Imperfection doesn't equal rejection

Thank you that the blood of Jesus is always always

on my side. And Father, I thank you now this morning,

Father God, for this opportunity that you have granted me

to stand before your people. Father, I thank you that

that that that you allows me the opportunity to witness

about you. It's not about me, it's about you, and

I thank you for it in Jesus' name.

Amen. Amen. Amen.

Now I want to give honor to my pastor and

his wife, and my my pastor co pastor and my wife.

Uh and and until you all for allow me to

stand before you this morning.

Amen.

Uh.

Yesterday we was on the Pride line with some guys

and I was telling them about how I being under my.

Pastor fall this time.

And when I first met him, he told me his

words were, stay humble, I'm Pastor christ More. In about

three weeks, how you doing, brother Jay? Stay humble? About

a year old?

How you doing, Brother Jay? Stay humble? Two years? Then?

How you doing, brother Jay? Stay humble? Young man, God

gonna use you. One day and I said that to

say this, when I come in, I come in it rough.

I had a little and had no understanding. I had

a little word. I ain't have no understanding. So in

other words, what I'm telling y'all is I had some surface.

I didn't have no doubt, and then learning stay humble

allows me to stay planning, to I get some depth.

Till I understand the word.

No matter what you're going through, stay humble, No matter

what's not going your way, stay humble. Watch watch this here,

because God gonna use you one day, no matter who

break away from you. You stay humble for almost two years.

This is the message that he told me, How you doing,

brother Jay? Stay home with young man? And he gone

on by the business. When I see him the next time,

how you doing, brother Jay? Stay home with young man?

He knew I had some.

Work. I didn't have no doubt, I didn't have no depth.

So anyway, watch this.

I stand before you today as a person who has learned.

Who he is.

Is. Now the enemy sh'all call him. He still comes

to kill, still and destroyed. H I pay him no

mind because I have come to understand in my growth

and in the word, is that whatever happens to me,

God has to allow it. If the enemy is coming,

God is up to something. Are you in tune with

the up to something? Are you in tune with the

enemy if we stay, if you allow the enemy to

keep your to take your focus, then you will miss

what God doing. And watch this here. Unconsciously you give

the enemy praise because you study talking about what he

do instead of talking about what God has already done,

which I gave in you the victied victory of whatever

he is doing. When you talk about how the enemy

is Satan comedy this this. The more you speak his name,

the more you allow him to have power over your situation.

Watch this, he said, stay home with young man.

Since a whole bunch of times when me and my

wife has disagreements, arguments, screaming fights, whatever you want to

call him, and I would always be the first to react.

But now I'm learning and my humbleness to see the

other side of the coin. We still have our moments,

but they're not intense because I have learned. Dudes, you

ain't always got to be right. Okay, watch thisself, y'all.

That ain't my message. We're finna get to the message

in a minute. But I'm but but, but but I'm saying,

I'm setting the stage for my message for the day. Man,

let me, I'm not no ordinary. I'm extraordinary because I

got to have extra grace, because even though I'm growing,

I ain't finished growing yet.

Even though I have come a long way, I still

got yet for the goal. So every now and then.

I just might sit watch this, y'all in the wrong seat.

But just because I sit in the wrong seat don't

mean I'm not who God say I am. Just because

I don't walk the way you want me you think

all the walk, that don't mean I'm not who God

say I am.

Y'all, let me get to the message. Let me get

to the messic that's.

Not even the message that but I'm gonna tell you

all the tidele the message. Though imperfection doesn't equal rejection.

In perfectionion doesn't mean a doesn't equal rejection. Because watch

the shore, God called you, I didn't, so I don't

make no din what I think about you. You might

not look right to me because I'm the path, I'm

the I'm the elder, I'm the bishop, and you might

not look like gret. You might not be doing it

the way I thank you all to do it. But

it ain't It don't even matter to me, It matters

to God. So this is what I wanna tell y'all

then I'm gonna. I'm gonna get into this message. I

want you all to stop letting people tell who God

called you to be. Okay, we're gonna, we're gonna, We're

gonna start this message. Uh.

I want to first go to if you don't mind

go with me two h Romans eight.

And thirty, or for familiar passions, for those who understand,

for those who are learning their valuble. Y'all, y'all got

to help me appreciate that don't don't don't and don't don't.

I might start running, man, because I'm so happy. I'm

so happy watch this that the change hall broken from me.

Because I want you to understand.

I believe one of the greatest addictions that we have

to get rid of its people.

See the Bible don't list people.

As a sin, but I think one of our greatest

tragedies in life feels we hold on too long.

And let go too soon.

Sometime we have to understand people, because sometimes the very

people that you think are giving you life will be

sucking you dry. It was too late, So sometime we

have to cut the umbilical cord. Okay, y'all, we're gonna

get to this. Let me let me read this. Let

me let me get to this. It says, when Roman's

eight and thirty moreover, whom he predestined them he also called,

and whom he might come baster a little fast.

Now here we go, all right, all right, I won't

you to understand predestined, justified, and glorified, y'all. I just

got this a while ago. I had a whole different

thing to go by. I had a whole different list

to go y'all made them change it up. But I won't.

I want you to understand this when he says them

that I predestined. I want you to understand.

Your position in the kingdom because watch this, watch this,

see everybody that that see Sometimes God in the Bible,

God has given us names of some of the patriots

that he used and then he was it's there's some

people in the Bible to guard you in significant ways

that you never peril. They names mentioned. You never hear

what was the senior soldier's name. But Gee says, it's

no greater faith on the face of the earth that

I of this God. If you speak so highly of him,

there's no greater faith. Then why you won't say, man,

ain't nobody got faith like Elroy.

You ain't even get a man no name?

You just told us watch this, ain't none of our

faith like his? Okay, who is hell? Jesus call this man?

You talking about.

Him?

So I want you to understand that sometimes God would

place you in the mission to use you.

For somebody else. The woman at the whale, what's going

to the well to get some water? If you read

the story.

Of Jesus and the Disciples with trying, but Jesus say

out no, no, no, y'all go that way. I'm gonna go

this way. I meet y'all later. Why because a purpose

was over there, somebody.

With a purpose. So when he encountered a woman at

the world, well, what's her name? That's ourn? No woman

at the well? Was it Elizabeth? Was it? Uh uh

uh yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. Lenny made a sister, that's Air.

The other man that the sin Syrian soldier, I said,

his sister Lily. Maybe, Okay, So watch this.

It was so significant for Jesus and God for to

record this for us. But yet and still he don't

get no name. So another word, what I'm telling you

is stop looking for uh uh uh what they call

it recognition? Stop looking for popularity. Stop looking to be

known all the time. Some of the most important people

in the Bible took this very day. We still don't

know they name. But oh, I ain't gonna do it

unless they do this, unless they give me stop looking

for recognition.

Watch this shore.

Cut the umbilical call from people, because people will drain

you dry. Stop depending on people to recognize who you wills.

Stop depending on people to lift you up. Stop depending

on people to a go along with whatever you say.

Stop depending on people. Because these people in the.

Bible's self significant to us.

That they don't even have a name in perfection does

an equal rejection. They still in there, They still in

the Bible. They's some nobody's but there in the Bible.

God thought of them enough to allow us to know

their story so we can be.

Like them.

No, watch this, I'm finna give you some names in

the Bible that you know, and they still have flowed.

Flowers.

But purpose, Oh, y'all got to get this. I want

you to get this in your spirit.

Flow for purpose. I might not have it all right,

but I still got a purpose.

I might not equal without what you think I'll equal

without too, But I still got a purpose.

Why watch this?

Because he said whom he knew, he predestined, so.

He knew me for you did nine nine and nine nine?

Say what you wanta say? You just not getting to

meet me.

He been knowing me, So you can say what you

wanta say about me. That don't mean it coincide with

what he said about me. Oh man, y'all better get this.

I'm gonna tell you. I'm finna. I'm finna. I'm gonna

tell you right now. Watch this here, Watch this here,

because I want you to understand even though you are

not like them, You don't participate like they, You don't

understand it like some of them.

And perfection doesn't equal rejection.

To God, only to people that you are attached to

on the other.

End of the umbilical card.

Because when you don't do it like they say, you

do it like they say you are to do it,

when you don't act like they say you are to act. Oh,

he ain't say, she ain't say. He ain't gonna know

be nothing. She ain't gonna get that, you understand. Gonna

try them people them people them people talking them, people

talking them. People talk pet of the people, and Jesus say,

get behind me, saying now, don't don't call your sister, Satan.

Don don't call your sister safety. Don't call your sister,

say people trying to stop him from doing what we're

supposed to be doing. Y'all ain't gonna talk back to me.

Jesus had a mission. People try to stop it. Jesus say,

get behind me, Satan, but don't. Don't.

Don't call your cousin Satan. That ain't that ain't right? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,

talk to say. Yeah, y'all gotta change up.

People would change up, and what you think you see,

oh oh man. That's the reason it's sort important for

you to know that he foreknew you. He predestined you.

You Wow, what is predestined, determined in advance by divine

will or faith.

So that means watch this. It might seem strange to you.

That you go through what you go through, but it

don't God, because in advanced he wrote you down. It

might look like you on the bottom, but he wrote

you down. I watched this before you ever, God Hero.

If he wrote you down, that's the reason he can't

show you the beginning because he wrote you down before

you got her, and if he show you the beginning,

you'll quit. And my word should not return to me.

Vaut y'all ain't gonna talk to me. He pretestined you.

So that means whatever you go through, you can handle it.

Stop quitting, Stop whining, Stop talking about what Satan doing,

Stop talking about how pivot the devil he is in advance. Okay,

there we'll go, he say, predestinate, justified, declared, or made

righteous in the sight of God.

I'm on run now, yeah, because y'all know what a

lot of people don't see me like God do. But

I don't care.

You ain't gone. So watch this. Watch this, y'all. I

come to understand. Stay home with young man. God gonna

use you. Stay home with young man.

Now.

You don't mind if I if I say, right, okay,

watch this here, he said, because it's a lot of

people I ain't gonna like the way God elevates you.

Stay humble, You stay humble. Everybody don't like you. Quit

trying to make everybody like you. Quit trying to like everybody.

Everybody ain't meant to like you.

Ah, it's some people.

Come in, brother, Tim, come in. Brother Tim.

It's some people turn around that way meant to push you.

They ain't need to like you, They meant to push you.

So one coach you don't like me, I ain't gonna stop.

So what coach you talk about? I'm gonna keep on going.

So what couse you don't like the way I look

at it, don't matter to me. Some people ain't meant

to like you, ain't meant to push you to your purpose?

All right, WHOA, thank you Jesus.

All right, okay, justified those whom he justified, He glorified. Ah,

you know what glorified mean to you? You know what

glorified mean to you.

See he say them, he call he for a news.

If you go up to the next verse, he say

he for new. So that means I knew you before

I form you, and I wrote you in advance, and

I justified you because I knew you were gonna have

some haters.

My bag. I take that back. Oh oh, let me

clean it up. Some people who aren't gonna like you.

I about that to me.

Uh, but listen, listen, he justified, sanctified. Now you glorified.

I don't care much dirt you throw on me. I

don't care how you try to bury me in the

mud of your acquisations. I don't care how you talk

about me and slender my name with your with your

acknowledge well how how you said, huh you with with

your acknowledgements of me? Yeah, acquisation that that you that's coming? Yeah, yeah,

that that cause. Y'all do that too. Y'all do that.

Y'all do that too. Y'all do that too, y'all make

compulsations against me. Oh, he ain't saying look at him.

He hanging out with them people over there. Hold them

people over there, watch yourself.

Hold on, hold on, hold on.

Probably the reason I'm hanging out with them people over there.

Call them people real about what they doing?

You faking?

Whoa y'all ain't gonna talk back to me? See them

people know what they doing? You are You're faking about.

What you're doing. Watch this.

Maybe them people need Jesus. Yeah, and the people yet

the people you with, all y'all healthy, So all y'all

can do.

Let's talk about the word.

You can't plant the word because all y'all got the word.

You can't make a disciple over here because all all

y'all already disciples.

Everybody, we're outside.

The man said, enter into the holders, to the to

the what he wanted to enter it all the way

into what no, no, no no, the song you sung, the

hold of the holess. Okay, watch this here, see you

in the hole the holders. These people are still on

the outside of the tabernacle.

They ain't ent her. And two they can't enter in

two unless y'all know the woman. I told y'all about this,

the woman at the whale.

Y'all watch this, watch it because of y'all to I

want you to research that woman, because what the Bible

say is even though she wasn't significant of God to

tell us her name, she went back and got a

whole community.

Say she became one of the first evangelists ever in

the Bible, and you still don't know her.

In Perfection doesn't equal And just because you got flaws,

you still got a purpose. Now, he says, justified, I'm

in glorified. You know what glorified is. That's conforming you

until the image.

Of his song.

Justification. I'm going to form you into the image ways, sir.

That's the reason I preach yes to you, That's the

reason I justified you and now I have to glorify you.

Because it's all for a purpose. No matter what you

go through.

Watch this, y'all, Jesus thank you, no matter what you

go through downhill.

In advance, I wrote your name in advance. I justified

you in advance.

I glorified you. So it don't make no difference what

it looked like down here. All the heartache, set back, pain, disappointment,

all the turls you cry, don't even worry because I

in advance call you, and my word can't come back

to me.

Fought, so you gonna make it.

I watched this.

Here, and then I'm gonna tell you something that's gonna

blow your mind. I rolled you.

I for knew you, and I wrote your name down

in advance. I justified you. I glorified you. But don't

get a twisted I also know how many times you

were gonna backslide too. I know everything about you. I

know how many times you were gonna cuss. When you

said I ain't gonna cust no more, you tightened that

to them people.

I know you're gonna cuss again next week.

Imperfection doesn't equal rejections. God knew everything you was gonna

do that. God gets everything that he wrote down about you,

and he's still having erased your name because he says,

I'm gonna write your name down. First, I'm gonna justify you,

I'm gonna glorify you. Then I'm gonna send some grace

to sustain you.

All.

This took place before the land was slang, before Jesus

came to off of grace for you.

He wrote you down cause I know how many time

you gonna backslide. Don't worry about it. I know how

many time you gonna go out on your wife. And

that ain't washed his here. That ain't a soft word

that destroys Ralph. I know how many times you gonna

cheat on you. Ain't come town, y'all, ain't gonna talk

about to me. I know how many.

Times you gonna lie and say you ain't got it

when you do have and I told you to give it,

but I got you.

So what we have to do is state of course.

No matter what it looked like, I wish I had

something I can break, and I can show y'all underd

thousand pieces, you still look hold of God. Show you

a house with no walls, no windows, but it still

looks beautiful to God. Watch this here, it's only ugly

to the natural eye. And the spirit is just what

I want it to be, because now I can build

it like I wanted it to be.

That's the reason.

When they got ready to build something for God, God

gave them the Pacifics because He's seen it in his spirit,

and he didn't want them to build out.

Of their eyes, out of their natural eye. Now I

want you to build this out of your spirit in you.

This is what I see, and I don't see things

with the natural eye. So watch this. I'm gonna give

you some people names in the Bible that we know. Ah,

but y'all, they will they have problems. They have a problem.

Watch this. First, we're gonna.

Talk about Moses, the father faith, I mean Abraham father faith.

They had a problem with line. Oh, y'all to be like,

y'all don't believe that well.

And Genesis the Book of Genesis, in chapter twenty uh uh,

it says Abraham says, when he lied to the kings

about Sarah being his wife, he said, that's my sister,

in fear of the Kings would kill him and take

his wife.

It's father faith.

Abraham leaves Cannon and flee to Egypt because of the famine,

because he didn't believe God would provide for him, so

he left.

Doubt it. No, Oh, of y'all, this is to Father Faith.

See she she know me because she's shaking that these stories.

But you had to steal. You had to steal.

We all stand in citat here to see the Abraham.

Imperfection doesn't equal rejection. Oh, y'all got y'all got to

get that in y'all spirit, y'all got to get this.

Y'all got to get this even though, because see, God

know how many times you gonna mess up. But in advance,

I wrote your name down. I justified you. I glorified

you even though you have some.

Pe gootes. You have some mess ups. You have them.

I can't take it no more moments you have some

I'm done with this. You have some Lord, I will

make you more money, I tell hustling than I am

working on this job. So I'm going back to what

I was doing. I tried this, I tried going to church.

I tried stop sleeping with other people. I stopped all this.

He still wrote your name down, and he knew you

were a funicator.

Watched this here. I wrote your name down for you

were born, and I know you wasn't gonna stop funicating

you got fifty. But I knew you were gonna say, Lord,

I'll serve you when you got twenty seven. A y'all

see the contrary from twenty seven to fifty. You came

to the Lord of twenty seven. You just stopped funicating

you got fifty. I just I just want I just

want to encourage you. I want to encourage you or something.

Watch this here, God, God's pencil don't come with an eraser.

Y'all out of game. Glory right there, y'all out again

from praise. Right there, his pencil don't come with itrac the.

Watch.

He don't change unlike me and you, he don't change

his mind. Oh, y'all ought to be happy to see

I'm happy. I'm happy about that.

See. When God comes to you.

In the form of trouble, in the form of sadness,

in the form of happiness, or whatever the case may be,

you got to embrace what it is. Because God has

already predestined you, justified you, glorified you to win.

We focus too much on losing.

John the Baptist Matthew eleven eleven Luke to seven twenty.

Jesus says, there is no.

Greater one born of men than John the Baptist, Yet

he the least in the kingdom. There is no one

greater born of woman than John the Baptist. See we

know him. They gave him a name. John the Baptist

has some flaws because when John the Baptists got in trouble,

he did, like us, what what John the Baptists in

the Watson hero, Now.

This is the man who recognized Jesus for anybody else

recognized him. Behold the themb of God come to take

the selves away from earth.

And then when he got tru he said, man, y'all

go see that really the Messiah?

Is that really him? Or was out lying all that time? Behold?

Is that really him?

But Jesus says, there's no one born up a woman

greater than this dude right here, SMI homie.

Whoa John the Baptist? And then he said, man, is

that really you? You knew me for anybody else?

So in other word, watching say, I'm ana replicance your

story in God's story. John the Baptist of Jesus store.

God knew you for anybody else. John the Baptis knew

Jesus before anybody else. So why would you doubt it?

Why wout you doubt? He said, I predestined you. Why

would you doubt that I justified you quit, letting them

to encourage you to quit. You might not get there

at the same time they get there, but you will

get there. Just because they driving a Cadillac and you

riding a bicycle. The destination is the same. And then

I'm driving the Cadillac. They can go faster than you,

but you on the bicycle, I can be a more

in you. Stay home on, young man, Stay home on,

young man. All gonna use you one day.

Stay humble. So in the midst of me being used,

I got to remember.

In the booking figures say in time past, See so

I ain't no better than the ones who's standing on

the outside of the tabernacle, even though I got access

to the holders.

Of holding.

Or that went over y'all head right there, Stay humble,

young man. So I want to tell you today that

God don't see your imperfections. God sees the finished product

that's in Romans eight thirty. That's what God sees, and

so I want you to understand that what you need

to do, it's paying more attention to what God see

and not what people see. Pay a more attention about

what what God thinks and not what people think. Do

more about what God would have you to do than

what people think you should do. Y'all ain't gonna talk

back to me. Stop being a person that's out for recognition.

Stop being home at you perform, because sometimes you can

perform and God will never tell nobody your name. He'll say, boy,

but you were good. The woman at the world become

the evangelists, save the whole. I'm Elda Johnson. This is

Pastor Superintendent Christopher More.

This is a praising the team.

Worship leader Uh Tyler Wright, Minister Tylerright, this, that and

the other. This woman that didn't have no name brung

our whole community in. She didn't have to have no name,

she didn't have to have no title. She just went

back and told somebody. Man, this dude just told me

everything about me.

So I bet you.

Now, I'm just I'm just I was just playing listen, okay, okay,

but I'm just I'm just saying. This is a woman

who went back and told some people and to watch

this show. The Bible to say she told her family,

he pacifically left. He said, she told her community come

see this dude. Then the Bible says her whole community.

God said she didn't have no title, she didn't belong

to no church. Oh oh, I know that's what we

get the nine Church of the way. I'm just playing, y'all.

I'm just planning. But listen. See I'm still a little rough, y'all.

Don't worry about it, but listen.

But this is.

The epitiment of what I'm trying to tell you.

If God pretesting you, sanctified you, glorified you, stop allowing

imperfections in your life.

To counsel you out.

Just because you ain't got it right in three years

and you've been coming you don't see it in three years.

That don't mean nothing, because if he wrote it down,

it shall come to pass.

What you need to do is keep walking toward what

he wrote down. Stop allow on.

Life's circumstances and situations to make you think different, live different,

act different, walk different. Because no matter which way you go,

my path and I'm about to be through my Pathor

told me a long time ago. He said, Man, you

know what he said.

You know how it is.

He said, I can tell you to go to else

to Cottom. He said, you can go out that door.

You can turn left and you can turn right, go

to the block, turn left, go down halfway that block,

turn right to you, and else to Gotto. He said,

you can go out that door and turn right, turn left,

turn left, and go all the way back to Almarella.

Come through Dallas. We look at all that you then

went through, but the destination ain't never changed. So no

matter what you go through, he said, what I'm telling you,

keep your eyes focused on the destination.

Ah. No matter what they say, learn to block out

the noise. I heard that message preach right in this building.

Block out the noise. You stand what I'm saying. Because

God has called you.

And when you trip up, when you say something that

might not be holy, when you do something that might

not be sanctified, Lord forgive me.

He already knew you were gonna do it. For you

did it. That's the reason my grace is sufficient. Don't quit.

God bless you, hallelujah, God bless you. Amen.

Amen, Yeah, Amen, Amen, what a good word.

Amen.

Imperfection doesn't equal rejection.

Amen.

Good word, thank you ell the Johnson Amen. Amen, uh

and I appreciate that word. What what?

I what I heard the Lord saying.

And I'm just in all seriousness a lot of time

and I'm speaking even from my own self when we

hear the Lord calling us to especially and I want

and I'm coming from me women when when we hear

the Lord and you, guys, if you can, for those

that can stay, please stay.

Uh?

What when women are called in ministry.

Sometimes we get that that low self esteem, that that

now this can't be for me because I'm a woman,

and and and women get this pushback in the ministry

where I'm not supposed to and I and maybe I'm

feeling that because we have our women ministers coming up.

Well, we're not supposed to preach and we're not supposed

to stand up.

And for those of you that are leaving, if I

can say this on your way out, if you can

leave your offering, we hadn't taken up offering. And I

don't want to uh stop anybody from leaving, but I

really wish you could stay so you could also get prayer.

On your way out.

I hate for people to leave, and we hadn't even

done the last word in Benediction.

But if you can go ahead and leave an offering,

if you're leaving