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1 Corinthians 16 (NKJV)
Collection for the Saints
16 Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I have given orders to the churches of Galatia, so you must do also: 2 On the first day of the week let each one of you lay something aside, storing up as he may prosper, that there be no collections when I come. 3 And when I come, whomever you approve by your letters I will send to bear your gift to Jerusalem. 4 But if it is fitting that I go also, they will go with me.
Personal Plans
5 Now I will come to you when I pass through Macedonia (for I am passing through Macedonia). 6 And it may be that I will remain, or even spend the winter with you, that you may send me on my journey, wherever I go. 7 For I do not wish to see you now on the way; but I hope to stay a while with you, if the Lord permits.
8 But I will tarry in Ephesus until Pentecost. 9 For a great and effective door has opened to me, and there are many adversaries.
10 And if Timothy comes, see that he may be with you without fear; for he does the work of the Lord, as I also do. 11 Therefore let no one despise him. But send him on his journey in peace, that he may come to me; for I am waiting for him with the brethren.
12 Now concerning our brother Apollos, I strongly urged him to come to you with the brethren, but he was quite unwilling to come at this time; however, he will come when he has a convenient time.
Final Exhortations
13 Watch, stand fast in the faith, be brave, be strong. 14 Let all that you do be done with love.
15 I urge you, brethren—you know the household of Stephanas, that it is the firstfruits of Achaia, and that they have devoted themselves to the ministry of the saints— 16 that you also submit to such, and to everyone who works and labors with us.
17 I am glad about the coming of Stephanas, Fortunatus, and Achaicus, for what was lacking on your part they supplied. 18 For they refreshed my spirit and yours. Therefore acknowledge such men.
Greetings and a Solemn Farewell
19 The churches of Asia greet you. Aquila and Priscilla greet you heartily in the Lord, with the church that is in their house. 20 All the brethren greet you.
Greet one another with a holy kiss.
21 The salutation with my own hand—Paul’s.
22 If anyone does not love the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be [a]accursed. O[b] Lord, come!
23 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. 24 My love be with you all in Christ Jesus. Amen.
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you know I was thinking about my
hometown I told you guys I grew up in
the swamps in the bodies of south
Louisiana and them old Creole telephone
poles that were all along the the the
gravel roads they I always thought about
those lost pet signs you know people
tack them up Lost Pet Lost Pet and I
wondered you know I was thinking about
that I was like any of those pets ever
found
like did anybody ever go look for those
pets and honestly from the time I was
born until I left Louisiana a lot of
those signs are probably still tacked up
on those telephone poles
and I just wondered about the whole
process of finding the loss and it made
me realize that that’s not God’s plan
for seeking the Lost God’s plan isn’t
just a hope and a wish and a whisper
tacked up to some Anonymous telephone
pole along the bayous of south Louisiana
God’s got a better plan for finding the
loss and we’re part of that plan God’s
called us in our ministry to seek the
Lost
you know the reality is we’re going to
continue walking actually today is going
to be officially our last um
our last word from First Corinthians
we’ve walked through this for the last
weeks now and and again uh two weeks
ago there was a there was a message in
and and then the end is a call to
Ministry uh that the the burden that the
Lord put on my heart and and it’s in
that call to Ministry that I want to
speak to you as Paul speaks to the
church in Corinth is there’s a better
way than just tacking up a sign on a
telephone pole to find the loss we’re
called to be the ones to take that sign
down off the pole and to go and pursue
and seek those who were lost
my challenge to you is will you make the
commitment to be the one walking the
streets late at night calling out the
name of those who have not found the
father who have not found their way home
will you take up the mantle of ministry
that God’s given you
this is what I believe Paul is Paul is
emphasizing this because
this is the one thing every week the
Lord the Holy Spirit puts a burden on my
heart for the message and it is when I
get here Sunday I just I can’t wait to
share that with you and it’s just the
one thing and I want you to know deep
down in your spirit that you’re doing
Ministry matters
you’re doing Ministry matters see this
is why God called us to plant an
Apostolic fi-fold Ministry Church it’s
not to grow the body of the con the
numbers of the congregation is to grow
the the congregants in their body of
Christ
that’s the nature of a five-fold
Apostolic Ministry
it’s it’s to equip the Saints for the
work of ministry your office holders our
jobs are are not to be the one nailing
up uh Lost Pet lost this lost that our
job is to equip everybody on how to go
out and find those lost and bring them
back to the father
you’re doing Ministry matters and look
even if you don’t have a website
you don’t have a Facebook page you don’t
have a LLC or a c
even if you don’t have a business card
you’re doing Ministry
you’re doing Ministry even if you don’t
remember scripture
yet
the Bible’s more caught than taught
we say when you start quoting you know
first John this and that only impresses
religious people
somebody in crisis somebody who’s
roaming the streets lost seeking their
home
even though they don’t know the father
even though they don’t know their
internal home there’s there’s an eternal
desire to come home to the father to the
Creator
and and worrying about quoting scripture
perverse and chapter
that don’t matter to the hurting what
matters is the way that you’re living
your life what matters is the fact that
you’ve made the commitment to go out
late at night when it’s drizzling and
calling them by name and leading them
back to the father
that’s what matters your ministry
matters your testimony matters
Revelation tells us and they
overcame him Satan by the blood of the
lamb and by the word of their testimony
and they did not love their lives to the
death
your testimony has power
look people are always going to debate
the Bible Well it meant this it meant
that there’s denominations there’s
congregations there’s there’s division
that’s going on
over the word of the Lord and everybody
will agree that the word of the Lord is
accurate right true that it’s not a
salad bar to be picked and choose
that it’s all complete start to finish
but then we can’t agree on it
but the one thing that nobody can ever
contest is your testimony you prepare a
table before me in the presence of my
enemies you anoint my head with oil my
cup runs over if you were willing to
commit to the personal Ministry that
God’s put on your heart and you’re
willing to step out even without knowing
all the facts even before you even know
it’s your url domain is going to be even
before you know what your Facebook
Banner is going to look like if you
simply say yes simply say yes when God
told Abram leave your dad’s land what
you’re going to do for me can’t be done
here I need you to step out he never
ever ever once asked and do what
like what my Facebook gonna look like
who’s going to take care of my LLC and
my c just say yes if you’re willing
to say yes to what God’s called you to
do it doesn’t even have to have a plan
it could be sitting at lunch and
somebody says and they say give that
waitress a word share something with
this you take whatever’s in your wallet
and hand it to that person if you simply
are willing to say yes
God is going to prepare a table before
you in the presence of your enemies
he’s not talking about about putting an
armored personnel carrier around you and
driving you through that shadow he’s
talking about walking through the middle
of your enemy camp the people that hate
you probably even some people you just
had Thanksgiving with
those people and he is going to set a
table in the midst of those people
in the midst of your enemies of your
boss of your friends of your family of
those trolls on social media of those
people you graduated high school with of
those people who thought you were going
to do something and you did something
different and now they resent you for
that because you’re following the word
of the Lord because you’re that weird
family member who decided to break the
chain of dysfunction
God is going to set a table in the midst
of your enemies
then he’s going to anoint your head with
oil and your cup is going to run over
your cup is gonna run over
surely goodless goodness of Mercy shall
follow me all the days of my life and I
will dwell in the house of the Lord
forever listen y’all the devil doesn’t
want you to launch your ministry the
world doesn’t want you to launch your
ministry I’m going to tell you what we
were convicted last week we’re talking
about just here in Dallas and some of
these super liberal conservative towns
about this drag queen Story Hour and and
you’re like what are you like what’s
going on this is Texas
and then the holy spirit said what are
you doing about it because you see
everything that God makes the devil’s
gonna going to counterfeit but you know
what that don’t mean we got to sit back
and say well we lost that we lost this
we lost the fact that God created man
and woman he created them and His Image
now we’re like well I guess there’s like
new genders no they’re still two
Satan counterfeited that but what are we
doing for for Story Hour drag queen
Story Hour you know what we’re going to
do we’re going to have our Bible time
here we’re going to start having our own
Bible time the libraries will let you go
and read books to kids we can sure do
this during the week and have moms bring
their kids in here and read Bible
stories of children we don’t have to
keep giving up land to the enemy because
the enemies claim that land we have
power and dominion over everything in
the name of the Lord
but if we’re not willing to take that if
we’re afraid to sit at that cozy table
that God’s prepared for us in the midst
of the enemy then we’re just going to
sit in the shade we’re going to sit in
the shade of that Valley and we’re going
to stay scared and we’re going to stay
weak
God’s calling us
stand up to rise up
God wants you to answer his call
this is why First Corinthians
is so important it changed my life it
will change your life
I love this watch Stand Fast in the
faith be brave be strong
like I’ve tried to do that I guarantee
every one of us have tried to do that
our whole lives most probably the men
more than anybody yeah I’m tough I’m no
punk I’m not afraid
I don’t care
but we weren’t doing it in love you see
we weren’t doing it in love we were
trying to make up for bad relationships
with our dad dysfunctional relationships
with our families we’re trying to
overcompensate maybe for our wives and
our kids
but we weren’t doing it in love you see
men are supposed to be strong men are
called to be strong
but that same strength that you use to
protect your family from the from the
from the threat can also be used to
dominate and and damage your family
that’s why Paul tacks on in a very
important way let all that you do
be done in love
it’s okay men to be a warrior and a poet
it’s okay it’s okay to Stand Fast be
strong act like men
and it’s okay to do it
in love
that’s a strong call
you know and for men and and
this was a message for men and Lee and I
have learned a message for one is a
message for both and a message for both
is a message to all First Corinthians
when he is talking about first fruit
families and he said I urge you brother
uh Brethren you know the household of
stefanus that it was the first fruits of
Ikea they are the first Greek family
converted to Christianity Paul baptized
him he talks about it in First
Corinthians .
this the family of stefanus they’re the
Prototype they’re the first they’re the
model there are so many of of stefanus
families in this church today so many
families that broke those generational
chains of of sin and dysfunction and
addiction so many families that stood up
with the stefanas who said I’m going to
break the Legacy chain I’m going to
start it new today with my family as for
me and my house we serve the Lord
there’s a lot of families that didn’t
have the luxury and praise God for those
multi-generational families who get to
get together and they share the word of
the Lord and they enjoy their time with
each other but there’s so many families
like ours who didn’t have that luxury
and we made that decision to stand up
and be that family of stefanus and all
be baptized and when the men come to
Christ first percent of the family
comes to Christ so men thank you for
being here thank you for walking out the
life the house of stefanus I want to
tell you we were I was talking it was a
pastor are out in Scottsdale Arizona his
name Mark Driscoll and I thought he’s a
friend of ours and I talked to him
several years ago before we planted the
church and he said are y’all doing
family ministry or are you just dragging
your kids along and the truth was we
never once talked to our kids about
doing Ministry together we would open
our house for Thanksgiving we’d have
something people there every
Thanksgiving we’d have people on our
house on Thursdays nobody ever asked our
kids you mind them little kids up in
your room breaking all your toys you
mind everybody from the community having
holidays with you we never bothered to
ask them we never thought about it
before we planted we sat we asked
our kids blew our minds with their
vision and their Ministry calling
what we realized were we were a family
like stefanus we were all doing Ministry
together that’s my charge to you when
you step out into your personal
Ministries
are you a house of stefanas
the husband wife kids is everybody saved
is everybody serving is everybody
committing to the local body
let that be a challenge
if you’re not at that point
it’s a challenge to get there if you are
Hallelujah for being there what a
blessing you are in First Corinthians
we’re talking about your Ministries
Paul says the churches of Asia greet you
Aquila and Priscilla greet you heartily
in the Lord with the church that is in
their house all the Brethren greet you
you know what I love about this is we as
Aquila and Priscilla they’re the first
mention of co-pastors at a church
and for folks oh no no women can’t be in
a position of leadership and all that
really because Paul has always
highlighted Priscilla’s role it was
never Aquila without Priscilla or
Priscilla without actually later in the
in the uh in the Bible uh Priscilla’s
name is mentioned before Aquila whether
it has relevance or not I’m sure it does
because it’s in the word of the Lord but
I want to encourage you that God is
calling and looking for aquilas and
priscillas to plant churches God is
calling husbands and wives to do
ministry together because the promise
for one is a promise for both
marriage is like Aquila and Priscilla
and the houses of saphanus are so
important in the ministry of the Lord
if and and it doesn’t even mean that you
have to host a home church just
equivalent Priscilla were tent makers
they brought Paul in it was through
their business that they were able to
help Paul’s Ministry you know Lee and I
were we were in an Aquila and a
Priscilla for many years we did home
church out of our house we were like
well we’re doing first century Church
we’re rocking and we’re rolling but you
know what God moved us into this
building so we could become Apostolic
five-fold Ministry to help equip other
believers for the work of the Saints of
the ministry
so our call to you today is who’s our
next Aquila and Priscilla who’s our next
couple that’s going to step up and plant
because our vision our teacher Byron has
shared this a while back about the
vision for five Stones Church we don’t
want to grow a mega church
the churches are the model from the
book of Acts the churches where
intimacy and life and relationships
happen
our call is to plant churches
but we can’t plant them without an
Aquila and without a Priscilla who are
willing to do the work of the ministry
together so our challenge to you is who
are our next Aquila and Priscilla
and it doesn’t mean you’re in a rented
building you could be at a cafe you
could be an under a tent all that
matters is that you’re willing to do the
work of the Lord
that you’re willing to take that that
picture off that old Creole telephone
pole and say I am going after the Lost
I am personally responsible for seeking
this one and bringing it home to the
father
are you willing to be the one to take
that sign off the telephone pole
and commit to Leading The Lost home
the one thing is that doing Ministry
matter doing Ministry matters and don’t get
caught up that’s what the devil wants us
to do is to get caught up in the how and
the when and The Who and the where and
the why years years back Lee and I
started praying
God Whatever Whenever Wherever we will
follow
man we were so righteous in that prayer
every prayer we finished even supper
prayers Whatever Whenever Wherever we
will follow and then it started getting
real
and then I realized I like where we live
because I realize wherever it could mean
the other side of the world so you know
what I stopped praying that prayer
I stopped for about three months and one
day I’m at another church and there’s a
worship service and and Leah’s not there
and I knew half of me was missing
actually the better half of me was
missing and and I’m praying and the Holy
Spirit says God why don’t you quit
praying that prayer
and look I started crying I started
crying and uh and I just said it because
I’m scared
and holy spirit says son I need you to
start praying that prayer
so I started I came home and I couldn’t
and I confessed I repented and I said
Leah we’ve got to start praying that
prayer
and and it was God Whatever Whenever
Wherever
and you know where the wherever was
here
four miles from our house
you see if you don’t worry about the
details if you don’t get caught up in
the who’s in the what’s in the whys and
the where’s
God’s going to provide for you to launch
your ministry
God’s going to launch we were getting
ready to sell our house to move wherever
God led us to move four miles from our
house
God gives us this building
all God wants you to do is say yes
all God wants you to do is say yes it
might be at a coffee shop it might be it
could be anywhere
don’t get caught up in the details just
say yes
now I want to wrap this up with two
things our assignment two weeks ago
from First Corinthians – we were
talking about giving faithful giving
and that it’s a heart issue
and I gave you the challenge of
identifying what your weekly take home
is and then what is of your weekly
take home what is gross from your
weekly take home and then I ask you to
pray about sewing a weekly seed into
five Stones Church because Paul tells us
First Corinthians about supporting
the local church which is the body of
Christ manifest on Earth and then the
body of Christ is to take care the local
church is supposed to take care of the
uh the body
so I asked you to identify with of
your weekly take home is commit to
planning sowing a seed of every week
into the local body throughout the rest
of the year and remember now we’re about
like four weeks out so again Leah’s like
you should have gave this message back
in March but no two weeks ago was the
right time to give the message and then
at the end of the year after you’ve
committed to sowing that Financial seed
then I want you to pray and I want you
to reassess where is your heart towards
Christ where’s your heart towards giving
and I’m asking have you done that our
homework assignment for today is
who’s our next Aquila and Priscilla
who is going to lead our first church
plant is a Saturday night service
it’s going to be Saturday it’s not it’s
not for me to preach God was very clear
that is not this is going to be planting
a church in the incubator of this
building
it’s got a different team it’s got a
different Pastor it’s got a different
five-fold different worship
this is not splitting services this is a
church plant
and the Lord after we prayed about it
Saturday service is our first church
plan but we are praying for a Priscilla
and Aquila couple to take that lead
and say I’ll commit to Growing the
kingdom through planting the church
all God wants you to do is to Simply say
yes
and you know even if church planting as
well not been called to do that you’ve
all been called to minister
you’ve all been called to minister God
simply wants you to say yes your
ministry matters
what I would like to do
is you all know like I love men
like men I love y’all and it’s so
important to affirm men
and if and if you would I would I would
ask for for men if you would come
forward
and and Leah said our young men so if
we’re and up I just ask if you would
just simply come here up front and allow
me to affirm you and to pray for you
and and and and it all goes back to
First Corinthians . I love the
warrior poet I love affirming men I
shared with you this summer when we
started talking about when was the last
time you got caught when was the last
time you got caught uh reading reading
late at night or on your phone or on
your website and when did you get caught
when did you get called praying and
reading the word of the Lord when did
you get caught praying by your wife and
your kids by name because make no
mistake good men good men get caught
leading their families well so I want to
continue to affirm you as as men because
I love you I respect you I want to honor
you and I want you to know that never
ever ever should there ever be a time
when you feel
um less than
because it’s important for the kingdom
of the Body for you men to be honored
and affirmed it’s important for our
wives for you men to be honored and
affirmed it’s important for our families
for you men to be honored in a form and
it’s important for society
years ago the words
came to my mind as I was reading and I
had no idea what that was and it became
so important in my life that I that I’ve
lived by it I’ve thought about it
and what it is it’s an ancient Hebrew
war cry
it is an ancient Hebrew war cry you men
are warriors you were warriors and men
if you don’t think that you’re at War
you’re wrong we’re at War we’re at war
with the devil we’re at war with the
world we’re at war with the school
system we’re at war with politicians
we’re at War and if you men don’t step
up who will who will rock shazak amats
it has spurred God’s Warriors for colds
for centuries it is the call to be
strong to be courageous and never ever
even consider the possibility of failure
you’re fighting God’s war with God’s
strength this is the charge that was
given to God’s men in Deuteronomy
be strong and of good courage do not
fear nor be afraid of them for the Lord
your God he is the one who goes with you
he will not leave you nor forsake you I
don’t want you to ever even
misunderstand
I don’t care about your boss I don’t
care about your friends I don’t care
about the nightclub I don’t care about
the pornography website that you hadn’t
got off your subscription yet I don’t
care about the addictions
you were never ever alone
you were always with God God goes before
you I want to affirm you reassure you
encourage you honor you that you are
special
and without you we’re nothing
we’re nothing
he continues and says then Moses calls
Joshua and said to him in the sight of
all Israel
be strong and of good courage for you
must go with his people to the land
which the Lord has sworn to their
fathers to give to them and you shall
cause them to inherit it everything
every promise every land every provision
every possession everything that the
Lord has made a promise
it’s going to come by you being a
conqueror and an occupier
see conquerors kicked down doors and go
to the next door conquerors occupiers
they come through that door and they set
up camp they proclaim the promised land
that God’s given to them you men be
occupiers
occupiers the Lord God has gone before
you to conquer everything marriage
troubles financial troubles personal
troubles dysfunctional troubles God’s
before you let him deliver the Victory
and then you occupy that space of
righteousness
and finally says and the Lord he is the
one who goes before you he will be with
you he will not leave you nor forsake
you do not fear nor be dismayed that is
what rock shazak amats means rag shazak
ahmads can you imagine standing on the
battlefields against outnumbered being
outnumbered by the enemies by the tribes
by the Giants by the the pagans who
hated God’s people
simple Rock ahmads
rap shazak ahmatz
be courageous be brave never even ever
consider the possibility of failure
not because of your own strength but
because of the word of the Lord that
goes before you
we would raise our hands to these men if
we would raise our hands to the men to
our husbands to our our fathers to our
brothers to our sons
Lord father God thank you thank you for
this local body Lord when you told us to
be different this is different this
lineup of men is different
you drop in any other Church American
Christian church and and you’re going to
find the beautiful Grandma malls and The
Mamas bringing the kids to church not
here not here the men are leading the
way the majority of men are leading the way
father God and I thank you for these
brothers father God I pray that they
take the charge of rocks and I pray that
they take this ancient Israeli war cry
and I pray that it becomes a mantra that
they take when the world starts pressing
in when when the job starts pressing in
when troubles start pressing in when
addictions start pressing in when
dysfunction starts pressing in when fear
starts pressing in when they’re coming
into a Christmas season where they start
to wonder where they start to worry
where they start to doubt am I good
enough to provide a good Christmas for
my family man you were not an ATM and
your power and your Authority and your
spiritual headship is not dependent upon
you being an ATM for anybody during this
holiday season your family the best gift
they can get from you is to Steward well
it’s the steward well be the spiritual
head of your families be the spiritual
head in all that you do God I pray for
these brothers I pray a special Warrior
poet anointing over them Father God
pray that they receive the anointing the
mantle of what it is to be a royal
priesthood father God lord I pray that
they do that they receive the word of
First Corinthians .
to be strong to Stand Fast to act like
men and in all you do do in love Lord
father I pray for these men father I
pray protection provision anointing
wisdom peace Father God oh I pray that
these men do not take one step backwards
when the woke world comes against them
that they stand firm in the Faith Lord
stand firm for you for their family for
their spouses for their Generations Lord
father God I pray for these brothers in
Jesus name Hallelujah halleluia father
God Amen
hmm
amen you guys everyone have a fantastic
weekend man we love y’all we honor you
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