Kingdom Honor - Part 3

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Turn over to Romans chapter 13. I believe will conclude this

Romans 13 · chapter mention

Wednesday night concerning some of the things we've been talking

about honor and Romans 13 chapter 7.

It says Render to all what is due them and it says tax to whom

tax is due custom to whom custom is do Fear To whom fear is due

and honor to whom honor implication is do well.

You know, I went to the I prayed last night at the special count

County Commission meeting because they were basically

approving the budget for next year and so they needed someone

to come and pray and so they reached out to the church and I

I was more than happy to go and pray and so you know what, very

long meeting was only about 30 meet 30 minutes and totality and

because I was going to go to the girls game, I stay for the whole

thing but there was not a whole lot of public comment, which

really is what made it so short. But you know somebody had to do

with tax. What you're doing, you know,

what was it was it like what was the number of me loves?

Like something billion dollars? For yes, billion dollar in our

County alone. Their budget, their operating

off of something like twenty billion dollars.

Now, you can go online and learn this, and if you don't know

that, then that's because you don't want to know.

But I was like, this is interesting.

I'm impressed with these numbers, right?

Because, you know, like what does it take to run a whole

County, right? So they have the budget outlined

online as we know it's over, 200 pages.

I know that because I high-sided some line items that were

between pays 200. Something to 200 something.

So I'm like, that must be a very interesting piece of paperwork

and we probably need to pull that off and look at that and

see what that looks like. Right?

Because again, you pay taxes, right?

And you know, so you're going to pay a little bit more this year,

you're going to pay more. And so as you know, I was

walking out, I was reminded of the taxes that this for this

property 26 Acres basically paid in the last ownership.

It would be triple now that I own it.

Triple you all know what our taxes are for next year.

Ready to what is that like a hundred thousand dollars for the

mall, huh? 120,000 dollars.

We owe in taxes by wind March. March first, you know how much

we have of that, right? Amen.

So do you think Jesus is sitting on the throne and going like I

don't know how long for cheers going to come with her and

twenty thousand dollars. No, I'm just saying if he starts

talking about you going fishing? Listen.

And whatever you catch open, its mouth.

And that's not yours. Bring it to the church and put

it in offerings. What I'm saying cause that's

gonna pay our taxes. Seriously speaking though.

Listen right. I'll just listen to the Lord

whatever he has this do will do now.

You know, we're going to look at ways that we can try to reduce a

so we haven't Pastor all your church, your tax exempt.

We on business property. So, there's going to be portions

of it, that will always be taxable, right?

And will render, you know what, I want to?

Because I want to be at a stand and say, as the president of

Kings Development Group, we personally paid a hundred twenty

thousand dollars property tax. Let's have a conversation about

the infrastructure around us. Right?

So at the end of the day, you know, you you can't complain

about things and then not invest in it as well.

That's what I'm saying. So but if you don't know what

they're doing with your money, well then that's because you're

not engaged Alleluia, all right? So you can't complain about a

road and try to figure out what's going on.

So, billions of dollars are invested in sand in st.

Augustine st. Johns County.

You understand that? We have a lot of money in sand

because when the beach erosion comes we go get it.

It is billions, they said that just the hurricane.

The last two hurricane Irma and Matthew cost just clean up

debris, the financial god mentioned that both cleanups or

18 million apiece. Can you pick up, sticks?

I can pick up sticks for 18 million dollars.

People can we get into stick picking up business?

Right? Amen, but you know, tax to whom

tax right. Everybody, nobody wants to pay

tax but we want the government to do everything Alleluia.

I don't want to take any more than they have to, you know, so,

you know, I don't really complain when the public the

public comments come because those individuals actually are

some of them actually had one guy, had a pretty good idea

about one thought, process of, as pretty cool idea.

Least he came with an idea. A many had a complaint, but he

had a, he was there to help solve a problem.

Now, if they listen to that, we'll figure, they'll figure

that out. Anyway, let's talk about honor

tonight though. So I want you to press over

taxes. Amen.

First Timothy chapter 1, verse 17 says, now to the king,

1 Timothy 1:17

Eternal Immortal invisible. The only God to be honor and

Glory forever and ever. Amen.

Who deserves all the honor, the Lord himself, right?

We said this a because we teach this in our kingdom Institute

class. The life of honor.

Honor is the key to submission, which is required to walk in

authority, you know, we all want to have authority, but in order

to do that, you've got to honor You're going to have to honor

and if you only want people to honor you and you don't honor

anyone else, because you think you deserve it because you're an

authority then you actually don't have authority.

Right. Not biblical not godly Authority

right now you have man's Authority and they rule over

people there tyrants. Okay.

Jesus don't have to be a tyrant. He'd have to make you do

anything. He can tell you all the time but

at the end of days going to let you make the choice.

It's going to empower you to make the right decision.

In fact, he'll even give you the answer, right?

Joshua says I set before you life and choose.

There's your answer, but You have to choose it.

He can't force you to do. So right, so honor is something

so valuable that it is held as precious prize cherished,

treasured valuable and Barry dear.

So if honor is given to something or someone it or they

will be seen as valuable or Irreplaceable.

Is that how God is in your life, right?

You know, because in and that's reflective of how we then live.

For the Lord because Jesus is the word, we've already taught

on this. That in the beginning was the

word. The word was with God and the

Word was God. So if you're going to honor God,

then you honor what he says, because Jesus honor the father

by only doing what he said, that was the greatest form of honors,

whatever you say, I'll do, because he has life.

Now, again in our society and based upon the lens of man

itself, you like, you just do what anyone says just cause they

say it. I'm not saying that God is life.

He He never failed, he's never sinned.

So you would only want to do what he says and is always to

your benefit and he's love that is the position by which he

communicates, he is the embodiment of Love, there is no

higher thing to do than to do to do what the Lord is asking you

to do because when he asked ears, no selfishness in his

asking. Now, unlike man, who is, you

know, has fallen is corrupt. We basically visually see this.

People are only wanting people to Serve them, you know, then we

see there's abuse there. I get that, but just because

we've seen abuse doesn't mean God's abusive.

So, we got to get that out of our mind and say, okay, God's

the the one that you know is these is the example, he's the

standard now people then can live God's standard and in turn,

then should receive honor. Okay, and then we're seeing in

the word of God, that there are things that God has put in place

that he wants. It honored and one thing in his

Commandments because when he had to get to this place and man

that he's like, man can't figure this out on his own.

I did a time with man that they did what seemed right to them

but in the end it was death, it was so bad.

We needed to go ahead and remove the majority of them from the

And it through a flood, okay? But after that, you know,

through a process, he eventually gets to here.

We are with Moses and we start giving some walls, right?

Basically, some characteristics of how you should respond

because there's so many nations out there that are doing it

their way. He's like, I need to separate a

nation unto myself and so the begins to start giving some

characteristics of what it looks like and he gives what we call

the Ten Commandments. There were more Commandments

than that, but we I highlight the 10 and so there's the first

three and then we get to the fourth one.

It is the one with the first promise it says to honor your

mother and your father, write your days on the Earth would be

long. So if you want to have a longer

life, just obey mom and dad. Now, the context is that Mom and

Dad would obey the father. I get that, right?

And so, again, if you, if you're especially in our societies

today, we have broken homes. We don't even have Mom and Dad

in the home anymore, right? So, As a result of that, the

nucleus of the families not there anymore as God designed

it. So there's a lot of challenges

but that doesn't mean the role as father in the role as mother.

We should not have a place of honor for that and the

Simplicity of honoring. That is again in the realm of

obedience, it says honor your mother and father, right?

And obeying is just when they ask you to do particular things,

you would do that and then but more specifically, you would not

talk bad about them. In fact, they're the children

that taught that curse their parents.

It's in the old Covenant under the Mosaic law.

We're stalled. I mean, we're not talking about

whipped with the belt, although, you know, they were supposed to

spank their children but they were eliminated out of the

society. Now again, that's just so hard

for us to imagine. I get it although I could

literally explain it but it's not worth my time to explain

that to you because you were still locked up, so it doesn't

matter. With that being said, there's an

honor with the It's ultimately parents, our parents, because

they're married. So then we saw last week, then

that relationship there should be honor among the marriage.

Right? And and the Lord is the one who

instituted the first marriage. God, the father, he brought Eve

to Adam and he said a man shall leave his father and mother and

cleave to his wife. And they'll become what one

flesh and they're supposed to be honor their, right?

And so remember I gave you a homework assignment.

I said, you know, show honor to your parents and to your spouse.

Did you do? It.

Amen. Good.

Some of you did it great. Some of your like, well I'm

still considering. Okay, might want to want, I want

to jump correct that, amen. I want to talk about one more

relationship before I moved to a different one because I didn't

have time last week and I want to talk about it out of 1st,

Timothy Chapter, 5, Verse 3. Again, if you want to hear about

the marriage relationship and parents, go online and you can

listen to it from last week. So, first Timothy chapter 5.

1 Timothy 5 · chapter mention

Verse 3 and then I'll kind of read some of them.

The the chapter itself gives a good context of this.

I'll use some verses enough to give us the context of what they

mean but it says honor widows who are widows indeed.

Their implication is, there are some widows that are not indeed.

Now that means their widows but there are different type of

Widow and it's explained in this chapter.

All right, but we are to honor. Widows widows.

Are those who've lost a spouse? We're obviously, it's a woman.

Notice. It doesn't say honor widowers,

which is interesting. Why?

Because in this Society, man was supposed to continue to work.

Okay. But the woman base, especially

in this Society was dependent on what the male did, okay?

And so there was a responsibility to ensures that

if hopefully this helped your context when Jesus saw the boy

the sun in a funeral procession, and the Widow was crying, cause

her son had died member, he stopped Mom told him to lower

the casket and raise the Sun. Now that story is not like, wow,

she gave the mom, her son back. No, she gave Mom.

A means of living back as well as the sun because the

inheritance would have went through the son who's now gone.

So he gave her way more than just her child.

He gave her provision Protection.

Security is bigger than that. Okay.

So in this context, we are to honor widows and you know what?

This is something that I have a pastor friend.

My wife and I do, it's up in Chicago, her husband passed away

and so she took the organization and oversees it and realized how

much things are not being done for widows.

And she's correct. T' for widows who are widows

indeed? Okay, so let's talk about these

widows. Indeed for that the best way to

explain, it comes out the pasture translation.

Again, I'll read verse 3. And then I'm gonna jump down to

verse 5. It says, if the church needs to

honor and support the Widow's, especially those who are in dire

need. Now, if there's a husband who

left his widowed, wife a fortune, well then she's taken

care of Are you hearing me? So again there's a condition by

which we should examine is this a widow indeed and what is the

responsibility of the church to that verse 5 of The Passion?

Translation says, today's for the true Widow is all alone and

has placed her complete hope in God, she is Messiahs missionary

and will need the support of the church as one who remains in

prayer day and night. So, in essence, when she lost

her spouse there, No other family members.

To take care of her. And as a result of that, then it

became the church's responsibility to support her

because if she, then you got to read the whole contest because

there's some that were younger because you can become a widow

at a young age, and Paul's advice to them, is you need to

go marry again. So you don't need to be sitting

around, being idle busybodies talking and then burning in

lust. After people, either like you

just need to go ahead and get married again and continue, you

know, in in the marriage relationship.

But here in this context, he's saying, look, there's some that

are going to be very faithful to the church.

Believe their mission is only the church, and Essence, I've

been with my husband for years. We've honored God No intentions

again to have to get married, I don't need that.

Don't want that. All I want to do is just

continue to focus on the Lord. And the church then says, okay

we need to take care of that individual.

All right, it goes on then and communicates and verse 16 it

says it this way is says so if any believer has a widow in

their family, instruct them to support her financially.

So that the church will not be burdened with her care.

This will leave finances available for those widows who

are truly in need, all right. So again, if if the spouse, if a

wife lost up husband, okay? And there were family members,

then it by All rights, it was their responsibility through

honoring, their mother, or their extended family.

Okay? Because it could have been a At

the end of the day, right? But, you know, especially if

it's your mom, then it's like I'm gonna I'm gonna take care of

you. Now, let me just say this to

moms that may be widows in here or who's going to listen.

Because I don't know who all here is this message?

Because a lot of people are picking up what we're saying all

over the world. If you are a widow and your

children want to help support you, let them because you have

done so much for them in the first place.

I mean, everyone in this room can Just some to understand, we

all have different backgrounds so I got to be conscientious

about that. I realize that some of you said,

I don't, you have Mom, I get it some, I understand the broken of

the home but you had some parent figure.

That did something for you. The majority there can still be

others that are fostered. I realize there are exceptions

because how bad sin is in the Earth right now.

But as a result of that, majority of us know that they

took care of us at certain times.

So it's really easy and we want to take care of them and they

they owe us. Nothing is what I'm saying?

Right, so again, understand that I just want to encourage that

but widows are to be honored. Amen.

Specially those who are truly widows in essence.

He doesn't want the church or church body.

Down on someone who doesn't have any family member around, and

the church is having to support them.

You should never consider that Widow.

You know, down-and-out are less than because they're being

supported by the church. Right?

The church is say it's our responsibility to make sure we

take care of them. Now, what are they doing?

The true widows? What are they doing, though?

Because it qualifies that they don't have family, but they also

have decided, I'm going to be a they're going to be a person of

prayer and that becomes obvious, you know, don't say you're a

person of Prayer in the you don't pray.

Because again, the fruit of that would be obvious, okay?

All right, so with that being said, then I'm going to go to

some general, some general, or things out.

Out of literal family. Okay, outside of literal family

because we know we are to honor a mother.

And father, we know we are to honor marriage.

As we know we are to honor then widows, but then there's others

that we are to honor. The Bible tells us and again, if

we want to exercise The Authority, God's given us, then

we need to be people who are honorable, we are in a society

where there is a lack, An extreme lack of Honor, extreme,

lack, and in the church, again, it becomes pretty reflective

even in the church. And there's no hope for the

world. Every time, the church lowers,

its Holiness standard I'm talking true Holiness.

I'm not talking fabricated Holiness.

I'm not talking about people's tradition of Holiness, I'm

talking real Holiness, okay. In the minute, we slower that

standard the world's goes another layer of debauchery or

are further away. I mean, because sin is always

pushing the boundaries of something else.

And so, you know, if we look like the world the world wants

to look less like us. You know, there was a time in

our society in the United States that the general moral fabric of

our nation, even if people were ungodly still had a thing called

respect. Right.

Did some chivalry? I might want the majority it's

because the church had a standard they were living under.

But then all of a sudden, you know, the church started allow

that to drop down. You know carnality Creeps in and

then it starts to drop down and then the next thing you know,

the world's like I'm you, you look too much like me.

I hate your God, so I gotta look worse.

Amen. So there are some people that we

need to on and out. First Peter, chapter 2 verse 17.

1 Peter 2:17

We got some people groups in here.

All right. He says, honor all people, okay.

Well there you go, pretty simple right now.

There are some very specific type of Honor, you know,

obviously I would honor my wife different than I would honor all

people because I'm married to her.

We're in a marriage relationship, honoring my

parent. Okay.

My mom is different than I'm gonna honor.

Because those are very specific based upon those roles but in

generally, we can honor all people.

Right. And we can honor all people and

am until your number will way. You can honor all people is by

exercising the fruits of the spirit around them.

Because some people act really crazy, not again, don't mean to

use that word. Okay.

So that that can be a buzzword for people.

Some people will act very sinful that you seriously want to get

undignified and meet them at the same resistance.

But you need to let the fruit show up now, I'm not saying you

can't correct ungodliness, I'm not saying that.

I'm just saying you can do it in a way where the fruit show up,

and there's power. All right, but we are to honor

all people, which means I don't need to know whether you're born

again, to do something for you. Okay, because even the world

will do stuff for themselves. So I mean we can't be walking

around like, oh I can't touch them.

I can't get close to that, you know, just cause you know,

someone's maybe in a particular living, a particular lifestyle

that you're like there is they man they need to get right with

Jesus. And if we get this kind of like

and it's really a cliche, a statement this holier-than-thou

mentality. Like I can't do nothing for them

because if I do something for them right now, then it's gonna

look like You know, approve of their actions.

Well, there are some things we can do, that's just Honorable in

general. Now, there are times that you as

a person based upon an individual, God, may have

literally said, I don't want you to put any more effort towards

that. He's got another labor to go by

that path. Then you need to obey that Okay,

that that can happen where you are not the person anymore to

sow a seed and water that may be case.

But the reality is all in all, we should find ourselves being

more than helpful. When it comes to help people

because we just want to honor in general.

Now, he goes to another level. So, if we honor all people that

obviously includes Sinners, are those that are unrighteous those

that are children of the devil. And then there are those that

are Children of God, but he goes a step further with the children

of God. He said now you are to love the

Brotherhood. Alleluia and Jesus day that gave

us a little commandant on that he said.

Now, I'll they'll know that you are my disciples because you'll

love one another. He's not, you love your brother.

You're going to love one another.

He said I command you to do this now.

He didn't say well I would expect no, he said, I'm

commanding you because I expect that you will not want to.

But you're going to do it. Because it's, it is, it is sad.

It is really sad when a Believer will bend over backwards for the

lost but will not forgive their brother.

Period. It is it is it is hypocritical

period at the end of the day you're not helping that person

get to Christ easier because your atmosphere of unforgiveness

on your brother is in the room is in the room period.

So we are commanded. You should never stay at Aunt

with your brother. If you got a problem you should

go to him and fix it period. Even if fixing it is they don't

see what I'm saying. But at the end of the day, I

don't care. I'll cast it off and love them

anyway. Saying about there it ain't

about. I'm right you're wrong.

It's about he's right. Okay, he's right, whatever God

says but sometimes well, you know, it's it becomes

opinionated sometimes, you know, like James the way you're

looking at me right now. I don't like it.

Okay. Now, and I really think you're

that can become an opinion. He's like, that's really not

what I meant. So, at this point, I can get

dogmatic about that be like, bro.

I'm telling you and I need you to acknowledge that.

I'm right. See, that is not love.

That's someone trying to control the situation and manipulation

was really at the end of the day I love you and he loves me.

You see what I'm saying? It is what it is.

Even if it's a real wrong it doesn't matter.

You can just let it go. Because I mean my gosh man.

Jesus forgave us. He did it now.

That doesn't mean there's not accountability that doesn't mean

they're not restoration, that doesn't mean there's not, you

know, demotion for that matter. You know, you got a reproof

trust. I understand all those factors,

but as far as forgiveness, that can be quick Walking In Love,

they can be quick. And then the road, because

again, if you have literally done wrong, then you should have

be humble enough to say, I don't care what it takes.

I'm not making demands. Because God can forgive me.

It's like again a Believer will forgive everything they're lost.

Can you know, in person that they're trying to influence

whatever they do wrong, they can forgive it out of that but the

minute the brother does it. Oh my gosh.

Now, but the problem is we'd with the laws where I of it, you

know, just like it, don't happen yet that it that ain't

forgiveness. Anyway.

That's not even forgiveness, you know, if you know how to do

right at her brother catches you and sin and goes to you.

Then you're supposed to repent because it's not like I'm

talking to a lost person. Who doesn't know better.

I'm talking to someone who you know the Holy Ghost told you

weren't supposed to be doing that.

So you need a humble yourself, repent.

Thank God that he sent somebody to love you enough to say

something about it and then rally and run.

All right, so we honor all people, which is the Saints and

we're love the Brotherhood, so we gotta get her love walk right

fear. God.

I mean, that's one of the biggest motivations of my love

walk. As like, who am I to hold

anything against anybody? I mean, seriously.

I Fear God and then honor the king.

Well, you know who the king is? Because this is not Jesus.

Although, you are to honor Jesus little King.

This is government. You know, we are to honor a

government. Are we having a problem with

honoring government right now and our nation?

Are we having a non honoring government problem?

Yes, we are again, if you read over in Romans 13, He talks

about why God put governments in play.

And it was to defend right now. The question is, who's defining

right and evil? Well, a man does it it gets

reversed? Because he'll call what's evil

good? And what's good evil?

That's the problem. But when we allow God to

establish its and he's the one who knows.

Well, then he'll put institutions in place at this

juncture in order to safeguard the righteous and not let evil

run rampant. That's its intent.

Now, if it gets out of alignment, it can get out of

alignment, but you can still honor.

How do we know this? Just talked to, Daniel, he wrote

a book. Just talk to Joseph.

He was written about in a book and both of them were captured

by Kings were slaves to that King.

But both of them honored, those kings just ask of God, by the

name of King David, who was anointed as king only to honor

the one stripped of the anointing.

Here's David honoring, a anointed less team.

Because he honored government, so we should be honoring those

things. Now, here's the thing about

honoring, and the reason why we honor all people, we recognize

then, there's some government. We should honor, which you're

going to be people, especially in our society, they're going to

come and go right. You should honor every

president. That's elected whether you

believe they are not. I don't care, you are not honor

the position and pray for people.

What you should do is talk about the competency of our

presidents. You should be praying, they're

competent. Okay.

Amen. Pray for them.

Gotta pray for them. Got to pray.

They have wisdom. Pray they get influenced by

Believers in the Holy Ghost. Talk to, you know the Holy Ghost

can talk to him. Holy Ghost, talk to King, Cyrus.

Nowhere in the Bible says that he was a follower of Israel's

God. Nor the one nor Darius later on.

Who reinstituted the building of Jerusalem and the temple.

None at all. Yet.

We're getting it. Pray for him.

God can talk to him. God talk to Nebuchadnezzar.

Gave him a dream. God, taught to Nebuchadnezzar.

That destroyed is City. Now it was the city's fault, not

Nebuchadnezzar's in the context because at the end of the day

you know they are sinless so bad, he's like man.

You know, I can't protect you no more.

Right. But still gives him a dream

about how his kingdom was. And that all the ones that will

come after him will be inferior. Atilla a rock showed up.

That was made when our hands That's the only one that would

wipe them away. That was better than them.

All. And that's the kingdom of God,

aren't you? Glad you're in it, but when it

comes to honor, there is some personal responsibility We can

honor people, we can honor positions, we can honor titles,

but they're still personal responsibility.

When it comes to honor, look at it in second Corinthians or

second Timothy chapter 2, verse 20 and 21.

2 Timothy 2:20

So you TVs that your to 2nd Timothy Chapter 2 2021 now and a

large house. There are not only gold and

silver vessels but also vessels of wood and of Earth and we're

and some to honor and some to this on therefore, if anyone

cleanses him to, if conditional statement, that tells us the

blood of Jesus alone At the time of being born again.

Doesn't do everything at that time without your participation

in a process. What do I mean by that?

God does what you could never do yourself and that's become a new

creature in Christ. When you're born again, you

could have never become a new spirit.

Only Christ could give you that his blood gave you that entrance

then his blood will help because of his blood it up now has

opened the door so that the Holy Ghost can speak to this new

spirit and renew your mind and get a cleansing in you.

It's called sanctifying your mind.

That's your responsibility. Now, you can't do it alone.

You need the Holy Ghost to help you, right?

But you have to do. If anyone cleanses himself of

these things, meaning you have a responsibility to, to live a

life. That is Honorable, So, husbands

have to learn how to become honorable.

So it's easier for their wife to honor them, even though they can

honor them even if they're they're horrible, they can still

demonstrated layer of Honor for the position although the person

themselves are not honorable, see an individual can be in a

role and be fully up full of Dishonor because of their

behavior action. But the title or the position

itself should still needs to be held in honor.

You got to look past the individual and your, your You're

being honorable to the position. When I was in the military there

was quite a few officers that you know, should have never had

shouldn't be over, nobody, okay? But at the end of the day, when

they came in, I mean you're gonna honor.

The I don't care if I had know everything about a character of

the person. I'm honor the rank.

They're going to hear. Yes sir or yes, ma'am.

Is going to happen. even if factually, Somebody needs to rip

it off of them. But at the end of the day, it's

all you got to do the aunt, you do the honor, even though the

vessel themselves are not making themselves, a vessel of Honor

that the position itself holds an honor by itself.

Same things happen with our elected officials.

You can be a congressman, you can be a senator, you can be a

judge, you can be a mosquito control person.

Because you're a mosquito control person, you can be in a

position but that doesn't mean the person is made themselves a

vessel of Honor. So it's an abuse of power when

you get into a position that God says, you should honor and then

you yourself aren't staying honorable.

It's an abuse of power. All right, so therefore if

anyone cleanses himself from these things, he will be a

vessel for Honor Sanctified useful to the master prepared

for every good work. Amen.

So it's very important for us that we then make ourselves a

vessel of Honor. So, whatever position we get in,

whether we go from, you know, a single person who now becomes

married. And now we have a spouse and we

want to honor the marriage. Has become a vessel of Honor

with, in the position of on if we take a rolling government or

are our leadership and employment or whatever the case

may be, the tidal may it has a position of Honor Associates, so

become a vessel of Honor in it. There's nothing worse than

having a title of honor and you being a dishonorable person and

the world's doing this all the time.

I mean, because they live for the devil, their selfish,

they're greedy their backbiters, they only are self-seeking and

self-interest. It says we're selfish ambition

exist. All manner of evil exists, okay?

And all of those hide under honorable positions that that we

as the church because our King says Honor it, even though the

individual is full of Dishonor, you still gotta operate in a

layer Bonner. Okay.

Was raised me to the last one because, you know, this is

because again typically we won't have a problem with showing

honor to a president or governments to our mom, or our

dad to our spouse. We typically will have a hard

time, you know, showing honor and multiple places, but then

there's one place that becomes a challenge.

And I'll be honest with you, some congregations, do it better

than others? Now, let me just say it this

way, every position can have abuse but just because someone

has abused of position, does it mean everyone in the position?

Abuses it But there happens to be one position.

That the Bible talks about honoring that it seems, if we

could just find out one, did it wrong?

Did everyone skeptical? It's like the minute they

encounter them. They're already skeptical.

Already. And we find this in first

1 Timothy 5:17

Timothy 5:17 and 18. Verse 17 says the elders who

rule well, Now there's a condition here.

What are the elders to do? Rule well.

So if they're ruling, well the elders who are to rule well who

rule well are to be considered worthy of now.

We've read honor through all these other things and all of

them say honor them. But in this one, it says,

double. Double.

Hallelujah. Says double honor, especially

those who work hard at preaching and teaching.

I'm reading the Bible now. See it's amazing.

Everybody wants the pastor to preach on anything that helps

them get ahead. Financially, get ahead in the

workplace, get ahead in their marriage, get ahead with their

kids but don't preach about what God says about the preacher.

cause if I preach about what God says about a preacher, now, all

of a sudden it's self-serving But I didn't write this.

It doesn't say first Earl. It does not say, first Earl.

Just for the record. It says first and I'm not

Timothy. My Name Is Earl.

Okay. And Paul wrote this letter to

Timothy not because he was a preacher.

Cuz he says no one writes these letters or anything.

That's been pain, is not of any one man's interpretation, but as

the spirit of God moved upon them, So again we get in these,

it's situation but really have a problem with God and they let me

tell you why we have a challenge with this is because if the

Elder who rules well and especially if they're working

hard at preaching and teaching, then they actually are person

who is a physical example of what God would do if he was here

himself. This is why this is the worst

position to abuse because it starts to make God look bad

because you're actually supposed to be directly representing him.

And I get that, but just because someone does it wrong, doesn't

mean everyone does it wrong? Because he qualifies, they're

going to rule. Well, they're specially going to

work hard at preaching and teaching.

And if they're doing that, then they should be considered worthy

of what. But you know how many pastors

are replaceable today. Replaceable.

You can find a pastor anywhere. I mean, most of them have mall

on anyway. If you don't like it, turn it

off. If you don't like me, you go to

another church. Alleluia.

Passion translation says verse 17.

This way, the pastor, who leaves the church well should be paid

well, They should receive double honor for Faithfully preaching

and teaching the revelation of the word of God.

For me. The men of God in my life and

women of God in my life that have put spiritual truths in my

life, unlock spiritual truths in my life.

I won't get around them without giving.

Period. And serve them.

And let me just tell you when I'm in a room with them, I'm not

talking. I'm listening, because I'm like,

Something's going to be said, man and I don't want to mess

this up. I run off at the mouth right

now. Cuz when honors in the room,

it's like the one that you have. It really are holding a high

esteem. You want to hear their voice

more than you want to hear yours?

Because, you know, at any moment, something could come,

that could unlock something for you.

Now, that doesn't mean they don't talk to me and ask me

questions and we don't have some things back and forth.

Right. There's a mutual respect and

honor that takes place. But for those that that if

spoken into my life, I mean it's like and then I'll trickle it

out. Now, when it comes to Pastor

Hagen and Pastor Daryl, I trickle it out to their kids and

their grandkids. I run it all the way through and

I don't care what their lives like, I honor them because I saw

a king, dude, this once he said, Who and the household saw, he

could have said, who in the world, in the household of Saul

because the guy only tried to kill me my whole life.

That I can show some honor, too. Well, he's got one son left.

He said, go get that boy, go find the man.

Now. Unfortunately, he thought he's

fixing to die. But he got to sit at the table.

Why? Because he made a covenant with

the son of Saul Jonathan. Amen.

See when true honor really starts to resonate with those

that do a good job of preaching and teaching. then all of a

sudden you start moving towards their family, I have everyone.

Of Pastor Hagins grandsons, text me talk to me.

Because I am best in their life. I even give them stuff.

Why? Because there's honor in the

house. I do not take lightly the

sacrifice of one man who was going to die at 16 actually died

as a baby and they had him in a shoebox and was going to bury

him out back. But Grandma saw him move before

they put him in the ground. And he come up out of being you

know, to die and gave us life to preach sacrificed being with his

family. To go, do the work of God yet

God's anointing kept the family. And then watch the sun live

behind the shadow. Only to do his assignment but

nobody wants to give him credit for nothing still to this day.

Sillas day, blows my blows my mind.

It's amazing how the congregation members wants the

pastor's to respect their kids but then they want respect the

pastors kids. Don't do it.

I won't do it, I got it good here because, you know, I feel

like, you know, people do a really good job here.

Love the Lord love God, you know, according to me and my

family. I mean, I'm not talking about

me, you know, and I'm not saying everybody in this house is done

that. And I'm not saying, everybody

has ever come through this house has done that, but at the end of

the day, people do what they do and I'm gonna walk in love.

But I'm going to sow seed and do what God says.

Faster. Hey, get actually text me.

And says, are you coming to Kindle the flame?

I did not know. It was an event for me.

That's what I said I was wondering.

Do you know something about the women from Hangar Bay church

when they get off without their Pastor?

That I need to come chaperone. I'm kidding.

I'm kidding. He's like, well, if you were

coming, Cameron had a race wanted to see if you wanted to

go. I said oh well next time.

Maybe I'll block out my time and come I'm texting you all while

I'm talking so it's got a visual.

All right y'all text with your thumbs.

Yeah I'm uh swiper now you know you're swiping.

It picks up the word. That's super cool.

Some of mine are like talk to textures.

I need a translation for theirs. Honey, what does that mean?

Siri. She gets it wrong a lot.

Amen. But my point is is that, you

know, he recognized that investment Let's put that skirts

for backup because it goes on because you know, the passion

translation says they should be paid Wells because Verse 18.

Go back to the other one, the 17 and 18 because it goes on and

says for the scripture says you shall not muzzle.

The ox when he is thrashing and the laborer is worthy of his

wages. And the reason that is is

because obviously if your call to the fivefold, ministry truly

called to the fivefold ministry, they'll come a season where you

know, how you live your life. Comes from the church itself as

amazing. How many organizations

denominations that are? That is that want to make sure

they keep their Pastor humble by making sure they determine how

much they make. Now, they can entrust themselves

with all kind of wealth, but God forbid, a pastor, you know, it's

their job to make sure they are free from the lust of money.

But the Bible is very clear. They're worthy of double honor

and definitely worthy of their wages and the passion.

You know, picks it up says they should be paid.

Well in fact if the pastor is doing the job correctly under

the anointing And they always representing in a natural sense,

God's way of doing things in the earth that you can see modeled

out. Well then their whole life

should be a demonstration of God because you think God's in a

small house. What do you think his throne

looks like you think it looks like a fold-up chair.

I'm just asking the question. You really think that he comes

again? I don't care about this is not

about money. It is about perspective.

Cuz do I think God the father would have no promise it on a

full fold-up chair. But will he?

The man that God's Throne is not going to be a fold-up chair.

I mean the streets. And again, if this bothers you,

because you have a money problem.

I don't have a money problem because my dad don't have a

money problem. My dad owns everything.

It says, he owns everything. I don't have a problem with

money because my dad owns it all.

I am the wealthiest person on the planet just because you

can't go to my account. Doesn't make me not wealthy and

that's my natural account. You don't even see my heavenly

account that. I know I have because the

scripture says that I can store up Treasures in Heaven.

I have that account and I know how to get get access to that

account, so that I have all that I ever need to do, whatever God

has called me to do. Hallelujah.

Because you know what? People do not know about brother

Hagin is that he funded widows There were pastors.

I know a five for sure. Could have been more.

And probably more now because his son does the same.

Yeah, there's five particular families that got that allowed

him to minister in their churches when he was not even

known. And kept having him come back,

come back, there came a day because they were in more rural

communities, the husband passed away and there was not means for

the wife, so he because God blessed him.

He personally funded their lives.

All of them. Monthly.

He was their support year after year, after year.

Paying for widows. To be in their homes, eat food,

I mean, he gave them salaries. And then when people see people

like oh, why they have that, a lot of you can't out give the

king. And then when you are putting

stuff out of your life so that you can study the word so that

you can hear God, because you come up with fear and trembling

because everything you're gonna say is going to be scrutinized

by the religious kicked off by the lost and then evaluated by

the believer. But then I'm held accountable

even more by God because he said he will judge.

See we get a double honor because we get a double

judgment. You said, you said that if you

want to be a teacher, you going to be judge double because what

you're saying has is a profound impact on people's hearing and

if they take what you're saying and run with it, this is why

these false prophets and false teachers.

I mean fear and trembling on my I'm like my gut, you have no

idea the Judgment coming to your house because you're trying to

get a crowd to do stuff for you. But at the end of the day, If

they do a good job teaching and preaching and brought spiritual

truths to your life. The worthy of double honor.

Now, I'm gonna be honest with you, our staff.

I believe the church does a phenomenal job.

I don't know of too many occasions where there's been a

lot of talk about the staff. I'm Tom pastoral staff.

There is some talk about some other staff.

I hear that happens, but that's jealousy, anytime I hear that

they're just jealous. Okay, as sibling rivalry, that's

carnality, but, you know, seems like this the other associate

pastors, there's not a challenge there.

And that's great. You should do.

That should be easy for you to honor their and again they're

doing a hard, they're doing a great job at what they do.

Okay. And they do deserve.

They do. There's a lot of sacrifice.

A lot of sacrifice there. All right, and continue to

process please do so because I think it would be a great thing

for you. I've had some of my pastor come

and say, hey. So and so, you know, gave me

this, I said good, I'm glad You deserve it.

Right. Cause I don't have any of my

staff trying to draw people to themselves.

They're not trying to start their own churches.

There's totally submitted and committed to the vision.

Yep. Pastors are not here to control

your lives. The ones that do it, right?

All they're here to do is say what does the word say at the

end of the day, you got to do it.

Was that the other day? I'm going to do the word whether

you do it or not. Because I'm going to stand

before a holy God. I am.

I've been in some congregations man.

It's like This is light. Uncomfortable, how they want to

treat you? Uncomfortable.

Because they're so hungry for the word, they just honor.

What's, what's about to come? Because they realize, I mean,

they really it's uncomfortable. When I went to Pastor s is that

was uncomfortable trip in Africa.

Because as a servant, it's just a weird place to be. whenever

you realize the responsibility that they are hanging on every

word, you're saying, right now is if you are like Jesus

whispering in your ear, You better, hope you better be

saying it. I went back to the hotel room

more than one time crime. Because of the weight of that

responsibility. And Pastor Sr not even with us

anymore, he's gone, he's in heaven.

But it was amazing. What they could unlock out of

me. It was amazing.

I was in awe at the stuff that could come out because of that

atmosphere was crazy. so, that's why Jesus said a prophet is not

without Except. Among his.

This is why, you know, why are you do?

I so many ministers. Always called a pastor Earle,

you know, love to come back. You know why?

Because we have trained ourselves to honor them when

they come. So, the atmosphere pull so much

out of they love being in this house.

I mean, it gets me so Jack to bring in a guest Minister.

Why? Because they see it played out.

We're all of your honor and all manned and your you know like

God is going to say something through them and treating them

like they're royalty, cover all royalty but you realize there's

a double honor here because these people are like laying

down their lives to hear God and say things to help us get

Revelation so that we can live the best Godly life that we are

supposed to live in the planet. But then, you get familiar with

my voice. You know, why some ministers?

Quit their churches and start traveling.

Is because their own congregations are familiar with

them. And they get more movement,

somewhere else. And make no mistake about it.

If you despise the gift, God, I move a gift.

God will slap move a gift. That's why I honor.

Ours, my the any staff we had, I don't care where they are with

their Pastor or not, if they're all the time like I want to

honor them because at the end of the day their gods and he can

move them and if I don't honor them, then I can definitely lose

them for lack of Honor. And Pastor Mike, he can testify.

We are generous I mean, we we really want to see our group

thrive. because I realize that a moment God could pull someone

and that's why we want to serve you.

This is why I serve you and love you enough to say look we got to

talk about what's going on in your life, man.

Why? Cuz I honor the gift in you more

than I will allow you to sit your sin.

And continue to be complacent, carnal and wine.

And live defeated. Because again, if I don't honor

your give well, forget them, whatever.

Well then, at that point God has the right to pull you.

But again, you do still have your responsibility.

So I have responsibility to honor you because I want you to

be at a stage, a grow, and let's do something great together for

the kingdom of God. But at the end of the day, you

got to make herself a vessel of Honor.

If you choose to not, you don't want to fix yourself.

You don't want to get your pruning on.

You don't want to humble yourself, you don't want to

continue to do then, you know what gospel pluck you out,

remove you anyway night, and there's nothing I can do about

it, but it won't be, because we didn't do everything we could do

to get you gift out. Cuz I'm not your friend.

Can I just say that I'm not here to be your buddy or Pal?

I'm here to be your pastor who will help you rise to the level

that God ordains you to be. Is it not true?

I never asked anyone to call me pastor.

Don't do it. But you understand Abram was

called Abram and then the Lord says, I'm gonna call you

Abraham. Do you think Abram went around,

says you just keep calling me a mean, I'm, you know, I'm a

broom, but the Lord says I'm Abraham.

I think Abram went around from there.

Struck, my name is Abraham. Now those who knew him,

previous, probably say Abraham Abram.

What do you mean? A man?

I told you the Lord. He called me Abraham, so, I'm

introducing myself as Abraham from here on out.

I mean, I'm going to call myself a guy called me.

God called me to pass. Stir.

Now, if you want a buddy call me Earl no problem because I can be

a friend to you. Sure.

But there's going to come a day. You're Gonna Want to pastors

anointing and I won't have it for you because you don't

acknowledge it. You don't acknowledge it.

You only want me as your buddy? You want to be like we're close.

We're hanging. I don't need any clothes hanging

people, I need Vision. Passionate people wanted you to

plan and will of God that our moral close to God than they are

to me. Because if you're close to God,

we going somewhere. I mean, we're brothers and

sisters. I mean, you don't have to get

close. but I mean God called me and I understand, I realize

people get caught up in titles, but I'm not if the Lord says

pastors prophets, evangelists teachers and apostles, God

called them that So, who am I to question God about that?

Just because, you know, you would feel uncomfortable.

So calling me faster, if you don't don't, but don't expect

that anointing to show up because it says, if you don't

receive a prophet in the name of a, not in the name of his name,

well that's brother. So on.

So do you got to recognize the gift?

so, if you don't recognize the gift and you don't get the gift,

Now, I don't know why God picked me to be the majority natural

voice in your life. But he did.

So don't let it become a problem.

And I understand, it's not me, I'm just trying to say what God

is saying. And what fits take, what does it

this for someone else? Because at the end of the day,

it's like Faith, right? You'll get what you believe

because what you don't believe you don't get And anchor, Faith

Church, the pastor's here prophets, evangelists apostles

and teachers if you want it. I mean if you go to Kingdom

Institute and you just see them as peers then you don't get Jack

and that's your problem. Auntie's better now.

Well, that's your problem. No, honor snow honor.

Every time I go into Washington students are standing up because

they want to teach them to, you know, honor that's that's, you

know, you're like, sit down, sit down, right?

I mean that's where you're at, because again you just want to

serve, but at the end of the day, you do have to teach the

principal. Right.

Because I guarantee is a lot of officers that feel weird of

people saluting them. Ain't that right?

Ain't that right sir. But yet they're honoring your

rank. You're going to return that

salute back and you're thinking to yourself, man, I'm going to

do more for you than I want you to do for me and that's your

heart and those things demonstrate.

So again at the end of the day just because someone has hid

behind a title, don't put it on everybody else.

So, at the end of the day, Pastor Hagen is a human being as

well. And I know when he's got his

Pastor on, and when he's got his human on, And I don't get upset

with it. That's what I'm saying is, I

don't have a problem because he's got his human on.

I'm not saying he's sending, I'm not saying that.

I'm just saying he's not being a pastor.

So his response is just human when his grandson is like

getting tied up somewhere and on the track you know he can get a

little upset about that. But again that's not ungodly,

it's human nature and his emotions wanting to see us on it

and I can identify their. I have no problem with that but

I'm not going to lower because I see he puts his pants on the

same way I do. Oh, you don't hear that.

Because I don't care that he puts his pants on the same way.

I do, he has an anointing that I don't even know about global

doing it. And I'm just glad to be in the

room. Just glad to be in the room.

And he's worthy double of Honor. He's worthy of it, absolutely

him. And his wife, both his wife,

many, she get some room. I just want to hear her talk.

Want to hear talk worthy of it. Absolutely.

But again, at the end of the day, Don't let what we have here

at the house. If I could tell you, ma'am, come

on us yours. I'm serious.

Now you ladies you gonna see it. You're going to see it.

And ones that have been going recently, been seeing it.

That God has done something with anchor Faith, Church and Rhema.

That there are there places you can go and they're going to

honor your way because you're in this house.

I'm just being honest, I'm just being honest because you're

paying a price to go after God because there are people that

are watching There are people who are coming on vacation

intentionally to this place to be in this atmosphere.

Being in your services. We have one not too long ago.

Come from Tulsa, we're going to be weird.

We're going to floor. They involve all of them went to

the Magic Kingdom area Orlando but they all made choices.

I cannot be in Florida. Be that close to Anchor feature

church and not calm. Now, what's that?

That's honoring something happening in this house.

They're watch it online now, things are growing in influence.

Why? Because we are doing what's

priority, honor God, honor the relationships, right?

Honor our parents honor our marriage relationships.

I mean, we're not talking about honor.

We've been preaching a lot about those relationships and

everyone's been rising up to those.

We've been talking about walking in love.

We see we are love filtered. I just had a couple that came on

as vision partners and the number one thing.

They It was that the way people respond to us, when we came in,

they won said, I grew up here, I grew up in another church.

I went back to that church. It was so different.

Because the atmosphere but see when you get used to an

atmosphere, you can take advantage of take for granted

the atmosphere. Take for granted.

And then when you're used to a voice, you can take for granted.

But don't take for granted the word. the word says, They do a

right job of teaching and preaching the worthy of double

honor. and I have found that the reason why some people

especially ministers aren't in places today In fact, Pastor

Daryl told me the story. He said.

He got to minister at camp meeting and someone had

graduated with came to me. Some man, what did you do?

How did you get up there? What what do I need to do to be

able to do what you did and so he says well, When you don't

have any money, you come to camp meeting anyway.

And you just keep coming year after year and you be faithful.

And you start sewing and you just start serving.

You just no, no, no. I need you to talk to Pastor

Hagen for me. I want to get up and preach like

you're doing. Yeah, it's cause they want it.

They want their shot. Your shots, not even your shot.

If you're actually doing it God's way, it's God's shot

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