With my name on it with my name on it with my name on it my name put your name on it put your name on it put your name on it put your name on it put your name on it put your name on it put your name
On it your name everybody say yeah yeah say yeah yeah yeah yeah with my neighbor with my neighor say yeah yeah say yeah yeah say yeah with my name on it with my name on it God’s Got a Blessing God got a bless y’all sing that with a sing say God’s
Got a bless God got a bless y’all sing it say God’s Got a Blessing God got a bless one more time God’s Got a Blessing God got a blessing here we go say God’s Got a Blessing God got a blessing God’s Got a Blessing God got a blessing God’s Got a
Blessing God got a blessing with my name on it with my name on it God’s got a bless it God got a blessing God’s Got a Blessing God got a blessing God’s Got a Blessing God got a bless with my name on it with my name on it with my name on it
With my name on it with my name on it with my name on it with my name on it with my name on it with my name on it with my name on it put your name on it put your name on it put your name on it
Put your name on it put your name on it put your name on it put your name on it put your name on it God’s Got a Blessing God got a blessing come on put those hands together amen let’s go right to our lesson tonight if you’re watching push
The share button pass it on we want to grow in the word of God tonight Luke 94957 listen Church you’ll pick up one thing by coming to bible study consistency breach conviction and God monitors that tonight we’re covering generosity and Ministry watch this let’s read this together these three verses
Let’s start Master uh said John we saw someone driving out demons in your name hello anybody helping me and when we tried to stop him because he was not one of us do not stop him Jesus said for whoever is not against you is for you as
The time approached for him to be taken up to heaven Jesus resolutely set out for Jerusalem and he sent Messengers ahead who went into Samaria Village Samaritan Village to get things ready for him but the people there did not welcome him he was headed for Jerusalem when the
Disciples J James and John saw this they asked Lord do you want us to call fire down from heaven to destroy them but Jesus turned and rebuked them then he and his disciples went another Village as they were walking along the road a man said
To him I will follow you wherever I go you wherever you go we going to stop there we moving forward you can be seated get your notes out this is going to be a fascinating piece as the Lord unveils this for us in the building and those of you who are watching online
Remember we do Wednesday night bible studies in the building uh and online and then on every other Thursday we do uh a virtual class on Zoom uh which is called midday a Bible study uh we know you cannot go from Sunday to Sunday uh just with afterward in midday
Midweek to help build your spiritual muscles real quick do this real quick this is real quick real quick highlight John underline someone underline Heaven underlying Samaritan uh underlying headed for jerus Jerusalem underlying that underlying the disciple James and John and then underline Village go through each line I
Want you to see the pronoun did y’all get that you want me to repeat it let me repeat it okay do I have the wrong one or y’all got the wrong one go to the app okay go to the app but can you underline on the app okay okay let’s do that
John someone thank you re uh Heaven highlighted or something Samaritan Village headed for Jerusalem the disciples James and John and then in verse 56 Village okay stay with me as we go as Jesus disciples were all called to live generously and serve others so are we called to be compassionate toward
Others because God showed compassion toward us in Jesus sacrifice on our behalf what does all of this mean In following Jesus right quick write it down number one is going to be clear that’s where we going to go Jesus first clears up a misconception about what it means to follow him I want y’all to know write this down people follow Jesus for different reasons people join churches for
Different reasons people could connect with different people uh for different reasons fan clubs sororities fraternities schools they go to certain things if you remember from Sunday to develop relationships because they choose to based on what they are working on uh based on what they do not know show her
How to do the app Troy sure download the app uh uh when you look at that I I want you to know that first why is that important when we go back to all those scriptures what that teaches us is how many different sections of people and dimensions of where Christ didn’t mind
Operating catch you real quick John one of the disciples who was John or Nobody Until Jesus pointed him out look at that someone he we saw someone Jesus is in con is concerned about the someone but the someone is already doing Ministry in Jesus name y’all got to catch on quickly now
Somebody say he got heaven in there I told you to underline Heaven why is Heaven is important because that’s a different dimension that he was invested in he worked for his father he served in heaven he come to earth I want you to see the fluidity and the power of Jesus
And how he cared about relationships and differences he gave people chances how do you know that Samaritan Village have breeds he said set it up they didn’t set it up not because in a way they probably didn’t believe totally in him they probably didn’t set it up because he wouldn’t
Stay there all the time with them and what we need to learn we need the presence of God in our lives in our homes on our jobs but guess what he just is not a God just for you he’s a God for all types of people so if they were jealous of
Jerusalem Jerusalem though we’ve been there that’s broken down into four sections like the barrows in New York in a way um uh but that’s mostly the Jews so he cared about the Jews y’all with me y’all still catching this then you see the disciples John and James Brothers relationship Brothers you see
That and then we close out with Village I needed to get that because people connect with Jesus for different reasons and that’s why there’s a misconception in the church what do I get out of church what do I get out of Jesus they nobody’s bring asking what do I need to bring
Him what do I need to bring to Ministry are y’all with Bishop many of us are saying what am I going to get out of this and if it don’t look like I’m going to get anything then I don’t want anything now here’s a thought I’m going
Somewhere this is a black church thought in a way uh because of certain things watch this they were essentially they thought they were essentially better a because of their disciple status do you see that one misconception is you title hungry you you got a title
I I can get close to Jesus by being close in the choir you know I I you can’t sing but you want to lead the solo y’all want I I want to be over the worship text I want to be over the deacons because watch this I want to be
Honest we heard it the other night some of us are doing some different studies the elders the black church is the only way only place really almost where it’s free for you to come off the street and Leave and so some people never have led anything and that’s why they’re so uh rough when they get the position even though they avoid the training come on walk with me now because that’s what the some of the disciples are going through that is what’s the picture is painted in the
Text watch this they deserve to judge those who didn’t accept Jesus he said let us they said let us call down F now here’s a scary thing it must indicate that they have some power that Jesus had given them so this shows a misuse and a Bruce of
Power are y’all getting this they they they didn’t want the other guy do you want us to stop him he’s casting out demons in your name he’s not doing it in their name so so then since since the village didn’t want Jesus to come he said well let us burn it
Up you ain’t going to give him a chance to repent it don’t that sound like us come on y’all come on come on Church help me Jesus and then watch this the the they they the the following Jesus is simple and doesn’t require self-sacrifice that’s a misconception I’m on I’m on see the
Following that following Jesus is easy it’s nothing easy about being saved y’all not talking so I know you’re thinking it’s hard being a Believer boy can I get a couple of amens even if you whisper that come on it is difficult not to cuss some people out am I right about it it’s
Difficult sometime not to cut cuz you know y’all got some tongues you know and I’m not talking about speaking in tongue y’all know other languages amen and and and watch their language shall we go stop him so was that going to be fierceful was that going to be
Agitated was it going to be voiceful or call far down from heaven do y’all see that and and I want to say this to leadership and those watching we all need to be for even me believing that I’m at a better level than some of the people in the
Building that’s what the text is teaching us watch this number two let’s go Jesus response is to align their desires with his Kingdom Purpose and to unveil our misconceptions of what it means to follow him we don’t follow Jesus to get paid we we don’t follow Jesus to be
Famous we don’t follow Jesus to get some stuff that we ought to already be able to get y’all not talking you should be able to go buy a car now I don’t know what kind you going to buy but you have the ability to do that
Am I right about it you should go out and get an apartment I don’t know about a house but there ought to be a roof over your head and what happens many of us don’t understand we need to go where God is working instead of telling God I’mma go
Over here and I want you to join me working on that and that’s where the disciples and the crowd were misled and thinking somebody say alignment God always wants you walking in alignment here’s a quick note for everybody who’s watching and leaders any time this is a cold
Secret that there’s a leader talking to another leader or person talking to another person and they always say well I think I think they do the I pronoun I think I can say that’s pronoun and they got i in it more than God said and that’s because they can’t say God
Said not clearly not if you really saved you better not blaspheme God you better not lie on God they just say well I think it’ll be I feel I I know what I’m going to do I know it going to be diff that’s that’s that’s a sign that’s not of God Amen how
You know that number one Jesus rebuke his disciples for their eror of thinking themselves Superior to others the the disciples F uh felt that they were a part of an exclusive group listen we had new Destiny We Gather we grow we go but we not exclusive you you you can
Belong before you what believe say it again that’s a core value you can what belong before you what believe write this down Jesus never wants the gospel misrepresented how do you know that he rebukes them Jesus never wants the gospel not only misrepresented but presented irresponsible meaning you take out
Something to make it fit for what you want to do you’re irresponsible in the delivery of that the Lord says supply all of my needs according and then you charge up a credit card know you don’t have a job are y’all with me on that God is everywhere at all times he’s
Under presentent omnicient and he’s God he’s unchanging that don’t mean you’re supposed to be moving you you you you can’t put God and make God do something that’s irresponsible there’s always a tension between theology Christianity humanity and God and that is Humanity fails to fulfill their responsibility we want God to pay all
The bills that’s what we discussed in our devotion last month can’t you meet God halfway watch I this right the last one now miss reverence we don’t reverence God’s word yeah man you got to be careful saying it lightly you have to reverence it whoever watching online don’t play
With reading this Bible don’t play with praying in this don’t play with tongues don’t play with your gifts come Sunday I’m covering that be careful in the M use not reverencing God’s word write it down number two they missed the point yeah that’s kind of easy all of us missed the
Point from time to time have a fell in De seed Jesus choosing them was an act of pure grace and not in response to their worthiness did y’all get that we when you go back up and look at the scriptures you see all the different people the Samaritans you see
Heaven you see the Jerusalem people you see that mention the village you you see disciples so I I know you saying well what does that got to do with it did he have to choose them no he had options but he chose a group who didn’t
Go to Seminary they did not go to the Seminary of Jerusalem he chose people who were not in clicks they were not a part of the synagogue they were not a part of a SE or a fariseo or a Sadducees group Zealot these were fishermen these were tax
Collectors and and sometimes when God does the amazing with us in choosing us our heads begin to swell can I talk to somebody anybody ever been like that before I have got the big head didn’t even know it was big hat still fit you didn’t know it was big and and
And and it’s by Grace somebody write this down focus on Grace focus on growth if you focus on Grace and you be thankful is by the grace of God I’m alive oh I’m teaching better you saying amen it’s by the grace of God I’m still
Here it’s by the grace of God I might be limping but I don’t have cancer when you focus on the grace of God I’m driving a car but I’m not a few months behind they not repointed you you you change your whole perspective so if you focus on Grace the question is this
Moment Jesus is trying to get them to focus on gra growing why why you jealous of somebody else casting out demons is that because that’s not your gift that’s not your assignment it looks like they have a bigger crowd than you so you have to focus not only on Grace but are you
Growing and growth happens until we get to Eternity age does not determine your growth amen there there no no offense there are quite a few chronologically foolish people just like it’s a lot of young foolish people it’s a lot of chronologically somebody say Amen write
It down we got one more cuz we got to go focus on being God Center Jesus was all about doing his father’s business so if the disciples were with Jesus and they’re Imaging modeling or walking in his footsteps who should their focus be on Jesus it’s hard to walk with somebody
Than I focusing with you uh we we was uh out to eat uh the one day and um the waiter came and they had another waiter behind them the other waiter one sand nothing because they were in training they had to watch what the other waiter was doing am
I right about it they couldn’t be looking off know you in training so many of us are supposed to be watching Jesus but we watching somebody around the corner that’s all he’s saying stay in alignment somebody say alignment quickly let’s go three similar similar similarly uh uh as Jesus for
Followers we must not miss this important truth we should have a posture of humility that results from understanding Grace humility doesn’t mean you weak number four we ought to be aware of similar t tendy to Pride self-exaltation remembering that we are called to follow Jesus life write this down pride is a
Sin s arrogance is a sin boy I’m I’m telling y’all gonna have a good time Sunday come Sunday cuz I’m going be talking about love again love is is patient love is kind then he goes right to love is not boastful love is not it’s the contrast
Of it are y’all with me let’s go let’s go the Apostle Paul further States this idea that Jesus followers are sent out into the world to serve now the fascina thing the god a wanted to shut down he’s out now we don’t know his training we don’t know where he was
Developed we don’t know who how he was called but we do know he’s gifted boy y’all missed that it’s some people in smaller towns probably more gifted than many of us but that’s where God assigned them that’s where y’all come on now that’s where they align we
Love going to we we go out into the uh you know rural area but to hear them sing some of them songs I couldn’t sing them but you you just the tamarine you know it sound like they got a little zodico FL flavor I don’t they said aino I just thinking it but
Anyway they be kicking it man yeah and and God can choose whoever he chooses to do use the key is sent out say sent out that goes with our we go if if you go out watch this to do Outreach you don’t have to time to be worried about who’s doing intake
Come on y’all ain’t y’all ain’t CL me we working it out if you if you Outreach quit worry about who’s sitting at the desk doing intake got to do both but all of us go out in some kind of way tomorrow when you go out in the marketplace God is watching
You how do you conduct yourself if you work from home and you still online and you’re on a zoom it’s about 10 out online God is watching you if you’re at the mall at the market God is what watching you to see if you’re showing compassion to see if
You’re serving to see if you’re carrying out his will let’s go I got to wrap this up I’m going get you out in 10 minutes therefore if anyone is in Christ New Creation has come old has gone the new is here all this is from God who watch this
Reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of what reconciliation that God was reconciling the word to himself in Christ not counting people’s sins against them that’s what we’ve been doing and who has committed to us the message of reconcilation we uh we are therefore Christ ambassadors Circle that as
Through God of making appeal through us we explore we implore uh you on Christ’s behalf be reconciled to God let me see six time he used the word reconcile it’s almost like a financial term uh but we’ll get to that as we see it it it means uh to rechange re
Cover you know reconcile check the books your lifestyle he gets the right to do that but I want you to look at Ambassadors Uh I extrapolated that because I just did a lesson with the worship text if y’all remember that we just covered where are ambassadors and Ambassador write it down
Serves a government or Kingdom they know they are not their own they serve someone in authority and if you’re an ambassador the church ambassador of the kingdom of God that’s your role your you might be a new Destiny you might have a title you you might not have a title but you
Always will be an ambassador amen number one the primary responsibility of an ambassador or to represent and embody the qualities of the sending party to promote peace Good Will and uh do that to the foreign delegation watch this that’s what Jesus was teaching them in the previous Luke
Chapter but also as Paul is teaching all all your job is an ambassador more than a prophet oh I heard some feeling your job is an ambassador more than the doctor the lawyer all right two as Christ reconciles us we are called to share this message of reconciliation to what all
People all people say reconciliation to all people all people the Greek term on that is dailyo uh it’s about four terms they all end with leio l a SS o in different parts of the New Testament is used but write this down uh reconciliation means to change to to to exchange to surpass
Uh either this one is good to alter so you become new because something about you is altered you know ain’t nothing wrong with getting a her do that’s still you but it’s something on the inside of you has to become new and what’s on the inside of you start reflecting on the
Outside of you that’s how we know you understand reconciliation you don’t hate like you used to you forgiven you’ve let some stuff go you see um um Prince Henry flew back to see Charles whatever happened with the family at least he went back CU that has to mean something inside is saying you
Better go see your daddy y’all better catch this so if he hadn’t reconciled he better be working on that now that don’t mean he have to move back to London y’all got me on that but he does have to make a move that’s not his wife child that’s his responsibility yes sir
Are y’all understanding say don’t send your kids around the corner go tell big mom I’m sorry uh but cook me some no no you go around y’all getting that let’s go we got to go we got to go he we are messengers and representatives to others considered her innocent B we are Christ
Present to the word World they can’t see him but we are pres we we we we provide that we are touchable tangible they can watch us see since our message is about God showing there you go love to us it is essential that we demonstrate the same
Love to others you cannot get saved and forget how you got saved and then blame somebody else for the same stuff you did 20 years ago no 10 years ago No 5 years ago you just did a little different help me Jesus you had a little bit more cash
You know you just did a little different amen y’all not laughing but I think you got missing the the watch this when you miss that you end up like the disciples but know this they are still in training he never gets rid of them out of Luke he keeps them with them they’re
In training how do you know that because the disciples just like the church go through a state of confusion now see him over here he says this but he forgives that I’m confused you understand and do you know why many people are confused stuck on Old training old traditions I’m not saying
All Traditions are bad but your thinking is out of old Paradigm or old model boy I’m teaching B you’re saying amen number three there are some challenges to our Rose as Christ ambassadors would y’all not agree the text says is number one ourselves there’s a big challenge with the
Ourselves U the the we we want to block Church promotion to people who we don’t like they don’t smell like us look like us or dress like us y’all not talking how are we going to keep our young people from leading and serving y’all get me excluding others that’s a big gift we
Try to do at the church we G to stop that no I don’t want them in why I just don’t like them well why I heard no you see Jesus is teaching that because he doesn’t want that Temptation in your thoughts in your mind watch this it to surround ourselves with likeminded
People if everybody around you thinks like you serves like you then we wouldn’t have a good Ministry we wouldn’t have a great church come on somebody you need somebody you need somebody on the team smarter than you in certain areas of ministry you need people who know what you don’t know
And you need them on the team and so we have to break away from I don’t like them why they didn’t speak to me man please they got some knowledge you don’t have they got a gift you don’t have are y’all with me let’s go I’m out of time I’m out of
Time so make sure you write down leadership key and principle is that we want foreigners on our team we want different people we closing with this I’m not going to read all of that you ought to know that that’s part that’s the second part of Luke it was three or
Four verses I’m I’m going to read this last verse um uh no one puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the service of the Kingdom two things and we close you cannot go to the biblical construct of the text and say preachers ought to
Be poor because Jesus had no place to stay oh I’m teaching big tonight it’s not the same concept that was their day in time they they were walking they weren’t driving or riding now I’m not saying preachers ought to live large you live as large as your congregation can
Can but you got to see this Jesus said he doesn’t have a house where to stay and all that but he’s on an assignment come come second thing you better write down his assignment was just three years though he was 33 years old when he died he only serve three
Years y’all don’t like me now come on Church three years died before his time according to maybe age are y’all with that sir and yet he has to deal with people who pretend to have one foot in and one foot out I’m in as long as I get
This and if you can give me this first I’ll stick it out but I got some personal stuff I want to do though you don’t even have a place to sleep so when you write down this here you go the answer but that the kingdom of God takes precedent over even the
Things we regard the most report y’all don’t oh man it’s teaching well we just did prioritizing God in first month that’s why that was there because some of us don’t have God what first and Jesus was training him to put God what first and that’s all I’m
Trying to do is get you to understand you can be a great member great singer great preacher but you might not have God what first somebody say first first if you got him first if you have him first watch this their primary identity is that they are members of the
Kingdom anyone one who cannot accept this is not ready to follow him thank you thank you that that’s it that’s it are you ready to follow can we get a group to follow you don’t have to be the loudest the best dress you don’t have to have the biggest TI
Generosity was given to diverse group of people and the Lord God is kind amen stand on your feet get the Lord of worship praise I like [Applause] that father God we thank you tonight for those watching online and those in the building we pray peace blessings and Provisions
On our lives God that we reverence your word and that we handle it and the gift that you’ve given us responsible that we don’t abuse others but that we grow and that we go out into the marketplace to witness to serve and the help of people help us never to forget
The generosity you’ve shown us and that you saved us and you drew us out of nothing and put us into something and that you keep in us and that you care about us and that you alone for who we take our problems too because you are our
Creator and since you shaped us and molded us it is your responsibility to fix us and so we thank you in Jesus name amen I’m so glad I I don’t know if you’re in the building oron not if you’re online Tex 77411 join indeed come on let’s sing it
We about to go everybody sing say Lord I Lift Your Name on High Lord I love to sing your Praises I’m so glad you’re in my life I’m so glad you came to save us you came from Heaven to Earth to show the way from the Earth to the
Cross my death you pay from the cross to the Grave from the grave to the sky Lord I LIF your name came on high let’s sing that together you came you came from Heaven to Earth to show the way from the Earth to the Cross oh you paying from the cross to the
Grave from the grave to the sky Lord I Lift Your Name on High yeah Lord I LIF your name on high Lord I Lift Your Name on High Last Time Lord I LIF your name one high come on put those hands together lift him up lift him
Up lift him up lift him up oh lift him up lift him up I’m about to take off of here lift him up God is doing something I’m about to take come on lift him up I don’t know what you need I’m just being obedient lift him up
Lift him up lift up the name come on Lord I Lift Your Name lift up his name come on call on his name come on Lord I LIF your name High Lord I LIF your name on high Lord I LIF your name on high yeah yeah say Lord I Live Your Name on
High Lord I Lift Your Name oh high Jesus amen you can be seated in the presence of the Lord listen there’s a Time online in the building we return to God with gos God if you have an offering or a tithe you must make sure you put
That in if you got your first fruit for the very first time no bet no yeah uh we working on some things uh we want to make sure we are doing what we can do with God and for God make sure you go to glii right a CH treat God
Right in your giving amen let’s look at our scripture let’s look at our scripture amen look at our scripture today for God loves a what cheer forgiver and God is able to bless you abundantly so that in all all things that what all times having all that you
Need you will abound in every good work wow that came up loud there amen let’s give y’all giving y’all ready to give amen if you got an envelope raise your hand uh the worship teers come by if you doing that amen amen amen amen let’s let’s stand so we can depart
Lord I LIF your Name as we lift up our eyes into the heels for which come I have remembered that the Lord is watching over you we serve a great awesome and miraculous God so you must remember that the Lord what is what watching over you in your I pray
He would not let the sun Smite be by day Norther what Moon by night in your labor and your leisure in your laughter and in your lamenting until the day come that we stand at the feet of Jesus where there’s no Sunrise or Sunset I pray that
The Lord blessed you when you came in I pray He blesses you as you go out the door in the name of Jesus we pray be blessed amen good
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