WEBVTT 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:00.501 All right. 00:00:00.501 --> 00:00:08.074 So let's get our Bibles out and wave them around, lift them up like we do around here, and make Jesus glad, the devil mad. 00:00:08.074 --> 00:00:08.740 Say this together. 00:00:08.740 --> 00:00:12.305 Say, heavenly Father, I'm so glad for Wednesday night. 00:00:12.305 --> 00:00:17.710 The timing is just right for me to receive what you have for me. 00:00:17.710 --> 00:00:32.182 The Word and the Spirit are going out and I'm receiving what I need tonight to bring me into a higher place, and a greater place in Jesus' name, amen. 00:00:33.061 --> 00:00:34.939 All right, let's look a couple of places. 00:00:34.939 --> 00:00:36.987 First of all, acts, chapter 13,. 00:00:36.987 --> 00:00:41.850 And then we've got a couple of verses in Matthew 20 and Matthew 22. 00:00:41.850 --> 00:01:02.805 And Acts 13, verse one now there were in the church that was at Antioch, a certain prophets and teachers, as Barnabas and Simeon that was called Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene and Manon, which had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch, and Saul or Paul. 00:01:02.805 --> 00:01:13.408 And as they ministered to the Lord and fasted, the Holy Ghost said separate me, barnabas and Saul, for the work where unto I have called them. 00:01:13.408 --> 00:01:19.626 And when they had fasted and prayed and laid their hands on them, they sent them away. 00:01:19.626 --> 00:01:29.748 And so they, being sent forth by the Holy Ghost, departed into Seleucia and from there they sailed to Cyprus. 00:01:29.748 --> 00:01:35.471 All right, and then we'll look at Matthew, chapter 20, verse 16. 00:01:35.599 --> 00:01:46.528 Jesus made this statement twice in the book of Matthew, where he says many are called and few are chosen. 00:01:46.528 --> 00:01:51.668 So the first time he said it, matthew 20, 16. 00:01:51.668 --> 00:02:02.141 So the last shall be first and the first last, for many be called and few chosen, all right. 00:02:02.141 --> 00:02:05.429 And then he said it again in Matthew 22, 14. 00:02:05.429 --> 00:02:10.489 And he said there many are called, few are chosen. 00:02:10.489 --> 00:02:14.817 So that's what I wanted to share with you. 00:02:15.239 --> 00:02:15.560 Tonight. 00:02:15.560 --> 00:02:19.770 I had a message entitled from called to chosen Many are called. 00:02:19.770 --> 00:02:24.651 Jesus said many are called, but few, few are chosen. 00:02:24.651 --> 00:02:30.108 Jesus said that God is preparing for the greatest harvest ever. 00:02:30.108 --> 00:02:42.449 You know, throughout history God has been faithful to supply the church the gifting and the ministries needed, and he's not gonna be any different this time. 00:02:42.449 --> 00:02:49.287 We see a lot of dysfunction, we see a lot of terrible stuff going on, and it seems like the church is still asleep. 00:02:49.287 --> 00:02:56.164 But let me tell you something the church is gonna wake up and God is gonna have His ministries in place for the end time harvest. 00:02:56.164 --> 00:02:58.685 God's the greatest farmer that ever lived. 00:02:58.685 --> 00:03:09.945 It's on Him and he is the Lord of the harvest, and so he's in charge of calling and choosing, or what I'd like to say, commissioning. 00:03:11.020 --> 00:03:14.145 Somebody said well, you know, this is talking about five-fold ministry. 00:03:14.145 --> 00:03:18.243 God is really talking about every believer's ministry, every believer. 00:03:18.243 --> 00:03:23.971 You've called it a general believer's ministry, but of that there's a specific gifting. 00:03:23.971 --> 00:03:28.127 There are gifts differing in the body of Christ, and every member is important. 00:03:28.127 --> 00:03:34.370 The Bible teaches us that in the book of Romans, the book of 1 Corinthians, chapter 12. 00:03:34.370 --> 00:03:49.028 And so we have to be ready to be set into our ministries and we have to make sure that we understand that there's a calling and then there's a qualifying, and then there's a commissioning or a choosing. 00:03:50.240 --> 00:04:00.727 You know, I think about Isaiah 41, 15, it came across this verse not long ago God is making us a new sharp threshing instrument with teeth. 00:04:00.727 --> 00:04:02.526 That word teeth means mouths. 00:04:02.526 --> 00:04:06.967 You know that sharp threshing instrument is a harvesting tool. 00:04:06.967 --> 00:04:12.100 See, god is making the church a massive harvesting tool. 00:04:12.100 --> 00:04:18.333 Really, it's unmatched in the church's history the kind of harvest that we're going to have. 00:04:18.333 --> 00:04:23.029 It's going to be massive in size and accelerated in timing. 00:04:24.661 --> 00:04:30.572 And so many callings are being revealed and they're being renewed. 00:04:30.572 --> 00:04:34.255 Some callings have been forgotten or they've been given up on. 00:04:34.255 --> 00:04:36.906 You know, the gifts and callings of God are without repentance. 00:04:36.906 --> 00:04:39.908 You know, god called me when I was four years old and I buried it. 00:04:39.908 --> 00:04:41.005 I mentioned this Sunday. 00:04:41.005 --> 00:04:49.452 I buried it, I disobeyed, I ran the other way because, as a Catholic boy, when I got the call I thought it meant priest. 00:04:49.452 --> 00:04:55.173 And then when I discovered girls, and specifically Gladys, well then I decided there's no way. 00:04:55.173 --> 00:05:09.285 You know, but God had a plan and he is going to reveal his callings, he's going to renew his callings and there are fresh impartations and assignments going out all the time. 00:05:09.285 --> 00:05:17.353 Many, jesus said many are called, but few are chosen or commissioned. 00:05:17.353 --> 00:05:25.182 So when we go back to Matthew 2016, when he said it, he said the first should be last, the last first. 00:05:25.182 --> 00:05:26.607 Many are called, fewer chosen. 00:05:27.439 --> 00:05:29.105 He was talking about the attitude. 00:05:29.105 --> 00:05:36.913 He told a parable about a person who hired some people to go and work in his field early in the morning. 00:05:36.913 --> 00:05:54.709 They got there at nine o'clock or six o'clock in the morning, I should say, and he they agreed for a certain wage and then, every couple of hours during the day, he hired some more and at the end of the day, the ones that had just been working one hour got the same pay that everybody else agreed to to mark the whole day. 00:05:54.709 --> 00:05:57.548 And so some of the people were not happy about that. 00:05:57.548 --> 00:06:00.185 And so Jesus is speaking. 00:06:00.185 --> 00:06:02.504 He said you know, uh? 00:06:02.504 --> 00:06:05.312 So the man says well, isn't it my money? 00:06:05.312 --> 00:06:07.050 What can I do with my money? 00:06:07.050 --> 00:06:10.288 What I, I told I gave you what you agreed to. 00:06:10.288 --> 00:06:11.571 What's the beef? 00:06:11.571 --> 00:06:13.384 Where's the problem? 00:06:13.384 --> 00:06:18.564 And then he said, then he added to it Many are called and fewer chosen. 00:06:18.625 --> 00:06:18.786 Why? 00:06:18.786 --> 00:06:20.521 Because of their attitude. 00:06:20.521 --> 00:06:30.062 A lack of attitude, a lack of of humility, being covetous and so forth. 00:06:30.062 --> 00:06:31.625 Lazy, if you, if you will. 00:06:33.879 --> 00:06:38.290 And then the last one is about a wedding, uh, celebration. 00:06:38.290 --> 00:06:47.283 And uh, there was a person there that was did not have wedding garments on, and uh, this is a parable. 00:06:47.283 --> 00:06:50.732 And Jesus said you know, they, what are you doing here? 00:06:50.732 --> 00:06:52.105 You're not dressed properly. 00:06:52.105 --> 00:07:01.766 Throw him out into outer darkness There'll be weeping and gnashing of teeth and go out into the highways and byways and compel them to come into my wedding. 00:07:01.766 --> 00:07:04.843 And so what you had there? 00:07:04.843 --> 00:07:10.687 For many are called fewer chosen, and that was because of poor preparation. 00:07:10.687 --> 00:07:25.105 They didn't prepare themselves, they didn't have on the righteous, the righteous robes, or what a wedding garment is white and it, it, and it represents God's righteousness, which means obedience, it means preparation. 00:07:25.105 --> 00:07:31.692 And so Ephesians, chapter four uh, let's go there. 00:07:32.399 --> 00:07:37.711 Ephesians four is worth getting higher in front of us and talking about, from called chosen. 00:07:37.711 --> 00:07:49.870 And uh, again, just want to remind you these last, these end days are going to be busy days and God is positioning people for the end time, harvest. 00:07:49.870 --> 00:07:52.406 Uh, verse one. 00:07:52.406 --> 00:08:12.744 I, therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that you walk worthy of the vocation wherewith you are called, with all lowliness and uh, in meekness, with long suffering for bearing one another in love, uh, endeavoring to keep the unity of the spirit and the bond of peace. 00:08:12.744 --> 00:08:21.120 So here we see that that Jesus, uh is encouraging people to walk worthy. 00:08:21.120 --> 00:08:47.802 You see, you have to be, you have to be walk worthy of the calling and uh, you know, if you're going with God and stay in the spirit and stay renewing your mind to the word of God and uh, all the things we were talking about on Sunday, the marks of a spiritual mature maturity, uh, and you, and you do those things faithfully, you're going to know what specific thing God is calling you to do and then you'll obey. 00:08:47.842 --> 00:08:53.288 That Doesn't matter whether you're a preacher, it doesn't matter if you don't have a pulpit to stand. 00:08:53.288 --> 00:08:55.889 I'm not even talking about that kind of ministry. 00:08:55.889 --> 00:08:57.466 I'm talking about the believers ministry. 00:08:57.466 --> 00:08:58.527 It's just as important. 00:08:58.527 --> 00:09:12.407 And so here in Acts, where we read about Paul and Barnabas, they were commissioned, they were sent out, they were chosen for the work that they had been previously called to. 00:09:12.596 --> 00:09:17.441 See, you have the calling, and then people don't know. 00:09:17.441 --> 00:09:22.934 But there's a qualification process that everybody has to go through. 00:09:22.934 --> 00:09:29.679 I don't care who you are, you might have the call, but the call is not the same as being qualified. 00:09:29.679 --> 00:09:33.484 God doesn't call the qualified, he qualifies the called. 00:09:33.484 --> 00:09:35.639 I'm going to say that again. 00:09:35.639 --> 00:09:41.140 God does not call the qualified, he qualifies the call. 00:09:41.140 --> 00:09:42.539 Was I okay? 00:09:42.539 --> 00:09:43.924 I got the call when I was four. 00:09:43.924 --> 00:09:45.019 Was I qualified? 00:09:45.019 --> 00:09:55.581 Oh, I'm a kid, I'm a really a toddler when I understood that God was calling me and you know it. 00:09:55.581 --> 00:09:57.168 Just so it's not. 00:09:57.168 --> 00:09:57.711 It's not. 00:09:57.711 --> 00:10:01.495 God doesn't look at somebody and say, oh, they're the right people, I'm going to call them. 00:10:01.495 --> 00:10:02.879 No, he calls. 00:10:02.879 --> 00:10:07.186 He calls people that sometimes are. 00:10:08.730 --> 00:10:10.577 Let's turn over to First Corinthians one. 00:10:10.577 --> 00:10:16.317 He calls people that, in the natural, may not have a whole lot to offer. 00:10:16.317 --> 00:10:20.162 Look at First Corinthians, chapter one, verse 26. 00:10:20.162 --> 00:10:23.686 For we see your calling brethren. 00:10:23.686 --> 00:10:24.048 How that. 00:10:24.048 --> 00:10:29.164 Not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble are called. 00:10:29.164 --> 00:10:33.458 But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise. 00:10:33.458 --> 00:10:36.039 I think that's what he did when he called me. 00:10:36.039 --> 00:10:52.822 He the weak things of the world to confound the things that are mighty, the base things of the world that are despised at God chosen, yeah, and things which are not to put to naught, the things that are that no flesh of glory in His presence. 00:10:53.916 --> 00:10:59.707 You know, I think about some of the greatest men and women of God that I've ever known. 00:10:59.707 --> 00:11:01.634 Brother Osteen, I mean, he looked unlikely. 00:11:01.634 --> 00:11:03.322 He's a little, small little guy. 00:11:03.322 --> 00:11:08.014 He was the smallest of his brothers and he looked unlikely. 00:11:08.014 --> 00:11:10.802 He didn't look like you know that. 00:11:10.802 --> 00:11:17.721 He was a preacher and yet God used him to touch his generation in a massive way at a worldwide ministry. 00:11:17.721 --> 00:11:24.674 It didn't have anything to do with his outward size, it had to do with his heart, and on and on and on. 00:11:24.674 --> 00:11:26.053 I think about Oroberts. 00:11:26.053 --> 00:11:37.018 I mean he was dying of tuberculosis when God called him, and God saved him and healed him and set him in a ministry that was so powerful. 00:11:37.018 --> 00:11:38.743 We could go on and on. 00:11:40.715 --> 00:11:55.595 God calls and installs unlikely prospects, and so I think one of my favorite examples of this is David, and I'm not going to read 1 Samuel, 16 through one through 13,. 00:11:55.595 --> 00:12:05.365 But I'll just give you the reference, because everything I'm going to say is written there, the testimony of how he was called. 00:12:05.365 --> 00:12:10.958 But, david, you know titles and pedigrees, I mean they don't mean anything. 00:12:10.958 --> 00:12:19.221 But God told you, know, he told Jesse, I mean, excuse me, Samuel, the prophet Samuel. 00:12:19.221 --> 00:12:22.794 And the prophet Samuel was a fearsome looking man. 00:12:22.794 --> 00:12:32.183 He had a huge beard, lots of hair, and when he came to town everybody hid because he was so severe and so he was something. 00:12:34.700 --> 00:12:40.240 And he was weeping in mourning over Saul, because Saul had been rejected by God. 00:12:40.240 --> 00:12:41.379 Saul, god. 00:12:41.379 --> 00:12:46.640 And he said how long will you mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him? 00:12:46.640 --> 00:12:57.647 Fill your horn of oil and go to Jesse the Bethlehemite, for I have chosen one among him for King. 00:12:57.647 --> 00:13:02.539 And he didn't tell him which one, and he was, if you go back and read it. 00:13:02.539 --> 00:13:05.147 I mean he was kind of reluctant to go. 00:13:05.147 --> 00:13:07.053 He said what am I going to do about Saul? 00:13:07.053 --> 00:13:08.038 When he hears about it? 00:13:08.038 --> 00:13:08.880 He might kill me. 00:13:09.815 --> 00:13:12.460 So he was afraid, he was afraid of Saul. 00:13:12.460 --> 00:13:16.375 Saul was almost mentally ill at that time. 00:13:16.375 --> 00:13:17.820 He was so demonized. 00:13:17.820 --> 00:13:21.875 And so he did. 00:13:21.875 --> 00:13:27.061 He said you go, tell him you're going to have a feast and you know, can disguise it. 00:13:27.061 --> 00:13:31.522 Don't lie, but disguise it and I'll show you what to do. 00:13:31.522 --> 00:13:34.546 And so he goes and he sees. 00:13:34.546 --> 00:13:39.381 You know, jesse, are you here for good or do we need to hide? 00:13:39.381 --> 00:13:41.015 You know? 00:13:41.015 --> 00:13:42.982 Not in so many words, but I mean. 00:13:43.023 --> 00:13:43.955 He was afraid of him. 00:13:43.955 --> 00:13:46.340 He said where are your sons? 00:13:46.340 --> 00:13:47.260 Where are your sons? 00:13:47.260 --> 00:13:51.173 And he got his elder son, eliob. 00:13:51.173 --> 00:13:58.751 And Samuel thought to himself surely the Lord's anointed this before me now. 00:13:58.751 --> 00:14:10.845 And he said don't look on him, don't look on his countenance, don't look on his outward appearance, for I have rejected him, I have refused him. 00:14:10.845 --> 00:14:14.572 When you look up the word refused, it means I loathe him. 00:14:14.572 --> 00:14:20.756 Listen, he wasn't the one and he was the eldest son. 00:14:20.756 --> 00:14:24.365 See, and you know, daddy's proud of his eldest son. 00:14:24.365 --> 00:14:28.552 He's a good-looking kid, you know, he's tall and big and all of that. 00:14:28.552 --> 00:14:31.496 No, god said I've refused him. 00:14:31.496 --> 00:14:34.455 And then, one by one, by one, every one of them is refused. 00:14:34.455 --> 00:14:36.849 And God doesn't look on the outward, he looks on the heart. 00:14:36.849 --> 00:14:41.193 I've chosen a man after my own heart. 00:14:41.193 --> 00:14:45.590 And finally, when he got to the last kid, he said don't you have any more sons. 00:14:45.590 --> 00:14:48.049 Well, I forgot. 00:14:48.049 --> 00:14:53.451 Yeah, we've got one out there, david, but he's out at the back forwarding watching my sheep. 00:14:53.451 --> 00:14:54.129 Well, get him. 00:14:54.129 --> 00:14:56.465 And sure enough, that was the one. 00:14:56.566 --> 00:15:04.277 See, it wasn't his pedigree and I mean he was not on the short list of likely replacements for Saul. 00:15:04.277 --> 00:15:17.015 I mean, he didn't look like a king, he's a kid, red-headed little, you know, freckle-faced little kid, 17 years old or so, and listen, he looked. 00:15:17.015 --> 00:15:20.854 He was an unlikely prospect to be king of Israel. 00:15:20.854 --> 00:15:25.732 Traditions, outward appearances, it's just not a priority. 00:15:25.732 --> 00:15:32.115 So he poured the whole horn of oil on David. 00:15:32.115 --> 00:15:40.453 You know, god called David and God chose David and God anointed David way ahead of time. 00:15:40.453 --> 00:15:42.572 He didn't even wait for him to be king. 00:15:42.572 --> 00:15:46.614 He technically wasn't king, but in God's sight he was. 00:15:48.284 --> 00:16:01.258 So you know, years ago, when I came across these things I don't know if you read your Bible this way, but I had a question for the Lord what did you see in David that made you select him? 00:16:01.258 --> 00:16:03.932 I mean, what's the big deal? 00:16:03.932 --> 00:16:08.274 What made him qualified to be chosen? 00:16:08.274 --> 00:16:14.065 And so I have three things here tonight for you that I think are just important. 00:16:14.065 --> 00:16:18.490 It kind of goes with a message I'd preach Sunday morning marks of spiritual maturity. 00:16:18.490 --> 00:16:21.847 This is similar to that, only it's different. 00:16:21.847 --> 00:16:24.594 It just has to do with your personal qualities. 00:16:24.644 --> 00:16:29.437 The first one on my list is that David had a heart of worship. 00:16:29.437 --> 00:16:41.613 If we're going to be placed into our final end-time ministries and doing what we're really prepared to do, we don't know that we're prepared, but we are prepared. 00:16:41.613 --> 00:16:46.764 You know, david didn't see himself as prepared, but he became prepared over a period of years. 00:16:46.764 --> 00:16:51.610 After this happened, he had a heart of worship. 00:16:51.610 --> 00:17:00.243 You know, jesus told the woman at the well in John 4.23, god seeks those who will worship him and spirit. 00:17:00.243 --> 00:17:07.134 In truth, I mean, you know what, if you want to be in demand, be a worshiper, because you'll be in God's, he will look for you. 00:17:07.134 --> 00:17:08.469 He is seeking you. 00:17:08.469 --> 00:17:25.634 And over in 1 Samuel 16.23, whenever David would play the harp, they found out that the demon powers that were reflecting King Saul would leave him and he would get peace. 00:17:25.634 --> 00:17:30.431 That was the only way he'd have peace is when he had David there playing the harp and worshiping God. 00:17:30.431 --> 00:17:34.855 And so you know, we like to thank God. 00:17:34.944 --> 00:17:43.291 The book of Psalms is all about what God has done, praising Him for what he's done, but worship we worship Him for who he is. 00:17:43.291 --> 00:17:46.653 It's the highest form of prayer. 00:17:46.653 --> 00:17:54.994 It's when we get to where we just are, so taken by our Father God, and we want to worship Him for who he is. 00:17:54.994 --> 00:17:56.768 A heart of worship. 00:17:56.768 --> 00:18:05.717 Now the second quality, key or mark a heart of humility. 00:18:05.717 --> 00:18:11.910 A heart of humility 1 Peter, 5.5,. 00:18:12.009 --> 00:18:14.868 God resists the proud, but he gives grace to the humble. 00:18:14.868 --> 00:18:19.832 He gives grace, he gives power, he gives grace to the humble. 00:18:19.832 --> 00:18:22.314 When you're humble, god can work for you. 00:18:22.314 --> 00:18:23.911 When you're proud, he resists you. 00:18:23.911 --> 00:18:37.567 And so, when you read the story of David, he refused to kill Saul with his own hands, even though he had two different opportunities to do so twice. 00:18:37.567 --> 00:18:42.492 Now I'm not saying God tested him, but I am saying that he passed the test. 00:18:42.492 --> 00:18:51.277 You know, if he had picked up and killed God's man while he's still technically the king, he would have been taking everything into his own hands. 00:18:51.277 --> 00:18:59.634 That wouldn't have been humility, it would have been pride, and he could have fallen off of the but because he was a worshiper. 00:18:59.634 --> 00:19:07.309 He just depended on God to place him in the right place at the right time and he wasn't about to shed that blood. 00:19:07.309 --> 00:19:09.213 He wasn't going to do it, said God. 00:19:09.213 --> 00:19:11.432 If he has to die, then it's not going to be at my hand. 00:19:11.432 --> 00:19:15.077 In fact, he chose the cave over the crown. 00:19:15.077 --> 00:19:16.515 That was humility. 00:19:16.515 --> 00:19:27.395 He chose to be in the cave with the 400 mighty men and he just he chose the cave over the crown. 00:19:27.395 --> 00:19:30.217 He could have had the crown earlier, but he didn't choose it. 00:19:30.217 --> 00:19:34.394 And the other thing about him is he never went to battle without God's plan. 00:19:34.394 --> 00:19:36.252 He was humble. 00:19:36.252 --> 00:19:39.538 He knew that without God's plan he would fail. 00:19:39.538 --> 00:19:46.354 So he always waited for God to show him and tell him, number one, whether to go to battle, and number two, how to get there, how to do it. 00:19:47.611 --> 00:19:52.753 So a heart of worship, a heart of humility, and then, finally, the heart of a servant. 00:19:52.753 --> 00:19:55.154 A heart of a servant. 00:19:55.154 --> 00:20:02.840 You know, he led and fed and guarded his father's sheep for no money for a lot of years, got no thanks. 00:20:02.840 --> 00:20:04.075 He wasn't even remembered. 00:20:04.075 --> 00:20:08.941 You know shepherds didn't just work eight hour shifts and go home and sleep. 00:20:08.941 --> 00:20:10.596 No, he was out there all the time. 00:20:10.596 --> 00:20:12.875 He was out there so much his father forgot about him. 00:20:12.875 --> 00:20:17.718 Well, what a dysfunctional family. 00:20:17.718 --> 00:20:28.296 Oh, by the way, when he killed Goliath before he did Eliab, the oldest brother, the one that God refused, the one that God was loath to even talk about. 00:20:28.296 --> 00:20:30.680 He was the one that mocked his brother. 00:20:30.680 --> 00:20:31.823 He mocked David. 00:20:31.823 --> 00:20:34.693 He mocked him and what are you doing here? 00:20:34.693 --> 00:20:38.238 How come you're not watching your father's sheep? 00:20:38.238 --> 00:20:40.755 And he made fun of him. 00:20:41.970 --> 00:20:54.662 So David had a heart of a servant and later, you know, when he chose the cave, he chose to be around a captain. 00:20:54.662 --> 00:20:55.737 He became a captain. 00:20:55.737 --> 00:20:59.875 He wasn't a captain right away, but he became a captain Over 400 men. 00:20:59.875 --> 00:21:07.074 The Bible says they were in distress, in debt and discontented Boy, what a group Like herding cats. 00:21:07.074 --> 00:21:10.939 And the Bible says over a period of time he became. 00:21:10.939 --> 00:21:13.469 He became a captain. 00:21:13.469 --> 00:21:15.529 He didn't start out a captain. 00:21:15.529 --> 00:21:32.663 They didn't start out listening to him he's a kid, he's younger than they are but over a period of time he gradually won them over and he gradually showed himself as wise, he showed himself as courageous and he showed himself as a skilled warrior. 00:21:32.663 --> 00:21:39.321 And so they started following him and by the time you know, not very long after that, that 400 turned into 600. 00:21:40.611 --> 00:21:57.077 And and then, ultimately, after 12 years I like to say it this way ultimately the Holy Ghost said you know, separate me David for the work where unto I have called him, cause the day that that saw, died in battle. 00:21:57.077 --> 00:22:02.459 That was the day that God elevated, and it was by somebody else's hand, it wasn't his hand. 00:22:02.459 --> 00:22:10.700 That was the day that David was elevated to be king over Judah first, and then, seven years later, he was king over the entire kingdom. 00:22:10.700 --> 00:22:16.609 And so he was separated for the work where into he had already been called. 00:22:16.609 --> 00:22:24.619 He had been called, and then he had to be qualified for 12 years before he was able to step in to that ministry. 00:22:25.330 --> 00:22:28.170 So, from call to chosen, let's keep these things in mind. 00:22:28.170 --> 00:22:40.115 We all have a ministry, we all have an ultimate, we have the good perfect, we have the, you know, the allowable will of God, the good will of God and the perfect will of God. 00:22:40.115 --> 00:22:49.820 Let's get into the perfect will of God and highest and his highest purpose for our lives by being willing to be qualified. 00:22:49.820 --> 00:22:52.869 Amen, let's lift our hands and receive this message. 00:22:52.869 --> 00:23:12.095 Father, we thank you that you're getting us ready for a mighty harvest in the end times and, lord, you're looking for people of worship, uh, people that are humble and people that have a servant's heart and uh, lord, we, we aim to please you in Jesus name, amen, amen, praise God.