Called to Chosen - with Chase Glisson

Hello and welcome to the Anchor. Faith Message podcast enjoyed

this message. We're going to start in the back

of the Bible all the way back at Revelation and I was like ah man

Chase pieces speaks and going revelations in times.

No, not really but we are going to go back there.

So Revelations 1714. Revelations 17:14 and it says

Revelation 17:14

these will wage war against the lamb.

And the lamb will overcome them because he is the Lord of lords

and the king of kings and those who are with him are the called

and chosen, and faithful, and those who are with him, are the

called and chosen. And faithful today, we're going

to talk about called to chosen. Right.

We're going to talk about called to chosen because I think it's

very important that when you look at this scripture, we

realize there's three categories, he gave here, he

said those who are with him, are the called Chosen and faithful,

right? So we're going to look at what

it means to be called what it means to be chosen.

And then obviously what it means to be faithful because if it was

just one thing, we're all going to be, they probably want to

have separated into three different meanings but a very

specifically said those who are Are going to be with me.

Are the called The Chosen and the faithful, right?

So we're going to look. Look, look into this and dissect

it a little bit. We're going to look at the word

called here. And according to the strongs,

it's, you know, it's a word. I can't pronounce.

We're not going to, but the definition of it means an

invitation, it's an invitation, and it's used particularly of

the Divine call to partake in the blessings of redemption.

And that's from The Vines dictionary.

But it says it's used particularly of a Divine call.

To partake in the blessing of redemption.

So when we look at the revelations, you can leave that

up there for a little bit longer.

Don't be, I'm gonna be on that one for a bit 1714, right?

It says, they're the called The Chosen and the faithful.

So if we know where called and we know that the calling is an

invitation then obviously, we want to know who's inviting us.

Right. Who's inviting us?

John 6:44 says no one comes to me unless the father who sent me

John 6:44

draws him and I I will raise him up on the last day, right?

So no one comes to me. Unless the father who sent me

draws me First Corinthians 1:9 says, God is faithful through

1 Corinthians 1:9

him who you were called into fellowship with the son, Jesus

Christ Our Lord. So we know God is the one that's

doing the calling, right? Because no man comes to the

father, except through him. So we understand that those are

who are going to be with them are going to be called of God to

be with him, right? Those who are with him will be

called by him too. Be there, right?

And we've all been called, right?

What are we being called out? I, we've been called out of

Darkness Into His Marvelous Light, right?

We've all been called out of where we are right by God, but a

calling is just that it's a calling and calling obviously

means that there has to be an answer to Right in order for our

calling, to be complete. There must be an answer to that,

which was called, right? So if we know we've been called

by God, we then have to answer that call, right?

We've got to put ourselves in a position to answer that call.

And at one point in time, anyone who's Born Again, has put

themselves on the spot to answer that calling, right?

If you're sitting here today and you've been born again, you have

answered the call, right? So right then great news, we're

going to be with them, right? Because we've been called Right.

We've been called, we're going to be with them, there's a

thought I'd be a little bit more exciting but that's fine.

I mean, whatever no big deal. I'm excited.

Right because I've got in right. I've been called I've answered

the call. Therefore I'm at I qualify for

Revelation 17:14 which says those who will be with him will

Revelation 17:14

be called. Alright?

So we've been called if you've answered the call.

Now that you are officially one of the called ones, right?

But like I said, we're not just going to stop it called because,

you know, I didn't, I do my message called to chosen just to

stay at called, right? We're Look at chosen now.

So let's go to Matthew 22. Matthew 22 verse 1.

Matthew 22:1

We got a little bit of reading here, so we're going to do it.

Jesus spoke to them again in Parables saying, the Kingdom of

Heaven is like a king who held a wedding Feast for his son and he

sent his slaves to call those who had been invited to the

wedding Feast. But they were unwilling to come

again. He sent out, other slaves

saying, tell those who have been invited behold, I have prepared

my dinner. My, my oxygen and my fatty

fatten cattle. Cattle and all butchered and

everything is ready. Come to the wedding feasts but

they pay no attention and went their separate ways one to his

farm. Another to his business, and the

rest seized his slaves, and treated them abuse abusively,

and then killed them. Now, the King was angry and he

sent out his armies and destroyed those who murdered and

set the city on fire, and then he said, to his slaves, the

wedding Feast is ready, but those who were invited, we're

not worthy. So go to the main roads and

invite whomever, you find there to the wedding Feast those

slaves, went into the streets and gathered together, all whom

they had found both bad and good, and the wedding hall was

filled with dinner guests. But when the king came in to

look over the dinner guests, he saw a man there who was not

dressed in wedding clothes and he said to him friend.

How did you get in here without wedding clothes?

And the man was speechless. Then the king said to his

servants, tie, his hands and feet, and throw.

Him into the outer Darkness where there will be weeping and

gnashing of teeth in that place for many are called, but few are

chosen. For many are what but few are

for many are but few are chosen called and chosen, there is the

exact same called and chosen from Revelations.

The exact same word. Right?

I like the way the passion translation reads.

The end. It says for everyone is invited

to enter in but few respond in excellence.

For everyone is invited to enter in but few respond and

Excellence, Excellence. All right, so, that's the same

called and chosen from Revelations.

What we hear is, is he saying look, many are called, but few

are chosen. So we have a separation between

a calling and actually being chosen just because you've

accepted the call, does not make you chosen.

Just because you accepted the call doesn't make you.

One of the chosen ones, it makes you a called one.

Right? And Revelations, I didn't come

back for the called The Chosen and the faithful.

Right. So there's there's the cold,

which we all automatically are the men.

We got born again. We answered his call, we become

the call, but then there's the chosen that were chosen in

Revelations, and right here, means the elect the elite.

Right? So there's the cold, and then

there's the elect and the elite who are The Chosen.

Now, this chosen isn't just five-fold ministers, right?

This isn't just pastors or teachers.

This shows ain't just qualifies people who have set themselves

in a position to be the elect. Now.

See, for those of you who know me and obviously I've been

around enough a church for a long time.

So a lot of you have seen a lot of faces of my life, right?

A lot of you have grown up with me.

And seen me grow a lot as well. I am a very competitive person.

Some might say that I am a hyper competitive person.

Right. I like to win at all costs.

I'm not a cheater, but I will definitely read the rules and

make sure everything I'm doing. You know, might be, you know, a

gray area of the rules, right? You know, if I've got a win, I

want to know all the rules to the game, because I want to put

myself in the best possible position to win because If I can

win, because I know a rule that you didn't know that just helps

me out, right? So when I read scriptures like

this and I realize there's called in their chosen, the

competitiveness inside me. Sparks up and says huh.

Well, how do I become chosen then?

Because that sounds like something to obtain to that

sounds like another level that I want.

Right? And so I think it's important

for us to think, man, you know, I'm a member.

When I'm Pastor. Earle.

First wrote, the book Vision Beyond sight.

Zev, I read Vision Beyond sight, man.

If you have not read pastorals book Vision Beyond sight, you

should flood guest relations after this thing and pick it up.

It is a phenomenal book and it was a marker point for my life

personally where I made some decisions because the book is

about the life of Samson and how it's the saddest thing, biblical

historical account of someone's life because of wasted

potential. Right.

Wasted potential. And it says, at the beginning of

Samson's life, that God said I have called him to start a work,

right? And Pastor breaks down, why he

didn't finish the work. And I remember reading that

because like I said, I'm a competitive person.

I thought in my life, what a horrible event to think that I

could live my whole life and get to heaven and find out that

there was way more. I was supposed to accomplish

that I chose not to, Because the bottom line is, God knew Samson

wasn't going to do it, but he still wanted him to get it done.

He had every intent of Samson being the one to do it, but he

knew ultimately, he's going to choose his own selfish life,

right? And so, when we look at being

called to chosen, right? I think, man, I don't want to,

you know, not that being called as bad because, hey, we're with

them. And in the end it says those who

are called are going to be with him.

But like I said, when I see that there's another level to obtain

two of chosen. Well, then why would I just

settle for called Why would I just stay at called when there's

chosen? You know, because I want to not

just live life. I want to dominate life, I don't

want to just live my purpose. I want to be as successful as

possible in my purpose. You know, I definitely get this

from from Pastor Earle, man. You know, I don't just like

seeing teams win. I want to win by like a lot, you

know, you know, for some of you guys, you might not be video

game players from my video game players out there.

I love my PlayStation. You know, when I get time to

play, I'll play. And when I play sports games, I

don't just create my character. Dr. Perfect. 99, I create the

rest of the team, a perfect 99 that way.

When I play, it's not just like well, that was a close match.

It was like, man, I destroyed that team, right?

And that's still feel good about it and got no problem like when

I want a hundred and something to nothing, right?

Like, I mean, I'm fine with that, you know, you know, when I

play my daughter and Mario Kart, she beat me, got learn the hard

way, you want to win, you earn that thing.

All right, that way she knows when she beats me.

She got it right? You know, I love it.

We um we play we play with a Charlotte clay and you know, she

came home, one day and told her parents she was like I gotta

start racing on on the harder setting.

That way I can beat Uncle Chase, right?

Because I was like, I'm not going easy on you.

Right? We're gonna we're gonna I'm

gonna raise a bunch of winners over here, right.

We're going to get it, right? So obviously I look at called a

chosen, I think, man, I want to be chosen.

I want to be the elect and Because I've accepted the call,

doesn't make me chosen. So let's look at verse 11 again,

real quick. It says, but when the king came

to see the guests, he noticed there was a man there who was

not wearing wedding clothes and he asked him, how did you get

here without your wedding clothes?

The man was speechless and the King told the attendance, throw

him out weeping gnashing of teeth for many are called, but

few are chosen. See this man had the

responsibility to come prepared to be chosen, right?

God called him. But the E of being, chosen was

still placed on him, right. God's called us, but the

responsibility to get to chosen falls on us and he's given us

exactly how to do it. And we're gonna go there, and

we're going to see this. But ultimately before we can

even think about getting there, we have to be able to assess

what makes us called, and What Makes Us Chosen and where does

that difference there, right? Because if I know once I've

accepted the call, in order to be chosen, I've got to do

something, then, I'm obviously going to Have to go to the word

to figure out what it is. I need to do to get there.

Right? Because like I said man I want

to set myself up the best I can I told you I like to read the

rules. Why?

Because I want to know every Avenue I have to win and if I

can see an Avenue someone else didn't see than I have the

advantage and just like that in in a board game or whatever it

is I'm playing man. If I want to have the advantage

in life that I'm gonna go to the word to see every Avenue, I have

to get every Advantage, I can so that I can do the best I can

because just like, Pastor preach Just a couple weeks ago, I'm not

settling outside of his promises.

All right, I've put content in my heart that I'm going to live

my life out, so that when I get to heaven, one day, God doesn't

say, you know, you did good but ultimately, here's everything

else I could have had you accomplish.

No, I'm going all out right, right?

I'm going all out. So Colossians 3:12 Colossians

Colossians 3:12 Colossians 3:12–15

3:12 through 15. It says therefore as the elect

of God holy and beloved put on Tender Mercies kindness,

humility meekness long-suffering bearing with one another

forgiving one. Another, if anyone has a

complaint against another even as Christ forgave you.

So Let's also do. But above all these things put

on love which is the bond of perfection.

And let the peace of God rule in your hearts to which you are

also called in one body and be thankful, right?

Leave this up. So we see here.

Here's the list of things. The elect are So quick

reflection. If I can already read this

scription realize I don't have some of these.

Guess what? I'm not there yet.

Right because it says the elect of God put on Tender Mercies

kindness, humility meekness, long-suffering bearing with one.

Another forgiving one another just like Christ.

Forgave you, right? They put on love which is the

bond of perfection and they let peace the peace of God rule in

their hearts, right? This is how the chosen live.

This is the standard at which we must live in obtained.

Two, in order to be chosen. I like I said we might want to

read the rules today because I want to know man.

If I want to be something then obviously there's a

pre-qualification. So what do I need to do to get

qualified to render myself, chosen?

All right, and that's what I love about the word.

It's always there. In the end, you will not stand

before God and say, but I didn't know.

Right. That is one thing.

I absolutely love about life and purpose, and that is that it all

falls on me. I know everybody's different,

but I'm an under the pressure. Kind of guy, I like being the

one with the ball at the last second.

Like I said competitive, which means man, if we're losing, if

we got one play left, I don't want my fate and someone else's

hand, I want to be in control. I want to make sure I'm the one

that gets to carry this thing through, because I trust myself

more than everyone else, right? Because I know that in the end,

if I lose Was because I lost and it was me and I wasn't good

enough. Then that's what it is.

But if I lose because someone else wasn't good enough, well,

that's just frustrating. You know like man, you should

pass me the ball. I can make that shot like come

on man. You know, I don't want my

Destiny's tied to someone else but God didn't do that.

God said, look, I've prepared you.

I've called you, I've placed you anything I've called you to do,

you can do. And now I've given you the

instructions on how you can get there, which means in the end,

I'm going to look at you and I'm going to say, you knew

everything you needed to accomplish your purpose and it's

it was on you. It was there for you to reach

out to if you didn't obtain something, then it was your own

fault for not trying to obtain it.

Right. Then it was your fault for not

reaching out for it. It was your fault for not

getting there, right? So, it falls back on us, to make

sure I'm living a life of the elect to make sure I'm living a

life that qualifies me for this title.

Right, I'm living a lie with enough passion and purpose to

get to this place. Russell.

Like I said, man, we want to go from cold to chosen, then we're

going to need to understand what makes us called and What Makes

Us chosen. Well, we know here's a list of

things, right? That we qualify as chosen but we

also want to be aware of things that might keep us called.

Well called people are Sunday and Wednesday attenders.

Call people are Sunday and Wednesday at tenders and what do

I mean by that? They're the ones that show up on

Sunday and Wednesday and they've done God.

They sit in the seat. They hear a word.

I check my box. I love God. you will remain

called, if that is your Goal in life.

Now come on. Now we ain't gotta get quiet

because I mean I understand where it sets in ourselves.

But ultimately man where we can be a church of chosens, right?

We can be a church of the elect, let every Church be called but

let anchor face shirts, be chosen, right?

So come on, you know, let's not get quiet on me, just because I

hit some things, but let's think about it.

And let's take some, let's, let's be like David and say

search my heart. Oh Lord.

Right, search my heart. Let me know if there's something

I can do so called people are Sunday and Wednesday.

Tenders were chosen, people seek the extra.

Right? There's a Women's Conference

coming up. Chosen people are their chosen.

People don't let their week. Get in the way of attending.

Something else in the word, right?

Chosen people are the ones that just don't show up on Sundays

and Wednesdays, but they look for opportunities to serve,

right? Those are the chosen.

Those are the ones that step out a little bit further.

And like I said, I'm not bagging on being called, it's great.

You're called, you're in the end, you're going with God.

But ultimately, if we know there's another level to obtain

to why would we not want to try to get there, right?

So called people are your Sunday and Wednesday attenders called

people will justify their lack of serving.

Call people will justify their lack of.

Well, I've had a long week, I've done.

I've been, you know, it was a busy one for me at a lot of

things going on, you know, you know, you don't understand how

many hours I worked. You may, I mean, usually the my

job is this a, it's a, it's a physical job.

Right. Call people.

Right. All right, they'll justify their

lack of serving. There's always a reason why they

can't do the extra. There's always something keeping

them from doing something more. Greatness is Never attained by

maintaining a status quo. Michael Jordan did not become

one of the best basketball players to ever live.

By simply showing up when it was time to show up and leaving when

it was time to leave. No, he put in the extra work,

Kobe Bryant, put an X, there's a, there's a thing I saw on

Instagram scrolling through. I got a friend up in Oklahoma,

who's a big Kobe Bryant fan. And he's posting stuff all the

time. I think it's someone's telling a

story. They're like, man, I showed up

one day, you know, to practice before the game and Kobe Bryant

was there, and I was shooting shots.

I mean, I'd already in my mind said I'm going to shoot 400, you

know, I'm going to make 400 shots and I'll leave.

So, I was there for like, 200, 22 hours or whatever, you know,

you know, I kind of start packing up.

Kobe was still there. Kobe was still there, still

trying was like, man, what's going on?

On. So I end up talking to him

Larry, I asked him. I said, what's going on in?

Kobe was like, no, I just saw you were there and so I figured

I'd keep shooting to make you feel like you weren't doing

enough. Well, I because there was a

level of greatness at which he wanted to attain to.

So he put in the extra work to get there, but yet when it comes

to our spiritual lives, we just expect checking off our daily

Bible. Reading box to be enough to make

me attain somewhere. And then I can justify it by

saying I've done other things that keep me out of it, man

called people clock in, and out called people clock in, and out

of God clock in Rhema Bible, clock out, do anything else?

Talk in Sunday morning sit in church.

Clock out. God's done.

I got to work. Come on now chosen people?

Right are always available for something.

The Chosen, all the one. I say, man, it doesn't matter

what I've done this week. I'm available for more.

Right. And I know it's easy sometimes

like, oh well you know, chase you work out the church man, I

worked outside the church. I moved to Valdosta really early

in my marriage with my wife. And um, you know, we helped

anchor Faith, Austin, you know, in their early stages and I

served as a as a server at a restaurant.

I and I went into that restaurant and I told them I'd

like a job. I actually worked three

different jobs. They're multiple job because I

had to, you know, get into a good fit and I wasn't willing to

let things get in the way of my purpose.

So, when I got On it shatters, I told him, I said, I will not

work Sunday mornings or Wednesday night's period.

They said, well, everyone's got to work Sundays.

I'll say, well, then, okay, and the lady was like, man, that's

really strong. She goes, I've never hired

anyone before. I'm a new manager, you could be

my first hire. But, you know, I go to church.

And you seem really convicted about going, as I said, look, I

will not work on, you know, Sunday mornings, it won't happen

because I would you work something I said, you know, I

could work with Sunday night. That's fine.

I got nothing. You know, the church wasn't

doing. Can you Miss Sue then?

I was like, I don't have anything going on.

I could work some Sunday nights, you know, while everyone else

was waiting to figure out what their schedule was the day

before the week started. Mine was Is the same.

Why? Because I had favored, but I put

my purpose before everything else, right?

So I work super late hours, you know, on Friday, Saturday,

Sunday and Monday, but I did everything.

I could to remain available to pursue the purpose that God had

placed inside me, right? So, you know, ultimately, we've

got to put ourselves and say, you know, it doesn't matter if

I'm working for the church and working outside the churches,

you know, we should all be doing whatever, we've been called to

be doing ultimately. We shouldn't be at any job got

didn't Place us at Right. And not everyone has to work,

you know, for the church, right? Some people have started their

own business, other people work for other businesses but you

know, the most successful ones are the ones that say, where is

the kingdom in what I'm doing. Right.

Where is the kingdom in this? How does me being here?

Help. Advance the kingdom.

Right? Because once we're doing, you

know, our passion and purpose, right?

Because once we get involved in that, whether it's in this

building, whether it's outside of this building, once we're

connected to our passion and purpose, it'll change our

outlook on everything we do for it.

Because once your purpose or passion, just becomes work,

that's when you'll get burnout. Once you start just viewing what

you do, as a job, only rather than viewing it as the thing,

God put me on this Earth to do. The reason I'm breathing is to

be where I am at this moment when you view your assignment

like that, it's easy to want to do anything, it takes for it.

Right. It's easy to see that and I know

people in this building who have started businesses and done

different things with the sole purpose of, how can I serve the

kingdom through this, right? And so whether you're called to

work a job outside, fine. But find what God wants you

there for? How does this help?

You can see to excel the kingdom and ultimately once I'm there

that I'm not just thinking about it as my nine-to-five.

I'm thinking of, as the reason I'm breathing today and when I

start to take that concept, Kept in, right?

Then all the little things that happen, you know.

Begin to not matter anymore. Right.

You know, it's easy for me, you know to you know I'm in a I do

design I make videos. That's what I do here at the

church. On the service.

Producer are organized making sure that you know the flow of

the surface goes like we've set up, you know?

Ultimately it's, you know as Pirates of the Caribbean say

it's more like a guidelines than rules.

You know, we kind of set guidelines But ultimately where

the spirit wants to go, we're going to go but I kind of helped

facilitate the ultimate general, you know, outline of what a

service might look like. But then I make videos and I do

design I'm and through that, I put myself in some design groups

on Facebook is just some of the saddest stuff in the world.

To see, like, I mean, some of these people that, you know,

work for churches are just some of the saddest people in the

world, you know? And they're always looking, you

know, to figure out their emotional needs, you know, God,

I'm just, you know, it's just it's so much you know.

And then all the advice is always well, you got.

A-you got. Tell your pastor.

You got limits. You got to tell your pastor

that, you know, he can't run you like that.

You know, me winning ways 5:00. I don't answer no work calls.

Why? Because you're working a job.

You're not serving a vision. Because when I'm serving a

vision, my time is not my own. Because when I serve a vision

I'm available for whatever it needs.

Right. I serve this vision and Pastor,

oh, come to me for something. I don't even think about it

because I've connected to this vision and if he asked me to do

it, then I already knew when I connected this Vision, I'm going

to be doing it says, hey we got to go this way so all right cool

I'm gone. It's already on the calendar but

hey, I need you speak, no problem.

I got it. I don't have to already have had

a word. I didn't need the Holy Spirit to

come tell me a week before. Pastor told me that I was going

to be preaching. I don't need to sit there going

to be honest. With most of you aren't even

fully have What I was going to speak until two days ago but

ultimately I still say yeah, absolutely.

Why, because I'm connected to this Vision.

I know if God told you something and I'm gonna be there to do it

because I'm not clocking out at 5:00, called people clock out,

right? Do you think the disciples

worked a nine-to-five? My God didn't walk up to the

disciples and say, Hey, you know, come with me.

We're going to start the day at 9:00, right?

We'll have lunch every day. One hour, no problem.

You taking care of right? You know, we do a lot of

traveling that's time and a half.

You know, I'm going to preach it places, but don't worry, 5:00,

we shut down your home, your back.

We're staying at. Nice hotels know these people

left everything at a word, not a word.

And I think there's a lot of us who sit there and think, man of

Jesus asked me to come, I'll be there.

But really were like, man, Pastor asked me to be somewhere

Saturday and I worked all week. You know, so I don't know if I

can make that one. See called people will try to

fit their purpose into their life, where chosen people will

wrap their life around their purpose.

Cold people are always looking to try to see.

I can do God here, I can do God here because I've got these

things going on and these are the places I can fit God and

we're chosen. People say no, this is my

purpose. This is my passion and

everything else I do is going to evolve around out everything

else. I do will be there.

See me personally when I go to schedule vacation, right?

I'm looking at the calendar and I'm seeing what the church has

got going on. And I know I work here, but I'm

still thinking, man, if there's an event, I need to be at

there's something I cannot miss then.

Why would I miss it? Why would put why would I

willfully playing something that we would remove me from the

place. I'm attached to, why?

Because I'm always looking to serve my purpose in my passion.

And I'm saying, man, if I don't have to miss it, then I'm not

going to. And I'm going to be honest, man,

I just love what I do. So, most time I have a hard time

planning vacation because I've been here.

I like running the way I run, you know, and I get to travel

with Pastor anyways, most of those times I taken him and I

was in Oklahoma, a couple weeks ago, a pastor for, you know,

camp meeting, you know, and ultimately I was working The

Book Table, I was talking to people, you know, I'm not

necessarily considered the most extroverted person like the

people person in the room, right?

I don't, I don't go into the party and it was like this,

Chase? No.

You know, I'm totally fine being on noticing in the back, right?

I film things behind a camera like I'm totally cool with

letting someone else. Talk 90% of the conversations

are new. People are M through my other

friends who come up and they saw the conversation and I can jump

in when I need to write. So I went to camp meeting, you

know? And it was me and Bradley and it

was Bradley's first time, which means it really fell on me the

most to do. Most of the talking I'm thinking

man I texted my wife but halfway through his arm is the most I've

worked in a long time. Man, I'm talking to so many

people. My face hurts from smiling.

You know, I thought this would be much more relaxing but man,

I'm putting in some work, right? But ultimately I still felt like

I love being there. It was a vacation we had a good

time when I got back in. It feel like man.

I need rest. Not felt great.

I was like let's run what's next?

Why? Because when I'm doing my

passion and purpose, it's going to fulfill me, it's Gonna Keep

Me. It's Gonna, you know, keep me

going. Because do we not think that God

will always honor our time. We sing about how God, you know,

how how miraculously is how wonderful he is.

All the things he's doing, but then we had like if we do go

serve in the church or do this extra event, it's going to put

us away from family's, gonna put us out and they say, no, I'm

going to be too tired. Do you not think God will honor

your time? You know, when I um, and when me

and my wife were having our third daughter Scotland, I was

at a busier season in the church for my life.

Personally, you know, there's just a lot going on.

We had a lot of different projects.

There's a lot of things happening, right?

And so I knew that meant I wasn't as home as much not only

for my wife, but also for our newborn Scotland.

I just wasn't there as much, right?

And I was reminded of something that was prayed over me.

When I was in high school, we went to a youth camp.

Thank God for youth camps and with the worship leader called

down everyone, who was who was involved in their youth worship

team. And he prayed over me and he

said, you know, I don't know why.

I said everyone else pay when he prayed over me, he said, God,

you're going to bless him and an hour of practice will be like

three hours. And that came back up into my

spirit when I was going through this season.

And so, I started praying over my family and I say, God, an

hour of time with my kids is going to be like 3 hours, 15

minutes of time with my kids is going to be like 45 anytime.

I can invest in this season, you're going to multiply it and

my wife can attest to this you know at such a young age.

Scotland was the closest to me of any of my daughters.

You know, most time when the moms feeding them on taking care

of him through the night and she's doing all of her stuff,

right? You know, when the year 1 year

2, they're mostly close to the mom, that's the relationship.

They know that's the bond. They have writing that as a dad,

you just try to get in as much time as you can.

But ultimately, you just can't beat the fact that I don't feed

you right, you know. And so it's like you know your

life source is somewhere else. I get it, you know.

So obviously when I was you know, with Scotland even though

I wasn't able to be there as much when she was two and

started talking she said Dad at first when she was crying or

sad, she would not want her mom but she would come to Me why it

wasn't nothing to against Alyssa but it has to do with the fact

that man, I put in time in the spirit and God honored, the time

that I had with them super naturally because I wasn't out

just doing things on my own. It's not like I was just gone

doing things and staying busy of my own will, I was serving a

purpose, right? Because Paul said, man, we got a

beat down, our flesh, right? Called people are moved by their

flesh. Chosen people seek the spirit,

right? When I had my kids, I made a

shift in my workout routine. I went from going whenever I

wanted to say, man, I'm gonna start going at 5:30 or 6:00 in

the morning while all my kids are asleep.

That way, I don't lose any family time because this is a

personal thing I want to keep going.

But ultimately, I don't want to miss being with my family and so

I rearranged my life to accommodate the purpose and the

passions that God has placed there.

Right? And that's how we keep ourselves

stirred up, right? So called people will try to fit

their purpose into their lifestyle or chosen people will

evolve their life around their purpose, right?

If we look at Matthew 10 17, through 20 to, it says, as he

was setting out on a journey, a man ran up to him and knelt

before him and ask good teacher. What shall I do?

So that I may inherit eternal life, but Jesus said to him, why

do you call me good? No one is good.

Except for God alone. You know the Commandments do

not. Not murder, do not commit

adultery, do not steal, do not false, give false testimony do

not defraud, honor your father and mother and he said to him

teacher I've kept all those since my youth then looking at

him. Jesus showed him showed love to

him and said to him. One thing, you lack go and sell

all your possessions and give it to the pool, poor.

And you will have treasure in heaven, and come and follow me.

But he was deeply dismayed by these words and he went away

grieving for. He was one, Own much property.

We literally have an account of someone who was called.

And their their life decision moment of choosing to be chosen

or to remain called. But ultimately this person

picked their life and the things they want to attain and the

things they have over the elite elect status.

They ultimately said, I want what I'm comfortable with, I

want what I want, I want what I'm doing.

I like where I am now. I like the things I have.

This is my seat on Sunday morning.

Right. This is where this is where I

have at a mile serve on this day but nothing else you get me once

a month. No, I don't got to be quiet

because I this is a church of chosen, right?

Because Pastor a couple weeks ago, said most people who are

called stay called because of self-preservation, I want to

serve God on my terms and be happy about it.

Whereas, the chosen ones are the ones who left everything behind

and followed him. It's about two weeks ago and his

message settled, it's a great setup for what I had today.

But I refuse to settle outside the promises of God.

I refuse to just be someone who is called.

I refuse to just live by my flesh and stay in my comfort

zone. I refuse to to get to the end of

my my Road in life and to finish my race, only to find out.

I didn't actually finish my race.

I finished the leg of it and I'm not passing the Baton off to

someone else. Know what's mine to achieve?

I have Destiny in my heart. I will achieve it.

Right? Because I'm not going to stay at

called status. I'm gonna get chosen.

I'm gonna be a part of the elect.

I'm going to be a part of the elite.

I'm gonna do what's required of me to be sitting somewhere else

in the end to have been able to say man, well done everything I

had for you. You got everything I have for

you, I've got You know, like I said, I'm a video game person.

Always makes you think about. I don't know if anyone else

plays video games, this one Mike might just right past you.

But you know, if you play any sort of big scaled video games,

you know, there's always these like side quests and little side

jobs. And there's people who, like,

complete a game and they do the main mission.

And then there's people who, like, spend the time to make

sure they go through and do every possible.

You know, you know thing they can on it as competitive as I

am. I don't have time for that so I

never do that but I am a stubborn person.

So I was playing this one game. You know where you had to like,

stack rocks? You know, I was funny because I

was telling my wife the other day.

She was sitting by me while I was playing.

And it's just like all you do is you go.

And there's like six rocks and got to stack them.

I don't know. It's like a side quest thing so

stupid. But once I started like, I just,

I couldn't stop until I got in and they kept falling and

there's like an hour and a half because that's all I was really

playing and then I realize I wasted all of my time on this

awesome game, stacking rocks. I'm like but I couldn't stop and

so I had got it done and then it was like then I got it but then

I realized all I attained it by didn't use every rock that they

gave me, I missed one. So, I technically accomplished

it, but I didn't know that man, so I was just reset it on my own

because I go down to the cow. I got use all of them, right?

So just like, spent so much time doing this little mundane thing

that meant nothing. But ultimately why is?

Because there was something there.

Something about my personality is just man, I'm going to

accomplish it. Like I'm going to get it done.

I'm not going to sit here and say that I failed at a stupid

Little Rock game. I'm gonna be the one that

actually successfully got this thing.

Right? You know, II play Mario Kart

with my kids and, you know, sometimes I get frustrated

because I restart it, right? I'm on.

Like, the SEC really fast one, right?

And so we're going. And so in order to get the three

gold stars, you got to win first place every race which means

that the second race I lose for some reason, you know, mainly

because Alyssa is somewhere in like third place is right,

shelling me like crazy the whole time, right?

And so then someone like past me like Tasha's restart the whole

thing as I can't get 3 stars at this point.

No point in finishing all the races, right?

I might as well just restart and try again like it's going like,

right. Why?

Because I'm just one of those people who likes to get

something right and ultimately I think inside of us, whether you

are a competitive person or Or not, there's still something

about a calling inside of you with God, that wants you to

obtain two more, right? And we shouldn't just be

satisfied with knowing man. I got there on the bare minimum.

I made it, but just Right? I don't want to be a I just

barely made it person. I want to be chosen.

So as we look at Colossians 3:12 and we think to ourselves man am

Colossians 3:12

I putting on Tender Mercies? I am I kind towards people.

Do I have humility, do I have meekness?

And obviously Pastor said this a thousand times, humility and

meekness does not just mean quiet and act like nothing right

because we know the most humble man in the world wrote that

about himself. Right.

And a lot of people think, oh, well, we gotta be humble.

Humble does not mean I'm some like quiet little mouse.

That's not what that means, right?

So, you're not going to look at something on.

Like, I am very humble. He's saying a lot of things

aren't very hungry. No, that's not what that was

qualified as right. So we're going to be humble in

the right aspect of it, right? We're going to be

long-suffering, right? We're going to be people who can

deal with a man and that is the one thing.

I'm gonna be honest, man, you connected think of a church man.

Your pastor is long-suffering and there's sometimes I go

through something, you know, and then I've been upstairs me like

man you are long suffering because I'm working on that.

Because I fall into the, you know, Remember the Titans just

cut him loose. Can I like you, man?

I would much rather just move on this, but we're going to we're

sitting here, right? But ultimately, that's what we

are. He's long-suffering, and so we

become long-suffering, we become people who are long-suffering.

We say, man, I'm gonna get this right with our kids, where

long-suffering, right, we can't be short-tempered, right?

We have to give them time to get things, you know?

And for me, one thing from parenting, I learned, you know,

real quick, on my second child, who was completely different on

my first shot as well, there is no one.

Way to do this. Right?

Because the way London, axe is not how the next and the way

Scotland acts, I've never seen another child act.

So you know, I can't even YouTube this one.

I gotta just figure this thing out.

Ryan. So you gotta, you do these

personalities, long-suffering, man, you know, everyone's

different, you know, the way I respond to things is different

than the way, when wife would respond to things sometimes,

like, man, just go do it right, the age-old batter.

Where do you want to eat? You know, like stinking Pig, uh,

place You know. So, then she's like, well, you

big final picture pulling. I hate you.

Well, you know, I hate when I still pick the place.

It's your turn again, right? But you like, man, I want to put

on long-suffering, right? We're bearing with one another.

We're forgiving one another. All right, we're not holding on

to grudges against people, right?

Just like Christ, forgave us. We forgive others because

ultimate I'm not going to let holding on to unforgiveness

disqualify me from my own purpose.

But like I said, ultimately, I'm the only one who can disqualify

myself from accomplishing. The thing, God want me to

accomplish right now. Much really put myself down and

say I'm sorry, and deal with it. You know, I've always been one

of those people. Anyways, that's just kind of

like, man, you know, if I do something and it's wrong and

I'm, you know, I'll take it like it's wrong.

You get in trouble, like, but I've always been like a, let's

just go and do and then, ultimately, if there's

correction, we get correction, you know, and I'm saying, you

gotta, you gotta grow from the correction like I said, A lot of

you been in for a long time, you've seen me grow, right?

You've seen things happen, you know?

And so ultimate is, why? It's because man, we had a great

church, we have a great past, we have great word, but we take the

word inside, we apply it, we do things, some things take longer

to adjust than others, but man, it's that drive to want to be

chosen rather than just being called that actually gets us

somewhere, right? It's that drive to say, man, I

want more than the bare minimum, we let the peace of God rule in

our hearts. How else do we get chosen?

This is a great one. Everybody knows this one Matthew

Matthew 6:33

6:33. Right says, but seek first, the

kingdom of God, and his righteousness, and all these

things shall be added to you. The word first, there is in time

or place Rancor influence. It obviously means, the very

first thing means, the very first thing I'm seeking in my

life is the kingdom of God. All right.

The word seek there is an order. It's a desire, a hunger thirst

to Crave for it. It's something that man, we just

long for, man. We've got to have it on a pic on

my wife here for a second because it really fits in.

If anyone knows Alyssa, you know, she has, you know, this

thing about sauces, right? I'm telling you, like, we order

food, she orders a sauce that Sauce better be there.

I don't care. If it's 15 20 minutes away.

I'm driving to go get that sauce because it's like get there like

can't eat this. There's no sauce.

Right. Because when she has her mind

set on that sauce, man, she wants that sauce and she will go

through Leaps and Bounds. I'm gonna have to, you know,

we'll just doordash another meal with the sauce and maybe they'll

get it right this time. What about the other Moon?

Doesn't matter. I'll have the sauce, right?

But it's this crave. Assisted Zaire, man.

We have to have a desire to seek first.

The things of God, we have to man, this is what's been put

inside me, I long for this. This is my motivation is to find

the kingdom of God is to put this thing first.

Write, the kingdom is his royal power, and his sovereignty is

dominion. And then it says, but it doesn't

just say, say, Seek first. The kingdom of God, it says and

his righteousness. Right?

So, these are two things we're seeking first.

I'm not just seeking the Kina. I'm also seeking his

righteousness. And what is his righteousness,

isn't it? It's a condition that is

acceptable and pleasing to him. So I'm not just seeking first

his kingdom. I'm also seeking first making

sure I'm putting myself in a position of being pleasing to

him. Meaning the meaning that I'm

doing all of the things he's laid out that we are supposed to

be doing, I'm leaving with that list right in Colossians, I'm

living by that list. I'm staying righteous.

I'm not just staying somewhere. I'm not just running off at the

mouth of not just in my flesh all the time.

I'm not just doing things but man, I'm staying righteous.

I'm seeking to be righteous, right?

And we also know just how fast you can get it right, right?

You make a mistake, bam. You can get it right, why?

That's seeking his righteousness.

That's being able to say, man. I made a mistake here, but I

want to get it right and get back where I'm supposed to be.

I'm seeking his righteousness. I'm Desiring to never make a

mistake, but ultimately, I do. Quick to get it right, right

because we can make a heart change that fast and we can be

right there. I love the way the passion is

translation reads. This one, Matthew 6:33.

Matthew 6:33

The passion translation says, so above all consistently seek

God's kingdom and his righteousness.

Then all these less important things will be given to you

abundantly. I like the way this does is

because obviously Matthew 6:33 and says in all these things we

Matthew 6:33

add and I love the way they say, all these less important things

because ultimately there's nothing as important as our

purpose but God is still willing to give you the things you

desire. he just say, man, seek me seek my righteousness and

then all these less important things, what you're going to

eat, what you're gonna drink, what you're gonna wear, let are

all less important than your purpose will be given to you and

abundant Alright, if you're seeking me for seeking my

kingdom, if you're staying righteous, all these less

important things, I'm still going to give to you, but yet

called people seek the less important things.

Trying to get it in abundance on their own.

Right? We want to be chosen.

We want to seek first, the kingdom of God, because we're

called to chosen, right? We're going to move out of just

called status in a chosen status, right?

Just like Pastor said and said, oh man, I'm not settling outside

of his promise, anchor. If a church is a church of

chosen people and give a church, is gonna get to the next level.

Why? Because all of us are going to

rise up to the elect and be chosen of God.

Right, so we gotta we gotta rise up to that to that place, you

know, Pastor Kenneth Hagin said, in order in order to be the best

you can be you must train. Which means there's gonna be

some work involved. There's gonna be things we have

to do. And like I said, it's amazing to

me sometime how much people are willing to put in work and

effort for random things but then when it comes to spiritual

life, we don't You know, we love to spend time at the gym.

We have no problem putting in all this work and effort into

building up our body some way. But it when it comes to doing

some extra Bible reading where we tap out, You my kids got a

science fair project. I'm gonna put, I'm gonna make

sure my kids science. Fair project is the best one

ever. And I mean, I'm there I'm

dedicating, we're checking everything out, we're getting it

done. But ultimately, it's like, man

when it comes time to pray a little extra or to show up a

little early to be at prayer. Tapping out.

Right? We have to understand if we're

going to grow spiritually, we're gonna have to train to grow

spiritually. And if I have a hard time,

praying, 10 minutes, and the spirit, then I should probably

start praying in five minutes in the spirit a lot.

And grow from called to Chosen and start training to be

something. There's a lot of people that

were used in the Bible and there's a lot of people that

could have been used. All right, David was chosen.

But guess what? David had Brothers.

But David did, what was necessary when he was out there

with the Sheep to put himself in a to become qualified, to be

chosen. A lot of other people could have

rescued besides just Moses and Aaron, but Moses and Aaron would

put in it. We're putting themselves in

positions to be chosen, right? There were multiple spies sent

out but Caleb and Josh said, I doesn't matter what it looks

like. God said, we can do it, chosen

mentality. Chosen mentality.

Say man, I'm going to do my don't care.

The circumstances. God said, we can do it.

He told us we can do it. We're going to get it because

that's the great thing about God.

God knows what you gonna go through in your life, right?

If God called you to something that needs given everything you

need, he's giving you everything you need to accomplish it.

And he knew what your life was going to be like, which means

the circumstances you've gone through.

He's prepared you to handle and if he's prepared us to handle,

Then the only thing we have to do is get in his word.

So that we can accept that thing.

Right. Second, Peter 111.

Second Peter 1, 1 1 through 11. Sorry, second Peter, 1, 1

through 11 says, Simon Peter has servant and Apostle of Jesus

Christ to those who through the righteousness, of God and

Savior. Jesus Christ had received a

faith as precious as ours, Grace and peace.

Be yours in abundance, through the knowledge of God and of

Jesus, our lord, his divine power has given us everything we

need for a Godly life. Through our knowledge of him who

called us by his own glory and goodness through these, he has

given us his very great and precious promises.

So that through them, you may participate in the divine

nature, having escaped the corruption in the world caused

by evil desires for this reason, make every effort to add to your

faith. Goodness and to goodness

knowledge and to knowledge self-control.

Roll and to self-control preservation.

Whoo, perseverance and perseverance godliness and to

Godliness Mutual affection into mutual affection.

Love for if you possess these qualities in increasing measure,

they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive

for. If you possess these qualities

in a in increasing measure, they will keep you from being

ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus

Christ. But whoever does not Have them

is near sighted and blind forgetting that they have been

cleansed from their past sins. Therefore my brothers and

sisters, make every effort to confirm your calling and

election. For if you do these things you

will never stumble. And you will receive a rich.

Welcome to the Eternal Kingdom of our Lord and Savior.

Jesus Christ. Man.

Road map. Right.

Laid out for us. God's, amen.

This is how you go from called to chosen.

You start living with these things.

You start living with the desire for faith in goodness and

knowledge, and self control, and perseverance and godliness and

mutual affection, and love. Then you will not be

ineffective, you will not be unproductive, right?

You're not going to find yourself busy and effective.

If you're doing your purpose and passion busy and uneffective

comes from me, filling my time with things outside of my

purpose. Right, that feeling of being

super tired, all the time being busy all the time.

Comes for me, filling my life with things that aren't in my

purpose. It comes with me trying to

desire a life God never intended for me to have, right?

Because once I settle into my calling, And then I start

building myself up with all of the things to be the elect man,

you're going to run and it's going to be easy to run.

Right? And you're not going to be able

to see yourself doing anything else but run.

Why? Because once you settle inside

yourself your passion and purpose, you're gonna do

whatever it takes to accomplish it.

Right? And that's how we go from called

to chosen, Pastor Marcus Right? That's how we move from call to

chosen. We set ourselves apart from what

everyone else is doing. Because if I only do what

everyone else did I only have what everyone else has.

If I only do the bare minimum, I'm only ever going to receive

the bare minimum. But once I start putting in the

effort for the extra man, I can start receiving the extra.

I can start rising to new things, and don't don't think

that new levels. Don't bring new

responsibilities, but with every new level and every new

responsibility comes a new call to achieve it.

Comes the ability to obtain it. Right?

So, I want to encourage you today, man.

I you can move. If you feel like man, I'm just

living the life of a called person.

You can move from called to chosen.

But it's not, it's not the it's not the way for many.

Because many are called few are chosen.

Now, there's a lot of people in the world, so if all of us were

chosen that would be considered few.

Right. So just know like I said.

Anchor Faith Church can be a church of chosen.

We can all say, man. I'm not gonna just obtained for

bare minimum, I'm going to attain to The Chosen, saddest

the elite, the elect, which means I'm going to put.

In the time, I'm going to put in the effort.

I'm gonna do what's necessary? I'm gonna do what's required to

go to the next level. I'm gonna do what's required to

to obtain something more. That's great.

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