It's About Time // God Chose You (Part 1) // Charles Metcalf

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Good morning, Good morning friends. I hope you're doing well.

You can grab a seat, Grab a seat. What a

great sunday to be a church.

I mean, there's so many amazing things about our church.

I tell you what I'm about getting sick tired of

this ridiculousness that's happening between Pastor Michael and Rowe. They

writing all these songs up on stage. That last one,

I said, what is happening?

I looked at six people on my row, I said,

what song is this? Like, we don't know. I think

it's happening right now. So some people you just see, it's.

Like it's just like they just walk up and it's

just like that is crazy that you are that good

at that.

But I love our church so much, I really do.

It's such a beautiful place to be. And before we

jump into the word today, I just want to take

a moment and just tell you, because many of y'all know.

Pastor Michael as Pastor Michael up on.

This stage, who is doing an example and convicting you

and encouraging you and punching you and the kidney and

lifting you up at the same time. I know him

as that as well, but I also get.

The privilege to know him off this platform as.

A friend, as a father, as one of the greatest

encouragers in my life.

And you just need to know, our pastor is very rare.

It's not rare to just be a pastor, but it's

rare to be a pastor. And the thing I told him,

I said, you did not have to share everything God

did in your life with me.

You didn't have to.

You didn't have to share your influence, you didn't have

to share your relationships.

You didn't have to do. But you've done that in abundance.

And I just want to take a moment and say

to you, wherever you are, that there you are.

Hello, and Pastor that hello, You're so beautiful.

Give it up for nat the Queen of all queens

the best.

I love you a lot, I love you. Thank you.

Both of you means so much to me and my family,

and I've said it to you so many times. But

the greatest thing about both of you is you can

look at someone's life and see the fruit of it.

And there's hundreds of thousands of people around the world,

but I know Charles, metcalf Abbey, Metcalf, r Low, Luna, Jade,

and Blue are all a result of who you are.

And someone said one time, they were like, man, I'm

looking for somebody at my church to do what you

do for Pastor Michael. And it's just so cool to

see all the stuff that happens. And I said, my

life and influence and ministry and all those things are

only as big as Pastor Michael has created space for

and I get to, by the grace of God, see

a lot of big things happen in my life. And

I want you to know we have pastors who aren't

just there in the big moments, but that they're in

the low moment. This book actually opens with the story

of two in the morning when I'm going through it,

and they showed up at my house with all four

of those kids and prayed over me. And so can

we take a moment just think our pastors.

I love you, thank you, I love you very very much.

The our point stand as well. Also before I preach.

I have to thank my wife. I wouldn't have been

able to write this book without my wife. She yes,

you give it for Abby Rose. I love you genuinely.

She heard all the revisions, the ideas, the two am

sitting up next to her, and so I want you

to know how much I love you and I'm so

grateful just all of this. I'll get emotional talk about it,

but beautiful thing about wives and the power of a

woman in your life. And this Pastor Michael said it

about the words you speak.

But she saw all this when I didn't. I remember

being nineteen.

Years old meeting each other and she was like, you're

gonna do this and this.

You're gonna be an author, be a preacher. You're gonna

blah blah blah blah.

And I was like, girl, I'm just trying to wake

up in the morning and not die.

Like and you just you spoke so much life. So

I love you so much. I love you so much.

All right, y'all ready for the word today. Let's get

into it. Thank your keyboard player. I will not be

needing you anymore. Okay, Sorry, I'm the worst that like.

It's just let's just get into it. Okay, we're gonna

start a brand new series today. Oh a cool thing

that's happening. Sorry, real quick for you jumping this Friday

at the Barnes.

And Noble at seventy first Memorials. This is just toasted people.

If you want to drive, you can, but we're gonna

be having like a book party signing. So this Friday,

seven pm Barnes and Noble, come hang out.

Okay, now we can get to the word. Sorry about that.

Uh, okay, We're starting a brand new series today called

God Chose Me.

Somebody say God Chose Me? Always about to get ridiculous

up in here.

Okay, this series, I gotta say this about the series.

Gonna be in this series for the next including today.

It'll be a total of seven weeks. I need you

to know this is not the book. So if you like, okay,

I'm gonna read two chapters and you're gonna come tell

me about those two chapters.

No, no, them chapters is in the book.

You're gonna have to read the book if you want

to know what it's say. This is all the stuff

that was in me that didn't make the cut for

the book or God gave it to me. After the

book had already been sent off. So this is all

new stuff. So don't be shown up like, oh I

know what he about to say. No you ain't, because

this is all the fresh stuff, the good stories, the

wild stuff.

They wouldn't let me say in the book. I like

bet I'll show up at my church and say it.

So over the next couple weeks, we're about to be

in this series. And I know for a fact that

if you have been living in a season of your

life where you've been tired of hiding, you've been tired

of the hurt you've been in, and you have something

has to change.

I know this is the series for you.

This is gonna give you the confidence to be who

you've known you've always been. It's going to give you

the confidence to stop fighting those lame and useless fights

with insecurity.

Because here's what I've realized.

Many of us spend the energy God gave you to

take ground in your life fighting insecurity and.

A lack of confidence.

Half the energy that God put on the inside of

you spend looking in the mirror, worry about how you look,

and wondering what your teammate's doing, and wondering what they

think about you. We are done fighting fights that are

a waste of time. We've got ground to take, We've

got people to share the gospel with.

So I'm just letting you know.

If you want to stay the same and you like

just where you are, okay, but if you're tired of

some if you sick or tired of being sick and

tired is the way I really want to say it,

This is the series for you. One of the most

beautiful things that's happened as I've written this book, and

Pastor Michael said it, but this book was born out

of a sermon I preached in twenty twenty three. And

one of the things that has happened is as the

message of the book has started to come out and

people have heard about it. I love our church because

our church is so encouraging, like we are the most

like anytime you do anything, our staff is the same way.

We and b staff meeting and we we'd wins every

single week and somebody will be like, hey, how y'all doing.

They're like okay, It's like okay, they haven't even said anything,

and they're like, so you know, the Bible says like ooh,

it's like you don't even know what was gonna happen,

but it's a spirit of encouragement. But one thing that's

happened to me is as I I'd be out and

around in the city, people walk up to be like, hey,

past draws, God chose you, and I'd be like, oh,

thank you, brother, God bless you.

And there was one time a genuate, I was riding

my bike.

I'd be cycling around in Tulsa and I'll just be

riding out just hear.

Somebody scream out the window gotcha.

I'm like just throwing my hands up, like ah. And

I was talking to somebody And this has happened multiple times.

And I was traveling this past week and someone put

their hand on their shoulder and they got really serious

and kind of got emotional, and I was like, oh.

JESU, what's happening. And they looked at me these.

Ambassador Charles, I wants you to know that God really

did choose you, and it's just it's not a mistake,

it's not a fluke, and just you are. And they

start going in and I can tell you know this

was a moment really for them.

But can I be honest you with I was thinking.

I was thinking, baby, I know God chose you. Maybe

I feel good. I don't know. I didn't well.

The sentiment I got to and this is gonna help

our sermon today is I didn't write this book so

that you would know God chose me. That's not what

this is about. I wrote this book so you would

know God chose you, that he gave you a call

on your life, that he puts something on the inside

of you, that your family needs, that the world needs.

And as long as you keep.

Backing up and comparing yourself and showing up halfway, we

are missing out on you. So the title of this series,

I told the team I was gonna do this.

The title of the.

Series is no longer God Chose Me. That lasted the

whole six seconds. The title of the series is God

chose you. Somebody look at your neighbor and say, God

chose you.

I'm telling you you need to know this.

God chose you father to be the parent of those kids.

Nobody else is showing up. I know you feel like

you don't have what it takes. I know you didn't

have the example. I know you feel insecure, but God

chose you to raise those kids.

God chose you to be in this city.

I know it feels like it was happenstance and it's

an accident and you just happen to land here and

you're really just here for school until something else comes along. No, no, no,

God chose you to be in this city at this time.

God chose you to have those relationships. He chose you

to start that business. He chose you to be exactly

where you are right now, and over the next six

weeks we're about to walk through and I promise you

at the end of this you're gonna stand up with

the confidence that nobody can mess with and a spirit

that says, I know why I'm here, I know what

I'm called to do, and the devil better watch out.

He messed up letting you wake up and get to

church this morning.

That's all I'm gonna say.

All Right, we're gonna jump in today's sermon.

I need you.

If you have your Bibles, turn into the Book of Galatians.

The Book of Galatians is.

Where we're gonna be, and Galatians chapter number four, I'm

gonna read a nice little chunk of scripture, but we're

gonna focus in on one verse, but we're.

Gonna go ahead.

Galatians chapter four, starting in verse number one. Shout out

to the team, How dope is the yellow stool in

the chair?

Anyways? That was just for me? Okay.

Galatians four, starting in verse one, it says is children

who are underage are no better off than slaves, even

though everything their parents own will someday be theirs. This

is because children are placed in the care of guardians

and teachers until the time their parents have set This

is how it was with us. We were like children,

ruled by the powers of this world.

But when the.

Time was right, God sent his son, and a woman

gave birth to him. His son obeyed the law so

he could set us free of the law. We became

God's children. Now that we are as children, God has

sent his spirit of his son into our hearts, and

his spirit tells us that God is our father. You

are no longer slaves. You are God's children. Is the

good part, It says this, and you will be given

what he has promised. I'm gonna focus on one verse.

I want to read it one more time. But when

the time was right, the title of my sermon. If

you're taking notes, write it down. It's about time. It's

about time. It's about time you realize what God put

on the inside of you. It's about time you stand

up and stop playing like he didn't give you. Let

me calm down, Okay, Jesus help us to realize.

It's about time. And everybody said, amen, Amen, Amen, amen, Okay.

Here's the thing about time, kiddos, and they are learning

to tell time.

My son Arlo is six and he is learning.

To tell time. And so who asked me all the time?

Hey Dad, what time does this say? And he's got

a little washing so we'll be going back and forth.

The other day, he was like.

How many minutes till we get home? And I was like,

like three minutes. He's like, how long is three minutes?

And I was like, well, a minute of sixty second?

So you got to count to sixty like three times.

He's like all right, one, two, three.

And so then we were like around the corner of

our househo I intentionally started driving slower so I know

i'd be right, I'm like, and we pulled in the neighborhood.

I was like, bam, So he told you three minutes.

But what I've learned about time is Your relationship with

time is all about your engagement and your expectation.

Let me explain it to you this way.

I got some friends that love Marvel movies, and they

will go sit in a movie for I think the

last movie Marvel movie was eighteen hours.

Is what it was. I think the last one. But

you will sit in a movie.

And my wife went to go see Mission Impossibles out

our Time Cruise.

I don't know how you look the same, but you do.

But we sit in this movie and it's like, what's

the run time? It's like three hours and forty nine minutes,

like Jesus.

But it's interesting.

You can sit and watch a movie for three hours.

But then you ever.

Get like a heat up meal, Like, come on, I

grew up on banquet meals, y'all.

Don't ever have that salisberry steak with the corn and

the mashed potatoes.

Come on, don't get it.

I'm wearing leather now, but I was not back then. Okay,

But you put that thing in and you look on

the back and it says three minutes, and you put

it in your beat, and then you just sitting there

and stare and that three minutes might as well be

six days.

It feel like, why is it taking so long. It's

because many of.

Us our relationship with time depending on our expectation and

how engaged we feel and what we thought was gonna happen.

We get unsettled with time. We don't know how to

deal with time.

And the truth is, before we go in talking about

the importance of God choosing you and the call he

has on your life, I have to talk to you

about time because one of the most potential, biggest disappointments

of your life when you realize you're chosen by God,

is sitting around waiting and wondering.

When is it gonna happen? When is it gonna happen?

He said, he chose me, He gave me the idea.

But I don't see nothing in my life that looks

like what he said.

He said he chose me to be a parent.

But right now, when I look at my situation, it

feels different. It feels disappointing, it feels unsettling. We have

to talk about time. Here's the first thing you need

to know. I want you to write this down if

you're taking notes when it comes to the timing of God.

Is God chose you at the right time, and right

now is the right time.

God chose you at the right time.

It was not an accident accident, it was not happenstance.

It's not a delayed time. Right now is the right time.

He's chosen you for this, this moment, this hour, this day,

this second.

God has chosen every part of you.

It's not the part of you that doesn't have the weakness.

It's not the part of you that gets somewhere else.

He's chosen you right now, how you are, who you are,

He's chosen you right now. Let me help you understand

time in this way. I wrote this statement out and

I'm gonna walk you through it, so just bear with me.

But here's how time works with God. God stood outside

of time. Then he created time, and he placed you

in time so at the right time you would be

on time for his appointed time. Let me say it

to you again. God was standing outside of time. He's

not bound by time.

He doesn't stand on your time.

He was standing outside of time and he looked at

time and he said, what is missing? And he created it.

Then he placed you in time so at the right time,

not too early, not too late, you would be on time.

Because he has an appointed time.

Some of you haven't picked it up. Let me help you.

God was standing outside of time, and then he created time,

and he placed Abraham in time so at the right

time he would have a son named Isaac, so he

would be on time at the top of that mountain

about to sacrifice him, and the Ram would walk.

Out at just the right time.

Because God always has an appointed time. God was standing

outside of time, and then he created time and he

placed David in time, so at the right time, a

prophet Samuel would walk up asking for a son to annoint,

and David would be on time at the right time

because God had an appointed time for him to be

the King of Israel.

God's always on time. Don't get it twisted.

Just because you feel like he's late does not mean

he's late. He stands outside of time and he created time,

and then at the right time he placed Esther in

time for an appointed time. He was standing outside of

time and then he created time and he placed Paul

in time so at the right time, he'd be on

a path and would get knocked off his donkey and

Jesus would say, hey, I have needed you because at

the right time he was on time because he had

an appointed time. He knew he called Paul while he

was being called Saul and killing Christians. He knew there

was an appointed time. And let me tell you, friend,

just because you feel delayed and discouraged, do not get

a twisted God has an appointed time for your life.

Every detail, every pain you've went through, the disappointment you experience,

the things you didn't see coming.

God is always on time.

When he looked at your life, he was standing outside

of time, and he created time. Then he placed you

in time because he knew there would be a right time.

Even though it feels disappointing, even though it feels like

you don't know what happened, there was a right time,

so you would be on time.

Because He's got an appointed time. There's a scripture in Habaccic.

Team, I know I didn't give you this scripture, but

that's the way the Bible works. Sometimes it works all

to let me find it. Let me find it, let

me read you the scripture in Habaccic too. Because this

thing is gangster. It says this. The vision is for

a future time. It describes the end, and it will

be fulfilled. If it seems slow, wait patiently for it

will sure.

Take place and it will not be delayed.

It might seem slow right now, but trust me, friend,

it is on the way.

It might seem slow.

Right now, it's taking a while to get the business

off the ground, but let me tell you something.

It's on the way.

It may seem shaky right now because the marriage isn't

working out, but let me tell you something, friend, it's

on the way.

I serve and on time. God He's always on time.

And no matter where you find yourself, elf.

In his timeline. And let me tell you that the truth.

It's his timeline, it's not yours. I hate to break

it to you. I know we love plans. I know

we got ideas. I know there's things that we expected

and it didn't happen and we were disappointed. But let's

be clear about it. It was your expectation, not his

promise that disappointed you. We can acknowledge that that's important,

we need to talk about it, but let's be clear.

He didn't say that you thought of it, held him

to it. He didn't do it. Now you're mad at him,

that's okay.

I'm not mad at you. Doesn't do it all the time.

And he has an appointed time, and he knows every

single detail of your life, how it needs to come together,

and who you need to meet, and where you need

to live, and how.

It needs to go. There's a divine timing of God.

Many of us spend most of our time frustrated with

his time.

Well, God, if you chose me, how come it's not happening?

Come this happening? How come I don't feel this way?

And how can let me tell you something? Let me

just talk about this any part of my sermon I

understand as a formally completely controlled by my emotions.

Individual.

Formally, I say, because I got them jokers under lock.

We had to bring them in. They tried to take

us out.

I said, hey, brother, you're gonna have to calm down.

You can't. You can't even let you drive the car

for too long.

We done hit six mailboxes and we almost ran off

the road. Brother, my emotions did not pass the driver's

test of my life. And some of y'all have been

letting that thing drive your emotions, your attitude, your opinions. Okay,

but just because you don't feel like something does not mean.

It's not true. God has the right.

Time, and he chose you at exactly the right time.

You see. You need to understand this about the scripture.

The scriptures are all all about God choosing people at.

The right time.

And here's the beautiful thing about the right time. The

right time is not always your time. Let's start off

with Abraham. I mean, if I'm choosing somebody to be

the father of nations, let me tell you who I'm

not choosing and what time I'm not choosing. Your mouth, brother, Abraham, father.

Abraham was old then a muck. When God came and

found him, it didn't seem like the right time to say,

walk out from your tent and look into the stars.

As many stars as you see are the descendants you

will have. It didn't seem like the right time. But

because God was standing outside of time and placed him

in time, he knew it was always the right time.

Some of you feel like this is the most disappointing

thing that's happened to many believers. You feel like you

ran out of time. You feel like you made too

many bad choices.

Is you feel like you missed your moment.

And on the other side of that coin, some of

you feel like you don't have enough time. It's like, well,

I just need I just need more time, and I

need more things, and I need more if there was

just more hours in the day. I was having a

conversation with a friend this past week and we were

talking about timing and some people say, you know, I

just need more time.

It's like, let's be clear about time.

You got just as much time in the day as Beyonce.

So you know, we all making decisions with our life.

So you got just as.

Much time as anybody doing anything you look up to.

So we all given the same time. But it's how

you relate to that time. It's how you use that time.

God was standing outside of time. He created time, placed

you in time so at the right time, you'd be

on time for his appointed time. Now there's something when

it comes to the life of Jesus. There is a

prophetic word that is given.

Through the prophet Isaiah.

The prophet is Isaiah is before the time of God,

and he starts to speak of this king that will come.

And I want to read you the scripture out of Isaiah.

It says this.

In Isaiah, it says, out of the stump of David,

a family will grow up, a new branch fruit from

the old root, and the spirit of the Lord will

rest on him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the

spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and.

The fear of the Lord. He will delight in obeying

the Lord.

He will not judge by appearance, nor make decision based

on heresy. This whole chapter goes on to be one

of the most formative prophetic words about.

The soon coming Savior.

Fast forward to Luke chapter two, and the scripture says,

when it came time for Mary to have the baby,

you want to know how much time is between Isaiah

and the right time?

Seven hundred years. I don't know about you.

If I don't know if you've ever received a prophetic word,

and you be like, all right, so tomorrow.

I think this is a real life say. I was

talking about for about this other day. I got a.

Prophetic word back in twenty nineteen, and it was like, man,

you actually it's crazy. One of the things I said

is you need to start writing, because you're gonna write well.

When I tell you, I made so many dramatic decisions

in that moment. I was like, all right, I need

like eight people to help me do this, and we

got I got all my friends in on stuff, and

we just now getting.

To the time. I was like, wow, I definitely missed

the timing on that one.

But many times when you're waiting for that timing, you feel.

Like it's about time.

It's about time God comes through on what he said.

It's about time the marriage works out. I'm running out

of time. I feel like he's missed his time. But

here's what you need to understand about God. While we

are many times sitting around frustrated thinking it's about time,

you need to understand when it comes to Jesus and

his very life, it was always about time. I'm gonna

I'm gonna walk you through this. It's about time with God.

It's not about the time and when you thought it was,

but it's about his time.

Let me explain it to you this way.

There's a lot of things that had to happen for

Jesus to come into this world. The reason you need

to understand the importance. There are parts of your Bible

that you skip over where it's got the list of

all the names and so and so, be God so

and so, and be.

God so and so.

What that is is actually testimony of the faithfulness of

God and his tying mean because Jesus couldn't come at

any time. He had to come at the right time.

He had to be there, which said he had to

be the seed of Abraham, he had to be of

the tribe of Judah, he had to be the line

of David. He had to be at the right time

in Bethlehem. Because even with the life of Jesus, God

stood outside of time and it created time, and he

brought Jesus at the right time.

Think of the.

Birth of Jesus. It wasn't an accidental time. What happens

if Caesar Augustus at the time doesn't call a census.

You want to know what happens five.

Hundred and seven hundred years what the prophecy don't happen?

Because he couldn't be born anywhere. He had to be

born in Bethlehem. And the only way Jesus gets to

Bethlahelm is if God calls Caesar Augustus, stands outside of time,

places him in time at the right time. He calls

a census so that the savior of the world can

fulfill the prophecy right.

On time for his appointed time.

There's a story in the scripture of a father that

comes up to Jesus and he says, my daughter is dying,

and he says, okay, I'm coming, just wait a second,

and on the way the father is rudely interrupted by

a woman who dragged her way through the ground and

touched the harm him of his garment. And it seems

frustrating until you realize that the same day the Bible

says it says this the girl was twelve years old,

and at the end of mark five it puts in parentheses,

and the woman suffered for twelve years. Let me tell you,

God was standing outside of time and then he created time.

And in one hospital room there's a little girl being

born and the parents.

Are full of excitement.

And down the other hallway there's a woman getting a

diagnosis and she doesn't understand why it's happening. That's because

God was standing outside of time and he created time,

and then he placed both of them in time. Because

the only reason Jesus is passing by that woman's house

is because there was a girl who was born at

the right time. Some of y'all gonna catch this on Thursday,

but at the right time, Mary, her brother dies Lazarus,

and she goes to Jesus and she says, Jesus, can

you please save our brother? And he says, yeah, yeah,

I'll be there, and he waits four days. He doesn't

wait four days on accident. He waits four days because

at the culture of the time, at four days was

when it was absolutely done and scientifically your body starts

to decompose at four days.

He waited four days because they.

Knew him as a healer, they knew him as a provider,

but they did not know him as a resurrector. And

he wanted to make sure, Baby, I'm always on time,

even if it feels late, even if it feels dead.

Do not doubt the timing of God. He's always on time.

And I know it feels frustrating waiting. I know it

feels frustrating being delayed. But if you could see the

timing of your life. I was telling this the pastor,

some of the most crazy things and the most gratitude

and most powerful worship you will ever have in your

life is do you start to look at the timing

of your life.

Bishop Gary McIntosh.

And pastor that we started this church back in nineteen

ninety nine and one of the first buildings they ever had.

There's a few people in the room that will remember this.

There was a building on First Street downtown. There was

a school bus in the building. If I remembers, shout

out to black and yellow, black and yellow, black and yellow, black, and.

This is where they start. They eventually moved to fifteen nineteen.

Fast forward years later, there's a young couple starting a

church and they're looking for a building and they walk

up to this club on First Street and they walk

in and they say, Hey, we're looking for a venue

to start this church, and this will be the perfect venue.

And the owner of the building says, you know, that'd

be perfect because this place used to be a church.

And this couple, they created a whole branding goud of

how they were going to launch the church, and the

tagline was this the Church's back Baby. You don't know

how I know this story because that was me.

Me and my wife were starting.

A church and we walked into First Street and we said, oh,

this used to be a church.

It's about the time.

I had no idea I was going to be here.

February first, when Pastor Michael became the pastor. You know

what was beautifully happening in the timing of God. Me

and my wife were meeting at a Super Bowl party,

and Pastor Will was sitting in court trying to decide

if he was going to jail or not. But the

timing of God had worked all things together because he

knew he stood outside of time.

I'm about to act a fool.

He stood outside of time, and then he created time,

and he placed me and Will and Bishop and passed

through Mike in time.

And he said, there's a right time for them to.

Be on time, because I've got an appointed time. God's

got you. It's on the way. Do not get it twisted.

But it's about time. It's about his plan. It's about

who you need to meet. It's about who you need

to become. The Bible says that he is not being

slow as some of you would think. But he's giving

you time. Some of y'all ain't happen yet because you

need time. You need time to figure out who you

really were. You needed time to stop dating them, you

needed time to get over that, you needed time to

let that go.

You needed time.

And don't get frustrated at it, because with God.

You never lose time.

Some of y'all feel like you lost time that you

were in that marriage, in that relationship, and you lost

so oh, do not get it twisted. He was right

on time. He knew what he had to make in you.

He knew what he was doing when he placed you

in that family. He knew what he was doing when

he sent you to that school and you didn't get

the degree.

He knew what he was doing.

He was standing outside of time looking at the timeline

of your life, and he looked at it and said, Okay,

I'm gonna if they make this decision over here, and

then they meet that person and they feel like they

missed it, and then they got pregnant and they didn't

know they were gonna get pregnant, and it feels like

an accident now.

But I don't do accidents.

And I know you're surprised, and I know you're wondering

what you're gonna do, and I know you don't feel

like But what I know is they don't know down

here that child is.

Gonna be raised.

And they don't know that down here, I'm gonna break

something off their family, and they don't know down here

I'm gonna raise them up.

And they don't know down.

Here, So I'm gonna come back over here because I'm

standing outside of time and I'm looking at their life,

and I'm saying, baby, keep going. I've given you everything

you need to raise that kid. God chose you to

raise that kid. Yeah, don't send them to that school.

Yeah they can't go over to that house. Okay, send

them to that college. Okay, they came home. Don't make

them feel bad. Just lift them up because I have

an appointed time. There is no accident with God. There

is no mistake with God. Just because you are surprised

does not mean he is surprised. He's standing outside of

the time looking at your life, and he knows the details.

He knows where you're at. He knows.

And here's the beautiful thing you can say when you

realize this, You say this, It had to happen.

I may not have wanted it.

I wouldn't want to go through it again, and I

wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.

But it had to happen.

I tell you right now, I stand here right now

knowing what God did in me, and I didn't want

to go I wouldn't want to go through the depression.

I went through back in twenty twenty, and I wouldn't

want to have to write those letters wondering if I

was gonna lend but live. But let me tell you

right now, pastor mind, it had to happen because what

God put on the inside of me was the thing

I didn't know would become.

The thing that would help so many people. And as long.

As you spend time discounting and dismissing, you lose the

beauty of the story he's writing in your life. There's

something he's connecting. There's dots you don't see, there's threat,

there's people that you lost that I understand. And we

grieve because it's pain, and we grieve because we were

never supposed to experience. And at the same time, he

knows I know it's painful, I know it's broken. I

know you feel like you don't know what you're gonna

do without him. But also I placed the legacy on

the inside of you, and this is gonna show you

that there's.

More in you than you think.

And it's gonna show you that you are strong even

if you don't have the people you thought you needed.

It's gonna show you some.

Of y'all don't know how strong you are, but the

things God has taken you through, it's been about his time.

So the question is what do you do in the meantime.

If he's got his Because I be feeling it's great,

it's a great preaching point, but it sometimes it feel like.

Okay, okay, okay, he's got the time at the right time.

We get a.

Doctor Seuss, you got you. It was really powerful the

way you did that. But what do I do in

the meantime? Because here's the truth, many of us we

either worry or we waste our time. So you can

get a word from God, you can get an encouragement

for God. You can finally accept that God chose you,

and then you spend the whole process worried.

About when it's gonna happen.

Okay, so I don't want to miss it, and I

don't want to and what am I gonna do?

And where's it be? And oh I'm too late, now

I'm too early. Okay, let me back up and let

me good.

And you got to bring peace? What do you do

in the meantime? I'm gonna give you three questions to

ask yourself, three words to think about when you are

trying to figure out what to do.

In the meantime.

The first question I would ask you is what are

you believing?

What do you believe? What do you believe about God?

This question is very important to ask yourself because if

you don't know what you believe about God, it'll shape

a lot of your frustration about.

His timing and his plan. Do you believe the.

Scripture when it says all things work together for the

good of those who love God and are called according

to His purposes? Because if you have the power to

believe that scripture, there's a level of peace and trust

and security you can have no matter what happens, no

matter what happens when you wake up, no matter what

the world's going through, no matter the unrest, no matter

you can understand. What I believe about God is that

He's faithful. So even though I don't see how it's

working out right now, even though this is frustrating, even

though I don't know what's happening, I trust because I

know what I believe. What do you believe about God?

The other question to ask you that what do you

believe about you? Because some of us have been chosen

by God.

But here's the tension.

God chose you, but at some point you're gonna have

to choose you.

I can't. I can't.

I can't even go into how important this is. But

at some point it doesn't matter if I chose you.

If I said, right now, hey, come up on a stage,

I'm gonna give a million dollars, I chose you. You

still somebody else said, hey, is this is this?

Is this crazy? Say Sunday? No, this aint.

If I chose you, you still have to stand up

and walk up here. And many of you, you know,

God places something in you. You know he's given you

a vision. You know he wants you to make some

steps and dedicate yourself to some things. But the truth is,

what you believe about yourself is you're not enough. You'll

never be enough, and so you don't choose you. Every

day God speaks, so you go speak to that person God.

What you believe about yourself is you don't hear from God.

The last time you heard from God, it wasn't right,

or it didn't happen, or you don't know how. And

so what happens is you slowly work yourself out of.

The time he already had. Now here's the beautiful grace.

Message of Jesus is you actually can't work yourself out

of the time.

I mean, he knows everything. So while you're sitting there like.

I don't know what I'm gonna do, I don' know

if I'm obey or disobey. He knows you're gonna disobey.

You don't worry about it. I know what you're gonna do.

You pray, and this is nice, But you're gonna do

the same thing you always do. You gonna get emotion,

You're gonna compare yourself. You're gonna try to get somewhere

early before you're supposed to be there, and so.

You're gonna circumvent the whole process I.

Have for you just to get there and realize you

don't have what you need to be where you are,

So then you gotta go back and start over.

He knows what he's doing.

But what do you believe about God? What do you

believe about yourself? What do you believe about what He's

placed on the.

Inside of you? What do you believe about your voice?

Some of you don't believe your voice is important, so

you don't speak up In sitting in the middle of

the problem, you have to answer. You have to answer,

not even send the time. But what you'll do is

you'll just sit there and be like, Okay, yeah, interesting, you.

Got anything to say? No, no, guys, No, I don't

want to. Hey listen, I'm just here so I don't

get fined. That's what you just be What do you believe?

Because in the timing of this thing, there's something that

God is creating.

And here's the question you have to ask.

You talk about what you believe because what you believe

it shapes the next thing. What you believe shapes who

you become. And in the meantime, you got to ask

yourself who am I becoming? Because we all want to

pray prayers about where we're gonna be. The truth is

who are you gonna be when you get there?

I told this to my wife.

There have been some moments that have happened in my

life where I'm standing in a moment and I'm just like,

this is wow, this is actually crazy, and I take

a moment just to register like this is wild.

And last Sunday it was one of those sundays.

I got to speak at elevation and I was like,

what is happening?

This is kind of crazy.

And I've spoken at their youth conferences, been in the room,

stepped on the stage. But I came around the corner

and Elevation Worship was singing Elevation songs.

And I looked up on.

That stage and looked around that room and passed Stevens

faces on the screen and he was just smiling.

And I was like, all right, brother, we're from Kentucky.

This is kind of crazy, yo, saying he trying to

act cool, keep it together.

But this is crazy. And I'm sitting in that moment

thinking how wild it was.

But what I told my wife after I got done,

I said, more proud than where I am.

It's pretty cool where I'm this is wild. I never

thought I'll get to speak at.

This place, but more proud than where I am. I'm

proud of who I am when I got here.

The truth is many of us.

If you don't realize the timing of God, this is

a moment He's intentionally trying to make you into who

you've always been.

This is the beauty and the grace of God. Let

me explain it to you this way.

When I stood at the altar with my wife ten

years ago and said, I do. I became a husband,

but how many of you know I had no idea

what it meant to be a husband. The last ten

years have been me becoming who I've always been.

It's the same way with you.

God has chosen you right now, and you feel like

you don't have the tools, and you feel like you

don't know.

What you're doing.

But the process of him choosing you, and the timing

of him choosing you is He's giving you space to become,

space to become the man of integrity that needs to

run that business. Because what good is the business if

you're gonna do the wrong thing when you get it?

What good is the marriage if you're gonna cheat anyway?

So He's given you this time.

See somebody like that hit you, They're like, ah, dang,

you gotta be honest. The truth is, if he answered

some of our prayers tomorrow.

We would not be who we need to be to

stay there longer.

Than a day.

So we ask ourselves in the meantime, we're praying God,

would you shape me, would you mold me, would you

change me? Would you take that comparison off of me?

Would you break this insecure? Would you have me stop

people pleasing God. I don't want to do it.

He's trying to make you into something. In the meantime,

what do you believe? Who are you becoming? The last

one is what are you breaking? I gotta tell you something.

In order for you to be, to believe and become

who God has chosen you to be, there's some stuff

you're gonna have to break. This past week, we had

a staff retreat here on the campus and Pastor Michael

was teaching through the story of Gideon.

And the story of Gideon, he.

Comes to this moment where God calls him a mighty

warrior and he steps out and he's about to go

step into battle and he's about to have one of

the greatest victories of all time. But before he goes

to war, God says, you gotta go back to your

father's idols and tear them down because you cannot go

build what I've called you to build until you break

some things off of your family that have always been

their friend. The reason God chose you is there's some

stuff that's been on your family. There's some stuff that's

been on the men in your family. There's a lack

of commitment that's been in your life, and God has

chosen you to break those things, to break the patterns,

to break the habits, to break the insecurities, to break

the comparison. He's chosen you. But if you want to

step into this timing, there's some stuff you're gonna have

to break. You're gonna have to stop doing the same

thing you've always done. You're gonna have to invite some people. Men,

let me talk to you for a moment. I know,

it's Father's Day and it's awesome, and we're kind of like, dang,

how come it's not as little as Mother's Day.

That's just how it be. I know, so sorry.

They gonna give us some bacon when we go outside.

I don't know what we got. We all like bacon

and chain saws apparently, but Father's Day, let's get some

chain saws.

And some hot rods. And it's like, dang, bruh.

We got mom a pedal laced vase from Italy and.

We're like, yeah, just get them bacon donuts. They'll all

be good. Okay, man, we up here. I'm in a

leather suit, sweating, like I don't like bacon.

Okay, But men, you gotta if you want to become

and believe some things.

There are some patterns you're going to have to break.

You're gonna have to break the.

Pattern with all your homies that y'all all pull up

at that person's house and play video games till three

in the morning.

So you go like, come on, man, would you go

against Minecraft?

I ain't got nothing against Minecraft, but it's taking.

All of your mind and energy off.

Of your wife. And your wife needs you right now.

So you gotta tell the homies, hey, dog, now gonna

be there on Minecraft Monday nights because I have marriage

Monday nights.

And when y'all gone and y'all live in.

Ya mama's basement, i still have a wife to take

care of and I've got kids to rape. So I

gotta break this pattern because I've got something to build.

Some of You have to break the pattern of waiting

on the approved of your family to do what you.

Know you're supposed to do.

I'm thinking about going to this school, and I'm thinking

about doing this thing, and I just want to make

sure my parents. I hope they are proud of everything,

and at the same time, they may not understand it,

they may not get it at this moment. And your

responsibility is not to make sure everybody heard from God

just like you did. Did you hear from God? Did

you hear from God? Okay, I just need confirmation.

I just what. You don't need confirmation, You need courage.

You need the boldness to do what he said to do.

You don't need to compare. You don't need more confirmation.

You need to pray, God give me the boldness to

do what you've asked me to do in the face

of disappointment, in the face of being insecure.

You gotta break something. Some of you need to break

the pattern.

I'm not committing all the way.

You commit halfway.

And the only problem is we don't know if you

didn't make it because you committed halfway, or you don't

have what it takes. So the enemy is able to

convince you you don't have what it takes, and that

is not true. You just didn't commit all the way

because you were so afraid of failing. You think, if

I commit all the way and I failed, then I

can say why I didn't give it everything I had,

and that's why I failed. And it's more fearful to

risk the fact. And maybe you've got some stuff to learn,

maybe you've got some stuff. Maybe your fosts try wasn't

good enough.

Now I know we in church will be like the

devil is a liar. He's giving me everything. Okay.

Yeah, And and you're gonna have to learn, You're gonna

have to grow, you're gonna have to fail, You're gonna

have to figure some things out.

But it all goes back to what do you believe?

Because your earthly father rejected.

You when you failed, you think God will reject you

when you fail. So you believe that, and so you

become someone who doesn't take risk because you're trying to

avoid losing love. Because when I take risk, I fail,

and when I fail, I lose love. So there's no

reason for me to break these patterns because these patterns

keep me safe.

That's all our patterns are.

There's just things we've developed as a kid to keep

us safe. And I'm not mad at everyone's need for safety.

It's psychologically true. We all need safety. The only question

and really the message of God chose me. It's not

an issue with your safety, it's not an issue with

your confidence. It's just the issue of where do you

get it from. I'm not mad at you wanted to

be safe. I'm not mad at you being frustrated about

the timing. I'm just questioning where do you go to

get your security about the timing.

Abraham was frustrated with the timing.

The only problem is when he had questions about the timing,

he went to his wife's servant to get security.

About the timing of God. So he said, Okay, I

know I'm supposed to have a kid. It hasn't happened yet.

Ooh, and then his wife gonna come to him and

say you can leave with my servant.

You had to know that.

Brother was like, girl, I know you planning. This is

not I am. You ain't gonna get me April Fools not.

But it was frustrating with the time. And all I

want to submit to you this morning in the first

week of this series, is instead of sitting around frustrated

thinking it's about time, what if you backed up.

And looked at your life and trusted.

I know I'm frustrated, I know I'm disappointed, but I

can trust it's about.

Time. It's about when he wants me to get there.

Because many of you have spent your whole life asking

if you were gonna get there. That's been your frustration,

that's been your disappointment, that's been your anger. Is if

God was gonna do it, if you'll be single your

whole life, if you're gonna get married, if God's gonna heal,

if he's gonna be faithful, and let me just change

your mind for a second today and submit to you.

It's not a question of if, but it's the matter

of when. And God has been standing outside of time

your whole life, and he created time. Here's the beautiful

thing about time. If you think about it, it's just

a testimony of his love.

He didn't create time for him. He don't need time.

He got time.

He created time for you so you could wake up

and know, okay, his mercies are new every morning.

He did that for you.

He created stood outside of time, created time and placed you,

placed you in that family, placed you at that school,

He placed you in that business, He placed you in

your daughter's life. He placed you in that church, He

placed you on that row, and he stood outside of time,

and he puts you in time because he knew there

would be a right time. Some of you have been

asking this whole sermon, Charles, when is the right time,

because I'm just where. Let me tell you, with God,

right now is always the right time, and the reaches

a point in your life. What I love about that

scripture and Lucas says, when it came time for Mary

to give.

Birth to Jesus, it reaches.

A point in your life where it's no longer preparation.

It's no longer about planning, it's no longer about the

prophetic word. There reaches a point where Mary had to

step up and say it's time to have this baby.

And there are some of you. You've been waiting on

the timing. You've been waiting on the plan, You've been

waiting on the preparation, thinking God, when is it gonna happen?

But the Bible says today is the day of salvation.

The Bible says, right now He's put something on the

inside of you.

And so I want to submit to you today that

God has chosen you at the right time and right

now is the right time. I know you wanted to

believe it before. I know some of you are thinking, dang,

I really could have used this in high school.

But that doesn't matter. Now it's behind you.

Right now is the right time to be confident. Right

now is the time to step up and be who

God's called.

Right now is the time.

Nobody about your head and close your eyes, nobody moving

around for the next five minutes. There are a couple

groups of people in this room. The first group of

people is you've been frustrated with time, frustrate with how

long it's taken, Frustrated with the time. You feel like

you missed, you missed out, whatever it is, but time

when you think about waiting on God, when you're thinking

about wondering what's happened. It's been frustrating. And maybe you

don't know how to wait, or maybe you just need

some faith while you wait, or maybe you need a

courage to step up in this right time. If time

at all has been an issue with you, I'm gonna

ask you right now, all over this room and everyone

watching online, take a moment. I just want you to

lift your hand, and we're gonna lift our hands. And

what we're saying is God, we surrender our timeline.

God.

Right now, I'll pray for every person with their hand lifted,

Lord God, and we're submitting our timeline to.

You, whatever time you want to do, whatever you have planned.

We will say yes.

If it's tomorrow, if it's an next day, God, we

say yes. But in the meantime, you will find us faithful.

Give us the courage to change what we believe, give

us the courage to become somebody we've never seen before,

and give us the courage to break some habits we

thought we couldn't ever break.

Every hand down. I still close there some of you

in this room. I said it already, but the Bible

says that today is the day of salvation.

And you need to know, no matter what you've went through,

no matter what's happened in your life, God was standing

outside of time, and for some of you, he saw

this time, He saw today, and he knew today would

be the day that you would surrender everything to him.

Some of you've been fighting, you've been wrestling, You've been

trying to do it by yourself, and let's be honest,

you've run out of energy and hope. You don't have

to put on a face for anybody in this room

or online.

You don't have to pretend for anybody.

The truth is you're tired, you're worn out, and you

don't have any answers. Let me tell you Jesus will

meet you right where you are, and you don't have

to change stuff about you.

You don't have to stop being being a bad person.

We are all bad people who met a.

Very good God.

But when you say yes to him, when you surrender

to him, when you say I don't have.

The answers, he meets you at that point.

And today, for some of you, this is the time

to give your life to Jesus. I'm going to count

to three, and on the count of three, everybody watching

online and everybody under the sound of my voice.

In this room, you're gonna lift your hand boldly.

And what you're saying when you lift your hand is

this is the time I give up control.

Of my life.

I don't want to be my own boss. I don't

want to make my own decisions. I need God, I

need a savior. I need a hero to do something

I can't do. So I want you to lift your

hand boldly on the count of three. Don't worry about anything,

don't worry about anybody else.

You're giving your life to Jesus today in the room

and online. One he loves you. Two. Today is that day. Three.

Lift your hand all over this room, all over this room.

Oh, come on, can we sell people giving their life

to Jesus. I'm so proud of you, so proud of you,

so proud of you, so proud of you.

But everybody bow their heads and closed eyes.

We're gonna say a prayer together as a family. Everybody say,

Dear God, I admit I've made mistakes, Save me, change me,

transform me.

I'm yours in Jesus name, I pray.

Everybody said, can we celebrate everybody who just gave their

life to Jesus.

Oh, come on, y'all, hey listen. If you just made that.

Decision, this is super, super important. We would love to

know about it. We just want to help you on

this journey of following Jesus. If you just made the

choice to follow Jesus, text the word save to the

number that comes up on the screen.

We want to send you some resources. We have some

gifts we.

Want to give you to say congratulations on giving your

life to Christ. Now, the whole time I was preaching

this message, there are some of you that you felt

like you missed.

Your time to get baptized. Some of you, if you

are going to.

Become somebody different and you're gonna believe something different, and

you're gonna break some things off of your life.

So now is the time.

For you to go public with your faith. You've been

feeling it. You feel like, I don't know, we got

stuff for you. The team's prepared for you. This is

that moment you're like, really, this is that moment?

Yes, right now is the time. Here's what I'll do.

I'm gonna invite the worship team to come back up.

We're gonna worship.

Together, and if you wanna get baptized today, not tomorrow,

and not the next day, you don't wanna wait for

another time. We have our team who are in these

amazing blue baptism shirts. They're getting in the pool. But

our team is gonna put up a big sign that

says prayer on the back wall.

I think they'll throw that in just a second.

Walk straight under that sign where it says prayer, and

the team can get you all the resources and they

gonna get you right in line to come up here

and get baptized. I'm telling you, some of you, you've

been waiting for a moment in time to take a

new step. This is that moment. Don't wait on anything else.

Some of y'all, you ain't gonna get baptized, but you're

gonna stay and encourage and worship together as people take

this step up faith. I'm gonna text say a prayer

over us as we close out our service.

God, I thank you that you're always on time.

God, I pray right now even for everyone who is

making the decision to.

Get baptized today.

Lord Jesus, that you are working out the timing of

their life, and there would be a courage and a

boldness and a beauty that shows up in this moment

as their life is transform God, we love you so much.

To the name of Jesus.

We pray, and everybody said, would you stand up on

your feet.

We're about to celebrate people going public with their faith.

We love you so so much. Come on, let's do it.

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