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Royal Choice - Kingdom Destiny

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  1. Today I want to talk to you about the royal choice.

  2. A royal choice. Say I have a destiny with the

  3. king. Say I have a destiny with the

  4. King. Aren't you glad Jesus is the

  5. king? Aren't you glad he's on the

  6. throne? Aren't you glad we don't have to

  7. vote him there? He's the Conqueror.

  8. He's always been Lord. He's always been supreme in

  9. authority. God has never been defeated.

  10. He's never lost a battle. He's never been overcome.

  11. He never will be overcome. His Kingdom will never be

  12. shaken. Hallelujah.

  13. That is the God we serve. Amen.

  14. And that should give us great confidence.

  15. I said great confidence. We said this in First

    1 Corinthians 12:18

  16. Corinthians chapter 12, verse 18, to bring our attention to

  17. this particular passage of Scripture.

  18. It's a very powerful passage of Scripture because it

  19. communicates God's involvement in our lives.

  20. And it says this, But now God has placed the members, each one

  21. of them, in the body just as he desires.

  22. What a personal connection we have with a personal God.

  23. However, this verse also lets us know there's a duality in your

  24. relationship with God, the one who sits on the throne.

  25. And that is. He knows you personally, but He

  26. never wanted you isolated. He never intended to only do a

  27. one-on-one relationship. He brought you in so that you

  28. can be empowered with others. He always had you in mind to be

  29. connected with others like you. I said others like you.

  30. Now when I say like you, I mean in loyalty, in love, in service,

  31. in identity, in Christ. But you maintain your uniqueness

  32. and your individuality. God is way too creative to have

  33. made us the same. I'm the kind of person that's

  34. not as as excited about some of the neighborhoods that have that

  35. come up in our Nation Today. You know, builders basically go

  36. into places, purchase property, and then have at least two or

  37. three variations of the same model.

  38. And so, you know, I call them cookie cutter neighborhoods and

  39. you go in and basically everyone's house is almost the

  40. same. You, you know, what's in

  41. someone's home if you buy into one of those neighborhoods

  42. because they're basically the same.

  43. God is way too creative for that.

  44. He is way too creative for that. When you just look at the DNA

  45. strand and the complexities of that and how it can develop so

  46. many variations in humans, the Lord never would have been a

  47. builder that would have gone in and had three models.

  48. It never would have happened. He is way too more involved and

  49. and detailed. That's why, you know, I like

  50. going into those neighborhoods where each home is a little bit

  51. unique, little bit different design looks a little different,

  52. you know, and again, I understand why builders do that

  53. today. It has to do with cost.

  54. It has to do with them making more on their bottom line.

  55. But the reality is, is I like the individuality, the

  56. uniqueness of homes, yet we're still in the same community.

  57. I said we're still in the same community.

  58. And God is this way when it comes to the body of Christ.

  59. He's like, I'm way too creative to make you all the same.

  60. Now there are going to be similarities.

  61. Why? Because all of us have equal

  62. access to God. I said we all have equal access

  63. to God. So when we talk about equality

  64. in God's Kingdom, we all have equal access to the throne, but

  65. we do not all live an equal life because that is predicated on

  66. your ability to believe. God will do for you all that He

  67. designed for you to do. You have to find that place and

  68. you, we all have equal access to that.

  69. However, not everyone wants to be there.

  70. But in this verse again, there's another translation.

  71. It's the remedy, and I'm just going to read it for you.

  72. It says God has built the body with all its parts right where

  73. He wanted them, all perfectly complementing each other and

  74. fulfilling their purposes for the good of the entire body.

  75. Again, we come together not to compete with one another, but to

  76. complete and to complement one another.

  77. So instead of us technically taking time to determine our

  78. weaknesses, we should always maximize in our strengths.

  79. Meaning if I find someone that you know what, they're not

  80. really strongly suited there, that's OK because God brought

  81. this one into the body who is really strong in that area.

  82. And that's why God didn't have all of us being able to do it

  83. all by ourselves. We need each other.

  84. And you know what, instead of saying, wow, they can't do this,

  85. can't do that, can't do this, we should say, look what they can

  86. do, what they can do, what they can do.

  87. Now, that doesn't mean we can't identify.

  88. Hey, I'm not picking that person to do this task because you know

  89. what, it's really not in their will house.

  90. It's not a part of their makeup. That's why God gave us this

  91. individual. That's why this person is a part

  92. of the body. And we want to celebrate

  93. everyone's gifts because God wants to celebrate everyone's

  94. giftings. Isn't that amazing?

  95. And The thing is, is that in this verse you have to ask this

  96. question. If God is placing you in the

  97. body, each one of us where He desires, then he must had a

  98. meditated thought about you before you moved into the body,

  99. which means he had to have imagined you prior to coming in

  100. for you to put somewhere on someone somewhere.

  101. It's because you already had in mind where they would fit.

  102. Amen. And so God is very detailed in

  103. essence. Look at John chapter 15 verse

    John 15:16

  104. 16. The Lord Jesus says this.

  105. You did not choose me but I man, but I chose.

  106. You are a royal choice. You have been chosen for

  107. royalty. You did not choose him but he

  108. chose you. Now notice it doesn't say period

  109. nor does the verse go on and say you didn't choose me but I chose

  110. you so that when you died you can come to heaven and live with

  111. me. No, it goes on and says you

  112. didn't choose me, but I chose you.

  113. Why Lord, and appointed you that you would go and what bear

  114. fruit, and that your fruit what would remain, so that whatever

  115. you ask, the Father in my name he may give to you.

  116. Do you understand? You can arrive at a place in the

  117. planet that when you talk to your Father in heaven all that

  118. you're asking, He will do it. Oh my goodness, I don't think we

  119. have the revelation of that. Let me try that over here.

  120. You can arrive to a place in the earth that you can ask of your

  121. heavenly Father who sits on the throne and everything you ask

  122. for, He will do it. Wow.

  123. Now you understand in some believers lives that can be a

  124. very challenging statement because there's a lot of times

  125. we're asking the Father of things and it seems as though

  126. we're not receiving them or we're not getting them or

  127. they're not coming to pass. Well, there's a reason why and

  128. we're going to see that here today.

  129. But the Bible tells us because Jesus is not a liar, Jesus can't

  130. lie. So he says whatever you ask the

  131. Father in my name, he may give it to you.

  132. So he says, listen, you didn't choose me, but I so there's

  133. something about his choice of you that has a responsibility.

  134. You have to ask Jesus, why did you choose me and why have you

  135. appointed me? What is the appointment?

  136. Appointment means I've appointed you to go and bear.

  137. Well, what's the fruit I'm supposed to bear?

  138. Now we know right out the gate that's going to be the fruits of

  139. the Spirit, because we have the Spirit within us, and you can

  140. have the Spirit upon you which induce you with power, and you

  141. should be able to operate in the 9 fruits of the Spirit, and you

  142. should bear those fruits, Amen? But there is other fruit you are

  143. to bear, which is why you are in the earth in the 1st place,

  144. Amen. Are you hearing me?

  145. Because when Jesus is choosing you, there's a reason why.

  146. And can I say it this way? He didn't choose you just

  147. because you were a Sinner. That was not his reason for

  148. choosing you. There was something long before

  149. the in God's thought process of choice prior to sin.

  150. Amen. So Jesus's assignment on the

  151. planet to forgive us of sin is not the only reason why you were

  152. chosen They Amen. Look at Luke chapter 6 verse 13.

    Luke 6:13

  153. He says this. He says and when the day came,

  154. he called his disciples to him and chose what 12 of them, whom

  155. he also named as apostles. Now notice he pulls 12 people

  156. out of the disciples that are following, which were a lot more

  157. than 12, but of those that were there, he pulls out specifically

  158. 12. And then he places the ministry

  159. gift mantle on them. Of apostle.

  160. I said of apostle. And they were going to, they

  161. were functioning in that capacity.

  162. Why are they apostles? Because they wanted it.

  163. No, he did. Because if God is choosing you,

  164. and when God does choose you and when God places you, He has

  165. something about you in mind. I said He has something about

  166. you in mind. Now.

  167. I just want you to say this with me or say this after me.

  168. Say my father has not made a mistake.

  169. He knows exactly what he destined me to do.

  170. And you need to believe that with your whole heart.

  171. Do not let the devils tell you that you are too far gone.

  172. You're too far gone because if you're far gone, you're choosing

  173. to be far gone because it's not with the Lord, because the Lord,

  174. he wants to choose you. You just have to accept it when

  175. he says, hey, I want you on my team, I want you in my family.

  176. But there's a reason I said there's a reason why He wants

  177. you there. So I want to encourage you

  178. today. Listen, know that God can do

  179. something amazing in your life because He's been thinking about

  180. you long before today, long before today.

  181. See, the new birth experience is not about a destination.

  182. It was never about a destination.

  183. It was not about where you're going to go when you die.

  184. That was never God's intent, nor the reason His church is in

  185. existence. His church is in existence so

  186. that you could discover your destiny.

  187. The Gospel is about destiny. It's about sonship.

  188. It's about being sons and daughters of God.

  189. It's about reaching the destiny God has for you in the

  190. appointment. The reason He's choosing you out

  191. of the world and placing you into His Kingdom.

  192. And God is doing this by choice. And here's the thing, God knows

  193. what's going on with you. God knew about you.

  194. But the problem is, is you only know you based upon your

  195. existence here. What do I mean by that?

  196. You know you based upon your experience.

  197. God knew you before then. Amen, Man, I pray that sinks in

  198. because a lot of times you understand, we, we, we kind of

  199. say these things because we've been a little religiously taught

  200. that, you know, humility sounds like this.

  201. Well, you know, I don't deserve it, man.

  202. I just don't. Now in sin you do not deserve

  203. because you are making choices that God's obligated to fulfill

  204. his word and keep you outside of his Kingdom.

  205. Your unrighteousness separates you from him.

  206. But God has a thing called mercy.

  207. I'm telling you, mercy's a powerful thing.

  208. He has this thing called mercy that comes out of the heart of

  209. compassion. That then gives you options

  210. because He has another obligation to His word

  211. concerning you, which means you need to quit identifying

  212. yourself with where you went wrong.

  213. And you need to start finding yourself where God knew you

  214. before you failed. He said now how can He know me

  215. before I failed? Well, we're going to see that

  216. here because most of the time we always go back to our sin life.

  217. I was just this, I did this, I did this.

  218. You know what God knew you before that sin came they Amen.

  219. In Acts chapter one verse 24 just to let you know God is is

  220. in the choosing business and choosing is not just so that you

  221. can be with him when you die. It's for assignment while on the

  222. earth. He says, and they prayed and

  223. said, you Lord, know, you Lord, who know the hearts of all men,

  224. show which one of these two you have chosen.

  225. Now notice God, Jesus comes on the planet.

  226. He has a group of disciples that are following him.

  227. Now you know John the Baptist had disciples and was talking

  228. about this one who would come, who would come that he, John

  229. baptized with water, but that this Messiah would come and

  230. baptized with the Holy Ghost and fire.

  231. And he recognized Jesus as that because the Spirit of God had

  232. told John who was the greatest prophet.

  233. He said, now when you see the one whom the Holy Spirit will

  234. come upon without measure, He's the Messiah.

  235. And so he testified, this is the Lamb that was slain before the

  236. foundation. He'll take away the sins of the

  237. world. This is the anointed one, this

  238. is the King, Amen. And so when his disciples are

  239. leaving and they're saying, hey, all your disciples are leaving

  240. and going to Jesus, John, how's that make you feel?

  241. He said I must decrease and he must because my whole ministry

  242. was just to announce He'll, it was not about me.

  243. And if we lose everybody, that's great because they should be

  244. falling. He's the one we're supposed to

  245. follow anyway. I'm not even worthy to untie the

  246. man's sandals, right? And so Jesus has these

  247. disciples, but he hand picks 12 of the 12.

  248. He has one that he knows will betray him, will betray him.

  249. And here we are in Acts chapter 1 looking for his replacement.

    Acts 1 chapter mention

  250. But notice the 12, the 11 or the 11 that are left are asking the

  251. Lord who's your pick? Notice what they didn't do.

  252. Well, I like so and so. I like such and such.

  253. You know what? This person here, this is my

  254. boat. Let me fill this position.

  255. Amen. No, it's like, Lord, who do you

  256. want in this position? Who is your choice?

  257. And it says that they cast lots for him and, and ultimately it

  258. fell to one that took the place of Judas.

  259. Now, there were some qualifications that were

  260. required there, but ultimately it was God who handpicked the

  261. replacement for Judas Iscariot. Are you hearing me?

  262. So God is in the business of choosing you and placing you.

  263. You are a royal choice. Come on, look to your neighbor

  264. say I'm a royal choice. In Acts Chapter 9 verse 15, it

    Acts 9:15

  265. says, but the Lord said to him, go, for he is a chosen, he's a

  266. lot chosen instrument of mine to bear my name before the Gentiles

  267. and kings and the sons of Israel.

  268. Now who's this person? Well, this person is Saul of

  269. Tarsus and Saul of Tarsus is a wicked religious man.

  270. He is a wicked religious man. He is trying to single handedly

  271. destroy the church to capture those who confess Christ as

  272. Lord. He believes he's doing the

  273. Lord's work and as a result of that he is crushing it.

  274. Let me say this for a quick side thought again.

  275. Political people who use scripture does not mean they're

  276. rightly dividing it. The number one misuse scripture

  277. among politicians is Matthew 25, for they say unless you do it to

  278. the least of these, but it doesn't say the least of these

  279. meaning the world. It says the least of these who

  280. are mine. Any platform that does not have

  281. the church in mind is not doing it to the least of his.

  282. And there are many believers who are following politicians using

  283. Matthew 25 that have no right to interpret it.

  284. Why do I say that? Because Paul is a religious man

  285. who had power with the governments of his time to be

  286. able to go into Israel. And he used scripture to

  287. persecute, to set up his own agenda.

  288. And man, when he does his resume, I mean, if this guy was

  289. running for political office, this guy would have a resume of

  290. what he did. And he even gives us his resume

  291. at one particular time of his life prior to Christ.

  292. But then he summed it all up with this statement.

  293. He said everything I did that I thought I was doing for the Lord

  294. and all of His scripture I was using thinking I was.

  295. It is dung. It is like one big pile of

  296. manure, 'cause once I really found Christ my Mama.

  297. And if you are Spirit filled and a studier of the Word at all,

  298. you would not be deceived by Matthew 25.

  299. Hallelujah. And here's Paul on the road to

  300. Damascus. God stops him dead in his tracks

  301. because men have testified to Paul or Saul at the time

  302. concerning the way how to be born again.

  303. He's just rejecting it. But notice the Lord had a plan.

  304. I said he had a plan and it says that talking to starts with an A

  305. come on, help me out and I and an eyes.

  306. He said you go pray for this guy and he's like, man, don't you

  307. know he's got papers that arrest all of us that are saying you're

  308. the Lord. He said he is my what chosen, oh

  309. instrument. Now Paul goes on later in

  310. Galatians and he testifies concerning this apostleship that

  311. he's been called into this thing.

  312. He was apprehended, you know, in Philippians.

  313. He said, I'm, I'm strived. I'm trying to apprehend that

  314. which I was apprehended, meaning I was going my own course and

  315. direction. I mean, I had a life planned out

  316. that was wealth, riches, honor, but it was garbage.

  317. It was outside of God's destiny and will for my life, even

  318. though I was using his scripture to try to get there.

  319. And yet he apprehends me with a calling greater than I can even

  320. imagine. He chose me the least of them

  321. all, the one that shouldn't, he said, but by the grace of God, I

  322. am what I am. I am what I am by the grace of

  323. God. And so he said, I'm trying to

  324. pursue this. And in Galatians 1, He has even

  325. further revelation concerning this revelation or Galatians

  326. 115, he said. But when God, who had set me

  327. apart even from my mother's, there is a place that God knows

  328. you before you ever sinned. It's all of Tarsus by all

  329. rights, and he emits him to himself.

  330. I was a blasphemer. If anyone should be cursed and

  331. cast into the Lake of Fire, it is when it came to sin.

  332. I was chief. I did it better than anybody.

  333. Yet Paul had revelation. There was a place in Christ,

  334. There was a place in my father's eye that he knew about me.

  335. And he already set me apart before I even did anything,

  336. before I even made a choice. He chose me.

  337. So many believers live their whole existence only identifying

  338. with their sin, their troubles, their issues, their faith, and

  339. it keeps them squandered and handicapped from accomplishing

  340. all the gods. When if you would just go back

  341. and say, what did you think about me?

  342. But but when I was in my mom's womb, how did you see me there?

  343. Man, when you get that revelation, then you won't let

  344. anybody tell you who you are. Because before I ever blew it,

  345. God knew me. Before I made a choice.

  346. God chose me before I ever did something to disappoint Him.

  347. He saw me. He had a plan for me He wanted

  348. to do. I was royally chosen.

  349. I'm in a royal bloodline before I even get out of the womb.

  350. Wow. Now I know the Bible says that

  351. all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God.

  352. The reality is we were born into the household of the King and

  353. then we chose to rebel against our family lineage.

  354. But he was compassionate, full of mercy, because he saw us

  355. before we ever made the mistake, Paul said.

  356. But when God, who set me apart even from my mother's womb, and

  357. called me through his grace, was pleased, was pleased, was

  358. pleased, was what was pleased. Do you understand that you were

  359. in a place in God that was pleasing?

  360. Before you became displeasing to Him, God first knew you under

  361. favor. God first knew you as the one

  362. who would be all that He ordained you to be.

  363. He knew you there first. I mean, if we're going to go

  364. back to remember, let's go ahead and go all the way back because

  365. too many times we're going back. It's like we need to know our

  366. sin to keep us holy. No, when I go back and say I'm

  367. holy because He knew me before I blew it, He always saw me in a

  368. place that I could be holy, that I could live holy, that I could

  369. accomplish His task. I made mistakes along the way,

  370. but God being rich in his mercy, ma'am, when when I had rebelled

  371. against my own destiny and purpose for living, He found a

  372. way of choosing me again. And when I made the choice to go

  373. to Him because He chose me, then I can get to the place that was

  374. there. But while I was being in my

  375. mom's womb. Wow.

  376. Jeremiah 1 five to seven says this before Paul says he set me

  377. apart while I was in my mother's womb.

  378. Jeremiah says it's close, but let me tell you, there's a place

  379. before you even got there. He said before you form me in

  380. the womb you knew me, and before you were born and before you

  381. were born I consecrated you God. Talking to Jeremiah, he said I

  382. have a point. Now notice you're not even in

  383. the womb yet and he's already chosen your destiny.

  384. He's chosen you. You are always a royal choice

  385. before you even get into your mother's womb, He's already

  386. chosen you and appointed you. For Jeremiah was to be a prophet

  387. to the nations. Then I then I said at last, Lord

  388. God, behold, I do not know how to speak because I'm a youth.

  389. But the Lord said to me, do not say I'm a youth because

  390. everywhere I send you, you shall go and all that I command you,

  391. you shall what speak. Meaning, son, I have this all

  392. written out before you even got into mom.

  393. I just need you to echo what you hear from me.

  394. I just need you to decree what I decree.

  395. I just need you to do what I've already said in motion before

  396. you ever got into mom. I mean, when we're talking about

  397. choice, he chose you before you got to your mom.

  398. That's not a mistake. You know how we talk about

  399. pregnancies like there's mistakes?

  400. You understand the enemy does all kind of things to kill,

  401. steal and destroy, but you understand any child forming in

  402. a womb didn't choose how they got there.

  403. Y'all don't want to hear this yet?

  404. God has already chosen them before they got there.

  405. The way they got there is irrelevant to God, because how

  406. can you get somewhere that God cannot deliver you?

  407. I am convinced that there are things in this planet today that

  408. you and I are having to do because someone chose to not let

  409. one of them come into the earth. Because this isn't God saying I

  410. knew only those who made it in. Hallelujah.

  411. I said Hallelujah. I said Hallelujah.

  412. I said Hallelujah. I mean, for every horrific story

  413. of sin in someone's life that it is shipwrecked, bankrupt, it has

  414. fallen apart. Their whole lives are in

  415. shambles because of sin and they never get out ever.

  416. There's someone who had the same experience and by the grace of

  417. God and the mercy of God came out, became different, became a

  418. child of God overcame, did the destiny because the devil cannot

  419. stop what God has already thought about you before you

  420. ever got into your mom can't do it, can't do it.

  421. Nick came up during worship today and had a unction in a

  422. spirit concerning something you know and again, as we have the

  423. gifts of the spirit and operation and moving.

  424. You know, you're always looking for the right time.

  425. And when he communicated to me what he had in his spirit, I

  426. said that fits in the message. So the spirit of the Lord would

  427. say that there's some youth in here and that you're making

  428. choices that are outside your destiny.

  429. Because later on in Jeremiah, he says that I know the plans that

  430. I have for you and you need to get into the plans he has for

  431. you. Because you're squandering

  432. precious time to try to experience a world you're not of

  433. and that God has given through compassion, mercy, and good

  434. parenting. Not perfect parenting, but good

  435. parenting to have you in the household of God so that you can

  436. hear truths from the and you can discover yourself.

  437. Why don't you become a David that didn't wait till he became

  438. an adult, but did it as a teenager?

  439. In fact, the majority of the people used within Scripture,

  440. Daniel, they were teenagers. Some scholars believe that even

  441. the apostles were teenagers because when we talk about work,

  442. we think about, you know, the US society, you know, and when

  443. you're 18, you're an adult. No, back then you working when

  444. you're young, Are you hearing me?

  445. So these could have been easily teenage boys that were running

  446. with Jesus. We know that David was just a

  447. teenager. We know that Joseph was 17 years

  448. old when God told him his destiny.

  449. So you don't want to squander precious years to experience the

  450. world you're not of because I can tell you from plenty, adults

  451. hear it and go ahead and help the youth and testify.

  452. Did the world give you everything you needed and you're

  453. glad you ran to it? Anyone want to testify and say

  454. I'm glad I ran to it? I'm glad the world was mine?

  455. OK, let me ask this question. How many of you ran to the world

  456. you knew you wanted it to answer and it would left you bankrupt

  457. and hurt? How many of that learn?

  458. You don't have to experience it yourself, because here's the

  459. thing, you can't conquer God in your sin.

  460. Hallelujah. Psalms 139 verses 13 to 16.

    Psalms 139:13–16

  461. He says you for you form my inward parts.

  462. You wove me in my mother's womb, and I will give thanks to you.

  463. I am fearfully and wonderfully made wonderful all your works,

  464. and my soul knows it well. My frame was not hidden from you

  465. when I was made in secret and skillfully wrought in the depths

  466. of the earth. Your eyes have seen my unformed

  467. substance, and in your book, and in your book, and in your book,

  468. and in your book were all say all were all say all, all

  469. written. The days that were ordained for

  470. me, when as yet there was not one of them.

  471. Before you even came out of the mother's womb, God made a royal

  472. choice to pick you. Pick you to pick you to do, to

  473. be, to become, to release, to be connected, to be jointed and

  474. fitted, to come alongside, to run with another group of chosen

  475. chosen ones. Set apart.

  476. And I'm not saying set apart from sin.

  477. I'm talking about set apart before you even made the first

  478. sin. Isn't that amazing, how our God

  479. is this way? How our God is so powerful and

  480. he leaves no details unturned? In fact, Matthew 1030 says this

  481. concerning you, he said. But the very hairs of your head

  482. are all numbered. I mean, we're talking detail,

  483. you understand? God knows everything about you

  484. more than you know about you. The detail of our Heavenly

  485. Father. He's left nothing to chance.

  486. All we have to do is reciprocate.

  487. Following after being chosen and discovering you had a plan for

  488. me before I even got into my mom.

  489. You have a book with my name on it, and all I have to do is

  490. discover what you've written. And This is why Jesus said you

  491. didn't choose me, but I chose you and appointed you to go bear

  492. fruit. And if you ask anything to my

  493. father in my name, he'll do it. Because when you're asking,

  494. you're saying, Dad, what's in your book about me?

  495. What's in what's in your book about?

  496. What does that book say? Before I came into my mother's

  497. womb? You've written them all out.

  498. What does it say? And he'll say, you'll do this,

  499. you'll say that. And This is why you'll always

  500. have whatever you ask of the Father in the name of Jesus.

  501. Because you're only fulfilling written pages.

  502. You are fulfilling written pages concerning you before you were

  503. ever born. God is obligated, meaning if you

  504. tap into the book He has your name on, then He will fulfill

  505. all those things. But if you want to have your own

  506. autobiography, God will allow you to write your own pages, but

  507. He'll judge you according to His book that He wrote concerning

  508. you. This is why when you stand

  509. before the judgment seat of Christ, the books He pulls out,

  510. the first one is the Lamb's book of life, and He verifies your

  511. names in there. He never gets that wrong.

  512. I said He never gets that wrong. Once you qualify there, he shuts

  513. that book. Then he opens up another book.

  514. It's called the book he wrote about you before you ever got

  515. into mom's womb. And then he pulls your book out,

  516. the one you actually wrote. And when he goes page by page,

  517. every cross T, every dotted I, he is very detailed.

  518. He says this that he will judge us not an idle word that we will

  519. not have to give an account to do you understand you could live

  520. it to every grammar punctuation. I'm I'm using natural thought

  521. processes here. OK, meaning you can be so in

  522. tune with the Spirit that God when he starts to flip through,

  523. because here's the thing, you started a book and then all of a

  524. sudden chapters got into that book that sinned the rebellion.

  525. But here's the good thing. When you made Jesus Lord, he

  526. ripped those papers. He ripped those pages out.

  527. You keep referring to chapters that he doesn't have in that

  528. book anymore because you're in Christ.

  529. I understand it is possible for you to be at a stand before the

  530. Lord and his book and your book match and you're like, but wait

  531. a minute, where is the failure? Where's the drunkenness for

  532. years? Where's the fornication?

  533. Where's the adultery? Where's the lying?

  534. He said, well, that's under the blood that's been removed.

  535. That's not even in the book anymore.

  536. No, those books only are showing up on the day of the Great White

  537. Throne judgement. So it's possible for you to make

  538. a choice today and He can RIP out every personal decision that

  539. you made without him so that you now can follow him the rest of

  540. your life according to his design.

  541. The royal choice. I said it's a royal choice.

  542. Look what it says here in Ephesians chapter 2 verse 10,

    Ephesians 2:10

  543. Paul writing to the church at Ephesus, he says, for we are his

  544. workmanship created in Christ. Or notice what it does not say.

  545. It does not say for heaven. It does not say for heaven.

  546. Now again, this is the verse after the one that everyone

  547. stops at, that you were saved, not of any works, lest any man

  548. shall boast, but by grace through faith.

  549. And we stopped there. I didn't do anything to deserve

  550. it. Don't have to do anything now

  551. that I'm here. But if you read the next verse,

  552. he says now you are his workmanship, meaning He has

  553. written about you before you. You encountered sin in the 1st

  554. place, and now that you are back in Christ, in the King, you're

  555. part of the family again. There are some good come on, say

  556. it good. What good?

  557. What works now? These are not works that earn

  558. salvation. These are works of faith.

  559. These are, I'm doing the pages that you wrote about me.

  560. I am going to walk them out. I'm going to hear you by the

  561. Spirit. I'm going to step where you tell

  562. me to step. I'm going to stop where you tell

  563. me to stop. I'm going to say what you tell

  564. me to say. I'm going to hold my tongue when

  565. you tell me to hold it. Amen.

  566. I'm going to release the fruits of the Spirit and not the fruits

  567. of the flesh. Hallelujah.

  568. Amen. So there are some good works

  569. which God what prepared when beforehand.

  570. So before we were going to walk in them, He's already prepared

  571. them. But in order for us to walk in

  572. them, we have to obey by faith under the grace of God.

  573. That actually causes the good works to show up now because we

  574. are in Christ. Man, isn't that amazing?

  575. I said, isn't that amazing? So when God says, listen, now

  576. God has placed you in the body, each one of them where he

  577. desires, it's because he always had in mind the original place

  578. of man. Come on, you know where it's at

  579. in Genesis chapter one verse 26 through 28.

  580. Then God said, and when God says he's obligated to have a pathway

  581. to fulfill his word. Now I say that because God will

  582. always do what He says, but what has what He has instructed to

  583. other free will creatures, those that have been created with free

  584. will, they can make their own choice.

  585. So God will fulfill His side and give you the opportunity to be

  586. back in alignment with His side, but you could choose to not be

  587. there and that's your choice, which then reciprocates to what

  588. He has said about those who choose to be against Him, and He

  589. fulfills that portion of His word.

  590. OK, but it says then God said let us make man in our image

  591. according to our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of

  592. the sea, over the birds of the sky, over the cattle, over all

  593. the earth, over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth,

  594. right? God created man in his own

  595. image, in the image of God. He created and met him, male and

  596. female. You ready?

  597. Before you formed me in my mother's womb, I knew you.

  598. So He knew who you were and what gender you would take prior to

  599. getting in, which means he never misses that God never makes that

  600. mistake. So He knows that when you get

  601. into the womb, you'll be a female.

  602. And He knows when you get into the womb you'll be a male

  603. because He knew you prior. Hallelujah.

  604. So God created him, male and female, He created them.

  605. God bless them. And God said to them, guess

  606. what? He said He didn't say I made

  607. you. I do it all.

  608. You can do nothing now that I've made you.

  609. Come on up here and live with me.

  610. No, he said, This is why you're here, Terrain.

  611. This is your purpose. This is your royal destiny.

  612. So be fruitful. Multiply, fill the earth and

  613. subdue it. Rule over the efficiency, over

  614. the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on

  615. the earth. Aren't you glad that Jesus prior

  616. to saying what God said, God created the heavens and the

  617. earth, that He saw us prior as ones who will rule and reign

  618. with him. He made a conscious choice

  619. before we ever came into the planet at whatever age, whatever

  620. time frame that he appointed us for a purpose.

  621. And he has a book of your assignment that all you have to

  622. do is choose to believe it, see yourself past your sin state and

  623. see you in the prior to womb position.

  624. Man, God's got a plan for me. Hallelujah.

  625. With that being said, let's look at first Peter 2 and verse 9.

  626. But you are a chosen lineage. I like that.

  627. I like that. Say I'm a chosen lineage.

  628. Say I'm a chosen lineage. Listen, you are royalty.

  629. You're kings of the king. He always saw you as royalty

  630. first. He never wanted you outside of

  631. that royal assignment. He never wanted you outside of

  632. that family position. He never wanted you outside of

  633. your God design, purpose and destiny for living, breathing

  634. and existing for all eternity. He never wanted you to exist

  635. beyond that. But we did all fall.

  636. We did fail. We did mess up, but God keeping

  637. his word says I'll send my own son to redeem, restore, allow

  638. man to get back in his original position of rulership.

  639. I will take on their sin so they can take on my righteousness.

  640. Then I can put them right back in the position that I always

  641. ordained for them, and that is to rule and reign, and they will

  642. be a chosen lineage. We are a chosen lineage, a royal

  643. priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God's own possession,

  644. so that we may proclaim the excellencies of him who called

  645. you out of darkness into his marvelous like.

  646. The easy read version says it this way.

  647. But you are his chosen people, the King's priest.

  648. You are a holy nation, people who belong to God.

  649. He chose you to tell about the wonderful things He has done.

  650. He brought you out of the darkness of sin into His

  651. marvelous light. Hallelujah, I said Hallelujah.

  652. And not only should we testify of what he brought us out of,

  653. but we should also testify of what His Kingdom is and what His

  654. Kingdom represents. Because as chosen ones, not only

  655. are we King's priests, which means we have authority on earth

  656. to communicate God's righteousness, and righteousness

  657. is God's way of doing things, which then gives us the

  658. assignment of ambassadors. And ambassadors do not speak on

  659. their own accord. You understand, in election

  660. cycles, I don't actually choose. The Lord instructs me who to

  661. pick. Hallelujah.

  662. I said Hallelujah, because God knows the choice, This is why,

  663. and he has to deal with man when man's trying to pick.

  664. The prophet Samuel is a man of God, loves God, anointed of God.

  665. In fact, every word that the prophet ever said came to pass.

  666. Yet the anointed king Saul has been stripped of the anointing.

  667. And the Lord says to his prophet, go pick the king, the

  668. next king, which is a man after my own heart.

  669. He said, OK, you know, if the king knows I'm going, he'll kill

  670. me. He said, this is how you're

  671. going to go. So he shows up at a man's house

  672. by the name of Jesse, who has some sons, and the first one he

  673. sees, the first one he what sees reminds him of the king,

  674. qualities of the king who just had the anointing stripped.

  675. And he says surely this is God's anointed.

  676. But the Lord speaks to him in his spirit and says this is not

  677. the guy and this is the problem. Man looks at the outward

  678. appearance, but God looks at the heart.

  679. Are you hearing me? Amen.

  680. So he says the one who I'm picking is not even in the

  681. house. Ultimate.

  682. Now, he didn't tell him that he got to the end.

  683. He's like, nobody's it, so there must be another one.

  684. You got another boy somewhere. Because I'm nothing's going off

  685. in my spirit saying we got somebody.

  686. Oh, yeah, I got one more. He's out in the field.

  687. He's the youngest. He's the what?

  688. I'm so glad that David as a teenager didn't squander his

  689. time in the pasture. I'm so glad he didn't do it.

  690. I said, I'm so glad he didn't do it.

  691. Amen. Now you could say, well, we have

  692. to let people today, you know, all their hearts are on, then go

  693. to their platforms. At that point you got to go to

  694. the platforms. What does the platforms reveal?

  695. And when you go to the platforms, then it reveals

  696. policies or the direction they want to carry because, you know,

  697. an unrighteous person can carry out a righteous policy.

  698. But a righteous person who carries out unrighteous policy

  699. is called a Pharisee and are wicked.

  700. They compromise their character. All right, Revelations 5, we'll

  701. close with this verse. In Revelations, it says this.

  702. And they sang a new song saying, you are worthy to take the

  703. scroll and to open its seals, for you were slain and have

  704. redeemed us to God by your blood, out of every tribe and

  705. tongue and people and nation. Man, that verse there gets me so

  706. jacked. This is why when I look out at

  707. Anchor Faith Church in Saint Augustine, I get excited.

  708. This is why we're a Kingdom church.

  709. I'm not a white church. I'm not a black church.

  710. I'm not a Hispanic church. I'm not a brown, I'm a Kingdom

  711. church. And it's evident.

  712. I mean, we have so many nationalities sitting here

  713. because it's being God is too creative to make us that boring.

  714. And I'm telling you as a pastor, if I looked out at the

  715. congregation and they look too much like me, I would have to

  716. get a little upset and say, what is the problem?

  717. What are we doing wrong? How come somebody that doesn't

  718. look like me but identifies with me and cries can't fellowship

  719. with me? What's the problem that's got to

  720. be fixed? We don't have to fix it here

  721. because we have it. Glory to God.

  722. This is what why? Because of out of every tribe

  723. and tongue and people and nation, we've all been redeemed

  724. because of the blood. And we are not identifying

  725. ourselves with the way we look. We identify ourselves with who

  726. we are in Christ, with what the Bible says, with what our king

  727. said. We are brothers and sisters in

  728. Christ. We have the blood of the king.

  729. Come on, we had the blood of the King then.

  730. He says this because of redemption.

  731. Guess what? You have made us kings and

  732. priests to our God, and we shall reign.

  733. Reign on the earth, man. It's time to reign now.

  734. We don't have to reign during the millennial reign.

  735. We don't have to wait to reign with the new heaven and new

  736. earth and Jerusalem comes down out of heaven.

  737. No, we get to reign in this life.

  738. And the pages of your book are available for you to accomplish

  739. now because you didn't choose Him, but He chose you before you

  740. ever got in your mother's womb. And He is faithful to get that

  741. book to come to pass in your life.

  742. All stand to your faith. Say Hallelujah.

  743. He is faithful to cause the pages of his book that he wrote

  744. about you before you ever got in your mother's womb to come to

  745. pass. He's faithful.

  746. I said he's faithful. And you know what I love the

  747. most about it is that your book is on the same shelf with my

  748. book that I get to watch you fulfill your book as you watch

  749. me fulfill my book. And you know what?

  750. It's interesting how we'll be able to flip over Chapter 4

  751. Pastor Earl and to Tyus went on a missionary trip.

  752. Pastor Earl in LG all of a sudden, your names are in my

  753. book, my band. Don't erase me out of your book.

  754. You don't want to erase me out of your book because because the

  755. things that I that's in your book about me is to help release

  756. your destiny and the things in your book help us release my

  757. destiny and fulfill a bigger vision.

  758. I don't want to have a character change.

  759. I don't want. I want you to be in chapters 345

  760. and 6:00 and all of a sudden you're nowhere else in my book.

  761. Because like Barnabas, that didn't go on with Paul.

  762. All of a sudden Silas's name shows up.

  763. Come on, let's stay in the book together.

  764. Let's do a God's account because there's 8 billion plus people on

  765. the planet. Nobody's going to reach them all

  766. by themselves. Let's reach the ones we're

  767. destined to do together.