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God Chooses, Calls and Marks You As A Person Of Destiny. Will You Obey God’s Call On Your Life?
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so like I come in the bathroom one
morning and I’m drinking a bottle of
water and and I finished the bottle of
water and I set it on the vanity and
then I left to go to the gym we’ll just
go with that I was going to the gym
um I was probably going to meet one of
you men for breakfast but for the story
I was going to the gym so then I get
back home and Leah’s like you left your
bottle on the on the counter I’m like
yeah it’s cool just just throw it away
but it’s your bottle
I’m like yeah I know but it’s your
vanity so just
throw it away
and so what we did was she took it she
put it in my like shave bag so I go to
get my Razor and
so I stick it in her closet
and then it shows up underneath a towel
of mine and I put it in her purse and
then I find it in my shoe so this went
on for a month
and she’s like just throw your bottle
away I’m like it was on your vanity so
you throw it
so what I did was I surrendered and I
threw the bottle away and there’s been
success in the surrender and that’s the
message I’m going to show I want to
share with you today as we move into the
series of Ephesians and and we tell you
you know we walk through books of the
Bible and last year we went through 17
weeks of First Corinthians and and this
year the the holy spirit said I want you
to walk through Ephesians and
and that’s why we’re going to do this
and and the word that the Lord put on my
heart for this week was the one thing
the one thing it’s not a three-point
message it’s one thing that the Lord
wants you to know to carry this wheat is
always allow God to be your first love
by seeking surrender uh to his worthy
will
God’s will
because what’s important is that your
success is in surrender
your success is going to be found in
surrendering to God’s will
and it’s in God’s will it’s in the word
of the Lord that I ask that we stand
together as the body and we honor the
Lord with fear and reverence and reading
his word together as the body if we’ll
stand as the body this is our anchor
scripture for today and it’s from first
Ephesians 1 1 this is the King James and
as the body We Begin Paul an apostle of
Jesus Christ by the will of God to the
Saints which are at Ephesus and to the
faithful in Jesus Christ
thank you Jesus like that’s it like
that’s a great anchor scripture and I’m
thinking like holy spirit is that it
like one sentence and I’m thinking back
a couple months ago I had a friend of
mine were talking and and we’re talking
about Paul and Paul’s greetings to the
churches and and he’s like
you think they were just like casual
hellos
and I’m like
no
no
nothing God does or says is ever just a
casual hello
and what this prompts me to remind you
is is make your words matter
we get so busy especially people that
are online content creators with with
the SEO search engine optimization the
more words the more algorithms and the
more likes and this and that but when it
comes counter-cultural which is the
Bible the Bible is counter-cultural
sometimes less is more
so when Paul’s offering this greeting to
the church in Ephesus it’s not just a
casual greeting
there’s a lot of meat in that word and
as I was praying and I got to tell you
um
I’m thinking you know we’re going to go
through Ephesians and you know this week
is going to be 1 1 through 14 because
it’s kind of thematic
so I’m praying and I’m meditating and
the Holy Spirit I’m reading and I get to
like Ephesians 1 1 he goes stop
what did I miss just stop I’m like no no
seriously Holy Spirit what did I miss he
goes no listen to me son
and like one sentence what about like
two through fourteen
stop
I began to meditate on that sentence and
the Holy Spirit began to download such
deep Revelation that I actually had to
go to Google documents and talk to text
to keep up with what God was sharing
and the big thing that it came to my
heart was less is more
when this value when it’s honoring of
the Lord you know right off the bat what
Paul’s doing is when he says Paul an
apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of
God Paul is establishing even Jesus and
the ascended resurrected state is still
only doing God’s will
had he not done God’s will he would not
have appointed Paul an apostle had he
not appointed Paul an apostle we would
not have the majority of the books in
the New Testament
why because Jesus is still doing the
will of the father
we get that from that first part of the
sentence what else he’s doing is Paul’s
reaffirming Jesus’s word when he was
incarnate when he was walking with us in
John 6 38 he tells us Jesus says for I
have come down from heaven not to do my
own will but the will of him who sent me
this is so important to establish that
pattern
remember we say Jesus is the Prototype
Jesus is the model if you’re going to
follow anybody
let it be Jesus
now you can dig your favorite movie star
or sports star or or any of that stuff
but if you’re going to make a commitment
to follow
Jesus and what did Jesus do before he
came incarnate he did the father’s will
while he was walking with us he did the
father’s will and after the crucifixion
resurrection and Ascension he’s still
doing the father’s will how do we know
that because in what seems like a
seemingly simple introduction to a
church in Ephesus we know this
by the will of God your success comes
through surrender God’s will is our
obedience
not because he’s a he’s a task master
and he and he sits up there patting
himself on the back
like I said jump in my boy jumped
that’s what the world does
it takes a strong person to submit their
will to somebody else
I tell you guys all the time when when I
was going through Special Operations
training then I was a special operations
Commander nobody walked in
to that Academy with all the skill sets
that they needed and these are strong
men and women what they were willing to
submit to somebody else’s Authority
because of that they were trained they
were remade they were remolded we’ll
submit to that in the natural
but when the idea comes of doing it in
the Supernatural oh no no maybe and
that’s my cage in my south Louisiana
maybe no maybe I’m gonna do my own thing
you’re not going to find success in your
own thing you know we pray I think about
that as
um kingdom come thy will be done like we
love the Lord’s Prayer we love the
Lord’s Prayer like if you want to be
like super religious hashtag oversaved
you start reciting the Lord’s Prayer
like you want to be like super religious
don’t even look at the Bible when you
recite it
and I get off the point where it’s like
thy will be done and I really challenge
you to think about that like are you
really
willing to do God’s will
are you really willing or is just words
that tumble off your lip like before
Eunice LED that song that just broke me
like an egg on the floor
a one dollar egg on the floor I’m gonna
say that was
just not tumble words off our lips
let’s really truly think about what it
is that we’re saying
when we talk about the will of God
do we really want his kingdom come do we
really want his will be done because if
you’re not in your head no yes in a very
righteous and Pious way I want you to
think back like Where’s God shared his
will for your life in your life has he
called you into Ministry has he called
you into service has he called you into
a relationship has he called you out of
a relationship
has he called you into an opportunity to
invest in the Kingdom
and you’re like no I’m cool
then we’re really not doing the will of
the father
we’re placing conditions on God’s will
you know sometimes being obedient to
God’s will it’s just that
it’s obedience
you know what you get
nothing
do it because God asks you to do it
if you’re doing it with an expectation
of return on investment then that’s not
following God’s will you entered into a
transactional business agreement
but I want to correct myself because you
do get something out of it
you get the glory of being obedient to
God
that’s the glory
you know I want to tell you God gives us
Free Will and he respects our choice to
choose
but he doesn’t honor those choices that
are that are chosen outside of God’s
Will and I’ll tell you while your
salvation is secure unless you move into
a reprobate state
but God’s grace and favor is going to be
lifted off your hand if you’re
continuing to live and walk outside of
God’s will God’s going to love you God
loves everybody he loves everybody in
hell
but if you’re walking outside of God’s
will if you’re tumbling your lips and
Uber religious way that God’s will thy
kingdom come thy will be done and he
goes really
how about you do this how about you stop
talking to him how about you not return
that text message to her how about you
do this and volunteer for the kids
ministry
amen
and you’re like no don’t expect God’s
favor to pour down upon you you know
back in 1977
that was like my that was part of my
Heyday I tell Lee when I was in the
eighth grade I was a quarterback and I
hit my Peak and she goes poor shy you
hit your peak in the eighth grade I’m
like well I never said I came down
let’s be clear but in 1977 Fleetwood Mac
had this amazing song
Go Your Own Way
and Leah said if you sing this
I will hurt you with that water bottle
that’s still hidden in the closet but
you know it made for a great
best-selling golden album in 1977. go
your own way and I know those words are
starting to resonate in our heads
makes for great music
terrible theology
terrible theology you can go your own
way but I want you to know you’re going
to be responsible for carrying the
weight of the consequences of going that
own way so when you woe is me and woe is
me and you’re wondering what happened to
me
understand that that God’s not going to
bless Disobedience God’s not going to
pour favor down when you’ve chosen to go
your own way
sometimes God’s will doesn’t align with
your wants
one is a is an anointed appointment
the other is just selfish satisfaction
you know when we talk about this and I
want to jump back to Ephesians 1 1 from
the NLT it says this letter is from Paul
chosen by the will of God to be an
apostle of Jesus Christ
you see that word chosen
that’s powerful
that’s powerful chosen by God’s will
I want to ask you what’s God chosen for
you
like what’s God chosen for you and and I
talked a lot of people during the week
and they’re like I don’t know how am I
supposed to know
ask him
ask him if you want to know what your
wife wants you to do
ask her
wives if you’re more like well if he
loved me he would know what I wanted him
to do
then you’re not operating in the will of
the Lord and you’re not showing mercy
and Grace
and you’re not going to receive favor
from your husband you want that favor
tell that old boy what to do
if you want to know what God’s chosen
for you just ask him God’s not a
trickster he’s not a jokester he’s not
going to pull the carpet out from
underneath you what is God chosen for
you
you know sometimes we in church we get
you know we get that church face on it
God’s calling God’s calling and and it
loses its its effect it becomes passive
but when we talk about chosen by God
chosen by God like that’s an action term
action term don’t forget don’t lose the
the The Importance of Being chosen by
God the way I look at it
is if you walk into a McDonald’s and I
want to tell you I’ve not been in a
McDonald’s in probably
15 years
drive through is a different story but
I’m not going to lie to you
so you walk into McDonald’s and you’re
looking at that big board and it’s full
of Burgers and Fries and Shakes and your
mouth’s hanging open and there’s a fly
and and you know they’re you know their
frosting machine’s broken so you’re not
even going to bother ordering a shake
and you’re like I’m hungry
like that’s passive
that’s passive but you walk in you got
your strut on you know and you’re like I
want a number seven sweet tea and fries
medium of course because I’m on a diet
that’s active that’s someone who gets
fed and I want to tell you when God
calls you because you’re chosen you
become a Marked Man or a marked woman
you become marked and you become a
person of Destiny when God’s called you
you’re a person of Destiny because of
that chosen because of that calling
because of that marking
and I want to share with you in a real
world term what what marked what being
marked looked like so I told you guys I
worked undercover for 16 12 years
special operations for 16. and I was
into Special Operations undercover
surveillance unit and I know it looks
fun on TV but it’s boring in real life
but what we would do we would Mark the
target’s cars there was this infrared
material that we would use and certain
techniques so at night we could follow
with our mvgs our night vision goggles
and in the daytime this this infrared
and we’ve got a fleet of cars we’ve got
helicopters and we’ve got airplanes and
and water because like you know a lot of
my work was down in the bayous of boats
and I mean so this the target was marked
we would follow this marked Target for
months sometimes but you know what
because he was marked meant that at some
time in the future there was going to be
an encounter
with the person that was that was marked
and that’s the way it operates with God
you’re marked by God because you’ve been
chosen by God and God’s called you and
sometime in the future if it hasn’t
happened you’re going to have an
encounter with God now my hope is that
it doesn’t end up like those bad guys
and handcuffs and incarceration but
you’re going to have an encounter with
God why because you’re marked because
you’re people of Destiny you know who
was marked one of the first people when
I think about is Saul Old Testament Saul
like he was marked by God to be the king
of his people he was a man of Destiny
and when God called him where’d they
find him
because you look at his outward
appearance he was taller than everybody
super handsome I’m sure
but he’s hiding behind luggage
God chose him God marked him he was a
man of Destiny but when the calling came
they found him hiding behind the luggage
but even though he received the crown as
the king of God’s people
he was not obedient
he wasn’t obedient you see success comes
in surrender
so when when he’s told don’t offer that
burnt offering now you wait before you
do anything and he’s like um
you know my Apple watch says I met my
goals and I’ve earned two rings but I’m
gonna go on and do what I want to do
and what did he do because he he chose
not to be obedient he lost the favor of
God he lost the anointing of God so then
who becomes marked in a man of Destiny
David but see the difference between
calling and chosen when the prophet
walks in and says to Jesse Hey where’s
your boys
Like Jesse only understood calling so he
called his boys
but he didn’t call the one that was
chosen he didn’t call the one that was
marked
and see that’s what I want to share with
you as well is God is looking at you as
God sees you
when God’s called you to launch into
Ministry because we’re a five-fold
Apostolic Church our goal is to equip to
raise up and to send out when God’s
calling you to go out in your own
Ministry to walk parallel with this
church when God’s calling you to step up
as the first equivalent Priscilla and
plant the next Church
and you’re like but I don’t know
I didn’t get my associate’s degree from
Bible College I didn’t go to the
training I haven’t been going to their
monthly Pastor schools
listen you know all that matters is that
God chose you God marked you God’s
called you
are you going to be obedient because
your success is in the surrender
it’s not in your quality and
qualification and I do I pray that you
guys see yourselves
not as the world sees you
But as God sees you I pray that you see
yourself the way God saw David
that Ruddy Dusty dirty sheep smell and
Shepherd who even his own dad didn’t
think Worthy
of a calling
are being chosen
you see that’s the difference
when you’re obedient to God’s will
when you do like Jesus who does the will
of the father when you understand that
you’ve been chosen by the will of God
to be an apostle to be a teacher to be a
Shepherd to be a to be an evangelist
asking you to surrender he’ll take care
of everything else
if you’re only willing to surrender
you were all people of Destiny
you know the other point that I want to
make is that in this address to the
church in Ephesus as Paul says uh you
know to the Saints
and to the faithful
so God’s making a distinction right
there he’s talking so if we said hey
okay everybody that’s in this church is
in the church agreed boom that’s the
Saints everybody that has car keys in
their pocket drove here
you see you’re within the corporate body
but you’ve been separated out so when he
says specifically
and
to the faithful in Jesus Christ
I want you to understand
that not all Christians are faithful
you see God is drawing a line a
separating line everything about the
Bible God’s word is about separation we
think well the the Believers from the
non-believers well God goes further than
that the faithful and the Unfaithful the
wheat from the chaff the sheep from the
goats the dark from the light and God’s
coming to a point where I told you a
couple weeks ago God’s not messing
around with people who mess around or
churches who mess around
like it’s time to get serious guys but
in this letter to the church in Ephesus
Paul is making it very clear that I’m
talking to you Believers and to the
faithful
and I want to share with you and we
remember this not everybody we talk
about Unity but there’s milk Drinkers
and there’s meat eaters
and so remember not everybody’s on the
same line if you want to see the
division amongst the Christians post
something on Facebook
post something on Facebook it can be the
most seemingly innocent
universally agreeable comment and watch
the knives come out
I want you to know that not everybody in
the kingdom is at the same level
is every Christian faithful no
they’re not how do we know well
if you’re not trusting God to care for
you to provide for you if you’re not
willing to surrender to his to obedience
there maybe you’re not 100 faithful
and it’s no knock it’s no knock we’ve
always got to do an assessment like
every day I’m getting ready to go to the
gym Leah’s like you put a little weight
on like she’s my assessment so it’s
always good to be in an assessment state
right she doesn’t do that she’s like you
could just stay home because you look at
good I’m like well lion don’t help my my
health the other thing is is there
evidence of fruit
I love that Christian term about about
the uh a fruit inspector you know
Galatians 5 22 23 tells us but the fruit
of the spirit is love joy peace long
suffering kindness good as faithless
gentle and self-control if you were a
faithful Christian if you are on fire
Living For The King When God Says jump
you jump when he says stop you stop if
you find that your success is in your is
in Your Surrender you’re going to
exhibit fruits of the spirit
I shared with you guys last year when I
was undercover and all these alpha males
and and Somebody Prayed at a meal and
and and and I’m like oh man I’m a
Christian too
and they’re like really
I’d have never imagined
y’all that broke my heart
I broke my heart because I was convicted
I wasn’t faithful
I wasn’t showing the fruit
and I want to tell you
because God tells us that there’s
consequences for those who are not
faithful
or what Revelation calls lukewarm
there’s consequences
you see in Revelation 3 14
and I’ll go to 15. it says these things
say the amen the faithful the true
witness the beginning of the creation of
God I know your works and you’re neither
hot nor cold
I could wish you were hot or cold so
then because you’re lukewarm and neither
hot or cold I will vomit you out of my
mouth
look a lot of times people think like
well I wish you were cold like cold well
that’s cool like I’ve cooled off on
Christ I’m just kind of doing my own
thing
or hot man I’m on fire I’m checking
boxes I’m here on Thursday night bible
study and I’m here on Sunday and in
Bible school and teacher School in this
school and that yeah I’m hot
that’s not what God’s talking about
because you see cold has a purpose
hot water has a purpose but when they
come together in this in this sedentary
status of just ilk and lukewarm and
that’s where the sediment settles at the
bottom of wherever the water collects
and if you drink that physically you’ll
vomit spiritually God vomits
so what God’s saying is if you’re not
willing to find your success and
surrender if you’re not willing to
understand that you’ve been chosen if
you’re not willing to accept the call if
you’re afraid to receive that you’re a
person of Destiny if being a marked
person means you’re running around like
red laser dots on your chest screaming
like a like a chicken with your head cut
off because God’s called you instead of
standing secure and resting in the Peace
of the Lord and the plans that he has
for you
then maybe you’re lukewarm
but look there’s always a way there’s
always Redemption
and God tells us last week when we
started talking about our chapter in
Ephesians and going forward in this
series and actually our anchor verse for
yes last week was not from Ephesians it
was from Revelation 2 4 5. and it says
nevertheless I had to have this against
you that you’ve left your first love
remember therefore from where you’ve
Fallen repent and do the first works or
else I’ll come to you quickly and remove
the light stand from his place
in all the letters to the churches and
you know what
the last time Paul communicated with the
church of Ephesus it was about 35 years
later that Jesus dictated that letter to
John
35 years only 35 years remember Ephesus
was the jewel City it had the the Pagan
Temple of Diana it was one of the Seven
Wonders of the Ancient World they were
like the they were like Manhattan
and within 35 years from the last time
Paul talked to the church
Jesus gave that Revelation to John in
the Book of Revelation
you know what Ephesus is today
just a tumble of ruins sitting outside
an impoverished Turkish Village
and you know what I want to share is
that’s just how quick a vibrant Church a
vibrant life a vibrant believer
can lose their fire
but God provides a way back God always
provides a way back through repentance
and returning to your first love
God loves you
God’s called you God’s marked you God
doesn’t ask for surrender
to get his kicks and giggles
like when I talk with men all the time
and they’re offended because somebody
was mean to them or they cheated them
and I always remind them it’s not how
the person responded to you it’s how you
respond to the person that tells God how
much he can use you or how much work
you’ve got left to do
are you willing to find your success and
surrender
that’s the one thing I want you to take
with you today
God’s a good God and we’re going to
continue walking through the book of
Ephesians
and and you know we always say when the
cloud moves we’ll move when the cloud
settles we’ll settle if it’s on one
sentence or it’s on one chapter
but we’re going to always follow the
prompting of the Holy Spirit and I feel
the word of the Lord was so good today
and sharing it with us the differences
in this importance of the calling of God
being chosen by God being marked by God
becoming a person of Destiny because of
God
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