Oct. 9 (AM) The Champ Is Here Part 8

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have to share today. Again pastors I thank you for

the opportunity of sharing and again I don't take it lightly.

And it is important that in the things, given for the

opportunity, God does the lot of the work you're going to do

through the opportunity. Amen.

Amen. So like you can have a seat and

we going to develop this. This topic here today, The champ

is here, we've been talking about it being on a championship

run. Every once a championship run,

You got to put it in your mouth Championship run.

Say greatest of all time, sometimes it begins by just

associating yourself with certain words.

Sometimes you just got to associate yourself with the

greatest just by saying it. And there are times where you

look in the mirror and if you're asked, is just speak that it

becomes difficult because everything in you says, no,

you're a liar. No.

I know where you've been. I know what you've done,

greatness of, who greatness of what, where you come from, to be

able to say that. Then you get religious, do you

have to be humble. Sometimes, the first step is

just associating yourself through what you say with the

things you desire to do, be courageous and put your name

next to greatest. I'm not just have it for

somebody else with a champ is here and part of what I wanted

to begin with, is it just some things to remind us of?

Number one is, stop waiting for someone to tell you who you are.

You stop waiting for someone to tell you who you are.

That's your job. It's your job to know who you

are. Not somebody else's.

If anything you reflect who you are to others and then as they

see, you being who you are, they begin to tell you who you are.

Let me stop waiting for someone to tell you who you are.

The Matthew chapter 7. It says this, why do you stare

Matthew 7 · chapter mention

from without at the very small particle?

That's in your brother's eye but do not become aware of a

consider, the beam of Timber that Your own eye.

Oh, how can you say to your brother?

Let me get the tiny particle out of your eye.

When there is the beam of Timber in your own eye, you hypocrite

first, get the beam of Timber out of your own eye, and then

you'll be able to see clearly stop waiting for someone to tell

you guys something in your eye. It's up to you to know you got

something in your eye. It's up to you to do the work

that they hold on. I gotta check myself first.

It's not for you to do that now for someone else, not wait for

someone else. To do that and stop making

excuses for who you are now. Yes stop making excuses for the

greatness of who you are but stop making excuses for the

other parts of who you are. The bad parts of who you are.

Distinct parts of who you are the undeveloped parts of who you

are. Stop making excuses for who you

are. Hebrews chapter 5 says this.

Hebrews 5 · chapter mention

concerning this, we have much to say It's hard to explain since

you become dull and your spiritual hearing and sluggish

even slothful in achieving spiritual Insight.

We even though, by this time, you ought to be teaching others.

Yeah, actually need someone to teach you over again.

So this reteaching is happened for the second and third time.

And teach you over again, the very first principles of God's

word, you have come to need milk, not solid food, sometimes,

you just got to know who you are and stop making excuses for it.

You should be a teacher, but you're not.

You should be Beyond The Pale Elementary things but you

haven't progressed there. You sluggish, you don't have

spiritual hearing. Sometimes you need to stop

making excuses for who you are and just say, I am dull and

sluggish of spiritual hearing. I should be teaching, but I'm

not, I'm back to milk when I should be on me.

He needs to stop making excuses for who you are.

Because in that place in what of honesty and vulnerability, God

begins to do a work. The Bible says this because God

says this. I wish you were either cold or

hot. You're the great thing about

being cold, they making excuses for who they are.

You know, the great thing about being hot, they're not making

excuses for who they are. Is the fork in the middle of

trying to explain everything to everybody.

God can take someone who's cold is not making excuses and use

that commitment to authenticity and honesty and and transform it

to something significant. He just needs to stop making

excuses for who you are. First Corinthians 11 says this.

Let a man thoroughly examine himself or herself and only when

he has done so shitty. Eat that.

Bread of the drink of the cup for, If We searchingly, examined

ourselves, we should not be judged.

Again, the show job to figure out who you are your job to take

a look at. Look at who you are.

Stop making excuses you assert, you examine your own self

thoroughly. You search your own self?

Honestly, that's your responsibility.

If he going to be on the championship run, this is

vitally necessary in order to do this.

It's some of the bravest work. You do some of the most

courageous work, you do some of the most honest work you're ever

do. Some of the most rewarding work

you ever do. It's time to grow up.

And I actually I phrased it differently on the slide, it's

time grow up, not it's time to grow up.

Its time grow up. It's time to grow up.

It doesn't say it's time be perfect, it doesn't say it's

time. It won't be difficult.

You didn't say it's time. You be like me versus you.

Just be you It's that it's time. Grow up.

You gotta have a conviction and a made-up mind and a consistency

in order to mature and grow up. Its time grow up, say It's Time

grow up and you speak that to you.

First and foremost, don't you understand?

There's some of the key to the growth around.

You depends on the growth in you when you decide to grow up.

Then Yes, two rounds, you begins to grow up, stop waiting on

others to grow up for you to grow up and stop making excuses

for your not growing up. And growing up as a function of

where you need to be not a function of where you are.

You can be mature, you can have experienced a lot of things in

life and then the faith. But sometimes you still got to

grow up. I came to this church, been a

lot of years in the face. Different years of experience.

I could have easily said, hey I'm not used to doing it that

way. Hey, I'm older and that kind of

thing. And we all is pivoting, all

this, that kind of stuff. Why I grew up.

That's called flaky. Let's go make up your mind.

But in this time, I had to decide to grow up.

No matter how old you are, no matter where you are, you going

to have to make a decision to grow up, it's time to grow up,

grow up out of your excuses. Grow up out of your reasonings,

grow up out of every justification, you have for

being stuck. It's time to grow up.

First Corinthians 13 says this, when I was a child, I talked

like a child. I thought like a child, I

reasoned like a child. Now that I've become a man or

mature. I am done, I am done I am done

with childish ways and I've put them aside Nothing, the putting

them aside as essential because that means is I'm not let them

get in my way anymore. I'm not going to let them be

accessible to me anymore. I am done and I'm putting them

off to the side and out of my way because I'm finished, they

won't be in my sight. They won't be in my path.

It's time to grow up, it's time grow up.

Now, this is not a message of getting on you.

This is a message of encouraging you.

You need people in your life that are going to tell you that

you stank. There's a story about Derek

Jeter, saw a documentary, he even playing for against number

Derek. Jeter baseball player.

Get the Yankee of Yankees people call them.

He had a Hall of Fame career up to certain point outstanding

player and they find it was a general manager that came down

to Derek says derrickman, you need to work on some throws and

some accuracy, bro. Derek like what you talking

about. Derek Manion defense is not

where it needs to be what man, come on man.

Ain't nobody saying my defense is not where it needs to be.

He says Derek no one wants to tell you because you're Derek

Jeter. but we're looking at Replacements for you because of

your lack of Defense, Derek Derek said so you mean people

have been thinking like this for a long time?

Yes. Derek The next that year he

transformed his defense and grew up and we took it to another

level. The general manager said this

how unfortunate are we that we denied him the ability to be

excellent by not being honest with him, I'm not being honest

with him and saying, Derek, you got to grow up.

The defense is childish grow up. Never had to put a title on

this. Here's the real Focus.

Champions Scout themselves. Everyone say Champions Scout

themselves? It's vitally important that as a

champion you Scout yourself. It's vitally important that you

do that. And if anything, you may need to

Scott yourself even more than anybody else, you Scout.

Question is this, for example, what does it mean?

Scott yourself? We'll get into a little bit of

detail in that little bit later, but it means to examine.

Where are you? How you perform it?

What's going on with you? Joshua 1 says this, keep this

book of the law always on your lips meditated on on a day and

night so that you may be careful to do everything written in it.

Scout yourself. How you doing with the word?

Are you meditate in the word day and night?

Are you really? Are you not?

This ain't gonna get on what it's saying is God's given us

the keys to be effective if we just operate the keys, right?

But somebody got to be bold enough to challenge you and say,

it says, meditate on the work day and night, are you doing it?

It don't say every other day, or every other night.

Where's the word life? That can't be Scout themselves.

They don't get down on themselves.

They Scout themselves. They don't beat themselves up.

They just Out themselves, they just give honest, evaluation of

where they are so they can grow. James 3 says this out of the

same mouth comes forth, blessing and cursing these things.

My brother ought not to be so there's a fountain, stand forth,

simultaneously from the same opening fresh water.

And bitter water has your word, has your speaking life, what's

coming out your mouth? What you're really saying, how

are you really talking? Not only the words coming out,

but the words in your head too many too many too many too many.

What voices in my hair? Trying to tell me what to do.

Sometimes you gotta watch the voices in your head as well.

The words that come out of your mouth.

What's your word life? Like, what are you talking

lifelike? Right?

You gotta be honest, where are you?

Champions always challenged themselves in those areas.

When things start going wrong, or they're not performing at the

level, they begin to examine. Let me Scout myself.

Let me check my fundamentals. How's my word?

How's my speaky? Because they understand

execution on the fundamentals is the key to consistent success

and development over time. First curtain rings first She is

13 says this love bears up in under anything and everything

that comes is every ready to believe the best of every

person. It's hopes are fadeless under

all circumstances and it indoors everything.

How's your love life? How's your love walk?

Champion Scout themselves. How's my word?

How's my speaking? How's my love walk.

You got to examine that you got to be honest with yourself

about, where you really are with that.

Are you the fakeness under all circumstances?

Are you always believing the best of every person including

yourself? How can you be?

The believe, the best about me when you spend days on end, not

believing the best about you believe in the worst about you.

Are you believing the best about every person?

You know, the great thing about believing the best about every

person, it doesn't mean that your spit that you're ignorant

of people. It does mean believing the best

means that Redemption is always available.

Grace can always change people's hearts believe in the best is

not ignoring where people are. Like I said earlier, but it's

believing that with the grace of God, it can change and it isn't

have to Forever to change because Grace can change things

in a moment. God can be worth a nation in a

day. He can do a work in a moment.

What scouting scouting is the process of looking at the

details of you apologize. Got a spelling their details of

your opponent to gain an advantage in strategy,

execution, in mindset Scout is the process of looking at the

details of your opponent, the details.

You got to look at the details. You got to be willing to look at

the details of where you are. Scouting, involves a deep in of

every level of the team, the entire organization in order to

gain or tell you the tendencies that were predict future

Behavior, You gotta Scout the front office.

You gotta Scout the janitors. You gotta Scout to concession

people. You gotta Scout everybody.

Why are you scouting the concession people?

Well, the concession people are given such a great experience

that people want to be there longer and they're energized by

it. That's going to create Havoc for

you. You try to play this other team

if the concessions are just trash then you know folk don't

not gonna be there, the energy level going to be low which

means what as I'm Petey make, is that team.

I'm going to have Advantage because the crowd don't want to

be there. you got asked out every level, Or what's happening

your opponents are scouting. You looking for familiar

spirits, poor responses, and uncheck flesh.

Your Pony Scout you they already doing the work that you need to

be doing is scouting yourselves as a champion and opponents

motivated. Right?

Opponent, not impressed by you, they're not gonna believe your

own hype, they're not gonna believe the delusions.

You sell yourself that you're better than you are or deeper

than you are more, a more rooted than you.

Are they not going to believe buy into all of that Acts. 19

says this. But one evil spirit retorted

Jesus. I know and Paul I know.

But who are you? I know that my Scout them.

I know when they show up, I know.

It's like when they own this thing.

I know that Paul is likened unto, Jesus.

I know they come from this thing playing tree or come from the

same school or program of the same coaching tree.

Damn, I know. But I've been scouting you, and

you ain't none of them who you think you are.

That's kind of what he's saying. It's not saying, I don't know

who you are. It's like, bro.

I really you gonna come out here and try to front like you,

Jesus, and Paul broke. Are you?

I know who you are a scout. You on regular a scout.

You in church, I Scout you out of church, a scout you and your

dark time your quiet time. Your private time.

Your car time. Give me your eating time.

I step out you even in your head.

How does any scratching your head?

He watches for the little murmurings of your mouth of

insufficiency and Brokenness and self-doubt.

Come out. These Scouts you, buy your

house, cash in your head. What you spend time listening

to? If you listening to sad songs,

he telling him in my head, I'm sad.

He's got you even in your head by what you expressing in.

Your require personal places look for says this.

And when Devil. It ended every complete cycle of

Temptation he left and they talking about Jesus until a more

opportune to opportunist. Favorable time he's scouting for

opportunity, he's scouting for Ability but also opportunity

when's a good time to get you. If I know you always respond

worse after rejection, almost, and rejection your way.

Now, I got you in rejection mode.

Now, most now I'm a strike the enemy Scouting.

For, when you vote, you need to know that you can eat the Scout.

Those kind of things. You got to know when you're

vulnerable, you got to know when you susceptible to different

things, you got to know what triggers you to have a good

game. You know why you guys know what

triggers you to really great things where, you know, when

when someone says man, you did a really good job Asheville

conference. The conference of God that's

dangerous because You got a trigger to someone can pull.

And can manipulate. Right.

You gotta know what makes you feel good and ask yourself.

Why does that make me feel good? It shouldn't make me feel that.

Good Champions Scout themselves. Blue 14 says, for which of you

wishing to build a farm. Does not first sit down and

calculate the cost whether your sufficient means to finish it.

That's called Scout yourself. Do I really have what it takes

to have the face for this again? What does that mean?

Some people are afraid of that because why they've identified

themselves with failure and to see that they have some progress

to be made triggers in them that they'll never make it versus

assessing. What needs to be done?

Is the first step of walking in the fullness of what I can do.

I can't change what? I don't know, I can't fix what?

I don't know, is broke. I can't build what?

I don't know, it's strong. You gotta sit down.

Ask out yourself. What do I really have?

We're really is my love walk. God wants to take me to this

place. We get these prophetic words,

glorious and great and movie man.

Where am I? Really how rooted am I really in

this church? And who am I going to tell the

truth to about that? Am I gonna walk around

pretending like I'm rooted when I'm not?

I was looking to get out even while I'm in knowing in my heart

I get a better offer and I'm gone.

You got asked out that you got to figure that out.

Champion Scout themselves. Good scouting, makes you be

honest with yourself. Most folk afraid to be honest

with themselves, they want to have a delusion that there are

better than they think they are. And as long as they're not

tested, they happy with it. And then when they get tested

this, what happens, right? This will happen.

Then you get tested and then you find out you're not as good as

you are. No, the first thing you do.

Why didn't you tell me? You begin to look and blame

somebody else? Why didn't you tell me?

I wasn't that good. Why did you let me or the blame

Comes This Way. Why aren't you helping me up

faster? You told me, you got it.

You just got a report told me that you had us, what you told,

be Spots, Don't let you have it. This guy, he makes, you be

honest with yourself. Romans 12 says this, for by

Grace given to me, I warned everyone among you not to

estimate and think of it yourself more highly than you

ought, but the rate your ability was sober judgment.

And according to the degree of Faith, apportioned by God to you

in the wrong with staying only got five minute preaching Faith.

That's all I got. I can do five minutes actually.

I only do three. I'm stretching the five.

Don't get me six. I'm done at five.

Don't give me. Six.

There's nothing wrong with saying that there's nothing

wrong with identifying with where you are with that.

There's nothing wrong with saying I'm tired of this church

thing. I've been doing it for so long.

All I mean it is for the Reps and for the, for the, the

retirement benefits. I'm in it to save face before.

Don't think I'm a heathen. And I really just kind of

walking this thing through, really?

I'm not going to be doing much. I was going to be passing

through and I'm not mature enough to fake the funk.

So everybody else thinks I'm a good Christian and I'm a good

Deeply rooted person but I know the truth.

Ben, you gotta Scout yourself. You gotta be honest with

yourself in terms of where you are.

Mark 9 man said this. A father of a boy who was being.

Tormented by evil spirit, he cried with tears to the Lord

said, Lord, I believe you, but help my weakness of faith.

It was all right, to be honest. Lord, I believe, but help my

weakness. The faith, don't these two

things can exist in the same place, okay?

You can have belief or non-belief past has been talking

about this, right? You're born again, your spirit,

but your flesh is trying to pull you a different way.

You can have things two things exist in the same place.

Question. Is which dog you gonna feed the

dog? You feed, the dog is gonna win

the dog. You love is the one that's gonna

win, right? Those two things can exist in

the same place. Now, how you know that where's

the Bible that you don't Jesus, still got his scars.

She's walking around heaven with scars.

It total Victory but bearing the marks of being being punished

and torment and death in hell, you can have two things exist in

the same place and you got to be honest with that.

I'm this. But I'm this to I'm here, but

I'm here, too. And sometimes we don't want to

admit the ones that we don't like, because we think it's

going to undermine our ability to say the ones that we do like,

Good scouting, breaks tendencies.

Good. Scouting is honest.

Accountability. Good.

Scouting is honest. Accountability Joshua chapter 1

Joshua 1 · chapter mention

says this? Moses my servant is dead.

So now arise go over this. Jordan kind of Bill.

He's saying sometimes man, Moses is dead.

It is what it is. You got a bad attitude?

It is what it is. Too often you're getting the

funk. It is what it is.

Your inability to address these issues in your life, is

crippling your progress. It is what it is accountability

is essential. If you're going to scout

yourself, Folk don't want to scout themselves because they

don't want accountability. The got to be willing to scout

yourself. You're gonna be on a

championship run. When you're on a championship

run you got victories and you get Tendencies, he stopped

progressing in a certain way, you gotta learn, how to change

that up. Because if you can trace you,

the enemy can trace you. That's why God gives various

gifts and various things and does things in Myriad ways.

Now, I got so much more. That I want to get to.

I won't be able to get to it this service but I'm going to

finish this up at 5:30. I encourage you to come not only

to down into the next sermon 5:30 as well God builds things

throughout the time during the day, I want to give you one

story very quickly. when you want story, very quickly on

this, Tom Brady greatest football player of all time,

some argue greatest quarterback, at least he was a six run, fifth

round, draft choice. He didn't even start for his

college team, he was on, he was in walking through the hallways

of the New England Patriots and he walked past the quarterback

room and saw that. It's quarterback, coach had left

his scouting report on the table, And so he went and

decided to take a look at it. What would a coach is saying?

The coach said this, some ability mediocre arm Talent.

Don't know if he's going to stick around.

Don't know if he really has it. That was the making of Tom Brady

to really know what people thought about it.

When I know what I'm doing now. I know what I need to grow.

What I need to change, how I need to get there.

A good scouting reports. Counting yourself is the

beginning of greatness. It's not the beginning of your

destruction and the more Fearless you are in your

scouting report of yourself, the quicker, you are to being exit,

accessing that greatness that God has in you, in for you.

So, today, I'm going to encourage you with this.

Decide and make up your mind. He'll Scout yourself and be

honest about it. Ask the Holy Spirit to help you.

Holy Spirit, help me Scout myself.

You know me better than me. Show me the real truth.

Help me Scout myself so I can grow.

Help me Scout myself in ways that I need to change and be

transformed. You come on up.

My prayer is this father it is. They wanted him.

Jump up. Mess.

Disney wanted him. Disney wanted him like yeah but

it is if you really understand it.

Father, I pray for all of us today that we have the grace, to

be honest, the face ourselves and the face you because when we

face you, we find you and ourselves, God, give us the

grace and the courage, to be honest about where we are, where

we are lukewarm. We're we're cold, where we don't

care where we're close, this walking away, be be awesome, to

be honest about where we're strong.

And we're, we're capable of where we are able and where we

can build God, let us be All sighs.

Holy Spirit. Shake the sharpen our hearts.

Because if you want to be on the championship run, we've got to

know who we are. Even better than the enemy knows

we are. Thank you for the hard things.

We're going to see. And thank you for the grace to

get through them, and thank you for the people around us.

The / help us progress to maturity even as we encounter

them because we understand Lord. We don't have to grow alone, but

we do have to be willing individually to be honest about

where we are and accept where we are.

Even as we grow, we thank you for that law.

And I think everybody in this sound of my voice.

Because the grace and the power of God to manifest, it to bring

this prayer to pass and their lives and our lives in Jesus

name. Amen.

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