Destined for Maturity - Kingdom Unity

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Now, enjoy this message. Ephesians chapter 5.

Ephesians 5 · chapter mention

I actually ministered this last Wednesday in Fort Walton Beach.

I've not ministered it here and I knew man, when I started

preaching a sermon, he preached this back at home and so now

it's a little different than what I did in Fort Walton

because I'm home and with our church.

And so we're going to show any fees in chapter 5 and verse 25

to 27. Now, I'm not here to minister on

husbands and wives. Okay, I'm here to minister on

the ladder. Of part of that verse and that

is Christ. Also loved the what, the church

and gave himself up for her now. What did he do?

Verse 26, that he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing

of the Water by the word that he might present to himself.

A glorious church not having spot or wrinkle or any such

thing but that it should be holy and blameless.

Notice that Christ loved the church.

Okay, he gave himself for it, meaning because he died and he

He rose from the dead. He's poured out his blood on The

Mercy Seat in heaven, has forgiven every person of their

sin. If they'll repent, they can

receive that forgiveness. Okay?

That he's already done that. They have to repent when they do

then the church they come in to the family of God.

They come into the kingdom and then God places them in the body

where it pleases him will see that verse here in a minute and

what he does then is then he sanctifies and cleanses it with

The washing of the of Water by the word, which means when we

become a Believer, then he gets us under the word so that the

word can cleanse us. Meaning it can renew our mind,

change our thinking release, this new spirit, that we are now

in Christ, righteous Sanctified in the realm of the spirit, then

we caused that to happen in our minds as well.

We have to do that work and that work is we submit to the word.

We allow it to renew our mind, change our thinking.

So We release who we are now in Christ.

We live that life, we become in demonstration to the world,

what's changed on the inside of us, in our spirit.

And when we do that, then he can present to himself a glorious

church not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing.

So, again, God is here to drive anything out that's hindrance.

Really. In our thinking, our spirit

Man's Alive unto God has made Just only God could do that but

we are threefold nature man. We are Spirit.

We have a soul and we live in a body.

It's our our mind will and emotions in our soul realm that

we have to cleanse with the washing of the water of the

word. So that we don't keep thinking,

like our old self. We don't respond like her old

self because our old self is actually dead.

Right? The old has passed away now in

the spirit, that's happened. But in the thinking that has not

happened, unless you commit yourself to the study of the

word of God, and that's what the word of God will do that way

when he shows up again and is he showing up, he's coming back for

his church when Jesus comes again in the air to catch a way

his church. This is the church.

He's coming back for Okay. Now, Jesus is serious about his

church because if you read the book of Revelation, there were

seven churches at the time that he addressed through the

Apostle, John in the Book of Revelation, the first, you know,

for chapters. But they are still types of

churches that exist today and he called them churches, but he

would say now this is what you got going on, great.

But this is my problem with you. Do you understand?

Jesus can have a Um, with the church because again here at

he's wanting not having spot or wrinkle, he's wanting them to be

holy and without blemish, are you hearing me?

And so he would tell these churches multiple ones.

You're going to need to repent. You're going to need to change

this if this doesn't change. He said I'm going to pull my

candle from you. Meaning.

You're not going to be my church.

Now you're my church now but these are my.

These are problems that I find ended in the church and you need

to fix this. If you do not fix this, then I'm

going to pull my light from his church.

So again you can't live any old way.

You want to, once you come into kingdoms what I'm saying.

Part of the reason why we're born again is so that we can

release everything that God has called us to be Hallelujah.

And so, there is a way to live behave function in the earth and

God really wants this body called his chirst to demonstrate

this to the world. And we're going to see that

tonight. 1st Corinthians 12:18. You know, it says but now God

has placed the members, each one of them in the body.

D just as he desires we said this in the past it Bears

repeating today is that listen you don't have a right to pick

your church. God picks your church for you.

And again, you know, we have tons of guests that come through

us and well we're trying it out. Well, you can try, but what you

need to do is you need to hear the Holy Ghost Right, you know?

Because a lot of people can come because again, you bring your

American American ice thinking, right?

You know, well, I like this about the church, but I don't

like that. I don't like that.

Well, I don't work in the Kingdom, that's like going to

God and say, well, I like this about you and like this about

you, but I don't like this. I like that.

I like to go to hell, but I don't like that.

I have to actually live for you every day.

Till I got to give this up. So can we compromise?

You know what the Lord says? No, he said, this is how you

function with me. You shall love me with all your

heart, all your soul, all your mind and all your strength.

Which is the threefold nature of, man.

I want your spirit. I want your soul and I want your

body. I want all your effort.

And that's not too much to ask as he gave.

He gave all and when we give all it is much better.

I said it's much better the passion translates.

It says that this way, but God has carefully designed each

member and placed it in the body to function as he desires.

Which I like this translation about this because again, God is

placing the members every one of them.

There's not one person here that if they are born again, that God

will not personally place you Which means he knows you

individually. And here's the thing, when you

get placed in the body, where it pleases him, you your

individuality exists, but your Independence dies, Okay, there

is no such thing as being independent in the body.

There is no such thing because if being born again, is being in

the body. Well then all of us have been

born again, being born again, is just the entrance into the

kingdom, being placed in the body.

Now was function, and we all don't have the same function.

Because if you read 1st Corinthians chapter 12, it tells

us the hand and the foot are not the same, the eye in the ear or

not the same, and one can't tell the other Idol.

Needle nor can one say, because I'm not something else.

I don't need to be there, right? And moist, don't you run around

some run, run into some Christians.

Sometimes, that's a well, I, we don't have to go to church.

You know, I don't need a pastor. I mean, they're violating First

Corinthians 12. You can't say you don't need

amen. So as a result of that we did

are going to find our function in the body.

And if you do your function and I do my function, then at the

end of the day, we will all flow together.

And again Paul uses the body because even now as I'm in astir

to you, a lot of things are happening.

Right. I'm walking my knees are

working. My calves are work.

My quads are working. My hands are moving by Seth

elbow. You know my tendons ligaments

you know my heart's pumping obviously because if it wasn't

I'd be down. You know, I'm breathing my mind

is moving. My brain is functioning my

nervousness. I mean all kinds of things are

flowing right now. My digestive systems working it

and it's you know, working that I just don't have to go to the

bathroom right now but it's still in the process of doing

something. Are you hearing me?

And all these things are working together.

They're not competing against each other, they're, they're

just flowing as they're supposed to be.

So again, you know, we say, well, that's your body.

Although we can identify individual things, you know, and

doctors, they even specialize in certain parts of the body.

But again, the minute you diagnose something going on in

one part of your body without taking into account, all of your

body, you can do a misdiagnosis Are you hearing me a

misdiagnosis, you know, a lot of things that go on in your body,

physically can be a result of your stomach, or your mouth,

your gums, your teeth and you need to fix those.

And you may not even think it's you're trying to deal with a

symptom somewhere that it may be related to something else.

You know, cuz even Paul said and when it came to the body says,

if one hurts, we all hurt. It's amazing how that little toe

when you stub it at night, all of a sudden, wakes, your whole

body up and get your mouth to talk.

I mean, the mouth one gonna say anything until the toast, you

know, hit the hit the side of the bed or you hear me.

So, I find it very odd. I find it awesome.

That God loves us so much, and he knows us.

So intimately, he knows Us in great detail, but he also knows

exactly where we fit. Now, we've talked about doing

this before, although I haven't done it, but I do know that

puzzles. A lot of times are made by

manufacturers have the exact same dye that cuts out the

puzzle. And I, in the past, I've talked

about maybe getting two puzzles that the same company.

You know, it's the same cut, but then start mixing the puzzle

pieces because one can actually fit in the other because the

guys cut the same, they're there, but the pictures.

Different And you know, you can fit perfect but be the wrong

picture. You could be like doing

something somewhere thinking, man, this is my, this is

actually how I am, but you're, you're betraying a wrong picture

because you're not even supposed to be a saint there.

Now, how many of you, you know, you did puzzles?

You tried to force some things before.

Yeah. You're like surely you fit this

and when we become convinced it has to be this one, I've looked

everywhere. So we're putting it there.

You're like that. Looks like it might have a

little Gap. That's got to be it, right?

Nah, God's. Not here to force us into a

position. He's here to lock Us in where it

fits, right? And all of us, all of us are

showing the same I'm picture, right?

We're supposed to be where we're at.

So with that being said, Ephesians chapter 4 will start

Ephesians 4 · chapter mention

one through eight. I'm going to read out the

passion translation. It says, as a prisoner of the

Lord, I plead with you to walk. Holy in a way that is suitable

to your high rank given to you in your Divine calling.

You know what your high rank is? You're an ambassador with tender

humility and quiet. Patients, always demonstrate

gentleness and generous love towards one another.

Especially towards the Those who may try your patience patience.

Be faithful to guard. The sweet harmony of the Holy

Spirit among you in the bonds of peace.

Let me stop there for a second. Now, when he says with tender

humility and quiet patients, always demonstrate gentleness in

generous, love towards others, especially towards those.

Who may try your patience, he's not talking to the world here.

He's talking about those in the body. because in the body were

all growing, You know, when we get born again, Paul calls us a

babe in Christ, both him and Peter said we need to desire the

sincere milk of the word that we may grow.

And you know what? Sometimes especially when it

comes to babies babies. Don't actually, you know, take

you into consideration a lot of times, right?

Like, you know, it's 2:00 in the morning.

Why are you crying? And I have to go pick you up

now. I don't, you know, it's time to

sleep. You should sleep all night.

But so in the body of Christ, there are things that are taking

place as people are growing. And we still need to be

extremely patient because people are having their minds renewed

and we got to believe in who they are in their spirit and

that it's just a matter of time before, they'll eventually get

that mind flipped over and we just be patient.

Are you hearing me? So be faithful to guard, the

sweet harmony of the Holy Spirit among you in the bonds of peace.

And we want to guard this guard, W Harmony Harmony is a big deal.

He said, Being one body and one Spirit just as you were called

into the same glorious. Hope of divine Desi.

So we are one body say, one body, say one spirit.

So there's a Oneness that God is looking to achieve when it comes

to his church. Let's go on.

And it says this in verse 6 and he is the perfect father who

leads us all works through us all and lives in us.

Oh, okay. And he has generously given Each

one of us Supernatural Grace, according to the size of the

gift of Christ, every one of us has Supernatural Grace, right?

This is why it says he ascended into high, Heavenly Heights,

taking his many captive ones with him and and Gifts were

given to men. So every one of us has been

given a gift from God. He's gifted us with a

supernatural Grace to function in his body.

Just as he designed you and you will never I'm just going to be

on. So you will never get to the

perfect peace in life until you attain to the place that, you

know, I'm in the body exactly where God wants me and you can't

wait to function in that capacity because when you do

that, man, everything else is just going to run you down.

I mean you cannot I mean you can buy late scripture, but it's

better to do scripture Jesus says seek first, the kingdom and

his righteousness and all these things will be what added to

you. So if you're seeking first, the

kingdom, then you're going to want to seek the King on where

he has placed you in the body and what that function is.

And then you want to be obedient to that role with all your

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

daily, your money through Friday job, should not get all Your

effort. God's Church shouldn't be second

thought to us. It should be.

What's motivating, our life. You may not be here full-time,

but you should be thinking, well, the next time service, I

know we're doing this and we got this plan, and this is going

here, and then I'm all about do because God's Place me in the

body where please just him. It's my greatest role in the

earth, okay? Verse 11, jump down there and

says any appointed some with grace, to be Apostles, and

somewhat Grace to be prophets and somewhat Grace.

Advances and some with grace, to be pastors and and some with

grace to be teachers and they're calling, that's the fivefold.

Ministry is to nurture and prepare all the holy Believers

to do their own works of ministry.

And as they do, this will this this they will enlarge and build

up the body of Christ. So when the fivefold ministry,

accepts its function to then train the Saints to do their

Function, then the whole church gets better.

It builds it up. Amen.

Then he goes on and says these Grace Ministries will function

until we all attain Oneness in the face a Oneness until we all

experience. The fullness of what is meant to

know the Son of God. And finally, we become one.

Perfect man with the full dimension of spiritual.

Here, it is maturity and fully developed in the abundance of

Christ. God never intended for you just

to get born again. Never being born again, is just

the entrance into the greatest life you can ever live on the

earth while you're separated physically from the King.

Being born again. Is what gets you entrance into

his kingdom so you can see his kingdom.

Then you should experience his kingdom and you should come

together with other brothers sisters in Christ and do a work

together. That's so amazing that even the

world will be in all And he never designed that.

We would stay immature. Let's put it this way.

God never built his church to stay at preschool.

Because the church according to the Bible is to be the pillar

and support of Truth, the world should be asking the church.

So talk to me about marriage, I don't know what that is.

Talk to me about economics, y'all know what that is talk to

me about government. You know what that is talk to me

about parenting, you know what that is.

We hold the truth of all aspects of life.

Talk to me about healing we know this because we hold the truth.

We are the truth because the holy spirit is the spirit of

Truth. Yeah.

And so we should be so passionate about true but if

you're immature, Then you're not going to be able to display.

All that we actually have he goes on and says in verse 14, he

says. And then our it, our immaturity

will end. So God.

And what never wanted us to stay immature.

We have to press on to maturity. Now we know naturally that the

body itself when a child is born because of his DNA, obviously,

if it's fed, right? Okay, it will naturally grow to

a visit call maturity, but we know a lot of people that are in

physically mature bodies that are immature mentally, right?

I mean, I remember going back to life my 20-year anniversary,

maybe as my 30-year High School reunions.

I mean, and I got the air and I've just like these people are

still out like they're in high school.

I miss, like, I went back in time, but, you know, they don't

look the same. A lot of miles on their face.

I'm like, wow, I mean, it's like saying same mentality, same way

of thinking everything, this crazy, you know, but what's,

what's even more crazy as someone to get born again and

ten twenty years later, they're still Being led by their flesh

full of trouble. The devil, beat them up all the

time. You're like wow, you didn't grow

up at all. So then our immaturity will end

and we will not be easily shaken by trouble nor LED astray by

novel teachings or by the false doctrines of deceivers who teach

clever laws. But instead 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

deeper into him. The annoy the anointed head of

his body. The church for his body has been

formed in His image and his closely joined together and

constantly connected as one. The and every member has been

given Divine gifts to contribute to the growth of all.

And as these gifts, operate effectively throughout the whole

body, we are built up and made perfect in love, you know, as I

read this, I realized that the preaching of a personal

relationship with the Lord alone has greatly hindered.

The ultimate plan of God. As ultimately hindered, the plan

of God, that, you know, when we've reduced the Bible to, you

just need to ask people if they're born.

Again, you need to see if their get saved.

You know, let's just get them saved the minute.

We reduce all that. The Bible says to, just this one

little thought process, the door process.

How do you get in? You must be born again, okay,

and that's all. We're addressing then.

Ultimately we lose what? God, ultimately planned.

For those who did get into his kingdom while they remained in

the Earth. You know and saying well, you

know, have you made Jesus your personal savior, you know, like

our relationship with God is just personal and it and you do

have a personal relationship. I'm not it's not saying that but

if all you're thinking about is your personal relationship with

God, and not the church that he's the head of Then you are

going to be. You're basically saying I am

going to be immature, my whole existence in the Earth.

I will not grow. And again you can get them

around people like that. Like, well I you know, I asked

the Lord to come into my heart and save me which that's not in

the Bible. Come into my heart and save you,

okay. You know, there's a little

saying that comes across but God does not come in your heart and

save you. God changes your spirit, man.

He puts out the old Spirit. Puts in a new one.

Okay. He's not in your heart, right.

He Bears witness with your spirit.

You are a child of God once you confess Jesus as Lord, and

lordship is actually the right way.

Way is the right into the kingdom.

Okay. So if we don't watch out we and

we have see this takes place especially in our nation where

you know, it's just about getting somebody to do a quick

prayer. And then let them know you're

right. And at this point, doesn't

matter what you do when you die, you go to heaven and yet the

Ultimate Prize of what God and what God is coming back for.

Because again, I get it. People are saying, you know,

well, the church at the building, I get that.

It's not a bill now, because all of us could go outside and still

be the church, but you can't be the church by yourself.

You just can't happen. Now.

You can be by yourself, but you're guaranteeing your dying

because again with Jesus said I will build my church, you know,

it means of me and I've said this before, you know, here's my

iPad right? It's mine.

I'm sitting it right here still mom, but I'm over here.

It's still mine, but that's not the my Jesus is talking about

it. Here's my arm.

Now. I'm my arm is of me now.

Can I leave my arm on the pulpit without me being there?

Yes, but that means I have to sever it and it's cut off from

the blood and the minute I cut my arm and leave it there.

It's dying. Now you can maybe poke it and it

twitch or something, you know, there may be a shelf life for

them to maybe reconnect it and potentially save it.

But you know, you leave it there a few months.

We ain't resurrecting the arm outside of Supernatural power

God. It's just going with her up and

it's gonna be a little in our trophy case until the flesh

falls off and then it just turns into you know, the bone this

skeleton, right and I'm at To have Mia, you know a prosthetic

prosthetic, which was not what God intended something

artificial. Hallelujah.

So when we say that we love God and I have a personal

relationship with. Let me tell you what they had

the church is saying, get to church get together with other

believers. I have an assigned function for

you that you can't do without the rest.

Because I did not die for you to go to heaven.

I died. So I could come and live in you

and empower the world because for us, we need to understand

that the next greatest move of God is the maturing of the

church. If he says that he wants to

present himself with this church that's without spot or Wrinkle

in this be without blemish, then it means that we can attain to

it. If he sent the fivefold,

ministry to bring us to full maturity, then we can get there.

And as a pastor, you know, when I began to really seek the Lord

because he called me to be this and I began to read scripture

concerning his church and the role that I had and the function

that I had concerning the Saints, I'm like I have to make

a demand that we mature. I can't compromise the word.

This is why Paul said in the book of Acts when he was leaving

the church of Ephesus. He said I am innocent of the

blood of all men. Why could he say that he said

because I have not withheld from you the full counsel of God.

I'm gonna give you everything you need so that you can grow up

spiritually and that you can become one that you guard the

sweet harmony that comes around a group of people collected

together sharing the same Faith The Same Spirit the same vision

flowing in the same direction so that God can be glorified in a

particular location. and that's what God wants to do because

when the church unifies there's some amazing things take place.

Look what it says in Psalms 133 verses 1 through 2.

Psalms 133:1–2

It says behold how good and how pleasant it is for Brethren to

well to Brett for Brethren to dwell together in unity.

It is like the precious ointment poured on the head that ran down

on the beard even the beard of air and the first high priest

that came upon the collar and the skirts of His Garment

consecrating the whole body. Now who's the head of the

church? Who is the high priest Jesus?

And Jesus is the head of the church is Jesus anointed because

the oil represents the anointing and Jesus.

When he came up out of the Jordan River, God said the Holy

Spirit came upon him and the Lord father said, this is my

beloved Son in whom I wear. Well please later on.

Jesus says, he says, the spirit of the Lord is upon me for he

has anointed me and if he's anointed Jesus and guess what

you are anointed as well. Because it floats.

Oh, down from the head all the way down the body because we are

the whole body of Christ and notice when this takes place, he

says how pleasant good and pleasant is that Brethren dwell

in what Unity. Let me say it this way.

You're free from selfish ambitions.

You only want to do one thing, you want to fulfill the function

that God has placed for you in his body and how he deploys you

out in the world. Whether it's through your own

business, whether it's through another type of job way, in

family, whatever the case may be, you still come and collect

here because this causes who you are to be released so that

you're the greatest Ambassador for God.

And when we come together as God calls us to then we'll be a

greater force on the earth than we could ever be individually.

When I saw this, I began to realize something really

important. That is not in church.

Growth strategies. But it needs to be and that is

it's more important to grow Unity among the Brethren or

disciples in the church than the grow numbers without Unity.

I mean, I can't tell you how many churches in the United

States, right now. All it is is about growth

tracks. How do we get more people in?

How do we get more people then? We're not even trying to unify

the people. We have.

We're not trying to walk in unity.

We're not trying to unify be of One Faith.

One Spirit speaking and saying the same thing.

We spend more time just trying to get another unbeliever in

another unbeliever in that, we don't develop the Believers that

are there, so we have an immature church that cannot

fight the good fight of faith. Now they may be the largest

church in the community but they respond in the community like

the rest of the community when trouble hits they at the same

way, when the issue hits they at the same way when trial comes,

they act the same way, they just kind of throw a little caveat,

well, Lord, if it's your will or, you know, you know, we're

just praying the Lord and do something well.

The Lord to do is word if you walk by faith.

Amen. And God's gracious.

Don't give Me wrong, full of Mercy.

There's a lot he's doing for his church to help them along and

way more than he is in the world.

But when the church comes together and say, what does the

king saying, how does he want us to respond to this situation?

And then we were laying, say, let's do this, then we all unify

Now, tell me, what is the power of unity?

When it came to covid? Because when colon came out, the

whole world, Did the same thing. Nation.

Shut down nations are standing nations of different tongues and

tribe are two are standing 6 feet away from each other wear

masks. We never lived.

This kind of existence, never heard of the word social

distance. yeah, they unified and what kind of power was that come

on y'all know because when you didn't want to go out where your

Mast and all of a sudden, the world is looking at you like

What's wrong with you? I mean you were like, you felt

like you were a rebel. Your church is still meeting.

What's wrong with y'all? Well, it's because we didn't

unify that way. We chose to unify another way.

Because our Unity supposed to be around.

God, I'm just saying there's power in unity when Unity comes.

It brings a thing called Leverage.

Because all of a sudden power comes, when we see plenty of

people unify around causes. We see it on the news, we see

rallies, we see demonstrations, we see protests, what are they

doing? They're saying and they have the

same little, you know, worship songs, right?

They'll chant these same things in this life and in some of us

so big, they little it across Nations.

And they'll say the same things, why?

Because they're wanting their unified and unity makes people

look because the Devil Knows A house divided.

The church would be so awesome if it would just unify because

the church can say, yeah, you'd man if you only knew the baggage

that was laid up in our congregation but she wouldn't

know about it because it's under the blood.

Because we're not pulling out our old life all the time.

Talking about how and then examining our new life in light

of our old life. We're only taking our cues from

the King himself for developing a kingdom culture and we come

from every tongue every tribe Every Nation.

But yet we still follow one, king one, father, one, Holy

Spirit. When people ask us, we say well,

it is written. They we say, well, I have no

opinion in the matter. But my king says Hey, you know,

they're gonna say Well they're brainwashed.

Well are my our brain has been washed by the word.

Amen. Make no mistake about it.

Your mom has been washed with the word but you freely do that.

Hallelujah. It's the rest of the world is

brainwashed. Brain-dead actually, there's

strength in unity. Okay, what's the say in Matthew

18 18 to 20? Says, truly, I say to you,

whatever you bind on Earth, shall have been bound in heaven

and whatever you loose on Earth, shall have been loosed in

heaven. Again, I say to you that if two

of you agree on Earth about anything that they may ask, it

shall be done for them. By my father who is in heaven

for where two, or three have gathered together, in my name.

I am there in their midst. Power.

I said there's power in unity and if the church can quit

coming and coming together and say, well, you know, I love

Jesus, they love Jesus, but that's the only Unity we have.

Well, then we're not going to take that move the strength that

God intended. Look at this.

In First Corinthians chapter 1 starting in verse 10.

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The passion says that this way I urge you, my brothers and

sisters for the sake of the name of our Lord, Jesus to agree, to

live in. Unity with one another and put

to rest any division that attempts to tear you apart.

Be restored as one United body living in Perfect Harmony form.

A consistence Lily, you form a consistent choreography among

yourself. Having a common perspective

which shared values. Yeah, the Lord just showed me

the body. Okay, so There's a thing called

Tan Lines. You may heard a tan lines

before? Yeah, yes.

Then we come together. We're one body, but we don't

look alike. You can't let the color your

skin divide you. Are you hear what I'm saying?

This way you can't no division among you.

So again you can't say, well, cause we're not the same color.

I mean, I can wear a shirt and and pants all the time and get

out and get some really dark arms and a net and then take off

and bebu white with real dark arms.

Are you hearing me and it's on the same body?

It's what I'm trying to say. It's on the same body.

Hey man. I mean, probably everybody in

this room is a little different color somewhere.

Yeah, I mean unless you know you're tannin all-natural

somewhere and that's fine. Are you don't tan at all?

And it's just boo everywhere. My point is that we need to say,

we're not going to let division here.

Why would we ever let the? World's divisive words?

Come into this place? Why would we take up said?

Well, that's my people. There's only two types of people

in the planet. There are those of the kingdom

of darkness and the Kingdom of Light, that's the only type of

people there are. So, when you say my people,

there's only one my people. If you're a child of God and has

two children of God and they don't look the same.

Again, we identify nationally. Well, if you're going to Define

Ashley identify with the kingdom, don't identify with

Europe. Don't identify with Asia, don't

identify with Africa, identify when he came because the king

owns the planet. Anyway and again, when they come

in, they should see us hugging and love and in saying the same

thing and none of us are talking about this past and that passed

and the way this one treated that.

We're just like, man, we love the king.

We love the king. We're gonna follow the king and

we're gonna obey the king, and we're going to move towards what

he says only and you can't break us up.

You can't divide us, she can't split us.

You can't make us come against each other.

Amen. And he's like, man.

If we could just get into this, something powerful will happen.

Let me show you what will happen.

This is so powerful, man. I want this so bad.

I want this so bad, and I think we're on the precipice.

Of potentially being this in our own County.

I mean, we may be closer than I think.

But, you know, I want us to get there.

John chapter 17. Look at this.

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In verse 18. This is so good.

This is what you need to do. And then we only look at God as

a personal relationship. Like we really have no

obligation to function in the body as God pleases him.

We don't have to obligate ourselves to make sure we're

doing the vision of the place he planted us and it's not our

number one thinking. Then we will hinder this vert.

This section of scripture from happening, Jesus Christ is

talking okay, this is your king. He says, I've commissioned them.

He's now this is his prayer to his father before he goes to the

Cross. He said, I have commissioned

them to represent me just as you commissioned me to represent you

And now I dedicate myself to them as a holy sacrifice so that

they will live a fully dedicated will live as fully dedicated to

God and be made Holy by your truth.

And I do not ask only for these disciples but also for all say

oh those who will one day believe in me through their

message. Will do you believe in him

through the messages of those disciples?

Yeah. So This Is Us What's he want for

us verse 21. I pray for them all, say all to

be joined. What together as one notice?

He didn't say, I've, you know, desire that everyone would just

get saved. Because that's all that matters

is they asked me to come into their heart.

That when they die, they go to heaven.

No, he said that we would be joined together as one join

together as one even as you. And I father are joined together

as one. notice Jesus told his decide, he said, if you've seen

me, you've seen the father in essence he saying look if these

guys will join together as one, then when the community sees

that church, They'll see me. Let's go on, I pray for them to

become one with us so that the there who the, who that's the

lost and what will the Lost. Do will recognize that you sent

me. You know why?

People don't understand that God, the Father sent Jesus is

because the church has it Unified.

I mean, if all you're telling the world is.

Yeah, but listen, I asked Jesus to come into my heart and save

me and so when I die, I go to heaven, but you haven't and

you're going to go to hell. But you live.

Like, I do. Yeah.

But I'm still saved. We were drinking last night.

Yeah. But you understand?

I'm saved. You cuss like I do?

Yeah but you know what God's grace is all my life different

than yours and I'm saved. What you're mad at our balls.

I mean you you said all kinds of stuff.

I'm like I mean that's how we respond.

Yeah but I'm saved. I mean we're not perfect now but

we're saved. No, the Lord's like you want to

impress the world getting Unity? getting unity in the church

because if you let the, the fivefold ministry, Build you up

and they're all come together as one no longer independent of

each other, but dependent upon each other individually.

Expressing your gifts coming together under the same covering

as God assigned. Then when you go around

marching, when you go around doing the world were recognized,

that the father has sent me. So again, you know, we stress

the independent theory of witnessing go out and tell

someone about Jesus. When Jesus stresses the unity of

the body is the greatest witnessing tool.

The world should come in here and say how can there be all

these people looking different from all these different types

of background and they love each other like this.

How in the world can these people?

How can they get how come there's not fighting?

How come there's not gossiping? How come there's not because he

we are supposed to gossip. We're not supposed to backbite.

We're not supposed to live. Unholy.

We're not supposed to lift fleshly.

We're not supposed to live by selfish ambition.

We're not supposed to we're supposed to all be functioning

with the fruits of the spirit and then the fruits of the

spirit are flowing through us all love joy peace, patience

kindness goodness gentleness and self-control.

We're just flowing in this so well doesn't matter what we look

like. We're worshipping our King

together. We're saying the same thing from

the word or standing in faith. Hey, you know we Rejoice under

trial, you know, we are full of joy when Trouble Comes our way

and they're like what is going on with this group of people.

They're not from the world. We become the greatest

witnessing tool ever. He goes on and says for the very

Glory you have given to me, I have given to them so that they

may be joined together as one and experience.

The same Unity that we enjoy you live fully in me.

Now, I live fully in them man so that they will experience

perfect. Unity.

And the world will be what convinced that you have sent me

for. They will see that.

You love each one of them with the same passionate love that

you have for me. So there's something about

coming together in unity. Developing this Unity where

again, we're preferring one another You know, we've got to

be passionate about one another. We got a rally each other's

causes champion each other's gifts.

Amen. They meant and you know what

your gift will make room for you.

I can't tell you how many times people have come in and you

know, they had their own personal agenda.

You know what to be place here doubt and I, well, you know,

you're giving him a room for you, ain't no, there's too many

people being used here. Now for that not to happen.

But there's growth and development.

All kinds of stuff takes place for us to be able to do all

that. God has called us to do.

But it says, listen, he said I'm going to give them my glory.

You know how many times people like man?

I just wish the glory of God will show up.

You know. Well you want to know how the

glory shows up. Let's look at and second

chronicles because this is where people reference this a lot of

times but you need to see what causes his glory and Jesus

already references as well. But we're going to look at a

second chronicles 5 11. To 14 says this when the priest

came forth from the holy place for all the priests who were

present had Sanctified themselves without regard to

It's and all the levitical singers, all these people in

their sons clothed, in fine, linen with symbols Harps, they

stood at the east of the altar with with them 120 priest,

blowing trumpets in unison, when the trumpets and the singers

were to make themselves heard with one voice to praise and to

Gloria fava, the Lord. And when they lifted up their

voice accompanied, by the trumpets and cymbals and music

instruments of music, and when they praise the Lord saying he

indeed is good for his loving, kindness is Everlasting than the

house. House, the house of the Lord was

filled with a cloud, so that the priests could not stand to

minister because of the cloud for the glory of the Lord.

Filled the house notice they were in unison.

In unison. Unity is a big deal.

You did he first starts in the heart?

You know, because even Jesus himself, I'll use this example.

Jesus was in Peters mother-in-law's house and he was

ministering people and it was packed out so much so that

people were outside. They couldn't even all get in

her house, okay? And so, for guys hear that Jesus

is in town, they have a friend that's paralyzed, right?

And they say we're going to take you to Jesus, you going to get

healed. And so they put him on his mat

and a carry him and they get to the house and like we can't even

get in. Well, we going to do.

None of them are going to turn back.

We get to Jesus, so they said we're going to get on the roof,

ripped the roof off, a man will lower you down.

So they got on the roof started tearing a woman's roof off,

okay? And then lowered this guy and as

this guy starts coming down from the ceiling.

Jesus, look it up. Seeing him is like, wow, he said

seeing their faith, not just the guy on the mat, all of them

because these guys were committed that Jesus can heal

you. Jesus is in the room with

people. He's teaching the word.

And he says man your sins are forgiven.

The many he says that he identified the ones who were not

in unity. Because there were religious

people in there and when Jesus said that said, only God can

black. Can only God can forgive sins.

This is blasphemy, right? And then Jesus says, why do you

say in your heart? Now, he's got a word of

knowledge. And he says, why do you say in

your heart, these particular things, he said to let you know

that I have authority on Earth to forgive sins, and to heal,

because he said, which is easier, whether forgive the man

of sin, her healing So let you know, I have authority on Earth

to do both. He said, take up your mat and go

and he got stood up, took his mat and walked out of the house.

Hallelujah. My point is, is that you can be

in, in the church, even in this church and yet in your heart,

not be committed to what's going on.

You can even hear the word and and rejoice for yourself only,

but not want that to be distributed to the ones around

you. You could come and say, I want

to grow, but don't realize your growth is not just for you.

I want to grow so that I can be the best that I can be for

everyone else, because my growth is not just for me, my growth is

for my brothers and sisters, the stronger, I am the stronger, we

are, the more I walk in love the better.

We all are the more that I hear the spirit of God and letting

are led by the spirit, the better.

We all are, because it's not just about me because the

kingdom is not just about you. Yet we've sold a message that is

just about you. Yeah, Jesus didn't sell that

message. Jesus said, man, I want you

bring you into my family. I want us to get unified.

I want us to be a one mom, want to court.

Listen, there will be absolutely without a shadow of a doubt in

the end times with the new Heaven and new earth, there will

be no division. Among the household of God, not

a trace. We'll be there yet.

The Lord is allowing us to know that, even in the Earth today we

can move to a plane of maturity as a church that can unify in

such a way that the world will know.

That Jesus said was sent by the father that the world will

recognize man in that church, man, they feed each other.

They take care of each other. They rally around each other.

They don't talk bad about each other.

You can get one to talk bad about another one.

Gonna get one. I mean, they should be like,

this is a holiest group I've ever seen in my life.

And again, You Are Holy when you're living the world.

Now that doesn't mean we can't make a mistake.

We can't falter you, we can't fall down but the Bible says a

righteous man may fall down seven times but what happens he

gets up and goes we as brothers. What do we do we go and rally

around each other and say, hey, I saw you stumble, let me help

you back up. Oh, we're at around said, hey,

what do you think what you're doing right now?

How you're talking it, and pleasing to our father.

You're like, yep, you're right. I Repent man, I'm not doing

that. I mean, get back over in here.

I know what's the best thing for me.

I'm not going to get caught up in this.

I'm not going to get caught up in an offense.

I'm not going to get caught up in, bitterness.

I'm not going to have that. You know what, we're going to

stay together. This thing's bigger than me.

And when we unify in this kind of place man, I'm telling you

then the glory of God can move into this place even more so

because he's like, look at that group, look at this but my body

who's collecting upon the same place.

I mean it could take us till Jesus comes just to unify the

ones we have today. No, I want to grow, I want to

see more people come into the kingdom, but when you get into

the kingdom, you can't stay a baby because babies don't win

the fight of faith. We're going to have to develop

into ones that we can come alongside each other and you can

come just like tonight. You know, I was dealing with

some symptoms myself and I'm like, I'm not no, I'm not the

only one and I've already heard. So we might as well just help

the ones that are dealing with symptoms and let's just lay

hands on a while. Because if you're hurting, I'm

hurting now, we don't have to have that kind of call for you

to get healed. You can walk into the church and

say, Hey, listen, man, I've had some simply can't lay hands on

me. Well, yeah, I would love to lay

hands on you. We're Believers together.

We're in the body wear uniform, but I believe that God heals

just like, you believe God, heals and Men we touch and

agree. And we get more and more

complicated. So God wants us.

To mature, we are destined for maturity.

Now you got to understand, not everybody matures.

I get it. Some just want to be childish.

Paul said, when I was a child, I think thought as a child, I

acted like a child. But when I became a man, I put

away, childish, things, the only child like, you need to keep his

childlike Faith, believe God, like a child.

Whatever dad says, I do it II. Do not get intellectual on this

deal. I'm not trying to say, well,

now, the Lord, you're going to have to.

I got to figure this out. Now you said it.

That's it. I fully trust.

You got it. Even if I have no idea how

you're going to do. It doesn't matter.

I got your word now and I'm doing this thing because you

cannot fail. You never fail in your word

period. But we are stronger.

Together, then we would ever be independent.

And activate church is going to unify.

We're going to mature, we're going to continue to develop.

And then this County, this state, this nation in the world

is going to say. I don't know how they do it.

They must be from God. Thank you so much for listening

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