WEBVTT - Get Involved, Part 3 0:00:00.320 --> 0:00:03.640 He's saying, remind them who they're working for, that God's 0:00:03.640 --> 0:00:08.360 call and ultimate accountability will be to him. That is 0:00:08.360 --> 0:00:11.440 God's call on your life, that God has gifted you, 0:00:11.440 --> 0:00:14.400 that he has given you the things that he wants 0:00:14.400 --> 0:00:15.000 you to do. 0:00:22.040 --> 0:00:24.560 This is treasure. Truth with pastor and author James Ford, 0:00:24.560 --> 0:00:27.320 junior senior pastor of the Christ Bible Church in Chicago. 0:00:27.360 --> 0:00:29.240 I'm Steve Hillard. Glad you're with us. As today we 0:00:29.280 --> 0:00:32.120 continue to look at Colossians chapter four in a message 0:00:32.120 --> 0:00:35.599 entitled Get Involved. And, pastor, I think it's so important 0:00:35.600 --> 0:00:39.000 for us to understand that while God may have placed 0:00:39.000 --> 0:00:42.080 us in a job where we're working for a boss, 0:00:42.120 --> 0:00:45.720 ultimately that individual is not the one that we are 0:00:45.720 --> 0:00:47.000 truly working for. 0:00:47.040 --> 0:00:51.839 That's right. Well, you know, Paul said in Ephesians, he said, 0:00:52.400 --> 0:00:56.680 on our jobs we're to work as unto the Lord. Yeah. Boy, 0:00:56.680 --> 0:01:03.280 that elevates your job performance. Amen. And, uh, remember, uh, 0:01:03.320 --> 0:01:05.880 Paul said at the judgment seat of Christ, and we're 0:01:05.880 --> 0:01:08.960 all going to appear before the judgment seat of Christ. 0:01:08.959 --> 0:01:11.160 What is that pastor for? That is where we're going 0:01:11.200 --> 0:01:17.400 to be evaluated based on the works that God has foreordained, 0:01:17.400 --> 0:01:21.040 that we should walk in them. Ephesians 210. And so 0:01:21.080 --> 0:01:25.000 God wants us to know he's already set forth in 0:01:25.040 --> 0:01:29.600 eternity past the works that we're supposed to do, uh, 0:01:29.600 --> 0:01:33.840 here in the present, uh, or in time. And, uh, 0:01:33.840 --> 0:01:36.160 he's going to say, okay, this is what I have 0:01:36.160 --> 0:01:39.200 given you to do. Uh, here's what you did. Uh, 0:01:39.200 --> 0:01:43.480 here's what you didn't do, but here's the evaluation of 0:01:43.480 --> 0:01:46.600 what you did. And Paul said, this way he will 0:01:46.640 --> 0:01:52.720 evaluate it based on what sort it is, whether it's gold, silver, 0:01:52.760 --> 0:01:56.200 precious metal, wood, hay, stubble. And here's what I like, Steve. 0:01:56.480 --> 0:02:00.000 He didn't say he's going to evaluate it based on 0:02:00.000 --> 0:02:04.760 what size it is. Okay, he said, what sort it is. 0:02:05.000 --> 0:02:08.239 So for all the pastors that are listening, listen, it 0:02:08.240 --> 0:02:11.720 is not the size of your church. It's the sort 0:02:11.720 --> 0:02:16.200 of your church. Because I remember when I tripped and 0:02:16.360 --> 0:02:19.600 I had growth in my ankle, but it wasn't good 0:02:19.600 --> 0:02:23.519 growth because it was swollen. Now that I don't have 0:02:23.520 --> 0:02:27.120 anything against large churches. We're a mid-sized church, but I 0:02:27.120 --> 0:02:30.200 don't have anything because some of them have grown well. 0:02:30.240 --> 0:02:32.800 Praise the Lord for my friend Pastor Meeks and the 0:02:32.800 --> 0:02:36.000 Salem Baptist Church, a mega church. He preaches the Word 0:02:36.000 --> 0:02:38.880 of God. He gives the gospel of Jesus Christ. They 0:02:38.880 --> 0:02:43.520 have accountability, church discipline, evangelism, discipleship. And so they're a 0:02:43.520 --> 0:02:47.320 mega church. Uh, but there's a lot that, you know, 0:02:47.360 --> 0:02:51.040 they're going to be surprised that the Lord is just 0:02:51.040 --> 0:02:55.560 going to say it's a great size, but not a 0:02:55.560 --> 0:02:58.840 great sort. And so we evaluate our work. Steve had 0:02:58.840 --> 0:03:01.149 said all that to say this, we evaluate our works. 0:03:01.389 --> 0:03:04.750 What is going to be the main criteria at the 0:03:04.790 --> 0:03:09.470 judgment seat of Christ? Not just what you did. Manner 0:03:09.470 --> 0:03:13.389 of your work. Sure. Why you did it. The motivation 0:03:13.389 --> 0:03:15.430 I have it happen to me all the time. Somebody 0:03:15.430 --> 0:03:17.790 standing in front of Walgreens, I give them a dollar. 0:03:17.830 --> 0:03:19.990 Did I do that to glorify Christ or did I 0:03:19.990 --> 0:03:22.430 give it to them so I don't have to be bothered? Well, 0:03:22.470 --> 0:03:24.350 you know, it all depends on what kind of mood 0:03:24.350 --> 0:03:26.269 I'm in. Sure. You know, but at the judgment seat 0:03:26.310 --> 0:03:28.230 of Christ, I'll find out for sure. 0:03:28.270 --> 0:03:30.109 Yeah, that's very true. And we all will. 0:03:30.150 --> 0:03:31.869 Oh, yeah. Yeah. And I was going to say that. 0:03:31.870 --> 0:03:34.070 And so will you, Steve. But yeah, you know, I 0:03:34.110 --> 0:03:36.150 just wanted to leave you out of it. You know, 0:03:36.190 --> 0:03:37.910 everybody ought to take out their own garbage. 0:03:37.950 --> 0:03:40.430 Yeah, that's very true. And yeah, I'll be there too, 0:03:40.470 --> 0:03:43.190 along with, well, the rest of us. But right now, 0:03:43.230 --> 0:03:46.030 I hope you'll join us in Colossians chapter four as 0:03:46.030 --> 0:03:49.950 we continue a message entitled Get Involved, here's Pastor Ford. 0:03:50.870 --> 0:03:57.870 And so here, notice it's a responsibility. It's the responsibility 0:03:57.870 --> 0:04:02.230 of the body to encourage the body. It is not 0:04:02.230 --> 0:04:07.830 my job alone. So I tell you all the time, 0:04:07.830 --> 0:04:11.950 if you see somebody missing, call the office. You know, 0:04:11.950 --> 0:04:14.150 I haven't seen brother or sister so and so in 0:04:14.150 --> 0:04:17.790 a long time. So that somebody can get in touch 0:04:17.790 --> 0:04:21.030 with them and find out if they need some help. 0:04:24.310 --> 0:04:32.190 Hebrews 1024 he says, provoke one another. The word is peroxisome, 0:04:32.190 --> 0:04:35.070 from which we get, you know what a paroxysm, a 0:04:35.110 --> 0:04:38.750 paroxysm is, right? When somebody has a paroxysm, it's like 0:04:38.750 --> 0:04:43.429 an epileptic seizure. It just comes on Sunday. And here 0:04:43.430 --> 0:04:49.070 he's saying it's like a sudden outburst. You know what 0:04:49.070 --> 0:04:53.990 a mother Eagle does when she wants her eaglets to 0:04:54.029 --> 0:05:01.150 fly before she does that. Before she does that. Because she. what? 0:05:01.790 --> 0:05:06.309 She pulls out all of the feathers and everything that 0:05:06.310 --> 0:05:11.109 made it comfortable, because she makes it out of thorns. 0:05:11.110 --> 0:05:13.310 And then if they don't get out, she turns the 0:05:13.310 --> 0:05:15.670 nest over. But usually all she got to do is 0:05:15.670 --> 0:05:18.510 take out the animal skin and and all the things 0:05:18.510 --> 0:05:20.950 that made it comfortable and soft. And when them baby 0:05:20.990 --> 0:05:23.750 eaglets sit down and get stuck, they they try to 0:05:23.750 --> 0:05:29.830 fly away. I got to get away from here. I 0:05:29.830 --> 0:05:35.550 thought mama loved me. But it's time to fly. Come on. 0:05:36.270 --> 0:05:40.230 Come on people. It's time to fly. And here's what 0:05:40.230 --> 0:05:41.950 I hear all the time. Well, I don't think I 0:05:41.950 --> 0:05:45.470 know enough. Who said you had to know enough? Who 0:05:45.470 --> 0:05:50.190 said that? The woman in John chapter four. And so 0:05:50.950 --> 0:05:56.110 what happened? I'll tell you what happened. She got saved 0:05:56.630 --> 0:05:59.310 and then went to Moody Bible Institute and took her 0:05:59.310 --> 0:06:02.670 the course in evangelism, then went back to the city 0:06:02.670 --> 0:06:05.670 and said, uh, the Roman road said, is that what 0:06:05.670 --> 0:06:10.110 she did? No, she got saved. And she went into 0:06:10.110 --> 0:06:13.390 the village and said, come see a man who told 0:06:13.390 --> 0:06:20.549 me everything I ever did. That's what he did, huh? Yeah. 0:06:20.550 --> 0:06:24.870 So you don't need a whole lot. Here it is. Secondly. Secondly, 0:06:24.870 --> 0:06:30.950 says confront them to instigate them. Notice. Secondly, challenge them 0:06:30.950 --> 0:06:34.830 to involvement. It says it say to our churches, take 0:06:34.830 --> 0:06:38.589 heed to the ministry. The word is Aleppo. It literally 0:06:38.589 --> 0:06:41.590 means to look to something. In other words, here's what 0:06:41.589 --> 0:06:46.750 he's telling. Here's what he's telling us. Archippus. He was 0:06:46.750 --> 0:06:53.150 the pastor of this church. Something caused him to look 0:06:53.150 --> 0:06:58.430 away from the ministry. And Paul says, tell him to 0:06:58.470 --> 0:07:05.830 look back. Look at what God had committed to his care. 0:07:05.870 --> 0:07:08.870 We'll see that in a minute. So something had turned 0:07:08.870 --> 0:07:21.070 him away. Some decision. Maybe somebody damaged him. Maybe some 0:07:21.950 --> 0:07:25.950 board meeting got out of hand. Maybe he felt like 0:07:25.950 --> 0:07:34.190 he was unappreciated. Maybe he was doing too much. Maybe 0:07:34.190 --> 0:07:36.190 he was trying to make up for some of the 50% 0:07:36.190 --> 0:07:44.310 that was doing nothing. And so. Sometimes we have to realize, 0:07:44.870 --> 0:07:49.870 like Habakkuk had three chapters one, two, three. And so 0:07:49.870 --> 0:07:53.030 you look at the book of Habakkuk and what you'll 0:07:53.030 --> 0:07:58.070 find is chapter one. He's looking at the storm. Chapter 0:07:58.070 --> 0:08:01.550 two he's looking through the storm. Chapter three. He's looking 0:08:01.550 --> 0:08:03.950 above the storm. Now you have to ask yourself, what 0:08:03.950 --> 0:08:06.230 are you doing right now? No, no, I'm not talking 0:08:06.230 --> 0:08:09.070 about your neighbor. I'm talking about you in terms of 0:08:09.310 --> 0:08:17.230 your ministry involvement in this assembly. Are you looking at 0:08:18.350 --> 0:08:24.590 the problems you're looking through, or are you looking beyond 0:08:24.790 --> 0:08:27.750 because I submit to you? Unless you're looking beyond, you'll 0:08:27.750 --> 0:08:30.550 never make it. Because the only way to make it 0:08:30.550 --> 0:08:33.750 is to look beyond, to see what God has called 0:08:33.750 --> 0:08:37.070 us to do, that we haven't finished, and to say, 0:08:37.070 --> 0:08:40.070 I'm going through all of this, and I will be 0:08:40.070 --> 0:08:44.830 like Habakkuk. I will stand upon my watch and wait 0:08:44.870 --> 0:08:47.470 to hear what he will say to me when I 0:08:47.510 --> 0:08:52.870 am reproved. See, a lot of Christians are like wheelbarrows. 0:08:53.030 --> 0:08:55.870 No good unless you push them. A lot of Christians 0:08:55.870 --> 0:08:59.589 are like canoes. No good unless they're paddled. A lot 0:08:59.630 --> 0:09:02.340 of Christians are like kites. If you don't keep them 0:09:02.340 --> 0:09:06.579 on a string, they'll fly away. Some. Some Christians are 0:09:07.100 --> 0:09:10.580 like a football. Never know where they're going to land next. 0:09:10.780 --> 0:09:13.179 Some are like balloons full of hot air and ready 0:09:13.179 --> 0:09:17.020 to blow up. Some are like trailers have to be pulled. 0:09:17.179 --> 0:09:22.100 Some are like neon lights that go on, off, on, off. 0:09:22.700 --> 0:09:27.579 In other words, Esther 414. Remember what she said? Mordecai said, 0:09:27.580 --> 0:09:30.860 look girl, God gave you that beauty for such a 0:09:30.860 --> 0:09:33.780 time as this. I mean, you, you know, if you 0:09:33.780 --> 0:09:35.660 don't do what God called you to do, he's going 0:09:35.660 --> 0:09:39.219 to get somebody else. How do you know that you 0:09:39.260 --> 0:09:42.059 weren't raised up for such a time as this? And 0:09:42.059 --> 0:09:44.579 remember now what what what kind of time is it? 0:09:44.900 --> 0:09:46.939 What kind of time is it? Anybody remember? I know 0:09:46.940 --> 0:09:50.460 you remember because I'm going to talk. Oh, okay. Okay. 0:09:50.460 --> 0:09:54.620 It is what? It's ate at time. What is at time? 0:09:54.660 --> 0:10:00.660 At time is purpose. Time. Purpose time. That's good, That's good. 0:10:00.660 --> 0:10:02.740 What are the other three? Not you two. Uh, what 0:10:02.740 --> 0:10:04.940 are the other three times? No, I was trying to 0:10:04.940 --> 0:10:06.900 prove a point. You know, I'm always trying to prove 0:10:06.900 --> 0:10:08.500 a point. No, no, no, no, you be quiet. I 0:10:08.500 --> 0:10:10.179 know you know it. Come on. I want to hear 0:10:10.179 --> 0:10:15.300 from them. What is it? Kairos. That's right. Kairos time. 0:10:15.300 --> 0:10:18.700 What kind of time is that? That's perfect time. That's 0:10:18.700 --> 0:10:24.380 God's time. He works in the Kairos. What's the other one? Chronos. Alright. 0:10:24.380 --> 0:10:28.500 Chronos time. And what is that? That's people time. That's right. 0:10:28.500 --> 0:10:32.540 Come on. What's the other kind of time? Eschatos time. 0:10:33.260 --> 0:10:39.860 Eschatos time. What is that? Prophetic time? Prophetic time? Those 0:10:39.860 --> 0:10:41.700 are the four kinds of time. And I tell you 0:10:41.700 --> 0:10:43.780 all the time, there is no hammer time. And so 0:10:43.780 --> 0:10:46.820 he says, for such an act as this, that this 0:10:46.820 --> 0:10:49.660 is the time Christ's Bible Church, we are on the 0:10:49.660 --> 0:10:53.179 precipice of what God wants to do in us. See, 0:10:53.179 --> 0:10:56.020 the people, uh, you know, and I'm only doing this, uh, 0:10:56.020 --> 0:10:58.580 because he's one of the newest and that's that's that's, uh, 0:10:58.620 --> 0:11:02.660 Elder Anthony. Okay. Look at what God is doing with 0:11:02.660 --> 0:11:06.260 our singles ministry. We had none, and now they've been 0:11:06.260 --> 0:11:09.059 out evangelizing. And a couple weeks ago, they led two 0:11:09.059 --> 0:11:13.380 people to Christ. They've been involved in helping other ministries. 0:11:13.580 --> 0:11:15.900 I mean, remember what I told you? New people are 0:11:15.900 --> 0:11:19.780 not an intrusion. They're an infusion. We are doing things 0:11:19.780 --> 0:11:23.100 because God led that man here that we've never done before, 0:11:23.100 --> 0:11:27.300 and it's moving us forward. Amen. Amen. And that's what 0:11:27.300 --> 0:11:30.740 you bring to the table. You bring your giftedness. You 0:11:30.740 --> 0:11:33.900 bring the things that God has put in your heart 0:11:33.900 --> 0:11:37.059 and spirit. And you're in a church where you can 0:11:37.059 --> 0:11:41.060 do it, where you don't have a pastor that's holding 0:11:41.059 --> 0:11:46.220 you back, that gotta control everything. Amen. You have freedom 0:11:46.220 --> 0:11:52.380 and liberty to fulfill together the plan of God and 0:11:52.380 --> 0:11:56.140 the vision that he's given to us. And the tragedy 0:11:56.140 --> 0:11:58.460 is some of you are still sitting on some of 0:11:58.460 --> 0:12:01.900 the most powerful stuff that hasn't even been released yet. 0:12:04.540 --> 0:12:05.900 And when we get to heaven, you ain't going to 0:12:05.900 --> 0:12:10.300 be able to blame me. That's right. Because God knows 0:12:10.300 --> 0:12:14.100 about this sermon. God know how often I've been in 0:12:14.100 --> 0:12:18.780 35 years of ministry. I've only started one thing in 0:12:18.780 --> 0:12:22.420 this church. You know what that is? Sites. Every other 0:12:22.420 --> 0:12:25.459 ministry was started by somebody who said, God is leading 0:12:25.460 --> 0:12:31.340 me to do this every ministry. And so if you're 0:12:31.340 --> 0:12:35.699 sitting on your giftedness, the ministry, guess what? The word 0:12:35.700 --> 0:12:40.020 is diaconate. It is. It is the word from which 0:12:40.020 --> 0:12:46.620 we get deacon. And it literally means double worker. Double worker. 0:12:47.420 --> 0:12:50.780 So every deacon deacon knows this ought to be chosen 0:12:50.780 --> 0:12:56.739 because they're double workers. Yeah. 0:13:00.460 --> 0:13:02.660 That's kind of a challenging thought, isn't it? You're listening 0:13:02.700 --> 0:13:06.180 to Treasure Truth with Pastor Ford and a message entitled 0:13:06.179 --> 0:13:08.500 Get Involved, and we're going to get back to this 0:13:08.500 --> 0:13:12.020 teaching in just a moment. You know, the best way 0:13:12.020 --> 0:13:13.860 that you might be able to listen is just on 0:13:13.860 --> 0:13:15.660 the radio. I know many of us have found the 0:13:15.660 --> 0:13:18.179 program that way, but we want to make it easy 0:13:18.179 --> 0:13:20.380 for you to listen wherever you happen to be. 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Click on the app button 0:13:53.980 --> 0:13:56.980 at the bottom of the homepage for more information. Right now, 0:13:56.980 --> 0:13:59.700 let's get back to the message. Here is Pastor Ford. 0:14:00.980 --> 0:14:04.220 Jeremiah was telling the story of a woman whose daughter 0:14:04.220 --> 0:14:07.260 was ill and the prescription was needed, and they called 0:14:07.260 --> 0:14:09.340 the doctor that night, and the doctor called it in 0:14:09.380 --> 0:14:15.300 to the pharmacy. And she went and was in such 0:14:15.340 --> 0:14:17.740 a hurry to get the medicine that she left her 0:14:17.740 --> 0:14:19.860 keys in the car and locked her keys in the car. 0:14:20.420 --> 0:14:23.060 So she came out. Oh no, oh no. She got 0:14:23.060 --> 0:14:25.619 a hanger trying to do it. And she said, Lord, 0:14:25.900 --> 0:14:29.540 please help me. She had just finished the prayer. When 0:14:29.540 --> 0:14:32.500 around the corner came a big burly guy with a beard, 0:14:32.780 --> 0:14:36.060 you know, looked like a like a, like a motorcycle 0:14:36.060 --> 0:14:41.580 gang dude. And he said something wrong. She said, oh, well, 0:14:41.820 --> 0:14:44.300 I locked my keys in the car. He said, oh, 0:14:45.980 --> 0:14:53.180 you know, opened her car. She said, wow. Do you 0:14:53.180 --> 0:14:56.860 know I pray for you? And I almost rejected God's 0:14:57.100 --> 0:14:59.420 answer to my prayer because I the way you looked, 0:14:59.460 --> 0:15:04.050 I say, how'd you do that so fast? He said, well, 0:15:04.450 --> 0:15:09.010 you know, I just got out of prison yesterday. Uh, and, uh, 0:15:09.130 --> 0:15:13.130 you know, I was in prison, uh, for stealing cars. 0:15:14.690 --> 0:15:17.450 She said, I need to thank God, she said. He 0:15:17.450 --> 0:15:20.450 grabbed she grabbed his hand and said, Lord, I thank 0:15:20.450 --> 0:15:29.850 you for answering prayer. And you even sent me a professional. Amen. Hey, 0:15:29.850 --> 0:15:36.130 that's it, man. That's it. You are God's professional. I 0:15:36.130 --> 0:15:39.730 can't do what God gifted you to do. I'm gifted 0:15:39.730 --> 0:15:42.250 to do what I'm doing. I need to stay in 0:15:42.250 --> 0:15:45.450 my lane. I need to listen. Listen. I don't know 0:15:45.450 --> 0:15:47.130 whether you know it, but there are people here who 0:15:47.170 --> 0:15:49.970 know when I haven't had time to study like I 0:15:49.970 --> 0:15:56.010 usually study. They told Paderewski. You don't. He's the great 0:15:56.010 --> 0:15:58.330 piano player. You don't need to practice. Dude, he said 0:15:58.330 --> 0:16:02.370 if I miss a Miss of practice. Then I know it. 0:16:03.570 --> 0:16:06.570 If I miss more than one, everybody else going to 0:16:06.610 --> 0:16:10.930 know it too. And that's what it is. And so 0:16:10.930 --> 0:16:14.450 you are God's professional. See, the doors are locked in 0:16:14.450 --> 0:16:18.130 ministry and we're jamming them and we're pulling. But God 0:16:18.130 --> 0:16:21.290 sent you because you know how to use the coat 0:16:21.330 --> 0:16:24.730 hanger of your spiritual gifts to unlock the door of 0:16:24.730 --> 0:16:29.410 opportunity for the gospel of Jesus Christ. He says, listen, 0:16:29.410 --> 0:16:31.530 here's what I want you to do. Confront them. To 0:16:31.570 --> 0:16:34.490 instigate them. Challenge them to evolve. Here's the third one. 0:16:34.730 --> 0:16:41.010 Change their insight. Notice this, he says, which thou hast 0:16:41.010 --> 0:16:45.490 received in the Lord. What do you mean, change their insight? See? 0:16:45.490 --> 0:16:50.010 Because sometimes, pastor, why? Why don't you tell people I 0:16:50.050 --> 0:16:51.690 want you to do this? I want you to do that. 0:16:51.730 --> 0:16:54.210 Why do you say, hey, this is a possibility? Would 0:16:54.210 --> 0:16:57.130 you pray about it? Because I don't want them to 0:16:57.130 --> 0:17:00.330 think that they're doing it for me. Amen. Amen. They 0:17:00.370 --> 0:17:03.370 are not doing it for me. If you're doing it 0:17:03.370 --> 0:17:06.810 for me, you need to stop because it ain't going 0:17:06.810 --> 0:17:08.970 to help you. It ain't going to help me. And 0:17:08.970 --> 0:17:11.850 it definitely not going to help the church. He says, 0:17:11.850 --> 0:17:17.129 let them know this this thing came from the Lord. Uh, 0:17:17.210 --> 0:17:20.690 he's saying, remind them who they're working for. That God's 0:17:20.690 --> 0:17:25.490 call and ultimate accountability will be to him. That is 0:17:25.490 --> 0:17:28.610 God's call on your life that God has gifted you, 0:17:28.609 --> 0:17:31.570 that he has given you the things that he wants 0:17:31.570 --> 0:17:35.490 you to do. Ephesians 210. We are his workmanship, created 0:17:35.490 --> 0:17:38.530 in Christ Jesus unto good works. Who can finish it? 0:17:40.290 --> 0:17:48.530 Which God hath foreordained that we should walk in them? 0:17:49.090 --> 0:17:58.690 That God hath foreordained, that we should walk in them. Mm. 0:18:00.850 --> 0:18:05.929 And so here it is God's call on your life. 0:18:06.330 --> 0:18:09.970 So ministry is not something we do for God. It's 0:18:09.970 --> 0:18:18.290 something God does in and through us. Hebrews 1320 and 21. 0:18:18.810 --> 0:18:22.330 It says, God shall establish you. The word is. Did 0:18:22.330 --> 0:18:26.410 anybody remember when we spent four sermons studying one word? 0:18:26.410 --> 0:18:31.530 Anybody remember that? From which we get the word artist 0:18:31.570 --> 0:18:36.090 in the middle. Cardiology comes from that word. And what 0:18:36.090 --> 0:18:38.889 does it mean, remember? Matter of fact, in this Bible study, 0:18:38.890 --> 0:18:42.850 because we said, Carter. To do what? To mend a 0:18:42.850 --> 0:18:48.090 broken bone. Reset the bone. My star pupil sitting up 0:18:48.090 --> 0:18:51.210 in the front. Then it meant what? To reset a 0:18:51.210 --> 0:18:53.609 broken bone. What does that mean? It means that sometimes 0:18:53.609 --> 0:18:56.410 in ministry, I mess up, I break a bone, and 0:18:56.410 --> 0:19:01.170 God says it's going to be painful. But now it'll 0:19:01.170 --> 0:19:05.130 grow back. You'll heal and I'll use you again. And 0:19:05.130 --> 0:19:09.330 then I go mess up again. Sister Mendoza, you got 0:19:09.330 --> 0:19:12.210 to snap it back in. It's painful. It hurts, but 0:19:12.210 --> 0:19:18.010 it heals. But then it also meant to mend a 0:19:18.010 --> 0:19:21.330 broken net. You say? What do you mean? That this 0:19:21.330 --> 0:19:24.369 is a fishing? Like. Like if you're going fishing, fishermen 0:19:24.369 --> 0:19:26.690 go for a specific fish. They know what the fish want. 0:19:26.730 --> 0:19:28.770 They put it on the line. When you net fish, 0:19:28.770 --> 0:19:30.689 you don't know what you're going to get. Come on, 0:19:30.690 --> 0:19:33.130 sister Denise. Am I right about it? You don't know 0:19:33.130 --> 0:19:36.370 who and what you're going to get, you know? And 0:19:36.369 --> 0:19:39.450 so what happens? Your net breaks and he says, listen, 0:19:39.450 --> 0:19:43.810 when it comes to you, me, our cod, our Tiso, 0:19:43.850 --> 0:19:46.770 I'll reset the broken bone when it comes to ministry. 0:19:47.050 --> 0:19:51.490 I'll mend the net again. I'll mend the net again. 0:19:51.690 --> 0:19:55.970 Then Carter Tiso meant equipping a soldier to go out 0:19:55.970 --> 0:19:58.970 to battle. And so he says, look, you put on 0:19:58.970 --> 0:20:01.370 the whole armor of God and there's none for your back. Why? 0:20:01.410 --> 0:20:04.450 Because God don't want any coward soldiers. But don't worry, 0:20:04.490 --> 0:20:06.810 your back is covered because goodness and mercy. 0:20:06.810 --> 0:20:09.050 Shall follow me all the days of my life. 0:20:12.050 --> 0:20:16.490 And then the fourth was to outfit a ship for 0:20:16.490 --> 0:20:21.570 a journey, giving the ship everything that was necessary to 0:20:21.609 --> 0:20:28.649 make the journey. That's his promise. Thank you God. Wow. 0:20:30.570 --> 0:20:34.130 Billy Graham was asked one time would he do anything else? 0:20:34.130 --> 0:20:38.250 And he said. He said, I'm a servant of Jesus Christ, 0:20:38.250 --> 0:20:41.090 and I would not stoop to be a king or 0:20:41.090 --> 0:20:44.050 the president of the United States. He said, that's a 0:20:44.050 --> 0:20:48.770 step down. It's a step down. And I tell everybody, 0:20:48.810 --> 0:20:51.129 you know, I hey, I was just with the Minnesota 0:20:51.130 --> 0:20:56.250 Vikings and, uh, you know, they asked, you want some autographs? 0:20:57.250 --> 0:21:04.720 You want mine. I don't collect autographs. What I do 0:21:05.800 --> 0:21:08.600 is way more important than what they do on that field. 0:21:09.080 --> 0:21:10.920 They ought to be asking for my autograph. 0:21:11.000 --> 0:21:11.760 Amen. 0:21:11.880 --> 0:21:16.680 Amen. Because what I do has eternal consequences. I ain't lying. 0:21:17.560 --> 0:21:19.520 And my kids just convinced me. Dad, you're going to 0:21:19.520 --> 0:21:21.520 all these teams. You ain't taking no pictures, man. We 0:21:21.520 --> 0:21:24.280 going to put them on Facebook. I said okay, okay, okay, 0:21:24.280 --> 0:21:29.560 I'll start taking them. I'll start taking them. But yeah, yeah, yeah. 0:21:29.600 --> 0:21:34.080 You know it's like I ain't impressed. Mhm. Here's the 0:21:34.080 --> 0:21:38.640 last one. Completion should be the intent. Uh you say 0:21:38.640 --> 0:21:41.800 what are you talking about. He says that he fulfill it. 0:21:42.000 --> 0:21:45.919 The word is plural. Say plural. It literally means to 0:21:45.960 --> 0:21:49.080 fill it up till it can't be filled anymore. In 0:21:49.080 --> 0:21:51.199 other words, man, we need to get to the place 0:21:51.200 --> 0:21:54.200 where we are, like the Apostle Paul. What did he say? 0:21:54.240 --> 0:21:57.240 I have fought a good fight. 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