2012 No More Excuses Men's Conference | Jonathan Evans Speaker

Evans he wants to introduce our next speaker well I'm happy to have my son Jonathan Evans with me by my side in ministry he's been he started with Spears with the cowboys and then in between football seasons he's been working with me and and now he travels with me and as in seminary and doing ministry and I wanted to give a son's perspective on being a kingdom man so help me welcome Jonathan Evans the number for the Evans kids I always appreciate you know my dad just given me the opportunity just being willing to pass the ball to me you know that means something as a son when your dad's willing to pass the ball to you so I really appreciate that and it's just the way he works he works real fast so he's moving real fast all over the time and Monday actually it was Tuesday I'm sitting in the office upstairs Tuesday's his big meeting day and he comes into the office and he's like hey son men's conference on Saturday you're aware I said yeah of course I'm aware he said well you've got 20 minutes and then you closed the door and walked out and I was like but that's how dad will do you if they throw you throw you in that fire but I appreciate that he's willing to do that 2006 I'm with the San Diego Chargers in training camp and a week goes by in training camp and after that week you've already been through 16 practices and you're tired weary beaten bruised bandaged up it's that time of a training camp where you can't see the light at the end of the tunnel because you still have another week before you play your first preseason game so you're hitting the same people and you know you have another 16 practices before you get to show off on the field so we're kind of down and that's the point of training camp where guys start talking about retirement in the whole deal it's time for me to get out of here but we also had one of the most motivating coaches of all time and I remember one morning after a week went by we were in meetings 7 a.m. and training camp you start at 6 a.m. you don't get back to your room till about 9:00 p.m. with two practices and meetings in the middle but I remembered this one early-morning meeting we were mumbling with each other just kind of talking and just kind of down and tired just making it and then the head coach enters the room all goes quiet because the elephant has just entered the room he goes by the name of Marty Schottenheimer one of the greatest motivating coaches of all time a genius and this day he came into the meeting and he just began to pace up and down for about three minutes he just walked and he looked and he had a grimace on his face as to look right through us just to see what we were thinking he was just kind of measuring us up and he just stared and he paced then he stared and he paced and then he began to speak he said men I did not just cast the net and hope that the good players that I need would fall into it to help me win a Super Bowl this season you have been hand-selected hand-picked cherry-picked chosen to be here by none other than myself and I'm Marty Schottenheimer I don't make mistakes with who I choose you have been chosen for a specific position because you have a specific skill that I think will help us win a championship and get to our destiny in 2006 there's no better time than right now here with the San Diego Chargers but in order to do that even though I've constructed everything for success you have to maintain the integrity of the uniform that you wear if you don't maintain the integrity of that uniform it doesn't matter that I'm Marty Schottenheimer and I've given you all these coaches and I've given you this playbook for success all is null and void if you don't go out on the field and maintain your uniforms integrity that's what you have to do the time is right now for greatness and there's no other time than right now because I've constructed it for your success now what you need to do is stand up go to the locker room and put on your helmet strap on your pads and meet me on the 50-yard line because the time is right now I'm feeling that right now don't nobody walk on this stage right now you might get hit but one of the things that I thought about years later that's a speech that you never forget but one of the things that I thought about years later is hasn't God said the same thing to me he said I for knew you and predestined you to be conformed to the image of my son so that he may be the firstborn of many brother those who have been predestined have also been called those who have been called have also been justified those who have been justified have also been glorified so then what then can you say of God is for you who can be against you and I realized at that moment that I have been called and you have been called and your sons have been called to be great and God called us for a specific position because he gave each and everyone one of us a specific skill for success and he's God he doesn't make mistakes on who he chooses he did not just cast the net he chose specifically but we have to maintain the integrity of the uniform that he gave us if we don't maintain the integrity of that uniform it doesn't matter that he's constructed greatness we won't see it it says in Genesis 17 chapter 17 verse 1 God was talking to Abraham at the age of 99 years old and he told Abraham I want to see you walk blameless before me and then I will establish my covenant my covenant is there I will establish it but I want to watch you first a lot of us are waiting on God and God is saying wait a minute I'm waiting on you I want to see you maintain the uniforms integrity first and then we can talk about moving forward to greatness how many of us have the uniform of salvation but we never get on the field of sanctification moving forward and becoming all that God has called us to become and all that he has created us to be greatness ensues and the time is now that sounds good the speech was good I'll never forget what Marty said and the Holy Spirit turned it into something that spoke into my life but for me greatness and destiny and all of those different things sometimes I'm scared of it and I fear it me personally if I can be real for a second this very stage scares me because it's his stage and I'm a son and it's an intimidating thing to stand on this stage being my dad's son from the outside looking in Tony Evans in the family the great Kingdom life and all of that kind of stuff but sometimes that stuff is scary sometimes I have a fear that rolls on the inside that I know is the enemy but I still feel it I'm human and that fear is then you know some people have started to walk to me and tell me hey you know I feel it in my spirit I'm telling you you're gonna be the next pastor of this church and I say what Church you have lost your mind keep that to yourself this Tony Evans Church to me you know that comparison is like Michael Jordan's son is about to try out for the Bulls that doesn't quite work it doesn't quite work you know some of the things that make Tony Evans great you know some of those things I just don't have as a son and it's scary because I watch him every day but I can't force myself to have those things because I'm not him one of those things is he's an intellectual he's made he's up here go check his library out you'll fall out he reads a book a week non-stop a book a week from cover to cover next book he's read most of the books that are in his library I read two pages in my eyes are watering I don't have that I'm not a formal learner he's in meetings all day making something out of nothing on Tuesdays he's from he's in meetings from 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. all day just meeting with people staying attentive going and going and going and going and going I'm in a meeting five minutes and I'm thinking about Puff the Magic Dragon I just don't have some of those same things that made him great but the word of the Lord stays the same for me too and that that's what I have to believe through my fear that the word of the Lord stays the same for every individual in this room to Sprite despite your fear and your past and all those other things that you may be dealing with the word of the Lord is for you too and it's something that we have to believe every day I just keep putting one foot out in front of the other and when I look down sometimes all I see is an abyss I don't know what this foot is gonna land on but because I'm trying to walk in his will it just seems like the Lord slides something solid for me to land on it's called walking by faith the assurance of things hoped for and the conviction of things not seen even through my fear you know sometimes God will allow you to walk on the very things that hold you in bondage to get to your destiny and that's what I'm learning right now in my life as a son as a 30 year old who's still trying to figure it out and trying to stand on his word knowing his word because you were fed it every night for dinner but truly being able to apply the word in spite of your feelings we're gonna leave here today as Kingdom men feeling it and ready to apply it but you know the time has come for you to apply it when you feel like not applying it that's the time when the game has begun one of my favorite movies is x-men one of my favorite characters in x-men is a character by the name of magneto I like villains he could take metal and manipulate it and do whatever he wants with it but in this one movie he was in a jail cell that was hovering over nothingness because he can float and do all these other things and so they had him in a jail cell that was hovering over a deep dark abyss and then a hundred yards from the jail cell was the mainland when one of his colleagues came to save him and tried to break him out and all of those different things and he was able to open the door but then he looked down and realized that if he took another step he was gonna fall but he saw his destination which was the mainland so what he did was take iron from the jail that was holding him captive and putting it underneath his feet and he would step on it and he would take more iron and step on it and take more iron and step on it until he got to his destiny he was using the very thing that held him captive to get to his destination and sometimes with our fear sometimes with our past sometimes without having a father sometimes without having a blueprint if we just believe the word and start applying that God can put those very things that are holding us in our jail sail underneath our feet so that we can walk towards our destination and these are just personal things these are just things that I'm learning as I read the Bible and the Holy Spirit draw stuff off the page for me as I just walked this walk in my personal life in Genesis 18:19 the Lord is talking to Abraham and he said you have been chosen to lead your family after me so that I can fulfill my promise so what was the promise to Abraham I'm gonna make a great nation well that comes through a family so he's telling Abraham to leave your family after me so that I can do what I said I was gonna do but you have to start by leading your family one of the things that's great that God has blessed me with is a father that leads his family we sit around the table every single night every single night we sat around that table and he would just feed us a plate of wisdom and even though we were missing the Cosby Show because of that plate of wisdom I realize now that I'm older how much that means to have a dad that sits with his sons and daughters and he gives him what he learned from his dad you see I don't see to daddy a lot we call him to Daddy my dad's dead I don't see to daddy a lot but my mind is just like his because too dad had created a disciple and my dad created a disciple and now I hold that baton tight so that I can hand it to my son what - daddy had to do was pick it up off the ground though because he was the first his father was around but he wasn't saved he got saved at the end of his life so my dad grew up in a non-christian home two guys that I never met witnessed - to Daddy that I'll never see I don't know if they're here I don't know if they're they're not alive anymore I don't know where they are but those two guys that I never knew and never will know those Kingdom men that witness to my father I wish they could see what doing one thing that God tells you to do how that can change the course of generations and now to that is getting older 83 years old it's hard for me to see him walk with a cane now and not good around the same as I've always been able to see and now you know what hurts me they talked to they talked to me just yesterday in a meeting and they said as I watched that and then watch my father they said Jonathan what is the the the most exciting thing for you right now as it relates to working with your father and ministry I said I feel sorry for my siblings because I get to spend more time with them than they do I love being by his side in eating off his plate I love it and I'm glad that I had the opportunity to do it and then they said what is the worst thing about working with your father in ministry I said I really don't like it when he says son this is my last third of ministry I'm 62 years old now and at some point it has to come to a close and then that's when the Holy Spirit told me it's not coming to a close because you bear his name and you're just getting started those who he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed into the image of his son so that he may be the firstborn of many brethren those that he predestined he also called those that he called he also justified and those that he justified he also glorified so what then can you say if God is for you who can be against you

Channel: Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship

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Length: 17min 25sec (1045 seconds)

Published: Tue Jul 17 2012