Don’t Be Deceived About Your Destiny
I’m preaching to somebody today who has been
deceived about your destiny you thought
God was gonna show up in your situation
looking like Superman instead God shows
up in your situation looking like a
mustard seed the seed doesn’t look like
the tree it shares the genetic code of
the tree but according to the exterior
there is nothing to associate the seed
with the tree and might it be that what
God is doing in your life right now is
not obvious but that does not mean that
there is no opportunity for he says when
I open a door no man can shut it and
when I decide to do something through
your life no season no person and no
human limitation can stop me I was
always interested to learn that after
David made his biggest mistake by
sleeping with Bathsheba and having her
husband Uriah killed on the front lines
of battles he went in and had another
baby because the one that was born from
his mistake died but the next one he had
was named Solomon who was the wisest man
who ever lived at that point in time and
David’s greatest wisdom was born after
his biggest mistake now it’s not always
obvious it’s not always obvious that you
are becoming wiser usually wisdom feels
like dumb decisions
while you are gaining wisdom often you
have to gain wisdom at the expense of
today for tomorrow it’s very powerful
it’s a principle I preach a lot and I
forgive you if you’re a little bored
right now because this is pretty much
what I try to say every single week I
try to show you how reward dresses as
responsibility God is not going to put
the reward right in front of you he is
going to wrap it in responsibility David
had no clue that Goliath was waiting for
him he just knew he had bread to take to
his brothers it was his responsibility
that unlocked his reward if he had
waited for the possibility of an
opportunity to demonstrate his war his
warriorness if he had waited for
Goliath to show up he never would have
had the opportunity to see what God
could do through him but it was in his
assignment that his giant was waiting now
if this is true it gives a whole new
meaning to what John chapter 11 says
that when Jesus heard Lazarus was sick
he stayed where he was a little while
longer because Jesus is about to show
all of those in Bethany that
resurrection is not an event but a
person I am the resurrection but if
Jesus shows up and heals Lazarus when
they want him to he will not have the
opportunity to reveal who he is that
they don’t yet perceive him to be and so
in his waiting which seems cruel to Mary
and Martha he is actually staging a
miracle so that when he gets there and
Lazarus has been dead it’s a good thing
because resurrection dresses like death
sometimes God lets something in your
life die but don’t worry when it dies
resurrection is who he is and what he
does and if you can get the stone rolled
away long enough to believe for a little
while I hear a voice calling Lazarus out
of the grave see the grave clothes
wrapped up the revelation of who Jesus
was when he got on the scene and said
Lazarus come forth the grave clothes had
no choice but to fall off because the
voice of the Lord unwraps death to
present resurrection who needs a miracle
today I came to preach to you
and the greatest opportunities are not
always obvious the greatest
opportunities are often hidden Jesus
even taught in parables to hide the
wisdom of God from the people who wanted
to understand it with their human minds
he didn’t want the elite to get it and
so he put it in parables he hid it he
hid he hid the kingdom the kingdom
didn’t come announcing itself with
trumpets and red carpet it wasn’t
obvious it came looking like conflict
now Mark chapter 2 is the first of five
conflict dialogues where we see this
carpenter from Nazareth doing ministry
in Galilee having to confront the wisdom
of this world to reveal the wisdom of
God he’s teaching one day and so many
people have come to see him that the
crowd has gathered in Mark’s Gospel the
crowd is not necessarily a positive
thing we would think that if Jesus was
trying to build a ministry he would need
a crowd Jesus is so savage sometimes if
the crowd got too big he would start
running people off by saying stuff they
didn’t want to hear he really would and
you have to read how he fed people and
they were happy but after they ate their
happy meal he turned around and said I’m
not your Burger King I know I’m mixing
restaurants but go with the illustration
he said if you eat my flesh and drink my
blood then you can have this kingdom and
they say whoa I was into the miracles
but this this took a dark turn
this cannibalism thing and even the
disciples couldn’t understand it but
Peter did after and when he was
recounting to Mark so Mark could write
this gospel account he talked about the
crowd the crowd had gathered and they
were listening to Jesus preaching and
the Bible tells us about four men
who brought their friend and they could
not get in because of the crowd they had
high hopes you could say that their
hopes were through the roof ah but then
they were met at the door there are by
the way there are four doors in this
passage that are not obvious four doors
in this passage this passage and in our
lives that are not obvious because
life’s greatest opportunities are not
always obvious so they come to the front
door and they can’t get in this
represents the door of disappointment
how disappointing it must have been that
after you have carried your friend all
this way only to find out at church that
not only is there no room in the main
auditorium but they’re not even seating
in overflow thank you very much you can
watch livestream these men were met at
the door with disappointment and so if
they had subscribed to the theology that
that many of us live our lives according
to they would have turned around and
gone home because obviously everybody say obviously it’s not God’s will for our
friend to get healed today if it were
God’s will for our friend to be healed
today we would have gotten in the door
but these boys these boys I wonder do I
have four crazy ones just four
these boys said we did not carry you all
this way with your heavy self to turn
around and go home now now I think these
boys had a little bit of a well maybe
this is the monks corner in me but I
picture their conversation I picture
these boys these boys didn’t drive a
Prius that’s what I’m trying to say
these boys these boys they they’re met
at the door with disappointment not to
mention the man’s disappointment he’s
learned to deal with disappointment his
entire life is a disappointment he can’t
walk he can’t dance he can’t do what
other people do but they’ve come this
far I said they’ve come this far
and they didn’t come this far to go home
so Bubba says to Tommy hey man I was uh
I was looking around I didn’t see no
security cameras back right around
the south entrance man I reckon wonder
if you could uh Bubba and Tommy and who
else
Rufus roof Rufus
that’s the last one I promise he said what
you reckon if we uh if we get around
there and maybe they’re whispering cuz
they don’t want the man on the
mat to know what they’re about to do
don’t tell everybody all your plans just
sometimes you just got to do stuff you
don’t always ask permission sometimes
it’s better to ask forgiveness what if
we uh what if we went up I know we can’t
get in so what if we went up sometimes
you got to change levels I’m gonna get
behind my pulpit sometimes the reason
you can’t get in that door is
because it wasn’t your door God is
calling you higher who am I preaching to
sometimes the reason you got rejected is
because it was the wrong level of
relationship and if those people would
have liked you it would have actually
limited
I’m caffeinated today high-five somebody
say go higher come on when they go low
we go high he’s calling me higher
so they go up and they do not find
the door they make a door have you ever
had to make your own door nobody gave me
money to start this church
nobody sponsored me officially I wish
they would have but you know I’m kind of
glad they didn’t cuz I had to learn how
to dig and sometimes one of the greatest
things that can happen to you in your
life is to be turned away at the front
door because you discover another door
somebody shout there’s another door
this is not the normal door this is not
for normal people this is not for people
who want to quit cus the Wi-Fi was a
little slow or skip church because it
was 43 degrees no this is for the people
who have determined
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