Are You Satisfied With Your Life? – Jeremy Pearsons @ Dallas GTC 2024: Session 4

This conference marks a significant moment: it’s Andrew Wommack’s final Gospel Truth Conference, so don’t miss the chance to soak up wisdom at Andrew’s last GTC! Together, Andrew Wommack and Jeremy Pearsons will equip you for a life overflowing with faith and purpose. Draw closer to God and better understand His immense love for you at the 2024 Dallas Gospel Truth Conference!

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brother I love you man thank you praise

the

Lord yeah thank you

Lord thank you Lord thank you Lord thank

you Lord God’s been good to us God has

been good to

us looking for some more agreement on

that God has been good to us thank you

Lord so kind so faithful so merciful so

gracious so

forgiving thank you Lord he has been

good well if you have been

here since last night you have already

heard more anointed word than most

people will hear in a

lifetime that’s a

thought the you and I have already sat

under the word just in the last 24 hours

more anointed word than many people

around this world will ever heal will

ever hear we have so much to be thankful

for do you love the word of

God thank you Lord tonight I’m going to

ask you if you would just join some

Faith with me you already told me you

love the word I’m going to ask you to

stir up some expectation about this

tonight stir up some excitement about it

and that will actually make a difference

in what comes

out I think a lot of times people come

to church and they think all the

pressure is on that guy or girl talking

not realizing they have a part to play

in

it I I mean think back for a lot of us

maybe younger years younger days and you

used to go to concerts you and Friends

you’d pile into a car and you you drive

many of you drive for miles and miles

and miles hours and hours and you drive

to that concert and the whole time

you’re you’re in that car every one of

you going this is going to be so good oh

I can’t wait this is going to be awesome

this is going to be amazing I hope they

sing this I hope they do that and you

just this excitement that builds and

builds and builds and then you get there

and they start singing your song and you

scream and you that’s my song and you’re

crying

and you’re surrounded by 10,000 people

all saying that’s my song and they’re

all screaming and they’re all

singing sometimes I wish people would

come to

church

differently than the way they

do I wonder if it would affect the

atmosphere if you’ve ever been in an

environment like that one where there’s

thousands and thousands of people

even if it’s a secular environment a

Godless environment it ain’t

boring people are

excited and it’s not just the people on

the platform it’s not just the singers

it’s not just the songs or the band it’s

the people in the

room it’s the excitement and the

expectation and the anticipation that

they bring into the room and it makes a

difference it creates an atmosphere and

I will tell you I have found out one

thing to be very true in Ministry

atmosphere

matters atmosphere

matters there were places where Jesus

went in to preach and the anointing was

so strong and the word went out and

people received and people were healed

and people were delivered and then he

went to his own

Hometown you remember that he went to

his own Hometown and it said there he

could do no Mighty work

man that does not jive with religious

tradition that says oh God can do

anything we just don’t know if he will

no jesus carried with him 24/7 the

willingness of God to heal but he went

to a place where he

couldn’t and it wasn’t on him it was on

them they wouldn’t hear what he had to

say they wouldn’t put any faith in what

he had to say we know from other from

accounts of some things that he talked

about he stood up and said the spirit of

the Lord is upon me he’s anointed me to

preach the gospel to the poor he’s

anointed me to heal the

brokenhearted he preached that anointed

message and everywhere he went and

preached that that anointing worked on

people except in this place that

place and all those people who knew

him the Bible said it was his

family and they said anointed boy what

are you talking about

anointed we know you you grew up down

the street we know you I watched you

grow up you anointed give me a

break I know you I know your daddy he

made this table like you worked on this

table come fix this table you made for

me wobbly and such they wouldn’t receive

anything and the Bible says they were

offended and there he could do no Mighty

work I’m telling you atmosphere matters

and before we go any further tonight we

can make a decision together to stir up

some Faith to jack up some

expectation but you’re not looking to me

and I’m not looking to you all eyes are

on Jesus tonight all eyes and all ears

are on his word and we are fully

expecting him to do tonight what only he

can do and for the word to do what only

the word can do but don’t sit there uh

half-hearted in this stir yourself up

can you do that tonight let’s stir up

some expectation about what we’re going

to hear and receive from the Lord why

don’t we pray together and we’ll jump

into it father we love you and bless you

tonight thank you so much for every good

thing you have already done tonight this

morning last night Lord you’ve already

done so much you’ve already done so many

good things and we have already

experienced more of your goodness than

many many people will will ever

experience and we are so thankful for it

and we release Fai Faith together

tonight for more and more and more of it

we’re asking you for help I’m asking you

for help the the help and the anointing

to deliver your word tonight to your

people we ask you not only for the

anointing to deliver it but the

anointing to hear it and to receive it

and to put it into practice tonight and

every one of us Lord we want you to know

how much we love you how much we love

your word it’s a lamp to our feet it’s a

light to our path and tonight we Rejoice

at your word like somebody who’s found

great

treasure it is treasure to us worth more

than gold worth more than silver worth

more than all the money in the world

your word is precious it’s valuable we

love it and we’re asking you to help us

see into it tonight in ways we never

have before reveal Jesus to us we want

to hear his voice the voice of our Good

Shepherd who calls us by name and leads

us out we want to understand who we are

in him and who he is in us and we give

you all the thanks the praise for the

good work you’ve begun on us and we call

you faithful to finish it we give you

the glory in Jesus name amen amen so

you’re excited

right you’re

excited

amen you got in the car and drove to

church or came down the elevator saying

what this is going to be good this is

going to be good this is going to be

good and if you didn’t do that then let

me on behalf of the preachers who will

preach to you in the future please go go

to church saying this is going to be

good this is going to be good this is

going to be good amen don’t fight with

each other all the way to

church and then get out and put on your

church

face and say Hey brother God bless

you no some genuine excitement amen

thank you Lord open your Bibles with me

again please

tonight to the book of

Acts we’ll look again at a scripture we

looked at this morning

and I know there were some that were not

with us let me take just a moment or two

and we’ll recap go over some of these

things again while you’re looking for

the book of Acts chapter 20 let me

remind you what the angel said to Mary

in Luke chapter

1 uh when she began or the the angel

when he began telling her about Jesus

and the great call on his life one of

the things the angel said to her was

about the

kingdom about Jesus Kingdom he said in

of this Kingdom there will be what no

end of this Kingdom there will be no end

and this Earth has never seen a kingdom

without an end we’ve seen kingdoms we’ve

seen them rise we’ve seen Empires grow

out of Kingdoms that reached across the

known

World we’ve seen and read in our history

books about the Roman Empire that lasted

over a thousand years going back before

that you we got the Persian Empires

after that we had the British Empire I

mean we’ve seen some Empires we’ve seen

some some kingdoms stretch out and span

across the known world do you know at

one point the British Empire covered one

quarter of the earth’s land mass that’s

huge and that Empire existed for

400

years now the only thing any of those

empires have in common now is is that

they’ve all come to an

end they’ve all come to an end no matter

how big they got how much land they

amassed how many other nations they

conquered they all came to an end I was

laughing about this studying some of

this this the last few days that British

Empire really caught my attention that’s

a lot of land a quarter of the earth’s

land mass belonged to the British Empire

and then I got to study and I thought I

know we as Americans have an IND

independence day where we celebrate our

independence from Great Britain no

offense Ashley and Carly I’m not talking

about you to

specifically but do you realize there

are I think if I read this correctly 48

other nations in the world that all have

an Independence Day where they celebrate

independence from that

Empire that’s got to be rough right 48

different countries around the world all

celebrate being free from from

you what do all these empires have in

common they came to an end the only one

there is just one that will never come

to an end and it’s the kingdom of our

god of Jesus Kingdom there will be no

end but everything else ends everything

on Earth has a beginning and a middle

and an end everything and we talked a

lot about that we talked a lot about

this

Kingdom the kingdom that doesn’t end but

our

part we’ll to talk more about it tonight

we see this here in the book of Acts

chapter

20 let’s use this Paul’s life and his

ministry as an example here of what

we’re talking about Acts chapter 20 Paul

said in verse 24 he said none of these

things move me see people had been

telling him don’t go to Jerusalem don’t

go to these places there’s chains

waiting for you there’s tribulation and

persecution waiting for you and he knew

even by the the leadership of the Holy

Spirit and by the word of the spirit he

knew what was waiting for him but he

said this doesn’t move me these things

don’t move me nor do I count my life

dear to myself for one reason what was

it so that I may finish that I may

finish the kingdom does not end but the

kingdom of God is the only thing that

doesn’t end everything else does and

it’s the end it’s the finishing that

Paul had on his mind all the time you

can see here that it was the driving

force behind what he was doing it was

the motivating factor behind everything

he was doing and the word that he was

preaching I’ve got to finish this work

he said he said none of these things

move me I don’t count my life dear to

myself one reason so that I may finish

my race how with joy this is what I want

us to get into tonight finishing the

race with joy and look what he connected

to that the ministry I’m going to finish

my race with joy and finish the ministry

which I have received from the Lord

Jesus to testify to the gospel of the

grace of God lord began dealing with me

and my wife just a few weeks ago as we

came out of the summer and into the fall

and he gave us an assignment for our

church for this season that we’re in and

he he told us I want you focused on

Joy every year for the last several

years we have a church have taken

October and we call it October overflow

and we dig into the word together as a

church and we look at the character of

God his nature his DNA and the closer

you look at him the more you see he he

truly is the god of increase that’s his

him that’s who he is but it’s not just

increase it’s increase to the point of

overflow and that’s too

much you now like a minute ago you were

excited I didn’t lose you with too much

right he’s the god of increase but

increase to overflow so we’ve been

looking at that together this month all

throughout the month of October and

specifically one of the things Jesus

said Jesus said to his disciples these

things I’ve said to you this is John

15:1 these things I’ve said to you that

my joy would remain in you and that your

joy would be full other translations say

that your joy would

overflow Jesus talked about his joy and

your joy and his Joy he said I’m saying

these things to you and if you’ll abide

in these words and let these words abide

or stay or remain in you then my joy

will remain in you

now a joy that remains is a totally

foreign concept to an unbelieving World

they have no idea or concept of what it

means to have a joy that remains a joy

that is constant a joy that is

consistent a joy that doesn’t rise and

fall with the changing tides but a joy

that

remains the unbelieving world has an

experience with joy but it’s connected

to the temporary realm as long as the

things in this realm are looking good

feeling good then my joy is there as

long as there’s plenty in the account as

long as the body’s feeling strong as

long as things are going okay at home

things are going okay at work then

there’s joy but the moment temporary

things change the moment the temporary

things that brought the temporary Joy

are gone well then the joy is gone so

Jesus is differentiating here between

his joy and all others he’s talking to

us about a joy that remains a joy that

stays constant and he saying if you will

abide in my word if you’ll stay with the

things you’ve heard just in the last 24

hours if you’ll let these words stay in

you you abide in them then his Joy will

stay and the temporary things can do

whatever they want to do then then uh

finances can come and go strength can

come and go but the Joy stays are you

hearing me tonight a joy that remains

and he said if that kind of Joy will

remain in you then you’ll begin to

overflow overflow with joy and when you

and I start

overflowing that’s when we become

ministers

ministers you think well I’m you know

I’m not a minister I’m a I’m a mechanic

I’m a mom I’m a dad I run an office no

no you’re a

minister because God has done something

for you God has done something in you

but listen to this it’s beyond

you what he’s done for you was never

intended to stay with you he always

intended for it to be a big time

blessing to you and then

overflow and that it would become Beyond

you somebody say it’s Beyond me Beyond

me we use that expression don’t we it’s

beyond me now sometimes we’re saying

well I don’t know that’s beyond me what

are we saying I can’t comprehend that I

don’t understand that that’s not what

I’m talking about I’m saying it’s beyond

you the the gospel is for you but it’s

beyond you the effect and the the reach

of it is beyond you Joy overflowing out

of you is beyond you this isn’t just

about you being happy this isn’t just

about you being full of joy it’s about

you overflowing with it and splish

splashing onto other people all around

you and glory to God that’s what makes

you a minister you’ve got something

people

need you got something people are crying

out

for and the Bible tells us that Jesus

himself he grew in Grace that’s what we

know about him from the time he was

young that he grew in wisdom in stature

and in favor same word translated

Grace with God and men and that’s really

all we know about his entire life from

childhood until he took his first step

into Ministry and what the Book of John

chapter 1 tells us about Jesus as he

launched into his

ministry John says we received from him

Grace upon Grace what’s that tell you

Jesus is

overflowing he spent the first 30 years

of his life growing in Grace and growing

in Grace and growing in Grace and

growing in favor and growing in wisdom

and growing in stature and growing in

Grace and growing and growing and

growing until he hit a place in his life

where he was so full of that Grace that

it began to overflow in the preaching of

the word it overflowed in the healings

in the Miracles and the deliverances

everything you and I read from the

ministry of Jesus is the result of that

overflow

well guess what people are receiving

from you right now whatever you are full

and overflowing

with let me be real plain whatever

you’re full

of that’s what they’re

getting now you might you might be nice

you might be sweet you might be kind but

I’m telling you your family the people

closest to you the people you work with

should shoot the people on your row are

not in need of more of

you this world is not crying out give me

more of them

no they need you full not of

yourself you they don’t need you full of

you what they need is

beyond there you go it’s beyond me it’s

beyond you what they need is you and I

full and overflowing with Jesus and his

goodness and his grace and his

Joy his Joy so I want to hear you say it

tonight I want to hear you say it I’m a

minister I’m a minister say it again I’m

a minister Minister what makes you a

minister you’ve got what people

need and if you’ll give that to them

you’re a minister you may never stand on

a platform you may never stand behind a

Pulpit but you’re a minister because

what God has done in you he did it not

just to bless you it’s beyond you to be

a blessing to humanity say Amen if you

believe

it so look again with me please um at

the Book of John at something else we

looked at from the ministry of

Jesus Paul talked about finishing but he

didn’t just talk about finishing he

talked about the way he was going to

finish and the way way he was going to

finish was not dragging a half lifeless

corpse across a Finish

Line he said I’m finishing this thing

how with

joy and what I began to tell you a few

minutes ago we started this focus in our

church and uh it’s reaching Beyond

October and I think this is a word

that’s going to carry us through the end

of the year and I believe the Lord has

spoken to us and he said I want you

finishing this year

2024

strong well think about it if you’re

going to finish the year strong then

you’re going to have to finish it in

Joy why because the joy of the Lord is

your so if you’re going to finish this

thing strong this year and in case

anybody hadn’t told you this year is

like almost out of here I mean it’s just

a few days left but if you’re going to

finish this thing strong

you’re going to have to finish it in Joy

because the joy of the Lord is your

strength well if Joy and his Joy

specifically is your strength what is

depression what is

sadness it’s

weakness it’s

weakness look at John chapter 4 with

me I want to look again at this

encounter Jesus had

with the woman at the

well and I’m not going to take the time

to read the whole thing powerful story

many of you most of you I’d say probably

know it but Jesus is on the road he’s

taking a road trip here with his

disciples and he’s got to go what is it

from Judea to Galilee do I have that

right and he’s going to go through

Samaria and I started looking some of

this up not long ago found out from

where he was to this little pit stop

they made at the well was something like

35

miles and they did not

Uber uh there there was no

Transportation like that this is a

journey on foot so when the Bible tells

us here in John chapter 4 that Jesus Sat

by the well being wearied from his

journey now you know 35 miles a walk and

will make you want to sit down for a

little

while and he was evidently in such a

physically depleted

condition that the disciples left him

there by himself and went into the city

to buy

food now put all these things together

it’s been a long

journey they haven’t eaten scripture

even tells us what time of day it was

it’s the sixth hour probably noon it’s

lunchtime

I have looked into that verse for years

thinking the sixth hour what does the

sixth hour represent oh it’s the number

of man the number of man it’s not yet

the number of completion the number

God’s number it’s

lunchtime it’s

lunchtime the man is hungry they’ve been

walking a long

time so he’s sitting there hungry

depleted of strength and energy I

imagine he said guys you’re going to

have to go you’re going to have to go

get something for us to eat and bring it

back I don’t think I can take another

step okay Jesus we’ll go get you

something is there anything in

particular you want there’s a great

barbecue joint down there you want

something from there not just whatever

you bring it back and I’ll eat so they

leave him in the meantime this woman

comes to begin draw drawing water from

the well now you know this whole

conversation Jesus and her getting into

a conversation which ultimately turns

into a religious debate about where one

ought to

worship and she is

argumentative and she finally says after

hearing what Jesus had to say about all

of it she said well I know the Messiah

is coming and when he comes he’ll tell

us that I’m right I mean basically is

what she said and finally he said to her

I who speak to you am he and the cover

comes off and her eyes come open and

this woman is about to have an encounter

with love

himself and if anybody needed an

encounter with love it was somebody

who’d been married and divorced married

and divorced married and divorced

married and divorced married and

divorced and is now in the arms of a man

who’s not her husband you don’t go

through that without coming out on the

other side with a twisted idea of

love which is why I think she couldn’t

recognize him the whole time she’s

talking to him claiming to look for him

but couldn’t recognize love and then he

revealed himself so she runs off to her

Village and becomes a missionary to her

family come see a man who told me

everything I ever did in the meantime

Jesus is sitting there and the disciples

come back to him and this is what we

read here in John chapter

4 in verse 31 it says in the meantime

his disciples urged him saying Rabbi eat

eat something you need something to E

eat but look at what he said I he said

to them I have food to eat which you do

not know therefore the disciples said to

one another has somebody brought him

something to

eat and Jesus said to them my food is to

do the will of him who sent me and to

finish to finish the work now this is an

interesting thought bearing in mind what

we already know about Jesus and his

kingdom it’s a kingdom Without

End but so why is Jesus is talking about

finishing something because everything

on Earth comes to an end his kingdom is

not an Earthly Kingdom it operates

outside this

world everything on Earth comes to an

end Paul was motivated by finishing the

work Jesus was motivated by finishing

the work and he said it’s my

food it’s my

food when those disciples came back to

him I can only imagine I mean they’re

literally saying did somebody bring him

something to eat why cuz he’s

different there’s been some kind of

change he couldn’t take another step

just a few hours ago so worn down worn

out some translations say to the point

of exhaustion come on 35 miles

folks you might get on a tread m a

treadmill every day I guarantee you

ain’t doing

that it will wear you out

And yet when they come back to him he’s

energized there’s a smile on his face

there’s a pep in his step and they say

who brought him something to eat and he

said no I got food you don’t even know

about my food is to

finish can we say that together my food

is to finish to finish the work to do

the will of him who sent me and to

finish the work he’s saying that

finishing the work will do the same

thing for you in your inner man that

having a good meal will do for your

physical

body and when you’re out of energy food

can restore that it’s got nutrients in

it it’s got things in it that will

replenish that energy make you strong

again food will strengthen you food will

enable you to keep going it’ll sustain

you I got to be careful talking about

this in church people get food on their

mind real easily Stay With Me food later

word now man shall not live by whatever

you going to eat later we need this word

food will strengthen you it will sustain

you and here’s what I want you to see

tonight it’ll satisfy

you I know you’ve had a good meal I know

you’ve sat down to a good Thanksgiving

meal a good Christmas dinner and pushed

yourself away and thought that was the

best thing I’ve ever had thank God I

wore my sweatpants to dinner

tonight it just

satisfies well there is nothing that

will satisfy you like finding following

and fulfilling the plan of

God it

satisfies it is so

satisfying that it’s hard to put into

words how satisfying it is and many

people sadly believe that satisfaction

is a myth

they can’t find

it and the word the words of that famous

philosopher who said I try and I try and

I

try and I can’t get

no can’t get no

what what are you doing knowing that

song Can’t Get No satisf Satisfaction

y’all excuse me just a second brother

Andrew um many years ago there was a

rock band called The Rolling

Stones uh I know you’ve been born again

your whole life so you never heard of

them but they sang a

song called satisfaction and he said I

can’t get no so that’s what that’s what

they’re talking

about but that’s not

true you can get some if you know where

to

look if you know where to look for

satisfaction it’s there for for and

Jesus is telling us here this is where

you look for total and complete

satisfaction not in doing your own will

now that is so counterintuitive to what

this world preaches they will tell you

that the only way to be satisfied is you

be you you just do you you find your

truth and and you you see that it’s all

about you it’s all about you and you do

what you want to do and you do it how

and you do it when and you do it where

and people are finding out there’s no

satisfaction in

it the satisfaction is not in doing your

own will but the will of him who sent

you and in finishing the work can you

see this connection I’m going to finish

with joy I’m going to finish

satisfied this is how we’re called to

finish the things that God has called to

to do thank you Lord okay well that was

the recap that took longer than I

thought so food strengthens food

sustains food satisfies and satisfaction

can be found if you know where to look

for it where do you look for it in doing

the will of God in finishing the work

now let me add to this

tonight if Jesus was this

emphatic this committed and this serious

about finishing the work if Paul was

this committed to finishing the

work then you know there’s got to be so

much spiritual significance to it that

Satan is not going to hang around and

just watch while you and I finish the

work every

Temptation every

attack every weapon that he tries to

form against you is

motivated by by stopping you from

finishing the

work this is what the Temptation in the

wilderness was about with

Jesus to stop him from finishing that

work I think sometimes people think that

the temptation to lie is maybe the the

biggest Temptation they face or the

temptation to steal or the temptation to

cheat all these things that we’ve called

sins that but these are not the greatest

Temptations you’ll ever

face the greatest Temptation you will

ever face from Satan is the temptation

to

stop the greatest Temptation you will

ever face from him and he will bring

this temptation to bear with as much

pressure as he possibly

can it’s the Temptation and the pressure

to stop specifically to stop trusting

God the greatest Temptation you’re ever

going to face is not a temptation to lie

to cheat to steal the greatest one

you’ll ever face is the temptation to

quit the temptation to stop trusting

God that’s right right and it’s the

temptation to stop because if you’ll

stop then you won’t

finish and if you don’t finish I mean

think about if Jesus hadn’t finished you

wouldn’t be here I wouldn’t be here but

because he finished amen because he

finished the work you and I are who we

are and because he finished the work we

have a work that we can finish but the

enemy is always bringing

pressure to get you to stop

short tempting you and I to stop

trusting

God we can spend a lot of time looking

at these things but I want to show you

just in the time that we have left

tonight a couple of the main ways I

think he goes about trying to get you to

to to stop so that you don’t

finish we were reading there in John

chapter 4 Jesus said in verse 34 my

foods to do the will of him who sent me

to finish his work look at the very next

verse he said in verse

35 do you not say he’s talking to his

disciples there are still four months

and then comes the Harvest

I read that for years and I thought

Jesus said don’t say

this I thought he said to them do not

say there’s still four months and then

comes the Harvest that’s not what he

said he he said to them do you not say

this listen to it from um the NIV put

that on the screen for us if you’ve got

it the

NIV Jesus says don’t you have a

saying don’t you say this don’t don’t

you have a saying what’s the

saying ah there’s still four months till

the

Harvest this is interesting to

me Jesus says to these guys don’t you

have this

saying what is that mean he’s a he’s

he’s a good Jewish boy like them he grew

up in the same neighborhoods what’s he

saying it’s a little Glimpse we’ve been

talking about his his his uh flesh

nature that he took on but it’s a little

Glimpse how do I even say it

Lord I think he’s saying we don’t have

this saying where I come

from do you you have a saying don’t you

Mike and car you guys spend a lot of

time in Russia do you ever hear a

Russian person how do you

say that oh the hell you Americans say

is

okay what that we don’t have that saying

you say how do this is what Jesus said

how do you say don’t you have a saying

are you hearing me does this make sense

to

you he said don’t you have a saying oh

there’s four

months there’s four months till the

Harvest what is that attitude we got

time we got time we don’t got to do

anything about it right now we got time

what’s Jesus said how you say in other

words we don’t have that saying where I

come from

he said you got a saying there’s still

four months to the Harvest behold I say

to

you this is what we say Where I Come

From lift up your eyes look at the

fields they’re already white for

Harvest what’s he telling them

go

now you don’t have time to be laying

around you don’t have time to have an

attitude oh there’s still four months

why do today what you could put off till

tomorrow you know what I mean what’s

Jesus going to say I don’t get

it I don’t get that we don’t have that

saying where I come

from I think we’re getting a glimpse

into what’s going on in heaven right

now one of the last things he said to

his disciples was I’m going to prepare a

place as soon as I leave here as soon as

this is finished I’m going to go start

working on that

I got something else I got to finish and

that’s what’s going on in

heaven right

now they are not laying

around was it brother Andrew you say

this this morning about cherubs fat baby

Angels is that what you

said man what a mixed up concept of

Heaven many people have had you know

what’s happening there right now they’re

finishing getting things ready

preparing thank you Lord Jesus said go

go

now the enemy comes and I’m telling you

this this attitude ah there’s still

time and there is time and I’m not

saying we’ve got to live pressured by a

ticking

clock but everything on this Earth comes

to an end everything on Earth has a

beginning has a middle has an end raise

your hand if you’re a thing on

earth guess what you have a beginning

you have a middle and there is an

end and you and I are called to finish

this race and the ministry remember I

told you just a few minutes ago you’re a

minister to finish this thing how with

joy with

joy so guard against this attitude there

there’s more there’s more demonic

spirits that work in it than you realize

this thing that just keeps putting it

off and putting it off and putting it

off and putting it

off this does not honor

God brother Andrew mentioned this I

believe it was last night he talked

about the Revelation that many people

have of God as Daddy call him daddy and

that is good and we need that we must

have

that but we also need to

know what time it is and how to relate

to him at that time let me give you an

example my my Dad’s

here George Pearson’s been my dad like

my entire

life there on my first

day while I’m at it my sister’s here as

well tonight and her husband and their

daughters my nieces it’s a whole family

thing

tonight at one point when I was I

graduated high school I went to work for

mom and dad and my grandparents in the

ministry at one point my dad and my mom

were my parents my pastors and my

bosses and it was upon me to know what

time it

was it was upon me to know what are they

right

now and I will never never forget we

used to do these meetings mom and dad

would do these meetings in the church

this was the early days of the church

and man I’m telling you the church grew

so fast went from a handful of people to

hundreds I mean just in days or weeks

and it was one service then two Services

then three services then a midweek

service and at one point not too long

into the start of the church we started

having Miracle Monday nights where I

think it was one Monday a month right uh

we’d have these Miracle Monday nights

and the church was packed and man they

brought in this fire

breathing spitten preacher I mean this

man of God he was not afraid of anybody

or anything Devils you nothing I mean he

screaming shouting and so because of

that it was always a very intense

service I remember that a lot of

preparation would go into these Services

a lot of prayer would go into these

services and at that time the church met

in a small chapel and that Chapel had

off to the side a very small little

speakers room very small you really

could just get a few people in there and

on most regular Church days after church

uh kind of after everybody had gone me

and my sister would kind of have the

speakers room you know we could go chill

we could sit back on the couch and we

knew where the snack drawer

was that speaker’s room had a little

middle drawer and you pull it out

and there was like a line of bag chips

and little bars and snacks and so that

was kind of our go-to I remember one

Monday night before service I walk into

the speaker room and I thought there’s a

lot of people in here a lot of mom’s

prayers it was very quiet very

solemn reverential

atmosphere until I came in and went to

the snack

drawer and I pulled that drawer open and

I grabbed me a bag of Doritos and I

popped them open I stood there and I’m

eating my

chips and it hit me I’m not supposed to

be in

here and I’m definitely not supposed to

be eating chips right

now they were my parents my pastors and

my

bosses and I related to my dad as my dad

in a different way than I related to him

as my pastor

and I related to him as my boss in a

different way than that I needed to know

what time it

was God is your

father God is your friend but don’t you

ever forget God is

God and there are

times there are times when you and I do

crawl up in his open loving arms and

call him father call him Daddy but there

are other times and I believe we’re at

the precipice of one of those times

right in here right now tonight where

the reverential awe of who God is needs

to rise on the inside of

us thank you Lord thank you Lord just

worship him for a minute with me thank

you

Lord we worship you

Lord we thank you

Father thank you Lord

let me keep going in this I believe the

Lord has something significant for us

here before we go

tonight you don’t have to take time to

turn to these I’ll just mention them to

you

quickly the Bible says in the book of

Galatians chapter 6 verse three if

anyone thinks himself to be something

when he is nothing he deceives

himself why would somebody think themsel

to be something when really they’re

nothing that only comes as the result of

comparison that comes as the result of

you comparing yourself to other people

and you get an inflated idea of who you

are and you see that because the very

next verse says but let each one examine

his own work and then he will have

rejoicing in himself alone and not in

another listen to it from the New Living

Translation be care be careful or pay

careful attention to your own work then

you will get are you ready for this the

satisfaction the satisfaction of a job

well done and you won’t need to compare

yourself to anyone

else I like the Amplified Bible that

says each one must carefully scrutinize

his own work examining his actions

attitudes and behavior and then he can

have the personal satisfaction and inner

Joy of doing something commendable

without comparing himself to

another do you see this connection he’s

making here if you’ll focus on your work

your assignment what God’s called you to

do he said there will be a joy that

comes as a result of that and you’ll

have an inner joy and the sad

satisfaction I like this phrase of a job

well done does that make you think of

something Jesus

said he told a parable and he said there

was a man who was going on a long

journey but he gave talents to one he

gave five to another he gave two and to

another he gave one and then he went on

a long journey and that long journey

represents time which represents

opportunity he’s given you and I a

window of time and an opportunity to do

something with what he’s given us so the

guy who had been given five what did he

do he went and traded and he gained five

more the guy who’d been given two he

went and traded and he gained two more

but the guy who’d been given one what

did he do

nothing big fat nothing he dug a hole in

the ground put that chunk of change in

the ground covered the hole back up and

and did nothing and after a long time

Jesus said that Lord came home and he

began to settle accounts and the one to

whom he’d given five came and said Lord

you gave me five I traded with them I

gave you five I’ve now got five more and

what did his master say to him

well

done it’s finished that part is finished

well done now we’re talking about

finishing with joy right listen to what

he said well done good and faithful

servant you’ve been faithful with a few

things you finish that now I’m going to

make you ruler over many things because

you finished there’s

more glory to God because you finished

there’s more but then what did he say

enter into

the oh come on enter into the the joy

of your

lord what did Jesus say my joy will

remain in you enter into my joy he said

do you see the joy and the satisfaction

that comes when you finish the

satisfaction of a job well done I did

what he asked me to do how and when and

where that’s

faithfulness he said the same thing to

the one he’d given too well done good

and faithful servant you’ve been

Faithful over a few things I’ll make you

ruler over many enter thou into the joy

of your

lord I think somewhere along the line we

thought those words well done were the

were only reserved for what we’d

hear in

eternity do you know you can hear well

done next

Tuesday you can hear well done a week

from now a month from now every time you

set yourself in faith to do what God

called you to do and you finish this

part of it he says well done now I got

something else well done here’s

something else well done good and

faithful servant you ready for what’s

next yes and the joy comes with it well

done I believe I have a word from the

Lord tonight about this ministry and

what we’re celebrating in this weekend

this ministry is not finished this part

is brother Andrew Miss Jamie I believe

the Lord would say to you tonight well

done

well

done good and faithful servant well

done and now here’s the open invitation

into his

joy to finish this thing with joy and

take a step into the next isn’t that

what he said you’ve been faithful with

this now I’m going to make you ruler

over

this now you don’t want to be that last

guy and he

came and he started with the

excuses what did he

say Lord I knew you to be a hard

man um I don’t recommend

that you go into the meeting blaming the

owner I don’t recommend that I knew you

to be a hard man and I was afraid

here’s the

enemy always trying to keep you from

finishing through

fear through delaying putting it off

putting it

off there is such a thing as there’s

obedience there’s Disobedience and then

there’s what I call slow

obedience slow obedience well I’m not

disobeying I’m just going to do it later

but you know what I found out slow

obedience is really just

Disobedience you don’t want to be this

guy through fear didn’t do anything with

what the lord gave him to

do the problem is if you don’t step out

and do it you’ll never experience the

joy of

finishing if fear is keeping you locked

up and you refuse to take that that step

of faith you’ll never experience the joy

of something coming to completion you’ll

never experience the invitation of God

himself inviting you into his joy and

the satisfaction that only comes with

doing not your will but his and

finishing the work amen amen thank you

Lord thank you Lord