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thank you [Music] before meeting us hear Jesus [Music] thank you [Music] Heavenly Father Lord we thank you God we thank you we know that you're here Lord and we trust that that everything you do Lord you do for our own good and God we thank you for for just entrusting me Lord to preach here today Lord and thank you for for our pastors Lord Pastor Dean Pastor Nancy Lord and God we just ask that you be with them Lord as they travel back Lord that you keep them safe Lord and Surround your angels with them Lord in Jesus name amen when Pastor Dean asked me to to preach today I already knew the message the Lord had already laid it on my heart I immediately knew and so man it was it was a little hard to to stand to be here right now um the spiritual warfare these past few days man it is no fun it is no fun um and I told Pastor Dean yesterday that I did not envy him what he goes through before he comes and preaches here every Sunday I I have high respects for him um when it comes to that and I thank him for being able to stand up here and and teach us everything that he teaches us because it's not easy um what the Lord laid on my heart was
to tell you guys um what our jobs as Christians is all right so I'm going to lay the the premise right now for for what I'm going to go into we're going to start with Matthew 28. 19-20 and says go you therefore and teach All Nations baptizing them in the name of the father and of the son and of the Holy Ghost teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you and lo I Am With You Always even unto the end of the world Amen and we're going to go to Luke 10 it says after these things the Lord appointed other 70 also and sent them two and two before his face and into every city and place whether he himself would come therefore said he unto them the Harvest truly is great but the laborers are few pray you therefore the lord of the Harvest that he would send forth laborers into his Harvest what the Lord laid on my heart here was many of us we we know a lot here at this church we've been taught a lot but we do nothing with it we we don't we don't exploit the gifts that God has given us and and we keep them to ourselves and what I've what I felt was it's not a good place to be when the Lord has required you to go out and do his do his work he's called us to be to all for all of us to be preachers evangelists the word preacher is Messenger so he's called All of Us to do the the work of an evangelist right um and then he and then he Comforts us though he says go out and I'm with you right so you're not going out there alone um I think most of us are and I'm speaking to the the online uh world is we keep it to ourselves because we're scared of what others are gonna think but it shouldn't be that way if you're fully convinced you fully believe then you should have faith and trust that God is with you you know don't keep it to yourself go out and do the work right the Lord says he's looking for Laborers right we should be Lord I want to do it send me even though I don't want to honestly I don't want to do it I don't I'd rather be a Hermit I'd rather be at home and not do anything but I love God and he's he's shown me mercy throughout my life and
he's rescued me from death and and I appreciate everything he's done for me and I'm embedded with him I will never be able to pay what he's done for me so I suck it up and I say Lord use me use me and I will go um but be with me if you open the door I'll go in and I learned that from Pastor Dean if you open the door I'll go in uh if not I'm not doing it but you got to be confident that he's there with you and that he's going to lead you into all into everything that you do and you rely on him on for everything you know if you lose something you lose a check or something Lord help me find it maybe you would have found it but you're relying on God in everything that you do see what I'm saying um he says go your ways behold I send you forth his Lambs Among Wolves carrying either person or script nor shoes and salute no man by the way and into who whatsoever house he enter first say peace be to this house and if the son of peace be there your peace shall rest upon it if not it shall it shall turn to you again and in the same house remain eating and drinking such things as they give you for the labor is worthy of his higher go not from house to house and into whatsoever City you answer and they receive you each set each such things as are set before you and heal the sick that they're in and heal the sick that are therein and say unto them the kingdom of God has come nigh unto you but into whatsoever city you enter and they receive you not go your ways out into the streets of the same and say even the very dust of your even the very dust of your city which cleaveeth on us we wipe off against you not notwithstanding be sure of this that the kingdom of God has come nigh unto you but but I say unto you that it shall be more tolerable in that day for Sodom than for that day for that City now I I chose this verse because something something really amazing happened uh a couple months ago where we hired a tree guy and not knowing who is like we had no idea we didn't even know him uh he was recommended to us but he came uh after the job when when the job was completed he was leaving
um and as he was leaving his chipper broke down the Axel had welded together it was it just it was God um it welded together and so they called me they they brought the chipper they towed it back to our property and so the guy called me and he's like do you have a do you have a grinder I could borrow and I was like yes I I do and so he asked me if I could bring it to him and as I was bringing it to him he he called back and he's like well we don't need it anymore um so I went back home right I went back home and it was like around nine o'clock 9 P.M he calls again and he's like I'm gonna need that grinder because the the axle had melted the the ball bearing had melted into the to the axle there was no way they could get it out so they needed this grinder so I go back it was nine it was like around nine PM it was pretty late and so I see this guy um and I didn't know him I didn't notice him at first like I I couldn't I didn't know who he was and so he comes up to me and it is wild because he's like are you so and so um I was like it is a name that they called me when I was little right um and and I was I was like you look familiar who are you right and he's like I'm Jimmy's dad I'm I'm Jimmy and Xavier's dad I was like wow I could not recognize him he looked different but there's a guy who I hadn't seen in like 14 years right so 14 years and then in the there and they're coming from Atlanta this tree company is coming from Atlanta so it's not like they were around or anything um but he starts talking to me all right and and he starts it it's odd I know it's it wasn't even him and I know it wasn't me I know it was God right God opened this door where the guy just started telling me everything that was going on in his life right with his family with his children um he he opened up to me and and told me that that his son was had been suffering from schizophrenia for eight years right and so immediately I knew Lord this is all you like how could you send this guy after 14 years I I nobody knows about me um I'm in another state and you send this guy from my childhood into our property and he opens up so I started talking to him about Jesus I start I start um I start telling him about demons the
real issue with what's going on with with his son right um and I tell him uh it it's not your son it's the demons and the doors that you guys have open and so the guy he invites me he invites me to his house um invites my family to his house and so and he wants us to he wants me to talk to his to his sons and and and tell him what I was telling him right so we go it this is really cool because we go with our whole family and they have like a feast just waiting for us so this scripture right here is this is true okay um when the word of God says something it's probably going to happen in your life if you're following him if you're being led um we go there and we start we start talking to them and you know letting the letting the Holy Spirit lead and so and they start opening up to us about the Roman Catholic church and how you know they they are believers but they're Catholic right and so we're like uh this is going to be tough this is not going to be fun um but we but you know we we let God take control right and even though I knew that you know like man we could probably get kicked out of this house because we're about to confront something right uh something serious something that is a generational um people don't understand that Catholics they're they're deep in it because of tradition because they're Grand their grandparents their great-grandparents and so they follow that and they defend it even though they don't know the scriptures and they'll tell you just upfront that they don't know the scriptures but you're wrong and they're right so um I started confronting Catholicism and man we prayed about it and they received it very well um it was it was a sight to behold because usually it doesn't go that way with when you start speaking against the Roman Catholic church but they started listening and stuff uh we started um talking to them about deliverance and and stuff but you know we as much as we wanted to do Deliverance God was God told us they're not ready he's not ready they're not ready so we obeyed God we listen and we just kept talking to them but we knew that it wasn't going to happen they weren't ready anyways I just wanted to share that with you um I thought it was a a very interesting
way of how God he appoint we were talking about Divine appointments and and how he sets things up and we as believers were to listen obey and recognize when God is moving and take action don't just don't just see it and not do anything about it even if nothing comes to fruition after that you listen to the Holy Spirit and you did your part you went out and you did what he asked you to do then it's up to God God will do the rest you plant the seed God will give the increase so he said Mark 16 15-16 and he said unto them go you into all the world and preach the gospel to Every Creature he that believeth and is baptized shall be saved but he that believeth not shall be damned see there we go again uh the the whole the part of you go and you do the Lord's work and it's his job he will convict them it's not your job to you know feel feel convicted if if you saved got them saved or not your job is to preach the gospel with sincerity right being Holy Spirit Led and God does the rest right um I think a lot of us get scared of being rejected when you're when you're gonna uh witness to somebody or you feel like you're gonna mess up or you know you're just gonna be a weirdo in front of people's eyes but and after knowing god and and knowing who he is and knowing that he is real because we know that he's real you shouldn't worry about those things you know you should be more worried about the other person's future their salvation you did your part and you clean your hands you know um second Corinthians 5 17 therefore If any man be in Christ he is a new creature old things are passed away behold all things are become new and all things are of God who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ and has given us have given to us the ministry of reconciliation to which what God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself not imputing their trespasses unto them and hath committed unto us the word the word of reconciliation now then we are ambassadors for Christ as though God did beseech You by us we pray you in Christ said be you reconciled you know when I was born again
um before I was born again like I said I I I'd rather live my life a totally different way than I am now but when when I was when I had my born-again experience man I just want to do what God asked me to do I don't want to shut him down I don't want to block him I want him to take over my life and and lead me to where he wants to lead me um you know when uh when Pastor Dean uh spoke over me that I would I'd be an evangelist man that that right there scares me um but if God says it I want to do it you know I don't I don't want to be the one that that completely just turns and runs I don't want to cower it away um I want to take what I have learned and I want to share it with everybody um even in the most unexpected places you know um I've I've witnessed to people at Kroger uh I've witnessed to your employees Eddie um just doors doors open and I recognize it and so I step in and I'm not ashamed and the person he opens up to me because he needs a savior and so I know that Savior and I shared I shared Jesus with one of your employees but that's how we should all be wherever we go no matter what I mean if you're uh walking down the street I mean I'm not saying go crazy and talk to everybody but be holy spirit LED and if and the Lord will tell you you need to talk to this guy you might give you a word of knowledge and prepare you you go and you be obedient don't hold that to yourself because you never know that one person that you run into man that guy will change a hundred a thousand people and you never knew because you never tried you see what I'm saying so be obedient to God and be his Ambassador just exactly what Christ did Christ went he would walk the Lord would just you know he would speak the truth without holding anything back he wouldn't he would not be he would not hold anything back from anybody because he knew the importance of speaking the truth and setting people free um Romans 1 16 for I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ for it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believeth to the Jew first and also to the Greek for therein is the righteousness of God revealed from Faith to Faith as it is written the just shall live by faith um sometimes in the mornings I'll go to
the gym and I'll run into people and like the Lord will just press it on me and I'll talk to that guy humble yourself ask him for help because I don't know everything right so I asked I asked for help and the Lord will open these doors where people need to hear your testimony and I've shared my testimony with people at the at the gym just random people that I don't know I've never met him before and I'll I'll start talking to them and the response I get from them is thank you you've made my day I needed to hear that I when I heard that my my heart melted but he's like I needed to hear that and I wanna I want you to tell me your whole testimony we'll we'll set up you know we'll we'll set up a uh what a coffee or coffee meeting or lunch meeting and and I want you to share more um things like that should be happening normally in our lives especially this church this church um with the stuff that Pastor Dean has taught us and we should be seeing a lot of that in our everyday walk like that that's that should not be lacking in our lives for though I I be free from all men yet I have made my this first Corinthians 9 19. for though I'd be free from all men yet have I made myself servant unto all that I might gain more and unto the Jews I became as a Jew that I might gain the Jews to them that are under the law as under the law that I might gain them that are under the law to them that are without law as without law being not without law to God but under the law of Christ that I might gain them that are without law to the weak became I is weak that I might gain the weak I am made all things to all men that I might by all means save some and this I do for the gospel's sake that I might be partakers thereof Romans 10 13. for whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved how then shall they call on him and whom they have not believed and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard and how shall they hear without a preacher so this is why I think the Lord presses on me because he's looking for people to to actually want to do the work to go out and and preach to evangelize um I don't think this is a coincidence um and and um the verses here they just I knew I just knew that some of us are holding back um
and it like I said it shouldn't be that way we need to be able to suck it up go out and preach the word um to every to everybody no matter what I mean Jordan and I we've walked into satanic businesses we've worked for people who've been in deeply in satanic covenants and we held nothing back we were not ashamed and we knew what we were walking into but we preached the word and it took them by surprise I mean we even blessed their food which was wild the guy was so mad you could see it in his countenance it just he was really upset but we blessed the food because that's what we do right Jordan um you got to bless your food you don't know what you're eating um but you know without without being scared we knew that they're not you know they're probably not for us right but still you got to pray for them uh pray for your enemies because you could get them saved and they could get the satanic coven saved you never know God can do anything um I've learned that from from when I from even from before I was born again man I knew that God could do everything just me seeing him and I like I've I've seen the Lord Jesus Christ face to face when I saw him I knew that that was it there's nothing he could not do from then on out in my life that everything was possible um and so the the fear of speaking to anybody that's out the window um and I want to see that with everybody I just not not just me um I want everybody here to experience something like that I want to hear I was telling Pastor D I want to hear testimonies of you know what you guys do what you got What the Lord Has Done in your lives and how you've affected other people um that that would make my day that would be pretty cool um Luke 12 8 also I say unto you whosoever shall confess me before man him shall the son of man also confess before the angels of God but he that denies me before men shall be denied before the angels of God that scares me that scares me because of the revelation of Jesus Christ and of him being God Almighty and knowing that he's God almighty I don't I don't want to be the the person who has that opportunity to talk to somebody to to preach to them the word and then hold back and completely ignore what God has just laid on your heart I
don't I don't want to be that person because to me that's denying God it's if you re if you hold back what the Holy Spirit has told you and you don't say anything unless his Holy Spirit Led where he says don't say anything then he had heard Lord I heard um but it if not you need to go ahead and say it say What say What the Lord wants you to say and don't hold back because we will give an account like Pastor Dean says when I give an account I tried everything Lord I want to I want to be able to I want to be one of those people that says Lord I did everything I could everything else that's all you um but I did everything that I could right so um second Timothy 4 I charged thee before God and the Lord Jesus Christ who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom preach the word be instant in season out of season reprove rebuke exhort with all long-suffering and doctrine that means at any given time because he says out of season but to me is at any moment you need to be ready to give an account to give an answer if somebody asks you something you need to have an answer um it's not today's my day off your day is Never Off with the lord it's whenever he says you should be ready for the time will come will they where when they will not endure sound Doctrine but after their own lust shall they Heap to themselves teachers having itching ears and have and they shall turn away their ears from the truth and shall be turned unto fables but watch thou in all things endure afflictions do the work of an evangelist make full proof of thy Ministry meaning you did everything you could you nothing all bases covered um for I am now ready to be offered and the time of my departure is at hand I have fought a good fight I have finished my course says Paul I have kept the faith henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness which the Lord the righteous judge shall give me at that day and not only me but until all them also that love his appearance I want to be one of those people I want to be one of those people that when it's my time I want to be like Paul I know that I did everything I could and and I just want to make it to Heaven you know that's all I want in my life because I know the the past me what I've done in my I don't deserve to be standing here before you guys I shouldn't even be alive but I just want to make it to heaven and just get to meet the Lord
face to face and and whatever he has to say to me uh but I I want to be there I don't want to be I don't want to go to hell because I did nothing I don't want to be one of the guys who received a talent and buried it in the earth I wanna I wanna be a good investment for my God I want to be the best investment that I could be to the Lord and when I when I see him Lord I was able to make you one more one more thing you know um one more Talent um but uh first Peter 3 15 but Sanctified the Lord in your hearts and be ready always to give an answer for every man that asks you for that ask you reason of of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear now when when we encounter people right there's a there's a certain way that God wants us to be and and he's telling us with meekness and I know that we know a lot and sometimes all that information it could be it could get you in Pride because you know more than others and I would say I'd be careful with everything that we do know and you know be Holy Spirit Led um be gentle with people um don't don't shun them off because if you come off too strong and we know Jordan when we come off too strong you scare people man they don't ever want to talk to you they don't and that right there is a loss you know you could have avoided that but see you use your discernment and you're LED and be gentle with people um don't don't rush in and and right away you you just blast them with all the information that that our pastors have given us because we can overwhelm people um and and it's awesome to to know all this but it's also good to be aware and and discern how you're going to approach every single individual because everybody is different and the Lord wants you to approach everybody differently um it's not necessarily uh what you just learned that day but it could be something completely different you got to be sensitive sensitive to the Holy Spirit First Corinthians 2 one and I Brethren when I came to you came not with Excellency of speech or of wisdom declaring you the testimony of God for I determined not to know anything among you saved Jesus Christ and him crucified I was with you in weakness and in fear
and in much trembling and my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of wisdom but in demonstration of the spirit and of power that your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men but in the power of God take some water see he's telling us not to rely on yourselves rely on him he's got it he'll take care of it but it again it's our job to step into that water step out step out of the boat and and let the Lord take charge but don't don't miss that opportunity to step out because it could be one of the greatest things that you've ever done let yours let your speech always with Grace seasoned with salt that ye may know how you ought to answer every man that's uh Colossians 4 6. Matthew 5 13 you are the salt of the earth but if the salt have lost his savior wherewith shall it be salted it is henceforth dense forth good for nothing but to be cast out and trodden underfoot of men can I tell you guys that I have we've encountered salt with no flavor that's a real thing and it was we trashed it we would try to season something and it would never see it wouldn't work it would not season it and so you don't want to be that you don't want to be you don't want to be that seasoning that God has sent has placed upon you to talk to people and it falls in empty ears you you did nothing with it um you don't want to be sure you don't want to be the one that is trodden underfoot by men um yeah that when when I saw that the when we ran into this this issue of the salt not being having no flavor this verse came immediately and I knew um I I knew it was biblical um so Luke 12 48. but he that know not and did not commit things worthy of Stripes shall be beaten with few stripes For unto whomsoever much is given of him be much of him shall much be required and of whom men have committed much of him they will ask ask them more see this verse I think this is one of those scary verses when when Pastor Dean there there's been times where he teaches on he has
Revelation from God and has has taught us uh new things right things that we've never heard and man that puts the fear in me I'm like Lord the reason you're teaching us this is because the time is getting closer and closer um and it's like it's it's a it's it's not a burden but it gets me thinking and it gets me um it gets me thinking about how everything that we're being learned like how can I how can I use this like what what am I going to do with this Lord help me um help me be help me be useful to you because I know that the times are near I know that the time is closed so I want to do everything that I can um in order to help and further the kingdom of God right with the stuff that we've known I think this church right here has a big responsibility and I've known that for a while it's it's a big responsibility to to know and to receive the teachings that Pastor Dan Pastor Nancy have taught us um I I don't think that's it's not an easy uh something that you should pass off easily and just you know receive hear it you know take it home and do nothing with it I think that that's a scary place I think that's a scary place to be in um if the stuff that you're being taught you need to apply it in your life and I think the Lord the Lord this is what the Lord really wanted me to share is what what he has given you he requires you to you use it it's not for you to keep and hold you know it's it's for you to go out and use it um I know a lot of us like Facebook um if you're called to be in the Facebook Ministry and you know reproving people from there with the knowledge I think you should be able to do that in a public setting as well not just online you got to use that with people that you meet every day whether it be at your job like at the store anywhere when I go to my job sites if the Lord opens the door I go in I mean they're already paying me to be there so I'm gonna I'm gonna preach I'm gonna I'm gonna show I'm gonna teach them the truth with no shame without shame without restraint I don't hold back and man how I've seen some cool stuff happen at work we've we've had people who open up to us and receive the word you know they're paying us to do bathrooms but they end up receiving the word of God and that's because God that's what he requires of me he won't he wants me to hold nothing back
um and you know I'll Proverbs 11 30. and I thought this was a cool uh a very interesting various but it says the fruit of the righteous is a tree of life and he that wins Souls is wise man uh if he's telling us that it is important to do everything that we can and to have a list of people who we've helped come to the Lord you know you you want to have that um I've ran into I ran into people who you know I would never expect to talk to and I and sometimes I don't I I've had the I've had demons attack me and hold me try to hold me back from speaking from saying something and I and then I recognize it I recognize and be like you know what not today I'm gonna I'm gonna speak regardless and I'll see what comes out of this but I'm not gonna I'm not gonna be scared and I'm just gonna go ahead and lay it out and we've had amazing encounters like I didn't I see when teacher I didn't even want to I didn't want to bring anything up but then the Lord brought it up it was God everything was god-led it was not of me it was not a teacher it was just the doors open and I was obedient and chitra is now here with us but um you know when when you least want to do something you should probably do it um I didn't want to preach but I'm here doing it anyways because I know that God wants me to and I I don't want like I said I don't want to hold anything back and I don't want to shut out what God has um the plan for me in my life or in your lives right and I thank Pastor Dean Pastor Nancy for for trusting me to come up here and speak to you guys and tell you guys What the Lord Has put on my heart and so I the main thing is what you guys have learned here is you need to go out and share it don't keep it to yourselves because you're going to be in a position where you don't want to be you don't want to be the you don't want to be the one where God has been trying to use you and then he stops and he he goes and moves on to somebody else you don't want to be that you want to be as as useful as you can be to the Lord and He will keep using you mightily and he'll give you more and he'll increase you in everything that you do you want to be that person
um so that that that's the entirety of my message today but like I said um I I thank my pastors for for entrusting me to be here and and sharing what the Lord has has given me and I hope you guys uh benefit from this and take this to Heart because I I mean I've seen it I've seen people who you know get offended and that's it fall away and it's like man you guys know better why there's there's no reason to go through that you guys know better so take it serious take it to heart and and do something with the talent that the Lord has given you um don't keep it or don't don't dig it under the Earth uh it's no good for anybody there uh you're you're not using it and the Lord's not using it it's good for No One um but that's it thank you [Applause] [Music] more we ask for more more of your power more of your glory [Music] one more we ask for more more of your spirit or of your presence that we never know before are we ask you Lord is for more please [Music] for of your glory [Music] more of your spirit more of your presence I breathe never know before [Music] all we ask you long
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thank you say it again [Music] [Music] [Music] the end yes we'll do [Music] [Music] another [Music] one more of you oh nothing else we'll do Lord we ask of you give us more give us more and more more of you [Music] Heavenly Father Lord we thank you God for what you're doing in this place God we thank you for your presence Lord and we thank you for the message Lord we ask that you bless this church this congregation Lord and you continue to fill us with your Holy Spirit in Jesus mighty name amen um I'm gonna say what Pastor Dean says hug some Nicks before you leave I'ma make them proud and we're gonna Fellowship downstairs grab your food come back if you'd like and he'll be back next week amen [Music]