The Greatest - Kingdom Serving

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Now enjoy this message. Say the greatest.

Come on, say the greatest. Turn over to Matthew chapter 20.

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We'll start in verse 20. Amen.

And I'm going to talk to you about the greatest today.

It says this. And the mother of Zebedee's sons

came and came to him. That's Jesus with her sons

kneeling down, asking something from him.

And he said to her, what do you wish?

And she said to him, grant that these two sons of mine may sit

one on your right hand and one on your left hand in your

Kingdom. But Jesus answer says you do not

know what you ask. Are you able to drink the cup

that I'm about to drink and be baptized with the baptism that

I'm about to be baptized with? And they said to him, we are

able. You know you're always able

before the problem shows up, he said to them, though you will

indeed drink my cup and be baptized with the baptism that

I'm baptized with, but to sit on my right hand and on my left is

not mine to give, but it is for those.

For whom it is prepared? By my Father.

Jesus doesn't even tell you where you go.

That's up to the Father. When it comes to Kingdom

assignments. Are you hearing me?

And when the 10 heard it, they were greatly displeased with the

two brothers. So again, when they heard about

one wanting to be on the right and one on the left, the other

ten got what they were displayed.

In essence, a little jealous. Competition among the 12.

Are you hearing me? I want to be the guy.

I want to be the guy. I want to be the guy.

You know it's still in the church today, but Jesus called

to himself and said, you know that the rulers of the Gentiles

lorded over them, and those who are who are great exercise

authority over them. Yet it shall not say, shall not

be so among you. But whoever desires to become

great, say great. Notice Jesus didn't rebuke

greatness. He didn't rebuke it.

He didn't rebuke the desire to be great.

So there's nothing wrong with wanting to be great.

But if you want to be great in the Kingdom, you got to do it

Kingdom way in fact. We could almost say that Jesus

is encouraging you to be great. He's saying I've quit looking at

the world's example. It's the wrong way to be great

in the Kingdom. There's another way.

I said in the Kingdom, there's another way, right?

He said it's not going to be this way among you.

But whoever desires to become great among you, let him be your

servant. And whoever desires to be first

among you, which he had no problem with, somebody wanted to

be first. Let him be your slave, just as

the Son of Man did not come to serve but or to be served, but

to serve and to give his life a ransom for many.

Now let's look at a Luke chapter 22 account.

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Luke 22 account. Amen.

Hallelujah. Now again, if I was preaching on

joy right now. See what I'm saying?

See, this is really important to me because, again, we shouldn't

be prompted through a particular line of scripture to have a

response. When the word resonates as

truth, we should have a response.

Amen. Hallelujah.

Are you hearing what I'm saying? So it's very important, man.

Every truth when you're when you begin to see it, that should

prompt the Amen out of you. A Hallelujah.

It could get you to laugh for a moment.

I mean, you can receive that with joy, because not everyone

who receives something with joy lasts.

In fact, the very first seed sown is received with joy.

But when the trouble comes, it dies.

I said it dies. Joy has this place.

But joy is not the only expression of the spirit, I said

It's not the only expression. It needs to be an expression.

You should be happy person. We shouldn't be depressed.

I mean, depression should not be associated with us, not when you

have the greater one on the inside.

But joy is one of the fruits of the spirit.

There are others. That we should eat just as much

tap into. In fact, the Kingdom of God is

righteousness, peace. And I believe it's a

progression. Yeah, that's right.

You're not going to be able to have joy in the Holy Ghost if

you're not righteous. And righteousness will produce

peace and peace will cause you to have joy.

So you can you can fake laughter.

You can fake laughter. I'm not going to say fake joy,

because the joy of the Lord is a supernatural gift.

You can pretend you're happy. It could look like you're full

of joy. But we'll know if you're really

happy when the problem comes. Amen.

All right. So again, when something starts

to resonate, man, you should have some kind of response,

right? We are not a quiet church,

right? We are responsive church because

our spirit man is connected to the word we're preaching.

Amen. Praise the Lord And look,

chapter 22 verses 24 to 30th says there arose also a dispute

among them as to which one of them was regarded to be

greatest. And he said to them, the kings

of the Gentiles lorded over them, and those who have

authority over them are called benefactors.

But it is not this way with you. But the one, say, the one who is

the greatest among you must become say must.

This isn't optional. Let's put it this way.

You can't become great greatest unless you're doing this.

So who is the greatest among you?

Must become like the youngest, and the leader, like the

servant, must become I said, must become verse 27.

For who is greater, the one who reclines at the table, or the

one who serves? Is it not the one who reclines

at the table? But I am among you as the one

who serves. You are those who have stood by

me and my trials. And just as my father has

granted me a Kingdom, I grant you that you may eat and drink

at my table in my Kingdom, and you will sit on Thrones judging

the 12 tribes of Israel. Why?

Because they served with Jesus. Which brings this thought to be

Do not abdicate your greatness. Do not abdicate your greatness.

Do not advocate your greatness. How?

Because you want to be served. Because you want to be served.

Because you want to be served. There are many pastors that they

seem great. Because of their entourage, they

seem great. They got their armor bears.

Y'all ain't talking to me. It's cause some of y'all ain't

never been associated with those churches before us.

You don't even know what we're talking about.

They got their armor bears. They got their whole entourage

with them. You know, they opening their

doors, they're doing all this stuff, you know, and it acts

like and and again, I understand there is an honoring of the man

of God and you should honor the man of God or the woman of God

for that matter. There should be honor, but if

you are the man of God and the woman of God being honored.

You should find yourself out serving your armor bearer.

You should be like I got the door today.

Gentlemen, come on in. Are you hearing me?

I'm telling you right now, many people are abdicating their

greatness because all of a sudden people want to serve

them. And they forfeit serving.

They stop. They quit.

They've arrived somewhere in the church or among the church body.

Are you hearing me? No.

You want to be finding out ways you can serve?

You want to be in a serving capacity?

You want to make sure you are putting your hand to something?

OK, let me just give you a case in point right now.

Who is the server? I am.

Thank you for a few that figured that out.

Right now, I'm serving you. I'm serving you the word.

Now. You could be like, well, pastor.

You're the pastor. You're the lead.

I'm the lead only because I'm serving you.

What the Lord wants me to say to you so that you can then do me a

doer of that word and continue to rise.

So I put down my flesh. I don't say, well, we just got

back. You know, we're not even going

to come in tonight. Today.

Are you hearing me? We're serving you.

I put my own mic on this morning.

Yeah. I mean sometimes they show up,

sometimes they're doing something else and I don't go,

hey, you need to get in my office and get my mic on cause

I'm well able to put a thing on myself.

Are you hearing me? I mean sometimes it's

challenging but at at the end of the day we do what we got to do

because it cause it's not about me coming into a place or you

shouldn't cause here's the thing if you're coming and always just

hearing me. All you do is hear me.

You show up and the parking lot serves you.

Then the greeters open the door and serve you.

Then the cafe serves you. Then the children's ministry

serves you. Then the ushers serve you.

Then I serve you. You abdicate your greatness

because we are supposed to all be serving in some capacity.

Because serving releases our greatness.

Or you hear me, because one of the greatest challenges of

believers today is being faithful in serving.

We've really kind of adopted the American mindset.

You know, the American mindset is work to retirement, then you

don't retire and everybody serves you.

Basically, I get to do what I want when I want to when I want.

I don't have to answer to anybody.

It's like it's in the church. We come and serve in a few areas

for a while and then all of a sudden we retire and we talk

about when we did it. And now so and so with, I'm

telling you there's plenty of room for everybody in this room

to do something, I said. To do something, to serve.

Now again, maybe you're not serving any service, but there

are opportunities. When you look at the vision that

we have as a ministry that you couldn't find yourself, how can

I serve in that area or do that? I mean, I understand sometimes

you're you're you're outside the church, you know, work may have

some kind of crazy schedule that will be very difficult for us to

technically pin you down on a schedule.

But that doesn't mean there's not an opportunity like man, I

can serve there, I can do that. They got this project happening

I'm going to. Come and do that, and you're

always looking for this opportunity because again, you

don't want to release your greatness in the Kingdom of God.

You don't want to find yourself only coming and being served

now. Paul understood this.

In Philippians chapter 3, verse 12, he says, not that I've

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already obtained it or I've already become perfect, but I

press on so that I may lay hold of that which I was also laid

hold of by Christ. This is Philippians 312.

In essence, I was doing something and God apprehended

me. So he laid hold of me.

I'm trying to lay hold of that which I have been laid hold of

by Christ. Christ says this is your gift,

this is your purpose, this is how you are to serve the body.

And he goes, I'm trying to lay hold of that.

The Passion says it this way. I admit that I haven't yet

acquired the absolute fullness that I'm pursuing, but I run

with passion into His abundance so that I may reach the purpose

that Jesus Christ has called me to fulfill and wants me to

discover. And every one of us has this

opportunity. Why do we know this?

First Peter, chapter 4, verse 10.

1 Peter 4:10

Just to remind you he said this as each one say Each one say

that's me has received a special gift or a gift employ it.

What employ that means Put it to work.

Again, if you're not using the gift that you have, then by all

rights you are burying it. You say, well, where's it buried

at? In the dirt.

What dirt did you bury it in inside?

You remember you were made out of the dust of the your dirt.

So the the gift is buried in you because you're not letting it

out. You're not employing it, you're

not serving it. You're not allowing it to serve

others. The gift was never for you.

Because again, I gifted. I mean, I guess most people

today, especially maybe some believers, definitely not in our

church. Because again, I I want to

separate us from congregations that are not.

I realize these are challenges even in our own house, but we

push this from the word very specifically.

Again, I'm not of the person who buys myself.

Myself. Gifts.

Well, I'm just going to buy that for myself and I'm going to buy

that for myself and I'm going to buy that for myself.

Somebody's birthday comes around, but when it's my

birthday, I buy for myself. I'm always buying myself gifts

and nobody else. No gifts were designed to be to

be given. So again, Jesus.

Or the spirit of God has given you a gift to employ it.

How? In serving one another, not in

serving yourself. The gift is not for you.

The gift is for others. And your gift will may room for

you if you will be willing to serve your gift.

I said, if you're willing to serve your gift, see, This is

why when Pastor Marsh and I go anywhere to minister, it is the

most challenging thing for me to do.

Because I have this wealth on the inside of me of messages

that we have. Mind out, revelation, line upon

line, precept upon, precept here.

But then you go to a particular church and you may only get one

service. Maybe you'll get a few and

you're like, out of everything you've taught me, what do I say

to this group and how far can I even say it?

How deep can I even talk? How far can we go?

Well, a lot of times I figure it out based upon their draw.

This is why I enjoy the Global Leadership Conference prior to

camp meeting because there's so many people from different, you

know. So we kind of categorize it as

camps, you know, different hubs of people and how they kind of,

you know, function within the body.

You know, sometimes you kind of got this like prophetic camp and

they just kind of want to focus on the prophetic, right.

And they're kind of like, you know, geared that way.

Then you get another one, You know, they kind of focus in

another Ave. like the moves of the spirit, right.

And so there's some function there.

They do. You know what?

How do we function? We function based upon the

purity of the word. At the end of the day, we want

the word to be pure. Slightly divided and whatever

happens happens, OK. But if you get around certain

camps, then certain things just happen.

Now when I say happen, I'm not saying it's always a move of

God. I'm just saying it's prone to go

that way because they're kind of known for that.

But we'll get in a room, man, and we can begin to discuss

things. And you get iron, sharpening

iron and different things. You're like cross pollinating on

things, right? But then all of a sudden,

because they're not used to you, they're used to theirs, you

start to minister under the anointing and all of a sudden

they'll start pulling on it. They'll get into that.

I ain't never heard it like that before because they're not

accustomed to that type of ministry.

Same thing. I get up underneath others that,

you know, you just don't hear it as often and you kind of start

pulling because you're like, OK, I'll pull on that.

I don't always hear that, so let me pull on that.

Now for me, when I pull on, I'm like, you're gonna have to make

the word test. Because if you don't make the

word test, you know, I mean, I I'll pull your stuff and throw

it to the ground pretty quick. You know, I'm pulling.

Nope, I'm pulling junk. I'm pulling junk.

Oh, that's good. I'll keep that.

Give me another thing. You understand what I'm saying?

And you all should do this pull on things, right?

Because the gift can be there. And there can be some really

Holy Ghost things that take place, even though you're not

familiar with something per se, but if it doesn't line up with

the words, you Kick It Out every time we Kick It Out, period.

But Paul is saying here that, look, he said I'm trying to

obtain this thing. I was, I became a part of him.

Peter says, look, all of us have this gift.

We are to employ it to serve one another as good stewards of the

manifold grace of God. The manifold grace of God.

So God has all graced us with a gift.

Do you believe that? Well, let's see, Paul says in an

Ephesians chapter 4, verse 7 to 8.

Ephesians 4:7–8

He says this, but to each one of us, grace was given to each one

of us, say that's me. So all of us have grace

according to the measure of Christ's gift.

In essence, the head of the church says this aspect of me.

I give this to you, I give this to you.

I pull this part of me and give it to you.

I pull this part of me and give it to you.

I pull this part of me and I give it to you so that when all

of us are working together, guess what?

We all look like Jesus. When I was ministering to the

youth, I was talking to them about the power of the tongue,

and I told them their tongue needs to be set up ablaze by the

spirit. They need to have, like on the

day of Pentacles, tongues of fire, you know, And the problem

is most of their tongues are set up on the the flame of hell.

They taught their carnality, their flesh, all kinds of stuff.

You know, they bless God on on a service and then they run off at

the mouth on their social media and that like the world.

And I said, it shouldn't be like that.

You need to keep your mouth connected.

But one way to help keep your mouth from running off is

praying in the Spirit. And so at that point, you know,

we need to people need to get filled with the Holy Ghost, get

baptized in the Spirit. Well, when that takes place, you

understand. And I have people.

I'm like, you know what? I'm not the only one grace with

this. In fact, Pastor Angie, she has a

very specific anointing to lay hands on people, to receive the

baptism, the Holy Spirit, whateverness to speak in the

tongues. So I called her out first.

And so she came to start laying hands.

But then I realized, man, if I wait on her to get around all

these people, but we're gonna be here all night.

You know, I got plenty that are praying in the spirit.

Not everybody is just getting it because it was in the room.

You can just receive it by faith.

Do you understand that? I mean, the power of God was in

the room. Youth could have just began to

release it. But many of them do, you know,

just based upon their middle capacity.

They just didn't do that. So then I started calling on

more call Pastor Craig. Pastor Denise.

I started calling Pastor Zach. I just started calling multiple

speakers and they just started flooding, laying hands and

people getting filled with the Holy Ghost.

Kids getting filled with the really goes, in fact, Pastor

Denise says, you know, usually when I lay hands on people, she

must be much like Pastor Angie that the minute she lays hands

on, they receive, she's laid hands on one received.

I lay hands on one girl she received and then she said laid

hand on. She wasn't getting it, she

wasn't getting it, she wasn't getting it.

So I just stepped back and I said, are you born again?

And they said no, She said, well, that's why you can't get

it. So let's get you born again.

So they got born. She were let her to be born

again, then laid hands on and immediately she spoke in other

tongues. Hallelujah.

Hallelujah. But it's because of a grace.

We all can lay hands on people to be healed.

We can lay hands through the laying on a hands for people to

receive the baptism. Although some can have a little

bit based upon the grace on their life, it becomes a little

bit easier. Things do function with the

fivefold ministry, a little bit different than the Saints.

But we each have a gift and the gift was always designed to be

employed to serve somebody else. Amen.

And I just want us as Anchor Faith Church because man, you

know Pastor Marcy's message on Sunday just continue to light a

fire in me about the maturing of the church.

I know the the number one thing that we have to do is maintain

our culture. And our culture is not our own.

It's the kingdom's culture. So you got to get rid of your

thinking, your way of living, your way of doing.

Your idea of church. Church and how we do it is

supposed to be God's idea, not ours.

We're not going to make God do church our way.

Cause make no mistake about if you read the Book of Revelation,

Jesus Christ himself will show up at the church and let him

know what's good about it and what do they need to fix, what

they need to fix. And he wants us to fix, because

if you don't fix what needs to be fixed, he has a warning.

I'll pull your lamp. I'll pull your lamp.

Now there's two ways to pull a lamp.

One is the pull revelation because at the end of the day

you're not following him anyway and the pastor can stay in the

pulpit and become a fair see then and there becomes no more

revelation in the church and ultimately they're just the

Galatians chapter 3 church, that they're doing it by the flesh

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and not by the Spirit. But there's a second way.

You can pull the lamp. They can pull the pastor.

The pastor can be pulled from the congregation and assigned to

another that's hungry cause the flock is the Lord's and the

sheep can't make a demand on the overseer if they're not hungry

and growing. Some ministers have left

congregations not because they couldn't grow the church is

because the church decided they didn't want to grow.

They decided they were familiar with the man or woman of God,

and that the words that they heard, these vocal cords that

they keep hearing week in and week out, all of a sudden they

didn't value it anymore. And so they began to live their

own life. And basically they became the

Gentile rulers that say you serve us, made a demand that we

had to serve because I'm not going to do nothing.

That's your job. You're paid to do that.

You're the pastor. Well, there's many congregations

like that. And I feel for those pastors,

well, you're paid to do that, not me.

Oh, OK. So basically they turn the

church into a corporate model, and it becomes a bunch of

freeloaders. Go ahead and look at your name

and say I'm not a freeloader just because salvation is free

in the in the in the idea that you don't personally pay for it,

you receive it. It still costs Jesus everything,

and that doesn't entitle us to be freeloaders.

What else is mine that God gave me as free?

I'll just take us free because I'm a freeloader.

I just load me and never serve. Amen.

And the reason why some congregations are not more

influential in their communities because God can't raise up the

whole church because he's he's trying to raise up a greatness

church. A church that's has that is the

greatest because of how well they serve.

I love it when different sectors of society start calling anchor

Faith Church because we're developing the reputation of

those who serve. And if we develop a reputation

for those who serve, then really what we are is God saying, I'm

going to let you lead your community.

Amen. I'm going to let you lead your

community. All right, So he said.

But each one of us, grace was given accord to the measure of

Christ's gifts. Therefore it is said when he

ascended all high, he like captive, captive, a host of

captive. He gave gifts to man.

So every one of us have a gift. Everybody in here has a gift to

employ serving your number one thought process.

If you are truly a Matthew 633 person, seek first the Kingdom.

If you're seeking first the Kingdom, then the church has to

be the number. One thing on your mind has to be

because the head of the Kingdom, the King of the domain.

If you're seeking first the Kingdom and his righteousness,

then the king who's Jesus is communicating to us through the

church, and the church is the most important thing to Jesus

because when he returns, he's coming back for the Church and

the latter reign. The former reign was it poured

out for the lost? No, it was poured out to the

Saints. The believers received the

baptism of the Holy Ghost, but because they got the initial

outpouring, it was such a display, so much so they had to

explain what was going on. He never seen anything like this

before that. Then Peter under that anointing

cause, power came upon him which authorized him to now witness.

If you're witnessing without the power of the Holy Spirit, you're

not actually authorized. Don't think just because

someone's changed with the words you say, you're authorized.

Cause the word changes people. Period.

Jesus said this about the Pharisees who were unauthorized.

He said do what they say, just don't do what they do.

Cause they don't even do the words they're talking.

But the words life. Now, are you hearing me?

So there's a lot of people were born again witnessing, but

they're not witnessing as God intended.

And that was under the power of the Holy Ghost.

And when the power of the Holy Ghost comes upon you, you will

speak in an unknown tongue, which is just the language of

the Kingdom. No problem here.

But that power now authorizes you to be able to speak on

behalf of the King. And then miracle signs and

wonders will follow your preaching.

Demonstrations will follow you. Now again, don't confine the

miraculous to one person. And this is where the

shortcoming of the Church has come into play.

In fact, Kennethy Hagan had a prophecy.

He spoke, or he was explaining some things in a particular

meeting. He said that the Lord spoke to

him. He said.

Now the healing revivals were just an eyewitness of what the

church possessed. But the church missed it because

they focused on the men and women God was using to show the

demonstration instead of accepting.

I can do that. And so it was store.

So the so two things shut down the Healing revival.

One was finance because so many people came to get healed and

then offerings and then people showed up just to get the

offerings. That was one.

The second one was that the body missed it.

They put their attention on the people instead of on the power

that they could possess. As a believer, this is what I

loved about Pastorati at camp meeting when he had this

expression that we're going to lay hands okay in this and what

he was doing, he ended up pulling up all kind of people.

Now that doesn't mean one person can cause Pastor Marcy

definitely lay hands on a lot of people.

And again when I say that that was an authentic move because

she had no one that would have known her come to her and you

know was coming to her because of this massive anointing on her

life. Although do we know there's an

anointing on her life? But what Roddy was doing was

because camp meeting has always had that expression of what

Pastor Roddy was doing. It is the run, the shout, the

laughing. And he was trying to deflect it

from him and putting it back on. That really can't because then

he says now pastors, he just did a general call.

If you you know you got what you if you've been touched and you

got now go hit, do somebody. What was he trying to do?

Everybody has this ability to serve themselves.

Goes up and do this thing. OK, so again, the things we

teach are not exclusive. There are many things we can all

function in. But if you want it to function

well in your life, you have to actually keep it connected to

the church and serve it and serve it.

How do we know this? First Corinthians 4/1 says this.

Let a man regard us in this manner as servants of Christ and

stewards of the mysteries of God.

Paul's writing this OK. He said he's giving gifts to

men. Now he's begin to talk about his

particular gift. Now he says, look in regards to

us, if you're going to be talking about us, see us as

servants of Christ. Then he jumps down to verse 9.

Now I'm gonna read verse nine. Out of the passion, we'll go to

verse 13. Look how he describes his gift

and his gift. He was called to be an apostle.

He says this. It seems to me that God has

appointed us apostles to be at the end of the line.

We are like those on to display at the end of the procession as

doom gladiators soon to be killed.

We have become theatrical spectacle.

A theatrical, theatrical spectacle to all creation, both

to people and to angels. We are fools for Christ, but you

are wise in Christ. We are the frail.

You are the powerful. You are celebrated.

We are humiliated. If you could see us now, you'd

find that we are hungry and thirsty, poorly clothed,

brutally treated, and with no roof over our heads.

We work hard, tolling with our own hands.

When people abuse and insult us, we respond with a blessing, and

when severely persecuted, we endure it with patience.

When we are slandered incessantly, we always answer

gently, ready to reconcile. Even now, in the world's

opinion, we are nothing but filth and the lowest scum.

Now why do I read this? Because when you really become a

servant for Christ in order to become great, you will feel like

you're the least thing from being great.

When you truly begin to serve, many times you're going to be

overlooked somewhere. It's going to be as if you

disappear. It's almost as if you don't even

exist. You don't even exist.

Which reminds me of a very powerful scripture that John

said I must decrease and he must now.

It takes greatness to get lost. It's difficult.

It's difficult again, Pastor Lynette when she announced.

She says he's not a stranger to this platform.

But the reality is they don't know how many times I've been

insulted. Talked about by serving others

empower them with the word. They begin to prosper because of

the word, begin to do. Then they quit serving and then

we became the ridicule. In fact, he went on to say this

earlier. He said, you know, you guys are

acting like kings, and I wish you were kings because then if

you were true kings, we would be rolling with you.

But the problem is you've taken what we've served you and you're

not serving. And now at the end of the day,

we're at the back of the line. But here's a cool thing.

Jesus said the last will be first.

Hallelujah. I said Hallelujah.

So you got to know that when you're serving and it seems like

nobody's looking, nobody's watching, nobody saw you pick

the trash up when you were coming in.

But you had such a desire for your church, for the facility

that you come to that if you saw that trash, you're like, it's

not acceptable that that the Lord's house would have junk

here. You didn't say, oh, hey, by the

way, you know you're some trash over there.

Y'all ought to pick it up. That's how the Gentiles talk.

No, you'll pick that trash up yourself.

Why? Because we're all in this thing

together. Nobody knows.

You don't think. Nobody knows.

But God knows. God knows.

God knows that you have not arrived at a place that you

can't still serve in any capacity.

And in doing so, God will always continue, exalt your influence

and give you opportunity. Why?

Because he knows you're there, just serving them.

You're not there to get a name for yourself.

You're not there to be popular. You're not there to be.

Next be, to be known as the next great CEO, great whatever.

All you want to do is just serve the Lord and it starts here in

this house. I said it starts here in this

house. So sometimes when we're serving,

I I, I understand that it seems like you could be like, you

know, I'm like the most mistreated thing here.

But how can you be when God sees it?

Just keep serving, Just keep doing.

Just keep serving. Just keep doing.

I remember last year, I believe it was when I was at camp

meeting. There's a particular usher that

when you come out of the green room to come on the platform to

go down the stairs to go out, he stands right here by the door.

He's basically the keeper of the door.

Nobody comes through, right. He's an older gentleman.

He's got to be in the 70s, easy and again serving.

And so I came through, right? I'm a speaker and every time I

come through that door, I'm, I look for him and I shake it,

say, hey, how you doing? Appreciate you serving.

You're doing an awesome job. So great seeing you today.

I mean, I'm every time, every time.

Last year I was coming up. I think it's towards the last

night. I shook his hands.

Say hey, I appreciate for you serving.

He held my hand, he said. Pastor, he said.

I've been at this post for many years.

I've done many camp meetings and I've never had a speaker come

through and talk to me ever. Thank you for noticing me.

He's just doing great work now. To him, it seems like it's not.

It could be and for all those years seemed unnoticed.

But God knew. This is why when you go to pick

up your child today, you should be like thank you so much for

serving. Thank you for serving, thank you

for serving. You know, when you get out of

the car, you know, and the golf cart comes by, you know what?

Thanks for picking. You're you are awesome.

Again, we're not doing that to puff them up, but we are

acknowledging your greatness. Look at your greatness right

now. Look at your greatness right

now. Look at your greatness right

now. Because here's the thing, if we

really want to mature as a church, then all of us have got

to be putting our hand to something.

Because when people come, I've had pastors come to me and say,

how do you get that many people to show up at these particular

events and serve like that? Well, we just want to be the

greatest, that's all. We just want to be the greatest.

Because the greatest one died for us.

The greatest one served us. The greatest one.

Lay down his life for us. How could we sit in his house

and say, you got to give me something, you give me

something, yo, you give me something and then we don't give

back. How can we do that?

Give me a word. I got a problem.

We're praying, asking God to get us out of stuff, and he serves a

word of deliverance and then we don't serve him.

We say we're serving because we asked him to come in our heart

and save us. So when we die, we go to heaven.

That's not serving. That was you got served by God,

salvation, eternal life. Serving is now you being

activated in the grace that God's given you and serving it

to the body. People say, well, I'm serving

the Lord. You're not serving the Lord if

you're not serving somebody else.

All right, I'm going to show you.

If he's in chapter 4, verse 12. The 16 says it this way.

Passion says it this way. And they're calling is to

nurture. These are the fivefold right for

the Saints is to nurture and prepare all the holy believers

to do their own works of ministry.

As they do this, they will enlarge and build up the body of

Christ, notice their own works of ministry.

But that is not an independent work of the church because you

got to keep it in. Well, I got my own ministry.

You don't have a ministry if it's not connected to the local

body. I'm going to say that again.

You do not have a ministry authorized by Jesus if you are

not connected to the local body, Period.

If there's a traveling minister, I ask, where's your church?

Who's your pastor? If they can't answer that

question, then you're not authorized to come speak in this

pulpit because your socalled revelation is really just

information. And you may preach it well, but

it'll come from a fair, cynical spirit and my my congregation

can grab hold of a word and grow with it, but you'll be deceived

that you were anointed, and I don't want to continue to help

your deception. You got to be connected to a

pastor. In fact, every traveling

minister honestly should take off from the road and sit a

certain amount of times under their pastor because if it like,

well, you know, I got to get out there, You know, this is how we

make our living. What God can't help you provide

for you by you showing that you are really connected to a local

body because you're giving a loan doesn't say you're

connected. We use finance to get out of

other areas of serving. I'm going to say that again.

We use finance to get out of other areas of serving.

Did Jesus provide financially to people?

Yes, he did. But he also provided other

things right? Okay.

Anyway, it says verse 13. These grace ministries will

function until we all attain to oneness in the faith, until we

all experience the fullness of what it means to know the Son of

God and finally become one perfect man with the full

dimensions of spiritual maturity and fully develop into the

abundance of Christ. Verse 14.

Then our immaturity will end. God wants our immaturity to end.

He wants the Church mature, and we will not be easily shaken by

trouble, nor let U.S. trade by novel teachings or by the false

doctrines of deceivers who teach clever lies.

But instead we will remain strong, always sincere in our

love as we express the truth. All our direction and ministries

will flow from Christ and lead us into a deep us, deeper into

Him, the anointed head of His body, the Church.

For His body has been formed in His image and is closely joined

together and constantly connected as one and every

member say. Every member has been given

divine gifts to contribute to the growth of all.

As these gifts operate effectively throughout the whole

body, we are built up and made perfect in love.

Verse 14 tells us that if we do not stay connected, if we do not

connect our Grace Ministries in the body where we're bringing

our supplies, those people who do not serve are always

susceptible to deception. They're always susceptible to

deception. It is you're connecting with the

body that allows you to grow up and will safeguard you from

deception. I guarantee you those that are

the most deceived Saints, wise, the majority of them are not

connected to a local body. If you talk to them, you're like

where you go to church. Most of them are going to not be

committed somewhere. Now I'm not going to say there

are whole ministries that are deceived.

I get it. That can happen.

I get that, OK. But the majority are because

they have in they are independent.

I know. God.

I don't need a pastor. I don't need somebody over me.

Right. OK, Well, you're you're telling

Jesus that, right? Because Jesus said you need to

have one. I said, Jesus said you need to

have one. All right.

So again, why is this important? Why is it there to serve?

Look at this in Matthew, chapter 25, y'all doing all right.

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Say I want to be the greatest. Amen.

I mean, I'm teaching you how to be the greatest.

This is like, these are the running, shouting ones.

See, that's what gets me. That's what gets me.

Now again, if I had, you know, hundreds of dollars of bills

right now and I started giving them away, you know, and saying

so, then you know next thing you're going to get a harvest

and you're going to be get be millions.

You know, people get all crazy over this stuff and then we get

in a Holy Ghost meeting like this.

I said we getting a hole that goes meeting like this.

Don't think I don't know. Amen.

I mean, I I've gone to places that I've been tasked to do that

message. I mean, make no mistake about

it. It's it's tempting to want to be

liked, you know, it's tempting, you know, that everybody smiles

while you're preaching and laughing and just like really

and enjoying themselves. But God tells you to preach that

message and the anointings on that message and you got to

preach it and you're like, man, you know, because I remember

when I did Summer Bliss on Friday night, man, I'm like,

well, this ain't no running service right now and we ain't.

This ain't running right here. I Lord, how how's this conclude

this deal? Well, the Lord did it through

his own way, through the baptism and got some things and some

great purity. But it was quiet, wasn't it?

Pastor Marcy, you can hear a pin drop in that room because all of

a sudden we started pulling on responsibility.

And just because you're young doesn't mean you you can't.

You're not supposed to be responsible.

Hallelujah. And at the end of the day, if I

don't serve you, the word I gave away actually did give away $50

bills. Two teenagers who could tell me

things spoken previous in the week.

And my lesson was the word rewards.

Because if all they remember is a song or the pregame thing they

did, then what good is it, right?

But then I had $100 bill I wanted to give away.

And I said this goes to one who actually has scripture, not just

some nugget that they heard from somebody.

And I said, and I'm preaching this one.

Well, one was like, I heard you Wednesday, Wednesday.

Oh, you were in there. You actually came over to the

adults during the 2:30 because they didn't do a 230 youth.

So this one teenager started reading notes and they were

accurate what I was saying, I said give me the scriptures did

too. I said that's all you got 2

scriptures. I said girl I had at least 18.

I said I'm not giving us $100 away for two scriptures right

here. I said I need somebody that's

got some scriptures so I went over to other kid because one

team was like point and I said I said what do you got?

I don't have any scripture also let's forget it bro you got it.

I need some scripture. A girl said I got some so she

started giving points and then she started reading scriptures

and buddy she had. Just by every scripture I had I

said the knowing the word rewards.

Knowing the word rewards. Because at the end of the day if

I don't give you the word because they were set up by

chase at the beginning of the week.

If all you have is an experience with God, then when the

experience is gone, your relationship with God is gone

too. And there's many churches they

come and have a experience. Well, who's defining what the

experience is? He says no.

You need to get in the moment and learn from it so that you'll

maintain what the relationship was supposed to teach you.

So when you go, it's always with you.

Hallelujah. Amen.

Matthew 2534 says this. And the king will say, say the

king to those on his right. Come, you are blessed to my

father. Inherit the Kingdom prepared for

you from the foundation of the world.

Now before I read the next scripture, why do you think the

majority of people will think the reason why that is available

to them is because they asked Jesus to come into their heart

and save them? What gives the right for the

king to tell someone Come. You are blessed to my father.

Inherit the king to prepare for you from the foundation of the

world before you ever born. It's been prepared for you.

You get to come. You get to come.

Well, it's cause you're born again.

Well, is that what Jesus says? Is that what Jesus says?

Now I'm not talking works, but I am talking responsibility.

I'm talking responsibility because God does not give you a

gift to bury. So he goes on and says, come

inherit the Kingdom, prepare for you from the foundation world

four. Why are you going to get this

inheritance for? I was hungry and you gave.

Say gave me something to eat. I was thirsty, and you gave,

say, gave need something to drink.

I was a stranger, and you invited me in.

Say, invite me in naked, and you clothed me.

I was sick, and you visited me. I was in prison, and you came to

me. Then the righteous will answer

and say, Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or

thirsty and give you something to drink?

And when did we see you a stranger invite you in, or naked

and clothe you? When did we see you sick or in

prison? And come to you?

The king will answer and say to them truly, I say to you, to the

extent that you did it to one of these brothers of mine, even the

least of them, you did it to me. So the king is saying, you

served because you know what? It's not convenient to go to

prison. You got to take Tom.

It's not convenient to feed the hungry.

It's not convenient. You have to be intentional in

your serving. You had to be intentional.

You have to know I'm looking for opportunities and notice, he

says. You did this to my brothers.

This isn't even the lost, OK? This isn't even the lost.

This list is not to the world. Serving the world your gift.

This is serving your gift to the church that you were so

conscious about the church you don't want to hurt.

Somebody at the church needed something.

I'm here to help. Somebody needs some food, man.

What can we do? Somebody need some drink?

I'm do that. You know, someone has surgery.

I'm going to go over there and give them some food.

Somebody's sick, You know, we're praying for them.

You know, we're going to go over and visit them.

All of these are serving capacities on top of the

assignment of just serving the church as a whole.

And these are things God's looking for with his kids

because he wants them to become great.

He wants them to be the greatest.

He wants us to be the greatest influencers in the world, the

greatest influencers in the world.

But the only way we can be that is through serving, serving, let

me just say this, anchor Faith Church will get to a place that

we have 100% participation, 100%.

No retirees, no retirees. In fact, if you've retired from

your job, you have more opportunity to come serve.

What you doing with your time anyway?

Sitting around watching Bonanza now, people who retired know

what that's That is to me, young people.

I have no idea what that is. I mean, what are you doing now?

You understand what a nonserver will say?

Well, they're just exploiting me.

How can God exploit you? He gave you His life.

He's giving you eternal life. He's giving you all blessings.

He's healed your body and you can't come serve his church.

They just want all my time. Jesus does.

He wants it all, he said. Look, you going to love me with

all your heart, all your soul, all your mind and all your

strength. And if you retired, you got you

should be coming up here. What can I do, Pastor?

What can I do? Is there anything we can do?

Look, I can tell you right now. We can let let you serve

somewhere. There's no doubt about that.

Why? Because this is the greatest

thing on the planet. It is the Church of the living

God. It is the greatest thing ever

because the church is serving the world, the light.

And when we unify and we get around this message and we get

around this vision and we get around our call in this local

body and we are obsessed with this call, then everybody else

will be. They'll think we're fanaticals.

I get it. They'll think we're kind of

crazy. They'll think that we are

lording it over you. But you're like, you ain't

telling me what to do. I've come to serve.

I mean, do you know, Gee, how could you not serve your church?

I mean, that should be your attitude towards others that are

going somewhere else. How could you not?

How could you cheapen the price paid so that you can be in

relationship with God? How could there not be another

opportunity? And again, we do have a serving

church. Don't get me wrong, I am not

saying that we don't. I'm just here to remind you This

is why we will be the greatest and I'm not competing.

All other congregations can be the greatest too.

They just can't be better. Because we're the greatest,

We're the greatest. We are the greatest because we

serve, we serve, we serve. That's what we do.

The Cold War, following the head of the church's example, I

didn't come to be served, but to serve.

So some of you, you need to come out of retirement.

You need to get out of retirement.

Some of y'all been so trained. I mean, you've gone through

School of Life, Kingdom Institute, you've gone through

different discipleship things we've done.

You should be somewhere putting your hand to something,

somewhere you should be doing it and doing it with.

Not because I'm asking you, but because the head of the church

says I want you to be great and the way to do that is to serve

others. And we serve each other first.

Some of you are giving all your time to the lost.

In fact the even Jesus said don't give the don't don't give

the pearls before the swamp. Some of you are putting all your

effort towards people outside and they're getting you're

getting no movement. I'm not saying we are supposed

to be an example, but not at the expense that we can't have time

for the church. I'm too busy to serve the

church, yet Jesus is looking to determine if you're great is how

much are you serving in the local body He's assigned you,

and that's not works. It's a heart in love with the

place God has assigned you. And nobody can steal that

reward. Nobody.

In fact. I won't say who it is, but a

particular person joined this church because not too long ago

they were picking up their child from the preschool and they saw

myself and my wife on a ladder painting, painting, and they

went home and told their spouse I saw the pastor's painting.

I've never been to a church where the pastors painted, ever.

They'll even serve in that capacity.

And they said we're joining this church, we're joining this

church, we're joining this church.

At the end of the day, there's no project too small for me.

There's nothing in this house that I won't do because at the

end of the day, if nobody's going to do it, I'm going to

serve my king. But they was never designed so

that the pastor did it all. It was designed so that all of

us did it together. And then when he is looking from

heaven and he's like Holy Spirit, it's time for the latter

rain, it's time for the maturing of the crop, It's time for that

last outpouring. Let's let's fly over, let's go

over the nation, the USA and let's look and see which

churches. Are moving in unity and oneness.

Let's see, the ones that are are are showing leadership.

Which ones are rising to the top because they're serving one

another? Let's see.

And man, can it be that when he comes across and say let's start

in Saint Augustine since it's the oldest city anyway?

Let's start in Saint Augustine, since it's the oldest city

anyway, because I'm reminded of a letter that was written by the

clergy back to the king and asked him not to shut the thing

down because they had mission work going on and for that

reason it stayed alive. Is there still the work of God

happening in Saint Augustine? Oh look, I have found a church.

I have found a church. I have found one.

It happens to me at 2121. You asked 1 S It happens to be

anchored in some faith. It happens to be serving at a

capacity that exceeds my expectations.

And I'm going to pour out my spirit on them.

And it's going to come exceedingly abundantly knowing

what they can think or imagine. Because we're candidates,

because we have the heart of the Father and we're serving by the

spirit. And I can never burn out.

I can't burn out. I can't burn out because the oil

in me is all the gladness is an oil that allows me to flow and

move and run and have great capacity.

Hallelujah, Father. We thank you for your word

today. We thank us alive and active,

sharper than any twist sword. I thank you for the culture of

your Kingdom here at Anchor Faith Church.

Father, I thank you for this culture.

I thank you for those you're assigning to us.

As you spoke to me not too long ago, you said I want you to call

this. Many people gave me a number for

the first time. Never had that before, but I

call it. But I knew that if that number

is to come in, there's only one way that number could be here.

And so that's why I declare that number.

You ask and I say they're submitted and committed to the

vision because you can get a crowd and they have no

commitment or submission to the vision.

We want those that are submitted and committed to the vision you

had for this church before the foundations of the world,

because you saw them jointed and fitted continually together,

bringing their supply of love for one another, allowing their

grace gifts to intertwine. Where one had a lack of ability,

the other one held up those arms and says, but I have that

ability, I've been graced with that.

And fathers, we all begin to interconnect and be jointed

together that we will continue to mature as a church.

And in doing so, it gives the ability for the brand new

believer, the one that just comes in to mature quicker than

they would if they'd have been planted somewhere else.

Because, Lord, I do believe in the prophecy you gave, that it

is seem in these last days when that manifestation or spirit,

it'd be as if they grew up overnight that they'll pass

those tests, the revelation of your word, they'll be that 11th

hour believer that gets the same anointing in less time.

And so, Father, we thank you that this church is maturing,

it's growing and it is the greatest church in Saint

Augustine because this does most serving church.

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