"David: Servant Of God" - Pastor Wayne Cordeiro - New Hope Classics

Aloha I'm Wayne Cordeiro thank you for joining us we hope you've been blessed by this video and others on this channel we'd love to stay connected with you so please leave a comment and click the subscribe and notification button so you won't miss any of our upcoming videos there's a team of people working behind the scenes to produce these resources to help you grow in your walk with Jesus and if any of these videos have blessed you would you consider partnering with us there's a couple ways that you can help us first share this video with those that you know who might need to hear God's Word and second would you please prayerfully consider giving to this ministry so that we can keep these resources free for others your donation makes a difference please click on the link in the description below for more information my prayer is that God will stir your heart today he wants to give you a future and a hope Aloha [Applause] but take out our notes as we continue in our brand new series called hero's of legendary faith people from the past out of Hebrews 11 that God chose placed in this chapter call it the Hall of faith that are teaching us about things like being a servant about having faith as we talked about last week but today we're gonna focus on one person who's gonna speak to us out of the past mention over 1,000 times in the Bible and other than Jesus himself this person is very well known his name is David now we still have a lot to learn about stuff in the Bible even though you've been around for a long time some of you how many of you would still say we're just scratching the surface we got tons to learn still raise your hand yeah because once you think I got it then we start pointing out the faults and everybody else cuz they are not there yet they don't know as much as I do and you start to see a kind of a critical edge a complaining grumbling edge and that's when your your life starts to go down south pretty fast so you want to watch for those things and when you think you got it all together and you let people know what's wrong with them then you realize who something's going funny as was the story of this Portagee guy that comes to the library and he comes up to the library and just walks right up and he said I got a complete what she said the book I got here last week was terrible terrible she said well what was wrong with it he said that book goes on and on and on it's way too many characters and there's no plot whatsoever in the whole dumb book the librarian says ah you must be the one who took our phone book [Applause] see when we think we got it down we don't and so God put these elite in Hebrews chapter 11 calls it the Hall of faith and David is gonna speak to us about a keyword called serving God and he's gonna talk about that now we've heard that word servanthood as like volunteering for this or volunteering for that you might include that but it's far far deeper it's an identity it's your DNA because God created us to serve we're not creators we're create Ted and David who understands that he's a servant though he was King and he was known by his constituency as a king he was known in heaven as my servants again and again you will hear God speaking about David not only a man after my own heart but he will call David you'll see it again and again in the Old Testament God will say my servant David my servant David my servant David and I thought wow that's what God sees as the most important title we can receive because we're starting to catch who we are and even the prophets when God speaks through the prophets about David they actually call him my servant is as we find in Ezekiel let's read the top of our notes the scripture go I will set over them my servant David and he will feed them and be their Shepherd yet David was someone who knew that he was under submission to his master in fact often you will see in the Old Testament and David inquired of the Lord and David inquired of the Lord and David and in other words when people would say should we go after thee shall we attack them the Lord David says I gotta ask my master wait I'll be right back any inquired of the Lord I've got to ask my master because you see David who even in the life of Jesus you will find a servant Jesus was known by people as the Messiah but he was known in fact he even referred to himself as a servant of the Most High God that was the way that he would example to us what our identity is best to be known as in fact Jesus once said I have no will of my own in fact he says my will is not my own my will is to do the will of him who sent me that was Jesus and we begin to understand you know what God has created us to serve that's right did you know that we were created to serve the purposes of God let's read the next scripture in acts 13 about David go David had served the purpose of God in his own generation yeah he said God created us in His image to reflect the glory of God so we have a purpose in our lives that is to serve His purposes and when we think our will is our own then we actually start to function in a way that we were not designed to function and pride starts to set and we get susceptible to arrogance we get susceptible to being duped when we think we can create we can control we're in charge we own now and then we start to want things in our image well you see the Bible says God created us and what in His image and but man is now trying to do the same and create a God in their image that's right we have so many false religions because man has that proclivity the tendency to create gods in our own image and when that happens you go down fast I mean everything turns around and hits you right in the head but you got to hear this story this is the greatest there's this Japanese guy fishing and this Portagee guy comes next to him and he said hey Japanese man I saw you at the karate place the dojo you want those guys that bus brick sir the Japanese guy says mind over matter is why you have a strong mind yeah but that brick stay hard and your hands they saw you put your mind into brick and brick become soft and hand become hot transform my mind water pot of you guys said that's amazing how you can just transfer that's right strong mine just then who catches the fish he reels in this big fish in that poor gig I go wah why do you want this he said just watch this his strong mind and he looks at the fish like this just then the fish like this whoa come just like that Japanese guy the poor guy was Laura's fantastic ooh just saying he catches a fish he brings it in the Japanese guys to try try Strohm I put mine in fish for a dig I get to sing oh yeah yeah okay ah who travelled up just then the port of the guy goes you have a weak mind it turned back on you so all that to say God is the creator number one and we are the created God is the Creator not us we can't create anything oh we can move stuff around but the one who creates is God we are the creator in fact let's read acts 17:28 go for in him we live and move and have our yeah without God we don't exist we live and move and have our being he is the creator you see what happens is God creates he creates planets and he put them in space and he spoke and there was light the Bible says he's the creator and he speaks and they obey his command in fact in the Book of Psalms 33 it says this he spoke and they stood still God's the creator he said two planets rotate they just wrote exactly as he tells him two stars blink for millions of years they do exactly as he says they really don't have a will they are under his command and he then speaks now how are they upheld how did they just keep doing that let's read what Hebrews 1:3 says go he upholds all things by the word of his yea he speaks and they stand fast now they just blink God's glory for millions of years but God created people in the same way to function the best when we serve his purposes or his commands the borders the parameters that he set up when we choose to be servants of that we then become the people he created us to be we function the best you see but the Stars and the planets they don't have a will of their own but they as a Bible says the rivers clap their hands in the Mountains declare the Stars declare the heavens and firmaments declare the glory of God they reflect his glory now watch this God created people in the same way you function best when you follow my design and choose to serve my purposes now if you don't there's going to be consequences but if you do there's going to be life now here it is God created people to reflect his glory just like everything else that are inanimate objects or have no will but here's why God says I'm going to create people and they're gonna give me the greatest glory of all because he gives us choice that none of nothing else has and when we choose to use our choice to serve the purposes of God do you understand the amount of glory that comes and that's why he says you're the lights the world let your light so shine before men so they'll see your good works and glorify your father in heaven we are the representation of God on this earth why because he has choice and he's used that to love us he gives us choice and we use that to love him then we are people in His image or just like God when we take our choice and we pervert it we take just like he's got choice and he uses it to love us we take choice and we use it to reject him then his image is tarnished and we moved the other way but God created people to serve His purposes and so because he's given us choice the greatest way that we can give glory to God is to use would you write it and number two we must choose whom we will serve we must choose whom we will serve let's read with Joshua 24 says go if it's disagreeable in your sight to serve the Lord then choose yourselves today whom you will serve but as for me in my house we will serve the Lord and if we choose to reject him God says and I'll let you serve someone else but you see the bottom line is you got to serve somebody because that's how I created you your not a creator you're the created and you function that way see you're not God turn to your neighbor and say I'm glad you're not God yeah yeah we are not God there is one crib some of you are saying more than you should have said yeah I told you that last night on him but but Creator is God we are created so God designed us to serve but when he gives us choice now we can choose who we will serve God or the enemy and if we choose to do it our way then God will say I'll give you over to your way so that you'll know the difference between serving me and serving the enemy it's up to you but we got to serve somebody so that's that choice part and we get to choose now let me tell you why when we use that choice it gives God such glory when we choose to serve or love him because that's his image he has choice he chose to love us even though we were not doing well he gives us the same choice and when we choose to love Him who is all good then we become more like God than you'll ever know and then you begin to see truth and untruth because you see as God created laws like physical laws the laws of gravity the laws of inertia of motion the laws of light and laws of physics aerodynamics pneumatics all of these laws God put in place and there are parameters and borders and consequences when they're violated that's he set them up he's not only created physical laws you can't create other laws you can move these or manipulate them a little bit but basically you've got to work with them but God has now given us not only physical laws he gives us spiritual laws laws about what's right and wrong he set that up truth and deception or lying or what is just or what is unjust laws about relationships it'll make healthy futures or impoverished relationships when we violate God's will it destroys futures or the blessing and the curse the Bible says or sin and death those are spiritual laws that he set up and we serve the purposes of God and when we do it correctly choosing God's best it leads to life when we reject and violate it leads to death that's the spiritual laws that he's put in place we've got to choose we've got to choose now here's where the devil comes in and if you can understand this I will be happy and we'll we will start to understand more about why God wants us to serve Him and it's not because he's just some dictator but he's a loving God you see we're stewards we're not creators just like the land that you bought and you're paying mortgage on you don't own it oh I do I got a title deed no the land was there before you were born the lands gonna be there after you're dead well what did I buy you bought the right to steward it for a season that's all you bought you can make money off of it or you can squander it you can build it up you can destroy it's up to you that's all you bought but the land is gonna be there after you're dead you don't know nothing everything that you have I don't own I steward it but my clothes will wear out or my son will take it my shoes my car everything will will just wear out I steward it I can take care of it or I cannot take care of it what I buy just you you bought utility of it the stewardship of it for a season so we're really created to be servants are stewards not creators or owners but here's the cool thing because God made us in His image and he loves his children so much he's like he is just say like you got a butler a butler that serves or the servant of a multi-billionaire and the multi-billionaire has homes all over the world he has one is a beautiful place along the end of the coast somewhere and it's a castle hundreds of acres and forests and and Glen's and and waterfalls he's got pools he's got five Ferraris eight Maseratis Corvettes all kinds of stuff and and the billionaire says you're the steward of this you are the butler you can use the pooled you can invite people over you can drive the cars just take care of them now but you have full use of the castle the grounds you can have parties whatever you want just take care of everything but all that I have is that your disposal you Stewart it really yeah wow this is amazing like it's all mine well it's all mine but you can steward it and use it it's at your disposal Wow well you're the butler and so you basically have run of the place the billionaire has given you everything to Stewart to use to enjoy now if you say but I I want to not I just don't want to Stewart it at the end of the human nature comes in I don't want to just Stewart oh you got full use of it you can do anything just take care of it but you can have friends over it's just basically at your disposal yeah I don't want to just Stewart it though I want to own it and I think why is that in us we want to own it no no no you're created to be a butler and I've given you everything you can't you don't have the money to build this you don't have the money to maintain it I will do that all you do is steward it because if you own it you got to maintain it it's gonna break down it's gonna be gone you have to have the money to actually get it in the first place and you still don't create it you just buy it from somebody else so it's better just to Stewart and I'll take care of you more than you'll ever know it's all yours and I'll care for you no I want to own it now even a little inkling of that's on the inside you'll be very susceptible to the enemy that's gonna lie to you now watch this the enemy smells that tendency in us like a shark smells blood and he rushes in and it's almost like the enemy will come in the form of a friend and and the enemy will say to you hey why don't you just take one of those Maseratis and just like trash it oh no I can't I need to steward it okay we'll just give it to me then well I have to ask my master first because I know my master is very generous but on these things I have to ask my master because I'm a steward over his things oh man come on every time I ask you for a Maserati or Corvette or one of your Mercedes or one of your Ferraris you say I gotta ask the master that's pretty dumb time for you to grow up oh no I have to ask the master first that's a master ask the Matta that's all you tell me at the master it's time you grow up the time you get free from him free what do you mean free free you can't do anything unless you ask that master well yeah because I'm a steward of no you don't have to ask the master I don't know it's time for you to grow up be free I want you to be free you've just been servant in for far too long you gotta be free free free what does that mean you can take anything and just use it the way you want to use it really yeah that's freedom that's freedom freedom so just take it and trash it give me one oh I can do that free you're free okay okay okay now he takes one destroys it gives another away and you see he thinks he's free but here's what you want to write in in that bullet would you write in the enemy's offer of freedom is never what it seems I can do whatever I want to I'm free I live in America I'm free I don't have to do what God wants me to do I don't have to serve as purposes I'm gonna serve my own cuz I'm free now as soon as you take one of those cars and destroy it or give it away without asking the master you no longer are steward you're owning something you never own it's not yours to own and then when we do that we think we're free but because God created us to serve watch this all the enemy did was switch your allegiance from God to freedom no God to whom you now serve the devil under the guise of freedom you're free do what you want but you're serving him because he cackles and laughs in the background because now you're doing what he wants you to do and he just sold your bill of goods under this thing called freedom and so many people bite on that and we think we're free but we are slave to sin and the consequences come after us and the devil jaws cackles because you got to serve somebody it may be the devil or it may be the Lord but you got to serve somebody that's our DNA oh we don't like it sometimes because we want to be owners but that's that fleshly part of us we aren't creators we are the created you got to settle that but God is saying but I will make all of heaven at your disposal everything that you want is yours for the Bible says it this way it is the father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom so who's the king of the kingdom king of the kingdom well the Lord is but he make it at our disposal to enjoy really mm-hmm but the devil will come in and say you're not free if you'll be free and you'll enjoy calm you got to be free now the very same temptation he used for Eve in the in the garden he uses on us same thing out of Genesis 3 Eve walked into the garden hey eat that fruit on that tree oh no the master said that if I eat it I'll die the master and muddier the master yeah if I'm supposed to eat that I better ask the master at the master ask the master you don't need to ask the master nothing oh yeah I dunno he said if I ate it I know you won't die time for you to be free to do whatever you want oh really yeah back let's read what the devil said to her then you'll see the similarity even yet today let's read it go you won't die the serpent hissed God knows that your eyes will be open when you eat it and you'll become just like God knowing everything both good and in other words you when you eat that you'll be free from God and you decide what's good and evil not him don't let him set the parameters borders and what's right and wrong make your own laws you'll be God the very same thing that caused Lucifer to fall is what he's trying to get you to buy into you deciding you hear it around today in our society if it's wrong for somebody else it's wrong for them but it may not be wrong for you you decide for yourself what's right and wrong for yourself and got to say oh no I set all of these parameters and boundaries the creator sets kind of the laws and then you choose to serve or reject that's your choice and you give God great glory when you use your choice to follow him and even though the stars and the planets follow me without choice I'm gonna give you choice and when you use choice you give God creator glory and you reflect my presence to those that are struggling and hurting I want you to be the light of the world oh no I'm not gonna use my choice for that I want to be free from that and the devil says yeah be free and when we disobey God we basically become slaves of sin because all we did was switch our allegiance and he used the bait of freedom now you can decide for yourself Eve what's right or wrong really yeah time for you to be free from the master free freedom oh really oh and everything goes south from there and a devil cackle because now you're serving me the devil says who comes to steal and to kill and to destroy and so when we choose not to be servants of the King and we serve the enemy under the guise of freedom which is rampant in our country today and it's a deception and a ruse that goes out every day then what happens let's read what John 8:34 says go jesus answered and said to them truly truly I say to you everyone who commits sin is yeah we become a slave of sin so all we do is we switch allegiances and the devil who comes to steal kill and to destroy is there and he almost did that with Eddie Ochoa who gave his testimony of how he had chosen the wrong way and about killed him and he's realizing now all he had left was choice and he said I will choose to serve you the rest of my life you see what the devil wants to do is to dupe you and to give you that ruse under the guise of freedom that's John 8:34 John 8:32 says this but you shall know the truth and the truth will set you free you see when I choose to serve the Lord it's a doorway into freedom to be who he created us to be stewards of things of the kingdom of God and everything he says I have is at your disposal and when you do things my way I will would you write in number three God takes care of his servants better than the world takes care of its kings because when you go through this door that's where freedom is because you'll know the truth and the truth will set you free the freest people in the world are servants of the Most High God because we understand that he through choice chose to love us and we who receive choice when we choose to love him we never look more like God when we're loving him because he created us in His image and when we're serving Christ it opens a door to the freedom of everything of the kingdom is at our disposal and God takes care of his servants better in the world takes care of its kings and you see but sometimes what we do is we hesitate between the two opinions just like Elijah said if God is God served with bail is God serving but don't keep hesitate or going back and forth sometimes we serve God and then we serve over here our flesh and then we go ha no I better serve God oh no over here I better serve the flesh and we start serving God in the devil God in the devil and then these consequences just pile up and all of a sudden bang we took God oak oh my go to church but you must choose this day whom you will serve and not hesitate between the two because the truest freedom comes when we settle once and for all that I like David I like Jesus will be a servant of the Most High there's no greater way to live there's no compelling more compelling a vision there's no better direction and pathway then through the door of serve into it I will be a servant of the Most High God because he'll take care of you better than you'll ever realize how many of your glad got invites us to be servants of the Most High God and look at the promises that he gives to us let's read a couple of them would you read Psalm 84 10 go for a day in my courts is better than a thousand elsewhere I'd rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my god than to dwell in the tents of wickedness and the next one how blessed is every one who fears the Lord who walks in his ways and when you shall eat the fruit of your hands you will be happy and it will be well yet see that's a secret to happiness serve God or fear the Lord does that mean everything will be peaches and cream and no suffering and no pain know that life goes through ABS and flows but here's the promise God says when you go through a valley I will be right there with you and instead of you becoming bitter you'll become better and you'll come through with greater insight a greater compassion it will actually help you to become more the person you've always wanted to be and though it might be a time of suffering it might be a little difficult I will walk you all the way through that I will be with you always I will never leave you nor forsake you and it will not what gives you comfort and peace will not be what you're walking through it'll be on who you're walking with I will walk with you says the Lord take your comfort not on your pathway take your comfort from he who walks with you in that pathway I will be with you always and God is saying and I will care for you and give you all of the kingdom and you'll know the truth and the truth will set you free be careful the same deception the enemy gave to Eve about freedom you're you're not free necessarily freedom is when you know the truth and when he says free all he's doing is getting you to switch your allegiance to him and he's there to steal to kill and destroy but the wages of sin will be death that's a law a spiritual law and what the devil is saying no you create your own law go ahead and do that and create a new law that says there's no consequences and is that a ruse and a lie or what oh no you'll be free then we bite into that hook line and sinker no be a servant of God there's no greater way to live let me finish Shawn we got one more let me let's read this on it sorry yeah all right this one's real good let's read this last one go no weapon that is formed against you will prosper this is the heritage of the servants of the Lord is that a good heritage or what no weapon formed against you will prosper but you must choose the stake whom he will serve and don't hesitate between the two opinions choose and the reason David ends up in Hebrews 11 is because he made a choice do you make a few mistakes absolutely but he repented and he chose and God says you know what you could have been known as King David but you'd rather be known as my servant David you know David I'm gonna take you put you in Hebrews 11 because people need to see that their true identity is not being a king in the earth is being a servant of the kingdom a steward in the things of God there's no greater life no greater freedom and I'll care for my servants better than the world would care for its Kings let me finish with a story that I'd love to tell about a little boy that carved his boat it's a sailboat hollowed it out spent so much time even glued on a keel and in the keel he hollowed that out and put some weight on the bottom to keep it balanced and then with some of his mother's rags he made a sail and painted it it was beautiful and well balanced and and when the rains would come he'd take it up the streams and let it go down the streams and watch how it would afford the currents and then he would shave it a little bit more and balance it out and he try it again until whatever current would be there they would still work with it and be so balanced and he was just so proud of his little boat but one day there were more range than usual and the streams had flooded and he was so excited to go and try it and test it and he'd let it go at the top of a stream and boy it just acted perfectly responded so well and gracefully throughout the currents and he ran down and saw it disappear around a corner and he ran a little bit more and turned another corner he thought this is great he ran down he saw disappear and he started running after it because a current was taking it faster than he could keep up with it he cut across a shortcut to retrieve his bullet when it would come around and he waited and waited but nope oh all of a sudden he thought oh no it may have capsized and so he retraced his steps searching for this boat somewhere maybe even the remains of it but nothing he had lost spoke two weeks later however he was going through a mercantile store there in the window was his boat on display for sale it's a what he went into this store that sells trinkets and used items and he said to the man he said hey mister that's my boat in the window he said oh no it's not it's a first sale $22 $22 I don't have $22 that's my boat look my initials are in the bounce at all it could be anybody's initials boy $22 it's my boat I've spent days making that thing $22 he said the boy discouraged walked out of the mercantile store not knowing what to do finally hit his fist in his hand and he said that's it I'm gonna get the 22 dollars and he began knocking on people's doors saying could I sweep your your driveway could I clean your windows wash your dog rake your leaves anything and after two days he accumulated the quarters and the nickels and the dimes enough for $22 and he brought a sock full of these coins to that man they put it on the counter and he said here sir $22 and the man counted out every quarter to every dime and every nickel and it came to exactly twenty-two dollars so we got the boat and he said all right here is your boat and the boy caressed that boat cradled it in his arms ran out of the store as far as he could get from that man he sat under a tree and he held it they said oh I love this boat so much and he looked at the boat and he said you know what I'm gonna take care of you more than you've ever been taken care of ever in your life I love you so much I'm gonna take care of you so well you know why because I own you twice now I made you and then I bought you back I'll care for you more than you'll ever know because you're mine twice not just once and that's like our master to us to those who are his servants pieces I will take care of you more than you'll ever realize coz your mind twice not only did I create you I bought you back and if you will be a servant of the Most High I will care for you and the kingdom will be available to you but you must choose to stay who you will serve and don't be don't be deceived by this thing called freedom because you'll know the truth and the truth will set you free how many of you are glad we can be servants of the Most High thanks for watching if you haven't yet please click on the subscribe button to this channel and share this video with a friend for more resources or to join us for our weekend online service visit us at e new hope org again thanks for watching and God bless you

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Published: Fri Jan 10 2020