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hallelujah then I’m so excited for what
God is about to do today I can sense the
presence of God um y’all
one of my greatest honors is to get to
lead along with my wife this amazing
church and home for all of you who have
just started coming to transformation
church over this past year there are
things that we have done since the very
beginning of our ministry that I really
do believe have qualified us to be used
by God in a very big way right now even
as we sit in this room in a converted
grocery store in the Northside of Tulsa
oh yeah I like I love that there are
tens of thousands of people watching and
joining us right now and being a part of
what God is doing in other countries
where they’re persecuted for going to a
local building to be able to meet but at
an internet cafe because they don’t have
it at their home because of government
regulations they’ll they’ll wake up and
go to an internet cafe and join in with
what God is doing a transformation
church do y’all Oh y’all can do better
than that that is you so many times what
we take for granted is somebody’s only
options and so today God’s using us in
that way but it’s because some
principles that we’ve decided to do to
represent everybody say represent that’s
the vision in the mission of this church
it’s to represent God to two groups of
people lost people and found people for
one reason transformation in Christ and
so one of those things is me and pastor
Natalie have been pastors of this church
now for almost five years coming up in
February and that time has gone by like
this like and one thing we do every
every July is me and my wife and my
family we take a sabbatical for the
entire month of July and and thank you I
got one that’s good some of y’all like
where are you going
one of the things that we decided at the
very beginning of this ministry is that
we would not build this ministry just on
my personality that we were building on
principles that would be able to sustain
and stand if I was the pastor if or if
somebody else was the pastor and our
goal and our job is to build something
that will outlast all of us
we want there to be a transformation
Church around what our children’s
children’s children’s children are on
the earth can I get one big Amen for
that okay and so part of this is for
this week I’m preparing content I’m
doing stuff all the time and I try to
give my very best for you guys but I I
really do believe there’s something
powerful and anointed that happens in
rest I mean when you think about when
God created everything he was done in
six days but he still put a seventh day
in there to paint an internal picture
that no matter what you’re doing if you
give God opportunity he can do much more
when you’re not in everything and
relationshipgoals which is the series
that a lot of people even heard about
our ministry out of that series to
happen the first day I was back off of a
sabbatical uh y’all I get so recharged
God speaks to me and you’re saying what
happens on the sabbatical Pastor Mike
because you’re our pastor we need to
know you don’t really need to know but
i’ma tell you anyway
the first week we give to our children
we do what we call PK vacay nobody knows
the sacrifice that our little babies go
through for us to do what God’s called
us to do and so for five to seven days
we do everything they want to do bubbles
bigs flash everything and and we do that
because I’ve heard too many people get
to the end of their Christian life and
they gave everything for God and none of
their kids who love Jesus won’t happen
here and so um so we do PK vacay and
then me and my wife go somewhere
tropical I mean I’m not wearing those
shorts
I mean shirts they may be I suppose too
much I will have on shorts
but we’re gonna go somewhere and we’re
just gonna relax together and just try
to fall more in love just because I can
I can loan it at the moment that you
heard Pastor Mike cheating on his wife
none of y’all come here no more say they
all want it while it seems healthy but
at the moment it goes wrong nobody wants
to hear from it so we have to do things
to intentionally keep our marriage
healthy and then and then and then we’re
gonna come back here and and do honey do
things around the house and then that
last five days I’m gonna go away and I’m
gonna see god nobody’s gonna go I’m a
fast and I’m gonna pray and I’m a Scott
what what is the next five months look
like for 2019 what do you want me to
preach just show me what you what you
want me to focus in on and I’m telling
you every time I’ve set this meeting
with God he’s never missed it and I’m
telling you when this happens what I
give back we’re going to a whole nother
level and this is what I encourage
everybody you won’t hear many pastors
say this but I’m encouraging I’m trying
to model for you what health looks like
so I’m encouraging you I’m giving you
permission during during this time of
year I want you to take a Sunday off a
charge
I’m no pastor telling you that now
somebody I’ll take too many Sunday
supper to sell me on it’s the first time
you’ve been here see baby he told us we
didn’t have to come but I think it’s
healthy that you plan like hey these two
weekends we’re not coming to church
we’re not losing our connection with God
but we’re gonna use this time to invest
in our family or to do something you
know now I would ask that all y’all
don’t do it at the same time I do it so
don’t take July and just be gone okay
but what I am saying is I would rather
us the last and be in this for a long
time then to have a little blip on the
radar and and it was like y’all remember
transformation church no no no we’re
here to represent God for a long time
and so what I’m asking you is I want you
to come I promise you that during the
month of July every week there’s gonna
be a word from God every week this is my
baby right here this is my
responsibility I will not put nobody up
here who’s not gonna deliver the Word of
God to you and and really you don’t want
to hear from Pastor Mike you want to
hear from God
and God speaks in so many different
forms in so many different ways so your
expectations should go to another level
as we come for the whole month of July
amen
and then so I want to honor you and I
want to thank you for that invite
friends most churches decline in the
summer we grow in the summer every year
since we’ve had a church we grow in the
summer because fun months is what we’re
about to go into and some of y’all don’t
know nothing about fun month and and we
do it every year but I thought I
wouldn’t do the announcement for fun
month I thought I would allow somebody
that’s a little more handsome than me
and can articulate it a little bit
better tell you about fum
take a look at the screens for me real
quick
you know what time of year it is it is
fun month at transformation church and
I’m telling you every week in July we
are about to turn up somebody I want to
know what is from month it’s spirit week
on steroids we are about to have the
best time and you don’t want to miss it
starting July seventh capital C Sunday
and this is what we cancel all
transformation church services right yes
you heard that right
we’re canceling all transformation
church services and we’re gonna go be a
part of other congregations in our
community and in our city because it’s
not just about TC it’s about what God’s
doing in the capital C Church and after
that it is tropical Sunday so I want you
to grab your grass skirts and your
Hawaiian shirts and meet us here for an
amazing worship experience put me in
coach after that you get to join us for
Rev your teen Sunday so I need you to
wear your favorite jersey of your high
school team professional team college
team and come represent because there’s
one king and it’s not LeBron and then
we’re gonna close out the month with all
you cool cats and foxy ladies on
throwback Sunday so I want you to dress
in your bell bottoms or your throat bags
and come enjoy a God that never changes
you do not want to miss fun month @tc
because we are gonna enjoy it all
anybody excited about firm on that
transformation starts and then well
anybody ready for the word this morning
today I am pumped because this is part
of a series that we’ve been in forever
called MA and I’m excited about it
because um the only time you do
something this long in church it’s when
you know God’s trying to get something
really dig down in a group of people and
I really do believe that God has been
trying to tell us for the past
two-and-a-half months that you are
marked by God that he has called you to
do something phenomenal that nobody else
is I’m called to do that you no matter
the opposition or what has happened in
your life that you were marked and born
and you have the DNA for greatness on
the inside of you but the problem is
people who are marked do not a lot of
times enjoy the process and because
there is a process to your palace or a
process to your purpose many people get
knocked out in an early round because
they did not know that this wasn’t gonna
be easy and many of you are sitting here
right now paralyzed in your purpose
because you have some hits of life that
took you out cuz you were not expecting
them you prayed you got saved you asked
God to use you and then you thought it
was straight to the palace straight to
my purpose straight to being debt-free
straight to all my kids loving me and
and obeying me but what happens is if
you don’t see these hits of life coming
you don’t stay in the fight and we are
in a fixed fight if we would just stand
everybody say stand say it again say
standing so we’ve been going for the
past ten weeks and I want you to go back
and watch the series before because we
have laid out really through the life in
the leadership of David how if you’re
marked by God some of the things you’re
gonna have to go through
I didn’t say might go through I said
you’re gonna have to go through it
things like being anointed before your
position things like nobody’s going
closed sign what God’s doing but he’s
giving you something things like having
to to actually walk down a path and step
towards obstacles and not step back from
obstacles like all of these things
you’re gonna have to go through but as
David we talked about last week he
defeats Goliath he uses what’s in his
hands and now he is the man like when
you beat a giant that nobody else would
fight you become a firm a and so David
now the Bible tells us is the captain of
about a thousand men and they go out
winning all of these wars for Saul who
was the king and they would come back
from these expeditions and you know I
don’t know how you like when you win a
game if you play a basketball or oh no
or anything for me when you win like you
like yeah you know and say that was
nothing
I do this every morning like this is
this is kind of what happened not from
David’s perspective but from the
people’s perspective people started
glorifying what God was doing through
David this is a side note for somebody
when you’re marked make sure you’re
listening for the applause of God not
the applause of people cuz it will throw
you off so David is coming in and all of
these groupies starts singing this song
and and I mean it was a hit song back in
this time matter of fact I had them find
in the archives a video of what the song
kind of sound like it was number one I
hit record for many years could you play
that video for me real quick just just
in case they forgot my song his hand
you got groupies now it’s like oh my God
look at that I like that now he didn’t
had that before and one day the groupies
made a song and it was like Johnny Damon
they was like David
like
day
[Applause]
[Music]
[Applause]
[Music]
the Bible says read it it does really
say that
so this maid saw man and at this moment
the Bible says jealousy came into Saul’s
heart and even though David was fighting
for him he now decided that somebody
that was on his side was now his enemy
and when you’re marked I just want to
help you understand this because David
and Saul had a valuable relationship but
this is the thing you’ve got to
understand that if you’re marked by God
this is probably one of the hardest
lessons I’ve ever had to learn when
you’re marked valuable relationships
will reposition and this sucks like like
when when people who were on your side
who are on your team who you want
victories for and with now label you an
enemy now think because you’ve come to
another level of your purpose you’ve
changed they not the same no more they
did no they fake now no no I just
I’m just busier now I’m not fake this is
what we dreamed about this is what we
prayed for I prayed to be healed the
reason why we connected was over our
deficiencies
now I’m walking and healing and I can’t
hang in that same area where we were
able to connect and so now you think I’m
different and now you talk about me now
you’re throwing arrows at me
we play when we were drunk at that one
time we play to get free we pray not to
be dealing with our sexual urges in this
way we prayed to be married we pray but
now that I’m walking in a level of my
freedom
[Applause]
and if you if you’re marked in you don’t
know this this will take you out of the
game as I’ve walked in ministry I’ve had
people that I considered friends that I
was down with that pray for me that
stayed with me in one season
they walked away no explanation heard
they was talking about stuff I’ve had
people pray like lay their hands I said
God’s gonna use you and you’re about to
do something and leave the church and
take other people with you prophesied
but I’m trying to help you understand
something look at it in 1st Samuel
chapter 24 I want you I want you to see
this because I want to help somebody in
the end of this series that that that
once God takes you to that next level
don’t think that the process is over it
said after Saul returns from fighting
the Philistines he was told that David
had gone into the wilderness so now he
bout to send people to send people to
find David verse 3 at that place where
the road passes some shepherd separates
falls psalm went into a cave to relieve
himself but as it happened David and his
men were hiding further back in that
very cave so let let me paint the
picture of what’s happening right now
David has to go on the run because the
very people that he was fighting for now
see him as an enemy and they’re they’re
literally trying to assassinate him now
somebody might not be trying to
physically kill you but some people may
be trying to assassinate your character
they may be trying to assassinate like
like your purpose like when when a deal
is about to go through and they’ll be
like hey have you ever heard of of
Johnny’s like I say none but you just
said oh hold on
you know how you’ve never met somebody
but somebody gives you an impression of
them before you ever meet them like this
this is what’s happening is David is on
the run he’s running from what God has
called him to because somebody in power
are in leadership is trying to
assassinate him and he learns that that
this ain’t fair this is not what God
promised me this doesn’t what happens
with my own family members like like the
people believe in what God’s called me
to do so every time I go home for
Christmas or every time I go home for
Thanksgiving it’s a joke I’m talking
real stuff right now it’s a joke that
you’re even doing what God’s called you
to do and what happens is we may not be
in a literal cave but many times in our
purpose we’re hiding in the back of
something like we’re not in a cave
because somebody is coming to kill us
but when we’re not in the foreground
we’re not in the light doing what God’s
called us to do we’re trying to work on
what God’s called us to do in the back
so nobody can see us and this is a
perfect picture of when you are in a
very vulnerable situation and you have
the opportunity to take revenge or to
get back at the people who are trying to
get at you what your response has to be
because Saul walks into this cave that
he does not know David and is strong the
Bible calls a mighty men are in now
these dudes are gangster no no no no no
no no no you don’t even understand what
I’m saying the Bible Chronicles like
some of these dudes like one dude killed
a thousand dudes by himself that was one
of his dudes and hit David and his goons
are in the back of the cave
and in walks the man who’s been trying
to kill them in the most vulnerable
position he’s using the bathroom he said
he was trying to relieve himself yeah
don’t be reading the Bible now any man
knows that when you go to use the
restroom that is the most vulnerable
position that you are in nobody’s on
guard while they’re taking a pee matter
of fact let me stop okay let me just
stop but all I’m saying to you is you’re
not thinking at that moment somebody’s
about to attack me
you’re not thinking at that moment and
God allows David to be in a place where
he gets to see the person that has been
coming after him in a vulnerable
position what do you do when you see
your boss that don’t like you in a
vulnerable position what do you do when
you see your parent who’s doing the best
they can but didn’t have any reference
of parenting for themselves and now you
see them in a vulnerable position
what do you do what do you do when you
see your coworker who y’all are going
after the same job in a vulnerable
position most of us do what culture says
culture says get him culture says do it
if they done something to me culture
says do it back to them but I want you
to watch the response of a marked person
as opposed to a person that that may be
trying to make their own way or striving
something make something happen somebody
say I marked say it like you mean it
I’m marked when you’re marked your
response is different to the same
situations and I want you to see this
David is sitting here and his enemy is
in a vulnerable position in front of him
look what happens in first mu chapter 24
verse fourth it says
now’s your opportunity these are the
mighty men around him they said baby we
prayed for this moment natural
opportunity matter of fact I want to
title that this this message this talk
oh that’s what I want to title it now’s
your opportunity yeah the reason I want
to title it because what comes after
this is going to show us if you’re
marked or not cuz now’s your opportunity
to catch your leader catch the person
who’s been doing you wrong in a
vulnerable position and kill or now’s
your opportunity if you’re marked now
you you might not be you might this may
be the qualifier for you right here but
if you’re marked you have to have the
audacity to honor yep
see this the way we go in this is
checking your heart you’re gonna have to
have the audacity to honor and this is
hard this is not enjoyable but this
makes you more like God
now now personal Mike I don’t I don’t
really know if if this is God because
I’m seeing that the mighty man that
David was with they had a different
opinion yeah they sure did because they
were telling David in the face of a
hardship that God was the one who was
providing this opportunity for David to
dishonor what this man said now’s your
opportunity David’s men whispered to him
is be careful who you got whispering to
you
because people who don’t know what’s on
your life will try to tell you things
that disqualify you from your Bourbon
he said it’s mean was whispering to him
today the Lord is telling you now they
talking but they said the Lord singing
this y’all look at it today the Lord is
telling you ah I will certainly put your
enemy into your power to do with as you
wish and this just for a moment sounded
so good to David that he started going
up to Seoul to kill him
he said Yeah right God did give this
opportunity to me so I can do what I’m
supposed to do and the Bible says that
David crept up to song and it was like
about the Sanctus food
shake for everybody who’s never been in
a legal extra meat I don’t even know
what I’m trying to say shake is like
taking some in just like just stabbing
him okay so she’s like Sally shank huh
he walks up to him the leader not even
having a clue what’s about to happen and
he literally says he’s thinking about
every opportunity that Saul had to
actually love on him and take him in in
and actually be be a mentor to him for
real he really wanted somebody to show
him how to be a king and he really he’s
thinking of all the missed opportunities
and he’s thinking about he’s been on the
run for such a long time and that was my
perfect opportunity to defame him to
take away everything he’s built to be
the one to walk out of this cave where
nobody knows what would happen in here
unless I go out and say it to them I can
take him out I found an email that
nobody seen they accidentally put me in
the group text
I got some information I wasn’t supposed
to get oh I’m coming to your house today
over I overheard the reason why they
left the job or left the church I have
an opportunity to kill what’s caused me
so much frustration and what does David
do at the moment he could do it the
Bible says he cuts off a piece of his
robe huh
some of y’all was like ah but see honor
this word is is crazy it’s a kingdom
word it’s a word that goes against
culture let me let me tell you what
honor means to value to prize or to give
weight to something what are you giving
weight to what are you what are you
adding value to some of us go everywhere
and we take value we come in wounds and
we can pick apart everything that’s
wrong we do that and God says you’re not
acting in my character I want you to add
value I want you to prize it to give
weight to it and at this moment David
has the ability to get revenge and let
me tell you revenge always seems like
the right thing to do in the moment
always seems like the right thing to do
but I want you to see this they’re
telling them God’s saying to do this but
when I look at the Scriptures God’s idea
of honor is completely different demands
idea of Honor and let’s see what God has
to say about honor real quick and then
we’re gonna pick back up in David’s
story look at first Peter 2:17 it says
honor
everybody say honor cuz you’re gonna
have to have the audacity to do this
honor who all people dang it
yet since honor all people love the
Brotherhood fellow Christians people who
believe like you love them
God that’s easy no no actually it’s not
but it should be easier because we’re
all going the same way so maybe I can
get that one if I live my life and I can
just love other people who think like me
I honor other people who act like me
honor other people who have the same
political party as me I don’t know maybe
that’ll be good
but it says honor all people love the
Brotherhood fear God and then honored
the king now when this was wrote and
written Peters Peters writing this and I
want you to know a little something
about the king at this time because this
meant something
the king at this time was a guy named
Nero and Nero was a bad King Nero is so
bad that he mothered he murdered his
mother he mothered his first wife I
guess his second wife didn’t get the
memo cuz she married him and he murdered
her too at this time Nero set his
kingdom on fire and burned two thirds of
it down so that he can build more castle
for himself and blamed it on the
Christians of the time but Peter who
would go and be crucified by the same
guy a few months later said you need to
honor the king no no no no I will not
honor anybody who does not line up with
my moral values now this is coming for
some people because right now you you
could go on to Facebook and Instagram
right now and type in one word or one
leader or our president or anybody else
and you could see what are you worth
honoring
now I didn’t make this up okay this
ain’t me I have a hard time doing this
but when God puts somebody in position
it is not your responsibility to check
them it is your responsibility to pray
for them and then it is your
responsibility everybody say this work
with me to honor now I know people gonna
be talking and I know some of y’all
ain’t never gonna come back to the
church but I’m you don’t know how I
voted but no matter who goes into the
office and that’s why some people like
yeah yeah yeah Trump yeah yeah but you
didn’t honor when Obama was in office
you okay we’re honoring that y’all imma
need security on the way out of here you
honor it now but you didn’t honor all
I’m saying is what happens is it exposes
the posture of our heart when we have
the opportunity not to agree but to
place value only to add value to to
pride to put weight on ya there’s things
I disagree with all the time with not
just a president with with my lawn care
people hey I want to bring it down to
level like it’s not just honoring the
president or honoring our boss it’s like
honoring the people who are the leader
of my grace right now because the
problem is we feel like certain people
deserve honor
oh I might have to do week 11 because
they did some people deserve honor and
others don’t and so we go into
situations already having summed up how
much value or weight we’re gonna add to
a situation because of our past
experience what other people have said
or what we’ve experienced in the past
and God says when my words that’s the
first Peter put it back up there cuz
they don’t believe it’s the Bible’s it
says say it with me honor
Oh peace so if you grew up in a racist
household and then God allows somebody
african-american or Hispanic to come
into your life honor o people well let’s
flip it up for you’re black and you
lived on the North Star all your life
and then God gives you a high-paying job
somewhere else and now you have to
interact with people you don’t come home
and touch my god it’s white people
always talk about golf and coffee and
skiing in the lake like
did you add value to them did you say
I’ve learned things that I’ve never
known before and I was exposed to new
things if I met somebody who went to a
private school and I did it did you add
value or did you come back to the hood
talking about messing with them white
folk no mo the Bible says honor I’m
preaching in this place today and until
uh until the church gets this if you’re
marked you’re gonna have to have the
audacity so look what happens in 1st
Samuel 24 verse 5 it says but then
David’s conscience I have I got him in
my grips but David’s conscience begin
bothering him so many of us don’t listen
to that thing on the inside of us that’s
like this is wrong this is wrong don’t
do this they’ll do this this is wrong
this is wrong but if it ever starts
bothering you you need to stop and pay
attention it said David’s conscience
became bothering him but he not because
he killed him I love this but because he
cut off a piece of Saul’s Road so he
started getting unsettled cuz of the
little thing he did see some y’all
before we ever get to the action we
start thinking about it or talking about
it to somebody and God said did the
little thing you did that was gonna lead
you down that road did that start
bothering you did the little thing and
David’s conscience said what I just did
was wrong and then he turned around to
his men I want you to see how powerful
this statement is right here cuz you’re
gonna have to have the audacity to honor
somebody who you don’t want to it says
the Lord forbid that I should go do this
to my lord the king I shouldn’t attack
the Lord’s
one what for the Lord Himself has chosen
him now because we have the Bible we
already know that that Saul is not
anoint again anymore David is but David
doesn’t know and many times God puts you
in positions where he’s already anointed
you and sets you to the path to the
palace but you don’t know it you not
gonna know your mark and God is watching
how you handle the people that are in
charge because watch one day you’ll hold
the same spot what you don’t realize is
the very people that you’re dishonouring
you’re sowing seeds to your future
because one day you’ll be in that spot
and God will allow you multiply to come
into your life so if your boss got you
press down shaken together and running
over would you be excited about it if
the people who helped your dream come to
pass who worked for your company who
helped you with your nonprofit were just
like you multiplied this is what David
gets the opportunity to do is sow seeds
in his present that will show up in his
future honor is a seed that when you sow
it to people in your life you’re acting
mean to that waitress but you don’t know
your kid your child the baby you love
it’s gonna be a waitress 13 years from
them I mean your business a business and
what you do cuz oh my god my food is not
but not hot and this water is that in
the attitude that you’re acting in that
honor that you’re not sewing because
they work a part-time job they’re in
medical school right now trying to
finish their degree and they’re actually
be the one treating you for a disease
that you’ll have to
years from now but you don’t think about
that right now they’re having to do this
right now to be responsible over the
season that they’re in and you treat
them like none cuz they serve that
crackle beer or what this that church
they don’t like but this this is this is
what will change your life this is what
will continue to allow you to be used by
God and so davidís and I can’t do this
so so let me tell you one more thing
you’re gonna have to do if you’re marked
when you’re marked honor requires action
I honored him show me like like a lot of
people talk about honor but not a lot of
people show honor how did David Show
honor I’m glad you asked look at verse
seven he tells the man I shouldn’t have
done this he could have made it his own
thing but as soon as he said I shouldn’t
have done this I shouldn’t have took it
off his men was like it’s okay David I
really understand what you’re saying
I believe what you saying God I told you
not to touch the anointed but I’ll kill
him I have to assume that that’s the
connotation because look what it says in
verse 7 1st Samuel 24 7 it says so David
restrained his men and he did not let
them see can people talk about other
people in your presence
can people just go off at the mouth and
vomit at the mouth about other people in
your presence and you’ve like grano
mm-hmm and then you go out of there
feeling like justified oh I didn’t say
nothing but they felt comfortable enough
around you that you left them everybody
say let them see honor is an action word
David went from about to kill him so
turning around to the people he loved
and saying don’t stop don’t say that
don’t do that don’t send that don’t do
that don’t talk like that in their
presence tone
he started restraining the very people
that were on his team because honor is
an action word dang Pastor Mike I know
it’s good girl but this is the stuff
nobody wants to hear but it’s the stuff
that qualifies and makes us know I’m
mark somebody say I’m marked
so I transformation Church we’ve we’ve
adopted this saying that we honor up we
honor down we honor all the way say it
one more time we are let’s go we are
okay we are whoa whoa just one more time
we’re let’s go okay when you start
living like that you don’t just honor
people who are in positions over you you
honor the people who are serving you or
serving with you
yeah a lot of y’all straighten up when
the boss comes in but you treat your
co-workers and your family members and
your cousins you treat them like trash
and God says I’m taking notice all that
because these are the people one day I
want you to rule over but you don’t even
see them on your level when you own a
level so how would you see them and feel
them and represent them when I put you
over them I got to keep you right here
until your character gets right cuz you
somehow thought the homeless man that
was asking for money you’re better than
him because you have a car but what you
don’t know is 15 years ago he was
driving with you was driving and he had
the same thing and through a series of
events where he didn’t have the creator
of the universe and in his life he got
into that position but he’s just like
you at different stages in the story and
if we ever forget about the grace of God
and when he gets up strung and where he
takes us to and how he sustains us proof
we will not honor the people that God
puts around us
that’s why Isaiah 29:13 it says it like
this and so the Lord says these people
say they’re mine are these people come
to transformation Church and they wear
crosses around their necks and their
Instagram bio says believer these people
say they mine they honor me with their
lips but their hearts are far from me
and their worship of me it’s nothing
more than man-made its rules that
they’ve learned and they’ve started to
put into practice
but they honor when it gets him another
position or takes them up but when
nobody’s looking in the back of a cave
will you honor I mean I think it’s very
significant that this whole thing does
not happen in front of anybody else it
happens in a cave and God says if you
honor in a cave your your honor in the
palace if you if your honor
that’s what integrity that word
integrity it means you do the same thing
in front of people that you do behind
closed door and this is one of the key
things that’s missing from the body of
Christ right now
honors missing but when I look at the
life of Jesus who if anybody on earth
should have been honored should have
been served
like if I was Jesus I wouldn’t have
touched the ground the whole time I was
on earth y’all know what I’m saying like
I would had people either carrying me or
invented the Hoveround or something I
would have just that’s my selfish self
but Jesus walked the same roads the
disciples walk he didn’t have he didn’t
have any special treatment matter of
fact when we talk about honoring down at
the Last Supper in the midst of
everybody who’s followed here he gets
down on his knees see what you need to
know is being marked it’s not about you
it’s about others the reason God marks
people is so that you can bring other
people to the realization that there’s a
God who wants to do something great in
their life and what happens is Jesus
with Judas in the room the same person
that would sell him out Jesus chose to
steal wash Judas’s field
he had the audacity to honor the one who
would betray him my question to you is
who is the Judas in your life that
you’re supposed to be honoring right now
while you’re hating on them right now
when Jesus touched Judas his feet I
think it was probably the most spiritual
act he ever did cuz now I only could be
empowered by the Holy Spirit to do this
cuz what I want to do is take his foot
and my cane oh don’t don’t act like
Jesus he was all human the Bible saying
I if I was Jesus I would want to suplex
but he had the audacity to honor
somebody who by all accounts was not
honorable when you talk about not just
honoring up but honoring town and
honoring all the way around you’re
supposed to add value to people who
can’t add value to you see some of us
are great at adding value to people who
may be able to take us up or adding
value to people who are very poor and
all they need some help but what about
your family members what about your
co-workers what about I thought about
this crazy thing I heard about there was
a man his name was Robert F Smith who
went to Morehouse in this year and he
gave the commencement speech 2019 and he
stood up there and in in front of a
graduating class of a bunch of young
african-american men he said I don’t
want to give you a leg up in life I want
to push you I want to pay off everybody
student loan that’s graduating today
now as I begin to think about that say
God what would make somebody do that
he said honor
he said those young men can’t do
anything for him but he did I mean he
literally it they said it’s going to be
a worth 40 million dollars now if you
have 40 million dollars does to do
anything with I mean come on let’s be
honest most of us would be investing
most of us would be living in it most of
us you’re not I’m saying but it took 40
million dollars and decided to honor a
group of men who could not ever repay
him I’m asking you who are you honoring
that can’t do nothing for you who are
you honoring both actually came after
you who are you honoring those hurt you
see because until we get this maybe
Christ has not taken full residents of
our heart honor is stronger I’ve been
taking matters into your own hand
honor takes longer it means I’m gonna
have to wait on God it means I’m not
gonna be able to do what I want to do
when I want to do it but honor gives God
glory prove it to me pass the mic cuz
you have to say something cuz I’m about
to go cut somebody alright now pass the
mic I have I have three people on my
cussed out list this week I need you to
tell me something cuz I and one of them
was you so give me
Oh y’all know I’m the pastor right now
that you like but there may come a day
where I challenge you to do something
that may be uncomfortable and it’s not
honored until I don’t want to do it
that’s why one of the first commandments
with the blessing is children honor your
parents in the Lord for this is right do
you know how many times a child don’t
want to do what they bear and say all
the time but what God is trying to do is
challenge you to a discipline that you
will need for your whole life I got it I
gotta give you I gotta give you the
revelation I found in this stuff okay I
want you to just write this last this is
bonus for everybody when you’re marked
God’s already handled what you think you
have to imma prove it to you right here
okay so remember what David did he snuck
up on him and he tore a piece of his
robe I want to flip all the way back to
when David’s name was not even mentioned
and Saul was marked and Saul disobeyed
what God told them to do and Samuel the
Prophet came and told him why didn’t you
obey God you should have done it if you
were to obeyed you number one would have
been marked and your family would have
been established forever and this is
what happens right after it go to First
Samuel chapter 15 now we’ve gone back
tons of books of the Bible and God’s
already handled what David thought he
had to take into his own hands verse 24
it says then Saul admitted to Samuel
yes I’ve sinned I’ve disobeyed your
instructions and the Lord’s command for
I was afraid of the people and did what
they demanded now I want you to see this
is the same test that David’s in right
now
because he has people around him telling
him go kill him and Saul listen to the
piece
around him David had the audacity to
honor in the face of the people that was
around him okay but now please forgive
me my sins and come back with me so that
I may worship the Lord but Samuel
replied I will not go back with you
since you have rejected the Lord’s
command he has rejected you as king of
Israel this is when the anointing of God
the approval of God is being moved from
Saul’s life and look what Saul does to
his leader as Samuel turned to go away
so tried to grab him and hold him back
and tore the hymn of his Road this is
not an accident the same action that
David would do decades later
Saul did to his leader at the moment
that his anointing was being lifted from
his life which tells me that this was a
critical moment for David because David
either would have gone on to be king or
God would have chose somebody else at
this moment of Honor and look what
Samuel says Samuel said to him the Lord
has not just allowed you to tear my Road
the Lord has torn the Kingdom of Israel
from you today and has given it to
someone else
that’s David one who is better than you
so in the moment David’s in the cave
about to take matters into his own hand
from the balcony of heaven God saying
don’t do it cuz I already did
like before we got here
before you thought you had to make your
way God said he don’t know it but I
chose you way back there and if you do
the same thing he was gonna do it
disqualifies you too
when you’re marked you don’t have to
fight battles gods already fun if you’ve
been done wrong gods gotcha if people
are talking about you and smearing your
name God’s got you I’m a living witness
then when I had opportunities to say
things about people and God says shut up
I don’t mean that clear leave leave now
he wasn’t punishing me he was protecting
my future what I’m saying to some of you
that there are people you need to go
back and honor today they’re gonna be
people at your job this week they’re
gonna be people that you don’t know
there’s gonna be a clerk at Kwik Trip
that’s busy and they forgot to ring
something up for you and you’re gonna be
like yes I already what you have to have
the audacity why is it audacity cuz
everybody’s gonna give you a pass if you
act how you want to act it makes sense
that you would be however you want to be
but God says when you’re marked the Holy
Spirit will give you the ability to do
what is not natural but it’s
supernatural
you love people who are unlovable today
I want to pray for you as we in this
series cuz some of y’all gonna get to
the palace and then you gonna disqualify
yourself because you think you all that
and you don’t honor people no more you
don’t honor your wife anymore you stood
before God and told her and her father
that you would honor them in sickness
and in health for richer or for poorer
till death do you part in your six years
into the relationship and you don’t even
open the door for her no more but if
your boss came you hope so Oh son let me
open the door for you son
but the person who washes your dirty
drop who who got cut open or had babies
for you who sits there
she won’t even I’m on a tangent right
now but it’s where you place value with
what you prize where you put weight the
reason I’m taking this sabbatical is cuz
all of this is great but where where I
honor where I place wait it’s all
Natalie Diane time Bella Bonet Todd
Michael Alexander Tom Avery Michelle
tuck just at the end of the day before
God asked me how his transformation
church he’s gonna say what did you do
with the child I gave you
today I’m praying that transformations
church would change not to one of
skepticism and revenge but we would have
a culture of what how somebody why did
you name the message what you named it
remember what I’ve told you
now’s your opportunity because that’s
what David’s men said to him David now’s
your opportunity kill him or Davis said
no I have another opportunity I have the
opportunity to honor and that’s the
choice you’re gonna have to make every
day for the rest of your life but on the
inside of you the Holy Spirit has
empowered you and will empower you to
make the right decision let’s pray come
on heads bowed father I’m asking you
right now to do a work on the inside of
every person in this room that will
allow us not to do your job but to stay
faithful where we are at even if we feel
like we’re in a cave god I thank you
that you would give us the audacity to
honor those who are hard to honor those
who father God who have done us wrong
those father God who ever put us in the
cave today God I’m asking you to change
our hearts and give us a new sense of
your presence that we don’t have to do
what you’ve already done for us and I
just thank you Father as we’re tested in
that today god I thank you that we’re
marked and we do not have to try to
position ourselves to something you’ve
already called us to if I give us the
ability to trust you in the midst of
every hard situation we’ll give you
glory honor and praise for it
in Jesus name Amen
hey listen if you’re in this room and
you need to make the greatest decision
of your life which is give your life to
Jesus I’m telling you it’ll change
everything the reason I get up here and
passionately share and try to compel
people to come to Jesus is cuz it’s the
only thing that changed me it wasn’t
finances it wasn’t success it wasn’t
people knowing who I was it was a real
relationship with Jesus when I said I’m
tired of doing it my own way come in and
help me change me renew my life and and
it was simple I invited in him him in
and he started doing the heavy lifting
in my life and some of you were in here
at that place right now and it’s time
for you to do that today if you would
just for one more second just close your
eyes just not in a religious moment just
to see like where are you at with God
and if you want to make Jesus Christ
your personal Lord and Savior all you
have to do is say pastor yeah that’s me
today I want to make Jesus my personal
Lord and Savior you don’t have to change
everything you just have to invite him
in we’re about to pray in Him in a
second as a family because nobody at TCC
prays alone but we’re gonna pray and if
that’s you and you’re saying pastor I
want to be included in that prayer on
the count of three I just want you to
shoot your hand up in the air
everybody’s eyes are closed everybody’s
hands about this is a decision between
you and God but it’s gonna take faith to
do it you’re saying pastor that’s me I
want to make Jesus Christ my personal
Lord and Savior one two three just lift
your hands in the air I see hands right
now glory to God I see you sir I see you
sir all right you can put them down you
can put them down y’all this is so
amazing God’s doing work right now today
for the benefit of our family our new
family that’s coming to him
can we say this prayer together and mean
it everybody say God thank you for
sending Jesus just for me
today I give you control and I honor you
with my life change me renew me
transform me I’m yours
in Jesus name Amen
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