WEBVTT - Get Involved, Part 2 0:00:00.240 --> 0:00:03.400 How do you encourage saints to serve? God led you 0:00:03.440 --> 0:00:06.280 here not just to come and get the word. God 0:00:06.280 --> 0:00:09.640 led you here to work, for we are his workmanship, 0:00:09.640 --> 0:00:12.440 created in Christ Jesus unto good works. 0:00:18.880 --> 0:00:21.840 Welcome to Treasure Truth with pastor and author James Ford, 0:00:21.840 --> 0:00:24.480 junior senior pastor of the Christ Bible Church in Chicago. 0:00:24.520 --> 0:00:26.560 I'm Steve Hillard. Glad you're with us. As today we 0:00:26.600 --> 0:00:30.480 continue a message entitled Get Involved and pastor. Some of 0:00:30.480 --> 0:00:32.959 us may hear what you just said and say, wait, wait. 0:00:33.000 --> 0:00:36.960 God created us to work. Okay, I get it. I 0:00:37.040 --> 0:00:38.800 am supposed to get up and go to my job 0:00:38.800 --> 0:00:41.560 Monday through Friday, 9 to 5 or whatever your job 0:00:41.560 --> 0:00:44.400 happens to be. Um, but what do you. Because I 0:00:44.400 --> 0:00:46.800 know that's not what you're talking about. Totally. God created 0:00:46.800 --> 0:00:49.200 us to do work outside of just our vocation. So 0:00:49.240 --> 0:00:50.400 what are we supposed to be doing? 0:00:50.440 --> 0:00:55.320 Oh, yeah. Well, you know, our vocation is Christian before 0:00:55.320 --> 0:00:58.560 it's secular. Uh, so, for example, as a matter of fact, 0:00:58.560 --> 0:01:02.840 it was aired here on Moody Network. There was, and 0:01:02.840 --> 0:01:07.800 I don't remember which program it was, but they had 0:01:07.800 --> 0:01:11.000 a nurse on who was in a local hospital here 0:01:11.000 --> 0:01:16.160 in Chicago and had led almost her entire shift to Christ. Wow. 0:01:16.400 --> 0:01:20.800 She said something so profound, I've never forgot it. The 0:01:20.840 --> 0:01:25.160 announcer said to her, so you are a nurse? And 0:01:25.160 --> 0:01:27.040 she said, no, no no no no no no no. 0:01:27.160 --> 0:01:29.360 He said, well, yeah, you're a nurse. She said, no 0:01:29.360 --> 0:01:32.080 no no no no no no. She said, I'm a 0:01:32.080 --> 0:01:36.160 Christian disguised as a nurse. 0:01:36.200 --> 0:01:36.760 Okay. 0:01:36.959 --> 0:01:39.760 I said wow. And then she went on to explain, 0:01:39.760 --> 0:01:43.119 I'm here at this job, first and foremost to lift 0:01:43.120 --> 0:01:47.400 up Jesus. And so I'm here to show everybody how 0:01:47.400 --> 0:01:52.000 Jesus would nurse if Jesus were a nurse. Yeah. And man, 0:01:52.040 --> 0:01:53.680 I mean, I got to look at her. So you 0:01:53.680 --> 0:01:55.440 see this goose? Oh, yeah. Now I'm kind of dark, 0:01:55.960 --> 0:01:59.000 but there, there, there. Yeah. It always brings me goosebumps. 0:01:59.040 --> 0:02:02.640 And that's the attitude that we have. So. So whether 0:02:02.760 --> 0:02:06.320 we're in the church or on the job, we understand 0:02:06.320 --> 0:02:08.880 that we have a work. Yeah. And so I don't 0:02:08.880 --> 0:02:13.280 have a dichotomy for it, Steve. Okay. It's it's like, yes, 0:02:13.280 --> 0:02:16.440 if you're at your job site, you're a Christian lawyer, 0:02:16.480 --> 0:02:21.840 a Christian doctor, a Christian garbage man, a Christian, uh, laborer, 0:02:21.880 --> 0:02:25.600 whatever you are, you know, Christian is in the adjectival 0:02:25.600 --> 0:02:29.840 position which modifies the noun. All that does is tell 0:02:29.880 --> 0:02:35.440 us that the adjective dictates to the noun and tells 0:02:35.440 --> 0:02:38.359 the noun how the noun is supposed to act. So 0:02:38.360 --> 0:02:42.880 I'm a Christian. Whatever. Yeah. And my Christianity dictates. And 0:02:42.880 --> 0:02:45.519 so that's what I'm talking about now. And that's not 0:02:45.520 --> 0:02:49.400 just at the job, but it's extended to the church 0:02:49.720 --> 0:02:52.320 that God has called each of us to work together. 0:02:52.320 --> 0:02:56.160 Read first Corinthians 12. Wow. It's powerful. We are parts 0:02:56.160 --> 0:02:59.600 of a body. And he gives us that analogy, that 0:02:59.600 --> 0:03:03.709 metaphor We're the body of Christ. So he has hands 0:03:03.710 --> 0:03:06.350 and eyes and ears and man. So if you're a 0:03:06.350 --> 0:03:09.790 heart ministry, then do hard work. That's mercy, of course. 0:03:09.950 --> 0:03:13.910 The gift of mercy. If you are a mind gift, 0:03:13.950 --> 0:03:16.630 you know that's the gift of discernment, word of wisdom, 0:03:16.630 --> 0:03:19.109 all those kind of things. So whatever it is, find 0:03:19.110 --> 0:03:22.950 your niche and get busy. Bloom where you're planted. 0:03:23.190 --> 0:03:26.190 Well, right now we're going to be in Colossians chapter four. 0:03:26.190 --> 0:03:28.230 So if you can grab a Bible, join us there 0:03:28.230 --> 0:03:31.750 as we continue a message entitled get involved. Here is 0:03:31.750 --> 0:03:32.630 Pastor Ford. 0:03:33.630 --> 0:03:38.790 We must be resilient. You know what that means. Be 0:03:38.790 --> 0:03:42.190 able to bounce back from stuff. Man, too many of 0:03:42.190 --> 0:03:46.830 us wear our feelings on our shoulders. First time somebody 0:03:46.830 --> 0:03:51.390 doesn't say something or sometimes somebody says something. Here we go. 0:03:51.430 --> 0:03:54.110 I ain't coming to church no more. Why? Because one 0:03:54.110 --> 0:03:58.670 ignorant person. So if they sit over here. Sit over there. 0:04:01.590 --> 0:04:06.070 You ain't gotta sit with them. It's like what would 0:04:06.070 --> 0:04:09.750 happen if every leader let one ignorant person stop them 0:04:09.750 --> 0:04:12.590 from leading? Wouldn't be no leader. You would never have 0:04:12.590 --> 0:04:15.990 a pastor. Because I'm going to tell you this. Somebody 0:04:15.990 --> 0:04:22.750 offends me every time I come. Somebody said something to 0:04:22.790 --> 0:04:29.230 me that's out the box all the time. Emails, letters. 0:04:29.589 --> 0:04:33.070 You know what I do? I file them in that 0:04:33.110 --> 0:04:40.310 receptacle beside my desk. That's what I do. Because some 0:04:40.310 --> 0:04:44.310 people have the gift of criticism. Now, now, if it's 0:04:44.350 --> 0:04:48.950 if it's if it's a valid comment, I always listen 0:04:48.950 --> 0:04:52.029 to every valid comment. But but there are people who 0:04:52.070 --> 0:04:57.230 they just say things just to hurt you. Yeah. And 0:04:57.230 --> 0:04:59.750 so I know those folk. And so I don't worry 0:04:59.750 --> 0:05:03.910 about it. Don't worry about it at all. They they, 0:05:03.950 --> 0:05:09.070 you know, they come with the territory. You know, if 0:05:09.070 --> 0:05:11.750 you ain't ready for that, you ain't ready to do ministry. 0:05:11.870 --> 0:05:15.750 So then he says, stand not just against the evil devil, 0:05:15.750 --> 0:05:21.070 the evil day, but the every device. And he's talking 0:05:21.070 --> 0:05:27.830 about resources that the devil has strategy. That's what the 0:05:27.830 --> 0:05:30.990 Bible calls it, from which we get the word strategy. 0:05:31.670 --> 0:05:33.950 And so what we have to do is we have 0:05:33.950 --> 0:05:36.230 been given the keys to the kingdom. Now, what do 0:05:36.270 --> 0:05:39.550 keys do? Open gates. And what gates? Already open the 0:05:39.550 --> 0:05:42.750 gates of hell. So every time hell has a resource, 0:05:42.750 --> 0:05:46.469 we have a key. Every time hell puts up a gate, 0:05:46.470 --> 0:05:50.790 we have a key. And then at the end, it 0:05:50.790 --> 0:05:56.790 says stand at the end. And that is to be resolute. Resolute. 0:05:56.830 --> 0:06:03.310 That's always ready to fight. So then next line. He 0:06:03.310 --> 0:06:09.110 was a fellow soldier, but not a fellow worker. And 0:06:09.110 --> 0:06:12.030 so he was the one that would charge hell with 0:06:12.029 --> 0:06:15.310 a water pistol and tell God I'll put it out. 0:06:15.710 --> 0:06:17.870 He was a fellow soldier, but not a fellow worker. 0:06:17.910 --> 0:06:20.870 Now let me show you. They go hand in hand. 0:06:21.950 --> 0:06:25.550 That that that God wants the soldier and the servant 0:06:25.990 --> 0:06:31.190 to come together. So in Nehemiah chapter 14, here's what 0:06:31.230 --> 0:06:33.750 Nehemiah says. Let me just read it to you. It 0:06:33.750 --> 0:06:37.469 says in verse 17, be everyone with one of his 0:06:37.470 --> 0:06:41.350 hands wrought in the work. With the other hand he 0:06:41.390 --> 0:06:44.909 held a weapon. So they had a shovel in one 0:06:44.910 --> 0:06:49.030 hand and a weapon in the other hand. Nehemiah said, 0:06:49.029 --> 0:06:53.550 stand on the wall. Be ready to work. Be ready 0:06:53.550 --> 0:06:58.750 to war. Every Christian is a warrior, and every Christian 0:06:58.750 --> 0:07:04.270 is a worker Occur at the same time. So then 0:07:04.270 --> 0:07:07.950 basically then how do you encourage saints to serve? God 0:07:07.950 --> 0:07:11.150 led you here not just to come and get the word. 0:07:11.190 --> 0:07:14.950 God led you here to work. For we are his workmanship, 0:07:14.950 --> 0:07:20.910 created in Christ Jesus unto good works. It's time to work, people. 0:07:22.150 --> 0:07:27.230 So how do you encourage them? This one verse and 0:07:27.230 --> 0:07:28.990 like I said, we study it on a Sunday before, 0:07:29.230 --> 0:07:32.670 but this one verse, listen to it. He says the 0:07:32.670 --> 0:07:37.030 first thing you do and say to our shepherds. Stop. 0:07:37.390 --> 0:07:40.670 He says the first thing you do is confront them 0:07:41.070 --> 0:07:51.030 to instigate them. Confront them, to instigate them. What do 0:07:51.030 --> 0:07:54.150 you mean, confront them? To instigate them? Where do you 0:07:54.150 --> 0:07:59.670 get that? And say to Archippus, confront them. To Who 0:07:59.710 --> 0:08:07.350 instigate them? Say, what are you talking about? Here's here's 0:08:07.350 --> 0:08:13.070 what he's. Here's what he's doing. There is what's called 0:08:13.070 --> 0:08:17.150 an ox goad. Anybody know what an ox goad is? 0:08:18.150 --> 0:08:20.790 Let me tell you what an ox goad is. It's 0:08:20.790 --> 0:08:26.390 a long stick that a farmer would use. And at 0:08:26.390 --> 0:08:29.470 the end, it had a sharp point. And if the 0:08:29.470 --> 0:08:34.750 ox didn't work, the farmer would stick the ox with 0:08:34.750 --> 0:08:43.310 the ox. Goad. Stick a stick. Uh, so Paul says 0:08:43.309 --> 0:08:48.070 there are people who are oxen. That's that's what he 0:08:48.070 --> 0:08:51.030 likens us to. Why? Because oxen will work. So we're 0:08:51.030 --> 0:08:55.350 all oxen because we've been given that nature by Christ. Now, 0:08:56.270 --> 0:09:03.260 he says, stick em. Instigate them to get busy for me. 0:09:05.660 --> 0:09:10.460 So he says that that's what we are to do. 0:09:10.620 --> 0:09:14.540 So what happened? Now get this. Think about this. Everybody 0:09:14.540 --> 0:09:17.420 didn't have a Bible. So then the pastor got up 0:09:17.420 --> 0:09:19.620 and said, we have an epistle, a letter from the 0:09:19.620 --> 0:09:23.060 Apostle Paul, and he reads it. Then he gets to 0:09:23.100 --> 0:09:26.420 verse 17 and say to Archippus, what do you think happened? 0:09:27.460 --> 0:09:37.140 Everybody looked at Archippus. Wow. Paul, in the colloquialism of 0:09:37.140 --> 0:09:41.660 our young people, busted him out, pulled the covers off 0:09:41.660 --> 0:09:47.180 of him. Wow. He had been apathetic. And so whenever 0:09:47.179 --> 0:09:51.140 Paul saw apathy, he dealt with it. Paul always dealt 0:09:51.140 --> 0:09:53.140 with what he saw in the church. Uh. I'm not 0:09:53.140 --> 0:09:54.420 I'm not going to. Imma drop. I'm. I'm not going 0:09:54.420 --> 0:09:57.420 to push him. But in first Corinthians chapter one, verse ten. 0:09:57.460 --> 0:10:02.420 Guess what Paul saw at Corinth. Division. And you know 0:10:02.420 --> 0:10:05.700 what he said in verse, in verse ten, it has 0:10:05.700 --> 0:10:09.700 been reported to me of the house of Chloe. Now 0:10:09.700 --> 0:10:14.420 get this. What did he do? He called out the division, 0:10:14.420 --> 0:10:16.700 but he also called out the person who told him 0:10:16.700 --> 0:10:20.380 about the division. So that you can't tell Paul something 0:10:20.380 --> 0:10:23.220 without thinking that you are not going to be held accountable. 0:10:23.580 --> 0:10:26.380 What would that do in this church if we all 0:10:26.380 --> 0:10:30.220 had that philosophy that you can't come to me and 0:10:30.220 --> 0:10:33.660 talk to me about Sister Naomi Sharif, and you didn't 0:10:33.660 --> 0:10:36.939 go to her first. Did you go to Sister Naomi? 0:10:36.980 --> 0:10:39.860 No I didn't. Well, then you violated the Bible. You 0:10:39.860 --> 0:10:41.420 need to go and go to her. Now I'm going 0:10:41.420 --> 0:10:44.059 to hold you accountable. I'm going to let her know. Uh, 0:10:44.059 --> 0:10:46.459 if you don't go to her by Sunday, I'm going 0:10:46.460 --> 0:10:48.820 to talk to her Sunday evening. Imma let her know 0:10:48.820 --> 0:10:50.900 you got a problem with her and you need to 0:10:50.900 --> 0:10:52.140 come get it straightened out. 0:10:52.140 --> 0:10:53.780 Alright? Amen. Amen. 0:10:54.660 --> 0:10:59.940 In other words, you can't say. They said some people 0:10:59.980 --> 0:11:04.260 are upset. No, because, you know. And I don't get it. 0:11:05.059 --> 0:11:06.740 And you want to know why? You know why? I 0:11:06.740 --> 0:11:08.580 don't get it. Since you're visiting with us today. I 0:11:08.620 --> 0:11:11.260 sound like I'm fussing, but I'm not. Uh, you know, 0:11:11.260 --> 0:11:14.219 you know why? I don't get it, sis. Because I 0:11:14.220 --> 0:11:17.980 don't accept it. No, no. They. Who's they? I can't 0:11:17.980 --> 0:11:22.100 tell you. Then you can't tell me what they said. Yeah, yeah. 0:11:22.140 --> 0:11:24.900 Because if there is no accountability, then there's no way 0:11:24.900 --> 0:11:29.540 to rectify something. Can't rectify it on they said, because 0:11:29.580 --> 0:11:32.700 most of the time it ain't they. It's you. 0:11:34.620 --> 0:11:35.020 Yeah. 0:11:36.340 --> 0:11:40.540 Yeah. And you want this amorphous they. So. Because nobody 0:11:40.540 --> 0:11:41.940 can put their hands on it I don't want to 0:11:41.980 --> 0:11:44.860 bust them out. Well, you better if you want to 0:11:44.860 --> 0:11:46.620 tell me. I don't even want to hear it. I 0:11:46.620 --> 0:11:49.460 won't even listen to it. And so he did that. 0:11:49.500 --> 0:11:53.340 What about. What about with sin? First Corinthians five. He 0:11:53.340 --> 0:11:56.140 pointed out that there was a young man sleeping with 0:11:56.140 --> 0:12:01.900 his stepmother. What are you trying to say? I'm. I'm 0:12:01.940 --> 0:12:04.860 I'm not just doing service. I'm saying when we know 0:12:04.860 --> 0:12:07.980 somebody's not living right, and they say they're walking with 0:12:07.980 --> 0:12:10.459 the Lord, we have an obligation. 0:12:10.500 --> 0:12:11.220 Amen. 0:12:12.059 --> 0:12:15.780 Say, you know, you know, bro, I'm not trying to, uh, 0:12:15.820 --> 0:12:18.220 get in your video and find out what flavor your 0:12:18.220 --> 0:12:21.660 Kool-Aid is, but I have to, because we're brothers in Christ. 0:12:23.100 --> 0:12:29.660 What you're doing is an affront to God, and it's 0:12:29.660 --> 0:12:31.819 a blight on the name of Jesus Christ. 0:12:35.020 --> 0:12:38.620 There can be so difficult to hold each other accountable. 0:12:38.620 --> 0:12:41.579 But what a powerful reminder from pastor for that. We're 0:12:41.580 --> 0:12:44.540 called to do just that. You're listening to a message 0:12:44.540 --> 0:12:48.219 entitled Get Involved. Taken from Colossians chapter four. And we're 0:12:48.220 --> 0:12:51.260 going to continue this teaching in just a moment. You know, 0:12:51.300 --> 0:12:53.340 I know over the summer months, some of us might 0:12:53.340 --> 0:12:56.179 be traveling. Maybe you've got family vacations or other trips 0:12:56.179 --> 0:12:57.939 coming up. You want to make sure that you don't 0:12:57.940 --> 0:13:00.220 miss Pastor Ford's teaching, or you can always listen to 0:13:00.260 --> 0:13:04.380 each and every broadcast online. Come to Treasure Truth Radio org. 0:13:04.540 --> 0:13:08.260 There you can stream programs, download mp3's, or order copies 0:13:08.260 --> 0:13:11.820 of the broadcast on CD. Again treasure truth radio org. 0:13:12.100 --> 0:13:13.340 Here is Pastor Ford. 0:13:13.980 --> 0:13:18.819 How about when somebody was slack? Second Timothy six he said, hey, 0:13:19.100 --> 0:13:21.780 it's like they're not holding up their their end of 0:13:21.780 --> 0:13:24.700 the bargain. Nehemiah did it. You know what he did? 0:13:24.740 --> 0:13:27.060 He he talked about everybody that was working on the wall. 0:13:27.100 --> 0:13:29.620 Chapter three. Didn't you know what he said? Some of 0:13:29.620 --> 0:13:34.179 the nobles won't work. He pointed it out. What are 0:13:34.179 --> 0:13:38.740 you saying? We going around sin sniffing? No, we're holding 0:13:38.740 --> 0:13:42.940 each other accountable. And so he says, confront him. Now 0:13:42.940 --> 0:13:46.500 notice something with me. Notice, first of all, letter A 0:13:46.660 --> 0:13:50.300 under Roman numeral one. Confront them to instigate. Say to 0:13:50.300 --> 0:13:58.500 Archippus it's spoken confrontation. It's spoken and say to Archippus 0:13:58.500 --> 0:14:05.420 it's spoken. And so the word is and spoken, not 0:14:05.420 --> 0:14:09.780 prayed about, not gossiped, not alluded to. Say is the 0:14:09.780 --> 0:14:14.260 word logos. Say logos. What does it talk about? Logos 0:14:14.300 --> 0:14:19.740 speaks of the content of what you're saying. So in 0:14:19.740 --> 0:14:23.620 in essence he's saying, listen, listen, uh, you know, pastor, 0:14:23.620 --> 0:14:25.940 I'm praying about it. You've been praying about for five years. 0:14:26.620 --> 0:14:30.740 When are you going to do something? And so here 0:14:30.940 --> 0:14:35.260 he's saying, listen, it's spoken and say to Archippus, we, 0:14:35.260 --> 0:14:38.260 you know, why is it we talk to Lottie, Dottie 0:14:38.260 --> 0:14:44.380 and everybody except the person, why we do stuff like that? 0:14:45.220 --> 0:14:51.700 We need to stop. So it's spoken, but then it's specific. 0:14:51.980 --> 0:14:56.220 That's letter B, it's spoken confrontation. It's specific confrontation. Say, 0:14:56.220 --> 0:15:01.330 what do you mean? Say to Archippus. Paul says, say 0:15:01.330 --> 0:15:03.210 to him not to the board, not to the elder, 0:15:03.210 --> 0:15:05.130 not to the deacon, not to the brother, not to 0:15:05.170 --> 0:15:07.890 the sister, not to the pastor. They mama, they daddy, 0:15:07.890 --> 0:15:12.970 they sister, they brother. Say it to them. Say it 0:15:12.970 --> 0:15:17.850 to them. You know, I haven't seen so-and-so in a 0:15:17.850 --> 0:15:23.810 long time. Okay, so you're telling me, did you call them? 0:15:24.690 --> 0:15:33.010 Did you try to find out what's going on with them? Mm. Yeah. Yeah. 0:15:33.010 --> 0:15:37.890 Where's the accountability for one another? Cuz Imma tell you something. 0:15:38.410 --> 0:15:43.130 We don't always mean what we say, do we? You know, 0:15:43.170 --> 0:15:45.930 they say usually means I heard it from at least 0:15:45.930 --> 0:15:50.210 one source. But everybody must believe it. You know this 0:15:50.210 --> 0:15:52.450 needs to be done. Usually means I'm not going to 0:15:52.450 --> 0:15:57.530 do anything about it, but the church ought to. I 0:15:57.530 --> 0:16:00.450 heard some criticism. Usually means I'm against it, but I 0:16:00.450 --> 0:16:03.690 don't have the nerve to state my belief. How about 0:16:03.690 --> 0:16:09.170 this one? The whole church is upset, which usually means 0:16:09.170 --> 0:16:12.450 2 or 3 loud mouths have turned loose their venom. 0:16:12.850 --> 0:16:16.490 You know, doing this might bring some criticism. Means I 0:16:16.490 --> 0:16:18.170 know it should be done, but it takes too much 0:16:18.170 --> 0:16:21.090 effort for me to do it. How about this one? 0:16:21.090 --> 0:16:24.890 If my memory serves me right, here's what it really means. 0:16:25.050 --> 0:16:27.130 I'm going to say something I'm not sure of whether 0:16:27.130 --> 0:16:29.810 it's true or false, but if somebody discovers I'm wrong, 0:16:29.850 --> 0:16:31.810 then I can always blame it on the fact that 0:16:31.810 --> 0:16:38.650 I didn't remember. Preacher I'll be there if I'm not 0:16:38.650 --> 0:16:43.130 providentially hindered. Usually means if I'm not there, blame God. 0:16:46.370 --> 0:16:49.090 I'll come every time I can. Usually means if I 0:16:49.090 --> 0:16:52.610 don't have something better to do, I'll be there. I 0:16:52.610 --> 0:16:54.850 won't promise, but I'll do my best. Means don't expect 0:16:54.850 --> 0:16:59.890 much out of me. And so on and on and on. Hey, 0:17:00.010 --> 0:17:02.370 I know we're talking about this, but I'm still studying. 0:17:02.370 --> 0:17:05.090 The question usually means I want to stay in a 0:17:05.090 --> 0:17:11.290 position that I can agree with both sides. And so 0:17:11.290 --> 0:17:18.210 here notice it's a responsibility. It's the responsibility of the 0:17:18.210 --> 0:17:23.490 body to encourage the body. It is not my job alone. 0:17:26.690 --> 0:17:28.250 So I tell you all the time, if you see 0:17:28.250 --> 0:17:32.410 somebody missing call the office. You know I haven't seen 0:17:32.410 --> 0:17:35.210 brother or sister so and so in a long time. 0:17:36.210 --> 0:17:38.530 So that somebody can get in touch with them and 0:17:38.530 --> 0:17:47.330 find out if they need some help. Hebrews 1024 he says, 0:17:47.369 --> 0:17:53.770 provoke one another. The word is paroxysm, from which we get, 0:17:53.810 --> 0:17:57.450 you know what a paroxysm, a paroxysm is, right? When 0:17:57.450 --> 0:18:00.409 somebody has a paroxysm, it's like an epileptic seizure. It 0:18:00.410 --> 0:18:05.250 just comes on suddenly and here he's saying it's like 0:18:05.250 --> 0:18:10.930 a sudden outburst. You know what a mother Eagle does 0:18:12.090 --> 0:18:17.490 when she wants her eaglets to fly before she does that? 0:18:17.850 --> 0:18:23.490 Before she does that. Because she. What? She pulls out 0:18:23.609 --> 0:18:28.290 all of the feathers and everything that made it comfortable. 0:18:28.290 --> 0:18:32.210 Because she makes it out of thorns. And then if 0:18:32.210 --> 0:18:34.690 they don't get out, she turns the nest over. But 0:18:34.690 --> 0:18:36.889 usually all she got to do is take out the 0:18:36.930 --> 0:18:39.530 animal skin and and all the things that made it 0:18:39.530 --> 0:18:42.170 comfortable and soft. And when them baby eagles sit down 0:18:42.170 --> 0:18:45.330 and get stuck, they they try to fly away. I 0:18:45.369 --> 0:18:45.890 got to get. 0:18:45.890 --> 0:18:51.850 Away from here. I thought mama loved me. 0:18:53.450 --> 0:18:58.570 But it's time to fly. Come on. Come on people. 0:18:58.770 --> 0:19:01.129 It's time to fly. And here's what I hear all 0:19:01.130 --> 0:19:03.050 the time. Well, I don't think I know enough. Who 0:19:03.050 --> 0:19:07.010 said you had to know enough? Who said that? The 0:19:07.010 --> 0:19:12.850 woman in John chapter four. And so what happened? I'll 0:19:12.850 --> 0:19:17.610 tell you what happened. She got saved and then went 0:19:17.609 --> 0:19:21.290 to Moody Bible Institute and took the course in evangelism, 0:19:21.730 --> 0:19:24.490 then went back to the city and said, uh, the 0:19:24.490 --> 0:19:28.570 Roman road said, is that what she did? No, she 0:19:28.570 --> 0:19:31.850 got saved. And she went into the village and said, 0:19:31.850 --> 0:19:36.450 come see a man who told me everything I ever did. 0:19:37.410 --> 0:19:42.250 That's what he did, huh? Yeah. So you don't need 0:19:42.250 --> 0:19:47.530 a whole lot. Here it is. Secondly. Secondly, says confront 0:19:47.530 --> 0:19:52.770 them to instigate them. Notice. Secondly, challenge them to involvement. 0:19:53.050 --> 0:19:56.169 It says it say to our churches, take heed to 0:19:56.170 --> 0:19:59.650 the ministry. The word is depot. It literally means to 0:19:59.690 --> 0:20:02.649 look to something. In other words, here's what he's telling. 0:20:02.650 --> 0:20:08.209 Here's what he's telling us. Archippus. He was the pastor 0:20:08.210 --> 0:20:14.330 of this church. Something caused him to look away from 0:20:14.330 --> 0:20:19.650 the ministry. And Paul says, tell him to look back. 0:20:21.890 --> 0:20:26.450 Look at what God had committed to his care. We'll 0:20:26.450 --> 0:20:30.010 see that in a minute. So something had turned him away. 0:20:31.810 --> 0:20:43.530 Some decision. Maybe somebody damaged him. Maybe some board meeting 0:20:43.570 --> 0:20:48.050 got out of hand. Maybe he felt like he was unappreciated. 0:20:49.290 --> 0:20:55.170 Maybe he was doing too much. Maybe he was trying 0:20:55.170 --> 0:20:57.090 to make up for some of the 50% that was 0:20:57.090 --> 0:21:05.639 doing nothing. And so. Sometimes we have to realize like 0:21:05.640 --> 0:21:10.439 Habakkuk had three chapters one, two, three. And so you 0:21:10.440 --> 0:21:13.840 look at the book of Habakkuk and what you'll find 0:21:13.880 --> 0:21:18.879 is chapter one. He's looking at the storm. Chapter two 0:21:18.920 --> 0:21:22.240 he's looking through the storm. Chapter three he's looking above 0:21:22.240 --> 0:21:24.399 the storm. Now you have to ask yourself, what are 0:21:24.400 --> 0:21:26.880 you doing right now? No, no, I'm not talking about 0:21:26.880 --> 0:21:30.040 your neighbor. I'm talking about you in terms of your 0:21:30.040 --> 0:21:38.919 ministry involvement in this assembly. Are you looking at the 0:21:38.920 --> 0:21:45.560 problems you're looking through, or are you looking beyond because 0:21:45.560 --> 0:21:48.400 I submit to you? Unless you're looking beyond, you'll never 0:21:48.400 --> 0:21:51.200 make it. Because the only way to make it is 0:21:51.200 --> 0:21:54.400 to look beyond, to see what God has called us 0:21:54.400 --> 0:21:56.440 to do, that we haven't finished. 0:21:58.560 --> 0:22:02.360 Pastor James Ford Jr and a message called get involved 0:22:02.359 --> 0:22:04.920 while you're listening to Treasure Truth. 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