Jesus Bought A House - Part 1 | Pastor Paul McGee

Amen. Good morning everybody, the

House of the Lord and I kind of concur with Sister McGee.

I hope everybody just feels more rested at that extra hours

sleep. I told him in the back and

leadership prayer this morning. But the problem with that is

you'll start getting hungry while I'm not finished.

Amen. So what a responsibility upon me

today, Amen for that and it is good to see the different ones

Amen back. We're so good to have Jeanette

and Tatum and and the Reagan and Chase and everybody back with us

today. Amen the house.

Lord, good to have Holly with us years ago with the first church.

I was probably a senior or so in high school and teaching like a

preteen class at at at Kingsburg and Holly was one of the

students in my class along with like, let's see here, Alyssa

Sutton and Tyler Sutton and some others.

Probably I'd I'm not thinking about right now in the moment,

but they, they their family did just live right across from the

church or Sophie for her and her mom and dad were some very

precious people. They had the sweetest, sweetest

disposition and spirits about them and have a lot of treasured

memories Amen from them in those years.

And I know she does as well. Amen.

Thankful today for that going to be turning to the book of first

Corinthians, First Corinthians chapter #6 Amen.

This morning go to the word of the Lord.

You know what I love about the Lord?

He's just the Lord. I know that sounds whatever

cliche, but what it is is I, I don't, I don't have to like pump

God up. I don't have to scream at you

spit or anything like that. God can just be God.

But one thing I do know, when he enters a place, you know he's

there. You know, He's there, Amen,

Without a doubt, Amen. So I'm thankful for His spirit

and His presence. First Corinthians chapter #6 and

I'm going to read verses 19 and verse #20 today.

I am confident I will not get through everything I want to say

today. All right, I got, I probably got

more up here than what we're going to get through today.

As a matter of fact, I was several years ago, I was tasked

with writing something for like a symposium type thing for

organizations. So I did that.

And in the moment that I did that, I also got an app that

would just check my grammar just to make sure I was on, you know,

point because I am not a, you know, a doctorate in English or

anything of that nature or grammar.

And so I held on that for all these years and I just celebrate

I think 7 years with it here. And it told me that I have, I

have typed about 10 million words in those seven years

because week in and week out, Sunday morning, Sunday night,

Wednesday is easy for me, 6 to 8000 words a week.

And so I'm not going to spare you all of my words today.

Amen. First Corinthians 6 and verse

#19 The Bible says What Know ye not that your body is the temple

of the Holy Ghost, which is in you, which he have of God, and

ye are not your own, for ye are bought with a price.

Therefore, glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which

are gods. This may be the first of other

things that will go along with it along the way here and there.

But just for a little while this morning, I want to minister and

speak to you in in title question form today.

Who owns you? Who owns you?

Amen. Let's ask the Lord to help us

today. Father, we're so thankful, God,

for your house, for your presence, for the joy of the

Lord that we have felt, God, the experience of your power, God

that has testified, Lord, your spirit is bore witness with our

spirit today, God, that you are here and that you have Lord

inhabited. Lord Jesus, God summoned this

place this morning. We're thankful for that.

I pray, O Lord Jesus, help us to learn of you.

God, in this moment will not fail to thank you God, for what

you accomplished in this place. In the lovely name of the Lord

Jesus Christ that I pray Amen and Amen.

Everybody say Amen, Amen. You may be seated this morning

in Jesus name, Hallelujah. I want to talk to you just a

little bit this morning, start to talk to you about this

biblical concept of what we call in Scripture redemption.

You read about it the Old Testament and you read about it

in the New Testament. This idea of redemption or

having been redeemed and throughout Scripture from Old

Testament to New Testament, the idea of redemption has to do

with ownership. It has to do with ownership.

For example, in the Old Testament.

We have a lot of verses today, don't we, Brethem Alone.

Yeah, he's shaking. You're going to track with me,

aren't you? Amen.

In Leviticus chapter 25 and verse 29, the Bible states these

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words that and if a man sell a dwelling house in a walled city,

then he may redeem it within a whole year.

After it is sold within a full year may he redeem it.

Choosing that word redeem a couple of times and the word

redeem has has similar meanings to when you think of redeem, you

might be thinking about buying or you might be thinking about

purchasing something, which in these cases that is indeed what

it is saying. But redeem takes something a

little further or a little deeper than just buying

something or purchasing something.

In the Bible. It's used in the sense of buying

something back that once belonged to you or purchasing

something back that once belonged to you.

And that is how it's used here in the book of Leviticus chapter

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25. A man has sewed his home and he

has now the the privilege after year to buy it back or if you

will, to redeem it because it was his before to redeem it unto

himself. And so whenever we talked though

about buying something back or purchasing something back, which

is redemption, that also relayed to people who had been servants

or sold into slavery. That same terminology of

redemption or redeeming even someone is used in Old Testament

Scripture as well. For instance, in the same

chapter, Leviticus 25 and verse 47, the Bible reads like this.

And if a sojourner or stranger wax rich by thee, and thy

brother that dwelleth by him wax poor, he says, and sell himself

unto the stranger or sojourner earner by thee, or to the stock

of the strangers family. What this is convey and is there

would be times whenever people lacked money or means for their

own lives and so they would virtually sell themselves out to

another for purposes of their means of just their home and

their family. And so this is what's taking

place. It says in verse 48, after he is

sowed, he may be redeemed again or bought back.

He may be redeemed again. One of his brethren may redeem

him and we'll see this in the Testament.

I think this is important this morning whenever concerns

individuals, individual could not redeem themselves.

No Testament Scripture, an individual could not redeem

themselves. They had to be redeemed by

another. And that's where we get this

idea that's in Scripture, oh Testament and New Testament, of

a kinsman or a relative Redeemer, a kinsman Redeemer.

We see this, a man in the Lord Jesus Christ, in his earthly

ministry, coming to be a kinsman, Redeemer for all of us.

But the Bible tells us, and we understand this, that every

single one of us that was born into this world, we were born

into a world of bondage. We were born into a place of

being a servant to sin or a slave to sin.

The apostle Paul wrote concerning himself.

This is what he said about himself in Romans 714.

He said I am carnal, sowed under sin.

That meant sin owned him. He was sowed under sin.

Sin was his master. But the problem with that, that

servanthood, or the problem with that slavery that Paul was under

is again, he was not then in a position to free himself from

that slavery. He was not in a position to free

himself from that bondage. He had to be set free by

somebody else. Someone else had to do the

redeeming for him. And we read in Scripture that

our great God and Savior became our kinsman, Redeemer by the God

who the Bible says in John 424, who is Spirit.

Timothy tells us that God was manifest in the flesh.

He became, if you will, one of us of like manner, and He came

for the purpose then to redeem mankind from that oppressive

power of sin that we were sold under, that that we were owned

by. We see this if you've ever read

the book of Ruth in the Old Testament, it depicts quite well

man by the name of Boaz. That shows and showcases all of

the qualities and qualifications of a kinsman Redeemer.

The Bible just real quick. And again, I know, I know I'm

not going to get through, so I'm not going to get in a rush, OK.

But the Bible tells the story there in the book of Ruth, a

lady by the name of Naomi and Elimelech.

During a time of famine that was in Judah, they sought refuge

somewhere else. And the Bible says they went

down to Moab. She and her husband and their

two sons, Malone and Chilean, went down there.

And while they were in Moab and they were there for 10 years,

her, her sons, you know, got sweet on a couple of the Moabite

girls and they got married. And then after a period of time,

Naomi's husband passed away. Her two boys even passed away.

And so she decides that she's going to move back home to

Judah. And whenever she does, one of

her daughter in law's, Ruth, decides to go with her.

Those famous words that you have in the wedding ceremonies of

I'll go where you go, I'll lodge where you lodge.

All of that comes from the book of Ruth.

What, what, what Ruth said dead unto Naomi.

And so whenever they came back, a man here is Naomi, here is

Ruth, they their the husbands are dead.

And so there was some land as a result of that that needed to be

redeemed. And Ruth even being being having

been the wife of one of Naomi's sons, needed to be redeemed and

and seed raised up into the deceased husband's name.

But in order to do that, in order for anyone to be able to

redeem them, there were some qualifications.

And the first qualification was they had to be related to them.

They had to be related to them. The second qualification was

there was a certain price that they had to be able to pay for

the redemption. But the last one, which is

really my favorite, is that they had to be willing to pay the

price. It's one of my favorite because

you can be related and you can have the means but not want to.

And that's what touches my heart more than anything because in

the image in the picture of the Lord Jesus Christ, we see that

he met all of those qualifications in order to

redeem you and buy back you and me from under the sin that we

were born into. The Bible Speaking of Jesus says

in Philippians 2 verses 7 and 8, it says and speaks to us how he

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was made in the likeness of men that he was found in fashion as

man. He took upon him that the the

nature and the image of the seed of Abraham.

He didn't come down as an Angel, but he came down as man for this

purpose. He came to be related with you

and I who had been sowed in this because he had to be a kinsman

in order to qualify as the Redeemer.

But it doesn't just stop there. We understand through Calvary

and the death on the cross that we were purchased then by the

act that took place on the cross.

Acts 2028 says that we were purchased with his own blood.

The Bible even then tells us. In the book of Colossians

chapter #1 and verse 14, the writer writes.

The apostle Paul writes to the Church of Colossians and says

that in Christ we have redemption buying back in Christ

we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins.

Amen. And so we understand the blood

then being the purchase price, if you will, for that

redemption. So not only was Christ then

related, He became our kinsman, but he also then as virtue of

becoming a man, He had the blood necessary for the purchase price

of mankind under sin. But again, here's my favorite

one. In First Timothy 2 and six, the

the Bible says that he gave himself a ransom for all.

Now when you give something that's an act of your will, that

means not only was he my kin, not only did he have the price

that was needed to pay, but by His will He willingly offered

that blood. He willingly offered that life

so that you and I could be purchased or redeemed from under

the sin and slavery of sin that we were born into.

Something interesting this morning in Colossians 114, where

it says we have redemption through His blood, the

forgiveness of sins. I think it's important to see a

connection between the redeeming blood and the forgiving blood.

Amen. Because you cannot have one

without having the other. The redeeming blood and the

forgiving blood I, I want, if we want the forgiveness that comes

through the blood, and I do. I don't know about you.

I'm in need of forgiveness even from day-to-day.

But if we want the forgiveness that comes through the blood,

then we also must accept the responsibilities of being

redeemed, what being redeemed brings with it.

Amen. We're born again.

We're born again of the water and the Spirit, but we are also

both forgiven and we are purchased in by the blood of

Jesus Christ and we love that. I love, I love my personal

redemption story. I love the redemption story this

morning that happened today. I love that redemption story.

Amen. Because we've been bought at a

price. That price was not money.

Noted that price was not money as they would use in the Old

Testament times for redeeming somebody back.

That wasn't money. It wasn't a certain amount or

allotment of diamonds, rubies or or precious gems.

It was none of that. The apostle Paul said to us in

first Peter 118 that we were not redeemed with corruptible things

such as silver and gold. And then he goes on to tell us

about with the precious. Everybody say precious, but with

the precious blood of Christ as a lamb without blemish and

without spot. Folks, you should feel

privileged today that this isn't pennies that's been exchanged

for you. This has been life's blood of a

purpose, perfect lamb that's been exchanged for you.

And in that you have value. In that you have value.

And so, yes, it took the blood of Christ to redeem us right

from our sins. So I wouldn't suffer in a

devil's hell someday. And let's just note here, hell,

that's just exactly who it should be for just the devil.

Amen. So I don't have to suffer in

that one day. But let's think about this for a

moment. What does this really mean?

Consider this. Just walk with me here a little

bit today and I'll keep track of time.

I know we're a little later and you know, if I hear a stomach

growl, I'll for no sure. No.

Amen. But whenever a slave is redeemed

or a servant, his his relationship, his connection

with the previous owner is severed.

Whenever a servant is bought back from underneath the hand

and the power and the authority of another, then that

connection, that relationship is severed.

What that means is that servant no longer has to obey what that

owner dictates, says or wishes or desires, because he does not

belong anymore to that individual, that person, that

power, that sin, that practice. Amen.

He was redeemed from that. He was released from that.

The price has been paid so that he no longer has a say.

So in that individual's life, he is free.

But we must understand this, that that that servant's

freedom, though now is not just for his own purpose of whatever

he wants, because he's been bought by another.

He's not bought himself. He's been bought by another now

for that one's purpose. Oh, yeah, that I know it's hard

maybe to, to, to, to processing this in your mind, but what's

really happened is you've just changed owners.

You've just changed owners, you know, example in the Old

Testament scripture. And to see that whenever we're

redeemed, then we're redeemed for the purpose of the one who

has redeemed us. Hey, man.

Or for the will and desire of the one that has redeemed us in

the Old Testament. Whenever you read about the

children of Israel being an Egyptian slavery for you know,

4/4 centuries as it were, harsh slavery taskmasters.

They, they were made to make those Sphinx and things in Rome

historically Amen. That we can even see and read

about. And they went through a lot of

slavery type of activity and servitude unto Egypt.

But whenever God sent Moses into that arena to be the deliverer

for God's people, Israel, and they brought them out of Egypt

and they cleared Egypt and he had them prepared them to enter

into the Promised Land before they entered into the Promised

Land, this is what God had Moses speak to them in Deuteronomy

1515. He said, and down he's speaking

to the nation of Israel, the people that he had set free

redeemed. He said unto them, and thou

shalt remember that thou that thou was a bondsman in the land

of Egypt, and the Lord thy God. Here's the the verbiage we've

been talking about redeemed thee.

He said therefore I command thee this thing today.

So Moses was was spoken to by God.

He says before they cross into the promised land, I want you to

remind them that I'm the one that redeemed them.

I'm the one that paid the price to buy them back.

I'm the one that purchased them. Had it not been for my purchase,

they would still be in slavery. Had it not been for my

redemption, they would still be making a straw per, or bricks

perhaps without straw, making the cities for, if you will, the

Egyptian kings, he says. But I redeemed them to be my

people. I redeemed them to be mine.

I claim them as mine. I own them.

I own them and so they're no longer under Egyptian

taskmasters. They're no no longer under the

dictates of them. And but now that they are free,

that doesn't mean that they can just go gallivanting around

whatever they want to do. I own them and I have a pleasure

and I have a purpose and I have a future and I have a plan and a

dream and a vision. That's for them.

They don't have to do what Egypt says anymore, but they're under

new ownership. And he says, I've redeemed you.

And notice what the Bible says. He says God redeemed you.

Therefore I command thee this, this thing of you.

The thing that was talking about right here in this this context

of Scripture is that he was then commanding them to release some

of the servants that they had had at the end of six years and

and not to send them away empty, but but to bless them as they

sent them away. But there's several other

places, even in God's Word, where he often uses the reminder

of him having redeemed his people for a springboard, then

of what he expected from them because now he was their master.

Everybody doing OK, for instance, how many remember

maybe just a few of the 10 commandments in the Bible.

Maybe you haven't You put them in your lawn at certain seasons,

I don't know. But the 10 commandments in

Exodus chapter 20, you read the 10 commandments and you know

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you'll read the start of it typically in verse #3 thou shalt

have no other gods before me. And they go on, so on and so

forth. But before the 10 commandments

begin, we have verse #2 of Exodus 20 and verse #2 of exodus

#20 says here, it is a reminder for Israel.

I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the

land of Egypt, out of the House of Bond.

What is he doing? Reminding them of the

redemption, Reminding them that you're my people.

And after he reminds them that they are his, then he starts

laying out some expectations. Thou shall have no other gods

before thee. Thou shall make into the any

graven images. It's all just in harmony because

now I belong to someone else and so on and so forth.

It's not just an Old Testament story, it's a New Testament

story as well. You look in the book of Romans,

the apostle Paul, right into the church at Rome.

And again, folks, we have a lot of Bible today, Romans chapter

#6 and verse 20, the Bible says Paul wrote, he says for when ye

were the servants of sin, servants, you're in bondage to

that. That's what you were

incarcerated to. When you were the servants of

sin, you were free from righteousness.

Righteousness wasn't part of the game plan.

Righteousness wasn't part of the dream and vision for your life.

When you were a servant of sin, you did what sin wanted you to

do. Sin said go here, you went

there. Sin say say that.

You say that since they acts like that, act like that.

You did what sin wanted you to do.

You were free from any type of righteousness.

Hey man, you didn't have anything to do with

righteousness because you were a servant of sin.

But verse 22 tells us of this same of the same chapter.

But now everybody say, but now we all want a but now moment.

That's the redemption moment. But now being made free from sin

and become look at the verbiage here, servants to God, wait,

wait. I have not ceased to being a

servant. I've just seized who I'm a

servant too. I was a servant to sin, but now

I'm a servant to God. And he said, being a servant of

God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, all right, or

righteousness and the end everlasting life.

And so here's the fact of the matter.

Every individual up on the planet of the earth are in 2

categories. You're either a servant to sin

or you are a servant to God. We're born into the world as a

servant into sin. We followed the dictates of sin.

We follow the, the, the, the, the plan that sin has for our

life. But if you ever have a

redemption moment, the one that came to be your kin, the one

that was able to pay the price, the one that paid the price and

you receive his spirit and redemption happens, you're no

longer a servant to sin. You don't have to practice the

same old ways. You're a servant to God and

you're going to walk a different path.

And I love and I love being a child of God.

I love being a Christian. I love to be an Apostolic

person. I love to shout about my

redemption. Hey, man, I love to do that.

Yeah. Set me free.

But equally, as much as I want to shout about being set free,

are we equally excited about shouting about belonging to God

and following the plan that he has for us, Sister Ray?

Because in reality, my questionable sermon here today,

not questionable in the sense that it's a question title, He

owns us. Who owns us anyway?

Who do you belong to? Let's look at a few of these

things. Let's look at that, a little bit

of God's ownership here. Let's think exactly about the

New Testament, about what it says he redeemed us from.

Again, a lot of Bible here. Brother James is, I hope he's

doing OK. I'm not checking on him.

Is he doing OK? Hey man, we'll have a talk with

him after church. If not, we'll get him.

You know, we'll start letting him do finger exercises and

clicks with mouse and stuff. But nonetheless, Galatians

chapter #3 and verse 13 says Christ hath redeemed us from the

curse of the law. Hey man redeemed us from the

curse of the law. And by virtue of that, that

makes a way, a venue whereby we can receive the gift of promise

or the Holy Ghost. I want to celebrate that

rhetoric that I've been, I've been set free.

I've been delivered from the curse of the law.

Galatians 4 verses 4 through 6. You can read it.

Galatians 4:4–6

The Bible says that in the fullness of time that Jesus

redeemed them who were under the law and he sent forth his spirit

whereby we grab ABBA, cry ABBA, Father.

It was a spirit of adoption. He adopted us, Amen, into his

own man. That sounds like something worth

shouting about and celebrating. We read in the book of time this

chapter #2 verses 13 and 14. We read that Jesus redeemed us

from all. Everybody say all.

I like that, brother Fred. I know it's just a three letter

word, but I like it. It's a big word in my

dictionary. He, he redeemed me from all

iniquity. He wasn't selective.

He wasn't selective from all iniquity to purify for himself a

peculiar special. Different people.

Zealous of good works, folks. That sounds Brother Pat.

That sounds like something worth celebrating.

I like the idea of being called one of God's special.

Peculiar, huh? That makes me feel good, Missy.

He looks down there and says, Paul, me.

Guess that's one of my special ones in the right way.

I know where some of y'all were going.

Fool me first. Peter 118 tells us that Jesus

has redeemed us from our vain conversations.

And here in the book, the Peter the word conversation is not

talking about your talk. He's talking about your

behavior, your conduct, your lifestyle.

He says he's redeemed us from vain conversations.

He, he's redeemed us from aimless conduct, from empty

conduct, purposeless conduct, feudal lifestyles that I was

living whenever I was a servant to sin, He's redeemed.

Don't you know when I was sin, I did a lot of vain stuff,

worthless stuff, empty stuff, purposeless stuff.

But whenever I came to God, he gives purpose to my life.

He gives purpose to my talk. He gives my God.

I feel the Holy Ghost right here.

Well, yes, that's the reason why the Rider in Ecclesiastes, he

goes through all Ecclesiastes. He's talking about life under

the sun. He's really describing Solomon

in a backslidden condition is considering living life under

the sun apart from God with a God absence in his life and he

says I did everything I built gardens, I I had empires, I had

money, I had anything I want he said, but it was all vanity and

vex station of the spirit. The word vanity there just

meaning empty. He was saying I went to discover

everything I could discover in this life without God and it was

all purposeless and meaningless folks.

That's what life is, being a servant to sin.

But when you find God, you'll put a purpose in your life.

You'll bring peoples out here wondering today, what is the

meaning of life? That just proves to me they

don't know my Savior yet. Because once you know him,

glory, why didn't you even look at the Book of Revelation?

We just did a little tiptoeing through the epistles a little

bit been Revelation 5 and 9. We read that Jesus has redeemed

us of every kindred tongue and people and nation.

That is a broad swath of people. But he redeemed me out all that

so that I could be made into him.

The Scripture says I could be made into our God, kings and

priests, that we should reign on the earth.

I don't know about you brother Fred, but going from Paul McGee

as I am assuming some Roe of kingship, pardon my robe,

kingship sounds pretty good. So not only were we redeemed

slaves of sin that now belong to God, but the Bible also

displaced that we have been in our scripture text this morning

that we have been bought and purchased then as God's house.

Know ye not that ye are the temple?

God has bought himself a house. God's bought himself a house.

He's purchased a place where he wants to do well.

I'm his. We are his Tabernacle, his

temple, his house, his habitation.

Am I doing OK? I won't hold you much longer.

I know where we're at. Is anybody getting hungry?

I wasn't until you brought it up, Brother Fred.

Years ago. Now see.

Trevor will be 17 in March. The summer before Trevor was

born, we moved into our house. Matter of fact, I think it was

the night or the night before the first night, the first night

that we stayed in our house, we learned that we were pregnant

with Trevor. To some regard, it means

Trevor's name. Trevor's name means home.

That was the first house we ever bought.

We, we had a trailer when we were younger, married and then

we went on this grand thing called evangelizing, going all

over the world and preaching in different churches for like 7

years. And then we came back home.

So we started late as far as having a house.

So we, we find out we pregnant, we got her home.

Trevor's name means home. And if you know Trevor, that's

Trevor's preference. He'd like to be home.

So if we were walking like in tandem with Old Testament people

that whatever you name your child is giving them their

destiny. We did it for Trevor.

That's where it's at. But Brother Fred, at that time

and all of you that are homeowners, you know that at one

time you went to the trouble of purchasing a house so we'd have

somewhere to live. For a while.

We lived in room #3 over here, my wife and I, and Mariah, room

number 3 was our home. Mariah got baths and Rubbermaid

containers because there isn't a shower or anything like that

around here. Matter of fact, one time, I'll

tell it again if I told her before we was going through

Walmart one time, she was young. She's only like a year and a

half, two years old. And we're in Walmart and we're

going where all the rubber make containers are.

And she's Mariah and her voice was lying and she's oh look, my

bathtub. And I'm thinking these people

that don't know are wondering whether we use a lid or not.

And I'm just. And now you're wondering whether

we did or not. And you see, Mariah, and you're

wondering more. Now I'm joking.

I love you, Mariah. I know you're hearing it right

now. So I'm just saying.

But just for analogy purposes, no analogy is perfect.

But just for analogy purposes, Sister McKinney, I went and

looked all at different houses, all across Mount Carmel,

different houses. And when we finally decided upon

the house, we chose the house. The house didn't choose us.

Matter of fact, we paid the price in order to obtain the

house. The house didn't pay me to live

in it. And that meant when we walked

away that day and the papers were slid and the keys were put

in our hands, Brother Fred, that we owned that house, that house

didn't own us. And once we purchased the house,

the house became subject to the will of Sister McGee and I.

When we first bought the house, the previous owners, I can't

remember all the colors, but in the kitchen, one wall was bright

blue, another one was yellow, and 1 was like a Peach color.

Folks, if you want to wake up in the morning, you come in our

kitchen, you eat yourself some egg.

But Tracy, it didn't take us long to talk for that because

that wasn't the previous owners house anymore.

Yeah, come on. We were living inside those

walls in every morning and eating at that kitchen.

That is our house. We we, we kind of started

fashioning stuff to our catering to our liking with that house.

But you know, if I wanted to, if I really wanted to, since it was

a subject to my will, if I wanted to, you could go by there

today and that house could be painted purple.

That's my house. I didn't paint it purple, by the

way. I did not do that.

If you know my wife, I would not paint that.

We'd be the Barney house on the block.

You know what I'm saying? I love you.

You love me where? But the house didn't decide what

color it was going to be. We did the previous owners.

When we first got that house, it was a pale yellow.

That was the previous owners. You go buy it now and it is a

Gray color because it was under different ownership before it

got to us. The ownership now that has it

reflects the people who own it. And again, I know every analogy

is not perfect, but as a as a homemaker, then brother Fred, as

a home home owner, I have certain responsibilities toward

my house. If something breaks in the

house, I fix it or I make sure it gets fixed.

If there's something that the house needs, that's on me

because I own the house. I'm responsible for providing

for that house. Someone needs to be real

comforted right here in the moment if you have a

relationship with the Lord, because if there's something

fixed, He's, He's responsible. If there's something you need,

my God, we'll supply all of your needs according to His riches in

glory. Amen.

Amen. And so, yes, but, but, but let

me be clear. I make the decisions for the

house that the house doesn't make the decisions for me.

And whenever I moved my house, yes, Sister Kristen, we were, we

were kind of intentional about the very own side of the house.

All right, wall colors. The house didn't have any

furnishings had to furnish. The house had to be attended to.

Amen. And at that point, when we first

moved in, I really wasn't concerned about the outside the

house and concerned about the inside the house because that's

where I'm living. So we did what we could do,

being the occupant of the house. We did start painting some walls

and just Mcgee's, you know, putting up some pictures, you

know, here and there. And what kind of curtains would

there be and where would the furniture go?

After all, it was our house. The Lord says.

The Lord says, and I won't hold you much longer.

I won't. I know.

What are you laughing about? That was my sister, by all

things. I'll call her out right here.

I'll say her name. Let me spell it for you.

It begins with an R. That could be several of them.

First Samuel 16, seven this, this is a scripture that often

people bring up. It's, it's whenever David is

going to be anointed as Israel's next king and, and the prophet

has come and he's looking at all the different sons.

He's like, surely the Lord's anointed is before him, Eliab

and the different ones before him.

The Bible says first Samuel 16 and seven that that man looketh

on the phrases. That man looketh on the outward

appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart.

If I could state it just another way, the owner looks at the

interior. But let me just pose some

questions again, though, to you in concern of everything I've

said thus far to you about redemption and who owns us, Who

does own you and who decides what your interior is going to

look like? Bringing it maybe to a little

bit more application for us personally as individuals.

Who determines what your attitudes going to be?

Who decides what your desires are going to be?

Who decides what your hopes and dreams are going to be?

What are your motives going to be?

I'm just wanting us to think here a little bit this morning.

Who, who, or what are you going to think about?

What are your opinions going to be?

Is it your owner, huh. Is it the owner?

Is it the occupant, or is it you?

Amen. Who determines what's important

to you? Who, who who determines what

your values are? Who determines what your

passions are? Who who determines what your

view is of what is right and wrong or good and evil, truth

and error? Is it the owner?

Amen. So we got to consider all this.

Who really does own me? And you understand that that'd

be a good. That's that's just a good, a

good place to stop where we begin.

Who who owns you, man? I tell you what, there's already

been enough that I've discovered what I've been redeemed from

that I'm starting to feel good about being under a new owner.

I'm starting to feel good about being under a new owner.

Amen. And if you, if you are still

living life under being a servant, as Paul said to sin or

sold under sin, that there can be an eviction note to put on

your heart's door and a new acquisition, a new owner, come

in. Amen, Hallelujah, someone say

Amen. Who owns you?

I want you to leave here today. I want you to think upon that

Amen for the next few weeks and days about who owns you and

think about if you will, the dictates and the plans of of the

each individual owners that we have in this life that is only

to sin of the Lord. Amen to consider that.

Let's bow our heads here this morning.

Father, I love you today, God, I love your spirit God, it is

sweet Lord Jesus, it is kind and his merciful, oh Lord Jesus, but

it is also a leader. It is also a teacher that guides

and leads and instructs Lord and we want it to have that type of

Lord sway and influence in our lives.

I pray, O God, today help us Lord to just rhetorically if

nothing else. Lord, consider who owns us.

God, I don't want to try to usurp the authority of the new

one who has ownership of me in my life.

Help me God, just to Lord, obey Lord and just be in love, Lord

Jesus, with being under new, new, new command, new new, new

direction, new New Hope and vision and dream God for my

life. God bless you people this

morning. God, we're thankful for what you

have done here today. Lord, your fingerprints have

been upon us and in our lives in this service, we glorify you in

the name of Jesus Christ. Hallelujah and the say a man, a

man who owns you today. Hallelujah.