Make it count

Man.

God bless you. All of you are looking great. We're

going to the book of first Corinthians very familiar scripture.

Amen.

That we can relate to. I wanna constantly push the

church to remember who we are.

Amen.

I wanna push our church to remember who we are,

to know who we are, and then to remember who

we are, and then to fulfill who we are. But

we are evangelistic entrepreneurs.

Hallelujah.

We share the gospel of our lord and savior Jesus

Christ and entrepreneurially.

Amen. We Come up with great ideas. Amen. Because he

who wins souls is wise. Hallelujah. Amen. He who wins

souls is wise. Hallelujah.

So we thank God for you on today. We appreciate

you and your presence on today.

Amen.

We want to continue to again to let us know

who we are and what we do. We thank God

for our leadership team, all of our ministers on today.

Thank you so much.

For being here. Amen. Again, 1 Corinthians chapter number 9. Okay.

And we'll begin verse number 24. Very familiar scripture. If

you will, when you have it, say amen. Y'all don't

sound good to me.

Oh, hallelujah. Now y'all around me, so y'all need to

be loud and boisterous. Hallelujah. No, whatever that is. Amen.

So again, the Bible says, 1 Corinthians 9 and 24.

The Bible says, know ye not. The day which run

in a race. He's talking about racing, amen? He said,

realize that all is running. He said, but only one

receive the prize. In other words, if we in the race,

all of us are in the race, all of us

are running. I say all of us are running.

I don't care. I don't care, Taniqua.

If all of us is running, we running. And while

we're running, I'm going to do my best to outrun you.

If it's not you, to outrun myself. But when we run,

we run this race.

Amen. But only one, somebody shout one, receive the prize.

And that we know.

That then, and so since you have been conditioning yourself

to run this race and training to run this race,

when you get in the race, you also run that

ye may win.

I wish I had somebody. If you're going to run, run.

Come on. And then he says, and every man that

strives for.

Mastery is temperate or have self-control in all things. Now

they that do it, do it, watch this, to obtain

or win a corruptible crown.

Not us though.

Because a corruptible crown fades away. But for us, when

we run this race of the gospel, we run it

for an eternal crown that lasts forever. And then the

writer says, I therefore so run. Not as uncertainly. In

other words, he said, I'm not running to think I'm

going to come in second place.

He said, I'm assured that when I run, as I run,

that I'm going... You got an attitude like that? If

you're going to do it, you're going to do it.

I wish I had. Amen? Uh-huh. Uncertainty. So fight.

I'm not as one that beat it at the air.

So if you're going to fight, don't shadow box.

Hit something. You with me?

And then he said, but I keep under my body

and bring it under subjection, lest that by any means,

when I have preached... To others, I myself shall be disqualified.

Or cast away. From those scriptures, I'd like to speak

to you today on the message.

The Lord finally, I finally remembered what he wanted me

to talk about. And today, I want to talk about

make it count. Tell your neighbor, make it count. Just

don't beat at the air and shadow box. Just don't

run just to be running. But if you're going to run,

make it count. If you're going to fight, make it count.

Tell your neighbor, say, neighbor, make it count.

Make it count.

Father, we thank you now for your loving kindness, your

tender mercies. We thank you, God, for what you would

speak to our hearts on today. Help us, God, as

we encourage, inspire, and empower the people of God to

draw closer to you, God. Give us more strength, more might,

more power And so, God, we thank you for it now.

In Jesus' name we pray, amen. Would you high-five at

least seven people and tell them, make it count.

Come on, do it real hard like you're in a

football game, like the captain.

Y'all don't sound loud at all. Make it count. Come on.

I thought I had some preachers. All these preachers I

got up in here, y'all ain't saying nothing?

Come on, make it count. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. we love you

make it count man it's interesting to understand.

That when I thought about this message I thought about

that if we're going to make it count this one

count or something count then it's important for us to

understand that if it's going to count, we can't do

stuff half-heartedly. The second thing I thought about that if

we're going to make it count, not only are we

going to not do it half-heartedly, but we can't do

what we're going to do heartless. In other words, if

we're going to do it, we're going to have to

put our mind to it in order to do it.

In order to win, we got to do it from

our heart. It's important that we just don't physically win

fights or win races, but we also psychologically win fights

and races. So it's important that we think about this

is that we have to psychologically understand that I.

Have to have my mind invested in.

What I'm doing. Not only that, I ought to have

my emotions intact.

Come on.

If I'm going to win, I just, you know, some folks,

you're just too emotionally imbalanced.

Hallelujah.

Mentally imbalanced. If I'm going to win, I got to

be physically fit. And not only that, sometimes we can't

do it because we don't have finances. But if we're

going to make it count, if we're going to sing,

sing to make it count. I wish I had a

neighbor here If you're going to dance, dance to make

it count. If you're going to speak, come on somebody.

Hallelujah.

Speak to make it count. If you're going to sow seed,

sow a seed to make it count. Just don't do

stuff just to be doing stuff. Don't come to church

just to be coming to church. You know, don't show up.

If you ain't going to show up, if I'm going

to be in the classroom and I'm in the classroom

and I tell most of my students, if you go

into the class, you're going to be since you in

the class, be the best that you can possibly be.

And if you don't compete with anybody else with yourself,

I wish I had somebody here. If you made a C.

Last time, the next time you got to challenge yourself,

I ain't going to make a C. I'm going to

make a B this time. And if you increase and improve,

come on, if you become productive from a B, you

ought to get to an A.

You ought to compete against yourself that when I'm involved

in whatever I'm involved in, because I'm on the team.

I'm going to make a difference.

I wasn't the best in basketball, but I had this

little fade. And so when I had the little fade

and somebody looked taller than me, you know, I would

hit it like....

And so people get mad on the other team, talking about.

Why you letting that little dude do that? Come on, somebody, hallelujah.

I wasn't the best, but since I was on the team,

I was going to make a difference. Because I was

on the team, because, glory to God, I feel the

Holy Ghost. Listen, because I was on the team. I'm

a child of God. I've been conditioned and training for this.

Since I'm on the team, I'm going to make it count.

Come on now. I ran in the real world.

When they gave it to me, I know it don't

look like it now. Don't worry about it. Don't laugh

at that. But when I got that baton, I made

it count. I wasn't mediocre. In doing what I was

supposed to do.

Mediocre kills potential. I wish I had somebody. Hallelujah.

Because you only do what's called of you to do

and not above or beyond what you do. That's why

you're still where you are today. Because you ain't put

no more in it than what you can put in it.

And you have help. your potential. Oh, I wish I

had a neighbor right there. If you're gonna preach, man,

make it count. You think I'm gonna get up here

on Sunday morning just doing something? I don't care if

you hear me or not.

Like it or not.

But while I'm up here with this mic in my hand.

I want to make it count. I want to help somebody.

I want to see somebody encouraged. I want to see

somebody inspired. I want to see somebody empowered. I want

to see, I don't know about you, I want to

see somebody go to the next level.

I want to see.

How a message have transformed your life, transitioned you to

the next level.

If you're going to do it, make it. Somebody shout

make it. Make it count.

If you're going to lead, make it count. Whatever you do,

Do things. And if you don't attach what you do

to a purpose, that's why you just do things.

You got to answer the why. Why are you doing it?

You got to have a reason.

You got to have an end statement of why you

do what you do. You need to know the purpose

because if you don't have no purpose, can I talk

to you today? If you ain't got no purpose, that's

why you ain't got no passion. And if you ain't

got no passion, you ain't got no tribe. You ain't

got no fuel to get you past the point you

are right now because you don't have no purpose. And

without purpose, my brother, you don't have no passion. That's

why you have heart and do what you do. Just

do enough to get by. Some of you, we making

money just to get by. Living week to week, paycheck

to paycheck. I wish I had somebody.

Hallelujah. Glory to God. We ain't putting in.

No extra work or extra duty in order to get

past what we are.

And that's why we still what we are. Yeah.

Purpose pushes your passion. The passion is what's now. Because see,

if you ain't got no passion, you sure ain't going

to put no plan.

Hallelujah. You ain't got no passion. I know you ain't

got no workout plans. You ain't got no plan. Come on, somebody.

I know you ain't got no financial plan.

Hallelujah.

You just talking. Hallelujah. You just talking.

See, words don't become reality until you write it down

and put it on paper, rather than be on a

physical paper or the paper of your heart.

I wish I had a neighbor here. Somebody shout glory.

And if you put that plan together, if you put

that plan together, God said, I'll give you provision, and

not only provision, but I'll help you persevere when you're drunk.

Tell your neighbor, say neighbor. Neighbor. Make it count.

Make it count.

Tell her, make it count. Make it count.

When we look at this text on today, we see

now that we're dealing in the church at Corinth. And

we remember this church was one of the most prominent

areas in which Paul had visited.

Somebody say the church at Corinth.

We remember that the church of Corinth, besides That struggle

because they had many struggles. Just like many of us

have many struggles.

Can I get a witness? Yet they had that struggle.

They struggled as a church with division. In other words,

there was division among the saints.

And he said, y'all all have the same judgment.

This particular church not only had struggles with division, but

they also had struggle with lawsuits. In other words, they

were taking each other to court. Each other to court

as if they couldn't judge among themselves to get it right.

Nobody wanted to lose to win. They took on the

Gentile thought process because they thought winning was winning, but

if you lose in the kingdom of God, you actually win.

Amen.

When you die, you actually live. I wish I had somebody.

Hallelujah. If you humble yourself and go down, God will

raise you up. Uh-huh. Yeah.

With the court and not only that, in this particular church,

like a generation we're living in right now, sexual immorality. Say,

y'all have done things, not even the Gentiles. Now, you

know the Gentiles did things. I wish I could spell

it out. I won't spell it all out, but they

did everything. But this man took another man's wife.

Come on, somebody. Hallelujah. He said, you ought to have

cast him over to Satan, his flesh.

Amen.

That he might be saved. Come on, somebody.

This church has some struggles. Tell your neighbor, say, neighbor,

I got some struggles too. I don't want you to

confess it right now.

Wait later. Okay. All right. I'll see the priest. Hallelujah.

But go ahead and admit, I got some struggles too.

I got some struggles in making it count from time

to time. I got some paths. I got a path

behind me that caused me to have frustrations, that caused

me not to make it really count. I just start

doing stuff, but I'm not really doing it with everything

that I got because I'm still dealing with my struggles.

As long as you're dealing with your struggles, you will

never get to the place of success. You got to

overcome your struggles.

In order to get. Somebody ought to shout glory right there.

I need to talk to some real people who have

overcome some struggles in one.

Area of your life.

Maybe not all of them, but you done overcome some

struggles in one part of your life.

Whether it be drugs or alcohol, fornication, whatever the case

may be.

You give God praise because God brought you out.

I wish I had.

Hey, God, y'all act like you ain't got no struggle,

had no struggles in your past. Still dealing with struggles,

but thank God, hallelujah, that God helped.

Me in my struggles. They also had problems and struggles

with confusion.

Even with their spiritual gifts to abuse gifts and underused

gifts in the church. Had problems with adultery and fornication.

But on the other hand, although they had struggles, can

I talk about Corinthians? Corinth was a boom town. In

other words, it was a place, a melting pot that

people came into. It was populated by freedom or free

men who were former slaves. It was also populated with

merchants and veterans and fortune seekers from all over the world,

all over the empire. Not only was it that, but

it was also popular as a tourist destination. temples and

temples such as Apollo and shrines and Aphrodite. It was

also a famous for his wealth and culture. So, in

other words, there was some good things about Corinth.

Come on, somebody.

Lastly, was known for his games. In other words, games

was held every two years. It was similar to the Olympics.

You know, the Olympics, we have it once every four years.

But with the Isthmian Games, these games was held every

two years and every four years of the year.

Amen?

So they held it every two years and every four years.

And like any other competitive sport, you got to understand

that athletes have to condition through training and exercise in

order to compete in the games. So in these games

that they did in Greek or in Corinth, Needed for

a perishable crown.

Tell your neighbors it's a perishable crown.

We assume that we understand desires, but we.

Don't fight for a perishable crown.

In other words, we fight and we run for an

imperishable crown that lasts forever. So Paul in his teaching

frequently used metaphors to encourage the church to condition themselves.

Tell your neighbors, neighbor, If you're going to win, you're

going to have to condition yourself. You're going to have

to train for this one. You're going to have to

fight for this one. So whatever you're looking to aim for,

you're going to have to condition.

Yourself for this prize.

So frequently he used these metaphors in the church and

said to you, you got to condition yourself. You got

to condition yourself to run. You got to condition yourself

to fight. You got to condition yourself to win the crown.

Not with uncertainty though. You got to think in your

mind that because you are on this end, even though

there was only one winner, but in the kingdom of God,

tell your neighbor all of us win.

And the only way that.

We win is because we stay in the fight and

we stay in the race and we never throw in

the towel. Tell your neighbor, say neighbor, make it count.

ah yes in the Greek games only one could win

the prize but then I run for life and fight

for the gospel of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ

turn to your neighbor and say neighbor in this race

and in this fight we all win if we keep

running though if we keep fighting though it's the only

time we can win Turn to your neighbor one more

time and tell them we all win.

But you got to keep on running and you got

to keep on fighting.

The question I propose then is what do you do

to keep running?

What do you do to keep fighting? What do you

do to obtain.

The prize and reaching those that are lost and equipping

those that are found To send those that are chosen.

To fulfill the great commission. Actually there was a name

of what.

Do you do. What do you do. When you lose.

All of your physical strength. What do you do. When

the spirit of apathy. And you just don't want to

do it again. What do you do when your emotions,

my God, are deprived? What do you do when your

bank account calls to be insufficient and resources dry up?

What do you do?

Yes, when you're tired. What do you do? I wish

I talked to some real people. What do you do

to keep running? What do you do to keep fighting

when you feel worn out? What do you do when

you feel frustrated about life and look like life keep

causing you to go around the same mountain over and

over again? Ask your neighbor, what do you do? What

do you do? What do you do when you get

weary in well-doing? But the Bible declares don't get weary

in well-doing. Because if you hang in there, God will

reward you in due season. Tell your neighbor, get ready

for due season. Get ready for due season. So Paul

understands from his experience that to keep running and fighting

to win, you must condition yourself. Tell your neighbor if

you're going to win, you must condition yourself. There are

four things I want to share with you quickly. You

got to condition yourself psychologically. You got to condition yourself emotionally.

You got to condition yourself physically.

Physically. And you got to condition yourself financially. Tell your

neighbors and.

Neighbor, if you're going to keep on running and keep

on fighting, you're.

Going to have to condition yourself.

Psychologically, you're going to condition yourself by, come on somebody,

training your mind.

In other words, you got to put your mind to

it in order to do it.

When you put your mind to it, you're willing to

face difficult situations and problems with the end in mind.

In other words, if you're going to win, you got

to make sure that the price is bigger than the problem.

You got to realize that the price is bigger than

your dilemma. You got to see the price bigger than

your obstacle. Oh, I wish I had a neighbor right now.

Hallelujah.

Because you see the end game of what you're doing.

That what you gain will be more than what you lost.

But you got to lose some things.

In the process. But in your comparison, the suffering of

this world. Come on, somebody. I might be going through

what I'm going through.

But the suffering of this world cannot compare to the

price or the.

Glory that God has for me. Tell your neighbor, say, neighbor,

you got to put your mind in it. You got

to put your mind in it.

You got to see the price being greater than your situation.

The Bible said, know ye not. The day that Ron

in the.

Race that all of us run, but only one received

the price. And so he encouraged them and say, so Ron,

if you're going.

To run, make it count. He said, Ron, that you

may obtain.

Then he says, I therefore, in verse number 26, so

run not with uncertainty, but assure that if I keep

running and I keep fighting, tell your neighbor if I

keep on, I will win.

Tell him if I stay in the run and stay

in the fight, I will win.

The Bible declares that the race is not given to

the swift nor.

To the strong.

Ah, but the battle, not to the strong, but to

the one That endured to the end.

Tell your neighbors and neighbors, you got to hold on

in there.

Hold on to God's unchanging hands.

Hallelujah.

I don't throw in the towel until you cross the

finish line. So even though people might come in before you,

that doesn't mean they won.

Hallelujah.

The win is considered that if you continue this race

and this fight and finish the finishing line, then you win.

Tell your neighbors, hey neighbor, don't give up, don't give up.

The Bible declares, let this mind be in you. was

also in Christ Jesus. In other words, Jesus Christ himself

had to go through some problems, but the price was

greater than the problem.

Come on, somebody.

Hallelujah. The Bible declares that he learned obedience to the

things that he suffered, that he didn't have to go

to that rugged cross, but he saw the price.

In other words, he saw you and me. He's seen

the whole world and.

They will be in a better condition if he had

to go through what he had to go through.

But the price, glory.

To God, I wish I had somebody. The price was

bigger than the problem. The Bible declares that even Christ

Jesus himself learned obedience to.

The things that he suffered. Hallelujah.

And that he went to the cross and died on

that rugged cross. The Bible said that at his name,

every knee shall bow and every tongue shall confess that

he is the Lord.

Tell your neighbors, hey neighbor, you got to put your

mind in it. Hallelujah.

You got to realize that the price is bigger than

your problem.

The second thing I see here is emotionally.

In other words, you got to train emotionally by training

your emotions.

To diffuse impulsive responses.

Sometimes you respond without thinking. I wish I had somebody.

And because of your feeling and emotions, sometimes they'll get

you hurt and get you killed.

Come on, somebody. Hallelujah.

Kill your plan and kill your dream. And that was

wrong with Moses. God told Moses, Moses.

Speak to the rock.

But Moses, because he was impulsive in his attitude and

emotionally imbalanced with anger. I wish I had somebody here.

Instead of speaking to the rock, he struck the rock.

And God told Moses, listen, you just counseled out your

purpose and your plan.

You will not go into the promised land.

High five your neighbor's neighbor. Don't counsel God's plan for

your life. Come on, don't be impulsive in your decision making.

Hallelujah.

And the Bible says in verse number 25, and every

man that competes for the prize, somebody shout every man

that competes for the prize is tempered or self-controlled in

all things. In other words, we got to learn how

to navigate. Tell your neighbor, navigate. We got to learn

how to navigate friction. We got to learn how to

navigate stress. We got to learn how to navigate discomfort.

In other words, we can't do shadow boxing. In other words,

we're going to expand all of our energy. Hallelujah, because

we swing it at something and don't have a target

to hit.

Come on, somebody.

Sometimes, my brothers and sisters, we fighting things that they

won't even be fighting. Hallelujah, that somebody else fight, but

you fighting it. You expending all your energy on somebody

else's stuff and not your own.

And oh God, I wish I had.

And that's why it don't count for you because you

trying to do something for somebody else.

But you got to understand you got to quit shadow boxing.

You got to quit fighting at the air and find

a target that you need to hit. And whatever that

target is that makes sure that you don't miss a punch.

Because every punch that you punch is a combination and

a power punch. I wish I had somebody in collective

impact who would make a fist right there and go

ahead and swing at the devil and your situation and

knock him O-U-T out. In other words, you got to

learn that if you're going to control your emotions, you.

Got to learn how to de-escalate situations. Hallelujah. Sometimes people

come to.

You loud and boisterous, but the Bible tells us that

a soft answer turn around wrath.

Come on somebody.

I've had some people talk loud to me and I

just cut them off with a soft answer.

They think I'm hollering at them or screaming at them.

I'm just speaking to him softly hallelujah sometimes your soft

words is more and more clear than your loud words

he says you got to learn how to de-escalate.

In other words don't put no fuel on.

The fire come on somebody hallelujah the more you talk

the more y'all argue hallelujah the more y'all argue is

because the more you talk but if you learn how

to hold your peace come on man let the lord

fight your battle Tell your neighbor, say, victory shall be mine.

Tell your neighbor, you got to learn how to hold

your peace sometimes.

You don't have to answer every situation and problem that

you have to face.

Hallelujah.

You got to understand again that don't be weary and well-dened.

The Bible says don't overly be defensive. Sometimes we overly defensive.

We have to defend ourselves for everything. I say something

to you. No, that ain't me. I tell you this. No,

that's you. You overly defensive.

But the Bible declares, amen, that if you can't control

your own emotion, you're like a city without walls. Allow

the enemy to come in at any time. Tell your neighbors,

hey neighbor, you got to have self-control.

Hallelujah.

You got to be able to control your emotions. You

got to be able to control your words. You got

to be able to control your attitude. You can't go

from zero to 100. You can't go from A to Z.

Sometimes you got to have some filter Just in the middle.

I wish I had somebody. Hallelujah. Sometimes you just need

to close your mouth. Hallelujah.

And watch what God will do. Glory to God. Come

on and clap your hands and give God a praise.

The Bible says you ought to be quick to hear.

Somebody shout quick to hear. slow to speak and slow

to wrath because it does not work the righteousness of

God God said I'm working some things out as long

as you hold your peace get out of the way

and let me step up in front of you come

on I've already got your battle hallelujah I've already won

the battle for you I'll be your forefront I'll be

your rear guard I'll be a fence all around you

tell your neighbor say neighbor hold your peace let the

Lord let the Lord fight Let the Lord fight your battle. Thirdly,

you got to condition yourself physically by training your body

through controlling exercise and appetite.

So fight on, he says. In verse number 27.

Fight on and keep my body and I got to

bring this body into subjection. In other words, I train

my senses to know between good and evil.

In other words, I.

Control my eyes to see what I need to see.

I control my ears to hear what they need to hear.

I control my nose to sense what they need to sense.

I control my mouth to speak what only God would

help me to speak.

I wish I had somebody.

In other words, you got to understand that some of

us are dull of hearing and we have need to

be taught again. But thank God, hallelujah, our God, that

we are trained, that we can train our senses right

here on earth.

Some tell your neighbor, say, neighbor, control, control, control your

feeble body. Hallelujah. Some of us can't do what we

could do.

But I come to prophesy to somebody that God is

getting ready to renew your strength. Come on, I come

to prophesy to somebody that God is about to renew

your strength. I know that the devil is after you.

The reason he after you because you got something of value. Oh,

he wouldn't be after you if you didn't have something

of value. Many of you who've been called into ministry,

he see the weapon, come on somebody, that you have

inside of you. And so he's trying to kill it

before it's fulfilled.

But tell your neighbor, say neighbor, no weapon formed against me.

Shall prosper I'm gonna keep doing what I'm doing until

I can't do it no more and I'm gonna give

it the best that I got tell your.

Neighbor you got to make it count you got to.

Make it you got to make it count some of

you will come to tell you that God is about

to strengthen your body you about to renew your strength

as the eagle hallelujah let the weak say that I

am strong Oh, God, I feel like preaching up in

here on today. Begin to speak to your body. Begin

to speak to your mind. Begin to speak to your spirit.

Begin to speak to your situation. Speak to your children.

Say to this mountain, mountain, be thou removed. And because

of your faith, I wish I had some faith people

that are going to start speaking to your situation. And

speak into your circumstance. Things about to change and shift

in your life. Come on and clap your hands and

give cards and pray. Somebody shout glory. Somebody shout speak it. Speak, speak, speak.

Talk about the strength in you. Hallelujah. You're going to

stop flopping like a chicken. Start soaring like an eagle. Hallelujah.

I know about you. I want my wings. I want

my eagle wings. Hallelujah. I want to soar even into

the storm.

Realize that my storm only gets up under my wings and.

Elevate me higher. I come to tell you God is

getting ready to elevate you higher. Hallelujah. Say your name

if you're about to elevate me higher. Hallelujah. financially by

training yourself. Hallelujah.

If you're not awarded here by men that God will

award you. Here now I will come to my clothes

that Apostle Paul says when I preach and I preach

to others I myself shall not be disqualified. Well they

had a problem with Apostle Paul because they didn't think

that he was Qualified. I wish I had a neighbor here.

And this is the only church besides the other 12

that he spoke to. This is the only church that

he had some friction with them approving.

Him for his calling.

They say you're not qualified and that you're not qualified

we're not going to give you no money. Because if

your ministry is not financed then you're not qualified.

Now how you going to.

Judge my qualification on my finances? You telling me you

didn't look at my psychological, emotional, and physical being and

you're going to disqualify me because I don't have support

for ministry? Paul began to say, listen, I'm going to

preach anyhow. Brother, you give it to me or not,

I'm still going to preach. Oh, I wish I had somebody.

Because when you know what God called you to do

and not what other people are calling you to do, hallelujah,

because at any time that I can stop you doing

what God called you to do, maybe you're not qualified

to do what God has called you to do.

Oh, I wish I had somebody. Hallelujah.

Oh, the pastor won't show me no favor. He won't

call my name. I'm just not going to do it

no more. You're not qualified.

Huh?

Because you can't take hold of the plow at any

time and look back. If God gave it to you

to do it, then you're going to have to do it.

The problem with us is we don't know that God

called us to do it. We think that man has

called us to do it. Man ain't called Paul to preach.

He said, you didn't call me. I'm one who was

born out of order. Come on, somebody. He said, I

went into the backsides of Arabia and I got a

word from God. So you didn't call me and you

can't stop me from doing what God called me to

do and you can't disqualify me because you won't support me. See,

some folks are disqualifying you because they ain't supported you.

In other words, they can support you with a hand clap.

They ain't did that yet. They ain't going to encourage

you along the way. They ain't did that yet.

Even though they don't clap for you or encourage you

or pat you on the back, tell your neighbor, I'm

still qualified. Oh, I wish I had somebody here. I

feel like moving forward here. Tell your neighbor, I'm still qualified.

In other words, he said, I'd rather you pay me

or not, even though I have a right.

To receive pay.

Because Jesus Christ even said we all live by the gospel.

He said, how can I give you, I give you

my spirit to not receive your corner, but don't worry

about it.

For y'all that's incorrect, so.

That I do not cause an offense to this gospel.

I don't want to receive anything from you anyhow.

In other words, I go out and make some tent

and be self-sufficient just that this gospel don't be stopped.

Tell your neighbor, say neighbor, you got to make it count.

Whether people support you or not, glory to God, you

still got to make it count. Whether people be on

your side or not, you still got to make it count.

Whether people approve you or not, you still got to

make it count. He says, now what is my reward then?

Since I'm not going to receive nothing and I'm in self-denial. Yeah,

I'm denying my own rights just so I can Get

some of y'all. He said, what should I do now?

He said, what is my reward? He says, I don't

receive or charge you for the gospel. And yet I'm

still preaching this gospel. What is my reward? And then

he says, and I'm closing, he says, now, for though

I'm free, though I'm free from.

All men, He said, I still made myself a slave

just to make it count.

In other words, you can't stop me from preaching. I'm

going to keep on preaching. And if I stop preaching,

woe unto me. If I stop preaching, then this dispensation

of stewardship of gospel that God has given me is

in vain.

No, no, I got to make it count.

Not only when things are going well, but when things

are not going so well, I still.

Got to make it count.

Even though I got some with me, some not, I

still got to make it count. Even though I'm in prison,

I still got to make it count.

Even though I'm locked.

Up behind chains, yet I still got to make it change.

Even though I'm dropped down in a basket and they're

about to kill me and throw me, I still.

Got to make it count.

Although I've been shipwrecked, my God, and up to the

point of death committing suicide, but yet I still got

to make it count.

High five your neighbor and say, neighbor, you still got

to make it count.

He said, now I got to make it count that

no matter what I'm going through, And when I preach

this gospel, that I'm not disqualified.

In other words, I can't stop.

And I got to keep on moving because I know

what my prize is. My prize is to deliver this gospel.

No matter where I go, I'm going to deliver this man.

Tell your neighbors and neighbor, don't give up. Don't throw

in the towel, but keep on running. And keep on

fighting because there is a prize with your name on it.

If you hold on in there, tell your.

Neighbor, say neighbor, when we cross the finish line, we

still win.

The apostle Paul.

Said, even though I'm free, I made myself a slave

just to make it count. With your approval or not,

I'm still going to prove myself that I'm fit for

the kingdom and I can't be turned back. I'm going

to reach the lost. I'm going to equip the found.

I'm going to send the chosen to fulfill the great commission.

I'll find your neighbor and say, neighbor, you got to

make it count. Well, how do you make it count?

You got to get out of these four walls and

you got to go to people that you typically don't

go to. You got to go to Pimp Corner. You

got to go to 7-Eleven. You got to go across University.

You got to go to 82nd Street. But you got

to get out of your comfort zone. Tell your neighbor,

say neighbor, get out of.

Your comfort zone.

Clap your hands and give God praise. VIP, get out

of your comfort zone. We got a race to run.

We got a fight to fight. And we got to

finish until the fight is over.

We got to finish until we cross the crossing line.

Tell your neighbor, say neighbor, I'm getting ready to cross

the finish line.

Well, this is what you're going to have to do.

He said, I became all things to all men.

He said, I went to the Jews.

And when I went to the Jews, I became like

the Jews and started doing what Jews do so that

I can.

Win some of them.

How many of you are going to get out of

your comfort zone and go.

To somebody that's not like you? Or somebody.

Who's living in your household. Somebody shout yes. You got

to get out of your comfort zone. You got to

make it count. If you're going to do it. Go

ahead and do it. With the best that you got.

He said not only the Jews. But I went to those.

Who were outside the law. Being not in the law.

I became just like them. So that I may win.

Some of them too. Tell your neighbor. Say neighbor. You

got to make it count. You got to keep on preaching.

You got to.

Preach in season and preach out of season. You got

to preach when they want to hear it and when

they don't want to hear it.

We're living in a last stage.

That people will have itching ears, heaving up to themselves,

stuff they want to hear.

But tell your neighbor, say neighbor, preach. I don't care

what they call it. Preach.

Even if they say you ain't got to preach to me,

somebody shall preach. When they want to hear it, preach.

When you make them feel bad, preach. When they feel good, preach.

Under a bridge, preach. In your house, preach. Wherever you are, preach.

I wish I had some preachers in here that would

give God praise and shout, I'm going to make it count.

I'm going to make it count. Regardless of what it is,

I'm going.

To make it count.

Even those who are weak.

To our children lost generation. By the foolishness of preaching

the gospel. It's foolish to them who are lost.

For those that are being saved, it's a sweet smelling song.

We preach death to some. Hallelujah. This race. This gospel race.

This gospel race. I could have talked about your house.

And your car.

Don't worry about that. That'll come. You take care of

God's business. God will take care of your business. Preach

this gospel. Hallelujah. Conditioning builds character. Hallelujah. It builds character

because it.

Takes self-discipline to get there.

Hallelujah.

It builds champions because at the end of the day,

a champion never give up.

Never throw in the towel. Even though they may come

in second, third, yet they still feel.

Like I'm a champion. Hallelujah. Yes.

Condition calls us to be more committed what God called

us to be committed to.

You got to make it count. Just can't keep coming

to church just to be coming. You just can't do

what you do. Can't even go to work and just

be going to work and not make a difference.

Hallelujah.

Because they have you on staff. You make a difference.

In your classroom, you make a difference. In your community,

you make a difference. In your home, you make a difference.

You got to make it count We're all standing, if

you will, to.

Make it count today. There may be somebody now.