Surrendered Thrones, Seated Grace | Pastor Paul McGee

With one accord in one place, Scripture says suddenly there

came a sound from heaven. There was a rushing mighty wind,

and filled all the house where they were sitting, and there

appearing to them cloven tongues like as fire, and it sat up on

each of them. The Bible says they were all

filled with the Holy Ghost. Began to speak with other

tongues as the Spirit gave them the utterance, thankful for the

power of the Holy Ghost. The awesome thing about the Holy

Ghost as a festival is that it's predicated upon the feast of

Passover. It has its placement because of

Passover, which speaks of that lamb that was slain that night

for the different households in order to get their deliverance

out of Egypt. God for a lamb that was slain,

that I could have a Pentecost. Amen, Amen.

You can stand with me today. We're going to be turning to the

Book of Second Samuel chapter #4 I said in the back, Sworn trust.

Maybe some people's got a little rest from revival.

If not, that's OK. I was, I was like double time

and revival. There was Arkansas International

Camp meeting going on the Little Rock while we were having our

revival and so I was listening through 2 messages as I was

going to sleep at night. So I got 7 sermons from the camp

meeting and the the the five from our service.

So I'm ready, praise God, I'm ready.

I was looking through old binder of our evangelism years the

other day because I was being cleaning some stuff out of my

office and there was one of my calendar still tucked in

Franklin Planner back in that day that I had.

And it was actually the year that Mariah was born.

And I seen where we had had a two week revival, no rest

nights, 16 services, back-to-back preaching.

And I thought those were the days.

Amen. So if you think you were tired

from 5, think about 16. Second Samuel chapter #4 verse

#4 And we had other ones that were longer than that too.

But you know, I wonder sometimes now, I don't know how the people

did it. I don't know how the people that

came out of fields that did fields and didn't have didn't

have machinery to do it per SE, but teams of horses and stuff

did that and worked all day and then they went revival.

But they did and you all did too this past week.

Amen. Second Samuel chapter 4, verse

2 Samuel 4:4

4. I'll also be reading from Second

Samuel chapter #9 and I'll try to be conscious of the time the

Bible says. Because let me tell you

something. Just as a side note, you know,

I've, I've here and there preached a little shorter and

I've almost got complaints as a result of it.

Only only maybe from one person, but I'm maybe they have multiple

personalities on say, complaints nonetheless.

Second, Samuel 4 and four. And Jonathan, Saul's son, had a

son that was lame of his feet. He was five years old when the

tidings came of Saul and Jonathan out of Jezreel.

Those tidings are that Saul and Jonathan were dead and his nurse

took him up and fled. And it came to pass as she made

hastefully that he fell and became lame.

And his name was Mephibosheth, Second Samuel chapter #9 and

verse #1. The Bible says these words, and

you could read the whole chapter because it pertains to

Mephibosheth. But I just want verse #1 And

David said, is there yet any that is left of the House of

Saul, that I may shew him kindness for Jonathan's sake for

a little while. This morning I'm going to

minister this surrendered Thrones and seated Grace.

Surrendered Thrones and seated grace.

Let's pray together. Father, we love you today in

this place. We're so grateful, Lord, for an

opportunity, God, to come and gather our lives around your

word. I pray Jesus we need your Father

in this house, but thankful Lord for the precious Lord gift of

the Holy Ghost God. Lord that we have failed in this

place even today through songs, the Lord, musicians, singers,

the Lord your spirit up mostly I pray God you would touch us a

new in the fresh God today by your spirit you have to help us

in the next little while and will not fail to give you glory

and honor Lord Jesus for it in Jesus name, Amen, Amen.

The church say Amen, Amen. You may be seated this morning

in Jesus name first verse that I read to you this morning.

The second Samuel chapter #4 is, is really a kind of a side to

all of the content and the context of chapter #4 chapter #4

really holds a, and it's an assassination narrative.

And, and so tucked in this, there's this just one verse.

And even in some translations, it's set off in parentheses

because it doesn't seem to, to really apply to what's going on

in the moment. Although if we had enough time,

I could talk to you how it does. But nonetheless, it's kind of

set there as an aside, and it's referencing something that took

place a few years earlier than what's taking place in chapter

#4 it seems to be almost like optional information.

It's not directly connected to the rest of the narrative, yet

it is there. And it's telling us information

about a man who is a son of Jonathan called Mephibosheth,

and really about an injury that took place to him in a moment

and some things that were taking place concerning his grandfather

and father having died. And the reason why that is

important is there's an assassination that's taking

place in this chapter that's removing yet another king.

And it's to bring our minds around this concept and idea

that what happens whenever kings are overthrown or kings die.

And we must understand that in this culture, when a king died

or when a king was throne, it was the standard political

practice to eliminate the former King's descendants.

The king died, and whoever was next to take the throne is going

to wipe out every descendant of the former king.

He's going to remove any threat to the throne that he is now

going to inherit it. It really wasn't personal, but

it was very strategic. They didn't want any rivals to

rear their head that any remaining heir could become a

rival claimant to the throne of the previous king.

So they didn't want anybody to incite any type of rebellion,

and so they would just snuff them out.

We have a scriptural precedent that this is the case.

As a matter of fact, if I allow me to put a few examples here

this morning, the Bible states in the book of Judges that after

Gideon dies that his son Abimelech, he wants to rule and

has a desire to do so. And as a result of that, he

kills all 70 brothers that he has in order to eliminate any

rival claims of leadership to the throne room.

There's another individual by the name of Beisha who kills

Jeroboam's whole house whenever he becomes king.

The Bible says as in first Kings 15 and verse 29 to all 70

Browning he to to make sure that a be again King Red went to the

throne. He would kill all of the

children, all of the relatives, if you will, male possible heir.

Historical record outside of the Bible along the frame of Saul

and David and Solomon that speaks the very same thing

speaks of Assyrian kings and Babylonian kings and Hittite

kings that would routinely kill the rivals routinely kill the

sons of former kings, even infants were were were there

royal inscriptions that are written in history sometimes

even boast how they would eliminate rival lines.

And so before the deaths though of Saul and Jonathan that is

being alluded to in verse number four of our text.

The Bible says that Saul made an unlawful sacrifice instead of

waiting for Samuel to come to do his role of judge and priest.

Saul got a little antsy and he went on and offered a sacrifice

which wasn't his and the Bible says that God's verdict on

Saul's mishap of doing this was this.

He basically told Saul that your Kingdom shall not reign that

income. God was basically telling Saul

dynasty is now going to be cut off as a result of Saul's

choices or lack of choices. He he ruined all of the Kingdom

opportunities for his entire family in in and the type of

most Saul really stands for the modern Adam, if you will.

You remember New Testament Scripture speaks of Adam that by

one man sin entered into the world and death by sin.

And now we have the fallibility of Saul and his mistake and as a

result of it, it impacts his whole household and influences

them and they are are rejected. And yet while Saul is still

reigning and other hand, David was chosen for the role to be

king. Amen.

There comes Samuel with the horn of oil above David's head, and

he's pouring it out and a fresh anointing is coming upon him.

No sooner had Saul throwing them, the Bible tells us that

God is releasing Saul and he's picking David as king.

And so with all of this in mind, whenever Mephibosheth's nurse

flees because news came from Jezreel that Saul and Jonathan

has been taking has been murdered in battle, she wasn't

being a a paranoid nurse. She she wasn't acting out of

terms. She wasn't overly concerned or

or just a nervous expecting Mephibosheth to die because

things with a tingly anointing upon him.

There is no doubt in my mind they're going to be finding

Mephibosheth to kill him. And so the Bible says that she

makes haste and she is quick. And in her quickness to leave,

the Bible tells us very well, Amen, that he pulled and he is

wounded too. But there was going to be some

perhaps retribution from David because now the king and the

King's son Jonathan were dead. They're going to be going after

the grandson. And they think that it's going

to be David that's going to come with the sword to slaughter.

Amen. This Mephibosheth, think for it

for a moment. If David was already anointed

king, and he's already had those words spoke over him, and that

anointing oil to touch his brow, the normal next step would to be

killed the remaining heirs of the previous dynasty.

It was just, it was the logic of political survival for that day.

If I can say it like this, Mephibosheth should have been

membership should have been acquired, and he should have

been executed. The sword should have been taken

to his heart because by custom, by culture, he is a threat.

He is the grandson of Saul. He's the son of Jonathan.

He's the legal heir to a fallen throne.

And so when we get to Chapter 9, what we should hear David saying

is this, is there any that is left of the House of Saul that I

need to eliminate? Is there any left of the House

of Saul that I need to kill? Is there any left of the House

of Saul that could be a rival to my throne, that could be a

claimer and siding rebellion to my throne?

That would have been the he did not which David acts is

revolutionary. He did not which David acts is

revolutionary. Mary.

It's quite different even as we see the scriptural precedent

must understand that in David's past, early on in hitter,

Jonathan. Now remember, he's the son of

Saul. He's the son of this covenant

between Jonathan and David. You can read of it in Psalms 18.

You can read parts of it and, and, and, and brother Saul,

Samuel 18 and Samuel 18 and Samuel chapter #20 But whenever

you read these things, Samuel chapter #20 But whenever you

read these things, most of the verse, most of the verses that

highlight David and Jonathan in their covenant, it either has

Jonathan. We don't see, it's not recorded

for us that David. So isn't it?

It's the Jonathan side of the covenant that we have view of.

For that matter, we read that Jonathan in the moment of this

covenant that he stripped himself.

He stripped himself of his robe and his garments and his sword

and his bow all the way down, the Bible says, to what they

called as a girdle. And he gave it to David.

Now don't get me wrong, this was a music mutual covenant because

we learned from scripture. The Bible says that Jonathan and

David made a covenant. It says that Jonathan even

caused David to swear again. So David does have some action

in this. It was a covenant of mutual

loyalty and mutual protection. But we never heard David say

anything or have a record of his feelings and actions regarding

the covenant when it was he made until now.

He's at this point in time in Second Samuel 9.

He's not just a king over Hebron, which he was for 7 1/2

years before he was king over Israel, but he is the king now

over all of Israel. He has assumed the throne.

He's setting and acting as king. And his question then, is there

any left of the House of Saul that I can show kindness to to

for Jonathan's sake? Whenever I read that, I'm not

expecting that an Old Testament person would not expect that.

A New Testament person under the law would not expect that.

It doesn't fall into the normal boundaries of their culture.

Amen. Even if Mephibosheth wasn't

crippled, he should have died. He shows grandson and when we

understand that, you got to understand even how Saul treated

David. Is everybody doing OK?

Saul hunts David like a predator hunts its prey.

Every attempt is very, very fruitless.

It's almost as though that Saul cannot erase David from from his

life, or at least not from his memory.

We read in Scripture that David dodges javelins at least twice

and evades them from Saul's presence once.

The Bible says he escapes through the window just moments

before Saul made an assassination attempt on his

life at Keela. The Bible says that David leaves

just before Saul arrives. In First Samuel 23 and verse 14

he says Saul sought him, meaning David every day, but God

delivered him not into his hand. David was in covenant with

Jonathan to such an extent that when he asked his question, he

doesn't ask who is left of the House of Jonathan.

Notice that he says who is left of the House of Saul, not just

who is left of the House of Jonathan.

He says who is left of the House of Saul.

Amen. David is broad his scope to

encompass the whole House of Saul, not just the House of

Jonathan that he had made covenant with.

If I'd say like this, David is broadening his scope to include

everybody that would flow from the originator of the fall of

the dynasty of the House of Saul.

He goes back to the beginning of the man Amen, that created the

fall of the dynasty, and he's saying, is there anybody left?

Why in the world, David, would you broaden the scope and

include Saul and his household? What would provoke you to have

such kindness upon him? Amen.

Because the kindness that you are going to show is the

kindness that is for Jonathan's sake.

What? What would compel such a

powerful king with 12 tribes under his leadership Amen in his

own right to remember a family? Amen, member and a person, an

originator, Amen. They all have a fallible trend

and a fallible history. I'll tell you just a few things.

Why? Because whenever Jonathan made

his covenant with David, the Bible says that Jonathan loved

him as his own soul. Amen.

Loved him as his own soul. Here's something you got to

realize concerning that statement.

David has done nothing for Jonathan directly to provoke him

to say I love him with my soul. The love that Jonathan had is a

love that arose from just observing David on the

battlefield with Goliath and Saul.

And you can read the first verse really of First Samuel 18.

The Bible says that whenever Saul had done speaking and David

had done speaking together after that fight, it's then that we

read that Jonathan says that he loved that man with his soul and

wanted to be knitted with that man.

That was enough. Just hearing, overhearing how

David talked about victory, just overhearing how David talked

about the battle, observing how he went against something that

defied God was enough for Jonathan to say, you know what?

That's something I want to be connected to.

That's something I want to be knitted to.

That's something Amen, that I, I want to be a part of.

And so he's giving off his robe and he's giving off his

garments, his sword and his bow, his girdle, all these things.

He's surrendering. What is he doing?

Because by the standard of the world at that moment in time, if

Saul died, the next king should have been Jonathan.

If Saul died, the next king that should have taken the throne is

Jonathan. But as Jonathan takes off his

robe and off his sword and off his girdle, he is surrendering

all of those things to David. What he's doing is surrendering

his claim to the throne. He says, I don't, I don't want

to be the ruler. I don't want to be in control.

I don't need to be king. I see the anointing on David.

I don't need to fight. He has the.

Ability to fight. What are you saying, Pastor

McGee? There's something that happened

in the covenant that was more valuable than anything else, and

that was Jonathan's surrender. I don't have to be the king of

my own life. I don't have to be in power or

be into control. I just is going to give that on

to a nut. I'm going to get there later.

But sometimes you got to read between the preaching, why I'm

preaching. Hey, man, he says.

I'm going to relinquish control to all of that.

I'm I'm unsatisfied with being in control and becoming a king.

No, no, no. I'm going to give that

obligation and that responsibility in my life to

somebody else. It's on that basis that David

then stands and says, I'm going to show kindness to anybody of

the House of Saul, that failed House of Saul, that upended

dynasty of Saul. I'm I'm going to give kindness

to whoever because Jonathan's sake.

Can I tell you that it's more than for a individual's sake,

but more so for the action of Jonathan.

I'll show kindness, and kindness can reach whosoever will of the

fallen dynasty because of the principle of surrender.

Someone say Amen, I'm probably jumping ahead today and that's

OK. What we need to come to realize

this morning is that you and I are a part of a fallen dynasty.

We are part of a fallen people. We are after the nature, Amen,

of Adam. We are doomed for death.

We were born into sin. David said he was even in his

mother's womb. We have that Adamic nature upon

us. And if Romans is right, and it

is, it says the wages of sin is death.

There is according to culture, there is according to Old

Testament biblical record, that what we should deserve is death,

what we should deserve is the guillotine against our neck.

But there is one, a man who is king of kings and Lord of Lords,

with an anointing upon his head that says, I tell you what, I

know you should die. I know you shouldn't be afforded

the opportunity or the ability, ability to go on, but I'm not

here to see who I can eliminate. I come to give life and life

more abundantly because there's a covenant that I'm bound to.

Yes, look what happens on several different occasions and

we see this before that part of David's entourage before, before

he is assumed the position after David and Jonathan has died,

part of his entourage on 2 separate occasions.

They're in a position where they could kill Saul if they wanted

to. As a matter of fact, David is

encouraged by some that are with him.

Let's just snuff him out paving this men are hiding in The Cave

of in Jedi. The Bible says that Saul comes

into that cave. The real mean is he really went

in there to relieve himself. They're saying let's take him

out David. But the Bible says that David

just went along there, cut off the corner, Saul's robe, not

killing him, but at least doing something in such a way that he

would know that he was there. Because see, prior even to those

moments, David already have a covenant that was made with

Jonathan based upon the premise of surrender.

I'm not lifting a hand to this man that hates me.

I'm not lifting a hand to this man that's desiring to kill me.

I'm not lifting a hand to this man that probably wouldn't spit

on my guts if they were on fire. No, no, no.

But I'm just going to leave something right here to let him

know that I could have if I wanted to and that I was near

enough that I could touch him. The Bible says in another

episode that David and his men happened upon Saul and his army

and they're all laying on the ground.

They're asleep. They come upon them and they are

asleep. And again, there are some that

suggest that are part of the David's entourage.

Why don't we go in there and just pin Saul to the ground?

Why don't we kill him? He's been, he's been just so

hateful to you, not good to you. He's treated you wrongly.

And yet again, the Bible says that David just went over there

and they took Saul's spear and they took the jug of water that

was by his head. And then they hollered out and

said, oh, Saul, what? What's going on?

What were they doing? They had the ability to kill

him, but they didn't. But David just did something to

let him know I was there, I was near, I was close.

Can I tell you today, you might not want anything to do with

God. You might not want anything.

I know people like that. They hated him.

They spoke against him. They kicked up dust in his face.

But the awesome thing about God is he stays true to his

covenant. Hey, man.

And he doesn't snub you out. He doesn't mark you off, He

doesn't mark your name out, but he just leaves something Amen

back behind him, letting you know that if he wanted to, he

could have. But he wants them to know.

Although I could have, I want you to know I was close to you.

I was near to you, and if you'd changed your mind or a

direction, I was in arm's distance of you.

Yes, I'm telling you today, there's people in this world,

they're walking around with corners of their garments that's

cut off. And all that is, is the

indication is that he's been close.

There's people walking around spearless and without a water

jug. And all of those are indices

that if he wanted to marquee out, he could have.

But mercy was extended to you, grace was extended to you, and

it don't have to be the way it's been.

So if his kindness could be shown to a man conspired to kill

him, as Saul was David, it could reach a cripple left somewhere

in the vicinity of Lodibar, which means no word, no

communication, no pasture, nothing.

Pibosheth at this point in time in his life.

At first Samuel 9. Her Chapter 9 is totally

disconnected from everything in the middle of nothing.

Bill. But instead of dying the

principle of surrendering a covenant, let him experience the

invitation of a king to his table.

I said you got to listen between the preaching because Jesus said

in the New Testament, he said search the scriptures.

When he said that in John 5, the only scriptures that they had at

that moment was the Old Testament scriptures.

He said, search the scriptures for which testify to the last

book of the Old Testament. You can find Jesus.

I've been talking to you this morning about is testifying

about Jesus because the reign of Christ, the reign of Christ, him

being born in Bethlehem's Manger should have spelled murder for

every other supposed king. That's even the reason why Herod

is still living under the mindset of that old practice in

Kingdom, right? There's people there, Herod at

that time serving almost as a vassal king for the nation of

Israel and the Jews. This is what caused his heart to

fall and he went to self preservation mode.

What was it? He wasn't willing to surrender.

When you're not willing to surrender to your king, you'll

try to self preserve your control.

Living in the old system, Herod considered it a threat.

When the three wise men showed up at his door and asked this

question, Where is he that is born king of the Jews?

Herod seen that as a threat. He saw that as a rival dynasty

coming to take his place. A child, claim it if you will,

to the throne. It challenged his legitimacy of

being king. Can I pause and say our

legitimacy of being in control of our lives needs challenged?

Yes. I'll do it my way, how I want to

do it, when I want to do it, or that it needs to be challenged,

man. And so Herod felt challenged.

That's why you'll read in the unfolding of the story that he

sends men into the city of Bethlehem and he orders all the

boys that are two years old and younger to be killed.

What's he trying to do? He's trying to snuff out the

competition to the throne. He's trying, if you will, to

take care of it and anybody else.

He didn't want that anointed child Jesus to become the one

that is king of the throne of the people, of the Jews.

And we see in Jesus's life similar things happening to him

that happened to David. Read the Gospels.

What's going on? Jesus is teaching, He's

preaching, he's speaking to the people.

And the Bible says in one place that they want to cast Jesus off

the brow of the hill. It says that he seemingly just

walks out through the midst of them and escapes.

John 730 says that they tried to seize him, but not one laid hand

on him. In another instance it says they

wanted to stone him, but Jesus hid for a little while in the

temple and then passed through the midst of them undetected.

The Bible says they sought again to take him, but he escaped out

of their hand. The Bible says they even plotted

how they might kill Jesus, but He would always withdraw into

the shadows. They wanted to kill him.

And all of us, like Saul, are living with a defunct heritage.

Sin, someone say it with me. Sin and Adam set the demise for

us all because the rest of that verse in Romans 5 says that that

death passed upon all men for that all have sinned.

Who you saying then this morning, pastor, I'm saying

this. We can be like Saul and feel

like our authority is being challenged and we can despise

God because the Bible says one of the reasons why Saul despised

David is because he behaved himself wisely.

We can assume that position. We can despise God because of

how wisely he behaves himself and despise him because he's

anointed for what we're trying to be.

Hey man. And even though he could kill

us, he don't. But he leaves indications in our

life that he's been close. When you are lying on him and

threatening God and casting dust up on him and he still allows

your diagnosis not to be true, He's just left you a little

indication that he's close. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

When you forgot him and you gave up on him and the bill came in

the mail and so happens you didn't have money in the bank,

but it showed up at the same time the bill came when you

needed it. He's leaving you a little

indication that he's close. Even in the middle of your

hatred and your refusal, trying to organize and dictate your own

life, he. Jesus left the empty tomb, He

left the napkin that was folded together by itself.

He left burning hearts in the lives of those two boys in

Emmaus. He left visible scars of himself

that was for people's healing. What is all that proofs of his

presence that he had walked among and been near to humanity?

Are you going to be like Jonathan this morning?

You can surrender every supposed connection that you perceivably

have with a throne. That's where it's at, Brother

Fred. That's where I found it's at.

That's where Pentecost. That's where Pentecost surfaces.

At the point of surrender. At the point of surrender, he

died for everyone, but not everyone will be recipients of

the gift of his death because they won't surrender.

He was buried, He was buried, but not everyone will receive

the benefit of the burial because they won't surrender.

He was raised in newness of life, but not everyone will be

recipients of a new creature mentality.

God is such a gentleman. He will not force himself on us.

If that was the case, every individual from the time of Adam

until now, he would just take up housing inside every individual.

They would be filled with the Spirit.

It would be a said overdone thing.

We're all going to heaven. Hallelujah.

That's not what happens. Scripture says his kindness

leads me to repentance and in my surrender I'm saying God.

I don't want control over Paul Mcgee's life because I've had it

for a while and I can show you where my control gets me.

I surrender. It's when I step into a watery

grave of baptism and as practical as it might be, I give

my body over to whoever is baptizing me and more

importantly, the waters that's going to overflow me with the

invoking of the name of Jesus. Let's hold here for a moment.

The invoking of the name of Jesus is not the name just by

itself. When you evoke a name in the

Bible anytime, it's not just the name, it's the nature and the

character of the name that it goes alongs with it.

When we baptize in Jesus name, it's just not some name that

you're going down in, you're going down in the character in

the nature of that name and when you surrender to that.

That when you speak in new tongues, that member that James

says no man contain, it's unruly evil, it's set on fire by hell.

Yet when you begin to speak in a heavenly language that the

education system hasn't taught you, and you are surrendering,

unruly member of your body and new creature, life comes inside

of you all just on a principle of surrender, not merit, not

goodness, not wholeness. Mephibosheth was crippled, but

he found the place at the master's table.

Because when he approached David, he says I'm your servant.

What is that surrender? We've got to finish up right?

We've already had a bunch going on today.

Look at this. Jonathan doesn't feel threatened

by David. He doesn't feel negatively

challenged by David. Mostly he's feeling kind of

blessed that he has this opportunity because Jonathan

valued his love for David, David and his connection with David

more than having any control. I'm, I'm trying to get there.

So David's kindness is really predicated on a principle and

act surrender. And when I found him, this

hurtfully ministry of mine, and that is this surrender helps

kindness find every crippled mephibosheth that might be

isolated in some barren desolate nothing Ville place.

See, the nurse flees, originally because she thinks Miss

Fibosheth would be murdered. And as a result of the fleeing,

he is then crippled. This is what's powerful to me.

He's crippled, which in many regards virtually dismisses him

from the possibility of being king because the Bible says as

kings would go to war, they even today, like our president is the

chief commander. You know, then they weren't just

giving dictates. They were entering into the war

with their fellows like we had George Washington of years ago

being wanted a personality that was strong, that was capable.

You can't have a cripple leading the war.

So his own condition is almost dismissing himself.

Him doing that. He no one sees him as a

contender in that crippled state.

His enemies don't see him as a contender.

David don't even see him as a Mephibosheth himself doesn't see

it. Whenever David comes and and

they're in, he's in the presence of David.

Mephibosheth refers to himself as a dead dog, but David's a

laying fears right now in the moment as he speaks to

Mephibosheth. This yet I want to lay all of

your fears of the custom of our time, of the culture of our

time, of the political ideals of our time.

Notice what he says. This is section Samuel 97.

I believe he says fear not, for I will surely shoot the kindness

for Jonathan's surrender sake. He says thou shalt eat bread at

my table continually. Do you stay with me today?

I won't go much longer. God didn't put Mephibosheth on

the throne. He put him at the table.

Why? Because the world doesn't need

listen to me. The world doesn't need another

king. It needs more testimonies of

surrender, kindness, grace. Every individual that surrender

control in their own life and finds their feet at the table is

just a testimony of His kindness, of His mercy, and of

His grace. And God's kindness is so

expansive. You know what it does?

It searches for the broken. It searches for the forgotten.

It searches for the quote UN quote culturally disqualified.

Note, Mephibosheth didn't invite himself to the table.

He didn't send for David to come.

David went looking for him. David sent for him.

Kindness came looking for Mephibosheth because there was a

covenant that had been made. And Mephibosheth responded in

surrender, just as his father Jonathan had responded in

surrender. God's kindness is going out this

morning to everybody sitting under the sound of my voice

today. It's going out to every single

person, but His kindness can only sit you and seat you at the

table when you stop running, when you stop hiding, and when

you yield yourselves to total surrender for the placement that

He has for you. I'm asking as we bow our heads

across this place. I'm asking someone today to be

vulnerable and take off the robes and the swords and the

Spears and all of those things that pertain to your own

authority. Take all of that off and lay the

side. Or maybe there's somebody else

that's just a crippled Mephibosheth.

Maybe today you got to stop seeing yourself as worthless.

Because the fact of the matter is this the table is not for

kings. It's for the surrendered.

We come to God today. I don't have to have control

over my life. God, as as long as I know that

you have control, I don't have to Lord, be Lord, the frontline

face in every battle, as long as I know I'm not entering a battle

alone. I've seen you fight, I've

observed it. I wanted to be connected to

something like that. I want to love something like

that. Is there anybody in this place

that would come to the Lord today just as an act of

surrender, Say God, My life's not my own, My life's not my

own. It belongs to you.

When you do that, The kindness that He sent to you, you'll

experience to the NTH degree because you will have opened

your life up to what He's already trying to pour upon you,

so long as you try to live under the authority of your own

affairs. It's like a bucket of water

being poured upon you with an umbrella over your head.

It's coming, but it's not touching you, not impacting you.

But if you'll remove the umbrella of your authority, your

control, wanting to dictate your life, you'll be touched what's

being poured out upon you. And it'll be His kindness and

His kindness. This comes mostly because of a

surrendering spirit. It touches us, it changes us, it

alters us. It seats us at a table that we

could not get there by any other means or way.

It's surrendered Thrones and see the grace.

Will somebody surrender right now to the Lord?

I surrender, Lord. I surrender Lord.

I surrender Lord. I surrender Lord.

Y'all. Let it be more than lip service

today. Let it be more than just a

proclamation. Let it be more than just a good

intention, God. Let it be an act of the human

will. I'm laying down Lord.

Everything that says I'm in control, God.

I've made a mess with my life. I've made a mess, God, with me

being in control. God, I need you.

I recognize you as the anointed king.

I recognize you as the anointing authority.

I want to be tethered to that. I want to be joined to that.

I want to love that. I want to surrender to that.

Folks, if you need, if you need the Pentecost in your life, if

you need the gospel of the death, burial, and resurrection,

yes, it takes faith, but it also requires surrender.