This is “Begging for the Body.” God does not oppose you having good things, so long as they don’t have you. Joseph was rich and a disciple and He did what He was able to do because of his wealth and status, and he leveraged his wealth and status to honor and serve Jesus. Are you using your influence to help the body of Christ?
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wonder what Heaven’s gonna be like you
have your Bibles don’t want you to open
them with me to the book of Matthew the
27th chapter I want to talk to you as we
are concluding this series on the
exchange today about this remarkable man
who was mentioned in all four of the
Gospels he lived in a little obscure
village and called Arimathea which is
about 20 miles from Jerusalem and yet
his contribution to the kingdom of God
is is so incredible again that every
writer of the gospel every new test of
the four Gospels they included the story
of Joseph of Arimathea the Bible tells
us a few facts about him number one it
says in verse 57 he was a rich man he
was wealthy he was blessed we would say
he had tremendous resources and then the
Bible says in the same verse that he
became a disciple of Jesus so you can be
wealthy and you can be a Christian you
can be wealthy and be a disciple of
Christ God doesn’t mind if you have
things he just doesn’t want the things
to have you and then notice what else it
says it said that this man with all of
his giftings with all of his ability
with all of his wealth with all of his
prestige with all of his name fame in
his popularity he was a member of the
Sanhedrin we’re told which was the
political system of that day he was but
he did not consent to their ways the
scripture said in other words he was in
it but he didn’t agree with everything
he was there to influence so he had
influence he had wealth he had power he
had prestige but he understood it wasn’t
about him the thing that I want you to
see is this man went where no one else
could go but someone
like himself who had been trusted with
much when it came time to affect the
body of Christ the physical body of
Christ had Jesus had been crucified he
had died and now the body of Christ was
being kept by helped by a pilot the
judge and he had the remains of Jesus he
had his physical body and this man used
the influence the wealth the giftings
that were significant to him and he knew
that that gave him an opportunity to go
where nobody else could go except him
because I guess he had probably given to
this and given to that he understood God
gave me all of this wealth and prestige
for one purpose to affect the body of
Christ I need to get the body of Christ
into my city and prepare a place to put
it I don’t care what condition it’s in
I’m gonna move it from a death position
to a resurrection position and it’s my
responsibility think about what I’m
saying one man move the body of Christ
one man said I’m moving it from where it
is to where it ought to be and he said
the only way I can do this is I
understand God has not blessed me with
wealth and with fame and with prestige
and with popularity to be all about me
but he has given me this influence and
resources for one purpose to the body of
Christ then was a physical body of Jesus
but Paul calls the church the body of
Christ and he said I’m going to use
everything that God has given me to make
sure I help produce a place for the body
of Christ to have a permanent place in
the city where I live now I know he
wouldn’t stay there permanently he only
needed it for three days but had he not
moved the body of Christ there couldn’t
have been a resurrection and here’s what
I want you to understand
he went to hair he went to Pilate and
the Bible said that he begged King James
says he begged for the body of Christ he
was begging for the opportunity to get
involved with the body of Christ which
is the church now under the new covenant
he was you don’t you didn’t have to beg
him usually the more Fang the more
wealth people get the more independent
they get the more they think they don’t
need God as much he’s lucky to have me
but this guy had the total opposite idea
he said God has blessed me so much has
raised me so much has been so good to me
I’m begging you Pilate let me get my
hands involved with the body of Christ
I’m not gonna use all the blessings that
God has given me to keep me disconnected
from the body the only reason I was
given all of this stuff was that it
should help impact an influence the body
of Christ in my city to have a place
it’s pretty amazing
are you willing to beg for the
opportunity to be involved in the body
of Christ
most people have to be begged to serve
beg to give we are not begging anybody
for anything it is a privilege to give
it is the privilege to serve it is an
honor to be in church worshipping Jesus
and that’s the attitude that God looks
for is do you willingly offer yourself
to me or do people have to beg you to do
what you know you ought to be doing he
was begging the word beg means to craze
to have an obsession he was obsessed
with the body of Christ he was obsessed
with with impacting and providing a
place for the body of Christ meaning his
tomb the people that have influence and
resources the only reason he was given
that
influence here it the only reason he was
given that wealth was to move and
enhance the body of Christ one man took
advantage of his position of his well of
his giftings of everything for one
purpose to move the body of Christ where
it needed to be the money that he had
the wealth that he had he said I want to
use it all to impact the body of Christ
it was his passion
everybody shout passion you see the
church ought to be our passion
compassion was birth in his heart for
the church and he said I don’t care what
they look it looks like it’s got it’s
got nail scars in it I know it’s bloody
I know it’s bruised I know it doesn’t
look like much but I won’t I’m begging
for the opportunity to be involved with
that with that body that doesn’t look
like much
you see I don’t care how bad people look
I don’t care how decayed their life is I
don’t care how dead spiritually they are
addicted they are the truth is they
ought to be a part of the body of Christ
and it must become our obsession and our
passion and our compassion to reach them
we’re not a sanctuary for the saved we
are a hospital for the sick and everyone
is welcome here with your addiction with
your problem with your issues with your
troubled marriage with your messed-up
family we’re all messed up but by the
grace of God and we must reach people
with the message of Jesus the Bible said
that as soon as he got the body of
Christ notice what he did he put clean
linen on it
he put clean linen on the body of Christ
he wrapped it in clean called
in other words he was saying if I’m
gonna be involved with the body of
Christ again which is the church I need
to add to its holiness I need to add to
its cleanliness I don’t want to
desecrate the body by having uncleanness
in my
own life and so if you’re gonna get
involved in blessing the body of Christ
make sure that you clean it up make sure
that you are part of cleansing the body
of Christ I don’t want to be one thing
in the pulpit and something else outside
the pulpit
I don’t want secrets and bondages in my
life I’ve lived free up to this point I
don’t intend to go into darkness and
bondage if I’m gonna touch and preach
and minister and helping lead in the
body of Christ I want to add to the
holiness I want to dress it in clean
linen and never has there been a
generation that needed the message of
holiness and sanctification and being
clean if you’re gonna sing sing with
clean linen own if you’re gonna serve if
you’re gonna work for God if you’re
gonna give give with a cleanness of
heart this is God I’m doing my best to
live right for you come on and give me a
big hand right there add to its
cleanliness add to its holiness it
matters what you look at it matters what
you listen to it matters what you feel
your mind and your body and your eyes
and your ears will it matters and if
you’re gonna be involved with the body
of Christ put clean linen on live clean
during the week and then when you come
in here you will be amazed at how God
will use you and speak to you and lead
you and guide you he took the body
what’s this and he positioned it after
he put it in clean white linen from a
death position to a resurrection
position he said I know a resurrection
is coming and I’m gonna move it from
death position to resurrection position
the resurrection is the type of the
rapture and our job is to provide a
place for the body of Christ in every
city where we king of and what we’re
doing is we’re moving the body of Christ
from this old world of death and we’re
getting it ready for the trumpet to
sound and the resurrections gonna take
place and
those who have been moved from death to
life are gonna be ready for the
resurrection when the trumpet sounds
we’re going up oh I still want to say
that I believe in the second coming of
Jesus Christ it could happen today and I
tell you it’s gonna be wonderful I’m not
so in touch with this world that there’s
nothing I wouldn’t gladly leave behind
and say I’m going to a better country
how about you we’re getting ready for a
resurrection this is what God is called
free chapel to do we’re supposed to be
involved in positioning the body of
Christ for revival that’s what these
buildings are about that’s why we’re
building new churches that’s why we’re
buying new TV stations that’s why we’re
expanding the ministry to two hundred
and forty eight nations why do we do
that
why do we try to reach hundreds of
thousands every week not try to we do by
social media and all this going on the
youtubes and all of those things even
now tens of thousands of people are
watching online why do we do that
because we’re moving the body of Christ
positioning them for the next mighty
move of God a revival is coming to the
body of Christ people are going to be
baptized in the Holy Spirit by the
thousands and millions miracles are
coming back to the church come on and we
need to position the body of Christ your
sons and your daughters will prophesy
when God pours out his spirit and God
says I just need a church to get the
vision of providing a place for the body
of Christ so that when the revival comes
and I breathe on my church resurrection
life will come to a whole generation I
don’t want the clinking of religious
machinery around here
I won’t revival
I won’t resurrection
he was involved in anointing the body of
Christ the Bible said he laid it listen
to these words in his own team Oh W in
his own Tim that’s a remarkable thing in
other words he had ownership it cost him
something he had used his wealth to buy
this piece of property and the Bible
said it was a rock that he had hewn out
he had cut it out he had that get a pig
and he had to maybe hire people to help
him and they had to get wheelbarrows and
they had to how long how hard it’s hard
work ministry is a four-letter word work
and he had bought the place that he
owned he had hewn it out dug it out all
to provide a place for the body of
Christ that’s a lot
you know forgiving you need to calm down
you’re getting a little you’re a little
different why are you begging to be
involved in that it’s just the church
they don’t need your help in Hell this
guy said I’m begging let me work for the
kingdom
let what I’m doing matter beyond just
blessing me let it have impact on the
body of Christ he hewed it out the Bible
said that when he got three with the
with the team and he got the body of
Jesus dressed in white linen and put the
anointing spices on it saying I’m
anointing something dead but it’s about
to come alive and he laid it in the tomb
and he rolled the stone in front and the
Bible said listen to this that that that
Mary Magdalene Verte verse 61 Mary
Magdalene was there on one side and the
other Mary you know the Virgin Mary pure
Holy Mary so I want you to see it there
is Mary Magdalene who you know according
to by
was a former prostitute she had seven
demons when Jesus met her and he cast
the devil out of her she felt
comfortable hanging around this place
where the body of Christ was she didn’t
feel like she was less than and here’s
Holy Mary the other Mary I like how the
Bible puts that there that there’s that
Mary and then there’s the other Mary
Virgin Mary Holy Mary but both of them
felt equally comfortable in this place
that was housing the body of Christ it
was for every status of society he
positioned the body listened so it was
attractive to everybody so if you had a
past you could come and you didn’t feel
less than sister righteous who had been
in the church all of her life that you
could come from a terrible background
and you were all treated the same that
that you both got equal access and
everybody if you were rich you felt
wanted if you were poor you felt
cherished if you were of someone of a
had an addiction or if you’d been in
church all your life and never smoked –
never drank never – you never ran with
women who do you you felt totally
comfortable from any status of life I
want to say that if you’re gay the
church ought to be a place that you feel
totally comfortable we’re gonna preach
the gospel and we’ll let the gospel
change you if you’re transgender
you’re welcome here if you’re lost
you’re welcome here if you’re a drug
addict you’re welcome here if you’ve got
alcohol on your breath treat them just
like you treat somebody who’s been here
thirty years giving big donations don’t
treat them any different level and let
the Holy Spirit save them and set them
free
we can’t do it but the blood of Jesus
can I’m almost done but every status
every status of life he preserved it
you see if he wouldn’t have gotten that
body it would have decayed and failed to
pieces we’re begging for the body of
Christ I just want to say this the body
of Christ is not Baptists the body of
Christ is not Pentecostal the body of
Christ is not method as the Presbyterian
Orthodox or Catholic the body of Christ
is the body of Christ
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and-and-and-and I’m not competing with
my Baptist friends I celebrate every
church in this city that’s preaching
Jesus we’re all the body of Christ can
the hands Center the foot I don’t need
you came to I say to the ear I have no
part with you
we’re the body of Christ I’m begging for
the body of Christ do you want God to
bless you do you want him to raise you
up do you want him to bless your family
and your dreams and the call and give
you the amazing success the key to it is
get connected to the body of Christ
connect your business your resources
your life your dreams your talents to
the body of Christ and if you’re ready
to get right with God
this is your moment jesus said if you
will ask me I will not turn you away he
said what I have in my hand no man can
pluck you out of mine he wants to
connect you to the body of Christ and to
your purpose pray this prayer say Lord
Jesus forgive me and cleanse me of my
sins I have I need a life I need freedom
I need your peace in my life and so
today I come to you I want to live for a
greater cause I want to be a part of the
body of Christ I want to do what you
called me to do I wanted I want to reach
people and I want to see a change in my
own life that they will see and know
that you’re real in Jesus name I pray
amen
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