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you know I was about a year and a half
in the into my law enforcement career
and I was kind of a rookie cop and and
I’d been assigned a Cadet right out of
the academy and like that’s big time
like I had somebody riding with me and I
was only on the job for about a year and
a half and I just got my SWOT assignment
so like I was like like what they were
calling law enforce was like a pretty
big deal you know and it’s late at night
and we get a burglary call like
somebody’s in somebody’s house stealing
stuff
now if you’re a homeowner it’s
horrifying but for a cop or a rookie cop
with a year and a half on the job
and and a cadeta sign it’s amazing
so you show up you don’t put your sirens
on you come quiet and we park on the
highway and my lieutenant who had about
30 years on the job he’s like all right
this is the plan
and he starts laying out the plan
I’m like gotcha
well let me tell you something I had a
year and a half on the job I had a Cadet
riding with me
and you know what else I had I had my
own plan
so I’m like hey follow me so we’re
moving and we’re sneak we’re like
stealth ninjas through the darkness the
Shadows I mean and I’m watching my
lieutenant through these windows and the
awnings it was an old Victorian home
and I keep looking at my Cadet and I’m
like
and I take one step and I hear the sick
crack
of rusted metal
do y’all know what a septic tank is
okay
so for those who don’t I’m not going to
give a lot of detail but it’s you dig a
big hole in your yard and you put a
metal
giant bucket in your yard and that’s
where all the flushings go into and they
stay there for centuries
well when I stepped on That Metal and I
disappeared
like I don’t know if it was my like I
never saw this in swat training but I
did this
and the tip of my chin
hit the thing and I
curled my lips in and I just hung there
for a second
covered from chin to toe
and poop
and immediately I realized
should have stuck to the Lieutenant’s
plan
so I shoot myself up and I point to the
cadet and I’m like go to Lieutenant and
I went home and I changed clothes
what I want to tell you is
God’s Got A Plan
and you’ve got a plan
the important thing about following
Christ is following the right plan
you see the one thing that the Lord put
on my heart for today to share with you
is when your personal Ministry plan
becomes more important than Jesus then
that’s not God’s plan
and that’s the that’s the the beauty of
a strong
Apostolic Church
is that everybody comes prepared to be
prepared to be equipped
but then sometimes in that you say well
my Ministry my Ministry and then you
start like
does that Ministry really align with
what God called you to do are you
seeking self-satisfaction like my
lieutenant had the plan
but I have my own idea of what the plan
should be and it didn’t work out
you know what I want to stress today is
like God’s plan brings life
anything else brings death
choose your plan wisely
like God wants this church to grow to
equip to get out and minister
but sometimes in that Lee and I’ve done
the same thing we’ve run out ahead of
the cloud we’re like whoa we’re doing
Ministry Jesus
Jesus
and he’s always like come on kids y’all
come back into my plan and we’ve always
found that God’s plan was always better
than our plan and that our plan when it
worked in alignment with God’s plan was
always amazing
so if we could stand as the body and
read The Amazing Word of the Lord as
he’s going to lay out his plan
and we’re continuing our walk through
the book of Ephesians we’re in chapter
three and if we could read this as the
body will begin
God did not reveal it to previous
generations but now by his Spirit he has
revealed it to His Holy Apostles and
Prophets and this is God’s plan both
Gentiles and Jews who believe the good
news share equally in the riches
inherited by God’s children both are
part of the same body both enjoy the
promise of blessings they belong to
Jesus Christ Jesus thank you Jesus for
that for that good word thank you God
for the plan
thank you for making it simple
you know part of the plan
and the Assurance was was like Jesus’s
crucifixion was not plan B
sometimes people get caught up in that
it’s like well why why did he have to
die why this why that
and what I want to assure you is before
the foundations of this world
God’s plan was always the perfect plan
you know last week we celebrated a
resurrection
and what’s important to understand is is
that Resurrection isn’t just captured on
a calendar
you see now Hallmark and everybody else
was like let’s get rather let’s get
ready for Mother’s Day like that’s the
next big thing
but in the Kingdom Resurrection is
always the big thing
so when we stick to God’s plan instead
of man’s plan you can’t go wrong
you know when when I think about the
plan that God had
and it was it was for one plan one body
one way to the father but you know what
Christianity did when we started looking
at man’s plan
like you think oh we’re all Christians
Christianity yay team Jesus number one
but you know the reality is is there’s
two different theologies
there’s there’s Eastern Theology and
there’s Western theology
so they took the one body of
Christianity and the world split it
according to their plan so you say okay
well that’s cool right I mean over here
over there well then they took the six
the theologies and they divided them
into six divisions
so you have Catholicism you have
protestantism you have Eastern Orthodoxy
you have Oriental Orthodoxy uh you have
anglicanism and you have Assyrians
so now one body one plan divided by two
divided into six so you see where this
is going like this is man’s plan for
God’s intention
so like okay okay okay well six isn’t
horrible all right well now let’s look
globally do you know how many
denominations there are around the world
Christian denominations
there’s over 45
000 different Christian denominations
around the world
just in the United States itself there’s
over 200
we have come a long way
from God’s plan
because we’ve been working
on what man thought was best
you see in God’s plan there’s one Church
you know how many denominations there
are
zero it is so vital to follow God’s plan
it’s so vital to know God’s plan
you see there’s no other name and
there’s no other way but Jesus
I love repeating John 14 6. Jesus said
to him
I am the way the truth and the life no
one comes to the father
except through me
so when we start working our own plan
and we start thinking there’s more than
one way to come to the father except
through the son
it’s all for nothing
it’s all for nothing
so what about God’s plan how does he
reveal this plan
well Paul in Ephesians was tasked with
revealing this plan
and so if we’re looking at it from the
world they would be like Paul
like you mean Paul who was Saul who
persecuted Christians like Paul
why Paul you know why because God said
so
that was God’s plan you see God had
marked him for Destiny God took a
persecutor of Christians his goal was to
Stamp Out
any denomination
but God had different plans
God’s plan was perfect
God has a plan for you
and it doesn’t matter who you were it’s
whose you are
that’s God’s plan
you see what I love about the way that
God calls us
and Paul and everybody else
the the miracle
is so much more incredible
when the least likely do the impossible
and that’s really the miracle
but those Miracles don’t happen when
you’re operating outside of the plan
at that point it’s just kind of
self-initiative and and kind of doing
things you want to do on your own you
know even Paul I mean Paul makes it
clear in Ephesians 3 8 to me the least
likely uh the least of All Saints this
Grace was given to preach to the
Gentiles the unfathomable Riches of
Christ
Paul’s not the only one that would show
that Grace
every one of us
have benefited from the grace of God
God doesn’t care who you were
he only cares whose you are
and when we come to Christ when we’ve
given our lives to God then we receive
that Grace then we plug in to the grand
plan then our will just like Jesus I
simply came to do the will of the father
that’s the plan that’s the beauty of the
plan
so you say well why Paul like why why
didn’t God give this like God could have
saved a lot of time and gave this plan
to one of the Old Testament prophets
surely there’s somebody more qualified
than Paul
I mean if you checked everybody’s resume
if you go to some job site finder you
could have found one of them Old
Testament prophets that are better
qualified than Paul so why did he give
Paul this revelation
well what I want to share with you is
that God could not give through
Revelation what could not be received in
comprehension
until the holy spirit indwelled with
inside of Paul Paul could never have
conceived or comprehended the Deep
mysteries of God
it goes for us
like we always talk about membership has
privileges
and unless you have the Holy Spirit
living inside of you
the word of the Lord the Bible this is
just literature
when you receive Christ when you receive
the Holy Spirit
you’re getting that same Bible study
that Jesus gave to the two disciples on
that seven mile walk to Emmaus
through the Holy Spirit living inside of
you
so once Paul had received the spirit
then the word Spirit could be revealed 3
5 tells us which in other Ages was not
made known to the sons of men as it has
now been revealed to this by the spirit
To His Holy Apostles and Prophets
that’s why Paul that’s why now
because he has the Holy Spirit living
inside of him he had the ability to
comprehend the Deep revelation of God
what I want to share with you is in
God’s plan God’s plan is perfect
God’s timing is perfect God’s will is
perfect
and and it’s easy to step in and step
ahead of God’s timing you know or step
out of God’s plan or maybe lag behind
God’s will
but thanks to the grace of God
there’s always time to reconcile that
walk to return to the will of the Lord
to do God’s perfect plan
you know a lot of times you know God is
God is a god of order and structure
and and sometimes it just feels like oh
it’s just so I don’t know well order and
structure is what allows you to operate
freely and safely inside the will of the
Lord
sometimes we just we just want to like
be rebellious about it and look there’s
there’s a great place in the Kingdom for
wild lions
it’s time to be a wild lion for the
kingdom
the other side is institutionalized
Church they just want you satiated in a
cage they want you to Roar for a snack
they want you to perform for the crack
of a whip that’s not what God wants God
wants wild Lions who aren’t afraid to
share the gospel God wants wild Lions
who who yeah we know what we did we know
who we were but we stand firm on Whose
we are and what God’s called us to do
but that’s all within structure and
order it’s not from chaos
you know in revealing God’s plan
Ephesians 3 uh one one three tells us
for this reason I Paul the prisoner of
Christ for the sake of you gentiles
I love how Paul makes sure he
understands like I’m a prisoner because
of you
if indeed you’ve heard of the
administration of God’s grace which was
given to me for that
up for you by that Revelation there was
made known to me the mystery as I wrote
before you briefly look God’s calling
God’s marking Paul was a person of
Destiny you’ve been called you’ve been
marked you are a person of Destiny but
that comes with a price
Paul gladly identifies himself as the
prisoner of Christ Jesus
you see he was in Rome he was in a
actual he was in custody in Rome
and you know when you go to prison in
the in the natural it’s called custody
Care and Control
you’re in their custody you’re under
their care and you’re under their
control
and Paul realized that although he was
locked in a room in prisoner he was
under their guard that he was under the
care custody and control of Jesus Christ
because his citizenship was not in Rome
or in the world it was in heaven so
understanding that he was a prisoner of
Christ for the Gentiles that he was
under the care custody and control of
Jesus Christ to share the gospel of
Christ only by the grace of Christ I
want you to know that when when God has
called you and you have received Jesus
as your lord and savior you come under
the jurisdiction under the authority of
Jesus Christ you come under the care
custody and control of Jesus Christ you
become a prisoner of Jesus Christ it
doesn’t mean that that he restricts your
freedoms your joy but in that structure
and in that order you’re now free to
enjoy
the joy and the freedom only found in
Jesus Christ
so this plan the plan again Jesus was
not plan B
it was not plan B God had had planned
this before the foundations of the world
Ephesians 1 4 5 tells us even before he
made the world God loved us and chose us
in Christ to be holy and without fault
in his eyes
like that is such a beautiful powerful
scripture right there God loved us and
chose us in Christ to be holy and
without fault in his eyes
I want you to just think for a second
I’ll finish this scripture
when have you been in any natural
relationship
where the person you’re in relationship
with saw absolutely no fault
like no fault as much as we love our
kids
hmm
Leah’s like don’t go into detail
light leave it right there
but we can come into relationship with
God the Father through Jesus the Christ
and we have we’re no fault in his eyes
it doesn’t mean we’re without fault
but because we have the 100
righteousness of God living inside of us
that in God’s eyes we have no fault
you see God decided in advance
to adopt us into his own family by
bringing us to himself through Jesus
this is what he wanted to do and it gave
him great pleasure
so was Jesus’s crucifixion a plan B was
God unaware of Adam and Eve
what was going to happen no
because God chose us before the
foundations of the world before he ever
spoke anything into light or to life God
chose us to come to him through Jesus
Christ
you know it’s like a home builder
before the foundation is laid the
cements poor the ground’s leveled and
all that
and the home builder actually has the
plans to your home
that that plan was was architecturally
drafted long before you ever bought the
property now if that homebuilder gave
you the plan
and you weren’t architecturally educated
or familiar with it that plan would mean
nothing to you but then you come into
understanding of architecture and
building and Contracting and
subcontracting and then the plan is like
oh I get it I get it
and this is what’s happening with Paul
through the indwelling of the Holy
Spirit and God now revealing his plan to
Paul
so now Paul understands the Deep mystery
Paul’s sharing the Deep mystery and now
we can comprehend the revelation of the
Holy Spirit what that plan is and so
let’s walk it through number one uh
because when God says in six this is the
plan it’s both Gentiles and Jews who
believe the good news share equally in
the riches inherited by God’s children
so this is a firm through John 3 16 for
God so loved the world that he gave his
only begotten son that whoever should
believeth in him should not perish but
have everlasting life both Jews and
Gentiles who believe
the gospel message
they’re now children of God
what’s what’s what do we have to do we
have to believe we have to believe Jesus
Christ is our Savior and Lord
everybody who believes on Jesus
becomes a co-heir
this is the plan
this is the plan
and when does your Everlasting Life
Begin
we say it all the time the instant you
receive Jesus Christ
your everlasting life doesn’t start the
day you die
you just transition you drop the skin
suit and you transition your life is
Everlasting you keep going but the
second the moment the instant you
receive Jesus Christ
you now become a co-heir the second part
of of the promise the plan both are part
of the same body
you know Galatians 3 28 tells us uh
neither there is neither June or Greek
there is neither slave nor free there is
neither male or female you were all one
in Jesus Christ
and this is so important for us to
remember
like like when we when we have our own
Ministries it’s easy to get pulled apart
it’s easy to get distracted doing things
and then forget about the good of the
body
but this is where where Paul revealing
God’s plan really emphasizes like it’s
for the good of the body we’re all one
nobody’s better than anybody else you
know like you think about the Jews
and they were God’s first called
and then like even the Old Testament
prophets they didn’t see the curveball
of of Jesus coming for the Gentiles like
like they had to do some major
rethinking when they got that Revelation
they’re like were you special kids
we like your special kids
who’s that
like who’s that
I don’t want no brother
we cool we cool God’s like no everybody
comes that’s my plan because you can’t
be one body
if you’re separating somebody
that’s the plan
so when we all come together with our
denominational backgrounds or or
understands in faith and and this and
that it’s so important to understand
God’s plan is that we all come equal
we’re different we’re different parts of
the body but we’re all one part of the
body the same body
God didn’t call us to be uniform he just
called us to be Unified
the third part of the plan is both enjoy
the promise of blessings because they
belong to Christ Jesus
Ephesians 1 11 tells us furthermore
because we’re United with Christ we’ve
received an inheritance from God for he
chose us in advance and he makes
everything work out according to his
plan
you see God’s Got A Plan
and the second that you you receive
Jesus you become a coheir
you become a co-heir and the beauty of
this is most of us have grown up in
relationships where
where there’s maybe like an incremental
acceptance or love in that relationship
um most of us have grown up in a
performance-based relationship a lot of
times our parents were like you know if
you’re a good kid you’ll get a snack if
you just stay quiet mom you’ll be happy
if you just make good grades and stay
out of my hair uh daddy old daddy you’re
a good boy
but see that’s not the idea with the
kingdom
the second you receive you become a
cowhere with Jesus you get everything
that that was promised to the Jews you
get everything that Jesus has you’re a
co-heir like in what Earthly kingdom do
you get everything that the King has
that is so counter-cultural you can
understand why a couple thousand years
later we’re still trying to understand
like seriously
because when this nation like they don’t
get nothing so the king gets it all
but the counter-cultural kingdom of
Christ means you get everything Christ
gets because you’re a co-heir
you know the plan’s simple
unless you don’t have Jesus
unless you don’t have the indwelling of
the Holy Spirit then it’s still
mysterious then when you read the word
that transformed lives it’s just
literature
when you come
when you come as a child of God there’s
no incremental love no incremental
acceptance It’s immediate just like your
everlasting life it’s immediate
God’s Got A Plan
what God wants to share
is just encourage you
to make sure that your personal Ministry
is part of God’s plan
that it’s all part of the plan and you
know actually the Eternal plan at
Ephesians we go to 10 is is the purpose
of the church is only to glorify God
it’s not to give you a personal platform
or or or a place to go on Sundays like
the church
is only meant to glorify God
that’s the plan
so what I want to challenge you
is we all have our Ministries
and what I want to challenge you this
week is if you would think about
we go to Matthew the story of the five
about the parable of the five talents
and I just want you to to look at your
ministry and see what parts of your
ministry and your life are are being
served like the servant with the five
talents that you’re taking it you’re
investing it you’re good stewarding it
it’s growing and when the master looks
at that says good job
well done good and faithful servant
you got five I’m going to give you five
more and soon you’re going to get one
and then what parts of of your ministry
and I say Ministry but just our life our
faith life are we kind of living like
the servant with the one Talent like you
know God call me I have a place on my
heart for children and and he’s telling
me I should serve in the children’s
ministry but I’m just going to talk that
little one talent in my pocket because I
don’t want to have to go 30 minutes
early or or if in your ministry God’s
like I’ve given you the gifts of music
The Gift of sound a Joyful Noise
I know
but I don’t feel like rehearsal on
Saturdays like like what parts of your
life in your ministry are you treating
like the one Talent where God cannot
bless it
and that’s just a that’s just the
challenge I ask I offer this week
let’s just make sure that everything
we’re doing is an alignment and honor
and Order of God’s master plan
God wants to bless everything you do he
wants you to be fruitful and multiply he
wants you to prosper never ever ever is
the kingdom anything about decrease
everything is about multiplication in
the kingdom and God wants to bless
and if and if it’s not bearing fruit
then it comes to the point where we
realize it’s just time to cut it off
will God can bless you
so if we can have our our altar Ministry
leaders come up
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