Turning the Page | Pastor Keion Henderson

to your feet come on let's praise God for my ministry god bless you fantastic somebody shot this is the year of elevation genesis chapter 39 Genesis 39 we're going to begin at verse number 1 somebody say I'm going higher I want you to make up in your mind that come hell or high water you refuse to end this year the way you started this year you better put this year on notice early till 2018 I'm coming early and I'm coming often going to the next level the Bible says in Genesis chapter 39 verse 1 and Joseph was brought down to Egypt and Potiphar an officer a pharaoh captain of the guard and Egyptian brought him of the hands of the Ishmaelites which had brought him down bitter and the Lord was with Joseph and he was prosperous and he was in the house of his master in the Egyptians I want you to hear this because normally when people preach the story of Joseph they either preached chapter 37 when he went into slavery or they preached chapter 50 when he came out very rarely have you heard anybody preach this particular text I don't want you to even think that just because you know something about this story you understand this text because this text is different than any of the other perceptions of Joseph this and the Bible says in verse 2 we all know that he has just been sold into slavery I want you to pay attention to first two the Bible says and the Lord was with Joseph and he was a prosperous man how can the Lord called him prosperous he just went into slavery I'm telling you you are miscalculated your situation he has just been thrown into a pit by his brothers his coat has just been ripped from his body they have put animals blood on it his father thinks he is dead he has no money he has no home he has now been sold by his brothers to the Ishmaelites now Potiphar comes and purchase him as a bond slave to put him in the dungeon and the Bible says through all of that the Lord was with him and he was price was tell you'll never you're looking at it wrong and his master saw that the Lord was with him so it was because he is not when you don't feel like the Lord is with you your enemy still see it five says and the master saw that the law was with him and that the Lord made all that he did to prosper in his hand and Joseph found grace in his sight and young man we were just talking about this and he served him and he made him overseer of his house and all that he had put in his hand and it became to pass from that time and he had made him overseer of his house and over all that he had that the Lord blessed the man that didn't believe you have to understand that the Egyptians were polytheistic they served multiple gods Joseph's anointing was so tough that when the man made a mistake and picked the right person the right person for the wrong reason his anointing was so strong that God blessed everything in his house do you know that you've got so much anointing that every room you walk in has to be blessed because you walked in it touch the neighbors say you better be glad you sitting next to me because everything on this row is gonna be blessed [Music] Who am I talking to just look at him and say I don't know what you're going through but evidently the Lord loves you because he lets you sit next to me I want to talk on this subject for every person who understands that you are just one moment away from a miracle I want you to help me preach this and I want you to look your neighbor and say neighbor pastor wants to talk about turning the page oh god help me in this place today God's about to turn the page on your life somebody shout turning the page turning the page hallelujah from chapter 37 to chapter 39 the life of Joseph has been changed drastically when you start chapter 37 his life isn't the boat of bliss his father has identified him out of 12 sons to be his most precious commodity for some right to say that all of the other brothers had on white tunics white robes regular maybe elbow-length maybe mid-calf in the length of the dressing that but plain white and somehow this father picks his youngest boy when history teaches us that the rights should go to the oldest he skips over son one two three four five six seven eight nine ten and goes to the eleven boy and somehow through the favor of God adorns him with the coat of many colors some say it was a purple coat possibly because purple was a symbolism of royalty but the original translation says it was a coat of many colors because purple is made of many colors so he's got royalty but his robe doesn't stop at the elbow it goes down to the wrist and his doesn't stop at the knee nor the calf it stretched the ground making a differentiation between he and his other brothers and he's got so much favor on his life that his father is willing to display it even if it makes the other brothers mad you see because when God gets ready to bless you he's gonna have to make somebody mad you're not gonna deserve it you won't be the oldest you will have the most experience but favors when God breaks the rules to put a coat on your shoulders chapter 37 starts off good for Joe seems like it it's going to be a smooth ride but whenever you get favored you also got a fight the problem wasn't his coat the problem was their coat when they recognized that their coat didn't match his coat instead of doing what he did to get his coat they took his coat threw him in the pit ripped it poor animals blood on it and then went back and told their father that an animal had to even him up not telling the truth because the actual premise is is they had lured him into a pit and they have left him there so chapter 37 starts off good but it ends bad then all of a sudden as you're going through historicity and you look in the scripture chapter 38 of Genesis comes and all of a sudden it seems as the Bible takes a pause and stops talking about the main thing and all of a sudden brings up a story about a girl named Tamar who is the daughter of David and the whole chapter 38 of Genesis about two men named early and Onan two men whose reputations have polished history for but a moment seemingly chapter 38 is out of place because we're talking about Joseph in chapter 37 and in chapter 39 40 41 all the way to 50 we're talking about Joseph why does this one chapter sing the park right in the middle of history Tamar the daughter of a king who's got all kinds of problems and renown and you got to understand Tamar is first married to earth who is the who is who is to go into her and get her pregnant and and he fails to do so and so the Bible lets us know that God slew him God killed him but does not give us any explanation as to why you know God doesn't need an explanation he doesn't have to ask that anybody can do what he wants when he pleases he goes and he kills Hernan and excuse me Aaron and any and he kills them and the Bible doesn't give us any explanation and then all of a sudden the father of her and Onan whose name is Judah goes to hit his son oh Nana says listen this is what I need you to do I need you to perform a lever right marriage what I need you to do is to keep up the family name so I need you to go into your brother's wife and impregnate her some of y'all say there's an asteroid that was that there was their custom that's exactly what he had to do it was a job of the brother that was alive to make sure that the heritage carry on so when the brother was killed it was his job to get his brother's wife's pregnant Bible says he goes into her and and and he has a problem because he he facilitates half of the job but he doesn't finish for the Bible says that he goes into her and pardon me if this seems a little Lou but if you read the Bible you'll understand that I am NOT making this up this is the language that the Bible used the Bible says that he goes into her and then when he was ready to have an orgasm he pulls out and spills the seed on the ground so so now he's got a problem because now he accepts the action but doesn't accept the assignment he he goes in to her and he performs the act but he does not accept the assignment and he spills the seed on the ground and the Lord kills him now why does God killed him God kills him because Tamar is the daughter of David David is the seed and now Jesus is the seed of David so in actuality this baby that would have been born by Tamar would have been in the line of Jesus so in actuality he spilled God on the ground god help me in this place and see that's what happens to a lot of us that that God can't move us forward in our life because he gives us an opportunity to multiply him and we spill him on the ground we spill anointing on the ground we spilled our gifts on the ground for the sake of of accepting the action but not accepting the assignment because yes sometimes you have to go in places that you don't think that you should be in and sometimes you have to go into places that you don't think you qualify and sometimes you have to go into places that doesn't match with other people's theology and it doesn't match what how everybody else sees the world and sometimes God will tell you to go into a place that everybody else will call you crazy and God will tell you to go into a place and everybody else will tell you that doesn't make sense but I am telling you in 2018 God is calling you to go any place and not just go any place but stay in a place touch so they will say this time I'm going in and I'm staying I am talking about everybody in here who has made premature withdrawals because somebody else didn't agree with how you did it premature withdraws because somebody else didn't understand that God had told you to do something that didn't make sense and I came to tell you that the way you know that God has called you to do something great is when it don't make sense to simple people and I'll speak in your life right now that what God has called you to do in your life is gonna make everybody confused they're gonna be confused in your family they're gonna be confused on your job they're going to be confused in your house and that's how you know God told you to go in touch somebody says I'm goin in I'm goin in he goes in he accepts the action but he misuses the assignment and he spills the seed on the ground and the Bible says that God kills him but I don't have time cuz this sermon is not about tomorrow I'm just trying to show you how chapter 38 doesn't have anything to do with Joseph seemingly that Tamar in the end of the story actually ends in travail in other words she has labor and even though the ER and Onan did not impregnate her she still got pregnant and had a baby and so what chapter 38 is actually a picture of Christ in Israel because the church in the Great Tribulation will end in travail oh I wish I have some Bible readers in here today let me just give you a little Bible lesson the Great Tribulation there is a difference the tribulation is a 7-year period when God would judge the earth and expose the mark of the beast and the Antichrist but the Great Tribulation is the last three years of that period in time where he would charge and judge the unbeliever and and what what the travail was for Tamar the Great Tribulation is the travailing for the Jews for God will then solidify his plan for the Jews that although they are now not in Christ he will make sure that when the world is over they will in in Christ for them being outside of Jesus being the chosen people will make sure that they end in travail I came to tell somebody in here this thing is going to end up with you giving birth to something that you did not you might not even know you're pregnant right with possibilities you don't even know you're pregnant with a business you don't even know that there's a million dollars in your baby but in your belly but slap your neighbor say it's gonna end in travail so tomorrow ends with having a child and all of a sudden chapter 39 starts and we pick up right where we left off hi I understand now that Joseph being sold into slavery Judah was a picture of Egypt Joseph was a picture of Israel coming out of Egypt which is why Joseph now has to be the Prime Minister over a place where he was not born for Joseph is not an Egyptian which means by right he has no business being the Prime Minister over Egypt he is an Israelite but God gives a Jew a position in an Egyptian world to show us that those of us who are not Jews but Gentiles will still have a right to the Tree of Life and so now Joseph is in charge in a place where they wanted to kill him and that's why you got to be careful because God is getting ready to put you over your assassins y'all didn't come to church today somebody else stuck got God is getting ready to put you over the very people who tried to kill you Pharaoh tried to kill Joseph and now he has to hire him and I speak in your life right now that your assassins are gonna have to give you a job don't you worry about what they say about you don't worry about what they do to you don't worry about how to try to drag your name through the mud don't worry about your reputation you've got to worry about your decision because now Joseph shows us that he is not worried about his naysayers for the Bible lets us know that he now goes into Egypt and his life starts off rougher killed supposedly by his brothers thrown in a pit coat taken from him father told that he was dead father now thinks that his son is dead he is now bought by the instrument and the instrument I stake him and sell him to Potiphar and his life seems to be in ruin and it seems to be over but the page is turning because now he's in slavery and for the first time the Bible says and the Lord was with him when he was in his father's house you never hear the Bible say that the Lord was with him when he was in his father's house in a rich house with chalices and money the Bible never calls him a prosperous man notice the Bible doesn't identify him as prosperous until he's on his way down because you are not prosperous until you have survived a pit you are not prosperous until you have survived being thrown away you are not prosperous until you have been cut by people you trust and you can still lift up your head that's the difference between job's wife and Joseph when Jobs wife saw what was happening to Joe she says cursed show God and died but the Bible lets us know that Joseph continues to worship his god I want to talk to 500 people who know how to worship in the pit do I have at least 500 people that say outside even if my check is short I will worship no matter how I feel matter of fact give your neighbor high five and say neighbor I am Joseph right now I'm worshiping and you don't even know I'm in a pit girl you don't know what the heck I'm going through you don't know what I've been dealing with I've been betrayed by people I trusted people owe me money and I keep seeing them buy stuff I'm trying not to slap the taste out of their mouths but I'm praying on it do I have anybody in here that are still travail in the midst of a problem do I have any worshipers there that'll still give God glory in the midst of it all slap three people to say God is turning the page on your life chapter 38 comes right in the middle of a story and interrupts the rhythm of history which lets us know that all interruptions are not unnecessary some interruptions in your life is God's way of setting up the next chapter I feel like preaching in here today some of y'all got discouraged in Chapter 37 so God had to get a chapter 38 in your life that didn't seem to have anything to do with what was getting ready to happen he wants to see if you'll trust him in whatever chapter you're in Oh God such an MCH trust him in chapter 38 chapter 38 ain't about Joseph but it is about Joseph because God is now setting up the salvific plan of history to ensure that God shows a picture and a type of Christ to show us that as Judah and Joseph show us Israel and Jesus now Joseph is now the prime minister of a place that he was once a dead man not all interruptions unnecessary sometimes God sends interruptions because you're knee-deep in something you're so focused on something that that you can't get a release from it and so God are interrupting out I know interruptions are uncomfortable I know interruptions are unwarranted I know you didn't want God to interrupt your money and I know you didn't want to get fired at this time in your life and I know you didn't want to get laid off right now and I know you weren't ready for a divorce right now and I know you aren't ready for a Bricklin right now and I know you weren't ready for that argument but it was an interruption because God was trying to differentiate the pain of chapter 37 and the deliverance of chapter 39 and sometimes got to throw you in the pit so he can pick you up out of it I don't know who I'm talking to but touch your neighbor say this is your pick up season God is about to take you out of that pit and your enemies are going to go back and visit the grave and wonder what happened to you love lifted me where nothing else could help [Applause] somebody shall turning the page the first thing I see Joseph doing he does two things and whenever God is turning the page in your life you need to pay attention and do these two things I'm gonna give you two and then I'm gonna let you go home the first thing he does is he gets in the Potiphar's house and I can see Joseph walking in look mm-hmm you think I'm gonna be alone I'm just here for training because you know Potiphar it's a high-ranking official in the Egyptian government why would God let Joseph be purchased by a government official perhaps it's because he's going to be over the government God will never let you be picked on by somebody who can't help you you so busy hating on the person who picking on you God says point number one study your environment you didn't get picked up by Potiphar to be mad you got picked up by Potter for the study study Potiphar Joseph because sooner or later you're gonna be his boss some of you the reason why you're missing your blessing is because when you get in trouble you get depressed but here's my advice to you when you get in trouble become a student whatever you get in the situation I want you to walk in and say I ain't gonna be here long but I'm gonna learn everything about this hellhole I can learn i'ma learn everything about this depression I can learn i'ma learn everything about being broke I can learn i'ma learn everything I can learn about being single because I'm not going to be here long God doesn't have you single for the sake of being single he has you single so you can teach other singles what to do it took God sends you a boy your situation is school and it is not us structure of possibilities of problems that never say I'm coming out of this thing I'm coming out of this thing he gets in he studies his environment studies as if I'm he's looking around he's looking around he's paying attention who he needs to give his phone number to and who he needs to ignoring he's finding out who his friend is and who his friend of me is but he ain't mad he ain't mad because let me tell you sometimes X enemies are better than current friends oh I don't go there I got I ain't gonna go there I'm gonna move on touch the neighbors say I don't even know what I want to tell you neighbors just listen the Bible the Bible says that that he goes in and and he's looking around and and whoever listened the Israelites bought him and then sold them to Potiphar let me tell you nobody has ever gotten a better bargain on a slave than Potiphar and all of the slaves that have been purchased in the world I can promise you that the person throughout history who underpaid for a slave Potiphar I don't care if the slave was sold for a thousand two thousand whatever he paid for Joseph he got a bargain Joseph was seriously underpaid for what he brought to the table he walks in part of his house and he says how am I gonna keep I'm not going to break through the door because they'll kill me if I make a run for it I'll be stabbed before I get to the gate so what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna serve him so he'll promote me because remember there is no way to be promoted and stay in the same room missing I have passed the Taurus more here I've got Jackie here if I promote it Jackie to another position and promoted past the Torrance to another position he would have to switch offices you see you don't have the generator on the same floor with the manager and you don't have the manager on the same floor as the CEO so the best way to change your environment is to serve well on your level and get promoted out of prison instead of breaking out of it does this make sense he studied his environment he looked around he paid attention when you're in trouble can you open your eyes and stop crying can you stop trying to listen you're gonna miss your whole lesson cuz you're drunk through your whole pain oh I'm gonna keep it real you you you you go through trouble and you think that if you get high you're gonna get through it and that you think if you chew up some gummies you're gonna get through it and you feel like if you get drunk you're gonna get over it and you're missing the whole lesson cuz you're too high to get the lesson if you're gonna get drunk do that when times are good when you're going through trouble you need to be sober lord help me in this church today I'm just trying to keep it real I know who I'm talking to touching everything he talking you saying though says acting like that that's what I was gonna tell you to tell your neighbor earlier Joseph leaves Canaan he leaves Canaan he does not go back to Canaan for 39 years and the only reason why he goes back is to bury his father the problem with some of you you go back too soon man y'all gone oh lord help minister you go back to yourself he didn't go back to his past for 39 years now I know some of y'all you you you don't you you're so holy but for the rest of us when God delivers us from something we can't go back right away do I got to get ratchet on y'all going yeah I'm just trying to I'm trying to keep it holy when you break up with that brother you ain't over him after two weeks I can go out to eat and don't not happen [Applause] [Music] after two weeks he still got a little hole on you till your soul still tired he sit across the table from you you get one fuzzy navel in you ng start filling puzzle you ain't delivered enough to to talk on the phone all night all of a sudden you're gonna catch feelings again touch the names that you visited too quick he did not go back for 39 years and all the reason why he went back is to bury his father so let me tell you if you're gonna go back perform a funeral not a wedding lord help me touch whatever Selma cure some stuff this year and I ain't just gonna get and I'ma bury it do I have any more tissues in the room we're gonna bury some of the demons and the darkness of your pass touch whatever Selma buried in this season I'm a barrier six feet deep so I can't see it smell it fill it hear it you need to get it out of the casket and get it in the ground as anytime you keep it in the casket you can view it [Applause] I can see some of y'all still have a memorial services over some relationships it was good I wish you would get up again yeah you know you start saying stuff like God if you want it to be then let me see them we're at the mall y'all know how you have some guy god I don't know what you want me to do but if it's really to be let them call me on Thursday at 7 o'clock and I know you want us to get back together bury it so they can't pick up the phone I'm telling you right now your past is going to call you and it has nothing new to say Nick write that down so I can say that in the second service your past is calling and it has nothing new to say the only thing your past can say is what it already said and you already know what it's saying that's why the key to the success that God has given me is that I have the ability to visit my future and make a decision while I'm still in my present all right now this is my secret if you ever want to know past it if you were to mentor me and tell me your secret and and and tell me something nobody I'm getting ready to give it to you I'm about to give it to you right now have you ever watched a basketball game of football game a TV show and your DVR of it and the team that already won a loss but you're watching it in suspense because you don't know the outcome and you up here like oh my god I wonder is JR gonna kill them and you're watching something that's over with anxiety because you don't know the outcome the way I make it as I already visit the outcome so that while I'm watching my story I don't have to do is scare because I already know how is going in what I'm telling you right now is that even though you're in your pit you already gotta say I'm gonna be Prime Minister even though you're in part of US House you gotta say I'm gonna be Prime Minister so you'll know that you can study your environment because it doesn't matter what's happening now you know eventually you're going to win so you got to visit your future while you're in your present and already make up your mind so you don't watch the story with anxiety does that make sense so since Joseph knows that he's prosperous and since he knows that God is with him he's not in part of us how scared he's observing he studied his environment he sent himself God if you got me here you got me here for a reason he doesn't know that God has him in a government house because he's going to be over the government but because he studies his environment he's ready for his new job are you studying your job while you just hate going do you drag in every Monday - oh my god I don't want to go area let God take it from you I bet you won't be crying there it's amazing how people don't want a job until God taking it then you come up here to office not normal stage time our car ha baby with me [Music] [Applause] you hate going to your job that's fine but are you studying your environment you and your husband ain't getting along you and your wife not getting along you hate going home are you studying the situation are you complaining about it well you're torture don't do what you want to do are you studying are you just steadily beating somebody say be Reverend B i'ma beat them cuz they don't study somebody say study your environment say it again study your environment God put Joseph in the pit because sometimes you got to go down to go up and there were two things that God was studying his whole time he was studying God was displaying Joseph's capacity and his character that's what every pit is about character and capacity who are you and your pit and what can you handle in your pit and whatever God puts you in the pit your character in your capacity display themselves and then that's the job you get when you come out and so whenever that interruption in your life happens and God turns the page and your next promotion is smaller than you expect it is because your character was worse than you anticipated and your capacity was smaller than you admitted if you come out of your pit with superb character and expensive capacity then God will give you something that you can handle everything you have right now is according to your capacity you don't have any more money because you can't handle any more you don't have any better relationships because your trifling if you would treat people better God would give you better relationships nice to know y'all getting mad at me because if I ain't talking to you I ain't talking to you but if I am if the shoe fit if you had a bigger heart and you treated people better God would let you have bigger relationships I promise you it's truth yesterday yesterday I was at a basketball game I went to the Rockets game last night now Rockets one two I went to the game and I got off of my seat I'm walking under the tunnel to go get something to eat true story my wife will tell you I'm walking all of a sudden as I am walking Mark Jackson comes and taps me on the shoulder and says right off I love what you're doing [Applause] I've never met him I never knew him I was getting ready to ask him to take a picture and he says to me Rev I love what you're doing take my cell phone number what he's saying is is that your character displayed and the capacity you have is something I don't mind combining with so let's not take a picture let's walk through life together I'm telling you that if you would take some of the ratchet pictures off of your Instagram and your page don't match your destiny it matches your history you can't be getting high and blowing smoke up in the air and want to CEO of a fortune 500 company to call you and offer you a position some of y'all need to change the name honey dew drop 506 sexy ankles and thigh bones 105 you need to get a different name baby [Applause] and the worst one man that's we need to change the picture the ones out looking you the one I'm talking to you and everybody else nor that's why they're clapping it ain't just me it's us y'all got my back don't you dr. lovely silky she's 62 oh nine four to seven Houston now we know where you live too [Applause] and I know that's my boy he's watching your character and your capacity and I am afraid that there are too many people in the kingdom who have bad character and small capacity I ain't never seen so many fake folk then in the house of the Lord come in church smiling in everybody face hugging on everybody commenting on pictures on Instagram and been hating the whole time ain't seen nothing like it and that's why you're still in a pit because you got bad character and small capacity and guess who said it me some of y'all need to grow up if you're gonna be evil be evil all the time if you're gonna be nice be nice all the time but this nice nasty is out of style I'm so tough out and blew the lights off in this joint [Applause] it costs too much to drive but y'all get a picture [Applause] proverbs 1533 says before honor comes humility humble yourself under the mighty hand of God you got to humble yourself and Scott says if you won't do it I'll do it for you [Applause] some of us got to get off that high horse before God turns their page you can fool us but you can't fool God that's the problem the Bible says he sees everything are y'all women see the best antidote for pit is humility the pit was down instead of trying to climb up Joseph the further he went deeper than the pit he humbled himself while he was on the ground see the worst place to try to be humble is when you get up you can't bow from a lofty place you got a bow to be lifted those who make themselves great will be made humble and those who make themselves humble will be made great he studies this environment and he makes sure that he didn't miss a thing he learned all the ins and outs that's why God made him prime minister not because he was smart but because he was wise God helped in this place sometimes God lowers your position and takes your putting possessions to give you a promotion he's his daddy's favorite son with a purple coat God takes the position and the possession he goes from a coat to a cloak and didn't God listen that's what's happening in your life now you losing friends no gods elevating you nobody calls me anymore that's because they respect you you didn't hear me you didn't hear me I had to learn this myself when I used to be out there hanging out with my partners they were called me and we'd go to club and we'd do all this stuff and then when I start getting in God they stopped calling me and my feelings was hurt because I'm like why they don't invite me anymore I had to recognize that they had a respect for me that they didn't have before because they knew that I wasn't gonna do in those environments anymore what I used to do so it's respect now if people are still calling you to old places and you say you changed you haven't changed [Music] they shouldn't want you around them anymore did you hear what I said they shouldn't even want to be around you anymore they should be like oh I always talking about God and always talking about church I always talk about Bible study and tithe and then revivals I don't want to hear that stuff good sometimes demotion is promotion everybody say study your environment second thing when God has turned to page in your life serve with excellence study your environment serve with excellence when Potiphar brought Joseph into his house the Bible says in verse 4 he served him well he served and will I promise you you will never get promoted until you find somebody to serve well you've got to find somebody that you serve well it's the next level doesn't have keys it has invitation there is no key to your next door it's by invitation only you can't get in it's a secret Club the only way you can get in is somebody who's already incest come with me do you hear what I'm telling you I'm some major success is by invitation only somebody has to see something in you and say come on and you're going to get to the door success and you're not going to have the credentials but the person who does is going to say he's with me the ticket that I had yesterday to meet my suggestion I didn't buy it the parking pass that I had I didn't buy it the backstage pass that I had I didn't buy it somebody else had it I was driving down the street yesterday to go to Walmart which is where always go and they saw me and say Ralph I stopped they say you want to go to the game I say yes they handed me an envelope and I was in the game you know sometimes an invitation can make you look like what you are not Here I am sitting on the floor six seats away from Stefan curry everybody looking at me as I'm coming at time but he got to be rich because if he could sit well if I wouldn't don't say that but he said everybody's looking at you can tell they looking at you like everybody was selling they like he must be rich no God is with me and because he is I am prosperous everywhere do you hear what I'm telling you give and it shall be given you good measure pressed down shaken against cell men give unto your bosom there could be somebody here right now you cannot have a dime in the bank but if you had that ticket everybody would have thought you were rich because an invitation can give you a new reputation [Music] but you got to serve somebody you got to serve somebody and you got to serve with excellence and the most the problem with most people oh and by the way the person that I served to get the tickets I lead them these tickets didn't come from above these tickets came from beneath most people won't serve anybody beneath them and that's and the reason why they won't serve anybody beneath them is because their service is disingenuous because they only serve to come up the person goes to this church I'm their leader but I'll serve see if you know anything about me I will serve you if anybody's ever seen me in other environments if I was here when pastor Torrance was preaching I would be giving him a towel I would be giving him water why because I respect what he's doing at the moment what he's doing at the moment has nothing to do with our hierarchy I hope man Lord this is only for a few y'all you got to find somebody to serve I bet you not one-fourth of these people in this room have somebody you serve with excellence I'm not talking about people you do nice thing I'm talking about somebody you serve that you that you email call text every day is there any way I can help pick up their dry-cleaning take the car to get the oil change somebody who who doesn't have the time to do everything that their life requires them to do and can you carve out a moment a month a moment a week to serve in the capacity I got a brother here Kirk right now any time I go out of town he certainly goes over make sure my alarm and said make sure my fenders say he walks around my house when I'm out of time he serves which is why when I get extra tickets to games like that or something like that I call him and say come and he gets to sit on the row and be perceived by the invitation Stephen he just traveled with me to Germany Turkey Nigeria Chicago and back to Houston in five days some of y'all didn't even know we was going for free hear me will we lend it back here in Chicago the back in Houston I said I'm having a meeting on February 4th I want you to come I called the people ahead I said this is who I'm bringing with me you never heard of him but he's coming they said anything you say by invitation only that's what I should have named a sermon can you serve somebody without giving an invoice now you serve somebody without telling everybody you know I did this for them and I did that and if it wasn't for me they wouldn't have him and I'm the one that did it shut your mouth and just serve Alfred stand up so they can see this young man here he's the one who he's the one who trains me every Monday Wednesday and Friday he just told me the other day he said PK I don't know why the Lord told me this he said man God told me to tell you don't pay me for ninety days I said because you said that I'm gonna give you a race and now other pastors and other people are calling him to train and I had him stand up on purpose because I know right now while I'm talking about him he's gonna get more clients his business is now in the six figures when I met him I was one of his only clients now he's doing multiple six figures makes his own schedule by invitation only the problem with most people not going to get to finish the sermon if you want to hear the rest of it I'll do it later at the second service the problem with most people is that they will accept the invitation but have bad character and small capacity and you will ruin the opportunity because people can invite you in but you only get to stay in because of you in the year of elevation as you get ready to go to the next level okay you just be a better person I mean seriously can I just let's get all of the BS to the side till you just stop being mean and nasty and vindictive and to facesitting backstabbing and can you just get your character and your capacity together and it is possible to do it but you've got to make a decision because if you don't make a decision you will stay in your pit the Bible says that God elevated him in slavery how did you become an elevated slave how many slaves you know been promoted it's only one to kind feel rich folk you just ain't got many options when you a slave unless the Lord is with you

Channel: The Lighthouse Church of Houston

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Id: 36uY13NhH9M

Length: 50min 16sec (3016 seconds)

Published: Sun Jan 21 2018