Chosen For The Chase | Pastor Paul McGee

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First Samuel chapter #20 tonight.

First Samuel chapter #20 Glad to see you all.

Have you all our guests with this as well tonight.

Amen, Each one of you. First Samuel chapter #20 Going

to start reading verse #35 again.

Kind of diving in the midst of a story here, but that would, I

suppose, would be the case if you took a text anywhere to a

degree. First Samuel chapter 20 and

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verse #35 The Bible says, and it came to pass in the morning that

Jonathan went out into the field at the time appointed with

David, and a little lad with him.

He said unto his lad, run, find out now the arrows which I

shoot. And as the lad ran, he shot an

arrow beyond him. And when the lad was come to the

place of the arrow which Jonathan had shot, Jonathan

cried after the lad and said, Is not the arrow beyond thee?

Jonathan cried after the lad. Make speed haste, stay not.

Jonathan's lad gathered up the arrows and came to his master.

But the lad knew not anything. Only Jonathan and David knew the

matter. Jonathan gave his artillery unto

his lad and said unto him, go carry them to the city.

Just a little piece there. We're not really told how many

arrows were shot, but it seems like just a really brief moment

of time honestly. Some arrows are shot, lad goes

out there, grabs and brings them back and then go on Betty back

to town. Thanks, appreciate it.

Great job. I want to talk about tonight.

This chosen for the chase, chosen for the chase and our

focal point tonight isn't what we would maybe typically call

the stars of the the story of Jonathan David.

But I want to talk about this lad tonight.

This lad, Lord Jesus, I come to you tonight.

We're thankful God for another opportunity to be here.

We're thankful, Lord Jesus, tonight that we can worship and

praise you. I pray Lord, you would speak to

us through your word. God, it is the word of life,

God. It's for the instruction of our

own lives and own hearts. God will not fail to thank you

Lord, for what you accomplish in this place.

In the lovely name of Jesus Christ that I pray Amen and Amen

or by say Amen, Hallelujah may be seated tonight in Jesus name.

Sometimes critically and at times maybe even whimsically, we

we value rows and functions in the body of Christ.

We place value or importance on them and sometimes errantly, we

superimpose some importance on the seen ministries more than

the unseen ministries that can take place in the body of

Christ. We deem at times pastors and

teachers and those that we see musicians and singers that no

doubt these people are the ones that are essential to the church

and essential to the moving forward of the body of Christ.

But the Bible tells us in the New Testament that that as many

of members that the body does have, it is all members of one

solitary body. The they are comprised of one

body. They they may be many and are

indeed many, but they are one body.

And we know God is using people who serve in positions that I

mentioned, pastors, teachers, musicians, singers.

And it seems like anybody can draw the Direct Line, you know,

between them and, and their function and how they seem to

benefit the Kingdom of God. I mean, pastors and teachers,

understandably, they're sharing the word of God in some way,

enabling people to progress in the relationship with God.

And then you have the musicians and the singers.

They no doubt help foster a sense of an atmosphere of praise

and worship that would take place in a gathering like this.

And they invite heaven and earth to come down and connect for a

divine intersection. A man among us that enjoy a time

in God's presence. But a person in these

capacities, we think man, they're they're just making

great strides and advancing God's presence, just great

strides in in involving our lives of humanity in the

presence of God because of their participation.

But the apostle Paul said that it was the feebler members or

the more feeble members that are the necessary members.

He says what we think is less honorable in the body.

Are those really that more abundant honor is placed upon

them, He said. It's the uncomely parts of the

body or those that doesn't seem real attractive.

If we were to think of it in a very natural sense as to Jen

Cruz, it would be, you know, no one's just looking at her brain

thinking, man, that is such a pretty brain.

Look at that heart. Look at the finesse of that

heart. Look at those lungs.

I've never seen a pair of lungs like that before, but they are

the uncomely parts or members of the body.

Yet Paul even says that it's these parts that have even a

more abundant attractiveness about them because of some of

the purposes that they serve in the body.

For years, science and I, I just kind of tapped into this a

little bit today because I knew what we've been conditioned for,

for years. For years, science regarded the

appendix as unnecessary, right? So now I have my appendix out.

Well, what, what's the big deal? What does it do anyway?

Right? That's the been the mode for

years. That little, that little, it's a

little tube that's attached to your large intestine.

They the apparently for years we've always said it doesn't

necessarily have any function by science in their estimation.

However, some more recent research has shown that your

appendix may affect your immune system and your gut health.

So every part, even those that sometimes we had once thought

had no influence, no function, they really do have some type of

bearing upon our lives. There is no argument tonight

that in our text that Jonathan and David are some of the

significant characters of this event that takes place.

Jonathan is the King's son. I mean, that's a notable

individual here in our story. David has been a warrior, a

commander of the army of the king fearlessly for years now.

He has repetitively taken the nation of Israel into the

battlefield and off of the battlefield.

He has secured victory after victory.

He's he's a big deal. If I could say it like that, for

that matter, both of these individuals, Jonathan and David,

regularly have an audience with the king that would seem like

they're pretty important people. They sit at his table.

According to scripture, by his choosing.

He has invited them, allow them to sit at the same table that

the king sits at. That's pretty notable.

Again, they they seem to be big deals.

They seem to be, if you will, the big dogs.

They're they're very meaningful to the nation of Israel, even

just a short time earlier in our text tonight, the Bible

describes that David wasn't at the table.

He had been absent from the King's table for a couple of

days. And the king starts to inquire

and recognize that David had not been there.

It caught the King's attention. You know, you're important if

you get the attention of the king when you're not there.

And so the David's a big deal. His his value was enough that

the king acknowledged his absence when he wasn't at the

table. And unlike some even of us that

perhaps think at times and others, you know, we sometimes

assume that position that I wouldn't even be noticed if I,

if I wasn't here, I wouldn't even be noticed.

No one would know if I was there or not.

It's not like I add anything to the service.

It's not like I have anything to offer.

It's not as though the Kingdom of God hinges upon me.

If I don't participate, then it's really not going to matter

because in the grand, grand scheme of things, I, I just have

a minor row. I I'm just, if you will, the

little toe on the body, it doesn't really matter.

What I do I. I don't have the same type of

platform that others have of, of some of these glorious positions

of leadership around me. I, I just do the things that I

do, but they're not really vital to the Kingdom of God.

I suspect tonight that that is the very same type of attitude

our little lad had that accompanied Jonathan.

Just imagine for a moment, Jonathan.

Is leaving that morning. And he says, hey guy, could

could you go along with me today?

I have something I need. To do to your.

Mind accompanying me on this trip and perhaps in the back of

that little that's mine, in whatever capacity that he

normally served in around the Kingdom, perhaps, he thought.

This is the day the King's. Son has invited me to go

alongside him. I've been waiting for this

moment. My whole life, this is the day.

I get to go along with the King's son.

I'm used to shining, you know, the saddles of horses, and I'm

used to scrubbing the floor with a toothbrush and doing all these

menial tasks. But today?

The King's son. Wants me to join him on this

day. I wonder.

I wonder what we're going to do. I wonder what type of venture

we're going to go on. I wonder.

I wonder what? Type of confidence he has in me.

Are we going to go out on the field and?

Are we going to battle? Some foe and take out.

Some enemies and some adversaries.

I wonder I. Wonder if I'm going to.

Hear a message that he's. Going to give to somebody else

that nobody else will be able to say they heard, but I will

because I'll be there. I wonder if there's going to be

some type of message to a dignitary or.

It's going to be like, you know, classified stuff and I'm going

to be. There for it.

I'm going to hear it. I'm going to participate.

I wonder if we're going to go to another city and.

He's going to allow me to walk before him and say yay, yay of

wherever. Behold, the King's son.

It's my day. I'd finally come, but it's my

moment. To shine, this is it.

I'm finally going to be recognized today all the.

Years of my life of. Service today, they're going to

pay off. And as he's walking along

Jonathan, the King's son, they come to a little field out.

There's just a solitary stone setting in that field.

Nothing. Nothing out of the ordinary.

It doesn't. Seem to be anything.

Really special, just a field. And then Jonathan says to him,

he says here's what we're going to do.

He's like, yeah, yeah, yeah. What's going to what are we

going to do? He says, here's what we're going

to do. I'm going to shoot some arrows

and I want you to go chase after him and bring him back to me.

Excuse me, Could you say that again, but more slowly?

Yeah, I'm going to shoot some arrows and I want you to go

chase after them and bring them back to me.

I'm thinking in the mind of this lad, in the back of his head,

what you brought me out here this morning to chase your

arrows. Why don't?

You go chase your own arrows. I mean these royal types, you

can never trust them. They have the nerve to ask you

to come along with them to chase.

Their arrows pompous. Guy he must have be.

I might as well. Just stayed at home.

I would have been better. Off if I just.

Polished the saddles and seen them glimmer there.

At least be able to. Take us A.

Little bit of pride. In that but just.

Chasing somebody else's arrows. I I would rather scrub the

floors instead of chasing somebody else's arrows because

see. I, I thought this was my moment.

I, I thought I had arrived. I I thought I was going to be

used in the Kingdom here. In a.

Big way with Kingdom purpose and now I got this higher up that's

humiliating me with chasing arrows tell you.

What? Jonathan, next time why don't

you just have somebody else come and don't worry about?

Asking me. By the way, said the sun's just

a blazing. Heat out here, I got.

Sweat. Coming on my forehead and you

want me to chase? Some practice shots out here in

a no man's field. These arrows, they have no

target. Jonathan might as well be just a

little boy playing around with a little bow and arrows.

He no doubt could have found something better.

It would seem to do with his time.

Yet here he's involved this young boy, this young lad in

this ridiculous, what? It seems to be a ridiculous

escapade. And as the lad ran, the

scripture says, picturing now, he's running.

As the lad ran, Jonathan shot an arrow beyond him.

He's probably thinking, well, at least I'm glad he didn't shoot

me, you know? But he could have not.

Shot it so far in. Front of me, I mean, you see

where I'm at, Jonathan, you wouldn't be very.

Good at football. You wouldn't hit your target

you. Here I why did it?

Have to be so far. In front of me, you shot it so

far ahead and that just. Means I'm going to have to run.

Further and I'm going. To have to come.

Back farther in order to return your arrow.

I hide this, retrieve, take, chase, all this stuff.

This this. Is getting on my nerves.

Jonathan. And then you have the audacity

to ask. The Bible says Jonathan asked

whenever the servant got to where the arrow there was, he

said is. Not the arrow beyond me.

I'm the lad. I'm like, seriously.

It's not the arrow, of course. It is beyond.

Me. You saw how far?

I had to run you. You saw how swift I had to be.

And as I was running, you're the one that shot the arrow way

beyond me. You know the arrow.

Are you trying to? Mock me Jonathan, are you trying

to mock? Me.

Are you trying to? Degrade me?

Yes. The arrow is beyond me.

And then Jonathan says make speed, haste, stay not.

You know what he's saying. Hurry up.

I just got out here. I'm bending down to get your.

Arrow and you're saying, come on, let's go.

Bring it back. Woo Hoo.

Come on, lad. Come on, servant, come.

On back, Jonathan. He's not allowing him a a

chance, this lad to catch his breath.

He meant he's eager for him to bring the arrows back.

He doesn't want him fiddling around getting.

Distracted and as soon as. He sent him out.

He has him come back. And then the Bible says.

He tells him to go back to the city with the bow and with the

arrows. Jonathan, we've been out here.

It feels like a nanosecond. You've shot a few arrows, I've

chased them, I brought them back to you.

And it seems like there needed to be something a little bit

more important if I'm ever going to accept the invitation to go

with you again, because I thought something spectacular

was going to take place today. We've not even been out here

long. Enough to accomplish anything

tell in the world. Jonathan, do you even know that

there's any improvement in your shop when you shot so few

arrows? Jonathan?

It's taken us longer to get to the field and for me to run and

get the arrows. Amen.

And all this stuff. Amen.

Then for some purpose to be served right here.

This has been a useless venture, Jonathan, and I've not become

any more valuable than. I would have been if I didn't

make. The trip the.

Bible. Says in verse 39 I draw your

attention to again the Bible says but the lad knew not

anything, only Jonathan and David knew the matter.

Another translation Speaking of the lad says he did not know

anything but Jonathan and David knew the arrangement but the boy

that was chasing the arrows didn't know the arrangement.

Some might have called him upon, but I choose to call him tonight

the chosen because I realize in this journey called life and

even in our Christian journey, that often times we operate on

levels that are more meaningful than what the surface reveals.

We are used, sometimes imperceptible.

In other words, we're not really aware of how we are being used,

when we are being used, or. Even if we are really being

used. And it feels like sometimes that

the lack. Of value of our life.

In these episodes are being exploited.

Why in the world would I or should I be doing this?

At this moment of time, in this particular place, we feel to a

certain degree almost taken advantage of.

Amen. But our desire has been.

Harnessed really by the Lord, There's only a few people.

Only some people will chase arrows, but the people who

desire. To be used with zeal.

Amen. And with the tenacity, they will

do something. Yes, even if necessary, they

will chase arrows. Someone's Amen.

Bring this all home to us tonight.

Things have not been as they should have been for David.

At this moment. It was a little edgy.

Amen. There have been numerous

attempts upon his life. Amen.

Javelin after Javelin has been thrown in his direction to

murder him. David.

Even. Wondered whether or not he

needed to stay where he was or whether he needed to flee.

And so Jonathan, his friend assured David, he said, I'll let

you know what you need to do based upon the conversation that

I have with my father saw. I'll talk to him and see if his

intent is true about murdering you.

If his intent has, if it's grown more or if it's faded away,

I'll. Find out really what the.

Scenario is and if it is for the purpose of killing or if he's.

Let up on that, I'll let you. Know and the way that I'll let

you know let's make a little pact here right now let's.

Go out. To such and such field and

you'll be hiding. There, out there by a.

Solitary rock out there and he says.

I'm going to. Shoot some arrows.

And if I shoot some? Arrows and I tell the young man

Amen that is with me to go after them if I tell him that the

arrows are beyond. You, David, you will know that

things are not well here. At the house and that.

You should leave that day. Jonathan's call to that little

lad to accompany him and go alongside him was indeed a

invitation to be a part of something great.

By chasing arrows, Jonathan used that young man to send a message

of help to. Send a message that would.

Save the life of the future king that was hunkered down by a

rock. To that little boy, he didn't

think much of it. To that little boy it seemed

like nothing, but those that knew the bigger picture

understood that boy had a placement and A use in something

that was greater than what it seemed.

What are you? Saying tonight, Pastor McGee,

I'm saying this. We need not underestimate what

we may call trivial or menial or mundane.

Amen. Are not the arrows be on you?

Those words meant nothing to that ladder, but they were the

message that needed to be sent to King David hiding behind a

rock. To the young man, it was a

literal scenario, so arrows are beyond me.

But he didn't realize he was incense, a helder of a message,

his participation. And his response to what seemed

like a very ordinary moment resulted in his use, his

willingness sister Brenda to. Chase arrows.

Then. Created a space.

For his involvement in a meaningful moment.

He was not aware of. Sometimes, ladies and gentlemen,

the Kingdom boils down to whether or not you're willing to

chase some arrows. As he chased and retrieved

arrows, he was being used by Jonathan, but more importantly,

he was being used by God. While he was chasing and

retrieving arrows, God was sending and preserving not just

a king, but also a Kingdom. Note you, a king through which

Christ Jesus would be born. He was preserving, Amen.

And he was protecting. A.

King and a Kingdom. David had already been anointed

king at this. Point in Time and Jonathan.

Knew from his conversation with his father other that his.

Attempts on David's life. They were.

Not going to relent. They were not going to let up

and so. The message was clear, David.

You need to leave, David. You need to go.

But it had to be relayed in a unnoticed fashion, in a

unnoticed way. They needed someone who didn't

think chasing arrows was below them, that chasing arrows was

lower than they could Stew. They needed someone who had a

desire to do something, be something, even if it was

chasing arrows perhaps seemed like a waste of time in the

moment. But it provided a life altering

guidance for somebody else. Kingdom.

Programs were safeguarded by a man's interest to be used.

He had no idea about the genuine and the specific impact of what

he was doing was having. He understood perhaps that if

this, if this involves Jonathan, surely this must be Kingdom

work. And he might have went back home

with the arrows in the bow, brother Fred and was second

guessing, thinking maybe I was fooled.

And the answer is he was right. He was fooled because it was

Kingdom work. So what are you saying tonight?

I'm saying this congregation, go ahead and do those things that

occupy your time that even sometimes seem fruitless.

Go on and let the arrows be shot and with a Clarion cry, say

don't worry, I'll go get them while everybody else is setting

by on the surface that's not Privy to the matter, we'll say

look at them chasing arrows, those that know the matter.

Those that know the matter are not saying look at them chasing.

Those that know the matter know that kingdoms are being

preserved. Those that know the matter know

that life is being preserved. Those that know I believe in

this sanctuary tonight that God is.

Choosing some individuals. To chase some arrows.

What that means is this. You may never know your

influence on what's going on because you don't know what's

going on. But if you'll.

Trust the coal and you'll. Follow the heart to be used.

God will position you and place you in an atmosphere you will

never been before. To be used of Him and yet not

know you've been used by Him, you got to be willing to chase

even some arrows in doing this this.

Young man was used by God, Do you realize, in doing what he

did on this particular day that he may have been as close as he

would have ever been to Israel's most incredible future, King

David? I don't have nothing to be able

to go off of, but there is a chance that he may have never

been any closer to Israel's future renowning than he was the

day he opted for chasing arrows because he was willing to do it.

Folks, I am a true believer that God positions us in specific

places at specific times for specific reasons and even though

he knew nothing, the lad was in the right place to serve a very

critical role. What do I say?

I say it around here all time. God keeps good records to you.

It looks insignificant to you. It looks like nothing but

according. To the records of heaven.

It is somebody at the right place at the right.

Time with a willing heart to be. Used of God he knows.

Everything. Every arrow you've chased, he

knows every arrow out in a. Desolate.

Field that you've chased and he also knows every purpose.

Amen. That is served that you're

oblivious to because you were involved.

In the work you were. Involved in the task, you were

involved in the scenario. Someone needs to ask themselves

this question tonight. How?

Is God trying to use? You has a Jonathan waltzed by,

perhaps, and asked you to come along for the day.

And. When you found out it was arrow

chasing time, did you stay committed to what you signed up

for in the morning or did you say no thanks, I got some things

back at the house. I'd.

Rather attend to then chase some arrows.

Are there some things that seem below you?

Watch it because that may be the very thing where God is using

you the greatest. You might not realize it.

Don't don't don't fight against the trivial.

Don't don't fight against the mundane.

Because God could be facilitating a very major

occasion with, with your participation, with your

engagement. Boy, he leaves his house has

five loaves of bread and two fishes.

Disciples, we need to feed this multitude.

We don't want them to leave. We they've been here, they've

listened to me teach all day. We're we need to feed this

multitude. And they're like, well, we don't

even have enough money in order to buy enough bread in order to

feed this multitude. But we do have this lad that has

five loaves of bread and two fishes.

Don't seem like much and maybe his placement and timing didn't

seem like much. But at the Days Inn after 5000,

people besides women and children were fed and fragments

were taken up after the fact. He was just a young boy you

might say. Chasing arrows didn't understand

the full impact of what he took that day as he left the house.

Someone say Amen to another individual.

Real history for you today To Rosalind Franklin.

To Rosalind Franklin. It was photo 51.

It was photo 51. She was an X-ray

crystallographer taking photographs of molecular

structures. Doesn't that sound fantastic?

Molecular structures. Click.

It was photo 51. That's what it was to her.

But photo 51 was also a critical link for Watson and Crick and

the deduction of what we know today is the double Helix

structure of DNA because of what was photo 51 to her on the

bigger scheme of things fundamentally change all of

biology and genetics that we know today because of photo 51.

That young lad was chosen for the chase at Jonathan's behest.

He had no inkling that each step was part of a grander plan to

save a future king. And those small and seemingly

trivial. His actions were monumental, of

course, for the Kingdom of God. What I say in that is this is

that at times we might feel that some of our daily tasks, our

routines, our little acts of service are just insignificant

as chasing arrows across the field.

Yet what we must hold on to and what we must believe tonight is

this is that nothing ordained by God is insignificant.

Every act of kindness, every moment of service, every

seemingly mundane task has eternal implications when it's

ordained by God. I've heard it from my wife, the

story she's told me from coming home.

She works course as a secretary on the front of her desk.

She has magneted there under magnets.

She has words of encouragement. It's pieces of paper that's

folded over. You can buy them dollar store,

something like that. It's a prayer in the Scripture

basically, and some words of encouragement.

They're they're magneted to her desk.

Anybody ever comes in having a rough day or something like

that. She says, well, maybe you should

grab a, a word of encouragement for anybody for the taking.

Amen. They can take that, take that

home. They can read it, whatever.

She has told me too many stories of people that have come in

going through struggles or hard time.

She just say, why don't you just grab a word of encouragement?

She she prays whenever she puts them up that they'll land in the

right hands. Many people have read those at

her desk. Tears start to flow down their

cheeks because something in just that little minuscule thing of a

piece of paper with a scripture and a few words touches them at

a divine intersection. What are you saying?

I'm saying you can't look over your daily task or routines and

say, well, it's just insignificant.

It's just chasing arrows. It's not much.

No, ladies. And gentlemen.

What you are oblivious to, It could be a.

Message. It could be the word.

Exactly of somebody that's behind what they need to hear

and it got to them because you participated and was a part of a

runner of chasing after arrows. You've been chosen for the chase

tonight. Oh yes, someone say man, So what

are you doing? And I, I, I'm hastening to

close. I really AM.

He came in and someone said I'm glad about that.

And you know, I was long this morning.

So we got to balance everything out.

So I call you today not just to action, but more so too, a

transformation of perspective. A transformation of perspective.

You need to view your roles. You need to view your jobs.

You need to view your contributions to your community

and to your church and to your family and to your place of work

as vital. Pieces.

All of God's design. It's not that just however many

months ago God put James Malone on the night shift because he's

trying to get things in order for later in life.

No. There's a.

Design there that we need to seek out.

God's had me chase. Arrows right here.

There's a purpose I don't realize right now I'm not aware

of right now. There's a purpose for the Mason,

more so for that. Doctrine that you just.

Received and what you even realize there's something.

There it feels like a arrow. I know for years that was far

reaching. It was beyond you, but your hand

is on it now. And God said I'm doing

something, I'm working something, I'm going to

accomplish something. I chosen you for it, Chase.

Oh God, Hallelujah, someone say Hallelujah.

What that means is this. It matters not what it may be,

but whenever you're tempted to belittle.

Your importance or question the. Value.

Of your work, remember a lad who chased arrows, unknowingly

participating in God's rescue plan for a future king.

You stand with me, I'll close. So as a congregation, you know

what we must do? We must chase our arrows with

gusto. Whether you teach a class here,

sing a song, serve in the church kitchen, offer a prayer, you

need to do it with this knowledge that you're a part of

something that's bigger than yourself and you're doing

something more impactful than what it seems like saying is God

doesn't call the equipped, He equips the called.

And I'm telling you today, you've been called and chosen

for the chase. So as we gather our things

tonight and we pack up and we leave here, you might even

consider this very weak. Some of the arrows that you

might chase and you need to get your hand on them.

You need to embrace them, no matter how insignificant they

may seem, because you never know which arrow's carrying a message

of deliverance. You never know which arrow's

carrying a message of salvation. You never know which arrow's

carrying a message of encouragement.

Hey, man, you just never know when it's the hope or the

healing. Amen.

For somebody else that you're chasing after and with God's.

Blessing and with God's. Guidance.

I'm confident tonight that we can go forth and we can chase

diligently and we can love fiercely in our community and we

can serve. Faithfully here and around this.

Place you know what the Bible says, grow not weary in well

doing. And thank not because.

If you do so. You are.

Going to reap. Hey man, if you think not,

there's a proper time for that. There's a proper place.

For that, there's a proper reason for that.

Amen. Don't give.

Up. Don't give up.

God is with every chase. He's with every.

Task. He's with every moment.

You've. Been chosen for the chase.

We bow our heads in this place tonight.

There might be someone here. Oh, brother McGee, that that's.

I've been that lad. I feel like I've been over on

the. The the left.

Field part, if you will, of the, of the ball diamond.

I've, I've been in left field and I'm out there isolated.

I'm, I'm alone or I've, I've been over here and I've been

doing the work for the Lord and it seems like just a, a

thankless task. And it's, it's just a thankless

thing that I'm a part of chasing arrows and they're not even my

arrows. It's somebody else's and I'm

chasing after me. It just doesn't seem to reason.

It don't make sense. It don't have no fan flare.

There's no limelight with it. I'm just out there chasing it,

retrieving it and bringing it back.

But sure. Oh ma'am, there's somebody out

of you. There's somebody tucked behind a

rock that just needs to hear the voice that's telling you.

Go a little further, go a little beyond, get the arrow and bring

it back because that's hope to them, that's salvation to them.

That's an answer for them. I'm asking tonight if there's

anybody in this place, if we could gather up here front that

can say God, I'll answer the call for the chasing of the

arrows and God, I'll go this far that I don't even have to really

know what I'm being involved in. In the moment.

I don't know. I don't have to know how it all

plays out. I don't have to know that in the

moment that I'm doing what I'm doing that I'm actually being

used of God. I'm just going to make myself

open. I'm going to make myself

available. I'm going to make myself

willing. That.

Pre adventure, if I participate, perhaps I'm participating in

something bigger than what I realize.

Perhaps I'm involved in myself, in something grander than what

my eye can pick up on in my mind can even comprehend.

Ladies and gentlemen, we are involved in that type of work.

Amen. Here each and every day on your

job and your place where you get your groceries, where you

frequent for going out to eat and those shoulders that you rub

with. Who knows that in your moment of

chasing arrows, what's happening in the life of another

individual, what message they are hearing, what hope is being

Lord, poured out upon them? Because you said I'll do it.

If nobody else wants to, I'll do it.

I know it don't seem like much, but it is much.

You're just not Privy to it. You don't know it.

But God says I'm using them in a way they do not even understand.

I'm using them in a way they don't even understand.

Come on, Sir. Come on ma'am, what you do is

important. Your.

Participation. Hey, man, in your community,

it's significant. Yes, yes, yes, yes.

Keep chasing, keep retrieving. Somebody's getting a message.

Keep chasing, keep retrieving. Deliverance has come to someone.

Keep chasing. Keep, keep, keep, keep.

Keep retrieving. Salvation is coming to someone

because you said I'll be a part. I'll do it.

You've been chosen for the chase.

Let's talk to the Lord right now in the closure.

Amen of this service. Brother and sister Mason, I love

you God. Thank you for listening.

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