Your Why - Kingdom Ambition

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into it. To turn over to James chapter 3

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you know I heard a minister by the name of dr.

Myles Munroe and he's gone on to be with the Lord, but he made

this statement. Said, it's not enough that you

know, that you were born. It's not enough.

You need to know why. But no one why you were born

isn't enough either. You didn't know why you do what

you do because you can know why you're born and still blow it

because why you're doing why you were born?

Has great implications. Why you do?

Why you were born? Do you understand what I'm

saying? It will become very clear.

So in James chapter 3, James says this and he's talking to

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the church now. He says he says, but if you have

bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, do not

be arrogant. So lie against the truth.

This wisdom is not that which comes down from above but is

Earthly natural demonic verse 16 for jealousy.

And here it is. Selfish ambition exist.

There is disorder and every evil thing.

So the ambition that we have will determine our quality of

life. Whether we are receiving from a

natural Earthly or demonic realm, or whether we're

receiving from God. Are you hearing me?

So here James is talking to the church.

He not talking to the lost to those outside of God's kingdom.

He's talking to those inside his kingdom.

He says, now, why you do what you do is very important because

if you have selfish ambition, see jealousy, only can manifest

if selfish ambition is there Are you hearing me when there's a

selfish ambition? I'm doing this because of me.

How does it help me? How does it benefit me?

What about me? Well, at that point.

It will put you in a place where you'll begin to lie against the

truth. You lie against the truth and

then the wisdom that you begin to demonstrate the, the plans

that start coming to your mod of how to accomplish something.

Will not come from heaven, but it had come from another Realm.

I said another realm, then it means anything.

You actually accomplished actually has around it disorder

and every evil thing, every evil thing.

You say Pastor, are we talking about this?

Why? Because the Bible tells us in

the last of the last days, many will be deceived.

Many will be deceived. Now we would think you know

because again when you just gloss over the Bible you think.

Well that's that's those that are outside of God kingdom.

It's obvious, they're going to be deceived.

Well, they're already deceived, they're not going to be they are

the veils already over their eyes.

Their father is the father of lie.

So this ain't about, they're going to be deceived.

So when the when the the scripture tells when Paul's

admonishing in the last days there will be many who will go

into deception. That will be He's not talking

about those that are already in deception.

He's talking about those who have the capacity to not be

deceived, but what would cause a person to be deceived?

Well, as long as you have some kind of selfish ambition about

yourself, you will be deceived. Not you might You will as long

as something within you has this.

What about me when you going to recognize me?

When they going to talk about me?

Where am I gonna get my, what about me?

Don't they appreciate that individual will be deceived

period. How do we know this?

Well, all we have to do is Trace where the first layer of

deception, man. Tested.

And it's recorded in Isaiah. Chapter 14 and Isaiah chapter.

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14. God had created a perfect

creation and he had Angels assigned to help him do things

in his creation. He had one particular, one is

called the Morning Star, the King James calls him, Lucifer,

he was anointed cherub, but yet he developed a selfish ambition,

Within him because Ezekiel Khan explains how he got lifted up in

Pride. He saw his own Beauty and fat

Ezekiel, even talks about how he spent time in the garden.

And the time in the garden, was it the time that he showed up

with Eve, okay, at the end of the day, he decided that he had

an ambition that lied against the truth.

And it's recorded here in Isaiah, 14 verses 12 to 16.

Isaiah 14:12–16

He says, all he said, how you have fallen from Heaven, All

Star of the morning. Son of the Dawn.

You have been cut down to the Earth.

You have weakened the nation's but you said in your heart, I

will Ascend to Heaven. I will raise my throne above the

stars of God. I will sit on the Mount of the

assembly in the recesses of the north ah, will Ascend above the

heights of the clouds ah will make myself like The most high

selfish ambition. But it God says nevertheless,

you will be thrust down the shield to the recesses of the

pit, those who see you will gaze at you.

They will ponder over you saying is this not is this the man who

made the Earth tremble? Who shook kingdoms?

I love what Pastor John George said to our men this weekend.

He says it's not like the devil is, is choosing in the context

of well, you know, No, maybe today I'll be good.

He chooses and he desires to be the opposite of God.

And there's no Redemption for him.

We should never feel sorry for the devil ever, because he

chooses to be rebellious from the things of God.

Why? Because he looked to himself and

says, I can do it better than God.

I want my name better. I want mine and let me why we

saying this this morning because we live in a society full of

selfish ambition. Selfish ambition, what man

people want to be known. Yeah.

I mean that's why there's so many YouTube videos and so many

YouTube influencers. Everybody wants to be known,

they are jockeying for position and they don't realize that that

particular attitude subjects. Them to deception.

Are you hearing what I'm saying? And so here, this anointed

cherub the Bible says in Ezekiel he fell because he had a selfish

ambition that you know what? But I'm gonna take over the seat

of God, I want to place, I was never created to be in.

Are you hearing me? Well, did this happen in the

book of Beginnings? If we go back to the Garden, we

can see in Genesis 3:1. That now this anointed cherub

Genesis 3:1

that has been thrown down influences a serpent and shows

up in the guard. Look what it says.

Now, the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field,

which the Lord God had made, and he said to the woman, indeed has

God said, You shall not eat from any tree of the garden now.

Why does he want to know what God said?

Because he wants to lie against the truth.

Because when you have selfish ambition, you will lie against

the truth. Jesus said, I am the way, the so

he needs to know God's word in order for Allah to manifest and

the woman said to the serpent from the fruit of the Trees of

the garden. We may eat of the fruit of the

tree which is in the middle of the garden.

That is the tree of knowledge of Good and Evil.

God said You shall not eat from it or touch or you'll die in The

Serpent says to her, you surely will not die.

Die for God knows that in the day.

You eat it, you from it. Your eyes will be open.

And you'll be like, God knowing good and evil.

He's trying to create in her a selfish ambition, to be able to

now, Noah truth but then get arrogant for the Bible tells us

that this anointed cherub got lifted up in his pride.

He became arrogant because of selfish ambition.

And then in turn began to reason that God's word is not going to

be the final in my life. That there's something Beyond

it. There exists a power beyond it,

in fact, I'll no longer be subject to it all.

But Jesus testify to that day that he decided he would make a,

he would storm the Throne of Heaven.

Jesus said, I saw Satan fall like, lightning from Heaven.

Are you hearing me because his Amounted to nothing but a swift

kick out and there's coming a day that he's going to be thrown

into the Lake of Fire forever and be tormented, which is the

prison system of the kingdom. Are you hearing me?

But here we see that he asked her concerning these things and

when the woman saw that the tree was good for food and that was a

delight to the eyes and that the tree was desirable to make one

wise, but the woman was already why she was made in the image of

God. Notice she wanted to have a

wisdom beyond God, but James warns us.

If you start walking in a wisdom, that is against the

truth. It is Earthly natural and

demonic And disorder and every evil thing exists there and so

it says she took from its fruit eight and she gave also to her

husband with her. And what did he do?

He ain't Adam and Eve chose to have a selfish ambition that I

will rule this Earth without God.

I'll no longer be subject to him.

We know in Genesis 1, God's plan for man, according to Genesis

Genesis 1:26

1:26. It said let us make man in our

image according to our likeness and let them rule, have dominion

over the fish of the sea, birds of the sky over all the cattle

over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth over all the

Earth. So man had Dominion on the

earth, he already had rulership but all of a sudden the selfish

ambition was is that I want to be able to rule without God, I

want to have the Say this is the problem with Satan he himself

was given rulership. He had a form of rulership in

his created position but a selfish ambition took over and

as a result of that evil manifests now God dealt with the

evil in his room, he kicked him out.

Adam should have dealt with the same evil in his realm and

kicked it out. But instead, he took the selfish

ambition. And because of that, the Bible

tells us in entered the world. Now unfortunately, we are

subject now to this father who was the father of lies because

all of us, have sinned and fallen short of the glory of

God. We are of the nature of man.

Now, the Fallen nature of man. And you know what we all want.

We want to be known. Before we ever came into the

kingdom, it was all about self-preservation.

It's all about me. What about me?

What about in our relationships? What about me in our jobs?

What about me? In our community.

What about me among our peers, but what about me?

Our family members, what about me, everything we did was all

about getting things so that it benefits our own interests are

business decisions. The people that we decided to

have relations. How will this help me out in the

end? Even when we go into - places

meaning were hurt and instead, we're like, what about me?

I want to release the I'm feeling pain, so we don't want

nobody to help us. So we'll go in our own Direction

and Medicaid ourselves, or drink alcohol, or do stuff that puts

us in a position to try to forget.

And then, what about me? What about my heartache?

What about what I went through? What about what I'm when am I

gonna get mine? Now it's Sounds like wow, we

should have compassion now. We do have compassion.

Why? Because we want people to come

out of selfish ambition. But we shouldn't be working.

Passion is not to feed their selfish ambition but to deliver

them from it. Come on.

Are you hearing what I'm saying? In fact Philippians 2:3 says it

Philippians 2:3

this way do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit.

But with humility of Mind, regard one another, as more

important than yourselves. Now, why am I bringing this out?

Why? Because we are in a society

like, never before Of where we are pulling out personalities.

I lived and I'm 52 years old. So it wasn't that long ago, I

mean things have really progressed.

It wasn't so long ago that when you talked about a team, you

only talked about the name of the team.

That's all you talked about, you talked about, you know, whatever

that team name was. But now when it comes to teams

it, Tha he talked about the star and the team, their name and the

team's name. Well, wait a minute, they're

part of the team. Why are we talking only about

them? Why are we only talking about

what they're doing now today? We have gotten it to the sports

side. Were athletes.

Go into places only saying, How does this benefit?

Me. How does this benefit me?

How's this gonna make me look good?

I mean, right now, we have quarterbacks all through the

college realm that are jumping from school to school.

Why? Because what about it ain't

about a tea. It's about.

When am I gonna get my shot? They're not gonna give me one

here. When I this one, I loved about

Kyle Trask. When he played for the

University of Florida, the guy never played.

But never left. He could have gone to plenty of

schools but at the end of the day, and what's he doing today?

Not playing. He is playing NFL football

without playing. He's getting paid to back up the

greatest quarterback that's ever played the game at the end of

the day, but you think he's learning something.

See we have lost team, concept or Oneness in the sense that

we're all individuals, but coming together, we're one and

I'm while the we can celebrate each other's positions and each.

There's abilities of what we bring to the team.

The reality is we're a team. I mean at this point you can't

even talk about college football without knowing the quarterbacks

name. But what is the center's name?

You know, the center holds the ball more than the quarterback.

The center will touch the ball more than the quarterback.

Kyle, sometimes the quarterback will line up I'll as a receiver

or come up at the center will give it to a back you know,

could be a wildcat formation. He'll touch the ball more than

anybody but we have no idea what he is.

Let me ask you this question. How many NFL quarterbacks could

do what they do without that line?

But we don't call that the line are those names and the team.

You know, what happens in politics, it's happening in

music talking about, you know, used to be a band's name, but

then they start pulling out the lead singer and it's there.

And here's the thing it's crept into the church because now it's

not the church's worship is the church's worship.

Featuring Featuring got to have their name.

It's good to have their name now.

And it even happens with pastors.

This is now this is a personal conviction.

So by no means, if somebody's pastors name is out on a church,

am I saying they have selfish ambition?

I'm just saying. Jesus Christ is the head of the

church. I'm just Pastor in it.

I have God will establish my name, but at the end of the day,

it's not about my name. It's about his name.

Because if we would take John, the Baptist call to this thing

called the body of Christ. I must decrease.

He must increase, but have you noticed that everybody wants to

make a name for themselves? What about me?

What about my name? What about what I'm doing?

And if selfish ambition exists, every evil exists, and if

selfish ambition exists, you will deceive be deceived and lie

against the truth. Meaning, you will do things.

Contrary to the word of God. Thinking you're getting ahead.

Adam thought I'll get ahead. If I disobey and eat this fruit,

the anointed cherub the King James calls him, Lucifer, he

said, I'll get ahead, I can go higher, you can't go higher than

what God has made you to be and here's the crazy thing so many

people are so busy trying to make a name for themselves

instead of knowing god knows my name.

I mean how can you arrive more when Jesus knows your name?

When he sent his Spirit to call you out of Darkness into His

Marvelous Light, when he personally called you to come

out of that thing and it all of a sudden, now you're a child of

the king and you want somebody else to know you.

I mean, all I care about is does Jesus know who I am.

That's all that matters and all that matters is whatever I'm

doing. It makes you think of his name

thinking of his name who he is now.

Don't you think Jesus was a great example because the

Philippian let the Paul's letter to the Philippians Church tells

them to do nothing from selfishness which tells us in if

he's telling a church you could live a selfless life.

Then it must be obtainable. Hallelujah.

I said it must be obtainable. It must be obtainable.

Do you know how many musicians today started their musical

career in church? But then someone told them, I'll

make your name great. And now they sing stuff.

That doesn't glorify God and do you really think?

Just cause they put out a gospel album?

They're loving the Lord. No, cuz they know if I put out a

gospel album, the church is so gullible they'll buy it.

It's just another stream of income.

Oh my goodness. No, guys, looking for character.

And then here's the thing, God knows, our heart.

Today's message is a liberating message.

Why? Because, you can get free from

selfish ambition. Give free from it.

Give free from it, just be absolutely free.

I have no selfish ambition. All I want to do is the will of

God for my life go. See when you don't have a

selfish ambition than anything. Anyone else is doing?

You won't ever be jealous of it? I can't believe they're letting

Minister, they haven't asked me yet.

What? Oh, I'm preaching way better.

I mean, I'll deal with the household of God.

Why? Because many people have been

hurt by the church only because there have been believers.

Who did not eradicate their selfish ambition.

And they created an atmosphere of every evil thing.

I mean, I don't mom when the church honors and weights and

wants to serve the role of the pastor, but make no mistake

about it. You're gonna see me serve you.

Because at the end of the day, it's about us doing something

together. I want to be known as.

Oh, that's the pastor of anchor faith.

I want to be lost in a vision that when they see me they see

Vision more than they see my name.

Now, that doesn't mean you can't have a name, you won't be

established or name because God has no problem to establish

someone's name when he knows, they always point you back to

him and I'm not talking to fake stuff just because someone gets

an award On a stage for their acting.

And then they say, I just want to thank the Lord means they're

serving or you don't want to hear it.

Judas could not assimilate to be a true follower of Jesus.

Because he had a selfish ambition.

His ambition was that I'll get close to the Messiah, everybody

knows the messiah's coming, the Kings coming, the Kings coming,

the Kings coming, he's the king, they're saying he's the king.

Look at the miracles signs and wonders that are happening.

With this guy, the king, this must be him.

And I'm gonna get close because we, you know what he is going to

establish my name. He picked me. but when he

started to think this guy's not trying to get on the throne, I

don't know how this is going to start, he's denying himself all

the time. I mean, I've never walked around

someone so selfless in my life. I mean he's not making a demand

on the throne. And at this point, I'm here and

there's too many people against. I need a side with a different

party again. Oh, you don't want it.

So, uh, what can I do to sell this?

How can I profit from this relationship?

It's amazing. How many Believers come to me as

a pastor, if you would just do this.

And basically take pieces of the world, bring it into the church,

so we can be known. I'm no and how big that

influence is really relevant to me.

That's up to God. He's the one who calls the

increase. I refuse to do anything.

He's not giving me instruction to, but look what it says here

in 1st Corinthians. Just to let you know.

We're talking about Believers here.

First Corinthians chapter 13 starting in verse 1.

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Actually, it says, if I speak with the tongues of men or of

angels, but do not have love. I have become a noisy, gong and

a clanging cymbal. Have you ever been in a church

where it just sounds like a bunch of noise?

And they're doing super natural or Supernatural things.

They're tapping in to Supernatural benefits of God but

the atmosphere See, this is what we don't understand is how our

ambition is an atmosphere carrier.

You can speak with the tongues of men or the tongues of angels,

meaning, you can be eloquent in your speech among men that

they're drawn and captivated by how you speak, or you can even

speak the language of God, but if your ambition is selfish,

then love is not there. I'm going to show you.

Why love's not there and that means you are just noise.

Although you can emotionally move people, let's go on.

He said, if you have the gift of Prophecy and know, all

Mysteries, and all knowledge and if I have all Faith so as to

remove mountains, that's a god kind of Faith, but do not have I

am how many people want to prophesy just so that you'll

know they prophesied so they use, hey Whoa man.

God use them. They're like, yeah God uses me.

God uses me. Sometimes when you come to me

and say, hey, I believe I got some from the lord.

Well, we gonna find out what she got because you may actually

have the gift of Prophecy from God.

That needs to be delivered. You may actually be tapping in

by faith, but your life is fixing to be exposed the men and

I credit God use you Oh, you don't want to hear that, okay?

Because then it will expose why? Or maybe your initial was I'm

here in God. But then all of a sudden, the

accolades of you hearing God starts showing up.

And it will expose your true ambition.

And unless you cut that off and say not, it's not about me, it's

not about me and I'm not talking false humility.

I'm talking, it is not about me. I've asked myself often if I do

nothing else, would it is it? Okay?

I mean, people want to be Isaiah or Elijah but they don't want to

be Obadiah. Obadiah one.

Chap couple chapter know, very little book.

I mean what is God? Only used you one time publicly.

Could you be okay with that? Because here's the problem.

If you're like I just I know God wants to you.

That's that's silliness. God wants to use everyone.

The fact you're even meditating. I know God wants to use me.

And if you're consumed with wind, will he?

And when am I going? You're going to have a harder

time because really you're tapping into a selfish ambition,

you're trying to be known. I said you're trying to be known

verse 3 and if I give all my possessions to feed the poor and

if I Surrender my body right that it may be burned.

It says this but do not have love.

What's it? Do you know how many people are

giving to organization? I tell you right now.

Coach Bo could testify to this to I guarantee you people are To

West oxton not because they care about the community.

It's because they want to be known that they gave to a

community, although they really are caring about it.

You know, there's a lot of wealthy people that will give to

causes not because they care about it, but because they care

about the tax return. But they stand in front of the

newspapers. They have the big checks out

there aren't there like posting everywhere.

Look what we did. Look how much we gave look how

we did this look. We want to get coverage so

everybody knows. Selfish ambition.

Selfish ambition. Are you hearing what I'm saying?

Let's go on but he goes on and says this.

Then starting to Define love, love is its patient lovers con.

It's not jealous. Which means in if jealousies

manifesting How come they get to sing?

That lead? How come Pastor?

Put them in that position. How come they got promoted at

work? You might as well go ahead and

MIT. You got a selfish ambition, you

need to crucify. You need to cut it off because

the devil wants to deceive you. Well, I would do better in that

position. They'll I mean, I love God, I'd

be a gretter influencer whether you're in a position.

Not doesn't stop you from influencing with God, josef's

greatest influence was when he was in prison.

Oh, you don't want to hear that. His greatest influence was when

he was thrown in prison because it was his encounter with other

inmates that ultimately got him an invitation, before the king,

it was not. His encounter with his parents,

it was not his encounter with the oh what was the name man?

The, the he was sold to as a slave.

Potiphar wasn't Potiphar's house.

Potiphar sure. Didn't say nothing about him far

as Potiphar's concern. I can't believe the Kings got a

rapist up there. There's no indication Potter

forever believe that Joseph did not rape his wife, or try to So

none of those relationships propelled him.

What propelled him was he was always knowing there's a word

from, you know, how many to Opportunities he let go.

And even when he stands before Pharaoh that day, no selfish

ambition. As you've heard me preach

before. He stands before the king, the

king tells him the dream, he knows the interpretation, and at

this point he could say, okay, the Lord has given me the

interpretation of the dream. I got it.

But this is what I like to do. I would like to secure my

release because I'm innocent, and you know what?

He was innocent and that this point, this is my opportunity,

God has given me. My opportunity to secure my

release. He did not negotiate the safety

of his own life selflessness. He had no guarantee the Pharaoh

Pharaoh wasn't saved, man. That's good.

All right. Now, you understand the charges

are attempted rape. You're a Hebrew, which means

they were prejudiced against them and that policy never

changed. Even when he was made Prince,

the Egyptians would not eat. With Joseph cuz they saw them as

low. Some he was the man in charge

unless the King was on the throne and he could not change

the policy of the land. Yet, he still served because it

was not about that. It was bigger and in a selfish

response, he gives him an answer and then crazy.

He, he tells him his dream but then he gives him the answer on

how to overcome Really. You know why?

A person can do that? Because they already know.

Well, God promotes me anyway. So you thought me back in

prison? I'm this.

He gonna have to come out that the end of day, I'm coming out,

I had a dream and he showed me what I would be and whether this

is that moment or not, I do not know.

All I know is when the moment comes it would be that God did

it. And I didn't manipulate, I will

give you an answer if well, we're manipulating I said we're

manipulating now, honey. I'll do that.

If okay, one manipulating. We start to manipulate while

selfish ambition Joseph didn't do it.

Love is patient. Love is kind is not jealous.

Love does not brag is not. Arrogant does not act

unbecomingly. It does not.

Seek its own. Now we're going to Camp right

there on that one spot. Love does not keep secrets on

here's the thing the Rick Renner interpretive version defines.

It does not seek its own this way.

Love is not ambitious. Self-centered are so consumed

with itself that it never thinks of the needs or desires that

others possess Now, why do I say that?

Because John the Gospel of John? Our first John tells us that God

is love, which means? Then God, if God is love and God

is the word in the beginning was the word, the word was with God,

the word that means the word is love and the word is Jesus,

which means Jesus is Love and love, doesn't seek its own.

It's always thinking about the needs of others first.

It's not about its ambition, it's about the reason why I'm

here. Jesus knew I was here, he was

sent by the father. So how did love, who doesn't

seek his own operate? The scripture tells us in John

John 5:30

Chapter 5 Verse 30. He says, I can do nothing on my

own initiative as I hear I judge and my judgment is just because

I, I do, not seek my own will, but the will of him who sent me.

I don't do it. I don't think Mom.

It's not that he couldn't he chose not to why.

Because love is not selfish. In many relationships.

People are saying I love you and that's a lie.

They really should say I'm lusting for you because I want

what I can get out of you. I want what, what you, how you

can meet my need and give me pleasure.

I'm talking about people who said, I do still, Even saying I

do. Lusting.

Now operating in love because when you go do something for me,

when you go do something for me, when you going to do something

for me, Well, the husband is the head of the house he is, which

means he should be the head servant.

The one who heads in servine because the greatest in the

kingdom of God, is the servant all that mean.

Your wife runs over you. That means you run to your wife

to serve her and you don't have to expect that you'll get

anything, although it will happen.

Hallelujah. Because they'll discover who

they are. My wife text me while we were

gone and she said thank you for all those years calling me a

woman of God. Wow she said that I was blown

away by it honest I was blown away, not that she's not done.

Give me a cue late. And I'm not saying it's just

that something happened in the meeting or there that she just

had a realization again, when she's fixing to minister to

women and know all the junk, these women have gone through

And she's having a talking about being bold and don't live in

your past. And somewhere along the line.

The Lord reflecting says, remember how I used to call you

before you thought you were amen.

But she always was, I said she always was and out of that.

It pulled greatness. Why?

Because she's not there for her. Now, she's there because she's

on assignment and she realizes, you know what?

There was a time. I didn't believe, and I know

there's women today based on what she's going to minister.

No, they won't believe what I'm going to say about them because

I've been there, but I know it's true and then out of Honor.

She thanked me of that moment. She thanked me of that moment.

She thanked me of that moment. I mean, she's been so good to

me. So get she better silver and

gold. It's amazing, it's amazing.

And how would I not want to serve?

I mean, I was running around doing all kind of stuff, because

I love my house and I want to get things done because I want

to do other things that just projects, right people call them

honeydews. They are my dues, I mean,

because it's my house too. I quit at like it's just hers.

I mean I don't want her to walk around thinking that I would

live in a dump. I wouldn't live in a dump.

Amen. I refuse to live in a dump,

Hallelujah. So we just go and I heard my mom

was walk around saying, man, she's gonna love that.

Oh, she's gonna be so excited. I'm like she's gonna be excited

and it's worth doing it and as much as we can get done before

and I was trying to figure out how I could accomplish more

again. Why cause it's my house.

I want to see it done but man, I know it takes pleasure in her so

I mean left lights on when she got there at like 1:30 1:45,

whatever was at am. Now I say I was up.

I Wait up. I mean when I say that I did

kind of doze off. I text her.

She didn't respond that. They were leaving the airport

yet. I set my little watch here for

30 minutes. I'll get a 30 minute, you know,

in to sleep. Let it go off and it did no one

was there. So I did another 15 minutes and

they see, you know, there she is, something like I didn't know

you were leaving, you know, I wanted to greet you at the

garage, right? Because you're worth waiting not

for being in your bag in. And then look at this kitchen.

Right. This is what you've been

dreaming of. Hi, doctor said Marcia, it's

exactly as you imagined it. I mean, it's functioning just

like you thought your idea was phenomenal?

Yeah, I mean I didn't put the chairs on my couch because my

dog's a little rebellious, I got them their own bed, but if I

don't put a chair on the couch, she'll rebell.

Many times, I wanted to kick her out like the Lord did Satan, but

she has an advocate with the mother stay off my couch,

Alleluia John chapter, 8, verse 28.

Jesus said this, he says. So Jesus said when you lift up

the son of man then you will know that I am.

He and that I can do nothing on my own initiative but I speak

these things. Paul as the father, taught me,

what I love about Jesus is that Jesus?

When he calls us to himself, he's including us.

He's given us assignment purpose.

He's allowing us to find ourselves and release our gifts,

but since Jesus is known as love, that became flesh and an

attribute of Love, is it doesn't seek its own.

Let's look how Jesus had responses.

Look at Matthew, chapter 4 verse 23.

Matthew 4:23

Jesus was a lot different than most ministers today.

Indefinitely most Christians in general look, what it says when

Jesus went about all Galilee teaching in their synagogues and

preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and what was he doing?

Healing all manner of sickness has and all manner of disease.

Among the people look what it says his Fame.

What did he do? His Fame went out through also

Syria and they brought unto him. All sick people that were taken

with divers diseases and torments and those who are

oppressed of the devil. Levels with Devils, right?

Look at this, Jesus was doing these things.

And with those who were the King James says lunatic and those who

had the palsy, he healed them and they're followed him.

Great multitudes of people from Galilee, from decapolis, from

Jerusalem, from Judea. And from Beyond the Jordan, just

because he says, I'm not seeking my own, I'm doing the will of

the father. Notice Fame came.

It's amazing. How many people want to

establish their own Fame? Yet, if you're actually just do

God, there's a Fame in and of itself.

And the devil deceives us in our fruits and our rewards by trying

to get us to take his path to fame.

Instead of the Lord's path to fame.

Come on. Look at Luke Chapter 5, Luke

Luke 5 · chapter mention Luke 5:14

chapter 5 verse 14 and 15, and he chars him to tell, no man,

but go and show thyself to the priest and offer for thy

cleansing, according to Moses commanded as a testimony, but so

much. The more went there, a Fame

abroad and great multitudes came together to hear and to be

healed by him of their infirmities.

In Matthew 4, he healed. He cast out Devils.

He's performing Miracles, Fame came, but in the midst of

Performing Miracles, look what he said to people in verse 14,

he charged hymns to tell. No, he said now, listen, I know

we just finished a meeting and you just got healed and this

never happened, but I want you talking to people.

But what do we do? We posted on social media, We

need everybody to know. Okay, this is the society.

Listen. It's in the atmosphere.

Now, let's I'm not against you posting things that people say,

I'm not saying that, you gotta ask.

Why? I mean, don't think I ain't

gonna talk to my creative team is saying I might make an

adjustment. Don't be talking about the

Miracles here. They need to get out of

different way. You can talk about the church

and talk about the messaging talk about the word, but don't

be saying so many people got healed.

Don't be talking about that because of Jesus Christ.

The King says, don't tell nobody.

But now Pastor, if they know well, don't you think the Lord

knows? And at the end of the day, let

the one who got healed, take care, because here's the real

issue. I love being under the radar In

fact, same to Jesus, hindered him.

We want to become so famous that it can actually hinder your gift

Jesus became so famous. The Bible says, he could even go

into the metropolitan areas anymore.

In fact, his Fame cause people to not hunger for him but they

wanted him to just perform that at the end of his three years.

He had to take people out of cities because they were talking

too much. You would think.

Don't you want to testify? We should testify sometimes.

Oh, you don't want to hear, but we want people to testify about

how God used us. Oh, there's so many ministers

today. Pastor, John can tell you so

many ministers today. So many ministers today, right?

So many the private families here.

So many men, as you all know, so many ministers today, are

looking for the Accolade. Now, it's one thing for us as

ministers to share things that are happening, but I again,

we're already famous as far as we're concerned in the eyes of

our King, we're just doing the works of God and we're giving

him glory man went to me man. And it was powerful, what God

did he did this, this this. I'm not saying that's for that,

you know, God and do nothing. Anyway, I just Obedient to him

and he did it. And when you actually have that

motive, it will promote you, but if you actually have the other

one, you're wondering why you're not get more invites.

Okay because here's the thing you know but here's the thing

you don't always know because the minute you let that selfish

ambition get to deception. Then you'll deceive yourself

that you're not selfish. That you're actually doing it

for others, but yet there's attitudes and there's actions

about your life that are contrary to the love.

In general, like being jealous being envious, being short,

tempered with other people again, Todd stand up back there

in the back. He's in think sticky little head

as far as leave your hands, you know, he's there and right.

He's young guy. I've had a minister on Wednesday

night. There may have been people say,

well, how come he's let him preach.

Why you have that problem? You should rejoice.

They got juice and Gifts. Talents, amen.

Well these people just got you, the church.

How come Pastor use them? Well, they may be 11th Hour

people. I'm going to use them just cause

you've been here, 18 years to me and I'm obligated.

Keep using you. Oh, you don't, maybe we've use

you. And you don't need any more

public use. Maybe that's what God wants you

to do. Now, Tinker faith is just be the

one behind the scenes, praying interceding.

I I used to be in that position. I used to do this.

I was there how come they won't? Let maybe it's time for someone

else. Cuz this ain't about you.

It's about the vision. It's about the team.

I mean at the end of the day, if the starting quarterback loses

his spot in practice, he doesn't get kicked off the team and if

the new quarterback wins the championship, the one who used

to be gets the ring as well. But what it is.

The ring ain't good enough now. Oh And we're willing to Forfeit

rewards for akyol AIDS, but I have to be known as the one who

took the team. See now west Augustine.

Y'all know this more than we in our league.

We have to fight against that with our young men.

That they don't cause now we got recruitment in college.

Will make a name for you here. Now put their pictures up on the

stadium. And they will have to learn how

to navigate in that kind of society where they won't take

credit. To where they'll be able to say.

This isn't about me. It's about my team and always

talked about the team told about the team talking about the team.

Now, I have nothing to say about the quarterback for Tampa.

Other than that individual has proven through his career, that

he's willing to take less financially to get more people

around for the purpose of a team, winning a championship,

which tells me there's something about a team concept.

They still have that they're willing to take less to bring

more on so that after Something can be accomplished because

getting the reward together is more important than having a

stat and being known as the most.

I mean, seriously does anyone think that somebody else and the

32 teams, which would be 31 now deserve more money.

But yes, some are more are higher paid.

And don't you have it and they have less rings.

And that's just one aspect. How much more us, who has the

love of God shed abroad in our hearts?

How much more look what else? Jesus said this, he said this

in. Mark chapter 1.

Mark 1 · chapter mention

Again, how did Jesus deal with people?

When the miraculous was taken place?

In Mark chapter 1, verse 23 to 27 modern.

Mark 1:23–27

King James says it this way in their synagogue, was a man with

an unclean spirit and he cried out saying, what is to do, what

is too. Us and to you.

Jesus of Nazareth. Have you come to destroy us?

I know who you are. The Holy One of God.

And Jesus rebuked saying be quiet and come out of him and

the unclean Spirit convulsing him and crying with a loud

voice. He came out and they were all

amazed as to question among themselves saying, what is this,

what new doctrine is this that even that he even commands, the

unclean spirits with authority and they obey him notice?

He said he don't want the devil advertising for him.

Like shut up, don't talk about me.

I don't need you to advertise for me.

Not only did Jesus deal with people who were healed and said

don't talk about this. Don't tell nobody.

But then when the demons try to start talking, he says shut up,

don't talk about it. Don't mess up, what I'm doing.

But if we don't watch out, we want people to know.

See, Jesus is greatest selfless moment, we find in Luke 22, Luke

22. All this brings us to this

moment in Luke. 22. Jesus is in the garden.

The night. He's going to be portrayed by

the disciple. He picked, who would not would

not eradicate selfish ambition and how many churches are split

or damaged because a saint has a selfish ambition.

Anytime a Saints talking about a pastor behind their back.

Guess what? Selfish ambition.

Selfish ambition exist. They're jealous RMB me.

Why would you tell bad? Because at the end of the day,

do you know God has the ability to remove?

This means they don't trust God. David is actually anointed of

God and he waits for God to remove salt even though he has

literal evidence. and then, when the Certain members of the

congregation sympathize with him.

And says, let's overthrow the pastor.

Hallelujah. There's no such thing as a

church split among Saints. Who are selfless?

There's no such thing as gossip backbiting, among the saints,

who are selfless. It can't exist because you

eradicate it with love, but if you have it, I don't care.

Whatever are your life. You may be the most selfless in

your marriage, the most selfless among church members, but you

have this desire to be known as the greatest business ever,

We're going to have a problem. Anything I want to be the

greatest athlete. I want to be the if you're the

greatest athlete, great, why do we debate on who the goat is?

Why do we have these debates? I personally think the goat may

have never showed up. Because there's a lot of young

men and women who didn't have enough self-discipline and they

were far better athletes. And one reason why is because in

fact some of the greatest athletes we talked about today

you'll see a time in their life where they began to put the team

now that didn't mean they didn't know if you get it in my hands I

can do something but they had to include the rest. and that's

just on a marginal level, how about in the body of Christ, And

he says to his father, his father.

If you're willing to remove this cup from me yet, Jesus would be

selfless, even to the point of death, he had no self

preservation. Jesus says, I'm going to go and

be considered a murderer. They are going to slander me.

I'm fixing getting a meeting where they going all slander me.

They going to lie about me, they going to talk wrong about me,

you know, that ain't true. Member wanted to high priests a,

what do you got to say about yourself?

Because he knows I don't really care about what you think about

my reputation only care about one person thinking about me

right now, and that's my daddy. So in the world's I they

believed that they eliminated a problem, someone unworthy to

even be on the planet. But in the father's eye, he said

this one's going to be given the name above every name.

This one is going to be given the name above every name, but

you're so cool because we have a name, too.

It's amazing how the devil dupes us.

And we are living in a culture. Now that is all about me.

And don't think it's not around you.

But today, you could pray this prayer.

Today could be your day of Liberation.

Today you could recognize I know my wife.

And I want to, I want my why to be the love of God with no

selfish ambition and Lord, no matter what you ask me to do.

I have a response. Yes.

Lord. Well, how's that going to make

you look done? My, this is not about what it

makes me look. This is not about my look you

know, people name-drop. Been around name droppers.

I've been with so-and-so so-and-so and so-and-so.

Are you name-dropping? He's trying to get your name

associated with. You want your name to be in the

room with those names? It creeps in so many ways.

It's there. I'm all I'm saying is it can be

there and you know why we have to deal with us.

Let me tell you why, because we lived only a selfish ambitious

life prior to Christ and he has to renew our minds, which means

he has in our spirit. We are selfless.

But in our mind, we have the residue.

Of wanting to be known and be the greatest. and it seems

Innocent, but every evil, I may try to develop myself to be the

best. I can be according to what God's

given me. I want to maximize, but at the

end of the day, it's amazing what God can do to very

undeveloped things. That doesn't mean we shouldn't

grow and improve. Because anything he's telling me

to tear off breakdown get off my life is so that I'm less and

less selfish and more and more selfless.

And then when I hear about something, someone says or

something, didn't go the way I thought I can say my God.

What you gonna do pastor? But God we're going to do,

honey. But God.

Doesn't matter. They're lying about you doesn't

matter. Welcome to the life of Jesus.

Who has the name? Of every day.

I just thought I'd be doing more.

There's too much of you, that's why you can't. because, when you

begin to live selfless or selfish selfless, It's amazing.

What God has start talking to you about believing you be like

I can't do that. I cannot do that in love myself

and you almost like, why are you asking me?

Somebody else do that. But as Pastor, John George says,

the Lord is moving through the Earth.

Looking whom he may show himself Mighty and strong again and he's

only going to show himself strong and those who are after

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