this to

impress Dad. I'm doing this because I love

Dad, because I want to be the son that and and as his son, I

have said to Dad, man, I don't want to do that.

Just like Jesus said to dad, I really don't want to do that,

but not my will, but your will be done.

So we'll do it anyway, right. There's been many a Sunday

mornings like you, I didn't want to come.

There's been many things that you know, somebody calls and

there's something you're like, I really don't want to go.

I really don't want to have this conversation.

I don't really want to deal with that conflict.

But not my will. His will be done and the great

shows up and He's pleased with me because my life's not my own.

And I want to get in the field and affect the field.

I want to plant water wherever I need to, to be effective for my

God, my King, my Lord, my Savior, and my Father who is in

heaven. That's good.

See, in the end, we need everyone in their gift doing

their part to bring in the harvest.

And harvest comes in only after you've taken time to actually

work the field and prepare it to be a harvest.

You understand, people who come into the Kingdom do not come

just because we say something once.

Many of you did not get born again the first time you heard

about Jesus. In fact, the first time you

heard about Jesus, like, whatever.

Shut up. You know, religious junk, right?

You drank a little bit more, slept a little bit more, do a

few more drugs, all kinds of stuff.

You're like, forget that. That's stupid, right?

I mean, Evelyn, stand up. I mean her, her, her, her

coworker asked you how many, how many times?

Over 60 invitations. Come to church with me.

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. No.

But what was he doing? Planting, watering, planting,

watering, planting, watering. He kept going to work in that

field and she kept showing up because she loved the money.

The money that was helping her with her family and he was

saying there's something bigger than the money and and there's

someone who can help you with your problems and the stuff

you're going. Why don't you just come to

church with me? I'm thankful he worked the field

because this woman has been a blessing and and she's just one

of it. Many in this room that you could

say, I can look at all of you and say how much of A blessing

you've been to our lives because somebody was in your field

planting it, the word in your heart, watering that thing.

And God all the while was bringing the increase.

And when you were in your bed sleeping, God was talking to

you, reminding you there was something better.

And then on the 60th time and and it could be tell me if I'm

right. Yes.

So you'll quit talking to me? I found out last night that

Evelyn came to church on June the 7th, 2009.

Anchor Fete Church when we were over in Cobblestone and it was

her official last service. She came with her husband and

she all intentions. She told me this last time.

I'm like I didn't know this. She came to church on June the

7th, 2009. It was her fifth time she has

met the obligation that she put in her own mind.

So I said you can't experience us in one service.

You got to come back. At least she's like, oh, I'm

obligated now, fine, I'll come. So she's at her fifth time and

she's like, I'm when I leave today, I'm telling Ernie I'm

never coming back. We're done.

But guess what happened? On June 7th, 2009, we preached

the Kingdom of God for the very first time.

And Evelyn said it changed my life and I'm like, where else am

I going to go? And now it's 2026.

Evelyn's on the back row. Got a little Baptist roots in

her. But other than that, are you

hearing me? Aren't you glad somebody was

working your field? They didn't get tired, they

didn't give up. I shudder to think of the fields

that have been abandoned because the believer quit going about

the father's business because at 58 times decided I'm done with

her, she's never coming. And he was 2 asks away.

Hallelujah. Are you hearing me?

Oh, this is good stuff. So we all need to come in.

So do not. Now, you understand, there's a

type and shadow here that I need us to get.

And I have used this in our leadership teaching with the

church because we've been here 22 years come April since we

lost the church. And there are some people who've

been here the whole time and we've had tears of people that

have been here that different times.

And I have to let you know, if you've been here for a while,

you have labored, you have you have shared the burden and the

scorching heap of different trials.

But make no mistake, somebody can show up here and I've only

been here a year and they can get a word from God, get up on

this platform and be being used by the gifts of the Spirit.

So we don't want to be envious because it seems like, wow, this

person is functioning in a way that I've been here so long, how

come I don't do that? Because in the end, God needs

all of us on deck in the field. What you need to do is you need

to rejoice that they are being used and that God in this small

sliver of time wants to pour out on them the the measure that

you're receiving yourself. Because if we look at the

denarius as the reward of the Kingdom, wouldn't you want

anyone to get the reward, whether it was 20 years in the

faith or three months? And in these last days, we don't

have the time. If He's coming, we don't have

the time anymore to be able to raise them up through certain

trials and tribulations that took you.

We are going to have to. God's going to accelerate those

purposes. That way we all can be fit to

work the field and bring in that harvest before the trumpet

sounds, whatever that looks like.

Hallelujah. So you know, you should rejoice

when you see new people and they're like excited and they

want to get working. What you shouldn't do is say,

well, I've done Osceola the last five or six years, Let the young

people do it. That shouldn't be your thought.

Whether you go or not is not predicated on let the new

people. That's not why we do something.

It could be that, you know, you're doing something else with

the ministry. You're in another field, pretty

consistent, and now you can't do that.

I mean, I remember when I went to PCI, Putnam Correction

Institute, what time is it? Putnam Correction Institute.

And I was there every month and then we went to twice a month,

right, Ernie? And then we're there and I'm

like, I mean, I went every month pastoring the church.

I mean, I'm doing all kinds of stuff, but I'm going there and

I'm rocking. Well, then we're building teams

and other people are gone and now I'm not going as often.

And then I found out I didn't even go for three years once

because we have a member in our church that was there and then

got out, came here new people, but had never met me.

And I was shocked. I'm like, has it been three

years? Oh my gosh.

It's not because I was like, well, I'm done with that.

I'm retiring. I will never go to prison.

No, it's a mandate from Scripture.

I was in prison and you visited me.

I still go. I still get opportunities to go.

And man, I want to go. I want to get up in there and

see them. Just like I want to go see a

widow. I want to go see orphans.

I want to go feed. I haven't been to Dynamo Dignity

in a while, but guess what, dining with dignity, you know,

we started that. I've been a few times, but man,

people were out there in that field working it.

I got this testimony for mom Don this week.

This is powerful. Let me read this to you because

this is what happened when when you're working the field and you

are a faithful laborer. I got to put on my bionic eyes

real quick says this. I might read the whole whole

thing, but we there were 59 people that were that they fed

on this past Monday. OK.

And so Joe Patron who overseas Dining with Dignity, that's not

Anchor Faith Church. It's a whole different

organization. We just do the first Monday of

the month. OK, So Joe Patron contacted Don

and asked if our Monday night Dining with dignity team could

train a new team. In essence, they shadow us.

OK. And so obviously he said sure,

no problem. And so there were there are 25

teams total. So this is a new church within

Saint Johns County and Anchor Faith Church.

Joe was said was chosen as the best dining with dignity model

in our community to train another team.

Now, when I say that that has nothing to do with me, that has

to do with us. I mean, what parent, what parent

would not when their child wins a game or spelling bee or

something like you're awesome. How awesome is that?

That doesn't mean the parents like, yeah, I'm the best parent

in the world. Look at my child, when I'm

talking about Don, I'm talking about the leadership, I'm

talking about those who are overseeing it.

I'm talking about the group that's running with that.

I'm not even there, but they are running this thing so awesome

that Joe's like, listen, they are really a great team to to

flow with and they shadowed us and they worked and then they

got to pray with them and all kinds of stuff.

They laid out the standard of how we did it and they, the

pastor said to Don and Michelle said Joe told us that Anchor

Faith Church runs like a well oiled machine.

Well, I'm rejoicing the Lord for that.

And as a church we should rejoice in the word Lord for

that. Because you want to run at such

a place in such a way that you can be bold enough like Paul and

say you want to imitate you imitate me as I imitate Christ.

We want to raise up teams that become such a standard that

other churches would say these people exhibit the Kingdom

culture and man, we want to go and learn from that, grow from

that, and then let's replicate it.

Because I would suspect that these guys could get so awesome

that Joe then says, man, I got a couple of groups you could

shadow. Because what anchor faith train

those people are reciprocating. And in that what God wants is

that he can train us by the Holy Ghost so that we reciprocate him

in the earth at such a level that it's like little Jesus is

all over the place, right? It's Christ in us.

The work that he did we get to do.

And this is wreaking havoc on the devil.

It's wreaking havoc havoc. We're not afraid of the field.

I said we're not afraid of the field.

And so I'm thankful for those who are going in the field.

Now with that being said, turn to Isaiah chapter 5.

Isaiah 5 · chapter mention

Say Amen. In Isaiah chapter 5, we'll start

Isaiah 5 · chapter mention

in verse one. God takes His field seriously.

OK, in Isaiah 5, one through 7, this is the Old Testament con

Old Testament passage, but it has New Testament impact.

Can you always interpret the Old Testament in light of the new?

We're in a new and better covenant, which really means

we're in a more responsible covenant with less excuses.

And I might have to teach on that a little bit later because

we say new and better people act like it's easier and do less,

and that's not the new covenant. The new covenant is I have less,

I have less excuse in this covenant than the old covenant

people did because I am born of God and the Holy Ghost does live

in me and God speaks to me himself and confirms the things

that are being. I'm being instructed my nature's

different. Unlike the old covenant people,

They're trying to earn identity. We function from identity,

totally different. Which means the Lord's like,

what's your excuse? You're one of my children.

You have my nature. I've given you my spirit.

It's not stuck up in a box or a temple.

He's in you. Oh, all right.

Let me sing now for my well beloved, a song of my beloved

concerning my his vineyard. My well beloved had a vineyard

on a fertile hill. Isaiah the prophet saying he dug

it all around, removed its stones and planted it with the

choicest bonds. What kind of bonds?

The best of the best of the best.

And he built a tower in the middle of it.

And he also hewed out a wine bat in it.

Then he expected it to produce good grapes, but it produced

only worthless ones, he says. And now all inhabitants of

Jerusalem, men of Judah, judge between me and my vineyard, what

more was there to do for my vineyard that I have not done in

it? Why then I why, when I expected

it to produce good grapes, did I did it produce worthless ones?

Oh, yeah. Wow.

So now let me tell you what I'm going to do to my vineyard.

I will remove its heads and it will be consumed.

I will break down its walls and it will become trampled ground.

I will lay it waste. It will not be pruned or hoed,

but briars and thorns will come up.

I will also charge the clouds to rain.

No rain on it. He's talking about his nation,

Israel, specifically Jerusalem and Judea.

Judah here. He had that.

He's given them everything to produce the culture of the

Kingdom and yet they only wanted to produce the cultures around

them. In essence, in my vineyard I

expect my culture. Cause Israel had the Creator as

their king. There was no excuse for them to

live like the rest of the nations.

In fact, if you read Deuteronomy 28, he tells us that you'll be

such an example that the nations will look to you.

So when he planted this vineyard and he put his people in it, His

covenant people, he expected it to produce.

It's the culture, so much so that the other nations would be

drawn to its light. So God is serious about what is

being produced within His vineyard.

Are you hearing what I'm saying? Now look at this passage in

Matthew 2133 to 46. Here's the thing.

If we do not take the field for Him, He will take the field from

us. If we do not take the field for

him, he will take the field from us.

He said listen to another parable.

There was a landowner who planted a vineyard and put a

wall around it and dug a wine press in it and build a tower.

Sounds a lot like Isaiah and rented it out to vine growers

and went on a journey. In essence, he said, I need you

to labor in my vineyard, it says, and when the harvest time

approached, which means they were in the vineyard before

harvest came, they were responsible to work it.

When the harvest time approached, he sent his slave to

the vine growers to receive its produce.

The vine growers looked to his slaves and beat 1 and killed

another and stoned the third. Oh, again, he sent another group

of slaves larger than the first, and they did the same thing to

him. But afterwards he sent his son

to them, saying, they will what? Respect my son?

And when the vine growers saw the son, they said among

themselves, this is the air. Come, let us kill him and seize

his inheritance. Oh my gosh, whose vineyard is

it? The landowner, the master?

Again, we just saw this with Isaiah.

And in essence, this parable, the Lord is basically saying,

the slaves I sent were my prophets.

I sent my prophets. They came to talk to you and you

just killed them. And now here's my son, which

Jesus is, that's me. And he's just telling his

disciples what's going to happen, right?

So Jesus is talking about himself and they took him, threw

him out of the vineyard and killed him.

Now verse 40 Therefore, when the owner of the vineyard comes,

what will he do to those vine growers?

And they said to him, he will bring those wretched wretcheds

to a wretched end and will rent out the vineyard to A to other

vine growers who will pay him the proceeds at the proper

season. When we're working the field,

it's not for us, it's for him. All fruit is his and if we don't

understand, we're having the responsibility to go in these

different sectors of society and fields to be a example, knowing

we're not representing us, we're representing the owner of the

field and how we work. This field represents him and we

want this field to look amazing. You want, we want Saint

Augustine to look so amazing that if we left, they would feel

we were gone. They would regret this church

wasn't here. They'd regret it because of how

we work those fields, our attitude, our actions, our

behavior, our attention to detail, all of this.

I mean, I was just recently at a particular restaurant.

There are quite a few waitresses and waiters that I have been

influencing with the Kingdom for quite some time.

Well, there's this one particular one that I went was

going to the restroom and stopped and was talking to him a

little bit and they were saying how they weren't feeling well.

And in my spirit the Lord said pray for him.

Now I have not prayed for him up to this point all this time.

I've demonstrated the Kingdom in multiple other ways, but the

Lord gave me an in route with his name, meaning for his name's

sake to invoke the name of Jesus.

So I looked down and said, hey, and they all know that I'm the

pastor here and they go online. I know.

And many of their lifestyles are not conducive to the culture of

the Kingdom, but they're drawn. I get it.

And I said, hey, can I pray for you?

And they said, yeah. And so I prayed with them right

there in the restaurant, right there in the restaurant.

Didn't belabor, didn't go long. Because I know our authority.

I know the authority of the name of Jesus said in the name of

Jesus, Amen. Now I've not honestly, I went

out of town after that, so I technically I haven't even seen

the individual after that. I can't wait to see him and say,

hey, remember the other day when I prayed with you?

How'd that go, 'cause I expect him to say, you know, that night

I was better 'cause I said, Lord, you let him know the name

of Jesus is the healer. I'm working that field.

Nice guy, but I know things are going on in his life.

Why 'cause it's amazing how people just talk to you.

I have many confessional times while ordering unsweet teeth and

I don't mind it. Look, I don't mind it.

Why 'cause I'm in the field, 'cause when I'm here, I'm not in

the field. When I'm here, I'm empowering

you to be in the field. We're hearing from heaven so

that we can go out into the field.

So these are the few places that I get to go because most of the

time I'm training and equipping Saints more so than I'm out and

about. OK, But he goes on and says this

Jesus says, did you ever read the Scripture?

The stone which the builders rejected, they became the chief

cornerstone, and this came from the Lord.

And it is marvelous in our eyes. Therefore I say to you that the

Kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a

people producing the fruit of it now.

And he who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, but

whomever it falls, it will scatter him like dust.

Let's keep reading then the chief that's the religious, the

chief priests and the Pharisees heard this parable.

They what what they do. They understood that he was

speaking about them. So you know what somebody come

to me and say, well, I think you're preaching about me.

Maybe I am. Maybe the Lord wants it that

pointed without us actually calling your name out.

And if you understand it is what should you do?

Repent 'cause if you don't, then you'll be like the Pharisees.

And what's the next thing when they then when they thought he's

speaking, when they knew he's speaking about him, when they

sought to seize him, they feared the people because they

considered him. So they were like, let's kill

this guy now. And I'm sure people have walked

out of here not wanting me to continue to live.

That's not I'm serious. Because the Word is going to do

something in your life. Because a life outside of the

Kingdom of God is not conducive to the Kingdom of God.

If it was, then really there'd be really no reason for God to

have to have anyone saved. Just come like you are.

Salvation is irrelevant, but it's a change of being.

What do we learn from this passage?

We cannot become a church that is in a community that is doing

everything to get guests to show up, but really have no heart for

our community. If this is the only place people

are being saved, we are failing. And I would even say this, if

this is the only place that people are making a confession,

they may just be being converted.

They could be saying something with their mouth and their

hearts. Far from it.

God never designed us just to win loss.

God designed us to change, transform, and then go into our

world and be the light that shines on a consistent basis.

Honestly, people, you should be bringing people to church that

when the altar call comes, you're say, I know you're

already saved, but let's let everybody know this happened

today, this week at work and you just come down with them that we

can testify. So and so got born again this

week at work. So and so got born again and

then our water baptism should be overflowing with people.

Last scripture is this, which I thought I was going to start

with, but we'll end Matthew 9. Hallelujah.

My watch just said it looks like you fell.

Is there an emergency? I'm OK, I did not fall.

Hallelujah. Probably shouldn't wear the

Apple Watch anymore. I wish it would make this a

workout. You know, I tried that one time.

I'm like, I move so much. I should get a workout out of

this. So I hit it as a workout, you

know, but then I would slow enough this like, do you want to

pause your workout? I'm like, so I quit doing that.

Hallelujah. Matthew 9 here we go.

We're closing Matthew 93738. And he said to him.

Then he said to his disciples, are you his disciple?

Are you? Then you better listen to this.

Then, he said to his disciples. The harvest is plentiful, but

the workers are few. Therefore beseech the Lord of

the harvest to send out workers into his field.

Coach Hurley, Coach Taylor with SJA or in the field of

cultivating young men in athletics, and our youth pastor.

Pastor Chase wanted to be a part of the planting and watering and

gained permission to put a box in the dugout and he put a

sticker, the current put a sticker anchor Faith Church, a

little lock on it with a code and filled it with sour gummies,

seeds, you know, things that baseball people.

And he said, the coach told me today, he said the all the sour

candy's gone. He said it made it to the third

inning, he said, But we scored more runs that game.

I said we'll make sure we get a lot of gummies up in there.

Don't think something that simple, though, demonstrates the

Kingdom. We care about you.

We'll bring provision to you. We notice you, but you have to

be thinking about the field. And Pastor Chase first started

over there by just taking photos and then posting them.

And they would see themselves and like it and open the door

that they would start coming to service.

But what's he doing? He's taking the field as they

take the field champion their lives because at the end of the

day, they may go through multiple seasons, graduate and

go on, and we don't see that they came to the Lord.

But one day, one day that person to come by as a laborer for

Jesus and they'll come into the Kingdom.

When they come into the Kingdom, God will remind them of every

one of those opportunities and they'll say I'll remember When

work in the field, every day is monotonous, it can be tiring, it

can be full of trouble, it's sweat.

But the day's coming that there's harvest.

And I do not want Anchor Faith Church to miss out on a harvest

because we were sitting here waiting for a harvest and not in

a field working for a harvest. When I say working, we were Co

laboring with Christ to touch people's lives.