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Growing Together as One Body in Christ: A Sermon on Strengthening Our Christian Walk
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uh what I want to do is just take a minute and we want to share the vision and re-share
the vision of this church uh you know the last time we did it was our one year anniversary in January and and so much
has changed and in just the last couple months that that it is it’s important to
know that what we’re doing is bigger than any one of us what we’re doing is not the idea of the notion or the
business plan of anybody else we are doing the work that God called us to do so I asked Leah to be with me and
because it is it’s our vision um to share that vision and just to give you an update so you know when 2015 when
I was four years away from a full 30-year retirement full 30-year fat cat pension as a chief of police God said
retire and I’m like no you don’t understand pension and he’s like no you don’t
understand obedience and I’m like I dig it I dig it okay so I did I walked away with four years shy of a full 30-year
pension Health Care everything because the vision that God gave was so
Crystal Clear I had no choice but but to be obedient now I didn’t know what it looked like I just knew that the
Lord had called and I said yes Leah can you imagine going home to your wife and saying or your spouse and saying hey I’m
quitting my job of 26 years like I’ve got a made in the shade job I’m about to quit it I’ve suffered for 26 years
you’ve suffered with me and I’m gonna quit because God said quit
and you know what she said okay I trust you I didn’t get the vision but
I trust that you heard from the Lord in a vision and I’m going to support you because we stand as a marriage in Genesis 2 24 that 2 is 1. and the vision
that God gave us when we planted this church was he said keep it simple plan an Apostolic five-fold Ministry
Church I want you to focus on the evangelists and the prophets and the Apostle the Shepherds and the preachers and the teachers I mean and he said I
want you to preach complete books of the Bible Don’t force your agenda by proof texting
here or there you start from page one you stop when I tell you to stop when the cloud moves you move I want you to
teach the word of the Lord I want you to teach meat I want you to serve meat to God’s people because
they’re starving they’re starving for the word he said don’t advertise don’t ask don’t
compel anybody to come to this church I’m going to stir the hearts of the people he said in your first year equip
and simply pray for the workers to come pray for the workers he said in the
second year I’ll bring the Harvest he said in your second year I will give
you a new home to house this Harvest and he said be different
be different and it’s like I’ve been different my whole life I’ve always been an outcast I’ve always
been the margins even in the world of law enforcement I couldn’t wear a uniform like everybody else I had to be
on the outskirts I had to put myself in the margins of society because I was called to be different so we’re like
well that’s what we do anyway so let’s just be different but you know you find yourself in church and then the
pressures sometimes to not be different becomes stressful
but the word of the Lord to be different is always going to be our shiny light so I want to share with you is what we’re
experiencing now I say we not just we we as the body like this church is equipping Saints to
do the work of the ministry this church is growing leaders to take over Ministry positions
there is no hard cap glass ceiling unbreakable lid that that says you’re
not allowed we’ve created a click and this is the club we are growing up leaders to take over if any organization
if you’re not training your replacement then you’re not healthy
this church preaches and teaches the word of the Lord if you haven’t come to a Thursday night
bible study then you’ve not eaten the meat of the word on Thursday night
and you know when God said don’t ask compel or invite like for me it’s hard it’s
hard for me to shut up when I’m in the gym or when I’m chasing down people at Walmart I love to talk to people and I
want to invite them to what God’s doing but God said don’t do it you let me stir
Hearts because I want the only people in this house to be the people that know that they’ve been called by me to be
here like honestly how many of you people even knew this place existed
this is an old building off of Highway 67 Tidwell exit
I didn’t even know you all existed I don’t take it as a criticism if we were marketing majors and had flashy signs
well me I mean the marketing don’t work we wasted money we didn’t waste nothing we saved our breath so the so the breath
of the Holy Spirit could compel and Inspire and invite you to be here what I want to tell you is that if you’re here today you’re here because the Holy
Spirit wants you here you’re not here because of slick marketing or campaign or advertising we
don’t do that what I want to tell you is that that we invested our first year growing the body
equipping the Saints to do the work of ministry this year God’s bringing the Harvest
if you’ve been here for more than more than a week you see you see that God’s bringing the Harvest and I don’t mean
the Harvest just in new people but always ask yourself am I more am I better off today than I was a year ago I
mean more spiritually mature are your marriage is stronger are your families coming to Restoration to Renewal or
prodigal relationships being restored do I know more about the word of the Lord today than I did a year ago am I
speaking in tongues when I didn’t does speaking in tongues make sense to me am I operating in the Supernatural gifts of
the holy spirit if you can say yes to even half of those you’re so much more spiritually mature than we were just a
year ago you know we’re standing firm on God’s promise of a new home this year you know
why because God gave us that promise can you imagine the audacity the insanity
the the irresponsibility for us to walk into this building the second day we signed
the lease and God say in your second year I’m going to give you a new home like do you know the market in the DFW
area there ain’t nothing you can’t get an outhouse that’s available in the DFW if you’ve
got an empty Outhouse it becomes medical billing space and for the Lord to say on day two we
walk in this building we hadn’t even preached this Army yet in your second year I’m going to give you a new home
that’s the Lord that ain’t got nothing to do with us so we’re standing firm on that and I want to tell you because
God’s good to his word we had to go to a second service like before y’all all
came about we’ve already done this before we had that we had to go to a nine and
an 11 o’clock service practical reasons Fire Marshal safety
Comfort accessibility but on the spiritual side I think back to when Byron was teaching about faith
about mustard seeds and you take those mustard seeds and you plant them 15 feet apart
and you’re like why in the world am I going to waste all that acreage you know how many more seeds I could plant if I planted them two feet apart the problem
is when you don’t plant them in faith and get 15 feet apart the space in between those seats is where God’s going
to operate so if we’re not listening to the Lord and we’re not doing a nine o’clock and 11 o’clock service we’re not
creating that space for God’s people to grow and God’s people to be comfortable but we’re standing on a temporary
solution for a permanent promise that came from God that he’s going to deliver our new home in this year where we can
all come back together as the body and I want to assure you that we don’t like I don’t like being up at 7 30 to do a nine
o’clock service but you know what is what the Lord said to do and and if you’re worried about well
we’re splitting the body and we’re not going to get to see each other you need to be here on Thursday night you want some meat you come here on Thursday
night there ain’t no two services on Thursday it is full-fledged Bible teaching Bible preaching Thursday night
serving me so I want to encourage you to do that so you know on the on the other thing I
wanted to share is I want to thank my wife Leah like when God gave me that calling years
ago you know just to think I mean here’s here’s a she’s my wife she’s my uh the
mother of our kids we’ve got like Health Care we’ve got pension we’ve got everything and for your husband to say
I’m out of here because the word because God said so and she stood by that and
she supported that and then when God said I want you to leave your the comfort of Home Ministry I want you to plan a church you know what she did we
have been living off of look a cop makes minimum wage and Leah’s successful career she was making more than minimum
wage she quit her career for this last year to support the vision that God gave
me she has put her life on hold for this last year
because we believe in Genesis 2 24. we are two is one the vision for me is the
vision for her even though she didn’t hear the vision she trusts that I received a vision and she’s going to
stand by me because God has lifted up anointed leaders and Elders in this church Leah has been released to go back
to doing her number one ministry that’s being my wife and the full-time mother of our kids
and so I want to thank you I want to honor you I want to spiritually release
you from the the position and the responsibility of being
the admin for this church I I bless you I honor you I cover you in returning to
be my wife and full-time mom of our kids so I do I am so thankful that you were
willing to put everything aside uh to to get this church on Solid Ground
and and I and I I know our kids are anxious I know Ava and Keaton are getting married in less than a month and
uh and she’s been mothering and mentoring our daughter into their marriage and uh so thank you for that
so
thank you
thank you well we’re going to continue our walk through the book of Ephesians
you know I want to share real quick you know sometimes churches they talk about DNA they talk about their identity
and and their vision and this and that and and you know sometimes we forget so after this morning’s service a little
girl handed me this she’d been taking she’d been taking sermon notes and I know she was paying attention
because they’re they’re right and I’m like oh that’s what I was saying but you know the most important thing you see
this picture and what she wrote love I don’t care what the identity and the
culture and the DNA and this is the house that love built this is the house that love built God
can take a 26-year career law enforcement officer who worked 12 years
undercover most of the time with the DNA DEA 16 years as a SWAT Commander to have
gone through the violence and the trauma and the death and and just living in the
the drags of society if God can take a hard-hearted guy like me
and teach them how to Love Like Jesus Christ this was a house that love built
this is a house that love built and it’s in that love that I want to share this word from Ephesians 4. and I
want to pray for this word before we start and Lord father thank you thank you thank you for today
oh thank you Lord we are so grateful to be here we are thankful to be to be
coheirs with King Jesus we’re so thankful to be brothers and sisters in the unity of Christ
we’re so thankful father God for you we love you we praise you we recognize the
special season that we’re in Lord we praise you we want to walk in Integrity in honor That season in Jesus name amen
you know have you ever been told to act your age like the guys are like because their
wives are like if you say anything I’m going to punch you listen admit it we’ve all been told act your age and we’ve
told our kids act your age well I figured out the best way to respond to Leah when she says act your age is like
well I don’t know how to act my age I’ve never been this age at any moment in my life
so how in the world am I supposed to act my age well you know what so Paul we’ve been going through the first three
chapters of Ephesians Paul’s been laying down the the wealth of being in the Kingdom the riches you’re a co-heir
you’re a co-heir with the King nowhere on this planet when you enter into a citizen of a kingdom do you get what the
king gets counter-cultural Kingdom citizenship means everything that God the Father gave the son you’re entitled
to and it don’t happen the day you die it happens the day you receive Jesus Christ and you start walking everlasting
life with him so those first three chapters that Paul’s giving to the church in Ephesus he’s laying down
doctrinal Foundation he’s laying down the Trinity he’s laying down y’all don’t make no mistake that Jesus the son his
father is God he’s laying down that you’re once you’re saved you’re sealed by the Holy Spirit he is laying down
Doctrine he is laying down a solid foundation in the first three chapters now we come to chapter four and it’s the
walk like this is how you walk in Christ and if there wasn’t a foundation Lane then
there’d be nothing to walk upon so then we say that’s cool and all but how do I walk
well guess who got the answer the Bible the word of the Lord is going to show you what the Walk of looks like
but I want to share the one thing that God put on my heart for us today and it’s if your walk is not God’s walk then
you’re walking alone you’re walking alone we have been called to walk in unity as one and the only way
to walk in unity is one is to walk with the Lord and why is that important well we’ve
been called to walk as one body we’ve been called to walk in unity not not uniformity but in unity God doesn’t want
you to lose who you are and what makes you special he just wants you to see the specialness number one comes because of whose you
are not who you are and I want to I want us to stand as the body to read the anchor
scripture for today and it is it is about unity in the body
and if we’ll stand in reverence of the word of the Lord we’ll read together as the body and we’ll start and unity in the body will begin therefore I a
prisoner for serving the lord beg you to leave a life worthy of your calling for you have been called by God always be
humble and gentle be patient with each other making allowance for each other’s faults because you have your love
make every effort to keep yourselves United in the spirit binding yourselves together with peace for there is one
body one Spirit just as you have been called to one glorious hope for the future
thank you thank you Jesus for that word thank you for that word you know Paul’s going to give us instructions for what
walking looks like and we’re going to walk through this anchor scripture Ephesians 4 1 and it
says I therefore the prisoner of the Lord beseech you to walk worthy of the calling with which
you were called like Paul’s going to tell you how to walk like how helpful would that be when
you tell act your age and if you had a little what does it mean to Act My Age like I’m almost 60. like how am I supposed to act
at almost 60 right but but Paul’s going to give us those answers and what does it look like to walk with the Lord and
you know the first thing Paul makes it very clear so he uses the word therefore therefore what therefore is signaling is
he was teaching Doctrine therefore now we transition to duty I have laid the
doctrine I’ve laid the ground rules I want you to understand the foundation upon what you’re going to walk now
therefore your duty as a Believer is to Walk This Way I beseech you to walk
worthy of the calling for which you were called you know the first part of walking
Worthy is Paul’s I’m a prisoner of the Lord you know being a prisoner of the Lord
does not mean that you’re being punished it means that you you submit to someone who has the legal supreme authority with
which to stand and provide care custody and control over your life Jesus is the only person with the
supreme authority for which you can come into as a prisoner not to be Shackled In
Your freedoms uh taken away but to be giving care custody and control in the
natural world when you take someone into custody that’s what it’s called care custody and control
now you come into the natural if it’s in a rebellious State as a law breaker then it’s going to look different when we
come into the kingdom and we come into Unity when we come into submission becoming a prisoner for Christ is the
only way that we’re going to come into Unity with the body you know so what does a Christian walk
look like let’s continue Ephesians 4 2 3. with all lowliness and gentleness with
long-suffering bearing with one another in love endeavoring to keep the unity of the spirit and the bond of peace like it
starts with being humble it starts with humility you know back in Paul’s day there was nothing in the Greek or Latin
the word the word humble they actually humility they actually believe that the Christians coined this term and it means
the noble Grace of Christ just like the word crucifixion was not a term at the time it was so horrifically
excruciatingly terrible that they had to coin a term and you know the word humility is so
beautiful and I want to read you from first Peter 5. because this is this is an example this is a cultural portrait
of what a healthy church should look like it reads the elders who are among you I
absorb I who am a fellow Elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ and
also a partaker of the glory that will be revealed Shepherd the flock of God which is among
you serving as overseers not by compulsion but willingly not for dishonest gain but eagerly
nor as being Lords over those entrusted to you but being examples to the flock when the
chief Shepherd appears you will receive the Crown of Glory that does not fade away
likewise you younger people submit yourself to your elders yes all of you
be submissive to one another be clothed with humility for God resists the proud but gives
grace to the humble therefore humble yourselves under the
mighty hand of God that he may exalt you in due time casting all your cares upon
Him for he cares for you everything in the Kingdom starts with
humility if you feel like this is not an accurate portrait of a healthy church then I want
to suggest that maybe you pray more about it because there may be areas of Pride that are that are you’re being
resisted if you feel like you can’t break through and your ministry is not starting or whatever the case is your
family your finances and there’s just struggle there might be an issue of Pride there
might be an issue of rebellion God’s never going to take the pride for the haughty and Elevate him in the
Kingdom he’s going to take the humble and he’s going to elevate you you know what I’ve learned and I’ve learned so much oh my
gosh I’ve learned so much is that God shows me that he can only
use me to the level with which I respond appropriately to what was done to me
you see as a as an alpha male if you hurt me I’m coming after you and Jesus
is like we don’t do that in the Kingdom you see it’s not what they’ve done to you it’s how you respond to them
and that starts with humility you know when Paul’s telling us that we’ve got to bind ourselves together
with peace like Unity doesn’t just happen it doesn’t just happen I mean think
about your families is there disunity in your family is there just Harmony in your family is there disagreement in
your family yeah you know what two people meet Lee and I we do a lot of marriage counseling and then they’re
like Oh I thought when I got married they were going to change well what intentional efforts did you
make to bring about change nothing I just thought when I got married to be better that don’t happen
when you come into the body of Christ if you’re not willing to change then everything’s going to remain the same
like Unity doesn’t just happen you’ve got to decide to be unified you’re got
to decide to put your wants aside you’ve got to put your wants
beneath God’s will until your will becomes God’s wants you see
only through Unity through the bond of Peace you know why because Christ is our
peace Christ made peace Christ preached peace Christ gives unity and peace and
Christ offers a gospel of peace it’s only through peace that we’re going to come into Unity it’s only through making
that conscious decision every day to submit yourself with humility binding
yourself with the unity of peace that we’re going to stay United as one body it’s not just a magical place or some
magical message that brings you into Unity it is a constant daily decision that you get to make
that you get to make and you know so Paul is walking us through the Walk of Christ and then he gets to the point
where it’s for uh 414 and he goes it’s time to grow up like it’s time to grow up
and he says that we should no longer be children toss to and fro and carried about with every wind of Doctrine by the
trickery of men and The Cutting craftiness of deceitful plotting like Paul’s not talking about some some blurb
for a movie or or a mystery novel like Paul’s talking to the church Paul’s talking to the church
deceitful trickery plots when you come in humility and submission
you’re not focused on trickery and deceitfulness and plots and gossip and
rumor your focus is submitting yourself in humility to Unity in Christ so when
Paul talks about his time to grow up stop being children we go to First Corinthians 13 11. when I was a child I
used to speak as a child think like a child reason like a child when I became a man I did away with childish things
let me tell you something adolescence is not found in the Bible Paul says you’re a child then you become
a man or you become an adult there’s no adolescence you see what we did in society the world this woke
culture they said oh no no that’s cool like like I don’t want you to go from child to adult you can be an adolescent
you can extend your childhood you know the problem with this woke World demonic
World adolescence goes into the mid to late 30s and sometimes further than that
you know the results of that look as a parent we all like that’s cool like we don’t want our babies to leave we tell
Anova and keep y’all get married in May y’all can live in a house it’s good
but you know what it’s not good what’s happened by extending natural adolescence is now people are getting
married in their mid to late 30s but what they’re doing is they’re leaving their mom and dad’s house and
then they’re going into their spouse’s house and they’re realizing that their spouse is not their mom and dad and
they’re not getting a little poopoo diapers change and a little bottle fed to them and what do they do
they divorce they quit they leave they split the unity and they go back home to
Mama do you know today that 52 of all young adults living with their parents
that’s more than any other time in this nation’s history even the Great Depression
and you know the majority of the parents homes that they’re moving back to is their mom’s house because that
generation the divorce rate has been astronomical can you imagine the pressure that’s
being put on Single Moms now having to raise their 30 and 40 something year old kids because of
extended adolescence and that’s not just for the natural world that happens in the spiritual world you see we get into
this world of adolescent Christians who don’t want to grow up they don’t want to they don’t want to mature they want to
stay on the little milk because the milk don’t make them feel bad you see the milk of the word that don’t bring
conviction that don’t bring change the little milk allows you to compromise but when you start coming for the meat of
the word listen I said this morning I laughed and I thought maybe it was inappropriate but it ain’t when I think of Byron Hamilton on Thursday nights I
see them in this white chef’s hat with a with a with a chef’s coat and these knives like cutting a fillet cutting a
fillet cutting a filet and serving the meat of the word and you know what not everybody comes on
Thursday you know why because that ain’t for everybody and that’s okay if you’re a new believer in your sip of milk but
if you’ve moved from putting away childish things and you become an adult but you want to live in a state of
spiritual adolescence why ain’t gonna go on Thursday because what he said I ain’t comfortable with or what he does in the
word or the meat of the word is you got to kill sacred cows and sometimes we don’t want them sacred
cows I don’t want to move out of my bedroom I like my NFL blanket and pillows I don’t want to move over there
that new wife that I married she wants something like like with Paisley on it I’m going back to Mama that’s what we do
in the world that’s what we do with spiritual adolescence there comes a time to get off the bottle
and get onto the meat you’re never gonna mature as long as you’re sipping and I
just want to share that that this is a word to the Christians Paul’s talking to
the Christian church and he’s telling us if we don’t submit in humility with a
conscious purposeful decision to walk in one in the body there’s never going to be Unity but you
see the problem which you’re missing by trying to by trying to cause the strife and destruction and and division is that
the God’s Gonna Move God’s this thing is on a track this track don’t move this train goes forward
God’s God’s plan is going to come Jesus is coming back and it don’t matter what
you try to do to derail it it don’t matter if you want to go to a different denomination every week God’s plan is
Unity based in love grounded in truth and on the word of the Lord and it’s going to move forward it’s whether or
not you want to ride that train you want to be in unity and if and if the whole idea of
spiritual adolescence the beauty is God loves us and he’s like I get where you
were but I want you to come where we are because there’s Unity here there’s love
here but you got to come with humility you got to come with submission you got to come understanding this is a house
that love built I’m gonna tell you a child is cute but a childish adult is not
God’s vision for this church is to equip his people into maturity as well as
correct the behavior for those who need correcting and let’s be honest we all need correcting
but that’s the beauty of the word the word don’t condemn the word convicts for correction
thank God for this church I want to give you an example we’re
going to finish up Ephesians 4 15-16 this is a healthy this is what a
healthy mature Walk In Christ looks like Paul says now remember he just talked
about deceitful trickery plotting division gossip rumors and Paul says
instead instead of doing this
how about we speak the truth in love growing in every way more and more like
Christ who is the head of his body the church he makes the whole body fit together
perfectly as each part does its own special work it helps the other parts
grow so that the whole body is healthy and growing and full of love
does that sound like an atmosphere a body of Believers that you want to be a
part of then everybody has a role to play everybody matters everybody counts
when you’re when you were planting an Apostolic fivefold Ministry Church the idea is not just to gather a bunch of
people and listen to one guy talk every Sunday the idea is to raise up leaders raise up the body due to the work of the
ministry so they can get out there and start doing the ministry when I hear brothers and sisters that are doing that
are doing baptisms on their own and that they’re marrying people and they’re doing things listen that’s Apostolic that’s Apostolic
you’re out there doing the work of the ministry if there’s one number on your phone that you got to call to marry somebody to
bury somebody to baptize somebody to be somebody in the Holy Spirit lead them in the baptism of the Holy Spirit then that’s not a healthy Church
when you can swing a cat by the tail and you can and you can claw somebody that can do these things that’s an Apostolic
equipped Church everybody’s ready to step up to the battle line that’s what a healthy Church
looks like so I want to share again the one word that the Lord the one thing you put on my heart this week if your walk is not
God’s walk then you’re walking alone I want to challenge you this week I want
to challenge you this week to pray about where you are in your walk with Christ I
want to assure you the foundation is solid the word of the Lord is solid we
don’t have to worry about that shifting beneath our feet focus on your walk where you are in your
walk you know if there’s places where where maybe you’re feeling resistance in your
personal life or with your church body or in your profession or with your spouse or your kids maybe maybe give
some time to prayer and see if maybe there’s something um that you’re walking outside of alignment that’s causing this desire to
divide if you’re finding that there’s areas of submission that are drawing you even
closer to your walk with Christ then focus on that
but make no mistake God wants Unity God wants love God sent his son to die on
the cross so we can know this everlasting life so we can know Salvation and salvation
again it’s not just your get out of hell free card God wants you to have the whole atoning
package of Salvation he wants you to be delivered he wants you to have provision he wants you to have a health
he wants you to walk in unity and he wants you to know that you’re loved that’s why he sent his son to the
cross you’ve got to make a decision you’ve got to be purposeful you’ve got to be intentional
if you think showing up in a building is going to make a difference in your life in your spiritual life it isn’t
you’ve got to be willing to come under submission come under Authority come under the care custody and control of
the Supreme the one who has the supreme authority over your life and that’s King Jesus
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