Sermon #S018 -
(I'm Good - Part 1)
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Pastor Snell: I would invite you
to go with me in your Bibles to
the Book of Matthew chapter 20,
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and we're going to begin
together at verse number one.
Let me just ask by show of
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hands. How many of us have just
a perfect, perfect life, perfect
existence going on right now?
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I notice ain't nobody raised
their hand. There's nobody that
has a perfect experience or
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perfect circumstance. But how
many of us know that when you
have Godly contentment, you can
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have a perfect disposition? Do I
have a witness today? So I can't
control everything that's going
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on around me, but guess what, I
can manage with God's help
what's happening inside of me.
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Are you all with me today,
Saints? And so, I want us to
look at a very familiar Parable
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and we want to share some things
with you as we go into the Word
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today. Matthew 20:1, when you
get there just say "Pastor, I'm
here." Matthew 20:1.
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I give careful attention to
the reading of the word today.
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In fact, I want you to know this
is going to be a text that I'll
come back and revisit at some
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time in the future because I
actually have more sermon than I
have time to really share with
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you today, but there's just some
rich truth for the people of
God. Matthew 20:1, again, when
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you get there, just say Amen.
Jesus speaking says, "For the
kingdom of heaven is like a
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landowner who went out early in
the morning to hire labourers
for his vineyard. Now when he
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had agreed with the labourers
for denarius a day, he sent them
into the vineyard. He went out
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about the third hour and saw
others standing idle in the
marketplace and said to them,
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"You also go into the vineyard
and whatever is right I will
give you." So they went and
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again, he went out about the
sixth hour and the ninth hour
and did likewise. About the
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eleventh hour, he went out and
found others standing idle.
Standing what? Idle, they're
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idle, they're not doing
anything. And said unto them,
"Why have you been standing here
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idle all day?" They said unto
him because no one hired us, and
he said unto them, "You also go
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into the vineyard and whatever
is right, you will receive." So
when evening had come, the owner
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of the vineyard said to the
steward, "Call the labourers and
give them their wages beginning
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with the last to the first."
When those who came and were
hired about the eleventh hour,
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they each receive a denarius.
When the first came, they
supposed that they would receive
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what? They assume they should
have received more than
everybody else, and they
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likewise received each a
denarius. When they had received
it, they did complain against
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the landowner saying "These last
men have worked only one hour
and you have made them equal to
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us who have borne the burden and
the heat of the day?" But he
answered one of them and said,
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"Friend, I am doing you no
wrong. Did you not agree with me
for a denarius? Take what is
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yours and go your way. I wish to
give the last men the same as
you. Is it not lawful for me to
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do what I wish with my own
things?" There's a very, very
pertinent question. He asked,
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"Or is your eye evil because I'm
good?" And so, the last will be
first and the first will be last
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for many are called, but few are
chosen." Again, for emphasis, I
want to read verse 11. When they
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received it, the Bible says they
complained against the
landowner. Today, Saints, for
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just a little while, I just want
to talk under the sermon title
"I'm Good". Turn to your
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neighbor, give him a fist bump
and say, "I'm good". Now turn to
them and ask a question. Are you
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good? Because I'm good. Amen.
Amen. Let's look to the Lord
together in prayer. Father, I
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pray that in this little while
that you would say much. And
perhaps, Father, there are parts
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of the service that are
familiar. We understand the
liturgy. We know when the song
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is going to come in, when the
prayer is going to be prayed.
But Lord, I pray that we would
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not become so familiar with how
things go that we leave no room
for a special visitation of your
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spirit. And so, Father, would
you make thyself so dense in
this place that you smother and
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overwhelm all rivaling
principalities? Father, once
again, I pray that faith will be
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multiplied in the hearing of the
Word. Lord, would you hide me in
the shadow of the cross that
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Jesus alone might be seen, that
Christ alone would be heard, and
at the end of our time together,
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may Jesus alone be praised. We
ask this in the name of Him who
is altogether lovely. It is in
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the name of Jesus that we pray.
Let God's people say together.
Amen. And amen. You may be
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seated here in the presence of
the Lord. You know, friends, my
very first time patronizing the
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Cheesecake Factory was in 2000
at the Michigan Avenue location
in Chicago, Illinois. After we
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arrived, after a lengthy wait in
line, they were able to seat us
in close proximity to the
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kitchen. Our server handed us
a menu and made some particular
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recommendations. After a little
while in culinary deliberation,
we eventually decided to place
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our order. But the problem is
that whenever you are seated
next to the kitchen,
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you are able to see every dish
that somebody orders as it is
being taken to their table.
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As I saw all the dishes coming
out, I developed a serious case
of food order envy,
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where you see so many good
dishes going back and forth that
you begin to second-guess the
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very thing that you ordered. You
all know what I'm talking about
today. And so, I would see the
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fried mac and cheese balls and I
would change my mind. I would
see the factory nachos come out
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and again, I would change my
mind. I would see the tower of
onion rings and I would change
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my mind. And eventually, our
server grew impatient with my
ambivalence and said, "Sir,
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you're making a mistake with the
way you're going about it." She
said something I'll never
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forget. She says, "You've got to
choose based on the menu not
what you see. You need to choose
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based on the ingredients and not
the final presentation." She
reminded me that the options
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you're now coveting are the ones
that you bypass when you were
looking at the menu. She says
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you've got to get to a place
where you're just good with what
you ordered, because you're
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always going to see something
that looks good passing by. Can
I suggest today, friends, that
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the key to greater contentment
is when you get to the place
where you can just say, "God,
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I'm good with what I have
already ordered", because life
can be like a trip to the
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restaurant because you
automatically devalue what
you've had because you pay so
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much attention to things that
are passing by. Can I suggest,
friends, that freedom is not the
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ability to change your mind but
freedom is the discipline to
settle your mind. Because the
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discipline of contentment is the
ability to say "God, I'm good
with what I have." You see, how
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many of us know contentment
doesn't come when you have
everything you want? Contentment
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comes when you want what you
already have. See, I need
somebody to know that you got to
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be loose from the habit of
comparing what you have with
somebody else. Do you realize
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that certain things will appeal
not because they're better than
what you have, they will appeal
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simply because it's different
and unfamiliar than what you
already possess? Can I say
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today, brothers, that you've got
to be thankful for the woman you
have because there will always
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be another pretty face passing
by? In other words, ladies,
you've got to be content with
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what you have because there will
always be another handsome man
or accomplished man passing by.
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There will always be a newer
version of some device. There
will always be another model of
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a vehicle. The institution
across town will seem superior
to what you have. There will
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always be a better-paying job,
another new store, something
that says that you need
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something different than what
you have. But the greatest
blessing in life, my friends, is
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when you just get to the place
where you can say "God, I'm good
with what you have given me and
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where you are moving in my
life." Do I have about seven or
eight Saints in the room that
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can just say, "Lord, I am
thankful and I am good with
where you are operating in my
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personal experience"? In other
words, do I have any folks that
can just say, "Lord, I'm good
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with the age I am." In other
words, I'm not in a hurry to get
older, I'm not trying to relive
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my teens or my twenties. I am
thankful for the wisdom that God
has given me in this season." Is
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there anybody that's can say
"I'm just good with the way that
I look"? Do you realize that you
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are fearfully and wonderfully
made, you don't have to nip or a
tuck or bleach or dye, you
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realize you got it going on in
Jesus name? Are you all with me
today, Saints? Listen, this
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morning I looked in the mirror
and said to myself, "Bald is
beautiful and dark is lovely."
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Are you all with the pastor in
this room? Is there anybody that
can say, "I'm good with my
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spouse. I'm good with my house.
I'm good with my problems. I'm
good with my job." You don't
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need to spend a whole lot of
time trying to study where
everyone else is and what they
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already have. The greatest
blessing is when you've got
Godly contentment that allows
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you to be good where you are. In
fact, let me testify in this
way. I need you to know this
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about your pastor that I'm so
good in Christ that I would not
change places with anybody else
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on this Earth. Let me be clear,
my life is not perfect. I've got
problems like everybody else but
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I'm good with my wife, I'm good
with my kids. I don't want your
problems so I'm good with mine.
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Is there anybody that's so
thankful where God has you, that
you're not trying to trade
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places? You don't need an
upgrade. You just going to stand
still and be good with where God
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is moving in. Are you all
hearing me today, friends?
[Congregation: Amen] And so,
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friends, as we go deeper into
this, let me just give you a
sermonic roadmap of where we're
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going to go. I want to first
begin just communicating some
missional, our Evangelistic
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principles. Second, I want us to
see some salvific content in the
text, and then I want to just
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conclude talking about the need
for us to experience greater
spiritual contentment. If you're
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with me, let me hear you
say amen. [Congregation: Amen]
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Now one of the things
you need to know, friends,
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about this parable is that this
parable has what you would call
"dual implication",
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meaning that this is extremely
relevant for those who are
hearing Christ teach it,
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but it has prophetic relevance
for those who are living even in
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our time. In fact, friends, that
this parable prophesize what
will be happening in the church
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at the eleventh hour just before
the close of God's work. It's
amazing because Jesus here
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describes the parable of a man
who is an owner of a vineyard,
but then he describes a scenario
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where he does not have enough
servants in the house so that he
must go out and hire day labor
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in order to get the work
complete. Now, you remember that
day labor work only for the
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day's wage but a servant was a
part of the family and the
economy of the home. The hidden
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tragedy of the story is that
there are not enough servants in
the house to finish the work
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that he's got to outsource the
labor to those who are strangers
because there's not enough
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committed servants in the house.
This amazing, friends of mine,
that even in the text, did you
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notice that the owner has to go
in search of the laborers? It is
a constant search of those to do
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or complete the work. In other
words, the labor is not labor,
is not looking for the employer
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but the employer is actually
looking for the laborers, and
what God is prophesying is that
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at the end of time, there will
be a shortage of labor. Are you
hearing me today, Saints? I need
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you to know, friends, that Jesus
has hidden in plain sight the
truth that his work would
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struggle simply because there is
a shortage of labor that is
willing to go forward and
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complete the work. In fact, the
express lament of Jesus before
he left. He said the harvest is
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going to be plentiful but the
problem is that the laborers are
going to be few. It's amazing,
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that what Jesus prophesied has
become reality even in our time.
Do you realize, friends, that
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studies show that less than 30%
of professed believers give only
about 20% consistently serve in
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Ministry at the church, and only
about 10% are involved with a
Ministry that touches the
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unchurched community? The labor
shortage, friends of mine, has
nothing to do with the pandemic.
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You see, I need us to know that
the pandemic did not create the
labor shortage. All the pandemic
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did was give us a Ministry
alibi. [Congregation: Clapping]
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All it did was just give us
cover for not being active in
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the Lord's army. In fact,
friends of mine, I need us to
know that the pandemic does not
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change values. What the pandemic
did is it reveal our values. You
see, one of the things, tell me
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if I'm lying, is that whatever
are real values were, they
didn't get canceled in the
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pandemic, they got adjusted in
the pandemic. In other words, we
didn't stop having birthday
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parties we just started having
them in drive-by fashion. We
didn't stop having family
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reunions we just started doing
them on Zoom. You are all mighty
quiet today. We didn't stop
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going to work, we just started
working from home. I guess what
I'm saying, friends of mine, is
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that if serving and impacting
the community was a true value,
it didn't get canceled by the
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pandemic, we just found a
creative way to be of use even
in the midst of the pandemic.
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And even, friends, as we rebuild
as we emerge from the
pandemic... Oh by the way, which
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is not over. Are you all with me
today? In other words, some of
you all wild'n maskless out here
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in these streets. Are you all
hear me today? The truth is we
still need to mask up, we still
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need to take certain
precautions, but the crazy thing
is that we've gone back to
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events, we've gone back to
travel, we've gone back to
stadiums, we've gone back to
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work. The only thing that we are
tentative or cautious about is
doing the work that God has
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assigned us to do. Let me just
kind of say this like I feel it.
The reason that some of our
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churches are on the verge of
dying is because we are
practicing Evangelistic
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abstinence. It's crazy, friends,
because there is no abstinence
in our work, there is no
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abstinence in our recreation,
there is no abstinence in our
shopping. In other words, we are
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socially active, we are
professionally active, but the
problem is we are Ministry
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celibate. In other words, when
it comes down to serving, we
have become like eunuchs. We're
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saving it for the right day,
saving it for the perfect time,
waiting for the right occasion.
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But do I have some saints who
are going to be evangelistically
promiscuous, who are not trying
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to save it, or wait for it? In
other words, you're going to
give it to whoever wants it and
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you're willing to share the
gospel with whoever is willing
to receive it. Are you all with
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me today, friends? See, I need
you to hear the preacher's heart
today because the burden is not
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just for you to be in service,
the burden is for you to be in
service. The burden is not for
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you to be in church, the burden
is for us to be active and
touching the lives of those that
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need the healing touch of Jesus.
Are you all with me today,
friends? I need us to know that
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the body of Christ is not devoid
of gifts and Christ has seen to
it that the body is lacking in
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no area. But the one thing that
Christ cannot dictate is our
willingness to be active and use
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in service for our King. In
fact, the Bible says the
landowner has to make several
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trips to go out because there's
not enough servants to finish
the assignments. Let me just say
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specifically to those who are
younger and wanting to get
active in the church. I need
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some to understand that your
greatest contribution to the
church cannot be assessment. You
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see, there are whole lot of folk
in our time that sit around
dinner tables after church and
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on devices during church with a
whole bunch of theories about
what the church should be doing
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and what the church is not doing
while not participating in
bettering the work of God. What
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I'm saying to somebody is you've
got to get to a place where your
greatest contribution to the
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world is more than a Facebook
post. See, we have developed a
generation of ecclesiastical
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troubleshooters but all they do
is identify the problem, but
they'll never get their hands
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dirty and help solve the
problem. So that you got a whole
lot of folk that will complain
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about everything that's wrong
with the young people, but
they'll never get involved in a
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Ministry to young people. You've
got some that will complain
about what's wrong with the
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school, but they'll never get
involved and better what's
happening at the school. You've
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got some that complains what
we're not doing with the
community, but they'll never
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join a Ministry that impacts the
community. The crazy thing is,
I've met complaining people and
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I've met serving people, but
guess what, they are never ever
the same people because those
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who serve don't spend a whole
lot of time in assessment
because they've got to make a
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difference in growing the work
of God. [Congregation: Clapping]
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At some point, friends, we got
to stop talking about it. We got
to put both hands on the gospel
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plow and be about our Father's
business. Are you all hearing
the Word today, friends? Listen,
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man, real talk. I remember one
of my kind of less than stellar
moments as a pastor was in my
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first district. I remember we
had had kind of a Saturday night
social of some sort.
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When it was done we had to begin
stacking all the chairs and the
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tables. I remember me and some
of the young guys at my Church,
we have begun stacking up the
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chairs and the tables and
getting them put in place.
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And so, there was another
able-bodied man who did not help
stack or move the chairs and
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tables. But what he did was he
sat in the corner and start
saying you need to move it there
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and you need to lift with your
legs and you need to not scratch
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up the walls, and it's crazy
because he's telling what we
ought to do while sitting on his
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behind over in the corner. Now,
I need you to know I feel a heat
coming up the back of my neck.
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In a full preaching voice- it
was not a good moment- I let him
know that at some point,
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you got to stop telling us what
to do and you got to put your
hands on something.
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See, what I need somebody to
know is that those who are doers
will never be coached by those
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who are sayers. In other words,
when you're actually doing the
work you can't be mentored by
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those who are coaching the work.
It's time for us to put our
hands on the plow and be about
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the work of God. Are you all
hear me today, friends? And even
as I kind of talk today about
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what it means to be a content
believer, hear me on this, I
need somebody to know that you
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will never experience Godly
contentment until you get
engaged in service. Listen, what
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I'm about to say is somewhat
unscientific. One of the things
I've noticed is that some of the
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most happy and joyful and
pleasant people in the world are
not those that function in
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survival mode as an island unto
themselves living about their
own matters, the happiest folks
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on the planet are the ones who
don't live as collectors of
things, but they function as
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conduits of divine grace because
they live their life in service
for their fellow man. So I need
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us to understand beloved that
there are innate blessings that
can only be discovered when you
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touch the lives of the broken,
that there are mercies that can
only be received when you
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function as a pitcher that pours
out and not a container that's
always receiving in. There is a
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satisfaction in life that is the
result of generosity and not a
life of constantly collecting.
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See, what serving does, friends,
is that serving keeps you
grounded. Serving keeps you
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stable, serving keeps you
humble, and serving helps you
maintain a touch with broken
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humanity. Are you all with me
today, friends? I need us to
know that a person that is
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connected to God through
serving, they are not filled
with a bunch of complaints. They
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are not anxious and upset by
every little thing. They do not
give weight to every vein or
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idle thought. In fact, one of
the things you should know is
that those who are active in
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service are actually less likely
to sin. In fact, I love what the
book Fundamentals of Education
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says, it literally says that
those who would be overcomers
must be drawn out of themselves.
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The only thing which will
accomplish this great work is to
become intensely interested in
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the salvation of-- are you all
hearing this thing today,
church? See, the problem is we
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spend all day in our prayer
closet trying not to sin,
focusing on what we do wrong or
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right. But she says that if you
begin and be interested in
somebody else's salvation, you
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get the victory in the process.
[Congregation: Clapping] What a
powerful message by Pastor
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Debleaire Snell! Thank you so
much for joining us for the
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and pray that you have been
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